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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)[By Arrangement with the Wan The
AMERICA AND THE· FEAOK
TREATY,
WASHINuzos, Oct. 23: The Senate Foreign Relations Com mitee, in spite of the opposition of the Democrst leaders, adopted the revised reservations, to the Pence Treaty rela ting to Article Ten, the Monroe doctrine, and withdrawal from the League.
It also adopted the preamble to the Innervations providing that the Treaty will not becoins effective until three of the other Allies have agreed to the Senate's renovationa
CHINA AND ITALY.
ROME, Oct. 29: Hinister Lu Taung Tsiang in sa inter view said regarding Shantung, that China bas, unshakable confidence in the final decisice being according to the principles of justice which must ensure" all countries full satisfaction of their legitimate national aspirations."
It is announced that he arranged with Signor Titroni in Paris. for the institution of a direct line of navigation between Trieste and Tientsin. While be in bere an Italo-Chinese Bank is be ing formed with Italian and Chinese capital, also an Italo-Chinese Association presided over by Senator Artom, presi deat of the Colonial Institute. La Teng Tsiang leaves on 24th Ott. for Naples. Afterwards he goes to Berne: and sails on 30th Oct. from Marseilles for Tokyo."
* Caronia."
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THE RISE IN WHARFS.
SENSATIONAL PRICES WITHOUT CAUSE.
No small excitaiment has been
SHANGHAI, October 30, The Premier is leaving no chance used in the Shanghai share mar- untried to make peace with the ket by the sensational rise in Shang- South. He is sending Mr. Lan Singha & Honskew Wharf Company Yan, ex-governor of Kwangsi, and share Reversing to last April, we Mr. Li Hung Chang to Canton to find shan they stood at Th. 88/88. negotiate.
They rose muhailly, with COCIL-
The Government is consideringsional slight backward porements. the advisability of converting the throughout the Summer until on Customs tael into the dollar, a book the 10th instant they stood at Tis. keeping change which involves the 180 (for December). From this point necessity of accepting dollars in the rise has been substantial, na the payment of customs revenue.
(following figures show: 13th faciant. The Finance Minister is negotiating T. 13, 135: Bah. Te, 141 (for with a certain country for a small evenberg: oli. T. 145/147/140 loan against the Salt Surplus, to or everolery; Ditic, Th. 145 (cash), stabilize the Peking bank notes.. Inad Tis, 150 [for Documber); 20th. The Premier having gone to Tongs in (for Necember): on shan to spend his birthday, the Tuby: they had won is. 137.50 cabinet is not at present sitting.sh and Ts. 105, 107, and 170 The Senate votes on his full appoint for December). ment to-morrow.
H.M.S. VERULAM MINED
IN THE BALTIC
16 OFFICERS AND CREW MISSING.
„On Det. 122 eldhough, the officia? statement shows sanalier figure. they we reported to have been done at T. eo for December, and it ap- pours to be expected that they towy reach Tis, 20),
There appears to be zo solid foundation for this extraordinary riee, and euspicion is genemt that The Admiralty announces that a few en un deliberately mani H.M. destroyer Verulam" (at first palating the market. Lust rear.. incorrectly reported as the S., 19) Whurs paid a dividend of Tie. 4. struck a mine in the Baltic on the This year it is considered possible night of September 3 and sank. thas they may pay The, à or Tls. 6. Sixteen officers and crew are rebut banily here. Tak certainly is ported missing.
do great return on an outlay of The.
A Reuter telegram from Helsing || 150-N.4.D.N. fors states that the Captain, one officer, and 90 men were saved.
NEW BRITISH MINISTER
TO PEKING.
REPATRIATED COOLIES.
According to the current Navy List HAVRE, Oct. 23.
the officers serving in the "Verulam " Four thousand Chinese, who are beWarren, Lieutenant C. C. D. Lees, were Lieutenant-Commander G. L. ing repatriated embarked on the steamer Engineer Lieutenant J. House, D.S.C., I speks definitely of Mr. Beilby The .. it C. Express of September Sub-Lieutenants O. P. Powell and E. Francis Alston, as the destined sue C. Cookson, Gunner (T.) G.T. Jebbett,cessor of Sir John Jordan us British and Midshipmen A. W. Edgecombe Minister at. Peking. Mr. Alton has had a good deal of experience in Chiar and has acted ue Chargé d'Affairs at the Chinese capital on more thin one occukier, and is at the present time Counssilor of the Legation. The second son of the late Sir Francis Alston, of the For-
GREAT PYRAMID PUZZLE. and A. W. Ashley.
REMARKABLE FACTS.
COL A. O. Green, formerly com manding the Royal Engineers in
"GERMAN LINERS.
25 FLYING U.S. FLAG.
外
A good deal of uncertainty has eign Office, he is in lis 51st year, Egypt, gives in an issue of Overseas, existed as to the disposition of the end entered the Diplomatic Service! the monthly magazine of the Over Large ocean passenger steamers which twenty-nine years ago. He was Seas Club and Patriotic League formed so important a feature of the secretary to the British Flenipoten- General-buildings, Aldwych, W.C. 2, some remarkable facts about the German mercantile marine. Examiri at the Paris Copyright Co- measurements of the Great Pyramid nation of the new volumes of Lloyd's ference in 1906, and acted in a simi- Register throws an interesting light or capacity to the British repre- Whoever designed the Great Pyr on the subject. These volumes consentatives at the Sugur Conference at amid must have had an absolute tain information with respect to 43 Buses in 1898 and 1901-2. At the knowledge of the figure of the earth Ex-German liners of upwards of Coronation of King Edward in 1902 (an oblate spheroid flattened at the 10,000 tons gross, and show that he was attached to the foreign re- poles), and that it stands at the true these vessels are distributed, per presentatives who were specially centre of the land surfaces of the manently or otherwise, in the follow-accredited, while at the Coronation. globe according to Mercator's pro- ing way
jection.
of King George he was in attend- Steamers,ance on the Chinese representative,
It is truly oriented to the four United States Shipping cardinal points of the heavens with Board
16.
an"accuracy apparently unattainable United States Navy Depart-
in any building in these days, and ¦: ment
9.
the Great Circle coinciding with the British Shipping Controller..
6
Prince Tsai Chen. He also attezd-.: éd Prince Thai Sun on hie visito England with the Chinese Naval Mission at the end of 1909. Mr. Alston received the, C.B. in 1919.
centre lines of the ascending and Italy
2:
descending passages and Grand Brazil..........
9.
43.
"PRINCE ALBERT THE GOOD."
Gallery raust, at the date of its Unallotted
building, have coincided with a
wonderful stellar conjunction which
can recur only once in every 25,827 Thus out of 43 ex-German liners years, the number of years in the of over 10,000 tons the American precession of the Equinoxes, and dag floats over 25, and the British hence establishes the date of the over six. Of the 19 run by the Uni- commencement of its construction ted States Shipping Board, 14 have as 2170 B.C., at which period Egypt received new names, which suggests was ruled over by, the hated Hyksos that the vessels are considered to be for Shepherd Kings.
thoroughly American.
a
Prince Albert's reputation, which was under-estimated during his life- time, may be said to have been overdone during the longperiod of Queen Victoria's widowhood, partly, no doubt, through a feeling of loyal sympathy for her Majesty. But the In carrying out, all measurements. It may be observed that all of the fact is Prince Albert was too good both of space and time, two units above 16 vessels were seized by the a Prussian ever to be popular in have been made use of the "Pyra- United States in American ports, and England. His personal character: stairless that is generally THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., Ld.mid inch," which is equal to 1.001 that the United States is understood was
British inches, and the "Sacred to have laid claim to them on that agreed, but a faultless Prince; es- faultless Prussian, is Cubit" of 25 Pyramid inches or account. Nevertheless, recent Ame pecially 25.025 British inches, which has the rican newspapers give currency to anot necessarily likeable, and the had not quite same length as the cubit employed report, that the Mount Vernon (ex- Prince Consort in the construction of the Tabernacle, Kronprinzessin Cecilie) is to be hand-begun to understand us. He had the Ark of the Covenant, and King ed over to the French maritime au- little or no sense of humour, and Solomon's Temple,, and is exactly thorities on concluding her work as took newspaper attacks with solemn one twenty-millionth of the earth's a transport. It is reported that the umbrage. The Queen declared that polar axis of rotation.
International Mercantile Marine Com the Times criticisms of Prussia pany may acquire from the United made him ill. Thinking to placate the the terrible Delane, the Prince con- States, Shipping Board
Leviathan," George Washington," veyed to Printing-house Square the and "America" in order to run the exclusive news "that he was about! in the North Atlantic trade.
to receive the title of Frince There are better hopes, it appears, Consort." The next morning of a return to European control of the Times printed the the nine big German liners managed with a
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Now with these two units in mind we find that the folowing facts are established: The length of one side of
Pyramid
Sacred Cubit
9131.055
25
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year.
sneeringly
́exclusive"
approving"
by the United States Navy Depart article, which the Prince felt to be a ment on behalf of the American particularly ungracious return for his favour. Press attacks at last became Government. The two diagonals of the base All these vessels were taken over so annoying that the Prime Minister added together are within a fraction by the United States after the Armis of the day was urged by Roysity to of the number of years in the preces tice. They had been, in German make the subject of "Parliamentary sion of the Equinoxes-viz, 25,826.6. ports daring the war. American action" whereupon the Prime The height of the Pyramid mul report has it that since their work as Minister read Royalty such a lecture tiplied by 10.9 (1,000 millions) equals transports is concluded, the United on the independence of the British the distance of the sun or 91,837,322 States will return the liners to the press as put an end to the idea of
Parliamentary action" miles, which is approximately the Allied Council for distribution. The
in mean of all the measurements that 'Imperator," the impression is, will particular direction. astrohomers have arrived at after come under British ownership, while numerous expeditions to observe the France it is believed, will acquire transit of Venus, and is probably the some of the vessels in the list true distance.
There" remain certain, other ex-
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