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INDIAN QURRENCY CHANGES,
TEN RUPEES TO A SOVEREIGN.;
SIMLA, Furie, 21. The Government anaounces the removal of restrictions on gold bullion and foreign coin from June 21, and the introduction of legislation altering the value of the sovereign from fifteen to ten rupees. Pending the altera tion, the Government is demonetising the sovereign, which, however, will continue at the exchange rate of fifteen rupees for 21 days. The Govern ment has also notified that the "Reverse Council's" (which is the Indian equivalent of the India Council) bills will be altered on June 24 to 23 19'324. per rupee for immediate, and 23 11/32 pence for defefred rates.
MILITARY ASSISTANCE FROM GREECE,
QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, Jace 21.
In the House of Commons, replying to a request for a statement with regard to the reported acceptance of military aid from Greece to deal with the Turkish Nationalists, Mr. Bonar Law said that the matter was at present being discussed at the Boulogne Conference. Greece was one of the Allies and Greek troops could be used where necessary in the same way as the troops of other nations concerned by general agreement with the Allies acting on the advice of their military advisers.
BRITISH FRISONERS IN BOLSHEVIK HANDS. Replying to a question, Mr. Bonar Law said that the Government had reason to believe that the British naval men captured at Baku by the Bolshevists had not been properly treated. The Government was taking all possible steps in the matter. Be emphasised that Krassin had been in forthed that the unconditional release of all British prisoners must precede any result of the present negotiations.
MORE BOULOGNE CONFERÈNCE DECISIONS.
MANY NATIONALS INVITED. TO SPA.
LONDON June 26,
A Boulogne communique states that the Conference has considered the Turkish question and has decided that the Turkish reply to the draft condi- tions of peace must be returned by the date previously fixed, namely June 26. The Conference has approved certain military measures concerted by: Marshal Foch and General Wilson to meet the situation in the area of Con stantinople and the Straits. It has decided to invite delegates from Greece, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia, and Jugo-Slavia to Spa to discuss questions specially concerning them. The Conference has approved the terms of the Allied communication to Germany drafted by Marshal Foch and General Wilson requiring fulfilment of the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles dealing with disarmament, the destruction of military material and the reduction of effectives which up to the present have either not been executed or have been incompletely executed.
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BQULOGNE CONFERENCE."
SOME TOUGH PROBLEMS.
LONDON, June 21.
The Boulogne "conference opened this morning with Britain, Italy, Japan, Belgium, and France represented. The programme for the conference was settled in the following order :-1, The German indemnity; 2, thu dis- armament of Germany; 3, the Eastern question; and 4, the Russian question. This morning's discussion was confined to the first two questions. Financial experts were charged with the preparation of the indemnity text, which has been agreed for presentation at the evening conference. In the same way military experts are preparing the draft notification to Germany regarding disarmament in both effectives and material.
As regards reparations, the Conference has agreed upon the principle that the annual minimum payment by Germany must be three milliards of gold marks, or nominally £150,000,000 yearly, or a total of £4,500,000,000.
IMPERIAL SHIPPING COMMITTEE.
PURELY AN ADVISORY BODY.
LONDON, June 22. ̈
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The Imperial Shipping Committee is purely an advisory body. It will inquire into complaints, ocean freights, facilities and conditions for inter- Imperial trade. It will make recommendations for co-ordination and im provement in the type, size, and 'speed of ships, the depth of docks and channels, and the construction of harbour works.
COUNTÈ CRICKET.
LONDON, June 21. Northampton beat Derby by 114 runs, Kent beat Gloucester by ten wickets, and Somerset beat Worcester by an innings and 155 runs.
NEW ERA IN CHINA.
"Both the Germans and the Japan ese made a point not, only of acquir- ing a working knowledge of the THE LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY. language, but also of suiting their manufactures to the needs of the people. Thus recollect a weird
Mrs. A. S. Roe, author of "Chance outer garment 2 cross between a and Change in China," writes to the blanket and a woman's old-fashioned Daily Mail that she was glad to learn waterproof-which had a tremendous from the interview with Sir John sale among men of fashion in coun Jordan, the famous authority on try districts China, that the new type of business "Regarding the language, I once man is not above studying the remarked to some steamer acquaint- Chinese language:
ances that I had been trying to learn
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Ma7.) PRICES GO DOWN.
NEW YORK, June 21st.
During the past week there has been a determined attempt, in many parts of the conatry to sell goods at lower prices. · The
manufacturers and pressed for money and Are rather alarized by the accumulations. They have taksa great halls and offered good quits, clothes and shoes s prices 30 per cent below those of a week ago. In many cases the big department stores and retailers. have made similar reductions.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS. "
MONTREAL, Jude Soth. After a stormy session, the American Federation of Labour endorsed the adhe Bion of America to the League of Nations
·without reservations.
Irish sympathisers bitterly opposed this. rection.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. “
WASHINGTON, June 20th Asked regarding his alleged views on the Irisa question, Senator Harding declared that he had no recollection of writing such Th letter.
Regarding the article published in Lon-
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the alleged views of Senator
on the Irish question. Senator secretary denies that Senator Harding wrote any letter discussing the Irish demand for freedom, and declares that there is no record in the Senator's office that such a letter was ever written. Harding refuses to discuss the Irish The Secretary also declares that Senator
question at presen
THE BOULOGNE CONFERENCE.
Loxpos, Jaze 21st. The Times says that the Hythe Confer- ence has decided that Germany be required to pay reparations in the form of angui tice, extensible in accordance with her capacity. The minimum annuity contem. plated is three miljards gold marke in 35
years.
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DREAMS OF FRENCH AVIATORS.
To By from France to New York in 10 hours is the latest and most ám bitious dream of French airmen and invertors. They declare that it will be done within the next few years by means of two new inventions, which enable an airmar to fly at a height of 40,000-feet where, owing to the re- duced, air pressure, a speed of 450 kibmetres (282.5 miles) ar. Hour 2an be maintained.
Two difficulties which face the in- ventors are, first, to secure the func tioning of the engine and driving force of the propeller in that rarified at- mosphere, and, second, to secure i life-supporting aumosphere for the air- man" and passengers.
The first of these difficulties has been largely overcome by an inven- tion which was recently used by Lizuterant Henri Roger, who* few from Paris to Lyons, a distance of nearly 285 miles, g's speed of 156 miles an hour. Roget flew at a height of 15.000 to 18,000 feet all the way and was able to maintain his 'speed in the rarified atmosphere by means of an invention, which compressed air in which the propellor rotated to normal atmosphere.
Since then a controlled trial has -shown that a motor giving 178 horse power at water level and 95 horse power at 1,500 feer can be made to give. 160 horse power when the air is compressed by the new apparatus. To that extent the effect of ratification of the air has been overcome, and it seems- certain that, the principle having been established Further developmen will be rapid...
The second difficulty is to secure breathing air for the filers. The example of the submarine is here in- voked. There is no more difficulty, it is stated, in making an inclosed chamber provided with sir at normál pressure which will travel above clouds than in making one which travels below the water.
Once these two problems are effes tively solved full advantage can be taken of the non-resistance of the upper àir. To go quicker one will bave caly to go higher, and, incident- ally, also cheaper, for on the faster voyage less fuel will be burned. In those days we will have a nightly ser*** across the Atlantic and dropping down vice of seroplanes following the dawn
in. New York in time for breakfast,
CAUSE OF DESPONDEŃCY.
During my travels in eleven Chinese, whereupon a business man, different provinces of China she who had spent many years in China,SPONDENCY is often caused by "Twrites," I observed with regret that voiced the sentiments of the rest of ail so-called Western goods in Inland the party when he said: "fin Shang- ciller came from either Germany or halwe look upon" that as the first Japan
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