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INDIAN FINANCE.
HIGHER EXCHANGE RATIO QUESTION.
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
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1927.
CHOICE OF ROUTES.
A CANAL FROM GREAT
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Washington, Jan. 3.
Hankow, Dec. 27. Mr. Sun Fo, Nationalist Minister of Communicationa, announced to- day that, as a result of negotiations with representatives of Marshal Wu Pei-tu's generale in Honan, through At Tannan, the Principal of the The Hoover Commission ap traffic on the Peking-Hankow Rail- Bombay Sydenham College of pointed by President Coolidge to way as far as Chengchow was re-Commerce, presiding at the tenth advise upon the development of sumed to-day.
Bession of the conference of In- the canal from the Great Lakes Until to-day only two trains were dian economists, supported as to the Atlantic has reported in operated daily. The receipts wore whole the Currency Commission's favour of the St. Lawrence route insufficient to pay the exponses. proposals.
as recommended by the Canadian and American joint board of en- Under the new arrangement about ten trains will run daily.
gineers.
ping from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes is an economic neces. sity for the Middle West.
He asserted that the higher exchange ratio would hardly It is estimated that between 80 affect the small producer of the The Commission declares that and 70 tons of grain are awaiting agricultural labourer, while the the construction of a canal of suf- haulage, at stations in Hottaa pro- lower ratio, on the other hand fcient depth to admit ocean ship. vince. All this will be moved with might necessitate retrenchment the resumption of through traffic. and additional taxation.
The negotiations for this resump Mr. Tannan, while supporting tion began immediately upon the the gold bullion standard, urged arrival here of the Nationalist Gov-the introduction of a gold cur-St. Lawrence route in view of the ernment officials, Representatives rency within five to six years. of some of the leading generals of He emphasised the need of a Marshal Wa were approached for proper banking system and an an understanding. This was finally Indian Institute of Bankers.
Sir Rajendranath Mookeries consummated,
Mr. Sun Fo said to-day that out of the Imperial Bank of India of the surplus over operating ex- welcoming the delegates warned horse-power, of which about half penses realised by the now through the advocates of the 1s. 4d. ratio lies in the upper rapids along the traffic he will begin extensive re-that their policy of raising the international sections between the pairs and replacements along the price level all round was a deliber: State of New York and Ontario:
ate sacrifice of the interests of Router's American Service, line within a few months.
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It is expected by the business the poor.. He deplored the pro- community here that the now traffic posals regarding the gold bullion will have a stimulating effect upon standard and said that the estab trade in the Wu-Han area-Reuter.lishment of a reserve bank had Foreigners Lucky Escape not received the attention it. de
Eserved-Router. Shanghai, Dec. 28.
A new use for Balaclava hel mets," or "How two foreign womenj escaped annoyances; planned for them by out-of-hand soldiers and
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anti-foreign students," might be the 14 DAYS FROM LONDON TO title of the story talling of the way in which two women missionaries
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NOTABLE TRIBUTE.
STATES. MR. S. M. BRUCE AND UNITED
Philadelphia, Jan. 8.
A striking tribute to the United States was paid by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. S. M. Bruce at a luncheon, Mr. Bruce said. thaf nothing was further from the truth than the rant of un- informed people that the United States was too brazen about her- self.
many ways, does not talk enough about herself. Indeed she is indecently modest.
"You are leading the world but you do not let the world know it. No country is more misunder stood or vilified. America needa to give a world campaign. in education."
"Reuter's American Service.
Lieft a certain town in Klangsi, pro-INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS.
vince, when there were students ly
Rugby, Jan. 8. ing in wait for them, and they could,
The Postmaster General an- expect no protection from Southern
On the contrary the United soldiers HYB the "Shanghai nounces that the fortnightly air
mail service between Cairo and States, on which Australia en- Cooped up in their small com- Bagdad is to be extended to deavoured to pattern herself in
Further extension to pound in this inland town, the two Basra. women sat through one night Karachi will be made later.
mobi listening to the shouts of "1
The air mail from London of which marched round and round Thursday, January 6, and fort- their building, beating decasionally nightly thereafter, will be due to on the gates, howling abuse, and reach Bagdad late in the after- sometimes heaving mud and pebbles noon of the following Thursday over the wall.
and Basra on Friday morning Next morning there was a picket 7 days from London.
At Basra it will be due to con- of Southern soldiers placed by pure chance, of course-near the nect with the fast Saturday mail gate by which they might be ex-steamer due at Karachi on the 2nd pected to attempt to leave the com- Thursday 14 days from London pound. These soldiers would in--and also with the slow service form the students when the women, for various Persian Gulf ports, whose only crime was that they leaving Beara on alternate-Sun-
London, Dec. 27. taught the Gospel,. tended the sick, days,
Thus the air mail will offer inj The Paris correspondent of the and instructed a number of children! how to read and write, were leav-comparison with transmission by Daily Mail says that a new ing: then they would conveniently the desert motor route or by the lighthouse, constructed by the turn their backs until all was over, sea route via Bombay a saving in French aeronautical authorities The students were making assur- the time of transit of about two for the guidance of aircraft, has Inaugurated an Mont ance doubly sure by watching the and seventeen days, respectively, been
to Basra, and approximately Valerien, an old fort west of city gates..
About the time of the evening seven days to Bushire and other Paris. The light is the most meal, when the soldiers were busy Persian Gulf ports, and about two powerful in the world, being with their rice, some native friends days to Karachi and North-West visible over a 50 miles radius,→ brought wheel-barrows into the India-British Wireless Service, Wireless through Reuter
Air Minister's. Trip.
Rugby, Jan. 8.
mission compound, and gave the women long robes, like "those wern
Sir Samuel Hoare arrived at by Chinese men. They covered their faces and heads with Balac-Baghdad yesterday afternoon on lava helmets, those warm woolly, his flight to India, after a fourney but ungainly things favoured by of 548 miles from Zize, lu Pales Chines to keep the frost from time,
to
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their ears, and worn years ago by An official welcome was accord-A Tommies in the trenches. Perched ed the Air Minister, who said the sell
total flying time from London on these wheel-barrows, the women went through the streets, past the Baghdad was 88 hopra, and the curious eyes of the soldiers, past the average 100 miles an hour, auspicious scrutiny of the students, He believed the new Cairo- Karachi air service would assist and through the gate.
the 6th January, 1927 commencing at 11 am.
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A Large Quantity of Fittings, Medicines & Packings
Terms
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One of them reached Shanghai in stimulating the development of recently. She could not tell the Irak, without injuring the business Ship name of the town for fear of re- of the overland route-British prisals on her friends who had Wireless Service helped to save her.
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Rugby, Jan. 8. Yesterday was the bicentenary of the birth of General Wolfe, the
NUMEROUS CASUALTIES hero of Quebec, and at a com meinoration banquet to-night the
Padang, Jan. 3 guests will include most of the direct living relatives of Wolfe, The entire Siloenkakang dis the descendants of Pitt, who was trict is in revolt: The insur the Minister who selected him for rents attacked Hicentank sta- the command, and the descention and murdered a native chief. dants of the officers who served where they damaged the rail under Wolfe British Wireless way and telegraphs.t Service.
Four natives have been mur
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