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PEKING NOTES (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PEKING. August 20th
COMUNA WILIGHỪT SION.
China has no intention whatever, of signing the German Pence Treaty, will
THE SPARLIAMENTARY DEADLOCK.
There is no chang in the" position in which Pesident and Parliament have found thanselves for the past two months, The deadlock continues. Anfuites will net have a Premier who does not sequre for them a share of the fruits of office,
PROPAGANDA ABROAD Information on a wide range of "aub. jeet connected with British Embassies, missions and consular establishments, wai slight for and btained from Mr. Cecil Plarmsworth (Parliamentary Under So. cretary for Foreign Affairs), at a meeting of the Standing Commities on Estimatas,
July 13th, Mr. Turton presided. Mr. Morrison asked whether it was
New York, December 24th, 1019. nemary to maintain representatives at Clemen. We take the liberty of varion, plegs which he named, whether
sending you herewith enelased a copy of the salary of our Ambassador at Washing-
cur wholesale prier ligt, and call your to was sufficient, seeing there was so
attention to the "inct that the products reh dithealty in Alling the post, what
therein listed, and which were formerly was the nature of the expenses for pro manufactured by E. Schering, Berlin.. paganda abroad, and what was the canse.
Fabrik "ron Heyden, Raibul, and Goe of the enormous increase in the cont of
decke & Co., Leipzig, "are now mand foreign tilegra.
factured in the E.S.A.. wither, by our. Mr farmsworth stated that daringselves or under our direct supervision. the war cur diplomatic service had been very greatly increased, and its personnel was now much arger, the additional Estaff having been required specially in connection with the blockade. The staff of the Embassy at Washington, which then numbered not more than eight, was, At the present time, no less than eighty. In obedience to the recommendation of the Committed, and He 334
sare with the approval of the House and of people outside," the salaries of our diplomatic agents had been igerased suite recently. Previously no candidate for the diplomatic service was considered suitable unless he had a private income, and very nearly one-third of the increase in the estimate was due tu the scheme by which the salaries of dippmatic agents had been raised to what might be called a living wage,
The following correspondence between La Geeran frni in New York nod a firm An Musealing was printed in the Times For June 18th, and. in view of durtain | not accept mediation to this end on the fand the President is disinclined to con
gidindies which are beginning to be part of Allied Powers, and will not enter tinue the sordid palley which has made noticeable in Hongkong, we have been into dirver negotiations with tapan on
the effects of Repúblicaniam in ba usked to reproduce it!--
the subjret of Kindehow. That is there, harmful to the State thans even, the text of the categorie statement which the corrupt Manche imperialism was. In the Government has telegraphed to the pro-ed old days squeeze" had its limita vinces anil to the Chinese delegates and tions; today it has none except these ministers abroad. It is emphatic, to say imposed by the difficulties of obtaining the least, and ought to allay the uneasions from outside. Intriguing for posi ness which existed in many minds lest the Government should wobble. The position is saan sate, and it is be coming solidified by the increasing mea- sum of support indicated by the telegrams from America. The Government is prepared, of course, to sign the treaty with Austria, and intelligence from Paris regarding its final shaping and date of signature is being followed with the closest interest.
Judging from inquiries received from time to time, the preparations have been dificult to obtain in your markets for a considerable period; and then only at a premium.
The purpose of this communication therefäre, t-acquaint you with the fact thas we are, in a position to take care of all repirements for these products, and. with a few exceptions, at the normal pre war prices.
We solicit your inquiries, and will be pleased to quote special export prices for larger quantities than specified in our list. We can also supply clinical" "lite rature on any of these products.
Hoping to have the pleasure of hearing from gpu, we are, Very truly yours,
SCHERING AND Glatz.
March 7th, 1919. Mears. Scheering and Glatz, 1:50-4.
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JAPAN's spacial. araiers is CRINA.
tien continues. Little Hau is directing operations, in Mongolia from the safety of Peking, where he can also a tener his dwn claims for the portfolio of the War Ministry. He wants this very much, and the friction between the present inter of the portfolio and the Acting Premier, who is also Minister of Finance, offers prospects of an early vacancy, which su feels called upon to sateb.
CHOLEILA
While the authorities are anxious to By far the most interesting news of avert a seare, there can be little doubt the week is that which came from Tokyo to that cholera has spread further than it the effect that the Japanese, Cabinet had need have done had proper presnations decided that Japan would not enter the been taken. It is true that most of the Consortium except under the condition
Covefument railways five taken men that Manchurin and Mongolia, should be stres which are fairly satisfactory.. with excluded from its scope. Japanese mili-
the exception of the Peking. Mukden tarists claim for their country special railway, whose director got a "wigging" rights in return for the sacrifices which the other day from his colleague, in ses- Japan had to make in order to combat sin in Peking and an order to carry out the menace from Russia and, later, from th instructions originally given him. A Germany that China could not resist.
few cases of the disease have appenreit Not only does Japan wish to establish in Peking, where the authorities are the hegemony of the Far Eart, but hopes taking propiutions which ought to have to control the vast territories of Man been initiated earlier. Street-wonders of churia and Mongolia as a Japanese pre-
fruit and mineral waters have been voi- serve or as Japanese provinces. Chinese manded to discontinue their calling, and appreciate this friendly desire on the red cross badged police are statinoni at it of their ambitions neighbour, but the city gates to watch for people whow. have been a year ago, their comment. THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT SHANGHAI, are not so apprehensive as they mighting symptoms of the disease. being that Japan is attempting to eat
It is thought that the appointment of more than she can digest. They realise Wang Yistang as chief Northern delegate that the other Powers are not going to will hasten the resumption of the Shang and for the reengnition of special privi.hai Peace Conference and lead to the leges for Japan when the object of the conclusion of a settleinent satisfactory to Consortium is to pool their interests for both sides Or rather to the majority the good of China. Japan will w
enel side. Indications point to the mili doubtedly be excluded from the Connor tarists of North and South reaching a tium if she persists in this attitude, and rapprochement, but it is doubtful if a ber insistenge upon special rights will not solution brought about by military "in- redound to her benefit in the long run.
Quence will prove a lasting one, unless In either caso Japan exposes herself to
the Tuchune consent to the real power criticism. If the present" decision be being vested in the new Parliament. revoked, there is involved loss of face;
The independencing" in your wicked madness you opened
of disgruntleit this war hoping that by acceiving your while, by an application to join the Conchun, ought to be rendered impossible Its pro-friends, shonouring your treaties, out sortium after the dire effects of exclusion
in the future, and that can be accoin- stood in your way, and by comuntring raging any small neutral nation that have become felt, Japan will suffer a plished only by depriving them of their
In regard to the United States, there. was this difficulty, "that it was the most expensive office of our diplomatic servicę for a man to fill. Mr. Bobur Law, in the House of Commons, said that the question of means had not stood in the way of the appointment of a right man. That was so has it was quite possible that the Foreign Office might have to come to the House of Commons for some sort of extra- allowance for the Ambassador in the United Statea.
An Hon. Member: What is the salary.. of the United States Ambassador in this country.
MA Farmsworth said it was £10,000. *
16 NEW PROPAGANDA SCHEMĚ . Proceeding to deal with the propagan
question, Mr. Harnsworth said he
HAPPY HIT might take the Commitee into his conâid-
CIGARETTES
IT'S TOASTED.
ence,
G.S.A. Sirs. We have to acknowledge yours of December 9th, informing us that arms ermerly manufacturing in Berlin, Rade bul, and Leipzig are now manufacturing in U.S.A. under your supervision, that their products with a few exceptions are at normal pre-war prices, that our in- quiries are solicited, and you hope for the pleasure of hearing from us," etc.
Before your country decided to commit the greatest crime the world has known, and which they launched in August, 1944, our firm had dealt with yours and armilar in Kermany for nearly 30 years. Your products we manired and largely ased, your travellers we welcomed, your
.countrymen who settled "here wa
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What remained of the foreign activities of the Minister of Information had been thrust unexpectedly or his shoulder. The Forrige Uhce budgeted for a very modest estimate. paganda was estimated to cost this year. 0.040, which was a tremendous drop from the lav.sh expenditure which pre vailed and was necessary during the of, to win through by brute force. Your military successes of the past two decades every crine and bestiality you could think depreciation of prestige which all her The Real "Burley Cigarette war. Although it was really a matter spies were in every land; "bere they were will not stay.
rather für discussing in detail in the House, he might explain that the grin
unmasked and put under control. "u
As a matter of fact, in cipal part of their prepada scheme policy of murder and barbarism which, cision as presaging a downfall of the Your warfare alpon the seas has been à telligent Chinese regard the Takyo de was the establishing of definite reprenad it not taken place, would never have Imperialism and militarism which bas sentatives in the most important coun been believed tries, who should be in the position to Women and children and neutral travel made Japan feared for the past five years.
to uve been possible. advise the Minister of the trend of public lers have been murdered whenever the opinion in the country, and to suggest to chance presented itself.
"Those whom the gods wish to destroy him, 'supposing the current opinion was An entirely New principle in going against the interests of it. Britain,
view today?--- they first make mad. Such is the Chinese the proper steps to be taken to meet these rations. tendencies Such representatives would The writer of this is the senior of our. proposed to have in France, in Switzer-prisoner in your hands, and we know at sources is driving the Government to His eldest son was wounded i Inability to obtain money from outside land, Italy. Spain, Portugal, Belgium, first hand to what depths of inhuman expedients which it never imagined it and eventually in the Scandinavian methods in that direction you can go. countries and in America, definite repre- The writer's second son, a medical stud could have faced. sentatives, attached, but not too closely, ent doing bumane work in Army Medicalchuna had only to ask for funds, and they Previously, the Tu- to the Minister representing his Majesty Corps at Gallipoli, was killed in the field in these countries, and they would be in by your associates, the Turks, who were- Fouch with the corresponding officers at until you showed yourselves the bloodiest manders could always point to the danger were forthcoming, because these com Foreign Office. This vote was only murderers £1450. the rest being the regular For
of Europ your very t
of their soldiers mutinying and becoming "jam Offee, but the total estimate of ghout £60,000 was less than twentieth part of
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As to telegrams, there was an apparat increase of from £43,500 to £250.000, bat the Committee knew that under the some- what slip-shod methods of accountancy
respect or regard bom în an honourable that prevailed during the war very large mutual friendship. You preferred the feud would probably have grown into a sums were put dawa to votes of credit, and did not appear. in the ordinary way,by making your name and reputation methods we have briefly alluded to, there in the estimate, and this was the case loathed and detested. with telegram. Obviously. the increase during the war and up. till now in the cabling and telegraphing as enormous, but they might hope, now that peace with Germany had been achieved, to look of a return to something like the no-m-i
The vote we still under discussion when attention was drawn to the fact that a unrom was not present, and the Committer adjourned.
None of us here want your products, cations. your countrymen, nor your communi.
MEMORIAL TO WORKING MEN.
THE MILITARY INCUBUS,
armies.
1
AMERICAN MINISTER RESIGNS.
Chinese express deep regret over the
American Minister, who has been a good resignation of Dr. Paul Reinsch, the
friend to China during the six years that he has been here.
HYPNOTIC GREY EYES. BLUEBEARD'S RESEMBLANCE TO
RASPUTIN.
The Paris physiognomist, Professor
mysterious Russian monk, who swayed the Pacat, has discovered that Landru, the French Bluebeard, and Rasputin, the
souls. Studying photographs of the two fortunes of the Tsar's Empire, were twia men, the Frofesor said: «
"Both Landru and Basputin have almost conical skulls, both heads show great crucity, egotism, ambition, and love
more powerful, and was capable of hold- Of the two men Rasputin was the
ing a large number of victims under his influence at the same time. Bluebeard cannot exercise his domination for long. fresh prey." which explains why he constantly sought
If your country wanting, war-had bandits. Now, however, the public trea waged it with some sort of chivalry aury, never very full, is empty, and the Allies had won or lost, at the conclusion at various commanders at the front that of authority, which both men" tried t nations and savage races, whether the Government has had to inform the peace would have been made and a mutual their expenses are to be reduced thirty impose by physic force, Bluebeard's head.
organisation, has not been without insan monk's. per cent. Parliament, albeit a militarist however, is less powerful than the Rus uence in this matter. Another interest fxity which reveal, a formidable magne "The grey eyes of both men have a ing aspect of the situation is that the tic force. Landru and Rasputin were Government has decided upon a partial capable of exercising a kind of spiritual scheine of disbandment, to commence next break down the strongest opposition in a attraction by their eyes, which could month, in five northern provinces. While, weaker person. however, this reform is in progress, there is retrogression elsewhere, for the North- The project of establishing a memorial West Frontiers Defence Army epjoys to the working men who lost their lives preferential treatment" in respect of in the war has taken definite shape. The funds. Whence these are derived is not idea of the memorial is that Labour should have a great central building in very clear. Little Hsu bas brought London, containing offices for unions, forward a sebeme for floating a domestic large conference hall, reference library accommodation, At Wolverhampton, recently, Mr. John
headquarters loan in order to provide capital for a Hodge, M.P, alluded to a discussion with
of the national committees, a hostel bank which is to finance his enterprise on for delegates risiting London, a restaur Japanese deputation relative to the nugant, and facilities of a social and edaca the North-weitern frontiers. The real gested introduction of Japanese into the tional character. auddling trade of the Midlands. Mr. Hodge said that to ons member of the leader in Bouth Wales, has been appoint Whatever it be, it bodes no good for Captain Edward Gill, M.C., a miners' object of this scheme is not evident, deputation he remarked. "If you willed secretary and organiser of the scheme. China. Some suggest that it betokens a Government to pass an He has taken up his duties, and has military combination with Chang T-lin
PREVENTION AND CURE, Act of Parliamens to the effect that wages issuedà roular to the affiliated or which contemplates the restoration of the for aliens had only been bebiat khe noctien paid in Japan shall be the same as paid Kanisations, informing them that en little ex-Emperor. An independent Mon- they would have known that ades in this "If marabers who expressed svarpathy in England, with the same conditions of appeal will shortly be made to the trade employment, then we will teach your unions and local labour parties for de golia, and Manchuria under the Manchu country were doing their utmost sharing men, because we do not fear you. But finite basucial support, and that other time, but whether it is within the pale Such was Sir John Butcher's probest in dynasty has been talked about for some the Mar to bring destruction upon it." must have that Act of Parlia projects for raising funds on national of practicability may be doubted
lines are under consideration.
the House of Commons recently.
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The Professor, replying to a question: said the existence of a female Landry" was not impossible." Woman," he said. is a greater artist than man in amorous dissimulation, and, therefore, stronger, have the greatest fluid force" Beware of grey eves It is they which
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