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Smencement of the present tro East Surrey Regt scratched Since the aEKRABATALION
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THE CONSULAR SERVICE IN CHINA.
TRIBUTE TO SIR JAMES JAMIESON;
Prishes to leave the Kuomintang regime,
Wong Ching Wei, a leading Chinese Bolshevik, has been appointed acting thief of the Labour and Farmers Divi sions of the Kuomintang to succeed Mr. Liu, but Sun Fo, adopted son of the late Dr. San Fat Sen, it mentioned for the permanent post. It is stated, however, that Borodin does not regard. Mr. Sun as Red enough for such an important and responsible position
STRLES FUNDRA
| Canton – merchants may be ordered 。again to contribute another half month rent for the support of the strikers, Of the funds raised during the last few weeks only about $20,000 are left The daily expenses of the strike committen ia Canton amount to about $8,000.
AFFAIRS IN MUKDEN.
AN INTERESTING RECONCILIATION.
[TROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MUIDEN August 19th. Rumour had it this week that Marshal Chang Tso Lin was a very sick man and gloomy thoughts were given free play by those of a lugubrious turn of mind, as
matter of fact the Marshal was indis- posed, and for this indisposition do less The first is that he was deeply wounded than three explanations were available. over the failure to achieve certain plaos
The following tribute by Bir. John Jordan to the Consular Service in China appeared in The Times of July 8th:- **As an old member of the Consular Ser- vice in China, and one who has worked for years, in close nasociation with Mr. Barton, FL B. M. Consul General (at Shanghai) and the Service generally, I should like to draw attention to the im mense debt which the British nation owes to that Service in the present very difficult and trying times in China.
Sir James Jamieson, our Consul. General at Canton, who has for years carried on his own shoulders the whole Barden of conducting our relations, with South China, handled the recent crisi at the Tientsin Conference The second is that on visiting de tombs of his ance- there with foresight, knowledge, and per-stors he was incensed to find that instruc copal courage which averted still grave tona which he had given with respect to a disaster and earned him the gratitude temple had not been carried ont. The of his countrymen. At another great, thiru is that be suffered from dysentery. centre, Hankow. Mr. Harold Porter All three are perfectly good explanations, rendered a similar service to the large and readers are welcome to their choice and important British community there. It should he added, however, that the The above happen to be the three places Marshal is now absolutely it and well at which the most serions troubles have and daily in his office recently occurred, but scattered every-
where throughout the vast territory of NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT. China there are, members of the British A number of business men from the Consular Service often in very remote commercial centres of the North have and lonely localities, who are shouldering been visiting Mukden these last few days heavy responsibilities for the safety of in connection with the large new electric their countrymen, and whose capacity light plant planned for this growing city. and high sense of duty will, I feel sure, The total cost of the works should be enable them to face any emergency within the neighbourhood of $100,000, the resourcefulness and whole-hearted in
A RECONCILIATION. devotion displayed by their three disease tinguished colleagues whom I have men- tioned.
An interesting reconciliation has been effected this week General Wang Cheng Ping, who was one of Wo Pei Fu's com manders, and who had been sheltering
SIR CHARLES ADDIS HONOURED. in Japan and Dairea for some time, came
CAPPED AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.
Sir Charles, Audis, K.C.M.G., was one of a number of distinguished honorary graduates who were " capped "at the summer. graduation ceremonial in the faculties of Arts and Science of Edinburgh University on June 22nd
up to Mukden and was entertained by the Governor of Kirin. Later he met the Marshal and has now returned to Dairen, having made his peace with Chang Tso Lin. This reconciliation is not, without interest in view of erents on the Yangtze.
After being closed for about eight years the French Consulate in Mükden will be re-opened next month,
Mr. W. A. Mitchell, who has been local To presenting Sir Charles for the manager of Messrs Andersen, Meyer & Bonorary degree of Doctor of Laws,. Pro- Co., was entertained by members of the fessor Mackintosh, K., Dean of the Makdon Club to a farewell dinner on Faculty of Law, referred to him as Tuesday night at the Lengmuller Hotel follows
MAX Mr. Mitchell leaves for the United
It is u source of satisfaction to the States next week.
University in these times of economic
difficulty that the first on our list of
Honorary graduands, is a leading repre TRADE CONDITIONS, IN GREAT
sentative of British banking and credit.
It is specially gratifying to our departmen
ment of Economics that a former pupil
BRITAIN.
adverse balance.
returns to-day with the august dignity of A feature of the Board of Trade re a director of the Bank of England, he turns for May, comments Barclay's Bank are glad to know that Sir Charles Adda. 1 Monthly Review, is the appreciable, can lodg experience in the East and at home traction in the visi tas confirmed his faith in the principles The figure of £25,3 is £11 millions which he absorbed as a student. During less than in the preceding month and is the first year of the Great War it was the lowest monthl gerse, balance since only by British crédit that the Allier were June 1994, -alt for the first five sole to obtain a sufficiency of food supplies months of the current year, the sum of and munitions. During this anxious 180 millions by which the impurts period Sir Charles was one of the chief financial advisers of the Government. Hs | has been called in a different times to assist many countries, from China to
ceeded the exports, was more than the corresponding figure in 1224 by about 24.7 millions:26
Lay at 104.3 millions,
Brazil in their economic dificulties, and were £8.1 millions less than in
ts, which amounted
is fill playing an important part in the 17-8 millions less than in May 1874 financial restoration of Europe. In these while British efforts Bir Charles has not posed as a to £84.2 milli financial alchemist, but has insisted on the millions less than well fried,ifunpalatable, remedies of millions higher than hard work, good faith, nou strict economy month
I present Sir Charles as a stout upholder e exporta amoanted of sound money and sound credit, the sure and showed an expans foundations of British commercial and tron to May 1924 and financial stability assem
should be rem Subsequently, at the luncheon, Marisons with Ramsay MacDonald referre
Sirtrade
teption
Charter Addis as that bresentative of the secular genius of Scot above those land, the man of kffairs, the man of the winle Bound gold standard.
December of bat
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