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CANTON AND WASHINGTON, Dr. Wu Ting Fang's Opinion.
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Canton, August, 11-Dr. Wo Ting-fang's attention has besa called to the recent statement made by Dr. W. W. Yan lo which be declared that China would seok at the Washington Con- ference, to have worked out gene- ral principles which can be ap plied in solving Individual pro blems wherever they may arise in the future developments on the Pacific.". Dr. Wu observed that further definition of gene ral principles regarding China would hardly add to the de- finiteness and clarity of the principle of the independence and integrity of China and thei doctrine of the Open Door which have been affirmed and re-affirm- ed in the series of Corventions entered into by Japan with Great | Britain, France, Russia and the. United States, The difficulty The Barber Line steamer Bell- bas hitherto lain in the applica flower sailed from Hongkong tion of these well-defined general this morning for New York, via Principles to "individual pro- Cebu and Panama Canal with a blems" like Shantung and the large general cargo from Far allied and greater question of the Eastern ports. Part of the cargo Twenty-One Demands. And if Dr. is a shipment of tea from Kee-Yen means that these two con- lung which is said to be the crete and urgent issues are to be largest consignment loaded on excluded from the ambit one steamer for New York in ten of the Washington Conferencs years. Altogether there are 1,872 which is the viaw now tons of tea in the vessel for being pressed by Japan. discharge at New York.
Dr. Wu Ting-fang is prepared hazard the opinion that, whatever else the Conference may achieve. China will stand precisely where she does to-day.
Large Tea Shipment.
Delayed by Typhoon. Typhoon weather which she is encountering on ber voyage from
to
to refer to Dr. Yen.
Pacific
the vessel was meeting with very heavy weather owing to
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs typhoon and would not arrive
officially denies the reporta before this afternoon. The vesselmanating from Peking that
communications have passed be-j is bound to Australia
tween this government and the Peking Pacific Conference. The reports Chinese representation at the authorities regarding
are entirely false.
Route Changed.
The programme of ship con Japan to Hongkong is delaying If Dr. Yen wants more general struction for the P. and 0 of the Japanese steamer Aki Maru. principles applicable to China which these steamers are part, is The vessel was due to make port and elsewhere in the s short, but nevertheless exten-yesterday morning. but she basi sive one, príncipally to replace made no appearance.
A wireless region. Dr. Wu Ting-fang believes! the severe losses sustained by the message received from the master that the Covenant of the League company during the war. Quite by the Hongkong office of the of Nations contains a goodly an amount of the cew tonnage is Y.K. this morning said that assortment, to which he craves designed for emmigian: business. The nine passenger, steamers, all big vessels, oven bigger than some of the vessels which were lost and whose places and names they are taking, are being built in three classes. In the B class there are ive 13,800-ton vessels. Two of East from Seattle the new Ship On her first voyage to the Far them are almost completed. They ping Board steamer Hawkeye are the Ballarat and the Baradine.state, running under the auspices These ships are being built for the of the Admiral Line, will sail from acceptability of Mr. C. T. Wang Australian ran by way of Cape Puget Sound on August 27 into the South are groundless and Town and will carry only third place of the Wenatchee, which is regarded in political circles here class passenger, it is said. Toere in dock. Returning from Hong-as inspired by certain interested will be accommodation for about kong the vessel will be routed to 1.100 passengers on each of the San Francisco, via Honolulu in-
parties. "big five ".
Their Geld for busi-tead of to Seattle, after clearing ness will be in the heavy em 9hangbai. Kobe and Yokohama, migration to Australia and South according to instructions received DR. BERTRAND RUSSELL Africa from the Old Country that this morning by the Admiral is expected once the world-wide Line. The Hawkeye State with depression begins to lessen. The be allocated to the Matson Navi. names of the other three ships cation Company of San Francisco Tells Students Communism is Are the Balranald, the Beadigolos arrival there after her round) and the Barrabool. The appoint-voyage to the Far East. ment of masters to the first two
A Wrecked Junk.
Further reports regarding the
IN JAPAN. „
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Declaring that the causes of strife in the world cannot be re-
ships to be finished has been made. Capt. S.C. Warner will command The Harbour Master (Lieut.) moved by Mr. Harding's proposed the Ballarat and Capt. B. J. Conway Hake, R.N.) has receivad conference in Washington nor by Ohlson. D.S.O., the Baradine.
at wireless message from the "any agreement among the pre- The largest ships under cou-Master of the 9. Cyclops, stating datory states of the world to-; struction, in this programme are that his ship passed a large junk, day," Dr. Bertrand Russell at the Mooltan and the Maloja, both floating bottom upwards, in Lat. Keio University outlined what be of 20,700 tons. They are intended
considers to be the causes of con- |flict among the nations, which are nationalism and present-day capitalism, and gave his
oot-International Com-
800 tons each.
The one cargo ship for delivery about the same time &S these passenger vessels is the Mirza pore, of 6,500 tons.
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Extract from the South-China Morning Posd, August 19th, 1921 :
"Only children mader ten shall be allowed to 'flaunt' their! bare legs and wear bathing suits without skirts at Coney Island this summer,... No person actually or apparently above the age of ten years shall wear any bathing suit which does not cop- sist of stockings and tights which shall meet the stockings, a skirt which shall extend to the knees, and a waist which shall cover the bosom and shoulder-blades."-A Brooklyn Alderman's Bathing-dress Regulations.
"If you go for a swim from the Coney Beach
You must wear a full suit of clo ́es,
Which most cover you up from neck to feet,
You mustn't bare even your toes.
And if you've a nose that's inclined to pry. (Which, of course, no American's is!) Why, then you must cover that organ too,
And muzzle your curious phiz.
"It is not the puritan strain in me,
But the thought of the risks of my youth, When ignorance, innocence, both meant the same.
And I delved not for naked truth.
"But, since I am old (say, advancing in years)
The pleasures of youth I have acoroed, And to save all you youngsters from coming to grief
You must learn to love nature adorned."
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for the mail line from London to Australia, via Suez and are much Jarger than their predecessors. which were sunk during the war. They will have accommodation The death took place at Terri-munism." for about 300 first class passeagerstet, Switzerland, after a long and The heir apparent to a British as well as being provided with painful illness, of Baroness Alice Earldom, slender and of an aris- cheaper grades..
Slatin, the wife of Baron Rudolftocratic bearing but showing the Two other steamers designed Slatin Pasha, the well-known traces of his recent severe illness, to replace war losses are the traveller, and author of Fire
several thousand Moldavia and the Mongolia.and Sword in the Sudan," to Japanese for about an hour on which will have a tonnage of 15,- whom she was married in Vienna Socialism. The bare, white a few days before the outbreak of
auditorium of Keio University the war. in 1914. The baronessas packed to the walls by an audience that was almost entirely was before her marriage Baroness Ramberg, and Was a grand- Japanese, yet among them were
The road to be taken to bring daughter of the Austrian A.D.C. very few kimone or hakoms; for the mutual destructions of all this about, he said, was long and Although no announcement has to the Duke of Wellington at the ign clothes predominated. Scat civilizations or the discovery of a bitter. It would not come to- been made to the effect it is Battle of Waterloo. By her tered among the rest were a few thought that some of this new death Paron Slatin Pasha is left men who might have been 40 or new way and method for solving morrow nor the next day nor may tonnage will be utilised on the with a little daughter aged five, hair to be seen was that of the 45 years old, but the only gray}
the world's problems. The first be in the lifetime of those present. Far Eastern service of the P. and who was sent over to friends in
step toward finding such a "but when the moment comes the new economic system will be in- O.Co.
this country 10 days ago. Statio scholarly appearing speaker. way, he said, was to under-
the stand
causes of
thestitated by revolutions in most of Greenock yards are building Pasha did much during the war Most of those who listened in
present. situation. Private pro- the nations of the world, as the the Ballarat, the Balranald and for British prisoners as bead of silence, breaking into applause the Bendigo, while Belfast has the Austrien Red Cross for the only at the close of the address, Ferty and rationalism be con- capitalists will not part with their power voluntarily, but the Baradine. the Barrabool, the Prisoners of War. He was in belonged to the generation that sidered these cansee.
Tracing briefly the growth of it must be taken Away Moolten and the Malojs under this country last year chiefly to is called by many the "New
them. AL that time The Mongolia and the help in the repatriation from Japan. The way.
nearest police capitalism until in each country from
there are national monopolies, he we must adopt the same methode Mirzapore
stocks are on
officer was many hundred yards at Russia of Austrian9 captured Newcastle-on-Tyne and the in the Eastern campaign.
away as the "dangerous thoughts" said the capitalists of one country as those used in Russia." The co- of the Socialist were put into compete with those of another for operation af all workers and of was needed "tol markets and for raw materials. all Socialists words on the soil of Japan.
In the past, most of this compet sweep away national boundaries tion had been for markets; in the and to bring about the feeling waterboat licence by not obtain- Out of doors there is nothing
future it would be for undevelop that the whole world is one. Only ing water from & government so zestfal and comfortable for the subject of bis lecture was "The of wars that would be more world can we find salvation. It Mr. Russell announced that the ed resources. Here lay the cause in the co-operation of the whole water-works yesterday, the mas-feyes as the light reflected from Rebuilding of Civilization," ex- tar of Waterboat No. 1811 was green fields and trees-the absorp-plaining at once that by "civiliza bitter, more frequent and more is only through this co-operation fined $10 at the Marine Court tion of the ultra-viole: and tion" he did not
terrible." "No nation," he said, that industrialism will become mean the this morning. In evidence it was orange rage by the chlorophyll material advance the world has ward international peace and it Industrialism is capable of lead- 'has taken an effective step to our servant and not our master. stated that the defendant was of the leaves; hence the intro-made but something more seen taking water from & Union duction of Fieuzal Glass, yel-spiritual and intellectual, that is not possible to do so as long as ing us to a new Heaven, as it bas Waterboat Co.'s vessel without lowish green in colour, which is exists in peoples thoughts and the present competitive system permission a very frequent com- produced in several shades, and feelings," which he said were the exists.'. plaint, it was said. Defendant's lenses made of this may be worn things that gi e valne to life and plea, was that he was in need of as a protection by over-sensitive therefore the things "which we water quickly and had no time to eyes where it is desirable to tone should seek and to which we International Communism, in children's children."-Japan Ad-
Moldavia is at Birkenhead.
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Failure to renew their boat Fieuzal leises of any prescription progress."
there is no longer competition licences brought 14 Chinese boat-in either regular or Toric form He believed that, considered in because all share alike in the men and mistresses before the are manufactured by the Hong- this light, the World War had products of labour. There would In the current issue of the Court this morning, All were kong Optical Co., Successors to done more harm than good and be an international control of Cambridge Review, su appeal is Boed $3 for their lapse, with the Clark & Co. Manufacturing and could see in the existing inter raw materials and the substitu- made for subscribers, to enable Voxception
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