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TARIFF ISSUES.
Points to Be Presented by Japan.
The Shih Chích News Agency loarns from its own correspon dont in Tokyo that the Japanese Government has decided to bring up the following questione in the coming Tariff Conferences, to be held in Peking, Oct. 26
1. To work out a plan for the amortization of Japanese Joans to China by the focrensed Customs receipts.
2. Protection of Japanese iner- chants incidental to the increased tariff schedule.
3. Preparation for the abolition of Likin
4. That an amount of the in- crossed Customs receipts bo de- posited in the Yokohama Spacie Bank
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
CRACK SHOTS:
Swiss Riflemen Defeat
American Team.
THE NEW CHINA:
Unpleasant Tendencies.
Our Poking correspondent to Saint Gall, Switzerland, Sep day makes roforonce to the wave tembor The United States of senational stories regarding Eifle Team, winners of the Olym-Chinese women that appears to pic meet last year, received a setback at the hands of the Swiss team in International rifle tour nament Switzerland won with o total of 5,385 points to 5,246 for the Americans, who finished socond..
be passing over the capital China. He states that both in the English language and vernal cular newspapers, sandwiched
A between solemn 'accounts of the Customs Conference and the kidnappings of Mr. Eugeno Chen and Dr. Howard, there appears a procession of frivolous or scand- alous items concering brides, con- cubinos and girl students,
The individual scores follows: Hartmann. Switzerland, 1.100 Llonhard, Switzerland. 1,103 which also beat the world's re- cord; Zimmermann, Switzerland, 1,062: Dodson, United States, 1,059; Reich, Switzerland, 1,055: Polli, Switzerland, 1,054; Boles,"
In Shanghai we have not boon! United States, 1.054; Coulter entirely free of this regrettabla United States, 1,052 Fisher, epidemic, and of late local verna- United States. 1,050, and the other cular papers have accepted American, Morgan, scored 1,031. advertisements stating that In shooting from a prone posi-so-and-so has contracted with tion two Swiss riflemen led the so-and-so to live in a list of scores Hartmann with 384 state of free love, or that and Lionhard with 381. Three parties named have decided to 7. Mora Japanese to be am-Americans followed-Sergeant terminate a contract so to live.
R. O. Coulter, 377: Sergeant Morris Fisher, 374, and Ensign A. M. Morgan, 371. Other scores' were: Reich, Switzerland 369 Burand, France, 367; Scheuter, Holland, 361; Parmentier, France,
5. Strict prohibition of the boycott of Japanese goods.
6. Methods of Sino-Japanese economic co-operation.
ployed in the Chineso Customs
Hervice.
EXPLORING PALEOPOLIS. 348.
This is going a great deal farther than Peking's morbid pursuit of scandal but it is quite likely that the capital has joined Canton and Shanghai in following the doct rines of a section of Bolsheviks in the respect named. Not that In firing from the kneeling immorality of this type is so position the descendant of Will-rampant in Russia as many iam Toll again boat the Ameri- I would havo us believe. cans. Hartmann scored 976.
Those who have a wide know. beating the world record which ledge of Chinese have been heard another Swiss, Staehl, with 394 to remark in past years that the set at Biarritz in 1912. Hart-lower classes converse on the mann's teammate, Zimmermann, street about little else than money is believed to have been the scored 354; then came Coulter of or women. But any extension of earliest Greek colony in Italy, the American team with 350, Pelli unhealthiness of mind to the
Now Dr. Hans Hartman plans of Switzerland with 344, and semi-educated
At Bottom of Bay of Naples.
At the bottom of the Bay of Naples lies a city. Archaeologists have christened it Faloopolis. It
to explore Paleopolis with the aid Boles and Fisher, Americans, of a great steel diving boll which with 344 and 341, respectively. has been built for him at the Beginning the firing from a stand- Krupp steel works in Essen, Gering position, Morgan of the
United States made 322.
many.
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The bell is a great steel cylinder The International Rife Unjon with a heavy gloss window in it has decided to hold the 1926 and is designed to withstand the
tournament at Roma pressure of the, water at a depth of 15,000 feet.
Divers cannot descend. more. than 200 feet because of the in- But Dr. crease in pressure. Hartman has already desconded 3,000 feet in a diving bell.
The new diving ball in equipped with powerful searchlights for illuminating the water around it. "Dr. Hartman will take a motion picture camera with him when he has his diving bell lowered into the water-filled streets of Pale opolis.
Next, Dr. Hartman plans to explore the sections of ancient Carthage which now lio on the floor of the Mediterranean off the coast of Africa,
If he is successful, he plans to have a diving bell which will per- mit him to go even deeper into the mysterious regions of the deep'ocean.
and educated
classes is most deplorable. We hope it is only a passing phrase, and that little impression will be made by it upon the youth of China Shanghai Times,
It has probably escaped general notice that the only war memorial King George has unveiled was the famous Conotaph in White- hall. The calls upon him in this direction threatened to be so numerous and so difficult to re-
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The centenary of Louis Braille, the Frenchman who by the in vention of printing in relief made it possible for the blind to read by touch, was celebrated last month by a series of fetes at the Paris fuse that quite early after the de- National Blind Institution. An claration of peace His Majesty eulogy of Braille was delivered let it be known that the Ceno- by Prof. Pierre Villey himself taph apart-he proposed to leave blind from the age of four. This our famous generals, admirals, was followed by a concert given and statemen to perform these by an orchestra formed of old | imauguration ceremonies. King pupils of the institution and led George, however, has decided ac- by Mr. Marty, the blind composer cording to a correspondent, to and winner of the first prize at make an exception in the case of the Paris Conservatory. Many the Guards Memorial in St. professional men and women, James Park. He has been in- former pupils in the school, came fluenced in this decision by the to do homage to the memory of fact that over since the Guard's the man whose invention made it regiments came into into exist. Ten Thousand Children. Indian's Annual Death Roll. Possible for them to follow liberal
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TOLL OF THE WILD.
The annual returns showing the mortality from wild animals and venomous snakes during 1924 have been received from. Local.
The Corporation of London had many guests at the British Em pire Exhibition the other day Chief among them were the Duke and Duchess of York. Next in Government and Administrations dignity were a thousand or so res and have been published, says an presentatives of the Empire and Indian Exchange. the nation, the City and the ad- ministrative County of London, and the Wembley official staff Last in degree, but overwhelming in number, came a solid body of 10,000 children from London elementary schools. Altogether it was a wonderful day as woo- derful as it was hot. The ex
The total number of persona killed by wild animals, in British India during 1924 amounted to 2,587, as against 3,605 in the pro- vious year. Tigers were respon- sible for 1,174 deaths, leopards for 400, wolves for 419, bears for 82, elephants for 41, and hyenas för 19 Death wore highest from tigers. and leopards in Madras, for wol vas in the United Provinces, from beare in Bihar and Orissa, and hibitors gave away an inordinate from elephants in Assam. Of the number of samples and pamph- 446 deaths from "other "animals," lets, so that small boys must have about 53 are assigned to wild pig been seized with a passion for and 213 to orocodiles and alliga cooking and small girls acquired tors. The highest number of the power of giving their mothers deaths from all wild animals 00- hints on the management of scurred in Madras (641), the Unit ed Provinces, Bibar and Orissa house.
Deaths from enake bits fell from
From ons information office in and the Central Provinces, and the Canadian Pavilion alone over, Berar coming next in order. The 'two' tons of booklets were mortality in the majority of the distributed: including copies of provinces was less than in the the descriptive atlases, Canada previous year, but in Bombay and West and Canada East, and Burma it was slightly greater. of the pamphlet, Canada, tho
SNAKE BITES. New Homeland." The other Dominion pavilions distributed literature on a similar scalo. The 19,990 to 19,867. Decreases, on- Stadiura, progonted one of its most curred in Madras, Bombay and impressive scenes when the 10,000 the United Provinces, but Bengal, packed the stands opposite the the Punjab, Bihar and Orrisa, the Royal box to hear, the Duke of Central Provinces and Borar and York's speech, and afterwards to Assam have reported increases. During the year under review see the circus. It was an orderly array, and intensely quiet n's long 21,032 wild animals were reported. as decorum was required.
to have been destroyed, of which But, afterwards, how the chil-1,706 were tigers, 5,202 wolves. A dren cheered! It was hard to be sum of Rs. 1,71170 was paid in love that they had not practised rewards, against Rs. 165,367 in for a long time. The shout rosa the provious year, The statistics and swelled and passed over the of the number of the snakes do great little crowd as though such stroyed have been discontinued in a wind as transforms a field of Burma In the other provinces dora had suddenly found voice the number doatroyed increased Then they sang "God Save the from 42,911 to 47,106, and the re- King with a fervont that was wards paid for thoir destructio none the less touching because it were Rs. 1,403 us against Rs. 817,
in the proxious year. was rather shrill."