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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1926.
AMERICAN ORIENTAL
MAIL LINE CHAL
The fast Short Route
to the United States!
SEATTLE & VICTORIA via SHANGHAI-KOBE-YOKOHAMA
S.S. "PRESIDENT JACKSON" ... S.S. "PRESIDENT MCKINLEY" S.S. "PRESIDENT JEFFERSON"
EUROPE L120-£112
June 9th, 5.00 p.m. June 21st, 5.00 p.m. July 3rd, 5.60 p.m.
First Class on the Pacifle. First Cinas pn American or Canadian Railway. First Class and Monoclass on the Atlantic. Choice or Trans. Continental Railway. Any Line on the Atlantic. Through accommodation and Booking Arranged.
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.Yutshing Wed. 23rd June at
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SANDAKAN TSINGTAU via S'hai...... OSAKA via Moji Kobe...... STRAITS & Calcutta TIENTSIN TSINGTAU via S'hai- KOBE via S'hai & Moji
VALUABLE PROPERTY
SOLD.
JLUM LOT PURCHASED nas an area o
FOR $16,000.
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The lot offered consisted Rural Building Lot No. 214, to gether with a building in the course of erection. The property square feet The upset price of $5,000 was roon increased to $9,500 by bids of The sale of a very valuable 3500 each, at which price Mr. S. M. Icaschuld property bituated at Churn of the Union Trading Com- Pokfulum, which was offered by pany, who subsequently became the public auction by Mr. E. V. M. R. nuw owner, added in bid of de Sousa on Saturday, attracted $3,500. Bids of $500 then follow- much interest among property ed in quick succession, and of owners with the result that the $16,000 the lot was knocked down. bidding was very brisk.
to Mr. Churn.
THE PANAMA CONCESSIONS:
QUESTIONS IN AMERICAN SENATE.
Washington, June 5.
•ROUND THE WORLD.
COMING ATTEMPT TO BREAK
RECORD..
THE CANADIAN BORDER.
RECENT REVELATIONS OF SMUGGLING.
Twenty years ago Lieut-Colonel Burnley-Campbell, by means of
Ottawa. June 5, In the Senato, Senator Borah ordinary train and steamship ser-
As a sequel to the Investigations vicos, hustled "round the world" of the Parliamentary Commitleo movod a resolution roquesting in- formation regarding alleged British in 41 days 19 hours, a perform into the administration of the Cus-
unee which made the Imaginary toms Department, S. B. Telford, Government concessions in
Panama, the resolution mentioning achievement of Jules Verne's Canadian domiciled just across the "the control ovor natural resources Philoas Fogg'ʼn mere circums ane border, was arrested on a charge, of Panama, secured by the British Four years later, in 1911, Mr. J. of smuggling good into Canada Government." It is understood II. Mears, following much the after refusing to permit the Com that Senator Bornh han been same route as Lient.-Colonel Burn-mittee'a auditors to examine his privately informed that lands woreley-Campbell, but with the extra booky and warehouse at Derby - acquired for the purpons of rubber- help of occasional motor-cars, Lino, Vermont, contiguous to the growing. It may be remembered made the round trip in 35 days Quebec town of Rock Island, where that over a year ago Pannina grant 10 hrs., which remaina the best on investigations revealed that huge od a concession to British interests record.
smuggling occurred." containing prospecting rights OYCE More recently American airmed two large mens for, gulil, and other made a gallant attempt to beat sub-soil minerals.
Mr. Mours's performance by At the White House, from means of aeroplanes, which should President Coolidge, it is un-have been easy, given.ordinary forstand that the grunts of surfitco luck, but a number of mishaps. and anb-soil concessions to a British due largely to weather conditions. corporation in Panama are "with upset their plans, and they were Ile five months completing the trip, out abjectionable features," assumed, however, that the Govern more than four times as long as ments and Departments involved Mr. Mcars's time and twice as long will continue their enquiries "to as Phileas Fogg's eighty days. make sure the contracts are satis-
Now, two Americans-M. L factory as for us" the United States Wells; an airman, and Mr. E. S. interests are concernel."
The Committee then undertook Evans, a business man-are about to withdraw the smuggling charge to make a fresh attempt to set up in the Polico. Court--Reutor's The Senate has adopted Senator a new round-the-world record by American Service,
means of aeroplanes, steamships,
Resolution Adopted.
Borah's resolution..
F
Evidence whs given that several hundred thousand dollars worth of“. prison-made shirts were smuggled into Canada, where the sale of pri- son-made goods is prohibited...
Telford reappeared before the Investigating Committee in the afternoon and
was given ten minutes to decide whether to open his warehouse or return to gaol; whereupon he agreed to go to
Derby Line under custody and upen his premises.
When
It appears that the source of and trains. If all goes well, Senator Borah's information with according to plan, they hope to get
CHINA AND 'RUSSIA. regard to the alleged British gon-round in twenty-six days; or, if cessions in Panama was Richard it is feasible, to fy across Siberia i NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED. 0. Marsh, the explorer, whose from Vladivostok "to Moscow, in
Mukden, June 6: name enme before the public in an aeroplane, instead of using the
The Sino-Soviet negotiations, 1924, when he returned from the trans-Siberian railway, in three which were resumed on Monday Panama jungle with three persons weeks.
after the return of M. Serebriakoff This basiness of circling, the from Tokyo, broke down to-day. whom he stated to be "white In- dians." Subsequently Marsh re-globe is largely a matter of select When asked for his credentials turned to Panama, but was expeling the shortest route. Strictly led in March last year on the al-speaking, the round tour of the on Monday M. Serebriakoff was
unable to produce them. leged grounds that he abused earth means a journey of 24,855
further questioned regarding, M. Panama's hospitality by aiding in miles, the circumference of the the revolt of the San Blas Indians equator, but by keeping to high Karakhan's recall he replied that Marah latitudes that distance can be pro- the Soviet wished Marshal Chang in February, 1925, when announced his plans of a further gressively reduced until it be-so-lin not to persist with that.
M. Serebriakoff submitted the "exploration this year. The Pana- comes only a few miles in the
following three questions on ma Government has stated that polar regions.
In the latitude of London the which an agreement must be he will not be allowed to land-
circumference is only 15,500 miles, reached before proceeding with the Reuters American Service.
(and if Amundsen, from his base in negotiations: No Rubber.
Spitzbergen, decided to add the Firstly The recognition London, June 6.
round-the-world record to his Trade Unions in the railway zone. The London office of the Panama many other records, a trip of little Secondly-The appointment of Corporation declares
the more than 5,000 miles is all that Soviet advisers in the Manchurian Corporation has no intention of would be necessary. A few, miles Courts, where Soviet Russians are rubber growing, and the territory from the Pole a man could walk involved. held under the concessions 9 round the earth in less than a day, Thirdly-Participation in the mostly mountainous, and unsuitas, indeed, Peary did in 1909. But Municipal administration of Har- able for rubber.
these short cuts are" not at bin... The Corporation states that the prescut practicable, and keeping The Chinese felt that such re concession, excludes the rights to as far northi as possible, Mr. Wells quests amounted to the restora work salt minus, coal mines, or and Mr. Evans will have to travel tion
extraterritoriality. oil deposits.
A New York cable says
that
-Reuter's American Service.
1
I
of,
of
rather more than 17,000 miles, at Reuter, mesan average daily speed of about sage from Balboa states the British 800 miles, to get back to their Consulate has declared the con- starting point, New York, in three tops," the Viadivostok-Moscow lap will have to be done by a nine- with weeks. cassions have nothing to do
The 1,700 Their lowest latitude will be 41 day train journey. rubber for rubber growing, but are only for minerals, excluding oil. degrees, and their highest 56 miles from Moscow to London will
degrees.
From New York they be flown in an aeroplane, via intend to fly to Victoria, British Berlin and Amsterdam, and from Columbia, 2,500 miles, and thence London the globe-trotters will ge reach Hakodate, Japan, 4,800 to Southampton by air, and thence, miles, by steamship. From Japan to New York by steamer.
If thoy succeed in completing they will travel by steamship 480 miles to Vladivostok, and then, if the journey in three weeks, they will set up a record that is not conditions are favourable, fy a matter of 4,000 miles to Moscow. likely to be beaten until a more The Anglo-Turkish agreement The Russian Government has pro-northerly air route is practicable. regarding Mosul has been signed. mised to provide landing places, when the feat could be accom
but failing sufficient of these plished in a week.
MOSUL.
ל
ANGLO-TURKISH. AGREEMENT
-Reuter.
SIGNED,
London, June 6.
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