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THE HON
LOSS ON LOAN.
CHINA SEEKING TO END
US. CONTRACT.
NG" TELEGRAPH.
WARTIME EPISODE
RECALLED.
FAMOUS ENGADINE" NOW. IN HONGKONG
FEBRUARY
ANGLO-SOVIET TREATY
-PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
ON DETAILS
London, Feb. 20. Shanghai, Feb. 20.
'at Chinese Legation.
Both Houses of Parliament will Tho
With the paying-off of her British debate the temporary commercial Washington has been instructed by eflcers to-day, another famous Dri- the Nanking Foreign Office to sh whip passes into the bands of agreement with Soviet Russia enter into negotiations with the foreigners. Sho is the well-known on Thursday. In the Commons, the American authorities for revision cross Channel steamer Engadine, President of the Board of Trade, explain of the contract governing the which for many years maintained the Mr. Walter Runelman, will $50,000,000 Wheat and Cotton Loan Southern Hallway Company's service the Treaty's main features.
between Dover and Calais, and wha The Times says that Lord Philli to China.
The main reason for revision is the Grat British ship to sight the
urge that opportunity should now in respect of the wheat, which Onda German High Bran Fleet before the more, in the House of Lords will very little market in China. The famous Battle of Jutland.
She was
sold to the Companie bo taken to make representations to the Russian Government Chinese Government has explained that, due to the low parket price of Maritima of Manila by the Southern
Railway Company, last December, for a wido amnesty of political wheat in China, the Chinese Gov- Leaving Southampton en January 6, prisoners and the return to their ernment has had to suffer a loss of she came out to the Far East via the homes of those in forced labour $1,200,000 in the disposal of the Suez Canal, and arrived in Hongkong camps. British Wireless,
consignments of flour on Friday. Before leaving England previous from the United States, which was she was transferred to the American valued ne $4,000,000. The Chinese fag.
Her new owners intend running her Government at first thought that the taxation of fraported rice would or their service between Manila and be an effective means to encourage Ilo Ilo, after she has undergone an the consumption of American flour extensive rofit, which will include her and wheat in China. However, conversion from coal burning to all this has falled of its objective, and, fuel, in one of the local dockyards. if further consignments of Azeri-
-Wartime Service. can flour and wheat are to bo shipped to China the market price
...
TIN RESTRICTION.
BURMA NEGOTIATING WITHI
OTHER NATIONS
Rangoon, Feb. 26.
At a meeting of the Tavoy A speedy vessel (she can make over Chamber of Mines to-day, the of wheat would be more deprecint-23% knots) the Engadind was com chairman, Mr. Day, alluded to the :
ed, thus causing further loss to mandeered by the Admiralty at the the Chinese Government. Contral beginning of the Great War and con- Burmese negotiations with the In- verted to a non-plano carrier with ternational Tin Committee for a restric- News Agency.
auxiliary arman.ents. She did great Burmese adherence to service in her new role during the tion scheme.. conflict, and had the distinction of being the first British ship to sight the German fleet prior to the Jutland
STUDENTS GASSED.
FUMES KILL NINE. AFTER EXPLOSION
Hanover, New Hampshire, Feb. 20. Nine Dartmouth University students, aged from 19 to 21, were asphyxiated by carbon monoxide fumes to-day."
..
ox-
The tragedy followed an plosion in a nearby coal gna factory. The
Into fumes scaped
the fraternity house and dormitory. Many other students were affected.
-Reuter.
LAST TWO
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THE
engagement.
on
He was of the opinion, however, that offective restriction could not
operate in Burma.
ter.
A
Meanwhile, the Government has
Relative to her war service, the following is contained a brass stopped the issue of tin and wol- plaque still in place on her main deck; fram prospecting licences-Reu
TON GREAT WAR, 1914-1918. "The Engadine took part in tho Battle of Jutland as a seaplane carrier. The enemy fleet was first laid up about eighteen months ago. wighted from this ship, and during The Engadine is triplo screw the battle which followed she towed steamer of 1,780 tons gross. Sho the disabled H.M.S. Warrior out of was built and engined by Messrs. W action and safely took off the crew Denny and Bros., Dumbarton, in 1911, of 675 officers and men."
her engines conalsting of three steam When the Great War finished, the turbines: Due to her high snoed Engadine was returned to the Son-expected that she will be an admir- thern Railway Company and continued able vessel for the service in the on the cross-Channel service, but was Philippines.
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KWANGTUNG SUGAR.secured a loan of $200,000 from the Kwangtung Provincial Bank to be used as advances to farmers for
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GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN sugar-cane planting, Sedmonday
of Kwangtung as outlined by Dr. plantation in Wel-yang district has Fang Rul, Director of Agriculture been successfully encouraged, ke and Forestry: Barosu,⠀⠀ anys, the
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a ng Sik-langias Superin- The Arst sugar cane plantation tendent of the Military massaring more than five hundred tien area, five thousand mow of land mow will be devoted to the plants within that area is to be reserved tion of improved species of cares to for sugar plantation. It is estimat be distributed to various districts, od that by the fall of September. Over ten thousand mow In Shaho when the scheme, is completely and Whampos are to be converted carried out, supply of sugar will be for cario planting. A suficient to meet the demand of
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