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NEW SEA ROUTE TO RUSSIA. »f the focals and snow and vold, and in han reached the town at Kola, which is on the cantera side of Katarina Harbour, the mouth of the Kola Fjord.

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The Smak conferenda of the Chinese: National Medical Association will be held in Shanghai: beginning on. February & and lasting a week. This asscelation of ChineseNow comes from Copenhagua of the medical men was formed in Tubruary of opening of new routa for steamers Last rase and includes in its mombarbip tween Trams, in the worth of Norway, graduates from Europe, America, Japan and Alexandrawak, in Russia, The Nor and the principal medical colleges of China.wegian stoamer Kong Hd has made the All goods are marked with "balom the This numbership numbers at pressas aver voyage ander very favourable conditions. 400, which it is expected will be increased The sage was sinde up of Amencan and war" prices.

as a result of the coming conference. English machinery for Russia,

Preparations are being made by the | Shanghat. Committer to welcome doctors from all parts of China, Including prominent foreign physicians. Among the who have promised to attend, says the China Times, are D Cormack, principal of the Peking Union Medical College: De Dony Gray, physician to the British Art H. B. Groene, Residens Commisions; of the Rockefeller Foundation; Dr Neal, Medio! College: De Duncan Misin, senior the White Sea, is many miles south of sculer physician of the Shantung Usiod

That port, which la. ons of the gulfa of physician of the Bangohom Hospital 68 or President of the China Medical Min-Alexandrowsk, but is frozen up for six

sionary Association: Dr Arthur Stanley, Health Officer of Shanghai, and others.

-An elaborate programma has been made up which will keep sracyone, bory for the whole week. There will be special sessions for Prerat tire Medicine, Medical Era tion, Medical Text Books and Publica tions, the Standard of Medical Practitioners, Patent Medicines in China and Kindred subjects Popular lectures on various branches of medicine will be delirerisd duri the week hy Dr. Stanley MIC Grannd, Dr. Wu Lienteh, Dr Gray and Dr.

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The Chief Secretary of the Shanghai Constance is Dr, W. New of the Harvard Media School "who has slready sent! invitations to all the members. He will be glad to hear of any other medical men who desire to att nd and, to make the necessary preparations for their stay in

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Kola "was a low months ago a small settlement of Bahermen and fur-traders: it is not a railway terminus, and is to ba groat dapet for all the vast quantisia of military and industrial applies that Eng. and aud America are pouring into Russia. Eren wh a the spring unlocks Archangel, the importance of this now part will con tinne, for it in many milos nearer Europe ses, and its possession of a standard-

pe by -gauge railway communics In with Petrograd will enormously relieve the rarrow-gauge line which in the alender thread that linka Archangel with the south.

It had been intondad to take the which is on the west side of the Fjord.

This new route will be of great impert. DC to Russia, for by ban way it will be Psible to import from England during the Warman Railway into Alexandrowsk,

In this way the energetic Russians are but the d flculty of building a getting round the handicap which has pre-war time was confifoible. A bridge in rented them getting the fall ralue out of main busi ei of the new port will be done Arohangal,

at Eols though Alexandrowsk for Port Catheriza) is Domipally the port.

The new line of Norwegian steamers in therefore an earnest of great things to come for Russia in the spring.

months of the year.

SO WHITE URA FROZEN.

East year, and again this winter, the pactad of navigation has been increared in length by the use of Canadian ice-breaking steamers, bai archangel is now once more. closed to shippingAh kos of the cons ditions prevailing is the White Sen le given by the crew of the British liner Baldersly which arrived in the Tyne no ntiy

As one sint in the Waits Ses the Bal- and dying signals of distrese. They had dely saw two Russian: aresmers ice-bound

and their provisions had given out six cys bosu jammed in the ice pack 13 days before,.. alles. Thiry-four starving Russian eu man managed to cmw! ever the ire to the Baderly, and were brought to the Tyne.

The advantage of the newly developed Alexandrowek is on the Murman sat, the port is that it avoids all this less and delay. Russian irritory which borders on Norway.

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The sixth yearly report of the directo to the shareholders in lepealy Plantations, Limited, to be presented at the annus! mosting is as follows-Gentlemen, 3r directors beg to submit berewith the con pany's account. for the rest andirg October 31, 1915. The profit for the pier, after making fell provision for depreciation. but subject to manager's cotamission and directors' fees, amounts to 877,720.85, To this must be added the bringer brought formsed from: the proviaus year, viz., 83,546,01, -making, a tatil-of and also to the fact that two rivers, the 383,72 66. From this mum your directors Tuluma and the Eola, dow into the hola recommend:-That a dividend of 15 por

ALEXANDROWSK BETER FROZEN,

Although it is within the Arctic Circle PARTY OF HONGKONG POLICE IN its fine harbour is never frozen up. This

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is partly due to the beneficent action of the Gulf Stream-which keeps open the neighbouring Norwegiaa port of"

Under theso badings the Festminster Gazette of December 30th had the follow- ing

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A party of the Hongkong police arrived in Whitehall today, after a very protracted journey, which was not without many ex citing incidents for the purpose of enlisting in the Army. They made a picturesque group in their neas alue uniforms, with white facings, and wearing large white helmets, arousing considerable interest. The party comprised B1 police officers, warders, and 5 members of the Hongkong Royal Naval Dockyard Polien; and there ware also a sanitary inspector and a railway guard..

The majority

of the men were English but the inevitable Saut was also repro seated, there being 7 Sentamen in the They left Hoogkang on November group 19 and arrived at Derenport on Wednes lay They immediately proceeded to Londos, and from Paddington were con- ducted to the Crown Otice for the Cainier, Whitehall Cardens, where arrangements were made in connexion with their enlist ment. The men of the Hongkong Nayel Dockyard presented themmoives at the Admiralty prior to enlistment.

The larger part of the men had not made up their minds what regiments they should WHO'S WHO IN JAPAN" join. They were not at all fastidioes EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY S. KRA.ould do. We did not come here to about it-infantry artillery, anything

twiddle ger thumba," remarked The first (1919) edition is already tasted..

ope stalwart recruiti DIOGRAPHIES of ever 5,000 people who are well-known in society and of several hundred foreignara associated with Japan appear in the book. Quite day materials and accurate sketcher, both being autorly free from prejudices.

Many portraits are inserted. The book contains over 1,400 pages.

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The price is yon 6 (12%) or 83 per copy Orders for the book should be accompanied by payment.

Subscribers for the second annual edition of Who's Who in Japan' will be allowed a roduction of ane yen.

The registered postage in 18 set, to Korza and China 40 sen and to Europe & America 70 men of 33 conta.

IT A GOOD Anvermerno bEDTUAL Many influential papers of the world noticed this woric in the highest terms. For example, The Daily Mail say Fot anotherWho's Who!' and this tia fram Japan: The reader apt at

The Scotsman found no "difficulty in deciding what they should do. Their ou anxiety was whether they should be able to join a Highland regiment to London. braway ind whose home is Dundes. "I'm Nothing but the kilt for me," said joining the Back Watch."

A soldiers

Several of the men were exi

Fjeri on which Alexandrowak is situated

The region of the hinterland is one of cent.-te declared and paid, absorbing fakes which pour their star iata thase $60,000; that there be transferred to rivers, and this helps to keep the Kola racers the sum of $10,000; that the re be Fjerd oper

There has been a Russian naval station at Alexandrowsk, since 1879, hat it was not connected by rail with civilised Ravia and the projected Murman railway rather hung fro

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AL RAILWAY-ALMOST. CONTLÉTED." But the conditions of the was changed all that. The Russian government es

set aside for payment of commission to manager $1.913; that there be voted for director foes the sum of $2,000; that there be carried forward to the next year's account the balance' then remaining, viz. $9,900.80

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lbs. of dry rubber, na sgainst the estimated The output for the year has been 149,537 last winter that it must have a better

window in Europe than Archangel, and output of 140,000 lbs. The estimated out. the Murman railway from. Petrograd to put for the year ended October 31, 1916, i the Kola Fjerd has been pushed on all this year it was reported from Beren

200,00 lbs. The yield per kero has bien in Norway, at the end of October that the 3721bs. exilway was then almost completed, and The fo.b. cost, including depreciation, from the fact that Norwegian atomers works out at 39 costs, equal to 11d. per have begun to discharge machinery there we may assume that it is now able to pound, or exclusive of depreciation 38-10 transport this machinery to its destination, cante, against an ostimated cost of 37 cants, The building of the Murman railway has equal to 1040. exclusive of dopreciation. bean cne of the epics of modern tallway The allin cost, including directors fees building. Nearly 700 miles of railway bara sad manager's pommission, is 42 91 conta been hid in the wildant region that yet equal 1204d. per lk. The net price roslised emains in modern Europe. The southern for rubber produced during the year war section of the line akitis tbvahores of Like 914, canta; equal to 2. 114. The cost Onego, then comes a section of 20 miles pound for tapping is 15 cents per lb., Le... which runs along the southern coast of the coute 7.10 lose than in the previous Saan. White Ses, and then the last, the northerncial year this includes the tapping of section, crosses the Kola peninsula, which number of young trees which have only

200 miles wide.

been brought le during, the year and myc yielding a small conuibution only

It is a region of vast lakes, lagoons, and swamps, whers the road-bod of the ralway has had to be constructed en piles driven into the ooze.

DIFFICULT COUNTRY.'

AREA OF ESTATE,

The arca, of the estate was last reported ng follows --Planted 104 acres, awalipa 34 aeres, unplanted C61 acres, coolie Tinos 0 It is traversed by awith rivers, and aeron Total acreage of the state 1.540 who bad done a number of years' service blocked by dense pine forests, by rar gen acres. The most recent plan prepared by in the Hoogkeng police, and a number bad of hills, and by granita rocks, which have the manager now shows the acreage as formarly served in the police in this cour-End to be blasted out of the pathway.. follows:-Planted : 816 acres, Cowampa

The recruits are to be allowed a fort night's leave to enable them to visit their homes before joicing the colau's,

There are no toves on its route, and all land ravines, in the Lopez `ase 48 mares the provisions required by the armion of roserves, land partly swampy 650 acres, workmen and all the materials (except building sites, bungalows, lines, factory. wood) have had to be brought from, a etc, 2 acres. Total 1,540 acres. The distance in time of war, with the German reduction in the planted azes b a been Ispiona battering away at the frontier. brought about by the wash of silt havieg The northeco sectiooy of this wonderful killed most of the trees in "awampy arey,

and it is useless to replat Alexandrovk, are in the darkness of the Arctic night for several mouths of the Winter, and all the work of the railway. builders had to go on under the blaze of huge acetylene lampe,

MAJOR CHURCHILL'S SOLILOQUYilway, including the towns of Ko's and

A LITTLE SONG, HEARD, IN THE TRENCHES.

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first to regard it as a curiosity, as a sign A letter from the front staten that that the East has now become Western practically almost to the last detail Eat Major Winston Churchill is in his element Who's Who Jn Japan' is far more than when facing darger and discomfort. a curiosity it in a very sound and fullRecently he was seen reading his way reference book. It is printed in English along a trench wet, to the skin. He had and contains brief biographies, on the

the-war-will-never-end", look on his accepted model of prominent men in Jipán. Mr Kurita is a skilful editor and has less face, but when he came nearer some bis work well,

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