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RECONSTRUCTION, A RICH TRADE FIELD.

"NURTHOLIFFES: IDEA

fosi enunciation.

Fiat is complete restoration of territorial economic and political Felgium. In this there can be no

While the present war has been the most destructive in the expert anes of mankind, it has also been one of the most powerul constructive elements the world has ever knowix

the dire necessity occasioned by it.

PAR FASTIN P.

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©(Oct;17):Görd R. Chell Colonel Fat, CHEN, ME

the Enemy. Regulations fo with the question of Corman buildings in the cession on the Shameen, and (now being prepared,

THE CHINAT

Kind

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with no mend für Grent Britain tu mal fata “aaahuje zlanding sing, them

moit will take place with Tsistent possible en pidity. gada leased will be those who have empl peat to go to This will apply to both oficers and men. Following that men will be released

The Ministry the United States portance of their tradese Miniaty New of Labour, in conjunction with the

(only between the paat boen, elabo which it will be poss

mertain train, several mile through Labong E

the tradey are many men

· reservation, no bargaining, no attempt result in arrest world-wide develop-method of managing the railway of Reconstruction, bara, some

› raise counter claims or offsets. By ment

pamphlet issued recentl the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York under the title The Awakening of Led Norshelife har ciculated an Great Nation, China is called rticle which contained, the following:- **, one of the very richost felds awaite The ludisputable principles that ing commercial, industrial and finan- Germany that arcept so this second is sultivation. The pamphlet stage “layu Bern" "stated in diferente Erms at different times, but the con

sasus of opinion of all classes in the umsociated poweri esama to mo to be so *clear that it is not difficult to state them

objectively in a form, very close to that. It has affected, directly or indirectly. THE TRANS-SIXERIAN BALLWAY which thay Hkely will wwwnme in ther" every nation on earth, and, through !! Lord Be Coatik, in reply to a question to is intended that the men ärskr

has energied practically all human-by Colous Wedgwood with regard to ity. The impetus, too, which it has the employment of American injects given to nearly all peoples will not in operating the Trans-Siberian Railway haye bean spent by the timis peace said the American and Japaness get is declared, and unquestionably willments were now considering the best

question, and His Majesty's Government hir violation of international law and The possibilities are plainly fore-had announced their readiness to con en beagant treatment of Belgium, cast to-day tu Chins, which is one of car to any terision which those two required in a certa "Grmany has forfeited all right to the vary richest fields awaiting com-Governnichts may takes d'scussion.or Reparation is impossible,mercial, industrial and Anisocial cul- Clonel Wedgwood Are His Majesty's ment it has been tivation.The steadily increasing Government supporting the use of any be of the greate but she must undertake restoration in influx of foreigners into China since American engineering officials Lord the drone and a rach form and measure as shall be the beginning of the waris significant Cecil We certainly a very desirous Indicated to her.

of vast future potantialities, as well of using any Americas officials who can Freeing of French territory, recon-as of the fundamental and far reach be used. Colonel Wedgwood: Is the at striction of the invaded-provinces and ing political and social changer wirichtitude of the Japanese Government hoa: compensation for all civilian lower and are transferring Chins into country tile to that view Lord R. Cecil: Not

of attractive business and investment that I know of.. lajuries. Here again reparation in any opportunities. Ample evidence of full sense of the word is beyond human the growing realisation of China's power, but Germany inint secept the commercial possibilities is to be found" fall burden of material reconstruction, in the latest official reports which die replacement in compensation, again in close that there were in China in 1917 form and measure as shall be laid down. 7.055 foreign Arts and 220,48 for- eign residents, as compared with Third-Nestoration to France of 4,742 finns and 185,813 residents in "Alsace-Lorraine, not as territorial ac-1914.

quisition on as a part of a war indemnity, The proposed kan of $50,000,000 but as reparation for the wrong done in to China by the United States, Great 1871 when the inhabitants of the two

Britain, France, and Japan, which

Ministry of Labeon has appointed And employed anch for wals purpose, tak Central Committee known as the Labour Resettlement Committee reprobeating employers and employed in the various group of Industries which will be aSSO- Sisted with the Department in the work

■ of demobilisation and resettlement, both

the

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here the United States Government miles of railway behind the Allied line.

Hore, mistake, Inadvertence, oF SOCI `dent may destroy, a sectional block" of back and we would find the telephone: Communication was also established with this feature of the highost whility. between the moving train, and the city so in degree of convenienen only bottelepbaner retrices The Canadian Dorin France. There the many of liberty velopment ernment Rallyer officials expressed them free thought, and strong selves as thoroughly atified with the tween practicability of the whole test the

Lequipment used and the highly in

ortèni work,which win then, and can (ways be done krahia maansi

* śraf which is uskelige under anal es completely out

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this country that the new

Impulse come.

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railway telephons is declared, not

is not for us to

prescribe

of action to the Government or that this or that remedy

*The engine was not off from the car | hundred miles away running mixty mise in regard to the Army and sivil war and proceeded a mile down the track by an hour- THE OPIUM AGREEMENTS workers. The committee has already orders telephoned from the conductor The material used in installing the the Government look into a whole We offer this muggestion, however, that (Oct. 17.) Mr. Gerahom Stawart asked considered and endorsed

generally the the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs scheme propared by the Army Demo to the engineer

matter of telephone connection to bilisation Committes and the proposals

at all costly but to consist of standard moving iram and the adjunct that goes whether the stipulations of our agree so far made by the Civil War Workers.

she was then stopped by goeds found in any well-equipped elec with is, of reaching traina aparaten by ment with Chins in regard to the cessat Committee. It has also considered talephons orders from the conductor.trical supply-house throughout the an impassable areas, or train in

distress ion of the agiam trade are being carried number of othee

matters reisting

country and to be easily applicable. We of those that as they proced may, pick to who was on the car and instructed to read further ASTORIANS out by the Chinese Government, and resettlement

are back and cople up again. Then Telephone wires are attached to the not cred here st up information priceless to. The same prisciple of associating w whether there has been any increase in the Government in the work of resettle order was given by the conductor to front and rear tracks of any form of car folephone will some day be

with the local production of opium in China ment representatives of employers and back up the train, and take on the now in use on the various railroads. The ita filly for military linet since the Indian import has ceased workpeople will be extended to the local fagman, who had gone back to flag.

swires are attached to the engine and to to be of the highest value, to day, "thatender. The spice-transmusion takes | freedou stands, with its back aga Lord Robert Cecil The last aix Pro-organisations In connection with the provinces, whose ancestora voluntarily has been sanctioned by our State vinces remaining open to the introdue of Labour has already apprinted is

Before backing op telephone place through the wheels and down to wall fighting for the fight" Employment Exchanges the sinister chose French allegiance, were incur Department, will enable China not

tion of Indian opium under the 1911 every district a local advisory committes pirsteck into Garinery against theis will only to take a more active part as Agreement were examined in August, composed equally of employers and man-

one of the Allies in the war against

ployed. The committees have been Fourth-Readjestment of the north Germany, but will also aid materially 1917, and reported free from opium entrusted with the widest functions era frontiers of Italy nearly as possible, in the economic and financial rebabi.cultivation. The 1911 Agrement ter-of advice and guidance in connection with the work of the Exchanges, con- along the lince of nationality. Theftitation of the country. It will tend minsted on Decdmber 31, 1917. His sistent with the responsibilty-hic eastern Adriatic' frontiers to be deter-indirectly, but, revertheless, potent Majesty's Government have received no the Minister must necessarily retain for mined in accordance with the principles y to foster trade relation betweenoficial information of any increase in the work of his Department. It is embodied in the Italo-Jugo-Slay agree

since the termination of that Agreementment Committees te a number the local production of opium in China intended that on demobilization there committees shall act as Local Resettle ment-ratifed-in-Rome by the congress

and the cessation of the Indian import. In all probability of April, 1918.

men competent to rebuild a country will be kept in France and Belgium at at- tractive ratesc pay. It is not likely So far as the military authorities are that any compulsion will be exercised, concerned the evacuation of the territory occupied by our armies, both in Europe able time, and there is little pret and Asia, is likely to take some consider-

the colossal masses" "of war,material în us a broad being brought home for soms months after peace has been signed.

Filth-Assurance to all peoples in Austria-Hungary of their place amongst the free nations of the world, and their right to enter into a union with their kindred beyond the present boundaries of Austria-Hungary. This involves the the creation of independent Czecho. Slovak, Jugo-Slay states and reduction of Hungary to the ethnographic limi: of the Magyar race and union of all Rumanians with the present kingdom of Rumania In the same way the

archy must be free to unite with their >nstionals acrois existing "frontiers, and it is obvious that the spine right of self-determination cannot be denied to

and by the basis for the future parti- the Chinese and the leading nations, dipation the latter in the develop ment of China. And through the expansion of China's commerce the ships which the pressing needs of war are serding down the ways along our Pacific Coast will find profitable cargoes when peace is established.

of the Asia Banking Corporation recently formed, the pamphlet says: The Far Eastern territory where the Asia Banking Corporation cop templates centring its activities com. prises mainly the northern, and part of the central provinces of China, Manchuria, and South Eastern: Siberia. It covers an area of about 2,800,000 square miles, with a popula.

STOCKS OF TEÄ.

(Oct 21.) Replying to Mr. Lough, Major Astor said the total stocks of tea in bond on Sept. 30, 19:8, were 91,131,000 Tbs. as against 24,830,000 lbs on the 118,663,000 lbs. in 1918. The Sugar contesponding date of 1917, and

Commission bad accumulated a stock of sugar sufficient to meet the diminished importation that the lack of tonnage would entail This consideration also applied to stocks of tes

SHIPBUILDING IN SHANGHALA

Shipping is very closely bound ap with all our schemes of reconstruction, demand for cargo space for our tow

and with the certainty of a tremendous

materials and producte it will ba sama (time before it will be possible to bring ** (22nd.)” Sir L. Chiezes Money, Parlin-home the millions of pounds worth of

used for the. furtherance

were

of a muccessful ending of the

The most serious problem.

sandus problem, which coo fronts the Ministries of Labour and Re- damobilisaation, is that of the labour conatruction in reward to the military

of

the German provinces of Austria should I the Corporation will be established so far as steel could be spared from our industries wither

Sixth-Evacuation of all territory formerly included in the boundaries of the Russian empire, annulment of Russian treaties, contracts and

munication with the interior. Shang

dustrial centre.

England. Contracts had been made with the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co. for three standard steamers of 4,000 tons dead weight cash for which the material was already on its way from England

There can he thought

entire dislocation of our economic life is sudden infur of 2,000,000

at to take place then it is imperative that men shall only be demobilised when employment can be found for them. vide many complicitions. If our ing Civil demobilisation is likely to pro dustries are gradually to returs their ordinary tre it will ples of raw material which for some carefully to husband our sine after the war will be very short owing to lack of shipping-Arap plies will be under the control of a Go vernment Priority Committee who will. locate them as the capacity of the parti icular manufacturing concers increases

There to also the problem of utilising (the machinery of fictorïèn which have been specially built to make munitioni of war Many of these with their delicate machinery, will he

Folca and Ukrainians in 'the dual motion of approximately 2-40,000,000 mentary Secretary to the Ministry of War material, now

people. Eighty per cent of the Shipping in reply to Mr. Stewart, said foreign trade of the entire Chinese that facilities for building merchant nation is transacted through the sea-ships in Shanghai had been fully availed ports of this territory. Branches of of for the construction of British ships

in Shanghai, Peking, Tientsin, Han they desire to enter Germany as akow, Harbin and Vladivostock .federal unit.

strategic trade centres. While China has more than 2,000 miles of coast- line, it has very few harboura suitable for trade purposes, chiefly because It was understood that the Ameri they lack adequate means of com can Government had made a contract greements made with subjects, with a population of about with the King Nan Dock and Engineer agents or representatives of enemy 700,000, is the only port which has ing Works, Shanghai, for the construe power sisce the revolution, affect catural waterway extending for into tion of four cargo vessels of 10,000 tons ing territory or loterests formerly the interior of China. It is primarily each, with the option of eight additional Russian and animpeded co-operation the distributing centre of China, und steamers of the came tonnage, but the with the associated powers in secating it addition the most important in- Shipping Controller was not aware whe ther any of these vessels had yet been Laid down. Licences for the export of shipbuilding materials bad been granted fe certain neutral vessels, time chartered When Russia offered peace, and recon

to the Allies, with a view to clearing the ciliation without anotations or in

berths for steamers to be built for the demities the central powers, taking

account of his Majesty's Government were made in Germany advantage of their military position,

atsel, trade, which before Mr. G. Terrell Will these ships built réfated ill considerations of justice and the case of Schleswig is a funds in China be British ships or American in a position, to supply the world The

seriously menaced by Krapy's wi imposed terins that were brutal and mental instance of the fashion in which ship Bir LC Money Rome are being amerramack applies to our und

elish. They forfeited all right to aid Pramis and Austris ased their might built on the account of the British locatiery the Russians and various undocalities to override the principle of self-deter verament, and the American Govern. It is not anticipated that there will in the former empies of Eussia in the mination and the wrong done must be met have placed orders for others any great difficulty in dealing with

NASIR MANATHAN edforts to estabkah, salf determination redressed Colonel Sir Grifith Boscawen in of women now engaged in men e and their own form of governmen illegal submarine warfare, waged by thew Nathan still held the post of Ferless be glad enough to fam

Eleventh-As reparation for the reply to Mr. Hoge said that Bie Mat especially cho carried ones, will doub Seventh This indapatable principle Germany and Austria-Hungary theas manett Secretary to the Ministry of homes with regard to the sing Dodgerne first, formation of an indepen shall held liable to replace?

though at the reques of the efforts will be made toplice then dent Follth, stats, with access to those point be close tower Labimet he had been seconded for industries which al bosala Which state shall include the territories ociated neutral nations that was service upon, the Committee on Woman the inhabited predominantly by Polish egally dinged Fahd destroyed in Industry His place bad been taken 3. The problem of the hage populations, and fly indemnifica" inspite of repeated warnings and in THE CONSULAR SERVICE.

temporarily by t Mr. JH. Kiyan women and young girls. tion of Poland by the powers responsible defiance of pledges which they had given for the havoo wrought.

the Government of the United States Colone Yate asked the Foreign Secrete This condition is indispensable for a The question of punishment must be what steps had been taken for the

conditions under which the variolis nationalities in the former empire of Rusris shall determine their own fortas of Government and clea

reign of justice in Europ

has ruthlessly oppres

no departure from this principle can be considered

Tenth The people of Schleswig to be free to determine their own allegiance,

xwhich

problem of female labouraskthe maj

clerical duties in Governmen merta is causing some concern,

it mod expected that the Latexe mente, such as the Ministry

Germany dealt with separately to that of stormprovement of the British Consular will be brought on a peace

in bar empire and fastice and stability demand the restoration of the prede minently Polishd farbe of the prefent German empire to a new Poliskaste Le Eighth rogation of the treaty

Kimanis

stion and

Serbia, Montenegrò, sfed powerki to

ing thing or their equivalents and material pensation to victimsad thair

subject of

at the fate

Service, and what increase of par had over twel far been granted to Consular officers in the various countries concerned

it A. Steal-Maitland: As compared with 19-4 za additions) sum of £74,000 your is being spent on offices and les fallerances alone; this has provided for

atai, better accommodati beat a number of post

aditional salaried

bea

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(Scotch),

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