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The French Nilaister charged with the Food Supplies has signed a de- eree cancelling many of the food restrictions imposed during war, and has issued orders Axing maximum prices of condensed milk, eggs, tapioen, rice, dried peas, and beans... The now decree also allerintas the rules-concerning the hours" when meale may be obtained in hotels and restaurants. These measures are a first step to a return to a pre-war" regime.

The growing shortage of meat in France will be severely felt during the coming spring. Butchers want a Vealless Day imposed immediately, The meatless days last year, were very successful. A supply of Trocya meat is required.-(Havas).

FLOODS IN FRANCE.

LONDON, January 5.

The Seine food becomes race mening: navigation is almost suspended.-(Havasi,

FRENCH HONOUR FOR BELGIAN.

Losbos, January 5.

MI. Pireme of Ghent University. a Belgium bistorian, has been elected a Foreign Associate of the Institute of France in place of a German, Wafhimovitz Bioellendorf, who sus one of the 93 intellectuals who sign- ed the famous manifesto.-(Eavas).

POTASH.

LONDON, January 3. The potash deposits of Klance will prove a treadure to France, greatly enhancing the fertility of her soil. The Minister for Agriculture makes supplies of potash in unlimited quantities available to, farmers at ence, and at prices lower than those ruling before the war.—(Baras).

-EXCHANGE.

LONDON, January 0. Extrange on Paris pesterday was 25.95-26.00.--(Havos).

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FRENCH JOURNAL REVIVED.

LONDON, January 5. Suppressed by Germany at the outbreak of the war, Le Messin starts publication ́aguin ab. Metz as a daily organ of French propaganda in Lorraine.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, January . The Silver Market is featureless.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE PEACE "CONFERENCE....

PRELIMINARY UNDERSTANDINGS.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS

(Router's Sarcice to the China Mail.)

POLES VICTORIOUS,"

January 7, 1918, Temperature 59 午次燃年入國民年中

FUNERAL OF MR. J. S. DOBIE.

A large and representative gathering of the Colony's residents was present at the funeral yesterday of the late Mr. J. S. Dobie, a striking tribute to thể COPENHAGEN, (January 3rd.

position he had in the eyes. d the A telegram from Berlin, dated to-day Colony. The cortega was met at the. sars that the town of Posen is now con- Monument by a gun carriage to which plafaly in the hands of the Poles, who the coffin, which was covered with the overturned the German national mona-

ments, often after viclent fights, and (Union. Jack and the deceased's helmet cock possession of all official funds and bayonet resting on it, was trans-! They also searched the houses of Garmansferred. The procession was then formed to whom the bakers refuse to sell brend.

The German papers characterise the Minister's report as declaration of harkropter on the past of the Govern

ment.

SAFETY OF THE SEAS.

Herr Ernst the Minister whom the to the Cemetry and was as follow: Government sent to Posen, has returned Firing party under command of Sergh to Berlin. He declares that it is too late Crawford; the 18th Infantry Band te intervene militarily and urges a peace playing. Chopin's Funeral March; the ful agreement with the Poles,

gun carriage, drawn by men of the Defence Corps, the chief mourners, (Capt. G.P. Lammert and Mr. P. C.. Potti); contingent of the Defence Corps under command of Major Morgün, and the general public. His Excellency the Officer Alministering the Govero- meat was represented by Me.. T. F. Hough, A.D.C, (1.S.P.R.) From the cemetery gates, the cotia was carried to the grava by six of deceased's friends. The Rev. F. H. Copley Moyle conducted the burial sarvica and at ita conclusion three volleye were fired over the grave and the Last Post "sounded by three buglers,

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LONDON, January 3rd. I: sauthoritatively stated that 200 German submarines were sunk daring war. time, of which the enemy destroyed 14.

LONDON, Jannary 3rd.. Mine sweeping is proceeding on a large scale. Some of the minefields are lub railes 22 It is estimate that 100,000 mines, including drifters, have been removed:

.་,་ :, BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGE,

extent,

PAR15, January 3rd.

A Havas message says:- The death in prison at Moscow of M. Pierre Dargy, the President of the French Chamber of Commerce at Petrogral, has aroused very great indignation in France,

REPATRIATION OF POILUS.

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PARIS, January 4th. A Haras message says:. Rapid progress is being made in the repatriation of French prisoners of war. It is officially stated that only 150,000 now remain in Germany. They will be brought home at en enrly, date.

A ZEPPELIN PROPOSAL.

PARIS, January 3rd.,

"A Havas message states

Amongst the large gathering present were Sir William Rees-Davies, Mr. Justice Gompertz, Hon. Mr. P. E

Holyoak, Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwall, Hon Mr. J. H. Kemp, K., Hon. Mr. E.. H. Sharp, Hon. Mr. E R. Halifax, Major Morgan, Major Maederald, Major Arm strong, Capt. G. E. Stewart, Capt. M. S Northcote, Mears. H. Percy BL, Dowbiggin, Capt. E. E. Smith, CH. P. Hay, R.Sutherland,

Gray, Mesars. . Edgcumbe, P.

Falconer, F. W. Evans, J. F. Wallace, W. Nicholson, T. Arthur, A. Balean, H. W. Dick, W. Sinclair, VA Andal T. E Pearce, Dr. E. Jones, W. Pat endeh, D. Cameron, G. Mr. Smith, O.G., Alabaster, V. Smyth, J. E Baring, M., S. Sassoon, A.. G. Gordoo, E Count La Vaulx any, in letter, that Latament, J. D. Danby, H. A. Nisbet, Germany Shout deliver all her Zeppelins, H. Hancock, G. B. Layton, M. Ramjahn, thus impeding Germany from securing the J. E. N. Mcdy, F. C. Jankin, supremacy in the air, and establishing theR M. Dyer, E. F. White, Capt. first service of trans-Atlantic air liners, Haperoft, blesers. W. A. Donley, there now, exists super-Zeppelins quite D. Donnelly, H. C. Sandford, P. K. capable of crossing the Atlantic.

Silvo, B. R. Austin, J. 8. Perry, F. H. Thomas, A. O. Lang. & M. Lakin, A Macdonald, Marshall, S. H. Dutton, A. Denison, Testery A. S. Gubbay, E. Abraham, D. Ritchie, Edwards, Razack,- Figueredo, H. H. Tayler, M. Raymond, R. Pestonji, H. A. Lammert, FM X

BALKAN RAILWAYS,

PARIS, January 3rd.

A Havas message says:—...

By anotherservice the Anropole express will connect Greece in Venice, Trieste, Belgrade and Larissa, the line passing entirely through Allied Jugo-Slav territory.

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LONDON, Jnuary 3rd." The Baden, the newest German battleship will be shortly handed over under the Armistice: terms.

A FRENCH SCANDAL

A Havas message says:~ Captain Labour, ex-Chief of the Secret, Service Bureau, Paris, who was implicated in the Humbert-Lenoir case, has been ar rested

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LIEUT. F. L. SKILTON, M.C.

The Entente will shortly open a direct train service to the East and a regular ser rice between Paris and Bekharest, via Eerne, Romjahn and Lai Yue Chung. Fladkirch and Vienna.

There was a remarkable mass of flowers, wreaths, eta, sent by H.E. the.Offcor Administering the Government; the. Hongkong Stock Exchange; the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora tion; Major Morgan and Officers of the HK.D.C; the Chairman and the Com- mittee of the Hongkong Club; the Secretary and Staff of the Hongkong Club Enghes and Hough; Moxon and Taylor; Exchange Brokers' Association of Hongkong; Benjamin and Potte; The Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd, Gande, Price & Co., the Kailan Mining Admini atration, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Holyoak, M. N., J. Stabb, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. L. Dowbiggin; Mr. H. C. Sandford, Hon. Mr. and Mr. S§. E. Dodwell, Mr. E Ormiston, F. W...S. Evans, Mr. A. Balean, Mr. and Mrs. T. Arthur, Mr. W. Nicholson, Mr. HA Nisbet, Mr. F. S. Thompson, Mr. J. H, C. Goodiso, Mr. E. AM Williams, Mr. A. R. Lowe, Mr. D. E. Donnelly, Mr. Percy Smith, Mr. J. H. Seth, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wallace, Mr. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Jenkin, Dr. and Mrs. Forsyth, Mr. and Mrs. DAK. Blair; Mr.. and Mrs. M. Dyer, Mr. A. Moore, Dr. Moore-Graham, Miss Gruning, Mr. H. F. Campbell, Mr. F., W. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Lammert, Capt, and Mr Gray, Mr. R. Gompertz, Mr. Edgcambe, Mr. and Mr. P. J. and Mrs. HA Lammert, Mr. and Mrs. Falconer; Mr. C. H. P. Hay, Mr. D. Gray, Mr. B. Baste, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Alabaster, Mr. and Mr. A. E. Grifin, Mr. G#Morton Smith, Mr. H. Hancock, Mr. and Mrs A Logas, Mr. and Mrs. J. Paaby, Mr. R. Pestonji, Mr. J. E Baring Mr. H R Phelps, Mr. P. C. Potts, Mr. A. Forbes, Mr. 8 J- Chinchen, Mr. J. W. Kew, Mr. A. E. Marie de Souza, Mr. E Lammert, Mr. Bumjahn, Misses Phyllia d'Almadi L and Mr. F. B. L Bowley, Mr. Woog and Lens, Mr. A. M. Stark, Mr. and

LONDON, January 4th. The Military Cross has been awarded to Lieat F. L. Skilton, of the Hongkong and Singapore Garrison Artillery, for services rendered in Egypt.

: DEPARTMENTAL "CHANGE.

PARIS, January 4th. A Haras message says:- January 13th is generally accepted in Paris the commmencement, at the French Foreign Office, of the preliminary peace discussions between Great Britain, Franco, America and

The Et: Hon. E. B. Montage, announces Italy, for the deciding of the general lines, of the terms to be imposed upon the enemy that the India Office Committee to assist Delegates of the other Allied States will be disabled and invalided cficers to obtain consalted at the second Conference in Paris, employment in India, the Eastern when the Allies conditions will be finally settled and submitted to the Enemy Fowers Colonies, and the Malay States has ceased at the Peace. Congress at Versailles.

dealing with this work to operate. The Labour Ministry is now

The work of the Conference is greatly simplified by President Wilson's concessions to France and Great Britain on the subject of the freedom of the seas and, the retention of the German Colonies, and the concessions to President Wilson, on the subject of the acceptation of the broad lines of the scheme. for a League of Nations.

FOOD SUPPLIES.

FUNERAL OF FLYING HERO.

LONDON, January 3rd. Captain W. Leefo Eobinson was buried at Harrow Weald, this afternoon. Acro plares escorted the cortege to the come

PARE, January ita.

tory. The coffin was borno by an der Mrs. EL. Sim, Mr. A. G. Gordon, Mr. A Havas message says:

plane trailer and was preceded by the P. M. N. da Silva, Mr. J. 2. Joseph, The Allied Governments have advised Air Force band, followed by a squadron Mr. D. Cameron, Mr. M. B.. Bassoon, President Wilson that, they desire that the of members of the Air Force. The Mr. A. Derby, Mr. J. F. N. Mody. Mr. United States Governant should take over bearer included Major Sorter who and Mrs. F. Maitland Mr. Ho Wing, the load of organisation and administration

Mr. S. E. Ho, Capt. JW Evans, Mr.

of relict from Britain, France and Italy. brought down the second Zeppelin in Ho Kwong, Mr. H. W. Dick Mr. F. 4. Council has been appointed, consisting England. Am scropland dropped a Smyth, Mr. U Rumishit, Mr. W of two representatives of Government Mr. CH. Hoover has been appointed Direcreath in front of the house, where the Sinclair, Mr. P. Tester, Mr. A. David, tor-General'; M. Cluscatel Minister of body was lying before the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Grimble, Mr. 8. G. Commerce, and M Vilgrain, Under Secre the cortege

Newall; Major and Mrs. Garibaldi, Mr. tary of Food Supplies, are the French repre

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TIMBER MARKET.

LONDON, December 30th. The Press Bureau states that dealings in timber in the United Kingdom will not be restricted after January late

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