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OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN.

2. One's Bond Charral, Hongkong

The China Mail.

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April 14, 191, Temperature 84.

April 14, 1920, Temperature 69.

Rainfall 0,00 inch.

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No. 17,924,

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四十路四年十二彐八千一英

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1920.

日六廿月二申庚 年九國民軍中

BUSINESS NOTICES.

TO-DAY'S

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

TOUR OF SURRENDERED BEATA

LONDON, April 10.

The Admiralty is considering the sending of certain surrendered German warships on a tour of the Empire.

NAVAL APPOINTMENT. ·

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LONDON, Apr 13. Rear-admiral George H. Borrett is appointed senior gayal office the Yangtse in succession to Ellison.

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VALE PRESIDENT KISIGNS.

NEWSHAVEN, April 13. The resignation of A. T. Hadley, president of Yale for 21 years, bas been accepted..

SHIPPING DEAL

WASHINGTON, April 13.

The consolidated maritime line of New York has purchased from the shipping board the ex-Austrian steamer "Armenia," of 7,500 tons deadweight, for $755,000. The vessel is intended to salf on the old Hamburg-Amerika route between Germany, England, and South America, and to carry grain and general cargo. A representative of the purchasers denied that the line would co-operate with the Hamburg Amerika line.

U.S. NAVAL ENQUIRY

4. NEW YORK, April 13. Rear-admiral T. Washington, chief of the navigation bureau, giving evidence before the committee investigating Admiral Sims charges declared that Congress must increase the pay of the navy in order to avoid disaster. He declared there were 4,566 cases of desertion in the last. half of 1919 and 1,663 in the Erst two months of 1920, wälle over a thousand officers have resigned since the armistice.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, April 13. The state congress at Sonora, Mexico, passed a resolution, severing relations with the Carranza government. The Sonora revolutionists have since seized the custom house at Aguapriata..

A SINGAPORE LIBERAL.

LONDON, April 13.

Tavistock Liberal Association has adopted Maxwell Thorntoa, a former member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements, as Candidate at the next election.

CHINA AND FRANCE INTENTE. ;

París, April 13..

In response to an invitation from the Chinese Republic, ex-premier Painleve will depart for China on April 15, with the object of developing Sino-French intellectual and technical relations.

F.A.L. SHIPS."

NEW YORK. April 13.

Herr Cono, director general of the Hamburg-Amerika line, and two other representatives of German shipping, have arrived. It is believed they come in connection with a proposal that sixty of the former Hamburg Amérika routes be operated by ships under the American flag.

COTTON FEST.

WASHINGTON, April 13.

The federal agricultural board has recommended the secretary for

and Lcuisiana which is infected with the ball weevil.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD. agriculture to enforce drastic quarantine over the cotton acreage of Texas

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WASHINGTON, April 13.

All the cotton states were represented at a conference called by the federal horticultural board to consider means of combating the reappear ance of the cottonworm in Texas. It was stated that only a drastic quarantine can prevent a disastrous spread to the rest. The board suggest ed that Texas should prohibit cotton growing in the infected area for three years, and compensate the farmers for the crop already planted. the state of Texas fails to act as stated, the department of agriculture prepared to restrict the movement of cotton or cottonseed from Texas.

·AMERICAN RAILROAD STRIKE

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NEW YORK, April 13. The strike of railroad. switchmen is spreading all over the country, including the Hudson tubes between New York, Jersey City, and Long Island. The railwaymen are intensifying the menace of a food shortage. At a meeting of railwaymen at Cleveland, the leaders of four railway unlons accused the strikers of attempting to destroy the trainmen's and switchmen's unions for the purpose of establishing one big railway union.

New YORK, April 13.

The railway situation is acute, owing to the curtailment of trains and the embargo on freight express services. Mr. Gompers has gone to, Cleveland to help the brotherhood officials to control the men. In the meantime the railway oficials are refusing to negotiate with the revolting unions which claim to represent the strikers. The federal officials promise to intervene wherever necessary.

OUR NEWEST AMBASSADOR.

LONDON, April 13.

Sir Auckland Geddes has departed for America.

TENNIS

LONDON, April 13.

In the covered courts championship Queens Club, the Chinese Cambridge undergraduate Wu defeated the New Zealander graduate McCarthy in the first round of the men's singles, five sets, 25 agalost 22.

(Reutar's Jovice to the China Msil.).

HAVAS REVIEW.

PARIS. April 9.

A Havas message states -- To-day order reigns 'everywhere ivf Frankfort The authorities succeeded in appeasing the students, and a muni: (cipal proclamation calling the people

to keep calm was issued.

The leaders in the rioting who were arrested were sent our of the occupied region...

.

The newspapers are again appearing without being submitted to a censor- ship, The period provided by the protocol of August last for the dis- armament of the greater part of the German army and, especially, for the withdrawal of the German forces allowed in the Ruhr Basin expires to-morrow,

The French state that there are still about 40,000 troops in the neutral zone with an additional 50,000 in the erca between Munster-am-Stein and These troops must be

Osnabruck.

disarmed, immediately and the Ger man army reduced to the maximum 200,000-inclusive of all Sichereats-

wetr, Freikorp. Bulgerwehr and stud- ent organisations bearing arms.

PARIS, April 10.

The Lloyd George note concerning Frankfort occupation was discussed yesterday in two meetings of the Cabinet council. After the second meeting the French Ambassador in Landon was instructed to hand the French reply to the British Govern- ment. The reply points out that the Allied Governments were constantly advised about Franco-German nego tiations relating to the Ruhr and Frankfort area. It reminds them Germany had accomplished none of the military or economical provisions of the Versailles Treaty regarding France and she can make no more

concessions.

NEW IMPETUS TU FOREIGN TRADE IN MONGOLIA.

Mr. IB. Shefts, of the Andersen Meyer Co., Urga, has returned from a seven months' itinerary through Mongolia, and brings with him, a most encouraging report of condi tions in China's great undeveloped north-west.

Great changes for the better are coming over the country since the cancellation of autonomy and the taking over of government by the Chinese, says Mr. Shefts. A W attitude of encouragement of foreign trade is noticeable. Many foreigners are entering the country, particularly Scandinavians and Americans.

Andersen Meyer Co. have taken opportunity by the forelock and established themselves in Mongolia by opening branches in Urga and very recently in Uliasutai, 800 miles from Urga and 2,000 from Kalgan. They operate their own motor car routes and camel caravans over the vast plains. From Kalgan to Urga is 43 to six days' travel by motor- car (if you don't break down) and a month by camel. The road is good with the exception of the high pass about fifty miles out of Kalgan. Travellers on the road pass, at fre quent intervals, stalled motor cars. Of all the cars which have been tried out on these desert roads, the Dodge

has proved the most hardy and re-

liable.

COUNTRY POLITICALLY CALM

Three hundred and fifty miles north

of Urga is Kiatka, on the Russian bor der. The political situation, says. Mr. Shefta, is entirely calm and order prevails, although detachments of Chinese troops are daily marching from Crga for Klatka to protect. the frontier.

Urga is a fine city with a large- Chinese merchant population and a Russian 'community of about 2,000 which is self-policing.

WIRELESS BRING UP.. Apparatus of the Marconi Co. has already arrived at Urga, states, Mr. Shefts, for the new wireless system reaching from Urga to Ullasutal, Kaobdo and the Tibetan border. Telegraph communications are now Petrograd and Moscow, clear" from Urga direct to Kiatka,

The Mongolian police have been officered by Chinese of the North- western. Defence Army. The post- offices and all government offices. have been taken Over by General Lt, the assistant of Hau Shu- tseng, Chinese. Passports needed. All foreigners now entering Mongolia must be provided with Chinese pass ports, and negligence in this respect has got travellers into considerable difficulty.S

The great present need, says Mr. Shefts, is that Urga be made an open port, which it is not at present. It 18 expected that this matter will have the attention of the Chinese govern- ment shortly-North. China Stor..

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