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CABLES.

(Reader's Service to the China Mail)

LEAGUE ASSEMBLY.

SURPRISING GERMAN MANDATE NOTE-

BRITISH ASTONISHED.

GENEVA, November 19.

The British section of the League Assembly at Genera is astonished at the German Mandate Note (mentioned in our earlier cables), and points cut that under Article 119 of the Treaty, Germany definitely retounces all rights of her colonies to the Allied and Associated Powers. Hence the present contention is difficult to understand as she has already signed away all her rights.

MONGOLIA.

THE YELLOW RIYER.

SCENES FROM AN OX-HIDE RAFT.'

CHINESE SERVANTS.

THE DOLLAR.

Today's closing rate 3,7

Today's opening rate 3'st

KARLIER TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

AMERICAN CONCESSION IN

ing.

SIBERIL

STOCKHOLM, November 20th. Washington van der Lip has arrived from R The American Stodiesto which he represents has secured a sixty year lease of the whole of north-east Siberis, east of the 160th meridian, includ the Peninsula of Kamchatka, and will begin its activities in the Spring of 1991: The salmon fisheries will be leased to Alaskan canceries. The Syndicate has also acquired a long lense with the right of purchase, of a portion of the Seattle water- front purchased by the former Imperial Government.

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In an interview Van der Lin denied the rumours of rebellions in Moscow.

concession,

Lorber, November 18th- EMPLOYMENT IN ENGLAND.

Commenting on Mr. Vanderlip's Siberian the Pall Mall Gazette row marks that Mr. Vanderlip mag fod that SOLVING PROBLEM.

there are other parties to be considered iz his transaction, with those who have been Under the heading of Why not selling off Rassia's resources, and points out The N.C.D. News correspondent Chinese Servants a writer in Theba Japan recently announced that is would a roognise such concessions and writing from Lanchowa, Kan, on Lady of Sept. 16 says Good ser-she is able to make things very pleasant

for exploiters in that part of the world. Oct. 30, said .--.

The Yellow River, which takes is rises on the far of Tibetan hills, flows; for the most part north-east through Kansu, slowly being its way through the mountain ranges that bar its course till at last it bursts through the last barrier a spur of the mighty Kuenhun ranges, which circles.round Ningsia, and by hemming in the river there forms a rich alluvial plain 350 h long and half that wide and then the Yellow River, wide and majestic. pours itself out on the plains of Mongolia.

vants are still very difficult to obtain. and in many cases the wages asked! are prohibitive. In some countries the solution of the problem is found in the employment of Chinese, and those who have had to do with them tell you that "they never properly appreciated their Chinese staffs until the present day.

A Chinese boy" makes a first-! class personal servant. He is valet,!· footman and general- handyman. His master's interests (next to his own) are paramount, and he will allow To encroaching on his duties.

The cook, too, is a splendid fellow. It has been plausibly suggested that the whole river should be used to You bring a dozen guests home user- irrigate Mongolia Certainly to con-pectedly to dinner when, instead of struct dans similar to the irrigation grumbling or resigning on the spot. works of Egypt or India should be a he calmly proceeds to beg borrow, feasible task and a vast tract of waste, or steal the wherewithal to turn out land could be used there to support a meal roat would do credit to a traite means millions of people. But such ed chief. From eggs and brown-110 a dream seems unbelievable in the so simple as it sounds to prawns in present chaotic and parochial, condi- aspič, from linseyquash to Punch tion of Chinese politics. So for the Romaine, he is a masterpiece. present let us confine ourselves to acmalities as we Boat dur way down the current through the Mongolian pasture lands."

The "aah would do anything for her small charges, who sadly miss her essy going ways when they come under a strict English nurse.

THE HUNTER'S PARADISE.

Of course, you must understand The river banks in Mongolia them, which means, paradoxically, abound with vegetation. Often the that you must realise that you can undergrowth is very thick. Great never hope to do so. It is a plati- sleepy cows and horses come down in rude that no Westerner can understand herds to the water's edge for a drink. the Eastern mind. You and your

SENATOR HARDING.

BROWNSVILLE, November 16th Senator Harding has arrived from Poist Isabel where his holiday plans were upset awing to a storm.

DAYIS. CUP.

LONDON, November 19th. Retter 5 correspondent ! Varconver states that the American Davis Cup team has sailed for New Zealand in the stearner

BRITISH OFFICER SHOT.

DELAY. November 15th. .. Colonel Foulkes, of the Indian Medical Service, was shot dead in his bungalow on Sprember 15th by a number of tribesmen. His wife was badly wounded and dragged some way by the tribunen hat was : 1ise- quently released.

LONDON UNIYERSITY.

Laxsos, November 20th. W. Repkyn Rees has been appointed in the Lotdon University Readership in Chinese, tenable at the School of Oriental

Studies.

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U.S. SHIPPING BOARD.

Naw Yoax, November 18th They are sleek and well favoured, ways, however, are certainly every bit An amazing revelation has resulted from living in the luxuriant Mongol grass.as incomprehensible to the Oriental as into the Shipping Board. scandals,

the Congressional Committee's enquiry Wild geese and duck abound. Often are his to you. Bear this in mind, As an example it is stated that in we saw pheasants. Where the moun- and you are three parts of the way August, 1919, Do record existed showing tains come down to the river, rock to a sound, workmanlike basis. bow $2,500,000,000 then expended had been

disbursed... antelopes are common... Once we saw

It is also most important to remem-

NEW YORK, Nov. 18. white pelicans quaint group of ber that if the Oriental knows you can

A receiver has been appointed for four by the muddats close to us.

see through his little subterfuges be For the most part once the Ning-will respect you accordingly, and you

the eight Atlantic steamship com→ sis hills are left behind, the sky line will get good service. A couple of

panies, known as 'the Morse Lines, in every direction is the level plain anecdotes will illustrate this point: including the Pawnee, Englewood, Galesbury. Ascutney, Andalusia, broken here and there by sand bills Brown, changing for dinner in a

Arcadia, Pequot and Atlantic-Adriatic which show up white against the pre-hurry one night, threw his drill cost

Corporations. whose outstanding pailing brown. The signs of the pre on the floor in the usual way for the sence of man are few. An occasional boy to collect and send to the wash.

obligations are one million and a half sail of some Chinese barge on its way Next morning he remembered that he

dollars. Their assets are not stated. up to Shidzviddi (the last town of Kan had left some money in the pocket:

Their failure is attributed to falling su) or the tiny Esting craft that hunt The boy was summoned. He explain-

-freight rates. in couples with a net between and often make rich harvests from the ad without hesitation that he had taken the money in case the washerman waters-perch especially, weighing should steal it, and was keeping it sale. Now, if Brown had not been MAN THE BARITY.

wide awake, the boy would certainly Occasionally a group of huts or a Mongol ter or two may be seen, but have kept the money safe and thought for the most part the only sign of Brown a fool

Jones had a fine turkey, which he craft that it is, made of its 108 oras fattening up for Christmas. · On hides lashed together four in a row Arrival home to evening he was mei and each filed with straw, and so by the cook, who, with every mani buoyant that it can support a cargo of lestation of woe, announced that the turkey bed flown away into the jungle. Coel is mined at one point not far The empty coop was produced, evi- from the river, and stacked up on the dence incontrovertible to his mind. bank so that, for a moment, the scene Jones, who was an old hand, merely is more suggestive al a pit-head at remarked that the turkey must fly back home than of e spot in far Mongolia. again or there would be trouble for At another place where & Catholic the cook, and sure enough the next been established, the evening there was the turkey safe and colony has spires of a couple churches remind sound? If Jones had not beer firm. one of earnest work and enterprise he would never have seen his bird; for years past and show what can be again, and the star would have enipy- done to bring the wilderness to some ed some first-rate curry at his expense. thing like a garden.

10 catties or more each.

human life is our own raft-quee:

25,000 canies.

'A' DISTRICT IN MAKING.

In accordance with our usual maps,

Yes, Chinese servants are excellent in many ways, and not least in the distinctly humorous episodes that they

I have called the district through the provide for your edification...

Yellow River Bows, Mongolit, from

the point where it leaves Kansu to the

THE MOTOR-CAR COMING.

point far to the eastward where it is welcomed back to China by the guild- Next year the railway from Kalgar ing hille of Shansi, But to be up-to-will-have-reached Khelhacheng and date the district should be called Cary thousands of refugees are now bah-ki, or rather Chahar, a new pro- engaged in doing the earthwork for vince in the making, whose capital is the way. At present a company at Koeibuscheng. At this city reades runs motor-cars from the rafhead at the ruler or Tutong, a man of the Sugi (near Fenchen) to Kueihus and name of Chai with a one-too exvoury to us Kinsu folk a bumpy road on si reputation. Opium has been grown Dodge touring car is a treat indeed. freely in Chahar lately the furong We look forward the day when cere is said to have done nothing to stop it will run from the rained all:: Kucinus itself is a large rambling city to Kansu and we shall live within a ast instead of being with a population of a quarter of a week of

months from million.

FRENCH MILITARY SERVICE.

PARIS. No. 17. The French Cabinet has decided in favour of an eighteen months military service in principle." stipulating a reduced service will not be effective until after the transitional stage. which, depending on the needs of pational defence, will probably be in two years.

Contrary to rumours there is no question of the intention of the War Minister, M. Lefevre, to resign as a protest against the shortening of the period of military service.

Some 70 Japanese fishing boats which were fishing off Port Arthur on the night of the 3rd instant were swept away by a violent storm: On the 6th instant most of these abipsi whose disappearance had been caus- ing intense anxiety to the fishermen's friends, returned, but-ten are still issing. The naval authorities at Port Arthur despatched four des troyers in search of the missing vessels aid fishermen.: The drowned bodies of some 20 men were dis- covered, but the fate of 50 more

still unknown

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