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TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Maž)

ADEN ANOTHRE SINGAPORE,

PROPOSED TRANSFER TO COLONIAL OFFICE.

CHURCHILL'S SEVERAL SCHEMES.

LONDON, September 28. The Indian Council of State has carried a motion protesting against the proposed transfer of Aden to the Colonial Offies, only one non-official mem- ber supporting the transfer, namely the representative of the Bombay Cham- ber of Commerce who urged that the transfer would benefit trade and cpa merce with the result that Aden would grow in importance like Singapore The Foreign Secretary said that the Government's attitude was one of bene volent neutrality. The transfer was largely due to the growing expenditure! on Ader

The Manchester Guardian says that Mr. Winston Churchill has several plans for the development of Aden. He hopes to extend the protectorate to the Bahrein islands, thus linking up with Baars on the Persian Gulf. He intends to amalgamate the administration of Aden with that of Somaliland.

ZOONOMIC SANCTIONS GOING.

GERMANY ACCEPTS INTER-ALLIED CONTROL CONDITIONS.,

PARIS, September 284 Germany having accepted the conditions regarding the establishment of inter allied control on the Rhine frontier after the raising of the comic sanctions, M. Briand has informed the German Ambassador that the Mnctions will be raised on September 30,

A REMARKABLE SPEECH.

MUNICH, September 28. A fexture of to-day's proceedings of the Congress of the Imperial Association of German Trade was a remarkable speech by Herr Rathenau declaring that complete fulfilment of the terms of the ultimatum will hit the world economically more severely than Germany. Germany must work more than the others. He advocated going to the limit of their capacity regarding reparation.

BERLIN AND MUNICH,

TENSION NOW REMOVED.

MUNICH, September 28. The constitution committee of the Bavarian Diet has approved the agreements already cabled concluded between representatives of the Bavarian and Imperial Governments on September 24 whereby the tension between the two Governments is removed.

CANADA'S GENERAL ELECTION,

PREMIER DECLARES FOR PROTECTIVE TARIFF.

PORT AGELA PRAIRIE, September 28.

THE CHINA MAIL.

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

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MARK'S RAPID DEOLINS.

SPECULATIVE EXCESSES BY UNPATRIOTIC INDUSTRIALISTĖ,

ANXIOUS BERLIN COMMENT.

BIALIN, September 28.

The rapid decline in the value of the mark is the subject of anxious comment. The newspapers agree in describing it as catastrophic. It is attributed to speculative excessed by anpatriotic industrialists anxious to acquire foreign exchange to cover purchases of raw material.

· KRONEN'S FURTHER COLLAPSE.

VIENNA, September 231- Rumours of difficulties connected with the grant of foreign credits have caused a further collapse in the kronen which is quoted at 34 to the penny.

ARBUCKLE 0183,

POLICE COURT PROSECUTION CLOSED.

. SAN FRANCISCo, September 28.

The case for the prosecution against Arbuckle closed at the police court yesterday. The judge warned the district attorney that he was risking the danger of a dismissal by failure to produce more proof but rejected a request from the defence that the charg be dismissed,

CHARGE MANSLAUGHTER.

LATER.

The judge has decided that, the evidence against Arbuckle does not warrant a charge of murder. Arbuckle will therefore be tried for manslaughter,

BOYCOTT OF FRENCH G ODS.

ORGANISED MOVEMENT IN GERMANY.

BERLIN, September 28.

The newspapers print the text of a French note requesting Germany to end the French boycott movement which the note declarés began in February at Bremen and extended to Hambury where it received the support of the Hanes League of chambers of commerce. It was thence organised through- out Germany and propagated in technical publications and political organs. The note instances the Bavarian railway authorities threatening to close down restaurants selling entente goods.

STRANDED CHINESE STUD NTS

SHIPPING.

PACIFIC COMPETITION, AU

PRESENT WAR HARSHER THAN EVER.

The freight war, which has now

· been in existence for some time, is

Kenn getting more harsh than ever. shipping companies which belong to Conferences secretly cut down freight tates, to say nothing of the more honourable competition of trampe. On the Shanghai-Tsingtan line severe competition has already been pro- voked through the intrusion of the Tenkwa-yoko. The Yamashita Kisen Kaisha bas, on the other hand, put ships on the America-Australian line, and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha on the Calcutta line, while American shipe on the Egyptian-American line have been trying very hard to secure ship- The Mainichi remarks that

menta.

the activity of American ship is espe cially remarkable in acquiring ship- ments of Egyptian cotton. Consignors of Egyptian cotton had been about to make agreements with Amarican ships to take shipments af low rates, when they were forced to abandon the agreements owing to the pressure of British conference lines. To counteract this the American Shipping Board is determined, our contemporary says, to down the British ships by the instrumentality of the Jones Act. The gravity, with which shipping companies have in- vaded the limits or other companies is due, according to the Mainichi to circumstances which compel them to adopt that course, as their need of expansion is imperative if they would pay their way. Naturally the com- petitors find it difficult to fill their holds and sharp competition ensues. Such being the state of affairs, ship- ping companies, in finding a way out, have no alternative but to cut down expenses. Cheap coal, smaller rewa and lower pay are their chief remedies.

INSURANCE OF LOST SHIPS.

INLAND REVENUE AND ACCRETION OF CAPITAL.

PRECARIOUS SITUATION OWING TO INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION given to those who built ships during

Lornoy, September 28,

A Paris telegram states that the Mayor of Lyons has arrived in Paris to Mr. Meighen opening the election campaign, urged & protective tariff to

endeavour to arrange with the Quai d'Orsay and the Chineses Embassy the safeguard C.nada's industries from worldwide competition. He did not question of the precarious situation of Chinese students owing to the industrial believe in high protective tariff which would be unfair to the West but pro-ench industrial centres have already arrived at Lyens and are claiming depression. It appears that between 340 and 400 Chinese students from posed a voluntary pool of the principal grains to be handled by a government board.

assistance from the Lyons Franco-Chinese Institute.

CHILE AND BOLIVIA,

LEAGUE ASSEMBLY SETTLES INCIDENT.

GENEVA, September 23.

The incident between Chile and Bolivia has been settled by the assembly

AUSTRIA'S SORRY FLIGHT.

POWERS STRIVING TO RESTORE NORMAL CONDITIONS.

GENEVA, September 28.

The Assembly debating committee report on the economic and financial of the League. The Bolivian alegation withdrew ander reserve a request situation of the world, Mr. Arthur Balfour said that there was no more for revision of the treaty. The Chilean delegate said that his Government pressing problem than that of Austria. The powers were striving to bring was prepared to enter into conversations with Bolivia with a view to her back to normal conditions. He appealed to Austria's neighbours to settlement of grievances

PRINCE OF WALES.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR VISIT TO JAPAN.

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LONDON, September 28.

Arrangements for the visit of the Prince of Wales to Japan are at pres sent being discussed with the Japan Government. It is anticipated that the Prince of Wales will arrive in Japan in the second week of April.

- 3,000,000 CEYLON LOAN,

UNDERWRITING REPORTED TO BE IN PROGRESS,

LONDON, September 28.

It is understood that underwriting is in progress for a £3,000,000 Ceylon loan at 6 per cent. the price being 97.

OPPAU DISASTER DEAD.

BERLIN, September 28.

It is semi-oficially stated that 414 is the number of the dead in the Uppau explosion. Of this 70 bodies have not been indentified. Relatives

port160 missing.

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BELGIAN ALRODROME FIRT.

SEVEN AEROPLANES AND TWO GOLIATHS DESTROYED.

BRUSSELS, September 28. Seven aeroplanes and two goliaths were destroyed in the fire at the Evere aerodrome which was accidental,

NEW CZECHO-SLOVAK CABINIT.

PRAGUE, September 28,

In the new Czecho-Slovak esbinet M. Benes assumed the premiership and the ministry of foreign affairs.--Hacas.

UNITED STATES · AILWAYS.

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COMMERCE COMMISSION'S GROUPING PLAN,

WASHINGTON, September 28

The interstate commerce commission has announced that plans will be advanced for the grouping of the major railroads of the United States into

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In the House of Commons Sir Cecil Beck asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government intended to abide by the pledges

the war, whether seeing that the true legal position as regards special allowances for depreciation of value was set out in the circular prepared by the Board of Inland Revenue and circulated by the Ministry of Shipping on the 25th of May, 1917, he could was being made, in apparent defiance state on whose authority an attempt.

of the law, to deduct from special allowances as set out in the above cironlar certain secretions of capital: arising through insurance of lost ships?

Mr. Hilton Young-The matter is one in the first place for the Board of Inland Revenue (subject to an appeal to the Board of Referees), and the Board of Inland Revenue take the, view, a view from which I see no

reason to dissent, that in cases where

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an appreciation in the value of a ship homeward Trans-Pacific line and per cent. cheaper than Japanese has been realised by the recovery of the recovery of the outward goods. insurance money based on the in-line due to the deficiency of foodstuffs cressed value the realised apprecis in Europe have created a tendency It will be remembered, that the tion was a factor which should for the New York line to receive more Osaka Shosen Kaisha placed order properly be taken into consideration cargoes, while Treight rated have al- with a British shipbuilding yard for in connection with a claim for allow ready been reduced by shipowners to construction of the "London-maru" ance in respect of exceptional depre- the largest possible extent. Some of and the Faris-mara." Now it is ciation of other vessels. I cannot the participants in the Conference reported that the "Londan-mazu " agree with my hon. friend's suggestion therefore advocate that it is necessary was launched on September, 3, that this view in any way violates for them to act in union and maintain being completed in the early part of either the provisions of the law or the the solidarity of the Conference at this November. Upon completion, it will terms of any undertaking given by time of depression. These overtures be placed on the European run. It is the Board of Inland Revenue. will shortly be supported by all the of 18,000 tons, running 14 knots an participaata, and the situation is sach hour. The "Paris-marn" is expected that the Conference will substantially to be completed next January. be remodelled soon. Important ship-

China and the South Seas." ments to New York are generally from

GENERAL NOTES.

Japanese goods in the South Seas

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THE NEW YORK LINE.

Orient and New York are anything Shipping conditions between the

The Pacific Freight Conference has reduced the rate on sweet oranges but satisfactory, and it is even found

from $10 to $8 from the beginning of difficult to maintain the solidarity of

September. The rate on rawalk the Conference, while the freight rates;

from Shanghai to America hag of various shipowners are quite dis-

been lowered from $7.50 to ordered. It was expected that confind their markets steadily encroached To compete with the Conference, dition would become words through upon by foreign goods. The severest CP.08 reduced the orange ato the attempt of the Trans-American sufferers are piecegoods and porcelain, to $10 some time ago, and an its railways to absorb shipments via the Manchester goods are entering the liners reach their destination two or Pacific ports to New York by decreas-islands at low figures. In the case of three days earlier than ever however, have proved far from are coming in. These foreign-made sent for preference by the Canadian ing freights. These expectations, porcelain, German and Dutch goods of the Conference ships, shipments are the mark, for the activity of the piecegoods and pottery are 20 to 15 company.

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