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May 31, 1923, Temperature 78.

Barometer 29:7.7-% Rainfall 0:42 inch. Humidity 91 May 31, 1923, Temperature 7

No. 18.890.

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·OPIUM LAWS.

LEAGUE'S NEW MEASURES.

HONGKONG AFFECTED.

GENEVA, May 30

THE DOLLAR. --

To-day's closing rate 2/3 15/16 To-day's opening rate 2/3 15/16.

ALEX. BOSU1à 00. (UHINA) LTD. Bole Agenta

BS+AWKRA24=+ERO+ PRICE, $8.00 Per Month

FINDING THE MONEY.

GERMAN REPARATIONS OFFER.

RUHR STRIKES END,

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

BERLIN, May. 30. Following a meeting of representatives of agriculture, the delegates informed Herr Curio, the Premier, that agriculture was prepared to contributo 20,000,000 gold marks a year to reparation.

The Opium Conumission has adopted‚aʼresoly“ kloa moyed by Sir Malcolm de Levingue, recou“ mending the Council of the League to invite Power having Eastern possessions in which the use of opium for smoking purposes is temporarily contin ed, to cater forthwith into negotiations through special conference or otherwise, with a view to

The strike movement in the Ruhr is waning, examining measures to carry cut in the most effecthe new agreement increasing wages apparently tive manner Part II of the Opium Convention, and

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thereby pave the way to reduction in the quantity of Sarlsfying even the Communists. Mass meetings of Letrikers at Gelsenkirchen and elsewhere decided to Opium used. The conference will also examine the possibility of concluding an agreement for the resume work. adoption of a uniform policy on the basis of various ....

SEIZED BANK NOTES.

ESSEN, May 30.

suggestions like suppression of the system of farms Replying to a German pmtest against the

and the establishment of a monopoly, the unification

of price, and the unification of penalties for infraclure of 97 milliards marks from the Reichs Bank at Essen, General Degoutte says the notes were tions of the opium laws.

- ACUTE

AGAIN.

BRITAIN'S RUSSIAN DEMANDS.

The French representative voted against the reseized because the German Government had not solution on the ground that it infringed the Conven-Paid the cash for maintenance of the French and tion.

Belgian troops in the occupied territory: The money will not be returned. General Degoutte does not give an assurance that there will be no similar seizures.

MORE RUHR EFFECTS?

BERLIN, May 30. At the annual meeting of the Reich Bank, the President, Herr von Havenstein said that the deterioration in the country's finances and economic life had made ruinous progress with the result that calls on the Reich Bank had increased eleven or twelve times. The note, circulation had risen to 1,280 milliards and the wholesale index prices from 3,665 to 147,500.

BELGIUM FEELS STRAIN.

POSITION SERIOUS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, May 30. The Manchester Guardian's Moscow correspond ent states that Mr. Chicherin, the Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissar, declares that the Russo-British position is very serious, and if Lord Curzon, British" Foreign Secretary, insists on the recall of the Soviet Anibassadors in Afghanistan and Fersia a rupturs is inévitable.

DUTCH INDIES TRADĖ

BRITAIN'S EXCELLENT CHANCE,

LONDON, May 30, Presiding at a meeting of the British Champ of Geminesce for the Dutch Indies held in London, Sir Walter Townley said that owing to the energies of the Chamber the importance of the Dutch Indios as an outlet for trade was beginning to be appreci- ated:

The marked rise in the price of many Dutch Indies products could not fail to encourage business and facilitate the task of financial administration,"

The increase in the price of rubber had unfort unately not been maintained. The apparently good effect of the curtailment of output could only really be felt if the curtailment was general.

WEI-HAI-WEI NEGOTIATIONS.

FOREIGN INTERESTS SECURE.

LONDON, May 30.

BRUSSELS, May 30. In order to meet the necessities of the occupa- tion of the Ruhr, a bill has been introduced to in- crease the term of service in the army fourteen months.

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The Minister of Defence said the extra service would cease when the occupation ended.

The Socialists intimated inflexible opposition.

LESS WAR!

PRESIDENT HARDINGS APPEAL

AMERICA'S DUTIES.

WASHINGTON, May 30, the Arlington military cemetery, President Harding.....

Speaking at a memorial day commemoration in

declared that the United States had proved there could be less armament and should now strive for an assurance that there could be less war. The United States could not and should not avoid its world relationship.

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"We cannot guarantee but we can promote peaceful adjustments of disputes and aid the establishment of agencies for peace. If the national honour again call the United States to arms it will be the duty of the country to use every research, every

STEAMER COLLISION.

In the House of Commons, in answer to ques-activity and all its wealth to make common cause tions, Mr. Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for for the nation's preservation." Foreign Affairs, said that negotiations for the return- of Wei-Hai-wei to China had been resumed, The Government was not able yet to make a statement on the subject, but he assured the questioner that all private interests in the territory were receiving full consideration.

[Wei-Hai-Wei, on the North East coast of the Shantung peninsula, was leased to Britain who used it as a naval station. The territory is being handed back under the Washington agreement.]

TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

4,000 PEOPLE KILLED.

ALLAHADAD, May 30, The Pioneir learns from Meshed that the fatalit- les in the earthquake at Turbadhidari are estimated at 4,000.

[Yesterday's cables reported that an earthquake at Turbatihidar had caused thousands of deaths whilst several villages have been devastated.]

DAVIS CUP TENNIS.

·FIRST DAY'S RESULTS.

BRUSSELS, May 30.

For the Davis Cup the first day's results were as follows: Lycett (Britain) beat. Watson (Belgium) 6-2, 8-6, 6-2. Washer (Belgium) beat Gilbert 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3,

OBVIOUSLY STOLEN.

SILVER CIGARETTE CABE

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Mr. Fred D. ard: Oil Co., who lives Thapa Manor, May Ro complainant, join case, R. 3. Lindsell this- an old Chinese was

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DUTGH PILOT CLEARED.

THE HAGUE, May 30.

The Court of Appeal has acquitted the pilot Breed who was sentenced to six months' imprison- . ment in connection with the collision between the steamer "Zuiderdijk" and the British steamer " Ezardiadend" last year.

ALLEGED SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY.

LONDON, May 31 Art O'Brien and eight other Irish deportees were charged at Bow Street with seditious con- spiracy. They were remanded until tomorrow.

[These men were among those deported during the big March round-up and brought back when the Appeal Court ruled that the Home Secretary could- not order the internment of a person in the Irish Free State.

AMERICAN TENNIS CHAMPION

LONDON, May 30, Mrs. Mallory opened her British tour with the Middlesex Championships at Chiswick, She enter ed the 5th round without the loss of a set.

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