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Wireless Telegraph Services, which offer speedy and efficient means of communication, are established between Hongkong and Ships at Sea, French Indo-China, the Province of Yunnaa, and Macao. The Radio Telegraph Office is always open for the reception and transmission of Radio Telegrams and for reporting vessels passing Waglan and Gap Rock Lighthouses.
Full particulars may be obtained on application to the Radio Counter in the Main Hall of the G.P.D., and at the Radio Telegraph Office, 3rd floor, Government Building.
LIST OF SHIPS EXPECTED TO BE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH HONGKONG TO-DAY." Fushimi Maru, Indus Maru, C. Lopez Y. Lopez, Venezia, Kouijari, Santhia, Hirsang, Van Cloon, Karmala, Pres. Grant, Kwangchow, Kutsang, Osaka Mara, Asphalion, Kawachi Maru, Soochow, Autolycus Haining, Ryign Mira, Hosang, Cheribon. Miru, Delta,, Rappura Kidshan, President Taft, Hwahcheng.
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COBHAM'S FLIGHT.
NEW MECHANIC COMING- FROM HOME.
London, July 8. The De Haviland Aircraft Com- pany will send out a mechanic as soon as possible to join Mr. Alan Cobham for the remainder of his Right to Australia-Reuter.
Leaves London To-day.
Rugby, July 8. Arrangements are in hand for Mr. Alan Cobham to continue his seaplane flight to Australia. which has been temporarily held up by the tragic death of his mechanic Mr. Elliott,
"BOGGED."
POSITION OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
Dover, July 8 Bogged in a morass from which it seems impossible to extricate it, was the description of the present situation of the cotton industry, in the presidential address by Mr. F. W. Birchenough, of the Cotton- spinners and Amalgamated Oper- atives Association, at the annual meeting of the General Federation of Trade Unions.
He said that the financiers' speculative madness was strangl. ing the industry.
The De Haviland Aircraft Com-
Mr. Birchenough strongly criti pany announce that they will toeised the last great lockout in the night select a mechanic from their woollen and textile industries, and staff to take Mr. Elliott's place, and alleged that in proportion to the that he will proceed with all speed population there were more mil by boat and aeroplane to Basra to Honaires in Bradford than élse- join Mr. Cobham.
where in the kingdom. Their mil; It is expected that the new
lions were made out of raw and mechanic will leave London to-mor-manufactured wool.-Reuter. row.British Wireless Service.
Cobham to Continue.
Basra, July
The Government of Iraq, has ex- pressed to Mr. Alan Cobham its regress at Mr. Elliott's death.
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In an interview Mr. Cobham said | WHAT, AMERICA DOES WITH that he would continue his flight immediately if an Air Force chanic were available and the au- thorities in London consented. It would be better for the murderer's tribe to be located, but he could not
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FOREIGN LOANS.
Washington, July 8. Of £433,000,000 private Ameri-
stay to see the prosecution through can loans to foreign Government's and corporations during the past six months Germany heads the list with 33 issues, totalling $160.- 000,000, and Latin-American, countries obtained $115,000,000.
FOR PARIS.
VISIT FROM THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO.
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Paris; July 8.
The Sultan of Morocco has left
Casablanca for Paris, in order to preside at the Moslem deremony consecrating the Mosque recently "completed He will attend the.
Mr. A. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury in commenting on these figures, pointed out that the bulk of money loaned abroad is going
enterprise
:inte productive
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military parade on the 14th in SEA TUNNEL UNDER MOUNTAINS. stant, and visit some of the French provinces,
He was preceded by prominent Caids and Pashas whh are now in
Paris.
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Krim's departure for Madagascar is imminent. Havas.
BRAZIL'S TRADE.
TEXTILE DIFFICULTIES
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RUBBER AFFECTED...
New York, July 8.
It is reported from "Rio de Janeiro that there is an industrial crisis in Brazil owing to the im-
BY SHIP TO CENTRÄL EUROPE.
Paris, June 1. With the firing of dynamite cartridges that blew away the last barriers, the sea rushed to-day into the biggest shipping tunnel in the world. It was the five-miles-long tunnel beneath the mountains linking Marseilles to the great sea-water inland lake known as the Etang
de Berre.
As was stated in "The Daily Mail" in August last, the tunnel will create a direct route between Marseilles and Central Europe by way of the Rhone Canal and the great inland waterways of the Continent with which the Rhone of the milreis.
to Rhine Canal is connected. Commodity sales have declined Barges up to 1,200 tons burden 50 per cent. during the past nine will be able to pass through the months.
are turnel, and even to pass one an- The difficulties most acute in the textile mills at other in it.
Dutlable articles forwarded by letter post to Great Britain are Table to confiscation by the Customs. Such articles should be for-provement in the exchange value warded by parcel post only.
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Brooklyn, July 8. The submarine S.61 was' dry- docked here at midnight, after grounding for eleven hours through, losing two supporting pontoona five miles out: "
Meantime a pathetic vigli nt the dockside was kept by the bereaved families of the thirty-six men whose bodies Are presumably aboard.-Reuter.
OPIUM.
MR. CHAO-HSIN CHU'S OUTBURST,
Mr. Chao-hain Chu seems to have lost his temper a: Geneva, but in the heat of the moment he probably said things he did not really mean. His assertion that Britain is "poisoning the world. with its druge," coming from one
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from the longest tunnels in the the remnants of China's Navy is The rubber industry is also world, being 214 times that of the to protect the transit of fleets of affected, the price obtained being St. Gothard Tunnel and more opium junks. "Any Consul or insufficient to cover labour costs, than half as much again as the missionary will substantiate these Land & Estate Agents. -Reuter."
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