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CHINESE POST OFFICES,

POSTAL ORDER PROBLEM,

DIFFICULTY OVER EUROPEAN NAMES,

PARIS, April 5

To-day's closing rate 2/3 9/15, To-day's opening rate_2/4 1/16.

- PATRIARCH TIKHON'S ARREST.

SOVIET REFUSE AMERICAN REQUEST."

INDON; Aprilis.

The Times correspondent at, Iga Xays the United States unofficially requested the Soviet The abolition of European post offices in China: Government to allow the Patriarch Tikhon to travel has led to unexpected complications in regard to to America where he formerly lived., Trotzky and postal orders now paid through the ChineseKameneff who have virtually become dictators were postal service. The Chinese postal au- inclined to agree but the Red Bishop Antonin, Thorities decture that

of the head of the Soviet's church administration, dis- result as a the impossibility of exactly expressing Chinese suaded them. Antonin explained that a convocation names in European characters it is exceedingly of the Soviet church had been summoned for April difficult to identify the addressee with the coase-15 to try Tikhon ecclesiastically and unfrock him quent risk of making the payment to the wrong whereafter the Soviet tribunal could not be hinder- person. The Chinese authorities request Frenched to try him as an ordinary layman. persoas sending money orders to Chinese to fill in on a special form the name of the addressec in Chinese characters. Unfortunately Chinese is not included in the new list of modern languages which it is proposed to teach' in French state schools.

HOME RAILWAY CRISIS.

ENGINEERING EMPLOYEES' DISPUTE.

LONDON, April 5.

The American request was refused. The Patriarch's trial is reported to have been postponed pending the convocation of the Soviet church. The Soviet food commissar Volsky while inspecting the

Tamboff district was ambushed by angry peasants and beheaded with an axe..

CANADIAN CATTLE.

MANCHESTER'S NEW TRADE.

LONDON, April 5.

There is a critical situation in regard to the The first Canadian_store 'cattle, to arrive in railways in connection with the demand of the England for thirty years and the first that ever companies that the men in the engineering shops entered the port of Manchester were disembarked should submit to the abolition of the last 65. 6d. at Manchester to-day. They consisted of 425 of the weekly bonus which the engineers other Shorthorn, Hereford and Angus steeds described than railways had to relinquish months ago. Reby English experts as good sound stock. One presentatives of the companies and the railwaymen's and craftsmen's unions conferred privately on the subject to day.

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The National Union of Railwaymen whose members include many shopmen was not a party 10 the meeting and threatens to strike if notices of the reduction are posted. Before attending the con- ference the Crafts Union delegates reviewed the position and decided to resist the abolition of the bonus in view of the huge reserves of the companies and the lack of competition.

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Representatives of the railway companies sub- mitted a modified offer to'a conference of crafts and unions. The conference, abjourned to April 19, and meanwhile the offer will be considered by the respective executives,

AMOY MORPHINE TRADE.

DANISH GOVERNMENT'S ACTION.

GENEVA, April 5. • The Chinese Government having reported that three hundreds kilogrammes, of morphine were secretly smuggled into Amoy alone in one year, allegedly from Denmark, the Secretariat of the League of Nations Immediately acquainted the Danish Government which has taken suitable mea-. sures to suppress the trade.

́ ́ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS.

hundred and fifty were immediately sold to East Anglia purchasers and the remainder will be sold to-morrow. Other vessels belonging to Manchester Liners Limited are bringing further consignments. The traffic, for which various English ports are competing, is expected to become a regular and important one though the dimensions of the trade depend on the prices realised from the farmers and eventually the butchers. A similar consignment arrived at the Clyde to-day.

CURSE OF BABEL CONQUERED.

COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE TALKS ESPERANTO.

VENICE, April $..

A commercial conference- attended by repre entatives of two hundred chambers of commerce and banking associations of twenty-one countries a four days' including Chian and Japan héld sitting here. The whole proceedings were success- fully conducted in Esperanto. The conference carried a resolution recommeading the teaching of Esperanto in all commercial schools.

· FRENCH NAVAL NEEDS.

"NO THOUGHT OF CONQUEST.".

PARIS, April 5.: Interviewed by the Petit Parisien M. Raiberti, Minister of Marine, declared that France must lay

M. LOUCHEUR INTERVIEWS BONAR LAW, down plans for a strong defensive fleet to be com

LONDON, April 5

It is noteworthy from the viewpoint of Anglo French relations that the French ex-Minister, M. Loucheur, who is at present in England, had a most cordial interview for two hours at Dawlish with Mr. Bonar Law who is recuperating at Torquay after his recent indisposition.

LOW-POWERED AEROPLANE

WHAT IT COULD DO.

PARIS, April 5 Mr. Barbot flew ten miles;the low-powered acroplane mentioned in the cables yesterday from Francazal to Toulouse at a height of 1600 feet. It is calculated that the machine, which weighs under 500 pounds, with a pilot could cross the Channel con suming only 2 pints of petrol.

ROYAL JOCKEY.

RACING WIN FOR PRINCE OF WALES.

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LONDON, April 5:;

pleted by 1933. Without a fleet France could not have a foreign policy. France had no thought of conquest by tea air or land. A strong defensive. navy was her first need but the French policy did not aim at a large navy, France would remain friends with the three great naval powers.

BOLSHEVIKS y. PEASANTS,

BLOODSHED IN UKRAINE.

BERLIN, April 5. According to news received in Lemberg from Rovno there have been serious conflicts in the Ukraine between Bolshevist troops and peasants, The Bolshevists suppressed a revolt with great bloodshed and executed 346 peasants apparently. because they profested against the trial of the Patriarch Tikhon. Anti-Jewish progroms in th Ukraine are also reported and numerous Jewish families are fleeing to Poland

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