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OUR LONDON LETTER.

CHINA'S DEMANDS TO THE PEACE CONFERENCE,

RESTORATION OF KOREA, MANCHURIA, AND SHANTENG.

PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }

LONDON. Aprit 13th.

A telegram from Paris state that the Chinese Delegation has Nad a renomique from the Chite glovernment demand ing the nullification of the "Twenty-One demands of the Japanese tovernment Complete freedom is clained by Peking for China to direct her own affairs and the full exercise of her sovereignty as the only means of epsuring lasting peace and happiness to the Far East The argument that Shantung was taken from the Germans at the cost of many Japanese [lives ji met by citing the case of Belgium, upon which says the chinese towern

Lloyd George he was working secretly to nudermine his position as Frime Minis ter, that he was deerlying the public, and thas he was helping the enemy. The de- fendant's case was that there was a politi feat campaign: carried on by advertisë- ments, which purported to be the sper- taneous contributions of well-known writ-

cured by Sir Hedley, paid for by him, es, whereas they were really articles pro

and their insertion was also paid for by him. What the Daily Mail sail was that those who desire to conduct a political | campaign are not słoing so properly when | they pay for the publication of articles which are not, advertisements at all, but are simply a subtle form of political propaganda.

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El Oriente Cigar Factory Is

American Concern

Governor-General of Philippines Issues Important

Announcement

Walter E. Olsen & Co., Buy Largest Cigar Factory in Mani a from Alien Property Custodian U.S.

Factory of Manila, Philippine Islands Ins The world famous El Oriente igar

ped into American hamls. The Alien Property Custodian announces its sale to Walter E. Olsen anit Company.

One impurtant result of the case will newspapers cautious about inserting at be to make the management of responsible advertisement rates articles which are inhed sine 183 and it is well and favorably tended to influenes feble opinion on vid known here. Every detail of manatactare, Le Bas, who is a director

the clean and careful handling in the most modern And sanitary factories, has been

• Dear Sir:

February 12, 1918.

".

*At the request of Walter E. Chen, Com-" El Oriente Cigar Factory has been esabar Factory and business as a sing pany, I beg to advise you that the El Qrience concern was said by me, as representative of the Alien Property Custodian of the

Laited States, at public solo to the Walter E. Olsen Company, the highest bidder there- for. The sale has be

and the

questions of national pulicy cork!

Sir Hody from the cultivation and care of the tobacco, arat, feat Britain makis nelclaim. † synes, Ltd. and C. Arthur Pearson,refully stadici, with the result chat the Wington office of the Coed by the

in spite of the many thousands "of her

and founder of the Castem Publish

young men who have fallen upon Belgian cohered the idea of turning products of the factory enjoy a world wide Olseh Company has paid the purchase price,

Lloyd George out of athee when the wolfiey of the nthet, will be tomato and is now in possession ul and c

Germans

were making their great drive sody The rest of the dought is a

towanis Paris, because he and others) (demand for the restoration of Korra and considered that the tiovernment were tes-

Manchuria and 18 rmission of the Armies tu, bulb up the cughly,

ponsible for the failure of the Allied penalties ar indemnitieeinposed by the patriotic man according to his lights, but Powers upon China after the Roverdoing this, obviously he was playing

the German gang rising

BREAKING UP BIÙ ESOVIES.

ot

upentins

The

enviable reputation.

The

the factory and business. The Olsen in the same high standard of quality that

male El Orienta cigars a by-word foray is a cuperation organised ander the good smokes throughout this country. The laws of the Philippine Islands and all of its

stockholders are Americas citings He is alwa

warehouses of the company untain more enemy interests should, therefore, to con than three million pesos worth of tobacco, Milerok as eliminated and the busineASIN carefully selected and of the highest quality, entitled to the same consideration as other This

in itself assures smokers of a pik American business. uniform blend, that from a point of quality

Fairs very truly. and aroma is unexeglieri.

(Sg) DOUGLAS MOFFAT,

Managing Director, for the

Philippine Islanda.

The claims of China ngud Japan in the

The Government's. Acquisition of Land Petce settlement are attracting consider Bi has passed the seed reading, and able attention lot is fully appre before Parliament rises for Easter the ested that it will not be to the interest measure will become law, y red is the of this country or of the British Bennit promise given at the General Election to Hious if hinn fails to obtain fair treat provide easy facilities to demobilised so!

ment at the Penes Conference. According diers to obtain small holdings and stars

tanding. to the Machester Maridine; considers

Faits eption there is the fable ahem is felt among industrialists design to efter to the largest possible ma

over the probable fate of Shantung. That eren a stake in the laid tary tought

to defeud: estion is garded as most important.

1to reestablish a bold pen- The way it is settled will largely deters

santry, their country's pride, wise, dis mine our trade relations with China, and was langated by the author

The Laserted Village, will also profoundly induran the future

As a complement to the Acquisition of polition, and becnomic development of Land Bill we Juve the Government's that country. Japanese policy being a Housing Bill, under which 1,000,000 dwell. negation of the principle of equal oppor Borough and Rural Council with a Stat

ings ire to be erected forthwith by tunity.

The clans which ar wing pressed subsidy sufficient to enter the

capita CX- ip Paris, Japan stands by the Treaty Penditure. These scheurs of re-settlement concluded and the Notes wachanged with and housing are an earnest of the new China on May 5th, 1915. By the inspirit apparent since the war; a proof of

the larger vision now demanded struments Japan is to succeed to all the,

artment and a marked advance in the rights, interests, nud concessions formerly direction of social bettement --of making, possessed by Germany in the province England in the Prime Minister s

a fames di Shantung. These privilegës practical phrase, a land fit for heroes turlive in.”

y cover everything worth mentioning "in No one can pretrad to say what will respect of railways, mines, and other the ustimate offret of these develops developments and in the hands of the inents on rational life. Undoubtedly. Japande would mean, as a beginning, they will involve. great and far rumening changes, and in certain, respects the complete political and wonomic control

has begun. There is already a Tand-shd in historic neres, The

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Over e atire providre. Sufficient iguales are parting with their!

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known of Japanese-methods," says the Guerding, to fore the conviction" that Japan's continued control of the Tsing cent months one firm of agents along possessions at an astounding rate. In re ta-Tsinanfu aitway wouli deal a very sold half-a-million acres for Serinus blow at the trade of Shanghai ore than £5.50 The sales of land and Tientsin, both inland river ports at oficially reported for the past year reach- which the transhipment of earge by ed

ed £11.334,500 Exclusi

friendly lighters is necessary,

between landlords and Arrange.erts En other words, what is feared, is that tenants and underss other private grert rebates or other preferential dealings. The Duke of Westminster has treatment Japan Would And it an exy just sold the outlying Eaton Estate un mutter to tap the Tientsin Pukow avarin bigh for 559,060; l the Duke of borders of Cheshire. Flint, and Den; aad, by carrying cargo lenee nt a low

Sutherland announces furention there અપની cost to the gepewater, ships lying along.

next side the wharf at Tsingtal, would bring two properties as an indication of the

few month- 114,569 pers. "1) Labont the extinction of a great part of

trend of lits The purchasers ot the trade built by British enterprise estates in process of dismemberment are and now handbed at the pert mentioned. chiefly the sitting tenants--farmers who Soverover, the time would came when she are paying prices far beyond the market (would be able to tap all the surrounding values to avoid disturbaner and ensure country between the Yellow River as far to themselves security of tamire. An ex- inland

the AS

Prking-Hankow line. pert on real estate, writing in the Linity Obviously, if Japan is to dominate the Jews, sums up the matter Ey saying, quite railways of Shantung Tsingtau will be rights, that there has been a land re- come the premier port of China. This solution in this country comparable to at least is the considered opinion of what is now happening since the passing thuse here interested in the Chinn trade; ay of the feudal aristoerney after the and the suggested solution ofthe matters of the Roses. is the revision of the treaty of 1915 besu DOUGLAS AIG. tween Japan and Chinn. while at the same time Tsingtan should be given an international, as distinct from a Japan

es, statii.

Sir Douglas Haig's home-coming, was ca very quiet affair, without tourish of trumpets or waving of flags. But it was quite in accordance with his own desire; for he has set himself against any dis JAPANESE TRADE COMPETITION,

play so far as he is concerned until one Yesterday I went into & shop for a object dear to

to his hears is accomplished. supply of bootlaces, and was presented This is to ensure that the troops who with some nently done up in pairs, guar-served under him are fully and

auxquate anteed extra strong, and enclosed in a scured by the

Stat

the against paper

band bearing the legend Made in slings and arrows

Das fortune " of outrageous It is a sign of the times. It on returning to civil life. Early in the prepared me for what a correspondent year when a peerage was suggested as a writes

from Nottingham that cotton recognition for his great services it was underwear from

with the home is playing havoc publicly stated that he had declined to

It is

is stated that three importers alone have im

imported three millian dozen

accept any honour for himself until be was satisbed that no injustice was being done to his officers and men. This Ntice- ment has not been denied.' Among griey- position, to offer them at more than 20 perances that are mentioned are the tardy cent. blow the prices at which they CA

silk and artisirs of certain classes of

wear,

are in a

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payment of gratuities, and the lack of manufactured here. Another firm has proper instructions to local War Pen- been offered over half a million pairs of sion Committers in respect of the train- art silk and cotton hase pre week by the ing and care of discharged and disabled representative Lapable to --ren

of i

In face of this it is not earn that a quarter of the male opera tives Nottingham are unemployed This is due in part to

difficulty in

obtaining

This week, Sir Douglas Haig assumes control of the Home Furces as Comunard- er-in-Chief. The appointment was abo- fished on the retirement of the late Lord and in its place, we have had

Farn. As regards the position Boary direction of the flowe Army by

of the trade generally it

may be observed

that at Nottingham-and it holds good the Army Council. The revival of the as regards other industries-manufactur office in the person of the most distingu- ers were engaged supplying the Allied Armies during the war while American shed general in the service of the King bas delighted the utd school of military and Japanese continned their normal pro officers. duction, and when the Armistice came and shipping was available these coun: tries proceeded to send their surplus *Locks here.

A-NOTABLE LIBEL CASE.

The action for alleged libel brought by Bir Hadley Le Bas against the Daily Mail, resulting in a verdict for the defen dants, be aroused uncommon interest. It related more to the ethics of editor ship than to the question whether in point, of fact Lord Northeliffe's journal went beyond the bounds of fair comment in its

to the plaintiff references to

The plaintiff's case was that last May comments made in the Daily Mail on articles on the Prime Minister, publica tion of which in provincial papers was paid for by Sir Hedley Le Bas, meant that while posing as à supporter of Mr.

MAILS TO THE EAST.

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Special inquiries which made at the General Post Office this morning elicited the fact that for some tiine to come there service between here and China, or vite is little prospect of an accelerated mail

er Mails, are now made up and dis- patches. Et on the Pacific Const twice every week from London

an official assured me, there is delay and a certain amount of disorganisation as Ires steamship sailings. And when,

ria

asked, "may we hope for a resumption

Ah, of the mall service ridd Buez?" replied the head of the department, you ask me something I cannot answer. If all depends, of course, how soon we shall have more shipping available.' Letters from the Treaty Ports now take about six weeks to reach London.-H.B.

The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands has sanctions the issuance of the following statement, in order that the smok- ing public of China may be put in possession The Governor-General, of the facts concerning the Oriento Cigar Factory:

Office of the Governor-General of The Philippine Islands

Manila Feb. 13, 1919. To whom it may concern a

The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands has received the following gef explanatory letter from Mr. Douglas 11

lands of the Alien Property Custodian of Moffat, managing director for the Philippine the United States of America:

United States of America the Alien Property Custodian Office of the Managing Director in the Philip-

pines, Manila.

Manila, P. 1.

E hereby certify to the authenticity of the signture of Mr. Douglas M. Moffat-Manag- ing Director for the Philippine Islands of the Alien Property Custodian, on the origins of the above quoted letter which is on file in this stice. I further certify that the records of the Division of Archives, Patents, Copy Government show rights, and Trade Marks of the Philippine Walter E. Olsen and organised under the laws of the Philippine Company is a Enilippine corporation daly

and that all of its stockholders citizens of the United States of America, By authority of the Governor-General. (Sigd.) J. L. IRWIN, Secretary, to the Gov. Gen.

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