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PEKINO, July 13th.

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THE WORLD THEATRE

FRIDAY, 22ND to MONDAY, 25TH,

FIGHT

How JACK DEMPSEY

Mr. Cecil Hariusworth, replying in the House of Commons, on June 8th; to Lieut. Commander Kenworthy, said that by the Chinese Bankers Association in

According to the investigations made THE GREAT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Vladivostock and Nikolsk had been the Capital, the total amount of moles taken by troops, who formerly served issued by the Banque Industrielle de under the late General Rappel, and were Chine in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai. now commandeded by General Verzh- Hankow,

nad Fengtien

Tsinan. bitzky. As a result of this movement, .224.com, the biggest circulation is in the Chita Government had sent troops Shanghai which has notes to the valu to form a front on the Ussuri Railway of 3759,000. Tientsin comes second which at "Imampo." A Government had been has $386,000, while Peking occupies the established at Vladivosteck under M. third position with only $383,000. "Merkuloff, representing all parties ex- eept the Communists and the followers Finance, the French Legation and the arrangement between the Ministry STF of General Semenoff. This Government had dissolved the National Assembly of Chinese Bankers Association will com Banqus Industrizile de Chine, .the the Maritime Province, and new elec menee cashing the notes in Peking on tions were to take place at the end of the 13th inst. at the Bankers' headquar this month. It was not a fact that a

By

Royalist or counter-revolutionary Govers. Owing to the lack of arrangement. ernment had been set up under Japanese tors and current accounts, the Chinese

for the payment of the Chinese deposi protection, or that certain survivors of creditors have placed the matter in the Wrangel's Army were being transported hands of the well-known Chinese lawyer, from Farkey to. Vladivostock. la reply Mr. Lia Chen-kuri, who, recently repre- to the question whether his Majesty' ente the Chinese Government in the Government was using its good offices to lawsuit against Dr. Wa Ting-fang. prevent further attacks on the Govern Minister for Foreign Affairs of the meat of Russia he said his Majesty's Military Coverument in Canton, relat- Government did not propuse to inter- fere in any way with the internal affairs to the deposit of the Customs surplus

f the Far Eastern Republic

in the Hongkong-and Shanghai Bank, for final settlement with the French Russia.

authorities, in Paris

JAPANESE IN RUSSIA.

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of

Replying to Mr. Luan, on June 13th.

BANKS.

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Mr. Cell Harmsworth, Under Secretary THE PROGRESS OF CHINESE for Foreign Affairs (Luton), said that so far as H.M. Government were the Japanese had no intention of invad- ing Siberia.

ware,

Colonel Wedgwood asked if the Japanese had not turned out the Red

Government at Vladivostock,

The rapid progress being made by Chinese financiers and banks (says Prof. Jeremiah Jenks, Director of the Ameri can Far Eastern Bureau), is one of the. most encouraging signs of China's re- novation to-day. Twenty years ago, he reminds us, Chinese banking was wholly untouched by modern progress. Even at

Mr. Cecil Harmsworth: I have an swered that, in the negative.

Lieut. Commapler Kenworthy There are bodies of Japanese in Vladivostock at the moment. That is Russian terri-the close of the Manchu rule the pro- tory, and what are they doing there'l

Mr. Cecil Harmsworth: That does

io mewn invasion.

gerus bad been slaw, indeed in breaking away from the established native sys- tem, excellent as that was for that day, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, replying to a but tutally inadequate for the needs further question by Mr. Lunn, said that of a new and modernised China, Yet Note had been received from the at the present tinic we have to deal with "Soviet Government protesting against thoroughly modernised the invasion by Japan of the Republic. but in view of the baseless allegations against His Majesty's Government that the Note contained, it had been retur- ed to M. Krassin 45 unacceptable. (Hear, hear).

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Chinese Snanciers, many of them fully as competent as Western specialists in money and banking to handle the affairs or their country, and the creation of the so-called modern Chinese banks, in con- trast to the old banking regime, "has gone so far that we have the Consortium of American. French; British, and Japanese interests considering the pur sibility of denting with a Chinese group representative of the new financial order in the Chinese Republic. The chief ob ration-Indeed, the only one of real aportance-to" admitting group, of Chinese bankers to full membership in Mr. Fryes-Monsell pointed out that the Consortium would seem to be says only £1,700 was to be expended this year | Prof. Jenks, the impossibility of market- on Weihaiwel, which was used asing Chinese bonds in China at rates na health resort for the Fleet during the favourable as could be secured in Eur. hat season.

ope, Japan, of America-not at all the Competence standing of Chinese bankers.

In the course of a debate on the report of a vote for £5,538,000 For works, build, ings, and repairs at home and abroad, Licat. Commander Kenworthy moved, a reduction of £800,000 as a protest against proposed expenditure at Weihaiwet and Bermuda.

SALES OF DYES IN CHINA,

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U.S. EFFORTS FOR FAR EASTERN TRADE.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, on Juns 13th, in reply to Capt. Wodgwood Bean, who asked the President of the Board of Trade, if in view of the preclusion of sales of dyes to users in China except through their agents there; he would say who were the agents, and if he could state whether the price that the British maders' agents sold at in the China parket was less than that to our home users, quid the agents in China of the British Dyestuffs Corporation (to whom he presumed the question referred) were Messrs. Brunner Mond (China), Ltd., Shanghai. As regards the seccad part of the question, he had already informed the hon, and gallant member that the Government was not responsible for the management of the Corporation, and heat New York University on the history could not undertake to answer questions regarding their operations.

THE CHINA SOCIETY IN

LONDON.

Recognising the overhelming import ance of the East in world trade and politics, the Council of New York. Unj Versity, says the Far Eastern Fort- nightly, has authorised the establishment of the Division of Oriental Commerce and Politics as a part of the School of Commerce work at the Wall Street Centre in the heart of financial America. The Division of Oriental Commerce and Politics is the result of the growing in- terest manifested in the tourses given

and economics of the East, with its field of vast development awaiting Western es

terprise co-operating with some 000,000,000 people of Asia. The work of the new unit will be headed by Dr. Jeremiah W. Jeske, Research Professor" in Govern- ment and internationally known finan- cial expert and authority on the Far East. Charles Hodges. who has been develop- ing the course on Asin in New York Uni-

versity. is to net as Assistant Director of the Division of Oriental Commeren and Politics.

The report of the Council for 1920-1921 states-During the year ending April 30th, 1921, cineteen new members bare beep elected, while, on the other hand, The work will be under the administra- there have been four losses by death and tive jurisdiction of Denn A. W. Taylor two resignations. Reference must be of the Graduate School of Business Ad made to the invaluable work done for the ministration. The scope of the Division Society by the late Mr. George Jamie-of Oriental, Commerce and Politics in son. C.M.G., who from the very begin-cludes all Asia and the Pacific East from. ning showed the keenest interest in its Egypt and the Near East through Indin, wellare, and- as Chairman of the the East Indies, China, Japan to Asiatic Council contributed in a notable degres Russia. The new Division of Orientul to its successful development. It will. Commerce and Politics of the School of be seen from the balance, sheet, which Commerce is the first effort to develop Mr. G. B. Dodwell has again been so a unit devoted to the study of practical kind us to audit, that the Society's economic and political problems affect funds in the Hongkong and Shanghai ing American business relations, with Bank amount to £127 68. 8d.—an appre. the East.

liable increase on last year's balance.

It should be added, however, that rather

a heavy bill for printing expenses in

connection with the dinner is still out- IRRITATED & INFLAMED EYE standing. Besides the two publications

already noted, a revised list of members can be directly traced in many cases to was printed (in a rather more conveni- the Sanday Motor trip and Goling. The ent form for reference) last December, dust from sections of the local roada The China Society's copy of the great contain a decided eye irritant. A sug Encyclopædia, Pa. Shu Ohi Chang,

comprising over 8,000 volumes, which gestion for these trips would be to keep for some years has stood in the Labrary the windshield up and to use a pair of of the School of Oriental Studies, bur Sun glasses. Sun glasses of any patters

hitherto been of restricted value to stud-

ents owing to the want of a proper sys with either Crookes, Luxfel, Fieuzal, tem of numbering. This defect has now Amber, London Snoke, or Blue lenses been remedied by Mr. P. E. O'Brien, are obtainable at very moderate prices Butler, a member of the Society, who

grateful thanks of the Society are due

spent several weeks of the winter in from The Hongkong Optical Co., suces- arranging and marking the volumes, as sors to Clark & Co., Manufacturing and well as labelling their cloth cases. Tha Refracting, Opticians the most compet to him for his unacifish Incurs. An ent manufacturing optical establishment other benefactor to be mentioned is Mr. in South China-located in 53, Queen's P. H. Emanuel, who has presented the Road Central, (opposite to the Singer Bociety with a set of the Geographical Journal.

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