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HONGKONG `· DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER SED, 1941.
WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. FAR EASTERN CABLE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.
Lospor, November 1st... In the House of Commons, Mr. Clynes asked for an opportunity to dis.M.S cuss the Government's policy in relation to the Washington Conference...
BIG COMMUNISTON
Mr. Chamberlain promised to consult his colleagues. He emphasised the im- RIGA, November 1st.
mense importance the Government & A Moscow, wireless message states that tached to the Conference, and doubted whether the interests tall had in Dou delegates Lave been elected to the common in the Conference would be best Petrograd Soviet, of whom 705 are Com-served if there should be debates in every Parliament on the eve of the meet muoi»ta—and—18)—Independents. Those ing-in regard to the proceedings at the elected include Lenin. Trotzky, Kalenin Conference and the lines to be adopted
there. sad Gorki.
THE HUNGARIAN PLÓT. KARL AND HIS CONSORT ON BRITISH WARSHIP.
BUDAPEST, November 1st. Kar and the ex-Empress Zita have
worm and departed for Galatz.
EXTREME NERVOUSNESS IN
HUNGARY.
CHINESE MINISTER'S DEPUTY ON LEAGUE COUNCIL.
GENEVA, November 1st. The Belgian statesman "M. Hymans, bas accepted the presidency of the League of Nations in consequence of the departure of Dr. Wellington Koo for Washington..
Tang Tsai-fa, Minister at Rome. will
Dr. Koo's absence,
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IS. ADVISORY COMMITTEE.. WASHINGTON, November 1st. BUDAPEST, November 2nd.
The official advisory committee to the Karb and the ex-Empress Zita embark-American delegation at the Disarmament Conference consists of twenty-one mem ed at Villabain on British monitor adhers and includes Mr. Hoover, General have left Hungary;
Pershing, Admiral Rodgers, Mr. Gompers (President of the American" Federation of Labour), Mr. Lewis (President of the
Extremne zervousness is being displayed
in Hungary, owing to the threatening
attitude of the Little Entente
NEWS.
· [Tuzouga BguTER'S "AGENOT-]
"' DURBAN " TO REPLACE #COLOMBO" ON CHINA STATION,
-Loxbos, November 1st. at Devonport (Capt. H. O. Reinold)) for HMS. Durban has been commissioned service on the China Station, replacing E.M.S. Colombo, which is to be trans furred tot dies Station, whence H.M.S. Cartine will be withdrawn.
The Durbon leaves lor Gibraltar on November 16.
ยุ
LASTER.
The American group of the Consortiuar has abandoned the, proposed loan to China owing to China's failure to accept the terms,
United Mineworkers), Mr. Porter (Chair, COMPULSORY REDUCTION OF man of the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committed); Mr. Bar- rett (President of the National Farmers'
ALI BROTHERS SENTENCED. | Union), me. Winter (President of the
TWO YEARS' RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT.
and three other women.
A
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NAIR STATEMENT BY VICE MINISTER OF, WAR,
CHINA'S MILITARY BURDEN. THE AVERAGE BREAKFAST. GIGANTIC WORLD SWINDLE, HOW THE BODY RESPONDA TO
SMELL OF FRIZZLET- HACON.
The Chung Mei News Agency, writes:-In his Presidential address to the At the Washington Conference repro Section of Chemistry at the British As sentatives of China will be able to say apoiation conference. Dr. M. O. Forster that their country is already taking steps spoke on the Laboratory of the Living toward the reduction of land forces. Organism; and asked what was breakfast Minister of War, recently made an offels promise between hunger and the news. Teut-General King Shao-thong, Vice to the average man? A hurried com- statement to this effect and added that paper. How did the chemist regard it in his opinion the total land force of As a daily miracle which gained rather the Republic should be reduced to about than lost freshness is the rears proved. 800,000 officers and men."
ed. Let them think what happened. Be fore they reached, the table frizzled From this attitude on the part of the bacon, contemplated or smelt, had actuxt Peking Government it can easily be seened a wonderful chemical process in their that any stops comtemplated by the bodies,
__FOOD_KXCHANGE,
FLOODING THE WORLD WITH WORTHLESS MARKS
GERMAN TRICKERY,
The following is a translation from the Danish paper Randers Dagblad, and is headed
Are the Germans going to make their mark valueless after having dumped their pager money in milliards all over the world?"
Al
The drop in the Germap mark has naturally aroused interest in all coun- tries who are in possession of large sums of German marks. We desire therefore, to call the attention of our readers to an article which recently appeared in an
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PROPOSED LOAN TO CHINA powers in the disarmament will receive The work of Tarlov had shown that if English periodical. The said article was
ABANDONED.
the wholehearted support of Chink It the dog had been accustomed to feed from by Professor Birck, Birck's contention is, of course, rather doubtful whether a familiar bowl the sight of that bowls that the smartest German financièra New York, November 1st.
reduction of land forces will be seriously even empty.. lerated from the appro-are working out a scheme whereby all considered at Washington as all the priate glands saliva having the same
countries which are in possession of, the American group of bankers of the question of the contraction of naval saufhing the food. This month-watering same economic misere" as Germany" Mr. T. W. Lamont has announced that emphasis to date has been placed on the chemical composition as that produced by German marks, are to be drawn into the new Chinese Consortium has offered the forces rather than of armies. Chinese Government a loan of £16,000,000 It is still more doubtful whether was known to the polite physiologist as
process, an early experience of childhood, finds herself to be in at the present, mos with the retirement of $5,500,000 due to China's reduction will actually, materia" paychic reflex," and the various forms
The same game has been played before $3,000.000 payable on the Pacific Develop the troops under the immediate control the various excitations which arose in dumped her marks in neutral countries the Continental Commercial Bank and lize, although steps have been taken with assumed by psychic reflex, responding to gone na board the British monitor Glow:] represent China on the Council during ment Loan on the lat of December; the of Peking. Within the past year, ac- the daily like of a human being, must at na exchange of sixpence to the mark
e.gia. 1917-18 when Germany
remainder to be for internal develop cording to General Tseng, some 80,000 be regarded by the chemical philosopher 1 1020 when they dumped them again ments. China acerpts, British, French,troops have been demobilized. Approxi- as a series of demonstrations akin to at twopence exchange: and now they are Japanese, and Belgian fanciers may be ately 1,600,000 Chinese are now under those which he made in the laboratory dumping them at an exchange of one arms although inaccurate reports make but hopelessly inimitable with his pre-penny to the mark. And they will con admitted.
an exact calculation of the number of sent mental and material resopress. tinue dumping marks as long as the ex- these men impossible, and to reduce this
chatige is just above the cost of printing force to the 200,000 desired by the Vice- Minister of War is a tremendous task.
The starch in the toast and porridge,
the marks. the fat is the butter, the proteins in the
The game is not on the surface fair and General Tseng explained the situation bacon, all insoluble in water by trans square, but behind it all there seems to by pointing out that Chinese troops are formations otherwise unattainable in the be a will, a never-to-die pluck, one partly under the centrel of the Peking laboratory, were smoothly and rapidly certain object and a very lively imagin Government and partly controlled by the rendered transmissible to the blood, tion.
In most countries they have so far had eighteen Tuchuns and three special com- which accepted the products of their dis manders.. Due to provincial disputes be integration with military precision. The success. The millions of marks placed in to foreign countries have doubled since tween these war lords the armies under movements: of currener arahaage, National Federation of Women's Club) Borneo Chartered Company, Sir West and consequently before reduction can been directed continuously for several
their control have been heavily recruited which the attention of the public had 1919.
The question is now, is it possible become an actual fact the complete uni years, were clumsy, contortions compared to counteract this scheme and make &
cation of China and cessation of irter. with the chemical transformations aris-counter-offensive?" Will it not be pos.. provincial strife is absolutely essential.ing from food exchange.. The wonderful sible to demand that all goods bought
Another problem involved in this ques. Power which plants exercised in building Germany should be paid for in German up their tissacs from carbonic acid, paper marks and not in pounds sterling, tion of reduction of land forces is the water, and nitrogen, contrasted with the gold dollara, or Scandinavian kronen? tremendous expense incidental to any powerlessness of saimals, to utilise these Is it possible to demand that Germany such measures. General Tseng has not building materials until they had been shall pay for her war materials in the been willing to make any estimate of the sirendy assembled by plants, was a chinage of the exporting country? Or, if total cost of demobilization but said that phenomenon too fundamental and int, could scheme bo thought of a the Government would be forced uminating to be withheld as it now was scheme of barter to escape dealing in either to find employment for the dis from all but the few. By ita operation marks, which are now practically equal charged men or to grant them substantial the delicate green carpet, which we all to nothing? It is possible that our inter bonuses, the expense would reach, very delighted in following through the annual pretation of German financial transuc«/ - large figures. Nothing has been done as process of covering the fields with golden tions is wrong. But when water is rug- yet toward meeting such demands upon corn, was accomplishing throughout the ning up hill, one is forced to seek the the treasury but it is possible that a summer months n. vast chemical synthesis extraordinary reason. foreign lona might be sought for such of starch for our benefit. Through the & purpose.
tiny pores in those tender blades were Although General Tseng and the circulating freely, the gases of the atires Peking Government have declared them-phere, and, from those gases-light, in
If that is the case, then the same may selves, in favour of this disarmament the tangible nothingness, as we were prone happen which is reported from Russia. uttitude of the Tachans is not known, to regard them this very tangible For instance, a workman, asked his fem- Their support is expected on the ground and important white, solid compound player for an increase in pay, of a few of the decrease expenso involved in the was being elaborated. The chemist could thousand roubles. "Well, why not," upkeep of half of the military forces not do this. Plants accomplished it by said the employer. There is a bag of which are now being supported, but at their most conspicuous feature-greenness, roubles over there in the corner, take the same time it is well known that which enabled them to put solar energy those, but do not forget to give me the certain of the war lords, find the support into cold storage; they were accumulat bag back." And it seems that Germany of troops very much to their financial ing fuel for subsequent development of is willing to give us any amount of advantage. At any rate the movement bodily heat energy. Side by side with marks at present; but that she holds on cannot make any very substantial ad starch, however, these unadvertised silent to the bag."
ance until the unity of China, is an ac chemical agencies elaborand moleculea The transistor of this for the Shang complished fact and the financial affairs even more imposing, in which nitrogenat of the Republic have taken something of was interwoven with the elements of
Eew lease on life.
starch, and thus were produced the veger
KARACHI, November 1st. The Ali Brothers and Dr. Kischlew have been sentenced to two years' rigor- ous imprisonment,
FIRE ¡AT "PETROGRAD ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.
LIBRARY SAVED.
Rita, November 1st..
A fire broke out at Petrograd Academy of Science and destroyed several valuable The Library, however, was
collections.
saved.
CRICKET.
AUSTRALIA BEATS NATAL
DUBBAN, November 1st. The Australians beat Natal by 194 runa
EARLIER CABLES.
RUSSIAN RÉFUGEES FOR VLADIVOSTOK.
FOREIGN, OFFICE REPLY TO KRASSIN.
LONDON," November 1st. The Foreign Office has replied to M. Krassin's note, cabled on the 27th ult. that the 66 Russian refugees despatched from Egypt to Siberia, on August 10th, -proceeded for valid-reasons- unconnected with Lighting
NEW YORK LOAN WIPED OFF.
NEW YORK, November 13,
RUBBER OUTPUT REQUIRED.
LONDON, November 1st. At the hall-yearly meeting of the North Ridgeway expressed the opinion that the BRITAIN REPAYS A WAR only remedy for the rubber situation was a reduction of output, but this must, oe DEBT.
compulsory, as the ranks of the industry were too disunited to join in any scheme for the common good.
He announced that it was his intention shortly to visit the Company's territory. | [UY, COURTESY OF THE "CHINA MAIL-"]
£10,000,000 F.M.S. LOAN AUTHORISED.
SINGAPORE, November 1st." A Straits loan bill raising £10,000,000 at Home for the Federated States has been passed..
The Trade Commission recommends compulsory restriction of rubber output, provided Ceylon and the Netherlands juin, also financial assistance to estates.
The British Government has completed repayment of the $300,000,000 borrowed from New York in 1916 with the redemp tion of $51,000,000 of by per cent bonds. Payment was made through Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co.
THE PRINCE'S TOUR. H.R.H. OPENS THE NEW MALTESE PARLIAMENT.
· MALTA, November 1st.
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BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
The Prince of Wales, in opening the new Maltese Parliament, said he prayed with all his heart for the success. of the
MEET AT SHANGHAI, new Constitution" and for fortune and prosperity to the people. He was con.
SHANGHAI, November 2nd. Sideat that the Maltese would form a The Association of British Chambers of worthy unit in the great British Com-Commerce conference opened this morn: monwealth.
ing at the British Supreme Court. Mr. FW Mackay presided. Sir Beilby Alston, British Minister at Peking, was unavoidably absent. Delegates from the Treaty Ports were, present. Sessions will be held daily unti: Saturday. Sir Wit liam Brunyate submits a resolution on Friday concerning education.
THE IRISH. CONFERENCE.
NEGOTIATIONS STILL
PROCEEDING.
LONDON, November 1st. The Sing Fein delegates, Mesare. Griffith and Collins, conferred with Mr. Lloyd, George and Lord Birkenhead for 11 an hour at Downing Street. authoritatively stated that no breakdown has occurred, and that they will meet again on a date not yet arranged.
INDIAN PRISONERS' ATTEMPT
TO ESCAPE..
Regarding over a thousand refugees from India and Irak, the expense of maintaining them and the unsuitable climate there made it imperative to find CONCERTED MOVEMENT AT LAHORE another asylum. No other country would }· · JAIL FRUSTRATED, admit them; thus there was no alter- native but to send themi to Vladivostock. Britain in no way interferes in the in- ternal Affairs of Russia or the Far Eastern Republic, and there is no justi- fication of the interpretation placed upon her action in sending unarmed people to Siberia
LONDON, November 1st. The prisoners in Lahore jail made a concerted attempt to escape on the 30th ult. They reached the outer gate, where they were fired on, three being killed and si wounded. None escaped...
MORE BOMBS.
CHEMISTRY CONFERENCE AT LYONS.
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TAX HINTS FROM BULGARIA. LUXURIOUS DOGS AND SHORT
SKIRTS.
BİG WAGE CUTS.
CIVIL SERVICE BONUS REDUCTION.
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'äblo alkaloids.
WHISKY IN POLICE WAGONS. HOW CHICAGO IS SUPPLIED. NEW YORK. September. 27th. The Federal authorities who are iares Adjustments of wages in accordancetigating the charge that half the Chicago with the cost of living will be made in police force are regularly engaged in the many industries during the present liquor traffic heard some remarkable evi. month. These are practically automatic under agreements made between employ ers organizations and trade unions. It is officially estimated that 2 million workers are covered by these arrange moots and 55 industrica.
dence yesterday.
seems that publichouse-keepers for many From the statements of witnesses, it months past have been making their pur chases from " police salesmen," who en sure safety from molestation by the Big cuta will take place in the Civil Federal authorities' by delivering con- of September 1st, the bozus payable on Service. As from to-day, anys the Times sigaments of whisky in polies-patrol the higher salaries will be subject to a
OTH
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Is it Germany's intention to postpone the introduction of the new coinage till. the mark has reached-"o
Mercury added the following note:- any people in Shanghai of Allied and Neutral nationality are going mad in buying marks. The Shanghai agents of the German Bank at 51. Kiangse Road, is receiving tons of good money in ex- change for valueless German paper marks. Such persons are saying, Ger many is sure to come up some day. Yes, but whit will prevent her changing her. coinage? The Germans are the winners, the gamblers the losers
tical Economy and is of international Professor Birck is a Doctor of Polic
repute. He has been consulted by the League of Nations on the financial ques- tions of Austria and other countries and is a Member of the Danish Parliament.
U.S. UNEMPLOYED.
теп were
to take oognizance of the demand of a foreigu Government for an aminesty, as this was intervention in Bussia's internal affairs, the Soviet proposed a repatria- zion scheme involving an inesty, which
PARIS, November lat. Britain ignared. He asks for an assur ance that the refugees are not sent to forenice to take place at Lyons in June, At the International Chemistry Con Vladivostock for the purpose of fighting | 1923, the scientists and manufacturers of employment as sorvante pay » tax of 200 above or below 130, as ascertained... every | the Soviet
twenty-five nations are to participate.-leva, RUBBER TRADE ASSOCIATION Maya. RULES. RESPECTING SETTLEMENT. M. POINCARE AT LONDON
Some rather temarkable taxes were decided on in June by the District Coun- cil of Rustchuk, according to a clipping from the Sofia Outro. These are some of the new ideas in taxation which have occurred in the Bulgarian lawmakers:
Weddings, "without regard to nations lity or religion, in which musical instru- meats, Turkish, trumpets, and firecrackers are employed (with the exception of the
A STRANGE AUCTION.. use of one Turkish trumpet and one drum
wagons. Three wagons are ordinarily or two violins), are taxed by: 500 leva reduction of 10 per cent. of bonus in gol. For whisky delivered in this unemployment situation in the U.S.A.,
used for taking prisoners to and from
In an effort to draw attention to the lev equals 19 cents at par); women who the case of basic salaries from 2001 to fashion the police charged an extra fee 150 men offered themselves for sale at use summer parasols pay a tax of 50 leva; la the House of Commons, Mr. Harms-
men or women who have "luxurious 12699; 20 per cent, from £800 to £899; of one guinea a ça50.
public auction on Boston Common re worth stated that 70 Russian refugees had Į
dogs pay a tax of 200 feva; women who & per cent. for each additional £100.
and so on, the reduction increasing by One police station was converted into a cently. On the same spot where, seventy lelt Egypt during the past three months, EXPLOSION. AT U.S. CONSULATE IN.
walk in the streets, the stores, or the Under the bonus scheme for permanent warehouse for the temporary storage of years ago, negrocs were sold into slavery, (The previous message stated: M.
restaurants wearing decollete dresses or Government servants the salaries whisky. Yesterday the Federal prosecu. ablese mer fazembled under the direc Krassin has sent a Nate protesting
LISBON.
skirts more than 30 centimeters (19 inches! against British action in shipping six
from the ground or who wear diaphanous ages of Civil Servants will be decreased tor questioned 16 policemen, and at the tion of Urbain Ledoux, a philanthropic hundred Denikin refugees in Mesopotamin
LISBON, November 1st stockings pay a tax of 600 levas all per the basic war bonus, which is represent to the chief of police a list of 100 police. At Mr. Zero's command the men, strip-
from to-day by seven twenty-sixths of close of the day's proceedings.forwarded worker, who called himself " Mr. Zero." to Vladivostock, which has been justified A bomb exploded on the star of gloves from April 15th to September 15th
sons irrespective of sex or age, who wear ed by the cost of living index, namber men identified with the liquor traffic, ed to the waist lined themselves against by the refusal of the Soviet to grant an the American Consulate without damage without a medical certificate showing that justment of wages is made every six the effect that the ring," chiefly mem were men of all ages, home, ex-service amnesty if the refugees were repatriated The palico believe that it was connected their health requires it, pay a tax of 200 months
of 130 per cent. Under this scheme ad He simultaneously issued a statement to the bandstand rail for inspection. They to Soviet Russie. M. Kanasio explains with the agitation for the release of leya; all persons regardless of sex or age
bers of the police, force, had netteda nie, some white, some black. Raising that although the Soviet is unable Zacco and Vanzetti.
who wear golden decorations such as As from March 1st, 1920, the bonus proût of approximately £260,000 during their right hands, they swore to give the rings, bracelets, necklaces, or cordons, pay was fixed at 130 per cent, on the first the last few months from their organized best service of which their brain and a tax of 300 icva; all who take "luxuri. 368. per week of ordinary remuneration, violation of prohibition laws. The state. body were capable of rendering to any ous" dogs into restaurants, gardens, eto., 50 per cent, on the next 108 159. per ment ends with the prediction that if the purchaser." The crowd contained few pay a tax of 300 lova: overy man or annum, and 45 per cent, on remunera chief of police keeps his promise to rid employers, and "only two woman younger than fifty years who car. tion in excess of £200. The total is in- Chicago of uniformed bootleggers, be sold, for board and lodging and 108. rios walking-sticks, unless his health recreased ex decreased by one twenty-sixth will be compelled within a few weeks to weekly pocket-money. Despite the auc quires it, pays a tax of 100 lova. Young of this bonus for every five full points dismiss more than half the police forca. tioneer's cloquence, no one was induced girls of well-to-do families who accopt variation in the average. index figure 7'imce.
to buy an ex-soldier named Ferris. "You won't buy the man," shouted Mr, six months.
Zero, "haybe you'll buy his dog," held ing up a little fox-terrier. Immediately there A suggestion that the Prayer Book bidder handed the money to Ferris and was spirited bidding, until the animal was knocked down for Es, but the should be revised was made by Bishop permitted him to keep his pet. Mr. Zezo Welldon in a spooch at Nottingham promises to continue the sale until all 20 centimeters pays a tax of 200 leva Workers said: "The result will boa
Every one who wears shoes higher than An official of the Union of Post Office not been modified since 1862 and was publicity of the sale will attract men in His Lordship said the Prayer Book had his protégés are "sold." "He expects the
shoulders or in their hands (muffs) pay of postal workers generally-on an aver modification or omission from the burial women who go out with fur skins on their very drastic reduction in the earnings.nont-day-conditions. He suggested the horn Tawabs. -Davy Telegraph..
now unsuitable in some respects to pro a position to give employmopt to his a tax of 500 love; every one who has age, so far as we can ascertain, of from service of the unnatural prayer re it in the city pays a tax of 200 lova, For baby carriage and takes the baby out in 15, to £1 week
RUBBER-AND-GOLF-BÄLLS: It is estimated that the saving to the deceased from the misery of this sinful turning thanks for the delivery of the the use of a motor-truck in the district tax-payers by the automatic bonus, re- a tax of 500 love is paid, and for use in duct on of Civil servants will be about
world."
Eleven years ago rubber coat 198. Od. the city a tax of 1,000 leva is paid. Every £100 000 a year.
He also suggested the omission of pass pound, and the price of golf-balls went privato,
Something like luxurious carriage or cabriolet, 150,000 pestal workers are affected...
sages from the marriage service declar up to 2s. 6d. To-day rubber costs about workers decided upon resuming work to
A meeting yesterday of Lille textile drawn by two, koraes or by ono, pays a Variations under sliding scalo arrange. Ing that matrimony should not be under 18 pound in London but the price of
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At of 300 leva. It was also decided that ments will also be made images of taken lightly to satisfy carnal justs, and golf-balls remains the same. Nos has the a tax of 20 per cont. on, the profits ac municipal staffs, and manual workers that the service was ordained for a follow the diminishing cost of the com
cost of tyres shown much tendmey to quired during the war is to be collected employed by local authorities. A FRENCH GRANT FOR RUSSIAN a district tax, including capital which periodical adjustment of railwaymen's Bishop declared, were painfully-distressmoral, well known to men of bus ness, us remedy. against, sin. Those passages to modity which goes to make them. The is brought into the country by those who wages barut on the index figure pub-ing to many brides and bridegrooms.. return, from America. There was a molished in September will be made by the He added that the Prayer Book con- not tend to slip down of their own accord thab prices, unlike strings of fiddles, do PAZ18,-November 15thons who have profted may feel; the The bonus in the police service also some tending to support the theory of understanding with one another. It tion to fix this tax ct 60 per cent, so that Central, Wages Board in a week or two. tained too many prayers for the Bing. when manufacturers can arrive at an Parliament has granted fr. 5,000,000 for burden of the war as well as those who varice with the cost of living, and it the Divine Right
of Kings, and too is the public that stands under.—Straits":" will be assessed again on October 1st. Low prayers for the people.
Echo.
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LONDON, November 1st
UNIVERSITY..
A meeting of the Rubber Trado Asso-
PARIS, November 1st ciation in London unanimously passed M. Poincare delivered to London Uni rules and contracts for the fortnightly versity an address advocating still closer settlement of rubber bargains, prae- co-operation between France and Britain tically combining the protective measures in the intellectual field-Laras. in yogus in settlement institutions in the London and Liverpool schemes with the LILLE TEXTILE WORKERS London Produce Clearing-House scheme, providing for daily settlements. The system should prevent losses such as have occurred in rubber, trading during the past rightoon months.
EGYPTIAN COTTON CROP
"ALEXANDRIA, November 1st... The General Produce Association estimates the Egyptian cotton crop for the current season at 3,200,000 cantars, compared with 4,870,000 for the preced ing season.
" TO "RESUME."
PARIS, November 1st,
"FAMINE."
relief in K rasia. —llavas,
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From the debates which took place it is doon that the latter tax is charged not so much to increase the income of the dia trict as to prevent the rich girla from leav- ing their homes and the tilling of the land.
have lost everything.
Present wages are based on the index number 165, and the new operative figure for wage calculation is 130 Tho drop is, therefore, seven complete five points, and the total waga is decreased by seven tweaty-sixths
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