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(Continued from page 7.). ITEROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.] ̧

EARLIER CARLES.

THE RUBBER MARKET.

OUTPUT RESTRICTION SCHEME.

LONDON, December 31st.

With reference, to its circular adə vocat ng continuance of the scheme for restriction of output "the Council of the Rubbergrowers Association reports that the required minimum of assents has not been received, the members nasenting re- presenting only 55 per cent of the total bearing area controlled by members of the Association No written reply has been received from the owners of 200,000 acres, bat. it. in clear that most will rea trick The Council regret that the scheme thus cannot be made binding but it is evident that the necessity for continuing | to restrict output is "appreciated by a large proportion of members and it. doubta nos that this policy will be con- tinued on an independent voluntary basis.

TRANSVAAL LABOUR

TROUBLES.

COALMINERS' STRIKE THREATENS TO EXTEND.

JOHANNESARO, December 31st. n-industrial conference-are-endorsed | the coalminers' strike decision and pro- mised them every assistanCE,

•· JOHANNESBURO, January 1st. The cominers strike which began on January 1st threatens to develop into a general strike, the industrial federations executive having carried a resolution advising all workers and organisations to prepare for a sympathetic strike without "delay""

DUTCH EAST INDIES LOAN.

Tax HAGUE, December 31st. The Government has assigned the Gret instalment of forty million dollars of the Dutch Loan in America to the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. The actual average interest payable works out at under seven per cent.

AMERICAN - TRADE CONDI-

TIONS IN 1920

WASHINGTON, December 31st. The Federal Reserve Board, reviewing trade conditions, says the year-end re ports compared with last December. de- monstrate a continued upward movement. The holiday trade was ten per cent, above Just year's Extreme caution in the granting of bank credits continues.

THE PRINCE'S TOUB, GALCUTTA VISIT SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED

CALCUTTA, January 1st. The Prince of Wales mailed for Rangoon and waved farewell to a cheering crowd, Despite the hartal on the day of his arrival the visit was a splendid success. The ceremonies performed by HRH in cluded the opening of the magnificent

Scotlands Glory through the Ages

PETER

PD

DAWS

'SCOTCH WHISKY.

brand of historic lineage.

THE reputation of this parre old Scotch Whisky in world-wide, extending #ren to the South Pole, where it was

carried on the late Captain. Scott's Antarctic Expedition Everyone's favourite Scotch

parahere.

PETER DAWSON, Ltd., ...

Distiller GLASGOW.

SCOTLAND.

SUBMARINES IN WAR. UFFENDERS LIABLE TO TRIAL AS

FOR ACT OF PIRACY.

WASHINGTON, December 30th. The text has been issued of the Boot resolutions presented at the meeting of the Naval Committee on the 28th inst. It concludes by declaring that any person in the service of the Powers adopting these rules for the humane use of sub- marine in war time who violates any of the rules, whether or not under orders from his Governmental superior, shall be liable to trial and punishment as if for an act of piracy, and may be tried by the authorities of any such Power within whose jurisdiction he is found.

TRADING LOSSES. CHICAGO COMPANY'S FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS.

CHICAGO, December 30th. A statement issued by the Bears, Roe- buck Company, one of the largest trading: organisations in the country, says that, in view of the large net loss anticipated for 1921, the sale has beer, consummated of sixteen million dollars' worth of the com pany's real estate to Mr. Julius Rosen- wald, President of the company, which with a gift of fifty, thousand shares in the company's stock, will enable the company to undergo a period of readjustment with its capital un-impaired, and... 6 smáll surplus.

SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR.

OVER COLOURED LABOUR.

All India Victoria, Memorial and the un-FIGHT TO A FINISH THREATENED vailing of a oenotaph for the Calcutta War Memorial on the maidan.

NORWEGIAN MERCANTILE

MARINE.

CAPETOWN, December 30th.

The latest developments on the situa tion respecting the Transvaal mining in- dustries indicate that a strike of the colliers on January 1st- is almost inevit-

CHRISTIANIA, December 31st. The Norwegian mercantile marine inable: creased by 323,341 tons during the year to a total of 2,429,232 tons.

AMERICAN SENATOR DEAD,

WASHINGTON, January 1st.

The death is announced of Senator Fen PABAQUERIA rose, a Republican who was Chairman of

the finance committee in the Senate,

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.

FILIPINA.

BRITISH

CHINA

COBACCO

STORE

ASSRS.

endeavour of the mines to reorganise The main cause of the "dispute is the

Jabour by greater utilisation of native skilled occupations, in order to reduce and coloured workers, especially in semi-.

working costs. The trade-unions are strongly opposed to this step, and there in every sign that there will be a fight to a

finish.

"LISBON OUTBREAK- FRUSTRATED.

REVOLUTIONARY OUTBREAK

NIPPED IN THE BUD.".

PARIS, December 31st. According to the Petit Journal de clarations relating to the resumption of commercial relations" with Russia have been unanimously adopted by the inter

LISBON, December 30th.. allied economic conference with a supple The new Premier, Senor Cunba Leal, mentary Italian proposal making even promptly checked a revolutionary move- severer conditions" than those originally ment on the night of the 29th inst, by submitted.

concentrating troops in the city and

SPANISH INFLUENZA AGAIN? again, at ringlenders. The city is

PARIE, December 31.

norma!!

The Government has sufficient forces at A message from Mayence says that the its disposal. Backed by public opinion, Mayence and Frankfort districts are in it maintains order.. the grip of an epidemic resembling Spanish influenza accompanied by a rapid HUGE GERMAN- ENTERPRISE SWATSON mortality: There were over seven thou

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· LEITERE; OF CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED AND CASHED, BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and stored så lować rates, Cook's "FAR EASTERNA TRAVELLERS GAZETTE, sontaining Badingy, unde fares from the Far East to fill parts of the World will be forwarded free on application.

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"THOS" COOK & SON, Telephone No. 625,

Hongkong Hotel Buildings corner of Fodder Sires and Den Vorum Rồng; HONGKONG

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sand cases in the town of Mayence whik LINKING THE NORTH AND BLACK- all the Frankfort hospitals were over. crowded. The latest returns show that over forty thousand people, have been affected.

SOUTH AMERICA.

EKALIN, December 30th..

A company capitalised at M. 200,000,000 has been formed at Munich for the pur- pose of constructing a Rhine-Maine-

CHILI'S PARTIAL ACCEPTANCE OF Danube canal linking, the North Sea with:

ARBITRATION.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Dec. 20th.

the Black Sea It is estimated to take twenty years to complete. The Central and the Bavarian Governments, indus trial, banking, and shipping interests will

In reply to the proposal of the Peruvian be represented on the Board of Directors,

Government, the Chilian Goverimtent: says that it will only accept arbitration regarding the application of the "third danse of the Treaty of Ancon made in 1883 in reference to Tacna Arica,

EPIDEMICS; IN2 EUROPE). PORTUGUESE SCIENTIST VÍBITING THE EAST TO INVESTIGATE.

Liano, December 30th

MARSHAL NIVELLE

HONOURED.

PARIS, December 31st. Marshal Nivele hisa been awarded the military medal.

THE FRENCH, CENSUS.

Pinis, December 30th."-- Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Director of Hygiene The French Census of 1921 shows that in Portugal, is leaving for, the Esat on that, population of France, including an international mission for the purpose Alsace-Lorraine, is. 20,409,000 compared of studying the question of the dance with an,804,000 in 1911——————The latter total: of Europe against an invasion of epide included 1,132,000 foreigners, the number,

of whom in the present Cemená is 1,550,000.

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