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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. .(TSROUGH OXUTER'S AGENOT.},

PACIFIC TREATY,

HOLLAND'S CONFIDENCE

JUSTIFIED.

THE HAGUE. Februady 10th. In the Second Chamber, the Foreign Ministy daling with the Pacific Treaty, said that the confidence which had been inspired in Holland by statements in the

Parliaments of the various Powers that

they would respect the rights of the

Netherlands regarding Dutch possessions

THE HONGKONGTM DAILY PRESS; SATURDAY.

KETRENCHMENT COM- MITTEE'S REPORT.

BIG" CUT" EXPECTED IN FIGHT ING SERVICES.

LONDON, February 9th. The anxiuly awaited report of the Efio, Geddes Retrenchment Committee is being publishre to-morrow,

shows some

FEBRUARY 11TH

MEMBERSHIP OF THE SEAMEN'S

UNION.

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CASE AGAIN REMANDED.

THE STRIKE. SITUATION IMPROVING, -

SEAMEN'S DELEGATES EXPECTED IN HONGKONG LAST NIGHT.

The interesting point as to whether or former member of the Seamen's "Yesterday's striks_newa improvement in the situation. The sen

Union can now be charged with being a men at Canton yesterday dispatched four member of an unlawful socisty still, re- delegates to Hongkong. This is the out mains unsettled. Yesterday afternoon the come of a decision reached at the Tung cae involving this point came again o Wah Hospital meeting held last Wedues for Mr. Wood for hearing. The Magis day, when it was decided to invite delete at the outset remanded the case for a further week on the grounds that

gates to come down from Canton to meet

LORD NORTHOLIFFE'S VOYAGE.

FROM AUSTRALIA TO THE

EAST ON THE "ST. ALBANS."

DREAM VOYAGE.”.

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Another delightful thing about the St. Albana is her swimming bath, which is. rigged on deck as soon as she reaches. FAR warm latitudes. It is about five feet deep and four people as large as I am can bathe comfortably in it at a time. I have seen as many as eight in it, but that was s special occasion. At any rate, it is one of the most popular fentirres of this most popular ship, and from six-in the morning onwards through the bathing hours there are sure to be men, women, or children splashing themselves cool.

After the desert island came Thursday Island, a very grim outpost of Empire, the G.H.Q. of the pearl-fishers of these

Lord Northcliffe wrote for the Daily Mail the following account of his voyage from Australia to the Far East on the E. & A. Co.'s steamer St. Albans

5.3." ST. ALBANS," MANITA STaurs, EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO,

October,

in the Pacião had been justified by the hare rejected £20,000,000, or one-fifth of Chinese General Chamber of Commerce railway station, on Wednesday; in posage of mine roune the world I had natura kind of cross between the two. At all

convention signed as Washington.

OVERSEAS STUDENTS.

CHINA SECONDON UNIVERSITY

LIST.

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Losaós. February 10th. The Universities Bureau of the British Empire list shows that there are 4.40 oversen students in

universitie and aniverity colleges in the United "King- dom, of which 143 are from China, 1,240 From India, Burma and Ceylon, and 78 from Japan.

ALLIED DEBTS.

PRESIDENT HARDING SIONS FUNDING BILL

the suggested savings.

and

These has been a fergo discussion in the Press over the Government's delay in publication, which is attributed to the

parts. There is the world's smallest activities of the Cabinet's revising com-

newspaper, a little corrugated iron town- This is not a voyage in a mail steamer, ship, a wonderful church, a wharf, the a committee formed of the Ganers Com-several legal points were involved. inittees in whittling down certain recommittees of the Tung Wab Hospital, the

The case for the prosection is that the It is yachting on a scale and in a tashion most mixed population, for its size, in mendations. It is believed that they Po Leung Kuk, and representatives of the Kai Lam, were found on the Kowloon luxuriousness and expenses.

On this voy-nft schooners, nor are they luggers, bat delendants, named Kong Kam and Lo with his 15-knot turbine-driven marvel of schooners. They are not really fer-nad undromat of by any multi-millionaire the world, and scores and scores of pearl

two general labour association session of a number of Seamen's Union good times thrown in here and there, but spite of their diving apparatus, with the ally expected to have some particularly events, they are very graceful, and in The departments most prominently diswhich represents altogether abou) ninety cused are the fighting services and ete

passes, and a proclamation said to have I never expected anything so perfect as big air-pump straddling the deck amid- sation. It is declared that the "cuta" | guilds recommended are respectively £48,000,000

The persoanel for the Board of Arbiten been recently issued by the Union At this dream-like voyage in the littleships, they look much like so many yachts.

British ship St. Albans, bound from. and £18.000.000.

They said at Thursday Island that tion, as proposed by His Excellency the the time of the arrest the defendants Australia aft

We started our trip in the Aquitania, just now, and that nobody will buy: I pearls are a drug on the world's market Governor, has been decided upon, but there busily engaged in distribuing tickets names are not yet available for publien-

to seamen proceedings to Canton.

47,000-ton ship. We continued it in the was shown & wonderful collection of Canadian-Australasian liner Makura, of pearls by the principal dealer on the ANOTHER CASE OF INTIMIDATION. 8,000 tone, and in the Maneno of the same island and afterwards taken out to the group between Auckland and Sydney, reefs where his best "shell lies. Sheff of 3.000 tons. We went to Tasmania inis the oyster itself, a vast pantomime- the Nairana of 3,000 tons, came back in like thing as big as a plate and valuable the Conal, of 800 tons and now we bave as the mother-of-pearl of climbed the scale again to 4,000 tons. But we are no longer travelling.

The St. Albans, which is taking us to Yokohama one of these days, is, without A Chinese constable stated that on the most comfortable ship I have ever been exception, the cleanest, best laid out, and previous day he was engaged in protectin. She is built for the tropics, she is ing coolies working on the as Chik Kong roomy, incredibly clean and airy, and she is in every way superior to say yacht

The Cahitet is reported to be divided on the subject of the cats for the fighting services. The exact amounts of the sar ings accepted, will not be known till the Estimates appear.

COTTON CLOTH PRICES..

MESSRS, HORROCKS ANNOUNCE A REDUCTION.

LONDON. February 9th. Messre. Horrocks have reduced cotton elath prides by approximately 10 per

tent.

THE GROWTHË OF MILITARISM

IN CHINA.

WALKINION, February 10th. President Harding has a signed the THE ORIGLY OF THE TUCHUNATE Allied Debt Beluading Bill.

CAPE LABOUR TROUBLE. INDUSTRIAL FEDERATION'S

ATTITUDE.

JOHANNESBURG, February 10th." The Industrial Federation has decided against a general strike

EARLIER CABLES.

KIDNAPPING IN ULSTER, CONDEMNED MEN'S SENTENCES COMMUTED.

EVIL.

tion.

SHIPOWNERS RENEW THEIR PREVIOUS OFFER.

At a meeting of the shipowners' com- mittee it was decided to renew their previous offer to the seamen, which pro- vides for the following increases :- Chinese river steamers...

3 per cent. Other Chinese steamors, up “

"15 per cent:

FLIGHT OF A WITNESS TO CANTON.

A Chinese was charged at the Magia. tray yesterday morning, before Mr. Lindsell, with intimidating workers on.

the Fraya,

I have ever had to do with.

com.aierce.

A Malay diver went down for us, elad dozen" of "those which are under culture in a pair of goggies, and brought up a

operations were carried out on the bash- in the Japanese fashion. Mysterious

nature of hypodermic injection, or per ful oyster last year, something in the haps more like the opposite of operating for appendicitis.

Something was planted out in him, a grain of sand or something equally un- comfortable, and his efforts to get rid of it result in the pearl. It may be either a blister pearl, just a kind of large blister pral, nesting in his liver. At all events, on the shell itse.f. or it may be a separate he must lead a worrying life, as in addi-.

to 1,000 D.W. teas... 25 per cent loading stores for a silk merchant Canton, Hongkong and

The vessel was lying off the, Yeung Tai Macao. Steamboat Co.'s

Hing Wharf. Prior to going on board, She belongs to the E and A.that is

• steamera

the defendant came along, and making, a

the Eastern and Australian S.S. Com Othor British Companies"

motion with his hand, asked:

pany, and, according to offeint announce river steamers (taking

"Where ments, she trades between the ports of the, senle of Canton,

are you going! Witness replied "We Melbourne, Sydney, the Queensland are going to the Chik Kong." Defendant porta, Thursday Island, Borneo, Manila, Without an understanding of what has

Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co., as base) 15 per cent,replied: "Don't go. Don't you know Hongkong, Kobe, and Yokohama. This come to be known ALE the Tuchun

the situation? You are advised to be is all nonsense really. You cannot apply system it is impossible either to compre

Consting steamers

12 per cent.

careful. You look out."

tion "Why shouldn't a stupid word like "trades" to such a hend or to explain the existing · pré- Java Lines

7 per cent. I go!" queried the witness. The defend- voyage as we we are having, The St. eminence of the military caste in China, Pacific Lines

7 per cent. ani did not reply. Witness then caught Albans does not trade" any more than the decentralization of military authority,

hold of the man and searched him... the lack of all standardization in equip

her passengers travel. We simply em 7 per cent,

bark on a pleasure cruise. ment, arms and the like, and the lack in

30 per cent. most organizations of dissipline, of train-

The above offer was made on January ing and of efficiency.

The Revolution of 1911-12 was decidedly popular in the South, and in some of the Northern Provinces, and the military leaders who initiated the various revolls against Manchu authority became po pular heroes and were permitted to sune civil offices and powers which by tradition were jealously guarded for the

European Lines Australian Lines,

16th and was withdrawn two days later, when it was announced that the men had definitely refused arbitration.

The shipowners' offer will, of course, be merely provisional, that is to say, if the offer is accepted by the seamen these

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to having artificial appendicitis forced on him be always has two or three non-paying guests living on him in the shape of a tiny crab or a crayfish and a sandeel or tw

Our host was well pleased with the

Everything is done to make you happy ly bear who could be anything but co- and comfortable, and he would be a sur-progress of his patients, but we did not chanted with the mere fact of being is, of course, the most valuable. Still,

fish up any with a separate pearl, which.

with the quantities gathered every year. abroad auch a delightful ship.

in Thursday"Island alone, it seems strange that by the time they reach Bond-street and the Rue de la Paix and Fifthavenue. they should be so remarkably expensive. The man who cultivates them or finds the ordinary sort says he can only sell at a low and that the price has never been so low. The pearl ring, if there be one, must be doing well,

The Magistrate: Is that all he said? Witaces: Yes; I then searched' him. The Magistrate:Did he resist -No. The defendant: I did not know he was, a constable. All I said was there will be plenty of work when the strike is over.

Corroborativo evidence was given by. First of all, think what a cruise her another constable, who was on strike duty voyage makes. Between Brisbane and in the neighbourhood. He stated that he Thursday Island, a matter of some eight beard the defendant say that the coalies days, most of the course lies inside the were doing wrong in going on board. Great Barrier Reef, through an inland The Magistrate expressed the opinion ses as calm any Norwegian fjord, pickot duty.

more desirable, the skies more and more Inspector Watt stated that another radiant, your soul more and more con witness had been warned. to attend, but tent he suffered from cold feet and bad Every now and then the ship calls at a

chant as No. 1 Joki. He had seen the thing all the time. If these do not fed to Canton that morning. The would-port, Rockhampton, Cairns, Townsville, be witness was employed by a silk merna the case may be, and you see some whole of the affair.

literary caste. At the same time in the revised rates will be paid until the award that the defendant appeared to be on Day after day the sea grows more and

LosDON, February 9th.. The condemned in Derry jail whose North the Manchu, in their last desper of the arbitrators is made, execution, fixed for to-day, presipitated,rate effort to save themselves, were forced according to Mr. Collins, the Sina Fein to resign all their powers to Yuan Shih- raids pu Ulster are three men, including kai, who was essentially militaristic, and encapo, of Sinn Fein prisoners from that

warder concerned in the attempted to his closely organized following ol

jail early in December when a warder was murdered and police were beaten, bound, and chloroforined.

COMPARATIVE QUIETUDE.

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The Magistrate remanded the case nat Monday next and fixed bail at $1,000.

THE DILEMMA OF CHINA. THE DIFFICULTIES OF CABINET MAKING AT PEEING.

satisfy you and the captain thinks you may be bored, the anchor is dropped off some Robinson Crusoe island and ali hands go ashore to see how the birds and crocodiles are doing.

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THE COST OF COALING........

When you leave Thursday Island you' military subordinates. In both the Norte stribe the cost of huskering has increase

by way of the Arafura Sea. This, as well Since the coal coolies came out on

leave the last of the Australian contiu- ent and enter the East Indian Archipelago and the South. therefore, the military acquired a hold upon administrative by leaps and bounds and the tendency is

as the Banda Sea, which "we" have just affairs which they have never relaxed. for the cost to rise still further. The

left, was an innocent of ripples as "A reprieve was officially announced in

The first ulitary Governors of the

mirror. For three days and three nights Ireland on Tuesday evening, one man'

Provinces, appointed during and alter prices have been accentuated by two facts,

we have steained across a sea of glasa, sentene being computed lo, penal ser. the Revolution, were given the title of first, the temporary labour, now used in

so absolutely dend smooth that the only vitado for life and the other sentenced to Tutub, and were entrusted with all the loading and unloading lighters, and, in

disturbance besides the steamer's woah. fifteen eurs ponal servitude, but the Powers of civil and military officialdom some cases to do the actual barkering is

Last Sunday we all landed-or as many is the fleeting scratches on the surface news of the reprieve was apparently un-combined. From the beginning of this

made by millions of tiny flying fish, nune known when the raids were carried out. now regime the Provincial Civil Governor unskilled and works very slowly; secondly

of us as were young enough in spirits if was virtually the subordinate of the this unskilled labour is costly. Prior to

not in years to be thrilled by a desert of them bigger than a sprat, Military Governor and then as now the strike coal coolies could be obtained

island--on one of the Hannibal group

We are only two degrees south of the LATER.

and spent one of the most delightful Equator, and it would be idle to pretend The Asiatic News "Agency says:- military man frequently functioned in The day passed without news of further both capacities. Yuan Shib-kai altered for 30 to 40 cents per day. The

afternoons possible. Nothing was lack that it is not het Mr. Liang Shih-yi is still on "sick "

But as there is no happenings in Ulster, either in the way of the title ore time to Chiang-chun, and labour now available, under the police leave. His resignation will not being in our desert island, even to alliga breeze at all we conveniently make our raids or reprisals

after his death in "1916, it was again scheme, posts as much as $1.70 per officially announced until General Wong tors. For as the chief officer's boat was

own and there is always a nook on deck Thu Northern Government has taken changed to Turbun, the present designa day and in the case of actual bunkering Shih-tseng has consented to form a new been dozing on a spit of sand woke up fanned by a twelve-kant breeze.

beached two fourteen-footers which had

where you can sleep the sleep of the lucky, "most active measures of self-defence. Five tion.

even more. In normal times a yeasel Government. But, up to the present, thousand armed special constables are As the authority of the Central Gov- could be bunkered

maximum General Wong has not signified his inten- and started for the next island like tor-

Presently it will be time to have a holding the frontier, while repair gangs ernment has gradually broken down charge of 35 cents per ton, but baskering tion to accept the offer of the President Pedov.

It was like sening a picture of boy; fellow and

swim with a beautiful cold drink to are busy restoring the telegraph at through conspiracy and civil war, the at the present moment cannot be arranged and the Chihli military party, so the

sunset to look at which Belfast and Enniskillen, which the raid-strength of the Tuchuna has grown, until under $250 per tor In

hood's dreams. The ship lay anchored. some cases, political situation remains without im about half mile away, bull and tall would have driven Turner to burn his *ers cut last night.

now their positions in their Provinces yesterday, shipowners were arranging for provement of alteration. This may explain the dearth of news. are much like those of feudal barons bunkering to be carried through at the The most difficult question in finance, masts reflected in the polished sapphire of palette and brushes in disgust. That, the trouble is not finished appears in their semi-independent baronies and high rate of 35 per ton.

and, in fact, the so-called Central Gov. the bay On the curving white coral from a message received during the even counties. Each regards the units of the Again under ordinary circumstances a erament of China cannot exist without beach the three ships' boats, including,

ng that five special constables and four army stationed in his Province a vessel can be bunkered at the speed of one resorting to loans. The Salt surplus of course, the captain's gig, lay haul FLAG OF THE IRISH FREE British soldiers were kidnapped in his personal following, and in the junk per hour, 20 tons of coal can revenues have been mortgaged to the up our white-clad China-boy crew busy Monaghan to-day by the Irish Republican struggle for ascendancy each spends a be transhipped to the vessel per hour. Chinese bankers up to the 17th year of with spars and gear. A hundred yards Army.

large proportion of the Provincial funds The same number of unskilled coolies em the Republic, and, in accordance with a inland, in the shade of the staunted, upon the recruiting and equipment of ployed on bunkering can only tranship 60 recent Presidential Mandate, the Ministry or mother's son of whom was, at wind-racked trees, the landing-party larger and larger armies without consult tons per day or approximately 6 tons of Finance is prohibited from negotiating lost in imagination, armed to the teeth) times without even advising Peking of ing the Central Government and some per hour,

either foreign or domestic loans on the searity of the salt surplus reveanca in

were busy laying out a camp and build the increases. Like feudal barons the'

SHIPPING IN PORT.

the future, Further, a joint telegram to ing a fire out of wreck-wood. What more Tuchuns do not hesitate to make war

the Government from the civil and mili could you possibly want!

# apon one another or upon the Centril

Yesterday there were 188

tary governors of Chekiang, Shanghai and vessels in Government and also to unite pecasionally harbour, representing a

the three special administrative areas of the world, the search for food on

Then came the most natural thing in tonnage

Jobot, Chahar and Shuiyanncheng, gives

THE RUBBER SLUMP. UNITED SERDANG'S INCREASE OF CAPITAL.

LONDON, February 9th.

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STATE. QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

In the House of Commons, on January 16th, Mr. E. Harmsworth asked the Prime Minister whether an undertaking was given at the retent conference that the fling of the Irish Free State would not be the Irish Sinn Fein flag, but the Union Jack, with such mizor alterations as local The United Serdang Hubber Plantain groups to dictate national policy to 281,480. This is a decrease of one vessel warning that these provinces will not apparently barren island. The captain, Patriotism required, as in the CILSO tions Company proposes to increase its Peking.

of other self-governing The more powerful Tuchun or 16,274 tons on the previous day's re recognito any future. Premier who resorts the chief officer, the chief engineer, and

Dominions, capital. by £250,000, with a view to exort dominating influence over the Requiring other Sumatra properties on affairs of their weaker neighbours and

Mr. E. Harmsworth asked the Prime to losins, either internal and, eternal the doctor had all brought 12-horca Minister if the Government of the Irish sadvantageous terms, owing to the slump. when their hegemony over several Pro-

This sanouncement from the "Anfu-Feng- ashors, and as the sun began to drop to- Free State would have the power of choice vinees is firmly established, receive from

SEAMEN'S. REPRESENTATIVES tim combination wiosis. Wu Peofu's wards the horizon the beautiful black and between flying the Bion. Fain flag and the, the Central Government the title of COME TO HONGKONG. opposition to the Liang Cabinet has white Torres pigeons came in to roost Union Jack, the national flag of both Inspectors-General, and are facetiously

added fuel to the difficult situation, be and in an hour or so we had made a Great Britain and the Dominions; and described in the Press as Super-Tuchuns. We take the following from yesterday's caus no Government which may succeed very considerable contribution to the whether, if they had that power, that

Under pressure of popular, opinion, Canton Times;-

the present one can live without loans ship's larder.

House would have any power over: the The Torres pigeon is a fine bird to decision that is come to. which is strongly opposed to these mili Eight representatives of the Seamen's or advances

it is true that the Powers have agreed his plumage is now-white, with a black made the other day by the Prime Minister

shoot. He is about as big as a teal,

Mr. tary dictatorships, the abolition of the Union is Canton. left for Hongkong yes

Chamberlain: The sistementa

to increase its capital by M.125,000,000/ Tuchuns themselves and, in one instance Hongkong shippers for a settlement of customs tariff; but the Paking authorities | wood pigeon, clattering, out of tree-tops Dominion, the Dominion itself settled The North German Lloyd has resolved Tuchunate is advocated by many of the terday afternoon to negotiate with the to sa increase of the Chinese maritime barred tail, and he ties like our own and myself were that in the case of cach

cannot expect this income for many to M.000,000,000. The company's report at least, the title has been abolished and toe strike"

that of Provincial Director of Military declared business prospecta to be favour- Affairs adopted in ite stead. This change INCREASED NUMBER OF COOLIES tion that on the security of the increased annoying trick of slipping round them at that we desire to follow that course with

NORTH GERMAN LLOYD, CAPITAL INCREASED TO

M.600,000,000..

BRIS, February 9th.

able.

IRISH FREE STATE BILL. PASSES FIRST READING IN THE

COMMONS.

LONDON, February 9th.

In the House of Commons the Irish Free State Bill pamed ito First Reading. The Second Reading will be taken on the 18th inst

-PETROGRAD-PEKING.

TELEGRAPH LINE

of title, of course, works no improvement in conditions. The artificial inflation of the Provincial armies has gone on steadily for some years, keeping pace with the ambitions of the Military Governors, nad

the army has, at theeney murals and losing steadily in efficiency, morale and discipline.--China Year Book.

SECRET OF - ALCHEMY,

WORKING.

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months to come. A report is in circuals with tremendous fuss, and with the same what the Dominion flag should be and customs receipts, the corning Government ormous speed. Where he beats any regard to the Irish Free State. For my- will negotiate a loan with the Bino European pigeon is after the cook has self, it seems to me that the spirit of He is unsurpassed acceptance and agreement, the spirit of Foreign interests. The downfall of the finished with him. ing yeaterday, which is a record since the cricht and it will be more difficult, for Approximately 1,500 coolice were.work- Liang Cabinet has created a bad pro-

among his kind.

friendship and amity, and the spirit in When we had got: 20 brace, everyone which it works, is more important than commencement of the transport strike futura Premiers to meet the wishes or

was very hot and astonishingly thirsty, the actual symbol. The previous highester mark was on demands of the leaders of the different and it was pleasant to sprawl on the sea Wednesday, when practically 3,500 were military factions. It seems that in spite grass round the bubbling pots and drink working. Thero"was great demand for of the various resolutions and declara quarts of scalding tes put of the labour all over the town yesterday and tims at the Washington Conference to sandwiches and passion-fruit and pine billies" and cat innumerable delicious by 10 sim 2,499 had been distributed wards China, it is practicably impossible apples. Life on the desert island wore from the Central Police Station In to create in Peking, out of the existing its rosicst aspect. addition, approximately 500 were engaged chaos, & table Central Government,

There never was a more striking or the following story, which incidentally. pathetic coincittence than that offered in provides a fresh illustration of the dis regard of chauffeurs for pedestrian traffic in France: A few days ago, at Versail

Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale Uni at West Point on work paid for by the which will be politically and financially versity lecturing in the London School of job and not by the day. A further 600 recognised by the various provinces, unship over a sea of gold and purple, with a Belpione who was taken to hospital, And then the quiet row back to the Ics, a military car knocked down Louis Economies startled the audience by: an- were on coal work at Wanchai. Coal loss it can be done with the friendly co blazing sung over our beads. For ten min where his injuries were found to be grave nouncing that he was credibly informed heavers were in great demand yesterday operation of the Powers. For instance, utes the world was a riot of incredible Soon afterwards, his fiance was admitted BESTORED AS FAR AS IRKUTSK that a German chemist had succeeded in arid plenty of volunteers were forthcoming there is not the slightest hope for the colours, and then it was as it a "giant to the 'saang hospital victim to the rinking synthetic gold from base metals when it become known that in addition amricious Tucuns to disband any of hand suddenly poured night out of by means of an electric vacuum furnace to the liberal pay of $1.50 per day, their superfluous soldiers without foreign can over the whole thing and it waspierre's state left little room for hope of He proceeded to draw a fantastic picture plus 20 cents for food, the men would be co-operation or compulsion and there dark. We read Captain Cook and Sir recovery, the two victims wore, at their sauna "car"," On Christmas Eve, as Del- The Great Northern Telegraph Com of the consequences on German indemni offered accommodation on the seeds and will be no reform worthy of note withont Joseph Banks that evening and marvelled oarnest request, married in hospital pany's Petrograd-Peking line has beentes if by chemically manufacturing gold a further few cents, as a bonus, thrown the affective reduction of the Chinese at the accuracy of their comments in Christmas Day the bridegroom breathed restored as far na Irkutsk.

they made gold practically worthioss.

1770.

REVAL, February 9th.

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