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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 1925

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VISITORS FROM. SEATTLE DUE SHORTLY.

The Seattle Commercial Commission to the Orient was to leave Seattle, on the a President McElairy on January 27th, but the exact date of arrival in Hong- kong is not knows. The party will now- ber about twenty, but only a few of these will form the official bommittee appointed by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to carry out the objective of the Commis

Bion:

The Commercial Commission is, making this trip for the purpose of expressing appreciation for the increased trade which has developed and becofitted the United States North-west and to evidence the confidence Seattle has in its business colleagues across the Pacific. It will also carry to business men in the Far East an invitation to attend the Twelfth Annual Convention of the National Foreign Trade Council in Seattle, June 24th, 25th and 1995, which for the first time is open 26th. to delegates from foreign countries.

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The Otheial Committee is made up of the following persons:-David Whitcomb, President, Seattle Chamber of Com merce: Prof. Howard T. Lewis, Dean of College Business Administration, Univer. aity of Washington Seattle: J. D. Far- Vice-President, Union Pacific Rail- way; Judge L. C. Gilman, Vice-President, Great Northern Railway James R. Stir rat, Superior Portland Cement Company: representatire, Seattle Clearing House Association, and one representa tive of the Port of Seattle.

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NATIONAL SAVINGS IN U.K. OVER £45,000,000 LAST YEAR. The eighth anual report of the Nation- al Bavings Committee, issued last month, shows that during the financial year ended March 31st £45,207,108 was subscribed for savings certificates, bring ing the total since the beginning of the scheme to £530,978,161. Repayments have amounted to £164,839,478, leaving a total sum still invested of £368,138,886- Hepayments in the last financial year were £32,913,300.

Of the total, equivalent to 356,508,090 single certificates issued last year, only 7,990,740 were in the form of £1 certi- cates. Certificates of the £25 denomina- tion issued were equal to 14,186,975 single certificates, and those between 3 and £490 were equal to 18,293,393 single certi

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PASSPORTS CONFISCATED. BRITISH MERCHANTS, ARRESTED

AT HARBIN

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Of course, sir, tastes differ. Some people have judgment and others have none. But I've more respect, sir, for the man who smokes always an inferior cigarette than the man who smokes good ones one day and just anything the next. Yes, sir, I can say it posi- tively hurts to hand Kensitas to such smokers. Kensitas were not intended for such poor judges because Kensitas are too good to waste. No, sir, they were made for you and all good judges of good cigar-

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The Romance of a

A telegrium from the British Consul Great English Ducal

at Harbin reports that the Chinese police on January 15th arrested two British merchants, Messrs. Collins and Little (presumably Mr. W. F. Collins of Peking and Mr. E. S. Little of Hankow), who arrived there on the Tran-Siberian express. Their passports bad been confiscated at Manchouli be cause they had no Chinese risa, and their release was secured only after the strongest pressure had been exerted and negotiations had proceeded for several hours.

No notification as to the necessity for Chinese eixa has been published by the Waichiaopu in Peking or by the local authorities in Manchuria, and as yet there has been no explanation of the bigh-handed action taken by the. Harbia Administration.

Judging by the experience of those two travellers, persons travelling on the Trans-Siberian railway to Chips would be well advised to provide themselves with a Chinese visa.

The committee reports that the nation-

The Peking and Tizatain Times, Com- al savings movement continues to make

menting on this subject says these arresta steady and encouraging progrese notes that considerable interest has been are an outrage which calls for a strong taken in the movement by the Dominious protest from the British Government. and by foreign countries, and adds: Whether China is entitled under exist "Information as to the aims, methods,ing Treaties to demand that British sub- and organization of the movement has jects entering her territory by the over- Bow been supplied to the Governments land route shall obtain Chinese Consular of the following lands within the Em- riut we do not know. Certain it is that pira:-Canada, New Zealand, the Irish such eiras, have not hitherto been insist- Free State, and Northern Ireland. In- ed upon, and that it is not generally Scores quiries have been dealt with from the known that they are required. United States of America, France, Italy, of Britons have come out across Siberia Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Portugal during the past twelve months without Japan, the International Labour Bureau Chinese and have neither been of the League of Nations, and the Com- asked to produce them, nor warned that mittes of the International Thrift Conthey are necessary. The sudden exforce gress

Milan."

ment of a regulation of this kind- It is stated that during the year under which savours of one of Comrade Ivanoli's which review new savings associations formed Ordinances is an indignity sumbered 4.104, as compared with 2.287 ought not to be tolerated. The Chines

the previous year, and that new Authorities, moreover, put themselves associations continue to be formed at an entirely in the wrong in arresting and average rate of over 350 per month. The detaining Messrs Collins and Little at committee states that during the latter Harhin. If they had been guilty of any part of the year there was a falling off illegal act the duty of the Chinese au in the sales of certificates which, in its thorities was to hand them over without opinion. was due 1 artly to the reduction delay to the nearest British Consular of the rate of interest and partly to say-official ing money for the

of visiting the justification, for holding them in custody in Harbin, where there is a British Coa- sul to whom they should have been sent immediately.

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The strength of the staff on March 31st last was 292, and the total direct expendi- ture for the last francial year was £76.804. as compared with £77.344 in the previous year. A further sum of £50,707 was expended during the year in advertis ing in the Press.

£3,000,000 GIFT.

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MILLIONAIRE WANTS TO BEE RESULTIA FROM HIS MONEY.

"I am now more than 70 years old and feel I should like to see the resulta from the money within my remaining

years."

actual

The

There was no necessity nor

A. H. SAVAGE, LANDOR. FAMOUS EXPLORER OF THE

FAR EAST.

Mr. Arnold Harry Savage Landor, traveller and explorer, who died at Flor ence on December 26th, was the son of Charles Savage Landor, and grandson of, Walter Savage Laador Born in Flor ence, be spent his life in travelling, and made expeditions in Japan, China, Korea, South Mongolia, Tibet, and elsewhere.

In these simple words Mr. George The journey which brought him most Fastman of Rochester. announced last prominently before the public was that month the distribution among various which he made in Tibet iu 1807. It was educational institution of stock in the rumoured in India that he and his follow- Eastman Kodak Company having a ers had been beheaded. It was when he minimum valuation of £3,000,000,

was within a few days of Lhase that he valuation is believed considerably was seized, dragged before a court, and to exceed this figure.

condemned to imprisonment and even to The University of Rochester receives death. After many days of hardship £1,700,000, Massachusetts Institute of Lander and his servants were liberated Technology £000.000; while £400.000 is and escorted back to the Indian Irontier. divided equally between the Hampton Landor's book," In the Forbidden Land," Institute and the Tuskegee, Tastitute. attracted great deal of interest when it On a previous occasion Mr. Eastman appeared in 1898, during which year he "gave half his holdines to various inati went on a lecturing tour, tutions. The present distributios, ho Rays, represents the bulk of the rest, "for I am retaining only sufficient to particinata effectively in the manage ment of the company?”

SAYINGS OF A WEEK.

He claimed to have been the first white man to reach both sources of the Brah- mapatra and establish their exact posi tion; the first white man to, ascertain that no range higher than the Himalayas dxisted north of the Brahmaputra in Tibet; and the first white man to explore Central Mindanao and discover the white tribe" of Maunakas. He also claimed to have reached an altitude of

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