THE HONGKONG" DAILY PRESS, - MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1st, 1926
CABLE AND WIRELESS
NEWS.
"CORITISH WIKELENS SÉRVICE.]
THE KING'S SPEECH.
A REVIEW OF BRITAIN'S
PROBLEMS. “
Ruoay, January 30th. The newspaperà state that "the text of -the King's sperch at the opening of Far Hament on Tuesday was finally approved by the Cabinet at yesterday's' meeting,
It is generally accepted that although the speech may contain reference to the
Government's agricultural policy, the chief measures to be mentioned'in it will be the Economy Bill, the Electricity Bill and the Merchandise Marks. Bill.
The Italian debt settlement, and no doubt the mining crisis will be referred
to. and it is generally agreed that the session is to be one of finance and economy more than of legislation.
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It is stated that one of the main ob
jects of the scheme to be introduced at an carly stage of the session by the Minister of Agriculture will be to encourage banks to provide credits for farmers on a large scale so that the big farmers may extend the scope of their operations and the small ones may be induced to purchase their boldings outright.
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WORLD PEACE.
THE "TIMES" ON SPEECH OF SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN.
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Rugay, January 30th.
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EMPIRE TRADE.
MR. AMERY IN PLEA FOR COMPREHENSIVE POLICY,
LONDON, January 20th. At a luncheon given in his honour by the Shefeld Chamber of Commerce, Mr. L. S. Amery, Dominions Secretary, sur. veying Empire trade, urged a comprehen sive policy regarding migration; popula- tion; movement of capital, and the use
of markets.
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He declared that Great Britain was at
present faced with the gravest economic issues; and, although there were signs of very appreciable improvement in com- merce and industry, it would be a great mistake to think that the problem sould solve itself without an effort on our part
Mr. Amery showed by means of fatis- ties that the Empire trade was the best. He declared that its capacity for expan
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ŠARPEDON'S " ESCAPE.
NEARLY "RUN DOWN BY CUNARD BOAT.
MERSEY BIVER INCIDENT.
LONDON, January 31st A serious collision between the Cunt ders.s. Carmanis, with several hundred passengers for New York and the Blue Funnel as Sarpedon, with 150 pasien- gers for China, was narrowly averted in the River Mersey yesterday.
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The Carmania was proceeding into the river when she was carried by a strong ebbtide onto the Sarpedon. She scrap ed the latter's side for a considerable
distance.
The Surpedon tilted over slightly; Eut her sides were not smashed ee it att appeared.
It is probable that the Carmania will be able to proceed on her voyage, but the Sarpedon was not permitted to mail. thorough examination. She has been removed to dock: for a
TWO BY-ELECTIONS.
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AN EPIC OF THE SEA. FURTHER DETAILS OF HEROIC RESCUE IN ATLANTIC.
KING GEORGE'S MISSAGE,
NEW YORK, January 30th. Numerous
cables have been received from England thanking the crew of the President Roosevelt for saving the datinge's crew. The messages include one, from the Foreign Office and one Iron King George.
The latter praises the officers and men of the President Roosevelt, and regrets the loss of two of the crew.
President Coolidge has replied that he is gratified at the message and adds: The event is another illustration of the beroism and gallantry which characterises the marinera of Britain and the United
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DETAILS OF RESCUE.
NEW YORK, January 20th Britain, and America are ringing with the heroic rescue of the crew of the Antinos, which, in the torse, seamen's
10 was infinitely greater than foreign CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS BOTH language of the President Roosevelt's
trade.
The Government hoped that the result of its East African policy would be a very great increase in the development of Empire cotton supplies, simultaneously with the development of the natives" pro sperity, which meant the growth of some of our best markets.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] « QUESTION OF. PREFERENCE.
# Ruger, January 29th. Mr. Amery, Secretary for the Domi- Dions, addressing the Sheffield Chamber af Commerce, said that the capacity for Commenting on Sir Austen Chamber-waanitely trade within the Empire greater than that of our foreign trade, both owing to natural con- ditions and also to the difference between the declared policy of the Governments of the Dominions and that of foreign countries.
laid's conversations with M. Briand, the Ties remarks that no doubt a good deal was said about the present position of Germany, the occupying forces in the Rhineland, and the prospects of the entry of Germany into the League of Natious.
As to the Rhineland troops, M. Briand has indicated quite plainly that the intention is to reduce their number as soon as possible, but as Sir Austen Chamberlain, remarked, the spirit of Locarno must be mutual. And the unfavourable impressión made-in spite of Herr Luther's courageous efforts-by this week's debate in the Reichstag can be meat readily modified by an early and emphatic vote in favour of immédiate formal application for admission to the League"
Dealing more broadly with the impli cations of the conversations, the Times adds that they, indicate the growth realization of international, particularly of European, unity which took at Locarno the form of a definite political act, and is being interpreted more widely, and perhaps more speculatively, and with an eye on the more distant political future, in extending the work of the League of Nations.
This tendency it adds is patiently con-
The preference which the. Dominions gave us was a proof of their interest and faith in co-operation for
Empire development. Mr. Amery arged that the Motherland should reciprocate in the same spirit, for he declared, "You cannot expect that an unreciprocated gesture will go on for all times.??
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AMERICO-DUTCH EXPLORERS.
SPECIAL WARNING TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS IN PAPUA.
HRAD THE 'POLLS..
master. Captain Fried, forms a thrilling epic of the sca
Laxnos, January 30th, The by-election at East Renfrew,
Beginning on January 24th, when the where Mr. A. M. MacRoberts is seeking wireless compass bearings showed, the reelection on his appointment as Solintine's own estimate of her position of a hundred miles to be an error, the citor-General of Scotland, resulted as resident Roosevelt, arrived and pumped out oil with excellent effect, but lost She sight of the Antinoe for 4 hours. found her again on January 25th, heavily listing to starboard. The engine fire- room was flooded, and the hatches broken.
follows:-
11,817 votes
10,889
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Mr. MacRoberts (Conser
vative) Reverend John Munro
(Labourite) The by-election at Dumbartonshire, necessitated by the promotion of the Con- servative, Mr. D. P. Fleming to a Scottish judgeship, resulted as follows:
Colonel Thom (Conser
vative)
F. Martin (Labourite) Mr. Reid (Liberal)
Mr.
12,680 votes
11,610.
2,146
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- A DISPUTED ISLAND.. AFGHANS AND SOVIET SETTLE DIFFERENCE.
PARIS, January 30th. The Soviet Ambassador announces that the Afghan-Soviet incident, mentioned on December 25th, has been finally settled. The Soviet has decided to withdraw it troops from the disputed island, in the River Oxus, and agreed to its provisional occupation by Afghan troops. A mixed commission, presided over by M. Raskol nikoff, on behalf of the Soviets, will definitely settle the permanent ownership of the island.
BATATIA, January 29th. specially warned to take the utmost pre- The Americo-Datch expedition has been cautions owing to the Papian tribes' uner 29th, read: Newspapers at Kabul
A cable from Allahabad, dated Decem certain attitude toward foreigners.
The expedition is being organised under report that Russian troops suddenly and the auspices of the Dutch East Indies unprovokedly attacked and captured the Committee of Scientist Research for the Afghan post of Darkad in Badakshan and purpose of an eight months' exploration occupied the surrounding territory.] of the unknown territory in the region of the Nassau Mountains, New Guinea.
THE STINNES FLEET..
LIFEBOAT UPSET. "
FROZE THE CLOCKÍ. AMERICAN AVIATOR HAS LUCKY ESCAPE.
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
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THE CHINA COMMITTEE.
POLITICS IN FAR EAST
LONDON, January 30th.
A Committee has been formed, nader the chairmanship of Lord Southborough, styled The China Committee," for the purpose of watching the political situa tion in the Far East. It will make repre sentations to Government as occasion
demands
New York, January 301k, If the supercharger "of his machine had been functioning properly, Lieutena- | "NEW ORGANIZATION TO WATCH ant Macready, who yesterday spectacu- larly beat the American altitude record, claims that he would easily have beaten the world record of 39,596 feet, establish ed by the Frenchman, M. Callise Linut, Macrendy, who reached 33,000 it. after 20 minutes flight, reports that at 30,000 fret the temperature was-30° Fahrenheit, I was so cold that the clock on the fuselage was completely frozen.
Failure to "go higher was due to the supercharger apparatus, for supplying the pilot with oxygen in the rarefied atmosphere, freezing. Fortunately, Lieut Macrtady retained consciousness and lauded little the worse for his experience. ATLANTIC SPANNED " AGAIN.
SPANISH AVIATORS SUCCEED IN CROSSING.
Lord Southborough has Austen Chamberlain, offerte to Sie the Com- mittees services in an advisory capacity or otherwise. has replied, welcoming the appointment Sir Austen Chamberlain,
of an influential committee, and promises gladly to avail himself of the offer of co operation" He invites practical, construc- tive schemes, which the wide experience. embodied in the Committee may, from time to time suggest for the relief of the present serious situation."
THE PERSONNEL.
PERNAMBUCO, January 30th." The Atlantic has virtually again beanie Owen and Colonel Armstrong, the spanned by the arrival" here of the Fernando Noronha, a Spanish hydroplane piloted by Major Franco, which left Cape Verdo this morning.
A ROUGH WELCOME. According to an earlier message, the weather gave the Spanish aviators a rough welcome in the Fernando Noronha.
The personnel comprises Mr. David Landals and Mr. Warren Swire, repre- senting the China Association; Sir Cun
Federation of British Industries; Measra., Anderson and S. H. Dodwell, London' Chamber of Commerco; Mr. Richard Holt, Chamber of Shipping: Sit Newton Stabb, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank: Mr. L. N. Leefe and Lieut.-General Sir George. Macdonagh,, China Advisory Committee; Sir Waley Cohen, Asiatic Petroleum Co., Major W. S Nathan, C.M.G., of the Peking Syndicate.
MR. JONATHAN GOFORTH.
CHAPLAIN TO FENG.
TORONTO, January 30th. Mr. Jonathan Goforth, a former Pres-
According to reports from the islands, PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONARY AS Majer Franco, descended in the bay dur- ing rough weather and was still riding. out the storm at 11 p.m. Boats failed to reach the hydroplane, owing to the heavy seas and stops were being taken to get alongside with efforts will be made to reach the craft in spending the night aboard and further the morning.
a raft
The pilot is
Captain Fried ordered a lifeboat to be Jaunched, whereupon a squall hit the ship and upset the boat, two men being drown ed and the others rescued with difficulty in an exhausted condition and covered With "Thereafter, until January Sith, fruit less maneuvres continued to be made to get in contact by means of lines fired by the Lyle gun, also by boat. The line broke sixteen times, until the apparatus was improvised at the suggestion of an
According to a radiogram, re-transit artillery expert on board.
Twelve men were got off on the after-ed from Madrid, the aviators had a zoon of January 27th and the remainder thrilling experience and were forced to at midnigth, including the Captain, who descend onto the sc Ships hastened was carried on board. They had been to assist but the craft will be able to without food for two days.
resume the voyage. The airmen are ex- The President Rooserelt' crew was in pected to continue the flight to Pernam a state of collapse."
buco to-day.
[BRITISH WIRELESS, SERVICE.] BRITISH APPRECIATION.
RUGBY, January 20th. The British Government expressed
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THE AMERICAN NAVY, PROVISION FOR ADDITIONAL AIRCRAFT.
byterian missionary in China, departs for China shortly to serve as chaplain to` General Feng Yu Hsiang's army.
THE TOKYO (CABINET. POLICY OF VISCOUNT KATO TO BE FOLLOWED.
Toxyo, January 30th. The Cabinet was formally installed this morning.
No change in the late Viscount Kato's policy is anticipated. · ́ ́.
The personnel has not been changed. The Premier, Mr. Wakatsuki, will also hold the portfolio of the Home Minister
RUSSIA“ AND CHINA.
M. CHICHERIN AND CHINESE MINISTER EXCHANGE NOTES.
Moscow, January 30th..
through its Ambassador in Washington,
WASHINGTON, January 29th. its keen appreciation of the action of the
Admiral Moffett has discussed with the captain and crew of the American liner
resident Roosevelt in rescuing the House of Representatives Naval Com twenty-five men of the crew of the dis mittee the Navy's plan for expending abled British steamer Antinoe. The fourteen million dollars in the next five
The Chinese Chargé d'Affaires deliver- British Government has conveyed its years, the programme including the con- sympathy to the relatives of the seaman struction of two dirigibles of six millioned a Note to M. Chicherin, the Commissar
The party will use an aeroplane speci- ally constructed in accordance with PURCHASED BY NEW CONCERN of the President Roosevelt who lost their cubic feet capacity, costing four billion for Foreign Affairs, stating that the
structive. It is or should be, directed to the steady encouragement of every ele-structions given by American round the ment of stability that exists in Europe..
THE COAL INDUSTRY. THE TRADE UNION CONGRESS CONTINUE ENQUIRY.
RUGBY, January 30th. The special industrial committee of the Trades Union Congress met yesterday for the further consideration of the situation that will arise in the coal in- dustry when on April 30th the subsidy granted last autumn is due to expire
The Committee anticipates that what- ever, proposals are made by the Coal, Commission which is now considering its report, some time must elapse before they can be adopted and a longer time before they can yield results.
world aviators. The base of operations will be Manokwari, which will be in wire- less touch with Juva..
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THE FALLING FRANC.
M. DOUMER IN APPEAL FOR
ACTION
PARIS, January 30th. The urgent necessity for immediate
measures to check the fall of the frang It is stated that the Trades Union Com-was the text of a speech by M, Doumar, mittee will concern itself primarily with Finance Minister, in appealing to the the economic side of the question during Chamber to vote the Government's mea
sures because a new crizis would meAD this period.
unemployment and misery.
Political issues, such as unification or nationalisation, are regarded as being outside the scope of ita responsibilities, wages and conditions of labour being its
chief concern.
The Daily Mail says the Committee has sought the views of miners on the 'ques tion of the desirability of early consulta. tion with the mine owners, and that be fore the Coal Commission reports, such a meeting will take place under its aus. pices.
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THE COLOGNE ZONE.
FOR 27 MILLIONS.
assistance..
M.CC. ON TOUR. SECOND TEST MATCH STARTS AT PORT OF SPAIN.
The
MODERN PROGRESS.
a grave
THE SHANGHAI · JANUARY SETTLEMENT
Five in this gallant rescue of a British dollars each; the construction of a trad-latter's telegram was twice, telegraphed crew of the ordeal of the antinge's crewing dirigible at a cost of one and a half to Marshal Chang Tao Lin urging the and the President Roosturit's efforts are million dollars; establishment of an air- necessity of settling the dispute. BERLIN, January 30th.
Government would take steps definitely The sum of 27,000,000 marks has been told in wireless messages from the Preship base on the Pacific Coast at a cost M. Chicherin replied hoping the Chinese. to settle this regrettable incident and The party, which will be armed, will agreed upon as the price to be paid for sident tousevelt, which is bringing the of four, and a half million dollars.
preclude any possibility of its recurrence. include Professor Sterling, scientific the purchase of the Hugo Stinnes Fleet. dutinoe's crew to Plymouth. For fre
[A week ago the Chinese military leader: Dr. Van Leeuwen, Director of Of this sum, 6,000,000 marks are payable days the Antince was drifting helplessly
authorities arrested M. Ivanoff, the the Botanical Gardens, and Dr. Burten in cash, and mortgages to the value of in the trough of the heavy stas
Soviet General Manager of the Chinese zoorg, accompanied by a military detach-21,000,000 marks, now held by Dutch quartory of her officers and crew were all
A STUDY IN GAS.
Eastern Railway, also three departmental ment of 40 men and 180 native bearers, capitaliste, will be taken over by the new fooded. Four engineers worked cease- lesly to keep the pumps going until they
chiefs. The arrests were presumably in They leave for Manokwari at the end of owners, the Deutsch Australisch: Ship-i
were driven from the engine-room by the How little one who is living in the retaliation for the Soviet Ambassador's March
ping Company and the Kosmos Compacthrush of water. During the three days, midst of modern progres appreciates Note demanding the cesention of the The vessels will continue to stil ulider the stakehold. Area and the engine room what that progress really means. It is alleged high-handedness of the Chinese the Stinnes flag.
The liquidation of the Stinnes property were flooded and the steamer was power-only by looking back to the past, and troops as regards the Railway. After is progressing. The sale of the Kohelyt leas. Perfect discipline was maintained getting, so to speak, a fixed point from protests by, the Soviet Ambassador at Company to a British concern and the aboard Wireless Officer Evans remained which to view the present, that it is Peking describing the arrests as present fleet transaction will now enable at his post until the apparatus failed. posible, to obtain just estimate of insult and threatening to occupy the how far progress has gone, railway with troops, Marshal Chang Tso The President Roosevelt made many the Stinnes family to continue their efforts, by means of rocket apparatus and Muelheim coal business without outside lifeboats, to get a line to the Antinge be hands of the writer of this note a very
There has just passed through the Lin released the arrested men 1 fore she finally succeeded. Two of her interesting account of the impression men, whose death is much deplored, lost made forty years ago on a household who their lives in the first of these attempts.
had just, unwillingly apparently, in- stalled gas in the house. The Indy in question admits the necessity of gra when children are about, as candles and lamps are so easily knocked over. She then goes on to speak of the" awful- smelling compound, burning with a The January settlement of the Shang. feebla blue flame" on week deya, and hai Stock Exchange took place on Jan failing altogether on Sundays when the uary 26th, and so far as this organizz BIRMINGHAM, Ala, January 30th. gas was needed in the church Oftion is concerned, is understood, says the The home side batted brat and comtis feared that 38 miners have been course, then we had, comparatively, to go C. Daily News, to have proceeded on. piled 276.
The M.C.C. replied with 141, Dewhurst killed in an explosion in a coal mine without, as that gas would not be in more or less satisfactory lines. For the
near Helens
time in the history of the scoring 65 and Brown 74.
Ten bodies have been recovered, Sixty-time This forty year story of gas "Exchange a clearing house was establish three men were in the mine at the time makes very interesting reading today, ed, and it is understood that the total of the explosion and of these, 25 are if only to bring out into sharp contrast of enan to change bands was in the
the uxary attached to the present day region of six lacs. The known to have escaped.
LATER
use of gas. PONATE ABRAZI Otherwise there appears to have bee
It is interesting to reflect what this some difficulty in arranging the settle writer of forty years ago would have ment-this on the part of the outside "said if asked to give up her coal fires brokers, it is stated. As will be seen and do her cooking and heating by gain these columns, local rubber shares. not to mention getting the hot baths have dropped some 20 millions in value. with a geyser
ne between the middle of December and Nothing would probably strike people the present day, and this would account of a generation ago with more astonish-for the dinculty experienced in certain ment, could they return, then the mare cases in meeting the settlement. to which gas is put to-day,
It was generally understood at the The wonderful exhibit at Wembley last close of the day, however, that entis-
He said that the franc in April Last year was worth 28 centimes gold; it was worth 18 centimes in December; and now it was 19 centimes. He said that the inflation last year was seventeen milliarda, and further inflation was impossible.
INCIDENT "AT" ROME,
DEMONSTRATION OF STUDENTS
"AT" GERMAN EMBASSY.
RoME January 29th Following the example of Florence, the
GERMAN-GOVERNMENT IS TOLD OF Rome
ALLIED WITHDRAWAL.
RUGBY, January 30th.
students to day demonstrated against the alleged anti-Italian campaign
PORT OF SPAIN, January 20th Before an attendance of 5,000 peope the second Test Match, between the M.C.C, and the West Indies, started. to-day.
MR. COBHAM'S PROGRESS. LONDON, January 20th message received from Livingston,
in Bavaria. They paraded the principal Northern Rhodesin, says that Mr. Alas streets, demonstrated before the German Cobham has arrived there Embassy, and burned a number of Ger-
The German Government has been for mally notified by the Ambassadors Conman newspapers. ference that the Cologne mae will be com pletely evacuated by January 31st.
The British troops, which total lees than 8,000, will be stationed in the Wies. baden' area.
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FUTURE OF MOSUL.
Ruday, January 30th Sir Ronald Lindsay British Ambas sador at Constantinople, having com pleted his preliminary conversations with the Turkish Foreign Minister al Angora, has returned to Constantinopla
Measures have been taken by the police.
to prevent a repetition.
AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.
MELBOURNE, January 29th.
OBITUARY.
MR. W. L. GEORGE,
LONDON, January 30th The death is announced of Mr. W. 1 George, the novelist
[The late Mr. W. L. George was bora
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MINE DISASTERS IN US. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE IS FEARED AT HELENA..
The death roll is now 27.
DISASTER AT BENTON
BENTON, IL, January 20th
A number of miners are entrapped as the result of an explosion in a mine at West Frankfort w
It is believed that several have perish. ed in the easting fire, which is still raging. THE CASUALTIES"
LATES
DIFFICULTIES REPORTED,* BUT GENERALLY OVERCOME.
church and our houses at the same first
visitors, of how far the use of gas had | For a monthly settlement November
The House of Representatives, bas passed the. Bill amending the Navigation of British parents in Paris, on March 20th 135ive men were killed and three injured year was a revelation, to most of the factory arrangements had been made. Act, permitting British ships under cer1888. He was educated in Paris and, as the result of the explosion. tain conditions to carry inter-State Germany. He has contributed, tos most passengers.
PORTUGAL'S WAR DEBT,
Sir Ronald Landsay had gone to
Buday, January 30th. Angora, where he was to have a conver
The Portuguese Commission to rego sation with the Turkish Government upon the Lengus decision regarding Moml, tiate the funding of that country's war He called upon Tewak Rushdi Bey, debt is expected to arrive in London on Foreign Minister, shortly after his ar- February 90th. The amount owed is
approximately £22,000,000
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London publications and has been speciál correspondent of various papers in France, Belgium and Spain. Anong bis. publications are: A Bed of Roses (1011) The City of Light (1012);-Israel Kalisch |(1913);The Making of an Englîahifan (1914); The Second Blooming (1914); The Strangers Wedding (1916) Blind Alley (1910) Caliban (1980); The Confession of Ursula Trent-(1993); The Stift Lip (1921), One of the Guilty (1923); The Triumph of Gallio (1924).J
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DISARMAMENT.
been developed eaters, was considered large, but it is under-
Gas stores,geysers, heaters, most stood that that of yesterday for January people appreciate the use of these, was very much larger. It is, of course, PARTICIPATION OF AMERICA 18 Lut when it comes to gas hair pins, impossible to get a sound estimate of the
NOW ASSURED
night lighta, movable gas table-lamp with total involved. Whereas the general im- flexible tubes, and above all, unenmatic pression is that between 70 and 60 switches for turning on and off the gas millions were involved in the December at the door, one can only marvel at the quarterly settlement which is alway proures made
Sinanitely heavier than one of course Hongkong, is not Wembler ordinary, monthly ones, the only figu but even here very interesting half which has been mentioned as hour can be spent at the Gas Company's the day is in the anghbourhood of Abowrooms in Des Voeux Road,
million in the way of turnover...
WASHINGTON, January 29th American participation in the disarm ment discussions at Geneva i ured by the Senate approving the resolation already passed by the House of Hepre sentative appropriating $60,000 to detray Like American delegates expenses.-
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