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GENERAETNE

The Federal Council F.M.S.

The King has been pleased to approve of the nomination of Mr. Arthur Payne-Gallway to be an Untficial Member of the Federal Council of the Federated Malay Statee for a further term of three

The Late Mr. R.A. Yerburgis.

Mr. Robert Armstrong Yer- burgb, 25, Kensington Gore, W., and Woodfold Park, Blackburn, Conservative M.P. for Chester 1886-1906, and 1910-16 president of the Navy League and at one time president of the Chins League, loft unsettled estate of the value of $31,855; net personally, £17,440.

Well-known Book Revised.

Por favor E. H. Parker has re- vised bis book on "China: Her History, Diplomacy, and Com-

merce from the Earlissi Times to the Present Day," originally published in 1901, for a new edition which Mr. Marray has in preparation. Three additional chapters have been added dealing with the revolutionary clanges of the

past six years, including the efects upon Chins of the Great War.

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German Financial Trickery, A remarkable siga of German consciousness of financial rain is provided in a deores of the Germen Gcvärnor-General of Poland, telegraphed from Wartaw to A nsterdam. By it the Russian rouble is to cease to be legal tender in Poland on the 28th in t., and the Polish mark ia to be sabatitated for it. The new Tolah.. mrk is to be the equivalent of the German mark, and the exchange for the rouble is fixed at 2.16 marks. That is to say, the roubles in existence there will be withdrawn, and Germany will take them for payment in marka. The hus clearly nouncement twofold interest. In the first place, at the exchange fired the German authorities Bre buying roubles at a rate, when converted into sterling, of 36 marks to the $1. Bat, what ini still more signifiesat, it is clear that they are simply trying to repeat in Poland what they have dose in Belgium. Just se they took away the Belgian currency, in order to use it for their own purposes, having replaced it in Belgium with their own relatively worthless marks, wo, by buying roubles (snd, presumably, roable notes; in Poland and giving marks in exchange, their plan is ta acquire a stock of another Allied currency, which doubtless they expect eventually to find more negotiable abroad than their own.

Prince Albert's Choice. Prince Edward Albert of Wales, boir apparent, has answer- ed for himself the question whom he will marry, socording to the National News. The News SKYD the Prince has decided be will ask for the hand of his first cousin, Princess Mand, youngest daugh ter of the Princess Royal and Fister to Princess Arthur of Con- naught. The

is Princess fourteen months older than the 'Prince, who is twenty-two.. She has lived a retired life, the inseparable companion of her! mother. Her father, the late-Duke of Fife, was the closest friend of the late King Edward. The report of the National News co- tradicts the rúmoar current some time ago that the Prince sought | the hand of Princess Yolanda, eldest daughter of King Viotor Emmanuel of Italy. Recently London newspapers, perhaps in- fluenced by the downfall of the Bastian aristocracy and the Am- ericén stand against Germany'a separate royal caste, have been arging bat the old system ander which, Kinge chose mates for themselves or their heirs among the daughters of their own uobi.

ty-should be revived.

WIKCARNIS.

S.

UTURS

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