1918-09-13 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Tea Prohibion.

The Consul for the Netherlands informs the Singapore papers that the importation into Netherlande India, of foreign teas is prohibited a form the 18th of September. "A Nation's Taste in investment. ~Of the $553,400,000 foreign mecurities ontimated, according to a recent official return, to be "owned in Austris, 2214 par sånt, are those of Germany, 12 per cent. thoes of the United States, 1036 per cent. those of Bulgaris, 10 per cent. those of England, 8 per "cent, those of Russia, 71⁄2 per cent. those of Italy, and 6′ per cent. those of China.

Balls and Bats for the Army, Washington, August 3. "Twenty-one thousand: baseballs, 7,000 baseball bats, 3,000 rugby footballs, and 17,500 sets of boxing gloves, among a vast athletic material sofficient. tö supply 125 regiments" of the army, have been bought by the "Commission on Training Camp: Activities with the appropriation

of $250,000 made for that pur| pc89, according to sa announce- ment to day of the War Depart- ment.

Other People's Paper Money.

The French Minister of Finance, according to dispatches | rept to London from Paris," "bas issued an order prohibiting the export from France, beyond the limit of 1,000 francs, of French, Bassion, and American bask- notca. The reason for this order appears to be that for pote moribs past it has been known to the French Government that enemy agents in countries border- ing the Central Empires have been buying up Allied banknotes B & premiom."

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Japanese Ignorance. Travelling in the interior of Japan, a lady who knows the colicquial language perfectly was amized to find that country people, and those in comparative- ly large towns, did not even know that Jepan was one of the Allies. In fact come said. “No, no, we would not be so foolish, since the great military powers enemy are certain to win.". This $5.00 ie all the more strange, says the Japan Gasette, sinos in almost every household, however humble, the vernacular newspaper is seen. New York-Chicago Air, Post. Washington, August 8.-Daily air mail service, between Now York and Ohiosgo, batting tha present railroad time in half, and bringing the Pacific Doset twelve boure nearer the Atlantic, is planned by the Post Office De partment. In anouncing to-day this probably would be the next more of the air division, however, the Department gave notice to persons desiring to finance air mail carrier ocrporations that no extensions of the service now maintained between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington have been determined upon de finitely.

For French Chemists.

Establishment of a French local section of the Americao Chemical Society has been announced at the beadquartere of the Society, 35 Elat 41st Street. The union of French and American chemical "forces is compared to the "joint | brigading of the forces of the two

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