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A HOUSEKEEPER IN

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WHAT DOES IT COST TO LIVE:

Not for a long time has any. court in Shanghai boon angaged. with afory of so much human interest as the action brought by Honigsberg and Co. against their farmer mechanio Mr. C. B. Jones, an which Judge Labiagier gaYO judgement yesterday, says the N. 6. Daily News of May 26. From no conversation nowadays is the burning question of prices and salarice very distant, and while we in Shangbai ar ua. doubtedly better off, not only in respect of prices but of ability to gat what we want if we can pay for it, than other places, there Jean bo no question that the

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an inborn right to China than in the West, and that finding acother and will not find sise. Broadly speaking, however, as unreasonable. Indeed it has

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the judgement. They would naturally ask that the clause in question in Mr. Jones's contract should be upheld. It is a clapse that figures in the agreements of most men brought to China. But when it comes to hard and fast observance, be embargo is very seldom enforced and publie opin ion is not unnaturally against

it.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

TRADE WITH RUSSUL

London, June 4. It is understood that a policy with regard to M. Krassin.

special cabinet last evening discussed the The situation is described as distinctly perplexing. Today's meeting of the permanent committes of the Supreme Economic Council was postponed to Monday at the instance of the British Government, owing to the necessity for cabinet consultation. It is assumed that an unforeseen contingency has arisen. A Brussels paper learns that M. Krassin has deposited 21,000,000 in a large London Bank.

Washington, June 4.

-Da the buruing question, What can a man live on in Shanghai, which brought forth some rather amusing evdence in hearing the learned Judge astutely, but rather unkindly, avoided committing himself. He was not satisfied! that $275 a month in San Frana Commission of the Chambers of Commerce of the United States The State Department has refused to grant passports enabling cisco was better worth having to go to Russia to study the question of resumption of trade. Officials than $375 plus medical expenses explain that despite the negotiations of M. Kraasin and other cono- jin Shanghai, and he leaves us all tries the polley of the United States Government regarding trade with to make what we can of that Russia is unchanged and will not necessarily be influenced even should The defendant gave bim an opea Britain modify her attitude. It is not expected, however, that the ing by allegics fraud in Mr. State Department will oppose the proposed visit of the Commission Honigsterg's estimate of what to Europe to study resumption of trade with Russia. life might cost in China. No evi dence of fread could be found in the evidence, nor does it appear in any way reasonable to think that Mr. Honigsberg meant to deceive defendant or was scious of doing so. Few of us, if Fassed to give a broad idea of what living costs in this or that place, take into consideration angshing beyond the expenses of board and bed. Clothes, boots. washing and the many etcetera which must in reali.5 come into the budget are overlooked. The the coast. comparison in Mr. Honigsberg's mind was probably between a boarding-house in Shanghai and

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THE BOLSHEVIKS IN PERSIA.

London, June 1.

The Associated Press correspondent at Constantinople reports (June 2nd) that the Persion Legation learns that the Bolsheviks have entered Teheran.

Later. secapation of Teheran is totally untrue.

Persian official sources inform Reuter that the reported Bolshevik London to-day, dated yesterday, mentions 'no Bolshevik advance from A telegram received in

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boarding-house in San Francisco. Later on, he seems to have thought the matter over again, as is shown by the volun-

New York, June 4. tary addition of first fifty and ship afloat, has been commissioned. She cost £1,000,000, and is of The super-dreadnought Tennessee, said to be the largest battle- then the twenty-five dollars to 2.500 tona. She carries twelve fourteen inch guns. Special features defendant's p35. It cannot be thought that Mr. Jones was observing enemy ships are concentrated, also the electrical control are the "Fighting Brain," near the topmast, wherein all devices for treated ungenerously. On the of speed, enabling quick change from top speed of twenty-one knots other hand, defendant's contento almost imperceptible motion. in illustrates the discrepancy that exists between legal damages and the average man's conception; of the word. One hazarde a guess that he kut, married on the strength of this agreement, know- ing how far $350 would go in San Francisco and imagining that it

AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE.

Washington, June 2

At a joint conference in committee the Senate and House agreed

might go pretty wel[ ̈ ̈ * far to the Merchant Marine Bill, but the amount of fifty million dollars in China.

And then on arriv per annum assigned for the construction of new ships in the next five ing. one can easily imagine years was reduced by half. how many needs of dis- satisfaction would spring op about him; how tedious the day! must have been for his young wife left alone in the boarding- house, in s strange town and mostly among strangers through|

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

LONDON DIRECTORY the long working day; and how the fatere of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is being considered, but

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London, June 4. Replying to a question Mr. Harmsworth states the question of impossible he found it, in these the time for decision thereanent has not yet arrived. days of scarce houses and high rents to make any better provi- sion. It is, no doubt highly reprehensible to break a contract, but there are element in the

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GASWORKERS TO STRIKE.

London, June 3.

The National Federation of Gasworkers has balloted as regards

the expenses to which Honigsberg the question of a strike to enforce their demands for an increase of ten & Co. had been put in bringing shillings per week. Ninety-six per cent. favoured a strike and one him to Shanghai,

The personal equation enters.

of course, too largely into matters of household, economy for any bard and fat ruling. As Mallock put it "Sixty pounds may be too mach for a carate, but too little for a cook." The catechism is

hundred thousand.workers will be affected.

THE LEAGUE.

París, June 4.

not perhaps so much studied as it). A League of Nations Council has been called for 11 June..

need to be, or we might recall that it has certain pertinent

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