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CHICAGO CUTTINO PRICES. From Chicago- it is reported that two of the largest mail-ordar. houses in the world are cutting) prices by 10 to 20 per cani, on many lines of merchandise.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER · 22, 1920.

JAPAN AND AMERICA,

CALIFORNIA TO TAKE A REFERENDUM,

GERMAN BRIDES.

PERMISSION GRANTED TO BRITISH SOLDIERS.

Columns in the Press of both Marriages between British countries continue to be devoted soldiers and German women-of daily to the relations between which a large number hava taken Japan and America.

place in Cologne-ste to be

AUSTRALIAN 1920 WHEAT. -Speaking in the House of The Republican State Conves.officially recognised, although Representatives, the Hon W.. tion of California has adopted there is no intention of encourag Hughes Premier of Australia, platform calling for the legalizing such unions in view of popular said that the surplus wheat of tion of the policy of barring all feeling on this question. the Commonwealth is estimated) Asiaties from citizenship by an The following order signed by amendment to the National Con the General Officer Commanding, [stitution that would provide that has just been pablished in

of alien patents is a citizen unless no child born in the United States Cologne-

at 2,300,000.

LYONS FATE.

The Lyons Autumn Fair was inaugurated in the presence of a

"Marriages between officers great concourse of visiters from parents are themselves and other ranks serving on the all parts of France and from

eligible to citizenship.

Rhine and women of British as- abroad,

several foreign

The platform approves of the tionality may be celebrated in com- mercial missions being included. measure declaring that no and Cologne, under the authority of in the State may be secured either the Commander-in-Chief. by a CHISO-SIAN TRADE RELATIONS by purchase or lease by aliens chaplain to the Forces.

Han Chi-kai, a representative ineligible to citizenship which is of the Overseas Chinese Associato be voted upon at the referendum ton, was received in audience by in November. the Crown Prince of Siam, says a Chinese telegrum received in Shanghai, Trade plans for Siam and China were discussed and it is said that the Prince showed much interest in the friendly relations of the two countries.

THE ENGLISH ROOT TRADE Northampton, reports that! trade shows signs of a revival but the tendency is not ser de faite enough to justify the hope that business is returning to its Fold level. The better condition of things is noticeable rather in the country districts around than in the towns.

Some factories in the smaller centres are again running full time.but in the country towns there is still much short time and some unemployment.

nationality (other than Germans) "Marriages with women of

may also be celebrated under the The Democratic State Conven- same conditions subject to the tion has taken a similar stand. written concurrenez of the auth

Some members of the Japanese orised representative of the House of Fiers, it is stated. women's country of origin. consider the proper attitude for,

"Marriages with German Japanese to assume is a passive women are governed by the con- one, exercising every patience. ditions of General Routine Order,

"It would be a great loss to the 3901, the last paragraph of which Japanese," says ane. spokesman will be amended to read: The for these Peers. "if they grew commanding officer will be held impatient, as some are apparently responsible that a certificate of beginning to be, and should attact the marriage on Army Form A. the Government because of its 13A. is completed and signed by lukewarm' attitude.

It is true the registrar."

that the attitude of the Japanese One of the reasons for the pre- Government appears to be any-valence of so many marriages thing her firm in the present between British con-commission- negotiation with the Americaned officers and men and German |authorities, but the question is: girls is the billeting system which

Would a firmer attitude contribute) prevailed for so long. wbilsti much towards the satisfactory another cause advanced is the) settlement of the difficulty? The fact that practically all the The Secretary for Mary, with grow impatient over the situation already married.

| fact is plain that if the Japanese English women on the Rhine are: the approval of the President of the Board of Trade, has appoint-attitude, the cottondence would and assume any very positive ed Mr. F. A. flowers. C.D., to be te suicidal." Permanen: Under-Secretary forl

quer,

UNDER SECRETARY FOR

MENES.

Mioes. Mr. Towers has been|INFLAMING AMERICAN OPINION. Principal Private Secretary to Mr. Lloyd George at the Exche-from time to time by utterances The situation becomes infassed Chiet Inspector to the like that of Prof. David Presco National Health Insurance Co-Barrows. President of the Uni mission, and secretary to the ersity of California, who recently Conciliation Board for Guvern-asserted that the possession of |ment Employees.

USCLAIMED› MOTOR-CARS IN JAPANESE KAREHOUSE

MONUMENT TO LAFCADIO HEARN.

PROPOSAL OF OLD STUDENTS.

was in-

A number of the students of ann by the Japanese means the Lafcadio Hearn, who doom of the United States, acdistructor in literature in the Im- declared that under the smoke-perial University of Tokyo from A large number of motor-cars.jscreen of land possession, Japao 1890 to 1993. are desirous of which have been imported from was reigning in California. He establishing a permanent munc- America, are lying anclaimed in added that the Japanese are, meat of some sort in his memory. warehouses at Yokohama. Kobe undoubtedly, planning a told Lafcadio Hearn was a subject of and Osaka owing to the economicstroke in Asia. Prof. Barrows, the Japanese Empire under the depression. In the Sumitomolt may be noted, is, said to be a pame of Yakumo Koizumi, al- warehouse at Chikko, Osaka, satellite of Mr. Randolph Hearst, though of Irish and Greek there are some 130 cars the con- the newspaper magnate, who parentage. He married a Japan- signee for which, a certain Japan-has adopted a markedly anti-ese woman. He died September ese firm, has gone into bank. Japanese attitude, jast as he 23, 1904.

ruptcy. It is conjectured that adopted a rabidly anti-British | Hearn's four sons, one daughter

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save space, these cars will attitude. Gually be disposed of by public tender.

and wife still live at Tokyo. One Apparently thinking that he son. Kozuo, 27 years old. is follow- had gone too far Prof. Barrows, ing in the footsteps of his father BRAZILS OIL RESOURCES. supplementing his speecb, said and devoting himself to the study Investigation of Brazil's oil re- that the Japanese question is an of literature at Waseda Universi- sources and their development, economic and not a racial que 15. Iwao. 21. is a student at either directly by the Federal tion, and that there should be no Kyoto University. Kiyoshi, 21,, Government

by private mave made to exclude Japanese is studying painting at Uyeno companies urder stric: sup-from American universities for Art School. Suzoko, 17 year. "rvision. is ordered in should their property be taken the only daughter, the four sons, Bill introduced in the Cham-from them without compensation. and Mr. Broüro Take. ber of Deputies. The measure California, he said, should seek teacher of the Pears School, provides that pil-bearing lands of all possible points of understand. celebrated the seventeenth an- proved capacity may be expro-ing with the Japanese, but he Diversary of the educator's death priated by the Government as a believed that appropriate steps at bis former residence and also matter of public utility and should be taken at the same time visited his grave. developed with a view to supply-to protect American labour and Hearn, who was born in the ing the country's own needs, BDF to protect American land.

Iosian islands in 1850, was first #Icess above such needs being; exportable.

The University of Californials printer then journalist, then be added would always be open lecturer in literature. He went GERMANY'S TADE BALANCE. to all properly prepared indents to America in 1869 and came to

In the German memorandum from soy country. prepared for the. International Finance Conference at Brussele; exact data is given regarding Meanwhile Marquis Okuma, Germany's income and expendi-; the "Grand Old Man of Japan," Among his former pupils, who ture. Amongst other things it is aroused by a strong sense of in-are found in the Imperial Univer- stated that in 1919 imports justice to his countrymen, is call-sities and the colleges of Japan, amounted to 32,000,000,000 marks ing together leaders of Japanese as well as in high public positions, and exports to 10,000,000,000, an thought to discuss methods of are: Mr. Akauchi, governor of excess of 22,000,000,000 in imports. rousing public opinion to combat Fakuoka Prefecture, Mr. Kobashi This adverse trade balance con- the anti-Japanese agitation in Vice-Minister of Home Affairs: tinued during the 6rst three California.

Mr. Gyosaki and Mr. Sakusaburo months of 1920. In January the

MARQUIS OKUMA'S ACTIVITY,

Japan in 1890, and also spent two years in the French West! Indies. He wrote a large number of books on Japan.

excess was 3,300,000,000 marks, in Americs is a serious matter others, according to the Aszki, in February 1,700.000,000 and in from the view point of our prig-Bre desirous of setting up a perma

"The anti-Japanese question Uchigasaki. These, as well as

March 1,500,000,000.

fo

for the first time there was an Marquis Okoma saye in an inter- excess of exports, amounting to view in the Athi, "yat the 576,000,000 Bod in May of people ara silent and are, at z

1.100,000,060 marks.

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FEARS AGITATION MAY SPREAD. "The thousands of Japanese published. It ignores the ques-now in California are all subjects

"The anti-Japanese attitude of tion of the vast liabilities of the of the Emperor. They have, by California is very unfortunate. Russian Government, municipali toil and industry built up their If matters are allowed to take ties and private borrower, and business sad established their their own course, the agitation proposen protection against

homes in accordance with the may spread to Australia Canada, the attachment of Russian laws of the United States, yet New Zealand and the British gold securities and commodities now their lives and propery are 1-les, which would probably lead which Russia may export in the jeopardized by the growing ex-tory serious consequences. course of trading. The Times clusion movement.

"If Amerios does not see her denounces the agreement as a

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