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COMMERCIAL NEWS,

THE QABELLE ADMINISTRATION, Mr. P. Loureiro, of the Chinese Government Salt Administration. has lent for Dalny in the interest of the Sats Gabelle.

AUSTRALIAN COAL

The price of all coals exported from Australis, including bunkers, was increased recently | by four shillings a ton.

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION,

The British Government will guarantee £100,000 in rospect of the British Empire Exhibitian to be held in England in 1923.

NEW FORMOSA OIL WELL, A new oil well, which promises to flow for quita, a long time, is worked a: Kosenpo. Formoss. The well is 1,500 feet in depth.

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DOCKYARD TO MANUFACTURE LOCOMOTIVES.

The Mataukasado Dockyard has undertaken the manufacture of locomotives under the direc tion of the Kuhara firm. COST OF US. FUEL CONTROL

The final report of the Fuel Administration Committee reports that the total cost to the United States of fuel control during the war amounted to $1,824.631.

COST OF MOTIVE POWER, A Director of the Generat Petroleum Company states that if we do not pay enough for power to encourage its development we will have to pay four times the price in the future.

INDIAS JUTE CROP. The official estimate of the jute erop is 6,500,000 bales. This is

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EUROPE AND COAL

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Condition Of The People.

Furliament has resumed its activity at a time when it cannot be suggested that there is any ap- At the same time we shall not shows that the balance of trade preciable improvement in the long night out way to a solution if we in November shrank by $63,000,- contest which the people have unnecessarily exaggerate the 000, compared with the result for waging within recent gears in the gloom. In the midst of all the October, in consequence of a matter of prices and wages and unrest and strife substantial decided falling of in exports. employment. The figures for character are taking place." In The exports in November were imports September show that the percent-September, for example, 219,00f8675,000,000, and the age unemployed among the mem-British workers in various in- | $321,000,000. ber of trade union, mainly skilled | dustries received advances of JAPAN'S RICE ACREAGE. workers, was 2.2 at the end of the wages amounting in all to more Of about 300,000 square cha month, while among the people than £49,000 weekly. According of rice plantation in Japan. covered by the Unemployment In- to such statistics as are available abou: 900.000 square cho is badly surenne Aer it was 0.8. Both more then 1500 work-people in watered, according to a Govern- figures show an advance on those the same monthsecured Ament return. At the last session of August. In the last week of average reduction of three tour of the Dist, the Department off September the number of men weekly in their working perio | Agriculture and Commerce and women on the "live" regis-Many recent months have show obtained

of

corar approximately 83 par cent. approval

of her pre-war requirements, ters of the employment exchanges much larger gain. When we brinestimate of YS30,000 for the

although that will only be accon→ WAS 311.126. compared with our national statistics into some improvement of these plantations,

The Way to Peace. plished under abnormal Cog- the last week off thing like reasonable efficiency and it is reported that as a first 281,600 in

ditions, involving the importation August. No doubt from some we sha 1 be able to measure much step toward this end the Depart- Everybody to-day is keeals of coal from America at enormous points of view the figures are more accurately both the gainment has started investigations interested in the restoration of

In this considering

espease. the

the The and loss of the masses in thes into the half of remarkable,

900,000 European commerce. We may

W3J teconomic upheaval which has tecmonte "confier Azaio, square cho. It is expected that institute domestic control and penalisede: the very time when

industry of non-belligerente is followed the war, and there is though war pensions cannot when this work is consummated.to regulate prices. bus the real moss people believed they should lisle doubt that in many ways regarded as extravagant, they about 15,000,000 koku mate of remedy is to re-establish, without have been in EL Great Britain is escaping lightly form a stable income to-day in rice will be gathered in the whale delay the full intercourse of inter-substantial advantage to assist in But the situation is nevertheless many bomes which in pre-wcountry.

national trade, writes Mr. William the task of post-war recovery. serious. The fizures of the ex-times, partly because of uncertain) BRITISH EMPIRE PRODUCTS. Graham, M.P., in a home jourasi. chances do not give all the unemployment and partly because

There has just been launched To this end a generous supply of employed in the country, and of other difficulties, never enjoyed large numbers always suffer a regular and fixed weekly con-in London Endland, by a few coal is fundamental. In 1919 the severely and systematically re-tribution. To & real extent in-blic-spirited men, an enterprise German supply of coal declined crisis has at least one valuable of creat importance to every part by 162,000,000 tons. According feature it directe attention to tho frain from giving any public came has been secured and stablis of the British Empire. The con- to Herr Hug, one of the delegates possibilities of alternatives. The indication of their trial, writesed, although there are none who

ception is, briefly, a co-partner to the Spa Conference, there is no suggestion regarding the use of Mr. William Grahan.

do not regres the personal loss hip between colonial manufac- prospect of a return to pre-war Swiss water-power for the ganers- and sorrow that made such

tucers And producers in an conditions. either as regards the tion of electricity is important, stabilisation necessary. "|

organisation for the sale of quantity mined or the price at but it is a comparatively bumble their goods direct to the which it ia available for proposition compared with the householders in the United use. Great Britain is under-great schomes which are now

SUSPICION AND UNREST.

to

zire

postion

of

THE OMIS OF CRISIS. At the same time economic

systems.

When Freach aims

COST OF INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

Nor is the situation improve! be the almost incessant strife which is now a settled charac- The Parliamentary debate on Kingdom. An imposing pile of stood to-day to be consuming being discussed in the proposed teristic of British industry. In unemployment was noreal ani September there were in round ineffective, and in wash of things is coing up in the very about 87 per cent. of the quantity electrification of French railway

centre of London's eight million of coal consumed before the war: figures 200 trade disputes in this Discussion which was surrounded consumers, wherain to house Germany is consuming only are criticised it cannot by forgat- country. Directly and indirectly the investigation of the miners this marketing organisation.jabout 57 per cent.; and she is tea that many of their richest they involved 104.000 workers, claim there has been a sinzular Colonial products are already coder obligation to make a coalfields have been rained, and compared with $6.000 in the absence of constructive U being distributed by this enter monthly delivery of two million they have been compelled to previous month. The estimated gestion. The thing we most pei-a to mang theo and British tons to the, Enteate. Since 1913 explore the substitution of water- agregate duration of all the urgently require to dar, to assist homes, ant manufacturers in German coal output has fallen by power for coal. Under a rizant disputes during the month was the cause of world-recovery, to every part of the British Empire almost 30 per cent. On the other statute concessions have bɔen about 1,193,000 working days, in pare the way for the reduction was would care to participate hand much criticism has arisen granted by the Freach Minister of August, and more than 3,000,0 of prices at home and abroad are invited to forward samples from the fact that France bas Public Works for the provision of [days in September, of last year, and

the and particulars of their goods, been able to cover almost 90 per the devices necessary for the pro- In a recent speech Lord Weir necessary foundation for the

with their outpus capacity, to cent. of her pre-war coal requireduction of motive power. Inclad- estimated that since the Armis- great social and economic change he Pablic 3ervice Stores ments, sed among miners ing reservoirs, bydraulic canals, tice, less than two years ago, which is necessary, is a generous Limitet, Westminster Bridge different countries the recent and pamping.plant, which will be there have been 290 industrial industrial progamme. Every Road, London, England.

suggestion that France was heapndertaken at the cost of the disputes. affecting 3,500,000 | body "admits the importance of

ing up coal roserves has led to State under a process of re- people, and involving the loss of increased production, but only a

considerable unrest.

demption by the companies to.. approximately 44,000,000 working small number will look fearlessly ANOTHER JAPANESE MINT.

which the concessiona are NON-BELLIGERENTS. at distribution Everybody 4378

assigned. French railway electri- Much more perhaps than is more hard work all round, but

fication began in 1931. and. commonly appreciated, the war according to one of the French they draw the line when they

had forced non-belligerents into railway directors, even without have reason to fear that that) The miners' stoppage, affecting means merely more

the a position of substantial difficulty the compelling argument of the more than 1,000,000 people payers and an increased number Japanese Government have under Switzerland, for example, has present cost crisis the economic directly, will mean an enormous of millionaires. Production is contemplation a project for the been compelled to undertake in-advantages attaching to electri- fizure for the present month. In stimulated in industrial concerne establishment of another Mint.

vestigation into the possibility of fication are so great that forther almost all cases the substantial and then the workers have their The

proposed additional providing-a-large supplies of

opposition is useless, expecially increase in the cost of living tention directed to the swollen establishment, which is intended raw material as possible at home, when it is calculated that 10 men has been the cause of disloca- tion. The most recent figures holders.

dividends of absentee share to relieve the congestion at the but efforts in ora mining and in a 33,009 b.p. station will pro- Osaks Mint, is to be in Tokyo. coal prospecting have shown that duce more power than thras or show that the average level of

authorities it is very doubtful whether they four hundred men in a coal mine. the According to iretail prices in 104 per cent.

of the Finance Department, as can be excavated on an economic When coal is in everyone's mlad above the Javel of July.

quoted by the Yamato, various basis. It has been pointed out these are impressive consider- 1914, while for food alone the In this atmosphere of suspicion coins of designs, con- that even at a moderate depth arians. It may be that in the average rise is 170 por contand unrest, charge and counter-trived to prevent any success temperatures are

encountered

midst of crisis we are recasting These statistics do not err on the charge, is it possible to provide ful attempt

counterfeit which render necessary the

much more rapidly than wa are side of exaggeration, but it is a programme which Parliament them, will be issued in the severe curtailment of working

aware the whole industrial broadly true that, while certain and the country might accept? future, and to begin with a 10 hours, and it has Взем

structure of Europe. industries have shown consider-At the moment our duty is to sea

nickle coin. with suggested that the best thing able increases in remuneration of plead with every man, woman, small round hold in the centre, that Switzerland can do is to make all grades of workers, the people and child to look at all the facts, has already been issued to every effort. to use her water- as a whole have not had their in-with courage and resolution and the amount of three million power for the purpose of generat comes increased strictly in keep fair play, if this country is to be yen, and this amount is to be ing electricity. At the sams the A New York School insɔsetor ing with the great advance in the spared the debacle which has increased by the, spring by improvement in Swiss coal supply recently went to inquire about a. cost of the necessaries of life. overtaken such a large part of another two or three million encourges the hope that in the 14-year-old girl absentee, whom, Sacrifice is undoubtedly demand-'contemporary Europe.

present year she will be able to he found 32) married.

REAL SOURCE OF TROUBLE.

Proposed Establishment at Tokyo.

super-tax It is reported that

LOOK AT ALL THE FACTS.

780.

new

to

MARBIED SCHOOL TRJANT.