Estimated at $24,010,000,000
Washington, Dec. 8—The net cost of the war to the American Government was fixed by Secretary Houston to-day at $24,010,000,000. This, he said. adjusted' expenditure of the represented the Treasury, excluding all outlays which had no relation to the actual prosecution of the war during the period from April 6, 1917, to June 30, last, which, he said, covered and every new Government in|attempt is to be made te climb Mt./the extremes of the Government's Europe—are clamouring for im-leverest, the following should be of war-time fiscal operations. mediate passage to America. They interest Total expenditures by the Gov-are swamping foreign offices seek-Two years must be allowed for ernment during the period, covering passports. They are over-the ascent of Mount Everest. if ed, excepting postal disbursements whelming steamship agencies. a new British expedition is to ex-from postal revenues, were $38,830.- They are offering double prices for! plore its heights.
812,895, the Treasury figures show-tickets and are willing to travel on It will take a year to make preed. Of this amount $16,078,844,097 any sort of a vessel that can make parations and establish a. stairway was obtained in taxes and revenue the trip. And at least 30 per cen' of camps at successive levels. from sources other than borrowed of them would fail to pass their Stores will have to be lodged, en-money. entrance examination. tailing extensive arrangements for _Mr. Houston said that a deduetion of $9,523,000,000, the amount. "Tt is difficult to talk about the transport and carriers. Amongst loaned to foreign Governments, present situation," Mr. Wallis de-the party a number of good, skilful should be made from the grand clared last night, "because such climbers will be required. total. since these loans would he are the facts that you are posted For the negotiation of the ulti-repaid, and consequently could not as a sensationalist and hysterica iB mate stage two or three members of the expedition would suffice. be charged as an actual expendi-But I know these facts.
"Tt should be remembered that ture.
"At this minute all records are The Secretary made other _de-being broken. Eighty-seven perit! he mountain mass, whose culminate ductions. aggregating about $4,500,- cent. of our immigrants enter ing po'
'America There are more than 2,000 men,|above sea level, is situated partly ©d the excess cost 0 through Ellis Island.|the highest point in the world bigeces which, he maid, Feprescnt' int is called Mount Everest,
2 operations for the three years and government women and children housed here in Nepal and partly in Tibet, and three months over what they would to-night and they are shamefully the whole mountain has been and have been in normal times. crowded. It would be wrong to still is politically inaccessible," said deny it. We are doing our best.
Sir Martin Conway, M.P., an emin-But we lack room. What is to ent authority, to a "Daily Chronbecome of us here on Ellis Island ide'' representative on the 10th Paris, Jan. 13.—Field-Marshal Viscount French has arrived at in 1921 if, as the steamship men November.
Cannes.—French Wireless through assure us, ten years of immigration Tue Home or Mystery.
Reuter. is liable to be crammed into those twelve months? It can't be done.
"No white man has ever reached There are four bills to be intro-the base of the mountain.
Japanese police guards in For-formation is unknown. It has not duced into Congress aimed at remosa, according to a despatch remedial measures. I hope that been mapped. Nothing is really ceived by the "Yomiuri," were sud-known about it. One or two travel-anything I can say will spur Con-denly set upon by a troop of For-lers in Tibet have seen it from the gress to haste. Would it amaze mosan aborigines and 24 Japanese you to know that on one particular north, which proves to be the side, slain in the short combat that eneign Office had 311,000 applications Where it can most easily be ap- pr ler ener day that I know of the Polish For- ®S might have been expected, pee rts? proached. evidently timed their raid to coin-their guard, and the aborigines "We are getting splendid men "Assuming that our political recide with the New Year, when the and women from Holland, the lations with Tibet are satisfactory, Japanese guards would not be so Netherlands, the Scandinavian there is no reason to expect any alert as at other times. countries, Czecho-Slovakia and opposition from the Tibetan Gov-Jugo-Slovakia. They are farmers ernment to a British expedition going through the barren region north would be climbable, but many moun-and want to go to farming localiof the Himalayan watershed. tains in the Himalayas are cut off ties. We need them. However, the through which the northern slopes all round in the middle region by Yiddish predominate in the pre-of Everest can be reached. This Thascessible Cliffs or by—slopes sent influx, and they are being will avoid passing through Nepal, swept by avalanches. taken in charge by their friends line of route which the Nepalese "The necessity of making camps and relatives in the cities and people would be very unwilling in mountains involves a tremendous towns. The Yiddish are coming in great numbers from Poland. that any British expedition should amount of work. You are depen-Poland is sending us more people take. dent on the weather. and with the at present than any other country.
"It is certainly highly desirable possibility of three or four success from a scientific point of view that sive days of storm, you have to 1,000 Unrir to Enter. the actual structure of the great make sure of supplies. After you "There ave at least 1.000 per-mountain should be discovered, have reached a height of say 18,000 sons here now who must go back. and this is the main purpose of the ft.. it is still a long distance to Our hospital is filled with the sick. expedition.
Whether it will be 29.000 ft., and on that upper range There are many infectious diseases ~—diseases that can be traced to personal uncleanliness, to horribly insanitary conditions in their home lands, to malnutrition. improper and insufficient food, and so on. It would amaze you to see the number of diseased people seeking admittance. i possible for a party to reach the summit (29.002 ft.) is a question that no one can answer definitely.
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