Peking, Jan. 6.
A foreign official despatch from Vladivostok says that the Reds have assured traders and merchants that they can carry prior to the Red occupation. The Reds promise that there will be no requisition of goods. They also promise not to alter the tariff of loading charges and to allow icebreakers to work as usual for the same charges. Since the despatch was written, however, the Reds have taken over Egersheld Har-hour and this may alter the condition of export.—Reuter. lowest temperature ever recorded in Tientsin during the month of January was registered on January 2 when the mercury dropped to two degrees, thus giving 30 degrees of frost. The lowest previous January record was nine degrees, recorded in 1895, Curries for the Amateur Billiard Championship of England include the name of Mr. 8. C. Wu, a Hongkong man who has graduated of Cambridge. The China Mail" states that Mr. Wu's real name is Ng Sze-cheung, and that he is the brother of Ng Sze-kwong, whd has five times won the open tennis championship of Hongkong.
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