Pakkhoi, Oct. 12.
For some time past it has been evident that the electric light supply for the town was in need improvement. The machinery use by the present Company is both old and out of date, A new Company has just been formed with.
capital of $50,000 to supply 5,000 lights. New machinery will be" installed on a site not far from the Customs, office. The id Company sold out (it is stated)) for 2
Mr. John J. Abbott, the Chicago bank man who took chances in 1919] and lent five million good gold dollars to the then Government in Peking, passed through Tokyo a few days ago. At the same time Mr. Silas Strawn, the Chicago lawyer and delegate to the Customs Conferehee at Peking, paused in Tokyo to look round and develop his land legs for a day or two before proceeding to Peking. Mr. Abbott }is going to' Peking also, like a good many other optimists whose sympathy lies. with the Japanese bankers who were persuaded to let In consequence of the blockade of Mi hara have some hundred British shipping at Canton, and, the millions of yen in order that be prohibition against boats calling at might win the goodwill of Field Canton vid Hongkong, the str.
Marshal Tuan Chi-jui. The Japan-"Limghow" sailed from' here direct ese bankers are also going to to Canton, Peking. Other bankers are headed There has been considerable move-that way for it is reported that the melt of troops within the lat day "Powers" will insist on the app: or two. General Tang" Poon-yan'ia priation of" any. increase of. Chins's concoitrating his forees on the Ko- income 49.8 result. of this conference chow-Yeungkong border. to the payment of at least a little interest on the several hundreds of millions of yuan, yen, dollars or pounds sterling borrowed by China while yet the borrowing was good.
Mr. Abbott is qn optimist and al bull in the China shop. He says the coming conference in Peking is going to give China a great opportunity to pay her debts manage her own offal The "Crepe hangers" who read Mr. Abbott's cheerful interview in the newspapers made various comments, summed up by one Japanese banker who graduated at one of the hig American universities. "Not a chance! Not @ chance" said he wh asked for an opinion. "I don't the sunshine yet and take it from me China will manage her own affairs in the immediate future just as she has managed them in the past"
Tokyo, " Oct. 20—The Nihon Muden Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Wireless Joint Stock Ca.) was ished here to-day, Mr. Kakichi Uchida has been elected as President of the concern.—Eastern News gress: of the Far Eastern Tropical Medical Association, at the closing
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