is understood that Brit ts are interested in I experimental planting on 8,000 acres in Auckland province of wood-all trees.
The experiment is being carried out by an expert previously engaged in the Chinese wood-oil industry who left China and went to England during the revolutionary troubles. Capitalists he interested in the Project invited him to tour the empire with a view to establishing the industry. As a result Aucklan:) was selected.—Reuter, Baghdad, Aug. 9.
"We have exerted ourselves to the utmost to avoid the shedding of Arab blood and regret that King Ton Sand should not be more appredative of our goodwill," concluded the Premier of Iraq in a speech the Chamber of Deputies to-day regarding the breakdown of the Jeddah Conference—Reuter.
Cairo, Aug. 10. communique issued by the Hedjaz Agency ascribes the breakdown of the Jeddah Conference to failure to agree upon the question of removal of the Traquian frontier posts, which Ton Sand considered a contravention of the Treaty.
The communique states that the Government of the Nejd will con-
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