The reluctance of the French athletic" authorities to accent. the invitation to rend a team to Japan Ihas at last been overcome. The pro" oral was flattering, not to say ate tractive, but it was quite another matter to undertake that a re presentative body of amateurs should abandon their occupations for two months, and accordingly the negotiations made little heads way, The Japanese thereupon sent 8 special emissary, Mr. Okabe, to Paris, and he, being well acquainted ed with the French athletic" world, succeeded in overcoming the principal difficulties and obtai definite promise. The team, ed by the Frenth Athletic Federae tion, will leave Paris on September 1, and, after a match with Germany in Berlin, will proceed to the East by the Trans-Siberian Rail way. The first encounter with the.
Tapanese athletes will be at Dairen fon September 22 and 23, The French team will leave Dairen on September 25 for Tokyo, where they will take part in another match, on October 6 and 7, against Japanese university students, and they will be back again in France early November, that the great west has ceased to have such a magnetic attraction, The Rise of Vancouver The ports of Quebec and Montreal are beginning to assume the appear-lance of summer activity. Each work sees the number of passenger ings increase, until about the end of June they will reach the maximum, The growth of the Canadian ocean: trade and transport has been phenomenal, so that now, in proportion to her population, Canada is the second country of the world in international trade. During the first quarter of the present century, the trans-Atlantic trade of the Dominion has quintupled, while her trans-Pacific trade has increased more than twenty times.
There is no doubt that in this growth the rise of Vancouver is the most important factor from Cana= da's point of view. Standing at the gateway of the East, Vancouver is, bound to forge ahead until she ase sumes first place in Canadian ocean trade. Ench year she is becoming 8 more serious rival to Montreal, more and more grain is being diverts ed towards the west, and, of course, Vancouver is open' all ' the year round, while Montreal can count on but seven months at the most, Loxpow, Jane 4:—Major-General Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, can,.P. (Conservative) formerly Chief of the Air Staff and Controller vf Civil Aviation, will take over the post of Governor of Bombay. in December in success to Sir Leslie Wilson.—Reuter-
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