London, Aug. 18.
The P. & O. liner Carthage, which is intended for the service to China and the Far East was launched at Glasgow to-day.
Carthage is 14,000 tons and will have a speed of 195 knots.
She will carry a crew of 300 and has accommodation for 180 first] class passengers and 200 second The international tin committee unanimously recommended to the signatory Governments that the International tin research scheme should start in January, 1982, and be continued for five years, China is stil practically" virgin country, but, necessity. Wi ably dive. them to. introduce experts and. machinery for the ere {ion of industrial and other pr0- duets. in their own country. "By listening to the appeal of China in her distress, "made by her representative, Ar. Bel Tsu, Yiay the recent meeting in Washington of the. International Chambers. of Commerce and by stretching out a hand to help her, we risk but little and stand to gain n great deal. By turning a deaf ear to her entreaties, our position 10 years Thence may be inflately worse than it ts now.
If Sir Robert Home is right in impressing upon us the necessity of unlearning "many things—and I ink all must admit he is—then not the least of the fallacies which constitute a menace to peace and a hindrance fo world prosperity that require living down is the old con ception of the Yellow Peril. The Yellow Peril of toxiay is not friend John Chinamen but the status ac-
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Yours truly, 'H. E. Monaiss. The Thatched House Clsb,
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