Sigismund Waltz, contributed an article to the letest issue of the Catholic magazine,—"Schoenere Zukunft," ("Better Future") in which he violently criticizes the attitude of a certain section of the foreign and above all the French press which severely censured the Austrian Episcipate for issuing a proclamation welcoming the anschluss in March.
'Tae Bureau of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economics has decided to open an office in Hongkong for pushing China's export trade, says a message to the "Sin Wan Pao." The Hongkong office of the' Bureau, it is reported, will devote special attention to the exportation of Keemun and Lianghu tea, tung oil from the upper Yangtze River valley, antimony from Hunan and silk from Kwangtung.
Tur Kwangtung provincial authorities have taken effective measures to uphold the legal value of the Chinese national currency, states a dispatch to the "Sin Wan Pao." One of these 4 is stated, requires the use of national currency as the b. of conversion between the local Cantonese and Hongkong bank notes. The issue of legal tender notes in Kwangtung by Government banks now totals $276,609,699.50, Forcorren anniversaries connect 1882 and 1938; for it was on May 6, 1882, that Lord Frederick Cavendish, whose nephew, the Duke of Devonshire, has just died, and Mr. Thomas Henry Burke were murdered in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, after the former had been sworn in as Chief Secretary for Ireland. The 1938 date coincides with the passing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in the House of Commons and in the Dail, and will probably be momentous in Irish history.
Tar water level of the Chientang River has registered a sharp rise as a result of the heavy rain in East Chekiang during the past few days, says a message to the "Morning Leader." The heavy wash of the river, it is reported, has caused the capsizing of a number of Japanese steam launches moored in the vicinity of Liuhota near Hangchow. The rainfall has also brought about a cessation of hostilities at points north and south of the Chientang River, concludes the message. where goods of the most inferior quality shipped from Shanghai and Homburg were sold to the Chinese at outrageous prices by four astute foreign merchant:
The native population of the Us-sur sky region was composed of Chinese, the "Gold a tribe of hunters and fishermen, Koreans, and tie "Orochi"—a primitive tribe of ornad huntsman in the evolutionary stage of savages. There were also 000 Cossacks who lived little military villages, or "stanitzas," situated 10 to 25 versts from one another and forming the outposts of Russia. They were sent here from the Transbaikalia by lot, and regarded their new neighbours as enemies and themselves as exiles.
Accompanied by his young companion Nicolai Yaginoff and two or three Cossacks, Prjevalsky travelled by water, on horseback, or, along narrow perilous trails; by foot, He slept on the snow, with a log fire the only proof against a cold that made it impossible to touch anything made of metal, and, again, in a climate that vied with the tropics.
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