Sydney, July 4.
Regarding th new Australian-Japanese trading agreement signed on Saturday, it was announced that the number of bales of wool which Japan formerly pledged herself to take each year, has now been reduced to between 350,000 and 400,- 000, The former amount of Japanese cotton and artificial silk textiles, namely 51,250,000 square yards imported into Australia, will remain the same, and as agreed will include cellulose wool materials, The new agreement of July 2 has been concluded for one year, Simultaneously a shipping agreement, to remain in force for two years, has been signed.—Trans-Ocean, Tue China branch of the International Pen Club in Hankow has decided to address a message to the Club now in session in Prague, thankig it for the passage of a resolution which condemned the bombing of civilian population in China by the Japznese air force, says a dispatch tr the "Standard." The China branch of the Club, on the recommendation of its sponsors, Messrs. Tsung Pai-hua end Kuo Vu-shou, recently opened an office in Chungking and appointed Mr. Jen Lifu correspondence secretary.
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