Peiping, June 3.
A German Catholic priest, the Rev. Father J. Beck, stationed in Yishien, Shantung town, north of Taierchwang, was slain by Chinese plain-clothes men midway between Tsaochwang and Lincheng on May 19, according to a report received here this afternoon.
He had been missing for the past twelve days and an extensive search for him had been made by Japani authorities. The Chinese band w said to have been led by a chieftain named Tsui Wang. Details of the case were not known—Domei, Commons on May 27, confers important new powers on the Board of Trade and gives retrospective authority for purchases already made by the Government of wheat, sugar and whale oil for storage against a national emergency.
Its second reading was moved without a division.
Mr, Stanley said that, in some eases, traders would be induced to carry, on behalf of the Government, more than normal stocks, Liquidation of the stocks under the Bill commercial interests and more conversant with commercial methods, which would have to be used in the execution of policy, when it had been once decided. could not be effected without another act of Parliament defining the munner in which it could be done.
This, he declared, would prevent large stocks from being thrown on the market and disorganizing the ordinary channels of trade.
Firms entrusted with the custody of wheat, Mr. Stanley went on, would take it over when the time came for milling in order to prevent deterioration,, and to~ease the, difficulty of storing it Would be mostly kept in west coast ports, while sugar would be dispersed in inland centres.
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