2. 9—Ki! Resigns (b) ce A sort petition has been sent by local Chinese manufacturers to the Chinese Government in Chungking, urging that the Foreign Ministry negotiate with the Straits Settlement Government to modify its import restrictions, says a report to the "Sin Wan Pao." These import restrictions end various measures introduced by the Straits Settlement Government to safeguard the foreign exchange se-seriously affected the Chinese export trade to these places, the report states. windows of the War Shrine, where even the canaries and the mice hav mot been forgotten. This is a portrait of one of the birds actually employed during the War.
The new organization, said Major Osman, will assist the defence services to make full use of the homer—most intelligent and reliable of birds—for communication in war and peace.
When an aeroplane is lost and its wireless has failed a pigeon can always bear a message. The birds may share, too, in A.R.P. work. And there is another point: firms who find their use of the telephone restricted, as it is bound to be in wartime, will realize the value of a pigeon post
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