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Chinese Students For United States
(From ‘‘The Dominion,” October 14, 1909.) Forty-seven Chinese students selected from 500 scholars in all the provinces of China are starting for the United States to study at Various colleges there. Their expenses will be provided from the unexpended balance of the Boxer Indemnity. (The Boxer War indemnity due by China to the United Stnt.es was remitted during President Roosevelt’s term of office.)
It is reported that the Collector of Customs nt New York is indicting a hundred importers, including 30 fashionable dressmakers. Detectives traced two hundred trunks containing French millinery and lingerie, on which there should have been paid £400.000. but which escaped duty through being left in the Customuntil the consignors demanded them The Collector of Customs believes that the Treasury lost two millions sterling in recent years by this kind of fraud alone. ♦ * *
Russia has withdrawn part of her troops from Tabriz, capital of the Azerbaijan Province of Persia (which recently deposed its Sultan in favour of his heir). Russia will leave i( batlory and two companies there till she is convinced that permanent order has been established.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 17, 15 October 1934, Page 8
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18925 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 17, 15 October 1934, Page 8
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