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! The Zion" Congress "urgeS* Britain to further aim » at' tJafc. Zionism of Palestine.. , I The Foreign, Consuls, have j: reclaimed martial law. in Crete, 1 Ponding legislation to be introduced :in the Victorian House of Assembly j this week to restrict Chinese competiItion in the furniture and laundry I trades, all Chinese cabinetmakers and [ laundrymen at present following these [occupations will be licensed, but no I further licenses will be 'issued. jj Tsetsu Shau, late Chinese adviser •and interpreter at the Rand i mines, has writen' to the Chronicle, all leging that most of the Chinese were * eniiiced to tlie Hand under false pre- \ fences. They ay&- insufficiently fed and : are paid; less than the Kaffirs. They ■ are often cruelly, sjamboked. : Gabriel La Fargue started to swim - the Channel fr o m Calais in a verj , rough sea, but abandoned the attempt after being four hours 'in the water. General Booth,* who has returned tc ; Lond<in> is profoundly impressed wit! Australian possibilities, and hopes tc utilise 10,000 aowo of West Australia ; for the benefit-. of 7 yo\xng waifs. H( ; suggests Government help by placing \ a troopship or two at th'o disposal ol ! iho Salvation Army's emigrants. \ , Mr Reid, ex-Federal Premier, in a \ speech, replied to Cardinal Moran's | reference to Socialism. In the foui branches of Socialism , mentioned bj ! the Cardinal he had omitlecf to men | tion Australian ;Socialism. He spok( i of the Australian democracy as if thai ' were" Socialism!- To think so was 8 fallacy. ■