CHINA “PREPARING”?

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3370, 24 December 1919, Page 5

CHINA “PREPARING”?

MYSTERY OF“BIG ORDER_ ._._..J. A big order of Army supplies has been placed with a Broadway purchasing agenjc for shipment to the Orient (states a London paper). It includes six million yards of 'kh-aki cloth, a million pairs of khaki leggings, half a million pieces of camel-‘s hair robes, and -half a. million of aluminium canteens. The agent, in an interview, sa.’.(l he was not at lilberty to disclose the names of his principals, but he believed the order was for China. “In fact,” he added, “I liavczrt the slightest doubt the goods are r'lestiued for China. The controversy over the Shantung peninsula Seems to Warrant preparation on the part of -China. The order stunned me at first, but.:it is gradually .simplifyiiig itseif.”