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The seventh annual session of the American Mining Congress will be held at Portland, Oregon, from August 22 to August 27. It is expected that this will be one of the most representative mining congresses ever held, and will be attended by hundreds of delegates from different parts of this country and from foreign countries as well. The Tibetans are said to be now willing to arrange terms of peace, and to bring this about they have asked the British expedition to return to Gyangtse. Colonel Younghusband replied that he could only make peace at Lhasa, but that he was willing to discuss terms while proceeding there. The French Foreign Minister has notified the papal representative in Paris that in view of the rupture of relations between France and the Vatican, his mission to Paris no longer had any effect. This is a virtual severance of all diplomatic relations between France and the Holy See. Agents of the president of Venezuela have taken forcible possession of the property of the American asphalt company, and the State Department at Washington is preparing its protest against the action.