tation of certzin goods and that therefore,
its proclamation
to this effect was invalid
and
illegal. The judgement
is
consid-
ered
one of ti c most
imyortant ever
ren-
dered
again:t
the
Government.
‘l'he
case
in which
the
decision
was
given
concerning
the importation
of
pyrogallic
acid from
tle
United
States,
the
acid
havmg
been
seized
on
its
arrival.
The
I rociamation
referred
to
was issued
this
year under
a
section
of th2
customs
con-
federation
Act of 1876 providing tha:
im
portation
of ‘‘arms and ammunition,
zun-
powder
or an7
other goods
may b:
pro
nibited
by
proclamation
or an
Oidor it
Couneil’’.
Jistice Sankey
held
that the
words
mean
‘‘singular’’ goods.
Leave
1o appeal
was granted
by the Court.
_ London,
D:c.
18th.
-7That
impcriance
1s attached
tc
Justice
Sunkey's
dacision
In
the
prohisited
imporcs
test
case,
is
shown
by
tie fact
tha!
nearly
al
the
morning
pujers,
ailude
o 0 it,
ediio ialiy
and generall:
in approva
of the
Jilge’s
rulings.
Th:
‘‘Times’’ declares
tac:
de-
Clsion
gppears
to be
unirpeachably
gcod
sense
gnd
t:at
if the ' roclamation
ai-
temp .ed
to
cistinguisn
Li2tween
Imodorts
irom
the
cminions
and
foreign
coun-
tries,
as
cor
sspondence
in
the
case
im-
plied, it is
a'l the
more vatisfactory
that
the Court
should
forbid
such
prozedure
Wi‘hout fuil and
open
consent
of
Par-
liament.
Ib2>
‘‘Mornirg Post’’
leads
the
commeaeits:
‘‘State Illegality’’ and
says
the
ca-e
illustrates
the singular
fa-
tuity of the riethods
of the
Government
in
dealine
wicth
Interaational
T rade.
Both
the
‘l:aily
New:’’
and
°‘'Daily
Mail’’ eond
eln the
resoit
to war rlezula-
tions for Govirnment
powers
instead
of
to the House
of Commons.
wondon.
) cember
18ti,.—The
Fadera-
ticn of
WMas
ec
Cotton
Soinners
hag
re-
commended
I)its members
who
e ploy
150.000 ope.z.ives
a gra.t
to
the
opera-
tives
of
a lonus of from one
to
three
pounds
per
a onth during the
first
cuar-
ter
of
:he
llew
Year.
The
estimated
cost
to the “ederation
is
£140,000.
The
explanatior
of
the, action
is
thal huge
profits
neve
been
made
by
the master
coston
sy
aers,
while
the
operatives
have been
'
a2 red by an @greement
rom
asking
for
2
advance
in
wages
intil
next March
The Executive
Comin:ttee
of the Cpera
ives
Unions
met
at
!Man-
choster
last
n ght and adopted
a
resolu-
tion
that
(b 2 master
cotton
sp rners
offer. in evers respect
is unsatisfaciory.
The:
add
:
' The offer vas not
volunta-
ry as suppo-€
1, but in response
to
a pro-
longed agite .Im’”’,
Londoa, e zember
18th.—Recen:
pre-
diciions
the.
1 genaral
election
wil.
be
heid
in
the
ear
future
are revivel by
several
morn
ng
newspaoers
in coennec-
ticn with roipows
ia
the
Parliamentary
lobbies
yes'e
day:
Parlament
wil.
be
preroguzd
next
week
until
th2
sacond
weak in
Fehiaary,
when,
accordiag
to
widespread
be iie?,
the
Governmen
will
prepare
for
o
dissolutioi of Parlicment
ST BIW
A vils
and
an election
to test
the
country’s
evi-
dennce
in
the Coalition
Cabinet.
Mem-
be
's of the Labour Party,
it is stated,
are
corvinced
tnis
is ‘the Government’s
in-
ter tion
and
are
pushing
plans
to
put
four
hundred
candidates
ir
the
field.
The
sole
plan
of
the
party,
itis
said,
wi | be the rationalization
or coal miners,
although
one section
asserts
this to be
a
mistake,
claiming
there
would
be
a bet-
ter chance
1n
presenting
a definite
pro-
gromme
{or social and
political reform.
Looby goseip
turther
attributes
to
the
Government
a realization
of the
Labour
pa ‘ties supposed
mistake,
and
it
is said
to be satished
to meet
lavour
on this
is-
suc
at
the
volls.
In
the
meantime
the
Laosourites
are
arrainging
to stump
the
country
energetically
during January
in
the
interest
of the
nationalizatinn
ques-
tion.
Nashington,
iee
18th.—Rejection
by
the: House
and
Military Co:
mittees
for
the War Department
proposalis
{or a reg-
uler
army of 576,000
officers
and
men
apoeared
practically certain
tonight when
Clairman
Wadworih
predicted
that
the
Senate
Committee
would fix the strenght
of
the
forece
at
.about
270,000.
The
Hcuse
Committee
has
alrcady
agreed
senitatively nn an
approximately
similar
pr gramme.
'
Paris,
Dee.
17th.— Vienna
will
have
bread
for Christmas,
it is hoped,
as
a
re-
sult of the
measures
taken
yesterday
by
the
Supreme
Couneil
Icr
the
relier
of
Austria.
An effective
peace
by
Christ-
mas is the hope of the
Supreme
Council,
fol.owing the consideration
of
the
Ger-
man Note
on the signing of the protocol.
Th= airival of the
German
techrical
ex-
peiis
in Paris
and
the
substance
of
the
German
reply, are considered
as
justify-
ing
their .hopes,
as
little
now
remains
to
be
settled
except
technical
details
wh .ch, it is considered.
may
easily be
ar-
rar ged by experts.
Fome,
Deec.
17th.--ilungry
Austriau
children
to
the
number
of
2,300
have
alrcady
arrived
by
speciid
wrain
from
Vienna
and others
ave
on their
way
to
accept
the
hospitality
of northein
Itah-
an cities which
have
offered
food
from
their limited supplies
to the starving
oft-
springs
of their recent
enemies.
V/ashington,
Dee.
17th.—''Starvation
fac:s from fifteen to twenty
million - per-
sons
in Central
Europe
outside
of
Ger-
‘may,
unless
some
guick
meany
can be
discovered
for
their
assistance’’,
Mr.
Heibert Hoover,
former
Food
Adminis-
trator, said today, in a
rormai statement.
Unless
relief
is
quickly furnished,
he
prelicted
a nreakdown
of stable
govern-
meit in the countries
affected and
‘‘erea-
tion of another
cesspool
like
Russia”.
To ineet the
situation,
Mr.
Hoover
pro-
pos:d
ihat the
‘‘surplus
of
wheat
and
flouc’’
neld
by
the:
Grain
Corporation
shoiald
be
sold
on
credit
to
Poland,
Fin and:
Austria
and
other
aations
of
Jeatral
Furopz’
[fne
Grain
Cou-
poration,
he
said,
could
extend
the
l
credit
out
of
the
capital
it
already
|
possessed
without
a call
for
special
ap-
'
propriations
bv
Congress.
The
ques-
{
tion of
export of breadstuftf
in this
par-
|
ticular
case,
said
the former
Food
Ad-
.
miristrator,
‘‘does
not
influence
the
.
price of supplies to
the American
people.
It is purely
a question
as
to whether
out
-of the material
which
we will
export,
in
'
any event
we
should
credit
in
order to
|
prevent
starvation
as
a wholesale
scale,
or,
on
the
contrary,
to
deal only
with
|
those
who can
pay
cash’’.
London,
Dee.
17th.
—A
weekly airship
|
service
to
America
is
contemplated
by
'
a combination
of aviation
firms which
are
eradited
with the
intention
of
aequiring
-
trek 4 and
her
sister
ship
R39.
These
|
are being altered
to
meet
passenger
and
|
caregn requirements.
‘
Faris,
December
18th.—The
Sub-Com-
-
mittee
of the Bureau
of the
Chamber
of
.
D.put.es
enquiring
into
the
election
of
.
Deputies
for the third
district
of
Paris,
|
have
decided
that
the following
men
'
have
won their
seats:
President
of
the
l
Chamber,
Ex-Minister
of War.
M. Pain-
|
leve, M. Ferdinand
Bisson,
Commission-
-
~
er of Merchant
Marine,
M. Paul Aubriot,
Labour Member,
and
M.
Levesseur
and
Mr. Roser.
"The recoint
Board
recently
questioned
the re-election
of these
depu-
|
ties,
i
Annopolis,
M. D.. Dec.
18th.—Admiral
|
Sir John
Jellicoe
will
visit
the
United
|
States
Naval Academy
tne first
week
in
|
January,
according
to
an
announcement
4.
>
.
|
today.
Heis
to be
the
guest
of
Rear
|
Admiral A. H.
Seales,
the
Superinten-
|
dent,
and
Mrs. Scales.
|
Lille, Des.
18th.——An infernal
machine
|
containing several
pounds
of high
explo-
|
sives
was found
in
a
goods
truck
which
{
had
been
returned
here
Irom
Germany
i
while it was being unloaded
tcday.
Time
|
fuses
which
were removed
from the
ma-
.
chine exploded an
hour
afterwards.
An
|
investigation
is being made
by
the
mili-
.
tary authorities.
|
Chiecago,
Deec.
18th.—Liquor
inter-
|
.ests
estimate
their
losses,
as
a
re-
.
sult
of lthe
enforcement
of
the
war-
|
time
prohibition
law
at
$400,000.000,
according
to
Levy
Mayer,
Chiei
Councel
for the
distillers
in the
Middle
|
West.
He
announced
that
suit
to
re-
'
cover approximately
this
sum
from
the
|
United
S ates
Government
will
soon
be
.
filed in the Court of Claims
at Washing-
|
ton.
He will go to New York next Monday-
'
or Tuesday
to confer
with
cer
ain
legal
.
authorities
~n
liquor
interests
w~ith
re-
.
gard to the filing of the
suits.
Mr. May-
.~
er
explaired
this
action
is
entively
.
apart
from
the
proccedings
atiacking
'
eonstitutional
prohibiton.
to
be submit-
"
ted to the United State
. Supreme
Court.
-
Mr. Woolf, a distiller’s agent,
aunounced
.
~
toaay
the
sales
of
ICO barrels
and 30,000
.
cases
of whiskey
for immediate
export.
|
The bulk will ¢o to Hamburgz,
Germans.
Small con=ignments
vill be sent
1o Syit-
zerland,
Holland and
INorway,