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the Pole
Association
{from the Hurlington
Club
of England.
The
challenge
stipu-
lates
that the matehes
should
be
played
on
the fi-ld of the Meadowbrook
Club at
Westbury
in September
1923.
Catania.
June
18th —Mount
Etna
is
active
today.
Several
eruptions
of
the
valeano
during the
night
were
heralded
pv
loud explosions,
followed by
-¢treams
of lava that
overrun
a
number
of
culti-
vated
fields and woods.
The
station
at
Castiglione
has
been
destroyea
and.
the
railway
near
the
mountain
obsuu
<y,
while
a
lava
stream
300
metres
wide
threatens
the
distriet
ebeut
Linguag-
lossa.
Besides
the
eruption
from
the
main
crater
numerous
small craters
have
opened
on
the side of the mountain.
The
eruptive activity of
the voleano
is accom-
panied
by violent explosions
and tremen-
dous
discharges
of
ashes
and
cinders,
with
lava constantly
flowing
down
the
sides
of
the
mauntain.
S'ight
~arth-
shocks
are adding
terror
to the situation.
London,
June
10th.—Captain
Swan,
Paymaster
of
the British
gendarmes
in
Da'estine,
was
murdered
last
Friday
while
travelling
between
Ramleh
and
Jaffa,
snys
a Jerusalem
despateh
to
the
Daily
DMail.
His
assailiants
escapel,
Several
other
acts
of brigandage
have
oceurred
in the
distriet
in
the last
few
duys.
Jerasalem,
June
18th. —The
Govelfi-
ment officially announces
that ali but
one
of the 20 bandits,
participating
in
the
re-
cent
a'tack
on
the
company
of
gen-
darmes,
escorting
the
High
Commis-
sioner,
Sir
Herbert
Samuel,
which
re-
sulted in the death of five of the British,
bave
been captured.
Limerick,
June
18th. —Addressing
a
lagge
gathering
here
yesterday,
Presi-
dent Cosgrave
said
that Ireland
had
tak-
en the
first of its
forward
steps
in its
new
sphere
in
the
nationhood
of
the
wceld,
While
the Government
vras
will-
ing
to
forget
the
trouble
of
t.
2
last
twelve
months,
it
would
take
no
risks
regavrding
the establish»d
sovercignty,
of
the people.
It tkereis
a
threat of wa.
we
shall
meet
it,
he declared.
We
re
gret
the action
of the
Northern
Govern-
ma2nt
in remaining
outside
the Free
State
we
want
a
united
Irelanl
and
brother-
hood eooperation
from ull.
New York, June IBth. rhe
early
raw
sugar
market
was
unsettled
today.
Buy-
ers opening 34 points lower,
to ter points
net bigher,
a
steadi>r
feeling
prevailed
and
at
midday
prices
were
unchanged,
to 16 points
net
higher.
The
weakness
was
confined
to
the
near
positions
and
was due
to renewed
liquidation and
sell-
ing
for
Japanese
account.
After
the
early selling had subsided,
prices
ral”
on
heavy
covering
and
trada
buying.
There
was
no
change
in
refined
sugar,
with fine granulated
listed
at
9 25.
Oualy
a moderate
business
was
reported.
Christiania, June
18th.—-Captain
Amund-
sen
has
abandored
his
North
[oie
flicht,
it
was
annourced
today
by
the
Minister of Defence.
Essen,
June
18th.—The
French
have
seized
170
locomotives
and
2,000
goods
truck
oo
branch
lines
between
Dortmund
and
Essen,
thus
virtually completing
French
control of the
Ruhr
transporia-
tion lines.
Quebee,
June
18th.—Th2
forest
fire
situation
has
greatly
improved
within
the
last 24
hours,
according
to
reports
received
from all over the provinces.
Ottawa,
June
18th.—Clause
five of the
Bank Act,
which provid:s for extending
the
charters
of Canadian
banks
for
a
period of ten
years,
was
sent
to the com-
mittee of the House of
Commons
shortly
before
2
o’clock
this
morning.
The
clause
was adopted,
following the defeat
of
the Progressive
amendment
to
limit
the
extentiors
to cne
year,
by
a vote
of
65
to 67.
The progressives
present
voted
solidly in favour of the amendment.
New Yok, June
18th.—Pancho
Villa,
of
the Philippires,
knocked
out
Jimmie
Wilde of Erngiand,
the world’s flyweight
champion,
in
the
seventh
round
of
a
fifteen round
mateh
tonight with a right
to the jaw,
Washkington.
June
18th.-—The
Govern-
ment
has accomrplished
‘he
tack of living
within
its
ircome
in
tle
past
tweive
moenths
and
has
accumulaied
a
saiples
of
two hundred
nillion
doellars
in
addi-
tion,
the President
szid today
in
a speech
at
a
meeting
of department
heads
ard
bureau
and
divicsion
chiefs
constituting
the Covernment’s
business
organization.
Further
reductions,
hLe
said,
would
Le
made
in expendituresiin
the cominy year.
The
reccrd,
the
President
said,
is
mo
e
important
since
the
fiscal
year
was
in-
augurated:
Jast
Juiy
Ist,
with
a
deficit
confronting the Treasmy
of $823,000.00.
To
this,
''signal
achievementi'’,
Mr.
Harding declared,
should
be
added
to the
fact,
that,
in add:tion
to
wiping cut
the
deficit
and
accumulating
a
surplus,
the
campaign
for efficicney
and
economy
nud
resuiied
in
actual
expenditures
of
tie
Goverun
ect
beingeeut
256,060,000
in the
last
12 months
below
the orcdinary expen-
ditures
{or
the
year
ending
last
June
301 h.
London,
Jure
18th.—English
pacifists
and
a sectien
of the labour
party
are
pro-
testing
against
the launching
of
the XI,
the
new mystery submarine,
®hich
cost
four million
pounds,
without
her
arma-
ment.
The
vessel
is
reported
10
have
a
cruising radius
ol
8,000
miles.
She
was
laid down prior to
the
Washington
Dis-
armament
Conf:rence
and
is
therefore
ex~apt
from
the
restrictions
imposed
"
¢ne
pact.
Mr.
Ramsay
hch
Donald
sposed
the launching
of
the
®essel
in a
speech
at Hampton
on
Sunday,
saying,
*‘lt seems
that the world
is rattling back
to barbarism’’.
Withington,
Lancs,
June 18th.- Eduar-
do
FKFlagor
and
Count
Degomar,
repre-
senting Spain,
today
won
the
mateh
in
the doublesin the
D.vis
Cup
from
the
.
itish pair,
Randolph
Lycett,
and
L. A.
Godtree.
‘loday’s play
sent
the
Span-
iards
into
the
lead
in
ihe conpetition,
two
muatches
to
one,
Degomar
having
won
in the singles
over
W.
Hendy
last
Saturiday.
Spain’s
loss
in
the
cotnpeti-
tion
thus far was
woen
flagor lost
to Ly-
cett
in the
singles
on
Saturday.
Toduy
the court
was shippery
. hich
workeid
(o
the advantage
ot
the
Spaniards.
They
cleverly diew
up
the
Briush
players
to
the
net
and
then
lobbed
the bail
over
their heads.
After two
sets
the English-
men
adopted
a
baseline
game
with ad-
vantage.
‘The
perfect
combination
of
the Spaniards,
however,
enabled
them
o
outplay
:their
oppounents.
Lycett
was
steady,
but Godlree
f[requently
sent
the
ball into the net,
or
lobbed
inaccurately.
The
score
was 78,
6-3,
64,
6 3.