Qtates
holders
are
confined
to the sprints
and
the
shorter
distance
runs.
Great
Rritain’s
stars
holds
a
majority
of the
long distance
running
records.
London.
Feb.
20th.—Josef
Guillemos,
.he
French
Olympic
Champion
runner,
on Saturday
woa
cn2
29tn
ruaning
of
the
Cross
vountry
Championship
of
France.
There
were
342
starters
The
ten
mile
course
was
heavy,
Guiliemot
finished virtually alone,
leading his
near-
est
contender
by
220
metres.
. His time
was bb minuiesdb
1/6 seconds.
London,
Feb.
19th., —Cup
lie tempera-
ture
in association
football
circles
rose
with a
bound Saturday.,
and
prewar
re-
cords
of games
were
exceeded
by
the
number
of spectators
at the eight match-
o3 in
the third
rouad
of the
~up played
Saiurday
afternoon.
[hese
aggregated
aroand
850,000 and.
upwards
£2,000
ster-
ling
was
pniid
10
witness
these
games.
Today’s
papers
are
-lated
over
the fact
tha:
three
Metropolitan
teams,
rewmain-
ing in
ine eompetition,
emerzed
success-
fully.
Thnis
13 London’s
largest
repre-
sentation
ieft amonyg
che
eighc clubs
to
contest.
at
the fourch
round
o be drawn
tonorrow
since
professionalism
was
legatized.
[he
next round
wiil be play-
ed
on
Maren 4to
the
cup nolders,
“‘To.
tenhan
Ho.spur’’ bad
a
very stern fight
to oust
‘Manenester
City’” althpugh
the
haif 'ime
score
was
2-0 ' After
the
in-
terval
¢'Spurs’’
made
the
mistake
of
concentrativn
on
the
delence
and
the
54,000
people
vatehing
tnem,
incluing
Qir Bric
Geddes,
began
to doubt
1f
they
would
be
able
1o keep
up
theiwr
end
so
she
blow
of
the
whistle.
The
only
big
surprise
of
the day was
“Mitlwalls’ de-
feat
of '‘Swvansea’’
which
had
hitherto
m:de
a for nidible
disp'ay
in the
compe-
tition.
‘The formers
victory
was largely
due
to Keen
at eentre,
who
seored
all
four goals easily,
the best
incividual
per-
foroianee
of
the
day.
' Arsenmal’’
had
practic
lly a walkover and
the game
was
als~
notable
for the play
of the
wonder-
ful Veteran
Jack
Rutherford
who
gave
White
bhoth
his
goals
and
scored
one
himself.
Another
wonderful
perform-
anee
was
waliant
little
‘‘Stokes’
draw
with
“Aston Villa’, althoweh
it is
im
possible
t
ey wili
score
a
victory in the
replay
on
the
Birminznan
eiuh grounds.
Dublin,
Feb
20th.
Fourteen
rhousand
Briiish
troops are
now lefc
in {reland
ac-
cording
to
a
siatemenf
issued
by
the
Publiciry
Branch
of the
Irish Republican
Army.
[ifty miliary bairracks
and
150
police barracks
have
been
taken
over
by
the Provision
| Government.
Dublin,
teb
20th
—Delegates
to
the
Arduneis,
or National Sinn
Fein
conven-
tion
which
meeis
tomorrow,
were
al-
ready
gathering
in
large
numbers
this
morning
About
3.000
representatives
from ail paris
of the
country
are entitled
to atie. d.
The ostensible
purpose
of the
convention
1z
to
decide
the
future
con-
stirution
o;
th:
Sinn Fein
Govern.
By
the decisions
and
final
vote
will
be
re-
N
sAk
XA e
vealed
the
cormpararive
strength
of she
supporters
of
iamon
De
Valera
and
Arthar
Griffiths
among
the
Cian
Fein
“lubs
throughout
Ireland.
1t
is widelv
peiived
that
tne
convention
will result
in
a complete cleavage
of
tane
organizauon
and
the formation
of
1t vo
bodies
plede=d
respeciively
to the Angio Irish trea:y
and
to holding
out
for
a republie.
Opinions
differ as
to the duration
_f the
con.ention
some
expectiag it toiastea
week
and
oth-
ers predicting cnly
one
-days
session.
If
asplit
oceurs,
the
question
ol the
aispo-
sition
of
the
party
funds
wiil
become
acute,
Some
believe they wiil be amicably
divided, proportionately
to the
respec
ive
strength
of
the
factions,
while
others
forecast
a hot controversy
and
a dilficule
settlement,
Forecas.s
as
to the division
if one
occurs,
vary
greatly,
but
mosi
ob-
servers
expect
a
small
majori'y
for the
Free
Stale
advocates.
New York, Feb.
20th— Leading Europe-
an exchanges
today mounted
1o the
high
est
quotation in 3 years,
[heir
advance
was
accompanied
by iturther
s rength,in
grain and cotton
markets,
which
wus at-
tributed
to
foreign
Dobuying.
Demand
sterling of
British bills
scid
ar $4 39,
a
oain of 1% cents
over
the
weuk
end.
The
heavy buying of this
remittance
suggest-
oed covering of an urgent
c¢haracier.
De-
mand
bilis
nn Paris,
isrussels
a-d Italian
ecentres
were
ten
1y
scvencesn
points
higher,
but
the German
mark
cotapsed
to
the
years
low
level of
44.J00
or
53
poinits under
last
we<gs
best
price.
Hx-
chance
of
the cen.ral
Huropean
powers,
including
Austria,
Poiland
aond
Czecho-
Slovakia.
also
eased.
Reaction
of
2to
10 points
in Danish
and Swedish
quota
tions
were
regarded
as
‘ogical
declines
from their
recent
~teady
gains,
-
Ottawa,
Feb
20th.—The
power
and
authority
of the
Canadian
delegates
to
the
economic
and
financial
conference,
-which
opens
at
Gerca
on
March
Tth,
have
been
defined
by
the
Government.
Each
of
the Canadian
delegates
is
ap-
pointed
a
commissioner
and
plenipoter,
tiary of
thé Dominion
of
Canada.
with
full power
to conclude
tireaties,
conven-
tions
of agreements
1 connection
with
the
confer:nce,
and
to
sign
them
for
and
in
the
name
of
His
Majesty
the
King, in respect
of the Dominion
of Car
-
ada.
The
Canadian
delegates
are
Sir
Charles
Gordon
and
Edouard
Montpetit,
bott. of Montreal.
London, Feb.
20th.
\ semi-boom
con-
dition prevailed
in the gild' edge
section
of
the
Stock
Exchange
today.
Huge
orders
were
executed
as
soon
as
the
market
opened,
and
others
poured
in
throughout
the day.
The
recent reduc
tion in
the discount
rate
of the
Bank of
England
and its deposit
rates,
the
with-
drawal
of the Government’s
five per
cent
notes
and
recent
reports
of trade
condi-
tions
were
apparently
responsible
fer
turning
the
attention
of
the
investing
public
to
he
gili edge
section.
War
loans,
c-nsols, home
rails and otaer
good
yielding gilt edge
securites
were
the
most
active
und
promineal
in
the
up-
ward
movement,
which
exténded
te
¢
s nalier
=xtent
to
foreion
bonds.
Londun,
Feb.
20in.
-Six
hundred-
weigh! oi geligmte,
suafficien:
to
blow up
haif the oty, was found
hy Glasgow
pol-
ice in ash
bins
in
the
voek courts section
of the east
end.
No
arrests
have
been
made
j.ondon,
Feb 20th.
Jhe
United
States
joined in the praise
of Mr.
Balfour
head
of tne British
mlssion
at the
Washingtor.
conference,
in his
welcome
to
the home-
land when
the American
ambassador
ad
dressed
the
Pilgrims
Society
dinner
to-
night
at
which
three
hundred
persons
were assembled.
L.ondon Feb,2oth.
The Hon
Sir A Grif-
tith
Boscawen
replying
to
a
question
asked
in the House
today
said
the result
of the
foor and
mouth
disease
in the Uni-
ted Kingdom
had
been
the
siaughter
of
17,037 cattle,
this
number
having
been
authorized
to
be killed
up
to yesterday.
The
minister
said
that
he
had
been
ad-
vised
the proposcd
methods
of
isolation
were ipeffective.
The
Minisiry
of Agri-
culture,
he stated.
did not regard
the
out-
break
as
an epidemic
and believed
it
was
now well in"hand.
London.
Feb.
20th.— Submitting
a
suppiementary
vore of
$1,500,000
in the
House
today
for poliee
forces
in Ireland
Sir
Hamar
Greenwood
sald
this
repre-
sented
the
final
charge
upon
tax payers
for
voilecing
Ireland.
Since
the
signing
of thé
Anglo-lrish
Treaty
«ix
thousand
officers
and
men
cf
the
R.
1.
C. who
had
been
recruited
in
Great
Britain and
16,000 of all ranks
of
the auxiliary pnolice,
* nad
beeun
disbanded
‘I he foree
in South-
ern
Ireland
was
now
almost
entirely
Irish and predominantly’Roman
(Catholie,
he
adde:l.
London,
Feb.
20th.
—ite
India
Offide
announces
that
1i«
commissioner
in
Assam,
has
informed
the
Government
from
Kanaighan
that
in
the
town
of
Sylhet
on
February
156'h,
while
the
po-
ilce were
dispersing
a
meeling
that
had
been iforbidden
they
were
aitacked
by a
large body of men
armed
with clubs
The
police fired on
the
mob flicting 8 casu-
alties
but
themselves
lost
3 kilied and
three
wounded.
Reinforcements
arrived
on
the
18th
and
there
have'
been
no
further disturbances.
New York, Feb.
2isit.
Ihe
early raw
sugar
market
wa-
quie! snd while prices
were unchanged
at
2% for
Cuba’s,
cost
, and
freight,
equal
(0 3.66 icr
centrifu-
gal,
there
were
large
offeiings
at
the
level.
No
sales
were
reported.
7The
raw
sugar
futare
marke:
was
active,
but
prices
showed
littic
variation
and
at midday were unchanged
o
two points
net
lower under
reaiizing
and
trade
sel-
ling.
There
were
no changes
in refined
sugar,
with
fine
granulated
quoted
at
5.10
and
with
good
enquiry
reported.
Refined
futures
were
without
trans-
action.