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57.
CROIX. AVIS
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1879
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antee of good faith.
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TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Paris,
Feby.
29th ——An
othicial
note
issued
this afternoon
says
that
with
a
view
(o
mislead
public
opinion
and
to
deceive
the railwaymeu
who have
been
faithful to
their ducies,
the strik2
com-
mitiee
places
at
the head
of its
ciaims
the
nationalization
of
the
railways
and
increased
pay
whatever
may
be
(ne
thoughtof nationalization,
it
is
purely
a ques:ion
for Parliament
alone
and
no
corporation
can be
allowel
to
paralyze
rhe country
by imposing
a
lireasure
for-
cibly.
The
newspapers
are
unaiimous
in declaring
that the
public are
absolute-
iy
out
of sympathy
with
the
railway
s:rike,
and while. expressing
the
hope
that
it
witi
come
to
an
end
swiiliy,
the
newspapers
also
say
they
con-
sider it to be
the duty of every citizen
(o
suppor:
tne
Government
in
the
present
struggle.
A warrant
has
been
issuad
for
the arrest
of Mr.
Leon
Midol, Secretary
of the
Paris
Lyons
and
Mediteranean
Union.
on
a charge of inciting the soldicrs
to disooey orders.
It is not known wheth-
.er
the
warrant
has
been
served.
The
railway federation
last evening
issued
2
communication
saying,‘‘from
news which
has reached
us from
different
poiats
of
the country,
the federal council
observes
that a general
strike
movement
is devei-
oping normally and is
being
carried
out
in perfect calm.
The Council remains
in
full confidence
as
to
the
issue
of
the
struggle.
&
Honclulu,
March
2nd.—The
Premier
of
China
has resigned,
according
to
a
special cable
from
Tokio to
the "'Nippu
Jiji”’,
a
Japanese
language
newspaper
published.
Panama,
March
2na.—The
leaders of
CHRISTIANSTED.
V. L. U. &A,
WELMEE)
Y
10g8
MARCH
1800
the
striking
can:l
zone
maintenance
of
way worker’s
hd.e
wCtepred
an ofter of
|
me ll*hld_:x
made
by
Mr.
Benua=w,
Brie-
g
ish
Mipister
to
Panama
Snd
the
men
' are expected
o
1t cirn
to work
soon.
Faris,
March
Zod.-
Baying
and
dis-
'
iribution,
accord
ng
to necessities,
and
|
the
supervision
of
selling
prices
weie
L
provided
for
ip
&
tentadve
pian
agreed
to at
Lordon
vesg erday
by ihe economie
|
action
oi
the
Stpieme
¢ puncil
burt
the
|
plan
wii
be
submitied
o
M.
Miiler-
!
and
betore
be
vining
efiective.
Ihe
|
“‘Petit
Parisienj’
says
the
exchange
|
siwadon
1n
Birope
and
the
United:
~
States
is
hindecing
purchases.
Mr.
.
Lloyd
George
urged
exchanges
with
Russia,
prinecipa:ly
for
whear,
there-
|
10re
there
13
.bnly
a
step
to
be
tak-
.
en
towards
makioz
a
direct
agreement
with +he
Soviet Governm:ent
tcr the
ex-
|
Ch"d?geb‘
previousiv
arranged
for,
and
|
this siep,
the
“"Lcio de
Paris’’
dee:ares
'
has
been
taken.
‘The
economic
corfer-
ence
has
prepa“ec
a
taaniiesto
oy which
.
all
the
allied
countries
will be
called
!
upon
to
develop
tH the
utmost
their pro-
|
duective
forces
ard
advising
that
iaws
'
improving
tne
ecnditions
of
the
work-
.
ers
must
be avplic :to
tha
end.
Euvrope
must
form
age
:uine
economic
union
and
in
order
tu
r-turn to healthy
cond:-
|
tions
all
oparis
laust
be
recoastituted
-
and
measurcs
must
be.taken
to
enable
|
(ermany
and
Hiussia
to
contribute
to
;
the economic
live
»f Euroj
ean unity.
|
O:tawa,
Macea
nd.
—While [am
anxi-
|
ous
‘o
trade
wita foreign
couatries,
[
l
wiil not
trade tln
any
country
winico
|
will not recogni
/2 -he Canadian
dollar at
its full face valle, declare
.
Mr. Macken-
zie,
member
froia Cape
Bretwn,
dur-
ing
the
course
o his
speech
on the
ad-
dress
in the Houas :of Con mons,
Not
a
word,
he said
had
:ome
{rom the Gov:rn-
ment
with
regar.'
to
betiering
the
ex-
change
situation
which
was
a
great
draw
upon
the
res urces
of the Canadian
people.
London,
Maich
2nd.—The
:Supreme
Council of
the
Al.es today decided
that
Turkey
is to
have
no
navy,
bui
only
a
few revenue cutte.s.
-
London,
March
3rd.—Severe
Irosts,
snow
and
hurricanes
have
prevailed
in
|
Southern
Russia,
with an
irtensity
un-
precedented
for
twenty years..
A
great
shortage
of fuel caused
ierrible
suffer-
ing and hundr?s
were frozen to
death,
Beltast,
March
2nCy—On
noticing
a
fire in the Ballingar ba\%%cks
at
Galway
che troops hastily
left 'the building
and
had nardly
done
so
when
an
explosion
No. 56
ceeurred
ana
the
walis
were
blown
out.
Arrests
have been
nmiade
o1
persons
sus-
pecied.
The belief
is that
a quantity
of
explosives
was placed
in
the turt
which
was beirg burnt
in the
“building.
or
in
the
grate
He'ng
used.
London,
Ma-ch
2nd.
Ihe
indications
given today
as
1o what the allied supreme
council
expecis
as
a result
of the investi-
eation of high prices,
exchange and other
economie
questions,
embody
the council’s
ide~s
in the resolutions
so far known
and
nothing
more
will be
announced
regard-
ing the
outcome
of the
Council's
inves-
tigations.
The Council have
reach>d
an
agreement
o general
lines and
the date
will be
turned
over
toa
drafting
com-
mittee
to draw
up a resolutinn.
Berne,
March
2nd
- Usurers,
black-
mailers
.and
profiteers
are
being
pla-
carded
and
marched
in
chains
through
the streets
and
market
places
of Bulgari-
-
an eities, preducing
good resulte,
iondon,
March 2nd.
-A wild melee
oe-
curred
in the neighbourhood
of the House
of Commons
yesterday
between
the police
and
a procession
of discharged
workmen
trom
Woolwich Arsenal, fifty persons
be-
ing injured.
While the riot
was progress-
ing,
a deputation
to the Prime
Minister’s
residence
were
informed
that
the
dis-
charges
would
be
suspended
and
this
heiped
to still the dis .rders.
The
demon-
strators
numbered
five
thousand
men,
mostly ex-soldiers,
and
were headed
by
vagon
loads of crip
led
men.
London,
Mareh
2nd.—Mr.
Asquith,
who was recently
re urned
to
Parliament
as
member
tor Paisley,
took his
seat
in
~
the
House
today,
through
cheering
-
crowds.
He
has
consented
to
be
the
leading figure in a
great
demonstration
-of London Liberals today.
|
Paris,
March
2nd.-——The
mortality
~
from typhus
has been
reduced
by
forty-
-
five
to seventy
per cent
by the
use of
a
'
new serum
adopted by Red
Cross
work-
.
ers
in
Russia,
according
to
rzports
re:
|
ceived.
'
London.
March
2nd.—-Two
hundred
|
tinplate mills are idle
tnough strikes
and
|
sixty
thousand
men
are
effected
by
a
'
strike of South
Wales
workers.
i
London,
Mareh
3rd.--Russien
Bol-
|
shevik
forces
are
advancing
rapidly
in
'
the
Caucasus
regicn,
according
(o
~
an
official
telegram.
During
the
last
;
fortnight,
the message
says,
the
Soviet
.
troops in
that
district
captured
seven-
!
teen
thousand
prisoners.
General
Den--
;
kine’s army
is declared
to
be dispersing.
M
T
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