sibilityof war with Great Britain.
Such
a
conflict would
be
the end of civiliza-
tion’’.
Under
vpresent
conditions
it
would
be
the
height
of folly for
the
United
States
to be the
first to disarm,
Mr.
Weeks
declared.
World-wide
dis-
armament
must
come
as the result of an
international
agreement
and
must
be
done simultaneously,
he said.
Prudence
would
not permit our disarmament
while
others hold weapons
in
their hands.
New York, June
9th.—The
raw sugar
market
was
weak
today
and prices
de-
clined
# c. b:low
the
last quotation,
or
a the lowest level
recorded
in over four
years.
There
were
sales
of 7,400 bags
Costarico’s
in port
equal
to
4.25
duty
paid.
Raw
sugar
futures
were
weak,
reflecting
on
the
power
ruling
of the
spot
market
and
prices
were
16 points
net
lower
under
selling
trade
interest
and commission
houses.
No change
oc-
curred
in
refined
sugar.
The
demand
was light and
buyers
were
inclined
to
hold off, owing
to the
unsettled
feeling
in the spot market.
Prices
langed from
6.25
to
6.30
for
fine
granulated.
Re-
fined futures
were
ten
points
lower
at
midday.
Trading
was
confined
to
the
September
position.
London,
June
Bth.—The
Government
is rap:dly shedding its financial responsi-
bilities in pursuance
of the
policy of
re
irenchment.
Most surprising
is
the
re-
peal of the
agricultural bill,
which
was
passed
only
last
December
and
put
in-
to
operation
January
last.
It
guarau-
teed minimum
prices
to
the
farmer
for
his produce
and
was
estimated
to entail
a subsidy
amounting
to from £20,000,000
to
£30,000,000
yearly.
These
guaran-
teed
prices
will terminate
with the next
harvest.
In the House
of Commons
to-
night Jthe
Government
introduceda
bill
reducing
unemployment
doles
from
20
to 15 shillings weekly for
men and from
16 to 13 shillings weekly for women
and
a¢
the
same
time
increasing
the
con-
tributions
from
both
employees.
My,
MacNamard,
Minister
ot Labour,
intro-
duced
the
Bill, explained
that
owing
to the
enormous
increase
in
unemploy-
ment
through
the
coal
strike,
this
in-
surance
scheme
had
become
insolvent,
the Government
paying £3,000,000
week-
ly
and
receiving
only 350,000
pounds
Paris,
June
9th.
- The
peace
treaty
with
Hungary
which
was
signed
June
4th
1920
in the
Trianon
Palace
at
Ver-
sailles and
is
known
as
the
Treaty
of
Triapon,
was
ratified yesterday
by
the
Chamber
of
Deputies,
The
vote
on
ratification
was
470
in
favour
to
74
agsinst.
i
3
.
‘Oppeln,
June 9th.—Five
thousand
Po-
lish insurgents
have
been driven
out of
the city of Rosenberg
northeast
of this
city by British forces
and
last night the
Poles
were reported
to
be retreating
in
a
scutheasterly
direction
and -at
that
time many
had
passed
the
city of Lub-
linitz about
10
miles
from
Rosenberg.
_The
Poles
made
a
show
of resistance
1. Ll
X
ANIE
when
the
British
soldiers
entered
the
citydropping
a few poorly
aimed
shells
behind
them
and there was
a scattering
patter of rifle shots from the Polish
posi-
tions.
The
Poles
then
picked
up their
machine
guns
which
had
been
set up in
a
road
and
flel.
When
the
British
marched further into the
c ty they found
a
Polish
Commander
with
300
men.
The
commander
was
directed
to
leave
the city within an hour
and
to
evacuate
the
distriet
before
Wednesday
night.
The Pole
said
this
was
impossible
and
he
was
warned
that
every
insurgent
found in Rosenberg
at the
expiration
of
an hour would be held
for examination.
A
search
of
the
city
in
the
evening
showed that
all the
insurgents
had
de-
parted
on
time.
The
people
of Rosen-
berg
gave the
British an ovation,
girls
trying to kiss
the
soldiers
and old
wo-
men
weeping
as
the
British
marched
through
the
streets.
There
was
no
at-
tempt
on
the
part of the British
to dis-
arm the Poles,
a
British
colonel
saying
‘‘we are
trying
toavoida civil
war and
are attempting
to re-sstablish
authority
without bloodshed,
The British
advance
into
Rosenberg
was
made
so
rapidly
that
the Poles
made
virtually no attempt
to
carry
out
th:ir rhreat
to
burn and
plunder the city.
Shortly after the Brit-
ish
occupied
the
town,
small
detach-
ments
ofFrench
soldiers
appeared
and
some
of
chese
stood
guard
last
night
with the British.
|
London,
June 9th.- King Peter
ot Ser-
bia
is
seriously ill according
to
a
des-
patch
to
the
‘'Daily Mai’’ from
Bel-
grade.
The
despatch
adds
that
Prince
Alexander the regent
has
been
urged
by the Ministerial Cquncil to return
home
from.
France
where
he
is
on
a
visit.
-
Paris,
June
9th.--Dr
Mayer, the
Ger-
man Ambassador
here,
called at the For-
eign Office this
morning
and
presented
the
excuses of
the
German
Govt. for an
attack
upon
the
French
troops in Silesia
yesterday
by
the forces of General
Von
Hoofer, head
of the German defence
for-
ces-in
the
district.
Dr.
Moayer
said the
attack
was
an
error,
the French having
been
mistaken for Polish insurgents.
;
San Salvador,
June
9th.
- A
terrific
storm
in
the
region
about
San
Miguel
one of the most
conspicuous
volcanoz=s of
San
Salvador has
just
eome
to
an
end
after creating
much
havoe.
A flood des
cending from the
voleanoes
destroyed
12
villages and 54
hcuses
in the town of Ei-
transito.
In
Sanjorge
the
Sanrafael
Square
was
transformed
into
a
lake
and houses
and
trees
were carried great
distances
by
the
flood,
All the crops
in
the
district
were
de:troyed
but
no lives
were lost,
:
London,
June Bth.
Mr Austen
Cham-
beriain
the
Govt.
spokesman
stated
in
the
House
sf
Commeonsg
this
afternoon
that the
question of arranging
the Anglo
French
alliance
even
without
possibl:
participation
by
the
United
States
was
now
under
discussion.
Recently
the
French
newspapers
have
been
diseuss-
ing the
question
of a closer alliance be-
tween
France
and
Great
Britain and it
was
indicated
that
the
United
States
Govt. would be
sounded
as to its attitude
toward such
an alliance.
Paris,
June
9th.—
In
presenting
France,s
programme
of nava, construc-
tion for the
next
three
years
deputy
Paul Denise,
reporter
for the navy com-
mission,
advocated
in
the
Chamber
of
Deputies
today
the virtaal abandonment
of the building of battlesships
and battle
cruisers
and
intensification
of condtruc-
tion of submarines
torpedoboats
destroy-
ers and airplane
carrying ships,
ISLANDS THAT WE
DO NOT WANT
(Philadelphia
Inquirer)
;
Senator
Reed
has
an
idea
that
Eng-
land
and
France
might
be
willing
to
part
with their West India
islandg
as
a
‘partial
payment
of their obligations
to
the United
States.
He
has
introduced
a
resolution
suggesting
that
the
Presi.
dent make inquiries.
‘
There
are two
or three
things
to
be
said about
this scheme.
First,
England
could not be induced
to sell her holdings:
second,
France
would
not
ronsent
to
dispose of her possessions.
There would
be
no incentive,
since
the amounts
that
we
would pay—if we were going
to
buy
—would
not
have
an
appreciable
effect
in debt
reduction.
Besides,
there
ia the
element
of sentiment,
And
there
is
something
else.
The
United
States
has
no
use for the islands.
Jamaica
would be
a loss commercially
to
us.
Trinidad we could do nothing with.
We
would have
a
race
problem
on
our
hands
there and
wherever
we
went.
Barbadus
might
be
pPerhaps
worth
while.
There
is
an
air
of
prosperity
about
the Barbados
lacking
elsewhere,
And for that
reason,
if for nothing
else,
England
would hold on to them
and thei,
sugar,
coffee
an
cotton.
The
French
possessions
would be dead
wood
on
oy
hands.
o
Rum
is a staple;
In many
of the West
Indies.
It
was
in
the
Virgip
Jslands
until
we took
them
over.
The Virgins
are
now virtually defunct.
We
grp
pay-
ing there
-at high
cost annually -for
4
coaling
station
and
a
: aval base
as
an
outpost
of
the
Pauama
Canal.
Porto
Rico
is the king
of
the
bunch,
leaving
Cuba
aside,
and
that
is
ours,
With
Porto
Rieo,
the
Virgins and
the
great
naval
depot
at
Guantananio
Cuba,
we
have about everything
we need.
Ruy a job ot
of
West
India
Islands?
Forget
it Senator.
Why
hunt for treu.
ble?
And
we
would
haveit
in
plenty
when
we
tried
to enforce
prohibition
vpon lands teeming
wiith hlacks
and
had
knocked
the head
out of the profitable rum
barrel.-
Porto Rico Progress,
May 22th.