on
the
policemen
was
.directsd
against
the officers who
were guarding
the
cus-
tom houge
anc
a brisk exehange
of
shots
followé?.
The fray
occurred
at
nine
o’clock
inthe evening-
in
a busy
neigh-
bourbood
and
so terrified the
crowds of
shoppers
that they fled homeward
in
a
panic.
Afterwards the
police
and
the
military raided a large section of the city
" holding up and searching
everyone
they
,
found
out of
doors
and
invaded
and
searched
numerous
houses.
La%‘er in the
evening ahostile ¢crowd assembled
in
Wa-
terloo Square,
a Sinn
Fein thoroughfare.
and had
to be
dis
ersed
by the
military.
Even
after
the
Curfew hour
there
was
ulmns’
uneeasing
revolver
and rifles for
two hours or more with occasional
sounds
like explosion:
of bombs.
-
Toronto, Nov. Bth. —A prominen:
Ca-
nadian
tea
firm, with
“eadquarters
at
Toronto has
announeed
a’ cut from
70c.
to 55¢.
per pound
retail, for one
of the
popular varieties-of tea.
It isstated that
other
tea eoneerns
-will -probably
follow
s
.
It is explained
here that there is-a
glut on the British-and Canadian
tea mar-.
kets,
owing to the ‘fact
that the gßritish
merchants
pave been
unable
(> get their
long hoardad
stoclis
in
on Russian
mar-
kets
It ie understood
that
the
Canadi-
an tea firms, will have toaccept
consid-
-
erable losses as the result-of
th= cut.
Berlin, Nov. Bth.=~German
university
professors
and members of the Reichstag
have drawn up’ areply to the appeal
for
re-estdblishment
of
the friendly
inter-
course
which existed
b=iore
the
war,
whieh:- the professors
and doctors
univer-
sity f@Gently addressed
to
professors
of
arts
and sciences and
members
of
uni-
versities
and jesrned
societies
in
Gei-
many and Austria.
-Scienee
knows
only
one aim, the sear~h,after
truth,
and
it
requires
for the pe#fcrmance
of this task
the common
labogr of all, regardiess
or
national boundaries
says
the German
re-
p/~
*‘The war has interrupted
this joint
14
ar and
dissolved
many personalities.
We are ready
to
resume
these
conditions
and
by common
labour
to
relegate
to
oblivionh evetvthing,
spoken
or written
in both countries,
-
~
London,
Nov. Bth.—One
of the
most
sensational
drops that
has
ever occured
on the local Stock
Fxchange
took
place
this morning when
Atlantie sugar
broke
all its
previoud-records
of weakness
ani
fell 18 poiats
below that established
last
Loundon, Nov. Bth.
- With the situation
in Ireland gding from bad
to w._rse
and
_
t
h
e
Sinn
PFein campaign
of murder and
the black'and
tan- campaign
of
reprisal
alike intolerabletopublic sentiment. in
Great Britain, the Govt, seems
determin-
ed to persevere
with-the Home Rule
Bill
which wiilbe before theHouse
of Com-
mons- again today.
A..pew
move:
ment
for -the withdrawalof- treeps
and
the Royal lrish Contabzlary from
the
. interior ‘of Ireland
to “strategic
points on
ihe
¢bast,
and
turniag over
S
e
e A Vol b
local crnstabulary
activities to local autho-
rities,
as
suggested
hy
General
Sir
John
Davidson,
has
received
impetus
from
an editorial utterance
by the '‘Sun-
day Express’’ ownedjby Lord Beverbrook,
|
a close friend of Mr.
Bonar
Law.
The
|
‘“Express”’ suggests
the
following
steps
toward securiqlg'
a solution
of
the
Irish
|
problem.
1.
The withdrawal”of
mili-
|
tary
forecesand police from all
districts
|
where
the whole admiistration
of
law
|
and
order obvious
by nas
been
broken
down.
2. That section of the civilpopula-
.
tion which wishes
to rej-ire
with them,
to
ke removed
and adequately
protected
by
|
the Imperial Govt.
3.'
Strategic
poiuts
on
the Irish
coastline to be
occupied
by
naval
and
military authorities,
these
proiected
areas
to be‘available
for
for
refugees.
4.
Ulster territory
occupied
by
the Irish minority
td‘remain
2 part of
Great
Britain under it§ own local
Govt.
Qne
ray
of hopeis
in 'a
message
from
the
Roman
Catholic. bishop
of
Tuam,
published
in
this we’:k’s
“"Universe’”’
|
making
an urgent appeal
for
a ‘truce of
God’’.
He
thinks
this mignt
be
made
effective immediately
ifthe Govt.
made
first move.
Let them propose
a trial and
pass
a fgll meiure
of Home
Rule
for
Ireland, including
full fiscal control,
and
forthwith
in
my
opinion
serious
strife
|
will cease.
There
are
no doubt
a
large
|
nuirber
who will continue
to demand
a
|
republic
a;
a legal right
consequent
to
|
acceptance
of President
Wilson’s
four-
|
teen
.points,-
but
in
reality
home
rule
working
and put into practice
will
weld
together
the masses
of the
Irish
con-
servatives.
-
x
|
New York,
Nov. 6th.—The feature
of
|
vesterday’s
sugar
markets
was
the
de-
|
cline of a full half centper
pound
in
the
‘
pwice
of raw
sugars
toithe 64c
.
¢
and f
|
for
Cuba’s,
the
lowest point since
the
l
wovt.
released
eountrol
ofsugar.
It is
!
estimated
that vefiners
took upwards
of
50,000 bags
of “üba’s in prompt positions
at
6
c.
¢ and f together "with 1,000
tons
of
Peru’s and
Brazil contrifs afloat
and
nearly
at 6%c.
cif and
86tons
of Barbados
centrifs
exsiore
at 7.52¢, duty paid, which
is
now the spot
price,
To
some
it
may
look
as
if Cuban
holders
were
disposed
to
make ar effort 'even at further
price
concessions
to unload a mueh
larger
por-
tion of
their unsold
sixfnrs,
rather
than
carry
over
until
next..
year.
At
-the
close
of
the
day
it
was
thought
that
practically
ali
eof their
very. prompt
|
sugars had béen'disposed
of, but
various-
|
sugars
for 'November
shipment
were
of ‘offer at last paid price
wi‘h a lack
of
|
‘buying interest
om the part of
local
re-
finers.
[he
decline in
raw
sugars
was |
followed by
a
dowanward
readjustment
|
in
refined 's‘ugar_valu;q
but
no
change
!
was -reported yesterday.
R:finecs
sdilk
|
experience
a very slaek demand for re-
|
fined and only for immediate
shipmant
|
ard
the deciining
teadency
of the
suczar
|
markets
has further upsettied
the trade.
1
Paris,
Nov. Bth. —France
has
shown
'
the
same
ardour
in
her
work of
recon-
struction
as
she did in the
war, and
has
successfully
crossed
the
passage
from
war to
peace,
which
is
always
difficult
for
victors,
says Premier
Leygues
in an
interview
printed today
by
Le
Petit
Parisien
d'scussing
his foreign
policy,
the Premier
declared
the Govt. will seek
to obtain and strengthen
its alliances
and
will examine
in utmost
sincerity of spirit
all questions arising
between
France
and
Germany.
Belief
is
expressed
by
M.
Leygues
that
the
League
of
Nations
must
become
a great
force and
a strong
barrier against
a return of imperialism and
militarism.
He declares
that
the Govt's.
programme
is to
so
enforce execution
of
the Versailles
treaty
that
national
con-
struction
and
the
organization.ef
work
and production
may
be
advanced.
Washington,
Nov. Bth.—A
record
crop
of
corn in the
United
States,
exceeding
the
previous largest
crop
by
756,000,000
bushels,
was
announced
today
by
the
Dept.
of Agriculture
in its
preliminary
estimate
placirg the
production
this year
at 3,199,126,000
bushels.
CEPTGRAMS
AND WITTY SAYINGS.
™
"“The key
to success
is
perseverance’’
is “hat every
ambitious
young
man
or
woman
is
told to-day.
Quite
so,
but
every burglar know this.
Give
us
some-
thing
new.
Woman
and gold are
the two principal
factors
in the lives of men.
They
make
or mar,
but
more
often
than
not it is the
gutter
that picks.up
their vietims.-
Beware
of
woman
when
she
laughs
for
she
may
be
laughing
at
vou.
Rut
when .she
cries
you
need
to
be
more
watchful
yet for she
may
be
catching
at
you..
Woman’s
tears,
like hes
rouge
and lip
stick,
is only temporzry.
Woman
¢ar
laugh when
she
should
cry,
and cry
when
she
should
laugh.
But
there’s
one
thing
- she
cannot
re-
strain
herself
from
doing,
and
that
18 jumping at
a proposal.
'
:
There are three distinet types of nen:-
The good
men,
the bad
men and
the men
who are neither good
nor bad.,
But
wo-
man cannot be classified
FEach
woman:
is atype hy iteelf
S
" When
a young girl marries an old man
everybody
eries ‘‘Shama'’
at
her.
But
when
a
young
man
marries
an
‘ld
girl’”’everybody pities
him.
s
“‘Accidents happen in thé best
of reg-
ulated ramilies’’.
.But wouldn’t it be far
more. appropriate
to
say: ‘‘Families’
happsn
even
in
the
best
of regulated
accidents
7?7
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