entire
Pe:irygrad
icont,
according
to
a
Bolshevik
cowaaniyue
received
nerve.
They have
already reoccupied
Kransnoy-
edxsele
and
ocuer
villages.
London,
Oect. 29th.—Earl
Beatty,
the
new
First Sea Lord, speaking
last
night,
declared
that while public
economy
was
essential,
our
vast
lines
of communica-
-
ticn
were
as
important
as
before
the
war and the
navy
was
oul’
assurance
ior
matataining
them.
Tne
league
of
na-
tions
was
a pious hope,
which
he hoped
miziht
be fiifilled but th2 navy
made
us
into
the
strong
man
armed,
without it
the emp.re
would rall
to the ground.
“Paris, Oct.
29th.—In
replying
to
tne
request
that
he
stand
as candidate
tor
the
Chambzr
of
Deputies
te
represent
lower Alsac:,
Premier
Ulemenceau
has
written
a le'ter
in which
h= says:
‘Iam
more
touch>d
than
1
can
say,
by
the
friondly off
.r that I be
the
successor
of
M. Gambetia.
1 would accept
with pride
this high post
ol honou.,
had I
not
been
warned
by
109
many
signs.
that the
time
has
come
for
me totake
the repose
1 have
not
konwn
‘ora
long
time.
The
agel
had reachad
when
the
vast joy of victory
came
and
th2 staie
of
health
which
fol-
lowad.
oblig>
me
to reur.
Irom
political
life.”’
ondon,
Cect. 29th.
-The
German
peace
treaty
may
come
into effect
on
the
anni-
versary
of
armistice
day.
It
was
an-
nounced
by
the
Under
Secretary
for
Foreign
tiairs
in
the
House
of
Com-
mons
todav
that
the
Govt.
hoped
the
treaty woula
be formally rarified on Nov.
11th and
corie into effect the
same
day.
Washington,
Oect.
29th.—The
moves
amendment
o the
peace
treaty,
last
of
those
proposed
by the
Foreign
Relations
Committee,
vas
rejected
today
by
the
Senate.
l.ike
the Johnson
amendm-ent.
defeated
last
Vionday,it dealt
with voting
power
in
the
League
of
Nations.
'The
vote
was 36
.o 47.
New York, Oct. 30th. —An indication of
the effect
the longshoremen’s
strike
has
had
on
this
port
was
shown
in the ship-
ping records
of
the
port
up
to
noon yes-
terday
disclosing
that
625
vessels,
of
which
540
are
steamships
are
tied
unp.
In steamships
53
are
passenger
vessels
among
them
being
some
of
the
largest
liners
afloat.
Many of the
idle ships
are
costing their owners from S3OO to $1,060
a
day
in dock rental.
London,
O>t. 29th.—The
Chancellor of
the Exchequer
speaking
in the
House
of
Commons
on
the
financial
situation
on
which
the
Govt.
is
asking
for
a
vote-
of
confidence,
said
that
there
was
every
reason
for
caution,
economy
and
wide
husbardry
of
resources,
bnt none
for panic.
Mr. Chamberlain
invited the
House
to
explore
the
suggestion
of
a
levy
on
war
profits.
While
there
.was
every
reason
for
caution,
there
was
no
ocecasion
for panic
as
the country’s posi-
tion
was
soand.
He
hopad
chat
the
House
would
not
confuse
nysteria
with
strength
and announced
that the position
=
b ola
A NIS
of
the Govt
was di-tinetly
bet er
than
haa
been
anticipated
in
August
Taxes
-
and
revenes
were
coming
in
extra-
ordinazily
weli and he
no longer thought
that
new taxation would be required
rext
year
to balance
revenue
and exp:« nditure.
He asserted
chat
no single
featu
e of the
world
situation
had
placed
heavier
bur-
-
dens
uvon
‘Great
Britain
than
he
fiact
|
tiac
no rreaty
ol peace
with l'ursey
had
.
been
signed,
and
no,
seiilemen
in
the
|
HKast
had
been
reached.
For
Inis
how-
‘}
sver,
the
Govi.
was in
no way
lesponsi-
|
ble,
Mr. Chamberiain
continued,
saying
|
tnat it
was
not
wichin
the
power
of ihe
i
uovt.
to
remedy
tne
Turkish
s tuation.
|
wnaich
was
an
inteinational
affair.
Ev-
|
erybody
knew
that
a
settiement
was
|
long
deiayea.
pending
a
decision
by
{
rthe
United
States.
whether
she
would
|
ondertake
her
part
of
the
white mans’
|
i
barden
and
the
execuciion
of the
treaty
|
|
under
the
League
of Natious.
Referring
|
|
to
the
economies
demanded,
le
said,
|
|
that
if
the
stuffs
of
all
departments
|
!
were
piaced
upon
the
pre-war
rate
of
|
|
payment
1t would effect
a s .ving of
on-
|
1y twenty-two million pounds.
Everyone
|-
|
&knew
that
the
reduction
cculd
not
be
|
|
effected.
He
said
that
a
general
levy
|
|
upon
capital
was
out
of
the
question.
|
|
A levy
upon
war
profits
stood
upon
a
|
|
different
rfooting.
that
the
difliculties
|
ol
undertaking
such
a
scneme
of tax-
|
ation
were
Immense
and
outveighed
|
the advantages,
he anticipated
that
next
|
year alter .p:'uviding
for the norinal
as
!
termarh
of ‘'war expendit.re,
therc
would
be
a
substantial
balance
oa
the
year
to
go
towards
the
reduciion
of
tne
floating
debt
of
tne
country.
Li:serib-
ing
the
British
ioan
in
the
United
.
States,
he
said,
the effect
would
be
the
~
Govt.
had
s=cured
the
conversior
of
an
externai debt into an internal
debt
whicn
.
was
tantamount
to placing
national
war
.
bonds
with Ameriean
investors
at
a
more
1
tavourable
rate
of
exchange.
than
was
|
obtainable
in
the
cpen
market.
There
.
was
no
finaneial
crisis justifying such
a
.
disturbing
factor
as
the introduction
of
'
a
second
budget.
The
Chancellor
was
.
opposed
to
a
levy
on
capial because
it
'
would
encourage
extravaganece
aad
hin
'
der
the influx of foreign capital.
If the
'
House
decided
upen
such
a mea:ure.
it
!
need
notfexpeet
him,
to carry it out,
he
|
declared.
He
hinted
at
a
r2vision
!
of
the
railway
rates
to
maie
the
|
railways self supporting,
ordinary civilian
unemployment
doles,
would
be
ter-
|
minated.
November
21st.
and
the
bread
subsidy
ended
at
an
early
date,
the
Chancellor
indicated
that
British
troops
in various
parts
of the world
woild
be
reduced
during the
next
few months
by
|
a half million men.
Drastic
reduction
in
the
navy,
he
estimated
£16,000.000
to
£21,000.000.
The
personnel
would
be
reduced
in December
to 146,000
men.
t.ondon,
Oct.
29th.
In
the
House
of
Commons
yesterday
in
reply
to
¢
ques-
tion
Mr. Cecil Harmswort.
Parliamentary
Sccretary
of State
for
F:reign
Affairs,
stat~d
that
the Govt.
was endovouiing
to
effect
an
exchange
of
Russiars
for
I:vitish
citizens
held priscners
in Russia
by the Soviet.
A conference
with repre-
sentatives
of the
Bolshevik
to this effect
would
be
held
shortly
in
Denmark.
It was
believed
that
78
British
officers
and
17
men
were
being
held
in
Russia.
In an answer to another question, he stated
that no reply had beenieceived
1o "the
Su-
preme
Couneii’s note to Germany
andn
u-
rrals requesting
cooperation
in
the
block-
ade of
soviet
Russia.
The
allied
naval
forces
had
Feen
instructed
to
turn
back
any ships
sailing
to Russian
Baltic ports.
These
measures
did
not
constitute
a
blockade
in the legal
sense
and
no
com-
munications
other
than
that
published
nad
bren
made
to
the
neutral
Govts.
The statement
that
a halt
a
million
men
women
and Children
were likely to perish
as aresult
of
the
blockade
was
without
foundation.
NEW
YORK,
Oect.
31st
1919.
Mour, Blendad Clear
St. Lawrence
| rand
pr. brl. $10.90.
Meal,
Wilndried
per
100 tbs $3.80
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $45.00
tHeavy
Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$45.00
Sugar---Crysials
(Confirmed
by Brokers)
per
100 lbs.
$7.28.
Molasses
89’ test pr 1.0 Ibs.
no quotation.
Cotton, Middling Upiand, st f.iterpool per
b,
24 23-1004.
pxchange,
New
York
and
lLondon,
60
days’ sight
$4.13
Exchange
New
York
and
lLondon,
sight
:
$4.16
ILONLON,
Oect.
31st
1919.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals
duty paid price.
fixed
hy
the Royal Commission
per ewts
575.
9d.-
-87s.
od.
Muscovado,
897/~
basis,
floating
rerms
in
bond.
Ditto duty paid. 555.
6d.
735. od.
German
Beet
88°/c
t.o.b.
no further sales
during
ithe
war
Java 96°/
Gibraltaror
Channel
for Orders
floating terms,
no quotations.
Demerara
Rum,
per
gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middling
ited
por
ewt,
1275.
od.
130s.
od.
Cotton, Medium
[ine Sea
island,
at
..
.
erpool
nominal
per Ib.
France
expected
to
have
150.000
ions
of sugar
this year,
but
only
135,000
me-
tric tons
are
in sight.
‘l'here
has
been
government
control,
but
the reins
have
not been
very tight since
the
war
closed,
and there
is a feeling that the government
must
take
a definite
step in relieving
the
sugar
shortage.
Great
Britain
pever
re-
laxed
her
cortrol
on
sugar
natters.
Then
the
sugar
manufacturers
have
plans
under
way
for
the
reconstruction
of their
factories
even
though
the
crop
stands
at 43 now against
57
per
cent
the
figures of last year.
All sugar
men
are
wishing the French
bretheren
good
will
in their resurrection
from the dead
years
of the
war.— Louisiana
Planter.