TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIX SATION.
Ottawa,
Auc.
10th.—His
Excelleney
tha Governor-General
Byryg, accompanied
by
Miss.
Waipole.
representing
Tady
Byng
and
Major
Hodgson,
attended
a
m m.orial sarvice
for
President
Harding.
which
was held today
at Yarmouth
N. 5.
His Exceilency
has received
the following
telegram
from
Washington.
The
Presi
dent requasts
me
to express
to your Gov-
ernment
and
to
the
pzople
of
Canada,
his
heartf~it
thanks
for
your
Kind
mes-
sage
of sympathy,
received
through
His
Mijesty’s
Embassy
at
Washington,
on
the oceasion
o the death
of the
late
pres-
ident.
Signed
Charles
Hug .es,
Secre-
tary of State.
Washington,
Aug.
11th- Silence
pre-
vaiied
throughout
Washington
vester-
day for five minu.es,
as
the
fun2ral
ser-
vice
for
Warren
G.
Harding
was
held
in
Marion.
On
the
east
3teps
of
the
Capital,
where
Mr. Harding
had
taken
the
Presidential
oath,
a
bugier sounded
““Taps’’ and
the
call
was
picked
up aad
echoed
by trumpters
in
other
sections
of
the City.
Lendon,
Aug, 9th.—The
net results
of
today’s cabinet
council
which
discussed
the
terms
of
Great
Britain
repiv
to
France
and Belgium
with
regard
to the
German
reparations,
appe-ars
to
be that
the negotiations
between
the
Allies still
are proceding
and
that
no
apvrozch
has
yet bzen
made
to anything
like
separate
actions.
A long
reply
wili
be
sent
by
Great
Britain
to the Freneh
Government,
deaiing
with
all
the
points-rais
d
by
M. Poincare,
the Freuch
Premier,
in
his
recent
note.
The reply also
will
strong-
ly restate
Great
Britain’s position.
It
is
understcod
that
the
note
w.ll
intimate
that
ureat
Britain
cannot
advise
Ger-
many
to withdaraw
her passive
resistance
decree
cbsolutely
and
unconditionally
and
that
it also
will remind France,
that
Britich
interests
do
not
permit
wait-
ing
interminably,
in
effect,
it
seems
to
be
tnat
Mr.
Baldwin
.stiil
is seek-
ing
to
surmount
the
dificulties
of
the
situation,
without
endangering
an
oper.
break
with
Franece,
and
it
is supposed
B:lgzium
is engaged
in try-
ing to
find
means
of
accomodation
be-
tween
the divergent
views of
her Allies.
No furtanor
development
is
expected
pending
publication
of the
British
note
and France’s
respouse
to Great Britain’s
fresh arguments.
Geneva,
Aug. 9th.—Brigadier
General
Bruce, leader of last
year’s British expe-
dition for the conquest
of Mount Everest
has
left Champery,
accompanied
by Mr.
Montagnier,
of Terre
Haute, Ind., to ex-
periment
in the ascension
of the highest
oeak
of the Alps in Valais Canton
with
a
enew
oxyzen apparatus
which will be
em-
ployed ir
another
attempt
to
reach
the
top of Mount Everest
next year,
Gener-
ST
RO
lIL X
& V!
al
Bruce
is the guest
of Mr. Montagnier
at
the Chalet
in
Champery,
where
the
Indiana
climber
has
lived
for
several
years.
London,
Au>x.
&:h.—Continuirg
their
second
innings
at
Weston-Super-mare
vesterday
the Somoerset
eleven
compiled
the
total
score
of
13),
The
foliowing
are the individual
seores.
Somerset
see-
ond
innings.
Macßryan
4,
Daniell
5,
White 3, Lvon 21.
Young
7,
Johnson
386,
Lowry
14, Earle
9, Huat
20,
Glasgow
not
ont 5, Bridges
0,
extras
¢, totai
130.
The
West
ludians
having
scored
a
total
of
440,
won the match
by
193
runs.
Bowl-
ing for
the
Wost
ladians
Francis
took
four
wickets
tor 88
runs
and
Browsne
6
for 66.
Philadelphia,
Aug
9th —A
new
aero-
plane
Yecord
was
made
at the
Philade
-
phia
navy vard today,
when Lieut.
Gor-
ton,
of Providence,
R.
1.,
{low over
the
Delaware
river
course
at
tlie
average
rate
of 177.5 miles
an
hour.
The
previ--
ous
record
made
a
few
weeks
ago
at
Port
Washington,
Longz
[sland,
was
175
milecs by Lieut. Irvine, of Brooklyn.
Both
flyers will compete
1n the Senaneider
Cup
race
at
the
Isle of Wight,
on
September
28th.
Moscow, Aug.
9th.-
The
formation
of
a territorial
army
in the form of reserves
in addition
to the regular standing forces,
is ordered
in
a decree
issued
by the
Fed-
eral
Council
of
Conimissioners
today.
Additional decerees
provide for compulsory
elementary
mii itary training for the
male
population,
ujon
attaining
the
age
of
s:Xteen
years
by January
1924,
Pretoria
South Airica, Aug 10ih.—Gen-
eral
Smuts
is
making
very favourable
progress
towards
cecovery
from
his
ili-
ness
and
it
is
expected
that
he wiil be
well enough
to return
to his off ze shortly.
Vienna, Aug. 10th.—C
al
prices
have
dropped
25 percent,
bread
isselling at
a
nine percent
reduction
and
the prices
of
sugar,
milk and vegetables
also
have
be-
gun
to fall,
usheritg
in
what
promisecs
to
be
a
period
of greater
comtorts
{or
Austrians.
The
abundant
harvest
and
and large offerings of cereals
from neigh-
bouring
states
foreshadow
lesser
im-
ports
and
a
further
drop
in prices
and
everywhere
it is
felt
that
the country’s
prospects
are
brighter
than
any
time
since
the armistice.
London, Aug. 10ch. —Mr. Baldwin
yes-
terday
received
Dr.
Clarence
J Owens,
of Washington,
and
Mr. Ra.ph
Metealf
of Tacoma,
Washington,
chairman
and
secretary
of the
American
International
Commission,
which
has
been
making
an
investigation
tour of
LEurope.
They sub-
mitted
their plan for
the
amortization
of
the
inter-Aiiled
debt
and
reparations.
The
Premier
expressed
adn.iration
for
their careful research
in the
difficult pro-
blem and remarked
to Dr. Owens,
‘‘more
power
to you.”
London, Aug. 10th.—Mr.
Ramsay
Mac
Donald leader of
the
Labour
OUpposinon
in the House of Commons,
says
the La-
bour Party
is cetermined
to change
Great
Biitain
method
of
conducting
business
with other nations.
In
an
article
in the
New Leader
magazine
he eondemns
what
he stigmatizes
as
the
Bureauecracy
of the
Foreign Oftice,
with
its
queer
mentality
and subversive
election
of
agents
with
its
werk
in
secluded
rooms
as
though
some
pursait
of alchemy
were
beine
con-
ducted
by mystic
signs
at
astral
times.
Mr. MaeDonhld
is going
to
Constantine-
pie,
but
he
insisted
that
his
proposed
journey
18 being
raken
with
o friend
and
1s
to
be
purely
forrecreation.
He
will
deciine
to take
part
in
any
political
de-
monstration,
he
says,
in
fact
he
would
alter his arrangements
if such
participa-
tion
were
so
ced
upon
him.
Washington,
August
10th. —Colonel
George Harvey,
United
States
Ambassa-
dor
to Great
Britzin,
was
in
conference
with
President
Cooliduee
vesterday.
Afterwards
Col. Harvey
announced
ihat
he
was
to return
to London about
Septen-
ber
Ist.
it
is
oeiieed
Mr.
Coolidge
asked
him
to continue
his
duty
at
ihe
Court
of
St.
James.
He
denied
theve
had
been
anything
in the
conterence
thut
would
indicate
that
President
Coolidee
intended
to tellow different
policies
than
those
followed by his predecessor,
Panama,
Auy.
10ith.—Shipping
citeles
here
fear
that
the
United
States
tankoer
Swirt Star,
bound
from
San
Pedro,
Cali-
fornia,
to Fail River,
wmass,
with
a cargo
of
erude
01l
has
be=n
lost
at
sea
with
her
cerew
of 30
men.
Drifting
wreck-
age
with
the
vessel’'s
name
was
found
by mariners
off
San
Andres
Island,
250
miles
north
of
Colo:,
where
fishing
boats
from that
island
report
that
dam-
aged
liteboats
were®
seen
drvift nz
off
the
enast
on
July
23rd.
The
fishernen
also
found
a
floating
icechest
marked
“‘Swift Star’’.- The
chest
contained
the
bedy
of
a
man.
The
sea
for some
dis-
tar ce around
was oil stained.
he
Swift
Star passed
through
the
Panama
Canal
on
July
13th.
Shipping
records
show
that
the
vessel
has
not
been
heard
from
since
she
left the Canal,
-
Cowes
lsle of Wight, Aug.
10th—
There
were only ithree
events
on
the
program-
me of the Royal Yacht Squadron
regatia
today,
one,
a
handicap
for
yachts
of
more.
than
25
but
not
excecding
110
tons,
which
was
won by the
"'Candda”
whiceh
led J.
W.
Cooks “*Thanet” i tie
12
metre
contest,
defeating
“‘Vanitv”
by
barely
one
minute:
In
the
intor-
pational six meftre contest,
the
"hermo
-
pylae’’
was
ftirst,
°‘Jeam’’
second
and
“Freezie’’ third.
Berlin,
Aug
10th.—-To
overcome
the
currency
shortage
the
_lcading
Berlin
banks
today decided
(¢
issue
emergency
checks
in denominations
of
one
and five
million _marks
in
substitution
for cash.
London, Aug.
11th.—Chancellor
Cuno
handed
to Presid nt
Ebert
bLis
resigna-
tion today,
says
a Central News despatch
from
Berlin,
but
the
President
refused
to accept
it.