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NMONDAY.
litn
MARCH
1924
harbour,
chargine
vinlation
of
the Cus-
toms
National
-Prohibition
and
Nareotie
Laws.
Eicht
persons
were
arrested,
in-
ciuding
the
chief
stewsard
of the
ship.
The seizure
on
order
of
Secretury
of the
Treasury
Mellon
was
the
direct
resuit
of
a raiqd
made
on he
vessei
last
night
when
SIO.OOO
in
whiskv
and
parecties
were
s2ized
it
was announcad.
Yancouver;
Maich,
12th
At
a
meel-
ing her
2 yesterdav.
pres ded
over
by
the
Mayor and
at
which Vi toria
was
£lso
re-
presented
in
the
recepiion
commiiier,
who are arrang'ng
to entert:ia
tte
Brit-
ish Navy’s squadron
here
next June,
de-
cided
to
send
invitations
to
1,400
cities
and
towns
in the
four Western
Provinces
asking
them t«)l}mw
official represen’a-
tives here
to welcome
the fl-et,
The Van-
couver and
Vietoria Commitices
wilisend
a joint request
to
Ottawa
for
an
official
represeniative
of the
Dominion
Govern:
ment
to be onhard.,
Firanpcial
assistar
ce
has
also
tu
be asked,
a
grant
of
$50,000
being mentioned,
s
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and
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on
or
about
the
20th
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this
paper
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TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CRULIX STATION
New
York,
March 12th --Unspert
a
ter
24
hours
ot
furious
whirling
up
the Atl.n'ic Coast
from Florida,
a
storm
officiatly deseribad
as
a
“'great
cyclone™
hiow
MNortheastward
today
along
the
New
E
sland
eoast,
buffeiting
the shore
towns ond
lashing
the inlana
couniry.
[ne
we
ther
forecaster
said
its
strengtn
wou'd
lust throazhout
the day.
The gale
which extended
far to
sea,
was
abetted
he
a
dense
fall
of
snow,
Wire
eow-
ipunieation
was badly hampered,
in
som2
instanees
temporarily
broken,
and
th2
¢ostof
the
storn
in
lives and
preperty
was beyond
estimate
tuday.
:
Dover,
alaren
12th.—Major
Joha
Ju-
cob
Astor,
who
unwittingly
lost
his
seat
in
the
House
of
Commons
last
wveek
b.
voting
before
taking
the
onath
a4 breact
of Parliamentary
rulis,
was
re-
turned
to the house
unopposed
1
tie
ei-
cction in the
Dover
Division
of Kaut
to
day-
Cairo,
March
12th—The
negotiations
for the peaceful
solu
ion of the
conirov-
ersy
ovir the tomb of Tutanka
nen
have
coliapsed.
Itis
understood -
1@
Ligyp
tian Govarnmeant
has
withdrawn
irs offer
of a
pew eoncession
(o in 2 Chantess
of
Carnarvon
to
carry
on
the work
ia
the
tomb
begun
by her
lace
husb:nd.
The
breakin.
off of
ncgotialions
wvas due to
4 remars
made
in
the court by the
law-
yer
in yep:esenting
the
Carnavon
trus-
tees.
Tnellawyer inrefeiring
(o
the
ac-
tion of ‘e Minister of the
Puablie
Vorks
in elosir
7 the tomb at Luxor,
rafenred
to
the Bgyyian Mivisters
as bandits.
washington,
March
12th—Govern-
ment’s azents
jate today
se{zed
the Roy-
ol Mail Steamer
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