the
bandite
who
held
th>
aviators
Pe-
terson
and
Davis
for ransom.
Two
men
ccompanied
the
troors.
acting
as
guides
and (lrr_h-:\.raviators
cooperating
with
the
cavairy as
scouts
to
locate
the bandits
on
the Mexican side, flying over
the Ojdaga
d:striet,
soi.th
of
Candelaria.
Stockholry,
Awvg.
19:h -A reinforced
British
Fleat
which
has
been
engaged
with
Bolshevik
warships
is
concentra-
ted
agzinst
Kronstadt
a
despatch
from
Helsingfors
says..
The
city
of
Kron-
stadt,
itis
said,
is
burning.
The
Bo!-
shevik
submarine
depot-ship
Viatta
has
been
repor'ed
sunk
in
an
agreement
oif
Tolhoukin
Lizhthouse,
=everal
miles
north of Kronstadt.
Londcn,
Aug.
19th—Thke
Admiralty
o'fcially
confirmed
today
the
sinking
on
Morday
morning
of
the
Bolshevik
battleship
-eruiser
Petropavlosk,
battle-
stip
"‘Andrea Pervosvan’”
and
a
Bel-
st evik
destroyer
by British Naval
forces
during
an
engacement
in
the
Gulf of
F-nland.
A
Russian
eruiser
was
pro-
bubly®
seriously
damaced
also.
Th=
naval
battle
in
the Gulf of Finiand
con-
nected
with the
combindd
Kuss.aan
and
fsthoniard
offensive
against
Petrograd,
was
irauccrated
by General
Yudeniteh.
Paris,
Aug.
19th.—(Havas)
Crown
Prince
Charles
of
Rumania
announces
ttat
he
has
rencunced
the
rights
to
ti e Crown of Rumania,
a desnatch
from
B icharest
to ‘Lo Journal’’ savs.
Charlotterown
Pei.,
Aug.
19th—Ckar-
lottetown
the
capital
of
the
Province
also rejoicirg in the
Foyal Name,
Prince
Edward
Island,
gave
a right
royal wel-
come
to
the
heir apparent
to
the throne.
August
19th
1919
will bea memorabie
lay in
+he History of this
staunch
little
seagirt
Island which
sent
five
thousand
men
to
the
greatest
war,
for
on
that
day,
Prinee
Edward
Islanders
not
on-
ly welecomed
the
Prince
of
Wales
but
began
the
peace
celebration
deferred
sa
as
synchronize
with
the
Prinece’s
visit.
:
Paris,
Auz.
18:h.— (Associated
Press)
The Suj ren e Council
has
decided
it will
make
nc reply wharever
to the communi-
cation of
the
Avchduike
Joseph,
Gover-
nor of the State
of Budapest
asking
for
recognition.
London, Aug. 20th.—Mr. Mark french
Napier,
President
of Reuters
telegraph
Company
died
at
Inverness
today
of
heart
failure.
Paris,
Aug.
19th.—Budapest
newspa-
pers
state
that the Rumanians
have
pre-
sented
new
armistice
corditions
to the
Hungarian
Government,
which forward-
ed them. to the
Allies.
The
Hungarian
Government
declined
to accept
any
mo-
dification
of the
terms
of the
armistice
of November last,
a despatch
adds.
Paris,
Auz. 20th—The
Bulgarian Dele-
gation
yesterday
presented
two
notes
tc
the
Peace
Conference.
The
first
consisted
of a long statement
on
west-
ern trace
b2tween
the
river
Meta
and
Maritz which
Balgaria elaims should
be
=
0080
LX
AN IRE
given
to Bulga:™
for historical,
ethnolo-
gical and
econ:
reasors.
Thez second
note
dealt
with
.
“sands
of
a military
character
made
h_.the
inter-allied com-
mand
such
as
disarmament
and redue-
tion of the number
of officers and
men of
the Bulgarian
armv.
Boston.
Aug.
20th,—The
Federal
au-
thorities
seized
4,500,000
pounds
granu-
lated
suear
today at
a warchouse
of
the
terminal
wharf and
railroad
warehouse
company,
in
the
Charlestorn
District
Court.
after
evidenee
econcerning
the
hoard
had
been
presented
to the
federal
arand
jury
which
is
investiga'ing
the
high
enst
of foodstuifz
Libel
alleged
that
the
sugar
has been
in posse:sion
of
the Company
since
July
29th and
thct it
1s being toarded.
Tokio. Aug.
20th.—Cholera
has broken
out
on
the
island
of
Formosa
and
the
Government
has
declared
quarantine
agzainst
that island.
More than
200 cases
are said
to have
been found
NEW
YoRK,
Aug.
27th
1919.
Mour, Blendad
Clear
St. Lawreanc:
I'rand
pr.
brl. $10.25,
Meal, Kilndried
per
100 Ibs $4.85
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $58.00
Heavy Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$56.00
Sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed
by Frokers)
:
_
per
100 ibs.
$7.28.
v olasses
39
tesc
pr
190 Ibs.
no quotation.
Cotton, Middling Upiand,
at f.iveioool per
ib.
19 31-100 d.
roxchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’ sight $4.17
iixchanze
New York and
London,
sight
$4.21%
I.oNDO
7.
Aug. 27th
1918,
sSugar-Demerara
Crystals duty paid price.
iixed by
the iloyal Commission
per cwts
555.
9d.
-83s. bd.
“luscovado, 89-/~
basis,
iloating terms
in
bond,
Litto duty paid.
555.
6d.
-T4s. od.
Goarman
Eeet 88°/¢
£.o.b.
no furtter sales
during
the
war
Java
962/
Gibraltar or Channelfor Orders
floatin z terms,
no quotations.
Deamerara
Rumn,
per gal. nominal.
iPvinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middling Red per
cwt.
120s.
~d.
1275.
Cotton,
Medium
Fine
Sea
Islanc
at Liv-
erpool nominal per lb.
Bank
of England
rate
of Discount
per
cent.
5.
Consols
51%
Three
per
cent rentes
in Paris Fes.
61.25
All prices
subject
to correction.
BRIMSTONE TREE
OF
SIERRA-LEONE.
An
interesting
tree,
known
botani-
cally
as
Mitragyne
stipulosa,
occurring
in
Sierra
Leone
and
throughout
nearly
the whole forest
area
of tropica.
Africa,
is described
in the Kew Bulletin. of Mis-
cellaneous
information
(Nos.
1
and
2,
1919).
Itis referred
to as
a very large
forest tree, without buttress root:, gow-
ing to a height of
150 feet,
and
a diam-
eter of over
6 feet
at
the base.
The
hole
is straigit and
generally
40
to
50
feet
to the
first
branch.
The
bark
is
grey,
rough
and
stringy.
The
tree
yields
a
very
durable,
useful
timber:
floors buiit
of this wood
mav
be
seen
in
Freetown
up
to 100
years
old.
It
is
of
a
yellow
colour—hence
the
name—when
freshly
sawn,
but
turns much
browner
with age.
Young
saplings
are
preferred
to
any
other
for
rafters
in
native
thatehed
houses.
A decoction
of
the bark
is used
as
a
cure
for
malavia,
and
the
natives,
foot-sore
by
long marching,
bathe
their
feet
in water
in which
the bark
has
been
boiled.
The
leaves
of
this
tree
are the
only
ones
used
to
wrap
up
kola
nuts.
The
reason
for
this
selection
is
not
ex-
plained.
Ars far as
information
is avail-
able,
we
have
no
specimens
f
this in-
teresting
tree
in the
West
Indies.—Agri-
cultural News,
9th Al,
A FLOATING SCHOOL.
Dr. Sambon
of the
London
School
of
Tropical Medicine is reportedby
the
West
India Committee
Circular
to
have
ad-
vocated
the establishment
of
a
floating
schocl of medical
research
for the
West
Indies.
This
idea
has
been
thought
of
before
in
connection
with
agrvicultural
~
research.
It would
certainly
seem
seas
ible to fit a
vessel
with the necessary
lu-
boratoy
and
office
accommodation
for
SUCP
pnrposes,
but
it
is
feared
that
the
cost
of upkeep
and
the
initial
expenses
would be
prohibitive
at
any rate
for the
present.
Yet the idea has
much
to
eom-
mend it.
It would
mean
that
scientifie
.
workers
would
be
in
constant
rpersonal
.
communication
with the different islands.
|
In the
case
of agricultural research
this
.
would be productive
of very great benefit
i
especially ,for
a
central
institution
like
.~
the Imperial! Department
of Agriculture.,
It might
be
possible
to
incorporate
in
such
a floating research
school,
a section
of marine
investigators
who
would
have
.
ample opportunities
for
develoipng
the
.
resources
of the
sea
in
the neighborhood
|
of the different
islands.
It will
be inter-
|
esting
to
see
whether
Dr.
Sambon’s
.
suggestion
is taken
up
seriouoly
by
au-
thorities concerned.—llbid.
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