Kohat,
a town
in the
Funjah,
found
his
wi’a dead,
with her throat
cut,
wthile h’s
15%year
old
daughter
had
disappeared.
The girl is believed
to have
been
abduct-
ed by Afridiraiders
after they bad
com-
mitted
the murder.
Troops have scoured
the countryside,but
in vain.
Two off'eers,
Majcr
Anderson
ard
Major
Orr,
were
shot
dead
a few
days
ago
in
the
same
neighbourhoed
by unknown assailants.
:London,
April
15th.—Ten
thousand
British emigrants
are
to sail for Victoria,
Australia,
within flve years,
according
to
an agreement
under
the
Empire settle-
ment
act, which
was
signed here
yester-
diy.
A
comprehensive
s:heme
of
emi-
gration has been
drafted
which
w .ico
t
3(00.000
p
u
ds
to
ea
ry
througk .ni
tne
Austrahan
common
wealth Go:ern-
ment
his underraken
to borrow money
on
the
behalf of Victcria.
A novel feature
of the seheme
is that
each
immigrantis
expected
to possess
300 pounds
on landing
in Vietoria.
This stipulation
is
¢xpeeted
tu have
th2 eff »et of
attracting
a
ketter
class
of settlers
than might
otherwise
be
the
case.
London, April 15th, —Every
bench
ma-
gistrate
in
Norfolk
this
week
will
be
hearing
summonses
aeainst
striking
fiorm
hands
for intimidation
and
hird-
vances.
The strikers,
including
several
women,
are alleged
to have
inflicted
bod-
ily chastisemen:
on
non-union
workers.
After
the
abortive
cunierences
of last
week
a feeling is growing that
the strike
may fizzle out,
for
between
the strikers
and
the farmers
in certain
districts there
is a tendeney
to
make
individua'
agree-
ments.
Even
the
strikers
are
disposed
t
. confess
their difficulty in
maintaining
solidarity
in
the
dispute
which
has
spread
over dozens
of scattered
villages,
where
relatiors
between
the farmers and
the
workers
is
so much
more
direct
and
personal
than
where
hundreds
are
em-
ployed in
a factory.
Some
workers have
already
returned
under
police protection,
.nd
with
further
assisiance
from
the
jolice the farmers
are
prepar.d
(o await
the
return
gradu lly
of
reguiar
help.
Tae
big
farmers,
it
is
expected,
are
roady
to h:ld on, hoping rhe
dispute
will
exert
furiher
pressure
on
the
Govern-
ment,
which
has already
promised
relief
in local taxation.
Washington,
April
15th. —A
decision
was reached
by
President
Harcing
and
members
of the
United
States
Shipping
Board,
at
a
two hour
Conference
yester-
day,
to proceed
at once
to
the
consolida-
ticn
of
the
Board’s foreign
trade
lines
and
then
offer these
lines
and
ships
for
sale under authorization
of the
Merchant
Marine Aect of 1920,
eonditionzl
on a suit-
able
guarantee
of
maintained
servica.
The programme
decided
on
further pro-
vi®es that if the
Government
finds itself
un%ble
to sell these ships and
lines
with-
oat® “unjustifiable
sacrifice’’,
the
policy
then will be to proceed
to direct
Govern-
ment operation. -The di-cussions
yester-
day, which resulted
from
the
failure of
ST
.BN
A 1S
Congress
to
pass
tho
Administration
Shi ping Bill, were said
to
have develop-
ed the
* both
the President
and
the
ma-
jority of the Shipping Board membership
were
strongly
opposed
to
Government
operaiion
and
explained
that
such
a
course
would be entered
upon
only
as a
|
st resort.
T.ondoun,
Aprillsth.—The
Prime
Min-
ister
has
no
intentions
whatever
of
re-
signing, accordit g td a statement
is<ued
fiom No.
10 Dov nng Street.
This
con-
stituted
the
Government’s
reply
to
a
stutement
in several of the Sunday
news-
papers,
which
the
Government
could
not
allow
to
pass
urchallenged.
This
cfliciz] denial,
howe
-r,
it
is
generally
agreed
in political ¢i.
s,
does
not affect
the
situation,
that
M
Bonar Law’s
re-
tention of office depends
upon
his heaith,
The
fate
of rhe
Ministry
probably
de-
pends
largely on
the nature
cf the
bud-
get
statement
Mr. Stanley
Baldwin
will
present.
A popular budget
would
bea
great
asset
to the Goverrment.
Paris,
April
16th.—One
of
the
mest
m« viag ceremorni
8 which
":uris hes
seen
since
the Great
War
cccuirred
here
tc-
azy,
when
the
new
""halis
in honour
«f
the Allied armies”’
at
the invalides,
wer:
forwally
thrown
open.
No
discourse
marked
the
ceremony
dedication.
It
was
only a silent
tribute
to the
memory
of the
dead.
President
Millerand
on his
arrival reviewed
the guard f honour
and
then
greeted
the
members
of the diplo-
matic corps.
‘lhen, followed by a
numer-
ous
company
of diplomatic and
military
attaches,
the
President
passed
through
the commemorative
halls, including thcse
devoted
to
the
British
F
are,
tie
United Stutes,
Fortugal, Delgium, Japan,
Italy, Roumania
and Jugo-Slavia.
wsociaurf,
April 16th.—The
new
pen-
aliies
imposed
on the Germ
in coal
mi
e
directors
oi
the
Ruhr,
because
of
their
fajiure
to pay
the 40 per
cent
¢ al
tax
to
the
French
and
Belgians,
threaten
to
cause
serious
industrial
complications
in
occupied
terrvitory,
‘Lhese
venalties,
if
enforced,
it is
asserted
by
the
Germar
s.
would
virtually close
all
the
industrial
and
municipal works in
the
eotire Rubr
di: trict
| ecause
of the lack of fuel.
Berlin,
April 16-h. —A huge
coalition
of
major German
induswries,
10
be
the
largest
in European
¢coromie
Listory.
s
being organized
here
today
by
Hugo
Stinnes
and
his
associates.
Ariange-
nents
a'ready
have been
made
by Stinnes
and
the
Rerliner
Handels
Grosellschait
for ihe
meiger
of the
Stinnes,
Fursten-
burg,
Ottowolff and
Goldsechmidt
inter-
este.
The
new
trust
will
und rtake
further ¢fficiency
in the development
of
the
Upper
Silesian
coal
iron
and
steel
regions and other groups
are
expected
to
be diawn
in as
soon
as
the plan
is furih-
er developed.
London,
April 16th.- In
his
budget
statement
today
the
Chancelior
of
the
Bxchequer
anncunced
that
the
corpora-
tion tax wculd te reduced
byione half and
t
e incone
tax
reduced
from
five
shi'-
.ings to fcur shillings and six pence
in the
round.
Tlere
will be
no
reduction
in
the
sugar
tax,
the
Chancellor
declared,
but he
hoped
that
the
condition
of
the
world markets
would
permit
such
redue-
tion
at an eariy
date.
A reduction
wes
announced
in the duty
on
beer,
so
as
to
allow
acut
ofa penny
per
pint
in
the
retaii price.
Uiublin, April 16 h.-—De
Valera,
Dan
Breen
and
P.
J. Rumledge
are
still
at
large.
Austin
Stack !when captured
by
the
Free
State
authorities,
according
to
official information
today,
was trying
to
make
his
way
through
the
Free
State
lines.
A
document
fourd
on
Stack
re-
quested
the
''President
of the
Repub
ic
to
order
an immediate
cessation
of
hos-
t lities’’.
It
was
in Stack’s
own
hani-
writing
and
ready
for signature
by
:1l
members
¢ f their lerular
executive
ecn.-
mitt-e.
Had
the
decument
been
con
-
p:ted
it wculd
tave
ut
De Valerain
a
position
of
having
1o
call
off hostilities
a
d
the fact that Stack,
when
arrestec,
nad
not
secured
the
signatures
to
the
document,
may defer
for
the present
a
complete
cessation
of fighting.
The end,
however,
is§now
believed
to be
only
a
question
of time,
&8,
and
|
Glaseow,
April
16:h —Scot'and
‘and
Eng'and
play:d
a drawn
soccer
match
at
Hampden
Park
on
Saturday,
the
final
score
b ire 2all.
At half
time the
score
wes
2to
1 in tavour of England.
Londn,
April
16:h.—Ggeat
Britain
will inteip se
no objection
to
the
Turks
r cent
ratificaion
of
concessions
to
a
Uniced
Sta
es
developmen*
company,
except
in the §rvent
of
their
conflicting
with privileg=s already
granted
to
Brit-
i h subj
ets,
the
House
of
Commons
was
i
formad
tonight
by
Mr.
Ronald
Me
N ill, spokesman
of the
Foreign
Office.
Detfinite information
coneerning
the
pre-
¢.s¢
natur.
of the eoncession
is still
Jack-
ing at the
Foreign
Off'ce,
he
saud,
and
the subject
has
not
been
discussed
be-
tween
the
French
and
BEriish
Gev
in-
m
nts,
:
Roston
Ap il
16.1.—T1e
State
Com-
m ssicn
on neecess:i
sos
1 fe,
reporuing
t) the legislatuie
today
on
a
special
in-
vestization
of
the
sugar
s.toation,
said
th
re
was
no
shortage
at
present,
or
prospeetive,
and
the.
recent
advances
were
due
l: rgely
to aspeeulation,
i ost'y
on
the New
York
suguar
exchange,
'lhe
aciivities of the Exchanze
were
deelared
to be
purely
specuistive
and
it was
as-
seried
that the
Exchange
played
an
im-
por ant
part
in
the
rceent
thimblerig-
ging of sugar
prices.
Lublin, April 16th, —lt is officially
au-
ncunced
that
two
very
important
cap-
tures
have
been
made
in
the Cork
dis-
tiiet.
‘The
men seized
by the troops
arve
F.auk
Bar ett.
a
member
of the
Irregu-
lar
Fxeeu.ive
and
Chrmmander
of
the
liregular
Western
Divisions,
and
Sean
(-aynor,
a prominent
kader.