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Manila, Nov. 2nd.—The Philippine Sanate today unanimousiy adopted a re solution asking the United States Con- gress to authoriz2 the Philippine Loegisia- rure to call a -Coastitutional Convention to create a future independent Republic in the Philippines and determine what relation it should bear to the United S ates Government. The resolution was sent to the House of Rapresentatives. Loandon, Nov. 2nd.—Russian rouble notes, over rinted with the legended ‘‘vote for .oour and this is what your money wiil worth,’”’ are being distribut- ed by the Conservatives in the latest electiorering dodge of the ecamgaign’ Thousands of the latest and most a at- tractive Soviet issues have been bought up at po very great expense ror this pro- paganda. Bristol, Nov. 2nd.—The subject of Great Britain’s debt to the United States and the money due Great Britain from other countries was discussed briefly by Lord Birkenhead, speaking hezre today in place of Mr. Lloyd George, whois in- disposed. ‘‘The happy prospeet’, he said, ‘‘with which we are coafronted is that we are to pay everytaning we owe and that no one i 3 to pay anything they owe us. Some people, he continued, "'as- serted that the Eatente cordiale would be endang=red if Great Britain said she was going to pay her debt and he did not sce why she shouid forgive all those who owed her money., We'do not think Americais in danger of quarreling with her good friead Great Britain, when sune politely reminds us that we owe her a considerable sum of money and [ do not o e L es e ‘ s¢ = why other nations should ba so very | | sentitive on matters of business’’. He , l paid a tribute to the work of Lord Bal- | four at the Washington conference last ? ' winter, adding, ironically ‘‘Lovd Raifour | is the one clever man, who this country | l no longer needs’’. In conelusion, Lord | | RBirkenhead d clared that he did n:t des- | | pair of seeing an extension (t the field | . of the Washinaton conference to cover | | land armaments and aerial preparations. | Lendon, Nev. 2nd.—Stunned by the | heavy downfall of ther candidates in | muricipal elections throughecut England, | the labourites have intensified their cam- | paign with the hope of making a better | showing in the peneral elections ior Par- | liament. The labourites have lost 149 | seats, which they previously held in Lon- ; don and about 150 seats, which they oc- | cupied in eighty boroughs outside of .he | capital, for the most part in such ! -ge i cities as Manchester, Liverpcol, Birm 1g- | ham, Derby, Nottingham, Scuthan ston | and Portsmouth. I Washington, Nov. 2nd.—Collectors of | Custom:s were instructed today by the | Treasury to assess the duty on cement } imported from Canada at the rate of eight cents per one hundred pounds un- der the provisions of the new tarifl I acet. ; London, Nov. 2nd.—The follewing is | | the time table of the British election | proclamation dissolving Parliament on l October 26th Nomination day, Novem- | Qer 4th, elections, November 15th, as- | sembly of the new Pariiament, Novem- | ber 20th. ; Paris, Nov. 2nd.—The allied council of | ambassadors is awaiting an important ‘ report from General Nollet, head of the | l - allied commission of control in Germany, | regarding a recent incident at Passau, | CHRISTIA s VoL U 8. A, TUESDAY ta NOVREMBRER 1822 No. 256. ST. MARY’S MOVIES Tuesday Nov. 7th 1922, 8.15 P. M. “THE SIGN INVISIBLE” DY “"UTCHELLLEWIS Reserved Seats ......... PR[C[t o Ly e e Bavaria, and other developments, which threaten to bring to a halt the commis- sion’s work of supervising Germany’s disarmaaent. Itis expected that Gen- eral Noliet’s report will inTorm the coun- cil that th=: cemmission has reached ob- stacles, which inust be removed, before itean go on with its daties. The incident at Passau, where civihan mobs molested membe:rs of the commission and pre- venied the search of a lactcry in which the manufacture of arms was suspected is regarded in allied quarters, and partie- larly by the French, as the gravest in- ciucnt that sas yet occuried in connec- ticn with the ror'rol of the German dis- arnment. New York, Nov. 4th.— Ger~ Hnarks drcpped to another low rec iy, be- ing quoted here at one and tuirteen-six- teenihis of a cent per hundred. This is the first time they have brcken below two cents per hundred in the lccal mar- ket. Foreign exchange dealers could oniy acecunt for this further ccliapse by the eonstant and expanding note circula- tion and the iucreasing seriousness of Germany’s economic condition. London, Nov. Brd.-Addressing a nmieet- ing of women at Drury Lane theatre lust night, Mr. Bonar Law stated that Brit- ish relations with IFrance must be the keynote of British foreign policy. ‘ine Piemiev declared thai he hoped the ap- proaching Near Il.st peace conference would bring a peacetul