Dept. asked
:iv: United
: States
to s:nd
a
sugar
expert
to Cuba to size up the sugar
situation
in
the island in‘con :ection
with
the offer of New York bankers
to finance
the Cuban
sugar
crop provided the Cuban
Govt. will issue
bonds
te the
amount
of
{
the advances
to them.
This communica-
tion has
beea
sent
by <Mr, Colby
to New.
York bankers
who have agreed
to finance
the erop with
a request
that they
name
an expert who will be satisfactory ifi or-
der that Mr Colby
may
appoint
anex-
~
~
pert
as requested
by-the Cubans.
.
Paris,
Oct.
28th.—Germany
must.
de-
liver 275,000
tous of shipping to the
Al-
lies
as
compensation
for
the sinking of-
- German fleet in the Scapa
Flow,
the
Reparations
Committee
decided today.
London.
Oct.
28th.—An
incident
of
jast night’s debate
in
the House
of Com-
mons
was the spirited
retort by Sir
Ha
mar Greenwood
to
Mr. Devlin
wio
had
spoken of the Irish agministrition
as that
~
of a Canadian ChiefSecretary
Sir Hamar
declared,
that the record
of Canadian
em- <
»* ~ history
was
oone
to be proud of
and
no part of the empire was imore fayoured.
He regrettad,
and he, e every paper
would
repeat
his statement
that
the first Cana-
-dian
in the position of Chief Secretary
of
Ireland
should
be
aitacked
because
he
was
a Canadian.
yo
-
:
Paris,
Oct.
28th.
-Germany,
according
*
to despatehes,
submitted
to
the
Council
-
-of Ambassadors,
Wwill strictly observe the
- ~zxllied
interpret
tion
of
‘the -clause
in
‘the peace
treaty providing
that the Kiel
Canal
shall
be free to inteinational traf-
fic.
This
is
a
reversal
tothe
German
Govt’s.
previvus
atiitude- under
whicih
vessels
carrying
arms
to Poland
were
stopped.
Edrly this
month the
Council
of Ambassadois
demanded
the
immedi-
ate
release
of the
ships:
loaded
with
-
ammuritions
for Poland
whieh
were
be-
.
ing
held in
the Kiel
Canal
by the
Ger-
man
authorites.
The
note
peinted
out
that
Germany’s
action- constituted
a
div
violation
of
che
treaty ®f
Ver-
sailiés
ia 'as
much
as
that
treaty
spe
cifies
.hat
the
Kiel Canal isa iree
wa-
‘ter
way
for
all
nations
of
the
world.
‘Germany
had
taken
the
position
that
she
was neutral
in the Russo-Polish
war
and
therefore
she c-uld
not permit
the
passage
of ship:.
'
San
Juan,
P. R., Oct.
30th.-—Spanish
cruiser
Espana
left for
Colon
5
p.
m.
yesterday.
:
:
Demerara,
Oct.
27th. -At
a meeting
of the Diocesan
Synod of British Guiana,
now .in
session,
His
Grace
the
Arch-
bishop
of
the West
Indies,
Dr.
E.
A.
Patry, announced
that
within the
next
few
months
he
proposed
to retire.
His
Grace ‘gave
as his
reason
that the work
now
was
more than ‘he
could
accom-
plish
and
that
a
younger
man
must
come
and take it in
hand..
;
London,
Oect.
28th. —The prospect
to--
-
night
is
the
coal
strike
will
termipate
‘by the
end .of
next
week through
the
miners
ace
tance
0i the agrecment
ar
|
ST.
CRULX
A VS
ranged
with
the
Government
under
]
‘which
the miners
will get two
shillings
advance
unconditionally
until the
end
|
.
of the year and-in the
future their
wa-
|
ges will
be
settled
by
the
creation
of
|
a National
Wages
Board.
In the
event
'
of
any
delay
in'
starting
the
Wages
|
Board,
wages
will in the interval be
set-
‘
tied on the basis of increase
or decrease,
|
according
to
surplus
profits
or
other-
|
wise
from
coal
exports..
This
depends
|
upon
much
complex
calculations
as
to
|
render
it hardly ‘possible
for any
miner
to
understand
therefore
in
the
ballot
|
to be
taken
next
Tuesday
and
madé
re-
|
turnable
Wednesday
the
miners
must
|
necessarily
be guided by the
recommep-;
|
dation
of
their
leaders.
The
leaders
|
favour a settlement
on these
terms.
The
|
agreement
is skilfully arranged
so
that
|
all
concerned,
‘including the
coal
min-
ers,
will
be
‘interested
in
increas-
|
ing the output,
as in case
of a
decrease
|
~output
the
owners will be
penalizéed
by
|
a reduetion
in
their
ten
"percent
share
|
of
the
surplus
profits.
The
terms
|
;
which
the
executive
body
of
the miners
-
are
recommending
to
the
men
provide
|
for an advance
of two shillings
ver shift
|
for
persons
18
years
of
age,
with
a
- porresponding
advance for younger
min-
|
ers.
The
miners
pledged
themselves
| to-cooperate
to the fullest
extent
to
ob-
|
tain
an
increased
output.
‘l'ne Govt.
is-
!
sued a s:atement
similar to *hat of Mr.
|
|
Hodge’s
that
the
baliot
of
the
men
|
would be taken immediately.
The
terms
|
|' provide
that
the
ircreased
wages
will
|
'remain
operati
e
until
a
permanent
|
‘-_.Wag::
board
is.established,”
which
will
|
beiin
operation-
by the .end
of
Mareh.
|
l>
The additional
cost
of the
miners’ claim
|
-
will come
outof the excess
revenues
irom
|
I
.the export of coal.
The output for
last,
E
September
is the: average
struck
whieh
o
-
willinfluence
the rise gryfall of- a sliding.
.
scale
which is tooperateto
the extent of
|
a sixpence reduetion
in wages
if the out:
. put does
not come
up
to.the
September
|
figures,
or a
rise of six pence
if the
out-
~
put
is
bigger. Only sixpence
rise
will
|
be calculated
for every gomplete £288,000
value of excess
in
revepue
over the Sep-
|
tember figures.-
The
wages
will be ad-
|
justed January
:;d. again.
I
Berlin,
Oct.
29th.—Pan
German
ele-
|
ments
are agitating
for
an .economic
al-
liance with England
as the
unly
way
in |
which Germany
ean
regain
her pre-war
|
commercial
prestige.
The
radical
wing
|
of the eonservatives
believe
the
Europz-
|
.an situation
has made such
a union
not
|
only practicable,
but probable,
and
are
|
urging
that
ancient
hates
be
forgotten
i
and
an
understanding
reached
between
|
the two nations.
Germany
must
reckon
|
in international
and Kuropean
commerce.
,
‘Writers
in
the
newspapers
discuss
at
|
length the problem of laying what they
|
‘say is an unabating
anti-German
teeling
—among
the English.
The
'‘Kreuz
Zeit-
‘
ung”’, the old organ
of the
manarchists,
|
says
in editcrial;
1t
we have in
mind
any foreign alliance, only England
can
be
considered.
la. fully aware
that [ will
meet
with the earnest
opposition of many
of my comrades
when I
suggest
an
alli-
ance
with
England,
which
has
done
everything to destroy
us.
In spite of it,
I hazard
to
recommend
an alliance
with
Englanu
on the following grounds.
Poli-
tiecs
are
not
founded
on
sympathies.
That is
the first
lesson
that
the
honest
German
should
learn
from
his
English
cousin.
We
should
possess
enough
clev-
erness
to put sympathy
out
of our
poli-
tics, and
as a wise business
people,
travel
with the partner
who can
make
the
go-
ing profitable. and
that England
certain-
ly can do’’.
New York, Oct. 29th. —The market
for
raw sugar
was
dull and
still
unsettled
and
quota‘ions
more
or
less
irregular.
Refiners
were confining their interests
to
occasional
purchases
of
small lots
of {ul]
duty sugars
in
very prompt
posiicns.
b
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.
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