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FELEGRAMS
S
CROIX BTAIION,
fhslavest
in tranemicaion)
Berlin,
April
13th.
Pandemonium
reigned
in
the
stock
exchange
yester-
day in
consequence
of the
putting
‘nto
effect of
the
order
for
the
compulsory
transfer of forqign securities
held
in Ger-
many,
as provided
by
the
peace
treaty.
Quoiations
slumped,
no
business
was
possible,
brokers
yelled
invectives
against
the
Govt.,
members
of the
Stock
Exchange
Committee
were
badily attack-
ed and despi
e
an
appeal
{rom Director
Mackiewicz
of
the
Dentsche
bank,
the
tum:lt
rose
to
such
a
piteh
that
the
house
had
to
be
closed
for
the
day.
The
Govi’s.
decision
makes
considerable
losses
to many
holders.
The
Stock
Ex-
changes
at
Hamburg
and
Frankfort
were
also closed.
Borlin, April 13th.—Demands
for
an
apology
and
indemnity
for
the
recent
arresis
and
maltreatment
of
a
corres-
pondent
of
the
‘‘Manchester
Guardian’
by Lieut.
Leisenmeyer
at
Essen,
were
presented
at
the
Foreign Office
yester-
day by Lord
Kilmarnock,
Charge
d’Af-
faires at the British Embassy.
New York, April 14th.-—The following
isa
summary
of
strike
conditions.
In
New York, freight
traffic is virtually at
a standstill,
while
the passenger
service
has been
cut
to fifty p r.cent,
thousands
of commuters
being
marooned.
Volun-
teer
crews are running
the
local
#rains.
In Pennsylvania
two
hundred
thousand
men are out of work,
and the
steel
2oke
and coal industries
are erippled.
In Ohio
and
Michigan two hundred
men
are
out
of work, and industries
have been
closed.
In
the
central
and
far
western
states
there
has
been
2
gradual
mmprovement
men
having returped
to
work in
half
a
dozen
cities.
London,
April 14th.—Dr.
MacNamara
was today declared elected
for the north-
west Camberwell
seat
in
the
House
of
Commons,
having
soughe
re-election
on
assuming
the office of Minister of Labour.
The
result
of the voting was
as
follows:
Dr. MacNamara,
('nalition Liberal, 6,618,
Qusan
Lawrence,
Labour,
4,833,
Mr.
Carrolla, Independent
3,386
votes.
London, April 14th—In the
Basinstoke
constituency
Sir
Arthur Holbrook,
coal-
ition, was elected
to
ueceed
Sir Auckland
Geddes
who is
now Ambassador
to the
United States.
The Liberal and
Labour
candidates
were
second
2nd
third
re-
spectively,
in the polling,
with a
differ-
ence of only forty-one votes.
:
[,ondon,
April 14th.—-It was announced
today
by
the
Banlk of England
that
the
rate
of
intérest
op
treasury
bills
had
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33
Miary Mac Laren
‘
In
B
L
N
“The ~etal On
© e Current”
Mary Mae
Laren
gives effective
p: rtraya!
of a girl in night-court
in
film-adoption
of Fannie
Huarst
story.
This Pictu
e
ecntains
a wealth
of human
intervest
aid
tweats
a subject
of vital
im-
poriance—the
predicament
of
the girl in
the night-cour.,
sentenced
by
the
‘ectimony
of the police and
seeret
service
men.
'
MARY Mae -ARIIN puts
over in good style a number
of emotional
scenes,
portray-
ing
splendidly the
character
of fthe
unsophisticated
girl
to whom
the drinking of a
couple glasses
of beer
proves
fatal.
CAST:
SR s
....MARY Mac LAREN
Bled
ombor
..
.
.
.o
o ede
Uinive,
LD
et
R B
ey
WHe
MBe
s
0
BoBEE
ARdPrRGn
Cestii®obh.
..
...
.........
.. bedtrice
Hurnham,
Bl
Yieter
Telel
o
E
Ry
..
.. David Butler
The
desire
to do
as others
do leads
Stella
to yield to the
persuasions
of Cora
and
other members
of a beer
narty
to drink with them,
Under
the influence
of the liguor
she
wanders
into
t
e
street
and
is taken
by
a
detective
to the nigit -court,
where
she
is sentenced
to
ten days in jail.
:
:
ADMISSION:
Paicne
Blen's . ....
. dße,
Two first and
two last
rows of leserved
seats
A
o
e
General
Entrance. ... .......
g
e
Children
20 and
10e.
been
raised
one per
cent
to six and
one
half
per
cent.
This
foreshadowed
an
announcement
to
be
made
tomorrow
of a
seven
per cent
bank
rate.
Dublin,
April
13th.—The
general
strike declared
yesterday
was
continued
today with added
tenseness
and
increas-
ed fears
of serious
developments.
Sixty
thovsana
workers
in
Dublin
are
on
strike.
A constable
was
shot dead while
in plain
clothes
duty in
Camden
Street
this
morning,
and
bhis
assailant
ran
away before
he
could
be
apprehended.
The shooting
added
to
the
gcneral
ex-
citement,
thousands
of people parading
the
stre
ts and
a collision
between
popu-
lace and
the military
was
feared.
Vis-
count
French
sent
for the
Lord
Mayor
today and
later the
military
were
with-
drawn from
the vicinity of
Mount
Joy
prison.
One
of
the
prisoners
among
e
S
e
e
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