"ELRGRAMS
S
ABOLX STATION.
Montreal, Nov.
13th.
To
commemor-
ate the 50rh anniversary
of the
founding
of the banka special
bonus
of
2%
has
been
declared
by
the
Royal
Bank
of
Canada
and
will
be
paid
on
December
20th
to
shareholders
on
record
at
the
close
of business,on
November
28th.
This will make
a
total
distribution
for
the current
vear of 14%.
November 30th
is the end of the
Royal
DBank’s year
and
it is
unders:ood
that
the
annual
state-
ment
which
will
be
published
next
month,
will show
very
satisfactory
re-
sults.
‘
London,
Nov.
13th.—Shipbuilding
work on
the Tvrie and
the Tee
was
vir-
tually stopped
today
by
a
heavy
snow
fall
which
aiso
seriously
affected
the
mininz
districts
of
England
and
Wales.
The
snow
fell as
far
south
as
the
Isle
of Wight.
London
was
lightlysorickled
by the fall.
Halifax, Nov.'
14th.
The
Roval
Mail
steamer
Chaicur
is expected
to
leave
on
Sunday
for
the
West
Indies,
Friday
is
usually the sailing
d.
.y for the R.
M. S.
P.
Steamers,
bai owing
to
the
storm
last
week
the
Chraleur
was delayed
in
acriv-
ing
here.
London,
HNov.
13th.—Ear!
Brassey
who
was knocked
dcwn by a
cab
a
few
days
ago
diel
here
ctoday
from
his
in-
juries.
Kari
Brassey
(lnomas
Allnut
Brassev)
was creared
Earlin
1911.
He
neld posts
in
Government
Departments
for a
number
of years.
London,
Nov.
14th.—Lieut.
Douglas
of
tte
Aus‘ralian
Flying
Corps
4nd
Lieut.
Ross,
nis
navigator,
¥he started
from
Hounsiow
chis
morning
for
a
flight
to
Australia,
were
killed
shortly
after
they
began
their
journey
when
their airplane
crashed
near Surbiton.
Paris,
Nov.
14th.
-Numerous
troops
are
being
githered
in and
about
Faris
for
use in the
event
of disorders
during
the
elections
on Sunday.
Generai
Man-
gin,
who is 2t preser.t
living in
the
De-
partment
of
the Seine
Et Oise,
has
been
requested
by the Government
to remain
in the
vicinity
of the
Capital,
and it
is
said he
will teke command
of the troopsin
the Paris distriet,
should rioting develop
on Surnday.
London, Nov. 14th.—Mr. Lloyd George
declared
in the House of Commons
yester-
day that
no
person
at
any
time
on
his
behalf
or
with
hnis
knowledge
had
interviewed
Bolshevik
Representatives
in
order
to
iearn
whether
negotiations
for
peace
mi.zht
be opened
and
unon
what
terms.
The
Premier
said
that
it
was
progesed
to
call
at
an
early
date
an
international
conféerence
at
which the Min:isters of the Allied and As-
sociated
Powers
might
consider
the vari-
ous
problems
wich
the
Peace
Confer-
ence
as
yet
had
found
itself unable to
settle,
among
which was
the
problem of
Russia.
Reforring to the
so called
peace
advances
by
the
Bolshevik,
Mr.
Lloyd
8T
b
8
&N
S
George
said
the
Allies
had
always
de-
chined
to take action
on
communications
parporting
to com 2 from
hosiiie countics
througa
irresponsible
agencies
and
he
thought it advisable not to
depart
[rom
this
practice.
The
Premier
admitted
that the Bolshevik
were rapidly approach-
ing
Omsk.
Admiral
Kolebak
was
still
there
however
and the
fate
of the place
would only
b> decided
as
the
resul:
of
battles
that
might
he
fouzht
snortlv in
f~ont of the city.
The Premier
announced
that
s[r. Macinder,
member
of the
House
of Commons,
had
zone
as
a special
com-
missioner
to open
up trade
and commerce
with
southern
Russia.
The
settlement
of
the
Russian
problem,
said
the
Pre-
mier,
was
most
essential
to
the
recon-
struction
of
the
world.
The
e nditions
in that
country,
he declarel,
were
a
con-
tributing
cause
to
the
pravailing
high
prices.
Likewise,
he
said,
the German
reactionaries
ware
already
using
the
present
strife
in
Russia
to
strengthen
their influence.
Mrv,
Lloyd
George
des-
cribed
the
difficulties
of
the
position of
General
Denekine
anti-Bolshevik
leader
on
the
southwestern
Russian
front,
declaring
that
General
Denekine
was
helding,
with a smail
army.
of a front
a
1.300
miles
with Marauding
bands
in his
rear,
a territory of so
vast
a nature,
and
that General
Denekine
was
anable
to ad-
minister
it properiy.
The
remier
offer-
ed
to give
the
House
an
op- ortunity
on
Monday to discuss
the
Rus:sian
situation,
but be
pointed
out the dangers
of a pub-
lic
debate
on
such
a
delicate
subject.
Meanwhile
he assured
rhe
inembers
that
the
(Governmen:
would
nct
inaugurate
a new voliey, or burden
the country
with
any fresh commitment.
Washington,
Nov. 14th—Squarely
join-
ing tho issue
with
Presiden
Wilson,
the
Senate
adopted
yesterday
a
resolution
qualifying the
obligat ons
of the United
States
under
article ten
of the league of
Naticns
Covenant.
A solic
Republican
line-up,
reinforced
by
four
democratic
votes,
but the reservation
across
exactly
as
it
came
from
-he
foreign
relations
committee
in virtually the scme
language
which
the
President
declared,
on
his
Western
tour would
cut the
heart
of the
Covenant
and
mean
the
rejaction
of the
treaty.
The
vote
by
which the reserva-
tion won
was 46 to 33.
The fight
for re-
servaticn
having thus
been
carried
to a
climax,
the
republicans
presented
for
future action
a closure
p.opcsal,
designed
to briag final action
on the question
with-
in
a
week.
A less sweeping
measure,
proposing
limitations on
the
reservation
debate only, had
been put
in by the
de-
mocrats
earlier in the
day,
but
was
re-
jected when
the republicans
voted
to sus-
tain
a point of order against
it.
A vote on
the question
of clamping
down a
closure
on debate will come
on Sat
rday morning
and republican
leaders
say it will depend
entirely on
the
democrats
whether
the
move rallies the necessary
two thirds
to
make
the elosure
effective.
The
demo-
cratic
leaders
were
not ready
tonight
o
say
how they
would vnte,
being feartul
that
agreement
to
so
sweeping
a
pro-
gramme
might imperil
their
chances
to
secure
action
on
a
ratification
resolu-
tion of their
own.
The
article
of
the
reservation
as
adopted
by
the
Senate
fallows.
“‘The
United
States
assumes
no obligation to
preserve
the
territorial
integrity
or
political
independence
of
any other
~ountry,
or
to
interfere
with
coniroversies
between
nations,
whether
members
of
the
league,
or
not,
under
the provisions
of article
ten
or to
employ
the military or naval forces
of the United
States
under
any
article
of
the
tireaty
for any
purvese
unless
in any
particular
case
the Congress
which under
the
con-
stitution
has
the
sole
power
to declare
war or
to
authorize
the
employment of
the military or naval forces
of the United
States,
shall,
by
aci
or
joint resolution
so
provide’’.
Only
in
twc
particulars
does
this
language
differ from the pro-
posed
reservation
which
the
President
declared
at Cheyenne
and Wyo,
he would
be obliged to
regard
as
a rejection.
As
read
by
Mr. Wilson
the
phrase
‘‘under
the
provisions
of article
ten’’ occurred
at
a
different
place
and
the
final word
" provide’’ was changed
to ‘‘declared.’”’
London,
Nov. 14th.—Nicholas
Lenine,
the Russian
Bolshevik Premier,
has
sent
a letter
to the
Turkistan
Communists
in
which
he
says
that
the
restoration
of
communications
between
Soviet
Russia
and
Turkistan
‘‘opens
the
way
for
a
struggle
against
universal
imperialisni,
headed
by Great Britain’’.
The
message
is interpreted
here
as
a hint at operations
in the direction
of India.
London,
Nov. 14th. —Between
Novem-
ber
3rd and
10th, according
to a
Bolshe-
vik wireless
message
received
here,
the
Reds
captured
four entire
regiments
of
Admiral
Kolchak’s tioops
and
two
divi-
sional
staffs.
The
message
savs
all
offi-
cials who refused
to surrender
were
shot
by their own soldiers.
Copenh gen,
.Nov.
14th.
- The
Italian
Government - has
officially
raised
the
blockade
o: Fiume,
according
to
advices
from that
city received
through
lLaibach,
Austria.
Lonunn,
Nov.
14th.—Colonel
Amery,
the Under-Secretary
for
the Colonies,
in
a
‘‘Morning Post’’
interview szid:
‘‘We
ought
to
regard
closer
unity
between
Great
Britain and
Canada,
and
between
Canada
and Austialia
as equally
import-
ant
developments’’.
He
thought
the
word
emigration
should
be
banned,
in
desciibing
the removal
of citizens
from
one
part
of
the
empire
to
another.
Nothing
in the League of Natiors
man-
date
is likely to interfere with the
Brit-
ish
Imperial
rolicy,
he
added.
There
was
neither
to Australia
nor to
Canada
any
possible
menace
of an
organization
of
Asia against
their
interests.
Since
half of
Asia’s eight
hundred
wmillions
were
partners
with them
in the Empire,
and at permanent
peace
with them.