ices of international
importance,
Vo
Jt bringing them before the Courts.
Rome, April Ist.—The ¥ing and Queen
of Belgium have left for Brussels,
receiv-
ing a great popular
ovation
on
their de-
parture.
Paris, April Ist.—A
delegation
of Ar
menians
has protested
agzainst
the decis-
ion of the Allies to place
Armenia
under
the protection of the
League
of Nations
and will appeal
to
Washington
for
the
intervention of the United States.
London.
April Ist.—lnsurgents
of the
Irish republican
army
attacked
a
train
at Newtown Cunningham,
near London-
derry,
and burned
the
newspapers
it was
transporting.
They
also
expelled
the
troops
of the Free
State
from
the
bar-
racks
at Carndonagh
and Moville, and
at
Bunerana
occupied
the
largest
hotel
in
county Donegal.
:
London, April Ist.—Raiders
yesterday
seized
a cargo of explosives
chiefly
gel-
ignite
aboard
an admiralty
ship off the
Irish
cchst
and
stowed
it
in
some
un-
known place,
according
to despatches
to
the
“‘Times’’ from
Cork.
A despatch
to the ‘‘Daily Mail’’ from
Belfast
says
that the republican
committee
have
or-
dered the secret
mdbilization of a section
of the Trish republican
army
for
Sunday
~
possibly
with the intention of viclent
ac-
tion.
The despatchadds
that the provis-
ional Government have
issued
a warning
to the men.
v
London,
April Ist. —The
West
India
Committee
state
that Sir
John
Harrison.
who underwent
an operationon February
tenth,
is now mzking favourable progress
towards
recovery.
London,
April
Ist.—lt
is
annouanced
that
the King
and
Queen
will pay
a
state
visit to
the King
and
Queen of
Belgium, commercing
on
Monday, May,
eighth.
At the conclusion
of
the visit.,
His Majesty will visit
as
many
as
prs-
sible of the war cemeteries
of the British
forees
in Belgium
and France.
'
London,
April
Ist.-
General
Smats,
the
Premier,
speaking
on
the
second
reading
of
the .indemnity
biltl
in
the
House of
Assembly,
Reuters
Capetown
Correspendent
cables,
stated
that
on
the
Government’s
side,
in
the
recent
Rand insurrection,
fifty
were killed and
237 evounded,
while on the other
side 138
were killed, or
died in hospital,
and 287
wounded. Ninety eight Indians and natives
were killed, or wounded.
The authorities
receivedby
capture
1,150 rifles,
and 231
shot-guns,
744
revolvers,
43,000
rounds
rifle ammunition,
13,000 rounds of revol-
ver
ammunition
and
one
machine
gun,
captured
in action.
The Premier
defend-
ed
the
Govts.
proclamation
of
martial
law
and emphasized
the
fact
that
the
genuine
Workers
and
Trade
Unionists
had
been
practically
suspended
by
an
entirely
different set
of
men, who
con-
stituted
amilitary revolutionary
junta,
styled
‘‘Councils of action”.
Thz
Wit-
"
watersrand,
he saidi"contained
a fairly
large
percentage
of
a
very
dangerous
ST. LUI
A
AYLS
class of poor whites,
who are
unc
.ed
and
have gravitated
to the towns.
There
were
also people from
abroad with soci-
alistic ideas,
who were opposed
to all the
traditions of South ‘Africa, and it was the
coming
“~~zther of these
elements
that
st
'.
aw.@
tOWords
a
revolution.
The
rank and
file of those who partici-
pated
in the
revolution
were not
mem-
bers
of the
labour Party
at
all. the
ma-
jority in this
sadand
terrible
business
being
Nationabsis,
and the
combination
of Nationalists
and in‘ernational
commu
nity
elements,
with
the pernicious
doe-
trines nreached
by the Nationalist Party,
had
affected
the
wminds
of
ignorant
people and constituted
a danger.
Every
rebel
commandant
was,
he
declared
a
Nationalist.
The
debate
was
then
ad
journed.
Dublin, April Ist. A proclamation
is-
sued
at the Irish Republican
Army head-
quarters
urging
men
to
stand
by
the
Government
set
up by
the
Irish people,
requires
officers and
men
to report to any
of six brigade
divisions
or
battle
head-
quarters
named,
prior to ten
o'clock th.s
morning.
Richard
Muleahy,
Minister
of defence
in the Dail Eireann,
yesterday
in an intelview said
that twenty five men
of the Irish Republican
Army
who were
guarding the Bank of Ireland
had
been
paraded
and given
opportunity
to
leave
the Army, if opposed
to
the
treaty,
and
that nineteen
of the
men
thereupon
lett
the
ranks.
Funchal
Madrid, April 2nd.—‘‘Oh God
Thy will be done.
Into
thy hands
I com-
mit my soul and the care of
my wife and
children.
Icffer thee my life as
a sacrifice
for my people’’.
Thus spoke
the Ex-Em-
peror Charles of
Austria-Hungary,
ser-
ene and .calm
at the moment
of his death.
London, April 2nd.—With
the close of
the Financial
year of the
British
Treas-
ury, the .atemz
.. v
the
Chancellor of
the Exchequer
indicate.
*hat
his depart
ment
had not only balancea
..~
budget,
but secured
a surplus
of nearly ~ N
000 for the reduction
of the natinal
douc
Paris,
Aprit 2nd.—’rincess
Mary
and
Viscount Lasceiles,
returning from their
honeymoon
trip
to Italy,
arrived
here
this
evening.
They
are
visiting
Lord
and
Lady Granard.
Laspaimas
Canary
Islands,
april 2nd.-
The Portuguese
aviators,
Captains
Cout-
inho
and
Sacadura,
resumed
their
air-
plane flight at ten o’clock
this
morning,
bound for the Cape De
Verde
Islands,
a
distance
of 816 miles,
on
the
second
leg
of their journey to Rio
De
Janeiro.
Washinaton,
April 2nd.—An 2arth
move-
ment of ‘pronounced intensity’’
was
re-
corded
this afternvon
on the Seismoygrapi
instrumenis
of Georgetown
University,
Jasting
from 2.47t0 3.22
p.
m.
It
is es-
timated
that the
centre
was
about
two
thousand
miles
from
Washington.
London, April 2nd.— As foreshadowed,
Qir Arthur Balfour has
been
offered and
has accepted
an Earldom.
This was defi-
nitely
learnt
tonight.
The
official
an-
nouncement
of his elevation
to the House
of Lords will be
made
in a few
days.
~
London, April 2nd;:—Twenty
thousan
Southanpton
children
have begun
an
un-
expected
holiday of indefinite
duratiun,
due
to, a strike of four
hundred
teachers
in that city, the principals being the only
ones
in
the
department
to remain
at
their post,
in the walkout which-has
clos-
ed everv school in the city.
The
troubie
between
the
city
avthorities
and
the
teachers
started
when
a
wage
reduction
was
threatened
‘The
teachers
voted
to
strike
and
the
officials.
withdrew
their
wage
cut, but the former
were
dissatisfi-
ed, demanded
an increase
of pay and quit
work, until their terms
are met.
Belfast,
April 2nd. —lreland and
Wales
played a draw,of one goal all, in the Inter-
pational
Soccer fixture played here yester-
day.
Bethlehem
P.
A, April, 2nd.—A
com-
hined
Oxford
aud
Cambridge
Lacrosse
team
played
the first match
in
its Ameri-
can tour here yesterday defeating Leihigh
University by eight
goals
to
two.
The
visiting
players,
despite
their
lack
of
practice,
showed fine form,
scoring
five
coals
before
Lehigh
tallied
their
first.
The
Englishmen
showed
some
snappy
work and quickly added
their
sixth
and
seventh
points.
Lehizh came
back,
how-
ever,
in good fashion
and
scored
a
sec-
ond goal, but only to
have it
matched
a
few
minutes later by the visitors.
Paris,
April 2nd.—The
Cabinct
conclu-
ded this morning
its
choice
of members
of the
French
-delegation
to
the
Genoa
conference
numbering
about
sixty
per-
sons.
-
NEw YORK,
April 4th.
Flour, Blen?2d Clears St. Lawrence Erand
pr.
brl. $6.00.
Meal Kilndrizl ver
100ibs sl.6v
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $37.00
Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $25.00
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100 lbs.
$3 89
Molasses
Sugar
89°
test,
no gquotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upland,
at
Liverpoo!
per
ib.
10 50-100
Exchange.
New
York
and
London,
60
days’ sight $4.363
lixchange New York and London,
sight
$4.39%
LONDON, April 4th 1922
Sugar, Demerara
Crystals,
per ewt. 425.
od.—44s.
od.
**
Muscavado
per
cwt. 325.—375.
German
Beet 887 1.0.b.
no sales.
Whit.
2x,.
.o ar
cif United Kingdom
:
19s.
64d.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal.
nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middling Rea
per
ewt
695.
70d
Cottoz,
good Medi 'm. West
Indian
Sea
Island per lb. 26d. nominal.
Bank
of: England
rate
of Discount per
cent.
43.
Consols
56%5.
Three per cent
rentes
in Paris
Fe 5.57.25.