mav
be regarded
as
concluded.
+
Paris,
Dec.
21 h.—A
grave
feature
of
the
inecident
in
convectior with the
. German
protest
against
the recent
note
sos
the
inter Allied
commission
respect-
ing
the
disbanding
of the
ecivie guard,
it is pointed
out,
is
the effect
upon the
contested
question
in
France
of the
re-
duction
of military
service
and
reduc-
tion
of
the
army
burden.
Questioned
regarding
the
situation
M. Leygues
re-
plied:—“'l
ecan
only
repeat
what
Isaid
in
the
Chamber
the
other
day,
that
,France does
not
intend
ti
entertain
a
perpetual
war spirit,
but she
is resolved
to see that the treaty
of Versailles
is
ex-
ecuted’’.
“Apprehension
is
expressed
here
that
(Germany’s
resistance
to dis-
armament
will strengthen
the
opposi
+
tion
to the
reduction
in the French
mili-
tary
service
and
wili reopen
the entire
quastion
whien
has
been
seitled
so far
ac
the
Cnamber
is concerned
by its
re-
cent action.
Auckland,
N.
Z.,
Dec.
20th.
-
Villiam
Tilden, worid’s
champion
iennis
player
for
1920, defeated
Norman
DBrookes
of
the
Australian
team
here
today in the
first event of the
Davis
Cup
Champion-
ship
tournmament.
The
score
was
10.8,
6.4,
1.6 and
6.4.
.
Trinidad,
Dee.
29th.=~The
Commission
on
venereal
diseases
will
leave
for
Grenada
by R. M. S.
Chaleur
on the 2nd
proximo,. afierwards
to
Barbados
and
Demerara.
o
E
London,
Dee.
30th -—lnsistence
upon
the
desirability
of restricting
naval
ar-
maments
and
the holding
of
a
confer-
ence.on
the
subject by
Great
Britain,
Japan
and
the United
States
was
renew-
ed today by
a London
newspaper,
‘‘The
Times’’, saying,
the
belief
was
widely
prevalent
in
the
United
States
that
Great
Britain
was
bound
by
freaty
to
support
Japan
in the
case
of
that
coun-
try
entering
a*
war
with
the
United
States,
devoted
more
than half of a leng
editorial
seeking
to
convince
the
peo-
ple of the United
States,
thai
this
be-
lief was ‘‘grotesquely
false’’.
The news-
papar
recalled
that
when
the
United
States
and
Great Britain
in 1914
signed
the pesce
commission
treaty
Greal
DBri-
?
tain immediately
notified Japan
of
the
fact.
Japan
was
told
that
the
agrie-
ment
to
submit
disputes
between
the
United States
and
Great
Britain
to
in-
vestigation
by a
permanent
.internation-
al commission
constituted
an
exemption
on
Great
Britain’s
part
to
aid
Japan.
- ‘lf that
does not explode all uneasingss
about
an
Angle Japanese
attack’’,
said’
the newspaper,
'‘Lhe suspicion
muast
be
beyond
the powers of reasoning’’.
Reit-:
erating its advoecacy of an agreement be-.
tween
the three
powers
the
Morning
.
Post contended
such
an agre=ment
should
not
infringe
upon
the
province
of the-
League
of
Nations
aad
amoang
other
things
urged
it
would
be
much
more.
profitable
to all concerned
to
agree
as
friends
rather
than
compete
as
rivals.
ST
OROILX
& ¥.. .8
““The
British
Govt.,
sayvs
the
Daily
Nows, ‘‘definitelyfavours
such
an
inter-
national
conferen<e
on
disarmameit
as
was
proposed
by
Mr.
.osepn
Daniels,
United
States
Secty.
of the
Navy,
and
maintains
that
it
s
the
function
of
the
Leag.
of- Nations
to
eall
it.
This
would
meet
possible
objec-
tions
here.
The
United
States,
while
not
a member
of
the League,
participa-
ted
in
the
British
financial
conterence
and
thus
would
not
be retreating
from
her position regarding
the Lieague.
New York, Dee.
29th.
-One
thousand
of New Yrk’s m2n and women of wealth
paid SI,OOO
or more each
tonight to sit
at
a
plain
board
table
and
eat
beeistew.
The
‘‘binquet’”
was
a
testimonial
ar-
ranzel
by
Mr. Hoover,
chairman
of the
Earopeaa
relief
council
of
th:
United
States,
in
an
effort
to
succour
the
3,540,000
starving
children
of Europe.
Th:
stew,
accompanied
by
white
bread
and
a
cap
of
cocoa,
was
the
same
as
served
1) starving children
at relief
sta-
tious
taroughout
Europe
at
the cost
of
less
than
a cent and
a halt.
General
Per-
shing,
Mr. Hoover, Mr.
Rockefelier Jr.
Mrs. Belmont
and other notables
carried
soup bowls,
and
were first
in
a line that
-passed
by army field kitchens
to be
serv-
ed.
Tne
servitors
were
young
society
women.
A vacant
high chair
was placed
-for the "‘invisible’’guests
of honour,
the
children
for whgm
Mr.
Hoove:’s
cawm-
paigzo for-$356,000,000
was launched,
stood
ai the head
of the
table,
General
Per-
shing
made
a plea
for
world
disarma-
ment.
He said
that
estimnates
recently
presented
to
Congress
contemplated
an
appropriation
for
naval
and
military
purposes
for the nex' fiscal year
amount-
ing
to
more
than
$5,000,000
for
every
working
day
in
the
year.
‘lt
is
a
gioomy
commentary
on
world
condi-
itions”’, he said.
‘'that
expenditures
sev-
eral
times
greater
than
ever
before
in
times
of
peace
shovid
be
considered
necessary,
especiaily
when
the
most
rigid economy
in Governmeot
adininistra-
tion is essential
if we would avoid
nation-
al bankruptey’”’.
Mr.
Heover announced
after
the dinner
that
1,000
guests
paid
$2,011,221,
more ‘than $2,000
a plate.
London,
Dee.
30th. —'i'he
Oxford-Cam-
bridge team
won the 74 mile
cross
coun-
try
race
at Roehampton
today from
the
Cornell *'New York College’ runners
by
36 to 29 points.
iondon,
Dee.
29th.—3Sugsr
in stock
on
the 25th inst.
was 201,000
tons,
last year
71,000 tons.
.
New York, Dee. 30th. —A committee
of
United
States
citizens
which is
claimed
‘to be nom-poiitical and
to have
no
affilia-
tion
with
any
organizations
has
been
formed to carry
on
relief
in Ireland
uun
der the name of the American Committee
for reties
in Ireiand.
A preiiminary fund
of $300,000
has
been
underwritten
by
members
of
the esmmitiee
to
meet
the
situation
in Ireland
;
.
New York, Dec. 31st.—~1he
sugar
mar-
ket closed
at
noon
today.
No fresh
busi-
ness
was
reported
in
raws,
and
prices
quoted were 4§ for Cubas
¢ and f equal to
.39 for centrifugal.
Refined
was steady
a3 7.90,
and 8,00 for fine granulated.
Fu-
tures
were quiet and featureless,
January
closed
at 4.50,
March 4.64,
May 4.80
and
July 5.00.
:
»
Rome,
Dec.
31st.-~The
Giornale D’lta-
lia reports
that Captain
D'Annunzio
has
left
Fiume
in an
aeroplane,
going
first
to Venice and
later
to
Paris.
D’Annun-
zio’s
destination
is
unknown,
but
the
speculation
includes
Ireland,
for which
he has always
expressed
sympathy.
Baitimore, Md., Dee.
81st.-—An
official
bulletin
given
out
tonight
by
Bishop
Corrigan
revealed
that
the
last
sacra-
ments of the
church
had
been
adminis-
tered
to
Cardinai
Gibbous,
who is
seri.
ously
ill at
the
lome
of Mr
Shriver,
Urion
Mills.
Dr. O’Donovan,
the
Car-
dinal’s
physieian,
announced
that
the
prelate
bad
two
fainting
spells
this
morning. -
\
:
Trigste,
Dec.
31st.—-The
protocol
ef-
fecting
the settlement
of the Fiume gues-
tion
was signed
this afternoon.
New York,
Dec.
3list.--Professor
De
Valera, President
of the Irish
Republic,
has
arcived safely
in
Ireland,
Mr.
Bo-
land,
his
secretary,
anncurced
here
{o-
day.
De Valera
effected his landing
on
Irish soil this morning,
said Mr. Boland.
He gave
no other particulars.
Dublin,
Léc. 31st.--Enquiry
this
even-
ing elicited
the
statement
that
neither
the
castle
cfficials
nor
the
newspapens
know
anything
concerning
De
Valera's
arrival
here.
The
United
States
s,
s.
Ponda
arrived
at
the
Northwail
quay
in ‘he river Lftey tcday
and
was
board-
ed
by armed
soldiers.
A
machine
gun
was placed
on
becard
and
asrmouvred
cars
along the quay
trained their
guns
on the
ship;
which
was
tLorcughly
searched.
According
to
report
nokcdy
whi was
being sought
was
found
cn beard.
London,
Dec.
81st ~ The
n.ost
ipter-
esting
ot the New Year horcurs
te Cana
dians
is
a barcnetey
for~Ni. Mzcn ester,
member
of
the
Eritish
rertismert
for
the Chertzey
civisicn
since
1810
Trere
tre
new
Lecrages
srg-nup-erets,
kright
hoods,
several
of theTattei
Weirg
Le-
stowed
on Australizn]
New
Ze¢e'ircd
ord
South
African
states
sewyen's,
zr.d cne
on
the
hcrcurable
Ecwertd
vees,
Avs:
tralian agent-general
in london.
NEW
YORK,
31st
Dec.
1920.
Flour, Blenced Clears St. Lawrence Frand
pr.
brl.
SB.OO
Meal, Kilndried per
100 s
$2,40
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $37.00
Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $29.00
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100
lbs.
$5.31.
Molasses
Sugar
89°
test,
no guotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upland,
at
ILiverpool
:
per
lb.
9 29-1004.
Exchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’ sight $3.464