LOCAL
Mails
by
the
S. S.
Guiana
and
Paria
were
received
and
delivered
here
at 2
p.
m. yesterday.
Mr.
Laekmann
of
the
West
Indian
Sugar
Factory
arrived
here
from
Den-
mark vesterday.
This morning
our attention
was
drawn
toa
notice
written
outside
the business
establishment
of
Mr. A Ovesen,
calling
for labourers
to go
to Sto.
Domingo,
wo-
men lahourers
will be also accepted.
—The
Agricultural News,
Nov. Isth.
The
S.
8.
""Parima’’
left here
yester-
dav
afternoon
at
3
o’eclock,
taking
the
following
passengers
for
New
York:—
Mrs.
Jane
Stewart,
Rev.
Father
M,
Leddy,
Zackeriah
Martin,
Martin Borge-
sen.
Emile
Hansen,
Isabella
Allick, Anita
Edwards,
Mrs
Emelda
Jacobs,
Charles
W. Williams,
Edward
'rancis,
DPertram
K.
Gibbs,
Randolph
Baronigan.
Lioncl
Gibbons,
Oswald
Nanton,
Andrew llsaae,
({.
MeTFarlane,
Rosa
K
Foy & child,
Cynthia
Robeor's,
DPhileman
Harrigan,
Mrs. Catherine
Lamard,
James
Marshal,
Mrs. Elisa
Gibbs
and
son,
Mrs.
Angelina
Beck.
For St. Thomas:—Jose
M. Sorceta,
and Agusta
Dantel.—ibic.
TULEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIX 3 'ATION.
London,
Nov.
12ith.,
Adlressinz
a
labour mecting
in London tonight,
Mr. J.
Ramsay
Mae Donald
leader
of
the
Op-
|
position
in the
House
of Comuions,
said
he
would
tomoerrow
challenge
the
Gev-
ernment
in Parliament
on
its
unemploy-
ment
policy
and
its
Euwropean
poliey,
which has
sacrificed
every
ideal
and
lett
Kurepe
more militaristic
and
more
war-
like
than
in
1913.
He
dencurced
the
Government’s
protectionist
proposal
as
a
cure for unemployment
and declared
that
o he had
never known
the
L.abour Paity
so
entlLusiastic
for a straight fight.
Paris,
Nov.
12th,—M.
Poincare
has
decided
to propose
the
creation
of a
com-
mittee
of
experts
for
the
purpose
of
investigatingz
the
question
of
German
reparations’
The
committee,
as
sug-
sested,
would
be composed
of
delegates
from the
powers
topresented
in the
Re-
parations
Commission.
lis
duties
would
be
to establish
Germany’s
external
and
internal
resources,
ascertain
where
the
German
capital
hes and
how
it can
be
bronght
back,
how and it
what
amounts
tne
resources
of the
Reich
can
at
the
p-csent
mowment
be utilized for
repara-
tions and
how Germany
can re-establish
jor financial position.
It
1s further pro-
posed
that
a technical
expert
be
added
to the committee
for
each
country.
The
investizations
would last
two months
at
jeast.
in
making upon
its own
account
a
plan for
a committee
of experts,
M.
ST
ROlx
AVIS
}
Poincare
was
moved by a desire
to furn-
.
ish fresh proof of
his resolution
to leave
no
method
likely to lead
to a
solution
of
'
the reparations
problem
undecided.
The
'
Premier,
itis
announced,
would
Oy
no
means
refuse
to
enter
into
negotiatiops
.
with
Germany.
now
that passive
res’
_-
.
ance
has
ceased
and wilful defanlts
in
.
deliveries
in
kind
have
been
stopped,
.
thanks
to the direct
agreement
with
the
.
German
industrial
leaders.
Accordingly
.
M. Poinecare
has
instructed
M.
Barthou,
|
President
of the Reparation
Commission,
.
to
ask
that
body
at
tomorrow’s sitting
'
to
designate
this
committee
of
experts
.
At
the same
time
the
commission
will
have
to pass
on the
Germar
demand
to
~
be heard
on
the
Reich’s
fii 'neial
situa-
tion,
action
on which
waz
postponed
on
|
the
mution of
Sir
John
Bradburg
until
.
the ontcome
of the
negotiativns
with
the
United States
became
known.
1
London.
Nov.
12th, —ln
consequenca
'
of
the
failure
of
the
negotiations
be-
tween
IFraoce
and
the
United
States
at
Washington
over
the scope
oi
the
pro-
posed© expert
comittee
of
inqguivy,
Geeat
Dritain
had
abandoned
all
thoucht
of
an
immediate
reparation
ingairy,
either
with
or
without
the
participa-
tion
of
France
The
Governmani
will
henceforth
devote
its=if
to
pressing
domestic
problems,
avalling
a
more
propitious
movement
t)
reopen
the
reparations
question,
There
is
nnt
the
ramotest
chance,
-it
1s
d-elared,
.
of
the
Governm:nt
convening
a blenary
economic
¢
nference,
jointly
with
the
United
States,
without
Frenca
parti-
c¢:pation,
If
suech
a
step
were
ta
ken,
British otfi:ials
fe2l
that
itis in
no
way certain
that
Balgium
would abiandon
"
her
close
a
sociata
with
Feance,
nor
is it
clear
thar
lLialy
would
feel free
to
enter
whole-heartedly
iato
tha
gircum-
.
seribed
conference
without
her
'rench
-
ally.
The
Government
authorities
re-
i
pudiate
the
recent
talk
about
an
in-
i
pending beeak
with France,
arguing that
|
existence
of the
Entente
is
the
only an-
'
chor whereby
the
Kuropean
ship of state
.
can
be
prevented
from
going
on
the
|
rocks.
Preliminary
negotiations
con-
|
cerning
the
future
of Mbosul
arein
pro-
|
gress
at
Constantinope.
Neville
Hoen-
i
derson,
the
British
Coarge-
d’Affaires,
|
yepresents
Great
Britain and
Adnan Bay,
{
Turkey.
It
is
exp:ctad
that
this
will
{lead
(o a fuller talk at London,
i
Ryme,
Nov.
12th. ~Professar
Marchia
I
Java.
one of th2 most
eminent
of laalian
|
physicians,
has
annouaced
the
discovery
L
o 8 remedy
for
pneumonia
and
other
'
Jung
diseases
by
a
young
Swiss, doctor
.
Leandron
M~2rkin, who has
baen engaged
.
for a considerable
time
in raosearch
work
.
in the
Royal
Laboratories
here.
Alrea-
'
dy the treatmeat
has
been
administered.
'
to
numerous
patients
in
the
military
'
hospitals,
with
vhat
are
deseribed
as
|
vory successiul
results.
Professor
Mar-
'
echia
Fava
says
the
remzdy
coasisis
of
2 eongplex
chemical
formula, which, far
the
want.of
a
simpler
name,
has been
calle¢
“‘antimiernbum.”’
London,
Nov. 12th.—%seorted
to
thz2
Altar by
the King,
Princess
Maud
to-
day became
the
bride
of Lord Carnegie,
the heir
of the
Earl of Southesk.
The
Queen
and
the
members
of
the
Royal
Family
and
a
large
number
of
distin-
oguished
persons
witnessed
the marriage,
which
took
place
in
the Chapel
of the
Guards
of tae Wellington
Barracks.
London, Nov. 13th.—The
cfficial
sum-
mary
cos
thke
Imperial
Conference,
was
tnade
public
today.
On
the
mati~r
of
Empire defence
the
conterence
first
de-
claring that
the
views and conelusions
of
the conferc
ice
ware
nceessavily
subject
to action
bv
the
Governmen's
and
Par-
liaments
of the
varisus
paris
of the
Em
pire sugges‘ed
the
following
as
guiding
principles.
1.
Primary
resnonsihility
each
poriion of Empire
vresented
at
the
conference
for its
own
locul defence.
2.
Uesirability
maintenance
of
mininum
standard
of
naval
strengsth,
namely,
equality wi'h naval sti=ngth
of any
for-
eign
power
in accordunea
with provisiens
of the
Washington
treaty
Desirasility
of developn.ent
of the
&ir
forces
in
the
several
countries
of
the
BEmpire.
upen,
such
lines
as
will
make
it
possiole
by
means
of adoption
as far
as
possible,
of
a
common
system
of
organization
and
training and
use of upiferm manuals
and
pattern
of army
ecuipment
steres,
with
the
exception
of
type
of
air
eraft
for
each
part
ol the Empire,
that it
may
cc-
operate
with other parts,
with
least
pos
sible delay and
zreatest
eiliciency
.lThe
conference
also
took
note
of
the
follow-
ing,
Inte.
st of Australia,
Newzealand
and
India for
the
provisicn
¢f
a
naval
base
ai Singapore,
as
essentia)
for
eun-
suring
mobility
necessary
1o
provida
security
for (rade
of
empire
in
eastern
waters,
Necessity
for
mainienance
of
safe
passage
along
great
trade
rouie
to
the
East,
through
the Mediteranean
and
Red
Seas.
Necessity
of maintenance
by
Great
Britiin
of
home
defence
by
air
forces sufliciently strong
to give adequate
protection
:gainst
air aitack,
by
stirong-
est
air foree within
striging
distance
of
her shores.
London,
Nov.
13th.—Parliament
wiil
be dissolved
on Thursday
and
a
general
election
hell unWednesday
Decembear
sth.
London,
Nov. 13:h.—the
Asquiti: and
Lioyd
Geoige
factions
of
the
Liberal
Party
sank
their
differernec~s
this
r.orn-
-12 and
revnited
to present
a solid
front
against
the
Conservative
protectionists,
as
well
as
tae Laboar Party,
in the
com-
ing
electicn,
The
reconciliation
was
effected
at
a meeting of the
ex Premiers
Mr. Asquith and
Mr. Lbyd
George
and
Sir
Alfred
Mond,
and
Sir John
Simon.
Arrangemaots
were
made
for
a
united
campaign
by
all
the
Liberals.
4/hil:
such
a
move
was
not
usexpectc®
ohy
many politizal observer:,
yet
there
had
been
a
groat
element
of
doubt
s
1o
wh ther
the
two
Dbitter
political
anta-