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Toulouse,
France,
Oet.
15th.—King
Albert of Belgium
rcached
_nere
yester-
day afternoon
in an
airplane
from
Bar-
celona,
Spain.
He resumed
his flignt this
afternoon
bound
for
Paris,
whence
he
will go to Brussels.
London,
Oct.
15th. —Ted “‘Kid’’Lewis,
middie veight champion of
KEngland,
to-
nicht defeated
Johnny
Bashan
in
round
twelve
¢f
what
was
to
have
been
a 20
round
bout.
The fight was for the cham-
pionship.
Bashan’s
seconds
answered
the
terrific punishment
which
Lewis
was
inflicting on
him by tossing
a
towel
into
the ri:g in
acknowledgment
of
defeat.
Ottawa,
Oct.
15th.—Canadian
Press.
During
September,
as
compared
with
September
a yea¥y
ago,
the total
value
of
Canadian
trade
declined
over
ninety-two
miilion doilars
For the six
months
end-
ing September,
in
comparison
with
the
corresponding
period
of
the
previous
year,
the decline
was
over
half
a
billion
dollars.
Chicago,
Oct.lsth—Leaders
of the rai!
way brotherhoods
assembled
here
today
to consider
the
challenge
of the railway
executives
in proposing
a
further
wage
reduction
of approximately
10
per
cent
in the
'ace
of a
strike
vote
just
autho-
rized by the
railwaymen
because
of the
12
per
cent
reduction
last
July.
The
brotherhood
chiefs
indicated
that
an
immediate
walk-out,
at
once
on
some
roads,
was
under
ccnsideration,
follow-
ing
yesterday's
conference
of
the rail-
waymen
leaders
with
the
executives
after
the executives
had
announced
they
would apply
to the
railway
labour
board
for
a
wage
reduction.
President
Samuel
Felton,
of
the
Chicago
Great
Western,
No.
245.
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the proposed
pcduction
woul
effect
a saving
of approximately
$300,000,000
annually,
and approximately
two million
men
would be aftfected.
Antigua,
Oct.
17:h—It is
officialiy an-
nounced
that
Lieut
Colonel
the
Honble.
Sir
Eustace
Edward
Twisleton
Wyke-
ham
Fiennes,
Bart,
has beenappointed
as
Governor
and
Commander
in
Chief
of
the Leeward
Islands.
The
Governor
will
arrive
by steamship
, 'Palmyra’’
leaving
New York about
18:h
November
Chicago,
Oect.
16th. —The
final arrange-
ments
for
a
general
railway
strike.
intended
to tie up the nations
transporta-
tion
system
through
a
walkout
of
the
2,000,000
employess,
rapidly
were_
near-
ing completion
tonight,
with
the
days
developments
bringing
two
important
chgr-ge%
in the
original plans.
Foremost
among
thes. was
a
decision
not
to
in-
clude
the
Pennsylvania
lines
and
the
Erie
railroad in the
group of carriers
in
the
first walkout is
scheduled
to
begin
at six a.
m. October
30th,
The Sandiego
-
and
Arizona
railroad was
added
to
t
e
'
part
of the
four groups
into
wkich
the
-
unions
have divided the roads
for strike
.
purposes,
and
it
was
decided
to
order
~
the three succeeding
groups
out
at forty-
eight hours
intervals,
instead
of twenty-
four hours
apart
Under
this plan,
with-
the mer
on the roads
in group number
or.e
walking
out
on
October 30th,
he strike
would
be
in full effect
on
November
sth.
Minneapolis,
Minn..
Oct.
16th.—The
-
President
of
the
United
States
is
the
-
only
person
x¥ho can
now avert
a
strike
-of railway workers
of the United
States
on
October 30th, Timothy Healy,
Presi-
.
dent of the International
brotherhocd
of
.
stationary
firemen
and
oilers
stated
to-
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Oct.
17th—Ukrainian
pea-
'
sants
are
reported
to
have
revolted
-
against
the
Russian
Soviet
Government
-
and
one
Bolshevik
regiment
is
said
to
'
have mutinied.