abhle detzil that portion of the
lote inter-
esting
t¢
France.
while
M. Tl >uris
and
M. Jaspar,
respectively,
in
tieir
reply
will
pav
particular
attentior
tc
those
parts
of
the
communication
concerning
B:lgium.
It is said
that neither
[rance
nor
Belgium
will attempt
to
send
the
British Goveriment
a complet:
pcint
re-
ply.
Both
Governments
will exchange
their
notes
before sending
thera
te Great
Britain,
but
there
isto
be
no
extended
coilaboracion
in framing
the reylies.
London,
Aug.
16:n. —By the
arrest
of
De Valera,
it is felt
here
the captors
are
regardeC
as
having
set
for
themselves
a
problen,
the
solution
of
which
may
cost
them
de:rly.
The
opinion is
very
general
nere
that the
Republican
chief-
tain
was
less
dangerous
to the Free
State
«s
a fug (ive
than
as
a
prisoner.
It is
believed
that
his
detention
will
surely
provoke reprisals
ar.d will strer gihen his
election campaign.
Despatches
from Ire-
land
ind.cate
nothinz
as
to the
probable
future
treatment
of the
prisoner,
but it
seems
to be assumed
in Dublin, that
he
will not be prosecuted.
merely being held
with the other interned
until th: Covern-
ment
sees
fi-
to
release
him.
The
Dublin
eo:resyondent
of the Daily Tele-
graph
reoorts
that
the
Republican
Conventiow.
in that
City,
uvon
learning
of
the
aurrest,
immediately
selected
three
mci>
republican
candidates
for
County Cizre,
vhile the
rep blican
head-
guarters
in Dublin
announced
its
inten-
tion
of romiriting
a
large
number
of
extra
can irdates.
London,
Aug.
16th. —Ref. rring
edito-
rially to
he
recent
note
to
Fraoce,
the
Jimes
touny argues
at
length
1 favour
Yf the ccmmunication,
setting forth the
‘opinion tnat it is pot
only
in
accordance
with British interests,
but
also with the
Lreader
interests
of
peace.
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e,
il...
.
paper
contends
that the difficulties oft! e
present
Government
are due,
*‘to a series
of
grave
blunders
and
misunderstand-
ings”’, for
which the Lloyd George
min-
-latry
was
responsible.
Thne article
then
adds,
"It w-uld however
be wrong
to fix
the blame
on them
alone.
It must
never
be
lorgotten
that
a
lavge
part
of
our
present
confusion
is
due
to
the
failure
of
the
United
States
to
confirm
the
pledges
given
by
its
repraseniatives
at
the Peac:
Conference.
We fully realiz»
the causes
of this failure and
are
not
dis-
posed
to complain,
or
expest
the United
States
to take
an active
part
in the
near
future
in any attempts
to solve European
problems,
but
we
know
and
must
re-
member
that
one
of
the
factors
that
brought
us
to our
present
position
is the
fatal misunderstanding
Jabout
the United
States.
That
is
past
history,
and
our
present
task
is
to
solve
our
European
problems
alone’’.
Grenada,
Ang. 16th, —"'The West
Indi-
an’’ says
that at
a meeting
of the legisla-
tive Council held yesterday,
approval
was
given to a resolution
moved
by the
Colo-
nial Seceretary sanctioning
the payment
by
Grenada of its proposition of 2,500 pounds
fowards
a subsidy for the
continuance
of
the fortnightly
service
of the
Royal Mail
Canadian
steamers.
The resolutian
urg-
ed
the
Canadian
Government
to
arrange
for a proportionate
ete allocation
of
pas-
sages
and
cargo
accomodation
between
the
colonies
and
to
insist
that
there
should
b>
no
unfair
differentiation
in
rates
of freight against
the smaller
colo-
nies.
The resolution
was adopted
in
the
face of opposition
seme
of the
unofficials
urging that no
definite
answer be
given
the
Canadian
Government
until Decem-
ber.
New York, Aug.
16th.—There
were
no
changes
in
the
local
raw sugar
market
early today.
Cuba’s
were
quoted
at 43
cents,
cost
and freight,
equal
to 5.90 for
centrifugal.
Raw
sugar
futures
markes
was irregular.
:
London,
Aug.
16th.— Great
Britain,
according
to the Morning Post,
is arrany-
ing a
lean
of 6,000,000
pourds_for
the
Irtish
Free State.
In effcet” the
parer
says.
the
Government
is
atandoning
its
claims
to_eomnensation
for
damage
to
British prujerty
in Southern
Irelasd du
-
ing
the disturbed
period.
London, Aug.
16th.—The
manx steam-
er "'Douglas’’ was
sunk
in
a collision n
the Mersey
River
today.
All
on
beard
were saved.
London, Aug. 16th.—""Workmen
must
find away of resisting
wage
reductions
withouat revolting
against
agreements’’,
declared
Mr. Ciynes
in a
speech
today
ot
the
Conference
of
the National
Federa-
tion of General
Workers.
It
a barguin
turns
out
bad,
it must still
be kept’',
he
continued,
‘'The ;2ross
unfitness,
costly
blindness
and
vanity of would
be
leaders
who try to attein
the
impossible,
- should
afford a lasting lesson
to organized
work-
ers’’, Mr. Ciynes declared.
At the same
titne he said,
the dockers
strike
involves
a lesson
ulso for the
employers.
who
re-
g:rd wage reduction
as
a cure
forindus-
trial and economic
troubles.
New
York,
Aug.
16th.—The
outlovk
for a peaceful
settlement
of
the
contro-
versy
between
Anthracite
coal
opera-
tors
and
miners
is
discouraging,
it was
declared
tonight by
Mr.
Hays Hammon,
chairman
ot
the
(United
States
Coal
Commission,
which
met
with both sides
today in an
effort
te
avert
a
strike
on
September
first.
Paris,
Aug.
16th.—The
inter-Allied
reparations
commission
formally
poti-
fied Germany
today that reparations
con-
stitute
a
prior claim
on
the
resources
which
Germany
had expected
to
utiliza
to
guarantee
her
new
gold
loan.
The
commission
decided
upon this action
by
a
majority
vote,
the British
delegate
al-
staining
from
vo'ing.
but the
announc
-
ment
was
not
made
until
tonight that
a
letter
of notfication
bad been
delivered
to
the German
delegation in Paris.
The
communicalion
refers
to
the
previous
letter
tfrom
the
commission
on
March
27th
calling attention
to
the
article
244
ot
the
Treaty
of Versailles, giving
tie
Allies
a prior claim
oun the German
Gov-
ernment’s
assets.
The
letter
concludes:
““The
fact that the German
Governmeut
has
not thougzht
it proper
to ask
for
an
exception
under
that
article,
makes
it
necessary
for the
cominission
to make
an
express
reservation
as
against
the
sub-
scribers
to the
loan,
no
less
than
other
parties,
of its
right of
priority against
anv
funds which
may
be assigned
by the
German
Government
to
the payment
of
interest,
or repavment
of the
capital of
the loan in cuestion,
more particularly if
the
proceeds
of the
loan
itself
are
not
appliel
to
the
discharge
of reparation
annuities’’,
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