Northern
Pcrsia
aud
oc
upy
Teheran,
which would probably
mean
he estabiish-
ment of Bolsheviki rule
in
Persia.
the
taking
of
tunis
town
permits
(ue
Reds
not
only
to
control
a
large
part of the important
Krasnovods<
Me-
vy rail vay,
but
gives
them
free
ac-
cess
to
the
Caspian
Sea.
There
seems
lit.le
that prevents
them
from
giining
control
of the Caspian
Sea
from
a more
or less
ineffective -volunteer fleet.
Once
in possessien
of this
sea
there
re mains
only
a
small
British
[orce
‘and
poorly
organized
Persian
forces.
Baku,
with
important
oil
supplies,
on
the
western
coast
of the Caspian,
seems
likely so fall
also
into Bolsheviki hands.
Buenos
Aires,
Jan.
Bth.—The
I'rench
steamer
Malte
from
Havre
and
Vigo,
with passengers
and
cargo for Rio de
Ja-
neiro and this port arrived yesterday
with
5
passengers
Gead,
7
dangerously
ill,
and
a large
number
of others
suilering
from
an attack of influenza
which
broke
out
in
a violent
form
a
few
days
ago.
The ship’s
doctor
reported
he hau daily
atiended
fifty = patients
since
tae
di-.
sease
was
first
reported,
and
that
the
apidemic
continusd
o
spread
-to
oiner
passenzers.
Rome,
Jan.
6th.
- The
‘‘Corriere P
Tealin’’ cays
chac
a memorandum,
nct
in
the
form
of
an ultimatum,
but
&
very
orave
document
coming
from the
allied
nations
to
a
bound
nation
has
been
deliverad
to the Foreign
Minister signor
Scialoia by
the Allies.
The memor:ndum
has,
for its objeer,
the closing of the peri-
od for neg
‘iations and
the opening
of
a
new
one.
and
recalls
to the
new
iralian
nezotiators,
that
the
Pact
of
London
does
not
exist
any
more,
having
been
destroyed gradually
by the former italian
negsniiators,
aiso
that
the former
Italian
dele
ates
rencunce
the Italian rights
to
Dalmatia
with the
exception
¢f
Oenzara
with
the
Hirterland
of ten Kilomzafres,
renounced
the annexation
of Fiume,
re-
nounced
part of
Istria,
and
also
su
sti-
tuted
an Italian protectorate
over A'bania
for an Italian
mandate
there,
restr cting
{taian
terricovial
aspirations
to
Avlona
with the Hiuterland of fifteen kilom:ires.
Th® memorandum
tries
to show
that with
these
facts
the
Pact
ot London
lost
ail
value,
and
thus
the
new
negotiztions
must
not
refer
to
the
Pact
of
Lou-
don.
Signor Scialofa first,
and
Premier
Nitti afterwards,
hastened
to
maiatain
thac
the Pact
of Loadon still
exist:
for
any period of honourin its entirety,
both
in tne spirit and in the
letter.
To
avoid
further
misanderstanding
of this sort,
Premier Nitiiinsisted that hereatter
min-
utes
be taken
of all
negotiations.
This
however,
shuws optimism
regarding
the
result of the London
and
Paris
negotia-
tions are uniounded.
Mexico Ciry, Jan.
Bth.—Reports
from
the
cowns and villages in the area
devas-
tated by the earthquake
shocks
last
Sat-
arday night brit gs the
death
list
tc
an
appalling figure.
While no adequate.
es-
ST
RIEEX
ANV
15
timate
of the damage
done
can
be
ob-
taized
1n
the
extraordinary
conditions
prevailing.
Beginning
with
the
reports
irom industrial villages giving a
score
or
so of deaths,
the total loss of life now
re-
ported
is
about
2,000
with
every
bvros-
pect
that the figure will increase,
if
in-
deed the exact number
of
dead
be
ever
established.
London,
Jan.
Bth.—The
members:of
the
Ironmongers
Union,
who
have
been
on strike for a wage
increase,
s.ace
Sep-
ten.ber 2Cth, have rejected
a commromise
offer
of
their
employers
by
a
vote
of
16,718 to 9,631,
London,
Jan.
Tth.—Odessa,
the
chief
Black
S
a
Port of Russia,
will not
be
givan to
the
advancing
Bolsheviki,
it is
ind cated
in
a
Central
News
despatch
fromn
Odessa
today
The
message
says
Ge:eral Schilling
18
hurrying
defensive
preparations
there.
No panic
bis
been
caused
by the
prospect
of active
hostili-
ties
in Odessa.
The Hague.
Jany.
7th.—The
President
of 'he
Secend
Chamber
announced
today
that
a
Bill
proposing
the
entrance
of
Hoiland into
the
League
of
Nations
will
be
ntroduced
at an early date.
Faris,
January
&th.—The
exchange
of
ratifications
of
the
Peace
Treaty
wil
take
place
on
Sarurdav.
January
10th.
The
Supreme
Council
today
initialled
this
date
for
the
ceremony
anc
decided
that it should
be hela
in
the
Foreign Office
here.
Fittsburg,
Phi!adi?lphia.
Jan.
Bth.
The
strike
1u the steel
mills and
furnaces
call>d on September
22nd.
and
which
at
its ineeption
involved
367,000
men
was
officially called
off
here
tonight
by
the
National
Committee
after
an
all-day
meeting.
Washington,
Jane
7th -The Senate
and
the House
Conferees
working on the Esch
and Cumtring Railway Bills agreed
upon
$300,000,000
as
the
amount
of
a revol-
ving: fund
which carries
will be permit-
ted
to
borrow
to
tide
lhem.s(‘l\”'s
over
the period
immediately
folldwinyz
their
return
to private
operations.
The
Cum-
mir
.
Bill passed
by the Senate,
‘ixed
the
ount
at $250,000,000.
Attt
sion . «oday,
the conferees
co.erec:
.uch
ground
and
are ready
to toke up the
real
big (uestion,
over which
a sharp
fight
is
expected.
These
are
the
guarantee
to
retu'n t th~ roads
rate
making and
the
labo
1r section
with its
anti-strike
provi-
sion.
.
New York, Jan.
7th.—20,0C0,000
men.
women,
and children
bave
died
in
Rus-
sia f-om famine and
disease _during
the
last
‘hree
years,
according
tos*atements
on tl.e present
econditions
of
the
Empire
which were made teday by Princ
ss
Can-
tusone
Poransky,
great
grand-daughter
of Mc. Ulvsees Grant,
in an apvoeal on be-
half »f the
American
Central
Committee
for
Russiag
Relief.
The
tremendous
deat!: toll mentioned
by
the
Princess
is
exclusive,
she
stated,
-of
the
5,000,000
men who had
laid down their lives on the
Russian
front, fighting for the Allies.
Washington,
Jan.
3rd.—"he
British
pound
will be counted
at
$3.85 in Ameri-
csn
money,
by the
War Department,
in
making
the
January
disbursement,
it
was
announced
today.
The
franc
will
be
stabilized for the
mont -at
11 to
the
dollar and the Italian Lire at 13.
Dublin,
Jan,
Tth.—An
order
of
the
Joint
Stiike Committee
forbiddieg
mem-
bers
of
the
Trades
Unions
to
handle
patrol because
of the Government’s
order
requiring all
motor
car “rivers to obtain
permits,
has
met
with
a
response
from
all transport 'workers,
railwaymen,
dock-
ers
and members
of the Transport
Work-
ers Union.
As
a result
o* this,
the small
amount
of
motor traffic remaining
after
the
promulgation
of the
motor
permits
order
has ceased
in labour circles.
It
is
declared
that Ireland is drifting towards
an
industrial
crisis
of the
first
magni-
tude.
London,
Jan.
Tth,—-Th<
Cabinet,
this
week,
will decide
the size of
Great
Brit-
ain’s future army,
says
the ‘‘DailyMail”’.
Military heads
believe,
according
to
the
“‘DailyMail’’,that the minimum,compat-
‘ble with the national
fealty and
to bring
about
the fulfilment of the
oblicatiocns
of
the Peace
Treaty will total 300,600.
This
compared
with
an
army
of
237,000
be-
fore the
war, is the tactor
governing the
decision
of finance,
the
newspaper
says,
pointing out that before
the
war.
the
up-
keep of the nrmy
totalled about
£29,000,
000 vearly.
It estimates
that
the armyin
the tuture,
even
with
radica!
economy
and ouly par
ial reorganization,
will
cost
about
£70,000,000
annually.
NEW YORK.
Jan. 9th
1920.
Flour. Blencdad
Clear
St. Lawrence
[-rand
pr. brl, $12.25
Meal, Kilndried
per
100 ibs $3.85
New
Secason’s
Pork per brl. $45.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$44.00
Sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed by Brokers)
P
per
100 lbs.
$7.28.
Molasses
R9” test
pr 100 Ibs.
no
quotation
Cotton, Middling Upiand.
ot Liverpool per
;
ih. 29 36-100 d.
Exchange,
New
York
and
london,
60
davs’
sight
83.72
Exchange
New
York and London,
sight
)a7
LoNDBON,
Deec.
9th
1919.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals duty paid price.
fixed by the Royal Commission
per
cwis
665. od.
-100 s.
Od.
Muscovade,
89°/- basig,
floating terms
in
bond,
Ditto duty paid.
635. 6d.
755. od.
German
Beet 88°/- f.o.h.
no further =aies
during
the
war
White
Java
sugar
cif
U.
Kingdom
cif
without engagement.
8 50.
White
Java
Sugar,
cif Uuniied King-
dom if arrives before
27th
Dceember
RBS/
Demercra
Rum.
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa.
Goed
Middling Red
per
ewt
128s.
od.
130s.
od.
Cotto
Medium finz Sea
Island,
at Liv-
erool nominal
per Ib.