LOCAL
YTlg S.
S. Guiara’ is
expected
to leave
New York on
the 26th inst.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATICN.
Simla,
April 14th.— The Public
Health
Commissioner
states
that there
has
been
a rise
in the
mortality
frem
the
plague
which began
in December
last and which
caused
36,000
deaths
uvp
to
the
end
of
Marcb.
In
the
estimate
for
the
four
vears
the
mean
average
shows
14.00
deaths
bad
been
caused
each
vear.
This
rvise
in the number
of
deaths
is
se:ious,
a5 it shows
the plague
is ready
to assume
enidenie preportiorswhen
the conditions
therefor
are favourable and public health
measures
are
neglected
to
any
extext.
Hnowever,
favourable conditions
arve
pres-
ent
now in
good harvest
and
the
atmos-
pheric conditions.
India
sheuld
make
an
organized
at'empt
to
stamp
out
the
plague,
which
so tar she
has
no*
done,
Paris,
Acwiil
14th.—Tle
French
and
Beigian
CGovernment
Vinsters
at
their
n.eeting
here
yesterday
afternoon
de-
cided
upon
new measures
o!f pressuve
(o
bo applied
to Germany
if she
remains
nn-
yielding
on
the
rcparations
gues.ion.
The
nature of
the
measures
was
not
dis-
ciosed,
but the
Ministers
announced
in
an official communique
that
they
aie
de-
termined
to continue
pressure
until
the
Berlin
Government
makes
direct
over-
tures for a settlement.
Berlin,
April 14th.—Leadirg
employ-
ers
and
vepresentatives
of the
workmen
of
all industries
and
shades
of opinion
in the new and oid occupied territory, who
are
meeting
at Berlin
this
week,
have
unanimously
decided
to
pursue
their
policy of passive
resistance
to the
meas-
ures
taken
by
the
Franco-B:<lgian
ce-
cupational
authorities.
The
conference
reiterated
thut
the
starting
p.int
of
any
pegotiations
with
the
Franco-Bel-
gians
must
be
a guarantee
for
complete
evacuation
of
the
occupied
tervitory,
in-
demn;ty
for damages
during
the
cecupa-
Lon, release
of persors
arrest=d
and the
return
of
those
expeiled.
'Th2
aim
of
such negotiations,
it was added,
must
be
the
conservation
of
the
In e-German
territory and
a settlement
of
the
repara-
tions problem
which will enable
the
Ger-
wans,
while accepting
all
bearable
obii-
gations,
io
live
and
work
“like
free
men’’.
Desmoines,
April 14th.
-In the
pres-
ence
of an
audience
of seieral
thousand
men
apd
women,
including
feminine
leaders
from
all
parts
of
the
United
States SLord Robert
Cecil last
night
ad-
dressed
an
appeal
to
the
women
to
furiger actively the cause
of world peace.
Conecluding
an address
in
which
he
had
outlihed
the
zccomplishment
of
the
League
of
Nations
and
the hopes
that
are
held for its
further
usefulness,
the
British representative
in the
assembly
=1
L B
X
A ViR
of the League
said:-
*‘l have
no
request
to make
to you,
no alvice
to give you.
I
wait
with
interest
any
comments
or
auestion.
you
may have
to
make
on the
matter.
| ean only say
this.
Do
not,
|
bescech
you,
forget
the
importance
of
the question,
important
to
all
alike,
but
perhaps
most of all
to
women.
Think I
pray
you,
f
the
sufferines
of
the
late
war,
sufferings
whi'h
vou
yourselves
must
hLhave
endured,
sufferings
which
have been
more
widely
and
aeeply
felt
by other nations
of the
world.
Think of
what
is still going on all over
the
world,
unrest
and disquiet,
passion
and
hatred
which
are oppressing
more
everywhere.
Do
not
in
the
presenc»
of
such
events
pass
by on
the
other
‘de.
We
cannot
avoid our
resvousibilit
. s
human
be-
ings,
weare ali member.
of
one family.
This
is
an
absolute
truth,
an
avoidable
fact”’.
The mesting
to which
Lord Rob-
ert
Cecil spoke
was
a public
mass
meet-
ing held by arrangement
of the National
League
of Women
Voters.
in
convention
here.
The
speeeh
throughout
was
ad-
dressed
to
wonien, and phrased
to
inter-
est
them.
lord
Rob
rt si.
‘'‘Women
have,
or cuzht
to have,
a special
passion
for peace.
1 know in
iny
country
there
is searcely
a
woman
who has
not
suffer-
ed
some
terrible
loss
in
the
lite
war,
a
loss
more
terrible
than
the
loss
of
her
own life.
Ido not know
how it
may
be
in America,
but in Burope
we are
esking
how
this
thing
can
ba
stopped
for
the
future and it is
™
make
some
contribu-
fio~ towards
an
asswer
to
that,
1
am
here.
Not that
|1 have
a
cut
and dried
plan
to
force
down
your
throats,
butI
have
some
information
to give
vou, and
I
look
torward,
[ hopes=not
in
_.an,
tor
some
helpful suggestions
frorn you’’,
New York, April 14th.
Senator
Borah
L.
v, lep'ying here
last
night
to the
recent
League
of
Nations
speecnes
of
| erd
Robert
Cecil,
declared
his
convie-
tion
that
no
peace
leacue
‘‘ean
funciion
for peace’’ until
war has
been
ouilancd
as
an
institutior.
the
present
feague,
said
the Serator,
rot
only
had
faiicd v
make
war
& erime,
but had been
domina-
ted
by
Governments
which
convine
d
the
United
States
people they-‘"do
not
want
peace
upon
any
terms
compatible
with
equality
and
justice’’.
He
added
that the proper fi-lu ior
dissewinaiion
of
a gospe! of peace
was
the old
worid
and
not the new.
Londor,
April 14th.—The
Internation-
al lugby
tooibail
series
re:ehes
its
last
stage
today,
when
Irelaid
t
avels
to
Paris
to contest
the
tenth
ganme
of
the
Franco
biiti'
h
fixtures.
T'he
game
1s
interesting
chiefly
tor
the
tlzei
that
1t
will decide
which
ccuntry
finishes
up at
the
bottem
of
the
llnterrational
tuable.
The chamypionship
was
annexed
by Eng-
land
wken
they
defeated
Scotland
ut
Edinburgh
en
March
17th,
thereby
tie-
gistering
tfeour straight
wins.
The Scotch-
men
canie
second
in the table
with three
wins, while Wa'es
and
ireland
have each
wobp
one
came.
France
has
gone through
the serics
without
a
win,
has
had
the
largest
nun ber of peoints scored
against,
with the i« west for.
Dublin,
April 14th.—Irish
Free
State
trcops
this
morning
captured
Austin
Stack,
former
Republican
‘‘Minister of
Heme
affairs’’,
according
to
the
Ex-
change
Telegraph,
The
¢x minister
wes
hidinz in
a
diteh
in the
ncuntains
near
( lormel,
in
the
district
where
Liam
Lyrch
was captured
recently.
T.ondon,
April 14th.—Ie
Valera
has
apparentiy
eluded
the|lFrece
State
trocirs
under
General
Prout,
who
has
tbeen
searching
for him in the Tipperary
moun-
tain
areas,
szys
a Dublin despateh
to the
Central
News
teday.
The
whole
district
was
thorcughly
combed
yesterday
by
thousands
of soldiers,
aided
by airplancs.
Several
priscrers
were
t:ken.,
Generul
Frout expressed
the opinion that
the
I¢-
gion had
been
cleared
of lrregulars.
Capetown,
April 14ih, —Premier
Smuts
in
a speech
here
yesierday
dwelt
chief-
lv
on
the
‘‘rapidly developing
erisis
in
Eurecpe
where
forces
are
being
:et
go-
ing, whebin
the
end
may ruin
Euroje-
an civilization.”
‘l'he
policy of the Brit-
ish Empire,
he
said,
ought
to be elearly
defined
to the world,
<o that sthere would
b:
no
doubt
or misuadcis.andings.
*'lt
should
speak,””
the
Fremier
continued:
in
a
sincere,
impartial
fiiendship
and
humble
loyalty
to
the
cause
¢f
peace,
before
it is
teo
late.
4
trust
it
will rea-
lize
the greatness
and
glory of its
peace-
ful
missien
and
speak
the
®reat
word
which,
with
the excepticn
of
Ameriea,
it alene
can
stiil syeak
among
the nations
of
the world'’
Washington,
April
14:h —Earth
tre-
mors
of moderate
intensity
were recorded
yvesterday
by
the
Georgetown
University
scismograph.
‘lhe
disturbance
began
at
10 42
and
reached
a
maximum at
11.20
and
died cway
at
noon.
Father
Tondos,
in charge
ol
the
observatery,
estimated
that
it
was
centered
5,100
miles
tron
Washingten,
apparently
south.
I'ubhin,
April 14th.——-As
soldiers
of
the
Free
State
were
looking all
over freland
for ainena
De Valera,
the
leader
of
the
insuisents
tempied
the
tates
on
Fridey
the
13th,
by
Issuinga
sta‘ement
toh s
adherents.
From
the
fasiness
of
{
e
Lipperary
mountains
e
Valera appealoa
to
itte soldiers
of
the Republie
as toiows:
'Renew
ai
the
bier of your
dead
chief,
Liam Lynch,
your
devniion
to
the
ite-
pubi
can
cause,
whien
18
inmmorial.
‘Ihe
weariness
from
the
exac:.ing
struggle
and
iemporary
iosses
and
deleats
cannot
prevail
against
our
uitimate
uvivwmph’’,
Constantipople,
April
15th. —Hassen
Fehmi
Bey
has
resigned
as
Finance
Minister.
He
tosk
this
action
because
the
Great
National
Assembly
supported
ihe war minister’s
demand
for an
addi-
tional credit
on
the greund
that
war was
still not impossible.
:
‘