thousand. . .'i:
2amo2-of
macciag2s
s
also
increasiny.
e,
oo
dlst—(U2layed).
Asar-
ciated Press.
.a:
excaange
oi
ratinc.
tions of
cthe Treaty of Versalies
wiil Lake
blacc
on
Jjanuary
6th
at
the
Qval
‘
D 01‘52})’,
Baron
Von
[l.ersoner,
head
of
the
German
Delegation,
and
M.
Paul
Dutasta,
Secretary
of .line Peace
Confer-
ence, having secied
all
oints
1a
connec-
con with
the signature,
exeepi
that
in
relation
to naval
mareriai.
il is
expect-
ed
thac shorcy
the
Germans
willsign
Ine
protocos,
and
at
the
same
time the Allies
will hand
a letter
to
them
agreeing
1o
reduce
then'b(;emands
to 400,00 J tons
lln
the
total
of
availiable
cornage,
walch
was
over
estimaced,
or Germany
wiil be
menaced
economically.
llr
any
case,
ii[Lf:‘l"the signature,
the
Allies
will
get
24,000
tomps of materiai,
and
the
baiauce
pased
on the reports
of experts,
who
are
now
ci.ecking
up
the figures or
Daunzig,
t mourk
and
Bremen.
Mr.
uloyd
George
will
be present
at the
ceremony,
wnicn wiil
be
ca.ried
out
wirhout
dis-
play.
uUiplomatic
reiations
wicth
ger-
mauy wul be resumed
che folowing day,
wien a Frenen
Charge
D’Affaires witi go
(0 verna,
and
¥enen
consuls
wili resume
caeir
poscs.
Allied
troops
wili
proceed
00
Jaudary
12cth
to
the
territories
In
wnicn plebiscites
are
(o be heid.
some
Dee.
3lsi.—(Delayed)
Poland:
Nas
ner epti.e
army marshalled along
the
musslan
{rontier as
a
oparrier against
the
Western
squad
of solshevism.
At an
in-
terview
wicn Cardinal Kirkowski,
Arch-
wiangp
of Warsaw,
which
is
printed
In
wie - orriere
L’ltalio,”’ the
Cardinal
sald
tpat
the
Polish
deitachments
were
wOO
weak
to wirhstand
the pressure
from
the Kast,
waich may
last from
twenty
(o
tweniy-tive
years,
Bolshevism,
he
de-
clar »d,
is
not understood
even
uvy
Soclal-
ists..
Lo identify
Bolshevism
as
Maxi-
mesm,
is
a great mistake.
Maximalism
is
a positive programme
of
Government,
alming
w secure
the maximum
claims
of
tae proletariat.
Bolshevism
instead;
has
ne
positive
aim,
its
programme
being
mereaiy
a negallve
one,
namely,
to
des-
troy everytting.
Bolshevism
is the
bru-
sl blindness
of ignorance.
St. Jehns,
N.1., Dec. 31st.—( Delayed).
3 men
were on the
rocks
at the entrance
to S:. Mary’s Bay,
at miduight, they
ave
¢the only survivors
of a
crew
of twenty-
nine,
who
were all frostbitten
irom
liog
exposure
on the
bridge,
which
was
the
only
portion
of
the
vessel
remaining
above
water.
The rescued
men
are
the
second
mate
and two firemen.
They
were
taken
to
‘l'repassey
Bay
by
the
rescue
steamer
whieh
was
sent
out
from
that
harbour
to the
scene early today.
Londcn,
Jan.
Ist.—The
New
Year’s
Day Honour LigL contains
many
awards
by the King for
the
war
services.
An
Earldom
was conferred
on Viscount Mid-
dleton,
former
Secretary
of
State
for
india, known for his stand against
peace
with-Germany
until
the
Germans
had
. Uil
XoB Vi
made
reparation
for vandalism in France,
Sir eorge
Riddel, who had charge of the
Bria
h Pressincerests
at the
Peace
Con-
fereoe.
Sir berarand
Yawson,
physician
extraordinary
to King George
and Sir Al-
bert
Stanley
were
wmade
Barons.
Mr.
Frederik
Guest,
Treasurer
of the King’s
Household,
was
made
a Privy Counciilor.
Among
those
created
Baronets
was
Mr.
Hugh Curlitte Owen,
Vice
Chairman
of
the British
American
‘iobacco
Company.
Dorpat,
Jan.
Ist.—Bolshevik
Russia
is
willin
.z (0 make
great
con:zessions,
to th»
big prwers
i) @2
lniergst
0i
p24ce,
but
will not hold
out
the olive branch
o
Gen-
eral
D2nekine,
accocdinz
to M. Kloespke,
Secretary
ot
the Soviet
Delegation,
eoa-
ferrinz
with
Estnoaian
dolezactes
here.
London,
Jaun.
Z2nd—‘reai
Britain
.aces
a year
in 1920 of
unpreczdented
trade if
the
nation
can
escape
iuarther
Jabour
troubles
aird
ciear
away
transpor:iation
conges
ion,
says
a statement
here
today,
by tne
Awmcrican
Caamb-it
of Lommerce
which
~amimed
up'
coadidons
at
the
end
of the year
1919.
The
Chamber
of Com-
merce
says
1t expects
an eariy
settlement
of the strike of monlders
= hich
for rour-
teen
week:
has
been
slowly
stranvling
the
vroduciiv
ty
ui chipyards,
railways,
workshops,
motor
factories
and
engzin-
eering estanlishmenis.
Mandanakacei
~India,
January
2nd.
--
The
fiercest
fighting
ever
experienced
on the
Indian
frontier.
has
been
in
pro-
gress
during
the
dast
three
days,
in
which
time
the
Briush
casualties
Lave
been
heavier
than
those
in
the
¢
tire
campaign
in
the
Tish
district
n
1897,
while
the
hill
tribesmen
suffer-
ed as
never
before.
'The
Mansuds
dis-
played
the
utmost
determination
in
opposing
the
operations
of
the
expedi-
tionary
focee,
resisting
in
.the
most
stubborn
manner, the British attempts
to
advance.
The
British
column
con-
sequently
was
c¢ompelled
to
remain
en-
camped
in
the
Palesina
plain.
An
un-
named
bugler boy
of
the T'hirty-Fourth
Native Picneers,
showed
nctable
heroism
in
the
course
of-the hand
o hand
fight-
ing.
Left with only a few comrades,
he
seized
a pick axe and fougnt the
tribes-
men
till they retired,
when
he
rciurnad
to camp
laden
with trophies.
New York,
Jan.
2nd.
Viscount
Jelli-
coe
began
s week
and
visit New
York
today
as
a
part of his
pos:
war tour
of
the
'world.
He
is
the
guest
of
M.
Schwad,
Chairman
of the Board
of
the
Bethlehem
Steel “orporation.
London,
Jan.
Ist.—The
train
service
between
Basra
and Bagdad,
Asiatic Tur-
key, will be resumed
at
an early
date,
it
was announced
today.
I%ndon,
Jan.
2nd.—Today
Si®
Hamar
Greenwood,
Overseas
Minister of
Trade,
outlined the schemes
in hand
for
push-
ing
British
industries,
especially
by
means
of
the
British
industries
fair
which is to be
held
next month.
‘‘Brit-
ish
manufaccures,
while suffering
from
a variety of troubles arising through
the
war,
are
overwhelmed
with
home
mar
ket orders’’.
he smid
“‘the
the
time
will
come
however,
when
some
of
the
de-
mands
wiil have
been
filied,
and
then
they
must
be ready
to maintain
and
im-
prove
their position in the
f{ofeign
mar-
kets.
Whatever
may have
teen
the
at-
tide of
Britsh
diplomatists,
commercial
attaches
and
consuls
before,
their
para-
mount
duty
now
is
the
furtherance
of
British
trade.
tThe German
trader
was
always
a
better
advertiser
than
the
Brit-
isn,
but
we
uop.:
tnat
the
Brizish
indus-
tries lair,
will be
1 blow
at the
tetish
of
German
cheapness.
Buyers
.from
il
over
the worid
went
to
the l.eipzige
Fairv,
and
German
Governmen:
cotmreial
bodies
gave
them
the time ot
iheir lives.
German
manu’actures
used
1o
bcck
or-
ders ot
the Fair,
and
got encugh
to
keep
themseives
going for twelve months ahead.
We
have
had'
British
Industries
Fairs
for four
years
and
some
firms have
bock-
ed
no ouatside
orders
since
they
became
exhibitors.
This
coming
fair
wiil
be
heid
in
the
Crystal
Palace.
Thirty
two
thousand
Invitations
have
been
issued
to
the
foreign
buyers
and
nearlv
40,000
pamphlets
have
been
printed
in
seven
different.
languages:
Only
wholesale
puyers
are admi:ted,
the fair beine closed
to
the
general
puhlic
Preceding
fairs
have
never
cost
the
tax payers
one
cent.
Added
Sir Hamar
who
proceeded
to
des-
¢ribe
another
torthcoming
venture,
a
trade
exhibition
to
tour
the
dominions.
f'his
to
coansist
of
SHOO exhibits
which
would remain
perhaps
six weeks
in
each
big
centre.
[here
is
some
difficulty
about
booking
orders,
scores
of
firms
should
be
represented
on
the
exhibition
on tour
by
one
agent.
Similar travelling
exhibitions are
mooted
for the Far East,
South
America and
even another
exhibi-
tion
consisting
of
some
of
the
British
luxuries
to entice
the United
States
buy--
ers.
‘‘Fam in favour of
a friendly
com-
mercial
invasion
of
the
Amer¥ean
re-
public’’, adaed
Sir Hamar.
Mexico
City,
Jan.
4th.—(Associated
Press).
Scores
of people have been
kill--
ed in a violent earthquake
whieb
occur-
red
in mapry
parts
of
Mexico last
night.
The centre
of the gisturbance
is believed
to have been
near the voleano of Orizaba,
incomplete
press
reports
indicated
th.t
the state
of Veracruz
suffered
more
than
any other
section,
although
seismic
dis-
turbances
were felt
throughout
the
en-
tire republic.
Advices from
Oriziba
say
30 dead alicady have
béen accounted
for,
in the village of San
Juan Coscomatepec.
where
many
hous
were
destroyed.
There
are uncon?r?s~
reports
of a simi-
lar catas.rophe
in the village of Huatusco.
At Jalapa, furtner north, 50 vietims have
been
counted,
includingnumerous
dead.
Lack of
communication
with
the
other
small
towns
and villages
in that
theatre
of the disturbance makes
even
appfroxi-
mate
estimate
of casualties
impossible.
The
earthquake
caused
great
alarm
in
the large
cities.