the Darish
:chercnts
ecast
75,023
votes
while the Gernwns
poiled but
24,067,
London,
| (t.
12th.—Mr. Lioyd Geuvrge
told
the
Hcouse
of
Lommons
loda)
thet
he
hoped
to
introduge
the
Irish
Home
Rule
Bill
in
the
House
next
week.
Most
of
today’s
session
was occupied by the discussior
ol a I,OUND
ot Mr. Will Ihorne,
labour
niember
for
Westham,
iondon,
in favour
of
a
revi
sion ot
the
Peace
Treaty,
which
he
sub-
jected
o
severe
criticism.
A
most
in-
ceresting
suggestion
emanated
irom Lora
Rokeit Cecil,
tha
the League of Natuons
shouid
end
iwo International
Commis-
stons
(o
Ru:sia
10
ascertail
the
exacc
conditions
and fix provisional
boundaries
for
the
bocder
States.
Mr.
Buifour.
Lord Prasident
of che Coaacil.
who made
a general
defence
of the
I'reaty
aad
the
Government’s
share
therein,
sad
he
teared
Lord
Robert’s
suggestion
would
not resuit
«n
a
new
heaven
oy
earih
1n
Rlussia.
He also denied
that the
Govern-
menc
had encouraged
Poiard
in
a
poliev
oi adveniuie.
Mr. Thorne’s
motion
was
rejected
by Y54 votes
to )
Replying
to
a
statement
of
Uir.
Ronald
MacNiel,
Ualsnist,
that
Mr. Lioy.i George
had
pre-
sented
a wemorandum
in
beaalf
of
the
pritish and
i.enca
Governments’
propo-
sition
for
a
settiement
of
rh:
Adriatic
quesrion
wiich
would
abrogate
usonte-
negro’s
indcpendence.
Mr.
Bonar
Law
expres=ed
his belief that the
majority of
the Mcntenegrins
did not
desire
(o
res-
tore
a King of Mcntenegro,
and
that
it
was quite pcssible
the Montenegrin
pec-
vie
mis b prefer
to become
a
part
of
a
wrger aatlorality, than
to continue
inde-
vendert.
lor reply
to suggestions
that
the Ge-ma
indemnpity might
be
a
fixed
sum,
he
sa¢
that if Germany
proposed
a
jun.p sum,11 was
not
likely
the
Allies
would
oe uareasonable.
Monirea:,
Yeb.
12th.—A telegram from
Londor:
to the ‘‘Montreal Star’’ says that
soeaking
at
an
Irish
seif-determination
meetin:
there
last night,
Professor
Me.
Neiil, Minister of {ndustries
in the
Cabi-
not of Lae
so
cailed
Irish republic,
said he
believed
tha:
the Sinn
tein
w
s ready
to
accept
Mr.
.loyd
George’s
Home
Rule
Pian,
work:nzit out
on
the
same
plan
uigder waici it now handies
local
govern-
ment
16 Ireizad.
Dubiin, Feb.
12th —Savera’
Sinn
Fein-
ers werz arcested
today
in the course of a
round-up
by
‘he
wilitary forces
in this
cliy early
wdaay.
London,
i'vb.
12th.—in
she
bye-elec-
tion:
for
the
Ashton-Under-Lyne
Con-
stituency,
t» ill the seat
mnade
vacunt by
the elevation
to th2 peeraze
of Sir Albert
Sianley,
the
soalition
Unionist adherents
won
a
vietery
by
a
comoaratively
nar-
row ma. gin.
Sir Walter
De
I'reece,
the
candidace
of
this
party,
polled
3,864,
votes,
while »Ir. Robinsen,
a Labourite,
receivea 8,321 votes.
Sir Arthur Marshall,
Lioeral, ran taird;
having received 3,511
voies.
i
-
London, Feb. 13th.—Particuiarly
bearty
selX
A
N
LD
cheers
were
given in the House
of
Com-
me:
~
last night when
the Chancellor
of
the
¥ xehecver
intimaied
tha.
the
Cana-
dian
Government
desired
to makc
a
con-
wribution towards
the relief of the
popu-
lation ¢f Cntral Kurope,
Berlin,
Feb.
13th:-—Physicians
at
Brunsbuctel,
at the -ntrance
to the
Da.-
tic.,
bhave
voted
not to
go on board
ships
fiying
the
flags
of
nations
whieh
are
pagi:s
to the
demands
ror the re.\"tm'?i
vion
of Germans
accased
of wuar
crimes.
S:ick
sailors
must
therefore
be
taken
asnoHr»
for treaiman
.
:
Washingion,
Fsh.
12h.—2 -esident
Wiison
has
reached
a dezision
in the rail-
way
wage
controversy
and
will present
it to
three representatives
of the railway
Brotherhoods
at th: White
House
today.
London.
Weby.
12th. -Replving
to
a
quasiion
sas
to
ine
stand
the overnment
prepos=d
to take for
tne relief
of Central
iarope,
the
Chaneaoidor
of the Exchequer
said
in
the House
of
Commons
this
af-
ternoon
that
a
final
arrangemeni
cou'd
no:
be
made
uantil
the
Conures:of the
Uniied
S:ates
. granted
th-
necessary
powers
for rzlief administration,
and
thar
the British
Government
woold have
pre-
ferred
to prepare
2
comnrehoensive
plan
with Allied and neatval
cooperation.
He
stated
that he
had in
view
the
urgency
of ctha
need
and
despite
the {inanzial
sit-
vation in 'he United Kingdom,
the
Brit-
-Ish Government
had
informed
the
Uni
ted
States
rhat
inaddition
to £ll2 500,0))
voted forth:
curren:
financial
vear
it
was prepared
to
¢o tribute farther
sumg
not
execeeding
haif
the
sum con;ri‘\:,z-»:?
by
the Unit=d States
and
not
exceeding
£110,000,0C0
in all.
d= further stated
the
British share
would be apvplicable tor the
provision of iiritisasupplies ol foodstuffs,
raw materials
and
other
es
entials,
and
the payment
of freight charces
on goods
carried
on
British ships.
If
the
Ameri-
can grant
were limited to $150,00¢:
000,
he
added,
the
necessary
tonnage
so
trans-
portaticn of
American
supplies
would be
provided.
:
_
London,
Feb.
12th. —The.
Allied
sla-
preme
command
today, after
discussing
the
situation
arising
from
<ermany’s
vioient
protest
over the
extradition
de-
mands,
agreed
on the question
oi
insist-
ing
upon
those
demands,
it ~ras
stated
tonight
It
was
reported
therc
were
differences
between
France
and
Great
Britain.as
to whether
the demands sheuld
be modified.
f.ondon,
i'eb.
12ili.—The quesiion
was
raised
1n the House
of
Commons
today
as
to whether
the Governmen'
hal under
consideration
the
suggestion
of
Mr
Carter
Glass,
the recently
retired
Secre-
tary of the United States
Treasury,
that
the
United
States
should
be
paid
her
interpnational
debt
in gold.
It was ask
d
also,
whether in order to
held meet
this
request,
British
owners
o
ornamental
gold, such
as trinkets,
would
be
invited
to hand
them to
the Treasury
in
return
for interest-bearing
bonds,
thereby
as-
sisting the position
of exchenge
between
Engiond
and
Amerten.
1o
these
ques-
tions
tne
Chancellor
or the xchegquer
re
plied
'nat
he
had
taken
steps
to have
the
proposals
‘indicated,
ea cfully
ex-
aminad.
Mr.
Lloyd
George
was
=asked
by
a member
whether
'te
could
see
his
way
to reinforce
a drastic
reduction
in
the importation
of luxuries,
to which
he
repied
that
the Government
was
not
in
a pus:iicn
to
re enfore
2ny restrieti~n
on
the
Importaiion
ot
foreign
grods,
and
declared
that
less
than
two per
ecent
of
the
imports
from
Amer’ca
were
articles
of luxury.
Trimdad,
Feb.
15th.—The
U
S. Battle-
ships
Utah,
Delaware,
and
Florica,
leti tor Barbad
s
yesrerday.
Grenada,
Fen.
16th.—Mr
E.
A.
Done-
lan,
one
of the Grenada
delegates,
lei't by
the K
M.
S.
Clignecto for
iarbados
to
acttend
trne corference
of the
Associated
Chanibers
of Commearce.
The other
dele-
gate,
the Hon.
F.
H.
Copland,
was
una-
ble
10 leave
because
the
accommoda
ion
of aberth
was dented
oim
oa
ih2 steamer.
‘irinided, Feb.
16th.— Messrs.
W.
Gor-
dou, Adam
Smith,
C. M. G..G.
F.
Hug-
gins, O.
B. E.,
and
E. Tripp will leave
by
the E. M. S. Chignecto this
ev ning
to at-
tend the meeting of the Associated
Cham-
ber of Commerce
at
Barbados.
Mr. A.
o,
Pavitt,
Imperial Trade
Commissioner,
ai-
so leaves
this evening
to at‘end
the
con-
ference.
:
NEw YORK. Feb.
11th
1920
Flour, Blenczad
Utlear
St. Lawrence
| rand
pr.
brl. $11L.75
Meal, Kilndried per
100 tbs $3.55
New
Season’s
York per brl. $46.00
Heavy
Mess
lork perbbl.
§438.00
Sugar---Crystais
maximum
jer
16U
ibs,
$13.04.
Sugar---Crystals
minimum
$12.79
Niolasses
Sugar
(Confirmed
by
Brokers)
¢8 12--1000.
Cotten,
Middling Up:and,
st i.iverpool per
ib.
no quotation
mxchange,
New
Yoik
and
vrondon,
60
days’
sight
$3.83
lixchange
New
York and Lonaon,
signt
$3.36%
LoNDON, F2b.
11th
1919.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals
duty paid price.
fixed by
the Royal Commission
per
ecwis
106 s. od.
-109s.
od.
Muscovado, 89, basis,
floating terms
1
bonc,
Ditto duiy free.
955.
Cd.
- 975. od.
German
Beet 8%7/c 1.0.b.
no further
sales
during
the
war
White
Java
sugar
cif
U.
Kingdom
cif
e without
engagement.
90.0
White
Java
Sugar,
cit
Uunited King-
dom
lif arrives
before 27th Dicember
&5/
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middiing
Red
per
cwt
128s,
od.
130s.
od.
.
Cottc
Medium Fine
Sea
Island,
at liv
ery bol nominal
per lb.
Bank
of
England
rate
of Disccunt
per
cent.
6.
Consols
49%
Three
per
cent
rentes
in Paris
Fes.
58.70.