ed country’s liberties.
I find noevidence
of
such
a
conditien
of
affairs
in
this
agreemeni.
[
would
not
have
been
a
party
to an
attempt
to set
up
a
British
protectorate
over Persia.
In any
case
it
would have been
impossible,
because
Per-
sia would
not have asked for nor accepted
it.
I should
have
been
opposed
to it,
because
it would have
been
contrarv
to
our
repeated
engagements,
and
in
the
|
-
last resort
because
[ have regarded
it
as
inimical
to British interests’’.
Paris,
Sept.
20th.—Germany
came
tarouzn
tnis
war,
a
perfeet
dyname of
strength.
Her human
militarv power is
nearly
as great
asever
and her 75,000,000
people
have been
schooled
and hardened
|
by
trial.
They
have
learned
economy
and
self-denial.
The
nation
has
been,
compressed
into
a
concentrated
mass
which
is ‘surcharged
with
energy
and
moeving
with
centripetal
force,
while
Germany’s
neighbours
are
spreading
themselves
out,
and
quarreling
and
mov-
ing
with
centrifugal
force,
thus
spoke
|
M. Henry Morgenthau,
who
headed
the
|
U.
3.
investigation
‘‘ommission,
which
has
been
at work in Poland,
in discussing
|
tnday his observations
in Central Europe.
London,
Sept.
15th.
After
a
confer-
|
ence
between
the
Allied
Commanders
at
|
Abbaza,
allied
warships
have
left
the
harbour of Fiume
and
have levelled their
guns
on
the town,
affording to a German
wireless
report,
quoting
advices
received
|
in
Berlin
to
Abach
and
Vienna.
The
|
despatch
states
that
it
is
assumed
an
|
altimatum
will be
sent demandine
that
|
Capt.
Dannunzio’s
forces
evacuate
the
|
town within
24 hours.
Roimne, Sept.
20th.—Premier
Nitti and
|
Foreiga
Minister
[ittoni have
disagreed
|
over
the Fiume
incident,
the latter
dis-
approving
of
the
Premier’s
attitude,
according
to
the
newspapers.
A
des-
|
patech
from
[rieste
says
a
fleet of
air-
planes
has
landed
near Finme
and
has
been
placed
at the
disposition
of Capt.
Gabriel;
Dgnnunzio
having
flown
from
*
one
of
the
I[talian
aviators
camps.
A
brigade
of
Lombardy
troops
which
ar-
|
rived
at Fiume
and
volunteered
to
join
|
the
Dannunzio
forces
was
sent
back
to
|
its
garrison,
says_a
despatch
to
the
|
Messagero.
Cap®
®Dannunzio’s
action
|
in
taking
over
-ontrol of
Fiume
is
ap-
|
proved
in
a
manifesto
issued
by
the
|
National Association of wounded soidiers.
Rome,
Sep:.
19th.—Among
measures
adopted
by the
Govt.
to
prevent
rein-
forcements
from
reaching
the
Italian
“‘lrregular’, troops
in Fuime
is amilitary
order removing
the magnetes
from
air-
|
planes
at
ail aviation
camps.
Dannun-
l
zio has
already
succeeded
in
gathering
about
him
at
Fiume
airplanes
formimg
|
part of his
famous
squadron
;
Paris,
Sept.
21st.—Baron
Kurt
Von
|
Eisner President
of the
German
Peace
l
Delegations
at Versailles,
tomorrow
af-
ternoon
at 4 o’clock will sign
the
proto-
]
col annulling article
61
of
the
German
Constitution
as
demanded
by
the Peace ..
'
Bk
L
EYV LA AN
DY
Conference.
The signing will take place
|
at
Versailles
and
will be
private,
M.
|
Jules
Cambon
of the
French
Peace
Mis-
sion alone will be present.
|
Capetown,
Sept.
21st.—The
Senate
has
|
passed
the third reading
of the
Bill fa-
}
vouring a mandate
for Southwest
Africa,
the Assembly
on the
motion
of
Premier
Smuts,
seconded
by
Mr.
Smart,,
Leader |
of the Opposition unanimously
voted
an
annuity to the widow of the late Premier
General
Botha
in
consideration
of
his
great services
to South Africa.
Paris.
Sept.
2lst.—(Hava’s):
The
Dut~h Minister in Paris
has been
advised
according
to
the
‘‘Libr¢
Belgique’
of
Brussels,
that Holland within two weeks,
will receive
a
demand
for the extradi-
tion of former Emperor
William,
on
be-
half of the Allies.
|
London, Sept.
21st,—An
official
wire-
less despatch
from
Berlin,
dated
Satur-
day
say
that the
Belgian
Ambasssador
at
the
Hague,
baving been withdrawn,
the Dutch Ambassador
at
Brussels
also
has
heen
withdrawn.
Berne,
Stpt.
21st.
A
despatch
re-
ceived
h' re from Romanshoin
near
Con-
stance
says
the
Germans
are
contin-
uing to build Zeppelin
airships.
The
lat-
est
airship
completed
has
made
a
fli-
ght from Lake Constance
to Berlin
in
4
hours.
It earried
38passengers
and their
baggage.
Paris,
Sept.
19th.—With
the
delivery
today
of the
Peace
Treaty
to
the
Bul-
garians
who
have
25
days
to consider
it,
and make
a reply,
the
Peace
Con-
ference has
no remaining business
before
it
which
can
be taken
up
immediately
andwill possibly
take
a holiday for a fort-
night
pending
the
establishment
of
some
Govt.
at
Budapest
to
which
the
Hungarian Treaty
can
be delivered.
EAT LESS
RICE.
The
Government
of
Trinidad
has
is-
sued
an appeal
with the onhject
of reduc-
ing the present
rate
of rice consumption
in that
colony.
This
arose
from
a
cir-
cular
telezram,
received
from
the
Sec-
retary of State,
pointing
out
the
great
shortage
of
rice
in
eastern
countries.
As is generally
known,
of the 60,000,000
tons
produced
in the world only
10 per
cent,
is
available
for export.
Those
countries
therefore,
which import
large
quantities
will, in years
of low produc-
tion,
feel
the
shortage
first.
British
Guiana,
and
to
a
less
extent
Trinidad
produce large quantities
of rice.
Under
the
present
circumstances
of a general
world’s
shortage,
however,
it
is
still
incumbent
upon
these
colonies
to exer-
cise
economy
as regards
local
consump-
tion.
—Agricultural News, Aug. 23rd.
SUGAR
NOTES.
Thirty-one factories
were
still in oper-
ation
in
Germany
in February
of
this
~
year,
while only
11
were grinding
out
|
sugar
the
same
month
the year
before.
'
This year
up
to
February
the
republic
.
had worked
up
8,702,772
tons
of
beets
'
and last
year at the
same
time 9,229,939
'
tons.
The sugar
output
is pleced at
1,
|
333,600
tons up to that time and the same
'
period last year 1,631,309
tons.
The
mo-
'
lasses
output is placed
at 136,020 tons or
'
1.56 per
cent of the beet tonnage
and last
.
year
it was
153,633 or 1.67
per
cent.—
Louisiana Planter.
'
The
consumption
of
sugar
in
Ger-
many
for
the year
1917-18 is
placed
at
1,435,500
tons,
while
for
the
season
.
previous
it was
1,311,000
tons.
This
is
e
~
refined sugar.
This includes
the figures
'
representing
the
amounts
used for bees,
.
for
factories
of various
sorts.
wines,
'
~
marmalades,
ete.—lbid.
The
imports of sugar
into Switzerland
"
in
1918 amounted
to
72,870
tons,
while
in
1917
it
was
106,850
tons.
Dutch
East
India sent
in 37,309
tons
and
Aus-
"
tria-Hungary
11,602
tons.
The
United
States
sent
only 560 tons,
but this
year
will contribute
a much
larger
tonnage
according
to New York advices.--Ibid.
An interesting
suit has
been
instituted
against
the
Chippewa
(Wis.)
Sugar
~
Refining Company,
by
the
Federal
Gov-
ernment
in which
the
company
is
asked
to pay
over $14,111.10
on sugar
sold
dur-
ing the
war.
The
Food
Administration
set
the
price
or 8.88 cents
per pound
and
the
ecompany
sold
3,502.60
C pounds
ar
9.98 cents.
The agreement
was that the
refining companies
were to seli sugar
at
prices
that they
believed
fair and
at the
expiration
of
every
ninety
days
they
~
were
to give an
accounting
to the
sugar
department
of the Food
Administration.
From these
amounts
the general
average
of
the
selling
price
of
sugar
was
ob-
tained
and
those
who
received
more
than
the average price were
to refund
the difference.
The
money thus
obtain-
ed
was
to
be used
to
reimburse
those
refiners
who did
not fare
so well in the
celling
price.
The
Government
claims
that the amount
mentioned
above
is
due
to it and the company has refused
to pay
“it over.—lbid.
Bohemia,
Silesia and Mahren
have
155
reporting
sugar
factories
this year
that
have
165,017.52
hectares
of
beets
in
view.
Last
year
they
had
165,259.08.
—lbid.
Sugar prices
in Belgium have been
put
up
at 7.50
franes
per quintal
but
it
is
he ped this
can
be lowered
to 6 francs
to
complete with cane sugar.— Ibud.
Some
British
firms
are
discontinuing
the manufacture
of saccharin.
It seems
it
costs
them
22
shillings
a
pound
to
~
manufacture
it while the American
pro-
~duet
is put on the market at the rate
of
.
from 12 to
15 shillings per
pound.-—lbid.