Donald,
the opposirion Inbour
leader,
ex-
pressing
the
aop2
that
there
will be
no
break
in®the
re'ations
between
Russia
and
Great
Britain.
Counstantinople,
May
16th. —The
Bag-
dad Railway
has
been
purchased
by a
gronp
of
Brirish and
Swiss
Bankers,
headed
by the
Rothschilds,
according
t)
the
newspape-
‘‘Vatan’’.
The
bankers
are said
to
heve
aequired
the
German
and
Austrian
holdings
in
the
railway.
Jerusalem,
May
li6th —Great
Britain
is
prepared
to
confer
an
independent
government
on
Trans
Jordania,
if the
League
of Na:ions gives
its consent,
says
an
odicial
communingue
issued
today.
Provided
a coastitutional
form
of govarn-
mant
is
set
up
givinz
Great
Britaw
the possibility
of
fuili'ling
Lker
interna-
tionzl obligations
towards
the
country,
tae
British Government
azrees
to declare
the Palestine
tervitory 2ast
of the Jordon
autonomous
and not suhject
to
Jir
Her-
bert Samuzi’s
administration,
the
state-
meant
declares,
,
London,
Mav
16ih.-—Steady.
if
slow,
improvement
in trade
is reflected
by
the
unemployment
figures,
which
feit
four-
toen
thousand
'ast
we=k,
making
a
total
drop of 250,000
since
the
beginning
of
the
year.
Notwithstanding
the
sharp
rise
in the prie: of suzar,
the cost
of
liv-
ine
declined
four
poiats
in
the
last
tmionih
and
now
stands
at
70
percent
above
the
prewar
level.
The
improve-
_mant
is
main!y
due
to
the reduction
in
tae
price
of
milk,
butter,
cheese
and
e rus, especially
butter,
the price of which
nas
tumbled
1n
consequence
of the ab-
normal
Danish supplies.
Halifax,
N, S.,
May 17th.—The
Board
of
rade
has
been
notified
that
begin-
ning on January
next, -the
classification
of
molasses
in
puncheons,
ia
less
than
car loads,
wiill
be
changed
from
class
3
to
class
2
an
increase
of
10 percent
in
the
earryinz
charzes.
The
embargo,
whieh
the
C.
N.
R.
iatended
placing
on
the
puncheons
after
January
lLst,
1525,
has
been
withdrawn
and
there
wili be
no change
in the
rate
on pucheons
in
ear-
Joads
or small quantities,
This
is
the
re-
sult of the eaop-ration
batweaa
the rail-
wav
and
the
wholasale
groeers.
Who
protested
against
the
embarzo
on
the
puncneons.
Siaanghai,
May 17th. —The
cotton
mills
of
Shanghai
have
agreed
to
a reduced
. broduction
schedule
for
a
period
of 60
days that
will eut their
output
by 50 per-
eant.
This
was
brouughit
about
under
an
asreement
approved
by
the
cotton
mills
owners
ass.ciation
and
was caused
by
a
weak and
failing
marker
for yarn,
at
a
time when
high
prices
were
ruling for
raw cotton.
It was ectimated
that stocks
o: yarn in the
hands
of
milia
and
mer-
i
chanis
in Shangnai
ran
to 108,050
bales.
‘i’ien, Tsin.
L\'lay
l?(h,--(}e)vernment
o
Lroops
clashed
with
outposts
of
the
Soe-
how
train bardits
near
Sanch
Wapg
yes-
terday, according
to adviees received
to-
day tfrom Tsae Chwang.
The bandit for-
S
1.01
Ay
>
'
ces
were said
to
have
been
driven back
|
by
the
troops,
but
the
extent
of
the
;
casualties
is not known.
‘
Feking, May
17th.—Berube,
a
citizen
|
of I'rance,
who
was
among
the captives
|
held
by
the
Suchow
bandits,
has
becn
.
released
on
parole
and
arrived
at Tsao-
chung
witk
further
drimnands
from
the
.
bandits
for
the
removal
of
troops.
It
'
is expected
he
will
return
to the bandit
|
headquarters
today,
in
accordance
with
|
the promise
he made
on
leaving,
;
“Moscow,
May 17th. —iiundreds
of pro-
|
vincial
Russians
are
volunteering
their
|
services
to the Soviet
Governme
it in
tue
|
event
of
a
conflict.
The
press
hereis
.
constantly expioiting the
theory that
war
'
may
develon
out of the
controversy
with
Great
Britain,
'
‘
Washington,
May
17th.—1 The
United
|
States
has
every
assurance
of
aiding
peace,
so far
as
“‘our relations
with other
.
people
are
concernad’’
the Secretary
of
t
SQtate
said
last
night
4n
an address
be-
fore
the
National
Con.:rence
of Social
Work.
‘‘The
eclouds,
which
two
years
.
ago
darkened
the Far
Kastern
sky,
have
.
been
dissipated’’.
he
said,
"‘and
the
dis-
.
appointmen:
of
those
who
make
bitter-
.
ness
the
test of patriotism,
we
nave been
'
able
to associate
the great
powers
of tho
'
Pacific
in
u
friendly
accord,
supported
'
by
mutual
confidence’’.
Mr.
Hughes
.
said
that
this had
been
accomplished
b
'
achieving
‘“‘a disarmament
of thought”
|
and
that
the
Washington
arms
conter-
'
ence
had menaged
to
scrap
distrust,
as
i
well
as
the
vessels
of war, ‘‘and
to
end
|
wasteful
eompetition
which spelled
sus-
|
picion,
not
s=eurity.’”’
‘
New
York,
May 17th.-~An
appeal
to
President
Harding
to
remove
the
duty
!
on sucar
has
been
drawn
by Mrs.
Louis
Miller, Deputy Commissioner
of
markers
and
will be submiited
to a
vote
today
be-
fore the Kixecutive Board of the New York
Housewives
Suwar
Commiitee
Tsao
Chw:ng,
Province
of Shanotung,
:
:\{;\_V
17¢h,
""GLet
the
lforeion
Cdpiives
.
out
of the
irip
of
the
Suchow
bandits
and
talk
terms
aftzrwards,
otherwvise
there
will
be
drastic
action,’”’
was
inc
ulti natum
inid down
to the
Chinese
Gov-
ern:nent
offizials
hers
late yesterday
vy
irr.
schurtian,
the Tlnited
States
Minis-
|
ter
to China.
Ottawa,
May 17th.—Doth
mmports
and
exports
were
nigher
in
Aprii
than
in
April last
year,
according
to parl:iament-
ary
trade
tigures
issued
by
the
Bbßu-
|
proau of
Staiisties.
Imports
iast
month
|
totulled
$63.181,320,
an
increase
of
|
$20,:85,866
over
April
1922
Exports
|
were
$54 328,076,
an
increase
of
$21,-
-
676,035,
:
|
Washington,
May 17th.—February
im-
.
ports
from
Canada
given out here
today
|
were $29,285,534,
compared
with $20,187,-
|
444 in February
1922.
|
Londcn,
May 17th.—
The
imposition of
|
severe
penalties
upon
persons
teuting for
|
honours,
or aceepting
gifts for ";t,ta.inilig
!
honours,
is provided
for in the bill
intro-
cueed
in the
Housz
of Lords
on
Tuesday
by
the Lord
Chancelior,
Vicount
Cave.
The
measares
provide
for
punishment,
-
on
ilndietment,
to
a
term
of imprison-
.
ment
not
exceeding
two
years,
or
on
-
summary
conviction
to
imprisonment for
i
a
term
not
exceeding
four
monthsor
a
iine not exceeding
50 pounds
or bLoth,
Paris,
May 17th.—The
miiitary oceupa-
:
tlon of the Ruhr
by French
troops
is
pot
.
necassary
to the security
of
IFrance,
M.
'oincare
informed
the
Menibers
of
the
Finance
and
Forveign
\itairs
Commis-
sions
in the French
Chamber
teday.
The
|
oecupation
of the Rahr,
he said,
1s
essen-
t
tially
an
operation
desirned
to
coerce
Germany
into
piaying
raparations.
He
-
reiterated
that
the Runr
would be
gradu-
ally evacuated
in proporticn
t 2 the
pav-
I
ment
¢f Germnan
reparations.
The
occu-
pation of the
it bank
of the Rhine
was
consideredby the
Government
as
sufli-
cient
military
security.
France
is
pre-
pared
(o prolong
the
oecupation
as
long
as
nesdinl
to ebtain
results.
While
the
-
operations
had
not
yet
proved
remune-
t o rative
it ha'l
at
at least
recovercd
the
military ex;eases
and
would
make
coer-
cion
more
easy.
In response
to a
query,
the
Uremier
declared
that
the
French
Covernment
was resoived
to
insist
upon
|
the final reparations
figures,
as
fixed
by
|
the
London
accord,
and
that
before
it
|
would aeree
to
a
veduction
of
the
Ger-
.
man
debt
an equal
amount
must
be
re-
|
‘mitted
from
the
igter-Allicd
debis
as
|
compensation.
Octawa,
May 17th.—A
beuau
iful Sevres
1
vase,
theee
feei
huzh ornate
with dainty
flowers
and
enameiled
in olue,
the
gift
of
France
to
the Right
Hoan.o
W.
L. Mue
Kenzie
Iving, as
a
mark of the
oratitude
of Pranece
to Canada,
was
presented
to
tue
Prime
Minister
by the
Fioneh
Consul
General
1n Canada,
at
the
residence
of
the
{'rime Min:ster.
7The
vase
was
man-
ufactured
in
the
National
factory
at
Sevres,
near Pavis,
Londons,
Mav
17ih,
- Jaek
Bloomfield
tonight
retained
the
light-heavyweight
pugiiistic
championship
of
the
Oiitish
Empire
in
what
was
to
bhave
been
a
-
twenty
tound
bout
with
Daye
Me Giil, of
Ireiand.
Mc Gill quit indne
13th
round.
-
Sean.an
Hali, light-weight champion
of
Furope,
lost
bis titie
to Harry
Mason
of
.
Leeds.
Hall
was disqualified in the
13th
round
for bicune
low.
The fights
were
|
held
at
Olvimioie,
|
London,
May 17th.—The
iate
Earl
of
Carnaven;
discoverer
of the
tomb
of Tu-
tankhamen,
left
an
estate
of 393.9:7
pouncs,
it developed
when
his
wii
wus
silted for probate
todav,
Lovd Carnarvon
bequeathed
his
» race
horses
and
ail
his
personal
estate
to
his
wife.
This
~
includes
his
collection
of
Egyptian
treasunres.
Regarding
which
the -oniy
stipulation
is
that, if she
decides
to s¢'l
1%, the British
museum
be given the first
-
refusal for 20,000
pounds,
with the
Met.
.
ropolitan
Muaseum
of Ne'v York the
next
choice,