a
s2vere
fever
yesterday,
but
so far
as
as
wnown grave symptoms
have
not made
tneir
appearance.
A bulletin
issued
later
by
the
physicians,
attending,
said
that
his
bronchial
catarrh
had
not
spread,
and that his temperature
had diminished.
Rome,
Jan.
20th.— At
12.30
o’clock
today
it was
stated
that
Pope
Bemedict
was in
a dying condition.
Jondon,
Jan.
20th. —The
last
Sacra
ment
has
been
administcredjio
the Pope,
says
a
(Central
News
despatch
f{rom
Rome
this afternoon.
Rome,
Jan.
20th.—Extra
editions
of
the
newspapers
oifered
little
hope
re-
garding
Pope
Benedict’s
chances
for
#
recovery.
A
great
crowd
began
to
as-
semnble
in St.
Peter’s
to
wait news from
the,
Vatican.
All
business
at
the Vati-
can
was
suspended
The
official
buile-
tin
issu2d
this
morning
on
the
condi-
tion of ‘'His Holiness’’
has
been
ill four
days
with
Influenzal
Bronchitis
It is
ascertained
that
the
inflamatory
pro-
cess
has
spread
to the
rieght
lungz.
The
patient
passed
an
agitated
night
and
had
no
sleep.
This
morning
the
bysp-
noea
is
intense.
The
temperature
was
104.
the
pulse
102
and
the
respiration
38.
:
-
Brussels,
Jan.
20th.
--King
Albert and
Queen
Elizabethhave
postooned
their
vis-
ir to Iraly on account
of tha serious
iliness
of Pope
Benedict.
Gen~va,
Jan
16th.
—The eruncil
of the
Leacue
of
Nations,
which
has
been
in
session
here, adjourned
on Satarday,
un
til April 25th.
The next
meeticg
will be
held
at Geneva
when,
according
to reso-
lutiorns
adopted
yesterday,
the
plan
of
holding
public
sessions
will be followed,
except
when
personalities
are being
dis-
cussed
or other
reasons
make
closed
ses-
sion
necessary.
Washineton,
Jan.
16th.—The
Allied
debt refunding bill
was
approved
today
by
the
Senate
Finance
Committee,
after
most of the
provisions
objected
to
hy
Secretary
Mellon
of
the
Treasury
Department,
had
been
eliminated.
De-
mocratic
members
of the committeevoted
against
the
bill in
its
perfected
form.
Provisions
previously
written
in by the
committee,
which
were
struck
out,
called
for
semi-annual
interest
pay-
ments
and
for
interest
at
a rate
of uot
less than
5%
these
were
the provisions
against
which
the
treasury
objected
on
the ground
that they would hanadicap
the
administration
in the refunding negotia-
tions
with
the
#Poreign
governments.
Under these provisions,
interest payments
would have
fallen due
within six months
after
the
refunded
bonds
had
been
ne-
gotiated.
Whereas
the treasury
desired
to
have
the
authority
to defer
interest
payments
in
the
case
of
some
coun-
tries
not
in
a
position
to
begin
mak-
ing
those
payments
within
possibly
a
year
or
two.
The
provision
limiting
the life of the bonds
to be
accepted
from
the foreign
Governments
to
twenty
five
51L.
CKULX
A Vi 3
years,
remained
in
the
bill, but
other-
wise
the
measure
practically
is
as
ap-
proved
by
the
House.
It
sets
up
a
commission.
with
authority
subject
to
the
approvai
of
the
President,
to
re-
fund
or
coert.
and
to
extend
time
of payment
of
the principal
or the inter-
est
or
coth
oi
any obligation of any
for-
eign Governmeat
now owing
to the Uni-
ted
States
on
account
of the world
war.
The Secratary
o°
the
Treasury
would be
chairman
of the commission
and
the oth-
er
membzrs
would
be appointed
by the
President,
subjz2ei
o
confirmation
by
the
Senate.
St. Vincens,
Jan.
18th-—Messrs.
Vernon
Richards
and
Alban
Dasantos
have
been
selected
by
the Si. Vincent
Uhamber
of
Ag¢riculture and Commerce
to attend
the
meecting
of
the
Associated
Chamber
of
Commerce
to
be held at Trinidad
on the
23rd
inst.
Both
delegates
will leave by
Chalewer.
Barbados,
Jan.
18th.—~M.r.
1.
B G
Austin
and Capt.
Bowring have
been
se-
lected
by the
Barbados
Chamber
of Com-
merce
to
attend
the meeting
of the
As-
soclaied
Cnamber
of
Commeree
to
be
held
at
T'rinidad
on 23rd inst.
Both dele-
gates
sailed
for
Trinidad
by
S.
S. Fort
(zeorge yesterday
evening.
Los Angeles,
Jan.
17th.—Severe
earth
shocks
were felt in many sections
of Los
Angeles
last
night,
shattering
windows
in
some
quarters
and
shaking
frame
buildings.
There
were
nine
distinct
shocks
between
7.10
and
8.30
o’clock
which
agitated
many
residents.
London,
Jan.
17th. —The
National
Rail-
way
wages
Board
is
holding a protracted
enquiry
into the
claims
of Scottish
rail-
way
companies.
The
proposals
are
ap-
proved by
the railway unions
and
the
ap-
peal
is
regarded
as
a
test,
the result
of
which
will
have
an
effect
upon
all the
British railways.
The companies
say
the
wages
today
average
170%
higher
than
they
were
at the beginaing
of the war in
1914 while the
cost
of living has fallen
to
98% above
the pre-war.
London,
Jan.
17th.-Subscription
books
for the
treasury
bonds
carrying 5%
in-
terest,
which
had
been
bought
to the
eX-
tent
of
nearly
100,000,000
were
closed
today.
A
new
issue
will be substituted
next Monday,
bearing
iuterest
at 5% to
be offered
at 99 and payable
at 100 in five
years.
London,
Jan:
17th.—M.
Poincare\has
sent
a message
to Mr. Lloyd
George
ex-
pressing
the
desire
in
behalf
of
the
French
Government
to repeat
assurances
already given
privately,
that
France
is
eager
to
resume
cordial
examination
of
the
various
questions
at
issue
between
the
two countries.
He is
convirced
that
the two peoples
who have been
so closely
allied
on
the
field
of battle,
should
be
able with
common
interest
to
maintain
peace
in Europe
and
to
assure
execution
of the treaties
signed
and
the reparations
damages,
caused
by
the
invasion.
The
message,
together
with the reply
of Mr.
I.loyd George,
was given out by the
[
.-
eign
Office.
My
colleagues
and
iic-
ceived
with great
satisfaction
ycur
cor-
dial re-affirmation in behalf
o1
iic
low
French
Government
of
the
as.urances
we explained last Fiiday.””
Describinyg it
as superfluous
to repeat
the
British Gov-
erement’s
views,
so
recently
published,
Mr. Lloyd George
concludes:
We desire,
only as
we
are glad
to note
you
also
de-
sire
so
to setile
the outstanding
problems
that nothing
may
impair
the
complete-
ness
of
the
entente
of
our
people
and
yours
and
thus
carry
the
comradeship
of the
war into the higher task of
bring-
ing the European
peoples
together
in
a
just and abiding pact of peace.
Washington,
Jan.
17th.—United
States
proposals
to redefine
the
open
door
peli-
cy in China and
create
an
International
"Board
to examine
both
existing
and
fu-
ture concessions
which appear
to
conflict
with
it,
were
debated
without
decision
today by the Far
Eastern
Comrmittee
of
the Washington
conference.
The British
and ltalian accepted
the plan in principle,
but the
French
withheld
assent
to
some
of
its
provisions
and
the
Japanese
re-
served
judgment,
pending communication
with Tokio.
The
subject
will be
taken
up
again
tcmoriow.
Instructions
from
Tokio concerning
the
fortifications
ques-
tion have
reached
the
Japanese
Delega-
tion,
it
was
said
tonight
by
Japanese
spokesmen,
but certain
phases
of
the
ad-
vices required
elucidation
and
therefore
communication
with
Tokio
was
under
way.
Japan
has
no desire
to
control
the
mines
in Shangtung
Province,
the
same
spokesmen
explained
tonight
in
dis-
cussing
today’s
Shantung
meeting,
hut
merely
wanted
a
joint Chino-Japanese
'enterprise
on
a business
basis.
London,
Jan.
19th.—The
West
India
Committee
state
tha:
an Indiar colonisa-
tion deputation
comprising
Messrs Keat-
ing,
Pillai
and
Tiwary
will
leave
for
British Guiana
this
week.
They expect
to remain
in that Colony about
two months
they will also
visit Trinidad.
Calcutta,
Jan.
18th.-
A new methed
of
civil disobedience
adopted
by the
native
provincial
Congress
of Bengal,
resulted
today
in
the
arrest
of
more
than four
score
persons
by the police.
The method
adopted
was
the summoning
of a publie
meeting
in
the
prohibited
area,
thus
drawing
out
a
large
crowd,
which
was
addressed
by members
of the volunteers.
The
police
dispeised
the
audience
and
arrested
84 persons.
Londoun,
Jan.
18th.--The
Bye-election
in
the Tamworth
divisicn
of
Warwick-
shire,
which
was causec
by the
death of
Mr. H. Wilscn Fox,
tke Cealition Unicn-
ist men:ber,
who
was unopposed
in
the
election
of 1918,
resulted
in
the retirn
yesterday
of Sir Fercy
Newson, Coalition
Unionist,
by
a
majority
of 8,061
over
Mr.
G. H.
Jones,
the Labour
candidate
The
totals
were,
Newson
14,782
Jones
6,671.