presiding member said that the Ameri.cans were making no'secret of their intention to use the whole of the cotton ~crop produced in - America, which, he declaved, . would be a serious thing for | the textile trade of Great Britain, unless steps 'vere taken to obtain raw cotton | from other sources. Another member ‘said that the price of cotton was so high that wool was being used and was found to be‘cheaper in the manufacture of "some' materjai; ' 2 e AT kg ; London, Feb. 27t".—Announcement has been made by the Air' Minist~y that | the London ‘‘Times’’ aeroplane, flying | - -rom London to Capetown, erashed while | attempting to effecta ldnding at Tabera, ! South of Lake Victoria, Canada, where it | ar.ived on Thursday. The pilot and the | mechanic ave safe, but the machine was | irceparably damaged. : | Paris, Feb. 28th.—An order was sent | out during the night by the Ezecutive | Committee of the National Federation | of Railwaymen for a general strike e | ~ all railwaymen on all the routes in France, | according to information received by the | Petit Parisien. Washington, Feb. 27th. —Formal inquiry was made by the British Embassy at the State Department tcday as to the acceptability of Sir Auckland Geddes to | be Ambassador to the United States. ‘ Washington, Feb. 27th.—The Senate | today passed and sent to the House the | Uadervood Joint Resolution, creating a | Commizssion to deal with Canada for the i abrogation of the restriction of the ex- | pore of pulp wood and paper.. Mr. Un- | derwood told the Senate that some action | was imperative, ¢s the newspaper pub- | lishing industry in the (Jnited States almost faces extinction because of the dwindling news print supply. . .ondon, Feb. 27th.——The Daily Telegraph says that serious information was rcceived here last night regarding the | situation in Japan. ‘No details are given. | London, #eb 28th.-Regarding New ° York despatches telling of the work of | the Cunard Line forming a great British | sh ppinz enl2rprise, designed to capture | Germany’s former traffic in_emigrants | and freight between Central Europe and | Amoarica, che Daily Mail’’ 33ys the iine | negotiating for the purchase of large 1 doek space. and sheds at Hamburg, l formerly , occupied by the Hamburg Armerican Line and will open the new .| service with the liner “‘Saxonia’”’, which | wiii inciude Hamburg on iis Eastern trip. 3 . London, Feb. 26th-—The law of proper- | "ty Bill, introduced’ in the House of Lords by the pord Chancellor is the'most im- bi . po:tant ‘'meusure of land law reform for | the pas_&,{g().()i ‘years' and is of manmmoth | . .size, containing .no less than 178 clauses | "and 16 schedules_and, ‘altogether. 260 | . pages, Its real object, is to make the | tefif ‘estate, and personal estate laws -} alike and to chat'end it simplifies convey- | ancing, without ‘however abolishing the - 5.8 Ll X A xlb powey to setile land or *déscéndants orto despose of it undex will, | | Panama, Feb. 27th.—Two United States Army- Avigtors, - careying - mails, - | ~ were killed when-‘their planes erashed | ~ from a height of 500 feet at Aguadulce. 1 | London, Feb. 27th.--In the Héuse of | Commons last-night Mr. Bonay, Law de- | ~ clared that he could not imagine anything | more caleylated tocmake the League of | * Nagjor s a failure at the outset t{pn im- | ~ pose upon it the burden of' the Turkish | problem. Mr. Wilifams; Liberal, asked * | - whether the Govt. has any intermation | ~ that a report had reached the: g;x'm_e,nia_n . delegation in London to ‘the effect -that - ..twenty thousand: Armenians had. alveady ~ been slaughtered in the evacuated district’ | ~ -.of Maciasha,.that a4 large--Lurkish forces' | ~ was menacing Mersina, and thatthe whole * of :%e@iciar was in danger of massacre * The Premier replying, said that up to the = ~presgnt he had pot heard .apyrhing to in- '| dicate that this deplorable rumour was™ | ~ true, and he added that if sueli news ‘| ~ came to the conference they would have to consider ‘what steps were necessary to | arrest horrors of ‘this kKind. - 3ig " London,*Feby: 28th. —The Internation~ al Association Football Match ketween | ~ Seotland- and ‘Wales'resulted: inia draw. ~each country seoring oae goal.” ¥ | " Ottawa, Feby. 28th.-—Control by the Board of Commerce of € nada of the | price of sugar ‘was abolished “today tor | the ‘s,peciged'f purpose of proving ‘wheth- | i er or . not control “tiad 'been effective® | ' in_keepiug down .excess profits and | the fixed-price of 16 cents’ per pound at | ~ the refineries no ‘longer cbtained. | | Washington, Febv. 28th—By virtue of | . a unanimous vote_ the Senaté® has readopted the Republican Peace Treaty | ~ reservation relative :to mandate ~ atter | Mr. -Hitehcoek:had : arnounced on the floor that the adwministration would rot oppose it. The rdservation, under which | ~ ho mandate could’be accepted by the - Country'without the-action -of Congress, | ~ was unopposed. on the Demecratic side, | ~ Mr. Hiteheock, said, - because it merely | recites the ‘clear meaning of the Treaty. | It was the first time a reservation had | been adopréd with® the ‘acquiescence of | - . the Demoeératie Party: .- 5 . : e T OSER TR %y 30, - | I«; . : g Byt PR { - .St. Thomas News. | o3ey AR oo i ooy gl | . ‘DEPARTURE OF THE AIR-BOATS. | Frer Coatibds B Ge o i s4o L ' v+ Much’interest -having ' been evinced in | -