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22xp
DECEMBER
1919,
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TELEGRAMS
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8T CROIX STAIION,
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London,
D'ec.
16th.
- The
Home
Rule
|
Seheme
whizh
th:
Premier
will outline
in
the
House
of
(ommons
on
Monday,
|
wil,
be
presented
to the Irish
peope as
an
opiional
HOlan,
tlu—»_";)aily
Graphie’’
|
says.
Accorling to .his
paper. ‘the
Gov-
_ernmen:
will
say
in
effect “‘this
is
the
best
proposai
we
can
devise,
and
we
|
trust you
willaceapt
it.
But if not.
the
|
Government
wiil nor
foree it upon
you’’. |
In the
House
of Commons
yesterday,
re-
|
plying
toa giestion
of Mr. Wedg:vood
|
Benn
(Libzr:l), asto
wexer.hex'
the
aJov-
i
ernment
inct nled
to
coatinue
mii.tary
repression
u. treland
unti! nexc year
the
:
Premier,
amil cheers,
said
it was
t e-
|
tention
of
the
Government
tn
maln-
|
tain
law
aund
-order.
A
motion
by
Mr.J.
P.
O Connor,
Irish Nationalist,
to adjourn
the House in order
to
discuss
the wholesaie
arrests
In ireland,
depor-
tation of prisoners without
trial,
includ-
ing Sinn
Kein members
of
the Houvs:
of
Commons,
ard
the increas-d
disorders
created
ithevedy,
tailed,
owing
to
lack
S
ort.
ofpggg’
Dee.
16th.—The
French
and
British
commands
have discussed
rlans
for a peace-tline
organiza‘ion,
aceor nng
|
sa
‘'le
Matin’’.
The
nevspaper
sees .
the
maintenaice
Os
Marshal Petaii, as
French
Gener:alissimo,
at
the
disposition
of the Inter-Allied
Counc.l,
over
waich
General
Foel
will
probably
preside.
|
The diseus ior.s
had nothing
to do- with.
the
question
¢f
a" military alliance
with
Belgium and L'y, thepaper
says,
.
Chicago,
Dee. &%6~e%,-f)§’roductlon
or
bituminous
coi today rapidly
approach-
ed normal.
'l‘iroughout the
counury
re-
ports indicabg,d
from
90 to 95
p-r cent
ol
N'\). ‘J:‘?
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o
o §
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the
miners
are at work or ready
to
enter
the
mines
as
sooon
'@s
they
are
put
in
shape for operation.il()f
the
larze
pro-
ducing
fields,
Indignha
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Lo
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|
closest
to normal,
in%he
ma.ter
of
coal
mined,
although
reborts
from
lilinois,
Oh.o, Pennsylvania,
sand
West
Virginia,
showed that
producflon
was
rapidly
on
the
increase.
+F
Fuenos
Aires, Decklsth. —The bubonic
plazue
is reported
tothave attained
grave
proportions
at Las Rgsas,
Santa
e
Pro-
|
vice,
where
the
business
houses
have
peen ordered
to close for 48 hours
owing
|
to the
bad hygienic: konditions.
S~veral
desths
with no medieal
assistance
avail-
abl:, are said
to hav(%)ccurred
at Las Ro-.
|
sas.
The Sanitary
mmittee
has
asked
|
for help and the National Department.
of
|
Hy :iene has begun
aswar
on
the rats
in-
|
fes ing grain warehofises.
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Faris,
Dec.
16th.—& new German
de-
|
leg:.tion which has
edme
to Paris,
to dis-
|
cus;compensation
foF
the sinking of
the
German warships
at
Bcapa Flow,
arrived
this morning.
The
delegation
which
is
presided
over
by
Cpuncil
Scelinger,
§a
‘
meraber
of the
Com nercial
Depertment
|
of tae German Forei
Ministry, consists
of terr Rudolpb Rrg it, ~epresentative
of
Haraburg Shipyards,
Councillor Eich,
of
the Ministry of Publi¢ Works, Dr. Petzer,
Director of the Hamburg-American Line,
Dr. Peters,
Director
of the
Weser
Ship-
yard
at
Bremen,
a
representative
of
the
Hamburg
Government
and
Herr
Paul
Muller, representing
three
groups
of
seamen.
The
delegates
arrived
in
a
special
car
attached
to
the
ordina-
ry
express
train.
There
was
no
inci-
dent
at
the
station,
but
crowds
re-
garded
the Germans
with interest.
The
German
Note in reply to
the Allied
eom-
munication
demanding
the signing of the
Peaee
Protocol,
was taken
up by sthe
Su-
preme
Council at this morning’s
session.
It ~sas
decided
that
a meeting
of allied
experts with the
German
shipping
ex-
perts,
should
be held this afternoon.
The
portion of the German
Note
was
sent
to
legal*
experts
for
examination.
The
Council’s consideration
of
the
Cerman
communication
was
onec of a
general
na-
ture.
It was
stated
a
reply
would
be
made
after
a further
examination
of
the
document,
Paris,
Dec.
16th.—Baron
Von Lersner,
head
of the
German
Peace
Delegation,
commenting
on the peace
settlement,
said
hope
was entertained
in
Entente
cireles
that ratifications would be exchanged
and
peace
would
become
effeciive
before
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