it must
not become
impatient.
“The
drop’’,
the
newspaper
quotes
the
Director
as
adding,
‘‘was brought
about
by
American
initative
and
the
lowered
cost
of
raw materials
that
the
United States
furnishes
us.”’—The Bullz-
tin, Nov. 24th,
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION
Paris,
Nov. 28th.—What
action
France
intends
to
take
with resp:ct
to German
repa-ations
in the event
that the
Brussels
cmnferencg
falls
through,
is not officialiy
disclosad,
although
dztails
of
th=
sup-
posed plan of the Government
are publisa-
e
vary fully by
the
Paris
newspapers.
T ingociant
me2eung.
rlive bean
held,
one
yesterday
at
the
Elysee
Palace
at
which Presid:nt
Mitleraad
presided
and
thse
presant
inz'ada
| Promier
Poineare,
Mr.
Barthon,
President
of
the
repara-
tions
ecommittee,
Marshal
Focn,
various
Cabinet
Ministers
an]
experts,
and
the
other,
a full Cabinet
Council
today.
An
official communique
issued
after the Cabi-
net
Council
merely
says
‘"M. Poincare
informed
h 2 Cabinet
about
the
meetinz
held
yasterday
at
the
KElysee Palacze,
in
which regard
th2 m)st inaczuate
informa-
tion
has
been
published.
Tae
foreign
o Tize taking cozaisanc>
of these
raports,
nais
authorizad
the
associated
press
to
make
the
following
statemznt.
‘‘[ne
information given
in
the
Freach
news:
papers
this
morning,
relative
to
the
discussion
at
the
Elysee
Palace
yester-
day,
is
vary
inexact.
As
a
matter
of
fa»t,
no decisions
were
takan
in
regard
to what action
France
would take,
if she
=
failed
to
gain
satisfaction
at
Brussels.
Waoat actually took place
at
yasterday’s
mzeting
and
at
todays
cabinzt
session
was
an exchange
of views in preparation
for the Bruss:ls
conference.
There
was
no question
of the cabinet
giving its
ap-
proval
to the
plan
this
morning,
as
re-
ported’”’.
The foreizn
officz would
dis-
clos2
no
datails
of
the
town
meetings.
Cork,
Nov. 23th.-—-By
a
vote
of
20 to
1,
the
Cork
corporation
decided
today
to make
nc nomina‘ions
to
the
Irish Se-
nate created
by
the
Free
State
consti-
tution.
Previous
io
the
ballot,
a
letter
signed by the
offizer commanding
Cork
brigade
No. 1, ‘‘irish republican
army,”’
was
read
by
the
town
clerk.
“‘Owing
to the
murderous
and illegal execations
of our young
Irish
men
at
Kilmainham
jaii, Dablin,
whose
only
crim2
was
thait
they fought for
the
complete
independ-
en-e of ‘‘lreiand,
the
matter
said,’”’ you
are hereby
warned
that
aony
meamber
of
the
Cork,
corporation
participating
in
nominations
to
this
illegal Senate
will
be held as acquiescing,
in these
murder-
ous
executions,
and
those
responsible
will be dealt with accordingly.”’
Athens,
Nov.
23th. —Mr.
Lindley
the
British Minister has notified
the Govern-
ment
that Great
Britain
has
brok2a
off
relatiops
with Greece
and
that
he
is
ST.
LBV LR
A VIS
leaving Athens topight.
Mr. C.
H. Len-
tinok,
British
member
of
the
firancial
control remains
here.
Dublin, Nov. 29th.— Alderman
Charles
Murphby,
one
of
Mr.
De
Valera’s
chief
supporters,
was arrested
today.
Mation-
al trcops raided
the
residence
of
Count
Plunkett
and
reported
the
seizure
of
a
quantity of explosives
and military equip-
ment.
Covington, Nov.
29th.—Twelve
children
dren
are reported
missing
a fire,
which,
late yesterday,
destroyved
the High
Point
community
schcol.
The
fire
cost
the
lives of
at
least
three
children,
caused
burns
to
fifteen
and
painful injuries
to
thirty five.
One
jteacher
was
burned,
probably
fatally.
Search
parties
today
combed
the debris
for
the
bodies
of
12
reported
missing.
Portsmouth,
Nov.
29th.—Lieut-Colonel
Leslie
Wilson,
ckief
Corservative
whip,
announced
today
that
telegrams
would
be
despatched
this
week,
summoning
theEconomic
Conference
of
representa-
tives of
the
dominions
and
the
Mother
Country,
which
Mr.
Bonar
law,
in
his
election
address,
said would
be discussed.
Lieut-Colonel
Wilson
who
was
defeated
for Parliament,
in
the
general
election,
made
this
announcement
on
his being
selected,
as
the
Coanservative
Caudidate
for the snuthern
division for Portsmouth,
the
occupant
of
which,
will
be
chosen
by
a bye election.
Chicago,
Nov.
29th.—Standing.,
with
outepread
arms
before
an
audience
that
packed
the auditorium
here,
M.
Clemen-
ceau
yesterday
pleaded
with
the
United
States
to save
France
from
possible
ex-
tinction.
Patiently
seeking
to
explain
away
the
charge
zf
militarism
and
im-
perialism
brought
against
his
country,
the “*Tiger’’ declared
that
France
sought
only
peace,
hut
that
war
was
being
forced
upon
her.
If France
does
not
get
the help that she
needs,
she
may perhaps
disappear.
‘‘Athens
was
a
demozracy
very great and
very fine,
but
she
disap-
peared
and
if France
were
to
disappear,
I believe
that
some
day people
wou'd
be-
gin to look around
and
ask
if something
had
not
disapreared
that
had
brought
life to the world”’,
Washington,
Nov, 29th.—A
new Greek
Cabinet
under
the
leadership
of
Colonel
Golos has
been
sworn
in, the
Greek
Em-
bassy
announced
last
night,
succeeding
that of M. Clokidas,
resigned.
Athens,
Nov.
29th.—The
Greek
Gov-
ernment
has
issued
a
statement
of
its
policy.
It declares
that
it
1s
aware
of
the
difficulties
of
the
present
situation
and will do its utmost
to secure
the right
of Greece.
Organizations
of
the
army,
purification and reconstruction
of
pubilic
services,
preservation
of
order,
protec-
tion
of
the
legiiimate
interest
of
the
workers
and
the prevention
of
illicit
speculation.
It
will also
devote
itself
to settling
the
refugees
at
the
eariiest
possible
moment.
Lausanne,
Nov.
29th.— Ex-Fremier
Venizelos and M. Caclamanos,
the
Greek
delegates
te
the
Near
Eastern
Confer-
ence,
both attended
the
meeting
of
the
conference
sub
committee
on
Turkish
economic
affairs
this
morning,
despite
the
international
complications,
which
have followed the executions
of the
Ex-
Premier
Gounaris
and
his
associates
in
Athens.
Although the British
Minister of
Athens has asked
for
his
passports
ard
will
leave
Greece,
as
an
expression
of
Great
Britain’s
disapproval
of
the
ex-
ecutions,
this
does
not
constitute
ile
breaking off of diplomatic relations,
it
1s
declared
here,
and
will
not prevent
the
British
delegation
participating
in
the
Lausanne
Conference
with
the
Greck
delegates.
M.
Venizelos
said
he
was
without official advice
from
Athens,
snd
knew of the situation
there only through
the
press
despateches
M.
Caclamanos,
why
is
accredited
to
London
as
Greck
Minister,
also
said
he
was
without
official
information.
No
mention
was
made
of
the
executions
in
Athers
at the Sub-Committee
meeting,
in
which
M.
Venizleos
took part
in
the decision.
Four
guards
acccmpanied
him
to
the
meeting.
London,
Nov. 29th.—It is reported here
that
a
Turkish
revo!t,
accompanied
by
violent fighting at
some
places,
has brok-
en
out in
Western
Thrace.
The
corres-
pendent
of the
Times
at
Constantinople
telegraphs
that
he
hears
the insurgents
are
masters
of the situation
and an armed
‘band
of 5,000,
having
machine
guns
is
/ marching
toward
Dedeagatch
and
de-
manding
the holding
ofa plebiscite.
A
despatch
to the Daily Express
from
Con-
stantinople
deseribes
the
situation
as
dramati2
and
chaotie,
and
that
bands
of
Bulgarians
and
Macedonians
have
cross-
ed
the {rontier,
Belfast,
Nov.
29th.—The
British
troops
will shortly
be
withdrawn
frocm
Pettizoe
on
the Donegal-Fermanagh
bor-
der heid by them
since
the
Repnublicans
were
expelied
last
May.
They
will
be
replaced
by Free
State
Forcees.
Paris,
Nov. 29th.—M. Poincare
has
ac-
cepied
the Prime
Minister’s invitation
to
go
to
London
on
December
9th.
for
a
preliminary
discussiou
of
the
Brussels
Conference
on reparations,
accordin2
to
the Matin.
'The
Italian Premier’s
rep'y
has
not yet been
received.
New York, Nov. 29th.—All
the
moncy
that
is invested
in Turkey in
the
next
£5
years
is going
to
be
lost,
Mr.
Morgen-
thau,
former Amb-~ssador
to
Turkey
de-
clarcd
last nieht,
in an address
ata
din-
ner of the Association
of Foreign
Press
correspondents.
‘I
am
amused
that
concessions
are
wanted
in Turkey’
he
said,
‘it is
an
unsafe
country
to
put
money
into.
You might as well
throw it
in the river.
All tke money
that
is
put
into Turkey in the next 25 or 30
years
is
going to be lost,
and
we
don’t
want
an
open
door in Turkey’’,