to the
dclegation
on
the
sixth
instant,
giving them
ten days in
which
to reply.
The conference
considered
the
question
of the
sale
of
civil flying
machines
to
Germans
by subjects
ot
the Allies.
Warsaw,
May Ist.--An official commu-
nication
states
that the Polish
troops,
in
the
course
of their
victorious
advance
against
the
Bolsheviki,
have
captured
one
hundred
locomotives,
two thousand
nine hundred
wagons,
several
armoured
trains
and tanks and
a squadroun
of
war-
ships.
Paris,
May 2nd.-The
situation
in Paris
is again normal,
the
Metropolitan
tram-
way
and
auto-bus
services
working
as
before
while
the
situation
on the
rail-
ways
here and in the provinces
continues
to
improve.
M.
Millerand
declared
to
a
press
representative
that
the
instiga-
tors of the strike
are
unable
to
advance
any just
motive
or
claim
the object
of
the
strike
being solely and,
surely
hos-
tile.
He
added
that
the
Govt.
would
shoitly present
a plan
for the
reorgani-
zation
of the railways.
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.
i
Copenhagen,
May
2nd.—The
Danish
Committee
for
the
resumption
of com-
mercial relations
with Russia
has decided
to organize
an
international
conference
which,
in accordance
with an agreement
with the
Soviets,
will meet
at Copenha-
oen
to
arrange
details
and also
perhaps
the question of
reparations
pending
be-
tween
Russia
and other countries.
:
Nice, May 2nd.—The King of Sweden
left
here
this
evening
for
Stockholm,
upon
receiving
the
news
of
the
death
of the Princess
Royal.
Paris
May
3rd —According
to
a
des-
pateh from
London
to the
"‘Times’
the
supreme
council
is disposed
to assure
the
continuation
of its work
by converting
it
into
an organ
of International
Govern-
ment,
to which it
was not even
impossi-
ble
that
German
delegates
might
be
admitted,
as also
representatives
of Rus-
sia with more
or less delay.
There
would
thus exist by
the
side
of the
society
of
nations
an
organ
of
International
Gov-
ernment
composed
of
Ministers
from
each
state.
Madrid,
May
3rd.—Senor
Dato
has
been
commissioned
to form a
new cabin-
et,
Senor
Salazar
having
declined
the
offer.
Valencia,
May 3rd.—A
general
strike
was
proclaimed
this
morning
with
the
object of obtaining
the release
of several
workmen
arrested
on Saturday.
A crowd
of
two
hundred
workmen
invaded
the
Central
Market and
destroyed
the
arti-
cles displayed.
Upon
the appearance
of
the
Gendarmes
they
were received
with
shots,
which
were
replied to,
two
work-
men
being killed.
Several
arrests
vrere
made
and order
was restored.
Paris,
May
3rd.—An
official mission
will leave
at an
early
date for Central
America,
to study
means
of developing
commercial
relations with France.
Paris,
May 3rd. —The
Gov:. has desig-
nated
M. Maurice Herdette
to
be Ambas-
1.
U
B lladax
ANIN
sador
at
Berlin,
when
the
Allies
re-
establish
Embassies
in that city.
Paris,
May Brd.—The Orphans
of the
Army
have
delivered
to the
Prefect
of
the Seine and
Oise the
Chateau
Epulches
the magnificent gift of the Republic
of
Cuba.®
The
Prefect expressed
his warm
thanks
for
this
evidence
of fraternity
ana benevolence.
Paivis, May 3rd.
-The I’*‘Matin’’states
that
the French
delegates
to the
forth-
coming
Conference
at Spa will réfuse
to
accept
the fixing.of a
lump sum for
re-
parations
due,
but
will admit
a
number
of settled
annual payments,
with a mini-
mum
amount
for each,
susceptible
of
increase
when
the economic
situation
in
Germany permits,
Paris,
May
Brd.—lt appears
that
the
strike
order,
issyed
in
various
mining
centres
in accordance
with
instructions
from
headquarters,
far
from
.being
obeyed automatically,
encountered
resist-
ance and
1n certain
centres
an energetic
organization sos an anti-strike
movement
took place.
The situation
on the
railways
is
still
improving and
today
traffic
is
normal,
many
having
returned
to
work
despite pressure
by extremists.
Paris,
May
4th,——The
Conference
of
Ambassadors
met
this
morning
and
decided
to postpone
until
the
twelfth of
July
the
plebiscite
to
be taken
in
Tes-
chena,
Silesia.
They will hear Sir Chrales
Marling,
President
of
the
Commission
for the Plebiscite
in Schleswig.
San
Remo,
April
25th.—An
qofficial
statement
given
out after the
morning
session
of the Supreme
Council
says
that
the Council
met
this marning.
Premiers
Nitti, Lloyd George
and
Millerand, Am-
bassador
Johnson,
Signor
Scialoia,
M.
Berthelot,
and
Lord Curzon
being
pres-
ent.
They discussed
the question of the
mandates
over Palestine,
Syria and
Mes-
opotamia,
settling
the
question
of the
new state
of Armenia,
and
finally
dis-
cussed
the question of the resumption
of
commercial
relations
with
Russia,
as far
as they
concerned
the
negctiations
en-
tered
by
the Russian
commercial
mis-
sion,
which
is
sitting at
Copenhagen.
ThLe Supreme
Council
today also
decided
to ask
President
Wilson
to arbitrate
the
boundaries
of
the
new
republic of
Ar-
menia
and
awarded
the
mandate
for
Mesopotamia
and
Palestine
to Great Bri-
tain,
and
the
mandate
for
Syria
to
France.
Placing Palestine
undera
Bri-
tish
mandate
the
'Council
established
within
the
ancient
limits
of
the
Holy
Land
what
is
called
''The
National
Home of
the Jews’’..
The
terms of
the
mandate
protect
the
national rights
of
Jewish citizens of cther countries,
that
is
tc
say,
a Jew
of British,
French
American
or other nationality
may retai;.
his
nationality,
although
heis
also
a
citizen
of the
state
of Palestine.
The
rights of the Arabs are
also
protected,
there
heing
six
hundred
thousand
in
Palestine,
and
one
hundred
thousand
Jews.
The mandate.is
limited generally
by- what
is
known
as
'‘The
Balfour
Declaration’’.
The
British
Forces
have
been
in
occupation
of
Palestine
since
the
defeat
of the
Turkish
Forces
by
the
British
under
Lord
Allenby,
while France
has been
protector
of
the
Christians
in
Syria
since
the
middle
ages,
having
been
designated
for
that
purpose
by the
Holy See.
The
question
with regard
to Syria
has
been
in
seri-
ous
controversy
by
the
British
and
French
Governments
since
the
Armis-
tice
was
signed,
particular'y
over
the
point whether
France
shall
have
all
of
what
is geographically
outlined
as
Syria
or only certain
parts.
Paris,
May sth. - The
“Temps’’ states
that
the reply
of the
Allies to
Hungary
is
composed
firstly,
of a
brief
covering
letter,
secondly
of a etailed reply
com-
prising
about
forty
pages
and
thirdly
of a respective
text of
the treaty
- hich
the
Hungarian
Plenipotentiaries
must
sign.
In the covering letter the Supreme
Council exposes
the
reasons
why it could
not
modify
the
frontiers
assigned
to
the
Hungarian
state
by
the terms
of the
treaty.
In
the regions
where the
popu-
lation
is al<o made
up of different
races
the
application of
the Plebiscite
is
sur-
rounded
with insurmountable
difficulties.
Certain
concessions
are
made
to
the
Hungariah
Govt.
in
the
application
of
the
principles laid
down
by
the
treaty
and the reply enumerates
them point
by
point.
NEw YORK, May
Bth
1920.
Flour, Blenced Clears St. Lawrence Isrand
pr. brl. $13.50
Meal, Kilndried per
100 ibs $4.35
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $43.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per bbl. $42.00
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
spot per
100
~
Ibs.
$19.56.
Molasses
Sugar
89°
test,
no quotation.
Motton,
Middling Upiand,
at
Liverpool
per
lb. 26 65--100 d.
Exchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’
sight
$3.80
Exchange
New York and
London,
sight
$3.834
LONDON, May Bth 1920.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals,
(free of Govt.
trol) duty paid per ewt.
1255. od.
182s.
od.
Sugar Muscovado,
(free
of Govt.
control
price for May) duty paid per ewt.
111s.
od.
German Beet 88°/¢ f.o.b.
no sales.
White
Java
sugar
cif
United
Kingdom
115s. od.—l2os.
od.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middling
Red
per
cwt
1445,
Cotton, Medium Fine Sea
Island,
at Liv.
erpool per Ib. nominal
Bank
of England
rate
of Discount
per
cent.
7.
Consols
47%.
Three per cent rentes
in Paris Fes.
56.75.
Moscovado
Govt.
~
controlled
price
for
May
duty paid
106s.
od.
Moscovado
free
of
Govt.
control
duty
paid 110s.
od.
115s.
od.