profits
in
1917
and
there
are
grave
doubts
that-they
are entitled
to increase
prices
because
of the
proposed
31
per
cent
increase
in miners’ wages,
Mr. Me
Adoo, Secretary
of the Treasury,
declar-
ed today
in a telegram te Seeretaryv
Gar-
field.
The owners’ profits
are
as shown
by their income
tax
returns,
examined
by him
as Secretary
of the
Treasury
in
1918,
he said,
showed
earnings
on capi-
tal stock
ranging
from
15
to 2,000
per
cent.
lam convineed
that
.the wage
in-
crease
proposed
for.-the
minexs
is:just
and reasonable’’,
h 2 stated.
-+~
&
-
Paris,
Nov. 24th.— What
is the
signi-
ficance of the departure
of Herr Von Sim-
son from Berlin?
asks
the
Paris
Press.
‘'The
reasons
alleged
by
the
German
diplomat
are
by
no
means
conclusive.
Why should it be necessary
to consult
the
National
Assembly
on
the
terms
of
the
protocol,
which have
been known
since
the
beginning
of
the
month?
It
must
therefore
be
a
manoeuvie
of
Germany
wishing
to exploit the American Senate’s
situation,
sueh
a
course
is condemned
to
failure
in
advance,
and
the
Supreme
Council
is about
so
meet
it.
The
Berlin
Govt. is the first whose interests
demand
prompt
application
of
the
Treaty
of
Vearsailles'’.
Washington,
Nov. 24th.—A fine
ctudy
of the selective
draft records
made public
today
fixes the
military strength
of
the
United
States
at
19,000,000
in potential
military
maa-power.
The
registrations
for the draft between
the ages
of 18 and
45 totalled
23,908,576
almost
80 per
cent
of
whom
were listed
_s physically fit for
military service,
the
medical reports
in-
dicated
that
the
zone
where
men
were
found
most
healthy
runs
through
'
the
centre
of
the
country.
from
north
to
south.
Copenhagen,
Nov. 24th.—The
Vatican
has
officiallyrecognized
the
Republie of
Austria, according
to
a
despateh
from
Vienna today.
Paris,
Nov. 25th.
-The American
dele-
gates
to the Peace
Conference,
not
hav-
ing received
instructions
to the: contrary
will sign
the
Bulgarian
Peace
Treaty,
unless
there are new developments
before
Thursday.
The
ceremony
which will be
much
more
simple
than
those
of
Ver-
sailles
and St.
Germain,
will take
place
at
the
Mayor’s
office at. Neuilly. Sir
George Perley,
Canadian
High Commis-
sioner
in London,
will sign for Canada.
London,
Nov. 24th.--Germany
has
re-
fased
to
cooperate
with
the Allies
in
bringing
economic
pressure
‘to bear
on
Soviet Ru:sia,
Sir H. Greenwood,
Under-
Secretary
for Home Affairs,announced
in
the
House
of Commons
today.
A wire-
less
despatch
received in London
dated
October
20th
from
Berlin
stated
that
Germany
declined
to. participate
in
a
blockade
of Soviet Russia,
because
Ger-
many
did not balieve th:
blockads
wpuld
achieve the desired
purpose.
Paris,
Nov. 24th.—The withdrawal
of
.the American
troops
from Cobientz
in
oceupied Germany,
is
not
considered
in
51 &
B U)X
AVIS
American
Peace
Conference
circles
as
necessary
in
consequence
of th?‘United
States
Senate’s
failure {o ratify the
Ger-
man Peace
Trelaty.
I{
s contended
that
the United States
is stiil one
of
the
Al-
lied and Associated
Powers,
and
that
the
postponement
of fixed action
on the Treaty
does
not change
its relation
to either
the
Associated
Powers
or to Germany.
Liverpool,
Nov. 24th.—The
dock-work-
ers predict
a
strike
on
Dec. Bth.,
unless
non-unionist
labour is eliminated.
El
Paso,
Texas,
November
24th.—A
positive
assertion,
that
informati:n
is
in
the
hands
of
the
Foreign Relations
Committee
of
the
Unit
d States
to
the
effect
that
the
Carranza
Government
is
deliberately
seeking
to
iffront
the
United
States
in
connection
with
the
kianapping
and
consequent
arrest
of
Mr.
Jenkins,
the
American
Consular
Agent at Pueblo, Mexico, and
the
simul-
taneous
promulgation of the
Qil
Proper-
ties
Nationalization
Decree,
was
made
tonight, by a member
of the sub-commit-
tee who has
arrived
here
to
investigate
international
condition.
London,
Nov. 25th
-A plan is under dis-
cussion by the British and AmericanGovts.
under which the
payment
of interest
on
advances
by Great
Britain
and
the allies
to the
allies
in
the
course
of
the
war
and
also
on
advances
by
the
United
States
to Great
Britain,
would be “ost-
poned for three
years,
it was announced
in the House
of Ccmmons
by Mr. Austen
Chamberlain,
Chancellor
of the
Exche-
quer.
New
York,
Nov.
25th.—More
than
$7.000.000
will
be
spent
in
alterations
and apecial equipment for the 7 Exgerman
liners
aggregating
67,639
tons,
recently
allotted
by
the
United
States
Shipping
Board,
for
a
fast
passenger
and
mail
service
between
the
United
States
and
South America.
This was
made
known
here
to-day
by
Mr.
Munson,
Presi-
dent
of
the
Munson Line,
which
has
been
selected
by
the
Shipping
Board
to operate
and
manage
the ships.
The
service
when
all
the
ships
are
com-
missioned.
will consist
of sailings
every
two weeks
from
New
York
and
Bue-
nos
Aires.
Ports
of call
both
south
and
northbound will, be
Rio
Janeiro,
Santos
and
Montevideo,
The
consider-
ed
passenger
carrying ‘capacity
of
the
fleet will be more than 30,000 persons.
Belgrade,
Serbia, Nov.
25th.
Twelve
prominent Jugo-Slavs
have
been
arrest-
ed as hostages
in Dalmatia,
according
to
advices
received
here
from
Sebenico.
These advices
add
that Sebenico
is
tak-
ing measures
to guard against
a descent
by Dannunzio’s
army.
.
Buenos
Aires, Nov.
25th.—The
Cham-
ber of Deputies
today
took
up
consider-
ation ofthe
proposed
£4,000,000
loan
to
Great Britain, France.and
Italy,
for the
purchase
of cerealsin,
Argentina.
o
New York. Nov. 25th.
- New York ses-
terday witnessed
its -greatest
parade
of
any one people,
more
than
100,000
Jew-
ish men
and
women
marching
in protest
against
alleged
massacres
of their people
in the Ukraine.
Nearly 25,000
uniform-
ed soldiers,
sailors and marines,
veterans
of the
war,
led
the
procession.
From
the
first
massed
ranks
of
uniformed
marchers
to
the
last
groups
of
tired
stragglers,
colours
and
poster
appeals
against
the
report
programs
were
vali-
antly carried forward.
London,
Nov.
26th.—Lord
Curzon
speaking
in the
House
of
Lords
today
said that Egypt neither
was able
to pro-
tect her
own frontiers
from aggression,
nor
guarantee
a
stable
internal
govt.
He
declares
that
Great
Britain
could
not wash
her
hands
of
a country
stand-
ing at the door
in Africa
and
the
high-
ways
to
India.
The
idea
that
the
as-
pirations
of
the
Egyptian
National-
ists
were
to
be
crushed
however,
he
said,
was
an
extravagant
misconcep-
tion.
The
Egyptians,
he
continued,
could
not
be
shown
too
clearly
that
whatever
peace
was
imposed
on
Tur-
key,
recognition
of the
British
protec-
torate
would
be
one
of
these
terms.
Therefore
no provisions
in
the
Peace
Treaty with Turkey would alter the
task
with which the {mission headed
by
Lord
Milner, to investigate the unrest
in Egypt,
was
entrusted.
|Lord Milner,
he
said,
had
no
constitution
in
his
pocket,
but
was going to consult
with the
Egyptians
with regard
to
how
they
could
best
co-
operate
in
the
management
of
their
country
under British guidance.
Ha :fax,
N. S.,
Nov.
26th.—An
.iter-
esting
ceremony
occurred
on
board
H.
M.
S.
“‘Constance’’
shortlv
before
the
devarture
of the
Prince
of Wales
yester-
day,
when
the Commander
in Chief
of
the
Bermuda
and
West
Indian
Station.
Sir Morgan
Singe.,
was invested
by
His
Royal
Highness
with
the
K.
C.
V.
00,
Admiral
Singer
who
accompanied
the
Prince
from
New York on
H. M. S.
'‘Re-
nown’’
to Halifax ieft during
the
after-
noon for Ottawa
with
the Governor
Gen-
eral the Duke of Devonshire.
Paris,
Nov.
26th.—The
Turkish
ques-
tions will be uppermost
after the
Bulga-
rian Trea'y
is
signed
tomorrow.
This
will take place in the Hall of Ceremonies
at the
Mayor’s
office
at
Neuilly.
The
British are understood
.o be urging
that
the Conference
of Turkish
delegates
be
called
driring
the
month
of Lecember.
The French
appear-
not to be
anxious
to
hurry
those
negotiations
and
it
is
still
doubtful
where
they
will
Fe
held,
the
French
not yet
having
given
their
con.
sent for
the calling
of
the
Con‘erence
in London;
as has
been
urged by the Brit-
ish.
Reports
reaching
conference
cir-
cles
in
the
meantime
indicate
a
state
of anarchy
throughout
the
territories of
the
old
Ottoman
Fmpire
which
makes
some
scrt of action
urgent.
:
New York,
Nov. 26th.—There
are
un-
confirmed reports
in Washington
that
in
the
event
of
refusal
of
the
Carranza
Governmentto release
Mr.
Jenkins,
di-
plomatic relations
will be
severed.