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197
THE
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TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Dublin, May 2nd.—Mike MecTigue,
the
world’s
hight-heavyweight
champion,
maiched
to
meet
George
Carpentier
in
New York on July
4th,
will
saii
for the
Unitad States
on the iiner
Berengaria
on
Saturday
Muy
sth,
it
was
arnounced
today.
Faris,
May 2nd. —Battling
Siki has‘ac-
ceptec.
Carpentiers
recent
challenge for
a return bout.
Otiawa,
May
2nd.—Canada’s
new
trade
treaty
with ltaly passed
thrcngh
the enmmittee
stage
in
the
House
toay
and stands
over
tor
the
third
reading.
The
treatv
provides
in
briet
that
each
country shall
grant
most
favoured
nation.
treatment
to the
produetions
of the
oth-
er.
‘Whaiever
we
grant
to
any other
foreign country,
she
wust grant
io us’’,
That
is the
whole
story
of
the treaty
ex-
plained
Mr.
Fielding,
Minister
of
Fi-
paace,
:
Loodon,
May
2ood.—The
significance
of
the
new
noie
which
Germany
has
handed
to
the
entente
Governments,
it
is
considered
nere,
lies
in
its
in-
trinsic
merits
than
in
the
fact
that
i.ord Curzon
has
succeeded
In
overcom-
ing the apparent
deadlock
into
which the
Rahr
problem
had
fallen
and
induced
the
German
Govt
to
take
the initiative
in
an
attempt
to
reopen
the
negotia-
tjons,
On
its
financial
side
the
note
ijs
little
more
than
a
repetition
of
the
German
osier,
which
France
pre-
viously
rejected,
and
little
hope
is
en-
t~rtained
10
GLreat
Britain
that
the
® ,resent
German
proposals
will
meet
4
hetter
fate.
The
fact
that
the
note
.s-~ts
forrn,
as
esseatiil
10
the
nego-
tiativos,
that
“‘toe
siaius
quo
mast
No.
105.
|
be restored
within
the
shortest
time”
|
and
in
essence
proposes
to
make
the
|
question,
as
between
France
and
Ger-
.
many
a world question
seems
to
rule
out
|
any
acquiescence
from
the
present
|
Freneh
Government,
althouzh
Germany
!
has
abandoned
her
earlier
staondpoint
|
that
evacuation
of
the
occupied
terri-
’
tories
must
precede
any
negotiations,
The
note leaves
many
difficulties ahead,
!
one
particularly,
being
the
stipulation
{
that G2rmany’s
undertaking
to pay
what
!
France
will consider
a totaily
inadequate
|
amount,
thirty
billion
gold marks,
will
(
depend
upon
the
stabilization
of
Ger-
i
l
many’s currency
permanently.
Looking
.
at
all
previous
experience,
this
would
seewn
to be
an almost
impossibie
condit-
ion.
France
has
always
objeered
to ref-
.
erence
to any
outside
body,
such
as
See-
|
retary
Huchss
proposed,
of the quesicn
of the fixation of (rermany’s
total repara
~
tions,
and
it
is
doubtful
that
she
wiil
view the
proposals
more
leniently
now.
|
The
impression
here,
however, is that
~
despite
all
these
ditficnlties
and
recatling
M. Loucheurs
visit
tv Great
Britain and
his talk with Britrish Statesmen,
a
great
.
point
has
been
gained
in mducing
the
.
Berlin
Government
to
take
the
first
step,
first to
renew
negoiiations,
and
sec-
'
ond
to
enlist
the sympathy
and
interests
.
of the whole
world
in
an
endeavour
to
find
an issue
irom
the
present
Impasse,
|
London,
May 3rd.— After a seven
days
enquiry,
Justices
Avery
and
Sankey
have declared
th: election
of the Naticn-
al
Liberal,
Captain
Philipson,
member
for Berwick.
void, holding that his agent
made
false
and illegal
retursns,
that
cor-
rupt
practice
had
been
established
and
that
Philipson’s
ageat
ecommitted
per.
ST, MARY’S MOVIES
Tuesday,
May
&,
1923
8.15 P. M.
MARY PICKFORD
1
IN
“HEARTS OF THE HILLS”
7 REEL DRAMA.
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e
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ecourt
is
still
considering
Philipson’s
application
for
relief
on the
ground
that
his
agent
acted
without his
sanction
or
connivance.
Philipson
had
a majority of 4,579
over
the
Independ-
ent Liberal,
the
Hon.
W
Runcinan,
in
the general
election.
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