howaver stipulated
that operation
on the
cable
must
ret
take place.
Wseshington,
May
4th.—The
decision
of
the
Unrited
States
Govt.
to
permit
the Wes:ern
Union
Company
to land the
Barbados
ecable
at
Miami
is
stated
by
the
State
Degpartment
to
be
merely
a
temporary
step
and
does
not
indicate
that the
long-stauding
controversy
has
been
settled.
New
York,
May Brd—lt
was learned
hare
todav
that
negotiations
are
pro-
oressing
favourably
for
another
match
between
Jack Dempsey
and
Jessie
Wil-
_
lard next ¢utumn
in
Jersey
City.
Wil-
lard, who .has
been
undergoing preiimi-
nary training for some
time
past,
is
eun-
fident that he
can
recover
the chamyion-
ship of the world he lost in 1915 to Demp
se.r
at Toledo.
It is believed
that Demp-
sey
will gladly accept
the challenge.
**
Qenoa, May 3ra.—-At the economic
con-
ference
the subiect f disarm:
ment
was
also brought
up
by
M
‘Tchitcherin, who
declared
in his plea
for generai
disarma-
ment
that *‘only by
a policy of peace
can
the nations
balance
their
budgets’.
- Peking,
May 3rd.—The
Tengtien
army
under
General
Changtsolin
has,
ior the
woment
at
least,
successfully
withstcod
the drive
on
Changsintien
and
stopped
Seneral
Wupeifus
movement
towards
Peking.
:
New York, May 3rd.—The
public off-
ering of a Brazilian Govt loan of five m'l-
lion pounds
sterling will be
made
tomor-
row in London
aand
an
offering of two
million pounds
in this city, either
tomor-
row or
Friday.
The
bonds,
which
will
bear
interest
at seven
and
one
third per
cent,
will run for thirty years.
The offer-
ing price
in London will be at ninety
sev-
~en,
but the local sale
price
has
not yet
~wpgen
fixed.
The loan
is
secured
by
five
million kags
of coffee.
Glasgow,
May 3rd.—Field-Marshal
Earl
Haig and
Sir
James
Barrie
were
today
formally installed
as
Chancelior
and
Rec-
tor, respectively,
of St. Andrews
Univer-
-Bty
Kilkenny,
May 3rd.—Fighting
which
was
in
progress
here
today
ended
this
evening, Ormonde
Castle.
the last strong-
hold held by
the
Irregulars,
being
cap-
tured by the Free State
troops.
The
Ir-
regular garrison
surrendered
and
march-
ed with its arms and
ammunition
to the
military barracks.
Dublin,
May 38rd.—The
Dail
Eireann
late today
adopted
a
motion
by Mr. De
Valera, ordering the opposing sides
in the
Irish Republican
army
conflet
to
cease
firing immediately
and
arrange
a truce.
Mr. De Valera saié he would
like
to
see
the army executive,
wheib
had
taken
an
independent
position,
issue
a
similar
or-
der and that
he would do ail
he
could do
to that end.
Mr. Mulchahy said
that
he,
one his
side,
had
done
all
possible and
Mr. Griffith declared
that their
men
were
only defending
themselves.
Mr. Griffith
pressed
Mr. De Valera
for
some definite
assurance
and
later said
that
couricrs
i
f
R
S
I.
:X&
AA;
v
i b
should
be
s2nt
to establish
an
immeadiate
truce
and he urged
Mr De Valera
to speak
at the Four Courts,
the Dublin Headquar-
ters of the Dissident
Army faction
Mr.
Mulcahy
seconded
De Valera’stotion
for the order
to
cease
fighting
dnd
ar-
range
a truce,
anc after its
adoption the
House adjourned
until Friday.
Peking,
May 4tl
-The
troops
°
Gen-
eral Wupeifu,
the
Central
Chinese
Com-
mander,
have
surr. urded
Peking.
Paris,
May
4th.—Three
arrests
have
beets
made
and
numerous
others
wers
momentarily exoected
this
afternoon,
in
what
the po'ice claim
to be
a
vast
org2ani-
zation for
espiosage
in
French
arsenals
for
the
beneft
of
the
Russian
Soviet
Government.
Puris,
May 4th.—The
Cabinet
this
af-
ternoon approved
the
text
of a proposed
non-aggzression
pact,
which
is under
con-
sideration
at Genoa,
with the reservation
that it must
not
be
interpreted
signi'y-
ing the withdrawal
eof France
from a:y
rights she
has
under
treaties.
New York, May 4:h.—Mr. Henry Miles,
member
for Montreal
St.
Laurent
in the
Quebee Parliamoant,
said
here
yesterdav
that
there
was
every
prosnect
of tariff
reprisals
and
a break
down
in
trade
re
lations
between
the
United
States
and
his
country,
if
America
persisted
in
erectinga tariff wall.
Speaking
at
the
opening
of
the
convention
of
the
pro-
prietary manufacturers
association
of thi2
Unrnited States,
he declared
that tha
Ford-
ney
Emergency
Tariff
Bill had,
withia
the last
eight
months,
reduced
exports
from
Canada
to
the
United
States
by
215,000,000
dollars
and
reduced
exports
from
the
United
States
to
Canada
by
227 000,000
dollars.
Canada
wus
now
trading,
bhe
said,
where
she
scils
her
goods.
London, May 4th.—The
General
Coun-
cil
of
the
Trades
Union Congress
and
the Executive
Committee
of
the
Labour
Party, representing
six
million workeis,
sent
a telegram
yesterday
to
Mr. Lloyd
George,
urging
the
full politich?
recoy-
rifion of the Russian
Soviet Gevernment
as indispensable.
The telegram declared
that
the admission
of Russia
and
Ger-
mary
into the
League
of Nations
wouid
he
a hetter guarantee
of
peace
than
any
non-aggression
pact that might be adopt-
ed by the Genoa Conference.
Capetown,
May
4th.—General
Smuts,
in
a statement
to the Cape
Times
on
the
subject
of
the
Genoa
Conference,
-said
that he prayed for
victory for Mr. Lloyd
Genrge
beeause
if all
that resulted
from
the
conference
was
the
Russo-German
treaty
and
the division
of
BEurope
into.
armed
camps,
Europe
would
be
irrevo-
cably split and Germany
become
a
new
and fatal milestone
in Furopean
polities.
If in
the
struggle
for
disarmament
on
the part
of
Great
Britzi:,
former
neu-
trals
and
many
late
enemies
against
France
and
Russia,
who
were
putting
their faih in militarism, the latter should
prevail, then
the policy
of
disarmament
which
Great
brituin
was
adopting
on
land
on
sea
would
yet
prove
a
fatal
blunder
and
it
wonld
be
far botter for
Great
Britain
to
face
the
reaiities
at
once and
arm
in
her
turn.
Unless
Mr.
Lloyd George
could
succeed
in
modify-
ing the militarist
policy
of M. Poincare
and
M. Tchitcherir,
disarmament
must
disappear
throughout
Europe
and
Arma-
geddon
became
the only goal for western
civilization.
Tientsin,
M=ay
4th
—General
Changt-
solin
is sending
furw.
d heavy
reinforce-
ments.
Airpianes today
continued
to fly
over
this city.
The
Jnited
States
chbm-
munity have
decided
to form
a volunteer
organization and affili=t» with the British.
Ottawa,
May 4th.-IMr. Mackenzie King
tke Premier,
announced
that the Govern-
ment
intends
to appoint
a
Canadian
Min-
ister
at
Wasbhington,
for
dealing
with
diplomatic questi'
ns,
without
the
irter-
mediary of the "ritist. Embassy.
Paris,
May 4 h.—Mr.
Myron
Herrick,
the United
States
Ambassador,
miracu-
ously escaped
death
to-day
when
a taxi-
cab flung i*self into his
aitemobile
in the
avenue
D. L Opera.
He escaped
without
injury.
Genoa,
Meay
4th. —The
German
dele-
gates,
C
ancellor
Wirth
and Dr. Rathe-
nau, this afterncon
held
along
confer-
ence
with Mr.
Lloyd
CGeorge
at
his
vil-
la,
at
which
lord
Birkenhead
=2lso
as-
sisted.
No
statement
has
Lcen
given
out, but it is
understood
that
the
meet
ing
discussed
plans
for
lessening
Ger-
many’s pressing
situation
regarding
re-
perations.
The
British
delegates
an-
nourced
that
they
will still hope that
a
meeting of the
signatories
of the
treaty
of Vesailles
will take
place,
whether at
Genoa
or
some
neighbouring
city,
be-
fore
the
thirty-first instart,
to: discuss
the questiop of reparations.
Paris,
May 4th.—An
official announce-
ment
w:s
made
today
that
the
Com-
miss.on
on reparations
had
failed to fird
that the Russo-German
treaty constituted
a
violation
of
the
treaty
cos
Versailles,
the decision of the Comrmission
contained
a note
to be handed
to Germany tonight,
which
points
out
that
the
Commission
assumes
that
Germany
has
not
given
up,
under the treaty,
rights
to property
on
which the
Allies
have
the first
lien
and
it
warns
Germany
that
the
Com-
mission
wiil keepa
close
wateh
to
see
the Rapallo treaty does
not interfere with
the
due
performance
of the
provisions
of the Versailles Treaty.
Genoa,
May
4th.—The
Russian
Soviet
delegation
announced
today
that
terms
contained
in the
note
of
the Allies
had
becn
telegraphed
to
Moscow and
it was
stated
that it
was possible
that
Lenine
wou'!d occept,
simultaneously
demanding
full recognition.
M.
Tchiteherin
stated
this
afternoon that the
Russian
reply to
the Allies wruld be forthcoming in a few
days time.