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1922.
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TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London Feb.
13th.-The
Princ: of Wales
narrowly
escaped
injury
at
f‘wailor,
Central
India,
last Saturday
wheu
his
polo
pony reared
and
fell
backwards,
says
a despatch
to
the Times
today from
its correspondent
who
is with the Prince
on
his Indian
tour.
she
Prince
was
knocking
the ball about
the Polo grounds
riding
a pony which objected
to approach
a dead
ball.
He tried
to urge
the
ani-
mal
upon
a
ball lying in the
middle
of
the field
when
the pony reared
and fell.
The Prince
was able
to slip from
unde
his
mount
and
was slightly shaken.
As
evidence
that
he
was
uot injured
the
Prince
that same
afternoon
rode
in four
races finishing respectively
second,
third,
fourth
and
unplaced.
The
correspon,
dent
in
message
filed
today just before
the arrival of the Prince,
sant
from
Aza-
garh
in
the
United
Provinces,
said
he
expected
to find
a
complete
hartal
upon
their
arrival
there.
Police
efficial
on
their
way
to Agra
had
told the
corres-
pondent
that for some
days
past
national
volunteers
ands
non-cooperators
from
Agra had
been
driving over
the country
visiting all villages
and preaching
sedi-
tion’
* London, Feb.
13th—Mr. Asquith speak-
ing this afternoon
in
the House of Com-
mons
at
the
resumption
of
the
debate
on
the address
in
reply
to
the
speech
from the
throne,
moved
an smendment
expressing
regret
that
the extravagance
of the Government
had
imposed
on
the
country
a
pressing
burden’ of
taxation
and that it
had
been
unable
to makea
definite promise
that
taxation
would be
reduced
in
order
to
stimulate
trade
and
decrease
unemployment.
The
Gedde’s
report
on
possible
Government
econo-
mies,
he
said
had
justified
the
charge
contained
in
his
amendment.
Refer-
ing
to
the
criticisms
of the
estimates
of the
fighting
services
Mr.
Asquith
compared
the pre-war expenditure
of the
Army
and
Navy,
£80,000,000
¢o
this
year’s estimates
of
£170,000,000
and
re-
marked that
the only
thing that
unhap-
pily marred
the
gratification
of the
most
remarkable
gathering
in
Wash-
ington
was
that
the
question
of
land
armaments
was excluded
from considera-
tion and that the conference
did not
feel
able
to deal,
as
he
was
glad
to
think
the representative
had
pressed
it strong-
ly,
with the question of submarines.
London,
Feb.
13th. —Replying to ques-
tions
whether
the
Government
inten-
ded
to
introduce
a
bill at
this
session
of Parliament
enfranchising
women
on-
-the same
terms
as men,
Mr, Lloyd George
in the House of Commons
today,:said
he
did not think it
wjse
to
reopen
the
sub-
ject after
so short
an interval.
The
fran-
chise
question,
he said,
had been settlad
by general
agreement
by the last session
of parliament.
The franchise
now gives
the
vote to all
men
of
21
years
and
over,
who lived in any
one
consituenecy
for
6
months
and of all women of
30
years
of
age
and
over,
subhject
to
certain
limita-
tions.
London,
Feb.
13th.
~Sir
Alfred
Mond
minisier for health,
refused
today
to
re-
ceive
a deputation
of
unemployed
wish-
ing to urge
a
grant
for
relief
on
a
par
with
the scal2
recently
introduced
in the
borougn
of Poplar,
which
is
nueh higher
than
the
une nployed
grauts
elsewhere.
The procession
accompanying
the dep
lita-
tion
w.s diverted by
the polize
from
Tra-
falzar Square
and
went
to
Hyde
Park.
Receatly
the borough of Poplar introduced
a scale
of forty saillings
weekly for
man
and
wife and
six shillings for each child’
together
with a weekiy quantity
of coal.
'he borouzh authorities,
however,
tem-
porarily cancelled
this scale,
after receiv-
ing a waraing from
th2 minister
of health
tlat the scale
was
unlawf al.
Washinzton,
Feb.
13th. —Secretary
Denby
appeared
before
the House
Na-
val
Conmittee
today t) reeommend
that
the Navy
pe2isonnel
for
the
next
fiscal
vear
be
fixed
at
90,000
men,
and 6,000
apprentices
now
authorized.
Mr.
Den-
by r>commended
that there
be
no
reduc-
tion in
the existing strength
of line offi-
cers
of
the navy,
that the
first class
at
Annapolis be graduated
and commission-
ed,
but that
appointments
to
the
Aca-
demy
herearter
be reduced
to three
for
each
member
of
Congress,
instead
of
five.
The United States
naval secretary
recommended
that
one
hundred
destrcy-
ers
be placed
cut
of
commission.
He
estimated
that
the programme
he
out-
ined would
effect
a
saving of 70,000,000
dollars
in next year budget.
London,
Feb.
14th.—A
notable
group
of prominent
personages
met
Mr. Arthur
Balfour, head
of
the
delegation
to
the
Washington
conference
on
armaments,
when
he arrived in London this
morning
from
Southampton,
where
he debarked
early in the
day
from
the
‘‘Aquitania’’
with Lord Lee of Fareham
from the Uni-
ted States.
The Earl of Bradford,
rep-
resenting King George,
and
virtually all
the cabinet
members
were
among
those
in waiting'at
Waterloo station
when
Mr.
Balfour arrived.
Mr. Lloyd
George
was
the first to come
to greet
the
returning
delegation.
Mr. Balfour as
he drove off,
was cheered
by a large crowd.
Bando!,
Feb.
13th. —A
resolution
de-
ploring the
recent
outbreak at
Chauri-
Cahuri
and
calling
for
the
suspension
of
civil disobedience
until
the
wave of
violence feeling has passed,
was adopted
today by the Working Committee
of the
National Congress.
The
resolution
also
declared
that ‘‘the country’s atmosphere
is insafficiently
non-violent
for
mass
civil disobedience,
which will be suspend-
ad,
and
instead
asks the various loeal con-
gress
committees
immediately
to
advise
the cultivators
to
pay
the
land revenues
and other
taxes.
Suspension
of civil diso-
bedience,
the resolutinn
declares,
should
b> continued
until
the
feeling
has
sub-
sided
to
such
an
extent
that
there
cannoL
be
a
repetition
of
the
atrocities
at
Gorakspur
and
the
disorders
at
Bom-
bav
in
November
aad
at
Madras
last
month
Another
resolution
urges
tbat
the
congress
organizations
should
be
advised
to
cease
activities
designed
to court arrest
and
imprisonment
except
such
normal
activities
as
voluntary
hartals
where
ever
a
peaceful
armos-
pher
can
be assured,
also
to
cease
pick
eting,
except
in
the
case
of
peaceful.
warnings
to
visitors
to
liquor
shops,
on
the
evils
of
drinking.
The
reso-
lution
advises
against
holding
public
processions
and
mass
meetings
in
defi-
ance
of
the
laws.
The
Commitiee
ur-
ges
enlistment
of
the
ten
million
sup-
porters
of the
Wational
Congress
in the
Natipnal
Volunters
and
a
more:
con-
scientious
observance
of
the
Congress-
ional Creed.
The resolutions
are
«ffec-
tive pending
a special
meeting of thegall
India Con zress
(ommittee,
afier
which
thev will be
subject
to
the confirmation
of the latte commiitee.
Delhi, Feo
14th.—The
Prince
of Wales
received
a Royal welcome
on
his arrival
here
today.
Many thousands
of
citizens
lined the route through
which
the
Prin-
ces
party passed.
The hartal which
w:s
prgclaimed
in Delhi
was completely eclip-
sed.
London,
Feb.
14th. —The Governments
proceedings
against
Ghandi leader of the
non-co-operationists
in
India, have
been
suspended
in view of
his announced
ces-
sation
of the campaign
of civil disobedi-
ence.
Announcement
to
this effect was
made
in the House
of
Commons
this
af-
ternoon
by Mr. Edwin Montagu Secretary
for India.
NEW YORK, February
16th.
Flour, Blendad Clears St. Lawrence Erand
pr. brl.
$6.00.
Meal
Kilndried per
100ibs
$1.60
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $37.00
Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $25.00
;
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100
lbs.
$3.67
Molasses
Sugar
89°
test,
no guotation.
Cotton,
Middling Url)ll)and,
at
Liverpool
per
lb.
Exchange.
New
York
and
London,
60
days’
sight
$4.31%
Exchange
New York and
London,
sight
$4.34%
LoNDON, February
16th 1922
Sugar, Demerara
Crystals,
per cwt.
38s.
od.—42s.
od.
**
Muscavado
per
cwt.
255.—355.
(zerman
Beet 88° f.o.b.
no sales.
Whit:
Jasa
vgar
cif United Kingdom
18s. 6d.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal.
nominal.
Trinidad Cocoa,
Good
Middling Rea
per
cwt
BTs.
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