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TELEGRAMS
ST. CROIX
STA ILION.
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Dusseldorf,
May dith. —l'ne
Reichwehr
and
Police
yesterday
attacked
a
number
of Red
Guards
to the
South of this
eity
and dispersed
them.
Hamburg,
May sth.—ln
the course
of
a
meeting,
attended
by
several
thou-
sand
persons,
ierr
Helferich
exposed
the
programme
of
the
conservative
par:y,
whose
sole
object
1s
tae
revision
of the treaty of Versailles.
He
declared
that
the
hour
liad
come
to
resist
t
e
extravagant
pretensions
of France
which
is henceforth
isolated
and
ruined.
San
Remo,
April
24th.—-Mr.
Lloyd
George
hus
been
deluged
with
teiegrams
from, every
zionist
orgzanizatlon
in
the
world, pointing
out
the
anxiety
caused
by the present
protracted
delay
in
set-
tiing the future
of
the
Holy Land
urg-
ing
the
Supreme
Council
to
confer
on
Great Britain
the
mandate
provided
by
the League
of Nations
for Palestine.
Montreal,
April 24th.—Notiees
were
sent
out
yesterday
by
all
the
United
States
railways
regarding
the
sending
of goods
io Canada,
stating
that
on
and
after
May
[irst
next
all
consignments
for Canada
must
be
paid
in U.
S.
cur-
rency.
This
means
an
advance
of about
ten
per cen”
on all goods
imported
from
rhe U. S. into Canada.
.
Montreal, April 24th.
-A preliminary
list of representatives,
who will attend
the Imperial Press
Conference
in
Cana-
da this Summer;
has
been
reccived
by
Mr. Randal,
Honorary
Secretary
to
the
Executive
Committee
of
the
Canadian
Press
Association.
There
will be thirty-
one delegates
from Great
Britain and
21
from the Dominions.
The main
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will come
via
Vancouver,
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will be held
at Ottawa
on
August sth,
6th, and
7th,
the
del:gates
will tour Canada
from
coast
to coast,end-
ing
at
Quebec
about
September
15th.
Among
those eoming
are
Viscount
and
I.ady
Burnham,
Viscount
[Northeliffe,
L.ord Riddell,
Slr Rocerick
Jones,
mam-
azging
director
of
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Agency’’,
Lord Apsley of the ‘‘Morning Post’’,
S'r
Wesly Carr of whe ''News
of the World”’
Sir Frank
Newnes,
Sir
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DBrittana,
Mr. Blumenfell
of the.''Daily Express’’,
Mr.
Powell
of the
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News’’,
Mr.
Watson
of
the
‘‘West
inster
Ga-
zette’’,
Mr.
Donald
representing
the
“Globe’’, Yorkshire Observer’’ and other
publications,
and
proprietors
and
repre-
septatives
of
Sheffield,
Wolverhampton,
clverpool, Glasgow,
Aberdeen,
Leicester
anda
vublin papers,
_onstantinopte,
April 24th.—Five
hun-
dred
French
troops
are reported
to have
been
wiped
out
in
the
course
of
the
evacuation
of
Ursa
in the
north-western
part of Mesopotamia.
St.
Thomas,
t May
7th.-—General
Per-
shing arrived
here
at 8 o’clock this
morn-
ing on ;U.
S.
S!
‘‘Northern Pacific’’
and
was accorded
the usual
honours
on
land-
ing.
After a stay
on shore
of
two hours
he returned
on board and sailed
for
San
Juan,
P. R.,
10:30
a.
m.
-
Paris,
April® 24th.—M.
Jennart,
ex-
Foreign
Minister,
huas
been
appointed
Ambassador
Exctraordinary
to
the
Vati-
can.
When
many
questions
betveen
France
and
the Holy See
resulting
from
DEAFNESS
And Noises In The Head.
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to
yvour
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Druggist
and
order
‘CON-
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SOURDAL,’
price
4/6
per tin.
This New remedy gives
almost
immediate
relief,
and
quickly
eJects
a
permanent
cure.
It
penetrates
to
the
actual
seat
of
the
complaint,
and
has
completely cured
many
cases
which
were
considered
hopeless
If your
Chemist
does
not yet stock
‘SOURDAL’, do
not
accep:
any substitute,
but send
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order for a
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to the
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per
return
with full directions.
All prices su"),'Lect
to change.
the suspension
oI regulations
for
{ifteen
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EN
U
LD
years,
have been
disposed
of
uy M.
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narc,
a parmanent
Ambassador
will
pro-
babiy be named.
London,
April 24th.
—Avon Villa today
won
the fngiish
football
cup
from
Sun-
derland
at the grounds
of
taat
Club by a
score
of one
to nil extra
time
bad
to
be
played,
the
winning
score
leing
made
by Kirton.
The
attend:unce
is
given
as
fifty thousand
Huli
w)in
the
Northern
Union Ruagby
final today rrom
Hudders-
fleid by
a score
of three
points
o
one
Jerusalem,
Avpril
24th. - The
British
Commander
here
has
confirmed
the
sen-
tences
passed
by
court
martial,
mainly
under
the
Ottoman
Penal
Code,
on
sev-
eral
Arabs ard Jews
connected
with
re-
cent rioting.
t'ne
sentences
range
from
fifteen
years
Imprisonment
downwards.
The
Jews
kept
their
shops
closed
on
Tuesday
morning
in
protest,
but
re-
opened
them
on the
Governments
ordor.
The
total casuaities
in the rioting
is
an-
nounced
as
198,
London, April 25th.—Nearly
two thou-
sand
blind
men,
the
majority
of
them
the wreckage of
war,
were
concentrated
in London today,
forming
probably
the
most
pathetic
and
tragie procession
ever
seen
in
the
streets
of
the
ecity.
For
nearly
thr.e
weeks
sightless
bands
have
been
wending
their weary
way
on
foot for all parts of the United
Kingdom
and Ireland,
Enroute
they
held
meet-
ings in various par:s
of the country
and
succeeded
in
stirring
widespread
sym-
pathy’
The
object
of
their - ilgrimage
is to call attention
to the
failure
of
the
Government
to provide proper
legislation
for dealing adequately
with the
problem
of
the
blind.
Some
of
the
marchers
were
so exhausted
that
they
had
to
be
heiped along the last
part
of
their
jour-
ney
miles
of
people
welcomed
them
one
demounstrative
woman
breakirg
through
the
crowd
and
hugging
men
crying,
‘'‘cheer up,
we
will soon
end
chis
disgrace’’.
:
New
York,
April
26th.—The
Ameri-
can
Sugar
Refining
Company
announe-
ed
today
that
it
had
advaneced
the
price
for
the
wulk
of
granulated
su.
gar from seventeen
and
a half cents
per
pound
to eighteen
and
= haif
cents.
the
whole
sale
prices
for sugar
now
vary
from seventeen
and
a half cents
to
twen-
three
and
a half cents
per
pound.
Since
last
December
t
e
price
of
Cuban
raw
sugar
has advanced
from
ten cents,
cost
and freight to eighteen
aud
a halt
cents.
_Paris,
May
sth. —At
a
meeting
this
afternonn the metal workers in
the Paris
region
adopted
a
motion
for
a general
strike.
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