way
froiv
noiochbouring
fields.
Sixteen
machines
were
preparing
to
essay
the
East
bound
vip irom oan
Franciseo.
The
contest
is litui.ed
to
muitary aviaters.
. London,
Oect
Tth—Thefirst race
in
the
1920
series
for
the
Am:rica
ap,
will take place
on June
14th,
1920 if the
challenge
submitted
by
Sir
[howas
Lipton
1s accepted.
The challenger
speel-
fied ‘that the frst
race
should
take
piace
upon
that date and others
at intevvais of
two days.
Mr. Nicholsen of Southampton,
designer
of
Shamrock
IV,
who
is
con-
sidered
England’s
foremost
producer of
race
yachts,
is
now
in America
to
see
about
refitting
Shamrock
IV.,
now
in
Drydock
in
Brooklyn.
Mr.
Nicholson
has
cabled
to
Sir
i{homas
Lipton
that
the Shamrock
which
has
been
carefully
stored
in
drydock
in
KErie
Basin
since
her
belated
arrival
in
America
during
the
war,
is in perfeci condition.
London.
Oct. Tth.—The
Cork
Develop-
ment
Association
has
received
a
cable
trom
Mr. Henry For! stating that
he
is
considering
running
a
line of steamers
to
Ireland.
Paris,
Oct. Bth.
Marshal
Foch,
who
vesterday
was
instructed
to
draw
up
a
new
note
to
Germany
relative
to
the
witharawai of General
Von
der
Goltz’s
troops
from
the
Baltic
provinces,
will
couch
the
Jdocument
very
clearly
ac-
cording
to
nz2wspapers
here.
The
note,
it is said,
wiil state
that
iz
case
there
is
any further dilatory tacties
from
Berlin,
-leasares
wi |be
announced
for
dealing
with the situaion,
and
will be
immedi-
ately and rigorously applied.
London
October.
Bth.
Advices
to
Hel-
singfors
report
that
Nikolai Leniue,
the
Russian
Boishevik
Premier,
has
been
placed
under
arvest
in Moscow, according
to
the
KExcrange
Telegraph
correspon-
dent
at Copunhagen.
Lenine
is
said
o
have
ordered
the arrest
of Leon
Trotsky,
the
Soviet
Minister
of
War,
but
fail-
ed
to
securs
this
and
he
himself
was
taken
into custody.
A rival message
for-
warded by
the
same correspondent
reports
areign
of terror against
the Bolsheviki in
Moscow
had
begun
by
a
revolutionary
party.
in this
movement
the Bolsheviki
leader
Jacob
Peters,
is
said
to
have
been
killed.
Washineton,
October
Bth.—President
Wilson
was
=<tronger
today than
at
any
time
since
he
became
ill nearly
two
weeks
aco,
szid
a bulletin issued
today
by his physicians.
Wasnington,
Oect. Bth—Upon
the basis
of
detailed
reports
from
the
British
Shipping
Conixission
on
the
possession
of
the former
German
steamship
Impe-
rator,
and other ships
which were used
by
the
Unitzd
States
army
transport
f
service,
and were
recently turned
over
|
to
the
Shipping
Board,
the
British
|
Embassy
has
begun
negotiations
with
the
State
Deopartment
7o
obtain
relin-
quishn:ent
o)
these
ships
to
the British
|
Transatiantic
Companies.
According to
|
the
British
view-point
their
Govein-
'
il ARI
X
&
Y
LS
'
ment
is
in
no
way
respomsible
for
'
the
action
of
the
reparations
com-
mi:<ion
in
hclding
a
certein
number
of tankships,
owned
by
the
Standard
Oil
.
Com.,
to
be
prizes
becaise
they
were
~
sailing under
the German
ilag,
and
does
not feel that thereis
a
warrant
in
law,
|
or equity,
for reinsing
to
return
over
|
other
ships,
regularly
a.loited
to
the
'
British by the Reparations
“'ommission
as
.
an offset for
that
decision,
especially
in
|
view of
the fact that
the
tankers
were
|
not
given
to
the
British,
but
were
re-
|
assigned
to supply oil to C2rmany.
\
London,
Oct.
Bth.-
Mr.
Lloyd-George
surprised
his
countrymen
¢s he frequent-
.
ly does,
by denouncing
the railwavmen’s
.
strike
as
“‘krussianism’’,
and
“‘another
effort
to
hold
up
the
community
and
strangle it into submission’’,
at
the Lord
.
Mavors Mansion
House
lurcheon,
in hon-
our of Field Mars’{al Allenby
yesterday.
'
The occasion
was
an unusu=l
one {or such
.
a topic, but
the Premier
has
&«
habit
of
doing
unusualthings
at
tnusual
times.
Near
him
sat
Emil
Feos:
|,
son
of
the
King of Hedjaz,
inwhite
vobes,
axnd the
'
Archbishop
of (‘.arztmbtu'y,m
an
ar-
.
ray of other military and
civiha#i
notavles
'
such
as ohly London
can
m ister“on
cere-
~
monial
occasions.
They
e:pected
noth-
ing
more
sensational
than
compliments
|
to
the
conqueror
:iof
Paiestine.
'‘The
nation
means
to be
master
'n her
own
|
House,’’
Mr.
Lleyd-George
declared.
|
‘A just master,
a
fair
master,
a
gener-
.
ous,
but always
master
iu her
house’’.
.
This
was
naturally
accept
d
as
a
pro-
|
clamation
of the Premier’s
viow
that
the
|
Govt.
won
a
vietory
over
the
sirikers.
i\
Mr.
Thcemas,
Sceretary
of the
National
Union of
Railwaymen.
anad
iecder
of
the
recent
strike,
speakin2
at
the
Albert
Hall
on
Sunday
night,
dweit
upon
the
setilement
as
a compromise,
and
yester-
day
issued
a
statement
uppealing
for
reconciliation
and
a
burial
of hard
feel-
.
ings.
Labour
papers
appear
to
differ
with
WMr.
Thomas
as
to
socme
aspect
of
the strike
settiement.
Mr.
Roberts,
.
Food Controller, speaking
la:t night,
laid
biame
on
the
negotiations
of
the
rail-
waymen,
accusing
them
of
adopting
“*methods
of
secret
diplonacy’’,
and
.
declaring the settlement
of *-age matters
must
be
taken
ouv
of
the
hands
of
political
officials.
Mr.
Robert’s
last
point
is in lime wich
the
g necral
senti-
ment
of
the
couniry
as
voiced by
the
newspapers.
A
prcject
is
afoot
for
organizing
an executive
con miftee
o_ all
~
sections
of labour to earry
on negotiations
|
with the
employers.
The
d slocation
of
railway traffic because
of
tho strike
has
|
not been
remedied.
At
several
stations
today
there
was
displaye
a
placard
which
announced
the
comp.nies
hoped
tc
resume
normal
tratfic
tomorrow.
Thousands
of
workers
who
«xpected
to
return home
as
usual
on trairs last
night
were disappointed
and
lines
containing
hundreds
of
persons
waited lintil late
at
nig
t at
Tram Termini
for rides.
Rome,
Oect.
Bili.
Acecrding
to
the
newspapers,
the
Council
¢f
Ministers
at
its
session
tcday
will
seek
to
find”
means
to solve
the Fiunie
prcblem.
Min-.»
ister of Foreign
Aftairs Titioni will leave,q
very
socn
for
Fa'is
t@& ‘consult
with the™
Inter- Allied
representatives
regarding
this guestion.
:
Cincinpati,
Ohio,
Get.
sth.--Winning
today’s
game
against
‘‘incinnati
4
toll,
the recently
dejected
and
all
but hope-
less
White
Box of Chicago
now
consider
themselves
real contenders
tor the World's
Baseball
Championship.
The
series
now
e
stands
4 games
fcr
Cincinnati
and
8
tor
Chiecago.
London,
Oct.
sth,—Nr.
Faines
nimis-
ter without porifolio
anc
he
1
sl
representative
¢f
the
Governnent
to the
Labour
Conterence
at
Washingtor.,
s
expected
to
leave
for the
United
States
jus
few
days.
NMr.
Stvart
EBurning,
Secretarv
of the
Postmen’s
I‘?k‘d('l'il“()ll.
has
been
ncminated
as
the
representa-
tive of
the Parliamentary :Committee
cf
the Union
Congress.
The.other
Labour
representatives
include
M. Arthur Hen-
dersen.
Nir: Ciynes,
Mr. Eowerman
and
Miss Mary
Me Arthur
Christiana,
October
Bth.—lln the
vote
by
which
Norway
adopted
the
prohi<
biticr. of whisky,
brandy andother
strong
liquors
in
the
referendum
of
Monday
428,455
were
iniavour
of
prohibition
and
254,137
against
it.
Christiania
was
strongly
against
the
prohikition,
only
18,599
voting
for
1,
as
cempared
with
70,000
in opposition.
The
measure
does
not aftect
winesand
beers.
NEW
YORK. Oct.
9th
1919
Kiour, Blencad
Clear
St. Lawrenece
[ rand
:
pr.
bri. $10.50.
Meal, Kiindried
per
100 Ibs $3.70
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $45.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$43.50
Sugar---Urystals
(Confirmed by Erokers)
per
100 lbs.
$7.28.
Moasses
397 test
pr a0
Ibs.
no quotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upiand, at i.iverpool
per
th.
20 80-100 d.
rixchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’ sight $4.16
lixchange
New York and
iondon,
sight
,
$4.184
LOoNDON,
Oct.
9th
1919.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals duty paid price.
fixed by the Royal Commission
per ewts
o7s.
9d.
-91s.
od.
Muscovado,
897/~ basis,
floating terms i
bond,
Ditto duty paid.
555.
6d.
78s. 6d.
German
Beet 887/ f.o.b.
no further sales
during
the
war
Java
96°/
Gibraltaror Channel for Orders
floating terms,
no quotations.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good Middling
Red per
cewt.
1235.
od.
128s.
od.
Cotton,
Medium
Fine Sea
Island,
atr Liv
erpool nominal per Ib.
Bank
of
England
rate
of Discount
per
cent.
O.
Consols
51§
3
Three
per
cent
rentes
in Paris
Fes.
60,95