Great
DBritain
during
the
war,
whieh
is in progress
of liquidation, there
being
$61,000,000
of this account
still outstand-
ing.
A similar
payment
of
$50,000,000
on Octnber
15 by Great- Britain
makes
a
total
of
$100,000,0Q0 -paid,
as
the
first
semi-annual
instalmant
of interest
on the
war
debt
of nearly
$5,000,000,000,
but
the
two payments
are subject
to
adjust-
ment,
as the debt at'present
bears
inter-
est
at five per cent while the
debt
fund-
ing account
authorizes
a rate of
pot
less
than
four and
one quarter
per ¢-nt.
Paris.
Nov.
15th.—Ismet
Pasha
dis-
cussad
with M. Poincare
today
the
Near
st
situation.
At
the
econclusion,
he
declared,
‘*My three quarters
of
an hour
with
M. Poincare
was most satisfactory’’.
Ismet
said
that
he
had
been
oficially in-
formed
that
the
Lausanne
conterencsa
was still set for November
20th.
London,
Nov.
16th.—Mr.
Winston
Churchill
was defeated
in Dundee
in
yes-
terday’s
elections.
Santiago, Chile,
Nov. 16th.--A newspa-
per yesterday
puablished
a
rumour
con-
cerning
the possibility of
the
disappear-
ance of Eastern
Island.,
lying far
outin
the Pacific
Ocean
west
of
the
coast
of
the province of Atacama,
during
the
re-
cent earthquakes.
It
savs
the
wireless
station
on the island
has
failed
to answer
repeated
calls.
Official information
of any
kind regarding
the island
is lacking.
The
island
which is 2,500 miles
off the
coast
belongs
to Chile.
London, Nov. 16th. —Strong
gains
for
the
Conservatives
were
shown
in
tne
compilation
of
members
elected
to
the
House
of Commons,
made
at two
o’clock
this
afterroon
on
the
returns
so
far
made.
This sliows the total membership
returned,
including the
uncontested
divi-
sion
to beas
follows:
Conservatives
222,
Liberals,
(Asquithian)
80,
Labour
78,
Georgians
26, other paities 9.
Trinidad, Nov. ‘l7th. —New
propellers
having been
received
from New
York by
the
S.
S. Mayare
vesterday
evening
the
Sampaio
Correia
will leave for Demerara
tomorrow
morning.
ILondon,
Nov.
17th.--The
Conserva-
tives
are
certain
to have
a majority
over
all the other parties
in the new
House of
Commons.
It
was
announced
at
four
o’clock this morning
that
305
Couserva-
tives had been
elected.
The
number
ne-
cessary
for a majority
is
308
and
there
was
104 divisions sti!l to
be
heard
from.
Constantinople,
Nov. 17th.—Regarding
the
postponement
by
the
Allies
of
the
Lausanne
peace
confdrence
until
Novem-
ber 20th,
the
acting
Nationalists
Minis-
ter for Foreign
Affairs
told
the
Angora
Assembly today that the
Nationalists
de-
sire
a speedy
peace,
but
will
net
accept
responsibility for any
untoward
happen-
ings,
as
a consequence
of
the
postpone-
ment,
London,
Nov.
17th.—The
New
House
of Commons
will meet
on Monday
after-
noon
to elect
the speaker
and it
is
ccrsi-
dered certain
that
the iate
speaker,
Mr.
ST.
CROLIIX
A VIS
Whitley,
will be
elected
Tuesday
and
Wednesday
will be occupiedin
the swear-
ing in of new members
and
the reading
of the formal proclamation
by
the King
will take place on, Thursday.
London,
Nov.
17th.— BRritish
voters
apparently
refused
to
be
influenced
by
tradition,
when
they
ecast
their
ballots
on
Wednesday,
with
the
result
that
many apparently firmly established
poli-
tical
figures
were
cast into the
discard.
Perhaps
the
most
amazing
developmeat
was the defeat of:Mr. Winston
Churchill,
in Dundee,
a constituency
which
he
had
held
for mary years.
Mr
Bonar Law’s
majority
was
so: large
that
Mr
l.loyd
George
can
hope for little comfort
even
from those
Conservatives,
who
stuck
by
him
at the
Carlton
Club meeting
. and.
in
fact,
the entire
political situation
in
the
light of all, but a few scattering
re-
turns,
brings
out
the problem ‘‘what can
Mr. Lloyd
Gecrge
do
to
restore
his
prestige’’,
Constantinople,
Nov.
17th.—The
Sul-
tan has
fled from
this
#i‘y
on
a
British
warship
proceeding
to
Malta.
Previous
to embarking,
ke
emphasized
the
fact
that he
was
not abdicating,
bat removing
himself
from
immediate
danzer.
The
Sultan
had written Sir
Charles
Harding-
ton
that he considered
his
life in danger
ani claiming British protection.
He lett
the
palace
in
a
car
together
with
the
acting Dragon:an
of the
Bri ish
Embassy
and
General
Harington’s
side.
The
Na-
tionral
Assem:bly
at Angora
has
adopted
a
resolution
submitted
by
Mustapha
Kenal
Pasha
to place
the
Sultan
and
his
Ministers
on trial, but the
decision,
as
to
how
the resolutior
was
to be
enforced,
has
been
deferred.
Lausanne,
Nov.
17th.—Great
Britain
has nothing to do with
the
Caliphate
in
the opinion of Indian
Mohammedans
and
should
not
interfere
with
the
Angora
SGovernmentin its
hardling
of religious
matters.
This contention
is set
forth in a
telegram
forwarded
to
Mr.
Bonar Law
by
the
committee
of
the
Caliphate
at
Bembay
and made publie here
last night
by
the
representative
of
the
Angora
Government
in
Rome.
Mussulmen
of
India,
c=ays
the telegram,
sharply
resent
the efforts of the
British
Government
to
prevent
that
of Angora
from
handling
freely the
question
of
the
Caliphate
on
which
the
Turkish
National
Assembly
has
dedicated
to
itself
judicial
powers
and represents
the point of
view
of
the
world of Islam.
Paris,
Nov.
17th.- It
was
definitely
stated
in
authoritative
quarters
today
that
a complete
accord
has
been
reached
hy Great
Britain
and
Frarce
regarding
the fundamental
conditions
of
a
Turkish
peace
trecty.
The
British
Ambassader
held a econference
with
M.
Poincare
and
it is officially asserted
that
a
memoran-
dum cutliring what Lord
Curzon
consid-
ers
as
vital
elements
of
a
satisfactcry
peace
treaty with Turkey
was
acceptabie
to Frarce
and
that
President
Poincare
had agreed
with the British
view point.
NEW YORK,
Nov. 17th.
Flour,
(Blended
Clears,
St.
Lawrence
Brand) duty paid pr. brl. $5.53
Meal, Kilrdried per
100 rcunds
$2.20.
New Season’s
Pork per barrel $37.00.
Heavy
Mess Pork
per
brl. $£9.75.
Sugar—Crystals
maximum
per
100
lbs.
$6.31.
.
Mclasses
Sugar
89
no guotation.
Cotton,
Middling, Upland,
at
Liverpool
per b,
14 81-ICCd.
Exchange.
New
York
and
London,
G 0
days’
sight
$4.458%
Exchange
New York and
London,
sight
$4.47
LoNDON,
Nov.
17th.
Sugar,
Demerara
Crystals,
per
ewt.
425.
od. —4ss.
6d.
**
Muscavado
per cwt.
3bs..-
38s.
"
White Java’s
cits United Kingdom
2Us,
4id,
Demerara
Rum
per gal.
nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
good
midd!ing red per
ewt. €3s.
od.—6ss.
od.
METECR KILLS FISH.
The
water
was
turned
warm
by
a
meteor
which feli into a small
lake
near
Lake
City,
Mich.
A
party
of
hunters
who
sz2y
they
saw
the
meteor
full
ree
ported
that they
.oind
alarge
number
of
dead
fish floating on
the
water
a
few
mirutes
later.—7'he Patlfinder,
Nov. jth.
JUDGE STRIKES
PRISONER.
The
coarse
of justice
took
a novel turn
at Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.,
recently
when
the
magistrate,
Alderman
Burke,
jumped
over
his desk
and
blackened
both
the
de-
tendant’s
eyes.
The
defendant
was
charged
with beating
his
wife,
who was
testifying against
her husband
when
the
incident
occured.
Tlhae
judge
finished
up by fining the defendant.
—lbd.
DOG OWNED LIBERTY BOND<.-
*
Jack
Foster,
a dog which
recently died
at Geneva,
N. Y., is believed
to have been
the only canine
in America owniag liberty
bonds
1n his
own
name.
Miss Neena
Fos-
ter,
to whom
the
dog belonged,
bought
the bonds
for hirr. and
provided
for
the
use
of
the
interest
to support
him until
his
death.—lbid.
THE PENALTV OF IOLATION.
Teacher:
‘*Wille, you
were
seen
smok-
ing yesterday.
Do you
know what
happ-
ened
to little boys that smoke?
Bright
Boy (interrupting):''Please
sir,
I know, Mother said if I smoked,
I’d
be
poisocned
by Nicobemus”’,