as
a
remedy
of the
preseut
unrest,
.at
a
conference
of all
the important
soaders
should
be
called.
The
Viceroy
explained
that
the
Govt,
must
maintain
order
and
one
of the
members
of the
deputation
was in
a position
to
give
as-
surance
that open
defiance of the law on
the part of the non-operators
would cease.
Lord
Reading
however
told
the
depu:
tation he hoved the
Govt. might
be able
to change
its attitude
in
the future,
and
permita consideration
of the suggested
conference.
Seethikoya Tangal
who
re-
cently proclaimed
himself
the
Governor
of
a
Mohammedan
Kingdom
at Kummr
Muthur
surrendered
himself
to
the
au-
thorities
today
and
two
other
Moplah
leaders
were captured.
London,
Dec.
22nd.—The
Official Ga-
zette today publistes
thz formal
revoca-
tion of
the
naturalization
of
Sir Edgar
Speyer.
An
order removing
him
from
the
Privy
Council
also
is gazetted.
It
was alleged
that Sir Edgar
had
‘‘eommu-
nicated with the enemy’’ Germany during
the war.
He now lives in New York.
Washington,
Dec.
22nd. —The
commit-
tee of rules of warfare of the Armament
Conference
was understood
tonday to have
reached
the
conclusicn
that
it
was
im-
practicable
to formulate
binding rules
in
this
respect
when
so
many
nations
are
not represented
at
the
present
confer-
ence.
The
committee
decided,
it was
understood.
to recommend
that
after ad-
journment of this conference
a
systema-
tic inquiry should be undertaken,through
some
agency
to
be
designated
by
the
conference,
to develop
the
views of na-
tions not participating
in
the conference.
The committee
will recommend
that
af-
ter
this information
has
been
collected
and
studied
the
effort
to
frame
some
rules
of war
in
conformity
with
the
views expressed
should
be
resumed
and
invitations sent
to all nations
tu
join the
movement,
~
. cuommittec
AR
fare was,~.so
said
to
have
reached
an
impas%articularly
as
a result
of United
States”
technical
experts
favouring
the
use of poisonous
gases
in war in opposition
to
the
technical
experts
of other
pow-
ers.
The
United
States
Advisory Com-
‘
mittee
of
which
General
Pershing is
a
member,
has recommended
the abandon-
ment of the
use of poison
gas in warfare,
but
other
United
States
experts
have
held that the use of gas
is actually
more
humane
than
attacks
by
shells and
ma-
chine
guns.
A plea
was
made
to limit
gas attacks
to strictly military areas
but
all experts,
except
those
of the
United
States,
held that this would be
impracti-
cable from the nature
of the
weapon,
as
the
gas
was
sure
to
be
diffused
into
civilized localities and
with dreadful
re-
-Ilts as its presence
would ne*
be known
_time for the population
t*
3cape.
Dublin, Dec.
22nd—The
vail
Eireann
-a .vote of 77 to 44
decided
lare
today
a motion submitted by Michael Collins
djourn
further debate
on
tne
Irish
~ert
until
Tuesday,
January
3rd.
« the
motion
itself,
but
an
3 1. LUI Y
amendment
to
the motion
on which
the
vote was
actually
taken.
The
amend-
ment
introduced and
seconded
by
oppo-
nents of the agreemey;:
called for contin-
uous sittings day and
evening until a di-
vision was taken
on
the treaty’s ratifica-
tion
or
rejection.
The
defeat
of
the
amendment
automiatically
decided
the
motion.
With
few
exceptions
so far as
could
be observed,
the vote
followed the
party
lines of those
favouring
or
oppos-
ing the treaty.
Nobody tonight believes,
of course,
that
if a vote had
been
taken
on the
treaty itself
the majority
would
have
been
so great
as
the vote on the
ad-
ournment
motior.
gave
its
supporters,
ut there
is
no doubt
in the
minds
of
ose
who
have been
following the
de-
ates
carefully
that
this
vote
roughly
pproximated
tne
sentiments
for
and
gainsc
the treaty.
Clere, Ireland,
Dec.
22nd.—The
Clare
ounty
Council
the constituency
of
Ea-
nonn De Valera,
today
voted 17 to 15 in
-
avour of the agreement
between
Ireland
'd Great Britain, and requested
Mr. De
~
Valera
to
use
his influence
for the main-
~
tenance
of national
unity.
The
resolu-
'
tion admitted
that there
were grave
ob-
!
jections to
the treaty but
declared
there
was
no rational
alternative
to its accept-
ance,
rejection
of the treaty,
the resolu-
tion added,
‘‘would be almost
certain
to
involve us in a war
ot
~nnihilation,
be
cause
world opinion inste.
¥ being with
us at present
will be
against
us’>
Cop-
ies of the resolution
were sent
to m».
De
Valera and
the
other
Clare
represe.
~-
tives.
Riga, Dec. 22nd.
The famine situation
has
become
abso!utely
ghastly,
said Col.
Haskell,
director of
the American
relief
administration
work
in
Russia,
on
his
arrival here
from Moscow.
He is
on his
way to London to confer with Mr. Walter
L. Browrn
FRuropean
director of American
_ellel. “Wucre a1«
Months gl wuiin
ued Col.Haskel, ‘‘tne people
were dying by
the thousands,
in
a few months
they will
~
be
dying by the
hundreds
of thousands.
One
of the relief men
in a trip covering
more
than
400
miles,
found
only
two
places
where food
could be had for
love
or
money.
In the Saratov
district
they
are dying so fast that bodies
are literally
being hauled away by the carloads.
‘‘The
greatest
Xmas present
to Russia”,
said
Col. Haskell would
he
the passage
of the
U.
S.
twenty
million dollar
grain
pur-
chase
bill’’.
This
he
said
would
save
from
death
a majority
of
the adult
mil-
lions who otherwise
are
bound
to perish.
Os
course
some
in
the
remote
districts
and places
that cannot
bejreached
will die
any
way.
But
twenty
million
dollars
worth of grain
will save
most of them.”’
Cairo, Dec.
23rd.—Said Zagloul
Pasha,
one
of the Egyptian
Nationalist
leaders
who
refuse: yesterday
to obey
an
order
issued
by the military authorities
that he
and his chief followers cease
all political
activity and leave Cairo,
was escorted
to
the railway station
here this morning
by
British
troops.
The military
now
have
assumed
control
of
the
situation.
Ar-
moured
cars
are
patrolling the town, and
the
authorities
have
announced
their
determination
to
suppress
any
possible
trouble.
Malta,
Dec.
22nd.—Two
British
war-
ships
have received
orders
to
preceed
to
Egypt
immediately.
Other
units of
the
British
Mediterranean
Fleet
are
under
orders
to leave at the shortest
notice.
Washington,
Dec.
23rd.—The
Presi-
dert signed
the Russian
relief biil, which
carries
a propriations
of
twenty
million
dollars
to be expended
under
the super-
vision of the American
relief administra-
tion.
The
funds
become
immediately
available.
Paris,
Dec.
23rd.—M. Briand
has
sent
Ambassador
Jusserand
in
Washington
final
and
definite
acceptance
of
the
capital ship ratio.
France,
however
it is
said
maintains
her
position
regardirg
submarines
and coast-defence
ships,
al-
though
she
is
willing to
negotiate.
France
insists
that
her
demands
are
virtually necessary
to her
security,
but
is disposed
to
cooperate
with the
United
States
as far as possible.
Washington,
Dec.
23rd.——All Washing-
ton
is intensely interested
in the
debate
on
the submarine,
which will be
contin-
ued
today.
And largely
occupy the
en-
tire sitting of the committee
on leduction
of naval armaments
this afternoon,
The
British
Empire
delegation
take
pard&n-
able
pride
in tl;;e
convincing
argument
made
at
yesterday’s
meeting
by
Lord
Lee.
They intimate, however,
that Lord
Lee
has many
strong
arguments
in
re-
serve,
and that his speech
yesterday
was
only intended
to open
the
case.
The
an-
nouncement
that the
French
delegation
will
come
to
the
defence
of
the
sub-
marine
with
an elaborate
argument
this
afternoon,
is
hailed with satisfaction
by
the
British
delegation,
as
they
believe
all
possible argument
in deferce
of
the
suvwarine
has
been
anticipated
and
can
be refuted.
The sympathy
of the
U.
S.
Govt.
is with the British
delegation,
and
while the abolition of the submarine
will
be
impussible,
it
is considered
probable
that the U. S. join with the British
Em-
pire in insisting
upon limiting their
size
and number.
Grenada,
Dec. 24th.--It
is officially an-
nounced
that
the proposed
conference
of
the
West
India Islands
at
Trinidad
has
been postponed
indefinitely.
NEW YORK, December
24th.
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