five shillings for the wife and one shill- ing for each child. The grants wouid be obtained by compulsory levy upon contributors to the unemployed insur- ance fund as follows; two pence each Jor the employer and the employee and thre2 pence for the Govt. § London, Oci. 19:h. —ln outlining th2 Gots. proposal to alleviate unempvloy- ment Mr. Lloyd George made the follow- ing striking declaration. ‘‘Peace and a good understanding among the Nations are vita. Let us gei outof the atmos- phere where, that if you taik about a Germar, without a frown on your brow, you are no Patriot. Trade cannot start in suth 2n atmosphere. If you intervene to make peace, your motives are misun- stond, but if Great Britain will not do it, who will? We stand for stability. We want to see the Nations begin again the task of peace.”” In the debate follow- ing’he Prime Minister’s speech, Mr. As- quith said in bis judgemant the question of unemployment raised the necessity for reconsideration >f the entire problem of international indebtedness, inciuding the indeb'edness of their late Allies (o the ' Allies. Portland, Oregon. —Oect. 19th.—Wheat prices went below one dollar a bushel here yesterday for ine first time singa August 2nd 1916, the close being 97 cen's to sl.Ol for immediate deiivery. The threatened railroad tie up was aseribed as the reason for the break. Quebee, Oct. 19th.—H. M. S. Wystaria light cruiser, which cleared from here on Monday moraing for Halifax, we:ot aground on Red Island opposite the mouth of the Saguenay river, on Monday night. The Wystaria m»naged to g?t off yesterday afterroon, but was makig water and was obliged to anchor awaic- ing the arrival of the Govt. steamer" Lord Strathcona’’ which left this port last night with pumps. 1t is expected that the ‘‘Lord Strathcona’’ wiil tow the Wystaria back to this port for survey, Red Springs, N. C. Oct. 19th.—Stand- iny under the United States flag, with the Union Jack to his right and :ne flag of Canada to his left, Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador to the Uni- ted States, speaking before the Scottish Society of America in session there yes- terday. made plea for a better under- standing of international problems of tae people, the voters of the country, whom he styied as the real rulers in democra- tic countries. New York, Oct. 19th.—Members of the Seamen’s Union will refuse to man coastwise passenger boats toucning New York is there is a railway strike, accord- ing to Mr. Welsh, an organizer for the Union. London, Oct. 20th. —l'he next meeting for the Irish Conference, it is announced, will be held on Friday morning. Athens, Oct, 20tn. —Turkish Nation- alist forces have been defeated in 2 S .U R A Y 1S sharp battle along the Southern end of the batde-front in Asia Minor, says an official statement ssued here. The flght began on Moaday and lasted two days, the enemy hurling savage attacks against the Greek positions over a wide front. Following the repulse of these attacks, the Greeks ai2 said to have passed the offensive and to have pursued the Turks toward the east and south east London, Oct. 20th.—The reports that (Great Britain were planning the estab- iisbment of navai bases in the Bermudas, Singapore, or elsewhere, are termed “‘pure imagination’’today by an ‘dmiral- ty official. London, Oect: 20th.— Commuuications have been exchanged between the Pope and the King on the subject of the Irish peace negotiation 2. The Pontiff in his message announced that he prayed for the success of the conterences «ud the ending of the long discussion. 1o this the King replied that with all his heart he joined in the Pontiff’s prayer. Dublin. Oect. 20th. —The Iris: bulle- tin, the official organ of the Dail Eire- ann referring to the recent speech of Sir James Craig, : the Ulster Premier invites him to answer the questiza whe- ther in Unionist Belfast there has not been more bloodshed, destruction of property. rioting and looting than in any other city in Ireland, with the ex- ception of the Burning of Cork by Bri- tish forces, thab In. ail ocher cities of Ireland pnt together. It enquires also whether thousands of workers c¢xpelled from Beifast shipyards and left tn starve were not nationalists to a man, and whether the only eity in which the truce is ign-red is the only irish City where the Orange popuiation is in the majoxity and where the Unionists have cu.atrol of tha forees paid to proveat® ‘lisorder. NEW YORK, October 20th 1921. Flour, Blencdad Ciears St. Lawience ['rand nr. brl. $6.85. & Meal Kilndried per 100 tbs $1.95 New Season’s Pork per brl. $57.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbi. $25.00 Sugar---Crystais maximum per 100 lbs. $4.00 Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upiand, at i.iverpool per Ib. 11 89-1604 d. &xchange. New York and London, 60 days’ sight $3.914 Lxchenge New York and london, sight 13.94% T OADON, October 20th. 1921 Sugar, Demerara Crystais, per cwt. 395. , od. —42s. 6d. '“ Muscavado per cwt. 245. 355. Germau Beet 887 f.o.b. no sales. White Java