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TELEGRAMS
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ST. CROIX STALIION.
Toronto,
Oct.
20th. —As
a
result
of
the
Dominion
Cabinet’s
refusal
to
uphold
the
Board
of
Commerce
order
fixing
the
retail
price
of
sugar
at 2lc.
a
pound,
the
price will
drop
to 17 and
16¢.
in
the
course
of
the
next
week,
according
to
Toronto buyers.
New
Orieans,
“’ct. 21st.—The
Ameri-
can Sugar
Refining Company
here yester-
day
announced
a
reduction
in
its price-
for refined
sugar
from
22
to
12
ects.
per
pound
less
2%.
The
reduction,
1t
was said
orly
applizd
to
new
business
and
merchants
who
contracted
for
Oc-
tober
and
November
deliveries last
May
and June
at
224
will
still have
to
take
their
sugar
at
that
price
but
will
be
given 11 months
(o pay.
London,
Oct.
2Zist.—Uificial
confirma-
tion
came
from two
sources
this
morn-
ing of the
reports that Lord Mayor
Mac
Sweeney
has
been
fed
during
a
peri-
od
of
unconsciousness.
The bulletin
of
the Irish Self-determination
League
deal-
ing
with
the Lord Mayor’s condition
on
the
70th
day
of
his
hunger
strike
in
Brixton
prison announced
that
the
pri-
son
doctors
had
forced
meat
juice
into
MacSweeney’s
mouth
“during
a
fit of
delirium
which
the prisoner suffered last
night.
From
the
Government
side, it
was
stated
at
the
Home Office, that the
Lord
Mayor
had
been
fed
last
night.
It
was
explained
there
that
the
prison
doctors
were under
instructions
to
use
any
possible
means
to
keep
him alive,
but
that during consciousness
he
resist-
ed
attempts
te administer
nourishment.
Their
attitude
lis,
it
was
stated,
that
when
the
Mayor is
unconscious
and
un-
able
to
vesist
they
carry
out
their
or-
ders if rhe.
can they give him food.
CHRISTIANSTED . V.II. U.S.
A,
THURSDAY
.28TH
OCTOBER
1920
London,
Oect, le\[tUn
a
motion
to
adjourn
the
House
of
Commons
last
night
Mr.
‘Worthy,
Independent,
said
that
he has
received
a telegram
from
the
Lord Mayor’s
wile
and“sister
saying
the
prison
physician
had
threatened
the
pa ient
with foreible feeding
with
lime-
juice.
Mr.
Edward
Shorti,
Secretary
for
Home
Affairs,
replied
that
he
had
no intormation,
but if the doctor thought
lime-juice
would
ease
MacSweeney
and
help
him
to live and
give
him
anotier
chance
of
seeing
his
error
the
doctor
would
be
justified
in
trying
to
induce
him
to
take
it
aad
indred
forcing
it
upou
him.
New
Port,
Oct.
21st.
—A Federal
in
dictment
coataining
127 counts
was
re
turned
today
against
Armour
and
Co.,
Chicago
Packers-
and
various
officers
of
the
concern
charging profiteering
in
violation
of
the
Lever Act.
London, Oct.
22nd. —Mr. Lloyd George
and
the
Cabinet
were
consulting
in-
formally
this
morning
with
a
view
of
finding
a
charnel
for
a
strike
settle-
ment.
Opinion
generally
expressed
in
government
circles
was
that
a
defi-
nite opportunity
for
negotiations
would
be
found
before
any
serious
develop-
ment
arose
from
threats
of
the
rail-
way
men
and
transport
workers.
The
conference
of
the
National
Union
of
Railwaymen
decided
today
to
invite
the
miners’
exeeutive
to
meet
the
rail-
way
confereers
tomorrow
afternoon.
The calling of the meeting of the miners’
executive
tomorrow
was
genally
be-
lieved
to
presage
a
possible
opening
of negzotiations
with the Government.
[t
is
understood
the meeting
was
called
on
representations
of members
of the Hcuse
of
Commons
representing
the
miners.
Mr. Shortt.
The
Home Secretary,
guve
notice
of
a
meuasure,
mainly
a
revival
of
the
war-time
emergency
regulations
for
aperiod
of
emergency.
London,
Oect.
23rd.—The
Exchange
Telegraph
announces
it has
been
inform-
ed
that
Lord
Mayor
MacSweeney
is
at the point of death.
New. York,
Oect.
22nd. —Hotel-men
of
this
city flatly
refused
to make
any
re-
duction
in
their present
food
prices
at
a
three-hour
conference
here
yester-
day
with
Mr.
Riley,
special
assistant
to
Attorney
General
Palmer.
Mr.
Ri-
ley
then
gave
warning
that
investiga-
tions
would be
started
immediately
by
tfederal agents,
and
whereever
disclosed
that
unreasonable
prices
were
being
charged,
he
would submit
the
evidence
to the
Grand
Jury,
and
ask
for
indict-
ments
charging
profiteering in
violation
No.
250
of the Lever Act.
Mr. Riley said
that if
other
people
were
willing and
able
to
make
substantial
outs,
the
hotel
men
should
be able
to follow the example.
London,
uet.
22nd.—The
Irish
Home
Rule
Bill
is
again
under
discussion
in
the
House
of
Commons.
The
Bill
was
talen
up
today
when
the
House
went
into eommittee
on
the
financial
clause
of
the
measure.
There
was
a
very
small
altendance
of the members.
Warsaw,
October
22nd.
The
Foreign
Minister
has
forwarded
Poland’s
reply
to
the
joint
note
of Great
Britain
and
France
concerning
the
occupation
of
Vilna by
troops
of
General
Zellgousk.
The
reply
says
that
the Polisl.
Govt. had
not
broken
trhe
armistice
with
Lithaa-
nia
concluded
under
the
League
of Na.-
tions,
ani
that
Poland
declines
all
res-
ponsibility
for
acts
of insubordination
on
the
part
of General
Zellgouski, which
it
condemns.”
The
reply
further
de-
ciares
the
intention
of
Poland
to
re-
spect
the decisions
of
the League
of
Na-
tions.
It
asserts
that
Poland
is
resolv-
ed
to
maintain
the
a.mistice
coneluded
with Lithuania,
and
to respect
all
claus-
es of it. Asproof of this,
the note states,
the
exchange
of
prisoners
has
begun
between
Poland
and Lithuania,
London,
Oct.
22nd.
- A violent
explo-
sion
and
firing
was
heard
in
various
parts
of Dubl
n early
this morning,
says
a
despatch
from
that
city.
Numerous
rumours
were
currentin
the
city,
and
at the time
of filing the despateh,
there
has
been
no definite 2xplanation of
dis-
orders.
Une
report
was
that
the
ar-
moury
had
been
raided
and
a
large
quantity of
arms
and
ammunition
ecap-
tured.
The
explosions
were due
to
the
throwing
of hand
grenades
by the
raid.
ers
who
were
engaged
in
a
running
fight
with
the
police.
Auxiliarv police
forces
were searching
for arms
on quays
and
in the King’s
bridge section
»f
the
city, says
the
despatch.
London,
Oct.
22nd.—The
strike
situa-
tion tonight
was
considered
more
hope-
ful by the fact
that
the
peace
consever-
sations
beiween
ithe
government
and
the
miners’
leaders
are
continuing
un-
broken.
There
were
no
new
develop-
ments
however.
Washington,
Oct.
22nd. —Confirma-
tion
of
the
reported
rapid
decline
of
Bolshevism
in Russia
has
been
received
by
the
United
States
departmentin
advices
of
a
reliable
character,
Secre-
tary
Colby
said
yesterday
and
the
despatches
added,
have
set
forth
every
symptom
of
the
breakdown
of
the
So-
viet
Government.