the Overseas
Settlement
Committee.
Six
or seven
thousand
former
service
men
and
women
have
made
application
for
passage
there.
Os applications for emi-
gration permits
from
nearly
50,000
for-
mer service
men
in
the
British Empire,
one
in fifty is
from
women.
Australia,
New
Zealand and
South Aiiica are
next
to Canada
in popularity.
London,
Oct. 4th.—Scotland
Yard
au
thorities
have
received orders
from
the
Home Office
to
inquire
closely
into
the
personnel
of the
"‘lrish
self
determina-
tion League’’, British prototype
of
Sinn
Fein.
Doeum=znts
laiely
discovered
by
the
Yard
indicate
the organization
has
developed
plans
to
a
point
where
the
Government
feels
preventive
measures
must
be taken.
A campaign
of unprece-
dented
surveillance
and
restrictions
is
heing arranged
which
considerably
-eir-
cumsecribes
future
operations.
It
is
re-
garded
as
significant
that
Sir
Patrick
QQuinn, recently
retired
Chief of Scotland
Yard,
has
been appointed
to an
advisory
post
in
police
administration
of
Irish
maiters
in
Dublin "and
London.
London,
Oect.
2nd —-An
editorial
ap-
nearing in-day in the
""Newx Statesman’’,
a weekly
review
of
politics
and litera-
ture,
charges
Mr.
Lloyd
George
with
responsibility
for the
"‘Black and
Tan”’
reprisals
-in
Ireiand.
It
says
it undei-
stands
upon
good aurherity
which ‘we
find
it impossible
to
doubt’
that
the
posicy
of{meeting
outrage
with
outrage
was deliberately considered
and
deliber
ately
decided
upon
in
Downing
Street
four months
ago.,
shortly
after-the
ap-
pointment
of Sir
Hamar
Greenwood
as
Chief Secretary
for. Ireland.
Jt
is
sug-
gested
by
the
'‘New
Statesman’’
that
reither
Sir
Neville
Macßeady
nor
Sir
Hamar
Greenwood
is
directly
responsi-
ble, but says
the paper:
'‘The Black and
Tan Reprisals
are
directed
through
the
same
authority
from
Lo :don, nominally
through
some
subordinate
at Dublin
Cas-
tle
and
Sir
Edward
_Carson
is
behind
the whole
movement'.
London,
.Oct.
3rd.—While
Stock
kx-
change
quotations
reflect
the
fears
of
an
advance
in the
Bank of England
raie
of
eight
per
cent
nexi
month
the
mo
ney
market
refuses
to corroborate
these
expectations,
¢Hnfindently
reéflecting
the
belief
that
un
iluciease
in
the
bank
rate
will be
avoided.
Meaawhile
new
Government
finaneing
is being
discuss-
ed.
It
is
estimated
-that
about
£SOO,
000,000
Treasury
Bills
mature
before
the
end
of
the
year.
There
are
also
£73,689,000
exchequer
bonds
matur-
ing October sth
and
£49,120,000
exche-
quer
bonds
maturing
December
Ist.
A
fresh
issue
of exchequer
bonds
similar
to
the
issue
of last February
is anticipated
as
the
means
of meeting
these
secu-
rities.
The
current
demand
for
Trea-
sury bonds
and bills is temyporarily insuf-
flecient
to
meet
these maturities.
Owing
to
techmical
reasons
it is
therefore
ex-
pected
thi:
the
Government
will bor-
e Rl
AN LD
row temporarily
from
the
Bank
which
means
an
increase
in
the
floating
debt.
:
Wilkesbarre,#
1., Oct. 4th.—The
order
of the Pittston
..iners
for
a strike
ot
the
10,000
men iemployed by the
Pennsylva-
nia Coal Company
went into elect
today.
Practically
every
colliery
was
either
fully or partially tied up.
Londen,
Qct.
4th.—Capetown
cables
report
that
Geperal
Smuts,
Premier
and
Minister
of Naval
Affairs and
Defence
of South Africa, is convinced
after
lecent
conferences
that
a reunion
of
the
South
African and Nationalist
Parties
is impos-
sible
and
is appealing
for the
{ormation
of a moderate
party of both
races
whose
aim
shall be against
revolution,
violence
and -violation
of
the
Constitution
and
lawlessness
in
any
form.
Unionists
enthusiastically
support
the
movement
and
there
is
every
prospect
of
their
amaigamation
with
tht
Scuth
African
Party.
Montreal,
Oct.
4th.—A
London
cable
to the
Montreal Star
says
that the
week-
ly despatch
announces
that the
resigna-
tion
of five
members
of
the
Cabinet
1s
vrobable.
The
newspaper
npames
Mr.
Balifour, Lord
President
of the
Council,
Mr.
Edward
Shortt,
Secretary
of
State
for
Home Affairs,
Viscount
Milner, Sec-
retary
of State
for the Colonies,
Sir Eric
Geddes,
Minister
of Transpcrtation
and
Lord
Inveriorth
Minister ot
Munitions.
Mr.
Shortt
is
said
to be
slated
for
the
first
vacent
judgeship.
Lord
Milner
is
reported
to be
letiving for
business
rea-
sons
and
Lord
Inverforth
because
the
business
of Munitions closing down.
Sir
Eric Geddes
is reported
to be considering
an offer ol an interesting
private
position
and
oply
remained
throaghout
August
when
urged
to do
so
in
the
expectation
that
a
new railway
bill would
be passed.
The
Observer
also
speculates
on
the
possibility
that Mr. Balfour will go to the
House
of
Lords
in
the
interest
of
the
lrish
Home
Rule
Bill.
The
newspaper
adds
that although
this
would
be
dis-
tasteful
to Mr. Baitour
himselt
it would
be
‘‘His
severest
sacrifice
to
patriot-
ism.”’
The
Hague,
Cct
4th.—The
Dutch
Government,atfter
a long investigation
of
the Ex-German
Emperor’s
resources,
ha
decided
he must
pay
taxes
on
an
income
of 1,500,000 guilders per year.
Athens,
Oct.
11th.-
King Alexander
is
reported
to be seriously
ill and
suffering
from high fever.
All his symy toms
are
grave
and
fears
are
entertained
for
the
life of the monarch.
Riga, Oct.
11th.—The
treaty
of
peace
between
Russia
and Poland
will
not
be
signed
until
the
afternoon
of
Tuesday
next.
The
reason
or
this
delay is
the
impossibility
of
getting
the
Ukrainian
text prepared
in time.
Paris,
Oct.
11th.—1he
Government
of
Soviet Russia
has
issued
a decree
order-
ing the mobilization
ot
all
citizens®
born
in 1876
to
1888
according
to
news
re-
ceived
by a wireless
despatch
sent
trom
Moscow
to this city.
Washington,
Oet.
11th.—7lhe
seizure
and
sale
of foreign
vessels
which
viclate
the established
orders
of
the "Iy law"
will be considered
by
the
United
Statcs,
sccording
to
the
Bureau
of Inland
Re
venue,
as
one
of
the
mcst
eftf.cacious
means
of conirolling
the
smuggling
of
alcoholic
beverages.
The
cofficials of the
Bureau
are
unable
to find any
more
effi-
cacious
solution
of the
problem
and
this
decision
has
been
made
known
to
the
captains
of
{toreign
vessels.
Many
of
these frequently
cooperate
with the
sail-
ors in violating the prohibition
laws,
Paris,
Cet.
11.—General
Budenny,
the
famous
cavalry
leader,
has
definitely se
vered
his relations
with
the Soviet
Govt.
and
is actively recruiting
anti- Bolsheviki
troops,
and proposes
to march
upon Kiev,
according
to
news
received
in
this
ecity.
The
Minister of War
has
received
a
mes-
sage
confirming
the
foregoing
news.
On the
oiher
hand
General
Semenoff,
who is operating
in Siberia,
has
inform-
ed
General
Wrangel
that
he
considers
him
his subordinate
and expects
his
or-
ders will be respected
uncorditionally.
London,
Oct.
11th.--The
Soviet
Govt.
of Moscow
has
sent
a
Delegate
with the
object
of making proposals
of
peace
to
(ieneral
Wrangel,
Commander
in Chief
the
anti-Bolshevik
foices
in
Southern
Russia.
Chicago,
Oet.ilth ——(Associated
Press).
Wireless
compass
stations,
similar
to
those
which have
been
in successful
op-
eration
on the
North
Atlantic Coast
for
more
than
a
vear,
are
to
be
installed
along the
Great
Lakes.
These
stations,
operated
by
the Navy
Department,
en-
able
the operators
to give to ships
lost
in
a
fog
their
position
within
a
narrow
radius
of accuracy.
Fogs
on
the Upper
Lakes
have
claimed
one
freighter
and
30
lives
as
vietims
this
year
and
the
records
of previous
years
show
a
heavy
toli
of
shipping.
Sueccess
of
the
sys
tem
on
the
Atlantic
Couast
lead
to
its
recent
instailation
on
the
Pacific
and
now,
it 18
announced,
the inland
waters
are
to be similarly protected.
New
Orleans,
Oct.
Ilth.—Three
wo-
men
passengers
on board
the
Ameri an
steamer
Speedwell,
sunk
during the
re
cent
Gulf
hurrieanz,
perished
in
life-
boats.
One
male
passenger
was
saved
and
one
died.
Several
of
the
ecrew
were
saved.
but
the
captain
and
first
Mate
are
among
the
dead.
Windsor,Ontario,Oct
11th.—The
great-
est
crowd
ever
attending
a
horse-race
in Canada
is
expected
toduay
to witness
the
race
between
Man->f-War,
cham-
pion
three-year
old,
and
Sir
Barton,
the
best
four-year oid.
{he
distance
is
one
mile
and
a
quarter;
stake
SBO,OOO.
- Vienna,
Oct.
11th.—The
Southern
Ty-
rol, which
was
allotted
to
[taly
under
the
Austrian
{reaty,
formally
pasced
into
Italian bands
yesterday.
The
city
of Innsbruck
was draped
in mourning.