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Qtates holders are confined to the sprints and the shorter distance runs. Great Rritain’s stars holds a majority of the long distance running records. London. Feb. 20th.—Josef Guillemos, .he French Olympic Champion runner, on Saturday woa cn2 29tn ruaning of the Cross vountry Championship of France. There were 342 starters The ten mile course was heavy, Guiliemot finished virtually alone, leading his near- est contender by 220 metres. . His time was bb minuiesdb 1/6 seconds. London, Feb. 19th., —Cup lie tempera- ture in association football circles rose with a bound Saturday., and prewar re- cords of games were exceeded by the number of spectators at the eight match- o3 in the third rouad of the ~up played Saiurday afternoon. [hese aggregated aroand 850,000 and. upwards £2,000 ster- ling was pniid 10 witness these games. Today’s papers are -lated over the fact tha: three Metropolitan teams, rewmain- ing in ine eompetition, emerzed success- fully. Thnis 13 London’s largest repre- sentation ieft amonyg che eighc clubs to contest. at the fourch round o be drawn tonorrow since professionalism was legatized. [he next round wiil be play- ed on Maren 4to the cup nolders, “‘To. tenhan Ho.spur’’ bad a very stern fight to oust ‘Manenester City’” althpugh the haif 'ime score was 2-0 ' After the in- terval ¢'Spurs’’ made the mistake of concentrativn on the delence and the 54,000 people vatehing tnem, incluing Qir Bric Geddes, began to doubt 1f they would be able 1o keep up theiwr end so she blow of the whistle. The only big surprise of the day was “Mitlwalls’ de- feat of '‘Swvansea’’ which had hitherto m:de a for nidible disp'ay in the compe- tition. ‘The formers victory was largely due to Keen at eentre, who seored all four goals easily, the best incividual per- foroianee of the day. ' Arsenmal’’ had practic lly a walkover and the game was als~ notable for the play of the wonder- ful Veteran Jack Rutherford who gave White bhoth his goals and scored one himself. Another wonderful perform- anee was waliant little ‘‘Stokes’ draw with “Aston Villa’, althoweh it is im possible t ey wili score a victory in the replay on the Birminznan eiuh grounds. Dublin, Feb 20th. Fourteen rhousand Briiish troops are now lefc in {reland ac- cording to a siatemenf issued by the Publiciry Branch of the Irish Republican Army. [ifty miliary bairracks and 150 police barracks have been taken over by the Provision | Government. Dublin, teb 20th —Delegates to the Arduneis, or National Sinn Fein conven- tion which meeis tomorrow, were al- ready gathering in large numbers this morning About 3.000 representatives from ail paris of the country are entitled to atie. d. The ostensible purpose of the convention 1z to decide the future con- stirution o; th: Sinn Fein Govern. By the decisions and final vote will be re- N sAk XA e vealed the cormpararive strength of she supporters of iamon De Valera and Arthar Griffiths among the Cian Fein “lubs throughout Ireland. 1t is widelv peiived that tne convention will result in a complete cleavage of tane organizauon and the formation of 1t vo bodies plede=d respeciively to the Angio Irish trea:y and to holding out for a republie. Opinions differ as to the duration _f the con.ention some expectiag it toiastea week and oth- ers predicting cnly one -days session. If asplit oceurs, the question ol the aispo- sition of the party funds wiil become acute, Some believe they wiil be amicably divided, proportionately to the respec ive strength of the factions, while others forecast a hot controversy and a dilficule settlement, Forecas.s as to the division if one occurs, vary greatly, but mosi ob- servers expect a small majori'y for the Free Stale advocates. New York, Feb. 20th— Leading Europe- an exchanges today mounted 1o the high est quotation in 3 years, [heir advance was accompanied by iturther s rength,in grain and cotton markets, which wus at- tributed to foreign Dobuying. Demand sterling of British bills scid ar $4 39, a oain of 1% cents over the weuk end. The heavy buying of this remittance suggest- oed covering of an urgent c¢haracier. De- mand bilis nn Paris, isrussels a-d Italian ecentres were ten 1y scvencesn points higher, but the German mark cotapsed to the years low level of 44.J00 or 53 poinits under last we<gs best price. Hx- chance of the cen.ral Huropean powers, including Austria, Poiland aond Czecho- Slovakia. also eased. Reaction of 2to 10 points in Danish and Swedish quota tions were regarded as ‘ogical declines from their recent ~teady gains, - Ottawa, Feb 20th.—The power and authority of the Canadian delegates to the economic and financial conference, -which opens at Gerca on March Tth, have been defined by the Government. Each of the Canadian delegates is ap- pointed a commissioner and plenipoter, tiary of thé Dominion of Canada. with full power to conclude tireaties, conven- tions of agreements 1 connection with the confer:nce, and to sign them for and in the name of His Majesty the King, in respect of the Dominion of Car - ada. The Canadian delegates are Sir Charles Gordon and Edouard Montpetit, bott. of Montreal. London, Feb. 20th. \ semi-boom con- dition prevailed in the gild' edge section of the Stock Exchange today. Huge orders were executed as soon as the market opened, and others poured in throughout the day. The recent reduc tion in the discount rate of the Bank of England and its deposit rates, the with- drawal of the Government’s five per cent notes and recent reports of trade condi- tions were apparently responsible fer turning the attention of the investing public to he gili edge section. War loans, c-nsols, home rails and otaer good yielding gilt edge securites were the most active und promineal in the up- ward movement, which exténded te ¢ s nalier =xtent to foreion bonds. Londun, Feb. 20in. -Six hundred- weigh! oi geligmte, suafficien: to blow up haif the oty, was found hy Glasgow pol- ice in ash bins in the voek courts section of the east end. No arrests have been made j.ondon, Feb 20th. Jhe United States joined in the praise of Mr. Balfour head of tne British mlssion at the Washingtor. conference, in his welcome to the home- land when the American ambassador ad dressed the Pilgrims Society dinner to- night at which three hundred persons were assembled. L.ondon Feb,2oth. The Hon Sir A Grif- tith Boscawen replying to a question asked in the House today said the result of the foor and mouth disease in the Uni- ted Kingdom had been the siaughter of 17,037 cattle, this number having been authorized to be killed up to yesterday. The minister said that he had been ad- vised the proposcd methods of isolation were ipeffective. The Minisiry of Agri- culture, he stated. did not regard the out- break as an epidemic and believed it was now well in"hand. London. Feb. 20th.— Submitting a suppiementary vore of $1,500,000 in the House today for poliee forces in Ireland Sir Hamar Greenwood sald this repre- sented the final charge upon tax payers for voilecing Ireland. Since the signing of thé Anglo-lrish Treaty «ix thousand officers and men cf the R. 1. C. who had been recruited in Great Britain and 16,000 of all ranks of the auxiliary pnolice, * nad beeun disbanded ‘I he foree in South- ern Ireland was now almost entirely Irish and predominantly’Roman (Catholie, he adde:l. London, Feb. 20th. —ite India Offide announces that 1i« commissioner in Assam, has informed the Government from Kanaighan that in the town of Sylhet on February 156'h, while the po- ilce were dispersing a meeling that had been iforbidden they were aitacked by a large body of men armed with clubs The police fired on the mob flicting 8 casu- alties but themselves lost 3 kilied and three wounded. Reinforcements arrived on the 18th and there have' been no further disturbances. New York, Feb. 2isit. Ihe early raw sugar market wa- quie! snd while prices were unchanged at 2% for Cuba’s, cost , and freight, equal (0 3.66 icr centrifu- gal, there were large offeiings at the level. No sales were reported. 7The raw sugar futare marke: was active, but prices showed littic variation and at midday were unchanged o two points net lower under reaiizing and trade sel- ling. There were no changes in refined sugar, with fine granulated quoted at 5.10 and with good enquiry reported. Refined futures were without trans- action.