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Brazil to New York, and at the time cf sending the radio was 60 miles from this port. The navy tug ‘'Todousac’ immediately started and on finding the steamer, took her in tow, bringing her safely in port al noon yesferday. The Sagaporach’ was short of fuel oil and was coming here to replenish her tanks. Captain Albergh reports that there was however some oil in the after tank, but the pumb was aot powerful enough to forece it to the other tank where use could have bean made therefrom,—lbid- The Red Cross drive which started on Friday is in full swing. Every indication is ziven that the splendid esponse from the public which met the last drive, is assured the present one.—St. Thomas Masl Notes, Nov. I}th. Two new schools were opened in St. John on Friday, for® which event the “Vixen’’left port on that day with the Governor, his family and members of his staff. We congratulate the Depariment of Bducation on this further eviden:e of progress. lbid. . TELEGRAMS. 8T CROIX STATION. Riga. Nov. 12th——Ne vs was received here today from Moscow tha® an attempt had bean ma e on she life of M. Tchitch- erin, Russian Soviet Foreign Minister. The attempt was unsuecesstul, aceord- ing to the despatch, which added that 3000 arrests had been made. London, Nov. 13th.—A Reuter cable fiom Pretoria, South Africa, says ¢ strong plea for support of the League of Nations, was voiced by the Premier Ner-a]l Sm4ats, in an address delivered .ne Pretoria town Hall on Saturday. General Smuts, who iacidentally noted with regret the apathy in South Africa regarding the League, believed it would get new assistance from the Washington Conference, on the importance of which e laid stress for the great work which it stood. In support of the argu- ment that the league could never be successful while huge tracts of the world are excluded, he advanced the original view that Russia and Germany should oe made to join the league, if they failed to do so voluntarily. He also considered the main function of the league should be to regulate the econo mic relations between Nations the weak spot of the present system. Kingston Jamaica, Nov. 15th.—The North American and West Indian Squad- ron, comprising the light cruiser Ra- leich (Flagship) the cruisers Constance, Cambrian and Caleutta arrived in Kings- ton harbour this afternoon. Arrange- ments have, been completed to entertain S .. LUI A VS the officers and craws dur.ng their stay here, Grenada, Nov. 15th—Siight shock of earthquake experienced here 7.05 2. m. London, Nov. 14th.-——The negotiations among the British, Sinn Fein and Ulster officials, regarding the future of Iveland have now entered a stage in which the negot ators are talking of intermittent conferences extending over months, in- stead of weeks. Counter proposals for an Irish settlement to those made by the Ulster Cabinet | st week, were forward- ed to the Ulsterites this evening by the British representatives, informing the Ulsterites tha: their alternative proposal was not acceptable. No further meet- in2 between the British and Ulster dele- gates his been arranged. It now seems that Mr. Lloyd George’s diplomacy must be dire ted to bringing Ulster into a three cornered agreement. ‘'The North- erners are ba'! boys now’’, remarked one of the Sinn Fein delagates. Mr. Ausien Chamberlain, in a letter which he wrote today, spacially set forth his position as follows: ' Like all my Uni- onist erileagues [ have repeatedly said that I would not be a pariy to the ¢o- ercion of U'ster. By that pi2dge, we stated it as comreon ground to the whole Unionist party. The Prime Min- ister has given the same pledge and neither he nor we will depart from our word. Peace is our great-st need. A million and three quarters of our people are without work trade is stagnang, confidence is lacking. On.the result of the present negotiations depend issues of p2ace and war in these islands, ver haps the future peace of the ,world. I should hold myself unworthy of the hon- our conterred on me by the Unionist ° party, if, in such circumstances, [ did not use tny atmost efforts to secure a just and honorable peace. Tt peace is to be secured, all parties to this ancient and bitter controversy, must show some mea- sure of goordwill 2nd be prepared for some concession to the feelings of oth- ers’’. While the Unionist leaders affirm their adherence tc the promise not to coerce Ulster, some of Ulsters newspa- pers supporters see in England and re- sent an atmosphere of what they des- cribe as moral coercion. The last sentence quoted from Mr. Chamberlain’s letter, is typical of the appeals for a compro- mise coming from many English papers and practically all the London papers, excepting the ‘‘Morning Post”’. The. Liverpool conference of the Unionist’ party on Thursday will be important, be- eause it may show how much support a no surrender poliecy by Ulster may com- mand. The group of so-called ‘‘die hard’’ in the House of Commons which mustered 43 votes against the coalitions Irish policy, assert that the rank and file of the party is with them. They have preparel several resolutions for Liver- pool meetings and even have hopes that Mr. Andrew DBonar Law may become their leader. But as yet Mr. Bonar Law has not shown his hand. Washington, Nov. 14th—Great Bri- tain’s acoagptance ''in principle’’ of the United States proposals for limitation of naval armaments, coftemplates an al- ter tion of the plan in several important details. The British acceptarce will be presenied at tomorrvow’s plenary ses- sion of the conference by Mr. Balfour, who has vlenipocentiary poweYs. Japan’s acceptance ‘‘in principle’’ a'though it . has been forecasted by the =statement o Baran Admiral Kato, may be delayed as the Japanese mission is obliged to confer with Tokio. Mr. Balfougy may not outline the details of the reserva- tions Great Britain wishes to make, but they are substantially de<cribed this way. Instead of a flat ten year holiday, Great Britain wants the re- placement programme to be an elas- tic one, tospread over a period of years, Great Britain would like to see submarines outlawed from naval warfare, failing this, to see their tonnage and equipment, distinctly lim- ited. She fears that the submarine fleets allowed by the American pro- gramme are too great. She has nev- er had so large a submarine fleet as the proposals would allow her. The United States, Great Britain fears, would have her at a disadvantage ® in airpline carrying ships under the terms of the United States proposals, because while Great Britain has an equipment of these ecraft, the Uni- ted States would have to build now the number allotted They would be of later design and of superior im- provement, while the British ships would bhe obsolete. Great Britain wants the replacement programme spread over a period of years, because British naval experts argue the program- me could be carried on with a very small equipment of building plants on a small scale, probably a ship ata time. If a flat ten year holiday were to be declared, they say the facilities for makinga wholesale réclacement at the end of ten years would have to be kept in organization although great fleets of warships might be consigned to the junk pile, the facilities for reproducing them still would exist. Such a program the British naval experts say, does not go to the root of the jquestion there- fore, they will propose that, for instanee a one ship production equiprnent be left to each nation, to fit in with a re- placement programme extending over a period of years and that the immense properties, equipment, technical staffs and other organization, which would have to be kept in readiness to take up a replacement programme in ten years be dispensed with, Tokio, Nov. 12th- Baron Korekiyo Takahashi, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Hara Cabinet, was named Premier today.