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Indiar National Coagress in session hore. A message of sympathy to the Irish in iheir struggles also was drafted and des- patched A royal proclamation to India . issued in® London, last August said the Poince of Wales would not visit Irfdia rhis winter to inaugura; reform legis- lation, but that the Dukeéaf Connaught would undertake these duties. Despateh- os which appeared previously in the I.on- -lon papers forecast that the Prince would not make the trip. . The condition of un: rest among certain natives and the anti- British propaganda carried on by dissat- isfied leaders were said to make it inad- vizable to expose the Prince. to pos:ibili- tics of a hostile reception. The native feaders were reported to be exeiting.their foliowers by proclaiming the Turkish treaty to be an attack upon their religion idits head. " London, Jany. 2nd.--Unanimous sup- port of a projoet to amalgamate all the different unions of traasport workers, ewcept the railwavmen, into one huge organization was voied in a resolution adopted today at'a- meeting in which all sections of the transport workers in Lon- don were reoresented. Severaithousands were present. Under the plan the re- sources of the unions would be pooled and a central office staff created. Mr. Gosling, presiding, said- that it was ri- dicuious that men should be divided into smail unions when the empioyers were handed into a single great organization. Mr. Bavine, of- the dock workars union, Vuid he estimatsd membership of the new amalgamaiion would be half a mil- lioa. The scheme united dock workers, vehicie workers, stevedores and others, hut does not include railwavmen. Paris, Jany. 2nd.—Ten lecaders of the communist and revolutionary sections of the French federation of labour and the socialist pavty are being held for trial under the laws relating to conspiracies against the security of the state. New York, Jany. 2nd.——~The missing balloon which leit hiere on December 12th landed 10 miies norihieast of Moose Fac- tory, Ont., on December 14th. and the ci2w of three are safe at a Hudson Bay trading post, 'accordinz to a telegram received here tonight. s Melbourne. Jan. 3rd.—The batsmen of the English team collapsed before the bowling of the Australians when the second cricke{ match was resumed to- day. The English tedam could only mnake 251 for their first innings, as against 499 seored by Australia, and foliowing on the visitors had lost b wickets for 76 rurs when stumps were" drawn. The Wnizlish collapse was brought about by the bad wicket. Last night it rained neavily and the pitch consequently fa- voured the bowlers. Halifax, Jan. 3rd. —H. M. C. 5. Aurora t and the destroyers Patriot and Patriciz, which arrived here on December 21st, wili jcave Halifax the end of this week en route to Esquimait, B. C According . to present plams it is expected to get the | ships away on Saturlay. From Halifaw | the ships will proceed to Bermuda where ' they will spend about 48 hours, proceed- i ing (o Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. From this place they will proceed to the Bris- i ish Columbia Naval Station byway ot . the Panama Canal. At present it is-not . . known at what time they will arrive at - Hsqgaimalt. » | Dublin, Jan: 3rd.—The reports thai Professor ide Valera has lan’?u‘i in Ire i land weve deflanitely confirmed tolay, Auckland, .lan. 3rd.—The Daris Cup was formaily handed to Captain Samuel - Hardy of the victorious United States | Lawr‘f}‘enms Team tonight. The occa- | sion was a banquet given in honour of i the Australian and United States play | ers by the Australian Lawr Pennis Asso- i ciation. Included among the guests were | Admiral Jellicoe, the Governor of New | Zealand, and the Premier Massey, i London, Jan. Brd. A number of morn- | Ing papers eontain comments on the ! barning of some houses in the Irish | town of Middleton on Saturday, severai, | remarking that it had been supposed | that martial law in southwestern Ire- | land would put an end to such reprisals. z Nowhere 153 thare outspeken approval of { the pnunishment meted ocut to the Irish | viilage by Major General Sir Edward | Strickland. In an official statement it ! is declaYed that seven dwellings in Mid- | dleton were destroyed as a result of an “ ambush of polic: near the town last ' Vedoesday. Declaration is made that i the af.zt_ho:"l.ties had dgcide(l that rhe. peo- i ple living in bouses in the *J]}!age‘ of the | outrage must have known of the plot to | ambush the police. The illimes’” ques * tions the adequacy of (?'gq%anwr | that the inhabitants.of rhe burned dwell | ings were bound to have known of the | ambush. Official reprisals, the newspaper E continnes, may be a rough of justice, | but despite the roughness, the ele- | ment of justice should be always beyond | gquestion, The ''Daily Express’’, grant- | ing that the aection was legal and presu- ' mably necessary, adds: ‘'But it is horri- | ble, as it reveals an absolute state of wat . in Ireland and it i= impossible (o with- " hold sympathy from irishmen who {ind . themselves between the hammer of Sian ' Fein murderers and the anvil of the Brit- . ish troops.”” The radical press on the | other handis horrified, the ''Daily News”’ saying: ‘'The reports will be read wiik | amazement and despair. It is asavage . ougrage upon human decency ~nd the ~ ‘matter cannot be ieft where itis.” The . *‘Daily Herald’’, organ. of Labour, calls it savage and diabojie violence and calls upon labour to stop this war upon 2 nation. Dublin, Jany. Bvrd.—By 22 votes to id the Dublin corporation at &z mieeting o day decided to deeline to discuss Dropo- sals for an Irish truce. The negatise vote came in spite of a strong appeat from the High Sheriff Mr. W’Z:‘:’-."a?t»‘;t e e e e e so se 4.__4_—«_.;..*“_._ % who deelareditwas a peor hew?%fo Pro-. . fessor De Valera, who is alleged tobe in . the eountry in the interest of+pedce, for . persons prefessing to be his foliowers to- { chjeet to such discussions. . NO MORE HOME BREW | AT HOME FOR YOU |- Not KEven for a Private Stew the | Court Decidesit Will not do. .. Home brew is tab‘)oe\; ! This was the deecision of Judge Ham. . ilton in Federal Court Thursday in the case c{ Antero Delgado which was before . him on a demurrer. ’ 1 concluding his opinion, the judge . said: "The decision itseif is that the i Act of Congress prohibits the many-- i facture of liquor in one’s own home . even for. one’s own use, that the Act in | constitutional, and that it conforms to tne 18th amendment’’, | | In the course of his opinion the Couft | made several comments on the Volstead Act and its - enforcement. He szaid that L. the Act itself did not permit tle search- . ing of home for alcoholic liquors except . when a proper search warrant had been | obtained which might be allowable in . the event there was evidence of the sale -of liquor in a home. The provision did | not extend +to liquor that might be in the bome for private use, he held. | The Court held that the police had ex- ceeded their authority in entering homes . in the country in search of liquors, "It is true that.the places tle police go into are little shacks out in the coun- ' try which no one in this eourt-room . would be willing to live in, but never- theless that shack is a home and I see no difference in principle, when it comes to an American citizen and his righis, wheth. ' er he has two jor three branches of paim over his head and arcund four Fosts . or whether itis the Governor’s Pajace. ' I think the right a man has in the ope . is_exactly the right a mwan bhas in the other. So far as this court is concerned . it makes no difference andit eny mat. ter is broughi betore it the court will . act upon the principle thar fhere I 8 no difference’’. ' The court held :that . where evidence ¢ could be produced of home brewing and . home consumption without pelice enter. . ing vhe bome, that that wcuid be suff © clent evidence to go kefore a Jury or to ' «be entertaired by theecurt. —FPorto Fico Progres, Dec. 10th. 3 £y 2 1 FOR SALE Une Ford Car - it good condition, : For further particulars apply at this office.