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Germany and the deportation of former Crown Prince Frederick Wilham from Germany. It is expected the Council will meet on Monday to render its final decision 00 the points at issue. Berlin., Nov. 16th.—News reaching here that the negotiations between the Ruhr mine-owners and the Franco- Belgian mission over control of the fac- tories and mines bave hroken down after five weeks discussion, is regarded with serious concern in Rerlin, where the entire blame is placed on the missiol.. Berlin, Nov. 16th.—Germany ceased reparatiors deliveries in kind solely on account of her financial inability, says a semi-official statement this evening, but she holds herself bound, as hi‘herto to all the remainingclauses of the Treaty of Versailles. ‘‘The report stating that the reasor for the temporary cessation of reparations deliveries is that Germany no lorger regards herself bound by the Treaty of Versailles, is incorrect,”’ the statement says, London, Nov. 16th.—Parliament was formally dissolved today and a royal proclamation, printed in the Gazette tonight, summors the new Parliament to assemble on Jamuary 8:h. It was thought that the new session would con- vene on December 20th, but the Cabinet decided upon the latter date after two _prolonged cabinet meetings to draft the Government’s election manifesto dnd the other to diseuss election routine. The Premier will begin his new campaign under adverse auspices. Not only has he had the greatest difficulty to prevent defection of his oolleagues with free trade beliefs, but he has failed to conso- lidate his party by securing Lord Birken- head and Mr. Austin CThamberiain as members of the Government. The in- side story of the affair shows it was a revolt of the under-secretaries, led by Mr. Ronald Mac Neill, of the Foreign Office, and Mr. Ormsby-Gore, of the Colonial Office, which deterred the Pre- mier from taking Lord Birkenkead and Mr. Chamberlain in the Cabiret. Mr, Winston Churchill opened his campaign tonight in the fameus free trade hall in Manchester. In a vehement attack on the new policy, Mr. Churchill said ro- bod, knew better than the members of the British Cotton Growers Association that ‘however we develop our tropical possessions we shall be compelled to buy cotton during our life-time and in_gigan- tie quantities from the United Sraies.’ He added that there wou'd be nothing but misfortune and impoverishment for [ ancashire if it consentedto bear the yoke of a protective sysiem. The Earl of Derby, Secretary for War, addressing the unionist at Norwich tonight, denied sh® insinuation of Mr. Lloyd George that he and Lord Bitkenhead had jresent- ed their resignations to Mr. Bald: wip. He admitted, however, that it was quite true he could bhave wished there should be no general elec- £7 01> a4y 15 tion. The speiker said he recigniz ed the P.em or’s ass'aute hon-sty. London, Nov. 17th—Mr. Baldwin to- oaight issued a manifesto to the country, in which itis expected he will put the elec.orate in possessicn of the main fea- tures of his ta/sT proposals showingz at the same time ...,w he means to fiil ip the blank check which, inthe words of his opponent, he is demanding of the coun- try. One of the ceedits Mr Ba'dwin i3 projecting, according to the present spec- ulation, is an all round ten percent duty on imporeed manufactares, which is fig- ured to yield a revenue of 23,000 000 pounds. The Liberals and the Labour Party will a'so launoch manifestoes this evening so that the people will have plenty of political food to assimilate over the weekend. The Conservatives seem considerable heartened by the Earl of Derby’s declaration la.t evening, that he had not resigned, did not intend to and that he would certainly support Mr. Bald vin. The Saecretary for War add- ed that Lord Birkenhead was heart and soul with ' him and would co- operate cordially and loyally. The Pre- mier would also have, the Ear! as- serted, the cooper t 'n of Mr. Austen Chamberiain, and Sir Rober:i Horne. Lord Birkenhead, Mr. Chamberlain and ‘Mr. Horne are to spz2ak at a Cons.r/a- tive gathering in London on Thursday, and are expectad then to define their at- titudes more explicitly. A s!riking sea. ture of the campaign is t"e eagerness of severa! constituencies,in all parts of Engiaad, Scotland and Wales, to secure Mr. Winston Churchill as their eandidate a nsteworthy indication of the estima- tion in which he is now held by Liberals everywhere. London, Nov. 17th.—Despite the pressure of election news, London morn- ing newspapers gave great prominence to the crisis between Great Britain and France. The speech of Prernier Musso- lini, indicating suppoat of Great Britain is emphasized ‘‘ltaly’s Premier backs Britlsh policy’’, said the headlines. Musso'ini retuses to allow Franee to destroy (Germany’’. The news offset the distinet pessimism caused by previous reports of M. Poincare’s speech. London. Nov. 17th.—Strong efforts are being made over the week-end on both sides of the Channel to preserve the integrity of the Franco-British alliance. There were indications at the Foreign Office today that Frauce was changing her attitude as to some of her threatened penalties against Germany, ia the event of failure to give up the ex-Crown Prince and permit the inter-Allied Military con- trol to resume its interrupted investiga- tion of German armaments. Brussels, Nov. 18th.—Camille Huyss- mans, Secretary of the Socialists Inter- nationale. left for Berlin yesterday to organize internationale action against the return to power of a reactionary govern- ment, He will propose a boycott, by all the world’s workers organizations against Germany, in the event of the restora- tion of the Monarchy. Antwerp, Nov. 17th.—A Belgium ra- dium factory has just sold 900 miligrams of radiimm extracted from Uranium min- ed in the Belgian Congo, : NEW YORK, Nov. l.ith, Flour, (hard winter clears $5.00. ** . hard wi. te: straights $5.50 Meal, Kiludried per 100 pounds $2.25 New Season’s Pork per barrel $37.00. Heavy Mess Pork per brl. §26.00 Sugar—Crystals maximum per 100 |bs. $7.98 Mclasses Sugar 89 maximum 6.2, Cotton, Middling, Upland, at Liverpool per lb. 18 87-100 d. Exchange. New York and London, €¢ days’ sight $4.36 Exchange New York and London, sight $1.38¢ [ oNDON. Nov. 13th, Sugar, Demerara Crystals, nominal per eyt 625. 04, —67 s. od. ‘* Muscavado nominal per ewt. 105, od--48s. od. *“ White Java’s cif United Kingdom 245. 6d nominal. Demerara Rum per gal. nominal. Trinidad Coeona, good middling red per cwt. 465. 0d . Cotton, goud medium West Indian Sexn Island at Liverpoal, per lb. 21d. nominal. Bank of Ergland Rate of Dizcount per cent 4. Consols H7. Three percent. Rentes in Paris Fes. 55 10, Q WHEN WE HAD THREE EYES. , In many #ld books ot travel we find accounts of a race cailed the Cyclo-peans who were said to have bat one eye situ- ated in the middle of the toreh ad. There is some foundation for this story of the Cyclopeans. for within the head of everyone there is still 1o be found the remairs of a third eve that once stood out from the forehead. Fossil remains of some of the gigantic lizards that onee crawled and slithered over the earth’s surface prove that some of them pos- sessed a real third eye. Probably it was used as a kind of periscope; the two 'main eyes would be submerged to see beneath the water, while the third kept a look out above. Nature found that the third eye was & not a success, so she gradually withdrew it We retain within our brains the rudi- ments of the third eye that once existed. and although it can no longer see, 1t still performs usetul functions. [t has be- come the pineal pody, which like the thy- roid. is one of those mysterious glands whose use formerly puzzled doctors and stientists., The pineal body governs our development during the period between childhood and manhecod. Without it we should all be Peter Pans; we should nev- er wrow up.—Every Day Life.