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the contract earried alonz, as in the past, from the Atlantic ports of Canada. T 2 matter was referred to the West In- dia Committee to report on. Duties on imported sugar was another subject 1 connection with the West India trale, a petition having b2en recaived by the Board to use its inflienc2 in having Dateh standard, which is a colour test, changed. The ruling of the Cana- dian customs is that any sugars assess- ad at over 16 Dutch standard have to pay a higher rate of duty and could not be sold even to the refiners, at the pre- sent time, at a lower rate. This matter hid been referred to the Woest Indian Cymmittee and reporied upoan, the Com- mitte> being aczainst the chanze. The matter of punchoons, 2s molasses con taicers, being refused by the railways, was again before the Chuncil, a letter having been received asking same to be again iscussed and that the practically unanimous opinion of the Commitiee b 2 carried out, opposing the railway deeci- sion. A resolution to this effect was passed. London, March 29:h. Mr. Larkin, Cunadian High Commissioner in LLondon, coe s to Paris on Tueslay tosign the pro- tocol of the Internaticnal Air Conven- tion. Nice, France, March 29th.—The *‘round the world squadron’’ cr ""Captain Baptes flying eireus’’, as it is known in Krench aviation circles, has been assembled at the lstress airdrome, near Marseilles, and will leave tomorrow for Nice, where it will take off on its flight to circle the globe. Columbus, Ohio, March 30th.--Seven persons are dead tonight and fifteen lie injured in hospitals as the result of the wrecking of big four train No. 11, which grashed into a motor at a grade crossing, north of here early today. It “"bucked”’ from the impaet and the sudden apvliea- tioa of air brakes ¢ wtapuited it from the vails, tue train, comp el entirely of steel pulimans, struck the austomobile, ilstantly killing its three occupants and Larled around the wooden eross ties for a distanzz of more than 1Y) yar is bafore the engine and tour of the ena h>s turn- ed over on their sides. An hour bzhind schedule, the train, cne ol the most luxurious operated by the railway, was entoring the last lap of its long journey from Boston to Cineinnatti when the ac- cident occurred. Its encineer, says to- night that he was speedingat the rate of seventy miles an hour when the auto- mobile crept on to the tracks a short twenty feet ahead. He appiied the brakes immediately, he said. The driver of the car was unatle to see the train be- cause of a bnilding at the corner and the erossing 1s unguarded by a watch:nan. Essen, March 30th.—A proeclamation by General Degoutte, Jommander in Chiet of the occupation forees, ordering all the siriking railway officials and trainmen to resume WwOrkK, under penalty of ex- £ L 0 . Vs pulsion, was posted throuzhout the Ruhr and Rhineland today. Tne orid-r aff-oets 300,000 Germans as tu2 tfamilies of those refusing to return to their posts will accompany them into unoeccupied Ger- many. Approximately 125,000 men come directly under the order. All the Ruhr and the Rhineland railway svstems are now hal. by the French and Belgians, excopt the line in the Cologne Zone Bridzaho- * whieh 18 3 the hands of the British. it 2 Germans have easatinuzl at work on this systen. The task of expelling the strikers and their families will require several weeks. Speecial traim arrancements will have to b 2 made for conveying the familes of tho men to the froatier. 1t lis said the German Gouv- ernment has anticooated the expulsion order and made arranzements for dis- tribatinzg the men and t eir families througzhout various yarts of the country. The men are to be given work by the Government wherever possible. Under a deeree by the inter-Allied Rhineland ¢ mmissioa the railway workers were no- tifiz ! a week avo by the renen that those who refused to s:rv» under the French and Belgians would be expelled fron ocepied territory during the first week of Aopril. liis said that 1.813 Germans have agreed to return to werk., The sum of 368,000,000 000 inarks tas been sent from occupied territory, up to date, by the Beriin Government for the striking railwaymen and those who have be connected with the passive resistauce though not on strike, . Moscow,March 3).-—The death sentence vacently inposed on Archbishop Zepliak, head of the Ry wnan Catholic Churehin Kussia. was commuted today to ten years imprisonment uader striet Isolation. The appeal of Viear General Butehkaviteh for clemency was denied. (he cennal executive eommittee which met to con- ¢i ler requests {or mitigation of the sen- tences said in i's deeision that both pre- lates were deserving of the penally im- posed by the Aoscow court, but that commutation was ordered In the case ol the Archbhishop. The committez how- evor said it rcgarded that the evidence in the ease of Monsigacr Butehkaviteh showed his direc treasonable connegtion with an enemy of the S.ae. The deci- sion was sizned by President Kalinio and SQecretary Saproaoff. The action of the central executive commitlee in commu- ting the death sentence against Areh- bishop Z:piiak and denvinz clemency in th» cise of Viear General Butehka- viteh came so quickly as to cause gencr- al surprise. . London, March, 3lst. - *'l say frankiy I will mike no bargain with the press’’, said Mr. Bonar Law on assuming the Premiership. The Pail Mall Gazette thinks ke went tco far and ascribes the Government’s present slump in populaiity to the wall of silerce which has grown no between the public and its lulers. “T.e coalition may have been iujudicious in some of its dealings with the press, but its suecessors have gone to the ex- treme in the boyeotting of its facilities’’, the newsp: pers say. ~'The vow of si- leree and nystery appears to be imposed in all departments from one end of White Hall to the other™. Paris, March 3lst. —A law is shortly to be passed in Turkey nrohibiting a man from havine more than one wife, accord- ing to Dr Found Bey, a memoer of the Angora Parliament and former Turkish Minister of Health and Child Welfarve, who is sailing today on the Acouitania for New York, where he will attend a congress of Moslems called to assist the 200,000 Turkish war orphans. ‘'There have been radical changes of attitude in the last few vears toward the old Mos- lem marviage customs’’, explained Dr. Found. “'Our wars leit many widous and orphans. Now we are determined to conform to custom and the fact is that I recently traversed all of Turkey znd did not find any man with more than one wife’’, ~ Melbourne, Mareh 31st—(Reuters) Fig- nres just published show that the pop- ulation of Austraiia in December 1922 was H5.0631.000 an increase of 124,000in the last year. lL.ondon, Maveh 31st. Several protest- ant bodies are organizing a big demon- stration to be beld in Albert Hall, Lon- don, azainst the proposed visit of their Majesties, the King and Queen, to the Pcpe this summer. Resolutions of pro- test have already becen passed by the Presbyteries of isdinburgh and Inver- ness, Berlin, March 31st.-Sig German work- ers at the Krupp plant in Essen have been killed ard twen:'y injured in a con- flivt with the French military, savs a Central News despateh from Essen today. The treuble occurred through the Frerceh vnexpeciedly proceeding to occupy certain ot the Krupp moter works whercupon the workers, stopped the ma- chinery and went ovtside to cffer oppo:i- tion. the message savs. ‘Lhe officer i charveof the French tiicd to persuade the men to r2turnto duty, but they re- fused and surrounded the troops, threat- ening them with attack unless they would withdraw. The officer pointed out that he lust carry cut his orders, but the workers wer2 obdurate, declaring they would defend their plan, Four machine guns then opened fire, a«ds ine message, and six workers fell dead, while twenty were sericusly wouaded, The remainder scattered and the French then proeceded to occupy the works, Brussels, March 31st.-—There is comn- p'ete accord between the Italian, French and Deleian Governments concerning their att:‘tude towards Germany. This official announcement was made last night in a communication issued at the conference between King Albert, Premier Theunis§and Foreign Minister Jaspar.