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of presenting the measre, whicii pro- vides for a reduction in t 2 numbers -of the members of the upp. house from severn hundred and thirty to hree hun- dred, apart from Princes of the blood. It also contains a provision for the cre- ation of Peers for life, with uninherita- ble titles and privileges- London, April 12th.—The death took place yesterday of the Earl of Gosford. He is succeeded by his son, Viscount Acheson. Paris, April 13th.-The reparation com- mission tonight adopted the text of a note to Germany informing her that the commission’s decisions of March 2llst, notably as regards payment to be made until May 31st are maintained, and that if Germany does not take the necessary megsures to put her finances in order, theSommission will be obligzd, on May 31st W exact penalties, No%alk, Va April 13th.—Berkely, a suburb cwdlorfolk, was swept by fire late today, which destroyed more than a hun- dred houses, covering an area of cne miic in length and averaging from two to four bleeks in breadth. Two hundred families are stated to have been made hoineless, and the damage wiii run to nearly a iuii- lion dollars. Belfast, April 13th.—TLe Danviile dis- tillery of this city has lodged a claim for 1,000,000 pounds, as its loss in the recent raid on the Dublin customs house boande 4 stores. Sydney, N.S.W., Aprill3th.—The Aus- tralian Davis cup team will consist of only three men and not four, as previous- 1y announced. J B Hawkes wiil be unable to play with the team. Paris, April 13th.—Judge DBonin, who was the investigating magistrate in the fanous Landru case, dropped dead today of heart failure. . Tokio, April 13th.—Japanese trooys have driven the Chita Government forees out of the neutral zone between them and the Vladivostok Government troops, says a despatch received in Tokio today frem Vladivostok. The Japanese have fcrced the Chita troops as far North as Shamko- vka, about 150 miles from Vladivostok, and are approaching the Ussuri station, a femmmiles further North, says the des- patc’. The Vladivostock Government troops have occupied the town of Olga. Moszow, April 13th.—A despatch from Chita, Siberia, dated April Bth, says the Japanese have resumed their ef- fensive forcing the Chita Government troops to evacuate several villages in the Amur region, and withdraw under fire. The Soviet minister of war, in an article published by the Jlsvestia today, entitled ‘‘Japan at Genoa and Vliadivostok,’’ declares the economic con- ference should realise that while Japan is trying to help settle world affairs she is simvltaneously assisting and helping bandits in the Far East in maintaining a state of anarchy. Trotsky declares 4t is lot the first time the Far East army has S-1 £ @ 1.8 4 ¥ 38 scattered the ‘‘white’” forces, only to have the Japanese appear from behind the curtain. The offensive, he declares, s being carried cn despite the fact that the 7™**- commander g¢penly informed J _at it Liad no desire to fight. Cit- ing the Brussifka inctdent, where thirty Chitu soldiers are reported to have been killed or wounded, Tlrotsky declares’” **We note this in our beok and place it to the account of Japan, and we shall pre- sent it at Genoa or some sther place.’”’ Dublin, April 13ih.—The eonference called by Lo d Mayor G’Neill of Dublin in an endecvour to bring about tran- quility between the 2dherents of the Free State and the followers of Kamon De Vale-~, met today in the drawing room of the Mansion House where Mi- chael Collins, Arthur Griffith and De Va- lerra were wont to meet as comrades in the old Dail Eireann Cabinet. No agree- ment was arrived at during the session, and an adjournment was taken until next Nednesday. An official statement issued this ¢ vening, which announced that all those w_o had been invited by Lord Mayor O’Neill were present, concluded that, ‘lt is the earnest wish of all the parties to the conference that there should be no interference with pullic tneetings.”” The delegates on arriving at the Mansion House this afterncon were greeted enthusiasiically by thew respective supporters. Paris, April 13th.—A number of Uniied States drivers of relief waggons in Kus- sia have heen killed in the streets by the famished populace, who seized the horses for food, according to rveports received today by American relief organizations in Paris from the Ufabas”keer and Tehy- liabuisk famine districts. Two drivers for the American relief adminisiration W€ . nuvu wiis week, the reports said. Several other employees of the relief administration, fearing for their lives, left their posts, the reports added. Theo danger has become so great that it is no longer safe to venture inio the streets. People are being killed every day, it was said, and the natives, maddened from starvation, strip the clothes from the bodies of their victims. The reports said tte United States relief workers were feeding 150,000 sufferers in the Ufa distriet, but that the death rate was con: tinuing unabated. Cholera, small pox, typhus and dysentery are laging &nd the hospitals are destitute of supplies and extremely short of helpers. Bitter cold ‘and the complete absence of fuel are addirg to the suffering from serious intestinal disorders due to the eating of poisorous food in their desperate im- roverishment. The reports suid people were eating bark, roots, hides, dogs, cats, and evenr human flesh. Genoa, April, 13th.—M. Barthou, French delegate to the ecnference, indignantly denied reports today that there had been a diseussion between himself and Mr. Lloyd George, since they arrived In Genos in walch ne deciared he was ready to listen patiently to both Cear- many and Russia B 9 far was this from the truth, said M. Barthou, that he, with Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy. was having an important conference to- day with Mr. LloydGeorge in connection with the conference, the real work of which would start temorrow; he declared, ““There are people in America and Enz- land’’, said M. Barthou, ‘‘who have snch a false ceneepticn of France that they conceive of France as cencealing always a dagger in ber pocket and holding poig- nard between her lips. Probably it is due to the fact thut we are‘not reducing our army and stil {urther are declining to diccuss disarmament and reparations at Genoa.”” M. Barthou expounded the entire French viewpointi..on European politics. After pointing out that disarma- ment and reparations were not in the agenda, he reiterated ihat France was determined "ot to discuss these subjects at Genca. He explained that the repars tions question was already in the han of the commission and urged that t} was no reascn why it should be treat at Genoa. France was noi hostile to examination of disarmament, but t proper moment was nct now. After ferring to the death of twenty Frer soldiers in Germany, through the ex plosion ofa bomb recently. while they were seeking concealed arms, he went on. ‘“'Solong as Germany raises a bomb against the Versailies treaty, we wlll Le obliged to take measures of precaution. To discuss disarmament under these con- diticns is like arguing about your .fe ~ith somebody who is constantly r _nac- ing it.”” It was humiliating for france always to have to repeat t> the Ameri- cans and English that we wanted peace. He compared France, who looses peace, to a woman who was extremely faithful to her duties, against whonse baseless charges were made. Naturally the wo- man revoited. France lost the war of 1870, and during forty years did nothing to trouble the peace of the world, then, without provocation, she was attacked and lost-a million and a half of her best youth aud won a victory. But if France actuaily had the intentions some people credited her with, then France must be mad.”” W~ have lost our manhood and our treasure’’, exclaimed the French Min- ister of Justic:’’but we emerged from the war cool, clear and logical’’. Rio Janeiro, April 14th.—Weataoer con- ditions prevented “e departure of the Poriuguese aviators from St. Vineent, Cape Verde Isiands, for the last leg of the;r attempted flight from Portugal to Brazil, says a despatch to the *‘Cor- reio Da Marha’’ from St. Vincent timed at 11. 49 o’clock this forenoon.