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LRI : The Home Servies Committee of the dmerican Red Cruss wili hold & mecting sl keadgiarcters {under the po.t Office) at 4 o’cl ck this afternoon. - s S i eTLit RED CROSS. Tne Rad Cross is like a strong and beautifal {ree giving us sheiter and pro- tection. : [f you‘are hungry .its fruit will feed you, if you are nakad its gracious leaves will fall and cover you and if you ave taresty you miy drink. from its voo’s. Let us all com 2 torth with strong pur- prse, a willing heart and genervus dona- tions to help and keep such a glorious and necessary organization in our midst, Com, RALPH RANDOLPH DENNIS PASSED AWAY AL 8.30 P. M. ON MAY 2isrt. It is indeed very regrettable to chromele the passing away of RALPH RANDOLPH DENNIS, who died at his home in Wa:er Gut, after a lingering illness. Young Dennis was a late graduate of the Jonior High Serol, Ch.is iansted, and was quite a p* m siw and well-behaved 1:d; greitly n=l vel by his parents and a larye cirele of (riends. : The funeral took place at 4.30 p. m. yes erday from his residenc2 at N 6 North Street, Water Gui, to the Aunysli- can Church, where the burial ceremony was performed by Revd. Piggott; and then proceeded to the Cemetery headed by the Industrial Band which played “Rock »f Ages Cleft for Me’’. Heis mournazd by his entirve family as well as friends to whom we extend our heartfelt 8, nipatt vy, F B R TELEGRaMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Ber'in, May 19 h.—Something new in the way ;of combating anti-Mopairchist demonsirations by Communists was tried out with success by the Safety Poiice vesterday, beveral huadred special trains were run beiween this ciiy and Feursten- wald and as fast as groups of reds show. ed up at the latter town in an attempt to break up ‘‘Deutcher Tag’ celebrations yesterday, they were loaded aboard the troine and transported back to Berlin, Uhlans and Facists succeeded in celebra- ting their ‘'Deutcher Tag’’ in the great ha!l at Farstenwald, while the police re- puised successive waves of attacking Communists. Three policemen were kui- fed during the night fighting while per- haps a score of Communisiswere wound- ed. Ottawa, May 19h.—Corres;ondence beiween Canada and Ureat Britain in re- gard to theiLausanne Treaty will be tabled e w 11 2 I NIE in the -House*of Commons this week and disenseion thereof wilt be welecomed by the Government, it ~was.stated in -the Heonse of Commons this aiternoon by Mr. Mackenzie King, the ‘Prime Minister rve- plying to a question by Mr. Garviand - (Progressive,) Bow River). He said that . he expected to get permission today or tomorrow from -Whitehati to table at " Jeast a part of the correspondence. Mr. Aithur Mcighen asked lif there was. any answer to cables sent a week ago tothe other dominions asking their attitudes to- . wards publication of the correspondenc. ~ The Premier read replies recejved from | - Austraha, - South . Africa and.: New- ' foundland éxpressing willingnes have . the correspondence published. Mr. Mas- "~ sey of New Zealand cabled ‘‘under- . stand communications mentioned were ( not written with- view-to publication . and if made public afraid would 1o- ! terfere with clear and frank informa- | tion being given dominions to which | they- undoubtediy : entitled.”” - A series ' of quasiions followed {rom the leader of | the opposilion, elieiting .from _Premier | his belief that London would give- con- | sent to the tabling of part of the cor- ! respondence soon. Catada was in fav- | our of tabling all of it, but there were | reasnns to believe that Mr. Mac Donald " mi ht want to withhold a part at least . of the correspon lence. H)iwever, Mr, King said that he would lose no time ' in giving all possible information to the house, which would be given a day . or two to peruse it before tbe maiter was broucht up officially in the Cham- ber. ‘ Shanehai, May 20th.—Captain Pelle- tier Doisy, French aviator arrived here today from Canton on his Paris to Tokio flicht., His plane suffered a slight ws- . bap in landing Puris. May 20th.—(United Press) There " wus considerable agitation before the official opening of the exchange market ' today, the frane selling at 18.50 to the dollar and 80.55 to the pound uncertainty . over the political situation caused the { frane to slide rapidly. By noon it had reached 18 62 to the dollar or the first | time since the national elections. M. Ed- b ouard Herriot. of the Radical Socialisis, 1s coming to Pavis for a consultation with party leaders, .in order to be prepared "~ when President Millerand cummons hin | to form a Cabicet. 2 i : Berlin, May 20th.—According to the . "Hamburz correspondent of the Deutsch Zeitung, the Association of Shipowners jemrps that the Government intend to ap- prove th= Dawes Commission report on reparations tmimedi tely, without await- . iog the decision of the Reichstag. - Tokio, May 20th. - Ambassador Hani- sara may.gbe ‘‘permitted to resign’’ his " Washington post shortly. Premier Matsui told newspapernien tocay, L r London, May 20th.— More women members of Parliament and yet more,”’ is the slozan of the Womens Freedom L-szu- which -héld its :17th annual @on- ference here recently. Mre. Schofield ~ Coates, rre-iding, said the éight wormen Comcthbe s o Purliament were the:advance puard, hat *hev were not satisfied, they waoted qui e half the seats inthe “house and they wanted more women at the iread ot soine of the -departments. :The o advent of a Labour Government -hid giv- en rise to hopes that the. inecualities that existed in the franchise laws as be- tween men and women be- guickly wiped outs .. - ™ OE DNRE g oo Ve - Lendon; -May -2Cth.~#nother step in the vixifig peoblenybfithe appeinment of a separate Canadian Minister at; Wash- ington, which has been -debated for- sev- ~ eral yeurs past; has just been-taken, ac- ~ cording to the usually well ihformed Lon- ~ don. Daily Telegraph, ‘which announces ~ this'morning that the Cana#ian Govt. de- cided that the appointment of a Minister ~ fromOtrawa, as a member of the British - Embassy does not go tar enough to meet . their .wishes. = Th's."decision, says the Daily Telegraph,. -follows the concession granted to the Irish Free. State, which ~ has been allowed to appoint Its-own min- . ister plenipotentiary, and the newspaper . continued. “'The Free -Staté concession ~is bound inevitably to bave:the mosi far- . reaching consequences. .The "unity of - imperial represeniation in foreign .coun- tries is bound to be undermined by. this act. It raises a constitational problem of considerable gravity and if the precedent ~ spreads, the conirol of imperial foreign - relations will become imprssible. Montreal, May 20th.—''Le Canada,’”’ French Caradian official organ, comment- ~ ing editorially on tne British preference, says that in Montreal and in other parts of the ccuntry, industries that. cemplain of the teriff have nothing to say abcu t ~ ihe present budget, but demand a revis- ion of the British preferential tariff. It ~ points out that England has given the ¢xample in sbolishing, withont the slight- ~ est struggle, the few privileges that Can- ~ ada possesses of selling some of her pro- ducts in the United Kingdom, and:- Eng- ~ land has also, says the paper, never hesi- tated'tolay heavy embargoes on Canadian - cattle when it came into competition with her own. ''Le Canada,’’ adds, ‘‘we sh.]l - be wrong not to imitate her, Properly regulated preference, likecharity, ought to start at home and be ¢xercised - to the benefit.of our own producers.”’ New York, May 20th.—Mere liberals -offerings of duty free sugars .caused a further declive in the local sugar- market today, with svot prices. mow.quoted at 5 43, duty paid. - No changes occurred in refined prices, which ranged from7.25 to 7 50. for fine granulated: Withdrawals were of fair propertions, but. new busi- ‘ness continued light. Refined futures were nominal. ; Se, st Ly 'ndon, May 20th.—Captain Pelletier Doisy, the French airmap-who landed at Shanxhai toedav on hisflight. from-Paris - 1oTokio, -damaging his machire in com-