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e o SN e e ne e s ly, dec'ining the Allied invitation to the nited States for participation intheNear East peace conference. was forwarded today from the State Department through the British, French and Italian Embassies here. & Belfast, Oct. 3lst.—A delegation lef Belfast for England today to put to.- ward the claims of Ulster before the British electd s. Madrid, Oct. 31st. The Anglo-Spanish commercial treaty was signed tonight. London, Oct. 31st. —Among the candi- dates for election to the new Parliament are thirty-two women running under va- rious banners. Ottawa, Oct. 3lst.—lt was announced today by thdboard of railway commis- sioners for (anada that the rat 2of ex- change in cognection with shipmeats ot freight between points in Canada and the United States, from November first to fourteenth inclusive, will b 2 cne-eight of one per cent. ‘.\g) sur-charge will be collected on internalional freight or pas- senger business. Paris, Oct. 3lst.—The Tunisian ques- tion, which the new Italian Premier, Dr. Mussolini declares should ba the first regulated between France and Italy, is the same as that which Kngland protest- ed against before the council of the League of Nations and which, by an agreement concluded between M. Bour- geois and Lord Balfour, has been return- ed to the permanent court of internation- al justice at the Hague. It concerns the rights of immigrants in Tunis to retain original nationality. The French Gov- ernment, perturbed by the continual in- crease of immigrants, which threatens to submerge the French and native por- ulations, a:d ;ishing to prevent anv dis- turbance any troublesomequestions, which might arise in the country, has is- sued a decree naturalizing such immi- grants, as have taken up permanent res- idence .1n Tunesia. England and Italy have protested and took the matter be- fore the League of Nations with the re- sult already stated. In French circles, confidenee is felt that this question will be settled with Italy without serious dif- ficulty, since it is hoped the Italian Govt. will accept its being handed over to the international court. At the Ministry for Foreign Affairsit is also believed there will be no diffidulty, on acccunt of Italy having abandoned all claim as to asphere of influence in Tunis since the proclom - tion of the French protectorate. : Geneva, Oct. 31st.—The Swiss Govern- ment is following very attentively the Fascisti movement in Italy because it attaches great importance to a receut declaration by the Fas:isti leader stating that the Swiss Ganton of Tessin should belong to Italy because the population has been Italiau since 1512, Switzerland has, so far, taken no precautionary mili- tary measures. . Paris, Nov. Ist.—lmmediate steps are being taken with London and Rome to 5T RO X A VlB arrange the details for the c2ninz Near East Conference.” As was expected, the Angora Government 1s opposed to the inclusion of the Sultan’s Government in the invitation from the Allies, but the Ystacle is rot regarded as serious, it being explained that the nature of the Turkish representation is entirely a domestic one with which the Allies have no concern and it can be arranged be- tween the Governments of Angora and Constantinople. Mustapha Kemal Pasha has ®*informed the correspecndent of the “‘Petit Parisien’’ at Broussa that the Turkish Nationalist Assembly would never consent to the maintenance of the capitulations” granted formerly to foreigners, but that the door is wide cpen to all foreigners, on condition of their fully recog... "arkish independ- ence under all aspects, urkey, he de- clared, is sufficiently large and rich for all. For ourselves, there are certain economic problemsxto be considered. Witk frégard to those that we cannot so’ by our own means, we can solicit the aid of our iriends. San Salvador, Oct. 3lst.—Several ves- sels have foundered in consequcnce of a gale along the Pacifie Coast. Fiume, Nov. Ist.—The Gov2roment today sent its- congratulations to Dr. Mussolini, expressing the warmest wish- es of Fiume, unshaken ia its eonfidence in Italy and voicing the desire of a union of Fiume with the motherland in whose safekeeping she places herself. Rome, Nov. lst.—Every hour brings fresh proof of the activities of Dr. Mus- solini and shows “his firm determination to establish discipline throughout the country. In replying to the congratula- tions addressed to him by the press or- ganizations, he declared that as soon as the unusual conditions shall have passed it was his intention to safeguard the freedom of the press on condition tF t the press showed itself worthy of . Freedom, he added. is not only a rigl ¢, but also a duty. -To General Diaz, v ho is said to have accepted the portfolio of Minister for War in order to give an army, Dr. Mussolini declared we will give Italy a unique army even as we have accomplished a unique revolution. In faet, throughout all history, there has never been a revolution similar to ours, all the public offices remained open, business was uninterrupted, and em- ployees, workmen and peasants were un- affected. Paisley, Nov. Ist.—Mr. Asquith was received with enthusiasm, when he ad- dressed his consticuents here last night. He declared that the last House of Com- mons would live in history as the Parlia- ment of subservience. ‘‘Mr. Lloyd George,’’ he said, ‘‘was now posing as au economist, but in the last three years he had heaped up every form of costly and unjustifiable extravagance’’ adding ‘“‘we have been living under an uncon- trolied dictatorship, in tact of organized instability’”’”. He described the present sitnation as ‘‘topsy turvydom™’, with only two fixed points in the whole politi- cal landscape, one he!d by the Liberal, the other by the l.abour Party, all else being fog and chaos. London, Nov. Ist. The final appoint- ments to the new ministry by Mr. Bonar Law have been announced. They in- c'lude Ministers of L-bour and Pensions although Mr. Bonar Law had previously intimated that the pensions portfolio would be abolished, and it had been un- d rstood he was also contemplating the abolition of the Ministry of Labour. The new ministers are as follows: Min- ister of Labour, Sir Montague Barlow. Minister of Pensions, Major Clement Myron. Air Minister, Sir Samuel Horne. Pcostmaster General, Sir Neville Cham- berlain. Other appointments are: First Commiscioner of Works, Sir John Baird, Solicitor General,tMr. T. W. H. Inskip. Civil l.ord of the Admiralty, Marquis of Lin'ithgow. Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, Commniander B, M. Eyres- Monsell, Secr=tary for Overseas Trade, Sir Witliam Joynson-Hicks. Boare: of Trade, Viseount Wolmer. Ministry of Transpoit, Lieuteract-Colon~l Wilfred Ashly. Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Earl of Onslow. Seccretary to the Board of Agriculture, Earl of Ancas- ter. ‘l'reasury, Lieutenant-Colonel lLes- lie Orme Wilson. The fcllowing urder- secretaries have b cen appointed: Home Office, Lieutznant-Colonel G. F. Stanley. ‘oreign Office, Mr. Ronald MeNeill. Col- « ial Offiecr. Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore. var Uffice, .ic. Walter E. Guinness. Air Ministry, Duke of Sutherland. India office, Earl Winterton. Financial Secre- tary to the War Office, Lieuter t-Col- onel F. S. Jackson. Washington, Nov. Ist. With the Con- gressional elections only about a week off, the indications are that the repubii- cans will not be dislodged from their conteol of Congress. According to the best available information here, the relative strength of the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate will be but little changed. New York, Nov Ist.—The election campaign in New York has taken on an added impetus with the arrival in the city of Governor Miller and Mr. Alfrea Smith, the Republican andgDemocratic candidates for the Governorship of the state. Both are conducting a wairlwind campaign and both express themselves as content with the result. NEwW York, Nov. 2ad. Fiour, (Biended Clears, St. Lawrence Brand) pr. brl. $6.00. Meal, Kiledried per 100 pounds $2.20. New Season’s Pork per barrel $37.00. Heavy Mess Pork per brl. $29.25. Sugar—Crystals maximum per 100 lbs. $0.53. Mclasses Sugar 89 no quotation. Cotton, Middling, Upland, ar Liverpool per Ib. 14 44-100 d.