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the mutiny of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, has been conviected by a Soviet court and sentenced to dzath. " Essen, April 6th.-An attempt to wreck the Essen-Paris express with dynamite occurred last night between Kettwig and Werden. The expiess was proceeding cautiously as usual in' the Ruhr. district when the locomotive struck a high ex- plosive placed on the track which at this point skirts the Ruhe:river. The engine was wrecked by the terrific explosion but the coaches, sleeper and diner did not leave the track. Noone was injured. General Degoutte has fined Ketwig for this act fifty million marks and Warden twenty million marks. New York; April 6th.—Lord: Robert Cecil, speaking before the New York State Chamber. of Commerce yesterday praised the work of the Chambers of Commerce of the United States and kin- dred nrganizations in Great Britain, say- ing that their practice of cooperation and consultation had formed the basis of the world, the principles utilized by com- mercial bodies ta bring about peaceful relations of nations and an avoidance of war. ‘‘The oft repeated statement that men of commerce are advocates of war for the mere:profit it might bring, 1s a slander. He assured it is not only a w:cked slander, but an exceedingly fool- ish statementas well, for peace is essen- tial ‘and vital to commerce. It is the very foundation of commerce’’. Paris, April 6th.—M. Paul Cambon, ex-French Ambassador to the Court of St. James, is seriously ill. - His son, who is Counsellor of the Frenchh Embassy to the Vatican, has been summoned from Rome. Brisbane, April 6th.—The Qeensland Government has decided to obtain the services of an expert cotton grower, pro bably from ‘the United States, with a view to the encouragement of cotton growing in Queensland. Paris, April 6th.—A Hava's despatch from Buecharest says the situation in Roumania remains very critical and that threughout the country agitaticn con- ti .ues for a revision of the new consti- tution. A state of siege is being main- tained by the Government, which is re- sorting to a great display of military foree to- prevent manifestations in 3ev- eral cities. Disturbances have occurred with loss of life and persons wounded in (Czernowitz and Jassy. :The despatch adds that King - Ferdinand has sanction- ed the new constitution,“but that it is reported he has refused to take the oath again. L 96 ; \ London, April 6th.—The move towards the reunion and the national and inde- pendent Liberals has taken practical form in the constituency of Anglesey, Wales, where both wings have agreed to support Sir Robert Thomas, who is la- belled ‘‘Liberal’”’. The Anglesey bye- election has been recdered necessary by the death of Brigadier General Sir Owen £ . 4.1 t AV 1B Thomas, who ~as returned in the last general election’as an independent. - Berne, April 6th.—The local authori- t.'s at Lausanne have been officially in- fo med that the Near East conference will resume’ its sessions in Lausanne on April #oth. -F 7 z ' London, -April ‘6th.—Seven hundred far 2rs and farm workers sailed from Liverpool for Canada on the liner Mont Clare, the total numbar of passengers being 1,200. e Cologne,:Aprit 6th.—Max Willraf ven Boun, Reichstag national leader, who was Minister of the Interior in the Mi- chaeli’s cabinet ‘and' Lord Mayor of Co- ‘logne for a de-ade, has been deported from the occupied area, it was announc- ed today Aeco ling to'German reports, the total number of persuns deported now exceeds three thousand, wnot includ: ing ‘members of families of the depor- ttes who also were required to leave. Marshalltown Towa, April 6th —Twenty seven persons were injured, three pro- bably seriously, .as the result of the wreck of the Minneapolis-Kansas City Jassenger train’ numb r 3 last night on the Chieago‘grea: western, three miles easti ofthis eity.’ Scranton, Pa; April 6th.—The ergi- neer and ?réme?x‘. weré killed tcday w ien a locomotive or." tte "Lehigh Valley .il- way'coal train blew up fifteen miles south of Serantébn.” T'vo other men were in- jured. - T At Uttawa, ‘April 6th.~Fire of undeter- mined origin did damage roughly esti- maied at anywhere from 300,000 dollars tonight, when the premises of the Hugh Carson Company and the Hurdo Co. were destroyed. : Paris, April 6th ?reliminary tests recentlv ' _ ...th the modernizec “reneh battleships indieate, it is official- ly stated, that the sight alterations have improved the firing distance of their 16 inch guns from ‘thirty to forty per cent. While French naval circeles exercise the utmost séerecy as to the ‘exaot improve- ment in the range of the guus, there is a suggestion: that the French battle- ships now out-distance thpse of the other navies of the 'world, gflessthe same process “has been carriéd' out by other nations in the matter of sight elevation. Hastings, April, 6'h.—"*All'this busi- nese about Carnarvan being brdught to his end by magic’is’ nonsénse, and dan- ergous nonsenke; because it goes to stir that rising tide of superstition which seems to be overflowing overthe world”’, said Sir Rider Haggard, inf an address to the Hastings Rotarians today”’. **Where- ever one looks’”, he continued, old sup- erstitions are “revived. *ltis strange and cruel and it‘would make Nero and Domitian” blush if they read:what'is hap- pening ““in -Russia and “lreland today. Have there ever béen more massacres of Christigns than‘within tne last year or two. Every evil force which the world contained seéms since the war to be thrusting -vp its head, but no sensible men believe that the Almighty would permit the spirit of a dead Pharaoah, who was c¢nly a man with a erown on his head, to murder people by magical means. It is ineredible, and as Chris- tinn men we' cannot for a moment be- li>ve that such tlings could happen. If they could, then let us abandon hope. These things are zll very well in the realm of romance. In relating faets, stick to faets, in relating romance, stick to nothing.”’ Zweibruecken, Bavaria, April Tth,— So'many heads of Municipzl Govts. have been thrown into the jail kere by the French and Belgian forces that the pri- son is now known among the Germans as ‘‘the Mayor’s jail’”’. Red Cross in- vestigations have revealed that this pri- son at present holds 41 inmates, most of them being Lord-Mayvors or other officials of towns in the occupied area. Monte Carlo, Apvil 7th.--The interna- tional women’s games, which began here last Tuesday, ended late yestarday. The final events were marred by a heavy rainfall. First honors of the meet went to the British team, which won seven events, France was second with three wins, and Switzerland and Czechoslova- kia were tied for third place, eaeh with one win. Belgium did uot score a win. Essen, April Tth —RBelgian troops yesterday seized two billion marks in paper money in the printing planting of the General Anzeiger at Mulheim in the Ruhr. This money is 3upposed to have been printed in the newspaper plants and intended for use by the strikers in the Ruhr distriet. Mulheim is the head- quarters of the Stinnes works. It is pre- sumed by the French authorities that the Germans resorted to the printing of money on' the spot, because of the difficulties of transporting it into the oceupied region without running the risk of having it seized. NEW YORK, April sth. Flour, (Blended Clears, St. Lawrence Brand) duty paid pr. brl. $5.10 Meal, Kiledried per 100 pounds $2.05. New Season’s Pork per barrel $37.00. Heavy Mess Pork per brl. $27.25. Sugar—Crystals maximum per 100 |bs. ' - §7.28. Mclasses Sugar 8 no yuotation. Cotton, Middling, Upland, at Liverpool - per Ib. 15 64-100 Exchange. New York and London, 60 days’ sight $4.64: Exchange New York and London, sigit ' $4.664 LONDON, April sth. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, per cwt. sds. ‘ . - od.—s6s. od. ‘* Muscavado per ewt. 485.0d-50s. od. *“ White Java’s cif United Kingdom : May and June sellers 295. 9d. Demerara Rum per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, good middling red per cwt. 565. od—sßs. od.