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of naked, irozen bodies of men, women and chiidre: were stacked at every sta- tion, the eomrespondent quntes the offi- cers as saying, and the Czechs tock the engines from the hospical tains, leaving tha sick to perish from cold and hun- ger. London, March Bth.—Rear Admiral Grant, vho commanded the Cunard Steamer ‘‘Carmania’’, which was con- verted into an auxiliary ecruiser, when she engaged and sunk the Germar arm- ed mer:hantmen, ‘Cap Trafalga’ off the coast of Soith America on September 14th, 1914, died on Saturday. London, March 9th. The freight rates on ocezn shipving from England would b increased bv at least fifty per cent by gn‘r_nove’r,n’e’nr nOwW in progress, says the Times’”’ in order to meet the high cost of bunler coal here. Coal in the pcrt cf Londor: thi< week will cost nne hundred and filteen shillings per ton, compared with fi 'teen shiilings to eighteen sniliings hefore the war. The newspaper says the coal ean be secured by industrial plants in t e United Kingdom for forty shillings per ton. So heavy is the cost of coal that some owners assert that they have tos ..iously consiler the laying up of their ships. Washington. March 9th.—Unless pro- visiot is made to maintain the proficien- ey o 5 tne present naval veserve by sys- tematie traning the United States Navy within a few weeks will be faced with the same lack of potential man power as when the country entered the war, Sec- retary Daniels today told the House Naval Affairs t'ommittee. London, Varch Bth.—-Mr. Lloyd George announced in the House of Commicas to- day that prompt measures hal been taken by the French Governmont to send reinferce:nents to General Gouraud, Commender-in-Chief of the French fore- es in the East for the purrose oi re-2s “tablishing his position and preveating further attacks on the Armenians, he also said that french ships had airived at Mersina, in Asia_Minor. Regarding Constantinople, the Premeir said 1 enti- cal inscruetions for immediate d-astic action had been despatched to the Allied representatives there, who were acting in compolere accord. Jt would be Inad- visable, he said, to disclose thesz in- strueticns until a reply has bez2n re- ceived. London. Marzh 9th. —Up to noon yes- terday -here were no fresh cases of in- fluenza aboard H. M. S. ““Renown’’. Luck aow. India, March 9th—The oun- cil of All India Moslem Lea~ue has adopted a resclution protesting against the ou. burs: of Christian bigotry in Eng- land in clte campaign to take Cons.anti- pople from the Turks. It declares that ‘nsistence upon this will drive the "Mo- hammedans to desperate actions. London, March &th.—The editor of the ““Cathniic Herald’’ whose trial on the Bl Lo HE koB N charge of inciting the murder of Viscourt French and others in an artice in hs newspaper. was opened at the Cll Bailey Court yesterday. F’; accused wss found guilty today and_, was sentenced to six months imprisonment. Indianapolis, March 9th.—The United Mine Workers of America will refuse to accept the findings of the Bituminots Coal Commissior unless & substantial ir- crease of wages and improved working conditions are provided, it was inferred in a statement issued tolay {rom ftre headquarters. of 'the organizution. tte statemeni deals with the cost of living and says that the Govt. represéntatiors to labour last summer that co:.ts woud be reduced had .ot been fuliiiled. London. Mareh 9th.—My. Charchill :n the House of Coinmons tonight, in repl: - ing to quastions regarding Russia, sa.d that twelve officers and six other ranls of the British Mission had faller in tle hands of tae Bolsheviki and :hat four officers had been shot. One thousard officers were in the army of the Black Sea, but it is not known how lanany aie in Constantinorle. It was stated that the Snviet Govt. had made peac. offers o Japan, Roumanis and the United States, but the British nhad not been ¢ Isulted n the matter. The Home Secretary stated that a requast from a Beilin rewspaper to be-allowad to send “corespondent o London was b:ing consiaered, and it hed been decid>d generally tnat rewspapor representatives from former enmy cou - tries if not undes:rable, micn: be admi:ted to England under suitable condi ions. Washing:.on, }Mareh 9th. —Rear Admi- ral Simms iold the Senate Com nittee of Investigation of th: navy’s conduet f the war, that the failure o the Navy Do- partment to act promptly oo reccmmendi- ations and to plice the entire aaval re- sou,ces of the United States a” the dis- posal of the Allles within siy montks after the United States eniered the wa -, had prolonged the struggle for at least four moaths. He added taat it also un- necessarily jeopardized th: outcome, de- claring that three thousand lives were lost and one hundred millic n dollars were spent every day of the war. The Adm - rai said that the conclusions trom ths statement v/ere,cbvious. London, March 9th.—Sugar n stoek on the 6th. inst. was 58,000 tois. Last vear 164,000 ons. Barbados. March 7th.—The cailing f H. M. S. "‘Renown’’ has been unavoic- ably delayeid by an outbreak of influenza on board. His Reyal Highness tl2 Prince of Wales will saii at the eariies: possible moment, but date of arrival at Barbadcs will be postooned probably by cne week, possibly more Barbades. March Bth.-—The Governor has received areply to his telegram in which he slbmitied the progratmme for the Prince of Wales’ visit. FEis Royel Highness has been graciously pleased to approve of the programme should time permit. It cannot yet be definitely decided at what h.or H. M. S. ‘Renown’ will arrive on the 19th March. She will however require to leave by daylight on 20th so that the programme may require to be curtailed at the last moment. MOORISH MARRIAGES. Os all marriages, says Mrs. Alec Tweedie, in her book, ‘““Women the World Qver,”” a Moorish marriage is perhaps the strangest. By the laws of the country a man may have four wives. If heis poor, he may not be able to 2fford more thar one, or at most two; but if he is vich he ac- quires as many as he ecan manage to pay for and keep. Until a girl is eight or nine years of age, she is allowed to run wild amongst boys and men; but when she rezches eleven she is considered grown-up, and is hidden away, twelve being the mar- riageable age for » woman in Morocco. During this short interlude she is fat- tened for the marriage market, for a Moorish girl's beauty is counted by pounds of fat. When a girl has been sufficiently fat- tened, her father looks about him to find a nice young man possessed of the wherewithal to buy her for his wife. He calls upon the bridegroom’s father, and the two elder men discuss the price, which is usually settled i cattle, land, or jewels, paid by the bridegroom to his would-be bride’s father. Everything formally arranged.the lady is carried to the young man’s home in a sort of miniature howdah on the back of a mule, while all the male friends of both families let off Arab guns and dance and wloop for joy. The bridal box is deposited in the home of the bridegroom, who hands over the money or kind, frequently two or three cows or sheep. He is paying for his bride, and the girlis finally left behind. Seated on a divan, her face thickly coated with paint, alone and heavily veiled, she waits to share her husband’s life. When her lord and mas- ter enters the room and raises the veil, which she clutches with her dainty lit- tle henna-dyed fingers, ancient customs ordains that he should in politeness ut- ter a ery of joy audible to the household listening outside. There is no religi-us ceremony. Sometimes the bride and bridegroom never meet till this e itical moment, But the g'rl is only a chattel, and eounts for vothing more. Her mother ir-law takes her educatior in hand, and almost before the paint has left her cheeks and brows she becomes a sort of under ser- vant to her husband’s parents, who teach her her duties and bring her up in the way she should go.—FEveryday Life.