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signed recently at Vienna as a prelimin- ary settlement of the dispute between those countries over §Burgenland, the strip of West Hungarian territory, awarded to Austria by the 'l'reaty of Trianon. The protocol was signed on October 13th, by the Hungarian Foreign Minister M Banffy and the Austrian Chancellor M. Schober. The Austrian Foreign Minister acted as mediator in the megotiations leading to the agree- ment. One of the features of ihe Vene- tian protocol, according to the des- patches at the time it was signed, was the agreement by Austria to refturp Oldenburg, one of the principal cities of Burgenland, to Hungary as soon as Burgenland had been cleared of Hungari- an irregular bands, A number of other provisions were included in the protocol designed to clear up the whole difficulty between Austria and Hungary arising out of the Treaty of Trianon. Naples, Oct. 30th -Several persons were drowned and property damage was caused by a flood of the river Se- belo, which flows through this city on Thursday night. The inundation was caused by a severe storm lastiag for 12 hours. [he storm did serious damage in the Suburbs of this city, houses being destroyed vinyards and crops washed away and cattle car-ied away. St. John’s N. F., vet 30th—This sec- tion o the Newfoundland coastds in the grip of a gale of Northeast wind that has been razing tor the last three days, How far the tempest has extended along the coast is unki,own, as the vires are down in all directions, the railway track has been so badly damaged in a number of places that no trains are running, and news from outside the city is very hard to obtain. Commencing on Friday eve- ning with a heavy blizzard. the storm reached its zenith in the hours of yester- day morning, at which time there were a couple of feet water over the ground igrthe lower levels of the city. Later the temperature rose again and the wind dropped somewhat kut the storm still rages heavily, and a high sea is running outside this port. [he storm was ac- companied by a high tide which did a great deal ors damage to flour and other perishable articles when the waters of the harbour rose so far above their usu- al level as to cover the floors of storage places along the harbour front to a depth of a couple of feet, London, Oct. 30th —Effects have been made during the week end to prevent a breakdown in the Irish peace confer- ence but a continwance of the negotia- tions now seems to depend almost on the willingness of tho Ulster authori- ties to assist in coming in tune with the Sinn Fein. Oitawa, Oct. 30rh --l.ady Laurier is seriously ill and fears are entertained for her recovery the last sacraments of the Church were administered today. S 1. Ukt 1& A Y1 8 Toront> Ont., Oct 28th. -Following the example oif the Enzlish Banks in fa- cilitating the international - trade of Gr2at Britain byestablishing branches abroad, the Canadian Bank of Commerce is opening another foreign branch at Rio De Janeiro. Althouzh Brazil is at present passing through a period of trade depression due not only to the marked fall in values of her coffee, cocoa rubber, meat prhducts, hides, cotton ete, and the situationu is further aggravated by the heavy discount on the value of her currency abroad, she offers through her present population of 25,000,000 a potential :narket for exports from this country which itshould be possible to qe- velop extensively. London, Oect 31st--The Govi. obtain- ed its expected mandate from the House of Commonns tonight to proceed with the Irish negotiations. The Unionist motion censuring the Govt. f{or initiating the Irish negotiations, was voted down 4389 to 43. The Prime Minister also achieved another of his oratorical victories before an expectant audience. So far as che movement of§protest was designed today to draw information as to the proceed- ings of the conference, it failed. The Prime Minister gave no information as to what was d2cided or is being decidcd regarding Mr. De Valera’s claims of in- dependence and the rumoured attempts to arrange cowrcessions trom Ulster for a United Jreland. These remain in sthe realm of speculation. One piece of in- formation the Prime Minister did give was that anless so:nething happeneid withinoa few days, presumably in the confercence, te solve the unsettled status of [relands two Govts., steps would be taken to give the Ulster Parliament the powers necessary to make it a real Govr. Mr. Lloyd George declared tkat the time to question the negotiations was when he first proposed them to thc Sinn Feir by public correspondence last July. Mucn of his speech was devoted to holding t? fore the Commons the prospect of a re- newal of guerilla warfare, if the confer- epce oroke down. He declared the first thing the Govt would have to do would be to ask the House to strengthen the Crown forces, but pointed out th2 cost of ren-wed warefar2 and tne reiuctance of the country 'o incur greater raxation anad ask more young men to risk their lives. He asserted the Govt’s. resolve to retuse councessions, which would ~veaken the Empire, but to explore all paths ro an honourable peace, and em- phasizad the fact that any agreement must be ratitfied by Parliament, The motion of ecensure was proposed by Colonel John. Gretton (Unionist) and seconded by Rupert S. Gwynne. No conspicunus leaders spoke in its suppert. Those who most strongly advocated the poiicy of the motion laid much stress on their protests against negotiating with men who haye denied allegiance to the Crown. Mr. Arthur Henderson, in be- half of the Labosrite, explained that that party favoured the negotiations, although opposing what he termed the previous policy of repression and retali ation. Mr. Asquit’ supported the Govt., but, deprecated the suggestion that a renewal of fighting was the only alterna- tive if the conference failed. 'l'his point of view finds adherenty among asec- * tion of the Irish experts, who be- ~ lieve that a break down of the confer- ence might be followed by a continuance ' of the truce. The comment of one veteran, parliamentarian was that Mr. . Lloyd deorge’s talk of further hostilities - was not intended as a warning to the . Sinn Fein, but to Parliament not to har- - rass those engaged in the negotiation. | LABOR CONDITIONS IN SANTO DO- | MINGO; WAGE REUDCTIONS OF NEARLY FIFTY PER CENT DOES NOT INCITE KICK. (Porto Rico Progress of Ociober 21, 1981) All the larger mills reduced salaries from 15 to 30 per ecent during the past season and the Dominican Sugar Associ- ation, which comprises all but three of the mills on the south coast, has decided to cut laborers’ wages for the coming crov from $1.48 to 80 cents. ; The great bulk of the field work is carried on by Haitians and negroes fromn the neighboring British islan s. In spite of the arnounced wage reductions no labor shortage is anticipated, for the recent stopvage of the Dominican gov- ernment’s ambitious public works pro- gram has thrown thousands of peons upon the labor market. Since ‘he cost of foodstuffs and eclo:hing has fallen appreciably, it is beiieved that the wage cats amount to no more than the drop in living costs. —Contributed. - - CAPIURED BY BANDITS. Advices Irom Santo Domiago dated October first, informs us that Mr. J. A. Steele, administrator of Angelna, the second largest sugar estate in the repub- lic was recently captured by bandits. It appears from information given us that the bandits were taking him to one of their fastnes es when the main body wvas encountered and defeated by a patrol of Marines. This fact was not known to Steele, who upon agrecing to ‘certain con- ditions’* was taken back to his hom> the following evening by the bandits. These “‘certain conditions’” Steele would not disclose. but they are supposed to be the payment ofa ransom as a demand for $5,000 was made upon him a short time before his capture. The name ofethe leader of the '‘gavil- leros’’ is the well known Ramon Navelas. - St. Thomas Mail Notes, Oct 21st.