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LOCAL YTlg S. S. Guiara’ is expected to leave New York on the 26th inst. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATICN. Simla, April 14th.— The Public Health Commissioner states that there has been a rise in the mortality frem the plague which began in December last and which caused 36,000 deaths uvp to the end of Marcb. In the estimate for the four vears the mean average shows 14.00 deaths bad been caused each vear. This rvise in the number of deaths is se:ious, a5 it shows the plague is ready to assume enidenie preportiorswhen the conditions therefor are favourable and public health measures are neglected to any extext. Hnowever, favourable conditions arve pres- ent now in good harvest and the atmos- pheric conditions. India sheuld make an organized at'empt to stamp out the plague, which so tar she has no* done, Paris, Acwiil 14th.—Tle French and Beigian CGovernment Vinsters at their n.eeting here yesterday afternoon de- cided upon new measures o!f pressuve (o bo applied to Germany if she remains nn- yielding on the rcparations gues.ion. The nature of the measures was not dis- ciosed, but the Ministers announced in an official communique that they aie de- termined to continue pressure until the Berlin Government makes direct over- tures for a settlement. Berlin, April 14th.—Leadirg employ- ers and vepresentatives of the workmen of all industries and shades of opinion in the new and oid occupied territory, who are meeting at Berlin this week, have unanimously decided to pursue their policy of passive resistance to the meas- ures taken by the Franco-B:<lgian ce- cupational authorities. The conference reiterated thut the starting p.int of any pegotiations with the Franco-Bel- gians must be a guarantee for complete evacuation of the occupied tervitory, in- demn;ty for damages during the cecupa- Lon, release of persors arrest=d and the return of those expeiled. 'Th2 aim of such negotiations, it was added, must be the conservation of the In e-German territory and a settlement of the repara- tions problem which will enable the Ger- wans, while accepting all bearable obii- gations, io live and work “like free men’’. Desmoines, April 14th. -In the pres- ence of an audience of seieral thousand men apd women, including feminine leaders from all parts of the United States SLord Robert Cecil last night ad- dressed an appeal to the women to furiger actively the cause of world peace. Conecluding an address in which he had outlihed the zccomplishment of the League of Nations and the hopes that are held for its further usefulness, the British representative in the assembly =1 L B X A ViR of the League said:- *‘l have no request to make to you, no alvice to give you. I wait with interest any comments or auestion. you may have to make on the matter. | ean only say this. Do not, | bescech you, forget the importance of the question, important to all alike, but perhaps most of all to women. Think I pray you, f the sufferines of the late war, sufferings whi'h vou yourselves must hLhave endured, sufferings which have been more widely and aeeply felt by other nations of the world. Think of what is still going on all over the world, unrest and disquiet, passion and hatred which are oppressing more everywhere. Do not in the presenc» of such events pass by on the other ‘de. We cannot avoid our resvousibilit . s human be- ings, weare ali member. of one family. This is an absolute truth, an avoidable fact”’. The mesting to which Lord Rob- ert Cecil spoke was a public mass meet- ing held by arrangement of the National League of Women Voters. in convention here. The speeeh throughout was ad- dressed to wonien, and phrased to inter- est them. lord Rob rt si. ‘'‘Women have, or cuzht to have, a special passion for peace. 1 know in iny country there is searcely a woman who has not suffer- ed some terrible loss in the lite war, a loss more terrible than the loss of her own life. Ido not know how it may be in America, but in Burope we are esking how this thing can ba stopped for the future and it is ™ make some contribu- fio~ towards an asswer to that, 1 am here. Not that |1 have a cut and dried plan to force down your throats, butI have some information to give vou, and I look torward, [ hopes=not in _.an, tor some helpful suggestions frorn you’’, New York, April 14th. Senator Borah L. v, lep'ying here last night to the recent League of Nations speecnes of | erd Robert Cecil, declared his convie- tion that no peace leacue ‘‘ean funciion for peace’’ until war has been ouilancd as an institutior. the present feague, said the Serator, rot only had faiicd v make war & erime, but had been domina- ted by Governments which convine d the United States people they-‘"do not want peace upon any terms compatible with equality and justice’’. He added that the proper fi-lu ior dissewinaiion of a gospe! of peace was the old worid and not the new. Londor, April 14th.—The Internation- al lugby tooibail series re:ehes its last stage today, when Irelaid t avels to Paris to contest the tenth ganme of the Franco biiti' h fixtures. T'he game 1s interesting chiefly tor the tlzei that 1t will decide which ccuntry finishes up at the bottem of the llnterrational tuable. The chamypionship was annexed by Eng- land wken they defeated Scotland ut Edinburgh en March 17th, thereby tie- gistering tfeour straight wins. The Scotch- men canie second in the table with three wins, while Wa'es and ireland have each wobp one came. France has gone through the serics without a win, has had the largest nun ber of peoints scored against, with the i« west for. Dublin, April 14th.—Irish Free State trcops this morning captured Austin Stack, former Republican ‘‘Minister of Heme affairs’’, according to the Ex- change Telegraph, The ¢x minister wes hidinz in a diteh in the ncuntains near ( lormel, in the district where Liam Lyrch was captured recently. T.ondon, April 14th.—Ie Valera has apparentiy eluded the|lFrece State trocirs under General Prout, who has tbeen searching for him in the Tipperary moun- tain areas, szys a Dublin despateh to the Central News teday. The whole district was thorcughly combed yesterday by thousands of soldiers, aided by airplancs. Several priscrers were t:ken., Generul Frout expressed the opinion that the I¢- gion had been cleared of lrregulars. Capetown, April 14ih, —Premier Smuts in a speech here yesierday dwelt chief- lv on the ‘‘rapidly developing erisis in Eurecpe where forces are being :et go- ing, whebin the end may ruin Euroje- an civilization.” ‘l'he policy of the Brit- ish Empire, he said, ought to be elearly defined to the world, <o that sthere would b: no doubt or misuadcis.andings. *'lt should speak,”” the Fremier continued: in a sincere, impartial fiiendship and humble loyalty to the cause ¢f peace, before it is teo late. 4 trust it will rea- lize the greatness and glory of its peace- ful missien and speak the ®reat word which, with the excepticn of Ameriea, it alene can stiil syeak among the nations of the world'’ Washington, April 14:h —Earth tre- mors of moderate intensity were recorded yvesterday by the Georgetown University scismograph. ‘lhe disturbance began at 10 42 and reached a maximum at 11.20 and died cway at noon. Father Tondos, in charge ol the observatery, estimated that it was centered 5,100 miles tron Washingten, apparently south. I'ubhin, April 14th.——-As soldiers of the Free State were looking all over freland for ainena De Valera, the leader of the insuisents tempied the tates on Fridey the 13th, by Issuinga sta‘ement toh s adherents. From the fasiness of { e Lipperary mountains e Valera appealoa to itte soldiers of the Republie as toiows: 'Renew ai the bier of your dead chief, Liam Lynch, your devniion to the ite- pubi can cause, whien 18 inmmorial. ‘Ihe weariness from the exac:.ing struggle and iemporary iosses and deleats cannot prevail against our uitimate uvivwmph’’, Constantipople, April 15th. —Hassen Fehmi Bey has resigned as Finance Minister. He tosk this action because the Great National Assembly supported ihe war minister’s demand for an addi- tional credit on the greund that war was still not impossible. : ‘