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afoot in both camps for a reunion of the Asquithian and Lloyd Georgi:n Lib- erals, according to the Parlizmentary correspondent of the Times, who asserts that Mr. Lloyd George introduced the subject at a meeting of his supporters, giving them to understand that he was willing to take the first step towards such reunion, if assured that his appearance would pot be rebuffed. The subject was also mentioned in a meeting of the As- quithian Liberals, however, the opinion seemed to be that a reunion was not yet a practicable poliey. Dublin, Nov. 24th.—Miss. Annie Mac Sweeney, who fasted cutside the gates of Mountjoy Prison since last Friday, as a protest against the impriscment of her sister Mary, was removed by frierds last evening to a private nursing home. She was in a very weak condition and refused to take food and orly swallowed some water. In a letter to the newsra- pers Mary Mac Sweeney who has been on a hunger strike for twenty days, says that her sister received the Sacrament ¢n Wednesday and was given Extreme Une- tion. Mary now refuses visits frem the prison doctors and nurses, She is attend- ed day and night by her fellow prisoners. Yame, Nov. 23rd.—Baron Sonnino, e RTEE Gs Aty and also Foreign Minister during the great war, died to- night. London, ‘Nov. 23rd. —The opering of the business session of Parliament todav quickly revealed what is likely to be the paramouant question in both Houses, apart from Irish legislation for which the sassion was especially called. 'The key- note of this was struck in the King’s speech on unemployment. The tenor of the opposition speeches in the debate on the address was to press the Prime Min- i ter oreceive an unemployed delegation, this, however, Mr. Bonar Law seems de- termined not to do. In a further ieply to the renewed request for an interview tonight, he refused again on the same ground, namely that orderly administra- tion will become impossible, if every group, desiring to raise a departmental question, ignores thee responsible Minis- ter. Lord Birkenhead in the House of Lords referred to the extreme gravity of the unemployment question for which no statesman yet had devised a remedy. This may perhaps be taken as an indica- tion of the line .of criticism the Lloyd George party will follow. Mr. Clynes will move an amendment to the address, exp ssing regret that th: government nas no proposal for an, adequate treat- ment of the unemployment problem nor any indication of policy to enable Euro- pean customers to buy British goods again, and so restore international trade and stabilize international exchange. Mr. Snowden, Labourite, will second the amendment. London, Nov. 24th.-—=The first division « in the new House of Commons, whie occurred this afternoon, was carried by the Government by a majority of 103 = LU EO3R &V 5 against the Labour opposition, when Mr. Bonar Law moved that the Govt. be em- powered to take all the time of the House for Govt. business during this session,the Labourites opposed it. The Premier’s motion, however, was carried by a vote of 239 to 235. Washington, Nov. 23rd.—The utter- ances of ex-Premier Clemenceau came under fire on the floor of the Senate to- day, ina debate reviving many of the issues of the Versailles treaty fight and covering many more recent problems o” international relatiot'ship. Discussing the mission of the French war-time Pre- mier to the United States, begun by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, of the Foreign Relations Committee and the Wilson administration leader during the- treaty debate, with a speech declaring that M. Clemenceau’s’ attitude toward’ Germany had been such, as to detract somewhat from the effectiveness of his appeals to the people of the United States. ‘‘While M. Clefmenceau has not been knowr as an extreme militarist, as eompared with the Poincare and some nther statesmen’’, said Senator Hitch- cock, ‘‘he has established a reputation for representing an entirely ha sh policy toward Germany’’ The Nebraska Sena- tor added that Lis purpose was not so much to eriticize M. Clemenceau, but rather the poliey of the French Govern- ment toward Germany. . Sanator Borah, Idaho, leader of the irreconciliable op- position to the Versailles treaty, which M. Cletaenceau thinks the United States shouald help to enforce, issued a state- ment b'untly charging that M. Clem- enceau, himself as the man, who domin- ated the Paris peace conference, was chiefly responsible for the very condi- tions of misery and destitution in Eu- rope, which hLe is complaining abou®. Senator Hitchcock ecalled upon M. Ciem- enceau to explain to the American peo- ple, why the Freach Government main- tains 30,000 black troops on the Khina. He wanted to kncw particularly, he said, whether the French are dehberately trving to provoke the Germans into war- fire. The Senator commented as follows: Senator Caraway, (Arkansas). ‘'France seni ap env~y to the United States once before in an effort toenlist aid for the revolutionary Government. That envoy was sent home. M. Clemenceau’s speech would have been a good one, if conditions were, as he wanted them, but they are not”’. Senator Edge, (New Jersey). ‘‘The appeal made by M. Clemenceau for assistance from America, w~ith a threat of a new war, as the alternative, is not in good taste, and wiil accomplisn noth- ing’’. Senator Noiris, (Nebratka).. “‘The Ameitican people are against entangling aliiances. They lave so declared in every election eid sinze the treaty w.B submitted. ‘lhat ought to settle it’’. 5 London, Nov. 24.0.—11 he annouic s ment ol the execution iu Dublin of Mr. Erskine Childers was received hre shortly after noon today. Itcameasa surprise, as it had been believed the Free State authorities would hesitate to impose this penalty. The execution of Childers removed the most important figare in the republican movement in Ireland next to Mr. De Valera, with who, Childers, a man of strong personality, is generally credit- ed here with having had strorg irfluence. To Childers is ascribed perhaps the lead ing part in engineering the present armed revolt against the Free State Gov- ernment and he was known as the mili- tary strategist, who rlanned the opera- tions. It was to Childers that Mr. Win- ston Churchill referred. as ‘‘that mis- chievous renegade, that Englishman, who is inspired by an equal measure of hatred both for this island and for the one in which he has now taken up his akode’’. The opinion has been frequent- ly expressed in responsible quarters here that the Free State authorities could lay their hands on De Valera, as. they did on Childers at a y time they desired, but they did not wish to do so in view of the possible aftermath. The guestion, which immediately sprang into the minds of Londoners interested in !rish affairs, was rather the Irish Republicans would attempt reprisals and it seemed tn be thcught rot unlikely that these would have to be reckcnea with. Paramrib)y, Du:ch GGuiana, Nov. 24th —Lieut. Hinton arrived here at 2p. m. from Georgetown, British Guiana. L ausanne,Nov. 24:h. --The plan to hold two distinet conferences on the Near Eastern question, one lor re-establish- ing peace between the Alles and Tur- key, ard the second to fix the status of the Strairs of the Dardanelles, has been abandoned, it was stated, and the pro- blems of the Stiaiis has been merged into the gereral conference. London, Nov., 24ih.—There will bao 1,100,000 unemployed in England by the first of the new year, the House of Com- mons was informed by the ex-Minister of Labour, Dr. MacNamara today. The only true remedy for the situation, he said, is a revival of trade. Dublin, Nov. 24th.—General Killoy and 70 men of his Irregular foice have been captured by General McKeown of the Free Srate army, near Newport. The capture was due to an encircling movement by the National forces, which had been in progress in County Mayo during the past few days. Athens, Nov. 24th.—1he cabinet has resigned und the political situation is extremely complicated. -The mihtary authorities are taking an uncompromising attitude regarding the former ministers who are on trial charged with treason. London, Nov. “s.h.—Manxmen the world over will be sorry to learn the p etty village of Laxey, Isle of Manx, has ben destroyed by fire. The famous Lexey Lead Mines at this place, which r:opened only three months ago after navit g been closed down for a prolonged period, employed practically the whole population of Laxey.