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Sebastynol. Nov.: 6th. Eight divi- sions HOf mnfantry aand General Budency’s cavalry made up the Suviet army, the attack of whiech broke the strength of Baron Wrangel’s é?rces it Taurida. These troons advaneing "from Nikopol o-n Nov. 3rd., a tacked both wings of the anti- Bolshevik army. 10,000 of Budency’s men swept southward as fiar as Salkova where Genl. Wrangel’s counter-attack resulted in their surrender. Five columns of su- perior Soviet forces however continued to advance in all dirzctions atong the two hundred mile front and Genl. Wrangel was foreced to retreai. He was success: ful in withdrawing his men, horses and supolies into the Crimean peninsular. Genl. Wrangel’s troops after their vic- tories on No /. Ist. and 2nd, before their withdrawal, ar2 said to have sort d from the prisoners and shot hundreds of Jew- ish polshevik commissaries as well as Hungarians, Rnmanians, Chinese and Germans. Following the total route of the Boisheviki on Nov 2nd , Gen! Wran- «gl-slowly withdrew his line toward the watkovo railway, where it united the uniis which had peen holding the Soviet forees below Melitipol. In explaining his retirement, Genl. Wrangel said “'in vie v of tha absolute superiority of the enemy’s numbers which. allowed the Bol- shevik to replace their losses, it,was de- cided to withdraw to the Crimea Our troops are tired but their spirits are good. The retreat was conducted with out pressure from the enemy.”’ Constantinople, Nev. 6th. —British and French represeptatives nere have asked their Gavts. ifez(l:leir warsnipsin the RBlack Sea waters should support Genl. Wran- gel at Perekop and Sglkova, while the Soviet forces are pressing on the Crime- an Peninsula: Meanwhile fresh supplies of rifles and cartridges are being hurried to Sebastopol. : Marion, Ohio. Nov.- 6th.—President- eleet Harding and Mrs. Harding and their “arty left here this morning on a special crain bound for Point Isabel near the southern tip of the Texas coast, where Mr. Hardiag will spend 12 days hunuiny and fishing. After that he is to make an ocean voyage tn the Canal Zone and then back to a port in middle Atlantic coast. Washifgton, Nov. 6th.—Commander Terhuné: Naval Governor of Samoa, shot and killed himself on November 3rd.’ says a despatch received yesterday at the United States Naval Deparument. The battleship Kansas was due at Samoa on Sunday with a board of inquiry to in- gunira into the administration of the is- land by Governor Terhune. The_ court was named asa result of charges made by a former assistant to the eommander. London, Nov. 6th7~The '’ F'imes”’ prints a despatch from Rome which gives the Popolo Romano as au'’ hority for the state- _ment that an-agreement on the Adriatic guestion has bee 1 reached, the JugoSlavs , having obtained satisfaction by Italy, repouncing .er claim to Dalmatia. ST G Rigebadae & Y 13 Paris. Nov Tth,—G2neral Wrangel is | still hnlding the Isth aus’ of Perekop, | the only means of inzréss to the Cri- | mean Peninsaiaby land aond the mili- | tary. situation from his standpoint is | not hopeless according to informati'n | which has been received at the Foreign | Office in a report from M. Demartel, | the Frenc:: High Commissioner at Se- | bastopol.. Geanl. Wrangel is confident the Bo]s-?eviki, will“be unable to break through his<line of defence at the isth- mus and invade the Crimea. | Paris, November T7th.—An-agreement reached by France and Grea: Britain I vesterday upon the procedure to be fol- lowed in settling the German repara- tiods yuestion is. received with safisfac- tion at the newspaper offices here. The procedure embraces:——First, a confer- ence of experts at Brussels, second :- a mesting ot Allied and German repre- sentatives at Genevd, third :-considera- tion by the reparations commissiou of the findings of the first two conferences, and fourth :-a mesting of the Premiers to consider the Coimmissions decision. According to Le Petit Parisien a full agreement has not been reached concern- ing the procedure in the fourth stage re- cardine guarantecs and penalties which, it says, the Supreme »Council should pro- vide. -The ‘‘Figara’’ says tue agree- ment deprives the reparations commit- tee of none of its rights, but that it will fix the amount of Fermany’s debt and decide as to her solvency as France nas contended it should. It is expected the first two stages will be covered in time to allow the Geneva Conference to finish its work by themiddle of Febru- ary. Constantinople, November 7th.—The Turkish Government has addressed a note to the powers in which it is declar- ed that the present time is inopportune for the latification of the Peace Treaty by lurkey. # _~ NEw YORK. sth Nov. 1920. Plour, Blendead Clears St. Lawrence brand pr. brl. $9.50 Meal, Kilndried per 100 ibs $2.75 |, New Season’s Pork per brl. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $31.00 Sugar---Crystals maximum per 100 ibs. . $8.03. ‘Molasses Sugar 89°-test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upland, at Iliverpool &er Ib. 15 56-100 d. wxchange, New York and London, 60 ; = days’ sight $3.35 ixchange New York and London, sight : $3.384 LONDON, Nov. sth 1920. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controll- ed price, duty paid 1295. 9d. ““ Demerara Crystals free of con- . trol, duty paid, 83s. Bbs.’ ‘“ Moscovado Govt. controlled price, - duty paid, 1245. 9d. = = free o: control duty paid 60s. -70s. ot s fine 86s. . | German Bect 867/ f.o.b. no sales | White Java suvear cif United Kingdoni . 'a : nominai 80s. od. . DUemerara Kuni, per gal. nominal. -~ | Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red no- ( ! minal per ewt 80s, od. . : v | Cottor Medium Fine Sea Island, at Li\- ! errool per Ib. nominal g . Bank of England rate of Discount per . cent. 7. : Consols 45. ' . Three per cent rents in Paris Fes. 56.20° ‘ - All prices subjecet to correction. | | JOHNSON SENTE NCED | Jack Johmgen, former heavy weight | champion, was sentenced to one year . and a oay in Leavenworth penitentiary | and fined SI,OOO today by Federal ? Judge George L. Carpenter, for vio- | lating the Mann Act. | The sentence re-affirmed that passed | on Johnsen in 1913, when he was con- | victed of transporting a whitegir]l from | Pittsburgh to Chicago. Johnson later fled to Eurove, forfeiting his $30,000 bail Johnson’s first wife committed suicide in §1913, and he thereupon married I i.ucille Cameron, the principal white witness for the State. Since his return to <lllinois Johnson has been boxing daily in his jail cell in antlcipation that he might be released and permitted :o | take up fighting again,— Barbados Globe, ' KING’S FORTUNE TOLD. : TO REIGN 20 YEARS LONGER | ONE OF HIS SONS TO MARRY CHORUS GIRL. .’ King George’s fortune has been told l as follows : i ; Loudon, August 23 ; “You will live to be eighty-seven. . You will die in California. Within an- other twenty years you will have given up | your throne to the Prince of Wales. You * | will become the father-in law ofa cho- rus girl. I do not know which of your sons will marry her’’. . S ; Such is the fortune of King George of England as revealed by a deck of cards. His Majesty was told his for- | tune by the wife of one of the sailors . on the royal yacht Victoria She is said . to have told the fortune of every mon- arch in Europe The King sat for his | fortune as a meatter of diversion on.a - | cruise. “If I don’t die in England I would . "like to die at sea,”’ was his only com- ment at the finish of his sitting, = . : , -.We are not aware that His Royal Highness’ lady friend whom he met in France and sought out and danced with in New York on his visit to that city | has embarked upon a stage career or * joined a chorus ! —llbid. o |