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cents. Trading on old orders ccntinued of fair prororticns kut new Lusiress is sti]ll light. Refined futures were rami- nal. London, Nov. Bth.—'Tke Terrible NTurk’’ threatens to play ¢n inrort- p: ¢in the British electicrs. Tle or @.w ovt, ieeface to face with tle issve of “‘war.._ .gering’’ zld all Frglerd is alert tonifht for the fist raikirg of tke machine gurs thrat licuterent Cen- eral SirgCharles BEarirgten is reyaited to have placed alorg tle (Calzta Liicge across. - t Bosphorus. Folitical *“‘big guns’’ wde silent tcday, btut lord Cur- zon, theQForeign Scaretzry, spezkirg before thg city Ccrservatives, ceclared that -the ?mjkish‘,x"ret( nsicrs werld le met with®a: strecrg lerd, ¢xrlaining that Great ;B?ogain would not seek rezce with the Turk® at the exrense of umilia- tion- and disgrace. ‘‘llLe Nationalist would court disagter,’”’ he said. "‘ifthey oppose the streng?x of Great Fritain ard the might of Europe’”’. ‘Mr. Bonar Law is expected to discuss the issue fully at the Guildba)l’ barquet tcmorrcw night, While tle,Conservative orgens are charg- ingMr. Lloyd Geoilge with resyorsibility for the situaticn_as it stands tcdzy, the former Prime Minister’s own followers are takipg a sinister pleasure in declaring that the present outburst by the Turk is due solely to the belief that he can bluff Mr. Bonar Law, where he could not bluff Mr. Lioyd George. Lord Curzun incidentally revealed that the entire “*statement of policy’’ of September 16th, was not a Cabinet document, but issued on the responsibility o1 two or three Ministers.’Althouszh the Lloyd Georgeans cannot sa® so publicly, in view of the possible weakening cf the: British hand they have held all along that the mani- ‘festo was not meant seriously as a call to war, but purely for Turkish cars sfrage- tically and diplomatically the problem is easier for Mr. Bonar Law. The one difficulty' that remains is Chanak. But, while Mr. Lloyd George had to hold Chanak for the sake of British prestige, it is expected, that if hostilities break out. the British forces will be withdrawn ‘across the Bosphorus and the Darda- nelles with those of the other nations, in accordance with the policy outlined by Lord Curzon today of acting in concert - with France and Italy, and the Europeaa shore* held- behind 'the shelter of the fleets.. The result of such action would be an indefinite postponement of th2 Lusanne conference and a consequent delay .in-admitting the. Turks to Thrace. [t is realized there are already consider- able irregular Turkish forces in Thrac>, _but military advisers.here believe wita ~ the French, that Constantinople and the - Straits:can be held -by a relatively small force, provided it is conceptrated ‘on the - Western shore. Lhis would, of course give the Turks power to close the Straits ‘to.peaceful commerce, but the present . British Gevt. belieyes the blockade would 1. CRUO 1 X A VI S rct last; assurarces of sticrg cc-cpera- tion already have keen exclarged and a rvmber of the Cabiret are meeting to- night with General the Farl of Cavan, ( hies of Steff, to decide wlat steps may be recessary. - It is be} 'ved that ciders have ahezdy been issued csrceliing the withdrawal.of British <kiys ¢rd ticeps frcm the dernger zone thicugh the War Cffice ard tke Acmiralty refuse to dis- cuss the metter, ingistirg that the entire tfiairisin tle tercs of Cereral Harirg- tcn ¢s Allied Ccnnmarcer-in-Chief «p the sjot. Tke pcliticien of tle Cevt., Fcwm- ever lecogrize that it is I erdly lealtkhful, just 8 week kefcre electicrs, 1o ecmit ttat wer-like piefereticrs actially are ur cer Gen. Barirgten, te is vrcerstecd te FEsE Teeh ite “«Clly the GLent, to denerdtlat the Ke.. ~ ts inmeciately cease their vidaticn «f thke Mucdania agreement. The Cabiret early today stnmwcned Earl Featty, Fiist sea 101 d to ~crfer cn the Negr Fast cerisis, which Y imestilincie fcute, wlen tke Kem alsts begsn cpplcyire camiristiative measures in Cepstentircp e eld increas- irg the custcns duties. 1t is repcrted. thet unless ‘tke disttilerces stop im mediately. the Allied Hiz b Connissicn- ers will rrcelein ‘martial l: w in (cpstan- tincple. The Sultan islercited to :lave taken vefuge sbcard a British warship. Angered by the withdrawal of French mcral svrypert. the Ken alis's are report- ed.to have laui ched‘a general repiessive movement against “all foreigners, whic! may lead to serious econsequences. (The above despatch is copyrighted in the United States by the New York Herald). Londrn, Nov.9th,—This morning news papers failed to receive their usual quo- tations of news from Constantinople to- day because of the cuttingof the Eastern Telegraph Companys Cabie on the K ‘ma- list side of the Chanak Zone by the " irks and their refusal to permit the Con jany to repair it. So far'as was known here this morning, no hostile act has yet been taken at Constantinople, either by the Allies or the Kemalists.” But the situa- tion is known to be extremely tense, and the insistence of the Nationals in their demands for the Allied evacuation, have made it increasingly critical. London, Nov. 9th.—The Liverpool Au- tumn cup race resulted as follows: Se- lene, first. Poisoned Arrow, second. Monarch, third. _ Washington, Nov. 9th.— Negotiations for the purchase of.the Bahama i lands from Great Britain are favoured by pro- hibition officials, as a-means of checking the rum smuggling evil along the Atlan- tic coast. This suggestion has come up since the concentration of $10,000,000 worth of liquor there for shipment tc the United States, unde: the assumption that the changes of getting it in are enhanced by the three mile limit enforcement or- ders. Great Britain might be induced to “lart with the islands and have the price deducted from her debt to this country, according to the view of officials interest- ed in the proposition. Ferlin, Nov. 9th.—The German pro- posals delivered to M. Barthou, Presi- dent of the Allied reparaticns commis- sions, altkough the text is’withheld, are generally believed to be Ggimany’s re- quest for reparations modifications. Strengly ilfuenced by the findirgs of tke ccnmiittee of eaperts, Ite Wirth Geverrment yrcposes the crgenization of ¢n Interraticnal Banking Syndicate {o 1 egotiate control the stabilization and a lcen with the cocperation of Ithe Reichs- terk. Tte Coverrnent also requests tenjerevy exen pticrs from reparaticn go.d raynents ard celiveries of: gueds in kird and coal ¢nd willagiree to preceed with the wcrk of building up the devast- ated zreas, which enterprise is to be firenced with an interral lecan. While the n«n bers «f tle lej amraticns ccmmis- sicn Cecl ne to discuss tke feasibility of the I¢ccn n¢ndaticrs sutmitted by the exrerts, German cfficial c¢ireles profess to believe (hat the ertente’s representa- tives «re whlolly in synpatby with the indeper dent inquiry carried on at the instivction of the German Government. It was definitely stated today that the ccmmission would not arrive at any deci- sion in Eerlin, but would leply to the German Government from Paris after reviewing the ults ol its Berlin inves- tigations. Chicago, Nov. Bth.—Supporters of les <tringent prohibitio.” laws scored heavil} .o at least fourstatus on Tuesday. I Illinois, an expression of sentiment on the Volstead act favoured m~”"" Aation by tapproximately 600,000 - ith a negative 200,000 with . states reported, California dete... e state entorcement act by a 2 to 1 vote, Missouri re-2lected Senator Reed, an avowed opp - nent of prohibition, and New Jersey sent Governor Edwards, also avowed against prohibition, to the Senate. The Demc« cratic party of New York State which overwhelmingly put Mr. “mith into the Governor’s office, had the entire state ticket run on a .platform with a plank calling for light wines and bzer. Wis- consin also re-elected Senator Lafollette, an anti-prohibitionist. In Ohio, the wets were the winners. In the seventh Min- nesota Congressional district, representa- tives Volstead, father of the prohibition act, was defeated Ly the Rev Kevale, who however, has described himself as “‘deyer than Vo!stead.” Rome Nov. 9th.--Premier Mussolini has telegraphed to the [talian High Com- missioner at Constantinople stating that he favoured 2 united front by the Allies regarding Turkey. The suggestion of a postponement of the Lausanne confer- ence, -the Premier said, had emanated from Great Britain, and Italy had agrecd to it on condition that the delay should be very briet, : B e