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ment that the Allied powers will not oppose Bulgaria’s presenting at the con- ference at Uausanne her arguments for being granted a port on the Aegean Sea. The Foreign Office aunounced that England and France have already de- clared that they weve disposed to await Bulgaria’s claims and that there was no reason to believe that Italy would not agree with their viewpoint. Rome. Oct. 31st.—The I[talian press praises the King for his firm attitude, both in refusing to sign the dceree de- claring a state of siege suhmitted to him by the retiring facta Cabinet, and in e .oosing Dr. Mussolini, as head of the Government. The ‘‘Giornale di Roma” says ‘‘five sovereigns of the House of Savoy abdicated in the past for the safe- ty of the mother country and the present King also would have abdicated rather that that a single drop of blcod be shed in civil war.” London, Oct. 31st.—The “'Times’ in a loading editorial on the question of Brit- ish productions being exclusively used at the British Empire exhibition, which will b 2 held in 1924, says that the object lesson of a self-supporting Empire should ba desirsble enough to justify a special effort to seeure its achievement. The existence of difficulties in the matter of confining the production at the exhibi tion to those of the Empire cannot be dispated, but it suggests that with co- operation and goodwill on the part of ali concerned, most, if not all, of the difii- ciltiescan be overcome. The dominions, colonies and protectorates, the ‘‘Times’ ands, will now have in their hands to make good any imperfections, which mav exist in the machinery for obtaining sup- plies. Ottawa, Oct. 3lst.—An increase of thirty cents per barrel in the price of flour has bcen announced by the Ogilvie Flour Mills, Ltd. the Western Canada Flour Mills Ltd. and the Lake of the Woads MillingCo. This brings the price of flour to six dollars and ninety cents per barrel in carload lots. The old price of sixty cents per barrel was the lowest that flour has been since the beginning of the war. The rise is attributed to the increase in the price ot wheat. The price of flour has been dropping all summer. ; London, Oct. 31st.—There was a slight lull in election oratory yesterday. Mr. Ronar Law have moved into his official residence at number ten Downing Street and is to hold his firste cabinet meeting today. He is still experiencing difficulty in completing his ministry. Mr. Llcyd George and Lord Birkenhead, in recent speeches in Glasgow, made great play with regard to the medicre political ca- pacity and attainments of the statement, who the Prime Minister had gathered around him, compared with those, who had remained loyal to Mr. Lloyd George, and these rersonal attacks on the new administration have caused considerable ST Chho 1l X A VYIS feeling on the part of the Prime Minister’s Licuterants, more especially in their eiection campaign, they feeling their inferiority in comparison with the oppc- nents. ,'. AID FOR/THE NEAR EAST. The plight ¢f the million refugees in the Near Fast resulting from the vic ori- cus advance of the Turkish naticralists cgairst the Greeks hs2s awekened an active sympathy in the United States. As the stricken hordes fled in raric before the Moslem armies in Asia Minor Ameri- can relief societies and 2 merican naval officers in that quarter of the world hur- ried to save as ‘many as their means would allow. Distress calls were imme- diately sent to this country and altruistic organizations have taken uy?le work of the good Samaritan with €fhciecy and determination. The Americar Red Cross at its anrual convention at Washington at once di- rected its Paris and Athens agents to purchase food and supplics for the refugees to the extent of SIOO,CCO. Pres- ident Harding willingly lent a ha" d, and after a conference held at the White House he gave approval to a rationwide call for funds: ‘‘Arecognized and most appealing emergency exsits in the Near East.”” he declared, and he announced that it has been agreed ar the conference to combine all the various agencies in the country engaged in the work. These include the Red Cross, the Near East Relief, the Y. MG/ A., the Y. W.C. A,, the Federal Couancil of churches, the Knights of Columbus. the American Re- lief Administraticn, the Jewish Jeint Distribution Ccmmittee, and others. These organizations are to woik together for &~ fund to be ecail=d “*“The Near East Emergency Fund,’’ which is to be disbursed ina way to do the greatest amount of good. H.C. Jaquith, director of the Near East relief administration, made a tour of the principal points containing refugees, in- cluding Anatolia, Aegean islands and Thrace. He declared the situation was unique as compared with other large re- fugee movements since piactically no able-bodied men are among the refugees. They consist almost entirely of women, old men, childre#” and invalids. He found the Red Cross co-operating with the league of nations committee in the rescure work, and Kemal Pasha was consulted as to the relief to be carried to points under his. jurisdiction. The preliminary steps have been made, the appeal has been issued. and the lives of countless of war sufferers depend on the generosity of American hearts. ‘Mor.ey may be sent, according to Presi- dent Harding’s anrouncement, to KEliot Wadsworth, treasurer of the American Red Cross. Washingtor;, D C.; Cleve- land H. Dodge, trcasurer Near East Relie! 51 ¥ifth Ave, New York; or the Literary uigest, New York. All checks sent for relief purposes should be made payable to the ‘‘Near East Emergency Fund.””—Tle Pathfinder, Oct. 21st BARS LIQUOR THROUGH MAILS. Under an interpretation of the postai laws by Postmaster-General Work all liquors will 1 encefortb be barred from the moails. Ihis includes all intoxicat- ing liquors even when designed for medi- cinal purroses. Dr. Work said that the entire subject is covercd by the U. S. criminal code which provides that ‘‘all spiritous, vincus, malted, fermented or otker intexicating liquors oi any kird sre {tereby declared to be non mailable and shall not be deposited in or carried hrough the mails.”” —lbid. ‘ LUDENDORFF GROWLS AT U. S. Interviewed by an American new:gpe- per eorrespondent Gen. von Lu lendorff, the former kaiser’s guartermaster-gen ral, ard the brains of the German army in the late war, displayed oreat bitter- ness toward America. ‘‘You Americans entered the war for gold,’’ he said; ‘‘we Germans fought for the supremacy of our race.”” German Amecricans, he de- declared, were the werst of the lot. Stat- ing that Le cculd give his family meat only twice a week he declared that Ger- many had been abominably treated ‘“‘but there will come a day of reckoning.’’ That ‘‘loathsome government’> up at Berlin, he said, was made up of bolshe- vists and Jews. He further declared that Jews are at the bottom of all the trouble in the world today, and that America is their breeding centre. ‘‘The German people,”” he as:e ted, "‘will have a monarchy in the mairow of their bones.’”’ The British empire, he prophe sied, will be the next to go. ‘‘By sacri- ficing her fleet and giving Ire’anl her freedom England made the two grea'- est blund:rs in her history,’”’ he said. His message to Americans was to mind their own business and to study them- selves for a change. —lbid. BORN WITH TEETH. The latest child marvel is Louie Flores, of Coney Island, who was born with 12 well developed teeth—six frort teeth and gix molars. In every other respect the child is said to be normal —lbid. I.ASHED FOR LASHING HORS.L.. Clarence Ellis, a farmer living near Zion, 111., who was charged with pbeating his horse until blood ran down ifs sides, was sentence to received 10 stripes with his own whip.—lbid.