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Paris, March 14th.—The Press attach- es great imnortance to the project o: the Govt, re-estahlishinz diplomatic relatins with the Vai.can. The moderate pa.- ties express their satisfaction, but those of the extreme left no not approve, re proaching the Vatican with its conduct during the war. A telegram to the '‘Ma- tin’’states that the Pope expressed zreat satisfaction upon learning of the project of the French Government. Paris, March 14th.—The famous boxer Carpentier, champion of Europe, has sailed from Havre for the United S:ares, to arrange the conditions of the ma ch to take place between him and the Ameri- ean champion Demp)sy. Berlin, March 14th.—The Goverr ment has discovered a monarchist plot in con- nection with the recent anti-I"~ench incidents and several arrests have been made. Zurich, Marech 14th. A despateh from Sofia states that durirg a conference an infernal machine was exploded, four persons being Kkilled, twelve wouinded and many others buried in the ruins. Several arrests have been made. vondon, March 14th.—In his first article in the ‘‘Revue Des Deax Mo:ides’’ M. Poincare points out the attemts of - the Germans to obtain the revision of the treaty of Versaiiles. He deriands that the Anzlo-Saxon Allies, befors (isten- ing to the Germans, should throw a glance at the devastated regions of France and says that having pa2id for vietory with their own blood the free nations have the right to claim dan ages. Berlin, March 15th.—The triumph of the monarchists is not yet c2ctain. Gen. Von Knapp has thrown out Hevr Bauer, taking possession of the bui dings occupied by cne Govt., but opinion 1: very divided an'i the loyal democrats have barricaded chemselves in the Egstern part of the city. The new Govt. has established a Press Bureau, whica de- clares that the change of regime will in no way affect the carrying out ol the peace treaty. The members of the Bauer Govt., after an ultimatum from the Monarchists, fled without handisg in their resignations. President Eberc and his wife also fled upon learning of these events. The Allied Missions are pro- tected by troorzs. Although the new - Govt. may have monarchist in:zlina- tions, it has the intention to re-estab- lish the monarchy. A cabinet is )eing organized with specialists in ail the ministries. Berne, March 15th. —Advices rec:ived from all the provinces of Germany state that th2 change of Govt. at Berlin was affected peicefully and the country is quiet. - Paris, March 15th. —Prominent oflicials of the Min:stry: of Foreign Affairs say that President Wilson is opposed to the resumption of ecommercial relations with Russia as long as the Boisheviki are in g1 Ul X A VWS power. and that he is working to pre- vent i¢. 3000 ~DIE D VILY . IN PETROGRAD T Prof. Zeidler Telis Heavy Toll by Chol- er , Tvphus ard Influenza LIVING CONDITIONS ARE ‘'INTOLERABLE’’ Helsingfors, Saturday. Feb. 14—Re- ports of serious living conditions in Pet- rograd have been received by Prof. Her- mann Zeid >r of Viborg, showing that typhus, cholera and influenza ave taking a eavy toll of the depleted population. He will have charge of the Knssian Red Cross relief work ir ‘Petroorad when Russia is opened to the outside world. The reports state tha vp toJan. 15 deaths in Petrograd recacied a total of 3000 a day. The coffin factories ccuid turn out cnly 1000 coffins daily. and most of the bodics were being carried into the country on sleds and left in the snow. Mary bodies were being dropped ttrough the ic in the River Neva. Funerals v ere prohibited. owing to the scarcity of lorses and beczuse of the de- pressing efisct oY funeral processions on the people. . “*CONDITIONS INTOLERABLE’’ "‘Living conditions are intolerable”’ said Prof. Zeidler. 1t costs 30,884 Len- ine rubles a day for food alone. ?@3 ro- grad at night is without lights and there is very little water. Houses are flooded by the bursting of frozen pipes. The sewers are stoppzd and sanitary condi- tions are deplorable. A month ago the number of typhus cases was ¢J)O a dayv and steadily increas- ing. Hospital corditions are indesecriba- bly bad. Ti ere is no linen for the beds, no medicinecs, no soap and no disintect- ants, the last of the supply of sublimate having given out Jan. 1, when 35 d'sin- fecting starions were closed. *“The penple have given up here and do not wisnnt to live. They make grim jokes amon; themselves as to how much ionger they will hold out.”’ RED VEERSION DIFFERS Prof. Zeidler’s information is wholly at variance wich the cheerful account given to the Associated Press eorrespondent by Sergius Zorin, a member of the Bolshe- vik committee from Petrograd that eame to the fron:ier to receive the Russians deported from the Unitéd States. He said every resident was obtaining one and one-quarter pounds of bread daily, while Prof, Zeidler asserts that twooune- es of flour is all that can be supplied even 1o the favorzad classes, the non-Bolsheviki receiving none at all. Zorin declared that there was no scar- city no v of wood, and that some coal had been received from the South. On the other hand, Prof. Zeidler says: **Woodis 30 difficult to get that the peo- ple are not permitted to burn it in stoves. Those living in tenements huddle togeth- er for warmth in rooms on the lower floors and sleep there. They count them- selves lucky if the temuverature of a room is one degree above the freezing point.”" l_?oston Herald. The new year will be a busy one for the Junior Red Cross. Already more than 11,000,000 American boys and girls have been enrolled, not only in the Uni- ted States, but from everv distant corner of the land and sea v’here the American flag flies—from school centres n Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, Panama, and even from the newest of Uncle Sam’s possessions, the Virgin Islands. -—The Youth’s Instructor, March 9th. Mauna Loa, Hawaii’s great voleano, has burst forth in another eruption, hurl- ing a stream of lava twenty tc thirty feet deep and one thousand feet wide down the mountain side into the sea. A ~ party of scientists who made their peril- ous way to within a mile of the fissure, - reported a new crack from which flowed ' a lava strean. a mile wide, while lava columns, three hundred feet across and three hundred to four hundred feet high, issued with a tremendous roar. One molten stream, flowing twenty miles to the sea with extraordinary veloei y, has built a quarter-mile-long cape, the ocean meanwhile bniling for half a mile around, causing a small tidal wave.— Ibud. | One of thel rgest and most accurate clocks in the world is that in the West- minster Clock Tower of the houses of Parliament in LLondon. This gre t time- piece was built in 1850. It chimes the . quarters on four bells, and strikes the ' hours on a bell weighing thirteen tons, | called "‘Big Ben.’”” The pendulum is fifteen feet long and weighs 680 pounds. ' The four dials are each twenty-three feet | in diameter. The minute hand on each . of the dials is sixteen feet long, and the ' kour hand nire feet long. This famous . timepiece was recently overhauled and . cleaned, th¢ operation being so thorough . that it is believed the clock will not need ' attention again for fifty years or more. ' ~ This last cleaning took four vears for completion.—lbid. | A quarter of a century ago a Japanese named Yamaguchi was employed as a window washer in a big San Francisco hotel. Today he is the owner of a chain of palatial hostelries, in~luding the o e where he once worked as a menial.— Ibid. Two superdirigibles, the largest in the world, are being planned for by the United States Navy. One of them. now being built in England, will atremnt a transalantic flight next fall.— Ibid. The “hinese ambassador to the United States owns a typewriter with over 1,800 keys.—lbid.