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Wireless from Captain stated e had started this morning in tow of ve.sel for this port. : WASHING fON: Disappoving br th Gra- ham and Sterling sedition m¢asu 28 over which there has been so much contro- versy Attorney-General Paliner in a let- * ter tocay tov committee’s Chairm:n pro- posed new measure which would rovide fines ot to exceed ten thousand. dolars and irapriconment of not wore than twenty vears for persons cenvicted of attempti g (o overthrow the Geve nment or of violence against its employees or agents in discharge «f their offivial du- ties. Letter received as Gompe's weas enterii 2 protest against terms ot ocher measures on grounds that they would ovpress all classes of labor. AEVW YORK: ~City’s NavyClub where sailors and marines will have a home on saore t2ave was put into commission last nignt. Buiiding was donated by Volun- teer Puiriotic Committee which raised tunds. It is centrally located and eguip- ped. with uptown ccnveniencas ard, suc- caeds tae War Time Club wajch Iccom- modated over. two hundred thousand Sators and Marines during wai. ANNAPOLIS: Pilaying batter defen- siveand offensive game than Virgiria Na- vy Bas.et Ball elevan yesterday won by score ol thircy four to fifteen. TELEGRAMS oS GROLIX- STATION. Chiee 20, Jany. 20th.—The epidemic of influenza continnes. to spread anc calls for nurses ace ‘bzing jissued. At least ten chousand being required to handle the sitaiatio: properly.. Tlhe diseise is repocte b to be.of a light type. Waspingto.u, Jan. 2lst:—Accord.ng to an otfie.al report. there is every pre babil- ity hat the n w republic of Polanl will soor be defending its own indepet dence aoainst a massed attack of the 80l hevik fosces i1 Russia. ‘The concentrat on of arits of the Red Armies, the forced en- listmen of peasents and the. activty in the state-owned munition works, pcint to this development. : - Pavis, Jan. 21st.—The Supreme Coun- ilhs edopted the Anglo-French- ;ropo- sals regardine the trial of those gui'ty of crimes incidental to the war, and ‘vhose <urrond:r will be demanded ol Geriiany, {;onden: Jan. | 21st.—The *"Pall Mall” Gazctte's ‘Dublin corresponcent :tates that the Lord-Lieutenant, Lord v:nch, has beccme a convert to Home Rul:, he beine ccovineed that the only method of dealing with ireland is the eorcession of the tuliest measure of autoromy, with imperial Supremacy. Paris, Jany. 21st.—With the disband- ing of the Suprame Council witheut a sett|>ment of the Adriatic question, Sig- nor Nitt, deciared that he stood by the ultimatum that if the Juzo-Siavs did nos accept Italy’s terms. she woula with lraw her compromise offer, and Italy would S Tae R 0 L XA Y L 5 demand that France and Great Britain simply exceute the terms of the Treaty of London of April 1915, London, ‘Jan. 2lst.—The ‘'Central News’’ Paris correspondent states that the”Supreme Council will send a force of two hundred thousand to oppose the Bol- sheviki in the Caucasus. The correspon- dent adds that it is reported a serious Communist unrising has occurred in Bes- sarabia, and that disturbances have tak- en place in Sofia. There has been no an- nouncement o the purpsse o. the Su- preme Council to send foices to the Cau- casus. Maita. January 21st.-——Orders were rece ved by naval ships Jasts week to proceed, apparently to the Black Sea. Paris, Jany. 21st.--Mezsetial J.aw has been proclaimed in the principal cities of Italy as a result of a railway strike, according to a despateh from the "'Petit Parisien’s’’ eorrespondent at Turin. The strike, it is stated, nas gripoed the North- ern and Central Distriets of [taly, but the Sonthern distridr is no: seriously af- fected. The {iovernment was able to run a few trainson the principal lines yes- terday, which were heavily guarded by troops and wacbine-cun-. The only dis- orders resorted are from Genoa, where attacks were made on trains. New York, January 22nd.—British ex- change has reached a new low record at the outset of .today’s business, foreign remittances by demand being offered at three sixty and a quarter Canadian money was quoted at nine and thr@e- eighths per cent. London, Jaruary 22nd.—It is announc- ed that Mr Asquith will contast the bye- election at Paisley, for the seat rendered vacant by the Liberal Party. The La- bour candidate is already in the field. Paris, January 2Z2nd.—The ‘‘Temps” says the report that an important Brit- ish expedition is o be sent to the Cau- .casus is incorrect. The only question, it says, is the sendinz of a few instruction units and matesial to the people of the Caucasus whose independence has just been recognized in order to enable them to ficht the menace of a Bolsheviki in- vasion. Washington, Janv. 22nd.—Retaiiaory measures against Canada lor enforeing «n embargo upen print paper have been introduced in Congvess, prohibiting the export ofxoal, slack, shale. and coke for five years. lwelve million tons were exported annually to Canada. Paris, Jany.- 22nd —M. Clemenceau handed o.er the poriiolioof Minister for Wartg M. Lefevre on Wgdnesday, and retireg. o e : . Paris, Jany. 22nd— 'he advance-guard of the German diplomatic mission have arrived and'have taken up their residence at the former German Embassy. Hers William Meyer will be the Charge D’Af- faires. T London, Jan. 22nd.—A new organiza- tion, called the Sound Curremcy Associa- tion, has been f?l‘m(‘\i here to aid in eli- minating the inflation of currency, re- store the par value of the pound stxm" and effect a return to the golG standard. The first meeting was attended by banlk=" ers, economists and members of Parlia- ment, Cairo, Jan. 22nd.—Advices from Da- mascus state that on the seventeenth in- stant one hundred and twenty thousand persons made a demonstration, demand- ingthe Union of all Syrians. with the com- plete independence of their country. The Emir Feisal, son of the King of the Hedjaz, in the course of a speech said that the Union was already assured and that he would accept complete indepen- dence only for Syria. London, Jan. 22nd.—There are in- dications of the acquisition by the Bank of Montreal of 'a substantiai interest in the Colonial Bank, large- ly dictated by the growth of Cana- dian interests in the West indies. The Bank of Montreal will now prosecute West Indian business through the exist- ing branches of the Colonial Bank, while the arrangement also saves the latter bank the opening of Canadian branches. A similar interest has also been acquired in the Colonial Bank by the National Bank of South Afriea, which also means that both institutions will be spared the invading of territory which has hitherto been sevrved by one of thew. The Coloni- al Bank will do business for both in West Africa, and the National Bank the same in South Africa. NEW YORK. Jan. 23th 1920, Flour, Blencdad Clear St. Lawrence Erand pr, brl. $12.70 Meal, Kilndried per 100 ibs $3.57 New Season’s Pork per brl. $45.00 Heavy Mess Pork perbbl. $45.50 Sugar---Crystals (Confirmed by Brokers) per 100 lbs. $7.28. Molasses -89 test pr 150 lbs. no quotation Cotton, MiddlingUpiand, 2t Liverpool per b, 27 85-100 d. ¥xchange, New York and I.ondon. 60 days’ sight $3.57 Exchange New York and London, sight : $3.604+ LONDON, Dec. 23th 1919. Sugar-Demerara Crystals duty paid price. fixed by the Royal Commission per ewts 104s. od. -106s. od. viuscovado, 3%/~ basis, floating terms ih bond, Ditto duty paid. 635. 6d. 95y, od. German Beet 88°/. f.o.b. no further sales during the war White Java sugar cif U. Kingdom eif without engagement. 8. 60. White Java Sugar, cif Uunited King- dom ifarrives before 27th December &5/ Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red per cwt 128s. od. 130s. od. Cottor: Medium Fine Sea Island, a: liv- errool nominal per |b. Bank of England rate of Discount per ‘ognt. 6. &%‘ssols bl 4