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Danizll of So.nersetshire, E. [yldesley of Laaeasaire, Dipper- of Gloucestershire and Vine of Sussex all scored over 100 in tlie championship cricke* matches to- day. Vine made 202, Tyldesley 244, the highest individual total this season. Mid- dlesex beat Yorkshire by four runs, the scores being: Middlesex 105 and 261. Yorkshire 169 and 193. Surrey 294 and 291 for seven wickets. Bert Pent, 192 and 341, by their wicket Somersetshire 269 and 252 beat Hampshire who scored 526 in their oniy inning defeated Warwick- shire by an ‘nnings and 38 runs. fssex beat Derbyshire by 194, Sussex who made 322 in their first inningis, defeat- ed Northamptonshire by 10 wickets. Leicestershire lost to Gloucestershire by 30 runs. Kent remains at the head of the cnampionship table with Surrey now a zood second and Middlesex third. t.ondon Aug. 19th. —The Russians lost theiv bearings in trying to meet attacks on all sides from the Poiish columns on their flank. The Poles continuing their advance, have occupied Kalusyn, 35 miles east of Wawsaw Siedlce fivée m les east of the capital, Miedzyrzyc 20 miles south- east of Siedlea, Wlodawa ua the Bug riv- er, 125 miles southeast of Warsaw. Warsaw. Aug. 19th. The Polish offen- sive now in full swing. more than 1,000 prisorers, 30 cannon, 300 machine-guns and thousands of supply carts have been captured from the Bolsheviki. The Poles have occupied Trionsk, rullusk aud Wyszkow through which the Reds drove in their sweep ‘owards the gapital owing to the Polish pressure front the north- west, it is reported that tie Bolsheviki are withdrawing their - forces which reached the Vistula south of the Prussian border, and to the northwest of War- Saw. Halifax, N. S.. Aug. 19th.—The Secre- tary of the Admiralty announced that Vice-Admiral Sir William Parkenham, K. C B, K€ M G, K.C V. O, has been appointed Commander in Chief of North Amerieca and West Indies station in succession to the late Viee Admiral Sir Trevylyan D.:W. Napier, K. C. 8,, MV O ’ - London, Aug. 19th.—Leon I'rotsky has arrived in Danzig, Secretary to negoti- ativn political and strategic questions with Terman staff officers, savs a despatch to the "Times’’ from Danzig. , Loondcn, Aug. 19th.—The Polish dele- gates at the Minsk conference have re- fused to accept the peace conditions advanced by the Soviet, ior the disarm- ament of the Polish army, unless the Russians themselves disarm, says a wireless despatch from Berlin, quoting a report received from Minsk. Mexico City, Aug. 19th.—The voicano of Popocatepeti is showing signs of activ- ity, luminous smoke being visible above its crater and ashes, falling on the neigh- bouring town of Avyotsingo in the state of Mexico. London,.Aug. 19th.—Yhe Government 1. HaiLa8 Y 1< of Vietoria has been defeated in the House of Assembly b¥ a vote of the pub- ®c service bill. London, Aug. 19th. —Viscount .Jellicoe left today for New Zealand, to assume his duties as Jovernor-General. London, Aug. 19th.—The Times’ Cape- fown correspondeunt indicates that a large number of measures were passed during the session of the South African Parlia- ment which has closed, despite the fact that few anticipated that Premier Smuts could retain office . for five months without a party majority. Manv biils passed involve pringiples which weuld have been completely antagonistic to Dutch opinion, six years back. An important feature of the later stages of sessions was the remarkable im- provement in the. political relation- ship of -all parties. - The Finance Minis- ter showed that thirteen million pcunds, represent the total value of enemy pro- perty held in custody, three million of which had already been paid out to Ger- mans domiciled in South Africa. One million will b= applied to South African claims for debt of property in Germany and the balancze will be beld in South \frica as a loan from the German own- ers for thirty years at four per cent. Premier Smuts claim that this is the most (German action taken by any coun- try and will- be an advantage in the fu- gure. . : : Meibourne, Aug. 20ih.—The FPrince of Wales, having concluded his visit to Australia, sailed aboard the cruiser Re- nown for Samoa en route to England byway of the Panama Canal. Calgary, Aug. 20th.—*‘‘The field of the Cloth of Gold’’ is -how one member cf the Imperial "ress Conference describ- ed western Canada. Mr. B. H. Dodd, editor of the East London (South Afri- ca) daily despatch spoke with enthusiasm ot his trip through the grainfields of the .West. "‘The endless visit fields and the richness and depth of the soil, are the abiding impressions of our tour through this vast granary to the world. He found this country British and British will keep it’”’and R. B. Ben- net, K. C., addressing Calgarians and their guests of the Impzrial Press Con- ference last night, follo ~ving the dinner by the city to the .visiting gentlemen, Mr. Bennett spoke of the difficulties in preserving intact the British spirit in Alberta, in the light of the fact that 75 per cent of the new settlets in the province during the war came from the United States. Viscount Burnham and the Hon. S. C. Mews of New Found- land acknowledged . for the visitors, the welcome accorded them. 7oday the newspaper men were taken by mortor- men to Banft for a two days’ stay to be followed by another d y at Lake L.ouise and Lake Windermere. In response to an appeal by Mr. Bennett, who asked the British it they desire to keep their markets from the United States. to be 80 by means of a tariff ‘and not to pub- lish to the world that our answer suffer from disease when you know they do not, Visecount Burnham emphaticaily declared that the press of Great Britain would be first to stand up for the rights of Canadians in this matter. This was cheered to the echo by the visiting news- bapermen. The main purpose of the visit of the pressmen to Canada, he said, was tc learn by friendly associatio mere of this country than could be learr- ed in many years from the reading of blue books. ‘‘l wish,”’ he said, '‘that could follow in ou: tootsteps. [ am very sorry that the rumour that Mr. Lloyd George was coming to Van- couvet has proved untrue for it is altogether regrei.able that the great- est statesmen in KEurope should not know this position of the Empire. He would find in this new world, reliet from the depression which the constant strain of the contemplation of the rain of Kurope must mean, even a man o’ his buoyant spirits it is a reproach and ¢ scandal that so few of our public men know the empire and lack of that knowledge, should be 2 disqualification for political office of any but a purely parochial kind. England also is largely ruled by permanent officials. What can a clerk in dismal Whitehal know of the empire? [ believe that these officials should travel in the empire too. The argument does not apply one side only. No statesman who is not acquainted with the strength as well as the weak- ness of Gr.at Britain, is fully qualified for public affairs in any part of the em- pire. This blunder is worse than 4 crime and should not be allowed to con tinue. NEW YORK. Aug. 21st 1920 Flour, Blended Clears St. Lawrence I'rand . br. brl. 812 50 Meal, Kilndried per 100 tbs $3.90 New Season's Pork per bri. $39. 00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $33.00 Sugar---Crystals maximum per 100 ibs $12.04. Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upiand, at Liverpooi per |b. 24 83-1004. tixchange, New York and l.ondon, 60 days’ sight $3.55 Exchange New York and london, sight $3.694 LONDON. Aug. 2ist 19920. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controli- ed and free o1 control 1295. 9d. Sugar-Moscovado Govt. eo troiled and free control nominal. Moscovado iree of Govt. econtrol duty paid 1245. 9d. GGerman Beet 88°/. f.o.b. no sales, White Java sugar cif United Kingdon; nominal 110s. od. Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red no. minal per ewt 85s, 04, Cottc© Medium Fine Sea Island. at I.+- erpool per 'b. nominal