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there is a majority against the bill they will let it go to a vote and beat it. Paris, Dec. Ist.—Absolute independ- ence for Turkey will be the motto of Sov- jet Russia’s delegation, at the Near East conference in Lausanne, M. Tchitcherin, the Russian Foreign Minister, declared before leaving Paris for Lausanne today. “The Rosphorus and Dardadelles must be opened to all the merchantile fleets of the world’’, M. Tchitcherin said. Lodon, Dec. Ist. -The Liish Bills were passed by the committee in the House of Lords today, the constitution bill un- amended and the consequential proposi- tiops bill with two minor amendments which had been accepted by the Govt. It hes been expected that the bill be- comes law this week but the Peers are prcceeding very leicurely and the third reading of the measures will not be taken until Monday. This final reading and Royal sanction, however, will be mere formalities which ¢ruld occupy only a single sitting by the two Houses. The only noteworthy incident of today’s de- bate was a characteristic, denunciation of the bill by Lord Curzon, former Uni- onist leader, who described the constitu- tion bill as a horrible legacy inherited by the Govt. Lord Curzon declared the real reason, why no alteration was allowed in the bill that England had been beaten to her knees and driven out of Ireland, that she never since had been able to stand up against the powers of organized anarchy and murder in Ireland. Washington, Dee. Ist.—Virtually all basic industries in the United States are showing increased productive activity, according to a Federal Reserve Board Review of business and trade conditions. A generally improved situation in the Unpited States business world was re- ported. The administration believes that the achievements of the Urited States delegates at the Lausanne Near Fast peace conference “‘will surpass the imagination’’, it was made known at the White House today in connection with a statement on behalf of Presidernt Hard- ing that confidential reports showed so far everything is ‘‘going along fine and most acceptable’’ London, Dee. Ist.—The voleano of Stromboli on the islend of that name, off the coast of Sicily, is in violent eruption, says a despatch to the Central News from Rome today. Tlhe volcano began its violent activitieseWednesday. Heavy explosions and earthshocks occurred, breaking all the windows on the is- -I.nd, the whole surface of which was ] cterated with ashes, while lava from tne crater flowed down into the sea. Broken pieces of rock were hurled a thousand yards upwards. The sky all around the vicinity of the island is cloud- ed with smoke from the eruption. “New York, Dec. Ist.—The Majestic, the world’s largest steamship, also be- came the world’s fastest liner teoday, according to the White Star Line, when she completed her trip to Cherbourg em nonl'v AUI © o Lo WAN V 4 LN X¥ ) breakwater infive days, six hours thir- teen minutes, breaking the former re- cord held by the Mauretania o’ five days eight hours ten minutes. Newburn, N. C., Dee. Ist.—Approxi- mately 2,500 persons, mnst of them ne- groes were made homel=ss, about 200 residences, two chupches, two ware- houses and several small stores were des- troyed and the loss is estimated at 1,009, 000 caused by fire, yshich late today swept twenty blocks in the negro section of Newburn. Tne flames gained great headway before a high_ wind at the start because thz local fire department was engaged on the opposite side of the town fighting a fire at the Roper Lam- ber Company’s saw mill where $300,000 damag2 was estimated to have b~en done. The wind tonight had diminish-d and firemen expressed the opinion that they had the fire under econtrol, though several dwellings still ware burning., - lerreeoneqa2, D:c. Ist.—Four hundred are homeless aand over seventy five houses were destroyed when the entire lower part of this town was burned out by fire last night. No lives are known to be lost. ‘l'ne whole business quarter in the centre and lower part of the town, practically all the stores, the town hall, tne post offic>, and the provincial bank building, fell a prey to the fla.nes, which were fannad by a gaie varyinz rrom 40 to 60 miles an nour. ‘The loss is estima- ted approximately at $500,000. ' Rome, Deec. 2nd.—A serious Greek counter revolutionary outbreak has oec- currad in Patras and Missolonghi on the Gulf of Patras in Western Greece and on the island of Corfu, where the British flag is reported to have been raised as the result of indignation over the Greek executions, says & message received here from Athens today. Paris, Dec. 2ad.-—The bankers of Paris decided to strike yesterday in protest against the action of the Frefect of the Seine fixing the price of bread at one franc ten centimes per Kkilogram. An- nouncement of the price was made in a decree published yesterday afternoon. During the war bread was sold for one frane per kilogram. The City adminis- tration is mobilizing all the bakers in Paris to make bread and will distribute it to citizens today in frent of the City Halls of the twenty wards of the City of IParis. Tokio, Dec. 2nd.—The Foreign Office announces the signing yesterday of an agreement between China and Japan concerning Shantumng. The transtier of all Japanese intetests in the province of Shantung will take place at noon Decem- ber sth, when all the Japanese troops will be evacuated. Some matters, how- ever, will be left for settlement after the evacuation. Panama, Deec. 2nd.—All previous re- cords for the number cf ships passing tbrough the Panama Canal in one month, as well as for tolls collected, were broken in November. Reports show that 312 vessels used the waterway. The tolls amounted to 91,264,441. Dublin, Dee 2nd,—National troops en- gaged a pairty of irreguiars at Leixrip, Kildare County, yesterday, capturing 22 of them besides arms and ammunition, There were a few casualties on both sides. The irregulars apparently were marching on to Dublin. All the chief approaches to the C.ty were patrolled yesterday by National troops, part of the plan to ‘prevent any sudden Republican blow befo-e the Free State was legally estabiished. " London, Nov. 30th.—Prince George has been appointed to the battleship Q-een Elizabeth as miidshipman. London, No\v. 80th.—Rudyard Kip- liny has recovered sufficiently from lis reconk operation to leave ‘he nursing home. London, Dec.’ 3td —The Prince of Wales, who has recovered from injuries received in the huniing field, again fell fromy his horse yesterday. while negoti»'- ing a d.fficul* double jump during t e Oxford Tlniversity’s and the Billingt n Club’s peint to voint steeple chase nea: Oxford. T'e Prince was not injure., but did not remount. He returned to the starting point by motor car. Moscew, Dee. 3rd —At the opening of the disermament conference here yesterday Maxim Litvinoff, Russian as- sistant commissiar of Foreign Affairs definitely proposed a reduction of the, Red Army to 200,000, men. He made this conditional, how:ver, on a corres- ponding reduction ir: the standing armies of the States on Russia’s western boun- daries. Pavis, Dec. 3rd.——The bread strike, which began yesterday, bas ecollapsed. The master bakers informed the Minis- ter of Agriculture today that the bak- ing of bread would be resumed tomor- row. The striking of the bakers bhad Jasted twenty-five hours. Its collapse is atiributed to the energetic atticude taken by the Govt. which had indicated its in- tention to use army bakers to meet the crisis. London, Dee. 3rd—The Daily Mail’s Sydney correspondent says that Mr. Hughes, the Premier, was mobbed and and stabbed with a hat pin at a turbulent election meeting at Melbourne. The police rescued him from the angry crowds. The Premier is continuing Lis election tour, although badly shaken. New York, Dec. 3rd. The Cunard lin- er Lusitania, sunk by a German subma- rine in 1915 off the Irish coast, carried neither guns, troops necr explosives, but did carry 5,400 cases of ammunition, the offizial report of the vessel’s cargo made public by Mr. Malone, collector of the port at that time, shows, according to a copy-righted story ,in the MNew York Worid. The cases of ammunition were carried by special permission, under ruling of the Department of Commerce, in force since 1911. =