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Foreign O fice, M. Louchyr, Minister of the liberated rerions. M Doumer, Min- ister of Winance, M. Du Bois, President of tha Reparations Commission, M. Ley- | doux and M. Cheysson, the French Fi- nancial exoezrt: at tne Brussals, Confer- | ence, and discassed the entire r-para- tions yu-=sti>n with President Millerand. Ch: report of the Alii2d experts on the sitaacion acissu2 was one inty, and a dacision was reach2d up>n a form in which the fraaseca vizvprint wlll b 2 pre- | sentad 02fore the Supremz Counecil ! tomorrow. The five Powers tn berep- | reseated at this Council will be Great Bricain, WFraace, [taly,. Balgium and Japan. Th2 meetings will ba held in | the famous clozkroom of th: Foreign Office in the strictest of secrecy. They will nave the as)2et of a smail peace eratar2ler A ninb:rof alvisers and | exparis will b 2 at haid, and wiil bs eatied »a, sgrall ascessity for their | pr2szac2 arisa. [ne jqu2stioas £y b 2 dis- | cussad will e»m: uo in tha following | ordzr, unless after an exchang2 of | views, the del:gatas find it advan agaous t) alopt a different progranm: -Dis- arnam2nt of Ga2rmany Rz2parazions. Turk2y and Greeze and the [reaty of | S2vres. War debts between the Allies | and Austria. Exchange and relations between the Allies and the United S:at2s, o 2 disarnam2lc diseiszion is expecied tHy tuarn moscly uodra ch 2 meas- ures (o be 2mployed o hring Germany’ to comply with the peace treaty. As the Allies ar2 supposed to be agrezd that | Garmsav mus: finally disarm effectivaly, . it is understood that France dj2s not | ‘want to apply the penalry of occapation of further (German territory, provided the ! treaty at Spa is coafirmzd. The Repara- | cions Insticution will cone up on tha r- poct of the Alii2d}2xo2rts way mat th2s2e- mans at Brussels, in waich they recom mend that, pending final determination | of the total Germany shall pay fiveannual | instaiments of three billions of Francs | in gold, in whicl. the ninimam in cash | is L 0 be fixed by the Allies. The exverts | shall recommend that Germany bz allov ed to retain 300,000 tons of shippiny, which remains to be turned over to the | Allies, and that the expznses of the | occupation of the Rhineland be reduced. | They wili reject the demands of the Ger- | man experts for the suppression of the piebiscite in upper Silesia for an indefi- nite period. The postponement of pay- | ments in cash, the restitution of funds saquestered abroad, which have not yet | been liquidated, in order that Germany may use them as security for cre- | dits, and a reduction in Germany’s | coal deliveries. They also will propose the suppression of cash advances by the Allies on the price of coal delivered. Mr. Lioyd George and the members of his staff, who aretoattend the forthcoming | repara:ions conference arrived here at 4 o’clock this afternoon. A detailed list of the deliveries made up to December 8 3. CROILX WVi S 3lst. The chief item is coal, amounting to 17,818,840 tons and dyestuffs totalling 10,787,726 kilos were delivered. Madrid, Jan. 24th.—The Cabinet of Premier Dato resigned office today. Washington, Jan. 24th. —Great Britain last year reduced its fioating debt in the United States b& nearly one hun- dred million dollars,” the Dept. of Com- merce was informed today by Consul General Skinner at London. Berlin, January 24th.—A semi-official statzment issued yesterday says that evidence of the existence of a red army created by the German Communist par- ty has been revealed by house to house searches in HKEssen, Dusseldorf, Elber- field and Bremen. The military head- quarters, says the statement is Berlin and there are subsidiary commands in the cities mentioned. The statement declares that the Red Army possess light and heavy guns in vast quantities and other war material. Action was scheduled to begin at the conclusion of the recent strike of the smelters at Hamborn, but it was postponed for a fortnight. A report from Dusseldort says the general of the Red Army has been arrested. London, Jany. 24th.—There were 131 internments in Ireland during last week. The internments to January 15th. num- herad 1,424. iondon, Jan. 24th.—Sir Edward “ar- son is expected to refuse the Premier- ship of i{Jlster and also intimate his vithdrawal from Irish affairs, when he rec~ives an Ulster delegation tomor- row, says the '‘Daily Mail ”’ He will continue his interest in Ireland, the newspaper declares, ‘‘simply as a well wisher from England.”” Sir Edward will go to Ulster next month to publicly announce his withdrawal and attend the opening of the Ulster Parliament, which ceremony the '‘Daily Mail”’ de- clares may be performed by King George. Copenbagen, Jan. 24th. —Reports of the death of Nikolai Lenine, the So- viet Russian Premier, are persisting, according to a Helsingfors despatch to the ‘“'Berlingske Tidende.”” and the anti bolshevik press claims to have further evidence of it. These news papers regard as significant in this connection adds the despateh, the fact that Lenine has ‘not attended several recent meetings of the Soviet Govern- ment officizls, all of which were presi- ded over by Leon Trotzky the Minister of War. NEW YORK, January 26th 1921. ilour, Blendad Clears St. Lawrence [-rand pr. brl. 88756 Meal, Kilndried per 100 tbs $2.00 New Season’s Pork per brl. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $29.00 Sugar---Crystals maximum per 109 lbs : $5.39 Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upiand, at li.iverpool per Ib. 8 99-100 d. Exchange, New York and London, 60 _ days’ sight $3.75 Exchange New York and London, sight $3.724—3.80 LONDON, Jan. 22nd 1921. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controll- ed price, duty paid 1295. 9d. " Demerara Crystals free of con- | i trol, duty paid, 635. 675. | " Moscovado Govt. co trolled price, : duty paid, 1245. 9d. i - free o1 control duty paid e 38s. 50s. | . fine 755. . German Beet 83°/¢ f.o.b. no sales . White Java sugar cif United Kingdom | nominal 425. od. | Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. | Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red no- ; minal per ewt 675. 70s. . Cotto Medium Fine Sea Island, at Liv- | erpool per Ib. nominal { Bank of England rate of Discount per f cent. 7. ‘} Consols 483. | Three per cent rents in Paris Fes. 57.55. | For Sale. | e THE PROPERTIES | No. 7/8 KING STREET, | No. 30 KING’S CROSS STREET and ' No. 48 KING STREET with COTTON GINNERY. | Apply to Lawyer A. E. STAKEMANN. One New Croquet Set. ~pply to APT. R.D. L WhIL, Marine Barracks. & Fe U ’5 [? ¥ - 45 N\ 7,1 N «.:'.'/:f B 2] . g Optical Service YOUR p’rescriptiun filled, and special ground lenses promptly duplicated through the mails. Consult our refractionist, moder- ate-charge for consultation. F. M. CORNEIRO, St. Thomas, 1 &2 ¥V |