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casting of news will be inaugurated in Great Britain tonight by the British broad-casting orgarization, which holds she sole licence for broad-casting in this country. The service will be supplied by Reuters, on behalf jointly of Reuters thee Press Association. The Exchange and Central /# :ies. Copiapo, Cge:e, Nov. 14th.—Further terror has bg¥n spread among the in- habitants of §he district devastated by the earthqualg by a strange phenomencn observed last Yight. A line like a great ribbon 1assed along the horiz>n over the sea from South to North, this being re- p:ated every two or three minutes. The people were so alarmed that few slept, fearing a new catastrophe. - Santiago, Nov. . 14th.— Each hour brirgs further detgils of the great dis- aster to Chile caus&éby the earthquake and tidal wave and Wach new report re- ceived from the provitces, which suffer- ed the full force of the convulsion, adds to the list of dead and the enormous damage already recorded. Ottawa, Nov. 14th.—The Railway Com- mission has issued the following. In ac- cordance withthe judgment and order of the Board dated Jaruary 14th 1921 the rate of exchange in connection with shipments of freight between points in Canada and the United States from November 15th to November 20th inclu- sive will be 3/33. of one percent. There will be no surcharge assessed on inter- national business freight or passengers. London, Nov. 15th.—Although the Near Eastern crisis took a distinctly fa- vourable turn last right with the news from Constan®inople that Lieutenant General Sir Charles Harington thought it not yet necessary to proclaim military law, Anglo-French difficulties have not yet been settled, while as Lord Curzon is delighted with the implication in the French semi-cfficial statement that the French will fight, if tie Kemalist attack the Allied troops in violation of the Mu- dania agreement, he sent M. Poincare a long and detailed question, asking just wlat he will do at Lz usanne. Paris, Nov. 15th.—Germany must find some way of getting &G0,000,000,000 marks worth of grain to feed her people during the pext ycar, the Reparations Uommission learned in its investigation in Berlin. As this amount is about dou- ble the present total of money in circula- tion in Sermany, purchase of the grain is deemed impossible, except thiough the speedy financial reLabil:tation of -the country or food credits frcm abroad. It seems to be quite generally conceded that .both the credits ard the food must come from Americd. . London, Nov. 14th,—The first returns from London, the Home Counties and the Soutt of England are expected, as al- ways, to be strongly Conservative, so that real outcome will only be indicated by significant incidents. The balloting is all in.one day but the counting of the 01. LR 1) A Y.SS votes and bulletining the results, is a two days job. Mr. Lloyd George’s whirlwind campaign ended at noon today, ull the oth~~ leaders having subsided yesterday. Lloyd George claims, in addition to nis-own candidates, there will be elected sixty other Liberals, free to follow their inclinations or events. London, Nov. 16th.—At four o’clock this morning the returns for 271 consti- tuenciey out of a total of 616 showed the standing of the parties as follows. Con- servatives 151, Labour 77, Liberals 25, Georgian Liberals 21, others 6. Acclam- at''ns were as follows. Conservatives 31, Ulster Unionists 10, Liberals 5, Georgians 5. Labourites 4, Irish Nation- alists 1. London, Nov. 16tl. ——. <~ o’clock this morning returns indica. 4 that la- bour had gained 29 seats in the polling yesterday. Th= Conservatives were cre- dited with 12 gains, Irdependent Liber- als 13, - 1d Georgians 2. ' I on, Nov. 16th.—The Conserva- ti- .arty has returned more members t- Parliament than all the parties co - .ned, so far as returns completed to : early hour show. The Labourites con next and the Labour Party is consider: due for congratulations, as it alreadv | s a gain of 28 seats. These are all in the congested industrial areas, notably in Glasgow, where the predictions that Labour would triumih, have been ful- filled, and the tesults of the l:st election overturned ky a flcod of Lakourities, the Conservatives ard Georgians Lkeing oust- ed in several divisicns. This =aas the most striking featvre of.tke returns, but may be balarced by counts to be made today. Tle Asquithien Literals gained seven seats, the (creervatives six, tle Georgians thiee zrd tle Irdependert two. Two men kers cf the Goverrwen were defeated. Lieut-Colonel Leslie Wi’ son, chief Corselrvative whip, and Lieu Colonel Stanley, vurder-Secretary {for Hcme Affairs. ‘The ccmpilation of the rcrular vote «f the rarties, had pot been finiched vp to scour o’eloek, Fut at la. m., the total vote compiled was, Ccn- servalives 618,867, 1: bour 450,901, Lib- erals €&8,441, Naticnal Likeral 96.526, otlers 46,829. Isate tedey (Ibursday), the voies 11cm all the ccuntry distriets will be ccunied. There hLas been no great surprise. The Conservatives are leading all the other jarties combined. Tke lebcur members elected thus far, are less than Fkalf tke number of Con- servatives, but more ‘than both sections of the Liveral Feity. Thke returns are thought by students of politics to ke a jair guage of lakours strength as com- pared with the otber parties. Great gains by labour iu the country districts are not expected. The Liberals are do- ing rather better than was looked for. The combined factions of the Liberal Party, which mizht decide to work together in the next House, bid fair to exceed 120, unless the country votes turn in unexpected ‘directions. Comparatively few of the party leaders were among those, whose fate was de- cided tonight, except Mr. Bonar Law, who won his Glasgow constituency and Mr. Asquith, whe was elected by a nar- row margin. One surprise on the bulle- tin board was the election of a Liberal for Oxford. Lady Astor comes back to the House from Plymouth, despite the strong campaign made against her, be- cause of her attitnde on liquor questions. The other women candidates have been unsucecessful up to this hour. Mr. Bonar LLaw remained up till shortly after mid- night in Downing Street and Mr. Lloyd George slightly later at his home in Vin- cent square. Both were kept cornstantly advi ed of the progress of the count, though neither would make any comment even to his intimates, according to re- ports. London, Nov. 15th. —Sir Robert Horne, former chancellor of the exchequer, was re-elected for the Hillhead division of Glasgow, by a substantial majority. wdon, Nov. 15°'h.—Mr. Clynes, one ' prominent labour lead:rs, was re- s2eeed for the Platting divisiyn of Man- chester. Mr. Delvin, who furmerly re- presented the Falis division of Belfast, but on his with'rawal from that eonsti- tuency was madé the Nationalist eandi- date in the exchar ~o division of Liver- pool, was Jdefeated the Conservative ~ iLeslie Scott. “TLITERATES DEI “BED'VOTE. r'he New York constituti 'n as recentl amended requires all new voter able to read and write n 7 soli- : provision will be carried .. .y giving local election officials p... .o to ask new voters to read and write an extract from the state constitution be- fore they are admitted to the polls. The law also provides for the issuing of liter- acy certiticates from schools by the de- partment of education. --The Pathfinde:, Nov. 11th. HOLD-UP MEN CONVICTED. One of the boldest crimes in the coun- try was enacted several months ag) when some young bandits attacked a man on a busy street in Baltimore in broad day- light, killed him and made way with a S7OOO pay roll. Unusual eiforts were made to catch the criminals, and one of them named Socolow was practica'ly kidnapped from a New York court by the Maryiand police. Three of the cul- prits have been convicted and sentenced to lile imprisonment. Imprisonment for life used to be regarded as almost equal to capital punishment but justice has grown lax and Maryland records for over a century show that out of 151 per- sons sentenced for life only 13 served over fifteen years. Now the Maryland law allows a pardon after 15 years. lbid. &