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were arr=s.el at Mazatlan, Mexied, charged witih ssaulting a Mexicaa cidi zen and sen =nead o two months impris- | onment, were rel2ased last 'uesdey nigh: according to advices to the State Uepart- ment todav from the American Consul at Mazaclan. The sailors are being cared for by the Consul who has asked “or in- | structions as to how to return them to | the United States. } LONDON: ‘l'ne reporis of the ¢ipture | of Admiral Kolenak, head of the a | Rus- sian Government. in Siberia. have been confirmed by a Moscow wireless de:pateh today. PARIS: The League of Natiors will | come in Lo being tomorrow morn ng at ten o’clock ata public ceremday v be | held in the French Foreign Office The | f'ranch representative will presice and make the opening address. NEW YORK: The Army transport ‘“‘Evelyn’’, the first of a flee- of vessels | that will take from Siberia the troops of | Czecho-Slovakia and the United States | Regulars commanded by Major Geazral | William S. Graves, left hecetoday with | her announc?f]\destinution Vladivostok. | PARIS; (Condijtions of Peace will be | handed late t>day tc the Hungariaa dele- | gation by Premiers Clemenceau, Lloyd | George and Nitti. The Americaar and Japanese Ambhassadors will also e pres- | ent. | 1 MIAMI, FLORIDA: Local wrecking crews have abandoned hope of getting | “*Quorque’’ and ‘'Sturgeon Bay’’ oif the | reefs and tugs from Savannah have been | sent for. The ‘‘Quorque’” a United States | Shipping Board vessel, is hard aground | at “‘Carys Foot’’ thirty six miles scuth of | Miami and th2 ‘‘Sturgeon Bay’’ United States training ship is fast on Jl’(?(‘{ Key’’ twelve miles south of here with nine feet of water in her hold. ; PARIS: It was announced at the of- fices of the ccmpany owning the ‘‘Afri- | que that the bodies of twelve -persons | frem the foundered vessel has been wash- | ed ashore at Sables D’Olone. The temp- | est in the Fay of Biscay which caused | the sinking of the ‘‘Afrique’’ continued | unabated today. f o BERLIN: A communist manifesto is- | sued today urzes the immediate elzction | of revolutionary employees councils in all | industrial estzblishments. i {ONDON: Berlin was completely quiet | Wednesday, according tn a wireless des- | patch from that city. The large facto- | ries were wor<ing normally and the rail- | way and train services were not inter- | rupted, | BERLIN: Official denial was made to- | day of reports that Germany had con- | cluded an azreement with Soviet Russia. | PARIS: Premiers Clemenceau, Lloyd | George and Nitti will this mofning exam- | ine the text of the demand to be made | upon Holland for the extradi.ion of the | Kaiser, accorcding to *‘The Matin.”” The Premiers wiil also inspect the list of Ger- | man officers and soldiers accused of viola- ' Wo oo RR L % AN s tions »f the laws of war and whose sur- ron er will be demanded from the Ber- lin Government. This iist is said to con- tain agproximacely six hundred names. TELEGRAMS SST. CROIX STATION. llingston, Jamaica, Jan. 14th.—Admi- ral Viseount Jellicoe arrived ky . M. S. “*New Zealand’’® yesterday, and accom- varied by Sir Robert Borden, visited (he Governor, Sir Leslie Probyn. Hisjwel- conie by the popuiace was most enthusi- ast c. He sailed tor {rinidad this morn- ing. the itinerary includes the Argen- tine Republic and other South American porcs, and irom thence .o South Africa. London, Jan, 13th.—S,+ Harold Stuart has been named British High Comniis- sioner of the Riaineland, ‘inder the pro- visions of the Peace Set lement, crea- ting an Inter Allied Rhineiand Con: nis- sioin. Mr. Ma'ecolm Arncld Robertson has been appointed Depuiy Commission- er. The headqg: arters will be at Coblentz. Loid Kilmarnuek is on roum 0o Rerlin to assume the duties 1 British diplo- ma ic representative theio. ILondon, Jan. 13th.——The Prince of Wates will, probably, sail tor Austiia in H. M. S. "'Renown’’ in Mareh. It is belizved she will proceed via the Pana- ma Canal. Faris, Jan. 18th. The results of ‘he election on Sunday indicate that the new Senate will have the same political align-, ment as previously. the changes made in the personnel invoiving individuals and not principles. Paris, Jan. 13th. —The French steam- er ‘Afrique”’, which left Bordeaux for Dakar, was sunk in a storm in the Bay of Fiscay, on Sun ay. Os the 750 pas- senwers and erew, only 57 survivors have been aecounted for. : W ashington, Jan. 13th. —President Wil- son has issued a call for the first meeting of the Council of the League of Nations to be held at Paris on thel6th. Hesaysit will bringinto biing the LLeague as aliving forc2, devoted to the task of asslsting. the peoples of all countries in tkeir de- sire for peace. - ‘‘The call, which is ad- dressed to Great Britain, France, f[ialy, Japun, Brazil, Beigium and Spain’’, said che President, ‘‘is convinced that the Leazue’s progress will accord with the nob;e purpose to which it was dedicat- ed.”’ - London, Jan. 13th.—The British Isles and the Corntinental Coast have been swent by a very severe Zale, lasting for three days, and which, at times, reached huriicane proportions. Much damage was caused there and some lives were lost. In France, telegraphie communica- tiors were impaired. Washington, Jan. 14th.—The mine operators have declared they will accept any award the Commission may make, and the miners on the twelfth, pledged their unions to accept without reserva- tion, the findings of the Commission ap- pointed by the Government to settle the dispute between the mine owners and the miners, which is the cuause of the prolonged strike in the bituminous coal mines of the United States. London, Jan. 14th.—The railway em- ployees’ rejection of the Goverment’s wage proposals, leaves the question still unsetlad Farther meetings of their re- presentatives with Sir Erie Geddes and .Sir Robert Horne, Miniiter of Labour, have been arranved. It is expected that a satisfactory solution will be found ana that there will be no strike. Beriin, January 14th.-——Martial Law has been declared throughout all sections ol Germany, following mob demonstra- tions on Tuesday afternoon, befor: the Reichstag. A number are reported to have been killed ana wounded by ma- chine-¢un-dre from the guards in front of the Reichstag Building. Herr Noske has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the oreater Beriin distriet and of the Brandenburg Province. Street parade meetings and demonstiations of all kinds have been forbidden. It is estimated that forty thousand demonstrated in front of the Reichstag and endeavoured to overpower the. guards and enter tle buildino in protest against the Explora- tion Law. Plundering occurred in sever- al distriets, but the disturbances were suppressed by the military. Paris, Jan. 14th.—The trial of M. Caillaux before the Senate fixed for the fourieenth, will, probably, be deferred until the twenty-seventh, owing to the Senate not being ready to proceed. M. Caillaux, it is reported, is demanding an immedite trial. Mexico, Jar. 14th. —lt is reported that the village of San Joachim of three thou- sand inhabitants in the Jalapa Distriet of the State ofVera Cruz, was destroyed by an earthquake this morning. London, Jany. 15th.—General Towns- hend, who defended Kut, has tendered his resignation to the War Office. Paris, January 13th.—Marshal Foch. it is understood, has been agreed upon by France, Great Britain and Italy as the unified military director, charged nomin- ally with the sup rvising of the ex- ecution of the Peace Treaty. Mar- gshal Foeh is not only t 6 be eop- sulted in all measures taken, but will be authorized to take the initiative in proposing t> the Governments whatever he deems necessary. The Allies had hoped until the last that the United States would agree tec a previous propo- sal for a high Inter-Allied Command. London, Jan. 14th.—(Reuter). An eye-witiess estimate® the casualties in Berlin on Tuesday, at fifty killed and one hundred wounded. The police were com- pelled to throw bombs among the rioters causing a panic. Many persons were struck by bullets and women were tram- pled upon.