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long discussive explanations fiom Mos- ’ cow, it is indicated. The Foreizn Secre- | tary will also insist, it is declared, on adequate redress and apoidgies fore ; wronzs cited by the British in their note. | Paris, May 14th.—A North to North- | Westarly gale prevailing in Paris yester- | day, brought disaster t> several of the l twenty speeial balloons entered for the | Grand Prix of the Aero Club of Franece, | They were smashed against the wails | of the Tuileries paiace, while the others | taking off atter difficult operations, are ' headed for Germany -axd Russia, where } tne pilots are hrable to arrest and impris- | onment if they iard g ? Viadivost~k, May 11th.—A huge auti- | British damonstration was haid here to- | day, the crowds ho ding that British 'lm- | periaiists’’ were responsibie for toe as- sissination at Lausanne of Vorovsky, ! the Soviet delegate to the Near East | peace conference, The demonstrators 5 demanded the death of the British "'im- l perialists.”’ ; London, M=y 14th,--Joe Beekétt to- | night knocked out Diek Smith iy the sev- enteenth round of a bout for the heavy- | woirht ehamp daship of Great Britain, 7 Jolorado Texas, May 14th. —Sixteen d ad and 100 injared woeve reported iate | today as a resutt of a tornado which tore ? tbrengh Mitehell County, South and East | ol here, early today. ‘lhe tornado des- % conded in Mitehell County between four i and five o’eleek this m >rairg and caught ’ most of its vietims io bed. It levelled | buildines and tett death and injury inits | wake for 30 miles. Starting south of | Westbrook, it continued for seven miles through the couvniry and pacsed just wost of Lorraine. Conty, France. May 14:h.—Six per- <cns were killed when a passenger air- | plane, operafing on th2 Daris-to-London | vouce, was wreeked eariy this afternoon | at the villaze of Monsures, five miles from here and midway bh=tweaen Ataiens | and Beauvais. Fhe maciine cauzat {fire while travellinz at its asual Lei2hbe on its daily trip ana theu eithor fell. or the nitot tried to make 4 0 nrried landing and | tii2 plane was wreeked hy itne fall and exploded. The six wiciims wer? saw- | rence Sehwah of New York, the French | piot, the machinist, the enzinear, an un- | identified woman and 1 second male pas- | senger. The plane et the Le Bourget | flying field at 12.37 v. m. and a watch ' icurrd in the wreckage bad stopped | at 1.46 oeclock. The six bodies, badly | barned, were found 1o the wreckage of | (he piane. Ths only witness to the acei- | dent was a rural coostable, = Ottawa, Mav 14th.—C. E. Neill, of | Montreal, General Manager of the Royal | sank of Canada, and H. A, Richardson, ‘ of Toronta, General Manager of the Roy- | 4] Bank of Nova Scotia, have been sum- | Q.n:,ned Lo appear het'()!‘e ine S:)u{fi;ll A',{l‘i- cultural Comm.ttee of the H.use of Com- | @ons tomorrow, to give evidence in the | coming inves.dZation of the sugar S 3T Lt 32 Yiß “trust”’. The two bank managers will also be reqaired to produce such of the books of their respeetive banks, or ex- tracrs therefrom, as will permit the Com- mitice to determine the amount of their loans “'in Cuba and other West Indin - Islands, and in Canada to producers and refine:s and dealers in sugar’”’. A reso- lution to this effect was adopted by the Committee today. Managers of the five big sugar reiineries in Canada also wiil appear befcre the Commitiee tomorrow. Los Angeles, Calif, May 14th.—Twenty men were arrested today 1a a raid on the Los Angeles headquariers of the Indus- trial Works of the worid and held on charges of eriminal syudicalism. Ship- - pitg at San Pedro, the barbiur district of Los Aneeles, has been all but tied up since April 25th, the'date a general 1, W. W. strike began. Winnipeg, Man., May 14th. - The whole- sale price of sugar droppned 49 cents a hundred pounds todav. Voilowing the taritt reducuon, local ac ots of Canadian refineries announced. Touway’s rrice was $ll.BO, as against $12.20 on Saturday. Retailed prices declined one cent a pound, selling at 81.20 for ten pounds, as com- pared with 1.30 last week. Halifax, N. 8., May 14th,—There was a drop o1.ferty cents per hundred pounds in the price of Acadia, Atlantic and St. Lawrenze refined sugars yestarday. Ottawa, May 14th.—The Canadian Army of Q:zcupation maintained on the Rhine cost Canada $7,350,976, according to an estima'e made by the Overseas Ministry. {his information was given to Mr. Joseph Archumbault Liberal mem- her, in the House of Commons todav. “Did Germany or Canada pay this cosi?”’ Asked Mr. Archambault, at a conference of Frime Ministers and represeuntatives of the Uni ed Kingdom, the Dominions and india, ‘‘the alloeation of the sums received fromi Germany was deeided upon, Canada’s share being §6,514,500,”’ replied Mr. Mae Donald, aetiug Minister of militia. ''is the Government awupe tiat the American forees cn tie Rioine did no. cost the United States a penony !’ Pursued My, Archambault. ''‘The Guov- erpment bas no iniormation’’, was the repiy, Otiawa, Lay 14th.—The dates on whic tariff and revenue changaes took etieet under the new budget proposals are set forth in a memorandum to colieciors of customs and excise, isssued by the Depariment here. The changes are held to be in effeet as follows (A) Customns tariff chances in effect on May 12th, in reapect of gouds imported or tuken out of warebouses for consumpton on and after that day and goods previously im- ported, for which no entry for consump- tion was made beferz thit day. (i) Changes in inland revenue act as respe ¢is cigarettes, in eifcet on May 12th. As respects the appeal of saciion 273, exvise tax on suzar producsd in Canada fron sugar.besis, in- effect from Januvary Ist 1923, {(C) Chaunges in spe«~ial war reve rie act 1915 and amending acts, in effect Auzust Ist 1923, except ihe provision proposed by section 2 of the resolution re excise tax on wines of all kinds, ex- cept sparkhing wines, are to come into effert on a date to be fixed by proclama- tion of the Governor in conneil. The changes which come into ciieet on Au- Just Ist are those concernine the stamp taxes on checks and recaepis uand {bhe SOIOB tax. New York, May 15th.—Plans for a mass meeling to protest against contin- ued 2tizcks on the sugar trade by Gov- ernment officials are understond to have been discussed at a sceret meeting heid this morning on the flocr of the New York Ceifee and Sugar Exchange. It was reported thut the meeting would be held tomorrow in th» Wall Street distriet. Dublin, May 15th.—The last band of Republicans operiting in County Wiek- low, was ecaptured this morning, after a fierze engageneont, the leader, named Plunkett, boing shot dead. Two mmachine guns were i ken. Paris, M v 15h.—Ex-Premier De F!'tf_' cier is dead at S hiomhe e L was apnout.cod this noon, Méemphis, Tenn.,, May 15th.—Hct Springs, Arkansas, a famous resert and a city of many disasters, was siricken last night by =« flood which swept down the sides of tie three ' oun‘a’'ns whi' h forn: a trianvie about the city ana vy five which brike cut in the wieekage. Re- ports gencraliy place the :vss of life at sevenieen, :;Z;i‘,u:';h Qiie report, rr;'ia,ved over ratlwayv telecoraoh lines to Shawnee, Okia, establishcd the number Kkilled as high as fifty. Londor, May 15:h.—Field Marshal Haiv, pleading the cause of the disabled soldiers at the unveiling of a moemorial ro tihe Coldsiream guarcds vesterday saia Seotiand hal not vet entered into the gpirit of tha work (ne same as nad been done Souin of the burder. ‘lt is a real reproach to Scotland’’, he said '‘and I for one feel that no memorial 1n sone or brass is complete while reproeach can Le leveliad at us’’, Stanzhiai, May 15th.—Unless the far- eign iplhmuatie representatives in China guarantee by tonight that the Chine-e Government will earrv out all the terms fixed by the Chinese bandits in the Shan- tung hills, the joreigners heid captive will all be kilied, Father Wilitam Loun- fors, an agcd priest, who conferred with the bandits’s chieftain on Sunday, re- ported to the United States Consui at Lin-Ching today, St. Croix, May 16th. —Commencing 19:h instant, the West India and Panama Telegraph Company’s otfice will observe tne folowing o.:ening and closing times : On week days from 7 a. m. to 9p. m. On Sunduys tvom 1.00 a. . to 1046 p. m and 7.00 nm 9.60 D . ‘he times quoted abave ave about 15 niioutos in advanes of the local time,