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back in Cairo yesterday and gravely wounded. The inde~tity of his assail- ant is not known, Washington, Jan. 25th.-The President has conferred with administration lead- ers, as well as MNenate leaders, over par- ticipation of the United States in the Genoa conference. The Secretary of State and Secretary of Commerce favour the sending of United States delegates. On the other hand, the President is being so strongly urged in other quarters to keep the United States out of the con- ference, that it is believed that he will refuse to recommend participation, unless Russia is excluded and continental Eu rope promises land disarmament condi- tions, which are unlikely to be accepted. ' .Geneva, Jan. 26th —Nineteen million persons are suffering intensely for want of food in Russia, and fifteen millicn will certzainly die, unless succoured, Dr. Nan- sen told the League of Nations interna- tional committee on relief in Russia here. Dr. Nansen said he was dissatisfied with the way in which the Russian Govern- ment had acted under the agreement signed on Augsut 27th, the transporta- tion situation especially leaving much to be desired. In giving the new details of situation in Russia, he deciare¢ that the the total popuiation affected was 33,000, 000. It was now too late to save all, even if the workers were able to use the railway lines at full eapacity. Asa matter of fact, it would be possible to move sixX hundred tons of cereals between now and the harvest which even if nothing were withheld for seed; could only save six or seven million people. Paris, Jan. 24th.—Nationalization of the Irish railways and banks were among the measures recommended to the lrish Government in today’s debate in the world Congress of the Irish race where ways and means of helping Ireland to economic independence were discussed. Delegates who spoke also insisted upon the necessity of transtormation English owned industries in Ireland to distinetly Irish enterprises. In talking on the subject, Miss Mary Mc Swiney of Cork declared the coming citizenship of the Irish with the British providel for in the Anglo-Jrish treaty would have to be done away with before Ireland could do any- thing toward keeping Biitish capital out of Ireland, Thomas Hughes Kelly of New York declared all the economic machinery of Irish life was in the hands of interests antagonistic to Ireland, and railways, ports and all means of transportation, and that the Natißnal Trade would be strangled until the machinery was gottep out of foreign haznds. The eventual re- turn of Irish emigrants to their native home to help in building could use a great many Irishmen who have learned technical trades abroad, and that she could ultimately be able to utilize much additional farm labour, bringing her agricultural production up to the maxi- mum, which speakers estimated would 2o L Lll X A VIS be three times her own needs in food. Washington, Jan. 26th.-The Shantung controversy had been brought under the spotlight today through President Hard- ing direct move to bring Japan and China together on the issue that now appears to prevent the only serious ob stacle to a speedy conclusion of the whole range of the arms conference negotiations. The result of the Presi- dent’ direct appeal to Minister Sze of the Chinese delegation who went to the White House late yesterday with Mr. Hughes, that China accept the latest compromise offer o1 the Tsirgtao rail- way issue, appeared today to hinge largely on the attitude of Peking. - The acceptance by the Japanese delegates oft e renewed offer of ‘‘good offices” by Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour, hither- to declined, was understood, to have op- ened the way for the President’s move to secure Chinese acceptance of the compromise plan, sponsored by those offcials. Preston, Ont. Jan. 26th.- The Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen was returned to Parlia- ment by a majority of 1,620 votes his only opponent, A K. Pattersen, the progressive nominee, in the voting in the Greenville County bye-election to- day. Washington, Jan. 26th.— By a vote of 230 to 119 the House today passed the Dyer anti-lynching bill. The measure now goes tc the Senate. London, Jan. 26th.—A despatch to the Times from Vienna says the Australian Cabinet has resigned. London, Jan. 26th —i.ord Curzon has arranged to meet Comto De Staulaire. the French Ambassador, tonight “or the first of a series of conversations, the pur- pose of which is the formulating ors an Arglo-French agreement, which was un- der consideration when the Supreme Council meeting at Cannes broke up. Amendments and extensions of the agreement recently suggested by Pre- mier Poincare, will be the chief subject of the conversations, but in official cir cles it is understcod that the Freneh Am- bassador’s instructions, are to suggest general changes in the provosed pact, rather than details ‘The rconversations today were characterized iv official cir- cles as a voyage of discovery in Amnglo- French relations. Johannesburg, Jan. 26th.—Notices were posted today in the ccal and gold mines in the Rand district announcing that all strikers have been discharged as a result of the deadlock in the negotia- tions between the employers and the miners. London, Jan. 26th. [he Melbourne correspondent of Reutuer’s says that in reference to a statement made by him yesterday, that the Government hid decided to invite represetatives of em- ployers and organized labor 10 meet and discuss the acute industrial crisis arising from the high costof production, Premier Hughes declared that. the present state of affairs was causing unemployment. The conference would consider Austra- lia’s impossible position which rested up- on prices and wages ercated under war conditions that rad now passed away. The matter, the Premier said, was affect- ing the construction of the common- wealth’s thousand tons ships, for which Australian steel was preferred, but at prices comparable with those asked by foreign manufacturers. London, Jan. 26th.—The latest weekly return of the registrar- general on the influenza outbreak shows that the mor- tality is decreasing in London, but in- creasing in the provinces. Newcastle- on Tyne heads the list of provincial towns with 82 deaths for the week. A medical correspondent of the Times says the pres- ent outbreak of influenza in England be- longs to a different category than the ac- customed text book distinetion betwecen pulmonary, gastric and cerebral types of influenza. The epidemic is similar in character to one which broke out last April and contirued through the summer but only a few cases here and there. Some physicians now rake the view that a germ belonging to the diphtheroid group is the active agent, and it is pointed out that slight sorethroat with glandular en- largements is commonly met with. Rome, Jan. 26th.—Beneath the flag- stones of St. Peters, where thousands of pilgrims come each year, lies the mor- tal remains of Benedict, whose benig- nant efforts through all the years of the war was directed toward peace and after the war to the pacification of Eu rope and the world. Ihe burial cere- mony tsok place at 3 p. m. and in the light of the perpetually burning tapers the body was lowered into its tomb. Cadinals, who had cuthered in Rome for the conclave is to elect a new Pope assembledin the Basilica of St. Peters, together with 15e diplomatic representa- tives of the foreign nations. accredited to the Hely See. Ouiside the edifice great crowds kneit in prayer and waited for the end of the solemn ceremony. Dublin. Jan. 27th.—'The lrish Free State wus officially recognized by Persia yesterday. when the Persian Ccnsul Mr. Seropian, in his picturesque official uni- form and carrving a curved scimitar, visited Arthur Griffith and Michael Col- lins at the City Hall. He formally con- veyed greetings on behalf oi the Shah and the Persian Jovernment 1o the Pro- visional Governaen: of the Irish Free State. Ronie, dan. 27th.—-The arrival of Car- dinals Schulze of College, Bertram of Breslau, Faulbber of Munich and Push of Vienna today brought the number of foreign Cairdinals in Rome up to ten. In addition to the German and Austrian Cardinals Dubouis of Paris, Lucen or Rheims, Maurite of L.yons Vival of Tar- ragona, Bourne of London and Gasquet, the British Cardinal resident in Rome.