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the Govt’s. ‘offer but this was not effec- tive. The federatinn rules require a majority of two-thirds for a continuance o' the strike. Only four districts were against the offer, namely South Wales, with a majority of 4,600, Lancashire 5,600, Nottinghamshire 1,000 and For- est of Dean 200. The total vote was 684,649. One immediate result is the resumption of racing on Friday and the yailway services will be restored it is expected on Monday. Adelaide, N. S W., Nov. sth.—ln the opening match today bstween the M. C. C. and - South Australia at Adelaide, the Australians were all out for 118 runs. - The M. C. C. made 201 for one wicket. Aussel not out for 101. rar- kins took 8 wickets for 55 runs. Marion, Ohio, Nov. 4th.—Making his first speech as President elect Mr. Harding deciared at an election celebra” tion of home-folks here tenight that the Versailles League of Nations was now “‘deceased’’, although the new adminis- “ration intended to see that the nation «played its part in a new interrational as- sociation founded on peace. and justice. Mr. Harding aiso told his friends that he had come through the fight '‘wthout an apology or a regret’’, and that he would rather not have the presidency than to win it ''by speakingillor uttering a lie’’.. In his sho:! speech the president elect touched no other issues Jof the campaign, but thanked the crowd for its tribute and ~asked that he go to Washington, ‘‘with your good wishes, your confidence and your prayers’’, Paris, Nov. 4th. —Captain Demoret, the French aviator flew today one kilometre at a speed of 309 kilometres per hour. This broke the world’s record of-292.62 kilometres Montreal, Nov. 4th.—D=moralization reigred in the sugar market here today and no-one refiner or wholesaler seemed _to know what was going on. Leading ~wholesalers have stated that following “repeuted drops in the raw sugar market at New York with the persistent course of the Dominion Sugar Refinery of Tor- onto which desls in beet sugar in under- selling the cane sugar refineries, that the “our big cane sugar refineries had broken away from all agreements as to stabili- zation gs prices and were selling where and hov, they could. Aeccordingly the big wholesale firms hare, who in the past stood fairly well together; abandoned their cooperative policy and started an orgy of price cutting today. Fora time the price ran around 15¢. a pound and then was reduced to 14c. net, laid down to retails here, A- further decrease is looked for tomerrow. It was announced independently by the AtlanticiSugar Re- finery -here that they had reduced their price of granulated sugar to 15 1/5 cents a pound, while itwas reported that two other refineries here jwere selling as low as 14. The Dominion Sugar Refinery' is selling at Toronto down to 13.71 cents ST U RULIL-A VIS and the Acadia Sugar Refinery is stated to be selling at 14c. net. San Francisco, Nov. 4th.—California by a three to one-vote on Tuesday passed the Anti-Alien Land Law’’, a measure intended, to restrie:: tenure of land by non-assimilable aliens. The measure re- cently was the subject of diplomatic ex- -changes between the State Department and the Japanese Foreign Office. Re- turns from 5,413 of the states 5,154 pre cincts today showed 383,015 voted to adopt the measure with 163,731 against it New York. Nov. 4th, —The first mer- chant steamship flying the German flag to come to the port ‘'of New York since July 1914 arrived here today. The ves- sel which marks the resumption of trade with Germany und:r the flag of that country was the Sophie Rickmers, a steamer of 1,863 tons built in Germany during the war. She is flying the old German merchant marine flag. The So- phie Rickmers was retained by the Ger- mans under the provisions of the armis- tice regulations which permitted that country to keep such "vessels as were un- der. construction and not fifty per cent completed when the war ended. She is assigned to the Kerr 8. S. Co., a United States Agency. The ship is in ballast and will take cargo here for the return voyage. Captain and crew are Germans. Chicago, Nov. 4th.—Mr William Jen- nings Bryan, in Chicago today gave a statement suggesting that ‘‘President Wilsor‘should resign at once.”’ Dublin, Nov. 3rd.—The outrages in Ireland during the, past week show a steady decline in political crime, acecord- ing to a statement jssued by the Dublin Castle authorities, but that ja campaign of guerilla warfare against the armed forces of the Crown is being waged with increasing intensity, Police resignations are increasing and the recruiting for police from Ireland itseif is increasing. This is pointed to as a sign of renewed confidence that the Government will overcome the opposition forces. Toronto, Nov. 4th. —Every possible effort is being made by the directors of the Canadian National Exhibition Asso- ciation to b.ing about the visit of Prin- cess Mary and the Duke of York in 1921 which will be ‘“Women’s Year’’ at the exhibition here. S?ice-President Robert Miller and Mr. Doherty, Ontario Minis- ter of Agriculture, are in England work- ing on the matter. New York, Nov. 4th.—An almost record smasihing elecioral vote for Sena- tor Harding topping the 400 mark and Republican majorities of more than a score in the Senate and 150 in the House were assured from virtually complete returns tonight from Tuesday’s electinn. With the Democratic strongholdsof Oklahoma, Miesouri and Tennessee de- finitely swept into the Republican party’s rank(; by the erushing victory, the Harding-Coolidge 'ticket had 326 votes . exclusive of the five irom Mentana . where the Republican state ticket was - victorious and the Presidential ticket - ahead.. The Republican landslide tonight . had given the Republicans 58 Senate - seats against 37 for the Democrat, with . late returns undermining the seat of ~ Senator Breckenham, Democrat, Ken- . tucky. His Republican opponent Rich- .~ ard J. Ernst, forged ahead in a nip and | tuck fight for-the only Senate fight left ' unsettled.” Os the 35 Senate contests - the Republicans captured nine from the ' Democrats and elected ail fifteen of their i candidates. Among the Democratic Sen- | ators who today went down to defeat - were Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, . Senator Smith of Arvizona. who lost to | former representative Ralph ameron ’ and Senator Henderson of Nevada, who | 'was defeated by former Governor Oddie. . Final returns from a few Congressional | districts still were belated tonigh*, some | due to cloied races which upset few | previous announcements and others from | isolated sections.” With these missing. | returns_still to come the Reputlican roll ' in the House had piled up to 285 to 135 | for the Democrats. | London, Nov. 4th.—Fullwork is ex- i pected to be resumedin thé coal mined . on Monday. when the railways are also | expected to institute a normal service. | Restrictions on lighting, in force since the beginning of the s rike, probably will be removed tonight, but limitations on the supply of household coal probably | will be continued for the next two weeks. . Reports from the coal fields concerning | 'the men’s quick return to work are | optimistic, but many mines cannot start fully till Monday. It is anticipated that it will take two months for all the indus- tries affected by the tie-up to get back to normal again. ‘ Cork, Ireland, Nov. 4th --De, uty Mayor Ocallaghan has been elected Lord Mayor in succession to the late Mr. Mac Sweeney. | Sebastopol, Nov. sth. —Gzneral Wran- gel has successfully drawn his troops to the Crimea owing to the advance nf So viet armies south of the Dneiper river. ‘ He is master of Perekop and also Sal- kova. At Salkova, General Wrangel has ! ~captured 10,000 men belonging to the ‘ units of General Budeny’s cavalry. The spirit of his troops is good but they are worn out by their long fighting which lasted for five months and are glad to be | assured of a rest in the Crimea. ; Athens, Nov. Sth.—Former King Con- | stantine will get the plebiscite which he asks, said Premier Venizcios last night. “I am telling the Greeks that if they re- turr my party to ‘power, the Govern- ment will a~t as i’ secs fit regarding sue- cession to the thrope. The return of Constantine would mean estrangement ! from friendly powzrs and unending in- Hterna! strife. [am confident of the re- ~pult of the action.”