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Cleeks 19> 2130 'vy over Rep-iszale ative comnuicie2s was formed -very- where «co cazruic (ne -giards, w.agse duties il be o assisc tae police 10 the protection [ citizens engaged 1a che mainieaaanca oi the supply oi £rd, and otherwise pre:erve order. Responsi- biiity tor withholding the men’s wages is assumed by the Government 1n a sia.ement issued: whien reads as foliows: ‘‘l'he members of the Na- iona Union of Railways broke their cons acts and stopped - Work wirthout uo- tice in compiete disregard of the effect onn their charge, they inflicted damage cn innumerable people, left “ood upon which the public dependad for subsis- tence to go (0 waste, put numbers to vast expensz by leaving tnem stranded withiout conveyance, and inflicted great losses upon many by preventing them trom reaching their destination. The glamagc to whizh they are liable in law 1s vastly gr ater than the amount now beiny ce.id. If an eary resumption of work caurs, diff ‘veat co siderations may arise. In tne teantime the coun- try is scili subject to unexampled iln- quiry by the mens action, and 1n rhese c¢irecumstance the Government would nog be justified in handing over to these strikers a sam which would be used for vrolonging a struggle undertaken with- out any consideratoin tor the welfare of the wvublic, and which is endangering the iife of tre whole nation. {,ondon, Qct. 4th., - The Government ip . its roor communique on the sicuation, re- poried con.inued improvement in the transport situation. The statement reads: Plans are actively in preparationto meet the situatio: caused by the refusal of the strike lczders to aczept arbicration. Railway scrvieces are still growing, goods trains are ine easing In num- bers. the food situation is unchanged, and the sto xs are weli distributed and are more pl:ntiful than the firstday of the strike. The response to the call for volunteers shows the public determina- tion. Chieago, Cet. sth Cincinnatti defeat- ed the ©hicago Whnite Sox in the four.h game of the series, two to nothing on Saturdax. Sunday’s game was post- poned owing to rain. Christiania, Oect. 3rd——(French Wire- less Service): The Parliamentary Com- mittee appointed to discuss the entry of Norway into the League of Nations, has reported unanimously in favour of Norway’s joining the League. Corstantinople, Oect. sth—(Associated Press). The resignation of the Cabinet, headed by Hamen Pasha, Grand Vizier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been accep-ed by the Sultan. ‘ Lordon, Oct. sth.- -The strike of rail- wavmen, which has been in vrogress since midn.ght September 26th. was setcled roday. Tne settlement followed, a meeting be:ween'the Prime Minister and members of the Executive Board of T © i]l X AV 1S the National Union of Railwaymen,which was accepted at last nieht’s conference between Mr. Bonar l.aw and the Concil- iation Committee of the Trade Union. The official terms of seitlement are as follovs: First. Work shall be resumed immediately. Seeond. Nogotiations will be resumed on the undersianding that thev shall be completed "etore the end of the ‘vear. WFhird. Wazes will be siabitlized at Tthe preseat level until Septembar 30th. 1920 and at any time after August Ist. they. ma be reviewed in the lig't o’ circumstances then existing. Fourth. Ne adult Railway- man in Great Britain skl receive less than 51 <hillings per week, while the cost of living is 110 pr cent ab v the prewar level. Firth. lhe Raiiwav Union agrees that their men will work harmoniously with the men who returned to work or remained ‘at work durivg the strike nor 4shall there be any victimnization of strikers, Sixth. Arrears ol wages will be paid on resumption of work. New York, Oect. 4th.—DPecause of the illness nf President Wilscn, King Albert of the Beigians has decidid (o eancel all his engagements in conn:ction with his tour of the United States atter those in Boston and Buffalo up (o October 14th. From Buffalo the Rayal visitors will go to some points in Califormia and will re- main there unti ine is sebduled to visit Sanfrancisco on October I:th. His sche- dule afte® that date stands tentatively London Oct. 4th. ~The Air Ministry is- sued a resume of the proceedings ot the Arst conference with repr 'senta’ive me- teorologists of the Dominion held in London. (General subjeets were dicussed from a meterrological standpoint, in- cluding the ar routes from Cairo (o Kur- achi and Cairo to the Cave The dele- gates visited a number of diaces of me- teorological interest. The conference de- cided to continue as an association for a periodical inter-change oI views upon scientific matters. Sir Napier Shaw was elected the first President Paris, Oct. 4th. (French Wireless Service): All German prisoners stili detained in France will be repatriated directly after the ratific. tion o1 the treaty. According to ilniormation re- ceived from Berlin. The Svriss Legation in Paris, 11 is stated. sent ir.formation to this effect to the central o‘fice for pris- oners of war for transm :sion to Ger- many. _ Palo Alto, Oct. 4th.—ls tke league of pnations is to break down, we must at once prepare to fight Mr. Hoover, for- merly Economic Director for the Su- preme War Council told the students of Stanford University in an address he delivered here last night. '‘The peace treaties,’’ he said, ‘‘cannot be carried out without the league. . llf the league falls the treaties aiso fall. If the bal- ance of power is to supplant the !eague of nations,. we shall have {orn asum- der the only hope that Europe will not break into turther wars of raees calsses and combinations that will take civilization back to the middle ages. | am confident that§it we attempt to revise the treaty, we shall cut a road through the European chacs. If we manage to keep our soldiers out of it. we will not escape fearful economic losses. “Ihe Al- lies may themselves revise this treaty without us, and then assemble a council of nations of thei* own 1 an endavour to _invulve the problem ot Europe. New Yeork, Get. 6th.— New York Yacht Club has received from the Royal Ulster Yachi Club a formal challenge tor a series of races to be sailed for the America Cup during the Summer ot 1920 in American water, it was learned this morning. The Challenger specifically names the "Shamrock IV owned by Sir Thomas Lipton, as its representative. London, Oect. sth.—German U-Boats tried to battle up che British Grand Fleet in Firth of Forth during the latter part of the war, says a London paper, which de- scribes this as the most ambitinus tae- tical operation undertaken by the ene- my under-sea craft. The scheme aimed at the tlocking of the entrance of the Forth .by the sowing of a big minefield. Three months of hard work were devolved to the liask by a considerable fleet of submarines, the mines benig laid in the shape of a half-moon but mine sweepers had dis- covered the plan. and as fast a- the mines were planted. they were cleared away. It recalled that other similar attemps to trap the fleet were made in 1915 in the Moray Firth, when over 100 mines weve laid, and in 1916 at the Orkneys. In rourd numbers on these three ocecasiors the Germans laid 1100 mines at a cost of £2OO each. The King Edward the Seventh was the only fight- ing ship that feel a vietim to these opera- tions, enormous numbers of mines were laid by rthe Germans off Harwich, - NEW YORK, Oct. 6th 1919, Klour, Blendad Clear St. Lawrence [ rand pr. brl. $10.50. Meal, Kilndried per 100 tbs $3.80 New >eason’s Pork per bri. $48.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $51.00 Sugar---Crystals (Confirmed by Brokers) per 100 lbs. $7.28. Molasses 39 test pr 100 Ibs. no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upiand, at {.iverpool per Ib. 19 79-100 d. wxchange, New York and London, 60 : days’ sight $4.163 kixchange New York and London, sight $4.22 LONDON, Oct. 6th 1919, 9 Sugar-Demerara Crystals duty paid price. fixed by the Royal Commission per cwts : 575. 9d. -91s. od. Muscovado, 89°/- basis, floating terms in bond, Ditto duty paid. 555. 6d. 78s. 6d. German Beet 838°/¢ f.o.b. no further sales during the war Java 96°/ Gibraltar or Channel for Orders floating terms, no quotations. 1