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Japan and Rumania, offering them peace with the S:vizi (Government of Ru-:sia, acéording "to a wireless despatch from | Moscow recoived here today. ; Halifax, N. S., Feb. 26th.—Word has been received here that the Canadian | Wheat Board has removed the export ‘ duty oa flour to Bermuda, the West In- | dies and DBritish Guiana. This action ‘ has been walecomed by a number of local l merchapts who found the expoirt duty | a consi leradie hindrance in doing busi- | ness with the West Indies. | Washingion, Feb. 27th. —A resolution proposing diplomatic negotiation with | Great Britain for the purchase of the | Bermuda Islands was introduced today | by Kenyon, Republican of lowa. Washington, Feb. 27th.—The Soviet | Government of Russia’s proposal to the | United States for peave wili receive n, | considcration from the American Govern- .. ment, it was said today at the State ‘ Department. : - Paris, _eb. 28th.--At his trial yester- | day on the charge of having had treason- ! able dealings with the enemy, rormer | Premier Callaux forsoo: the dsfensive | aand assumed the offensive. While explain- | ‘ng his activities in Ltaly and leagthily | going over his economic poliev, he said | - he had prophesied the economic chaos i which would be obtained at the coneclu- | sion of the war, and prescribed the reme- ' dies tu be applied. Ile saw in 1915 what | several of the peace delegates failed to | arasp ia 1919, the witness declared. Re- garding a peace of compromise, he said, “1 swear tn the members of the | High Court that I had not the slight- | est politicai -aim when [ went t ltaly and | never nad anv policcal aim | throagzioat tha war, but s2veral umes | nad Lhe b2i2f thic ¥ve mast prepare for | peace’’. To tae charze tnat n 2 apgroaca- i ed che Vaticaa with tne request taat the | Ceatral Empires be sounded, M. Caillaux | replied. ‘"Never have I set root inside the Vaiican i v my life. [ wasin favour | of rhe great offensive in the Spring of 1917, but I always held it must ke con- | ducted with the utmost energy, or ocher- | wise, it would fail, and lam still con- | vinced :hat had the offensive beer push- | ed with all possibie means at our com- | mande v« would have been successful | and achieved a victorious pe:ace’’ f Londor, [eb. 28th. -Continuing his | evidence before the War Wealth Com- | mission today, Sir John Anderson. Chair- | man of the Board of Inland Revenue, | said that he included to his pro- i posed tax any person whose war | wealth (net amount whereby his | wea'th had increased since 1917} | exceeded iive thousand pound., but that aliowances should include one thou- | sand pounas for a wife, and five hun- | dred pounds for eaca child. though the | same concession stouid be made o a | man who had continuously invested his | wealth in var loans. A very large | amount of money, ne said, had been ST OCRUFPE AN | S spent on je velry, furs and motor-cars as an investmen® and to =scape the ex- cess profits tix, and it was the view of nis deparimeni that these should be taxed, and that heavy penalties should be impos:d for failure to disclose such valuable possessions. . Ottawa, Feb. 26th.—~In the Senate this afternoon, 2 message was read from King Geoige congratulating thg Parlia- ment of Canada on holding its first meetingin the magnificent new parlia- ment buildings. The Senate then ad- jonrned until tomorrow. THE GERMAN LAMENT. In a proclamation the German Gov- ernment nas shed a few lymphatie tears - over her list provinces aad the German Inhabitants thereof are implored never to forget the fatherland. This ‘‘forci- ble separation’’ is denominated a hard l injustice. | The German mind is stubborn, and i in pride of opinion a masnificent exam- I ; ple to shun. The justice that is being | meted out to them is the well earned | penaity ofa war of aggression, but in Pt they profess to see only injustice. | After years of diabolic preparation the . German Government, with the full sup- | port of the German people., assailed | liberty and justice and human.ty every- | where, Dbpocame responsible for seven , million deaths and twenty million erip- | ples, spread desolation over the fairest | poriions of the earth’s surface, and - practised wickedness that appalled man- skind. Now, conguered and overzome, ' they ween because the viciors have re- taken provinces wrenciied from France | when chat eountry was overcome. It ' doesn’t even sound sportsmanlike. The ' Sam Valley is taken as part reparation -for the wanton destruetion inflicted up- on th2 norithern departments oi france . by retreai'nz and vengeful spoilers of ' the earth. The Saar basin is the only | purely G-:rman seetion thai falls into . alien hands. Itis ro be aeld uader the | League as akind of trust for &-ance. . This is only justice. Germany brought | on ne war Germany ruined the French i mines, Germany should pay. The real | Injustice is that she cannot be made (o | pay eanough. —Montreal Herald. | Recent activities of Radical propagan- l dists led Secretary Lansing to display for the first time in eighteen :ears the origi- nal parchinenis of the Declaration of In- ~ dependence and the constitution of the - Unied S.ates' In the presence of a - group of ofiicials, the parchments were - removed irom the protecting walls of a steel safe iaciosing them, and placed on view 1n the state depactmentJor an hour while mciion picture can;;r& recorded their appearance for. tite pend®it of the 110,960, 000 persons iiving under the principles enunciated. by them.—Signs of the Ttmes Feb. 17th. | Froni July, 1917, to June i, 1918, 90,. 000, or over twenty-three per cent, of all persons eligible, by examinations, to government employ were women. In the . {lnited States, more than 800,000 women are engaged in scientific or professjonal pursuits; more than 2,000,000 in private manufacturing and mechanical establish- | ments; and over 600,000 in clerical oeccu l pations under private enterprise.—lbid. | On October 1, 1917, the Prohibition | Act came into force in British Columbia. ‘ After two years’ trial of prchibition, the people of the province are almost un- ni- mously of the coviction that the regime of the open bar is gone forever. The busi- ness and moral advantages ot the law have been abundantly demonstrated.-- Ibid. Upon inquiry, it is learned that at the present .moment, there are but twenty- ! five persons in the [Sant Clara] county t jail, azainst from one hundred twenty- five to one hundred fifty before the ad- t vent of prohibition.— San Jose Mer-ury | Herald, January 23, 1920, } Cairo and Cape Town, representing the . extren.es of the Afriean econtinent. have ! at last been linked up by air service i which is ready for traffic. This means { that the time heretofore "requirei to '. traverse the continent, from ten to i twelve weeks, has now been cut down t to about one week, and that heretofore | secluded sections of Africa will be opened t up to the world.-——San Francisco Chroni- i cle. } Eighty per cent of all the sereon plays { photogravhed in this ccuntry are made t in Los Angeles. California. Fifty mil- ! lions oi dollars is the estimate placed on ! the vzlue or the films from tha\ one city i in ayear. That is approximately equa i to the entire value of the crange crop of ' southern California. The forty plants in . which the pintures are made are valued | at $1£.265,000, and ihe pay rolls show an . employmentof more than I¢,ooo persons, . whoearn more than $20,0600,000 annually. " —Washington Times. FOR SAILE. nouse-noid Furnishings Rugs, Chairs, Couch, Settee, Tea- Fles, Plants. Flower Stands, Elec- tric Lamps and fixtures, Dressers, o _ AT THE RESIDENCE OF DR. R. H JENKINS.