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INTIMATIONS

THE WEST, POINT BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three Dollars per Share for the six Jepths ending 30th June, wts, will be payable on FRIDAY 96th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Lom

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Friday, the 19th to Friday, the 26th BETTER GARDENS. Jule (both days inclusive) during which eriod to Transfer of Shares can be

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The onward march of Germany in Russia, of which there is daily exsuple, should surprise no one familiar with Hun methods of conquest. The com- plicated and onerous clauses of the peses treaty provide immediate pretext for continued invasion.

AGREEMENT."-

The Franco-German Agreement, for the exchange of prisoners came into force on May 15. The most important provisions are as follows

1. All ron-commissioned officers and men were to be repatriated. head for head and grade for grade, if they had beru in capth ity for 18 months.

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In proportion as Germany advances in the north or in the South, fears of the Officers who had been in captivity Bolsheviks for their own existence for 18 months were to be interned in increase

This is the explanation of Switzerland head for head regardless of nk. their opposition to Japanese intervan-

3. Officers, non-commissioned officers. tion in Siberia. The fold of their own activities to Great Russia is rapidly and men taken prisoners before over Switzerland growing smaller; the Ukraine is inbos-ber. 1916, and internec

on the ground of ill-health were, with pitable. Presently only such regions as the

Urais will be left. This last refuge certain exceptions, to be repatriated Would

threatened by a Japanese without regard to rank ar number. advance.

They, the Maximalists are ia danger of a Teuto-Japanese pincers. But their complaint that Japanese inter- vention will "destroy the Russian Revolution possesses unconscious humour. That which is destroyed can po longer suffer destruction.

be

GRAIN AND BUTTER STORTS.

4. Invalidis were to be repatriated or interned in Switzerland under the Berne Agreement of March 13, 1918.

country was about 23,000. He estimated that, if the Germana could be persuaded to exchange not only the combatants of

ber on each side would work out fairly equally. For himself, he said frankly that the sooner this matter was concluded the more he would rejoice.

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

During a discussion in the House of Lords on conscientious objectors, Lörd

Pec! said the Home Office were consider- ing whether these men could not be allowed some farther mitigation of punishment. He did not wish, how ver, to hold out any hope that after under- going a limited term of imprisonment they would be free to go back to civil Only those who had failed to life. satisfy the tributals that they were The Agreement, Lord Newton said in conscientious objectors or those who the House of Lords, applied to Belgians refused to do any kind of work of captured by Germans and Germans national importance were punished. captured by Belgians. Aa for civilians. all were to be repatristed, whatever The Japanese, indeed, as the restorers their age and sur. Civilians interned in of law and order, would be welcomed by Switzerland were to be repatriated, but the moderates in Russia; but, naturally, I were not to be employed in any military their presence in Siberia would hinder service at the front, on the lines of com- the Bolsheviks. Yet their guardianship runication, within occupied enemy is greatly needed for the vast stocks of territory, or within the territory of an civilians of

Amsterdam, April 27-According to grain which have accumulated in Allier State. The transfer

paet was to be completed within six months. Western Siberis during the four years. Unless our Far Eastern He told the House that the aetion of the to-day's Vorwarts, "General von Fris Allies protect these foodstuffy they will French Cavernment had come upon the herg stated in the Budget Committee of In British Government as a surprise, and the Reichstag yesterday that on March to Petrograd and Moscow,

declared that it was not incumbent upon 31 last the number of men reported mias Western Siberia, piso, immense.quantities British Government te adopt aning had reasbed a total of 664,104, OF of butter, produced from the dairy exactly similar procedure.

this number 236,675 were prisoners. în region round Tobolsk, are stored in re

Lord Salisbury gare expression to France, 119,000, in England, and frigerators. The Russian peoples con sume little butter; but the need of it what was obsiously the general feeling 157,000 in Russia and Rumanis, while (and of all fata, in pressing in Germany ty declaring that public opinion, would most of the others [151,498] could be.

Tobolsk, the residence of the ex-Tsar. be greatly dissatisfied if French prisoners

881,000 GERMANS "MISSING."

is Erked with the suggestion that the could be exchanged in large numbers and regarded as dead."

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ing him and restoring the old régime. British side.

Lord Newton, second speech,

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But, afortunately, this absurdity lian prisoners of war in Germany at the

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exploited Bolsheviks in the hope, possibly not. groundless, thus it will be followed by a monetary grant. The immediate effect of Mr. Wilson's benevolent gesture hus been to create some cleavage of opinion, apparently, between Washington and Tokio, which is to:

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