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October 27, 1920, Temperature 69

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CORK'S MAYOR DEAD.

LosDay, October 25th. The death is reported of Mr. Mac- Swinney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, who was [hunger-striking in Brixton Geol.

Liss Mr. MacSwinney died in Brizter"prison 3.20, this morning-the seventy-fourth day of his hungerstrike.

into unconsciousness last night. Mr. Mac- After a brief conscious interval, he lapsed

Swinney recently had repeated attacks of deliriam, and was given nourishment by the prison authorities, but was so enfeebled that it had little effect - r

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LONDON, October 25. - Afeature of the Armistice Day celebrations on November 11 in London this year will be the burial of an unknown British warrior at Westminstes Abbey, and preparations are being made to deal with the exornious crowdra who will be desirous of partaking in the impressive ceremony." The body of the unknown warrior, who died in the early part of the war, will be brought from the British battlefield in France โท а simple coffin specially made for the purpose. It will be exited to the Abbey on * gun carriage covered with the national flags and will be placed in the grave with the pomp and ceremony befitting the great ones of the earth. Field Marshals, Generals, and Admirals will act as pall bearers, and the procession, in which will be the Royal Princes, Cabinet Ministers, representatives of the Ariny and Navy" will march to the Abbey through the streets of London to the accomp animent of military bands playing funeral marches, and the inuffed peal of the bells of the Abbey. When the Abbey" is reached the burial

It is reported from Pittsburgh that the service will be held and the coffin placed in the grave which Federal District tours of justice in ren- well be filled with soil taken from the unknown warrior's dering the decision declared that the fourth | section of the Lever Law was unconstitu- resting place in France. The Abbey will then be opened to the generalizat. peblic, which will be allowed to file past the grave and pay homage to the glorious dead. On the way to the Abbey a cenotaph in Whitehall will be ! unveiled by the King precisely at eleven o'clock in the morning, when there will be two minutes silence in honour of the 'dead. His Majesty will enter the Abbey on fout behind the gun carriage as the chief mourner represent- ing the nation and the Empire.

GERMANY'S OBLIGATIONS.

ATTEMPTS TO DODGE TREATY STIPULATIONS.

LATEST COMPLAINTS.

LONDON, October 24.

counts has been returned: against Messrs. Armour's of Chicago, who are charged with violating the sati-profiteering Lever Law is selling-New Zealand lamb.

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Besides the Premior, Mr. Bone Law EXTERMINATION OF COCKROACHES.

and Sir Robert Horne were presentat this morning's conference, It is under. stood that the Government has arrived at a new basis which, if acceptable to the is likely to provide a satisfactory miners, is sertlement..

The

miners representatives are report ing the result of conference to the miners' Executive this afternoon.

The continuance of the discussions, is officially regarded as a hopeful siga.

LATER

After an hour and a half's discussion' at the beadquarters of the Miners' Feders- aid that the conference between the tion, this afternoon, Mr. Frank Hodges locisks of the Federation and the Premier will be renewed on the morning of October 95th.

+1 LONDON, October està. -The continuance to-day of the informal conversations between the miners and the Ministerialists, which began yesterday, situation. brought a tone of optimism isto, the

Mr. Frank Hodges and Mr. Robert

A Havas message states that the German semi-official press is still per sistent in attempting to find all sorts of reasons for Germany to dodge the Peace Treaty stipulations. The former Imperial Cabinet Minister, Dr. Dernburg now contends in a Berlin paper that France lost only eight per cent. of her pre-war aggregate of weakh zgaing Genmany 960 per cent, the conclusion being, of course, that Germany cannot possibly bay what she is bound to. Another erroneous contention is the German papers is that France is now overflowing with coal, while German industry is just dying from lack of fuel. The latest French" official statistics conclusively show that however the French stocks of coal are now, they are at leastSmillie, in a brief interview, intimated 50 per cent. below the level of September of 1913. The fact is that the that the spirit of cheerfulness is going to be maintained. Nevertheless, it must be present crisis in the German industry can be ascribed to the exorbitant remembered that actral negotiations have prices asked for goods for export to certain countries as a rather question not been resumed, although the conversa able means of checking a steady simmp in the German currency.

tions have been preparing the for the resumption. Anyway, the strike is likely to last through the week, for even when az agreement has been reached a fresh tallot is now declared to necessary. Mean- while, a hopeful sign is reported to be the intention of the Government not to proceed immediately with the Emergency Bill which is bound to raise a heated opposition in the House of Commons and complicate the chances of a settlement.

TRISH DISORDERS.

ANOTHER POLICE PATROL AMBUSHED.

THREN ÄILLED.

LONDON, October 25.

One hundred armed and disguised men ambushed a police patrol of nine men in County Sligo. Three policemen were killed and three wounded.

POLICY OF FRIGHTFULNESS,”

LONDON, October 25, In the House of Commons, prior to the debate, on the Emergency Powers Bill Mr. T. P. O'Conner obtained leave to move an adjournment drawing attention to the renewal of the "policy of frightfulness in Ireland by indiscriminate shooting, flogging, incendiarism, and the arming of Orange Volunteers in Ulster.” The debate comes on to-night.

- BOLSHEVIES IN BOKHARA.

MIR'S REPORTED FLIGHT TO AFGHANISTAN.

BOMBAY, October 25.

• An envoy states that the Bolsheviks, who recently established them. selves at Bokhara, occupied the Amir's palace. An explosion caused many casualties while the Bolsheviks were removing the Amir's supplies of munitions from the palace. The Amir is reported to have fed to Afghanistan.

·DEATH OF MR.

NEWS RECEIVED IN DUBLIN WITH PROFOUND GRIEF

UNIVERSAL MOURNING.-

LONDON, October 25.

The news of the death of Mr. McSwiney, (the late Lord Mayor of Cork whose death is reported in our earlier cables), was received In Dublin with profound grief." The city fag was down at half mart, but British troops took possession of the Mansion House over which the flag flies. There were signs of universal mourning, and prayers for the repose of Mr. McSwiney are being offered in all churches.

EXCITEMENT IN DUBLIN

LONDON, October 25, The news of the death of Mr. McSwiney has caused a profound sensa tion in Cork which immediately went late mourning. All public functiona were adjourned and places were closed. Up to the present there have been |no' disorders. Soon after the death was known in Dublin the military.

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'A NATIVE RISING.

PORT ELIZABETH, October 25th. Following the arrest of a native leader, a crowd of natives "rushed to the police station. The police offered a stubborn resistance and were ultimately driven out Tais necessitated calling reinforcements of dispersed the mob. soldiers who opened. Gre and ultimately afty, of whom fourteen were killed, includ

The casualties were ing two Europeans."

LATER

After being driven off from the police station, and pursued from the city, the native, held mass meetings in their villages in the outskirts of the city.

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The following day they twice attacked tels forced to fure, killing one and station. The police were ult. mately wounding seven. Others attempted to fire a bags petrol store and aposseded in cutting all the telegraph and telephone wires, exospt those going to Cape Town.

Reinforcements are being sent-up from Cradock and Grahamstown. The city in now quiet

The total casualties were 2 killed and 41 wounded.

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