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DEATH SENTENCES DISGUST,

The French have discovered a secret: German, customs bureau in a private, house in the busiest

VAN LONDON, March 27.. street. They arrested twenty-five officials, found The death sentences on Russian ecclesiastica- there and also a number of German shopkeepers occasioned a lively scene in the Commons. Reply who had come to pay taxes to the Germans insteading to a question thereanent. Mr. Ronald McNeill

of to the French

‚ ́SOCIALISTS' DECISION. ̧,

BERLIN, March 27. At the conclusion of a conference of delegates representing Allied and German Socialists a com- muniqué was issued stating that the delegates unanimously opine "that Socialist parties should concentrate their efforts with a view to coding as quickly as possible the present situation on the Ruhr and finally solving the reparations question with due regard to Germany's capacity to pay

FRENCH ARREST WAR CRIMINAL. BERLIN, March 27.

It is reported from Lippstadt that the French arrested Captain Steinbrinck a "U", boat_com- mander who figures in the list of war criminals on account of the sinking of the steamer "Sussex" in 1916.

FRENCH PREMIERS DECLARATION.

PARIS, March 17.

emphasised that the Government did their utmost to save the ecclesiastics and could not see that anything more could be done if the Soviet were: determined to practise such barbaritles Cloud cheers).

The Communist Mr. Newbold shouted an in-

coherent remark which the House took to be a

deferice of the Soviet.

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be held as hostage (loud and prolonged cheers).

Mr. Newbold declared that no cleric sentenced death was ever put to death (laughter).

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Mr. Jack Jones: "I will put you to death."

Two members suggested that the Government should norify the Soviet trade delegation that it must leave England in twenty-four hours if the executions occurred and the matter was then dropped.

INDIGNATION'IN POLAND.

. M. Poincare, speaking to the Chamber Foreign Affairs Committee on Rubr Occupation Credits

WARSAW; March 27. Bill admitted that the economic results obtained

Widespread indigpation has been aroused by from the viewpoint of the fulfilment of pledges the death sentences on the Russian ecclesiastics. were trifling. He said that in view of the Reich's The Government has initiated diplomatic action with bad will it was only, prolonged and stable occupa the object of preventing the executions which the tion' that would permit realisation of the programme court ordered to be carried out in three days, of exploitation. The Franco-Bolgian governments fully agreed that the evacuation of the occupied tetritories could only take place gradually as due payments were made. -Essen would only be given | up when the total amounts due in respect of repara- tions were settled.

HODGE ON STRIKE.

AGRICULTURAL TROUBLES AT HOME.

LONDON, March 27 M. Trocquer stated that 3500 tons of coal and The reduction of wages to d. an hour per coke were despatched daily and the amount would fifty-four hour week has resulted in a general shortly be dotroled. The appeal for voluntary workers in connection with the railway service had yielded excellent results. The Committee voted the credits requested by the Governments.

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TURKISH COUNTER-PROPOSALS.

DRAFT - REPLY READY.

LONDON, March 27. The Allied conference in the afternoon examin ed the report of the expert committee on the financial, economic and other parts of the Turkish counter proposals. It reached complete agreement on all points and the draft text of a reply to Ismet Pasha's note of March 8 was passed subject to final approval 'by the respective Governments, It is hoped this will be given within forty-eight hours when an indentical note will be despatched to Constantinople for transmission to Angora by Anglo-French and Italo-Japanese representatives,

NEW PROHIBITION RULING.

STEAMER PASSENGERS' LIQUOR;

NEW YORK, March 27. The Port Surveyor has ordered that henceforth every bottle of liquor brought into the country by steamship passengers shall be seized and a fine of five dollars per bottle imposed on the owner ugless -the passengers prove it is needed medicinally when an amount not exceeding a quart shall be allowed.

NEW TREASURY BOND ISSUE.

LONDON, March 27

Under allotments of the now Treasury bonds large applicants received thirty per cent. Dealings have taken place up to five-eighths per cent premium.

"GLENBEG" REFLOATED.

strike of agricultural workers in Norfolk which is threatening to spread to Cambridgeshire, The farmers have declined offers of mediation and contend it is impossible to meet the men's demand for a minimum of six pence an hour and a fifty hour week. Both sides, recently approached the Government to take measures to relieve the agricultural depression. Mr. Bonar Law said he was unable to promise either protection or subsidies and was only able to grant credit facilities. A number of farmers are paying union rates includ-

ordered that there shall be no discrimination in ing the King's estate at Sandringham but the Union connection with the general strike.

BERLIN ARRESTS,

ALLEGED ANTI-REPUBLIC PLOT:-

BERLIN, March 27.

Rossbach's secretary on a charge of complicity in an The police arrested two ex-officers and Herr

alleged plot against the Republic recently discover ed by the police. Herr Rossbach who is the head of the movement was arrested a few days ago, The Thuringian Government has declared the Extreme Nationalist Party to be illegal.

THE “ DIVINE SARAH”.

FUNERAL ON THURSDAY.

PARIS, March 27.

stream of friends and admirers, including the most distinguished and the humblest, passed through, all day long the house where Mine. Sarah- Bernhardt is lying in state amidst masses of flowers. The municipality is defraying the penses of the funeral on Thursday when the c mony will be avery simple one.

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