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HOW THE SAD NEWS BECAME KNOWN.

(Reuter's American Service)

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS MADE.

f Reuter's General Service)

LONDON, February 5. The following have been made Labour peers: Sir Sydney Olivier......Secretary of State for India. Brig General Thomson...Minister of Air Mr. Sydney Amold... Under Secretary of Colonies.

NEW YORK, February 4 Dr. Wilson died in his sleep so peacefully that his wife who was holding his hand and his daughter Margaret who was at the foot of the bed were

These three appointments will give Labour not aware of his

five members in the House of Lords. The two death until Rear existing members are Lord Chelmsford, First Lord Admiral Gray-of the Admiralty, and Viscount Haidane, Lord 'son's eyes be- Chancellor. tokened it.

"EXTRA!"

The faithful! negro attendant - outside the door sobbed audibly as Rear Admiral Grayson passed out with bowed 'head:

Hundreds of people outside the house knelt, on the sidewalk and silently prayed when the death was ar- nounced.

President Coolidge was in church when he heard of the death. The pastor in his sermon was extalling the world movement for peace and had mentioned the part Dr. Wilson took therein when

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shouting the voice of "Extral" came through the window.

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The paster paused and said solemnly: now we hear that which marks the passing of the be- loved leader of the peace movement."

President Coolidge inmediately left the church and went to the home of Dr. Wilson to offer his condolences to the widow."

LOFTY IDEALISM.

SIR SYDNEY OLIVIER, BA, LL.DK.C.M.G., cr. 1937; C.B. 1917; C.M.G., 1898; b. 1859. Educated Lausanne, Keneton School, Tonbridge School, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Germany. Entered Colonial Office in 1882; Secretary Fabian Society 1886-90, official appointments in British Honduras, Leeward Islands, West Jamaica; Permanent India, Washington,

Secretary of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1913-17; Assistant. Comptroller and Auditor of the Exchequer 1917; retired 1920. BRIGADIER C. C. THOMSON. Beyond his military carcer, Brigadier Thomson is little known to the public..

MR.

SYDNEY ARNOLD, Under Secretary for Colonies, has been a M.P. since 1912. He was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to President of the Board of Education and to the Financial Secretary of the Treasury in 1914. He joined the Labour Party in 1922,

BOMBAY STRIKE.

OUTLOOK BECOMING SERIOUS.

MOTOR CARS STONED.

BOMBAY, February 4. The situation over the mili strike is assum- owners' Ing a serious aspect. The mill ultimatum threatening a lockout for a fortnight. unless the strikers resumed expired. to-day!

An honorary magistrate was stoned. He fired his revolver into the air. The strikers tried to Mounted police are patrolling the streets and surround his car but the driver spurted and escaped. the military are ready.

NEW YORK, February 4. Flags on public buildings throughout the

The men have not returned and have showed country are being flown at half mast.

their resentment by stuning motor cars and trains. President Coolidge has issued a proclamationMany people have been slightly hurt praising the man who led the nation through the terrific struggle of the world war with a lofty idealism which never failed him, and who uttered his aspiration with an eloquence which held the attention of the earth and made America a new and enlarged influence on the destiny of mankind, CROWN OF MARTYRDOM.

OTTAWA, February 4. The Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King has sent a

of condolence

Wilson, to Mrs. message expressing Canada's sense of the loss the United States has sustained in the death of "one whose name, is inseparably associated with the world's freedom."

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The Premier also made a statement to the Press declaring that history will assign Dr. Wilson a crown of martyrdom.

SIMPLE FUNERAL.

NEW YORK, February 4. Dr. Wilson's funeral will take place on Wednesday, unaccompanied by any State ceremony. A number of war Cabinet Ministers will be pall.

bearers.

President Coolidge has proclaimed thirty days mourning, ordering all flags to be half-masted, from the White House dome to the remotest warship.

Both Houses respectfully adjourned-during the discussion of the oil scandal,

GERMANS BITTER -----

BERLIN, February 4 The newspapers write bitter obituary notices about the late Dr. Wilson who was always regarded as having lured Germany Into false armistice, with the famous Fourteen Pointa.

Kreus Zeitung charges the former President with peridy, duplicity and weakness,

The Deutsche Zeitung says that the oppressed peoples will follow the coffin angrily, raising their fists.

AFTER TWO YEARS.

GHANDI RELEASED FROM JAIL.

BROKEN HEALTH.

BOMBAY, February 4 The Government has ordered Ghandi's release. [Ghandi, the famous Indian agitator sentenced to six year's jail for sedition.)

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The Government unconditionally remitted the unexpired portion of Ghandi's sentence following a medical report that he should be removed to the seaside for a long period of convalescence-at least six months.

FRENCH POLITICS.

PARIS, February 4.

After a week of preliminary skirmishes be- tween the Government and the Opposition the Chamber of Deputies embarked on a lively discus- sion of some hundred articlés comprising the Government's financial proposals..

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The Opposition hotly opposed the first article voting at least a millard of francs reduction in administrative expenditure and authorising the Government to modify statues by decree...

The Loft-ites complained that the provision was unconstitutional and dictatorial. They hinted The 'Tages Zeitung declares that Dr. Wilson is at the danger of dictatorship on the Italian and mainly responsible for Europe's disastrous position. | Spanish models.

The Vorwaarts describes Dr Wilson as symbol of idealism who did not dare to fight to the end against the power of evil.

FRENCH TRIBUTES.

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PARIS, February 4

WONDERFUL AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, February 4. Japanese near Mildura have succeeded in grow,“ All the newspapers pay tributes to the memorying wonderful samples of rice, demonstrating the of Dr. Wilson. They declare that France will be ever possibility of the Commonwealth becoming a rice

growing country. grateful to him for bringing victory to the Allies.

PIRATE GOLD.

BURIED TREASURE SEARCH.

CORAL ISLE SECRET.

VANCOUVER, February 4, A Canadian expedition composed of Vancouver. men, headed by Captain Polkinghorns has left aboard a small steamer for Cocos Island in order to search for the treasure,reported to have been buried there by pirates in the early nineteenth century.

The Cocos Islands Are a coral group in the Indian Ocean. They are included in the Straits Settlements government.]

SILVER FIND RUSH, NAKOTTAWA, February 5.....

A geological survey party reports that silver ore has been discovered in the Beaver River dis urlet of the Yakes, bearing 1,100 oz of silver to the are it an excellent chance for further marending into the district which in tol iniles east of the discoveries la 1919.

INDIAN WIRELESS

LONDON, February 5. The Government of India, has invited applica tions for private enterprises to establish and operate. the Indian link of the Imperial wireless chain also foreign and commercial wireless communication,

GREECE'S PREMIER.

ATHENS, February 4. The doctors verdict is that M. Venizelos, the

LATER Premier, must resigh

M. Cafandirls, the Minister of Justice, wh form a Cabinet.

INDIAN TAXATION.

DELHI, February 4 The Government has decided to appoint committed of experts to enquire into the whols stem of taxation and to suggest steps to remedy the defects.

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