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LATEST CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. NAVAL MEN SEIZE IMPORTANT BUILDINGS.

PETROGRAD, November 7th Armed naval men, under Maximalist orders, seized the offices of the Russian

SECRETARY OF STATE'S MISSION TO INDIA REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.

Loydon, November 7th. Sir Valentine Chirol, in a letter to The Times, glyos a long review of the situation In Indin. He says: It is preposterous to suggest that Mr Montagu has foisted his visit on an un willing Raj, or that he sought to impose on the Indian Executive a ready-made policy of his own. One of the real objections to his mission is that it would

KAISER TORN OUT OF HISTORY BOOKS, SCHOOL CEREMONY IN CHICAGO,

REA

The abortive pacifist agitation in Chi cago has served the useful purpose of uniting the whole Middie and Northern West against the insidoss efforts of pro- German propagandists.

As illustrating the growing impatience of the people with everything and every- body tainted by German influences, a school ceremony in Chicago may be cited. The children were directed by their teachers to tear out of their history books

official newsagency also the Central be very difficult to conduct just now the men's gallery opposite the grille all those references to the Kaiser as a

Telegraph Office, the State Bank and the Marie Palace, where the Preliminary Parliament, which has been suspended has been eitting.

No disorders are reported

NO NEWS FROM PETROGRAD.

LONDON, November 8th- There has been no news from Petrograd since the Maximalist cu cabled last evening.

EARLIER CABLES.

PART OF PETROGRAD IN REVOLT. PETROGRAD, November 7th. In the Preliminary Parliament, M. Kerensky, referring to the Soldiers and Workmen's Council's attempt to seize supreme power in Petrograd, said that the Council of Soldiers and Workmen had distributed arms to the workmen.

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE

SEEDS

Hence the Goverment regarded that at part of Petrograd was in revolt and had been forced to take measures to meet the situations

KERENSKY DEFIANT.

The Left interrupted with ironical shouts, and M. Kerensky, turning to them,

exclaimed, The

Kultur in America.

PASSING OF THE "GRILLE." HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS.

resignation, the House With singular of Commone has decided to sacrifice the barrier of gilded iren trellis-work known as the grille," which for eighty years has separated the ladies gallery from the precincts. The removal will not bring future occupants of the gallery within the precincts; they will still re main entside the Chamber itself; but it will enable them to see and hear what is going on in much greater comfort. By reason of some architectural fine difficult for the layman to understand;

into them the agents of German dispassionate enquiry in the politically considered to be within the House iteli, man of peace which had been smuggled overheated atmosphere of India. In There still remains, therefore, an in-

Another act of Chicago may also be some respects the fact that the Secretary equality which some may regard as a of State for the first time is proceeding grievance, though it shrinks to nothinged The City Council, by a vote of to India on a mission of personal ness beside the larger question reposing 42 against six, adopted resolution in the lap of the gods whether women are which, though it did not mention the vestigation as surely all to the good, eventually to find places on the benches muyor, Mr. Thompson, by name, severely Draft Law and his action in countenanc for in the last resort it is the Secretary below. The removal of the grille, which rebuked him for his opposition to the of State who, will have to persuade Par will probably take place during the Par- ing the People's Council for Democracy cost more and terms of Peace" The resolution up- liamentary recess is not to linment to divert to itself some of the than £5-2 ludicrous sum to be mention proved the measures adopted by the Governor, Mr. Lowden, forbidding a con- powers he exercises on its behalf. If any od in association with so historie a relic large measure of decentralization is to in the old Parliament houses which vention of pacifists, and called upon all existed before the present structure was the city council cfficials to co-operate with be carried out in India, and if any con bailt women shared the public galleryhim in the suppression of utterances and with men, and with characteristic insist siderable readjustment is to be effected enre upheld their privilege. On one in the constitutional relationship of the occasion, in 1778, they almost monopolis

dered the gallery to be cleared they un- Raj and the Imperial Government, the the seats, and when the Speaker or

like the men refused to quit Says the ** It took two hours to erforce bistorian. war has precipitated such a political ferment in India, partly healthy and the order an acknowledgment of very

robust womanhood in those distent days corned the ladies gallery. The men's partly very unhealthy, that it may pass That incident Pored by Mr. Speaker gallery has been an abode of repcee in until the new comparison. The fact already referred human wit to devise any scheme which clasion from the gallery

Norton, and thereford entit

they were only per- to that the ladies' gallery is without " would satisfy all parties, but we may at Houses werew the proceedings through the precincts has been productive of one

mitted to view least hope that whatever schrine emerges ventilator over the centre cherdelige or two notable cecurrents. The cures the

roof of the Chamber, Every night order to clear the gallery secures from Mr. Montagn's mission it withe Serjeant-at-Arms issued about tivo prenipt exaciuntion of the space over the dozen tickets for this suffocating and un- clock As recent events have shown, the healthy point of vantage, but only ladies gallery can also be closed at the about half the holders could see into the

vas ecension to exercise that power the Clamber: the rest had to be content with pleasure of the Speaker: but before there what they could hear. Unantisfactory as the present gallery, it is luxurious in practice was, when he presence of ladies comparison with that primitive and, some will think, insulting accommodation, of the character of the proposed debate, The Indies did not accept the

as Thus, when the Contagious Diseases Bill sures us in his Memoirs that on one was under debate Indies were advised to occasion he saw the Duchess of Gordan, remain outside. but a dozen or ac in- habited as a man, sitting in the strangerssisted on remaining, and could not resist gallery, and on another occasion the applause when speeches were made with beautiful Mrs. Sheridan, in the same dis whies they agreed. As a regilt the gal- guise and in the same place, listening to lery was closed during the continuance of her husband's oratory............

CHAMBER OF HORS

a genuine straightforward scheme and that if it fails to gratify extravagant expectations, it shall fall in practice all that it may promise to the eye. Mr Montagu is in nowise a stranger to

meetings instigated Ly the enemy The mayor himself presided over the meeting of the council, and made no attempt to Daily Telegraph. defend himself against his accuse is, ---

was deemed undesirable, to inform them

Government will be fidian affairs or to India and the quietly, for Bir Nathaniel dignity and rely upon their good sense to retire.

killed rather than eenee to defend the honour and security of the State.”” *-

M. Kerensky said that any Maximalist attempts to seize the supreme power would be suppressed inmediately. He asked for the support of Parliament in

BS &

choice of his associates in the mission shows him nct to have undertaken it in any narrow party spirit or with a mere desire to collect arguments in sapport He goes out of preconceived theories.

responsible enquirer at very critical moment in the history of both India and the Empire. It reins to int, therefore, the duty of every patriotic The prese

India alishman at Homs and his odates only thirty-aix visitors, apart paay in the strangers gallery during the wish him heartily God-speed '' Parliament then proceeded to discuss momentous undertaking.

the request.

such actions

MAXIMALIST PREPARATIONS

CREATE ALARM

ABORIGINES IN REVOLT. PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

BESIEGED.

the debate. For a similar incident we hire to go back to the time of a Speaker who, evidently no respecter of person, present ladies gallery accom directed the clearance of the mixed com from those who occupy & mall corner division on the Address. What happened partitioned off for friends of the Speak is thus recorded in the Creevey Papers :- er. Admission is obtained, as to the We had a grand fuss in telling the peeress gallery in the House of Lords

ra House, The Princess of Wales, who had iso, by ticket procured through been present the whole time, would stay

and officially countersigned. It is an uncomfortable place in which to seek it out to know the numbere, and so LONDOS, November 7th distraction, though earpeted and cushion remained in her place in the gallery. rise steenly ed. The tiers of sente

and The Speaker very significantly called The Daily Mil's Correspondent at Sydney reports, a riang of blacks on those sitting behind are put to painful several times for strangers to withdraw. they beseech to relect before finally rain Mornington Island, in the Gulf of Car effort to see what is proceeding below. which she defied, and sat.on. At last

pentarias

Fow who enter the life which deposits to little fellow became irritated, wing ed from his chair, and looking up plump in entrance anticipate The population of 250 besieged the them at

cage like apartment they are entering the face of her and her familiar friends, Presbyterian Mission for ten days

halloed out most percely, If there are certainly, in future by strangers in the House they must Robert Hall was shot dead His Less like a cage it will

be, now that the

who, until now withdraw. They beling the only unca,

The newspapers are most alarmed at the preparations of the Maximalists, whom

ing the country.

DISREGARD OF MARINE MINISTER'S ORDER.

PETROGRAD, November 7th. The Bourse Gazette states the Com- mittee of the Baltic Flect is disregarding the Minister of Marine's refusal to hand over the ex-Imperial Yacht, and proceed. ed forcibly to suze, the yacht and take

it to Helsingfors.

DRASTIC MEASURES IN PETROGRAD. PETROGRAD, November 6th,

The conflict between the General Staff of the Petrograd district and the Bes volutionary Military Committee of the Council of Workmen and Soldiers came aggravated this evening, when negotiations with a view to democratically strengthening the General Staff were broken off on learning that the Governor during the night had summoned the troops from the environs.

The Committee ordered themtrodas to disobey the Government

The situation is complicated by M. Kerensky suspension of three Maximalist and tiro Conservative news- papërs

The

he authorities at five p.m.

ordered

the disconnection of the bridges between the working-class quarters and the centre of the capital, and the stopping of the tramways.

The city is being guarded by the lojai troops

NEW MAYOR OF NEW YORK

NEW YORK, November 7th. Mr Hylan, the Democrat candidate, has been elected Mayor of New York,

The majority of the rotors in the City and State wore in favour of Women's Suffragete or

candidates There were Mayoralty, namely, the ex Mayor Mr. Mitchell, an Independent; Mr. Hylan, the Democratic nominee, backed by Tam many Mr. Bennett, a Republican; and Mz Hillguit Socialist

The campaign was marked by machi perendal animosity.

STANDARD CLOTH FOR

CIVILIANS.

LONDON November 7th,

The Board of Control for Wool and

GRACA & CO Textile Production has decided to 20k

the

the

rise

levis Mr. Water Owens, as Members gazing up the lattice in- they then withdrew."

wounded, but he escaped in the Mission boat with Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Owens have scen and two children, and arrived Burketown.

AMERICA AND THE WAR PATROL BOAT SUBMARINED.

WASHINGTON, November 7th.

at

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SCENES OF VIOLENCE.

Men have been ejected from the House on various pretexts, some for misconduct in the gallery, some for irregularly,

discomfort sitor in her day than entering the body of the House. Stow,

Mrs. Gladstone, who bad a wifemerowd fellow and a skinner;"" Chad"" the

It is officially announced that the patrol-bost: led as cobmarined is often seen boering through the "grille, the on Monday

One officer and 20 men are missing. RACING IN THE EMPIRE. THE CAMRIDGESHIRE,

relates how, in 1584, one Robinson, a temerity to sit in the House all day,. though not & manbag, and tras rental

Visions distinctly, will henceforth be able to identify their friends. One marvels that such a barrier as the grille" has been so long tolerated, seeing that the wives of famous statesmen have shared in the it produced. There was 110 more regular visito

5 pro Mrs Disraeli was niso found admiration of a husband's

dismist by the Sergeant-at-Arms In and on one occasion, it ly Buid, cát,

in silence, a torn and bleeding view of the enormous interest which when the alighted from soldiers now take in the proceedings of her brougham on arriving at the House, the House of Commons, insomuch that rather than epo

her husband is intended at times they fill mine-tenths of the strangers' gallery, it is interesting to peech by acquainting him of the acci of t the House have not

learn that in 1855 two soldiers in uni- LONDON, November 7th dent Members The Cambridgeshire Handicap, run at been quite unmindful of the annoyance

ware refused admission, This produced Newmarkets resulted as follows caused by the presence of the

In

1889 July,

from the Speaker a declaration that there Brown Prince I n

cussion on the subject, raised on a motion Grand Fleet 3 by Mr. H. Harber that the grating was no rule for the exclusion of soldiers There were fourteen runners, and should be removed He argued that the in uniform, provided they did not carry Brown Prince won by three lengths with gallery was not such a place as ladies arms. But thess incidents in which mon that it was a speciós chamber of beside the tumultuous scenes for which two lengths separating second and third ought to occupy, and recalled the remark have played a part subside in interest The betting was: 100 to 6 grainat horrors to those who occupied. it. On the the ladies' gallery was responsible in 1906 Brown Prince; 100 to 7 against Planet; other hand, Mr. Beresford Hope who and 1908, as an effect of the Suffraging Yesre before-in 1881, the and 20 to 1 against Grand Fleat.

professed to speak on behalf of the ladies, aid it would, in his opinion, be a cruel time of the dynamite outrages-Mr. shame to take away the barrier All the Speaker Peel bad had occasion to turn MELBOURKE, November 6th.

Indies desired, he persisted. was to have fartive glances towards the grille in the The Melbourne Cup, run at Fleming four hours' rational amuse ants and belief that amongst its occupants was a for that purpose it was best for them to dynamitard in the disguise of a woman ton, resulted as follows: →

o in modern dress, wearing their bon intending to harla bomb ints the cham- go nets, and be in a position frès from in bed. But he was spared the scenes which pertinent molestation. Further, be de later years have produced. No one of precated any change which would convert the present generation will forget the gallery into too convenient Place lamentable and disgraceful episode of for firting. Mr. Layard, the First Com 25th April, 1900, when, towards the close missioner of Works, lant support to this

.there was an med form, just returned from the Crimea,

Se

THE MELBOURNE CUP.

Westcourt

E

Wallace Isinglass Twenty ran Won by half-a-head, two lengths separating second and third.

against The winner started at 5 to 1

BRITISH SHIPPING. LOSSES DIMINISHING.

a

dis

movement.

view of the matter by solemnly assuring of a debate initiated by the late Mr. Keir Hardie on the extension of the the House that 200 Indies he had spot Parliamentary franchise to women, a to' on the subject were almost unanimous

number of women behind the grille de in favour of taming the grille.. reason given by one, he added, was that huged the House with piercing and ex- the barrier enabled & lady who was bored cited shrieks, thrust and shook their even though he had been clenched fists through the trellia, and dia... good enough to obtain a rent, for her, to played a large dag bearing the words, retire surreptitiously twent

unobserved. Votes for women how members rush After this dippant

of the subed up to the gallery to resue their lady at-ject it was not surpising the the motion friends; and how the obstructives, ave

awn In 1880 discus

who was bodily by police- Mon took place upon a inotion by Mrance The Wise messed, denouncing weilers

LONDON, November 7th The Admiralty announces that thear rivals during the week were 2,284, and the sailings 2,310 The

and four under

Eight vessels over 1,000 tons were sun.

Six vessels were unsuccessfully

tacked.

THE PEACE DEBATE.

LONDON, November 7th. Last evening's peace debatem the House of Commons was closured by votes to 33 The motion was then negatived without a division.

AUSTRALIA AND CON

SORIPTION MELBOURNE, November 7th

wealth Government has

Com

zodore a standardised cloth for civilian decided to

another

ndum on

e

accommodation the

Sydney Baxton that in the ladies' gallery should be improved, as brutes and cowards Nor will recollection speedily face of the but this was rejected by an unsympata similar occurrence in October 1908, when

♫* zuch; House by 121 votes to 75 Now s change has the war brought about in men's attitude to women in many aspects that the obtrusive grille" is to go with out a word of disentKWA

CLEARING THE GALLERY.

With its passing a page is turned in an interesting and enlivening history Some of the most exhilarating episodes In recent Parliamentary life have con (Conhawed at foot of neat color

Suffragiste chained themselves to the grille, and threw away the keys of the locks, and parts of thegrille had to be filed away to obtain their release. From that day onwards till May 1909, the Indies gallery was closed by direc tion of the Speaker. Decorum has since been uninterrupted, and the decision to remove the grille indicates faith an il permanent continuance Daily Tele Draph