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GENERAL NEWS.

Workmen's High Wages.

At Newport (Mon.) recently, Alfred James, s riveter, was sum. moned for not paying his income fax, It was stated that James earned £58 in four weeks, Thomas Olsen and James O'Neill, sum- moned for similar offences, were reported to have earned £43 in loss thers month and £36 in a similar period respectively. All three were ordered to pay the amounts due,

Lusitania Memorial Buoy, It is suggested that a huge broy be moored at the wont whein tha Lusitania was sank, to be visible day and night, as a permanent memorial of the ill-fated ship. The buoy would bear the name of the Lusitanis," and remind those who come after as of the greatest ses crime ever committed. This suggestion, the Merchant Ser vics Beview states, would fad favour with officers and men.

Canadians for Russia.

It is officially annoncoed that Canada will be represented in the army which it is proposed to Bend to Siberis to assist the Rassions and Czecho Slovako by a special militery unit. This an nouncement is made as the result of negotiations in London between Sir Robert Borden and the Im- perial Government. The force will be mobilised and sent to Siberia at as early a date as possible.

German Secrets Mastered, *There is cuts single branch of industry connected with the war in which we cannot beat the Germans," said Lord Sydenham recently at the opening of the British Scientific Products Er- hibition at King's College. We had mastered Germany's secret process for hard porcelain, we could make optical glasses as well se she could, and we were able at last to beat her in magnetos. To-

day we were completely independ- ent of Germany.

President Wilson Buys

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