, 1912-05-15

summoned to demand his release. Many
petitions are circulating and being numer-
ously signed.
Tn Daily News has absorbed the Morn
ing Leader, and it is reported that Lord
Northcliffe has purchased the Standard. The
Pail Mall G"zetto predicts several newspa-
per amalgamations.
Mr.. Bruce Jsmay was cheered upon disem-
barking from the Adriatic at Liverpool. He
asked not to be interviewed pending his testi-
mOny to be given at Lord Mersey's inquiry.
The Public Trustees Office has undertake
en- the administrator of the Titanic relief
funds, three hundred and sixty five thousand
pounds, including the Daily Mails fifty six
thousand pounds.
King Haakon has sent to the Committee of
the Norwegian Parliament correspondence
srging confirmation Of Mr. Stead for the No
bel T eace Prize despite his death.
The council of the South Wales Miners
Federation has recommended that delegates
should decide against further meetings Of
the District Board until after the conference
on the twenty first, with the British Miners
Federation, and to send a delegation to Mr..
Asquith to express dissatisfaction with Lord
Saint Aldwyn's award of four shilliDgs and
sixpence half penny as the minimum wage
for pit lahonr.
Mr.. Stanton,a Socialist, moved a resolution
for a national stoppNge of mining, with the
cooperation of the railway men and trans
port workers, and Labourite obstruction of
Parliamentary business. The South Wales
miners further claim an advance of wages
because of the enhancement of the price of
coal on account of the strike, but the owners
reply that expenses have absorbed the en-
lnrged price.
The London tailors have resolved TO re-
sumo work by q vote Of three hundred and
sixty seven against three hundred and thirty
nine.
The deaths are announced of the Earl of
Euston and Lady Topper.
France regards Baron Mnrschall Won Bic
b~erstein's appointment as Ambassador to
England as the sequel to Lord Haldane's
mission and Germary's supreme effort to
weaken the Anglo French entente. France
nevertheless relies upon King George to
preserve the entente against the blandlsh-
ments of Germany's best diplomat. The
rumour is revived Of the retirement OF Sir
William Goschen, the Britith Ambassa-
dor to Germany, in connection with Count
Metternich's resignation Of the London EN-
bassy.
The Reichstag has passed the second
reading of Il Bill adding to the army forty
thousand men and two hundred and forty
SIX held guns, machine guns etc.
The Budget Committee has adoped u
clerical resolution asking Herr Won Beth
mann Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, to
stop duelIing in the army, especially the
custom requiring the offended party TO chal-
lenge or leave the army, and, pending this re-
form, enforcement of the Imperial order re-
stricting duelling. General Won Heeringen,
Prussian Minister of War, said the Kaiser had
intervened in seyenty-two cases of challenges
not justified, the regulation of dnelling was
preferable to it's abolition, which was i'm
practicable. The proposed action is an en-
cloachment upon the Kaiser's prerogative.
The German squadron to visit the United
States has started from KEEL.
Ottawa, May 13th-Senators Cox and
Bandman, Sir Louis Jette, Sir William Mac
kenzie Sir William Meredith and others
have called o meeting for June fourth to ar
range cooperation with committees in Eng
land and the United States, for the celebra-
ton of an unbroken century of pence be-
tween Canada and the United States.
Montreal, May 13th-The directors CT the
ROYAL Bank of Canada have ratified the pur-
chase of the Traders Bank, subject to rati-