, 1912-12-11

rived three p. m. seventh.
London, Dec. 10th-The AustEians' have.
seized at Fiume a steamer with u lcargo of
food for the Servian army, aud which has
been coniscated for the use of the Austrian
army. The Governor of Scutari refused to
accept a communication from the German
Minister that an armistice had been arranged.
and fighting continues. Turkey processes
peaceful sentiments, but announces that she
will not consent to the cession of Adrianop!e.
or the severing of Albania in order to give.
Servia access to the sea. Friction between
Austria and Servia continues, but the fore
going is insufficient to shake the belief TINT
peace is near.
Imports for the month of November in
creased by 3,601, 0CO pounds, and exports bv
2,372. 600 pounds.
During the year the unprecedented mum
Der of 2,18G, 5000 0O letters were iciiye!r Ell
in the United Kingdom. London's shte
was swelled by the Coronaton's effect on the
social season. The Per Capita average is 10
letters, 30 postcards, four newspapers, three
parcels and two kilograms.
The boom IN trade is amazing automobiles,
furs and Christmas presents being snapped
up almost faster than it is possible to deliver
hem. The shops III Bond and Regent Streets
last week did more business than in the fort
night before Christmas last year. NewspA-
per advertisement beats all records, and ST.
m%ilarly throughout the United Kingdom
with unparalleled business activity and uni
versal employment.
Free Traders taunt Tariff RefOrmers with
there being no necessity for reform owing
to the impracticability of any Improvement
Of trade.
Undor the auspices Of the Proportional
Representation Society, thirty three London
and provincial newspapers took a poll to,
illustrate its advantages, by which Mr.. Lloyd
George received %, IT'S and Ajr. Bonar Law
1857 votes, with Sir Edward Grey thind.
the Government thus securing two out Of
three at a time when there are many dis
conragements with regard TO its policy which,
nevertheless, is being steadily pressed iii
order than Home Rule, Welsh Diseatablish-
ment, aud Franchise Reform may be passed
for tue second time over the House of Lords
rejection before the expiration of the Par
llamentary term in 1915. 1t will be difficult
10 pass all before the year which ends on
March thlrtieth, but that is the intention.
Earl Russell has joined the Fabian Society
and is thus the first Socialist Peer.
Earl Cowley has been named as corespon-
dent in the suit for divorce brought by Mr..
G. D. Buxton.
Vice Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg
has been appointed first Sea Lord at the
Admiralty, III succession to Admiral SIR
Francis Bridgemnn, who has resigned, and
vice Admiral Sir John Jellicoe succeeds
Prince Louis as second Sen Lord.
The Suffragettes sentenced during Mr..
Lloyd Georges recent visit to Aberdeen have
been released exhausted from their bunger
strike owing to the Aberdeen gaol being
uuprovided with facilities for combating
same.
1t is announced that the Countess Of
Aberdeen and Miss Violet Asquith will visit
Mr.. Bryce at Washington about Christmas.
aud there are uncontirmrd rumo0 rs that Mr.
Asquith is weary. and ,is willing to succeed
MI. Bryce.
The North Eastern Railway Company
have discharged four thousand Of those
'triking on behalf Of the reinstatement Of
} engineer Knox, who had over INDUCED on
Saturday but was not due tor duty befc~e
Monday. The Trades Unionists claim that
the maintenance of discipline when off duty
infringes on civil liberty, while the directors
reDlV that drunkennesS nv q main, linz 1r;von