, 1913-10-01
KILOGRAMS
ST. CROIX STATION.

London, Sept. 27th.-The death is nm
nouuced of Lieutenant General BrabAzon
PottInger.
The international aviation contest held ut
Brooklands WAS Witnessed by five thousand
persons. England woI the tenn race, France
the quick starting event and america the
aligh ing competition This was EnglNnd's
first opportunity to see NJ. Prgoud, the
French aviator, who, in his first flight, rose
to an altitude of three thousand feet, turned
the hose of his machine straight to earth,
and fell with u swiltness apparently beyond
control. The onlookers were awestruck
and turned their faces away, expect
ing q tragedy, but NJ. Pegoud twisted
his aeroplane to an angle Of forty-hve
degrees and III u moment was AvIng
upside down. He continued thus for a
few seconds, gradually IeSaiuing an upright
position, then swooplng in corkscrew fashion
to earth, he assembled again to a height Of
Que hundred feet aud Owed down straight
for earth, then, flying upside down. and
later making au upward climb with the nose
Of hs machine towards the sky, he complete
ed II perpendicular letter 0. He again
astounded the spectators by rising to a
height of two thousand feet and causing his
machine to somersnuIt twice IN IT'S descent,
aud making other amazing name lvres. He
rema ked, on aIsntlng, "you should have
been up there with me to feel the thrill and
the y Of it"
1t is announced that all the strikes in
Great Britain We're settlNd yesterday, when
the directors of the Manchester Ship Canal
agreed to reconsider the claims of their
dockmen for better wages. The conl miners
of Pontypridd have resu ned work. The
only trouble in the labour world in tn Uni
ted Kingdom now is the transport workers
strike in Dublin, where Mr.. Asquith is trying
to effect II compromise.
Advices from Dublin state that the Lord
Mayor of that city has endeavoured to bring
about a settlement, but the employers are
not Inclined to discuss the situation with Mr..
Larkin, or other Transport Workers Union
leaders.
Mr.. Robertson, Parliamentary Under-Se-
cTetnry to the Board of Trade, speaking Mt
Newcastle -On-Tyne, said that Sir Edward
Carson provisional government was nm eco
nomic blunder and a practical impossibiliiy
which could be ended by the post office cut
ting it off from the rest of the world. He
declared that the reason Sir Edward had not
been prosecuted was that the Governmet did
not want to make King Carson Saint Carson.
Dispatches from Belfast state that there
were no Ulster conferences yesterday, ow-
ing to the illness of Sir Edward Carson, who
has been ordered by his physician to remain
in bed, in order to prevent a complete
breakdown.
The Picking correspondent of the DAILY
Telegraph states that Russia, having vainly
requested China to restore order in the
towns along the Caravan Route i'll Western
Mongolia, has occupied Kobdo and Tchou-
goutchak with Il bal tallion Of Cossack3.
Advices received in Vienna from Bel
grade, report That no quarter is being given
i'll the fighting between the Servian troops
and the Albanians, all prisoners taken by
either side being instantly shot. Besides
taking Dibra, the Albnnians have captured
Struga, Jakova and Kitshevo, but were re-
pulsed at Prisrend.
New York, Sept. 27th-Despatches from
Mexico City state that Senior GaInboa's
resignation as Minister for Foreign Affairs
has been accepted. General Felix Dinz,
his rival for the Presidency, telegraphs that
he is leaving France for Mexico in a few
days.
Bandits stopped a train in the State of
Mississippi and, after driving the crew