, 1914-01-21

creditors. 1t Is reported that the European
wers have united in a suggestion that
President Huerta should retire. New taxes
are daily being imposed and gold is being
constantly exported, regardless of the IN
creasing penalties. President Huerta is
erecting a wireless station Of half the usual
range as the telegraph lines are frequently
cut. Close fighting is expected.
London, Jan. 20th-Many speeches pre-
paratory to the meeting of Parliament are
being delivered. Lord Haldane and Mr.
Samuel have negatived the disarmament
proposals without an international under
standing, in which England, they declared,
was ready to cooperate, otherwise she would
maintain the existing standards. Lord Cur
zon said Mr.. Lloyd George had treated dis
armamen with characteristic levity, and de-
clared that al increase, rather than q de-
crease, was necessary. Ulster, he added,
was on the verge of civil war, and Il big navy
and imperial unity were the issues for the
next general election.
Sir Hildred Garlic, NJ. p, has given one
hundred and five thousand pounds, in me-
mory Of his mother, as an endowment to
Bedford College.
In Difference to the United States obiec-
tions, regarding the arbitration OF differences,
expressed at the Conference on safety of
life at sea, England has accepted a substi-
tute providing that differences which may
arise under the maritime convention
shall be arbitrated only when it is agreed
to do so. The Conference has also accepted
the proposal of the United States that the
cost of maintaining ice and derelict patrols
is TO be divided among the signatories.
During last year one million three hundred
and seventy thousand persons came under
the Insurance Act, ninety-seven per cent be-
ing members of approved societies. Medi-
Cpl relief cost five million pounds.
Further search for Submarine AT has
not been successful. The disaster has given
rise to much criticism. MIR. Falle, Unionist Nj.
2, for Portsmouth, in a letter asks how many
widows would be starved upon the s%eaInen's
pension of five shiIings before the Admiral
ty awakes to ITS duty to scrap all the eight
of this type remaining. Others ask why A
z was not fitted with a telephone buoy, and
why the parent slip was not fitted with wire
less to report and ask for assistance, instepd
of steamipg away from the spot, also why a
lifting ship did not accompany the maneu-
vres, etc. The German press says the Admi-
rally is criminally responsible.
Advices from johannesburg state that the
strikers are dispirited and are resuming
work. A proclamation disbands the COM
mapdoes, except thirty thousand in the
Rand, Pretoria and Fauresmith districts.
The mobilization cost five hundred thousand
pounds. Martial law will remain in force
for perhaps a fortnight longer.
The death has taken place of Mr.. j. Dun
can Labour NJ. P. for Otley. The bursting
of a blood vessel during seasickness was the
cause thereof.
Mr.. W, O'Brien, NJ. P, for Cork City,
has applied for the Chitern Hundreds, upon
Mr.. Roche's challenge to test the popularity
If the formers policy to settle the Home
Rule controversy by party conferences.
Many O'Brionites have been defeated in the
recent Cork elections.
The Obstetrics declare that they have one
hundred thousand men enrolled and that
the signalling corps and despatch riders have
been over recruited, postal, medical and
nursing corps have been created, there be-
ing seven hundred nurses at Belfast and
two large hospitals in readiness there, with
smaller branches elsewhere.
The Warehouses of Dufferin and Ava has
given her residence at Clandeboye as q home
for convalescents.
Berlin advices state that the Kaiser has
decorated five hundred persons, including
Colonel Won Renter Of the Tnbern regiment.