, 1915-06-23

proposal by nj. Dumont, a former Minister
OF Finance, to bury only the bodies of those
identified. and to burn those unidentified
as a sanitary measure, it being impossible
to bury all during a battle, and cremation
was the only alternative to contagion.
Dispatches from Berlin state that the
Federal Council has annulled all contracts
for the sales Of this years harvests and also
of sugar after August, that Is food IS now
under complete Government control.
The employers and the Government have
successfully opposed the establishment of
committees, including workmen, for the con-
siderution Of hours and rates Of pay, aud
have decided that wages having already
risen, new machinery for the consideration
of The wishes of the workmen was unneces-
sary.
During q debate of the Budget Committee
of the Prussian Diet Herr Hirsch, a deputy,
emphasized the close connection between
military aud economic efficiency and suggest
ed that the War Office should be cautious
regarding the requisitloning of too many
men for military duty.
It is now stated that the Order of Merit
recently conferred on Captain Hersin was
for taking his submarine to the Dardanelles,
and not for sinking the 'Lusitania".
1t is officially announced by Berlin that,
despite repeated representations through
American and Spanish diplomatists, France
refuses to mitigate the brutal treatment of
German civil aud military prisoners III tropl-
cal Africa, particularly i'll D%ahomev, where
well educated whites are under negro con-
troll, without proper clothing, nourshment
or sanitation, and are compelled to perform
the hardest manual labour while subjected
to the worst indignities, and therefore Ger
yoonv will rafoliufa Inv OODOHllinO French
prisoners of war to cultivate swamps, but
under healthful conditions.
The Chimes" says that the Ministers have
decided in principle that the life of the pre-
sent Parliament should be extended for a
year and that no municipal elections should
take place this year.
A despatch from Edinburgh states that
Robert Hetherington and Henry Arnold
Wilson, both prominent and wealthy metal
brokers', have been convicted and sentenced
to six months Imprisonment and a fine OF
92, 600 each under tho Defence of the Realm
Act, upon q charge OF supplying iron ore to
the Krupp works since the outbreak Of the
war. Some OF the published comment con-
siders that the sentences are inadequate.
Advices from Paris state that the Court of
Appeal has refused to consider the appeals
of Colonel Desclaux, a former Paymnster-
General, and Madame Bechof, the wife of
a German, from the Judgment Of q court
martial convicting them for stealing military
stores, D%esclauy having been sentenced to
seven years solitary confinement, with mill
tary degradation, and Madame Bechotf to
two years imprisonment.
The official inquiry regarding the "Lusi-
tania'' closed with u short secret session re-
garding Captain Turner's testimony and the
Instructions from the Admiralty. The date
on which the findings will be published has
not been announced.
It is officially stated that, with q view to
settling the Lancashire cotton mills lnbour
dispute, an organization Of the employers
AMI workers has sccepted Mr.. Runciman's
suggestion of arbitration, and meanwhile the
mills will resume.
New York, June 2Oth-A French Grand
Jury has indicted Herr Stahl for perjury in
swearing that the "Lusitania" was armed
with cannon.
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