The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-01-24 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DAY BY DAY.  Mr. Bon. Les is -unwell.  Renewed fic;oda In tie Seine and Marna  • • • • lielnoriat stone Ito DoMrml near Cana vitt be lent by Id aFoch, In the Ombrone district of Italy pennant tamales bane been cut off by the needs.  The Albee nntie, demanding tbe eartraditie& of the •Ex-Kaieer, nee been sent to HaThe tali text is Pubbelied The Conate; Wareric",k has been odniaira os the_proupestiae Latour ow:did/4m for Bast Waititatowtow. Pitlant;illl and industrial armament has been 00/winded between Norway and Poland.  _ • • • • lielhorane citzt Coneeil is voting £10,060 for the entertainment of the Prince of Wales.  • • • •  Inapeetor-Conuniseioner Redmond, of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, Wee ,hot dead in. a Dublin atreet_on Wedneedny night. _ _  Five genelaie were among tho 150 persons decorated by Prince Arthur or Connaught a,t Salisbury on Tuesday. • • •  cirants snd pensions tokalLins'£7,777 warfi paid lies year by the Nerwepoper Press Pmd, Garrick-stieet, London, W.C.  Carnegie trustees hare made a grant of ,t 4.800 towards the development of the rural library scheme inDenbighshire.  irhe Peaky Liberal Association on Wednesday night onanitnotisly adopted Mr. Aiscraite as candidate for the forthcoming igr-eleotion.  U. Deschanel. President of' die French Chamber of Depntiee. has been elorlhed Pre. adent of France by an overwhelming majority.  • • • • Jade Greelre...4l, &tNeameatleon-Tyne, St Wedneaday pentad an eine/maim order again* a widow renting a hone at £3O and gni:dotting for £lO4. .  The Order of the Nile (Third Glass) has been conferred upon 'Major (tem. lieut.colonel) Lionel R. &Anger. D. 51.0., Liverpool Regiment, by the Sultan of Turker.  M. Clemencean las tendered to M. Paincare the resignation of his Cabinet, and the retiring President has called upon M. Millerand to form the next Cabinet.  - Mr. Roberts. the Food Controller, speaking in London, on Sunday, prophesied an increase in the price of butter following the decontrol of dairy produce.  Following Ilic lancting of a constable. wild Fames took pWe in the streets of Thurles. Therp an,. mach indiscrimin, ate firing and damage. . • •  The new Allied ,policy of raising the blockade on Swaim ort ia welcomed by the 3dLoscow pres:, and by M. Litvinoff. Mr. Hooter considers it a great ,practical blow to Bolshevian. - - .  Elie& Rees (53), of St. nemesis, Cardiganshire, charged with placing a can of gunpowder up the chimney of a house in revenge for having to quit, was found not guilty at Ca.rdiganshire Aseiece.  A statement issued bithe-Chief Secretary for I-roland's office 6.110W8 I:bat becween May, 1816; and December, 1917 Sinn Feiner* were responsible for 1,716 earagee, 20 being morders.  The Supreme Conned ha., dissolved, and its work will be taken infer by a Council of Antbaasuclors, who will refer important questions to the leaders of their Governments. • • • • •  The Asmciation of Britieh Chamber* of Commerce passed a resolution at their quarterly meetMg, held in London. on Wednesday,- favouring legisLation protecting key industrift.  The resuitt; of the Irish municipal elections under the system of proportional representation show that. a oheck has beea administaryd to Sinn Fen. /die minor parties tejng-Aoyt reciresented. ' "TtiftisOttnitassjor-generel Sir ,:-Itebert._ Seiii6e,'etnieeeff tiverpool gerge0....1.3 Veen' awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the President of the United Snakes. . • . .  A hand a armed men on Sn.nday night attacked the police barracks eJ Drombene villege, co. Tipperary, with bombe and rifler, bar, were beaten off after an exclvange of shote luting several hours.  Three • armed men entered Ithe 3W:ripest office in North Hill-street, Liverpooji, on Tuesday night, and, holding up the two women assisetntp with revolvers, stole £lOO in Treasury notes and decamped. • • •  tiir Eric Geddet, Ppeaking pn thhe railway settlement, Fuld the pre-war wage bill of Z 47,600,000 had now risen to £110.000,900. By unified management he hoped eeonomiee would be effected,  After a riot in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, on Tuesday, in which the *mpg were engaged with motor-tar drivers on strike, the streets were cleared by a bayonet chwrge, in which no one was injured.  The paasengers of ithie Lnited States liner Powbeitan, numbering 271, have been transferred to the ceorie, and the Bardie is endeavouring to tow the damaged vessel to Halifax. . .  The career of an ailventurer who preyed upon women was revealed at an inquest in London on a young actor. Alexander Bradford, who ("oral/lilted suicide in an hotel when at last reduced to poverty.  to' uric' tions' for drunkennes.s at Liverpool' lest year numbered 4.361, an increase of 1.782 aver ,:be previous year. state the Liverpool juetitw, who consider it desirable that some sort of inodified control should be permane.ntly. continued. A heavy engageanent is reported near the North-Wea Frontier of India. The British column has been stubbornly resisted in the Mahend &Wintry, and has suffered MO caginaitim_ inchidO6 eight British otheves ano one massing. . • . Speaking so Manchester on Wednesday, FWd-idarelial Haig said there were still too many cases of hardship among ex-eervice men. The country WOuld not have done its dntY so long as a single man remained in the need of help.  Bedfast intinteiPal elections resulted as follows:37 ilnioirishs, 5 Nationalists. 13 Labour. 5 Sinn Fein. Cnionists have lost 15 seats and Nationalists S. while the Labour gain is 13, and Sinn Tani  In view of the Boisherik menace in Beath Ramie, the British fleet at Malta has been ordered to leeve, apparently for the Black S. with all available ships. Admired de I=aythe Commander-in-Chief, sailed on .7 • • • •  Mr. Daniels, Secretary for the American Nay!. denies that he was the author of the Aatetnent to _Admiral Sims that Aineca would AB soon figltt the British as the Central Powers. A full ill's:el:elation of the admiral's charm 0 ex  • . . In the Anh;on .and Win by-election ,eampaigns particular &Stant:on ie betng paid ' b 7: candidness to the votes of ex-soldiers. At the fernier pfsee the local society riffieinaly supports the Cottlitionsin hropshire Ithe we is likely to be split.  Important recommendations for the extension of cotton,groering within the British Empire are contained in the report to the Board of Trade of the Empire Growing C mettee, which was appointed bY the Board of Trade in 1916 to consider the posilaken of the textile trades after the