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x : reply is not a Hat "ao, but it is.a "90 per cent, no." gd per cent. "yes" consisted in a proposal tions imposed by the pow- 5 Fa ii iH; [Ei ce of resuming commer-| M cial i rg with Russia was 'ac- : What tum the conference will pow; take cannot be told at present. My. Lloyd George is desperately hoping to make something out of the conference; and would continue it for the discus Italians agree. The French, on the other hand, see no use going on, and declare they do not wish to treat 'political questions with Russia if Rus- sia refuses to shoulder her obligations. As for Mr. Lloyd George's wish to.go on toward the compact of non-aggres- pi the French: quote the British Premier - as. saying that the non- aggression compact depended - abso- lutely. on 8 Russian settlement. The French have asked Premier Poincare for instructions. If he orders them home they will leave at once and expect at least five delegations to go -with them. If he orders the delega- tion bo stay, they will remain as long as Mr. Lloyd George wishes the con- ference to continue. all} the delegations. : Then Premier Lloyd George, with the necessary buoyancy, did what a member of the British delegation termed "making |" the corpse do a somersault" What he did wés to place a*new hope before the conference that a deadlock which would only grow worse before that body could be solved imperceptibly ina Com The French announce officially that they will agree with the British 'and the Italians in whatever they suggest. It was veported earlier that they in- tended to object to the presence of the 25. mmissions. This would have meant an imeiate break, Russians on the Co but during the day if was reported); that the French had received a tele- gram from Paris telling Vice-Premier Louis Barthou to: finish on friendly terms with the British and Ttalians. Radio Signal Encircles the World A despatch from Vaiip - ton" says: -- The Annapolis Naval Radio Station has suc- ceeded in flashing a time sig- nal around the world without relaying, using-a wave length of 17,145 meters. This was announced to the Horological Institute of America, by Dr. Paul Sollenberger, of the Na- val Observatory at George- town. BL current Tet . Napoed f /araund the d, En ing a'surround- ing embrace in the fifteenth King of Siam Ardent Shakespeare Admirer re A' despatch from - London says.-- Among the outspoken admirers of Shakespeare inspired by the recent anniversary celebratfons at Stratford is the King of Siam who, according to a letter written by his secretary and received by Sir Sydney Lee, chair- man of the trustees of Shakespeare's birthplace, is translating | Shake- speare's works into Siamese. «Buri Navarasth, the secretary, sent mm behalf of the King a cheque for $500 as a personal contribution to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and $250 for the memorial theatre fund. He says that his Majesty is an ardent admirdr of the British national poet der. and is doing his utmost to induce the Siamese to study him. te i part of a second. Message From His Majesty | at Vimy Ridge A despatch from Ottawa sa From Vimy Ridge on Friday came the following message from: King George, addressed to his Excellency Baron Byng of Vimy, Governor-General of Canada: "I have just spent "the night at Vimy. My thoughts wene with you." "Your Msienye extremely kind message most deeply appreciated by the people of Canada and myself," is the cabled reply sent by Lord Byng to King George. i Paris Doctor Finds Cure for Tnsompia A despatch from Paris says.-~There is a boon to the insomnia stricken business man in the advice of Dr. Livet of the Paris Faculty of Medi- cine, who announced this week that in leu of narcotics all that is needed is a Jukewarm bath every. night, fol- lowed by the application of subdued blue and violet rays. - Experiments have shown, he says, that Getp slumber = induesth even in the worst. cases, within Dr. Livett in a bedroom is a better guaranty Tost than Jot! darkness \ the insists that pc = Chinese Airmen Open. 'A despatch from' Victotia, B.C. -- Headed by a group *r Chinese of British nationality, mainly of the | younger set, a Chinese flying school is to be opened in Es- quimault. The first machine, a Curtiss, with pontoons, is'to be ready for service on May The object of the flying school, which will follow one in operation in Kamloops, for the last two years, is fo train pilots for aviation, so these |! men, when trained, may re- turn to China to carry on the flying services of that land. lie A Patriotic Innovation. ---- i * The biggest thing that has happened in university circles for some time was the creation last week of the School of Postgraduabe Studies at the University of Toronto. It .is & re. 'gretable fact that each year gradi- ates of Canadian Universities have gone to the United States to secure more advanced education than was ob- tainable in this Dominion and that many of these brightest of young men and women have not returned to Canada but have remained in -posi- tions ov various kinds across the bor- This has been a serious loss to this country. Now, with the estab- lishment of the new School at On-| tario's Provincial University, mo student need leave his native land for more education.) Graduates of Univer-| sities in Wealern and Eastern Canada will be encouraged .to pursue . their postgraduate studies in Toronto, and Canada will be able to keep her in-i tellectual giants at home. Nor will the new school interfere with the work of any other university. Relatively little postgraduate work is attem; in Western or Eastern Universities in|' Canada and these institutions will, no doubt, encourage their graduates to utilize the postgraduate facilities of~ fered at: the University: of Toronto. « In Italy 'wheeled traffic keeps to the | left in'lavge towns, but to the right, * OB School at Bouimautt pred New Soviet Poutal Rates -- wh italy's Traffic Custom. : he country. United States Desires Repre- sentation on on Russian Com- beh pis Genoa. says:--The oe ated Is' injecting itself: into plo tsa Poplar Poi 2 the Russian muddle at the-éonference. | bn The move 1s veiled in official secrecy but, the co t'is ina position' to state that Preier Lloyd George i has received from influential Amer- jcang a that an American be put on 'a' commission to go to Russia e to superintend the giving of credits, capita} and concessions, In effect this means that the United States has entered the conference: 'Just as the failure to find & general solution of the Russian problem" here sespme) Tho Russians are ot convinsed of Premier Lloyd Gefrge's true pewition:] They Rs a ¢onference about this at Rappallo on Friday night. All this is| the peak, but: an 'indication of the confusion which can be seen the half- open door which the Russians have left in their memorandum. The United egreament among the powers here that no separate treaties with Russia will bs signed. ; Dh Fated Lustamia Will be 'Salvaged A despatch from Newport. News, Va, says--A little black steamer, Blakeley, pulled in her lines at muni- cipal pier here and headed for the sen on the first leg of her run to the British Isles where, off Kinsale Head, She will: attempt to. recover oid, gil- | With | A dhantic wer and jewels which went down | the ill-fated Lusitania seven years! ago, At Philadelphia she will take on equipment, including what is. said to be a special deep sea diving suit for use 40 fathoms below the the surface. | ished its final tests in world's greabest biplane. 'has ot fin- the aerodrome 'man construction; with four propellers and four 400 horse-power. motors. The (wing spread is more than 100 feet. 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