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in its country. Miss Mary MacSwiney is not ident Cosgrove and General Mul- 7. She was so troublesome that they put her in jail only to find that, she was more bother there than out-} side, The "Black Women'"--so-called be- cause they wore heavy mourning when they sat in Dail Eireann last winter== are extremely active, but the better known advocates of republicanism are no more active than the hundreds of young girls and women who are as- sisting their brothers, husbands and lovers in the mad war which is sink-! ing' Ircland into further depths of despair. It is the women, who are ut- terly fearless, wonderfully resource- ful and cunningly clever, who make it possible for a minority to wage a war on the duly constituted government and to paralyze practically all the offi- cial departments of the Free State. It is no new thing for Irish women t> play a prominent part in the fight-] ing. When the British were fighting the Sinn Peiners with regular soldiers and Black ani Tans the women were constantly hempering thém. To-day these same women, or at least a large number, of them, are blocking Mul- cahy's army. The women are real "bitter-enders," 'out-and-out republic- ams. For the professional agitators, sincere 18 some of them must be to make tha sacrifices they do, there is not a gaat deal of sympathy in Ire- fand, bu! for the mothers and sisters and wives, who "do their bit" by pass- ing letters, by hiding men on the run, by secrcting arms on their own per< sons, by offering false information, Predicts Halt in American Progress A despatch from London says: --Sir Mackay Edgar, British industrialist! and financier, has just returned here, from a visit to the States. "It is an amazing spectacle," he says. "There you Have 115,000,000 people feverishly tearing from the earth its irreplaceable wealth and us- ing it bo maintain a rate of growth ut- terly without precedent in all human ry. "They have long been the champion spenders of the world, but now they are. making all previous records. look silly." Sir Mackay says that the bigagst economic fact in the world to-day iy America's gigantic consuming power. "It is terrible, because already it is outrunning production." Then the financier goes on to prophesy that before long, while the demand will be as voracious as ever, the supply will have run short, and #0 he predicts a sharp halt in Amer- fean progress, which may be some- thing like a collapse. Ex-King Constantine of Greece Dies in Exile A despatch from Rome says:-- Constantine, former King of Greece, died at Palermo Thursday morning. His friends say he died of a broken heart. He was greatly depressed over the recent execution at Athens of the six ex-ministers, most of whom had been among his intimate friends. This tragedy and the general depressing effect of his reverses, undermined his health, it is believed. He had been suffering frequent attacks of heart failure recently, but only those near- ost to him knew that he was danger- ously ill. ; He made his will while at Palermo and left the bulk of his fortune to his re Going to War orated by Rosemary - Tommy X despatch from London says:--| Church Slope Road at Folkestone, the hill down which hundreds of thou- sands of Tommies marched to embark for France and fight in the great war, is to be planted on both sides with 3 3 rd pe Pe SAR ve ve on value, Exports of cotton goods show- SATA SIREN the Free State, which is badly s The wife, the story goes, is an active |.- republican and so determined to earry the fight that she has parted from her husband and put her children in| the care of & nurse: The family is}. s0 well known that any further de-| scription would disclose its identity. The young woman who served De Valera so faithfully as secretary dur- ing the period that he was dodging the British could tell many an interesting story 'of the services rendered by the members, of her sex. Though Erskine} - Childers has been - executed and the members of his staff who issued "The Daily Bulletin" of Sinn Fein activities lave met various fates, the secretly published document is appearing daily. One of the worst features of the present situation is that old friends are now sharply divided. The division is so great that it can be measured only by death. Some of the women who gathered secretly during the Macready regime are now on diamet- rically opposite sides in' the life and death struggle. A*year ago it seemed as if the Irish at last wotld be able to) settle down to normal life. In fact; as recently as last June the prospects seemed bright for the opening of a new period in Irish affairs, but since then have come the Four Courts 219 battalions of colored troops are Sackville Street battles, with Michael: ' oh To arash the mattea) (80 detachment the French sent 101 potion of the city. 1 death of Arthur Griffith, the shooting The" troops began MOVING guested billeps for . ! about five o'clock Thursday morniy S of Harry Boland and the execution a ; 8. ; . EE an, among many On of | and at ten the First Cavalry entered| The railroad station was + fishermen tragedies. the town, They rode carefully through! later as 'the troops arrived by road. 881 in November, 1022, as et Most. of them are bivouscked around] 882,116 in the same month a year ago. Ww | the city, which is encircled. It is] 'Winnipeg, Man. tad | persons who were abroad. "It Was| known that many of the troops are to| that Western Canada's 1iks a real, war-time occupation, When: be sent to Berchum, Hugo 'Stinnes'| year will bring in a profit of $45,650, the cavalry goes ahead to seek out| stronghold, and it is presumed that| 625, divided as follows: M A 43 gharpshooters, before the main body, the entire Ruhr region, to Dortmund! 198,750, Saskatchewan $98 777.250 | arrives. a and the outermost coal mining region! and Alberta $8,654,625. These fi oie adie. man, _bat~ : ? MILITARY H Sydenham Military Hespital at fire a few days ago. will not. be, rebuilt from Ottawa which stopped. the work of made 'to convert it into a Soldiers' when the fire occurred, o CENTRE OF GERM A despatch from Essen says Two) and half an 'thio officials visited officially informed : ten : d catch to . | the streets scrutinizing the: windows with their drawn curtains and the few The cavalry was followed: by will be occupied. Belgian troops are =e=== more columns of cavalry, two = occupying some of the Essen suburbs. talions of Moroccan infantry; batteries of light artillery an tanks, The French placed guns. at the street corners & | out patrols. At noon, General Hen commander of the Ruhr, took up headquarters in the Hotel Kaise sent | billets, or at the telegraph offices, post LE Toronto. enry;| office, city. hall, or railroad depots.| Manitoba wheat-~No. 1 Northern, s| Those at the post office excited | $1.25% i barley--Nominal, i josity then resentment, A Mand a } ' 4 New Canadian Senator soa ole Should Resid] 2d Sooeye fe i Neon. Sir. Allen Aylesworth, K.C.M.G., of "|. The true standard of a mation is Toronto, appointed to. the Canadian | 4 despatch from London says:--|what it thinks of its women and Senate to fill the seat left vacant by | rhe War Office his issued a list of | ghildren. cE the death of Senabot Willlam Proud- | hooks which the British Tommy is : toot. He was Minister of Justice dur- | axnacted to read if he desires promo- ! ing the Laurier regime tion. The list includes: A Shakespeare's King Henry V. and| rapid 'development of the poultry in- Optimistic Richard IL, Dickens' Tale of Two dustry in the last few. years in this Cities, Conan Doyle's White Company, | province which used to be twitted be Walter' Scott's Old Mortality, Books cause it used"Chinese in 5 es Egg shipments from Alberta are. breaking all records and indicate the " 2 to in Britain's Trade A despatth from London says:-- Although 1982 was; generally speak- ing, a year of severe trade depression in Great Britain, many signs warrant- ing optimism appeared on the horizon during the closing months, says the American Chamber of Commerce in London. y The review asserts that exports of British goods were higher by £20, 000,000. than in 1921; 'and that their{ value is still increasing. = It is appar-| i ent, the summary says, that the ad- verse balance sheet has been reduced | by more than £100,000,000, = ~~ Coal exports in 1922 nearly. trebled in 'quantity and nearly doubled in flour--1st pats. in cotton 2nd pats, $6.60. a "No. 2, per ton," track » $11 to $12; mixed, $10.50 $8 to sii oY Tots, ed a remarkable increase; Earthin South-West England | A despatch from Lcndon says: --W. 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