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U.S. REPUBLICAN DEADLOCK NEW YORK, Jan. 9
Ex-President Taft, speaking at Portland in Oregan, said he was opposed to President Wilson’s idea of making the question of the Ratification of the Peace Treaty an election campaign issue.
He said that if the question of the reservations were to be submitted to an election, then fourteen months must elapse before any settlement could be arrived at. By that time, be asserted, a settlement would he worthless. He urged a compromise. DEMPSEY V. CARPENTIER. A SUBSTANTIAL OFFER. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. William Fox of the Fox Film Company has offered Dempsey 309,000 dollars, win, lose or draw, 250,000 dollars to Carpontier for a match in the United States, If, after‘paying the boxers there is a surplus, it will be divided beeween the Red Cross of America, Canada, Australia and France. Fox does not want anything for hipiseff.
AMERICAN ITEMS. 'Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The State Department does not believe the reports of a resolution in Germany. Mr Glass lias presented to the House a measure to create credits for Austria and Poland in order to supply the starving population with wheat. The House again refused a seat to Berger, the Milwaukee Socialist on the ground of his anti-American opinions.
TO RH’ATIiIATB. ,'Received This Day at 8. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8
Mr Lansing announced that two Army transports wil lbe despatched for Vladivostok from New York, to repatriate the Czecho-Slovak, Polish, Jungo-Slav and Roumanian troops now in Siberia.
THE PAPER SUPPLY. OTTAWA, Jan. 8. The Acting Premier received from London copies of urgent representations from New Zealand newspapers for ail adequate supply of newsprint. The officials state they have no reason to suppose that shipments to Australia will be less than last year. The Commissioner of Customs states that there Will be no interference with shipments to Australasia unless the mills refuse to supply Canadian paper-,. There is a very remote possibility.
A COLLISION. (Received this, day, at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 9
The .British Freighter TJineastriaii, came in collision with the American freighter Westavenal in a fog m New York Bay. The Westavenal was beached badly damaged.
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