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[Reuters Telegrams.] LORD DERBY ILL. LONDON, April 14. Lord Derby, after a minor operation to the nose, is suffering from congestion of the lungs. He lias developed a high temperature. GREEK PLEBISCITE. REPUBLIC ADOPTED. LONDON, April 15. The “Daily Express’s” Athens correspondent says' that as seventy polecat of the people have voted against the Monarchy, M. Condouriotis will forthwith be reclaimed Provisional President of the Greek Republic, but .If. Zaimais probably will be finally chosen. The Royalists beaded by M. Metaxis have accepted the vote as decisive. Any attempt to revive the Monarchy is forbidden within five years.
The King obtained many votes in Old Greece. Alliens. and the Peloponnesus, but Thrace, Macedonia and Crete voted Republican. The voting was carried out in perfect order. Only one republican was accidentally killed in Athens.
A LORD ARRESTED. LONDON. April 14
A sensation lias been caused in Dublin by the arrest of Lord Ashton. The police refuse to divulge the charge.
Ashton owns 2000 acres in Waterford and Galway, and he has claims to he the most hated man in Ireland.
NO PAPERS ON GOOD FRIDAY. LONDON. April 45. No papers are being published in England on Good .Friday. CIEPLAK’S GRATITUDE. WARSAW. April 15. Cioplak declares the Soviet released, him as a result of' British pressure, for which his greatest gratitude L due. He hoped the British Government would continue its efforts to secure tierelease of the other thirteen imprisoned priests. SHOALING OF THE SCHELDT. ITS EFFECT ON ANTWERP. I ON DON. April 15. The shoaling of the Scheldt threaten-'. Antwerp's future a,-; Belgium’s principal port. Several of the biggest liners are avoiding Antwerp, going instead to Cherbourg and Southampton. TURKEY RAT.VFTES TREATY. LONDON. April 15.
The Turkish Assembly unanimously ratified the Tumi-German Treaty ot Friendship.
A LONELY CRUISE. MANIIiLA. Apiil 15. Ira Sparks, a religious Zealot, who sailed from Honolulu last winter alone, ill a twenty foot boat, has arrived at Davoa. Me sailed for seventy-live days without sighting bind.
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