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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The inaugural session of the interparliamentary economic committee of the entente allies will be held next Thursday at the Luxembourg palace. Parte, where the representatives of the various powers will be addressed by President Poincare. Great Britain will be represented by forty-two members of parliament, high commissioners and colonial agents. Italy by forty -three deputies and senators, headed by former Premier Luzzatti; Serbia by fourteen deputies and eight former ministers, and Portugal by ten members of parliament. Russia also will be represented. The French representation will be forty -four parliamentarians. Six hundred bags of parcel post matter, tom-prising probably more than 50,000 separate packages mailed for distribution in Holland, are to be returned to the senders in America because the steamship companies will not carry this mail, owing to the British seizures of parcel post consignments. The British authorities contend that the parcels might reach and benefit the central powers. This mail has accumulated in the foreign branch post-office at New York since November, 1915. The postmaster general has ordered that the postage be refunded.
