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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-12-7, Page 710511111101111111163111111111110311' The Pen that is Always Ready to Waite Waterman's Ideal fulfills every re- quirement of a sensible and service- able Christmas remembrance. The universal standard pen. To suit every s hand. Have you one of your own? Pitt.tsiitll� • �;3�:iiuul � ,.Pully guaranteed. Folder on request, SOLD AT THE BEST STORES ==@ y V2 50� L. E. Waterman CompanLimited, Montreal to $150.00 ,..7 a ' TALI. SOUTH WALES COAL TO BE PUBLICLY OWNED OVER 100,000 BELGIAN WORKMEN AEE ADY HAVEBEEN DEPORTED Are Being Starved in German Camp in Attempt to Make Them Sign Work Contracts. British Government Takes Drastic Step to Conserve the Supply and Prevent Imminent Trade Disputes. A despatch from London says:i ment had taken steps to control the Tinder the defence of the realm act price of coal to some extent, but the Board of Trade announces that °from the beginning of the war there from December it will assume control r has been trouble in the South Wales of all the coal mines in South Wales, i coal field arising from the constant A committee has been appointed, re-' conflict between the coal miners and presenting the Board of Trade, the i the owners on the queestion of wages. BR/TA II 'S SECOND NELSON Home Office and the Admiralty, for i A year ago David Lloyd George, �+ the administration of the mines, and : then Minister of Munitions, had to in - will meet to consider the question of terfere and concede to the ruiners a wages. . ' fifteen per cent, bonus, despite the ,,, There has been a long dispute con- , opposition of the owners. But with cerning the demands of the South' the continually rising cost of living 1 Wales miners for an increase of the , the meta contended that they were war bonus. Tho Board of Trade at- , entitled to a further bonus, and that tempted intervention to procure a'; the great war profits the owners ad- settlement, but the mine -owners oh- mittedly were making justified their `s.•Nilb,i LIGt ROYAL kV Pittil VONN- Lata} 4e MON WL ,.,..y EAST Sas base Canada's favorite yet for ovsr quarter of 4 century llread 04.4eid with Royal Yawn will keep fresh and moist loaiger than that matte with any other, eo that a Rall waekie supply Oen easily be matte at ono baking, and the Iase Loaf will, bo lust ea good as the first NIADIt iN CANADA ENVOILLETT COMPANY' I 1 NI axenerneeo 'rO12Qr1T0. Ort r. M,orvtneas. A despatch from New York says:- to retain them are driven back by thel Pierre Mali, the Belgian Consul in Germans and aro torn with despair. New York, made public on Thursday The Belgian Government has just sent night the following cable message re- bread, through the Swiss Government, eeived from Carton de Wiart, Belgian to 10,000 of these unfortunates actual - Minister of Justice, at Havre, France: ly kept together in Soltau Camp, and "According to the last information the Germans are breaking them with received here more than 100,000 Bel-. a starving system to try to get them, gianworkmen have already been to sign work contracts. What do the thrown out of their homes and taken American people, whose Belgian relief into slavery in unknown places. The work is put into serious dauger, think. mothers, wives and children who want about this?" GERMANY IS READY NEW MACHINE GUN.. • t Allies re , ho TO DISCUSS PEACE PerGetting liiinute it---BCaoakeFi200 1 a 00 DayS. Terns Guaranteeing Existence and Future of Nation Are Required. A despatch from Berlin says; -In alt addr'bss to the Reichstag on. Wed- nesday, in introducing the Man power Bill, Cheneellor von Bethmann-lioll- weg again announced that Germany was ready to end the war by a peace guaranteeing the existence and future of the nation. In presenting to the Reichstag the bill for the national auxiliary service (providing for com- pulsory service of civilians for war purposes), Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg made an. address in regard to the military situation, and the pur- "se, pose of the bill. It was the Chancel- lor's sixtieth birthday, and his desk was decorated with chrysanthemums. "The war continues, with its de- structive forces," the Chancellor said. "Accordingly our enemies desire it. They celebrated the past Summer as a period of victory. But did they ob- tain what they wanted? Our lines are unbroken and Rumania, through which a great change of events was expected, is now atoning for what she did. God has helped us up to the present. He will help us further," It's better for a man to do a little kicking than to become a human foot- ball. f' 4„...................-„...,....... ti 4. LIS TE IT ;.� i fib((•}+.--:..1ii� ..IEI.=:I:I�..$ki.ti'�..{�f }5 die same that stcrnds.tebr �ri 1� Q ,,i,. zFarxn rchrnery!! 4, LISTER ENGINES ARE 11 BRITISH BUILT f lave the argest sale hi he British Empire_ r ij Jit :4. : it ; u 23.5.7&9 H.P. On Skids or Truck. II High Tension Magneto 1pinitioa.. jit Automatic Lubrica to, . 14t p )4 ]Lister Silos, Ensilage Cutters, 8 Threshers. Spry ers, Milkers, t I Electric Light Plants, Melotte-; • Cream Separators. res ��nesse,�i- le �r 5 1THE LISTER. r 1' �f �a.1nR P�r 7 x ' iIWrite for price,m a of our feous Grinder Outfit riei { Qix�p 1 Filar d gine an a e33/F: Lister m Grinder. V WHO far Cdta/ague;oDept.. C' RA LISTER 'fs Co,Litrtitecl TORONTO A`, P.1K• 55.1=►+S , A despatch from New York says: - The New York Sun on Thursday morn- ing says: "A satisfactory test was made yes- terday afternoon on a machine gun capable of firing fifteen hundred shots a minute, and so easily handled that a little girl can manipulate it. The test was made for the benefit of ro- presentatives of the British and French Governments, for whom the new death -dealer is intended. Tho gun is of a new pattern manufac- tured by the Marlin Arms Company of New Haven, Conn. The gun is fed from a long tape to which cartridges are attached, pass- ing through the weapon from side to side while the gun is in action. The cartridge used is of .762 millimetres diameter. The weapon has a range of 3,000 yards, and is said to be par- ticularly well adapted for use on air- planes, for its weight is only about that of the average rifle. INTEND TO ANNEX PART OF RUMANIA A Rotterdam despatch to the Lon- don Times says that General von Blume, in the Koelnische Volks Zei- tung indicates that the Central pow- ers intend permanently to annex parts of Rumania for the purpose of pro- tecting the Bagdad route and secur- ing a permanent ,additional corn sup- ply. CUSTOMS REVENUE FOR PAST MONTH A despatch from Ottawa says: - The Customs revenue for the month just closing is the second best for the present fiscal year, amounting to $12,203,519.96, or close to the $13,- 000,000 high record of April. The total is $2,884,833.26 in excess of the record for November last year. For the eight months of the 'fiscal year the total Customs revenue has been $94,728,997.79, an increase of $32,440,- 348.78. 300 PERSONS PERISH IN INDIAN. CYCLONE A despatch from London says:-- The ays:-The death of nearly 300. persons in a cyclone at Pondicherry, India, is re- ported in a Reuter's despatch from Madras. Tice storm caused great damage to property. GERMAN PEACE MISSION ARRIVES IN HOLLAND The Rotterdam correspondent of the London Times says "Certain Ger- man personalities with international connections have ,arrived in Holland for the purpose of getting in touch with pacifist propagandists," The Daily Mall's Rotterdam corespondent describes these propagandists as poli- ticians of various countries. 130 SOLDIERS L >�I LED IN JAPANESE WRECK A.- despatch from Tokio says :- hnudred and thirty young soldiers have been killed in a • collision of a freight train with the train, on which they were being conveyed to Aomori, a seaport on the north coast. jected to an investigation of their ° demands. The owners especially ,ob- affairs with a view to ascertaining jected to an audit on the ground, that whether they eould justifiably meet it was unprecedented and unreason- the miners' demands. able. The action of the Government in ` The coal owners have been general - taking over control of the South ly condemned by both press and pub - Wales coal mines is an entirely new lie, and numerous conferenceshave departure, and appears to have been been held by the Board of Tradewith caused by the imperative necessity of the objeect of finding an issue from preventing a trade dispute from inter- the difficulty, but all to no purpose, fering with the coal. supply. Earlier owing to the owners' irreconcilable in the course of the war the Govern-, attitude. erne- 51arhr44S of the $6.{n to $6.6D; do., rough bulls, $4.60 to viori 55; butchers' a s. ehu ee. SQ.26 to $?: do.. gond, $w.73 to 56; medium. 55.00 to 55.60; stoel.rs. $4.75 to $6.75; choice -- --� feeders. $0.0 to 27.25; reamers and cut- ireadatufne. tors, $3.1/4r to $4.00, milkers chotce, earh. r $71/ to $116; du., common and medium HEADS THE GRAND FLEET g Shake..up in the Admiralty at Whitehall, Resulting in an Infusion of New Blood A. despatch from London says:: was made its the House of Commons Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander of the British fleet, was on Wednes- day appointed First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, being succeeded in corn - mend of the Grand Fleet by Vice - Admiral Sir David Beatty, who com- mended the British battle cruiser squadron in the Jutland naval battle. Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson, the present First Sea Lord, has been ap- pointed President of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. The announcement of the change of command of the British Grund Fleet by A. J. Balfour, Furst Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. Balfour said there would be consequential changes also in the Board of the Admiralty. The decision involving the appointments of Admirals Jellicoe, Beatty and Jack- son Was taken some time ago, Mr. Balfour said, but for military reasons the announcement was delayed. On being asked whether the changes in the Admiralty meant other changes in higher commandsMr. Bal- , four replied that undoubtedly there would be changes, which would be announced in the ordinary eourse. Toronto, Dee. ,,. - :ii.tnit0tla cheat- each. 540 to $6i,• springers, 551.1 to 2100; New No. 1 Northern. $2.014• No. 2. do.. light ewes, V.2r, to so; phoep: heady. TROY! OLD SCOTLAND ei.9ri; No. 3, do., $1.934; No. 4 wheat, saes, to $7'n i a h ca i°es, goo to g aace. $1.1+3, track. Bay purls. old Croy trod- 31U to $11.60; iambs, choir• e. ,11 to log 4e above new crop. Sl1 Su• do nn•diutn $'a 25 to 59.5o: hogs. 8ianitoba oane--No. 2 C.1�'.. 6 ee; '.. ;ped and tivatered. $1:25 - du., 6Gxc; extra, :So. 1 feed, GCI+:; :��,. 1 3. dn. welshed uet NOTES OF INTEREST FROM i cars, $11.50. do f.o.b.. ?1u,7r. HER feed,. 66c. tract[ Ilay pats. Sinntre;ti. Uec. 6.• -Choice tteei:s, $Q.75 American an coria '�o FeU +w new. $t.Gi. immediate shipment. track To- tel $3; gond. 5r u+ 57; chtdce cows. $6 to; BA;4IiS AND BRAES. t i SQ.75; good. $4.uti to 56: eannera $3.5ta ; roue,. t . to $4: butchers• bulls 25.2; to $6 .. can- mioot_do. 22tan.ara 54 to $5: slcep 56.50 to S7.Su, ^noinal.Na. o,. 6o 64c. olnalialrti$112; according to freights autvide. F. . select $11 6;,. Ontario wheat -New No. 2 Winter per „- ear lot $173 to 2175• No 3 era, 51.71 to $1.78 according to freights outside. PRISON POPULATION Peas - No, 2. 52.45. according to freights outside. SMALLEST FOR YEARS. parley --malting $1.1.3 to $1.20. nom - nal, according tt" freights outside. Employ - Buckwheat -41.33, nominal. accordingProhibition, Opportunity for Employ- ko freights outside. , ment, Enlistment Have De- Itye---tio. $1.40 to $1.1-. according to freights oirtalde. Manitoba flour -First patents. in jute bags, $10.20. 2n1 do.. $5.7c ; strung bak- ers',_ $9.OU, 1�oronto, Aina> ario flour --- Winter. according to penitentiary and prison population of creased Crime. A despatch from Ottawa says: The 1e, 27.6v to $7.75, in bags, track oto u•om t shf men l t the llominion is now smaller than it Affllfee0-'Ca lots Delivered Mont- has been for years. Prohibition, em ployment conditions, and the enlist-, real freights. bags included, bran. per ment of the "adventurous spirits" in! good feed flour, per bag $2.7C to $2.80 slay io, 1, per tan. al-.Gv to $ls.5o, tl b' d decrease N . 5 $ crime and empty the jails. Practical - on $31 to $'32, shorts, do., 536 to $37; mlOdlinfs, wtalt4', per fou. $3S to $ 40; _ , the war have combined to o. 2, do. * 1U to 11.60 track, Toronto. tit l�Turo ar oC;, per tori, $) to $9.50. ly all penitentiaries report to the De- partment of Justice that the "slack Country Produce -Wholesale. season" for compulsory boarders has Rutter -Fresh dairy choice, 40 to 42c; been on for months. At Stony Moun- tain Penitentiary in Manitoba, for creamery prints, 45 to 4$e; solids, 44 to 444c. lIggs-w-Nn. 1 :�tnrage, 41 to 42c; star- instance, there are not enough prison - age, selects 43 to 44e; new lase, in car- ers at present to keep the prison in- toti h 53 to F+O.; otic of cameo.;, w to 5,e. dll8tries C'heese--I.aage, 24 to 294c: twins, 29;r running. to What is Going On in the Iiighlan and. Lowlands of Auld Scotia. A cheque for $ $0U was given for flag on "Our Day" at Beckenham Junction. Highest cotton prices since the American Civil War were registered in Liverpool market. Millbank Boys' School has been commandeered by the War ©trice as a club for Dominion troops. The freedom of the city was pre- sented to Mr, Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, at the Guildhall. Southgate (Middlesex) Fair, which has been in existence for 300 years, is not likely to be held this year. Borough of Islington Charities As- sociation is sending 1,000 parcels to British prisoners of war in Germany. After giving evidence at Leicester Assizes, Mrs. Serivens, of Coalville, "sac; triplets, 244 to 25c. died in the entrance hall the Etre poultry -- thickens, 15 to 1 h'; CANADIANS TOOK 750 Two war shrines r , given oftheanonymous- IN court. foal, 13 to 14c; duels, 13 to 15c; tur- keys, 25 to 28c geese, Spring. 14 to lac. AT GRANDCOURT ly, have been dedicated in Bromley, I{ent, both in St. Andrew's district. .A. number of taxicab drivers call at Willesden Military Ilospital each week and take the patients for a 40 - mile drive. New war bonuses, involving an an- nual outlay of $26,005, 'are reeom- ' mended for employe:; of Newcastle Corporation. The Board of Trade have issued a revised list of merchant seamen and. fishermen detained as prisoners of ' war in Germany. The idea of a traffic tunnel under 'the Meersey is again revived by Sir William Forwood, who estimates the cost at $6,000,000. ' War bonuses totalling $80,000 a year are to be paid to inspectors, teachers and other employes by Kent Education Committee. Owing to the calling up of Not- tingham rate collectors, ratepayers I are now compelled to take the rates Iiressed poultry-Ghicitens, 21 to 22e; fowl, 17 to 19c; ducks, 15 to 20c; squabs. - • per dozen, $9 to 54.50; turkeys, 30 to 35e; A despatch from London says: geese. Spring, 17 to 19c. Wounded officers in the hospitals eieney--n late clover, 24-1b. tins, 13 tui p' is here 13ie. 6 -ib. tics, 13 to 134c, lu-lb., 12j to lac; 60-1h., 12 to 121'7 uckwheat, 60 - Ib. tins. 9 to 94c. Comb honey --- extra tine and heavy weight, per dozen, 53; se- lect, 52.50 to 52.75; No. 2 52.25 to $2.40. Mincemeat -Pails, 23 lb.. '10 to 12c; tubs, 65 lb., 94 to 11c. Potatoes -•- Ontario, per bag• 52.25; British Columbia. Rose, per bug 52.10 to 52.25; Neiv Brunswick Delawares, per bag, 52.35 to 52.40• Prince Edward Island Whites, per bag, 52, track To- ron C`abto.b,, s- 1an.. per on. 5.5. Beans Imported, hand-picked. per bushel, $6 to 56.25; Canadian primes. 55 to 55.50; l.ivaa, per ib., 9 to l0c. 7rovisions-Wholesale. Smoked meats -Rums, medium, 24 to 25c; do., heavy, 2,2 to 23c; cooked. 33 to 35c; rolls, 19 to 200; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27e: backs, plain, 26 to 270; bone- less, 28 to 280. Pickled or dry cured meats, 1 cent less than cured. Cured meats ---Long clear bacon, 18 to 1840 per lb.; clear bellies, 18 to 184c. Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 198 to 20c; tubs, 20 to 204c; pails, 204 to 204c; com- pound. 154 to 16c. Cooking oils -- White, tierces. 164c; 100-1b. tins, lGle; yellow, to below white. ,Montreal Markets. Montreal, Dec. 6 -Corn, American No. 2 yellow, 51.12 to $1.14: Oats -Canadian Western, No. 2, 693o; No. 3, 694e; extra No. 1 feed, . 6810. Barley -Man. reed, 51.05; malting. $1.30. Flour - Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $10.30; se- conds, 59.80; strong bakers', 59.60; VPin- ter patents. choice, $10; straight rollers, $9.50 to 59.80; straight rollers, bags, $4.55 to 54.70. Rolled oats - barrels, $7.45; bags, 90 lbs., 53.60. Bran -$30. Shorts, 533; middlings, 536 to 537; mouille,. $40 to 545. Ilay-No. 2, per ton, car lots, $13. Cheese -finest west- erns, 25 to 254c; finest easterns, 24 to 244c. Butter, choicest creaunery, 434 to 44c; seconds, 424 to 43c. Eggs - Fresh, 60 to 65c; selected, 420; No. 1 stock 39e; No. 2 stock, 86e. Potatoes - Per bag, car lots, 51.70 to 51,90. Dressed Hogs -Abattoir killed, 516.50 to $16.75; country, 515.75 to 516:25‘ 19"inaipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Dec. 5. -Wheat, No. 1 Nor- thern, 51.914; No. 2 Northern, $1.88; No. 3 Northern, 51.83; No. 4, 51.664; No. 5, 51,404 No. 6, 51.404.. Oats -No 2 ,C.'W., 6050; No, 8 C.W., 5940; extra No. 1 feed, 594c; No. 1 feed, 5811c; No. 2 feed, 572e. 13arley-No. 3, 51.06; No. 4, 96c; rejected, 82e; feed, 82e, Fla =-No. 1 N.W.C., 52.683.; No. 2 C.W„ 52.55. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Dec. 5. -Wheat Decem- ber, $1784; May, $1,84. Cash, No. 1, hard, 51.834 to 51.864;. No. 1 Northern 51.794 to 51.824;No. 2 Northern, $1.742 to 51.804: Corn -No. 8 yellow, 86 to 87c. Oats -No. 8 white, 602 to 51e, Flour unchanged. Bran, $27.50 to $28, Duluth, Dee. 5. -Wheat, No. 1 hard, thern, N51„69 oo r511.79nDecett,ber,. 2 Nor - 51.504. Linseed to arrive, 52.704; November, $2.771; December, 52.774; May, 52.84. • Live Stook Markets. Toronto Dec.. 5. - Butcher ;steers, heavy, 5S to 58.75' butchers' cattle, choice, 57.60 to 57.90; do., good, 57.15 to 57.50; do., medium, 58.50 to $6,90; do., common, 55.85 to $6; butchers' bulls, choice, $ 7.10 to $7.50; do., good buns, say that the Canadian attack on De- sire trench, near Grandcourt on No- vember 18, was a big surprise to the Germans, the weather being so bad that they never suspected any move- ment. The Canadian artillery gave the infantry effective support and forced the Germans to remain in the deep dugouts until the advance was on top of them. The advance was made in a thick snow storm. The Canadians took seven hundred and fifty prisoners when the trench was .raptured. Majors John Lewis and F. E. Hall, of Montreal, were killed during this advance. GERMANY CUTS DOWN PEOPLE'S POTATO RATIONS. A despatch from Berlin says: Ow- ing to the decided falling off in the potato crop this year, it has been de- cided to introduce a new scheme of potato rationing. On January 1 the urban population will be placed on a daily allowance of three-quarters of a pound instead of one pound. The agricultural population will have an allowance of one pound daily during January and February, and thereafter a pound and a half. The potatoes thus saved will be devoted to placing those performing hard labor on a ra- tion of two pounds daily. RUMANIAN WHEAT STUCK 109,000,000 BUSHELS .A despatch from Rome .says: A re- port issued by the International Insti- tute of Agriculture estimates Ru- mania's total wheat stock at 100,000,- 000 bushels, of which 30,000,000 bushels represent last year's surplus. The estimate of this year's harvest ending July 81 for rye, barley, oats and corn is 148,000,000 bushels. Slightly larger areas than were used last year have been sown for the Win- ter. ANOTHER CAVELL CASE REVEALED IN BELGIUM.. A despatch from Paris says: An- other Cavell case has been added to the list of Teuton atrocities commit- ted in Belgium. News •has reached this: city of the execution of Madame HeIiTha..Moresse,.a French' woman, the circumstances being quite: similar to those of , the British martyred nurse, 'Miss Edith Cavell. to the office themselves. Cambridge Universitq has 156 freshmen this, year, compared with an, average of about 1,000 for the five years preceding the war. Because of the increasing price of. milk, Liverpool City Council is to be ' asked by the Labor representatives to establish a lniinicipal supply. After having been closed owing to ' the diminution of crime, Warwick Prison has been reopened for the re- t ception of conscientious objectors. While golfing at Witcham common, Mr. A. A. Johnston, head of the firm of Gillett and Johnston, clockmakeis and bell founders, Croyden, died sod-' denly. With a subscribers register of 1,-' 600, the value of War Savings cer- tificates purchased by Camberwell War Savings Committee amounts • to ' SCIENCE TO AIB DEVELOPMENT Gavertt'tient .dvisory Council on Technical Research, A despatch from Ottawa ay:-- After it year's consideration of the best method of Government procedure to enc..uraige and as iet itt Canada manufacturing development based or. scientific and technical research, the ltlinister eat Trade and Commerce, Sir George E. Foster, has seoured the ap• pointment by the Government of an Honorary Advisory Council on In• dustrial and Scientific Research. The Council consists of University pro- fessors in the departments of applied science, and of risen prominent in steel and engineering work. The appointment of the CutuwiI is in line with action taken months age by Great Britain and the United States when Governmental action was taken early in the war to secure the best expert advice, with a view tc taking full advantage of the trade and manufacturing opportunities of- fered by the exclusion of Germany from the world's market. 'rhe oh - Jed in view is to include technical and scientific research anti utilize the results for the development of production and trade. It is hoped that the free assistance thus offered to industrial firms will enable Canada to keep abreast of the world's manu- facturing readjustment during the war, and of the keen international competition which will follow it. THE FUND'S NEM PRESIDENT.. Duke of Devonshire Becomes Chief Executive of Patriotic Fund. The new Governor-General, the Duke of Devonshire, has manifested his interest in the work being carried on by the Canadian Patriotic Fund by consenting to become the President of the Fund. This position was held by the Duke's predecessor, the Duke of Connaught. from the inception of the fund until his departure from Canada and the present position of the fund in national confidence and financial strength is largely due to his inspiration and personal devotion to its interests. The new Governor- General evidently proposes to take the same active part in promoting the welfare of this great national under - it taking. -- GERMANS INCREASE LEVY ON BELGIUM. A despatch from Paris says: The German authorities have issued a de- cree imposing a further payment of 10,000,000 francs a month on Belgium, according to a Havre despatch from t Havre. This is additional to the ex- isting levy of 480,000,000 francs. The , despatch says that the provincial councils have been convoked for De- cember 2 in order to approve the new $55,000. imposition. FURTHER UNITS FROM AUSTRALIA TO E DESPATCHED TO FRANCE The Premier Announced That the Result of Conscription Referen- . dnln Will. Not Check Recruiting, A despatch :from Melbourne, Aus- tralia, says: -On the resumption of the sessions of the Federal Parliament on Thursday the Premien, Wm. Morris Hughes,` announced that notwithstand- [ing the conscription referendum, the Government would continue its ut- most, efforts with regard to men and commodities to aid Great Britain and her allies. An Oiaposition motion of no ecnfid-. ence in the Government was defeat 46 to 21.