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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-1-1, Page 3CREW HUNG, .B, ROPES FOR 5 HOURS • Survivor of Wa<ecked Ves'el 1Tells of Terrible Ex. . . pet'aence. A despatch from Charlottetown ys:; After a mar,.culous escape om death when-th'e new three. -masted Schooner "Barbara llfacleo,-<ald" was dashed to pieces on Cane il'ne, on the rockbound "'coast of Newfoundland, Eon, J. A. MacDonald, of Cardigan the owner of the vc;seel, ane eutvtving members of the crew reach- ed the island on Christmas eve. Mae -- Donald tells a thrilling tele of suffer- ing and hntdehip and what he regards as proehlentral intert•elenen, for on this section 'of the coast, the scene, of past disasters, no other chip -wreck• ed crew hes ever renellen share alive. They left Cardigan on December 4 with a cargo of produce for St, John's, Nfld. At midnight on the tenth the zloeth-west hurricane caught then when ten miles from Cape Pine. They hove to ureter foresail. The, wind increasing, they started to take ,in the one remaining sail when. Captain Thomas Whittle was swept overheard and drowned, and the sail blown to ribbons. This was in the morning. The captain's brother, Joshua Whittle, the matte, took charge. Far 52 hours the ice -encrusted vessel, with decks swept clear of cargo, ran before the gale, often in a blinding snowstorm, under bare noles. `They 8 ow ti��ere Out of sight of land and had to stall reckoning. The temperature rose, the wird fell, but a thick fog sante oil and the vessel rolled in the trough of the mountainous seas. Finally salla were set -and she was headed for where the land was suppcsed t o Several ati»ivey aerie; oelcbruted re- cently by European states remind us Russia way the most conspicuous ab- eeutee at Parr,;. She was liopelesalY divided enol dietr.ictee by civil war. Leu;rrw and other anarchist agitators had been sent in sealed cars through Germany from Switzerland two years and a half ago by the Kaiser's govern- ment with the avowed purpose of de- bauching the new repeblie, and dM heir work; well. After overthrowing Kerenelcv they set up Soviet rule. ter- rorizing the people by wholesale mur- der. Their tarn is economic and Dalitl. est revolution throughout tl►e N.01 Li, and they have limey followers in varl- oes countries. They would gladly smoke peace with any natiori and then Chinese coolies returning front the European war zone via Canada dill a lot of useful work fn the way of heavy labor back of the lines. n shipboard at Halifax. Tbese n Iria h �e rt FM1 Breadstuffe. Maple"Syruir—per 5-ieai. tin, .$4 per Toronto, Dec, 30-.M•r,atto,ia : wheat, ga'llolle do, one -gal. tin, $4,25, ' - No. 1 Northern, $2.30: No 2 l.ortkr- Money --White, 50'e, 25 to, 260; 10's, ern,. $2.27; No. 3 Northern, $2,e3, in 20 to 27c; Ws, 27 to 28c; 'buckwheat store, Fort 'William, n80's, 1.J to 20e. Manitoba anitoba oats--eNo, 2 CW, e3e. Ne. Provisions,- 'Vho1eeale- 8 CW, 893{ae; extra No. 1 feed, SD%%e. Smoked meats --,!lashes head,, 34 to No, 1 feed, 881Yzc; No. 2 feed, !ewes, in 35c; do, heavy, 29 to 30c; coked, 47 :store, Fort William. to 50e; rolls, 34 to 81c; breakfast I47z nitol;a !series-- I+fo. 3 Cxii, $1 r1 bacon, 40 to 44e; back$, plain, 47 to No ' CW, $1.66; rejected, $1.35% t 48c; boneless, 49 to 52e. feed, $1,34%, in store, Fort William, ' Corot meati -.Long clear 'bacon, 81 k1n-eriesn eorn—No. 2 ellow $1.$2• to 32c; clear bellies, 80 to 31c, No 8 yellow, $1.79, tr cit, `forontoi Lad Pure tierces, 29 to 29iac; 1 prompt shipments, ' tubs, 291! to 30c pails, 29% to 3014,e; Ontario oats- t_�'o, 3 white, prints, 30 to 30aeo; vim/mend tierces, Sir to 2714 to 28c., tubs, 28 to 2$1c; pairs; 98 e, aeletrditrg to freights . utside' 28z/s to 28e; prints, 29x4 to 30e. Ontario �zlrea�No: 1 W�nter, per cqr lot, $2 to $2.01; Nat. 2 do, $1,97 to 1►l+axltreal Markets. $2.03; No, 3 do, $1.93 to $1,99, f,o.ee. Montreal, Dec. 30. --.:Oats, extra No, shipping points, according to freights.,1 feed, $1.03 to $1.04; flour, new stand - Ontario wheat.—No. 1 Spring, $2,02 ard grade, $11 to $11.10; rolled oats, to $,2.08; No. 2 Sprrnq;•''•99 i;ta $2.o5; 'bag 90 Ibs., '$4.75 to $53 bran, $45.25; ho 3 Saying, 41.95 to ; ? 01, f.o:b. shorts, $52.25; hay,. nee-. 2, per ton, • Shipping points, according of :Freights. ear lots, $24 to $26; eggs, fresh, $1 to Peas—.Ne. 2, $2.75. j $1.10; egg, selected, 68c; eggs, No. I Earley --Malting, $1.60 to $1.t35, .ac. stock, 57e; eggs, No, 2 stock, 53 to 55e;. cording to freights outside. / potatoes, per bag, tar lots, $2.`25 to ,Buckwheat—:01.32 to $1.35, <;.•cord-. $2.50; dressed hogs, abattoir killed, ing to freights outside. 04,50 to $25; lard, pure, wood pails, Rye—No. 3, $1.00 to $L6 5, accord- l 20 lbs. net, 29 io 31e. ing to freights outside. �,: 1 Live Stock lilarkets. Manitoba, flour ---Government stand•! Toronto, Dec. 80, ---Choice heavy ard. $11, Toronto. e., HE'u a kat the north there are two rep tblies, Ontario flour --Government stand- I etee.rs, 1 .5 to$13.25;good Reay}, t NAT S T D I l one the northern Russian government :ard, $1.30 to $9.40, Montr�, $ 2•.,0, to $13;2butchers cattle, rent?, to jute bags, prom �l hind 7o -'.armee, $XL:5 to $12,- do, good, $10,50 RELATION TO PEACE at Archangel and the other managed Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Motai-1 to $11; do, used,, $9 to $9.50;. dq, corn., TERN'S 41} the ;Burman region council, Below $6.5.0 to $7; bulls choice $10 tq $11 i th real ereiPhts lea s' I d d B. be, but at seven, &clock on the night of Sunday tbe 14th, site crashed on that nacre than 'twe=lve; months have the rocks. With their 'heats de- passed since the armistice oud that the molishecl, MacDonald and the others new governments instituted as a re lung on by ropes over the leeside suit of the war are beginning to tune - Divided . RUSSIA. of the shattered hulk for t • f i•e ours tion. At, the new year it is well, there- continetally drenched by breakers and fore, to take r. expeat.srg ,':,tit. in tate sitrf every stock of what has been minute. .1t midnight a portion of the accomplished and to find just how the vessel's stern twisted off and drifted world stands under the arrangements between them and the bank. Over completed or in progress .of fultllment. this miraculous fiangplenk they dash Willie some gnvernmeete hive Bisalt care several new ones have been ed to the shore. pd O' towered a perpenlicular added to the world's community of cliff, 250 feet bight. The Climb vas' nations, and more are to comp. a seven -hour nightmare and it was not Chief of the new gill daylight that they reached thestates are Pt?Iand summit, with bruised and bleeding and Finland, carved out of Russia; limbs and tattered clothing, and ,awj C'zeclto-alovalci , taken from Austria- Hungary; Jugoslavia, formed frnni proceed to debauch it. The chief dun - Austria -Hungary with the absorption ger from thein is that they may inane of Serbia and ;tlontenegro; Hungary, an alliance with Germany, carne to grief on her maiden voy,igeerself, dI orced from Austria; Al• ;llany Russian factions were repre- six weeks after her launching, bang and the Hediaz, separated from rented, at Paris during the sessions 4 Turkey, and Iceland, witielt has quiet of the conference, but, of course, could ly become an independent nation :by not be admitted. Poland, however, was an exception, for she constantly fought against German reaction and Russian terrorism and became a mem- ber of the conference and the League of Nations. Fenland was another coun- try that achieved independence of Rus- sia, and finally succeeded its throwing orf German dictation, after having pro- mised to accept � aloin P at the lr g' to a dF n. of the Itaiser. There are more women in the Finnish Legislature than in any other In the world. Finland has been recognized by many countries, but did not take part in the peace con- ference and was not invited to join arrayed against them, of which thirty- the league. two took part in the peace conference. Besides Poland and Finland, there' San Marino, which declared war were seventeen other alleged 'repub- against Austria to prevent her terra lies that sprang up out of the ruins of tory being used as an aeroplane base, Russia,. Chief among them were- the and Sent 300 men to fight with the Italian armies, was not represented at the conference, her interests being looked after by Italy San Marino is tar •below fragments of what was ones a thirty -thousand dollar vessel, with �-• her fifteen -thousand dollar 'cargo. She 1 ...I'M Cars Owned in Western Canad mutual agreement with the mother eountry, Denmark. These eight states a are likely to, remain independent and bring the number of governments in t the world up to sixty-five if we count drspatclt from Winnipeg says:--- itespito the fact that one person out o every fourteen in the Province of Manitoba already owns an automobile, up to very recently applications for Mouses have been e n received in Mani toba at. the rate of forty or fifty day, The Municipal Conemission. has estimated that from eight to tech thousand automobiles were sold in the province. Provided the presen healthy cortnercial conditions are sustained, next spring will, in all probability, see an unpfecedented booth in the motor car and truck busi- ness. 'The automobile statistics for the West covering the year 1919 will show a marked increase over the 'previous year. At the end of 1918 there were 415prosfmately-13 ,7o3 motor casein use in Westrn Canada.' Saskatchewan had 46,880 of these, Manitoba about 30,000, Alberta. 29,500 and British Columbia 15,820. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India as separate, whtcia Mehra be done if distinctive and postal systems are taken as a • ereterio n a er Five Central Powers, Germans;i tria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, by their war on civilization, brought t woe to the world and now must pay the penalty. Thirty-four states were tis Raise $3,000,000 • By Thrift Stamps A despatch from Ottawa says:— The .organization which has been dir- ecting the thrift stamp method of war savings has proved too expensive an proportion to the amount reaIized, and the Minister of Finance has de - elated to do away with it. The systemis working well in the schools and there are evidences: of thrift being encouraged. It wall be con'tizlued there end through the ' Post Offices, but; tie ;expensive manage•' anent will be rant oat. ;Since .the' eystena was inaugurated' the : receipts nave amounted to about, $8,000,000.. ; fiche cort of collection has been around 1.1.4 per writ, • gin three Baltic States of Esthonia, Livon- ia and Lithuania, with whom the Bol. sheviks are trying,o make peace. Rival Republics. the smallest republic in the world, + In the south there is the Ukraine, having an area of only thirty-two which first split square miles and a population of 9,500. sp t off fromdhalfiaunder Her 'email size was probably a bar ist. G auspices and is half Ukrainian n. to representation, as was the case of commacost. General isetIeen she idize noby Monaco, with an area of eight square funds frder, has been subsidized ey miles and a population of 5120 al- from Germany, receiving money by aeroplane quite recently, If she finally remains independent Ukrainia would be the largest of the Russian States, with a population of 30,000,000. though the Prince of Monaco was Armin Pro -.ally, and the Germans in revenge burgled his chateau in Prance after stealing Itis furniture, ,which caused him to write an indignant let- ter to his brother sovereign, the Ger- man Emperor, to which the Kaiser did not reply. Andbera, with a population of 5,500 and an area of 175 square miles, also took no part in the - war. The smallest country of all, Iialmis or 112oresnety, only two and one-quarter square miles, with a population , of 2,800, between Germany and Belgium,: was grabbed by the Germans at the beginning of the.war for its one.indus- try, the mining': zinc, and by the peace treaty has been awarded to Bel A/herta Fare 6r° Busy Seeding. m. Aeother small state, Liechtenstein, geographically part of Austria, refused tojoin the Teutons in the war It has area of sixty-five square miles and population of 10,715, and is entirely ned by the Liechtenstein family, lose reigning Prince, John It, is vents -nine years old. Recentlythe op -re werereported to•have m�. y.: • 1�:, . ,�nw . cell;. . revolted�.:..,•,.�,,.:>,�>,•�,�;.�,:�,..y£�;..:�..; d to be clamoring for representation R. W. E1 BURNASY the peaee conference. ew ie ' id s e t. n of the U.F:Oe A despatch. from Lethbridge says-:-- an ri'ranres Irwin o; Ciwley was seeding nes fall wheat on his farm last week, wi when stopped at noon by a heavy, se shower of rain: Summer weatherre. h, n e vaned for Chx'"I'stnias throughout the a, whole of so utl r e n Alberta. at • , 1;-"• er .2:417oiNrc repu e, and east -Al' Lithuania are the Whitel uselane. .In the floe country is the cossack we/sr/merit, with General Derain() .:t its head. He had great suttees in driving the 13olshevi:.i north, freeing his own land and also the Ukraiuo until General Putlura at- tacked his left flank between the Dniester and the Dnieper, while the Red armies advanced against him on the Volga. The Caucasus region is full of rival cumuiuuities, the Kuban republic, Georgia, the Tara's and part of Ala with Turkestan further east and Rashlcir on the north, while in the Crimea the Tauride republic had a brief' existence. In North-eastern Si- beria was the Yakutsk republic, whiff the Siberian republic was the largest of all, with a President and National A,s+aeinhly, which were ousted by Ad- miral I�olchak, wire called himself the All -Russian government. All the smaller States were constanly chang- ing boundaries and allegiances and were evidently ephemeral in charas. ter. There was no' real Russia left, a very good reason why she could not he admitted to the peace conference. Eight isolated States, There aro eight states which took no part in the war and have not been invited to join the League of Nations. Two o ar e In Africa—Abyssinia, w' which sent a mission to Washington after the war and anttouncecl sympathy for the Allies, and Morocco, now under French protection. Two are in Asia— Oman, under British protection, and .Afghanistan, which tried to stir up a revolt in India and failed. Two are in Europe --Luxemburg, which the Germans occupied, and Albania, whose disposition has, not been determined. Two are in North America, Mexico and Costa Rica. Of the remaining forty-five govern- ments the follosvtng thirteen, which took no part in the war, have been in- vited to join the League --Argentina, Chili, Colombia, Denmark, 'Tolland,. Norway, Paraguay, Persia, Salvador,,, Spahr, Sweden, Switzerland and Vene- zuela._ This leaves thirty-two states taking part in the Peace Conference. China_deeiined to sign the treaty and the United States rejected it. With_ out China, with her population of 320,- 650,000; Russia, with 106,750,000, and per ton, $21, track, Tornto. l x Straw --Car Lots; per ton, $14,50 to $15.50, track, Toronto. Country Droduce--.W holesale, Sutter—Dairy, tubs and rolls, 43 to 44c; prints, 48 to 50c;. creamery, fresh made solids, 60 to 61e prints, 62 to 63e, Eggs ---field, 52 to 54e; new laid, 80 to 85c. Dressed poultry ---Spring chickens, 20 to 30e; roosters, 25c; iowi, 20 to 25e; geese, 28 to 30e; ducklings, 30 to 32e. turkeys, 50 to 53c;squabs, dor„ ton $45; shorts, per ton, e,52; go ' 2 our, $3:15 to $3.50. Hay—No, I, per ton,$27; iii ix ed, ato l do $7.25; b tchero eowsi, eh 5. a'iiee i0 to 1I ' do, good, $9.26 to , 9.50; ilo, med.,$. , 0 , ,$8.25 to $8.50; do; cam., $6.q"0 to $7; stock - Live poultry—Spring chickens, 19 to 20e; roosters, 20c; fowl, 18 to 22e. 4 ¢ease, 22e;; alueklings, i;2,:; turkeys, 3' to 40e. Cheese --New, large, 311; to 32c; twins, 32 to 32X e; triplets, 33 to 331/ee; Stilton, 34 -to. 35c. elf CtsL.LN ,, t PP,OM19ED'F(l MirET. 41E AN ISM TEN 1lNE17'E,: LAtn NOW- na iso CLL !'ELL inEr2 I WUZ Dara ri AN. -1- THE orrIcE• • A. A. POWERS / New President of the United Farmers' Co-operative Co. Of Ontario. - BRINGING UP FATHER OR,Re?- DEAR . eSerr i COUI_pM'T e l'r AWA'( FROM L] 1'M s 1Aeilia ce s ' ee ,, -P i� nooen. P 60, ers, $7,50 to $10;' feeders, $10 to , $11.50; canners and cutters, $5.25 to , $6,25; millcer good to choice, $110 to $175; do,co d med., $65 to $76; springers, $9 $175; light ,ewes, $7 to $8.550; yearlings, ee to $10.550; spring iambs cwt., $17 to $18,25; i calves, good. choice, $18 to $21;; hogs, fed an watered, $17.50; do, weighed off , $17.75; do, f.o.b:, $16.60; do, d tamers, $16.25. Montreal, 30.—reacher steers, $ 50 0 39, lintel ,r heifers med s, m. an 0 to per to 1 cars o, to Dec. coal. '7. t $8.25 to $9.50; corn., $''' 50 to $8; but- j cher cows, med., $6 to $S; canners, $5 to $5.26; cutters, $5,25 to $5.75; but- cher 'bulls, cone., $5.75 to $ 7, Good veal, $14 to $17; med., $9 to $14; grass, $7 to $7.60. Ewes, $7.50 to $9; good, '$1 50; con., $14.50 to ,, 315,50, Frogs, off -car weights, selects, 18 11 hts $16 t 18 the Upitod States, with, i-07,000;000, Ill be seen that more than one-thi of the inhabitants of the earth wou remain outside subsequent peace a rangements. Tbere remain Mir states which met in the Peace Conte ence and signed tbe treaty agrees. "to achieve international peace an security .by the acceptance of obit tions not to res8rt to war" and thu have not withdrawn, alth0 ouP many have still failed to ratify th treaty, Of these thirty, ten are Europe --Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Great Britain, Greece!, Italy, Jugoslavia Poland, Portugal and Ru- mania, Seven are in North Amerlea— Canada, Cuba, Guatemala, Hayti, Hon- duras, Nicaragua and Panama. Five. are in South America -Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay, Four are M Asia—The Hedjaz, India, Japan and Siam. Two are in Africa—Liberi and South Africa. Two are in Ahs traliasia--Australia .and New Zealand, China's Doubtful Position. China was in a peculiar position be- cause she signed the peace treaty with Austria on September 10, giving her the right to enter into the League of Nations compact, which also forms. part of the Austrian treaty, while she was still technically at war with Ger- many, and, like the United States, had reverted to the conditions of the armis- tice. But on September 24 she form- ally declared her adherence to all the provisions of the Germany treaty ex- cept the clause relating to Kiao-Chou alai declared the state of war with Germany ended: ' Great Britain ratified the peace treaty on July 31, Italy by royal de- cree on' October 7, France on'October 13 and Japan by imperial assent on October -30. Other ratifications were as follows:--Belginz August 8; New Zealand, Septemb.-e 2: ' South Africa, September 10; Canada, September 14; Guatemala, October 2: Czecho- slovakia, November 7, - ,nd Brazil, November 11. - Five out of the thirteen nations in- vited to join the original charter mem- bers: of the league already have ac- cepted, as follows:—Chili, on Novem- ber 4;; Columbia, November 30; Para- guay, November 13 'Holland, Novem- ber' 15; and Switzerland, ` November 19, the latter subect to � a referendum. Of the new nations mentioned above as likely to be'created, Palestine and Armenia are practically -certain to be .carved out of Turkey and perhaps it Azerbaijan, while 3lesopotamia will rd be administered by Great Britain and. 1 Syria, yri a b y France. This completes the roster of the t sixty-five governments ruling the I world; five euemy nations; ilfteon n not considered in the arrangements; aatwo in doubtful ppsitions; thirteen • invited to join the league and thirty l u9 signers of the treaty presumably mem. 11 hers of the league, ---v , in• First Woman Barrister' in England r A despatch from London says:-- Britain Sas nolo a woman legislator and she recently acquired her first qualified lawyer, one who can plead - in the high court, for Miss Helena Normanton, the first woman barrister in England, became a member of the' ,. • a Middle Temple just before :Christmas: Her admittance was, of course a great - break in the tradition of the English bar. Miss Normanton is a. young, attrac- tive -looking woman, `who made con- siderable reputation as a speaker ass a non -militant advocate of votes for women. She comes of an old legal family and is already well known to many members of the legal profession as an authority on constitutional Jaw. 6,190,000 Officers and Men in. British *ray in Warr - A despatch from London says The total number of officers and men. who passed through the British army during the war was approximately' 6,190,000, Between August, 1914, and October 31, of this year, 236,035 hole ors, exclusive of those conferred by ,.- the Royal Air Force, were awarded by the British War Office for services in the field, and 13,352 for other services in connection with the war. There were 577 recipents of the Vic- toria Cross, Britain's highest war` de- coration. A Son is Born.. to ';Lady Ramsay A despatch from London says:— Lady Ramsay, formerly - Princessa k' trick*, ca &, of Conus :;;lit, gave birth to a son,on•Doc. 21. Princess Patricia was • married to Commander: Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay of the Royal Navy in February of this year, WELL -AS ro'rq�, A`bt. 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