HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-11-18, Page 7BRITISH EMPIRE PAID SILENT
TRIBUTE TO HER HEROIC DEAD
His Majesty Attends Inspiring Ceremonial When Body of
an unknown British Warrior Was Placed Among
the Illustrious Dead in Westminster Abbey
on Armistice Day.
A despatch from London says: mony, which .ended at eleven o'clock.
"Zero hour" was sounded throughout When Big Ben boomed the last stroke
the British Empire at eleven o'clock of the Zero Hour King Georgy pressed
the
an the morning :of Armistice Day, button which released the flag.
draping the monument. He then re -
when all work ceased and all traffic maimed standing with head bared in
was •stationary for two minutes to pay the immense crowd, which included all
silent tribute to Great Britain's mil- the leaders of the church and state,
lion men who died in the war. The while the two minutes of silent hem-
hour was observed with extreme rev age elapsed.
entice by all classes and thousands of Then the King, aided by Marshal
people dressed in black wept openly Haig, placed a wreath for himself and
as they stood. with heads bared in Queen Mary on the unknown hero's
London streets. coffin as the great throng joined in
The capital of the ,Empire has sea - the prayer offered by the Archbishop
done witnessed a sadder or more in- of Canterbury. Then the King de-
spirting ceremonial than this official posited another wreath at the foot of
tribute to the -fallen, which took the. the cenotaph, followed by the Prince
form of an unveiling of a cenotaph of Wales, Lloyd George and former=
in Whitehall and the reburial in Premier Asquith, who together laid a
Westminster Abbey of the remains of third wreath before the monument. On
an unknown soldier disinterred in the; behalf of the Dominion of Canada, Sir
Ypres salient last week. Geer,..." F. Foster deposited a wreath
The body, which was brought from; of maple leaves.
France on a destroyer, was the 'centre! The Queen ,'v tnessed the ceremonies
of the Empire's tonnage. Moped sank from the window of the Rome Office
the Union Jack, with the accoutre with a party which included the Queen
• ments and helmet of a private soldier; Mother Alexandra., the King and
placed an top, lac coffin bare the In-' Queen of Spain, and the Queen of
scription, `s � British warrior who felly Sweden.
in the Greet War of 1'91.4-1918."; Whoa the parade reformed and
Twelve pall -hearers surrounded the marched to Westminster Abbey for
gun carriage bearing the eoffin in the! the burial, King George followed im-
parade from Victoria Station to' mediately behind the coffin on foot
Wi:.itchall were Admirals Beatty, Ile;l- as the Empire's chief mourner. A
Scarth, Mehr, Jack:on and Madden;,bod;guard of 100 Victoria Cross her -
Field Marshals Haig, French, Wilson; oes were Iined up in two files when
and Methuen; General, Horne, llyngthe coffin was carried into the nave of
and Gatlin, who, as the nation's „Teat- the Abbey and interred beneath the
e t war figures, thus horored the; fluor in soil brought from Flanders.
1 . awereat st,izla,r, soldier who is hailed to -day as, Queen Bary and her party
"the man whe won the war." Ger-; the side of the grave with representa-
netny Faith her first official tribute to' lives of Imperial and rational insti-
her enemy's deed wlien Anzl,aseatloratutions who gathered there for the
Von St. Hamer, surrounded by hie, brief btzrlel service. Places of honer
offie:inl stats, stood bareheaded on the° near the grave bad been reeereed for
balcony in the rear of the German' 0,000 women selected by ballot from
Etteenesy a, the coffin passed in the ata utg Great larit.7iez's i ie e million
women who lost relative, in the hear,
' also ar-
Kinf Certige, wait.. n„ at �'Lhii�la]l, Sp2yia! aece;nimadations were a s
saletad as the carriage drew up at ranged for former soldiers and war
the eerotaph for a brief religious sere -1 nurses.
1Vlanxnoth Growth of
Pacific Coast Shipbuilding
A despateh from North Vancouver
rays,—Ngures concerning the de-
velopment of the shipbuilding indus-
try on the North Shore were divulged
by Mr. A. Wallace recently. In 1915,
1.72 men were employed at the Wallace
Shipyards, the payroll at that time
amounting to $88,850; in 101G, 237
men were employed and the wage
sheet totalled $163,915; in 1917, 68u
men were employed and brought the
wage sheet up to the $720,603 mark;
in 1918, 892 men brought the wage
sheet up to $901,685; the figures for
the past year showed that 1,067 men
were employed and the payroll am-
ounted to $1,220,882. Repair work
has amounted to approximately one-
third of the total output of the local
yard and has considerable to do con-
cerning the number of men employed,
stated Mr, Wallace. The fact that the
:cast of repairing had increased in the
Orient and decreased in this province
should have a tendency to increase
the amount of repairing done in this
province.
New U.S. President Must
Face League Issue
A despatch from Washington
says: Frem all advices it is apparent
that the League of Nations issue ;is
far from settled. While the election
has placed the opponents of the pres-
ent League in charge of the govern-
ment of the nation, their way will not
be particularly easy in solving the
problem which the Versailles Treaty
and the old League has 'brought into
being. It is reasonably certain that
Harding and ' his followers will find
it no bed of roses to straighten out the
debacle which the European war has
caused.
Safe#y 'First.
"Will you .accept this portfolio?" in-
quired the Berlin cabinet maker.
"1 don't know," replied . the cautious
statesman. "Times aro uncertain
maybe you'd better make it a suit
case:"
No Decrease in
Railway Traffic
A despatch from Toronto state:
Passenger traffic on the leading rail-.
ways continues unusually heavy for
this time of the year. The railway
offices in the principal centres are
finding it difficult to cope with the
business offering. Up to the present
time it is stated that, eo far as can
be judged,' the recent increases in
rates have not affected the volume of
business to any extent whatever. Ad-
vance bookings for Christmas busi-
ness are also reported to be very
heavy. These bookings would indi-
eate that the volume of traffic frons
Western Canada to England for the
Christmas season this year will estab-
lish a new record. In a great many
cases people have not been back hone
since before the war and this de-
velopment is resulting in a very large
movement for the Coining holiday
season.
Armenia in Danger
of Annih:lation
A despatch from Paris says: The
.Armenian Republic is on the eve of
being entirely wiped out of existence
through the combined attacks of the
Turkish Nationalists and the Soviets.
The, refusal of all powers to accept
the mandate over Armenia has put the
Armenian problem directly up to tha
League of Nations, which is admitted-
ly powerless to act.
The Matin declares that unless the
allies act to save Armenia the Turk-
ish treaty may be considered as an-
other "scrap of paper."
Ship Grain From
Ontario to Spain
-A despatch from Fort WilI:iam
says:—Foreshadowing days when the
deep water canal will make this an
ocean port, two 'ships for Vigo, Spain,
carrying 100,000 leushels of grain each,
Antoneo and •Josefa, just :built at
Duluth, sailed from here on Thursday
on their maiden voyage.
Princess Mary May Visit Canada Next Year..
Officials of the Canadian National Exhibition are endeavoring to ar-
range for a visit of the daughter of the Xing to the annual fair at To-
ronto nest year, and they are hopeful that their efforts will he successful..
:CANADA m�� r ��.cwaR
. . . D DECEMBER, 1937
Total 'War"O'bligations Amount to •$2,127,481,SOO-To.
Pay 'Thein Dominion Must Raise Each Year Over
$125,000,000 Besides Interest
A despatch from Ottawa says: --If Canada can avoid further borrowing
and set aside sufficient funds by way ed sinking fund, her 'war oblige-
tions will all be paid by December 1, 1337, Those obligations total $2,'
127,481,800, of which .$1,976,608,800 is the prine,ipal of War and Victory
Loans issued in Canada and largely held by Canadians. The :balance
amounting to $150,878,000 represents the principal. of Pubiie Service'
Loans issued in New York To liquidate this large liability without
making further issues, Canadawould have to provide, in addition to sums
required to tarry en the public service anis to pay interest en all.
these loans, an average of more than $125,000,000 a year by way of
sinking fund. Of course, as maturities were inet, the annual interest
burden .could, be diminished and the task of providing money for sinle-
ing fund to that extent would become less onerous.
Outstanding bonds of dornestie and New York issues with their am.
punts, rates of interest and dates of maturity,•are as follows:—
Aug. ist, 1921.
Oct. lst, 1921. ..,,.
Dee. lst, 1922.., ...
..,..
Nov. 1st, 1923,.,,, ,..
Nov. 1st,
Dec. 1st, 1925
Oct. 1st, 1926,,..,:...,•
Dee. 1st, 1927..,..:, ..
$15,000,000
25,000,000
194,842,100
194,881,800
106,865,100
43,245,300
25,000,000
65,951,450
Aug, 1st, 1929, , , . , , , .:.. 60,000,000
Oet. 1st, 1931 ` .. : , . 25,000,000
54,398,700
483,081,250
488,360,100-
378,000
92,652,800
252,820,200
Oct. 1st, 1981.. ... ,,..,,..
Nov, 1st, 1983. .
Nov. lst, 1934, , , , . , .
Aug. lst, 1935 . ,
Mar. lst, 1937.. ,.
Dec. 1st, 1937.,,.,.,... ,
51/ per cent..
5 per !cent..
51 per cent.
5/ ,per eent.
51/4 per cent.
5 per Bent,
5 per cent.
51/ per eent.
5 per cent.
0 per cent.
5 per cent.
51 per cent.
51/4 per cent.
v per eent.
5 per cent.
53/ per cent.
Bees Were the First
Embalmers..
Few people are aware of the tact
that bees were the originators of em-
balming. It happens sometime, that
a stranger renters their hive, and often
the enemy is too large or heavy to be
Flew Over Europe on ' FRANCE HONORS. coat out.
_
A Flag', for instance, *night make
Business Trip UNKNOWN BRITISHER its n a�. into the l,ec a ,ith t�. Thr. bees •
pounce upon the unwanted intruder.
and proceed to sting him to death.
The problem uow presents itself to
the intelligent bees as to the best
method of ridding the hive of the
slug's carcass. They evidently are
aware that if lett, the hive would be-
come infected by the presence of a
dead body, so the embalming process
is commenced.
This is done by encasing the remains
ot the slug in propolis, a substance
specially collected by the bees from
the opening buds of poplar and other
A despatch from. London says:---
A flight of 3,250 mules for business is
a new record made by an English busi-
ness roan. Il:e is R. Wright, a Man-
ebesteer engineer, who returned here
from a tour of Central Europe in a
Handley Page flying machine. The
return trip was nude from Jassy, 215
miles beyond. Bucharest, by way of
Strasburg. From Strasburg a record
non-stop flight was made to London, a
distance of 420 miles, in 3 hours and
50 minutes. From Jassy to the hangar
at Cricklewood the distance is 1,635
miles.
"It was a very successful and en-
joyable trip," Mr. Wright said. "I
was away a' little more than a month
and covered 3,250 miles in all."
Former King of Bavaria
is Dead
A despatch from Munich says:—
Former I{ing Ludwig III. of Bavaria
is dead at the age of 75 years,.
King` Ludwig III. has been living in
the Swiss mountains near the head
waters of the Rhine, where cin the
past two years it has been reported
that he was losing his reason, as had
the mad Kings of Bavaria before him
for nearly a century.
King Ludwig was been January 7,
1845, and became ruler of Bavaria. on
November 5, 1913, in his 68th year.
Be was forced to abdicate when the
'German revolution broke out.
German Bonds Delivered
• to Allies for Debt
A despatch from London says:—
Germany has delivered to the Repara-
tions Commission bonds to the am-
ount of 60,000,000,000 gold .marks, the
value of which is approximately
£3,000,000,000 at the present rate of
exchange. The delivery of the bonds
is in.aceordance with the requirements
of the peace treaty, and the commis-
sion proposes to hold than as security
for and in acknowledgement of Ger-
many's debt. -
Army of Occupation Costs
$18,000,000 a Year
A despatch from London says:—It
Was stated • in, the House of Commons
recently that, the cost of the British
army of•occupation en the Rhine was
23,600;000 sterling a year.
The total cast since the armistice
up to September 30 this year 'was
£51,000,000 aterling, and the amount
received from Germany for the troops
amounted to 346,000,000 marks.
Marshal Foch at Boulogne as
Body of Nameless Soldier
Goes Horne
A despatch from Paris says:—With
no less emotion than when at Verdun
the French people ehosefor the honor
of burial below the Are de Triomphe
the body of their awn Unknown, they
saluted at Boulogne that of the Brit-
ish soldier who will rest in Westmin-
ster Abbey. The whole population of
the little seaside town, which has play-
ed so great a part in the history of
the war, lined the streets to see the
procession bearing the body from the
Citadel, where it had lain all night, to
the British vessel Verdun, which was
to carry it to England.
All the church bells were rung, and
ships in the harbor ilew their flags at
topmast, as the ceremony was not one
of mourning, but of glor,ification.
Marshal Foch paid to the British
a great tribute, making the special
journey to Boulogne to honor the un-
known hero. Standing beside the
coffin on the quay just before it was
taken aboard the ship on its last jour-
ney back from France, the Marshal
made a short speech. To all those
who, from the British Isles, Canada,
Australia, Africa, India and the other
countxdes of the Empire, brought to
aid France their courage, valor, en-
durance and abnegation, he paid a
touching tribute.
Irish Horne Rule Bill
Passes Commons
A despatch from London says:—
The Irish Home Rule Bill passed the
%Iouse of Commons on its third read-
ing on Thursday after a motion for re-
jection of the measure, proposed by
William C. Adanson, the Opposition
leader, had been defeated by 183 to
52.
The measure passed without any
noteworthy incident in a rather tame
debate. The Liberal and Labor mem-
bers, who have boycotted it through
most of its stages, as a sign of their
conviction of its hopelessness as a
settlement of the Irish problem, were
again absent on Thursday:
When money talks we never pause
to note if it should stammer, nor if it
honors all the laws of logic and of
grammar: -
.By drawing back the loose folds of
the skhi, a French doctor recently re-
moved wrinkles from a woman pa-
tient's face.
REGLAR FEI .i :'&RS= --By Gene Byrnes
trees. The propolis thus prevents tha.
slug's body deeayieg.
13ut if a snail sneak into the hive,
the process is even simpler. As soon.
as, the snail receives a sting he re-
tires into his shell. Then the artful
bees Just wall him in with propane,
and without troubling to Oat the
shell. securely cement It to the door of
the hive. The tonib of t.he snail thus
beceznes part anti Marcel of the hive.
Had Lost Husband
and Sons in War
A despatch from London says:—Of
all the witnesses that packed White
hall or crowded the Abbey tit the me-
morial services on Armistice Day, a
little band of approximately 100 wo.
men in the Abbey received the most'
reverent attention.. They had been
selected for the seats of honor bee
cause each had lost her husband and,
all her sons.
Weekly Market Report
Wholesale Grain.
Toronto, Nov. 16, -Man. wheat—
No. 1 Northern, $2.12%; No. 2 North-
eru, $2.11%; No. 3 Northern, $2.08%;
No. 4 wheat, $2.01!x.
Manitoba oats ---No. 2 CW, 657%;
No. 8 CW, 59%c; extra No. 1 feed,
69%e; No. 1 feed, 565fie; No. 2 feed,
53%c.
Man. barley -'
4 CW, $1.07;
871/ c..
American cos
Ontario oats
Ontario whey
to $1.95; slipping
freights.
Peas—No. 2,
$1 t
Buckwheat—
Rye—No. 3, .
according to fr
Man. flour
$12.40 second patents.
Ontario flour—$8.75, bulk, sc .board.
M,illfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran, per
ton, $38 to $40.25; shorts, per ton, $42
to $45.25; good feed flour, $2.75 to $3.
Country Produce—Wholesale.
Cheese—New, large, 28 to 29e;
twins, 29 to 30e; triplets, 291/4 to
301c; old, large, 33 to 34c; do, twins,
331 to 34%o.
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to
600; creamery, 2nds, 55 to 58e; finest,
58 to 61c.
Margarine -35 to 37e.
Eggs—No. 1, 64 to 66e; selects, 98
to 70c; new laid, in cartons, 80 to 85c.
Beans --Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,
34.25 to 34.50; 'primes, ' $3 to 33.50;
Japans, 94c; Limas, ' Madagascar,
10%c; Caldfornia Limas, 1214c.
Maple products --Syrup;" per inn).
gal., $3.40 to $3.50; per 5 imp. gals.,
33.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, ib., 27
to 30c.
Honey -60-30-1b. tins, 26 to 27e per
lb.; Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per
15 section ease, 51/4 -21/4 -lb. tins, 27 to
28c per lb.
•
Provisions --Wholesale.
Smoked meats ----Hams, ineti,, 47 to
60e; heavy, 40 to 42r.; cooked, 64 to
68c; rolls, 34 to 36e; cottage rolls, 41
to 43e; breakfast baron, 50 to 56e;
fanny breakfast bacon, 56 to 62c;
backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 60 to
64c.
Cured meats—Long elear !bacon, 27
to 28e; clear bellies, 26 to 27e.
Lard—Pure tierces, 30 to 301e;
tubs, 801 to 31e pails, 30% to 3114e;
prints, 821/4 to 33c. Compound tierces,
22 to 23%c; tubs, 22% to 241e; pails,
231 to 23%e prints, 26 to 27c,
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Nov. 16.—Oats, Canadian
West,. No. 2, 86e; do, No. 3, 80e. Flour
Man., best stand. grade, 31210. Rolled
oats, bag90 lbs., 34.05. Bran,,, 4025.
Shorts, $45.25. Hay—No. 2, per ton,
car lots, 330. Cheese, finest easterns,
231/c;; butter, choice creamee'y. 55 to
66c; eggs, fresh, 65 to 66e; potatoes,
per hag, car lots, 31.75.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Nov. 16.—Choice: heavy
steers, 312.50 to 313.50; good heavy
steers, 311.50 to 312; butchers' cattle,.
choice, 311 to 312; do, good, 39 to 310;
do, rued.. 37 to 38; do, coni., $5 to 36;
bulls, choice, 39 to 310.50; do, good,
38 to 39; do, com., 35 to 37; butchers'
cows, choice, $9 50 to 310; do, geode
$7.25 to 38; do, corn., 35 to PI; feeders,,
best, $10 to $11; do, 900 lbs., $9.50 to
$10; do, 800 lbs., $8,t5 to $9.27; do,
com., 36.25 to $7.25; canners and cut-
ters, 33.50 to 34.50; milkers, good to -
choice, 3100 to 3165; do, cpm. and
med., $65 to 375; lambs, yearlings, $9
to $10; do, spring, $11 to $12; calves,
good to choice, $16 to $17; sheep, $5
to 38; hogs, fed and watered, 316.25;
do, weighed off cars, 316.50; do, f.o.b.,
315,25; do, country points, 315.
Montreal, Nov. 16.—Butcher heife
ers, cern., 34.50 to 37; butcher eows,
med., 35 to $7; canners, 33; cutters,
33.50 to 34.50; bologna bulls, $4.25 to
$5.50; good veal, $13 to $15; med., $11
to $12.50; grass, $5.50 to $6.50; ewes,
$4 to $7; lambs, good, $12 to $12.50;.
com., $8 to $11; hogs, off car weights
selects, $17.25; sows, $13.25.