HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-12-16, Page 7II 'GOVERMENT. PROCLAIMS
MARTIAL LAW INIRELAND
Strict Military Regulations for Dublin. and the SouthWest
District of Ireland -Not a Hindrance to Proposed.
Settlement Now Under Way.
A. despatch from London, Friday,
says. The British Government has.
decided upon martial law for Ireland.'
The proetamation issued by the Gov-
ernment Thur. day alight, and confirm-
ed by Friday morning's editions of
London newspapers, has preserihed
strict miletary reguiations for Dublin
and the south-west districts of Ire-
land.
The first inkling of the startling
mews came when the Daily Express
announced that the Government had
decided to proclaim the military in
complete charge of the sit'aation in
Dublin and .outer :ention ,
The Morning Post and the Cbron-
iiele .confirm the news of the proclaim -
tion, It is stated that the Go'vern-
ment insist¢ that its action should
not be interpreted as a hindrance tri .
any proposed eettlement, negotiations
for which are under way.
The C _,...,. , t, it in sanl, has
taken the position thrt the policy of
stan',,ping out the "murder gangs" in
Ireland cannot be over-r,dden because
cf overtures which are being made
for peace in other directions,.
Apes Object to Pay-
ments to -Kaiser
A despatch from Berlin
says: -The Tageblatt hears
that Great Britain and France
have decided to send a protest
to the Gerririan Government
against payments being made
to the former German Emp-
eror.
Recent Berlin despatches
reported that the former Ger- ,
man Emperor had received
from Germany nearly 100,-
000,000 marks since his flight
from that. country to Holland. •
How Big Is a Man? i
1 AFTER YEARS OF EFFORT
When we wore retninded that it is Sur Adam Beck. Mum' sua'cr:~.:ful rani
negotiations for the tekiat; over of the tilelt pplit,ical and military events E Ail e:rtd where plus. -.nn i, 1r....
n: *. pctsiible by taking thought to add MacKenzie electric:il int resti by the 'completely overturned the+ situ- tha1 miesinge ani uecog izesl for .,.lgr. +hileirc.,,
euirits to ones stature, the trenchant r bay a 'cotir fo l
been Ontario Hydro gives to the people w. , ation in Armenia. Deprived of an that tfzn'r coa:ttry recognises tllelrj
saying might have taken as a Osutarla owner.hill of the greatest indeperadent Government -for the Gott- sacrifice and is grateful and will rot
-
w to e 1 zn batt e, at
and M. Viviani at Geneva. The remains were hroeght home to his
Temps sa3`sr z alive land from France.
"The entry of the Turks into Are The ];lace of Burial heel been pre
taenia and the revolution in that pared and a cenotaph was e. vexed
country, which appears to have placed with a veil. ,lust at eleven o'ocloek
the Soviet "n ter have completelythe hour when the firing ceesed two
4 ie i power
ARMENIA -OBLIGED
TO ACCEPT TERMS
Turk Agreement Reduces
Country to Absurd
Dimensions..
A despatch #roan Paris saysi-A
telegram front. Constentinopie to the
French Foreign Ministry received on
Thursday states that, ace.oreang to in-
formation from Angora, a peace- be-
tween Armenia and the Turkish Na-
tionalists was signed at Alexandropel
during the night cf December 2-3.
All Armenian arms are to be
banded over to the Turkish National -
The Unknown Dead.
Engkeed ha; hasty mine monu-
ments but, only one national shrine..
Westminster Abbey is the heart of
the British nation.: The spot on which
it -stands has been hallowed by veli-.
gieus assoeinations since Roman times,
and the present beading has. teen
more solemn and impress- ve cue -
monies than any other bu td:ng in the :.
world. There the severeigns of the
empire are erg- Wed, and there are
held the funeral serviees that mark
the finis cf their little chapters of
history, There many of them are
buried, and thither, to fellow with
ists, except 1,500 rifles, 20 machine -
great
for all. bine, are bone the ashes
guns and three gentians Armenian of the great dead from every field of
territery is to be reduced to -the lis- human achievement.
tract, Erivan and Lake Gokeha, and Wf tut that sense of what is fitting
d that # l ai
will not include the fortresses of Kars
an instinct for u piritisa v ues
and Ale eandropal. that have always been thereat
A Bolshevist v;4reless message at strength of the n tion, Great Britain
the sante time announces that a on Armistice Day laid another body
Soviet regime has been set up at in Westntirster Abbey; not, this time,
the body of one whose name is fareel-
Erhan and t a eagle e ma e iar throughout the earth and whose
between the Soviet Republics of -.Ar- acltievementg for the raee have been
mens, Russia and Azerbaijan and the
Kemalists, recognized and set down to his honor,.
This news is taken as the text of but one whose name is known to no
a note in the wend-efficial Temps ex- ons liviiu ;, ami never will be know::
plaining away reported differences the body of an unidentified 11ritislt
I fell ' 14 whose
between the French Foreign Ministry
soldier
ago -the veil
charged the conditions under wlt}cli yearsg parted, and fo
the League of Mations 11,14 to con- two minutes all England stood un-
eder the request for admission madevke gave covered and silent. The solemn ser
by Avntenie.l Instructions given by
would h SvcP ventureetelori d to putwhat
no into
the 1'reneli Goyermnent to the mem- words, and the tUnknownre Dead was
leers of the Freneh delegation before
their departure for Geneva were to
support the Armenian request."
one of the immortals of England.
No more beautiful or spiritually
siglun° ti1:t tribute was ever pe ` i to
GERMANY MUST PAY. DEFINITE
AMOUNT TO ENTENTE: POWERS
Came to. Agreement as to Program for
London Conference Ca .
Finally Fixing Amount of Germany's Insaern
nity to the Allies.
A. despat,h from London says; -...A, ference frroizabiy will not be an G
d'ef'inite .agreement and program for neva, as was orginally tnten led.
the Dunt of Germany's, .. Then the Allied experts will confer"
finally fixing ammint y , with the Reparations Commission in
indemnity to the Alike has been; the light of the results of the pre -
agreed to in the Bourse of a confer -J nous eonferei ees and the evidence of
enee held here. Allied fnan:ial e=.-1 "Germany'$ ability to pay;" Follow -
1 ing this, the apremc Council will
pests will meet in a final conference bald Syfret it its kicped will be the final
in Brussels on .Monday, De . 15, to faceting in this connection, to inform
exa nine the German proposals and! Germany of what has been deci,.ded
will immeei'ately report back to their i upon as to the amount of reparations,
own Goverreeents. Secondly, there $ tune of payment of it, etc., and to
Bettie the ear- tions whereby the pay -
will be a conference of the Allied ere* meats w 11 be enforced, according to
perts with the Germans, This con- the Spa agreement.
The explanation is then ,, f s
the request was made by the Armen- human du t. It v'as the public ae-; r .. axis n
van Government, which signed the knewledgment by a nation of the debt ' w` ... i - world over to'refer to the Can-
Treaty of Sevres, and that it was only that it owes to those whose le any adian Ge ve>rniment service as
natural that France should wish to by their very nae liifuaie mn',le clay Aiti QNGc T%4 NEW CANADIANS i •The Rat Line .'*
peernent tml oseible, It teas in o a. d. eiorgut, Department of i,;l+z .•a in . i
cora a: itzow a g•n.n, .o every • .. a ..
toil:.; a greet work in live stances m.,
ivy front v1i :u it ail;:tali rtm,.inx ,:. vim lis la in lace of the
..,, a.. . p y P
. beaver a cross encircled in a
circle.
eminent at Erevan appears to be only ` n'• The Ontario will open
,• _ sly that cannot fid dill riot emu -fort iJanuary 25.
the creation of the Bolsheviks Ar 1 in a oerrztnitnt ofPr wl et on e O io Legislature
Merchant Marine flag
Bears a Cross
A. despatch from Ottawa
says: Ribald comment by
sailors of the world has caused
the Government to have the
house flag of the Canadian
Government Merchant Mar- ,
' ine changed.
So far the house flag has
displayed on it the Canadian
beaver, but the likeness of
this industrious animal to an --
}given that F - other rodent caused sailors the
an -
sive it support. t F•dni'antan who laa' vIgt eat wad 1-iareafter the house flag
"But," continues The Tempe, "since Per l 3 l 1 tg
rebuke to conceit. A nua:'n may not. organic power system in the world.
be so 1;'g as the thinks he is.
There is little room In the world
to -day for small men --the spec as
reserved for the big ones. And the
latter are not signifi.ant by virtue of
their self-assertion. Those who run
about clamorous and insistent for
recognition, hurt because notice is not
taken, aie i ely to be the last to de -
forget foi there as Hat, ono Gtt'ct tarn Wiseto Hi
itself anti) the thought that its owe' eke]; S `Tuesday,
men]a appears to -day to he reduced
to absurd dimensions by the atmis•
-
SWISS AND DANES
TAKE ONTARIO •LAND
Many Applications Being
Considered for Spring
dear dead is *het unknown :oilier of was an ardent disciple of Ise: a Ven
tice which the Turks have imposed:' tufo Ab13y.
Forever unknown, forever mute, Ile' for the first time --alleging that he
will be Inown wherever leen use his
ton appliei for leave o1 attse:nec--mete A special from Helsinerfors steles,
F1c„n;Yiing to Soviet newspapers, there
new 84 priensn. camps in Russia
ntalnieg 80,000 former o8ficiais and.
_ flcers from the Czar's time, A, year
d duty and ee five more .1 now and then, but you engirt nt leaet i :ago the figures were 21 and 10,000, re-
serve ,'t. Mr. Choate (in the Life by rnxgra IOD. A despatch from Berlin says•• --The quentl than pr cr Englishman pole
wi
sited to attend his sister's wedding.
Parliament and President mother tongue; and to generations 'I've no objections," replied the offi-
i 010, to your sister getting married
Fox Free City of Danzig y'e't unborn he will speak of patttiot
ism and a hu iu x r o r a- bring me back some cif ,the fish eteerively,
EE. S, Martin) is a little ;surprised et despatch from London say :-- Constituent Assembly of Danzig has before.
•:hen he meets the great scientists, Switzerland is the newest fueM where- proclaimed •itself the Parliament of •---•~-- ° --•^-
Kelvin. anal Rayleigh, to final how hu- from Ontario is drawing immigrants, the free city, under the title of p
nearly Bumble -minded they are. Of Agent -General Creelman will leave, "Sollcatag," with powers to enact hltla Recover
course --because they are wise inn. England shortly for Switzerland and
They have so mull, wisdom that they Denmark to robed up prospective Ca-
nadian settlers. Five hundred Swiss
have alrwedy signified their intention
of taking farm lands in the spn:ng-
lenow how •incansc picuous the "great-
est" man alive is before the wonder
of Nature and the providence of God.
The voice does not always carry for time. A11 things considered, they are
mere shout,;ng. Note how often real said to rank as the best type of set -
strength goes hand in hand with tiers procurable for Canada. Several
quietness. The leader of sten does hundred Danish dairy far'm'er appliea-
not have to "holler." Ile makes his tions are being considered The Pro -
presence felt 'without a sound. When vineiat Government is assisting immi-
he enters a room the eubtle ennana- grants from both countries, but the
tion of power needs no battlers and proposed Ontario campaign in Nor
legislation until 1923.
A. majority of the Socialists, Inde-
pendent Soaialists and Poles voted
against this decision, and then left
the hall, taking no further part in
the proceedings.
Dr. Sahre, the former Burgomaster,
has been elected President of the
Senate, and is thus the first President
of the free city of Danzig.
Canadian Scientists
no trumpeting. The appearance is all way and Sweden has been deferred. To Fly to .Fax` North
the aadvertieement that is required. owing to unexpected opposition. The
Men who have shown to the world a total number of emigrants already A. <Ieapatclt from Ottawa says: -
redoubtable demeanor are known to accepted to sail for Ontario in the If pians now under consideration by
be tender and gentle in the domestic spring is nearly 400. • Applieatiens the geologists
Air Bwho
are matured,
-When they come home average elieut 2,000 weekly, but a HCanadian.rarduous
trips
every srth-
they shut the door on warfare. small percentage only is suitable. mea make arduous trips to far north -
In the face of the regent years that ern regions to carry on field work,
have erased so many thousands good
will next suninter be spared much
and truemany youthseffort and saved. several weeks of
so beautiful. Li.ouvain Receives Books. vaivable time by being carried in air -
whose lives were radiant vi th prom- pl:anes. The first attempt to utilize
ise, so many who seemed to hold the Pergonal libraries of German sav- flying machines for this practical
cup with the most precious life -blood ants are being purchased to restockpurthe ose will be made in the Mackenzie
of the race in their hands it is hard the shelves of the Louvain Library River Basin and the flight will prob-
ably be from Peace River landing, in
Northern Alberta, to Fort Norman.
The man to advocate the air route
for geologists was Dr. Alfred Thomp-
son, in•emnber for the Yukon, 'who dis-
cussed the time -saving possibilities of
this plan in the House of Commons
two years ago.
The fall fur hunt lin the Canadian
North has been a dismal failure. Mild
weather and the low prices eontrihute
to the non-success of the bunt. 'Hun-
dreds of_ Indians turned to fishing in-
stead, and reports from the fishing
grounds .say the catch outstrips the'
past several years by a wide margin.
Whitefish are principally caught and
for the first time sturgeon fleeting is
being -done in the Churchill River at
Puckstawagan.
to see how any nit can stand up and, Iooted by the Germans in the war,
with the index finger directed self- says a despatch. The German pro -
ward, invite the earth to. contemplate fessors are hard hit by heavy taxation
his awesome majesty. How can con- and the high cost of living and many
coat surveve where the brave, the rare and valuable volumes have thus
pure, the modest fell? How can we come into the market.
tolerate those who insist on telling M. Louis Stainier, director of the
their own story, withevery embellish- library restoration committee, told a
anent of auto -glorification, when the correspondent of the London Daily
voices are forever still of those who
News that Louvain was very grateful
did flee melee deeds and said nengetg for the consignment of books from
thereof? It it for no man to pro- American well-wiahers although, as he
nounee on his own merit. Let the put it, the American collection being
ages decide; and the verdict of the an essentially modern one had more
ages -if they notice him at en -may of a "universal" than a "university"
be the reversal of his fatuous decision character.
as to his renown and lasting cense- No building yet exists in Louvain
q ee. adequate to receive the new library,
and the books thus far obtained, in
The making of velemhats, once cluding 35,000 volumes from England,"
an Austrian monopoly, is now firmly
scattered wherever temporary ne-
established in Britain. commodations can be found for them.
Shantung, Says s Ja an.
A despatch from Geneva
says: -Baron Hayashi, the
Japanese Ambassador t, Gt.
Britain, and head of the Jap-
anese delegation to the League
Assembly, informed the cor-
respondents . on .. Thursday
evening that Japan was get-
ting
etting ready to hand back the
Province of Shantung to
China, but was unable to get
China to open negotiations.
He added that the only condi-
tion Japan makes is that Kiao-
Chau shall remain open to for-
eign trade. .
Baron Hayashi thought that
China's refusal to negotiate
was due to the fact that public
opinion had been falsified by
the military party.
Use for Happiness.
A school teacher said to her boys:
"Now, I am going to give to each of
you three buttons. 'You must think
of the first as representing life, the
second liberty, and the third happi-
ness. In three days I want you to pro-
duce these buttons and tell me what
they stand for."
On the appointed day the teacher
asked one of the pupils for the but-
tons.
"I ain't got 'ens all," he sobbed.
"Here's life and here's liberty, but mo
mother went and sewed happiness on
me trousers."
Weekly Market Report
Toronto,
:Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern,
$1.96; No. 2 Northern, $1.9431:;; No.
3 Northern, $1.89?>; No. 4. wheat,
$1.76%.
Manitoba oats --No. 2 OW, a6e; No.
3 CW, 52%c; extra No. 1 feed, 51%c;
No. 1 feed, 491,10; No. 2 feed, 46e.
Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW, 96e:
No, 4 CW, 80e.
All of the above in store at Fort
William.
American corn -41..15, nominal,
track, Toronto, prompt ehlpzneut
Ontario oats --No. 2 white, 60 to 53c.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, $1.85
to $1.90 per car lot; No. 2 Spring, $1,80
to $1.85, shipping points, according to
freight.
Peas ---No. 2, nominal, $1.75 to $1.80.
Barley -85 to 90e, according to
freights outside.
Buekwheat-No. 3, $1 to $1.0.5, nom-
.
ltye--•bio. 3, $1.50 to 51.55, nominal,
according to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -•-.511.10, top patents;
$10.50, Government standard.
Ontario flour -$7.75, bulk, seaboard.
Millfeed-Oar lots, delivered, ,Stmt -
real freights, bags included: Bran, per
ton, $33 to $40; shorts, per ton, $42;
good feed flour, $2.76 to $3.00.
Cheese -New, large, 27 to 28e;
twins, 27x;, to 281,iac; triplets, 28% to
29%c; old, large, 32 to 35c; do, twins,
321 to 331,zc.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to
50c; creamery, 2nds, 55 to 58c; finest,
68 to 61c. -
Margarine -35 to 87c.
Eggs -No. 1, 68 to 690; seleots, 74
to 75c; new laid, in cartons,. 85 to eft.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked. bus.,
$4 to $4.50; primes, $3 to 53.50; Ja-
pans 91/2c; Limas, Madagascar, 14?%e;
California Limas, 12efic.
Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
gab$3 25 $ o40 53 40. Mapto 53.50; le ersugar,p ib , 27
als.,
to 30c.
Roney -60-304b. tins, 25 to 26c per
lb.; Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per
15 -section case; 5% -2% -lb, tins, 26 to
27c per lb.
Smoked nears ---Ilam,, med., 42 to
44e; heavy, 38 to 40e; cooked, 59 to
610; rolls, 33 to '35c; cottage rolls, 39
to 40e; breakfast bacon, 46 to 50c;
fancy breakfast bacon, 52 to 58e;.
backs, plain, bone in, 54 to 61c; bone-
less, 65 to 69c.
Cured meats --Long clear bacon, 27
to 28e; clear bellies, 26 to 27c.
Lard --Pere tierces, 251,1 to 26e;
tubs, 26 to 26 no; pails, 26% to 268e;
prints, 28 to 28e. Compound tierces,
18te to 191he; tubs, 19 to 191nc; pails,
19% to 20c; prints, 22 to 24e.
Choice heavy steers, $11,50 to 512;
geed heavy steers, 53.0.50 to 511; but-
chers" cattle, choice, 59.50 to 510; do,
good, $8 to 59; do, Hied,, .$e to 57; do,
tom., e5 to $5.60; butchers' bulls,
choices 58 to 59.50; do, good, e7 to 58;
do, com., $5 to *6; butchers' cows,
choice, $7.80 to 58.50; do, good, 56.26
to $7; do, cont., 54 to $5; feeders, best,
59 to $10; do 900 lbs., $8.50 to 59.50;
do, 800 lbs., 57.75 to 58.25; do, cont.,
55.25 to $6.25; canners and cutters,
$3 to 54.50; milkers, good to choice,
$100 to $165; do, cont. and med., 565
to 575; lambs, yearlings, 59 to $9 50;
do, spring, 511 to $12.60; calves, good
to choice, $14 to $15.50; sheep, $5 to
$6; hogs, fed and watered, 514.76 to
$15.25; de, weighed off cars, $15 to
$15.60; do, f.o.b., $13.75 to $14.26; do,
country points, $13.50 to $14.
Montreal.
Oats, Can. Western, No. 2, 77%,a;; do,
No. 3, 730. ]~`lour, Man. Spring wheat
patents, firsts, 511.10. Rolled oats,
hag 90 lbs., 53,90. Bran, 540.25. Shorts,
542.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, ear lots,
$31 to $32.
Cheese, finest easterns, 19 to 21c,
Butter, choicest creamery, 52 to 53c.
Eggs fresh, 67 to 70c. - Potatoes, per
bag, car' lots, $1.90 to $1.90.
Butchers' heifers, corn., $5 to $7;
butchers:' sows med., $5 to 56.80; can.
nears, 52.75 to 53; cutters, 53.50 to
$4.50; butchers' hulls, good, 56.50; do,
corn., 54,50 to $5.50. Good veal, $13 to
514; Hied., .58 to $13; grass, 54.50 to,
$5.50. Ewes, 54 to $6; lambs, good,
$13; corn., $8 to $11. Hogs, off -car
weights, selests, 16 to $16.26; sows,
512 to 512.25.
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