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The Exeter Times, 1919-3-6, Page 34„. NI, IT COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE BRITISH !AFAR .TROPRE Miners i'ostpoiie -Strike Pending Inquiry -Question n of IHours,. Wages and General Conditions to be Taken up at Conference. A despatch from London says: - .After an a11• -day session devoted to &serer the various phases of labor unrest, the industrial conference, ca1- ing the relations 'between capital and labor, and report back to the confer- ence, which -will reassemble on .April 5. At the suggestion of Premier -Lloyd led blr the Geverienent a.nd in which George, who strongly advocated the •Government Ministers, Labor leaders plan, the resolution was amended to and representatives of the big em- include a sentence from a similar re - p10 i'itng interests participated, adopt-. solution, though not so eomprehen- •.ed a resolution presented by Arhhue sive, presented earlier by Sir Allan Henderson, Laborite, for the appoint- Snaith, chairman of the . managing event of a joint temporary committee, j committee of the Engineering Ern - to he coreposed of 30 Laborites and ployers' Federai,'aon. This culled for 30 capitalists, to makea thorough a report by the committee on the investigation into the questions of causes of the present unrest and the hours, wages, general conditions of steps necessary to best safeguard' work, unemployment and its proven- the relations between capital and tion, tend. the 'best means for promot- 'labor. Markets World of the VoMaple products -Syrup, per gallon, j��L �] $2.25 to $2.85; sugar, }b,, 27 to 28e, Breadstufts. Toronto March 4- Manitc}ba Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $2,24zf ; No. 2 Northern, $2.2132' No. 3 Northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2,1114, in store Fort William. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C,W., 723ec; No. 3 C.W., 68%c; extra No. 1 feed, 65%c; No. 1 feed, 61%ric; Ne. 2 feed, 581,/sc, in store Fort William. Manitoba barley -No. 3 C.W., 85%; No. 4 C.W., 80%c; repected, 741/4c; feed, 73%c, in store Fort William, American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.50; No. :4 yellow, $1.47, prompt shipment. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 58 to 61c; No. 3 white, 57 to 60e, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per car lot, $2.14 to $2.22; No. 2 do., $2.11 to $2.19; No. 3 do., $2.07 to $2.15, f.o.b., shipping points, according to freights. Ontario taheat-No. 1 Spring, $2.09 to $2.17; No, 2 do., $2.06 to $2.14; No. 8 do., $2.02 to $2.10, f.o.b., shipping points, according to freight;,. Peas -No. 2, $1.80, according to freights outside. }e Barley -Malting, 78c to 83c, nom- inal. Buckwheat -No. -2, 85 to 90c, nom- inal. Rye -No. 2, $1.25, nominal. Manitoba flour -Government star,- dard. 810.85 to $11,10, Toronto. Ontario flour -War quality, $9.15 ti $9.75 in bags, Toronto and Montreal, prompt shipment. Mil'Ifeed-Car lots, delivered Mon- treal freights, bags included. Bran, $40.25 per ton; shorts, $42.25 per ton; good feed flour, $3.25 to $3.50 per bag. I•Iay-No. 1, $20 to $21 per ton; mixed, $18 to $19 per ton, track To- ronto. Straw -Car lots, $10 to $11 per ton, car lots. .Poet..,_, Provis ions --Wholesale. Smoked meats -dams, medium, 36 to 88c; do., heavy, 30 to 32c; cooked, 49 to 61c; rolls, 31. to 82c; Breakfast bacon, 41 to 45c; backs, plain, 44 to 45c • boneless, 50 to 52e. Cured meats ---Long clear bacon, 28 to 29c• clear bellies, 27 to 28c. Lars -Pure, tierces, 27 to 27%c; tubs, 27% to 28c; pails, 27% to 28%; prints, 28'% to 29. Compound tierces, 25% to 25%e; tubs, 25% to 263ac; pails, 26 to 26%c; prints, 27'% to 27%, Montreal Markets. Montreal, March 4 --Oats, extra No. 1 fed, 78%c. Flour, new standard grade, $11.10 to $11.20. Rolled oats, bags 90 lbs., $4.15. Bran, $40.25. Shorts, $44 to $45, Mouillie, $64. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car Pots, $24. Cheese, finest Easterns, 24 to 25e; butter, choicest creamery, 52% to 53; eggs, selected, 50c• eggs, No. 1 steels, 47c; potatoes per lag, car Lots, $1.75; dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $24; lard, pure, wood pail's, 20 lbs. net, 25 to 29c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, March 4.- Choiee heavy export steers $16 00 $17 50 Do, good 14 50 15 50 Choice butcher steers 12 50 13 00 Butchers' cattle choice 12 25 13 100 Do, good 10 75 11 75 Do, 'common 8 75 9 25 Bulls, choice 10 50 11 50 Do, medium bulls8 75 9 00 Do, rough bulls 7 50 8 00 'Butcher cows, choice 10 50 11 50 Do, good 9 50 10 00 Do, medium 8 25 8 50 Do, common 7 25 7 75 ;Stockers 8 00 10 50 Feeders ' 16 50 12 00 Canners and cutters 5 50 7 00 Milkers, good to choice 90 00 140 00 Do, com, and med65 00 75 00 90 00 140 00 10 50 11 50 12 00 13 00 15 50 17 50 16 25 18 25 Country Produce -Wholesale. Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to 38c; prints, 40 to 41c. Creamery, fresh' Tilade solids, 51c; prints, 52e. Eggs -New laid, 42 to 43e. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 26 to 34c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 27 to 30e; ducklings, 32c; turkeys, 40c; squabs, doz., $4.50; geese, 25e. Live poultry -Roosters, 20c; fowl, 24 to 30c; ducklings, ib., 35c; turkeys, 35c; spring chickens, 25e; geese, I8c. Cheese -New, large, 28 to 28'/ic; twins, 28'j to 290; triplets, 29 to 29%e; Stilton, 29% to 30c; okl, large, '29 to 29%c; twin, 29% to 80e. Potatoes-Ontsrios, f.o.b. track To- ronto, car lots, 85e to 90e. Beans - Canadian, hand-picked, bushel, $3.50 to 84.00; primes, $3.00. imported, hand-picked', iBurma or In- dian, $3.25; imas, 15c. • 1 -Toney -Extracted clover: 5-1b. tins 86 to 27c Ib.; 10 -Ib. tins, 25 to 26c; 301b. tins, 25 to 25e; buckwheat, 30 -Ib. tin, 19 to 20c. Comb: 16 -oz., 4.50 to $5.00 doz.; 12 -oz., $3.50 to 4.00 doz. Springers ......... Light ewes Yearlings 'Spring lambs . Calves, good to ohoice Hogs, fed and watered Do, off oars Do,f:osb. ....... 18 00 18 25 17 25 Montreal, March 4 -Choice selected hogs, $17.50 to $18.00 per 100 pounds weighed off cars. Choice steers, $10.50 to $13.50; good steers, $5.00 to $11.00; butchers' bulls, $8.50 to $10.50; others $5.50; butchers' cattle, cows and bulls, $10.00• to $11.25; canners and cutters, $5.00 to $6.00. Milk4ed calves, $13.00 to $16.00. Sheep, $8.00 to $9.50; lambs, $12.00 to $14.50, Our Foresters in France --The camp of the 23ttli (ona.lian Ie orestry Corps in the Vosges mountains of Prance, eine mills had an average output of 35,000 feet in ten hours, b ut In some cases Trent as • high as 50,000 in that time. PERMANENT FORCE FOR CANADA PRINCESS PATRICIA'S BATT. TO FORM PART Corps Wliich Make Up the Reconsti- uted Force and Their Head- quarters Decided Upon. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is to be a part of the per- manent force of Canada, according to an announcement made recently by Major Campbell of the Adjutant's Department at Military Headquar- ters. The crack regiment will be de- mobilized in Ottawa and reorganized in Toronto. Its headquarters will be in Toronto. The reconstitution of the perman- ent force has ben before the Militia Council for a month or more. The Militia Department does not contem- plate any great increase in the strength of the force, which prior to the war numbered about 3,800 men of all ranks. According to the Order in Council it cannot exceed 5,000 men of all ranks. Some t,`me ago the per- manent force was abolished, and all soldiers in training for overseas or on duty in Canada were placed on the strength of the C. E. F, Departures Froin Old System. There are some imporliant depar- tures from the old system. The term of enlistment is to be for two years instead of three years, as prior to the i war, with C.E.F. rates of pay, which 1 is an increase over former rates with Isome exceptions. In eases of non- commissioned officers of the former permanent forces who have advanced through lengthy service and would suffer by the change the 'order is not to be construed as 'affecting then, and those whose rates are lower are to be advanced to the •C.E.F. rate of pay. One man in every ten will be allowed married quarters or be permitted to draw a married soldier's allowance. Formerly it was one in twenty. The ,category of all fighting ranks is to be "A," but the men in the aux-; iliary services may be lower than "A," I There are to be a limited number! of commissions open, and the appli- cants must be men Who have seen active service in a theatre :of war, with high qualifications, military and p educational. The forces will be composed of the • Royal Canadian Dragoons and Prin-' cess Patricia's Light Infantry, sta- tioned in Toronto; Lord Strathcon:a's The more power a man can control Ho , g y, the less help he will have to hire and Horse Artillery, the Royal Canadian the more work he can do in a short- Garrison .Artillery, on the coast, and er space of time and be able to follow the Royal Canadian Regiment, a scientific tillage methods. • Kingston. 450,000 HOMES RUINED G, rnau is Must l'ay This huge Item of French Bill.. In outlining the difficulties' met by the oornfnission oil reparations in de. tem -mining the 'a•pproxirnate wiar laseea of any one belligerent, CaptainAndre Tardieu, one a/f the French delegates to the Peace Confornee, said thiht France alone would present a bill for 450,000 houses, which have been de- stroyed. This does not include fac- tories, it was added. M. 'Tardieu, said the Allies had agreed that Germany must pay to the Iimit of her capacity, which is now beeng determined from divers sour- ces by the committee on reparations. foroccan Issue to be Settled Between France and Spain. A despatch from Paris :says: -The council of the great powers, the. Hav- e; Agency states, has decided that the Moroccan question must be set- --- tied between France and Spain, the CLAIMS OF ITALY AGAINST 'AUSTRIA $3,000,000,000 Indemnity Will be Demanded Payment "in Kind." iA despatch from London says: -- .A special despatch to the London Daily News, dated February 20, says that the war indemnity claimed by Italy from Austria has been approxi- raately •calculated at £600,000;000 ($3,000,000,000). As it is extremely doubtful whether its payment can be enforced, the Italian Government will possibly resort to a practical remedy for compensation, consisting in spec- ially favorable concessions over the natural resources of the country. Thus it is proposed that about a third of the war indemnity claimed by Italy should be paid by Austria n kind, as it were, by ceding to Italy 8,000,000 cubic metres (282,512,000 cube feet) of timber, to be exported during a period of five years. LONDON GRI?.ETS HEROES Whirlwind Welcome Given Grenadier Guards Who Fought Through War. The Second Battalion of the Gren- adier Guards received an 'enthusiastic welcome on its return to London from Germany on Feb. 26, Although no ceremonies had been arranged and the hour of arrival was uncertain, im- mense meets assembled at St. Pan- cras Station. Messed bunds played, "See the Conquering Heroes Come," as the men left their train. General, Fielding, Commandant of the London Distriet, welcomed the battalion in behalf of the King. Unprc•epzieuted scenes were wit-, nessed .as' the troops proceeded through the crowded streets, thou- I sands of people joining in the march, which cventuaely assumed suth pro- portione that it resembled a general two nations most interested. It /is proposed that the international status be abolished and replaced by a special regime. in which there shall be provi- sion for adequate protection of the French interests. Great Britain, the agency says, has already given her assent to the plan, and it argues that the favorable attitude of "the council makes it •certain that France will win her point. The Colonel's Father. A story that casts an interesting light on the completeness with which the British nation threw itself into the struggle with Germany appears in Mr,' Isaac Marcosson's The Business of War. I" was talking one day to the commanding officer of the largest base - supply depot in France," says the author, "when an erect, white-haired man wearing the single star of a sub- altern came up, saluted, and gave a • message in precise military fashion. 'When he was through he clicked his heels together, saluted again. and with a `Thank you, sir,' made off," Do you know who that officer is?" the colonel asked me. "No," I replied. "He is niy father." The father was seventy--or_e years old and a retired country squire, but. like many of his countrymen, heefelt he had to be doing something, and so had replaced a younger raztn in the Array Service Corps. Bail Refused Ex -Kaiser's San . And Former Bavarian Ruler A despatch from Genova says: -All the aristocratic officials of the caval- ry regiments in Munich have been arrested. Bail has ben refused Prince Joachim, the youngest sora of fernier I Emperor Williram, and :prince Leo -1 po1c1 of Bavaria, AV/10 are un�lc�r arrest' as ; ege leaders of tie. Monarchist for his country. Lieut. H, 11. Robinson, who was was struck. Happily, in both cases, killed in action, was a son of the the Germans duly reported the des - late Rev. Alexander Robinson, of traction of the target. Kiimun and Crieff. Our airmen, whore the enemy were . The Corporation of Glasgow bees always attempting ted. deceive, -vera realize d the sum of $15,335 in aidl of themselves adepts at deceptions False war funds from the.rsale of a collet- aerodromes with false tents and even tion of scrap metal. false machines littered the country, Harry Lumsden, who has been clerk and some were riddled with laornbs. of Glasgow Trades `House for twenty- As soon as enemy night bombers were years, has been re-elected to that p0- reported an electric light or two Would sition. be switched on in the dummy while • On the wreath placed on Nelson's the neighbouring reality reposed in monument, Glasgow, on Nelson Day, safe obscurity. was written, "To the men who have. Sham Tents and Guns. kept .the seas free." In the second battle of Messiues a The late firs. Cozinel Mary Car - purely corps, the F.ightli, wee given a gill,. of Mathieson, bequeathed b ' her purely d1 nine part. : .sham tamp will `$5,000 to the Royal Hospital for was rigged up at night and quantities Sink Children, Glasgow. of dummy figures, at least as plausible' The roll of honor of the Glasgow as any of the false heads used by .the ' School of Art includes one governor, German snipers, were shown in sup- ten mambers f the staff and over port treuclses. lour hundred students. The lure worked to perfection and. Following an annual custom, the very soon after dawn German bat- rl d the 11OTI Ole INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAT M. Mat is Going Ola in the Highlands' aazlsi•''JLolvlaizdi� of Aukt Scathe The Military Crass has been awarded to Lieut, Ian Carmichael, parish znini�ster o£ I iloehspe1vie, Mull. A great loss has been sustained on the banks of the Clyde by the death. of Dr. Macfie, a native of Rothesay. Mr. Martin, who has been town elerk of Paisley for over forty years, has intimated his intention of retie- info. The death took place recently. h Polwarth terrace of George Fleming, the oldest master baker hi Edinburgh. Lieut. William Thorburn, son of J. W. Thorburn, Denham Green avenue, Leith, has been awarded the Military Cross. The Military Medal has been airmen always reported tanks, ever when there was none, and refusing at - ROW THE ORJTJSJL. FOOLED T�EflflS USED DUMMY GUNS, TANF S AND EVEN SOLOtEPRS, Germane Wasted Enormous .Quantities on Purely Imaginary Gun Positions, Refcremes in Sir Douglas kIalg's victory despatch to dodges of cam e,- ilaf e by which the every gullible Ger- man was tricked give only a pale sug. gestion of the numerous artifices act- ually used. Tanks offered perhaps the best opens Ing, because the Germans were so ter. rifled of them, One colonel of Tanks spent months in Flanders entraining and detraining the same little squats of tanks for the sole edification of enemy airmen and possible spies, Th© writer has since seen a German intefr ligenee report complaining that the awarded to Gunner Donal$ Morrison, R.F.A, son of William Morrison, Ren- ton. Miss Ida Laird, daughter of J. A. Laird, Buz•nbrae, Dumbarton, has been appointed an administrator in Q.M.A.A.C. The Military Cross has been awarded to Lieut. Alastair Murray, eldest son of John A. Murray, 21 Mere chiston Park, Edinburgh, The late Robert Drew, proprietor of the Conislee Hair Works, Paisley, has left $2,500 to the Alexandra In- firmary, Paisley. Lieut. Robert Inglis, Girvan, is the fourth of the sons of Robert In- es to make the supreme sacrifice terly to credit. their news of real tanks assembling behind Arras because in- formation bad been so wrong in Flan. dors and elsewhere. We used tanks made of lath and canvas as. early as September, 1916, leaving them on the skyline at dawn and drawing a furious barrage. A fine. little flotilla of these dummies was used in front of the Hindenburg line. in October last, but the effect was rather spoiled by the effects of a strong wind which got wilder the can- vas and totally capsized one. It was betrayed very much like the wood guns in the dummy Agamemnon, which gaily floated off on the surface of the Mediterranean when the ship i members of the Trades House, Gras- teries poured shells among the empty maweliient. • gor., a en e sera ac in . t , tehts and the infantry made all pre• 'after the ele.:tions. parations to insist an attack in force. POLES AND.0.4GERMANS L Major R. C. Williamson is the new afterwards duly chronicled in the Ger- xodus, Tie wive , •relatives and ARE STILL FIGHTING sweethearts of the Guardsmen were given places of honor among the civ- ilian marchers, while many members of the returned battalion could be seen leading their children. The bands played throughout the march, the crowds joining in singing popular airs. Even the London policemen were unable to resist waving their hand:. It was the most exultant and happiest procession London has see�a for many years. MAKE THEATRE OF Queen Mother Alexandra, outside MEDIAEVAL CHURCH A despatch from Warsaw says: - Skirmishes between Pelee and Ger-1 mans continue. Sonic fighting was I witnessed by Col. William A. Grove,' of the United States Food Mission, 40 miles west of Kalisz,• near Kropo- chin, -where he arrived during a light cannonade and machine ;,Tun fire. Twenty-four Poles were wounded. of lalariuorouen mouse; tris; .Duke 0f -' Connaught and the Crown Prince A despatch from Waraaw says: incl Princess of Sweden, Before /The Bolsheviki hi Vilna have turned Clarence House, and Life King and , the famous Church of St. John rot's Queen with their children, at thee a theatre. Construction of this edi- 4ice was begun in 1388 rase at Cai1 ax Itoval Canadian open windows of Buckingham Palace, owee•Mew ` • Complete School Set ---24 Pieces FREE TO BOYS AND GIRLS. This outfit contains: •1. 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That5 Copt, a , 8'oxoxtto greeted the warriors as they passed. ;Of the original unit that left Eng- ; land in 1914, only twelve men surviv- ed to take part in this great home- coming. DAMAGE BY WAR TO FRANCE TOTAL 119,801,000,000 FR A`7,CS A despatch from Paris. says: -The Budget Committee of the Chamber of. Deputies has drawn up a report fix- ing the damages caused by the war in France, the total reaching 119,- 801,000,000 francs. Of this amount 96,559,000,000 is entailed by direct damages, and 23,242,000,000 by in • - direct damage through loss of income or the impossihlity of carrying on work. Though the lenses of safety gog- gles intended for .aviators, motorists and metal. workers may beb roken, inner shields prevent the glass frag- ments reaching the eyes. 1 e n se 1t., xz rc - =XV - ereee eire.eieneelere WEt.L•HOW 1•%U50ANO weL4. /Kv,e `YOU P OUND ANO to -tow YOU ALL TRE PARKS• P_1UiLilaM(tS Ar't,�\LL I PLACES OF r -- I N T FRES" 1 ••n, t 0 ere 4tlsesteA have. A *-r GINE TIME- ( I WILL WE TAKE? IN THE F}A.itt4.J FIFt'1'o eier- • 4.04,049f4,014 .41 ItitAtteptlx 1.4,0 uw+.b.A'+t'f•., Mtia..14,1.rm1•.: 5 superintendent of the Scottish Bind- man communique as if a real assault had been stopped. The writer has seen German artil- lery "drawn" in all sorts of ways. In one of the Thiopval attacks clouds of smoke were released on one flank, and the fear of what might be lurking within it drew down an intense bar- rage jute at the moment when the real assault was delivered on the right wing. With equal success buoys were placed in the night along the Belgian ed Soldiers and Sailor's Hostel, New- ington House, Edinburgh. The death has been announced of .Tames Robertson, •solicitor, for oyer fifty years clerk of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Barry Lauder has made an appeal to ell the churches of Scotland for support to his $5,000,000 fund for Scottish sailors and soldiers. Sir 3.- Alfred Ewing, K.G.B., prise - sepal of Edinburgh University, has • been appaintei a deputy-lieriteliant of coast when we advertised a sham the county and city of Edinburgh• threat, and it was great sport the next day to watch the German shore bat - The muscles of a bird's wing are teries andahugetlie.r winere sgle worth guns, 'registerentheso. ing" for ll suspicious anchorages. The final testimonial to the success ._..: of all this pretence came from a rather unexpected direction. It was found in. the report of the chief German Intel• lige=-ace officer before the battle of Ar- ras. He had before him plentiful eve, donee of an approaching attacks bit came to the triumphant conclusion that the trains observed by German airmen were empty, that the tanks were the result of nerves, that extra hospitals and what not were mere pre- tence, and reported to headquarters that no British offeusive was medi- tated. A copy of this document, taken in the actual attack, made delicious reading, BEWARE THE GRADE ClIOns1NQ. There is Special Danger at Country Railway Crossings. Country people, more than the city man, should "think twice and loolz thrice" before driving across a rail- road track. City drivers are likely to be safeguarded by viaducts, under- ground passages and tunnels, or bar. red by flagmen or crossing gates at points where it is necessary to cross railroad tracks at grade. In the open country, an the other hand, few at these safeguards are available. Con. scquenily, tho driver of any vehicle mus be constantly on hie guard. Strange as it may seem, bad acct dents often occur at grade crossings In the country even where a clear view of the track anti. approaching trains is to bo had. It takes »illy a Tennent or two at arse. railroad crossing to make sure (1:.! tile way is clear. it Is never wisp to cross the track abed of an ap. lrroc.c•Iaiitg train cioCO there are few 1‘110c n judge the speed of tho train, er who realize bo short a time will -- ��•.--»«w �. r ! be remit/Tit for it. to reaolt the erase - lug. -Stop, hook, listen!" le a time -worn pleruee, hut t is ouo which no driver can afford to /grieve at ttnprotectase green e"oeein, etot.,-ti?nes more 20 povwerful pro , proportion- ately speaking, than those of a man's arm. A Ho.,pital in France ---This is e picture of 'the hospital attached to the Canadian Forestry Corps at 'Get -arch -nen `1A`t 43AVC YOU I DON'T \VANE`S TO G;O 'CO AN-( fWAi,1C' LET'S G•C) TO DINT MOC1Ev'e.V: . ecier NrIOTa-1E.4? DIVEor 'ream AN'To, -rh1INl< a'vtw e eeN , AvdatOlN' rats 4c1. v C" _ ...Nle.. •^: k.,•f-.•7.". :w..'".w...:.n.r,.; '♦: �'....n eie 6lifr. r.....Yw,hM.,...:41•11-