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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-3-27, Page 6BRIM INDUSTRIAL DISTURBANCES NOW IN PROCESS OF SETTLEMENT deport of Coal Commission Granting Miners Two.Thirds of Their Demands Accepted by Government. A despatch from London says: -- Andrew Bonar Law, the Government spokesman, in a statement in the House of Commons, said 'that the Government accepted the report of the special coal commission, of which Justice Sir John Sankey is ° chairman, including its undertaking to report on the question of nation- alization by May 20, and to issue interim reports from time to time on the problem of improvements in the coal industry. Porposais of this nature would be put into immediate operation de.! clared Mr. Bonar Law. This involved; the continuance of coal control for two years. With reference to the Sankey re-! port, which, he explainer] was sign-+. ed by three representatives of the; employers not directly concerned in i the coal industry and kanted the miners two-thirds of their demands in wages. Mr. Bonar Law said that the signers of the report recommended a further reduction in hours in 1921., because by then the output of 1913,. namely 28'7,000,000 tens, will be re- sumed. The estisnatel cost of what was recommended wee, for the cur- rent year, 143,000,000. It was proposed that the profits of the coal masters should be limited to fourteen pence per ton. Taking all things into consideration,'the esti- mated cost to the taxpayers would be nearly £30,000,000. Mr, Bonar Law also announced that the employers had made what he himself and the Labor Minister considered reasonable proposals to the transport workers, and he had reason to believe that these would prove acceptable to the men. Markets of the WoreI Montreal Markets. Montreal March 25. -Oats extra No. 1 feed, 81e; flour, new standard grade, $11.10 to $11.20; rolled oats, Breadstufs. i bag, 90 lbs., $3.90 to $4; bran, $40.25; Toronto, March 25. -No. 1 North- shorts, $42.25; Mouillie, $64; hay No. ern, $2.2414; No. 2 Northern,. 2, per ton, ear lots, $23. Cheese, $2.211'4; No. 3 Northern, $2.171.; No.': finest Easterns, 24 to 25c; butter, 4 wheat, $2.111.4, in store Fort Wil -`choicest creamery, 58 to 59c; eggs, itam. i selected, 36c; No. 1 stock, 35c; no- BRITISH AVIATORS Manitoba oats -No. 2 OW., 701/4e; tatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.50; dres- No. 3 C.W., 67%e; extra No. 1 feed,' sed hogs, abattoir killed, $25.50 to 671/4c; No. 1 feed, 657.4c; No. 2 feed,. $26; lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. �` � 6621/4c, inNstore Fort William. i net, 281/4 to 30c. !iATLANTIC The Guards Come Home. All London went wild upon the return cif the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards from the war front. Of the original unit which left England in 1914, only 12 fortunate men survive to take part in this memorable home -coming. None of the gallant officers are alive, their burial places 'being Wetly Mons, The Marne, Aisne, and Ypres. Manitoba barley -No. 3 C.W., 96ssc; No. 4 C.W., 90"ssc; rejected,' Live Stools Markets 7� 83 ,s c; feed, 84%c, in store Fort Wil- I 'lam. Toronto, March 25. -Choice heavy I export steers, $16 to $17.50; do American corn -No. 3 yellow„,_' 314.50 to $15.50; choice but hers $1.737.4; No. 4 yellow, $1.70; track; steers, $13.50 to $13.75; butcher's Toronto, prompt shipment. ! cattle, choice, $13.25 to $13,75; do, Ontario oats -No. white, 64 to" good, $12.25 to $12.75;' da, common, 66c; No. 3 white, 62 to 64c, accord $10.25 to $10.75; bulls, choice, $10.75 ing to freights outside. : to $11.75; do, medium bulls, $9 to Ontario wheat -No. 1 winter, per $9.25; do, rough bulls, $7.75 to'$8.25; car 1 oto $X14 to $2.22; No. 2, do., butchers' cows, choice, $11 to $12.25; o $219; No. 3 do, $2.07 to: do, good, $10 to $10.75; do, medium, $2.15 f.o.b., shipping points, accord- $p to $9 05• do common $7 50 to $8• • ng to freights. ; Ontario wheat -No. 1 spring, $2.09 stockers, 88 to $10.50; feeders, $10.50 to $2.17; No. 2 do, $2.06 to 2. to $L• , canners and cutters, $5.50 to No. 3 do, $2.02 to $2.10 f.o.b., $4; $7;c milkers, good to choice, $90 to ship- $150; do, com. and med., $65 to $75; ping points, according to freights. . springers, $90 to 3150; 'light ewes, Peas -No. 2, $1.80, according to $11.50 to $13; yearlings, $12 to $14; freights outside, ; spring lambs, $16.75 to $18.75; calves, al Barley -Malting, 90 to 95c, nomin- good to choice, $16 to $17,50; hogs, Buckwheat No. 2, 85c, nominal. . fed and watered, $20; do, off cars, $20.25; do, f.o.b., $19.25; do, f.o.b., a1 Rye -No. 2, $1.39 to $1.42, nomin-i country points, $19. 'Manitoba fleas -Government Stan-: Montreal, Mar. 25. -Choice steers, dard, $10.75 to $11.00, Toronto. $13 to $14; good, $1,oto $13; medium, Ontario flour -Government star- $10.50 to $11.50; common, down to dard, $9.55 to $9.75 ,in bags, Toronto: $7'50; choice butcher cattle, $10 50 and Montreal; prompt shipment in: to $11.50; good, $9 to $10; medium, jute bags. $8.50 to $9; canners, $5 to $6.50; Milifeed---Car lots, delivered Mon-:' $10 calves,; labs, $12 to $ 5heep, $9 to treal freights, bags included. Bran,' $40.25 per ton; shorts, 842.25er r ton; good feed flour, $3.25 to $3.50i ONE OF 6 GREATEST GENERALS per bag.--= Hay --No. 1, $20 to $21 per ton;Gen. Haig Was Infallible Leader in mixed, $18 to $19 per ton, track, Most Glorious Campaign of History. Toront- Straw-Car lots, $10 per ton. Country Produce -Wholesale. Butter -Dairy, tubs and. rolls, 86 to 38c; prints, 40 to 41c. Creamery, fresh made solids, 50 to 510; prints, 51 to 53c. Eggs -New laid, 35 to 36c. In connection with Field Marshal Haig's transfer from command of the British army on the continent to command the home forces, the Lon- don Times prints an appreciative article recognizing both his failures and successes. "Field Marshal Haig," says the 34Droostesed poultr fo wl-Chick n ,to 32c 26 to article, "probably fought more bat - 7 ducklings, 32c; turkeys, 45c; squabs, ties than any British general who doz., $4.50; geese, 25c. has ever lived, and their magnitude Live poeltry--Roosters, 22c; fowl, dwarfs everything in our military 28 to 33c; ducklings, Ib., 35c; fur_ history. Waterloo would have been keys, 30c; chickens, 27c; geese, 18c. a mere combat if it had figured in Cheese -New, large, 28 to 28/c; the catalogue of his engagements, twins, 281/ to 29e; triplets,. 29 to and his battles were, on the whole, 291/c; Stilton, 291/4 to 30c; old, large, singularly successful. 291/4 to 30c; twins, 30 to 301/4c. "His best things were done at the Potatoes-Ontarios, f.o.b. track Toronto, car lots, $1.15 to $1.20. beginning and at the end of the war. Beans -Canadian; hand -+picked, The conduct of the retreat from bushel, $3.25 to $3.75; primes, $2.50 Mons was above praise, and it should. to $3; imported hand-picked, Burma never be forgotten that his was the or Indian, $3.25; Limas, 14c. distinction of that greatest and mar - Honey -Extracted clover, 5 lb. tins rawest of British victories, the first 25 to 26c lb.; 10 lb. tins, 241 to 25c; .battle of Ypres. 60 ib. tins, 24 to 25c; buckwheat, 60 "In the last few months of the 1b. tins, 19 to 20c. Comb: 16 oz.,4.5war he was as infallible as the Duke doz.0 to $5, dol.; 12 oz., $3.50 to $4, of Wellington himself, and when their Maple products -Syrup, per gal., $2.25 to $2.35; sugar, ib., 27 to 28e. history comes to be properly written we shall hail this period as incom- parably the most glorious of our Provisions - Wholesale. military history. Smoked meats -Hams, medium, "Haig must share the glory with 36 to 88c; do, heavy, 30 to 32c; cook- others, but when all deductions have ed, 49 to 51c; roI.1s, 31 to 32e; break- been made enough will remain to put fast bacon, 41 to 45c; backs, plain, him among the first half dozen gen- 44 to 45c; boneless, 50 to 52e. erais this country has ever produced. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, Mistakes lie may have made, for bat - 28 to 29c' clear bellies, 27 to 28c. ties like Loos were •premature, as we Lard -Pure, tierces, 27 to 271/e; tubs, 271/4 to 28c; pails, 27% to 28%; now see in view of the amazing prints, 281/ to 29c. Compound, strength of the German positions, and tierces, 251/4 to 25%c; tubs, 253, to Passc'hendaele must always be ac - 26%.e; pails, 26 to 264c; prints 27% counted a sone of the most tragic to 27%c. passages in our history," . ,t--..,41, -.,41, ,ts .. A despatch from London says: - British avaitors are to try for a flight across the Atlantic. A secret- ly built airplane, accompanied by Harry Hawker as pilot, and Com- mander Mackenzie Grieve, Royal Navy, as navigator, has been shipped from England for St. John's, New- foundland, where at will start at the earliest possible moment in an at- tempt to win the Daisy Mail prize of £10,000 for the first mae'hine to fly across the Atlantic, The machine is a Sopwith two- seater biplane, with a 375 horse- power engine. The fusilage is boat - shaped, and will support; the machine in the water, Pilot Hawker said he believed that the flight would occupy about 191/ hours. The machine, he added, had flown 900 miles in nine hours and five minutes on one-third of its petrol capacity, and is capable of maintain- ing a speed of 100 miles an hour for 25 hours. Harry G. Hawker won the British Michelin prize for 1912 by a flight of eight hours and 23 minutes. He has made many long-distance flights along the British coast. He estab- lished a world's altitude record of 28,500 feet in 1916. "Going to the blacksmith shop to get my tin hat reblocked." FAMOUS PRINCESS PATS HAVE BEEN DISaBANDED -A despatch from Ottawa says: - The famous Princess Patricia's Can- adian Light Infantry, Canadian Ex- peditionary Force, its no more. De- mobilization has been completed, the last man being discharged and the unit disbanded. There was a touch- ing scene as Lieut. -Col. A. H. Galt, the organizer of the unit, bade the men farewell. Many of the men have left for their harries, those living .at a distance being provided with first class sleeper accommodation and tickets, in addition to generous al- lowances for meals ren route. Swiss Will Grant Asylum To Late Austrian Emperor A despatch from Geneva says: - The Swiss Government has received a formal demand from former Em- peror Charles Qf Austria requesting permission for him to live ,in Switz- erland. As the allies, through Arthur J. Balfour, the British For.. eign Secretary, when sounded on the subject recently, shade no objection to such residence, the request of Charles probably will be granted. The matter is., now, in the hands of the Political Department, Sorrry She Was Married. "And when you told him I was mar- ried," said the girl who had jilted him, 'did he seem to be sorry?" "Yes," replied the other, "he said he was very sorry -although he didn't know the man personally." e e TRAP. SEIMIME PARIS TO BAC AD Suspension Bridge to be Built Over 'the Bosphorus at Constantinople. A despatch from Paris says: -A. fast' train service from Paris to Southeastern Europe to replace the famous Orient express, it became known, was discussed at a meeting this week of diplomatic representa- tives of Great Britain., Belgium, 11 Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Rou- mania, Greece and France, under the chairmanship of Albert Claveille, French Minister of Public Works. The new route would run through the Simplon Tunnel and Milan, Venice, Triest, Agram and Belgrade. Later it would be continued to Bucharest and to Constantinople. There is under consideration the question of a suspension bridge across the Bos- phorus at Constantinople, over which connection would be made with the German -built line to Bagdad. BOY SCOUTS' CELEBRATION • v. orld-Chain of Bonllres to Celebrate the Declaration of Peace, The British Boy Scouts' Associa- tion, under the direction of Chief &out Sir Robert Baden-Powel, has inaugurated the idea of a "world - chain of bonfires" to celebrat th --•- declaration of peace. Every unit in A Tell -Tale Document for the Peace Conference. An interesting photographic bit of evidence for the Peace Confer- ence in the above photo which shows German soldiers destroying the machinery of a silk inlil owned by. N. Cattelenain, at Boussieres, / near Gambrel. the United Kingdom will light a bon- fire to blaze forth the glad tidings. The boys want to make the ce e- bration Empire -wide. The Brits Overseas Club and the Patriotic Lea- gue have communicated with over- seas branches asking all willing to co-operate to get in touch with them at Aidwych, London', England. There is talk of a boys' bonfire in every town and city in Canada, a pec- uliarly • appropriate form of celebra- tion, since this was in former cen- turies the chosen means of communi- cating great news, whether of nae tional danger or national victory. UOMMANDER FROM PALES'LINL+' HAS ARRIVED IN PARIS A despatch from Paris nays: - Gen, E. H. H. Allenby', commander of the British forces in Palestine, has arrived here from Egypt to advise the Supreme Council on Near East- ern questions. Canada's War Coit Claims Will Exceed $1,500,000,000 A despatch from. Paris says: -Can- ada has completed her war cost esti- mates for submission to the Repara- tions Commission. It is understood, according to the Reuter correspon- dent, that the ' amount will exceed $1,500,000,000. !POWER OF GERMANY DEFINITELY BROKEN ARMY OF 600,000 IMM14ILE AND LACKING IN MORALE Though Defeated, Great Part of Prussians Remain Unrepentant and Still Dream of War. It is safe to say no one lit the Brit- islr army believes Germany, in a mili- tary sense, is any longer capably- of taking the field against the Allies, says a war correspondent. Premier. Clemenceau's famous computation of the potential strength of the German army as 600,000 men was technically accurate, but those 000,000 no longer •constitute an etfeotive military ma- chine. Of the total number, three- quarters, or about 450,000, of the 1918-19 classes aro in depots and are immobile for lack of equipment. Their discipline is of - the worst. There „is' little respect for the offi- cers, who dare not attempt to enforce their authority, end apparently num- bers of the men mala no pretense. of submitting to military routine, but. live as civilians, wearing only enough uniform to enable them to present themselves .at barracks and draw ra- tions. The remaining 150,000 are re- • presented .by Hindenburg's two arm ies in the East, and these also seem ill-equipped and of questionable mor- ale, The volunteer battalions . re- cently organized were to be sent to join these -armies, bait were found to be unable to proceed from lack of greateoats, and the whole system of' ordnance, commissariat and trans- port seems disorganized. Not Genuinely Reformed. Undoubtedly a large part of the military caste still dreams of a fu- ture war which will reverse the ver- dict of this one, and it would be rash to believe any considerable part of the German people are really in their' hearts repentant and honestly re- formed. But I do not believe any- where any 'illusion exists as - to the immediate future ' r any hope of be- ing able to renew the war against the Entente. The only national enemy now is Bolshevism, of which, beond doubt, the German people as a' whole are terribly afraid. It is in the areas h occupied by Allied troops alone that any sense of secu}ity exists, KILLED ATlY RSES DEADLY PERIL OF THE HIGH SEAS FLOATING „MINE WILL MENACE SHIPS FORA LONG TIME Germens Dropped Mines in All Quarters of the Globe, in Deiianee of Plague Convention Rules. One of the regulations of the Hague Convention directs that all mines and torpedoes shall be so ad- , justed that they can never become •W - a perinailent menace to navigation. Torpedoes must carry an automatic device of such a character that, if the torpedo misses the mark, the fir- ing mechanisni,owilI become inopera- tive; and mines must be so eonstruc- ted that if they bleak loose from £'heir moorings and float to the sur- face, the fixing mechanism will cease to operate. These -obligations form part of a series of rules and regula- tions which are designed to protect non-combatant ships, both during wartime and in the peace that foie _lows a war. There is abundant evi- dence that the enemy failed to live up to these humane stipulations -a fact which is continually being brought to public attention by the less of merchant ships through con- tact with mines; in almost every quarter of the navigable seas. Charts Probably Not Accurate. One of the stipulations sof the armistice called for the full disclos- ure. by Germany of all the plans, ,charts, etc., showing the location and extent .of the areas Which she had mined during the war; and in the intervening months since the armis- tice allied mine -sweepers have been engaged in removing these obstruc- tions. In view of the disorganization of their navy during the hitter part of the war, it is doubtful if the. Ger- man Admiralty accurately charted the mined areas, . and this must be particularly true of the work done by the German submarine mine- planters, which probably had a .rov- ing commission to drop their eggs wherever the individur. command - had opportunity for undisturbed op- eration. But even if the German Admiralty as accurate charts of its own "mine fields, the complete removal of these would not mean that the seas have been rid of this deadly peril. Swift currents and heavy seas fre- quently cause the mines to break eefor., adrift from their moorings, and when this happens each mine becomes a floating menace which is more deadly t 1 s tb s Losses in 1917 in Salient Given in British Commons. In the House of Commons recently replying to a question by Mr. Ent whistle, Right Hon. Winston Church ill, British Secretary of War. stated that the total casualties of the Brit- ish, Canadian and Australian troops in the Ypres salient from July 31 to November 18, 1917, were as follows: British officers, 10,795; men, 207, 838. 917 Australian . officers,' 1,289; men, a 26,502. $ r WIRELESS 1'ELEPfONE 'TALKS FROM 1KELAND TO CANADA A despatch from London says:- The establishment of wireless tele- phony btween Ireland and Canada Chas been announced by •the Marconi Company. o navigation than any water-logged umber schooner or other derelict of the sea. The allied navies followed trictly the rules of the Hague Cone ention and when allied mines broke adrift, or torpedoes went astray, ecame, or were designed to become innocuous. The ruthless mehods of ea warfare followed by the enemy Canadian officers, 496; men, 11,- included a total neglect of this pre- caution, with the result that heaven lone knows how many mines _are oating on the surfec of the sea that equire only a touch from a passing ship to detonate them. CANADA'S POPULATION:. 8,835,000 A despatch from Ottawa, Ont., says: -Canada's estimated popula- tion, as given in the Commons, is 8,835,000. The census of 1911 show- ed '7,206,643. The House of Life. Brief dweller in a world of strife, Unfriended and alone, I fain would build my house of life With love for corner -stone. So love shall make my house secure For shelter and for rest; Love bringeth pleasures that endure And many a cheerful guest. And thus my house of life shall be More blest than tongue can tell: 'Tis builded for eternity And Christ in it shall dwell. 43, Fifty years ago the acreage under hops in Britain was 70,000 acres, in 1916 it was 31,000 acres, last year about 15,000. 410LLY NE PHONED rMAw41E EN Y11gE5 SHE HASN'T ZEEN h14Mi: ALL OA`t lee SNEAK s:OME rsN' WHEN 5HE CoiET3 lie ,'LL TELL HER 1 HAVEta'•T fSeEti CUT ALL reel I'T'5 AFTER 5IX L NOW,iiLi, 71EYEraD 1M MAD 61y.CAUSE • 'i .tiE' 01, �AT>r r, m l 7 {: .. eu aC1T-3EnTei- 173E) 3E11,134.YIXE X$ SAY. IVE leEnne wet -nee' FERTWO H0tA'S FER ME SUPPER - HAv1;N'i ZEEN UT LL /"(. ?244 \IN ',wee I AM U, -THE HO415E ALL OM STARvtN' WHILE ''NoUteE OUT GACKLmN4 t'M G01 TO AUT MY " soot' New rld j `SAY• ITS AsaoUT '1'►MB OMI. ONE, SHOWED UP HERE,' ei Ehj HERE F1FT8tity1-91:11Vd „J riM� = 4. . Keep a Sharp Outlook. For these reasons we think that for some time to come shipping should continue to use the protective mea- sures which proved so effective dur ing the war, particularly when they are passng through waters such as those lying off our own coast and those of Europe where the enemy mike -layers were most active during the war. Many merchant skippers are alive to the danger and are act- ing accordingly. The captain of a freight ship informs us that, once clear of the harbor entrance of an American port, he throws overboard hie paravanes and does not take them in until he is well out to sea; and that, on approach;'ng his Euro- pean port, or destination, he makes a point of dropping them overboard again. How long the peril will con- tinue cannot be 'conjectured; but. it will be remembered that over a after the close of the Russo-Japanese war la mero'hant ship was sunk in the eastern waters of the Pacific by a mine which lead broken adrift during or subsequently to the naval opera- tions of the war. Fier a long time to come it will be the duty of the. watch to keep a sharp outlook for this deadly peril of the sea. A Camouflaged Will. An old fellow, on his deathbed, in making his . will, .,,murmured to his lawyer: "And to each of my employ- es who have been with me twenty years or more I bequeath $10,000." "hloly smoke! What generosity!" the lawyer exclaimed. "No, not ,at all," said the sick man. "You isee, none of them have been with me over a year; but it will look good in the papers, won't it?" Everybody's Living Longer Now. Average lifetime has boon increased three years by sanitation and science; and the longevity of a suit 01 clothes has been increased three years by the war, Start the pendulum. No rise to wind the clock and kayo the perdu- lam tihnghig straight clown. t: Live every morns'ig a right start by hav- ing things planned out right before you begin.