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
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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 -
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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,"
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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,
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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-
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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
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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. $
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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.
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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.
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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.