HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1921-1-6, Page 7FltIMESTRUGGLE COMES TO AN END
POET SOLDIER RETIRES FROM FIELD
D'Annunzio Gives Up Fight, Leaving City by Airplane -
Disbandment of His Legionaries and a General
Amnesty Part of the Bargain.
A despatch front Rome says; -a.
D'Annunzio has issued a proclamation
declaring that it is not 'worth while
dying for Italy Ho said he was leav-
ing Fiume by airplane.
This was semi -officially announced
ifaere on Wednesday afternoon, to-
gether with the announcement that',
the Fiume agreement may be regard -
sal as concluded,
Settlement of the Fiume question.
based on Ia.-cognition of the Treaty,
of Rapala), disbandment of D'Aenun-'.
zio's legionaries and Baa general aro-
zesty was expected following receipt..
of late advices from the °blockaded'
area.
The suspension of hostilities, pre
vioesly ordered, has been prolonged.
Negotiations for surrender are pro-
ceeding with the "Municipal Council
of Fiume, to which D'Annunzio has
ceded his power,
A description of the last phases gat
the struggle in Fiume, received here,
shows that the legionaries reopened
fire against the troops w'ho were
merely holding the positions they had'
taken ,Monday night.
The fight assumed the eliaxaaAter of
guerrilla warfare all along the line.
The legionaries took advantage of the
natural resources of the terrain; for
laying ambuscades.
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A& the regulars were advancing
across orchards they were enveloped
by Are from seaebin.,e guns which bad
been sunk to the level of the ground
and cleverly camouflaged,
The housed .seetned to have been
abandoned, but when the troops ap-
proached, the legionaries, hidden
behind windows, behind ehimney
stacks and on balconies and roofs,
suddenly opened Are. Even women
were fatted working machine guns.
The gravest losses were inflicted by'.
hand grenades, whi& were used so.
freely as to give the impression that
they must have been accumulated by
scores of thousands. It would have
been an easy natter to ..get the better
of the legionaries by employing artil-
lery, but the military authorities re-
fused such xeeourse, except against
military ;buildings.
The legionaries ultimately tried to
force the regular to retreat ht order
to relieve pxessure on the city,but
failed_:. owing to the stubborn resist-
ance, especially of the Garabineers
and Alpine troops, who fought eouure
ageously ter snare then three Ileum.:
The points where the struggle was
the bitterest, near the railway staboai,.
and inside the Fiume cemetery, were
virtually destroyed.
Returning Loot
to Ravaged. Louvain
A despatch froxz London says:
In connection with the fund
for restoration of the University
of Louvain, it is announced that
Germany had begun to return
loot from the library oaf the pil-
laged institution under the re-
parations clause of the Treaty of
Versailles.
One carload of hooks made up
the first consignment and ship-
ments arc expected monthly, but
the restoration cannot be ' com-
plete, owing to the amount of
treasures destroyed when Lou-
vain was taken,
Sola His Electrical Interests.
Sir 'William Mackezisie, the Toronto
Electric Kuibht, who has disposed of
bis plants at Niagara falls, for a sum
of $32,735,000 to the Ontario Hydro
asaeetrle Commission. The deal was
negotiated by Sir ;Edam Beak and. =-
summated by Sir William by cable
from England, whore he was on. a pri-
vate mission.
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235 Census Commissioners
to be Appointed
A despatch from Ottawa says;
I'sarly in 1921 there will be appointed
235 Census C.omn►iseioners, one for
earls Federal constituency,
These in turn will appoint the 13,-
000 enumerators necessary to find out
bow many people of all sexes, colors,
ages, nationalities and creeds live in
the Dominion.
The whole thing will cost $1,700,-
1)00, and the .census -taking begins
June 1.
KING GEORGE WILL
VISIT VERDUN
Much. Diplomatic Significance
Attached to January Tour.
O France.
A despatch front London soy -s:-
The Franco -British diplomatic world
is much 'interested in the French visit
of King George in January. It is in-
tended to make this occasion an im-
posing demonstration of France's cor-
diality toward the British understand-
ing.
High circles here attach consider-
able significance to the visit as bear-
ing on the future relations between!
the two countries, and expect an im-
portant announcement during it.
It is stated the King will visit Ver-
dun at his own suggestion. ' This ap-
peals particularly to the imagination
of the French, who regard the region
as symbolical of the heroic effort of
the French army during the war. The
King's stop in Paris itself will be,
short.
OUTLOOK IN CANADA BRIGHT,
SAYS SIR GEORGE FOSTER
A despatch from London says: -
After two months' stay and observa-
tion in Europe my appreciation of
Cenada'•s conditions and opportunities
3s greatly strengthened, said air Geo.
Foster in a recent speech. In lighter
burdens of taxation, greaten freedom
from privation and •a ant, fuller op-
portunities for individual effort and
betterment, more hopeful outlook for
the future, a less obtrusive back-
ground of war casualties and suffer-
ing, all contrast wonderfully in Can-
ada's favor.
With disordered credit, inflated fin-
ances, confused and unstable •exchang
es,, the :economic situation for Europe
certainlyis growing no ihetter. Pres-
ent living conditions are almost intol-
erable, and the future is distressingly
uncertain for the nations. of Europe.
The reaping will be a full, sad bar
vest of the seeds sown by war.
Canadians have burdens and diffi-
culties not comparable with those in
Europe. We shall overcome them
much more easily and earlierthan can
other countries. A little later we shall.
receive great contributions of the
very .best Europeanimmigration now
looking anxiously for freer areas. It.
only remains to set our house in order
for the large, development which is
certain to come to us. To all Can-
adians, then, courage, hope and the
best wishes for the New Year.
Stats of.
Michieon
ONTARIO'S CREAT POWER SYSTEM
With the aec#utretnent of the Mackenzie electric power boldiega in Ontario by lite Hydro Electric Commission,
the people of the province will own the greatest eleetrie power system In the world. The .above rzlap shows the
ramifications of the hydro system and its great developmeat ii. the last few pears.
A Review of .the Year 1920
Jan. 1.0 -.--Exchange of pace ratiacat'ons by Ger ay anal fcairtecn Alkieci
Powere.
3.3 ---blob storms Reiehetag•, forty-two killed.
1.6 ---First meeting of Conned of League of Nations In Paris.
1a -Alexander Millerand becomes French Premier,
20 -Red uprisings' in Italy.
Feb. 17 Trial of Joseph Cailaux, former French Premier.
a8 Bolahevikt consolidate northern Russia.
,.5-Iriaih Home Rule, providing dtml Howe; introduced in Part anent.
2(i-Pnznce of Wales- lays cernerstono of new Australian Gapttol.
Mar. $ Wentaara suffrage in Couimnnal,eleetions veted in Belgium.
et.. -Silva becomes Premier of Portugal.
10 -Lout Mayor of Cork, McCurtain, essass ,hated.
13 --Revolution of Junkers in Gertnany,
28 -General strike ordered in Belgium.
April aa -Sir Hamar 'Greenwood appointed Irish Chief Secretary.
18 -Powers demand disarmainent of Germany.
25 ----Turkey carved by the Powers.
May 7-Garranze flees from Mexican capital.
20-Carranza murdered by ileitxera,
June 4 --Hungary signs treaty of Versailles,
16•---Giolitti succeeds Nitti as Italian Premier
24--Ledislaw Grabaki made Palisia, Premier.
July 12 ---Lithuania signs peace with Russia.
12---Liteia makes peace 'with Russia.
12 -Latvia snakes peace with Russia.
15 --Japan 'occupies island, of Saghalien.
16-'-Civli war renewed in China.
31, Reichstag abolishes compulsory military service.
Aug. 13---Tercmee alaoSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, begiins hunger strike.
1St -Armistice between Poland and Soviet Russia,
Sept. 9--D'Annunzio declares Fiume's independence.
28-Millerand elected President of France.
Oct. 2-W. B. 'Vanderlip obtains vast conceesions froth Levine.
8•--A.greenient between Egyptian Nationalists and Larcl Milner"s
Mission.
25 -Terence MacSwiney dies.
26 --Poles and Russians negotiate a peace.
Nov. 12 --Italy and Jugo-Slavia conclude negotiations.
14 -General Wrangel defeated by the Reds.
16 -Paul Hymans made permanent president of League of Nations.
22 -President Wilson accepts responsibility in Armenia.
Dee 1 -Obregon inaugurated President of Mexico.
11 --City of Cork set afire; damage $20,000,000.
15 -Bulgaria and Austria admitted to the League of Nations.
PAYS 65,000,000 MARTS
FOR SLESVIG
Denmark. Fulfils Conditions of
Annexation of German.
Province.
A despatch from Paris says: -Den-
mark made a payment of 65,000,000
gold marks to the Reparations Com-
mission on Christmas Day in fulfill-
ment of conditions of the annexation
of Slesvig, as enumerated by the Ver-
cailles Treaty.
This payment, according to an-
nouncement made here, represents
Slesvig's portion of the German Em-
pire's debt at the beginning of the
world war, her part of the Prussian
State debt and the value of German
public property taken over by Den-
mark.
Germany has been given credit for
the entire sum es a part oilier war
indemnity.
Giant Airship to . .
Carry 1,000 Passengers
A despatch from Petrograd says: -
A special committee of experts has ap-
proved Maehonin's 'plans for a giant
passenger dirigible, which will have
motors of a total of 24,000 horsepower,
and a lifting capacity of 2,200,000
pounds. The passenger cabins will be
arranged in several tiers and the sev-
eral tiers connected by an electrically
operated elevator. An airplane, auto-
mobile and motor boat will be carried
on board the dirigible, which will ac-
commodate 1,000 passengers. It will
develop a speed of more than sixty
miles an hour.
To save a penny is harder than it
is to earn it.
London's, Lost Opportunity'.
If certain plans, which are still la
existence, had been carried out, Loa
don to -day would have been one of the
model cities of the world, says a Lon.
don paper.
No sooner had the Great Fire of
London, in 1666, destroyed the City
than Sir Christopher Wren, the fam-
ous architect of St. Paul's, prepared a
set of plans for the rebuilding of the
GUY on an undreamt scale of grandeur
and utility. As ever, private and vest-
ed interests prevented their adoption,
and the narrow alleys or deet Street
and the close -packed buildings of the
City area of to -day, which we are
laboriously, and at immense cost, try-
ing to improve or eradicate, are the
ghastly result.
Wren proposed to build a main
thoroughfare ninety feet wide, to in-
sulate all the churches in conspicuous
positions, as the two churches in the
centre of the Strand are insulated to-
day, form large piazzas on and under
which the public could walk in sun-
shine and shower, and group all the
stately City Halls of the Companies
and Guilds is a handsome square an-
nexed to the Guildhall.
Finally, a fine quay was to occupy
the bank of the river from Blackfriars
to the Tower -the first idea of a
Thames Embankment -to be flanked
by noble buildings, and crowned with
the great cathedral. Perhaps this
scheme was too ambitious for the
times; but it is hard to forgive our
ancestors for preferring to muddle
through anyhow,
In. Norway there are practically no
21literates. ''
Take care that, the face which looks
out 'from your mirror in the morning
is a pleasant face. You may, not see
it again all day, but 'others will.
Confectionery Manufacturers
Urge Removal of Tax
A despatch from Ottawa says.,
delegation of confectionery
manufacturers interviewed the
Minister of Finance on Thursday
afternoon to urge the removal.
of the luxury tax on all binds of
candy. At the present time,
only the cheaper kinds are
exempt.
Sir Henry Drayton, Minister
of Finance, promised full eon-
•sideration to the delegation's re-
presentations.
RAILWAYS
IRISHRESUME OPERATION !
Are Carrying Armed Forces
of the Crown ---Raids
in Dublin.
A despatch from Dublin says: -Ford
the ergs time in reontlis armed Crown
force travelled an Wednesday on a
train which left the King's Bridge
Station, the Dublin terminus of the
Great Southern d: Western Railway.
Ail the employees of the railway
have returned to work.
The military on Wednesday made
extensive raids and searches of resi-
dences and business establishments
throughout Dublin. Iii Rutland. Square
alone ilve hundred soldiers made a
house-to-house inspection, and, about
as score of young men were arrested.
TRADE INCREASED
BY 464 MILLIONS
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Show Growth in Imports
From Great Britain.
A despatch from Ottawa nays: Aa
increa ae. of approximately $464,000,000
in the total trade afC,anada for the 12
smalls ending November 30 last, as
cmoored with the 3:2 -month period
immediately preceding, is shown by
the monthly summary prepared and
issued by the I?oruinimn Bureau ,of
Statistles. The feature .of the sum-
mary is the great increase in the
total value of goods imported: into'
Canada. For the 12 ,months aalrfa.ed
by the summary, imports into Canada
totalled approximately 1,845,000,000,
as compared with 920,000,000 in 1919,.
er au increase )f 425,000,000.
Tato Dominion is increasing its ime
porta-Von, front the Mother Country
with groat rapidity. In the 12 months
ending November 30 imports from.
the United Eiaagdeui were to the value
of $228,925,844,, a$ eoznparted; with. $84,..
638,900 in 1919. Iinporta from Cath,
jumped from $10,000,000 to $34,000,000
in value during the year
Inipartntien from the United States;
aippareratly shows no sign of decrees -
g, During the period under review,
lnnports from that country =muted,
to $927,064,711, as cempar€a with.
$726,968,653 in 1919.
The value of Canadian produce ex.
ported to the United Kingdon in the
12 months ending November 80 was
appraimately 160,000,000 Tess than in
the preceding 12 months. In the Per-
iod covered by to swore ry, goods
valued at $352,0B3,388 were exported
to the United Kingdom froze Canada.
In the corresponding period in 1918,
goods worth $614,012,960 were export-
ed. Exports to France showa decline
of some $22,000,000, and to the United
States an increase of somewhat over
$100,000,009, the Agues for the latter
country being; 1919, ;143,416,125;
1920, $545,283,865.
How completely we have lost the
arts of seamansbip as it was Tray
tired in days of square-rigge l ships
and hemp c.ablesl The livitish Ad-
miralty, which has unc;erteken to re.
store the Victory, Nelson's flagship;
can find scarcely a man in all the navy
who knows enough about handling
marlinspika to work eyes and splices
in the sikineh manila cables that are
to form part of her standing rigging.
Sailors who have been in the service
for forty years, however competent
they may be to handle wire cables,
leave enough "Irish pennants" in man-
ila to disgrace forever a '"bos'n" of
the old days.
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,M Weekly Market Re rt
8 Toronto. Smoked meats --Hanes, med., 39 to
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, 41c; heavy, 38 to 400; cooked; 55 to
31.96%; No. 2 Northern, $1,931: No. 580; rolls, 33 to 35e; cottage rolls, 37
3 Nortern, V.89%; No. 4 wheat, to 39c; breakfast bacon, 45 to 49e;
$1,06. fancy breakfast bacon, 53 to 56c;
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 65zra,C; backs. plain,'bone in, 49 to 510; bone -
No. 3 CW, 523.X; extra No, 1 feed, less, 55 to 690.
5214e; No. 1 feed, 6014,e; No. 2 feed, Cured meats --Long clear bacon, 27
47144. to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c.
Manitoba barley No. 8 , �W, 89c Lard: Pure, tierces, 25,to 26c; tubs,
No. 4 CW, 84a; rejected, 65c; ed, 65 26 to Mae; pails, 26 ,�, to 26%;
Ail of file above in store zit Fort prints, 28 to 29c. Compound. tierces
William. 17 to 180 tubs, 171 to 18.1�c; pails,
American corn --$1.15, nominal, 18% to 2d0; prints, 21 to 22e.
track, Taranto, prompt shipment. Choice heavy steers,, $11 to $12;
Ontario Dais -No. 2 white, 50 to c. good heavy steers, $10.50, to '$ll;
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, 31.85 butchers' cattle, choice, $9.50 to 310;
to 31.90 per ear lot;! No. 2 'Spring, do good,om5 to 9; do, butchers'sdbul6 tols,
$1.80 to $1.85, tipping points, ac c'iitice,. $8 io $9.50• do, good, $ to $8;
cording to freight.
Peas -No. 2, nominal, $1.75 to $1.80. do, cam., $5 to $6; butchers cows.
choice,$7.50 to $8.50; do, good, $6.25
freights
outside. Barley-85to 90c,according -Ito 7 do, come $4 to $5; feeders, best,
,s $9 to $10; do, 900 lbs., $8.50 to $9.50;
Buckwheat --No. 3, 31 to $1,05, nom-
Ina
om- do, 804 lbs., $'7.70' to $8.25; do, cam.,
final. $5.25 to $6.2o; canners and cutters, $3
Rye -No. 8, $1.50 to $1.55, nominal, to $4.50; milkers, good to choice, $700
according to freights outside. to $165; do, corn. to med., $65 to $75;
Manitoba flour -$11.10, top patents; iambs, yearlings, $9 to $9.50, do,
$10.60, Government standard. spring, $12 to 313, calves, good to
Ontario flour -$7.75, bulk seaboard. voice, $15 to 317; sheep, 35 to $6;.
Millfeed-Oar lots, delivered. Mont-
real freights, bags included;. Bran, per wet bed off cars $17; d6' L.ob.,
ton, $38 to '$40; shorts, per ton, $42;315.75; do, country points, $15.25 to
gaol feed flour, $2.75 to $3. $15.50.
Eggs -new -laid, cartons, 90 to 95c; Montreal.
selects, 78 to 80e; lea. 1, 75 to 77c.
Butter Creamery prints, 54 to 57c; Oats -Gan. West. No. 2, 7232c; do,
fresh -made, 58 to 60c; bakers', 35 to No. 3, 69 ee c. Flour -Man. Spring
40c. Oleomargarine -best grade, 33 wheat patents, firsts, $11.10. Rolled
to 35e. Cheese -new, large, 27 to oats -Bag of 90 Ibs., 33.80. Bran
2732c; twat's, 2.7% to 28c; old, large, $40.25. Shorts= -$42.25. Hay -Na. 2,°
29 to 32c. Maple syrup -one -gal. tins, per ton, car lots, $30 to $31.
33.50; maple sugar, Th., 27 to 30e. Qhesse-F7nest easterns, 24% to
Honey, Extracted -white clover, in 60- 25c. Butter -Choicest ereanery, 51
1•b. and 30-11.b. tins, per lb. 24 to- 25c;
do, 10-1b. tins, per lb., 25 to 26c; On-
tario No. 1 white clover, in 24 and 5 -
lb. tins, per :.lb., 27c. Churning
Cream-Toronte creameries are pay-
ing for churning cream 58c per lb. fat,
f.o.b. shipping points, nominal.
to 52c. Eggs -Fresh, 75c. Potatoes-
Per bag, car lots, 31.55 to $1.60.
Canners, $3.25; cutters, $4 to 34.50;,
small bulls and yearlings, 35 to $6.50;.
grass calves,' $4.50 to 35; good lambs,
312 to $18; sheep,A 35 to $6; hogs,
selects, $18; sows, $ _ less than seects.
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