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SERUM FOR PREVENTION OF FOOT
AND mom DISEASE FOUND
Impossible at the Present 'Time to Manufacture the Serum in
Sufficient Quantities to Inoculate All Cattle
Against Plague. .
A despatch from Paris of which there is only enough to in,
serum for the prevention of foot and oculato the prize cattle and valuable
mouth disease has been discovered by. "'heels of the world,
Prof. Vallee; who is attached to the
a eenunission of French experts, but Alfort Governmental Agricultural
it is impossible at the present time to School 'Laboratory, discussing the dis-
manufacture the serum in sufficient ease, said that the microbe was in-
quantities to inoculate all cattle) visible wider the microscope, it being
against the plague. The commission so infinitesimal that it passes throughis composed of Professors Roux, No -I porcelain° filters, which have hereto -
coed, Caree and, Vallee, which was fore retained all known microbes. The
formed at the request of Parliament, virus used in the manufacture of the
and will submit its report to the 11'iin- serum can bo obtained only from the'
Wry of Agriculture shortly, diseased parts of affected animals,
Attentiin is now being given to in- namely, the mouth andfeet, and thus
creasing the production of the serum, very small quantities are available.
ONE PERSON KILLED,
SIX WOUNDED
Mysterious Shooting Affair
Near O'Connell Bridge,
in Dublin.
A despatch from Dublin says: A
mystereous shooting affair occurred
near the O'Connell Bridge in Dublin
on Thursday afternoon. A detach-
ment of soldiers was stationed at this
place, but it is declared the soldiers
did not fire.
Seven casualties resulted, one girl
being killed, one boy probably mor-
tally wounded and five other persons
wounded. Witness say that a crowd
had gathered to watch the soldiers
stopping automobiles, and that it was
when the military was leaving that
a single shot was fired, which wrought
the havoc.
How the discharge of one rifle could
have caused so many casualties is not
to be explained, but the shooting was
witnessed by three British newspaper-
men,' one of whom declares he nar-
rowly escaped the bullet. A civilian,
James O'Reilly, asserts that he saw
the shot fired -from a lorry, but be-
lieves it to` have been accidental.
"After the shot was fired," added
O'Reilly, "1 saw a Corporal in the
lorry go up to each soldier and feel
his rifle, apparently to ascertain
whether the barrel was warm. I saw
him nod when he felt the rifle of the
second man on the left of the driver."
Proclamations have been extensive-
ly posted in and around Longford, de-
claring the county has been included
in the area of martial law. This is
probably due to the recent murder of
District Inspector McGrath. Long-
ford town is ,not affected.
A despatch from Limerick says: -
A number of members of the Con-
stabulary from Ennis were ambushed
on Thursday near Cratloe, County
Clare. A volley was fired into their
lorry from both sides of the road.
A sergeant and one constable were
killed. The attacking party escaped.
A despatch from Belfast says: -A
7 postman from Crossmaglen, South
Armagh, and an escort of police on
bicycles were fired on Thursday morn-
ing from a vacant house at the -road-
side near Cullyhanna, where the post-
man was conveying the mails and old
age pension money. The postman and
one -constable were wounded, the post-
man seriously. The police returned
the fire, and the fighting was kept up
for some time.
CO-OPERATIVE WHEAT
POOL IN THE WEST
•
Fanners Approve Plan to
Handle Western Grain.
A despatch from Brandon, Man.,
says: -Formation of a co-operative
pool to handle the grain products of
the three Prairie Provinces was ap-
proved by the annual convention of
the United Farmers of Manitoba here
on Thursday.
J. R. Murray, assistant general
manager of the United Grain Grow-
ers' Co., Limited, explained the draft
agreement and impressed on the dele-
gates the necessity of co-operation
between the three provinces, Mani-
toba, Alberta, Saskatchewan. No one
of these, he said, could alone control
the export of wheat. He also impres-
sed on the convention that although
all advice from Provincial or Domin-
ion e
omin-ion• sources should be considered, that
the farmers themselves should do the
planning and have the managing of
any plan to market the. crops.
Focus of Empire and
Chief in North America
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A despatch from London says: -
Ellis Powell, Editor of The Financial
News, speaking on Canada before the
Colonial Institute, expressed the can-
viction that Canada, and not the Un-
ited
rn
ited States, was destined to dominate
the future of the whole North Am-
erican continent, because she would
overcome her climatic difficulties and
her sparseness of population and be-
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lee Famine Prevails in Iceland
Educate Ontario's Youth.
A despatch from London says:
—For the first time on record an
anomalous situation is reported
—there is an ice famine in Ice-
land• Cablegrams from Reykja-
vik, the capital of the country,
make an appeal to Norway to
rush shipments of ice to Iceland
in order to save the herring har-
vest from putrefaction.
The famine is due to the mild
Winter and a dearth of a local
supply. Iceland is sharing with
other parts of the world unusual
and abnormal Winter weather
conditions.
3,000 TORONTO
FAMILIES ASSISTED
Increase of 100 Cases Per Day
Since Beginning of Year.
A despatch from Toronto says: -
More than 3,000 families are now re-
•
ze
•
THE CHEFS AND THE HUNGRY BOY
increase Ontario's Educational
Facilities.
In any consideration of the problem
of higher education which is to come
before the Legislature at its next
session the fact must not be over-
looked that Ontario, the banner prov-
ince of the Dominion, cannot be con-
tent with educational falilities in-
ferior to those of the United States.
I Compare, educationally, the Prov-
ince of Ontario with the State of
Michigan. Michigan's population is
about three-quarters of a million
larger than Ontario's. Its total an-
nual budget is about $28,000,000; On-
tario's is about $81,000,000. Of that
budget Michigan spends 38 per cent.
on education while Ontario spends
only 20 per cent. of its budget. Mich-
igan's State University asks for
buildings for the next six years just
four tunes the amount that Ontario's
Provincial University asks. For an-
nual maintenance Michigan's Univer-
sity asks rather more than twice what
Ontario's University asks.
Education is one of the chief bul-
warks of civilization. A country's
chief asset is the quality of its peo-
ple. Money spent on education is
never wasted.
calving assistance from the city. The
exact figures issued on Thursday
morning by the Department of Medi-
cal Health, through officials in charge-
of the relief work, were 3,007, and
during the day there were added to
this 117 applications from men who
had not been forced until, then
to apply to the city.
"During the smallpox epidemic last
year we found the average size of the
fancily provisioned by the department
was five. Thus, the number of the in-
dividuals who are being taken care of
at the present time in this branch of
the work is over 15,000," said Miss
Dyke, nurse in charge.
While families are being stricken
from the lists daily, when the head
secures employment, it has been found
the daily increase since the :begin-
ning of the year of fresh cases has
not been less than 100..
A steady increase in the number of
single men receiving relief was also
noted on Thursday. At the beginning
of the year the number of these cases'
totalled 1,100. The applications on
Thursday were higher than at any
time since relief was distributld, and
numbered 1,705. This, in spite of the
increasing vigilance.. of the officials
of the bureau in the Krausmann Hotel,
who are daily .striking off doubtful
cases, rejecting men who float in
from other points and sending juven-
iles to theft• homes.
Former Newspaper Woman's Great
Work -Overseas.
Mrs. J. C. Mulagon, one-time owner of
the Vancouver world, who has just
returned from France, where she as-
'sdsted in the work of reconstruction
in the devastated area -hl the Citry-
en-Artois-known as the Daughters of
the Empire sector. The work, which
was established by Capt, Julia Hen-
shaw, of Vancouver, was carried on al-
most entirely by English women, and
when the work closed Mrs. Melagan's
daughter was the only Canadian there,
The money expended in bhe sector was
Resigns His Post.
Lord Milner, whose resignation from
the office of Colonial Secretary has
just been announced.
•
Reading as Viceroy.
Those who seconded the efforts of
Lord Reading as the Lord• Chief Jus-
tice of England and special Ambas-
sador to the United States to bring
about the best of good will between
the English-speaking peoples will wish
him well in his new office as Viceroy
of India. That the position, with all
its glory and its historic prestige and
the gorgeousness of the purple East,
of the "land of Orntus and the Ind,"
is no bed of roses no one knows better
than Lord Reading. If Ireland be a
problem to England, there are those
inside ofeelndia and outside who would
make India the Ireland of the East
and pursue the same' uncompromising
course to get that "pacific revolution"
without which they claim there can be
neither happiness nor stability for the
people or the country. "Indian unrest"
may not seem to be so startling a
phrase in these days, when unrest is
the common lot of nations everywhere,
as it was ben years ago. But the un-
rest in India has all that peculiar
racial and fanatical quality which
snakes reasonable discussion almost
impossible; and any sympathetic effort
on the part of the most enlightened
of the Anglo-Indian officials to meet
it is an extremely difficult thing.
Yet, while any prophecy in the face
of a fanaticism which has attempted
to arouse the Mohammedans of India
against the English on account of
their overthrow of Tuckey, as well as
to keep the Hindus in a continual state
A Letter Fro London
Xing* George is si i:mn of simple
tastes, IL's breakfast cunslats uass
silly of dry toi.st and utevntstlado, with
er while
a new laid eel; or a k111•p
hie Lavoro le leach is a filleted sole rill
et lamb outlet,
• A M • i
Queen Mary's tiered breakfast con-
sists of porridge and milk, eofi'ee, and
bread and jam. She is` feed of cold
mutton for lunch, anti prefers fish and,
poultry or roast lamb for dinner,
Y 4 $ •
An expert in furs tells me that
there are no finer' fare in existence
than those owned 'by Queen Alex-
andra, which she wore on all State
occasions diming' Ring Edward's life-
.time.
ife-.time. They were presented to her by
the Emperor Alexander of Russia as
a silver -wedding gift.
• * * •
If you station yourself somewhere
between York House and Buckingham
Palace early in the morning you will
see an unconventionally clad figure
bowl' by in a taxi -cab. It is the Prince
of Wales, taking his daily journey
along a royal road to health.
The Prince- is up with the York
House lark at 7 a.m. He pulls on a
pair of grey trousers and a white
sweater. A taxi -cab is called, and he
hies himself to the gardens of Buck-
ingham Palace. Then follows a half-
hour's vigorous spin round the gar-
dens. Another taxi -cab is hailed, and
the Prince returns to breakfast. The
decks of H.M.S. Renown provided a
sprinting ground for the Prince dur-
ing the voyage to Australia.
► • * • •
Princess Maryt intends to blossom
out as a motorist next spring. At
present her Royal Highness owns no
car of her own. The Queen has been
rather doubtful of the wisdom of let-
ting young girls have control at the
wheel, but so many of Princess Mary's
friends drive their own cars that It
has been a difficult matter to refuse
a much -repeated petition.
• • • • •
Queen Alexandra, I am told, has
never thrown away a single hat or
bonnet she has worn since the first
days when she was Princess of Wales.
Each one ds carefully put away bear-
ing the date of its use, and they forni
a remarkable collgetion illustrating
the vagaries of,fashion. - -
• * * * •
There its an ex -Guardsman in Syd-
ney who used to be a sentry at Buck-
.ingham Palace, and remembers" the
Prince of Wales as a young imp who
periodically conspired with his- ulster
to disarray the sentry's dignity and
This was evidenced, in that the most
fanatical of all those who have stood
for "India for the Indians," Mr. Gandy,
who- is revered as a. Hindu saint as
well as a political leader, has shown'
signs recently of not being so sure of
securing home rule in a year by stir -1
ring up the whole country to a flat
refusal to pay any attention to British
rule or to fulfill their civil or political
obligations to the Indian Government.
However, this supposed reaction
against Gandaism, which has a touch
of compromise in it, may not last long.
Lord Reading will probably find that
he .has his work cut out for him in
India if he es to overcome the preach-
ing of Mr. Gandy. For the -saint is
against all western civilization,' and
would go back to the primitive ways'
of prehistoric India through the simple
process of having every one give up
and refuse to live up to all the mod-
ernisms, social and sanitary, that have
come to India as a result of British
rule.
NO EVIDENCE OF
CANCER CURE
Academy gf Medicine Reports
on Glover Serum.
A despatch from Toronto says: -In
the interim report of the special com-
mittee appointed by the Council of the
Academy of Medicine to report on the
cancer serum of Dr. T. J. Glover, which
was handed out on Thursday night,
it is pointed out that there is no evi-
dence to warrant the hope that a spe-
cific cure for cancer has been dis-
covered by Dr. Glover, or that any
cure has ever been produced by the
Glover serum in any disease which
had been -definitely established as can-
cer. After referring to the claims
which have been advanced for the
serum, and after referring to the his-
?ory of some cases, the report goes .on
to state that in many cases of cancer,
whether the disease was in either a
mild or an advanced stage, the pro-
gress of the patient has been steadily
downward in spite of the use of the
Glover serum and that the course of
the cases is apparently influenced by
the use of this serum. The special
committee also draw attention to the
fact that their work was greatly
handicapped by Dr. Glover's refusal to
permit them to visit his laboratories
or to examine his cutures. They fur-
ther state that the doctor would not
demonstrate to them his ability to
cultivate cancer cells and organisers,
as Ire has claimed he is able to do,
and that he also declined to show
that he was able to produce cancer
by inoculation, or that he could im-
munize animals against the disease.
While feeling that the results of
their investigations were very unsat-
isfactory, the Council have expressed
their willingness to investigate furth-
er if Dr. Glover is ready to aid them
by supplying data which is now lack-
ing with regard to his cases.
uniform -the traits of which were re-
curring penalties Lor. "untidiness," for
which no excuses were accepted, One
day ,the exasperated Guardsman
seized the heir -apparent and sssacked
hint where u Prince is just as sensitive
as any other boy. Then he waited for
the death -sentence, or whatever was
to follow, hut nothing came except a
cessation of pranks. Either the Prince
played the game and kept quiet, or a
higher authority in • the Royal house-
hold decided that he had merely col-
lected something that was due to �tuini•
•
* • • •
A deal of nonsense has' been written
regarding the preparation of the
Prince of Wales' speeches. The truth
is that the Prince prepares bis public
utterances without assistance of any
kind. He writes them out first, cons
them carefully, and then learns them
by heart,
•' • '• '. • •
The vast difference in the person
abides of the Prince. of Wales and .the
Duke of York has been much com-
mented upon. The brothers are dis-
similar in almost every respect, par-
ticularly so in regard to speech mak-
ing.
The Duke reads his remarks from a
Blip which be holds in hie right hand,
while the Prince forges right ahead,
with never a glance at the few notes
he has jotted down in case of acci-
dents..
• • • • •
The new Lord Mayor of London can
claim many privileges. Within hie
own city he takes precedence •over
members of the Royal Family. When
George IV., as Prince of Wales, tried
to overrido this rule in St. Paul's
Cathedral the Lord Mayor withstood
him to his face, and subsequently got
the King's approval of his action and
a confirmation of hie status. The Lord
Mayor, though not a' Privy- Council-
lor, attends the meeting of the Coun-
cil summoned at the death of the mon-
arch, but he is expected to retire atter
the new Sovereign has been proclaim-
ed.
• • • • •
It is a curious fact that Lord Kit-
chener, when he visited Broome Park,
near Canterbury, which is now adver-
tised to be let 'Ica a term cf years,"
never actually slept in the house. It
is true that alterations were being
made, but Lord Kitchener had a bed
in the lodge. He had a sort of super-
stition about the house. He even
mentioned to someone that though he
possessed a country house he -Would
never be spared to live in it --BIG
BEN.
Newspaper Man Becomes
Lieut. -Governor.
Walter Cameron Moho], who has been
appointed to succeed the late Lieut.-
Governor
ieut:
Governor Prior of British Columbia.
He is Editor and Proprietor of the
Province, Vancouver.
The memories of such heroines of
gentle charity who spend their days
hanging sweet pictures in the silent
galleries of sunless lives shall never
perish from the earth.
The. Privy Council is a committee of
the Imperial, or British Parliament,
the highest court in the Empire, to
which appeals may be made from the
Supreme Court of Canada and other
Cover the brine of art opened bottle overseas Dominions. Its members are
of olives and it will not mould. called Law Lords.
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Moose Faotary, the Hudson Bay Company's pont, about 136 miles north of
the nearest railway station, •The journey to .the railway lino is by dog
sleigh and occupies about ten days, ,
raised throughout Canada by tate of "civil obedience," would be folly, at
Daughters of the Empire and admisie- bast accounts, according to Valentine
tered largelyihrough the British Com- Chirol, an expert on Indian affairs,
mission of tho Red Crass. a turn for the better has taken place.
It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken
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$30,000 Fire on Board
Canadian Pioneer
A despatch from London says :
—Fire breaking out in the' bunk-
ers of the Canadian Pioneer, of
the Canadian Government Mer-
chant Marine, while she was en
route to Colombo, Ceylon, has
caused a total. damage of over
$30,000, according to word re-
ceived 'at the C.G.M.M. offices
here.
Thh Child Mind. °
The old insanity plea having been
pretty well worked out in murder
cases so that juries are no longer par-
ticularly impressed by it, a new kind
of pleads now growing -up, supposedly
based on modern psychology, that de-
scribes the offender as one "possess-
ing the child mind" The idea, of
course, is that the jury, viewing the
average child as incapable of sound
judgment at tender years, will feel
sympathetic toward a clarification of
the accused as one who hes been found
by experts to have an intelligence
rating not above that of a child of
twelve. The obfuscation is further ac-
centuated by a large appeal to the
literature of the draft accompanied by
the clatter as to those who are above
or below the level of mental defectives.
But, as a matter of fact, there is no-
thing in the statement that 'particular
adults have the mind. of a child of
twelve or that sueh a condition would
relieve them of full moral and legal
responsibility for all their acts. There
is not the elightest element of dispar-
agement in an ,intelligence -test classi-
fication that gives A or 13 the rating
of a child mind, since, as all teachers
and psychologists know, the mental
ability of a child of twelve possesses
all those potentials and endowments
that maturity may direct but cannot
change. A child of twelve of normal
intelligence es a capable individual,
fully able to observe, learn and reflect
and to distinguish between right and
wrong; and many a boy or girl at this
age has been, and millions are to -day,
the very best assets of any family.
This cheapening of psychological tests
by using then to confuse the issue in
murder cases Is it kind of medico-
legal jurisprudence that is developing
a ve-e anti -social character.
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tower of the Beitish Pleases of Parlia-
ment, automaticalt„ se "i a signal
each day to Greenwich; 1t re var-
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Toronto.
Manitoba wheat ---No, 3 Northern,
82,04; No, 2 Northern, $2,01; No, >
Northern, $1,95; No. 4 wheat, $1,87.
Manitoba pate --No, 2 CW, 644e;
No, 8 CW, 61%c; extra No. 1 feed,
6lsf4c; No, 1'feed, 49%e; No, 2 feed,
40 %<7.
No,
Man4 itobCW,a bar85f ; ley-:-Nfeed, 780. 3 CW,
a4c, 99%c;
All of the above in store at Fort
William,
American cora-$1,16, nominal,
track, Toronto, prompt shipment,.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 50 to 63e,
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, $1,86
to $1,90 per car lot; No. 2 %Spring,
$1.80 to $1.85, shipping points, accord-
ing to freight.
Peas -No, 2, nominal, $1,76 to $1.80.
Barley, --86 to 90c, according to
freights outside.
Buckwheat -No. 8, $1,00 to $1.05,
nominal.
Rye -No. 8, $1.50 to $1,56, nominal,
according to freights outside.
Manitoba flour $11,00,
Ontario flour -$8.76, bulk, seaboard.
Millfeed - Delivered, Montreal
freight, bags included: Bran per ton
$38 to $40; shorts, per ton, $42; goon
feed flour, $2.75 to $3 per bag.
Cheese --New, large, 27 to 28e;
twins, 28 to 29c; triplets, 29 to 80c;
old, large, 32 to 85c; do, twins, 82%
to ,c,
Butter85-Fresh dairy choice, 49 to
60c• creamery, No, 1, 68 to 58e; fresh,
68 to 6le,
Margarine -32 to 86e.
Eggs -No. 1, 74 to 76e; selects, 18
to 80c; new laid, in cartons; 86 to 90c.
Beans -Canadian, band -picked, bus.,
$3.75 to $4.20 primes, $3 to $3.60; Ja-
pans, 91;tc; Limas, Madagascar, 10', c;
California, Limas, 121/ae.
Maple products--Syrup,per 'imp.
gal., $3.40 to $3.60; per 6 imp. gals
$8.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, lb., 27
to 80c.
I•Ioney-60-30-]h, tins, 25 to 26c per
lb. Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per
15 -section case, 55A -2% -lb. tins, 26 to
27c per Ib.
Smoked meats -Rams, med., 29 to
41c; heavy, 38 to 40e; cooked, 55 to
68c; rolls, 33 to 850; cottage rolls, 37
to 89c' breakfast bacon, 45 to 49e;
fancy Breakfast bacon, 63 to 66e;
Imolai, plain, bone in, 49 to 54e; bone-
less, 66 to 59c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27 t
to 28c• clear bellies, 26 to 27c.
Lard -Pure tierces, 24 to 25e; tubs, •
26 to 2531c; pails, 251% :to 25'ilc;
paints, 26 to 27c. Compound tierces,
15% to 16e; tubs, 161% to 1714c; pails, I
17% to 19c; prints, 20 to 21c.
Choice heavy steers, $11 to $12; i
good heavy steers, $10.50 to $11; but-
ches' cattle, choice, $9.50 to $.10.36;
do, good, $8 to 89.25; de, med., ,$6 to
$7; do, coin., $5 to 85.50; butchers°
bulls, choice, $8 to $9; do, good, $7:
to $8; do, coin., $5 to $6; butchers'
cows, choice, $7.50 _to $8.50; do, goad.,
$6.25 to $7; do, cont., $4 to $5; feeders.
$8 to $9' o, 900 lbs., $7.50 to $8.50;'
do, 800 lbs., $6 to $7; do, com., $5.25
to $6.25; canners and cutters, $3 to
$4.50; milkers, good to choice, $100 to
$165; do, corn. to med., $G5 to $75;
lambs, yearlings, $9 to $9.50; 4o,
spring, $12.60 to $13; calves, good to
choice, $16 to $17; sheep, $6 to 47;
hogs, feel and watored, $14,50 to $15;
do, weighed off cars, $14.75 to $1515;
do,,f.o.b., $13,50 to $14; do, country
points, $13.25 to $13,60; clo, spring,
$13 to $13.75, --
Montreal.
Oats -No. 2 CW, 74c; No. 3 CW, i
71c. Flour, Man, spring wheat pat -1
ents, firsts, $10.90. Rolled oats, 00-15.
bags, $3.70. Bran, $40.26, Shorts, i
$40,25. Hay. No, 2, per ton, car lets,
$30 to $31.
Cheese, finest easterns, 261.6c. But-
ter, choicest creamery, 55 to 56e.
Eggs, fresh, 75c. Potatoes, per bag,
car lots, $1.60 to $1.70.
Butcher heifers, med., $7,50 to
$8,60; coin., $6 to $7; •butcher cows,
med., $5 to $7.60; canners, $3.60 to
$3.75; cutters, $4 to $5; butcher bull's,
come $5 to $7• Good veal, $13 to $14;
med., $10 to $12.50; grass, $5 to $5.50.
Ewes, $6 to $6.50; lambs, good, 112
to $12.50; coin., $10 to $11.50. Hogs,
off -car weights, selects, $17 to $17.10;
sows, $13 to $18.50.
•
FRANCE TO EMPLOY
ARMY OF THE IDLE
Thousands Put to Work Tear-
ing Down Useless Forti-
fications.
A despatch from Paris says: -In ass i
effort to solve the increasing problem
of idleness in all parts of the country
the French Government is studyiag
a new program of public work which
will give employment to at least 60
per cent. of the 160,000 persons who
are said to be without work, especially
in the industrial regions of north and
central France.
Until the foreign markets have been -
opened to greater extent nothing
much can be done in the natal indus-
tries, which aro probably the hardest
hit, but it is understood that the State
will off'e'r to pay the expenses of those
nut of employment as far as Paris, •
where they will be assigned to the c
destruction .of uselesb fortifccationa,
the work on which was discontinued
last year.
In the textile industries different
methods of relief have been devised.
Tho' French Government has millions
of yards of cloth suitable for women's
garments on hand !besides vast quan-
tities of raw stuffs: The factories
being overstocked with materials re-
quired for ordinary consumption have
,-,hut down, But now the State will
telbe a hand and assign the idle ma-
61/me to the discharged employees for
aie making of garments from the
Sas' T
-
inmilitary cloths. These gar-
sweets,
ar-
n ts,Izaeless to Par?sian9, can
be sold , ,,eceet ' tles natives of the
French colonies, se sir te the poor
families in Central kk eeee see,. ',.tie
Near East.
So far it is not intended t:3 inteee
fere with the employment of tern e
thousands of foreigners who have re-:
maimed in France since the armistio
but if the present program pr
inadequate to meet the situation it
likely that the foreigners will be ait'b
jetted to more rigid supervision,
perhaps will oven he forced to face
the alternative of working in deflate
areas at such projects as rebuilding
the invaded regions or leaving the
Country until labor conditions 5ecotn
more settled.
Canada has nearly 800 Melanie nee,
vice-consuls, representing 8d mut
tries.