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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-4-28, Page 3NO DEFINITE ADVANCE YET MADE IN SETTLEMENT OF MINERS' STRIKE Millers' Federation Stands Pat for National Pool and Nation- al Regulation of Wages -In Meantime Coal Districts Are in Grip of Acute Distress -Children Saved from Starv- ing by Meals Ob tanned at Schools. A despatch 'from London says: -A 'conference between reproseetatives of the mine owners and of the Miner' Federation was :held in London on 'Thursday night at which en attempt was made to. get a 'clearer under- standing as to the questions that di- vide them. It cannot e said that any elefinite advance was inade, The new •offer of the .Owners was declared not to be sufficiently clear to .eneble the federation to place it befere the dis- tricts, The Executive Committee of the Miners' Fodeention met on Thiraiday. and decided to make no recetomenaa. tion to the full delegates' meeting, 'This is generally interpreted as mean- ing that there is little hope of the 'miners accepting any 'compromise that the employers are likely to area The leaders have been spending the past few clays in the country among tlie miners themselves, and it is evi- 'dent that they have not found any -marked change of attitude. The men are still demanding. a national pool and national itegulation of wages, and discussions .about various other meth - Ode of correcting inequalities of earn- ings have had no effect en the miners' position. There can be no doubt that the istilere of the railroad and transport -workers to eome to their aid has had .a good deal to do with the hardening of feeling found in mining baeaNties. Meanwhile, each day numbers of in- dustries are feeling the blight as the -coal shortage grows. German coal was on offer on Thurs- -day at the Swansea dock for half the price of the best Welsh coal, but a movement developed aiming the trans - Pert; workers to refuse to handle Am- erican, Belgian or German coal ship - In many districts -there is no coal left for domestic eonsumption, and no -caul is being delivered to any house where a gas cooker is installed, In some districts only 28 poundof mai le being ddotrthutedi to each household per week, Distress in the mining anew is be- coming mute. JIuruh'eds cf miner and their wives in the Durham .district are waiting daily for the relief grant- ed by the local municipal authorities neCeseitous eases. Queues of ere married miners at Caerphilly, near Cardiff, who sought parish relief, were refused. Funds have been started in many towns to save miners' children from hardehip. Preliminary su.ggeetions for relief of distress sent by a special commit- tee of the Board of Trade to large towns inchude utilization of national kitchen's and canteens with feeding centres for .school 'children. It is also suggested that families should com- bine in the wolfing of their mewl. In many instances the .strike pay of miners is exhausted., and to provide for barest necessities of life loans and paper credit are being increasing- ly resorted to. - Great distress is reported from South Wales, where women are pawn- ing wedding rings for food. In some houses the bed is the only piece of furniture left. Ln same districts many thousands of children. would starve if they were not fed in the schools. SEEDING IN WEST WELL ADVANCED Weather Reported Generally Fair and Progress Rapid. A despatch from Winnipeg says: - During the past week weather ever the whole of the three Western Pro- vinces has been generally fine, clear Skies and hightemperatures ruling through the day, During the latter part of the period very little frost has been experienced, and farmers in the districts where .seeding has eonneenc- ed have encountered little delay. Reports of farmers busy on the land have become increasingly more numerous from all three provinces, and already quite a large acreage of wheat is reported seeded. It is in Southern Alberta where the most progress has been made. Reports front Grande Prairies, in the Peace River .country,. are also to the effect that work is preceeding rapidly, and the first report of oat seeding comes from this point, • No reports of decreased acreage have come from any part of the West, but smveral in Alberta expect an in - .crease on account of the excellent atete ela the soil and lowered costs of production. IRISH RAILWAY COMPELLED TO CLOSE Because of Repeated Holdups Along the Line. A despatch from Dublin says: -A former soldier, Jolla Reilly, was taken from his home by Sinn Feiners on Thursday night and allot dead on the road at Ballyear. Ono civilian was killed and another wounded when the party of elich they were members was discovered by a military patrol in the act of de- stroying a bridge on the Charle.ville Road, County Cork, on Thursday. The military suffered no casualties. The liurtonport Reilway has been closed because of repeated train hold - lips along the line, During the course of Wednesday night every station of the road was raided and all goods found were carried away or burned. An attempt was made Wednesday night to burn the residence of the Most Rev. M. Fogarty, Lord Bishop of Killeloe, Ennis. The front of:the house was well ablaze when the fire was disicevered and extinguished. A pebrol-ecialted cloth lay near the front door. Five men were seen fleeing, Two of them were arrested. A neigh- boring residence was burned to the ground shortly beam the Bbhop's houie was set on fire. Traffic in Rhineland Blocked by Levy - A despatch from Berlin says:- Widespreed congestion in freight and passenger traffic is reported from point in the occupied Rhineland zone as a result of the inauguration of the customs control in connection with the n eWly-impased penalties en Gerinany. Viscount Finlay T ie noted British jurist, who will pie - elle at cattle embargo inquiry, in which Canada is intensely interested. --a 100;000 Troops For Ruhr Valley A despatch from Paris says: --One hundred thousand French troops, in addition to those now on the Rhine, are provided for in the plan elaborated by the mixed Military and Civil Commission, according to La. Liberte, There now are 80,000 French troops in the occupied territory, the average cost for the main- tenance of which is 44,000,000 francs monthly. La Liberte adds that the plan calls for the occupation of two- thirds of the Ruhr industrial valley, and also Elberfeld and Barmen, in Westphalia. HARDING REFUSES - TO 'FIX INDEMNITY German Mediation Appeal Turned Down by United States. A despatch from - Washington says: -The United Slates Government refused on Thursday an urgent re- quest Id the Germain Government that President Harding mediate the guess tion of reparations between Germany and the allies and fix the sum Geo - many 18 to pay. The United States agreed, however, that if the German Government would formulate promptly such proposals regarding reparations "as would pre- sent a peeper basis :for discussion," it would "consider bringing the matter to the attention of the allied Govern- menb in a manner acceptable to them, in order land negotiations .may be re- eumed speedily." Germany's appeal, signed by Chan, cellar Fehrenbach and Foreign Min- ister Simons, was directed to Presi- dent Harding, and was transmitted tine:ugh United States Coramisaioner Drexel at Berlin. It was answered by Secretary Hughes after a confer- ence with the Presideist at the White House. HE CAN'T MAKE IT. The Leading Markets. Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern', $1.77; No. 2 Northern, $1.71; No. 8 Narbhern, $1.66; No. 4 wheat, $1.49. Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 45%c; No. 3 CW, 39%e; exbra No. 1 feed, 39%c; No. 1 feect, 87%c; No. 2 feed, 36%c. Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW, 75%e; No. 4 CW, 64%c; rejected, 51%e; feed, 51e. AU of the above C.I.F. bayports. American corn -67e; nominal, C.I. F. bay ports. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 41 to 43c, Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, $1.50 to $1.55 per oar lot; No. 2 Spring, $1.40 to $1.45; No. 2 Goose wheat, nominal, shipping points, according to freight. Peas -Ne. 2, $1.30 to $1.35. Barley -Malting, 62 to 67e, accord. ing to freights outside. Buckwheat -No. 3, nominal. Rye -No. 2, $1.80 to $1,35, nomin- al, according to freights outside. Man. flour -First patent, $10.70; second/ patert, $10.20, bulk seaboard. Ontari6 flour -$7, bulk seaboard. Millfeed - Delivered, Montan" freight, bags included: Bran, per ten, $33; shorts, per ton, $35; geed feed flour, $2.10 to $2.40 per bag. Hay -No. 1, per ton, $24 to $26. Straw -Car lots, per ton, $12 to $12.50. Cheese -New, large, 29 to 30c; twins, 29% to 30%.e; tripleb, 30% to 31c; olid, large, 38 to 34c; do, twins, 831/2 bo 34%c; triplets, 34% to 350; new Stilton, 33c. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 48 to 491; .creamery, No. 1, 56 to 59c; fresh, 60 to Ole. Margarine -28 to 30c. Eggs -New leidi, 35c; new laid, in cartons, 36 to 38e. Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bus., $3.50 to $3.75; primes., $2.75 to 33.25; Japans, 8c; Limas, Madagascar, 10%c. California Limas, 121/2e. Maple products -Syrup, per hep. gal„ $2.60; per 5 imp. gals., 32.50, Maple sugar, lbs., 19 to 22c. Honey -60 -30 -lb. tins, 20 to 210 per lia; 5-2%-1b. tins, 22 to 24c per lb.; Ontatioacomb honey, at $7.50 per 15 - section ease. Smokedmeats--Hams, med., 37 to 380; heavy, 31 to 32o; cooked', 50 to 55c; rolls, 31 to 32c; cottage rolls, 38 to 34c; .breakfast bacon, 43 to 46c; fancy breakfast bacon, 50 to 52c; backs, plain, bone in, 47 to 300; bone- less, 49 to 53e. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27 to 28e; clear bellies, 26 to 27c. Lard -Pure tierces, "16 to 161/2c; tubs, 16% to 17c; pails, 16% to 3.71/2c; prints, 18 to 18 %,c. Shortening, tierces, 11 to 11%,e; tubs, 11% to 12e: pails, 12 to 12%e; prints., 13% to 14c. Choice boavy steers, $9 bo $10.50; good heavy steers, $8 to $9; butchers' cattle, choice, $8.50 to $9.50; do, good, $7.50 to $8.50; do, med„ $6.50 ,to do, cam., $4 to $6; butchers' bulb, choice, $7 to $7.50; do, good, $6 to 37; do, coin., 34 to $5; butchers' cows., choke, 37.50 to $8.50; do, good, $0.50 to $7.50; do, oom., $4 to $5: feeders, best, $7.75 to $8.75; do, 900 lbs., $7,25 to $8.75(do, 800 hoe., $5.75 to $6.75; do, cosn„ $5 to $6; evemers and, cut- ters, $2 to 34.50; milkers, good to choice, 385 to $120; do, eom. and med., $50 to:860; choice springers, 390 to $130; lambs, yearlings, $10 to $11; do, spring, $12 to 03.50; calves, good to choice, $11, to $12.50,; &leap, $6 to $10. Montreal. Oats, Can. West., No. 2, 61 to 62e; do, No. 3, 57 to 58c. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats-, firsts, $10. Bran, $31.25. Shorts, $33.25. Hay, No. 2, per :bon, car lots, $24 to $25. Calves, $4.50 to $6. Sheep, $6 to $9. Choice ewes, up to $10. Yearling lambs, $10 to $13; spring lambs, $7 to $12. Hogs, selects, $14; :nixed lots, heavy hogs, $13 to $18.50; feeders, $1 or more above selects. CANADA TAKES AN ADVANCE STEP In Instituting System of Pre- ventive Medical Examination for Immigrants. A despatch from London says: - Canada has taken, a step. M advance of other .ecerntties by the institution of a system. of preventive medical exam- ination of immigrants at .continental ports. Dr. Jeffs, of the Dominion De- partment of Public Health, has ar- nived here mid is working in tonjune- don- with the Immigration Depart- ment at Havre, Rotterdam, Antwerp and other European ports from which new citizens sail for the Dotruinian. Prospective immigrants We looked over and the steamship companies are advised if they are unlikely to pass the examination at 'the port of arrival in Canada. The Dominion has no legal right of rejection of immigrants M any European port, but if the steamship companies disregard the Department official's advice, they are liable to a fine in ease 'an unfit immi- grant has to be refused entay, in ad- dition to having to provide tranapor- batten back to the port of embarka- tion. In instituting this new system, the Dominion Government is in ad- vance of the United States, the only action taken by that country along th,is line being the establishing �f de- lousing stations at European ports for immigrants embarking for the Republic. - Canada's mining industry has in- creased twelvefold. lin 30 years, from $14,000,000 to $173,000,000. THE PERIL TO WHITE AUSTRALIA This great country has six State capitals', end a proposed Federal capi- tal 611 seven are son& of the tap line. Six are south of the middle line. nye, including the proposed Federal capital., are south of the bottom line, This is Australia's way of telling the world that the north and centre are quite unfit for a white, man, to live in, and are only suitable for brown or black settlement. And the blaelebrown world doesiet nibs the point, The World Aloft. The Titania, a flying beat far:sawyer, or 051:11:1 cruiser, is being peranted so Bnaktd. The new "ship" will be used 40 Wag distance petrels, havine range of 1,500 1111103, The motive power is to be two 1,000 lioreePown Cab Wane. The plane will earry g crew ot ten men, and an pease time mid be devoted to earrying fifty passengers The greatest subject of discussion to-cley 10 aermiainical cirelea is the coming cluel between airplanes carry- ing bombs weighing from one-halif one toe and useless German bsittle- ehips teemed over to this country. Tho ,Awililip:ISaenrieef evectlnd.ficeeetisco r:oylntyictil hulithat inagire bomb the most inedern, most thickly armored and plat expeesive dread- nought ever turned Ont, That commercial ware in the air are coming is indieateci by the fest that the airplane late between England and France, which a year ego was $75, has now 'been cut to $17.50. Eng- lish companies declare they can no longer make 0, profit on eras Channel flights. Freneh companies are reeeiv- ing e subsidy, * * Reports from abroad indicate th,at four air :routes running out of Beale have been established andare in .ap- erabion. The longest of these are the Berlin -Dortmund 'and the Berlin - Koenigsberg routes, each about 300 miles. The others are the Berlin - Bremen and the Berldn-Dreeden lines Destruction of the power of Mad Mullah, ruler of Somaliland, Africa, an 'accomplishment the British author- ities have been 'working on for the last thirty -few years, was finally ac- complished in a ,compaign of three weeks, it was .announced recently. Two hundre& air officers and men, with eleven fighting planes, did the eat by aerial bombardments. * * * * Edo Chaves, Brazilian aviator, re- cently flew from Rio Janiero, Brazil, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in leas than five days. Flying a Curtiss Oriole with a K-6 motethe pilot covered the 1,735 miles on his route in twenty hours and twenty -minutes. Several previous aerial efforts to link the two capitals had failed, 9 * 4 * Airplanes of the Canadian Air Force during 1920 node 398 flights af a total mileage of 33,612 wibhout a single death or serious injury .to the fliers. Flying operations did: not beget until late in August, but among the expliots carried out was an aerial trip from Halifax to Vancouver. • 9 * * Figures recently submitted to the Royal Aeronautical Society indicate that the present cost of airplane transport is about Be. 3d, per ton mile, as compared to 2,401. to 3d. per ton mile by rail. The 'advantage of the airplane hes in its speed, a quality for which the public is always willing to pay. • * 5, * A new adoption to the parachute has been .experimented upon by the United States Army Air Service. This con- sists of carrying the parachute in the rear of the fuselage with certain spe- cial equipment. When accident makes it necessary for the pilot to leave his plane in midair he simply palls a lever, disconnecting himself and a section of the rear of the fuselage from the rest of the plane, 9 * 9 * Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, one of the foremost aeronautical experts of England, recently stated that one of the chief drawbacks of commercia1. aviation is that at present only short journeys are attempted, such as that between London and Parts, where a saving of only three or four hours is possible. Air transport's greatest op- portunity, he believes, will be in longer trips, ouch as London to Italy, Egypt, sand eventually India. * 9 * * To Canadians goes the distinotion of ,proposing one of the moat novel uses ever conceived for an airplane. Winnipeg men are reported to be organizing an aerial irrigation com- pany. The aim is to cause rain by spraying liettid air in the clouds from an airplane, thus Muting the moisture to .condense. Recently duet was thrown from an airplane on the clouds 5,000 feet high in an unsuccessful attempt to cause ram in Pretoria. The Net Result. Krassin, Bolshevist envoy to Lon- don, has hurried away to Moscow 5034 as the English begin to get cohered over .tbe probable Soviet stimulus be- hind the recently threatened general strike. There are many indications, that the English effort Wee another of the Lenine hopes, If ,so, it is a lost hope and a lest cause, Things haven't goons so well with! the Third Internationale 00 they' might have. There was a time when Lenale OM: On the eastern horizon's rim, a brooding menace to a eivtliza- tion built up through patient centur- ies. Germany was almost his, Hun- gary he had for a time and in the Canadian News in Brief Demon, Y, strike of a les markable ledge of silver in No. thane) of the face olsim, owned by the Yukon Geld Company, reported by arrivale 'from 11 5110 Bill, the tientre of thcoalefe new aye raining distriob • lao Yukon, T110 ledge is eine feet wide, of 'whit& BeVen feet le mild high-grade galena, it le 01001112108, taille,s11"aiLA.rirneo B.C.1meaVinY tecalinn'tvhe'i el 3,904tt w hich has just been launched here for the Heilsen's BAY Co. for service en the Peace River, 'life boat sixty feat over all, with a team of eleven feet and four feet depth of 11411. The boob has a phenomenally loght draught for so large a craft of but 101110 rnchss, with a maximum ef riot mere than twenty inches when the boab is 5s 1 iiiii'd The vess�l le ca pab le or a speed of seventeen miles Victoria, BC. -The number of sta. dents enrolled in British Columbia schools le now placed at 79,242, an inerease or 10 per mut over the pre- vious y,eiar, according to the state- ment made by S. J. Willis, supeein- teeclent af edueation, at the anneal toacheee' 'convention. Thifty-five new schools have been erected in remote districts and thirteen echools had been re -opened during' the pest year, he added. Calgary, Alta. -With an ebundance of moistua.a in the ground arai the tap soil in ideal condition for :work- ing:, seeding has commenced early in many parts of Southern Alberta. The warm weather, together with the heavy snowfall,. have combined to bring about an excelleut situation which auguts a successful season for Lethbrid.ge, Alta. -A movement is on foot 40 the neighborhood ef Goal. dale, the centre of .the alfalfa region, to bring from 60 to 80 sows from On- tario by an association of fern and entening lobo the selling of milk locally as well as the manufacture of butter. Regina, Sask-A marked increase in the work thrust upon the Saskat- °bewail govern employment ser- vice by the spring demand for farm help is .shown by the very large num- ber of applications received by the various ein,ployment, offices in the peovinee. baring the past week a total a 783 persons found employ- ment through these offices eis com- pared with 595 for tike previous week. A shortage of farm labor is claimed in some districts. Yorkton, Sask.-One of the largest land- deal ever recorded in this dis- trict was recently made by Mike Pachal, an old-time settler, whenhe sold 1,400 acres of his land at a price of $26 per acre, and 160 acree at $25 per acre. All the land is unbroken and prairie. Winnipeg, Man. -The total po.puln- tion in Manitoba in 1920 was 541,466, according to the annual report of the vital statistics branch of the provin- ciel government. The death rate for the pi:evil:ice last year was 12.2 per thoesand, a redaction of .2 per thou- sand over 1919. Births in 1920 to- talled 18,536 .as against 15.019 during the previous year. Winnipeg, Man. -With an it:veleta capital of 390,698,825, an estimated annual payroll of 324,308,982, the out- put of Winnipeg's industries in 1920 was valued at 3120,213,000. Of this stun flour and grist mills absorbed $14.487,398; slaughtering anti meat packing, $0,236,230; butter and cheese, $2,905,648; bags, ootbon, 32,750,023; electric light and power, $2,335,907; lumber products, $1,818,567; bread, biscuits and confectionery, $1,816,671; printing and publishing, $1,785,001; malt liquore, $1,668,905; coffees and apices, $1,704,424; foundry and ma- chine shop products, $1,493,560; furnishing goods (Man's), $1,147,456. Ottawa Catt-A total of 3,328 Wee Migrants antorod CouRcio during the math of February, or an inereeee ef 10 per gent. Over the corresponding month in 1020, Of the immigrants 1,380 eame from the British Wee, 12;091820 slriosiniel otholtosr Uoyaoloteta.dwStephoS, tot immigration for the fleet eleven mouths of the fiscal year amounts to 137,408 or 29 per coat over the seiee pMioil of the previous yeas:, 69,40D being Iran the British Isles, 43,7671 from the United States, end 24,301 from other count -Kea Toronto, Ont. --Fifteen thousand men ,can be absorbed on the farms of Ontario during the present season, ac - carding to the Ilon, Manning Doherty, minister of Agaienitare. He :further fitated. Vett out of 700 fanners an terra- laborere tiefe' te- bently from England every ono had been placed on farms. The Ontario, Department of Agriculture had now applications for 000 farm laboreron itsT'biai"mkisns, Ont. -Mach activity is prevailing here in the local mines and' eonclibiers are improving rapidly its view of the prospective relief from power eharlage. The big producing mines are being overhauled and everything is being put into shape in order to bring their plaisb up to full capacity. One firm, the Hollinger Gold Mines, are calling for contract to carry out their $500,000 housing and improving plans. Quebec, Que.-At one of the fax ranches which bhe firm of Holt, Ren- frew and Company operates about the eity, thirteen families of blacks, ell - ver, and cress have been added in the past month. It is some years eines fox breeding started here, and it has grown to an extensive and very profitable i canary. Quebec, Quo.-Pbns are now prac- tically completed for the provincial forest protection scheme. It i.s under- stood that four planes will be usterin the Lake St. John district and all will be ready for the early spring, to watch for fires which often break out in the menthe of May and June. Montreal, Que.-As indication et how strictly Canada's policy of select- ed immigration is being carried out may be cited ;the fact that in the first three months of the year one steam- paholn ipbecompany had a total of 169 de - Fredericton, nT.B.-Karakul sheep are being raised in New Brunswick by W. Harvey Allen, President of the New Brunswick Guides Association, who resides at Peniac. Mr. Allen re- cently brought in 46 of these sheep from New Mexieo, and he has had coneiderahle success with this herd so far. - St. John, N.13. -The St John Mem- orial Workshop for disabled soldiers will be officially opened here this month. The idea of the Memorial is to afford an opportanity to disabled men to supplement their pensions. Furni- ture repairing will be taken up as well as the turning out of new week. The project will be. supervised by a committee of citizens.. Halifax, N.S.-Considerable spring plowing was effected in the Annapolis Valley in the second week in Marelt, which is said to be a record fox early plowing in the valley. St. John's, Nfld.-Newfoundland- ers are elated over the prospects of a successful sealing season. After hay- ing been caught Man ice floe for sev- eral clays, the sealing fleet, when last reported, was in open water and mak- ing a good kill. The first of the fleet to return from the hunt, the schoenen "Diana," arrived here with 7,000 pelts aboard. The eommander of the schooner stated that the steamer "Eagle" followed with about the same catch. whirling 'chaos of the old and the new Balkans seemed opportunity made to his he,nd. He tried .hard in Germany, and his best bid failed. In France there was never a ebanoe against the land -loving peasant. Czeche-Slovalcia marked an- other failure. Hun:glary was lost with its whiskered little Bela Kum Poland rallied and turned back bhe rolling Red menace. Came last September and he made another vicious effort, this time in Italy, where the extreme Nationalists are now blindly harrying Anarchist, Communist and Socialist alike. England surely was a sort of a last hope. English labor is about the steadiest and sanest in the world, un - lees the war changed ,it. Revolution never had a °bailee to have ib fling there, as it undoubtedly had in the Continental nations. The workers everywhere have definitely rejected the Moscow label. The net, remelt of three years of menaces, threats, propaganda and actual violence is that Lenine and Trotzky still hold Moscow. Russia, for the Mee tpart, is theirs to experi- moat with; but the Duiniwies seem to be getting a little weary. The fam- iliar breathings of world revolution sound a little bellow. They lack the old frenzied z alotr 50Mt tioc-roc-v-ke rtv. tier, wwe. ME 0144 lts4 A weetc BuT !AEI. • It's aGreat Life' U You Don't Weaken ( lir's A 6*izeocr Um tr ..‘,,orpt.i POKT '4,4E0'W-et% r, By Jack Rabbit • 144., reean eanea"."- The CroWn Prince of Japan Who is due to arrive at Settl:ad, England, on May 71h. 15 Is Probable that he will visit Canada and the United States, White House in No Hurry for Peace A despatch from Washington says :-President Harding's atti- tude as reflected at the White House is that there is no haste about the adoption of the resolu. tion declaring a state of peace with Germany and Austria. Chairman Porter, of the House Foreign Affairs Conlinittee, discussed it with, the President, said he had not decided when it would be introduced or in what , way, if any, it would differ from the Knox resolution, Mr. Porter made it clear he did not believe there is any rush about the resolution r., Tree -Felling Machine. A trrafelling numbine hrventett 40 England ronsists of. it BOAV that is a ;:iitalion of 1110 DIMSI1 red et a cylinder, the al 0001 being sup- , ilia ugh hose from a eortable -d