HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-01-16, Page 2THE RUSSIAN KUL5HEVIK1
Danger of a World Revolution, Says Former Danish Minister
Just Arrived in London From Russia.
A despatch front London says: -
Mr, Sesvenius, former Danish Min -
inter, who has jist`ariived in London
from ,.,.Russia lr `
, net evteya'ed by Renter's
correspondent, said that the situation
en 'Russia was, hopeless a long as
the Allies took no steps s' to end Bol-
shevism, which was a real interna-
tional daeger and growing stronger
every day, for the Bolshevists were.
marvelous propagandists and were
working in all countries with the ob-
ject of 'causing a world revolution.
IIe was sure the Bolshevists would
win in Germany unless the Allies
tookimniedrate steps to stop them
by- supplying the Germans with more
food and sending a sufficient force to
expel the Bolshevists from Petrograd
and Moscow. Such a force need not be
big beeauseetho whole populationwas
opposed to Boshevism. As soon as the
Bolshevists were expelled from Petro-
grad and Mosepw the whole move-
ment would collapse. He was sureean
arrangement could be made with Fin-
land to send volunteers for this pur-
pose, . The great danger was that if
Bolshevism won that .Germany would
join Russia and Europe would be
without peace for a Iong time. That
was why it was important to finish
with Bolshevism immediately.
BRITAIN STILL A
x.
R..
CREDITOR 0 NATION
Motherland Not 'Weakened by
More Than Two Thousand
Millions.
A. despatch from London says: -
The Observer, which is well informed
on financial subjects, publishes to -day
a significant article on post-war in-
ternational finance, which has direct
interest for Canadians. After re-
ferring to the "recoverable.. assets"
Britain has at command, the writer
goes on to say: "Behind lie the prob-
lems of the sum that will ultimately
be produced in repayment of our loan
to Allies and dominions, and of the
amount we shall get out of Germapy
against our bill for damages. All
these uncertainties affect not only the
question of how much the Government
will have to raise every year in taxa-
tion, but also .the. Iarger problem of
our position in international finance,
and of our power to maintain our
prestige and to control of the ex-
change."
Discussing. the question of "How
we stand now," the writer says:
"We are, on paper, still very much
a creditor country. The Chancellor
boasted, with very just pride, in his
budget speech last April, that all we
had borrowed abroad during the war
we had borrowed in order to relend
to Allies, so that with regard to our
ownwar cost we had been self -suffic-
ing. The figures officially published,
in so far as they can be understood,
more than bear out this statement."
The article suggests that Great
Britain should entirely wipe out her
loans to her Allies, Russia, France,
Italy. Belgium, Serbia. and others,
"snaking a present to our late bro-
thers in arms, much harder hit than
we are. of their promises to pay.
"We do not seem to have weakened
our international position to the ex-
tent of much more than 2,000 mil-
lions, by borrowing abroad and sales
of securities." says the article, "and.
2.000 millions is only half the sum
that was usually accepted before the
war as the amount of our overseas'
investments. So that eve are still
nearly half as much a creditorcoun-,
try asbefore the war, even after wip-1
ing out our loans to Allies. Relative-'
ly. of course, the weakening is great-
er,; because America and many neu
'
teals have increased their wealth very
rapidly during the war, while we have
been losing; but there seems to be no
reason for the view that we are no
longer a 'creditor country, especially
es we have another foreign account
In our claim on Germany."
Huge Quantities of Guns;
ANA
C OIAN '�
S OME
BY END OF AUGUST
During Spring alidSumner Will
Colne at Rate of 45,000
a Month.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -It
is 'stated, in militia circles here that the
end of August next will see the return
to. Canada of the '1'alst units of the
military forces of Canada now serv-
ing overseas in Europe. ,
For the present there will .be no
seeding up in the return of troops
beyond the numbers already ar-
ranged for, 20,000 in January, in-
creasing to 30,000 in Feburary, but
.en the .spring. and •summer months the
number returning to Canada will rise
to 45,090 monthly.
Several factors enter into the con-
siderations governing the return of
these troop's to Canada, such as
transportation, afloat and ashore, and
the difficulties of securing the smooth
and expe'd'itious return to civ;] oc-
cupations of these men without over-
taxing the limits of the organizations
arranged for filet latter purpose.
During the winter it Is possible to
land troops only at two Canadian
ports, Halifax and St. John, and at
the tatter port it is impossible . to •
berth ships of the largest tonnage.
From each poet the railroad lines ,
have a limited capacity and must
provSde for the regular services, -pa's-i
senger and freight, in ad'd'ition to the
additional tax on the services by the
extra troop train's.
With the opening of navigation ih
the St. Lawrence, there will at once
be available additional ports at
which transports can dock and coneer
' erably increased railroad facilities,
both as to route and equipment. For
instance, it will then be possible to
secure day coaches for the shorter
hauls. In arranging for the return
of troops to Canada, each transport
has carried men for every military
' district, so that the demands of each
section may be dealt with fairly and
proportionately.
Germany Fails to Turn Over
A despatch from London says:-�
Germany has fallen behind in the last
month in turning over material re-
quired by the terms of the armistice.
A checking to date shows a shortage
of 685 heavy guns, 7;000 machine
guns, 1,000 trench mortars, 600 air -1
planes, 4,736 engines, 5,000 motor]
lorries and 130,000 railroad cars.
With the death of Mr. John Henry
McLachlan, who died at St. Joseph's
Hospital after an attack of heart
trouble, the coterie of retired Prairie
farmers, who reside in Victoria loses
one of its best known members.
SEND-OFF GIVEN
5,000 CANADIANS
London, Jan. 12.-A civil send-off
was given at Southampton to five
thousand Canadian troops leaving for
Halifax on the liner Olympic. Thou-
sands assembled at the quayside, and
scenes of great enthusiasm and much
cheering, both from the ship and
sl.. ere, occurred. The Mayor made a
megaphone speech, praising the
troops for their courage and rejoic-
ing in their wonderful victories. He
wished them "Godspeed."
Navigation of the Rhine
May Be Internationalized
Paris, Jan. 12. -When the Peace
Conference officially inaugurates its
work on Jam., 20, aceordling to the Echo
de Paris, there will be brought before.
it for consideration a memorandum of
a French demand for the Sarre Basin.
The memorandum will also include a
plan for the internationalization of
the navigation of the Rhine, with
special advantages for nations bord-
ering on that ricer.
Do not add salt to the soup in cook-
ing until it is thoroughly skimmed.
The salt will prevent the scum from
rising.
A tlespatclt from London says,
At a meeting of the Imperial Graves
Commission over;.whieh; Right Hon.
Walter Loos, Colenirll Secretary, pre-
sided, and at which. all British over-
@ear representatives were present,
the chairman states that all overseas
Governments had unreservedly agreed
to bear their share of whatever ex-
pense was involved in worthily lindor-
ing the memory of their dead. The
commission, therefore, was free to
'discharge its task in no ungrudging
or niggardly spirit. The commission
adopted t recommendation
op ]i2 that the
angst suitable. ,method of. honoring
those whose graves could not be found
or identified would be to place a tab-
let, appropriately insct•ibed, in a ceme-
tery near the spotwhere it is believed
the men killed. s were l1ed. It is estimated
that there will be at least a thousand
cemeteries. The commission decided
to ask the. Indian Government to
formulate proposals, for the.establiSh-
rent of an agency in India. g y d a for the
care of British graves there. The
commission also warmly thanked the
Union of South Africa Government
for its most generous offer to sweet
the entire cost of cemeteries and for
the provision of memorials to officers
and men of the Imperial forces dying
within the Union,
BRITISH PEACE
DELEGATESNAMED
SID
Dominions to Appear at Con-
ference as Small Nations.
A despatch from London says: -
Premier Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar
Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer;
A. J.,Balfour, Secretary, of. State, for
Foreign Affairs, and George Nicoll
Barnes, Privy Councillor,; have been
appointed plenipotentiaries to the
Peace Conference by the British Cab-
inet, acording to the Express and the
Mail.
Sir Robert L. Borden, Premier of
Canada;, William Morris Hughes,
Premier of Australia, and General
Louis Botha, Premier of the Union
of South Africa, will be colonial
representatives, who will have seat8"
when the congress takes up business,
of interest to the dominions they rep -
present, it is said. According to the
Express, an important decision was
reached by the Cabinet in providing
that the dominions will appear at`the
Peace Congress as small nations.
The delegates will go to Paris on
Saturday for the purpose of 'at-
tending sittings of the inter -allied
conference.
SNOWSHOED 100 MILES TO
ENLIST WITH CANADIANS
A despatch from London says: -
Captain John MacGregor, of the Can-
adian Mounted Rifles, who was re-
cently awarded the Victoria Cross,
was a native of Cawdor, Nairnshire,
Scotland, where his mother lives. At
the outbreak of the war he snowshoed
100 miles to enlist. For leading the
charge at Vimy Ridge in 1917 he re-
ceived the D.C.M. and his commission,
and in January of last year won the
Military Cross and a captaincy for
his determination and gallantry at
Hill 70.
Marshal Foch Will Consent
To Prolong The Armistice
A despatch from Basel says: -The
North German Gazette of Berlin says
that upon the request of Marshal
Foch, allied and German plenipoten-
tiaries will meet January 14 pr 15,
at Treves, to discuss a prolongation
of the armistice. The Daily .Chron-
icle urges the associated powers when
renewing the armistice to stipulate
for the right of occupation of any
strategical position they may desire
in order to preserve order and secure
their own safety.
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg
Proclaims Itself a Republic
Metz, Jan. 12. -Luxemburg was
proclaimed a republic on Friday,
when the Grand Duchess Marie retir-
ed from the capital, taking up quar-
ters in a chateau nearby'.
The Chamber held an exei`cd meet-
ing, the Clericals quitting the House
in a body.
ITroadstu0's
Toronto Jan. 14. -Manitoba wheat IN A FRENCH HOSPITAL .
4s0.• 1 Northern; $2:241/2; No. 2
Ne tltern, $2,2'1%; No. 8 Northern
$2071/2:; No, 4 , wheat, $2,111/2,' in
above Fort Wiliam, not including tax
an oats -No.
No,• 3 G,W., 74c. extra'No, 1, feed
75' c• No, 1 feed; 741/.1c, in store
Fort Widiam.
Ameiiican Born - No. 3 yellow,
$1.75; No, 4 yeaiow, 31.70, January
ehipment,
Ontario oats, new crop -No. 2
white, 71 to 74c; No,' 3 wluibe, 70 to
73e,according, to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per
ear lot, 32.14 to 32:22; No. 2, do.,
32.11 to 32.19; No. 8, do,, $2,07 to
$2.15; .No, 1 Spring, $2,09 to 32.17;
o,
No.' 2 Seeing, •. 32.06 to 32.14; No. 3
Spring, 32.02 to 32.10 f,o.b;, ship-
ping paints, according to freights,,
eas-No 2 $2.00
Barley -Malting; new crop, 92 to
97c, acredeng to freights otts'ide.
Buckwheat -No. 2, : 31.30,
Rye -No. 2 ,91 54
iuomatal,
Manitoba flour -Old
crop, war
quality, 311,35, Toronto.
Ontario flour -War quaill:thy, old
crop, 310.25, in bags, Montreal and
Toronto, prompit shlipment•
1VT•il'lfeed-Car' lots delivered Mont -
reek freights, bags included. Bran,
337:25 per ton; shorts, 342,25 per ton.
Hay -No. 1, $21 to 322 per ton;
mixed $19 to $20 per ton, track Tor-
onto.
Stra -
w Car lots 9.50 to10.
track Toronto. $ $ 50 '
Country Produce -Wholesale
Eggs -No. 1 •storage, 55 to 56c;
selected, storage, 58 to 60e; carton,
new] laid, 75 bo 78e.
Butter -Creamery, solids, 51 to 53e;
do, prints, 53 to 55c; chloice dairy
prints, 45 to 47c; ordinary chilly
Otegmiargarino e0 (best grade), 30 t32 bo
34c., ..•
Cheese -New, large, 2731, to 23c;
twins, 28 bo 2833c; spring made, large,
2834 to 29c; twins, 29 bo. 291/2c.
Comb- Honey -Choice, 16 oz., 34.50
to $5.00 per dozen; 12 oz., 38.50 to
34.00 per dozen. ,
Maple Syrup In 5 -gallon tuns,
$3.25,
Provisions -Wholesale
Barrelled Meats - Pickled' pork,
$48;,mess pork, 347.
Green Meats -Out of pickle, lc Loas
than; smoked.
Smoked Meats -Rolls, 32c to 33c;
hams, medium, 38 to 39c; heavy, 30 to
31c;,cooked helms, 51 to 52e; backs.
plain, 46 to 47c; backs, boneless, 50
to 52c. Breakfast bacon, 42 to 47c.
Opbtaga rolls, 85 to 360.
Drq Salted Meats -Long clears, in
tons, 30e; in oases, 301/2c; clear bel-
lies, 28 to 281c; fat backs, 25c.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 291/2 to 30c;
tubs, 30 to 3011c;'paie, 301/4 to 80a'ac
prints, 31 to 311/2c. Shortening,
tierces, 252 to 251,3e; tubs, 25% to
26c;* pails, 26 to 2G?4c; 1-1b. prints,
27 to 27%c.
Montreal M- arkets
Montreal, Jan, 14. -Oats -,Extra
No. 1 feed 90c. Flour -New stan-
dard grade, 311.25 to 311.35. Roll-
e Boats -bags, 90 lbs. $4.25 to $4.50.
Bran. $37,25, Shorts, 342.25. Moull'ie,
$68.00 to 370.00. Hay -No, 2, per
tont, ear 'lots, 320.00 to 321.00.
Cheese -Finest easterns, 24 to 25c.
Butter-Cheicest creamery, 521/2 to
5331,c, Eggs -Selected', 66 to 57c;
No. 1 stock, 50c. Potatoes -Per
bag, car trots, 31.70. Dressed hogs
-Abattoir ]culled, $25.50 to 326.00.
Lard -Pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net,
31 to 321/2c.
Live Stock M- arkets
Toronto, Jan. 14. -Choice heavy
steers, 313.00 to $18.50; butchers,
cattle, choice, $11.75 to 312.80; do.,
geode, $11.00 to 311.50; do, medium,
$10.00 to $10.25; do, common, $8.25
to 38.50; bulls, choice, 319.25 to
311.00; o, medium bums, -39.00 to
$9.60; do. rough buts, 37.50 to $8.00;
butchers' cows, ohoica, 310.25 to
310,75; do. good, $9.50 to 310.00; do.
medium, $8.50 to $8,75; do. common,
$7.00 to 37.75; stockers, $8,00 to
$10.00; feeders, $10.50 to $11:,60;
canners, 36.25 to $6.50; milkers, good
to choice, 390.00 to 3140,00; do. con.
and med.,,$65.00 to 375.00• peeing -
ens, $90.00 to 3140.00; light ewes,
$9.00 to $1Q.50; yearlings, $13.00 to
313.50; spring lambs, 315.50 to
816.50; calves, good to choice, 316.00
to $18.00; hogs, fedend watered
$18.50 to 318.75; do. weighed off
cans, $18.76 to $19.00; do. f.o.b.
country pod ts, 318.25 to 318.50.
Montreal, Jan. 14. -Choice steers,
$12 to °$13; good, $10.50 to 311.50;
medium, 39.50 to $10; choice butcher
bulls, $9 to $10; good bulls, 8.50;
medium, $7.50 to $8. Choice but-
cher cows, 39.50 to 310.50• good, $8
to $9; medium,, $7 to 37.50. Can-
ners, cattle, 35 to $6. Sheep, $9 to
$11; lambs, $11 to 314; milk -fed
500 Little Patients Victims of War
and Iliiiuisli Crueitfs
Through villages swarinipg with
troops and packed with ordnance we
arrived at an glcl caserne, which had
been converted into the children's
hospital of the district, says an Am-
erican writer.' It is in charge of one
of the first of • America's children
Specialists.
I ; Here are 500 little patients. This
is
barracks converted into a hospital is
full of babies, the youngest :being
only six days old when I was there.
Many of the children have no par-
ents. Others have lost their mothers;
their fathers 'aro serving' in the
trenches. ft is not always easy to
find out how they came to be orphans;
there are such plentiful chances of
losing parents who live continually
under shell fire. One little boy, on
being asked where his mother was,
replied gravely: "My mamma, she is
dead. Les boches, they put a gun to
'er bead. She is finished. I have no
mamma."
The unchildlike stoicism of these
children is appalling, I spent two
days among them and heard no cry-
ing. Those who are sick lie motion-
less as waxen images intheir cots
.
Those who are supposedly well sit all
day brooding and saying nothing.
When 'first they arrive their faces are
earth colored. The first thing they
have' to be taught is how to be chil-
dren. They have to be coaxed and
induced to play; even then they soon
grow weary. They seem to regard
mere playing as frivolous and in-
decorous; and so it is in the light of
the tragedies they have witnessed.
Children of seven have seen more of
horror in three years than most old
men 'have read about in a lifetime.
Many of thein have been captured by
and recaptured from the Huns. They
have been in villages where the dead
lay in piles and not even the women
were spared. They have been present
while indecencies were worked upon
their mothers. They have seen men
hanged, shot, bayonetted, and flung
to roast in burning houses. The pic-
tures of all these things hang in their
eyes. When they play it is out of
politeness to the kind Americans, not
because they derive any pleasure
from, it.
Night is the troublesome time. The
children hide under their beds with
terror. The nurses have to go the
rounds continually. If the children
would only cry, they would give
warning. But instead they creep
silently out from between the sheets
and crouch against the floor like
dumb animals! That is what they
are when first, they are brought in.
Their most primitive instincts for the
beginnings of_cleanliness seem to
have. vanished. They have been fished
out of caves, ruined dugouts, broken
houses. They are full of skin dis-
eases as the beggar who sat outside
Dives' gate, only they have had no
dogs to lick their sores. They have
lived on offal so long that they have
the faces ofethe extremely aged. And
their hatred]' Directly you utter the
word "boche" all the night -gowned
figures sit up in their cots and curse.
When they have done cursing of their
own accord they sing the "Marseil-
laise."
Three Canadian Delegates
At Inter -Allied Conferences
A despatch from Paris says: -La
Liberty says it understands that
Great Britain will have three special
delegates for each of its Dominions,
including Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and South Africa. The news-
paper asks why the French protec-
torates of Morocco, Tunis and possi-
bly Algeria, has no special represen-
tation.
People of Luxemburg Duchy
Want Republic Proclaimed
A despatch from Metz says: A
large crowd paraded before the Grand
Ducal Palace in Luxemburg on Fri-
day, requesting the abdication of the
Grand Duchess and the proclamation
of a republic. A committee on public
safety has been appointed and quiet
is being maintained everywhere in
Luxemburg.
AM OBJECI
Prevented the Establishment of
L -Boat Base in Arctic Ports.
London, Jan,, 11 British and Amer
lean troops n and south of Aroh
angel are noir frozen in for the win
ter, b ut these 0 no anxiety abopt gbh'
force because they are watt equippe'
with Arctic clothes and leve plenty
of food. Troops to Marmwnsk, how
t evee, are still ecce si'b1e. Feed ship
ped' to Arohangol among blue pexlod of
e'ccupation its eull5eient for the troops
se well as the pepu'iati•on of'170,000
Russians in en area of 40,000 squire
mile's which the 13ritish'and' American
troccpe occupy in Northern Ibo_sia.
The .iced for bhe ci19:d popttlsition
wee provided by 'the Brit;els but ths,
expense was 'defaayecl by Anreeioa.
Great Britain, like America, is not
r
ending .amt' more troops' to, Nos bhe n
Russia and .fn mil'i'tary qu'artens' 'here
t was s, d to -day that only a few
✓ adio oreratcro 'or• a few doebors, if
recovered, would go.
Snsa'll ole the (ones is, itis con'tanded
tb'at bloeir occupation of th Is territory
prevented the Germans establishing
a submarine bale iii the ice -free Arc-
tic ports, from which they expected
to attack American transpo'rbs.
Opera :r villi, the An-Ante'r� n
p g g,o pa
forces in the Archangel and Mur-
prevented
dietrict ars 6,000 Ruse.ans,
Kexadar,'s :and Firur's, To abandon
thein, 1: is'a'sasrbed, psoiildbe to leave
Arc -
,.
the mercy of the Bolalhevik
forces, The present eneatary's'trength
of the Bolshevists is as yet unknown,
but great quantities of aL ad art L"eery
enmrunitio:n, as well' acs guns 'and m'a
te'ui'alls, left by the retreating Germans,.
fell' into their haundls. Many Russian
ofiioems have been driven to enlist be-
cause of hunger.
A force of 6,000 pro-a.'ly. Russians,
apera'titug with the Anglo Amertean
i!orees, have been responsible, it is
,said, for preventing the Bolshevists
entering ,the rich Siberian areas.
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GATE TA-
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SHIP RAIDED OVER
Superdreadnought and Flotilla
of U -Boats Surrendered
to Allies.
London, Jan. 12. -The German
superdreadnought Baden has ar-
rived in Scapa Flow and has been
interned there with the other vessels
of the German fleet. The surrender
of .this 'warship was demanded, in place
of the battle -cruiser D'fackenseu,
which was not sufficiently completed
to leave Germany.
The Baden is a vessel of about 27,-
000 tons, similar to the Queen Eliza-
beth class, mounting eight 16 -inch
guns and steaming nominally 23
knots.
Another flottila of German sub-
marines, numbering 16, is to leave
Germany to -morrow for surrender to
the allies.
There are still seven submarines int
neutral waters which are about to be
surrendered, and 44 U-boats in Ger-
man ports which must be given up.
One hundred and seventy are in var-
ious stages of building, but the maj-
ority of them are mere skeletons and
further construction work on these
vessels has been suspended.
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WHAT TIIE WESTERN PEOI'Lik
ARE DOING.
•
Progress of the Great West TOM
m q, Few. , Pointed
Paragraphs.
, Victoria's lee skating arena, which
has been closed •.for the past three
years, is opened again.
Pol'atoes .were dug ra e
from the F sot
Valley gardens in December, so mild'
was the weather.
Great clsinia e is being
g g done
by
bark beetles to the timber of British
Columbia.. •
In the seven days between Dece, .
ber '5th and Lith, five persons suc
'cunrbed to automobile accidents et
Vancouver,
Victoria schools, owing to the, in-
fluenza, epidemic, have again been
closed, not to bere- ned until s � opt: ctrl after
the hristrnas Holidays..
A eta: construction league has been
organized .at Vancouver to consider
housing problems, immigration, in -
dairies, 'and
n-cbusiries,'and natural resources.
Lieut. James }L Hampton, of Port
Hammond, who was last seen spin-
ning down in flames from' a height
of 2,000 feet, is reported missing.
Lieut. W. J. Kane, of Port Moody,
while m Mesopotamia, met owe'
a
Turkish prisoner there, whom he
recognized as the proprietor of a
fruit store in Vancouver.
Lance -Corporal W. J. Murdoch, a
compositor on the Vancouver Daily
World, has been awarded the Military
Medal for bravery overseas.
Twice wounded aid awarded the
Military Medal, R. F. Perkins, of
Port Kells, has now won his commis-
sion in the field, although not yet
twenty years of age.
Development work on the Pitt
Meadows Oil Wella: Ltd., is proceed.
ing favorably. The official drill
depth is 1,987.6 and the sand contain-
ed in the last samples looks promis-
ing,
That the death rate in Vancouver
haseen unusuallyhigh during the
11 g
past two months is shown by the
large number of applications for
probate being filed.
Members of the'' Burnaby Council,
the police commissioners and repre-
sentatives of the municipal staff at-
tended the funeral of the late chief
constable, William Parkinson, at Ed-
monds, B.C.
Nursing Sister Gladys Carvolth, a
former Victoria nurse, has recently
returned from overseas and is now
attached to the staff at Shaughnessy
Heights Military Hospital, Vancouver.
Chief Batiste George, of the Ink-
amip Reserve, is probably the largest
subscriber among the Indians of Can-
ada to the Victory Loan, having in-
vested 321,000 of his own savings,
Mr. D. Hardy, postmaster at Camp -
i bell River, succumbed to Spanish in-
t fluenza.
Word has been received at New
Westminster that Lieutenant J. W.
H. Crispin, of that city, has lost both
legs and the rightt,.eye when wound-
ed in France.
Everett W. Hogan has been ap-
pointed chief inspector of the soil and
crop division of the Department of
Agriculture, B.C.
The production of spruce in Brit-
ish Columbia for airplanes will be
curtailed owing to the signing of the
armistice.
The Arrow Lakes District having
doubled its number of subscribers
and 'trebled its Victory Loan over last
year, has won nine crowns.
Lieut. Roland Thompson and Lieut.
Hugh Thompson (brothers), of Ver-
non, B.C., have both been awarded
the Military Cross overseas.
Flight Lieutenant Darrell Tepoot-
ten, Vancouver, is the latest of the
R.A.F. aces, and has won distinction
as a patrol leader on the Italian front.
The Mine -Strewn Seas.
The sinking of the British warship
Cassandra by a nine is another illus-
tration of the danger from this source
to which vessels will be exposed for
slue time to come. After the Russo-
Japanese war disasters of the kind oc-
curred now and then for a number of
year's. Conditions may easily be worse
how, for the Germans, in planting the
mines, disregarded all the rules, It
was determined at The Hague that no
belligerent should "lay unanchored
automatic contact mines except when
they are so constructed as to become
harnlees one hour at most after those
who laid them have lost control of
them' or should "lay anchored auto-
matic contact trines which do not be-
come harmless as soon as they have
broken loose from their moorings."
Germany charged Great Britain with
sowing the waters of the North Sea.
with Mines, But Great Britain took
every precaution to see that merchant
ships kept to the safe lanes, Tho
operations of the German minelayers
were absolutely indiscriminate, as the
losses in merchant tonnage showed.°
The Allied navies will have their worts
cut out for them for some time in
hunting Clown and destroying; those
menaces to navigation.
B12ITAIN ACQUIRES
ORDNANCE STORES
A despatch from London says: -
Canadian ordnance stores on this side
have been sold to the Imperial authori-
ties under an arrangement insuring
that' the Canadian Government should
receive 100 per cent. on all nes a>
' uipment.
Third Division Not to be Sent
Horne Direct Froin France
London, Jan. 12. -The third divi-
sion of the Canadian Corps, the first
to be demobilized, will be brought to
England before being returned to
Canada, as at first intended. Ar-
rangements have been made for a
camp for this division here and the
first of its units will leave for home
early in February.
Copenhagen Says Fighting
Has Been Resumed in Berlin
London, Jan. 12. -Fighting has been
resumed in Berlin, according to ad-
vices received here to -night from
Copenhagen. The Spartacans are
said to be still holding a portion of
the Tageblatt building. The Sparta -
can fosses since the outbreak of the
revolution are -said to be about 1,300
persons killed.
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