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The Seaforth News, 1919-03-27, Page 2BRI'T'ISH INDUSTRIAL NOW IN PRO CESS OF SEMEN NT DISTURBANCES feport of Coal Commission Granting Miners'Two-Thirds of Their Demands Accepted by Government. A despatch ,from London says:— Andrew Bonar Law, the Government spokesman, in a statement in the House of Commons,: said that the. Government accepted the report of the 'special coal commission, of which Jestiee Sir John Sankey is chairman, including its undertaking to report onthe question of nation- alization by May 20, and to issue interim reports from time to time on the problem of improvements in' the coal industry. Porposals of this nature would be put into immediate operation de- clared Mr. Boner Law. This involved the continuance of coal control for two years. With reference to the Sankey re- port, which, he explained, was sign- ed by three representatives of the employers not directly concerned in the coal industry and ganted the miners two-thirds of their demands in wages. Mr. Boner Law said that, the signets of the report recommended a further reduction in hours in 1921, because by -then the output of 1918, namely 287,000,000 tone, will be re- sumed, The estimated cost of what was "reconnrended \vxs for the cur- -rent year, £43;000,000. It was proposed•that the profits of the coal masters sbbuld bo limited to. fourteen pence per toil Taking all things into consideration, the esti- mated cost to the taxpayers would he nearly :830,000,000. Mr. Boner Law also announced that the employers had made what. he himself and the Labor Minister considered reasonable proposals to the transport workers, and he had reason to believe that these' would prove acceptable to the men. Markets of the World Breadstuffs. Toronto, March 25.—No. 1 North- ern, �02d1,,; No. 2 Northern, $2.21% No. 3 Northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11%, in store Fort Wil - loam: Montreal Markets. Montreal, March 25.—Oats, extra No. 1 feed, 81e; flour, new standard grade, $11:1 to $11,20; rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs„ $3.90 to $4; bran, $40.25; shorts, .$42.25; Mouillie, $64; hay No. 2, per ton, oar lots, $23. Cheese, finest Easterns, 24 to 25c; butter, choicest creamery, 58 to 59e; eggs, selected, 36c; No. 1 stock, 35c; po- Manitoba oats—No. 2 C,W., 70ific; tatoes, per bag, car lots, $1,50; dyes - No. 3 C,W., 67%c; extra No. 1 feed, sed, hogs, abattoir killed, $25.50. to 67%c; No. 1 feed, 65%c; No, 2 feed, $26; lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. 623sc, in store Port William. net, 28% to 30c. Manitoba barley—No, 3 C,W., 969%; No. 4 C.W., 90%c; rejected, Live Stock markets. 83%e; feed, S4;%, in store Fort Wil- Toronto, March 25.—Choice heavy Barn. export steers, $16 to $17.50; do, good, American corn—No. 3 yellow, $14.50 to $15.50; choice butcher $1.70%; No. 4 yellow, $1.70; track steers, $13.50 to $13.75; butcher's Toronto, prompt shipment. cattle, choice, $13.25 to $13.75; do, Ontario oats—No. 2 white, 64 to good, $12.25 to $12.75; do, common, 66c; No, i white, 52 to 64c, accord- $10.25 to $10.75; bulls, choice, $10.75 ing to £:eights outside, to $11.75; do, medium bulls, $9 to Ontario wheat --No. 1 winter, per $9.25; do, rough bulls, $7.75 to $8.25; car lot, $2,14. to $2.22; No. 2, do., butchers' cows, choice, $11 to $12.25; $2.11 to $2.19• No. 3 do, $2.07 to do, good, $10 to $10.75; do, medium, $2.15 f.o.b., shipping points, accord- $9 to $9.25• do, common, $7,50 to $8; ing to freights. • stockers, $g to $10.50; feeders, $10.50 Ontario wheat—No. 1 spring, $2.09 to $12; canners and cutters, $5.50 to to $2.17; No. 2 do, $2.06 to $2.14; $7; milkers, good to choice, $90 to No. 3 do, $2.02 to $2.10 f.o.b., ship- $150; do, corn. and med., $65 to $75; ping points,cording to freights. springers, $90 to $150; light ewes, Peas—No. 2, $1,80, according to $11.50 to $1.3; yearlings, $12 to $14; freights outside, spring lambs, $16.75 to $18.75; calves, Barley—Malting, 90 to 95c, nomin- good to choice, $16 to $17.50; hogs, al. fed and watered, $20; do, off cars, Buckwheat—No. 2, 85c, nominal. $20.25; do, f,o.b., $19.25; do, f.o.b., Rye—No. 2, $1.39 to $1.42, nomin- country points, $19. al.Manitoba flour—Government elan- Montrel, Mar. 25.—Choice steers, dead. $10:75 to $11.00, Toronto. $13 to $14; good, $12 to $13; medium, Ontario flour—Government stan- $7$10.50 to $11,50; common, down to dard, 89.55 to'$0.76 en bags,'Toronto to $1 choice butcher cattle, $10.50 to $11,50; good, $9 to $10; medium, and Montreal, prompt shipment in $8,50 to $9; canners, $5 to $6.50; jute hugs. milk calves, $10 to $15; sheep, $9 to Mill eed-Y Car lots,, delivered Mon- treal freights, bags included. Bran, $10,50; lambs, $12 to $15. $40.25 per ton; shorts, $42.25 per ton good feed flour, $3.25 to $3.50 per bag. Hay—No. 1, $20 to ,$21 per ton; mixed, 018 to $19 per ton, track, Torun t o. Straw—Car lots, $10 per ton. Country Produce—Wholesale. Butter Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to e8;; prints, 40 to.41c. Creamery, fresh made solids, 50 to 61e; prints, 51 to 53c, Eggs—New laid, 35 to 36c. Dressed poultry—Chickens, 26 to 345• roosters, 25c; fowl, 27 to 82c; ducklings, 32e; turkeys, 45c; squabs, doz., $4.50; geese, 25c, Live poultry—Roosters, 22c; fowl, 28 to 330; ducklings, lb., 35c; tur- keys, 30c: chickens, 27ct geese, 18c. Cheese—New, large, 28 to 2814c; twins, 28% to 29c; triplets-, 29 to 293%; Stilton, 291• to 30c; old, large, 29% to 30e; twins, "u0 to 301 c. Potatoes—Ontarios, f.o.b. track Toronto, car lots, $1.15 to $1.20. Beans—Canadian, handepicked, bushel, $8,25 to $3.75; primes, $2.50 to $3 imported band -picked, Burma or Indian, $8.25; Limas, 14e. Honey—Extracted clover, 5 lb. tins 25 to 20e lb.; 10 lb. tins, 24% to 200c; 60 lb. tins, 24 to 25c; buckwheat, 60 lb. tins, 19 to 20c. Comb: 16 oz., $4.50 to $5, doz.; 12 oz., $3.50 to $4, doz, Maple products --Syrup, per gal., $2.25 to $2.35; sugar, lb., 27 to 28c. Provisions -- Wholesale. Smoked meats—Hams, medium, 30 to 8Sc; do, heavy, SO to 32e; cook- ed, 49 to 51c; rolls, 31 to 32c; break - 'fast bacon, 41 to 45c; backs, plain, 44 to 45c; boneless, 50 to 52c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 28 to 29c; clear bellies, 27 to 28e. Lard—Pure, tierces, 27 to 27%c; tubs, 271/ to 28c; pails, 27% to 28%; prints, 28% to 29c. Compound, tierces, 20% to 2531c; tubs, 25% to 261%; pails, 26 to 263%; prints 27% to ,27%c. FAMOUS PRINCESS PATS HAVE BEEN DISBANDED A despatch from Ottawa says:— The famous Princess Patricia's Can- adian Light Infantry, Canadian Ex- peditionary Force, is no more, De- mobilization has been completed, the last man being discharged and the unit disbanded. There was a touch- ing scene as. Lieut. -Col. A. H. Galt, the organizer of the unit, bade the men farewell. Many of the men have left for their homes, those living at a distance being provided with first class sleeper accommodation and tickets, in addition to generous al- lowances for meals en route. Swiss Will Grant Asylum To Late Austrian Emperor A despatch from Geneva says:— The Swiss Government has received a formal demand from former Ens- ' The Guards Cpme ,home. „ All London went wield upon the return of the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards from the war front. Of the original unit which left England in 1914, only 12 fortunate men survive to take part in this memorable home -coming. None of the gallant officers are alive, their burial places being chiefly Mons, The Marne, Aisne, and Ypres. BRITISH AVIATORS TO CROSS ATLANTIC A despatch from London says:— British ays:—British aveitors are to try for a flight across the Atlantic. A secret- ly built airplane, accompanied by Harry Hawker as pilot, and Com- mander Mackenzie Grieve, Royal Navy, as navigator, has been shipped from England for St. John's, New- foundland, where it will start at the earliest possible moment in an at- tempt to win the Daily Mail prize of 210,000 for the first machine to fly across the Atlantic. The machine is a 'Sopwith two- seater biplane, with a 375 horse- power engine. The fusilage is boat - shaped, and will support the machine in the water. _ Pilot Hawker said he believed that the flight would occupy about 19% hours. The machine, he added, had flown 900 mileein nine hours and five minutes on one-third of its petrol capacity, and is capable of maintain- ing a speed of 100 miles an hour for 25 hours, Harry G. Hawker won the British Michelin prize for 1912 by a flight of eight hours and 28 minutes. He has made many long-distance flights along the British coast, He estab- lished a world's altitude record of 28,500 feet in 1916, -` ---.9- $50,000 for Anzac Airman Who Flies From Britain Home A despatch from M- elbourne, Aus- tralia, says:—The Commonwealth Government is ocering a prize of $50,000 for the first successful flight from Great Britain to Australia that is undertaken by Australians. Former French War Minister New Governor of Alsace A despatch from - Paris says:— President Poincare at a meeting of the Wallet on Friday signed a de- cree appointing Alexandre Millerand, former Minister of War, Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, M, Mriilerand''s headquarters will be at Strasbourg. peror Charles of Austria requestinndlle, permission for him to live in Switz--'' ,TIE ITALIAN COMMISSION erland. As the allies, through Arthur J. Balfour, the British For- eign Secretary, when sounded on the subject recently, made no objection to such residence, the request of Charles probably will be granted. The matter is now in the hands of the Political Department. • Unless Rhine is Boundary, Have Lost War, Says Foch A despatch from Paris says:— "The Rhine is our only good line of defence. I do not demand annexa- tion, but if we do not -secure that military frontier we will have fought in vain," is a statement made by Marshal • Poch, quoted in an enter - view printed in the Matin on Friday. WILL INSIST ON FIUME A despatch from - Paris says:— The Italian delegation to the Peace Conference has unanimously decided to withdraw from the confere'rece un- less Fiume is assigned td Italy con- temporaneously with the conclusion of peace, Canada's 'War Cost Claims Will Exceed $1,500,000,000 A despatch from Paris says:—Can- ada has completed her war cost esti- mates for submission to the Repara- tions, Commission. It is understood, according to the Reuter correspon- dent, that the amount will exceed $1,600,000,000. SITUATION IN EGYPT IS GRAVE British Forces, Already Large` Are Being Reinforced— Bedouins Pillaging. A despatch from London says:— The situation in Egypt is becoming worse, and at the present time is dis- tinctly grave, a Reuter 'despatch from Cairo says. Gen. Allenby, the com- mander in Palestine, will reach. Cairo Tuesday. The large forces of troops already in Egypt are being reinforc- ed. A large number of armed Bedouins have entered Beheira Province, low- er Egypt, from the west, and are robbing towns and villages. The eiituation is not regarded as present- ing any military danger. The Turkish flag :is reported ,to be flying in some villages of Belieire Province. There are no reports of any casualties having been suffered by the military, but some prominent native officials and several Egyptian police have been killed. - Riots et Cairo and Tanta on March 12 were suppressed by troops and the police. The disorders in Egypt have been ascribed to -.the activities of the Nationalist' leaders, several of whom have been deported. "Going to theblacksmith shop to get my tin hat reblocked." TRAIN SERVICw EXPECT PARD I �N OF GERMANY' FIGHT S INS SPRING'L DEFINITELY BROKEN Allies and I3oltihevilci Hurrying ARMY OF 600,000 IMMOBILE ANL Prepa ratiiatps For Big LACKING IN MORALE Conflict. A despatch from Archangel says:— Patrol activity has increased con- sideea'b'ly` alone the Vologda railway and on the Dvina front. On both sectors the Bolebovikli have been defeated by the allied and American A^ mean -' Bolshevik raiding party, making its way over, the snow, sur - priced an allied : artillery position in the forests near the Vo:ogda rail-a:r. After considerable fighting in the darkness' the ra; ileia were renulsed, leaving a number of dead behind. Following up last Friday's suc- cess on the Dvina, when The Amer - leer's and Russians repulsed a raid against the allied lines of commune Though Defeated. Great Part of Prussians' Remain Unrepentant and Still Dream of War. It is cafe to say no one in the Brit, ish army believes Germany, in a mila tory sense, eis any icn;yee capable o raking the field against thee allies, ea; -e a war correspondent. Premia; ... Clemencesu e famous ennner tat:ion the potential strength of the Gammas army as 600,000 men Was technically . accurate, hut those 60d,000 no longer constitute an effective military ma- chine. Of the total number, throe - quarters, or• about 450 000, of 'the 1918-19 classes are in depots and are' icition, an American petrcl party on immobile for leek of equipment. Friday eneoue'tered a Bolshevik pa- Their discipline is of the, worst, trol in a wood, A number of the Boleheviki were Wiled and the others in the party were made prisoner. As the winter has 'been unusually mild. in north Russia, it is expected submittii'ng to military routine, but There is little respect for the 5 cars, who dare not ateemeit to enforce their authority, and apparently num- bees of the men make no pretense of that within a month the thaws will live as civilians, wearing only enough come to matte extensive land fight- uniform to enable ' them ee present ing impracticable. The Bolshevilei themselves at barracks and draw ra- will have a big advantage when the tions, The remaining 150,000 are re - rivers open. The Dvina and Vega presented by Hindenburg's two arm - les in eLas an nese a so seem Rivers will be navrgeble near the th 7' t, d tt 1 fighting front before the Deena is ill-equipped and of questionable mor - opened further north around Arch- ale. The volunteer battalions re- 1.d angel. This condition would permit cently organized were to be sent to � ° DAD the Bvik guts ch hvjorm, but wto PARIS A ® I� 1 a ij spent olsthehegunboats winter at Krasno-hwhiarshae be in unablethese ato proceediesfrom ere lackfound of Suspension Bridge to be Built Over the Bosphorus at Constantinople. A despatch from Paris says:—A fast train service ,from Paris to Southeastern Europe to replace the famous Orient express, it became known, was discussed at a meeting this week of diplomatic representa- tives of Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Rou- mania, Greece and France, under the chairmanship of Albert Claveille, French Minister of Pieblic Works. The new route would run through the Simplon Tunnel and Milan, Venice, Triest, Agram and Belgrade. Later it would be continued to Bucharest and to Constantinople. There is under consideration the question of a suspension bridge across the Bos- phorus at Constantinople, over which connection would be made with the German -built line to Bagdad. .-o COMMANDER FROM PALESTINE HAS ARRIVED IN L:Att1S A despatch from Paris says:—. Gen, E. H. H. Allenby, commander of the British forces in Palestine, has arrived here from Egypt to advise the Supreme Council on Near East- ern questions. A Tell -Tale Document for the Peace Conference. An interesting phoiographic bit of evidence for the Peace Confer - ewe in the above photo which shows German soldiers destroying the machinery of a silk mill. owned by N. Cattelinain, at Boussi.eres, near Cumbrae and Kotlas to reach the vicinity of greatcoats, and the whole system of Beresnilci before the allied river fio- ordnance, commissariat and mans- tilln can steam southward to meet' port seems disorganized. them. Not Genuinely Reformed. Efforts are 'being made, however, . Undoubtedly a large part of the to speed up the arrival of the allied military caste still dreams of a fu - I fleet in the fighting cone in order to tura war which will reverse the ver - confine the Bolshevik advantage to diet of this one, and it would be rash the shortest time possible. In the to believe any considerable part of meantime, as long as the present the German people are really in their cold weather continues, it is a race hearts repentant and honestly re - against time to move over the snow formed. But I do not believe any - before the thaw comes sufficient big where any [illusion exists as' to the guns and ammunition- to hold the immediate future er any hope of be - enemy boats in check until the allied ing able to renew the war against the vessels can move southward. In this Entente, work the allied transport service is The only national enemy now is performing a stupendous task in, Bolshevism, of which, beyond doubt, spite of the shortage of hay and oats,' the Carmen people aa a whole are which has weakened 'the horses for terribly afraid. It is in the areas the long hauls- over the snow and occupied by Allied troops alone that added greatly to the difficulties of any sense of security exists. the situation, — BOY SCOUTS' CELEBRATION World -Chain of Bonfires to Celebrate the Declaration of Peace. ONE OF 6 GREATEST GENERALS Gen. Ilaig Infallible Leader in. Most Glorious Campaign of History. In connection with Field Marshal The British Boy Scouts' Associa- Haig's -transfer from.command of the tion, under the direction of Chief British army on :the continent to Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powel, has command the home forces, the Lon - inaugurated the idea of a "world- don Times prints an appreciative chain of bonfires" to celebrate the article recognizing both his failures declaration of peace. Every unit in the United Kingdom will light a bon- fire to blaze forth the glad tidings. The -boys want to make- the cele- bration Empire -wide. The British Overseas Club and the Patriotic Lea- gue have communicated with over- seas branches asking all wileing to co-operate to get in touch with them at Aldwych, London, England. There is talk of a boys' bonfire in every town and city in -Canada, a pec- uliarly appropriate form of celebra= tion, since this was in ,former cen- turies the chosen means of communi- cating great news, whether of na- tional danger or national victory, CANADA'S POPULATION 8,835,000 A despatch from Ottawa,. Ont., says:—Canada's estimated popula- tion, as given in the Commons, is 8,835,000. The census of 1911 show- ed 7,206,643; H WIRELESS TELEPHONE TALKS FROM IRELAND TO CANADA A despatch from London says:— The establishment of wireless tele- phony btween Ireland and Canada has been announced by the Marconi Company Everybody's Living Longer Now. Average lifetime has been increased three years by sanitation and science; and the longevity of a suit of clothes has been increased three years by the war. 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Plr�� '- ii �iI'Ii II..fl,y ` fuK �!; 100sis DKrvFt"a I,'11 t .M' -.... r .,:...� .1, 5 ..... u�ii N t "JpA�`;i� „•Fi fl by t a \yG ria. ml 'J.' Svi; i J ,,t `.w"'.• IJS.IS.rls and successes. "Field Marshal Haig," says the article, "probably fought more bat - ties than any British general who has ever lived, and their magnitude dwarfs everything in our military history. Waterloo would have been a mere combat if it hod figured in the catalogue of his engagements, and his battles were, on the whole, singularly successful. "His best things were done at the beginning and at the end of the war. The conduct of the retreat. from Mons was above praise, and it should never be forgotten that his was the distinction of that greatest and nar- rowest of British victories, the first battle of Ypres. "In the last few months of the war he was as infallible as the Duke of Wellington himself, and when their history comes to be properly written we shall hail this period as incom- parably the most glorious of our military history. "Haig must share the glory with others, but when all deductions have been made enough will remain to put him among the first half dozen gen- erals this country has ever produced. Mistakes he may have made, for bat- tles like Loos were premature, as we now see in view of the amazing strength of the German positions, and Passohendaele must always he ac-. counted a sone of the most tragie passages in our history." The House of Life. Brief dweller in a world of strife, Unfriended and alone, I fain would build my house of life With love for coruer-etone. So love shall matte my house secure For shelter and for rest; 'Love bringethtpleasures that endure And many a cheerful guest. And thus my house of life shall be ' More blest than tongue can tell: 'Tis banded for eternity And Christ twit shall dwell A Camouflaged Will. An old fellow on his deathbed, in making his will, murmured to his lawyer: "And to each of my employ- es who have been with me twenty years or more I bequeath $10,000." "Holy smoke! What generosityt" ie ' wvee eirla red, "No, not at all," aid the siclt man. "FOB peel none of them have been with me 'yeareeeeet nt will look good in the papers, won't it 4.1r-eeee Start the pendulum. No use to wind the clock and leaVe the pendu- lum 'hanging straight' down. Give every morning a right start by hey- 1 ing things ph ;moi ed out right before i von begin.,