HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-07-19, Page 6BRITAIN MAY PURSUE SEPARATE POLICY
TO SAVE EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION
, British Premier Declares That French Policy is Destroying
Gerniany and That: -Occupation of the Ruhr Should
Cease --Will Strive to Maintain Entente but if Necessary
Will Take SeparateAction-Germany Must Make Re
liberations to Full Extent of Her Capacity.
A despatch from London says:-- This was the only important point
The. British Prime Minister, ,Rt. Hon. in the pronouncement, which, for the
Stanley Baldwin, made his expected remainder, was a warning couched in
statement of Government policy in re- the most friendly language, but plain-
gard to the Ruhr and:German repera ly telling France that the British Gov
tions on Thursday afternoon in a ernment could not much longer remain
crowded House. An identical state~ a passive spectator to a policy which
ment was read in the Lords by Mar- threatened the economic collapse of
quis Curzon, but whereas, according Germany and with it disaster to the
to prearrangement, there was no dis- whole of Europe.
cession of the statement in the Com- Taken as a whole, the pronounce-
mons, speeches were made in the Lords mont seemed to be a new appeal to
by Viscount Grey and Earl Birken- France to retrace her steps and coma
head, which were, in the words of Lord into line with all the allies in a new
Curzon, "a little irregular." effort to settle the reparations prob-
It is assumed that the French and lem by negotiation, instead of by mili-
Belgian assent had already been eb- .tary penalties, .The Premier was most
tained to the general outline of the careful to avoid any shutting of the
British proposals, If and when the doors on renewed negotiations.
French and Belgian assent is obtained
to the text of the note whieh Britain
will draft in reply to the German offer,
the British, or, as it will then be, the
allied note, will be presented to Berlin.
The next stage will be the appoint-
ment of an international expert com-
mission to determine what amount of
indemnity Germany can pay. phrased thus:
Sit ,'antras
Ger-
Notable points were the complete
absence of any reference to the United
States in connection with the negotia-
tions and emphasis that Italy was,
with Great Britain, rather than with
France.
The real meaning of Premier Bald -
win's speech might be roughly para -
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his predecessors, Mr. Lloyd George
"The French are destroying
and Mr. Bonar Law, which were eery many and the result must be chaos
lengthy, Premier Baldwin's pronounce- and war. French methods are already
meats were particularly brief, taking devastating our industry as the Ger-
about 16 minutes for delivery. mans devastated France, and the
French should withdraw from the
how far the British Government's open Ruhr, permit Germany to recover and
• disapproval of the French Ruhr policy Pay
and its holding aloof therefrom were "Germany has made an offer con -
to be converted into an active policy I taining the germ of a settlement. - We
separate from France -was to a great, insist upon accepting their proposal .to
extent unanswered. Premier Baldwincarry out the award of an impartial
certainly moved quite perceptibly i commission as to what they can pay.
away' from Mr. Bonar Law's attitude We want France to agree with us, but l
of passivism, inasmuch as he announc- l if she does not, we -with Italy, will act
ed the Government's decision to sub- notwithstanding. - 1
mit to the allies a separate reply to "We desire most earnestly to mann-'
Germany's latest offer. But he did not thin the Entente, but we cannot let
European civilization fall 'to ieces
the slightest indication ofthea o
givern
p p
g'
I
tura of the proposed reply. ;for its sake."
The question on everybody's lips -
John S. Martin
Minister of Agriculture in the New
Ontario Cabinet.
DA AGE CLAIMS IN IRELAND
RECORD MAY B!, SET
BY WEST WHEAT CROP
ESTIMATED AT $150,000,000' Railways Add to Equipment
in Order to Handle Huge
Problem of Settlement Involves Sifting Just from Fraudulent
Demands Upon Imperial and Free State
Governments.
A despatch from London says: -
Now that peace' has 'been'restored in
the Irish Free State, an 'effort, will be
made to speed up negotiations to set-
tle damages growing out of disturb-
ances in Southern Ireland. The total
of such claimstwill be enormous: The
problem- is a big one, and there are
numerous complications which mili-
tate against haste in arriving at terms
of settlement.
The aggregate of damage•.dono to
Col.' W. H. Price of Toronto property in Ireland in the last
four,
Thee Provincial Treasxver in Pre- and one -h if yearsis variouslyesti-,
mierierguson'scabinet. mated, but the sum of $150,000,000
Lincoln Goldle, M.P.P.
Appointed Provincial Secretary in
atm new Ferguson Cabinet in Ontario.
j5is home is In Guelph,
TRIPLE COLLISION
IN NORTH SEA
Two Steamers Met and Sur-
vivor Later Struck by Third
Vessel.
London, July 15. -Three steamers
were in collision in the fog in the
North Sea to -day. Two of them were
sunk, but their crews were rescued,
and the third proceeded on her voyage
in a damaged condition.
Owing to the heavy fog, the Swedish
steamer Eldorado hove to, and the
Spanish steamer Begona No. 5 brash -
ed into her. While the two vessels
were locked the Eldorado's crew, num-
bering 18, climbed aboard the Begone,
and soon after the Eldorado went to
the bottom.
Later the British steamer Sheridan,
.coming through the fog, hit the Be -
gong amidships, and as the latter be-
gan to fill her boats were lowered, and
jeer own crew and that of the Eldor-
ado, totalling 43 men, reached the
Sheridan. The captain of the British-
er
ritish-
'er'sent a radio message to Yarmouth,
from which port tugs were despatched
and took off the survivors.
The Sheridan was considerably
smashed in her forepeak but was able
to proceed without assistance.
FRANCE MAINTAINS
DETERMINED STAND
Attitude on Ruhr Remains
Unchanged Despite British I
P'remier's Declaration.
Paris, July 15. -Premier Poincare -
to -day made a speech at Swills, the
tenor of which is taken as a polite re -1
fusel to budge from the position he
has taken since January, in spite of
British Premier Baldwin's recent de-
claration in the House of Commons.
Senlis was the nearest to Paris that
the Germans got in their 1914 drive
and was one of the first French towns
to suffer wilful destruction at the
hands of the enemy.
T,lie Premier's statement here was
expected to be a reply to Mr. Bald-
win, but he refrain5d, apparently with,
studious care, from making any deft-;
nite reference to the new British
policy. However, he made it clear the
French attitude remains unchanged on1
the following points:
First -France will not discuss re-
parations with Germany until Reich
ceases passive resistance in the Ruhr.
Paris believes this resistance would
have stopped before now but for the
encouragement given Berlin by the
policy of other allies.
Second -France sees no reason to
evacuate the Ruhr until reparations
are paid.
Third -France opposes substitution
of an international commission of ex-
perts for the Reparations Commission.
Mr. Baldwin suggested such an inter-
national body to assess Germany's ca-
pacity to pay.
Fourth -France sticks to her de-
termination to obtain 26,000,000 gold
marks for herself, plus a sufficient
sum to meet her own debts to Great
Britain and the United States, unless
these countries are prepared to accept
the worthless German !'C" bonds in
place of the French obligations.
Be warned against nursing re-
vengeful thoughts; they are apt to de-
velop sharp stings.
seems to be a ' fair computation. Of,
course, all claims are not yet in, and
Weekly. Moret when the last claim has been filed, the
d Report real task will begin -that of sifting l
TORONTO. Dial brand bfeakfast bacon, 34 to 03c;
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern,
backs,; boneless, 37 to 42c.
.Cured masts -Log n clear bacon 50
to 70 lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs. $1 7.50;
90 lbs. and up, :$16.50• lightweights
$1.14112.
Manitoba oats -No. 3:CW, 491tc;
No. 1 feed, 48c. ,
Manitoba barley-NominaL rolls, in barrels, 336; heavyweight
All the above, track, bay ports. rolls,' 383.
Are. corn -No. 2 yellow, 31.05. Lard -Pure tierces, 15% to 1311x5;
Barley -Malting, 57 to 59c, accord -'tubs, 15112 to 160; pails, 15 to 16%e;
in% to freights outside prints 18c• Shortening tieeees 141e.
to 16c; prints, 17 to 17 �>c.
uekwheat-No 2, 68 to 690. to 15c; tubs, 15 to 15%c; paha, 15%
Rye -No. 2, nominal.
Peas -No. 2, 31.40 to 31.45. Choice heavy steers. 33.35 to $$8.60;
Millfeed=Del.; Montreal freights, butcher steers, choice, $7.75 to $8; do,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $26 to good, $'7 tie $7.50; do, rued., $6.50 to
$26; shorts, per ton, $27, to 329; mid- a7; do, coma, $6 to $6.25; butcher heif-
dlings, $33 to 335; good feed ;lour, are, choice, $7 to 37.50;do,meg)., $6.50
$2.15 to 32.25. tc• 37; do, come, 36to 80."0; but,,her
Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, nom- cows, choice, $5.50 to 36 65 do, mad.,
tial. / 34 to 35; canners and cutters, $1..50 to
Ontario No. 2 white oats -46 to 48c. $2; butcher bulls, good, 34.50 to 85.00;
Ontario corn -Nominal. 1 do, come, $8 to 34; .fceding steers,
Ontario flour -Ninety per cent pat.,' good, 37 to $7:50; do, fair, 36 to 30.75;
in jute bags, Montreal- prompt ship- stockers, good, $5 to 36; do, fair, $4.50
ment, $5:10 to 35.20; Toronto basis, to 35; milkers, springers, each, 360 to
85.05 to 35.15; bulk seaboard, $4.95 to $80; calves. choice, 38 to $10; do, med:,
$5.00. $0.50 to $8; do, com, $4.50 to $6;1
k 6 90 •bbl • t e 8
Corn,.Am.. No. 2 ellow, 95
Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per tongy c. Oats,
track, Toronto, $15; No. 3 timothy, Can. est., No. 2, 57 to 571c; do,
Manitoba flour 1st pats.,in cotton MONTREAL.
saes, $ . per .; 2ndpas., ,, (i. 5,
313; mixed, 312.50 to $13.50.
Straw -Car lots, per' ton, track, To-
ronto, 39.50. -
Cheese -New, large, 21c' twine
22c; triplets, 28c; Stiltons, 24c. Old,
large, 32c; twins,, 3211ic; triplets, 830;
l Stiltons, 334.c. New Zealand old
cheese. 30c.
Butter -Finest creamery prints,
I34c; ordinary creamery prints, 82c;
No. 2, 31e.
Ergs-T'irsts, 29e; extras, 33c; ex-
tras in cartons, 35c.•
The population of Greater Vancou-
ver is 266,624 persons, according to
the annual publication of a local ''di-
rectory. This is an increase of 12,777
in population during the year.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 40c;
hens, over 5 lbs., 22e; do, 4 toy lbs.,
20e; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 17c; roosters, 15c;
ducklings, over 5 lbs., 30e; do 4 to 5
lbs., 28c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and
up, 25c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
45e; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c. do, 4 to 5
lbs., 24c; do, 3 to 4.lbs., 20e; roosters,
17c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 80e; clo, 4
to 5 lbs., 29c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs-,
and up, 30c.
• Beans -Can. hand-picked, lb.. 7c;
primes, 6%e..
Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
gal., 32.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per
gal-; maple sugar, lb., 25c.
Honey -60 -lb. tins, 101/ to 110 per
lb.; 3 and 21,1-1b. tins, 11 to 12i-ic per
lb.; Ontario comb honey, per doz, No,
1, $4.50 to $5; No. 2, 33.75 to $.4.25.
Smoked meats -Hams, merle, 26 to
28c; cooked hams, 42 tq 45,;; smelted
rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rode, 25 to
28c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34e; spe;
Ca W
Can
est. No. 3, 55 to 55%e; do,
extra No. 1 feed, 53% to 54c; do, No.
2 local white, 52%` to 53c. Flour, Man.
spring wheat pats., lets, 36.90; do,
2nds,•35.40; do, strong bakers, $6;20;
do, winter pats., choice, 35.75 to $5.85.
Rolled oatt,bag, 90 lbs., $3.05 to $3.15.
Bran, $26. Shorts, 329. . Middlings,
Capt, Joe. Thompson
The newl3' appginted Speaker of the
Ontario House -„ • ,
POLITICS REPLACE 71-1E SWORD IN IRELAND.
President Cosgrove of Ireland making a political speech before a huge
gathering in Ireland, his first since peace has been restored. An election
is row pending in that country.
DOC WHITEY WAS HE-RE-
TODAY
ERETODAY , DAD f
PSD irVVDAR CDUMMY
FOR HIS AGE
just frbin fraudulentdetnands upon
the Imperialandthe '�5ree State ex -
The Colonial Office; presided over by
the Duke of Devonshire, which is, � of
course, concerned with claims erasing,
before the truce, received deputations)
of Lords and members of Commons,
representing former Southern loyal-
ists from time to time, but rather
strict secrecy is maintained concerning
•h toursconversations
t o e ~hitch the
take at those, - coieferences. But, as
usually is the case in the award or
damages, the claimants are up in
arms because they do not think they
are going to receive as; much as they
are entitled to.
The claims fall into two categories,
First, there are those arising before
the truce of July, 1921, which was a
preliminary to the peace_treaty and'
the subsequent erection of the Irish
Free State. Those claims must be met
jointly by the Free State and the In-
perial Government. All claims for
damages arising after July; 1921,
must be met by the Free State alone.
That is, the' Free State and the Im-
erial Government each a
p e a seine res-
ponsibility for payment of valid com-
pensation in respect of injuries to its
own eiipporters in the ,pre -truce per-
iod. Subsequent damage will be set-
tled under a criminal injuries bill
passed by Dail Eireann.
This latter ,bill, provides for cash
settlement of approved claims up to
$7,000. Claims above this amount
will: be settled partly in cash and part-
ly in Free State securities, Acceptance
of governmerit securities is very dis-
tasteful to femme Southern Irish loy-
alists, who would like to have etheir
settiementsan sold cash, and they are
pressing -the Inimperial '' Government to
guarantee payment of. their losses.
That the Government here hap stead
fastly .refused to do.
Among those former Southern loy-
alists are many who, having done
everything in their power to thwart
Irish- home rule, finally abandoned
Ireland altogether upon the creation
of the Free State. Their position is
akin to thatof the loyalists in the
United States after the Revolutionary
War. Though mudh 0f: the .property
of the American loyalists'lvas confis-
cated, there arose no end, of Revolu-
tionary War claims, which, to this day,
l
are still is process of settlement by a
special standing.committee of the Un-
ited States Senate.
The American precedent may well
be cited as an :indication of the time
it will require to adjust all of the
claims growing out ;of 'the wholesale
destruction which has been carried on
in Ireland in the last live years.
Payment of those claims will, of
course, be a drag on the Free State
treasury -now nearly empty -for
some years. Nevertheless' claims age
gregating nearly'. $5,0.00,000 have al-
ready been paid, although that, of
course, is not a .drop in the bucket
compared to what must be found when
the Government settles down to the
serious task of paying the fiddler for
all that has'been going on in Ireland,
partour'arly in the last year.
384. Hay, No.- 2, per ton, car lots,
313 to 314.
Cheese finest easterns, 17% to 18e.
Butter, choicest creamery, 80% to 31c.
Eggs, selected, 29c. Potatoes, per bag,
car lots, 31,10 to $1.25.
BIG BOND ISSUE TO -
EQUIP NATIONAL RY.
$22,500,000 Flotationis to be
Guaranteed by Canadian
Government.
Ottawa, Ont, July 15. -Arrange-
ments are being made for the issue, in
Canada, of $22,500,000, bonds of the
Canadian National Railway Company,
it was announced to -day, by. Hon. W.
S. Fielding, Minister of Finance. The
bonds will be guaranteed as to prin-
ciple and interest by the Canadian
Government, which owns all the stock
of the company.
Thcse bonds are to be, issued for the
purpose of equipping the railway with
necessary rolling stock. In accordance
with thecustom respecting equipment
bonds, one quarter .of the cost of
equipment'is tobe paid in cash. The
remainder will -be represented by ser-
ial bonds covering a period of fifteen
years. In this case the equipment to
be acquired is costing 330,000,000.
One-quarter of this is provided out of
the general appropriation made by
Parliament for the railways. The re-
mainder, -322,500,000, will be covered
by bonds. The bonds will bear five per.
cent. interest.
There are large loans maturing this
year which necessarily engage the at-
tention of the Ministei, but, it is
understood that no further issue will
be made in Canada before October
first.
Wheat Drops to 383/4 Cents
on Chicago Market
Chicago, July. 15. -Wheat, whicha
few days ago dropped below 31 for
the first time since 1914, dropped to a
still lower record . on the -Chicago
Board of Trade, when July wheat
slumped to 98% cents closing at 98%i
cents. September futures dropped to
a new low since 1915, selling pt 981-8.
cents and closing; at 981-4 cents. De-
cember delivery dropped to $1.011-8
and closed at ,31.01 1-4.
James W. Lyons
A new member of the Ontario House,
who has been made Minister of Lands
and Forests in the Ferguson Cabinet.
His graadfath-ar emigrated to Canada
seventy years• ago with four brothers.
The shdp In which they sailed m -et dis-
aster on the voyage, and the new min-
ister's grandfather was the solo sur -
'direr of the fancily to reach Canada,
rr
Halifax Starts Campaign With -
British Shipping Companies
A despatch from. Halifax says: -
The City Council has begun a cam-
paign to induce British steamship
companies to use Halifax as a port of
call for large passenger and mail
steamships and it has instructed the
Mayor to cable Rear. Admiral Sir Guy
Gaunt thanking him for his interest
in developing a fast Atlantic mail ser-
vice via Halifax.
A message was sent to, the British
Postmaster -General urging him to test
Halifax as a mail port with a steamer
of the Mauretania type. It was said
that the port possesses "increased
facilities for the expeditious handling
and transmit of snails for practically
the whole continent"
Arrangements are being concluded
according to report by the Alberta
Government for the financing of the
extensions of railways in the Peace
River and Grande Prairie districts,
the farthest north railways in Canada.
IN RABBTTBORO
YEP '1 `GUE,SS HE
�` MUST BE -
Harvest.;
A, despatch from Ottawa says:'
Reports in the Department of Agri-
culture from the West confirm the gen-
erally optimistic statements respecting
Western crop prospects that have been
issued by the railways,' the banks and
the various 'Governniental agencies in
1 the ,Prairie Provinces. Of course no
011e will, officially hazard the opinion
thatthere will be a 500,000,00 bushel
wheat crop or anything like it, for
this would mean 100,000,000 more than
even last year, when the largest wheat
,crop in the history of the country was
harvested. But the uniformly excel-
lent conditions, together with an acre-
age only a little over one per cent. be-
low that of 1922, warrant expectations
of a new record yield.
It may seem like expecting too much
to look this year for another crop as ,
large es that of 1922. It, however,
must he borne in mind that when Al-
berta has a big yield the country gen
,er•ally follows snit, In 1915, when the
West raised 364,000,000 bushels of
wheat from a little over 14,000,000
acres, Alberta had an average yield
of slightly over 81 bushels to the acre,
six more than had Saskatchewan and -
Manitoba. This year Alberta has
about 6,000,000 acres under wheat,
and if it can duplicate its performanne
of .1915 this would mean about 190,-
000,000
9I -000,000 bushels, and Hon. Vernon W.
Smith, one of the members of the Al-
berta Government, has ventured the
opinion that the yield may go 175,000,-
000.
75,000,000. So it is not surprising that big
figures are being forecast.
The railways are preparing for the
heaviest crop movement in their his-
tory. Last year they set up a remark-
able record, but high as it was they
are convinced that they must be pre-
pared to do even better this year, and
to this end their plans have been laid.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is add-
ing sixty new engines to its Prairie
lines, these being of the largest type,
and adding 2,000 box cars to the al-
ready huge number on its Prairie di-
visions. The Canadian National is
also making important additions to its
equipment.
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FRENCH DEVICE DOES
WORK OF PILOT
Takes Photographs a; rVki t ls,
Party of Sixty SSpeu t Nt lu1
Bombs from ilt+ero>rsl es.. •*" --
to Hear Euglish`Nightj goes
A despatch from. Paris 849S
airplanes think" is the la -
est diversion of French ,aviation ex-
perts at Villiers Coublay, according tc
the few details that have been allowed
to leak out, but which indicate eon-
eiderable success already attained.
Hitherto, it has been thought neces-
sary to have at least one passenger
in machines controlled by wireless, his
duty consisting in dropping bombs or
taking photographs. With a new de-
vice, however, an electrically control-
led roll of paper providing contacts
whenever certain altitudes and dis-
tances are attained, is made to do the
same work.
For instance, by inserting a proper-
ly perforated "music roll," an unoccu-
pied plane has been started on a
twenty -mile flight, risen to 2,500
metres at the end of tho third mile,
released a dummy bomb, circled to the
left for ten miles more, descended to
less than 500 metres, opened its cam-
era eye, to snap the scenery below
while the' meter slowed' down to pre-
vent .blurring 'the pictures, and re-
sumed normal flight back to the
starting point, -landing safely.
• Not the least advantage of the new
systein is that the oldest planes can
be sent up in time of war without
risking the life of a pilot or observer,
Queen of Netherlands. Pre-
serves Incognita in England
A despatch from London says: -
Queen Wilhelmina is doing some out-
door painting in oil during her stay
in England's beautiful lake district.
But she is visiting England not as
Queen of the Netherlands, but as the
"Countess of Duren," and is preserv-
ing the strictest incognita.'
She is accompanied by the Prince
Consort and the Princess Juliana,
their daughter. En route to the north
country they stopped a few moments
at Victoria station, where the Ring
and Queen of England were awaiting
them.
Nightingales Rarer
in English Woods
A despatch from London says: -To
hear the nightingale a party of sixty,:.,
Wren and women recently spent the
night in the Surrey woods, and were
recompensed for their labors by hear-
ing some exceptionally
earing:some;exceptionaily fine singing.
Soine members of the audience were
disappointed in that they found .Plul-
eel-a rarer bird than last year, only
nineteen songsters being distinguish-
ed, as compared with fifty-two last
year. One nightingale, whose melli-
fluous notes lssued from an old quarry,
was worth going all the way to hear,
it was unanimously asserted by -those
who went there,
0
The larvae of eels are born in the
spring In the Atlantic at a depth of
1,000 feet