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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-01-10, Page 2SIR ROBERT BOR res EN WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE OF ATIC NS British Dominions Will Receive Consideration Commensurate With Their Participation, in the War and Their Status in British Participation. A despatch from London says: --- The conference of representatives of the allied nations which was to begin at Paris on January 6 has been post- poned for one Week owing to the de- velopment of the Cabinet crisis in Italy. It is now expected to meet on January 18, and arrs=.ngesnents to that end are being completed. The character and scope of this conference is not likely tc be defined until it actually meets. There is the view that it should be a formal gath- ering with a definite agenda to he considered, and offering a public re- port of conclusions to be reached, and an alternative proposal is that this conference should be completely in- formal and given up to the freest possible consideration of all questions of peace as they affect the attitude which the allied nations will take at the Peace Conference. The prob- abilities are that • the latter course will be followed as lending itself more readily to the purposes in view: the adjustment of all differences be- tween the allies so that they can go into the Peace Congress with an presenting their views by their re- presentatives. The British delegation will be headed by Mr. Lloyd George, Mr, Bonar Law and Mr. Balfour, but there will be attached an extensive retinue of officials from the Foreign Office and from the various services. The Canadian Mission will proceed to Paris in time for this conference and the. Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, will represent Canada in these preliminary and important dis- cussions.. The date for the official peace congress has not yet been fixed. It can be called in short order, as the delegates who are to attend it are now in Paris, or on their way there. The belief is that the inter -allied con- ferences will require about a fort- night, and that the actual peace con- ference will begin its work about the first. of February. The questions of the representa- tion of the various countries entitled to be present at this eongress have not yet been fully settled, and may not be until they are considered by the inter -allied conference, but it may be said that the British Do - agreed prop arnnie. There is no minions will receive consideration difficulty about the representation at commensurate with their participa- this conference as all the allied coun- tion in the war, and their status in tries will hate ample opportunity of the family of British nations. $40,000,000 I LUMBER ORDER After 47 Years -.Tile closed in 1871 after the cession, is to be re-opene year. PEERAGES FOR BRITISH GENERALS paravenawada Field Marshal Haig and Admiral Beatty Rewarded With Earldoms. A despatch from London says: --- Earldoms will be conferred on Field Marshal Haig and Vice -Admiral Beatty, in recognition of their serv- ices during the war, according to The Mail, It is stated that Generals Horne, Plumer, Byng, Rawlinson, :Birdwood and Allenby will be elevated to the Peerage. The newspapers say that these honors will probably be accompanied by grants of money. • Immediate announcement of these honors is said by The Mail to be Triomphe, Paris,wh eh improbable, as Field Marshal Haig mousAef de p ,prefers to remain in command of signs defiled it by passing through in pro- the British armies until the treaty x a great Victory procession early in the of peace is signed and the army is reconstructed on a peace basis, a. work in which he is taking a deep interest. It is recall:dd that Lord Roberts r received a Parliamentary grant of ft 90 lbs. $4.25 bran $"7 25 £100,000, and that Lord Kitchener was given £50,000 after the South Oa 2 i wheat .hurts, $42,25; African War. 'Phase grants were in r ke ofthe Brea& tuf?'s Toronto, Tan. 7.--Manito' -No. 1 Northern $2.24% $2orthe ;t No.24 J$2*1ah•eri , pasterns, 24 to 25e. Butter, choicest, store Fort William, wheat,ot ixcludirig ereamery, o. to 53c. Eggs, select: tax. •ed, 59e; No. 1 stock, ale. Potatoes, Manitoba oats -No. 2 : C.W., 751, c; per bag, ear lots, $1.70. Dressed No. 3 C W., 71%e; extra No..1 feed, hogs, abattoir killed, $25.00 to $25.60. Lard, pure:, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 31 to 32•c. Live Stock Market. Toronto, Jan. 7. -Choice heavy steers, $13.00 to $13.25; butchers' Montreal- Markets. ridMontreal, Jan. 7. -Oats,. extra No. 1. feed 88e; flour, new standard grade $11.25 to $11.35; rolled oats, bag to $4.50;u . Mouillie,$68.00 to $70.00; hay, No, 2, per ton, car Tots $20.00 to ;21.00. Cheese, finest- 72%c; inest- 72/c; extra No. 1 feed; al. s, in store Fort William. American corn -No, 3 yellow, $1.70; No. 4 yellow, $1.65; sample corn, feed, $1.45 to $1.50, track ELGIN TO RANK Toi•anto. N 2 the choice $11 50 to e12 ''S • do POWERS 72c, according to freights outside. $:)•50 to $9.75, do, common, 4;8.00 KONG Ontario wheat -No. -1: Winter per to $8..5; bulls, choice, $10.25 to $2.11 to $2.19• No. 3 Spring, $2.02 $9.25; do. rough bulls, $7.50 to 8.00, British Timber Controller to Peace Conference to Deal With t $2.10, fob' shipping points ac butchers' cows, choice, $1.0.25 to t 2 gli- $10.15, g $ Ontario oats, new crop -No. cattle, , , • - , white, 70 to 78c; No. 3 white, 69 to good, $10.75 to $11.25; do. mectium, car lot, $2.14 to $2.22; No. 2, do.,' $10.75; do. medium buffs, e5. m to o , • ., a points, 75 • do. good; 9.50 to $9.75; cording to 'rein i �•�. , r Purchase Billion Square Feet Ti cats. of 1830 Guaranteeing Peas -No. 2, $2.00. do, medium, $8.25 to $8.50; do. comb in Canada. Her Neutrality. Barley-Maltin • new ceop, 90 to mon, $7.00 to $ 7.75; stockers, $7.75 95c, according to freights outside. to $10.50; feeders, $10.25 to $11.25; London, Tan. 5. -As the outcome Paris, Jan. 5. -The famous treaty Buckwheat -No. 2, $1.36. . . canners, $5.50 to $5.85; milkers, of negotiation:: carried on by the which Germany designated., as a Rye -No. 2, $1.54, nominal, good to choice, $90.00 to '$160.00; Canadian Trade Commission for the "scrap of paper" will come up for Manitoba flour -Old crop, war do. coin. ol :Land med., to $65.00 tooQ$7Es:00t past month, the Timber Controller of earls consideration before the Peace quality $11.35, Toronto. • Great Britain will purchase in Congress. This is the treaty made Ontario flour -War quant 1, old e� QO $9.00 0 $13.50;t 00;; yearlings, Canada half a million standards of in 183() when the great powers of crop, o, pro, in bags, Moi • s l and 15.00 to $16.00; calves, good to Toronto, prompt ,shipment. , lumber, equivalent in the Dominion Europe recognized Belgium as being 14l.11feed-Car lots, delivei 1�Iont choice, $14.00 to $17.00; hogs, fed '''to one billion s uare feet. The lum- se separate from. Holland and guaran- real freights bas includ gran, and watered, $18..00, do. weighed off q P r g cars $18.25• do. f.o.b., $17.00. ber, which is:to be of all grades, teed the neutrality of Belgium: $3 r .25 per ton; shorts, per + �' ' the direction It waseathe clisre •arcs f this neu- ton. ° will be ,.bought under .. ;. m , wh,i„ 4 MKT na'� Vvs 'Al, i ,, e esee s irk ss e_rasop�ee r. . aro,: -e en.:.,..- s of Glee .Ti ?. la P.�, se aLL , l ' f.I he german stoops ,,ch l�roeg tt ed, a.- , a0.0 to $21.00 per tui • adian timber ' agencies in London, who will deal direct with the Can- adian dumber producers. It is understood that every Can - Great Britain into the war. The Belgian Parliament recently adopted unanimously a resolution asking for the establishment of the adian producer who is registered on independent soverignty of Belgium the lists of the Trade Board at Ot- and the abandonment of the guar- tawa 'will be given an equal oppor- antee of neutrality. The resolution tunity to sell. There is also to be adopted by the Parliament was in re - an allocation of purchases upon a territorial basis, thus assuring a fair proportion of purchases to Western tered Brussels. Canada. All the British Columbia After expressing gratitude to the nations aiding in the deliverance of Belgium, the resolution says: "The tragic and glorious hours which Belgium has experienced give. it the right to free itself from the ties which in the past limited its sov- ereignty and enervated its interna- tional action. Belgium will thus pass to the rank of the great powers which are mistresses of their des- tinies." Incidentally, Germany's designa- Canadian credit which rendered the • tion of the treaty as a "scrap of large lumber transaction announced paper" involves the general question by cable from London possible was of establishing some means of guar - arranged some weeks ago between the anteeing the inviolability of treaties. Dominion Government at Ottawa and the Imperial Government. This NONE ACD sponse to the Speech from the Throne made by King Albert when he re -en - lumbermen are'represented here by L. C. Beale, Timber Commissioner for the Province, who is attached to the staff of F. C. Wade, K.C., Agent - General for the Province in Great Britain. and lie will` deal directly with the Timber Controller. This lumber is to be bought within the next twelve months. It will rep- resent a total transaction in money value of about $40,000,000. Ottawa, Jan. 5. -The necessary credit is to be availed of to the extent 1 i;, that is rendered necessary by the state of international exchange. The British Governemnt is to supply the shipping to carry this lumber to Great Britain. The transaction in - (Mattes the character of the business which it is expected the Trade Mis- sion will be able to attain from now en, particularly up in the Continent, SURRENDERED U-BOATS A1Ui BEING DIVIDED UP A despatch from London says: - German submarines which have been surrendered are being divided among the allies, according to The Mail. The newspaper says that fifteen go to France, ten to Italy, seven to 3opan and four to the United States. The 'ft -heats turned over to the United fates are eaici to be now on their tray t c roes the Atlantic. The tett spLper does not specify. the manner in which the rest of the 127 eurrendeted submarines are to be elloted. --as -s, --..-Status of ea -Kaiser in 'Holland • Hee Been Definitely Settled .' despatch f from Amsterdam vays: -The British and Dutch Gave elements have arrived at an agree - resent regarding the status of the !former German Ithriperor, - according to a despatch to the Telergraaf from The Hague. GUARD SURVIVE 85 Per Cent. of British Rank and File in Turkey Died. A despatch from London says: -A British officer who was a prisoner in Turkey gave an account on Friday of the terrible hardships and cruelty ins Meted upon British prisoners by the Turks. Describing the march from Kut -El -Amara to Bagdad, the of- ficer says the prisoners were driven like sheep along the desert ways. They were denied food, were short of water, and the Turks refused to al- low them to rest. They were bayon- eted or clubbed if they stopped and were struck with rawhide wips when they faltered. Roughly speaking, according to the officer, from 75 to 85 per cent. of the British rank and file in Turkey died, One battery surrendered at Kut -E1 -Amara 117strong; 11 .are now alive. Other batteries are al- most in the same eondltion. One regiment marched out of Kut• -Bl-- Amara 300 strong, of Whom ,only 53 are now living. The British •Consular guard at Bagdad before the war consisted of two Indian officers and 35- men, When the war broke out they wero intern- ed in perfect physical. conditions All of there are dsa Toronto. ' Straw -Car lots, $9•.50 to ' 101. 50, A despatch from Paris says: -Two track Toronto. th- ousand French soldiers have enter - Country Produce -Wholesale ecl Budapest, the Hungarian capital, Eggs -No, 1 storage, 54 to 55e; tao the Temps. One detaclunent oc- new laid, r 5 to 78e. ccording toa telegram from Zurich selected, storage, 58 to 60e; cartons, cupied the castle of Count_Karolyi, Butter -Creamery, solids, 51 to where Field Marshal von Mackensen, 53c; do prints, 53 to 55c; choice dairy of the German army, is interned. Gen. prints, 45 to 47e; ordinary dairy Berthelot, commander of the allied prints, 38 to 40e: bakers', 30 to 33c; forces in Roumania, is making a tour oleamargarine (best grade), 32 to through Hungary to insure the proper 34c. carrying out of the armistice. Cheese -New, large, 27% to 28e --._.M_..__._ 1.a tiCAPITAL' • HUNG G�IAN" THE iJ1Q twins, 28 to 28%e; spring made, large, 28',sa to 29c; twins, 29 to 29%c. Comb Honey -Choice, 16 oz., $4.50 to $5.00 per dozen; 12 oz., $3.50 to $4 per dozen. Maple Syrup --In 5 -gal tins, $3.25. Provisions -Wholesale Barrelled Meats -Pickled pork, $48; mess pork, $47. Green Meats -Out of pickle, le less than smoked. Smoked Meats -Rolls, 32 to 33c; hams, medium, 38 to 39e; heavy, 30 to 31c; cooked hams, 51 to 52e; backs, 46 to 47c; backs, boneless, 50 to 52c. Breakfast bacon, 42 to 47c. Cottage rolls, 35 to 36e. Dry Salted Meats -Long clears, in tons, 30c; in cases, 30%e; clear bel- lies, 28 to 28%c; fat backs, 25e. Lard Pure, tierces, 30 to 30%e; tubs, 303 to 31c; pail's, 30'% to 31 i4c; prints, 31% to 32e; shorten- ing, tierces, 251✓: to 255%c; tubs, 25% to 26c; pails, 26 to 2614c; 1 -Ib. prints, 27 to 27c. CITIZENS OF OCCUPIED PROVINCES MAY VOTE A despatch from Paris says: - Marshal Foch, according to the Matin, has given permission for the Germans in the occupied Rhine Provinces to participate in the German elections. He also will allow freedom of the press and freedom of assembly as far as is compatible with the mainten- ance of order. PRINCE OF WALES WILL VISIT U.S. A despatch from London says: -It is understood that King George and Queen Mary assured President Wil- son that -the Prince of Wales will visit the United States during his corning trip through the British Dominions, according to a Paris despatch to The Mail. addition to the titles conferred upon them. It is reported that Vice -Admiral Beatty will be given the rank of full Admiral.. Since he took over the command of the British fleet from Sir John R. Jellicoe he has borne the title of "Acting Admiral" The Marquis of Milfordhaveti, cam - mending the second cruise:' squadron, HUNS EV k ' ED RUIN BY ARMISTICE Great Allied Offensive Imminent When Germany Sued For Peace. Paris, Jan. 5.4 --Germany hurried to request the armistice when she saw that a new allied offensive was to be launched on the Lorraine front on November 12 by 600,000 men under command of Gen, De Castelnau, says The Excelsior. American and French troops, it says, were concentrated on the front between Briey and Chateau Salins. They were supported by 3,000 guns of all calibres and had 300 tanks available on a front of about 45 miles. Duke Albrecht of Wurtem- berg, the German Commander on this front, had available only twenty- five divisions of inferior fighting quality. These divisions contained approximately 160 000 men. Ho hacl only one thousand guns. This allied attack The Excelsior continues, would have carried the war into annexed Lorraine and into Rhenish Prussia, threatening to cut off the Getman army in Belgium and in the Ardennes from its bases. • German General Headquarters, realizing• that the divisions on other sectors were exhausted, and that its forces were demoralized and' worn out, averted a catastrophe by pleading for en armistice, The Ex- celsior concludes: "The success of the offensive was assured, but it could not have made victory more complete than it al - and former rifest Lord of the Admir- alty, resit, was, because Germany accept- aity, has been placed on the retired list at his own request. FORMER EMPEROR IS DEPRESSED A "MYSTERY SIIIR" This is ono of the. "Mystery ships" which looks like an ordinary tramp steamer. In reality she is ri vessel of an entirely novel type, heavily armed with guns which are concealed and can be unmasked in a few seconds. In addition she has at very heavy armament of torpedoes and depth charge throwers, but she is bunt with a draught of only 3% feet, which made her practically immune from submarine attack, It is an - nomad that one of these ship will be sent on a tour of the Empire andthat it is hoped her light draught 'will enable her to pass through the St. Lawrence canal's and be brought to lake ports. Continued Brooding on Down- fall Telling on His Appearance. Amerongen, Holland -Even the wonderful springlike weather of the new year did not bring the former German Emperor outside of Amex ongen ,Castle, although his condition is improving daily. The principle ed all our conditions. Marshal Foch deemed it useless to cause .further shedding of blood, and consented to stop hostilities, although Germany was then in a desperate plight" .RS WRECKED 1ANY AIRPLANES British Army of Occupation at Cologne Finds Skelton of Huge Gotha. .A despatch from London says: -- Many German airplanes were • des- troyed in part by the Germans when. cause of his indisposition appears to they evacuated Cologne, according te, e mental depression; �nRu�eci by L r.'..fdports' fzorri '$rYtiszi' co'int apoiuleisaa. in the British area of occupation. Among the dismantled machines is the skeleton of a huge Gotha. It was built to carry 14 men, and on its •gxad'nal realization of the full extent of his downfall'. Recent reports from Germany are said to havo::acccnhiated this feeling. Lack of open-air exercise and con- broad wings are walks, while little tinual brooding have had such tell- 11.011 ladders lead to the upper plane ing effect on Herr Hohenzollern's ap- where the machine gunners were pearanee that he scarcely is recognise posted. Another machine is an • table to those who saw him when he e, armored airplane for use in attacking first came to al' gen. His wife, trenches with machine guns. The who is with him almost constantly, wings are of corrugated steel and displays much more buoyant spirits, and makes every effort to cheer him, for two men. Two machine guns point There is no sign of the immediate down through the bottom of the fuse - removal of the former Emperor, al -1 a€~e. though -many reports are current to that effect steel plates a quarter of an inch thick protect all vital points as well as seats 58 ATS, STILL TO SURA. 1Dr� Allies Destroyed or Captured 202 German Submarines During War. Loudon, Jan. 5. -The allies destroy- ed estroy - ed or captured 202 German submar- ines during the war. In addition to these, 14 German submarines were destroyed by the Germans, themselves, ten in the Adriatic and four off Flan- ders. Seven others were interned in neutral countries. The surrender of German submarines is not yet complete; the number al- ready brought into British ports is 122. There are at least 58 still to be sur- rendered. The Germans are still busi- ly engaged in building submarines. The allies are mali'tng no objection to this, for all these boats will be at the disposal of the allies when completed. German surface warships actually brought into British ports were less by one battleship than stipulated in the armistice terms. The reason for this is that tieith:er the Saxon nor the Mac- kensen has been completed by the German yards. The German battle- ship Baden is to be handed over in- stead. She will leave German waters for Scapa Flow within a week. Million Tons of Fuel Oi1 Sent to Britain From America A despatch from London says; -- The Ministry of Shipping states that during the war over 1,000,000 tons of fuel oil were carried from the United States to Britain by 761 cargo steam- ers, specially fitted out to convey oil in double bottoms or ballast tanks. Fifteen thousand tons of oil were lost by enemy action and 2,000 by marine IOUs POLES IN CONTROL OF POSEN; WHITE EAGLE ON EACH HOUSE A despatch from Copenhagen says: -Posen is completely in the hands of the Poles, according to ad- vices from Berlin. The official build.. ings are guarded by soldiers wearing German uniforms but with their cockades replaced by the white eagle of Poland. The Poles have taken complete charge, even in the German districts, and the German national monuments have been overturned, often after violent fighting. All the Oficial money has been taken over by the Poles. The bakers refuse to sell bread to Germans, and the Polish col- ors fly from every house. SOLDIERS '14I1 �T{ F01% BRITISH COLUMBZIA A despatch from London says: - To the strains of patriotic music., played by military bands of the, Im- perial army, 1,500 officers and men of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, who enlisted in British Columbia and Alberta, embarked at Liverpool on Thursday afternoon on the Canadian Pacific Empress of Asia, for the di - sect voyage, to Vancouver via the Panama Canal. FOOD SHORTAGE IN VIENNA FOUND TO BE VERY BAD A despatch from London says:- Reuter's is informed thnt the allied commission for revietualling Austria has arrived at Vienna. It has been found that the food shortage in Aus- tria, especially in Vienna, is very bad and probably: much more extensive . arrangements than originally antici- pated may have to be nnwio for re- victualling the imputation, "To be treated is a greater cern+ pliment than to be loved." --Maes m alan • .X,