HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-02-21, Page 2CONSTITUTION OF THE LEAGUE
OF NATIONS MADEYUBL1C
Matters of Dispute Between Nations to be Settled by Arbitration
Five Great Powers Have t:ontrot of the
Executive Council.
The renewing is a summary of the
constitution of the League of Nations
as contained in a despatch feorn
Pars
At a plomary seesion of the Peace
Conferences the proposed constitution
of the Lague of Nations AVDS pre-
sented by the Commission to which
the work of draftinn had be.en en-
trusted. The eonetitution defin:tely
places eonteel of the Executive Coun-
en of the League in the hands of the
Five Great Powers -Britain, France,
the United States, Italy and Japan -
who will have one member ench, while
all other nations Ntial1 have four clic-
sen from among them.
All nations joining the Leave meet
agree to submit matters of (liar:lite
between thein to arbitration or to the
Executive ef the League. They will
not in any event resort to et az as
against a member of the League
nihieh complie.s with the- award of the
arbitrators oe the recommendations
of the Executive Council. In the
event of any nation refusing to do
am the other nation which is party to
the dispute •Linds itself not to resort
to war until three months after the
award. Similar provisions are to be
applied to disputes between nation
that are uat members of the League.
Covenant-brcaking nations are to
be subjected to a rigorous economic
boycott, which will cut them off from
all other nations. The Executive of
the League, moreover, may call upon
the nations in provide military and
natal farms "to protect the coven-
ants of the. League."
There are no provisionagainst
compulsory military service. The
question of the reduction .of arma-
ments is remi.tted to the Executive
for such edam as may be considered
possible. "consistent with national
safety."
Germany is not expressly barred
from the League, but "no State shall
be admitted to the League unless it is
able to give effective guarantee of its
sincere intention to observe its in-,
ternational obligations." This phrase
shows that Germany must tit for a
while on the steer of penitence.
Markets of the World. pierai,j3c76.25ilahoy-lt 1:12p.e2rXcar
let's, $23,00.
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, Feb. 11. -Manitoba Whea
-No. 1 Northern, $2.24%; No.
Northern, $2.21%; No, 3 Northern
$2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11%, in
store Fort William
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C. W., Wee;
No. 3 C.W., 611/.,,c; extra No. 1 feed
63; No. 1 feed, 59%c• No. 2 feed
55nec, in store Fort William.
Manitoba barley -No, 3 C.W., 81%
No, 4 C.W., 76%c; rejected, 69%c
feed, 69%e, in store Fort William.
American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.50
No. 4 yellow, $1.47, prompt shipment
Ontario oats -No. 2white, 57 to
60c; No. 8 white, 56 to 59c, according
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No, 1 Winter, per
car lot, $2.14 to $2.22; No. 2, do.
$2.11 to $2.19; No. 3, do., $2.07 to
$2.15 f.o.b,, shipping points, according
to freights.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, $2.09
to $2.17; No. 2, do., $2.06 to $2.14;
No. 3, do., $2.02 to $2.10 f.o.b., ship-
ping points according to freights.
Peas -No. 2, $1.75 to $1.80, accord-
ing to freights outsade.
Barley -Malting 7I to 78e, nominal.
Buckwheat -No. 2, $1.00, nominal;
Rye -No, 2, $1.25, amine',
Manitoba Flour -Government sten-
dard, $10.85 to $11.35, Toronto.
Ontario flour -War quality, $9.75 in
bags, Toronto and Montreal, prompt
shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights, bags nicauded. Bran,
$37.25 per ton; shorts, $42.25 per ton;
good flour, $2.40 per bag.
Hay --No. 1, $22 per ton; mixed,
a20 to $21 per ton, track Toronto.
Sasaw-Car lots, $10 to $11 per ton,
ear lots.
Cheese -Finest easterns, 24 to 25e.
IButter-Choicest creamery, 51 to 51%
Eggs -Selected, 50c; No. 1 etoek, 47
2 to 54c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots,
P $1.75. Dressed hogs -Abattoir kil-
led, $24.00. Lard -Pure, wood pails,
20 lbs. net, 25 to 28c.
Live Stock Markets
Toronto, Feb. 11. -Choice heavy ex-
port steers, $15.00 to $16.75: do.,
e good,$ 14.00 to $14.50;
50; choice butcher
; steers,$13.00 to $13.50; butchers'
cattle, choice, $12.00 to $13.00; do,,
; good, $11.25 to $11.75; do., common,
• $9.50 to $10.00; bulls, choice, $10.50
to 811.00; do., medium bulls, a8.75 to
$9.25; do., rough bulls, $7.50 to $8.00;
butcherscows, choice, $10.00 to
$11.00; do., good, $9.00 to $9.50; do.,
? medium, $8,00 to $8.50; do., common,
$7.00 to $7.50; stockers, $8.00 to
$10.50; feeders, $10.50 to $12.00;
canners, $5.35 to $7.00; milkers, good
to choice, $90.00 to $140.00; do. coin.
and med., $65.00 to $75.00; springers,
$90.00 to $140.00; light wes, $9.00
to $10.00; yearlings, 812.00 to $12.50;
spring lambs, $15,00 to $16.00;
calves, good to cboice, $15.50 to
817.50; hogs, fed and watered, $17.50
+n C1t3
Montreal, Feb. 11. -Best steers,
$13.50; poorer, $8.50 to $10.00 per
100 Ibs.; choice cows and bulls, $10.00
to $11.00; canners, $5.00 to $6,00;
sheep, $10.00; lambs, $14.00; calves,
milk -fed, $12.00 to $1G.00 per 100 lbs.;
hogs, $17.50.
DARDANELLES OPEN
70 WORLD TRADE
Country Produte-Wholesaie.
Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 28 to
3ec; prints, 40 to 41c. Creamery,
fresh made, solids, 51e; prints, 52e,
Eggs -New laid, 45 to 46c.
Dressed poultry --Spring chickens •
26 to 32c; roosters, 25e; fowl, 27 to
30c; ducklings, 32e; turkeys, 40o;
equabs, doz., $4.50; geese, 25e,
Lie poultry -Roosters, 20e; fowl,
24 to 30c; ducklings, lb., 8,5,c; turkeys,
35e; Spring chickens, 25c; geese, 18c.
Wholesalers are selling to the re-
tail trade at the foRowing prices:
Cheese -New, large, 27% to 28e;
twins, 28 to 284 c; old, large, 28 to
28%e; twin, 28% to 29e.
Butter -Fresh dahey, choice, 40 to
48c; creamery, solids, 51 to 58c;
prints, 52 to 54e.
Margarine -32 to 34c.
Eggs -No. 1 etorage, 50 to 520; new
laid, 55c; new laid in cartons, 57e.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
2 to 88c; roosters, 28 to fowl 32
to 35c; turkeys, 43 to 50e; ducklings,
lb. 83 to 38c; semabs, doz., $5.50;
geese, 27 to 2e.
Potatoes-Ontaries, f.o.b. track
Toronto, car lots, 90 to $1.00.
Beans - Cana 'en. hand-picked
bushel, $4.50 to , 5,00. Imported
ihand-picked, Burnia or Inalaae $4.00;
Lima, 15c.
Honey-Extraeted clover: 5-1b. tins,
28 to 29c. lb.; 10 -Ib, tins, 27 to 28c;
60 -lb. tins, 20 to 26%e; buekwheat, 60 -
lb. tin,. 21 to 22e. Cornien16-oz., $4.50
to $5.00 doz.;..12-oz., $8.50 to •$4,00
ann.
Maplo products -Syrup, per gallon,
$2,23 to $2.35; sugar, lb. 27 to 28e.
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoke' meets -Hams, medium, 36
to 38c; do„ heavy, 30-te 32e; cooked
49 to 51e; rolls, 31 to 32c; breakfa.st
bacon, 41 to 45c; becks, plain, 44 to
45e' boneless, 50 to 52c.
Cured meats -Long lear bacon, 28
to 29c; clear bellies, 27 to 28e,
Lard -Pure, tiereeS, 27 to 27%c;
tubs, 274 to 28c; pails, 3*Ve to 28%e;
prints, 28% to 20c. Compound,
*ices, 25% to 25e; tubs, 25% to
26%c; pails, 26 to 26%c; mints, 27%
to 2re.
Montreal Markets
Moutreal, Feb. 11.--Dats-Extra
No, 1 feed, 74c, 'Flour -New stand
and gra,de, $11.25 to $11.85. Rolled
losts--Begs, 90 the, $3.90 to $4.26,
Relief of Armenians and Peoples
of South Russia -Will 13e
Important Outcome.
Washington, Feb. 16. -The Dar-
danelles were thrown open to Ameri-
can trade. interests Saturday for the
first time since the world war began,
by action of the War Trade Board,
following cable advices that an agree-
ment had been reached by the Su-
preme Economic Council in Paris
svieleh would make such a step pos-
sible without destroying the effective-
ness of the blockade ef tho Central
Powers, It is understood here that
the trade and shipping interests of
Great Britain and other foreign in-
tereets will receive the same privileg-
es from their Governments and that
rate echedulesesail be announced soon,
The agreenient carries with it a
resumption of trade relations with
Turkey and Bulgaria, with whieh
Great Britain and the allied nations
of Europe are still, theoretically at
least, at war. It also has the ef-
fect, the importance of which is points
ed to as not to 'be overlooked, of aid-
ing in the relief of the Armenians and
he peoples •of ,South Russia.
BRITISH DRAFT IS
BASIS ON WATERWAYS
A despatch from London says: -
The Commission dealing with inters
national control of ports, railways
and waterways has begun work on
the basis of a draft prepared by
Great Britain, .atoording to The Daily
WAR con ALL POWERS •
. 193,000,000,000 DOLLARS
A despatch from Washington
say :-The total cost of the war to all
belligerent% including the Central
povseas, Was placed at $193,000,000,000
by Secretary Baker in an address.
This estimate, the Secretary adds was
baled on figures just compiled by the
War G-olleg4.
The Smile of Victory-Preirciet Lloyd George and Rt. Hon. Arthur J.
Balfour photographed as they wee about to enter the French Foreign
Office on the opening, day :of thinPeace Cougress.
MVP
CANADA WILL THOUSANDS DIE
SUPPLY 20 PER CENT: IN THE STREETS
Dominion Has Commercial In-
terest .in Settlement With
Germany.
A despatch from ,Paris says: -
There has been a tentative agree-
ment between the allies and Getman
representatives as to furnishing food
to Germany, but this arrangement is
conditional upon the acceptance bY
the Germans of the terms to be sub-
mitted.
Germany wants immediately 30,000
tons of pork stuffs and 250,000 oases
of condensed snilk. Following this
there will be a second order for 200,-
000 tons of wheat and .25,000 tons of
pork precincts,
In addition, Germany will require
between March .and August, 400,000
tons of wheat, with large quantities
of other grains, maize and fovage.
Gernian,y's urgent food requirements
is an inducement which will compel
her peaceful acceptance to e slew
terms to be submitted.
Canada has a direet nentrn
terest in the impending settlement,
because there is an understanding
that 20 per cent. of the meat products
shipped to Germany from the reserves
in Great Britain are to be replaced
by purchases in Canada. Thus the
expected submission by Germany as
to the conditions will mean the ship-
ment in the couple of months of the
bacon surplus which has .accumulated
in Canada.
ARMISTICE TERMS
EXTENDED BY FOCH
Germans Must Cease Fighting
Poles and Carry Out the
Armistice Conditions.
Copenhagen, Feb. 16 -Replying to
a request by Mathias Erzberger, head
of the German Armistice Commission,
for a delay in the signing of the
armistice terms until Monday noon,
Manama Foch declared that the armise
tice expired at 5 o'elock Monday
morning, and that the last hour for
signing would he 6 o'elock Sunday
afternoon in artier to be able to issue
the necessary orders to the troops.
If not signed then, Marshal Foch ,said
he would be obliged to leave Treves •
and the armistice would no longer be °
in force.
Answeriew Ertherger's counter -de-
mand, Marshal Foch said the new
armistice terms had been fixed by
the heads of the Associated Govern -
menta and that he was unable to alter
them.
Basle, Feb. 16. -The avrnietice has
been extended indefinitely, according
to a Treves despatch to the Havas
Agency. The Germans are required
to eease their offensive against the
Poles and earry out the previous
terms of the armistice until com-
pleted. •
BRITAIN WILL DEMAND
INDEMNITY FROM BERMANY
Suffering's of Petrograd People
Terrible Beyond Description.
A despatch from London says: -
There has jest arrived in London an
English trade unionist who has lived
in closest contact with Russian work-
ers in different parts of the country
for the past five yeses. He has come
direct from Petrograd, and • in the
course of an interview with a London
Daily News representative he des-
cribed the terrible conditions of life
in Russia under Bolshevik rule.
"Conditions in Petrograd," he said,
"are beyond belief. The •suffering of
the people is so terrible that it can
hardly be imagined in England.
"Machinery for food distribution
has completely broken down and
practically all the workers in the city
are suffering from sheer etarvation.
They have passed the stage of semi-
starvation. I have seen people liter -
'ally dying in the streets. At night
Petrograd was like a city of the dead.
"I often asked the people way they
dichin overthrow the Bolsheviks and
the reply I got was: "We can't If. we
lift a little finger that will be the end
of us:
"Ramie has passed beyond the
sphere of poliitics. The question is
now one of humanity. People are dy-
ing Wholesale of starvation. 'The po-
pulation of Petrograd has dwindled
from 2,000,000 to about 600,000.
Thousands have been killed or have
died :froin the effects of starvation.
The reign of terror extends to the
country districts. There, however,
the people are not starving."
NEWFOUNDLAND TO
IRELAND BY AIR
..culaatorpa
In a statement to The Transcript
Colonel W. A. Bishop, Canada's pre-
mier "ace." who holds the world's war
record for birdmen, predicts the early
wiping out of distance by the airplane.
He says: "As soon as the weather be-
comes suitable -about April 1, I think
-an airpleme will cross the Atlantic;
and not ono, but dozens, for on the
first favorable day there will be an in-
ternational race to accomplish this
feat. The winner will probably start
from Newfoundland and land in Ire-
land, making the flight in quite a bit
under twenty-four hours, and without
the necessity of coming down. It is
lithely possible to carry sufficient pet-
rol and other supplies to do this, and
the Newfoundland fogs, about winch
more or less has been said, won't
bother; for the aviator will quickly
rise above the fog belt at the start."
FLEW FROM PARIS TO LONDON
IN ONE HOUR FIFTY MINUTES
IMP••••••••
A despatch from London saysi-The
British delegates at the Peace Con-
ference have been definitely instructed
to claim an indetunity which will in,
chide the cost at the war as well as
the damage actually caused, it was
announced in the House of Commone
on Thursday by Andrew Bonne Law,
Government loader in the Commons,
in reply to a queelloa.
A connuission is now considering
the amount to be claimed, the method t
by which payment ehouid be made and f
the means of enforeing the Pamela,
Mr. Boner taw added. 1
MIPMPIPNIO
A. despatch from London says: -.-The
British Air Ministry announces that a
French service machine on Wednes-
day =de a record flight between
Paris and London, covering the dia.
tance in one hour and :fifty minutes.
The distance covered was 270 miles.
Capital and Labor to Meet
To End Industrial Unrest
Landon, Feb, 16. -The Gtsvernment
has deckled to convene, probably
asithin the present month, a national
conference of representetives of capi-
tai and labor to seek a settlement of
the present industrial unrest. It is
understood that representatives ,of
the employers and all the leading
trade unions will be invited and that
the Premier is devoting himself ace
ively to the promotion of this con-
erenee, which will be the most im-
portant ever aseembleci to deal with
labor probleme,
$2 500,000 BEQUEST
FOR EKILATION
Series of Scholarships and Facul-
ties Established in Great ...
Britain.
A despatch from London says: -Sir
Ernest Cassel, the well known limas
cier, has placed in the hands of trus-
tees half a minima pounds sterling
for educational purposes, particularly
the following:
FIRSTLY -The promotion of anult
edueation itt mseection with the
Workers' Educational Association or
any other association or body ap-
proved by the trustees,
SECONDLY-Scholaaships_ for en-
couraging the education of workmen
or their sons and daughters.
THIRDLY -,Tho promotion' of the
higher education Of women by assist-
ance to colleges for women, •
FOURTHLY -The promotion of the
study of foreign languages.
FIFTHLY -Towards the establish-
ment of a faculty of ,eomineree in the
University of London on molt terms
as the trusteee may approve.
MORE THAN 10,000,000 ALIENS
RESIDENT IN UNITED STATES.
A despatch from Washington
sa,ysi-adepproximately one-tenth of
the population of the United States
is composed of unnatur,alimed aliens,
according to Raymond F. Cnist, De-
puty Commissioner of Naturalization,
who declared that such a condition
would not s permitted by any ether
country, and appealed to American
citizens to help in making citizens of
alien residents. He said there were
10,500,000 persons in this country who
still retain their allegiance to the
land of their birth.
GERMANY FORCED TO TAKE
DEFINITE ATTITUDE NOW
A despatch from Paris says: -The
newspapers unanimously approve the
decision of the Supreme Council re-
g,aaeling Germany, and rejoice that
the allies reached a complete under-
standing es to the terms to be sub-
mitted to Germany on February- 17.
The Petit Parisien says that Germany
must take a decisive attitude :within
the next few days, because she will
have to realize that despite apparent
differences of coinion, the alliance
among her conquerors remains intact.
BRITISH* SURER -ZEPPELIN.
MARVEL IN ALL RESPECTS
de -
A despatch from London says: -
The first details of the, construction
of the British super -Zeppelin Which,
her builders assert, is capable of a
non-stop round trans. -Atlantic voyage,
are published in the Daily Mail. She
was built seeretly. The ships length
is 670 feet and her diameter 79 feet.
Her weight in flying trim will be more
than 600 tone, including a carrying
capacity Of between 27 and 30 tons.
For war purposes •she as to have
carried four 580 -pound and eight 250 -
pound bombs, also machine and other
nuns fore, aft and on top.
CANADA'S CLAIMS AGAINST
GERMANY 81,140,000,000
gab.. •••••
A despatch from London says: ---A
new petrol tank, which will neither
leak nor catch lire when perforated by
incendiary bullets, the Daily Mail says,
has been added to the list of wonder-
ful war inventions. These tanks were
being built and fitted in British air-
planes as fast as possible when the
armistice was signed, Had the fight-
ing continued British pilots would have
been immune from Otto of the greatest
causes of casualties. This invention
is to be applied to commercial air-
planes.
CANADA' CLAIMS AGAINST
GERMANY $1,140,000,000
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Canada's claims against Germany, in-
cluding war expenditure to date, now
total over eleven hundred and forty
million dollars. War expenditure
alone from the begliting of the war
to the end of last month, totalled
$1,122,000,000. This represents ac-
counts which have passed through the
books of the Finance Department. In
additiii claims for, actual enemy dam-
ages against Canadians -claims for
damages by submarines and in other
ways -now total about $10,000,000.
CHAPLAINS* 113SCORD
IN OVERSEAS FORCES
4.4Pommal•
A despatch from London says: -
The total' number of Canadian Chap-
lains now serving it the overseas
forcee is 486. The number of honors
gained include five C.M.Gas, iihte D.
.020, thirty-three mentions lin mili-
tary despatches and thirteen brought
to the notiee of the Secretary of' State
for War,
Two Ohaplaine were killed, one died
of wounds, one 'was drowned on the
Llandovery Castle, which was ceunk
by a German submarine; two died of
Alines% and 21 we wounded.
REFORESTATION A
POST-WAR POLICY
AN ATTRACTIVE LONG-TIME
INVESTMENT
Great Britain and Franco Will Under-
take to Renew Their Forests -
Canada Should Follow xample.
An important item of post-war
policy in both France and Great Bri-
tain will unquestionably be an exten-
sive programme of reforestation.
Without the products of the planted
forests of France, the prosecution of
the war would have been handicapped
to an extremely serious extent. It is
hardly putting it too strongly to say
that, had it not been for the French
forests, the war could scarcely have
been won -certainly not without aa
incomparably greater effort and much
greater loss of life than has proved
necessary. The limited timber supply
of the British Isies have also proved
so vital a factor in connection with
the home situation that plans are al-
ready being, laid for a very antensive
programme of reforetsting waste
lands at state expense or by state
aid.
The economic importance to Can-
ada of her great forest areas is DO
less apparent. The value of our pri-
mary forest products exported from
the country during the past year to-
talled some $200,000,000.. The pulp
and paper industry exports products
vauled at some $35,000,000 annuolly,
The importance of perpetuating a re -
seam that assists so largely in re-
dressig our unfavorable trade balance
can scarcely be over-emphazied.
Prevention of Forest Fires
The first and most vitally necessary
step toward handling our forests as
crops, rather than mines, is, of eourse,
the prevention of fires. Great pro-
gress has been made in this direction
during recent years, though much
still remains to be accomplished.
The next step should be the adop-
tion and strict enforcement of fin -
proved cutting regulations in connec-
tion with all logging operations on
Crown lands. The situation in this
respect is least satisfaetory in the
province of Ontario ad on Dominion
licenesd timber lands in the west.
Another step, toward which extort-
tive plans should soon be made, is the
reforestation of the name accessible
areas of non-agrieultural lands, on
which the forest growth hasbeen so
completely destroyed . by successive
fires that regeneration of valuable
species by natural means COM not take
place for a very long period of time,
if at all. Such a policy of reforesta-
tion on Crown lends must, as a rale,
be carried out by governmental agen-
cies, on account of the long time -
element involved before returns COM bo
secured. Both Ontario and Quebec
have provincial forest nurseries, from '
which many million young trees have
been supplied to farmers and other
private interests, including pulp and
paper companies and, to a rrnells
smaller extent, to lumbermen. The
forest revenue from Crown lands ia
both these provinces is so large that
the annual expenditure of a moderate
proportion of it on reforestation of
denuded Crown lands would appear
both feasible and logical.. Experienee
indicates clearly that such a project
can be made attractive from the view-
s%
point of a long-time investment.
41%
Germany to Pay to the Full
Extent of Her Resources
A deapatell from London sem.-
Capt. the Hon. Rupert Guinness asked
in the House of Commons whether
the Premier was prepared to press to
the utmost ,for reparation from Ger-
many and ..also to make Germany pay
to the full extent of her resources.
Premier Lloyd George replied that .
that was the election pledge given by
the Government after careful Cabinet
.c.onsi.deration. The Government steed
by every word of this pledge
riuNehss PAT'S COLOR
Preparations for Royal Wedding
Include a Pageant.
"Something old, something new,.
something borrowed, something bluer."
is an ancient saying, which, if not a
fetish,
is solemnly followed by Eng-
lish brides who would make sure of
future happiness. Princess Panicle
is sure to observe the "something
blue„ part of the old saw in her trouse
seau-a deep, lapis -lazuli blue,
which admirably suits her beautiful
complexion and dark hair.
As the great national church, West-,
minster Abbey, is to be the scene of
the wedding of King George's cousin,
it is expected that there will be senses
thing in the nature of a pageant says
a correspondent. It is expected, If
it can possibly be arranged, that there,
will be a gear(' of honor of Princess
Patricia's own soldiers, the men of
Princel'at'e Cenadtan Light in
twit:qr.
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