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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. •