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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-03-07, Page 7,A ION I GERMANY CRITICAL: • FALL O C.? ', VERN ENT... XPECTEI) is De, i e)rlin Papers Ilave Suspended, -Greater Part of Labor nnaudh g a General Strike ---Reign of Terror Seems Imminent. London, nivel 2.-:4ils pewees fall of the Gorman Oovernrnent is reported h1 numerourt special despatches re- eeived to -day from Berlin. '111e mem- bers of the Government haVt arrived at Berlin to consult with the Work- men's Ciouncil, and at n?anifeeto has been Melted. All the correspondents represent the situation as grave, The Weimar mantfcste denounces the ter- rorist attemg>te-to get Nd of the Nation- al A seeinblyIt proclaims faithful- ness to the ;:' inciples of 1)ouureraey. "Getetet limon the political danger lo-: tee emmonde distress," ruy;i the mini:g• re, "We cannot feed ourselves frarn r own reapplies until the neat harem - The blockade ie eating away the vit at our peopleThousa;ide preeel ' from ill n u :]tinent." TM elifesto COr.c.ctneo, rtttilce,�, .saylag "Every strike brings us a •step nearer to the einem. Oniy work c:an save es." The teeY;'r r.t,> premises ties . elciaii- metien oi suit<eble industries and the establisltllaet;t of ineueti'iai councils re- presontath u' :i.11 rho s't-orkers and freely elected it idoses with a strong; note, asserting lee. determination oe swag against terrorism, concluding: "Whoever assails the life of the nation is our enemy" Berne, March 2. -The situation et Germany is declared ae most crltieal everywhere, in messages received here yesterday. 'The general strikes are extending more and more, especially in Central Genitally, where disorder is increasing and railway trafllc has part- ly stopped. Interruption of telegraph and telephone services is reported from various- centres. Fears are felt by the authorities that a reign of ter- ror is about to begin in Erfurt, Gera, tech and 'Halle. It is reported also that the Bolsheviks danger is growing in. Eastern Silesia. Berlin, Murch 2, --Berlin newspa- pers with the exception of the 'Social- ist erg e , were prevented from ap- pearing Saturday as a result of the sudden strike proclaimed to -day. It, ii uncertain whether this strike is a' prelurie to a general political strike, for which a large part of Berlin labor is agitating, or whether it is clue to trade demands. Fear is expressed in some quarters, bovrever, that the present situation may he a spark in the Government to tvege relentless the political powder barrel. RY !.LL ' 1' O TERMS PEACE Ne {More War by Submarine - German .Arian} Cut Down to 200,000. farm ai'lin'g ::1. --Marshal Foch pre- sented ye:'stenley to the Council of the Great Power.= the military terms to be incorporated in the pwwe treaty. These will be considered opt Monday with the nasal terms alreaeiy eubimit- ted to the ('•nuneil. 'rite military' terms pto,;ido for the disarmament of Germany dt'wn to 20 divisions of 10.000 men each, includ- ing 15 divisions .o'f infantry ainl five of cavalry. :ae v r -'e. restrictions: are placed on the ruse,1I1i'acture o,: all oro set; of sear materials; and the military and eornmerelal nee of the airplane is limited to the niinilnum. Beyond Mershale oob's presentation of the terms le-dar. they were not dis- cussed,. The naval te'rrus now before the Council provi e net only for the cum- piote suppre,;'ion of Cicsrntauy'a sub- marine equipment but also for the ter- mination of all submarine warfare by all nations tllronghout the World, thus ending the me of the submarine in naval warfare. The prevision for the dismantling of tho for ttftcati, •ns of Heligoland and Kiel Canal has beciu made the subject of rose-raibe,n by Admiral Benson, re- presenting tlai 'United States, whereby thea shall° not be a precedent applic- able to American canal and harbor defeeteees such as Hell Grate, Cape Cud Canal and others, The proposal for the destruction of the large German warships is ap- proved in the report by the British and American naval officials, but the French still make vet:creations against the destruction of these ships. The Supreme Council is expected to pass an this and other naval and mili- tary subjects on Monday. SUPPLIES LA Owing to Sudden End of War There is Considerable Surplus. - A despatch from Ottawa says: Information reaching Government A�ll"lii �y lt'�'�t� T CII�? circles in Ottawa from London shows pOF�9 V � Our Foresters in France ---The camia of Corpia in the Vosges mountains of France. output •of 35,000 feet in ten hours, but in 50,000 in that time. the 28th C':•tnadian. 'Forestry The mills bad an average soirtr cakes went as high as €. T BRITAIN AIRET1111 CONTROL Markets of the World Breadstuin, Toronto Mereh 4 - Manitoba Wheat --Nu, 1 Northern, $2.241/2; No, 2 Northern, $2.211/2; No. Northern, $2.1744; No. 4 wheat, $2.111ef, in store Fore. William. • Manitoba ba rley---No, 3 C.W., 85%; No. 4 C.W,, 80%c; repected, 144,c; feed, 731/2e, in store• Fort William, American corm -No.• 8 Yellow, $1.50; No, 4 yellow, $1.47, prompt shipment. Ontario oats --No. 2 'white, 58 to -file; No. 3 White, 57 to 00m aerording to freights outside). Ontario wheat --No. 1 Winter', per ear lot, $2.14 to $2.22; No. 2 do., $2.11 to $2.10; No. 3 do., $2.07 to $2.15, f.o.b., shipping points, aceo:'d.ing to freights. Ontario wheat: ---No. 1 Spring, $2.09 to r42.17; No. 2 do., $2.00 ti, $2.1.1; No. do., $2.02 to $2.10, f.e,h., '•hipping points, according to freight;,. Peas -No. 2, $1.80, acceeding to freights outside. Barley-- Malting;, 78e to 83e, hem - /nal. • Bucicwheat-•- No. 2, 85 to 90:. te,m- rnal. P,ye•-•-Ne. 0, $1,25, nominal. OF RAL A S FOR Mari toba flour »-'Guvernni: ,: LONGER , Termite, �6 ' dant $10.8ir to $11.10, Termite, Centel:le flour War quality, $:1.15 0.7nn in bags, Toronto and Montreal, prompt: shipment. Millfeed--Car lot!, delivered Mon- treal freights, bags included. Bran, $40.25 per ton; shorts. $42.25 per ton; ;sod feed flour, $3.25 to at,.s`�'J pee beg.' $20 nn icy Hay -No. 1, to a'21 Tier n; nixed, $18 to $19 per ton, tr a;k To - Nev, Transport. Bill Gives Minister Authority to Settle Railway Rates and Salaries and to Alter Policy. A despatch from London says: - Publication of the Government's Transport hill, which rias been intro- dueed in Parliament, shows that it will give the Minister of Transport complete control over every con- ceivable farm of land transport. The bill provides that complete manage went of the railways of the United Kingdom is to be continued by the State for two.y:.ears, partly to enable the Government to make the railways pay dividends and partly to facilitate the movement of men and material Complete power i given to the Minister during the two years to set- tle all railway rates and charges, sal- aries and wages and conditions of employment and to male any alters- tions in the policy of the roads and accounts that he may deem cles,irable. The Minister is authorized to pur- chase various kinds of railway com- panies by agreement or by compul- sion. Under these provisions he could pur'ehase, in whole or in part, any railway, light railway, street car company, canal, inland waterway, or harbor and dock undertaking during during the period of reconstruction. the first two years of the Ministry. that the extensive precautionary measures taken to build up the food reserve, which was vital to the allied rause as a counter -hove to the men- ace of the German "'U" boat, was so snceasdt'ul that there are temporarily, owing, to the sudden ending of the war, considerable surpluses of some classes of foods. The stock of beans on hand "is very large. c, In reply to an inquiry as to the possibility of disposing of the Cana- , dian bean crop in Europe, it was sta- • ted that the supply in: Great -Britain was enough for three years.- This 1 will now be available for distribution in other countries, including Rou- mania, and until after these supplies are liquidated the prospect for the export of beans from Canada does not appear bright. The demand for ton- nage to move the allied cereal crops is so great that the Royal Wheat Commission does not find it advisable to send ships long distances to carry foodstuffs which can be secured close at hand, MAKE THEATRE OF MEDIAEVAL CHURCH A despatch from Warsaw says: -1 The Bolsheviki in Vilna have turned tthe famous Church of St. John into a theatre. Construction of this edi- fice was begun in 1388, TYPHUS SPREADS OVER RUSSIA A desratrh from Paris says: -Ty- phus is reported to be spreading in Russia, 1,000 new cases being report- ed at Moscow weekly, and the hospi- tals are unable to care for them. Lack of milk has resulted in many deaths of children from starvation. France Has No Wish To Annex The Left Bank of the Rhine A despatch from Paris says: - Capt. Andre Tardieu, one of the French delegates, told foreign news- paper correspondents that France does not desire to annex the left bank of the Rhine, but only wants guar- antees vvltich will prevent Germany from using the left bank as a base for attacking France. JOINT T CO r ISSION TO I VE TIG ' BRITISHBOR TR EIBLE Miners Postpone Strike Pending Inquiry -Question of .hours, - Wages and General Conditions to be Taken up at Conference. A despatch from London says: -- After an all -day session devoted to airing the various phases of labor • unrest, bhe industrial conference, cal- led by the Government and in which Government Ministers, Labor leaders and representatives of the big ern- playing m-laying interests perti'cipated, adopt-, d a resolution presented by Arthus 1enderson, Laborite, for the appoint- I tiient of a joint temporary committee, to be composed of 30 Laborites and 80 capitalists, to make a thorough investigation into the questions of tours, wages, general conditions of Work, unemployment and its preven- tio, and the best means for promot. ' ing the relations between capital and labor, and report back to the confer- ence, which will reassemble on April 5 - At the suggestion of Premier Lloyd George, who strongly advocated the pian, the resolution was amended to include a sentence from a similar re- solution, though not so comprehen- sive, presented earlier by Sir ,Allan Smith, chairman of the managing committee of the' Engineering Em- ployers' Federation. This called for a report by the committee on the causes o,f the present unrest and the steps necessary to best safeguard the relations betwea+n capital and labor. � J British Force Near Persian Gulf $3,000,000,000 Indemnity Will be Finally Relieved Last Demanded --Payment Month. "in Kind." FOR THREE YEARS ACENST ;AUST IA A despatch from London says:-- A despatch from London says: - The forces under Brig. -Geri. Sir Percy A special despatch to the London Sykes, who advanced into Persia to- Daily News, dated February 20, says ward Shiraz, in South-western Persia that the war indemnity clairned by near the Persian Gulf, thedosearsliItaly from Austria has been approxi - ago, was relLeved last month ly of hex'' 'el'y'•--calculated et ` £600,000,000 British forces sent from India, ac- doub($3,000,000,000). As it is extremely cordingto an announcement in' the enforced,ful whether itsn poveernmnent can be the Italian Government will House of Lords recently by Earl possiibiy resort to a practical remedy I Curzcn. Early in 1916 Gen. Sykes for compensation, consisting in spec-, I was sent to Southern Persia to raise ially favorable concessions over the' a force of Persian rifle:, to replace the mutinous gendarmie. At the bead of only 500 nen and two light guns, Gen. Sykes, Lord Curzon said, made an adventurous march through hostile territory and eventually established himself at Shiraz. During the years in Shiraz before the relief farce came, Gen. Sykes DAMAGE BY WAR TO FRANCE created a Persian force of 6,000 men, TOTAL 119,801,000,000 FRANCS led by British officers and strength- ened by 800 Indian troops. Gen. Sykes '--- and his force were in constant danger :21 despatch from Paris says: -The from hostile tribes and the machine- Budget Committee of the Chamber of tions of Turkish and German agents, Deputies has drawn up a report fix - but he managed to- keep splendid eon- ing the damages caused by the war trol of the situation. in France, the total reaching 119,- 801,000,000 francs. Of this amount PRICES OF FOOD IN POLAND 96,659,000,000 is entailed by direct COMING DOWN WITH A RUSH damages, and 23,242,000,000 by in- - damage through loss of income Warsaw, March 2. -The first Am- or the impossibility of carrying on erican feed has been placed on the work. local markets and prices of all com- modities are dropping, with the food hoarders hastening to sell. - Sugar that soie for $1.50 a pound in De- cember is now selling for 60 cents, while meat has dropped from $1 to 50 cents a pound, and shoes from $70 to $40 a pair. The price of clothing is also dropping. - Manitobaoats-No. 2 C.W., 721/2c; No. 8 C.W., 63%c; extra No. 1 feed, 651/2c; No, 1 feed, 61%c; No, 2 feed, 5$i/ae, in store Fort William. natural resources of the country. Thus it is proposed that about a third of the war indemnity claimed by Italy eehould be paid by Austria n kind, as it were, by ceding to Italy 8,000,000 cubic metres (282,512,000 cultic feet) of timber, to be exported during a period of five years. • ------.---..--- POLES AND GERMANS ARE STILL FIGHTING A despatch from Warsaw saYs :- Skirmishes between Poles and Ger- mans continue, Some fighting was witnessed by Col. William A. Grove, of the United States Food Mission, 40 miles west of Kalisz, near Krone chin, where he arrived during a light cannonade and machine gun fire. Tvt'enty-four Poles were wounded. A Hospital in France -This is a pieture of the hospital attached to the Canadian Forestry Corps at Gersrdnier. 'Straw---(ar :ots, $10 to $11 per ton, car lots. Country Produce ---Who lesaie. Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to 38e; prints, 40 to 41e. Creamery, fresh made solids, 51e.; prix -e, 52c. Eggs -New laid, 42 to 43e. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 26 to 34c; roosters, 25c; leievl, 27 to 30c; ducklings, 82e; turkeys, 40c; squabs, doz., $4.50; geese, 25e. Live poultry -Roosters, 20e; fowl. 'R`L4 to 30c; ducklings, lie., 3"e; turkeys, 35c; spring chickens, 25e; reeve, 180. Cheese --New, large, 2$ to 28/e twins, 283 to 29c; tiipldt4, 20 to 291c; Stilton, 291/2 to 0c; old, large. 29 to 291/2,c; twin, 203 to 30ee Potatoes-Ontarios, f.o.b. ttetel. To- ronto, car lots, 85c to 90e. Beans - Canadian, hamhpicted, bushel, $3,50 to $4.00 pr:nat {, $3.00. Imported, hand-picked,, Bur•m =e or In- dian, $3.25; imas, 1.5c. Honey -Extracted clover: 5 -Ir. tins 26 to 27c lb.; 10 -Ib. tins, 25 to 26c; 60 -Ib. tins, 25 to 25c; baekwheat, CO -lb. tin, 19 to 20c. Comb: 16 -oz., $4.50 to $5.00 doze 12 -oz., $3.50 to $4.00 doz. -Maple products -Syrup, per gelion, $2.25 to $2.35; sugar, lb., 27 to 28c. Provisions -Wholesale. Smoked meats -Hams, rnoditun, 30" to 38c; do., heavy, 80 to 32e; cooked, 49 to 51e; rolls, 31 to Dec bre most bacon, 41 to 45c; back, slain, 11 to 45c; boneless, 50 to 52e. Cured meats -Long clear bacc,n, 28 to 29c• clear bellies, 27 to 28c. Lard -Pure, tierces, 27 to 27%•.; tubs, 2731 to 28c; pails, 27% to 28'i; prints, 281 to 29. Compound tierces, 253/2 to 253,,c; tubs, 25?:i to 26/c; pails, 26 to 261/2e; print:, 271/2 to 273'a . -- Montreal Marktt . Montreal, Marsh 4 ---Oats, extra No. 1 fed, 781c. Flour, new standard grade. $11,10 to $11.20. Rolled oats, bags 90 lbs., $4.15. Bran. $40.25. Shorts, $44 to $45. Mouillie, $04. Hay, No. 2, per ton, ear lots, $24. Cheese, finest Easterns, 24 to 25c; butter, choicest creamery, 521,,+ to 53; eggs, selected, 50e; eggs, No. 1 stock, 47c; potatoes per bag, car lots, $1.75; dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $24; lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 25 to 20e, Live Stock Markets, Toronto, March 4.- Choic:, heavy export steers $16 05 Do, good 14 50 Choice butcher steers 12 50 Butchers' cattle choice Do, good Do, common Bulls, choice Do, medium bulls Do, rough bulls Butcher cows, choice 1)o, good Do, medium Do, common Stockers Feeders Canners and cutters Milkers, good to choice Do, con. and med. Springers Light ewes Yearlings . .. Spring. lambs Calves, goo•clto choice Hogs, fed and watered . 18 00 Do, off cars 18 25 Do,f.o.b. , • 17 25 12 25 10 75 8 '75 10 50 875 7 50 10 50 9 50 8 25 7 25 8 00 10 50 5 50 $1..7 50 15 50 13 00 ..pay under the order-in-Couis 5e l�- ing to compassionate and h 11;^;'p cases, or sebsemientle ditelentime, 24,93e men, while the numher et -,:; k off strength as liable only tc nen. 00 combatant service (either as von. 8 00 scientious abject,ar:, ler in• reason .re' 11 50 the War Time F eetrions Art' watt 10 00 16,850. The number of those mired 8 :no by compulsory military scrviee who 105 went to the front was not as ilable, 12 00 Sir Janice said, but the nevem. dent 7 00 overseas was 47,509. 80 PER. CENT. OF CRIMES WORK OF FOREIGNERS PERMANENT FORCE FOR CANADA, PRINCESS PATRICIA'S :flAT'I'. TO FORM i'ART ..Ceees. Which Ariake Up the Iteconnti- uted Force nod Their Head- quarters Decided Upon. Princess Patriciate Canadien bight Infsntry is to be a pert of the per- manent force of Canada, according to an announcement made recently by Major •C.anpbell of the Adjutant's, Department at Military Headgear - ten. The crack regiment will be de- mobilized in Ottawa and reorganized in Toronto. Its headquarters will be in Termite. The reconstitution of the mermen ent force has ben before the Militia Council for a month or more. The Militia Department does not contem- plate any great increase in the strength of the force, vhieh prior to the war numbered about 3,800 men et all ranks, According to the Order in Council it ea+.snot exceed 5,000 men o2 all ranks. Some Vele ago the per- manent force was abolished, and all ;soldiers in training for overseas or on duty in Canada were pineed on the rtrengtli of the C. E. P. Departures From Old System. 'pierce are some itaportani d pas- tures from the old "system. The germ of enlistment is to be fur two years instead of three years, ars prier to the ;sear, with C.E.F. rates of pay, which is an increase over formerrate with ;.once exceptions. In cases of"non- coinml,issioned officers of the former- , permanent forces who have advanced through lengthy service and would suffer by the change the order ie not to be construed as affecting them, and i those whose rates are lower are to be advanced to the (I.E.?. rate :ef pa;.. One man in every ten will be ai'.o:Y err married quarters or be permitted to draw a married soldier's allowtrer. Formerly it NUS one in twenty. I The category of all fighting rank- ie to he "A," but the men ,.n in the ame- iliare' services may he lower r than "A." There are to be a limited number of commissions open, and the apple- eants must be men who have seen active servie'o in a theatre of war, with high qur lificetiene, atilt tr y and educational. The forces will be ccrrposed of the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Prin- cess Patrieta's Light Infantry, sta- tioned in Toronto; Lord Stratheona'e Horse, at Calgary; Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, ee the coast, ant the Royal Canediar I'^:z:nieant. nt Kingston, CALL FOR DEPORTATION OF .ALL E? EM AL/ENS - A '-...lel, leem 1.'attctttri pays:- Sweepiw zind dl's ti,• :•�;iit.i- tion, dealing e+ite all seen,,7 aliens now resident. til Cena.ia, iseeaee in a memorial to he fc' aar-ied to the Federal Govera:.ie,c i. l ll,e City Council, l:iacke ° rep a -n,a- tives of all the medie eed sone pinb- ?; c bodies of the city Classed more, ilrc U:1 1n'' Aisne whose de'iortati;'•n aseed *or :hong;• with the rest : t' r ,t 'ugh l;si;es ins res lents who have ',.,e., t.er,-i.temtiy "carrying 011 pre]).?^,'radix amt. e g :n- izing societies subsert Met ter •t,., peace of the iIlStitutins.': CANADIAN DRArtp.,Es SEX'i OVERSEAS NUMJ3ER 11 1750 A despatch from Cl,'.r.a e : -- The number of men raised enegr the Military Service Act totalled Se,`5:,. Sir Jas. Loue;heed, Cus'<ee t ` er, infromed the Sen rte c.nc en addition, there were on Iee t ria. et 18 11 9 11 9 00 75 25 Fro 90 00 140 00 65 00 75 00 90 00 140 00 10 50 11 50 1:2 00 18 00 15 50 17 50 16 25 18 25 Winnipeg, March 2. --Drastic steps should be taken immediately to eche. tate all children of foreign llr1h in the country and prevent the spread of crime. This is the advise of the Manitoba grand jury after rnsnerting all Governmental institutions. The jurymen claimed that 80 per cent, of Montreal, Marsh 4 -Choice selected the crime coming up for hearing be- hr.gs, $1.7.50 to $1$.00 per 100 pounds weighed off ears. Choice steers, $10.50 to $18.50; good goers, $5,00 to $11.00; butchers' burls, $8.50 to $10.50; other;; $5.50; butchers' cattle, cows and bulls, $10.00 to $11.25; canners and cutters $5.00 to $0:00. Milk -fed fore them in this session was conl- m,itted by those of foreign birth. Most of the girls and boys appearing as witnesses could neither read ear write. With a. more forcible method of compelling these children to attend calves, $13.00 to $16.00. Sheep, $8.00 , the school, the amount of crime nil to $0,50; lambs, $12.00 to $14.50. i Manitoba would decrease.