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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-03-21, Page 2IN MED UN Fo' SPECIAL AGREEMENT Germany Allowed to Purchase 370,000 Tons of Food in Enemy and Neutral Countries and Resume Trade with World Under Certain Conditions. Paris, March 10. -Germany, in con- United States to advance money for sideration of a deposit of 111,000,000 the purchase of the food for Ger- many. When this was refused the German delegates agreed to turn over gold at the Belgian border at once. It is understood that $180,000,- 000 is available now. More will be furnished in a few days. The German ships will start for America via England in a few days. It is not likely that they will carry a capacity load of American troops on their first voyage as alterations will have to be made when they reach America. British and German committees have opened negotiations in Rotter- dam, says a German Government wireless message, concerning the ex- portation from Germany of pota•sh, timber, dyes and other products. Ships going to France and England immediately are cargo vessels in neutral ports in South and Central America and the Dutch East Indies. They will be permitted to leave with cargoes for Germany with German crews but under Allied flags. When the ships put out from German ports to be handed over they will be manned by Germans, but on arrival in Allied ports the crews will be replaced by Allied crews and the Germans returned. lin gold at Brussels, will receive an immediate delivery of 270,000 tons of foodstuffs, according to the agree- ment entered into between the Ger- man delegates and the representa- tives of the allied powers et Brussels. Germany will further be entitled to purchase monthly 870,00(1 tons of food in enemy and neutral countries, besides fish from European waters and vegetables. The restrictions on fishing. in the Baltic will be removed. The blockade of Germany is to be lifted to a certain extent immediately according to Herbert Hoover, Food Controller, who returned to -day from Brussels. According to Hoover, Germany, un- der certain restrictnons, can. resume her trade with the outside world. Some of the ships which the Ger- mans must immediately turn over to the allies will be operated by German crews, but will not fly the German flag. The lists are now being prepared covering the exports which Germany will be permitted to send out. They will consist chiefly of coal, dyestuffs, potash and timber. The Germans first wanted the Mark-ts of the World a a.t tubs 271e to 28c; pa.ils, 27% to 281etc; L rd -Pure, tierces, 27 to 27%e; Breadstuffs. Toronto, ivlarch 18. -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern $2.24e,e; No. 2 Northern, $2.21%; No. 3 Northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.1117e, in store Fort William. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 72%C;No. 3 C.W., 67eec; extra No. 1 feed, 6751c; No. 1 feed, 651,.e.c; No. 2 feed, 621,ec, in store, Fort William. Manitoba barley -No. 3 C.W., 911ec; No. 4 C.W., 86c, rejected, 791ae; feed, 78½c. in store Fort 'Veil- stock, 38c, Potato., ner bag, car Bane lots, $1.75. Dressed hogs, abattoir American corn -No. 3 'Yellow, killed, $25.00 to $25.50. Lard, pure, $1.62; No. 4 yellow, $1.59, track To- wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 25 to 291,ec. prints 28 to 29c. Compound, tierces, 25% to 25%c; tubs, 25% to 2614c; pails, 26 to 26%; prints, 274 to 27%. Montreal „Markets. Montreal, March 18. -Oats -Extra No. 1 feed, 781,4c. Flour -New stan- dard grade, $11.10 to $11.20. Roiled oats -Bags, 90 lbs., $8,90 to $4.00. Bran, $40,25. Shorts, $42,25. Mouillie, $64.00. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $23.00. Cheese, finest easterns, 25 to 25e. Butter, choicest creamery, 54 to 55c. Eggs, selected, 39c; No. 1 rcinto, prompt shipment. Ontario cats -No. 2 white, 02 to 64c, No. 3 white, 60 to 02c, according • • br,".{of.rlacataws *Mr. •AtotthaiiMit=1.11.%11.4.. eIe 444‘44.. essesseseesseeseeeseseeneeeeeseeseeeeseeemesseseeseeeeneeemses..... A British Competitor for the Cross -Atlantic Flight The Kennedy -Dawson biplane specially built to compete for "The Daily Mail" £10,000 Atlantic Flight Prize. Above, a sketch of the machine in flight; below, the interior arrangements, showing the pilot house, crew's quarters, storage tccommoda tion, and the entrance in the tail. TRIAL rilIGHT OF BRITISH AIRSHIP Can Carry Fuel to Travel to America and Back With- out Landing. Londou, March 10. -Another great British airship made a trial flight yesterday. She is the R-34, and four feet longer than her sister ship, R-33, her length beiing 665 feet and diameter 80 feat. Five engines give her a total of 1,250 horse -power, and GREECE AND ITALY SEEKING CREDIT LOANS FROM CANADA A despatch from Peris says: - Greece and Italy have joined the list of European nations that are negotia- ting with Canada or credit in loans which would be employed in the pur- chase of supplies of manufactured goods in Canada. France and Rou-' mania have already signed contracts involving credits of $25,000,000 each, and discussions with Belgium regard- ing a similar loan have been. pro- ceeding for some time. The negotiations with Greece and Italy are still in their infancy and the amount of the credits desired. by these she is expected to make 80 . -miles an nations has not yet been, stated. It is hour with a load of 29 tons. The R-34 believed, however, that Greece will be can carry enough petrel to fly to Am- in a position to pay cash for most of erica and back without landing, and the things she needs and would re - when once she is tuned Up she is ex- quire only a small credit. pected to be able to negotiate - the -es.-- Atlantic flight practically regardless FRENCH GENERAL TO ASSIST to freights oatside. , British preparatione,..44 ' •' COMaIANDER OF POLISH ARMY the extent of 7S.000 to 100,000 tons. el Stireather conditions. ..e,,i Ontario wheat -No: 1 winter, per Lsia Atlantic contest areerio confiried to - ' The balance of the tonnage will be car lot o $2,14 to $2.22; N ... -, do., ; to $15. choice butcher steers - p'A despatch. from Paris says:- dedicied equally between the United export steers, $15.50 to $1i; do, good, $13 to e13 2'5- butchers' cattle, choice, airshis. Several heavier-than-air Mejor-General Heerys,' of the French Stetes and Great Britain. America is 3,500,000 TONS OF GERMA9 SIPS WORK OF FEEDING GERKANY BEGUN v.emmo••••• Large Stores Accumulated in Holland to be Released-- • Payment in Coal. A. despatch from London says:- The. revictualliug of Germany begins this week. According to reliable re- ports from Holland great supplies of foodstuffs which have fieen piling up there since the middle of February will now be released. American ex. porters have been co-operating with the Relief Commission in the last ten days in getting wheat and meat across the Atlantic. The Chicago packers arranged for big meat shipments, and these are ready to be released the instant word comes from Brussels. They will be despatched to prearranged distribut. ing points within Germany% Several American exporters, after making investigations of their own, re- ported that food conditions in Ger. many and. Austria were now at the lowest point and that starvation con- ditions were already apparent. This is particularly true in the remoter parts. By the latter part of March the whole of the enemy countries will re- ceive supplies, and these will continue to go .forward until the next haatvest. In London there is belief that condi- tions in Germany are exaggerated and many believe these reports are facili- tated by tate Government of Germany, which is anxious to impress the allies with their desperate plight and thus force revictualling on easy terms. The British. Government, however. obtained reliable reports, and the real condition is known to be bad. Both Great Britain and France object to the payment for food in Germ= goods and prefer to have coal, and this will be supplied in sufficient quantities to meet immediate neeas. Hitherto the Ebert Government has balked over the terms of payment, and particularly over the queetiou of giving up ships. But there can be no sham now. Either food. must be supplied or the country turned over to the terrorists, and they know it. Will Be Turned Over, France to Receive 100.000 Tons and Bal- ance Equally Divided Between Britain and U. S. London, March 16. -The Aseociat- ed Press learns that the total ton- nage of German shipping to be sur- rendered cannot be accurately ascee- tained, but including ships in neutral ports, roughly estimated, it will be three and a half million tons. As Italy is already in pose:ession of the Austrian shipping, the 111E11111gC- !ma of a very small proportion of the Germme an shi'ree will be entrust- ed to that .country. France will re- ceive ocean-oeing steamers to Live Stock Markets. Toronto, March 18. -Choice heavy $2.11 to $2.19; No. 3, do., $2.07 to , 82.15 f.o.b., shipping points, accord- ingOntario wheat -No. 1 Spring, $2.09! to freights. 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, acceronig to freights. Peas -no. 2, $1.75, according to fri'g'hts onee! I3arlOy-Malting, 87 to 92c, nomin- al. Buckwheat -No. 2, Sc, nominal. Ieya-No. 2, $1.37, nominal. Manitoba flour -Government stan- dard, $10.75 to $11.00, Toronto. Ontario flour -Government stan- dard, $9.55 to $9.75 in bags, Toronto and Montreal, prompt shipment. Milifeed-Car lots, delivered Mon- treal freights, bags included. Bran, $40.25 per ton, shorts,$42.25 per ton; good Seed flour, $3.25 to $3.50 per bag. Hay -No. 1, $20 to $21 per ton; mixed, $18 to $19 per ton, track To- ronto. Straw -Car lots, $10 per ton. Country Produce -Wholesale. Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to 38c; prints, 40 to 41c, Creamery, fresh made solids, 49 to 50c; prints, 50 to 52c. Eggs -New laid, 35 to 36c. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 26 to 34c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 27 to 30c; ducklings, 32c; turkeys, 45c; squabs, doz., $4.50; geese, 25c. Live poultry -Roosters, 20c; fowl 28 to 32c; ducklings, lb., 35e; turkeys, 80c; chickens, 28c; geese 18c. Cheese -New, large, 28 to 281sec; twins, 28% to 29c; triplets, 29 to 29%c; Stilton, 29% to 30c; old, large, 29 to 291,ec; twin, 29% to 30c. Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices: Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to 48c; creamery, solids, 52 to 53c; prints, 52 to 54c. Margarine -32 to 34c. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 35 to 40e; roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 32 to 35c; turkeys, 45 to 50c: ducklings, lb., 35 to 38c; squabs, doz., $5.50; geese, 27 to 29c. Potatoes-Ontaelos, f.o.b. track Toronto, car lots, $1,10, Beans - Canadian, hand-picked, bushel, $3.50 to $4.00; primes, $2.'75 to $8.25. Imported hand-picked, Bur- ma or Indian, $8,25; Limas 14c. Honey -Extracted clover:'5 lb. tins 26 to 27c lbe 10 ib, tins, 25 to 26c; 60 Ib. tins, 24 to 25c; buckwheat, GO lb. tin, 19 to 20c. Comb: 16 oz., $4,50 to $5.00 doz.; 12 . oz., $8.50 to $4,00 doz. Maple products -Syrup, per gallon, . $2.25 to $2.35; sugar, lb,„ 27 to 28c. $12.50 to $13.25; do., good, $11 to $12; do, common, $9.25 to $9.75; bulls, choice, $10.50 to $11.50; do, medium, $8.75 to $9; do, rough bulls, $7.50 to machines are made or in the making, army, has been sent to Poland by the the best known among them being not interested in cargo tonnage, o the Handley -Page prodacte. which Great Britain will probably Supieme Wily Council ai military -1117e aide to General Pilsudske the cone. and France is, however, another plane, or ratter mander-in-ehief of the Polhill army. manage three-fourths, General T-I.enrys was in immediete the balance. The German ships will be delivered command of the French troops in the at various ports, those at present in . . $8; bntchers cows, choice, $10,75 to 'set of Planes' of which little has been $12; do, good, $9.50 to $10; do, - said, but which are being fitted out medium, $8,50 to $8.75; do, commen, cre -rs end inerts of a trans-Atian.ic• - e- • Ilight. lost e Tles Sntember, The decieion to end t s • c,. n-utral berborb e sing, ham N There e-11.1-li• nothing in the 01 $7.50 to $8; stockers $8 to $10.50; and tuned up for the see3cial require- victorious Motee;loneal onellSIN 3 C cutters, $5.50 to $G; milkers, good to squadron is under the coramand of reeuei s, . choice, $00 to $150; clo, coin. and med. Lieut -Col. Porte. Its equatleons of arr t rinens %90 to $150; flyine boats is called the "Felixstowe shape of a -formal serrender. Geneeal Henrys to Poland. WEIS reach- ed by the Council after it had heard ehips, according to information here, a statement by M. Carton De Wiert, -ill be manned almost excluelvely lieht ev,7ea '$11 to $12.50; yearlings, Feriae," from the searade renort who lecently returned from ‘,aarsaw. by Britieh, French and American • $12 to $13; spring :ambs, $16 to I11.8; . which is their headquarters. During alves, good to choice, $16.50 to p' $10; hogs, foil and watered, $19; do, the later stages of the war ortes off cars, $19.25; do, f.o.b., $18.25. Furies did great work against the Montreal, March 18. -Choice select German submarines, and now their hogs, $18 per 100 pounds off cars. commanders are out for fresh lourels. Choice :deers, $12 to $14 per 100 pds; ••••••••..... poorer quality, $7.50 to $8 per "° RUNS TO B3 FOUSED pounds. Buherstc' bulls and cows, a 1- L-1 $10 to $11.50; canners, $5 to $5.50. Sheep, $8 to $10.50. Lambs, $15.50 per 100 pounds. U -Boat Sunk Off Spain While Attempting to Escape Provisions -Wholesale. Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 36 to 88c; do., heavy, 30 to 32c; cooked, 40 to '1c; rolls, 31 to 32c; breakfast bacon, 41 to 45c; back, plain, 44 to 45 boneless, 50 to 52e. Cured meats-Lorig clear bacon, f'53 to 29e; dear bellies, 27 to 28c. _ Paris, March 16. -The German sub - maxim U-48, while attempting to es- cape from Ferrol, Spain, last night, was chased, by a destroyer and sunk, according to a Havas despatch from Madrid. The attempted flight of the IJ -boat was observed, and the torpedo destroyer Antalo pursued her. The German boat was sunk outside the Ferrol Roads. The crew was saved. The U-48 took refuge at Ferrol in 1918 and. was interned. Air Attacks on Germany Killed 729, Injured 1,745 1•••••••••••• Copenhagen, March 16. -Seven hundred and twenty-nine persons were killed and 1,745 were injured in aerial attacks by allied forces on Ger.. man territory up to November 6, 1918, according to official figures made public in Berlin. The damage done in Germany by air raids during the war period am- ounted to 23,500,000 marks. Luxemburg to Form Alliance 'With France and Belgium 1.4.04•••••• A despatch from Paris says: -The commission appointed by the Gov - eminent of Luxemburg to study economic problems resulting from the war has decided upon an econ- omic alliance with Belgium and France, despatches received here say. This alliance would control at output of 55,000,000 tons of steel annually and will put an end to German 1110DA. poly in -continental Europe. • p.4 'BASES crews-exchisively so when they are FIX RELIEF IN EASTERN AREAS. used for the transport of troepe. An allied economic- commission is A despatch from 'Washington says: being established at Hamburg to deal - with tho matter of freight and cog- -Glafrom Con- advices on Friday froCen- stantinople eaid the committee for nate subjects. Freight will be charged Bit - relief in the Near East had established mainly in accordance with the Brit - AT vERsALLEs i.,,,sriveasiiiu,Kar tpau t Minor end atAi Gexe lz a. enhal ieotnt da ish Blue Book rates. m which food and clothing were : WATER TUR-NED INTO fro - being supplied to Armenians, Greeks NEW NIAGARA MAIN. and other sufferers. Signatories to the Peace Confer- ence Not Allowed to Enter Paris. A despatch from Paris says: - When the Erne for the signing of the peace treaty arrives, it ,is under- stood, Germany's repeesentatives will be housed in one of the palaces at Versailles, and will not be permitted to enter Paris, as the French Gov- ernment does not care to undertake to afford protection to Germans in Paris. While the Gelman signatories will not actu.ally be prisoners, and must not be treated as such, public sym- pathy against Germany is so high in Paris that the French Government is unwilling to risk unpleasant inci- dents which might occur were the official German representatives to appear publicly. . 4 DIES FOR ATTACK ON CLEMENCEAU A despatch from Paris says: - Emile Catlin the anarchist who re- cently made an attempt upon the life of Premier Georges Clemenceau, was on Friday sentenced to death by the courtenartial which was trying him. The verdict of the court-martial was unanimous. Haig Turns Over Command Of Rhine Army to Robertson terms. 4:4 NO IMPOST ON CANADIAN WOOD A despatch irons London says: -- It is officially announced that all raw materials are now exempted from the operation of the imports ban, in- cluding air kinds of wood and timber, hewn, sawn, planed and dressed. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: -Water was turned ma Friday into the new 13 -foot wooden water main constructed through Victoria. Park to give 50,000 additional horse- power to the Ontario Hydro Commis- sion, which will remedy all power shortage for the present. It is ex- pected one machine at the Ontario Power plant will be in operation from the new pipe on Monday. USE O AIRCRAFT FOR WAR PURPOSES ABOLISHED BY PEACE CONFERENCE Supreme War Council ,Decides That Dirigibles and. Airplanes Shall No Longer 13e Used Except For CommercialoPurposes • --Aeronantic Commission to be Sent to Germany. • A despatch from Paris says: - The aerial terms of the German dis- armament as adopted by the Supreme War Council provide that airplanes and dirigibles shall no longer be used for military purposes. The Council concluded that it 'was not feasible to L ‘u Berlin Women Armed With Knives Commit Outrages Dur- ing Last Days of Civil War. A deseUtch from Loneon A Rotterdam deepeteh to the Daily News ens: "Telegraphing bite leet nil{, the Berlin cerresponaent taa Nieuwe Itotterdamche Courant en- ables one to catch glimpsea of i.ize ne- raeealizotion and metered desteeetien in Berlin during the lust fee- daye of the civil war. There. many women, armed with kni yes, haeLed to d ti soldiers who had been made prieonere, while other prisoners. having beea stripped and diced In the middle of open spaces, were made living tar- gets for missies of all sorts, including hand grenades. The material des- truction is enormoue and reminds the correspondent of what he saw in the battle area on the western 'front, where towns were reduced to little more than jagged skeltons of walls. Mines have been exploded in the streets of Berlin, adding to the des- truction. Amid this turmoil which has made everybody extremely ner- vous, even semi -hysterical, one sees mothers of families darting desperate- ly out of doorways in the endeavor to reach places where food can be ob. tabled. the allies and must prohibit the con- struction of other airplanes until the conclusion of peace, the Supreme War Council decided. The terms do not decide the future fate of the air- planes which may tither be destroy- ed or divided among the allies. The prohibit airplanes for commercial British and American delegates stem The drafting, committee was brought up the question of a distinc- directed to make clear the distinction tion beween commercial aerial navi- excepting commercial airplanes in the terms incorporated in the, peace gation, which will be authorized for Germany after ,conclusion of peace under certain guarantees and mill - All forms of military airplanes are tary aerial navigation which will be A despatch from Londoii says:- barred to Germany, the only excep- prohibited. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has tion being the temporary use until "The Couneil decided to sendalt been appointed to succeed Gen. Sir October 1 of 10O hydro -airplanes and aeronautic commission. to Germany William Ite Robertson as Commander 1,000 men in gathering mines in the to investigate the question of earn- ' ' ' h H Con North Sea. menial aerial navigation. Deputy Canadian Red Cross Assist Starving Prisoners in Siberia A despatch from Vladivostok says: -The desperate condition of enemy prisoners and returned Rus- sian prisoners in Siberia is now oc- cupying the attention of the British and Canadian authorities and pro- posals are now under consideration by which the Canadian Red Cross would assume charge of the situation. Five carloads of supplies have al- ready been shipped for the peisoners, but immense operations aro neces- sary to relieve 200,000 enemy prison- ers and 800,000 returning Russians. The British Red. Cross milt in Siberia has been demobilized and the Canadians are carrying on the work. Payment for for Food Supplies To Be Made by Exportations Paris, March 16. -Several of the members of the Allied Commission dealing with the taking over of the German merchant fleet and the re - victualling of. Germany have returned to Paris. It is learned that payment for the food supplies will be made on the basis of exportations, The Ger- mans will have the right to export by eea, certain produets, the receipts Robertson is to be Commander- in- The Havas Agency says: "Ger- Aubigny, of the French Chamber, from which will go to pay for the Chief of the Array of the Rhine. many must deliver all airplanes to will be chairman," products delivered to Germany. 111