HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-04-11, Page 2DISTRIBUTION OF BRITISH TROOPS
TO MAINTAZ THE WORLD'S PEACE
,Army of the Rhine Consists of 264,000 MenOver120,000 in
France -10,000 to Aid in Adjusting Trouble Between
Italy and Jugo-Slays.
lead been reached at the Peace Con-
ferc?nce.
In "Iesopotamia, Great Britain had
30,000 men, After emphasizing the
A despatch from London says: -
The approximate distribution of the
650,000 troops which. Great Britain
proposes to keep under arms until the smallness of the number of troops
world is again at peace was explained actually in Russia, Mr. Churchill said
by War Secretary Churchill in the that if Russia did not exist the bill
House of Commons recently. would still be necessary. In North
The distribution of troops, the Sec- Russia and Siberia there were some-
thing said, would be as follows: I?i t?ting like 20,000 men out of a total
Great Britain, 176,000; in France c''f 859,000, British troops comprising
120.000; army on the Rhine, 264,000. the contemplated army of occupation
In Italy and adjacent regions, Mr. in the various areas during this trying
Churchill added, there would be 10,000 period. From these 356,000 men it
men, in order to adjust the lamentable would he necessary to deduct 208,000,
differences which had arisen between
Italy and the Jugo-Slats, saying:
"We are keeping small forces of
British troops there in many locali-
ties where the troops of no other na-
tion would be welcome. We have
been asked to do this in conjunction
with our allies, because it has been
found that these troops could prevent
troubles between the local populations
merely by their presence during the
period we are trying to settle things."
This was, of course, continued the
Secretary, done at the request and by
the desire of both parties, who felt
that otherwise there might be a grave
political situation, and there were no
troops anywhere engaged on a more
merciful and beneficent task.
In the Middle East and the Caucas-
us there were 75,000 men, and he
hoped that they might be substantial-
ly reduced in the near future. These
troops had been there to expel Turks
and Germans, and were there now
merely to keep the people from .flying
at each other's throats until decisions
who were not combatants in any sense.
"To secture peace and tranquility
throughout the immense regions • that
have fallen into our hands during the
war and to secure fulfilment of the
peace treaty and to enable us, in con,
junction with our allies, to influence
a settlement in Europe," said Mr.
Churchill, "the total forces we pro-
pose to keep at our disposal are thus
approximately 650.000 men."
Referring to a speech by a Deputy
who had attributed the situation in
Egypt to the military Government of
the country, Mr. Churchill remarked
that, whatever might be said, British
soldiers and British generals were
more in demand in every country of
the world as law -givers and pacifiers
titan the soldiers of any other coun-
try. As a natter of fact, British rule
under which Egypt had prospered so
enormously, he asserted, never had
been military, but civilian. Of course,
in time of ware exceptional steps had
to be taken, but the country had been
administered through civilian authori-
ties.
Markets of the World
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, Ap. 8. -Manitoba Wheat,
No. 1 Northern, $2.241/2; No. 2 North-
ern, $2,21'12; No. 8 Northern, $2.171/2;
No. 4 wheat, $2.111,2, in store, Fort
William.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 72%c;
No. 3 C.W., 69%e; extra No. 1 feed,
69%c; No. 1 feed, 67%e; No. 2 feed,
64%e, in store Fort William.
Manitoba barley -No. 3 C.W.
$1.05; No. 4 C.W., 99%e; rejected,
97c; feed, 96c, in store Fort William.
American corn -No. 3 yellow,
$1,80; No. 4 yellow, $1.77, track To-
ronto, prompt shipment.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 70 to
'72c; No. 3 white, 68 to 70c, according
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per
car lot, $214 to $2.20. 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 52.1.0 f,o.b. shipping
points, according to freights.
Peas -No. 2, $1.70. according to
freights outside.
Barley -Malting, 0. to 98c, nomin-
al.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 05c, nominal.
Rye -No. 2, $1.65, nominal.
Manitoba flour -Government stan-
dard, $10.75 to $11, Toronto.
Ontario hour -Government stan-
dard, $9.65 to $9.75, in bags, Toronto
and Montreal., prompt shipment in
jute bags.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mon-
treal freights, bags included. Bran,
$42 to $47 per ton; shorts, $44 to $47
per ton; good feed flour, $2.70 to
$2.90 per bag.
Hay -No. 1, $24 to $26 per ton;
mixed, $22 to $23 per ton, track To- j
n o.
Straw -Car lots, $10 to $11 per ton. 1
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36,
to 38e; prints, 40 to 41c. Creamery,.
fresh. made, prints, 66 to 58c.
Eggs --New laid, 40 to 42c.
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 26 to
34c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 28 to 33c;
ducklings, 32e; turkeys, 45c; squabs,
doz., $5.00; geese, 25e.
Live poultry -Roosters, 22c; fowl,
28 to 33c; ducklings, lb,, 35c; turkeys,
30c; chickens, 27c; geese, 18e.
Cheese -New, large, 28 to 28%e;
twins, 28% to 29e; triplets, 29 to
29%c; Stilton, 29% to 30c; old, large,
291!2 to 300; twin, 30 to 303 e.
Wholesalers are selling to the re-
tail trade at the following prcices:
Butter --Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to
48e; creamery, solids, 68 to 60e;
prints, 60 to 62c.
Margarine --32 to...84c.
Eggs ---New laid, 45 to 46c; new
laid in cartons, 47 to 48c.
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 35 to
40e; roosters, 28 to 30c• fowl, 37 to
38c; turkeys, 45 to 60e; ducklings, Ib.,
25 to 88c; squabs, doz,, 56.00; geese,
28 to 80c.
Potatoes---Ontarios, f.o b. traek
Toronto, car lots, $1.10 to $1.15.
Beans- Canadian, hand-picked,
bushel, 58,25 to $3,75; primes, $2,50
to 53.00; Imported, hand -pickers, Bur.
ma or Indian, 52.25; Limas, 14c.
Honey -Extracted clover, 5 lb, tins,
25 to 26c ib,; 10 -Ib. tins, 24% to 25e;
60-1b. tins, 24 to 25c; buckwheat, 60-
lb. tins, 19 to 20c, Comb, 16 -oz., $4.50
to 55.00 doz.; 12 -oz., $3.50 to 54.00
doz.
Maple products-4.yrup, per wine
gallon, $1.85 per imperial galioii,c
rot
52.50; per 5 gals., 52.40; sugar, Ib.,
27 to 28c.
Provisions -Wholesale.
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 36
to 3Sc; do, heavy, 30 to 32c; cooked,
49 to 51c; rolls, 31 to 320; breakfast
bacon, 41 to 45e; backs, plain, 44 to
45c; boneless, 50 to 52c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 28
to 29c; clear bellies, 27 to 28c.
Lard -Pure tierces, 28 to 28%c;
tubs, 28% to 29c; pails, 28'4 to 29%;
prints, 291,E to 30c. Comp. tierces,
251/ to 253',c; tubs, 25%, to 26'/4c;
pails, 26 to 26%c; prints, 273, to
275,c.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, April 8. -Oats --Extra
No. 1 feed, 811%. Flour -Spring
wheat, new standard grade, 511.10 to
$11.20. Rolled Oats -Bags, 90 lbs.,
$3.60 to 53.75. Bran, $42.25. Shorts,
544,25. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car
lots, 526.50 to $27. Cheese -Finest
easterns, 24 to 25c. Butter -Choicest
creamery, 60 to 61c. Eggs -Fresh,
47e. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots,
$1.50. Dressed hogs -Abattoir kil-
led, $27 to 527,50. Lard -Pure, wood
pails, 20 lbs. net, 301 to 32e.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, April 8. -Good heavy
steers, 514 to $15.75; choice butcher
steers, $13.25 to 513.75; butchers'
cattle, choice, $13.50 to $18.75; do,
good, 512.50 to 513; do, medium,
511.50 to 512; do, common, 510.50 to
311; Bulls, choice, $10.75 to 11.75; do,
medium bulls, 59 to 59.25; do, rough
balls, 57.75 to 58.25; butchers' cows,
choice, 511,50 to $12.50; do, good,
810.25 to $11; do, medium, $9.25 to
$0,50: do, common, $7.50 to $8; stock-
ers, 88.75 to 511.50; feeders, 511.50 to
51.3.00;. canners and cutters, 55.50 to
57; milkers, good to choice, $90 to
$150; do, cern. and med., $65 to 575;
sprinters, 390 to 5150; light ewes,
$12.50 to .$133.50; yearlings, $12 to
$14; spring lambs, 316.50 to 519.50;
calves, good to choice, $14 to $17;
hogs, fed and watered, $20,35 to
520.40; do, weighed off cars, $20.65
to 520.75; do, f o.b., $19.85 to $19.50;
do, country pointe, 519.10 to 519.25.
Montreal, April S.-Butcherscat-
tle, $10 to 512; butcit:rs' bulls, $7 to
511.50; choice calves, $10 to 318;
medium, $7 to $10; select hogs, $20;
sows, $17; stags, $10.
NATIVE LEADERS IN EGYPT
APEAL TO THEIR FOLLOWERS.
A despatch from Cairo, Egypt, says:
-The native leaders appealed on
March 27 to Egyptians to abstain
from outrages, keep_ within the law
and to place no obstacles in the way
of those lawfully serving their coun-
try. They also appealed to the not-
ables of the country to do all in their
power to prevent anything that may
lead to injury to the country. 'This
appeal was distributed broadcast by
airplanes,
5,000 AUSTRALIAN TROOPS TO
MARCH THROUGH LONDON
A despatch. from London says: -
On Anzac Day, April 25, there will be
a triumphant march . of Australian
troops through London. The detach-
ment, to the number of $,000, will
march from the west end of the city,
passing the Mansion House, where the
Lord Mayor will take tho salute,
The Latest in British Plying Boats.
The above photographs show the. F2A flying boat, the latest thing in British seaplanes. A. crew of
five is carried, two pilots, an observer, an engineer and a wireless operator. The photograph on ,the left
shows the "bard" while in the air, with a complete wing spread of 98 feet. On the right is a photograph of the
hydro -plane at rest. Inset is a picture of Lieut. M. A. Gardiner, R.A.F., who has just returned to Toronto,
after seeing service with the North Sea Patrol..
REINS GIVEN 30
YEAR TO PAY
Twenty -Five Billion the First
Payment, of Which Belgium is
to Receive Five Billion.
Paris, April 6. --The Council of Four
on Saturday reached an agreement on
the principles of the indemnities and
reparations to be paid by Germany,
and examination of the details will be-
gin immediately, the newspapers say.
It is not believed there will be any
disagreement as to details, and it is
indicated that the text of the financial
terms will he finished during the week.
The Echo de Paris says that com-
promises were effected on all debat-
able points regarding the suns to be
paid at once by Germany and the pay-
ments in the future. Against the op-
position of the French Government it
was agreed, the paper says, to distri-
bute the future payments over a term
of 30 years. The payments for the
next few years were fixed.
The Journal says there are haat w
tions that the rights of France and
Belgium to.prior consideration in the
payments by Germany have been. re-
cognized. The first German payment,
it says, will be 25,000,000,000 francs,
of which five billion will go to pay for
raw materials to ensure the resump-
tion of German economic life. France
will get ten billion francs and Belgium
five billion of the first payment. The
rest of the indemnity, the paper says,
will run over a period of 30 years.
Plans for the continued occupation
of the left bank of the Rhine have
been abandoned, and *the allies will
depend upon an economic blockade as
the means of pressure on Germany.
Final agreement on the Rhine and
Saar Valley questions will be reached
before the end of the week, it is ad-
ded,
BOLSHEVIK! M T
CRUSHINGDEFEAT
Allies Win Victory on Archangel
Front--Enenty Dead Piled
in Heaps.
London, April 6. -The allied forces,
principally British and Russian, opera-
ting in the Sredn Mekhrenga sector,
delivered a crushing defeat Friday
afternoon to a large Bolshevik' at-
tacking party, says an Archangel des-
patch.
The enemy charged the allied blo8k-
deadey and the piles ot o ling ini
- Slit! i ii 9 c T 17
dead lying near them next morning in-
ILA
dicated the severity of the enemy's
losses.
GREAT BRITAIN- HAS FOUR SOLUTION
OF GREATEST OF AU PROBLEMS
Joint Industrial Conference of Employers and Workmen Had
Settled the Question of !Unrest. .
A despatch from London says:--
An optimistic view of the work of tho
industrial conference, comprising re-
presentatives of the employers and
the trade unions of the United King-
dom, was expressed at a joint meet-
ing of that body held on Friday to dis-
cuss a secret report made by the Com-
mittee of Ten that had been appointed
to make recorn nendoaion.s as to an
adjustment of the outstanding difficul-
ties..
Arthur Henderson, the labor leader,
in speaking of the result of the de-
liberations, said:
"We got along well: we do not an-
ticipate any disagreement." While
Sir Alan Macgregor Smith, chairman
of the managing committee of the
Engineering Employers' Federation,
said the employers were prepared to
honor the report immediately the
trade unions accepted.
The secret report, it is understood,
recommended the following immedi-
ate reforms:
A 4S -hour week with a scale of
minimum wages to be applied univer-
sally.
Trade Boards for organized trades.
The wages and hours recognized
and the employers to be applied' to all
other workers and employers.
Trade conferences to be- held on
future war bonuses, the maintenance
of the unemployed, and old -age pen-
sions,
At the joint conference Mr. Hender-
son moved a resolution welcoming the
report of the Provisional Joint Com-
mittee and agreed to submit it for ac-
ceptance. The Government, Mr. Hen-
derson said, had declared its readiness
to proceed at once with legislation
and other steps necessary to carry the
recommendations into effect, He add-
ed that the Provisional Joint Commit-
tee would remain intact until a stand-
ing committee were brought into be-
ing.
Sir Allan Smith, representing the
Engineering Employers' Federation,
seconded the resolution on behalf of
the employers. He said the details of
the report would be observed strictly,
both in letter and spirit, and that he
had no doubt as to the future of the
industries of the country The resolu-
tion was carried. Minister of Labor
Horne promised that the report would
receive sympathetic consideration by
the Government.
AUSTRALIA WILL DEPORT
TEN BOLSHEVIST LEADERS.
A despatch from Brisbane, Australia,
says: -The military authorities here
have initiated prosecutions with a
view to deporting ten Bolshevist lead-
ers. The returned soldiers according-
ly decided to discontinue anti -Russian
demonstrations pending the Govern-
ment's
overnment's early replies to resolutions
previously mentioned.
GERMANY ABLE TO PAY
6,000,000,000 FRS; IN CASH.
A despatch from Paris Says:-
Regarding the subject of the financial
demands to be imposed on Germany,
The Echo de Paris says that the Coun-
cil of Four believes that Germany will
be able to pay iingtediately six billion
francs in money of various kinds. De-
liveries of raw materials and manu-
factured goods from Germany, it says,
will reach an undetermined sum which
some optimists/ estimate will amount
to thirty billion francs.
A
LIES HOLD THE
?ERMAN RAILWAY
Prospects of Holding ,Out For
Six Weeks Now Improved.
A despatch from Loudon says:--
News has reached London that a de-
tachment of Admiral Kolchak's Siber-
ian forces has succeeded in getting in
touch with a detachment of allied
forces in the region of Archangel. The
position of the latter is anxious, but
the allied troops command the Mur -
man Railway and, consequently the
western ports on the White Sea, anti
it is believed there should be no dif-
floulty in getting reinforcements there
by the middle of May. The recent re-
verses to the Bolsheviks are held to
have unproved the allied prospect of
holding out.
South American ants have been
known to constru'et a tunnel' three
miles in length,
In addition the allied troops cape SENT HERN SIA
tured nearly 400 prisoners, including
a Bolsheviks battalion commander and
his adjutant.
In the Bolshie Ozerki sector Ameri-
can patrols continue to harass the
enemy. The allied guns are still
heavily shelling the town,
TREATY READY FOR SIGNATURE
BY WEI:MEDAN' OF NEXT WEEK.
A despatch from Paris says: -
The opinion was expressed on Friday
by a responsible British authority
that the peace treaty would be ready
for signing by Wedneeeey next,
The Paris correspondent of the Lon,
don Daily Telegraph wires that he is
able to state on the highest authority
that by next Sunday a complete agree-
ment will have been reached by the
Council of rout,
Have Embarked on Especially Constructed Ice -Breaking Trans.
ports on Journey to Archangel Front.
London, April 6. -Arrangements for
the despatch of a British relief force
to "Northern Russia are being pushed
forward. The earliest advance guard
leaves on April 9 for Murmansk. There
it will' be In a favorable position to
proceed at the lirst opportunity to
Archangel. The main force proceeds
in two sections, the first at the begin-
ning of May and the second a fort-
night later. It is intended that the
main force shall consist mostly of vol-
unteers. The War Office will prob-
ably make au immediate appeal for
volunteers, not only to tr000ps of the
armies of occupation and men pre-
paring to go to overseas garrisons, but
to discharged and demobilised mon,
Important developments on the Mur-
mansk front may be expected in a
few days owing to a threatened defec-
tion of Finnish troops, according to
the Mail. It is said that it was to
meet this danger • that American de-
tachments were sent on two American
cruisers, which will reach Murmansk
early next week. Other allied rein-
forcements are being prepared.
President Wilson is reported to
have ordered the sailors of the two
cruisers to, land with the troops, if
necessary, British relief forces have
gone on board of two especially con
strutted ice -braking transports, with
which they expect to get through the
ice two weeks earlier than they'could
on any other type of vessel.
BRITAIN TO PRESS
FOR OVERSEA TRADE.
Win Spend $6,000,000 Annually .
With Propaganda Around
the Glolii-d ,
d despatch from London says:-
The new Department of Overseas
Trade is ready with a plan for the re-
form of the consular service and the
establishment of commercial attaches.
It is proposed to spend at least a1.
000,000 annually on the consular .per -
vice and nearly N250,000 on the com-
mercial attaches.
Several associations of British Mann-
facturers intend to take advantage o.i
this new activity on the part of the•
government. Tho largest of these re-
presents directly, or through Allied
organizations, nearly 20,000 firms,
with a capital of 1:4,0f:0,000,000.
The directors of this federation
said: "We shall spend this • year a
third of our income and another 420,-
000 from our reserve on the develop-
ment of British overseas trade. Our
first commissioner has been stationed
in Greece. We hare another eonrntis-
sioner in Madrid, and a third will tour
South Africa and report on the pos-
sibilities. We have invited eight lead-
ing Brazilians to tour England this
suin Wer.
of
"One our representatives is in
Serbia with the British Government
commercial mission, and another has
gone to Holland to investigate the of-
fer made by the Dutch to form a cor-
poration to encourage British trade,
If we go on as we have begun we shall
cover the world with British trade
commissioners.
"They will not he selling agents or
commercial travelers, but they will
have a freer hand than the consuls or
commercial attaches, and their re-
ports will reach British manufacturers
the day after they come to hand."
SMUTS TO DEAL
WITH HUNGARY
Indicating That Talking, Not
Fighting, is Required in
Eneiny Country.
A despatch from Paris says: --
The departure of General Jan Chritian
Smuts, member of the British League
of nations Commission for Budapest,
instead of General Mangin, of the
French army, who was first suggested
as the allied representative to inves-
tigate certain problems in Hungary
arising from the armistice, is regarded.
as an indication that talking, rather
than fighting, will take place in Hun-
gary, where the situation is believed
by the allied officials to have improved
greatly.
The Roumanian victory over the
Bolsheviki on the Bessarabian border
and the fact that Odessa is being re -
victualled, and is not being evacuated
by the allies, lessen the chance for a.
Russian Bolsheviki union with the ex-
tremists of Hungary, who are evinc-
ing a profound inclination for good re-
lations with the Entente.
The Roumanian armies, in co-oper-,
atoll with the French forces at Arad
(Hungary, 145 miles southeast of
Budapest), have received orders to oc-
cupy the new line of demarcation as
fixed by the Paris conference, accord-
ing to an announcement issued by the
Roumanian Press Bureau. The allies
armies have been received enthusias-
tically by the various populations who
are living, in constant fear of a l3o1.-
slteviki invasion.
GEN. ALLENBY RESTORES
ORDER IN EGYPT,
A despatch from London says:-
General
ays:-General Allenby, who is now In charge
of the situation in Egypt, where dis-
orders have been occurring, reported
that order had boen restored in Cairo
and iu Bellal. Twelve military co.l
umns are in operation in upper and
lower Egypt, the General's report cider-
ed, and the complete restoration of
law and order was only a matter of
time.
Exploring Party Drifted
9 Months in Arctic Circle
A despatch from Fairbanks, Alas-
ka, says.--Storker Storkerson, Arc-
tic explorer,'probably will arrive This
week at Fort Yukon, Alaska, on his
way to the outside from Herschel
Island and the Arctic Ocean, accord-
ing to word brought here by Captain
Alex. Allen, Arctic trader and nevi.,
gator,
Storkerson and four men recently
landed on the northern Arctic ooast
after drifting nine months on ati ice-
berg, They set out with the hope
that the ice -pack would carry them
west to the 'Tow Siberian islands, In-
stead, it tarried thein about in a
circle and landed there 73 Hailes from
their starting point. Storkerson was
a member of Stefansson's party, aired
took command of the expedition
when illness forced Stefansson to
leave the north,