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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-06-06, Page 7AFGHAN )AIN OFFENSIVE IS RAPIDLY N EVELOPING Attacks Against Thai Successfully Repulsed by British -500 of Enemy Killed or Prisoners in One Engagement. London, June 1. -The Afghan main 'offensive against Thal, under Gen. Na- !dir Khan, the Amir's commander -in - !chief, is developing, The latest ofii- •eIal information from Simla, received •on Many 20 and 30, shows that all at- tacks on Fort Thal have been re- pulsed. Tile fort was bombarded throughout Wednesday last, and the Afghans occupied tho looted base out- side tb.e fort. Air reconnaisance dis- closed about 3,500 of the enemy near. Their camps were effectively bombed. At tho capture of the .Afghan port naikop, opposite Chaman I3aluchivan. Mie .British took 109 prsoners and .killed 320 of the enemy. The British occupy the fort. Smart work was dis- played at the assault and capture, The guns made breaches in the walls, and the fort was finally reduced by a flank- ing assault. The garrison fought bravely, but for the most part, was killed or captured. It was the strong- est fort in Afghanstan, having thick outer walls and bombproof shelters, Its fall has had a good effect in Kanda- har and along the Chaman frontier, as showing the effect of high explo- sive shells. Three British airplanes have drop- ped bombs on Kabul, capital of Af- ghanistan, and Jelalabad, the Indian office announces. The airplanes also have attacked formations of Afghan troops. LEADING MAR TS Breadstufs. Toronto, June 3. -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 northern, $2.24%; No. 2 •northern. $2,21 No. 3 northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11ea, in store Fort William. American corn -Nominal. Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 70c, ac- ' cording to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No,, 1 winter, per car lot, $2.14 to $2.20: No. 2 do, $2.11 to $2.19; No. 3 do, $2.07 to $2.15 Lo. h., shipping points, according to freights. Peas -No. 2, nerainal. Barley --Malting, $121 to $1.26, nominal. Buckwheat -No. 2,' nominal. Rye -Ne. 2, nominal.. Manitoba flour --Government stan- dard, $11 Toronto. • Ontario flour -Government. stan- dard, $11, in jute bag, Toronto and Montreal, • prompt shipment. I with Austria designed to safeguard Millfeed-Car lots, deliveredr n• the minorities in the newly -created treal freight, hags included, Bran, HOLDS BIG FIVE BEARS BURDEN President Wilson Answers the Protests of the Small Powers. Paris, June 1. -President Wilson Saturday ata secret plenary session of the Peace Conference declared that .in the final analysis the five great powers, America, Great Bri- tain, Franiee, Italy and Japan, be responsible for ending wars, and that they are compelled to deny to the smaller minorities certain rights which, if carried to extremes, would precipitate future conflicts. The President spoLe in reply to bitter protests of smaller nations against clauses in the peace treaty $42 per ton; oho ts, $44 per ton; good feed flour, $2.75 to °2.80 per hag. Hay -No. 1, $32 to $$5 per ton; mixed 320 to $24 per ton, track, To- ronto, Straw -Car lots, $10 to $11 per ton. Eggs, new laid, 53 to 54c. Butter - Creamery prints, 56 to 57c; choice dairy prints, 48 to 5Oc; ordinary dairy prints, 42 to 42e; bakers', 30 to 33c; oleomargarine (best gr.), 35 to 3'7c. Cheese, new, large, 33 to 83%c. Maple Syrup -Per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per gal. • do, in one -gal tins, $2.50. Beans -Canadian, per bus., $8 to $4.25; Burmas, $8.50; Limas, per lb., 12 to 1$c. P r ovi si ons -Whoa esa le. Smoked Meats -Rolls, 34 to 35c; hams, medium, 40 to 42c; heavy, 33 Canadian Force Will Return Via to 35c; cooked hams, 54 to 56c; backs, plain, 48 to 49e; backs, bonelesa, 55 the Pacific Coast. to 57c; breakfast bacon, 45 to 48c. Cottage rolls, 36 to 37c. Barrelled Meats --Pickled pork, $48; mess pork, $47. Green Meats -Out of pickle, lc less than smoked. . Dry Salted Meats -Long clears, in tubs, 28%c; in eases, 29e; clear bel- lies, 28c to 28 ac; fat hacks, 25c. Lard -Tierces, 3.41,ac. to 35c; tubs, 35 to 353.6c; pails, 35% to 3c1/ c; prints, 30 to 36%c; compound lard, tierces, 28%c; tubs, 28%c; pails, 29c;• prints, 30c. republics. Roumania's representatives char- acterized these clauses as "violation of sovereignty designed to keep awake the spirit of rebellion." Serbia and Czecho-Slovakia agreed with Roumania, Poland being the only supporter of the Big Five's policy. The Big Five finally agreed to endeavor to meet the views of the smaller powers. RECALLED FROM NORTH USS A A despatch from London says: - The Canadian force in North Russia has been recalled. It is about six hundred strong and consists chiefly of an artillery brigade, commanded by Col. Sharman. The Canadians, who have done splendid work against the Bolsheviki, will return to Canada via the Pacific coast. Their morale during the fighting has been very good, but of late there has been considerable dissatisfaction because of their retention after the I1'Iontreal Markets. return of their comrades from Montreal, June 3. -Oat:, extra No. France. Considering it is the Cana - 1 feed, 89c; flour, Man. Spring, new dian policy to demobilize all soldiers standard grade, $11 to $11.10; rolled as soon as possible, the London au - oats, bag 90 lbs., $4.10 to $4.25; bran, thox.ities have now issued orders for 342.50 to $13; shorts, $44.50 to 345; their recall. hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $38 to $40. Cheese, finest easterns, 31 ac,; -=' butter, choicest creamery, 551' to TURKS 56c• eggs fresh, 52 t., 53c; selected, I A 54 to 55c; No, 2 stock, 50r; potatoes, hog bag, car lots, le to 30. 0; dressed OVER TWO hogs, abattoir 1 filed, 330.50 to 331. lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs, net, 37c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, June 3. -Heavy steers, 314 to 315; choice butchers' steers, $13,25 to $14; butchers' cattle, choice, 313.25 to $13.75; do, good, 312.25 to 312.50; do, medium, 311.50 to 312; do, common, $10 to $10,50; bulls, choice, 311.50 to 312; do, medium, 310,50 to 311; de, rough, 38 to $8.50; butchers' cows, choice, $12 to $13; do, N Provision Requiring the Surren- der of Enver and Talaat Included in Treaty. London, June 1. -The whereabouts of Enver Pasha and Talaat Pasha, the leaders of the Turkish Govern- ment during the war, is not known, but the British Government is taking steps to bring them to account, Cecil good, $10.50 to $11.50; do, midium, Harmsworth, Under-Secretary of $9,25 to $10; do, common, $8 to $8,50; State for Foreign Affairs, announced stockers, $5,75 to $11.75; feeders, in the House Saturday. Mr. Harms- 312.50.5to 31.4;;6,canners and cutters, worth said he understood a provision $4.50 $G50 ; milkers, good to choice, 390 to 3150; :Io, com. and Hied. requiring the surrender of Enver and $65 to 375; springers, 390 to 3160; Talaat would be included in the peace light ewes, $13 to $15; yearlings, $12 treaty with Turkey. to 314; choice lambs, $18 to 319.50; spring lambs, $12 to $1.5; calves, good JUNE 20 IS PROBABLE to choice, $15 to $17; hogs, fed and DATE FOR SIGNING OF PEACE watered, $22,25; do, weighed -off cars, 322.50; do, f.o.b., 321.25. Montreal, June 3. -Choice steers, $15; poor, 39 to 310. Butchers' cattle, good, 310 to 312; inferior, 37.50 to 38.50. Calves, milk -fed, 38 to $12. Choice select hogs, 322 to $22.50. .A.11 of the prominent universities in the United Kingdom, save Oxford and Cambridge, now confer legal de- grees on women who duly qualify, The net national debt is about $1,- 500,000,000. The Can. Trade Com. seeks to awaken a realization of this fact in every man and woman in the hrminien. A despatch from Paris says: - June 15 is the earliest possible date on which the German treaty can be signed if no obstructions are en- countered, but June 20 is the more probable date for its signature. The German counter. -proposals have been received with the greatest interest by the members of the Peace Con- gress, especially the claims for im- mediate membership in the League to decide a ions forplebiscite t of N the disposition of Galicia and for the fixing of a definite sem for indemni- taut. 4'THINK,ITIS JUST A SH AM I THE WAY THEY atfiSREPRESEN1 nib Ifs THI I hi GS; WHY IT IS)11 ANY THING (TCI: THIS PICTURE. IN THE CATALOGUi~. /I sa V, 1-6 11; �yr :. i+sl;-fes •= in THE WOMAN'S WORK. You, madam, are only one of a thousand women to -day who are delud ed by the long-distance bargain. Don't be carried away by a beautiful picture in a catalog. You can get better bargains from your own home merchant, where you see the goods before you pay for them, where you can be assure d of a fit and satisfaction in every re- spect. In trading at home you are doing your share in building up your community, This is your work. CANNOT COMPLY WITH REQUEST Answer of Switzerland Regard- ing Blockade of Germany. Berne, June 1. -The federal council has handed to the French Ambas- sador, for transmission to ,the allied Government, a note stating that the entente request that Switzerland pro- ed here from Thurso, Scotland, after hihit all exports to Germany if the being rescued in midocean when the Germans refuse to sign the peace treaty, would require the complete KING RECEIVES MM AT : FLYERS Hawker and Grieve First Re- cipients of the Air Force Cross. A despatch from London says:- Harry G. Hawker and Lieut.-Com- niander Mackenzie Grieve, who reach - airplane in which they were attempt- ing to cross the Atlantic alighted SEAPLANE LANDS PILGRIM'S PIER, 6 Crew of NC -4 Given Great Re- ception on Arris ing in England. Plymouth, England, June 1. -The American seaplane NC -4 completed Iter long flight from the United States yesterday. She arrived here from Ferrol, Spain, on the last jump WHAT FASTING MKS DOES TO KS SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ARE BEING MADE OF THIS P tOEiLEM. Notion That Absta stain 'From Food Promotes Bodily Health is Not Endorsed by Medical Men. Of recent years there has been, a fasting fad,S , ome people have as- serted that bodily health was pro- moted by going without food for con- siderable lengths of time. It cannot be said that the medical faculty has ever indorsed this remark- able notion. The view held by phy- sicians and physiologists generally is that such performances are dead against nature and impose a danger- ous strain upon the humait system. Per contra, Doctor Tanner, most famous of all fasters, died last Febr- uary in San Diego, Cal., at the fairly ripe age of ninety-one. He had a theory that health and long life could, be improved and lengthener) by ex- tender) periods of food -deprivation. Famous Dr. Tanner Fasts. The most famous of his fasts ex- tended more than forty clays. He was carefully watched during the perform- ance to make sure that he ate nothing. Barring the sucking of casual oranges, it could not be discovered that in that period he touched anything that could be called food. More recently there have been sci- entific studies made of this problem. Dogs and other animals have been the subjects of most of them. But the Carnegie institute, not long ago, em- ployed for the purpose an Italian named Succi, who was a professional faster. He did it for a living, the pay being high. Slicers best record was thirty days of a fast, at the end of which there set in certain "ante-mortem" symp- toms which persuaded the scientists in charge to quit the experiment. Mani- festly he was a weakling; for a Paris faster named Merlotti kept the thing up for fifty days_ How long would it take you to starve to death if unsupplied with any food? The answer, so far as experi- mental observations would indicate, is that it depends mainly upon how fat you are. If you are a skinny person, you would not last long. How Human Body Is Affected. You see, the human body is an en- gine and food is its fuel. When the fond supply Is cut off the engine must for fuel draw upon the tissues of the of her journey at 2.26 p.m. local time body and burn them. ' The fat stored in the body is under (1.26 p.m. Greenwich time.) breaking off of economical relations near the Danish steamer Mary, were The NC 4, making a dashing finishd, , such circumstances the fuel most with Germany. The note says that received by King George at Bucking- quickly landward and settleavailable. Therefore, as one observes, the action requested by the entente ham Palace, sweptq a starved person becomes rapidly thin - would go beyond all the restrictions His Majesty bestowed on Hawker down on the waters of the harbor toIHer, losing weight. imposed during the war. and Grieve the insignia of the Air the accompaniment of cheers from 4 Suppose tho starvation is to con - The federal council again asserts Force Cross. They are the first ac- the crowds and salvos from all fire time. Then, when the fat has been steam craft within sight -her mem- orable transatlantic trip ended. Iused trp, the nm cular and other tis- sues aro drawn upon for fuel to fur - The seaplane left Ferrol at 2.27 ;nidi the energy required to support o'clock, Washington time, and made; the rrtec'r<anism of the body and keep the distance of approximately 500 { it in operation. But this is vastly miles to , this port in six hours, 59 more expensive, physiologically speak - minutes, or at the rate of nearly 72' ing,twelve miles an hour. because it takes about twee ' pounds of muscular or glandular tis - Lieutenant -Commander Read, whosue to make an equivalent (as fuel) brought the seaplane across the At- for one pound of fat. lantic from Trepassey to the Azores Experiments have shown that in a and thence to Lisbon, had intended twenty-six (lay fact the muscles lose making the trip from Lisbon to Ply.- 42 per cent. of their weight, the skin mouth in one jump yesterday. He was 28 per cent., the brain and spinal cord compelled to alight yesterday morn- 22 per cent , the blood 43 per cent., the ing in the Mondego River, about 100 liver 50 per cent., the kidneys 55 per miles up the Portugese coast, how- cent., the stomach and intestines 30 ever, because of engine trouble, but pier cent., the lungs 29 per cent., the soon proceeded as far as Ferrol, on kidneys 55 per cent and the heart 1G the northwestern tip of the Spanish per cent. mainland, where the plane was moor- The human body In starvation pro - the neutrality of Switzerland and tual recipients of this 'order. says it does not consider itself able An immense crowd gathered in to comply with the allied request. The allied Governments, the Council declares, will understand its atti- tude. GOVERNOR-GENERAL WILL OPEN CANADIAN EXHIBIT A despatch from New York says: - The Duke of Devonshire, Governor- General of Canada, will open an ex- hibition here on June 10 of war paint- ings, conducted by the Canadian War Memorial Fund. The paintings are Iargely those of Canadian artists sent to the fighting front during the war, and embrace representations of every sphere of Canadian war pre - front of Buckingham Palace to wit- ness the arrival of Hawker and Grieve, who were loudly cheered when they made their appearance. The crowd also gave them an ovation when they left the palace. SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS GET £500,000 FOR SERVICE Cape Town, South Africa, June 1. - Hon. Mr. Button, Minister of Rail- ways, communicated a cable from Premier Botha to the Assembly, stat- ing that the Imperial Government has given the value of half a million pounds sterling free for services rendered by the South African rail- paration and activity, together with ways to the Imperial authorities. Mr, portraits of generals, statesmen, Canadian V.C.'s and picture typify- ing Canadian history. The exhibi- tion is under the management of P. G. Konody, English art critic, and Capt. Percy F. Godenrath, attached to the Canadian War Records Office. Burton said he believed the House and the country would deeply appre- ciate the spirit in which the gift was made and which was only another mark of the cordial relations between Great Britain and the Union of South Africa. ONTARIO SOON TO HAVE AN OCEAN PORT, "On to the Bay," survey party leaving ,Cochrane for the North,. May 13, 1919, showing a car load of provisions being freighted by teams fife teen miles to the Abitibi River. -Photo by J. Stewart, Industrial Com-! i sioner Cochrane. ! ed for the night, proceeding earl this morning for this port. NAVAL BATTLE Y Cni'es its supply of energy by the de- struction of its stored and "protein" -- the staff that, when eaten in food, makes muscle and blood. If the de- privation be kept up long enough, it succumbs, Death ensues. THE BOK INTa � A What is the immediate cause of death in such cases? This is a point that has not been fully settled. British Warships Engaged Bol- shevik FIeet for an Hour. HER EDITH CAVELL BELGIUM HONORS Ilelsingfors, June 1,-A fifty -min- ute battle occurred yesterday morn - ng between a Bolshevik fleet com- prising the battleship Petropavlovsk (23,307 tons) and three other war- ships which had been bombarding the coast west of Krasniagorka (15 miles west of Kronstadt) and seven British warships. The Russians eventually fled to Kronstadt. Saturday's encounter, which took place in the Gulf of Finland, was the second the British have had re- cently with Bolshevik naval forces, which aro trying to harry the Esth- onian army approaching Petrograd from the west. On May 18 a 85 -min- utew naval light occurred not far from the locality of the one now reported. It hacl a similar result, the Bolshevik fleet retiring to IKronstaclt. Some of their vessels were reported to have ` ish Admiralty The Brtt been itis. Y stated later that there had been no casualties to the British forces, A despatch from brussels says: - The The transfer of the body of Gabrielle Petit, a young Belgian woman, whom the Germans executed on a charge of treason, was carried out on Thursday with impressive ceremonies. The streets were lined with thou- sands of spectators, and the city had the appearance of national mourning. Piles of flowers covered the coffin, and troops, patriotic societies and school children followed the cortege to the 'communal tlemetery, where military honors were paid. Premier De La Croix and other officials delivered eulogies before the coffin left the Town Hall of Schaer- beek, a suburb. Mlls. Petit was put to death in 1916, In many respects the women Of PIola nd possess greater social and political rights than the women o$ any other country In Europe. 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 4