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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-12-26, Page 7• ew RESTRICTIONS I .CANADA REMOVED JANUA Y FIRST Orders4n-Council Relative to Enemy Trade and Paper, Coal and Sugar Control, Remain in Force For the Present. Ottawa, Dec. 21.—With the conning of the New Year, Canada, returns practically to a basis of peace. War- time restrictions impoaed by order -in - Council under the War Measures Act. will (with some exceptions) be remov- ed. And, in the case of the exceptions, the orders -in -Council terminate at the end of the next session of Parliament. The 'war -time restriction, which will! cease to be operative on January first, include those onrace-track bet- ting and on importation, manufacture.` and inter -Provincial trade in alcoholic! liquors. The orders -in -Council re- maining in force include: Pulp and paper control; coal and sugar control; silver coinage; trading with the enemy; exportation�• of gold; internment operations, grea'ter pros duction on Indian reserves; censor-, ship. Removal of the restrictions imposed by order -in -Council on the liquor trade ends a phase of Federal action which opened nearly two years ago. Within a few wedks of the Union l Government corning into power, the use of grain for distillation of potable liquor was forbidden. From the last day of December, 1917, importation of liquor containing more than 21/2 per cent. proof 'spirits was forbidden. Three months later there was a fur- ther.. order -in -Council passed prohibit ing manufacture and inter -Provincial trade. These orders- in -Council are to. terminate with the close of the pros- ent year. In rescinding these and other orders, in -Council passed as war measures, the Government takes the view that, although no eroclarnation has yet been issued declaring that war no longer exists, actual war conditions long ago ceased in fact. Miss A. 8. Marty, M.A.. A graduate of Queen's University, ' t ho has the distinction of being the only woman School Inspector in Ontario. The honorary degree of LL. D. was recently conferred upon. Miss Marty by her Alma Mater. FORTY -TEE LOST O MAl X � AN CREW Ship F�"oundered 6-Mid.Atlt 4T- tk-- es'i ,Saved by British Isles. A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says:—The Captain, first mate, fourth engineer, wireless operator, and 39 of the crew of. the British steamer Mane - man were drowned when their ship foundered in mid-Atlantic on Thurs- day morning, according to a wireless message sent out by Captain Gore, master of the British steamer British Isles, bound for New York, intercept- ed he;.•e Friday morning. The message said that al! the other officers of the Manxman, the chief steward and eleven of tie crew, are safe on board the British Isles." The radiogram did not state how the men lost their lives, but it is pre- sumed ;hey went down with their ship, though there is a possibility that they may have hag time to take to the boats, and that these subse- quently capsized. The Manxman, which was last re- ported at Portland, Maine, on Novem- ! ber 30, was on a voyage to a trans- atlantic port,. and. became disabled, The British Isles, from London, Dee. 2, for Sandy Hook, sighted the dis- tressed ship on Wednesday, and steed by her for twenty-four hours, accord ing to a wireless message, with a view to assisting the Manxman to port. The radiogram adds that the 'steamer sank in latitude 41.53, longitude 59.51. Captain Gore concluded with the request that boots and clothing be furnished the survivors of the Manx- man when they reach New York, at which port he expects to arrive next Monday morning.• - SEES , FILMS OF PRINCE'S TOUR Royal Family. View C.P.R. • Movie in Albert Hall. A despatch from London says:— The Albert Hall was crowded on Wed- nesday afternoon when the King and Queen and Princess Mary and the younger princes attended a display given by the Canadian Pacific Railway on behalf of the London hospitals, of films • depicting the Prince of Wales' Canadian tour. Sir George Perley presided, and the Royal party remain- ed during the greater part of the show. The audience maintained a running fire of enthusiasm as the plc - teres of every tcwn the Prince visited were shown. The show was repeated at night to another large audience, and was pre- sided over by Sir McLaren Brown. WAR CRIMINALS AMNESTY Y TO TO BE TRIED M.S.A. OFFENDERS 1,500 GermansBefore' Mali- Men Who Left Canada to ta°y Tribunals an 1,920. Avoid Draft May Return. Ottawa, Dec. 21.—On Monday a • general amnesty will be proclainned 1 for all offenders under the Military • Service Act. It has been urged st-enu- ously for some time by interested parties 'that the pursuit of offenders under thin Act has been causing a growing feeling of estrangement and isolation in certain parts of Canada where the tear was too little preached. Many young rnen eligible for ser- vice quitted Canada to avoid service, Parie, Dec. 21. ----The trials of per- sons accused of war crimes will be held in Pads and at Lille in 1920. • The court-martial at Lille has is- sued numeroue w err ants against German officers and soldiers, ands' a Captain and four Lieutenants already have beee imprisoned in the fort at Lille. A Bt eSels despatch says that it has been learned from an authorized source that Holland is - declared to and there have been constant attempts have stated effleially that she will not to get the Government to permit ccr- deliver up former Emperor William Iain deserters to return unmolested for trial. to their homes. It is thought that •Under-Secretary of State for there will be a sudden influx to Can- MiIitary Justice Ignace left for Lon- add of these offenders as Sohn as the don thin mernirse to take part in the news of :the amnesty is known. making up of a List of Germans There has been strong opposition to charged with war crimes, and whose such an amnesty being granted in the deliverer to the Entente will be de- past, those who served feeling that rnanded. A conference will be held those who did not merited punishment. j during the week in London to deter- The 'Government hopes, however, that mane upon a plan for joint action by that act will be regarded in this sea - Great Britain, France and Belgium. son of good will as one intended to I ince, . aecordi;ng to The Echo promote concord where now :there is de Is , has a list' of 500 navies little by removing an active source of ready to''irc? .•,aubmitted. Among these discord. ' n.-mes is that til`•. one of the fernier r,_-. — German Emperor's -.sons, and also L�e�r.'.nng Captain Alcock, those of former Crown Prince Rup- precht of Bavaria and several Gen - Aviator, Injured eral, rind commanders of prison camps gin Germany, A despatch from Lender. says:-- In all, according to this newspaper, Captain Sir John. Alcock, who made aboti 1,500 persons will be arraignecl the first non-stop airplane flight before Military Tribunals of each of across the Atlantic: Ocean, has been the three nations or by mixed Tri- seriously injured, according to a bunals in cases where the persons are Lloyd's despatch from Rouen. His accused of crimes against peoples of plane .rashed near Oottevrard, in the various nationalities. It is said that Department of, Zine -Inferieure, Nor - even if culprits are tried by .German mandy. courts they, nevertheless, Must ap- pear before the allied Tribunals. The case of former Emperor Wil- liam will be dealt with separately from the Loudon Conference. Prohibitions' Carried 5,000 in New Zealand London, De'c'.,21.—The Daily Mail's advices from ^hri' tehurch, New Zea- land, dated Thursday;, say that the final figures will show ,Lmajority of about 5,000 for prohibitioand that New Zealand will certainl be dry next June, iMBS AND REVOLVERS IN ATTEMP. TO ASSOSINATE LORDi'dRITCH War Material Handed Over By Germans to the Allies A despatch frons. London says:— Winston Churchill, Secretary for War, announced in the House of Com- mons that the Germans had handed over to the Allies 5,000 guns, 25,000 Machine- guns, 3,000 trench mortars, and 1,700 airplanes. They had still failed to deliver 42 locomotives and 4,700 railway trucks, The Secretary considered that the Germans had made a tremendous ef- fort to comply with the conditions imposed upon them. Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland Attacked in His Armored Car Near Home in Dublin ----One Assailant Killed. A despatch from Dublin says:-- Arnbushed by riflemen and bombers, Lord French, in an armored. Vice - 'Regal car, ran through a hotebarrage on returning to Dublin early on Fri- day afternoon. Fortunately, he escap- ed unhurt. One of the men making the attack was shot dead by the mili- tary escort, and two police officers were wounded. The Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland had been on a visit to Drumdoe Castle, his eeat at Boyle, and returned to Dublin on Friday, arriving at Ash - town Station, the last station before reaching , the I3roadstone terminus, shortly -after 1 p.m. It was just mit- aide the station, while driving into Phoenix Park to the Vico-Regal lodge, that the infamous attempt was made. Lord French was met at the station by his motor car, which happily has armored sides. Followed by a mili- tary guard, the ear •started from the atet,ion at a emelt pace down the short road which leads to Ashtown Gate. The entrance of this road is flanked by hi•h walls and hedges, giv- ing good shelter and vantage points which aided the ambush. That the attack on Viscount French. had been carefully and coolly planned, is indicated by the fact that his as- sailants played handball at a public house near the scene of the shooting while awaiting the Viceroy's arrival. after the attack a 'case of Mills bombs, similar to those used in the war, was found in the thoroughfare. Late Friday night the police said that there might have been thirty mon engaged in the attack, deployed at,intervals o)' adore than two hun- dred yards. One sniper, with a re- volver, fired from an ivy-covered tree. The Viceroy had -with him only four armed policemen. These men had orders not to leave the Viceroy, no matter what happened. Accordingly, they were unable to pursue the men. Manitoba !:;ars Eastern Visitors A despatch from Winnipeg says:— People from the East in the near fu- ture will not be allowed to enter Mani- toba without producing a certificate of vaccination against smallpox, Dr. M. S. Fraser of the Provincial Board of Health announced on Friday. Only two cases have been discovered in Manitoba. About twenty thousand persons have been vaccinated recent - 1y and the health authorities are urg- ing everyone to take this precaution, especially those going East for their holidays, in order to avoid possible trouble en route. ---- <y– Weekly Airship SehTice From London to America A despatch from London says:—A weekly airship service to America is contemplated. by a combination sof aviation firms, which are credited with the intention of acquiring the R-34 and her sister ship, the R.-39. These are being altered to meet pas- senger and cargo requirements, ........•••••.111.1,..1.011.1.011"00.1......11.4....t..... MI -THREE E -KILL ,. TRE -FOUR INB E, , IN CIL L . Last Passenger Special From Empress of France Crashed Head-on Into Freight Train Near Onawa, Montreal, Dec. 21.7 -Failure to count after the collision, and that owing to the number of C.P.R. passenger spec- I the damage to the cars on the special ials from the liner Empress of France,! rn which most injury was dune, must which docked at St .John, N.B., by the!of those who werekilled diad instant- ly. A number lingered ered to die en route engineer of the eastbound freight was to elle emergency hospitals in Green - apparently the direct ,cause • 'of the, ville and, Brownville. • collision which took place at Gnawed The temperature at Onawa was Maine, yesterday morning at 7.7.6, twenty below zero, but by the speedy when twenty-three persons were killed arrival of a train which had been and thirty-four injured. waiting on a siding at Green, ills and The freight engineer let three of the transfer of the injured to it, the the passenger specials pass him, and injured were spared extra suffering on did not wait for the fourth, This was this account. To -night special hospi- the ill-fated train with third-class tal trains were brine :ng the injured to passengers from the liner on board Montreal, where they will be accom- whicli crashed head-on into the modated in the Royal Victoria Hospi- f reight. til. It is reported at the offices of the All but six of the dead had been C.P.R, here that there was no fire identified to -night. • NO HOPE OF RELIEF AWES TO MAKE FROM H. C. L. TREATY EFFECTIVE Export Trade Peeing Fostered Will Put League of Nations in at '.'�t pease of ;Corr.`:410.ier. a 4oc'ce Rego rdlesa of U.S. • A despatch from Winnipeg says:--- Action. There is no hope of relief from pres- ent high prices for some time to come, according to a statement just iss,aed A de. patch from Landon says:— Pegardlass of whether or not the by members of the Board of Com- United States Senate may in the roannt:._n,e take -favorable action on coerce. There will be no relief, the the peace treaty, it is a es:I-tad thea the Allied Govc:nriencj liege come to an i.:' ?'stanelir g to raai:c: the peace tae - : - effective tit without the adh; .-don of the United States, and to jut. the mill feeds and the creating of the T eag ua of Nations an its Let as :.:�,,n foreign demand for all products, it is pos l hopeless for some time to expect any No da2uaite date for tiling tlr+_ step relief from presont price conditions," Evan;; f7 zate>:i on at a recentme^in3;,• the commissioners assert, of the Snpr-'me Council in viae of Present conditions have been seized the fart that the .japan se an-' Itali• upon by some dealers to profiteer, representatives had to consult their the board charges, but all high prices respective Governments. President are not the result of profiteering. Wilson. it is, known, has been inform - Many are due to natural increases ed of this action by the Allies, through forced by conditions growing out of Ambassador Davis, who attended the war. That export trade L being ,seine of the eonferelaees. fostered to the benefit of the manu- facturers and pm—levers at the ex-. �, q pease of the consumer, is another C`'rdi nal ly ercier. alie;ation. Honored in Darla Montreal Places Whole of Ontario U der Cearantine A despatch from Montreal says:— "Commencing on Wednesday, the whole Province of Ontario has been placed under, quarantine; -so far as Montreal is concerned," This decision, of Cardinal Mercier during the Ger- which waa taken on Wednesday by man occupation of the Belgian king - the municipal authorities, is now law, dam. end henceforth and until further no- Cardinal Mercier in response prais- ticc all travelers from Ontario to this ed King Albert for the leadership of city must comply with the demands his people, and paid tribute to France of the Montreal Board of Health. and her allies, who, he declared, offer - This also applies to all persons ed their geld and blood, mixed with coming to Montreal from the United the tears of their wives and Mothers, States and passing through the Prov- ince of Ontario. commissioners declare, until interna- tional trade conditions return to norm al. "With the, high price of wheat and A despetehf ram Paris says:— Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, was recently received at the Acaderiny of Moral and Political Science here. The president of the academy, in an address, exalted the heroic attitude in the war of Belgium and her Ring, and eulogized the patriotic firmness Peace With Turkey in order that respect for the given word, for justice and loyalty, as against passing material interests, might triumph in the world. At Earliest Moment His Second Tour A despatch from London says:— Begins in March Without any disrespect, and without wishing to deprive Amenica of the A despatch from London says:— honor of sharing in the guardianship Another overseas tour is being plan - of Christian communities, the allies ned for the Prince of Wales. In a have decided to make peace with recent speech he announced that the Turkey at the earliest possible mo- King was sending him to Australia ment, Premier Lloyd George declared and New Zealand. He will probably in the House of Commons on !Mures sail next March, and be away six or day. seven months. 1T OCEAN LINERS SAFE AFTER BATTLE WITH ATLANTIC GALES L Delayed Vessels .Reach New —Roughest Trip Ever M .4. despatch from New York says:— Substantial evidence of the fierce winter storms which have prevailed for the last ten days along the steam- er lanes between this country and Europe was shown by eight big pas- senger liners which arrived here on Thursday with more than 17,000 be- lated passengers. Hulls encrusted with ice, rigging covered with sleet and salt from spray caked on fun- nels, ,prefaced the stories told by ships' officers of high winds and gi- gantic waves that swept their vessels from stem to stern. The ships arriving were the Rot- terdam from IH'olland, via Plymouth; the Baltic, Royal George, Germania and Caronia from British 'ports via Halifax; the Lafayette from Havre, Hergensjford from Norway, and Europia from Genoa. All were from three to five days overdue, and some of them reached port too late to dock before to -morrow morning. The first of the big liners to come in to her dock was the Rotterdam, which reached quarantine late last night. She was three days late and ork With 17,000 Passengers ader Says One Captain. her master, Captain J. Baron, declar- ed that the trip was the roughest he had ever made. His declaration was supported by Rear Adnm,iral Andrew T. Long of the United States Navy, who returned after escorting the King and Queen of the Belgians back to their country. Admiral Long said that one week ago, when in mid-Atlantic, the weather was so rough that the big liner was rocked like a cradle. One of the passengers was thrown to the deck and suffered a broken leg. On board the ship were five -stowaways who were seared from their hiding places by the rough weather. The Carmania, another of the be- lated ships, had to put in at Halifax to repair damages caused by collision at sea with another ship ,.during a fog off the Grand Banks. The Caronia, from Southampton, was close to the Carmania when the accident occurred and she responded to her wireless calls by putting about and going to her assistance. The tendered help was not needed, but she accompanied her into Halifax. NFLD. DOG SAVED. 02 PERSONS Swann to Shore With Life Line From Wrecked Steamer. A despatch from Curling, 'Nfld., says: --The passengers and crew of the coastal steamer: Ethie, numbering 92 persons, were brought ashore on a life -line which was run out from the ship by a Newfoundland dog after their vessel hit upon Martin's Point. --Boats could not m.alce the hetzardous passage from the stranded steamer. All effort to shoot the line ashore failed when the line became caught. Men did not dare attempt the trip through the waters, and so the dog was put overboard. The dog bravely took the line in its teeth and battled against the rough ,sea, the line being released. With block and tackle the-Ethie'a crew, aided by fishermen on the shore, rigged a life-saving device, using a boatswain's chair for a carriage. One by one in this clan. 91 of the 92 per- sons aboard were hauled to safety.. A baby,sixteen months old was -pulled ashore in a marl bag. The Ethic, which had been engaged in the coaster service between Curling and Labrador ports, went ashore last Wednesday during a gale while bound south. The wreck was not reported here until the shipwrecked passengers and 0.1 7,277 err ,.e.1 from, Bonne Bay, all wires h rrr gone 'lawn in the storm. THRIFT CA.M1'A.IGN L.AUNC bDI.N jU. 'S. �omen Peel Cost of L; vitng. A despafrom fr ashin on says: ---An arm;; of 4,000,000 women, representing ten national • m nniza- dons, has been organized by the sav- ings divisions of -the treasury depart- ment to enter the tigh« a<;,waist tha high cost of living. F3.gin ing Jannary 1 and cvteru'dng to April 1, a great thrift campaign will he conducted in an effort to in- duce women to keep strict arcouipts of their daily expendi'.vre.s in reser to study of them to eliminst n nreees- sary items. According to the plans, amounts saved by this means would be invested in Government acearities. Women's or , niza eons which have -been enlisted in the caeir,aign include the Association of College, Alumnae, Dau ht_rs of the A msri :an Revolu- tion, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Catholic War Coun- cil, National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Assoeiatione, Nation- al Council of Jewish Women, Nation- al Federation of Business and Pro- fessional Warren's Clubs, National Leageie for Women's Service, Wo- man's Department of the National Civic Federation, and the Y.W.C,A. Saskatoon Has a Chinook, and Fuel Outlook Improves A despatch from Saskatoon says: A Chinook struck Saskatoon on Thurs- day night and snow is melting rapid- ly in the warns sun. Gerald Graham, Assistant for Northern Saskatchewan to the Fuel Administrator, says the fuel situation in this district is much improved, and the peospeet of several days of fairly mild weather promised a chance to get a little reserve supply. British Government Spends Over $15,000,000 Per Day A despatch from London says:— The average daily expenditure of the Government from April 1 to Novem- ber 30, was reduced to f23.09d,000, as compared with mare than 27,000,000 during the war. Freight traffic ex- penditures were reduced to £50,000,- 000, as compared with £13.500,000 prior to the war. British Air Policy Defined. A despatch from London says: --- Winston Churchill, Secretary for Way, has prepared a scheme for the Royal Air Force organizations in peace time based on the expenditure of £15,000,- 000 ($75,000,000) yearly. The main outlines provide for one flight squad- ron for each division of the army, to co-operate with the troops in all stages of their training, besides three general service squadrons, and - else one or more squadrons for co -opera tion with the artillery. The fleet will have permanently three airplane squadrons and two sea- plane squadrons. India will have eight service squadrons, Mesopotamia three and Egypt `seven, while the naval bases at Malta,, in the eastern Mediterranean and probably Alex- andria, will each have one small sea- plane unit, Lay aside the pipe and tobacco and see how .soon you can save enough to buy that farm tool you ha;e needed so long. Women workers in France now av- erage about $2 A day, while before the war they were earning less tbar 44 cents a day.