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SINN FEIN STARTS. CAMPAIGN OF
NCENDIARISM THROUGHOUT IRON
Important Public Documents Destroyed in Dublin, Cork and
Other Cities—Sixty-One Police Barracks and Twenty.
One Revenue Offices Raided.
London, April 4,—The Sinn Fein tative summary of. the week -end
haaoc throughout Ireland was given:
Sixty-one police barracks were de-
stroyed and 21 Revenue Offices raided
and their eontents,burned.
'Belfast was isolated from the rest
of the world. The land wires and
cable to Engrend were cut and the
only means of' communicatien was the
telephone.
The Grand Central Hotel, in which
are located the Pensions, Labor and
other -Departments, and the Bank f
Ireland, were entered during the
night and a large number of docu-
ments were destroyed.
The raiders then tried to burn the
buildings, bat a fire brigade prevented
this.
Three separate blazes were found in
the Income Tax Offices. The City
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Postoffices and public buildings were
under strong guard to -day. Des-
. Totol patches this evening state the city is
calm and the authorities have the
plan to destroy all British records and
plunge the country's administration
into confusion was put into operation
last night when fires were started in
official buildings all over 'Ireland.
Throughout Counties Cork and
:Clare, disguised and armed men de-
stroyed police barracks. At this cabl-
• ing the record of police barracks de-
stroyed in the various counties is as
• follows:
Limerick 6
Claire 12
Down 2
Armagh 5
Roscommon .... • • 4
Dublin .... •• 6
Cork
Tyrone 1
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At a late hour to -night this authori- situation in hand.
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MUST INCREASE
PRICE OF FLOUR
Result of Actio of Wheat
Board and Lack of Export
Markets.
A despatch from Ottawa says:—A
material advance in the price of flour
in Canada is indicated in an announce-
ment made here on behalf of Can-
adian millers by George A. Macdon-
ald, representing the Quaker Oats
Company, and head of a delegation
of representative millers which wait-
ed on the Government to discuss the
eerious nituation which Canadian
mills ere fazing as a result of the
ecti4 of the Canadian Wheat Board
in continuing. the restriction in the
price of flour on the Canadian market,
and the lack of export markets for
Canadian flour, The increase will be,
aecessary to meet the increasing cost
of manufacture, it is understood.
The scarcity of millfeeds in Can-
eda is directly traceable to the lack
.of a market for flour and the conse-
talent decrease in the volume of dom-
estic milling, the millers tate.They
have asked the Government to modai
fy the regulations of the Wheat
Board and to co-operate with the
millers in inducing ioreigh buyers to
take a reasonable proportion of Can-
adian wheat as flour rather than as
wheat.
Vast quantities of flour are said to
be available in the United States for
export, and this complicates the Can-
adian problem. It is said that more
than 4,000 men have already been
thrown out of employment by forced
closing down of the mills, of which
there are about 500 in Canada,
Normals Clot Early
to Supply Teachers
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AUCKLAND GEDDES
Newly appointed British Ambassa-
dor to the United States.
FLYING CORPS
• FO i" DOMINION
Personnel to be Drawn From
Members of Royal Air
Force.
Ottawa, April 4.—A Canadian Air
Force is to. be formed immediately,
and thetpersonnel will be drawn front
volunteers from the ranks of ex -offi-
cers- and airmen of the Royal Air
Force resident in Canada. These will
train at centres which will be in op-
eration all the year round, and offi-
cers and airmen enlisted hi the nee
force will spend at least one mord.
out of every twenty-four in acth
training, receiving pay and travelin
expense e during their active period.
The force probably will be limitet
in the beginning to about five thou
Upper Canada College En-
dowrnent Fund.
Upper, Canada College, the oldest
and most historic school in Ontario,
has launched an Endowment and Ex-
tension Campaign for $1,50,0,000. It
is proposed that $600,000 shall be an
Endowment, the interest of which
shall be used to raise the salaries of
the masters ana to found a pension
fund; $400,000 as an endowment for
the provision of forty entrance scholar-
ships, each of the value of $500., ten-
able for three years; and $500,000 for
improvements and additions to the
present buildings.
At the residential schools have
been forced. to raise their fees to
meet the H. C. L., but the winner of
oae of these, entrance scholarships
mould- be able to live at Upper Cana-
da, College at an expense no greater
than it would cost his parents to keep
him at home. Upper Canada College
has at present about 450' boys, drawn
from every province in the Dominion,
with. the' exception of P.E.I, It has
about 4,500 "Old Boys" living, and
though usually spoken. of as af Toron-
to School, counts among its "Old Boys"
the Minister of Agriculture in the
Hearst and in the Drury Government.
League of .Nations
Short of Funds
Paris; April 4.—It is reported there
will be a' League of Nations meeting
some time in Apri' to discover, if
discovery bo possitle, some method
of handling themn
Aecnian situatio.
It is feared the question will be
allowed to laase owing to the hazard-
ous financial straits in which the
League now finds itself.
g the various committees, and that the
h ItGeneral ElisiestatedpuSecretary of the Leagu
iluTionongdo,oidioNattUtilsiOnreititilal:
si
ing for finalwith various London
the
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banks, rather pessimistically inclined,
are demanding eight per vent.
pe
banks to ay the running expetms of
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Thee Islands For
Reindeer Grazing
sand, inclusive •of all ranks, and the
rairreS ling centwill not numb&
nore than one or two, to begin with,
for the whole Dominion. It is under-
tood that the Government wishes
o avoid an expensive -permanent
rganization. The organization. of the
orce will be placed in the hands of
anadians who have had experieuce
,t home and on the war froets in
ying and 'who are interested.. in
uilding. up a .Canadian air emilitia
atich can • be readily extended and
mobilized in an emergency. Age
mit is set at about thirty for junior
fficers and at thirty-eight for senior
fficers.
ApplicatiOns :for enrollment in the
etv Porce, giviag all particulars
Edniontoe, Alta„ April 4.—The t
closing of the Normal Schools at Cal-
gary and Canerose by April 16, two
rP
weeks ea ler than has, s
announced. This step has been de- t
sided upon in order to make available o
a supply of teachers for the early! f
opening of the rural schools of the ' C
fi
b
will be availa.ble, the teacher supply n
will be sufficient to enable every li
school in the Province to operate at o
an early date
Province. The total number of teach-
ers released from these Provincial
schools will be 425,•and together with
a
a number of university students, who
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Neekly Market Re:fitrt- of peevious service, may be ient at
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, April 6.—Man. wheat—
. Na, 1 Northern, $2.80; No. 2 North-
ern. $2.77; No. 3 Northern, $2.73, in
• store Fort William.
Manitoba oats—No. 2 C.W., 98c;
No. 3 CM., 94e; extra No. 1 feed,
94c; No. 1 feed, 93e; No. 2 feed, Bac,
in store Fort William.
..Manitoba barley—No. 3 C.W.,
$1.647; No. 4 C.W., $1.44%; rejected,
$1.32%; feed, -$1.32%, in store Fort
William.
American corn—No. 3 yellow, $1.93,
nominal, track, Toronto; prompt ship-
ment.
Ontario oats ---No. 3 white, $1.03 to
$1.05, according to freights outside.
Ontario wheat —No. 1 Winter, per
ear lot, $2 to $2.01; No. 2, do, $1.98
to $2.01; No. 3 do, $1.92 to $1.93, f.o.b.
shipping points, according to freights.
Ontario wheat— No. 1 Spring, per
car lot, a2,02 to $2.03; No. 2 do, $1.98
to $2.07; No. 3 do, $1.95 to $201, f.o.b.
shipping points, according to freights.
Peas --No. 2 $3.00.
Barley—alalling, $1.78 to $1.80, ttc.
cording to freights ,outside,
Buckevheat—$1,65 to $1.70, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Rye—No. 3, $1,83 to $1.815, accord-
ing to freights outside,
• Manitoba flour—Government stand-
ard, $13.25, Toronto.
Ontario 11 re • G •ei•
oenment stand-
ard, $10.25 to $10.45, Montreal or To-
ronto, m jute bags. Prompt shipment.
Millfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont- Toronto, April a'.—Choice heavy
real freightbags included—Bran, steers, $13.25 to $14; do, good, •$12,50
- per
ton, $45; shorts, per ton $52; good
to 313; butchers' cattle, choice $12 50
Honey—Extracted clover, 5-11a tins,
27 to 28c; 10 -lb. tins, 25 to 26c; 60 -lb.
tins, 25c; 'buckwheat, 60 -lb. tins, 18 to
20c; comb, 16 -oz., $6 to 36.50 doz.;
10 -oz., $4,25 to $4.50 doz.
Maple products—Syrup; per imp.
gal, $4.25; per 5 imp. gals., $4.00.
Provisions—Wholesale.
Smoked meats—Hams, med., 38 to
40e; do, heavy, 29 to 30c; tooked 54
to atm; rolls, 30 to 31c• breakfast
bacon 43 t 48
o e; backs, 50 to
52e• I;oneless, 52 to 56c. U • -
DO YOREMEMBER?,
once to the Secretary of the Air
Board at ,Ottawa.
Navigation on Great Lakes
= Will Open About April 10
A despatch from Chicago says:—
Navigation on the Greet Lakes will
open about April 10th, the Weather
Po rcau predicts.
Buy thrift stamps.
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Ottawa, April 4.—As a result of
recommendations made to the Gov-
ernment by Dr. J. G. Rutherford,
Chairman of the Royal Commission
on musk ox and reindeer in the North-
west Territories, an order has been
passed setting aside three .islands in
the northern part of Hudson Bay as
1 grazing ground for these • animals.
The islands named in the order are
Southampton Island, Mansel Island
and Coats Island, These are saideto
be favorably situated, with plenty of
vegetation and climatic conditions
suitable to reindeer and musk ox
grazing.
Hoover in Ring for President.
A despatch from San Francisco
says:—Herbert Hoover telegraphed
the Nocver Republican Club of Cali-
fornia that he would accept'the Re-
publican, nomiaation for President.
The choicest corks come :front Al-
geria, which has 2,500,000 acres of
cork forests
&red meats—Long clear bacon, 31 i
to 82c; clear bellies, 30 to 81e, i
Lard—Betre, tierces, 30 to 301/se; i
tubs, 30% to 31c; pails, a0a1 td 31.14,c;
prints, 31% to 32c. Compound 'tierces,
283 to 29e; tubs, 29 to 29%c; pails,
291a to 29aac; prints, 30 to 30'yL'e. I
Montreal Merkets.
Montreal, April 6.—Oats, Canadian
Western, No. 2, 31.15; Can. Western !
No. 3, $1.10%; Flour, new standard
grade, 313,25 to $13.55; Rolled oats,
bag, 90 lbs., 35.50 to 35.60, Bran,
$45.25. Shorts, 352.25, Hay, No, 2,
per ton, car lots, 330 to 381. Cheese,
finest easterns, 26eto 203. Butter,
choicest creamery, (34 to 65c. Eggs,1
fresh, 55c, Potatoes, per bag', car!
lots, 34.30 to 34.40, Lard, pure, wood
pails, 20 lb. net, 80 to 30%c.
• Live Stock Markets.
.cat f otn, 3; .60 to 33,75,
Hay—No. 1, per ton, 328 to 330;
mton,
mixed, per 326 to 328, track,
eta:law—Car lots, per ton, 310 to
ata a -k, Toronto.
Country Produce -e -Wholesale.
Cheese—New, large, 29 to 30c;
twins, 29%% to 30e; triplets, 80%
to 810; Stilton, 33 to 34c; old, large,
31 to 82c; do, twins, 32 tie-32tac.
buttere.-Fresh dairy, •choice„ 55 'to,
56e; creamery prints, 67 to 68c.
Margarine -38 to 38c. . .
Eggs--eNew laid,: 55 to 50c.
Dressed peal:try—Spring chicktms,1
40 to 42ee roosters, 25c; fowl, $5e;1
/turkeys, 58 to 60e; ducklings, 38 to
40e; geese, 8... to 36e; squabs, doze
' .3(4,00.
Live poultry -.Spring chickens, 30
to 32e; fewis, 35 to 40c; ducks, 35 to
40e; geese, 26 to. 28c.
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Beans—clanadiati, handepleked, base,
$5,50 to $5.7a; prunes, 34 to $4.40;
japans, .$6,25 to 35.50; Caliaostia
aaimas, 163 to 17%e Madagascar
Limas, lb, 154:. Avail ;Lima, lb., 11.e.
to 313; do, good, $10.75 to $11; do,
med., $10 to 310.50; do, come 38.50 to
39.25; bulls, chaise, 310,25 to $11; do,
med., 39 to 39.50; do, rough, 37.50 to 1
38; , butcher cows, choice, $10.15 to
$11; do, good, 39 to 39 50; do, com.,
37 to 37.50; stockers, 39 to 311; feed-
ers, 311 to $12.50; canners and cut-
ters, $o.25 to 36; milkers, good to
choice, 3100 to 3100; do, coni. and
med., $65 to 375; springers, 300 to
3160; lambs, per ewt., 318 to 310;
spring lambs, each, 314 to $19; galves,
good to chcace,,318 to 322.50; sheep,
37 to 31.4; hogs; fed and watered.,
$18,75; do, weighed off ears, 319; do,
feo,b„ 317.75; do, do, country Points,.
317,50,
Montreal, April 0.—Butcher steers,
med., $11 to $11.76; com39 to $10.50;
hutoleez heifers, med i9 to $10.50;
cast.' $7 to 39; butcher cows, med.,
¶i.50 to 39.50; canners, 35.25 to 35.50;
eutters, 35,50 to 3,,50; butcher bulls,
come $7,50 to $9. Good veal, $15 to
316.25; med., $10 to 315. Ewes 311
to 312.50. Lambs, good, 316 to '317;
come $15 'to 316. Sows, off -car
weights, 316,
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DEPARTMENT STORE
FOR OLD 'LONDON
Headquarters For Whole Co
operative IViovennent Under
One Roof.
A despatch from London says:—A
huge department -store is to be built
in the heart of this city by thetritish
co-operative societies. Grocery, pro-
visions, drapery, furniture, hardware,
hairdressing, etc, are to be included
in the scope of the lieme, which is
intended to make the etore equal to
any in London.
Shopping facilities', however, form
only a portion of the co-operative in-
tentions, which aim at providing un-
der the same roof palatial headquar
ters for the whole of the movement in
Great Britain. There will be in.cluded
a residential hotel, club; public hall to
seat.1,(Y00, a smaller hall, restaurant,
Co-operative Wholesale Society's bank,
wholesale salesroom and. suites of of-
fices for kindred organizations.
The British Labor party is to com-
bine with the co-operators and merge
its war memorial project in theirs.
The building also will be the head-
quarters of the Labor party, with
offices for the Trades Union Congress
Parliamentary Committee and similar
bodies, and there will be a residential
club for members of the party, with
several other social conveniences.
LONDON TYPISTS
RESI,I_VE O. B. E.
Telephone Operator Among
Recipients of Imperial
Honors,
despatch. from London says:—
Great Britain has begun to confer
Imperial honors upon stenographers
and telephone operators performing
distinguished services during the war.
The latest list of honors contains the
names of eight women typists created
"members of the Order of the British
Empire." Among them is Mrs-Aaice
Alison, Premier Lloyd George's confi-
dential secretary, who was the only
woman witness to the delieary of the
peace terms to Germany at Verenides.
The other girls honored are em-
ployes of the Foreign, War, and Air
Ministries, including a War Office
telephone operator, Daisy Finch, and
Lily Nash, superintendent of the girl
messengers of the Air .Ministry.
Unknown Soldier'
Arrives in Canada
A despatch from St. John, says:—
A pathetic case came to light when
military headquarters staff here re-
ceived a telegtam from Ottawa noti-
fying them to meet on the arrival of
the steamship Grampian an unknown
Canadian soldier and to provide escort
for him to the military sanatorium at
Cobourg, Ont. This soldier has been
detained and wandering about Eng-
land for a year and a half. He was
shell shocked and does not know his
name or where he belongs. All marks
of identification are gone. He is be-
ing sent to Canada in the hopes that
something may lead to his identifita-
tion. The Grampian docked on April
Russia and Germany
to Exchange Prisonert
Berlin, April. 4. ---The negotiations
between Russia and Germany as to an
exchange of prisoners are virtually
completed. The first steamship to
bring back German prisoners will
leave. shortly for Revel.
.As a matter of fact, the question
of exchange of Polish prisoners was
settled quickly, and although it was
ostensibly the aeason for the negotia-
tions, Victor Koppe, the Bolshevist
representative, has been diectiesing
matters of a wider import.
It is understood that the whole
question of Rueeiait-German relations
will be settled :icon. •
U.S. Navy Estimates
Exceed Britain's
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A despatch from London says:—
His attention being called in the
House of .Commons to the American
naval estimates, 'Walter Hume Long,
First Load of the Admiralty, entered
into a. detailed,comparison.
He showed that, at the current rate
of exehange, when; £28,000,000 for T
end-of-theatvar expenditure was sub-
tracted from the British estimates,
the Aineriean estimates were 344,-
000,00a in excess of the Baltish,
Moreover, while the personnel of the
British navy was beinaareduced, the
American estimates provided for an
increase in personnel, The First Lord
refrained from,. continent.
New motile floors in kitchens will
not absorb grease or show grease.
spats if saturated with hot linseed
oil for several hours before they are
used. Then will off all surplus all.
RUINOUS FOOD
PRICES IN RUSSIA
Long Lines of Citizens Wait.
ing For Daily Rations.
A despatch from London says:—An
11) dication of conditions obtaining in
Bolshevik Russia as the League of
Nations investigating emirates will
find them was contained in a review
of the economic situation, in the ter-
ritory controlled by the Soviet Just
prifted in the London Times,
The article, which was written by a
staff correspondent, depicts long lines
awaiting theirlood rations, with bread.
selling at 450 rubles a pound and but-
ter at 8,200 rubles a pound; of queues
with the dead of the various cities,
for even the cemeteries are "national- ,
ized" and the dead lie for days await-
ing interment,
"Prices are very high, but the pro-
fits are low," the writer of the article
says. These, for example, are some
of the prices prevailing last week:
Rubles.
Bread, per pound 460
Flour, per pound 500 to 700
Beef 550 to 600
Pork 720
Salt
Butter 2,600 to 3,200
Groats and meal 600 to 700
Normally the 'ruble is worth 51%
cents, gold, now it is worth about 414,
cents.
"In, spite of these charges salaries
are comparatively low, a typist get-
ing 3,200 rubles a montlj for an eight
hour day without rations. A hospital
nurse gets 2,600 rubles a month and.
army rations for a twelve hour day.
Army rations in Petrograd consist of:
3/2 lb. horseflesh.
1 11), bread (fair quality).
lb. (about) groats and small' quan-
tities of sugar and fats daily.
"Bread on civilian redone contains
about 50 per cent. of beans and 10.15
per cent. bird seed (millet, canary and
hemp), the rest being rye flour.
"Under the system of the division
of the population into categories, a
person receiving rations. on !.,ard A
(the' highest QUI for heavy manual
labor) gets 11,12 pounds of such broo'±
daily; sugar, horse meat and groats
are doled out in small quantities at
int4rhvealsliworking population—that is,
every one except school children and.
persons over 60 --work under truly
terrible cenditiens, and the workshops
taite'es.cold. There is also very little
light, and no soap or washing fecal -
"It is proposed to reopen the schools
in the spring. They have been closed
since October, owing to the fuel short-
age. Free dining rooms for the pupils
have been continued throughout the
winter, but the food offered there is
of such bad quality that even the dogs
refuse to touch it except when starv-
ing., This state of things in the school
dining rooms is on a par with other
Soviet a "reforms," where word and
deed are .so diametrically opposed.
"The closing .of the markets in these
conditions means a terrible hardship
for the population. It is not surpris-
ing that the very rumor raised such a
storm. of protest that the authorities
have not yet risked enforcing the or-
der. Only one market, indeed. has
been closed, other—markets being sub -
Reed only to periodical raids.. At the
closing of the Alexandrovsky market,
which may be described as the Cale-
donian market of Petrograd, a free
fight took place between troops and
traders, when abont twenty were
killed and wonwled."
Irish Home R e
Faxed Second Reaeiing
A despatch .area Lomita: say
The Lloyd George, Coalition Govern.
silent scored its expected victory in
the House of Commons when the naw
Irish Home Rule Bill passed iteee-
cond reading., which is tantamount to.
its becomino by a vote of 318 to
94.
The opposition votes weie tantinel
to the Nationalists. Laborite and ex -
Premier Asquith's few followare. The
division -followed ri speech by Premier
Lloyd CAeorgiz.
And He Got the One.
A
ped
bee
fort
thb
traveller, whose traihj b d 4.1; top -
at a town famous for its buns,
koned to n small boy on the
n, and, giving him .ten cents, told
little fellow to bring hint a bun
inty one for himself with the other
el.
he boy soon returned. Calmly eat-
ing a bun, he handed five cents to the
astonished t reveller, remarking
"There was only one left, boss."
Central Power Stations.
The present coal .consumptiou, fei
power purposte, in the United King.
dom is a least 80,000,000 tons yearly.
By proper co-ordinated and central-
ized systems of power production and
distribution for the whole country, It
is .estimated that 66,000,000 tans of
coal per annum might be Saved, in ad-
dition to other in4ortant adval•lageS,