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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-04-22, Page 7ALLIES OPPOSE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF CITIES IN ROHR DISTRICT Frame Invaded Neutral Zone After Decisive Warnings That Allies Would Not Support Her Action Delicate Situa- tion Created ---Allies Will Try to Induce France to Withdraw. A despatch from London says:—Re- lations between France and the other Allies are so attained that the Bri= tieh Government views the situation with apprehension. I aro authoritatively informed that France invaded the Ruhr Valley after deliberately disregarding the Allied Government's, repeated, urgent and decisive warnings, and that neither England, Italy nor the United States would support. France morally, dip- lomatically or militarily, but will,' on the other hand, use every force except a military one for the present to corns pel France to withdraw her forces from the German neutral zone. _, Fol two weeks the telegraph wires between Paris, London, Rome, Brus- sels and Washington have been kept hot by communications between the heads oft the respective Governments. Long before Marshal Foch moved a single French soldier the French Gov- ernment was told that the Allies would not support her, and was warn- ed of the grave consequences of French invasion. France, however, disagreed with her allies and acted upon her own initiative and judgment. I am now informed that not only TWO IRISH POLICE- MEN KILLED More Outra in Various Parts of Distressful Isle. - A despatch from Dublin says:— While three police constables were evc',ing in the neighborhood of News port, county Tipperary, Friday morn- ing, they were ambushed by`a number did the allies oppose the French at- of wren who opened fire at close range, titude, but that they differed from killing two of them and seriously France on. the question of fire alleged wounding the third. The constables violation of the Peace Treaty. had to pass through a bleat: moult- violation exact statement of facts from district on their way to' local' the allies reads; sessions, where they were concerned "The allied Governments consider- in a case, The surviving constable, ed the condition of the Ruhr Valley as after the "attack, saw about twenty social disorder, with which the Ger- men running away. man Government alone should deal A vacated police barracks at Black - and be held responsible. In the'opizt- roy, outside. of Limerick boundary, ion of the allies, as expressed to was burned down. Four men arrested France Ruhr conditions were not under the Defense of the'Realin Act, natters with which the allied Govern- were taken to Cork. ments should have anything to do." A mail van front..Cavan to Arva A despatch from Paris says:—The was held up. near Crossdonne;; , • and British Government has notified the more than £100 sterling, representing French Government that if it persists old age pension money, stolen. _ in acting alone in the measures -to en_ The Protestant cathedral at: Ross force the ire .ty Britain will withdraw Carbery' county Cork, was entered her representatives from the Commit- I Wednesday night and the statue of tee of Ambassadors, which is the offi- II the late Lord Carbery, valued at tial body with the enforcement' of the 1 $1,000, was damaged • beyond repair.. Versailles Treaty. This warning came at the end of a Canadian Chosen For note from the British Cabinet handed Important Post Premier • Millerand by Lord 'Derby, British Ambassador. This note stated Sir hamar Greenwood, the new that while the good faith of France Chief Secretary for Ireland' was born was not doubted, she had acted htne at Whitby, Ontario, in 1870 and re- rieilly in taking a. measure which . ceived his education in this ,country:' should have been used only as a last He served in the war from 1914.to resort: ENLARGE ZONES OF OCCUPATION French Forces Advance Into Bavaria and Babenhausen. London, April 11.—French forces .are extending the zone of occupation in the main region, according to a despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Berlin, quoting The Lokal Anzeiger. Stockstadt, in Bavaria, and Babenhausen, have al- ready been occupied, and it is under- stood French troops are marching to - yesterday addressed a note to Premier Millerand asking whether it Was the. intention of the French Government to extend farther the occupation of the right • bank of the Rhine. The Premier replied that the French Gov- ernment did not anticipate any such eventuality. YAM British Gold for Both Americas A despatch from New York says:— A shipment of approximately $11,000, - ward Aschaffenburg from Darmstadt. 000 in gold arrived her on Friday from Paris, April 1.1,—The Petit Parisien England on the American Line steam - says it learns that . four small gun- ship Philadelphia, making the total boats, armed with machine guns, have gold consignments from Great Britain left Cherbourg for the Rhine, where since the first of the year about $78, - they will supervise the river. 000,000. With the despatch of. $13,- The 13;The proclamation of Soviet Re- 100,000 in gold. to South America, the publics in Bitterfeld and Magdeburg total consignment to countries on (respectively 75 miles southwest and that continent during the same period 80 nriles southwest of Berlin) is told will have totalled approximately of in rumors circulating in Aix -la- $157,000,000, including English ship - Chapelle. ments and gold drawn from local re - The German Charge, Dr, von Mayer, serves. Weekly Market Report Breadetufts, I Honey—Extracted clover, 5-1-a. tins, Toronto; April 13.—Man, wheat -1e to 28c; 10 -Ib. tins, 25 to 26c; 60-1b. No. 1 Northern, $3 80; No. 2 -North- tins, 25e; buckwheat, 60 -Ib. tins, 18 to ern, $2.'77; No. 3 Northern, $2.'"3, in • 10 20c; eo 4b, to L , $6 0 to $6.50 doz.; store Fort William. , $ Manitoba oats—No. 2 GW., $1..04;£3; Maple products—Syrup, per imp. No. 3 CW., 99%c; extra No. 1 feed, gal., $4,25; per 5 imp. gals., $4,00. 99 ec; No, 1 feed, 99 ec, in store Fort . William, Provisions—Wholesale. American corn --No. 3 yellow, $2.01, .Smoked meats—Hants, pied, 38 to nominal, track, 'Toronto, prompt ship- 40e; do, heavy, 29 to 30c; cooked, 54 ntant. to 56c; rolls 80 to 31c; breakfast Ontario oats --No. 3 white, $1.02 to bacon, 43 to �48c' backs lain 50 to$1.04, according to freights outside. 52c• boneless; 52 to 56c. p Ontario wheat—No. 1 Winter, per Cured meats—Lon clear bacon 31 car lot, $2 to $2.01; No. 2, do, fi1,98 to 32c• clear bellies,30 too 31c. ' to $2.01; �No, 3, do, $1.92 to $1.93, Lard—Pure, tieres, 30 to 30' c' f.o.b, shipping points, according to tubs 30% to 31c ails 30% to 31%c: freights. _ prints, 31;f; to 32c, Compound tierces, c�`Ontario2rtaeat—r4o. Spring, p i g,p19r 28r to 29c; tubs, 29 to 29i/Ec; pails, to $2.0lot1; No. 3, do, $1.95 to $2,01, f.o.b. 297 to 29s/� c; prints; 30 to 30rac. shipping points, according to freights. Montreal Markets. Peas --No. 2, $3,00. Montreal,Aril 13.—Oats Barley—Malting, $1.78 to $1.,80, acp Can. carding to freights outside. Western, No, 2, $1.1.7%; No. 3, $1,13. Buckwheat—•$1.65 to $1.70, accord- Flour—New standard grade, $13.25 to ing to freights outside. $13.55. Rolled oats—Bags 90 lbs., $5 Rye --No: 3, $ 83 to $1,85, accord- .50 to $5.60. Bran, $45.25; Shorts, hie to freights outside. $52.25; Hay --No. 2, per ton, car lots, Manitoba flour—Government stand- $30 to $31. Cheese, finest easterns, ard, $13.25. Toronto, 26 to 26%. Butter, choicest 'cream - Ontario flour ---Government stand- ery, 58c.• Potatoes, per bag•, car lots, ard, $10.40 to. $10.60, Montreal or To- $4,75 to $5,00.• ronto, in jute bags. Prompt shipment. Live Stock Markets. Millfeed—Car lots, delivered, Mont- real freight, bags included: Bran, per , Toronto, April 13.—Good heavy ton, $45; shorts, per ton, $52; good steers, $11 to $14,50; butchers' steers feed flour, $3.76 to $4.00, and heifers, choice, $11 to $13.25; do, Hay—No, 1, per ten, $27 to $28; good, $10 to $11.50; do, med., $9 to nixed, per ton, $25, track. $10.50; do, corn., $7 to $9; butchers' Straw --Car lots, per ton, $16 to cows, choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $17, track, Toronto. $9.50 to $10; do, ailed,, $8 to $9,50; do, cont,, $6.60 to $7.25; do, canners, $5.25 Country Produce—Wholesale. to $6; butchers' bulls,' choice $10 to $10.50; do, good, $9 to $10' do, rated,, Cheese --New, large, 29 to 30e; $7 to $11,50; feeders, best, $10 to $11; twins, 297 to 30%e; triplets, 30% to do, corn., $7.50 to 1$8.50; stockers, best, \ 81c; Stilton, 33 to 34c; old, large, 31 $9 to $10; do, coal,, $7,50 to $9; tnilk- 2c; do, twins, 32 to 32%e. ers and springers, choice, $1.25 to • Butter• -e- resh dairy, choice, 55 to $175; calves, choice, $19 to $20; do, 56e; creamery prints, 66 to 67c. med., $14 to $18; do,. com., $9 to $12; • Margarine -38 to 38i. lambs, $19 to $20; sheep, $8 to $15' ' Eggs—New laid, 5.1. to 52c.' heavy fat bucks, $5 to $8.50, hogs, fed • Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, and watered, $$19.25; do, off cars, 40 to 42c;' roosters, 25c; fowl, 35e; $19.50; do, f.o.b.„ $18.25; do, to the keys, 58 to 60c: ducklings, 88 to farmer, $18. , squabs, doz.,$6.00. Montreal, April 13. -Butcher hells Live poultry -Spring chickens, 30 ers, med., $9 to $t0.50; Som., $7 to $9; to 32c; :Fowls, 35 to 40e; ducks, 35 to butcher cows, med., $6.50 to $9; can- 4lli•, nets, $5 to $5.25; cutters, $6 to $6.50; Beans --Canadian, hand-picked, bus., butcher bulls, corn,, $7.50 to $9, Good $5.50 to $5.75; primes, $4 to $4.50; veats, $16,50 to $"16,50• med. $10 to .?spans, $5.25 to ;$5,50; California Limes, 16% to 17%c; c; Madagascar Limas, lb., 15e; Japan Limas, lb., lit. Sift HAMAR GREENWOOD vOrn COAST Rtirle4O1 L 'GATM TO THE "The whole question of war anti peace comes to a head here, where all the powers are struggling to get through this narrow passage to the East. It seems impossible,. therefore, to urge strongly enough the necessity for America's entering Turkey in some authoritative 'capacity. Na other solu- tion can bring more temporary peaee."—Constantinople cable despatch. CASH BONUS RE- PEDIGREED PONIES FUSED TO VETERANS FOR PRINCE'S RANCH Not the Best Way to Help Sol- H. R. H. Will Also Have diets, Says Government. Thoroughbred Racers, Cattle A despatch from Ottawa says:—The and Sheep. Dominion Government on Friday an- Montreal, April 11.--W. L. Carlyle, nounced an affirmation of its decision who has been buying stock for the of a year ago not to pay a cash bonus Prince of Wales' ranch in Alberta, to war veterans. Sir George Foster, spent a day in Montreal and sailed to - Acting Prime Minister, made a state- day for England by the Empress of anent. on the Government's ,policy in France. Mr, Carlyle's special mission the Commons, declaring that the Gov- is to bring back some of the Prince's ernmett was not of opinion that the thoroughbred racing horses, which best way to re-estahlish the returned will at once be put in training at Cal- -oldiers was by placing in their hands gall. It is probable that he will re - sums of money over which the Ad- turn with them between May 20 and ministration should have no super- June 1. He must return without the 1916, in the latter year becoming at- vision. The Acting Premier' drew at- thoroughbred cattle and sheep, which tached to the staff of Lord Derby, at tention to the fact that a Pensions were purchased Iast November, as the that time the War Minister. Sir Committee had been appointed again south of England, owing to an out - Hamar has represented the Sunder- this session, but he said it was itn- break of foot and mouth disease early land constituency in the House of possible to dispose of such an impor in the winter, is entirely under quar- Conunons since 1910. In January, that question of re-establishing re- entire, as far as the exportation of 1919, he was appointed Under-Secre- turned men at one or two sessions of live stock to Canada is concerned•, tary for Horne Affairs in Premier Lloyd George's Cabinet. He was ,Parliament. Mr. Carlyle will bring back with created a baronet in 19:15. As the statement was made by Sir him some of the ,Prince's prize Eng - .George Foster before the orders of lish ponies from Dartmoor. These ani - 200 CASUALTIES the day were called, there was no op- mals stand from twelve to thirteen IN JERUSALEMpoitunity for it to be debated, but the hands high and have a remarkable Acting Premier promised that the pedigree, going back to the horses of matter could be discussed later. He old Spain. Ten Civilians Killed in Clash told an inquirer that the Pensions •Coinmittee, as now constituted, had BRITONS TAXED FORBetween Jews, Moslems never had the question of cash bonus WAGE INCREASE and Arabs. or gratuity directly referred to it. $450,000,000 Per Annum Gov't. " Sends 70 Cars Added to United Kingdom's of Hay to Alberta Bill. A despatch from Ottawa says:—On London, April 11.—Ninety nziIliofr account of the late spring and the pounds per annum will be added to heavy snowfall still covering the the United Kingdoin's wage bill. The ground to a'considerable depth in Evening Standard calculates, if all many parts of the West, combined the demands now made are conceded with the early winter and the short- and all the offers of employers accept - age of fodder to begin with, Hon. A. ed. The estimate is made up thus: J. MacLean, Minister of Public Works The miners will get '235,000,000 if for Alberta; has been in Ottawa to they take sten-shilling raise, but urge that measures be taken to pre- they may strike for three per cent, vent stock losses, which threaten to pre - more; the railwaymen, £7,000,000, as exceed anything in recent history. He the result of the new pound -per -week has been conferring with Government demand; the deckers, £10,000,000, size officials of the Department of Agri- mean between the employers' and culture. As first fruits of his efforts, workers' estimates; the postal work - 70 cars of hay were shipped from Ot- ers, £2,500,000; the street carmen, tawa on. Friday, and Hon. Mr. Mac- 000,000, if their demands are granted. Lean hopes to eget more in western In addition to this the farm labor- Ontario. ht r, W. J. Blair, member for ers, bus Wren, journeymen tailors 'and Battle River, has made arrangements engineers are figuring on the amounts to get one thousand ears from the for which they will put in claims. Wainwright Buffalo Park, but recent Cambrai I'ranae ---'Two explosions A despatch from London says:—It is reported that ten .civilians were killed and one hundred and eighty woimded, and that three British offi- cers were wounded, in the disturb- ances in Jerusalem on April 4 be- tween the Jews, Moslems and Arabs. The despatch says the exact cause of the trouble has not yet been as- certained. t her disturbances oc- curred April 6, when the town was packed with British troops. Early in the morning of April 6, Arabs tried to enter the Damascus gate, but were fired on. During further dis- turbances some houses were burned. The despatch adds that from the latest information, although there was considerable effervescence in the Jerusalem district, the situation was well. in hand. FIUME TO REMAIN ITALIAN Understanding Reached on , Adriatic Question. A despatch from London says:— Italy and Jugo-Slavia have .reached an understanding on the Adriatic settle- ment, The agreement is said to in- clude these main terms: 1. Fiume to remain Italian, 2. Scutari is to be given to ;Tu:go- Slavia, In diplomatic circles it is averred ,e i1 y Premier Lloyd George is the real author of this compromise. The Jugo-Slays, under the reported agreement, would receive Susak, the Canale Della Fitunara, the Porto 13aross and the port of Volasen. The civilians were killed, 81 were fired Copenhagen, April 11,-. It is ,offi- carried 150 demobilized member;; of port of Abbazia, just to the south- upon, 32 were assaulted, chilly announced that the British dele- the British Woolen's Auxiliary Army west of Volosea, would remain Italian, This total does not include the tro- gation has concluded ,its negotiations' Corps and nurses, prospective wti,rls lice barracks, to the number of more. with the Russian Soviet re rerenta•• of Canadian farmers, Riffle the gives avitln, the Jttgo-'Slays receiving Scutari, p ' . than 200, destroyed during Raster tires resecting tradingrelations b4. are finding homes arra happtneas they ort. the Albania coast as compensation.. � respecting Gabriele D'Annunzio,the insurgent "4Vicel., sweep Creat Britain and Russia. There will be fou�zid profitable employment $15. Hogs—Oft $20;i' car , $i9.7 selects commander at Fiume is declared is good prospect, it is added, of an by arrangement between the Canadian $;19.75 to $20; lights, $l9./o to $..Q�agreement being reached for the early(,overnnnent and the Overseas wettle•- sows, $15,75 to $iii. i �be strongly against the arraatgenien, Buy •thrift staiuys, sstablishfnent of trade with Russia, „"p"t n„:,;�,•t.,��„t CANADIAN LOANS SINCE 1911 SHOWN Figures on Outstanding In., debtednegs at Home and Abroad. A despatch from Ottawa says:—By a return tabled in the House of Gom' mons it is shown that Canada has bora rowed, through the Dominion Governs went, $3,831,191;782 since 1911, and that of this $2,418,531,088 was still outstanding on March 29 lett. Of this the Government issued 229,300,000 in London up to May, 1915. These loans are still outstanding. Afterwards• loans had to be made .in the United States and Canada, In the United States the Dominion Government` made 11 loans, totalling $280,873,004, and of this $151,007,000 is still out- standing, the rest having been redeem- ed. The Government has still to meet a loan of 5 per cent. for $76,- 006,000 76; 006,000 and a five and a half per cent. loan for.$76,000,000. The $10,000,000 loaned at intervals from the Bank of Montreal branch in New York has all been redeemed. The loans in Canada include the following, temporary loans from the Bank of Montreal at Ottawa: $15,- 000,000, since redeemed; two bond loans issued September 1, 1916, one rt 31,4 per cent. for $12,404;678, of which $2,000,060 le still to pay, and ane at 4',i, per cent for $97,207,351, of which $65,207,351 Is outstanding. The' various war and Victory loans, totalling $2,2512,888,550, of which 0,- 949,722,111 1; 949,722,111 Is still outstanding, AV(' per cent. and five and a half per cent. debenture stock and war savings cer- tificates and thrift stamps totalling $74,697,888, of which $532,326,625 are outstanding, Treasury bills for $958,- 842,315, of which all but $78,820,004 has been redeemed, all of these being ads'ances to banks, trout companies and elevator companies mainly. This makes a total in Canada of $3,407,920; 782, of which $2,123,128,088 is out- standing, dp BOI ,SHEVIS. IS DYING IN OLD LAND Labor Sees the Unsoundness of Radical Doctrines. A despatch from Ottawa says:— Bolshevism is slowly but surely [lying in England. Free speech is killing it. The Old Country labor roan is learn- ing the unsoundness of the doctrine•., not from those who seek to discredit the movement, but from the radicals themselves. Labor is becoming dis- gusted with the Reds and is showing that disgust by repudiating the move- ment, So states Tom Moore, president of the Trades and Labor Congress, Cana- da's Labor representattve an the In- ternational Labor Congress held in England wader the auspices of the League of Nations during the past two months, who has just returned to Ottawa. Bolshevist soap -box orators abound in Hyde Park, he said, and to a Cana- dian, who has followed the Winnipeg trial. come in the nature of a shock. Soviets for the British are openly ad- vocated. Literature is openly sold in the streets; which, if found in the pos- session of a person living in this coun- try, would mean a term of imprison- ment. If the agitators confine them- selves to speech they are in no danger of interference, but any attempt at re- volutionary action is quickly nipped in the bud. He cited a publication. edited by Sylvia Pankhurst, which advocates "revolutionary international socialism, the ending of capitalism and Parliaments and the substitution of workers republics.” This is sold wildspread ,,in London and causes little or no comment. Mr. Moore inti- mated there 'night be a little lesson in this for the Dominion. The whole standard of living among the labor classes of Britain has changed, he asserted. Wages are on a par with those of Canada and the cost of living is about the same. Death Lurks in Soil of Fortner Battle Fields advices are that the 5,000 buffaloes Belgian Troops in which 12 persons were killed and there will need everything that is ...owe for Germany two injured, have occurred in the die - available. Arlon, Belgian Luxembourg, April trio of ' V fillers Guislain, 13 kilo- . from Catnlarai. The explosions 11.—A battalion of Belgian n;roopd 'were caused by agricultural tractors 1089 outrages in 500 strong, with bands playing esti Ireland in year flags flying, left here to -day by way of t''oblenz for �:tayeilee. The' troops A despatch from Loinlan says:--- will arrive at t-teir destination Mon - One thousand and eiglttynine out. day evening and be officially received r rages were committed in Ireland be- by the French army, and then will 1,�O BRI115l1 WOMEN tween Jammu, .1919, and March 29, proeeed to the"occupted cities, ONWAY TO CANADA 1920, according to an official Whitt ^ -- - •;� - -- -- C -..� f paper, which attributes them to the Britain Concludes London, April 11.:- rhe liner 1iel.,a- Sinn rein movement. shirty -one Agreement With Soviet 1 gams, which sailed friday for Canada police, military and oBlclals and five �` coating into contact with unexploded shells in ileitis which were being ploughed.