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CARRANZA FORCED TO FLEE
Revolutionary Forces State President Carried Out Whole-
sale >Si upJiter of Political Prisoners Before
Abandoning City.
Via:hington, May 9s --Official con -I
firtxiaticn of the oec'aipation of. Mexico
City by rebel forces at noon on Fri -I
day, May 7, was received to -clay by
the State Dep rtntcnt from the Am-
erkan Embassy. There was uo dis-
order gird no foreigner., were inter-
i'erred with, the message said.
El Pa -,a, Teti ,s, May 9. --General
Franeli eo i\Turguis, Carranza Military
Commander at Mexico City, before
leaving the Capital, which now hs in
complete possession of revolutionary
:farces, carried out a wholesale.
slaughter of political prisoners at
Santiago, the military prison, accord-
ing to as bulletin issued at revolution-
ary headquarters here to -night_
Fifteen Mexican Generals were
among those reported slaughtered.
"The city was .el.socked over this
Moody epilogue for the Carranza re-
gime," the bulletin said.
Negates, Ariz., May 9.. --Reports
that President Venust.iano Carranza t
of &Texico had been captured by the
forces of Gen. Alvaro Obregon and
Gen. Benjamin Hill were received
last night from Iferniosillo, Sonora,
at Obregon headquarters, Nogales,
Sonora, opposite here,
Vera Cruz, May 9. -President Car-
ranza, who fled from Mexico City at t(
the appreech of Gen. Obregon's army,
is a fugitive in the eantern part of the I
State of Tlaxcala, and is believed to
be trying to reach this city.
The railroad train in which the
President left the Capital was stop-
ped at the City of Tlaxcala by de-
taehments of Gen. Obregon's army,
and the President was forced to leave
103 ear end flee on horseback. Gen.
Sanchez, an adherent of Obregon, is
attempting to intercept the President
in the mountains.
Instructions that the life of Presi-
dent Carratiza be spared have been
is ued by Obregon, who has given
guarantees to the residents of cities
nnrier control of his forces.
RATERS DESTROY
IRISH BARRACKS
Explosives Used in Attacks
on Police "repots.
Dublin, May 9: -After an attack
lasting upwards of two hour:, a party
of 200 armed men set fire to the R. L
C. barracks at Cleyne, County Cork,
on Saturday night; compelled the gar-•
rayon of six .men to surrender and
hurried the building- to the" gi°ound.
Three house?, close to the barracks
were also burned down. -The assail-
ants were armed with rifles;"shotguns
and bombs, the police replying with
carbines and hand grenades. About
1 c eioek in the morning sn explosion
occurred which blew in a" portion of
the gable end of the barracks, and
the raiders thele inserted explosives
which made the opening wider. They
tried to enter the building through
• the breach, but were prevented by the
police, who used hand grenades and
rifles freely.
Finally the attacking party, finding
it impossible to overcome the resist-
ance of the garrison, set the barracks
afire, whereupon the police es:acuatedl
the place,
In preparation for the attack the
road's had been blocked for miles'
around with trees, and'bitr telephone
wires crit.
Another Week was made by a
gang of armed glen early Sunday
n1orn'ng on the police barracks at
Newton Hamilton, County Armagh.
The garrison, consisting of a ser-
geant and four constables; put up a
splendid defense. The attackers, after
picketing the loyalist hooses in the
locality, attacked the barracks with
rifle fire and bombs. They captured
the house next door and bound the
occupants.
EXPECT NO CHANGE
IN IRISH POLICY
Sir Hamar Greenwood Sworn
in as New Chief Secretary.
A. despatch from Dublin says: ---Sir
Hamar Greenwood, the new Chief '
Secretary for Ireland, wee sworn in
before the Irish Privy Council with
Dublin indifferent and cold toward
Sir Robt. Kinderrley, K.B.E., Gover-
nor of Iludson's Bay Company, Lon-
don, who is visiting Canada at pre-
sent in connection with the company's
anniversary.
him. The Dublin papers made no
comment upon his arrival, except the
Irish Times, which said:
"We assume that the new Chief
,Secretary will. take immediate steps
for the restoration of law and order."
The Pact is, however, that -Sir IIa-
mar is ignorant of the actual state of
affairs in Ireland, however good his
intentions may be, Dublin generally
believes that, even if matters have
not gone too far for any new regime
to cope with, Sir Hamar cannot move
until he has learned what lie is up
against, and that tuition, it is evident,
will conte from the same permanent
officials and soldiers who directed Ian
Macpherson's course.
Despite Sir Hamar's hopes, nobody
in Dublin expects any drastic or en-
lightened change from the old policies.
Price -of Bread
Soars in Britain
A despatch from London says:
The price of the quartern loaf of
bread will,: be raised to 25 cents next
Monday. This is the second advance
in a month.
BATUP/1 IS CRUX X OF SI :UPON -
IN NEAR EAST STRUGGLE
Red Armies Are Forcing Sway Over Whole Contiguous
Territory -----Relief Workers Assembled There.
A. despatch from Baum: via Paris,
says; ---All American women relief
workers in the Caucasus• have been,
assembled in Batum.
The bridge at Mobletti, 43 miles
;,'north of Batum, and the pipe line'
which carries oil from Baku have':
been damaged by explosions.
' The military Governor of .Batumi
Vitas received orders from Const:an-i
titinopie to concentrate his forcre: in.
,t)ie city. The Georgian troops are on
idle border of the province, but have;
not crossed it.
The Congress of Labor. ].inions in
;J8atum have passed s resolution that
the city bo placed raider Bolshevik
1i1e. The Mussuliingis in Batum an!
JSgainst government by the Georgians.!
Three thousand, British troops at!
c '3atntm probably will be ordered to!
j$vacuate if necessary.
The Btitfsh cruiser. Aradoeh is pre,i
cared to bombard. Gargan Pass,
.0outh of Sautellie, when the Bolshe-
Mies appear.
The British have informed Geterall
:Wrangel, commander of the volunteer
troops in Crimea, that efforts to make
items for 'him with the Bolsheviks are
not encouraging They say the Bol-
shevik Foreign Minister is trying to
obtain a political concesson they can-
not: grant. ft seems probable they
cannot teach an agreement for the
volunteers. They assert a continuation
of the struggle will have only one
result if there are no shipments of
material and supplies.
Martial law has been declared
throughout Georgia, and the rail-
roads are operating under the Mili-
tary C•ouncil. The situation is crit-
ical in Tiflis, where it .is expected
the local Bolsheviks Will take ver
the Government in a few days. Work
of the Near East ]Relief is greatly
reduced, and is twirled on under dif-
ficulties. Col. I3'askel, United States
of America, Allied High C.ommis-
Aiorier for Armenia, orders that no
urthe.r purchases be made in the
tlnited States for relief in Armenia,
The Georgian Government refuses to
permit dil expott to Armenia, which
Is mopping the railroads there. -eclipsed.
AND WE WONDER WHAT AILS THE WATER SUPPLY(
GERIAN
TROOPS MAI NTA NE
UNDER GENERAL ERHAR
Hanover,. May 9. -General Erhardt,
who has mysteriously, disappeared
from Muenster Camp, had, according
to estimates of allied officers, ap-
proximately 10,000 troops under his
command here. 0f these 5,000 belong
to the Marine Brigade, while in spite
of his denials there•are a considerable
number of Baltic troops, together with
'a Majority of the State troops who
were driven into the British occupied
zone by the workmen's army in the
Ruhr fighting and have since been
returned to.. Germany.
Then, too, numbers of nondescript
soldiers of various regiments of the
old regular army have flocked to the
•
RUSSIAN BORDER
STATES ARE ALLIES
League Formed to Oppose
Red Armies.
Geneva, May 9, -Under the influ-
ence of the Polish victory over the
Bolshevists, the long proposed alliance
of the Russian border states against
Red Russia is assuming definite shape.
The negotiations in Warsaw be-
tween Poland, Finland, Lithuania and
Latvia are progressing favorably.
General Roswaclowsky has arrived at
Bucharest with proposals from . the
Polish Government to Roumania,
which are likely to lead to a satis-
factory agreement.
The constitution of a military and
economic league, comprieing Poland,
Roumania, the Ukraine and the Bal-
tic countries, is reported imnt'nent.
WHEAT BOARD
ADVANCE PRICES
Ontario Make's Must Pay In-
crease of 40 Cents.
Winnipeg, May 9. -The Canadian
Wheat Board issued new, regulations
effective at midnight, May.8, advanc-
ing the price to mills of all grades of
Western wheat 35 cents per bushel,
and British Columbia, Ontario and
Quebec wheat 40 cents per bushel.
TO BREAK H.C.L.
IN GREAT BRITAIN
Labor Leaders to Break Vi-.
cions Circle of High Wages
and Increased Costs.
A despatch from London says: -The
continuous cleniande for higher wages
in one trade after another are begin-
ning to alarm tiie Labor leaders them-
selves, end they are realizing that
they can only lead to disaster.
The Executive of the "Triple Al-
liance of miners and transport work-
ers, which is now in session here, aI-
though it has before it r•everai wage
demands, has emnbarked upon a deter-
mined effort io break the vicio:ts circle
of high wages end the ie •rr, i s e .in the
cost of living.
Another Ilig Three, the Parliamen-
tary Committee of the 'Trades ].inion
Congress, the Labor party and the co-
operative movement, are to be called.
upon to join the alliance in an ex-
haustive inquiry into the moons for
the high cost of Beteg, aril to evolve
,a plan for its twit .,tion.
The members of the alliance dis-
cussed this question, wL'ch they re-
gard as the "most vital alte-ting our
social life,' for the greeter part of
en af(ernoon'r; meeting.
They will meet again at an early
date to receive the report of the joint
body, end their views will be sub•
milted to the Government with a
Another regulation, effective at the view to the latter taking "sitefa action
as will substantially recluse the pre -
same time, increases the maximum
prices of bran and shorts" to the ex-
tent of $3 per ton.
Canada's Wheat
Will Bing $2.55
A despatch from Winnipeg says: -
James Stewart, Chairman of the .Cac a-
canmp, and there, in the heart of the dian'Wheat Bond, announces that. the
pine forest, they are living in con- value of the participation teeitificates
crate and wooden huts, supplied -With will not be less than 40 cents per
good fecal and money from Berlin,
and splendidly equipped, is an excel-
lent -fighting force, the most formid-
al.le and •emphatically reactionary in
ulermany to -day.
The soldiers I saw at the camp nee
certainly the smartest I have seen this
side of the. Rhine. They walk with
eneige • tic ses tl air appearance i
bushel. Thisn
, with P° 15 already guar-
anteed, will bring the price to $2.55.
United States wheat averaged .$2.14.
Many of the fanners believe that the
price will indeed' be much higher than
the most optimistic had hoped for, on
account of the abnormal increase in
the price of Wheat from the tithe it
left the.farm until it was sold to Euro -
neat and clean, they. salute their offi- peon 'buyers.
.cern with military precision. •
"We are just waiting here for any �Hamar Greenwood
orders," one of these Pretorians told
R
me to -day; "we want to remain mar-
-ekCted
•
•
ines, we do not want to be disbanded."
EIGHT HISTORIC
FIELDS MARKED
Memorials to .Canada's Fight-
ing Dead in France and
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Memorials to Canada's fighting dead
will be erected at eight historic battle-
fields in Prance and Flanders if the
recommendations of the Special Com-
mittee on War iMeriiprials is adopted
as submitted to Parliament.
Representatives of Canada's re-
turned soldiers of Canadian colleges
and architects' societies and Govern-
ment officials have completed their
investigations and submitted their
proposals for war memorials. With
the proposals are the report of Brig:
Gen. H. T. Hughes on military sites,
and of Professor Percy E. Hobbs, pro-
fessor of architecture at McGill Uni-
veraity, ou. the proposed competition
in which designs will be invited, and
from which the prize design will be
carried out. The total coat of the
work is estimated roughly at $1,500,-
000. • •.
The committee has, selected eight
sites for the memorials. • In Belgium
sites at St. Julien Crest Farm, Pas-
schendetele and at Hill 62, ' Observe -
try Ridge have been accepted as gifts
from the Belgium Government, •
A site at Bourton Woodehas been
accepted as a gift .from Comte De
Francqueviile, Mayor of Bourlon, and
four other sites, at Hill 145; Vimy, at
the cross roads of Dury, at Courcelette
and at Hospital Wood between. Cain
and La (Quesnel have been. acquired
by the committee at a total cost of
$1,500,
Queen Mother Stricken
With Influenza
London, May 10. -Queen Alexandra,
it is learned, is prostrated, with in-
fluenza, which swept through her
household, She has been confined to
bed for several days, but her condi-
tion is not regarded as serious. There
is anxiety because of her advanced
age,
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War -Wrecked French
Coal Mine Opens Again
A. despatch from Paris says: -
The first coal mine, wrecked during
the war, to resume operations was
opened at Ancier early this month, It
has been equipped with the most mod-
ern electrical machinery, and it is ex-
pected its pre-war production will be
-F • tnchise for South
African Women
A despatch from Cape Town•, Union
of South` Africa, says: -The House of
Assembly passed a resolution favor-
ing extension of the Parliamentary
franchise to women.
A despatch from Sunderland, Eng.,
says: -Sir Haniar Greenwood, Chief
'Secretary for Ireland, was re-elected
to Parliament on Friday in the by-
election necessitated by his recent ap-
pointment to the Irish Secretaryship.
Sir Haniar received 22.813 votes, -as
against 14,379 for V. II. Rutherford,
the Labor candidate, and 5,065 for W.
Howe, Independent Liberal.
Weekly Market Report
'Wholesale Grain.
Toronto, May 11. -Manitoba wheat
-No. 1 Northern, $2:80; No. 2 North-
ern; $2.77; No. 3 Northern, $2.73, in.
store Fort William.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW., $1.19%;
No 3 C,W, $1.16%; extra No. 1 feed,
$1,14%; No. 1 feed, $1:14%; No..2
feed, $1.11%, in store Fort William.
Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW,
$1:81%; No. 4 CW, $1.66%; rejected,
$1lia.m62; feed, $1.62, in store Fort Wil-
.
American corn -No. 8 yellow, $2.20;
nmoniientnal, track, Toronto, prompt ship-
.
Ontario oats -No. 8 white, $1.05 to
$1:07, according to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per
car lot, $2 to $2.01; No. 2 do, $L98 to
$2.01, No. 3 do, $1.92 to $1.93, f.o.b.
shipping points, according t freights.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 spring, per
car lot, $2.02 -to $2.08; No. 2 do, $L98
to $2.01; No. 3 do, $1.95 to $2.01, f.o.b.
shipping points, according to freights,
Peas -No. 2, $3.00.
Barley -Malting, $1.85 to $1.87, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat -No. 2, $1.75 is $1.80,
according to freights outside.
Rye -No. 3, $2.15 to $2.20, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Ontario flour --Government stand-
ard, $10,90 to $11, Montreal, $11 to
$11.10 Toronto, in jute bags, prompt
shipment. .
• Millfeecl-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freight, lags included: Bran, per
ton, $51; shorts; per ten, $58; good
feed flour, $3.75 to $4.00.
Hay -No. 1 per ton, $30 to $31;
mixed,, per ton, $25, track.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $16 to $17,
track, Toronto,
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Cheese -New, huge, 30% to Slc;
.twins, 31 to .31%c; triplets, 81% to
32c; ,Stilton, 84 to 35e; old, large, 82
to 83c; do, twins, 88 to 3$1/2c.
• Butter ---Fresh dairy, choice, 57 to
59c• creamery prints 64 to 680.
Margarine -33 to 38e.
Eggs -New laid, 55e.
;Dressed poultry --Siring chickens,
•
38 to 40c'; roostn'rs, rrYcl ,f.,";;;"!,'85c;
turkeys, 53 to 60e; ducklings, 0' to
40c; squabs dozen, $0.00.
a5
Live .noul r -- )rig chickens,c80 to
32c; fowls, 85 to 40c; ducks, 85 to 40e,
Beans -Canadian, hand• -picked, bus.,
$5; primes, $4.50; Japans, $5; Mada-
gasear Limas, lb., 15e; Japan Limas,
lb„ lle.
Honey-Ehtracted clover, 5-1b. tins,
27 to 28c; 10 -Ib. tins, 25 to 26c; 60-1b.
tins, 25c; buckwheat 60 -Ib. tins, 18 to
20c; comb, 16 -oz., $6 to $6.50 doz..;
10 -oz., $4.25 to $4.50 dozen.
Maple products --Syrup, per imper-
ial gal., $3.50 to $3.75; per 5 imperial
gals., $3.25 to $3.50..
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 40 to
42c; heavy, 32 to 34c; cooked, 56 to
59c; rolls, 31 to 32e; breakfast bacon,
45 td' 50c; backs, plain, 50 to 52e;
boneless, 54 to 57c..
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% to 291,ac;
prints, 29% to 30c; Compound tierces,
27% to 28c; tubs, 28 to 28%c; pails,
28% to 28%e; prints, 29 to 29%e.
Montreal Markets,
Montreal, May 11. -Oats, Canadian
western, No. 2, $1,28; do, No. 3, $L25.
Flour -Man., new standard grade,
$18.40 to $13.70. Rolled oats, bag 90
lbs,, $5.50 to $5.60. ' Bran, $51,25.
Shorts, $58.25. Hay; No. 2, per ton,
car lots, $33 to $34. Cheese, finest
easterns, 28%c. Butter, choicest
creamery, 62 to 63c. Eggs, fresh, 556.
Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $5.75.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, May 11, -Choice heavy
steers, $14.50 to $14.75; do, good,
$18.50 to $13.75; butchers' cattle,
choice, $13.25 to $13.75• do, good,
$12.75 to $18; do, med., $11.75 to
$12.26; do, com., $10 to $10.75; bulls,
choice, $11 to $12; do, good, $10.25 to
$10.75; do, rough, $8 to $5.50; butcher
cows, choice, $11.25 to $12; do, good,
$10.50 to $'.tl; do, coni., $7.50 to $8;
stockers, $9,25 to $11; feeders, $11 to
$12,50; canners and cutters, $4.50 to
$, 6.25; milkers, good to choice, $100 to
165; do, coin. and peed., $65 to $75;
springers, $90 to $165; lambs, yearl-
ings, $16 to $19; calves, good to choice,
$16 to $19; sheep, $9 to $18; hogs, feel
and watered, $20.25; do, weighed off
cars, $20.50; do, f.o.b., $10.25; do, do,
country points, 819.
Montreal, May 11. -Butcher steers,
choice, $15; coin., $9 to $11.50; huteher
heifers, med., $11 to $12.50; coin„ $8
$10,50; butcher cows, med.., $+7.50 to
to $10;'canners, , ss to $5,50; cutters, $G One of the few remaining; one -cent
to , 7; butcher bufs cu,..., 8 to 10.
$ , , m,1) papers in Canada, ,,a Presse of Monts
Good veal, $14,50 to $16,60,= filen,, Ter ;•«al, has increased ifs price to two
to $14. Clipped sheep, $10 to $'.12.50; i " price
spring lambs, $10 to $14; ewes, $101 raciaiIir 4116 n res f..I Saturdays,
sa.
to $14, Hogs, off car weights, selects,, The clays of rctteap aewapapera
821; lights, $20 to $21; sows, $17. ended.
eent high cost. ,
ALBERTA SEEDING
A MONTH LATE
Feed Situation Improved With
Milder Weather.
A despatch from Edmonton, Alta.,
says: -The first semi-monthly crop
and live stock report issued by the
Department of Agrieuitu.re states that
the seeding in Alberta is from twenty
to thirty days later by the calendar
than it was last year, varying with
locality. If quick general seeding were
possible, the prospects are the heat in
a dozen years.
There is a depth •of from two and
a half to four feet of moist soil over
the driest parts of the Province, acid
the report asserts that once • the seed
is in it has a moisture supply for
germination and growth to carry, the
crop well into June.
Central Alberta has made scatter-
ed beginnings on dry spots. Peace
River is backward, ex.ept along the
valley. The late season is going to
curtail the wheat acreage. especially
in, the centre and north, brit there
are much better prospeei•s for a good
total acreage than people entertain-
ed at one time. The feed situation
has greatly improved since the cattle
and horses have got on open ground.
A despatch from Moore Jaw, Sask.,
says: --Seeding will be. general in the
Moose Jaw district at the end of the
week, according to the Government:•
Bureau Agent, E, M. Hagen, who is
receiving many applications for men
from the farmers.
Britain Bears Heaviest
Direct Burden of War
A. despatch from London says: -
Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen
Chamberlain on Friday gave the per
'capita direct taxation figures for the
great powers during 1919:
United Kingdom $76
United States $27
France $12
Italy $11
The Chancellor cites these figures
in reiterating his assertion that the
people of Great Britain are bearing
the heaviest burden of the war eosis.
All -Red Cable
Links British Empire
A despatch from London says: --
An important new London link with
Canada and the other Dominions lids
just been inaugurated. The Imperial
cable route is now connected between
the 'General Postoffiee in London and
Halifax direct," via Penzanne. The
cable, at present used ,exclusively for
business messages for Australia and
New Zealand. will pass over the route
via Halifax, Vancouver and Norfolk
Island. _
Denmark Contributes
to Rheims Rebuilding
A despatch from Copenhagen
says: --More than one million francs,
collected in Denmark for the rebuild-
ing of the Cathedral of Rheims, have
been delivered to M. Claudel, French
Minister in Copenhagen. The .Minister
thanked the Danish people, expressing
his admiration of the fine result reach-
ed by Denmark ahead of all other
countries,