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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-08-19, Page 7BOLSHEVISTS. REFUSE MB D PROPOSAL OF TEN DAYS' TRUCE Poland to Receive Immediate Naval and Economic Aid -- Blockade df Russia to be R.einposed. . Idythe, Eng:, Aug, 8, -Great Britain Willie there has been no talk of and France are convinced that the officially declaring war on Russia, the Bolsheviki intend to capture Warsaw allies have decided to give Poland all and set up a Soviet c overnnient, in possible military, naval and economic Poland. assistance without delay. This was learned from an official It was reliably reported to -night source to -night, following an 'an- Y p nouncement at the conference between that the blockade on Russia would be Premier Lloyd George of Great Bri- reimposed immediately. Main and Premier Millerand of France, The French are urging the estab- he1d to -tray to discuss the Polish sit- lishmcnt of a defensive line in Poland, nation, that the conference would. con- either before Warsaw or immediately tinue to -morrow when the Premiers behind the Capital if it ,is too late now will pass upon naval, military and for the former. M. Millerand also economic plans for saving Poland. proposed that the French and British These plans are being drawn up to- troops in the plebiscite areas be used night by Marshal Foch and Field Mar- for this line, chiefly for moral support, shal Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of the and that Roumania and Czecho-Slov- British Imperial. Staff. akia also be asked to send troops, BRITISH UNIT ALMOST WIPED OUT Manchester Regiment Meets Disaster in Mesopotamia, A despatch from London says: -In- formation reached the Daily News on Thursday indicating that the disaster to the British force in Mesopotamia, reported Wednesday, is much more serious than the meagre reports sup- plied by the War Office indicated. Three hundred casualties were suffer- ed by a battalion of a lelanchester re- giment, and practically all the 300 were killed. The column was composed of a bat- talion of Manchester's six-gun battery, some sappers and miners. The colonel in command and practically the whole of three companies were among the killed. A few stragglers were all that returned, but four gulls of the battery were saved. A fresh division has been ordered from India to Mesopotamia. Inquiries to the Ashton -Under -Tyne depot of the Manchesters showed that the second battalion was commanded by Cal. Wright, who went to Mesopo- tamia in March, The Kufah garrison, on the lower Euphrates, is stili bolding out. The town has been partly burned up. The Arabs lost 130 dead and many wound- ed in a new attack north-west of Hilfa. To Telephone Friends Crossing Atlantic A despatch from London says: -At the new long-distance wireless tele- phone station being built at Devises, Wiltshire, it is expected the public can call up friends on Atlantic liners 1,100 miles at sea. It is hoped the Devizes station will keep in touch with ships two-thirds of the way across the ocean. Experiments to fully test the practicability of the plan will be made shortly. Each call and reply is expected to consume about an hour. Royal Jewels Successfully Smuggled mato England A despatch from England says: - Priceless jewels, formerly the property of the Czar and Czarina, of Russia, have been successfully smuggled into England, despite the vigilance of the authorities, according to h warning issued to .London diamond ]merchants. It is said the Soviet emissaries who brought .in thegems intend selling them to replenish the depleted propa- ganda coffers of. the Soviets. BRITISH AND FRENCH T ASSIST PUPS Officers, Cavalry and Armored AutoRnobiles to the Rescue, A. despatch from Warsaw says: -A demand made on the British Govern- ment byits epresentatives here upon learning of the failure of the armis- tice negotiations includes the sending to Poland of two British infantry di- visions, two brigades of cavalry and all the armored automobiles and air- planes possible. They are expecting the arrival soon of three hundred British commission- ed officers to be distributed through- out the Polish army, whose chief weakness lies in its officering. It is understood the French will con- tribute six hundred officers in all. Greeks Not to Occupy Constantinople City Athens, Aug. 8. --The occupation of Constantinople by the Greeks is not being considered, according'` to state- ments made here to -day. It is de- clared that Premier Venizelos would be unwilling to take over Constanti- nople for several years, even if it were offered to Greece, as this would excite international jealousies. Besides, :it was said, there are mere important problems for Greece at the present moment. Sir Gilbert Parker Who comes with the Imperial Press Conference as one of the proprietors of a combine of newspapers. SINN FEIN PREPARE FOR AR ON RGER SCALE No Hope of Defeating British Troops but -.Leaders Think They Can Bring About International Intervention. Cork, Aug, S. -The military author- ities claim to have received informa- tion -of the intention of the Republi- cans to inaugurate within the next t free months a war against the "in- vaders" on a much larger scale than heretofore, r-' This indication is declared to indi- T'gate that recruiting for the "Republi- ;een Brotherhood," supposedly the ;'.`brains" of the Republican army, and :Which carries on. its activities much iennre secretly than the latter, has been more active lately, resulting in the enrollment of Iarge numbers who have heretofore kept apart from the move- ment. There is no hope of defeating the British army, which is much better equipped, but the leaders are expected 'to create such a state of affairs as to bring about international intervention. Ve The Republicans, it is said, are not overburdened with funds, money hav- ing failed to come from the Dominions and the United States to the amount anticipated, but this is considered to be of small consequence, as it costs little to maintain the Republican army, the needs of which are amply supplied by sympathizers within the country. The military have the names of a number of inen, some of them, they say, coming from the United States, who will support the uprising. The curfew hours ---from 10 o'clock in the evening until 3 o'clock in the morning -have ,boconie hours of terror for a large portion of the population of Cork. A providential heavy rain- storm gave the people relief Saturday night, which was expected to be an exciting one, awing to the demonstra- tions which had been arranged in con- nection with the situation surrounding Archbishop Mennix, For several nights previously their slumbers were repeatedly disturbed by firing. TWO POLICEMEN KILLED IN FIGHT Train Bandit Also Shot in Al. berta Cafe. Bellevue, Alta„ Aug, 8. -In n bitte fight with revolvers in a cafe her and on the streets 'Saturday afternoo one bandit and two policemen wer killed. Another bandit got away, an with a third, is in hiding` in the piled up mase of rocks known as the Fran Slide at the east entrance of Crow Nest Pass. The dead bandit is George. Akroff The dead policemen are Corpora Ernest Usher of the Mounted Folic and Frederiek Bailey of the Albert Provincial Police, The other bandit in the fight, To Bassoff, believed to be the leader o the gang, was wounded by Constabl Frewin before he got away. It wa Frewin who brought down Akroff shooting them both from the polic building as they were eseaping fro] the town. The bandits are known to be th men who held up the C.P.R. train a Sentinel last week. Enormous Demands Being Made on London for Fund A despatch from Vancouver sa3rs:- London_is still the world's financia centre and there is every indicatio that it will remain so indefinitely, i the opinion of 14 Ir. W. G. Murrill, as sistant general manager of the Bri tish Columbia Electric Railway Com pany, wile has just returned frinn. visit of three and a half months t Great Britain, during which he dis cussed with some of the leading fin ancial men, questions relating to th invetsment of capital in this country and the opportunities existing hers for industrial development. "Enormous demands are being made upon London for funds at present, and in consequence money has tightened to a- point where it is very difficult to obtain," Mr. Murrin pointed out "From all parts of the world these de minds are being pressed, but the mei who have control are very observant upon these things in general and are proceeding cautiously." Speaking of industrial conditions in England, Mr. Murrin said there could be no denying the fact that the people as a whole seemed to be still imbued with the same serious spirit they held during the great war and in. cense- queues the heavy burden of 'debt was being gradually lifted. MORE PEOPLE IN U.S. TOWNS. Census Returns Show De- crease of Rural Population. A despatch from Washington says: -For the first time in the history of the United States, the 1920 census re- turns will show that mare persons lire - in the cities and towns than in the rural territory, officials of tee Census Bureau have estimated. When the final tabulations are com- Dieted, the officials declared, they ex- pect it to be shown that 51 or possibly 52 per cent. of the total population of the continental Unied States reside in urban districts. That the urban population would ex- ceed the rural has become increasing- ly evident as the tabulations of the past several weeks were completed, census officials stated. With the popu- lation of about one-third of the cities and towns, including practically all of the larger cities, and about one-third of the counties, tabulated and an- nounced, the bureau statisticians feel certain that the rural population will be shown to be less than the urban. "There has been a very great ten- dency toward large increases in the cities and towns, which we cannot ac count for, unless it has come from the country," said Samuel L. Rgers, direc- tor of the census. "This tendency to- ward the cities has been apparent for some time." Jobs for Ex -Soldiers Insufficient in Britain London, Aug. 8.-Cauad,ian ex - soldiers must be warned before re- turning to England without assurance of work that there is an insufficiency of jobs here. W. L. Griffith, Secretary of the Canadian High Commissioner, London, said xto-clay that the High Commission- er •could notsau anie responsibility for .failure to obtain employment, and con- sequent stranding. It is officially estimated that 5,000 ex -soldiers have returned to England since the war, and many are marry- ing girls :met during the English war service. ooes_e. Blockade of Russia Renewed. . A despatch from London says: Orders have been issued reimposing the blacltade on Soviet Russia, Pre- mier Lloyd George informed M. Kras- sin, the Soviet cotnmercial agent here, the Daily Express declares. Weekly Yin ret Report Wholesale Grain. Toronto, .Aug. 10 -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $3.15; No. 2 North- ern, $3.12; No. 3 Northern, $3.08, in store Port William. Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 96%c, in store Fort William, Man. .barley --No, 2 CW, $1.371/2, No. 4 CW, $1.27%; rejected, $L02%; feed, $1,021/2. American corn =No, 3 yellow, $1:85; nominal, track, Toronto, ,prompt ship - anent. Ontario oats-No.3 white, nominal, Ontario wheat -No, 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.20 to $2.30, shipping points, according to freights. Peas -No. 2, nominal. I3arley--$1.25 to $1.30, according to ;freights outside. Buckwheat --No. 2, nominal. Rye -No. 3, $1.'75, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -Government stand- ard, $14.85, Toronto. Ontario flour -Government stand- ard, $12.90, nominal. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $52; shorts, per ton, $61; good feed flour, $3.75 to $4.00. Country Produce -Wholesale. Cheese -New, large, 30 to 31c; twins, 31 to 311/2c; triplets, 32 to 32%c; old, large, 83 to 34c; do, twins, 331/2 to 34%c; Stiltons, old, 35 to 36e; new, 33 to 34c. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 50c; creamery, prints, 59 to 62c. Margarine -35 to 39c. Eggs -No. 1, 58 to 60c; selects, 62 to 63c. Dressed poultry -Spring Chickens, 45c; roosters, 30e; fowl, 35c; turkeys, 53 to 600; ducklings, 38 to 40c; squabs, dos., $6.50. Live poultry -Spring Chickens, 38c; 'roosters, 26e; fowl, 30c; ducklings, 35c. Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bus., $5.25; primes, $4; Japans, $5; Limas, Madagascar, 121c; Japan, 10 to 11c. Maple products -Syrup, per imp. gal,, $8,40 to $3.50; per 5 ,i, -rip, gals„ $3.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, lb., 27 to 30c. Provisions -Wholesale, Smoked' meats -Hams, rued., 47 to 50c; heavy, -.40 to 42e; cooked, 0.4 to 08c; rolls, 34 to 36c cottage rolls, 39 to 41e; )treakfast bacon, 50 to 55c; hacks, plain, 52 to 54e; boneless, 58 to 64c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27 to 280; clear bellies, 26 to 27c. Lard -Pure tierces, 27 to 28e; tubs, 28% to 29e; pails, 29 to 291/2e; prints, 291/2 to 30e; Compound tierces, 25 to 25%e;'tubs, 251/2 to 26c; pails, 25% to 261/2c; prints, 27 to 27%c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Aug, 10. -Oats -No. 2 C W, $1.20 to $1.22 No. 3 CW, $1,18 to $1.20, Flour, Man. Spring wheat pa- tents, first, new standard grade, $14.85 to $15.05. Rolled oats, 90-1b. bag, $5.80 to $5.85, Bran, $54.25. Shorts, $61.25. Cheese, finest easterns, 241/2c. Butter, choicest ereamery, 68e. Eggs, fresh, 58c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $2.00 to $2.50. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 281/2 to 29c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Aug. 10, -Choice heavy steers, $14.50 to $15• good heavy steers, $14 to $14.25; butchers' cattle, choice, $13.75 to $14; do, good, $13 to $13.50; do, med., $12 to $12.50; do, com,, $7.50 to $9; bulls, choice, $11.15 to $12.20; do, good, $10.75 to $11.25; do, rough,, $6 to $8; butchers' cows, choice, $11.50 to12; do, good, $10.75 to $11; do, com., $6.50 to $7.50; stock- ers, $9 to $11; feeders, $11 to $12.50; canners and cutters, $5 to $6.25; milk- ers, good to choice, $11 to $165; do., com. and need., $65 to $75; lambs, year- lings, $10.50 to $12.50; do, spring, $12 to $16; calves, gd. to choice, $16.50 to $19; sheep, $6.50 to $9.50; hogs, fed and watered, $20.75; do, weighed off cars, $21; do, f.o.b., $19.75; do, do, country points, $19.50. Montreal, Aug. 10. -Butcher heifers, coin., $6 to $6.50; •butcher cows, med., $6 to $9; canners, $3 to $4; cutters, $4 to $5.50; butcher bulls, com., $5,50 to $6.50; good veal, $14 to $15; med., $9 to $13; grass, $7 to $8; ewes, $5 to $8; lambs, good, $13 to $14; com,, $11 to $13; hogs, off car weights, selects, $20,50 to $21; sows, $16.50 to $17. Cernaans Helping Reds • in Warsaw Drive A despatch from London says: - While the belief is very general here that the Bolshevists will not stop their offensive until they capture Warsaw or set up a Red Government there, offi- cial information from Koenigsberg, East Prussia, states that German offi- cers and soldiers volunteering for ser- vice in ;the Russian t army4are tgaeseig through the city in great numbers. It has been known for some time that the Pan -Germans have had a special ree'ruiting agency in Koenigsberg under the direction of German Baltic adventurers, but it has become known only recently that soldiers and officers volunteering there have been sent to Soviet Russia, Britain Looks to Canada to Supply Crop Deficit A despatch from London says: - Unprecedented weather has marred the British harvest prospects. "It is to Canada mainly that Britain's 45,- 000,000 5;000,000 consumers must look hopefully for imports to supplement Britain's deficiency," says a London grain ex- porter. s`It is estimated here that Can- ada's total crop will be 200,000,000 bushels of wheat." Tramped 2,000 Miles. Sergeant W. 0. Douglas of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is here shown 'tis the hero of an exploit un- equalled In the annals of the cele- brated body ,of thief-cetehers of the Northwest. Iia left Fullerton,.Ont., on Dec. 19, 1919, with a warrant, and af- ter endeeini ' all lei de of itrdslup ,in the Canadian timber -land, ars ested Ou-Aug-Walt; an outlaw of the Padie- mut tribe who half terrified the Baker Lake region on Feb, 19th. ile landed his prisoner safely in Fullerton on. May lath, 1920, having travelled 2,000 miles. He went over trackless wastes and through blinding snow storms and gave some of his supplies to Es- kimos' he found starving. Former Comitants Say War Must Never Recur Berlin, Aug. 8. -Declaring that there must never be anotherwarbe- tween France and Germany, the pow- erful German organization, the "Lea- gue of Combatants," composed of participants in the. war, passed a resolution agreeing with the French ?,4ggLi? aL.Qemlesatantse'L o e-tlal-5atne question. The two Qrganizations plan to unite to use- all means possible to prevent anyfuture .conflicts between the nations. The German League telegraphed Henri Barbusse of the French House of Deputies that the two nations must never again be torn asunder by war. Song Carries Over 2,673 Miles of Space A despatch from St. John's, Nfld,, says: -When Cholriisford, Eng., was giving a wireless telephone demonstra- tion to Denmark at -5 p.m. on Satur- day, the experimental station on Signal Hill here picked up the sounds and heard, without interruption, the words uttered by H. 3. Rounds, the manager at Chelmsford, who was talk- ing with the operator in Denmark. Mr. Rounds was heard to tell Den- mark that Melchior would sing. Signal Hill kept in touch and heard distinctly four songs sung in Danish, as well as the conversation that followed between Denmark and Chelmsford. Chelmsford and St. John's are 2,673 miles apart. Less Activity at Some Automobile Hants In some of the larger Canadian automobile plants a falling off in pro- duction is reported, due to the fact that some of the companies are re- ducing their output fee the; time be- ing, The advisability of5auch apolicy is said to be clue to a slackening off in the demand for automobiles, more particularly since the recent tax went into effect. It is thought that the lessening of activity in some of the automobile plants will be a good thing for the labor situation generally in other lines of indusixy, ' For some time' -Bast it has been felt that the automobile majors had been paying too much for labor and that it made it difficult for other lines to get a sufficient number of Men. Increase in British • Unemployment ment A despatch trails London says: - Premier Lloyd George stated in the House of Commons that the Govern- mont were considering measures in expectation of much unemployment during the coming Winter, India and China contain approxi- mately one-half the total population of the world. Canada's Fire LosseA. January -May, 1920 $11,557,944, January -May, 1919 10,026,419 Increase in loss this year.,$ 1,531,525 Canada's fire loss for the current year .bids fair to exceed any thus far recorded, with the exception of that of 1918, when heavy losses were enc tailed through the destruction of mun- ition plants. If the average of the first five months of the current year ismaintained our fire loss for 1920 will reach almost $28,000,000, Canada cannot afford this waste and the consequent destruction of money and effort. The Government ,is earn- estly seeking new revenue; there is a shortage of help for 'building pur- poses and many factories are hardy; pressed to supply the market for. manufactured goods; yet we are burn- ing up our capital at the rate of 21-3. million dollars per month. • According to the "Monetary Times," from which the above figures of fixe losses are taken, 103 residences were damaged or destroyed. The serious shortage of houses is thus accentuated by the fire waste. The toll being taken '.by fire is sl, charge which must be met by the peo- ple eople of Canada. In 1919, insurance companies collected; $40;000,5000.ji or . over $22 for each family of five mem-1 bers. Had --the Minister of Finance, Sir Henry Drayton, announced in his budegt speech that to replace the fire loss, a direct tax of $22 would be lev- ied upon each family there would have been a storm of protest from one end of Canada to the other. We are, how- ever, silently paying this tax, which includes the loss by fire, $15, and the charges of the insurance companies to cover business costs, dividends, etc., $7. Everything we buy carries _ its percentage of this tax, and will con- tinue to do so as long as we allow our national vvealth to be burned up at its present rate. Miss Frances Billington Representing the Society of Woman Journalists, England, who will be the only lady representative from Britain to attend. the Imperial Press Con- ference at Ottawa. Military and Naval Men For League Staff A despatch from San Sebastian, Spain, says: -A plan proposed by M. Leon Bourgeois, the French spokes- man in the League of Nations Conn- ell, and the French General Fayolle for an international general staff as part of the League of Nations, has been adopted here, -• The staff is to be composed of the ablest of military and naval men, wile will act as agents of the League. The members will be in conference as often, as need be, Aped in event of impending difficulties "which might ]nean`arnled conflict they will draw up plans in ads vance so as to be ready for em= ergencies. """• Green Flair o , Sumo. .- Onc of the most 1 arely witnessed of natural phenomena, but ono that has often been discussed in scientific circles and that always awakens won- der onder when seen, is the so-called "green flash" occasionally visible at the mo- ment of the disappearance of the sun behind it e1e i pori. illi, 4. i The obm-ref's eye lst be fined upan the rim of the suurn ass it disap- pears in order to catch the phenomen- on. An officer of the British Navy says that he has seen the green flash, although rarely, at the instant of set- ting cf a bright star. Among' the ex- planations,. is one based upon the optical principle of toiialilealie.ntiare colors. If one looks at the sun and then closes the eyes a green disc will be perceived. A „ensitive eye might be similarly affected by a Brilliant star, w, . <._.• it is proposed to establish a white- fish canning industry in northern Ai. herta, It is said there is no finer fish fresh water than the whitefish a the far north rivers and lakes.