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Zurich Herald, 1920-10-14, Page 7THIR MILLIONS IN CHIN. IN DANGER OF DEATH BY FAMINE Two-thirds of the Inhabitants of Honan, Shantung, Chihli and Shansi Provinces Will Probably lie---Internation- al-Relief Commission Organized in Pekin. Pekin, Oct. 3.-A newspaper repre- principally girls, and there are many sentative who investigated the famine suicides. - Otherwise there is general • conditions in Chihli, Shansi, Honan :fatalistic resignation. and Shantung Provinces found that An international relief commission from one-third to two-thirds of the was organized in • Pekin to -day, in - population in the visited districts were eluding representatives of America, living on leaves, chaff and cottonseed England, France, Italy, Japan and waste, the year's crop running from China. nothing to one-third, at best, after the New York, Oct. 3. -Charles R. frost begins and the leaves and weeds Crane, United States Minister to finished, leaving half of the popula- China, has cabled President Wilson de - tion literally foodless. Ten per cent. tails of the famine in the Pekin dis- of the population has already inigrat- trice, according to a cablegram re- ed. The majority are destined to die. ceived here Saturday by the Board of . The populations of the worst dis- Foreign Missions of the Methodist tricts Are living on the proceeds of r Episcopal Church from Bishop Wilson the sale of clothing, hence huge num- S. Lewis, • hers will die- from the cold. Thousands Bishop Lewis, who arrived in Pekin are already dead of cholera, clue to last week, sent the following message: 'Malnutrition. A Magistrate at Chi- "Thirty million people suffering. ehowtivaien, in a typical Chihli famine One thousand deaths daily. Condi- district of 390,000 inhabitants, states tions growing worse. Church mem- that two-thirds of the families are hers dying. United States Minister destined to starve after December Crane has cabled details to President first. Many are selling their children, Wilson." BERMUDA GREETS CORK IS SCENE THE PRINCE OF WALES Three Days' Visit to Ancient Sea -Girt Colony. A despatch from Hamilton, Ber. muda, says: -The Prince of Wales, homeward bound from Australia, on the British battle cruiser Renown, ar- rived here on Friday from Antigua for a three days' visit. He was given an enthusiastic welcome. During ihs stay the Pxdnce took part in the concluding ceremonies of Bermuda's tercentenary, which is Linked with the Jamestown, Va., ter- centenary, and those of the sailing of the pilgrims for Azizerica,- • The celebration in honor of the Prince, who is concluding his long tour of the British Empire and the United States, took an international aspect with the presence here for the occasion of Rear Admiral Chas. F. Hughes, . on board the United States battleship Kansas, and that of a re- presentative of the colony of the Ba- hamas, Harcourt Malcolaa;._speaker of the Bahamian House of Assembly. Virtually every one of Bermuda's 20,000 inhabitants was astir early on. Friday for the festivities of the Prinee's visit. Early in the morning the Renown, bearing the Prince and his party, arrived off the northern end of the Island, accompanied by the cruiser Calcutta. Lying at anchor nearby was the Kansas, dressed in holiday attire, the British cruiser Cal- liope .and the survey ship Mutine, both likewise decked for the occasion. As the Renown dropped anchor the Kan- sas boomed forth a salute of twenty- one guns 'and her crew lined the rails. Immediately the Renown was board- ed by Bermuda's Governor, Sir James Willcocks, and Rear Admiral Allan F. Everett, commanding the North Am- erican and West Indies station, who formally welcomed the Prince to the Islas 1. Great crowds lined Front street, which borders the waterfront of Ham- ilton and troops of the Royal Sussex Regiment were lined up as a guard of honor. The party drove through the principal streets of the city under the triumphal, arches to the House of As- sembly, where a reception was held and Governor Willcocks delivered an address, to which the Prince replied, Friday riday afternoon the Governor gave a garden party at Government Huse in honor of the Prince, and at night the Colony entertained the ;Prince at 'a ball. A fireworks display and illumination of the ships in the /arbor featured the evening. The Prince spent Saturday see- ing the islands and visiting the dock yards. Sunday he drove to St. George's, at the northern end of the Island, and after a belief visit to the colony's ancient capital, boarded the Renown and sailed during the evening for Portsmouth, New South Wales to Force Large Landowners to Sell A despatch from London says: - The New South Wales Assembly is proposing legislation to compel the large landowners to sell land on rea. tunable tame eonneetion with the Government's settlement scheme. Twenty thousand soldiers are waiting dor land, and only four thousand eases have been dealt with. Ss Only 150,000 Men In the German Army Now . despatch from Berlin says:--.. The German army now numbers 150,- 000 men. The German troops have evacuated 50 kilometres of the zone Uleng the Rhine, '7r OF GUERRILLA WAR Troops Use Bloodhounds to Trace Murderers of Con- stable Chave. .Cork, Oct. 3.--A series of skirmish- es occurred in Cork last night, result- ing in the death,of one policeman and the wounding of four others. Official reports show the attacks were of the nature of guerrilla fighting by bands of armed men who operated under cover of the darkness. The constabu- lary report says the police were fired upon in Patrick street at 5 p.m. and reinforcements; on arriving, were also attacked just before 10 p.m. , in the same neighborhood and one was shot in the thigh and two badly beaten. • Further firing on the police took place soon after• midnight and a con- stable naniecl Chave was mortally wounded. The military report adds to this information that in the mid- night attack a patrol of troops was sent to the scene and found Chave in a dyi1zg •condzti.on. The fire of the at- tuckers Was returned by 'the police and two trails of blood and two civil ians' caps were found, together with a bomb. Chave was in company with two other policemen in Academy street when they were attacked by a band of unknown men, After being beaten Chave was fired on, but his comrades escaped soon afterward. Military patrols made determined efforts to track down the murderers and bloodhounds were requisitioned. The hounds led the troops around all streets in the locality and men aided by searchlights and hand lamps made a thorough inspection of many build- ing. They did not give Lzp the hunt until after 4 a.m. Meanwhile it was reported some rifle and machine-gun firing was heard, and later bombs were exploded near the well-known business establishment of Blackthorne House, where a great deal of damage was done to the premises. BOLSHEVIST GOLD TEMPTS MINERS Funds Distributed in England to Bring About Strike. A despatch from . Copenhagen says: Bolshevist gold was poured into the coal mining districts of Eng- land and Wales to bring about the threatened coal strike. This fact was disclosed in documents left behind when Litvinoff was forced to leave Denmark for Norway. The authorities are investigating the circumstances. His records also show that a num- ber of extremist papers in various countries, and trade unions, are re- ceiving gold subsidies nionthly. Two Copenhagen unions are receiving 50,- 000.Itroners annually. The documents reveal that in order to provide funds for bringing in Western European newspapers, Lenin ordered every Russian citizen to re- linquish all his or her jewels. During September a systematic search was made of all bourgeois houses and all jewels found were confiscated. 6s Fifteen Million Women Will Die Old Maids A despatch from Leipzig says: - Because 35,000,000 men lost their lives in Europe and Asia during the world war, 15,000,000 European women will die old maids. These figures are given by • )r.,,a§ehweisireirncr in the Zeitung, and are considered official. For every 1,000 men between the ages of 18 and 45 years there are, in WomenFrance , ...... , . . 1,230 - England . , .. 4. , , ... 1,175 Italy ... • 4, *to ....i..... 1,228 Germany , .. , . , . , . 1,180 Austria-Hungary .. , ..... , 1,280 uPY,�:,-say Leads New Brunswick Opposition. Hon. John B. M, Baxter, who has been appointed to succeed Hon. J, A, Mur- ray, recently resigned. He has been chosen as one of the Opposition candi- dates for the County of St. John. U.S..PUBL.IC FORCING PRICE CUTS Labor and Production Having Beneficial Effect on Markets. A despatch from Washington says: -Price -cutting has taken hold of the wholesale trade in the United States to an extent that soon must be felt substantially in lower' prices to consumers, according to the Federal Reserve Board's monthly 'business re- view. Revival of the wave of price re- duction and its spread to many retail lines was attributed to "a more exact- ing demand by the buying public as to price and quality." Retail purchasers are showing continued determination to await a move by dealers to meet these demands, while foregoing lux- uries and semi -luxuries, reports to the board declared. Although the board believed the buying public was largely dominating the market now, it said that labor and production were having a marked ef- fect on prices. There was much evi- dence, it said, of increased efficiency on the part of labor, and as a result production was on the increase and factory operation beginning to ap- proach normal. Summed- up, the board's findings were that "business .conditions are now *definitely on the road toward stability of as great and confirmed a. nature as the disturbed position of the world at large permits." Sultan Asks Rebels to Help • Save Empire Constantinople, Oct. 3. -The Sul- eliminating any chance of the Bolshe- tan has' written a letter to the Na- tionalists imploring them to agree to a eonsprornise to save the remains of the empire, it was learned here to -day. Weekly Market Report Wholesale Grain. Toronto, Oct, 5. -Manitoba wheat-- No. 1 Northern, $2.58; No. 2 Northern, $2.531/a; No. 3 Northern, $2.48%; No. 4 wheat, $2.37%, in store Fort Wil- liam. Man, barley -No. 3 CW, $1.1.21/2; No. 4 CW, if1.071/2; rejected, 971/2e; feed, 95%c, in store Port William. • Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 75c; No. 1 feed,69c; No 7extra 2 feed,6in feed, estore Fort William. American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.65; nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship- ment, Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 68 to 72e. Ontapio wheat -No. 2 winter, per car lot, $2.30 to $2.40; No. 2 Spring, $2.25 to $2.35, shipping points, aceord- ing to freights. Peas -No. 2, nominal. Barley -$1.15 to $1.20, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal. Rye -No. 3, $1.75, nominal, accord- ing to freights outside. Manitoba flour --$13.40, new crop. Ontario flour -$10.30 to $10.40, bulk sea -board. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered, Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $54; shorts, per ton, $59; good feed flour, $3.60 to $3.75. Country Produce -Wholesale. Cheese, new, large, 29 to 30c; twins, 30 to 31c;; triplets, 311/1 to 32c; ofd, large, 33 to 34c; do, twins, 331/5 to 3412c; Stilton, old, 35 to 36c; new, 33 to 34c. Butter, fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 50c; creamery prints, 60 to 6Sc. Margarine, 35 to 39c. Eggs, No. 1, 61 to 62c; cartons, 71 to 73c; selects, 68 to 69c. Beans, Canadian, hand-picked, bushel, $4.75; primes, $3.25 to $3.50; Japans, $4.75 to $5; Limas, Madagas- car, 11 to 12c. Maple products -Syrup, per imp. gal., $3.40 to $3.50; per 5 imp. gals., $3.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, lb., 27 to 30c. Honey -Wholesalers are now offering the following prices to farmers: 23 to 25c per lb. for 30 and 60 lb. pails; 23% to 251/2 for 10 -Ib. pails, and 24 to 25c per lb. for 5 and 21/2 Ib. pails. Wholesalers are now selling to the trade New Zealand honey, 60 lb. tins, at from 26 to 27c per Ib.; Ontario comb honey at $7.50 per 15 section case. Ontario honey, SOVIET TROOPS -lb, pails, 29 lb.; 21/2-11). pails, 30c per Provisions --..Wholesale. Smoked meats --Hams, med., 47 to 50e; heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 64 to 68e; rolls, 34 to 36c eottage rolls, 41 to 43e; breakfast bacon, 50 to 62e; backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 58 to 64c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27 to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27e. Lard -Pure tierces, 281 to 29/c; tubs, 29 to 291/ •c; pails, 29 to 30e; prints, 30 to 3012e: Compound tierces, 211/2 to 22c; tubs, 22 to 23c; pails, 231/2 to 24c; prints, 261/2 to 27c. Montreal Markets. Montz•eai Oct. 5. -Oats, Canadian western, N'o. 2, 97c; do, No. 3, 94c.. Flour, new standard grade, $14.25. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $4.30 to $4.45, Bran, 849.25. Shorts, $54.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $33. Cheese, finest easterns, 25c. Butter, choice creamery, 60e. Eggs, fresh, 68c. Po- tatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.05 to .$1.75. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Oct. 5. -Choice heavy steers, $14 to $14.50; good heavy steers, $12.75 to $13; butchers' cattle, choice, $12 to $12.50; do, good, $11.25 to $11.75; do, med., $9,75 to $10; do, cam., $7 to $8; bulls, choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $9 to $9.25; do, rough, $6 to $8; butclic cows, choice, $10 to $10,50; do, good; $9 to $9.25; do, cog„ $6.25 to $7; stockers, $7.50 to $9.50; feeders, $10.26 to $11; canners and cutters, $4 to $5.75; milkers, good to choice, $100 to $165; do, corn. and med., 865 to $75; lambs, yearling, $8.75 to $10; do, spaing, $13.50 to $14.50; calves, good to choice, $17 to $19,50; sheep, $3.50 to $8.25; hogs, fed and watered, $21.50 to $21.75; do, weighed off ears, $21.75 to $22; do, f.o.b., $20.50 to $20.75; do, do, country points, $20.25 to $20.50. Montreal, Oct. 5. -Butchers' heifers, $5.50 to $7; butchers' cows, choice, $5 to $7.50; med. canners, $3 to $4; cut- ters, $4 to $4.50; butchers' bulls, com- mon, $5.25 to $6.75. Good veal, $13 to $15; med., $10 to $13; grass, $6 to 7. Ewes, $5.50 to $7; lambs, good, $13; do, cog., $8 to $12. Hogs, selects, $20.50 to $20.75; sows, $15.50 to $16.755. FLEEING IN DISORDER Defeat of Russians on North- ern Polish Front is Com- plete. t1 ,despatch from Warsaw says: - The defeat of the Russians on the Polish northern front seems virtually complete. The Soviet troops are re- ported fleeing eastward in disorder in an effort to avoid being surrounded by the Poles, who are in close pursuit. The result of the Polish victory is de- clared {by the military experts as B.C. LUMBERMEN ASK PROTECTION Would Put 25 Per Cent. Dut on All Soft Wood from U.S. A despatch from Nelson,. B.0 says: -Since the increase in freigh rates granted by the Dominion Boar of Railway Commissioners this mont there has been almost a total cessatio of orders for lumber from the Wester Prairie Provinces. 'This was the e dence given unanimously by the vari ous representatives of the Mountai Lumber Manufacturers' Association who appeared before the Tariff Com mission here Thursday morning, and though the matter was not pressed, it vain launching the Fall offensive, was made evident that this is the chief which War Minister Trotzky was reason why there exists now a de - credited with planning to drive back pression in the business clone by the the Poles from the territory they oc- mountain mills, causing many of them y t ,d n n vi n Damad Feed Pasha, the Grand cupzed .after the failure of the Soviet to be shut down. Vizier, is said to be attempting a virtual dictatorship in Constantinople, threatening to arrest any who oppose him. • Greek troops have relieved the Bri- tish forces in Ismid. Business men who cling to the an- cient methods are apt to be left at the post. attempt to capture Warsaw. What business they do they are doing at a good profit from stock al - The advices from the front report ready.Manufactured, but they claim that one Russian division surrendered that up to the last year or two to the Poles after having murdered business was either carried on at a all the commissaries with it who tried ofvery felt keennarrow ly the charges in or at a sgi en to compel the troops to offer resis- great currency, that they have been tame to the Polish advance. An offi- profiteering out of the necessaries of cial communique declares the Bolshe- the farrier and the prairie dweller, viki all along the northern front were claiming that there was .a great dis- whipped-unmercifully. crepancy between the prices charged by them and the prices alleged by the farmers to have been paid to the re - taller. In making their request that the tariff of 25 per cent. now applied to lumber products mentioned in Can- adian customs tariff item Nos. 505 and 506 should be placed on all importa- tions of soft wood lumber, such as the mountain mills produce and now enter- ing Canada duty free every witness contended that the million and a half inhabitants of the Praitie Provinces should be made by means of duties to buy their lumber from the mountain mills. Of their product 85 per cent. is rough lumber of the low-grade var- iety most in demand on the prairies. CHINESE WHEAT ON EUROPEAN MARKET Quality Good, But Not Equal to Canada's Best Grades. A despatch from Amsterdam says: -Chinese wheat for the first' time now is reaching the European markets in competition with wheat !from Canada and the United States. According to the Telegraaf, the Dutch Government, as well as private buy- ers, is negotiating for the purchase 1 of the Chinese grain, the quality of which ,is good, but not equal to the best Canadian grades. France to Get German Cruising Subs. In addition to the German cruisers and destroyers allotted to France, the Council of Ambassadors has announe- K: .r F ,�.�,- ti* , ,, ; : e,;y r ' �,"ir,, r, ' ed an additional quota of four late s.s , } type erasing submarines, the U-105, MOST RECENT PHOTOGRAPH OP THE DUKE OP COIVNAUGHT i the Uemal the subm rhe U-168 and The former Governor-general of Canada chatting with a wounded soldier three snap typo submarines, ailines, together at an Ascot lawn fete. t w.it r two mine layers and the U-139, { which is a submarine school ship, EXCHANGE SHOWS NO IMPROVEMENT Canadians in August Bought $86,000,000 Worth of Goods in United States. A. despatch from Ottawa says: -No treason for expecting substantial im- provement in exchange between Can- ada and the United 'States in the near future is held out by preliminary figures of the Dominion's trade in August, just made public. Canadians during that month bought in the United States to the extent of nearly eighty-six million dollars, as compared with sixty-two and a half millions in August, 1919. They exported to the United States goods to the value of forty-six and a half millions, as com- pared with $40,250,000 in August, 1919. The balance against Canada in trade with the United States was thus thirty-nine million dollars in August, 1920, as compared with twenty-two millions in August, 1919. In spite of adverse exchange rates thus Can- adians have materially increased their purchases in the United States and tended to aggravate the condition, causing depreciation of the Canadian dollar south of the International boun- dary line. In trade with Great Britain Canada still enjoys a favorable bal- ance. That balance, however, in Aug- ust was only about eleven and a quar- ter million dollars, as compared with forty-four and three-quarter millions in the same month last year. Can- adian imports from Great Britain in August were valued at twenty-one and a half million dollars, as compared - with seven and a half millions in Aug- ust, 1919, but Canadian exports to Britain were only $36,748,689 last month, as compared with $52,238,338 in August:, 1919. Exchange rates greatly in favor of Canada doubtless operated both to increase imports from Britain and to decrease exports, GERMANS CLAIM BIGGEST PLANE They Talk of 250 Miles an Hour and Trip Across Atlantic. Berlin, Oot. 3. -Trials are to take place this week of the world's largest airplane, with which an attempt will be made to fly from Germany to the. United States. The machine has been built at Staken, near Berlin, 'by the Zeppelin Company. It is a monoplane, constructed en- tirely of steel and aiumnium, and is after the style of the Fokker. It has four engines, each developing 250 horsepower, and it is believed will be able to make .a new world's record so far as speed in concerned -250 miles an hour. There is room aboard for eighteen passengers in addition to two pilots and two mechanics. The tests will include the 'continuous running of the engines for six days. The two airmen who will, if the tests are successful, attempt to fly the machine to America are Captain Hesse and Lieut. Leh- mann, two former army airmen. MILLION WORKMEN IDLE IN GERMANY Berlin Government to Make Another Attempt to Master Situation. Berlin, Oct. 3.-"I am not saying too much if I assert that there are one million entirely unemployed men in Germany, and if I include those working •half-time or less there is not less than two and one-half mil- lion," declared the Gernien Minister of Labor Braun rafter a conference at Dresden with the Saxon Labor Min- ister, In order to make another attempt to master the .situation the Berlin Government has asked the economic ministries of the sial chief German states to draw up a new economic policy, one of the features being the reduction to the minimum of the pro- fit of the middlemen, who have in- serted themselves between the pro- ducers and ,consumers. African Emperors of Old Lived Like Moderns Paris, Oct. 8. -That society life of the days of the Afc'icazz enipero:rs closely resembled the social life of the present has been revealed -by a ma.gr,ificent specimen of mosaic un- covered by archaeologists in the nuns of Carthage, according to an an - mincemeat to -night by the Academy of Science. The mosaic, which is the largest and most beautiful ie exis- tence, pictures the life of a C:arthugin- ,fan nobleman's country house. It portrays the well -kept ground, the splendid villa, the stables, and "gar- ages" for chariots, resembling very much the modern automobile garage, The tableau shows members of the Carthaginian "400" playing a game which, apparently, is the original 'of baseball,