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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-12-02, Page 7M FOURTEEN BRITISH OFFICERS MURDERED AT SAME HOUR IN DUBLIN Raids in Broad Daylight by P arties of About 20 Mon -Cor- don Placed Around Ci ty-Reprisals Feared. London, Nov, 21. -An orgy of out- 1 -The killing of at least ten and 'rages occurred in Dublin to -day. At 9 o'clock this morning officers and civilians connected with the court- martial proceedings against Sinn Feiners were sought out by gangs of desperadoes in the Gresham Hotel, .and then in private residences, and shot down in their, bedrooms, one in the presence of his wife, Fourteen were killed and five wounded. Four persons were cap- tured, one of them being wounded. In the afternoon the police, believ- ing the murderers had come to Dub- lin under the guise of witnessing the burley, or hockey, match between Dublin and Tipperary, surrounded Croke Park, where 3,000 spectators, t+ -Attacks by Irish Volunteers in were collected. the south sido of Dublin on automo- Sinn Fein pickets opened fire on biles loaded with "Black and Tans," them. They replied, killing ten and when many were shot down. wounding many. In the stampede of 0 ----Invasion of a big hotel in Dub - the crowd which followed one woman lin by the soldiers, where two uniden- and one man were trampled to death. tified officers were killed and four The faet that practically all the persons were wounded, officers shot down were employed 7• --In a chapel at Galway lies the either as court-martial officers or in' body of a priest, Father Griffin, who collating and preparing evidence vas kidnapped last Sunday and :;ince against the Sinn Fein connects, in the I found near Galway with a bullet in official view, the outrages with the his temple. great progress that has been made in Numerous parts of Dublin suffered the last few days in getting at the: from the warfare which opened at 9 heart of the Sinn Fein movement. I o'clock this morning, when a group About fifty important arrests in, of Republicans attacked the residences and around Dublin were macre last ; of "Black and Tans" in Mount Street. week, sixteen on Saturday, and the The slain in this district numbered correspondent is informed that al twelve. Most of them were officers. number of documents almost as start -I In one ease three of the assassins ling as the typhoid and glanders or -I captured two "Black and Tans" while dors published a few days ago have they were on their way to reinforce been seized. j the troops and killed them. The outstanding incidents of the i The dead include two court-martial carnage are: j officers. the wounding of seventy others when armored cars loaded with soldiers were attacked by a crowd of fifteen thousand at an Irish Gaelic football game. 2 -The great fires raging in the docks and coal yards with large ships blazing in the harbor of Dublin. 3 --Desperate street fighting be- tween the citizens and soldiers aid- ing hourly to the list of killed and wounded. 4 --The isolation of Dublin by Sir Neville Macready, British Comman- der -in -Chief in Ireland, who has placed a cordon about the city cut- ting of all the train service to and from the city. Greek- Affairs Take a New Turn A despatch from Athens says :-Parliament will be con- vened next Thursday, and Queen -Mother Olga. will then take the oath of regent. Great Britain as noified Pre- mier Rhallis that it will refuse a credit guarantee for a new issue of bonds amounting to 400,000,000 drachmas. Former 'officers and ciyil servants under King Constan- tine are being reinstated, while the Venizelists are resigning office. It is expected that General Nider will be the new com- mander of the army. GALWAY Tl-lR®UC�II WITH SINN FEIN Evidences of the Waning Power of Rebels in Ireland. London, Nov. 20. -Another sign of the waning power of the •.Simi Fein is recorded to -day by The Daily Chronicle's diplomatic correspondent. One of the strongest Sinn Fein dis- tricts in Ireland is Galway, and it is now known, he says, that the Galway County Council has decided officially to repudiate the authority of the Dail Eireann (Sinn Fein Parliament). This repudiation is believed to fore- shadow complete disruption of the Sinn Fein influence in the cavil gov- ernment of Ireland. Despatches from Loudon on Friday also reported that the Dublin Council had abjured its allegiance to the Sinn Fein Parliament. • CANADIAN GIRL DEFIES THE TU RKS. Miss Elizabeth A Thom, 167 Grey Street. Loudon, Ont,, a veteran of service in France, who is sticking to her post in the Caucasus despite the continued advances of the Turks into Armenia. .She is a member of the Near East Relief personnel in tho c'aucasus, all of whom refused to abandon their work among the hun- dreds of thousands of orphans and adult refugees. FIghting is Renewed in Mesopotamia A despatch from London says:_.An Exchange Telegraph despatch from Bagdad reports violent fighting along the lower I.uphrates between the Brit- ish soldiers and rebel tribes. Women of Italy Gain the Suffrage A despatch from London says: - According to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from. Rome, the Italian Chamber cif Deputies on Friday grant- ed suffrage to women by a vote of 240 to 10. PILGRIMS FLOCK TO TOMB OF UN- KNOWN -KNOWN WARRIOR IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY Helpless Soldiers Brought to Abbey to Give Last Salutes at the Shrine -1,500,00 0 Persons Visited Grave During the Fast Week. A despatch iron London says:. A wonderful pilgrimage to the grave of the "unknown warrior" in r'Vestmine star Abbey came to a Close, mi 'Phurs- day afternoon. A dozen incapacitated soldiers, unable to wolk, w is ivlteeletl 9n chairs by their wives or nurses through the dim aisles to give the last salutes at the, shrine. The pilgrimage had peen in progress for a week, and the Canon of West- minster in charge told the correspon- dent that a careful ostiutate of the • numbers who made it showed 1,500,- 000 ,.500;000 persona p used by the grave in the nave of the abbey. Every Weekday since the Armistice Day anniversary, even while services have been going an and between ser- vice, nu $undey, an endless stream of mourners have beery entering the abbey in four: and passing the grave. They began to come early in the morn- ing, and an 5oine days they continued until pest 11 o'clock at night. They• carte from alt parts of the British :Enteric, An even greater number of people made the pilgrimage to the cenotaph, Whitehall, even now, is fltlsd with a double stream of people, reaching to Trafalgar Square on one side, and com- ing from Westminster on the other, eeeejaaleefeeneeee CANADA HONOP.S GLORIOUS DEAD In all parts of the Dominion citizens Paid homage on Armistice Day to the men who gave their lives for the Em- pire in France, and floral tribtetes dec- orated cenotaphs and monuments in practically every town and city. Photo shows the Cenotaph in front of Toronto's City Hall. Travie Agreement Ratified by Jamaica A despatch from Ottawa says : -A cable from King- ston, Jamaica, announces that the Legislative Council of Ja- maica has ratified the Canada - West Indies trade agreement. This is stated to be the fourth of the West Indian states to ratify the agreement the en- dorsation of all, as well as rati- fication by the Canadian Par- liament being necessary be- fore the agreement becomes effective. The agreement is expected to come before Par- liament early next session. QUEBEC RETAIL SECTION IN FLAMES Celluloid Stock Adds Fury to Fire in Woolworth Store. Quebec, Nov. 21. -Fire losses ag- gregating over half a million dollars were caused here this morning by a blaze which swept the heart of the retail business section. The blaze, which was discovered in the early hours of the morning, had been burning for hours before dis- covery, and started in the dry goods firm of Marceau & Co., 155 St. Joseph Street, spreading thence to the Wool- worth store. The fire reaching a de- posit of celluloid goods there was a violent explosion, which immediately caused the fire to spread to the Paquet clothing establishment, next door. By eight o'clock the blaze was under control, but not before the Marceau and Woolworth stores were complete- ly destroyed, and the Paquet building, with its contents, much .injured. In- surance is carried only on a portion of the burned stock. Fireman Frazer Lapointe was severely burned about the head and face, and was taken to the Hotel Dieu Hospital. Seven other firemen were more or less injured, but remain- ed on duty. Wreath of Maple Leaves on Unknown Warrior's Grave A despatch from London says: - the last wreath to be placed upon the grave of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey was one com- posed of maple leaves, which was sent front Canada by the only sur- viving winner of the Victoria. Cross at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny:' Canon Westlake placed it on the grave as the last watchers left the abbey. The grave has been sealed up. Greece is Honoring Her Debts to Canada A despatch from Ottawa l patcsays:-- Despite disturbances Greece is honor -1 ing her obligations to Canada. Of ant original credit of $25,000,000, Canada has actually advanced to Greece rather more than five and a quarter millions of dollars. On this sum Greece has mnct all ,interest payments due. The interest is paid in dollars at the Bank of Montreal. FIRST ASSEMBLY OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS Organization Completed and on Polish Question an A despatch from Geneva says: In u somnewhat agitated session on Thurs- day the League Assembly completed its organization by the election of six vice-presidents, who, with the six chairman of the committees already elected, form a sort of executive corn- mittee of the assembly. The non- E'tropean nations, for whom much .solicitude was shown, had no com- plaints to make as they obtained four vice-presidents, instead of the three they had asked for. These were: Viscount Ishii, Japan; Honorlo Pueyrredon, Argentina; Sir George E. Foster, Canada, and Rod- rigo Octavio, Brazil. The other vice- presidents are: II, A, Van JCarna- beek, Holland, and Dr. Eduard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia. As an act of courtesy, Guiseppe gotta, president of the Swiss. con- federation, who had delivered the ad- dress of welcome, was elected honor- ary president of the first assembly of the League. Arthur J. Balfour, of the British delegation, was elected chairman of the Commission of General Organiza- tion b;,• the League of Nations As- sembly. "While it has been said in some eouratries 'that the League is dead, EETS AT GENEVA Officers Installed----De¢:isions d the Defence of Vilna. the council's report shows it to be very much alive," Lord Robert Cecil declared. iteferning to criticisms of the League that it was spending all its time getting ready to do something, Ford Robert said that a machine to work well must be set up well. He considered the report shawed great progress has been made. The eost'of the League to date had been £500,000. The delegate said: "This sounds liko a large sum to some minds," he continued, "but com- pare the amount with a single day of the cost of the war and you have a ridiculously cheap insurance rate." Decision has been reached by the League of Nations to entrust Poland with a mandate to carry out the military defence of Danzig, accord- ing to information received by the Swiss Telegraph Agency. Great Britain and Spain will send military contingents to Vilna to main- tain order during the "popular con- sultation of the inhabitants." This announcement w•ae made this evening by the A eembly. It was added that -the French filld Belgian Governments already had agreed to despatch con- tingents thither. There had been no intimation here that this action by the Assembly was impending. • GERMAN TOYS ON BRITISH MARKET Quantities Coming to Canada For Christmas Trade. London, Nov. 21. ---It is estimated that nearly a quarter of a million dol- lars' worth of German toys was ship- ped to Canada during ,November for the Christmas trade, which equals the total amount shipped from England to Canada from January to October. German toys are flooding the Brit- ish market to such an extent that the British are making complaints that the industry is seriously crippled and the Overseas Department of Foreign trade reports that the toy import houses are already stocked with Ger- man goods, and .that it is too late to take steps'to restrict the trade. The 'department estimates that 75 per cent. of the toys on the British markets at Chnistmas will be Ger- man -made, and will cost about half as much as the British -made article. Venizelos Reaches Messina, Italian Port Messina, Italy, Nov, 21. -Former Premier Venizelos of Greece and his suite are in Messina Harbor on board the yacht Narcissus to -day. So- phoeles Venizelos, son of the former Premier, was the only one to land. Ho is on his way to Nice, where he will be married. The yacht is still here, and its ultimate destination is not known. So= let Will age %ter mign A despatch from Copen- hagen says :-A special to The Berlingske Tidentrie Brom Kov- no reports that from different articles in the Pravda it is clear the Bolshevists are preparing for a winter campaign, a de- cree having been issued calling all citizens up to the age of 36 under arms. All able-bodied rule. in factories are to be re- placed by women, and in the district of Moscow -Vitebsk 15 new divisions are being form- ed. Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin , Admitted to Bail Windsor, Nov, 21.. --Standing mute when arraignedSaturday before Mag- istrate W. E. Gundy in the Windsor Police Court on a charge of "killing and slaying," Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin, Sandwich pastor, was remanded to November 25 for the preliminary hearing. Bail on two bonds of $5,000 each, furnished by James Slone and I William Wright, officials of the Sand- wich church, was allowed by the court. Weekly Market Report Wholesale Grain. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Nora ern, $2.111«; No, 2 Northern, $2.096/¢: No. 3 Northern, $2.07; No. 3 wheat, $2,02. Manitoba oats-No.'2 C,W„ 611/2c; No. 3 CW, 576%; extra No. 1 feed, 56%c; No. 1 feed, 5374; No. 2 feed, 50%c. Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW, $1.05; No. 4 CW, '95e; rejected, SOc; feed, 80e. All of the above c,i.f, bay ports. American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.23. Ontario oats -No 2 white, 60 to 62c, Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, $1.95 •to $2, per car lot; No. 2 Spring, $1.90 to $1.95; shipping points, according to freights. Peas -No. 2, nominal. Barley -$1 to $1,05, according to freights outside, Buckwheat -No, 2, nominal. Rye -No. 3, $1.60 to $1.65, nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour --$12.90 top patents; $12.40 second patents. Ontario floor $3.75, bulk, seaboard. alillfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags it :luded: Bran, per ton, $38 to $40.25; shorts, per ton, $42 to $45,25; good feed flour, $2,75 to $3. Country Produce -Wholesale. Cheese -New. large, 28 to 290; twins, 29 to 3bc; triplets, 291/2 to 30/c; old, large, 33 to 34e; do, twins, 524 to 341/e. Mutter -Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 50c; creamery, ands, 55 to 58c; finest, 58 to G1c. Margarine --35 to 87e. l0gge---Ne, 1, 64 to 66e; selects, 70 to 72c; new laid, In cartons, 80 to 86e, Beans ----Canadian, hand-picked, bus., $4 to $4,60; primes, $3 to $3.50; Ja- pans, 9/e; Limas, Madagascar, 101e; California Limas, 121/2c, Maple products -•-.Syrup, per imp, gal., $8.40 to $3,50; per 5 insp. gals., $:1,255 to $3.40, Maple sugar, lb., 27 to 30c, Honey --•-60.30.1b, tins, 25 to 26c per Ib.; Ontario oomb honey at $7.50 per 15 -section ease; 51,4.2142.1 m. tins, 26 to 27c per lb. Provisions -Wholesale. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 47 to 60e; heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 64 to 68o; rolls, 34 to 36e; cottage roils, 41 to 43e; breakfast bacon, 50 to 56e; fancy breakfast bacon, 56 to 62c; backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 60 to 64c. Cured moats -Long clear bacon, 27 to 2$c; clear bellies, 26 to 27e. Lard ---Pure tierces, 30 to 30½c; tubs, 30/ to 310; pails, 30%„,, to 311.:;,c; prints, 321/2 to 83c. Compound tierces, 22 to 23%e; tubs, 229' to 24'4c; pails, 231/2 to 22%c; prints, 26 to 27c, Montreal Markets, Montreal, Nov. 23. -Oats, Canadian `Vest., No. 2, 831/20; do, No. 3, 713c. Flour Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $12.20, Rolled oats, bag of 90 lbs, $4.05. Bran, $45.25. Shorts, $45.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $30. Cheese, finest easterns, 231/2e. Butter, choicest creamery, 55 to 56c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Nov. 23. -Good heavy steers, $12.50 to $13.50; butcher steers, choice, $11 to $12,50; do, good, $10 to $11; do, med., $6.50 to $8; do, come $5 to $6; butcher heifers choice, $10 to $11; do med., $7.50 to $9; do, com., $6 to $7; butcher cows, choice, $9 to $10; do, rimed,, $6 to $8; canners and cutters, $3.50 to $4.50; butcher bulls, good, $8 to $10; do, cont., $5.50 to $6,26; do, fair, $7.50 to $8.50; feeders, best $10 to $11.50; do, good, 900 lbs., $9,50 to $10; do 300 lbs., $8.75 to 59,25• do, com., $$6,75 to $$8; milkers and springers, e'}hoice, $100 to $150; calves, choice, $17 to $18.50; do, fined„ $13 to $15; do, coin., to $12; lambs, $12 to $12.50; sheep choice, $6 to $7.50; do, heavy and bucks, $4 to $5; do, year. lings, $10 to $10.50; hogs, fed and watered, $16,25 to $16.50; do, off ears, $16,50 to $16.75; do f.o.b., $15.25 to $15,50; do, to the farmer, $15 to $15.2Ca. Montreal, Nov, 23.• --Good veal, $13 to $14; mediums, $10 to $13, grass, $650 to $6.75. haves, $4 to $7; lambs, good, $12.50 to $13; cam,, $$ to $11.50; hogs, off ear weights, selectee $17; sows, $13. Trinidad Grants Preference to Canada A despatch from Ottawa says :-Canadian food and cattle stuffs exported to Trini- dad are to be given preference over goods not produced with- in the Empire, according to a cable received from Edgar Tripp, Canadian Government commercial agent, Port of Spain, Trinidad. The cable reads: "All duties have been removed from food and cattle stuffs produced in countries of the British Empire. Suffi- cient duties will be imposed on foreign goods to give Can- ada a preference." STATE OF SIE pG� E PRO- CLAIMEDATHENS 7pT�! AT A 3 HENS Defeat of Greek Government Brings Up New Problems. A despatch from Constantinople says reports from. Athens indicate that a state of siege has been pro- claimed, following rioting over the de- feat of ex -Premier Venizelos. Sev- eral allied and American destroyers have been despatched to Athens, for use in case of an emergency. The defeat of the present Greelt Government is interpreted as a re-. pudiation of its imperialistic policy: at the expense of Turkey, which has driven Mustapha Kemal Pasha, re-, luctantly into the hands of the Bol" sbevists. If Greece changes her policy, al- lowing Turkey to keep Smyrna, it ie possible the IKemalists will not only be pacified, but will serve as a bufs fer against Red expansion in th( Orient. The present physical union accom. plished between the Reds and the Nationalists is probably too formid. able to be overcome by the military forces here. Official circles here see the policy of Russia taking Con- stantinople, as Roumania is not re- garded as a serious obstacle. Bill Bulgaria is resentful of the Greek occupation of Thrace, and already z almost Bolshevist, and, with the Red armies operating among those countries and the Kemalists through Anatolia, the problem, from a mili- tary viewpoint, would not be diffi- cult. The new Greek Ministry has been formed and the Queen Mother will be proclaimed Regent. DROP IN CEREALS ON CHICAGO MARKET Pre -War Prices Make Their Initial Appearance. A despatch from Chicago says: -- Pre-war prices made their first ap- pearance on Friday in the grain mark- et. Corn and oats were .sacrificed wholesale in the trading pits until both cereals were squarely on an antebellum basis of value. Transae- tione in wheat were also of great volume, with price slashing in pro- gress. December wheat closed at $1.72; December corn at 68ae. and December oats at 44t'. Reported unsettled general busi- ness conditions furnished the back- ground and large suppliee of feed- stuffs were said to be in sight with livestock being rushed to market in- stead of being held on farms, ac- cording to reports. Wheat showed itself the most sensitive of any Board of Trade commodity and stopped fall- ing, only having broken 9% cents a bushel. Bear leaders conceded that farmers were to a Iarge degree suc- cessfully maintaining a holding- pol- icy as to wheat, but took the ground that the wheat most be sold some time and that in the meantime Canada was supplying any demand in the United States and was furthermore. gettlug United States markets with Canadian cattle as well. GERMANY NOT BOUND BY PEACE TREATY A. despatch from Geueva says: The German Government no longer con - alders itself bound by the clause of the Versailles treaty by which Ger- many surrenders her colonies to the allies, according to an official note sof protest which has been pi e cent ed to the League of Nations, ro The node t7t°olar2, that the allies have not fulfilled their undertakings regarding the clause of the treaty concerning the allotment of the Ger- man colonies and mandates, it adds that, haring signed the pact of the League of Nations, Germany laude*.. - stood she would be admitted 10 the League and consequently take part in the allotment of mandates, but that now she no longer considers her- self bound by that clause of the treaty«