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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-02-17, Page 3f}` 4 BRITISH OFFER AS TO INTER - AWED DEBTS REFUSED BY ,SES. Britain Was Willing to Forego Claims Larger Than Any Re. witted to Her -Allies Shoul d Have Wiped Out Interna- tional Debt at Close of War, Says Chamberlain. A despatch from Birmingham, Feng., says: -The British Government form- ally proposed a cancellation of all inter -allied debts, but the proposals were unacceptable to the United States Government, said J. Austen Chamber- lain Chaneellor of the Exchequer, in a speech to his constituents here on Friday. '"To orale thein again would be, I think," 11'1r. Chamberlain continued, "beneath our dignity, and would ren- der us liable to a misconception of our motive" "In snaking them," said Mr. Cham- berlain, "we sought no national ad- vantage for ourselves. We proposed a solution in which we should have foregone claims larges• than any re- mittecl to us, and 'we' proposed it be- cause we believed it would be in the interests of good relations amongst peoples, the rehabilitation of nation- al credit and the restoration of inter- national trade, "Our great international debt is due to the obligations we undertook on behalf of our allies. If we had had only ourselves to consider we should have been particularly free of extern- al debt at the present time." Mr. Chamberlain prefaced his re- marks by saying that he would have preferred at the close of the war that the whole inter -allied debt had been wiped out so as to start with a elean slate. There was no proposal for a settlement ofthe international debt among the allied and associated pow- ers, whether for total or partial re- inission, \which the British Govern- ment would not have been a party to, he declared. Weekly Market Report Toronto. „pans, 8c; Limas, Madagascar, 10 C; Dela.nitoba wheat -,No. 1. Northern, California Limas, 127/e c. $1.75;No. 2. Northern $1,72No. SNorthMaple procluets-Ssu•up, per imp. ern, $1,671/2; No. 4 wheat, $1.62. gal.,- $3.40 to $3.50; per e imp. gals., Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, �467isc; $3.26 to 83.40 Maple sugar, lb., 27 No. 3 CW, 42%c; extra No. 1 feed, to 30c. 42%e; No. 1 feed, 40%c; No. `2 food, Honey -G0 -30-1b. tins, 22 to 24c per 3 fcib. Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per Manitoba barley --No: 3 CW, 787/ac; 15 -section ease; 57/2 -211, -lb. tins, 23 to No. 4 CW, 65c; rejected, 54e; feed, 54e. 25c per lb. All above in store, Fort William. Choice heavy steers, $9 to $10; Ontario wheat-F.o.b. shipping good heaver steers, $8.60 to °1J; but rete h til ,_ choice, $8,50 to $9.50; British Shipping Board Can't Find Buyers -Sell at Nom- TO REVISE -ONTARIO VOTERS' LIST Government Will Provide Mehod Entailing. Less Expense. Ottawa, Feb. 0,• -Having omiited on the score of expense to make an en- tirely new revision of the Ontario voters' lists as used in the Provincial, elections of October, 1919, for the; Scott Act referendum to he held In Ontario in April, the Dominion. Gov- ernment will introduce an act imme- diately after Parliament asserbles'to provide for a method of revision en- tailing fess expense. By this act names may be added to or struck from the Provincial lists of 1919 in urban municipalities, but m rural partsthein boats: The Rosearberry police were lists will remain as they were in the informed on Wednesday. night that a Provincial elections of 1919. ',beat, •of civilians had .concentrated at Under section 63 of the general ate, ° ; iratia, a mile south of the former town. '.i`wen%ty men were sent out to dis- perse them, -while another force was ,r tepatcbed to the scene from Clon- akilty. When the Roscarberry contingent arrived on the scene, they were fired DUBLIN S NOW ONE OF THE STORM CENTES FOR AMBUSCADES i M. NAVAL HOLIDAY FOR 1 L$ 1.2 -MONTH PERIOD Attacks on Military and Police Axe Frequent Day and light -Pitched Battle inCounty Cork •.-.•. Crown Forces Drive Rebels Back, A despatch front Dublin says: -•-••A concentration, it is declared, was in - pitched itcthe occurred in County Omit tended for' a rush on the Eosearberzy hed b a .. on Wednesday sight in which five barracks. •hundred Sinn. Feiners fought with a For the twenty-four hours ending contingent of pollee and military. Thursday evening, despatches from It is offiebally,stated that the Crown various pans of Ireland reported nine forces suffered no losses and it is polios and nine civilians killed and ei timeted that six Sum Feiners were ten police and twenty-two civilians killed and twenty wounded. The lat- wounded. ter removed their dead and wounded Twe policemen were shot at Bal- briggan, Ireland, Thursday night. One died in a hospital. Two lorries of pollee were ambush- ed Thursday night between Droankeen and Newpalas. Orae got through safe- ly but the other was riddled with bul- lets. Nine policemen were killed and twe wounded. At Limerick city Thursday night the bridges over the Shannon River leading to County Clare were held by the police and noone was allowed t5 pass over them. Dublin now is one of the storm. eentres for ambuscades. Attacks on the military and police are se fre- quent night and day that 'the 'news papers have difficulty in reporting all of them. The object of the Sinn Fein activi- ties is said to be to force General MacReady, the military commander in Ireland, for political effect, to ex- tend martial Jaw to Dublin, Every police and military limey here now caries a hostage. : a person whose name is not on the list in a aural section may vote upon taking the required oath and having a neighbor swear as to the ap- lilieant's qualifications. This privilege is not allowed the cities, as there' will be a revision there. There will there- fore be Registrars only in ,cities, towns ori from both sides of the roads by and villages, and an appeal can be the Republicans. The police took taken from the lists as made up byl to cover and when the Clonakilty them to an Election Board. warty arrived the two forces closed in If a name is on the urban Pravzxi et thu attackers from the north and east, driving them back to their head- quarters. At least six Sinn Feiners fell in the enurso of the engagement but the patty inanged to make its escape under cover of darkness. The Crown forces captured rifles, ammunition, an automobile, boxes of bombs and. other equipment. This unprccendented Republican cial voters' list of 1916 it will remain on the list about to be prepared for the Scott Act vote unless it is object- ed to and subsequently • struck off. Otherwise it will have to be put on by anyone desiring and gnalified to vote. ' MAY SELL SEIZED SHIPS TO GERMANY points, according to freights outs , c cis ca e To. 2 _piing, $1.70 to $1.75; No. 2 do, good, $7.50 to $8.50; do, med., $6 winter, $1.80 to $1.85; No. 2 goose to r; do, tom., • $4 to $6; butchers' wheat, $1.60 to $1.65. bulls, ,choice, $7 to $8; do, good, $0 to American corn -Prompt shipment, $7; do, tom., $4 to Si; butchers' cows, No. 2 sallow, track, Toronto, 88e.• choice, $7.50 to $8.50; do, good, $5.25 $4 to $5; feeders, $7.75 Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 47 to 50c, to $7; do, corn., according to freights outside. to $8.75; do, 900 lbs. 726 to $8.25; Ontario flour -Winter, in jute bags, prompt shipment, straight run bulk, aab twuard, $8, Barley --Malting, 80 to 85c, accord - ilia, to freights outside. Peas -No. 2, $1.50 to $1.60, outside. Manitoba flour. -Track, Toronto: First patents, $10.70; second patents, 310.20.Bu._lewheat---No. 2, $1 to $1055, country points, $13.611 to $1.1.25. Rye -No. 2, nominal; No. 3, $1.55 nal Price of $5 Per Ton. London, Feb. 6. --The seiztu•e of German ;hips to pay for the'vessels of the allies torpedoed by the U4boats do, 800 lbs., $5.7' to 36.75; do, cam., has produced an anomalous situation, $5 to $6; canners and cutters, $^ 'to the upshot of which may be that the r - rs good to c hoice s7 to 1.5 tl milkers, $ ,g $ran. toGea.•it $150; do, cont, to med., X00 to :5ti0; ships tivill lie returned Y lambs, yearlings, $9 to 39.50; do, The British Shipping Board finds spina, $11.50 to 311.75; calves, good itself unable to find buyers for 750,000 to choice, 316.50 to $17.50; sheep, 36- tons of the German shipping..received to $7.50; hogs, fed .nd water id, 314.75 in exchange for torpedoed tonnage to 315.50; do, weighed off cars, $le and the controller has even offered to 315.75; do, Lo.b., $13.75 to $14.50; do, .dispose of the vessels as low as sixty dollars a ton as against one hundred dollars a ton, the cost of producing i,i attacker in the French Parlia- same ships ,.7 '; ,t Ql-tire .Pill;ied lsltzns. The- Shipping Bosid.xs._xtowsr..K:orsacl-. ; renrie Mian1iab" aisuvutscer: Ery to 31.60. Montreal. Mill*eed-Carlets, delivered, Toren- Oats -Can. West., No, 2, 6Gc; do, to freights, bags included. Bran, per No. 3, 62c. Flour, Mane $1.0:,70. Roll - ton, $40, firm; shorts, per ton, $38; white middlings, :$41; feed flour, $2.40. Cheese ---New,• large, 3 to Vie; twins, 81 to 82e; triplets, 813s to 32Veta old, large, 32 to 35e; do, twins, 3ilee1 to 357,4c Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to y le; creamery, No, 1, 55 to 59c; fresh, .i8 to site. ni�;ergurine-29 to 35c. B ' a -No. 1, 68 to 70e; new laids, 76 to 78e; new laid, in cartons, 78 to 80e. B Cnn_di•tn hand-picked, bus,. ed oats, bag, 90 lbs.,.33.84..I3Tan., $40.2. •- ,Sborts� -3.88:25: "3Ta c No. 2, per ton, •carrots, 327 to 328. y^Yf Cheese, finest easterns, 27 to : r ic; Butter, choicest creamery, 64 to 55c. Eggs, fresh, 78c. • Butcher steers, med., 37.50 to 38.50; butcher heifers, med., $7 to $7.50; but- cher cows, med., 35 to $7; canners, $3.25 to $3.50. Butcher bulls, corn., 35 to 37. Good veal, 313.50 to 316• med., 310 to $18; grassers, 35 to $G. Good lambs, -a.. , 312.50; sheep, $6.50. Hogs, selects, $3.75 to 34; prunes, 33 to 33.50 ; Ja- 316.75 to 317. with 34 off for sows, THREE AMBUSHES EIGHT .MILLION ON LAID FOR POLICE Four -Year -Old Child Killed During Dublin Fight. 13 '�rast, Feb. G. ---Dublin despatches to d .y revealed that on Saturday nigh: that city experienced a sensation when loud explosions and continuous volley., resembling the sounds of a battle, on a small scale, became aud- ible from the distant suburbs. It tweed out that three ambushes hacl occurred, one of which resulted in the kill ns�: of a four-year-old child. The first ambush was in the neigh- borhue'l of Merron Square, shortly dents, of people on the verge of pri- before 8 o'•cleek. Explosions which vation is close to eight million. • shook some of the older houses to The government program for relief, their foundations were followed by it is predicted, will provide for gen- fusilades of rifle and revolver fire. The emus State support. , inhabitants sought refuge in their cel • - VERGE OF STARVATION Daily Herald's Figures Reveal Terrible Situation in England. London, Feb. G. -Eight million peo- ple are on the verge of starvation in England, according to the figures col- lected by the Daily Herald on unem- ployment, According to the Labor Ministry, the total for unemployed is 1,059,800. The Herald declares that fully an- other million has not been reported, and that the grand total, -with depen- lars, while persons in the street were stampeded • by the firing. What had happened was that three bombs were • -flung at a lorry filled with soldier,•. This pfeeipitated an exchange of .shots whieh lasted several minutes, without effect, except for the wounding .of two civilians by bonds splinters The second ambush occurred on the south side of the city, where two raili tory lorries were bombed and there was a similar bi isk exchange of firing. A ehild of four years was shot . through the head, and a -woman Was, :wounded, and taken to a hospital. The third ambush occurred at 0 p. in., when tcvo military lorries were at- tacked at Ratlemines, in the south subtirbs, in the vicinity of the Catholic ehapol, An officer of the military was slightly wounded and genie civilians, including a boy, received unimportant injuries. The report :from Dublin Castle elalms that several civilians were bit the afl'eir. at Merron Square, five 4ivilians in the south side incident rind two young men in the Rathmines ent•owitee, . ti'o:+iemt's Spiv. r; uowadat*s seems to be the "big round earth. ALLIED TROOPS ON Fein. He said he kept the arms for RHINE TO ADVANCE sporting purposes only. His lawyer said: "Lord Dunsany's propaganda articles in behalf of the Should Germany Refuse to British Government did an enormous Obey Reparation Termns• amount of good in the United States A despatch from Paris -says:-In during the tiwar" Dane of Germany's refusal to obey the `- %' "` terms of the allied reparations de- teMID - j ' PA will be ordered to march further into EXISTS INIRELAND Germany. y This statement was made in the Concerns Itself With .F.xecut- Chamber of Deputies on Friday night ing Justice, as it Views it, by Premier Aristide Briand he his re- on Criminals. ply to the interpeliation of Andre Tardieu, former French High Com- London, Feb. 6, -The Sunday Tele- missioner to the United -States and gram, owned by Horatio W. Bottom- ley, Editor of John Bull, -to-,day •as- serts tire, -e eiatim of u third: partLien- outing in .Iid1an7i' ..`eonceimng .itself ascii exe- outing juutice'i- ,,ocigA.:its. -' viewa, On any persons who CUInmi leged mimes and escape punishment," The newspaper says the party is styled "the Middle: party," and that it meets frequently Its headquarters is in North Wall, where there are eon- -term -lees with military officers of high standing. The names of either Sinn Feiners or Government forces charg- ed with murder are produced and judged. If persons so uamed are found guilty, sentence is pronounced and the victim soon afterward found dead. The eorresponte•t. says the party has ramifications .r. the provinces and is composed plainly of middle class business men. He eites instances of executions by the party, but withholds names. g� •'1�•+•�6pD i Errands, the allied troops on the Rhino $� �4 imperial Defence Committee Recorcends Stay in Suphu2ldiig. A despatch freer l ondon Thedraft of the repo,at of the Imper- ial Defence Sub -committee has been completed, and it recommends absteaz4 tion from a•big eliipbuilding program for a period of twelve months. The object of the delay, it is learn- ed, is to give time for official neg'o- tiatioiss among the United States, ,Y.a- pan, and Great Britain for a curtail- ment of their navies. There will be no action ori the re port for several lzionths yet, and ala any event the decision of the Govounr meat will need the ratification of the Inrpeeial Conference, which is to be held in June. Meantime the First Lord of the Atte niiralty will request.. the Settee of Commons to agree to a postponement of the naval estimates. Australia and Canada are choses' watching every move ' in the naval situation. Senator B. D. :Millen, .et- ing Premier of Australia, Who `left for Melbourne from London en Saturday, gave out a statement on Thursday, in which he expressed con- fidence that the Imperial statesmen will back Australia's immigration policy . Australia wants a recognition of the status quo in the Southern and Eastern Pacific, achieving such a community of interest that the mad naval race between the Occident and the Orient would cease, but where this race proceeds it is 'vital to Ause tralia that the British interests in the Pacific should be safeguarded. the in British yards c• e ering,a proposal to return the ships to Germany at a nominal rate of five to ten dollars a ton. `The gigantic British shipyards are practically closed down and are com- Parliament on Friday night that France could not seek a large loan in America because the United States bankers had asked from • twelve to fifteen per cent, interest. pleting only contract work as a re - "We will, therefore, confine our de- salt of the seizure of the Getman ton- minds to the smallest minimum pos- nage," declared Sir Edward Mackay Edgar, one of the biggest British ship builders, in a statement to Universal Service. Newfoundland Suffers sible. "Even were the Government in a position of realizing immediately the entire German indemnity it would be the most unwise thing we could do at the present rate of texehange on Severest Cold of 'Winter France." w_ _ IRISH PLAYWRIGHT LET OFF WITH FINE A. despatch • from ;St. John's, Nfid., says. -The Newfoundland coast is ice- bound as a result of the severest cold of the winter. The northern bays and Lord Dunsany Declares That Conception Bay, ten miles north ofd is Opposed to thethis city, are solidly frozen over and the mail steamers have abandoned Sinn Fein, their service. St. John's ltarbar has a Ades etch from Dublin says;- thiel: coating of ice, which makes the p Against Accepting Terms movement of shipping difficult. Lord Dunsany, Irish poet and play- g : aright on Friday pleaded guilty -when More German Talk arraigned before a British courtmar- Geneva, Feb. L 6. -Germany's atti- Britain Obtains tial at Kihnaiuharn Courthouse, tide regarding the Paris Conference Steamier Von Tirpitz charged with having arms in his pos- session unlawfully. He was fined A despatch from London says:- 3100. • The newly -completed German steamer His lordship appeared in court neat - von Tirpitz, a vessel of 19,200 tons, lee groomed and wearing a monocle. was surrendered at Immingham on Dunsany 'tad the court he always Thursday in accordance with the had been loyal to the British Govern - terms of the Peace Treaty. nzent and was opposed to the Sinn CANADA'S PULP INDUSTRY Healing tt ube r from the camps into n big lumber plant, a typical rIltiter ora' in Nnrthern Ontario. and Reparation scheme is causing un- easiness in League of Nations circles, and even the impartial section of the Swiss Press, which considers the Paris indemnity demands go too far, is alienated by speeehes of German politicians and by Nationalist demon- strations in Munich denying Ger- many's guilt in the war and her duty to make reparations, London, Feb. G. -Dr. Simone, the German Foreign Minister, has declar- ed that he would resign rather than recede an inch from the decision that the Paris terms aro unacceptable, says a Berlin despatch to The London Times,. The Goverment is being de- luged with resolutions from semi-offl- eial and unoffieial bodies urging *it to stand firma. REPARATIONS CCM - MISSION'S TOTAL Twelve Per Cent. Export Levy is Not a Direct Tax, A despatch from Paris says: -The Reparations Commission estimates that the total damages of all the Al- lies collectable from Germany between 210,000,000,000 and 250,000,- 000,000 gold marks, according to an official announcement. The Ministry • of Foreign Attain; calculates that the •Supreme Council's fixed indemnities., if capitalized, should yield about 7;1,- 000,000,000 gold narks. The figures of the Reparations Com- mission, which just have been totalled, show tit- France's damages amount - 1.10.!00,000,000 gold marks 'of wtiiel1 are ounT'..."7oettak^ reeeeea :..,�.,Ms.;i....:. marks are charged to devastated re- gions and 3.000,000,000 gold masks for pensions. The estimate of 76,000,- 000,000 gold narks, as 'capital repro- seated by the 220,000,000,000 gold narks fixed by the Supreme Council, although approximately only one-third of the damages, will be supplemented by the twelve per cent. German export tax. At the ministry of foreign affairs, it was explained that the twelve per cent. export tar: was not intended as a direct tax on exports to be applied to eaeh hipmtent our. of Germany, but a figure that the Allies demand that German?; shall - pay in a lump sunt iii addition to the fixed indemnities. Canada Has Chance to Trade With Russia A despatch from London, Eng., says: ---Canadian manufacturers are offered an opportunity to trade with Russia under conditions guaranteed to be absolutely safe by the liritislt- Bailtic Association, which is in process of 'formation in London, accepting to a statement made by the honorary sceretarI' of the association,. Mr. G, W. Mason. Representatives of over one hundred important mercantile in.. terests are connected with this body, ' hose efforts to re-establish British trade with the Baltic States and through them with Russia, are at U.S. WHEAT TARIFF 40 CENTS BUSHEL Senate Fixes Duty 10 Cents Per Bushel Higher Than House Does. • A despatch from Washington says: -The Senate voted on Friday to levy a tariff of 40 cents a bushel on wheat and two rents a pound, or 25 per eent. ad valorem, on meat. The wheat tariff was adopted by a vote of 88 to 28. Two Republicans, Moses and Keyes, of New Hampshire, bolted and voted With the Democrats against the tariff, while several Democrats broke away from their party and voted with the Republicans, The tariff fixed by the Senate is tem; cents a bushel higher then the rate fixed by the House. The meat tariff, providing for a duty of two cents a pound on all fresh or frozen beef, heal, mutton, lamb and pork, or 25 per cent. ad valorem. was adopted by •a vote of 89 to 26. The duty on wheat, aceordfng ten Democratic Senators who opposed it, will mean an advance of one cent a loaf on bread. The Denmeeratie Sena- tors vigorously opposed the meat tariff, Senator McKellar of Ten- nessee predicted it would cost Am- erican consumers nearly $1,200,000. The progress made on the hill on Friday Was se satisfactory to the ad- vocates of the bill that Senator Pere. rose, Chairman of the Finaiuee Com- mittee, predicted the bill would pass the :Senate neat week. Sarah Bernhardt, the famous 90 - tress, 1tas heat made an of'liesr tort tivsi Legion of Honor, of whom the ;manta trading attention in the British pr•ees ' bar ie Haag tes 4,000.