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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-02-24, Page 7it MS WINS VICTORY IN BITTER ELECTION FIGHT IN SUM AFRICA General Election Returns Give Gen. Smuts' South African Party (Loyalist) a Majority Over the Secessionists and All Others of 22 Clear Seats. A despatch from Capetown gays: -- General Jan Christian Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Union of; South Africa, and his Coalition of the South African and Unionist parties have 'won 43 seats in the House Assembly in the bitter election fight against the Secessionists, who had only :l2 seats to their credit. Labor had won nine Beast and the Independents one seat. Altogether there are 135 seats to be filled. The returns received to date were mainly from urban districts and it probably will be several days before the full report from the country is available. The followers of Gen. Smuts claim that he is certain of victory, since the bulk of his strength heretofore has been in the country districts. General Smuts has been returned for Pretoria West by a big majority. The feature of the .results, so far as known, is the collapse of the Labor party. Apparently the Labor party will only have nine members in the new Assembly, against 21 in the last House. Col. Cresswell, Leader of the Laborites, was defeated in Treyville. The Cuban results have been very engcouraging to the South African party,- but the country returns are causing anxiety to the Government. The Minister of Justice in the Smuts Administration has been defeated by a Nationalist in Potchefstrom. • Sir Abe Bailey, well known in rac- ing eticles, retains Krugersdorp, :Enormous majorities were given the South African party- in Durban and Cape Town, while the Leber party suffered a severe reverse in the Rand district. In Cape Town the South African party gained teal seats, in Durban three, in the Read eight and in Fast Lo; ion one. The victory c,f the party headed by Prime Minister Smuts is attributed to the fact that workL r men voted against the se:ession issue raised by General Hert:og, and did not pay much a'..dention to •,ectional iseuei raised by Labor leadets. A later despatch from Johannes- burg, Union of South Africa says: -- Latest returns of the South African election show the following results: South African party, 73; Nationalists, 43;. Labor, 9; Democrats, 1; ties, 2, SNOWDRIFTS 20 FEET HIGH IN NFLD. Express Train Stalled . 100 Miles f roe, St. John's. St. John's, Ffl Feb. 13. -An ex- press trail was fighting its way through snowdrifts twenty feet high to -night, 100 miles from this city, and doubt was expressed that it would be able to reach St. John's be- fore the middle of the week. On board are a number of passengers from Canada and the United Stetes, besides the mails from the continent. The .point where the worst obsta.;les were encountered was the twenty - mile long neck of land, averaging five miles in width, which connects the main part of Newfoundland with the irregular south-western peninsula on which this city is located. A blizzard swept the island during the greater part of last week, terrific gales swirl- ed over this narrow barber between Trinity -Bay on the east and Placentia Bay on the west and piled up huge banks of snow. Yesterday it rained and the severe cold.to-day formed a hard crust on the snow, making it more difficult to remove from the railroads and streets. No passenger train has left St. John's since noon last Sunday and it is prob- able that none will be sent out before Tuesday. King George Refuses 'Chase to Prince A despatch from London says: -The Royal fancily has refused to give consent to allow the Prince of Wales to ride in the Grand Military Steeplechase in April. When he was in Aus- tralia, the Prince was presented with the magnificent steeple- chase mount, Kincaid. He de- sired to ride in the classic test of gentlemen riders, but King George vetoed it. Royal Winter Fair Ready Next Fal C. P. Bailey, General Manager of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, To- ronto, who told the Swine Breeders gathered at Toronto that he expected the institution to be ready by Decem- ber next, Dusting More Effective Than Spraying Trees A despatch from Boston says: -Dusting trees is better than spraying them as a preventative of pests, the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association was told by F. 11. Dudley, State Hor- ticulturalist for Maine. Dusting has been proven by tests in Maine to be quicker and more ef- fective than sprawing, he said. A crew can dust 300 trees in fifty-four minutes. The material used is arsenate of lead, sulphur and tobacco dust. Cost will de- pend on the proportions of the mixture. WIRELESS SERVICE BETWEEN LONDON AND PEKING SOON A CCO PLJS.HEE) FACT Chinese Government Establishing ,Great Radio Stations, Making a Stride Forward in the OpeYiiing7 Up of China and Affording Unlimited Scope far British Enter- . prise and Trade in • the Far Iaast. A despatch from. London says: -It MarconiWireless Telegraph Com-, will soap be possible to send a wire•• i pany to' the , order.: o:E the. Chinese less message from London to Peking, Government. One grgtmt high power station has. be.tin..equi,Pped at Urga, owing to efforts being made by the in the Province of Kensu, 800 miles Chinese Government, according to• from Peking, and ;these two plaoes Henry Barnes, the Shanghai comes- are already in .r.oiiirniznication. Urge' _i?ondent of The Daily Mail, is also in- tone*, with Shanghai and There is a fine spirit of enterprise Hankow and messages can be receiv- and a touch of romance in what is ed from the long, distance stations in being clone, A chain of wireless sta- America. tions is being established which will Another siniilat station is being es - link Peking, the seat of the centraltablished. t thousand miles farther on, Government, with Kashgar, 3,000 at Urunaachi;' and, all being well, it miles away, in Chinese Turkestan, he will be in operation in about three etays. Kashgar will then be within months' time. Subsequently the ter - reach of the wireless stations in India minal station of the series will be and so with countries farther afield, 'erected at Kashgar. The wireless chain allay be said to Thus a stride forttrard is being follow the line of a great trade route made in the opening up of China. whieh was ancient before the Romans Modern methods of communication landed in Britain, For thousands of will assuredly be extended' in other years this track has been,a highway directions. It is permissible to hope from the uplands of Central Asia into that railways will be developed on China, and has been trodden by count- a big scale in the near fuiure, and tees race tribes i s and tribe of mei both •i therein l it r les unlimited scope for Brit. peace and in warash enterprise and the advancement Tho scheme, which is boldly pian- of British trade relations with the tied, is dieing carried oat by the 400,000,000 of inhabitants of China, ONTARIO PLOWMEN'S ANNUAL. MEETING Front row, left to right: Capt. G. 73. Little, Second Vice -President, Agincourt; J. Leckie Wilson, Managing Director. Toronto; fa D. Gray, President,' Ottawa; A. 13. Rose, First Vice -President, Brantford. Second row, left to right: W. H. Patterson; Agincourt; A. E. Wilson, Port Hope; Frank tiveii, Agincourt; James McLean, Rich- mond Bill, Third row, left to right: Wm. Doherty, Toronto; "W,,C. Barrie, Gait; F. P. Johnston, Toronto, Treas. BRITISH OIL INTERESTS BUY TITLE TO CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS 9 .else kahle Political -Commercial Damian Which Speculates on the Downfall of Bolshevik Power in Russia Within Ten Years. GERMANS PREPARE COUNTER PROPOSALS Commitee of Industrial Lead- ers and Financiers at Work. Berlin, Feb. 12.-A German com- mittee of fifteen industrial leaders and financiers to -day began work on drawing up German counter -pro- posals on reparations, to be submitted A despatch :from Paris says The Considerable secrecy surrounds the to the London conference when it Shell and Royal Dutch oil interests deal. But it is learned it is of such meets March 1. The work is proceed - are reported on good authority to have magnitude that lawyers who handled ing along the lines of examination of concluded) i rather remarkable poli- the deal here got a commission of the Paris terms to register German tical -commercial bargain which several million francs. The payments objections and exceptions, and second - amounts to betting that the Bolshevik made by. Shell and Royal Dutch are 4 -the actual drafting of counter - regime in Russia will fall within ten said - to run into many millions of francs, gold. A.number of Russians owning pro - years. Under this arrangement, which, it is understood, was consummated in proposals. The work is still in the initial stages, but the indications are that perty in the Grosnyi fields .are refu-; Germany will request the right to Paris, the British oil interests have gees in Paris and are engaged direct-' make payments over a term of thirty bought from Russians who held title .ly iii the negotiations, it is said. • 1 years and that the counter -proposals to the property under the Czar's re- It is a common report in Russian gime the rights to oil from the colonies here that a number of Rus- Grosnyi district in the Caucasus. The sians ree.ntly 'have had much money basis of the agreenier,t is a payment to - spend -men who didn't have so now of from five to ten per cent. of nuteh a short time ago. the estimated value of the production Negotiations are said to be under from those fields in return for which way by both British and French oil British interests are assured the ex- interests to make a similar arrange - elusive control of • all production of tient for the control of oil in the that district. • Baku ' district. This district is now There is a time limit • of 10 years under doubtful control, being held to the agreement -in other words, if by Soviet organizations of Azerbai- at the end of 3.0 years the old owners jan, whose subservience to Moscow are unable to regain their property appears at this time doubtful. A pipe - the deal is off. Naturally, if the Bol- line from Balcu to Batum on the sheviks fall this year and are replac- Black Sea ,built by the Czarist Gov - ed by a regime which recognizes the ernment, runs through Azerbaijan old property rights, the British inter- and' Georgian territory. This is the ests inay 'get the oil quickly. richest oil district of the Caucasus. SINN FEIN WORK AT MANCHESTER Suspicious Blazes Break Out • Simultaneously in Lanca- shire Mill Towns. Manchester, Feb. 13. -Two out- breaks of fire in business premises here last night and attempts to create outbreaks in two other places have led to the belief that another Sinn Fein campaign of incendiarism has been planned, Neither the fire bri- gade nor the police will definitely de- clare for this theory, but the fact that the outbreaks occurred about the same time in the evening, and that in one case hien fired several tines at watch- men, leaves little doubt in the minds of the public. Mill fires in neighboring Lanca- shire towns were discovered during last evening, two outbreaks being re- ported frbm Oldham and another from Rochdale, the latter being less serious than those in :Manchester, It was at a warehouse in the yard of the Holt- town district that the shooting took place. Several men, says a watchman, suddenly confronted him. One of them told hint to stop where he was and give no alarm. Threatened' with be- ing shot if he disobeyed, he first did as he was told, but when the men went into the warehouse .the watch- man seized the opportunity to bolt and' give the alarm, 'He scarcely got clear of the yard gate when, there came reports of shots, and bullets rattled on the pavanint, fortunately missing the fugitive. The police were informed, but were too late to. catch any of the men. They found what ap- peared to indicate malicious attempts to fire the 'premises. British Railways Claim Huge Sum for War • A despatch from London says: -The British Government may have to pay • £150,000,000 claims as a result of its control of the, railroads •during the war, according to estimates submit- ted on Friday by a Government committee which investigated the situation. St. John's Uses Tank ;.,...tai . Level Snow Drifts A despatch from. St. John's, Nfld., says: -Newfoundland is fighting- to beat back its worst snow siege in 30 years, with monumental drifts iblodk- ing its gates after a four-day blizzard. Railroad, steamer and highway transportation still was suspended on Wednesday night, although the storm had ceased, The first sally from this city against the besieging element was made by a whippet tank captured by Newfound- landers in the war, which was put to work • crunching down snowbanks on Water street, the city's main thor- oughfare. will closely follow the provisions laid down in the Treaty of Versailles, Connaught's Speech Makes Good Impression Delhi, India, Feb. 13,--A great im- pression was produced by the Duke of Connaught's speech at the inaug- uration on Wednesday of the Council of State and the Indian Legislative Assembly, in which he made an earn- est appeal for the cessation of bitter- ness and the mutual obliteration of mistakes made in the past, The Viceroy, Baron Chelmsford, and Lady Chelmsford and the ruling Princes and chiefs witnessed the cere- monies, which were solemn and dig- nified. • Louvre Transformed Into a Fort Paris, Feb. 13. -As a result of numerous robberies of art treasures recently the Louvre has been trans- formed into a fort. Steel shutters have been placed at all the windows and high voltage wires with the cur- rent turned on have ben swung before the entrances and exits nightly. An army of watchmen armed with shotguns and revolvers are on duty. In ease of attempted robbery an air-raid siren on the roof will be sounded, alarming the whole city. Weekly Ma rket Report Toronto Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.89% • No. 2 Northern, $1,8G% • No. 8 Northern, $1.82%; No. 4 --wheat, $1.74•, Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 48%c; No. 3 OW, 44%e; extra No. 1 feed, 44%e; No. 1 feed, 42%c; No. 2 feed, 38$'se. - Manitdba barley -No. 3 CW, 83e; No. 4 CW, 69c; rejected, 58%c; feed, 58%c. Ail above in store, Fort William. Ontario wheat-F.o.b. shipping ppoants, aceording freightsto outside, spriry , 1.75 to $1.80; No. 2 winter,' $g1.86 to 81..90; No. 2 goose wheat, $1.70 to $1.80, American corn --Prompt shipment, NoO t Ontario yellow, tree, Toronto, 9, 47 heavy steers, 8.50 to $9; butchers' arae ats-fre 8 white, 4 r to cattle choice .50 to . 50c,. according to freights.outside. $ $9.50; do, good, Barley -Malting, 80 to 86c accord - done, to 8.51i; do, med.. G to $7; do, ing to, freights ou$'side. coni., $4 q $6; butchers' bulls. choice, Ontario flour�Winter, `in'jute bays, , 7 to $8; do, good, $6 to $7; Flo, com. prompt shipment, straight' run lea k, 4 to $5; but;cliers cows, choice, l 7,5rj seaboard, $8.60. to $8.50; do, good, $0,25 to $7; do, Peas -No. 2, $1,fi0 to $.1.60; outside, cern, 4 to $5; 7 feeders, $7.75 to $8.75; Manitoba flour --Track Toronto. a $ do, 800 patents, , patents lbs., $5.75 to 6.75; do, coni., $5 to I6; First aatents $10 70• second $ • � 'dinners and cutters, to •1.50• mi k- ers, good to choice, $85 to $130;• do, Rye -No. 2, nominal; No. 3, $1.50 coin. and med., $50 to $60; choice hams, hied., 38 to 41c; heavy, 33 to 36e; cooked teams, 58 to 57c; backs boneless, 55 to 60c; breakfast bacon, 42 to 50c; special, 50 to 56c; cottage rolls, 35 to 87c. Green meats -Ord of pickle, lc less than smoked. Barrelled Meats -Bean pork, $35; short cut or fami:y back, 'boneless, $46 to $47; pickled rolls, $58 to $56; mess pork, 38 to 41e, Dry salted meats -Long clears, in tons, 28 to 25c; in cases, 23%® to 25?c; clear bellies, 29% to 30%c; fat backs, 22 to 24c. Lard -Tierces, 22% to 28310; tubs, 281. to 28%; pails, 28i to 24c; prints, 24% to 26e; shortening tierces, 14% to 15%c per 1'b. Cholce•beavy steers, $9 to $10; good $10,20. $ $1.50; Buckwheat ---No. 2, 90 to 95e to $1,5ti. Millfeed-Carlots, delivered, Toron- to :freights, bags included: Bran, per springers, $90 to $130; lambs yearl- ings, $9 to $9.50; do, spring, $10.50 to 11.50; calves. good to choice,, 8.15 to ton, $40; firm; shorts, per ton, M. 16; sheep, $6 to $7.50; hogs, fed and white middlings, $41; feed flour; $2.40. watered., $15 to $15.25, do, wrighed off Eggs, new laid, cartons, 62 to 64c, cars, $15.5 to 815.50; do, f.o.b., 14 to new laid 59 to 61o. Butter, creamery $14...5, do. country points, $13.'75 to pprints, g8 to 59•ci; treesh-made, 59 to $14. tile; -bakers', 88 to 45c. Oleomargarine, Montreal. Y best grade, 29 to 32t. Cheese, new, Oats, No. 2 CW 68c; No. :3 CW, The clainm aye divided as fol- large, 81 to 31 tie; twins, 81" to 82e; 64e. Flour, Man. §spring wheat pat - low$: 200,000,000 for arrears in old, large, 32 to 88,c. ants, firsts, $10.70. Polled oats, bag maintenance; £40,000,000 for abnormal wear and tear, and 420,000,000 for the replacement of stores. It is understood the railway companies may make other 8 cream -Toronto Maple Syrup, one -gal. tins, $3.50 90 lbs,, $3.80. Bran, $40.25. Shorts, Honey,. •extracted -•-.•White clover, in $38.25. Hay, No. 2, per tan, car lots, 60 -80 -ib, tins, per (,b:., 28 to 240; do, $2 ' to $277. 19 -lb, ):ins alb, 24 to 25e; Ontario Cheese finest cisterns 27 t 271d per, No, 1, white clover, in 2r -5-1b. tine, utter, clapicest• creamery, 56 to 57c, per lb,. �5 to 26c. gg's, r res i, tiQ to 62e, Potatoes, per ' iarnhi .. bag, car 1 t , 1. L 1 creamer. o s. to .1.10 $ $15; ClaBBS. but that the committee les are quoting for elmrning cream, cod vow , $13 to Hied., $10 to 60d: is of the opinion that no others fat; .,hipping points, $1$; grass $6. Lambs, need. quality, noiiiii,al> $12; sheep, $ii. Hogs, selects, oft' -car will be admissible. I -Smoked meats -Rolls, 30 to 83e; weights, $16,50; sows, $12.50. FOUR SQUARE MILES IS .PROSPECTING AREA. Royal Mounties Responsible for Law and Order in New Oil Fields. A despatch from Ottawa says;-- The Department of the Interior made public on Friday the regulations gov- erning the disposal of oil and natural gas in the Northwest Territories, These supersede all previous regula- tions and are retroactive in effect. The regulations provide that an applicant may be granted a prospecting permit for four square miles instead of threw square miles as formerly. If oil is discovered the lessee will be allowed to take out a 21 -year lease for an area of one square mile, or an area not greater than one-quarter of his prospecting permit. The zemaining three-quarters will remain Govern- ment reservation. A prospector can- not take out more than five perniit>t with an aggregate area not exceed- ing 2,500 acres. The new regulations are espe;ially framed to protect the public from wildcatting, fraud, misrepresentation, and leases will be cancelled re refused in the event of malpractice being proven. The regulations are some- what similar to those in force in Alaska. The Royal Canadian Mounted Po, lice will be responsible for law and order, and no one likely to become public charge will be permitted to enter the country. Especially strict supervision will be kept of the liquor traffic, and, according to the N rth- west Territories Act, no liquor shall be manufactured or imps:ded except by special permission of the commis. sion. The maximum quantity allow- ed to any one person will be ore anal one•half gallons. Exception is made in the case of wine for sacramental purposes. The Provincial University. The occupations of the fathers of the 1,833 students who applied for admission to the University of Toronto in the session of 1919-20 are as lot, lows: Farmers, 351; retail merchants, 218; artisans, 144; finance, 124; the church, 116; wholesale merchants, 1081 'manufacturers, 106; medicine, 81$ teaching, •62; railway employees, 56$ Dominion officials, 41; law, 40; engine eering, 86; municipal officials, 211 journalism, 17; pharmacy, 17; Provin- cial officials, 14; lumbermen, 18; dente tisttys 10; soldiers, 8; art, 5; veterin- ary, 4; library, 2; fishermen, 1; not specified, 240. The homes of the 4;777 students in attendance during the same session were distributed as follows: Algoma,, 24; Brant, 90; Bruce, 96; Carleton, 108; Dufferin, 26; Dundas, 24; Dur - barn, 41; Elgin, 56; Essex, 68; Fron- tenac, 14; Glengarry, 9; Grenville, 14; Grey, 98; Haldimand, 49; Halton, 57 Hastings, 45; Huron, 125; Kenora, 81 Kent, 58; Lambton, 67; Lanark, 46', Leeds, 48; Lennox and Addington, 22; Lincoln, 64; Manitoulin, 5; Middlesex, 121; Muskoka, 14; Nipissing, 23; Note folk, 36; Northumberland, 89; Ontario, 112; Oxford, 79; Parry Sound, 121 Peel, .72; Perth, 185; Peterborough, 66; Prescott, 4; Prince Edward, 14; Renfrew, 27; Russell, 6; Simcoe, 1891 Stormont, 18; 'Sudbury, 10; Thunder Bay, 15; Temiskaming, 11; Victoria, 56; Waterloo, 81; Welland, 64; Well- ington, 142; Wentworth, 169; York, 182; Taranto, 1,828. Attention is drawn to the wide representation of all parts of the Province in this dis- tribution of students, and to the fact that the homes from which they come represent in a remarkable way alines every variety of occupation in the Province. These figures show how thoroughly democratic is the char- acter of the student body. •ems Germans Ti -y to Recover Palestine Txad London, Feb, 18. -Sir Alfred Mond, member of the Zionist Organization's Economic Council for Palestiiiek re- turned from 1'adestine Friday night and, acearding to The London Times, stated he was impressed most favor- ably with that country's possibilities„ He warned British traders that Ger, mans were snaking strenuous efforts to recapture their former monopeX of its markets, and urged the buildiit of strong trade Connections now ite view of the futile importance of tont- melte ontmerge with Palestine, which he de- eribed as being in the preens of se- -live development. Mrs. Rogers, Ni.P.P., Seconded Reply to Speech A despatch from Winnipeg says.--•' firs. Edith Rogers, the first woman to be elected a member of the iTanito4a, Legislature, seconded the reply to the Speech from the Throne in Tito vipaial House. E. A. August (Dia/ - evil') moved the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne. Between ,Time and e pcesttiber Britieb towns adopted about fifty plates ata Prance which bad suffered an tin Great War.