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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-03-20, Page 7t7, SUBMIT TO TERKS OF AWES TO GET FOOD 4r' Turn Over Their Merchant Ships for 31J,000 TOWS of Foodstuffs Monthly Mtist Have ihis Till eptoniber to Avert Bolshevism, is Claim 'Brussels Speciai Cable say -The German delegates to the conference here'regarding the takiug over by the Allies of the German mercantile fleet and the provisioning or +Germany dee. initely accepted to -day the conditions imposed by the allies. • Brussels Special .Cable Says -A Monthly ration for Germany et 370,- 000 tons of foodsteffs was fixed to -day by. the Allied commission which is in this city conferring with a • German delegatien as to the turtling over of German merchant shipping and Ger- mansowned securitio in payment for fo0a shipments. The Cermans obs served that ethie ration was smaller than they requested, and were pessi- mistic ae to the arrangement of sat- isteeterY financial terms. After Vice -Admiral Roslyn %Veneers, Of Great Britain, chairman of thee/Al- lied:delegation, had presented the de - Mantis decided upon by the Entente the Germans asked. to be allowed to with- draw for consuttetion. They then feinted three sub -committees to tdeal With queetions of finance, food sup - pito and mercantile naarine. This evening at 6 oclock another pienare eteesion was held Vice -Admiral Wemyss saying .at its cloee that satisfactore progress was being made. • Inothe evening the Germans asked to begiven the use of a telegraph line to Weimar. , GERMAN EXPECTATIONS. eeerliu. .Spestial Cable Says ---Ger- many expects that the Alltes will pro- , it , vele food supplies until Aug. 16, which Is the earliest possible date that flour from this year's harvest can be call- ed upon, said Under-Secretary ot State von Braun to -day before leaving Lor Brussels, where he will take Part Ln negotiatione with au Allied commis- sion relative to food shipments and *he turntng over of German sbipping for the use of the entente nations. , During the war there had been a i I•tyatem of paying Premiums for early i tereshing, but this, .aceording to Herr ! von Braun:results in much grate be - sing cut before it is ripe, and being I threshed in a damp conditioe. In Ms !opine= tee systeta thrOws the normal course of aericulture hout of gear," eecause other harvest operations are interrupted to rush grain tq the theeshere. For this reason, he said, the Allies should agree to continue sending tout supplies until September,. It is 1.1 matter of great Tinportance, be said, that food should arrive at the earliest possible moment, and that the total artiouet to be providee be known, so that the Government could adjust the rations ,until _the next bar - vete. P "Only under these conditions is it Possible to combat Bolshevisni and ering the German people back to sane conditions of life and political and in- dustrial sobriety," he said, Bolshe- vism is an infecttotts clesease, which thrives when the ,political organism is weakened by hunger. It can be com- batted only if the people have enough to eat." BRITAIN STIL fOR FREE TRADE British Papers Oritkise the New Policy As Attempt to Introduce Protection. • London, Cable. -Free trade news - Papers are sharply criticising the Gov- ern.ment's polio regarding importa- tions Ms etiselosed ey Sir Auckland Geddes, Ministerof Natimal ServIce and Recenstruction, in tee House on. Wherftlay. He said that .ell importations of Manufactured and essemi-manufac- tured commoiltties which are Permit- ted to enter Great Britain will be controlled by a system of special licensesteuntil Sept, 1, when the ques- tion will be "reviewed." The newspapers denounce this pro- posal as an attempt to introduce -pro- tection 'without' any mandate from the voters; insist that a great majority of the voters are opposed to a protective .systens, and declare that England is still a free -trade country •at heart. They say that "Great Britain gained her' commercial 'and financial suprem- aey teroegh free trade, and can hold ft enlesby free trade." , One, point on which newspapers of seI shades and views en the tariff Dee agreed ia that, after British manufac- tnithrs and merchants have enjoyed the Isort ofprotection afforded thexn ,by the license system, the "vested inter - este" will h,ave been upbuilt. or at least fostered, which will make it dif- /Welt td revert to a free -trade basis. :rim the viewpoint of importers, the limns° system handicaps them With all the disadvantages of a pro- tective tariff without its stabilizing virtue of certainty. They say that with a proteetive tariff of 30 or 50 per cent. or any specific rate, the,v would letow where they stand, and might adjust, their prides and do businesa in accordance with well-known condi- tions. At present they do not know whether to plan to do any business, beertuse they cannot count on being licensed to import any given quantity a products, or on being prohibited altogether from making imports. The' Gotteremett, however, is able to present strong reasons for special meesures. 'British industries have been tern to pieces by the war, They have been conmelled to give up all -ordinary business, transform ttheir plants into hainItion factories, and take orders from the Government. They have vir- Wally subreergetehl themselyee in the ov Getumene mitcliine, and now clatint that the Govetnment is under oblige - Goes to give them help and proteetion in the broadest settee during a breath - 14 space sufficient tor them to read- just themselves to peace conditions. 'net Belt -governing dominions of 'Great BrItalit are °exempt frotn tho elifficattlee the Gevernntent's pol:es• imposes on foreign merehants. FOOD SOPPII FOR GERMANY Large Stores in nolland Re. leased This Week. Britain, France, Want Hun Coal, Not Goods. .1••••• London .Caleto says-liTe revictual- ling a Germany begets Gee week. Aeeording to reliable reports from lIolland great supplies of foodstuffs which have been piling up there Gino the middle ot February will now be Amertean expOrters have bete eo-opereting With the neita etommiesion In the last ten tleye In get - Mg Wheat tknd meet tierces the Atinntle, 'The Chien(' 'where arranged for hig meat !shipment:1, tind the are „ ,.- • re.act'y 'to be released thedristeat Word ernes from Brussels. They wile be tieSpetchea to preareanged distribut- e% points •within Germany. 8everp.1 American exporters, artee malting Investigatiens of Weir own, , reeorted that roodsconditions in Ger- : many and Austria were now at the , Aowest point and that starvation con- ' aitious were already apparent. This is particularly ,true in the remoter parts. . By the latter part of March the whole ot the enemy countries will re- ceive -supplies, and these will Continue to go forward until the next harvest. en London there is belief that condi- tions in . Germany are exaggerated and many believe these reports are facilitated by the Government of Ger- , many, whicit is aexioue to impress the allies with their desperate plight and thus force revictualling on easy terms. The British Government, however, obtained reliable reports, and the real .condittge is known to be bad. Both Great Britain and France object to the paymeat for food in German goods end prefer to have Coal, and this will be supplied in sufficient quantities to meet immediate needs. Hitherto thee Ebert Government has balked over elth e, ,terms cif payment, and imeticu rly th over e question of giving up hips. Butm nt -there cbe o sham now. either food must be supplied 'or the country turned over to the terrorist's, and they enow it. • 4* TO VALIDATE PROHIBITION War Measures Act Effective Year After Peace. May Also Submit a Plebis- cite • Ottawa. Repert.—Ta validate by siegisia,tion the war measure prohibi- tion to make it effectiye one year after the official declaration of peace Is the policy of the Dominime.Government as. announced bY Sir Thomas White, Act- ing Premier, to deputation which presented a memorial from the Do- minion Prohibition 'Committee. The Government is also considering the question of submitting a plebiscite and the deputation was told frentely that there had been representations on the other side, but of rather a moderate • character, the labor men, for instance, desiring more bite In their beer. ' The epeakers for the .depdtttion in- cluded Judge Eugene Lafontaine, of telontreal, president; George A, War- burton, Toronto, vice-president; D. 13. Haricoess, Winnipeg, general tsecre- tary; Dr. R, el. Grant, secretary of the Social Service 'Committee of' Nova Scotia; &Ira. W. el Sanford; Hamilton, Preeident of the National Council of Women; 'Mr. It M. Miller, V.ancouver; elr. A. A, Powers, representing the United rumens of Ontario; Ir, JW L. Best, of the train organizations; teIrs. Gordon Wright, of the W. C, T. U., and others. The memorial as prepared by the Dominion Prohibition Committee, de- finedits poliey as follreets: 1. That the proVisione of the Order. in-COunell 'legislation prohibiting im- portation, manufacture and shiptitent into prohibited areas •ot intoxicating liquors for beverage uses should be continued la effect, 2. That Ole legislation shonitt not; be discontinued without a vote of the electors of •Canada being' taken on tho question of its continuance or diseon- tieuanee, 0, That in ease a referendum is de- cided Upon by the .Goveritment it elemild not be taken Until the Pall- adian Soldiers, now °melees, .have been rettirned to eiVil life in 'Canada. 4, That the date at Whieli such voto is to be taken should be annoUnced at least six Menthe prior to the date of votieg. • 5. That in ease a vote of the chi- 2041- a Canada is to be taken proVielon should be made for recOrding the vote • of the women citizens of Canada on the sante, Luis as thotte of the Men •eitizenet 6. That martufactuge of inaoxicat- hilt liquors for export purposes should not be permitted. R. The 'outlive:ince of the &fee - Wm of "intoxi('ating liquors" in 'the, l)ontintan. legislation as "any liquor Or beverage whin contains More 'than t4ritv)ioast,t,, done-half per eent. Of proof KEA ON 13EIIALP OP .WOMEN. Mrs. Sanford said she represented 400,000 women in Canada who were, doing eomething rally worth while. She stated that the habit etif taking wine at social .gatheringe was grow- ing, and elle appealed to the Governs ment to safeguard tete girls as well is the boys by removing the great tweet- tation. While the war had been most eve, one effete of it was magreficent theiail whin, she visited there were only four women, where four Yore ago It itad been filled to overflowing, The jailer said the reason was the et - feet of prohibition. Mrs. Gordon Wreght urged that when the time came to vote on the issue that the women would be given the same opportunity as men, and sho was sure they would not be found wanting in voting to proteot Canada's greatest asset, the boye and girls, Sir Tnomas White assured the dep- utation that the representations would be given every consideration. While theestficial tleclaretioneof peace might Put an 'end tot the order-in-Counell pro- hibition war measure, the policy of the Government was to pass legisla- tion to validate the provisions of this order -in -Council for one year after the declaration of peace. The question of a plebiscite would also be considered, BIG QUEBEC FIRES. Firemen. Fight in Below - Zero Weather. Quebec report says -With the ther- mometer novexing at a e'oint of five eagrees below zero, Quebec's tiro Uri- gaae early to -day had to fight two big tree; which broke out atureet alili- ultaueousty, The Mot blaze :as discovered about 2 o'clock this morning in the whofesale leper stone cf the Com- pagnie de Agencee leurepeannes, Notre Dante (street. The Ramo were confined to thie building, whtch iso.s .ruined from cellar to roof. About 3.45 .o'clock etre was discov- ered in the wholesale storerooms of the J. M, Orkin Company, on St. Joeeph street, The damage in the fire on Notre Dame etreet will run •up to at Meet $140,000, while the lose caused by the Orkin fire'which was atilt raging at 8 o'clock, is estimated at $50,009. • Two firemen who fell from 'adduct were severely injured, HUGE MERCHANT NAVY TOIrVft4 UP 723 Steamers, 2,000,000 Tons; in Home Ports, - And 136 Sailing Ships, for thfre" Victois. Berlin, Cable.- !The mercantile fleet in German barbora, the disposi- tion of which will bedecided at an early date at the, Food and •Shipping Conference at lsrusseis, consists, ac - melding to German figures, of 723 steamers of 1,986,700 •gross tone, and 136 sailing vessels of 62,000 tons. The sailing craft and some of the stnaller steatners wife however, be left by the Entente to Germany for the coastal traffic. The steamer figuees include hteamers finished during the war, but net the unfishined steamers, which the Germans continue to insist cannot be demanded under the armistice. The fate of German steamers in neutral ports e; not absolutely known, although many of them have probable been seized. The German ineorreation regerding the action of the neutral Governments is incomplete. The total tonnage, that may be sur- rentleded to the Entente is approxi- mately 2,250,000 gross tons. - A 'CANADIAN IDEA.. The Zeppelin Originated by Phone Inventor. nrantDord, Report says -Dr. Mon: traville Wood, Chicago, wno was en- gaged in the secret eervice of the Dieted Statce, ferreting out hidden wireieee plante for lge yeare, de- clared here to -day beton the Brant- ford Kiwante Club that Prof. Alex- ander Graham Bell was the real in- ventor of the zeppelin airship, and that Count Zeppelin had actually stolen the plans from the inventor of the telephone. Many years ago Dr. BeIl vieited Gerrnaey and went to Zeppelin to purchaae aluminum, when the tatter begged for permis- sion to carry out construction and to name the shiethe Zeppelin. It was then that Dr. Bell's •plans were secured by the Germans, and their airehiPa were the result. Dr. Wood declared that the Dili- erIng of peach t stones by the differ- ent Allied nations waa not for the purpose of making gal melts, but to make a deadly gas, of witieh sev- eral tanks arrived in Frame just be- fore the armistice. Kt*.• 4a• BRITISH DOWNED 81000 PLANES .••••aisoi*, itteesegleiteeleeeteltateettleieg lee gielets Iterseleit • -.sett* alsale•etestele*4-4-04. Princess Pat's Children . . „ill— ! , , ,, „ A . .,.. In Sue' cession to - -rone , _ . 1 ,.,..„,•..........„,„.,,...;,,...s.,.......„..+++,,.._,„,_....,,, (P. Cuncliffe Owe, In N. Y. Sundae toeracy. For the Princeee. Royal Was then fourthin the line of the, emcee- ision to the throne, with some pros- pects therefore et becoming Queen rettuant owing to the fact that her two only brothers, the Duke of Clar- ence and of York, were both unmar- ried, the elder ott the two dying eigh- teen menthe later. The prospect of the Duke of rife, who wile a banker In London becom- ing a species of prince consort and likely as such to exercise a dominating influence over the SoVOreign, iiis wife, who was devoted to him, del not ap- peal to them. But time have newts ad and the great war, which roil found so many of Queen Vietoria's grand- ehildren in a position of bitter enmity to Great Britain has had the effect of heartiirsickening the 'loges of King George of any further matrixitoniel al- liances between themenebere of their reignieg house mid alien denestieet 11 is timely, hi view of Lady Pa- qricia leamsare' receut marriage and of the prospect of the young Pince of Wales's selection of a bride,. to hetet out thee there is teething in England law or custom to prevent an English Prtnce or Princess of the blow]: from marrying a member of his or hert nationality, utterly regardless foreign jurists that the Archiduke, life. The only restriction placed upon theen by law are that the or rank in s whose assassination, with his wife at Y; Sarajevo, el June, 1914, 'precipitated shoula not wed Romen Catholles end tha t they should receive the aPProval ,of the sovereign in muncil to the matelo6rianatic marriages have no pines in English jurisprudence, and the idea -thereof is repugnant to the English mind, being a thoroughly German in., stitution. In fact, there is only one known instance .therete in modern English loyalty, namely, when Queen Victoria was led by her affection for her- kindly old uncle, the royal Duke of Sussex,•te recognize his union with Lady Cecilia Gore (daughter of Lord Arran, and widow of Sir George Bug - gin), until then regarded as tdevelid, and to bestow upon her the title et Duchess of Inverness. It was a mar - riage which femalned without issue. Otherwise matrimonial alliances 'et British royalty with non -royal fellow citizens, have been -numerous. Thus, when Princess Louise, sister of King Edward, married the late Duke of Argyll, one elm) CovernoteGeneral of Canada, he had not yet suceeeded to his father's honors, and was a com- moiler, though he bore the courtesy title ot Marquis of Lome-. At the Court ot Berlin and else,. where on the Continent, he wag -made to feel keenly the difference ofr his rank with that of his wile. This was all the more hard on htm, since in Scotland his father as head of the historic and powerful clan of•Camp- beilwa wasregardedas . a very grand personage.King James Hes first wife was a commoner, Lady Anne Hyde, daughter of Edward lesele, first Earl of Claren- don, of a 'former creation& and Lord High Chancellor of England. She died as Duchess of York, before James's succession to the throne. Yet Duchess I:LOYAL. , . "Nan" of York was recegnized by her Next in the line of saccession to the brother-in-law, Charles II., at his five children ot George V. comes his court, as a royal Princess, sister, the widowed Princess Royal, Two of the Qaeen of Henry VIII., whose two children are the young Jane, daughter of Si' John Seymour, Duchess of Fife and the still unmet -.J and Mother of Edward VL, and Cali- - erine Howard, a daughter of Lord Ea,., ried peincess Maud. The Duchess of mud Howard, were commeners vshen Fife le married to .the Duke of Con - he led them to the ante.. Queen. Eliza- nauehes only son, Prince Arthur. and beth's mother, the ill-fated Anne Bo - they have a little boy and girl,- both commoners in the eyes of the law, ieettinn,brwoakse,a wpheeernessHaesnrelyaivehuiremesadoet although the boy bears ths courtesy p title of Lord IVia.cduff, next in the line her his Queen, While the eixth and of succeasion to the crown. Then there last of this Bluebeard monarch's many is the Duchess of Fife's younger sister wives, Catharine Parr, although Maud; after her come King George's daughter of a eonamonee, was, as unmarried sister, Princess Victoria; widow of Lord Latimer, a peeress by then his youngest sinter, Queen Matta marriage when called upon to &tare of Norway, and her little boy, Crown his throne. Prince Olaf; after 'hem the foie: HENRY IV, HAD COMMONER .AS daughters of Kings Edward's sailor - QUEEN brother, the late Duke Alfred, sover- • .Henry W. had as queen, at cons- . , eign of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. and their moner, Lacty Mary de Bohm, dough- nildren. Next are the Duke of Con- ter of.the 1:ari of Hereford, and ane naught and his only son, Prince Ar - was the mother of Ilenry V, the hero thur, already dealt with elsewhere, as ot the battle of Agincourt. As for . the husband of the Duehess of Fife. thPrinces and Princessee of the Lsue- ike his father, he declined the Enehish reigeing house, who have e contracted recognized matrimonial, al - cession ttot the German thrones ot the 'lances With non -royal persons, they sovereign Duchy of Saxe -Coburg and are too numerous: to find a place here. e Gl od tels i at . Asfist et ereav,arthd edomereolPvrilinpeerinAcretshsuro' Arthur's f Perhaps the best. known instances aro Sweden, and her childre,u, and finelly these of Princess Amelia (youngeet the offspring yet unborn of the new daughter of George III.), who, when married Lady Patricia Ramsay. n n dying of coneumption, wee permitted by her father to crowthe ne to - mance of her life by marryeag Gen. Henry Lennox; and of George DIes brother, William, Duke of Meet:ester, Who married the widowed C ouniate of WaldegraVe. She was the Illegiti- mate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole by a village postmaster's daughter, in seine of which she was accorded the honors of a princees of the blood, and Of a recognized member of the reign- ing family, Indeed, at one moment there seemed •a probability of her be- coming queen, through her hus- band's eaccession to the crown. Her son was his Royal Highness, the eee- end Duke of Gloucester, and married his first cousin, Princess Mary, the daughter of 'George III., but left no children: Edward VII. when he watt -wont to volt Parts, beth prior and subsequent to hle acceseion to the crown, would often teiegatther at the Jockey and at the Union, With a Baron Charles d'Olbeeuee of the Chateau of d'01 - brew°, near La Rochelle. The king recognized in him a kinsman'and the baron, who had ehownshimself a bero' in the Franco-German War of •1870, and was of diminutive stature, used Lo go in Parisian clublatid by the nick. name of- "Le Petit Cousin du Rol' (the little cousin of the king). MARRIED PARalEiRtS DAUGHTER. The original I3aron dt01brouse, Alexander by name, wail a noble and territorial rimming° of the Poitou and married in 1633 a farmer's daugh- ter, Jacqueline Ponseard. One of the children of this union, Eleanor, mewe- d, the admiratioa ot Duke George William of Brunswick and eubse- quently ineetetated him. After innum. °ruble adventures and intrigues, they were married in 1604. • An oily daughter waa born to thia uttion, Princese Sophia Dorothea. She married, Ora of all, Prince Auguattts of Wolfenbuttel, and subsequently Louie, eovereign Elector of Hanover, who aftuward became King of Great Itritnin and Ireland tinder tee title of George I. Although the union . Wite it meet unhappy one and she died in the captivety to which she had been carmine(' after her tragic runtime With Count Philip leoenigsniarek, She Presented her husband 0. Ron, who fol. lowed him on the throne of Great 'Britain and of HatroVe.r, as King George U., and a daughter who bo - were raised to the mateh by Swale Of , earn() the mother ot Prederick the the older MeMbers of the Brittalt ttr13- Great of Prtiesite .• enni. Although Lade Patrieia Ramat', who entered Westminster Abbey on Thursday last as a Princess ot the Blood and emerged therefrom as a eolonioner, has surrendered her place in the line of shccessidt to the British crewn, along -witb all her royal im- munities and prerogatives, yet' the rightsof any ailerou to whole she may give birth will in nowise be at- fectea by tier renunciation. For 'the • most eminent jeriets of the United lelugdoln and ot Continental nations of Europe are melted In their touten- thin thet :parents haveno power to saerifice rights of their children, minors or as yet unborn. This question was widely discussed at the time of tho morganatic mar- riage of the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary to Countess Sophia Chotek. The mien was only sanctioned by Emperor Francis 'Ferdinand, the heir pre- sumptive to the Dual thrones, re- nounce ell ripts andeciaims to the two crowns, not for himself, but for any sons lborn to the union. This was made the subject of debate in the Hungarian Parliament, where it was s.stablished by the leading native and the great war, had no peetrer to- rob by any pledges or acts of his own, his young sons, .from their hereditary rights. DUKE' MAX WOULD BE ELIGIBLE, Indeed, wee monarchy to be re-es- tablished in IIungary the endest Son of the late,Archduke Fi.ancis and, the new seventeen -year-old Duke 'Maximilian of Hohenberg, would -stand a fair 'chance of being put forward as a candidate for the throne were it not that he is half .Czen, through his mother, and that his father, thanks to her influence, never neglected MY opportunity of manifestrng his aver- sion for the Magyars. Of course, the renunciation of Philip, Duke of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV„ of his rIghts to the French throne for hirhself and his descendants an his election in 1700 to the crown of Spain, occurs to the student ot history. But the (Duke of Anjou's surrender of rights was ratified by a number o treaties on the part of Spain and of France with one another, and also • with other Powers. International 'agreements of this kind are, even in American jurdepru- denee, auperior to any law t Otherwise 'Don Jaime, of Burbon, only son or the late Don Carlos and -chief of the Carlist party in Spain, would be in the Position of ,Philip, Duke of +Orleans, as the acknowledged .Royalist claimapt to the oldtirae Bourbon throne of France. It is on the cards, therefore, that a descendant of Lady Patricia Rareeley, though she and her husband are now commoners, may yet become ruler of the vast British Empire. TWO DAUGHTERS OF PRINCESS Queen Maud of Norway and her son. Crown Prince Olaf, ad well as the Crown Princess of Sweden, and his children, need not be taken into account, however, in this connection, for the Britieh people, after Omir sorry ettperience,s with the; first four Get:doges, who were 43.1so Kings of Hanover, will never again submit to the ocettpancy of their throne by any scion of a foreign dynasty, no matter how much English royal blood he may have -in his veins. On the sante grounds the daughters sf the late,Duke Alfred of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha and'their children may Mee be coushierea as eliminated from the successioe, two of the duke's dangb.- term, in particular Qeeen Merle of Roumania and the Infanta Behtriee of Bourbon, hexing, according to the Brit - lab constitution, forfeited their place In the line -of succession by Wedding Roman, Catholics, If Lady Patricia Ramsay's marriage to Loiel Dalhousie's sailor brother, Cape the Hon. Alexander Ramsay, of the royal navy, has been eta readily sanctioned hy King George an has been wetconte,d by the people of Great Britain, it is because the union Is of e nature to emphaeize the emancipation of the reigning house of England from that foreign and more espeelally Ger- Man doctrine, according to the terms of which royalty ean only ntate with royalty, and scions of sovereign dynas- ties are debarred front marrying any but members of other dynast' .1. Tills had the effect of restricting English princo and prineesses in the Bee of succession to the British crown to the noice of consorts abroad or else to first or soond counina among Ienglish meanies, to which there were, manifest objections. Sinee three ean be no question for many years to come of any inetrinto- nial alliance on the part of English Princeof Princesses with 'Menton dynasties, the matrituonial market open to the English royal fatality is very small, and the natural alter- native is for its members to seek their matee among their fellow country- men Mid countrywomen. Trite, When in 1880 King George's eldest sister, tho Princess Royal, Was led to the altar by Lord Plhe created O. Duke on his Wedding day, objections London, .Special Cable, -During the war 8,000 enemy airplanes were shot down by the Bildt& Mr Vero, while 2,800 British machines were missing, Brig. -Oen. J. li. 11, Seeley announced in the Home) of Comments toolay in introdueino the army's air estimates of :e66,500,000. Gen, Seeley said that if the war had entinued the estimate would have been et200,000.000. When the armistice was eignel, he added, England Was turning out 4,000 airplanes a month, And had 200 mutts drone itt comMiesion, compared to Six at the beginning of the war. Gen. Seeley mid it was Intended to keep 102 euuttarens for defence, but that the country would not rely 110 intleh on the number of machines as In remaining in the forefront of aerial development. (4ens Seely mentioned tut entirely novel type Of aircraft which le under noneideration, and whin he said ma- thematicians (debited mulct Attain hitherto Unknown And unheard of reseed, George V. of Great Britain, the ex- Ka'ser, King Alexander et Greceet Ute Qietten of Spain, the Queen of Nor - Way, the fatUre Went of Sweden have therefore Manion forebearIn the portion ot Baron Alexandre d'01 - blouse and of his wife Jacqueline Potteeard. gIVALS NEW FORD. English Auto Will Be of New Concrete, 3,500,000 Of GERMAN SHIPS London, Mtrrell 10.-1ienee Ford and his new S200 car me not going to have mat - tore all their own way. .A.n Modish firm has made arrangements to put on the market a small. Unlit car which will cot ices than the new Ford (abput 10 or 160 ItIit(veitii. cuarvbe something quite new, klarctly any wood will he used in its construction. It will be made almost entirely of a now substance -As, kind ef donerete, light but strong and Soluble, nitogd,Occe(ulnif(leorlan, totAsytaeusintaateni(illals,0 021 ana(1 • covered with a metal solution. The present low price of tills waste material, which 13 a produet of war. is one of the secrets of the car's cheapness. Another secret is the method of construe. (ion. The various, part). Including the wheels and chassis, will be Ntamped out --ouch complete in one piece by powerful machinery and shnply fitted together. —444. To Be Turned Over to the Allied Powers. An Idea of How It Will Be Divided. . London, March 16, -The Asaociated Preto learns that the total tonnage ot German nipping to be surrendered cannot be accurately ascertained, but including ehipe in neutral porta, roughly oatimated, it will be three and a mit tailliou tone. As Italy le alresety in poaseesion ot the Austrian shippieg the manage- ment of -a, very small proportion the German shipping will be entrust - ea to that country. France will re- ceive big ocean-going steamers to the extent of 76,000 to 100,000 tons. The balance of the tonnage will be divided equally between the United States and Great Britain. America is riot intereeted int cargo tonnage, of which Great Beitain will probably manage three-fourths, and Franco the balance, The German shipe will be delivered at varioue porta, them at present in neutral harborbeing handed over there. There will be nothing in the shape of a formal eurrender. The ships, according to information here, will be manned almcst exclusively by British, French and American crews -exclusively so when they are mod for the transport of troops. - An allied economic commission es being eestabliehed at Hamburg to deal with the matter of freight and cog- nate subjects. Freiglat will be charg- ed mainly in accordance with the British Blue Book rates. BLOCKADE • OF GERMANY TO LIFT AT ONCE Will Resume Trade With Outside World, to a Lim- ited Extent. DEALING EH HUNS Brussels Conference Taught Foe Delegates They Were Outsiders. Paris, March 16. -Several of the members of the Allied 'Commission dealing with the taking over of the German merchant fleet and the re - victualling of Germany have return- ed to Paris. It 'is learned that pay- ment for the food supplies will be made on the basis of exportations. The Germans wiR have the right te export by sea certain products, the receipts from which will go to pay for the products .delivered to Germany. Parts, March 16. -Germany, In con- sideration of a dePostt of £11,000,000 in gold at Brussels, will reekye an immediateelelivery of 270,000 tons of foodstuffs, according to the agree- ment eotered into between the Ger- man delegateseand the representatives of the allied powers at Brussels. Germany will further be entitled to purehase monthly 370,000 tons of food in enemy and neutral countries, besides fish front European waters and vegetables. The restrictione on fishing In the Baltic will he removed. The blockade of Germany is to be lifted to a .certain extent immediately, according to Herbert Hoover, Food, Controller, who returned to -day Ifrote Brussels. Aecording to Hoover, Germany, un- der pertain restrictions, can resume her trade with the •outside world. Some of the ships which the Ger - mats must immediately tern over to the Allies will be operated bit German ores, but will not fly the German flag. The lists ate now teeing prepared covering the, exports which Germany Wili be petinetted to send out. They will consist chiefly of coal, dystuffs, potegh and timber. SHIPS WILL START SOON. The Germans firstewanted the Unit- ed States to advance money for the purchase of the food for Germany. When this was refused the German aelegates agreed to turn over gold at the Belgian border at once. It is midersteod Butt $130,000,000 is avail- able now, More will be furnished in a few days. The German ships will etart for AM- eriee eta lerigland in a few &lye. It In not SikelY that tho will earry a cap- acity load of American troops on their tenet Voyage as alterations Will haVe to be Macie when they reach Anteriect, British and German .committees have opened regottatioes in Rotterdam, says et German Government wiroleaa ntec- sago eoncerning the exportation trent elerMany ef potatili, timber, dyea and Other products,. Woe going to Prance al. England inunceliately are careet vet:sots in Out- ral porta In ettouth and Ventral Amalie* and the Duteh Rita 'nines. They will be pertnittcd to --eve with ear• goes for Germany welt (Serene erews but 'under Allied flags, 'When the Alps put oUt from German ports to be hantlea over Ow will be menned by (lumens, but on arrival in Anted ports tee crews will be replaced by Allied creWs and the Germane returnee. PLAN FOR, PAYMENT. There Is available in England fpr Im- mediate movement tie Germany are proximately 30,000 tons cf pork pro- ducts, 5,000 tone of beans, 5,009 tons of rice, and 15,000 toes of weals. The Unitee States luta ill Roetertiarn and on the way there approximatety 76,000 t°A114.sotirmberiettfirdys07ft8h.e. agreement shows teat Payment by (lemony will be made by freight hire accruing to the' Germans for the use of the shipping and part from eredits that Germany may continue to establise and main- tain iri neutral countries'," Part froin German exports, part from the sale of Gerrean-oened foreign securities and part by the use of German gold. IMPERSONAL RIGIDITY. Brussels, March 16. -Tee Gerindie representatives dub% the peace nego-; tiatious sat ou one side of a long table, while on the other were an actual mrna- ber of allied representatives. There, were no greotinge, salutations or am- enities of any sort. The whole pro- ceedinge were marked by Impersonal rigtdity. The chairman of the Gers man delegation stared at a spot .ou the tattle and aildreesed his remarks to novoienee_Ainampiarralticsitliiir' Sir llosslyn Weymss, of Great Britain, ohairman of the al- lied delegation, began by reading a (statement prepared for himby the civilian members, calling on the Ger- mugs to say categorically whether they .abided by the terms of the armies tice. Under-Secretary of State von Braun replied Wray: "Yes." Admiral Weymes then read one page ot typewritten memorandum; giving in crisp sentences the terms of the al- lies for granting food to Germany-- tbe German mernant fleet to be 'hand- ed over at once, financial provisions to be made at once, food to be delivered .at once and to be continued until next harvest as long as Germany abides by the terms of the agreement. ' As the etatement wae read it wan translated into German and French, the German replies rceivIng the CiaInG treatment. The air -of imper- sonality waa preserved througeoet It was then settled that the details of the ration of 370,000 tons of food monthly with the shipping and financial plane, ehould .be ela.borat- od 1 oubscommitteee, and the first Plenary seesion adjourned, hav- ing lasted only a few minutes. The sub -committee on food was under the d Re- Iciheatirmanship of Herbert Hoover, Dir- ector-Oeneral of the Inter-AllieIn this meeting there were 21.0 appeals or referencee to humanity janenclk.civilization or to women and. children, the only etatement in• months, and this was Mutiny men; Monad as a mid declaration of fact, this connectien being that infant more tality had eoubled in the last three,. in connection with the request of the Germans for more condensed The German delegates were anx- ious' to enlarge the proposed month- ly imports of certain commodities, only to be met with the statement: reserved by the Germape for dis- 1'3'1er:en:rot that the world's shipping Mee not meke this poseible." enattion with the Government et Reference on some points was PH= THEY SIGNED. Prior to the signing by the Ger- mans to -night of the agreement for the taking ever • of the German merchant pot and the provisioning of Germany the sub -committees on food supplies and merchant ehip- ptn,g held, conferences. At the meeting of the conference of the sub -committee on food eup- ply, Herbert C. Hoover was the only speaker. In the name of the allied Governments he told the Geernans the allied eonditions. The principal questions examined • were the quantitio of food to be delivered, the control, of accounts ' and tho methods of paYment, The question of contica was the only •due te which the Germans ob- jected, eeThe Germane asked that the control should be exercised by German military men, but the called reprcoentatives Masted it should be in the hand's ot German civil officials, who Would be called • upon to furnish accounts and state- ments regularly. The meeting of the merchant shipping sub -commit- tee was short and formal. After a Plenary =mien of the allied and German delegations in the after- noon the Germans signed the con- ditions impeced by the allies. ' 444.— s GIANT WARSEIP • A WONDER 'CAFT Britain's "Hoocl" to Do About 35 Itnots. Will Be Mine' and Torpedo Proof, London, March 16. Detalle of the biggest and mot powerful war- ship Which he being built on the Clyde for the Britieh navy can dew be told. The ship is his Majesty'e Hood, whose designed sPeed, the represeutativo of the Landon Daily NeWs learns on official authority, vi ittlllialteb.e 32 knots, and which may be incteaisea duriug her Wale to 36 Battles ot this vessel hitherto have been wet. She io 4 Aatt10- cruiser, and hor letattli will be 90e feet, or oely ono foot los than the Antetania, "the largest of • the Brit- ish Emu, The Hood 15 expected to be in commisition within six months. Since the keel watt laid down, several !striking innovations in naval shipbuilding have been made, chiefly aq the reeult of the loson learned by experte during 1918, ana theae have eeecositated alterations in the ship's internal arrangement. ithe will ItO mine and torpetto-proof, het. hull bit- ing surrounded by a "Wider" or outer cushion, and there will be eteeistirme ()red walls intede the Vessel, which will be an miditional safeguard. Newedd-Did you vutt short of flonr, Helene The pie trUst deetoet half (veer the pie. Mrs. Noweda-I know, dear; your mother Wel me that you like your pie, ertest very ithert.-Lottia- elite COurleatiourtialt OF TOE- NEWS !T!E D :France Spent 26,000,000,000 Francs fOr Projectiles* During War, WILSON 114 FRANC?: Quebec Premier Said. to ne About to Join Union Oabinet. Toroutoes tax rate may be toe than 80, Mlle, The Quebec Legislature abollehed Courts of .Review. Quebec Province will *accept WS shoe° of the Federal loau for housing. A branch of the United tFarrnere of Ontario was organized at a meeting of Hamilton and Ilaldiumud tow - hips farmers. . Sixty-six American army medical officers end men have been decorated by the British iGoyernwlent. Restriction of 'Jewish immigraticin • into Palestine to 50,000 a Year ho• e been decided on by the Inter-AI/fed Zionist Conference in London. The Memican ,Congrees has been called by President ICapranza, to Meet In extra eeeeion on -titles,' 1. • Without a diesenting vote, the Sen- ate of New York State passed the Anti -Red Flag Bill. The Canadian Trade Commiselonime • been notified that the British Minis- try of Irma hae ceased to buy Pottle try, and that the trade Should rosette its normal' channels, Employeea of -all municipal depart- . cdmaeoyun,tneelinin Londee, Ont, are about to launch a campaign for an eight-hour dwileixpitecetitualteltsocn: are that the Mrs. Beth Sully 'Fairbanks!, who was granted a final divorce from Douglas Fairbanks, the motion picture actor, on March 3, became the bride of Santo -Evans, jun., of Pittsburgh and NewYork. . • While engaged in a bit of horse- play in front of a Toronto Chinese laundry, Albert Thome Niniolle, a 16 - year -old lad, threw a stone which cost oCrhobrija rplignhgt, eay e .1 aundryman ,the sight W. G. Charlton, of Aylmer, was . chceen Liberal candidate for East Elgin for the Federal Home and W, H, Mille, of Yarmouth, for the Provin- cial Legielature by the hEaet Elgin. 'Liberals, The first woman- to be nom- inated to the Legislature declined the 'honor. • Aviation for pleasure or com- enema is now free In Canada of war ,reetrictiops imposed by order -in - Council passed in September, 1914, providing the pilot Midi the eertifie Cate and license issued by the Aero - Club of Ca•nada. President and Mrs. Wilson and the Party _which went with themefrom the UniteStates disembarked from the George Washington at tercet, Frame, • Thursday night. That Sir Loraer' Gwen le about to euit the Proviecial arena and go to Ottawa, proheibly to tire Senate, and maybe as a Minister in the Union Cabinet, is a story printed this even- ing in L'Evenement, the offielal Con- servative Unionist organ of Qiiebec Province, More German submarines will be gold, and the'money realized distribut- ed among the Allies on a scale.to be adopted by the Supreme' Council,' T. 3, Macnamarte Perliateentery Secre- tary to the •Aandraity, 'annbtiticed Ixi the House of Gommons. France epent twenty-six billion trance for shells And 'projectiles dur- ing the war. Seeator Lucien Hubert told the Senate Army Commission. He said that One billion five" hundred million francs were spent for extra material for use ley, the artillery., The first death in NOV York from "sleeping sickness"' tv.ate rep.ortedto the Health Department e Erskine W. • Martin, a clerk, 36 years old, became 111 five days ago, went, to Glee') a.day later, and remained in a etate of comet until litodied., Police, secret service men and en. Migration officiate raided a beildeng In East Fifteenth street, New York, e and arrested 198n1te and two women. Ten patrol wagons were required to, take the prisonere to the Criminal Courte u1ldlng, weer() they are being queationed. Ail ot them are supposed to be Ratifealet • • ' 4 - . Tale. Talc is coming fit the front. South Africa Ilas lots of it. Talc occurs in• the older rocks, The highest grade of talc is pale green and fibrous, Dark -colored varieties, often deep green feirm second quality. Talc has many uses which render it valuable to the world. elate powder is utilized for make% soap ands grease, for rating moulds In brass foundries, etc. it' The cheaper grades of powdend talc are used for dressing leather and In manufacture of rubber, ett. Cut into elabs tale is good fOr mak. leg acetylene -gas, boreere, slate pen* cils and many other neeessary artielea. • The fibrous 'talc is used in making paper, end powdered tele Itt treating wounds end ekin diseases 'of cattle: tale being In ettality and appearance very similar to mica: 'Or Artificial Eye Move% To make the artificial eye practi- cally indistinguishable ie the aim Of a Itritieh artny eurgeon who is expert - meriting with a ball made of cartilage �C a substitute for a metal or Matte one, A sphere of such construction when put in Piece establiehee colt. neetions with Wood vetteele and the, surrottreling tiseuee, *Thep, thdis fixed in the cavity It is euppoeed to be capable of 'movement correepondIng to that Of a normal eYe and earther- More fills the space so that there le no depression, as le Invariably the case ease when it shell in wed. Al- though tithe MliSt Yet prove the prac. ticebility of the Bennie there is rea- son to expect that the War has brought forth another triumph In pittetic eurgery.--"Popular. Mechanielt. 'Mt MIMI, who knows it all Would- n't be no annoying If he didn't Insist Upon our knowing it, tbei.