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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-04-24, Page 7or Profits From Potato Experiments Have, Conclusively Shown Tb,at Seed Frozn New Ontario or New* 33ranswic1 Gives Higher Yields Than Seed From Old Onta,rio, In 1917 seed potetoes-any potatomt in Met -were selling at $4 a bag and Over at minting time. That season a greeter M a good potato aistrict ii Elgin County grew 3ai acres ot pota. toes. He plantea very small, interior Seca, watch he valued at $2 a bag, at the rate ot 10 bags to the acre. He produced approxlmately 21 bags per acre. His total proeuction cost was calculated by him ta be 154.76, or $2,14 per ,bag. Another grotver ia Sea- coe County that same season aleo Plantea 3* aeres of potatoes, He used 21 lbags et first-class seed to the acre, which he valued at e4 a hag. ale pro - tined apProxlmately 143 bags Per acre, His total production cost was eetana,ted by hint at 4337.70, or 67*0 a bag, The total costs of tbe Simccoe grower, therefore, were $132.04 in ex- cess of those of the Elgin farmer, but hi seed was valued at $224 more, so his ether charges must have been lower. Now if tae Elgin grower had pro- duced on his tted acres 100 bags per acre -a reasonable yield -at the total cost of the Simeoe farmer, he would have cut his production cot per bag. to 96.5c, Still further, by spending.an additional $182.94, he would have se- cured 277 bags snore of potatoes at a cost per bag of 66c. These figures not only exemplify how yields affect production costs, but suggest a way, as well, to profttaibly increase the yield: These two examples give the ex- tremes of the case to be sure, The Average in Ontario liss between the two at ]16 bushels per acre. Moreover, the seed factor did not wholly cause the great difference in yields. Never- theless, it did have a very great in, fluenee In this regard, so great that all other conditions being equal, poor seed and good seed might have meant Just the cliffereace between profit and loss on these farms, If satisfactory prafits are to be made, it would seem froz . the incomplete data available that .the commercial •grower must strive to produce at least BM bags to the acre -and certainly the first thing to be done to ensure snob. yields is to plant sound seed oe vigorous strain free, front. the so-called physiological diseases of Leaf Roll and Mosaic. Nor is the planting ot seed of this character end the production_ ot re- sultant high •yields a personal question onler. It is distinctly a provincial ques- tion:ef great Importance as well. Be- cause Ontario has not any very large speeialized potato growing districts as yet, this province has not *the, re- spetation, as has New Brunswick tor iestence, oe being a great !potato pro - &male province. Yet Ontario is the gaeatest produting province of Cana - de. • Nornetlly our yield equals that de the three .Maritime Proviaces to- gether, and is equal to the produetien . ea all the West. Quebec is the ouly 'province that nears us in production, Ontario has greater possadlities than tany : otb.er province, and for many years will have the greatest oonsuin- tng popUlation, Its varied climatic cond tions give ,pecullar advantages in t the nroduction -both at seed and tattle t will be plea:tett to sena sneli informa- tion to any reader a this journal who requests it. In order to secure reliable data re- garding the prevalence of the diseate es in Old Ontario, an investigation was conductea last summer by the Federal Department of .Agriculture, under the supervision of Paul A. Mur- phy, Pathologist in Charge of PotatO Diseases. The survey covered 32 counties, and surely lute given Us food •for though. An average of 15 per cent, of Leaf atoll was found and 7 per cent. of tIVIosiaC-0, total of 22 per cent. of physiological disease. It Is but neeessary to say in this con- nection that 100 per cent. of Leaf Roll may decrease yields 68 per cent, and 100 per cent, of Mosaic, 60 per cent., and that both diseases are hereditary. Lege Roll, in addition, is comenueje- able and it is thought alosalc is Mee communicable. Owing to the sitortuess of the sea- son when Inspection could properly be given, a thorough survey of no county -could be made, while a few counties were not touched at all. The investigation will be continued, this year, however, in as thorough and svddely extended a nanne as posstble. :A, savvey had been conducted in Northern Ontario the preceding year with most encouraging, results. It was found teat Leaf Roll was practically non-existent, while Mosaic was riot widely epread, and, where found, ex- isted in a very mild form. et was thought that this eompanative inunun- ity from disease was due to favorable climatic condltione. The potato is a cool weather crop, thriving best when there is an abund- ance of rain, enol nights, heavy dews and an abseuce of prolonged hot, dry spells. In •Old °nettle, particularly in the central and south-western coun- ties, droughts with fierce heat are common. During such climatic condi- tions, the growth of the potato is ar- rested and its vitality wealcened. Waite the welartpened tuber 'which results is high in table quality, the stack i not suitable for rseed-the im- mature tuber gives much larger yields. Experiments bad already shown Northern Ontario seed to be superior to that from other sources. Ma W, T. Macoun, Dominion Horticulturist, planted potatoes of the Green Mount- ain variety from. three afferent sour- ces on the Central Experimental Perm Ottawa, in :1917. They yielded as fel- lows: New Ontario seed, 400 bushels per acre; Ottawa grown seed, 86 bush- els +per tura. All were growe on the same kind of soil and under the same conditions of culture. :Similar eesperi- ments with the Empire State variety have been conducted for several ,years at Guelph by Dr. C. A. Zavitz. The _ following are representatIve of his re- sults: New !Ontario seed, 800 bushels per acre; New Brdieswick seed, 202 bushels per acre; Old Ontario seed, 166 bushels per acre. Many practical growers who have purchased seed grown in Northern districts verify hese results. In every case they clean o have secured at least 20 per cent =ease oe crop by using such seed, ith no additional expense Or labor_ n production. stocks reducing normally over A00,060 bushels ofpotatoes mutually, tbe industry •has already attained a pereeenently sound standing. Ittariew of this large total produc- ticni tewatet then has caused the I= u ,yiel s ame acre in large sections of 11 tios -province? Well, partly We nOW t ltnow because at the two very Virn- v lent eiseases already mentioned, Leaf M Roll tted ATOMIC. Ot the two, Leaf Roll is the more k destractive to yields and profits, and fi W also .he more widely established. s The cease of either is not at present d definitely known, although each de- t velops rapidly in the field under con- ler ditions of drought and heat, and the w only assured method of control Is the N planting of • disease free seed, prefer-. Yi ably frdin Northern -Ontario. A des- criptioa.:of the symptoms and effects Of these. diseases can hardly be given fo in oer limited space, but the writer As a result the Ontario Department f Agriculture last year left no etone nturned to encourage the production 1 Northern Ontario of a large quart- ity of seed potatoes of the standard arieties-Irish Cobbler and* Green ountain-which could be certified as efficiently &tee from disease of all, Inds and true to variety as to make rst !class seed. At the sante time a eries of demonstrations evere ' con- ucted in each county in Old Ontario o show the relative merits of seed om New Ontario and New Bruns - ick; of the Irish Cobbler and ,Green ountain variettea, and of the relateve elds of these varieties when planted n sand and class respectively. Each demonstration comprised the llowin,g plot arrangement, and each gilcultural Representative had two, iNOIILD IN NO _RISKS ,OF 'GERMAN TREACHERY shm.amerrowyarrommos. meftmomervarearodry.......* Poch Declares France Must Stay On the Rhine or Huns Will Strike Again, 'and Not Blunder. London Cable --The correspondent of the Daily Mail in Paris sends an interview he had with Marshal Foch, in which the Marshal is (Doted as declaring that "our peace must be a peace of victors, and not of van- quished." "We must stay on the Rhine," Marsital Foch said. - "Pray impress that on your countrymen. It is our 0/11y safety, and their only safety. We must double lock the door." Marshal Foch then discussed with the correspond- ent the poss,ibilities of another war. Asserting that what saved the Allies at the beginning of the present war was Russia, he asked on whose side Russia would be in the next war. "With us or with the Germans." The Marshal then argued that only on the Rhine it- self would it be possible to arrest the Germans in the event of another attack, The next time, remember, the.Gertnans will make no mistake," said Marshal Foch. "They 111 break through into northern France, and seize the" Channel ports as a base of operatitms against England. They failed the last time beeause they did not believe England would come in and when they found she was coming in, it was too late to change their plans. "You think the Germans will have no arms for an- other attack! Ho! Ito l How do you know? I3y the time you found out that they had got them, it would be too late." ,LOncton, Crible.----dri dr - LONDON VIEWS, eles here mueh significance attach- The rezolution May, perhaps, be rend suggested by the Dined high coninlatut in connection with the interview with ed to the resolution adopted by the Maieltal Mich had by a, correepondent French Senate dernanding the inse,•- of the Daily Mall, in which the allied lion in the peace treaty of quarantece :tent rail:sena inealed on the iteces- ,1 one on sand and one on clay: Plot 1 -Green Mountain potatoes grown in Northern Ontario, Plot 2 -Green Mountain potatoes, grown in Old Ontario. Piot 3 -Green Motintain potatoes, grown in New Brienswick. Plot 4.-Ir1sh Cobbler potatoes grown in Northern Ontario, Piot C'obbler potatoes, grown in Old Ontario, plot 6.-Irlsh Cobbler . potatoes, grown in New Brunswick. Otto 'bushel of seed was supplied for eaeh plot, suffictent to plent 1-10 of an acre. Wen drained land, Uniform in character, was chosen. Uniforrn fertilization and cultivation was given. The seed was treated beeare planting and the growing crape 'ere •sprayed for blight. The seed secured vas 'rather dis- appointing. lit Old Ontario tbe seed of several very good .fariners who had carefully followed methods of selec- tion was secured, but as the strains varied, the results lack the •uniformity desired. All the Northern Ontario seed ,was secured from one grasver M Thunder Bay District, but it wae• just ordinary field run stack which had never been selected, was not entirely pure as to variety and was quite bad- ly affected with IBlack Leg, The New Drunswick, stock was till certified, but prevail to be badly dieeased, particu- larly the Green Mountain variety, which averaged 61 per cent. Mosaic. The !calculations were made and direct supervision given by the var- ious Agricultural Representatives, The inspectioa tor disease was :made be the botanical Staff of the 'Ontario Ag- ricultural leollege under the direction of Prot. J, E. Hewitt, The average yields of marketable potatoes of all plots calculated in bushels per acre were as follGot Irsh iv.in i Cobbler. Mountain New ,Ontarlo 153.4 177.6 Old Ontario .... 127.7 167.8 New Brunswick 148.0 137.3 A,gain summarizing• the yields of marketable potatoes per acre from these two varieties in 22 counties, we find the following yields were se- cured: Irish Green Cobbler, Mountain New Ontario... ...174.9 Old Ontario ,... 154.7 122.8 New Brunswick 141.3 148,8 0 Average 1-42,1 These demonstrations clearly prothe so ear as may be proven 'by one sea- son's demonstrations, the superiority of New Ontario seed over both the 010 Ontario and the New Brunsevick seed. If average Old Ontario' seed had been seeured, as was the case with the New Ontario, the results Would have been still more convincing This year the same demonstration wili be conducted again, but superior seed front all three sources and from one grower in each source has been obtained. A 'plot et the farmer's own seed, upon whose farm each demon- stration is conduoted, will also be grown in comparison with this high class seed, Meanwhile the develo•pment of the seed industry in Northern -Ontario has gone on apace. In 1911 very little seed was produced tor export. In 1918 over fourteen earloads 'of seed was inspected in the field and after dig- ging, was produced for sale. All of this eves of the Irish 'Cob'bler and Green :Mountain varieties, and most of it has been already sold. The re- mainder has an eager market and wilt be sold as soon as the shipping season -opens, and the prospects are still brighter for 1910- A large quan- tity of seed of the highest quality win be planted in Rainy River, Kenora, Thunder Bay, Algoma, Muskoka and Parry Sound this spring. Granted reasonable weather -conditions, at least 60 carloads of !certified seed, mainly No, 1, will be availalble next fan for saM in Old Ontario. -The Canadian Countryman. .•0111••••••••••••••••••••, sity of regarding the Rhine es the real barrier against another German Attack, because the Rhine could be held With a small force, whereas the political frontier West of the Rhine as proposed under the peace treaty would, at the marshal explained, have to be held by large forces along Its whet° length, There are rumors that Marshal Poch insists strongly on the guarantees, 1J. S. -BRITISH ALLIANCE. Paris, Cable. -The question of an alliance between Great Britain and the United States is still being dis- cussed by the newspapers. The Ex- celsior to -day says that the latest seggestion is tor a special convenant restricted to defensive measures. This agreement would not be intended to insure the payment of financial roper.ation LEADING POWERS AT FIRST PARLEY After Treaty Delivered, Time 'Given to German T9 Make Iriquiries ,Concern- ing Details. Paris Cable: The procedure on the arrival of the German plenipotentiaries at Versailles ha o virtually been eon-, eluded. It win be the Premiers Lloyd George, Clean:mean and Orlando, and President Wilson who will hold the first meeting and deliver the treaty, as It is not deemed feasible to have an the Allied Powers attend this Initial session. The &dual arrival of the Germans at Versailles, it Is stated. will oceur on Priday night, April 25th, but the meeting with the Premiers and the President will not be held until Saturday, and may go over until Mondale After the treaty lo actually -delivered it iii intended to allow adequate Unto for the Germans to ntake enquiries Concern- ing the various details before returning to Weimar, This Is expeeted to take about two days, the first -clay being de- voted by the Germans to familiarising, themselves with the terms, and the see - end day to the answering ef Mt& quer- ies as they may make. There Is no purpeee to have this as- - sume the character or a diseuseion, but merely the cluelitation of any paints - which may aralst in seeming prompt and tamable action when the pleninotentittr- les return to Weimar, It Is believed that the stay of the Wen- !nolentiarleS at Weimar win eover week, them brit:ging them beck to Ver- mtI1Ie.4 about May Rth lo MM. Thie. ,toweVer. LI eonjeefural, fOr It IA &pond - FAKES FORM OF ALLIANCE French Idea of U. S. -British Guarantee Of Support Against the Germans. , Paris, April 20, -The extent of the gnaraatee which Great Britain and the united States, have given to the French asesecurity against renewea Geaman attacits coutinues, .to be the foremost teazle in the French Press, The French representatives ma,lutein that the guarantee take a the form of an alliance. The Metal says: "Thia alliance lam alreed,y been drawn in the form ol e very beta text stipulating that the three powers will give other menial suppert if Germany attacks Us again. Tho 4g. nature of tea stipulation will occur; at the same tanas the Meal& of the treaty." The Antedato officials withhold all comment on these reports. It ie known, however, that a number of proposals have been brought lOrwarti designed to give n more prompt axle more effective guera.ntee to militaxY assietauce to tae French than the League of Nations a•ffortis. But none of these proposals had been accepted up to forty-eight haus ago, Editorial writers of Parisian news- papers again are clamoring for do - finite and efficacioue guarantees to weed off a. renewal in future of Ger- man aggressioa. To this end they demand either .an alliance with Great Britain and the United States or prateetion by the League of Nations. rtax, in the Echo de Paris, in- cists that while the left bank of the Rhine is occupied and the fate of the Saar Basin is in suspense, nothing• but an alliance pure and simple will servo. stBrie, In the Journal, goes even farther, declaring an alliance must contain a military engagement of a very definite nature, and rbat the League of Nations must not sup- plant an alliance until it becomes real and non-fictitions-in other awnoiradIsac. ,ewhen it offers military secur- ity at Mare equivalent to that of an Lieut. -Col. Roussett, in the Petit Parise, makes the point that, granting all good will on the part or the United States and Great Britain, Prance ought not to be expected to 'bear the brunt of an eventual Ger- man attack alone until American and British assistance would have time to come to the rescue, Were. simplicity is the rule in German toy shops noW, and wood, (Mee formerly used only for cheaper toys, ls now almost the only material employed. Lack of flour, which is used with cement to make the bodies, preents the manufacture of new dolls. Wax, used tot, the heads, is al- most unobtainable, and the material for dresses costs four times as much as be- fore the war. Toys cost at least twiee as much as formerly, metal toys are few in number, and Some of the very cheap varieties cannot be had at all. The metal that formerly went into the mak- ing of trains, horses, soldiers, magic lan- aerns, etc., has been taken by the gov- ernment for the manufacture of muni- tions. 0 Ji!.. •••,••••••-...* THE ADRIATIC ISSUE ACUTE Decision Must Be Reached One Way or Other, And Either Way May Mean Danger, Paris, April 20. -The Big Pour en- gaged in a long session 'yesterday ou the Fiume question without appoacli- ing a Solution, Premier Orlando re- turning to Italy to make a pronounce- ment before the Chamber, which, it is anticipated, will be `a. reiteration of the Italian claims which Baron Son- nino, befare the Big Four yesterday, rigidly 'maintained as a maximum. The outlook causes distinct pessim- tete, ter although Premiers Clemen- ceau and Lloyd George, it is believed, symAthized with President Wilson's firm stand an the, question of princi- ple, their hands are tied by the eeeret treaties which he holds Were abr0- gated by the "fourteen points." The feeling in Italy is reported to be running very high, and it is credi- bly reported that Geneeal Treat has issued an order directing the evith- drawl of all American troops from Italian territory before May 1, wales; the Red Cross and other war workers remaining atter that date: raust re- move their uniforms. Varlotte construetions are put upon this order, but it is surmised that it really means that in view of the in.. tonions al conditof the Military, it 15 undesirable to have any foreign troOlis there. - Baron Sonnino continued to oecupy the extretne position, insisting upon the integral fulfilment of the seeret treaty of London, giving to- Italy the entire Dalmatlati ebast and tslands, and also Maiming the city of Plume without intereationalization or divis sl with the juge-Slavs. Premier Orlando was Vether more concilatting, thotlah a telegram which he had rectaved from the heads of the Italian army deelared that the entire army Was behind. him in Upholding Italy's atiptrations., Captain TOzzi, of Premier Orlahdo's staff, said the tehe gram was in effeet ultimatum and disclosed how universal and deep- rooted WAS the Italian delegattett to secure adeqeate protection cm the eastern ,Aahltie coast. Ha,addtel that hts if thew eigwere not recognized Italy would undoubtedly adopt its own course, without reference to the conference, end (seamy the regions to whichhe sconsidered herselt entitled. Reports a a cotnpromiee the basis of the Italians getting the Hel- len quarters of Plume, and the ango- Slays getting their distriete, Were, not tOnfirieted, The ctoat's "'oat. Bid yon ever notiee the shape AU the build of a goat's foot? its fetnese for reek -Climbing is only one sign of ttod'e marvelcitts tare 111 fittin tt3, of the illeehloa.i ereaturce for the kind of work they reached at Weimer, inuet do, AWES TO SENO 1000 TO RUSSIA , 1 Agreement Reached by As- sooiated Powers. Of ..,e,101•10s••••--Aveie An, Bolsheviki Must End All Paris Coble --- An agreement Witii ffaehed to -day by the aseeelatea pow, ers to Send food to Ituesia, under neu- tral control, but the French represen, Wives made several reservations which will Le consieered sto-eurrow. It seems likely, limacver, that the ole jections will' be overcome and that the relief writ will be pressed rapidly. Tbe atsreement etipulates that the notellevila must cease The relief work will be M charge 01 a commiesioa tweet(' by Dr. Fridtjof Nitneen, the Noeweglan piorer."Ithe other members will b, ettizens of Scandinavia and Switzer, lame Tbe revictualing plate is not me ceptable to Mal, Bekhmeteff, Saxon - or% Lvoff and other Russians form- Mg- Use commission •representing the Holchalc and Denekine Government% who regard it as recognition of the Bolsiteviki Government and giv- ing the Bolshevilti authority to spend money from the /Onion treas- ury. 13u1 the members of the Coun- cil took the position that the better class in Russia, who are being starv- ed by the Bolehaseki, Must not be al- lowed. to die, ad they are necessary for the generation of that country. The various political ebjections to sending food to Petrograd and Mos- cow have gradually been weakening rece.ntly, and , the members of the Supreme Economic Connell take the posilton that the millions of Rus- sians elsout to starve must be fed on humane terounde, regardless of polttical consideratio'ns. This posi- tion has been strengthened by the general indisposition of the Entente powers anathe Vatted Stet:: to send more troops into Rueela. LLOYD GEORGE VINDICATED HIS COURSE Some More Details of Brit- ish Premier's Defence of Peace Course. KEPT PLEDGES Must Secure Prancer Make Germany Powerless for Halm. - London Cable - No intervention in Russia; no recognition oftolshe- vism, and the fulfilment of his elec- tion promises, including theee relating to indemnity front the enemy leavers and punishment of the. former Ger- man Emperor. These were the out- standing features of the report which Premier Lloyd George brought from Paris and delevered to the House of Commons to -day. Every member was present and the galleries were packed when- the Pre- mier entered the Chamber, with the cheers of the great Crowd outside the Parliament green -cis stilt ringing in tds ears. He appeared fresh and in buoyant spirits, pausing at times to • make humorous sallies with, Various members. In the main, though, the mood of the Premier was serious, in conform- ity with the weighty subjects discuss- ed, and the audience listened with profound attention to his lengthy speech, which lasted almost an hour . and a half. The Laborites vigorously applauded the Premier's announcement of non- intervention M Russia and non-reeog- nition ef Bolshevism, but remained silent while the Conservatives cheer- ed the statement that the antes would continue to aid etiendly elements which were fighting Bolshevism. The delegate, said Lloyd George, had never forgotten what France had gene through and they had not for- gotten what she was entitled to -not merely security against a repetition of the German attack, but to teel a sense of 'security against It. The con- ference had come to a unanimous de- cision, on all the questions before it, inclualeg a decision' that to publish the peace terms before they were die - (Waged 11101 the enmny would be a tirst-class blunder. 'The premature publication, he contended, would only serve to encourage the resistance of the -enemy. Mr. Lloyd ,George denied that he was trying to eseape the declarations he made during the generel election catnpaign. The declaration regarding making GerMany pay, he declared, had been concurred in by all the early leaders, STAtBY PLEDGES. The Premier said he had not come to the Roue of Commons to ask re- lease feir any pledges he had given, "I am her ,to say that every pledge We have given is incorporated in the demands put forward by the allies, We stand by them 'beau se we believe they are just. We want a peace that is just, not vindictive justice. Every clause and every term in the deten- tions Must be Justified, Above all, we want to protect the future against a repetition of the horrors of this war," The Premier said he was going back 10 Paris, if the :Mese wanted hint to go, liVhoever went, he declar- ed, must have the fun eonfidence of the Parliament, and earry out ale pledges to the Utmost of las power and on. Tile Premier sharply criticised cer- tain newspaper attacks that had been made in -connection wItlt the Peace Conference, seeing: "When this kind of disease is car- ried to the aolut of sowing dissension between great ante% Whose Unity is eseential for the peace of the world; Whet1 an attempt is made to make Prance distrust Great Britain, Prance to hate America; and America to die - like France and Rely, hot 'Vett that d O kinf a diens° is justiti atiOn for no black a crime against humanity, 1 e erring to the neeeesetry of return - trig to paths Of peace nira of redueing st,tquortunItik tWo PritAwr Nohl no rorcom or too gountgy tbot hati kint1 V.Orop4 14 IMO* OP tOtty yettrA wore to bo rottato4 to on army lybleb Weald only be ociequota enough to police bet' Mire and protect tor common*. 'bere were miggesitleee that there Int4rbt recrudeeee1100 in .001111421Y. Trutt wo not a danger, .:Mr. Lloyd George use:t- oil, became° only with difficulty coital tiermanY raise °IOW tbausand men to preeervo order.. TIM danger he sale, dwiansg:of the world going to Piee le, ad- _ lanad.,,Areel danger -the gaunt :maitre of hunger -is Making tlarouge the -Premier Lloyd George concluded let appealing to 'tall "ztot to soil OM triumph of right by Indillging »t th's angry passion e of mankind, but ta con- centrate the sacrifiees of aalliona to the reclemptiou oe the auman race from the SCOurgo and agony of ware The Premier said he might be asked why he supported Admiral Kolchak and Gen. Denleine, tie woUld tell tat House frankly, he said, When tla treaty of Brest-Litovslc was !signed. he explained, large parts of Besela bat. no hand in the allanieful Ret and were in, revolt against the Government v‘'hieh signed it. "They liaised arms at our instigation and largely at, our expellee," he added but that was ebsolutely Sound mil- itary policy, because without those or- ganizations the Germans wined have secured all the resources which would nave .onebled them to break the block_ Ade. "Boleheaism," continued the Prem ier, "had threatened to press b; force of arms its domivatioa over these populations whieh had revolted against it, and it would have been an act thoroughly unworthy of any great lent to say to those population, 'We art - exceedingly obliged to you; you have served your pUrpOSO and we need yoe no longer," and have left them to their Bolsheviki troops. It ie our duty, sinee we asked thee' to Mite this step, to promise them support. We are not sending troops, because every RUSEcian thought that If Russia .were to be re- deemed she mut be redeemed by het own sons and they asked that they be eupplied with tee necessery arms." Tlx Premier said he did not consi.I- er that this was a departure faun the fundamental policy of Greta Britain of not interfering in the internal af- Mirs of any land, "This is our police, but we want peace in Russia. The world wileenot be passive as long as Resale is torn and rent by civil war. •"It is our policy to make pease among the warring nations, •not recognizing one .party, but by inducing them to come together, with a view of setting up -some Authority in Russia which would be acceptable to the whole Russian people, and that the Allies could recognize as their Government.' He did not despair, he said, ef a solu- tion being found. HOPES rr WILL BE REAL LEAGUE. Lord Robert Cecil, the British au- thority thl a League of Nations, in the House of Commons tosee•v, said that he hoped the League would be a rsal League and not merely a league of the allies to safeguard the future ward peace. He added: "We want not only tosecure justise, Or even security, ,tor tacee who me gaged in this war pacification of tee be- tween all tio d and to Et co-operation be - Lord Robert said it was impoesible to exaggerate the economic situation in Europe. He wanted the indemnity question settled and the blockade lift- ed as soon as Possible. SITUATION IN INN *BETTER Lahore Agitators Arrested, Shops Reopening. No Further Troubles in Big Centres. London cable Improvement in the situation In inclia is indicated In an of- ficial statement issued to -night. At La- hore three agitators have been arrested and the .shops are reopening. At ()up.- s.nwala, north of Lahore, twenty leaders have been arrested. Europeans there aro reported sate. • In rioting at one of tho railway stations the building was burned and one of the staff injured. At Delhi the situation 12 Unehanged, and no further trOuble has been reported from Bombay. Normal conditions have been restored In Calcutta, At Delhi the situation is unchanged, and no further trouble has been reported from Bombay. Normal conditions have been restored in Calcutta, itaTilthavrae.y.tst.ro somtb e reats of strikes on the East Indian and Great Peninsula The India office, in further offieial re- ports regarding the outbreak in India, says that at Arnwitsar on April 13 a mo bdefied the proelamation forbidding WWI° meeting's. In the firing that en- sued 200 casualties weer caused. "At 'Cum., in the Punjab, the teasurY was attacked on April 13th and one Brit- ish soldier was killed and two British of- ficers wounded. At Delhi on April 13th a Mohammedan mob interfered with the reopening of the shops and the ponce were obliged to open fire. Troops were summoned and the mob scatteed. Pour policemen were in - lured. "Calmat& Is normal and Bombay quiet, but in the Punjab rural areas disorderly elements are damaging Government pro- perty, looting trains and stopping the railway .i.:evIce." ITALY'S PLAN TO GET FIUME Paris Cable 'a- If Fiume le not awarded to her outright by the Peace Conference, Italy proposes tO make A separate treaty with the reninants of Austro-Hungary, whereby she Will gain the disputed poiht. • Italy Is in a diffieult position, for the failure to gain Plume will result in grave internal complieations, which have alrea.dy manifested themselves In disorders viewed As an approach to revolution. The Big Pour, with Arthur 13altour 1 substituting for Premier Lloyd 'George, discussed the ease at length to -day, but got nowhere. They hoped to persuade Italy to accept the same formula applied to the Saar Basin, and which is now to be used In the matter of the Tuella' coal basin in dispute between the Poles and Czech, but Italy declined to accept what she calls a repudla.tiott of the agreement, she had, The Saar method -of giving tem- porary posse:salon With a pleblecite to follow After a term of years -is likely to be timed in the Danzig question, and itre again it docs not awaken any en- thtlislasna BELGIUM BALKS AT ME PROPOSAL Will Decline to Take 04$0 Against Ex -Kaiser, Thinks Powers Should Act Together, Paters Calle -- The Belgain dele- gation to the Peace Coeference to- day informed the Correspondent that Belgium had net been. officially re- quested by the 'Council ot Four to brine the former irerman eatiperer to trial, and that the lielgien Govern- ment would feet ,00ligott to decline to take the step, eVen if there were anY request for smelt action.. The Belgian delegates told that any action should be taken by a commis- sion representing all the 5000014100 powers. The official Belgian view, it W5 s stated, is that the former idexper- or cannot be arraigned for deeleriug. war or violating the neutrality of Bele Alum, or for any act preceding or co-' incident with the declaration of war. Atter pointing out that there ie no tribunal competent to her suett chargee against the former Emperor, and eo provision of International law cotrering suet' cues, the delegates eat(' that Belgium expeets that persona guilty of act, punishable under the criminal codes of any of the beater - mit powers seculd be placed on trial, as theft, Murder anti o other crimes eommittea during the war does not relieve the crimipale of reeponsibillty. 4 ARMENIANS 111 PERIL AGAIN Ask Peace Conference to Aid Their Arzny, Turks 'Violate Armistice .Plot Massacre. Paris, Cable. - Pear of further Turkieh aggression has caused the Armenian cielegation now in Paris to consider making an appeal for asele- tance in organizing an Armenian arnia to drive the Turks from the newly - formed republic. Their requests for the occupation of Armenia by Allied troops luxe brought front the Peace Conference, according to Acetis Ah- rounian, Preeident "if the Armenian delegation, only promises of consid- eration. A report just received by him from the Armenian Foreign Minister, de. claret the Turkish menace is Increas- ing daily, and unlese radical measures are adopted there can be no other re- sult than domination of the country by the Turks. Grave apprehension is felt that thie would be accoznpanied by massaeres. M, Ahrounian declares' tbat the Turks have failed to carry out the terms of the armistice, which pro- vided for the withdrawal of their forc- es. He adde that the few British de- tacbments ecattered along the eastern lines of !Caueasien Armenia have not eerved ae a force for the removal of the Turks, or even for deterring them in putting into effect what he regards as a carefully laid plan for the extinc- tion of the Armenian people. * A SOLDIER'S GRAVE. They laid hint away in the orchard; that Is all that we'll ever know, That's all that Ins coinrades told us an' I'm kind of glad it's so - I'm glad that we don't remeMber the battle an' wound an' pain, But only the grave in the orchard grass That waves in the blossom rain. "We laid hint away in the orchard," was all that bus comrades said; Nor give us that net to sorrow or mourn for our soldier dead. But only the pain ot partin', the thoughts of his far-off mound, An' him with his hands crossed -that- away - An' the oie Flag wrapped around. They laid him away in the orchard; that's inebbe the reason why I like to sit in the gloamin' In the orch- ard here an' try To picture him a-aleopin' In the mallard • there, the sound Of drums and bugles an' war forgot, An' the pink blossom all around, That's why, Ivhen it's Decoration -an' the vets tromp up an' down, ruther stay with my teolin's an' never go off to town -- To dream of the place he's sleepin', the grave 'neath the floWered limb, Where every day that the blossetria fall, It's Memorial Day for him: -Joint D. Wells, In Buffalo News.) 4-4.d NORTHCLIFFE HITS BACK His Paper Hints Lloyd George Sent Envoy To Intercede With News. paper .Autocrat, Londen, Cable -The Daily Mall's editorial comment on Premier Lloyd George's Attack on Lord Northcliffe and the Times yesterday in the House •of Co•mmons, ineludes it pass- age in -which "it is surmised" Mitt Lord Northcliffe will be as indiffer- ent to Mr. Llothl George's ettacksas to the more friendly *Visit of emis- saries to Northcliffe at IrontainbIeu front th Premier making overtures for peace between them, will& evidently were IfruitIess, %Lord 1Northclitfe's brother, Lord Rothermeyer, mete to Paris from Nice this week to inter- cede at the last moment on behalf of the Premier, but apparently *with- out waist. The progress of this fight Will be watched with interest. Without Lord Northcliffe's tessistance Mr. Lloyd George could never hatre become Pre- mier. It now remains to be meen whether Lord Northcliffe can unntake him, HAL tt FORCE i.tom.e ay MAY London Cable: kir Mtwara /Ceti) announces that by the mut of Ajwil one- half of the VanatIlan troops will have been repatriated amounting to ahOtit 130,- 000 men of the troops who were overeetts ellen the w54 come 1 1 1 1170i1)1,1) 1'1144i -0T Intlitlatronen( will he back In Canada, OF THE NEWS OF THE 40.......renfoomotO German Troops Threaten Strike Over Out in Pay to Peace Basis, FREE ALBANIA Balkan x Applied to Switzerland for Asylum. Guelph is to adopt the two platoen system for the fire brigade, startitae iLay 1, e Magistrate Richerd Greer** woad, of Port Colborne, died sudden- lY ef heart diseage„ dosepb Breult, employed on the elytlea, pipe line in Victeria Park, M- aples leans, fell thirty -feet from A, etareold, and was instantly killed. Mee IChristina Hall, a maitre of Woodstock, Ont., has been appotnted Chief Inspector of the Victorian Or- der of Nurses, succeeding Miss Agues Rusell, resigned, - Capt. Asa R. Millard, tormerly head of the civil branca of the GarriSon Military Pollee at Windsote and later of the,Dominiou Police' there, was ar- rested on several charges, of iorgery. A leadlee Euglish bank wilt put-. cease Royal Dank of Canada eltares, to fecilltate a Moser working arrauge- ment, Canada wilt be represented at a large exhibition or British menufact turies which is to be held at Atheres this autumn. The American Enthasssr itt ula denies reports that important railtvay concessions in Russia have been ob- tained by Americans. Ex -King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria., a telegram from Prague says, has esitea the Swiss Federal authoritTes foram:* mission to reside in Stvitzerland. Mrs. John .Anderson, wife ef ablen Anderson, Port Colborne, committed psualeridoef sbeyisscouftsti.ligittliesr stu.hprpO:sted,Ww1t4hiirte temporary demented. Niagara, Palls- hes passed a. resign - don to raise fifty thousand dollars for a hundred -bed hospital to cost a hue dred thousand, -public subscriptions to meet the other eale of the cost. Tuesday Portland, Me. The steamer Areguaya sailed front Liverpool Tuesha, with 48 officers from Buxton, mut a eveanrtierteys. of small details front other The annual convention of the Do- minion Police Chiefs' Association has been called for June 10, 11, 12, at Calgary, Caief .Slenan, ot Brant- ford, President of the Association, an- nouneecl. .tt Reuter's learns that a Roumanian steamship has left Liverpool for Mon- treal to load goods supplied by Canada teed llagouretnemanoin. atunder the recently sign - Soldiers and non-commissioned offit cers in the German army are protest, ing against the order placing the rate of pay on the.peece time basis and have manifested their intention a geing on strike if the order is not rescinded. The members of the Albanian Pro- visional Governmentrepresenting that country at the Deaee Cougress have addressed to the president ofthe eon - faience a letter asking for the con. firraation of the complete . indepen- dence of Albania. After being delayed during the war the Hydro -Electric Association of On- tarlo- has arranged it series oe meet- ings to discuss the railway eituation throughout the, Provihce of :Ontario, with a view to cohcerted Cation by the municipalities to prepare:tied carry out an extensive programme.' Metal worker d at four of the big iron , works of Calgary were locked out When they went to work because they insisted on sticking to.the eight-hour sehedule they themselves had put int° effect Cardinal Mercier,. CathOlie primate of Belgium, Who wag to con1ia to thte eountry shoftly after Easter th thank the Amerlean People for their good. ness to Belgiuna has temPoraellY Post» poned hlh visit.- He will come in the autumn. Captain George Black, tormarlar Com. missioner for the Yukon, "has, at the:: instance of Agent-GeneraleWnee, been retained as couesel, fer4lie British Coluxubian soldiers iniplicatee in the Kinmel Camp dietwebences. The court-martial will open almoet ira- medlately. At a epedal meeting er the general meeting of the management of Alma College, the report of the special sel- ection committee was accepted, ttp, • pointing Rev. Perry 0,,Dobson, M. 4., formerly of Stansteatr College, Que- bec, now in Y. M. C. A. military work, as succestorto Rev. Dr. R. T. Warner, the retiring Principal of the College, Beautiful New Flounelrigs. Paris is to be thIpIked for them. They are quite wide, extremely hew and rather expenelve. Some are dime oe tine black netst othr 05 pearl grey crepe Georgette, or Georgette in dark colors, They have several rowe of the new ostrich fringe-Whieh, by the way, 16 not ostrich at all, but it:imply a talker fringe tliat looks like the feather fronds. 1 it tidditien to the rows ot fringe they have great oval ntotirs of the fienge-the motifs far apart :at4 very, effective. Such flouttelage will roallY raako very handsolne .new SPring gowns, and will need no othlg* treating at all. CASUALTY taratI0th stwreNceo. Itingston despateh; Major W. 3, 5. Sharp, casualty orticer of this district, who disappeared Ittat August !and was apprehended in 1.1eW York in January, and who was tried by court-martial some days ago will have to serve a year le Burwaelt Pastel, mut Itt eddition te thts be 'cashiered from the tervites, according to the finding et the eourtartartlel, which wes promulgated this. atterreson, -Sharp was charged with being absent without leave tyleht on Active servh5e. "Wile don't a011 glaa Year Wife aii allowance?" "1 tlid once and the spent It before 1 -meld borroW it hack.' -Boston TrAneeriDa