HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-10-02, Page 7RAIL STRIKE
FOR SUBVE SIVE ENDS
Lloyd George Says It Is Not
For Better Conditions.
Tie -Up Is Compete—Public
Against Strikers.
London, Cable. ----"The precipitancy of this action
gives the impression of a deliberate and matured inten-
tion on the part of some individuals to seek a quarrel at
any cost," said Premier Lloyd George in a statement
to -day on the nation-witle railway strike,
"It has convinced me it is not a strike for wages
or better conditions," continued the Premier; "the ov-
crnment has reason to believe it has been engineered for,
onie time by a small but active body of men, who have
rolxgitt tirelessly and insidiously to exploit the labor .
organizations of this country foi.. subversive ends."
MINER CHIEF '8 V1EW,
Ctlasgo-ts , Cable. --Robert Smillie, leader of the
Miners' Union, said here this morning he hoped the rail-
way crisis would pass without an industrial upheaval.
Ile believed, however, he tid, this was possible only by
the men "securing the demands they and the majority of
the people consider just."
• TLEaUP IS COMPLETE.
London Cable -- So far as could
be learnea at 10 o'elocle this morning.
the members of the N•ational Union ot
Railwaymen had walked out in a
above the normal arid remain there
Lor three months."
PUBLIC OPINION' AGAINST STRIK-
ERS.
- London Cable saye---Several 'repent-,
body, and the stoppage of service was commenting on the strike, urge an Me
complete. Telephonic atrd telegraphic mediate summoning of Parliament,
reports to the executive committee of and there are some indications this
the union from distant centres show wilt be done. It is contended the
that local branchee aro supporting the nation does not know the full story,
committee's action, and that only earching debates in
the Houseof Connuons will reveal it,
All shades of opinion in the Lon-
don press, except the Laborite Herald,
condemn the National Innen of Rail.
waymen, .the action of which in de.
clarineba strike is described as a
"wanton war on society, awl an at-
tempt to starve the rountry into sub.
mission."
The Daily News, which is alwaye
sympathetic to labor, says:
"There was no shadow or semblance
of excuse for the strike."
The Ministry of Transport. shortly
before 3 o'clock this afternoon an-
notinced -that the stoppage of traffic
on therailroads through the strike
was virtually complete, except in Ire-
land, where the lines are not affected.
The a.nnouneement said that no dis-
turbances had been reported.
„ Railroad depots here were open
thie morning, but, with the exceptiou
of. a few people who were not aware
of the strike, they were deserted. Even
officials of the Southeastern etailwaY
admitted their service had ceased,
while subway trains had come to a
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couiplete standstill shortly after ton.
o'er:Oda In the big freight yards
motor ears, driven by soldiers, were
carrying off perishable articles which.
arrived on late trains from outlying
sections.
• 0. T. Cramp, President of the union,
heterviewed Sir Eric Geddes, Minister
of Traneport, this forenoon. This, a1.
thoughnot regarded as a reopening of
negotiations, is considered an indica-
tion that the men and the Government
still maintain friendly terms toward
each other.
Mr. Cramp declared shortly after
noon that his presence at Whitehall
this Morning had nothing. to do with
One of the most disquieting teateires
of the situation is the pobsibility that
the miners and transport workers
who, with the railwaymen, form wirer
the reopening of negotiations. is known as the "trinle alliance," may
e THE GOVERNMENT'S S,TAND. also strike. This would bring a tre-
London CableSir Robert mendous addition to the ranks of the
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strikers and still further complicate
Horne. Millister ot Labor, last night
summarized the Government's stand-
an already serious crisis in the labor
point in the controversy with, the Na -
World in England.
tional Union of Railwaymen as fol. Government spokesmen declare the
have: action of the union officials in quit-
ting the confeeence evite the Cabinet
"A new standard wage was proposed
by the Government equal to an aver. has "closed the door" to further nego-
tiations. On the other hand, Pres!.
-age of at least JO per cent. over pre-
war wages, and guaranteeing to eV.
ery adult worker, irrespective of any
fall in the cost of living, a permanent
Wake of 40 shillings per week, cern-
pared to 18 to 20 before the war.
deat Cramp, of the union, declares the
organization is ready to continue con-
versations, but that the Government
must recede from its position, which,
it is alleged, brought about the de -
"Extra, -payments for Sunday and cision to send out the strike order.
night duty and overtime, which would,
mita' arrothee 20 per cent. on the pre -
near wage.
"A. reduction in the hours of labor ra
imreenteele
; THOUSAND BUYS 173 ACRES
—oe of
frier)). ten to eight, and in some eases townnship: gthe best ood buildifarms in (morph
ng:4: three miles
from. twelve to eight. earn city. it. 'McDonald, Guelph.
"In any, event the men would until
Do. 31 eontinue to receive their pros-
ent aggregate earning% and in the
meantime the Government would con-
tinue negotiations,
"There has been vas question of a
reduction of the preeent wage on Dec.
31 if the cost of living remains the
FARMS FOR SALE
lYlajesty of the Law.
" Here, now!" sternly tonimainied
Constable Sam T. Sleckpatter, the
redoubtable sleuth of Petunia. "You
fellers move on there! Scatter out!
You're blocking the sidewalk so folks
;AM% in which case the men would cat.% gat a lenge And, beide s all that,
receive the full aggregate wages they I want to see a little of that there
new receive as long as extra cost of dog fight myself before it is all ever."
living does not fall below 110 per cent. --Kansa.s City Star.
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SCIE'NCE NOTES,
it is a curious fact that notwith-
standing its thickne:se the elephant's
sitin is very BelltiiiiVe,
Soule of the pioneer of Thibet aro
mtill printing boce& in the inannor
followed 100 years ago,
ppprene
Rasps Were iirst made of sheets of
bronze, punched and celled round.
A scientist claims to have cliscovered
it gas that has the saute relation to
hydrogen that ozone has to oxygen.
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Chloroform administered through a
tube is said to dispense with the
nausea which is almost invariably en.
countered otherwise. The new practice
was inaugurated ba a French prac-
titioner, Dr, Guise& The naesea is
caused by a part of the chloroform
vaPoes being absorbed by the esopha-
gus aft the stomach. Dr. tuisez in.
traduces the thloroform vapor directIY
bete the lungs throat a tube run.
rang into the windpipe. The tuae
method has already been employed ln
several hundred meet-, and with great
suceess, It is particularly useful for
operation to be performed on the
head and neck.
QUEBEC BANDITS
Train Robbery but Climax
of Long Series.
tie b eet 4.; • la over! ea made by
the police yesterday show that the big
(rain robbery was the climax of ono of
the most daring series of hold-ups and
burglaries ever known in this district,
and they believe that the parties they
have behind the bars aro connected with
a chain of other criminal offences which
they will be able to prove against them.
The police yesterday Visited and
searcned the house_OX Joseph Levasseur,
the brother-in-law of (lemma Topping,
the alleged leader ot the bandits. It
was Lavasseur who drove the automo-
bile on rhe night c,r the hold-up, and up
to the present he has merely been held
as a material witness, but on the strength
of what the police found at Ills home
yesterday, ho Will now be placed under
arrest. The police discovered' a verit-
able arsenal in the hoUse, revolvers,
knives and a store of ammunition, as
well as a khaki mask. It is expected
that there will be some further sensa-
tional developments when the preliminary
inquiry is resumed on Friday.
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SPLENDID COURAGE.
Nen Who Axe Physically Afraid
.Are Moral Heroes.
There in a familiar story of ono
soldier sneering at another because
of hie evident trembling just before
a battle. The one thus attacked re-
plied: "Yes, and if you trembled as
much as I do you would not go at
all." This incident is an Illustration
of the essential difference between
physical and moral bravery, and also
of the fact that e maxi may be physi-
cally afraid and yet be a moral hero,
The present war has done peach to
emphasize this distinction, which is
one or the greatest value and the
most vital importance in many-phaees
of life. It will be abundantly worm
while calling attention to the power
of mo: -al courage as illustrated by
the war.
Bishop Taylor Smith, Chaplain
General to the British Armes, preach-
ing the other daysin Westmineter
Abbey, told a striking story et self.
sacrIfiee:
A wounded Australian eoldier ' in
a military hospital, who was asked
about his home and family in Aus-
tralia said:
"There were six of its lads and
mother. We all enlisted, and left
mother alone. It was her wish. She
sald she•hoped no boy of hers would
hold back when the Mother Country
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INGENIOUS SiKYKRAPER GARAGE.
Ivied by E. Q. Higgine, Of Jackson, Mich., --Reproduced from Scientlft t. American.
called. And now five of Us are tetleelli
buried in the battlefields Of Pane.
and 1 ant the Only One left," There
were a few tuozuent' ef nure°, and
then he added. "But I have not told
you the worst, When I got this
woluni seine one cabled to niy mother
that I hed been killed, and that telt-r-
ipe= killed Iter."
Very Mueller is the teetimony of a
leading Baptiet minister, ire England,
,Rev. le. C. Spur, who has had abet, -
dant oPleartunities of pining expert.
.ences of MUD Ilfe since the early
days of the war. After four years he
•observed the vast change that has
come over camps and hilts. Instead
of the rollicking, gay, eareleee, and
cenficient attitude of men in those
days, Mr. Spur says the determina-
tion, hope long deferred, and grave
queetionings about the ;enure bay°
arrived, Here is one characterititie
• incldent:
Tlie Youths 04 18 were the inoet
cheerful; the men of 47 the least so.
One, a chemist, drew from bis posket
it wallet, containing a photograph Elf
his wife, his children, and his grand.
child, and he said': "1 feel the iter.
rooting more keenly than I can bay;
ani dazed, 1 can scarcely realize
what has happened; but"—with
sob—"it is for -that little felleyr and
others liae him that I aux here, and
hope I'll go through like c wan.
am afraid I am not of mucle use for
righting, but I suppose 1 shall have a
job 1 can, do," And thus it was with
more than one man wire had passed
Ws 45th mile-steue.
Nothing could 'be finer than the
moral herotsm evinced in these stor-,
ies. They showheyond question what
has been so often and abundantly
proved, that the preeent war is mil.
que in the way in which the cause
of righteousness and liberty for
which the Allies are iighting has
brought out some of the noblest and
truest elements of human life, which
would, have been impossible in a war
of aggreselon, greed and tyranny.
HUGE FORTUNE
LEFT IN INDIA
Soldier Bought Land There
Before the Mutiny.
OP,•••••plee.m.ePegeOPPOD
Heirs Make Claims to $19,-
000,000 Estate.
Loudon Cable — "A romantic
story of a claim to a great fortune—
estimated at more than 09,000,000
—was related to me to -day by one
of the claimants, Patrick Quinn," the
Athlone correspondent of the Daily
news telegraphs. "Quinn, who le
nearly 80 years old, was at one Glue
a member of thethlone Council.
".A.ccording to ()cements which
have arrived from .merica it seams
ic.
that this vast amount was left by
Patrick Quinn's uncle, Thomas Quint;
who was a British soldier. Thomati
Quinn, it is stated, left Ireland 95
years ago, having joined the army. He
lived for years in India, and shortly
before the outbreak of the Indian
mutiny he bought some land there.
It Is this land, it is said, which
formed the nucleus of Quinn's huge
fortune, because minerals were found
on it. .
"Thomas Quinn returned to 'Ire-
land and settled at atiltown Malbay,
County Clare, where he died, child-
less, 30 years ago. Those who are
claiming a share of his wealth. beside
Patrick, the nephew, are the families
of Thomas' two brothers, who settled
in Chicago, and the children of his
sister, named King, of Kilmahil, Coun-
ty Clare. Patrick Quinn tells ine- that
he remembers his uncle and that he
kept up a rather infrequent corre-
spot:faience with him when he was • in
India.
"After my uncle had settled down
In Miltown Malbay," says Quinn, "I
visited hint there. He died there, and
left, after providing for his wife, all
he possessed—not by any tneans a big
fortune—to his brother, Michael, who
was never found, My uncle Thomas
eiever mentioned aeything about buy -
leg land in India. It may have
escaped his memory, because the
inntlity broke out immediately after-
wards, or ho may have considered that
hie purchase was not likely to have
turned out profitably."
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TOOTHY GIVES
BOLSHEVIK PLANS
Talks of "World Combat
Against Capitalism"
...Peppeprp. P Pe...pep
In America, England and
Par East, •
•.Stockhohu Cable — Leon Trotsky,
• the Bolshevik eilnieter of War and
elarine, 'Speaking at Petrograd
rocehtly, gave a detailed programme
or 1(01s:1MM military operations,
saYing, that anxong ether things:
It is not in Finland or bethonia
that the innnente woral combat
against capitalism can be taught, but
tit America end Englan.d, and, above
all, in the far east,"
The Bolshevik armlea, Trotalty ton -
tinned, would continue their previotte
methodOf beating their (mettle:3
singly. General Deniairte's turn would
come after Admiral Koichak had been
beaten, he declared. The turn of the
Pelee would follow, and after them. the
Roumanians would be dealt With.
"Wo have proposed peace to all the
Battle states, which are insignificant,"
Trotzky said. "At the mite time we
• cannot tolerate the provocation of
Finland, which met guarantee the
cessation of preparations for inter*
Volition in Russia, in which case not
• one red soldier will Mee the froatier.
tint if Finland wishes war, it will Se
necessary to begin againet her a
voinpaign of extermination stteh as
hitherto has been unknown in• hie.
geletal.g Alva.
But
"1 ettinVli," said a lady to a trot.
Icy car conductor, I Day the fare
for my dog he will be treated the ,
same at; other paseenge-s, and be ,
lowed to oceupy a, seat?" "Of our• .
madam," the conductor replied polite-
ly. "Ito will be treated the Lame ats
•other parerrenevere, end can occupy it
!•co t prol 1tliti5 he duet: pot put hie I'M
(*n it:"
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NOW IN RECEIPT
OF PENSIONS
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no matter how colts fir horses at any age are "exposed." •
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GREAT QUEEN OF SINGERS Is
DEAD IN HER WELSH CASTLE
Adelina Patti, Prima Donna,
Was Leading Songster for
40 Tears,
London Cable — Adelina, !Patti
the prima donna, dice thie morning
at Craig -Y -Nos Castle, Penne°, South
Wales.
Mew. Adelina Patti migned for forty
years as queen Of singers. Her mar-
vellous voice thrilied the greatest con-
teinporvies of ber days. The elder
Dumas, the French dramatist, once,
said to bar; "Being a man and a
Christian, I love to listen to your
singing; but if I were a bird I would
die of envy."
"She •had, tones so beautiful," said
one eminent noteical critic, "that they
seemed to gush spoataneettely front
the very fountain spring of vocal
youth."
Aline. Patti, as 0 child of seven ycard,
made her debut at Trailer Hall, in
New York, singing arias from the
"Barber," in 18e0. She was tho juv.
mile prodigy of the day, and nearly
ruined her voiee by overwork,. She
appeared agaiu at the age ot 13. After
a tour through the West Indiee, alte
withdrew to prepare for a greater
career.
At the age tai 19 she appeared in the
Ile:Lamy of Muse), Now aorta in het
iiret opera role. "Lucia di Lanuner-
Lioor." IIer wonaerful soprano roitscd
sae atidicece tar the wildest enthusiman,
and her fame swept the country. At
this time site was earning e100 a
Week. She repeated her conquest as
Amine in "La Sonnambula" in Co-
vent Garden, London, in 1861. Her
sunray hed increfteed te a750 it month.
It was the begining of a dazzling
conquest of alt Europe. Royalty en-
tertained her awl courted her lavers.
The populace besieged her hotels and
theatres. Men in all stetions of life
wooed her, hut she brushed them
aside with a laugh and trill. She
finally capitulated at.the age ol 25 to
Henri, Marquis • de Caux, equerry to
Napoleon HI. They separated after
a few years, Mme. Patti finally war -
Ing a divorce hi. 1885, to marry Sig-
nor Ernest() Nicolini, an Italian tenor
singer.
She made her final professional:p.p.
pearance at the age of 65 in ,Lendot,
iler last days were passed in Wales
at her beautiful castle "Oraig-Y-Nos,"
with her that husband, Tatron of
Cederstorm, whom she married in
1899, a year titter Inc death of Nicolini.
Mute. Patti is reputed to have left
rei, estate at more than $3,000,000,
RUMORS OF CIVIL WAR AS
BEING IMMINENT IN ITALY
Generals Said to Be Plot-
• ting Overthrow and Mili-
tary Dictatorship,
Item°, Friday Cable — Giovannio
Giolitti, former Premier, is earl:wee/I
advocating the calling oi: a general
election. He mid:
"A general election would bring be -
tore the entire nation problems, some
graver than that of Plume, with
which Italy muet earnestly cope it
she doeo not wish to be plunged inn)
poverty for an unlimited number of
y'eare"
Rome, Thursday Cable —...e.larmiert
woolrmialemaguleMin•Wwwioorsinow IMM191...011011.
reports are current in this city, one
being that a civil war is imminent.
On ono side would be ranged the Na-
tiovallet apd Militarist factions, -which
would be opposed by the Socieliete,
Several generale are credited with the
intention of heading the Militariet
faction, with a view to coetrolling the
Government, it being said that they
believe the weaaness of those in pow-
er since the armistice caused the pre-
sent deadlock. Some of these generals
have already been menttoced as be-
ing in league with 'Captain Gabriele
D'Annunzio before the Plume raid.
with the oisject of overthrowing les
force the Nitti Cabinet, and replacing
it with • a military dictatorship,
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GEN. GARIBALDI SAYS ITALY
CONSIDERS FIUME CASE SETTLED
Pour Italian Warships
There Rave Gone Over to
D'.Annunzio.
Paris Cable —"As a nation we
consider the Fiume matter settled, be-
came we have actual possession."
said. General Giuseppe (Pupate) Gari-
baldi, to an Associated Press repre-
eentative here this neorning. Gaei-
baldi had just reached Paris from
Rome, coming on what was said to be
an important mission, from which he
would go to meet Gabriele D'Annun.
zio, the insurgent Italian leader in
possession ot Fiume.
"Had D'Annunzio not gone in,"
continued Garibaldi, "we would have
done it within fitteen days. If Pres-
ident Wilson were moved by the right
spirit," he added, "be -would permit
the whole Question to be decided by
Great Britain, ',lance and Italy. In
that case, we aro satisfied that our
rights would be recognized, .as they
already aro recognized by the major-
ity of Anaericane.'
CeetINI TO MEET D'ANNUNZIO,
Rome Cable — It is announced by
the.Idea Nazionale that Admiral 'Um-
berto Cagni, who was appointed Gov-
ernor of -Plume shortly after armistice
was signed last fall, has agrod to pro-
ceed to that city to set the Govern-
ment's propositions with regard to
Fiume before Gabriel° D'Annunzio.
A. despatch to the Messagero from
Plume quotes D'Annunzio as declar-
ing he rejected in aavance the pro-
ject of assigning Fiume to Italy and
turning over Abbazia and Velem,
acroee the bay from rime°, to a small
buffer state.
ma A NAVY NOW,
Pole Special Cable says: Pour Ital-
ian warshipe, the Battleehip Dante
Alighleri and the deetroyers Mirabel-
lo, Nullo aud Abbas are named as
unite of the "riuman navy," in a pro.
elamation written by Captain Gabriele
D'Annunzio' and distributed in this
cite*
' The proclamation praises the men
ot these ()hem for "their loyalty to the
riunran cause," and extols them for
their "valorous note." It is tattled here
It war) becaueo of the ilmertions of
theta: four veesele from tho regular
Henan navy that Allied commandrea
were forced to Withdraw from CO
harbor of Muni°, which. Was (onside_
ed uneale while the Dante Alighiri
wire anchored there and was loyal to
the D'Annunzio catree,
AWES WARN GERMANY TO
RETIRE FROM LITHUANIA
htesi Withdraw Troops or She Will Get No
had or Iinancil
«voimno
Serbia N3W Ready to Sip Austriafi freat;--
Cepairdion of Captives.
•Parie Cable—The Supremo Con.
ell decided to -day to send. the German
Government, throinsli Marshal Poch, a
note demanding etife evacuation of
Lithuania by German troops, under
draetie penalties for non-compliance.
• The note informs 'Germany that her
provieloning will be Immediately stop-
ped, and Mandel arrangements She
hat reeneeted be held Up, if LithUnia
Is tot evacuated.
SERBIA WILL SIGN.
Parer Cable—a lIavase—Serbia
now willing to Sign tho -Austrian
trot y, to wheel the represeptativee
of jugo-tilavia declined to attaeli their
elelletilree who the devilment was;
eigeed by the &legatee el tho other
powers. with the exception: of Ron -
Mania. at 51. Germain. on Sept. 10,
according to the Petit Parisien toelaY
This thartge in the Jugoetelax attitude
has been mused by the explartatierts
of former Premier Pachitch and Per-
• eign Miniethr Triimbiteh in the Chant-
ber of Belgrade. and the Plume
developments, the newepaper tays.
1111PATit1taTION Or MINS..
ietere relrle -- The eppointment
of ttqolititlt't tit settee' the gat Aloe,
or the repatriation of the German and
Austrian. prisoners In Siberia was de-
cided upon to -day by the snpreme
council. The return home of the
troops would be effected after the
.Ceecho-SIovalt troops in the far east
bad been repatriated.
Plants That Grow in Craters.
in the crater of the extinct VOleatIO,
Ifalialmlau, In the Hawaiian istanda,
there f1eur',she a curioue piant, lo-
cally anemia aa "Silver Swords," They
are evidently eome kinti of carte Ef-
fortto propagate them elsewhere
have, It ia siid, alwaye failed. The
crater where they are found te a huge
einderastrewn bowl, ttlesoluteev dry
ana devoid of any other form of vrge-
Dead Civilizations,
We think Mira a wonderful civiliza-
tion, and it le, in a way, not:Withstand-
ing the shadows that rest Upon its
Soul. But there have been civiliza-
tions altiectet, If not quite, as splendid
ao our own. And they are gone—in-
deed. so deed that not ft tornirsione
rentable to marl. Che grase.--Vinietian
Expenditure 'Under New
Plan Will Total $28,-
000,000 Annually,
THE INCREASES
Disabled Ex -Private Will
Ottawavaying
Get the Sum of
$20,
11
Dee — 'Canada is at
pr
pa
va
war pensions to nearly
90,000 individuals, at an mutual coet
of over $24,000,000,
on September I, the Majority of thee°
which beeetiaaineunecifefreettivii:
Pensions Act,
will reeeive bonuses and increasers
which, in the aggregate, will create an
additional annual expenditure oe
rougltly, $4,090,000," says an Oficial
statement issued by the Board of Pen-
einiog:fitgewnoemrnetras;ssioners. autet how thie
additional expenditure is to be die-
trlbuted may be seen from the follow -
per cent, bonus, payable
for one year, is to be added to the
pension of the disabled ex -private, Te
the totally disabled man thie rep-
resents 'an increase of $120, making
hie annual pension 1720, inetead of
the former $690. The former sergeent
Ai company Sergeant -major, totally
llisabled, will also have his pension
raised to annual sum of $720, from
the former amount of $637,50, rougbly
a 13 per cent, bonus. The amounts
given are those to which totally
dia-
abled men are entitled; men with
leeeer disabilities, of eourse, receive
(smaller amounts, acording to the de-
gree of their disability. Theee bon -
ascii aro only payable to the ranks
mentioned or corresponding ranks,
commissioned officers and warrant of-
ficere being excluded from receiving
them, Tho additional 'Pension for
married pensioners of $96 per annunv
(for totally disabled men) lir to be
Permanently increased to $180, and
niade payable to ale ranks. The ad-
ditional pension allowed for children
is ale() made equal for all ranks.
The war widow, 'whose husband'
was killed as a private. is to have ad-
ded to her present pension of $480 per
annum the sum of pc, bringing her
total annual pension up to $576, the
widow of a sergeant having bee pen -
(don sinallarly raised to $576 from its
former total of $510. These increases
aro bonueee of percentages cores_
pending to those payable to the ills:
ability pensioners, previously des
criihnaed.
ddition to their personal bon-
uses, widows who have been left with
children will have the additional pen-
sion allowed for their eirst child in -
crewed by 36, making the total $180
per annum instead of $144. The
pension for the oldest orphan child of
a deceased soldier has also been in.
creased. from $288 to $360- per annum.
"The adjustments Made neces
-
sary through these increases have
i
already been made," an ofticial
the Board of Pension Commission -
ere etatcd, "and the September . pen
sion cheques payable at the now rates
will be issued prornptly atthe end
of the month."
"This," -says the etatement, "eheruld
add greatly to the reeling of oat's -
faction already felt by the granting
of the various increases. That it
has been possible to get through
such it volume of work in the ehort
-apace of time permitted redounds to
the credit of the Pension Board."
The only adjustments which the
board has been unable to (Repose of
entirely, it is . stated, aro those in
connection with certain Special caece
and cases af parents who were de-
pendeat on deceased ealdier sons for
• eupport. The pensions of parents
aro itt future to be independent of
key personal earnings they may
make, but al each case require()
special attention the work could not
oe ditiposed of as promptly as in
other caeca The work is to be
dealt with as mackly as poesible,
eowever, and thee° concerned way
oe aseured of an early adjustment
ot their pensions.
eneion eltoquee issued at tbe new
rate,; for the month of September
will continuo to be so iesued during
sno year Inc banter le payable, viz.
eeptember, 3919, to September,
_ca. Correspondence on the part
if pews:oilers • regarding the now
..atea wUl thereto& be unnecessary.
"The° ponelonere who have ac-
cepted efitireee or training with the
:/epartiAnt' of Soldiers' Civil Re-
establidlunent need feel no auxiety,
re any penelen to which they may be
.1ntitrea en their release from that
.netitution will be adjusted and paid
to them at the new rates," stated
eno board. This also applies to any
other case where a pensicn bate for
Any reaeon been suspended, and
ztwra
tr
ueatce,;arde will be made at the
There Is, however, a point to be
Drought to tbs.• attention of married
Dell miners who held In the army
he rank of captain or a higher
rank. These pensioners:: become en.
under the Petision Act, to the
4ame additional pentrion which le
pair! to other maraiea pensioners,
and to obtain paytuent el the) they
:should communicate with •the
m11-
trict pension °Mee in their treigh-
borhood . They will be required to
matinee their marriage eertificates
as well es birth certificates for any
children they may have. All (eat-
ficaterr are returned 'immediately they
have been eeamined by the pension
efficiale,
Peotiliar Form of Cruelty.
Telling ghost dories was the charge
brought againet her husband by
woman peeking a divorce in Tichnock,
County Waterford, Ireland. 'rho wom-
an asked for a divoree on the greneile
of knotty. Questioned ria to wiatrt her
husband bad done, the Wife explained
that her inteband Was alwieve telling
her stories to the effeet that the
gheet of ale former wife haunted the
house.
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:SHORT ITENS
OF THE NEWS
OF TN .DAY
British Troops Will All Be
Out of North Russia
in a Week.
SPR, TAYLOR FREED
IPPIPOlpos.
Notorious Persian Bandit
and Rebel Put to
Death,
Returned, aviators are forming a
club lit Toronto to promote ilYing•
iGoraou Dennis, 8 years of age, of
Toronto, was leuffocated When an
embankment upon winch be was Play-
ing ouddenly .collapsed.
Snow flurries fell in Montreal, the
Meg of the semen.
Ben Guerin, about forty-five yeare
of age, Waq instantly killed by being
()truck by it C.P.R, passenger train on
a crowing at Sault Ste. Marie,
Tbe Canadian Aerial Transportation
& Advertising* System, Ltd-, of Mon-
treal, hat purchased tet Curties air-
plane() srpec;ally built for Coinmereial
work, which it will use, ae also sea -
planer, in the vicieity a Montreal.
Eight deaths have been calmed by a
cyclone at Feline Calabria.
The evacuation of North Ruesia by
Britieh troops will be conapleted with-
in a week.
Pacific coed shipyard employees
threaten to strike unless the Navy De-,
partment revokee the order prohibit-
ing wage inereaSeS after October I. a
Thniekaming Liberals nominated
Ralph Taylor, a popular merchant of
Cobalt,
Owen Sound bas been made a dis-
trict headquarten4 for vocational
training of returned soldiers.
'Mare Leta Burk, (laughter of Sid.
Ilea Burk, of Blenheim, was instantly
killbd In a motoring accident.
Roy Feareon, who wasainjured early
Monday morning when his automobile
turned turtle near home in East
Zorra, died in Woodetock hospital.
The Militia Department ham been
advised that the liner Tunielat, car-
rying 250 Canadian officers and 153
other ranks, will arrive at Quebec on
or about October 3r0,
The Winnipeg Electric Railway
Company made application to the
Public Utilities Commission for a
straight eix.cent fare, with all Gimlet
tickets, exeept school ebildren's tick -
see, eliminated.
Until it eubetitute for gutta percha
is discovered, the United State e can-
not lay a cable across the Pacific
ocean unless British interests furnish
the material ,the Senate Commerce
Committee was told.
Mr. B. C. Drury etatee that Mr. H.
G. Murdock, cheeen by the U. P. 0.
convention of Centre Slincoe to con -
feet that riding after the...withdrawal.
.01 an earlier nominee, bas tot retired
and has no intention of retiring froin
the contest. .
Jelm Schypele aged siX, attempted
to crawl under a stalled train at leer-
•nie, 13. C. The train started unexpect-
edly, and the little fellow was decapi-
tated. The accident occurred at a
street crossing.
Brig. -General L. W. Shannon, gen-
eral officer commanding military dis-
trict No. 1, London, received semi-of-
ficial advice from Ottawa that he is
to retire from the active district in
• the near future. General Shannon's
retireThant li co -incident, with a poet -
War re -organization of the service.
Sapper ,Clinton Teeter, the Toronto
soldier who was tound guilty by
next -martial of having been a prin-
cipal in an attempted niutillY in a
Canadian unit (luring the march into
Germany last winter; has had' the
sentence of life imprisoment impos-
ed upon hint, connoted. He will re-
turn to Canada next month.
Official despatched from Teherat
announce the execution of Naib
Kash', the meet notorious bandit
and rebel in Perela, who,, for it year,
occupied the Aown of Kashan ,defy-
ing the Government, looting caravan
and eelzing the produce of land own-
ers. A military expedition recently
compelled his ourrender.
Despite the plea of C.P.R. Solieitor
Mr. Angue eicelurchy, K. C., for in -
()taut approval of the Grand River
Railway plane, Kitchener City Coun-
cil listened to the advice.of the •On-
tario- Hydro -Electric Commiselon and
postponed deviation or route pending
further advice from the Provincial
'Hydro.
At a mace nteeting of (supporters of
the Union eloverntnent held under the
au:Apices of the Conservative Associ-
ation of the Dominion riding of Stor-
mont and Glengarry, Brig.." -Gen. C. L.
Hervey, of tancaeter. was (selected as
caedidate'to entree the riding it the
by.election to 1111 the vacancy Mend
by tbe death of the late liohn Me-
Marthe
RED-NIVEA SEED
Farmers Should Not Let
Arty Go to Waste.
••• goo.
(lexperimental Farms ileta,)
indications are that Red Clover seed
Is going to be ircarce and expenelve,
and, under the eireinnotances, it will
be good bueineas for anyone who has
a clover field wbich may yield a seed
crop the) fall to rut it for the sake of
Ike aced. This applies 'especially to
field() In which at Hite time of the
year a large percentage) of the heads
have turned brown. 11 111 doubt se to
wh.ether such a Held will be worth
while cutting for -seed, take (some
average heade withal are brown right
through and rub them ,when per-
fectly dry. in the Dalin of your hand,
and yon may be eurprised at the
quantity of goott 1:3Cti that may shell
out.
If you are not sure Whether it will
pay to go to the trouble of harvesting
the crop for Geed, newt a parole for
examination to either of the under.
Maned. o stanipa needed for eamplee
weighing tese than f2 meat Other
Information n harvesting, tbreebilig,
ot., will alai) be mippliod promptla.
11, 0, Melte, Dontinlon Agreetolegiet;
John ratter, Supervisor Illustration
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