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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-5-24, Page 2DISP BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY IMPERILS LAUSANNE CONFERENCE Allies Worried Over Failure of M. Venizelos and Ismet Pasha to Reach an Agreement on the Question of Reparations. A despatch from Lausanne says :-- The •-T e great Mohammedan festival of Oeiram, when the followers of Mo- med relax and rejoice after their ty daye of fasting, brought no re- Tuse or gaiety to Inlet Pasha on T hursday, nor luck to the Near East eouference, T'lbe situation between Turkey and Greece over the problem of reparations is grave, and the conference presum eelax . is imperilled because all direct j efforts by Ismet Pasha, and Elipther los Venizelos. to settle thiel dangerous issue "out of court" failed. The An -I ora and Athens leaders after a fruit-=• ese se:'sion, agreed to disagree and (submit the issue to the conference in' an attempt to find a solution. Out of respect for the Turks' religion, the allies proposed that no formal session! of the conference be held Thursday,± but the Greeco-Turkish reparations dispute is so serious that both Veni- egos and Ismet felt justified in utiliz-1 ing the festival by striving to reach an accord, M, Venizelos took the in- itiative, suggesting a meeting with the noted Turkish general, probably with the idea that the Bairam festival Would exercise a softening influence on the controversy, Both the Greek leader and Ismet used gentle words, but neither suc- ceeded in piercing the other's armor of resistance. Islet insisted that Turkey could pay no reparations whatsoever to Greece, hut expected to receive an equitable sum for dam- ages caused by the Greek armies in Asia Minor, when, he asserted, they burned towns and villages during their retreat and laid waste the whole countryside. Turkey, he declared, could not aban- don the principle of Grecian repara- tions beat, in a spirit of conciliation, stood ready to leave fixation of the. actual amount to arbitrators. M. Venizelos pleaded Greece's cause with fine eloquence; he painted a pic- ture of Greece struggling to succor over a million refugees who had been driven out of Turkey during the ter- rible war and attemptedto show with figures that the Hellenic nation was in such a serious financial condition that all payment of reparations was out of the question. On the contrary, he contended, Greeee should receive re- paration from Turkey because of the economic disaster caused to the Greeks when they fled from the Turks, aban doping homesand fortunes. If Turkey is justified in asking dam- ages, Greece was equally justified and perhaps the two accounts could be bal- anced, What Venizelos wanted was a elean slate on the reparation ac- count, both Turkey and Greece calling .it square. Islet .Pasha could not see this at all and the confernce adjourned. The allies are greatly worried over the developments, as they had hoped their good offices would lead the way to a direct settlement between Greece and Turkey. They will continue their , mediation efforts, but everybody on Thursday night conceded that there is danger of Greece breaking away from the conference and resorting to 1 arms unless some satisfactory corn- ; promise is reached, Turkey wants 4,500,000,000 gold francs reparations and Greece says she wants 5,000,000,000 gold francs I from Turkey. Honor to "Tay Pay." The famous Irishman, T P. O'Con- nor, who has been a member of the British House of Commons since 1880, was honored on May 15, on his 75th birthday, by a luncheon given by two hundred members of the House. He Is one of the few members who still use snuff, and he was presented with a gold snuff box. Gas Fumes in Garage Suffocate Toronto Man A despatch from Toronto says: - Overcome by carbon monoxide fumes while worldng on his motor car in the garage at the rear of his home, 9 Oriole Parkway, Thursday afternoon, H. Pearcy Porter, aged 31 years, vice- president and assistant manager of Sanderson Pearcy and Company, was found by his wife about 6.30 in the evening. Dr. Andrew Cox, 39 St. Clair Avenue west, was called and tried artificial respiration without avail. A pulmotor was requisitioned from the Consumers' Gas Company. Later, Supt.. Saunders, of the Life - Saving Station, arrived with an extra oxygen supply, but all efforts were vain. Chief Coroner Graham was notified of the tragedy, and after in- vestigating, he decided that death was accidental and that no inquest was necessary. Man has been the supreme enemy of birds on this continent, as elsewhere in the world, and is responsible for the extinction of species over large tracts of country. One Million U.S. Born Live in Canada It is estimated that there are approximately one million peo- ple in Canada who were born in the United States, or about twelve per cent. of the Domin- ion population. Most of these are to be found on farms in the Western Provinces. Nearly one hundred million acres of West- ern Canadian land has been settled by homesteading, and citizens of the United States have accounted for thirty per cent. of such settlement as against twenty per cent. on the part of British In addition, United States citizens are each year the heaviest purchasers of privately held and improved lands and farms. ti BRITAIN'S TRIBUTE TO BELGIUM, On'Apxil 28th the Prince of Wales visited Belgium to unveil a monument erected by the British government as a memorial to the kindness of Belgians to British soldiers during the Great War. The picture shows the Prince, and behiind him the Belgian King and his two sons. THE SPORT OF A PAST ERA IN TUB RAMA OF CANIAN CIVILIZATON When in 1919 the city of Calgary went have thrown over the country held a monster Stampede or Frontier Day celebration to celebrate in a man- ner appropriate to the locality the re- turn of Western men from the war, drawing together in the City of the Foothills the continent's best riders , and ropers, its most daring perform- ers at the old sports of the range, old timers shook their heads sadly and said there would never be another. With the disappearance of the range and its romantic pursuits it was be - 1 coming increasingly difficult to gather together in ono spot the superb horse- men and women yet clinging to a past era, to collect a sufficient num- ber of really bad horses to thrill a I continental gathering, or find the old type of wild range cattle to test the nettle of the people of the range. Yet Calgary, one, of the last local- ities to cling to the fringe of a pass- ; ing era, is confident of staging an Iequally thrilling and entertaining event this .summer, and the little city still claims wide attention as one of the very few remaining places on the continent still able to stage such a mammoth and stirring drama. It will be a last effort to arrest the progress of time, when for one week the cloak which civilization and modern develop - i • TO SELL BRITAIN'S DEBT FUNDING. BONDS Original Contract Made More Flexible to Enable U.S. to Place on Open Market. A despatch from Washington says: -Final details concerning the debt settlement between the United States and Great Britain call for spe- cial arrangements which will make its possible to sell the bonds furnished by' Great Britain on the open market if so desired, it was explained at the Treasury DeparLurent on Thursday. Details in this arrangement have been submitted to the British Govern- ment at London and the final views of the United States debt funding com- mission were explained by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's office to Ambassador Sir Auckland Geddes. Government officials reiterated that there is nothing in the delay which suggests any desire on the part of the British Government to avoid the com- mitments made in the original settle- ment. The plan of making it possible, 'to sell the British bonds to the public, it was explained, was included in the original settlement, the only changes required being certain variations in the contract which will make it more flexible in this respect. Butterflies, which are very prolific in Australia, are suffocated in thou- sands by the aborigines, and, separat- ed ' from their wings, pressed into cakes and eaten. will be removed and the cityagain dwell in the era which gave it birth• and prestige. Fifty thousand dollars in prizes has been calculated to attract to the Al- berta city such as the doughty riders of the range as have not been absorb- ed by gentler callings. It will be re- garded as perhaps the last grand re- union of the great ranch brotherhood. Riders from both sides of the border will compete against each other, and the first of their calling from every section of the country take part in the sports of the range which, with all their dangers and thrills, will com- prise the daily program for one week. The Stampede presents an unique opportunity to the traveller in Canada this summer to witness what is prob- ably the passing of the old Canadian West. Such events have been limited always to the Western part of the Am- erican continent, and the area of such diversion became narrowed down until Calgary remained perhaps the last stronghold of the ranching industry. Its day is practically gone there too, and one last attempt is being made to give residents of the continent a pic- ture of what in a few years' time will be regarded as history. First Belgian War Victim to be Honored Brussels, May 12. -The name of Antoine Fonck will Iive in Belgian his- tory. A monument to be erected in his memory at the Croix du Polinard, a crossing near Thimister, will inform future generations that at that spot was killed the first Belgian soldier in the World War -the first of 45,000. Fonck was a private in the Second Lancers. On August 4, in the fateful year of. 1914, his squadron was recon- noitering at Battice, in the province of Liege. Word came that German cav- alry had been sighted near the village of Thimister and Fonck was sent to verify the report. Corning suddenly upon the enemy scouts, Fonck fired upon them. He was pursued. His horse was soon shot beneath him. Using the animal's body as a barri- cade the soldier continued to fire until he died. That was at 10 o'clock in the morn - Weekly Market �[ TORONTO. Manitoba .wheat -No. 1 "Northern, $1.26%. 1Vianiteba oats -No. 2 CW, 571.4.c; No. 3 CW 54.342c; extra No, 1 feed, 52%c; No. 1 feed, o2%e. Manitoba barley -Nominal. All the above track, bay porta. American corn -No. 8 yellow, $1.02%; No. '2,,'$1.02. Barley -Malting, 60 to 62e, accord- ing to freights outside, Buckwheat -No. 2; T4 to 76o. Rye -No, 2, 76 to.,7,7c ' Peas -No. 2, $1.45 to $150. Ontario comb honey,per doz., No. 1,1 $4;50 to $5; No...2, $875 to $4..25, Potatoes, Ontario -No. 1, $L15 "to $1e25; No. 2, $1.10 to $1.15. Smoked meats -Hans, med., 25 td 27c; cooked hams, 86 to 40c; smoked rolls, 26 to 28e; cottage rol'ie, 28 to 30c; breakfast bacon 10 to 333 ; spe- cial brand break6ast bacon, 85 to 38c al backs, boneless, $4 to 40c. Cured merits --Lon • clear bacon, 50. to 70 lbs., $18:50; 71 to 90 lbs., $18; 90 lbs. and up, $17.; .lightweight rolls;l in barrels, $35.50; heavyweight roils, $32,50. Millfeed-Del. Montreal freights Lard -Pure tierces, 16 to 16%0begs included: Bran, per ton, $29; tubs, 16% to 17c; pails, 17 to 171c31. shorts, per ton, $31• middlings, 35; prints 8?, c. Shortening tierces/. good feed flour, $2.161 to $2.25. 114% to 153ao; tales, 1.6% to 15y'3n";i Ontario wheat ---No. 2 white, nom- pe s, 15% to 16%c; prints, i'1'h td !nal. 17%c. - - Ontario No. 2 white oats -51 to Heavy' beef steers, $7.50 to $8.60: 53c.' y butcher steers, choice, $7.50. to $8;. iloj Ontario corn-Nominah i good, $7 to: $7.50; do', sued., 36.50 tie Ontario flettr-Ninetyy per cent, pate $ 7 do, com.,. '$6 t . $6.50; _ butcher in jute bags,-M-ofiti'eal, prcuipt Alp heifers, choice, $7 to $7.50; • do, med., meat, $5.10 to $.20;. Toronto basis, $6.50 to $7; ..do, col. 86 to. $6.50; $5.05 to $5.15; bulk, seaboard, $4.95 butcher cows choice, $5.50, to $6.50; to $5. i do, mod., $4.50 to $5.25 1• canners and Manitoba flour-lst pats., in cotton' cutters, $2 to $2.50 • butcher bulls, sacks, $7.10 per bbl.; 2nd pats., $6.60. rod, $4.50 to $5.50; do, corn., $3.i 0 to Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,`•.feeding steers, .good, $6.50 totrack Toronto, $15 to. $15;50; t`'%:. 8 .50;'do fair, $6 to $6,50; stockers, timothy, $14; mixed, $12 to $1,3.50; good, $5.50 to $6; do, fair, $5 to' $5.60;. lower grades, $8. milkers -springers, choice, $80 to $110; Straw -Car lots, per ton, track, To -1 calves, choice 810 to $11; do, med., route, $9.50. 48 to $10; do, com., $5 to $7.50; Cheeses -New, lar e, 20e; twins, ,lambs, choice, $13 to $16; do, col., 7.50 to $12; lambs, apring, each, 9 to $17; sheep, choice, light, 7.50 to $8.50; do, choice, heavy, 6 to $7; do, culls and bucks, 4 to $5.50,; hogs, fed and watered, 11 to . $11.25; do, f.o.b., $10.25 to 10.50; do, country points, $10 to Lids, in cartons, 86c. $10.25. over 5 lbs. Live poultry -Chickens, ' milk -fed,' MONTREAL. 25c' do, 4 to 5 lbs., 22c; do, 2 to 4 lbs., 0c; hens, over 6 lbs., Corn, Ani. No. 2 yellow, $1.01 to 28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 26c; do, 8 to 4 -lbs., ye1.02. Oats, No. 2 CW., 67 to 672c; 22c; roosters, llc; ducklings, over 5 o..8 CW, 62 to 68c; extra No. 1 feed, lbs., 30c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 28c; turkeys, 60% to 61c; No. 2 local white, 591,1 young, 10 lbs. and up, 25c. to 60c. Flour, Manitoba spring wheat Dressed poultry -Chickens, milk pats., firsts, $7.30; do, seconds, $6.80; fed, over 5 lbs., 85c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 30c; do, strong bakers', $6.60; do, winter do, 2 to 4 lbs., 25c; bens, over 5 lbs., pats., choice, $6.15. Relied oats, bag, 30c; do, 4 to 5 lbs„ 28c; do, 3 to 4 90 lbs., $3.10 to $3.20. Braga, $28. lbs., 24c; roosters, 24c; ducklings, Shorts, $30. Middlings, $35. Hay, over 5 lbs., 80c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 29c; i No. 2, per ton, car lots, 914 to $15. turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 30c. Butter, choicest creamery, 311A to Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, ib„ 811%. Eggs, selected, 34e. Potatoes, 7c; prime's. 614c. 1 per bag, car lots, $1.20. Maple products -Syrup, per imp.' Com. and med. bologna bulls, $3 to gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per $4; aped. cows, $4.50 to $5; do, com., gal. Maple sugar, Ib., 22c. I $4; calves, col. and med., $4 to $5; Honey -60-1b. tins, 10% to 11c perdo, heavier, $6; do, pail -fed, $4 up. Ib.; 3 -2% -lb. tins, 11 to 121/ c per lb.; I Hogs, $12 to $12.25; sows, $8.25 to $9. 22c; triplets, 28c; Stiltons, 22 to 23c. Old, large, 80c2 twins, 92; Stiltons, 32c. Butter --Finest creamery prints, 35 to 36c; ordinary creamery prints, 38 ; to 84e; dairy, 24 to 25e; cooking, 22c. Eggs, new lards, loose, 32e; new Ian prisoners. One of the Germans seeing the body of the soldier, stuck his bayonet in it, saying, "There is a dirty Belgian." The next day the body was buried in the cemetery of the little village, where his grave has al- ways been tended reverently by the, inhabitants. Alberta Grain Fields Have Abundance of Moisture A despatch from Lethbridge, Alta., says: -The third rainstorm of the month broke over Southern Alberta Thursday morning, bringing almost half an inch of moisture. The total registered here so far this month is 1.75 inches. The storm was accompanied by snow between Lethbridge and Calgary and also in the Crow's Nest Pass. Seeded fields are now thoroughly saturated, and a moisture reserve for the growing season is being stored up. ing. Some hours later some German All life is summed up in being, do - soldiers passed by with Belgian civil- ing, and saying. INTERNATIONAL MOTOR TOUR IN JULY_ A bang column of Canadian and United States .caxrs wilt follow the route indicated on .the map on their annual tour in July. The Pikers, Michigan Pikes Association, will follbw the .Champlain Trail ` The tour starts July.8 from Detroit and ends at 'the same place July 23, covering 1,700' miles en route. It is the nin,eth, annual•tour: From Callender, Ontario, to Ottawa, the tour will follow the route of Ohamplain's travels in 1615. HOW ARE You F.EELINU ToDA'l, IJUi" IBUNNY'! PRETTY PUNK f Natural Resources Bulletin The Natural Resources Intel- ligence Service of the Depart- ment of the Interior, at Ottawa says: Of the 178,567 barrels of crude petroleum produced in Canada last year, Ontario sup- plied 164,731 barrels. There are fourteen oil-producing fields in the province, all situated in the southwestern portion. The largest producing field was the Petrolia and Enniskillen, 64,- 934 4;934 barrels, Oil Springs coming next with 43,213 barrels, Both- well with 25,680 barrels, Moza township with 11,959 barrels, West Dover with 5,482 barrels, and other fields with smaller quantities. New Brunswick produced 7,778 barrels, and Al- berta 6,058 barrels. The value of the crude petroleum produc- ed in. Ontario last year was $526,316, this including the federal bounty of .$86,484.. Ina- ports •of crude petroleum in 1922 were 14,068,075 barrels of 35 gallons, valued at $24,- 697,612. Galloping Snakes. One of the most deadly snakes is the Black Mamba, found in South Africa. A strange thing about this particular snake is its fidelity to its mate. Old hands know that if they kill one mal- ba they must look for and hill its mate 'before it can follow and kill them. 'A native method of revenge is to kill. a mamba and put it beneath an enemy's,, bed, sure that the surviver. will wreak vengeance an the unsus- pecting sleeper. These snakes travel so rayidly that they are able to keep pace with a gal- loping horse. One way of saving oneself is to break thesnake's back with the sjam- bok,or raw -hide riding whip, that every South African farmer carries, or, if a road be near, to make for that, as a snake cannot travel so rapidly on. a smooth surface as over broken and uneven ground. Leonid Krassin The envoy of Soviet Russia, who Is in England to negotiate with Lord Curzon. Britain will extend time for negotiations but will accept nothing less than compliance with her de- mands. Fifth Generation at Funeral of Montreal Centenarian A despatch from Montreal says: - Francois Robideaux, centenarian, whose funeral took place here on Thursday, is survived by five children, 32 grandchildren, 58 _great-grand- children and three children of the fifth generation. According to Custom. Nine-year-old Marian - is her Aunt Marian's pet. And whenever auntie, who is a successful :young business woman, buys herself any luxury she buys one for Marian, too. For instance, when she bought an umbrella, for herself she bought Marian a parasol. She '' bought a bicycle to journey to business, and Marian a tricycle.- :She bought a big rocking -chair for herself, and. Marian a little ane. • Tho rather evening she came home with a new admirer, who was 'one "''of the foidows.•whom Nature has made of the diminutive. order. For a minute Marian- eyed him, and then she said, "All right, auntie, I like him. But where's•• ours'?" Ilii RABBi'IT$OR® WELL, YOO'LL HWE To i= -AT PLAIN FOOD.. P.ND STAY IN THE HOUSE NIGHTS 'TOR QUITE to WHILE Y -ri VES , DOC , THAT'S WHAT" I 'THOUGHT y WHEN 1 5AW •, -YOUR BILA..