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The Exeter Times, 1919-1-23, Page 6AIR FUG IT ACROSS ATLANTIC TO BE UNDERTAKEN IA MAY Trip is Feasible as There are Airplaines Now Available Which are Capable of Making the ,Tourney ---Mail Service Between England and United States in 1920. A despatch from Landon , says: - Gen. Brancker, who is giving up his post are Master -General of Persoi'enei in the Alis Minis'try to devote his Vane to earnmercial •aviation, in an in- terview with the Daily Express w- elted • that a flight a.~rass the At- ilantie - probably would' be accom- p'dsrhed in May, He tidied; that the trip' was feasible at the pre.,ent mo- ment as there were three or four 'types of airplanes available Wilkie we're 'capable of =Wag the flight. Gen. Braneke'r ,said the time was not far distant when airplanes world be- owned and driven as automobiles are to -day. He said it probably would be necessary to establish an aerial police force, the duty of which Would be to watch over air routes and frontiers. The Evening News :says :it has been officially inf'ormel that the British Admiralty is embarking on a brg pro - Sr amme ea' air,ehip c°rstreetion. Air - .hips are being built with a gas cape, city of. 2,500,000 cubic feet. The air- craft will have a large lifting opa- city and will be .i ble to make between t10 and 70 miles an hour, and they will carry crews cf 25 men. Still larger airships are projected ' and flights w•:th passengers are pre- dicted for the near future, Several +#:ir.hipe whieh .will be equal in. size anddeaoae&ty to the largest Zeppelins, and which are of a •simil'ar rigid type are being built. Primarily they are being oonstruoted for sea wrork .and general observation duty for the navy. These airships, it is stand, wall be capable of remaining in the air Thr a week, The newspaper clays a regular air - I ship mail service bet\veen England and.the Una't•ed States during the summer of 1920 •ls regarded as cer- I twin by air hip builders. UNITED STATES 0..1..01......._...... BRITISH LEARN VOID "DRY" i LESSONS OF WAR Effective in 1920 -Remaining 8 How Germans Controlled Indus - States Expected to Fall i try Before 191.1. in Line. A despatch from London says: - A despatch from Washington I Sir Eric Geddes, Minister without says: -The American nation was portfolio in the new Cabinet, in an dry on Thursday by constitu- address before the Associated Chem- votedtional amendment, effeetive approxi -'bets of Commerce, said the biggest mately a year hence, when the Legis- ;thing that had been learned in the lature of Nebraska, the home of Wil- war and the greatest benefit that iiani Jennings Bryan, cue.of the fore- ; could be gotten from it was that the most champions- of prohibition, rati- British people had discovered as a ; fied the proposed amendment. Ratifi- ! nation what they could do if they pul- sation of the amendment by 36 of the ; led together. 48 States was necessary to make ithey itad improved machinery and a valid part of the American constitu- ` methods and .also electric power, the tion. • Nebraska was the thirty-sixth gree modernizer of industries. They State. ; had learned much about German Only eight States remain out in the "lcey" industries and the way the Ger- mans through failure thus far of their mans controlled British industry be - Legislatures to approve the amend- fore the war. ment. These missing Commonwealths ` As an instance, Sir Eric mentioned are New York, Pennsylvania, New ; spelter and tungsten, which, though .Terse;, Connecticut, Rhode Island,' controlled through Germany, came al- Jersey, New Mexico and Nevada.: most entirely from the British Em- Minnesota, of these missing States are pipe, while the whole monopoly of aaitong the thirteen original missing magneto manufacture, indispensible States. Prohibition leaders' expect to modern development in steel most of these eight States to ratify ; plants, washeld back by the dumping before the end of the mantle. The of pieces of apparatus, such as crank Legislatures of all eight of these ; castings, on the Tyne and the Clyde Slates, except that of Nevada, are in at prices Iower than the cost of the eessien. Nevada's Legislature will raw material. meet t Ja iva t•y 20. PANEL SYSTEM AT PEACE Uki"RiNCE Enables Britain to Adroit Repre- sentatives of Dominions. A. despatch from London Says:-- Aceording to the official statement given out by the Governments taking part in the preliminary peace conver- sations, the meeting wic'pted the fol- lowing two general principles: One, -Each delegation being a unit, the number of delegates forming it shall have no influence upon its status at the conference. Two. -In the selection of it., dele- gation each nation may avail itself of ahe panel :-yeteni. This will enable ea rls state et discretion to entrust its interests to r u:•h persons. ae it may rip. ignete. The adoption of the panel system will in particular enable the Beitish Empire to admit among its five cede - gates representatives of the Domin- ions, including Newfoundland, which has • no sept rate representation, aa•i ei' Irrtlia. -•-• --:r„-.. t'litS l" BATCH 01? TROOPS VIA PANAMA CANAL deepatch from Panama says:- - Eritiii` troopship Empress of trough the Panama y on its way from Iver with 1,400 dis- . passed trial on• Thur ,degland to Vance charged soldiers on. bead. GUILT OF STARTING WAR FIXED ON KAISER A despatch from Berne says: -A German commission appointed to de- termine the former Kaiser's respo-<i- bility for the war has offr dally re- ceremended that he be brought to trial, according to information re- ceived from Berlin. The recommendation.as announced by Herr Kautsky, who was appointed by the present Gelman G avernment to deet examination of docunieni:s in the archives of the Foeeign Mee. "Marginal notes in the Kaiser's own handwriting on the most import- ant papers in the Foreign Office prove he was one of the principal war mak- ers," Kautsky reported. .,s. It is nec- essary to bring hire before a tribunal." g1•s,�,c3�+�•.<`v+>:*'�:;+'•a`�5�'''��'�'�k St'+r':.•:�,.,:.r .;.:,.....,....a•.,,, ,,... •0000 Veterans �r�C"a,.S.?a.?8'ti'a..e'w::'i.'`•..:::4 , %s":at 5..3 ....... .. .. .. .. �w: V erterat.•s Give Aid -Messrs. W. B. Tait (1), David. Loughnan (2)andbeen named by the Great War Veterans' A socciat' ' �. & R.B. Mnt, bo of an d- s ion, alt the regti�s't ��of the Dominion Government, to act as acl- v socy council to the Repatriation Committee, of which Hon. J. A. Oaider ,i civairinan'anrd Ur. H. J. Daly chief" executive officer. These three, all of whomsaw .service early in the war, and have been home in Canada long enough to have a grasp of the new conditions the war has brought about, are 'devoting their whole time to conferring with the committee upon its many problems.- Mr. Tait who pis .a graduate of Dalhousie and Har- vard Universities, and prior to going overseas was assistant confessor of psychology p p y gy gat McGiidd University, served as major with the 7th Canadian Sdege Buttery, Mr, Maxwell, It°ho belongs to Winnipeg, enleste early enough in 1914 to receive the regimental number` "723' , ;served with the Sth B'atballlion the ' e.d. , "Littledi Black Devils", and was wounded at the second battle of -Ypres: He was twice president of the Winnipeg G. W. • V. A. Mr, Loughnan served overseas with the 16th Battalion and was wounded at Ypres. p s e Canada he has been honored with many offices pr Since his return to Veteran." Y ccs tin t etexails'' organizations and is now editor of "The FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the highlands and Lowlands of Auld 9 ^ Scotia. St. Donald Main, reported missing, is a son of the late Capt. W. S. Main, commander of the Empress of Brie tain. A bar, the second, has been added to the Military Cross awarded to Major Robert Masson Greig, of Par- i tickhill. I The Presbytery of Selkirk sent congratulations to Miss Thomson, Edinbu gh, to her on her one hull- ! dredth birthday. i Lieut. James Robertson obertson ki lled in action,was the only son of Hent y ' Robertson, headmaster of Ayr Gram- mar School. 1 The Rothesay School Board have I asked for religious instWction in ' schools, and that it be made man- •datory. ! Lieut. A. G. Montgomery, Cameron Highlander, killed in. action, was a grand -nephew of Dean Montgomery, of Edinburgh. I The Order of the British Empire I has been conferred on Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, and Lady Steel, of South Africa. ! Major Angus McPherson, Argylls, gassed, rose from the rank of private to that of major since the beginning of the war. Burns' Cottage and Museum at Alloway was visited by over fifty thousand persons during the year ending September 30th. There was a big demand in Glas- gow streets for the flags sold in aid of Harry Lauder's Fund for Scottish Soldiers and Sailors. ' The death has been announced of Lady Naesmyth, of Posso, mother of the present Sir J. Tolnie Naesmyth, seventh baronet of Posso. Major Colin Arthur Jardine, M.C., who has received aThar to his D.S.O., is a son of Sir John Jardine, M.P. for Roxburghshire. Mrs, Sophia Lucy Mackworth Connal, a sister-in-law of Dr. Connal, Glasgow, has been apcinted a mem- ber of the Order of the British Em - ire. . Although seventy years of age Sir Henry Jones has crossed the Atlantic to tell the people of the United States about the British effort in the war. The trustees of the estate... of the late George Dickson have presented to Glasgow corporation the oil paint- ing "Falls of Dochart, Killen" by Sir Alfred East, R.A. Lance -Corporals A. D. Cameron and • D. Macintosh, Argylls, were present- ed with wrist watches by the citizens of Tobermory in recognition of. their having won Military Medals. Lieut. -Cot A. G. Scougal, M. C., Royal Scots, killed in action, was a son of the late Dr. Scougal, inspector of -training colleges. The Admiralty has awarded 28,500 to the Duke of Buccleuch as compen-, CANADIANS ARRIVE AT VLADIVOSTOK A despatch from Vladivostok says: -The troopship Protesilaus, with Lieut. -Col. Bickford, 96 officers, and 1,669 other ranks of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Forces, ar- rived here on Thursday. Rifleman Butler. of Peterboro, Ont., was killed aboard the steamer by falling debris during a severe storm encountered on Jan. 1, The death of Butler makes a total of five to date in the force, Sergt. Winn, Engineers, who sue- eumbed to exposure at River Camp yesterday, being the fifth. The tat- ter's death is the second to occur at; that camp. 'Women workers in Great Britain ' are making a vigorous fight to secure ' the same wages paid men for :the same kind of work performed by the men, sation for the use of a. part of Gran- ton Harbor. _ Coatbridge Town Council presented Capt. John R. Lamberton with a gold watch in honor of his being awarded the D.S.O. and M.C. Sergt. William Stevenson, who was awarded the D.C.l1I., is the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson; Pole lokshaws, Sir Hugh Stewart, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire, present- ed to Sergeant William Leggatt, Gor- dons, the Military Medal awarded to him. The vellum of the Royal Humane Society has been awarded to Miss Margaret Caird, daughter of Profes- sor Caird, for a heroic rescue in St. Abb's Bay. Captain Guy Anderson Herbert, who was awarded the Croix de.Guerre. and palms in July last, has now been awarded the M.0.,,He is a native of Troon. Owing to the coal situation the Ardrossan Town Coinedil .has.. recoil], mended the early closing of shops and one service a Sunday in churches. Sergeant William Hutcheson, of Arrlross, who was awarded the D.C.M. about three months ago, has since been awarded the Military Medal. The death took place recently at Townhead Farm, Heiensburgh, of James Caldwell, a well known breeder of Ayrshiire cattle and Leicester sheep. Argylshire's recent efforts on be- half of the Red Cross 'funds realized nearly 810,000. By using various colors to mark clothing, each child having its • own color, much $ince inay be (saved in sort- ing .and putting away, clothing. Fall or winter pruning of grape- vines may be done at any time dur- ing mild weather from November to March, while the vines are in a dor- mant condition. BRITISH SHIPS TO CARRY U.S. TROOPS Olympic and Aquitania Will Also be Loaded During February. A despatch from New. York pays: -Nine British vess'ele 'tt(ith a hotel' carrying capacity of 27,750 men have been pieced art the disposal of the Ameriican 'Government for the trans- 'p'ortation of troops Home, it was an- nounced here on Tueaday by Brutish Ministry of Shipping. T'h'esevessels aro the Caroan•'la, Ad'.iaiie, Minnie karhda, Celtic, Canopi•c, Saonia, Pan- monia, Cedric and Orca. In addition, it is announced, the Olympic, Mauretania and Acquitania, three of the rlarges't British troop sh:'ios, will' lbring additional Amenicaan troops home during February. The .Olyripiic and Aquitania have been employed in bringing `t (home 'Canadian troops during the . past months. • TO SAY GOOD-BYE - • TO CANADIAN BOYS A despatch from Lendon 'says: - A ,movement is afoot in Buxton, the - beautiful little Derbyshire town where so litany Canadian wounded and 'in- capacitated incapacitated have been cared for, to "give public expression to the feeling that we are grateful for the excellent behavior and management of the troops," Public reference is made to the manner in which Canadian officers have endeavored to interest the in- habitants in the troopsby sports and hospitality. Don't Fold Rugs. Never fold a rug, as it makes a crease that -does not come out. Al- ways roll it up. «tee ., > ...._. eneedhe, tri:: e;..' _xn« A New Stunt -New trays of handling aeroplanes are ibedng devised every day. This flying machine :uses "ship's guns as its form. I T Ca, XMaT "r7 X".A^"310 3a7c 1E1R Markets of the WorhF NE SFROM• GLAND Breadstuff • Tor+onto, gran. 21. -Manitoba wheat No. 1 • Northern;• $2.24%; N. 2 >F1`orthern, '$ae21; 2:1; No, 3. Norbhert, $2,17"x; No 4' n'healle $2,11 , in store Port William, not ,including tax, Manitaobi% eats--NTo. -• 2 C,W., 71C; No. 3 C,W., 68c; extra No. 1 feed, 68x%; No, 1. feed, (•i6'c, instore„Fort Wi1biaxn. ' American corn --No, 3 yeilety, $1..75; No.. 4 yellow, $;1,70,•Janu'ary'eheen:ant. 'Ontario .oats, new erope-No. 2. White, 70 to- 73c; No. 3 'white, 69 to 72e, according to freights ,outside. •Ontario Wheat -No. -1 Winter, per ear let, $2,14 • to $2.22; Na. 2 do., $2.7:1 to $2.19; No. 3; . do., $2.07 to $2,15; No 1 'S rin + , 2.09 -to $2.17; No. 2 Spring,. $2.060 to $2.14; No. 3 Spring, $2.02 to $2.17 f.o.li,; shipping points, a.ccordltng to frei'gbta.• ' Peas=No. 2, $2.00. Burley -Malting, new •crop, 85 to 90 e, 'acoortaing to fre'rghtis' outside. Bu e wheagt-Ne.. 2, $1.25. .Rye ---No. 2, $1..45, noneinal. Manitoba- flour-Ol'¢t erop, tvier cruelty, $11.35, oroxllto. _ Ontario •. flour -War quell:Sy, old crop; .$10.25, ;in bage, '112ontroal and Toronto, prompt shipment. Mil:lfeed'-0ax lees, delivered Mont- retaI fre'ights, bs:ge included: Brlan, $3.7.25 pee ton; shorts, $42.25 pier ton. Healy -.No. 1 $23 to $24 per ton; mixed, $21 to $22 per ton, txaok Tor- onto, Straw -Car Toronto.lot9, $l0 to $11, track • Provisions ---Wholesale NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JO1T :BULL' AND HIS PEOPLE Occurrences in the Land That Relg.nii Supreme in the Commer- cial World, New laid eggs are being sold: at Convent Garden at•siet leer dozen. There are only seventy-eight words in the bill wkith allows women to sit in parliament. •The tree given by the Duke of Bee.. eleuch for the Red Cross timber sale realized 21,300. A shorthorn yearling bull belonging to C.' F. Raphael brought 21,576 ($7,- 560), ;at Birmingham. Over 22,000 was raised for the Red Cross Society at Woking by the sale of "Our Day" flags. Fire did £100,0.00 damage to the Colonial Combing' Company's works et Keighley, Yorkshire. A- Bristol girl born on November the lith has been registered with r°' tho Christian name of Peace, Alderman William Paine has been chosen mayor, of the, city of Chatham for the seventh consecutive, year. The paupers of Swansea are allow- ed to remain in bed three-quarters of an hour later to economize fuel. During four days of armistice cele. Barrelled Meats -Pled pork, $48; btations the London ambulances had mess pork, $47. nthree hundred and seventy-one calls, Green Meats -=Out of pickle, lc: While towing a German field guns' !ears than smol.e'd. I on a lorry. to Croydon, a soldier fell •Smioked Meats -Rolls, 32 to 33e;! under one of the wheels and was ham% medium, 38 bo 39c; heavy, 30 crushed to death. o! Mrs..Max de. Bathe, of Hartley i Court, .Reading, has • collected four hundred •thousand eggs for the wounded soldiers.. . The Buffery Colliery Company, of Worcestershire, was fined' 250 for failing to supply_ a monthly return to °, the Fuel Controller. di The Eccnntric Club entertained et i the Albert Ball ten thousand of the British, Colonial and American woun- ded soldiers. The supply of beef at the Newport Cattle Market on a recent Saturday showed an increase of over or.: him- drdd • per - cent. • n The late Alfred Redsall, ^ Deal lifeboat man+ is credited with having '; saved - over five hundred lives from ' , the Goodwin Sands. Three hundred and twenty-two wo- men• have • entered for the prelimin- ' ary examination of the Institute of a Bankers. The citizens of Elliston,!, a mining I �rllage of • Leicestershire, presented • each of the 175 local soldiers with a guinea at Christmas. Captain Sir George Lloyd was re- ceived by the King on his appoint;- went as Governor of Bombay.- Bernard Capes, author of °'The Lake of Wine" and other romances, died at Winchester from an attack of influenza. A new extension to the Albert • Docks system is to be completed et once for the •anticipated shipping ac- tivities after the war. London milkmen made an appeal to their customers on behalf of the Red Cross; using quart cans as col- :lecting boxes. A civic monument has been un- veiled in a .London area in memory of twenty-one citizens killed by Ger- nian bombs. Lord: Furness has presented Tnrn- i stall House to West Hartlepool as a training hone for disabled soldiers • and sailors: to 31s; cooked. hame, 51 to 52e; back I plain, 46 'to 47c; hacks, boneless; 5 • to 52c. Bxeakfaar,t 'bacon, 42: to 47e Cottage evils, 35 rbc 36c. Dry Salted Meats -Long clears, in tans, 30e; in ewes, 301/ac; clear bel Des, 28c to 28%e; fat hacks, 25e. Lard -Pure, tires, 29%e to 30c tubs, 30 to 30%c; perp-,, 301/4 t 30%c; prints, 31 to 31%c. Shorten ing, 'tierces, 251 to 25%s; tubs, 2534 to 26c; pa:ils, 26 to 2614. 1-41b prints .27 to 271/2c, • Montreal Markets Montreal, Jan. 21. -Oats, extra No. 1 feed 86c; flour, new standard grad's $11.25 to $11.35; re'-Iedl oats beg 90 ibs.,^$4.00 to $4.40; brae. $37.25; !shorts $42.25; Mowifl e $68.00 to $70.00; hay, Ne. 2, per ton car .dons, $19.00 •to $20.00. Cheese finest Elarstern's $27.00 'to $28.00; but- ter choice creamery 513 to 53e; rags, selected 57 to 58c; No. 1 stook 52 to 53c; Potatoes, per bag, ear Bots $1.70; deemed 'hogs, abatcair keeled $21.00 to $23.00; lard, .pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net 81 to 32',4c. Live Steck Markets Toronto, Jan. at -Choice heavy steers, $13.00' to $13.50; butchers, cattle, •choice, $12.00 to $12.50; do. good, $11.00 to $11.50; de. medium, $10.00 to $10.25;; do. common, $8.25 to $8.50; bulls, :choice, $10.25 to $11.00; do. medium bulls, $9.00 to $9.50; do. rough !bulls, $7.50 to $8.00; butcher's' cows, choice, $10.25 to $10.75; do. goad, $9.50 to $10.00; do. medium, $8,50 to $8.75; dao. •common, $7.00 to $7.75; stackers, $8.00 to $10.00; feeders, $10.50 to $11.50; cannerrs, $6.00 to $6.50; milers, good to choh'ce, $90.00 ito• $140.00; do. •coin. and med. $65.00 to $76.00: Springers, $90.00 to $140.00; light ewes, $10.00 to $10.50; yearlings, $12.75 to $13..25; spring lames, $15.25 to $16.00; calves, good to ,ohcice, $16.00 to $17.75; liege, weigihed off ears, .$17.25; do. fed and watered,' $17.00; do. f.olr. country points, $16.25. Montreal, Joan. 2.1.-Cho'+ee eteers,' $12.00 to $13,00; good, $10.50. to • $11.50; medium, $9.00 to $10.00; choke butcher bu•li•s, $9.00 to $10.00; rg'oed, $8.50 to $9.00; medium, $8.00; <o $8.50;' eho'i•ce butcher cows, $0.50; to $10.50; 'good, • $8.00 to $9.00;-; maedium, $7.00 to $8.00; canners, i $5.00 to $6.00;. sheep, 89.00 tol $1,1•.00; lambs, $11.00 to 513.00; millet fed calves, $12.00 to $15.00; 'grass -I fed, . $5.00 to $7.00; choice select hogs, $18 to 18.25. A Worth -While Purchase. Alaska has been worth much more than its cost to the United States. A half -century ago Alaska was pur- chased at a cost of $7,200,000; and that original investment has been returned to the nation more than .sevonty fold, for from the products of the land and sea Alaska has added to the national wealth upward of $500,000,000, the greater part of which has been pro- duced during the last 20 years. Twe ources of large and steady income are copper ore and the fisheries. starting pleat- s • The Heart of Woman. .When down the mud -black Flanders • road • The ranks file by,. You know not that I walk with you, But there am I. You limp a little- •-laugh, and do not care - It is my feet that leave the blood- stains there. .11114. Through all the fury and the flame, -•, The hate and wrath, - Through all- the ways of dread and pain,• I share your path. You take it as the day's work unclip- niayed, It is my flesh that shrinks and'•ii afraid. There is no burden on your strength I not b, Theredo is no hearorror, that you face But I . There rs noani wounthered that you may ever ', know, But that my heart was shattered by the ,blow. Alia if from out the sow,fr's hand Your life is thrown A seed against the harvest --there I, too, aril sownth, will attatiit e grail in that last breattr,, But i shall only know the sting of • death.. 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You take it as the day's work unclip- niayed, It is my flesh that shrinks and'•ii afraid. There is no burden on your strength I not b, Theredo is no hearorror, that you face But I . There rs noani wounthered that you may ever ', know, But that my heart was shattered by the ,blow. Alia if from out the sow,fr's hand Your life is thrown A seed against the harvest --there I, too, aril sownth, will attatiit e grail in that last breattr,, But i shall only know the sting of • death.. And if nt last --.at last you conte To home -to me, ' -Only the woman that you left Your eyes •will see, .And you will never know I enter, too, end share the rapture of 'return •twit:r: you.. • The British Agricultural Wages Board recently issued orders fixing mirtnutum and maximum Cates for wo- men hvorkers for the whole o'f, Great l Bra in and 'Wales.