Zurich Herald, 1919-10-17, Page 3BT
TAW'S NET WAR LOSS IN
°O NACE ` TA S 3,443,012
Building, Buying and Seizing of Ships Cut Down the Gross
Amount of 9,031,828-14,00y0 of Heroic Marine
Service Were Killed; 1,519 Are on the
Honor List For Bravery.
The twenty-sixth annual report of
the Imperial Merchant Service Guild, i
recently issued in Liverpool, shows!
that 14,000 officers and men of the
British Mercantile Marine gave up 1
their lives for their country in the war.,
There are 1,519 eaomes on the honor!
list for bravery, coolness and intrepid- I
ity in time of danger at sea and on;
shore. At the head of the list of
decorated officers in the Royal Naval;
Reserve li .t stands the name of Lieut.j
Harold Auten, D. S. C., who won the:
Victoria Cross, and the head of the
long bravery lis, is Captain Frank H,
Claret., commander of the Atlantic 1
transport liner Minnehalta, whose ship;
was hit by two torpedoes and went
down in less than four minutes in Sep-
tember, 1917, off the southwest coast.
of Ireland. In this disaster fifty-six;
of the officers -and crew were drowned. j
The citation reacts: "For extraordin-1
ary heffoism and presence of mind;
when his ship was sunk by the enemy." 1
Captain Claret saved eleven of his 1
firemen and sailors who were helpless;
in the water by swimming with them 1
to a life raft. The survivors presentedi
to him a marble clock as a token of.
their appreciation of his gallant con-
duct.
The 1,519 decorations awarded to
the merchant service include (i Vic-
toria Crosses, Sp Distinguished Ser-
vice Orders, 87 Orders cf the British
Empire; 410 Distinguished Service
Crosses, 18 bars to the D.S.C., 38
awards from the French Government,
353 mentioned in dispatches, 270 com-
mended for services, and 257 other
decorations.
The mercantile marine not only fed
people of the allied nations during the
war, but supplied the arrnies anal the
navies with gum and anittlunition, In
addition the big liners lilfe the Olymp-
ic, Baltic, Germania, and Carona car-
ried thousands of tons of oil fuel for
the British Navy.
Thirteen officers of the merchant
service were serving during the war
in the navy taken froth the Royal
Naval Reserve, and there were 78,000
firemen and sailors, 20,000 men in the
Government traifsports, and 36,000
coastwise sellers and firemen in the
trawlers which were doing duty as
]minesweepers and submarine chasers.
The report states that theeofficial
figures show that the total British
gross tonnage sunk by the enemy
amounted to 9,031,828, and the gain
in the. way of new construction, ton-
nage purchased abroad,• and enemy
tonnage captured was $5,588,816, leav-
ing the net loss of British tonnage at
3,443,012, which is nearly double the
Let loss of the other world tonnage.
So far en the list of honors, only one
knighthood has been awarde: to the
British Mercantile Marine, and the
recipient was Captain Bertram Fox
Ilayes, D.S.O., of the White Star liner
Olympic, who sank two submarines
off Portsmouth on May 12, 1918, and
carried nearly 300,000 troops across
the Atlantic and to Muros, in the
Mediterranean without losing a man,
although that line had some marvel-
ously narrow escapes, as the German
submarine commanders were making
special efforts to sink her.
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CANADIANS SHOW
-NATIVE RESOURCE
VALUABLE ;INDEX
Exhibition Afforded Ilia of
Conditions in Germany.
A despatch from London says: -A
valuable index of industrial and com-
mercial conditions in Germany after
the war is afforded by a report com-
municated to the Daily News by a
qualified observer who attended the
recent great fair at Leipzic. The
whole fair showed the desire of the
German nation to work and recover
itself, but everywhere one was struck
with the hopeless dependency of Ger-
many on foreign raw materials and an
increased cost output. In fact, with
German glass, pottery, textile, leather,
toy and many other industries closed
down or operati::g At five per cent. or
ten per cent. of their normal output,
due to the inability to buy raw mater-
ials at the present value of the mark,
the fair gave direct evidence of Ger-
inany's very difficult position.
From conversation with the ex-
hibitors the impression was gathered
that nearly all branches of German
industry are on the verge of bank-
ruptcy, due, principally, to the short-
age of coal, and secondly, to the loss
of export trade, which carries with it
inability to purchase the much-needed
foreign raw materials, I
To assist in forcing a wedge into,
foreign markets German manufactur-1
ers have concentrated on new mechan-
icil devices and novelties, which were
much in evidence at the fair.
Most of the German representatives
are inclined to the opinion that they,
would recover their export trade
through American and neutral buy
ers. Much as they would prefer to'
re-establish their pre-war trading con-
nection with England, they feel that,'
at present, because of English hostil-1
sty towards them, they had better con -1
centrale on Anlenican and the neutral.
nations surrounding Germany. Prices
are approximately from 200 to 300 per
cent. above their pre-war level.
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May Take Eight Years
to Restore French Mines
A despatch from Paris says: --A
commission of German experts who
have visited the alines of northern
France. which wore devastated during
the war, believe that it will take from
two to eight years to restore them to
their former condition, according to
The Gattlois.
Transport 600 Men to Ocean
Liner in Spite of Railway
St, ihe.
A. despatch from Loudon says: The
recent railway strike brought out a
smart piece of Canadian resource and
organization at Buxton depot,
On Sunday 600 men were to join the
Belgic at Liverpool and a special train
had been arranged for Saturday morn-
ing, but on Friday evening it was can-
celled. Col. Hanson, commander, and
his staff, not to be beaten, however,
began to organize a road transport,
and, with the assistance of Capt.
Smythe, of 'a local volunteer detach-
ment, it was all fixed up hi four hours
from Manchester and London: By
Saturday morning the lorries were all
on hau(. Saturday evening brought
news that the last man was aboard the
Belgic,
At a civic farewell ceremony at Dux.
ton on Thursday- last, Col. Hanson
planted a maple 'tree commemorating
the Canadians' long and intimate as -
sedation with the town.
j. King of the Belgians Ran
f Engine on Royal Train
I A. despatch from Chicago says: -
The King of the Belgians ran the en-
gine of his train for 'ten miles. The
train on which the King and his party
are travelling westward was stopped
at Wauseon, Ohio, while his Majesty
climbed into the cab of the engine and
took over the throttle from the grimy
pilot.
The King, who has a thorough
knowledge of locomotive engineering,
ran the heavy train for ten miles with-
out a jolt. 'Then he stopped the en-
gine and returned to his car.
Will Enforce Treaty,
Says the Tiger
.A. despatch from Paris says, --
Speaking in the Senate on the as.
armament of Germany, Leon Bour-
geois declared that lneesur'es would
have to be applied immediately after
ratification of the treaty to theft end.
Premier Clemenceau, interrupting,
said;
„They will be; do not doubt it. One
hundred French officers are in Berlin
to see to it."
A Job Well Done.
An old sailor approached a farmer
for a heal one day, saying lie was
willing to work,
"1 will give you a meal," said the
farmer, "if you will round up' those
sheep 0n the co111111on there and drive
them into the fold."
In three flours time the sailor came
back looking hot, but happy.
Glancing over the gate in the field,
the farmer saw the sheep safely in the
fold. "There's a flare sitting up
among 'cin," lie exclaimed.
"Do you mean that little fellow
there?" asked the sailor, "Why, that's
the little beggar tello gave me all the
trouble. 1 thought it was 0 101013."
Ali Arranged.
"But are you sure your wife don't
mind you bringing use Home to take
pot -duck?"
"Quite sure, 01(1 chap, Why, we were
arguing it out for nearly half an hour
this morning."
Rustproof Steel,
13y adding ;bait 12 per cent. of
chromium to mild carbon stool an Eng-
lish inventor has brought out a metal
for tableware that is said to be rust
and tarnish proof.
CANADA'S NET EBT
NOW S5 ,7 0 0 0,000
Country's Financial Situation
Shown inMonthly'
Weekly Market Report
lireadstufft3.to 340; turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings,
Toronto, Oct. 14. -Manitoba wheat 34 to 35e; squabs, dos., $6.00.
--No. 1 Northern $2.30; No. 2 North- Live poultry -Spring chickens,22
ern, $2.27; No. Northern, $2.23, in to 20; fowl, 23 to 25c; ducks, 22 to 25c,
store Fort William. rBrans--Canadian hand-picked, bus„
Manitoba oats No. 2 CW, 8Us/ac $'•''25 to $5.75; primes, $4.25 to $4.75;
Na, 3
Manitoba
oats-No.
o. 2 No. 1 feed; Japans, $4,75 to $5; Imported, hand -
Balance Sheet. 78a/sc; No. 1 feed,' 767/ac; No. 2 feed, picked,Burma,
-clover, 5-lb15 p tins,
A despatch from Ottawa says: -A 741/20, in store Fort William, 24 to 25c; 10-1b. tins .23to 24c; 60-1h
disappointing situation in regard to Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW, tins, 23 to 24c; buckwheat, 00-11). tins,
the Dominion finances is reyealed In $.33 A; No. 4 CW, 1$1.25 ,s ; rejected, 18 to 20e; Comb, 16 -az., '1;4.50 to $5
the monthly balance sheet of the Fin- $1.14 „r; feed, $1.14 /..y, in store Fort dos.; 10 -oz., $3.50 tr $4, dozen,
William,
ance Department. During last month Maple products -Syrup, per imper-
the net debt of $?le Dominion increased inAmerican corn -No. 3 yellow, nom- hal gallon, $3.15; per 5 imperial gal -
al. No. 4 yellow, nominal, lolls ,$3
by nearly sixty-five million dollars, as Ontario oats -No.. 3 white, 84 to silgar, Ib,, .7 to 28e.
compared with an increase of a little 8Gc, according to freights outside. Provisions -Wholesale.
under twenty-eight millions for the Ontario2 wheat -No. 1 Winter, per Smelted meats -Hams, med., 43 to
month of September last year. The ear lot, $2 to $2.06; No. do, $1.97 to 44c; do, heavy, 36 to 38c; cooked, 56
new debt now stands at $1,750,000,000. $2.03; No. 3 do, $1.93 to $1,99, f.o,b. to 59c; rolls, 33 to 86c; breakfast
Before the war the net debt was shipping points, according to freights. bacon, 40 to 50c; hacks, plain, 48 to
$336000,000. Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, $2,02 50c; boneless, 53 to 55c.
to $2.08;y No. 2 Spring, }1.99 to $2.05; Cured meats --Lor;; clear bacon, ^2
Last months increase in the net No. 3 Spring, $1.95 to $2.01, f.o.b. to 33c• clear bellies, .,l to 32c•.
debt was chiefly due to war expends shipping points, according to freights. Lard' -Pure tierces, f'0 to 301' e;
ture arising out of the war. Ex- Barley -Malting, $1.29 to $1.32, ac- tubs, 301 to 31e; pails, 30s/.t to 311.Lc;
penditure under the heading of "War," cording to freights outside. prints, 31% to 32c. Compound tierces,
in fact, was about twenty-three mile Buckwheat ---Nominal. 27 to 273/2; tubs, 271/2 to 23c; pails,
lion dollars higher than in September Bye -Nominal. 27%, to 2814c; prints, 29 to 291.;;e.
of last year. The figures are: WarManitoba flour -Government stand- Montreal Markets.
expenditure, September, 1918, $39,484,- ard $11., Toronto.
000; war expenditure,Se tember Ontario flour Government '_stand -
B 3 ard, Montreal and Toronto, $9.40 to
1919, $62,253,000. Part of this, how- $9.60, in jute bags, prompt shipment.
ever, is expenditure incurred in previ- Millfeed-Car lot.,, delivered Mont-
ous months. The figure is the total
of payments for the month which pas-
sed through the books of the' Finance
Department. War expenditure for the`
six months ending September 30 00m-
pares as follows: 1919, $183,740,000;
1918, $103,064,000.
Makes Women Eligible
To Serve on Juries
A despatch from London says;-
British women" will soon be eligible Dressed poultry --Spring chickens, ;+10.75; do, com., 37 to $7.50; bulls,
to serve on juries by the Sex Disquali- 25 to 30c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 20 to choice, $10 to $10.50; do, med., 3d.50
fication (removal) Act, 1919, There 25c; ducklings, -25 to 30e; turkeys, 35, to $9.733; do, rough, $7.50 to $8; batch -
is a proviso inserted by the House ef.
Lord's which leaves to the judge or
other presiding officer the power to
make an order that the jury shall he
composed of r>rien or women only, as
the case may require, and to exempt
a woman on her application from serv-
ice in any particular case.
Women's Service Corps
Members to Emigrate
Montreal, Oct. 14. -Oats -Extra
No. 1 feed, 931/2c. Flour -New :stand-
ard grade, $11 to $11.10, Rolled oats
-Bags, $4.45 to $5. Bran, $45;
real freights, bag's included: Bran, per Shoets99 55; Hay, No. 2, per ton, car
ton, $45; shorts, per ton, $55; good erns, 25e; butter, choicest creamerto $23. Cheese. finest y,
feed flour, per bag, $3.50. 58 to 59c; eggs, fresh, 68c;selected,
Hay -No. 1, per ton, $24 to $25; 63c; No. �1 stock, 56 to 50; No. 2
mixed, per ton, $18 to $21, track, To-
ronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $10 to 411,
track, Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
• Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 to
40c; prints, 40 to 42e, Creamery,
fresh made solids, 52 to 521/20; prints,
53 to 531/2c.
- Eggs -53 to 55c.
stock, 53 to 54c; potatoes, per bag, car
lots, $1,40. Dressed hogs -Abattoir
killed, $95.50 to $26. Lard --Pure,
wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 30 to 301c.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Oct. 14. -Choice heavy
steers, $13 to $13.50; good heavy
steers, $12.50 to $12.75; but:.here' cat-
tle, choice, $12 to $12.50; do, good,
$11.25 to $11.50; do, med., x:10 to
A despatch from London says:
Simultaneously with news from Ot-
tawa of a soldiers' ernigration selee,-
tion committee to England, details
are published of a new policy of e1 1_1. A despatch frcm Stockholm says:-
gration to Canada of women mer ue'rs The extraordinary session of the
of the service corps. It is anticnpated 'Swedish Parliament is being continued
that a large proportion of the two while the ratification of the German
hundred thousand women will be ap- peace treaty by a sufficient number of
plieallts for free passage to the Do- the great powers to put it into effect
millions, and it is hoped to start the is being awaited.
scheme early next year. When this occurs the question of
- Sweden joining the League of Nations
Canada Steamships Line will be immediately discussed by the
to Enlarge Its Service Parliamentary body,
The leaders of all the Swedish part-
ies have expressed themselves as in
A despatch from London says:- favor of Sweden's entrance into the
Col. Grant Morden states that the league.
Canada Steamships Line intends to
greatly enlarge its ocean service. Be-
side the direct French service already �n1'4:Ct Steamship Service .
operating, similar services will be in- Canada and Norway
in Holland and Belgium within
a few weeks. A despatch from Montreal says:-
e..With the arrival of the steamer Ranen-
to 40c; squabs, doz., $4.50. 1 er cows, choice, $10.25 to $10.75; do,
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 22 good,, $9 to $9.25; do, med., $8 50 to
to 25c; roosters, 20c; -fowl, 18 to 25c; $9; do, corn., $7 to 7.50; stockers, $7.50
ducklings, 20c; turkeys, 35c. • , to $10; feeders, $10 to $11.25; canners
Cheese -New, large, 28 to 29c; and cutters, $5 to $6.25; mil :ers, good -
twins, 281/2 to 291 c; tnipleti, 29 to to choice, $110 to $150; do, corn. and
80c; Stilton, 31 to 32c. ; med., $05 to $75; springers, $90 to
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 47 to $150; light ewes, 83 to $9; yearlings,
49c;. creamery prints, 56 to 58c. $9 to $10; spring lambs, per cwt.,
Margarine -33 to 38c. $13.75 to $14.25; calves, good to
Eggs -No. l's, 57 to 58c; selects, choice, $17.50 to $21.50; hogs, fed and
61 to 62c. watered, $18; do, weighed off uses.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, $18.25; do, f.o.b., $17; da, do, to farm -
30 to 35c; roosters, 23 to 25c; fowl, 30 ers, $16,75.
Sweden Prepares to Join 3 �t FOR
NEW VICTORY LOAN
The League of Nations
Marcy Active WorkersVolun-
teer Services For the Big
Campaign.
Reports from chairmen cf the Pro-
vincial Committees all through the
country indicate that the Victory
Loan organizaticn is getting warmed
up for 'the campaign. A notable
feature is that voluntary effort le
proving available to an extent which
compares favorably with the previous
campaigns. In the Province of Ont-
ario, for instance, it is reported that
already, out of the 02 county chairmen
s ' vn for last year's campaign, acceptances
-" :for acting in the same capacity th's
year have been received from 43 of
them, :while others are not yet heard
fjord in this port the establishment of from finally, while a few of course find
direct steamship service between that special circumstances this year
Canada and Norwegian ports becomes do not leave them as free to act as
an accomplished fact. Pull cargo has they were in previous campaigns.
been booked, consisting of cereals, British Columbia reports that volun-
provisions, radiators, canned goods, tart' workers are available in large
apples, etc. The ports of call in Nor- numbers, while the campaign in that
way will be Trondhjem, Bergen, Sta• province has a strong military flavor.
vanger and Ch.iistiania, the firsts with Brig. -Gen. Odium as vice-cll<'tir-
named port being the headquarters of man for the province and Brig. -Gee.
the Norwegian Food Controller. Clark, chairman for the city of Vic-
toria and the island district. It is
reported that there is a growing ap-
preciation throughout the country of
the necessity for making the loan an
abundant success in order that there
may be no setback to the prosperity
of the country.
Peace Treaty Awaiting
The King's Proclamation
A despatch, from London says: -
Great Britain's ratification of the
Peace Treaty, the Foreign Office says,
awaits only the King's proclamation.
All the Dominions have ratified the
treaty, the Australian House on Sep-
tember 19 and the Senate.
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that doesn't seem to be recuperating.
One war hero
German Goodg' Corning
Slowly Into Britain
THE CRIMINAL'S
DEADLY FOE
SCIENCE MAIK:E,S JIT HARD
FOR HIM TO ESCAPE.
Marvellous Scientific Discovv
cries Help Detectives to
Track LcsLw-Breakers.
The modern detective has been c,om.
pared to a keen and discerning physl'
Cull. From a few apparent tokens -a
rag, a bitten, a handkerchief, a foot,
print -.-if he is 011 observer and is end
flowed with the gifts necessary to hie
profession, he will cften be able to re,
construct all the different ewe is eon.,
neeted with a. drama and discover the
eulprii-ju1,t as an able doctor mum
ages to give just the right diagnosis
from a few exterior si;l:s.
The famous detectives invented by
reaboriau, Conan Doyle and Edgar Al-
lan Poe are types to be fuuad in real
life.
Some years ago at Lyons a women
w,,.,, found strangled. She bore on her
neck five fingermarks- -four of the left
and one all the right. which w:O3
brooder and shekel.
The tiuce tive was struck by the Ir.
regular • disposition of these nark:
and tried to apply his own fingers tr.
them. Ile found it impossible with.
out folding his fort finger in ap tenial
and abnormal way, and thus inferred
that the murderer had an ill -shaped
finger. The fact made his search fol
the criminal ('alit'i. The 3111111 was
disc orSed; bis f'oref'inger had been
injured in an ace ..at; he confessed
his guilt.
Scientific Methods.
The methods employed by criminals
'have "iiilproveci." they have become
scientific, most sc•ie'ltltic. The crinin,
al of to -day trinities chloro orllh, opinim
morphia, with all the cleverness of a
pliysi2i211.
But the detective also avtOIs him
self of seientilic discovery. Formerly.
in eases of forgery, for instance, a
(Trop of water was placed on the
forted words. 11 the paper had hemp
-scratched and its size removed the
water was immediately sucked in; it
the paper had not been scratched the
drop remained for a while on the top
This process was primitive and spoiled
the (Moment.
Nowadays the suspicious paper is
photographed, and o11 the proof the
merits of.''c ratehillg are easily detect•
ed by clear differences in the color.
Photography is used also in the ease
of forgeries made by me:ins of chemi-
cals.
When a heap of bunt documents is
found 111 the ilrei.l is c? thin sheets of
glass are inserted between the burnt
papers. As soon as one sheet is on
the glass It is rendered red less brittle by
means of 11 special liquid, and it is nn.
folded and photographed.
.A process formerly used for the
classification of bloodstains consisted
in .examining them ander the micro-
scope and from the ophiiron of the real
Globules the investigators wve:tltl lira•
their conclusions as to the nature lit
the blood.. Unfortunately 11118 exami-
nation gave no result when the blood-
stains werI' not recent. -
To -day a more scientille n13t1u':i is
used. The staid is washed; a few
drops of the water used are poured In-
to a 10130 C011tailling 8011113 sir ciiic
serutil from a rabbit inoculated with
1111111011 blood. When the addition of
water product's in the serum a iine de-
posit and gives a misty appearance to
the liquid One 0011 be poi'ft'i•t i :• eel?.
tain that the bloodstains are those of
a human llt'int;.
Association of Ideas.
A detective must be and ll. tradl • is
nowadays something of a psyeht'h3,;ist.
There has been invented a method of
experimental psychology that has
been found most serviceable. It is
based o11 the 0313 (3i'iatien of ido.is. On
a sheet of paper a mil's o ww1.(l$ are
written, a few of them having no con-
nection With and others baying a
direct or indirect connection with the
crime under investigation.
A despatch from Leith, Scotland, The list is lt;-iiiI d to 111 re:heeler.
says: -The steamship Weimar arrived He is asked teepetalounee loudly 1111
here from Hamburg with only 150 tons w eerds which by association of ideas,
c,13120 to his mind when reading the
written wvor.ls.
11 has been
ascertained Olaf for
words having no connection with the.
crime his 0nswel'S colla' :1L once. At
the word "ink.' for instant e, the man
will rlhswcr rap•tlly. "paper, pelt,
of German goods, which rather dis-
eountetiane.es the 'Fears of British
manufacturers of the Germans dump-
ing their products on the United King-
dom. The ship's tofiicera aver that
Germany is ei:ttemely short of raw
material;.
-•----» w.•rit " or a similar vrortl. If he is
Good Reads •tine Concern of All. innoceet ii0 wili answer in the 111110e
'toad inhnr3vc u.c nt is fundamentally manner and with the shite rI pidity to
an economic problem and affects all words, whatever they may be.
(_ithat• directly or indiret'tly our 00.1 But if he is guilty he will avoid care-
fully those words ]having any relation
to his (triune or will hesitate a long
time before saying, for • instance,
"blood, dagger, heart." lifter having
bald 11lo110 the word "knife" on the
tire citizenship, regardless 01 w:l13 ther
its members live in the country, the
town nr the crowded city; regardless
of whether they drive a pleasure cite,
a
lumber wagon, or walk the streets
of the tenement district. The great- ' Het.
est direct benefits will come to the A special clectl•ie apparatus placed
users of the road; - but in each tn- ' between the lips of the prisoner and
stance there are indirect benefits connected with a dial which iudioat.es
reaching a greater number of people, the 11/11118 of seemed makes it possible
and hence of greater importance lobar- to register the length of the hush's
ly than the direct benefits. hesitation.