Zurich Herald, 1921-02-10, Page 7GERMANS SUMMONED TO LONDON
• TO DISCUSS PAYMENT F WAR DEBT
Germany Will. Not be Allowe d to Debate the Amount, but
Only Ways of Paying it Foreign Countries Will Sup-
ply Figures on German Export Trade.
Parie, Ja:n, 30.--A German .de]ega-;
-Lion -goes to London on February 28 to
meet the allies •orser the reparations
decision.
Acoardinng to the a:llied.ehiefs, Ger-,
many will be told ill. London that she
• can take or leave the new scheme. In.
other words, she will not be ,allowed
to discuss any changes in it, but only,
ways of c:an,rying it out, Inasmuch
as the only alternative plan is to not- l
ify Germany that she owes, the Re -1'
parati•on,s Commission the figure. of'
400,000.000,000 marks in gold, one
- may, in view of the difficuIties of the
latte,•r plan, take with a grain of salt,
the •selli•e:d chiefs', declaration,
If Germany agreed with the p .lni
and Finned the undertaking not to
seek any loan without consent of the!
allies s3ho would be bound under pen-
alties not to do so. However, if she;
refused to accept Article IV.. among
others, it might Change the aspect of
the situation,, although it is true that
the 'trereitill•os Treaty in general terms
permits of a construction giving the
.alltiies control over the tenl:tractin.g of
loans •by Germany.
The German Anibassad•or to Paris
toy -clays forwarded to Berlin the
allies' plan on reparations and their
orders en diearinement. The Germans
have no opportunity to argue over
the siis,arniamenat clecisiotrs: They ey may
answer at once or wait until February
28 to reply on the reparations plan.
In 'the operation of the allied plan
to .collect 12 per cent. on German ex-
portss, foreign countries will he asked
to supply figures on importatienm
from Germany. These figures are to
be used to stheek up the German figur-
es: But inasmuch as -the 'United
States publishes its import figures,
there • sbcltid be no difficulty on this
se'ore.
Before leaving for London, Premien
Lloyd C cote was asked about plans
for arranging the allied debts. Ile re-
plied that the subject would be taken
up as soon as America t:ould be got
to :liselnec arrangements for the debts
of the allies toward her. "If my
creditor does not press me I will not
press my debtor," was the way lis` r..
Lloyd George put it.
FRANCE FACES
ENORMOUS DEFICIT
Settlement of the Reparation
Question Shatters Hope of
Saving Situation.
Paris, Jean. 30::—France is face to
face with ,bankruptcy.
The settlement of the reparatinuc,
question shatters the last illusion that
the German indemniy might save the
situation.
Cold figures prove the desperate
financial situation, and financial, wiz-
ards as well as adroit diploinz:ts see
no hopeful solution.
Already laborers recontructin•g the
devastation in. the Lille and Rheinns
d•istrict.s are being discharged by
thousands and the Ci•; it servants di-
recting the work of reconstruction
also are being ieneoved ,under M. Lou-
cheur.'s orders, through 1•a•ck of funds
to pay them, .
M. Lou hoer has anmoun eed that
war •sufferers Ilereafter would be rrin1-
btirsed on the basis of pre-war ap-
praisals and estimates, which .average
from one-fourth to one-third of. ;the
Present prices.
It is reported that thousands of
families are preparing to evacuate
the war -devastated zone and become
refugees again, settling in the south.
of Frazee, rather than continue their
bitter struggle.
The French Government is facing a
deficit orf from 22,000,000,000 to 20,-
000,000,000 paper francs this year.
The ordinary budget totals 19,000,-
000,000, and the extraordinary budget,
wwihich is listed. as""recoverable from
German reparati•onc," totals.22,000,-
000;000 francs.
The. taxes are bringing in less than
20,000,000,000 francs, including 0,000,-
000,000 francs obtained through ,.the
never taxation applied last year, which
has milked the -omentry- dry.
• The present Chamber of Deputies
was elected on a platform of "no levy
Moven Address to Speech from Throne
K. K, Homuth, T.J.P.O, member of the
Ontario Legislature for Waterloo, who
moved the address in reply to the
speech from the Throne.
on capital," wiaich bars the sole doer
open to ..the financiers who aro seek-
ing a solution,
Canadian Air Force in
Training at Camp Borden
A despatch helm .Ottawa.
says:—
Training'of officers of the Canadian
Air Force is going on apace at Camp
Borden, where some 500 officers are
now taking courses and flying every
day. The mild weather has been help-
ful in the winter training. Machines
have been mounted on either slciis or
wheels, according to the amount of
snow.
—.sae--
Modestyisthe essential character-
istie of mankind.. The history of re-
ligions proves it, for man adores
everything, positively everything be-
fore adoring himself. ---Remy de Cour-
motet.
GERMAN N W DEBT TO ALLIES
FIXED AT $60,000,000,000
Committee of Experts Have Reached An Agreement on the
System of Annual Payments of Reparations
by Germany.
A despatch from Paris says; -•.The
session of the' commettce of experts
of the Allied Supreme Council envied
at 12:30 O'tlock Saturday morn-
ing after inuring reached a complete
agreement on the system of aimual
payments of reparations by 'Germany
and annuities on ‘Germany's foreign
traele.
Germany's war debt to the allies
was fixed by the committee at sixty
billion dollars.
This , armtnt will bo paid, ov et a
period of thirty years in sliding an-
zeuities varying from five hundred
Million dollars to one billion and five
iundred "nu;llion.
• In •ad+dit`ion. to these annual pay-
ments the allies will oxa.•ct twelve
iwud one-half per tent. of the total
1 gttro of German exparte annually
w0d011 win bring the total indettnities
Up to thcw'sunt of sixty billions,
The decision was at rester coatimune
mated, to the allied Premleee. Coss
tEene ce .etreles are expaoting a tente-
• tive approval of the plan at a eon
rence which will be held with the
Gertft.ans probably in Mardi.
LIoyd George agreed to a percent-
age tee: em C;+•anon erorts 01a17 on
conditions that the annuities be re-
duced to thirty years ,instead of forty-
two as agreed upon at Boulogne,
The proposed scheme provides icor
the payment of annuities on a sliding
scale of from 2,000,000,000 to 6,000;-
000,000 gold marks over a period of
probably forty-two years, and also a
r
Io ,;,>;
per cent. ass valar.ens tax on Ger-
man exports so that her creditors will
be paid according to Germanys in-
ereasing prosperity.
The second ironing out, of differ-
ences carne after two days of a con-
tinually widening breach that threat-
ened -to break up the ,conference, it
being virtually suspended except for
private, confereirces, Official French
chides give the Belgian delegation
credit for the suc.ce:as in reconciling
bhe British and French viewpoints.
The project in ;its final fortnn, When
approved by the Supreme Council,
will be stibinitted to Ger2nany for ac-
eeptance as an agreement outside of
Article 233 of the peace treaty, which
entrants the repara'tiolrs commission
With the taslc of fixing the amount of
th,o indemnity, Then another cenrfer-
enec will be railed to vehieh the Ger-
mans Win be invited.
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NOW PART OF GREAT ei..f.F.t TfiiC SY$TEwvi
The Toronto Power House at. Niagara Sadie which becomes the property of
the Ontario Hydro -Electric Commission under the recent pureha+re of the
1tleKenzie interests."
OIL PROSPECTORS 4�
TO PROVE FITNESS 1
• f
Rush to Northern Oilfields is
Halted by Federal . egu-
lat'ioDS.
A despatch ft -0,m Dawson, Y.T.
says: --Special parties that have beet
outfitting preparatory to mashing 500
miles over the snow with dog teat rs
toboggans and supplies to stake oil
lands in the I+'urt Norman district
probably will abandon ,or defer their
trip because of advices Tram Ottawa
recerte•d by C . Mackenzie, gold cons
misaloner, that the Federal Govern-
ment
overn
ment had suspended until further me
tice privileges for staking or other-
wise acquiring oil lands in the North-
west
west Territories.
The gold Boni nissinr.,sr has passed
.the notification on to ,several inter-
ested parties, notably some of the
many men who had reached Hoot a.-
Linque, en route from Victoria, on
behalf of the British Columbia inves-
tors.
A despatch from Edmonton, Alta.,
says: The onit, way to get into the
North this coining spring and sum-
mer, by any route, will be to qualify
for, secure and carry clearance pa-
pers from the Royal Canadian Mount-
ed Police. There will be no sea
thing as booking passage without
them, and there will be no open door
into the oil 'country on .any other
terms. No hying machines `' of any
type will be permitted. to leave for
the M cikenzie territory without.elearr
ing the police, 'or without eaoh of its
passengers being certified by a inedi-
cal officer as physically and mentally
fit to make the trip. ,
Estimate of League
of Nations' Expenses
iG DIRIGIBLE
A TOTAL WRECK
-34 Meets Another' Mishap
and Will be Dismantled.
-1 Bowden, 1;F7 •:30. ---The Eng., Jan.3 e iii
+.3g,ibie P. -8.i, which was deranged early
Friday morning while making a land
ing and which after drifting out to
-ca was finally manoeuvred back to
• her base here, suffered another 2nis-'
+.'bap during Friday night, being badly
daulaged by a strong wind.
.Almost alit in two, it is ancounced
,that the airship's flying days are over
- .al=ci she will be dismantled.
On her an•rinal :t Howden Friday
night otte louse the clarilagod
tiling-tble were unsuccessful. She was:
• tethered with, great difficulty to a
.special anchor some distance from the
shed and t•i'us was exposed to the
Vend,
A despatch from Geneva says :
—The League of Nations has
just appointed the Swiss Govern-
ment's financial .department p arrei
a to
act as the Auditors of the
League accounts. Total esti-
mates of League expenses for
1921 are 21,000,000 gold francs.
African Explorer
Finds Rich Mines
London, Jan, 30,—"Enormous- ihanks
of gravels, analogous to the diamond -
bearing gravels of the Vaal River,
composed chiefly of nodules of agate,
jasper, chalcedony, banded ironstone,
onyx, conleliarn and other semi-preei-
ot t stones by the thousands.
"This was my most picturesque dis-
covery," said Mr. F. C. Cornell, the
African explorer and pinlspector. He
has just returned to England after
twenty years' prospecting in some of
the least known regions of Africa, and
he is convinced that a veritable Gol-
conda lies deep in the desert country
of the B•ichtercveld, along the lower
readies of the Orange Ri er. N
U.S. Wheat Stock
Totals 320,000,€00 Bus.
:A c'eseateh from Washington
says. Sec 1. • of :cheat in the United
States on .lanuar y 1, 1921, aro estimat-
ed by the hureau of Markets anal the
Bureau of Crop Estimates of the De-
partment cf Agriculture to be 320,-
000,000
20;000,000 bushels, This is about 40 per
cent, of the total available on• July 1,1
1920, and compared with 417,000,000
binshels ori January 1, 1920.
eerie •
R-34 Returals to Base
in Damaged Condition
A
despatch from London saw:—
The giant British dirigible airship R-
34, which was damaged while making
a landing on the Yorkshire coast early
Friday morning and drifted out to
sea, landed at her base in Howden,
county York, late on Friday after-
noon.. Alt the members of the crew
were •safe,
RACING FORBIDDEN
IN IRISH AREAS
To Stop Fights, Says ajor-
General Strickland, Mili-
tary Comex .' nt3er.
Belfast,. Jane 30,—An Officer end
one man were ner,ously wounded and
five others slightly when. a berry in
which Were the officer and twelve men
of other ranks were aieding was am-
bushed last night in the ieinity of
Terenurc, a quiet residential district
on the sso'.rbh slide of Dublin, A bomb
was exploded omni shots were fired at
the lorry, to which the soldiers replied
vigorously. Auxiliary .police were
rushed to the scene, but the assailants
escaped.
A pace patrol was fired on near
Virgirda, Courty Cavan, last night•.
The•pelice returned the fire, and three
of the attacking party were seen to
fall. There were no police ,casualties.
One of the nieanhers of the ambush-
ing party which Was surprised by
military forces Friday at Coachford,
Cout;ty. Cork, died in a hospital here
to -day of wounds received in the en-
gagement.
n-
gc,
•a - n =nt
g
It appears the party had trenched
the road running from Coil; to Ma --
emelt. Tho rneinbc-rs of the party
who escaped carried off and concealer)
their• slip'h:tly s*;oulrl+rci co•nlrades, irut
'were obliged to abandon the five seri-
ously wounded.
Constable Clarke, who. vias wound-
ed recently at Straneodeal, • County
itfonagnan, when his comrades wore
killed, also died in a hospital to -day.
The- military killed one civilian and
captured ten members of the -party • at
Coachford,„ five of them wounded•, ac-
cording to a despatch dated Dublin,
January 29. Arms, ammunition and
other equipment were abandoned.
There were no casualties among the
sol diera.
Dublin, Jan, 30. ---Divisional Com-
missioner Holmes, who with five con-
sul:des was wounded Friday in an am-
bush swear Castle Island, County Kerry,
died yesterday. IIe had only recent-
ly been appointed Commissioner for
the .southern counties, in succession
to Col. Smyth, who was murdered
some time ago in a Cork,ciuh.
Cork. Jan. 20.—Major-General Sin•
Edward Strickland, in command of
the troops, in a proclamation to -day,
forbids hunting, point-to-point races
and coursing meeting in certain
areas of the coulnties of Cork, Tip-
porary and .Limerick. The .command-
er gives as his reason that it is pos-
sible these focal hunt meetings -will
be likely to lead to breaches of the
peace and be prejudicial to the re-
storation of order.
Penal Servitude
for Cork Chaplain
llublin, .Jan. 30.—Father Dominic,
chaplains to the late Lord Mayor of
Cork, hasbeen •sentenced to five years'
'ental servitude but two 1, � a years ha
ye
tie
been remitted. He was tried for writ-
ing a letter likely to eause disaffection,
Weekly Market Report
Toronto.
Manitoba wheat—Ne. 1 Northern,
$1.85%; No. 2 Northern, $1.82% • No.
3 Northern, $1.771, ; No, 4 wheat,
$1,71,
itlanitoba oats --•--No. 2 CW, 47i,Ec;
Iy'o, 3 CW, 431:2e; extra No. 1 feed,
43tjc; No. 1 feed, 42%c; No. 2 feed,
881. ,e •
Manitoba barley—No. 3 CW, 83171e;
No. 4 CW, OOfi,c; rejected, 581.4,e;
feed, 5814e, •
All -above in store, Fort William.
Ontario wheat—I+.o.b. shipping
points, according to freights outside.
No. 2 spring, $1,80 to $1.85; No. 2
winter,. $1.85 to $1.00.
American earn --Prompt shipment,
No. 2 yellow, track, Toronto, 95c.
• Ontario oats—No. 3 white, 60 to
53e, according to freights outside.
Barley—Malting 90 to 95c accord-
• ing to freights outside.
Ontario 1! rr--Winter, in jute bags,
prompt shipment, straight run bulk,
f seaboard, $8.50,
' Peas—No. 2, $1.80 to $1.85, outside.
Manitoba four Track, Toronto:
T`iret patents 2111190; second patents
1 $10:40.
Buckwheat ---No. 2, $1,05 to $1.10.
Rye. --No, 2, nominal; Nb. 8, .$1.56
to Iillfeed--Carlots, • delivered To-
ronto freights, bags included. Baan.,
' per tan, $40, firm; shorts, per ton,
. fl10; white middlings, $47.25; feed
our, $2.50 to $2.75,
Eggs—New-;laid, cartons, 85 to 90e;
selects, 77 to • 80c; No, 1., 75 to 77e.
'Bast -ter-- Ore2i1ncry prints, 50 to
59e; fresh -made, Ell. to Ole; bakers'.
88 ,
Oleoto45cmargarine---Best grade, r3 ter
35c.
Cheese—New, large, :1.1 to 81%.,e;
twins. 3:11rs to 32e; old; large. 82 to
Sec.
Maple eytup--Onto-,gal. tins, $8.50,
Homey, extracted :.White clover
honey in 60.30-1b, tins,. per Ib., 23 to
240; do 10 lb. titu , per 1b., 24 to 25e;
Ontario No. 1 white c:over, In 2', and
5 Ib. tins, lir 1b. 25 to 26e.
'Charting Cream—Toronto creamer-
ies ars quoting foe diuvin
cream,
60e, per lb. at, i.o.b shipping
paints,
lazitin<n.l,
Smntced tette:---11°11s. 271_ to
N•ew Member of Manitoba Cabinet
Col, CI,' 1), eIcPherson, Portage lir
Prairie, who has been sworn to as
Meister of Public Works, eueeeeding 1
Han, G. A. t riersun.,
85%c; halts, med., 88 to 41.e; heavy,
34 to 39e; cooked hams, 55 to 58c;
backs, boneless, 55 to 60e: breakfast
bacon, 42 to 50e; special, 50 to 56e;
SIM FEIN KILL
TWO POLICEMEN
Murder in Belfast Hotel Close;
to Constabulary Head-
quarters.
A despatch from Belfast says:—
Two members of tire Royal Irish
Gonatabulary were 2nurd edin their
beds at the Railway View hotel here
on. Wednesday might, and a third con'. '
stable was gravely wounded. Five
Sinn Feirtet+s, it is alleged, committed
. the crime, the circumstances of which
are mysterious.
The three victims recently carne to
Beifast'in mufti on special duty. One
of the men was concerned in import-
ant inquiries and his comrades were
acting as escort. The Railway View
Hotel, where they stayed, is close to
the city headquarters of the' R.I.C.
As the bar was about to be closed for
the night, about 9.30, .five roan who
had been served with drink dashed
toward the stairease leading to the ,
bedrooms. They entered the room
where the policemen had retired and :a .
series of shots rang out. Revolvers
in hand, the assassins returned to the
bar and. ordered the bar man to open
the side door, by which they. escaped,.
The Reverend J. A. Irwin, the Pres-
byterian minister who -spoke in the
United States with Emmen de Valera
during the latter's recent stay in that
country, and who was arrested Mon-
day u1d sent to the BaI.lykinlar intern-
ment mime, was released on bail on
Thursday.
A despatch from Dublin says: ---
Baron Dunzany of Dunsany Castle,
who was arrested on Wednesday when
a'quantity of obsolete amnnunition was
found in has castle, but who after-
wards was released, was 1•e• -arrested
on Thursday and takers to an unknown
destine tion.
The arrest " of Boron Iiunsany re-
sulted from the shooting of game, a
portion of which was sent to England.
The Baron, who is a keen spot.+Sinan,
is said to have requested and receiv-
ed. permission from "Republican Vol-
unteer&" to shoot birds on his estate. -
English friends to whom he sent the
game returned it, saying they did aire
want to eat Sinai J'eili birds.
The military, learning of this, raid-
ed Baron Dunsany's house, where
they are said to have discovered lw '
number of shottinns and other snort-
ing arms.
CONSTATINOl.
AGAIN AN ALLIECITY
`�. - .
Turkish Cabinet Has Yielded
Control of Finances to .
Entente.
A. .despatch from Constantinople
says:—The Turkish Cabinet has it:-
cepted the allied stipulations in re-
gard to the eolztrol of the finances and
thereby 1,200,000 Turkish pounds -
have become available to the Govern-
trent, which will be immediately ap-
.
plied to officials!. salaries.
Recent Constantinople despatches
announced that with the exception •
of the Sultan. none of the Turkish of-
ficials had received salaries for the
past four months, all the sources of
revenue being in the hands of the
allies.
Constantinople will become virtu-
ally an allied city Feb. 1, when the
French. will oeeupy Stambul, the Bri-
,.e
cottage rolls, 38 to 39c. tion will move hero 1'el.a and the
;en heats --Cirri of pii1,':f, 7.,1 1 sa Italians into Scutari.
than t This move presumably Ie in pur-
meat,.--1e,rn pork, °;,,ii; su etc i' the notice given short cut or family beck, bungles,, a oe a e g e the Turk -
$47.50; pickled rolls, $52 to $56; mess ash Government last ,week by the al -
pork, $38 to 41e. lies that a -renewed military occupa-
Dry salted meats..-Loslg clean,, in tion of Constantinople was .imminent
tons, 231,/ to 27%e• in cases, 26y,4 to guard against threatened disorders+
owing to Nationalist ,and Bolshevik
activities and beoauso of the failure
of the Turks, to ratify the Peace
prinnts26% to 27 %c. • shortening •Treaty.
tierces, 151,e to 16c per Ili.
to 27%e; dear bellies, 29% tAe 3014,e;
fat backs, 22 to 24e.
Lard—Tierces, 24 to 24-,;;c; tube,
25 to $1,te; pails, 251,t• to 255%,,;
Choice heavy steers, $10.50 to $11; I BRITISH HO! D
good hoary strhote $9,60 t:o $10; but- i ELECTIONS IN JUNE
cliesws' tattle, ciiotcA $9 to $9.50; do i
good, $7.50 to $8.56 • do, Inec1 15.75 j
t o $6.75; clo, conn, 5 to 55.60; Fiut- + l.,loyel George \�Ti1l t1 ppeal o
oboes' brills choice $8 to • 9 • sad ( •
of Budget.
, `l do, gg , Count -3r After Introduction
$7 to $8; do, com,, $5 to $G; .butchers''
cows, choice•, $7.60 to $8.50; do, good,;
$6.25 to $7• do,coin,, $4 to b; feeders, A
$7..7 , to fi .75do, 90Ib.,.,� $7,25 tel , despatch front London says -Mr.
$8.25; der, 800 lbs., $5.75 to $6.75; do ! Lloyd 'George, says the London limes,
cunt., $.6 to $6; tanners and cuttoia,„bas sent instructions from Paris for
$!Pete $4.50; milkers, good to choice,; the Cea•lition Patty machinery to be
55 to $150; do, coni. and Inuit., $50 a ready for a general election hi May,
to $60; lambs, yearlings, $0 to $9.50; : or June, after introduction of the bud -
do, spring, $11.50 to $11,75; calves, ( et etirly ,i�21 April.
good to choice. $16 to $17; sheep, $61 --it appears, the newspaper coin -
to
to $1550; hags, fed and off cars. $15,2,1monis, that the Prime 1V1.illistt.r amt
til $15,50, do, weighed off carts, $16.50
to $15.75; do, f,o,b., $14.25 to $14,50;1 GhalicelIor of the Exchequer have de -
do, eonntry points, $11 to $14,`25 1 olded it is possible to introduce £9o0,•,
Montreal, 000,000 whichwould allow consider -
Oats, Can. wast. No. 2. brie; do Ie. able remission of taxation thus
a - Flom,. Man. spring wileaJ: aa- ait'ord a faVorablo •oppo •tunitr Erin” ala^
0011 t3 B $ 1
28 to $29,
Cheese, •ilne Yt- ta,4torrs, 27 til 2i 1a4.• 1 true t"has; 5eou`t-- `'no ,ion set thio
.Butter, choicest ert� Ilnexy, 53x.;, to haiwe ta>a ttteref
5,4%e. Eggs, recti, 82c Potatoes, Scooted Clams tout -.."Yes. what
per bag, .car lots, $1.45 to $1.50. about rte"
Butcalier heifers., gone, $tr,ii0 to $7; Virnt. Cities Scout --"Well, that hoi2se
butcher tows, sne•t1�, $5 to $r; ,taiunOrs, was built with. money Made from
$8:25 to $8,tii; cattery, ;4 to $5.. taut- many slzffemiilgs wvrithilx .q rr oufe
etikir bullls, titin„ $5 to se.so. Good , Writhings, 8 s
veal, $1$ 'to $14; rne& $10 to $18; and much blood."
,rags, $5,60 to $h. Ewes, $ 5 r $6,50; Second Class Sp=out. •- "Witt bent
lamb:, g+iod•, $12; iron,.. $10 to $11.50. Ryes there'?'"
Vir t (Tome bc:out;--"k13 dentist."
y10.90 e ' ^ 1'a. boor , ;t ."11ziE to """"ti"..
resits, firsts, e , kKtTdAcmr e,• �.
lbs.
80,
40,25. ay, No. 2, per tan. car lots. • He Bit,
Hogs, Metal. weights, ideate $17.50.
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