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The Wingham Advance, 1919-07-10, Page 7BE SCAPENA R TtIEEX4VAR LORD Vou FflndnburgCiaizsReeo Sponsi bify for Ellin Course And for Kaiser's Orders Re Waging of Warfare London Cable—Field Marshal von Hindeulnog, former chief of the German staff, declares that he is re- sponsible for acts of German Main Headquarters since August, 1916, and also the proclamations of former Em- peror William concerning the waging of warfare. rre asks President Ebert, of Germany to inform the Alliest� this effect, according to It Copenhagen despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. The field marshal arrited inlranover on Friday, the despatch states, and telegraphed the following message to President Ebert: "The signing of the peace treaty gives me .occasion for declaring. that 1 was responsible for the decisions and acts of Main Headquarters since Aug. 29, 1916, and also that all proclamations and orders of His Majesty, the Emperor and King, concerning the waging of warfarei were issued upon my advice and upon my responsibility. Ibeg you, therefore, to inform the German people and the Allied., iovernmentS of this deslaration." The declaration by Field Marshal von Hindenburg that he was responsible for acts committed hr the Ger- Mans, and for proclamations of the former .Emperor, is the,second to be maile bY a German leader since it *as officially announced that the Allies purposed to on trial political ant Military leaders of Germany- for causing the war andfin: violations of the rules of ar- fare. The other let.gdiv,•who assumed responsibility for the acts of former A‘03e.ror William was Dr. von letli- mann-Hollweg, forinfrlernian Chancellor, who had ot- fice at the beginning 'Of We war. • ° tOOKS'VERYLI1(t SOVIET RULE FLORENGE, OitaMber of LaboAtone÷ - •44.4-4,-.4-4-4-.7.....-«*« 'Raj:. :Orders .0beyett- 'by SNAKE FARMING,1 1.-414-4•44 In this day of progress we.. oftee hear of queer occupations. One is. sponge farming. Now we hear of snake farming and science tells us' that the very vernoi tint has brought death to thousands is being used to- inaaufacture an anti -toxin against It- self. In the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, supported by the Brazilian ,Govern- ment, le a wonderful snake farm, or "Institute ot Serumthrapy," as it is. generally called by Dr. Vital Brazil,., who is at its head, and is considered One of the greatest authorities on reptiles. In 1912 there were 4,800 'deaths from• snakes biles, and 10,20 victims who became cripples for life. To remedy this evil Dr. Arta!j etarted an experi- ment, and the present institute, repre- senting nearly e1,000,000 outlay, is the result of four years labor. The Brazilian Government estimated that one year, previous to tae in- stitute, the money loss from snakes; was forty million francs a year, and the loss in domestic animals would add an enormous sum. To manufacture the anti -toxin it is necessary to obtain. venom from the varies species of snakes. They are tent to the institute from alt over Brazil, The railways, by special at - :augment, carry them free of Charge. The shipper in return for his tremble receives little glass vials eel:dully packed, and all uecessary insteuctIon as as to the use of anti -toxin, that will enable him to save his life, even though the application is made several hours after the accident. In this way tile institute keeps on hand eagle snakes of every species, both vetiomaus and non -venomous. The process is quite simple. The venom is extraeted by grasping the snake firmly, just behind its head, Arid then squeezing its glands, back of its Jaws. A light oily liquid, almost clear but. with a sliglit greenish yellow caet, drips slowly from the jaws into e, glass reeeptaele which is then plac- -la into tin Incubator and slowly evap- orated. -A crystaline formation Is lett, varying it color according to the laud of snake from whish it was ob- tained. The next stage is the innotulation Of strong, healthy animals with this polsom A minute mtantity is ineeet- ea every day for three weeks. The animals used are generally mules, cat- tle -or even hones. These. being healthy and strong are able to realst a sMall injection of the poison, and as only a minute injeettort is made at a Mlle, the animal can manuffteture la their Weed liff .ttlitietexin. After three weeks mai ftellatal, haYtag 1 -an under constant observation, is reliev- ed of some of its tithed, Usually one or two quarts, The •anti.texin, ex- tracted trom, the blood, Is a clear gle- (!erine-like Forty-five testae eentimetres of it will cure the deadliest Snake bite, the fluid being injected IntO the pationte the Mobs. , Florence Cable — Cattbinteers fired upon crowds here to -day. .Disorders 4re increasing, and the ranieekIng of shops is widespread. • Strengthened by rowdies, the crowd has abandisned, itself to the general eiveking of het Shops, without distinc- tion, destroying what it is •unable t� carry away. One entire street is flooded with petroleum, gasoline, wine, beer and olive oil. ; 'Wherever the Chamber of Labor is able to exercise authortty, goods are being tratipperted to epectele ware- houses under s the red Reg, even tram- cars being pressed into this service. Large quantities of supplies are beteg turned over to the municipality in tile Piazza, Simile, the chief square of the pity. Money taken front- shops is also being placed in the care ef the Municipality or the Chamber of Lalsor. Thousands of inatehes are being die- teibutedefree to the crowds. • The only shops respected by the riqtera were those bearing the In. seriptiOn: "This shop is at the dis- pose) of the Chamber of Labor," The Chamber of Labor apparently has be- come the only authority which the people pay any attention to. It lesuee orders every little while. The autos mobiles and cabs are permitted to use tad streets, but bear a .sign reading ecireulation eallowed by Chamber of Labor." The local authorities seem- ingly have made no effort td oppose the Chamber. aAfl the newspapers have suspended publicatioe, because of a strike tit Drinkers. The sale of newspapers front -other cities is prohibited. • One of the manifestos issued by the Chamber of Lebor announced that alt penis which had been sold at prices fixed by the Government \Intel& here- after be sold at half that prise, 'All other goods including medicine, it was ordered, should be sold at 'a re- felletten of seventy per cent. /nem the preelous prieee. -- • 4 4/4 PLACE MISR IN THE 11 London cable: IVilliairt Hohenzol- lern, the termer (Written. Emperor, Will be brought to England in a Brit- ish ship and iMpravoned In the. Tow- er of London, according to the JURY Mail, The death penalty Will not be 'Might, the newspaper points OW, allt If he is found guilty the allies will stek hts banieslimenk •for life to a re- mote 1lant3, a011owing the precedent Oa Napoleon's exile on St. Helena, The international trial coast had Intended to try the former Einperer alone, the Daily Mail says, but it is •poseible that the -former Crown Prince Frederick William Will also abe Arraigned before it. illicus—Yes, Du engaged, but it a lot. I don't know whether I set Ward it'or. not. Crileus there are two ways to overeonie".that 4 veins; just behind the ElhOUlder blades. Yap esa either break oft the engage. I Another britneh ot the Vora in the PIMA or marry the girl, raie,ing of alunstiratier, noneamont- + - ems snake of the constrietor type, deadly enemy to all Yenennous species. This snake is quite Itartnless, and Is being used extensively in Brazil for garden pets and liamestimes 'house pets as well, for it keeps the house free froM rodents of all •Ifinds and In the garden it will protect the owner agalast the poisonous snake. .Although the venomous snake al- • ways succeeds in biting the Mussur- ana, the bite has no etfeet. The deadly species depend upon their poison to kill, the Mussurana on •its strength. The attack takes place eo quickly that it is impossible tO see just how it starts, In au instant there are four coils about the vietbn, sometimes more. Tbese gradually contract. The teeth or the alussurana are in the neck of its victim from the start, the life being slowly crttehed out by the vice- like grip of the coils. After a period of ten minutes or more the coils relax and the couquerer starts to make a meat of the victim, swallowing its head first. Little by little the body disappears until only the tip of the tail remains to view, The Mussurana seems to enjoy thli. stage of the game, for it sometimes leaves a bit of the taiii out for several minutes. At such times it will con- tinue to look around ter more food and it will take anything that is of. fered. ;*Sometimes after 'its meal it will go to sleep for several weelss, eta ter which period of , fasting R wili awaken to look upon :mother poisou snake. . . • • 4, HEAVY RAINS HAVE CHECKED FIRES IN NORTH Danger Has for the Time Being Been. Averted, It is Thought.. PAIR;CIA MINE ewe wines, luta had two were teats already, fire itaviug tswet areund it twice in three days. 'Mega the rain hes eettleel the fires for a time at least to the west of Timmins, report a are that heavy looses have been sustaine4 in that dIrtrict. Tiasft especielly true of the aletagena River areas where the largo Col. I. W. Wortaingtou pro- Perty, ineltuling a large iuflt, was located. It was destroyed. AtIvices frtfin Timmins are to the eftect that the heavy green bush to the south of the town saved it tram destruction, as it was too green to bura before being dried out. This held the fire erom the town until the rain arrived and com- pleted the task,of the green, bush. WEST DOME SAVED. Th.e South Porcupine gold ininee have escaped, Mut the fire situation is Much improved. It ham been raining here since 3 o'clock this morning. A bad bush fire was fought all day yes- terday on the west side at the West Dome mine, and was got under control late in tba day. All buildings were saved,. The fire near tlie Davidson Bathe caused the women folks and• ebildren to be moved out, but latest reports are to the effect that the tire had passed' them going northward. No buildings were lost at the Davidson. Three or tour large fires are obseryed some considerable distance to the southeast in the unsettled township, At Connaught two families had to be moved from the west bault of the river, The towns, in the Porcupine camp have been comparatively safe all through and the danger iti now over. Tilt HUN AGAIN. German Drive in the States is Reopened. Almost as if the eigning of the peace treaty had given a new lease of life to certain forces In the *United States, pro -Germanism le now mani. festing Itself here in new and more definite forms. All that the proscrib- ed (Orman -American Alliance stood for, and more, is represented by the Chicago organization, of nation-wide scope, which prints the word America wite a small "a" as a part at its title, Germanamericee Citizens' League. What the Gerntan-American Alliance did not materna to be, nanaely a forest itt AmeriCan politics, this new .Ger- manamerican 'Oitizens' League seeks definitely and 'avowedly to become. Yet 11 18 not desigeed to include Am- ericans of any and all ancestries; it is for those only who ere of German lineage. It Will alba, to uevelop lemeris can eitizewhip in this country, to the exclusion of Angio-Saxonisin as well an Germanism; citizenship based on knowledge ot American history. of the federal -Constitution, tration, and eegieth.tion; on knowledge ot natioael'needs, and on. consciouts- ness that tire' elaht• of suffrage carried - with it the -.Obligation to vote. The And Plant, Burned—Other Damage but' Lost. , Cobalt Despatch—rt is believed that the terrible scourge efihicit has threat- ened the north for the past week has been warded off ter the present at ' least by Providence. -Early this morn- ing heavy rainfalls were experienced In a large number of thd e.threatened an partly devastated areas, and though there are stilt reports coming in of uit- told damage and contlinie4 'danger, the situation to -day is Vastly better. The Boston. Creek district and Iroquois Palls were the two hardest hit, al- though the Haileybury area is not far •bettind, and is in fact still serious. The hardest blow at Boston Creek was the loss of the Patricia mine end plant, All the eliadreias and all but three of the wommawere shipped out to Haileybury and Cobalt late on Friday night. HEAVY RAINS INTERVENE. From Timmins and Iroquois Falls there was a like exodus, and at the latter place all communication was in- terrupted. Information, however, is to the efftet that Iroquois Falls was visit- ed by heavy rate, and this extended down the T. & N. 0.' to the vicinitY of Swastika,. Englehart reports that seven families lost their homes near Charl- ton. James McBrayne, a- veteran of Siberia, went to England. recently to visit his parents, the tint time since the war started, and left. his sawmill and a large amount be lumber at New Liskeard in care of others, It is a total loss, Ferguson's mill at the same place was partly destroyed. New Lis- keard repots that a number of deer aappeared.On the roma above the town, beteg chased out of the bush by the heat. COTTER CLAIMS LOST. The Cotter claims at Boston Creek are also reported lost, Postmaster Perey says a severe fire has sprung up west of the town and is threatening, This settlement, witlethe Boston Creek gold mibes and the Miller Indepead- league declares Za)iat it will support national defence,`Preservation of the , . nation, s natsarel , resoercee, immigra- tion, tariff littd:•taxation, civil service eefornis it, taillf•arovide legal defence for members,anhey are "accused un- bletly in mattere pertaining to the ac- tivities of the -league," and it will support aneeibere with emPloyment agenclee inforination bureaux, and aid stationa—Caristian 'Science Mon- itor. Worth Remembering Half an Olsten dipped in salt and rubbed on a wart is seat to cause It to disappear. • Nothing is better to ease sore,•bliss tered feet thea a earveanade of mut- ton tallow end alcobol, - A. few clieppeel raletne or elatee add- ed to apple salmi le alt improvement. Equal parte of lineeect oil and lime water make eysafething"application for burns. Black stockings will keep black if, after washing, they are rinsed in ra- ther deep bluing water; Tea. leaves and tines:lie-will clean the inside of a vase.ssfhigh has become diecolored. - Tier first scaldingmilk and cooling it when 'making catard pie. In large faesilies, where cream is a. luxury, the. "top"milk, thickened with. eveporated milk, will' be found very nice for cereal and coffee. . • els ROOSEVELT A CANDIDATE. 'Mineola, L. 1., Despatch Lleut.-Col. Theodore Hooseveldt. ot -Oyster 138.y, has agreed to be a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for assemblyman from the second assembly distriet of Nassau county, it was announced here to -clay by Hdward J. Conlin, Chairman of the Oyster 13a4' Republicaa town commit-. tee. The first elective office of the late President Rooseveidt, was member of the New at'ork State assembly, ' • - UNCOVER PLOT AT HAMBURG. • Berlin, Cable—A. iilot to hicav up ele- vators containing food shipments has been uncovered at Hamburg, according to the Lokal Anteiger. Those involved, it was said, were some of the convicts re- leased trona the Hamburg Jail by mobs during the recent rioth there, The auth- orities gained: knowledge of the plot through members of the Seamen's Union, whose aid Was sought by the conspira- tors. 110Y0 GEOM.'S SRE IN EXPLAINING PEACE REMY Premior Tells CORM Of the liVork of the,. ...Confer -00 at Paris Entente Mlles United in Determination to Punish Ex-Kaisar London cable: The Prime Mints - ter, Mr. Lloyd George, delivered in the House of Commons this afternoon an' explanation of tbe peace treaty, which he described as "tlie 11108t momentous document to which the British Empire ever affixed its seal." Though, showing the effects of his long labors at Paris end lacking Mit usual fire, the Premier at timesmade impassioued utterances, and was loud, ly cheered. His announcement that the former Gerken Emperor sveuld soon be placed' on trial before a tribunal sitting in London was cheered most of aliewhile his Preeene' tation of the Anglo-French conven- tion, provIding for British aid- if Ger- many should attaelc Preece uninka voked—a convention analogous tO 'tele between •the United States and Prance—was greeted with unrestralnesr approval. The scene recalled some of the great speeches of the war. AU the seats were taken and every inch of stand - Ing room was occupied. The gallery' was unusually bright, because under the recent rules women were admittee tt ea this sseee.ction, and nearly monopotieed The Premier heti a good receptieri from all sections of -the House. His speech was largely impromptu .end discursive, He -told af the Peace Con- ference's efforts to • prevent wars itt the future, and reviewed some of the striking restrictions put upon Ger- many in the treaty, signed at Ver- sailles. TRIAL OF THE EXIICAISER, FORMER KAISER, RESPONSIBLE, "Then, take ate trial of those re- sponsible for the war. If wars of this kind are to be prevented, those per- sonally responsible tor them, wheehave taken, part in plotting and planning them simnel be lusid personally re- sponsible. Therefore the Entente de- cided tbat the man wise undoubtedly had the primary fesponsibIlity, in the Judgment, at any rate of the allies. should be tried for the offences tie committed in breaking treaties he he was bound to eanor, and by that means bringing on the war, "It was an exceptional course, and it's a pity it was, because if it had been done before there would have beim fewer wars. The allied coun- tries unanimously decided that a tri- bunal—an inter -anted one—should sit at London for Hie trial of the person chiefly responsible for the war. • "Those guilty or submarine outrages ought to be punielied, for the officers • should know that they would be held personally responsible for offences egainet the laws of war." Prettier Lloyd George argued that it Was not vengeance "to take every possible precaution, against a recurr- ence of the war, and to make such an example of Germany as will discour- age amaitious rulers and peoples from ever again attempting to repeat this infamy. The German people approv- ed the war, andetherefore it was es- sential in the terms to show, if na- tions enter into unprovoked wars of aggression against their neighbors, what lies in store for them." TO PROTECT FRANCE. The Premier's reference to the Un - Red States and England egreeing to aid France. 11 she should be attacked, was loadly'cheered, After referrIng td guarantees in the treaty', suc)t as disarmament, which he declared should riot' be at, "scrap of paper," the Premiela 'Spoke on the bill dealing with the Ientericall and Bri- tish guarantee in*the event of als, Un- proyokod attack ottartance, saying he did not suppose Saar section of the House would Opole that. "It is entered leto' with the ap- proval of the League of Nations," the Premier asserted, "Within our memory, Prance tWicti has been in- vaded by Germany; • With her popu- lation of forty elation facing a hoe tile population of •laixty or eeventY million, Prance he&- Segitiraate ne- wel for feeling teavOus apprehenelon when the British -Uri .American arm- ies left I do ricit--agree that the treaties elle wed lack of faith in the League of Nation. After all, the League would luxe. no value unless it had behind it Sarong naHens pre- pared at a momenta. -notice to etop aggression." ' France was quite prepared said Ole Premier, to reconsider at the proper time the question of tbe oc- cupation of the . Rhine. There was an understanding with France. But the moment Germany carried out her undertaking 'regarding disarm- ament, the cost of ?he army of occu- pation should not exceed 240,000,000 naarke a year.. Lastly, there was the guarantee of the League of Nations, a great and hopeful experiment, only ren- dered poeeibie by other conditions. Without disarmanaent, the League Convention like the other conven- tione, would be blown away by the first gust of war. "Let us earnestly try it," exclaim- ed the Premier. TO -STOP WA.E1S. "Had it been en existence in 1914 It would have been difficult for Ger- Many'and Austria to make war, and If they had, America would have been in the first day, instead of tiVO years after." The Premier argued that it would have been a mistake to let Germany into* the League while there were questions resulting from the war tacit Stitt remained to be /settled. It was for Germany herselfto aecelerate the date of her entry by ehowIng that the fire el war had purified her soul. The Wines she ensereti, the better it would be for Germany and the world. After alluding to the dispositioo Of the colonies and the Labor •Convention, Mr. Lloyd George, re - :Viewing Great Beitain'e part in the war and the treaty, 'aescribed it as a tremendous achievement, Ho was not sure that the great coral:hon. wealth of nations, ktiown as the Beitieli Empire:* yet realized the great part it had. In the achieventent He •then pessed, itt brief review, to Ole mett who joined the colons, the money raised arid the sacrifices at - men and material made by the Eine pire. "It is a great record," he conclud- ed. "Let us rejolce, but rejoice as men under no delueion that our troubleare ended, but rather like men who feel that the first and worst of our troubles are passed and that the spirit, courage and re- solution which enabled es to Over- come them will also enable ue cheer- fully to face whet is to Come. Let us not waste etrength prenaaturely in fighting each other. I say with all soletrailty, that, if We wish to save this country from oinking tin- der its burdens 'and the world's, we Meet make the mo'st effective 11Se of the resourcee Of the country and the Empire." Separate Skirts, In Paris— Skirts are short and narrow, The pleated skirt nowhere visible. Instead, a seintscitcutar flare ap- pears at the front only, Returning soldiers say Mir glees ale behled the times with long sicletlaso isn't it tragici Discussing the determination ot the allied end associated powers to plaee on trial Wm. Holienzellern, the for- mer German Emperorees the man held &lefty responsible fori-tbe war, he de- clared that if such a eourse 'hach bean followed after others, wars,. "thee° would have beenlfewee Wars." It was the intention to "Mace such an ee-, ample of Germanyeasne discourage otlaers from evett agetat'attempting to repeat this intern -ea • • There was a Artifice -Me passage when the Premier' eirst mentioned the League of NationsaiViallY Of the mere - bees cheered, but seentingla nearly stlt equal number burst into laughter. "I begaof You toetryala ibeg of you to take It seriotteisa"— the Premier protested. • • ' Proceeding, he declared: "If it saved only one generetion from the horrors of war ,tt • evaaula be a great achievement." One member shafted: "Nobedy wents it." The Premier paislaspecial tribute to the work of the Delilah expert edvisere, which, he saide 'Semi the object of the admiratiOn of 'the nations at' the conference, and ended with an appeal for the Victory Loan, with one of his typical flashes, "Don't demobil- ize the spirit of patriotism." • MATTER OF RESTORATION. Speaking of the territorial terms of the treaty, Mr. Lloyd George said the territory taken from 'Germany was Matter of restoration. It was a re- storation of Alsace-Lorraine, he said, taken forcibly frcina the land to whicla Its population was deeply attaclaed; it was a restoration of 'Schleswig -Hot - stein, the taking of which he describ- ed as the "meanest of Hohenzellern frauds, robbing a helpless Country in the pretense they were not doing it and then retaining the land epithet the wishes of the population, A re- storation of it Poland, torn to bits by Russian, Austrian and Prussian auto- cracy, and now reknit under the flag of Poland," and he added. "they are all territories which ought not toebes long to Germany." • "I do not Uinta anyone ean claith the terms imptised constitute injustice to Germany," the Preinier said, hi dig-. cussing the reparatiOn clauses, "uns less they believe Justice in the war on the side of 'Germany. Having regard to the uses Germany made of her army, there IS no injastice in scatter- ing aft- -disarming. it. If the allies had restored the' colanies to Germany after the evidence of ilitreatment ot the natives, and the part the natives have taken in their tevn liberation, it woald have been a Woe b'etrayal. APPOINTED, BY ONTARIO GOVERNMENT AS ENUMERATORS FOR PROHIBITION REFERENDUM., Theee are five a the chief enumerators who will prepare the Toronto voters' hits for the plebiscite which le to be taken on the question of prohibition. From left to rioht:—A id. Richard Honeyford, Riverdale; Basil W. Essery, North-east Toronto, Meier W. C. BcBrien, parkdai es T. el. Barton, North-west Toronto; and W. R. Nett, South-west T oronte. JUST AS IT LANDED AFTER SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT FROM New GUNOLAND TO IRELAND. The picture *hews the VickerssVimy aeroplane standing on Its nose In its bog at Clifton, County Galway, land, efter CoMpletion of the no n -stop flight Oen- Newfoandland by Capt. Alcock and Mout. grown. • Stlatifiltits itattery. Plower trittimitige. Surprisingly few etraWe. Fabric models predominate. Organdie and chiffon pambers. Transparent shaltem of nialine and hereehalr. *sae Titreas Wheel Tuns beek Or stops; potter and clay endure. - lirewning. OURIOUS FALL t Wellge4 IJint Road Down in SUtin te Stoop Olin, A pommel experience Of a higlay eelleational character Is recorded by A Ii. Savage Landor 111 bis book "Across Unanown South America:" "The forest near the Sectindury rivet was at first overgrown ivith dense vegetation and extra exertion, but after diet, when we got Some distance from the water, the forest was fairly clean except of course for the fallen trees We found troublesoine ravines of great depth where etreantlets had cut their Way through. "In golug down one of those diffi- cult ravInee I bad an accident that Might baste been fatal. The ravine, the sides of which were almost ver- tical, was very narrow—only about ten metres across. We let ourselves down, holding on to a liana. When we reached the bottom we found a tiny brook winding its way betweep great round boulders that left a space abOut Iwo teet wide for the water. I began to climb the other side, and 1 hall got to a height of about thirty feet. In order to .•go up tals steep incline I had set Otte foot against a seriell tree and I pulled myself up by a liana, Unluckily the liana suddenly gave Way. The weight of the load, that I hed on my 'sliouldere made me lose my balance eo that my body described a complete semicircle, I dropped down head first from that height on the rocks below. "Providence once more looked after me on thlet occasittn. On the tlight dawn I already imagined myself dead: but no—my head petered the cavity between two great rooks, against whieh my shoulders and the load be- came Jammed, while my legs waved wthiy in midair. I was forced so hard against the two side reeler that I could not possibly extricate inviter, It Was only when Beneeicto and the neW Mae came to my help aid pulted me refit that we were able to regime or journey. I was much shaken and' a good deal bruised, but otherwise noire the worst for that unpleasant fall." • HOIST .REP FLAG IN ITALY TOWNS Obst of Living Riots in Ro- • magna District. All Shop Supplies Seized by 'Crowds. Florence, July 6 — Noise of firing in the outskiate • has increased the alarm caused be cost -of -living die- turbers here. - • The red flag has been holeted in many places here' and etsewbere in the Romagna district by what are termed local Sevlete. These •organizas tions throughout the district, in addi- tion to imposings rulee for gathering and selling food' .are iesuing eerie tences in controversies under the au- thority of the red:flag, All available eemtplies from shops have fallen into-aehe: band of the crowds. ROME IS. WARNED. Rome, July 6. — The prees to -day urges the Mayer of Rome not to wait for the repetition here of the rime of the • character of those in Romagna and 'Florence, but to "pre - Vent action by the people" by impos- ing a reduction of 50 per cent. upon all prices of fciadetuffs and clothing. It the producens and shopkeepers resist, theirs licenees must be with- drawn and their goeae confiscetea. It le urged. ' BOLOGNA latILES RiEre"PAURANTS. Bologna, July 6.— Standard meals at fixed prices have been impoeed on reafaurants here se a result of ' the food riots. The prices set VarY front 55 cents to $1 for a meal, according to the class of restaurant. "STARVERS -OF PEOPLE" JAILED. Palermo, Ally' 6. — Thirty-one of the prinelpal fish tnerchants were arreeted here, charged as "starvere of the people." The arrests were made atter the merchant° were de- nounced by crowds. CROWDS GIME TROOPS WINE. Ancona, July 6—'rhe entire stock of food and other necessities in the city are now in the control of the Chamber of Labor. These stocks have been labeled with inscriptions read- ing, "Goode remileitioned and at tlae disposal of the people." Large contingentof troops occupy the town, but crowds met with no reeletance in seizing stocks sof food. The soldiers were applauded by the people, who gave them part of the wines stock requisitioned. Men in the crows (shouted, "Come on, boys, you nee° deeerve'a. drink." 1 Science and Industry ,-44+#+44-,-e 44-4 Tbe "sand -bag" . of the thug used to stun his victim, has been- intro- duced in polite society in the shape of an exereising apparatus as a substi- tute for the Indian clubs. These are bong, slender bags or stout fabric, fill- ed 'with sand or some other similar material, Made of any desired weight, .prnd provided with rope handles at either end, On the sides is webbing into which ere loops the feet can be inserted for leg exercises, Besides serving the purpose -of several types of exercisers, it is pointed out that the sand -bags are preferable to Indian clubs and dumb -bells in that they can be used noiselesslY. Nearly all the German planes buat within a year are found to be provided with a clockwork bomb, which is de- signed to make them self-destructive in ease of eapture by the enemy, One of these is installed near the fuel tank, end is Supplied With a handle Within easy access of the aviator. In case of eaptare or being compelled to dscen\dvr vek.ithltt threnemy's „lines be nut ten minutes his niaehine Will be a total ey manipulate this handle, and in The annual average nUmber at boil- er explosions in the United States a1/1Ce 186a is 291, \Meth caused the death of 256 Persons tied lejurits to ASO other. The most active voleaho In the world Is Aleut SangaY. It is 17,199 - feet, situated on the eastern chain of Ole Andes, South America,. It has been in constant eruption slime 172% SHORT ITEMS. OF THE NEWS Ofi,THE DAY Austrian Peace Treaty t Ready for Presentation On Tuesday, 444.-44 COSTLY STORMS Tram Wreakers' Work Re- sults in Death of Two in North. Tdie Toronto teamsters' strike is postpoded for a dale pending a centers ewe with employers, aack Tweedie, 13 years, Toronto, (lied wane swimming with cortipan- ions at Patereoe's pond, near MaPle. Grievances against the Peace Confer- ence were summarized by speakers at the Convention at Toronto, of the East- " ern Canada Meese Nationallet part. Miss Isabella Palmer,. Toronto, flori. estic, was seriously iniured when struck by one of tvvo motor ears ras- ing along I3thor street. Kingetein retail clerks have oreaetz- ed a union, with high principles Set before them. . Two persons are dead and two ethe'rs seriously injured as a result of an ex- cursion train out of Winnipeg crash- ing into a stalled automobile. H. W. Murphy, of Midland, first mate on the steamer Glenshee, was killed at Fort Willlam dock by being struck on the heed by a lump of coal dropping from the hoist. Engineer Jarvis was killed and Pima man Van -Buskirk fatally scalded in a wreck on tae 0.•P. R., 30 miles from Chalk Rive, clearly the deliberate— work of one ar" more ralscreants. The yeecotiver Theatrical Federa- tion is asking 'the American Feder- ation „eV -Leper and the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress to tevoke Ole cluirtea o� Abe Vancouver Trades and Labor CannelL Accordiig to, ea announcement by Secretary *`,Turaelty, President Wilson will addraie tile 'Senate on Thursday. Geerge ,aVingaove, 16 yeare of age, was drownett,ip, the Speed River, near Guelph. „ The EV -Oleg: Social Democratic papers in Copeepagen say that Mathias Erzberger as now in Copenhagen, lie- ecognito. Ile was seen- in Ordense on his way te tate•Capital. Gen. Dregotriirleff, on a special mis- sion from Aatileal Kolcaak, head of the Omela AVARussian Government, arrived ataParise It is reported.fiom Kapuskasing that two young men, Daniel Arsenaux and J. Ratichtifidasivere instantly killed by a train near there. Their Indies were mangled elniait -beyond recognition. Damage"estimated at thousands of dollars Was C.Iiused in the section of Durham Toe/reship, about Ingersoll, by a hail stothe of unusual violence. A bid 4,6000 guineas ($250,000) is hsauTiadhetRovehyrao:Ildeold:::::Aauoutsfftteruiriaegnd, at the Chrie- tie (Londoli) art auction for Sir Po- tions as theeTeagic Muse," will be reedY tor pretentapte‘lalierstt.oreSatihdty: Austrian delegetion on Tuesday. The full text arthe :document is now in the hands of :the rinter. The Cit Y of Kitehener niay take over the Ware:Ascii-Wellington Railway running 'b'etween Kitchener and Bridgeport' as the result of the offer made to the City Council by 'W. IL Breithaupt, president orthe company. Manning 'Doherty was nominated as the U.F.O. candidate for Peel county at the ifext Provincial election. Agitation by the Industrial. Work- ers of the World has been renewed in Mexico, according to official re- ports received in Washington. While no actual violence has been reported. It was said there had been threats Of serious trouble." Francois Labrecque, a married man and the father of several smell chil- dren, was brought to Quebec from St. Magloire, tellechasse county, in a hor- rible mangled state, as a result of an explOsion of dynamite which occurred wilihiee?.ntrtniha g. Tsafe now from the ser - thus bush fires Welch raged for elle Past week dr so, practically througa- out the whole northern area of Ontario and Qttebee The fortunate part of it is that no life has been reported lost. The number of homes lom; was small compared with tee area affected. Ratepayers of Windsor arid alker- vine voted (Iowa a by-law to grant the Street Railway Company authority to increase their rates of fare • to five cents straiglet, instead of six tickets for a quarter. In beth places' an over- whelmingvtite Las cala.gallist the tphiaenc.ittyDefeat of the Plan 'Magna that taco Another street ear strike. IRISH DOMINION. — Trish 'Unionists Oppose the Proposition, 'London, July 6.—The Irish Union - list alliance, replying to a nmeitesto ' aestisd latently aeserte that the Best ,acts ot any freely elected parlia- meet itt tull control .of Irlsh mutt- mie and military resources, would be to proolaim•an Irish republie. "The alliance trusts arid believes that those concerned ter the pease, cadet and progress of Ireland," the reply tees, resolutely decline to support a peaky which, if successful, would constitute an bnperial danger of the first magnitude." rattle, July 6, --The Council of rive reached the 'Conclusion at a meeting Saturday afternoon that it is impos- sible to make peseta with Bela Knife Government in Hungary, Wording to the Irma Agency. Maittenence of the blockade, it Was eat() still le ne- cessary, although its Meets haat not been telt by the Hungarian Itevolas I tionary elovernment, as it is *PPM. Mating toodetuffe tor It/self and Ite Mende.