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TIT a Wo 2% Eh ut I ETA NE po -- ro Y Fata beds did bd dil Be EF SOP, by and Vanlzelos to settle this ero {ssne "out of court" failed. An-| of and Athens loaders wfier 2 fruit. an on area to = hori 1 in - site t to find a solution. Out of | 1 or the Turks' religion, the al nt that no formal sedsion of the conference be held Thursday, but the Ureeco-Turkish reparations dispute is so serious that Both Veni. pelos and Ismet fel#! Justified in util Ing the festival by striving to re an accord. M. Venizelos took the in- ftlative, su ng a meeting with the noted Turkish general, probably with the idea that the Bairam festival wonld exercise a softening influence ou the controverey. Both the Greek leader and Ismet used. gentle words, but neither suc- ceeded in piercing the other's armor of resistance. Ismet insisted that Turkey could pay no reparations whatsoever to Greece, but expected to receive an equitable sum for dam- ages caused by the Greek armies in Asia Minor, when, he asserted, they burned towns and villages during] their retreat and laid waste the whole countryside. over a driven out of Turkey during the ter- war anil & th show with | figures that the Hellenie nation was in such a serious financtk dition that all payment of / welg ot question, On the contrary, he othe Greece should receive: i paration from Turkey because of economic disaster caused tothe Greeks when they fletl froid tHe! Tirks, aban- doning homes and fortunes. If Turkey is Justified in asking dam- ages, (Greece was equally justified -and perhaps the two accounts could be bal- apes What! Venizelte wanted a < eldan: on - oo DH Tuer a ime i th i Ismet Pasha could not see this at all and the confernce adjourned. The allies are grat] wor¥ied over the developments, a8 they had hoped their good offices Would Teld the' way, to a direct! dettlement between Greec and Turkey. They will continue their mediation efforts, but everybody on Thursday night conceded that there is danger of Greece breaking away from the conference and resorting to arms unless some satisfhctory com- promise is reached. Turkey wants 4,500,000,000 gold! francs._reparations 'and Greece says she wants 5,000,000,000 gold fugncs | from Turkey. Honor to "Tay Pay." The famous Irishman, T P. O'Con- nor, who has been a member of the British House of Commons since 1880, was honored on May 15, on his 75th birthday, by a luncheon given by two hundred members of the House. Hé is one of the few members who still use snuff, and he was presented with # gold snuff box. mr---- ert---- Gas Fumes in Garage Suffocate Toronto Man A despatch from Toronto says: -- Overcome by carbon monoxide fumes while working on his motor car in he garage at the rear of his home, 9 Oriole Parkway, Thursday afternoon, H. Pearcy Porter, aged 81 years, vice- President and assistant manager of derson Pearcy and Company, was found by his wife about 6.80 in the evening, Dr. Andrew Cox, 89 St.| amg Clair Avenue west, was called and tried "artificial respiration without avail. A pulmotor was Sutin © from the C s' Gas C y. Later, Supt. Saunders, of the Tite. D Baving Station, arrived with an extra oxygen supply, but all efforts were vain Chief Coroner Graham was notified of the tragedy, and after in- or vestigating, he decided that death was |, #ccidental and that no inquest was necessary. DCRR) Me SA Man has been the supreme enemy of birds on this continent, as elsewhere fn the world, and is responsible for|s the extinction of species over large| ed One Million U.S. Born Live in Canada HI It.is estimated that there are approximately one million peo- ple. in Canada who were born ih the United States, or about twelve per cent. of the Domin- fon population. Most of these are to be found on farms in the I|* Western Provinces. Nearly one hundred million acres of West- ern Canadian land has been settled by homéStéading, and citizens of. the United States have accounted for thirty per cent, of such settlement as against twenty per cent. on the #t of British. In addition; nited States citizens are each year the Henviest purthaser's of privately held and improved lands and farms. | | A .despate¢h fiom Washington says:--Final details concerning the debt settlement between the United States and Gréat Britain call for spe cial arrangements which 'will make 'it possible to 'sell the' bods furnished by Great' Britain on the open market if so desired, it wis explained 'at the Treasury Department on Thursday: Details in' this atrazigement. lave been submitted to the British Govern- ment at London and the final views of the United States debt funding mission were explained Cundine Recretaty J BRITAINS TRIBUTE TO BELGIUM On April 28th the Prince of Wales visited Belgium to unyell a monument erected by the British government as a memorial to the kindness of Belglany | td British soldiers during the Great War. The plctute shows the Prince, and | behind him fhe Belgian Ring and is go sons » THE SPORT OF APASTERAINTHE |" DRAMA OF CANADIAN €IVILIZATON When in 1919 the city of Calgary ment have thrown over the country held a monster Stampede or Frontier | will be removed and the ay again Day celebraticn to celebrate in a man-/ dwell in the era which gave it birth bei appropriate to the locality the re-| and prestige. turn of Western men from the war,| Fifty thousand dollars 'in prises has drawing together in. the City of. the been calculated. to inact to. the .Al- Foothills the continent's best riders berta city such | as the doughty riders ® (and ropers, its most daring perform-! of the range as have not been absorh- {ers at the old sports of the range, old ed by gentler callings. It will be re- | timers shook their heads sadly and: gardéd as pérhaps the last grand re- | said there would never be anéther. | union of the great ranch brotherhood. | isk the Gisappeazance of the range; Ridérs from both sides of the border 380 and its romantic pursuits it was be- coming Increasingly difficult to gather | together in one spot the superb horse- {men and women yet clinging to a past era, to collect a sufficient num- will compete against each other, and the first of their calling from every section of the country take part in the sports of the range which, with all their dai and thrills, will com-|d0 [be of really bad horses to thrill a | of time, when for one week the cloak] prise the daily program for one week, 1 continental gathering, or find the old| The Stampede presents an unique type of wild range cattle to test the opportunity to the traveller in Canada turkeve, ye yourig, mettle of the people of the range. this summer to witness what is prob- Yet Calgary, one of the last local-' ably the passing of the old Canadian |7 {primes 81 rin ities to cling to the fringe of a pass-| West. Such events have been limited le produ ling era, is confident of staging an! always tothe Western part of the Am. | 88l, a per equally thrilling and entertaining erican continent, and the area of such wel M 80. event this summer, and the little city! diversion became narrowed down until v.39 still claims wide attention #s one of Calgery remained perhaps the last J <Ib. tins, rg to 12%¢ per THR, en ly i es Th ths, 0% to ite pole i '81%e.. ; hed si Teh 1. Com. mand med. be the very few remaining plices on. the stronghold of the rameching industry. continent still able to stage stich al Its day:is practically gone there too, mammoth and stirring drama. It will and one last attempt is being made to | be a last effort to arrest the progress give residents of the continent a pie- time will which civilization and modern develop- be regarded as history. ture of what in a few years' N Per First Belgian War Victim fan prisoners. One of the Germans || to be H onored seeing the body of the soldier, stuck faye his bayonet in it, saying, "There is'a §| %. dirty Belgian." The next day Brussels, May 12.--Thé name of ! Antoine Fonck will live in Belgian his- tory. A monument to be erected in his memory at the Croix du Polinard;) a crossing near Thimister, will inform future generations that at that spot was killed the first Belgian soldier in horse was soon shot beneath him. Using the animal's body asa' barri- cade the soldier continued to fire until he died. That was at 10 o'clock in the morn ing. Some hours later some German body was buried in the cemetery of the little village, where his grave has al- ways been tended reverently by the | inhabitants. rta ve Abundance of Molture the World War--the first of 45,000. yo Fonck was a private in the Second cers. On August 4, in the fate: TO SELL BRITAIN BRIT. year of 1914, his squadron was recon ope B from Lethbridge, Alta, | DEBT FUNDI BONDS noitering at Battice, in the province of broke over Southerh Alberta | | Liege, Word came that German cav= ursday morifing; b 2 almost | berinal Contract Made More | 21ry had been sighted near the village half 'an inch of mois The Origi of Thimister and Fonck was sent to red 'here 'So far Flexible to Enable s US. § to | verify the report. Coming suddenly|s7 inches Place on Open Market. | upon the enemy scouts, Fonck fired storm was accompani upon them. He was pursued. His!gnow between Lethbridge' an odens and also in the Crow's Nest © Seeded fields are now - Abd saturated, and a moisture reserve for _ | the growing season is being, stored up. -------------- Al life i summed up in bein, do and sa soldiers passed by with Belgian civil ®, Michigan July 8 ports of crude petroleum in. | 1922 were 14,068,075 barrels of reas Mel Bs . offi he Baskador Bir 4 3 " y ; hands know that if they kill one mam- ot of at | ba: they must for and kill its ere | is nothing gp the chat ed that mate | before It 'can' follow" aid 8 any desire on the part of the them, The Natural Résourees Intel- : 'Service of the : ment of the Interior, at Ottawa - I Te barrels of Sian Tr n "164781" bdrrels. > of the oe Sha roe prime pn FPR Rw ld federal bounty of $86,484. Fi valued at $36, Jf place July 23, covering 1,100 Biles n a ARnot apt RR . According to Custom, al Ah 1s her a ove SS on SL ih cel lc ns ic i i ~~ i p-- -- e-- ----