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TURKISH SOLDIERS APPLY TORCH TO SMYRNA, RENDERING 60,000 HOMELESS Greek and Armenian Quarter & in Ruins, a* Well as Most of the European Section, Involving Millions of Dollars Loss Turkish District Remains Untouched. A despatch from Constantinople, Foreign destroyers in the harbor J eays: Fire started in the Armenian kept searchlights playing on t*- quarter of Smyrna on Wednesday and; crowds aicng the quays all night t spread rapidly through the rest of the ! give the refugees every possible pro-; town, burning most of the European : tection. A cordon of Turkish regular ection and destroying the American troops was also thrown around them. Consulate and the theatre where Am-j The Turkish quarter was not ertcan refugees were congregated, i touched. It was the first day since the The Armenian bazaar was pillaged: occupation that there was a south-! before the frames reached it and com- 1 east wind, which would blow the jxleted the destruction. The Greek flames westward instead of into the, quarter- was also destroyed. AH the; Moslem area of the city. foreign women and children are being , American financial losses are prob- ' evacuated to Athens. ' a y y heavy. Allied soldiers formed a fire brigade ; The ^.^ inhabitants of SmyTna , but the conflagration is beyond their: ^.^ & few ti were ^^ control. The property damage it is ^^ aboard ^^^ on W<jd _; estimated, will reach into the .millions. evening The steamships Winona and Edsall r ^, c have left for Salonika with between 1 A despatch from Smyrna says:- 400 and 800 refugee each. I "We don 't want to fight Great Britain, Several stories were told concern- ; *t ; sh* must give up Constantinople ing the origin of the fire. ! to Tn* The most reliable fe that of Minnie' * B. MiUs, head of the American Col., not - we lege Institute, who declared she saw' With these words Mustapha Kemal ; II '* a " d f If Turkish regular army sergeant, or Pasha announced the next aim of the been organized to produce Canadian j increase to the mill, ficer, enter a building where the Turkish Nationalist ariry. Already, motion pictures from the works of] Winnipeg, Man. . offi first flames were seen. DAMAGE WROUGHT BY REBEL FORCES STAGGERS THE IRISH PEOPLE Castles and Manors Burned AU Over the South One Fire Costs $1,000,000 Long List of Outrages Perpetuated by Irregulars. A despatch from Field General i Major Erskine Childer*, De Valera's Headquarters, Southern Army, Limer-j^ief lieutenant, came to be dubbed _.. , . , , i the director of inglorious retreats. ,ck, say:-The mad craze for destruc- Thg youn?egt ^Skr of the line op-' tion by burning o!i castles and manor j erating . ^^ General O'Duffy's Na- hcuses by the Irregulars in their an-, tiona ij st f orcea out O f Limerick was nounced campaign of terrorism to private Patrick Burke, fourteen years "bring the English back" is piling up o!dj of County Mayo. Young Master a bl for damages which will almost Burke had a year's service to his stagger the treasury of the infant na- credit ^ a bug ; er in & British army tion when settlement finally is madeJ ^fore he joined up in Dublin at the All over the South of Ireland are the tjme of ^ Four c<)Urts fighting. At stark and charred walls of fine old the taking of Buttevant, in County estates and manor houses, which were Corki Master Burke, firing at snipers, given to the torch when the Irregulars snoc a calf in a farm fied<ii j^ for . saw that their position within then^ tunately missed an isolated country was no longer tenable. The destruc- ( woman cau ght on a neighboring hiil- tion of Mitchelstown Castle, the his- ' top j ust ^ ^ e buzz of t, u ]i et s began, tone seat of the Dowager Countess of j There is one town just outside of Kingston, is a typical act of incendiar- Lirrerick which almost justifies the ism which marked the departure of dai^ O f t j, OS e who defend the old -= i the mutineers; from that town. Its f eu da! system of landlordism. This is destruction represents a loss, includ- Adare, which is maintained altogether ing priceless furniture, paintings and through the munificence and patron- heirlooms of a round $1,000,000, which a?e o f ^ e g^i o j Dunraven and , must be met out of the treasury of nestles close to the gateway of the Halifax, N.S. "Halifax Films" has twenty million annually following the the Irish Free State, once it is organ- ancient manor house which has been the home of the Wyndham family for Canada from Coast to Coast iized. He was carry- many units which had part in the Canadian writers. The Board of Di- A feature of the recent fur auction sals held here was ing small tins, evidently containing crushing defeat of Greece are en route rectors inchides the Minister of Public j the stiffening of pi-ices which ranged romantic stories of conflict oil. Shortly after it broke into flames.! to the Ismid front, while Kemal pre- Works and Mines, President of the from 10 to 50 pe-- cent, higher. Cross a region more full of hi It is doubtful if there is anywhere centuries, as Thirteenth Century in all Ireland a country so rich in stained giaas windows in the square- and battle towered parish church testify. Th oil. Shortly after it broke into flames.; to the ismid iront, wnne ft.emai pre- Works and Mines, President of tne from 10 to 50 pe- cent, higher. Cross a region more full of historical as- tawn jg one \ ODg 3 t re et of pretty. Owing to this it will be impossible pares his demands ; Board of Trade, Director of the Hah'- j fox recorded the largest advance,' sociations than that round about Lim- thatch-rcof cottages, each with its to estimate the number of Armenian! Mustapha Kemal is a man of inde- f ax Herald, President of the Commer- ; while mink sold 30 per cent, higher.! erick. The entire area has been a rose garden and atmosphere of oniiet and Greek dead bodies, many being! terminate age. He might be 30 or c i a j Club; Ernest Shipman and others.' More than $400,000 was realized on battleground for centuries. Its hills comfort and plenty. To furnish em- in the burned houses. Dr. Post and, he might be 40 years old He has The first production will be Frederick ' th? sale. The principal buyers were 'and valleys and pleasant downs and ployment for the villagers Lord Dun- other American worker* who had ; blonde hair, Hue eyes, is of medium William Wallace's "Viking Blood." loca: men. (fells, which so recently echoed and re- raven built a model cigarette factory, made a thorough investigation before' height, and tough, wiry frame. So-j Fredericton, N.B. The picking ard; Prince Albert, Sa?k. The Indian- echoed to the sound of arms, have re- approached through rose arbors over the flames drove them to safety, esti-jciaHy, he is courteous; personally, he marketing of the succulent blueberry; Paying Treaty Party under W. NJ sounded not seldom to the cry of bat- flagstone walks bordered by mignon- mated the dead at nearly 1,000. Howj kindly not the tall type one as-: is an important industry in certain j Taylor, of the Department of Indian tie in the centuries that have gone ette and pretty perennial plants with many were killed during the night, I sociates with great military leaders., parts of New Brunswick. Recently : Affairs at Regina, which has been ab- before. I a riot of blossoms, and how many were trapped in thei He is no swashbuckling General,- but forty families, comprising some three j sent over two month? on a 1,030 mile) The field walls and hedgerows.; Everything about the place denotes burning area, is unknown. a man of simple tastes and habits. French Statistics Show Fall in Birth Rate Many Railway Shopmen Return to Work A despatch from Paris says: The, y\ despatch from Chicago anxiety of the French public over the; _ W hile more than fifty constantly decreasing birth rate was; f . , .j. J intensified by the publication of the | railways counting subsadiar- latest statistics of the ten largest i es had, to all French cities, showing fhe birth rate DurDO8es ma de had dropped off 10 per cent, in a single " . *~ , intents their an hundred and fifty persons, migrated j tour into the northern area, reached green to the very doors of the tiny the paternal care of the lord of the from their settlement to Restigouche j here safely. A successful trip is re- whitewashed cottages which every- manor and fortunately the manor County to pick berries for shipment. ported. The Indian population in the where dot the landscape, afford just house was spared when the Irregulars This temporary employment is found j areas visited had suffered losses by. the kind of cover for ambushes such were driven out of it and out of the decidedly profitable. ^ influenza during the year bnt the to-' as those which the Irrsgulars pursued | town. Sherbrooke, Que. Operations have tal population showed an increase over here as their agressive military tac-| The ruined military barracks which commenced at the plant of the Man- last year's figures. tics. From safe and sheltered retreats wherever the Irregulars have ganese and Steel Foundry, Limited,' Edmonton, Alta. A total of 129| behind these solid bulwarks of mas- ' been in this part of Ireland are gaunt and the mill is now turning out cast-' school fairs is being held in various i onry which divide the fertile fields of ' and grim shells of what they were a ings. The furnace is capable of sections of the province, in compar- the countryside, from copses of tree* few weeks ago. In some instances the handling one ton at a heat and three 1 ison with 89 held last year. There has and the heavier growth on neighbor- j post chapels were fired along with the ; heats can be run in a day. This ca- been about a 30 per cent, increase also, ing hills, the Irregulars with a mini-j barracks. While most of these bar- 1 packy is expected to be reached within in the entries for these fairs, showing mum of risk could open fire upon the' racks were prosaic in appearance and ' the course of the next few weeks, as! the great interest that the school chil-| column of General Michael Collins'! in their associations some of them had> .lor* for the first six men on Thursdav a -much the com P a "y has a number of excel-; dren in the rural districts are taking forces, not often with deadly effect. 1 a touch of romance about them. The w STL 0<H -11 k U lent ord * rs b 00 *^ U P- and P ros Pts , in fairs - I" the Claresholm district but with a persistence that became all i barracks in Clonme! was one of the th ' 7 500 1 for the l lar er 8 rou P was stl11 holdm 8| are stated to be bright. I alone it is reported that there will be, the more annoying since the aitres- 1 latter, for it was here that Laurence W ar "\ similar de- a ^^' ant ^ reports were that! Timmins, Ont. It is reported ihat about 35,000 entries of exhibits, and sor* were rarely exposed to danger. Sterne, author of the immortal "Tri- Lvons Bordeaux many Would reject the Balti- : ^^"g the 28-day period ended Rug- in another district about 20,000 entries! If the Regulars pursued their march tram Shandy" and "The Sentimental \ t ' -r \ v ' I i u *t 12, the Hollnger Consolidated mill- are reported. into an adjoining town reported to be ' Journey," was born His father was OnlvMarseiUe" and morese P a rate agreement plan. | ^ ^ highest tonnage of any four, Vancouver, B.C. A report from; an Irregular "stronghold" it usually ; an officer in the army and was sta- * . .Announcement was made by , weekly period in its history, the total Yokohama states that the first ship- i w as to find that the Irregulars had de-' tioned at Clonmel in 1713 when tha ^',t*** uppi*Oiic rii : J i?i>t \ fit i > n^urirS. 1 _ ~-. r-* . * i m .* . A. * . A _M . . A .n .*. _._ i i . * .. i same crease At this rate the decrease in the population for the year in the entire country will reach the appalling total of 80,000. This has inspired The Matin to renew its insistence that the "public authorities and Parliament occupy themselves immediately with this national question, for there cer- tainly is none more urgent." Preliminary reports indicate a crop of 70,000.000 bushels of wheat for J. E. Gorman, President the Rock Island, that his road will not agree to the proposals. of l for the period being 119,572 tens. orj ment of Canadian flax seed to Japan camped, leaving the charred walls of son who was to become world-known ar j an average of 4,270 tons a day. Pre-i reached there in good condition, and burning barracks or antient castles as was bom. His mother was an Irish- Hminary arrangements are being was transhipped by coast steamer to; the certain evidence of recent occu- woman named Nuttal. and it was to made to increase the capacity to ap- the Kodaido. where it is being sown pancy as well as the Irregular idea of . the maternal side that Sterne owed proximately 8,000 tons every twenty- by way of experiment by one of the warfare. When a score of towns had; the playful humor which has been four hours. Production is now well largest growers of flax in Japan. If keen taken from the Irregulars with- ] enjoyed by so many generations ot over one million dollars a month, and the results prove satisfactory, there ou t a show of oefense on their part, readers. Manitoba, with an average of from 'mates that the Quebec 1922 crop will 18 to 20 bushels per acre, according 1 attain a value of $225,000,COi', as corn- to J. H. Evans, Dep.-Minister of Agri- j pared with $219,000,000 last year, culture. In 1921 the average was; This slight difference with an increas- 11.53 bushels, with a total crop of'ed crop is due to f .lit falling off in 39,053,980 bushels. I prices of agricultural products. Value of Quebec Crop Set at $"^25 000 000 tne m ' ne a PP* ars to * looming up as will no doubt be further business in v ~ ! likely to hit an ultimate stride of this product. A despatch from Quebec says: In. an official statement issued thisj morning. G. E. Marquis, chief sfcitis-, tician of the Province of Quebec, esti- NETHERLANDS NOW CHANGING POLICY OF WARTIME ISOLATION Alarm Clock Uses the Human Voice A despatch from Paris says: One of the most remarkable novelties a quaint experience until one becomes used to it. On an average the Wood flows 108 miles through the body in a day. Superintendent W. H. Fairneld, of shown this year at the Cor.cours Le- j the Dominion Experimental Farm at | pine is an alarm clock fitted with a ] Lethbridge, predicts that without The j-umor that diaphragm. On going to bed, MAJOR BLAKE FACES DIFFICULTIES IN AIRPLANE TRIP AROUND WORLD A despatch from The Hague says: | may be anticipated. The rumor that; diaphragm. On going to bed. the! doubt the crop to be harvested this object of -Queen WilhelminaV the Queen is also looking for a candi-l owner shouts into the clock the hour year in the Lethbridge railway di- visit to the three Scandinavian coun-1 date for little Princess Juliana's hand at which he desires to be roused next ] vision will approach the 30,000.000 tries has caused much speculation in. is denied. i morning and the diaphragm repeat 3 j bushel mark in wheat. It will be th Holland, especially since Prince Henry ; Speaking cf the Queen's visit. The the words in due course. To be ' third largest crop in the history of and Foreign Minister Van Karnebeek i Greene Amsterdamer points out that' wakened by one's own voice must be 'Southern Alberta. accompanied her Majesty. The- the Netherlands Government has up; ' _. . _. .__ : .__. . : ^ Netherlands has c ndeavcred to purj'je t > t:ow considered it better to have a policy of isolation for the last three it.? hands free in view of the cc;i;tant- y<?ars, and -since the war to detach ly changing political constellation. _________ herself from the former neutral b'o.' The paper continues that t'le Scan- A despatch from London says: civil aviation advisory board makes it with which Holland had become ilen- dinavian countries and the Nether-! The long quiescent airship-versus-air-| clear that there is no early prospect 1 tified. It is, howler, possible that! lands have many common interests' Weekly hiarket Report Diane controversy has been revived by ! of an airplane mail to India becoming Van Karnebeek. who ardently sup- [ and desire to safeguard them. the first report," just published here, J a profitable proposition. The report ported this policy of isolation, has , f th. rjvil vi*tion advisory board on recognizes at the outset that an "All found it too precarious now that . - of the crvil aviation advisory board on> recognizes Imperial Air Mail Services. The main Red" route cannot yet be mapped out. Europe is in a state of political and report is the prac- from England to India, though it an- ( economic upheaval, and considers a taken toward the! ticipates that this soon will be renewal of neighborly relations ad- A party of Hebrideans interested tical steps to be establishment of a London to India! achieved by the consh-uction of a ma- air mail. Publication of the report coincides very nearly with the arrival at Calcutta of Major Blake and h'.s chine which can make the trip from London to Malta, via Paris and Mar- seilles 1,330 miles in one flight. vantageous. In any event, the Prince received a most welcome in Denmark and Swedor. and in Alberta. They represent a number^ Nq^ 3 CW., nominal. of coster farmers ^nd fishermen. It is believed that already options on some flvin* companions on the 30,000-milt I Even then, however, it does not sug- airphme trip around the world, who gest a commercial basis for operation way. If nothing else results. a ; now face not the least difficult sta K e of a main airway by airplanes only. < strengthening of commerdal relations! of their journey that from Calcutta', - to Vanaouver. The London to Calcutta flight has' in the meantime not been without its lessons.' A considerable delay at Mar- seilles followed the airmen's success- ful bop there from the Croydon aero- drome outside London. From Mar- seilles they flew to Brindisi, crossing the Apenines at a height of 10,000 feet, and from Brindisi, across the; Adriatic to Athens. The next stage removed one of the chief obstacles in the whole journey to Calcutta. This was the 500-mile flight in a land ma- 1 chine acros<s the Eastern Mediterran-' an from Athens to Sollum in North- west Egypt. Major Blake described it as the most dangerous stage of the expedition to Calcutta. "All subsequent sea crossings." he! wrote home, "will be made on a sea- plane, when a forced descent will not involve the practical certainty of drowning," aa was the casr during this dash across the sea. More diffi- culties had to be overcome during the flight through the Persian Gulf, when the intense heat caused frequent en- gine trouble. The broad moral seems ; to be that a flight from 1 .omlun to Cal- ! . cutta, while it is practicable, is not exactly a jovrkie. In line with ihis, the report of the 'xT Alberta crooertv have been secured ^ ' The party is also British Columbia. to lads in Toronto. Smoked meats Hams, med., 28 t Out. barley No. 3 extra test. 47,30c; cooked ham, 44 to 47c: smoked Ibs. or better, 55 to 58c. outside. j rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 32 to Ont. buckwheat No. 2, $1. 38c; breakfast bacon, 33 to 35c; spe- Ont. oats No. 2 white, 33 to 35c. ! cial brand breakfast bacon. 38 to 40c; back?, bone'.ess, 39 to 43c. Cured meats Long clear bacon. $1"; lightweight rolls, in bbls., S48; heavyweight rolls. $40. Lard Pure, tierces. I6c; tubs. 16V-; pails, 17c; prints. ISc. Short- ening, tierces. 12*4 to 12\c; tubs, 124 to 13c; pails, 13'-4 to 13\c; prints. 15\ to 16%c. Choice heavy steers. $7 to $S; but- Ont. rye No. 3. < ; 2 to 67c, outside. Ont. wheat No. 2 winter, new crop, ially qucte d at 92 to 97c. f.o.b. ern. $1.02 Corn American, track. Toronto, No. 2 yellow. 80c: No. 3 yellow, 79c. oner s-teers. choice, $7 to $7.50; do, Millfeed Car lots. del. Montreal. 'freight, bags included: bran, per ton. '$21.25; shorts. $23.25. Hay Baled hay, track. Toronto, extra No. 1. $1H per ton. Loose hay. ,No. 1. per ten, $16 to $18. Flour Ontario pats., trood, $6.25 to $6.75; do, med., $5.50 to $6.50; do. com., $4.50 to $5.50; butcher heifers, choice, $6.50 to $7.25; do, med, $5.50 to $6.25; do. com., $4.50 to $5; butcher cows, choice. $4.50 to $5.50; do. me<i., $3.50 to $4; carmen sea- and cutters. $1 to $2; butcher bulls, bulk. Aboard. $4.20 to $4.26; in jute bags. (rood. $4.50 to $5: do, com.. $2.50 to ! Toronto, prompt shipment. $4.35 to; $3. 50; feeders, flood, $5.50 to $6.26; i$4.45; in jute bags, Montreal, prompt do, fair. $5 to $5.50; stockors, pood, 'shipment, $4.50 to $4.60; Manitoba $4.50 to $5.25; do, fair, $3 to $4.50) 1 first pats.. $6.80 pr bbL Montreal- milkers. $tiO to $80; springers, $70 to 'Toronto freights. i$90; calve*, choice. $10 to $11.50; do, Cheese New, large. 19 to 194c;|med., $8 to $9; do, com., $3 to $7; i twins. 20 to 21c; triplets, 21 to 2lMic; spring lambs. $10 to $11; sheep. j Stiltons, 21c. Old, large. 23 to 24c; choice. $5 to $5.50; do. good, $3.50 to : twins. 24 to 24V.c; Stiltons. 25c. S-l.-iO; Jo, com.. $1 to $3; yearlings, Butter Finest creamery prints, 39 choice. $H to $7; do. coir.. $4 to $5) to 40c; ordinary creamery prints. S5 hogs, feti and watered, $12; do, f.o.b., 'to 37c. Dairy. 29 to 3lc. Cooking, $11.25; do. country points. $ll. 21c. Montreal. i Dressed poultry -Soring thickens,; Oats Can. West., No. 2. 50o. Fiout 33 to 3Sc; roosiers. 23c; fow'. 24 to| Man. sprirjr wheat pats., firsts, 27c; ducklings. 30i-; turkeys. So to 40c. $6.80. Rolled cats Bags. 90 !b., Live poultry Spring chickens. 25c; $2.90 to $3. Bran. $21. Shorts. $23. ! roosters, 17 to 20c; fowl. 20 to 25c; l Middlings. $28. Hay --No. 2. per ton, 'duckling?, 30c; turkeys. 30 to 3f>.-. 'car lots, $18 to $1P. Marjrarire 20 to 22c. Cheese, finest eastern. Iri^ to l^c. Eggs No. I cand'led, 33 to 34c; se- Butter, choicest ereanpery, 35c. Kgg Jtects, 37 to S&e: cartons, 41 to 43c. ! selected, 36c. Potatoes, per bag, CM Beans Canadian, hand-picked. i>u*.. lots. RO to 65c. $4.25; primtci. $3.7. r ' tj $3.90. Map'e products Syrup, _. per .' ,n WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE IN PERIL ' ' A view of Constantinople, where Christian residents have been attacked during Turk celebrations of the vi<> lories won by tlw Turk Nationalists over the Greeks In Asia Minor. Allied forces are engaged in tN? double task i>f preserving order in the city and ol V"** 5 * 11 '* *' froln the threatened occupation by Ui Nationalist force*. gal.. $2.20', per 5 imp mapl sugar, Ib.. 20c. Com. buii r .! r.Mtg. $2 to $3; com. western steers, $5; good veal calve*, gals.. $2.10; S9; med.. $7 'up; gr$ssers. $3 to $3.78 for the bulk; lamb?, wicked. $10.2S; ii . i-v.v!.. $9; do. com.. $7: sheep, $2.6< 2V--'b 'Irs. 1 I to l^e pev '".; Ont-irio to S3. SO: hcjp, >>f5t, J12.50; lights .iik comb honey. r>er dozen, S3.75 10 $4 CO. fait quality butchers, $12 to $12.26. Potatoe* New Ontarcj, ?! :o$1.15 :