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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT.. THURSDAY, FEB. 10.1921. DUBLIN IS NOW ONE OF THE STORM CENTES FOR AMBUSCADES Attacks on Military and Police Are Frequent Day and Night --Pitched Battle in County Cork -- Crown Forces Drive Rebels Back. A despatch from Dublin says:--A pitched battle occurred in County Cork on Wednesday night in which live hundred Sinn Feiners fought with a contingent of police and military. It is officially stated that the Crown forces suffered no losses end it is estimated that six Sinn Feirers were killed and twenty wounded. The latter removed their dead and wounded in boats. The Rosearberry police were informed on Wednesday night that a body of civilians hod concentrated at Buratia, a mile south cf the former Twenty men were sent out to disperse them while another force was despatched to the scene from Cion-akilty. When the Rosearberry contingent arrived on the scene, they were fired on from both sides of the roads by the Republicans. The police took to cover and when the Clonal: ilty party arrived the two forces closed in on the attackers from the north and east, driving them hack bo their headquarters. At least six Sinn Feiners fell in the course of the engagement but the party manged to make its escape under cover of darkness. The Crown forces captured rifles, ammunition, an automobile, boxes of bombs and other equipment. This unprecendented Repubi tratioi rush declared, was ni the Rosearberry tended for barrack: For the twenty-four hours ending Thursday evening, despatches from various parts cf Ireland reported ni police and nine civilians killed and ten police and twenty-two civil-wounded. Two policemen were shot at I briggan, Ireland, Thursday night. One died in a hospital. Two lorries of police were ambushed Thursday night between Dromkeen and Newpalas. One got through safely but the other was riddled with bullets. Nine policemen were killed and two wounded. At Limerick city Thursday night the bridges over the Shannon River leading to County Clare were held by the police and no one was allowed to Dublin now is one of the stor: centres for ambuscades. Attacks c the military and police are so fn quent night and day that the new; papers have difficulty in reporting all of them. The object of the Sinn Fein activities is said to be to force General MacReady, the military commander | in Ireland, for political effect, to | tend martial law to Dublin. Every police and military lorry here >w carries a hostage. Britain's Tax Twelve Times Germany's A despatch from Paris says: --A comparative table of taxation in Germany, and three of the allied countries, Great Britain, France and Italy, is used to show Germany's ability to bear a greater burden, in a joint statement issued by the various delegations of experts who participated in the Brussels conference. The per capita taxes, except local charges, for the current fiscal year in Germany are 599 marks; in France, 390 francs; in Italy, 200 lire, and in Great Britain, £22, the statement says. On the basis of recent New York exchange rates the per capita tax in dollars in Germany is $7.30; in France, $28.08; in Italy, $7.34; and in Great Britain, $83.87. CROSS ATLANTIC" IN TWELVE HOURS Britain's New Aero Engine Has Wonderful Possibilities. A despatch from London says:-- The successful testing of a 1,000-horsepower aero engine, which is said to be the most powerful known, has opened up claims by experts of the I possibility of a regular London-New York aerial service, and a com)' ' passage within £4 hours, either d: or by changing aircraft at the Az Islands. It is being recalled by the experts that Capt. John Alcock in 1919 flew from Newfound land to Ireland in less than 16 hours, using two 375diorse-power engines. The new engine is called the "Cub." It was ordered by the Royal Air Force. It is understood that the Titani;;, a flying-boat destroy er which is to be used in long-distance patrols, will be equipped with two ""Cubs," and have a range of 1,600 miles. For war time the crew will number ten, ar.d for civilian use the craft can accommodate 50 passengers. The Cub's 13 cylinders on a test indicated 1,057 horsepower in 20 hour of running. The engine weighs nearly a ton, and costs about £5,000. BRITISH INDIA IN STATE OF UNREST Thousand Persons Halt Railway Train and Attack Police. CANADA'S PULP INDUSTRY Hauling timber from the camps into a big lumber plant, a typical winter scene in Northern Ontario. A despatch from London says:-- Unrest continues among the peasants of the united Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India, according to a despatch to The London Times from Allahabad. Agitators are reported to be carrying on a violent campaign against the Government, despite the fact that legislation has been prom-! °f the damages, will be supplemented REPARATIONS COM- MISSION'S TOTAL Twelve Per Cent. Export Levy is Not a Direct Tax. A despatch from Paris says:--The Reparations Commission estimates that the total damages of all the Al-collectable from Germany will be between 210,000,000,000 and 250,000,-000,000 gold marks, according to an official announcement. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs calculates that the Supreme Council's fixed indemnities, if capitalized, should yield about 75,-000,000,000 gold marks. The figures of the Reparations Commission, which just have been totalled, show that France' to 110,000,000,000 gold marks which amount 75,000,000,000 gold marks are charged to devastated regions and 3,000,000,000 gold marks for pensions. The estimate of 75,000,-000,000 gold marks, as capital represented by the 226,000,000,000 gold marks fixed by the Supreme Council, although approximately only one-third EXCESS PROFITS TAX IN GREAT BRITAIN IS TO BE WITHDRAWN Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain Took Unusual Course in Announcing Budget Intentions in Advance-- All Businesses Except Those Begun Since the War Pay Tax for Seven Years. ised to remedy their grievances. In the latest instance of disorder a thousand persons lay down upon the railroad track in order to halt a train on which they believed their leader, who had been arrested, was being transported. When persuasion failed the police were ordered to clear the track. ~" crowd then made an attack stones, whereupon the police opened t'ro with buckshot. by the twelve per cent. German export At the aninistry of foreign affairs, it was explained that the twelve per cent, export tax was not intended as a direct tax on exports to be applied to each shipment out of Germany, but a figure that the Allies demand that The ( Germany shall pay in a lump sum |n addition to the fixed indemnities. A despatch from London says:-- Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain, speaking in Birmingham or Thursday night, made an announcement, important to English businessmen, that the much-reviled excess profits duty will be discontinued this The duty is charged on the am-damages amount ount by which the profits from all trades and businesses exceed by more than £200 the pre-war standard of profits. The duty is equal to 60 per cent, of excess profits. For the year 1919-20 it brought £290,045,000 into the Exchequer, and revenue from the same source for the year ending March 31 next is estimated at £220,-000,000. Mr. Chamberli war businesses period of sev< n announced all pre-ill pay a tax for a years, dating from the first accountancy period in which they fell within the scope of the tax. For all new businesses it will cease as from December 31 last. Further, he undertakes to impose no new tax in substitution. There may, he said, be some new duties ir the Budget for anti-dumping purpos- es, but there definitely will not be any new revenue-producing impost upon business. He admitted the excess profits duty was open to great objection. It was to a large extent, arbitrary in its incidence, tended to encourage extravagance in industry, and discourage enterprise, and the only justification for it was to be found in the crucial need for money and in the fact that, at the time when most people were suffering loss of income, certain people, through the same cause, the war, were earning abnormal profits. Weekly market Report Britain Obtains Steamer Von Tirpitz A despatch from London says:-- j The newly-completed German steamer j von Tirpitz, a vessel of 19,200 tons, was surrendered at Immlngham on i Thursday in accordance with the I terms of the Peace Treaty. of Canada. Dean Lewis Norman Tucker, of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, who has ">een elected President of the Social Service Council of Canada. Dean Tucker, who was born in the Province if Quebec and started his ministry'as l travelling missionary in the Eastern I ownships, is a divine of international Repute and has represented the Church ol: England in conferences in the Cnited States, Great Britain and the Continent. He enjoys the distinction of having occupied pulpits in Paris, Prance, and of having preached in the French language. Toronto. Manitoba wheat--No. 1 Northern, $1.75; No. 2 Northern, $1,72; No. 3 Northern, $1.67%; No. 4 wheat. $1.62. Manitoba oats--No. 2 CW, 46%c; No. 3 CW, 42%e; extra No. 1 feed, 42-r,c; No. 1 feed, 40%c; No. 2 feed, 36 %c. Manitoba barley--No. 3 CW. 78%c; No. 4 CW, 65c; rejected, 54c; feed, 54c. All above in store, Fort William. Ontario wheat--F.o.b. shipping points, according to freights outside, No. 2 spring, $1.70 to $1.75; No. 2 winter, $1.80 to $1.85; No. 2 goose wheat, $1.60 to $1.65. American corn--Prompt shipment, No. 2 yellow, track, Toronto. 88c. Ontario oats--No. 3 white, 47 to 50c, according to freights outside. Ontario flour--Winter, in jute bags, prompt shipment, straight run bulk] seaboard, $8. Barley--Malting, 80 to 85c, according to freights outside. Peas--No. 2. $1.50 to $1.00. outside. Manitoba flour--Track, Toronto: First patents, $10.70; second patents $10.20. Buckwheat--No. 2, $1 to $1.05. Rye--No. 2, nominal; No. 3, $1.55 to $1.60. Millfeed--Carlots, delivered, Toronto freights, bags included. Bran, per ton, $40, firm; shorts, per ton $38-white middlings, $41; feed flour, $2.40. Cheese--New, large, 30 to 31c; twins, 31 to 32c; triplets, 31% to 32%c; old, large, 32 to 35< : do. twins. 32% to 35%c. Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 50c; creamery, No. 1, 55 to 59c; fresh, 58 to 61c. Margarine--29 to 3t Eggs--No. 1, 68 to 76 to 78c; new laid, ii 70c; Sarah Bernhardt, the famous ress, has been made an officer of the'8Qc. jegion of Honor, of whom the num- Beans--Canadian, hand-picked, bua, .er is limited to 4,000,_ I $3.75 to $4; primes, $3 to $3.50; Ja- pans, 8c; Limas, Madagascar, 10% California Limas, 12%c. Maple products--Syrup, per imp. gal., $3.40 to $3.50; per 5 imp. gab $3.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, lb., 5 to 30c. Honey--60-30-lb. tins, 22 to 24c per lb. Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per 15-section case; 5%-2%-lb. tins, 23 to 25c per lb. Choice heavy steers. $9 to $10: good heavy steers, $8.50 to $9; hut-chers' cattle, choice, $8.50 to $9.50: do, good, $7.50 to $8.50; do, med., $6 ta $7; do, com., $4 to $6; butchers' bulls, choice, $7 to $8; do, good, $6 to $7; do, com., $4 to $5; butchers' cows, choice, $7.50 to $8.50; do, good, $6.25 to $7; do, com.. $4 to $5; feeders, $7.75 to $8.75; do, 900 lbs., $7.25 to $8.25: do, 800 lbs.. S5.75 to $6.75; do, com. $5 to $6; canners and cutters, $3 to $4.50; milkers, good to choice, $85 tc $150: do, com. to med., $50 to $60; lambs, yearlings, $9 to $9.50; do, spring, $11.50 to $11.75; calves, good to choice. $16.50 to $17.50; sheep, $6 to $7.50; hogs, fed ;.nd watered, $14.75 to $15.50; do, weighed off cars, $15 to $15.75; do, f.o.b., $13.75 to $14.50; do, country points, $13.50 to $14.25. Montreal. Oats--Can. West., No. 2, 66c; do, No. 3, 62c. Flour, Man., $10.70. Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., $3.80. Bran,, $40.25. Shorts, $38.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, carlots, $27 to $28. Cheese, finest easterns, 27 to 27Vic; Butter, choicest creamery, 54 to 55c. Eggs, fresh, 78c. Butcher steers, med., $7.50 to $8.50; butcher heifers, med., $7 to $7.50; butcher cows, med., $5 to $7; canners, $3.25 to $3.50. Butcher bulls, com., $5 to $7. Good veal, $13.50 to $16; med., $10 to $13; grassers, $5 to $6. Good lambs, $12.50; sheep, $6.50. Hogs, selects, $16.75 to $17, with $4 off for sows. NAVAL HOLIDAY FOR 12-MONTH PERIOD Imperial Defence Committee Recommends Stay in Shipbuilding. A despatch from London says:-The draft of the report of the Impe; ial Defence Sub-committee has been completed, and it recommends abstention from a big shipbuilding program for a period of twelve months. The object oi the delay, it is learned, is to give time for official negotiations among the United States, Japan, and Great Britain for a curtailment of their navies. There will be no action on the report for several months yet, and at any event the decision of the Government will need the ratification of the Imperial Conference, which is to be held in June. Meantime the First Lord of the Admiralty will request the House of Commons to agree to a postponement of the naval estimates. Australia and Canada are closely watching every move in the naval situation. Senator E. D. Millen, / ing Premier of Australia, who : for Melbourne from London Saturday, gave out a statement Thursday, in which he expressed c fidence that the Imperial statesmen will back Australia's immigration policy. Australia wants a recogniitior the status quo in the Southern and Eastern Pacific, achieving such a ■community of interest that the mad naval race between the Occident and the Orient would cease, but where this race proceeds it is vital to Australia that the British interests in the Pacific should be safeguarded. The University Professor. Occasionally there are evidence* that the ancient idea that; a university professor works only about half as long and half as hard as do other people is not yet entirely dead. This idea was based on the false assump-j tion that the professor works only! when he is before his classes and is' actually engaged in teaching. Though' traces cf the old notion still remain,' anyone who knows a university professor of the twentieth century real-j izes that he works harder and longer; than most business men and that his1 hours of labor are not fewer than -those of the farmer. Some people say that the farmer does not work in winter; the farmer indignantly denies this, and he is right. Some people also say that the professor does no work in summer; he denies this just as indignantly as does the farmer and he is equally right. The professor's teaching is not even; half of the work he is called upon to; perform. Dealing always with the' brightest of youthful intellects, he; cannot afford to fail in preparation of his work; he must be always up to the minute in his information. Five hours to twenty hours of preparation-frequently precede one hour of lecturing. Summers provide a time for reading, for research, for advancement in knowledge. Then there is the reading and marking of essays and exercises--hundreds of them. Also the reading and valuing of examination papers--again hundreds of them. Also committees for discussion and settlement of courses, of administrative details, of the hundred and one matters, large and small, that have to be considered the work of a great institution of learning. There is one art that the average university professor does not under-1 stand--the art of self-advertisement.! He does his work faiihfully, works in-the evenings and often on into the mornings, works when his neighbors-think he is resting or holidaying, but says little about it. He is one of those who "do good by stealth." Perhaps this is a mistake, because people gen-, erally are inclined to believe onlyj what they actually see. ' Newfoundland Suffers Severest Cold of Winter A despatch from St. John's, Nfld., says.--The Newfoundland coast is icebound as a result of the severest cold of the winter. The northern bays and Conception Bay, ten miles north of this city, are solidly frozen over and mail steamers have abandoned their service. St. John's harbor has a thick coating of ice, which makes the movement of shipping difficult. Canada's Youngest Mayor. Frank H. Plant, who was recently elected Chief Magistrate of Ottawa, is only 37 years of age and reported to be the youngest Mayor in the Dominion. He was formerly a newspaper man and is now head of a big I manufacturing plant. Stork Helps French Reconstruction A despatch from Paris says: For the first time in a number of years the population of j France shows an increase. Official figures prove that during the first quarter of 1920 there were 67,946 more births than deaths. The births num-' bered 424,668; the deaths 356,-722. These figures include the devasted region and Alsace-Lor- ine. The population of France given as 41,476,000. The Paris newspapers declare these figures the most encouraging symptom of the country's recovery from the ravages of the war that has yet appeared. The Delaware State Senate has jus-t passed a bill making the penalty for: highway robbery forty lashes on the) bare back, not less than twenty yeart'j imprisonment and a fine of $500. The vote on the measure was unanimous. j Mfc. PLCA.se. Pop! \ i Tft& TefccneP- S 'wants VoOTt^ ( { si£n ThIs tf^ti \- REGLAR FELLERS--By Gene Bymet