» A NS ATLL th Y PAGES 14 ELECT ALD. KINGSTON NE ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY verre tropmemmvortint pet! O'CONNOR i919, LAST _EMTION AS MAYOR ! ThE WORLD'S TIDINGS IN BRIEF FORM ings From All Over Told in a Pointed and Pithy - Way. The hospital ship- Araguaya, *o arrive at Halifax Monday, 767 patients. Edward Hay, General Manager of {the Imperial Bank, has resigned ow- | ing to ill-health, There have been 2,041 soldiers al- | ready taken off the U.S. transport ashore off Fire Island. Blood-poisoning from a boil on fh knee caused the death of Hugh John MeDonald of East Nissouri, The Ford Metor Company of De- NO ULTIMATUM "= SENT BY BRITAIN dug] has | R0 the German -- Gann in the ti Region. fe 24,000 JAPANESE TROOPS, ARE NOW .J0 BE WITHDRAWN |. "ROM SIBERIA. Public Opinion' an Howl Deplores the Withdrawal----Allied Observers Say the Intervention Was Relatively a Fallure., (Canadifin Press Des spatch.) : London, $n. 4 The Foreign Of fice denies that a British ultimatum | "has been sent to the German com-} as has e mander in the Baitic region, béen reported. It mlso declares it| has had no reports of the landing of | "large Britisirtforces in the Baltic pro- | vinces. | Japanese Withdraw Erom Siberia. (Canadian Press Déspatch.) London, Jan. 4.--Announcement | that 24,000 Japanese . troops will withdraw from Siberia is reported | by a Tokio despatch to the Express, | quoting "an official statement issued | by the Japanese War Office on Dec. 27th, The statement, according to the despatch, says that Japan intends |, henceforth ~only the | forces in 'Siberia. says the de- to maintain smallest possible "Public opinion here," spatch deplores the withdrawal. Al- lied observers, Americans as well as British, speak bitterly of the inter- vention as being, relatively, a fail- - Jire, owing to the disumity among the 'Allies and their mutual Jealousies. » i MUNIOIPAL ELECIIONS. Township Of Camden. Reeve---Cyrus Edgar. Deputy Reeve----Johnston Hannah Councilfors--=¥red McDonald, J Fisher, H.-L. Wagar. North Frederickshurg Township. Reeve---Joseph Hicks, Councillors: WwW Sm, Elmer Alkenbrack, M. Ho Martin, J. A. Yeo mens, Township Of Adephustown. Reeve--M, B. Trumpour:" Councillors--George Chalmers, J. 5 Johnstone, J, G. Prout, W. H. Mil er, ------------------ Timber Orders for Canada. London, Jan. .4---Britain"s recon- struction committee will place tim- ber orders in Cuandda aggregating $50,000,000 through the Canadian Trade Comission. How, when and for, how long the orders are to be placed will be anncunced by Can- ada's Trade Commission. - Influenza Increasing. Cobourg, Jan, 4.---The influenza in this district has taken a new flare. In the country around Cobourg it is attacking a large number of children. In some instances whole families of children are suffering from it.« So far there have been few deaths. Obituary Rev, N, A. TA. McKachren Called. Smith's Fails, Jan) 4.-----At a large- ly-attended meeting of the congrega- tion of Westminster church, on Dec. S1st, a hearty and unanimous call was given to Capt. (Rev.) N, A. Mec: Eachren,. returned chaplain, The Russian Baltic port of Libau is protected by one British cruiser, three destroyers and one gunboat. "Fhe _ British warships, however, have landed no forees. The Countess "Markiovicz, the enly woman whe triimphed in the recent British parliamentary = elec- "tions, is ineligible to take her seat, as She i8 ai alien hy marriage. The: total Canadian casualties to December 31st are 220,132, with 60,383 dead. Polish trcops have destrayed fort- Joss a at frontier town in southern The Hamilton police have no clue yet to the murderer of Tony Martino, ie. (ermal campaign for a new nati assembly Is n full swing. | Polish ] the 'Imperial Life A :11ston, has received the following tele-| {such splendi : us - J troit has declared a dividend of 209 | per cent., or $4,000,000. A flood of pro-Bolshevik pamphlets rentitled 'The Red Terror of Russia,' has swept over Brantford. The coal production of Canada in {1918 was about 15,180,000 tons; in 1 1917 it was 14,46,769 tons. | David Lubin of San Francisco, { founder of the International Institute { of Agriculture, is dead.in Rome: Gustave Urske of the German Gov- of the armies is proceeding rapidly.. On Saturday aftefnoon Toronto's first P-A-Y-E car, with iboard and other officials, {trial trip. The -Mexican Congress has granted | spagial powers to President Carranza to raise or lower export duties at his | discretion. | The Eastern Canadian Passenger Association has tssued drastic regula- | tions restricting privileges to the | travelling publie,---- | The Sinn Fein parliament |meet next week and make The British Government will {attempt to disperse it. 3 | The Boshevik Government of Rus | #ia intends tp send Adophe Joffe, for- mer Bolshevik ambassador at Ber lin, as iis delegate to Paris to claim admission to the peace conference, .The Brant Farmers' Co-operative Society in hie past six months made sales of $18,623.56, and for the year | a total of $38,104. 70, netting $784. 06 charging Britt with | profits, i gsue han in connection with death Boston judge refused McGovern, and Britt was will | laws, not to warrant slaughter of Terry feleased. A people's counell to combat the danger has been established at Danzig and a military force will be recruited, aeconding to reports from. Berlin, Marshal Foeh, according to tho Paris" Mating has given permission for the Geéfmans in the occupied Rhine provinces to participate in the Ger- man élections. Food rationing in England is to be abolished Marchgird, it is learned au- thoritatively. However, some sys- tem of food regMration will, be con- tinued 'for a short period. U.S. GOVERNMENT FOUND RAILWAYS EXPENSIVE Loss I§ Placed at $150,000,000) For One Year's Op~- eration. Washington, Jan, 4.--The Guvern- ment's loss in operating the railroads in 1918 is calculated by Railroad Ad- ministration ofilcials at less $150,000, 0h. This represents the difference between the -aggregate amount the Government will be com- gelled to pay railroad companies as *irental for the use of their proper- ties-----the so-called guaranteed re- turn--and 'the net income which the Government will receive from the railroads. It will take six months more of receipts from the increased freight rates to permit the Government' to recoup its losses, officials believe. Given Italian Decaration. Some of the men belpnging' to the Brittsh Army in Italy were awarded decorations by the King of Italy wt a recent review of the British troops Shore On the list appears the name of Grant Carr-Harris, Kingston, ai ex- cadet of the Royal Militury College, who was connected with building a bridge for the passage of the British division at the ume of the recent great Italian offensive in Italy.' Dur: ing this offensive the British division was in the advance of that portion of the line and the Royal Engineers|s was in the advanced postion of the division.. The decoration is the Ital- ian: military cross of the third Glass, "tor: yalor." or "of, n, King: | gram from J. ¥. director: "Figures Just 'complete sl Weston, magne December month Suet, or, giving 'business $1 a or e of your xin ronment says that the demobilization railway | made a ors, | sailors, 1] business issued $15,013,000% gain -- : {force $9,379,000. FONG ON | SELECTIVE BASIS Duoizaon in yl Britain Has Al-| | ready Released ed 775,000 Persons. THREE FACTORS GOVERN DEM( YBILIZATIC IN OF THE BRITISH ARMY THE | It Is a Colossal Task To Demobilize Seven Million Men of the Army and Navy. London, Jan. 4.--Reuter's has re- ceived the following statement in re- gard to demobilization in Great Bri- tain affecting at least ten million {men and women who were engaged [in Britain's war effort, and of whom (775, 000 have alréady been released, including 270,000 soldiers and sail- 115,000 returned soldiers and 115,000 réturned war pr l=on ers and 390,000 munition workers. " The three factors governing de- mobilization are the size of the Bri- tish army, which must for the pres- ent be maintajned. This has already been practically settled by Marshal Foch in conference with the allies holding the western lines. Second- ly, the machinery of discharge, and thirdly the economic situation at home. At the present time demobilization is proceeding on a selective basis as distinct from discharge by units, the men being gplected as far as possible among those who are most essential to industry. Obviously to demobilize the seven million men of the army and navy on a selective basis is a colossal task. Moreover, the army has been moving forward with many services working at a higher stand. ard than during the fighting. Should the existing strain on the armies be relieved there will be a change from the selective basis of demobilization toy the industrial basis, while later it 10 work on a or i hrmatnn Nh or home and then demobilizing edlject: ively. ' * Ald. Anglin's nim, Kingston, Jan. 4--(To Edi- tor): In your Friday phith you published an item under the héading of Sydenham Ward," in which you suggested the names of candidates who would snake good aldermen tc represent this ward, giving as your reasons that théy are good business men, and that some of them are seeking re-election. In this article my name was left out, and 1 wish to thant #ra® your attention to the fact that Iam ap alderman seeking re-election, a business man, and a manufacturei whose firm have at present upwards of fifty employees, and under normal times a great many. more. Although my firm is paying into the city treas- ury thousands of dollars in the way of taxes, it has never received nor asked for any concession from the city: : i ring the past year I have attend od every regular meeting of the coun- cil and served on two important com: mittees: the Fire and Light and the Health committees. Both these com- mistees have had surpluses .at the end of the year. The Fire a Light Committee, by careful manage- ment, saved enough to purchase a motor truck which has already saved the city very much money in pro- perty. The Health Committee in creased the wages of its employees, and yet had a surplus of nearly §2,- 000, iy I am now, and have been, a resi- dent of Sydenham' Ward for sqveral yéars, and trust that you will be good ough to give this letter a worthy ee in your Saturday edition. © «-CHAS. 8. ANGLIN. Britain and Holland have reach ed gn agreement: regarding the ex- kaiser. British soldiers are agitating to eturn to aivil H |CANADIANS WERE TO BO BOMB BegLiN We gr Caner an i of Winnipeg. London, Jan. 4.--Gengral Tren- | feta in his report on the work of | [the Indépendent Air Force, makes | an interesting revelation how Ber-| (in narrowly escaped being bombed | {by a squadron under the famous; jatrman, Sonmamués R. HH. Mulock | Abo 2 27th group was established | in Englgnd," says General Teen Bb lard, - "under thie command of mander Mulock for the te or bombing Berlin and other centres. This. group only received capable of carrying out this work | at the end. of October. Although all | machines | {ranks had worked night and day to | get the machines ready for attack- ing Berlin, they only completed the | work three days before the signing | of the armistige.** Commander Mulock received the DSO. in 1916, the Chevaller of the! Legion of Honor in 1918, and was | twice mentioned in despatches. He married a Birmingham lady last month. v | aattattansiodeatia dog] PLUNDERING AND BURNING GOES ON (Canadian Press Despatch) Warsaw, Jan. 4.--Bolshevist forces¥are in the outskirts of Vilna and the towns on the rail- way between Minsk and Brest. Litovsk. ~ The Bolshevists are burning buildings 4nd robbing and murdering the peasants as they advance, * | *| * + | +> * | + * » * | EPRI srestrereareea Teer ELABORATE SYSTEM TO DELUDE PEOPLE ' A Cologne Editor Shows How | the Berlin Government Fal- | sified War Reports. Berlin, Jan, 4.--Dr. Kurt Muh-| sam, one of the editors of The Col- | ogne Gazette, has just published a | book entitled, "How We Were De-| ceived," in which he proves that the Government organized an * ela- | borate system for the sole purpose or keeping the people any in the dark regarding. political fary affairs before vy ar, hat especially during the aT quotes the original reports from el various theatres of war to the Berlin Government, With the versions given | to the press and public, which form' a fearful indictment against the re- cent' rulers of Segmany. THE ELECTIONS ON MONDAY ALD. O'CONNOR DESERVING OF | 'THE PEOPLE'S SUPPORT. Two Utilities Commissioners to Be! Elécted--Aldermanic Elections: in Three Wards--One Board of Edu- cation Contest. Ald. O'Connor is quite encouraged by the promises of support accorded | him for the mayoralty, and the peo ple will make no mistake ro lim at the head of the polls on Mon- day, for 'he would make La splendid | chief magistrate. him as mayor the people a rest assured | that they would' be' well represented, that they had a safe, capable and | alert mayor. t | It is expected. that a very large vote will be polled on Moray, as| all the subdivisions will be manned by workers for the various candi-| dates. Both mayoralty aspirants have. Shelf organizations well = ar-| rang | There are aldermanic elections in only three~wards Sydenham, Fron-| tenac and Victorfa. In each ward! there are four candidates and three! to. be elected 'so that there will be only one candidate In ce ach: ward to be There is a Utilities Commission [H, .% tmunicipality. 'portance to the G. W. ALS, O'CONNOR IND NEWMAN {Take the Role of Ler Letter Writers om Pub- : lic i Matters. ANSWERG W.VA QUESTIONS | WITH REG! ARD. TO LIVING CON- DITIONS OF THE CITIZENS, rat Both Mayoralty Candidates Also Ex- press Themselves on the Housing Proposition--Their Answers Given. The following questions were ad- {dressed to the mayoralty candidates in the coming eléction by. 4he Great War Veterans' Association, and the candidates, Alds. N. E. O'Connor and W. Newman, answered them- as follows: Question 1--To what extent | you consider the municipality respon- "9 | sible for 'the living conditions of its itizens? N. E. O'Connor answers this ques- fon as follows: "I may say that the health of our 23,000 citizens is in the hands of the When the child comes into the world it is the duty of the municipality to furnish- pure water, proper sewage disposal, to use every effort to prevent epidemics This work is in the hands of our Board of Health, backed up by strong provin- cial laws National health means national wealth Education, the next important matter to health, is looked after hy our school board, and |€ fit is the duty of the municipality to {aid the school board in making for the health, comfort and happiness of he young. 'Fhe municipality is re- Bard iin for good roads and ade- | quate Hghting." H. W. Newman says in answer to | this question: "Your question nd its real intent is not plain to me, and I would thank you to make your question clearer, s0 that I might grasp its real import and give you my honest position. However, if you mean the maral con- ditions of its citizens | should say the municipality is responsible for much, and should throw a rand of rotection and prevention around all 4h Tire Within 16s CORBNRAL. mean by your questions the mat T existence. in its relation to earning, 1 feeding, clothing, and shelter; then 1 should say that the power of thd my- nicipality is circumséribed and that | such conditions belong to the larger | sphere of legislative power, such as | the Provincial or Dominion parlia- iments. Thése, however, should be influenced by a municipality, and should he to the extent of securing for the individual 'citizen by legisla ition all that is eswmtial to the pur- | suit of happiness and fhe enjoyment of every essential comfort. In my capacity as alderman and in the wider flelds as mayor (if elgrted), 1 would feel it a privileged duty to se- {cure to the fullest possible extent of 'all Jaw within my power to invoke every advantage to the wage earner {without handicap or discrimination." Question 2--Do you consider a well-defined town planning scheme necessary in every municipality? To this question both candidates answer in the affirmative. Question 3--Are you in favor of a housing and own planning board in this municipality? To this "question both candidates | answer in the affirmative, H.' W. Newman emphasizing his answer with the words, 'Decidedly so,' - Question {---Are you in faver of { this municipality taking advantage of the Ontario Government loan? Both candidates answer this ques- tion: in the affirmative, H. W. New- man adding the following remarks: M1 am in favor of tuking immediate advantage to the fullest possible ex- tent of all that the Provincial Gov- ernment has to offer-in this connec tion." : The above questions were address- od to candidates with a view to ob- taining their views principally on. the "housing problem," which is one that vitally affects the returned men gen- erally, and therefore . of great -im- «Ai Both candidates answered our communication courteously and ex~ plieitly. ~"There has been a tendency on the | part of councils to attempt to shift the responsibility of mu tar as the housing problem is ¢on- cerned on fo the shoulders of higher | authorities, but now that the provin- cial government has set aside the sum of $2,008,000 -t0 advance to mu-|. nicipalities desirous of building in- | expensive houses for sale or rental, the responsibility definitely can be placed with the municipality as re- who Eards housing, sstomimodation pro- itizens., it will be noticed. that Question | this iE yontatie. IF P ed shall not exceed in cost for each | house $2,600, ° Where 'the land and house are rented the monthly rental shall not exceed $25. The buildtig soles, ete, tioned shall be years. The Groat War Veterans Assoc 1a- tion js heartily in aceord with the Ontario Government's scheme in this copnectlon, and the Kingston branch would like to see this city take uh advantage of the offer. fn MILLION DEATHS FROM COMMON LOUSE Probability That Toll of Mor-| tality From This Cause Was Much Greater. London, Jan, 4,--0f the insects re- sponsible for the death or disable- ment of hundreds of thousands in the zone, the louse is declared au thoritxtively to have been one of the most deadly and to have accounted for at least a million persons. That, however, is only a rough es- timate, and the probability is that the toll was infinitely higher, for -in Serbia alone typhus, a louse-borne disease, infected nearly one million persons and killed five hundred -.a. day in the little city of Jassy, while 200 of the 1200 medical officers in the country died from the disease, This disease spread over Russia, Aus- tria, Germany amd the Balkans gen- erally. These figures are vouched for in a| publication vouched for by Lieut. Lloyd, who was chief entomologist in northern Rhodesia. He says: "Typhus, one of the most dreaded | epidemic diseases of man, is entirely due to the activities of lice. The] same remark applies to rédlapsing fev er over the greater portion of the wordd, Still a third disease, trench fever, has been placed to the credit of thé louse, and possibly even now the full extent of its guilt is not known." " Lieut. Lloyd,in discussing the ty= phus outbreak at the notorious Whit- tenberg .camp in Germany, ' from which the German doctors fled, makes the statement: "The Germans know as we do, that typhus is spread by lice, and that the epidemic could have been short and stamped out a week after its commencement by the disin- fectfon of all prisoners. One of the few good points about insact-borne ay are entirely. pees Hl ie monsures are] taken in time and carried out in a thorough manner," ' DEATH OF TWO LADIES One of Them Had Reached An Ad- vanced Age. (From Our Own Correspondent) Napanee, Jan. 4.--The death oc- curred on Thursday morning of Mrs, Charles D. Black, after a couple of months' illness. . Deceased was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Smith, South Napanee. She leaves besides her Sorrowing husband, two children, Ralph and Leonore, aged six and ten years. Her father and mother, one sister, Mrs. Bruce Wag- ar, and two brothers, E. H, Smith, Winnipeg, and Maurice Smith, East 'End, Sask. The funeral will take place on Sunday @fiernoon from her father's residence, South Napanee. Mrs, Zara Van Luveu, one of Na- panee's dearest. old ladies passed away-on Friday moxping aged eighty- nine years. About fen days ago she fell and fractured her hip and al- though all that loving care could do she gradually grew weaker. . She leaves five sons, Egerton, and Ever- ton, twin sons, and one son in Cali- fornia. She lived a good mény years in. Moscow, and has resided in Nap- anee for twelve years. ~The funeral will take place Saturday afternoon to Riverside cemetery, George A, Blewett spent a days in "Toronto last week. The friends of James Gordon will be pleased to learn that he is recovesing nicely from his recent street car ac- tident in Toronto a week ago. Brucé Wagar, Sagkatoon, is in town for a few weeks, after an absence of twelve years, Mr, and Mrs, T. B. Wallace and daughter, Hele; are spending the week in Toronto. - Mr. and Mrs George W. Gibbard expect to leave fow 'inext week to spend a month at St. Petersburg, Florida. E, W. Grange,' Ottawa, spent a day in Napanee this week. - Mr, Grange will be connected with the #. Daly Tea Co., of London, in the near future. shall i] approved by the Ontario Government | The period of the loan abové® men-| fot a terin of twenty. | "What 'is absolutely itional law is to be enforced. j% many. These U-boats will be AM AT DECENT LIFE STANDARD Win 0 Poe a Pe at Peace Congress In- | - ternational Standard For Workers. FAIR PAY AND FAIR WORK LEAGUE OF NATIONS MIGHT HANDLE THE MATTER | ---- Combination In AN Asked----Labor Should First Charge on' Produce Freedom | of Countries | Be the | tion. { London Jan. 4.--Not the least im- portant matter of discussion at the Peace Conference will be the British Government's proposal of an'interna- kona) standard of life for workers. George Barnes, Labor member of the War. Cabinet, outlined. to The Chron- icle's representative the policy which the Labor Department of the Govern= ment hopes to see adopted. He said: : want to see 1s some | kind of international machinery that we [Ww ill set up and enforce a decent stan- {dard of life, not, of course, by any {coercive .but by methods manufacturers in all ountries to toe the line. "In the past when seeking. to at- tain to a better standard 'we always have been 'met by. the difficulty cre- ated by importation ef goods made under sweater conditions, Wel \hope to sée such goods boycotted by gen- eral consent. - "We ask, first of all, for freedom of combinations in all countries. This necessary if interna- ! You may pass any amount of industrial legishaffon, but if there is no or- ganization capable of seeing that it is Ho into operation it will be ute- -- "Phen wé desire to SR standard of hours and wags for all countries. I do not say i is to be identical for all countries béacause conditions differ, What I mean is that every-worker in every country shall be Auatantecd fair pay and fair Songition of work measures {compelling | el First-€harge on Production "There are other questions such as child workers' employment of wo men afted childbirth, proper provi= sion of ventilation and factory space, medical inspection and aboli- tion of sweating. In a word, we de- sire'to adopt the Principia laid down by Gompers,"that Labor Shall no longer be treated as A commodity but shall be the first charge on pro- duction before rent, interest on capi- tal, or profits. 'The Peace Conferefice will first be invited to agree to the principle of an international standard for La- bor, 'and then it is proposed to refer the matter to an Industrial Commis- sion, to' consider and report on the measures to' be taken to secure this end. This Commission wets same timo as the Peace Congress, and report to it. Then, it will be the duty of the Congress to adopt these recommendations, and possibly hand them over to a League of Nations to ut 3 to operation as part of its du- Horny Charges Proven. Petrolea, Jan. 4.----A verdict of F'guilty of heresy charges," pro- nounced by a special court of the London Methodist Conferénce in the case of Rev. R. W. Knowles, M.A., Ph.D., pastor-for some years. past i0f the Petrolea Methodist Church, was .read by Rev. J. EH Holmes of London, President of the London Conference; to a meeting of the mem- bership "of "Petrolea congregation; called for the purpose of hearing the result 'of the trial on orders of th court. Thiz eonlerence held publicly admonished Dr. Knowjes. 3: kT SRE Soldiers t0 Get Chance to Visit, Ottawa, Jah. 4---Provision. wil be made under the new demobiliza- tion system sghon to become oper- ative, whereby returning soldiers will be enabled to secure their dis. charges and visit their families in eastern sevtions of the Dominfon and later proceed 'to the points at? which they reside (Canadian Press hy London, Jan. us Bspate hun- # all under construction, % found when the "Inter Alliod # Naval Commission visited Ger- Lads SE