Daily British Whig (1850), 29 Mar 1919, p. 1

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Territorial Rights Arc Not to Be Violated By the Conference. PEACE WILL BE STERN ONE BUT IT WILL BE JUST. The Spirit of Self-Determination to be Kept in Mind With Regard to Allocation of Territories, {Canadian Press Despatch) a London, March 29 Efforts which the British delegation at the | peace conference is making to pro { cure for the world the clearest po # | ible will bear fruit in the peace treaty shortly to be made pub He, the Paris correspondent of the ~Westininster Gazétte lares He states on the authority of "a Mighiy placed personage' that the confaer- ence does not mean to violate terri- that interested peoples IN GERMANY peace, dec tory rights and fears on tls point felt Burope are quite unfounded The correspondent points of the treaty drawhh up by Premier Lloyd George, and which will serve as a basis for discussion, have been deliberately framed in a spirit of great modeération, because it is feit that the treaty must be something acceptable and desirable. "Certainly the peace will be a stern one for Germany," the corres- pondent continues, "but the great- ost care is being ¢aken that ft shall be just to the eyes of moderate and well-informed Germans. The prin- ciple of self-determination will be rigorously kept in mind with regard #0 the allocation of territories." The correspondent quotes his' in- formant as remarking: "There must be a. casus. belli left to Ger- many, otherwise, you will have blocks of people' clamoring for an allisnce with the Fatherland." The correspondent points out, however, that Germany: had deli- berately created a German-populat- ed wedge on the essentially Polish territory, and that Germany will have only herself to' blame if she finds her nationals under Polish ad- * ministration. ' "British influence, the correspan- dent asserts, "is nevertheless Inde- finitely arrayed "against inflated pretensions." MAY REDUCE RATIONS If the Present Strike in Keeps Up Long. {Canadian Press Despatch.) Copenhagen, March 29.--The strike In Austria was extended, on Friday, 40 the Northern railway and' as a consequence the traffic be- tween Vienna and the outside world is almost at a.standstill, aceording to' Vienna advices received here. It is said that if the holding up of ite food trains continues to-day the bread rations 'will be reduced by ome=hall everywhere next week, RELEASED THE MEMBERS. by in | says .that Austria Restored the Property. and Make Necessary Apology. (Canadian Press Despatch) Berne, March 29. The Hun- garian Government has released members of the Ukrainian mission arrested at Budapest, restored pro- perty belonging to the mission valued at one million crowns, and made an apology to Ukraine, ac- cording to the Ukrainian press bureau here. The Ukrainian Gov- ernment entered a protest followlug the arrest ofits mission at 'tne Hungarian capital. To Meet On April 4th, (Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, March 28. --The peace ton. ference commission on a league of nations probably will hold its final session on April 4th, it was indicat. ed to-day. At that meeting the foun dations of the league will be definite Iy anu i Supporting Berlin's Workless, (Canadian ss Despatch) Berlin, March 29. Support of the unemployed fis the munick Bitty of gréater one milion rks a day. A force of 2,300 with a weekly payroll of 100,- 000 marks is required to keep track of the army of workless people. WHIG CONTENTS mle : obo Moderates hr Tamas: plomand of Re Soldgts Shei ER es; Incidents of '} wy of ton. : RL Rhy- the Reta . Sal- to the _ of Kingston: In HAASE FAVORS MAKING BARGAIN WITH RUSSIA German Independent Socialists Would Not Consider Treaty Militating Against Entente. (Canadian Press Déspatch.) Weimar, March 28. (Friday.)-- In the fatignal 'assembly to-day, Huge Haase, independent socialist leader, made a violent attack upon Gustave Noske, the minister of de- femce, for his methods in suppressing the recent strikes, the shooting of Spartacans and other alleged abuses Of power, claiming that the defense minister's course constituted a re- turn to imperialism. Herr Haase also attacked Chancellor Scheide- mann for under-estimating Sunday's démonsiration in Berlin in favor of General Ludendorff, declaring this showed that the present 'military leaders of the nation were standing Solidly 'behind Ludendorff, support- ed by conservatives and other part- of the right as well as a portion of | the bourgeoisie Herr Haase, who was frequently interrupted during his attack de- Clared in favor of entering into im mediate relations with Russia, say- ing thut Ukraine would socn be able to supply Germany with raw mater- fal and later with food He said, however, that the indepéndent soéial- Ists would not consider a treaty with Russia as one militating against England or the Entente in general. THE GERMAN REPLY REGARDING DANZIG Claim That Routes From Other Cities Lead More Speedily to Goal. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Copenhagen, Mgrch 29.-- The full text of the German reply to the Al- lies concerning the landing of Polish troops at Danzig shows that Ger- many made a point that it did not undertake to give-free wecess to the Polish army {to west Prussia in the armistice agreement with the en- tente powers. The reply says: "Since the conclusion of the arm- istice, the entire situatiodi in Posen, west Prussia, and Danzig has entire- ly changed." Offering the ports of Stettin, Koenigsberg, Memel or Lib- au, the German Governplent says 4hat, "All necessary facilities for the speediest possible landing and transit of General Haller's army to Poland wilk be provided." "From the standpoint of railroad facilities," the raply adds, "the routes from these cities lead more speedily to the goal, without entail- ing the interruption of importations of food stuffs to Poland." CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS. Change of Time at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 30. All elocks and watches used in operation of Canadian National Rail ways will, at 2 a.m. Sunday, March' 30th, be advanced one hour to pre- vent serious confusion and incenve- nience to the public The attention of all concerned is directed to. the following conditions resulting from this important change of time. If cities, towns, villages and other municipal bodies do not change their local time to correspond with the new railway time, all concerned should keep in mind that while trains continue to leave railway stations on present schedule, such schedule will be operated one®hour ahead of pres- ent local time. Therefore in muni-; cipalities where local time is not changed to correspond with the mew railway time passengers must Feach railway stations one hour earlier than shown in current folders and public time table posters. 'Where the municipal time is changed te correspond with the new ratllway time, passengers will not ex- perience any difficulty growing out of the change. . DETRIMENTAL RUMORS, ' 1 Tending to Injure a Restaurant Proprietor. Some ill disposed person or per- sons for some time have been at- tempting to injure a restaurant pro- prietor in the city. Rumors detri- mental to his business weré started und spread to some extent. Dr. A, R. B. Williamson, Medical Health Officer, hus made an investigation and found that the rumors were ab- solutely without foundation. It is the intention of the proprietar to take legal action against the person or persoms Who made the slanderous | Statements if they can be found or, against any person repeating them. He will be glad to give a substantial reward to any one who will give him information as to the person or per- sons who first made the statements or @s to any ome who repeats them from this time. Liquor Perth. March 29. -- week the final shipment of malt. whiskey, the product of the John A. McLaren tillery took George I gidering the problem. mons was a joke. taken without a word spoken [peal of daylight saving EEE to POLISHING H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND FOR ADMIRAL KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919. JELLICOE'S EMPIRE TOUR. Admiral Jellicoe is about to leave on a tour of the British Dominions. The photo shows the » which he will make his headquarters. THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY GV Despatches That Come From Near and Distant Places. war honors won by the battleship New Zealand BG DEMAND FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING The Urban Municipalities Are All Crying Out For It. FARMERS MAY YET FEEL THAT THEY HAVE BEEN HAND: ED A "LEMON," As the Railways and the Cities and Towns Will Put Their Clocks Ahead an Hour. Ottawa, March 29.---The repre- sentatives of rural constituencies in the House are disposed to Insist on the Governinent compelling . the railways to stick to standard time, otherwise the farmers will feel that they have been handed a "lemon." The Minister of Railways is con- An Act of Parliament may be necessary to re- gulate railway time. Another com- plication threatened Parliament is that if Ottawa adopts sumnier time will the House observe it? The whole debate In the Com- If it had been the result would have been the same Bach man figured out how many farmers there wore in his constitu- ency and how badly he needed their votes. For every rural member ad- mits that as a vote catcher the re- has free trade backed off the map. Daylight Saving For Toronto. Toronto, March 29 --Throughout the length and breadth of the pto- vince, so far as urban ' municipali- ties are concerned, there is a loud demand for the enactment. of the measure, City Solicitor Johnston gave the opinion yesterday that the Lieuten- ant-Governor could issue a procla- mation to bring the daylight saving into force in Ontario, and on Mon- day Controller Maguire will move in council that the city council peti- tion and asked the Ontario Goveérn- ment to do that. ---- Toronto For Daylight Saving. (Canadian Press Despatch) * Toronto, March 29.--This morning Mayor Church issued u proclamation; officially placing the city on the day- light saving basis at 3 a.m. Sunday. From thet hour, daylight saving time wil be Toromto city time, ac- cording to the proclamation. The city solicitor is not quite sure of mayur's powers iu this matter, or as to the legulity of his action, but pub- lic sentiment in this city is generally behind thé daylight saving proposal, and it is expected that the majority | of citizens will put their clocks and watches forwmrd accordingly. ------------ Allied Artillery Active. ATA Manon ery) cloudy weather 0 DISCHARGING OF MEN IS QUICKLY DONE Forty-seven Returned Soldiers Were Discharged in Thir- ty=-nine Minutes. The machinery of discharging the soldiers at the district depot, Barrie- field, is mow running smoothly, and almost every party brings a record in the short time required for the discharging of men. On THursday afternoon. forty-seven men were on the list, and they were returned to civil life just <¢hirty-nine minutes after they came into the office. The system which was used for the Olympic party, and which will be used continually for all return- ing soldiers during demobilization' is to have the men march into a big room along two counters which run down the sides of the room. The officers and clerks are seated be- hind this counter, and the various items to be carried out in giving a soldier his discharge are handled by a representative for each. The sol- dier starts in ome door and by the time he reaches the end of the room has completed all of the for- mality necessary for him to again become a cividan. He walks out of the room with a cheque covering his pay balance, his parchment dis- charge certificate, a transportation literature describing the work 'of the soldiers' civil re-establishment. The Olympic party was the larg- est which has Vet been- handled by this dispersal station, but suitable arrangements were made dnd no time was lost The soldiers who did not receive their discharge on Friday evening appeared before the discharge' section directly breakfast Saturday and their *'ticket" and - were leave for home on the noon grains. ) h./ ¢ received THE Y.M.O.A. CAMPAIGN. t warrant to his home and a bunch of | Right saving locally, irrespective ment, made a new ment, ered. TINGS FOR OUR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graphic Service and Newspaper Exchange. Women in Minnesota have been given right to vote for President, New Brunswick Legislature has men-'are eligible to sit on juries up to the age of §5. Alarm is increasing in Germany over the terms which the Alliés pro- 'pose to demand in the peace treaty. Montreal sticks, it will adopt day- of Federa®d Govern- The Grand Trunk offer to is now Railway has the Govern- which being consid- A large number of towns and ities in Ontario have adopted sum- mer time, commencing Monday morn- dtter | ing next. 'The German financial commission able to [left Weimar on Thursday to confer with the Allies, being equipped with the fullest powers, The German Government at Wei- mar has received a demand from the Allies that Polish troops be allowed o land at Danzig. The Duke of Albany, the Duke of Subscribers Are Many and Cheerful- Co ness . - That the canvassers in the Y.M.C. A. campaign have started to work in ewrnest i§ evident by the splendid showing the result of the work of On all sides a condial reception is being given to the men' Who are engaging in such unselfish work, And where a subscription is entirely out of the question a word of encouragement is welcomed 'by the canvassers, The total in cash and pledges received ap till acon was $2,639.25. The subscribers are: $50.--Jackson Press, the| 5 $37.--W, G. Craig. # §26--Mrs, .H. W. Richardson, nell, > $20. --Simmons Bros. $15.--John J. Bunt McLeod, Judge Lavell, Grant, Major W. 'E. Mundell, A. G. Fleet, George Searle, L. P. Hantey, J. O. Hutton, G. B. Cooke, H. J. Clark, H mons, Cumberland and Viscount Taafe have been deprived of their British peer- age by the King's order. The verdict of the coroner's jury in the trial at Kinmel Camp is that the men came to their death by par ties unknown to the jury. The blockade of German Austria will be lifted as soon as measures can be perfected preventing imports to Germany through that country. Six armed bandits locked twelve people in the vault of the Federal State Bank at Detroit and escaped with over $50,000 shortly after noon 'fon Friday. JRumania and Czecho-Slovakg have Robert G. Richardson, Dr. J. C. Con-|taken military measures against the Hungarian ment, crossed the frontier of Eastern Ga- $10.--Dr. G. Glover, James B,|licia. revolutionary Two Rumanian army govern- corps All foreign interests bearing bonds in the hands of German residents must be delivered to the banks of the Government between April German 20d and 126h, to help pay for food delivered in Germany. An immediate call for 50,000 vol ' ' : 'unteers for service in ent and will probably esc in Departm be published on Saturday. France, who wish to return home. raves, { Enlistment will be for three years, COLD STORAGE IS TO BE PROVIDED The Government Will Build a Million-Dollar Plant at Montreal. Ottawa, March 29.--Hon. T. A. Crerar intimated {o the Agricultural Committee "that $50,000 would be placed in the supplementary esti- mates as a start on the same system us they bave in the United States of regular inspection of herds. for tuber- culosis, and the awarding of certifi- cates for herds free from this disease. 'The Minister of Agriculture also stated that it had been arranged to appropriate one million dollars for the erection of an updo-date cold storage plant on the waterfront at Montreal. He said there were 140 cold storage plants in the Dominion, but many were not up-to-date, and they would be placed under: Gov- ernment inspection. The system would be completed from the farm to the markets of the world. That meant a good refriger- ator service from the farm to the harber rent, and good refrigerator Space On ocean-going vessels, Be- fore the war about forty of the Al- lantic vessels were so equipped He thought it possible to develop a chili- ed meat trade with Great Britain. Fifty million dozen eggs annually might be shipped, instead of the two or three million recently. How- ever, quality of product was one of the esséntials. Mr. Crerar expressed the that a splendid market for belief poultry | was opening up in the United States, | of co-operation amongst the farmers in buying and seHing, and saw in. it a hope for Rusia. He fssued a warn ing against the increase of tenant] farming in Ontario. He summoned up his ideas in the statement that the old idea that the farmers had to rise at five o'clock in the morning and work like a horse until late, was giving way we ideas of good management, and conditions of marketing. DISCUSS WHEAT PRICE FIXING Minister of 'Agriculture Not Personally in Favor of Scheme. Ottawa, March 29.--A declaration by Hon. T. A. Crerar, Minister of Agriculture, that he is personally not in favor of the fixing of a price for the 1519 wheat crop was the impor- tant feature of the first meeting of the House of Commons committee of agriculture which met with R. C. Henders presiding. "1 am opposed," said the minister; "to the fixing a we for ha for the coming crop. F not think we should take from the public treas- ury a very considerable sum of money in the nature of a bonus to the farmers of Canada. 1 can fully appreciate the position of the farm- ers of western Canada who have suf- fered from poor crops for the past Iwo years, but, on the other hand, the principle is unsound and it would be difficult to justify any call on the treasury under present conditions." pres MASSACRES IN KOREA, News Has Come to the Korean Na- tional Association, Philadelphia, March 29.--News of massacres in Korea was received from Shanghai in a cable message to Dr. Syngman Rhee, representing the Korean National Association. The message which is signed by the re- presentative of Korea at Shanghai, reads: -- "Thirty-three officers of the Inde- pendence Union of Korea, alsoslead- ofs of Christian oburches. Heaven Worshippers, Buddists, Confuscians, students, merchants, rising every- where. The whole of Korea is under martial law. The Japanese army is firing on the people. Eleven toous- and arrested. Many tortured and massacred. 'One thousand men and women and children speared. Schools, churches and shops destroyed by Japanese labourers. The strike movement is growing. Missionaries offering resistance. Uprisings in Siberia and Manchuria. Demand ab- solute independence from Japan." Dr, Rhee, who, with Dr., Henry Chung, is a delegate to the Paris Conference, has been unable so far to obtain passports, the state depart- ment having written him that it is inadvisable at this (ime to permit hia +0 be represented there. SINN FEIN AND ITS HOPES, ; and be spoke earnestly of the value |J MTLLERY PARK Adresses 1 the Returned Mea By Map Newnan Aad V. F. Micke. CAP. DOUGLAS CALLIN A KINGSTON YOUNG MAN COM- MANDED 435TH BATTERY. * The Men Receive Their Discharge - ~Story of the Trip Across--The Third Division Men Have the Mons Medal. After the route march Friday at 6.30 p.m. ag the 45th Battery and the other details that arrived home turned into Artillery Park the Sal- vation Army band played patriotic airs,~and there was great cheering. Several hundred school children, with flags were formed up on th» sloping baak and, led by the band, the children sang "0 "Canada" as the returning soldiers marched Brigadier-General Vietor Wil- llams, Mayor Newman, ex-Mayor M. Hughes and members of the civic reception committee were pre- sent, : As Mayor Newman mounted the platform he was loudly cheered. Me referred to the stay of the 43th Battery at Barrietield, aud also to their leaving for the front, where they took such a gallant _pary in the titanic struggle. The dad of their homecoming would be regarded as a 'red-letter day" in Kingston. Kingston was glad, indeed, to have the opportunity of welcoming the unit back to The city. The men had taken part in a struggle against the most brutal enemy the British Ewm- pire had ever fought against. There was one sad part of the homecom- ing in that many men paid thé su- preme sacrifice. These men would be missed, but there was comfort in knowing that they had put up a great fight against the enemy, and stood for the principles they loved so well, and shared in the honor ot bringing about the freedom of the world. '1 hope that yom. will all iive for many years to enjoy the fruits your victory," said Mayor Newman, in his closing remarks. W. FP. Nickie's Address. Another outburst of cheering fol- lowed the mayor's address, and then W. PF. Nickle, M.P. spoke Kiefly. "There is one thing I know you do not want just at this time," said Mr. Nickle, "and that ig to lsten to a speech. "There is a hot dinner awaiting you at Barriefield, and 1 know you are anxious to get. over there. But there is one thing 1 do want to say to you, as a member of parliament from this riding, and that is to extend to you a warm welcome from your Canadian friends. We rejoice over your -hav- ing escaped the perils of the sea and battlefield. Wa have watched your service and admired the cour- age and determination you display- ed. And as you go back into citizen- ship, I would en- deavor to ljve for Canada in the same spirit "you have discharged your duty in this war." Mr. Nickle told the men that ar- rangements had been made for them to receive their discharge and pay at onc®. Hg advised those going to outside points to have their money transferred {o the bank in their home town, and added: "You know there is always some person waiting around who would be glad of an opportunity to rob you of that which has taken you some time to accumulate." Mr. Nickle was loudly cheered at the canclusion of his address. Ex-Mayor J. M. Hughes was down on the programme for an address, but said he realized that the men did not want to hear speeches, so he called for three cheers for the returned men, and they were Elven with great vim. Capt. MeCallum, in command of the 45th Battery, called past urge that you

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