RO. 12% KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919. LAST SDITION Give a Stirring Welcome to the 21st Battalion A GREAT DAY FOR KNGS1ON The 21st Battalion Will Arive Here For Demobilization. BIG BANQUET IN EVENING WHICH THERE WILL BE TOASTS OFFERED. 2 AT Lieut.-General Sam Hughes Will Be Present--The Battglion Will Aeach Here Before Noon Saturday. Saturday will be one of the big days in the history of Kingston. Be- sides being Victoria day, it is to wit- ness the return to the city of the fam- ous 21st Battalion; Kingston's owi fighting battalion, after just over four years on active service overseas, all of which, with the exception of about six months, was spent on the field of battle, = The battalion . landed at Halifax on Thursday morning, and the work of disembarkation was im- 'mediately commenced. The bat- talion left Halifax about noon on Thursday on two trains, half an hour separating them. On the first train were two officers and 100 other ranks; and on the second train twenty-three officers and 490 other ranks. Accord- ing to the reports received from points all along the line, both trains are making good time, and they should arrive in Kingston before noon on Saturday. The troops will detrain at the Tete de Pont Barracks, where it is expected that they will be met by a large crowd of friends and rela. tives, On the arrival of the troops they will be marched Into the Tete de Pont Barracks. The men coming on the first train will wait for the arrival ot . their comrades . op. thé second train. Afterwards | lion will. form up and will 'mared to the City Hall, where the eivie reception will be held: At The Market Square. The route of 'march from the Tete dé Pont Barracks to the market square will be the same as that fol- lowed by the 2nd Battalion, namely, 'by way of Ontario and Brock streets. bands of the battallon will play on the march. At the Tete de Pont Barracks thie R.O.H.A. band and the G.W.V.A, band'will render appropri- ate homecoming selections, while the men are defraining. At the market squdre the Salvation Army band will be mounted on a platform and will - play during the reception. The school ¢hildren of the tity will also form at the side of the market square facing , Brock street and will take part in the ecoption. A feature Will be the sing. hg of a choir of thirty ladies of the T.0D.E. This feature has been ar- ranged by Mrs. J. T. Sutherland, re- gent of the Richardson chapter. The Jooks as if a erisis will be reached country. AN ULTIRATU 10 STRIKERS Government First Demands That the Win aipeg Malls Be. Restored. THE STRIKERS ARE AFRAID THAT THIS CONCESSION WOULD WEAKEN THEIR CAUSE. They Are Determined on Collective Bargaining--Ridicule the Idea of | a Soviet Government. (Copyright, 'by Main Johnson, Direct From Winnipeg.) Winnipeg, Man., May 23.--Noon ~The federal ministers are sald to have presented an ultimatum to the strikers that they wiil not negotiate at all or discuss matters unless auu until the mails are restored. it to-day. Either the mails will come or the strike will enter into a pro- longed phase, with the danger of the trainmen coming out and a general labor tie-up throughout the The strikers are said to feel that if they give In with the postal em- ployees the provinefil government could then say we willsnot negotiate until the telephone operators come back, and he vity could say we will not talk until the water works em- ployees return. Labor thus fears the strike would be gradually brok- en. Their men are determined on collective bargaining, and also on the legitimate right of sympathetic strikes, Otherwise they say the solidarity of labor is destroyed. To-day's Labor News has ua full page heading 'Strike or Starve' em- phasizing the necessity for a living wage and collective bargaining to se- cure it. The paper emphasizes pro- fiteering, refers to an indifferent gov- ernment and callous plutocracy. The CHINA TO SICN PEACE TREATY But May Make Reservations With Regard fo the Signatures. SINE CONCESSIONS MADE TO THE GERMANS BY THE PEACE CONFERENCE. ] of the workaors. were 1 nic others fought and suffered. F. J. Dixon, labor member was considered mecessary by a soviet government. Were Forced Unconstitu- tionally to Join Strike, (Canadian Press Despaite 'Winnipeg, May terday at the triennial of the Brotherhood of trainmen at Cleveland elghty-tive €anadian at common enemy was the man - who was amass'ng wealth at the expense The real Bolshevists profiteered = while for: Centre Winnipeg, said to me that the principle of a sympathetic sirike the workers who would not see their col- leagues in individual industries or plants forced into submission separ- ately. He ridiculed the idea that an attempt bad been made to establish NOT UNANIMOUS Two Unions ~ Declare "They 23.--A bulletin posted to-day states that a resolu- tion was carried unanimously yes-. convention Railroad which delegates | The Saare Valley Award and the Terms Regarding Reparations Have Been Slightly Modified. (Canadian Press Derpatsh) New York, May 23.-~The at) el Press this' morning issued the following: , Concessions on some points in the peace treaty have been made to. the Germans by the Paris peace conference. Slight modificas tions have been made in the terms of the Sarre Valley award, and terms regarding the reparations as they stood in thetoriginal téxt of the peace treaty, have also been madifed in some degree, The fact that the couneil of four had decided to make these modificad- tions was reported in a despatch from Paris Jate last night. The message, however, did not indicate just what were the alterations decided upon. These are expected to be developed in part with the handing to the Gers mais y of the council's réply to the German note on reparations. There were no Indications, however, ladies will be mounted on the large| were present, that the Order would | when the exact nature of the conces- pew truck of the Kingston Trumioc nde oo a, TAA e Sarre Val: Company, kindly loaned for the occa-|a sympathet 8 a I masses 3 sion by George Smith. The disabled soldiers from the vari ous hospitals in the city will be brought to the market square in au- - tomohiles as the guests of the eivic reception committee, and will * be placed in a square opposite the de corated platform. The disabled men of the 21st Battalion will be in the parade in antomaobiles, and will bring up the rear, The programme on the market square will be brief. be commenced by whe. 3 as asta. 'y, AS. Wil- then address the men as aoe we the district, and he will be followed hy the mayor, who will officially welcome the men on behalf of the city of Kingston. ae proceed- ings will close with = hearty cheers and a 'tiger ar the crowd for the battalion. . the result of the general strike progress here. The mands that imniediately. came authoritatively known 'Winnipeg citizens have transmit- ted a formal protest to the federal government regarding the embargo {conférence has decided that it will on mail to and from Winnipeg as 1 n protest de- the Government re- sume the mail service with Winni- Pe Shortly before a public meeting | said; to discuss the general strike situa- tion was called this morning, it be- fey would be revealed. 's delegation at the . peace sign the peace treaty in spite of its declaration that it would: not do so, because of the decision of the coun- cil of three relative to the turhing over to Japan of Germany's interest in Shantung and Kiao-Chau. It 4s that reservations wih be made in attaching the signatures of the Chinese. the Winnipeg union forces were not heads of tie central strike com mittee. Protests have been sent] here by heads of at least two local unions to their international head- quarters, charging that certain |' unions wers forced to join the sym- that = ; - : CL ire unanimously behind the executive! Hour Week. i, a Ho the smpiores t the Colling-| wood Ry of On leaving the market square the Honal. make ; men will & short fc walk-out despite the fact|ment such agtion 'was Hot constitu- J ARRIVAL OF OF GERMAN 8, Sanita. do-his L as ate of and the b Motors, ALLIES INTEND ro RECOGNIZE KOLCHAK a : lished For Russia. 'Washington, May 22 --Admiral Kolchak, dictator of the Omsk Gov- ernment, has Len notified by the Paris Peace Conference that as soon as he has established a Stable governs tent with guarantees of freedom of speech and the press and a constitu- ent assembly; his government will be accorded recognition as the govern- ment of all non-Bolshevik Russia; it was learned to-day' from an authorita- f. tive source. Kolchak has * announced that hel was working toward putting his gov- ernment in a position to 'warrant such recognition, and has 80° notified the powers, catfon with the Omsk Government, and are working out details of the formal recoghition, which will be ae: corded simultaneously, according to present plans, by all the Allied Gov: ernments and the United States. EE - ! + New York, May 5. ~There are one hundred art fifty thousand children in Scrbla who have lost| én both father and. mother in the war. f hig * when he arrived, at Yoon ure in' We Sivele, show delegates being le rod cars a i Prefect, who sent them on'to Versailles in on IN TAX Tho delegates in Paris, it also was} learned, are in constant communi-|. accym lated during the war DELEGATES IN PARIS. The - first - pictures showing the arrival of the German delegates to the Peace Conference have reached Canada. The upper righi-hand picture shows the leader, Count Brockdorfl- Rantzau stepping Irom the train to the lator in a way hooris] upper UPON CAPITAL bilsh Liberal nd i Le Parties Join Forces gains: imperial Preference. LNELY "DEBATE. EXPECTED WITH HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL ¢ AS AN ADVOCATE. Churchill's Volte Face--At Dundee He Sought to Allay the Free Trade + Opposition. .London, May 23.--labor and In. dependent Liberalism have ° joined forces against Imperial preference. Amendments will be formally moved by the front bench Independent Lib- eral and Labor members, , Preference will be denounced as an 'Insidious Stepping-stone, to all-round 'protec on taal to relate, the Inde. pendent 'Liberals whom Asquith is still supposed to lead, have succumb. ed to Labor pressure and now frank-y 1y adopt a levy on capital as a plank of the Liberal platform. The aim is to get a share of the vast profits some of the most glaring to return to the state "the I {argue the levy will be a lighter bur- {den an ctyiial and enterprise than | to favor a levy on capital instead of a long continued, onerous income tax, a Churchill's ¥olte Face, Churchill is expected to 'take a foremost part in the debate on pre- ference. During the past week he hag been visiting Scotland, where he has been subjected to the heaviest type of Scottish heckling from his Dundee constituents. They remind- ed him forcibly of his reply to Laur- ier and other overseas advocates of preference in the last decade, when he declared "The British door against preference is banged, barred, bolted. Not a single pennyworth of prefer- ence will be granted on a single peppercorn." Churchill now argues that then preference as proposed in AustingChamberlain's budget is a piece of Imperial diplomacy and used an argument which may be difficult for his Canadian admirers that it is "An act of gratitude." Speaking at Dundee, he earnestly sought to allay free trade opposition. He said it was merely a rebate upon existing duties and stood on an en~ tirely different plane from food taxa. tion. It would certainly not add to the cost of living or impose any bur- deh upon the people. The 'tax on food was definitely ruled out. He added, 'the Dominions have sent, not handfuls of soldiers but great armies. Ruck, -that he{Fiom. Canada, Australia, New Zea-iih fand they came spontaneously 'ont of thelr own love to the motherland and a desire to fight for the right. No doubt they will take this rebate on existing "duties which' does mot fm- pose any injury on the daily Hfe of the people of this country as & kind- ly act.' It is a policy which the Dom- inions have mueh favored. They will recognize it as a friendly ac- knowlédgement of comradeship, We shall be well advised not to treat it #8 a question. of principle but as'a measure of imperial diplomacy, de- 8 to express the warmth of gra- titude we feel towards those great dominions for the ald and assistance they have given us." ¢ THE WINNIPEG STORES: ARE AL ALL OPENING All Is Quiet--The | Red Element Is to Be Put : + Down, ---- {Canadian Press Despatch) Winnipeg, May 23.--Nearly all the stores in the business sections opened yesterday, and many other places of business announced that they would open to-day. All is quiet. in a statoment yesterday Mayor Gray said: The 'constituted authorities are determined té stamp out the Rolshe-| viki or Red element in Winnipeg. The town is open. All businéss may go ahead as {n the past. No one see tion of thé public has any right to dictate food terms to any. other tion of the public. will be strictly LR 8 ng constituted authorities." Mayor Gray received a heavy la. bor vote at the last municipal elec tion. and} N Ta er twenty y m e anirded i +3 0.000, ve prince arried ND MORE TITLES FOR CANADIANS Commons fo Ask the King 10 Fon Cog Te W. I. NCKLE SUCCEEDS IN ms EFFORT TO STOP TITLE GIVING. The Canadian ParljsGient Does Not Want Any More Hereditary Titles in This Country. (Canadian Press Despatch) Ottawa, May 23.--The House of Commons voted to send the King an address asking him to refrain from conferring titles on. Can: adians, W. F. Nickle, Kingston, brought up the -report of the committee on titles in the House. He pointed out the committee had re-enunciated the principle that in so far as the Canadian Parliament was concern- ed it did not want any more hare. ditary title in Canada. Clase A of the report thig year, he said, goes further than last years' resolution. "It does away with titular dis- tinctions and. the lesser classes of | various orders" said he, There were also two other find- ings regarding foreign decorations. "It was thought that dt those from - Great Britain were not allowed it was only proper that those granted by forsign Governments should not be recognized," said he. There were some members of the committee who wanted the titles "Honorable" and "Right Honor- able" done away with. The com-- Slitee; however, didn't concur. in "The mass of people prove ". he findings of the Rane aD) Eh Sul, "ne rs granting titles 'was on a different basis 'there would not "be 50 much objection." Only Camouflage. "There is no one but knows that titular distinctions do not emanate from His Majesty, but from the ministers," said he. "The Prime Minister recognized my motion last year and he recognized that it was ministerial responsibility and the camouflage that these came from. His Majesty has been stripped off." Dr. Edwards, 'Frontenac--"Did the committee consider the title of 'lordship' given to judges?' Mr. Nickle--"No, they didn't dis- cuss that, That title does not come from ~ His Majesty, but is one of courtesy, Wke 'Mr.' Mr. Nickle . pointed out there should be just as much recognition for sacrifice as for service, "Recognition should not be an incentive to service,"" he declared "The woman who has sacrificed her all should be recognized as much as one who has done & lot in a national point of view, bit not so much in a personal point of view." : LEFT OLD CLOTHES. Burglars Rob Cornwall Gent's, Fur- nishing Store. Cornwall, May 23.--The clothing and gent's. furnishing store of Dov- ers, Lid, which was burglarized on the morning of April 65th, when about $300 worth of . goods Were entered raincoats, hel, ats, caps, ties, shirts ete., to the value of another $300, were stolen. Entrance 'was effected hy breaking off a storm window Oh the north side of the street /