{ pin Was officially expressed YHAR 86: NO. 136 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1919, LAST EDITION "NOT TO RETURN ENEMY COLONIES A Lengthy Memorandum Gives he Allies Reasons For Refusal. FRANCE 1S STANDING OUT AGAINST RECEIVING GERMANY INTO THE LEAGUE, Becanse of Its Arrogant Attitude-- France Would Not Oppose Its Ad- mission Later On. : (Conadian Press Despatch) New York, June 11---The Associ- ated Press this morning issued the following: "Although the agreement 18 atill Jacking" dn the important features of the Allied reply to the German counter-proposals, hope after the meeting of the Council of Four In Paris on Tuesday that a decision would be reached in a comparative: ly short time. It is Indicated else- where, however, that there may atill be considerable delay before the agreement is submitted ta the enemy delegation. France is standing out against the immediate admission of Ger- many into the league of nations, It 18 becanss of Germany's "arrogant attitude' that France is resisting such action at present. It is sald France would not oppose the ad- mission of Germany at a later date. Refuse to Return Colonies. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, June 11.---The reparation portion of tha reply which has been completed and has reached the printer does not fix 'the total sum which the Germans must pay. The text of the freaty itself is not changed, but the reply contains as- surances to Garmany regarding the method of reparations process, ex- plaining that it is a workable ard rangement. The reply to the Gérman counter- proposals agreed upon by the peace conference heads refuses the Ger- Ian request for a mandate for the former German colonies, it was leavned go-day. A lengthy memor- andum- gh the reasons for re- the of PLANS ~ TO FLY ATLANTIC Ruth Law Mas a Rival in Edna New York, June 11.-A rival for the woman's trans-Atlantic flight honors, sought by Ruth Law, ap- peared yesterday, when Edna Nichol, a twenty-year-old heroine of the war, arrived on the steamer Savoie ana announced t the was planning an overseas fl this summer, Miss Nichol wears the uniform of the French Motor Corps, with "two French military decorat Croix de Guerre with palm and star, and the Mons Military Medal--and bears the scars of two wounds suf- fered while driving an ambulance at the front. She made several trips over the enemy lines as an airplane observer, and later learned to pilot a machine on the French training grounds. " -------- . PRINCE TO FLY IN CANADA. Wil Take Part in New Aerial Circus Exhibi During : Toronto, June 11.--The Prince of Wales will be She of the frat fo fy yin Canada's flying eircus to be inaugurated during the.C.N.B.. The Dominion Government have assented to the plan for a - flying circus which will be made up of 250 aeroplanes that have eith- Tatter been surrendered by the Germans |! ELEVATORS FOR | HINGSTON HARBOR Locations To B Decided Upon By Expert Engaged By City. CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY BETWEEN C. D. HOWE AND 8, J. CHAPLEAU. Plins of Canadian. Public Works Engineers Regarding Harbor Im. provements Ready---A Big Thing For Kingston. . On Thursday, 8. J. Chapleau, chief engineer of the Department of Pub- le Works, Ottawa, and C, D. Howe, elevator engineer of Port Arthur, will meet in Kingston to go over the har. bor and decide where the proposed grain terminal elevators should be placed. Three points are suggested. Thus the harbor improvement plans are advancing. The tentative plans have been completed by the Depart. ment of Public Works engineérs. For some weeks special committees 'ap- pointed by the City Council /and the Board of Trade have been working in conjunction with the government and railway engineers on a plan to make Kingston the terminal point for western grain transshipment to Montreal when the new Welland Ca- nal is completed. Mayor Newman and Alds. Wright and Graham repre- sent the Council, and J. M. Camp- bell, Robert Crawford, Elmer Davis, John Donnelly and Francis King the Board of Trade. The Dominion Marine Association recommend King- ston as the terminal point to which the big deep-draught vessels should run with their cargoes after the new Welland is complete. The city engaged the elevator expert, who is to advise Mr. Chapleau as to the best locations for elevators which will be connected up with the three railway limes run- ning into Kingston, Next Monday there will be a meet: ing between Mr. Chapleau, Mr. Howe and phe chief engineers of the G.T. R. and the C.N.R., these LP 1a] 4 a ey i nt S44 LO tment of Public Works. If the In Ahoeopts their commendations, en work of .deepeni ingston harbor aud building big elevators will begin. It will be a great thing for Kingston if the scheme goes through ds planned, for it will mean much construction work jand eventually the addition to the city of a goodly num. ber of families. = 5 -------- 0 Resume Former Position. ton ntil a year or s0 ago, Kings was the trans-shipment point for much of the Western Canadian grain going to the seaboard. The advent of the large grain vessels on the lakes gradually took THe trans-ship- ping trade away from this port. The big vessels could not get through the Welland Canal, so the government had togbuild a large grain elevator at Port Colbo! which is now the na- tural trane-shipping point and wil remain $0 until the new Welland is east as Kingston and trans-ship thel: immense cargoes into modern eleva- tors. It had been suggested that Pres- oott might be made the point on trans-shipment, ey Bom on Marine n wed pro- it would be altogether hr the 'Thousand Is- or have been presented to the Pome re t a rd SON es ritalin, ? : eT * RETURN HOME OF THE LONDON SCOTTISH. Photo shows the London Scottish Regiment marching through England's capital after their returned from France recently. Out of their original number there are only three officers and two men left. NA i AGENTS OF CRIME NOW IN CANADA Hon. Hugh Guthric Moves Adoption of Committee Report on Sedition. MUST FACE THE STUATION AND STOP THE INS§JDIOUS AGEN- CIES AT WORK. The Government Plans Action--So- cities Are Flooding the Country With Very Dangeroph Lifcrature, Ottawa, June 11. %-Hon Mugh Guthrie moved yesterday afternonn In the House that the Commons concur in the report of the special committee on 'sedition. The recom- footing any recognized labor or ganizations. Their recommenda- tions were net a result of the Winn] peg strike. The report would not hive any effect on 'labor .organiza- tions. : The committee reviewed the situ- ation in Canada. They' recognizas that they were face to face with a new situation in Canada. The com- mittee considered the law in regard to sedition and seditious propa- ganda. 3 Operating in Canada. There were many associations in Canada for dangerous' propaganda. If allowed to continue it would be a serious matter. The same insidious agencies of revolt acting in the Un- ited States and other countries were operating In Canada. : Z Their organizations were foreign importations or Canadian Imita- tions. Their growth was a develop- ment of the great war, This per- niclous propaganda should be stop- At the same time there should be no interference with free politi- eal thought and free speech, it was hard to say where to draw the line. There had been so little sedition in Canada that there was no law jor Precedent to go upon. The "law even In England has seldom been A policy of passive Inactivity was apparently followed throughout the British Empire in time of peace. In normal times the good 'common gense formed a sufficient safeguard to the constitution and the throne. A change though, undoubtedly has come over the world as a result of the war. The serenity of the past has been followed 'by unrest throughout the world. Canada must face the situation as it is to-day. KAISER TOO LATE iN BEGINNING WAR sibility for the War," declares that the former em- peror's only guilt was in not begin- nig the war early enough, when his opponents were not equipped, and takes the viewpoint in favor of pre- ventive warfare. He says of the kaiser: = "To ithe last moment he believed Russia would rrender its tions i oR difficulty} e up the saunter that had been thrown down to him." ¢ AR ; General von Bernhardi admits, however, that certain personalities influenced the kaiser's assumption of the gauntlet. . = © ' WAR PROFITS TAX UPHELD. . abi . Policy Involved Many Millions of in Revenue. : Philadelphia, Pa., June 11.--The government's war-time tax on the profits of munition manufacturers, contested by producers of parts of shells, which claimed that the im- Dot 'was intended 'to apply only to 'completed articles, was upheld by the eirenit court of appeals here. In a group of three -decisions holding that any participant in the abnormal profits of munition mak- ing must submit himself to taxation laid upon this class of income, the court sustained a government polley involving many millions of ollars in revenue already collects! ed; or in course of collection. Op- posite action by the court would have necessitated legislation to make up the consequent deficit in federal receipts. Tondo rs Couns al convention of the National Demo- affects 35,00 to the Railway War Board yesterday by the delegates of the big union now in the city. of this union have been in conkulta~ tion with the Railway War Board for more than a month, and finally points were brought up where the board said the country, RAILWAY SHOPHEN THREATEN STRIE : Mirty-five Thousand May Go Out on Tuesday Morning Next. DEADLOCK OVER WAGES NATIONAL CATASTROPHE IPF THREATENED STRIKE COMES. There Would Be Chaos All Over Canada -- Returning Soldiers Would Not Be Able -to Get Home. \ Montreal, June 11.-- Unless the Railway War Board acceeds to the wage demands of No. 4 Divisian Rail- way Shopmen of America 'by tem and | o'clock next Tuesday morning; all ithe - -Canad ba 0 employees, was issued The eight members they could not be granted and the officials of the union said "They must be granted." : Negotiations will 'not cease and another session of the board will be held « {o-day yWhen the ultimatum will be fully disqussed by the mem- bers of the board and the officials of the union. , With thirty-five thousand men af- fected in the event of a strike every railway in Canada will be tied up for want of men. It is reported im thie. city that some of the railway lines are already cancelling certain trains in Western Canada, in order to prepare for eventualities, and in view of the sympathetic Strikes that have been in progress in that part ot A 'National Catastrophe. Such a strike, it is pointed out railway. officials and officials union, would be lttle less catastrophe to the country present time. With 1 chine must call at FIGHT FLAMES ON : A BRITISH TANKER A Helpless Vessel Is Rescued But Two Lives Are + Lost. ---- New York, June 11.---The story of a desperate battle with flames in mid-ocean, in which two men lost their lives, was told yesterday by members of the crew of the British tanker Beechleaf, which was towed into port by the transport West Haven. The Beechleaf, bound from Baton Rouge, La., to Iceland, took fire off the Ozores Islands a week ago when an ofl fuel liner broke. Her engines were quickly put out of commis- sion by the flames, her rudder con- trol disabled and her wireless send- ing equipment destroyed. The French steamer Chalear stood by, but after working two days in a heavy sea to get a line to the Beechleaf, sent out a wireless call for assistance. The West Hav- en responded, and despite the rough weather, Capt, C. W. Devereaux ran his ship close enough to the help- less Vessel to throw her a line. During the trip to New York, the captain of the Beechleat in- formed Captain' Devereux by sema- phore signals that two of the crew had been badly burned while fight- ing the fire. Captain Devereux lowered a small boat and Sent a physician to treat them, but he was unable to save their lives, FAMOUS SITES AS WAR MONUMENTS About 140 in France Will Be Presented In Their Pres= ent State. 'London, June 11.--Reuter's learns that the French government has selected about 140 famous sites along the whole front, which will be preserved in; their present state as monuments of the war. Care will be taken to select a large variety of points of interest. For example, famous battlefields, deep dugouts, long underground galleries, ruins, pill boxes, observation points, and several of the Verdun forts will be kept, and extensive shelters carved in rock on the wooded heights of the Vosges will be preserved, as well as entrenchments on both sides of the. Meuse and in the Cham- pagne, Soissons and Noyon areas, Among the sites in the British sector will be the Butte de Werlen- court, ruins of Bapaume, some de- stroyed monuments at Peronne, several completely devastated castle estates like the Chateau de Thiep- val, the 'underground maze of Combles, tanks, the churchyard at Rozieres, observation points 1) ed at Res x Sherbrooke, : June 11.--~With the loss by fire of twelve milHon feot of lumber, valued at about $5 ,000, one of the worst forest fires 1 known in Quebec province, has ra: vaged the wood of the Chaleur Bay Mills 8 , near Restigouche, in Bonaventure county, for several days. The blaze started on Saturday and has continued unchecked, threatening the mill and the little surrounding village, only the desperate efforts of the seven hundred souls employed dn the mill saving their homes, The company's Head office is in Sherbrooke, and the firm' conducts an extensive lumber business, ship ping large quantities to France and Belgium. Dorais Panneton, a. director of the firm, says the loss is entirely cov- ered by insurance. ---------------- " LONDON TO AUSTRALIA. Kangaroo Plane Starts Long Trip To-day. : London, Jume 11,--To-day three Australians, Lieut. Kingitord Smith, pilot; Lieut. Maddocks, engineer; and Lieut. Randle, navigator, will com. mence a flight from Hounslow, Eng., to Australia, in a Blackburn "Kanga. 00," in competition for the £15,000 prize offered by the Australian gov- ernment. ; The route will be yia Parts, Rome, ara, + Penan, y Dearest Australian point. The on {th ficers of cage, : Rangoon Singapore, | Batavia and Kopang to Port Bamwin PETWORTH DAN Structure Near Verona Was Dymamited on Sunday Morning, DONE BY UNKNOWN PERSON ONE-HALF OF THE DAM HAS BEEN RENDERED USELESS, Farmers Were Inconvenienced by Flooding and Believed the Dam Responsible--Not the First Time Offense Has Occurred. On Sunday morning at three o'clock the Petworth dam near Ver- ona was blown up awith dynamite by some unknown person or persons and damaged very considerably. One half of the dam was smashed aud rendered useless. The structure is the property of the Napanee River Improvement Co., and for some time it is contended that it has been inconveniencing the farmers of the district. The claim was eR short time ago that the farms in the neighborhood would "be rendered useless, as the rains had caused the water to rise to such a height that it had flooded the fields and caused. the roag between Moscow and Bell Rock to' become impassable for mot- or vehicles and the cheese factory in the latter village was flooded with two feet of" water. On the other hand, B. 8. O'Lough~ lin, secretary of the Improvement company, cohtended that "as the dam is but twenty inches high with some fall above it the owners con- tend that the flooding was due to natural causes." In addition he claims that for the past five years the dam has been entirely removed before the ice is out-of the river in the spring, and that there was no such structure as the Petworth dam at that time of year. "The com- pany's cut in the river bed is three feet deep, twenty feet wide and about forty rods long,' contended Mr. O'Loughlin. "This is open in addition to natural conditions being restored." Nevertheless, some irate person has evidently put ont of commis- sion whatever was doing the dam- age in the neighborhood, and it is now expected that conditions will be improved, ' It is understood that a time fuse was " and it will, Bry! ult to This is not the first time that Petworth dam has been dynamited, as the wrath of the neighborhood has been stirred up on several Pro~ vious occasions d the dam was blown up. It is ex ed that a full investigation will be made, BADLY BEATEN UP. Victoria Cross Winner Attacked by Ci Pi Despa (Canadian tch Winnipeg, Man, June Hn a mix-up at the corner of Portage and Main streets . yesterday atiernoon between an immense crowd of strik- ers, strike sympathizers and special constables, Sergt, Fred Coppen, a Victoria Cress winner was dan- gorously injured, being punél from his horse and badly ten up Citadel Cliff ls Quebec, Que., June 11.--The cliff v |underneath the citadel fortress near Champlain street is in a dangerous condition. Col. Desroches, 0.C., of the Can: adian Engineers, visited Quebec a' few days ago" and - inspected the cliff. Col. Desroches reported te Ottawa that work should be started to prevent a landslide, = Major Gendion, of the engineers pecting orders from O hig men at work on the eli he is In charge prize conditions necessitate the flight | National shall be completed within thirty da: Hl Se will be officially inspected. machine