PAA Gere etn ef 12 PAGES ARM 86: NO. 168. MONDAY, JULY 21, The Baily writich KINGSTON, ONTARIO, 1919. PAGES 12 LAST EDITION. WORLD POLICY 15 IMPOSSIBLE fount Yon Bernstort! ot Sas Camany Must Never Forget This. MUST CARRY OUT TERMS OF PEACE TREATY AS BEST GERMANY CAN. i Cannot Conduct a War of Revenge Goal of German Policy to Ser cure a Revision of the Terms, (Canadian Press Despatch.) g Born, - July - 21.--Count Yon / "Bernstorff, speaking at a democratic party meeting to-day, said Germany must wever forget that a world pol- joy such as was engineered before the war has become Impossible. Peace, he said, had been signed un- der protest, but having been signed Germany's honor demanded ag 3 'basis of futhire policy, 'thet we ful- © fill the peace terms according to our' BY." best ability and with the conscience that does not hinder what we freely admit to the entire world, that the goal of our policy will be to secure u revision of the terms." "Whoever lives in Germany, knows that we neither want mor can we conduct a war of revenge," Count Von Bernstorff said. The count as- werted that while the league of na- 4 tions was regarded in Germany as a holy alliance aimed at Germany, and that without Germany, Austria and Russia it would be a mere ; flasco. It will assume dts real func- W& fion when Germany enters it, of ¢ combining all the people's energies. THE WORLD'S TIDINGS IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings wrom All Over Told in a Pointed and Pithy ay. # Sir Bric Geddes will try to settle tha miners' strike. Mrs. Bowlby, widow of Major G Herbert Bowlby, Kitchener, was fat- allv injured In a motor smash. At a meeting of Campbeliford Municipal neil the rate was fix- a at 32 mi Be the, danas, : 0 way earn r week J 14m, F " 325,000, increase $637,000; ; Twenty-one men were killed and scores Injured in an at Tazewell coal mine, Kimball, W.Va., Friday. An embargo has been plaged on all #oast wise traffic on account on the rike of seamen and engineers at New York. President Wilson Is insistent that ¢ peace treaty and League of Na- ons covenant he ratified without reservation. Sir George Foster urges all Can- edian consumers to protect their fuel requirements by placing v threatening two western "towns and millions of feet of stand-. ing white pine. 'The Jreliminary investigations in with the charges against ve strike leaders arrested at is on now. aires "have ariived in the towm MILLION AND HALF MONTH IN PENSIONS |The Payment of the Past Four~ teen Months Reach Over Twenty Millions. Ottawa, July 21---Payments In pensiong to disabled Canadian sol- diers and to dependents of men who have fallen amounted in, the four- teen months ended May 31st last to $21,983,860. Of this total $16, 752,252 was disbursed én the fiscal year ended March 31st last and 35, 231,145 in the months of April and May. In the fourteen months §1.81 B11 $50 was paid to persons in Cana and $3,371,610 in G Great Britain. ir comparison of the moxthly average in the last fiscal year and in dhe first two months of the present fin- ancial year ¢ndicates the Increase in the number of pensioners during the period. To date the number eof pensions awarded is 80,064 of which 17,833 are paid to dependents and 62331 to disabled soldiers. The mumber of gratuities granted is 6,435. In all 12,061 applications for pensions have been refused, Of these applications 1054 were made on behalf of sold- jers dependents and 11,007 on ac- ocound of disabilities sustained by sol- diers. FLY GERMANY TO SAVE FORTUNES Wealthy Men Oarry Riches to Denmark to Evade Confiscation. London, July 21.--Rich Germans are trying to escape from their own country to avoid confiscation of their property, according to a Cop- enhagen dispatch to the Dally Tele- graph reporting mews received in Copenhagen from Schleswig. More than thirty German méliion- of Soenderburg, on the island of Al- sen, Schleswig, where they hope to save their fortunes by transferring their allegiance to Denmark. It is said {hey have already bought hous- es and lands. . Such purchases, ac- cording to a recent declaration of the Danish government, will mot in themselves make the buyers subjects of Denmark. TO HAVE WARM DEBATE ON PROHIBITION BILL U.8. House Members Would Prevent the Rich Storing Liquors. {Canadian Press Despatch.) Washington, July 21.--An effort to have a provision in the bill mak- ing it unlawful for a person to pos- sess liquors in his own dwelling was i to be the storm centre of p Awhen | e consideration of the prohibition enforcement 'legislation was. resum- ed. Members who announced they would attempt to have the bill amended with this point in view, de- thie measure as framed permit- the hoarding by wealthy persons, thousands of whom are said to have stored in their homes enough wines anw whiskey to last them a life- time. - : DROWNED AT BANFF. The Young Soldier Was Formerly of Pittsburg. Calgary, Alta. July 21 --~Freder- fck A. Wilmot, twenty-two years of age, a returned soldier, was acciden- 'ltally drowned in the swimming pools at Banff on Sunday afternoon. He avidently took cramps in the deep Jor of the pool. The body is be- taken east to Kingston for inter- AUSTRIAN ARMY T0 BE 30,000,-: Allics Limit the Military Foress of Gor- Way's. Partr in Gime. PEACE PACT HANDED OVER TO Anetta 3 REPRESENTA- TIVES AT ST. GERMAIN. The Teutén's Are Given Fifteen Days to Meditate on the Demands Made of Them. Paris, July 21.--The full peace conditions of the Allied and associ- ated powers are now in the hands of the Austrians. The first sections of the terms were presented to the Aus- trian delegates at 8t Germain on June 2nd; the final sections were de- Hvered to them at the same place yes- terday without ceremony by M. Du- tasta, secretary-general of the peace conference, The terms ' comprise the whole treaty which Austria is asked to sign, including the reparation, financial, military and certain' other minor clauses, which were not ready for presentation when the official cere- mony took place. In an accompanying memorahdum the Austrians are granted fifteen days in which to make their final ob- servations, although they have al- ready submitted a large number of notes on the terms previously sub- mitted to them, In addition to the published sum- mary of the terms of June 2nd, the new clauses providé for reparation arrangements very similar to those in the treaty with Germany, including the establishment of an Austrian sub-section of the Reparations Com- mission, the payment of a reason- able sum in cash, the issuing of bonds and the delivery of live stock and certain historical and art docu- ments, The financial terms provide that the Austrian pre-war debt shall be apportioned among the various for- mer parts of Austria, and that the Austrian coinage and war bonds cir- culating in the separate territory shall be taken up by the new Gov- ernments and redeemed as they see fit. Under the military terms the Aus- trian army is benceforth reduced to 30,000 men on a purely voluntary 8, Paragraph five, relating to the military, says that the Austrian army shall not = exceed thirty thousand men, including officers and depot troops. Within three months the Austrian military forces shall be reduced to this number, universal military service abolished and volun- tary enlistment substituted as part of the plan "to render possible the initiation of a general limitati@n of armaments of all nations" The army shall be used exclusive- ly for the maintenance of internal order and control of fi ers. FIRST GERMAN MAIL TO LEAVE ON TUESDAY Thousand s of Letters and Pa- pers Are Going on | ship United States. New York, July 21.--The réesump- tion' of trade relations (with Ger many restoration of the mail service to that country have resulted in a flood of business to steamship com- panies connecting with Germany, via Scandinavian countries and Holland. The New, York postoffice reports heavy mail receipts for Germany. The first vessel to leave America with mail for Germany be the Scandinavian-Amerdean er United States at her pier at Hoboken. She will ®ail for Copenhagen at noon next Tuesday. Licenses are being issued for the shipment of foodstuffs amd clothing to Germany. "The steamship United States will take the mail to Germany by way of Norway. For a while @ll the Ger- man mail will go by 'way .of the Scandinavian countries and Holland. Beaten On the Murmansk Front. Simla, India July 21.--A body ot Mohmands,. who were trying to am- buscade cavalry near Dakka, were surprised . by Gurkhas who had climbed a hill unpereeived. The enemy fled, but the Gurkhas realiz- od they were largely outnumbered and returned to-the crest of the hill, from which they rolled dowx bould- erg on the enemy. Short fangs fir- ing ensued, and finally the Guszkhas reattacked the Mohmands, who, caught by flank fire, flad, affording good targets. They dost bwenty-five killed and a number wounded, Rain has fallen in Khyber for two days and the temperature has fallen considerably. Rov. Manley Benson, D.D) a vet- etag preacher of the Methodist ch, is dead in Toronto THE LOCOMOTIVE WORKS STRIKE. On May th last the employees of the Canadien Locomod! contracts between the unions and the comp pay | The plant was closed down it ones; children and the company was forced to default on existing contracts and debarred had not, but §50 men were effected. from accepting others, for the time being at least. After the elapse' of some Weéoks the eity coumeil appointed' a com. mittea to call a conference between strike committee with a view to the opening of negotiations for a settle- The Whig approved the action of the city counecil|each ment of the strike. the officials of the company and the because the Canadian Locomotive Company is our most important industry and in the interests of the oity should be kept running at full capacity. The plant represents an investment of $5,000,000, and the payroll last year was $1,250,000, in addition to whieh the company spent $200,000 with city merchants for merchandise. Conferences took place between the president of the company and the| executive of the metal trades federation. --- The company compromised to the extent of a 45-hour week and an increase of 5 per cent in wages, but the men det od an increase of 35 iper cent. in wages. Such an in- "jent an expense addition of $375,000 per 'year. The company declinad fo consider the propesition, ahd has notified 'the office lof Vietory. Eager FAMOUS ALLIED UNITS PARADE Through the Streets of London fo Com- memorats te Return of Peage. CAVADIANS WERE IN LIE GEN, CURRIE RODE WITH FIELD "MARSHAL HAIG: Thanksgiving Services Held In West. minister Abbey-~Huge Fires Blaz- ed At Night From Hill and Moun- tain Tops. London, July 21.--Ninebeen thous- and allied soldiers--picked men from famous combat divisions, the names of which are written large on the pages of history of the world war--manched through London's streets Saturday in celebration . of the return of peace. The line of par- ade was more than six mileg In length and required over am hour to pass a given point. The procession began at Albert Gate and passed thru Sloanes square to Buckingham palace road, crossing the Thames at Vauxhall bridge. It then passed to Westminster bridge and recrossed the Thames, going on to Whitehall and Pall Mall and ter- minating at Hyde Park, which ad- joins Kensington gardens. King George, with other members of the royal family, army and navy officers and leaders of both houses of parliament stood on the steps of the Victoria memorial in front of Buckingham palace, to receive the salutes of the warriors, Bright With Colors. A magnificent reception was given the marching hosts. The streets were bright with allied colors, some thorofares being flanked by stucco prions supporting allegorical figures re jam- med every point of vantage, sven the roofs being _Plack with cheering thousands. ge numbers of peo- ple camped on the streets all nizht to hold places from -which the par- Sas could he witnessed. Huge dstands, accommodating thous- ands, were erected for demobilized soldiers, an effort to arrange that every soldier home on n icave fom Frauce should sss the the contingents were arranged habetical order, the hs. , Americans eading the parade. Parshing, they marched in three bat- talions 83 offices and 1100 men each. Belgium had in line 440 offi- cers and, men, led by Gen. an; France was represented by 990 men, and Italy by 835. There were five officers and 50 men from each of the other allied nations. Naval Contingent. Behind the allied section came Vice-Admirals Beatty and Keyes and other high officers of the grand fleet, with a naval contingent of 4000 men, Then came 1000 meh from the years and and (ber of the 'Methodist hill and mountain tops the fiave of fires kindled in honor of the return of peace. In Dover there was a grand fllumination, the admiralty turning over to fhe committee there a number of flares invented by Com- mander Brock, who was killed at Zee- brugge, who used this means of il- luminating the channel {n defending coast and shipping from U-boats dur- ing the war. These burned for seven minutes and lighted up an area of three square miles. The navy gave a big display at the mouth of the Thames, more than a hundred ships, anchored in a line five miles long, taking part. DECLARES WORLD NEEDS THE LEAGUE Says It Would Be Tragedy If Covenant Is Rejected by America. Westminister Park, Thousand Is- lsnds, N.Y. July 21.--That the safe- ty of the whole world depends upon the United States senate signing the peace treaty and the League of Na- tions, that if these documents are not ratified by the upper house =a catastrophe which will shake the globe will take place in Europe, is the firm opinion of Charles Edward Russell, author and publicist, and former one of the best known BSo- clialists living. Mr. Russell, who is spending the summer Mere at the Westminister Park Hotel, with his son, John Ed- ward Russell, well known author, and the latter's wife, THE LATE ROBERT SHANNON Former Reeve of Storrington, Died on Friday Evening. THE LATE ROBERT SHANNON One of the most prominent and highly respected former residents of the township of Storrington, passed away at the Kingston General Hospi- tal on Friday evening, in the person of Robert Shannon, after an illness of one week. He was seventy-six years of age and was a son of the late William Shannon, of the town- ship of Storrington, and resided at Sunbury, ap to 1912, when he went " {to the west. He was reeve of Storring-| Was a. mem- church, an Orangeman, and a former member of Minden Lodge, No. 258 A. F. and A. M. He was a prominent farmer and broader of holstein cattle. Mr. Shan- non took up farming with his sons Robert and Charles of Donavon, Sask. Besides his widow he is survived by two sons Robert and William of Don- avon, Bask., four daughters, Mrs. James Gordon, of Delisle, Sask.; Mrs. Dr. H. A, McDonald, Hillcrest, Alta; Mrs.! George Keeler, Donavon, Sask., and Mrs. W. J, Loucks, Delisle, Sask.; one brother Willlam resides in Sas katchewan, and another, John, at Sunbury. His sisters are Mrs. Isaac Allen, of Kingston; Mrs, Lewis Bell, of Sydney, Ont.; Mrs. John Joyce, Napanee; Mrs. Hester Hodgson, Es- tevan; Mrs. Eliza Thomas, Hartney, Man; Miss Ellen Shannon, Estevan, FINAL TERMS OF THE COMPANY Nate By President Wale to the Mela as roi REFUSE WAGE INCREASE BUT WILL GIVE A FORTY<FIVE HOUR WERW. The Locomotive Works' Staff Salaries to Be Paid Till August ist--Thes the Works Will Close, A meeting took place between the officials of the Canadian Locomotive Company, Limited, «nd thé meta but no result has been announced. The company stated that the pro- position submitted was final, It wa: as follows: The company agrees to establish @ forty-five-hour week to he worked ir five shifts of nine hours on the first five days of the week. Any work performed on Saturday shall be at overtime rates. Overtime shall start after the com: pletion 5 minimum of forty-five hours work, unless statutory holidays reduce this, in which case proper ad: justment will be made. All employees represented by the metal trades council shall receive the same amount for forty-five hours as they have in the past for fifty hours Subject to the above conditions all terms and arrangements coversd by former agreements with the indi * | viddal unfons shall continue during the life of this agreement; Agreement shall remain in foree until Ayg. 1st, 1920, and thereafte: unless thirty days notice in writing is given prior to that date. This meeting was brought about through a letter addressed to the company by the secretary of the trades coufiell requesting an inter view. When asked if the offer, which was the final offer the company would make, acceptable, the members of the council pres would accept it, would the company grant an increase of thirty per cent" in rates? This the company de clined emphatically to grant, Up to this time the company har been carrying over one hundred fore men and clerks for the past two and a halts months that the men have 'out, in Saletan: J Settlement Would be made and busi ness resumed. As no further word was received from the co 1 or July 12th, Mr. Wallace noti the members of the staff that dhe com: pany did net feel warranted in carry: ing this enormous expense indefinite ly. end that their salaries would be pald up to August lst, and if in the meantime they secured other posi tions they would be released, The matter is mow up to the 'metal trades federation for final con sideration, and as any hopes of ob taining further Increase in wages have vanished, the executive will pro. bably call a meeting and sybmit its report. : trades council on Friday afternoon ent asked that, providing the mer mercantile marine and 500 Women Aged Bird Man Found Slain in Midst of Pets July fi ment, Deceased was the youngest son of Peter Wilmot, Calgary, formerly of Pittsburg township. He was un- married. 2 staff and foremen (about 136 men) that have heen kept on, that their salaries will be paid to August 1st, and if in the Mssutims they secured other positions they would be released. 'The Whig Is mot in a pasition 0 set as arbiier, but from the high} considerations of civic interest and business prosperity !it regrets that a strike wes precipitated at this time, and in this it is voicing the senti- h a en ments of a large section of the population and of many in the ranks| , July 21. President of labor itself. Whatever may have been thought as justifying extreme! that early | measures by the metal trades federation, the time was hardly opportune, |e for the locomotive works, Wke many other plants that had Deen engaged =| on munitions during the war, was endeavoring to get back to its normal work, and the Immediate future was fraught with much uncertainty in business and financial circles. This fact was known to everybody, and while our sympathies Svar £1 es x si vo 0 Te Ww! 1.8. Postmaster Burleson reduc- ed the postage on airplane mail to two cents an ounce, as Feguar rate for first class postage. 4. The Toronto World predicts the Sask. alg The bods will be sent fo Delisle, - | Sask.; via the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, by R. J. Reid, undertaker, and the funeral will take place there. » mn. FEELS THAT ENGLAND : MISSED HER CHANCE at There Is Little Hope of Obtain- ing Prohibition Under Pres- ent Circumstances. Newcastle, Eng., July 21.-~In his i dential address at the Westleyan Rev. A iam cussing the ty of prohivition in 'Great Britain, said © 1 think our chances of prohibition 'Iphysician, Rear wilt The President is suffering with dys eatery, but his condition 1s not seri- {isd I fear it won't return." V Speaking of prohibition in Ameri- he declared that England must {do the same if she is to maintain her commercial position in the world. Hs TH 1