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

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16 PAGES * Sette ttangtr td YEAR B86: NO. 173. HUGHES TALKS MORE BONDS FOR SALE A Domestic Loan to: be - Offered . November Next. Toronto, scial paper says a definite decisi in | ON LEAGUE DRAFT America's Interests 5 Nl Properly Salt- guarded, Jurist | Jurist Declares. HE FAVORS GENERAL IDEA PRUDENT COURSE IS TO MAKE REASONABLE RESERVATIONS. tax firee bonds in connection with the coming Dominion loan. The taxable 'bonds wil bear interest at 5 per cent. and the tax free bonds at 4% per cént. By adopting these rates it will ibe possible to float the dssue at a good discount, and leave the prices of out- standing istues undisturbed. The term 'selected for the loan will pro- bably be am intermediate one, pre- ferably about ten yea and the amount of money to be ged will be in the neighborhood of $340,000,000. Be He Thinks Its Objects Can Be At. tained "Without Sacrificing ' the Essential Interests of the" United 'Washington, July 29.--Charles E. Hughes, in a letter to Senator Fred- erick Hale, made public, states there is plain need for a league of nations but that he sees no reason why its objects cannot be attained' "without sacrificing the essential interests of the United States." "There is merit enough in the pro- posed plan to make it desirable to se- Secure it," Judge Hughes writes, *'if r safeguards can be obtained but it is just as futile to exaggerate its value as it is to see nothing but its defects. 'hile we should have a beginning, it is ally' important that we should not make a false start: "1 think the prudent course is to "enter the proposed league with res- ervations of a reasonable character, SEPP PEER FPR SD J STREET CAR STRIKE Higher Wages. (Canadian Fress Despatch) surface and olevated systems ality. for overtime. not attempt to run cars. + MAN WHO HANDLED FIRST CABLEGRAM IS DEAD Nafiaimo, B.C., July 29. --Wil- Ham F.'Archtbald, who handled the first cable message ever sent across the Atlantic, addressed by the late Queen Victoria to the president of the United States, died here yesterday. He was eighty-one years old aad had been a teleprapher since the age of fourteen. ASQUITH BEWILDERED. Russian Affairs. London, July 29.--The Prime Minister, speaking at Edgeware, said: is playing in Russia. mitments, successfully resisted, one else. fever more menacing." One Body Recovered. ng loan will be floated fin Novem- The Employees in Chicago Demanding Chicago, July 29.--Fifteen thou- sand Street railway employees went on strike for higher wages tieing up hr of The employees demand- ed 85¢ an hour, an increase of 77 {per 'cent. over the present wages, an aight hour day and thme and a half The companies did SHUM EIOEE 1 1 ul former | 2% H. H. Asquith, | "I regard with bewilderment and apprehension the part this country The country! wants a clearer definition than has yet been given of what are our com=- . definite and prospective. { sincerely hope that the attempt to commit us further in Russia will be The future government of Russia is a& matter for the Russian people and for no "The economic conditions of the world and: of our own country were The search for the bodies was r= hate ieti ie tabs KINGSTON, ONTARIO, uly 28.---A focal finan- | on has been reached by the finance de- | pantment to seattle taxation contro- | versy by issuing both taxable and | A combination aetopiane and auto that will soar through the clouds with as much ease and safety as it will take the highways of land, 1s the idea of John E. Longenecker, of Lititz, Pen- nsylvania. To further his idea Mr machine, using a body of an automo- bile roadster and the shape of a Cur- tiss plane slipped over it, the wings of | which fold back over the plane when Hopes Britain Will Withdraw From | going through narrow roads, as shawn | {in the photograph at the bottom. THE LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD Del Tut Cos From Hea, ad Cll Paws TIDINGS FOR OCR READERS | PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST og ni pe Li rURSDAY, JULY 29, 1919. COMBINATION AEROPLANE AND AUTOMOBILE. Longeneckér has built a model of the| : FOUR TRAGIC DEATHS OVER WEEK-END Four tragic deaths occurred in this district over the week. end, and four homes were suds denly plunged into sadness. John Potter and Robert Hol- man, died from injuries re- ceived when the boiler in the Central cheese factory, near Joyceville, exploded. Clifton Drury and William Basson, Kingston lads, were drowned when their canoe was upset in Hughes' Bay, Lough- boro Lake. SEND TANKS CRY OF MEN Sue Mat For Land Cruisers Would Smash th Way 10 Petrograd. MORALE GREATLY IMPROVED E TROOPS LACK BOOTS, HAVE BETTER FOOD. BUT PREM MURRA Barefooted Russians Are Pushing the Bolshevik Army, Four Times Their Strength Towards Petrograd ~The Allies Were Never More Cheertul. Paris July 29, --Twenty thousand | Russians, many of them barefoot and with rifles; and unsupported by {heavy artillery, compose the North- {ern Russian army whose front ex- tends from the Finnish coast to | Pskov, and which is driving back towards Petrograd a Bolshevik army four times as large, according to re- ports received here from officers of the American Relief Administration on the 'scene. These officers are {working part of the time under Bol- shevik fire endeavoring they express confidence they could reach Petrograd speedily. hig [=] PAPER'S TRIBUTE TO CANADIANS Confesses to Deep Debt of Real | Gratitude--¥Ficiures Are Unique Record. New York, July 28.--The New dér the caption of "Our Willing vuty | to Canada." Residents of New York and visitors here who have not visited the Cana: dian memorial exhibition at the An- derson galleries cought to make a! point of seeing it beiore it closes on | the last day of the month In the nrst place, it is a unique | record of the American pation's part in the war. In the second, it should erations with the personalities of the our army and pawy. In the third, it "was brought here mainly as a coms pliment to the United States by the authorities of the great Dom.alon, which, for many and obvious reasons, stands to this country in a closer | relation than any other. From the time when she came into the war Canada sent her most dis- tinguished veterans, scarred and mai- med, on Vimy Ridge and other glo- r.ous fields, to help the various driveg that helped to fili our mititary cues, titude to our greatest neighbor. But most of all we should support | the Canadian memorial because it is | an expression of th: democratic self- consciousness of a nation 'whice, though daugater im ue: mother's house, is mistress in her own; which, though with a difference in coremon- fal form, stands for «..e same sort Jif | North American freedom that we en- Joy. 80 in all heartiness we take off | or 'hats to the 'men 'of the Maple Leaf and .ope that tae friendship of a' hundred years, increased by | glories won by Capada and America | on the same battlefront, may never diminish. RACE RINTING IN CHICAGO Sokdies Have Deca Called Out 0 Quel He Disturbances. supply us with valuable hints as to | bow we, in turn, ought to go about] the work of acquainung future gen-| men who distingurshed themselves in i LAST EDITION. i i { NOT ALL WOLVES IN BUSINESS | Living Cost ComisSone is Sifting Out Predaary be Dealers. AS: SEVEN YEARS® RECORD SWORN STATEMENTS BEING PREPARED FOR BOARD, {Great Groups Whose Yearly Balance | Bheets Show Very Little Change | in Profit During the Last Seven | 4 York Herald prints the following un- | Years. Ottawa, July. 27. "Leading mem= phers of some lines of jndustry and tcommerce have, as ws very well { known, reaped harvests since the wag |began, yet to conclude that all classe #4 in business life have done fo ie ntiedy unfair. It ir sae to say that not nly are thers members of every Ime of business, who have played ab- {solutely lair, but there are also greet {groups whose yearly balance sheets I8'wew very little change in profit quis {ing these last seven years" That is the reply given to the qués- {tion in an interview: "Are 'here any {classes of our commercial interesis jwa'th have not taken ad wa .azs ol {the war to 'ncrease thelr prafig at {the expense of the consumer?" put ito Dr. R. J. MeFall, Cost of Living {C ommissioner, | "To ascertain the answer to sucha |questions, and many others of great importance," he continued, "I have eonired tho leading manutasturers and wholesalsps of all important {products to eubmit to me sworn statements as to the financial stand- ing and profits of their business for the past seven years: Since we have the series of geven years' statements, {t is more dificult for these inter esta to fool us, but we are taking an additional -precaution against deceit by having one 'of the best firms of chartered accountants in Canada su pervise the revision of the reports and we feel that when this e task is. completed, we. Or our successors, ¢he Board of Commerce, will have the basis of fact, not camouflage fy work on. 'We only regret that this work is not completed, and that the retail bookkeopins systems are =o inadequate that we cannot now give A coimnplété Euswer to all that is mg | | plied. in Aus guestion, i 1ncome on 81 nmarried. as omg as 368 408,700 1s Here Ao AG RA Sc mer pi hs a ail POSSIBLE FORM. . The yeports of the provisioning : of Nova Scotia, who with BAT 4 n | Show. that after the arrival in some of Quebec will preside a1 coming Lib sectors early in' July of 'white flour as by the allies, many of the Bolshevik succumbed to the lure of white bread and joined their ememies. : One en- known as the green uniforms to render them in- sumed on Tuesday morning And at 2 eleven o'clock the pole that was being ; used from a raft encountered an| ine Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele. obstacle which when rajsed to the surface was found to be the body - of graphic Service and + Newspaper Exchange, William Easson. §. 8. Corbett, un- dertaker, was called and conveyed| wu. jeath is announced of Sir Bde ward Poyntor, President of the Royal adequate to our security, which ghould meet ready assent, and thus to establish a condition of amity at the earliest possible moment." Blizabedt, XT. J. Tuly 29 --Under the will filed aers yecterday of James | H. Alexander, a nahive of Toronto, Ont., one of the plonear ofl men of the country and essociate of John LU. Rockefeller and Henry M. WMagler, who died he o in February, the in- coma of an estate valued at $1,268; yr" on Streets Were Very Lively. (Canadian Press Despatch) Chicago, July 29.--Fpur thousand soldiers, with full war equipment, stood ready, to-day, to quell the race rioting betwden negroes and whites ; SHELTER ee 3 GLAD OVER THE the body to the city, The search was continwed-in the hope of finding the ROPOSED REMOVAL : Ottawa, Juiy 29.--The cab- # iget is pleased to have the reci- # procity pact removed, believing # that a Canadian tariff revision # can be madé more in the na- + % tional interest thas while the _ % American offer was before the # : country, * PEP bbbrbr oF lg sues TO REGOVER FOR SAILORS DEATH 5,000 sult | Is Brou ht Against Canadian Steam= Stoaurs ship Lines, L Limited. "A Supreme Court act action arriinst the Canada Steamship Lines .Litd., to re- ver about '$15,000 damages for al- td negligence in connection. with the death of Jacob Rosoff, a deck hand on: one of the defendant's St. e river steamboats, has* be- un by Abraham Rosoff. as adminis. of fhe affairs of the deceased. | jacob Rosoft resided in = Water- n, RE eivere he way well known. ing the summer of sd as a deck hand on ene of the ' pL ktchison . R. Blew eae Ratlway Lo. «.. Union Pacific ., , .. Marine... i 0 Marine, pid... vo ill Steel WER hw nsw ' 51% AEs 1917 he ens} second lad. Clifton Drucy. . Revolt in Bulgarian Town. {Canadian Press Despatch.) red joining the revolutionists. Returning Home, vision of the Anierican army pied 'area of Germany. HON. WALTER SCOTT He Broke Jail 8 oe bout Hi hate Minds Later--The body of young Drury was also found early this afternoon. London, July 29.--A Bolshevik rising in Bulgaria is reported in a wireless despatch from Moscow. The outbreak is declared to have oceur- in a garrison town, the garrison Troops Coblenz, July 29.--The Third Di- has been, ordered home from the occu- It will be- sia entrajning for Brest on August WAS ARRESTED 'and Officers Academy. At Tokio, Count Tailsuke Itagaki, founder of the Japanese Liberal party, died on Saturday. The British Government has not yet arranged for the appointment of an ambassador to Washington. Military occupation of Mexico by the United States is. advocated by Representative Hudspeth, Democrat, Texas. Six men were killed in a boiler explosion on board the U.S.8. Mel ville, a naval tender attached to the Pacific fleet. Contracts for the double-tracking of portions of the government rail- way between Halifax and Moncton have been awarded. There have been 813 fires in the National forests in Montana and northern Idaho this year of which 120 are still burning. J. H. Bell, the new premier Prince Edward Island, formerly Uv- ed at Ingersoll, Ont. He studied law and taught school there. Count Michael Karolyn, former Hungarian provisional president, his |} wite and his entire suite, have heen arrested and are detained at Pragne. of oes are to be Can- ada. Efforts are being madé by the |, British Canoe Assoclation to increase | the Popularity of canoeing, and can-| imported from BOWMAN Nested the holding ronto, WEL nao uf er "eittes, Fouts man, a ho ia presk i J re group 0 fori fi, and who sugs n'grnational 85 New York. To= conspicuous in the forests and which wes more than 2,000 men strong, surrendered to 'he anti-Bolshevik | The improv. conditions, and the | better foou now supped to the e-gun fire. Seurey is 'sald to be : among them Teoareitys of fresh vegeiables. The [' Bolshevik have armoured cars and superior artillery at thelr Semnd, ut numerous dis 'noted. daily are cited as ie cating Door. morale, - food available jin the out of Finland to supply Petrograd and its Suburbs for three 5 Ai ni. Injured By A Dynamite Cap. Gananoque, July '29.--On Keith Landon, eldest son of Mr. an | Mrs. Oscar Landon, of Fai {with a painfu Lareient: He' i fdynamite cartridge and was: igs spioses i'm when , OWiag to the' on (ed; lief much before : winter, as things | mol stand % ] that during two nights of terror in the South Side black belt cost the lives of at least twenty men, includ: ing one negro policeman, and the in- jury of hundreds of others, many seriously and probably a dozen fa- tally. Four of the injured are sol- diers. The police and the coroner have been unable to make a complete check of the casualties, but reports showed twenty-two killed last night and of this number twelve are whites and Sgven negroes. .A hundred fhousand negroes and en equal number of 'whites either fought in 'the streets and alleys or cowered In their homes while shots wore. fired, Mounted policemen gal- loped along the boulevard, while pa- trol. wagons dashed through the streets' with prisoners and wound- as 'men fought with knives and fists. 'One. tinidentified negro was killed and two negroes were wounded at Wabash and Adams' streets, In the the rioting which wes renewed this raing. a ole Powers, white, street car roi 'was shot and killed soon -- daylight in the Stock Yards sec- tion. Wiliam Henderson, a negro, -disorders: spread to the Non ode oF he tity Toad, where | ihroat 'of negroes were chased and | Yery few negroes lve in that sec- r= [tion of the eity. - women and children screamed | 700 is Jolt to his widow on the {aitioh that sha doesn't marry. "16 {the event of her marrying again, the jostate is to be divided among three Howard T., James Leon aad Bais. The estate chiefly of {holdings in ofl companies subsidiary to the Standard Oil Company. A LEADER OUTSIDE QUEBEC. Archambault Indicates Attitude of at e meebng held in the he ueufl" district since the last session o fthe House. { Quebec is lacking in men quelified envagh, but because a Quebecer in heart of the downdown district, in 50%

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