Daily British Whig (1850), 5 Aug 1919, p. 1

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itish Whi TUESDAY, AUGUST b, 1919, PAGES 1-12 + LAST EDITION. WIERD MSHAP WHILE IN AR An Airplane. And Two Autos Had a Really Lively Time. ~~ FERS ALIGHT ON CA WHIOH HAD BEEN VACATED BUT FIFTEEN SECONDS BEFORE B =| Che Daily AIN AND ARGENTINA ARE NOT VERY FRIENDLY Over the Purchase By Argentina of a German Vessel Argentina Is Hostile to British Capital Invested In That Country. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Buenos Ayres, Aug. 5.--Diplomatic relations between Great : Britain and Argentina as the result of the purchase by Argentina of | the Oerman steamship Basia'Blanca sre delicate, according to the | Lasacion. which says: "Regarding the rumors which from the begin- ning have been founded on more than supposition, we have received | versions the gravity of which are self-evident, and according to which the return to London of Sir Reginald Tower, British Minister to Argentina, and the departure of Francisco Alvarez De Toledo, Ar- tina Minister to land, from London are not disconnected , it appears that the retirement of both ministers is due to the purchase by Argentina of the steamer Basia Blanca from Ger- many, which purchase the British Government refused to recognize." + Another newspaper, the Casnoticias, says: "Sir Reginald Tower is being recalled and Senor Toledo is returning because King George 'has not received him. The occasion for the present situation, it adds, is not the refusal of the British Government to recognize the se of the Basia Blanca. The real cause is in the hostile atti- i 15 9 ) i . had left the machine scarcely fiftecn Yoas of the Argetiting Government towards British capital invested Wald . seconds before to 'Wateh the fight of n Argen . y ' : ST nr the avistors. Donald Whistler, own- : Mialatec Beales the Story. EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE PAY TRIBUTE TO FALLEN SOLDIERS. er of tho irplans, and E. T. Web- (Canadian Press Despatch.) : This picture shows the scene in Prospect Ce , Earlsoourt, Taronto, when 8,000 people assembled at the impressive | ster, nis pilot. They bought the Cus %2rvice held there in honor of the gallant men bel ng to that patriotic district, who laid down their lives in the Great War. |tiss recently from Ericson, ot Toron- Buenos Ayres. Aug. 5~Sir Reginald Tower, British Minister : to Argentina, denies the rumors relative to his return to London, to, and some days ago crashed at which is said to indicate the imminence of a rupture of relations be- 15 L 1 ee | The Collision Released the Motor' Buss of the Wrecked Car With Plane Atop and it Drove Fotward Into Another Antomobile, London, Ont., Aug. 5.--The wierd: est crash dn the brief history of av!- ation in Western Ontario occurred Sunday afternoon a short distance east of the city limits, when a Cur- tiss biplane, being driven from Tor- onto 40 Elkhart, Ind., struck a tour: ing car owned by George Campbell, of Scotland, a village near Brant- ford. Mr. Campbell's party of seven, Over a hundred returned soldiers lie buried in thisieémetery. Woodstock, Since that time they had DRUMBO, ONT., DOCTOR been held up for repairs. SunMay tween Great Britain and this country. He declares he is going to London merely for a rest. THE LATEST NEWS MARTIN CAN WIN. So Says a Staff Writer in the Mont- real Herald. / . D. McKenzie. If, on. William Martin, of , changes his mind and the strong pressure 'being brought to bear*with run, the whole question will iif Mr. Martin runs he un for he will secure the almost solid port of the west and a goodly vote er provinces, 'while his stand \ © last election for toler- a cessation of race and will secure him heavy Quebec. : from * Vi ¥ of War Haubrich was aps "tawn dictator and pe arial law. The troops knowwn as the "tenive lads" have disappeared, TO KNOW ON SATURDAY. 4 Hess they wish LOSE ONE PER OENT. Australians and Our Own Canadians. London, Aug. who has appeared on their books. ("will trickle back Africans aha absentees, man of the into concentration camps. ty and free e home, | KING GEORGE'S COUSIN * PLEADS FOR EX-KAISER Former Prince Henry as "Mumnible" Relative, Begs British Ruler to Halt. Hamburger Nachrichten, ® Allied statesmen, men also a) r. terests' mer German ruler. The Henry," former prince says, the statesmen of Great Britain Alltes should also be the tribunal as "pri gently suspected of OF OVERSEAS ARMY Most of the 'Missin Ones Are 6.~--Records offices in london of the various overseas forces are making their last grand tally and trying to trace every man Up to the present time some 7, 000, or about one per cent. of the total, cannot be accounted for. Not, all these men are considered to be definitely lost. Some have gone to furlough, and accepted work without the formality of communicating with the authorities, others have married {and settled down in preference to re- "| turning to camp and telling the Col- nel, others are restless men, many have but every other 26,000 who came over be- ing accounted for. The New Zealan- dors 300 short. oot of the missing are Austra. Hians and Canadians, and it will take a long time for the military police to round them up and shepherd them Some of the Dominion Governments are pub- lishing advertisements, warning these men to return by a certain date un forego their gratul- _ Copenhagen, Aug. 5.--The former Privize Henry of Prussia, in a letter to King George published by the says the th about the war may be had from and he sug- gents that if the former German em- peror is placed on trial the states- ppear, The letter asks King George "in the name of justice and his own in- 'to desist from demanding the extradition and trial of the for- letter, '| which is signed "your humble cousin charges: that England plot- or Germany's commercial down- fal It the Allies want the trvg, the 1 leading OF THE WORLD Despatcbes That Come From Near and Distant Places. TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS CHEBMNTMD IN THE BRINFEST POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graphic Service and Newspaper Exchange. . Armed guards are on duty at No. 3 (section, Welland Ship (ar . Mrs. Allan Studholme milton four days after her husband was buried. i Lt.-Col. Pritchard was nominated at Fergus by East Wellington Con- servatives for the docal House. A party of Sinn Feiners attacked the Broadford Police Barracks in East Clare, Ireland. A constable was slightly wounded. There are 3,600 | officers still are married, and the number of N. C.0.'s there 18 also out of proportion. Twelve persons are kpown to have been killed and a © number wounded in an explosion in the Unit- ed States arsenal at Raritan, N. Y,, on Monday, Lieut.-Gen, Sir R. E. W. Turner, V., chiel of staff, is returning to Canada, his duties to be taken over by Brig.-Gen. J. H. MacBrien, C.B,, CMG, DS.O. Germans in charge of twenty-four Zeppelins, near Berlin, say they will destroy them rather than let them fall into the hi of the Alltes. They' are of the latest type. At Watertown, N.Y., cheese stuck at 313% cents on the Watertown Pro- duce Exchange Saturday. Fewer of- ferings were reported, but the quality was good as a result of continued cool weather. WORLD PEACE STAMP. 400,000,000 To Be Sold to Rebuild C Copenhagen, peace stamp was issued in Copenha- gen, and 400,000,000 are to be print- od for distribution all over the world. : The idea of raising funds this way to rebuild the Cathedral of Rheims comes from a Danish author, Moge in England, of whom sd large number |" Aug. 5. -- A world | high. HONORS FOR BRITISHERS. in Ha-|. Gen. Haig and Admiral Best t bo iade Earls snd receive $500,000 g Ww. J. Styles, who wi ht to the Ot- tawa Journal Tere returned to the Renfrew Mercury, "JOHN AND JOHATHAN," HOPE OF WORLD RECONSTRUCTION Rests in Combined Noval Power, Says a Noted Writer. f MARE HGH SEAS SECURE TITLE OF SPECIAL ARTICLE The Future is Still Vague and We | "Can Make It Secure Only by Naval Accommodation With America-- .. Pool Naval Resources, |» London, August 5.--- "John and than' -is-the. title .of.a special ar 8 b¥ "A. G. G." in the Datly News. The writer, who Is the well-known editor of the paper, says: 3 "The only hope of world recon- structivn rests in a League of Na- tions. And the hope of a:League of Nations rests ultimately upon the good-will, co-operation end deter- nination of this country ang the Unit- ed States. If John and Jonathan are twin pillars of the new world struc- ture, all will be well and peace will be assured. If they are not, there is nothing before us but trouble. "If--~which heaven forbid----trouble ever arose between this country and America it would arise over dominion of the sea. Don't let us live in a fool's paradise on this subject. If America is ever compelled to 'enter competition for sea power it will have one eye on Japan and the other on this country. "The future is still vagus. We can make it secure only by naval accom- modation with America, which will remove forever the possibility of an- tagonirm. "Why should we not pool our naval resources and conserve them jointly for the guardianship of the seas and the security of the peace of the world? That would unite us in an enduring comradeship of common aims and common interests." Officials of six big Railway Shop- men's Unions told President Wilson on Monday they could not approve of his plan of settlement of their claims and demand an immediate in- crease in wages. The Turks are terrorizing the pop- ulation along the Black Sea and pil- laging their property. New York Times. The' of Wales, 1 after a visit to Canad. ust, Will be guest of the American be the a6 Washington, tipon Mr. Wilson's in- he sey. vessel. | the' and :| PAID TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN "AND THE PRINCE OF WALES Se-aparation of the two great demo- ¢ in war is felt to 'be a promise of thelr cordial co-operation in the long peace for "which the world hopes. They have stood together for freedom and democracy. y must modest, reputation of & brave, ] young man, 18 AGAIN IN TROUBLE Arrested on Charge of Malprac tice by Detroit Polic: is Ninth Time. Detroit, Mich, . Aug. b5.--Accom- panied by a squad of police and plainclothes men, the prosecuting at- torney at midnight made a raid upon a so-called "Private hospital," at 180 Beech street; conducted by George A. Fritch, a former Drumbo, Ont, physician. Three women found in th institution made statements to the effect that they had undergone ope- rations and that Dr. Fritch was the physician who performed them. All three women are unmarried. After the women had been removed to the receiving hospital in ambulances, the oftices of Dr. Fritch were entered and searched, after which the physi- cian was taken into custody, charged with mal-practice. This makes the tenth time in the past few years that the former Drumbo physician has been arrested 8 to those on which 'he managed to escap re comviotion Tn] with the one case he was found guilty and b served two years of a fifteen year sentence at Jackson State Jrison in connection with the death of Miss Maybelle Millman, a university, of Michigan student at Ann Arbor, whose body was found cut in many pleces and sewed up in a canvas bag. COALITION PARTY ISSUES MANIFESTO it Is Their Purpose to Form Centre Group in British House of Commons. London, Aug. 5.--A movement is| on foot to form a centre party in the Commnions by the extension of a group of new coalition members recently formed. Major Guest is the chairman of this group and he sets forth in a manifesto published to- day, the objects of the new party which is' of all: shades "in the coalition so 'as to expedite the government policy as laid down at the general election; to fi a pes. sional group to maintain unity of purpose within the coalition and to maintain permanently t principles which brought the Coalition Gov- ernment into existence. The Premier is invited to bécome the leader of the new party. TO SUCCEED READING Lord Lytton and Speaker Lowthar] - Are Mentioned. London, Aug. 5.--Lord Lytton was discussed Ly the Sunday newsuapers as a candida"e who is now being con- sidered for tne post of British Am- bassador 't: the United States. James W. Lowthe:, speaker of the House of Commons, 8:50 is mencioned again as the proiable successor of Earl Read- stand together for the maintenance .ip democracy. Prince of Wales has] ing. Lord )vtton is considered one of the ablest of the younger peers. morning they undertook to resume their homeward journey, but decided to alight in London for dinner. They selected a somewhat cramped field near: the C.P.R. tallway and adjoin- ing the Dominioh Abattoir plant It was thought by local men who have a knowledge of aviation that the Elkhart men were in a tight cor ner for a take-off, but the aviators expressed confidence that they were in a satisfactory location. As they started their motor to continue on the next leg to Detroit. Mr. Campbell who has been visiting here since Fri- day, drove past. His attention was attracted and, pulling to the .road- side, he halted and his six passengers alighted. They ran aground a tree to an unobstructed vantage point just as the plane tipped a tree top, turned on its wings and fell like a plummet into their automobile, In lgap-frog fashion, the airplane mountBd the automobile, facing for ward. The impact crushed, the top body and hood of the automobile, and, releasing the brakes, drove It feet. the ; ghtere of Junction, ! and throwing the child to the floor, Mr. Bell, who had just left his own car, dragged at a wing of the alr- plane in a struggle to. prevent the collision, but he was unable to do so. The smashing of the ribs of the top and the resilience of the pneu: matic tires on Mr, 11's car furnished somewhat of a "soft spot," for the airplane to fall upon. The aviators eéscaped = uninjured, and, climbing down from. their machine; were shocked to find that they had fallén into an automobile, The escape of the seven occupants of the Campbell machine from ine stant death was gauged by speocta- tors at about fifteen seconds. The wreck of their machine was 80 cORp" plete that no One could have lived through it. LOOK FOR HAZEN TO ENTER CABINET cally Settled That He Iii Be a Minister of ~~ Government. / of mas * Bell of Lone : Thomas Pei windshield + '

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