Daily British Whig (1850), 15 Aug 1919, p. 1

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14 PAGES YEAR 80; No. 188. The Ti in FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919. hig PAGES I-14 LAST EDITION. KINGSTON MAY BE JUNCTION OF ELECTRIC RADIAL LINES Engineers of Hydro-Bectrc Commission Have Completed Thee vestigations And This Cty May Be Cetral Point Between the Cis of Central Canada Extensive developments of trans- portation along Lake Ontario and pos- sibly along the River St, Lawrence {are forecasted by the visit to Kings. ton of R. G. Sneath, Gordan Wrong and EB. F. Hinch, engineers of the Hydro-Electric Cqmmission, Toronto, who returned to that city on Fri- "day, «Jt is quite possible that in the near future Kingstonians may go to To- ronto and Hamilton by electric rail- way. Already the tracks have been \ laid by the Federal Government for such a line between Bowmanville and Whitby, and it is expected that the wires will be installed in the near futere. Hon. Mr. Reld, Minister of Railways, is understood to have of- fered that line to the Hydro-Eleetrie Commission at cost and if it is pur- chased it will be completed to Toron- to, which is only twenty miles away \ from Whitby. The route from Toronto to Hamil- ton has already been surveyed and the engineers who came to Kingston inyestigated the amount of Ireight 'Yrafitc which might be expected from the city. They visited practically ev- ary large manufacturing, wholesale and retail concern in the city - and their data will be used in estimating . the total freight moved in and put of the city. This is also being done at all. the intermediate points between Toronto and Kingston and if the to- tal volume should warrant it, there is a possibility that an electric radisl liné would be ¢ ueted by the Hydro-Electric Com se =sSeveral years ago the rcute from Kingston to Morrisburg was also sur- xgyed and it would not be an impro- - ability if the radial line was extend- «mind the suggestion rence, power being secured from Long Sault' Rapids. This also brings to made several years ago that a radial line be con- structed from Kingston to Perth and thence to Ottawa. It all these developments are car- ried out it takes little vision to fore- cast what it would mean for the de- velopment of Kingston. - Situated at the junction of the St. Lawrence Riv- @r, the Rideau River and Lake On- tario, with ideal natural facilities for transhipment of cargoes to the east, west or north, and also with unparal- leled electric radial facilities, the ex- pansion of the city would be the in- evitable concomitant of such devel- opment of transportation facilities. Of course, on the other hand, there is the possibility that the Grand Trunk Railway system will shortly be taken over by the Government. Offi. clals of the company are already on thelr way over from England for a conference with the Government and it will soon be owned by the pubile of Canada. \ If such were the case the line through from Montreal to Toronto might be! electrified and the present route adhered to. ' Nevertheless, the vision of what might be is of para- mount interest to the citizens of Kingston and the fact that the Hy QUEEN ALEXANDRA STILL BEFORE Queen Alexandra pressed a button at St. recently, and opce more the peal of the famon Her Majesty's sister, the ex-Empress Marie present and is shown at the left. THE LATEST NEWS dro-Electric Commission have sent their engineers here shows that there] must be some thought of develop-| ment on their part. { The construction of such a radial] line would not mean cheaper freights| in all likelihood although there would | be quicker service, but it would mean | a considerable reduction in passenger rates according to authoritive word. The London to Port Stanley Radia) Line is one of the finest on the contin- ent and If the water power at Long Sault Rapids is developed a straight line from Morrisburg or Montreal through to Hamilton, 'London 'and Si. Thomas may not be so visionary a8 ft now appears to be. ¥ Y ed down the banks of the St. Law- -8t. Aug. 1 ' landing place to the armouries, ® the Prince of Wales was given first formal reception on Cana- soll,' this morning. the route of is Royal Highness was thronged ih cheering crowds. The proces-- ¥ was led by the local police, fol- an automobile in which "John, N.B., | tained with intoxicants. : obtaining it he went into a room and | supplied enough men to take OF THE WORLD Despatches That Come From Near and Distant Places. TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS VauslNTED IN THE BRIKFESY FOSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, = PUBLIC. Giement Danes ells rang out. ussia, was ha KING HONORS CHAIRMAN OF AND TRUNK Government agents seized' over ~~ 1950000 worth of butter in cold stor: London, July 31. (Correspondence of the Associated Press).--Three sil- ver fox skins for which $2,500 has been refused in London were obtain ed in Archangel for six bottles of whiskey by a British officer who has just returned from northern Russia. Another officer traded a case of champagne for a diamond nécklace sald to be worth thousands of dol- lars. Returning soldiers say any possession a native has may be ob The hunter who parted with his skins had little pleasure out of the whiskey, however. Immediately on drank it all. He was found in a se- rious condition, and required hospi- tal treatment to save his life. Sn MUTINOUS CREW ; WERE TAKEN IN HAND They Had Injured the Captain and Put Olver Officers In rons. (Canadian 8 Despatch) London, Aug. 15.--A wireless de- spatch, received at Queenstown from the British tank steamer War Khan, says that the tanker had picked up another steamer in mid-ocean finding the crew drunk, the captain ineapa- cited from injuries and some of the other officers in irons. The crew of the War Khan arrested the munin- fous crew of the other steamer and © stea- mer to Brest where it was bound. TO OZAR'S RELATIVE London, Aug. 15.--A = Bolshevik age at Chicggo on Thursday. - ~~ ~°% Eleven cénts a pound has been ad- Judged a "fair" retail price for sugar by the U.S. Department of Justice. » and M.P. for married in Vancouver on Satgrday. Viscount Grey, 'with a large staff, ¥ will leave. for Washington early in September to assume the post of am- bassador. New Jersey mayors will march on Congress in a body next Monday to demand action to reduce the high cost of living. & U.S. President Wilson is asked" to report what use was made of the $100,000,000 fund appropriated by congress for relief of the destitute people of Europe. ' The destruction: of the great Gov ernment elevator at" Port Colborne will mean the shipping to Montreal by train of some 60,000,000 bushels of wheat for transhipment overseas. Two were killed and between twenty and thirty are in hospital as the rosult of a switch engine run- ning into & streetiear loaded with people on Thursday near Parkers- burg, W.Va. The United States Government has authorized the shipment to Siberia for the use of the anti-Bolshevik for- ces operating under Admiral Kolt- chak a large quantity of guns and ammunition. - There is good reason te believe the new Canadian Commerce court will} start shortly drastic. probing into some of the numerous charges of pro- fiteering and of combines which are floating around. At Chicago 1,282 tubs of butter, ames A. Robb, chief Liberal whip} d Huntingdon, will bel" Commons, representin Bi red Is at present in Canada in counection with business pertain- ing to the Grand Trunk, and will make his official inspection of the road durirg the next few weeks. He has been intimately associated with the activities of the pioneer Cana- dian line for the past twenty-five years, having been elected a director of the company fn 1895, and chair. man of the Board in 1909. A mem- ber of the London Stock Exchange for a period of nearly forty years and chairman of the English Association of American Share and Bond Hold- ers, Sir Alfred has been actively ag- sociated 'with Canada's Interests ov- ferseas and has visited the Dominion practically year, Sir Alfred is a member of thé British House of Eg the Chis] hurst division of Kent, ole "DRIVE BOLSHEVIK BACK. In the Nara Reglon to the Lugs {Canadian rn | Despatch) London, Aug. 16.--Bolshevik for- ces along the valued at $60,000, were seized Thurs- | be day on libel warrants issued by the United States District Attorney's Of- fice in the Government's war on the high cost of living. At Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Miss De- troit III. won in the Thousand islands Yacht Club hydroplane on Thursday for the St. Lawrencelv y under the auspices of} rican Power Motor Boat As- GRAVE WAS ROBBED y| ed with NORE TROUBLE FOR JOBN BULL Demand of Engineers And Firemen May Disorganize His Railways. THE MINERS ARE HAGGLING OVER SMALL CLAIMS IN STRIKE SETTLEMENT. A Stoppagoe of Werk For Three Days at All Ports Threatened by Unions Over Dismissal of Policemen, (Canadian ¥Fress Despatch) London, Aug. 154-The demand made by the locomotive engineers and firemen upon Sir Auckland Geddes, British Minister of Reconstruction, that their wage dispute be settled at| once threatens to disorganize the rail- way system of the whole country. The resumption of work by the striking miners in the Yorkshiré dis- trict is still hanging fire, the West Yorkshire section refusing to fall into line and haggling over minor claims. | At a meeting of labor leaders of all | port trade unions at Liverpool, it| was unanimously decided - there should be a general stoppage of all work for three days commencing next Wednesday to secure the reinstate ment of policemen who were dismiss- ed prior to and during the recent policemen's strike in that city. Held Off For Several Days. London, Aug. 15.~--The threatened strike of the locomotive engineers and firemen which would have disor- ganized the railway system of the whole country, has been averted for the week-end. Sir Auckland Geddes has promised to communicate to the men on Monday a new offer which the governméht is preparing. 2,000 YEARS AGO The Tomb of the Chief Priest of Thebes Rifled by @houls. New York, Aug. 15. -Ghouls ncient Egypt, plyin | ° "endugh al : put modern grave robbers to shane, according to Ambrose: 'Lansing, = of the Metropolitan = Museum of Art, who returned here today from The- bas with personal effects of Pedu- Bost, Mayor and Chief Priest of that city about 700 B.C. "After excavating in Pedu-Bost's tomb," said Mr. Lansing, "I found evidence that grave robbers had cut their way there on their own ac- count 2,600 years before us, appar- ently very soon after burial, and had made off with a number of jewels. I imagine they were frightened away | before they finished, however, for we found many rare relies left." Inscriptions found on the tomb showed also, Mr. Lansing added, that Amneris, whom opera lovers recog- nize as the Princess in Aida, was the real Queen of Upper Egypt when Pedu-Bost died. ---------- ¥ A SUCCESSFUL EMPTYING. Found Missing $400 In Prisoner's Boot, Kitchener, Aug. 15.--While in- specting the shoes of the seven forei- gners lodged in "jall in connection with the theft of $4,080 from a trunk last Saturday night, Governor Cook of the County Jail found the sum of $400 In the toe of a boot which was later found to be worn by John Siew- zyski, one of the prisoners who was ured by Chief O'Neill while at- iapting to niake an escape out of the city. The sum of $1,314.90 had already been found on his person by the police, but no inspection of his boots had been made. The sum of $3,- $00 has been recovered out of the total of $4,060 alleged to have been stolen. Mike Stadnick and Wm. Os- tafactizy, who were originally charg- the theft were liberated this morning after being given warning by the magistrate to deposit their savings in the bank. PRINCE AT ST. JOHN, The Governor-General Met H. BR. H. ¥ 4 gh Cruiser, © (Canadian Press Despatch) 'Bt. John, N.B., Aug. 16.--The crui- S8E. 'anchored in the harbor ALTER REGULATION TO AID CANADIANS Autos From the Dominion Need Be 60 Per Cent. Canadian~Made. London, Aug. 15.--As the result of persistent efforis on the part of the Canadian trade mission, the Bri- tish Board of Trade has reduced the percentage of Canadian manufacture required before automobiles are al- lowed to enter Britain under import restrictions from 75 to 60 per cent, This just stops short of being suffi- cient. It will allow the Canadian ma- nufactured Ford and Chevrolet to enter, but not "a car like 'the Me. Loughlin Buick which is at present 47 per cent. Canadian manufactured; and would have been changed to 40 per cent. if the restriction had been réduced to that amount. The Board of Tradegyas announced that colonial preference extended .to articles of 25 per cent. Canadian manufacture but what they give with one hand they, through the operation of the import restriction, take away with the other. Sir Auckland Geddes, discussing the question in Parliament, said the restriction was maintained because the British automobile manufactur- er had to pay a duty on all raw mat- erials. As a matter of fact he would hava to pay duty. only on steel man- ufactured into spare parts, and hé does not and ' never has imported them. THREE SOLUTIONS GRATUITY PROBLEM To Be Lump Sum, Dollar Day, or Amount of Cap= : taln's Pay. Hamilton, Aug. 15.~--Word was re- ceived in Hamilton from what is re- garded as a reliable source that the government is about to consider three different propositions concerning ad- ditional -gratuity. They follow: 1. That a lump sum be paid in De- cember to all men who served in France. 2: That all. ex-members of 'the C. E, F, receive an additional gratu- ity one dollar. for every day's service from enlistment to discharge. 3. That' the equivalent to a cap- tain's pay be paid to all ranks, ae: cording to length of service. With respect to the second propo- sition it will. be remembered that East Hamilton branch, some little time ago,.passed a resolution asking for an additional gratuity of $1.10 for each day's service in the C. E. F., and that it was sent to the Dominion command for action. - WAY TO MEDITERRANEAN Supreme Council Plans to Neu tralize Fort Area Similar : to Danzig. Paris, Aug. 15.-The supreme council the Echo de Paris says, is preparing to give Bulgaria an opens ing. to the Mediterranean sea through either Dedeagateh or Kava ja. The tertitory surorunding the port selected would be neutralized and placed under a status similar to Danzig. That portion of Thrace given Bul- garia at the close of the Balkan wars included Dedeagatch . The Bulga rians and Germans built a railroad from ' central Bulgaria to Dedea- gatch. TRIAL IN NOVEMBER. The Strike Leaders are Released, Without Bail. Winnipeg, Aug. '15----Magistrate R..M. Noble formally committed thé eight Winnipeg strike leaders. Wil. Ham Ivens, R. E. Bray, A./A, Heaps, R. 'B. Russell, John Queen, W. A. Pritchard, R. J. Johns and George Armétrong, for trial at the Novem- ber assizes to-day, and the decision as to bail will be given by Justion Cameron. The prisoners were re: leased until then on the promise of defence counsel, BE. J. McMurray, to Crown Prosecutor A. J. Andrews, K.C., that the prisoners would ap- pear. FETTERED FELONS KILL GUARD Wife of One Prisoner Supplied Gan For the Deed New Albany, Ind.. Aug. 15. --John Cole, shackled to Clarence Huff, an other prisoner, on the way to the In- jana State Reformatory. at Jeffer- nville, to serve sentences for lares eny, shot and instantly killed Denuty William Emgle, of Evansville, Ind, at the Interurban a hare yes~ terday. prisoners but we recaptured almost famediatery. {3/4 ers said Cole phtained the wea- pon from his wife. LABOR'S POLICY THROWN ASDE The British Situation is Considerably Easler in Consequence. LLOYD GEORGE" PLEASED WORKERS SHOW DESIRE TO AVOID EXTREME MEASURES. The Whole Question Is to Be Remit ted to the Trades Union Congress Next Month at Glasgow. London, Aug. 15.~'"Direct ace tion" policy urged by the extremists among the labor leaders which was killed by the failure of the police strike was decently buried when the triple alHance, at its meeting, decided to remit the whole question to the Trades Union Congress next month at Glasgow, where, according to the Daily Chroniele's labor correspone dent, 'a suitable epitaph will no doubt be found for it." | The delegates of the triple alliance, | who 'met yesterday in London, were {faced with the fact that the trans- {port workers who formed the most {important third of the organization | had decided not to issue ballot papers jon the question of 'direct action.' | Then there were the railroad work- ers, The executives of the national union of rallwaymen has powen to jcall out its members on strike with- out the formality of a ballot, and some of the extremist members of the |executive were prepared to stop the irailroad system of the country in an attempt to force the Government to {abandon Archangel and release con- scientious objectors, but the sane {counsels of the moderate leaders, {such as J. H. Thomas, prevailed and [the railroad workers finally insisted {upon a ballot before *'direct action" {was undertaken. Finally there wag {a third branch of the triple alllance | ~~the npinors, The Lancashire mine jers wert dead against any such pro posal, and the Yorkshire miners hav ing challenged the Government and tailed after spending the greater pary of 'the accumulated funds of their union besides sacrificing millions in bo 4 were pet likely Pp support it. Nottinghamshire and Leicertershird mjnefs or kniown to be 'in opposite 7 x Th at I dosti Ba In these circumstances Jt wah ag' parent to the executive of the triple alliance that if the proposal for di« rect action were put to a vote there was danger of a minority so small as to make the proposers look ridi« culous. By referring the question to the Trades Union Congress the tri- ple alliance, says the Chronicle, "shows a welcome dieposition to es cape from an increasingly embarr« assing dilemma." - PREFERRED DOG TO CHILD Detroit Parents Give Their Infanf Away to Neighbor, Detroit, Mich, Aug. 15.--Mothes love versus love for dogs had its aire ing in Judge Wilkins' court yester= day when Edward Conant and his wife, Flora, 126 Selden street, wera placed on probation for five years after pleading guilty to a charge of abandoning their two mouths) old child, Bdward, jun. Added to the indifference which made the mother give the child to Mrs. Clarence Miller, a neighbor, without even the formality of adope tion, was the testimony of a proba< tion officer, that he found Mrs. Con+ ant fondling a dog when he called to inquire into the case. Mrs. Cone ant insisted afterwards that the dog belonged to a néighbor, but admit she gave her child away because it made her neryous, Must Put Wires Us i Ottawa, Aug. 15.~--That In con gested areas of large urban centred telegraph wires should be put un< ound is the opinion expressed in judgment handed. down by the fiway Board. The judgment deal y the application of the city of ee for an order directing t C. P. R. and G. N. W, telegraph com: panies to place their jines and wires underground on certain streets, ° * - The Govérnment is seizing food Fis Of the United Stas 4vor to stop profitesrs prices, 3 al go NEWS IN BULLETIN. awing to the increase i nty Clare, Ireland will be sup , and Tor rong | bim damages fo the extent of si const rr * : 2 i

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