Ne i e-ly Collier's Toggery 15%, Discount Allowed to clear the bal- ance of our OVERCOATS be Daily British Whig a LY Collier's Toggery 15% Discount Allowed to clear the bal ance of onr OVERCOATS [or v YEAR 86: No. 282. / KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 5, 1919 vw LAST EDITION. CION "TIS. SAID IS THE ONLY ARGUMENT , COER { i To Make an Impression on' the Germans to Make Them Sign the Protodol --- Marshal. Foch Will Put the Pincers On If He Finds It Necessary to Bring Germany to Its Knees. (Crnadian Press Despatch.) Paris, Dee. 5.--The Supremé Council again considered the note to --~he-sent to-Germany regarding the signi treaty, but did not complete the document. It also considered the question of the share of the Austro-Hungarian pre-war debt to be borne by Jugo-Slavia, The coungil examined the items presented by the Jugo-Slav represen- tatives in the shape of claims for off-sets to the Jugo-Slav's share of this debt, : : : According to the morning newspapers, coercion is the only argument to make an impression on the Germans and induce them to sign the protocol. It is said this conclusion was reached at a secret session, yes- terday, of the council of five, at which Marshal Foch was present. Ample means exist to pronounce and carry out an ultimatum, it is said. The marshal demonstrated at the meeting, and, it is reported, he undertook to put into execution the plan drafted last June, the mere threat of which 'brought the German plenipotentiaries to Versailles, OF THE WORLD Despatches That Come From Near dnd .! Distant - Places. TINGS FOR OUR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE FORM, }, | To Be Plenty of Material Used i Them. Atlantic City, N.J., Dec. 5.--The convention of the Associated Dress industries of America, meeting at the Breakers Hotel yesterday, sounded a doleful note for the payer of the family bills. Spring dresses, it was said, will v * cent. more. will make this necéssary. Manufacturers are pay- ing from seventy-five to - one hun- dred per cent. more for taffeta and silk. "There will be plenty of material in the .new dresses. That is all I can divulge at this time," was tire only word offered by David N. Moses- sohn, of New York, executive direc- tor of the association. i TO BREAK LIBERAL PARTY plained, / The Whig's Daily Cor.densation of the News of the World From Tele- graphic Service and Newspaper Exchange, ' \ James Britton of Port Hope, sev- enty-seveén years old, was fatally in- jured while trimming a tree. Many Canadian laborers grating to the United States thither by. higher wage 'offers. . Mayor Church declared before the Grand Army of Canada that Toronto should have more seats in the Legis- lature, The British Government measure dealing with the Irish problem will be | * ready early in the week after next, Lloyd George says. wwejol-usuerus Keuter, who as Co- lonel Reuter was invelved In the Quebec M.P. says Influences Are at Work for Purpose. 5 Montreal, Dec. 5.--Fear that influ- 4 9 ences were at work to divide the solid Liberal "block" representation Lat, Ottawa, Jed LJ. Gauthier, M.P, for St. Hyacinthe, to deliver an ap- peal for unity at the meeting of the Lafontaine Liberal Club here. "Our block has always been on the job," said he, "and does its duty. People are trying to create divisions among the labor péople and among {the farmers so as to divide the Lib- eral representation. They are trying to organize the farmers of the east- ern townships now so as to break re mi- lyred / cost from twenty-five to thirty per | Existing conditions af- | fecting labor and material, it is ex- | increase | HERE TO TELL OF WONDERFUL CRUISE--DIRECTOR BAUER ARRIVES. js | | | of "tha protocol to" the peace | © A apni KNOCKED OUT IN FIRST ROUND Carpentier Stops Beshetr, the English Boxer, in Seventy-four Seconds. SMASHING BLOW ON. CIN PUT THE ENGLISHMAN OUT OF THE CONTEST. | Carpentier Assisted His Opponent to His Oorner--The Prince of Wales Present at the Fight. London, Dec. 5.-- Georges Carpen- | tier, the French champion, knocked | out Joe Beckett, champion of Eng- { land, last night in a brief and de- | cidedly one-sided bout for the heavy- | weight championship of Europe. | Seventy-four seconds, gs announced { by the official timer, sufficed to de- | elde whether Carpentier or Beckett 'should meet Jack Dempsey, the Am- erican heavyweight, for the cham- {| plonship of the world'in June next. From the moment the referee, B, J. Angle, called time Carpentier had the | battle entirely in his own hands. | Beckett never had a chance of hitting the agile Frenchman, who Ianded | blows with enormous strength when- | ever he felt tnclinéd. Amid absolute stiliness most of the spectators could hear the terrific | crack of the swing that put Beckett i to sleep. There was & roar of cheer- i ing as Carpentier assisted Beckett to | his corner, where the Englishman {opened his astonished eyes and saw | | his opponent being carried on the' i GOOD ROADS MAY STOP: EXODUS upper ture depiets Dr. Liouts 's farewell to the "Carnegie" and her scientific staff before they left on a world eruise. "Dr, Bauer and Andrew Thomson, a Toronto graduate, studied the eclipse of the sun in Liberia, West Africa. The officers are, left to right: Surgeon Pemberton, Andrew Thomp- son, J. P. Ault in command), Lou Bauer (director), H. F. Johnston (se R. R. Mills, and ond in command), R. 'Grummann. shows the Carnegie under full sail. the eonstruction of this vessel Iran and steel -Were both "eliminated: She is now, undertaking a Twa years' cruise, making scientific surveys. - BYR RRP ER Red % CANADIAN WHISKEY 3 % TOO STRONG FOR SCOTEH + * * #% London, Dec. §.--A great in- & i 2 + crease Of drunkenness fn Glas- 4 gow is reported by the police, % who estimated the mumber of o the Young People From the Farm to : the Cities. POLICY FOR ALL ONTARIO BEING SHAPED BY MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS ° TES H TT Re EE Re { Ontario's Share of Dominion 'Grant and Automobile Licenses Will Give | Much Money For Road Building. { Toronto, Dec. 5---Hon: F. C. | Biggs, Minister of Public Works, who | has just completed a tour of the i good roads system of the province, Lfrom London in the west, to Ottawa { in the east, and Niagara in the south, ! states that the United Farmers will { not abandon the work done under i the auspices of the Hearst Govern- : | mént. The new minister thinks that good roads, | extension of the Hydro-Electric sys- | tem will tend to check the exodus of | folk from the farms to the | young j cities. Instead of a cement slab five hundred miles long, extending from | the province of Quebec to the state { of Michigan, the minister thinks { there should be.in this province a | good roads system of 1,500 miles. He is figuring on helping the {| townships a little more than | been the case in -the past™ Statute { labor, he believes, should be abol- | ished. he grant of $1,200,000 from the Dominion Government in i the' near future, as provided by legis- { lation enacted some time ago, would help. In that bill the sum of $20,- 000,000 was appropriated for the whole of Canada. With Ontario's | share of that twenty million and the 'revenue derived from automobile licenses the new minister expects to { do much during the coming year. { GREAT ACTIVITY IN ' CANADIAN SHIPYARDS .| Twenty Thousand Men Now The lower Zhstograph 5 n Employed in Industry-- i -. Millions on Payroll, - Ottawa, Dec. 5.--Including the two 18,250 ton steel vessels ordeal re- cently from the Wallace Shipbuild- ing Company in Vancouver the Do- minion Government has now cone j tracted for 57 ships. Three months igo there were 9 { a i 23, "500 mien on the payroll of thirteen | { Canadian yards, and there are prob- {ably twenty thousand men now ac- | tively engaged in the construction of improved rural schools and | has | A PERSISTENT RUMOR ON STOCK EXCHANGE ssen and. Fanforst May Be Occupied by the Allied Troops. a (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Dec. b.--A persistent rumor on the Stock Exchange, this morning, was that the Su- préme Council had threatened Germany, that unless the final peace terms were agreed io the Allied troops would occupy Es- sen and Fanforst. The market was not affected by the report. 4 i { Pressure Seems Imminent. re, {Canadian Press Tsspatch) 14 Det. §==The official announcement that Field Mar- shal Wilson has gone to Paris in response to an urgent summons to consult Marshal Foch, in con- nection with the peace treaty, is regarded by some morning . newspapers of considerable sig- nificance, printed alongside an address made by Bonar Law, last night, in which he said he be- Heved the Allies had the power and, if necessary, would exer- cise it, to insure the ratification of the treaty by Germany, It's suggested that steps to exert pressure on Germany may be im- minent. =f * i Sd nd | PARISIANS APPEAR IN ELEVEN DOLLAR SUITS yp ---- {Look Like Fashionable Gar-| ments Built to Combat High Cost of Living. Paris, Dec. 5.~The national cos- tume for men, manufactured by the | government to combat the increasing price of clothing, made=ifs appear- ance on the Paris boulevards on Dec. | 1st, 'as promised by the authorities. { The suit is not such as to draw the attention of promenaders either by iits elegance or its shabbiness, and | but for a little strip of linen inside | {the coat marked 'natipnal garment" {one would never know that the suit { had anything different from others {daily turned out of the so-called { fashionable tailoring houses. Wearers of the suits, however, | seemed proud to exhibit the inside of {the coat to friends and strangers in the cafes and theatre lobbies. There {is one thing alone in which the na- tional garment differs from others, | and that is the price, as the suits sell tor 110 francs - (about $11 at pre- {sent rate of exchange). Andre De | Fouguieres, the well known literary { light, has not yet appeared in hig, ai- {though it is reported he bought one {on December 1st, when they appear- { ed on the market. i ! ADVICE yTO FARMERS i | Addresses Convention. Québec, Dee. 5.--The farmer's Provincial Minister of Agriculture 10 TIDE THEM OVER THE WINTER Needy Veterans to Be Looked Afiér By "Patriotic Fund Committee THE SON OF $7,500,000 | THE DISPOSAL OF THE COMMITTEE. | STILL AT | Cases of Need to Be Defined 3 nd Recommended Where That Is Desired. { Ottawa, Dec. b.--Representativea | of the advisory committee, executive { and workérs of the Canadian. Patrl- | otic Fund and of the Manitoba Patri- | otic Fund were in conference yester- | day with members of the Government | on a proposal to secure & co-ordinated | effort toward the prevention of need | or hardship among Peturned soldiers | and their dependents during the com- { ing winter. Among those present [| was His Ex¢sllency the Governor- | General, whe is honorary president | of the Canadian fund. | . The latter b has still at its dis | posal $7,600,000, which - is being | used in connection with post dis- | change cases of need, but, not to cov- { er unemployment as such. The Gov- | ernment has appropriated certain in- | definite sums of money for the pur-, | pose of tiding persons who cannot secure employment and who are in | need over the present winter. 'The | conference was held with the object of securing the assistance of the Pa- Itriotic Fund Organization toward | defining real cases of need and to { ward recommending assistance where | assistance is desired. | Cheque Artists at Work. | Brockville, Dee, 6. ~ During the | past few days three Brockville mer- | chants have been victimized for sums {under $25 by smooth cheque artists | whose paper is alleged to have turn- {ed out worthless. They were drawn jen the Windsor street branch of the Bank of Montreal, at Montréal, and payable, it is said, to J. R. Black, or bearer. The name signed was J. E. i Robins. In two instances the cheques { were. cashed and in the third case the | stranger gave one in payment of a | coat, | In Ottawa Man's" Will, Ottawa, ; Dee. 5--~The will of the {late Hiram . Robinson, lumberman,. {contains a conditional donation "of { $100,000 to the Municipal Corpora { tion of Ottawa for the ereetion of a i children's" hospital ward or wing in ithe proposed new General Civic Hos- i pital, to be known as the "Hiram | Robinson" ward. The legacy is to | be paid within eight years if the | conditions of the bequest according {to the will have been fulfilled. fo i Zabern affair, has resigned from the Prussian army. : | Col. George A, Stimson was found | dead on the floor of his room in To- ronto on THursday morning. He was | aged sixty years. The Cabinet of Britain has decided to suspend trial by jury for Irish crimes of violence and substitute a Commission of three Judges. | | Three thousand. assistants employ- ed in depagtmeit stores in the west | End of London have gone on strike, for. more pay and shorter hours. Hope was expressed in Toronto Labor circles that all branches of the | the Liberal block, and they hope that |thoulders of some of the enthusiastia when that is done the antonomy of (rowd around the ring. the province or Quepe: Carpentier gave a most brill # larger allowance of spirits has pear and become nothing more display for the short time the bout iad less effect than the impor- a dream." {lasted. He soon saw the weakness |g. gaiion of whiskey from Canada -- {of Beckett's defence, which Was 4 444 the United States. Tt is de- SPEER EPIL PPIPLP EPP p | leaving his fact unguarded. Beckett. go gorined as worse than raw grain 4 | structing ships, making engines and = # went forward, with 'his left hand spirit. + | rigging and outfitting them, earn SOVIET WOULD TALK +o held wide and hig right top-low. Car-1g @ | about forty million dollars annually. "TERMS WITH ALLIES # vessels in Canada. The expenditure % In wages is estimated at forty-two #% million dollars a year. In addition # i to this 23,000 employes of other in- & dustries which supply the raw or # | half-finished Materials used in con- ,% arrests have lately increased by al 400 per cent. They beliéve the | best bank is his own land, and the| | improvement of-his holdings, said J. | Reporter Commits Suicide. | Edouard Caron, Provincial Minister! London, Ont. Dec. 5. -- Herbert { of Agriculture for Quebee, yesterday, | Costain, formerly of Toronto and | addressing a convention of teachers Brantford, a reporter on the London | of agriculture, the Government em-| Advertiser, ended his life by taking | ploys in various districts of the pro- | carbolic acid on Wednesday. Cos- | vince, and he made his remarks this | tain served overseas in the Royal Air {afternoon while dealing with canvas- Force. as -n officer, and married an { sers who go through rural towns urg- English. girl, who has recently con- ; : ing farmers to subscribe stock in all | yucted a cigar and candy store at 99 | Bighteen ships of the Government | ers of new enterprises and compan-' King street, { fleet are now in commission, and | les. ---------------- | there will be 22 before the end of | To Raise $20,000. 1 J) i than | ! J 4 | pentier, after a quick faint, leapt for} cpg ooy PIAA actual money invested in Can- #% | ward, and, with all his body Vein ho dite BP pg bd 1s $47.000- it, landed a straight left flush 000 | the nose. The movement WHS 80 & | staggeringly quick that Beckett was & unable to dodge. Then whilst the | | | London, Dec. 5 --LieutNCol Lestrang Maluae announced that he has received an official communication from the Soviet DUEL IN PROSPECT Sewm---- There is isk, said Mr. i trical Manager Challenges 'Dra- ere is. no risk, said Mr. Caron Aviator, | In investing your money in the de-| 0 Government of Russia asking him to make public the fact ¥ that the Bolsheviki are still de- # girous of a discussion af peace % terms, and denying that any re- # lations have been opened by the # Soviet Government with Ger- % many. * building trades would agree to ratify agreements beginning Jan, 1. A German aecree directed against the lmportation of articles of luxury and unnecessary manufactures per-.| 'mits the seizure of all such goods | with indemnification. A delegation waited upon Mayor Church of Toronto, and practically insisted that he declare himself in the field for a sixth term. The mayor did not make a definite statement. i * In the city, county and municipal | i ------ elections which have just finished | Passengers and &. PE. throughout Norway, the Socialists | (Canalis Dre Dospatol touttolied by the Bgisncviki faction | yondon, Dec. The Tudicial | ast Boats in nearly all cities. T 4 committee of the Privy Council has At the German-Austrian rades {reversed the decision of the Canadian Union Congress in Vienna, Herr Yar | Supreme Court in the suit involving Ee, Te os thar | the sinking of the steamer Empress jobs G jof Ireland in the St, Lawrente river. momhets ot trades muiofs in *eI- | rhe gourt gave the passengers of the | y p . {sunken vessel preference in the dis-| The possibility of bringing coal |¢ripntion of the proceeds from the | from the-Canadian mines at Cape | aie 0f the Storstad, the collier which | Breton to relieve the present indus- |. gu ded the liner. In the decision trial crisis in Ontario due to the | the Privy Council decides that the ortage of steam coal from then nagjan Pacific Company shall nited States mines is being discuss | pare in the proceeds of the sale. ed in Toranto. + The Board of Commerce at Ottawa | gave three men representing retail clothing merchants ten minutes to decide whether to apologize for cer- tain statements, .or let the board take whatever action it might decide; they: apologized. ; 3 CRP PE PEE PI EEE E nD 0 ERP REVERSED JUDGMENT. to Share in i 1 Street Cars Again to Run. Toledo, O., Dec. 5.--The street car service, which was disontinued here a month ago when the people ap- proved an ordinance passed by coun- cil ordering the | company off the stréets, fs expected to be resumed within a few days. Council has amended the ouster ordinance to give the Toledo Railway & Light m- pany the right to use the streets at a fare of six cents, with two cents for transfers. 3 a EX-KAISER OF OPINION HE WILL NOT BE TRIED London, De¢. §.--Former Em- peror W \ of Germany . not belley will be brought' tebe ' Prewgrts Son Married, .Halifax, %ec. 5.--S8t. Paul's ¢hurch, Bridgewalpr, was thi aie of the marriage of Wilfred Murray, Mont. real, eldest son of Premier Murray, and Naomi, youngest daughter of Mss. Clara Conrad, Bridgewater, ' PeraBe - Crerar Recovers. Winnipeg, Dee. 6.~~Hon. T. A. Crerar, president of the United Grain Growers, who been con- fined to his bed here for ten .davh bool | with a slight sttack of 1 ing in his arm, has Si ered. 5 ¢ : o* | bP bid dPPPeee some sort of realization that he w {but could not keep | close quarters, and the French cham-{ thors to represent him, Hen | pion backed away just far enough to | mackers and Paul Marguer # | Britisher was blinking his eye to re- | Thea {| move the moisture which had bee | | forced there and before he could] | settle down the Frenchman repeated | | the same trick with as telling effect. ! The blows came so speedily that Beckett seemed hopelessly incapable | of avoiding them. 2 The British champion showed] as | in a boxing comtest by trying ta clinch and landing a few body blows, Carpentier at make the samé movement again, and crash, once more, went his left hand, backed up by wonderful speed of foot. Beckett then saw he must do 'something to avoid that left hand. Carpentier 'feinted yet again, but it was not the left which shot out this time, but a right, and it landed a smashing blow on the point of Beck- ett's chin, on that part where it has most effect to render a boxer uncon- scious. Holburn stadium was packed at pine o'clock with a distinguished ga- thering to 'witness the bout. Even the standing room at five guineas was crammed. The Prince of Wales entered the Stadium during one of the prelimin- aries. He received & rtousing recep- "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," the Prince said: "I thank you one and all for your kind welcome. I am glad to be in London again." Experts commenting on the fight concur in saying that the victory went to the better man, and that Carpentier won by speed and clever- 'ness, Beckett's manager says Carpen- chance, but this is not the opinion: of experts, the Daily. Mail critit ac- cusing Beckett 'of XEheer stupidity." | "The Government SEE tl of racing te supply st ¥ St. Ma tion. After the singing by the crowd matic Critic. Paris, Dee. 5---The theatrical world is stirred by the prospect of a duel between Alphonse Franck, ma- nager of the Gymnase Theatre, and Earvest Charles, a dramatic critic, Franck objected td an article written by Charles and despatched to him as | his seconds Joseph Renaud, author and distinguished Swordsman, and M. Foutanes, manager of the Chate- let theatre. Charles selected two au- 5 Kiste- e. Both Franck and Charles profess to be in deadly earnest -and declare that the duel will not be a stage scene. Canada and Titles, London, Dec. 5.--A despatch to a; Manchester daily paper says there are signs that Canada is beginning to think over again on the question of conferring of titles, and notes that a Montreal paper hax recently des- cribed the resolution of the Cana- dian House of Commons, depreciat- ing such conferments, as the work of professional democrats, tier brought off "a million to one" '| men to do so because | the year. The Canadiag one of these vessels, is going on the first voy | {The steamships Canadian 1 {and Canadian Trooper have salled lumber. It is stated | { here that the British Government is | | Canal with rbuying seventy million feet pf lum- | 3 i ber in British Columbia. | | EULER QUITE READY i TO KISS THE FLAG | But Says It Must Be Under Circumstances and Not Force. ' | Toronto, Dec. 3.--W. D. Euler, | M.P., Kitchener, who was beaten in -the G.W.V.A. headquarters at Kitchener on Monday night, in con- noction with the outbreak following the decision of the City Council eof Kitehéner on the name cha proposal, and compelled to join iu the singing of "God Save the King," states that he had nothing what- ever to do with the movement to have the old name, Berlin, restored. He says he declined to kiss the flag when ordered by the returned the demand was intended to humilidte him, and' he feit. that the flag was being made the instrument of oppres- Under proper circumstances, he says, he has no objection to kiss. ing the British flag. : for Great Britain via the Panama | . 2 1 Jelmson i8t, who lost aneye i velopment and improvement of your of a Government vessei | farms, while some of the ventures ! . { A : | | to Australia with a cargo of paper. | you are often urged to put your | ciation Have 'undertaken the task of good coin into are not always bona- fide enterprises. LADY ASTOR'S REQUEST. A Regular Working M.P, and Not a Curiosity. > London, Dee. 5.4--In a letter pub- i lished in London newspapers, Lady | Astor, M.P. asks that she be regard- ed as "a regular working member of | Parliament and not a curiosity." She {complains that throughout her cam- | paign for election she was subjelted ito a great deal of misrepresentation. "Instead of representing the prin- jeiples for which I stood." she says, | "the newspapers were more anxious for good headlines, so they used what they called my witty re- sponses.' \ NOT SEEKING ELECTION Duchess of Miriborotigh Quite Satis- fied at Present. London, Dec. 6.~~The Duchess of Marlborough, speaking in London yesterday, contradicted the report that she is aspiring to parliaméntary honors. She is quite satisfied to re- present Southwark on the London County Council, The Duchess also denied the statement that she had received 4 fortune of £3,000,000, Tand In Court. Sir Glenholme Falconbridge reserved judgment in the case of a farmer named Robinson against a conductor plaintiff alleged that ten acres of land and orchard which t ant had rented to him representa . i tions, and had a counter-suit, alles- of | ing that the plaintiff had not lived to his agreement. , Dee. §.---W , the American prohib! asa Belleville, Dec. §5~Chiet Justice on the Central Ontario Railway. The, defend- |. Loudon, Ont, Dec. 5.~The seven hundred London members of the On- tario 'Commercial Travelers' Asso- raising $30,000 with which to carry on | the "activities of the Children's Aid { Society here, within - the coming | year. | : i Tén Years For Ottawa Man. Kitchener, Dec. 6. --Emory La- pointe, aged thirty-one, of Ottawa, was sentenced by Magistrate Weir to ten years in 'the penitentiary for a serious offence against a ten-year-old boy. ~ Out ONY hv Washington, Dec. b.--President Wilson was requested in a resolu- tion introduced in the Senate io saver diplomatic relations with Mexico. Herr Erzberger's proposed tax on révenue from capital and the Im- perial income tax measures have been passed by the Imperial Counell, NEWS IN py i are ordered * as trouble Is "American families back from Mexico, feared. The U.8. Government mgy now arrest coal operators for conspiracy. The Allies" armies may be pushed inte Germany because of the Huns' defiant attitude. ihe A, a. Slaght will be Liberal cand} date for Temiskaming in the coming Federal bye-election. Ed A feverish search for oil is report- -