PR A AAA AAP NECKWEAR THAT WILL WEAR Made trom Imported Eng lish, Swiss and Italian Silks at Collier's Toggery Che Daily I British Whig 1» OVEROCOATS Regular $30.00 to $38.00 Your choice for $25.00 Collier's Toggery tee tetptieng ei pninnn YEAR 86: No. 208. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919 LAST EDITION. CANADA'S SHARE | 5 $35,000,000 [his Money Comes From. the Operation of Canicens Overseas. SOLDIERS ARE 10 GET I SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW IT SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED In Great Britain the Organization is Headed By Sir Julian Byng--Brit- ish Officer at Ottawa Regarding Payment. | | Ottawa, Dec. 18.--Canada has re- | ceived $35,000,000 as her share of | the proceeds of the operation of can- { teens overseas by the Army and | Navy Board. The question now arises | how the windfall is to be utilized. | The money is the result of soldiers' | patronage of army canteens over- | seas, and will, jt is understood, go | back to the soldiers. One suggestion | whieh has been made is that it] should be administered by the spec- | fal departmeut of the Canadian Pa- | | | triotic Fund, which is handling the). appropriation voted by Parliament | last session for soldiers' civil re-es-| tablishment. Some milifary meén con- | tend that the canteen fund should | be disbursed by a soldiers' organiza- | tion. In Great Britain, where the can- | teen surplus amounts to £35,000,000, | an organization representative of | the army and navy, and headed by | Sir Julian Byng, has been formed, | and is asking for suggestions as to | the manner in which the money | should be disbursed. | The fund arises from the opera- tions of the army and navy canfeen | board, That board was formed when | the system under which canteéns 'were operated for the army and navy by private parties under con- | tract was abolished. The army and | | every gov no desire to visit the United States, and that women should be elected to erning body. FREEMAN'S JOURNAL BEEN SUPPRESSED (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Dec. 18.--According to the Herald, the.organ of or ganized labor, the reason for the suppression of the Dublin Free- man's Journal was not because of the paper's alleged interfer- ence with the recruiting of spe- . cial constables, but was the re- sult of its attacks upon the Irish administration. It is asserted that the Journal alleged that certain known criminals were allowed immunity of prosecution because the Government was employing them. SUSPICIOUS OF SOVIET. Esthonian Foreign Minister Doubts | Reds Sincerity. Dorpat, Dec. 18.--M. Poska, the GRORGE BERNARD SHAW i The English writeN, who says he has PLACED WOMEN BEFORE TROOPS Sel] And Thus Prevented the Monteacgrins from Fully Deicading Themselves. CALLON PEACE CONFERENCE | TO HAVE THE SERBIANS FORCED TO 'EVACUATE THE COUNTRY. : | | | | | { | Fierce Fighting Has Been Going on { Around tin je, the Montenegrins 1 - Resisting the Occupation of Their . Territory by the Serbians, (Canadian Press Despatch) | the Montenegro people against the Serblan occupation occurred around | Gettinje about Dec, 1st and 12th, it | Is declared in an official communique | from the foreign ministry of the | Montenegrin Government, the seat of which is in a suburb of Paris. The | statement asserts that the Serbians | placed women and children in front ; of them to prevent the Montenegrins | defending themselves. The Monte- | negrin Government has protested to | the peace conference aid asks that the Serbiams be forced to evacuate | the country . | EXPERIENCE AVAILETH NOTHING WHATEVER { In Connection With Appoint- ments to Vancouver and Hull Government Positions. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Ottawa, Dec. 18.---The appoint- ment of Col. Carty to the Vancouver collectorship and Lieut.-Col. Payetto ito the Hull stmastership have Paris, Dec. 18,--Fjerce fighting by | } 1S BEING DEPORTED Miss Elsie Saborowski, alias { Bancourt, who was arrested for revo- | lutionary activity, has left in charge of | | Immigration officials for New York, | where she will "bound for Europe, | months in custody POPE WAGES WAR ON WOMEN'S DRESS She has been nine { Expressly Forbidden to. Allow { Immodestly Dressed Wo- {) , men in Churches. } Vv [ Rome, Dec. 18. ! 18 pursuing | the present styles of women's dress, Which he condemns as "immodest and un-Christian." {structed all Catholic women's unions | recently to refuse to receive women | who dresed so immodestly as fashion "demands at the moment. The Pope has caused a circular to be sent to the rectors of all churches, chapels and oratories in which it is expressly { forbidden to aliow immodestly dres- | sed women to enter Catholic places | of worship. : |. The circular defines as immodest, {dow necks, short sleeves and short skirts, The World ~correspondent Pope Benedict Vv! learns that the Vatican is taking up | the subject very seriously ana has | | SEVEN Rita | be placed on a vessel | his campaign against | His Holiness in- | CABINET SHUFFLE COMMENTED UPON Provincial Consideration Must Be Taken Into Account Just Now. ONTARIO HAS LION'S SHARE OF THIS PROVINCE'S MEMBERS ARE MINISTERS : i } } | | Continued Adherence of Union Libe- rals Depends Upon Whether the Idea of Perpetuating an Honest Union Prevails, {| Montreal Herald Special. Ottawa, Dec. 18.--In the matter { of cabinet reconstruction provincial consideration must be taken into ac- count at the present time. New { Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- {land have no representation in the | cabinet, Nova Scotia is represented by Sir Robert Borden and Hon. A. K. Maclean, who is without portfolio. | Sir Robert has definitely decided to | retire, and Mr. MacLean has been | talking of doing so for some time | i } jlo be a good administrator and a trusted adviser of the Premier. Que- bec is represented by Hon. C. J. Dor | herty, minister of justice: Hon. C. C. | Ballantyne, minister of marine, and | Hon, P. E. Blondin, postmaster-ge- neral, the latter is in the Senate, hav- | { ing failed to secure a seat at the last | election so that the French-Canadian | population of the Dominion, totalling about two and a half million have ro real representation at all. Manitoba is represented by Hon. | | | | Arthur - Meighen, minister of inter- | | tor; Saskatchewan is represented by | Hon. J. A. Calder, minister of immi- gration; Alberta, by Sir James Loug- { heed, and Hon. A. L. Sifton, minister {of public works, and British Colum- bia, by Hon. Dr. Tolmie, minister of agriculture and Hon. Martin Burrell | back though he has proven himself | i { B. C. SIRCAR | A Madras YMCA. worker, who is | visiting Canada. He strenuously de- | niles the necessity of shooting down 2.- | 000 Hindoos to prevent riots. The mat- | ter is now the subjeot of inquiry in | Great Britain. Gen. Dyer, who gave | the borders to shoot, contends #t was | &bsalutely necessary do preserve or- | et tt tsa {tain. Sir Robert Borden was at his | office yesterday, and was in confer- | ence for some time with Hon. N. 'W., | Rowell. \ | It would appear that there has at | no time been any definite authority | for the statement that the leader- | ship would be settled at a Unionist | caucusto be held early in January. | This has been more in the natpre | of a suggestion. | Should Sir. Robert yield to the | pressure being brought to bear upon { im, retain the premiership for the present and go away for a prolonged | rest, Sir George Foster would in all | probability be the acting prime min- ister. Were this course adopted, the | political situation at the Capital | would. for the present at least revert {to normal, and there would be no | delay in connection with the open- jing of the next session of parMa- | ment. It would probably mean GET CONTRABAND GO0DS RETURNED American Owners to Have Seizures Re leased By Great Britain, WITS BE So ON NEUTRAL' VESSELS DURING ., THE BRITISH BLOCKADE. vn Ownership Must be Proved to - the Satisfaction of Britain--Announce« ment by the Foreign Office. Washington, Dec. 18.---Great Bri- tain is prepared now to release Am- erican owned goods seized during the war upon the establishment of theig - American ownership at the time the goods were shipped, the State Depart- ment was advised to-day by the Brie tish Foreign Office, . : The goods affected include those taken from neutral ships during the enforcement of the British blockade {against the Central Powers before the United States entered the war. It is understood to include goods ship- ped both from the United States to Germany and from Germany to this country. "The British note," eaid the State Department's announcement, 'is in response to an American note of | August 28th last, which pointed out that as the economic blockade of the | Central Powers had been raised, Ame j erican goods detained by the British Government under the provision of the Order-in-Council of March 11, | 1915, should be released to the Am- [ erican owners upon the production of documents establishing their title to goods at time of detention. The American note stated that pro- | ceeds of the sales of American-owned st the government as at present | §00ds, disposed of by 'the Britisn secretary of state, The latter is slat: | Cant the would carry on pre the | authorities because of their perish« d for retirement to the position of | present, and that it would meet par- | able character, should be released to | chief librarian of Parliament, and H. | 1; ith its followl ractical- | the owners. Hama s ks "American claimants must submit H. Stevens, of Centre Vancouver, or | R. F. Green, of Kootegay, will sue- | directly to the British procurator- | ceed him. i Ontario has at present the lion's | navy canteen board handled canteen | Esthonian Foreign Minister, in a supplies for all British naval and mi- | statement directed to the conference | litary in, Great Britain and France. |of the Baltic states, declared the Es- Its surplus is now beigs divided pro |thonian delegation doubted the possi- Tata among the countries whose 80l- | bility of peace and was "'suspicious diers patronized the canteens. Aus-|of the real sentiment toward peace tralia has accepted £2,000,000 in pay [of the Soviet Russian Government." drawn excited protests from the two | instructed bishops to see that a move departments in the Dominion Gov- | ment against immodest clothes ernment and pointed comment from {organized in their dioceses al | The Civilian, the organ of the Can- | through the world." So, unless styles | jadian Civil Service Association. { change in a short time, an organized "Both appointees are outsiders campaign will certainly exclude ul-! without any experience in the work tra-fashionably dresed women and -------- PAPER COMPANIES general at London documentary } proof of their ownership at the time 'have Been the discoverer of yanad- ment of its proportion of the fund. | Canada Is receiving $35,000,000 as| its share, and Col. Cherry, a British | officer, is here in connection with the | payment of the amount. C.P.R. PASSENGER a : TRAIN DERAILED, (Canadian Press Despatch) Montreal, Dec. 18.---At 1.80 o'clock this morning the Mont- real-Toronto C.P.R. train was derailed just east of Smith's Falls hy rails which had an in- ternal flaw breaking under the train. The flaw could not be detected on the siiface, Several passengers were taken to Smith's Falls on a relet train, and an- other train was made up and the passengers continued their destingtion. " SOME POSSIBILITY | OF BORDEN STAYING | Th Premiér May Make a State- ment Late This After= noon. (Canadinn Press Despatoh) - Ottawa, Dec. 18.---From present indications there is some possibility that Sir Robert Borden may be in- duced to postpone his proposed re- tirement from the premiership. Urg- { ent requests have been made by his | agues Fiat he 'should remain. | Every brings shoals of letters expressing hope that his retirement will not be necessary. Sir Robert intimated this moming that he will have an official sgatement probahly late this afternoon. the conclusion of to-day's meet- ing of the cabinet council, the pre- mier informed the Canadian Press that he was not as yet prepared to make any statement. gn Invention of a New-.Steel London, Dec. 18.--The. invention aa new steel, far in advance of any high-speed steel hithertq made, is described in the Daily Mall to-day by John Oliver Arnold, professor of me- tallurgy at Sheffield University. | Proféssor Arnold, who is said to jum steel, claims, according to the Daily Mail, that the new steel pos-, seases far more commercial possibi- lities, that it is unrivaled in hard- Beas, that in tool form it will remove B greater weight than any other steel and that it possesses comparatively longer life. : ; th TF -------------- urpaby was on Thursday t of the United Far- i in succession te R. 0 Fosignad the laderaiy ot 1 o » Farmers to enter into . PEEP PLB0000054444 | porting a quantity of liquor {& stated case to be taken to He proposed adjournment of the conference until January 3, but M. Joffe, the Bolsheviké- representative, demurred. It was finally agreed to await the arrival to-day ,of General Kohtyaev, of the Soviet delegation, who accom- | panied M. Krassin to Moscow to con- sult their Gevernment before decid- | ing on postponement. EXPRESS 00. FINED, But Leave to Appeal Allowed in Ot- tawa 'Liquor Oise, Ottawa, Dec. 18.--Judgment was rendered in the police court yester- day by Magistrate Askwith in' the case of the Canadian Express Com- pany, which was charged with trans- from Montreal to Ottawa in "contravention of the order-in-Council passed Pebru- ary 24th, 1919. The company was fined $202, but leave was granted at the request of Messrs. Pringle & Guthrie, counsel for the defence, for e Ap- peal Court. y Nearly 8,000,000 In Ontario, Toronto, Dec. 18 --The belated re- port of the Provincial Registrar-Ge- neral's Department for 1918, which | has just been published, shows that the population at the end of that per fod In Ontario was 2,798,970. This is an Increase of 29,120, or 1.04 per cent. The population is divided as follows: Cities, 1,080,430, or 38.7 per cent.; towns, 149,020, or 5.3 per cent.; and rural districts, 1,569,520, or 5.6 per cent. . Although there was a decrease 'in the namber. of births the total was 64,729, of which 33,486 were males. There were 43,038 deaths; 19,525 marriages were solemnized during the year, a decrease of 1,974. > To Use Less Newsprint. Washington, Dec. 18.--Every newspaper in the country was called upon by the House post office com- mittee to reduce its consumption of newsprint paper by ten per cent. for a period of 'six months in an effort to relieve the present serious short- age which the committee has heen told threatened the destruction of a number of small papers. Voluntary co-operatiom of publishers would ob- viate the necessity for repressive governm legislation, said the com- mittes statement. . : ---------- Exchange Rates Again Decline, (Canadian Press Despateh.) New York, Dec. 18. Foreign ex- change rates suffered another decline at the opening of the market to-day. Demand ~bills on the pound sterling were quoted at $3.79 %, or three and a Dalf cents below yesterday's close. There was a fractional advance in New York funds on Canada, quoted 7% per cent, premium. they have been hired to supervise," says the journal. It then refers to the fact that the customs service has some three thousand members with from one to forty years' official ex- | perience waiting for promotion. BRITISH GENERAL 'ELECTION PROBABLE (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Dec. 18.--The recent predictions that a general elec- tion will be held in the near future are revived by several morning newspapers in connec- 'tion with rumors current in par- 'llamentary lobbies. Parliament will be prorogueéd next week un til the second week in February, when, actording to widespread belief, the government will pre- pare for the dissolution of par- liament and an election to test the country's confidence in the coalition cabinet. WILL NOT RESTORE THE SOVEREIGN YET British Financiers Recommend Against the Early Circu= lation of Gold Coin. | Londom, Dec. 18.--The British | sovereign is not yet to be restored {as a purchasing coin. A commission lof bankers and financiers appointed | to deal with the problem of currency jand exchange have recommended {that it is neither necessary nor de- {girable that there should be any ly resumption of the internal cir n of the gold coin. On the all gold and bullion is to oreign exchanges, the committee ex, assed the opinion that' a sound sysis.* of currency would in itself secure ey 'librium in foreign exchanges. Incred. . pro- duction, cessation of Goveri. sat borrowings and decreased expena. ture, both by the Government and by each individual member of the nation, are the first essentials to re- covery. 'These must be associated with the restoration of pre-war methods of the controlling currency and. the credit system of the coun- try, for the purpose of re-establish- ing, at an early date, a free market for gold in London. | girls from Cathole churches STILL DISCUSSING THE GERMAN CLAIM ment of the Peace Details, (Canadian Press Despateh) Paris, Dee. 17-~The German claim in connection with the settles ment of the peace terms. in detail Was again before the Supreme Coun- cil to-day. The council reached a unanimous decision to permit the Germans to collect customs duties in gold. In further discussion of the question of compensation for the sinking of German ships at Scapa Flow, discrepancy developed between the estimates of the reparations com- mittee and those of the German ex- perts regarding mercantile tonnage and floating docks available for re- paration purposes at German ports. t amounted to about ome hundred thousand tons. : Allied and German naval experts will meet again this aftérnoon to discuss the Scapa Flow question. The Germans are semi-officially reported as having first asked a reduction in the quantity of dock material de- manded by the Allies, and to have a second proposition made to the ef- fect that they should deliver to the Allies the units .of shipping construe- tion now under way, instead of ma- terial referred to in the protocol. PULPWOOD SURVEY OF U.S. NORTH-WEST It Is Believed Enough Exists to Supply Newspapers For - Fifty Years. Washington, Dec. 18.--In a state- ment today urging enactment 'of his bill for a Government survey of pulp in the Northwest, Senator Poindexter, RepubMean, Washington, declred it was believed this timber would supply enough pulp to end the present shortage of newsprint paper and supply all pubMshers for [ede to me. "If the pulp wood Su, "'y actually dexter mid, Terms profiteering." He proposes the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the survey, "It will be found." said Mr. dexter, 'that newsprint can be made in Oregon, Wash - In Connection With the Settle- | share of portfolios. That province is | | represented in the cabinet by the | { Hon. Dr. Reid, minister of railways, | | Sir George Foster, minister of trade | | and commerce; Sir Henry Drayton, | | minister of finsnce; Hon. N. W.| Rowell, president of the Privy Coun- cil; Hon. ©. 8. Mewburn, minister of militia; Hon. Hugh Guthrie, solici- tor-general; Hon. GIAE0N Robertson. minister of labor, with Hon. Hugh Clark and Fon. F. B. Keefer, as par- liamentary secretaries. Must Comsiaer Maritime. It is ob.fous that in the shuffle re- presentation must be given to New Brumswick .in the first place. The portfolio of customs is at present va- cant and an effort has been made to fill it but so far without success. Sir | Doughlas Hazen would have none of | it. Sir Robert Borden's retirement will leave ' another vacancy in the maritime province representation which will also clamor to be filled. Manitoba at the outset had two mi-| nisters, but Hon. T. A. Crerar retired | new political force opposed to the government. Hon. L. Sifton is due to retire. government of Union Liberals in the persons of the Hon. N. W. Rowell, one of its best administrators; Gen- eral Méwburn, who never was an en- thusiastic politician, Mr. MacLean and others, will depend very largely upon whether the jdea of perpetuat- ing Union as such and not merely as a camouflage for Conservatism re- constructed prevails. The loyal ef- forts of each toward sound and pro- Per reorganization may be taken for granted. That Sir George Foster will retire is a matter of course. That he may, however, continue as acting prime minister until a successor to Sir Ro- bert Borden is found is quite likely. Hon. Dr. Reid is not in good health and may go also. But for the reasons given above it will not follow neces sarily that vacancies created by the retirement of Ontario men will be filled by others from Ontario, though Lloyd Harris is the logical successor of Sir George Foster. Activity Behind the Scenes, Ottawa, Dee. 18.--That there is much activity behind the scenes it is generally known, but just what moves are being mada on the board it is pr lly impossible to ascer- The continued adherence to the] STRIKE A BONANZA nim: Montreal, - Dec. 18.---It is pointed out in the street that the pulp and paper companies of Canada have struck what is al- most a bonanza in the fact that after export of pulp and paper to the United States is paid in Uni~ ted States currency it is stated that they will be almost able to pay their dividends on the ex- change they get the benefit of in this way. ~ "OLD RAZOR MAN" WOMAN IN DISGUISE Former Canadian Made Her Living For Years by Peddling. San Francisco, Dee: 18. -- The death of "John Young," known for many years along the highways be- and Is now engaged in organizing 2| tween this city and Los Angeles as | "the quaint old razor ,man" dis- {closes a secret long kept .that tne | real name of the old peddler was Anna O'Connell. : For many years, feft alone in the world, she had worn men's clothing to enable her to earn a living un- molested. She died on the doorstep of the home of Edwin Turner, toymaker. The Tufners were her friends of ear- ly years. When her wanderings brought her fo this city she always went to their home. They chanced to be out this time when she called. A lodger in the house informed her they would soon be back. She was weak and ill, and as she turned om the doorstep she sank down, cluteh- ing at her heart, and dled. Mr. Turner told her story. "More than tweniy years ago," he said, "my wife and I mage the ap- quaintance of a Canadian = geritfe- woman, Mrs. Anna O'Connell. She was then living in Montgomery block with her only child, Marie. Her hus- band, a Canadian army officer and a native of Yorkshire, England, had d "In the earthquake of 1906 Mrs, O'Connell and her daughter dropped out of sight: Wee heard nothing of them, and, finally, we went on a long visit to the Island of Guernsey, in the English Changel, my native place. About five years ago we re- turned to San Francisco. - . "One evening, when my wife was lone at home, there was a knock at the door. Opening it she saw a Iit- tle old man wearing a small mous- the goods were shipped." CENTRAL EUROPE FACES A FAMINE Will-Be Foodless by Feb. 1st Unless Allies "Save Shtuation. ; ------ London, Dec. 18. -- Apparently England's appeal to America, voiced by the Premier a fortnight ago, to supply 'money for Central European relief, .has not had the desired re. sult. Ceoll Harmsworth, Foreign Office spokesman, answering ques tions in the House of Commons spoke despairingly of the situation He told Major R. Glyn that it was in. tended to lay all papers pertaining - to.the Austrian. economic situation on the table, and that latest Vienna despatches showed the food situs. tion there critical. He asserted that Eagland had tried to make relief ar- rangements with South sslan co operative societies, but h failed. "The Government is doling |very- thing in its limited resources to re lieve the situation," which calls for co-operation mot only by England, but by all the associated' powers" he said. 'Viscount Curzon asked If it was a fact that thers would be no food in the Central Buropean area by the end of next month. 'Unless further arrangements are made, that will be 80," Mr. Harms- worth replied. : Minister Foreign Relations, has offered services of his cou ny vices received by the Mexican For. eign Relations Alcohol From Coke, Cleveland, Middlesborough, land, Dec. 18.--It Is announced that a local engineer has : in extracting commercial alcohol an: its derivatives from coke. t is claimed that %f the process, which requires the use of gas, is applied to all the coal carborized in Great Britain, an estimated yield of sae 000,000 gallons of motor spirits be obtained annually, revolutionizing the supply and cost of liquid fuel. Ex-Premior Hearst was bonored at a dinner 'In Toronto Wednesday -- Heavy deposits tonal ba : ana valley. The Raliway Board anyounces that ue for #