| eeived an urgent call to England and |. over the same period in 1918. ! police station. . | © 000,000 have been given Pittsburg, : the Rev. George Johnson, of Grace QUEEN'S STUDENTS We bave just received a special 'order of Swiss Silk, Neckwear, woven in the University colors, ~ Collier's Toggery YEAR 87; No. 14. AUSTRIAN FLEET MUCH DAMAGED According to Report, Made By the Allied | Noval Commission. . | ONLY HOLS RENAN 00D REPAIRS WILL REQUIRE SEVE- RAL MONTHS TO WORK. The Austrians Acknowledge the | Pamage, But Blame the Crecho-| Slovaks and Jugo Slavs. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Geneva, Jan. 17.--The Austrian | war vessels, which under the terms | of the peace treaty must be handed ovet to the Allies, have undergone a | second Scapa Flow, according to a| telegram received here from Turin. | The despatch states that the Allied | naval commission which recently ar | rived at Cattare confirms the first re- | ports that the Austrian fleet had been seriously disabled. The Aus- trians were said to have removed the principal parts of th machinery of the ships rendering them incapable of navigation, only the hull remain- 'ing in good condition. The fleet includes one battleship, three large cruisers and various 'smaller craft. The Austrians are de- clared to have acknowledged the dam age, but to have blamed the Czeche- Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs. Repairs will require several months of work. THE WORLD'S TIDINGS IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From All Over Told | in a Pointed and Pithy | 'Way. ! Western University governors, London, propose to erect two new buildings. Montreal council adopted a resolu- tion endorsing the building of a six- teen-storey hotel. The Toronto Telegrim says 13,700 miles of the Canadian Pacific Rail. way will be electrified. "The Shah of Persia has left Paris for Brussels, where he will be guest of the King of Belgium. Admiral Viscount Jellicoe has re- has cancelled visit to Brazil and Ar- gentina, ' The 1920 Ontario G.W.V.A. con- vention has been decided by the pro- vinclal executive to. apen 'on March 10th in Toronto. It is probable that the vacant post- mastership of Peterboro will be fill- ed by John Corkery, at present assisi- ant postmaster. Rev. C. W. Brown, pastor of Trin- ity Methodist church, Port Arthur, kas accepted a call to Grace church, Baskatoon, effective next June. Canddian trade at the close of De. comber shows an increase of over thirty-one and a half million dollars A man taken out of 4 Hamilton BOLSHEVIK! FLEEING EAST OF DVINSK (Canadian Press Despatch) Warsaw, Jan. 17.--Bolshekiv forces on: the Lithulanian and Esthonian fronts have been beaten and demoralized and are retreating east of Dvinsk, ac- oording to an official statement issued at general. staff head- quarters. The Reds are report- ed to be destroying railway sta- tions and bridges to prevent pursuit by Lettish and Polish units, 30,000 RUMANIAN PRISONERS DISAPPEAR (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Jan. 17.--Thirty thousand Rumanian prisoners in Germany have completely disappeared, according to a telegram from Bucharest to Red Cross headquarters here. The Rumanian Government refuses to accept Germany's theory that such a large number might be included among those listed as missing. An investi- ation is proceeding. USE OF NEWSPRINT. One United States Sunday Takes More Than All Canadian Papers. Ottawa, Jan. 17.-- "The situation seems to be misunderstood in the United States," said John M. Imrie, manager of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Association, when shown reports indicating that United States publishers regard Canada's restric- tions on exports of newsprint as a hardship on them and the Canadian consumption of newsprint as exces- sive. "Canada is producing 2,775 tons of newsprint per day. The timber limits and waterpowers used in that production belong, for the most part, to the people of Canada and are leased at law rates to the newsprint manufacturers, Surely Canada is jus- tified in insisting that the reasonable domestic requiréments amounting to less than fifteen. per cent. of the production, shall be supplied. "Actual figures do not justify the suggestion that while the United States publishers are restricting their use of newsprint, Canadian publish- ers are using it wastefully The an- nual consumption of newsprint in the United States is now at the rate of 20,000 tons per million of popula- tion; in Canada it is at the rate of only 14,000 tons, One United States newspaper is importing frem Can- ada for its own exclusive use a gquan- tity of mewsprint, that is only thirty- five per cent. less than the total con- sumption by all Canadfan newspapers combined. The Sunday edition only of the United States newspaper uses 4s mach newsprint as all Canadian newspapers use in two days." BLOWN UNDER TRAIN, WOMAN FATALLY HURT Mrs. Mary Claycomb, of Wol= colt, N.Y., the Victim of a uliar Accident. Oswego, N.Y., Jan. 17.--Mrs, Mary Claycomb, thirty, of Wolcott, the mother of several small children, Alton which Central passenger train at Thursday, receiving injuries caused her death. : theatre, supposedly intoxicated, died i shortly after being conveyed to the | Wood & Guady, of Toronto, secure | Toronto Harbor bonds. The commis- sion is to pay five and a half per cent, on the money. Steel. contracts aggregating $165,- Pa., concerns by Henry Ford. Ford announced the steel would be used in manufacturing automobiles. Dr. F. A. Adams, medical officer, 'Windsor, formerly of Toronto, is suf- | fering from an acute attack of hic- coughs, which epidemic was pre- jot . New York bakers complain that they cannot get as good results from U.S. Grain Corporation flour at $10.50 a barrel as they do from other ! flour of higher price. Rev. Herbert L. Johnson, a son of chureh, Point St. arles, Que., has faten appointed associate rector of St. ephen's church, Lynn, Mass, Suit has been brought against Ga- briele d'Annuhiio in Paris by a maker of theatrical costumes to re- cover the cost of orders given for ent as chairman of the British risory committee of the inion Corporation, has just been an- sailed for on ter to the th gh prohibition -- the am of reformers for more than a | state, The accident is one of the most peculiar ever reported in the rail- road annals of this section of the Mrs. Claycomb had been to Alton visiting with friends, and was to take the morning train back to her home in Wolcott. There was a heavy wind blowing, and there was also considerable snow in the air. Mrs. Claycomb was outside the station, and as the train approached the wind caught her and blew her down from.a little pile of snow which she was stand- ing, right in front of the approaching engine. She was hit by the engine, and when picked up was in a dying condition. She had a leg broken and many bruises and cuts about the face and head, besides internal injuries. She was placed dn the baggage car to be brought to the Oswego Hospital here, but she died before the train reached Wocott, her home. ARTHUR BURGESS SOLD RESTAURANTS Owned Ten C.P.R. Restaurants But Will Now Look After Other Interests. 6G. Arthur Burgess, according to the Carleton Place Herald, has sold his restaurant and will devote his time to other interests. Since his boyhood Mr. Burgess has been associated with the C.P.R. res- taurants, beginning first with the Canada Central, his brothe Cecil, John, Robert and Cecil, being alter- nately the lessees. them, and extended the system until he owned and controlled ten different o | Testaurants at as many divisional points. He has disposed of his furnishings and equipment and good-will to the ury--became 2 reality at a min- | 2PP tor midnight last night in every dnd corner of the United States deaths, were report- the twenty- am. yester- was blown in front of a New York KINGSTON. ONTARIO, SURRENDER OF WAR CRIMINALS Ton Tirpitz's Name is Among [hose fo Be Demanded. CASE OF CAPTAIN FRYATT YIELD A PRISONER | FOR TRIAL | The Supreme Council Is Considering the Matter----Death Penalty Will be { Imposed In Many Cases. London, Jan. 17.---The question i of the surrender of war criminals is | engaging the attention of the Allied | Council. | WiLL ALSO | meetings with M. Ignace and other |appointed less than: forty-five per- of dealing with them | Allted delegates, and lists have been | manent game officials, who will be council, is the future of the housing | | gone through again. { The British lists naturally includea | number of individuals who distingui- | shed themselves in connection with submarine warfare, and the surrend- | er will be asked of those who order- | ed their crews to fire upon British | | sailors whose ships had been torpe- | | doed while they were struggling for { thelr lives in the water. { The case of Captain Fryatt will al- | 80 yleld its prisoner and it seems | more than likely that Admiral von | | Tirpitz, who in written orders has | Bome far to prove his personal res- | ponsibility for the barbarous nature { of submarine warfare, will also fig- | ure in the list. | + The Crown Prince is not among | those whom the Allies desire to try, | but the case of his father will be pro- secuted with the umost severity, and | | it 1s not thought possible that the Dutch can raise any temable objec- tion to his surrender. It has been suggested that the Al- lies made a mistake in including on the tribunal for these cases, repre- sentatives of neutral powers, It is a delicate matter to ask smaller states land and Denmark, who live upon the very frontiers of Germany; to take a share in the responsibility for judging German criminals who, if they had been caught while the war was in progress, would have been tried straight away by an Allied mili- tary court by the summary methods of a drumhead court-martial, The trials will be held in Britain, France, Belgium and Italy, and there can be but little doubt that in many cases "the death penalty will be im- posed. : i TWO BIG BARNS BURNED Hay Pressers Lose Equipment-- House Saved After Roof in Flames . Cape Vincent, N.Y., Jan. 17.-- Two large barns -on the farm of Dwight Borland on Wilson's Bay, southwest of this village, were burn- ed to the ground Wednesday after- noon. The fire was caused by fric- tion in a hay press which was being used at the barn. The horses and sixteen head of cat- tle were taken out of the burning buildings and while the last cow was being led out the loft fell in making it impossible to save several small pigs. The entire season's crop of hay and grain was destroyed besides the harnesses and farm implements. The hay press, which was the property of the Constance Brothers, was also de- stroyed by the fire. The farmhouse caught fire and was not extinguished until a large hole was burned in the roof. One of the barns was practically new, being built by Mr, Borland only a little over a year ago, Somé insur- ance was carrled on the buildings and contents, but they were not fully protected and the loss will be seve- val thousand dollars. UNREST THROUGH IRELAND Dangerous Possibilities Are Caused By Strikes and Elections, Limerick, Ireland, Jan. 17.--This city is in the throes of an excitement that is partly industrial partly poli- tical and entirely confusing. A strike of dock laborers for higher wages has been in operation for several weeks. This closing of the Shannon has completely paralyzed local indus- try. Corn mills and other establish- ments, dependent on sea-borne goods have been compelled to close down and discharge their workmen. Here, as elsewhere in Ireland, the revolt of motor. drivers against the Governments motor permit order, has cleared almost every automobile off the roads and traffic arrange ments are seriously affected. In Lim- erick it 'would appear as if every man is unemployed, or on short time, as a result of these disputes and the sit- uation, allied as it is to the unheal- thy excitement engendered by the municipal elections, has GQighly dan- gerous ties. MEAF PRICES GO UP " FIVE OFFICIALS TO BE APPOINTED | In Place of 210 to Enforce the i Game and Fisherles | : Law. FORTY- | (Canadian Press Despatoh) | Toronto, Jan. 17 hundred | nd ten incumbents fn forty-eight | counties and districts of the province "will be separated from their pres- ent salaries and positions in the em- | | ployment of the provincial govern- | ment by the wholesale reorganiza- itlon of the game and fsh- jeries department which fs to be made in the' near future by | Hon. F. C. Biggs, Minister of Public | Works, This small army of employ- | 8es are for the most part game over- | seers and deputy wardens, and their total annual salary rums up to al- most $100,000 a year. All of them | gave only a part of their time to the | | government and their salaries vary | of work | | according to the amount {they do and the extent of territory | they cover. These 210 part-time em- | ployees are all to be relieved of shelr expected' by the government to give | their whole time to the enforcement of the game anl fisheries law of the province. i i of Europe, such as Holland, Switzer- | | | } GUSTAV NOSKE German's "iron man," who has been | placed (n charge of BerMn under mar- | tial law, | NURSING HOUSEKEEPERS. i np registered nw ' association. The bill provides for the trainingiof these women over a period of one and flor their subsequent legisla . They will then be able to go out in the joint capacity of nurses and house- keepers to attend confinement and minor surgical cases at a less salary than the fully qualified nurse com- mands. ' HON. J. BE. CARON Minister of Agriculture of Quebec, who criticizes the operations of the so-called Canners' Trust and the Dom- inlon Government for allowing its ex- istence. -- | NEWS IN BULLETIN. | H. H. Dewart offer to make a va- cancy for Premier Drury to contest South Toronto. Only one person was saved from the wrecked steamer Afrique in the Bay of Biscay. There were 473 lives Russian prisoners feturning to Russia are obliged to enlist with the Bolsheviki under penalty of death. The blockade of Red Russia is part De a 0 Be ad clues and are sent for flax and grain. oh Tas aaa Killed aad his condustor was badly injured "collision | Friday night's storm, 5 LEAVES HOUSING 0 LEGISLATIRE The Drury Cabinet Will Not Deal With This Scheme. CITES BECOME WORRIED | | BECAUSE FUNDS HAVE NOT YET BEEN ADVANCED. {The Dominion Government Grant Only Half Spent--Municipalitics Are Urging Immediate Action. Toronto, Jan. 17.---Among the {many important questions that the | Drury Government intends | Lord Birkenhead has had | positions and in their place will be | © the legislative to decide; iustead cabinet | in { scheme! which was passed at the last | {taken by a large number of munici- { palities. The late government, hav- ing introduced the measure, natural- ly gave every assistance in carrying it out, advancing the money as re- quired. Since the Drury Govern- ment has taken office, it has be- come known, it has advanced no money whatever for this purpose. Spring is only a few months off, {and municipalities are anxious | get their plans in shape now, so as [to be prepared to start operations as | soon as the weather permits. | said that several of them have made | inquiries as to whether or not they | fare to get the appropriations for }which they have asked, and that ithey have been unable to get any i satisfaction, Probably most of the {cities and towns are being delayed {in the purchasing of land. Some, it {is said, have even gone so far as to | get options on large blocks of land, 'and they cannot close the tramsac- tions through inability to secure from the Government | which was promised under the act. | One of the difficulties | government doubtless has to face is | to reconcile the expenditure of seve- { ral millions of dollars in loans on housing with its platform of econ- omy. Although the monay will nlti- mately come back to the provines, it, in the meantime, increases the finan- cial burden which the province has to show in its budget. Money Only Half Spent. tributed among the different pro~ vinces for the encouragement of house-building. Of this amount On- tario's share was $8,500,000. The province at the last session set aside an additional $2,000,000, bringing the total amount up to $10,500,000. It is learned that this entire amount has heen allotted to the municipali- ties, which last summer acted upon the scheme and had their plans ap- proved by the Government officials, About 1,400 houses have been built {to date throughout the province, {and only about half of the $10,500,- | 000 has actually been spent. { fore, while the province set aside | $2,000,000 to augment the Dominion i grant, it has not actually had to be spent, because the Dominion allow- {ance to date has been sufficient to i meet the actual expenditure, | While the full amount allotted fo i the municipalities has not been paid { out, it is not going to be sufficient to { meet the building programme plan- ined by the municipalities for this | yéar. The number of places actually | building houses last year is being | considerably increased. Many cities (and towns which last year received ino appropriation from the govern- | ment have already sent in their appli- ication for sums which' press des- | patches indicate, run as high as three-quarters of a illion dollars | for one place. { ditional demands to date aggregate {more than $8,000,000, and that at {least $6,000,000, in addition to the | [$10,500,000 allotted last year, will actually ave to be spent by the { Government this. year if the scheme is to be continued. Urge Action. Unable to get assurances from government officials that they will get their appropriation, it is Xadwn that some municipalities have al- ready made representations to the provincial secretary's department asking that their plans be not fur- ther held up. Such representations wil likely continue to he made to the Government unless some speedy action is taken to assure the munici- palities that the money will be forthcoming. But if the whole mat- ter is to go to the legislature, as now seems probable, it will be the private members whom the muniei- palities will have to convince that the expenditure is desirable. It has bcen suggested {in some quarters that the Ontario Govern- ment should approach the federal authorities and see if the Dominion grant cannot be increased. Some of the provinces have not made use of the offer from the Dominion, and it is thought part of this might be turned over to Onl METHODISTS MAY MERGE. Representatives of North and South Lou i ams ., 'Jayme nting 6,000, 300 Moonset ecopaians © tho | ih Fig leaving | session, and of which advantaga was to | It is | the money | which the | There- | It is said that the ad- | The Daily British Whig SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1920. AIR EXPLORATION TO AID WEATHER FORECAST Prof. Goddard's Rocket Inven= tion Is Considered of Great | Importance. | New York, Jan. 17.---Scientists, aroused by the announcement that | Professor Robert H. Goddard, of { Clark College, has evolved a new | method of exploring the upper alr, |are awaiting with interest the ex- | periments to be undertaken under | the auspices of the Smitsonian In- | stitution to test Professor Goddard's {plan, which involves the discharge of a multiple charge rocket, which, {its inventor insists, can acquire suf- | | ficient propulsive power to carry it | as far as the moon. Local meteorologists, far from be- i {Ing skeptical, express themselves as | | extremely hopeful of the success of jthe proposed venture. The experi- ment is of spegial Interest to that while they care little whether or not the moon is reached, are intensely interested in the ploration of the 'atmosphere above the limits the bureau is at present apparatus. BUTTER AND EGGS DOWN, In Chicago, Gentle Reader, Not in Kingston. Chicago, Jan. 17.--Downturns in { the price of butter and egps of late, especially in the last few days, have | stirred inquiry as to the reasons. Butter yesterday was off 314 cents a pound this week, and eggs down | three cents a dozen. Importation of butter from Den-! mark owing to the extraordinary fi- nancial conditions is given as one of the factors in lowering the price of | Besides the rela- | domestic butter. tive cheapness of lard as compared with butter, is said to be the greatest on record. Declines in the value of eggs are ascribed chiefly to increased supplies natural at this time of the year, and alsn in some degree to an organized boycott designed to bring egg prices back nearer to ordinary peace time | standards. CLEMENCEAU DEFEATED By Deschanel For the French Presi. dency Nomination. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, an. 17.---Premder |ceau went down to defeat at the {bands of his countrymen yesterday in the caucus of the Sénate and | Chamber of Deputies to choose a can- | didate for the presidency of the re- | public. He was beatem by Paul Des- | chanel, president of the Chamber of | {| Deputies, who secured = 408 votes, | while Clemenceau had 389 cast in his | {tavor, | Benators and deputies are gemer- ph + "Ths Domiififon Government a year ally of.opinion.that.the vote means i Paris con '| ago set aside $15,000,000 to be dis- Clemenceau's elimination from pub- lic Hfe, He being neither sebator nor deputy. His friends are already searching for another candidate, a= | President Poincaire is reported to | refuse to accede to the demand of a | deputation that he be a candidate for | re-election. : | «Never before in the history of the | presidential elections have so many | atended the plenary caucus, 821 out jof 924 being present. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS, | onty Seven Cases Down, Three of | Them Canadian, | London, Jan. 17.--Remarking on {the fact that only two Australian, { two New Zealand and three Canadian {cases are scheduled to appear be- fore the Privy Council at the ensu- | ing term, thé Evening Standard says: "Somehow or other the big-wigs in | the dominions always do find it dif- | fleult to get cases prepared for the | Privy Council's winter sittings, which | involves for the big-wigs a winter ! crossing of the ocean. {that one of the great objections | raised to taking appeals at Whitehall {is on account of the insufferable de- {lays and the playing into the hands {of the litigant with the longest | purse," ESTABLISH SOLDIERS. This is Advocated in the Quebec Legislature, i Quebec,Pan. 17.--A patriotic speech jon the advisability of settling sol- | diers on Crown lands was made by | | Armand Bolsseau, of St. Hyacinthe, {in the House yesterday. It was a | speech whicii would have been inter- | 4. | eating five years ago, for it told of {the brutal German rushing on little | Belgium, lauded the glorious dead, | land urged the necessity! of looking after returned soldiers by aiding them to seltle on farms, but there was nothing of a definite nature sug- gested. There should be a campaign of education to got-the soldiers to the land, sadd Mr. Boisseau. Wilfrid Cédillet, of Laprairie, also believed that the colonization meve- ment should be extended for sol- dlers. : One Oent Fine For Murder, Kalispell, Mont., Jan. 17.--A jury for killing George Hebron at White- last summer, yesterday reported a verdict cf guilty, and fixed punish- ment at a fine of one cent. - Judge Thompson approved th verdict and remitted the fine. ¥ Sequel to Riots. London, Jan. 17.~A sequel to the disturbance by Canadian soldiers at Epsom on June 17th came yesterday, when the twenty-four 'poifeemien who ! the police station during the attack were each presented with a gold watch and medal provided by public citizens. the | woather bureap; whose chiefs state | they | ex« 1 able to invade with meteorological | Clemen- | Small wonder ! The quarrel occurred over Harris' money wife. : y tario. SPECIAL SALE wn fon FELT HATS AT $3.50 Collier's Toggery A nan eh LAST EDITION. HOW 10 MEET * RUSSIAN MENACE The British Press is Sharply Divided Into Two Divergent Lines. BRAN MAYBE FACED IN THE NEAR EAST. Removal of the Caliphate From Constantinople Would Have Pro- duced. Anti-British Feeling Through the Moslem World, London, Jan. 17.--Speculation is active in the Buropean capitals as to | what will be' the next move of the | Bolsheviki, It is regarded as oer- tain that, flushed with success, they will not be content with their presqnt conquests, but will seek to extend Bolshevism either eastward or west- ward, Expert military opinion in- clines to the belief that their next move will be an attack on Poland and the Baltic states, and Warsaw des- patches to the London papers already | indicate that the Poles are fully an- | ticipating such a move. A The Soviets now undoubediy com- mand formidable forces, but not suf- ficlent to warrant an attempt to advance to both east and west. Against the likelihood of an attack {on Poland, wich, it is said, will be popular with the Red generals, is the fact that the Bolshevik flanks { would be exposed on the north to an attack by the Letts and on the south to an attack by the Rumanians. All these possibilities will be dis- | cussed by the important conference | assembling at Paris. It is perhaps j significant in connection with the | possible Bolshevik activites in the | Middle East and the attitude of the { Moslem populations generally toward England, that, whereas a fortndgiht | ao it was stated that Premier Lloyd | George had been victorious in carry- ing the British view in favor of ex- {cluding the Turks from Conatantl- nople and removing the capital of the new Turkey to Asia Minor against the wishes of Premier €le- menceau and the French statesmen, who wished to retain the Turks in Constantinople, it is stated now that | the Freneh view is prevailing in th ference. gw Sorry i . Effect on Moslems. This may be explained as possibl FE) {Que to the new turn in eve 8 j removal of the €aliphate from Con- | stantinople would have produced | strong anti-British feeling througont {the Moslem world. It may be said | that official circles here appear to be {more impressed with the ddnger to British interests in the Near and | Middle East through Bolshevik pro- | paganda than with possible military developments. | The British press is sharply divid- ed into two divergent lines in con. | nection with the Government's treat- | ment of the Bolehevist question. One { section, strongly anti- Bolshevik, sharply attacks Premier Lloyd { George, charging him with responsi: | bility for the weakening of the causes | of Denekine and Kolchak by alilance | with Prinkipo conference ideas amd various Bolshevik overtures. . These | papers also take the line that Ger- many is behind and in conspiracy { with the Bolshevik mahoeuvres. | The other section, representing the | policy of not intervention in Russia. ! attributes all the trouble to Mr. | Churchill, the Secretary for War, and { military influences. It charges the | Government with indulging in whole- | sale propaganda to misrepresent the { nussian situation and argues that i the Government has made a disas- trous mistake in refusing to megoti- | ate peace with the Soviets, { The Star, commenting on the state | ment "regarding the Ishevik sec- | tivities, describes it a8 an ominous | hint indicating that the situation in ithe Middle East may be made an | excuse by the British Government for {new and extensive military adven- | tures. | Within the next three months, says a long semi-offigial statement deal {ing with the Near Hastern affalrs, Great Britain may be faced with a serious Bolshevik situation in the Near East which would mean mills tary commitments, according to ex- pert opinion based on official advices from the theatres of war. Fmt REDEEMED REPUTATION. Belleville Fair in 1910 a Record-- New Officers. : in the case of Stephen Harris, tried [al