SPECIAL, SALE ref e FELT HATS AT $8.50 Collier's Toggery special order of Swiss Bilk Neckwear, woven in the University colors. | - QUEEN'S STUDENTS We have just received a Collier's Toggery rr re eo Bote stro. KINGSTON. ONTARIO, LAST EDITION, = The Dutch Government Has Refused The The Hague, Jan. 23. Demand Of The Allied Powers For The Extradition Of ~ Former Emperor Wilhelm Of Germany. FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1020. 7 = 7 CAVADK'S SHARE "WILL BE LARGE An Connection With Upkeep of the League of Nations. FIRST-CLASS POWER RANK 'GIVEN CANADA BY INTERNA- TIONAL POSTAL UNION. ; : f | {The Canadian Representative to the | : League of Nations Will be Pers | manently in Residence at Geneva. (Montreal Gazette Cable.) London, Jan. 23.---Canada will have to pay a8 Much toward the up: | keep of the League of Nations us| and more than Belgium, | ! Britain, Brazil, the Argentine Republic and jother countries whose populations tequal that of the Dominion or feven greater. This was one of some Interesting points brought out HON. J. D, REID RESTING | Minister of Railways Not Fully Re- | covered From Iliness. | Ottawa, Jan. 23.--Hon. J. D. Reid {has to go away om account of ill] | A health, and is leaving at once. | few weeks ago the Minister shad an attack of congestion of the lungs, and, though he seemingly recovered fully, a bronchical affection has de- veloped and he has been advised to | rest a while, { In his stead, Hon. N. W. Rowell 18 acting Minister of Public Works. It is not yet announced who will look after the Railway Jepartment. TWO JUDGES APPOINTED To Investigate London and Hamgiton Asylum Matters. Toronto, Jan. 23 --~Judge Snider, Hamilton, and Judge MacBeth, Lon- don, have been appointed to investi- gate the charges made dgainst the | asylums in Hamilton and London. | ' GEN. OURRIE'S VISIT. Arrives Late This Afternoon--To Re- main Several Days. fs | iu | @n Interview with Sir Herbert Ames, | whose position is financing the league. The we] connected with reason |. F why Canada has to bear a relatively large proportion of the expense of | the maintenance is that it was decid- | ed to apportion the cost according to the classification of the International { * Postal Unfon, and Canada is ranked | by the I. P. U. as a first-class power. Sir Herbert Ames is Canada's sole re-} Jresentative on the league staff, The appointment of the Domin- | ion's representative on the deliber- | ative body of the League Assembly Joist be made within the next few | taonths, as he must attend the first | meeting, and that is now expected | fo take place in April... A meeting of the council was held in Paris last | week and another will take place in London soon. Then will come the assembly, the piace of meeting of which has not yet been decided. though no programme has yet been fixed for this gathering, I learn that the admission of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru, who have signified their desire to join the league, will be considered. The future of Russia may also be 4 sub- ject, as well as the matter of man- dates for German Africa, result of the Washington nierence. Uitimately a permanent home for Imhor the league is contemplated 4n Gen-| va, and it will then be necessary don Canada, like other members, to keep her delegate permanently in residence there to guard her inter- ests. Suoh a delegate must evidemtly be a member of the Government in power, and will change whep Government changes. For the as- sembly in April he will take with him a staff expertly versed in Can- adian affairs. The lope has been expressed in London \Aat if Sir Rob- ert Borden decides he cannot ¢on- tinue as Prime Minister, he will be- . 'some the Canadiaft delegate to th: ~ 'Jeague, or take an appointment in 'the International High Court of Jus-~ 'tice In connection with it. * 'DECIRHERING HOLLAND'S "REPLY TO THE ALLIES ue Newspapers Say Ex-Kaiser's Extradition Als | and the | tha | | Three Men Who Were Found Guilty | b | f | GEN. BIR ARTHUR CURRB General Sir A irle will arrive {Canadian Pacific Railway at fam. to-day, and they + wil be {8uest of Major-Gener A. 8. Williams at their residence, | King. street. , . : . ' | 'General Currie was commander of { the Canadian corps in the late war, {and is now inspeetor-general of the He will be in the | Canadian mflitia. and will inspect the | city several days, | Royal Military Co son troops. ---------- | HANGED AT MONTREAL. of Murder, (Canadian Press Despatch) | Montreal, By, 23.~--Baptiste Le- | may, alias Delerme, Murdoch Allan jand Rome Laceste, were hanged in Ithe Bordeaux jail this morning, | When travelling in a stolen motor to { Quebec, on August 16th last, the three men, accompanied by t ers, broke into th | Payetts, at Ste Sulpice, killing him | When he resisted their attempt robbery. ---- BUY DYES IN GERMANY English Users Are in Need of Two illion Pounds of Material. llege and the garri- | hree oth- i e home of Aleide | | port. ARMENIAN FUND The suffering that is being en- | dured by the Armenians is almost | beyond description. describes it as appalling. | to his sister, Mrs. R. D. Anglin, 144 | Unlon street, Rev. J. J. Brokenshire | eoncerning a visit to Mr, | has written | Armenian ports. | navy yard at Charleston, South Caro- lina. He went to France on the SS. | Martha Washington, with a shipload | of interned Germans. His vessel | was despatched through the Medi- | terranean and the Black Sea, and called at several Armenian ports, where he had an opportumity of | witnessing some of the awful condi- [ tions prevailing in that unhappy | t country. The Whig has the privi- | lege of quoting from his letter as | follows ' | "Oh, the suffering I beheld with | | my own eyes in Armenia. It was ! terrible. Thousands of human beings | | starving before my eyes, Our special women and children and poor lan- | | tern-jawed men waiting for the | crusts and crumbs we might throw out. Water melon rinds with every | bit of red eaten off were eagerly | seized and picked to the skin and | fn some cases devoured altogether. I shall never forget a morning walk, I took in Alexandropal when, hearing | fan awful wail, I found six hundred starving men, women and children outside the bread line, in a frenzied condition, on account of not being lable to optajn their nine ounces of | bread. I rushed into the station and | took several loaves in my rain coat | and fed on the side a lot of famish- | ing. women and children. On ancther | occasion I found some good hot soup being sold in a station restaurant. I bought 411 they had and went out' rthur and Lady Cur. | 204 with my interpreter and two in Kingston via tie | guards we féd out of spoons the 5.30 | hundreds who almost mobbed us to 'the oonful of warm soup into al and Mrs, V. | gst 4 4p P theiriopened mouths. Imagine hun- dreds of open mouths all around you, | craving for food, their wild eyes | THE WOHLD'S TIDINGS | In VUNDENSEY FORM | | Tidings From All Over Told | in a Pointed and Pithy Way. | A white paper recommends a grant {of 850,000 Pe for five years to | the Empire Cot¥n Growing commit- | tee. | Hartley. Dewart, in addressing | South-West Toronto Liberals, said | there was a "decadent press" in On- | tario, { It is rumored that the Roumaniane | are about ta occupy Odessa and or- | Banize the defences of that Black Sea | Reports that Marshal Foch is go- | ing to Warsaw on a military mission are officially denied by the French | Government. St. Thomas council will be asked | to grant $1,600 to pay the salary of | A Kingstonjan | In a letter | Brokenshire | | was a chaplain for three years in the | $500,000 ay | | strained in expectancy and just to | 8et a few spoonsful of hot soup. | "Coming back our train stopped at the verge of a great mountain {chasm. I was struck with the ap- | bearance of a girl child, sitting up straight and all alone, looking to- ward the gloom of the mountain fastness. I Tan out and found a little thing of four or five years, gnawing ravishly at a rotten, mouldy crust of bread, fot good enough for hogs to devour, brought her a lunch and water. shall never forget the starving stare that came from her two large beaut. | ful eyes in returm. 1 was almost | bringing her on the train, but knew | it was folly. The child was dying, and perhaps {ts mother had gone to i try and got a morsel of good food in | hopé of saving her. But the little thing could never live, I know, and what could I do with a child on the ship, especially In that condition. I lifted her up to arrange her clothes | more comfortably and found her legs car was thronged by hundreds of | like sticks, bent up, shapeless, and her weight could not be over twenty- five pounds. The train moved while I was attending to her and I had to run to catoh it. "How thankful we should be for home and friends, and all we really need to eat and drink. Here were the refugees dying at the rate of 130 per day, and from sheer starvation. America is putting in $34,000,000 in heroic effort to relieve, and I never felt prouder in my life than when I noted their loyal and generous ser vice. But a cold winter is coming on and the hundréds of thousands of starving ones are still there, and all this havoc the result of the atrocities of the unspeakable Turk." These Contributions have been received : fue WITH ... .. Mrs. W. H. Reid .... Mrs, 8. 8. Corbett .. George McAuley . , Mrs. Holland "ua E. G. Horn (Audit Bureau of Circulation) A Friend . vesse $5.00 2.50 2.50 2,00 2.00 2.00 1.40 tesavmenaans Oe OD 10 DECIDE UPON THE MEMORIALS (To Be Erected Upon Batliefieds in oy Of Cons. ALREADY VOTED ---- BY DOMINION PARLIAMENT FOR THE MEMORIALS Brig.Gen. H, T. Hughes Has Secur. ed Bight Sites--Some Memorials | Will Be Buildings and Others Mo- I ran back and | I | tive men who had met following the [choice of Mr. Rollo to the cabinet {and represented local Iahor. ! Referring to the meeting that we | Chose Mr. Rollo, he said: "We call- I: a meeting of some twenty-six in- LABOR IS HOT UFO. ADIN Mayor McBride Issues 2 Challenge oo | ship, Hon. Mr. Rollo. {has been decidedly reactionary." HS NECLECTED LABOR | DECLARES THE BRANTFORD "LABOR MEMBER-E LECT. | The Mayor Says That the Labor Men | 1 | Are Disgusted at an | Seat-Hunting Activitics. Toronto, Jan. 23.-- | Hon. Mr. Rollo w. t | not affect the Grand Trunk, on whith I with Fan!s a shawdowp { freight is moving freely across the | With me as to our respective positions | border. A meeting is being held in as labor men he can have it. I wan: | Buffalo to have the freight diverted {to say that in my opinion hé merely | to other routes owing to the conges- {used labor to acquire a fat job for | tion on the New York Central lines. { bimselt, and that his blind following | {of Druryism fs not the leadership | { labor has a right to expect." | Above is the challenge that Mayor M. M. MacBride, of Brantford, Labor | member-elect for the Ontario Legis- | lature, gave in answer to the .attack i {made on him in a statement by Hon. | Walter Rollo, Minister of Labor in | the Drury Cabinet, yesterday after- | noon. | Mayor McBride was asked if he | | had seen the statements of Mr. Rollo, { Minister of Labor in the Drury Cabi- | {net, in which the latter criticized the {recent action of Mayor MacBride in | calling a meeting of Labor mem ers- | elect here on Tuesday, to which the | minister was not invited, and other | ns characterized by the minister | dividuals, of whom only six or seven were Labor members-elect, and then ', With his friends' assistance became Labor minister. Since then the Labor members have heard nothing Irom him and are disgusted. | Pression is that Mr. Drury's leader TO DIVERT FREIGHT. To Other Routes Owing to Conges- tion on New York Central, (Canadian Press Despatch) Niagara Falls, Jan, 23.--Officiale ere were notified this morning that embargo has been placed on | Michi JOHN F. FORD, UFO. MPP. Mending to dissension in the Labor party, { "I called the meeting. and did not {Invite Mr. Rollo to attend it," sald | Mayor MacBride; "but it wae galled | {at the request of other La = | bers, who are tired of the & ing activities of Mr. Rollo ot. Yair | Who has resigned his seat in Halton of the Drury Government. | County to give Premier Drury a place The minister since hiss appoint. | hat th iri Sil be. ponent by | ment seems satisfied to draw his sal- | the Liberals and that 'the Conserva- (ary and has never done anything for | tives are likely to vote with them. | the party that elected him, but has | Bs IC | devoted his efforts to trying to find | | seats for the other members of the | 4 Te who were without them. | | NEWS IN BULLETIN. Seat-Hunting For-U.F.0. | "We know thet he is a member of the committee that was trying t find seats, He does not seem t { | realize that he was elected as a re- | | presentative of labor and not to fol- | {low the leadership of the central exe- | jcutive of the U.F.0. His whole atti- Conditions in South Russia are {tude and conduct are repellant to a | much Jess alarming, according to the | large number of the labor members, | British War Office summary. such as his waiting about till the | -- return of the secretary of the U.F.0. There is fighting in Mesapotamia. | "If Mr, Rollo spent more time on | Both governments are defied. The {the matters of labor legislation and | {less on seat-hunting for Drury there would be less general dissatisfaction with him. "But his whole attitude seems to Ukraine armies are down with ty- phus. All in one force of over 10,000 0 | are ill, ol The United States Senate is nearer a common basis on the peace pact, { tish with heavy losses Threat of revolution in Italy is lone cause which impelled the peace indicate that he thinks the Labor {conference postponements. party is merely an adjunct to the | Drury Government. He was eyected | on a Labor platform and to forward the claims of labor men in legisla- tion." { Asked ag to the men who atena- | ed the meeting held on Tuesday, Mr. | MacBride said they were the same i United States railway trainmen | want a definite answer to their de- | mands for an increase. The Attorney-General intimates there will be nb recount of referen- dum ballots in Ontario. A Amin, "As to the Government, my im- | instead of being progressive, | the Minister's | canadian freight passing over the | gan Central railroad to the New { "Any time the | York Central lines. The order does | Arab leader was defeated by the Bri- }\ GERMANS DONT CARE "1 WHOOP" What Happens to Their Former Kaiser, According to Berlin Despateh. THE SWISS ARE N FAVOR |OF THE EX-EMPERORS EXTRA. DITION FROM HOLLAND. | A Referendum May be Taken bywhe Dutch--William Hohenzollern is Apparently Unperturbed. | go on chopping wood at Amerongen | forever, or, for that matter, may spend the rest of his days in the | London tower writing memories or {letters to King George, ar he may be {exiled to St. Helena and pass the time in gazing darkly across the ses |in the direction of his onoe beloved | fatherland. The "man in the street" {in Germany does not give a whoop. | Now that it 1s the question of the | day throughout Europe, it is inter. | esting to listen to the casual conver- | sations carried on in the street cars |and cafes in Berlin, and the public | glances over the news concerning the | Entente's negotiations with Holland Favors His Extradition. Geneva, Jan. 23.---8wiss news- | papers, following the Jead of the | Geneve Tribune, favor the extradition {ol former Emperor William from | Holland. | The consensus of editorial opinion | is that, ewing to the exceptional |erimes of an international character | charged against him, Holland would {not be guilty of abusing the traditions Of neutral countries, as in this case { Count Hohenzollern is not a political | refugee, | A Referendum, | Paris, Jan. 23.--~A member of the Dutch legation here said to-day the | question of extradition of the former | Kaiser would be submitted to a refor- | endum, { | | Apparently is Well, Amerongen, Holland, Jan. | While the diplomats of the Great {Powers are occupying themselves with a demand for his surrender for trial, former Emperor William of | Germany, as far as those outside | Bentinck Castle can learn, remains j unperturbed. 2 a | STILL CLAIMS METHODS WHOLLY INADEQUATE | For the Solving of the Soldier Re-establishment Problem in Canada, [ Ottawa, Jan. 23 --Reaftirming 'its | belief in the, inadequacy of the re-es- | tablishment methods of the Govern- | ment now in operation the G.W.V.A. | executive has forwarded a letter {1 | Sir Robert Borden declining the in- | vitation of the Premier to submit | any other aspects of the question o: | further suggestions or récommenda- tions. A resolution was also adopted | favoring the principle of proportion- | al representation. | At 'the concluding session of the | dominion executive of the Great War Veterans conference here, permis. sion was granted te local, provincial 5 Berlin, Jan. 28 William II. may 'Would Be Objectionable. {Canadian Press Dasvaton.) | Paris, Jan. 23.--The reply of the Huddersfield, Jan. 23.---A com- mittee of dye users has gone to Ger- many to select and purchase 2,000,- { 000 pounds worth of dye stuffs, ow- numents, ¢ Ottawa, Jan. 23.--A commission | | LETTS ON WEST, JAPS ON EAST, FIGHT RISING RED TIDE. | R | and district commands to elreulate - petitions among the public asking for further financial aid from the Gov. Horticultural Society, The supreme council specifically | rejected propositions to send even {Dr, F. E. Bennett, president of to Dutch Government regarding the ex. tradition of former Emperor William was received in Paris this morning, and during the noon hour was still fn progress of being deciphered at * the Dutch legation. Calls It Theatrical." . (Canadian Press Despatoh) The Hague, Jan. 23. Nowspapers to-day declared that Holland would render a service to civilization by re- fusing to allow an action, which, in ture, would be objectionable to 'everyone. One paper insists that the ing to the shortage of suitable dyes | for trade use here, It is reported that the Government is financing the scheme, | small conti ngents of tropps {o help the Georgians and Azerbijan and de- cided to confine aid to materials and supplies, TT Tree LL % IRISH POLICEMEN ON PATROL. | will likely be named shortly by the Dominion Government to continue the preparations for the erection of memorials on the principal battle fields upon which Canadian troo won undying ment has voted $500,000 for the pro- vision of the memorials, and Briga- dier-General H. T. Hughes, Kingston, formerly chief engineering officer of the 4th Canadian Division, has se- | cured eight sites in France and Flan- ders, The work will now be handed over to a commission of civilians who will likely inaugurate ascompe- titlon in order to secure the most glory. Already Parlia- r { i | | f i ernment 'as a means of solving the { re-establishment problem. The executive approved the reso- | lution adopted by the Toronto dls | triot command to request the Honse { to reconsider the question and solve | the problems of re-establishment Ly | providing substantial gratuities for | all who have served in the Canadian | expeditionary forces, and their de: | pendents, : { i NO SMOKING IN CEMETERY $s Allies did not expect Holand to ap- cede to the demand in the note. For- eign diplomats here also expressed, unofficially, their desire that the de. mand be hot granted, asserting that if iti were the Allies would 'become _ the laughing stock of the world. One paper characterized the whole affair as "theatrical." : » Ruperts gical that Framier Drury an on. janning herty Will mot be opposed in the coming | ons by Liberal or Conserva- Picnic Parties Will Not Be Allowed Either, Hamilton, Jan, 23.--A cemetery does not seem to be the most enjoy- able apot in the world to bold a pie. | Bic, yet the habit became so bad at Hamilton cemetery last year, with overflow 'pienie jarties from. Dug i durn Park, that the board of mana- gers has just made an order barring picnic parties fom the grounds. Smoking 1s also profilbited. This ore der is not intended to interfere with workmen, but the board, claims suitable designs, and, having select ed the designs, will su the condtruction of the memo Some of the memorials will take the form of buildings and others of mon a small portion of { s A AFGHANIS { (1) Where the Lettish army is striking at the Bolshevist in the region of Lubahn Lake. The Lettish drive is the only against the Reds. (2 ) tion now under wa: Pr ne's froops are velreatin in the direction of Kherron, eastward from Odessa, under pressure by the Ukrain- ian insurgents. (3) Denikine's army has been cut in two'l the Bolshevist push fo the Sea of Azov at rog. Barlinash has been occupied by Bolshevist cavalry. (4) The capture of | Krasnovodak, on the Caspian Sea, opens the way for the Bol- viki to overrun Northenr Persia and occupy Teheran. Baku. the west coast of the Caspian, is likely to fall into Bolshevist and the Bolsheviki would then be in the rear of Deni- pressed forces,s The way to India and ton to quell a dite: | Afghanistan is open {o'the Bolsheviki. - Bokhara, less than 200 Tess wers made. When oi the ATehanitar frontier, has been e : however, will quired before the work is completed. Ses (Can Pross New York, Jan 23 port North Pacific, Fhich. 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