We will stand the LUXURY TAX on our lines for 80 days Collier's Toggery Pe -- -- YEAR 87: NO. 196. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920. : Coat LAST EDITION 70 SEE FRANCE | ~ AS T0 POLAND A Conference Will Be Held in | : England, and Likely on | Sunday. CONFERRED FIVE HOURS Domand Made to Stop Reds | From Entering Into.Po- | land Proper. | | | | { | (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 7.--The Polish crisis is still grave, but as a result of yes-| terday's developments, it is regarded | as being easier. There has been no | rupture in the negotiations' with the | Russian delegation, - Much, it is now | held, will depend on the attitude of | France. Ot has been decided that Premier Lloyd George, who will be gecompanied by Field Marshal Sir| Henry Wilson, will meet M. Miller- | and, French premier, and Marshal Foch on Sunday, either at Folkestone or Bologne, to decide upon future course of events. After the cabinet council, yester- | day, held to consider the answer of the Soviet government fo British re-| presentations, sent through M. Ka- meneff, of the Russian DRAW A RING AROUND RUSSIA, PREMIER SAYS London, Aug. 7.--It cannot be over-emphasized that Geither , Great Britain. nor France in tends to send troops against Russia. Their present policy, as Krassin and Kamenefl were informed, is .to support the Poles with staff officers, money, supplies and advice, and to give hls support also to the Rumamnians, Ukrainians and all other border states and internal Russian revolutionaries. "If you persist in trying to force Bolshevism upon the rest of Europe," Lloyd George told the Russians, 've will draw a ring around yon. We will stop food, medicine and supplies of all kinds from entering Russia, You are suffering misery now which will be Intensified' ten fold by a blockade, and you will be compelled to exhaust your. self militarily at the same time without any hope of final suc- cess." POLCE COURT CASE HAS HAPPY ENDING { Abduction Charge Quashed by Couple Getting Married. Gshawa, Aug. 7.--A 'marriage in : court was the happy ending to the TO ENFORCE LEAGUE DECISION Cox in Acceptance Spéech De= . clares Harding Is Evad=" . ing Issue. INMERPRETATION ALLOWED P~ Prohibition Not Specifically Mentioned But He Demands Law Enforcement. Dayton, O., Aug. 7.--Governor James M. Cox, today formally accept- ed-the Democratic nomination for the presidency and sharply acknowledg- ed the peace treaty as the leading is- sue of the forthcoming political war. In a speech bristling with. attacks, direct and sarcastic, he dencunced Senator Harding's proposals for ef- fecting peace as "disheartening,'" unworthy," "bungling' diplomacy" and "unadulterated dishonesty." The Harding promise. for a "formal and effective peace so quickly as a Repub- lican Congress can pass its declara- tion for a Republican executive te sign,' Cox declared "means but one thing--a separate peace with Ger- many." Such a course the Democra- tic nominee viewed with abhorrence, seeing in it a withdrawal of good faith pledged to the allies "for the production, ee ALBERTA MAY HAREST 80,000,000 BUSHELS Winnipeg, Aug. 7.--Albérta is likely to be the banner province this year as regards the wheat yield acreage, according to the report of Capt. T. S. Acheson, general superintendent of agri- culture for the Canadian Pacific Railway, who returned from the west yes y. The yield per acre will run as high as forty bushels in some parts, and twenty-five per acre will be about the average in Southern Alberta, Capt. Acheson said, thus making Alberta's contribution to the Canadian wheat market some eighty million bushels. Harvesting throughout Mani- toba and Alberta is well under way and should be general in both provinces by next week, while in Saskatchewan the work is a few days later, he said. GOAL MINERS IN BELGIUM HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR PRE-WAR PRODUCTION. War-Stricken Country Is Also Making Wonderful Progress Towards Re- construction In Other Lines, Brussels, Aug. 7.--Belgian coal miners have almost reached pre-war The output of the Bel- gian mines for the month of May, ADMITTED SHE SLEW HUSBAND And Yet Law Was Not Able - I to Arvest, and Arraign : ors ACT OF A VICIOUS HORSE Disclosed Skeleton of Man-- - A Time For Action Has Past, Bayeux, Calvados, France, Aug. 7. --Self-confessed slayer of her hus- band, whom she admitted having kill- ed fifteen years ago, Madame Huec- hez walked away from the local Court House a free woman, the' po- lice commissioner powerless under the law, to arrest and arraign her. Madame Huchez and her husband in 1905 jointly kept the Inn of the - Golden Lion on the outskirts of this town. Their marital life was unhappy violent quarrels often breaking the monotony of long periods of sulki- ness and mutual silence. Then one day Monsieur Huchez disappeared. Madame explained that he had ab- andoned her and eloped to America with another woman. She sold the Ine six months later and left the town. delegation, | charge of abduction brought against and 'which was regarded on the | Elmer Alberts by John Lindsay, whole as conciliatory, Lloyd George | Ross' Corners, north of here, which | and Andrew Bonar Law, Lord Privy | came up'in Police Court. Last wedk | from Rome 1 Seal, were In confererice with M. Ka- | Elmer Alberts, accompanied by Lor-|, went to St. Cath-| BACK TO DAYS: HAMMERING PS EBrenvean POLISH LINES meneff and M. Krassin, another So-| raine Lindsay, arines. They were followed there by | Has Led to Very Stern Resist= viet represemtative, for more than five hours at the -premier's official | the girl's 'hrother,. who threatened | to have them arrested if they did not | Washington, Aug. 7.--~The President and Mrs. Wilson ance and With'Some | Effect. residence in Downing street. The entire situation was exhaustively re-| return to Oshawa. They came back. | Mr. Kennedy, Whitby, was defend- | brought the old-fashioned Vic- | toria and horse back into vogue | VANCES MADE| enforcement of terms upon offend- ing powers." On the issue of League or no League Cox took an unequivo- cal position. "Senator Harding," he said, "as the Republican candidate for the pre- sidency proposes.in plain words that we remain out of it. As the Democra- tic candidate I favor going in." But, while declaring "the first duty of the new administration clearly will be the ratification of the treaty," Cox cautioned, 'the matter should be approached without thought ofthe bitterness of the past." And, admitt- ing that the claim that interpreta- tions are unnecessary might be true. Cox, nevertheless, took the position that a basis for agreement must be reached and that interpretations would be "reassuring to many of our citizens who feel that in signing the treaty there should be no mental | reservations not expressed in plain words." He showed plainly that his posi- tion would be with those desiring to get the treaty ratified so long as the agreement for such ratificatd$n did not injure the covenant. The greatest thought in the gov- ernor's speech obviously was devoted ks treatment of the A Phare Was no onto in the of the prohibition question. The only statement that might be construed as] a reference to the subject being his A vicious horse lashed out with both heels in the stable of the "Gol- den Lion" a few days ago. The kick- ing animal uncovered below the bro ken planks of his stall, a rusty old trunk. It contained the skeleton of a man. The police, remembering the dis- appearance of the former landlord, set out to find Madame Huches, whom they promptly located in Gré- noble. At their invitation she returs= ed to Bayeux. : Cool and collected, she accused two former stable hands of having murdered her husband. Both had since died. Eucoutaged, and wishing to press her success, she linked the name of ope Montrory as a accessory after the fact. He is still living and was immediately summoned. He ad-. mitted digging a hold beneath the floor of the stable and having placed therein, at Madame Huchez's request, a'tqrge trunk which the landlady told him"centained silverware and linen that she wished not to include in the impending sale of the Inn. Madame Huchez broke down and confessed. The police took her at once before the local judge. He im- mediately discharged her from cus to Article 637 of" i French cods the crime is outluwed, as no legal actiom or invest! ; had been taken within ten years of 1920, reach 90.9 per cent. of the pro- duction for May, 1913, smounLiy to 1,737,080 tons, as compared Wit 1,910,710 for the same period befo! the war. What is more remarkable still, production for the "Mons coalfields, taken alone, was even greater during May than during the same month be- fore the war, the percentage being 104.3. Further illustrting the wonderful progress toward reconstruction which Belgium has made, Director-General of Telegraphs and Telephones Ros- sen points out that 282 central tele- phone offices out of 283 have been re-established and 80 per. cent. of the pre-war subscribers have been re- gained. At Antwerp, Malines and Turnhout more telephone subscribers are re- ported than before the war. The scarcity of materials has prevented even greater results in reconstruc- tion. Wires were hard to obtain, the Germans having carried away most of the wiring throughout Belgium. Installations in Brussels were carried to Berlin, where they were located by Allied officers, and two engineers have been sent JT what mater- ials they..can. id Bich The Germans carried away '§400,- 00 worth of telephone and te materials from Brussels and $2,000, 000 fom Belgium as a whole. °_ HIS GRACE ARCH BISHOP SPRATT, Who will be royally welco med or' Sunday on his return viewed and the .government"s view | communicated to the Russians and | ing the accused in court, while Mr. especial eriphasis was laid on the ne-| Swanson was retained by the boy's | cessity for stemming ine advante of | father, Wm. Alberts. No evidence the Red army into Poland proper. was heard. It was mutually agreed roe ; y Ag the result of the conference M | that the pair be married, so Rev. A. eis week by takwg 2 Unive Kameneft will now be in a position 10 | M. Irwin was called to perform the | through. Hock Siete Park. communicate with Mogeow ne get ceremony. The wedding took place | Creeping behind them was an the Sowiet government's ans ¥ | in the court room. | electric runabout filled with Sunday, when it can be sonaiaered | Alberts' father is a farmer near | Secret Service men | Niagara Falls South, and was In| a ¢ ; It was an odd spectacle that was presented--something that harked back to yesteryear be- fore President Taft supplanted the White House stable for a by the Allied conference and deci- gions taken, which will be communi-| court, while the De "NO NEW tr garage with several touring cars. cated to the House of Commons On| unable to get away. The bride is | The Enemy Has Been Again Both Presidents Roosévelt and Monday, as already Has been DPro-| firtean years and nine months of mised by Lloyd George. { while her hdsband is twenty. e-- | Y Driven Back Across the Bug River. Taft - rode "many i Sm | LONDON EDITOR Wilson took that sort of exer cise for a period several yéars DIES OF PNEUMONIA ago, but this week was the first i' To Meet Lloyd George. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Aug. 7.--Premier Millerand | will leave tonight for Hythe, Eng., | where he will confer with Lloyd George relative to the Polish situa- '$foni. The newspapers herd declare that Mawshal Foch will be present: at Late Alfred Miller Was For Years Connected London, EY . vik 'armies hammering "the With Free Press. 1 the premier"s conference. ~| lines northeast and east of 'Warsaw Military aid for Poland, consisting | London, Ont, Aug. 7.--Alfred E.|seem to have encountered stern re- of one or two divisions. each from | Miller, managing editor of the Lon- | sistance. With the exception of the France, Great Britain, Hungary, Ru-| don Free Press, died Thursday. night | area around Brest-Litovsk, east of (Canadian Press Despatch) . 7.--Russlan Bol mania, Letvia and possibly other na- tions, is one of the emergency mea- sures to be discussed by the two pre-| cently injured his ankle while play-| miers. This plan, as well as other | ing tennis and complications devel-| Later, while thus indisposed, | measures, has been recommended by the French and British missions at Warsaw. It has been pointed out that Hungary, particularly, can send good cavalry into the field. All those di- visions, it is .understood, would be fully equipped, and it Has been pro- posed that these reinforcements take the field before Warsaw to defend the capital of Poland. Go In And Possess . The Ancient City (Canadian Press Despatch) Rome, Aug. 7~--Author=' ization to occupy Constan- tinople has been given the @reeks by the Allied na- tions, according to a des- patch received by the Ds- servatore Romano. TOLD OF PRUSSIAN King Christian Urged Practice of the Golden Rule. Copenhagen, Aug. 7.~--When visit- ing Tondern, King Christian recently received a committee of prominent * Schleswigmen who were held as host- ages by Prussians at the beginning of the war. The spokesman said: . "The Germans lighted the fires of hatred and vengeance in Schi¥swig when we were taken as hostages. The German Lord Lieutenant said on this spot, at the time: 'When war is * over Daneism in Schleswig must be 'quashed!' Thank God, the result is otherwise." King Christian replied: "I am in- deed glad to shake hands with you. We must remember the 14 Saying 'Do not return evil for >" There something in our national charact- r which makes this natural for us. 1 could think of something happier han brooding over an old injustice. t. us work together in trying to " forget hatred and strife and, in {thinking of our future, set ourselves new goals." » CORUELTY + The Dominion Fire Chiefs' Asso- elation unanimously voted in favor of a Fire College at Ottawa. frente PREP ERPS PEPE * "% GERMAN WARSHIPS ; ARE SURRENDERED + -- + * # Edinburgh, Scot., Aug. 7.--Two # # of Germany's most formidatie * 4 battleships, the Heligoland and & Westfalen, and 12 destroyers, + '4 allotted to Great Britain, will & # surrender at Rosyth where they # _# arrived from Kiel. + + E -- ; * '@' Paris, Aug. T7.--The Ger- + & man battle-cruiser Ragensburg, & | at his summer home in Bayfield after a very 'brief illness. Mr. Miller re- oped. a rheumatic attack in the vicinity ot his heart developed, followed by pneumonia, to which he succumbed. The death of Mr. Miller proved a shock to his friends and associates in London, as the seriousness of his condition was not known until a few hours before his death was reported from Bayfield. Mr. Miller who was and from his youth was an employee of the London Free Press. He commenced his career as a printer on the composing-room staff and later entered the editorial depart- ment, where he served progressively as reporter, news editor and manag- ing editor. . He held the latter posi- ion since 19085. ems Germany Gets Real Beer. Berlin, Aug. 7--The German peo- ple are cheered today by the news of better and cheaper beer in sight. Ger- man breweries at last are in a posi- | tion to discontinue the manufacture of weakling war beer, which long has been a sore and sad subject to the thirsty Teutons. Full strength beer is again on tap and filling the glass of Teuton hap- piness to "overflowing. The cost of bear will go down an average of 25 per cent, * Honest Man Found at Last. New York, Aug. 7.--'Diogenes, your search is over. Coney Island last night revealed your long sought honest man." He is. John Heffernan, thirty-five, of No. 558 St. Ann's ave- nue, Bronx. He found a wallet con- taining $540 in a West End line train and, although without a job, turned the money over to the police of th Coney Island Station. ¥ Civil Servants Await Bonus, Toronto, Aug. T7.--Reclassifying the Ontario civil servants has been a slower undertaking than had been anticipated, hence the bonus checks which were executed on the last pay day were not issued. It is said the new rates of pay will go into effect next pay day. Ottawa, Aug. 7.--Hon. J. D. 'Reid, Minister of Railways and Canals, has returned from a trip over the Canadian National Railway Sy- stem in Western Canada. The West- erners are looking forward to a prospefous year, and are very op- timistic as to the future. . The minister believes that it I in the interest of Ontario and Que- bec that some action should be .# which was allotted to France, + '% has reached Brest. *| taken to supply 'these provinces with coal from Western Canada, as p #| well as from Nova Scotia, for in-| should be made to reduce this cost EN SEPP 2 PPE +4 ¢ ¢ 94% 0 dustrial purposes, in view of the fifty-two-.ed vigorous counter-attacks and have years of age, was born in this city, [succeeded in driving back across the the Polish capital, no new advances by the Soviet troops have been re- ported and even there they have been limited by desperate fighting of the Poles. Polish forces have been forced to retire from Terespol, about. four miles west of Brest--Litovsk and have lost Muramiec, about five miles to the south. the further advance of Soviet in this region will be slow. Along the Bug river, northwest of Brest-Litovsk, the Poles have faunch- river detachments which had suc- ceeded in reaching the left bank of the steam. In southern sectors of the front] on and the Poles seem to be gaining ground at some points. The Bolsheviki Is Advancing. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 7.--The Bolsheviki have begun an offensive against Gen- eral Wrangel, anti-Bolshvik leader in Southern Russia, who in his recent campaign advanced some distance northward from hig base in Crimea. In Friday's official statement, from Moscow, 'the capture by the Russians of Alexandrov is claimed, with fur- ther advances by the Soviet troops. The statement reads: "In the Cri- mean sedtor, in the region of Alexv, androv, our troops, having assumed the offensive, occupied the town of Alexandrov, crossed the River Kone- kaya and are continuing to advance." U. 8.Armen Will Fight. Warsaw Aug. 7.--Owing to the desperate situation on the front near- est Warsaw the Kosclusko squadron, the air force composed for the most part of Americans ,attached to the Polish army is being transferred from the southern front. ' The squadron will aid in the defence of the Polish capital. Premier Drury's Tar, Toronto, Aug. 7.--Premier Drury has left for Montieth, where he will make inspection of the Government sxperimental farm. The Premier «ill also take a survey of farming MAY BRING IN WESTERN COAL TO TWO PROVINGES )to conditions in Northern Ontario. possible shortage of that commod- .ity this coming winter. He is of the opinion that a large number of coal cars. and locomotices may 'have to be supplied by the government to the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways for this purpose in order that commercial coal may be delivered in Ontario and Quebec at the lowest possible price. long haul.and the cost of equip- ment is what adds to the cost, and Dr. Reid feels that every effort It is probable, however, that | fighting of a serious nature is going | The | the minimum, time that they used the Vice toria together. LORD DEWAR SAYS: PROHIBITION WRONG England Has Better Way, That of Closing Saloons For Certain Hours. New York, Aug. 7.--""You know," said Lord Thomas Dewar, the famous London distiller and friend of Sir Thomas Lipton, as he sailed for home on thé Olympic, "I have stud- ied prohibition since I have been over here, and it Is all wrong, really now. I find that it is, too severe, and it encourages law-breaking." Lord -Dewar- was surrounded by ship news reporters as he boarded the big White Star liner shortly be- fore she sailed this afternoon, and as they expressed sympathy for his views on prohibition he went on: 'Yes, I think .its wrong. In Eng- land, now, we are going at the prob- lem in a sane way. We close the saloons for several hours each day, and this is having a very salutary effect: on drunkenness. There is a great improvement noticeable ready." Lord Dewar was greatly pleased with the United States--outside of prohibition. al- Alleged Deserter Taken To Ottawa For Trial Winnipeg, Aug. 7.--W. G. Brem- ner, whi is alleged to haye deserted from the Mounted Police force in Ottawa, last April, has been ar- rested here and taken to the Capital for trial. It is said by a local news- paper that he had been engaged to play the part of a "mountie'" in a moving picture being filmed here, and that he was recognized when he went to the police branch to borrow a uniform to wear in the production. nt ---------- VACANT SCHOOLS; TEACHERS ILL-PAID Oobourg, Ont., Aug, 7.--Rich- ard Yates, former governor of Illinois, and United States Con- boys mobilized into the United States army in 1917 statistics showed that 24 9-16 per cent. of them could not read sufficiently to read "a newspaper or write a letter home to mother. Education of the young as a vital factor in the well-being of the state was emphasized by Mr. Yates. declaration that "the public official who fails to enforce the law is an en- emy both to the constitution and to ! the American principle of majority rule. It would seem quite unneces- sary" he added, "for any candidate i for the presidency to say that he | does not intend to violate his oath of | office." DECREASE IN RAINFALL May Be Traced to the Wiring and Rodding. (Canadian Press Despatch) Regina, Sask., Aug. 7.--Is there any connection between the extens- ion' in the wes¥ of rural telephone lines and the alleged decrease in rainfall? This question is raised in a letter from G. W. Booth, of Sea- mans, Sask., to the Regina Leader. Mr. Booth writes as follows: "There is considerable comment on the derrease in rainfall through- | out the west, each year seems a little drier. : "I have been a resident of the Sea- mans district for fourteen years and know that severe electrical storms are very rare of late yars, whilst in the early days we used to get every year a number of heavy rain- falls accompanied with severe elec- trical disturbances. "There is, I believe, a possibility that electric wiring and rodding is doing much to lessen. disturbances in the sky, for instance read Profes- sor Dodd on letting electricity es- cape from ground .to sky through his lightning rods, and also his re- marks on groundings. "lI cannot remember one close violent display of lightning or thunder near our home since 1912 when our first rural line was built. It would be interesting to know if there is anything in this." Toronto Firm Buys Plant Here. Toronto, Aug. 7.--The Gurney Foundry Company, Limited, of this city, has purchased the plant, includ- ing all the machinery, equipment and patterns of the Canada Stove and Foundry Company, Limited at St. Laurent, Montreal. John Farleaders, given a jail term conference ners of the empire, and others pro- minent in the life of the dominion, Premiér Arthur Meighen enunciated the principles which, in his opinion, should govern the writer and dis- tributor of news. "The distribution of news is now of nine months for seditious utter- onces, is to be released. U.S. LEGATION READY 3 TO LEAVE WARSAW Warsaw, Aug. 7.--The United .. States Legation, Friday, start storing the first shipment of documents from its archives. The furniture also went out, and more is to follow. Two hun- dred places were reserved for Americans on Danzig trains last night and three hundred for to- day. Departures thus far are pro- gressing' fairly orderly, except for the baggage. The mass of baggage far exceeded the facil. ities afforded. One' thousand marks is now the standard rite for carrying a trunk in the bag- gage car, FIRST AIM OF PRESS Great Need Is to Get Public Opinion Towards Peace, Ottawa, Aug. 7.--Speaking before a gathering which included His Ex- cellency the Governor-General, mem- bers of the Government and of par- liament, delegates from the four the greatest trust in the whole body democratic," he declared, and he said the truth should at all times be told. The prime minister asked support for the League of Nations. 'Let us lay hold on every instrument and organization which makes for peace and give it our help," he said. "Let us encourage the League of Nations. Canada intends to do her full part in the work of making it succeed." He said there never was such 'an overwhelming necessity as now to direct the currents of British public opinfon and expression towards the end of peace and good-will among men as there is today. New York, Aug. 7.--Commercial- ly Germany is going from bad to worse, in the opinion of Carl Schlait- zer, a New York pearl button manu- facturer, who returned on the Am- erican liner Mongolia, from Ham- burg, Southampton, and Vigo, Spain, after two months in Germany. The people of Germany, he said, are amusement mad, and are avoid- ing work whenever possible. This spirit is fostered, he declared, by the unemployment pension which thel are mot employed. It consists of a ~ THE GERMAN PEOPLE ARE MAD OVER AMUSEMENTS | work because the results of their labor are to go towards the paymenti- Government 'pays to workers whol third of the current wage paid at the' time they are out of work. An- other factor, as he saw it, was the hatred the Germans bear toward France, many people refusing to of the indemnity. The theatre craze in Germany Is widespread, he said, people appar- to the Imperial cor- the day, the murder was committed. Before departing for Grenoble where she will resume her occupa- tion ag 4 Ydarding house keeper, Ma~ dame Huchez purchased a 'long, heavy black veil. (For the first time .in fifteen years; she was officially a widow. NEWS IN BULLETIN Great Britain has accepted the con- ditions . of the Soviet reply and a special conference will be held in London. Peace is looked for, It is believed the government has ordered the 8.8. tic, carrying Archbishop Mannix to Southampton to prevent trouble at Liverpool where the Irish are preparing to celebrate. Lorne Helmer, Silvor Hill, Ont, hes been committed for trial on a charge of murdering James A. Learn. The brother of the accused says Learn struck the first blow. The Persians arp preparing to evacuate Teheran. The impulse which carried the Bol- sheviki army towards Warsaw has spent itself. The army is apparently gathering forces for a new onslaught. Soviet Russia has sufficient muni- tions to carry on a five year war, according to estimates of the United States official authorities. 5 The Irish crimes bill was passed on its third reading. by the British SEEK TO SETTLE HERE; SSIA ently caring nothing about the play itself so long as they get tickets to today, he declared, seemg to be try ing to forget the war. some theatre. The idea in A House of Commons by a vote of 205 to 18. 'Capt. Amundsen, has left Nome, Alaska, in_an attempt to reach the North Pole. REFUGEES FROM RU London, Aug, 7.~An attempt is being made to arrange for the emigration to Canada of English - refugees from Russia who are at present being lodged in Lon. don at the expense of the Brit few months and seventy-five per cent. of them, despite their na. tionality, have no knowledge of England. For this reason it is thought they will do better in with the exception of 15,000 rubles each in paper, which is worth nothing in Canadian cure rency, according to Canadian Immigration Commissioner J Obed