Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Aug 1920, p. 1

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---- 7s a --_a tn We will stand the LUXURY TAX on our lines for ° 80 days Collier'sToggery She Buily Bets) Wi We will stand the LUXURY TAX on our lines for 80 days. Collier's Toggery 's - YEAR 87: NO. 20m. » LAST EDITION KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1920. AN INDICTMENT OF SOVIETISM. Labor Department Issues a Pamphlet in Defence of Rane Labor. CONNECTION IS CLOSE | Between One Big Union and | Bolsheviki--Societies Are 8preading Propaganda. Ottawa, Aug. 23--A strong oi] ment of sovietism in reply to "'So-| cialistle and revolutionary litera- ture" distributed in Canada is con-| tained in a pamphlet just issued by | the department of labor. It is be- | lieved to be the beginning of a big | fight for supremacy between trades unionism and the Socialistic and red elements. The standing of various la- bor organizations in Canada is rela- tively; International, 260,247, non- international, 33,372; Independent, | 8,278; National Catholic, 35,000, | and One Big Union, 41,150. An at-| tempt is being made to coalesce the non-international and One Big Union but with little probability of success. The National Catholic Union is very anti-socialistic and will align with | the forces of stability and order. | Unity in purpése and agitation is | traced between Canadian "Reds" and | Russian sovietism turn the connec- | tion of Rev. William. .Ivens and The New York Call dufing the revolu- | onary propaganda and disorder in /innipeg last year. Among the or-| ganizations named as spreading soc-| jalistic propaganda in Canada: are | the Socialistic Party of Canada; In- | *fernational Bible Students, the One | Big Union, the Labor Church, the] Communist Labor Party. the Anar- chistic Communists, the Socialist Re- | yolutionary Group, the Jewish Bol | shevik Party, the Russian Ukrain- | fan and Finn Socialist groups, Seld- | fers' and Sailors' Labor Party, Win-| nipeg; Union of Russian Workers, Ukrainian, Polish and Bulgarian Bol- shevik parties. History of 0.B.T. In conclusion the history of the One Big Union is reviewed and also the organization of a Labor Church in Winnipeg, another in Brandon, and attempts to establish similar or- ganizations in Fort William, Calgary snd Vancouver. The Labor Church characterized as "merely a subsid- A: of the Socialist Revolutionary iickement and a piece of hypoeri evidently conscious in the case of most of its promoters, designed to interest in the revolutionary move- ment persons of religious and hu- manitarian proinciples to whom the crdinary Marxian propaganda would not he attractive." The pamphlet declares that war is Ifeclared between sane and revolu- fonary labor. Trades unionism has de persistent attempt made by Bol- ;8heviks and dangerous "Reds" to se- 'duce its members into revolutionary Sgitation and effort. It is evident that this will now befought to the limit. Trades unionism will no longer permit its members to be used for plitical or revolutionary purposes iy those who would destroy law and 'otder, and challenge the supremacy of government, LATE AFTERNOON NEWS. , British and Greek columns are ad- yancing in the direction of Eskishehr venty-seven miles south-east of russa, to put down the new Turkish Nationalist offensive. The business portion of Lisburn, land, on Monday presented a scene of ruin and desolation as the result the burning of shops by loyalists revenge for the murder of In- tor SWansey. Private homes of inn Feiners were also burned. * The Polish column personally mmanded by President Pilsudski dy has passed Brest Litovsk, tting off the Bolshevik-Galician irmies. © The French foreign office an- junces that General" Weygand now chief of the Polish staff with full ipower and that most of the thousand french officers in Poland are act- ually participating in the fighting. * Polish peace delegates have report- gd that Soviet representatives are manding now that two hundred sand Polish workmen be given \ 8. The Bolsheviki hope the Polish srmy will lay down. Both Are in Finals. (Canadian Press Despatch) 23.--George Ver- 5 'hundred metres swimming. Sid- Gooday, Ottawa, won second in first heat of the four hundred tres back stroke. Both qualified finals. British Labor To Stop Just War % {Canadian Press Despatch) Dublin, Aug. 23.--Executives of je Irish Labor party, in an appeal British Labor to stop "the war th Ireland," as they = did with and holding them respon- sible if: it continues, says: "Miltary governors whom you have . placed over us calculate that the death of the Lord Mayor of Cork will lead to an uprising which can be suppressed only by wholesale slaughter. A re- port 'also declares that Home Scere- tary Shortt will 'be personally responsible if the death of the lord | BANDITS KILL SYRIAN PREMIER Haifa, Syria, Aug. 23.-- Droubi Pasha, the Syrian pré- mier, and Abderhaan, a member of his cabinet, were killed Fri- day when bandits attacked their trainsen route from Damascus to thig city. Many passengers were robbed and several killed during the hold:up. UTOMATIC 'PHONES LIKELY IN ONTARIO Bell Company Buys Rights-- New Rates Would Give Great Profits. London, Aug. 23.--Sir Adam Beck points out that the Northern Electric Company, a subsidiary company of the Rell Telephone Company, has bought the rights for Ontario and Quebec from the American company manufacturing automatic, phones, "They want to get the rates raised first," predicts he; "then instal the automatic phones. Those once in, the Bell's operating expenses will be immensely reduced and profits in- creased accordingly." "The Northern Electric," hé ex- plained, 'has a controlling interest in the Bell, and manufacture all equipme: used by it. There is no saying wWat they .charge. The Tele- phone Company's purchasing ex- penses can be made to look enor- mous. Showing their books won't help. It wouldn't mean anything. It all comes from and flows back to the same source." A CERPP ERE P FPR PRE EPY WANTS 20,000 TROOPS SENT TO DANZIG Paris, Aug. 23.--Sir Reginald Tower, high commissioner for the league of nations at Danzig, has requested the allied nations to supply him with 20,000 troops before he will feel justi- fied in permitting the unloading of munitions intended for Pol- and 'now being 'held - at. Danzig, according to the ministry of for- eign affairs. > oe + + + oo & * <> + & oe * + +» PEPE E PEPE PP Pree PEPER PPD E bbb Ped Increase in Wages To Toronto Employees (Canadian Press Despatch) Toronto, Aug. 23.--Substantial in- creases in wages to employees of the Toronto railway company, Toronto power company and the Niagara pow- er company are recommended in the majority award of the conciliation board. In general, it gives six hun- en affected ten ceuts an hour , some, however, receiving more and some less. The award is retroactive from June 16th and the hours have been fixed by previous boards at forty-four and forty-eight cents on hour for shift employees. Seven Constables Slain in Ireland Belfast, Aug. 23.--Official tele- grams received at Dublin Castle ye terday indicate that there have been organized onslaughts against the Irish constabulary and that thus far during the week-end seven have been killed. A patrol sergeant and three men at Dundalk were suddenly confront- ed by six armed men, who fired. Constable Brennan fel dead and Con- stables Isbell and Witherden, re- cruited from the English army, were badly wounded. Sergeant Maunsell was shot dead Saturday night at Macroom, County Cork. A police patrol was ambushed near Naas, County Kildare, Satur- day night. A constable was killed and a sergeant seriously wounded, two constables arg'missing. y THE WORLD'S TIDINGS . IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From All Over Told in a Pointed and Pithy Way. Sir Thomas Lipton visited Sing Sing and made an address to the in- nates. . A Filipine councillor was eaten by a crocodile. He ran foul of the crea- ture while fishing. Frominent Canadians are planning to inaugurate passenger and freight airplane service In Mexico. Mr, 8. B, McCready, Toronto, has accepted the position of junior and rural organizer for the Ontario Red Cross society. 3 There is a shortage of nurses at Regina and students at the hospital £0 on salary after three months' pro- bation. If refined sugar continues to slump in the United States there is likely to be a corresponding decrease in Can- ada. A mail pouch believed to contain money and valuables worth $100, 000, was stolen by two men from a suburban station in Chicago of the Illinois Central railroad. The rob- bers escaped in an automobile. Two persons were killed and eight injured, two of them seriously, by an explosion of gasoline fumes which wrecked a gasoline and oil station, operated by the C. E. Mills Ofl Com- pany, at Syracuse, N.Y. on Friday morning. : A special despatch to a Winnipeg paper from Bredenbury, in the York- ton district of Saskatchewan, says that twelve to fourteen degrees of frost at that place, on Friday night, caused "tremendous damage' to late grain crops and compleetly destroyed IAYyOr ensues, . all garden stuff. POLES CAPTURE FULLY 75,000 In Their Counter-Offensive Against the Russian Soviet Armies. RETREAT OF BOLSHEVIKI 1 Cut Off Northwest: of Grudehk | --Enemy Detachmenis Fight Desperaiely. (Canadian Press Despatch) | Paris, Aug 23.--The number of | Russian Soviet prisoners captured in | the Polish counter-offensive will | amount to seventy-five thousand, ac- | cording to Warsaw advices to the French foreign office to-day. The retreat of Soviet forces from |Brest-Litovsk was officially admitted |in a statement issued in Moscow and [received here to-day. Lut Off Soviet Retreat: (Canadian Press Despatch) . Warsaw, Aug. 23.--Polish forces have taken the town of Grudehk, {twelve miles north of Ciechanow and have cut off the retreat of Bolshevik forces northwest and west of this city by way of Mlawa and Przasnysz. The eighteenth Polish division, which has been attacking Ciechanow, has been met with desperate resistance on the part of enemy detachments cover- ing the retreat of the fourth Soviet {army which last week advanced along ithe Russian frontier until it threat- {ened the Polish defenses along the Vistula, After capturing Ciechanow, the Poles advanced rapidly norths {ward and succeeded in cutting the {only direct line railroad running east- {ward from Polish positions. Volun- | teer Polish divisions are now attack- !ing Przanysz. Bottling Up Soviet. (Canadian Press Despatch) Warsaw, Aug. 23.--The process of bottling up the Russian Soviet forces on the northern front between the Prussi and Vistula rivers has been completed, according to an official statement issued last midnight. The Poles have closed the gateway of the escape, taking prisoners and mater- ials in such quantities that it is im-' possible to count them. U. 8. Cautions Poland. (Canadian Press Despatch) Washington, Aug. 23.--Poland has been cautioned by the United States' government not to permit her enem- ies to advance beyond the ethnogra- phical boundary of Péland. 50 PER CENT. INCREASE IN AUSTRALIAN WHEAT Wheat Price in India Lower-- Argentina Has a Great Crop. (Canadian Press Despatch) Rome, Aug. 23. -- Australia's wheat fields for the coming season are fifty per cent. larger than in 1919 and the. weather and crop con- ditions were reported good as late as August 17th, says the bulletin of the International Institute of Agriculture. During July the Indian mongoon was generally favorable and the price of wheat at Karachi is lower that at any date since July, 1918. Exportation of wheat from India, however, is still prohibited. The aggregate of wheat shipments from Argentina exceed all estimates of available surplus during 1920, the Bulletin says. Bandit Holds Britisher And 8ix Americans Mexico City, Aug. 23.--Pedro Zamora, revolutionary leader in the state of Jalizco, has captured and is holding for ransom a British subject named W. B. Johnston and six-Ame- ricans, including one woman, accord- ing to advices received here. A ran- som of 50,000 pesos has been put cn the British captive and the out- laws are said to be demanding 200,- 000 pesos each for the Americans. Swept all night in the heavy winds and high waves on Lake On- tario, George Miller and a friend from Picton had a thrilling experi- ence which was only brought to an end when the former plunged into the water and swam to W. H. Cover- dale's house at LaMoines' Point on Saturday morning. The two men had left Picton in a small motorboat to reach Kingston in time for the market on Saturday morning. During the night, however, a heavy wind came up and before long they were 'only making head- way against waves eight and ten feet high. The strain upon the motor was to great, however, and without warning the engine stopped dead and the little craft was tossed like a cork on the waves that were being beaten by a strong wind from north- west. With no. moonlight to afford any illumination and with the waves beating against the boat and drench- ing them to the skin, the men work- ed for hours to remedy the engide trouble. Mr. Miller's companion, it is said, was handicapped by the loss of an arm and could not render such as- sistance as might otherwise have been available. MAY QUARANTINE DRUGLESS DOCTORS London, Ont., Aug, 23.--In- structions to quarantine osteo- paths, chiropractors and other drugless healers who have been in attendance on cases of communicable diseases were re- ceived to-day from the Provin- cial Board of Health 'by Dr, W. S. Downham, lecal medical offi- cer of health. The letter claims that these classes of doctors have been attending cases of a com- municable nature and asserts that the danger of the practise is apparent. None of the drugless healers in London have dealt with com- municable diseases lately but in the past a few have reported them to tHe institute of public health, Dr. Downham stated. COL. HUGH CLARK, M.P. Whose position of under-secretary of Militia and Defense, has been abolished. He is M. P. for North Bruce PUTS COUNTRY'S LOVE ABOVE HER HUSBAND'S The Wife of Cork's Lord Mayor Concurs in His Hunger Strike. London, Aug. 23.--Placing love of country above love of her hus- band, the young wife of Terence MacSweney, Lord Mayor of Cork to- day concurred in his self-imposed sentence of death. The 'meting 'of hubband and wife in Brixton prison, where MacSweney is fast weakening from the effects of a hunger strike, was intensely dramatic. Mrs. MacSweney, after a fruitless attempt Saturday to induce officials . of the Irish Department to release the lord .mayor, under two years sentence for sedition, to-day sought his liberty, direct from Edward Shortt, secretary of state for home affairs. Shortt said he was power- less under the new rullng of the government that hunger strikers should take their own risks and re- fused to intervene. The distraught young woman then went to the prison to beseech her husband to give up his hunger strike. The lord mayor, pale and emaciated, remained firnr in his de- terination not to yield. In a tense scene, during which Mrs. MasSweney wept brokenly, her husband finally won her consent not to oppose hjs resolve to go without food "until released by death." MacSweney, in company with sev- eral other ' Irish prisoners, was brought to Brixton from Ireland this week. He was 80 weak from hunger as the result of going without food during his imprisonment previous to his trial and sentence, that he was carried aboard the steamer on a stretcher. Thrilling Experience m a Motorboat George Miller And Companion From Picton Seas When Their Engine Stopped at ~ Swam Ashore For Assistance. Canght i Heavy Nighi--Mr. Miller Consequently it was seen that noth- ing could be done without aid being secured on the mainshore. The men waited until daybreak and them Mr. Miller donned a life preserver and awam through the waves to the home of W. H. Coverdale at LeMoi- nes' Point. He reached there shortly after eight o'clock having been car-|$ ried down the shore line for a con- siderable distance by the heavy waves. So strong were the waves running that it was impossible for Mr. Cover- dale to get out his motorboat and make headway to the disabled craft!|e 5 the lake. Unde the circumstances t appeared © best plan was to go.to Collins for assistance. Mr. Coverdale drove Mr. Miller up to the village and there they secured the use of a motorboat belonging to Mr. Peacock, who is living beat and were able to tow it to shore. Both of the men, who had had the unfortunate experiene, were more or less exhausted by the stren- uous fight they had made but were able to proceed to Kingston after they had eaten breakfast and atten- tion had been paid to them. REDS PUSHED FURTHER BACK Gen. Wrangel's Counter-Of= fensive in South Russia 'Continues, + THE FRENCH ARE OPPOSED To the Invasion of Upper Silesia by Polish Troops. 'Paris, Aug. 23.--While the Poles are pressing their offensive between the Baltic and the Rumanian fron- tier, General Wrangel has launched successfully a major attack on the Black sea front, according to ad- vices received here by the anti-Bol- shevik leader's representatives. The Bolsheviki, massing large forces on the left bank of the Dnieper, were reported to have cross- ed the river and attacked Wrangel's right wing, near Kherson. Wrangel counter-attacked, pushing the Reds back across the river. He then fol- lowed with a general advance on a 150-mile front along the river be- tween Kherson and Orekh. A num- ber of villages on the left bank were captured and yesterday the counter- offensive .was still progressing fav- & orably. The French will oppose the in- vasion of Upper Silesia by Polish troops, it was reported in Berlin des- patches. General Lerond, commanding French forces in the plebiscite area, was said to have issued a statement declaring the Polish "interference will not be tolerated." According to unofficial advices 2:000 Poles marched into the Katto- witz district, where the German civilians clashed with French troops 2 few days ago. German farmers were said to have opposed the Polish advance throughout the night, 12 Germans being killed and, many wounded. Polish troops are occupying the entire border district of Upper Silesia. Bogutschuetz, Nikisch- schacht, Laurahutte and all the towns east of Kattowitz are in their possession. id MANITOBA FARMERS FAVOR PROHIBITION They Will Take Part in the Fight for "Bone Dry" Province. Winnipeg, Aug. 23.--United Farm- ers of Manitoba will take very-active part in the fight for "bone-dry' pro- hibition this fall, said W. R. Wood, Secretary of the Organisition, to day. Every local in the Province will be enlisted in thé fight and membership if practically: 100 "per cent. for prohibition," he declared. "Total prohibit%n has always been the plank in our platform," Mr. Wood asserted, "and it was one of our principles long before it was inserted in the platform. In addition to organizing our locals for the purpose of bringing out _ the vote, we will co-operate with dany and all other .organizations in thak- ing this Province absolutely dry." Manitoba will vote on the liquor referendum on October 25. SHIPWRECKED SAILORS SUBSIST ON SEAWEED They Spent Twelve Days in an Open Dory Adrift on the Atlantic. New York, Aug. 23.--Picked up &t sea unconscious in an open dory af- ter living for twelve days on sea- weed, two fishermen were brought into port by the American steamer Mazama, from London. The fish- ermen, Thomas Constant and Ra- phael Goger, said they had become beached i na fog from their vessel, the Glycine, of St. Servan, France. The Mazama brought in four mem- bers of her engine room crew .in irons, charged with mutiny, alleged to have assaulted the assistant en- gineer. They were taken off by a police boat. p-- WILL DEVELOP SODIUM Plant With 20 Tons Per Day Starts Work in Saskatchewan, Regina, Sask., Aug. 23.--A plant with a capacity of 20 tons a day is in process of being installed to mine scdium sulphate found a few months ago at Fusilier in the northwest of the province. Capital of $20,000 has been raised at Calgary and efforts are being made to have the first shipments leave the ming this week. The products will go to the pulp mills at Fort Frances, Ontario, and British Columbia. -- CEP 0944 trates % CANDLES AND LIGHTNING 4 AID WEDDING CEREMONY * -- % Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 23. -- # Cupid ran Ajax a race here late 4 Saturday for the honors of defy- # ing the lightning, 4 When Dr. Harold G. Hood # 'and his bride-to-be, Miss Mil- # dred Reese, reached the church # for the ceremony, an electrical # storm was in progress. The elec- # tric lights in the church were # short-circuited and the assemb- % led guests were inclined to be + panicky. 4% But not so'the plighted pair. # Candles were lighted and the # ceremony was performed to the % occasional flash of lightning and 4 the beating of thunder. CELL PLP0P2 PPP 0200200 bead * P2220 F000 000200900 5 - JiR 3 | 'Twenty-Nine Persons - CANADIANS ORDERED OUT OF MONTENEGRO (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 23.--The Ser- bian authorities in occupation of the country have ordered Col. Burnham -and four lady ass!s- tants of the Canadian war hos- pital to leave Montenegro immediately. RED ARMY MAY ESCAPE POLISH ARMY GIRDLE Poles May bo Tired Afer Re= treat and Recent Heroic Efforts. Warsaw, Aug. 23.--While Warsaw has been saved, it now appears prob- able that the bulk of the army will escape the threatened encirclement and make good its retreat. The Polish attack in the fork of the Bug and Narew Rivers progressed much less rapidly than that on the Brest-Litovsk® front. Moreover, . the Poles are tired after their disastrous retreat and their recent heroic ef- forts. E\{\ng Horrowed many unitd from the Galician front for the War- saw operations the Poles weakened their front there and the Bolsheviki are profiting by the situation to hurl Gen, Budenny's cavalry army in the direction of Lemberg. The reds can probably take that city if they make a strong effort to do so. . Neverthe- less, the decisive battlefield remains in the north. PEPPER PEP EELS PPS + %+ THE BEST PRIME BEEF + 33% CENTS A POUND + San Francisco, Aug. 23.-- High cost of living has never hit Madagascar, Kendall K. Kay, former California newspaper- man, has written to friends here. Best prime beef sells for three and a half cents and rice for a half a cent, he said. Pine- apples can be had for one-half cent each and big lobsters for two cents. Cre pb beer beed * + + + + * + Ld * + +> + +> * CPP PPEP REPRE EES '| Ponzi Agrees to Reveal The Truth About Assets Boston, Aug. 23.--With the corri- dors crowded and more than 100 per sons thronged in the courtroom, Charles Ponzi, the "bushel basket millionaire," began his testimony Saturddy, under oath, before the re- ceivers appointed in the bankruptcy | proceedings. Ponzi agreed to reveal all the truth about his property, in answer to the first questions put to him. Most of the time was occupied by bickering hetween attorneys. It was then decided to continue the hearing until Tuesday, and Ponsi "was taken back to his cell in the East Cambridge jail. Believed Drowned Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Aug. 23.-- The lives of twenty-nine persons, one of them a woman are believed to have been lost shortly after 9 o'clock Fri- day night, when the steamer Superior City, a freighter, sank four and one- half miles northeast of Whitefish Point, in Lake Superior, after collod- ing with the steamer Willis L. King. Four members of the crew, includ- ing Capt. Edward Sawyers of Albion, Mich., were saved. Names of the miss- ing could not be learned, as all re- cords of the Superior City were lost. The missing woman is known to have been the wife of the second engineer, "+ Search Abandoned. . (Canadian Press Despatch) Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Aug. 23. --Search for the bodies of twenty- nine persons known to have lost their lives when the freighter Supe- rior City was sunk in Lake Superior off Whité Fish Point after colliding with the steamer Willis L. King, was practically abandoned today. All the rescue parties have returned here af- ter finding scarcely any wreckage. Scores of, vessels have traversed where the collision -and the explosion occurred, without sighting any trace of the lost vessel. : Family Name of Smith Dropped by Pickfords Los Angeles, Calif, Aug. 23.-- Mrs. Charlotte Smith, mother of Mary Pickford Fairbanks, Jack Pick- ford and Lotto Smith Rupp, desires by an order of the court fo eliminate the family name of Smith and substi- tute that of Pickford, now so well known to the motion picture wor.d, Mrs. Smith petitioned the courts to-day to change her name to Char- lotte Pickford, stating as her reason that she owns considerable. property which stands in the name of Char- lotte Pickford and that her children are known as Pickford in business, social and professional life. Mrs. Smith was born In Toronto, Ont, NEWS IN BULLETIN - Thirty thousand Red prisoners were captured by the Poles from twenty-one divisions. » The independence of Egypt is recognized by Britain. At Regina, Sask,, there were three degrees of frost. No damage was done to wheat during the cold spell in Saskatchewan. H. Kolehmainen, Finland, won the Marathon at Antwerp, Dellow, Cana- dian, finished thirteenth. Smoke, of Peterboro, not among the other | thirty-two, who bad finished. FIVE LIBERALS ~ DESERT LEADER And Join the Independent - Group in the Manitoba House. GOVERNMENT MAY RESIGN Defections From All the Parties Are Not Quite Frequent. : Winnipeg, Aug. 2§--iDefeitions from other political groups have" strengthened the Independent party of Manitoba to such an 'extent that it now has as many adherents as the Norris Government party -. This situatioih has been revealed as a result of a series of conferences of the opposition groups, the indepen- dents, the Conservatives and the Laborites. Five members. elected on party slates have kicked over the traces, definitely aligning themselves with the independents. So, as the situ- ation now stands, there are 19 in the Independent group and 19 Norris Liberals, the remainder of the 53 seats being divided among the Labor and Conservative parties. If it had not been fo e lone plank in the Labor party'séplatform ~--the oné advocating the socializa- | tion of industry--a coalition of the Laborites with the Independents would have been affected in the con- ferences and the Norris Government would have been called upon to turn over the reigns of power to a strong- er party. But the Lmorftes have stuck to their plank, so far, so the prospects of a coalition before th Legislature meets next January an slight, unless one side or the other changes its mind in the meantime. Of the five defections the Liberal party has experienced ome, Nick Hryorcuk, Ethelbert; the conserva- tives three, John Kennedy, of Mor- den; John 8. Ridley, of Manitou, and H. L. Mabb, of Fisher, and the Labor party one, E. Kristjanssen, of St. Georfe. All have pinned the Inde- pendent colors to their lapels. In the hope of overcoming the socialization-of-industry obstacle the Independents have 'arranged tenta- tively for another conference with the Laborites in October. If the" | latter decide to forgo that ideal tor the time being, as a matter of ex- pediency, or if the Indepemidents de cide to swallow the plank, "she days ' of Manitoba's present Government will be numbered. AUTOS KILL IN MONTREAL Survivor of Accident LY Speed at . 80 Miles an Hour. Montreal, Aug. 28.--It is lik reading the papers during the war glafite through the Montreal dailif§ on a Monday during the summeép, This has been the case for som time, but this year it is worse than ever. Last week end there was fif- teen deaths chronicled in and around Montrealyg--deaths by drowning es- pecially and by autos. Everyone knows that the river St. Lawrence is treacherous but still people unable to swim trust themselves to fts waters with the inevitable fesult. The reckless auto drivers seem to be growing in number, for it is a truly unusual sight to see anyone going at the slow rate of fifteen of twenty miles an hour. One of those lucky enough to escape in an accl- det in which three lives were lost stated that he thought they were ' travelling at about 80 miles an hour. TO CELEBRATE REP UBLIO French Ome, of Course---~Quebec to Observ : e Day. Montreal, Aug. 23.--Because the armistice which ended the Great War was signed on November 11, that date has been chosen for the celebration of the fiftieth anniver- sary of the third French Republic. All the French societies in the Pro- vince have been invited to join in the festivities whith are planned to be 'more extensive than in former years. The date originally chosen was September 4, but when it was learned that France had decided on Armistice Day the Quebec authori- Ses transferred the fete to the same ay. French re Tarsus, elief Workers Safe Constantinople, Ang. 23. --Advices to the French Mission here report the capture of Tarsus, Asia Minor, on August. 12 by French troops, and hope now is.held out for the Ameri- can relief workers who have been be- s.eged in Adana since June 20. TaPsus is gjtuated half way between Mersina and Adana. ' EPFL L299 00900400 0 -* ASLEEP FOR TWO YEARS; 4 REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS # -- * Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 23.-- # Mrs. Clara Jorgensen, Racine, # who had been asleep a: the & County Asylum for more than 4 two years, has regained conasci- $ ousness. A sister-in-law of Mrs. & Jorgensen's visited the institu- # tion, bringing 'with her her six- # year-old son. It is thought that # the child awakened the memor- ies in the woman's mind that re- & stored her to a normal condi- tion. It has been necessary to & feed and care for Mrs. Jorgen- 4 sen as If she were a helpless 4 babe, according to Mrs. Peters, matron of the institution. Yes- & terday she walked, used table ¢ utensils and fed herself with & ease. : 2 * LAA EE EEE EET : 0 PE0800500000000000 BY

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