OUR NEW FALL HATS Have Arrived. Collier's Toggery The Daily British Whig u Collier's Toggery The Only Store Where Yom can buy DR. HAWKINS INVISIBLE BELTS YEAR 87: NO. 256, KINGSTON, ONTARIO. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920. LAST EDITION. MOB BATTLES IN WHITEHALL Near Lloyd George's Resi- dence--150 Men And Wo- men Were Injured. .ondon, Oct. 19.--Whitehall was yeaterday afternoon and last night | the scene of a battle of elementary savagery, when twenty thousand unemployed attempted to storm No. | 10 Downing street, where Premier | Lloyd George was conferring with | London borough mayors concerning | measures of relief in the coal strike, | Again and again mounted police | with truncheons drawn, gallopod full speed into the dense mass of | people -- screaming and yelling | hordes of men and women---knoek- | ing them down and trampling them | under the feet of the police horses, | while the mobs retaliated by throw- | ing cobblestones and other missiles. | Bricks, stones, paving debris, | bottles, clubs, shattered windows of | the treasury, the war office, the| king's privy council, the home of- | Heo and other government build- | ngs. ; The demonstration had sent al delegation to the premier, and as the mayors, leading the immense | parade, promised the authorities | that the men would remain quiet | while a conference was held with the premier, the police closed all | possible entrances to Whitehall. For | nearly an hour there was a lull | Nothin happened except restless mutterings by mob leaders who made several ineffectual attempts to parade the men directly past the premlier's residence. The Mass Surges, After several attempts the police cordon was pushed back, the lead- | ers with their human mass behind | them surging like sea waves, tore- | ing the vanguard of the police from | their pathway. Soon an inextricably mixed rest- less mob resulted, pushing its dense | throng against the: struggling police. | Suddenly from out the mob ap-| peared 'a Tosoyreetul leader who, astride a great white horse, rode | through the crowd and attempted to force a passage through the police | lines. He was dragged to the! ground by the men in uniform. This act was a signal for a riot and pandemonium broke loose. The crowd became unmanageable, broke b the lines of police, hurling ing down Dehra of buildings they passed. During. the afternoon and hight, it is estimated that 150 men and wo- men were wounded, many of them seriously. More than 200 arrests were made. " A Great Oil Strike Made In Alberta Edmonton, Alta., Oct, 19.--A pro- gramme of big oil development in the north country is likely to be mapped out as the result of infor- mation sent from the local office of 'the Imperial Oil Company to the head office, conMrming the news that a real strike has been made at Fort Norman. The biggest oil field in the world is what has now been opened in the north; according to T. A. Link, geologist, who was in charge of the experimental work in the far north this summer. It stretches all the way from Fort Nor- man to the Arctic coast. The sea- son's experimentation has absolutely proven the existence of an enormous body of oil-bearing rock in MacKen- zie river territory, compared to which Mexico and Peru are in the miniature class, & at | | { | Italy has accumulated coal reser- ves which will last it until the end of November. 3 Serbian troops have entered the Klagenfurt plebiscite area to protect the Slovenic population. J. J. Maclaren, Toronto, was re- ceived by the Empress of Japan. TO PROCEED WITH THE IRISH BILL London, Oct, 19.--The gov- ernment intends to proceed with the government of Ireland bill, it was declared by Bonar Law, government leader, in an- swering a question in the House of Commons to-day. An- nouncement was greeted with cheers from the coalition benches. QUEEN'S CONVOCATION WEDNESDAY EVENING No Honorary Degrees--New Professors Are to Give Addresses. The convocation, which will be held at Queen's Wednesday evening, will be the opening ceremony of the fall term. The gathering will be ad- dressed by a number of the new pro- fessors of the staff. Prof. R. O. Joliffe, M.A., Ph.D, recently appointed pro- fessor of Latin; Prof. L. N. Arkley, M.Sc., professor of mechanical engin- eering, and Dr, Austin, professor of Clinical surgery, will be the principal speakers. There will be no honorary degrees conferred at this convocation. It is understood that likely the fall convo- cation hereafter will be made the main convocation of the university. In the spring the college runs so late that the students hurry away imme- {diately on concluding their examina- tions. The university authorities very much want to have the presence of these students and for that reason the fall convocation will be utilized to the fullest extent, OVER 200 GALLONS OF WHISKEY SEIZED It Was in Three Cars En Route From Canada to New York. New York, Oct. 19.--An under- ground whiskey route from Canada, through Buffuio to this city, was cut off yesterday, savs a specia' despatch to the Herald' from Bultald. cars were taken yesterday, carrying between them over two hundred gal- lons of pure grain alcohol, worth about two tkoucand dollars. Fifteen cars carrying grain alcoho! have been seized altozether, the despatch says, and the men taken with the n:achines were Buffalo recidents. Aocording to offictals, evidence has been obtained that much of the Cana- slian whiskey being sold in this city is heing sold under counterfei: stamps and labels. HReturns to Kingston. . To Give Evidence The local dealer involved in the recently reported misappropriation of penitebtiary property, and who left the city when summoned to appear dt ah 'irivestigation 'into the maftér, returned to Kingston on Tuesday, and, it is understood, that in consid- eration of his position of crown wit- ness and the manner in which he dis- closed to the detectives the methods employed as well as other valuable information, he will be promised im- munity. Express' Employees Seek Increase in Wages Ottawa, Oct. 19.--M. J. Dundas, general chairman of the express em- ployees of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees stated today that the Canadian Express company had been served with a notice by the employees asking for an increas- ed rate in the present schedule of wages. It is thought that the express employees will ask the same propor- tional raise as the railway men re- ceived. . The little Hines child, of Port Hope, was found to have been mur- dered. Its throat was cut, was the finding of the jury at the inquest. The Nova Scotia Wholesale Gra- cers' Guild protests to the dominion against sugar price fixing. London visitors to Port Stanley in- dulged in bathing in Lake Erle, a re- cord for that resort for lateness. The Metagama, arriving at Mont- real, reported snowflurries outside the Strait of Belle Isle. Sir Sam Hughes opened a recrea- tion building in Galt, as a G.W.V.A. memorial. Windsor is holding a '"made-in- Canada' exhibition. COLD WEATHER MAY HAVE BEARING On the Efforts to End the Great Coal Strike--No Announce- ment Has Been Received From Transport And London, O¢t., 19.--Great Britain's Jcoal mining industry has been al. most completely paralyzed by the strike of coal % rts come from all coal fields in England, Scotland @nd Wales; but thus far in the strike no disorders have oc- curred. Sharp autumn weather pre- vails all over the British .Isles, and the belief was to-day that this would have am important bear- ing on efforts to end the strike. . No announcement so far has been made by the national railway men and transport workers union, rela- tive to g the miners in strik- ing. he premier is expected to make a stitement to-day, regarding the situation and measures taken by the government. There is an unconfirmed report that the government intends to of- fer the miners a compromise of one slillling per shift advance, provided they accept submission of the whole da te to an independent tribunal. @ strike will hit the iron, steel and cotton industries seriously. The great blast furnaces in the Middles= boro district are already beginning to damp. down; thousands of fur- nace men and steel workers are idle. This Tees-side district provides a third of the whole British output of pig iron, and it is feared, should the strike be prolonged, that some 25,- 000 men will be without work. Liverpool and Manchester an- nounce the impending suspension. of the tramway services, and among the minor effects of the strike is the countermanding of public social functions, ? The visit of the Prince of Wales to the city op Wednesday has been rescinded, and it is announced that the pageant which was to have been a feature of the lord mayor's show, entitled "The Makers of London," has been abandoned, owing to the coal strike. { Frank Hodges, of the miners' union, has issued a statement giving minute figures intended to prove that the miners' wages since 1914 have not advanced commensurately with the advance in the cost of Jiv- ing. Three' London, Oct. 19.~<(Great Britain has entered the most fateful period of her internal affalrs since the { bours when the declaration of war | against Germany was being debated by the nation. Yesterday, a series of momentous conferences began out of which will come the decision of organized labor, a mass of 6,000, 000 workers with a political consc- fousness, as to the attitude to be taken toward the strike of 1,000,000 coal miners. The Transport Workers' Union are holding one meeting and the parlia- mentary committee of the Trades Union Congress is conferring with the national executive committee of the labor party. These two assemblies will decide, roughly, whether orga- nized labor is to array. itself against the greater but unorganized mass which constitutes the rest of British society. A decision to do so is what the government most fears. The labor party intends to move an immediate adjournment of the Commons today in order to permit the discussion of the labor contro- versy. The government probably will assent and the parliamentary battle will be on. * With juet one exception the Lon- don newspapers are standing back of the government and the unorganized masses, advising the cabinet to make this the great test between organized and unorganized toilers. The general public is urged to back up the gov~ ernment, to economize in everything and not to worry. J. H. Thomas, head of the one mil- lion railway men and other transport workers, urges his followers to re- main cool and do nothing rash while their elected leaders are handling the matter of whether they are to indulge EYES CENTRE ON PARLIAMENT People Anxiously Look to Legislators to Stop the Goal Strike. London, Oct. 19.--The eyes of all Britain were centred to-day upon the first session of parliament after the summer recess. The entire mation is looking anxiously to the legislators to end the coal strike. Interest in the Irish question, which otherwise would have been the first topic of discussion to-day, waned in presence of the situation menacing the pros- perity of the whole country, and the members assembled with the idea of devoting themselves to the pressing roblem. WRumors in political quarters be- forehand, as to probable develop- ments, dealt mainly with two sugges- tions, one that as the result of cer- tain private discussions of political leaders and prominent labor men, the government and miners' federation would soon get into negotiations again; the other that the government was contemplating dissolution of par- liament to test the cpinion of the nation, ---- Parliament. Opens, London, Oct. 19.--Parliament re- opened today with the situation caus- ed by the coal strike and the Irish problem combining to draw members to Westminster in large numbers. The beginning of the autumn session, which usually starts with a thin house and a discussion of unimport- ant subjects, found the lower cham- ber crowded in aaticipation of an immediate debate on the coal strike. IRISH QUESTIONS ASKED IN COMMONS Prison Authorities Not Feed- ing MacSwiney, Home - Secretary Says. London, Oct. 19.--Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ire-, land, stated in the Commons today, that since January 1st, one hundred | policemen with eighteen of the mili- tary had been killed in Ireland, and 160 of the police and sixty-six of the military had been wounded. More than six hundred .police barracks had been attacked and most of them des- troyed. Home Secretary Shortt, when ques- tioned with regard to the possible release of Lord Mayor MacSwiney, declared that the government had not altered its policy that the convicted men or those awaiting trial for ser- fous offences would not be released because of the hunger strikes, said that none of the prison authorities had fed the lord aror. Occupation of Vilna Contrary to Armistice London, Oct. 19.--A nots with re- gard to the Vilna situation was hand- ed to thé Polish government Sunday by the French and British fepresenta- tives in Warsaw, acting simultaneous- ly. The note declared that the allied governments considered the occupa- tion of Vilna contrary to the armis- tice with Lithuania, concluded through the mediation of the league of nations, and contrary to assur- ances given by Poland to the allies and the league of nations. The note is friendly dut firm in tone. » -- A severe engagement between Lithuanian and Polish troops occur- red between Vilna and Kovno on Sunday. A $3,000,000 artificial ice rink will be erected in New York. Transport And for action which might open the way | in a sympathetic holiday. In general the newspapers are whistling for a compromise within a few days, although it is frequently suggested that parliament try drastic action, Seaports Congested. London, Oct. 19.--All Great Bri- tain watched unemployment grow to- day as miners had answered the strike call in large numbers and many laboring people not directly in- terested in the miners' troubles were out of work bacause of coal shortage. Seaports were conjected. Yesterday there were more than 700 vessels tied up to Cardif! alone, no coal in the bunkers, no cargo in the hold. Many docked here last week ex- pecting to take back the usual cargo of coal. That was prevented by the export embargo issued the moment the miners let it be known they in- tended to strike. The government was well prepared for the strike. Plans had been com- pleted for transportation of food and other necessities and schedules for users of coal were made public. Claims that parliament can settle the strike within a week if it chooses were advanced in some sections, giv- ing the press hope that something might develop along that line. The Daily News suggested the Prince of Wales as a mediator. It is sald it understood "He was by no means unwilling to undertake the task if a general invitation were is- sued." Marking Time. London, Oct. 19.--Transport work- ers and the railwaymen--the two other bodies of the powerful Triple Alliance to which the miners belong rn Sn WEBER PIANO WORKS TEMPORARILY CLOSED Big Stock on Hand With No Great Demand for Pianos. The Weber Plaud Company works her: have been closed down, and it may be a few weeks before 'ue fac- tory is re-opened. -nterviewed by the Whig on Tues- day morning, the manager, Mr. Brathwaite, s;ated that ihe factory was being closed owing to the fae: thut there was a big stock on hand, and that there was no great demand for pianos at the present time. Over one hundred men gre affected. The report in lahoy circles is to the eftect that the firm was willing to keep on the mez 'at & reduction of fif:ren per cent. in wagss, but that the men were no: agreeable to this cut. Little Chance of Reductions. Ottawa, Oct. 19.--There is little expectation at the railway board of- fice that there will be any change in the present level of railway freight and passenger rates until the end of the year at the earliest. Sylvia In Trouble Again, London, Oct. 19.--Sylvia Pank- burst, daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, was arrested today charg- ed with publishing seditious litera- ture. Prison Enquiry Closed to Press Lt.-Col. Biggar arrived from Otta- | wa on Monday and proceeded to the Jortsmouth penitentiary accompani- ed' by a stenographer where he open- ed the investigation into the dismis- sals of Guards Dowsley, McCauley, R. Paynter and H. W. Wilson, which Brig.-Gen. A. E. Ross, M.P.P., de- manded. T. J. Rigney is representing the dismissed officials, at the hear- ing that is taking place. An inspec- tion of the interior of the prison and the work shops was made Tuesday morning. The press was excluded from the hearing of the cases. Evidence in support of the action of the. authqrities was opened, and Col. Biggar, who presided, soon showed that he was after the essential faots bearing upon the charges, and full latitude is allowed the counsel for 'the ghards, T. J. Rigney, to cross- examine the witnesses and present any witnesses of behalf of the guards he may think can offer any light up- cn the cases. J. H. Halpin, of the Hansard staff, Ottawa, is official stenographer. An Ottawa despatch says: "Col O. M. Biggar, general counsel to tha government, is investigating the dif. ficulties at Kingston penitentiary, and will make his report in duo course. Col. Biggar is expected back in Ottawa towards the end of the week. Official reports received here indicate that the convicts strike has been quelled. The ring leaders were placed in punishment cells and with their arrest, the trouble subsided. Steps are being taken to prevent a re- currence." PELPIFFEPEISL P2000 $ A pEADLY BLOW + TO WORLD COMMERCE * o -- * ® Washington, Oct. 19.--Thé #% strike of British coal miners if % long continued will deliver a #:severe blow to world shipping 4 and commerce, according to 4 shipping experts here. % American shipping, it is 4 said, will feel the effects of the # British strike less than that of % any other nation and this 4 country may actually gain 4% ocean carrying trade at the ex- % pense of other nations. * PEPPER RPIPCPOISIPIYS * -* + + + + + + + > + + + + * * + The Great British Coal Strike Is Spreading; Railwaymen's Decision Awaited : they had been left to be taken across ---were evidently marking time to- day in the matter of making the fate- ful decision whether they would lend their support to the striking coal workers. Talk of mediation was still rife, and while there were no tangible de- velopments along this line, the rafl- road employees and the transport men appeared to be inclined not to take precipitate action, pending pos- sible proposals from some source up- on which the government and the miners could negotiate. With the shipping, steel and iron and other industries already hard hit, many thousands of men are out of work in various parts of the coun- try, and it seems certain by the end of the week the total will be many scores of thousands unemployed, as numbers of factories will be able to operate only a short time without new stocks of coal. Would Go To The People. London, Oct. 19.--Premier Lloyd George will dissolve parliament and go to the country in a general elge- tion: if the railroad men and other labor organizations join the striking coal miners, it was learned. He would accept the joint action of the unions as a challenge to con- stitutional government and as an is- sue to ask the people to choose be- tween parliamentary government and labor dictation amounting to soviet- ism. J. H. Thomas, John R. Clynes and other leaders are expected to ad- vise a limitation of the strike be- cause they feel that the country is not ripe for any great change. The small opposition to the prem- fer, led by former premier Asquith, will support the government coalition in the debate Tuesday. RUSSIANS AS COUNTERFEITERS Aim to Destroy Existing Con- fidence And Pave Way For World Soviet. London, Oct. 19.--Investigations by Scotland Yard of the forgeries of Bank of England five pound notes incline the experts there to believe they are part of a Thon destroy the confidence of 5 in the money of the world, They link the British forgeries with the recent- ly discovered forgeries of American $20 notes and of German and Scandi- navian paper money. Proof has been secured that the Bolshevik printing office in Petro- grad is equipped; to issue millions of spurious Britfsh (notes, so soon as the right grade and texture of paper can be secured. The plates have been engraved and test runs, of notes show that they cannot be detected from real money, except on careful imspection by ex- perts. It is reported from the same sources that have furnished evidence on this matter that the red printing house will flood the world with forg- ed money of all nations. The first avenues through which the counterfeits are to be put on the market are in the middle east and on the continent; but later the Americas are to be flooded. Evidence is piling up to corrobor- ate the reports that came from Pet- rograd several months ago that the soviets had determined to take from all nations their confidence in their money, throwing the peoples back on a straight gold basis, and, as there is not enough gold to meet the commer- cial requirements of business, to block effectually the wheels of indus- try. . They see in their campaign of counterfeits their final blow against the allied nations. They believe when the workingmen have lost confidence in the credit money of the nations and refuse to work except for gold, all industry will be wrecked, and the way will be paved for a worldwid soviet. 2 Bo Palmer Drops Fight Against Gouge Prices Washington, Oct. 19.--The cam- paign conducted by tre department of justice against the high cost of liv- ing will be ended and the entire fair price organization disbamded Nov. 1. Letters have gone out from the de- partment to all fair price committees and all others engaged in the cam- paign, advising them of the Ned de 8 ment's decision to conclu work. MAIL BAGS STOLEN. Carrier Left Them on Wharf and They . Brockville, Oct. 19.--The police here are investigating the disappear- ance of three mail bags from the Canadian Pacific railway wharf where the ferry for connection with the New York Central train. The car- rier deposited thi bags on the wharf, and, as the approaching boat was in sight, drove away, thinking they would be safe, but before the boat touched the wharf the. bags were stolen. One of them, containing a valuable registered package of bonds, con- signed to Morristown, N.Y., was later found in the Canadian Paeific railway yard near the wharf. It had been slit open, but its contents apparently did not interest the thief, as the bonds were intact. There is as yet no trace of the thief or of the other two bags. rstrike. {but the inmates were aware of this DEMANDS CATTLE FROM GERMANY Berlin, Oct, 19.--The allied reparations commission, ac- cording to Vorwaerts, has presented to the German gov- ernment a demand for the im- mediate delivery of 10,000 bulls and 500,000 cows to France; 11,150 head of cattle to Italy, 210,000 cows to Bel- glum, and 157,000. head of cattle to Serbia. | POINTS OUT DANGERS OF IRISH CIVIL WAR Immediate Result Would be Great Tension Between Britain and U.S. of embroilment with the States if the north and south of Ire- land were left to fight out their own differences was predicted by Right. Hon: Winston Churchill, secretary of state for war, in his speech here Sat- | urday night in which he referred at length to the Irish situation. | Churchill, after asserting that such a course would lead to civil war, 'on SUGAR HEARING ON WEDNESDAY Refiners Hopeful of Success ~The Public Is To Be Enlightened. Ottawa, Oct. 19.--To-morrow's sugar hearing before the cabinet promises 'to bring here a lot of in- terests to combat the recent Board {of Commerce order, while the sugar crowd will not only attend personally, but be represented by counsel. It is conceded that the Board of i {Commerce is "in bad" and placed in Dundee Scotland, Oct, 13 -wTanget a very unfavorable Nght. ; : The position of thé government is very peculiar." On the one hand, {Canadian consumers are an absolute unit in demanding the right to buy sugar at prices which obtain in the outside markets if Canadian refiners decline to meet these prices. The government has the power to enforce {that right. On the other hand the such an organized scale that it would (sugar interests have some kind of a be disastrous and more terrible than | could be imagined," declared that it 'tial, including such men as would mean that in England sym- pathy would develop in favor of Ul- ster. Influential persons in the United States, he said, sympathized with the south of Ireland, and while volunteers would leave England for the north of Ireland, reinforcements would come from the United States for the south. That would create such tension that Great Britain would be faced with the greatest danger it could be confronted with, namely, a quarrel with the United States. A Missing Child's Body is Found in Grove Port Hope, Oct. 19.--The body of | case, and they are big and influen- / untley," Drummond, D. Lorne McGibbon and' J. W. McConnell, all prominent Con- lservatives and protectionists, who in the past have rendered service to |the party. The government also is committed to protection, and thers !is the further consideration that it is |blamed anyway for the whole situa- ition because of the control it is |claimed to have applied to the sugar |industry. On top of this is the bad {odor in which the Board of Com-! | merce is enveloped, and shouts of indignant protest from municipal bodies, women's clubs, citizens' leagues and papers all over the coun try. Before the 'showdown' is over' {it is suggested that the public may {know considerably more than it does Inow of the sugar situation and of little George Albert Hines, who dis- [various facts and acts contributory to / appeared on September 21st, when |it. hig father, Albert Hines, of Cobourg, a returned soldier affected by shell shock, took him away with him and subsequently 'returned without him, being unable to remember where he had left the child, was found in a grove by the C.P.R. track, four miles west of this town. The body was badly decomposed, STUDENTS' HEADS TARRED. Freshmen Had to Seek Remedy in Hospital. Toronto, Oct, 19.--Three freshmen of the University of Toronto, because they had refused to wear skull caps, were laid hold of by their geniors and | their heads dipped in melted tar. The tar refused to come off when the "fun" wag over, and, in a quandary, | after numerous supposed remedies Developments are being watched with great interest, and the import- {ance attached to the situation is in dicated by the premlier"s postpone- /ment of his western tour, particularly ito enable him to see the thing through. i Refiners Hope for Successs Montreal Oct. 19.--Representatives of the Eastern Canadian Sugar Re- * ifineries were in conference here {preparing their case for submission to 'the governor-general-in-council on | Wednesday on the hearing in connee« ition with the suspended order of the board of Commerce regarding the price and importation of sugar. At {the close of 'the conference, refiners, Huntley Drummond, president of 4 Sugar Refinery, Limited, said t were confident in the strength had been tried, the trio of freshmen their position and hoped to went to the General Hospital. Doctor | after doctor suggested remedies, but | without avail. The pitch would not | come off. Finally, Dr. C. K. Clarke, | the noted expert on heads, was called | in. He prescribed the smearing of lard on the tar-covered crowns. The lard was applied, the boys' heads | bandaged up and they were told io} return in three hours. They did so, ard then the tar was removed, to the general satisfaction of all concerned. Rejects Curfew Law. Quebec, Oct. 19.--By a vote of seven to flve the city council has re- jected a curfew by-law which would oblige all children to remain in their homes after nine o'clock in the even- ing in the summer time and after eight o'clock in winter. Automobile Burned. Brockville, Oct. 19.--A motor truck driven into Brockville by A. Rubino, a local fruit dealer, caught fire and was totally consumed. Ru- bino had a narrow escape from being burned. PENITENTIARY CONVICTS ON S Severe Discipline Causes Rebellion-_Locked in Their And Deprived of Food---Hoot And Yell cessful in persuading the government to uphold the order of the Board of Commerce, or,'as an alternative, taks such other action to relieve the situas tion as the circumstances might justify. ' Left in the Dark With Five Coffina Belfast, Oct. 19.--An example of the means used to enforce Sinn Fein decisions has been reported by Dube lin Castle. A man had refused to pay a sum awarded against him by a re« publican court. : He was kidnapped, taken to & churchyard and given a lig : candle and locked in a large vault, where he was told: "By the time the candle is burned out yeu may decide. to change your mind." hy The kidnapper returned a later, by which time the candle been long extinguished, leaving i prisoner alone in the dark with five coffins. Cl Under threats that the treatment would be repeated the fine was ual a All Night. Pandemonium reigns Portsmouth penitentiary. It com- menced on Saturday afternoon, when the convicts in the different shops threw down thelr tools and refused to work. The action of the tailors and the men on the stone pile was soon known all over the place, and the whole population, it is stated, followed suit and went on The reason for the strike of the convicts is alleged to be a long series of grievances against the ad- ministration for 'Imposing upon them what is regarded as a severe course of discipline. It is said that keen resentment has been aroused over the frequency with which they are called upon to submit to search- es of their persons and cells. Upon the strike being reported, Warden Ponsford ordered the prison closed, and all prisoners were marched to their cells and locked up. They were no sooner in their cells than the uproar commenced. It lasted all Saturday night and the nese was so great that the residents of Ports-| mouth were unable to sleep. The howls of the prisoners could be dis- tinctly heard in the city as far as Centre street. On Sunday there was scarcely any let-up. The men went to chapel in the morning and were served their meals but they were no sooner back in their cells than the racket began all over again.' Every effort was made to catch individuals in the act, in order to make an example of them: The day guards were called back to do duty all night Sunday, at the and divided themselves into shifts. At a given signal each hif took up the yell when the other Jef off. One man possessed a lou whistle that could be heard a : away. Between the yells, co nation was heaped upon the warden who seemed to be the special objed of their defiance. THelir metal and plates were used to hammer bars of their cells, and th spectators, attracted by the lined the street in front of the prison late Saturday night and oi Sunddy night. They report that ¢ noise was deafening. On' Monday morning, the 1 ers were given ho breakfast | dinner, and this attempt to starw them into submission only made the noise worse and it continues through Monday night, ie The warden and officials were" solutely helpless to deal with situation. As soon as the gu approached one of the noisy wings, their presence was Se and there was not a sound, a it was necessary to catch an ofl der in the act in order to mete punishment by confinement in dungeon, the efforts of the were fruitless. It is said that guards are . secretly chuec over the whole affair and ® not entirely in accord with | "new system" as it is called under such cir not disposed to "swear" the oners into the dungeons guards from the west are ih vi ', and maligned with streams of thets by the comvicts.