Baily British Whig FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921. ALLEN NOW PLAYING 'What Women Love" ALLEN NOW PLAYING Annette Kellerman The LAST KDITION. KINGSTON, ONTARIO. YEAR 88: No. 105. |METHODIST HEAD A SERIES OF ARAB STATES "5" wuru! THE EMPIRE exc ee BOND ISSUE IS DEMANDED PLANNED BY THE BRITISH "sz: 5" BUILT FIRM "*=%=-<»=" 'BY ALLIES FROM GERMANY | and Leaves Him Too Dazed to Dive. | | | om ns y Belfast, May 6.--Two shots wefe | New "York, May 6 --The King | : Which Would Secure a New Overland Aerial Route to In- fora: victsresiacnt one venus: | Premier Meighen Says New| jicionier oie, reek Lise docked Jy the Renarations' Protocol---Gerntany is Instructed How dia Under British Protection--Mesopotamia Is To |! "ar"n "eiaet seurice wer: | Mechanisms of Govern- | to Proceed in Payment of a Total ,of | ; Become a Great British Depot. J ue uariers of | fnef < ment Not Needed. | ne the others were 400 apie | : 132,000,000,000 Gold Marks. : of : | | . | | 3 »" : . May 6.--Important results have followed the appointment |C P08: The Rev. Mr. Mettrick"re- | |ture brides' --girls who have come| , ... May 6.--The sion without coupons attached, and {ceived a wound to Americs lo marty men who know, og", "Geir war will be issued by the commission as, in the forehead. | {them only by their pictu®:. One of and when, it is satisfied the pay- { Athens. Forty of them were gent to! | Hoffman's Island for sanitation pur-| " Loudon, protocol London, May 6.--Rt. Hon Arthur burdens jn | Melghen, prime minister of Canada, - purported'to be the outline of British polic This policy has not as yet been officially revealed but the SLES P PPP of Viscoudit Spencer Churchill,' secretary of state for the colonies, to the ,middle east, says the Daily Sketch. in the future. That newspaper to-day printed what Y to be pursued in Mesopotanfia newspaper asserts it has excellent authority for its statement. "The formaltion of a series of Arab states," This would secare a new overland aerial route to India under British protection, great depot and training ground for military aviators in part of the government's plans he British Empire." the newspaper said, "is Mesopotamia is to become a the service of It is further asserted that Frince Feisal, son of the King of Hed jaz, will become the first sherifian ruler of the country, Mesopotamia. The British reduced to a little more than twenty battalions, and eve tantamount to that of king in his position being n this force will be later cut down to twelve battalions, the newspapet. asserts, CEES PS 42 e PN > % -* v * be * > % SURE THAT PRESSURE WILL YIELD RESULTS *e 4% London, May 6.--"Germany will realize at last that the hour has come when she must loyally carry out her obligations," Pre- +% mier Briand declared just be- #% fore his departure for France. "I am leaving with g feeling of complete satisfaction," Briand + said, "We have reached the end # of our labors under the most + favorable circumstances. * will produce profitable results." : * CEPR PPPPPPINIEIEY APPOINT DELEGATES T0 TALK CHURCH UNION Presbyterians in England to "I believe pressure on Germany + the members. ove» es % | was put through that divided $5,000 th ah |THE GROUP LEADERS GET LESS SALARY Dewart. and Ferguson Draw $400 Less This Year | Than Last. | Toronto, May 6.--The two opposi- | tion leaders in the Ontario house, | Hartley Dewart and Howard Fergu- som, are receiving $400 indemnity {less this year than they each receiv- led last year, notwithstanding the | granting of a bonus of $600 to all A year ago an'act | between the 'opposition leaders. The |same measure provided tHat after [October, 1920, each leader of a | group of more than fifteen members {should receive an indemnity of $1,-| {600 in addition to the ordinary member's indemnity of $1,400. The additional $600 voted this year is a bonus and cannot be repeated without special legislation. while .a passerby was wounded the eye by fragments of glass as the second bullet passed through a glass panel at the side door of the mission. The Rev. Mr. Maguire is a prominent Orangeman and -one of the best known.glergymen in Ulster. He had a narrow escape' from being shot in {the rioting last August, a boy stand- | ing close to him fn' York street pe- |ing fatally wounded. Hg is the fath- {guire, who toured Canada with a | January of last year. | VERNON G. CANDY | Of United Hotels staff, appointed | manager of 'Clifton House, Niagara [Talis Ont. ¢ The total amount receivable by | jer of the Rev, Charles Wesley Ma- | | has an important pronouncement on | the constitutional problem of the | place of the domin..ns in the Empire | chester - Guardian, celebrating hundredth anniversary. In his message Premier Meighen, after stressing the doctrine that the relations of the dominions .to the mother country must be based on the recognition of "the ' complete | freedom and equality of status of garrison will be | party of clergymen from Ulster in |the daughter states, says that it is a {common experience tp. . encounter | questions and disputes as to whether we 'have, in fact, arrived at such a ally accepted as an actual working basis in the conduct of imperial a(- fairs. "In this controversy," 'says Mr. Meighen, "the dominions may be said to be unique, for no other occi- dental countries enjoy such specula- tive exercises, as their constitutional position is fixed and taken for grant- ed The result in our political life is that there is much discussion, oft- en exceedingly interesting, but on the other hand. often unduly distrac!- ing; the strain upon the conduct of tor alone must be experienced to be fully appreciated. Se ---- This Year's Conference concerned can settle it.alone, anc the problems involved must doub:- ference of 1917, whenever it may be held. | | [8 | ' | [in the special number of the Man- {after a voyage around the ship in al its ls these brides was an Armenian, Marie Zagorian. Her finance, who had recognized har | ""bumboat," sent her carnations wher | commission in Pdris last night by the reparations commission says: 'Germany will' perform in the manner laid down in this schedul: her obligations to pay the total fix- ed in accordance with articles 231, status, or whether it has been gener- | public affairs arising from this fac- | "Much of it should be quite un- | necessary, but no one of the nations | less be left for the attention of the | special constitutional conference coh- | templated by the Imperial War Con- | This much being assumed, i! | | she let down a cord to him. She re- jturned the compliment by tossing {him a bottle of cognac, but it boune- |ed off his head and plunged into the | deep. He was too dizzy to dive for it. | MAJOR-GENERAL H. M. ELLIOTT For thirty vears connected with Im- jrerial and Canadian forces, who has {becn appointed Commissioner of Pdlice {for Ontario CONFUSION OF TIME. | Quebec's Catholic Schools 4 Change Class Hours,' 1232 and 233 of the treaty of Ver- | sailles, 132,000,000,000 gold marks, {less (a) the amount already paid on | account of reparations; (b) sunis | Which may from time to time be | credited to Germany in respect of | state properties in ceded territory, jete.; (¢) any sums received fren other 'enemy or former enemy pow- ers, in respect to which the commis- sion may decide credits should be given to Germany, plus the amount (of the Belgian debt to the allies, the amounts of these reductions to be determined later by the commis- sion." The protocol then provides for the issue of bonds, as has previously been outlined, and which shall be secured on the whole assets of tna German Empire and the 'German states. First Series by July 1st. The first series of bonds, for ihe amount of 12,000,000,000 gold marks, the protocol says, shall be ments which Germany undertakes to make in pursuance of this agres- ment are sufficient to provide for the payment of interest and th, sinking fund on such bonds. The bonds will be Gérman govern- _ ment bearer bonds, in such form and such denomination as the repara- tions commission shall prescribg for the purpose of making them market able, and shall be free from Gei- man taxes and charges of every description, present and future. Two Billion Marks Yearly. Until redemption of the bonds, Germany will be required to pav yearly 2,000,000,000 gold marks and twenty-six per cent. of the value of her exports as from May 1st, or al- ternatively, an equivalent amount as fixed in accordance with any other as index proposed by Germany and accepted by the reparations com- mission. "It is provided," the protocol con- tinues, "that when Germany shall have discharged all her obligations under this schedule, other than her liability with respect to outstanding 'bonds, the amount payable each. yaar under this paragraph shall be re- created and delivered by July 1st, 1921, but the interest of five per cent., plus one per cent. for a sink- ing fund, shall be payable half year- ly from May 1st. The second series, for 38,000,00,- 000 gold marks, shall be issued on November 1$t. The third series, f:r 82,000,000,000 gold 'marks, shall, not later than November_lst, be: de- livered * to the reparations commis- TO REDUCE THE CLERKS duced to the amount required in that year to meet the interest and sink- ing fund on the bonds outstanding." Germany is required to pay withia twenty-five days 1,000,000,000 marks in gold, approved foreign biligh or drafts at three months on the German treasury, endorsed by ap- proved German banks in London. Paris, New York, or other places Jde- signated by the reparations commis- | the 'opposition leaders. this year is {$3,600 as against $3,900 last year. | The -speaker of the house, Hon. |G.T.p. | Nelson Parliament, receives a sal- {ary of $2,600, which with his in- | { demnity and bonus makes a total of | $4,600. Weekly Summary of Sinn Meet Representatives of the Anglicans. PROVINCES EULOGISED ' will be seen that the task of those | Quebec, May 6.--As oc result of who meet in the Imperial Conference | complaints that the domestic tira :- of this year should not be conceivei [table in homes had boen disorganiz- as being primarily concerned with [ed followin gthe adoption of daylight the erection of new mechanisms of [saving time by the city, and the re- government for the empire." taining of standard time in the Ro- The Guardian, in commenting, {man Catholic schools, it was decided concludes that Premier Meighen's | by the Catholic school commission to statement puts a bound upon the [alter the class hours to meet the ; INO CONFIDENCE VOTE Three Thousand Five Hun- | ' IN THE GOVERNMENT dred to Lose Positions, | ie Says U.S. Secretary. {Grand Army of United Vets wv | erans Want Meighen Min Washington, May 6.--Many war IN WAR DEPARTMENT Interest Payments Are Ap- i preciated. | London, May 6.--The fact that the [Sotetameate of Saskatchewan ane Alberta have come forward with the {interest on the bonds of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway branches London, May 6.--The General As- sembly of the Presbyterian church in England, in session to-day, ap- ted: delegates to confer with a ittee of the Anglican Shuch IP, proposals for church union. fmegle Simpson, in moving the ter, said he greatly admired the licans and coveted many things had; but he did not approve of 'episcopacy which was the weakest d, in his opinion, the worst fea- re of the Anglican faith. ~The General Assembly decided to . admit women to elderships and dea- " conships, but resolved that where women were admitted to the min- istry they should resign if they en- tered the state of matrimony, Nearly Two Million British Out of Work | London, May 6.--Nearly two mil- . Hon people are out of work, accord- ing to the unemployment statistics issued by 'the labor-department of 'the Board of Trade this' week. Of- ficial recortis show that 89,000 peo- ple were thrown out of employment during the past week. While the rapid increase in unemployment is largely attributed to the miners' strike, Socialist and labor papers cite the employment figures as an indictment of the system of things, and something of a sensation has been caused by the action of the Shoreditch Borough Council, gov- erning one of tHe large industrial areas of London, in declining to ap- prove the emigration of children to . Canada. x Wheat Inch Higher. Brandon, Man., May 6.--Wheat, ~ sown April 18th, is up an inch on the farm of R. F. Roddick, south-east of the city, This is the first repost of wheat being up in this district, Patrick Maloney and Sein Duffy, prominent officials in the Irisa Re- publican army, are official reported killed in a shooting affray with Dub- lin police. : President Ebert, it ig reported, has asked Prince Von Buelow to accept the German chancellorship. Fein Attacks in Ireland Dublin, May. 6.--Thirty-six at- tacks on crown forces, with twenty- eight casualties, one of which was fatal; are reported in the weekly summary of events in Ireland issued from Dublin Castle to-day. There were twelve unsuccessful attdcks on police barracks, the summary says, and. three Sinn Fein murders of civilians. Forty-two raids were made on malls, Arrests for outrages and political offenses numbered forty-eight, and 125 internment or- ders were issued, making a total of 2,700 persons interned. PRISON NO PUNISHMENT Brooklyn Jsadge Favors Short-Term With Lash. New York, May 6.---Revival of the whipping post for criminals was ad- vocated in Brooklyn by. Supreac Court Justice Fawcatt in sentencing a highwayman to a term of impri- sonment of from 10 to 20 years. "Shorter sentences and the gener- ous use of the lash would. rid the community of hardened criminals," said the court. "The prison, with its moving pictures, theatricals a:¢ other forms of entertainment, is not considered punishment by many pri- soners. The time has come when ju- dicious use of th: lach would mit a long felt want in making our streets and parks safs and in pro- tecting the lives and property of our people." ------ Cornwall Woman Dead. Cornwall, May 5 --Mrs. Monroe, wife of Duncan Monroe, well-known insurance and real estate agent, pass- ed away at her hushand's residence, "Cedar Brae," yesterday in the 79th year of 'her age. Mrs. Monroe's maiden name was Jennie Loney. She fz survived by her husband: and one daughter, Mrs, Johnson, Montreal. The funeral takes place on Thursday afternoon. British Colonel Asks Reinforcements To Check Polish Insurgents in Silesia | a! Oppeln, Silesia, May 6.--Two hun- dred Italian soldiers, commanded by Col. Bond, of the British army, evacuated Gross Strehlitz last night. At that time the town. was under ~ artillery fire from Polish insurgents. In making his report to the allied commission here, Col.-Bond urged the necessity of sending reiaforce- meats, laying emphasis on the need of machine guns and "ammunition. French officials herd declared they were unable to furnish more sol- 1 dlers, saying théy were short of men 1 everywhere in the plebiscite zone. The Poles are reported to be in Possession of the entire eastern sec. tion of Silesia as far north as Rosen- berg, which the commission heard they had occupied yesterday without Opposition. Fighting 1s still going on at Rybnik, Southern Silesia. Or- ganization of civilian police to the number of three thousand to rein- force the entente troops is contem- plated here. These police would be Upper Silesian Germans, it is indi cated, 3 : -- Arrest Leader and Staff. Warsaw, May 6.-- Unconfirmed ports from Sosnowice say that Adal- bert Korfanty, Upper Silesian pleb- igcite commissioner, who has pro- claimed himself leader of Polish in- surgents in that territory, has been arrested by the inter-allfed plebiscite commission, together with his entire staff, ' which they guarantead, is the occa- sion of appreciative references in the financial columns of the papers here to-day. It was feared, rays one fi- nanc'al writer, -that the provincial authorities might follow the exam- ple of the dominion .~'overnmentr, but Alberta -and Saskatchewan arc to their credit, be it said, acting scrupulously in accord with their guarantees. i ---------- A LOCKOUT OF 30,000 STEWARDS AND COOKS cided on by he Shipping Companies. London, May 6.--A lockout of thirty thousand sea-going stewards and tooks began to-day, this step be- ing taken by the shipping companies because of the men's refusal to ac- cept a wage cut of about seventeen per cent. The lockous, may interfere with the, comfort of steamship 'pas- sengers but the vessel owners are said to be confident that all the vac- ancies can be filled. The transport workers' federation has promised its support to the stewards and cooks' union. \ A QUEEN'S GOWN Presented to Violet Selfridge on Wedding Day London, May 6.--Society was in- terested yesterday in the fabulous gifts to Violet Selfridge at her wed- ding late yesterday to . Viscomte Jaccques de Sibour. The wedding was pronounced the most gorgeous of the London season. The bride's father, Gordon Self- ridge, former American and owner of London's greatest department store, presented his daughter the wedding dress which once belonged *» Marie Antoinette, queen of France, The titled groom is in Selfridges employ. Found Liquer at Tamworth Tamworth, May 6--Officer Whee- ler of this place unearthed a cargo of liquor that had béen hidden to celebrate on referendum night, and shipped it to the government dispen- sary at Toronto, after waiting a week for the owners to claim it. The losers, however, did not feel like tity is only surmised. s A "Dove Letter." "love letter" from Fred Beauvais, French-Canadian guide named as co-respondent in the Stillman divorce suit, to Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman, Gay by Justice Daniel J. Gleason, re- feree before whom the case Is being tried in secret, ° £7 : Who Refused Wage Cut De-| paying a fine of $200 and their iden- New York, May 6.--An alleged | was. admitted to the records yester- the boom of the -elaborate and | well- meant plans of the round table group of Imperialists as well as upon such latér day devices as the so-called imperial cabinet. If our own states- men are alive to.the meaning of such friendty counsel as comes from Can- ada in Mr. Meighen's message, con- stitutional forms for-the reconstrus- tion of the empire may look to themselves, is the verdict of the Guardian. ELLIS HAD BIG YEAR AS CANADA'S HANGMAN {He Made $12,500 and Had to Pay Quite an Ipcome Tax. Montreal, May 6.--Arthur Ellis, known from coast to coast as a hang- man of particular merit, arrived iu this city yesterday en route tu Am- -herst, N. 8. It was ascertained rhat during the past year Ellis made $12,500 by executing men for the government, and in consequence had to pay quite an income tax. "I had a big year of it," he stated, "and let me tell you that there was not a single hitch in anything I car- ried out." The significance. of this announcement is obvious, Ellis is worried. On July 8th he has two large contracts. Unfortunately they are on opsosite sides of the continent; one at Que- bec that will cost two lives, and the other at Vancouver, where five con- demned men will mount the scaffold for the biggest hanging event in the history of the dominion. As he can- not be at both places at once, Ellis has decided to accépt the Vancouver | the government will assist in putting {to good use waste lands. It is also | contemplated to open two new nur- "| which the department has forestry views of the parents, The clocks in the schools, however, will not be ad- vanced, the class hours will simply be changed. -------- USED CORPSE AS BAIT " TONILL IRISH POLICE Sinn Feiners Laid It in County | Kerry and Slew Eight. | Belfast, May 6.---A fight the Bor- {der Regiment had with rebels ac | Tournakeady early in May resulted in twelve rebels being killed and wounded. Eight out of nipe policemen wera killed in a trap at Rathmore, Kerry, The rebels murdered a man and sent | word to the police, who came to re- | move the body. As they stooped to | lift it Sergeant McCormack, Consta- | bles Phelan, Woodcock, Doyne, Hil- | laire, Watkin, Brown and Clott we-2 | killed by rifle fire from both sides {of the road, where one hundred reb- | els were concealed. Constable Hick- {ey alone escaped. The murdered man was over 70 years of age. A large number of arrests were made in va- rious parts of Ulster today. | | | i | | A TREE-PLANTING : CAMPAIGN PLANNED Forestry Department Hopes for Progress in Co-operation With Municipalities. Toronto, May 6.--Active efforts along provincial forestry lines are to be carried on this summer by the Ontario government depart t of which Dr. E. J. Zavitz is (8& head. During war years comparatively small advantage had been taken by Ontario municipalities of government: cncouragement along that line, but this year it is hoped that real pro- gress will be made. - Seven million seediings, mostly pine and spruce, with some hard woods, will be set out in the forestry department's Norfolk county reser- vation from which it is expected to get a 50 per cent. yield, Countigs ard municipalities ~ will again have brought to their attention legislation of the last two sessions, by which sery centres in Eastern Ontario. ° Simcoe county, with its many miles of waste land, is said to be one of the sections of the province upon designs. Simcoe is already among those counties which have taken up the government's forestry proposi- tion. : St, Boniface in'St, Maurice county, workers who rushed to Washington to aid the government in the greai. crisis and have managed to hold their jobs ever since must soom be figuring on buying tickets back home cr striking out for other flelds. This was made apparent that 3,600 War Department clerks would be dropped between now and July 1st. --- The War Department civil employ- ment list in Washington now totals when } people of Cangda to carry on, Secretary of War Weeks announced | endorsation of the organization's fed: istry to Resign. : Winnipeg, May 6.---Passing of rs "no confidence" vote in the feders government and calling upon it to re- sign as having no mandate from the and. eral political platform with a few additions, featured the morning ses: ston of the Grand Army of United Veterans' Convention yesterday. : In view of the expected amalga about 10,000, said Secretary Weeks. | mation of all veteran organizations "We will cut it to 6,500 by July 1st. | he A | the present federal political platfor * This means that 3,500 must be discharged."' Manitoba Farmer Group { May Lose Some Members | Winnipeg, May 6.--The Inde- pendent Farmer group in the Mani- toba legislature which has seldom voted as a unit in the session just closing, may be reorganized before the next session. William Robson, leader of the group, said yesterday that its future would be decided im- mediately following the session, pre- sumably at 'a caucus. Report is that when the legislature neXt meets there will be a smaller group of In- dependent Farmers, and that some of those who have been nominal members of the group for the past isw months will be alig: ed formally with other groups with which they have voted. Eminent British Jurist To Visit Canada in Fall Winnipeg, May 6.--Right Hon. Sir John Simon, K.C., former British home secretary and former attorney- general, who is probably the most eminent practising member of the British bar, has accepted an invite- tion to attend the annual meeting of the Canadian Bar Association at O!- tawa on September 6, 7 and 8, Sir James Aikins, president of the Cana- dian Bar Association, made the above announcement today. next September, it was decided that should be endorsed en bloc, with twe' clauses' added. One clause provided that in regard to gratuity claims that this should include widows and de' pendent next of kin of all men whe. paid the supreme sacrifice, and the other clause was that no diserimin- ation should be men not now domiciled in Canada. A resolution - was passed calling upon the federal, provincial and municipal governments to refuse tu award contracts to firms on tender: ' who do not employ'at least five per: cent. disabled men included among returned men. The convention went on record as favoring a sét of resolutiofls intfo- duced by the Kitchener branch a8 follows: r "That a tax be placed on th monies of alten nationalities leaving Canada permanently for their own or other countries. "That the income tax act be alters ed 80 as to increase the minimum taxable amounts of veterans from one to two thousand in the case of single men and from two to three thousand in the case of married men. £4 Closed One Day Weekly. Brockville, M y 6.--The G.T.R car repair department here is being shut down entirely one day a week in conformity with orders issued af Montreal, by which the men were given the aicrnative cf ceasing wo §. one day a week individuall, or eon: senting to a complete shutdown tof the same poriod. 3 London, May 6.--The necessity of making Germany disarm was placed first in importance by Mr. Lloyd George in announcing in the House of Commons {oday ta: result of the Sapreme Coruncii's Astilgrations on iba reparations and o:her questions at issue with Germany. Germany's default in her disarma- ment obligations, were placed first by the Premier, Ne sald, because, while there was any possibility of the reappearance of great armaments, there was no guarantee of the free- dom and peace of Europe," Québec, was nearly wiped out by fire, Although any sudden organization Must Keep Germany's Claws Well Clipped: Disarmament Comes Before Reparations v a of a force powerful ensugh to attack France or Belgium was improbable, | he said, yet while there existed regular military organizations in Ger many which collectively might ba come the nucleus of a formidabl army it was impossible for France 10 settle down. She must continue £4 F arm and watch her eastern fron ; As regards reparations, said the Prime Minister, the allies were com- pelled to met, not merely because Germany had defaulted, but owing Germany's general attitude, showing he had no intention of performing ber obligations, ip an ------ shown ex-service ®