| A ALLEN | ILsrarbust | STARDUST | YEAR #9; CRISIS IS | No. NEAR NOW Mach May De Depend Up- on the Speech of Balfour on Tues "day. London, March 6.---David Lloyd George, the prime minister, returned to London yesterday afternoon from Chequers court, week-end. His only political guest over the period he was away was Charles A. McCurdy, chief coalition lberal whip. Bhortly after arriving at his offic- | fal residence in Downing street the | premier was visited by Lord Birken- head, the lord high' chancellor, and Winston Spencer Churchill, secret ary for the colonies, who conferred with him an hour. Lord Birkenhead tonight gave a political dinner at his town residence : The disposition in pollitcal quar- ters in London seems to be to bellevn that the climax in the crisis is not likely to be reached before Tuesday, when Arthur J. Balfour is expected to deliver an 'important speech in London. : Accqrding to an apparently inspir- ed statement issued today there 1s no material change in the situation. Lloyd George's offer to resign ha¢ A Am pn - DAVID LLOYD GEORGE AAA A At At SA teria been held in abeyance, but not witn- drawn. He still is awaiting assur- | ance of the continued loyalty of the Unlonist party to the coalition gov- ernment. The premier points out that can- didates are being chosen in various constituencies for the approaching | general election, who openly dis- clalm Lloyd George's leadership, yet resent the approval of Unionist headquarters, and he conisders it | impossible to go on under such' con- | TO-NIGHT ALBURTUS "THE MIRACLE MAN" KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1022, LAST EDITION FUTURE OF STEAMSHIPS | 1 inancial Standing of Canada Steamships Disclosed in Two Weeks Montreal, March 6 The next bt weeks will disclose in ute detail the financial ada Steamship Lines. A controversy | at this period over the organization, | prospects of the unfruitful." management or {*o pany would be Such was the reply made today oy | attacks | | | President Norcross, when {upon the company and its organiza tion, | brought to his attention. "For the past three weeks' he said | "we have had a firm of experts of in- ternational repute investigating the affairs of the company. When they! complete their work, even the offic- |Green by the provisional government | Machine, ers of the company will know more of the situation than they do now The inquiry covers the ground, including the organization land development of the company of where he spent the |tuture propsects. The report is being [ovation sought gboth for the information. of ishareholders and of those who may | become associated with {nancing of the company." | |19909994390449999998 NEW M.P.'S ARE NOT SO INQUISITIVE Ottawa, March -Parlta- ment will get started this week with little in the nature of private members' resolu- tions and questions on the order paper. Instead of a score or more there are but two resolutions in the hands of the house officials at this date. A fact which has consider- able bearing on the matter is that of the 234 members now elected to the house, something like 130 are men who have not previously sat + in the Commons chamber. > [ee0s0scrsrscsnsse 6.- Fr b err. PEEP EP PLIES CERMANY NOW REGARDS ENGLAND 4S 11S FRIEND {Hatred Now Aimed at France| ---Conditions Are Bad in Poland. St, John, N.B., March 6.---M. F. King, of this city, manager of the here to-day from Liverpool aboard abroad six months spending the greater part.of the time in Poland and Germany. In the former coun- try, he deseribes conditions as most unsatisfactory. The government, lo- leated at Warsaw, is carrying on with '® lavish hand and spending money |like the drunken sailor. The mili (tary spirit is prevalent, he says, and {it is in the keeping up of its large {organization that so much money is: being Wasted, Wherever you turn {in Warsaw you bump into an officer Jwho demands the right of way. [cause of the military idea the coun- |try is very slow in getting down to | business, most min- atus of Can-| emanating from Toronto, were | | widest | future fi-| 4 ddd dd Pm 2essseie Maritime Clothing Company, arrived | the 88 Montcalm, Mr. King has been | ifiong. added extra hardship, The country, Bares |he says, produces very little outside | Situation Complicated. sof cloth and is forced to import. The 3 bo it is understood that the |importations are of the cheapest arama Tibets in the event of a gen- [kind, but at that are mightly expen- glection that there shall be a [sive to Polanders, Warsaw, once a The depreciation of the mark has | | | killed and twenty-one wounded comi- | plete the casualty list in week-end disorders here. KILLED BY KNIFE OF A LAWN MOWER . DUBLIN IS WITH COLLINS Ottawa Carter Fell and Struck | His Neck Against the Machine. Ottawa, March 6. --Willlam B. Ed- | Wards, a retired carter, died in the | | hospital on Saturday from a cut in | Enthusiastic Meeting -on lege Green Supports Pro- visional Irish Premier. peculiar accident at his rooming- house. From what could be learned the March, 6.--Ireland wil! insures man was out in a shed at jadopt the Free State plan at the | the rear of a house when he fell on |June elections, if the enthusiasm of |® 12Wnmower, and struck his neck |against one of the knives of the Mr. Edwards was forty- can be taken wus |fiVe Years of age. | Dubin, the meetings conducted on College ! [readers yesterday 'a criterion. i Ten thousand residents congregat- | ed on the cobblestones, in a misty | |rain, and gave Michael Collins an | greater than any tnat mark- | led the recent de Valera demonstra | tion against the treaty. The helmsman of the temporary [Irish administration told the crowd | {if they did not take the Anglo-Irish | treaty they would kill all hopes of | | national freedom for this generation, | at least. "With world Great Britain position than she | said. SEARCHING IN TORONTO. | For a Man Concerned in Los Angeles | Murder, Toronto, Mar. 6,--Private advices |received from the United States give {the startling information that the secret service man to Toronto to en- {list the aid of the local police in the {search for a man in connection with | | the death of William Desmond Tay- | si} 4 oF Ilor, the moving picture director who | OR Jef} | was found. murdered in "his home in | July." he 'Hollywood,~ California in January. | : Local police deny that an officer from | the other side of the line is in the | city for "that purpose or that they have been approached with regard to such an investigation, | is was last Counsels Patience. 'Britain knows well that she can {keep this world opinion with her | without conceding a republic for Ire-| land. She believes it would destroy her security and prestige if she ac: quiesced in the forcible breaking away of Ireland, but she will acqui- esce in the ultimate separation bf various units by such evolution as | will not expose or endanger her. "We must have a little patience," | Shaking his fist over the heads of | the thousands, Mr. Collins asserted | the destruction of the Free State plan will perpetuate the partition of | | Ireland, but "if the Free State is es- | tablished, the union of all Ireland is | certain.' "The forces of persuasion and | press ure are embodied in the trea- | ty," he continued. BE VIREGI} Leader of "anadlan Doukhobors, who may roam the country again as a protest against what they consider ex- orbitant taxation. STEWART SPENT $4,640. Bankruptcy Is Alternative. "If Ulster join us they can con- | trol their own area. If they remain | out, then on them must fall the vur- | dens and restrictions of the 1920 {Parti 'on act, which dooms them to bankruptey." { 'Mr. Collins declared that even Eamon de Valera surrendered the | idea of an Irish republin last July | when the Sinn Fein were in desper- Former Minister of Railways' Elec- tion Expenses, Smith's ' Falls, March 6.--Hon. [James A, Stewart's election in Lan- |ank county cost him $4, 640, of which $2,261 was spent on account ot print- ing and ng. The expefises of thé Progressive campaign ' oppos- ing Mr. Stewart, arfounted to $2,038, Collins and Arthur Griffith, includ- and he, like the former minister of ed Joseph McGrath, minister of la- railways and canals, paid out more bor; William Cosgrove, minister 10r jon account of 'publicity than any- home affairs, and other leaders in thing else. His printing and adver- | the provisional government. Two tising disbursements amounted to platforms were constantly employed [ $1,107. by the Speakers. | 2 KILLED, 21 WOUNDED IN BELFAST-DISORDERS? oi este is eee his budget statement to the legisla- {ture, which is now sitting, he will be |able to show a surplus of over $100,- 1000 for the period of the fiscal year. |The statément' will show 'expendi- tures 'about $29,000,000, which is {about $3,000,000 in excess of pre- vious years outizoings: The revenues Ihave increased = very comsiderably over 1920. Tt i€ stated that $4,500,- 1000 was derived during 1921 from | ate straits. | The orators in addition to Michael Ontario Has A Surplus or lv Ha $700,000 For Year i Owen Hughes Sh Shot Dead in Street Car by Four Men. * Belfast, March 6.--Two persons | The killing of Owen * & throat, which he refeived in 8 American authorities are sending a | BROAD OF POLICY -" . (Only Likely To Be Announ- ced Jy Government This Session. | Ottawa; March 6.--Unless there is some eleventh hour change the leg- |islative programme of parliament | will be very light. Mr. Fielding has been down at Washington last week, and while the attempt to revive the old reciprocity pact has been abor- tive, the later despatches indicate that something has been started. At {least there is to be a report by one of | Mr. Hoover's committees as to whe- {ther reciprocity in certain commo- dities is desirable, and if so, en what basis, The probabilities of any real fiscal legislation .this session, is slim. Nor is there likely to be much by way of LINES | PLEAD FOR OLEO Crying Children "Are \Invoked by the National Council of Women. » BEFORE THE CABINET A COMPLETE BACK-DOWN Ottawa, March 6.--A strong plea | for the continued distribution in { Canada of oleomargarine, was voiced by a delegation representing the Natiomal Council of Women, who waited on the Minister of Agricul- ture, Hon. W. R! "Motherwell, The case was presemted by Mrs. Adam Shortt, Ottawa, who said she spoke on behalf of the women and chil- dren, and especiably the inarticulate thousands of Canada, The continued manufacture wad sale of oleomargarine, she said, would not injure the dairy people, who were the ones mainly interested in having it banished. Oleomargarine, Mrs. Shortt main- tained, was necessary as an accessory to butter.® It had the caloric value and vontained certain fats which were present in butter and served as a good substitute when butter could not be had. The delegation also urged the min- {enactment on other things. The lestimates will be brought down and put through, and the militia and the naval departments and the dir board | | will be merged, while there will be some minor enactments. Generally | | speaking, however, the plan seems to be to get supply and to proclaim the | broad lines of policy on various mat- ters without attempting much con- | crete legislation now. The angu- | {ment will be used that the govern- | | ment is new and 'has had no time {to examine fully into the various problems. Nevertheless, there will ibe an outline of the policy in rela- | tion to the tariff, the railways, the | | western resources, external relations, | land other things, In the last men- | tioned connection the treaties of the {arms conference will come up for | | ratification. EE ITTY | AUTOS ARE ON INCREASE. | SE -- 1 34,000 jin Ontario, Ottawa, March 6.--During 1921 | the number of automobiles in Canada | increased by 64.562 and the total now stands at 467,496. In Ontario | alone, the increase amounted to 34,- 000, and Quebec's increase was more | than 16,000. Saskatchewan leads the | Dominion with one car to every four- | teen of its population, | Quebec General Election | Montreal, March 6.--La Presse | prints a Quebec despatch announc- | ing opinion is general in political cir- cles that there will be a provincial general election in May next, The | Liberals will have been in power in Quebec twenty-five years on May | 11th and the despatch says the Tas- | {chereau government has selected that date for the elections, The pre- | sent legislature was elected in May, | 1919, Volcano Starts New 'Quake, San Juan Del Sur, = Nicaragua, | March 6.--A strong earth shock] lasting about forty seconds was felt | here Saturday morning the culmina-| | Nearly Half a Million in Canada-- ) [tees oeecssssecoces Predicted in Montreal, | Canadian | Washington, will be to bring the sub- | Mr. | between the two nations in the | ter of trade. ister to put into force all the pro- | visions of the Cold Storage Act of 11914, only half of which has been in operation, Sympathetic consider- ation was promised, (EEE TE EEE EER ERE RR) > COMPANIONS IN DEATH + AS THEY WERE AT BIRTH Picton, March 6.--At Glen- wood cemetery on Friday af- ternoon Mrs. Roseltha Wal- ters and her twin sister, Miss Roseanne Stone, were laid to rest within a few hours of each other. In separate homes at Schoharie they end- ed their life's journey on Tuesday night, even as they commenced it together, over sixty=thiTee years ago. Death could not separate them. + + * * | +» ow» FIELDING'S TRIP HELPS US-CANADA RELATIONS Necessity of ~ Co-operation Is Seen--U.S. Senats to Dis- cuss Reciprocity. Washington, March 6.--.One effect of the visit of Hon. W. 8S. Fielding, minister of . finance, to ject of closer commercial relations | with Canada much into tne 1meiignt when ,the tariff measure comes up in the senate this spring. Though | Fielding found obstacles to a reciprocity agreement between Can- ada and U.S, he has undoubtedly di- rected interest in many quarters to the necessity of closer co-operation mat- Opponents of the United States | tariff bill assail it on the ground that | it is a measure to restrict trade with . | pressed tion of slight tremors which bégan | Other countries and even, in some in- at midnight. The shocks are aitrib-|Stances, to prohibit it and they will uted, as Fave been others felt within | Maintain that it is especially unwise activity | because of the effect it will have in Lake | hampering trade with Canada when , (there is a widespread desire in both | countries to see that trade expanded. the past month or so, to the of tha volcano Ometeps, near Nicaragus, pretty attractive city, has 'deterior- | is sald to! A general discussion in the senate | Yemen, Leader of British Tory "Die-Hards," Regrets Misunderstanding. London, March 6.--Definite proof that Lloyd George has won his fight for peace in the coalition ranks for the time being was seen by political observers Saturday in an interview with Sir George Younger, published {by the Cardiff Western Mail in which the Unionist "die hard" leader ex- regret that his recent speeches have been interpreted as at- tacks upon the prime minister. Younger, whose chalenges to Lloyd George precipitated crisis of last week, and who stood out for a return to party politics to which the premier was opposed, is quoted by «the Mail's correspondent as say- ing that he now realises an assertion of Conservative independence would be a mistake, Younger said he 'hoped the coali- tion would continue until the time came for a general election, after which the Liberals and Conserva- tives may find a means of co-opera- tiom, | This constitutes a complete back- |down on the part of the bitterest {opponent of Lord George, and if the * ("die hard" spokesman has been cor- *! rectly quoted, brings an end to the | threatened in the coalition | party, | As though to substantiate this {opinion on the part of political ob- servers here, it was announced that [Lord Birkenhead and Austin Cham- |berlain had not found it necessary to {80 to Chequers, in response to Lloyd {George's invitation. The clearing political skies removed the necessity |for their presence at a meeting of prominent Comservatives, at which the crisis of the week was to have | been discussed, split C hurehill'y Hine, London, March 6.--What was re |eproo in political circles here as seemingly a plain intimation of the {early resignation of Prime Minister Lloyd George, with an endeavor to form a new national centrist party out of the moderate Conservatives |and coalition Liberals, was given by [Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary [for the colonies in his address at {Loughborough Saturday afternoon, "This party, as Mr. Churchill de- |seribed it in the reports of his speech received here, would be "Liberal, Progressive and Pacific in its out- {look, at home and abroad, end reso- lute 'also to uphold and maintain the traditions of the state and the power and uEity of the empire, THERE WERE 47,427 BIRTHS. {Dominion Statistics for Part Half of 1921--Deaths Totaled 84,707. Ottawa, March 6.--The net natural {increase in the population of Canada {in the first six-months of 1921 was {47, 427, according to a statement fs- [sued by the Bureau of Statistics. | Births for this period numbered 82,- [134, while deaths totalled 34,707. |The greatest number of births were {reported in March, and "the smallest {In February. The heaviest mortality | was reported for March and the light- jest for June, ore egual allocation of seats pe- Unionisis and Liberals in tion, whereas the Unionists the preponderance of the jated, There is no construction go- ing on. The streets are dirty and the cleanliness which once charaoter- ized the city is now lacking, Poles are crowded with government fol- 8 ¢ { Hughes Saturday night {have been premeditated. Witnesses state that four men saw Hughes on a street car and questioned aim about his religious convictions. They | succession duties, hie The report is current ig Montreal that Joseph C. Walsh, formerly edi- tor of the Montreal Herald, has been Ocean Steamer Ashore. | Halifax, March 6.--The steamer ©f the possibilities of reciprocal trade | Bornholm, five days out from St. | with Canada is considered certdin to | John's, Nfid., for Halifax, is stuck | ensue when the tariff bill is report- | fast about seven miles south, south- led from committee, Banquet to Larkin, Toronto, March 6.--Hon. P, C. | Larkin, P.C,, who leaves shortly to 2: . | The situation is complicated by the fact that while the Unionist members of the cabinet are earnestly urging the premier not to resign, the coalition members of the govern- ment are almost as anxious that he should do so. They affect to see little prospects for the success of the coalition und- er Lloyd George's leadership. They admit this solution of the situation presents difficulties but they express belfet that it might be accomplished in time There is a growing advocacy of a postponement of the Genoa economic conference until after general elec * tions are held in England unless tne present crisis is solved in such a manner as to leave the premier with undiminished authority. by \ 5 To Remain as Leader, ! + London, March 6.--It is authora- tively stated to-day that Premier | George has decided to con- s in the leadership of the coall- : 'ton government, HUSBAND AND WIFE. lowers and military officers and a traveller must find room in a private house, It costs four thousand marks a day for a room. That sounds big, says Mr. King, but it only means $1.50 in Canadian coin. . The prisons of Poland are full, mostly with deserters who have been arrested since the war's close. An- other class subject to immediate ar- rest are those who show any Bolshe- vist tendencies, Mr. King found a decided change of feeling in Germany towards Eng- land, whom they once: despised. Their hatred now is aimed at France, In the light of recent events, they have come to regard England as their friend and will sacrifice any- thing to secure that country's good will, Premier of Poland Resigns. Wars: Mareh 6.--The cabinet 'of Premier Fenlkowski has resigned following failure of the negotiations with the Vilna delegation on the text of an act of annexation of the region of Vilna to Poland. Severe rioting again breaks out in Belfast, Recommend. United Front. Riga, Letvia, March 6.--A united front on world problems affecting capital and labor, and & meeting of all internationales, are recommend- |g ed by the executive internationale after two weeks' conference, Arrested For Telling Fortunes, Toronto, March 6.--Dr. Alséamon | Lucas, New York, who has been lec- turing in this city for some time, was arrested this morning on a charge of fortune-telling. 2: Robert F. Davis is the uw mat Shoe store, "¥ then shot him and made thelr es- cape. ONTARIO TO HAVE NO NEW TAXES Toronto, March 6.--No new source of revenue will be tapped by the budget to be introduced in the Ontario legislature by Provincial Treasurer Smith this week. Hon. Mr. Smith intimat- ed today that while there would be some changes in taxes al- ready in vogue there would be no new taxes provided for. Three German States Contemplate Union Dresden, Germany, Mateh 6.-- Three German states, Saxony, Bruns- wick and Thuringia, contemplate the establishment of a union to further their common interests without im- pairing their separate independence. These three states now have social ist governments. appointed minister of agriculture to the Irish Free State government. + > PPE P4P 20425292090 ¢ OFFICIAL RECOGNITION * OF NEW IRELAND + ---- * Ottawa, March 6.---Official recognition of Ireland as a ister dominion in the British . commonwealth of nations comes on April 1st. Com- 'missioner Farrow, depart- ment of customs and excise, has sent out a circular to the officials of the department stating that Ireland wiil be designated separately on ail : ' the Setissessnes ager of the Belleville Natural Trond, Sissristustetseses Seeec ane mile of wedding. gOWNn worn. by Prin- -eveation of Reville. east of Cape Race, She has coal to last eight days longer. NEWS OFF THE WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Pla Places Far and | Near Are Briefly Recounted. Gloucester will build two schoon- ers to chalienge for the Fishermen's Cup. Women in Egypt are threatening English manufactured The Green Crescent, Turkish com- | mittee organized to fight the use oH alcohol as a beverage is making dive for prohiLition in the Turkish capital. The abandonment by the government of government of natural gas is understood fo be the policy that is to be adopted in legislation this session. Arthur James Balfour, head of! the British delegation to Washing- | ton, and one of the outstanding fig- | ures of British politics for the last | twenty years, has at last recepted a knighthood, "Amr enormous increase in puild- | ing has taken place recently in Eng- land especially in the south," de- clared B. M. Pickford, Edmonton, shortly after he disembarked from the S. 8. Montcalm, which arrived | at St. John, N.B., on Sunday from] Liverpool, As a result of Canadian indiffer- ence, says Sir A. Nanton, Winnipeg, many English people who desire to | |locate in the dominions are going to! Australia. These emigrants ate of | three months. Hom. the test tvpe, the kind that make sturdy citizens. Last year ov thousand went from England tn} Australia while Canada received only six hund red, x fjance. |assumo the office of Canadian high | commissioner in London, was tender- ed an appreciative banquet at the [State club Saturday evening. Two hundred representatives of the com- { mercial, professional and pdlitieal {life of the country were in attend { Ex-M.P. Critically i, | Cobourg, March 6 --Charles B. | Manson, ex-M.P. for West Northum- {berland, who has been {ll for the |past few months, has taken a turn {for the worst, and is critically Hl. Mr. Manson was prostrated with | blood-poisoning a few weeks before § [to take any part in the campaign, 27 DOMINON PARLIAMENT ~~ MAY SI THREE MONTHS (Hen. Rodolphe Lemieux the | Premier's Nominee For | Speaker of Commons. Ottawa, March 6.--With all the { usual ceremony the formal of fgderal or dominion parliament of Cafiada will De held in Ottawa on {March 9th by Lord Byng of Vimy; the governor-general, The informal opening takes place on the previous day, when the deputy governor-gen- eral, Sir Louis Davies, Chief Justice {of Canada, officiates. It is Pp ; this first session of the 14th parlia- ment of Canada will sit for Mout y {mieux is the nominee of Premier 7 aL. Mackenzie King for the new {Speaker of the House of Commons, [Senator Hewitt Bostock has been pointed new Speaker of the Sengte. |the federal election, and was unable vd