ALLEN TO-DAY MARSHALL, NEILAN FRESENTS "BITS OF LIFE" YEAR 89; No. 110, THE OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT For Peaceable Arrange- ment in Ireland | The Provincial Government Must Take Steps to Re- store Order. London, May 11.--Announcement of the failure of peace negotiations in Ireland has brought public atten- tion here sharply back to the Irish gituation, which has lately been overshadowed by the Genoa confer- ence. While the hope that a peace sable arrangement will eventually he reached is not precluded, the outlook is regarded as extremely discourug- ing, despatches represent the majority of the Irish people as be- ing deeply concerned over the state of the country. There 1s a growing conviction in Ireland that the pro- visional governemnt must take ef- fective steps for the restoration of law and order. and Murder Catholic Youth. Belfast, May 11.--Three Catholic youths, James, Francis and Thomas McKeown, were taken from their beds at Bally Mulderg by a gang of men last night and shot ~James | was killed and the others gerlously | wounded. i TWO PARTY LEADERS FAVORABLE TO "P.R." They Think It Is the Road to Truly Responsible Gov= ' ernment. May 11.--Although the apparently wanted to pass a resolution favoring propor- representation in the House day aftérpoon, 6 o'clock came ithout the passage of the follow- ing resolution by W. C. Good (North Brant): "That in the opinion of. this House the alternative vote method should be adopted for use in tions for this House in :r constituencies where { Bi ttawa, vernment tiona more two candidates are running for | hat, in the opinion of this the purpo of demon- working and effect of ge multi-member be constituted possible in which that : applied at the next tem, or ftuencies sh one as early as system should general election. ninister and Hon. T. A. Crerar supported the resolution, but the ly Conservative who spoke, Leon Ladner (Vancouver South), op- posed proportional representation. ASK THAT HS PRISON TERN BE REDUCED To Circulate Petition on Be- half of Harold Shilling= ton, London. The prime on future elec-| all single- | Friends of Harold R. Shillington, the London, Ont., young man, who MEDALS AND PRIZES WON BY THE NURSES y.4 recently brought to the Ports-: mouth penitentiary, to serve six years for the theft of bonds, are Of Kingston General Hospital | --Wolfe Island Girl Gets Silver Medal. {taking steps, so it was learned, to» have his term reduced. It is stated that a petition address- -------- {ed to the attorney-general requesting The following prizes, won by the |jenjency and reduction of the sen- nurses, were announced at the Gen- |tenca given Shillington, who was an eral hosiptal on Thursday afternoon: | accountant for the London & West- Gold medal--Miss Helen Wilson, | Wingham. . Silver medal--Miss Anna Davis, | Wolfe Island. | . Senlor class prize, gynaecology | and obstetrics--MIss Helen Wilson. | Intermediate class prize--Miss Willa Dusty, Kingston. | Junior class prize---Miss Laura | Young, Kingston, ! Dietitian---Miss Rhoda Wesley, | Maberly. | ern Trusts is shortly to be circulated. | Shillington appeared before De- puty Magistrate Graydon at London, on Thursday, April 27th, and plead- ed guilty to stealing $100,000 in bonds, the property of the trust company. Firends of the ployee, who have known years, are most anxious his welfare, and believe that if the term was reduced it would be to former bank em- him for | regarding | e Daily Br KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANNOT PAY, SAY GERMANS Reparations Reply Un- satisfactory to France. May Play Dominating Role in Settlement of Russian Question. Paris, May 11.--The German re- to the reparations note of April by the reparations { {ply | 3 3 113th received the German government but pleads material impossibility of im- posing sixty billion marks of new | taxes before May 31st, or complying with all conditions laid down on March 21st, It is considered . im- pertinent, and entirely unsatisfac- tory to France, and important devel- .opments are awalted. tof of May Play Dominating Role. Genoa, May 11.---Developments of the morning strengthened the earlier | {impression that the German repara- tions to France might play a domin- ating role in the settlement of the Russian question. 'It's the heart of the whole situa= tion," said a leading stateman., "Ev- erything goes back to that, for | France wants a restored France be- {fore the re-construction of Russia or | Germany." Germany and Russia, Paris, May 11 prints the text on the vention said to have been signed by representatives of the Russian Soviet | tommission, yg protests the good will | rejesentation ! |WISH TO MAINTAIN ENTENTE CORDIALE French Press Friendly Britain, But Hostile to Lioyd George. to i Paris, May 11.--Maintenance of the Entente Cordiale, which is ad- mittedly trembling in the balance. depends on Premier Lloyd George. ; That is the reaction of the French {press to the latest developments at | Genoa. The tone of the principal or- | gans #s distinctly hostile to the Brit-- ish premier, but most friendly to | Great Britain. Officlal France is {most anxious not to break. the 'Ea- {tente and the French people, right- | ly or wrongly have convinced them- {selves that Mr. Lloyd George do:s not represent the nation, which believed to be desirous of taking sides with France: Paris opinion is j that the two countries can agree to disagree on the Russian memoran- dum, and the Entente may subsist, even though Great Britain decides to pursue a different policy toward Russia. ['Eclair to-day | military con- | army and the German staff on April | 3rd, by which Germany will fusnish | the Red Army with arms and materi- | al for 180 regiments of infantry and | sufficient heavy field artillery for twenty infantry- divisions. Germany undertakes to reorganize thé Russja Baltic and Black Sea fleets and supply five mundred of the latest aeroplanes to train Russian | instructors in the latest chemical | warfare inventions, and send experts {to Russia to speed up munition plants and open new ones, says the | newspaper. | The Red army staff guarantee the establishment of three German plants in Russia, one for aeroplane Intermediate class in medicine-- |ghillington's benefit, and that he has | Manufacturing, one for poison gas Miss Dusty. Practical nursing---Miss Gertrude Fitzgibbons, Russell, Ont. | Surgery--Miss Rhoda Maberly. Surgical technique--Miss E. Wul- ler, Napanee, | Prize in Anaesthetics--Miss Bil- | lian Fairful, Walkerton. Special prize for fire drill-- Gertrude Fitzgibbons. Prize for diseases of children-- Miss Anna Davis, Wolfe Island. | | WINE DRINKING 1S NOT A SIN, PRELATE HOLDS Bishop Manning Believes, However, None Should Flout Prohibition Law. New York, May 11.--Bishop Wil- liam T. Manning, addressing the one hundred and thirty-ninth convention of the Episcopal diocese of New York, declared that while he did not hold that "to drink intoxicants in modera- tion is a sin," he believed "no citizen has the right to evade or disobey the already learned the lesson that the straight game pays. It is stated that such a petition who have already expressed their { willingness to attach their names to | {a paper which would help shorten | the Londoner's term. Shillington was arrested at New -MissS | Haven, a fishing hamlet just outside | after a | of Edinburgh, Scotland, search of some months, and was {brought back to London om. April 5th. TO MAKE PRESENTATION TO FAMILY IN DISTRESS who had to be taken to Grant Hall in| Westbrook People to Help the Kellars Whose Home Was Burned. George F. Kellar, who was burn- {and one for munitions. | Wesley, lod be signed by many Londoners | TOUCHING INCIDENTS AT QUEEN'S CONVOCATION Invalid and Blind Students Re- ceive Their Degrees Amidst Loud Applause. | There were two very touching in- dents at Queen's convocation pro- | ceedings on Wednesday afternoon. Among those to receive a degree {at the hands of Chancellor Beatty | were a blind student, and an invalid, | a wheeled chair, These two students | were well looked after by their fel- | low students, both forming in the | parade to Grant Hall, and both were { very loudly applauded. The student | in the wheeled chair was taken close | to the platform, and Chancellor Beat- REV. DR. R. J. WILSON Chosen one of the vice-presidents of h fal Service Couneil of Ontario. ; er Drury is the honorary presi- | dent (CLASS OF SISSY BOYS WOULD BE PRODUCED | If We Wipe Out Militia Train= | Ing, Says Gen. A. E. Ross, { Kingston. { Sr-- | Ottawa, May 1M-4aId discussing { the militia estimates in the Com- | mons, Brig.-General A. E. Ross, | (Cons., Kingston) said it was rather interesting to see that estimates which were whittled down to the lowest figure could be still further | reduced. He asked who the people were who objected to militia train- | ing. |aversion to what they called 'brass hats." Then there were the uplifters, who said we should treat all men as i brothers, forgetting that | sometimes quarelled. Others took | the ground that there were signs ot | lasting peace, and cited the disarm- |ament conference in support of this { contention. |lue of training. As a Canadian ex- {ample of the value of training, he !said that a week's winter training {in Canada, with its experience of | operations under low temperatures, | had provided a method by which it {had been possible to wipe out the ed when his home near Westbrooke | ty came down off the platform, and | Malady known as trench feet. was destroyed by fire about a week ago, is able to leave the General hospital. Although - he was badly burped about the face and hands, he is able to be around again. When the | after conferring the degree on the | student gave him a hearty handshake | The blind student was led to the chancellor's chair on the platform by | and his greeting {a fellow student, buildings were burned, Mr. and Mrs..|from the Chancellor was indeed a | Kellar lost everything they had in| warm one. prohibition law." | "As the principle of prohibition," eT a IY tT Bishop Manning assarted, "'we have a | make a presentation to Mr Se Sirs full right to our different views. For i Kellar. Mrs. Kellar bad. to leave my own part 1 have never been theo- her burning Yome with only 1 > retically a prohibitionist. 1 have ne- | night dress and a pair of aren] et Yer held and do not now hold that (gy. vo'nre the noizhb wp to drink wine or other intoxicant in|, 2 jeighbors havy {been very kind to Mrs. Kellar and on 2 oe... however, that |the baby. One lady took Mrs. Kellar prohibition properly enforced will [te Le ome iy azisted in walt: make us a healthier, a stronger and fwas burned was bet ® Jouse which ® better people. I belleve that prohi- | \.." woiar trom aes by | Settlement Board. It was covered bition is already resulting in im- p onditions b: y { proved cond 8 both morally and |, insurance, but the comtents were [ot ~ practically in the lives and home of | | ------------ our people." Editor Elected President. Watertown, N.Y., May 11.---Har- old B. Johnson was elected president of the board of education at the an- nual meeting held this afternoon. ~~me |The balloting of the commissioners HUSBAND AND WIFE. {revealed an unanimous chofce, ™ Lord Winterton, speaking for' the | British government, told the Honus | of Commons on Wednesday, that negotiations were in oa commercial treaty with Spain. WA ni a missioner since 1920 and du ng the + [last two years has held the position {of chairman of the visiting commit- |tee, which has direct charge of the school administration. He is presi- dent of the Brockway company and editor of the Watertown Times, Mr. Johnson -succeeds Edward N. Smith, president of the board for the | last three years. : Z Z, ZT Denies Misconduct. | Poughkeepsie, N.Y., May 11.-- | Taking the stand in her own defence | yesterday in the divorce suit fnsti- tuted by her husband, James Stitl- x man, New York banker, Mrs. a My husband hates to lay his pipe | U. Stillman denied that she i ras down long enough to eat.--H. M. W. {eondustn bersel! with Fred Beau- What does you husband do? vals, Indian guide, ! Mr. Johnson has served 2 {Kept Seventeen Boarders; { © Husband Beat Her Like Dog St. Catharines, May 11.--Wm. | Zaarwney, young foreigner, was sen- | tenced to Central prison for a year, | yesterday by Magistrate Campbell, | for brutally assaulting hie young | wife, She sald she did all the work {in their boarding house for seven- teen boarders and her husband sim- ply laid around and drank and beat her like a dog. WILLIAM B. A native of POWELL. OF BOSTON oY a Sort Dover, Ont., who 0 after shooting bie "If we wipe out militia training and cadet training and all kinds of | training," remarked General Ross {in conclusion, "we shall produce a ing, and not the good old class of boys who made the British Empire what it is." | WILL NOT RESTRICT THE VOTE OF WOMEN Proposal of Senator David Decisively Defeated in the Red Chamber. -- Ottawa, May 11.--Senator David's | resolution to restrict women's fran- | chise was defeated in the senate by 33 to 19. Senator David proposed that un- married women must be at least 30 years of age before being entitled to vote. Girls between 20 and 30 were not mature in judgment, he declared. Electoral lists under the present law were loaded with an unintallig- ent vote. Thousands of girls had voted last election without knowing either the party leaders or their platforms. The English law was less objectionable. The resolution went non-party vote. Passion Play Begins its 286th Anniversary . Oberammergau, May 11.--Usher- ed in by the traditional salute of vil- lage guns, the Oberammergau Pas- sion Play began yesterday to cel brate its twenty-eighth decennial anniversary since Its beginning' in 16386. The burgomaster of the village ex- pects the total attendance to reach above 200,000 mark in the thir- ty-three. performances that will bes staged, down in a is | "thand; mot by THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922, | DEAD PRISONER HAD ORGANIZED DELIVERY WILL NEVER GET ALIMO Will Not Probe Shooting of Willlam Mitchell at Bur= wash Prison. | ---- Toronto, May 11.--No official ia- Judge Scores Women sroviicia" coronaria' Who Resist Motherhood. into the circumstances surrounding the death of Willlam Mitchell, a young man from Woodstock, who { was shot while attempting to escape i {from Burwash prison on April 29ta Dismisses (Case at Woodstock Hon. H. C. Nixon, prdyincial trea- |surer, sald that so far no requ-st | Where This Fact Was {had reached the department for an i | investigation. . "I do not see what good an invest- igation would be," dis-! "This man years old, an escaped prisoner from Guelph, and evidence shows he was expecting to lead a general jail de- livery. He. disregarded orders .o stop, warning shots failed to halt him, and only when he was into the Proven. Woodstock, May 11.--In missing the alimony action of Mrs. Maude Diehl, Tavistock, against her husband, Edward Diehlgge Justice Latchford, presiding over the su-, {preme court, yesterday severely castigated the modern women who were dodging the responsibilities of bush did the guards shoot to stop {motherhood. { him," --t-------- In giving judgment, Justice Latch- | ford said: "In a case like this where | violence, the onus of establishing the right to alimony is much heavier | than in other cases, This woman was | beyond doubt in this case. That un- | C.P.R. Crop Report Is, How- natural feeling which is destroying | ever, Optimistic For All the original white race of Canada| Three Provinces. degree. She showed a distinct tend-| ency to resist motherhood. When the child was born she went lojlive a woman lives apart from her hus- cE wo SEEDING 15 DELAYED delicate and wished to avold becom- | ing a mother. That is established | and the United States was manifest-| ed in this woman to a remarkable | of Mani- with her mother and from that time she was only occasionally with her early las' delay in over the greater portion toba and Saskatchewan week occasioned a slight seeding, otherwise conditions itish Whig have ALLEN TO-DAY MARSHALL NEILAN PRESENTS "BITS OF LIFE" einen. eee LAST EDrmos ---- CAUCUS HELD - OVER BUDGET Ministers No Long Law Unto Themselves, Tariff Changes Are Likely to Be Downward in Trend. Ottawa, May 11.--~The governs ment was in communication again with the party caucus yesterday, tak= ing its sounsel on a variety of mats ters and on general strategy. There are a number of things that will re- quire more or less careful handling. Tt: railway estimates are yet to be | dfscussed, the attitude upon the row"s Nest Pass agreement consid- ered, the wheat marketing question | disposed of | sald the minister. | was over twenty-seven | | the budget Finance ministers im bringing down the budget used to be a law to but latterly caucus has been consulted. The budget is expected next week and there will be some tariff chan- | gos and what there are will be down- {ward in trend, but nothing particule | radical is looked for thly ses- While reductions will be died themselves | arly ori sion Winnipeg May 11- Heavy rains LO cultivate the friendship of the Farmers' party, some of the Quebea members and ministers counsel a course of extreme caution and the outcome is peculiarly nebulous. and primarily there is husband. That type of woman will never secure alimony in an action brought before me unless she can prove actual physical violence. The action is therefore dismissed, with (been ideal, according to the week.y | crop report issued yesterday by the | Agricultural Department of the Can- {adian Pacific Railway. In Manitoba wheat Wheat Board. The wheat board scheme will be | discussed today in the agricultural committee. The motion before it is to seeding Is only such costs as are allowed by the |Progreesing favorably, with many rules in cases of this kind." point reporting operations compet- Following the judgment, Justice | 4, while oats and barley seeding is Latchford said that at least half of | Well advanced. Districts reporting create a board with compulsory pow= ers by means of concurrent federal and provincial legislation a method of overcoming the lack of federal au- {the alimony actions brought before {him were caused by the refusal of the wife to assume the duties and {seeding completed are confined prin- thority by itself alome. If any two | cipally to higher and lighter soils, provinces agree to it and parliament { which dried out sufficiently to per-!g enacts, then it is proposed to go In-a few places There were those who had an | brothers | General Ross emphasized the va- | class of sissy boys, fanatics in dane- | cesponsibilities of motherhood. Cus-| mit work early. marriage was given to the husband. days will bring much grain through |the ground, as seed has gone lunder ideal germination conditions | REDUCTION OF HALF Some districts along the Assiniboin | C 8 0 C ssinibo Qo OF ESTIMATES MADE |, which has overflowed its | banks, report many acres of seeded {land inundated. | British Government Has Ef- fected Decreases Totalling 50,000,000 Pounds. considerable land. still too wet, states London, May 11.--Sir Bric Gea- | 10 Tehort: a Sround 1 a ple i | " ' e Is {des. speaking at Sheffield ay re |sufficlent moisture to carry the crop gard to the sotable Jogo rh Y 3 |along until early in June. | SSSnOmY Sommitien sore] In many sections of Central and /ment had already given effect to a reduction of £50,000,000 of £100,- 000,000 reduction in the estimated expenditures which the committee had recommended in its report to the government. This reduction in the estimates for the navy was £16,- 000,000 including the proposals of {the Washington conference, against i£92 $21,080,000 Te the |average year, but this is offset by ex- | could see, War was a very remota | Ce1lent germination conditions. | possibility. | Along the Edmonton, Dunvegan | sir Eric characterized the vastly [284 British Columbla Railway. seed. {increased expenditure on education | IDE 1s progressing rapidly, with an {as the work of a one-eyed visionary 3verage 3 from 40 to 50 per cent. He spoke as one friendly to the { SOHDIcte ' Columbi | government, and opined that if the tions en » both chancellor acted in the spirit of Lis {and farming operations {budget speech heavy reductions in | : | | | { |the coming year might confidentiy | Egypt Makes Move to Stop Growth Ibe expected. { The whote matter of governmental of Drug Traffic. Cairo, May 11.--Egypt, hitherto {salaries required to be reviewed, Sir {the drug flends' paradise, because completed. Operations have | been nicely started in the Southern { districts, and the crop outlook is most favorable. Wheat in isolated districts is reported above ground. | Rye crop in Southern districts fs {already covering the ground. The |season is generally later than the SPECIAL LICENSE NEEDED | | Eric Geddes said, Farmer Takes His Life; { Leaves Widow and Five the capitulations hampered the 1u- fliction of penalties for distrib ution of narcotics, with the result {tody of the six-year-old child of the | Wheat is up and a few more warm | | Northern Alberta, seeding has been | just | | very promising and in many places | reports condi- | orchard | ahead. Evidently it is calculated that | Saskatchewan and Alberta will get | into line, but Manitoba is not relied IN | on because of uncertain political con- | ditions; nor is Ontario, It happens, | bowever, that the marketing machin ery is largely in these two provinces. | The committee is at sixes and sevens {as to what to do, while the govern- Seeding is becoming well advane- | ment is wary of such a scheme and ied in Saskatchewan, though there 13 |the average eastern member knows Mette about the matter and cares less; At: least a voluntary board seems | probable, but the compulsory scheme | Is still very doubtful. If it were ra- | tifted by the house, the probability of | it getting through the senate is ques= tionable. The rates investigation wit be pros longed if it foilows the broad plan advocated by Sir Henry Drayton. He | wishes an enquiry into the basic com= | modities in general. Mr. Crerar, as | well as several of the Liberal mem- bers, maintain that the essential question is whether the schedule of |the Crow's Nest Pass agreement { should be reverted to or further suss pended. If the latter course is follows ed it would be for the railway come mission to determine to what extent reductions should be made and whe= | ther they would be wholly in west or, | as well in the east. Should the wide field be opened up, the committee will be investigating for a month or more. The point will be settled at | - | Friday's meeting. | | DOUBLE TRAGEDY, Inventor Killed His Wife and Poise oned Himself. Boston, May 11.--Charles H. Fows ler, 61, who described himself as an fuventor, and his wife, Hortense A. Guelph, May 11.--With his throat gashed and quantities of strychnine jand paris green in his pockets, the body of J. H. Redmond, fifty years of age, a well-known East Garafraxa farmer, was found lying across the road at a point three miles east of had gone against him and he could widow and five children, - LORD LEE First lord of the edmiralty, whe complains that the ions are not bearing a fair share of the empire's He ays the Sommion s growed," bu like topsy-turvy, they were | of addicts as to affect public morals, { has a new edict, put in force yester Belwood yesterday afternoon. A note | in his pocket stated that everything (the decree will effectively prevent {the traffic, as Egypt's not stand it any longer. He leaves a | boundaries and the Fowler, 25, were found dead In a gas-filled room of their apartment {day, which prohibits importation | in Hemenway street, Back Bay. The {into, or export from Egypt of opium, Medical examiner said the womam* { cocaine, hasheesh or morphine, ex- | had died of a stab wound in her neck {cept by special license of the govern- | ment. | inflicted by her husband and the { man of gas poisoning. Letters were found in the apartment addressed Ly | Fowler to Mrs. William T. Tremblay unpopulated ©f Brockton, Mrs. Fowler's sister, difficulty or and Vincent D. Fowler, Roxbury, a punishing shady subjects of the eapi- brother of Fowler. tulatory powers, make enforcement| Both letters said his wife had been of the prohibition most awkward, untrue to him and that he was golug The maximum penalty permissibia 'to end it ail." : under the capitulations is a fine ot $5 or seven days in jail and confls- cation of the drugs. Doubts are entertained whether Arrest Big Labor Men. Chicago, May 11.--The police {raided the headquarters of the {building trades and arrested ihree of Chjcago's biggest labor leaders, 'Bigg Tim" Murphy, Fred Mader and Cornelius Shea in connection with' the bombings and shootings which early yesterday resulted In the deaths ow two policemen and serie ous injury to a third. -------- HONAN IS PEACEFUL. General Wu Announces Suppression of Trouble. Tientsin, China, May 11.-- General Wang Cheng Pin, commander of the 23rd Division, arrived here this af- ternoon to take comamnd of the Chi- Li forces. General Wu Pei-Fu will | return to Paoting-Fu tomorrow. { General Wu announces that the trouble in the province of Honan, caused by the revolution of Tuchan Chaott, has been suppressed by Geu- eral Feng-Yu Siang, a portion of whose troops won a victory near | Peking In recent fighting under | General Wu. |* The situation beyond Tongshan Is |® still causing anxiety. 2 | - [® TWVid A. MacDonasid, K.C., Van- 4 couver, has been appointed a judge ¢ CPEPPIFEISIIIGIIOOE * . THE RUSSIAN REPLY * TO ALLIES' NOTE & v Genoa, May 11. -- Foreign & Minister Tchitcherin of the Russian te delegation per- @ sonally handed the Russian re- @ . ply to the/ailled memorandum 4 today to Foreign Minister Sch- @ anzer of Italy at Palazzo Realo. @ Tchitcherin 'sald the reply had @. been prepared under direct in- @ struction from Moscow, te the supreme court of British Co- | @ sere00cscsrscecnn