PSL TO-DAY POLA NEGRI 3 Bella Dorna Thurs., Fri, Sat. ALL STAR CAST in "WANDERING : DAUGHTERS" . -- reir, a KINGSTON, ONTARIO. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1923 LAST EDITION. YEAR 90; No. 195. WILL PERMIT NO BRANDING * Of Canadian Cattle With White Hot Electric Irons. T0 ARREST THE BRANDERS . (a Society For Pre- venting Cruelty to Animals ~ Issues a Warning. Montreal, Aug. 21.--"This is ab- _ solutely the most horrible thing that las ever been brought to my notice," said J. R. Innis, secretary of the Canadian Society for the Pre- vent of Cruelty to Animals, yes. terday discussing the regulation of the British Government that on and after September 1st, all Canadian store cattle for export must be branded with white hot electricar branders. _ "Further you can say that mot one of these animals will be brand- ed in such an unnecessary cruel manner if we can prevent it. "1 understand that there will be three thousand Canadian étore cat- tle here on September 1st awaiting shipments, and that there will be men sent out from England with el- ectrical machines to brand them. f istend to be at the place when this is started, with a couple of 8. P.C.A. inspectors, and as soon as the work is started we intend to in- tervene and arrest the operators. That is all we can do, because we can only arrest the men. actually committing the cruel act. But we #hall arrest them and stop the work, | and then it will be for the courts to «decide the matter. "I am confident that public opin: fon will support us in stopping this inflicting of such unnecessary agony on these poor beasts. It is pro- posed to apply a white hot "C* brand on each animal's rump, back of the pinbone for tem seconds, which will be long enough to burn the mark completely through the to thé flesh. The only thins rab ot | _ stick your Reo 8 : end of a burn- fag cigar for an equal gime to his hand. That is what it will mean for cattle, and we intend to stop 4t. If they must brand the cattle why not do it on their hoofs, where #¢ would not inflict such suffer- ioe." THE REPLY OF FRANCE 1S AWAITED IN LONDON "It Wil be Placed Before the British Cabinet On Wed=- nesday: ' London, Aug. 21. -- France's vo- fuminous contribution to the long out reparation. controversy 4s expected in London by courier to- . It will be translated at once and elrculated among the British ca- finet members tomorrow. Prime Minister Baldwin is expeoted to call an informal meeting of the ministry Just before his departure for Aix Los Bains the latter part of the week, at which Its contents will be consider- ved. The document is said to be long .emough to fill fifteen columns of an ordinary newspaper. The full text of the note is expect- ed to be published in Paris tomor- gow, but it is probable that a brief summary of the document will be desued in advance tomight by the French foreign office. = The safe of the burned Wawa ho- 'tel, Lake of Bay, Musckoka, was ed Monday. It contained $50,- 9 in money and jewels. ' {they took part a bs the Armenians, and after 4hat' were sent to Anatolia agalnst TURKS HONOR WOMAN WHO FOUGHT IN ARMY She Was Wounded, Taken' Prisoner by the Greeks But Escaped. Constantinople, Aug. 21~--Tur- key's only woman officer has re- signed her commission in the army and was, received on retirement at a publiciaudience by the caliph. The worian "is Lieutenant Kara-Fatma Henom, , aboiiti forty-five years old and the widow of a Turkish Major. Together with ; fifteen female re- latiyes, dle 'joined the army at the beginning of the Great War. This small band of women was assigned th the Caucasian front bur jt, was notruntil after the armistice that they saw much action. Then in "the fighting the Greeks. There they joined a body of 700 men and were present at the battle of In-Eunu, in which a number of them lost their lives. Lieut. Kara-Fatma Hanem was wounded and taken to a hospital. After her recovery she returned to active service and was taken pris- oner by the Greeks. She escaped to take part in the battle of Brous- sa, when she was accompanied by her thirteen year old daughter. This female warrior now declares that her task is over and her re- quest for discharge was allowed by the authorities who, however, have granted? her an honorary commis- sion as captain. ------------ Opium Crop is Small. Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Aus. sl. -- The opium crop in Jugoslavia this year is the smallest in scveral years past. The prusent crop, it is esti- mated, will not be enough for seed purposes: Planters are asking the government to help them import seed from Asia Minor. NEW GERMAN, GOVERNMENT 5 T0°BE DICTATOR Will Requisition a Percentage of All Foreign Currency in Country. Berlin, Aug. 21. -- Germany's in- dustrial lists, commercial organiza- d _will be immediate- called y to state under oafh | the amount of foreign currency in their possession so as to enable the government to requisition a certain percentage for the purpose of the creation of a national defence fun With this money the government wi endeavor to put a prop under the tumbling mark and establish a fund for food pumposes abroad. * This emengency programme Was agreed upon at an extraordinary ses- sion of the cabinet last night. contin- uing into the early hours of this moming. President Ebert, Chan- cellor Stresemann and the entire mi- miistry are convinced that nothing short of measures will save the international situation 'which is now fast careening, not on- ly because of the marks' further col- lapse, but chiefly because of the ut- ter chaos prevailing in all lines as a result of the introduction of "gold mark" wages and prices, completaly upsetting the conditions of produc- tion and retailing. 5 Actors Demand Daily Pay. London, Aug. 21. ---- Singers and actors in the countries affected by the slump in exchanges have adopted a new method of coilecting their salaries. The arlists now demand that they be paid at the conclusion of each day's work, and at the rate 'of exchange paid for seats that day. The artists have refused to sign contracts except on this basis, as they claim that the fluctuation of the ex- change makes their salary practical Iy nothing at the end of the month. ---------- Owing to wet greems, playing In the varfous stages of the dominion bowling tournament matches at Tor- onto Tuesday Nas postponed till 2 ON FUNNY FALLS. The PURSUED, A woman may vanquish Ninety-nine men Yet FALL For the one hundredth. A man may withstand ' The pointed darts Of a dozen brilliant women To be completely 3 Bowled over 1 By a SIMPLE girly ._ Some women fall for "flivvers"y 'And many funny things happes © HURLED INTO BLAZING RUIN Ten Brooklyn Firemen Met a Horrible Death. PLAZA HALL ROF CRASS During a Spectacular Fire-- Forty-Seven Men Were "New York, Aug. 21.--Tragedy descended on the élty during the night, when the roof and one wall of the new Plazi Hall, located at Grand and Havéemeyer streets In Brooklyn, crashed during a spect- acular fire and hurled a number of firemen into the blazing ruins. For hours, rescue parties worked frantically in the debris and first reports placed the number of dead at ten. Hampered by the darkness and the intense heat bursting from the smoking, flame-lit pile, firemen and police this morning were able to compile only.an unvertified cas ualty list. According to this list, two fire- men Raymond Farrell and James Sullivan, both members of the same engine company, were killed, and forty-seven men, most of them fire fighters were seriously injured, six perhaps fatally. Search of the ruins, however, has ot yet been completed, for the fire was still smouldering, with fitful bursts ot flame. RUM PIRATES STEAL ABOUT. $20,000 CASH From Schooner Which They Boarded off Rockport, Mass. Police Think. Gloucester, Mass, Aug. 21. Rum pirates who boarded the Nova Scotia schooner J. Scott Havkonson, about fifteen miles off Rockport yes- terday, and shot down the captain Land cook; edrrted away about $20; 000 #n cash from the craft, the po- lice said today they had reason to believe. Ewidence showed, they ad- ded, that liquor had been sold from schooner in large quantities for some time past to rum running boats from shore, and they were inclined to think that the pirates were custom- ers who knew there was a large sum of money on board the schooner. The cook, Harry Harm, is recovering from his bullet wounds in hospital here. The captain, Arthur Moore, at the same hospital, is thought to be LIPTON CHALLENGES FOR AMERICA'S CUP He Will Make the Next At- tempt to Life the Cup In 1926. : New York, Aug. 21.--S8ir Thomas Lipton is preparing to again chal- lenge for the American's cup, the races to be held in 1925, he an- nounced here to-day on his arrival from England on the White Star linet Cedric. : Sir Thomas is confident he cas lift the trophy, which he has been seeking for many years. "After, competing in races for 25 years ih Britain, Germany, France and ofher countries, I am confident the Americans are the best sports men in the world," he stated. "If times or aistances in my races with Amerdcans, they were in my favor." The challenge yacht will be the Shamrock V., he said. WILL GEDDES RETURN T0 WASHNGION Post? Thought the British Govern= ment is Looking About For a Successor. London, Aug. 21.--Reports that * "consistent, illogical ever there were apy mistakes in CHAMBERLAIN FEARS SNAPPING OF ENTENTE Former British Chancellor Denounces Recent Cur= zon Note. Manchester, Eng., Aug. 21.--Ad- dressing the members of the West Birmingham Unjonist Association, last night, Austen Chamberlain, former Chancellor of the Ex. chequer, declared "the entente is hanging by a thread, and any clumsy handling of reparations at thls moment may snap that thread and undo the work of the last twelve or fifteen years." He characterized the govern- ment's latest note to France as In- and futile, and pleaded for caution in a situation which he sald was fraught with peril for Great Britain, the Allies, Europe and the world. "Germany is almost at the brink of disaster and threatemed with revolution," Mr. Chamberlain adad- ed. "She is in peril of starvation because of the reckless fimance in which she indulged, The Entente is in jeopardy and I plead for cau- tion and foresight in saving it." THE HELP OF CANADA 15 GREATLY NEEDED Curiosity In England As To Position of Mackenzie +. King's Cabinet. london, Aug. 21. --- 'An appeal to Canada to encourage migration {rom Great Britain 48 put forward in a léading editorial in the Morning Post, which points out that only a proportion of the immigrants who have arrived in the Dominion since last April have come from this country. : The Post expresses the opinion that the changes in the Cauadian cabinet doubtless are connectzd with the Dominion"s representation at the coming imperial economic con- ference, and says: "Heretotore very little has.' been heard from Canada with regard to either inter-imperial migration or a share in the impenial conferemoce. nor does Great Britain know Fue mier MacKenzie King's views on matters of imperial policy." The Post recognizes that there are internal dian governmemt with regard to the Domindon's participation in immi- gration affairs, but declares that as the U. 8. Government is discoverrug that it is impossible to remain iso- lated from the rest of the world, it believes that the time has come when the people of Great Britain have the right to say to Canadians that this country meeds Canada's help, which would be of mutual benefit. ATTEMPT TO UNLOAD GERMAN-MADE POPPIES Revealed by G.W.V.A.--They Were Sent to the United States. Ottawa, Aug. 21. -- An attempt to unload German-made cloth pop- pies from United States into Canada for distribution on armistice day was revealed today by Dominion joflicials of G.W.V.A. branches of the associa- tion throughout the country having reported receiving circulars offering to supply poppies through a Toronto commercial agency. These are said to be imported from the States where farge stocks remain mnused from memorial day as a result of the dis- covery that they had been made in Germany. These stocks were origin- ally purchased by an American ex- soldier organization from a French Ggency which repesenied that they had been made by war widows and orphans in France. Just prior to me- morial day, German packing slips wene discovered. Gost of Living Is High Above the Pre-War Level New York, Aug. 21.--The cost of living in the United States on July 5th, 1923, was 61.9 per cent' higher than in July, 1914, according to an | investigation by the national indus trial conference board. Between June 5th and July 15th,-1923, there ; HAVE DECIDED TO ORGANIZE To Protect Their Interests in * the Home Bank. 0 FRI _ SATEEN . To Be Had From Officials-- Winding-Up Order Ap- jo ¥. a¥ : plication. Toronto, Aug. 21.--While the curator has his staff at work oma the affairs of the Home Bank, which announced suspension last Friday night, Toronto depositors, of whom there are hundreds, are talking ot an organization to look after their interests and secure information as it becomes available. The bank directors are taking the position that is no part of their business now to make any further statements on the bank's affairs. They are leaving that to the cur- ator. President H. J. Daly is stil} up north recuperating, and R. P. | Gough, vice-president, again sald yesterday he had no further state- ment to make beyond that contaln- ed in the formal anonuncement ot suspension. Managers of the bank's ini being called in to give thy exact state of affairs at the different points. Information has to be gathered from as far west as Fernie, B.C., so that it will be some days before the full facts are known. Thursday is the day set for the application for the winding up or- der to come before the court at Os- goode Hall, and lawyers are oon- sidering what action will be taken, in view of the affairs of the bank now being in the hands of the cur- ator. . The matter may be laid over until the curator is ready with his report. By organizing, depositors hobe to get information first hand from the Gurator. A meeting is expected to be held this week when a plan or organization will be prepared. -- Seeks io Gain Recognition Yor Her Son-In-Law. I'aris, Aug. 21.---Queen Marie of Rumania, known as the most beau- tiful sovereign of Europe, will en- ter her wit and beauty in onc of the most dificult diplomatic situa- tions in Europe, a task in which the best Balkan diplomats have failed. The . principal object of the queen's coming visit to Paris is to obtain recognition of her sen-in- law, King George, of Greece, which diplomats have been working on ever since George asoended the throne in Athens. Premier Poincare was said to have promised recognition as soon @s constitutional libertics were re stored in George's revolution - torn kingdom. Queen Marie at present is resting at Saint Briac, on the seashore. After the victory ehe expects in Paris. she will gb to London to ob- tain_recognition for her Toyal son- in-law from the British government. Incidentally, during her visit in Paris the Rumanian queen will do Jher gwn fa!l saopping, and purchase baby clothes for the fortacoming addition to the royal family of Jugo- Slavia. ----ie-- ELECTION QUIET, "ORLY SX KLLED YET Estimated That Cosgrave Will Have Majority of Twelve 3 In House: N -- Belfast, Aug. 21, -- The most san- guine- Government supporiem look for the return of Cosgrave with a ma- would be useless without a big slide of independent and other groups to the Government side. On tho oth- er hand, it must be remembered ttat there is not much chance the Re- publicans taking their seals, as the Govérnment has jailed every likely Republican by way of precaution, in the name of frepdom. Up te date the election has been conducted under conditions of com- parative calm, only half a dozen hav- ing been killed and about 50 wourd- jority of about a dozen. This major-| FAILURE OF BANK HITS WHEAT POOL a Will Mean That the Scheme Must be Abandoned This Year. Winnipeg, Aug. 21.-- Disruption of the banking arrangements of the United Farmers of Manitoba, owins to the failure of the Home Bank of Canada, will result in this province having to go without a voluntary wheat pool to handle the 1923 crop, was stated by a prominent officlal. The Winnipeg Free Press says: "It will not be possible, it was #tated, for the United Farmers ox Manitoba to make mew banking ar- rangements in time to meet the heavy expenses of organizing such a pool. this year. : "It is too late in the season NOW for the U.F.M. to make new bank- ing arrangements and then carry on organization work in time to handle this year's crop," 'and official said. "Half of the Manitoba crop is ready for market now and I am quite con- fident the directors will decide at their meeting Tuesday to abandon the scheme for this year." Sons of Irish Leaders . Carry on in Dublin 21.--At a big Re- publican gathering in Sackville street to-day, the chief speakers were the 12-year-old son of Eamon De Valera and the sons of Erskine Childers. "Friends of Ireland," said young De Valera, "my father promised to speak to you to-day, but he cannos, for servants of a foreigner arrested him in Clare and imprisoned him. They may give him the same fate as Dic McKee, Erskine Childers and Liam Mellowes. They can put us and others to death, but they can- not kill the spirit of freedom in Ireland: that spirit will live and Ireland will be free from sea to sea in spite of foreigners and the servants of foreigners." NICKLE SENDS OUT ORDERS T0 PROSECUTE VIOLATORS Of Betting Information Act But Judgments Are to be Reserved. rm -- hal. --o jn a Souler Dublin, Aug. deputy JttoT ey Re "on the structions of Hon. W. F. Nickle, the crown-attorneys 'throughout Ontario are directed to continue prosecutions under the bétting information act as if no question as.to the validity of ihe provincial law had arisen. As soon as the hearing of the cascs has closed, however, the crown at- torneys are advised to request tiie magistrate to reserve judgment untis after the constitutionality of the act 'has been decldéd by' the appcllate division, to which the attorney-gener- al purposes appealing the judgment recently delivered by Judge Denton, declaring the new provincial statute uitra vires. a ---------- YUKON CELEBRATES 27th ANNIVERSARY Of the Discovery of Klondike --A Splendid Exhibition Being Held. Dawson, Y. T., Aug. 21. --Gold nuggets and monster cabbages, sold dust in heaps and giant pumpkins. bar silver and wheat heads nodd.ng on their stalks ranged side by side in the exhibition of Yukon products held here Saturday to celebrats the twenty-seventh anniversary of the discovery of the Klondike. 'There were cabbaies sixteen inches in dia- meter and weighing thirty pounds. There were pumpkins as big as wa- termelons, potatoes as big as a man's head and proud specimen"s of nearly every kind of garden truck. The whaat and oais and barley exhibits bore witness to the fertility of Yu- kon soil and tne warmth of its brief summer season, and competed {or attention with the precious metals. sis SA ---- - Kingston Is Chosen. Cornwall, Aug. 21. -- Balore the gale of the Cornwall Cheese Board on Saturday, Secretary McLeod road a jetter from T. A. Thompson, of Al- monte, secretary of the Eastern On- tario Dairymen's Association, 1a re- ply to an invitation to hold tie next meeting in Comwall. Mr. Thompson sald Kingston had becn chosen as the meeting place in January, on the 10th and 11th of that month, the place being the mew dairy school. He stated he would place Cornwaii's offer before the association for the holding of the 1925 convention here. Divorce Applications, Otiawa, Aug. 21.--Last week's Canada Caszeile carries notice of in- ten:ion of Margaret Hickey. of To- | rento,. to apply for a bill of divorce trom her husband, Charles llenry Hickey, formerly of Toronto, and now a postal clerk jn Edmonton. Ethel Violet Will'anis aise gives no- tice of her intentions to apy for a bill of divorce from her Lusbond, Louis Willlams, of ~ Mrs. Williams is now a r fdsat of Engiand. LIQUORFIGHT IN SCOTLAND Canada And United States Are Assisting. Aroused All Over the . . United Kingdom. London, Aug. 21.--~-Canada and the United States are both taking part in the grcatest fight between the wets and drys that Scotland has aver seen, and the struggle is more serious than in 1920, when the tens pdrance act first came into force. Both sides appealed to their trans Atlantic friends for support, and the machinery of the campaign is now working smoothly. Electioncering 3 methods have greatly increased in the last contest. A third party is headed by former Lords of 'the Court of Session and' other prominent leaders in the national life of Scotland, which is demanding improved public houses for Scotland. : At the last election of the kind only two wards of Glasgow voted dry and the contest in that city is simply if these shall continue dry, whiie in eight other wards there are: four alternative questions for the electors, with a corresponding number of haliot papers. These questions are shall there be a continuance of ex- isting conditions which would mean preservation of the present restricts ed number of licenses, or a repeal of this systom which would be a reversal of ths decision of 1920, or shall there be increased limitation, Or--as-a further alternative shall licenses be done away with allogetha tr. The polling will take place early in December and thie fight is exelt- id interest not only in Scotland but y wet and for: By dry ccs" all over the EE -------------- Full Credentials. Paris, Aug. 21.--The Government announced #t would anise Tes _-- ister has held © the Venizelos (Goverfiment late King Alexander, who 8 A ed to the throne when King Cofe stantine was deposed duri > world war. ' ", he Kato To Resign. Tokio, Aug. -21.--It is "be here that the resignation of Baron Kato as Premier of Japan is fm minent. While hie ¢ohdition is not dengerous, he is a very sick man, and it is believed to be improbable that he can bear the burden of of= fica much longer. De Valera in Dublin. Dublin, Aug. 40.--Eamon de Vas lera, the Republican leader, who was arrested at Ennis. on Wednesday, when he appeared to address a polls tical meeting, arrived in Dublin, Sate urday, under the escort of Free State troops. He was placed in Mount Joy prison. A 3 THREE OF THE REMAIN UNIDE At-Wawa Hotel Ruins-- Are Likely Those Of Servants. , Toronto, Aug. I! 21.--Charred broken remains of eleven three of whom remain unidentif! have now been taken from ruing' of the Wawa summer hol at the Lake of Bays, Muskoka. is thought that the unidentified present' three of the twelve wo! servants who occupied the at quarters of the hotel on the fi Sunday morning, and who prise the majority of the Efforts are being made to their identity. They are p members of settlers' families fr the country surrounding the of Bays. x The remains of Mrs. Emily ly, Chicago, which were id by her wedding ring, and of Elizabeth Kroeger, Cincinnati, | been forwarded to their d ---------- The Grand theatre, Tore taken over Monday by Mrs. J. Small, wife of the m Honaire, who just the day disappeared, sold it with theatre intarests to the ada Theatres, Limited. Jobn and George Parks, of Owen Sound, known as au dits, were sentenced to Your in Portmouth penitentiary. Kitchener ratepayers 0 purchase for $25,000 the port line, and lnk it with the lington-Waterloo Raflway. The typhoon at Macco is od to have taken toll of over * POLLING 15 IN DECEMBER Keen Interest Has Beem +