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Defiant Note Sent to Entente r Polish A despatch from Paris says:--Ger- many has again defied the allies. This time it is with regard to disarmament. ' Having refused point-blank to meet the allied demand to pay 1,000,000,000 marks gold by March 28, Germany replies refusing to put info effect the Vizprlbniaid shusures uidered fo by rompleted by April ee Aud \- is wabiteate ths question of the amount of her pay- ments to date to prove she owed no balance of 12,000,000,000 on the 20, 000,000,000 marks due May 1, she now asks that the allies arbitrate the disarmament matter. That is, on all except one point--Germany refuses point-blank to disarm her fortresses on the Polish border "because of danger from the east." , in her note, which wrong by 1,000,000 rifies. For dis- armament of the eastern fortresses 'by Germany for the defence of the citadls are absolutely necessary and their surrender is impossible, in view of present events in the East. The Absolute] Lid arm by April First--Won't Dismantle Forts on Frontier. same applies to the light equipment of these forts." As for regulation of factories en- titled to manufacture arms, Berlin a most remarkable plea. Government as official arms manu- factories. This is considered as perhaps the most impudent of all the impudent notes Germany has sent the allies. It is virtually a defiant trouble-maker. Dominion Grown Flax on Irish Markets A despatch from London says:-- "Ontario flax has become an expand- ing factor in the Irish flax markets," was the statement made by K. Gilliat, who is proceeding to Canada shortly to look over large land options he has taken in several Provinces for grow- ing Canadian flax specially suitable for coarse fabrics. He said many of the leading Ulster houses already own considerable tracts of land in various Provinces of Canada, as well as in the other Dominions. A ARN, New B.C. Liquor Act in Effect One Month Hence ------t A despatch from Vietoria, B.C, says: --The new Provincial Liquor Act will come 'into effect May 1, it is ex- pocted by 'Government officials here. A. M. Johnston, Deputy Attorney- General and J. H, Falconer, of Van- couver, 'are spoken as probable com- missioners, The third will be a re- turned soldier, it i8 'said. @ T---- New Viceroy of Ireland A despatch from London says:--It is officially .ammounced that Lord Edmund Talbot, uncle of the Duke of Norfolk will succeed Lord French, as Viceroy in Irdland. He will be the first Viceroy under the new Home Rule Act and will be the first Roman Catholic ever to hold this office. Lord Talbot has held the post of Joint Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasury for some time. or Bomb Explodes in Dublin Street A despatch from Dublin says:--A child found a bomb on Friday in the ruins of the Ross Carbery Police Bar- racks, the scene early on Thursday of a Sinn Fein attack, and handed it to a p li n who, the pin was missing, threw it inbo the street. It exploded, killing two persons and seriously wounding three others. Sev- eral persons suffered minor injuries. ALLIED GUARD WILL ESCORT KARL BACK TO Effort of Former Emperor of the Thone of Hungary Meet Request of Charles to Remai A despateh from London says:-- The attempted coup d'etat of former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary has been a complete failure. His effort to rezain the throne of Hungary has been succescfully blocked and the former ruler will scon be escorted through Austria and back to his Swiss ctraat. According to the Daily Express :respondent at Berlin, the special : 'oon-car of the former emperor 1.1 be guarded by the Allies while he is returhing to Switzerland. A de- tachment of two British officers will travel on the te which will pass through Vienna in height time to avoid any monarchist demonstration. Austria has granted safe conduct to the ex-Monarch to go to Switzer- land, not only in principle, but in fact. The British,"French and Italian min- isters called - upon Chancellor Mayr on Friday morning and presented the protest of the powers against a Haps- burg restoration. When Emperor Karl learned the decision of the Allies that he would not be allowed to remount his old throne, he asked permission to re- main in Hungary with his family as a simple 'citizen. His request was refused on the ground that his pres- ence would be a great danger to the state. Jt ime been impossible to Jocate the freer y c HIS SWISS RETREAT wor of Austria-Hungary to Regain s With Complete Failure-- in as Citizen Was Refused. army of 15,000 soldiers reported 'to be marching on Budapest. If such an army existed its movements were amazingly well concealed. A despatch from Paris says:--The Council of Ambassadors Friday morn- ing notified the Budapest-Government that the principal Allied powers "Could neither recognize nor toler- ate' the resumption of the Hungarian Crown by former Emperor Charles. Simultaneously exclusive informa- tion reached the correspondent from a well informed source to the effect that the plot through which the dis |=------ possessed monarch sought to re- ascend the throne of his ancestors was promoted at Paris as the result of the machinations of Prince Sixte of Bour- bon, brother of the former Austrian 'Empress Zita and of a group of French Royalists and Roman Cath- olics. Premier Briand has spared no efforts in manifesting, not only to the Great powers, but to the "Little Entente" as well, the unshaken oppo- sition of France to the "resestablish- ment of the Hapsburg monarchy in any - form. Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo- Slavia and Roumania have, been .in- formed that whatever plans they Sey was | decide upon for .the suppression. of this "Menace to the Peace of Europe" will have French approval, even if they entail war between those nations and Hungary. is Roman Catholic | their A very rare specimen, caught Jancis, Ontario. in the UNITED STATES " * Stand on A from Washington says: --The United Sta ment will insist that the' ers asso- ciated with it in the war with Ger- many repay, principal and interest, indebtedness of more than $10, 000,000,000 to this country. This is the first flat pronouncement of the Harding Administration on the question of the allied indebtedness. It refutes permanently all reports to the effect that the new Administn Govern-{ DEMANDS FULL, PAYMENT BY ALLIES 'Aimout of Principal and Interest N Now Totals Ten Billion Dollars --Harding Administration Takes F Firm Question. Belgium 0a la oad Seshia and Jago. ~ Slavia ... Other Allies . ve 176,000 Accrued interest on these loans al- ready amounts to over $1,000,000,000, which brings the total of allied in- debtedness to date up to ten and a . est have been received by the United States from any debtor Governments, might agree to cancellation. The President let it be known fol- lowing the Cabinet meeting on Friday | that the question of the foreign loans had occupied a large part of the dis- cussion and that, while the nature of the discussion was not to be made public, it could be stated as the policy of his Administration to count upon repayment of the principal and inter- est of the vast sums advanced by this pountry to the allied Governments during the war. The loans of the United States to these Governments, exclusive of interest, which has, not been paid, total §9,450,000,000, divided as follows: United Kingdom t where they borrowed more from this Government for that pur-l de pose. > The Treasury Department, during the Wilson Administration, and with the approval of Congress, agreed to the deferment of interest on these debts for thrée years, ending in 1928. In other words, payments of interest on the debts in all probability will not time another billion dollars in interest payments will have accrued. By that time the total allied debt, principal and interest, will closely ap-| proximate the engrmous, total * of $12,000,000,000. 3 As yet the Harding Kininstratios tas gone no farther than faking tho| firm and. final stand - that Hie allied. debt mvs} be repaid. | ' One Hundred British Families for Dominion A despatch from London says: --A party consisting of one hundred fam- ilies, comprising more than three hundred people, sailed on Friday afternoon on the Corsican under the aufpices of the Government of On- tario. All the:men of the party are experienced farmers, and all are go- ing on the land. Some of the emi- grants have considerable capital and intend to purchase farms, The great- est care has been exercised in select- ing whe most desirable applicants, and another. party under the same aus- pices is leaving for Ontario in three weeks' time. ed naturalist, died = recently while travelling 'home from. California where he had spent-the winter. His burial took place on his eighty-fourth birthday at his boyhood home, Pough- i ii a oS N.Y. A uespatch from London says:-- The Canadian steamship companies here say that they are receiving from twelve to fifteen cancellations daily for passages to Canada, which have been booked by prospective emigrants from the British Isles, the reason | restriction requiring the increased amount of landing money, which was recently decided upon by the Can- adian Cabinet. The Canadian immi- gration authorities here are said to favor this action in so far as it affects ALL TY ; John Burroughs, the world-renown-| | given being the continuation of the| * General Degonete . French General-in-Chief,' who is com: ducting the military operations in the occupied "German territory. INFLUX OF POPULATION continental Tiinigration, bat it would appear that it might well be modified in the case of Britishers, hardest those who had booked their Eaglish River, ot of Fort we It is pure white, and weighs 31 Ibs, e 400 000,000 4 * 100,000,000 half billions. No payments of inter begin for over two years, by which} | sion of the bei No. 2 Nogtherns. $1.85%; # $12 It hits] 60 5 1 po o =} = § if ot i & LH i g 0 | Ea its grave social consequences, will Sompletely paralyze British trade snd industry, but a general strike would be a national calamity at this time. Efforts for a compromise are still on foot, but no progress has so far been made toward cult of solution, because while every- one admits that the miners have a gL Te' Sbal' strike alone, apt. from} a solution of the prob-,. The coal problem 1s extremely diff], It is also admitted that the diver- cbal to overseas trade was due mainly at first to the exorbitant prices fixed by the > ool owners, who were determined: gi gpainiain their rected toward securing ecme sort of mediation to. stave off, if possible, a | gL Toronto. Manitoba wheat--No. Eo 0: ern, $1.81%; wheat, anitoba oats--No. 2 CW, not guot- i Na. 3 CW, 885; extra No. 1 feed, 4 No. 1 "teed, 36% ¢; No. 2 feed, "Manitoba barley--No. 8 CW, 80c¢; No. 4 CW, 68%c; rejected, 5614c; be gr) i sore | Fort William. F.ob. shipping its ona to Ti ts outside, 2 Spring, 3 3115 bo 150; No. 2 Wisiter, $1.85 to il 2; No. 2 goose wheat, :$1.70 to $1.76 American corn--Prompt shipment, | com. No.2 yellow, track, Toronto, 90¢, nom- inal. ° & Ontario oats--No. 3 3 cwisitey 48 todo 45¢, according to feel ts outside. ine, a, 8 do 85¢, accord- lo frelghis susie. prompt ship- ment, mute Sous run bulk, = seaboard Peas--No. 2 $155 to $1.65, outside, Manitoba --Track, Toronto: Fires patents, So. 50; second patents, n Buckwheat---No. 2, $1.05 to $1.10; illf eed Carl 'delivered, '0- M lots ronto frei , bags Included: eam per ton, '$36; shorts, ton, « $34; white $41; food None, $2.30. Cheese--New, large, 33% twins 34 to 84%c; triplets 34% to 85¢; old Sage, 34 to 86c; a, twins, 34% to 86%e. Butter--Fresh ; ereamery, No. 63c. 1 No. 4 y he fran to 1c; trea, to S4c;| Spring ed 86c; heavy, 27 to 29¢; cooked, 50 5be; Jolie: 81 to 82c; cottage Tolls to 34¢ on, 43 to fancy i Bh bacon, 53 'to backs, plain, bone in, 47 to 50c; bone- less, 49 to b3e. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 27 to 28¢; clear bellies, 26 to 27¢. Lard Pure tierces, 19 to 19%c; tubs, 19% to 20¢; pails, 19% to 20%e; prints, 20% to 21%ec. rtening tierces, 12 to 12%c; tubs, 12% fo 18¢c; pails, 18 to 183%c; prints, 14% to 16c. 'Choice heavy steers, $10 to $i; good heavy stéers, $8. 50 to $9.50; but- chers' cattle, choice, $9 to $10; &, good, $8 to $9; do, med., $6 to $8: do, $6; butchers' bulls, choice, do, good, $6 to $7; do, , $4 t 5; butchers' cows; choice, $8 to $9; do, good, $6.50 to $7.50; 'do, Sam a to $5; feeders, $7.76 to $8.75 1bs., $7.25 to $8.76; do, 800 Ibs. forbs to $6.76; do, com, $5 6; to $4. 20: 120: do, to § a; ice ; lambs, yearl. , spring, $12 to Oats, an, West,, No. 2, 63 © € le; do, No. , 60 to 6 6le. Four, Man. hg Po thn. Srate, £0