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A despatch from Dublin says:--The siege of the strongholds of the insur- gent Irish forces virtually ended with! the surrender of small groups of the of Defence. But the success of the National cause has been purchased at the cost of blazing buildings and ter- rible destruction in O'Connell street, to say nothing of the loss of life and the many seriously wounded. There is still no information as to the whereabouts of Eamon de Valera, who has apparently escaped from the Free Staters' net. While ten buildings, including three hotels, were aflame, the remainder of the irregulars, driven into Granville Hotel, with fire on all sides, still main- tained a desperate resistance with automatics and rifies, but it was al- ready seen that they could not long delay the inevitable end. The O'Conmor-de Valera insurrec- tion is ending in smoke. Throughout Ireland the rising has been a flasco, It may be said that the whole north, centre and west of the Free State is quiet. Between Dublin and Galway one can travel without incident. Cork and its population are almost wholly against the irregulars. The most diffi- cult nut to erack will be in South Tip- perary, where the irregular force has withdrawn into Clonmel and has trenched and barricaded the roads leading into the town. The farmers throughout Ireland have been bitterly opposed to this in- surrection. As the days pass the opin- fon of the country becomes more and Connor, and only joined the Movement 1 after two days of wringing his hands, through fantastic motives of chivalry. Arrests of leading members of the minority party include Art O'Brien, President of the Irish Self-determina- tion 'League of Great Britain, who,| with S, T, O'Kelly, former Dail envoy in Paris, was taken in the latter's house, and Alderman R. J. Little, chief of the publicity staff of the de Valera A large number of prisoners are now in the hands of the National army, but it is known that many -ir- regulars escaped during the attack on the buildings occupied by them. member of the National army taken prisoner by the irregulars was held in the O'Connell street post-office, and he describes the fierce nature of the bombardment that drove out the gar- rison, including Commandant Sean MacEntee, former deputy for Monag- han, who with others seized a favor- able moment to make a dash for liber- ty by a back street. It is already becoming apparent that some of the more youthful of the irregulars are tired of fighting. Unobtrusively they are drifting back to their homes and their work, and no one comments openly on the fact. It is felt, therefore, that the rebel leaders would not be able to command a very big following. In any case, they are not the only people who know how to wage guerrilla warfare, and with public opinion behind them the National forces would have the ad- vantage, - REPRESENT CANADA AT GENEVA PARLEY Fielding, Lapointe and Larkin to Sit With League of Nations. A despatch from Ottawa says: -- Hon. William Stevens Fielding, Can- 'ada's veteran Minister of Finance; Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and Hon. P. C. Larkin, Dominion High Commissioner in London, will represent Canada at the third assembly of the League of Nations, which opens at Geneva, StWit- zerland, on September 4 next. The two Cabinet Ministers will| {i leave for Europe about the third week of August, and they will be joined in London by Mr. Larkin. Mr. Fielding, in addition to attending the League Assembly, will spend considerable time in London and Paris on matters relating to his department. One of the matters which it is thought may engage his attention while in Paris will be that of re- suming negotiations with the French Government for a more comprehensive trade treaty between Canada and France than now exists. There is also the question of a treaty with Greece, which may be taken up while the Minister is overseas. pine inn ic-- Ice Still Floating in North Atlantic A despateh from Washington] la says: --The Naval Hydrographic Of- fice warned officials of the Shipping Board and other operators of United States ships thdt ice is still coming] into the North Atlantic in dangerous quantities and the southern trans- Atlantic lanes should be followed in- definitely. While the lanes now: generally traveled are somewhat longer, th Hy, drographic experts feel that {! foty factor should receive firnst*Cohsidera- tion so long as ice continues to come down from the north in Sangerous : volume, "THE GREA' "How to get all the natiors assembled in the Temple jon" --De Amsterdamer (Amsterdam) : GERMAN SITUATION CAUSING IV. _ " TENSE ALARM A despatch from London says:i-- A Secret reports of the gravest character were received by Downing Street from Berlin on Friday. It is stated that Germany is hovering on the brink of financial disaster, which is almost cer- tain to entail the fallof the Republican Government. , With the Government's fall the road will be left clear for open conflict between Royalists, aiming at the restoration of the Monarchy, and ertremists, urging Communism, Prime Minister Lloyd George i is seri- ously alarmed at the portent in private advices from British agents im Ger- many. He is now conferring person- ally with Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy regarding the measures the IN ALLIED CAPITALS aston | alles. may have to take when the crash comes. Diplomatic correspon- dence also is passing between Downing Street and Quai d'Orsay on the same subject. The tentatively arranged con) | ference between the British Prime Minister and Premier Poincare for the end of July will now be held im-| sem mediately, if conditions warrant. The menace of a chaotic. Germany, without a government and with the resulting dangers from Imperialists and Reds, all advocating tearing up the Versailles Treaty, was directly re- sponsible for the British Govern- ment's sudden feverish interest in re- organizing its aviation and strength- ening the aerial arm of the British army. U.S. AVIATOR BURNED IN PLANE Engine Stalled and Machine Caught Fire. / A despatch from Mt. Clemens, g Mich., sdys:--Capt. George C. Tinsley, an army aviator with overseas ser- vices in the world war, was killed when his plane fell and burst into flames at Selfridge Field on Thursday afternoon. Tinsley, flying a Spad, was about 150 feet in the air, when he turned sharply to avoid striking a hangar. The motor went dead and the plane fell. As it struck the ground it-burst into flames. Witnesses rushed tothe scene, but were unable to reach Tin- sley until they had put out the fire. % He was found in his seat, his body Heads Steamship Lines, Mr. W. H. Coverdale, the new presd- dent of the Canada Steamship Lines. -------- » Optimistic Reports on Crops in Southern Alberta A despatch from Calgary says:-- Crop conditions based on reports of the United Grain Growers, were given out Thursday by E. J. Fream, newly appointed Commissioner of the South- ern Alberta Drought Relief Act, and which were said to be the most opti- mistic reports yet issued on the crops this season. True, in some districts tack of rain has béen more or less destructive, but this will be more than offset by the yields where plenty" of moisture has been recorded. winter ll ---- Lady Wilson Invited to Stand for North Down A despatch from London says:-- The Times states that Lady Wilson, widow 'of Field: Marshal Henry H, Wilson, will be 'invited to stand as Unionist candidate for Parliament for| North Down, her late 'husband's eon- i stituency. covered with burns, and a hole in his chest, apparently made by a sharp | piece of wreckage. Physicians expressed the opinion that: Tinsley had been killed instantly or rendered unconscious by the fall and suffocated by the flames and smoke. Tinsley was a member of the first pursuit group of the Army Air Service, which reached Selfridge Field last week after a flight from Ellington Field, Houseon, Texas. The plane in which he fell was the same ship that he had flown north.- PURSUE IRREGULARS SOUTH OF DUBLIN lish Warfare Coniniies in Country Districts--De Valera Eludes Provisional Govern- ment. A despatch from Dublin says: -- Active operations in the Irish warfare terrific speed. 'Just Fifty-ninth street, where there is a started a bombardment. An early sur- render is e: De Valera is believed to be in con- stant communication with the Irrégu- lars' leaders, but mo one in the Pro-| visional ernment - seems to know fis whereabouts. He is believed to have fled southward with Austin Stack and others, Valuable military" docu- ments pertaining to plans of the Ir- regulars' chieftains were seized when| Deputy Roberty Barton was arrested,| but the aot will not divulge their contents. Convocation Week at the Pro- { outsid vincial University. The week ending June 10th was in many respects the important week of | $ the year at the University of Toronto | ~~ig portant because, for those who were graduating, it marked the eul- have shifted from Dublin to the count mination of four years of study and try districts. regulars is proceding south of Dublin and in the Wicklow areas, where the Irregulars attempted a concentration around the British and Kilbride mili- tary camps. The outposts were attacked by Na- tional troops and easily driven off, many Irregulars being taken prisoners. At Brittas there were twenty. When the Nationals reached Kilbride they found it evacuated. The Irregulars appear to be dispers- ing in groups towards the hills and mountains, apparently to swait oppor- tunity of returning to their homes. . Some bands progressed in the di- rection of Enniscorthy, County Wex- ford, where the Irregulars were en- trenched for several days. They had succeeded in taking two positions held by Nationals, who were outnumbered. The Irregulars are still holding their other positions but a force of Nation- 'als now dominate the position and have FOREST FIRES SWEEP BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH LOSS OF LIFE: A déspatch from Vancouver says:-- The forest fire situation in British Columbia this season is the worst ex- perienced for many years, it was an- nounced at the District Forestry Of- fice here on Friday. From all parts of the province reports have been'res ceived that fires are burning, and in some districts, fanned by strong winds, the flames have got out of con- trol of the firefighters and have done serious damage to towns, villages and ranches, as well as threatening to'de- stroy valuable standing timber. Six weeks of dry weather and warm sunshine has dried out the underbrush, mr no rain; has fallen at ma points since the first of June. These conditions have added to the menace of fire, One known dead, several persons missing and ten houses destroyed is the early toll of casualties in a fire which descended on the soldier settle ment at Merville, on Vancouver Is- land Thursday night. A change in the wind brought into, the settlement a fire which had been raging in the | bush near here for two weeks. Many | The pursuit of the Ir-} the commencement of their life's work. Never in the history of the University | --Ontario have so many degrees been granted in one year--there were this year one thousand and ninety-six graduates in side. Arts, Medicine, Applied Science and Engineering, = Education, Forestry, Music, Agriculture, Dentistry, Law, Veterinary Science, and Pharmacy. But the newly-fledged graduates were not by any means the only peo- ple concerned in the activities of Con- vocation Week. The Alumni, grado- va, oats--do. 2 CW, 60; No. extra No. 1 teed, Bred No. American No. 8 Yi 79%¢, all Barle; Fre. 8 extra, test 47 lbs. or better, 66c, according to hear Bucky heat--No: 2, $1.00. Rye--No 95¢, To Milead Dol. Montreal treigh, $80; ed feud flour. § dh exis No? B2 22 to bis 'mixed, $ clover, Stra: w--Oar jots, per ton, track, To ronto, $12 to $13 wheat--No. 1 commercial, $1.26 to. 0.81.3 30, Suiside. 3 Ontario No. 8 oats, 40 to 45c, Ontario corn---b68 to oe pr Se, 3650 por sacks, 93's, (Rakes) oF seaboa Manitoba sacks, $7.80 per bbl Ch New, lar per ton Do oth the) good good ates of almost all previous years, were 94 back in large numbers at the Univer- | sity t0 renew the acquaintances and the interests of earlier days. The "twos" and the "sevens" held class|to re-unions and. it was inspiring to see graduates of the years 1872, 1877, 1882, 1887, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1912, and '1917, men and women who have Stained alstinction in various walks 0: e, enjoying the companionshi of the college friends of years a Truly, the University of Toronto has reason to be proud of her thousands of graduates, In his address to the alumni, Sir Robert Falcorier stated that the year just closed has been in epost the best during his] ney of fifteen years, Caterpillars R Ruin : tchewan Timber A despatch. from Regina, Sask, says: --Caterpillars have eaten up fifty Sel eae 41¢; No. 1 AE 40¢c; 88¢; cooking, "28¢. Dressed p rooster, 2c Sug ES chi ve --Spring roosters, ger to 20c; fowl, 2 ducklings, 80c; turkeys, Margarine--20 to 22c. = Eggs--No. 1 candled, 82 to 83¢; se- lects, 35 to 360; cartons; 37 to 38 $420: $3.75 Eo : primes : Maple' products--Syru 5 np: gal, $2.20; per b op 821 le sugary 1b. 20 10%, to. 16¢ ney 20-80-1b. 5-2%-1b. tins, 17 to 18c hei foo ge to We eys, cloens, Potatoes--Delawares, $1.15 to $1.40. Smoked: meats--Hams, square miles of timber in the Bipling, 8c; b district near here. Scareely 'a leaf remains and the district 1 presents the stark appearance settlers fled in a panic, and no check | - has been possible as yet. Meantime citizens of Courtenay, nine miles away, are fighting the flames, log with the : ny| soldier settlers here. a cra Son No: 25 Jol, B0%e; TN ber ton to 22; to be. per kT Shh comb honey, per dozen, I Sune A a Gh