St. John's Daily Star, 1919-04-15

              The St. John's Daily Star Newfoundland " VOLUME V. ($3.00 per Annum) <^&»* TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1919. (PROBS: N. Winds, Cool and Showery.) No. 86' TO START TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE LONDON, April 14—Vickers are aboat to start transatlantic air service, handling passengers .* i* .«* .it .it nnrl frp.idhf .ft .ft .it .A .*t ARE AFTER HOME RULE Riots in Korea, Due to Persistent Demand of People For Complete Independence.TAPS SUPPRESS MANIFESTATIONS TOKIO. April 8— The riots m Korea, the war office announces, have spread creatiy in the last few cays and the rioters coerce and threaten person in legitimate occule imperial troops is :ld too long there is danger that Koreans connected with the Russian bolsheviki will take advantage ot the disturbances: and expose the people to further unrest. Koreans Seek Independence. :!. Korea. April 9.—The Koieat; independence agitation conovinces. The Jap,■ severely with suit that there have been many additio Soviets Overthrows. pril 14—A proclamation the Bavarian government, lunicn garrison forces, that* the nofrm • is re-established, isportation of Hellers Polish oss Germany for Poland Will start Tuesday. ' D. H. McDOUGALL was recently elected president of the Canadian iMining Institute at their annual meeting held in Montreal. Mr. Mc- Dougall is president and general manager of the Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Corporation. The election of Mr. McDougall to the presidency of the institute is a very popular one in financial as well as mining circles, as it is recognized he will be of great assistance to the institute in the many important plans that will be carried out during the coming year in the development of the natural resources of the country. » » Evokes No Enthusiasm. London, April summary of the amended covenant of the league of nations evokes no enthus-< iasm in London morning papers, and is declared by some commentators to be no less satisfactory than the first drafts.' ' ;" QUITE READY WITH DRAFT German Delegates Invited to Meet Peace Conference at Versailles On April 25th. STORMY SESSION, COUNCIL OF FOUR DARIS, April 14.—A statement by President Wilson in behalf of the council of four, says that the questions of peace are near a complete solution and that they will be quickly and finally drafted. This announcement was contained in an official bulletin, which added that the German plenipotentiaries had been invited to meet at Versailles on April 25th.. Final Negotiations. Paris, April 13.—The peace treaty and league of nations have undoubtedly reached final stages of negotiations, Premier Lloyd George will announce in the British house the date for the calling of the peace congress which Germany will attend. The final session of the- council of four was stormy. The Monroe Doctrine was opposed by France on the ground that it singled out one nation for special treatment. Australian opposition to the Japanese equality amendment was so strong that Britain withheld approval, preventing its adoption. 1 tm v  LIMERICK SCENE OF STRIKE Trades Unions Protest Against Proc- i lamation of Martial Law. Limerick, April 14.—This city awoke today to find itself in the throes of a general strike called by the trades unions as a protest against martial lav/ which has gone into effect in the Limerick military area. The gas and electric supplies were cut off at 2 o'clock this a. m. and no factories or stores opened today, even the drug stores having their blinds down. Food supplies have ceased coming into the city, as the farmers refuse to take out military permits to enter Liberick. =—» m »  TOO VALUABLE TO LOSE. Germans Determined to Hold On to Sarre Territory. Berlin, April 14—The German Government is firmly resolved to refuse to discuss at the peace conference the future allegiance of the Sarre territory, according to a Berlin agency on what it terms competent authority. The government will "resolutely reject any proposal to tear the Sarre territory from the empire by means of a general plebiscite. Very Little Comment in U. S. New York, April 14—The papers vfith few exceptions refrain from commenting on the summary of the revised covenant of the League of nations. The Times asserts that American opposition to the league is subsiding. The Sun continues opposition on the ground that it restricts "our inherent freedom of action." The Sable I. was to leave Halifax last night for St. John's via Louisburg.HIS FLIGHT DELAYED. Major Wood Waits Better Weather to Start Ocean Venture. London, April 14—Major Wood, one of the entrants in the trans- Atlantic flight, was compelled today because of weather to postpone the first leg of his flight from Eastchurch, on the island of Shepey, in the Thames to Limerick. The Major will start across the Atlantic from Limerick. FOE MOST PAY HUGE AMOUNT Germans Must Hand Over Hundred Billion Marks, Plus Other Damages, to Allies. SUM TO BE PAID IN INSTALMENTS DARIS. April 14.—One hundred billion gold marks is the amount Germany must pay the allied and associated governments for losses and damage caused in the war plus ether billions to be determined by a special commission on which Germany is to be represented. This is the final and definite conclusion which has been reduced to writing after a week's negotiation wfcich took a wide range and involved frequent changes' and modifications. The payment of one hundred bil- ! lion gold marks is to be divided into j three distinct amounts as follows, j first twenty billions within two years, i second forty billions during thirty years beginning 1921, third forty billions when a commission shall determine how it shall be done. Representative Soviet. Berlin, April 14.—Despite adverse votes by independent socialists j the Soviet congress today adopted a resolution sponsored by majority socialists for the incorporation of all | national economic energy into a nation-wide Soviet system which will culminate in a national workers' chamber, representative of all crafts, arts, professions and industries. ■ m» »  WIDESPREAD DISTURBANCES Home Rulers Active Throughout the Indian Empire. London, April 14—The widespread disturbances in India were referred to in parliament yesterday as being ' the outcome of "a passive resistance" movement against the recent Indian legislation known as the Rowlatt act, intended to combat seditious conspiracy. The movement originated with the home rule element in Bombay and has taken shape in attacks on officials and Europeans and on property, a comprehensive statement issued by the India office  night says. Military forces are now maintaining order throughout affected areis. .■■ — »  All Got Safely Away. Washington, April 14—Every American in Odessa, members of all foreign missions, and about 20,000 Russian refugees, got away safely when the city was abandoned to the Bolsheviki, according to a belated despatch from Constantinople received today at the State Department. MORE GERMAN STRIKES. New Disorders Amongst Miners of Silesia Reported. Berlin, April 144—The strike of bank employees workers here continues. It is reported from Essen that the strike of the Krupp employees has ended. New disorders are reported from Gleiweitz, Silesia, where the coal miners are striking against the inadequate food supply. POLES KILL MANY JEWS Surround Warsaw Meeting Place, Take Out All Present and Put Them to Death. INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN ORDERED STOCKHOLM, April 14.—The Jewish press bureau here is informed that a letter written by Barnet j Zuckermann, representative of the joint distribution committee of American funds for Jewish war sufferers relating to a slaughter of Jews in Hinsk has been published in Jewish newspapers in Warsaw. On April sth a meeting place was surrounded by Polish soldiers, he says, and all those present were arrested, taken to the market place and shot. Mr. Zukermann then wrote to members of the Polish diet demanding immediate intervention and the Polish cabinet promised to investigate.Archduke Reported Executed. London, April 15—A Copenhagen despatch to the Exchange Telegraph! Co. says a traveller reaching Berlin j reports the execution of Archduke' Joseph, former premier Wekerle and Szetzprenyi, minister of commerce, by Budapest communists. The report is unconfirmed. ■ » Adriatic Question. Paris, April 14.—Orlando and Wilson are still engaged in conferences over the Adriatic question. Hope is expressed a plan may be ready for the council of four Wednesday afternoon. Plans are progressing for the accommodation of the German delegates. It is stated the peace treaty may be ready for signatures by the middle of May. » ♦ »  S.U.F. GRAND LODGE The following members of the S.U. F. Grand Lodge leave for Burin tomorrow—J. T. Phillips, grand master; J. C. Phillips, grand secretary; John Curnew, grand purser; George Langmead, deputy grand master; W. McGillvray, J. Rendell, R. LeDrew. W. Dominy, W. Mugford. ■ m» » The young ladies of St. Michael's Guild are preparing for a sale of wojk to take place shortly. The various stalls will be well stocked with good things. The regular weekly meeting of the Amalgamated Fishermen takes place at the C.C.C. Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Several new members will be admitted tonight. OUT TO MAKE U. S. PLANE FIRST ACROSS ATLANTIC These are the men in the Trans-Atlantic section of the office of the director of naval operations, j Washington In short. they'Te the men responsible for America's efforts to first cross the Atlantic by airplane, from left to right they are Commander J H Towers, in charge; Lt Commander G de Chevalier, operations and liaison. Commander H C Richardson, construction corps. Lt. Commander Patrick N L. Bellinger- operations. Lt Commander R B Byrd, navigation. Jdaj B L Smith, marine «orps,_material. Lt. J G Barrat, US N g F. aer ogra phy CAN SUPPORT THEMSELVES Rumania and Jugo-Slavia Expect to Feed Themselves With Products of Next Harvest. OTHER NATIONS MUST BE HELPED DARIS, April 14.—Rumania' and Jugo-Slavia will be able to feed themselves from this year's harvest. Hungary, Germany, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia will not be able to do so, the commission reports. The Russian commission in Paris, headed by Prince Lvoff, the first premier after the fall of the empire, and embracing representatives of various anti-bolshevik governments, is strongly opposed to the recently proposed plan for feeding soviet Russia through neutrals, on condition that the bolsheviks cease hostilities. Prince Lvoff, Sergius Sazanoff, Boris Bakhmeteff, and their associates favor the sending of food to Moscow, Petrograd and other large cities under bolshevik control, but object to the plan for the cessation of hostilities on the grounds that it would do injustice to the forces of Admiral Kolcha and General Deniken, which are making good progress in their campaign against the bolshevik. t mm t Confession of Defeat. London, April 14—Trotsky admits defeat on the eastern front in wireless messages from Moscow picked up here. Threats of Violence. London, Monday—lntroducing a bill in the lords providing for compensations for public servants injured or killed while performing there duty, the chancellor quoted from the Sinn Fein proclamation issued in Tipperary following the declaration of martial law in February threatening death, after a given date, to any British law officer found in the district. IS BOLSH AGENT The first official representative of the Russian soviet government who has established offices in New York and is prepared to spend $200,000,000 for supplies in America is L. C. A. Martens. I called on him in his well-appointed office at Room L 812.. 299 [Broadway. Martens Is a 'mechanical engineer For the past few years no has been in the United States as the representative of the.DemidorT Jron and Steal Works, the largest isteel works in Russia. They employ 2"8.000 men. The plants were {nationalized a year ago by the (sQvieLg>Qvernnienx. L.C.A. 2*AR.TENS*- WONDERFUL PROGRESS i Rapid Developments in Aircraft That Made Possible Attempts to Fly Across* Atlantic. * *' SOME OF LONGEST , AIR-TRIPS MADE THE proposed flight from ■ St. John's across the Atlantic is without doubt the greatest venture in the history of aviation,.and it is attract--, ing the,attention of 'birdmen* in all parts of .'the world. Some time ago it was suggested to ( an authority on. aviation that he should write an • article on "Thej World's Greatest' Flight." The retort] was obviously > the question, "What was the world's greatest flight?" And the answer is very much less obvious. The maker of the suggestion ex-: plained that he meant the compara-i tively recent flight from England to] the east, or Ipswich to India, as the" alliterative journalist loves to call it. But it is quite possible to argue, without in the least being rude to the gallant and distinguished officers who, made the journey, that,.though theirsj may have been the longest voyage] made by aeroplane, it is not the "greatest" flight, because such a { great organisation was available to 1 make preparations for them. Every! thing of the best in the aeronautical! } world was at their disposal, and alh. the experience of the war was used to make the flight a success. At the finish it proved to be a triumph of skill and endurance on the part of the pilots and their me-i chanics; for owing to the breakdown! of the two after engines of their four,! the pilots—relieving one another at intervals—had to keep the machine in the air with two engines only; and, owing to the breakdown of tha petrol-pumps, the mechanics had to' 'keep on pumping fuel for the engines! for hours on end. Despite all this* and the fact that they finished thel in complete darkness, the! pilots only lost 400 feet in heighrJ during the last thirty miles of theirj journey with their overworked enJ gines, having got their height at thej beginning of the last stage with three, engines—one of the after-engines' being then still working. ( Long Non-Stop Journeys. What the flight did prove quitoconclusively is that we have not yetj reached the stage when one aero-* plane with one set of engines canl set out from England and fly straight; to India. There is nothing particularly disappointing about that, for it is the custom on railway lines to change engines at certain fixed points. The fact remains that the flight of; Captain Macalren, R. A. F. (the chief pilot), and his various passengers) over their various stages from England to India with a Handley-Page biplane and four Rolls-Royce engines was a very fine affair, and de-t serves to go on record as the greatest aeroplane voyage of the period. The( pilot himself would be the last person! in the world to claim it as the world's] greatest flight. Probably he wouldf regard it as being all in the day's!,' work, and would point to something! which was out of his own line of] business as being the "world's great-J est." He. might, for instance, sayj that the recent flight by two R. A. F. officers on a D. H.-9 Airco biplano1 with a Napier "Lion" engine to aj height of approximately 30,000 feet (the precise height is still uncertified] at the time of writing) was the! "world's greatest," because he, him-' self, would rather fly 3000 miles at: 5000 feet than 50 miles at 30.000J feet. The truth of the matter is* that, there is no such thing as the "world's greatest flight," except, perhaps, the flight made by IV?r. Orville Wright at Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A., on Dec. 17, 1903. That was the first authentic and voluntarily controlled flight evef made by man, and therefore it has some claim to be considered as the "world's greatest." it is quite an interesting faot that Mr. (Continued on Page-Two.^ IN N APERIES I Bleached Table Damask From 1.15, 1.35 to 1.75 yard. Bleached Table Napkins From 20 to 45c. each Tray Cloths, trimmed, 88c, 1.48, 1.60 each.  Sidebr Cloths, 8( 1.60 each* inch j>erg Centres, 30c. each* Rubber Sheeting, Etc, Bowring Bros. Ltd. iKIiIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIH I RICE! RICE!! RICE!!! 1 | Riee==*Fancy Siam' and 'Saigon' Rice. | We Give You the Latest Information. 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