St. John's Daily Star, 1920-02-21

              The St. John's Daily Star '_ OirA/sngc Duly Circulation DecemiciB,93s ThE WIATHE WWs, IWeratdy .' % I VOL. VI. (PRICE: One Cent.)] SATURDAY, FLJSRUARY 21 ?920 ($3.00 per Annum.) ' - - ■ Allies Tell President Wilson The United States  Is Holding Up Treaty Of Peace Unnecessarily PREMIER QUIZZED Lloyd George Forced to Promise Commons Chance To Debate Turk Affairs lONDON, Feb. 20—The Turkish " question was raised in the house of common? this afternoon by Sir Donald Mac Lean when he asked the premier if the government would, give the house an opportunity of discussing the leaving of Constantinople to the Turks and the position of the Armenians. Lloyd George ,in reply, said that it wouid be very inopportune to have such a discussion at present. However, he was not deprecating a discussion of the subject, he declared. The premier gave assurances that there ■would be no committment beyond that which the government already had made until the house has an opportunity to discuss he question.> m *  PROMPT ATTENTION TO EXTRADITION CASES German Government Said To Be Rushing Trir.l Of Persons Accused Of War Crimes London. Feb. 20—The Germai government is rushing preparation: to try Germans on account of viola tions of lav 5 of war and examina tion of witnesses and arguments al begin next week, according to a Ber lin despatch of the Central New: agency. Pleadings will be open be fore the Leipzig Court within th< next month it is said. — . Reports from Griquet st 'fd tha tnere was a good sign of seals and a Seal Cove, White Bay, a few' wer also sen. REDS CAPTURE PORT OF ARCHANGEL J London Feb. 20— Bolsheviki— forces have captured Archangel' on the White Sea, according to a wireless despatch from Moscow r - today. The "Whites" abandoned the towa and the troops joined I ) the Bolsheviki, the messages declared.1 »  BIG U. S. STEAMER  IS HERE TO BUNKER American Steamer Makes Port To Replenish Supplies Coal And Water The s.s. Orion arrived in port yesterday afternoon short of cbal and water. The Orion is a ship of 6026 tons gross, 3777 net and was built in 1902. She was formerly called the Prinz Oscar. The ship is now owned by the j United States Shipping Board and is controlled by a New York firm of ship brokers. The Furness Withy Company are the local agents. The Orion was on her way from Dartmouth to St. John, N. 8., with a cargo of nitrate and was fifteen days out, having met very stormy weather on the Atlantic which caused her to run short of coal. She was met off the coast- by the s.s. Thetis and piloted through the ice. The Thetis entered port a short time after the Orion had anchored. Dutch Steamer Gets Safely Off Lee Shore Halifax, N.S., Feb. 20—The Dutch steamer Noorndjik, which last night reported that she was ih imminent danger nrrHoelTrg driven oh the Cape Breton coast in the vicinity of Gabarus and asked for assistance, advised the naval station here this morning that she had succeeded in clearing the 1 rocks and was in no further need of help. ASSAULT BARRACKS Armed Raiders Attack Police At West Kerry, Ireland, and Are Repulsed jyEST KERRY, Ireland, Feb. 20- After a three-hour siege in which riand grenades, rifles and revolvers were freely used, an attack on the police barracks by armed raiders was repulsed here yesterday. One police officer was wounded- and it is believed three raiders were struck by bullets. The raiders made extensive preparations for the attack having block ed all the roads with faUen trees and barricades and having dug deep trenches to check the approach of military motor lorries. Telegraph and telephone wires were cut over a radius of fifteen miles about this place. One end of the barracks was demolished by the explosion of a bomb. RE ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE MEETS Shipowners Thanked — Increased School Attendance—4l Applications Considered AT the regular meeting of the Civil Re-Establishment Committee1 held at the Militia building yesterday afternoon, Hon. J. M. Kent presided, and the following members were in attendance: Rev. Dr. L. Curtis, Dr. W. W. Blackall. 8.A., Vocational Officer; Capt. G. G. Byrne, MC Secretary; Lieot>CoJ. <L T. Carty, Major-% Butler, D.5.0.,  V. P. Major W. H. Parsons, M. C, Major J. W. March, M.C. Capt. Leo Murphy and Capt. J. B. O'Reilly. : Thirty-four applications for cours es in engineering, motor mechanics, , salesmanship, woodworking and gar| age mechanics were considered; 23 I granted, and 11 found ineligible. i Assistance towards completion of apprenticeship and to continue college I courses was also allowed to four other applicants. Correspondence with the vocational authorities with reference to courses in Canada; telegrams on the same subject and several applications from Canadian veterans how resident in Newfoundland were also I attended to and decisions made in j each case. The increased classes at the civil re-establishment school brought an exhaustive report from the vocatkm|al officer on the subject, and ap- I pointments in connection with the i tutorial staff at that institute will be [announced next week. The sub-committee appointed to interview the various shipowners on the question of berths for returned men brought in a most encouraging report on the prospects of vacancies on all the ships; the employment report showed 16 men placed in positions since the last public announcement; a complaint made to the Colonial Secretary, regarding a recent appointment elicited the fact that the position had been filled by a returned soldier; the sub-committee selected to interview the minister of agriculture and mines presented their report on-the land settle-, ment scheme, and a deal of . other imoortant business was transacted. Notices of the date by which all I ?replications for retraining must be filed will be distributed throughout the country, posted in prominent places and inserted in the local newspapers. A very busy session closed at 6.30 p.m ■» ♦ i I Commandant Mclayley, from Toronto, will hold services at No. 1 citadel S.A., New Gower Street tomorrow, at 11 a.m and 3 p.m The Deputy Minister of ~ustonft j LeMessurier. received a message ye* jterday from the. Sub-ColU;tor al i Grand Bank stating that no word had been received there that the •.. hoonei Nobility owned by S. Picrrey oi Grand Bank was ashore at Barbadoei and had become a total wreck. At the R. C. Cathedral tc-raorroM night the preacher will be Rev. Fr Connors, €.M. and at St. Patricks Rev. Ft. Conway. CM. PASSING OF PEARY Famous Arctic Explorer Dies At American Capital Of Pernicious Anaemia WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 20— Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary submitted to blood transfusion at the hispital here today. Transfusion of Blood. Washington, 'D.C., Feb. 20—Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary submitted to blood transfusion at the hospital here ten .days ago. He was later removed to his home and his condition then was reported as somewhat improved. He gradually grew weaker, however, and the end came early this morning. Doctor H. F. Strine, the admiral's physician, disclosed that the transfusion this month was the thirty-fifth to which Admiral Peary had submitted within two years. • mm • AGRICULTURAL STAFF NOW TESTING SEEDS Secretary of Agricultural Board Busy These Days Testing Var ious Seeds t  The staff in the of agriculture are busy these days testing all the garden seeds rmaining over from last year. The work is being done under the personal supervision of Mr.,A. J. Bayly, secretsay of the Agricultural Dept. The" object of the test is to ensure that no defective seeds «maTrnhg~ TfonV last year's stock will be distributed to farmers. The process of testing seeds is a simple one, and can be tried out by >any person who possesses a little patience. The seeds are placed on moistened blotting paper, laid in' the bottom of a prate, and are covered with two more sheets of moistened blotter cut the size of the plate. By keeping the upper circle of blotter moistened a few times daily the seeds are kept damp. The temperature of the room should be kept even. After the usual period of germination has passed every good seed will be found to be sprouting. If the test is made with a hundred seeds of each kind on on plate, the percentage of good seeds can thus esily be arived at. * • m* • SPLENDID PROGRESS. The Mutual Life Assurance Co. has just completed fifty years of business. Last year showed - remarkable increase in business. This being due to the awakening of the people to the benefits of life assurance. The investments of th Company ar such as to enhance the surplus earnings over a long period of year, which shows the policy holders that, they are part and parcel of a company which is firmly established as a sounc financial institution. It #bow has policies in force amounting to one and seventy million dollars as shown by the annual report which is given in this issue. This is a splendid showing for this progressive company and much credit. is due Mr. W. J. Pike the capable mamnager cf Newfoundland.IWason Prepares Reply. Washington, Feb. .2Q*—President Wilson's reply to the entente premiers on the Adriatic question probably will go forward to-morow. Acting secretary of state Polk continued to study it to-day and after it has been put in usual • diplomatic form and has been approved finally by the president it will be coded and put oh cables. * REID'S SHIPS. Argyle leaving Placentia to-day for "Bay. Clyde, at Port Union. . \ Glencoe, no report since Rurin on Kyle due St. John's noon. Meigle left Louisburg nor.n yesterday.' . , ■ ' - Mr. Eldred Crane of the Southside who was bodly injured in the war, being wounded in the face who has been undergoing treatment al Montreal, returned by the Sachem toi rl»*- - — ADOPTS PLATFORM  PURE AMERICANISM  New York, Feb. 20—The immediate ratification of the treaty of peace with Senate reservations retaining for the United States its right to withdraw from the league of nations on proper notice and a declaration against article ten in its present firm and demanding projection for (he Monroe doctrine in letter aid spirit were advocated in a p'&tform adopted here tod-y by •'»», New York State Republican government. » mm I  FOR PEACE WITH REDS Lloyd George and Nitti Anx !ous to Reach Agreement With Bolshevik Russia DARIS, Feb. 20—Premier Lloyd George is in favor of opening peace negotiations with Russia thru Maxim Litvinoff, Bolshevik representative in Copenhagen, and is supported by Premier Nitfi of Italy, according to "Echo De Paris." Paul Cambon andP. J. L. Berthelot, member of the French delegation meeting of the supreme allied council in London have no authority to enter into such a proposal and Premier Millerand has been recalled to London. Albanians Overthrow Provincial Government Rome, Feb. 20—Kiamile El Basha md an Albanian leader and Bishop >f Scutaria, have proclaimed the fall I sf the Provisional Government an<f declared themselves regents of the Albanian throne according to the "Tempo" which asserts this action was taken after an unsuccessful attempt had been made by a large force of Albanians to capture Durazzo. IS WIN FOR INDEPENDENT Palmer (Ind.) Wins By-Election In Shropshire—Has 588 Majority London, Feb. 20—By-election for member of .the House of Commons for Wrekin division of Shropshire recently held, resulted in the election of Charles Palmer, independent, by 588 plurality over Charles Duncan, labor candidate, it was announced today. John Bailey, coalition liberal, was hird in the polling. C. W. RYAN INJURED j Mr. C. W. Ryan, President of the Holy Name Society, met witn a burning accident this morning, and will likely be confined to his Lome fo/i some time. Mr. Ryan, while extin-! guishing a kero oil stove, Wrned the lighted wick into the oil and an explosion followed. f\ The lighted kerosene spread over the floor and in attempting to put it out he was badly burnt aoout the hands and arms. Dr. McDonald was called and also Mr. P. O'Mara, druggist who dressed the wounds, and made the sufferer at comfortable as possible. POLICE COURT. A drunk and disorderly who frequently made a noise in hi» n.other's house was ordered to pay costs and sign a bond to keep away in future. A fisherman of Arnold's Cove was summoned for a breach of Section 1 of the Msrrine and Fishenr s Act in relation to the packing of Scotch cured herring without a license. The defendant asked to have vhe case postponed until he could consult a lawyer. MAIL ARRIVES. The S.S. Kyle is due to-day froru North Sydney with mails Add passengers. At one o'clock t> day the Cape informs The Star that up to that hours hejwtd not sighted, i She is however expected to dock about five this afternoon. The S.S. Meigle left Luuisburg yesterday also with a large n> ail and is due to-morrow afternoo"- S.S. Rosalind will leave New York TitMrlav mr tkic nnrt via iialitav IMPRESSIVE MEMORIAL SERVI GE TO GUARDS. J A memorial service to the men of the 4th Dragoon Guards who je} in the war, held at the Cenotaph in Loadon? 'cofrtWcted by--Rev. Gibb*| who is pir&ctically blind, hay ing had both eyes~l?adly'injured a the front. Lieut. Gen. Methune is seen, second man from the chaplain FACTORY EXPLOSION KILLS SIX WORKERS Fire At Manufacturing Plant Is Fol. lowed By Explosion Killing Six G&EWorkerr Newcastle, Pen'na, Feb. 20—Six young women are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion which wrecked a number of small buildings at the plant of the Newcastle Fireworks .Co. here today. Half an hour after, the explosion firemen wete unable tp approach the burning plant because of exploding fireworks and powder. Heavy Gold Shipments. New York, Feb. 21—Recent heavy gold shipments to South America were explained yesterday by the statement that London is drawing on reserves here to make payment for purchases of grain and hides.-The total amount shipped approximates thirty, million dollars. Didn't Consult Ex-Kaiser. The Hague, Feb. .20—Before answering the last allied note relative to the extradition of former Emper-1 or William, the Dutch government ] acted without consulting Count Hohenzollern in any way. A different course may be pursued in the present instance. . -~> ■ Declines Ambassadorship. London, Feb. 21—Earl of Reading has definitely declined the ambassadorship to Washington and the post W been offered to Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of national service and reconstruction, who' has not accepted, according to the Daily Mail. It is believed by the newspaper that he will accept. ——r- Will Make Peace With Reds. London, Feb. 20—The Lettish government has decided to open peace negotiations with the Russian Bolsheviki in conjunction, if- possible, with Finland, Poland and Lithuania, according to a statement issued at the Lettish legation here. Will Develop Into Negotiations. London, Feb. 20—A diplomatic despatch from Berlin to-day states 1 that undoubtedly the forthcoming negotiations regarding prisoners between Germany and Soviet Russia will develop into peace negotiations ! The Peters Pence collection will be taken up at all the Masses to-morrow lat th« Catholic cHiir/-k»« in \t*e: city. Explanation An Apology During the last week or so The Star has been flooded with letters from outport subscribers, complaining about non-receipt of their favorite paper. In explanation, the management beg to state that the issue of The Star for the last week or so has had to be cut down to bare bones, to eke out the supplies of paper on hand. The tie-up of the railroad [prevented shipments of paper from coming from i Grand Falls for over three weeks. During this period The Star was kept going j mostly thru the generosity ot its contemporaries who made us loans of paper from their own scanty stocks. The Star now has plenty of paper on hand again, papers I are being mailed regularly to subscribers and subscriptions will be extended to make good the issues lost to outport friends. Non-receipt through the mails of instalments of "Yolande" has forced us to suspend publication of that story temporarily. Object of Consistory. Rome, Feb. 21—The secret consistory which had been announced for early in March will be only the nomination of bishops and arrang- I ing the preliminaries for the canonization of Joan of Arc and others. The consistory has now been postponed to March eighth. Weather along the line, to-day i* Hight dull with few falL of snow and the temperature is 20 ?t>cve. The Health,department his issued orders that every man going to the ice in a sealing steamer as one of the crew must show marks of vaccination The steamer owners have also decided that anyone offering who has recently been ill will be rejected.'Doc tors will. also examine each man on beina signed. WILSON IS ANSWERED U. S. Unnecessarily De!asflg the Re establishment  Peace, the Allies Stated \ gUENOS AIRES, Feb. 20—A summary of the main points in thejsijlied reply to Pres. Wilson, according to the Rome correspondent of ;|ke La Nacion disclosed that % Wilson threatened to  signature from the British Fre&h Treaty establishing security Jbr France, to which the allies rej%. that such action wouH destroy *i£J}» I soiutely the new French policy lor which President Wilson invited T*B- I tection. t The fundamental points in rthe allies answer, according to the correspondent are, first: The Allies rnewer the accusation of having prepared a convention \ for the annexat on of Fiume whkh he charged showed bad faith on to* part of Italy by saying that Prudent Wilson is unable to demonstrate this. ■ Second: The Italian petition for the establishment of territorial contiguity with Fiume is a very  thing compared with cecession t}f Dalmatia by which the whole wpeld is able to prove by merely examining the map of Europe. The allies observe that the project of President Wilson which comprehends the creation of a buffer stste has been rejected by the Jugo-Slavs jand the allied nations have been unable to insist upon it. Fourth; The strip of territory neces sary to establish contiguity of Frumje with Italy has not been sufficient J reason to justify procrastination,* j the re-establishing of the peace'iff : Europe. Fifth: Italy entered the war ilt- I spired by ideals at a moment, at leajit as critical as that when the United States entered. She suffered sacrifices in blood and money incomparably more than the United States. In drawing up La Nacion's correspondent says the British delegates prepared the technical form in collaboration with Italians, while the political feature of the document 'is that of the French delegates who i expressed themselves in terms of j great sympathy for Italy. AMHERST NARROWLY  ESCAPES DESTRUCTION  j Train Wreck Is Attended With Disastrous Fire Which Threatened Whole Town Amtarst, N.S., Feb. 20—A rear J end collision occurred at Moccann ! last night directly in front of the 1 depot. The overturned cars caught ; fire tnd the town itself was ne*3y consumed by the blaze. The train crew and volunteer cxti| zens fought the flames successfully with the result that only five buildup were burnt at a loss of fifty thousand Prices Still Soaring,  Canadian Paper States Ottawa, Feb. 20—The great impression that the cost of living;  climbing rapidly with every day tfiit passes is confirmed in statistics pt»- i lished in the Labor Gazette for Ear Grains, flours, bread, meat, am | stock, potatoes fish, textiles, sifjajjb, metals, lumber and raw furs 's^fc specially mentioned in The Gazette as 'more expensive today than tftir . j were in December last. Terrible Typhus FpMwnjc. 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