St. John's Daily Star, 1920-04-28

              The St. John's Daily Star  Our Average Daily Circulation, March 8,898 "_ V _f n __ __ Newfoundland THE WEATHER Probs Moderate Wmds; Fair. VOL. VI. _ ■ — ■— — ■ ' ———— ■■ i —i——■ ■ i "■■ ' ■ ————— (PRICE: One Cent)] WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1920. ($3.90 per Ann-1... —-—-M—__—■———lll .  No. 9? "HANG-'ER-DOWNS" QUEER THEIR OWN GAME OF OBSTRUCTION COLLAPSE EXPECTED German Minister of Treasury Declares Nation is Now Really Bankrupt. PUBLIC SERVICES SHOW BIG DEFICITS "  BERLIN. Apnl 27—Germany's financial collapse is near, according to a statement made before the nat- jcr<al assembly yesterday, Jby Or. fat., minister of the treasury, while presenting the budget for the coming year. He attacked war profiteers who, he declared, .are turning the nation'? economic plight to their own advantages. Pointing to the empty benches in the chamber Dr. Wirtz said the real truth of the situation was not ade-. quately realized. He reclared that the army and navy budgets had reached their present dimensions because Germany was maintaining a paid defense force, which her former enemies should take in account in demobilizing the old army. This force has cost two billion marks lie asserted, while the government has already expended three billion'marks on the maintenance of occupational armies in Rhineland and elsewhere. The postal deficit was given ' asr one billion marks. The shortage reported by the administration of state railways was twelve billion. Dr. Wirtz favored an early flotation of an internal loan and demanded that Germany's obligations imposed by the treaty of Versailles b. dearly fixed. ' ■ ' • ' An old owl will catch more mice than a dozen cats. FIFTY LIVES LOST IN INDIAN RAILROAD COLLISION; 50 HURT Simia, India, April 27.— Fifty persons were killed and fifty injured in a train collision on Oudh and Rohilkhand railway near Morahabad, east of Delhi, Saturday. Four coaches were burned in the fire caused by die collision.. *m . ■ ■ DENEKINE'S ARMY WILL FIGHT RED ATTACKS Bolsheviki to Make Another Attempt to Crush Army Before British Demands Recognized f ONDON, April 27—General Wran gle who is attempting to hold :ogether the shattered forces of gen .ral Denekine in Crimea until they *re assured of protection assured the British to-day that men wererSuffi.iendy strong enough to withhold Solshevik attacks. Reports received Here indicate that the Bolsheviki are preparing for _ general attack hoping further to crush Denekine's followers before Sreat Britain's demand for their protection is recognized by the Russian Soviet government. Delegates to Conference. Berlin, April 28—The German delegation toJSpa., conference called by the entente will cansisl of the chancellor, the foreign home and finance ministers says the Deustche Mlegemagne Zeitung. 800 ARE KILLED DURING RIOTS GUATEMALA CITY I  Adherents of Farmer President Cabrera Are IHai-eied in Their Homes CAN SALVADOR, April 27—Men, I women and children to the number of eight hundred, were killed in the recent fighting in Guatemala City during the revolt which resulted in ithe overthrow of President Cabrera, according to latest advices received here from Guatemala. Numerous adherents of Cabrera, who remained faithfu lto their chief, were killed in their own house, the advices say. ■ *mm ■ ■—«—» POLICE BARRACKS IS BURNED; 4 MEN HURT 100 Men With Riles attack Police Barracks at Dallyander, Limerick and Force Surender. tIPPERARY, Ireland, April 27-" Dallyander police barracks in County Limerick surrendered to one hundred men .who assaulted it with rifles and explosives this morning Siege lasted three hours. Visitors seized arms ammunition and bicycles belonging to the garrison and burned the barracks. Three policemen and one of the attacking party were wounded. Threatens a Strike. Liverpool, April 27—The lord mayor to-day received a deputation representing Irish societies who 'threatened that unless Sinn Fein pris oners were released from Worwood -scrubs prison within forty eight hours the port of Liverpool and industries would be held up by strike of Irish workers. These-workers in Liverpool Mtmber one buadred a*d seventeen thousand. < _■ ■ mn .■ - _.'. Disastrous Fire At St John, N.B.; Big Loss St. John, N. 8., Aprjl 27—A fire which spread from floor to floor with remarkable rapidity started in the large brick building extending from Prince William to Water Street, occupied by Dearborn & Co., Ltd.. wholesale grocers, spice and extract dealers and baking powder manufacturers, and other firms late tonight and practically destroyed the interior of the entire structure. Buildings on either side were damaged. The total loss was estimated at nearly a hundred and fifty housand dolars, and "is largely covered by insurance. i mm . Westgate Reported As A Dangerous Derelict Boston, Mass., April 27—The British steamer Westgate, which was abandoned by its crew on April 18th while on a voyage from New York to Halifax, was reported today as a > derelict dangerous to navigation m a radiogram from the steamer arantia. New York for Gibraltar. The message said the Westgate with masts gone and high from water was drifting in a position about five hundred miles from New York. * — _ France Takes Lead In Aiding China London, April 28—Definite steps was taken yesterday in negotiating for a loan to China by groups of fin anciers of Great Britain, the United States, France and Japan when France formally notified Great Britain that she would join this country I and the United States in declining to acquiesce in special treatment Japan asked for herself. Japan wants certain railroad concessions which die other three countries are ' unwilling to grant. » ■ mm i Amundsen Returning Washington, D.'C, April 27—Ronald Amundsen, who set out two years ago in an effort to reach the north pole, is returning to Nome, Alaska, according to a message received by the navy raido station at Cordova, Alaska, today from Ahadair, Siberia. ■» -,i.',—— _. Yanks are Winners Antwerp, April —The America* hockey team tonight defeated the Swedes in the Olympic contests by a score of seven to nil. ■ ~ ■—i— Mr. Dwyer who was in town on a •brief vjwit, returned to ..olyrooei yesterday. OPPOSITION LEADER TALKS HIMSELF DRY 1 . # ! Obstruction Tactics Are Taken Advantage Of By Sir Michael Cashin to Talk AD Day—Opposition Leader Moves Amendment But is Ruled Out of Order—Mr. Coaker Reviews Fish Situation and Answers Critics in Capital Manner. j MINISTER OF FISHERIES TO CONTINUE SPEECH ON FISH REGULATIONS THIS EVENING. WEVER perhaps in the history of this or af any other country have a people seen such a spectacle as that which now confronts them in the legislative assembly. It is a spectacle to make one blush for shame and indignation. There you behold men who have been  ected by the people to represent them and to look after the welfare, of the country. It were a crime to insinuate even that the group now notoriously known as the "hank 'er downs" represent the people who elected them or are zealous for the country's welfare. Their tactics are those of the most despicable kind, unworthy of gentlemen and display more of the character of the tough just kept in restraint through fear of the police than they do of the dignified character and demeanor of the chosen of the people. One among them at least sits in direct revelation of the dearly exprssed desire of „the_ the honqra|s_ $m^^J^4^mjm»\Mo he sits, there and listens apparently without purturbation to the most vindictive and violent .assaults Upon gentlemen who, but a short time ago were his associates in arms against corruption and public immoraltity. It were a waste of words to belabor this gentleman's conduct, ,and it is hardly worth while throwing water on a drowned rat. The people of St. George's will attend to him in Viue time, and more than an inkling of this has he had already. The depth of degradation to which some men can descend without knowing it is truly remarkable. *> The student of physchology would find much to interest him in .the make up of those who sit in the opposition benches to-day. When Sir Michael Cashin tqld the house yesterday that those ten or twelve men who sit behind him have confidence in him he expressed a something that must have caused considerable speculation in the minds of those who heard him. Is it the confidence that he will yet pull the political chestnuts out of the fire for them, that he will by some trick succeed in landing in spusi ou.rters, or is it the confidence that they have in Sir Michael a very capable, earnest and upright leader who is destined to lift Newfoundland out of the slough. Let them answer for themselves as best they may. Sir Michael has had many oportunities whereby to display his ability and so far he has failed. Just at present he is displaying wonderful talent, but it is of the porkine type, the perverse quality which delights in obstructionist tactics. But the obstructionist game is not a safe or comfortable one to play at-all times, so much depending on the quality of him whom you would hinder. Beginning to Squeal The determination of the hai\-'erdowns to block the parliamentary thoroughfare has met with something like a counter mose by the government. To the cry of hange 'er down comes the ready acceptance of the challenge. It is now. like "lay on Mac Duff and cursed be he, ,who first cries, hold; enoughl" They would, delay the house by their senseless efforts at making long-winded and ridiculous speeches, so the government in a very accommodating manner, bids them come at moriiiag, .afternoon and night That this is too much for them we have ample proof, for yesterday the hang-'errdowns tried by every means they knew of to prevent a morning session. This is their first squeal. They are being hoist with their own petard. f Sir Michael put on the cap and bells yesterday morning and ran the whole gamut of absurdity up and down the scale till late at night. Sii Michael seemed just full .of words and these he poured out hour after hour, but they got badly mixed and entirely separated from sense and so became nonsense. They had no relation to grammar any more than to reason and much of the noisy declamation had no connection either near or remote with the business which brought the house together. He started off with an,, array of stuff which, were he in the position of finance minister might be taken for a badly compounded financial statement. He went over the old familiar stale and musty story of our participation in the war and it was expected that at any moment he might break forth into the old song beginning "We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground." Sir Michael spoke of how our trmy and navy contingents were aanced, how the money who obtained by loans, etc, which is a interesting. What might have be«i of interest Sir Michael kept quite clear cf. He might have told us what has never yet been told, of how the money was spent, and who received the big grabs on account of our war efforts. A while lot of that money has not been quite clearly accounted for and it would interest the country greatly to know something about how it went and where it went. - Cashin's Kite Flying Sir Michael says the militia depart ment has been prostiluted. It is hoped that Annie is not implacited. Who is this Annie that seemingly has so mUch to do with the opposition.Sir John says Annie told him a story. Sir' Michael says something about Annie sending him a wire from Montreal. If Annie is being prostituted it must of coyrse be the prime minister's fault, for the militia department and presumably also Annie is under the per taction of the prime minister. •' We remember poor Mr. Dick who was forever haunted by visions of tho hear) of King Charles. Poor old fellow, he could not speak'a dozen words, but something of the head of j Charles would come into it. Mr. Dick also had a kite, so too has Sir Mich-' ael. Sir Michael's kite is finance and no matter how he may talk he must fly this kite. His head of King Charles is a fish. Even when talking of kites this fish or Charles' head must appear to haunt him. j The cure of fish is an obscession with Sir Michael,, not that he knows a 'lot about it for it is to be feared he knows but very little worth knowing Sir Michael says a whale is a fish, which of course is a whale of an idea, fb* just as weff account a flying-fish a bird. Sir Michael had a lot to say about the cure of fish, which reminded people of the rotten Escasoni cargo, and the rotten attempt of Sir Michael to damn the character of an opponent at last election. Sir Michael says the fisherman are not to blame for the bad cure. • -1 bir Michael waded clumsily through the whole of the - speech from the throne, and like the weary ploughman, he plodded his weary way through that part which alluded to agriculture, and the settlerhent of returned soldiers on the land. Sir Michael does not aprove of the plan, on the ground that you cannot make a farmer out of a fisherman, also that there is no land on which to settle'them unless you place them on he South Side or Signal Hill. It has long been thought that the South' Side is sacred to sheep and two-; bladed grass. Cashin Talks Some The paragraph dealing with gcv- IS FOUND GUILTY JJEW YORK, April 27—James Larkin, Irish labor leader, charged with criminal anarchy, late today was found guilty by the supreme court jury before which his case was presented.Basel of Convicts Finds Great Treasure Store Paris.—Convicts at Vernon, in' Normandy, while digging in a state! farm, discovered a metal strong box. Inside were 1,500 gold pieces of a face value of £2,400. Most of them dated from the time of Louis XVI. of France, and they had,"it is presumed, been buried during the French revolution. * m . Messenger Charged  Taking Firm's Money A drunk was released. A 1 j year old messenger boy wroking with wood & Kelly was charged with stealing $67.00 from that firm. He was remanded until to-morrow. This lad who had been greatly trusted by Messrs. Wood & Kelly was given a key to the office and on a former occasion is supposed to have taken ' a further $40.00. An investigation is being held in this matter. The i money last stolen has been recover- i cd. AWFUL SUFFERING IN CENTRAL EUROPE British Relief Missions Publish Reports Calling Attention to Want and Suffering of Many Nations—Starvation and Disease Create Havoc Amongst the Austrians- JugoSlavia and Other Small States Also in Poor RUMANIA IN MUCH BETTER SHAPE THAN OTHERS OWING TO RELIEF EFFORTS OF CANADA AND USA I ONDON, April 28—A complete account of suffering in Central Europe is afforded by the reports of the various British relief missions published. The report on Austria is gloomy. The British mission arrived in Vienna December, 1918. During 1919 the missions were only able by the utmost efforts to sustain sufficient supplies -to continue the existing starvation rations. The harvest of 1919 hardly alleviated the position, as only one-half the prewar crop was harvested. Official prices for foodstuffs are so low that the peasants prefer to smuggle part of their crop. to well-to-do town dwellers at a' price about twelve times above the legal ones, while the remainder of the crop is allowed to rot or is given to pigs. I Although the surrounding states, particularly Jugo-Slavokia, are well supplied with foodstuffs, it has proved impossible to import from them anything like sufficient quantities owing principally to lack of transport and depreciation of Austria. *^HrTS-juenT~ie_hiiiftrtfr.'• of - m> Austria caused acute tension and some hospitals at the end of 1919 were flowing with cases of tuberculosis and rickets. From eighty to eighty-five per cent, of the infants of the working and the middle classes are suffering from rickets. Hospital, supplies are almost non-existent. Mr. Hoover's European children fund feeds and clothes 270,000 to, 300,000 children and an emergency :ommittee of the Society of.Friends s also doing valuable work among the children. Unless food relief is continued by Great Britain, r ranee, Italy and America, there will be further rioting and the government will be endangered. Wnen the primary necessity of food has been assured the problem or surplus labor will remain. Austria is now reduced to size of Switzerland, but Vienna is as large as Paris. ' Emigration on an unprecedented scale seems inevitable. There are particular opportunities in Austria for the manufacture of raw materials supplied from abroad. Reports on relief work in Hungary state that the food position is on the whole less acute than in Austria but the condition of the children and also the hospitals in Budapest is comparable with those in Vienna. British relief missions in Jugo- Slovakia report on the measures taken to cope with the devastated state of country after the evacuation of the Austrians and Germans. The chief requirements of Czechoslovakia are not food but raw materials.situation in the new 9_& tic states and Poland appears, from the report of the relief missions in these countries, to be fairly satisfactory. The spread,oF typhus, however, remained a danger in Poland throughout 1919. Considerable help was received from the British Red Cross Society in coping with the epidemic. Condemns Germany As regards Rumania, the relief mission of that country states "Rumania has been generously supplied with food and money by advances from the United States, Great Britain and Canada and Newfoundland. Rumania's recovery stands as an important testimony to the relief fand reconstruction measures taken on her behalf. Fur* ther requirements for increasing her prosperity and national efficiency should be provided by her own initiative.Relief missions in Constantinople report it is useless to expect relief work on large scales, especially, in the direction of restoring the evicted Armenians and Greeks, until a more settled government is inaugurated. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons today confirmed that the Supreme Council had agreed, upon the restoration of Palestine to Jew* ish nation and that Great Britain will supply a mandate. A request from the German nun-; ister of war to the effect tKSt the German government desires to main-: tain a German army of two hundred thousand men instead of one hun-< dred thousand men as provided for j in treaty of Varsailles and de-i clares that this is necessary for the maintenance of order. Tho Allies wish to say that a proposal of the nature cannot even be examined so ] long as Germany fails in the most im- ■ portant obligations of the treaty of peace and does not proceed with the \ disarmament upon which depends; the peace of the world. Germany is j not living up to her engagements,] the materials of war or in tho jwA duction of her effectives or in tha] provisions of coal or with regards] reparation of the cost of the army of occupation. She has taken no i steps, as was provided ior under, the; protocol of the treaty, towards ascertaining her liabilities tinder the] lead of reparation or towards making - proposals for fixing that total amount j they should thus pay, urgent as i»1 a settlement of this nature in the in-l terests of all concerned, and does not: appear even to be considering how; the is to moot her obligations when j they mature. 4 1 A meeting of the*fish committee' was held in the board of trade rooms yesterday morning 'when the resolu- j tions which were drafted up by that] body will be presented to the fish ex-J porters for their consideration; (Continued on page 3) MEN'S GOOD FOOTWEAR. i BUFF IDLUCHER Solid McKay -L> Welt Leather. $6.00 Pair. 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