St. John's Daily Star, 1920-08-20

              The St. John's Daily Star Our Average Daily Circulation, March 8,898 THE WE A THER WW?; Fine and W arm Newfoundland No. 188 (PRICE: One Cent.), ($3.00 per Annum.) VOL. VI. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1920 Soviet Forces Routed by Poles Counter Attack Outbreaks of Serious Nature in Mesopotamia REDS ARE DEFEATED Polish Pressure Forces Soviets to Withdraw Their Forces—Reds Lose Supplies and Cannon. POLES CAPTURE 10,000 PRISONERS WARSAW, Aug. 19—The Polish " offensive is now in full swing. More than ten thousand prisoners, thirty cannon, three hundred machine guns and thousands of supplies and carts have been captured from the bolsheviki. The Poles have occupied Plonsk, Pullusk and Wyskov, through which the Reck drove in their sweep towards the capital. Owing to the poluh pressure from the northeast it is reported that the bolsheviki are wtihdrawing their forces which reached Vistula, south of the Prussian border, and to the northwest of Warsaw.The Russians lost their bearing in trying to meet attacks on all sides from the Polish columns on their flanks. ■ mm i RED DEFEAT SERIOUS WASHINGTON HEARS Unless Bolsheviki Can Make Resistance Their Defeat Before Warsaw is Serious. WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 19— Unless Bolshevik military leaders succeed in quickly organizing more successful resistance the defeat of the Soviet forces before* Warsaw will be come a serious Red defeat, according to a cablegram received by-the State Department to-day from the United States Legation at Warsaw. The message was under date of yesterday. CABLE NEWS  IN BRIEFS  V V TF tP tP V V V V  Viscount Jellicoe has left London for New Zealand to assume his duties as Governor General. The council of miners yesterday decided that Belgium will remain neutral in the Russo-Polish conflict until after peace (negotiations at Minsk have been concluded. Erwin Bergdoll of Philadelphia, found guilty of desertion from the army by evading draft, has been sentenced to four years hard labor a I Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The volcano of Popocatepeti is showing signs of activity, luminous smoke being visible above its crater and ashes falling on the neighboring town of Atotsingo in the state of Mexico Antonio Salviati an Italian banker of Montreal alleged by detectives from that city to be a partner of Charles Ponzi, , Boston's financial wizard, was arrested in New York yesterday on a warrant issued in Montreal. The international sporting club of New York yesterday announced sign ing of a contract for a fifteen round decision bout between Georges Carpentier, European champion and bat tling Lcvinsky, world's light heavy weight champion to be held at Ebbets field Brooklyn on October 12. S. S. Venator arrived from Boston this morning, after a run of 5 days, with general cargo to A. E. Hickman, Company, Ltd. Schr. R. Fabricus arrived from the Faroe Islands this morning in ballast. Puccini's musical talents were discovered by Queen -Margherita of Italy who finance his musical educa- FISH REGULATIONS ARE DISCUSSED BY TRADE Meeting Adjourns Until Tomorrow— Messrs Brooks, Job and Grieve Principal Speakers Yesterday. THE adjourned meeting of the Board of Trade was held yesterday afternoon when the new fish regulations was again the topic tor, discussion. Mr. H. R. Brooks oc-j cupied the chair. Hon. W. B. Grieve gave an outline as to what happened at the advisory board meeting held Monday night. Mr. Grieve stated he expressed his opinion as to prices all along it was no use of hisj continually repeating his views. When j Mr. DeVere, of Brazil, was here hej made a proposition and brought some j cargoes without the price, which was I to be agreed to later. As to shore fish Mr. Grieve thought the prices in dicated were $ICL $9 and $830. Mr. Coaker gave him to understand there will be a larger advance from the bankers and spoke of starting a| local one The banks now will ad-1 vance $5.00 per quintal and as the j catch will be a considerable one to export it will lake about 12 million J' dollars, of which the trade will have j to find half. j Mr. Job said the main mission ofj the meeting of the advisory, board j was to enquire if Mr. Coaker wasj prepared to abide by the request of; the Board of Trade as formulated at' our semi-annual meeting. He (Mr. 1 Job) waited for some time and asked Mr. Grieve if he was forgetting it. He was not quite clear on what it meant. He thought Mr. Grieve was astray as to what went on. The meeting was open but only small things were passed and he thought j without his opposition. He will prob- j ably be put down in the minutes as agreeing to them. A Wrong System Mr. Job was also of the opinion that the old west coast system of sending fish without knowing what it will fetch is wrong. Mr. Cqaker hopes to rectify that system and hold the fish here where it will keep better. Mr. Job admited ther_e is iniury when trade is interfered with, but there will be benefit in the long run. It was agreed at the advisory j board meeting that prices in Greece, be arranged from time to time, but] at present they must remain at 100|less IJ4 per cent. As to Brazil no new fish was shipped there last year till October 6 and the second cargo on the 17th. If they took old fish then he didn't see why they won't do so now. The regulations will affect some fish here alright, but may make more realize higher prices. He called Mr. CoakerY attention to the! meeting of exporters in September I and the giving of a fortnight's notice. He said Mr. Coaker was going to the west coast coal fields and would not .be back till Friday. Mr. Cheeseman asked if shipper* at the westward would be allowed to sell to Halifax, and Mr. Coaker stated that this could only be done at $ 12.00 per quntal C. I. F. This.was about all that transpired at the meeting. Mr. Brooks thanked Hon. W. B. Grieve for his information, but thought Mr. Coaker was .prepared to consult the trade as to the price  ing and export. At 6 o'clock the meeting adjourned until 4 o'clock tomorrow. STATES AND GERMANY PUSTLE PAEENTS IN U.K. __————-—i Both These Countries Now Lead in Applications For Patents in Great Britain. I ONDON, Aug. 16—The period of grace allowed by the peace treaty for the Jiling of applications for patents in this country held up by the war expired last Saturday. Twenty thousand applications have been filed since the beginning of this year, showing an increase of more than three thousand over the same period of 1919. The majority come from the United States and Germany. The United States is particularly interested in flying, and the ingenuity of its inventors has Jieen concentrated on flying I—tats, on subsidiary vanes for counteracting the instability of airships, on a parachute device to be carried on the back of the pilot. At the Crosbie—A. H. Wale, N.Y.; ft. Walsh Chicago; Phil Dover, Montreal; Chal. B. Tiller. Perm. U.S A; Miss Elizabeth Pe/mey, Halifax; Sara G. Poples and H. C. Quinn, Philadelphia, Pa.; T. P. Kemp, Place__&SAY POLES TO BLAME Russians Blame Polish; Delegates for Delay in Opening Minsk Negotiations.- REFUSE POLES' REQUEST FOR 19TH lONDON, Aug. 19—In a statement , regarding the delay in opening of peace negotiations at Minsk, M. Tcihtrin Soviet Minister, says "yesterday at the first sitting of the j Minsk Conference Russo-Ukrainian Delegates had insisted that the sec- ; Dhd sitting should not be delayed un- 1 til the nineteenth, as the Polish Dele- j gation desired. _ Nevertheless through the fault of j the Polish Delegation to-day's sitting did not occur. Russo-Ukrainian Dele j gates sent through their secretary an ] official protest to the Polish Delega- j tion. * , — , I MEETS DEATH IN VIEW  OF WIFE AND FRIENDS Victim Had Previously Made Flight Over Vancouver City—Explo- o sion Heard by Watchers yANCOUVER, Aug. 19—In sight of Jjis wife and many hundreds of people on the Beach H. B. Bren lon purchasing agent of the union steamship company of British Columbia, either jumped or fell to his . death in the waters of English Bay last evening, 'when a seaplane, he was piloting became unmanageable and crashed into the sea. Before the actual fall an explosion wae heard, • and smoke was noticed The engine and seaplane turned over seven times in its descent. The machine was brought to shore by a tug and seaftju is "being made for the pilot's body. Brenton was a mile at sea when the accident occurred. He had previously made a flight over \ the city. | France To Pay U. S. Loan  Maturing In October _____ _ ■> Paris, Aug. 19—The ministry of finance has virtually completed buy ing sufficient American exchange to meet obligations falling due in the United States on October, 1. (The Anglo-French loan of $500,000000, of which the French share is 250,--000,000, is due on that date. Telephone Monopoly. America had the good fortune to escape government ownership of telephone lines, says an English writ er. He declares that the existence in England of government monopoly has reduced the value of the telephone to the British public at least eighty per cent. English people rea lize the immense advantage the Am erican tel-phone received when it was born free. Automobile thefts have gown 20 per cent, during the last year, 32,000 cars having been stolen in the leading American . cities. Schr. R. Fabricuis arrived from the Faroe Island this morning to 1. H. Carter and co. in ballast. The trip occupied 45 days. SEAL HUNT BY AIR 1921 NEW USE OF THE "BLIMP" To Chase Seal Herds In "Blimp"— Air Patrol To Eliminate Gamble In Voyage. ftNE of the next adventures for the flying man is seal-hunting Says the London Daily Mail. Arrangements are being made for an airship, of the type used for sea-scouting in the war (known as the "Blimp"), to be stationed on the Newfoundland coast ready to fly over the North Atlantic and report by wireless to steamers the position of herds of seals on the big masses of iceVSrifting southward. . It is the youngseals which are valuable for their oil-bearing fat and skins ocating herds on the ice is a race against time. Directly after breeding the seals come drifting down on the ice in thousands, and their position must be discovered and the catch madej all within a week or so. Hitherto, in determining the location o fthe herds, the sealing fleet has been guided by the skill of skippers in studying charts and drifts and piecing together information that comes to hand. Calculations go wrong sometimes and the fleet draws blank. Next spring the air patrol should make what used to be a "gamble" a practical certainty. UPRISING IS FEARED British Military Hear of Plans for Uprising in Ireland* On a Large Scale. REPUBLICANS TO MAKE WAR > Aug. 18—The military autf thorities claim to have received nformation of the intention of the epublicans. to inaugurate within the lext three months a war against the 'invaders" on a much larger scale han heretofore. This information is declared to indicate that recruiting for the "Reaublican Brotherhood," supposedly he "brains" of the republican army, md which carries on its activities much more secretly than the latter, las been more active lately, resulting n the enrolment of large numbers vho have heretofore kept apart from he movement. There is no hope of defeating the 3ritish arnrly, which is much better squipped; but the leaders are exacted to create such a state of affairs is to bring about international intervention.The Republicans, it is said, are lot overburdened with funds, moftey laving failed to come from the doninions and the United States to the imount anticipated, but this is considered to be of small consequence, is it costs little to maintain the republican army, the needs of which ire amply supplied by sympathizers /vithin the country. The military have'the names of a lumber of men, some of them, they »ay, coming from the United States, nvho will support the uprising. I—.mi—'  A message was received this morn ing from Bay Bulls stating that the trap fishery is practically over, only two traps are now in the water, small boats doing well. ii ■ ii ■ ' ' ■■■' n -———■—•_————«———■—» BRITAIN AND PERSIA 11 TELEGRAM from our Teheran correspondent which we publish today (Aug. 3); says The London! Daify Mail, points to the urgent need i of immediately reducing British, commitments in the Middle East. A j British force is stili crusading in] Northern Persia and has just been; compelled to retreat. If it were withdrawn altogether the gain would be great. We have at the present moment some 90,000 British and; British-Indian troops scattered over Persia and Mesopotamia, and in these regions we are spending some £50,000,000 a year—another £500.-, 000 was voted last night—trying to force our ideas of progress upon people who do not want, to know anything about such ideas and getting ourselves thoroughly disliked in the process. ht- the opinion of good judge* i%o XJO vital British interest would be endangered were, all these troops withdrawn and these people left to themselves so long as the' oil-field in Southwestern Persia is firmly held. We can afford neither the men nor the money for adventures in the Middle East, with danger in Europe and with taxation in this country at its present crushing level. That India is to be protected by incurring these commitments is sheer- nonsense. India has a strong frontier, held by strong forces, and is in no danger. But there is the, risk—and it is grave —that the heavy expenditure in the Middle East may bring a financial collapse in this country, with its resultants, bad trade, widespread unemployment, and an opportunity for mischief-making on the part of those who preach discontent. BARREL RACING—THE POPULAR SPORT A SERIOUS OUTBREAK Mesopotamia is Now Scene; of Serious Trouble.— Anarchistic Movement Spreading Rapidly. .____ . MUCH DAMAGE REPORTED DONE —'—n_t * \f* lONDON, Aug. 19—The war office announces fresh outbreaks in Mesopotamia of considerable scales. Railways and telegraphs from Bagdad to Kirfri and Kirkuk have been cut and several railway bridges burned.The statement says that a revolutionary movement instead of being political has now become anarchistic. The movement of reinforcements from India is proceeding. ■ i mm ■ Experts Baffled. A Seattle boy has invented a mys terious coil which draws an unknown force from the air sufficient to drive a large motor boat. Electrical experts are baflled and believe that the boy has discovered a method of obtaining power from the air. »m » ' PERSONALS Miss Barbara Gibbs, daughter of J Hon. M. P. Gibbs, K. C. left by yes-j terday's express enroute to White! Plains, New York, at which place she • will be the guest of Miss Josephine,' Morgan. • < Mr. Charles J. Ellis who was in, the States attending the Knights of, Columbus convention returned by the Rosalind yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Ellis. Both are I looking well after their trip. ■ i i i _ Hon. W. F. Coaker, chairman of! the Reid railway commission and his party were at South Branch yes terday and arrived at Robinson's last night. A visit to the St. George's coal field will be made today.His Excellency the Governor, Miss Armorel Harris and party left by private car Terra Nova yesterday for a few days fishing at Gambo and Glen wood and during their stay from ♦own will visit some of the neighbor ing settlements. many friends of Mr. John Luscombe, an old and respected resident of the west end, will be sorry to learn that he was stricken with paralysis this morning, and that there is Very little hope of his recovery.Mr. Charles Bell, son ojf Mr. S. K. Bell, Crosbie hotel .left by the Sable I. enroute to Kingston where he will resume his, studies at the Royal Military College.' Charles had a successful career in his studies this past year* and it is the wish of his many friends that he may be crowned \vith ; success in his next exams. . ENGLISH RUNNERS GET LEAD OVER U.S. RIVALS Hill and Baker Win From Joie Ray in Fifteen Mile Run in Olympic Games. ANTWERP, Aug. 19—English runners, Hill and Baker, to-day dethroned the United States mile runner Joie Ray, of Illinois, A. C, in the fifteen meter race of the Olympic games. It was the second most sensational foot race of the seventh Olympic, being just~Wttle short of the thrills of: the running of the eight hundred metres race on Saturday. POLES NOW IN CONTROL Reds Are Defeated On All Fronts Except Southern Sector—Heavy Fighting Around Goslerslausen. SOVIET SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES DERLIN, Aug. 19—The Poles arc advancing on Graudenz, West Prussia ,in full force, according to a special despatch today tp The Vossiche Zeitung. On the left wing strong Polish cavalry forces are moving against Thorn from the south, where the Russians are expected to cross the. Vistula. Heavy fighting between Poles and Russians is reported from Goslerslauser. Reds Annihilated Warsaw, Aug. 19—Polish successes on all fronts with the exception of the southern battle sector, where Russian soviet forces are advancing in the direction of Lemberg, are reported in an official statement issued last night. The fifth, seventh, fifty-eighth anc eighth bolshevik divisions on the Warsaw front have been annihilated and a thousand soviet soldiers mad< prisoners, last night's official statement says. _  War Supplies Silk underwear, handsomely rib boned night robes, silk hosiery anc other delicacies of dress have beer discovered among supplies shipped tc France for American soldiers. Hoy they got there no one could explair but army, officers were indignant, say ling that such items were carried ovei when plainer articles were badl] i y-»-»« i ■ »■»■« .»'n »-»■■>—o. --■« «ii«i.« ■■ ■"» »•«■•«"•"«-*"• ■ ■■»i»|lll,'> STOP I :! I SEE OUR SPECIAL I I BOOT l t 7 i 11. •••. , * Por Men —-———-——-——— ■ —————————— t I ANY PAIR IN :: I r. 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