St. John's Daily Star, 1921-03-24

              The St. John's Daily Star Our Average Daily Circulation, September 9181 Newfoundland THE WE A JHERProbs -i W. Winds; hair vol. VII. Price: One Cent THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1921 ($3.00 per Annum. No. fl 3 WORKMEN PERISH IN TERRIBLE MISHAP Harrisbnrg, Pa., March 23—Three men are dead, two are dying, and several are believed to be buried under many feet of molted metal _■- and white hot bricks, as a result of a blast furnace "slip" at tlie Steclton plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation today. NOW LORD PRIVY SEAL Austen Chamberlain, Government Leader in House of Commons, Gets New Appointment. MUST NOW GO BACK FOR RE-ELECTION LONDON, March 23—Austen Chamberlain, recently elected leade of the House of Commons, has been appointed Lord Privy Sea!, both positions having been previously held by Bonar Law. This will necessitate Chamberlain's seeking re-election in Birmingham. It „ believed that the labor party will fight the election, but Birmingham is considered quite a safe seat for Chamberlain. The speaker of the House of Commons, James William Lowther, is retiivng, and it is' reported that the prim* minister has otfered the position to John Henry Whitley, deputy speaker. ■• ■ —. ■ i Greek Offensive , Against the Turks Reported Commenced Smyrna, March 23—The Greek offensive agamst the Turkish Nationalists urrder Mustahpa Kemal Pasha started to-day, according^ to latest advices received here. «■ ■ ■  Schr. Olive Moore, has sailed from Torrevieja salt laden for St. John's to her owners Messrs. A. E. Hickman Co., Ltd. , PREMIER OF AUSTRIA? KAROLY HUSZAR "Extreme restlessness through out Austria is expected to result in the-downfall of the Teleki cabinet and the restoration of Karoly Huszar. JAPAN OBJECTS TO RUSS ACTION Will Take Steps to Prevent Transfer of Territory to Bolshes Tokio, March 23—Japan will  obliged to adopt whatever action maybe deemed necessary to preserve her rights in Kamchatka, if the Russian far eastern republic persists in the course of transferring part of that Peninsula to Soviet Russia, \Sscpunt Uscha foreign minister declared today.The report of the transfer appears to have a direct bearing on concessions granted in Kamchatka where Japan bas fishing interest to W. B. Va_d_rlip of California. TWENTY-FOUR MEN ARE KILLED IN AN AMBUSH FIGHT, IRELAND DUBLIN, Mai*. 23—Twety-four persons were killed and nearly thirty wounded in an ambush reported today. The men to whom the government attribute the organization of ambuscades have not been captured. The multiplication of ambuscades is believed to be largely due to reprisals for recent executions. Sinn Feiners are said to regard their men as belligerents and the execution of those captured as a breach of the laws of war and punishable by reprisals. The execution of Whelan was followed by the killing of two policemen in his native town of Clifden. The deaths of the policemen were avenged in Clifden by house-burning. For every man executed vengeance is anticipated and, as the government has in custody many men liable to the death penalty and is said .to mean to carry out the executions, the piling up of deaths on each side is considered here as inevitable. Force of Police Ambushed. A police inspector and eight policemen, ambushed near Dingle yesterday, fought for three hours, killing eight of their assailants and wounding twenty. Three police- were wounded. A party of Lancers was ambushed this morning by a force comprised of about 200 between Stokestown and Longford. The strength of the military contingent is not known, but it is reported that Capt. Peak and a lieutenant were seriously wounded, while all others received wounds. Serious Charge Against Military. Cork, March 23—A farmer's house at Cloghen was surrounded by crown forces last even• « ijig. , A number of young men, it is reported, were taken out of the house and ordered to run for their lives. They were fired upon, four of them being shot dead. The others escaped. Six Killed in Battle, Blarney. Cork, March j_3—Six civilians were killed in Blarney district this morning in a battle which followed firing from a farmhouse at crown forces. Easter Disorders Anticipated. Belfast, March 23—Telegraph wires were cut between Belfast and Dublin last evening. The authorities expressed the belief that the act presaged possible Sinn Fein activities during Easter week. SAY THEY HAVE PAID Germans Maintain Twenty Billion Mark Payment, Demanded for May First, Is Already Paia. ALLIES FORWARD REPLY TO BERLIN DARIS, March 23—It is maintained in the German note that the twenty billion marks which the peace treaty provided should be paid before May first, has been more than paid. They note asks that a joint commission of experts fix the value of German deliveries on reparations account, but declares that in any event it would be impossible to pay twenty billions by first of May. Note From Allies Paris, March 23—The reparations commission has considered the German statement regarding the nonpayment of a bilHon gold marks today, the date fixed by the allies for payment, and is forwarding a communication to the German government, according to an official announcement.This communication will be delivered to Berlin tomorrow. MANY EMIGRANTS ... ARE KEPT HOME In View Of Unemployment Britain Refuses Passages. London, March 23—C01. Amery, Colonial Under-Secretary, replying to a question in the House regarding free passages to the Dominion, issued by the Overseas Settlement Committee, said that the government was aware that tu_emp_oyment existed on a considerable scale in the Dominions, and as result of the attitude of Doniinionvrepresentatiyes, without whose approval no passes were granted, large classes of industrial workers had. ben refused passages. RED MARTIAL LAW IN 16 PROVINCES Two Soviet Annies in Disorder and . Deserting in Crowds London, March 23—Reports from Riga state the fifteenth and sixteenth soveit armies, stationed at Pskov, are in disorder and deserting in crowds, says the Exchange Telegraph. The soviet government has declared martial law in sixteen provinces, reports say. WEATHER  PROBS _ Toronto (noon)—-Moderate south west fair today and most of Friday with higher temperatwre. IRISH MATTERS UP FOR DEBATE IN THE COMMONS Policy of the Lloyd George Government in Ireland is. Very Strongly Criticised By Memj bers, Led By Former Prime Minister Asquith and Francis Dyke Ackland. BRINGING DISCREDIT TO BRITAIN, HOSTILE CRITICS TELL PREMIER Lloyd George, Answering Attackers, Says Only Those Proven Guilty of Murder Have Been Executed and States His Government is Still Holding Out Olive Branch. |ONDON, Mar. 23 An Irish debate was raised in the house of commons to-day by Francis Dyke Acland, in appealing to the government to act with magnanimity before Easter. He advocated the summoning of a constituent assembly to choose the form of an Irish constitution.The members who supported Acland made much claim for an analogous situation in South Africa. Former prime minister Asauith crit icised the government's failure to em ploy the same vigor in vindicating Ireland against the crown forces as against the Sinn Feiners, and in suggesting that the government again get in touch with the representatives of the Irish people said it was useless to lay down impossible conditions in such negotiations. Replying to Mr. Asquith's statement that the policy of the government in connection with the executions at Mount Joy and elsewhere was bringing disgrace and shame uponupon England in the United States, Lloyd George said that two of the men executed at /Mount Joy were murderers and that Jthe other four were engaged in ambush to kill policemen. They were taken with arms, bombs and soft nosed bullets in their possession.. He gave similar details of the other cases and adduced and argued tha tAsquith himself could have taken no other course had he been in power than the government had done. On the question of negotiations, the prime minister announced no new policy. Lloyd George declared he was laboring to the utmost to keep the door of peace and conciliation open- and every Irishman ought to assist. ■ i ■  Senef left Hermitage last night N Portia passed Cape Race 7.30 this morning. ■ Birch bark is used for yellow dye. Puzzle Picture This Is the first picture of the ex-kaiser's home at Doom Holland, since he has fixed it up the way he wants it. But that's incidental. The cloc-'s the thing. Puzzle: Why did Wilhelm have a big clock set on the front of the housejf What's time to him* DISORDERS GERMANY Communists, On War Path in German Cities, Seize J__uch Public Property, Destroy More. HOIST RED FLAG OVER BUILDINGS gERLIN, Jw/ 23—Communist workersseized the City Administration buildings in Hamburg today, then occupied the Bloomandvoss shipyards and hoisted the ted flag, says a despatch from Hamburg. Workers in other shipyards quit work and began organizing mass demonstrations, according to the despatch. In Leipsic, Dresden, Rodewisch, and other cities in- central Germany, the communists directed their efforts against court houses, city halls, public banks and police headquarters. , A bomb exploded in the Leipsic court house this morning and blew off the Toof, Jt>roke all windows, wrecked the lobby, and shattered the windows of buildings in a radius of two blocks. In Rodewisch, the City Hall was virtually destroyed by a bomb which had been concealed in the basement. The use of dynamite against the City buildings in Aurebach, Freiberg and Dresden resulted in heavy property loss and wounding severely of at least three persons. Others were slightly injured.FAMOUS PRELATE REPORTED DYING Physicians Believe The End Of Cardinal Gibbons Is Near Baltimore, Md., March 23— The death of Cardinal Gibbons was momentarily expected tonight and his physicians announced that he would not have strength to live through another day, it was announced at the Archiepiscopal residence this evening. Throughout the day the Cardinal's condition was precarious. He lapsed into unconsciousness several times, each time the doctors believing that the endhad come. • mm •  TRAIN NOTES. The west bound express which left St. John's last Thursday left Cape Ray this morning. The Bay de eVrdfc train still working between Northern Bay and Carbonear.The Bonavista train left Trinity Junction at 6 o'clock this morning. The Carbonear train . arrived at St. John's at 1 p.m. Weather across country to-day is N. W. winds, light, fine. Thermometer 20 to 30. 24 DIE IN THEATRE IN BOMB OUTRAGE Kjondon, March 23—In a bomb explosion iana Theatre, at Milan, Italy, .tonight, twenty persons were killed, according to a despatchto The London Times from that city. The police believe that the outrage was the work of anarchists. AMERICAN MADE K. C. ROBERT N. CRANE . I Robert N. Crane, native of New Jersey, is the first American lawyer to be made a British king's Counsel. LATEST NEWS -••x 4 , ■ -._~ . -~» r™^- ALLIED official circles are aroused over the hoisting of the old German Imperial flag over __c Chamber of Commerce. Vienna, in celebration of the Silesian plebiscite result. Bolshes Ait Batum . Russian Bolshevik forces occupied Batum after an agreement had been entered into by the Turks with the Moscow authorities, in which the Turks waved all claims to the city. Agreement Ready A despatch to the Times from Berlin, says the Russo-German trade agreement is complete and ready for signature. New Propositions Premier Briand yesterday informed the French Senate Committee he-expected new German proposition in connection with reparations, particularly concerning the'industrial participation by Germany in the reconstruction of the devastated regions. Demand Employment One thousand unemployed visit Vancouver City Hall yesterday and made a straight demand for assistance in writing, declaring it would be difficult to keep the men in check much longer. All Hope Abandoned Hope for the recovery of Cardinal Gibbons has been abandoned. He is in a state of coma. Allied Officers Murdered Several employees of the Inter- Allied Commission in Silesia have been murdered recently, and the Governor of Bethune has ordered the strictest measures to be taken to keep peace. Captain Slain y Sir Wilfred Peck, D.5.0., Captain in Yeomanry, was killed when a party of lancers was ambushed yesterday morning by the Sinn Feiners. Disorders Increase Communist disorders in Central Germany are increasing, and large industrial sections are in the hands of theNinsurgents. BITTER ATTACK ON SOCIALISM Is Disrupting Parties and Menaces. Socieyt, Lloyd George Says Lonidon, March 23—A bitter attack on socialism, which, he said, was tearing parties to pieces and on its way to tearing society to pieces, was made by Lloyd George in addressing "new members of the coalition group" yesterday. All possible steps must be taken, he said, to instruct the electors^who at np distant date must decide the issue between socialists and coalition. i > HOTEL ARRIVALS. * At the Balsam—Mr. J. Keough, Bonavista; Mr. J. W. Parsons, Harbor Grace; Mrs. Fitzgerald and child, Miss Lindahl, Grand Falls. TWO SHIPS ARE LOST U. S. Shipping Board Steamer Abandons Attempt to Tow Steamer West Galoe to Port. CREW ABANDONS 5-MAST SCHOONER DOSTON, Mass., March 23—The United States Shipping Board steamer Triumph, Antwerp, for Boston, has been compelled to abandon six hundred miles east of this port the steamer West Galie, Rotterdam for Norfolk, also the shipping board vessel, which she took in tow when the ktter's supply .of fuel became exhausted. In messages received here today, the Triumph said her own oil supply had been found so impure as to it useless. The shipping board sent broadcast tonight a request to vessels near the West Galoe to go to her assistance. Abandoned by Crew Boston, March 23—The troubles, of the five-masted schooner Governor Brooks, which for nearly a year had been trying to deliver at Buenos Aires a cargo of coal shipped at Norfolk, are at an end. The vessel has been abandoned by her crew off the Brazilian coast, messages received here today said. TO TRY WAR CRIMINALS Cases Brought By British Government To Be Taken Up First-r-Trials Will Open in May. LEIPSIC SCENE OF THE HEARINGS gERLIN, March 23—The, trials of war criminals by the J supreme court at Leipsic are expended to commence at the beginning of May. According to the newspapers the cases brought by the British govern-' ment will be taken up first, witnesses coming to Germany from England to testify. The first case will be against a non-commissioned Landstrum office, named Heine for ill-treating prisoners in Ruhr region, where  French troops were interned. This second case wiH be against Naval Lieut. L. Newmon for sinking the hospital ship. Llandovery Castle, while the third case villi be against Lieut. Warner who is charged with sinking another hospital ship. The fourth charge is against Capt. Mueller for criminal neglect in a prison camp. The British and French are also bringing charges against ihe former commandant of Metz.i General Yon Oven. BANDS OF POLES INVADE SILESIA Polish Republio Proclaimed—- Germans In Flight London, Mar. 23—A wireless despatch received from Berlin gives a Kattowitz reporjj-to the effect that armed Polish bands, including regulars from General Haller's army, have crossed the upper Silesian frontier at some points and proclaimed a Polish republic. ; The despatch adds that Germans are fleeing from the region. ■ mm ■ Mrs. Jane Bennett, Widow of a Former Nfld. Speaker, Dead Halifax, Mar. 23—Mrs.; Jane Bennett, aged 80, widow of Thorn as R. Bennett, former Speaker of the House of Assembly, Newfoundland, died yesterday at after a brief illness. " Af THE 1 CRESCENT THEATRE! <————____■—_——_______»_____________■_______• THE COSE ST SPOT IN TOWN I J^^_ASTLE^__fe V ___________________ _Jl fw \ nP_flP / iii I _B_fi__________ ___%__f I_f _*^ 1 i 0 __P* T__ HF __sugm___W n  WW V A ft ft j__ BPlffx^ __L _L _T ■ J' f F r t vj  mi w-Jfc m H. 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