St. John's Daily Star, 1921-05-12

              The St.John's Daily Star  ($3.00 per Annum.) THO&DAY, MAY 12, 1921 ' ———-a■—t———— 01. vn. __^_wm_l_mmi Prise: One Cent I *%-mW _• 4 *9 *% ' t^m^ I: • : t ; ... — ■ NO. 103. VOLUNTEERS WILL HAUL BRITAIN'S COAL Fresh Disorders, In Irish Cities — Big World Supply Ot Wheat PAPER PLANTS, CANADA AND U. S. CLOSE PLANTS ARE SHUT DOWN Paper Mills In Canada And The United States Suspend Operations, Owing To Strike Of Paper-takers.CUT IN WAGES CAUSE OF MEN QUITTING MILLS Green Bay, Wis., May 11—Officers of the Northern Paper Mill whose employees are o nstrike against a proposed twenty per cent, cut in pay, announced today another papermaking machine had been started, making 3 in operation. Reports from Rhinelander, Wis today were that Rhinelander Paper is working with seventy per cent, force. ..Seven Hundred Men Out Sudbury, Ont., May 11—Seven hundred men ceased work today at the Espanola mill of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Company, pending a settlement of difficulties with the company. An identical situation exists at the Sturgeon Falls Mill of the same company, where over five hundred men quit work this morning. _ Another Mill Closed. Three Rivers, 'Que., May 11— The mills of the St. Maurice Co. here were closed down this morn ing. Several hundred employees are affected. Difficulties over Wages vere given as the cause. o  Don't Trust Germany. Paris, May 11.—Newspapers of this city this morning see in Germany's ac ceptance of the Allied Reparations' demands proof that Germany complies only to the argument, of force at the same time they express doubts as to her fulfilment of her under taking. AID SICK FISHERF^LK French Hospital Ship Sails For Grand Banks. Havre, May 11.—Somewhere off the Nova Scotia Coast and the Banks of Newfoundland, the mercy ship St. Jeanne D'Arc is engaged on her annual mission of picking up thji ill and sick among the fishermen. £er hos" pital ward has 37 cots and |here is a well equipped dispensary :i aboard. She is a craft of 300 tons .and carries a crew of thirty one, expenses are met by voluntary subscriptions among the fishermen in Brittany and Normandy. - O ..j WORKS TO CLOSE D6WN. ______ Vickers Engineering Plant Crippled By Lack Of Coil. London, May 11—The Vick#s shipbuilding and Engineering Wprks at Barrow, the largest concern in the United Kingdom, employing 150,000 men, will be forced to close at end of next week, unless coal mining is resumed and fresh supplies of fuel are obtained it .has been announced. O  PRIVATE BANKS FitfL Three Small Havana Institutions Suspend Payment. Havana, May 11.—Three small private banks in this city suspended payments yesterday and another in the city of Camaguey closed it b doors. HARVEY IN ENGLAND —_—_—— New American Ambassador Presents Credentials.; London, May 11—Colonel.' Harvey, the New United States Ambassador to Great Britain presented his credentials to Earl Curzon the Minister at the foreign office after-, noon. # German Officer In Command. Oppeln, May 11.—It is rumored that a German officer, who held a high position in the army, has taken charge of German operations n Silesia, and Inter-Allied official here fear there will be serious developments in the next few days? unless the Poles indicate their intentions to begin a withdrawal. ACCEPTS DEMANDS Lloyd George Announces Germany's Complete Acceptance of All The Demands Made By The Allied Reparations Council. BUT FRANCE DOUBTS ..GERMANY'S SINCERITY London, May 11.—Premier Lloyd George announced In the House ot Commons this afternoon Germany's complete acceptance of all the Allied demands. His announcement was greeted with prolonged cheers. Dr. Sthamer handed the German reply to the Reparations Ultimatum to Prime Minister this morning and Lloyd George immediately telegraphed to all Governments concerned. The text of the reply as deliverd to the Prime MiniSter began as follows. " Mr. Prime Minister, in accordance with instructions just received I am commanded by my Government in accordance with the decision of the Reichstag and with reference to the resolutions of the Alllied Powers of May sth 1912, in the name of the new German Government to declare the following. The German Government is fully resolved, first to carry out, without reserve or conditions, its obligations as defined by the Reparation Committee. Second, to accept and carry out without reserve or conditions the guarantees in respect of those obligations prescribed by the Reparations Commission. Third, to carry out without reserve or delay the measures ot military, naval and aerial /"•""•™aT"Ant "fflflftlL .frfaJftfti ' German Government by the Allied Powers in their note of January 29, Those overdue to be completed at once and the remainder by the prescribed date. Fourth, to carry out without reserve or delay the trial of war criminals, and to execute other unfulfilled portions of the Treaty referred to in first paragraph of the rote of the 'Allied Governments of May 5. I ask the Alllied Powers to take note immediately of this declaration. Signed, Sthamar." Mr. Lloyd George in giving terms of the reply to the Commons said "this is a complete acceptance of every demand. o— * MOTOR BANDITS ARE BUSY IN FRENCH VILLAGE Rob Inhabitants Of Small Place Devastated In The Great World War. Lille, France, May 10—The record for theft by motor car bandits is held by the little village of Essars in the devastated regions. After knocking an inspector sense less, several men carried off a bronze bell weighing a ton and a half which had been in the wreckage of a church since the retreat of the Germans on the Somme. of the Germans on the Somme in 1917. o  LOVER LEAVES GBRL TIDY LITTLE FORTUNE She Lived In England, While He Died Far Off, At Home In Australia. j Hull, England, May 10—Sixty , thousand pounds and a ranch in j Queensland, Australia, have been | inherited by Maisie Major, a 19--year-old girl of this town .on the death of Captain Donald Bonds, !of the Australian air force, to Swhom she became engaged during \ the war. J They had planned to be married i last August, but the girl's parents objected on the score of her youth. o ■ Turkeys are found only in Cen Itral and North America. _. / I The hilly Eifel region of Germ any has many extinct volcanoes. Daily attendance at prayers is o bligatory at Yale university: THE HUNGBI. TUSK WILL STOP DIAORDERS Allies Won't Allow Events r TnSilesia Divert Them t From Execution of Ver- jl sailles Treaty. POLE INSURGENTS \) MAKE PEACE TERMS ..London, May 11.—Austen Chamber- ' lain Government leader, replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day said that the British Government and he thought the same could be said of other Allies, had no in-] tention "of allowing the deplorable' events in Upper Silesia to divert them in any way from the just execution ot the treaty of Versailles," he characterized the disorders as a deliberate attempt to "frustrate the treaty of Versailles, under which the Allies are bound to determine the frontier of Germany and Poland in accordance with the Plebiscite." Hostilities Suspended. London, May 11.—It is reported that negotiations between the Inter- Allied Commission in Upper Silesia and Adalbert Korfanty, leader of the Polish Insurgents in that area, resulted last evening in the suspension of hostilities says a despatch to the Central News from Warsaw to-day. French Clash With Poles. Oppeln, May 11.—French troops engaged In an artillery duel with insurgent Poles, near Groschewitz, about six miles south of this city yesterday. The Poleß replied, and French men have been brought in t motor lorries from other towns the disturbed area. Settlement Is Reached. /arsaw, May 11.—Premier Wites' ounced in the Diet to-day that an cement which he thought would facilitate the# solution of the Upper Silesian problem, had been reached by the Inter-Allied Commission in! Upper Silesia with Adalebert Kor-| fanty, leader of Insurgent Poles. ITO SAFEGUARD INDUSTRIES. Commons Debates Bill To Protect Key Industries. London, May 11.—After three days debate In the Commons the Govern, ment to-night carried the first resolution on the safeguarding of in. dustries bill. The bill would provide "protection for Key Industries." Early this morning (Thursday) . the governm nt succeeded in putting through the second resolution which provides protection of - industries by the prohibition of (of dumping. HJITS COALITION CABINET ;odfrev Collins, M. P., Greenock Has Resigned- London, May 11—Considerable in- KimmmJmJmm vm-* ii^pn.tttoai ijscles by the announcement of Sir Godfrey Collins, member of Parlianent for Greenock, Scotland, that t:annot give further support to d George Government. S. S. Meigle left Fortune 7.50 p.m. yesterday for Placentia. Passengers caving by to-morrow morning's train svill connect with her at Placentia I points along the Southwest Coast. DISORDERS IN IRELAND Two Men And a Constable Killed PAt Galway. lin, May 11—Two Sinn Feiners, running from a lorry here to day leaped into the cabin of an engine and, compelling the engineer to drive away at full speed, made their escape. Disorders throughout Ireland resulted in the killing of two men at Galway by armed, disguised men and the shooting of a constable.Crown forces surprised civilians near Limerick, killing one one, wounding two and rescuing a former soldier whom they were holding prisoner. o  COTTON SPINNERS' PAY CUT. Wages Of Three Hundred Operatives Reduced 30 per cent Manchester, England, May 1— Cotton spinners and manufacturers association has given notice; of thirty per cent, reduction in' wages in the weaving section. Three hundred thousand operatives will be affected. Similar notice has already been given in the spinning section. BIG WHEAT SURPLUS. U. S. Institute Of Agriculture Estimates New Crop. Ottawa, May li— A cablegram [received today from the international institute of agriculture asserts that the available world's supply of wheat and rye will covet all requirements this year and will leave on August 1 stocks a mounting to fifty-one million bus hels- Since the eleventh century in! has been made from an iron sal I and tannin. The Canadian Budge.. Ottawa, May 11—The debate on the budget today brought the definite indication of the progress_vett the  endment. The debate followed an academic line. o- Germany began seriously to con struct a navy in 1900. OFFER TO - MOVE COAL Volunteers Crowd London Recru- [F titing Offices And Offer Their J Services To Government To y{ Move Coal Stocks. 100,000 TONS* ON WAY FROM THE UNITED STATES ondon, May 11>—Determinatof the authorities' to move 1 into the country .'by sea, dete the threats, of the transport rkers to frustrate the government's plans through refusal to handle such coal, was - indicated today by the reopening of recruiting offices for volunteer j transport workers. These offices were first) estab- I lished when there was a threat of a general strike in the earlier stages of the coal tie-up. Long queues of applicants formed out J side the offices, this morning. Big American Imports. London, May* 11—The London Times says it 'understands that the chartering'of steamers to get coal across from the United States has subsided in the past two or three days, the slump in all probability being due to the length of time occupied in crossing and the limited facilities for unloading steamers of the ton- Tecjutreu* ■*—— The amount of* coal on the way from the jStates, or expected to be on .the way shortly, The Times states, is estimated at more than a hundred thousand tons. C__ _____*___ '''''' * * » » » ■ ■«■».■■«. ininn ii ii 1111 I I I I ' J |—... »»»»»»»......, gi.»^_—»,, ..».. ii >ti>>.» a ii"i »m<aaaa a I ■ ml I THE CRESCENT THEATRE I : %+- THE COSIEST SPOT IN TOWN i.i i ' < I V. 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