Evening Advocate, 1923-05-11

              Advocate
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mostly fair to-day   and  ;
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local showers,
OFFICIAL   ORGAN   OF   THE   FISHERMEN'S   PROTECTIVE   UNION   OF   NEtVFOUNDlJVND   I
Vol.    X.;     No,     09.
ST. JOHN'S. FRIDAY, MAV     11,     1923.
PRICF • TWO CENTS.
IWlUNGaTE LBERALS
ARE THE MGHU
BROWN   3,491,   BARNES   3,406,   JONES   3,343
RECORD  FOR  HIGHEST   VOTE} GOES  TO
HUMBER   MEMBERS. FOR   TWILLINGATE
: __ 3_ '_' _.' 1' T T __ T _' 'i' 'i' j
Family
Footwear
HE?\D OF RUSSIAN DREGfUION     , !
TO tAUSANNE IS ASSASSINATED'
An Act of Vengeance Because of
Tortures By Bolsheviki
f
With Survivors From
^isastei to French
Fishing Fleet
AX, May 10—The Frcncl
cruiser-JTv'eguli
svrvivdps of anothi
FfenchfFishing fleet on the   Grand
Banks._
weeks  ago,  the    St.
France ct   Brctagnc
her-; and sank.   Thirty
.   have  not  bcen  rcportc
ile five were picked tip bv
Mnlo s
■ pkkcJ
ftilus.    Tin
l.cguli_
als i
Child's Tan Scuffer Shoes 1.60up  if;
Child's Tan Scuffer Boots 2.60 ud  ml
Little Gent's Boots, sizes
6, 7 & 9, only   : : : :
1.65
*  Misses'&ChildrenJsTanQ Aftpair
J & Bk. Gun Metal high laced *•"™ up
a Youths'Boots, 9 to 13 2.15 up
| Boys' '   size 1 to 5 2.65 up
| Women's one & two strap shoes 2.20 up
•i Women's black __ tan Oxfords 3.25 up
| Women's Laced Boots from 3.50 up
3i
£ Men's Laced Boots fron 3.65 pair up
The Vorovsky  party were dining
i   tii.  Hotel Cecil.    A young man
i few tables aw.y    arose    c_lml>,
.: to the Russians and opened
IC*T Vorovsky • ns the first victim.
"; The assassin then turned his weap-
k>=ipn _>:i Ahrens who was struck by
three bullets, twice in the thigh and
or k in the shoulder. Ahrens man
aped to draw his r:volvcr but the
. waiter knocked his arm. Mcan-
[g I v hiie the assassin .hot Didwilkow-
m   .ki i-i the body.
K: The assassin was seized ns he
r_r i«i fetnpted to escape. His name is
^erJMAuricc Alexander Conradi and hc
K-
is said to btlong t. the Canton of tentative:
Crisons. Conradi is thirty-eight to :t Sov
.ears or age and was born at    An- Switzerland   from  Moscow.
P'css.d no regret and. The Swiss Facisti injected them-
admitted that he had formerly serv- selves into the situation early this
cd ;n the Russian Army. He Kc- week when they issued a statement
ed recently from ussia. He re fus-'asserting that Vorovsky, because of
ed to state his motive. Nothing has his condemnation of thc Swiss go\-
yet been found toconnfel him with ernment's nction must be deported,
the Swiss Facisti who had warned Thc statement added that the Facis-
Vorovsky to get out of Switzerland. ;ti wcre adequately armed and every
While Vorovsky went to Laus- thing was ready to enable them tr
nnne to attend thc Near East confer [deal with thc Soviet rcprcsenta-
ence, he was not recognized as a. tivc unless he left thc country of
delegate by the allies, who made . his own accord. M. Vorovsky said
Aussie's participation in the confer-.he would ignore thc warning.
""  contingent upon short accept-
..
ace of thc Straits convention, drawn
up nt the first meeting. As a result of this non-recognition. M.j
Vorovskv has been in controversy
both with thc conference heads
and the Swiss government, charging that thc latter acted unfairly
and partially in directing its repre-
l.AUSANNE, May 10—Conradi
told thc police to-nipht that his
uncle and brother had been tortured and murdered bv Bolsheviki dur
ing the terror in Russia. He declared thc shooting was an act of
vengeance.
tp two French fishermen
from t?^ schon_r La Tour du Pin.
who hid strayed in their dory and
had beln ten days and nights on thc
open sfn with little or othing to
eat or {fink. They were put in hos-
iffcring from frostbite;
pital hire :
..nd oftosu
To Murmansk Coast
LONDON. May 10—The British
warship Harebell has been ordered
to thc Murmansk coast to prevent
further Soviet interference with
Lritish vessels outside the three-
mile limit, with instructions to
force if necessary, in performing
its mission.
Russian Reply
LONDON. May 10- Thc Russian government, replying to
British protest against thc seizure
of the trawler James Johnson,
claims thc right to fix limit of ter-
ritorial waters at twelvcm iles from
the shore, but offers to submit the
matter to arbitration.
•ADVERTISE VI  THE ADVOCATE.
Bowring Bros., Ltd. jj
Women of Sydney
I Will Burn Down Dives
and rum shops
SYDNEY,    May  10 -There    are
to. many dives and rum shops in
this city and we are going to burn
them down.    We come to give thc
Mayor    and    aldermen    warning.'
.This was  thc  announcement  made
^ to the chief of police, J. B. McCor-
r__|n»ick at the city hall last night when
a large delegation of the    Ladies'
Auxiliary of   the    Steel    Workers'
Union called to see the Mayor, who
, j. as not  in.    Thev had just ci
^y_ -from a meeting of their   local
r€s*_jiich is wassaid the resolution had
adopted.
graph and telephone employees
and railroad men, which ' has com-!
plttely tied up commerce and the
lion is apparently assu-ning
[•grave proportions.
Wircess For St. Paul's
NORTH SYDNEY, May 10— A
wireless station is to be erected by
the government on St. Paul's Island to replace cable communication. Twor wireless engineers landed there yesterday from the Montcalm.
Strike In Antwerp
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nAxtf:
L. S. P. U. Nominations
l_im  night's special meeting 'ot th.
1.. S. P. Union was largely attended.
iTho following ottlc era were nominated,
and  the election  will  take  placo  on
Thursday next.
[    President—Joseph FaTin.    Wm.    (i.
Sullivan.
j Vice Pros.—Bd. Spry, Wm. Bennett
I 1st VIco Pros.—James Butler, Wm.
i HO wall.
"2nd  Vice    Pres.—Thomas    Henley,
■John Deinpsey, Harry Gardiner.
j    Kir. iiicial  Secretary—Joseph Cook.
|    Recording Secretary—James    Can).
Thomas White.
Explosion In Gusher
CORSICANA. TEXAS. May 10— \
Thirteen    identified   bodies,   three Mlcn-Cl 0Rourkc.
skeetons  smouldering    in   a   grim,   0rand M$,ta,_jBIM.    Kavanagh,
well p.t. and possibly a score of oth Mlch.ieI Tavcrnor.
ers to be uncovered, mark the tally i  ft	
of death wrought late yesterday by I
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1 j CADIZ SALT   I
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the Ru-Ber-Oid Co., Ltd.,
P1, Montreal, Canada.
J When you buy ready-roofing remember that
there is only one Ru-ber-oid and the Ru-ber-oid
Cb. makes it.   The name Ru-ber-oid is indelibly
fmped every seven feet on the under side of the
:et.   Refuse substitutes.
AMES G. CRAWFORD,
Representative,
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