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'the Socialist tnt fi Alba [=] The 1 cd BAR 25: 85: NO. 16 aily KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SAT u i DAY, J. ANU ARY | |e PAGES 5-12 BA PR Pd -- LAST EDITION i FIRST SESSION OF NEW AS ASSEMBLY Anti-Bolshevik ---- Were Fired Upon And Five Were Killed. THE REVOLUTIONSTS WON WHEN THE CALL CAME TO SE- LECT THE CHAIRMAN. He Defeated a Woman Long Known in Revolutionary Circles--There Are Some Four Hundred Delegates in the Constituent Assembly. (Canadian Press Despatc h.) Petrograd, Jan, 19.---The Con- stituent Assembly opened its first session on Friday afternoon in the Tauride Palace. There were some dissensions between the Bolsheviki and the Social Revolutionists, On the streets quiet generally préVailed, though rear the American Embassy a group of Anti-Bollshevik demonstra- tors were fired upon by guards and five killed. On the first test of strength the Bolsheviki were defeated by several revolutionists. M. Tchernoff, Minis- ter of Agrieulture in the Kerensky government, and nominee of the So- cial Revolutionists of the right for chairman of the Assembly, was elect- ed by a vote of 244 to 1561. The candidate of the Bolsheviki was Ma- ria Spiriidonovo, long a prominent revolutionist, who was released from exile in Siberia after the overthrow of the Romanoffs. The opening of the assembly was set for noon but a controversy over registration caused delay until four [o'clock Slightly more than four hundred members were in their seats... Of these the Bolshevik and Revolutionists of the Neft, who are working together, have about 150 votes and the Social Revo- lutionists of the centre and right the remainder. PEACE 1S DEMANDED BY THE AUSTRIANS rss Begin to Realize Arrogance of Their Militarist Leaders-- 'Admit Cabinet Crises London, Jan, 19.--A fever of op- position to the Government and de- mand for peace is spreading over Austria as the masses of the people begin to realize the lkelihood that the peace they crave may collapse through arrogance of their militar- dst leaders. . Lausanne, Berne and Zurich--de- spatohes reported fumerous demon- strations. One, on Tuesday night in Vienna, resulted in rioting and the pillaging of food stores. Strikes are reported to have been started in scores of factories at Vienna, Gratz, | TWENTY CENTS A POUND FOR HOGS ON THE HOOF Record Made in Toronto Yes- terday, With Cattle Prices Away Uj Up. ! pip Toronto, Jan. 19. I Fr the. first time in the history of Canada live hogs sold on Thursday on the, Union off cars, a figure unapproathed on any 'other market on the continent, with the possible exception of Mont- real. A load of butchers' steers and heifers brought $13.50 per cwt., the highest price ever paid for butcher cattle on the Toronto market outside of prize show stock, STOCK MARKETS Quotations Furnished by Bongard Ryerson & Co., 44 Clarence St, Howard 8. Folger, Manager. New York Stocks. Opep--~Close 82% : 50% 139 Atchison B. & O. C.P. R. Reading ive Southern Pac. 80.» Railway Union Pacific Marine "a Marine, pid. Gen. Motors Studebaker Amy. SmelMers 'Anaconda : Beth. Steel "Bb" Inter. Nickel Inapir. Copper Rep, Steel U. 8. Steel Midvale .. Atlantic Gult Utéh .. Mex. Petrol : Canadian Stocks. Brazilian .. . 32 Can. Steamship Con Smelters Dom. Steel Steel of Canada War Loan, 1837 WOMEN DEMAND COAL. BO Storm - Fuel Distributing Office in Agrantford. Brantford, Jan. 19.--Five hundred women stormed thé civic fuel distri- buting office yesterday but nothing could be done for them. There are four cars of cogl on the railways des- tined, for other places than Brant- ford, they beilg stalled with broken axles, and if Mayor McBride has the power this will be requisitioned, The civie fuel advisory committee 1 recommended &he cur- tailment of the evening hours of theatres and restaurants as being luxuries, such action being necessary also to appease public sentiment. The committee has ordered all coal deal ers to furnish the names of custom- ers, who since April last have se- gured more than six tons of coal, with a view to more even distribution. MERCHANT SLUGGED, ROBBED Two Men Are Now on Trial at Belle- ville For the Crime. Jan. Stock Yards at $20'per ewt, weighed: s ter proof dugouts. 'Rlough of Despond.'® GOING TO FRONT IN WORK GARB | I Amy is Not Being!» Cothed as So as Soldiers. | IMPRESS GERMAN TROOPS THAT THEY ARE WARRING UP- ON WORKINGMEN, The Social Revolutionists Says That They Can Secure Penco Hetter Than the Bolshéviki Party. London, Jan. 19---The large number of Red" Guards being organ- ized by the Bolsheviki in the Social- ist volunteer 'army is impressing the allies' military men. By a'clever move the enw army is not. being uniformed as soldiers, but the men composing it are being left in thelr working clothes, so that if sent to the front, in the event of.the resumption of hostilities, the Ger- A correspondent, writing of conditions | code presided, | tacturing plants tiong in Berlin have becdme so much Foiif miled of that ground ' at | WouLD FORCE WOMEN TO WEAR OVERALLS oh the western front, says:--"As on the Somme, but worse than on the Somme, we have behind us now an eight mile stretch of crater land, over which our battles have been fought, so that it is a great desert of mangled earth with innumerable deep pits, pierced by shell explosions and filled with water, 4gd in its low ground, when the 'beeks' have slopped over in gullies between the slopes, a bégland and -lakeland in which men sink to their armpits" s Another four miles of it are under scattered and harassing fire, and nowhere is there any cover except a few splin All through this coming winter--alas! it has come--masses of men will take their turn in this are under heavy and continued fire. ar a Et yo 2 TROISHY BAFFLES Bindiact Employees § Also Their Hair. New York, Jan. 19.--Women em-} loyes in ries using dangerous # machinery should be required to wear | overalls and covering for their hair, the state industrial commission was | | told today at a hearing in reference | to the. proposed code to gu uard ein-| ployes in industrial plapts. Deputy Commissioner Richard J. Cullen the bureau of industrial andeoilicials of manu gave-their views on | the subject. | The gfinion was expressed that the | state labor law should be amended | so that if emplowgs do facto of themséives of safeguards, no cdmpen- sation should be awarded if they suf- | fer accidents. ARE HARD PRESSED | Residents Compelled to Exist Almost Entirely on Ra=- tioned Quantities. Stockholm, Jan. 19.--Food ¢ondi- worse, according to advices reaching | OF not avail | Gen. FOR FOOD SUPPLIES | .r, to be approaching a climax, SCHEMING HUNS| Germany's Hat Peat Peace Conference Re- vealed by Bi Balshevid Organ. LIGHT THROWN ON Ley THE GBRMANS MAKES THE RUSSIANS STRONGER Hoffman De. That the Russian Conditions"Could Only be Accepted by a Defeated Country. Petrograd, Jan. 1 Brest-Litovsk At the last sitting the difference of views with regard to the interpreta. man delegations at tion of the self-definition of peoples was much accentuated. The sittings was marked by violent protests on the part of Hoffmann, who said that|the yacht would not be sold to the he Russian commditjons could met be 9.---The disagree {mies £50,000 Guarantee From Prize { ments between the Russian and Ger-} NEW WAR MACHINERY IS PLANNED FOR U. S./ Central War Council and 'Munitions. Washington, Jan. 19.-- Framing o legislation contemplating drastic | changes in th government's wari machinery, including creation of American war council, similar = those of Great Britain and France, and a director of munitions, was be- gun today by the senate military committee. Two bill®y one proposing the was council of five members, in- cluding the" sécretaries of war and navy, and three civilians = appointed by the president, and a second fo centralize mupitions control in dir- ector of munitions--were prepared today by a sub-committee. The bill to establish a director of munitions is modeled after the Brit- ish law. MACHINE GUNS TRADED - FOR PLAYING CARDS Holland Traders Have Erected 400 Booths Along the Russian Front. Londom, Jan. 19.--A telegram from Berne to the mor ning, P 0st Bays: News has reached here from Hol- land that German, traders have al ready taken advantage of the situa-| tion in Russia and have erected 3100 booths at convenient spots along and in Slosent proximity to the Russian fron It appears that the Russia woidiers are most anxious to obtain playing cards, and they readily barter a ma- chine gun fora pack of cards. MORE FOOD RESTRICTION S Beef and Bacon, * Soon Disappear. & (Canadign Pr "Toronto, . Jan. White Flour, May s Despatch.) 19. Commenting on the order that beginning Febru- ary 28th, all bread in Canada will be of standardized quality, Hon. W.| J. Hanna, Food Controller, said that the price of flour will be fixed in a short time. '""White flour, beef, bacon and other food-stuffs may soon disappear from Canadian households," said Mr. Hanna. The absolute prohibi- tion of some food is the problem of the day in the United States as well as in Canada. The people of Can- ada are willing to go a long way in accepting food restrictions, so that the boys overseas may be supplied." Tey | GENEROUS NORWEGIAN Court for Red Cross. London, Jan. .19.--Christopher Hannovig, a Norwegian of New York, has given $25,000 to the British Red Cross and a similar sum to the French. His brother here bought at a prize court sale the famous yacht Germania for $50,000. 'A guarantee of $50,000 was also deposited that enemy. The brother transferred the Special Department of : GETTING READY ~ FOR NEXT i IR. J. Bushell 1 10 Mike 2 Bigger Ever. A SURPLUS OF FROM _ THE EXHIBITION HELD 'LAST SEPTEMBER. Show Of 1917 Was the Regt in the History of the Associatio Colin Rogers is the 'Newly Elected Presi. dent--Reportd at Annual Meet ing. ~The Board of Directors of the Kingston Industrial Fair Association had god reason to smile at their an- nual meeting held Friday afternoon in the offices of the district agricul- tural representative, as the reports of '| the auditors showed that there was a surplus of $1,327.45 from the ex- hibition of 1917. The report was received with much enthusiasm, and the directors, with their' hustling manager and secre- tary, R. J. Bushell, are at predent on the job boosting the fair for 1918, to make it better rs than ever, J. L. F. Sproule, wifb-ably carried out the duties bf president during the year, stated that the exhibition last vear was the st successful held in the history of the Association. Both Mr. Sproule and Mr. Bushell: were showered with wei deserved praise Yor their 'work, and they in return, praised the work of the directors. That the fair is now on a firm basis, was amply shown. Bigger things are sure to follow for everyone engaged in the work is putting forth all the energy they possibly can to make the { fair a success, Colin Rogers was elected president for the ensuing year and R. J. Bus- hell was again elected manager and secretary. The directors showed a patriotic spirit by voting $50 to the British Red Cross Society and $25 to the General. Hospital and a similar amount to' the Hotel Dieu. . When the meeting opened, the president, J. L. F. Sproule, stated that the exhibition of 1917 had been the mrost successful held én the his- tory of the association. He congrat- ulated himself on having served as president during the past year. He sald suocess. This was all due to the 'manger, Mr. Bushell, and the Board of Directors. , The, surplus was most gratifying and he wished to tender his thanks to Mr, Bushell and the directors for the warm support they had given him. Every department had been a great success. Still great- br things were expected in 1918, and the president jocularly remarked that - Mr. Bushel had the weather "fixed" for 'next fail already. " Financial Report. S34 he claimed no credit for the - Brunn, Linzan and elsewhere, ~The Munich Neuesten Nachrichten openly admits reports of Aastrian Cabinet crises are "well founded." The Archduke Eugene, a Vienna despatch declared to-day, has, been Belleville, 19.---Joseph Cyr and A. U, Michaud have been com- 'mitted for trial here on two serious charges, namely, with assaulting and occasioning grievous bodily harm and robbing George Weaver, shoe men scidiers will realize immediate- ly that they are fighting workmen. As the factories diminish produe- tion, because of the lack of coal, workers are enlisting. Eight thou- accepted only by a defeated country:|yacht to Christopher and the vessel Doth delegations are to consult their}is now inter wor Bi Delaware. A tr ata z 4 new. guardntee was substituted and nvernie nis, and the date of the the former anfount divided xs above. next sitting is not yet fixed. The marshal of the prize court tells During the sittings that preced- here, that the population is compell- ed--to exist almost entirely on the rationed quantities of bread, meal and potatoes. Virtually no vegeta- bles or fruit are reaching. the city and no game-is to be had, owing to The auditors, Charles F, Adair and Walter J. Cooke, presented the fol- lowing report: Receipts--Balance, $209.94; legis- lative grant, $311; municipal grants, the story. $300y membership fees, $149; cash relieved of his command tor "mili-1 tary reasons." } STEADILY MOVING TOWARD A RUPTURE i Rusgpo=-Ge Negotiations es i But Germans Won't Meet Demands. S------ (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Jan, 18.-Both Russian and German despatches indicate that the critical point in Wednesday's ne- gotiations was the disposal of Po- land, Courland and Lithuania. Von Kehlmann announced Germany's willingness to allow these countries to vote in regard to their political wufure, but declined to give an un- dertaking that German troops would evacuate the occupied territory be- fore the vote was taken. The Daily News Petrograd des- patch says: Negotiations are Steadily moving jowarg a Hua rup- ure." No Desire To Sep Separate. 'Quebec, Jan, 18.--No desire to sep- arate from tion was shown on the part. Legislative As- sembly of the rince of Quebec in so far as its 8 have had a utions | year-old vary merchant, of Trenton. Cyr turned King's evidence and told how the affair was planned between them. Both went into Mr. Weaver's store on the pretence of making purchases, when, at a given signal from Mic haud, Cyr struck Mr. Weaver a heavy blow on the head with a large bolt which felled him to the floor. Mie- haud then rifled the till. €yr was caught at the time and Michaud was subsequently arrested. May Head Halifax Commission. 'Winnipeg, Jan. 19--R. D. Waugh, ex-mayor of Winnipeg and commissioner of the Greater Winni- peg 'Water District, has received an invitation 'from Premier Borden to act as chairman of the commission of three to be named by the Gov- ernment to superintend the relief and the re-building of Halifax. Mob Burned Accused Negro, Hazelhurst, Miss, Jan. 19.--A dh of several hundred residents of azelhurst took Sim Edwards, a ne- gro accused of the murder of 17- Willis, from the jail snd burned him to death. Oil was poured on the negro's clothing. by the leaders of the mob, said by court officials to include _the father of the girl. The prefet rate on wheat re- mains unchanged until the 1st June, but new rates are made on other materials. | arin "fuel and threaten a one ( = Russian Ultimatum Sent To | Rumania (Canadian Prose Despateh,) en the Bolsheviki. A mittee of the Ninth Rus- sian army sent Rumania a "two-hour r de i Allies Protect King. piSract, an. 18-4 1 Allies naturally are leaning toward ul | will mdet a manding passage for Rus= || =~ sand of these workeen volunteers will be sent immediately to a point of formation in the interior to join 25,000 similar troops. already de- spatched there. sn The trdops are recruiting to de- fend the Socialist programme on eifh- er the interior of exierior front, Re- cently they assembledin a cavalry rink, where they were addressed by members of the Red Guard staff, whose chief orders were to remem- ber the mandates of Socialism and fight for the Government soviets, The discipline of the volunteers was ex- cellent, Their upturned faces were] full of enthusiasm, } Say They Can Get Peace. The Social Revolulionists of the Centre and Right who control the Constituent Assembly, being in the majority, are making a public cam- paigh for support by trying to con- vince the public they can carry out the ' Bolshevik programme better than the Bolsheviki. They have even adopted = nationalization of banks, and as to peaces they say they can get peace while the Bolsheviki can- not. the beginning of the closed season. forced from seven pounds to { tumbling in a dizzying spiral. While presenting this programine as their only plan of action, the So- cial Revolutionists cannot under. stand why the Allied Goverhments Allied representatives are turning to the Bolsheviki. As the Social Revo- Jutionists are presenting the only fopposition. to the Bolshdviki, the the 'Bolsheviki as the only real pow has to the attitude of the ataer army regarding the Co nt Assembly, [EE ; t He will If it tries to upset the. iat commissioners, it an jrresistible force. War r Tidings. yok after hearing an on the following dav. 'official stateme will not support them: They say the! 2 a the Sasembly. will ml passed : Vermeer army A Bertin despatch says, Russian' J Dress by Trotsky at Brest Litvosk on Wednesday agreed to resame the, Some of the greater Berlin muni- cipalities; it is stated, have been to reduce the potato. ration six pounds. pp THRILLING AIR FIGHTS Unusual Incidents Marked Defeat of German Flyers, Italian Headquarters in Northern | Italy, Jan. 19.--Two air fights were particularly moving Lieut. St. Car- oni, a noted shot, attacked a German machine at 12,000 feet. He crippled the machine at the third shot and put six shots in the head of the avi- ator and seven in the head of the pilot,- the machine and its occupants Later Captain Zobali brought down another muchine, which fell at Foza just within the enemy line. Twenty Italians in the front trench, seeing the fall of the machine, = Sprang across the line and destroyed the aeroplane and captured the aviator and pilet, returning uninjured with their plisoners. ' ¢ A Hit creating a war council of hree civilian members "has been approved by the US. Senate mili- tary committee, . | commission, ed this last stormy debate, Trotsky kept resolutely to the line he has following throughout, 'The Germans protested against the Russian Gove ernments deliberate attempt to use the peace of influencing the internal affairs of Germany, Trotsky replied he would be de- lighted if the Germans would be equally open in showing their own views as to future internal affairs of Russia. He ironically reminded Hoffmant-that he could hardly be ex- pected to agree with him owi to the well-known difference: of opifiien between the parties which so far as Trotsky. was concerned had already been decided in Germany by a court of law. This, of course, was a rTe- ference to the fact that Trotsky is vnder a sentence of eight months' imprisonment by the German auth- orities for a book on the war wh he wrote in German and Publishe In Switzerland. Trotsky His Hard. The Germans asked r a com- Rission to consider the En re- lations. g Trotsky said: "It is useless to discuss _ Buch questions until an r reached on the main points of the political relations, namely, Piand, Lithuania and Courland." The Germans suggested 5 "small commission. Trotsky said that the combined | delegations were themselves such a A very intereaging note on the ¢haracter of the negotiations was sent from 'Bresi-Litovsk by Ra- dek and is published in the official newspapers. 'It points out that the parties to the negotiations are op- posed to edch other, not only by fic- cident of war but by fundamental | opposition of classes. - 'the German diplomats is fo set a fireproof curtain between the Russian revolution "and their own nation, Tt refers to s declaration, "from a sg LA of view you are slronger we, Lat you have to hide the --e of | your policy from' the masses are weaker, but the more light we throw on your. policy the stronger we become.' Thee will be no speakers' dinners with 'the coming session of the legiz- lature. negotiations as a means|" or other festive events in connection'! - WOULD Hh PRIBONERS A Rishi id) 4 New Basis of Exchange Suggested By French Officer. Paris, Jan. 19.-=The proposed ex- change of prisoners between JFrance and Germany brought out a sugges- tion from an army officer who has had charge of prison camps. "You know,' he said, "we feed our prisoners well "and they are strong and hearty. The Boche, on the other Land, is pinching our fel- Jows pretty badly. Most". of the nourishment they get is sént them from France. The only fair way is to eohange these prisoners by weight---- go many hundred pounds of Germans for the same weight in Frenchmen.' ---------------- TOOK BACK HIS LIE. Germah Baron Admits Maligning , British Methods. London, Jan. 19.--Baron von Spie- gel und Zu Peckelsheim, commander of the German submarine U-202, who donations, $524; advance member- ship feds, $95; admission fees to ex- hibiti '$4, 512.05; rent of grounds, stalls, etc., $643; grandstand re- ceipts, $148.50; legislative grant for field crops, $50; entry fees, $314.15; interest, etc, $48.30; subscriptions and advertising per R. J. Bushell, $321; total receipts, $7,625.94. Expenditure--Cash rizes paid py $186; cattle, $380; sheep, $64.25; pigs, $56; poultry, $269.75: dairy products, $82.50; grain and seeds, 336.5 robts and vegetables, $140.25; Fat nad flowers, $45; la- dies work, $135.25; boys and girls exhibit, $17.55; paid up to Dec. 31ste for prizes, ingluding amounts retain- ed -as me whip fees, $1,413.05; field cr competition prizes, $25; meeting lectures for discussion of agrichltural subjects, $208.75; ex- penses of delegates to fairs and ex- hibition convention, $31; for ser- vices of other judges, $48; fruit crop competition" contributed by the tepartment, $50; amount spent for special attractions including athle- tic gports, races and music, $1,281. 80; rent, lighting and fixing up wrote the widely circulated narrative of a voyage of that undersea hoat has been a prisoner in England for some time, it became known to-day. Von Spiegel, who in his book sald he himsef had seen British hospital ships carrying arms dnd munitions, admitted to the British authorities | the kind. 4 3 3 Wily Germans Trapping | Russians . {Cusadien eita Proas Dutpatoh) Jan. 13 ¥he Daily hr Malt despatth from. Petrograd, dated Jhurs- a have hoon y { ei # that he never had seen anything off i) buildings and grounds, $590.07; purchase of grounds" erection of buildings and insurance. $76; ser- vices of secretary, $225; auditors $16; working expenses, lumber, $73.03; labor, $776.65; printing, F8040: livery, $40.50; meals, $286.35; postage, $75; incidentals, $183, 89: grant to poultry tion of city of Kingston, $50; expenditure, $5,298.49, Mr. Bushell also spoke regard the great success of the fair of last {year. te sald that even In the very best days, when the city folk were running the fgir they could not make "such a success of it as their "country cousins." ' "When you wast a thing well done," remarked Mr. Bushell, with a twinkle in his eve." you have to go ito the country." Continuing, Mr. Bushell spoke ot the 'extra expense the association was. put to these days in Funning the big show, as compared to twenty y ago. In the old diys., a drool said, could be purchased for 50 'cents, while to-day one would have to pay 75 cents. The cost of dabor, dr. Bushell did not Toss the portunity of taking a shot st the (Continued on Page 9.) als , he ete., was double, "If it Bad not been -