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a TT YEAR 85: NO. 304 A Very Hap WHILE THY, BOLSHEVIST MOK. | ALE 18 VERY LOW. I-------- Canadian and Loyal Russian Troops | } Well Fed and Clothed--The Boi- | shevist Troops Have Poor tions and Clothing. , . (Canadian Press Despatch.) Allied Headquarters ia Northern | Russia, Dec. 30.--Throughout the | month it has been generally quiet | on ail sectors of .the front. Bolshe- | vist forces attempted recently to | raid the Allied line of communica- | tion' in the Shenkursk region, and | there are signs that reinforcements | are reaching the eremy. The mor. #le of the Bolshevists, however, is reported to be extremely low, the enemy's army being imperfectly | clothed for the Arctic winter, in contrast with the Canadian artiliery | far es, as well as the other Allies | and loyal Russians, who are well firred dng blanketed. Ruse, who were prisoners of war in © ny, and who have re- turned through the Bolshevist lines, declare that the rations of the Bol- shevist ¢ . are a C¢onmsiderable quantity of, black bread and three dried herring dally to cach man. The Allied lorces are receiving special winter ratiohs, including a quantity of fats, based on the ex- perience of Sir E. H. Shackleton, Antaretie explorer. The morale of the men is high, and, though anxi- ously awaiting, a, definite statement from the Allied ®s to the policy to be pursued toward Russia, they are reconciled to remaining during the winter in the Arctic. § en aa vl Press 1 toh.) Pride oe Th Ped eral and local authorities to-day were Investigating a series of bonib explosions which wrecked the of Justice Robert von skkér, of the State Su- preme Count, Acting' Superin- , tondent of Police Mills and Ernest T. Trigs. president of the Philadelphia Chamber of Com- merce, at midnight. Although the occupants of the houses were hurled from their beds and scores of win- dows in medrby houses were shuttered, no one was seriously hurt. One man was arrested. The man taken into custody gave his name as John Lafferty. He" denfed any conmection with the affair, but was held for fur- { i i } pamphlets. Many of tite pamph- lots, which were stmtiered over the street Jw front of the wrecked houses denounced or- ganized law and order. Fearing that dttempts would be "made 40 blow. up other build- ings, special details of police guarded the residences of oth- er hi it citizens through- out dhe might. Extra guards also thrown around the fed- 1will persist in {minstor, Ra- | A MANDATE FOR "A DRASTIC PEACE Eigetify Results Show People Regardirg Germany. LABOR CABINET MINSTER NOT ® REGRETS LABOR DID FIGHT THE BOLSHEVIKS, ° ------ They Lost a Creat Polls Have Greatly Strengtheacd the Hands «* the Delegates to ihe Conference. . "London, Dec. 81. ~The remark. able result of the elections clearly indicates the general defnand for peace terms of A drastic nature. Practically alli candidates suspected of moderate tetdencies were over- whelmed. While patriotic Laborites: generally were elected moxtremists, Socialists and pacifists were © ro- ected © almost everywhere The Laborite cabinet minister, Geo. M. Barnes, who beat his Bolshevist op- vonent in Glasgow by mere than three votes to one, after the declara- tion of the result said: "it seems the country has tar against everyone who bas whole-heartedlx supported thief The Labor party has Jost a great chance. "I labor leaders had fought the Bolsheviks of the country; they would have had a large number of seats to their credit. Instead, they fave been half-hearted in the war, and truckled to the Bolsheviks." Jt is significant that the big working class f constituencies in, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchegter, Birmingham and" Sheifield declined to elect Laborites. and also that Laborites of ungobtea lofalty, pa- triotism and sanity, like Ben Tillet, Will Crooks; -the miners' leader; Stanton, the pensions minister; je, the food controller; Will Thorne and Clynes, were returned unoppose't or with bjg majorities. "It is understood the Sinn Feipners their determination fo abstain from attendance at. West- The limited success of the Laborites offers. them no temptation to ept the invitation to form an 0 fon Coalition with Labor . The result is surprising not oaly ~ x the number of seats secured - by he Coalition, but by he enormous size of the majorities, wiggesting theiiad the hauls of to the Poacg Confer- py NADIAN TROOPS Tower of British Chance-The £ wind ENTERING MONS THE i Marching past General He "NO TRUCK OR TRADE WITH THE CATHOLICS." We haope that the citizens of King- will not be Influenced the above cry in making their choice in the matter of the mayoralty candi ! date Let us urge the voters to judge the two men by their public! records and mot be influenced by the religions ery. If voter believes that Ald. Newman Is the better can- | didate, by all means let him vote for | Newman, Sut Nf he believes that i ston hy a Aid. O'Connar is better fitted for the office, then let him pay no heed to the cry of intolerance | { Roman Catholic mayors, viz: Bach of these men filled the chair nether city We esnnot remember a ligion: Bach of these gentlemen gave faithful and devoted service to the interests of the city. j » Once again a Roman Catholic is in; the field for municipal honors. Let us show that the City of Kingston is ugh to vote for the better man re: gardless of religion or polities. | On his general record the Whig supports O'Connor, 42 SUGGEST A COMMISSION { To Epanire Into International Con- hey ditions of Employment. tL (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Dee, 31. The British War Cabinet is considering .a proposal which may have an important bearing on the future labor questions throughout the world, according to the Express. The proposal is to ask the peace conference at ope of fts earbest sesstons to appoint a com- mission to inquire into the question of an intérnational adjustment of conditions of employment and to submit plans for a permanent inter- natiofia] Court and oranization to secure joint action in such matters. German M Looting Frank{ort." London, . 3l.----Pillaging on a large scale is being carried on hy mobs in Frankfort, Germany, and the authorities are powerless to pre- vert M. according to a Central News despatch from. Amsterdam. fn the city 'refused to- fise on the rioters, - 'NEWS BOYS NTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEN i Kingston in the past has had three i br.! H Sullivan, Dr. Ryan and T. #. Rigney., with eredit to himself and with hones § single occasion on which any aet of i theirs was criticized because of re-| J broad enough and liberal-minded en-f- dedicated to the memory of the tate | er of H. V. Mackinnon, manager of {desired if their desires were «Troops giounces Bolshevism, 1 p-- AND NEW YEAR'S PAGES 18 Lr 1918, -> BER 31, Year to All DAY AFTER THEY CAPTURED IT. Feneithe Army Commander. HER HUSBAND NOT FRANCE AND U.S. ARE AT VARIANGE Their Plans With Regard 10 Peace Diff | in Hechod ATE PRIVER NORMAN WILSON IS NOW / REPORTED ALIVE. He Was Officially ' Reported Killed in Action----His Widow Was Paid + Insurance and Pension Money. OF "THE FRENCH i | PLAN DESIRED BY THEM UP TO { THE PRESENT. It is Distinctly Not tie American Plan as Desired | by . President Wilson and His Asbociates, davis, Dec. 31.---Whatever dis- | agreements or harmonies may -de- velop later on ir settling the main points of the peace negotiations there is a ragieul différende of opinion now as to the best way of approach and the best sequence in {which several problems may be tak- ; . len up. The difference may be most +Y DRIVER NORMAN WILSON --™ | Mrs. Luey Wilson, of Fifth street, ©/°7ly stated in this form: who received official notifieation in| "Shall the League of Nations be October that her husband, Driver considered a cardinal matter and Norman Wilson, had been killed Inlamone the first things to be settled, action, has now been notified that he Fahd Atha. ta is alive; that he was wounded, taken|®" & SOT of After thought to he dis- prisoner and is now repatriated. Mrs [cussed after G/ rinany and her form Allies have been compelled to the peace treaty, in the for- of vhich they will have Wilson last month received the in. er surance carried by her husband and| invested it in Victory bonds. She is} also in receipt of a pension. Raocent-! i >is ly she received a letter from a cham no participation?" of her Wusband saying he had been! 'America and France at the pre with Driver Wilson, and now she haa ent moment represent the oppo- been officially notified that the an. Site ends of that question, and nouncement of hor husband's 'death there is interesting speculation as was a mistake. ' Mys. Wilson is at{to how England Bnd Italy wii line present in the General Hospital seri. UD. ously ill of pneumonia. but may re-| The first cover. She has two children. ithe French idea as 10 the best ai {chronology of the peace proceed. jings. It begins with the determina- Dedicate Window, {tion by the Four, America, Bris Charlottetown, PEI. Dee. 31. tain, France 'and Italy, acting by In St. 'James' Presbyterian charch a [themselves, as to what the principal magnificent memorial window was peace terms nrust be. Next, the smaller belligerent as- tions were to have the opportunity to put into these terms what they not jcontrary to the wishes of the 'Big 'Four. - Third, the finished peace treaty; The new German Government de- providing, among other things, the {new restricled boundaries 'for. Ger- many, was to be submitted to Ger: many to sigh or reject without the right to modify. . Then the same ==) Measures were to be taken with the | sirning By Bulgaria, Turkey and pl Austria-Hungary. That would end the peace confer- (ence proper. After that would come the general congress of nations for ithe discussion of the League of Na- tions. : . That is the 'plan as de by mo- ithe French' up to the 'p ment. : ts Ta | Bt is distinctly not the American plan, as desired by Presiden Wile Son" and "his associates. The Ameri> lean plan 5 practicdlly fo reverse the French scheme, <a ed i sign mulation of last week I cabled Alex. Mackinnon and to his wite, | who survive high. He was the fath- the St. John, N/B., Standard. The British parliament will meet January 21st. a * Whig mi bo seer initio eve cr &- LAST EDITION COAST TO COAST - SUNSET AIRWAY Advisory Committee on Aero- nautics Maps Out Can~ adian Air. Ottawa, Deo. 31.--Some weeks ago an Advisory Committee on Aeronau- tics was appointed by the Govern- ment at the instance of organizations propagating aerial navigation. proposed aerial routes have just been approved. One of them---the Cana- dian link in the All-Read focute-- will run' from St. John's Nfid., to Vancouver, stopping at all the prin- cipal cities. The sunset airway will be the s<oond great high road of the Canadian air, Starting at St. John's Nfid., it will touch Sydney, Halifax, St, John's, N.B., Fredericton, Monc- ton, Riviere du Loup, Quebec, Three Rivers, Montreal, Cornwall, Prescott, Brockville, Kingston, Belleville, To- ronto, Camp Borden, Owen Sound, Port Arthur, Winnipeg, and so on to the coast, : Subsidiary roytes are proposed trom Toronto to Central Ontario and across to the United States, and frop Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. Ed- monton to the Peace River, and Vancouver to the Yukon. Halifax will be a 40-hour flight from Van- Couver, hile Winnipeg and Montreal will be a bare 16 hours apart, MINE-SWEEPERS BUSY. Under Armistice Terms They Clear Explosives, London, Dec. 30. British mine- fweepers will have their hands full for some time in carrving out clause 24 of the armistice, which provides that the associated governments shall have the right to sweep up all minefields and Obstructions laid by Germany outside German ferriterial waters, the positions of which are to be indicated by the Germans. «Throughout the war these mine. sweepers have been doing, silently and fearlessly, a notable work. When the will Two! war began the British navy | MONEY ASPECT OF PEACE PLANS (The Inter-Allied-Financial Society the Keenest Interest. ne GERMAN ABILITY TO PAY [ONE OF THE . DIFFICULTIES { THAT 18 FORESEEN, The Allies' War Expenses Were 424,000,000,000 Francs, and. the Lentral Powers 870,000,000,000, Paris, "Dec. 31.-The financial as- pect of the settlement of the war problems has been uppermost in the minds of those concerned in Paris during - the past few days. | This is regarded not only by the [American delegates to the confer jence, but by the representatives of ithe. Allies, who have arrived here, las one of the foremost' problems re- lquiring settlcoient. | The debates in the Senate on. the renewal of the chmrter of the Bank fof France, and in the Chamber on {the provisional military appropria- {tions, have disclosed lively interest {by both Yanstors and Deputies in [the proposed organization of the |inter-Alied findncial society . "for ithe liguidation of the combined war {debt of the Allies." The Socialists, who are taking a prominent part in the discussion, {appear to prefer the title "financial {society of nations," which , would not preclude the eventual entry ot had only a small fleet of sweepers, enemy powers into the association, but the mine-laying operations of the They suggest that the members of Allies made imperative the employ-ithe Germanic ment of a much larger number of! vessels. As fast as possible, small] araft of various kinds were phat into service. Ardbund the British Isles alone about 700 vessels have been, used, } Each month the mine-sweepers have combed 46,000 miles of water. To do this they steamed a total of TA132,000 miles. : In 1816, 21,000 mies were re- moved, with a loss of B1 mine-sweep- ors. In 1917, 43,000 mines were, swept up and 89 mine-sweepers were lost. * In 1918, up to the end of Sep- tember, 1,400 mines were swept up and 19 minesweepers lost. } APPLES FOR ENGLAND, Delayed Cargo From Canada in Time For Christmas, London, Dec. 31.--Not the least of .London's Christmas favors this year wa: owed to Canada in the shape of a supply of fine apples, which for months have been scarce and at prohibitive prices. On Christ- mas eve a long-promised cargo! reached Covent Garden and sold in coord time. Later the guenes at suburban fruit shops showed that the delicious ninepenny fruit had been widely distributed. To Save Kaiser's Life. Bérlin, Dec. 31.--A "leaugue for the protection of the personal lib erty and life of the Kaiser" has been formed, and will issue an appeal to the former advisers of the ex-Emper- or, as well as diplomats with whom he was associated, to submit all possible documents to prove the Empéror's innocence of the outbreak of the war, Prince Henry of Prussia. who was proposed for President of the league suggested Von Hindenburg for the! post. 4 . League Is Formed. Berlin, Dee. 31.--A "league for the protection of the personal liberty and life of the Kaiser," has been formed and will issue an appeal to the for- mer advisers of the ex-Emperor as well as with diplomats with whom he was associated to submit all pos- sible documents of the outbreak of Prince Henry of Prussia, who was proposed for president of the longue, suggested von Hindenburg for the post. } mtn i "Estate Much Reducéd. New York, Dec. 31.---George (. Boldt, well known in Northern New, York as the former owner of the Boldt mansion in tlie Thousand Is- lands, and proprietor of the Waldort- Astoria, left an éstaie much smaller than was supposed, and thal because coalition might be called upon proportionately to the Gther powers, to pay their share in' round numbers, QGerMany, 6, 500,000,000000 francs anpually; Austria, 5,000,000,000;: Turkey, 2. 000,000,000; Bulgaria, 500,000, 000 francs In addition to she inter- est on whatever sum the Peace Congresss may demend' as indem: nity. for. sa ages, which same have put st several hundred. billion francs. Deputy Jacques Stern, author of the proposition of an inter-Allfed financial society, In the Chamber yesterday estimated the total sum to be demanded from Germany and her Allies as indemnity at 470,000 000,000 frances. German Ability to Pay. The 'principal difficulties antict- pated are in finding a working basis for such a society, snd in Ger- many's ability to bear such an im- mense burden, 'M. Stern and other members take the successful organi- zation of an international commis- sion to manage the Turkish public debt as a precedent, indicating the possibility of overcoming all aiffi- culties or organization, while in ranswer to the doubts as to whether Germany is able to pay a large in- demnity, they cite the estimates of the resources of the German em- rire made by Dr. Karl Helfferich, secretary cf the German treasury, before the war. Nn They contend thet §t will be the duty of the peace delegates to ron sider what resources may be found for the payment of the indemnity, and point to the tem fo. twelve bil- lion marks that ifferich esti- mated was the annual savings of Germany from her forty billion marks annual earnings. The project as now seeks to have the United jes pay in ithe same proportion as the nations with which it Is Ossoclated, not- withstanding that Ms participation in the war was much shorter. This has met with considerable ob tion, 3 WILL SET UP COUNCIL Victory In Election Moves Them to Declare Irish Parliament, London, Dec. 30.--Posters will appear in every parish in Ireland an- nouticing that the Trish republic has come into being, says the Express. 'The newspaper adds that the Sinn Feiners in the recent election swept Seventy members of were elect of iossed in the condact of the Wal- BTL a " 10 Dlice; Sealy mo dort-Astoria in the threa.years before his death, the business had no good- il Salus. The Thousand Island i were only worth $232,790, from Leincester, Munster and Connaught. Parliament 4 f Readers