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QUEEN'S STUDENTS We have just received a special order of Swiss Silk Neckwear, woven in the University colors. Collier's Toggery YEAR 88: NO. 28, 50 FAR ESCAPES BAD EPIDEMIC Widespread Canada Is Not Afflicted With Influenza Scourge CASES OF A MLD TIP EASTERN PROVINCES REPORT NO CASES THERE, -- Extensive Preparations, However, Have Been Made For Combating the Disease Should It Increase. Ottawa, : Feb. 3.~--Reports from . @very province of Canada indicate that there is as yet no widespread epidemic of influenza. The Federal Department of Health, which has been keeping in close touch with tne situation for the past month, state that where cases have developed they are of a comparatively mild type, with few complications. The eastern provinces of Prince Edward Island, . Nova Scotia and New Brunswick re no influenza within their houn- aries. All 'of the eastern section of 4 is aldo free, but ninety-two Cases have been reported in the city of Montreal. In Ontario several centres are af- fected, the disease spreading east from the city of Windsor, and sup- bodly coming from the neighbor- of Chicago. The type is mild . ~ Manitoba has a few cases in various parts of the pro- vince, few of which have developed 'Into pneumonia. Saskatchewan re- ports three deaths and a few cases in Widely separated localities. Some of these cases have been traced directly Po the U.S. Alberta has some scat- tered cases of a mild type, and Bri- tish Columbia reports a number of eases in Victoria and vicinity. Ex- tenatve rations for combating the disease have been made. «far Buch a Tax is Viewed With Alarm by 3 the Paper and Pulp Companios. «© Press Montreal Fob. iat Situation in Canada bas taken on a few phase, according to rumors that come from Ottawa, says the Herald. It 18 said that Sir Henry Drayton, in search for new sources of revenue to take the place of the business tax that is to be removed, has decided to Place a tax of ten dollars on news- print leaving the Domindon, Pulp and paper eco hy the Herald, yo the ompolan: with It 1s stated that ome of the results of the tax would be to all work on many new planta LL in course of cofistruotion in the 'Dominion. These are in many cases 4 built with United States capi- Sir Henry Drayton at noon de- nied the rumor of ten dollars a ton to be imposed on all newsprint _ leaving the Dominion. 'There is no Sueh duty in contemplation," he add- . #top Soa ay D n ¥ an Tess '@ 10! 3 London. Feb. 3.--Bonar La gov- ernment leader of the House of Com- |. mons, has written to the Unionist | candidate in Paisley, where ex-Pre- miler Asquith is running on the Libe- ral ticket, commending him to every _ elector who believes in the national ~ interest that the present government should continue. Oa Presa Toronto, Feb. 3.-- former Noses cruiser New 'that eo : wou Council of Ambassadoors Dis= | | CHIEF BURIED HIS GRANDSON ALIVE The Negro Police of Panama Took the Warrior Into Custody. Panama, Feh. 3 --San Blas In- dians, in a sudden attack on Pan ama police and the residents of a rubber-gathering settlement at Porvenir, about eighty miles tos the east of Colon, killed seventeen per- sons and wounded many others, ac- cording to advices received here. No whites were involved in the .fight. The Panaman Government is fitting out an expedition to sail from Colon to restore order. Reports from Porvenir say the raid was in retaliation for the ar- rest of the San Blas chief, Quilo, last November on the charge of burying his grandson alive. Other | advices declare hostility of the In- | dians to the establishment of a sta- | tion at Povenir under Panaman | rule, sentment against attempts to | force the Indlans to cease wearing nose-rings, and the closing of a school conducted by an African wo- man missionary, figured in causing the attack. i ONTARIO MAY LOSE TWO FEDERAL M.P.'S If Quebec Continues to Gain | on Her in Matter of | Population. Ottawa, Feb. 3.--If Quebe: pro- vince continues to gain on Ontario in | the matter of population, as it is shown to be doing in the Bureau of Statistics estimate of the population of the sister province to March 31, 1919, there will be a reduction in the mumber of members of the Fed- eral House from Ontario after an- other census. Qnebee, with 65 seats in the House of Commons, had on that date an estimated total population } i + KINGSTON, { ONTARIO, MASCOTS OF THE POWHATAN Here is a photo of the crew of the ill-fated Powhatan after they had reached Halifax, The mascots, which helped to cheer the men during their strenuous experiénce on the At- lantic, are seen. The black spaniel, "Nancy" and "Flap per," were on deck nearly ev- black cats, ery day. AID TO THE ARMENIANS "Pershing," and the of 2,326,628. Ontario has but half a million people more, or 2,820,909. ! Quebec's gain would change the unit of representation and bring | Ontario's membership in the Com- | mons down from. 82 as at present, to 80, in the opinion of one Ottawa authority on election matters. WILL NOT MAKE PUBLIC _' "THE EXTRADITION LIST cussing the Allied Response to Holland. |" (CAnkdish 'Press 'Desoaton) Paris, Feb. 3.--The council of am- bageadors have decided that neither the list of persons whose extradition is to be demanded by the allies nor thi ndté fo 'bé addressed ts Germany An this: rd 'will be made public Cound! also discussed the! reply to Holland, regarding the sur- render of Count Hohenzollern, and the terms of the allied résponse will be further taken up at a meeting of the council on Friday. It is not ex- pbeted that a' dedision 'will' be réach- ed on that day as ditterent govern- ment' interests must be consulted. PEACE 1S ESSENTIAL Before Trade Relations Can Be Re- sumed With Russia, (Canadian Presy Despatch) London, Feb. 3.--Peace between Soviet Russia and the Allied powers is the first essential to a resumption of trade relations. Maxim Litvinofr, Bolshevik representative, has told James O'Grady, British delegate, with whom he is negotiating for an ex- change of prisoners, according to a Reuter despatch from Copenhagen. Foreign trade is virtually impossible for Russia at the present time, Lit- vinoff' is sald to have declared, as Russia is compelled to make war | and it 1s necessary to keep the rail- | roads cléar for moving troops and military supplies. TWO MEN KILLED, When Locomotive Struck a Work- men's Hand Car. {Canadian Press Despatch) Quebec, Feb. 3.--~ Two men were killed and two others were injured this morning when a hand car they were operating was struck by a light 'locomotive near Gouin Junction, near Harvey, on the = Transcontinental 0. Following the break in the sterling exchange, the value of Canadian money in the New York market de- clined again. The discount rate was quoted at 13 to 13%. The Montreal waterworks em- ployees, who have been on strike a month, returned to work, ; i -- ------ ---- 'céivel Should help fall they would {from the Department of Labor order- Cardinal Gibbons, the venerable readers of the Whig. In writing from head of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, has issued an ungent call for help for the starving Armenians and others in the Near Bast. These people are depending en- tirely on the assistance they can re- celve from outside. War and perse- tution have left them without the means of helping themselves, it is estimated that the Near East Relief organization has already saved the lives of over 500,000 people, includ- ing 30,000 children; but the need is Very urgént, 'Therd are said to be a million and a half of people in West- ern Asia with nothing between them and starvation but the help they re- lo death. At Alexandve. cytion, 120,000 people wait day end night in a bread line for such scraps of food as can be found for them: 'The saddest feature of «ll"is the number of children thousands of them, without eithér food or clothes. Their fathers, their natural protec- tors, have been either massacred or driven into exile, Without help these children must perish. So serious fs the situation that the Secretary of the United States Treasury estimates the amount which the United States ought to appropriate for relief work in Armenia, Poland and Austria at not less than 125 million dollars. Among the contributions received to-day, were two | from American Brookdale Farm, Baldwinsville, New York, Mrs. Standard Guess says: "We learned from the columns of the Whig that you are receiving con- tributions for the suffering Armen- ians for whomp we have much sym- pathy. We enclose a cheyue for $15 from A. S. Guess, and one from Mrs. A. Melville Bell for $200 for their | relief," splendid response from its readers across the border, The subscription of 8. Hicks, Syd- enham, of $5, on behalf of the fund, was acknowledged in the city edi- tions of the Whig, but the name was i | ar editions go- ing. iL ne SFX. TA's generous : Squmtry, Hie Ape iy ceived on Jan. 28th, and acknowl edged on page 1 of the last edition of that date.' Everyone can help. Previously acknowl- edged . . $1081.60 Mrs. A. Melville Bell, Baldwinsville, N.Y. .. A. 8. Guess, Baldwins- ville, N.Y. . Victor A. Minnes Mrs. T. D. Minmes Mrs. M. VanLuven, Mur- vale . ®alsus inate "Busy Bees Club of Cal vary. church A Friend A. Friend ,... > 200.00 15.00 5.00 5.00 vo 'Beans 5.00 3.63 'ivan 250 es ehawes $2,00 mae ay FERRER RPI R RPP PP +) U. 8. SEEKS AGREEMENT # TO FREE PULPWOOD &|. -- : v # Washington, Feb, 3.--Sdnator + Underwood today introduced a % % resolution requesting President # % Wilson to name a commission 4 4 of five authorized to negotiate % + with the Canadian Government & 4 for cancellation of restrictive # # orders-in-council, which virtual- & 4 ly prevent American lessees of # # Crown lands in Canada from us- & % ing timber for wood pulp to : make newsprint. > + Ahh hhh hia] GIRL IS ADMITTED Erring Aviator and Wife Furnish 000 Bond. $1, oe New York, Feb. 3.--Miss Emily Knowles, an English girl who miet Perley, R. Spiker, of Baltimore, while he was at an aviation training camp in England, was admitted to the United States with her baby, yes- terday, after being detained at Ellis Island while the authorities were considering the plea of Spiker"s wife for permission to adopt the baby and the offer of Guy S. Spiker, brother of the aviator, to marry the girl. A received at the island ed that mother and calld be ad- r three ¥ . DR. HERBERT E. ROAW of Physiology ot ine ae t London. le had a brilliant emis gareer at Toronto University and else- | and feasible was for the I s of The Whig is very gratified at this | OS. LeAENE 0 '| enemy's long-range gun fell, was ex- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 3, 1920 PAISH PICTURES "God ficlp Human Race If Inemational Breakuown Comes fm Exchange. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS MUST RULE TRADE, SAYS BRIT- ISH FINANCIAL ADVISER. League Should Issue Bonds For Fi. nancial International Trade--This Would Tide Over the Present Crisis, Montreal, Feb. 2.--"International credit and exchange is very near a breakdown, and if a breakdown comes, God help the human race." This 'was the concluding sentence of an intensely interesting speech be- CLOOMY OUTLOOK Doubts Whatever on ly British Wh MARS : IS INHABITED or Has No | CERTAINTY German Subjects. London, Feb. 3.--A despatch to the Daily Mail from Berlin dated Thurs day, sald: "There's every reason to believe that Mars and other planets are inhabited," said Prof, Einstein, the -celebrated German astronomer, speaking of the mysterious wireless signals which Marcon! declared had been received from an unknown source simultaneously in London and New York. "Why should the earth be the only planet supporting hu- man life?" he asked. "But if intel- ligent creatures do exist, as we may assume they do, elsewhere in the universe, I should not expect them to 37cA0. ORtamulicate with the earth by Wireless, Light rays would more probably be the first method at- tempted, but, of course, all depends on the degree of development such other world beings have reached, and in the present state of our own tech- nical equipment it is impossible to hope to satisfy ourselves of their ex- istence, go "Personally, I should be inclined to believe that these wireless inter- fore the members of the Canadian | Club at the Windsor hotel, yesterday, | by Sir George Paish, who was the | financial adviser to the British Gov- | ernment during the war. The speech | was a revelation to the members of | the chaos brought about in interna- | tional relations by the excessive pur- | chases made by European nations during the war and the excessive prices which they were compelled to { pay. { Sir George said that at the present {time Europe was in need of all the | food and all the raw material which { this continent could produce, and in | addition needed all the food and raw | materials that could be obtained trom {South America, India, Japan and | Ohina, In fact there was in Europe | a famine of food and raw materials | and coincident with this there was a | famine in international money, the { two combined were producing unbe- | lievable chacs, and if relief were not | speedily tortRooming starvation and anarchy woultl sweep like a plague { over Europe. The only remedy, said Sir George, | which appeared to be practicable { Nations to get into working order at ronce and do for international trade | what the League of Nations had done for the prosecution of the war. He suggested that the league should is- sue bonds for financial international | trade and if these bonds were taken up as they should be by all the na- tions, including the United States, the situation would be braved, for +HOXRLY QOuDLYY. SUDRi Xing wkoads to Furopean nations wou be guaran- teed payment in acceptable interna~ tional securities, ~ "WHISKEY LEAK" OUT OF $4,000,000 CARGO Liner With Wet Goods For Havana Puts Back--Is Being Probed. New York, Feb. 3.--The Black Star liner, Yarmouth, with its $4, 000,000 cargo of whiskey, will be de- tained here while causes of apparent shrinking in the cargo will be inves- tigated by prohibition enforcement authorities, James Shevlin, prohibi-| tion enforcement officer, announced today. The ghip sailed for Havana the day the prohibition amendment went into effect, but put back into New York harbor "for repairs." Prohibition agents, after several days of watching, nabbed several "workmen" conveying sixty bottles of whiskey to share in small boats, and later found fourteen cases of the prized liquor on the upper decks, ap- parently open to easy access. Edward D. Smith, secretary of the line, 4 negro concern, when ques- tioned was unable to tell just what danfage caused the ship to turn back to. port, but he thought it had "sprung a leak," and declared that the captain of the vessel had thrown ruptions are due either to atmos- pheric disturbances or secret experi- ments carried on by some other system of wireless telegraphy." SOLDIERS' LOANS HAVE LIMIT SET Government Announces That Applications Must Be In fore March Ends. Ottawa, Feb. 3.-- In connection with the provision of such loans as may be granted by the department of soldiers' civil re-establishment for the purchase of tools and equipment, or the payment of education] fees, atention is drawn to the fact that there is a limit to the time in 'which applications may be made. The loans are available for those who have satisfactory completed a retraining course with the depart- ment of soldiers' civil re-establish- ment and who require ald for the purchase of tools and equipment In order to start business, and those in- eligible for = vocational training, whose pre-war training or education has been substantially interrupted by war service and who are in need of assistance for the purpose of continu~ ing in such education. Such men requiring aid of this character must make application for loans before March 31st next. * ¢ FACE FOE ALONE. ---- Held Enemy in Check While U.S, Learned Game. Phoenix, "Ariz.,, Feb. 3.--Urging maintenance of a cadet military es- tablishment that would be entirely free from all taint of militarism, but afford a foundation for a great army that might be needed some. time in the future, General Pershing last night in a dinner here described his plan of preparedness. The General advocated a six months' military course for all male students. The time may come, General Pershing sald, when the United States will be called upon to fdce a great enemy and when it will not have a trained army of allies to hold the enemy in dheck, while the Americans learn the game of war. "NEGOTIATE WITH CANADA U. 8. Senator Wants Newsprint Re- strictions Removed. Washington, J#eb. 3---Appointment of a presidential commission to ne- gotiate with the Canadian Govern- ment and with several provincial Governments for the withdrawal of various official orders preventing the exportation of pulpwooed into the U. S. was proposed in a resolution in- troduced to-day by Senator Under wood of Alabama. Should the com- mission be unable to arrange for the rescinding of the orders by mutual agreement it would investigate and report to Congress what further ac- tion should be taken. NAVIGATION LATE, 500 cases of whiskey overboard off the coast of New Jersey when the trouble ocgurred. "Repairs" have been pronounced complete, and ship is scheduled to sall again, AUSTRIAN SPY SHOT Through Paris, Feb. 3.--Lieut. Funck, an Austrian, who, during the war was employed in a bank here, but who acted as a spy and reported to the Germans points at which shells of the eouted this morning. Louis Guagpare, a DY, 'was to bave been ex- ecuted this morning, but at the last moment made revelations to the au- thorities and his execution was post- poned forty-eight hours, Heavy Ico At Soo Points to Delay Cleveland, Feb. 3.--Ice.at the Soo is very heavy, and teams are cross- in over from the American to the Canadian side of the river. In Mud Lake the ice is 26 inches thick, and in the slips at the Soo it is 30 inches thick. There is a large amount of ice in the lower end of Lake Superior, and the ice in Lake Michigan and The ice in the lower Detroit River is solid from bank to bank, and there is no open water in sight in Lake Erle, indications are that the opening will be late, but much will depend on weather tohditions tha latter part of March, Straits of Mackinaw is very heavy. | SPECIAL SALR Of FELT HATS AT $3.50 Collier's Toggery Lase EDITION OPPOSES! TAX ON | CHURCH LANDS (The City Council Rejects a Resolution of Ald. Armstrong. A MOTION TO TAX LADI S WAS HURRIEDLY WITHDRAWN BY ALD. CHOWN After Several Aldermen Had Attacks ed it--Considered Unfair to the Girls Earning Small Weekly Wage. The City Council, on Monday even. Ing, defeated a Fesolution of Ald. Armstrong to petition the Ontario Legislature to permit municipalities to tax all sectarian property. The discussion was brief and the vote re- | sulted : Yeas--Mayor Nickle and Ald. Armstrong, J. B. Angrové, Chown, Cohen, Patterson, Sargent, Twigg. Nays -- Alds. T. B. Angrove, Clow, Couper, Craig, Graham, Kent, O'Connor, Penge, Phillips, Robert son, Smith, Steacy, Stroud, White. The resolution of Ald. Armstrong Was as follows: "That in the opinion of this council all sectarfan property now exempt from taxation should be assessed and made Mable for all municipal taxes, and that a petition be presented to thé Government of the province praying that the Assess ment Act be so amended." Ald. Armstrong declared that British Columbia had tried the plan of taxing sectarian property and thats it was working out well. Ald. Graham claimed that the council should not tax the churches to keep up the city of Kingston. Ald. Twigg declared that big in- stitutions were holding too ' much { Yacant land. Out in Victoria ward | Queen's University aid mot pay taxes | on a lot of property it held. He was {in favor of taxing all church lands. Couper thought that Ald. Armstrong should first submit to council a. statement showing how much land was held by sectarian in- stitutions in Kingston. : Ald. Armstrong sald it was a mat- ter of equalization. Tax sectarian property and the people would know at they were paying. He woul tax { atch' let them Tay the TnL. As RE This ended the discussion and the council put a finish to the resolution with @& fourteen to eight score. Ald. Chown Forced to Cover, Although Ald, Armstrong's sec tarian resolution went dowh to de feat, it secured a better showing than the resolution of Alds. Chown and Clow to ask the Ontario Legislature to per municipalities to levy statute 'labor tax upon women. In the preliminary round, Ald. Chown's motion received such severe jolts that the mover threw up the sponge and announced its withdrawal. i In introducing the motion, AM. Chown stated that Kingston required .to find new means of increasing its revenue without adding to its gen- eral tax rate which now was very higa and was going higher. Ald. Stroud was first to announce his opposition to taxing the women. He claimed thet a girl earning six or seven dollars a week could mot af- dh Jay out five dollars poll tax. "If the g were getting & wage in proportion to that paid the men, 1 nyight support the resolution," said Ald. Pense, "but under present con- ditions I will not rt think 'the council such an iniquitous wi of revenue as levying a tax on women earning a very small rajsing many p " Ald. Steacy thought, did not ask for or want the franchise. He could mot see his way clear to support a tax on women. ! "It we have to resort to the tax. ing of ladies to help run Kingston's (Continued On Page 3) : NEWS IN BULLETIN. The Liberals of East Kent, in con- veution at tie; voted, 54 to 32, not to oppose Hon. Manning Do > -- Eighteen deaths from flu and pren- monia were reported Monday af Windsor, ! Howard Ferguson, speaking in Toronto Monday night, said that the talk of a Unionist pérly was fin- inhed, i The Entente is favorable to { betweon the Poles and the Russian | | Boviet. The offer from Mowi# w be considered by the Warsaw Go The peace treaty will be back fitu the open Cutter Stages Beate next Mouday.