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COMPARE OUR PRICES . AND CLOTHS So we ean secure your Spring Suit order. | Collier's Toggery The Daily British W COMPARE OUR PRICES AND CLOTHS Soe we oan secure r Spring Suit order. Collier's. Toggery - YEAR 87: NO, 67, KINGSTON. ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1920, fa i LAST EDITION * DECIDE POL ABOUT L008 Thc Ontario Alliance Holds Its Ananal Convestion in Toronts. THE NOWENTOLS QUESTOR Is REGARDING A DEMAND FOR A REFERENDUM, To Decide About the Importation of Liquor Into This Province--=Ses- sions Begun on Tuesday. (Canadian Press Despatoh) Toronto, March 8.---Concurrently with the opening of the first session of the Farmer-Labor legislature of Ontario here this week, the Ontario branch of the Dominion AlMance will hold its anmual convention and de- cide its policy for demands on the Ontario legislature and the Dominion parliament. : Many of the delegates to the Al- lance convention are in the city to-day atending the preliminaries to the main gessions which will com- mence to-motrow. This convention will decide the important question as to whether or not the prohibition forces will ask the Ontario legislature to bring on a vote in Ontario regard- 18g the importation of liquors, and will also deal with the question of amendments to rengthen the On- tario Temperance Act. CAPTAIN SUSPENDED For Not Taking Soundings or Verify- ing His Bearings. (Canadian Press Despatch) Halifax, March 8.--Capt. BErmest Chiscoe's certificate was suspended for three months and the second of- ficer, Samuel Blackmore, was censur- ed for the loss of the Leland linér Bohemian on Sambre ledge when the court of enquiry read its findings at noon today. The court suspended the captain because he did not make sure of his position and did not take any soundings or verify his bearings. The second officer was. censured for not suggesting to the captain the ne- pessity of verifying the ship's posi- tion. PRO' poNST ATTACK OF NOE ; teh London, March General Maurice Nollet, head: of the French military mission in Ber- lin, has demanded an immediate audience with Foreign Minister Mureller to protest against the attack on a French party at Hotel Adlon, on Saturday night, by Prince Joachim Albrecht, of Prussia, and his friends, says a despatch to the Mail from Ber- lin to-day. ~ LOTS OF DRIFTING ICE. Laks Not Frozen Over in Spite of - + Severe Cold. 5 'Watertown, N.Y., March 8.--As a recorder of the severest winters, Lake Ontario does not credit that of 1819-1920 with the most continued cold. While jce in bays and rivers has attained good depths and is of especially fine quality, the zero tem- 5 peratures have not left any remark- able impression upon the lake itself. \ Open water lingers a little ways from the Galloup Islands, extending to a few miles the Canadian shore. In this open space a consider- able ice field drifts, carried from side to side by the wind. With a west "gale it piles up along the ice pack beyond the Galloups, and then re- sidents of that outpost can see only fee to the horizon. A shift of wind carries it out again, and the blue lake appears. A few years ago Lake Ontario froze ehtirely across. Cracked Skull To Save Soul. Hamilton, March 8.--Thomas So- lomaa believes in heroic methods when his friends' interests are at stake. For instance, in the bowling alley where he is employed, George Casey worked. Casey had a fondness for dope. Argument not availing, So- loman wal is friend over the © head with Hh, tied him to a fable and con ted the needles and kop. He took the outlit to the police * station and told a detective the story. Casey was found, securely tied,' and with a fractured skull. The police sent him to the hospital, from which he cscaped. Soloman wah given his liberty after spending three weeks in New York Vice New York, March 8.---Revelations 'of organized vice In this city, show- ing a systepmatic collusion between policemen d various women un- 'paralleled since the days of the Le- Xow inquiry, are predicted by Assist- 'ant District Attorney, James E. ith. : _ (Canadfa Balise Dee teh) n i ¢! New York, March §--- Preliminary potations on the pound sterling to- a. 'were $3.55, or five cents below Saturday's close. The Canadian dol- _ lar declined in sympathy, the dis- count rate being quoted at 123% per cent, : Glens 'Falls, N. freight train, running at high speed througit the fog near Chazy yester- Sar struck a sleigh and smashed se- ral thousand dollars worth of Smug. driver escaped, .gled whiskey, t kept on running. March 8.--A | Allies and Turks Have a Clash ons (Canadian Press Despatch) London, March 8.--Al- lied and Turkish forces have clashed in Constan- tinople, officials messages to-day state. Martial law has been declared. The m&ssage said that 20,000 British, French and Ital- ian troops made an exten- sive military. demonstra- tion. The Turks resisted and fighting followed. No details of casualtie$ were given. ? | MOST OF COMPLAINTS i FOUND GROUNDLESS Report on the Enquiry Into Conditions at the Ham= fiton Asylum. (Canadian Press Despatch) Toronto, March 8.---After an ex- haustive enquiry into the charges regarding conditions at the insane {asylum at Hamilton, Judge Colin Snider has submitted a report which states that while in isolated cases patients in the hospital were treated with violence, on the whole discip- line among the attendants was satis- factory, Complaints regarding food. he said, were groundless. The report recommends, however, that all patients claiming with any show of reason to be sane should re- ceive the right of examination by an expert, and returned soldiers suffer- ing from nervous disturbances should not be sent to an asylum while theru is any chance 'of their recovering. Further, non-criminal - patients should be separated entirely from the criminal cases, MARISS TO BE HELD BY THE FRENCH TROOPS The French Suffered Heavy Losses in a Recent Disorder. Paris, March 8.--The Turkish gov- ernment has agreed with the French { anthorities that Mariss should be re- j occupied by French troops, according to a Constantinople despatch to the Temps newspaper. Information has been received in Paris to the effect that a- calm seems to have been re- established in Cilicia. The French losses to Feb: 15th, including the period during which disorders occurred at Mariss, were 158 killed and nearly 200 missing, according to the Temps. : The losses of French regulars and native troops are included. | FRENCH BANK TO LOAN PLAN. Government Refuses Assent to . Scheme Evolved. Paris, March 8.--France has neither signed nor approved tie de- claration regarding the economic situation of Europe which the Allied Supreme Council has proposed to make, it was declared here. 3 The Allied' declaration proposed that a loan be made to Germany guar- anteed by German assets in priority to reparations payments, the loan payments to be controlled by neutral commissions, BODIES STACKED AT EVERY STATION British C®cers Tell of Ex- periences West of Irkutsk. .. London, March 8.--A party of British officers arriving at Harbin from Omsk and Chita declare that their experiences west of Irkutsk exceeded all other previous hor- rors, says the Londen Times' Har- bin (Mauchuria) correspondent in a communication dated Feb. 19th. "Plles of naked, frozen bodies of men, women and children, were stacked at every station," the cor- respondent quotes the offfcers as saying. "The Czechs took the en- Eines from the hospital trains, leav- ing the sick to perish from cold and hunger." \ ---------------------- BRITAIN WILL NOT SELL Any Part of West Indies to United States. {Canadian Preaza Despatch) London, March 8.--Premier Lloyd George, replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day regarding the suggestion that the West Indies be transferred to the United States in payment of part of the British debt, stated there was not the slight. est intention on the part of the gov- ernment to barter or sell any part of the British West Indies. Teachers to Ask $1,000. ¢ Ogdensburg, N.Y., March 8.--The teachers of the city schools who are normal graduates will circulate a petition, demanding of the Board of Education that their salaries for the coming school year be not less than $1,000, "it is learmed. Contracts which are to be sent out by the board cover an average salary of abour $820 In conformity with the new state law. y ' To State His Positie (Canadian Press Despatch) Washington, Mzioh 8. --President Wilson will state his position on the Lodge reservation to article 10 of the peace treaty probably to-day, it Was announced at the White House. His attitude will be outlined to Senator Hitchcock, administration leader. Kiel to Construct Free Port. Berlin, March 8.--The City of Kiel, no longer a naval base, is planning construction of a free port on the Wiker Bay, north of the mainland, inking the town of Hamburg as a pat- == RED ATT The Pols so Are Under Atak of | Boisevi. FINNS REPULSE THE ATTACK OF THE FR REPORTED * TO HAVE PIERCED THE ENEMY'S LINES Red Detachments Just East of the Westward Against Polish Lines. (Canadian Press Tespatcn, fet forces have launched western and northern fronts accord- ing to advices received here. Both,=it is said have been repulsed and the the lines. The Polish units' lines running through * Pripet marshes soath of Bodruisk, are said to have been un- der attack, at two points, the Soviet army advancing on north and south sides of the marshes. Heavy Red de- tachments were recently reported to have assembled at Gompel, just east of the Pripet country and it is pro- bable these have been "hurled west- ward against the Polish lines. THE WORLD'S TIDINGS IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From All Over Told In a Pointed and Pithy Way. W. J. Jones, for many years a bank manager at Bowmaasville, died of heart trouble. 5 Dr. Henry De Man, eminent Bel. gian Labor leader, predicts the early death of Bolshevism. The smallpox quarantine on the province of Ontario will be lifted, effective midnight Monday. Louis Private, Williamstord, neas Owen Sound, died after being ill from sleeping sickness for a month. The Swedish cabinet has resigred, and it is believed the king will Mek ths Socialist leader to form a4 minis- ry. Morris Rappaport, a Windsor butcher and grocer, was shot dead by an unknown man on Saturday night. ; Bela Kun is still in custody 4 A short time ago-an & made by the Hungarian officers to re- lease him was foiled. Inspector-General Sir Arthur Cu:- rie told the Toronto Globe 'that it Was possible that the 110th Regi- ment might be continued. It is understood that the Unionist caucus will not be held until Thurs day. On that day the senate will adjourn until after Easter. Hon. Frank B. Carvell, chairman of the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners, intimated that increase in commutation rates might be favorably considered. Col. the Hon. D. Carmichael, min- ister without portfolio, has been ap- pointed chairman of the Soldiers' Aid Commission, replacing Hon. W. D. Macpherson, The Paris-Bucharest train over the Simplon route has not put in an ap- pearance at Szegdin for five days. The delay is attributed to Croatian- Serb disorders at Agram, George Lonsbury wirelesses from Moscow to the London Daily Herald, of which he is the editor, that he has seen' Prince Kropotkin, who has been repeatedly reported dead. Bishop Michael PF. Power, of St. George's, Newfoundland, died at Sydney, N.S., of pneumonia, follow- ing asthma' and bro age of forty-three. AS] TO SEND REINFORCEMENTS So That French May Protect the Ar menians, (Canadian Press Despatch) Londen, March 8.--Lloyd George announced. in the Commons to-day that prompt measures had been tak- en by the French Government to send reinforcements to General Gouraud, commander-in-chief of the French forces in the east, for the purpose of re-establishing his posi- tion and preventing further attacks on Armenia. Wold Be nadian Press Despatch) London, March 8 --Freight rates cn ocean shipping from England would be increased at least fifty per cent by the movement now in pro- gress says the Times, in order to inact the high cost of bunker coal ere. . KS) Pripet Country Likely Hurled | London, March 8.--Russian Sov-| attacks | against the Poles and Finns, on the] Finns are reported to have launched | a counter attack which has pierced | + in » at § (ESI DL $1 1% Foster, wife | two children & | + | FEPPPPEPR PII P PIRES PPD ani nchitls, at the Tin | DRUNKENNESS IS NO EXCUSE FOR CRIME The British House of Lords Reverses Decision of the Appeal Court. i | London, March 8.--The House of {| Lords ruled that drunkenness is not an excuse for crime, by ordering that conviction for murder be restored in | the. case of Arthur Beard, who was condemned to death for murdering a thirteen-year-old girl in Chester, 'thus reversing the decision of the Criminal Court of Appeal, whith re- duced the crime to menslawghter. | Beard, while under the influence {of drink, strangled the little girl, and @& plea of drunkenness was put in {during his trial. It is understood i that the death sentence will not be carried out, | HON. DR. CODY SIN FEINERS. REALE DEFEAT And De Valera is Thersfore Seeking 2 Gompromise. MUORITY OF THE IRISH DO NOT DESIRE 'INDEPEN- DENCE, SAYS P. W. WILSON. # i London Correspondent in Lecture at | New York Says the Home Rule Bill Does Not Divide Ireland. New York, Marth 8. dressing the Canadian Club here Saturday on i the Irish question, Philip Whitewell | Wilson, special correspondent of the ] London Daily News, and formerly a | member of the British headquarters | Staff, stated that under the Lloyd | George bill, now before parliament, | Ireland would receive as a gift, the | entire capital value of the land pur- | chase scheme, amounting to half a | billion dollars, or"$100 for every | man, woman and child in the coun- | try. | Mr. Wilson declared the. bill did | not divide Ireland. It followed the | colonial precedent exactly, he said. | In Canada, each province joined the | Dominion of its own consent. The | same arrangement was successful in | bringing Natal into the South African | union and Ney South Wales into the | commonwealth of Australia. While | Ulster was given a separate parlla- | Who, it is stated, will resign his seat In the legislature and retire from poli- tical life. i | | } i LEAVES $500,000 ESTATE. {Lumber Merchant Made Bequests to | Several Hospitals. . | London, March 8.--Robert Mont- gomery Cox, Ottawa timber merch- ant, left an estate in England of nearly one hundred and forty thou- sand pounds sterling ($500,000). A legacy of twenty thousand pounds ($80,000) was left to his widow, ten thousand ($40,000) to his partner, and several anauities to other mem- bers of the family. The residue goes to Lady Grey and to St. Luke's Hos- pital in Ottawa, and to Bootle Hos- pital in Langashire. | 4 + A TORONTO. FAMILY # . . BURNED TO DEATH. oF me 4 % were burned to death yestarday + '# by an explosion of gasoline in # #® their home. The house was al- $ % 80 destroyed by fire. * PRIESTS RECEIVE ESTATE. Winnipeg Woman Fails to Upset $100,000 Will of Father, Winnipeg, Man., March 8.--J. A. Senecal, tractor, left his estate of $100,000 to seven priests of the diocese, and. his daughter, Madame Cusson, has failed in the courts to upset the will. This Sa DANG Just unoonventio received is the latest taken of D'An- Jussi. while at mess with hig troops ume. : A movement for Govern- ment agencies in New York for séil- ing whiskey on prescription has been started. Druggists are charging twelve dollars a piat for poor liquor. A new species of animal, the cat- talo, has been obtained by crossing Canadians will be interested in the following cable concerning condi- tions in Russia-Armenja: ° : From Haskell, Feb. 28th, through | thousand Turkish Armenian refugees are still remaining in Russian Ar menia, unable to return to their homes in Eastern Turkey. This most important Armenian question cannot | be solved until peace conference ac tion provides a basis for repatriation plans which must include feeding en routs, also guarantee of land, tarnishing seed for planting, farming implements sufficient until the har. vest in about months, medical care and most of all protection against Turks and Kurds. These ADD TO THE ARMENIANS Paris.--"Over two hundred and fifty) - 4 refugees are destitute. Undisciplin- ed after years of ®imléss existences start by April,lst to permit their arrival in Turkey to plant fields by May Ist. Otherwise necessary feed sckngw- lodged ... ......$1973.48 Samuel Greer ........ 25.00 AERA SL Ten See | bring about if mischief {again, but will devote the remainder vada. ment, England 'would welcome the | union of Ireland, which time would | -makers would | {only take a holiday. | Mr. Wilson said that it was utterly | untrue that the majority of Irishmen | lesired independence. In Ulster, the | 'people were almost unanimous? against such a solution, and Ulster | was the industrial brain of the whole | country. { The recent municipal elections had | shown that the Sinn Fein, under pro- portional representation) could poll less than half the votes, and this left DeValera in a difficult position as he knew his entire program could never be carried out.' He was, therefore, seeking a compromise, which was dis- pleasing to those of his followérs who only wished to use the Irish question for ulterior motives and who had no idea of welcoming a settlement which would in fact, "deprive many of them of their occupations as agitators." DeValera had weakened his influence "that he wanted Germany. g io 2 paid Mr. Wilton, "wonld have meant the hu- miliation, not of England merely, but of Canada and the United States; it would have subjected Catholic Bel- glum to intolerable insults for all time, and would have meant that 'numberless Irish soldiers would have died in vain for liberty." WON'T MARRY AGAIN SAYS MARY PICKFORD Praises ex-Husband -- Moore Charming and Genial, But Pair Not Congenjal. Los Angeles, Calit., March '8. -- Mary Pickford will never marry of her life to motion pictures, ac: cording to an interview she gave here last night to the Los Angeles Times. This was the first statement she had made to the press since she was granted a divorcee - from Owen Moore on: Tuesday at Minden, Ne- "I sought for a divorce because I wanted to be free," she said. 'Mr. Moore is a charming man and most genial--but there are many instances ' where even two genial persons cannot agree." "Some people think my divorce was secured to permit me to marry again," she continued. This is not 80. I merely wanted to be free. Mr. ore and I have been separated for th years, and I had wanted a di- vorce, but it was simply to avoid such a situation as I have found my- self in to-day, that I put it off so long." | MOWAT OR LINDSAY ONT Ottawa, March 8.--The vacancy in the supreme bench of Ontario created by the death of Chief Justice Falcon- bridge, it is believed here, will be filled by the appointment of either G. G. 8. Lindsay, K. C., + Mrs, C. G. Fox, Picton... 1.00 bo. Chait . Ae THE DIAMOND QUEEN "TAKES HER OWN LIFE Police Were About to Arrest Her on Charge of Swindling. New - York, March 8.--Annette Bonner, who became widely known in 1914 as the "Queen of Diamonds' through haying ben charged together with Joseph Kilsinger, with swin- dling jewelers of Maiden Lane but of jewelry valued at thousands, defied the police to take her alive when they Sought (to arrest her on a fresh swindling charge. The "Queen of Diamonds" was in the office of Kil- singer, who also was fncluded in the rharge, when detectives tried to ar- rest her. "You'll never take me alive," she exclaimed, Her hand flashed from her hand- bag to her mouth and she smiled\de- flantly as she swalowed a dose)\of poison. She died a little later in the Volunteer Hospital. "In the handbag the police later found uncut diamonds valued at $50,000 and several thousand dol- lars in cash. ; i RUSSIANS BOYCOTT JANIN. For Signing Order Delivering * Ad- miral Kolchak to the Reds. London, March 8.--- Major-General Jules Janin, commander of the Czecho-Slovak army .in Russia, says the Times' Chita correspondent, has been boycotted by all the Russians for signing the order delivering up Admiral Kolchak to the Reds. - The correspondent adds that Janin jus- tified his act on the ground that.the Reds threatened to tear up the rails it Kolghak was not surrendered, and that the death of one man was pre- ferable to the stoppage of the evacu- ation of the Allied troops. WOULD SAVE JAPS FROM FLU But Port Arthur Lady Asks $300,000 for Secret. Vancouver, B.C., March 8.--For a mere $300,000 a Port Arthur lady is willing to save Japan from the rava- ges of the "flu" epidemic. In a letter to the Japanese Consul she highly lauds her discovery, a simple and harmless remedy. which . will be. re- vealed on payment of $300,000 cash. Living up to the traditions of polite- ness of his race, the Consul has sent the Port Arthur lady an extremely nice letter--but no money. FARMERS HONOR EDITOR. Miss Cora Hind is Presented With Twenty-six Ewes, Winninpeg, March 8.--Manitoba sheep bréaders paid a tribute to Miss Cora B. Hind, commercial editor of the Manitoba Free Press, when they presented her with twenty-six years. of Foreign Press, 8.--~That all news: a Ottawa, March papers, paviphlets, advertising, poli- i tical campaign literature and similar publications printed, published and cirtulated in Canada in any other language except English or French should have an English or French translation in parallel] columns, is jurged in a resolution which Brig.- Gen. Griesbach, Edmonton, will in- troduce in the Commons. Egypt Has Food Shortage. la London, _ March 8. --- Egypt is threatened with a serious food short- uge, the Exchange Telegraph corres- pondent at Cairo report in 'a despatch received to-day. The hand- Img of supplies has again beén placed by the food department in the hands of a board of control. The gensorship, the correspondent 2dds, has been restored, beginning to. day. mire ---- Judges' Want More Pay. Ottawa, March 3.--An improved standard ot salaries for judges was urged on"members of the Govern- ment Saturday by a delegation head- ed by Sir J. A. M. Aikens, represent- ing the Canadian Bar Association. The delegation was received by Hon. C. J. Doherty, minister of justice; N. W. Rowell, and Arthur Sifton. The delegation was promised full con- sideration of its representations. tenis U.S. Farmers Trek to Canada. Winnipeg, March 8.-- Twelve fam- ilies, vanguard of a large party of settlers that started from Blooming- ton, IIL, early last week, arrived in Winnipeg Saturday on the way to -inew farms they have purchased in Western Canada. Remainder of party, with more than forty earioads Of settlers' effects, arrived Sunday. McBrien Chief of Staff. Ottawa, March 8.---Major-General J. H. McBrien, who has been acting chief of staff in London for the over- seas military forces of Canada, will, on his return to Canada, assume the duties of major-general on the gen- eral staff at militia headquarters. . To Increase Production. Ottawa, March '8 --Grestér pro- duction of fish, through s campaign to be put on by the fisheries depurt- ment, in co-operation with men en- in the industry, and the im- mediate formulation of a permanent a 00 brokerage houses in L OUR RALWRYS Canadian National , Railways President S¢es No Disaster, PROSPERTY JUST * AREA UNITED STATES CASE DOESN'T. APPLY TO CANADA. D. B. Hanna Says the Shareholders of the Grand Trunk Pacific Were . Lucky and Have no Refson to Squeal. president of the Canadian National Railways, speaking to the Canadian Club Saturday predicted that before long 'all Government Railways in Canada would be on & paying basis and that the strong probabilities were the returns would in a few years in a great measure help to pay Canada's war debt. He stated there could be no comparison between the earning capacity of ' the Canadian National Railways and the Govern< ment monopoly of rallways that existed during the past two years. The great thing Canada had to guard against wes political interference, of which up to the present there had been. no B. ; Incidentally, he insisted that if Mrs: McAdoo Bad any abiMty as a rajl- Way man he had not shown it in his administration of the United States lines. The position of the two countries were not in any Way. par- allel and he added that he could : easily answer the melancholy fore boding and the cries in Canada that there was disaster ghead. "The cal- amitous experience of our neighbors to the south," he said, "in their two © years of experience of Government operation is advanced as an object lesson of what is in store for us. It is very easy to dispose of the U.S. 'bug-a-boo' for thers is no parallel between the conditions existing at that timé in the United States and Government control in Canada." The United States, he added, took possession of its railways as a wi measure, in Canada the railways were taken over for economic res sons. The object of the' United States in taking them over was to get a unified service during the war" regardles of cost. In Canada they were taken over for adequate and appointed overnight by Wilson's gove ernment to take charge of 265,000 miles of railway, In Canada the af- fair was non-political and the board of managers were business men. On the one side there was no competi tion and in Canada there would al- ways be competition, which would be welcomed. oF Referring to the "squeal" by the G.T.P. shareholders, Mr. Hanna gave | it as his opinion that they were lucky indeed that the Government was tak« ing over that line and that the affaip had gone so far, a NEWS IN BULLETIN. The Bolsheviki have opened an. offensive against the Poles on both sides of the Pripet region. Ludendorft, j ~Hollweg have if tried by a - Von Hindenhurg, Tirpitz And Bethmann offered to surrender United States pouart. a The Prince of Wales has delayed his trip to Australia' oh atbount of flu on board the battleship Renown: President Wilson positively de+ clines to change his decision in the Adriatic question. . Great Britain may assign the Bri tish West Indies to Canada. ° i i iii ATTACKED BARRACKS POLICE HELD OUT {Canadian Press Despatch) 8.0m Limerick, March . hundred men armed with rifies the police barracks at "Doon, ' near here, early this morning, The attack lasted an'Nour and the police resisted with riffes, and hand grenades until the as- daflants withdrew. None of the police. were. injured. The verdict of architects and mem- bers of Parliament at the end of ong - week in the new House of Commons' is that the acoustics are perfect. About twelve million dollars' were stolen last New York and other cities. i baa Dubie March Sone Gov erningnt has instituted an in- Guiry under the Crimes Act of - 1887 the relations of Sinn Fein. The object of the en- quiry is to ascertain the amount : 5 fa Ottawa, March $.--D. B, Hanna, © WILL S00K PAY * and high explosives attacked tf