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ALLEN TO-DAY Katherine MacDonald peepee ibairmtimgtreter -------------- The Daily British Whig EEN MON, TUES., WED. Marshall Neilan's "THE DANGEROUS AGE" mI YEAR 90; No. 10. -- awe KINGSTON, OARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923. LAST EDITION. [hat a protest to the eonsctence of | he world will obtain our aim." HIS SUIC DE Feeling of Relief - London, Jan. 12.--An unmistak- able feeling or relief that first day of France's Ruhr adventure passed withont a breach of the peace was | evident here today. Although the | | ESSEN SMILES VERY STIFFLY | At the French Soldiers Wh cei condemned snd sions ior Occupy: the City. on i 25. ee | aldy involved in conditions which | would seriously add to her burdens : ' Withdrawn to Suburbs---Tie | | Essen's "Protest" A MYSTERY Why Did Fashionable New York Rector End Life? SHOT HIMSELF IN HOTEL After Receiving a Special De- | livery Letter--Lately Re- | | FRANCE BACK OF POINCARE | 12.--Upholding | 'The Chamber of Deputies Votes Coafidence in Him. SHYS FRANCE WAS FORCED 'Te Take Military Action To Watch Its Interests in |FAFERS MUST WORK | MORE INTENSIVELY Dr.'eelman at Essex Says 0 Much Produce Im- ported. Px, Ont., Jan. thelllions of dollars expemded on | puasing foreign "farm produce as |a ection on the efforts of the] {Callan farmer, Dr. G. C. Creel-) m¢ dominion government agricul-| | tui xpert of Ottawa, told the farm- erpl Essex County at the open- inpf he Essex County Corn Show hes tit the farmers of Western On- tao re not working intensively epugtheir own calling, As a re- sut, 3said, the production of farm podu¢ is insufficient to cope with | | | {be ascertained at | buildings there are no further con-| {ening January 23rd. NO O.T.A. AMENDMENTS ARE CONTEMPLATED AN ENQUIRY The Government Regards the Act as Being Reasonably | \ Effective. | Toronto, Jan. 12.--So far as can the * parliament templated amendments to the On-| tario Temperance Act to be consid- ered by the house at the session op- While pend- ing appeals on court decisions de- claring certain clauses of the act to be ultra vires may ultimately change | that situation, it is understood that | the government regards the O.T.A.| as being reasonably comprehensive | and effective as it stands. | No move is being made, nor has fand above all which would lead to bloodshed. | This attitude is reflected US. Troops Leave Cob lenz on Friday Next. in some of the comments in the morn- Essen, Jan. 12. --Bssen was alet close next Monday eleven Essen, Jan. 12---All factories will morning from to eleven fifteen o'clock to protest against French occupauon. turned From Paris. New York, Jaa. 12.--A motive of the suicide for Dr. Percy Gordon, ne diands of the home market, {us ressitating heavy = expendl- tares road. 3 Dr. eelman told his Bearers that such been the subject of cabinet ais. | cussion, to appeal to the federal pow- ers for authority to cut off the manu- | facture and sale for export of liquor | Germany. Paris, Jan. 12.--Confidence in the proval the conciliatory tone of Gen- | eral Degoutte's proclamation to the | Ruhr Valley inhabitants, { The committee directing the demon- withdrew from the heart of thedity, 4 ation represent all political parties. and when citizens appeared bout | Railway traffie will stop for ten min their duties this morning the en-|yutaq ot the same hour. The ringing countered only an occasionalblue-|o¢ church bells and the blowing of coated sentry pacing the dowitown | factory whistles will voice the city's streets. The bulk of the invadig for- | indignation. tes had' been withdrawn to te sub- urbs. The abseneeof tanks, amoured | cars and machine guns was narked German traffic police were i7 charge throughout the city. | Surprised at the absence of war- Mke demonstrations, citizes of Es- sen, who had acted sullenlywhen the city was first seized, were pparently engrossed in am effort t master their resentment. Stiff Geman smil- es 'were exchanged as' occasional groups of French officers appeared. The French commandeerdl the Kats- erhof hotel, exicting bot} permanent and transient guests anl press. cor- respondents who had made their headquarters there. [he engineer ing papers which mention with ap- today. During the night, the Froch | i GEDDES IS A FRIEND OF DR. J. R. CURRIE The British Ambassador Is Ex- _ pected at Queen's on 23rd \ Inst. {bsen dead several hours, and sev- | aged 60, until recently assistant rect- or of the fashionable St. Bartholo- mew"s Episcopal church, was a myst- ery today. Dr. Gordon was found dead, a bul- let wound in his right temple, in a bath tub at the hotel Woolcott, #here he has been staying since his return from a trip to Paris. He had eal more hours elapsed before the | dbeovery was reported to police who sdd the case was one of suicide. William N. Singreen, manager of ths hotel, declared that the last time thy minister was seen, he was laugh- in; with a group in the lobby. He resived a Special delivery letter, Siigreen said, and hurried to his rom, Jr. Gordon left two letters, one addressed to his son at the American Finmbassy in Paris, and the other to Dr. Leighton Parks, rector of St. Banholomew's. Both letters were seabd and the police withheld in- $112,(,000 has been spent on se- curingarm produce from abroad, which >luded $12,000,000 of corn, $19,0000 of fresh fruit, $11,500- 000 fomeat and over $2,000,000 for but and cheese. Al these ex- pendity, the speaker asserted, could lovercome within a few years bnly farmers of Canada would (lize the potentialities of their W and undertake it more enthusiaally, A -------- government was voted by the cham- ber of deputies last evening, 478 to $6, after Premier Poincare had made his statement regarding French action in the Ruhr Premier Poincare was vociferousty cheered for fully five minutes by a crowded chamber when he ap- peared this afternoon to make his formal explanation of the govern- ment's action in the Ruhr valley, All the deputies, with the exception of the Communists, rose to their feet te honor him. Many crowded to the open space before the rostrum to shake his hand. The chamber plainly showed its sentiments on the current events vy this enthusiasm and by its striking manifestation of indignation against the communist deputy, Marcel Cach- in, who is charged with plotting in Ontario. Presumably such legis-! lation would have to be sanctioned | by the Imperial Government as an! amendment to the British North Am- | erica Act. The government's feeling | In regard to such a last step in mak- | ing Ontario dry is understood to be | that there must first come a demand from a considerable body of the On- | tario electorate. | Belleville Alderman Resigns | Says Favoritism Shown | | Belleville, Jan. 12.--Ald. Mec- Creary, who was a member of last | year's city council and was re-elected | at the recent municipal election, is | tendering his resignation as a pro-| test against the manner in which the | chairmenships of the council were against the safety of the state. When seat unnoticed, the deputies of the | disposed of at the inaugural meeting He claims favor- | Cachin entered, shortly after the pre- jon Monday last. mier, and attempted to slip into his |itism played an important part. According to the law, Robt. Gar-| INTO STRIKE » Of the Alberta Miners Is T Be Ordered BY MAYOR OF EDMONTON Because of Labor Depart- ment's Refusal to Under- * take An Investigation. Edmonton, Alta, Jan. 12.--Anm impartial investigation of the mi- ners' strike will be' ordered by Mayor D. M. Duggan in the very near future, with the object of bringing to light all of the various angles of the situation so that some definite action can be taken. This decision on the part of the mayor is the result of the refusal of the department of labor to grant a board of investigation as was re- quested by council. According to present arrange- ments, the investigation will be held by a committee appointed by the mayor to put before the public all of the information that they are able to obtain on the strike situation. It is expected thet representatives of" the Board of Trade and of the Trades and Labor Council will be asked to act. There is no indication as yet as to the attitude of either the strikers or the operators toward such an in- | vestigation. control commigsion anl a group of French officers Tuoved Jn. 1ight and centre rushed to the centre | diner will take his seat as an alder- | of the floor, pointed at him and man, as he received the next high-| shouted demands that he be 2xpelled." | st vote to the last alderman-elect fornation, Belleville G.W.V.A. on the list voted for. BRITISH TENANTS Uneasiness Over Miners. Uneasiness is explessed regarding what may happen tomorrow, which is pay day, when the miners have been accustomed to core in from the coal flelds and drink father heavily. The government's ry fion in guaranteeing the miners pay Aas somewhat reliev- od this fear, however. The Ammondcaic producers unions and also the customs office have mov- . «8d their papers and books from Boch- am, fearing invasion from the It has been upoffictally re that the mext move of the uhr force would be to enclose Boch- um. Early to-day there was noevidence that the French has marched beyond Fissen. sii Departare of U. §. Troops. Coblenz, Jan. 13.--=Next Friday has been set as the date when the Stara and Stripes come down from Coblenz flagpoles and the American army of * occupation leaves to embark for Sav- annah. The United States' troops will entrain for Antwerp and sail on the the transport St. Mihilja January 21st. Looal stores immediately blossom- ed out with sales of souvenirs to make last inroads into the dough- boys' marks before their departure. American police yesterday arrest- ed a gang of cocaine peddlars and | confiscated many milMons of marks worth of drugs. Will Not Hear Protest. London, Jap. 12.--The British government will give no recognition to the German protest against the 'French advance into the Ruhr, which the Berlin government addressed to the Allies last night, and in no way will protest its affeot on British pol- icy, it was authoritatively stated thie afternoon. Whenever it becomes nec- essary the British representatives on the various interalled commissions | chair of rpeventive medicine. Dr. J. | dor were persomal friends in the old, will assert themeelves In order to demonstrate British dis-assaciation with the present French action in Ruhr, Otherwise it was added Brit- ain would continue to act whole- hea ly with Allies. -- / Are Still At Work. Essen, Jan. 12.--Forty thousand employees of the Krupp plant here . went to work this morning as usual 'according to information officially supplied to the French economic mis- in Essen by the German authori- . Strikes are reported Boch- um but the percentage of strikers is small, -- France Modifies Plan Paris, Jan, 12.--France has modi- fad the plan for collecting cash re- parations from Germany and fs will- ing to consider a moratorium on a basis proposed by Premier Mussolini of Italy, it was learned from semi- official sources today. The next pay- 'ment is due Monday. The repar- ations commission will meet tomoy- Tow to Germany's request for a moratorium. A majority vores will decide, so if France, Belgium ana Italy agree, Great Britain cannot hin- Berlin, Jan. 12.--Directorate of the German railwaymen"s union has issued a protest against the French Occupation of Essen, The statement Urges the workers to remain calm, saying, "since we are defenseless we it submit to force in expectation Bdleville, Jan. 12,--The sixth an- nual meeting of the local branch of the ¢reat War Veterans' Association was held for the election of officers and reneral business. Officers elect- ed were: President, G. W. Dawes; first vice-president, Geo. Glover; secoml vice-president, Geo. Lancas- ter; executive committee, Major D. T. McManus, D. A. Moon and E. C. Roberts. Comrade Dr. Wilson, re- tiring president, way presented with the official gold badge of the G.W. V.A At the close of the business v banuet was held. GERMANS MAY JOIN FRENCH In Resisting Lithuanian Irre- gulars--A Carious Spec- tacle Has Developed. Paris, Jan. 12.--The French 4d British governments are preparin to send warships to Memel, former ast Prussian territory on the Balti in- ternatiorgilized by the peace t8ty, with the purpose of maintain Or- der in view of the invasion bdith- uvandans. Despatches state tk the Lithuanian irregulars who ha C€ros- sed the border exchanged sh8 With a German guard, German and French TyPS. London, Jan. . 12.--Thy curious spectacle of French andUermans fighting a common enem ©n the trozen shores of the Baltls expect- ed from today's developfits In the topsy turvy European 'uation in view of the Lithuaniapdvance on Memel. The Memel po? Composed for the foremost part Jeérman and French troops entrencl in the out- skirts of the city, willsist the Lith- uenian invaders accé™® to advic- es received here, SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES In commection with the visit of Sir Auckland Geddes, British am- bassador at Washington; to Queén's University, where he will receive the honorary degre® of LL.D, Dr, J. R. Currie will be installed to the R. Currie and the British ambassa- country. The convocation is to take place on January 23rd, provid- ing a meeting of the War Debt Com- mission at Washington does not pre- vent Sir Auckland Geddes coming to Kingston. Dr. J. R. Currie recently arrived from Edinburgh, Scotland. Since taking over his duties at Queen's Medical College he has made a good impression. Died at Installation. Cobalt, Jan, 12.--D. H. Way, vet- eran station agent of T. and N. O. railway system, died suddenly, last night, while attending an installa- tlon meeting of the Order - of the Easterri Star at the Masonic Temple. He had been suffering from heart disease for the past two years. Mr, Way, who was born in Prince Ed- ward County, near Picton, about fif- ty-two years ago, came to Cobalt from Montreal thirteen years ago. GERMANY WIL NOT MEET VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE ment Note to the United States. J a Given Poor Recrlon By Jevin Palestine London, Jan, 2--Dr. Chaim Weizmann has tored his resig- nation as presid Of the Zionist organisation to ' executive com- mittee of the oDization, accord- ing to informat Teceived here from Paris, wp he is visiting after his returfom Palestine. It is said the res Is because of the poor receptiopitdered him by the Jews in Paled® ---- Found ' Asphyxiated. Brockville? . 12.--Gas fumes from a coal Y@ are believed to have been pnsible for the death, at WinchesSPrings, of Miss Ann Clar, who fl alene. A neighbor, intending ®end the day with the woman, the place locked and after ha an entrance dis- covered h¥ing dead fn bed. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12.--Ger- many has given her word to the Un- ited States that as a result of the French occupation of the Ruhr she will not "meet violence with vio- lence." . This and the fact that Germany declares she will-fiot renounce the Versailles treaty, were the outstand- ing points in a note from the Berlin government, whioh protested against French invasion of the Ruhr. While the note is an appeal to the United States to pla:y Ler influence on the side of Germany, this government is' contemplating no action as a result of it. > It teels that it bas done all it can to prevent the present situation. The administration now is giving con- sideraion to demands in the senate for the withdrawl of the American day morning, but an wident to her propeller, coupled wth foggy "wea- ther, prevented her mkng her usual speed. Recently the Auitania was dry-docked for her ammul overhaul- ing and a damaged rddr post caus- ed her absence from fie ,ervice to be three, The Mauretans s also being cverhauled, her turine requiring special attention, so tiatall three big | ships 'are in the repar fiops' hands at once, Plea for Empire Prefeence at Colon- meeting of the Coloniil Institute the Australian High Commissioner, Bir propagandists in connection with the Empire Exhibition to ts hdd in Lon- to realize, he said, thatthe tominions ing almost anything producible here. the dominions' exports was bound up with a variety of different problems, beginning with tariffs an with transports, but sdent! ganda was a m He was a litt) in London shop windcws vertising foreign some day to see such innouncement as "best Danish" replated by others such as "best Australian, best Cana- dian and best South Afdcan." Ing levelled against the ministry of labor for granti dole to women 50. The ministry points out that 95,- 000 women were placed in domestic "This chamber cannot, with dig- | nity, undertake any deliberations while this traitor is present," ex- claimed one. Is Protected M. Cachin, although faeing tae government's charges for his activi- ties in Essen, where he sat with the communist 'committee of action' Is protected from prosecution by hm parliamentary immunity, which the government, however, has asked the chamber to suspend. M.' Poincare made no appeal for Sympathy nor effort at eloquence. "§f Germany," he said, "woula make a serious appeal vo the indus- trial interasts of Germany she would have no need for a moratorium. "After having been led from ocom- ference to conference, and after inis- understanding after' misunderstand- ing, we came to the point where we felt we were being led into inextri- SIR RICRp SQUIRES Premier of N instrumental in 2iRdlang, hag been feundiang an | ndustry which y the greatest book, She nistory. Tha Island had grea and water pow, spurces of timber = bo "DRY DOCK. -- Derengaria, Aquiija, Mauretania Being Ryjrel. Isndon, Jan. 1..Te Cunard Lip* has been expeanchg very bad luk with its threesrpres steamers rmaning between Suthmpton and Jew York. On th arival of the berengaris at Sothampton this evening it was decied tat the ves- sel should be dry-dokedin order to discover a defect tha deeloped dur- ing the voyage and cued the vessel to be greatly delaye( 3he was ex- pected on Monday ewmg or Tues- nothing we could do but watch our interests in Germany. Have Been Patient. "That is what we are going-wo @o for the present. We may be oblidged to resort to constraint in case Ger- many remains unyielding. We have been patient too long, but we wanted first to exhaust every means of com- promise and persuasion. "We have made evury concesgion compatible with our own situation. Unfortunately, we have been unable 0 agree with our allies, the Britisn. "I want," the premier emphasized, "to pay the warmest tribute to the courtesy and loyalty with which Mr. Bonar Law conducted the negitia- tions. But to our great regret, we found the British plan was such a profound revision of the treaty of Versailles that is was impossible for us to accept it. _ "It was a revision that implied the most important advantages to Ger- many and greater disadvantages to France, We could not accept such a construction of the situation." nereased from one nomh' to nearly sl tne MILLION PROPAGATDISTS. ---- ial Institute. London, Jan. 12. --Pretiding at a oseph Cook, pleaded for a million on in 1924, It is difficult for tie people here HIGH SILK HAT DOOMED. Popularity on Decline for Years, Says Hatter. Atlantic Oity, N.J., Jan. 12.--The era of sensible clothes which has fol- lowed the war has doomed the plug hat, sald C. Harris, of Fulton, Mo., here yesterday at the fifteenth semi- annual convention of the American Association of Wholesale Hatters. "For many years past' said Mr. Harris, who is secretary of the as- sociation, "there has beefi a gradual decline in the popularity of the high silk hat, until at the present time what was once the most popular form of headgear is now on the high road to extinction. Whether this change has been influenced by the assertions of medical men that hard hats pro- duced baldness, I do not know." Men's hats and women's corsets are running neck and neck for total expenditure, according to William V. Campbell, of New York, the latest re no longer colondei, bul but.are Town-up nations, capible of produc- The question of the {evelopment of d ending fie propa- % gat necessity. ded to notice cards ad- gools and hoped Domestic Servants' Dole. London, Jan. 12.--Criticism is be- ng the unemployment ic service, but unwilling to do cable complications, and there was | | + SUSPECTED CONSPIRATORS - FIND A LEGAL FLAW | Vast Majority "of Rent Payers, | However, Not Taking Ad- vantage of Quibbie. London, Jan, 12.--Probably too {much is being made in certain quar- ters of the so-called rent strike. The facts, briefly, are that the House of Lords judicially decided that it was illegal for the house owner to raise the rent of tenants unless he first served formal notice to vacate, This is a fine judicial nicety, for the Rent Restriction Act, passea. when the house shortage had render- ed both owners and tenants well nigh desperate with anxiety and ex- asperation, permitted certain iu- creases in rent, but rendered any notice to quite inoperative. The decision of the Lords, how- ever, has been seized upon by some tenants, notably at Clydeside, as jus~ titying their refusal to pay further Fallure Is Largely Willful. |rent until the increases already lev- [ted without notice to quit, have been London, Jan. 12.--The Yorkshire | refunded. The movement has Post expresses grave misgivings [Spread to some parts of England, with regard to the ultimate result and has received the sanction of the of the French action in sending an |Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the army into the Ruhr district, but says |.abor Party, but Rt. Hon. J. R. it will not blind the English to the [Clynes, the Deputy Leader, is im- provocation the French have receiv-|clined to agree that the Government ed, or the good cause they have for [should admit that a blunder was representing the palpable and large made in drafting the act, and amend degree of wiltul failures of the Ger- {It immediately to legalize the in- mans to fulfil their obligations. The | creases, retroactively. It is under- outlook is distinctly disquieting, the Stood the Government is disposed to Post says, with small prospect of an |take this step. nl any case there are immediate solution of the trouble. [signs that a vast majority of tenants The Yorkshire Post suggests that are not inclined to take advantage good advice to Germany from Great 0f a technical quibble. The Derby Britain might be of value, as there | Tenants' Assoclation has refused to is little doubt that the Germans|atlempt to profit by a legal loop could, if they made an effort. fulfil (hole. Labor members of parliamens their obligations regarding coal and | Who might be inclined to support timber, the failure of which obli- | tenants in resisting what has been gation is stated to be the object of |sigmatized as house owners' rapa- P4909 0 0000200020 ® ARE UNDER ARREST Glasgow, Jan. 12.--The po- 4+ lice last evening arrested % twenty-two men and one wo- 4 man who are suspected of con- % spiracy against the Irish Free % State officials and other per- # sons. The arrests were made + in a raid. » Seed bbb reo tee » CRIP 0950099%0% 099 ONLY AN EFFORT NEEDED 10 SATISFY FRANGE Suggested That Advice Be Tendered Germany Whose the French in taking action. | city, are obliged to remember that The Daily Mail says this is one the movement will certainly hit the occasion when a large proportion of [thrifty working classes, many of the British public instinctively re-| Whom, especially in the north of fuses to take the official view. "The|KEngland, purchase .a couple of masses of our people are more | houses, living in one and renting the closely interested in the question of compelling Germany to meet hee) dlabilities than is commonly suppos- ed in high places," the Mail asserts. ! | High places, the Ma | SHIPPING HARD COAL IN IMMENSE QUANTITIES High Price of $14.50 a Ton Paid at Scranton by Canadians. Scranton, Pa., Jan. 12.--Anthra- cite is being shipped out of here in! immense quantities. Large purchases are being made by Canadians in various parts of the country. Hard coal is going to Can- ada very rapidly and the high price of $14.50 a ton is being paid to In- dependent dealers here. | no chances observer of the reparations commis- » service by labor avaflable figures showing that 383. It is said here direct shipments sion. Protest To Italy. Rome, Jan. 12.--The German em- bassador t0 Rome has presented his government's protest against the Ruhr seizure to Premier Mussolini. The German note states that Ger- many's slight failures in execution of lettuce, iliflower, young carrots, yp House Rhubarb. Red ¢%€e, green onions, head' etc., at Carnoveky's. exchanges last The retort of the average Feat English housewife, according to the critics, is that nothing is said about the capa- bility of these women, or how long they remained in #:3ir positions. fo of 000,000 was spent in this 1919 for men's hats and $75 Bern- for Anetralia about February to settle. in ,000,000 being made to Toronto are being di- 'verted at higher prices to smaller Ontario cities. ' Tr women's corsets. ER 'Women Settlers to Sail, London, Jan. 12.--A pioneer party 50 educated English women sall the middie of Nearly 400 ap- Hockey: Toronto Granites defeat | Kitchener 3 to 1 in overtime, ! A Nationalists' strike is suggested | 2s a German protest, i Robert Forke, Progressive leader. other. Such folk do not appreciate the law's pitfalls, but the big cone cerns, owning large blocks of tene- ments, backed by legal advisors, took and served notices to quit. Incidentally, there has been a re- markable drop in the cost of house building. Recently tenders have been made for building houses at £350 each, which would cost £1,000 each two years back. SOVIETS FEVERISHLY REPAIR RAILROADS Would Re-establish Direct Connection Between Rus~ sla and Germany, Riga, Jan. 12.---The Rigaschs Nachrichten, one of the leading Ger- mah papers in the Baltle States, as- serts the Soviets are feverishly re- pairing their rallways on the west- ern front, so as to re-establish di- rect communication between Russia and Germany by way of Lithuania. A double track railway is being re- built between the port of Libsu and Moscow via Minsk, in West Russia, northeast of the old Polish border. This road will carry German freight trains. The bridges are being the treaty are absolutely inadequate to produce such gravity of action as that of France and Belgium. No men' tion of Italy's attitude was made. plied to join the party. The age of the majority of those accepted was around 39, but organizers of the party took a over forty, ¥ advocates a broader platform for farmers. Timber wolves are exterminating strengthened and a mew signal sys- (tem, like that in Germany, is being established by the Soviet Commisar~ deer around Sault Ste. Marie. ial of ways and communications. i i