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Canada has been asked whether she! t| post war Europe. A Russian trade delegation will" shortly visit the Do- re-establish- |° minion with the object of ing commercial relations and ultimate- Iy Canada will be asked for Russian credits. On all these grounds, Can- .| ada is deeply concerned in the Genoa meeting. ssid. IRISH UNIONISTS LEND HELP TO STATE Provisional Government at Dublin Recognized by South and West Party. A despatch from Dublin says:--The Irish Post Office is' now in the hands of the Provisional Government, J. J. Walsh, Minister for the Postoffice, having formally assumed control on Thursday afternoon of the General Postoffice in Sackville street. Walsh has had a good deal of postoffice ex- perience, having been for some years a postal official in Cork. Shortly after the outbreak of war he was dismissed fom the postal service because of his political views. In 1916 he fought in Dublin and was sentenced to death, the sentence being commuted. He was elected for Cork City in 1918 and again in 1921. To Walsh will fall the task of ammanging the issue of the Irish Free State postage stamps. A meeting of Unionists of the South and West of Ireland, convened by the Earl of Mayo, was held Thursday afternoon in Dublin. There was a representative attendance. Lord Mayo pointed out that their duty was to take their part. in building up thelr country and to take part in the affairs of the country. With the new Govern- ment the Castle had been given over _ in its emtirety.to the Provisional Gov- ernment, and there could be no falling back or shirking, The Earl of Dunraven moved "that we, the Unionists of South and West Ireland, recognizing that the Provi« siomal Government has been formed, desire to support our fellow-country- men in this Government, in order that peace may be 'brought about and the welfare of the community secured." * peed GERMANY FACES MONEY PROBLEM Enormous. Daily Deficit of 440,000,000 Paper Marks. A despatch from Berlin says:«-The Reichstag opened on Thursday . con- fronted with the pressing necessity of solving the. enormous daily deficit of 440,000,000 paper anarks, but the members showed no unity in that pur- U.S. THREATENED WITH COAL STRIKE Hoover Predicts Wide Trouble in Bituminous Field Be- 'ginning March 31. A despatch from 'Washington says: --*"A' strike in the bituminous coal fields, beginning March 81, ap- pears to be inevitable," said Mr. Hoover on Thursday, The Administration, after confer- ences with representative operators and leaders of the mine workers, per- ceives no feasible means of averting the threatened strike of the union per- sists in demanding a renewal of the present wage terms, As in the case of the bituminous fields, the contracts of the anthracite workers expire on March 31, and a strike of the hard coal miners is also a possibility. Increased wages are being demanded by some of the izations in the anthracite fields. "I the United Mine Workers strike they will be plunged into a life-and-| | death struggle for the preservation of their union. The operators of unions ized mines positively assert that they will riot renew the present wage con- tracts, and that they cannot continue to operate except on the basis of a lower wage scale. They will endeavor to operate with non-union workers, however, if the strike materializes, Many operators of union mines ag sert that if the union rejects a de- crease in wages they, will deunibnize their mines, and close down if they find it impossible to operate on a non- union basis. They say that the union mines cannot continue to 'compete with non-union, and will be compelled to close, in any event, unless wages are reduced. According to 'the operatars;: about 80 per cent. of the bituminous mines are non-union, © Wages are" lower in the non-union mines, and employment is steadier; 'The non-union undersells the union. product, 'and hundreds - of union, nines already have been. closed' as a result of this competition, it is asserted. = a 0 | Ocean Liner's Prow be Cuts Whale in Two - Pinta A despatch from New York says:-- Passengers on the Italian liner Presi- dente' Wilson, which has Just-arrived |: - | here, Were. thrown into a near: panic when in mid-ocean and while 'making seventeen" knots, the vessel into "a, sunken object, trembled and stopped. te 'When the ship was backed away from the obstruction it was found to organ- | Communists, who automatically .op- . -- FRANCE sts S iB = DEBT MUST BE PAD N FL A despatch from Paris ws Tuy mond Poincare, President of the Re- the public during the war, and now Pre-| mier of France, with: the French Chamber ' practically unanimous be- hind him, served notice on Germany, on Tharsiay that, so lose 2 8 ha holy office jn conducting 'the destinies of his country, Germany must fulfill the obligations entered upon at Versailles, | t | and may expect no leniency." "The Versailles Treaty binds us to our allies" he said, "but it binds Ger- many to us all it must be carried out. , | AR These were his final words before leaving the tribune after replying to various interpellations. His pro- nouncement summed up the ' whole Never. since the Germans threaten- ed Chateau Thierry, when Clemenceau appeared before the Chamber to tell France that the war was not yet lost, and there was still a hope of victory, has a French Premier received such an ovation as greeted M. Poincare. on Thursday, when he presented before the Deputies the Ministerial Declara- tion. He pleaded for national union, and, except for the Socialists and Sir'Charles A. Hanson Well-known Canadian -Finandier and 'Member of Parliament for Brodmin | division 'of- Cornwall, England, and | former Lord Mayor of London, who died there recently. In his early days he was a resident of Oakville, Ont, and latet Hamilton, eee ee No. infusnas Epidemic A despatah from Ottawa says: -- Influenza is not epidemic in-ainy. part] brings, and 7 'university, | BRITISH AIRMEN OF WAR FAME MEET MOST ORDINARY OF DEATHS =: in Canada x usual number of bad eplds, which Win re isolated cases] rad r France's Foreign Policy, University Tutorial Classes. Something new in the extensi service carried of by the University of "Toronto i8 the commencement of a fortnightly class in community sing- ing in Beeton. The plan arranged for the district of which Beédton is the centre i$ to have the tutorial class meet évery Tuesday evening, the study of English literature alternating -each second week with the practice of group singing. It will be an interest- Conserva Music is affiliated with the provineiaj urday the Provisional Government's | ated the City Hall, which they "had s| Equipment With Device That © A: despite from: Dublin sayniAt la meeting of the Governors of the. visional' premises, formerly the Trish Pariia~ over by the Free State later. On Sat- headquarters City Hall from the Mansion House. The military authorities have evacu- occupied for years. Evacuation of the country on a large scale began on Friday, when trainloads of troops armiving at Dub- lin and Queenstown quays began em- thiat 4,000 soldiers boarded the trans- ports during the day, while a number land in the miorming. Se ee "BANDIT-PROOF" _~ "CARS FOR U.S. MAIL Keeps Doors Locked in Transit. Chicago mail Friday night was loaded ea Sra q proof" as, the New York Central Lines. = The United States Government, béset by 'the dais in the regular mail service, General Post-Office.. Then they were grooves on- the: container cans, * Loaded, the cars look like a solid block of steel safes set inside, protect- ing 'steel ends and sides equipped with a device which makes it- impossible to CA despatch from London saysi-- Two famous British airmen noted 8s 'stunt. fliers and war pilots by the irony of fate, met' death this week ion | trick ie Tn at Herons ee at Bagewsre on Thursday, as be & huge bull whale wiiich had been | epidemi ou sdmoat RE he sharp view, 3 Sixtieth Squadron, with the 'two fa- embers: of the. Reval Al Porc, ao Aransit. ment House, will probably be taken * do, A despatch from New York saySi--| gy Tha containers, each with a capacity g of 438 'cubic feet, were locked at the| cdlves, open the container doors while in | of barking on troopships. It is estimated | 0 of 'wirplanes were despatched to Eng- backs ibe 14 | to or prints, 16% to 1 Pe c. Choice Hctvy WE bo $8.25; »"o . for the first time into new "bandit! do. "miail bandits, contracted for- use of| 30 taken to the station on motor trucks |lambs lifted by cranes and then lowered into COM. $7 to 0, $1.50 to $3: hogs, £ $11.75; do, f.0b., Hi; points, $1 0.75, British. war pilots, altlioagh™ Ye was Heo practicdlly unknown - to the general public. He. had been made perman- ently lame by a 2,000 foot fall, but begged to be placed in active service and became a commander "in' the! - MOUS. 1 William A. Bishop -and Albert Ball under him. He is extolled . "the Major" by Bishop in his book, "= Oapt. Scott had-survived so many accideitts that it was said that prac- tically no past of his body was un- 'scarred. Lately he had been secre- well as Lord Birkenhead, 'who Capt. Scott's personal friend d.| called him the bravest man he _ever known in or out of fiction.