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Port Perry Star, 31 May 1923, p. 6

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A despatch from London says:-- i new Administration was complet-! Ene on Friday night, and is in readiness, dit Parliament, which Temenos 3 Sir on Monday. The official list of the Cabinet and. other officials shows the substitution of Lord Robert Cetil as Lord Privy' Beal for Andrew Bonar Law, who had 'held this portfolio, in addition to the Premiership, and the promotion 'of Mr.| nar Law's Secretary, John C. C. Davidson, to. a place in the Govern-!| 'ment, us Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, few changes in minor offices of the' Government, but otherwise the men guiding the country's destinies are the game as those who had this task«in hand before Mr. Bonar Law tendered his resignation. The new ministry is as follows: Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, Leader in the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Ex-| chequer, Stanley Baldwin. Lord Privy Seal,*Lord Robert Cecil. | Lord President of the Council, the Marquis of Balisbury. Lord High Chancellor, Cave. Secretary for Home Affairs, Rt. Hon. W. C. Bridgeman, Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Viscount Leader of the House of Lords, the Marquis of Curzon. Secretary for the Colonies, the Duke of Devonshire. Secretary of State for War, the Earl of Derby. There have also been a | Hon. 1. & sie Pht mberlain. President of the Board of Agricul, Novar. President of the Board of Bduos: tion, Rt. Hon. E, F. L. Wood. Minister of Labor, Rt. Hon. Sir Montagne Barlow, Financial Secretary of the Trea: sury, Sir William Joynson-Hicks. The foregoing constitute the Cab- inet. Other members of the Govern- ment are as follows: Minister of Pensions, { Major G. C. Tryon, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lon caster, John Colin Campbell-Davidson, First Commissioner of Works, Rt. Hon. Sir John Baird. Attorney-General, Douglass Hogg. Bs Hori Rt. Hon. Sir Solicitor-General, Sir T. W, H. In-| skip. Paymaster-General, bald Boyd Carpenter. Lord Advocate for Scotland, William Watson. Solicitor-General for Scotland, F. O. Thomson. Major Archi- a THE WINNER OF THE KING'S PLATE. Flowerful, the winnér of the Sixty-fourth King's Plate at the Woodbine, Toronto, May 19, and the owner, HE. above. Below, a scene in the race in which Flowerful lead all the way. Inset! '~ is a picture of Lady Byng presenting teenth time to the Seagram stables. ALLIES AGREE TO ALLOW U.S. COSTS Reserve Priority of Claims for Their Own Current Expenses. A despatch from Paris says: --After three months of stubborn discussion the Allies on Friday signed an agree- ment. whereby the United States will at once begin to receive some money on account and the complete amount in twelve years of the army of occu- pation costs. Twice before the negotiations I*~o| come to an abrupt halt when Great Britain, France, Italy and Belglum attempted to insert the stipulation that any money collected directly from | Germany for private claims should | "| first go to the army exygnses. BRITAIN'S NEW PREMIER Stanley Baldwin was selected in preference to Lond Curzon because he Is a member of the lower house. Although a Harrow and Cambridge man, be is also an industrialist and heads many metal-working plants, including one in Toronto. He is fifty-six years of age and formerly served under Lloyd Alleged Murderer and London Jailbreaker Caught in A . despatch from London, Ont, says:--After a search of more than a, Peat r and a half, the police net has ally caught Sydney Murrell, who, with his brother William, and a man fmown as "Slim" Williams, are charg- ed with the murder of Russell Camp- bell, a garage proprietor, at Mel- bourne, Ont.,, in the spring of 1921, Bydney Murrell was caught at Susan. ville, Lassen County, California. He Bad been apprehended on a charge of burglary, and the officers there had received a circular from the chief of lice of London, offering a reward or the capture of the two alleged murderers. The prisoner's rints were sent to Ottawa, and there; a saw and made a complete get-away. So glaring was the act that the On- tario" Government held an investiga- tion afd dismissed practically the en- tire jail staff for incompetency. Previous to the shooting at Mel- bourne, the Murrell gang terrorized acl time Eliot Wadsworth,» Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury, announced; these claims are not subject to any; regulation by any other power andi Congress' rights in disposing of them, cannot be infringed. A The Allies held that this would a low Germany to hold out from the Reparations Commission the ground of having to pay the United States and hold out from the United \ States on the ground of having to pay ] the Allies. This, they declared, would not be possible if collection were done by a single ney for all claims. But now the British Cabinet has changed--the idea was a British one ----the Allies have not insisted on put- ting their precautions in the agree- {erected around the city'of Paris. who died action Eb A the field. 4 Winnipeg, Man. S-iOme hundred and! developed coal areas at Mor au, fifteen carloads. of butter were ex-| Breton, if the Government will p ported from Manitoba during 1022, ac-| vide railway. extensions, W. F. Carr ie to the annual report of the Chairman of he 'Commons' Commi! | provincial department of agriculture. | investigating Ci 's coal These cars represent 2,656,120 pounds | told committee od { of butter, valued at $894,642. Ship-| tages of this area, it was stated, ments were made to New York, Phila-| cluded a harbor for coal vessels mi delphia, Chicago, the Pucifie Coast and] closer to Montreal than Sydney or F. Seagram, of Kitchener, are shtown : England. Louisburg: the cup. The trophy goes for the six. The Week's Markets TORONTO. Manitoba wheat--No. 1 Northern, Big Bertha Yan H Marstoba Samo. 2 CW, 66%; A despatch from Paris says: No. 3 CW, 5% o. 1 feed, 51%c. Capt. Emile Pierrot, who met death | Manitoba bale Nominal with five others in the French airplane/ li the abgve rac x bay, Porto low, which caught fire in its trip to London gi, 01; No. 2, aN o ? last week, was a famous war aviator. ! Barle sisting > to 62c, accord- His death particularly affects Paris-| Ing to eights outs , jans, for Pierrot was chiefly instru- Sook Kwhoat No. W ee to 766. mental in the destifietion of the h Jo -No- 2 2, 3 to Sei i. German Berthas which toward the end o. of the war fired shells into Paris.!) Milfond-- Dil iontreal" fog Pierrot's squadron had the signal joas "oo Ran, per. ton, per ton, $81; m dings, honor of destroying two of these great rood feed flour, $2. 15 to | guns in one day by Jrabping bombs Ontario Et i's Fohits, te, nom- from airplanes a highing the guns. a squarely. ese Aq taro. No, 2 'white When the guns Tesumed, Pierrot de- ! stroyed another, flying as low a8 i meters to drop the bombs with deadly', os effect. He also discovered the nero-| drome whence the German Gothas took off in their raids on Paris by, to night. On many occasions he bombed | the field and destroyed "several m ' chines. He was one of the organiz of the anti-aircraft defence positio 'divorce in the "United year one in every eight in poh: pats, in cotton | dissolved. Representative societies of $2.10 = a women, educationists, lawyers, etc, are backing him. lowe: er grades, i a. Whit ats,, 7.30 : REEES 5 Cl ec 0. s., Sad 0 to! To sata $ , per Bn Fi to sr easterns, 16%c. But- 35 tor, Chisels, 5 creamery, 30% to 80%c. . | Eggs, selected, 33c. Potatoes, per ba, car lots, $1.30.to $1.36. Canners, $8.76; med. | cows, $6.75; to Ives ; rly 'good, $5.50 3 so. com.; $4.26 up; fis | ht: men coolly warning everybody to keep| payments. quiet. dred licensed grain elevators | three Prairie Provinces, with a total Sioraga capacity of more than 100,- the district, and one night stole an| ment. But they do not abandon the express cash box containing '$1,000, point. They simply inform the United as it was about to be loaded on a G. | States in communications now on the T. R. train at the depot here. The| | way that article 248 of the Versailles ¢rime 'was committed with hundreds' Treaty gives the signatories of 'that of people standing around, the gun-| treaty prior claims on all reparations| If the United States,'at any time, collects anything from Ger- "Slim" Williams is now in" King-| many direct, they reserve the right ston, where he was sent for a long to claim it for distribution. term, .on a charge of robbery, but he There the matter rests, Meantime it will now have to stand trial with Syd-|is agreed that for the next twelve, ney Murrell for mutder. | years the United States shall be pa n rp -- $25,000,000 a year from the indemnity Sir James Stevenson. b There are three thousand seven hun-| payments. During the first four years| As chairman of the- Administrative is in the the current costs of allied occupation| Board of the British Empire Exhibi-| Ib are to be paid first and the United] tion, Sir James holds -an important States is to get only one-fourth of £ 'place in making the huge project a suc- what is left over, even if that is lout; 'cess, and in planning for the reception to 11e Ib. oh hg Ye per oy oie Yh a to » 000,000 bushels. Ah No 2, Hag e was positively identified. Sydney Murrell, with his brother, 'William, and "Slim" Williams, were gaptured by the people of Melbourne, ! Ba after the murder, which occurred has when the three men and another | A pamed "Fat" tried to rob the branch, in of the Home Bank there. "Fat" escap-| and has not since been seen, but the pi urrells and Williams were brought Tha f. the t Jat or the Cpenty mili 3 Tin Bs ut nat? y after allied Ee as the greatest unpaid This includes any possibile ible | state, becauge of his con! opera life.

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