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SUPREME COUNCIL SENDS FINAL ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY Alternative of Accepting Allied Terms or Being Subject to Invasion - Thought That Germany Will Accept Plan When New Government is Formed. A despatch from London says: t by November 1. but will be issued The final nvesting of the Supreme only as the P.e->-vr:itions Commission Council was held at 9.45 o'clock ; decides Gerireny's capacity to furnish Thursday morning at 10 Downing fund-s for service, street, when the members affixed j AH the bonds shall be free from their signatures to the ultimatum to j all German taxes and charges. Ger- Germany and the protocol of the re- 1 many must c'lo pay within 25 days paration-3 plan. Each document was; one billion marks gold for the first written in English and French, Lloyd two quarterly installments of interest George signing first and Briand sec- ! an-d sinking fund, ond the English text, and M. JufpcrJ It is thought certain Germany will the Belgian member, first, Briand accept the plan, and the new Govern- secord and Lloyd George third the ment, as soon aa it is constitutional, French text Immediately the signing will take Immediate steps to prevent waa over the French delegation took the occupation of tha Ruhr. the train for Paris. Dr. Sthamer declined to discuss the CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD Appointed by the Government to consider all questions relative to the handling of wheat. Left to right Lincoln Goldie, Guelph, On*.; W. G. Staples, Winnipeg; Judge Hyiulman, Calgary; J. H. Haslem, Regiiia. Mesopotamia a Series of Arab States Lloyd George then summoned Dr. situation until his Government has Sthamer, the German Ambassador in cuted. The correspondent is informed London, by telephone, and at 11 a.m. that the Supreme Council has invited formally handad him both documents. ' the United States immediately to send Both of the documents follow close- a representative to the Supreme Coun- ly tba outlin-ea already cabled from'cil, the Ambassadors' Conference and day to day. The ultimatum expires the Reparations Commission, but this on May 12, en which date, failing Ger-' was not announced officially. It is reported here that thc United A despatch from London says : The Daily Sketch on Friday morning says that Winston Churchill, the Colonial Minister, has decided to make Mesopo- tamia into a series of Arab states. This will secure new overland and aerial routes to In- dia under British protection. man compliance, the French will oc- It is reported here that the United Mesopotamia is also to be- ; nd cupy the Ruhr and 1 the British navy States has officially slffraned its; come a great depot and training ! ";* will demonstrate at German ports. j -willingness to participate on these ground for the military and avia- e The outstanding points of the re- 'bodies, provided i*3 view of the man-! tion service of the British Em- parations demand, which was signed j dates is, accepted and the whole ques- 1 by the Reparations Commission, are: I tion opened for revision. (1) Bonds Series (a), for tweke' The British are quite willing to billion gold marks, must be delivered ( follow this course and the French will by July 1. I be glad to get rid of some of theirs, (2) Series (b), thirty-eight billions, i but the Japs are holding out. It ia j likely, however, that they will yield UPPER SILESIA IN HANDS OF POLES Insurrection on Large Scale and Well Organized, Says Col. CockrelL A despatch from Oppeln, Silesia, says: Eastern Upper Silesia is in the hands of the Polish insurgents, ac- cording to Col. Peppys Cockrell, the British commander from Beuthen, has -arrived here to take com- of reinforcements that the pl&bisrite commission is must be delivered by November 1. (3) Series (c), eighty-two billion.', to "persuasion" by their allies. TREE-PLANTING TO THRIVE IN ONTARIO HOW GIFT OF RADIUM WILL BE CONVEYED Mme. Curie on Way to United States to Receive Gift. A despatch from Paris says: Mine, left Paris \\"e!n^i.lay morning Provincial Forestry Depart- ment Hopes to Make Pro- gress This Summer. A despatch from Toronto says: Active efforts along Provincial for- ! r< estry lines are to be carried on this ; a ummer by the Ontario Government ' mirers - The famous scientist is ac- department of which Dr. E. J. Zavitz J companied by her^ da ugh tens Eve^and is die head. During war years com- Col. Ccckrell informed the corres- prndont that the fcrces now at his command are entirely inadequate to handle the situation. I "The insurrection ia on a large ' scale," he said, "and is well organized. ' C.P.R. to Use B Former German Vessels ; It is not merely a peasant uprising. Many of the insurgents are evidently They soldiers in civilian dress. military rifles.' 1 A despatch from Montreal says: Thc Raiserine Augusta Victoria will be renamed the Empress of Scotland and will be employed on the run be- tween Quebec and Liverpool. The Prinz Freidritm Wiilu'im will be re- christened the Empress of China and will be sent to the Pacific- to augment thc company's service between Van- couver. Yokohama and Hong Kong-. G. M. Bosworth, chairman of the say of conditions in the eastern and. Troubled Fiume. Flume, that city madu lately famous by D'Annunzio. having tried varirus other forms of disorder. -:as gone Red. A few plain hangings seem indicated in that ancient seaport. Losing ln>a recent election, the Com- munists followed goc:l Red precedent. They set off a few bombs, broke a few heads. snip.-hed the ballot-boxes and burned the registration list of voters. As soon as the followers of D'Annun- zio and the Italian Nationalists could rally, a counter-revolution was under way, with mere rioting and head- breaking. Although Flume Is designated und-r the terms of peace r.a H free city, tn principal use so far made of Its free- dom is to turn the town Into a whirl- pool of prcpaganda and a battleground for clashing national Interests. It IB wedged between Italy and Czecho- slovakia, with Hungary and Austria not far away. All the world of the new HuikanH of the north comes down to Fiurnu to plot and gesticulate In Its street.-. Fiume Is the smoldering spark that lies very cloe to the Balkan powder- bin. It Is the strategic point of the trouble-maker, whether he comes from Italy, the HuikanH or the broken pieces of the old Austrian Empire. Free city or not. It is somebody's job to keep the peace therein, as Fiume Is evidently unable to keep It. Italy of the great Powers signatory to the Treaty IB nearest, and Interest- i ed partly or not, it would seem to be the Italian's Job to keep law and order In that troubled town. The hanging from Paris says: Lof something like equal numbers af the most vital artery of Italy's own extreme .Nationalists and human bcdy like he would a bi-j Communists would make aa excellent British Miners Willing to Arbitrate A despatch from London says : The striking coal miners, it is reported, have intimated to the Government their willingness to accept arbitration on the wages question by Sir Arthur Duck- man with a view to immediate settlement of the strike. REPAIRED AORTIC ARTERY WITH TISSUE (French Doctor Patched Up Moat Vital Artery in Human Body. . , . well supplied with machine guns and i SJ" c1 ' c ' re ' was R feat performed on, beginning toward quieting May 14. 1914, by Professor Tufner.i down. Here in Oppeln, where the popula- ' famoai French sur ^ J on- The revela- tion is distinctly German, there has ! t ] on wa3 matio the other da X before been no disturbance, all thc trouble ' The 4 ~~* of Science, occurring in the district eastward' Am)1 hr ' s to the report, a patient where the uprising is beyond the con- ' was *a*">i with death from a * y Rhondda Seeks House of Lords Seat. The efforts of Margaret Haig, v:s- trol of the allied troops. The inter- ' <; onlcal aneurism of the aorta. Pro- i countess KhoiuMa. to obtain a seat In. allied commission knows only by hear- esso1 ' llffie . r uncovered the artery the House of Lords as a peeress in . .... ., - - say of conditions in the eastern and JJ* P aU>hei1 & w 'th a sheet of tissue iier own right have now reached the , C.P.R. ocean service saki on Thursday southern districts, as many of the i UlKt ' " om an aponeurosis m the pa- stage whre her imtltion praying his ica, wiiere e t night that negotiations with the Brit- towns in those districts are surround-: tlent s , thl * h - He was able to' Majesty to issue to her a writ of BU;:,- her a ish Govennent, to whom the ex-Ger- ed by insurgents and means of com-' atrenglhen the artery, reduce the con- mon 8 to sit in the House of Lords has paratively small advanta'ge had been Irene, and Mr?. William Brown Mel- oney, editor of the Delineator. At taken by Ontario municipalities of Cherbourg .Mme. Curie will take the Government encouragement along; Olympic for New Ycrk. that line, but tiiiis year it is hoped I Owln ? to the dan er f lhe ra<Jlium that real progress will be made. ! Io3m & lts P wer ' reat eare wil1 be Seven million seedling, mostly pine ! ^ ken '" * ettin * thc STamme given to and spruce, with some hard wood?, ' Mm - Cune to Europe. The radium will be >et out in the Forestry De- t w ' 11 * <''^olved ma solution of imrtnrent'B Norfolk ceiaty reserva- ' bromide and water. The solution will man vessels were awarded by the re-- municution are cutoff. Railroad com- parations commission after the armis- 1 munication was maintained after a tice had been in progress little more than a week. The reason for the fashion until Wednesday night, when the main line was cut between this purchase was the company's inability place and Beuthen. In order to reach to obtain delivery of four new liners Beuthen now one must go afoot part ordered in British yards in July, 1919. of the way, as the bridge at the west of thc town has been blown up. An Oppeln despatch from a German gestion and prevent death. i been referred by the K:ng to that This was the first time recorded of| D dy. together with the Attorney-(U".:- surgioal mending of the aortic artery- ' erajs re P OI "t. * H fa now being considered by tha Patent Meat Cooker. Committee on Privileges, which is ex- For cooking meats in large quanti- 1 P*ctod to make a report on the mutter ties an luvector has patented an oven j soon. Should Laily Khondda's petition la which an electric motor revolves a ' D e granted some twi-iity-live other platform holding them alternately un- i peeresses In thoir own right would bu tion from which it is expected to ' be P laeed m twelve lass *"<**< ln | get a 50 per cent, yield. Counties and 1 , turn P lace<i '" * box of P^tmum and. nninictpalit:*! will again have ] .** d < wlllje thls box W! " be deposited | brought to thoir attention legislation | ln ..f" *P ec ' al room - In ' to whlch no one ; of the last two sewions, by which j W1 '' be allowed to penetrate. th Government will assist in putting ! A . Mn< ' Melon *y- * accompanies to good use wa*te lands. It is also " Cur!e to America, is head of contemplated to open two new nur.- : the committee of women which organ- 1 ery centres in Eastern Ontario. | ized the moveinent to present the Simcoe county, with its many miles ! sclentmt Wllh the Fc>ou substance, of waste land, is said to be one of j * the sections of the Province upon < Adult Education. which the department has forestry designs. Simcoe H already amangj Never in the history of this coun- those oountie* which have taken up j try has there been, on the part ofj the Government's forestry proptsi- i adults, so great a desire for general education as at the present time, and j this desire manifests itself in a veryj marked way among indus'.rial work-; ers. Of these there are, of course, many who seek technical and utilitar- ian training; but there are others who prefer education of the cultural type. In England those workers whose preference ii for education in the "humanities" organized themselves tion. Two Prominent Sinn Feiners Shot A despatch from Dublin says: Patrick Moloney, alleged to have been H prominent official in the "Repub- lican Army," end Sean Duffy, a lead- ing Sinn Feiner in Dublin, are report- source savs that the inter-allied com- ! der and away frtim " g"* burne ''- i entitled to the same privilege. i mission hai decided to incorporate 1 three thousand Germans, preferably i Upper Silesians, in the plebiscite po- j lice. The commission has sent a mes- sage to the German plebiscite com- missioner at Ratibor for five hundred men for that purpopc. ed officially to have been shot and j some years ago into the Workers' killed in an affray with the police, : Educational Association and, with the nineteen of whom were sent to sur- co-operation of the Universities, have! Thomas Adamson Town Planning Adviser to the Com- mission of Conservation, states that last year there were about 100.000 marriages In Canada, and only about 11.000 new houses built. In addition Disastrous Fire at St. Boniface Weekly Market Report J2.50. Toronto - !gal., $2.t)0; per 5 imp. Manitoba wheat No. 1 Northern, i Mapie sugar, Ibs., 19 to 22 $1.79%; No. 2 Northern, Sl.75%; No. Honey tiO-30-lb. tins, 20 to 21c lb.; Northern, $l.(i8%; No. 4 wheat, 1 5-2 ^-lb. tins, 22 to 24c lb.; Ontario $1.57%. Manitoba oats No. 2 CW, 41 %c;' case. ! comb honey, at $7.50 per 15 section: A despatch from St. Boniface, Que., says -.-The picturesque little village j No. 3 CW, 37%c; extra No. 1 feed, No. 1 feed, 35% c; No. 2 feed, Manitoba barley No. 3 CW, Smoked meats Hams, med.. 39- to- 40c; heavy, 31 to 32c; cooked, 50 to . r ),"W; rolls, 31 to 32c; cottage rolls. 33 to 34c; breakfast bacon, 40 to 4-lc;. snpcinl hranri hronlffiKsf Vine/in A7 tn of St. Boniface. St. Maurice County, is N o . 4 CW, 69k-c; rejected, 56 %cj! special brand breakfast bacon, 47 to a scene of desolation as a result of a feed. 56>-ic. |50c; backs, plain, bone in. 46 to 47c;' conflagration on Thursday afternoon,' All of the abcve in store at Fort which .all but settlement. The puri.-h wiped out the entire William. American corn 71e; nominal, C.I. church, the Gerbeault ; F - ba >' P rts - Hotel, the Uugre Bakery, the Boucher 4 . k ntari <"**-* ' 2 hite, store and four private residences were boneless. 48 to .We. Cured meats Long clear bacon, 27 to 28c; clear bellies. 2(i to 27c. 41 I Lard Pure, tierces. 13'~j to 14c;.- to' tub?, 14 to 14'sc; pails. 14U to J14^4c; print?. l.Ti to l(io. Shurtening, Ontario wheat NG. 2 Winter, $1.51), tierces, ll'i to 12c; tub^, 12 U> 12'io; destroyed- by the Hames. The lighting to $,(;,,_ per ^j. Iot . ^o. 2 Spring,' pails, 12S- to 13c; prints. 14 to 14'c. and telephone systems were put out'$i.4f, to $1.50; No. 2 Goosa wheat.! Choice heavy steers, $!) to $10; good of commission, and the hamlet is in nominal, shipping points, according to heavy stters. $8 to S9; butchers' st- darkness, except for the smouldering freight. Thc loss will exceed $100,000. The presumption is that the fire, which originated in the church, was caused by one of the lighted tapers there wero immigrants to be housed. ' ^nTthVtheTraperies a7thTalti Peas Xo. 2. $1.30 to $1.36. Barley Malting-, (>5 to 70c, accord- ing to freights outside. Bu.-kwheat N'o. .'?, nominal. Rye No. 2, S1.35 to $1.40; accoi-vl- ing to freights outride. round a suspected farm at Gutiidruin. Tipperary. When approaching tlve farm the conducted evening classes in m.iny varied subjects. In Toronto a similar W.E.A. has been operation for police were fired upon. They return- ( three years in conjunction with the ed the fire and then pursued the f ugi- j University of Toronto and seven tives half a mile, killing two of them, i classes (of which the largest was that The police suffered no casualties. in English literature) have been car- on d ur i n g the past winter. Last German Government Resigns ^ ovei ber W.E.A. was organized i ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ t H om I Irwtn nmJov* l-i. . n ,,.?*...... n *.!. Fall or Berlin Cabinet. A despatch from London says: The German Cabinet reigne:l on Wednesday evening, according to H Hamilton under the auspices of the Provincial University and another is in process of organization under the same auspices in Ottawa, So far as its finances and the size of its statf will permit, the Provincial University COAL STRIKE HOURLY ADDS TO BUSINESS PARALYSIS Lie, choice, $9 to S10; do, com.. to $7; do. med., $7 to $8 butt-tiers'; bulls, choice. ?9 to $10; do. eooil. SB to $7; do. com.. $4 to $5; butchers'i cc,\v. choice. S7.50 to $8.7;") ; <;:>. good, Sti.oll to $7.50; do, com.. $4 to $5; feedars, best. $7.75 to $9; <b, 900 A despatch from London says:- prophecy of J. H. Thomas. Secretary Great Britain's great coal strike is f tne National Unicn of Raihvaymcn. hourly adding to the general paraly- sis of busir.L-.--3 throughout th-v -.-oun- that within a week the strike would ! twins - - 8 to - 9c : "iplets, 29 to .'50c; old. large. 33 to 34c; do, twins. 33'- to lcg-distancc lolephone me?3a?e from j s anxious to promote this important Berlin received late on Wednesday anc i democratic branch of service. ni K nt - The University of Toronto is the Chancellor rphrenbacli decided to jr !e atest asset the people of Ontario quit office, on the recommendation of possess. It is reaching out to serve of the community who Pr. Simmons States' many' following the United - . - an vjt UL uie community wno may ' refua! tc intervene o.i Gev- 1 desire to make use of the advantage ;'s behalf in. the reparation's. tttoffen be settled. Meanwhile the country is faced with Manitoba fluur First patent, $10; ,$7.25 to $8.7o; do. 800 lb.=.. $5.75 to second patent. $9.50; bulk, seaboard. $H.7. r >; do, com.. $5 to- $(i; canners mid. Ontario flour $i.90, bulk seaboard, cutters, S2 to $4.50; milkers, good to, Millfeed Delivered, Montreal choice. $75 to $100; do. com. and med., freight, bags included: Bran, per ton,! $50 to SflO; choice springers, $85 to $33; shorts, per ton, S35; good feed -$110; iambs, yearlings. $10 to $11;, flour, $2.10 to $2.40 per bag. do. spring. $13 to $13.50; do. new Hay No. 1, per ton, $21 to $23. crop, eat-h. $10 to $15; calves, gi-od( Straw Car lot*, per twn, $12. to choice, $1 1 to $13.50; sheep, $0 to, Cheese New. large, 27 _ to 28c; ; $9.50; hogs, fed and watered. SI !. '.'5;, 'do. weig-hed off cars. $11.50; do. f.o.b.^ 34M-C; triplets, 34 V. to 35c; 'New Stil- ton, 32c try. Besides increasing the army of a . cutting: of its railway service to, British unemployed to more than four s k e i e to n proportions, entailing ad<M- ; 35,,. million, it has led to conditions that tional handicaps for all kinds of busi- ' 44 t Freeh dairy, choice, 33 to prints, fresh, No. 1, to 45.-; cuoking. 28c. $10.26; do, country points, $10. Mimlreal. Outs. Can. West., No. 2. 57c; do. No. 3, f>3e. Flour, Man. Spring wheat pats., firsts. $10.50. Rolled oats, bay 90 Ibs.. $!!. Bran. $29.25. Sli.irte., . . . have necessitated measures tantn- ness and spelling disastrous loss to Churning cream 35c per lb., but-: $31.25. Hay, No. 2. per ton, cai mount to the emergency regulations the seaside resorts because of the ter fat. of war times to conserve* the fast inability of the roads to handle the' shrinking supply of coal. Only two crowds. Another week of the strike rays of hope can be seen in tht- dond- and the railway service will be cut to locked situation. One is a move on practically half of the normal and the part of certain members of Par-| the large cities will be as dimly light- liament to secure the re-opening of ed as they were (luring the air raids negotiations and the other is a of thc war. Margarine 27 to 29c. Eggs New laid. 33 to 34c; laid, in cartons, 3ti to 37c. Be-an-s Canadian, hand-picked, bus. $2.90 to $3; primes, $2.40 to $2.50; Limas, Madagascar. 7 to 8e; Califor- nia Limas, 10 to 12c. Maple products. Syrup, per imp. s.l $24 to $25. Cheese, finest easterns, 23 Vi to 24c t rwwj Butter, choicest creamery, 33 to 36ft fresh, 34 to 35o. Potatoes, per, bag, car lots. 65 to 70c. Good veal, $7 to $7.50; med.. $5.50, to ?li.iiti. Good sheep, $9; spring lambsA $9 each. Hog's, off -car weig'hts, selects,) $13.50; sows. $9.50. REGLAR FELLERS By Gene Byrnes