Sherbrooke daily record, 12 avril 1919, samedi 12 avril 1919

[" Sherbrooke Daily Record a* Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE., SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919.PRICE TWO CENTL «CM DELEGATES DOUBT IF GERMANY WILL BE ABLE TO PAY WAR BILL ALLIft rntSENTED PRES.WILSON ATTACKED BY SINN FEINERS However, French and British are Mobilizing for a Proposé\t^aJera ^ays League to Exact Nothing Less Than Full Indemnification of the Allies By Germany for All the Costs of the War\u2014Insist on Germany\u2019s Ability to Pay.Movement is Not Democratic and Will Set Up Greater Tyranny Than Before.DUBLIN, April 12.\u2014 The Sinn, Fein Parliament yesterday discussed the League of Nations.Professor Ed-j ward De Valera said that Ireland was ; ready to become a constituent unit, j proposal to but only on the basis of the equality,; _r\tof rights of all nations, great andi oi tne cmou ti,q\thope 0f WOrld| (Associated Press Despatch.) PARIS, 12.\u2014While the members of the British and French parliaments are mobilizing for a exact nothing less than full indemnification ox me smali: The whole cT-lues by E*ermany for all the costs of the war and are insist- was in President Wilson, he contin ing on Germany\u2019s ability to pay the full bill, the American was not STraüc'TvicSated representatives on the Reparation Commission express con- the principle of equality and would siderable doubt whether even the account to be presented to \u201c\u2018TS * Se'ftÎ?\t££ Lxermany under the plan adopted by the Council of Four ec* President Wilson and called him (estimated at about $45,000,000,000, with the payments\t°f spread oyer a period of thirty years) can or will be collected Nations on prostrate humanity, in full.They assert that they can see the *¦ possibility that the ways and means PEACE TERMS WILL BE KNOWN IN A FEW WEEKS L ONDON, April 12.\u2014 (British Wireless Service)\u2014Winston Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for War, speaking yesterday afternoon, said that in a few weeks or possibly less the terms which the Allies had agreed to impose on the enemy would be known.Mr.Churchill added that what Great Britain wanted was a peace that would not be a fleeting triumph, but a peace of solid structure, on a broad and lasting foundation.U.S.COAL MEN HUNTING FOR A MARKET ABROAD Delegates Sailed Today-a Coal Surplus on 100,000,000 Tons.-There is Hand of ORGANIZATION TO REGULATE LABOR CONDITIONS AU OYER THE WORLD RECOMMENDED BY COMMISSION of holding Germany to payment will grow weaker as the years pass and that Germany may take advantage of some convenient opportunity in cater1 years to repudiate her obligations to the present Allied Powers under the peace treaty.They recall the acti-n of Russia in repudiating the restrictive Black Sea clauses of tne t.'taty imposed at the conclusion of the Cri- ! mean War at a moment when a new political constallation in Europe gave the Emperor of Russia a fair amount of certainty that Russia could do this with impunity.- BELGIAN LABOR MEMBER GAVE MINORITY REPORT BAVARIA NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PEACE TREATY B PARIS, April 12.\u2014At the meeting of the Peace Conference yesterday, before the report of the Committee on International Labor Legislation was adopted, Emile Vandervelde.the Belgian labor delegate, made what was, in effect, a minority report.He advocated the admission to the International law conference of delegates from countries with which a state of war still exists, saying that otherwise, he felt that there might be held anothor conference where the proletariate from all countries would be represented and which would yield more power than the conference to be held in Washington next October.He concluded by saying that questions relative to the adoption of an eight hour day.equality of salaries for (Associated Press Despatch) ERLIN, April 12.\u2014A special despatch from Bamberg to the Vossi-sche Zeitung says that the German Government has announced that the Ertente Powers have informed it that Bavaria is not to be included in the conclusion of peace and that measures will be taken to prevent any Entente foodstuffs from reaching Bavaria.Other speakers criticized the American President, but Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn Fein organization said President Wilson was at the present time fighting England, France and Italy, and that Ireland would support him in his conflict with the old diplomacy.RUSSIAN SOVIET STATEMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED States that Their Troops Have Occupied Birsula, Northwest of Odessa.LONDON, April 12.\u2014A Russian (Soviet) official statement under date of April 8, received by wireless today, says: \u201cIn the direction of Odessa we have occupied Birsula (about 115 Odessa).\u201cIn the direction of Sarnak we men and women workers and iegisla- -,\t^\t.tion dealing with night work must be ml'es northwest of settled.\u201cThere are two ways to arrive at have occupied the towns of Koroste these results,\u201d he said.\u201cOne is the and Iskorot, the enemy retiring to-Russian way and the other the Bri- wards the Bug River, tish method.I prefer the latter.\u2019 \u201cIn the direction of Tarnopol, we M Colliard, the French Labor dele- have occupied Proskurov (sixty miles gate, spoke briefly, be speaking oast of Tarnopol) and Staro Ron- thirst, rain and discomfort for four French support and approval of the stantinov, (thirty miles northeast of years in MesopotJHr^j No general has J\t\"\"sr been mord lotàuy s LONDON, April 12.\u2014 ^British Wireless)\u2014In a despatA dealing with the concluding stages of the fighting in Mesopotamia, Lieut.-General Sir \\V.R.Marshall, Commander of the British Expeditionary Forces, says that the actual captures since the beginning of the campaign, which lasted just four years, amounted to 45,000 prisoners and 25C guns, together with vast quantities of war material of all descriptions.\u201cThese results,\u201d says General Marshall, \u201chave been achieved in a country destitute of shade in summer and subject to floods in winter, and are a lasting record to the gallantry and endurance of the officers and men, both British and Indian, who have fought uncomplainingly, in spite of heat, NEW YORK, April 12.\u2014Frankie J.Hayes, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and Rob- (Associated Press Despatch) ert Harlan, a member ot the execut- parto\t.\t.jive board, sailed for France yesterday PARIS.APril\t12.-The report\tof on the steamer George Washington.Commission on International La-According to William Green, secre- bor Legislation, containing a draft tary of the Union, the purpose of convention creating a permanent or- wifS.\u2019arS.yTmXlkl rr,0\"1'r States finding a market abroad for Uonal relation of Labor conditions, Pt e ouarter of the coal surplus a recommendation for an interna-of 100,000,000 tons which has accum.tlonal labor\tconference and\tdetailed uiatea here since the signing of the *a,:)or terms\tto.\tbe inserted\tin\tthe armistice.\t; peace treaty, was presented yester- .¦r,n.\"i,\"e'\"i\u2019T::.lcu3e.; day ifternoon at the plenary ses- jsion of tbe Peace Conference.| The report aims to provide against , the lowering of labor conditions by ! permitting fierce competition after the war and a permanent international labor bureau and a regular in-jternational Tabor conference.| The commission appointed at the plenary session of the Peace Conference on January IS consisted of fifteen members, representing Great |Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Cuba, Poland and Czecbo-Slovakia.Who Hava meetings were held and the report, finished March 24, was made public April 3.Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation\u2019 of Labor, acted as general chairman.The entire consideration of the conference centered in the belief that universal peace could be established only if based on social justice.The preamble of the report says; | \u2018Conditions of labor exist iuvolv-Ung such injustice, hardship and pri-J vation to large numbers of people as I to produce unrest so great that the ! peace aed harmony of the world is Commission on International Labor Legislation in Report tc Peace Conference Aim to Provide Against the Lowering of Labor Conditions By Permitting Keen Competition After the Signing of Peace.«Jh ib dt rtb .