Sherbrooke daily record, 26 janvier 1920, lundi 26 janvier 1920

[" Sherbrooke Dally Record Establishe' rnricr?pPV St Ch.\\91?oh^ '''\u2022\u2022ri,, e_ .Path#, SHERBROOKE, QUE.MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1920.PRICE TWO CENTS COUNCIL CONSIDERS REPLY TO HOLLAND TODAY Eight Were Killed And Many Injured In The Train Wreck THE JUGO-SIAVS ARE GIVEN FOUR DAYS MORE IN WHICH TO REPLY TO THE COUNCIL REGARDING PROPOSED COMPROMISE REGARDING ADRIATIC French Legal Experts Will Prepare a Reply to Holland Council Has Received a Letter from Polish Minister of|} Foreign Affairs Calling Attention to the Possibility of a Strong Aggressive Movement of the Bolshevists Against ; Polish Territory, and Recommending that a Plan Be Adopted for Defensive Measures \u2014 Note Was Also Received from the Germans Regarding Certain Provisions in the Treaty of Versailles.COLDEST NIGHT OF THE SEASON WAS RECORDED /TrrirTinnnnnnrTirinrinr^^ BOLSHEVISTS CLAIM TO HAVE REACHED THE CHINESE FRONTIER ANNOUNCE NEW FRENCH SUPREME WAR COUNCIL (Associated Press Despatch) LONDON, Jan.26.\u2014An official statement issued by the Soviet Government at T ,\t.n .n , c r Moscow says that the Bolshe- Enttl ,^\u201c\u201cr'i-Bre*ller f\"r \"\u201cI vik peasants1 eorps has reach- So So Forty-four Below Zero at Daylight £ (Associated Press Despatch) PARIS, Jan.26.\u2014Mar- re- (Associated Press Despatch) PARIS, Jan.26.\u2014The reply to the refusal of the Dutch Government to comply with the demand of the Allies for the surrender of former Emperor William of Germany was the first subject taken up at the initial meeting this morning of the Council of Ambassadors, created to carry on the unfinished routine work of the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference, which disbanded last week.It was decided that the French legal experts available should go into all the aspects of the case and prepare the reply, which probably will be submitted for approval of the Council at the beginning of next week.1 he discussion in the Council did not disclose the trend of fyLlJII\tT\tt D L ü Ï opinion among the members further than that it appeared to l/lSHOlëu Al HIJ IrSHSpOFL a OWlîâllP.n 1$ be the view that the legal phase of the question had become the chief one.The Council was presided over by Premier Millerand.After disposing for the day of the extradition question, the Council decided to give the representatives of the Jugo-Slavs four days additional time to reply regarding the proposed j, ,, N()w H J that ,he Big, H^dess Ship Will Be Brought compromise on the Adriatic question, including the disposition\t.\u2014.\u2014 -\t-\t-\ts of Fiume.This carries the question along until Wednesday.1 he Council received a letter from Stanilas Patek, the Polish I The general verdict of the proverb- ! ial weather prophets was that the weather man had \u201csomething up his L 1 u l i rr j n .\u2022 sleeve,\" and that their judgment is SnaiS roch, Jottre and retain 3 based on facts or superior knowledge; is pro.ved by what has been supplied in the way of weather during the past ; two weeks.Saturday the mercury stood at four degrees above z^ro, and was an ideal winter day.Yesterday the temperature began to low^r, standing at 15 below during the day, but toward evening \u201cJack Frost\u201d got right down to business, with the result that people hustled home from church in a thick frosty air, and heaped the furnace up oj with coal.At daylight this morning the Experimental Station thermometer registered 44 degrees below zero, with a gradual change to 33 below at 8 o\u2019clock.Thus Monday, January 26, is ed the Chinese frontier in the vicinity of Kobdo, on the western border of Mongolia.TWO SECTIONS OF THE C.P.R.\u2022 TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAIN ARE WRECKED AT COBEIL, ONTARIO First Section of Montreal to Vancouver Express Was Stalled Near North Bay by Engine Trouble, When Second Section Plunged Through Three Rear Coaches \u2014 Eight Dead and Twenty-one Injured is the Toll Taken by Accident.and Major - General Buat, chief of staff, make up the new French Supreme War Council, according to aa-nouncement.Nine generals will he chosen later to act on the council, which will be under the presidency of the Minister of War.Marshal Retain will be vice-president and commander-in-chief of French armies in time of war.-ooocppoo oooo ooo o.o oo ooooo j i corded as being \u2018¦he coldest yet.LOSES FINGERS WHEN BET ON SAW SLIPPED Alphonse Daigle In jured at General Lumber Company\u2019s Plant Today While Oiling Machine.Once Again Being Hauled To Halifax\u2014 U.S.Shipping Board Offers A Reward Alphonse Daigle, of 47B Front street, is now in a serious condition in the Sherbrooke Hospital, and it is believed he will lose almost his entire r.ght hand, as a result of an accident which occurred at the General Lumber Company, better known as Bush and Bartlett\u2019s, this morning.Daigle, who is an employee of the company, operates a circular saw, and because of the intense cold, he belt v as not working as it should.He was | under the machine at the time of the j ac\":dent, oiling the parts, when the ! belt slipped, and the blade of the saw H Minister of Foregn Affairs, calling attention to the possibility of a strong aggressive movement by the Bolshevists against Polish territory, and recommending that a plan be adopted for defensive measures.1 he letter asked that the question be .ailed to the attention of Marshal Foch.The Council will give iLp letter further consideration\tfor the past two days was adrift in a me letter runner consideration.\tgale, with a flotilla of rescue craft The Council also had before it a note from the German standing by, is once more being tow-; plenipotentiaries raising certain points regarding the make-up edTwot Unitefstatcs tugs are \u2022slowly, - of the boundary commissions provided for by the Treaty of but steadily, hauling the big helpless i / -it\tship to Halifax, and it is now hoped Versailles.\t^hat the Powhattan will be brought .The questions were raised by the Germans because of the to P°,rt before night falls.The exact non-ratification of the treaty by the United States and the con- Repeated Requests '\"for ^thkT'mforma- sequent lack of American members on the commissions as tlon having so far been unanswered, ^\tf\t,\t_\tr i owing:, no doubt, to the fact that the provided for by the peace document.1 he absence of the Powhattan\u2019s wireless batteries are American also raised a question as to the presidency of the Y^rv wealc- The message telling of commissions to control the plebiscite in the 1 eschen territory, C.H.Harvey, marine agent here, from i on the Czecho-Slovak-Pole frontiers.It was pointed out that P08nP g!\" erament^ame0/LadyDwl i the French member would act, pending the qualification of the ier.It was as follows: American members through the ratification of the pact, should licfT^he^d'^of ^ '^Pow^attan^ Tug such action be taken by the United.States Government.\tj\u201cAcushnet\u201d ahead of the \u201cRelief.\u201d At the close of the morning session the Council decided to before^nd w^^curedJ\u2019 bUt lüSt ^ hold another meeting this afternoon.\tShipping men here say that the work os passing out hawsers to the dis- JAPANESE MINISTER HAS INFORMED CHINESE\t\u2019d^ffîcuifTtLre^hf,m baen llll THAT JAPAN WILL SUCCEED TO THE RIGHTS\tstrong pale and the thermometer is FORMERLY ENJOYED BY GERMANY IN KIAO-CHAU K\u2019tfcS.riShSto\"£ +_____________________________ tow within the next few hours, and (Associated Press Despatch) to Halifax Before Night Falls \u2014 \u201cLaurier\u201d Expected to Make Fast to the Tow Again, and Combined Pull of the Government Steamer and Two Tugs Should Bring the Powhattan Along at Four or Five Knots an Hour.(Associated Press Despatch) CORBEIL, ONT., Jan.26.\u2014The first section of the Montreal to Vancouver transcontinental train, stalled here, within a few miles of North Bay, yes- \\ # terday morning at 11.15 o\u2019clock, by ^ engine trouble, was struck by the ^ second section of the same train, com- ^ ing up from the rear.\t^ The latter locomotive\tploughed ^ through the observation ear and the ^ two sleeping cars directly\tahead.\t# The known dead are officially given # out as eight, mostly westerners, with : # twenty-one more or less severely in- # jured.\t.\t* IMMIGRATION ORDER PASSED.#- I #- DEATH TOTAL IS EIGHT.(Associated Press Despatch) MONTREAL, Jan.26.\u2014The dead in the wreck on the Canadian Pacific Railway at Corbeil, Ontario, on Sunday morning remained at eight, according to early advices to the head office of the company here today.OTTAWA, Jan.26.\u2014An order in council has been passed requiring that unattended female immigrants at atlantic ports be in possession of ailing permits, issued by the Canadian Immigration Superintendent at St.John.* * «s * * * è « * * -ip \\ OWES LIFE TO MISTAKE, i jjj.-i (Associated Press Despatch) OTTAWA, Jan.26.\u2014Orders to central station staff to attach the private car of Charles Murphy, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway lines, to the first sectionof the Van- -»- DISEASE BROKE OUT ABOARD A TRANSPORT passed across his hand, severing the couver Express, which was wrecked j Major-General Healey Succumbed to Disease \u2014 Four Soldiers and One Woman also Died.\u2022 # # # * * TEN THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD OFFERED.(Associated Press Despatch.) DUBLIN, Jan.26.\u2014A proclamation posted in Dublin yesterday, contains the offer thumb and several fingers.Lord\u2019s Motor Ambulance was called, and the injured man was taken to the Sherbrooke Hospital, where Dr.Gordon and Dr.George Hume were called.by the Lord Lieutenant of 1(1,000\t: s\u2018rlg favorably.IS PROGRESSING FAVORABLY.Mr.Robert Emerson, of 115 St.Gabriel street, who was injured in the warehouse of the J.S.Mitchell Company, on Saturday, when a heavy bar j of-iron fell upon him, is reported to be.doing well at the Sherbrooke Hospi- and discovered that tah\tsecond section.Mr.Emerson suffered a severe wound on his head, m which six stitches were taken, but he is now progres- yesterday morning in a pitch-in atj Corbeil, were not carried out.To this fact he owes his life.The car was pounds reward for information within three months, leading to the conviction of persons guilty of the murder of fourteen police officers, including Deputy Commissioner Redmond.# - *s I TWO CONSTABLES SHOT.I (Associated Press Despatch) #\t; LONDON, Jan.26.\u2014Armed men, ifc \\ wearing masks, attacked the police tSt j barrack at Baltinglass, County Wick- #\tj low, last evening and shot .nd wound- #\tj ed one constable severely and another slightly.The miscreants escaped.PEKING, Jan.26.\u2014The Japanese Minister has informed the Chinese Government that Japan, in accordance with the peace treaty, will succeed to the rights formerly enjoyed by Germany in Kiao Chau.He further! stated that Japan was ready to nego- j tiate regarding the retrocession of the leased territory if China were willing,1 emphasizing the fact that when ar- j rangements were completed Japan would immediately withdraw the rail-! way guards from Shantung.China j nas not yet replied.MONTENEGRO WRITES NOTE TO CONFERENCE DENOUNCES THE RECENT CRIMES IN IRELAND Condemn These Crimes as a Most Grave Violation of the Laws of God,\u201d States Archbishop Harty.\u2014\u2014\u2014 (Associated Press Despatch)\t(Associated Press Despatch) PARIS, Jan.26.\u2014A strong note .TLHjRLES, Irelamd, Jan.26.\u2014Arch-,ias been addressed to the Peace Con- 1.,IS,!°P «***, m the Thu r es Oathe-ference by the Montenegrin Govern- dra yesterday, denounced the recent nena at Neuilley.In connection with crlrJles.Ireland, saymg: ffie discussion of the Adriatic ques- 1>l}rlnff the ^ week shocking \u2022.ion, protest is made against the «vents have occurred m 1 hurles and \u2018manner in which Montenegro\u2019s sov- neighborhood.Anncd raids on police, \u2022reign rights have been trampled on,\" barracks the wilful murder of a con-ind it is declared that the Supreme arable and an attack b> the police on Council has \u201cdeliberately, without undefended and inoffensive homes tonsuiting the Montenegrin popula- rail for universal condemnation and ;ion, taken decisions in flagrant con-! re^,.ü0b.at,0,1\u2022 :radiction to its previous decisions.\u201d that the combined pull of the Govern .bring the Powhattan along at four or! ment steamer and the two tugs should ; ; five knots per hour, j The United States Shipping Board, announced last night that a reward \\ of $150,000 would be given to any! vessel bringing in the Powhattan.The, following radio v,m the Powhattan was intercepted last night: \u201cOn board S.S.Powhattan\u2014Gresham, Acushnet and Lady Laurier ; standing by ; Ossippee near by, but not in sight.Want King Fisher and Relief soon as possible.Water gaining .slowly, and if we are greatly delayed, fields, Limited, steel manufacturers, British Navy May Soon Be Given A New Weapon In A Shell Which Will Pierce Heaviest Armor Without Shattering Sir Robert Hadfield Makes Announcement and States that Such a Shell Will Render the British Gun Unsurpassed, Incomparable, and the Master in any Naval Engagements in the Future \u2014 Such a Shell During Great War Would Have Been of Inestimable Value to British Fleet.(Associated Press Despatch) * LONDON, Jan.26.\u2014A tragic story noticed in the station after the first °f an outbreak of disease was told on section had pulled out.It was known the arrival at Plymouth of the trans- : P\u201c* «;**.\t«*.offi- that,\u201d said a station yard official, as cers 'v)th 800 men of various regi-he called attention to thé fact that the ments, besides women and children, car was still there.It was attached j The epidemic broke out when tha to the rear of the second section, and 1 ship was between Bombay, and the probably it was some hours after leav- ! Red Sea, and altogether 100 to 150 ing Ottawa, that Mr.Murphy awoke : men were stricken.he was on the] In the Red Sea, Major-General T.\u201e ,\t,\tt\tHealey succumbed.Four soldiers and Lieut.-Colonc-I Rflbert Innés, one of ,one -woman passenger also died, and a il lr;JUcL r/S,deu m ,?tta,Wa at 451 after the vessel came to anchor in Albert Street, and is the director of, piymouth Sound, Colonel Douglas T T r heT Sol\u2018 Clark, in command of the West Kent aiers bettlement Board.Coi.Innés '.n i .\t*\t,\t, was en route to his home in Victoria,\t\u2019\t8 f6W d8yS Captain Leslie Burrows, who is IIlness- among the injured, was for some -'-\u2014-rr: time on the staff of militia head-1 _ quarters here and figured largely in Carbeil yesterday on the Canadian testimony respecting the raid on the * ac'111*-\u2019 Railway in which eight or more Jesuit Guelph Novitiate, which was i PeoPle lost, thelr !ives\u2019accordi.nF to remade the subject of a Royal Commission inquiry following charges on the floor of the House by Sir Sam Hughes, *- #- TORPEDOES DID NOT EXPLODE LOUD ENOUGH.(Associated Press Despatch) ports reaching the company\u2019s offices here this morning.When the first section of the Transcontinental train was stalled owing to the difficulty in raising steam through the extreme cold, its crew went along back along the tracks and fixed torpedoes to act as a warning to the second section.The members of the crew of the i ine memoers or tne crew MONTREAL, Jan.26.\u2014Failure of second train report that they did not torpedoes to explode loudly enough hear the torpedoes and their train ran to be heard above the road of the i on and into collision with a pullman was the cause of rear end collision at1 car, which was telescoped.* REVOLT AT MOSCOW, STATES DORPAT REPORT (Asswinted Press Despatch) HELSINGFORS, Jan.26.\u2014Reports wei] as m\u20acti \u201cIt is most horrible and shocking that anybody should commit murder in cold blood.It is also shocking that a number of police, whose special duty it is to protect life and property, should engage in an orgy of violence and endanger the lives of many innocent people, women and children, as >0.! Dorpat say a revolt has broken >ut among the Red garrison at Mos-:ow.Another report says that the peo-)le\u2019s commissaries at Moscow have noved to Tver, owing to the spread >f the plague.COUNCIL IS ASKED TO LIFT BLOCKADE \u201cWith all the authority I can com mand, 1 condemn these crimes as a nuxst, grave violation of the laws of God.\u201d it may be necessary to take off all no chances in keeping all hands on crew, except volunteers.Will take board.Randall.\u201d HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS IN QEBEC PLANNED (Associated Press Despatch) * LONDON, Jan.26.\u2014\u201cThe British Navy may soon be given a new and \u201cunsurpassed\" weapon in a large calibre shell which will pierce i ^ the heaviest armor witheut shatter- ! ^ ing,\u201d said Sir Robert Hadfield, chair-) ^ man and managing director of Had- : ^ » * * * » » recently.He indicated that possession of such a shell during the great war would have been of inestimable value to the British Fleet.The feat has been accomplished, he said, within the last few days, of getting the largest calibre of armor-piercing shell unbroken through the thickest of modern hard-faced armor-plate.This result will render the British gun unsurpassed, incomparable, I and the master in any naval engage-) ments m the future.\u201cIf we had possessed such a shell,\" said Sir Robert, \u201cduring the war, I many of the German battleships would have been \u2018scuttled\u2019 long before their & SAYS HE WILL MARCH ON OTTAWA.(Associated Press Despatch.) HAMILTON, ONT., Jan.26.\u2014J.H.Flynn, President of the United Veterans League, says that if the $2,000 gratuity is not granted by the government, he will organize fifty thousand men to march on Ottawa, and demand it.* Dr.Desloges Says Government is|cnd at Scapa Flow,\" Considering Erection of Such an Institution.POLICE BARRACKS ATTACKED.LIMERICK, Jan, 26.\u2014The police barracks at Murro, occupied by eight constables, was attacked after midnight by about forty armed men.The two parties exchanged shots for a couple of hours.The raiders vainly (Associated Press Despatch) tried to bomb the building, but finally BASLE, Jan.26 \u2014 M.Bazpalko, decamped on the approach of the milV ninister of labor in the Ukrainian tary.So far as known nobody was in-(Oorvtinucd from page 5.)\tjured.(Associated Press Despatch) QUEBEC, Jan.26.\u2014Dr.A.H.Desloges, inspector of insane asylums and institutions for the feeble-minded in the province of Quebec, announced at a meeting Saturday afternoon of members of the local committee on mental hygiene, that the Quebec Government was considering establishment of a hospital for epileptics, and that he hoped to see it in operation before many years had passed.Victims of this complaint, the meeting was told, were frequently neither insane nor feeble-minded, and it was a lamentable condition that at present there wore no places available for their care and treatment other than insane asylums.+\ti> -P \u2022{> 4> \u2022> f THE WEATHER * RISING TEMPERATURE; LIGHT SNOW.Pressure is high from the Great Lakes eastward and over the northwestern portion of the continent, while i a moderate disturbance is approach- ; ing Lake Superior from the west- ! ward.The weather is moderating in West- ! em and Northern Ontario, but con-! tinucs cold in other parts of the Do-1 minion.Snow has fallen throughout the Western Provinces.Southeast winds; rising temperature, light snow tonight and on Tuesday.FOUNDED CITY OF MONTREAL 4% REGISTERED STOCK DUE 1932, 1948 and 1950 Interest payment* made semi-annually by cheque on Bank of Montreal, Montreal, mailed to the registered holder hy the City Treasurer, Montreal.Stock transferrable in denominations of one pound or $4-86 2-3.Full particulars on application.PRICE TO YIELD 5.85% HANSON 5ROS.Investment Securities 160 St James 5L, Montreal A Good Investment /T'HE money you save earns interest when deposited in our Savings Department, and both principal and interest are safe and can be obtained whenever required.Open an account to-day.\t484 THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE PAID-UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUND $15,000.000 $15,000,000 Fires Break Out and thieves break in.Don\u2019t risk th® first, or invite the second, by keeping money in the house.Put it in The Merchants Bank, where it will be safe from loss\u2014 always available\u2014and earn interest at highest current rates.THC MCRCHANTS BANK Head Office: Montreal.OF CANADA SHERBROOKE BRANCH, BURY BRANCH, Established 1864.H.IRWIN, Manager.H.J.SIMONS, Manager.1 PAGE TWO SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1920, Bringing Up Father COPYRIGHT 1918.By George McManus 1 WHOLE FUMILV IS I NUÎ>tA -.IlCCt)\u2022 kin i CO HOMtf ^ FO DINNER-WE 1^.CONNA HAVE CHICKEN ' tjA'T DON'T N'Oo think OT Eat in ANN THINC ÔOT Chicken1?U VAa t)AR \u2022 AN WHILE I ^ HERE « NICHT A«b WELL AtsK NO THE \u201cDANE Question WELL I DID CWE IT A LITTLE ATTENTION DON'T NOU THINK BEEF OR MUTTON iti JLVbT Ati COOO- IMAT&E \u2022 BUT HOW IB I CONN A HIDE A COW OR A \u2018bHEEP UNDER.THIti COAT ?WHAT AOAIN 0 TO TOMORROW ill Ü!:i :i ; B* 'W ^\ts s.* W'mi* \u2022A N,.-.\u2022>.Mrti.¦» Inrib Fsatunb Sinvicr.iWK Your Choice tn laundry serrice.Everything carefully -washed and ironed.Or Pound Wash\u2014where the bed end table linen is carefully washed and nicely ironed, with me Personal wear washed and dried.\u2014Better and cheaper than liny home plan.ST.FRANCIS DISTRICT-LOCAL HAPPENINGS A.V.S.CULLINS & SON.Canadian money at par.Daily Report from Correspond- ter( Mrs.Skerry, accompanied enls of What is Going on in after a visit of a few weeks ii V arious Communities.\ther sister.Mrs.Laru, in Montre».ville recently.».______ Mrs.Sorel and Miss I.Weir, Miss Germaine Goyette is visiting ^fve^Pe^_ a few weeks.Miss Milicent Hudson has returned RICHMOND DERBY LINE HOTEL g i B \"ir-I S?!&S 'to'learn^that N» .-»« vi.it to Montreal.i he received this wek a commission as .Miss Mary Bedford, nurse-in-train-colonel in the armv of Canada.The mg m the Sehrbrooke Hospital, is commission, signed by the Duke of spending a few days at home Devonshire GoverncOwGenera! of c^-'Homeewas presenteVin the Legisi'ative Services will continue throughout the ada, is gi\\en m.^e^S^tion or^,anjj,a