Sherbrooke daily record, 28 juin 1922, mercredi 28 juin 1922

[" « Sherbrooke Daily Record Established 1897.3HERBROOKE, QUE., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1922.Twenty-sixth Year.FIERCE BATTLE IS RAGING IN DUBLIN TODAY Senate Amendments Are Accepted By House Of Commons Irish Republican Troops Have Launched Attack On O\u2019Connor\u2019s Irregulars Herce Battle has Been Raging Since Dawn Be= tween Government Troops and irregulars for Possession of Four Courts, Recently Seized by the Latter\u2014Garrisons of Four Courts and Fowler Memorial Replying Vigorously to Attackers\u2019 Fire and Refusing all Demands to Surrender\u2014One Report States That Many of the Insurgent Troops Under Rory O\u2019Connor are Retreating.*.# «; «S & #\tPREPARING FOR AN AT- è « TACK ON CANTON.& £ - * #\t(Associated Press Despatch.) & #\tLONDON, June 28.\u2014A de- * #\tspatch to the Central News # #\tfrom Hong Kong says Dr.* #\tSun Yat Sen, head of the * ALLIES REPLY TO PROPOSALS BY RUSSIANS World Must Know What Soviet Officials Intended to Do with Credits.(Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, June 28.\u2014The Irish Provisional Government took forceful action today against the insurgents of the Irish Republican Army, investing the Four Courts Building, where the insurgents were entrenched, and opening a hot attack when a demand for surrender was turned down.The fighting, which opened shortLy after four o\u2019clock in the morning, was still in progress late this afternoon, the crack of the rifle fire and the rattle of the machine guns resounding over Dublin above the noise of the city\u2019t traffic, which was being carried on as usual.Fowler Hall, on Parnell Square, occupied by Irregulars, also was attacked by the Irish Government troops.The official troops commanded the Four Courts building from all sides, but the nature of the structure made an assarflt difficult, and as the building contained legal documents, there was no disposition to fire the structure as a means of -beating the insurgents.\tj\t________ The number of casualties on either side was not known definitely, but j British Troops in Dublin Will fourteen have been reported to mid-forenoon.Three irregulars were .\t.\t,, \u201e C1 ,, \u201e\t\u2019 carried out of the Four Courts Building by the rear exit at nine-thirty\tAssist Lollins Should He Deo\u2019clock.They were believed to be badly wounded, and it was rumored two\tsire Them to Do So.others of the Irregulars had -been killed.Artillery was employed to some extent by the Provisional Government troops, at least one eighteen pounder having been in action, and considerable damage was reported to have been done the insurgents (Associated Press Descatcfc) THE HAGUE, June 28.\u2014Determined to go to the limit of conciliation, European delegates acceded to I the Russian request to discuss cred-jits first, and at the initial joint meet-jing of the Conference yesterday, j Russian proposals were heard, and Jan unequivocal reply was made to | them, j The formal Bolshevik request for an arrangement for loans or credits ~\ti 'was met by the pronouncement on *\tlisted\tf the Part of tke Allies that before I\t+d\tb\tP\t* 'there couId be any thought of cred- *\tand\tis preparing to\tattack\t* |its the world mus^t know the exact situation in Russia and what the Soviet intended to do with the credits.Moreover, the Russians were informed that capital could only flow to Russia in proportion to the re-establishment of confidence, and confidence largely depended upon ¦what the Bolshevists did about pri- -S'\t^ *\tGOOD HAY CROP IN QUE- * *\tBEC ASSURED.\t# » - # 5?(Associated Press Despatch.) & & MONTREAL, June 28\u2014 Hf The hay crop of the Province # *\tof Quebec is assured, Hon, J.S-% E.Caron, Provincial Minister it?*\tof Agriculture stated at the * *\tGovernment offices.He add- SÏ » ed that prospects were it Sfe » would be a bumper crop.a *\tL* CASE AGAINST*BOISSEAU OPENS AT ST.HYACINTHE & Canton.\tm Sfc _ Warships are co-operating & SSL in the movement The de- SSl SSl spatch adds that Dr.Sun de- S?SSl mands 83,000,000, upon the SSL SSl payment of which he will de- SSl SSl sist from the operation and SSL SSs quit Canton.^S;***^®****^* jvate property and debts All three Lf- v ««LS\tquestions, it was declared, were in- former Member of Parliament Is Charged with Misappropriation of Funds.DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COMMONS ANDSENATE AROSEOVERCOUPLE OF BUIS AT aOSING SESSION The First Session of Canada\u2019s Fourteenth Parliament Was Brought to a Close Early This Morning\u2014The House of Commons Finally Accepted Senate Amendments to the Canada Temperance Act and to the Bill Regarding the Cancellation of Leases of Dominion Lands\u2014In the Closing Hours Members of Commons Were in a Merry Mood.terdenendent and inseparable.! Maxim Litvinoff, head of the So-iviets, agreed to supply detailed information.Æ (Associated Press Desnatch) # ST.HYACINTHE, June 28.\u2014 The case of Armand Boisseau, notary and former M.P.for St.Hyacinthe, charged with misappropriation of funds, opened here yesterday with the selection of a jury.The general impression prevails that a change of venue will be asked for.CROP OUTLOOK* VERY PROMIS-ING (Associated Press Despatch) QUEBEC, June 28.\u2014According to the report of La Banque Nationale, the outlook for this year\u2019s crops in the Province of Quebec is very promising, and it states that in all parts of the Province a crop above\u2019 the average is anticipated.REGULAR ARMY 8a®',!ï 0ut Int 5SIUA1IÜN On Saturday Unless Railroads Agree To Withhold Cut Announced For That Date (Associated Press Despatch) OTTAWA, June 28.\u2014Sir Louis Davies, Deputy Governor, at 1.30 this morning, formally prorogated the first session of Canada\u2019s fourteenth parliament.The end of the séssion came nearly four hours after scheduled time.Differences between the Commons and Senate arose over a couple of hills, one amending the Canada Temperance Act in regard to the rights of private individuals in British Col- of Canada Temperance Act, the Commons had to surrender the section which gave British Columbia authority to prevent the private import of liquor.It also exercised its customary moderating influence on the Commons amendments to the criminal code, accepting some and rejecting others more readily.SEVERAL CRITICAL SITUATIONS.There were several critical situa- umbia to import liquor, and the tions during the session.On the other touching the cancellation of McMaster resolution to prohibit leases of Dominion lands.\tMinisters of the Crown from hold- The Senate amended the bills and ing directorships in certain coroora- o\tfA oaaat,*\ttionS( the Government had the'sup- port of the Conservatives, the majority by the union of Liberals and i______\u2022\t.i (Associated Press Despatch) LONDON, June 28.\u2014It is believed ihere that the Irish Regular forces, stronghold.This had been strongly fortified by the Irregulars^ who\u2019repHed ! -fv\t^ vigorously to the fire of the attacking parties.\treplied ^.strong and well equipped to deal FIRE BROKE OUT AT NOON IN FOWLER HALL (Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, June 28\u2014Fire broke out in Fowler Hall, under attack by the regular Free State troops, shortly after noon.At that hour it appeared that the Irregulars holding the Four Courts had taken refuge in the cellar in the rear of that structure.Statement Was Issued Last Night by B.M.Jewell, Head of the Shop Crafts, to the Association of Railway Executives\u2014Four H» .\u201cL-ed Thousand Shopmen Will Be Called Out, It Is Stated.(Associated Press Despatch) CHICAGO, June 28.\u2014A strike of the 400,000 railway shopmen of the country will be called with the situation which has arisen in Dublin.A majority of their arms, including machine guns and artillery, have been supplied by the British Government under the terms of July first unless the railroads agree the.Anglo-Irish Treaty.They are , to stay the $60,000,000\twage cut manning their own artillery.\t' due the\tshop workers on that date j\t^ There are i several thousand\tBri- and to\trestore working\tconditions\t\u2019 [tish troops still in Dublin, and\tit is formerly in effect, it\twas made ### MINERS DECIDE TO POSTPONE DRASTIC ACTION.the Commons declined to accept the Senate amendments.Managers were appointed by each House and there were protracted conference^.In the end the House acepted the Senate amendmentstoboth bills.The Commons\u2019 managers proposed to make the exercise of the control of import by British Columbia subject to approval by the Legislature, but this was rejected by the Senate and the bill was accepted without the section giving the Province control of import.The bjll regarding the cancellation of leases, as it passed, contained only two sections and merely validates the cancellation of leases.The section setting aside a reserve in the Smoky River region of Alberta was rejected previously by the Commons, and in this the Senate concurred.During the debate on.this bill a protest against the assertion of the right of amendment of Commons bills was entered by Lucien Cannon, who declared, amid Liberal and Progressive cheers, that the sooner ^ I there wag Senate reform the better.REDISTRIBUTION BILL ¦¦v ting down the rebellion in the North.SUR- REPORTED THAT RORY O\u2019CONNOR HAD BEEN WOUNDED (Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, June 28\u2014A rumor that Rory O'Connor, the Republican Insurgent commandant, had been wounded during the fighting was in circulation this afternoon.No confirmation was obtainable.1XTV, ______________ ! NO REPLY TO ORDER TO MAN) OF INSLRGENT IRISH TROOPS ARE RETREATING\tRENDER.(Associated Press Despatch)\t| (Associated Press Despatch) LONDON, June 28.\u2014A Dublin despatch to the Evening (Standard I DUBLIN, June 28\u2014The arrange-eays that after some hours of fighting many of the insurgent Irish troops'mentS f°r the investment of the in-under Rory O\u2019Connor are retreating.The correspondent in a later despatch says he understands the insurgent garrison in the Fowler Memorial Hall has capitulated to the Provisional Government forces.[intimated that should Collins request knowni last night through a telegram aid from this source troops would be from B.M.Jewell, head of the shop placed at his disposal exactly as was crafts, to the Association of Railway done when the Ulster Government]Executives, desired military assistance in put- GOVERNMENT TROOPS FIRED UPON BY COMMUNISTS (Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, June 28\u2014The premises in north Great George Street, occupied by the Communist party and the I.WAV., as headquarters, was fortified after the Government attack on the Four Courts had begun, and Government troops were fired upon from the newly fortified building.GARRISON IS BELIEVED TO BE PARTICULARLY WELL EQUIPPED\u2014THE NUMBER OF DEFENDERS IS UNKNOWN (Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, From the early hour there has been considerable activity by the regular troops in all parts of the city, people both afoot and in vehicles being held up and searched for arms.Eighty civilians were observed outside the Four Courts digging up the road, guarded by an armored car.Five hundred regular troops wdth armored cars and military ambul- in, and well provisioned against a siege.The determination of the Provisional Government to recapture the Four Courts is ascribed entirely to the insurgents\u2019 act in seizing Lieutenant-General O\u2019Connor, assistant chief of staff of the regular forces, and not to Colonial Secretary Churchill's warning in the House of Commons.About seven hundred men were engaged on the Government side ances passed through Westmorland J and the rattle of rifle and machine Street into Sackville Street, one | gun fire was punctuated by the ex-R?rty going into Henry Street and | plosions of bombs and the occasional booming of twelve pounder ar- another into Abbey Street, fro.1» both of which the fire of the Four Courts can be approached.Shortly after four o\u2019clock there was a heavy outburst of firing in the neighborhood of the Four Courts, followed by a loud explosion and a number of rifle shots in quick .succession, and it was evident1 that O\u2019Connor\u2019s stronghold was be- ! ing attacked.Elaborate preparations were made by O'Connor's forces yesterday and late last night to strengthen their defenses in anticipation of the attack, which their leader boasted he desired and did not fear.He has held the building since the middle of April and has turned it into a fortress by piling sandbags, law books and furniture against the windows, barring several of the doors, and guarding the remaining approaches with barbed vvire.The.garrison is believed to he particularly well equipped with rifles and ammunition, while machine guns are posted on the roof.The number of the (defenders is un- tillery.Orange Hall, taken over by the insurgents as a \u201crefuge for Belfast Catholics,\u2019\u2019 was also attacked.surgents were in charge of General Ennis, the officer commanding the eastern division.These having been completed, a message was sent to the garrison in the Four Courts at 3.30 o\u2019clock demanding- the surrender of the building within an hour.was mt;li So far as can be learned no reply ^ mana_erg was returned.Shortly after four o\u2019clock an armored car passed up the quay in front, of the building and is declared by the Free Staters to have been fired upon by the garrison.Immediately an eighteen-pounder mounted on the armored car sent a shell crashing against the masonry of the Four Courts.There was a fierce reply with rifle fire from within the building.Almost immediately a continuous exchange of fire between the two forces was in hot progress.RAILROAD OFFICIALS SILENT (Associated Press Despatch.) | CHICAGO, June 28\u2014The ultimatum sent by B.M.Jewell, head of the | Railway Employees\u2019 Department of the American Federation of Labor, to T.D.Cuyler, chairhian of the Association of Railway executives, that the four hundred thousand shopmen of the Nation\u2019s railroads would go on strike unless the decisions of the railroad labor board were ignored and present wages maintained, today was met with silence by railroad Three Persons Were Killed and Twenty-Five Wounded During a Demonstration.IN EIGHTEEN POUNDERS ACTION.(Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, June 28.\u2014 The Royal Dublin Society\u2019s buildings, which had be,en chosen by the Provisional Government as the meeting''-place, for the new Southern Irish Parliament next Saturday, have ben tightly closed and the gates barred as a precaution against any attack by the Irregulars, i There was little indication that the railroads would seriously consider Jewell\u2019s demands to hold back the sixty million dollar wage cut and restore abolished rules governing working conditions in the shops.Rail union officials continued their conference today on plans for the threatened walk-out next month as they hastened towards completion of the canvas of the strike vote, Which is said to have been overwhelmingly in favor of a suspension in protest against the wage cuts and rules laid down under edicts from the Labor Board.Maintenance of way employees,,,,, ^\t^\t^ clerks, signalmen and other classes ]'.^eJf.bbenau> ti>e German For-whose wages were slashed in recent jel*U! Minister.\t,\t,\t, orders, would, in following the shop-i .The demonstrators previously had one million employees out of the PePu,tles D.'ngeldey and Dr.Osann, railroad service.In spite of this rail- ! members ot the People s Party, and WILKESBARRE, June 28.\u2022Upon receipt of a telegram # & from John Lewis, president of the United, Mine Workers, * ¦Sf who conferred with President % % Harding.thegenei'al scale com- #- #\tai scale committee of the com- # #\tmittee of the anthracite woik- Si; $ ers abandoned all plans for #¦ #\timmediate calling an absolute # ift strike and the contemplated Jfe % withdrawal of the pumpmen & from the mines.\tSf #\t« « & & & *! ###* \u2014-?- FIRE ON CROWD AT ÂRMSTADT official opposition being large.On a division early in May in connection with the railway question, the Government majority as revised was fifteen, there being a considerable number of absentees among both the opposition parties.On the budget the ministry had 3 majority of eighteen, nine Progressives voting with the Liberals, while the rest of the opposition united in the negative.Owing to criticism within the Liberal ranks, there was a crisis over the militia and naval service estimates, the Government meeting the criticism by large cuts in the votes for these departments.These two departments were merged underthename of the Department of National Defence.RETURNED SOLDIER PROBLEM- A great variety of other questions were prominent in the course of the session.The Government announced further deficits on the National Railways and Government Merchant Marine, but did not carry out the expected reorganization of the manage- Answering T.J.Shaw, Progrès- ment.The returned soldier problem sive member for West Calgary,, was again carefully considered in a Premier King said that he thought1 special committee and some further he could give an assurance that the: improvements made in the legislation Government would introduce a re- on this subject.The period for via distribution bill at the next session sale of oleomargarine was extended of parliament.\tagain.The Nova Scotia coal dispute The Premier also stated that the ; stirred the surface for a short time, next session would probably open i but was disposed of by a new board (Associated Press Despatch) BERLIN, June 28,\u2014Three persons were killed and twenty-five were wounded at Armstadt yester-\tnrinrur nr nrrmv day when the police fired on a crowd jGfcNLRAL KLvIfcW OF WORK j during a demonstration in connec-\tDONE DURING SESSION tion with the assassination of Dr.in January A bill to amend the Northwest Territories Act was dropped.A bill respecting the Department of Soldiers\u2019 Civil Re-establishment, based upon the report of the special parliamentary committee on pensions and re-establishment, was given third reading.In the closing hours, members of the Commons were in a merry mood.There was a long wait while conferences between managers of the two Houses were under way.All party differences went to the winds.Members sang all the old songs and waged a battle-royal with order papers and bluebooks.'The Deputy Speaker, bombarded, beat a hasty retreat.Miss McPhail was deluged under confetti of torn bills, but came out of the ordeal laughing and retaliating in kind.The fun waxed furious.One of the Quebec members seized the sword of the sergeant-at-arms and used it gaily as a baton to beat time to the songs.of inquiry.The Government announced that it did not intend to proceed at present with the St.Lawrence Waterway project.Further restrictions on oriental immigration were promised.The lash was added as a penalty for the sale of drugs to minors.The disarmament treaties and amendments to the covenant of the League of Nations wera adopted.LONGER SESSION THAN EXPECTED.The session lasted a month longer than was at first anticipated, but (ha end left a fair amount of business still high and dry on the order paper.There was no redistribution bi\u2019l introduced, but one was promised for next session.Proportional representation had a brief showing, but got buried in the list of adjourned debates.An amendment to the Naturalization Act to permit the naturalization of former enemies was not urged after a strong protest had been made against it by the leader of the opposition.Two bills fathered by J.S.Woodsworth, Labor member for Winnipeg Centre, which grew out of the Winnipeg strike, got consideration in special committee, but wero (Associated Press Despatch) .left behind in the wind-up.Aresolu- OTTAWA, June 28.\u2014The first !\tby ^.rT'Shaw« .\u2018-¦\u2018o \u201c\u201c\u2019O'- j\tforepd\ttheir wav\tinto the houses of I session of\tthe fourteenth parliament1\t0,,\ta !Tarj\tYras men\tout on\ta\tstrike, take more than\tÎPrce\u201c.\tTtle'1.a,J,\tlnt0 j ^nouies ot ' of Canada\twhich Hosed oarlv this're er ca]lod a11\tsession,\tand simnar \u2019\t* \u201c lTW\u2019,f,os\t^ n\u201c\"\" mornTmrwas mart-effbv Hie ant ne*lect was ™*ed out to the pro- -r\u2014 \u2014\t.\t, .,\t,\tVÎTUnearance of the Progressives as an\tl\u2019osal by William Irvine,\tLabor, Cal- road\tofficials\thave\tasserted that the j\ts?nous\ty injured\tthe former.They [\t^ary East, that\tthe defeat of aGov- FR0VISI0NAL GOVERNMENT HAS ISSUED MANIFESTO (AüBociatedi Press Despatch) DUBLIN, June 28.\u2014The Irish Provisional Government issued a manifesto last night, denouncing outrages against peace and security in Ireland, declaring the boycott of Belfast had not.legal evidence, and announcing that the Government would resolutely perform its duty to maintain \u2018law and order.HIGH EXPLOSIVE SHELLS USED BY FREE STATERS (Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, June 28.\u2014.It was learn-known, but it is said many have de- ed during the morning that the offi-serted since the early day» of the rial Free State forces were using oeeupa-tnen.Nevertheless, it is be- against the Four Courts two 18 with delayed action fuses.They fired at first from the high ground in the neighborhood of Christ.Church Cathedral at a range of 200 yards.By 11.30 o'clock a breach had been made in one wall of the building.The idea of using high explosive shells was to minimize the risk of fire.The guns later were moved to fresh positions, where the advantages of direct fire seemed better.roads could continue to operate to a certain extent with train service employees and telegraphers remaining on the job.None of the big four brother-.hoods are affected by the wage re- j strat°rs.ductions due July 1st, and there is believed to be little likelihood of the trainmen joining a walk-out.>1,0 smashed windows and furniture\tl\u2019\"or*measure should not nece^ i ernment.done to the.German National Party\u2019s j i?fluence.in ma?.f situations during______________________________ building at Karlsruhe by the demon- :\tMUCl1 ICE CREAM CONSUMED AGREEMENT IS REACHED (Associated Press Despatch) PHILADELPHIA, June 28\u2014Announcement was made yesterday by the Pennsylvania Railroad that agreements on reduction of wages have been reached by the manage- I members were active in setting fortn j\tOlTFRpr 'their point of view on most of ihe1 nmrmr/- r.\u2014 oo on.issues that arose.\tHoo of ^ cV 28irTbeJonfu'\u2019lp\u2018 The fact that the Progressives are 1°\" v°L\t\u2018\t°f ,