Sherbrooke daily record, 6 novembre 1923, mardi 6 novembre 1923

[" Sherbrooke Daily Record Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUE., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1923.Twenty-seventh Yeai, SEPARATISTS EVACUATE COLOGNE DISTRICT Governor-General Byng To Visit Sherbrooke Next Month Pillaging Still In Progress In Northern Berlin Looting of Food and Clothing Store» Continued Throughout Night in Northern Districts of Berlin, While in the Fashionable West End of City Numerous Automobiles Were Held Up, the Occupants of Cars Being Robbed of Their Personal Belongings\u2014Price of Bread Is Reduced\u2014 Bourse Has Contributed Seventy Thousand Dollars to Public Feeding Fund.LOST ALL IN JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE c (Associated Press Despatch.) OLOGNE, Nov.0.\u2014The Rhineland Separatists heve completed their evacuation of the Cologne area.REGIMENTS RUSHED TO DRIVE BACK IRREGULARS (Associated Press Despatch.) BERLIN, Nov.6.\u2014Three regiments of troops have been rushed to the Bavarian front to drive back irregulars.The Government is to make an appeal to all republicans to prepare to defend the republic.Irregular bands at the frontier range between five thousand and ten thousand armed men, \u201ciron brigade,\u201d and are ready for action.LOOTING CONTINUED THROUGHOUT NIGHT IN NORTH BERLIN (Associated Press Despatch.) BERLIN, Nov.6.\u2014The looting of food and clothing shops continued throughout the night in the northern districts of Berlin, while in the fashionable west end of the city numerous automobiles were held up, the occupants of the cars being robbed of their personal belongings.Considerable anti-Semitic rioting occurred in the Jewish quarter.Most of the pillaging was done by gangs of men and youths whose numerical strength was in some cases as large as three hundred.Women freely participated in storming the food shops.The price of bread this morning was fixed at 80,000,000 marks a loaf, as against 140,000,000 yesterday.The Bourse has contributed seventy thousand dollars to the public feeding fund.ORDERS FASCISTI LEADER TO CEASE OPPOSITION (Associated Press Despatch.) BERLIN, Nov.6.\u2014General Ludendorff, according to a despatch from Munich, has ordered Adolph Hittler, the Bavarian Fascist! leader, to cease his opposition to Dr.Von Kahr, the Bavarian dictator.Mrs.Hugh Burton, on left, prominent concert artist, who while making records for the Japanese Government was, with her husband, in Yokohama the day of the great earthquake.Mr.and Mrs.Burton lost everything they had, narrowly escaping with their lives.With Mrs.Burton is her hostess, Mrs.L.Fahey, of Toronto.TOLD OF PLAN TO KILL LEADING BOLSHEVISTS Had Determined Revenge for Sufferings Infliried on His Family in Russia.(Associated I\u2019ress Despalch) LAUSANNE, Nov.6.\u2014Maurice Conradi, Swiss engineer, who on May 10 last, shot and killed Vas U ### ### ##>£### NO INDICATIONS OF ATTITUDE OF THE U.S.GOVERNMENT.PARIS, Nov.6.\u2014Premier Poincare today received Ambassador Jusserand\u2019s cabled # report on his conversation # with Secretary of State * Hughes in Washington yes- * terday.The convention is de- # scribed as most friendly, but & no further indications of the ft United States Government's ft \\ attitude is given in official ft quarters.\tft ; ft HUNGER STRIKE IS REDUCED Many Give up Strike on Learning that De Valera Is Not Refusing Food.(Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, Nov.6.\u2014The number of hunger strikers in the Free State prisons and camps has been reduced to about five hundred, it was stated in authoritative quarters today.This result is declared to have been brought about in part by the Government\u2019s repeated announcement Taxation Of A Deserted Cemetery Was Keenly Discussed By City Council-The Paving Of Queen Street Was Under Review Mayor Maintain» Right to Handle His Own Correspondence \u2014Alderman Crepeau and His Worship Indulge in a Lengthy Verbal Battle with Honors Even\u2014Valuation Protests to Be Considered at Special Meeting\u2014Aviator Wants to Take Photos of City\u2014Governor-General Is Coming on December 12\u2014Several Settlements Made by City\u2014No Lawyers\u2019 Letters to Be Sent Unless Registered Letters Have Been Previously Sent Out.T HE upshot of a lengthy and puerile argument between His & ft % ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft W(>rship Mayor Morris and ^ that De Valera was not taking part1 Alderman Armand Crepeau, at last; ^ in the hunger strike.The announce- night\u2019s session of the City Council,: ^ ment by the Sinn hein publicity de- w-as that His Worship intends taking: ^ partment that De ) alera was re- care 0f correspondence addrerss- ^ training on orders^from his cabinet\tpersonally, hut that he ^ was met by the Government with wilI be vie&sed to plaCe the comment that it did not discov- before lhe Council er these orders until the twenty-fourth day of the strike.The hunger strikers include many ft ft ft ft ft ft ft whpTipvpr thpv ^ flood.A heavy loss of life is * ,\t.whenever lhey,# reported in Puebla f0iiow:ng * ! Prfsent;.lhîy # a cloudburst.\tft ft his fyles * HUNDREDS ARE DEAD IN MEXICO FLOOD.(Associated Press Despatch.) MEXICO CITY, Nov.6.\u2014 Hundreds dead in Mexico PARKER STEWART MAKES APPEAL TO L.R.STEEL STOCKHOLDERS TO SUBSCRIBE TO PROTECTIVE TRUST Response Small at Last Night\u2019s Meeting\u2014Loyalty Fund Also Failed to Get Aid\u2014Million and Half Still Owing from Shareholders Who Stopped Paying Instalments, Speaker Declares\u2014Chairman Whitehead Attempts to Exclude Press, But Meeting Fails to Sustain Him.THE meeting of shareholders of*\t* the L.R.Steel Company held last evening in the basement of the local store, was not productive of very much in the way of cash returns.The room was well filled and the speakers were subjected to many questions.The first call for money was on behalf of what was termed the \u201cLoyalty Fund,\u201d a fund to pay the expenses of organizing these shareholders meetings, the expenses of (speakers, printing, etc.Only three \u2019 signified a willingness to chip in for this.Then came the invitation to pay a sum equal to 10 per cent of stock holdings into a fund known as the \u201cProtecting Fund.\u201d Though strongly pressed there was no visable re- : spor.se to this invitation.A number , however, remained after the meet- j ing broke up to discuss the matter | with members of the committee.i Attempt to Exclude the Press j Col.Whitehead, of Bury, opened | the meeting as chairman and began ( by asking if any representatives ofj the press were present.When he dis- ; covered a member of the Record | staff in the hall he requested that he ) should retire.The Record man replied that he had in his pocket the shares of a ; local stockholder whom he had been asked to represent.Chairman Whitehead: \u201cNot being: a stockholder yourself, I must ask J you to retire.Certain articles have | appeared in the press criticizing the j proposals You are requested to re-j tire.\u201d\t1 The Record representative: .\u201cIf it, is the -wish of the meeting that I j shall be excluded I shall he happy | to retire hut I hesitate to obey the HON.WILLIAM PUGSLEY, for.mer Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, is seriously ill in Ott% wa.ELECTIONS ARE BEING HELD IN UNITED STATES order of the chair w'ithout knowing ; p , XH'M cl y -i the sentiment of the meeting.News-; Results Will SHOW Little papers feel that they have certain : dudes to perform in cases of this ; kind.There are large numbers of j shareholders in this district who are ; as Whith Way Political Wind Blowing.to U ft are requested.The greater part of the session esssüss.»»s&j:1!^25:\t«rrss ************ chief of staff, elected to the Dail ,hrü^h a recommendation made by '-.from Dublin in August, and Brian !the finance Committee that the sum; O\u2019Higgins,.elected for Clare, whose\tCretan ' P-phl*! condition is said to be serious.HON.PUGSLEY'S CONDITION CONTINUES TO IMPROVE.f Associated Press Despatch.) OTTAWA, Nov.6.The condition of Hon.William Pugsley continues to show improvement and indications are very much more * $ & & & & 5$ #\t1 hopeful for his recovery.printed reviewing the opened with a tirade against the C0T)Rre£r> lecent!;, held here.The city\u2019s methods of showing discrimin- nmttei was referred to the finance ution between the poor and the rich, j Cdnnmtee.and insisted that tha correspondence .^ neart} expression of apprécia- /Associate*-! I-*re*«L Despatch.j NEW YORK, Nov.6.\u2014With feu ay _, av Vorovsky, Soviet envoy to the second Lausanne conference, told of his determination to kill leading Bolshevists in revenge for the sufferings inflicted on his family in Russia when examined yesterday at j the opening of his trial for the as-i sassination of Vorovsky.He accepted full responsibility for the crime, telling the court: \u201cI had no need of encouragement, But Polonnine agreed with j pie,\u201d when the judge asked if his alleged accomplice had not incited him.Paul Polonnine, a Russian, was *ecretary of the Russian Red Cross organization in Geneva under the Czarist regime.Conradi said his plan of revenge was made when at Gallipoli, he learned that his father died of hunger in Russia and that his uncle and several members of his family had been killed by the Bolshevists.He told in a clear voice how he had fired seven bullets from his pistol At Vorovsky.^_____________ NEGOTIATIONS FOR BRITISH HOLDINGS IN OIL COMPANY.LONDON, Nov.6.\u2014Sir Henri Deterding, director general of the 1 loyal Dutch Petroleum Company, b negotiating with the British Government for the purchase of Lhe latter's holdings in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, according to financial circles quoted by the Daily Express.It is understood that if the deal is effected a cash payment of £12,000,000 will be involved.-» ¦ ¦ ¦ * + ?4 + + +\u2022l-+\t+ THE WEATHER + + SHOWERS TODAY, WEDNESDAY FAIR Pressure is lowest near the Atlantic coast and north of the Great Lakes, while over the western half of the continent it is quite high.The weather is cloudy and showery from eastern Ontario to the Maritime Provinces and fine throughout the West.Forecast: Moderate winds, showery.Wednesday: Westerly winds, fair.Invitation Sent By Liberals To Winston Churchill To Become Candidate For Seat Held By Late Bonar Law Causes Flutter relative to this matter should have been placed before the Council.The issue was then raised as to \u201cwhen is a cemetery not a cemetery,\u201d inasmuch no the property in question is the land which formerly tion was received from Mr.Me Naughton, of the Canadian National Railways, Portland Division, for the splendid cooperation shown by the civic officials during the course of the recent railway convention held in JO LUC\tAvili.siij cil 1\t,\trri i\ti * belonged to the Union Cemetery ; Sherbrooke.The latter was fy.ed.Company.It appears that after the i in A letter was received from Ottawa remains of those interred in the advising that His Excellency Lotd cemetery had been transferred to\tGoyernor-General o.Canada, Elmwood, the property remained ^roll|d ofùaally v:sit SheTbrooke^on what has occurred.The press will Î seek to inform them.I appeal to the ; issues having a hearing on the next meeting from the order of the chair- presidential campaign involved in mail \u2019>\ttoday\u2019s off-year elections, there will the chairman: \u201cAll those in favor ! be little in the results to indicate of excluding the press, please stand.\u201d which way the National political As no one stood up, the chairman .w\u2018nd is blowing, called upon Mr.Bisson, the joint\tOnly one new member of the Un- chairman, lo explain m French and states Senate ri to he elected then called for another vote by show He will come from Vermont to fill r£ hands.\t; the vacancy caused by the death of Three or four raised hands were ¦ tbe late Senator Dillingham, whose \u2022.oticed in the hall.\t,term would have expired in 1927.The chairman: \u201cYou are requested Porter II.Dale, Republican, and o retire \u201d\tPark H.Pollard, Democrat, a cous- Xhe reporter: \u201cReally, Mr.Chair- >n °f President Coolidge, are candi-man, I do not so understand the will dates for the place.>f the meeting.Show me that the ; Seven new representatives will be meeting wishes me to get out and ! elected to Congress, four in New I will gladly do so.\u201d\t; York and one each in Illinois, Ver- The chairman called for another.h1®*1*-, and North Carolina.vote without response.Three states'\u2014Maryland, Mississ- vacant until such time as the Holden ! Wednesday, December 12th This jto the stockholders.\u201d The chairman: \u201cY\u2019ou are opposed 'PP' and 1 Kentucky will elect gov- Company purchased same.will be the Governor-General\u2019s first; ernors.New Y'ork, New Jersey, Vir- ,v\ti.\tThe reporter: \u201cMost certainly not.1 pn\u2019a and ^ap\u2019]and> wp elect mem- In the meantime the citv had to the Queen City of the East-!I am representing one at this meet- hers of the state legislature.ehiW^xesTainat Sa Jwperty,I, Ung.The pres.U seeks to pro.! Phdadelph.a wdl hold a mumcpal and these were outstanding when the I Aid Tetreault observed that aitecu stockholdeis and others from a Com nan v aoouired same.Thp taxes ! cl\u20acle£at'lon was present to consider waste of money m unsound propos- Has Raised Question of Whether Invitation Involves an ^on ,ad under pr0l'cst Company acquired same.«= protests to the valuation roll and itja.s.If you have a plan to propose in if I did not know the scheme to be :s \u201c\u201cI rangement had been made with the1 was Anally decided to hold a sped-j this dase we would like to hear it good.\u201d AHfmnt to Reunite Two Wines of liberal Partv the citv by which the propertv would be ial nl\u20aceting' for this purpose, on | and pass it on.\u201d\t; Mr.Stewart accused Wall Street Attempt to Reunite two Wings or Lioerai rariy, ine\tvmcn inc p,op^> vouia oe TuMfia:,% November 13th at which The incident dosed with applause with being the cause of the L.R Asquithian and Lloyd George Groups\u2014No Decision ^ all pncumbranccs * p \u2019 the valuators would be present.from the audience and general evi- Steel failure.\u201cWall Street said, kill \u2018\t~\t'\tft-$ dences of good humor all around, this man Steel, he\u2019ll be starting a | Finance Committee Report.;.|The reporter stayed.\tchain of banks next.\u201d \u201cThen,\u201d added ft-1 Parker Stewart States Plan.the speaker, \u201cthe newspapers step- The report of the Finance Com-| The joint chairman spoke for some iped in and advised shareholders to Likely Until After Arrival Home of Lloyd George.(Associated Press Despatch) f others just as emphatically say it LONDON, Nov.6.\u2014Interest in ! would stress the cleavage and domestic politics for the mom- j would inevitably load to the nomin-ent is focussed on the repre- j ation of an Asquithian candidate mentation of the Glasgow Central j to oppose him, he being an adher-Division in the House of Commons, | ent of the Lloyd George faction, for a successor of the late Andrew | A third opinion is that Mr.Bonar Law to be elected forth- Churchill would be unlikely to con-with.\ttest for a seat in the Glasgow Cen- The attention of the public was sharply drawn to that district last evening by a report that Winston Spencer Churchill had received an invitation from local Liberals to become their candidate.Mr.Churchill declines to confirm or deny the rumor, but there seems to be no doubt that the invitation was received.The incident has caused a great flutter in official quarters, and in both factions of the Liberal party, for not only was it a complete surprise but it immediately raised the question of whether the invitation involves an attempt to reunite the two wings of the party\u2014the Ast-quithians and the Lloyd Georgian i groups.i There is much mystery as to who was responsible for asking Mr.Churchill to accept the candidacy, of all encumbrances.His Worship stated that the city was morally obliged to remit the taxe» paid, and added that inasmuch as same had accumulated prior to tral Division, where the Liberals mtide a feeble attempt in the last election.Their candidate polled a vote of 2,518 to the 15,437 ballots received by Mr.Bonar Law.AWAIT ARRIVAL OF LLOYD GEORGE.the time the\teomnanv nurchased\tthe mittee 'vas disposed\tof\tby\tthe\tcoun-\ttime pending\tthe arrival of Mr.\tBar-\tstop paying their installment», the time the\tcompany purchased\tthe, n folloWB;\tker Stewart\tof Buffalo, who\twas\t\u201cThere\u2019s a million and a half due on property and while it was still under j g._law No> 385i loan of\tthJ coming in from Quebec.Mr.Stew-\tthese installments which can be\tcol- cltv would be unable toToUwt the\tr,ectricitU and £as\tdepartment, $90.-!art, on arrival, proceeded to explain\tlected.If we had this\tmoney\twe \u20221 rU1C \u2022 1 U 1 tCt *^ : 000 6 p.c bonds November 1st PIan-\twouldn\u2019t need to ask you for a pen- said taxes inasmuch as Property;due November {st, 1923, pay-\tThe Protective Trust.\tny,\u201d continued Mr.Stewart, owned by the Churches, cemeteries,\t^ tbc National Bank Sher-1\tfund to which the sharehold-\tThe Loyalty Fund, etc., which was not producing re~ i hrooke Montreal and Quebec The ers \"'cre being asked to subscribe, TIe then proceeded to explain the venue, was exempt.\t,\ttouneii made'a\trequest that\ttheiMr- Stewart explained, was known\u2018Loyalty Fund.This was\tmoney which Aid Crepeau finally contented\tMontreal\tbe asked to\tnavlas {h