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0>" Britain is meeting her financial obligations} _" in a way that is not even distantly approached ; ‘â€"by any other old world nation. The budget| _ presented to the House of Commons by »the} .. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Robert} t Horne, shows that during the past year there. â€"*â€" was a total debt reduction of eightyâ€"eight milâ€"‘ â€"" NMon pounds, and during the past three years . the aggregate reduction of the external debt, , *has been 274 millions pounds. The difference| _‘ between the expenditures and receipts of the| * year just closed had been 45 million pounds to | _‘ the good. This was used in debt reduction | :‘ and was included in the total of eightyâ€"eight & : million pounds applied for that purpose. Reâ€"| * geipts for the present fiscal year were estimated E' at 910,775,000 pounds and the expenditures at F a figure somewhat under that. | .. mone .. the p =“ d,m, > lfon p _ ors b _ Brita / * Britain‘s external debt is almost wholly: . to the United States, with her allies owing her| *) mruch more than she owes to the great republic. Sn other words, if Britain could get from her _ milies what they owe to her she could at once Ewb out the debt to the United States and in ‘ moday would be the world‘s arbiter in the ?:&;’”noy market. This should be borne in mind " dn any study of British financial conditions at _this fime Incidentally it is a tribute to the * sturdy selfâ€"reliance of John Bull to note that ( In"his estimates of receipts for the fiscal year . ‘he is not counting on anything from German _ Feparations or from his allies. If payments ’“o from these sources they will be accounted _ ‘@s welcome windfalls. During the year interest _ of 25 million pounds will be paid on the debt F;‘;‘ It has been suggested that the question pfilfl have been submitted at the January elecâ€" ::&l. The people might decide on the principle but in practice it is doubtful whether its adopâ€" : ton by a single municipality, irrespective of "%the action of its neighbors, is sound business m This is a point the City Council must deâ€" ¢ide after it has the full facts before it. â€" of the United States. His detailed remarks showed in a striking manner the effect of the exchange situation as between the United States and Britain. Two years ago the debt to the former was over one billion three hundred million pounds when the pound sterling was only $3.30 in the American money market. With exchange at 4.40 for the pound as at the moment he made his adâ€" dress, the debt was reduced to about 947 mil-, HKon pounds. With exchange at par as observâ€" ers believe will soon be the case, the amount| Britain owes to the United States will be| 856,030,000 pounds: } BRITAIN MEETING HER OBLIGATIONS <«‘In the view of the New York American, the i is not far distant when it will be possible Kurope by air. It is the ambition of y generally and also by a considerable wad by advancing the clock to summer ifortunatel , however, if the objections | ddring the past few weeks and at the eil meetin are any criterion the decision is Mtogether pleasing. Merchants opposed the ange on business grounds, teachers on educaâ€" In taking the action it did the majority of }’ ancil we believe acted with sincerity and : belief that they were carrying out the the majority of citizens. It is to be ped that experience may prove fears of inâ€" ity to business and of interference with school prk illâ€"founded. That surrounding citieeâ€"inâ€" Ading the sister town of Waterlooâ€"have not suymmer time is certainly a drawback. munity interest dictates that action beâ€" Feen the Twinâ€"Cities on a question of" this should be taken jointlyâ€"and it is regretâ€" Me that it was not done in this case. "Mow that we have daylight saving and we AYÂ¥e‘it alone we will have to make the best of ir Europe by air. It is the ambition of| _ The Flint woman who was spading in her mericans, it says, to some day do the| garden and struck an explosive which shatâ€" id Tour" of Europe. The "Grand Tour,"| tered one of her hands, is no longer an advoâ€" ‘s, usually means going through the Britâ€"| cate of the home garden to bring down the iles, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany| high cost of living. fmal 42 } taly. . Along this route lie most of the %., ® i * monuments of European civilization, and| _ People in demo¢ratic tountries did not have ip is of immense educational value. The| much use for Czarism in Russia but they fihrdh-tm&ofldfium disapprove of the method adopted by the Bolk I be able to tmake it all by airplane. Perâ€"| shevik leaders to end . the existence of the the New York paper, Amaerican| former Czar and his family, as divulged by fimwmm and ending September 16th this : was the outcome of the debate on a in the City Council this weekâ€" n Wwill be welcomed by the sporting AIR TRIPS TO EUROPE it! SA miles; Paris to Warsaw, 9 hours, willes ; r=s=s>=~"~*~** . 8/ warsaw to DANZIZ, 2 hOULS, 170 1iGS ; DRIZIG g) ~~.__>_ | to Berlin, 214 hours, 250 â€"miles; Berlinâ€"to Breâ€" ve daylight saving begiDâ€"| ____ 9 hours, 200 miles; Bremen to Amsterâ€" iding September 16th this| 10 _‘ > nour«, 180 miles; Amsterdam to Paris, outcome of the debate on 414 hours, 875 miles City Council this weekt|"""my,n ir you take the train from Paris to welcomed by the SPOMIDE | moulouse, you can fly from Totlouse to CaSaâ€" -"bb"mumblmmuommflt_Meuwnndd imity whose purposes 8T€| i1, pyrences, down the comst of Spain, Past mw““mmMGMW.mflmt&em however, if the objection8| \___ Tangier, 1150 miles, in approximately 18 ist few weeks and at the|, _ __, mme fare for this whole circuit is not + n m# e | ; as you would be in an express train or an autoâ€" mobile. Nobody can foretell accidents nor enâ€" tirely prevent them. But an accident such as oewnodsometimeggo.thatofaeollmonbo- tween two airplanes, one from Paris ars) the other from London, is most unusual. One has to take chances and consult averages in anyâ€" thing. An airplane may fall, but also a wheel may come off of an automobile or a train may he ditched, in spite of the utmost precautions. Travel by airplane is steadier than by any other vehicle and is quite comfortable. It will not be long before one can fly to Constantinople, and there will be aerial connections between Pekin, Shanghai, Tientsin and Tokio. In other words, air travel will soon become commonplace. Just now it is adventurous and romantic. There is an increasing tendency in Britain to settle industrial disputes amicably. Both sidesri in the shipyard workers‘ dispute, involving 300,â€"| 000 men, who have been on strike, have acceptr‘ ed terms of settlement. The men will accept an immediate cut of ten shillings a week in their‘ wages, and the remaining cut of six shillings, which the employers had ordered, will be split into instalments taking effect in May and June. This looks like a very big cut. But it must be remembered that wages in Britain, as in our own country, went up very high in the war period and have generally been maintained much above the preâ€"war figures until lately. There has in the meantime been a considerable reduction in the averages of the cost of living. Muny observers believe that while there will be some further reductions, the preâ€"war stanâ€" dard will not generally be reached In other words, that higher wages will be prevalent, even though the cost of living may drop to still lower levels than was the case in the days beâ€" fore the great conflict Herbert Sidebotham, one of the most noted of British journalists at the Genoa Conference, stresses the point that too much importance should not be attzched to the various crises. There are "dieâ€"hards" there, he says in effect, who will make all the trouble possible only to compromise in the end. His view is that the first half of the Conference is over, and that in the future the gathering will be regarded as "one of the turning points in the history of mankind." â€" The big thing in sight at Genoa at the moment of writing is the "nonâ€"aggresâ€" sive pact,‘" that is the proposed agreement unâ€" der which all the nations in attendance will agree to abide by existing boundaries and not to conduct any aggressive move against the territories of their neighbors. ing. It is beginning to look as though the Genoa Conference will achieve its aims. If so, Uncle Sam need not be surprised if the European countries give their friends the first call in their commercial relations. Kitchener and Waterloo are joining up in many different ways. The latest amalgamaâ€" tion is the Kitchener and Waterloo Rotary Club The staff of officers appoin!.od is an as~ surance of its success. \ Y&omuwe,uoordinxwthoavm Get your spade and rake ready for gardenâ€" SETTLING STRIKES AMICABLY WILL BE THE TURNING POINT NOTE AND COMMENT. 4| fi-h-uumuhuzd-t‘ this morning by a mob of men, mww implication in â€"the cffininal assau)t and murder Of 17â€"yearâ€"old . Rula Awsley, white girl, whose mutilated body was found usur here Thursday night. | "Snap" Curry, the first negro of Â¥Freestone Chunty officers marly last night as he was being conveyed troim© Wortham ‘to some point .west. It is alleged ‘that he contessed to the mob that be had assauled and fourdered the girl, and that in his confession he implicated the two other negroes J. H. Varney and jail, where Jones and Varney were being held as suspects. Hurrying to the jail, the mob unlocked the doors aund took the t= ~ negroes in charge. All three negr~~s were then rushed tc Kirvin, the home of the dead girl, and an irop stakb driven ipto the groupd on a small square in the beart of the town. Wood was rccumula{â€" ed and saturated with of} Curry was burned first. Then Va~ mey and Jones. There was some delay in burning the last two inaeâ€" much as they stadfastly maintained their innocence. Third degree meth cds failed to bring a confession from them .nd they were finally cremated on the strength of Curry‘s testimony. PREMIER LIANG | is DISMISSED . FROM OFFIICE Sweeping â€" Governmental Changes Made Follow:â€" ing Wu‘s Success. CIVIL WAR IS ENDED ernmental changes followed today the success of General Wu Peiâ€"Fu in winning the*m{litary mastery of Pekâ€" ing. _ President Hsu Shihâ€"Chang isâ€" sued a mandate dismissing Premier Liang Shihâ€"Yi and erdering his arâ€" rest. Finance Minister Chang Hu and Minister of Communications Yeh Kungâ€"Cho also were dismissed and their arrest ordered. _ General Chang Tsoâ€"Lin, defeated by Wu in the campaign jusi ended, is dismissed from hjs office of inspecâ€" torâ€"general of Manchuria. Premier Charged . Wit Conniving With Chang to Promote War. Fremier Liang Shihâ€"Yi, who is now in Tientsin, where he has been on jeave for several months, is charged with conniving with Chang Tsoâ€"Lin to promote civil war. TIENTSIN, May 6. â€" General Wu Pelâ€"Fu, vietor in the civi. war which now appears to be at an end, is reâ€" ported to be at Huangâ€"Tsun, on the Pekingâ€"Tientsin railway _ about ten mileg south of the capital, where he went yesterdag afternoon from Fengâ€" ders Tor these men 10 EABCUALE NBWC ‘ A mass meeting in protest against been received, according to ChiM§®| ju, proposal reported to have been reports. ‘ made by 8ir Clifford Sifton to bring The rear guard ofâ€"Chang‘s forces, one million settlers a year from Cenâ€" sixth brigade, bas arrived at bl"f'l.! tral Europe "to make the railways midway between Peking and "hhlply," has been called here in the city, and a request has been recelved | near future. that a train be sent for it. | Fo Anrenrmeneereennin Took Keys From Sheriff. ‘The mob divested the * sheriff of PEKING, May 6.â€"Sweepug Rov ho ae?! * bs voy thikk bes LUMBAGO 3 NEURITI® vs. R .s“ATlCA T., &l S ve you given up ! Have you resigned yourself toâ€" that old, RHEUMATiSM S CS 6 Civil War at End With @pine ul 2 had? . After the third negro had been burnâ€" @4 to & crisp, all three bodies were viled. together and a mass. of. fuel ulJfl flung. over them. ‘This . was The.mob rapidly dispersed and as day :dawued there was only a fow persoys remaining‘ to wunul_&o,uw termgth of the triple cremation. All. three negroes .were employed. on the farm of J. T. King, prominâ€" ent r. of this community: and l'l’llm of the dead, girl, with whom shelived, both her parents being dead.. . Mr. King was present at the cremationp and the mob leaa ers are said to have obtained his apâ€" proval befors lighting the torches . Lynchings Deliberate. The lynchings were carried out deâ€" uberately.. There was no discharge cf frearms. Jt was reported, howâ€" ever, that the negroes were mutilâ€" ated before being tlied to the stake With the exception of a few shouts and the screams of the condemned men, there was little to disturb the early morning quiet of the back woods community. The_plot where the burning took place is in front of two churches. One of the negroas is said to have died singing a church antbem ignited, the flames soaring 25 feet in the: air. ; Rarly todgy the flames Miss Awsley was riding her horse home from school, several mfles from Kirvin, late Thursday when she was altacked. Her body was lator found near the road with 23 knife wounds in the head, neck and cheet. % CHICAGO, May 6.â€" This is $ $ dark news for the flappers @ © friend. the soâ€"called â€" "cakeâ€" © & eaters." & & â€" Men‘s clothing is to be stanâ€" @ & dardized in cut and color. The # > United National Clothiers, in & session here, announced on @ 4& Thursday that a committee of # % five will select a staple in each & & clothing manufacturing line on & & which the small merchant« can # 4 cBtidentrate. 4 % It means, the clothiers be. © # lieve, the same style for mer # & from San Francisco to New @ $ York. % ¢ 1t means further the snappy & & dresser of the small town will 4# }0 be just as upâ€"toâ€"date as the big @ ¢ city "cake consumer." 4 | G. Exton Lloyd, bishop of Saskatcheâ€" wan, referred to reports that five thousand acres of the land in westâ€" ern Saskatchewan, abandoned by the _ Mennonites who migrated to Mexico, , has been purchased on behaif of a ‘colony of 1,000 Polish settlers, who, \it is understood, will come to Sagkatâ€" ‘\chewan in the near future from Chiâ€" | cago. He referred to the project as | "disgraceful", and declared that if ‘ the authorities allowed such action to be permitted while clomsing the doors of the country to seftlers of British birth, under the British emâ€" Standard Cut For Clothes !plre colonization scheme, they should \ be ousted. 6 4 46 46 4 0 4 4 6 TERM PROJECT "DISGRACEFUL" Bishop of Saskatchewan Refers to Sale of Land to Poles. ° SASKATOON, Sask., May 6.â€" Speaking to an audience of the G. W V. A. here last night, the Right Rev KALAMAZOO, ‘Mich., May 6. â€"â€"â€" John Duval Dodge, young Detroit milHonaire, and Rex Earle, of Kalâ€" amazoo, were placed on probation for one year when they appeared beâ€" fore Judge Wimer today for senâ€" tetice following their convietion on a charge of illegal possession and transportation of liquor. COLUMBIA, 8..C., May 6.â€"Profes wor M. Goods Homes of the Uniyorâ€" sity of Sgouth Cardlina, and Ben Hale the university. marshal, were found shot to death in the offices of the woasurér of the university. â€" PLACED ON PROBATION wERE SWOT TO DEATH DELIBERATELY sn d en d 9 4 4 0 4 M BC .. a it s.. Poaks A. writer in â€"the New York Triburs Ing of the, present season‘ as remarkmble in its characteristics, he has gathered some reliable faots of the yeur 1816, ‘kpown as "the year now Uvingâ€" ean ~recollect it, ‘but it The following is a brief abstract of the westher during each month of the year: * _ > ‘ January was mild, so much so as to render fires almost neediess in very cold. a February was not very cold; with the. exception of a few duys it mild ‘like "its predecensor. March was cold and â€" boisterous during the first part df it,. and re on the Ohio and Kontucky R caused a great loss of property. colder as the month advanced, and ended with snow and ice and a temâ€" perature more like winter than spring. May was more remarkable for frowns than smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen; ice formed half an incb thick; corn was killed, and the fields again and again replanted, until deemed too late. _ June was the coldest ever known in this latitude Frost, ice and snow were common. Almost every green thing was killed. Fruit nearly alil destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, several in Maine, three in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetis. Considerable damage was done at New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise of the river. guly was accompanied with frost and ice. On the 5th ice was formed of the thickness of a common winâ€" dow glass throughout New England, New York and some parts of Pennâ€" sylvania. Indian corn was nearly all destroyed; son.c ‘vorably situated flelds escaped. lhis was true of some of the hill farms of Massachuâ€" setts. August â€" was more cheerless, if possible than the summer months, already passed. Ice was formed half an inch thick, Indian corn was froâ€" zen that the greater part of it was cut down and dried for fodder. Al mast every green thing was destroyâ€" ed, both in this country and in Burâ€" ope. Papers received from England state "that it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which there was no summer." Very little corn ripened in New England and Middle States. Farmers supplied themselves from corn produced in 1915 for the need of the spring of 1917. It sold at from $4 to $5 a bushel. }Motorcycle Policeman Had | Arrested Bandits for | Speeding. _ CANTON, Ohio, May 5.â€"Three imrn were dead and two bandits dy-‘ “nu early today, the result of a gun |battle in a woods five miles north JM here late yesterday between an inrmod posse and four gunmen folâ€" lowing the kidnapping of a motorâ€" | cycle policeman who hadâ€"arrested ‘the men for speeding. The gunmen, | police say, had come here in a atolâ€" en automobile to assist in the reâ€" (lenae of "Oklahoma Slim" John Stevâ€" ens, a member of their gang, who is September furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle it beâ€" came very cold and frosty; ice formâ€" ed a quarter of an inch thick. October produced more than its share of cold weather; frost and ice common. Lal November was cold and blusterâ€" ing. Snow fell so as to make good sleighing. able THREE KILLED NGUNBATILE in the local workhouse and who is sald to be wanted in numerous midâ€" die western cities on . charges of bank robbery, The dead: Raiph W. Hoffee, Canton contractâ€" or, member of the posse; Eddie Stevâ€" enson, Cleveland gunman; unidentiâ€" fied gunman. Harry Harper and George Brainâ€" er, the other gunmen, were shot through the head. Physicians said they could not survive the day. Two others of the posse were also When the gunmen were arresiod by Motorcycle Policemian John Wise, they forced ‘him to enter thetr auto, mobile and drove to the woods, where they bound, gagged and tied the officer to a.tree. * J. C. Campbell, a telephone . Hine December was Gunmen mild and comfort , but grew hm .< witnessed umm kn into his automobile and followed the} _ . .. gunmen, Several times he stopped, climbed a telephone .pole, out in on a wire with his testing apparatus and notified the officers of the course of the fugitives. As the officers neared the bandits, the latter opened fire and fied into rounded by the police and scores of citizens. â€" The baftle ensued. When the fire from the gangsters stopped, the posse found all four sprawled on the ground, the uniden tifled man dead. & Stevenson died later PASSES AWAY _ SUDDENLY Justice Clement Succumbs to Paralytic Stroke in Vancouver, B. C. VANCOUVER, B. C., May 3.â€" Justice Clement, of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, died sudâ€" denly here this morning. He sat in court yesterday. Some years ago Justice Clement suffered a paraiytic stroke and a second one ‘came this morning while he was dressing to attend court, It was accompanied by & hemorrhage of the brain and death was almost instantaneous. Judge Wm. Henry Pope Clement was born at Vienna, Elgin County, Ont., in 1858, the son of Rev. Edwin Clement. He was equcated in the public schools and at Toronto Uniâ€" versity (BA., LLD.)}. He gradvatâ€" ed at Osgoode Hallâ€"in law in 1830 and practiced is Toronte unt!! 1891, when he moved to British Columbis, settling in Grand Forks. There be practiced lsw until 1905 when be was appointed judge for Yull Counâ€" ty, which position he held until the next year, when he was called to the British Columbia Supreme Court He is the author of "Law of the Canaâ€" ‘dian Constitution" and a history of Canada, â€" Prior to nis appolntme\it to the bench he was active in politics. in 1891 he unsuccessfuly contested for the Commons in West York, Ont., and in 1903 was defeated for the Legislature of British Columbia for the riding of Grand Forks. In 1889 be married Elsie L. Main, who with her two daughters survive, A son, Capt. M. Clement, M.C., C. de G., a fying officer, was killed in acâ€" tlon in 1917. The late Justice Clement was a brother of Mr. E. P. Clement, K.C. of this city. The deceased had many friends in the Twinâ€"City who will re gret to learn of his sudden demise. Paris, May 4.â€"Three arrests have| beef made and numerous | others were momentarily expected this nf-{‘ ternoon in what the ‘French police: claim to be a vast orgu:lntlon* tor espionage of the French arsenals tor the benefit of the Russian Soviet government Finance Farmers | > IHPROVED machinery is solving the labor problem on many Canadian farims. Alnkl.owhu‘,lnpcfl.th'eumereh- tion to farm activities as the use of modern machinery, as the latter enables you to work kcnmmthnotlmutbcwgutplhnd formerly cultivated, and a Bahk ‘Loan will furnish you the capital to operate the extra :m.: ;':vi-n;;l;â€"yfi?aminr "Oir we pleased to 188 If they are sound, we &re prépa “‘.""‘”" If you feel that a Bank Loen wil? permit IK»TORONTO _ & orri%a. Thy £ . (6y C W @by tile postmast *Aq ¢% postmasters throughout ® is one which calls attention to @ © the fa5t ‘that‘‘Yuring» the: t§urâ€" @ & can tourists addresing mail to @ the;United;Btates.propaid with 4 @ United States postage stamps® . #. | . nited. ; 5 2x ¢ In ordér to minfibize m&f' & venience postmixétars ure "inâ€" % * © structed to put up: in conspi@ # .\ _ & uous places posters pointing 3 out thEt 217 man popted s Chge & ada must be ‘prepaid ‘with &3@{{ ¢ adian stamps." 31 e v""‘ v 0 0 0 ¢ o 0o o # % o a5q:~%, NORTHWOOD, lowa, â€"May uâ€"aa.ég vin Benker, 23 years . old, irwm yesterday shot and killed his sweet heart, . Miss Rebscca Nelson, country ; . school teacher, as she stood in the ... door of ber schoolhouse, four mile@ .3, west of Manley, begause, he lafl.,«;‘ she had jilted him after their wed.._"} scrambied pelimeil . through thg, windows. Benker declared he. had; been drinking "moonsbine" liquor. .4 ‘The Cincinnat Commercial Ttb ‘, une of April 15 contains theâ€"réports .. of the divorce actot‘by Mrs» R>‘F, sig Knowles : ol East: MacM{llan @#treqss s Cinelfnati, â€"â€" #gainst :: ~Robertro 48 aÂ¥ Knowles of Toronto, Canadx. beéper a# Judge Hoffman. The divorte sought on the ground of “on% cruelty." especialty during a tripf« Europe." The plaintiff testified that <. her husband was a newspaper Writ:;> er, owning $80,000 worth of property us, and earning $150 a week. . Judge Hofman dismissed the case. . Th6~ . action will probably ‘be tried again â€".£ in a different court in OhSo. S KNOWLES DIVORCE â€"__ |_ _ WATERLOO »â€"North Waerdâ€" .. . SHOOTS HIS SWEETHEART Relieves‘ d:ked I;af garâ€" get, spider or infection of the teat, ;It) thrush in horses‘ feet, fAstuls, THE FARMER‘S FRIEND once. Removes proud fiesh, soreness and swellâ€" Manufactured only by DOUGLAS & CO., NAPANEE, Ont. At all Dealers and Druggists. 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