by the
poorer
people’s
of
the
country,
had been
a s.ong
opponent
of rremium
bonds,
for the
reason
which
Mr.
Bonar
Law,
Lord Privv
Seal
and
Government
Leader
in
the
douse,
advanced
in
his
speech
on
this
subjeet
tonight,
namely
¢
that premium
bonds
would
destroy
the
habit of saving in
war ceriificates
which
had
brougnc
the
Government
£1,500,
000
weekly
and
tend
to
discourage
thrift among
the
people.
Paris,
Nov.
.30th.
New~s
that
the
Polish
army
has forced
a
junction
with
the army of
General
Denekine,
is
con-
firmed
1n
a
despatech
received
by
the
“"Presse de
Paris’’ from Warsaw.
London,
Deec.
Ist.
Lady
Astor took
the
oath
as
a mewber
of
the
House
of
Commons
this
afternoon.
There
was
a
great
outhburst
of applause
while
she
was
approaching
the
speaker
and again when she signed
the roll.
Her
sponsors
were
Mr.
iloyd
George
and
Mr Balfour.
'
Paris
Dec
Ist:-An attempt
to
mak:
a
Peace
[reaty with Hungary
through
the
new Hungarian
Government,
was
decid-
ed
upon
by the
Supreme
Council
today.
The
Council
reached
this
decision
after
listzning
to
the
report
of
Sir Georg 2
“lerk, the
Peace
Con‘grence
Emissary,
who
receontly
returied
from
DBudapest.
[t
was
resolived
o ask
the Government
of
Premier
Huszar,
to
send
to Neuilly,
near Paris,
as
soon
as possible.
a
Hunga-
rian delegation
empowered
to
negotiate
poace.
Berne,
Dec.
2nd.—An
appeal
for
the
repatriation
of
aill
war prison-
ers
as
yat
held
by
the
belliger-
ents,
has
been
=ddressed
to
all
na-
tions
which participated
in
the
war
by
the Swiss
Federai
Council
Spezial
re-
ference
is made
.0 i ners
still
in
Ser-
bia and
in Franc:
aad
aiso
Russian
pris-
oners
remalning
10
Germany
recalling
the work doao
11 Switzarian
| dtaring
the
war,
looking
to
tne
alleviauon
of
the
conditionsof prisonars
aad
the
suffer-
ings
of all natiors
during
the
struggle.
th= Council’s app>
1l savs:
It would beso
, cial danger
if th: aundreds
of thousands
of prisonors
still in capiiviiy were
allow-
ed
ro
remain
prisoners
any
longer.
It
has
been
a whole
year
sinece
the
armis-
tice
was signed,
and
the
state
of
mind
these
men might
be
In
wi:n returning
to their homes,
might make
them
a
men-
ace to
society
it
their
imprisonment
is
prolonged.”’’
Dijon.
Dece.
2nd.—
That
Germany
*still retains
French
prisoners
of
war
in
close
eonfinement
is
the
caim
made
by
Louis Boucher,
a French
voiunteer
of the
1920 class,
who
was made
a
prisoner
at
Villarbretonneux
on
.June
6th
1918
and
just
returned
to
his
home
here.
Bouchri decleared
that he,
with (wo
com-
rades,
was tired before
acourt martial for
attempting
(0 escape,
and
was sentenced
to ten
years’
imprisonment
in
a
for-
tress
and taken
to Danzig,
the other
two
heing sent
to Koenigsberg.
Tun:
French
¥l At
X
a vin
Mission from Berlin,
which
visited
the
Danziz fortrs<s,
discovered,
according
to
Boucher,
seven
»risoners
in solitary
con-
fine nent and nad
them
released.
Bouch-
er
was among
those
given
their
free-
dom.
French
War Oifice records
earried
the word ‘‘disappeared’’ againt
the
name
of Boucher
who had
been
unable
to
com-
municate
with his relatives
after his
cap-
ture.
Washiagton,
Dee.
2nd.
When
Presi
dent
Wilson’s message
coataining
abo
5,000
words
was read
in
the
House,
..
drew
mixed expressions
of
approbation
ana
disappointment,
The
Democrais
generally
appraised
it
as
setting
forth
decisively
a practical p:obiem
of reform
whileon
the opposition
sice,
there
were
many
complaints
.hat it lacked
definite-
ness,
and
onited
ention
of
important
problems.
The P
ident’s
principal
re-
commendation:;
\oio.
The
establish-
ment of a Budget
system
tor the Nation’s
Finances.
Reorganization
of
the
taxa-
tion
system
with
simplification
of
the
income
and
excess
profits
taxes,
readiustment
of
the
tariif
system,
If
necessary,
to
meet
echanged
world
conditions,
and
make
the
sysiem
con-
torm
with
the
faet
t‘hat
the
United
States
is.
‘'‘the
greaiesi
capitalist
in
the
World”’.
Recognition
and
re-
lief
for
veteran
soldiers
of
the
World
War,
particularly
in the
way
of
Gov-
ernment
farms,
as
proposed
by
the
Secretary
of
the
laterior,
Mr.
Lane.
Prcper
measures
to. fosrer
the
dye-
stufts
industry,
built
up
during
the
war,
to
keep
the
United
States
in-
dependent
of
for ign
supply.
An
en-
iarged
programme
tor
tu.ai development
in recognition
of the farmers’
par:
in the
war.
A measure
whieh
will remove
the
causes
of political
restlessness
in
our
body politic.
At this point the President
made
his
10&t extensive
reference
to ihe
Peace
Treaty
by
saving
the
causes
for
the
unrest
are
supeocficial,
rather
than
deepseated,
and
that
tlicy
arise
from,
or
are
connected
with
toc
failure
on
the
part
of
the
Gover:
ynent
to
ar-
rive
speedily
at
a
just
aud
permanent
peace,
permitting
the
return
to normal
conditions
from
the transfusion
of radi-
cal
.neories
from
seething
FEuropean
centres
pending
such
delay,
from hear:-
less
orofi eering resulting
in the increase
in the
cost
of
living,
and
lastly,
from
the machinations
of passionate
and
male-
volent
agitators.
W:th
the
return
to
normal conditions,
the
unrest
wili disap-
pear.
The
President
renewed
his
re-
commendation
to
deal
effectively
with
those
persons,
who by viol2nt methods,
would
abrogate
our time-tested
institu-
tions.
Several
recommendations,
and
some
renewals
of
previous
ones,
were
m£de
by
the
Proesident
to
bring
down
t e
high
cost
of
living
Among
them
were
ihe
exiension
i the
food
control
to peac:
times,
for the emergency
reg-
ulations
fur transportation
of foods
in
interstate
commerce,
of the cold-storage
law
modelled
after
the
law
in
New
Jersey.
requiring
marks
to
show
the
length
of
time
foods
are
kept
in
storage,
and
a
law
to
secure
compe
fitive s2lling
and
present
unreasonabi
profits by federal
license
officers
selling
food
in
interstate
commerce.
A
long
nortion
of the
message
was devoted
to
a
discussion
of the conditions
and rights
of
labour.
A definite
programme
to
bring
about
an improvement
in
the
conditions
0.
labour and
bring about
a
genuine
de-
reoeratization
of
industry
was
recom-
mended.
The
only
way
to
keep
men
frem
agitating
against
grievances
is
(0 remove
the prievances,
said
the
Pres-
ident’s
message
At
another
point it
fe-
c.ared
the seed
of revolution
is repression.
The establishment
of
the
principles
re-
garding
labour
laid down in the Covenant
of the
lLeague of Nations,
said
the
mes-
sage,
opened
the
way
to
industrial
peace
and
conciliation.
No other
road
was
cpen.
Governments
must
recog-
nize
the right of
men
to
bargain
collec-
tively lor human
objeets.
lLabour
musit
no
longer
be
treated
as
a
commodity.
The right of
the
individual
to
strike
is
inviolate,
continued
th-
message,
and
ought
not
to be intericred
with by
and
process
of government
but there
is
a
pre-
dominant right,
and that is the
right
of
government
to protect all of its people
and
to assert
its power
and
majesty
against
the challenge of any
class.
The
President
was relerring to
the
Government’s
rve-
cent injunction against
the
coal
strike.
The
message
closed vith
a
pointed
ref-
erence
to
radicalism
ard
red
doctrine,
and
referred
to
Russia
today
with
its bloc¢
and terror
as
a
terrible
object
lesson
of the
power
of minorities.
There
are
tnose
in this
country.
said
the
mes-
sage
who threaten
divect
aeion
to force
their
will
upon
a
majority.
it
makes
little d fferente
what
minorities
wheth-
er capizal
of labour,
or
any other
class,
no sort of privilege wiil ever
be
permit-
ted
w ucminate
this country.
Mr.
Der-
ly’s
liocesses,
the
message
declared,
were
I.le only ones
by
which reliet
and
tciorni
could
be
obtained.
Those
who
would
propose
any
other
method
of re-
torm
zre
enemies
of
this
country,
the
message
said.
Let
those
beware
who
t: ke
the
shorter
road
of
disorder
and
, evolution.
-
NOTICE.
THE
Bridge
at
Mt.
Pleasant
Colquehoun,
Northside
I.oad,
_—
4
3
.
LER
y
King’s Quarter
will be
closed
for
traflic
antil further”
on
account
of
repairs.
F. LUNNEY,
Chairman
Road Commissi
n.