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. Ai SUNIMERSIIJE
...D
The formal opening of the Provin-
cial Seed Fair-took place yesterday at
11.30 by His I-lonor l.ie‘ut, Governor
M'cD0na-ld, Rev. I)r. Gauthier. presided
and in a -short address' described tile
showing oi’ seed grains as excellent
and could not be beaten in any pnl'i
of the Dominion. if the showing in po-
int-Oos was smaller than usual it was-
dua to the excellence of the exhibits
sent in by Mr. Brodie and Mr. Ves-
HGY. of York. who had improved. the
growing of seed potatoes to such an
extent that competition was almost
forbidden.
He regretted that samples of the
ueed'shown at the first Seed- Fair
“Ver held lin Sunmndrside had not
been preserved for comparison with
the exhibits of today. HB0
this been done. he said. U10 ¢\<|V8“°°
in quality would be an eye 0080"-
lLieut. Governor McDonald after
speaking of the excellence ol' tho ex-
hibits stated' that when he was ll
young man the people of his' county
used flax very extensively and iw
much regretted to say that flax Pf°'
duction has now. almost come to I
stop. He would -like to see this ill'
dllstry revived. it was also s shame
he said to see each year such an im-
mense quantity of money leave this
Drovince for leeds' which could ill!!
as well be grown hero and the money
kept amongst ourselves. in conclu-
sion he formally declared' the 14th
Annuai Seed Fair open to the public.
Hon. llnrdoell McKinnon. Commis-
sioner of Alriculture, -oongratuilted
all upon tile lilogeel of "I0 F'-il' *ld
pllill tl flll'tlle,~ compliment fo the able
management. The original object of
the Fair. he said, was only to im-
. prove our seed, this it had done, which
was good for the country, bllt it had
llow como up to the time, where there
was rl great cry i`or food pl'olillctiorl.
We arc now llbla to get lr. much ill-
oreased production on account of good '
seeds and other ports- oi' Canada
could do the sumo by sending here for
their seed, tho names of the cxhibi-|
tons being always available for this'
purpose. 'l`llel'efol'@! the l’r'ovin'cilll
Seed Fail' which had been of great
l ell in the last is now a great
ln the afternoon there was a llllbiiv
meeting held in the Seed Fair
lhui-idlng, presided over by the Presi-
ident, Rev, Dr. Gauthier. At this
meeting the judges oi’ the different
classes explained their reasons for
making awards and also analwercd
numerous questions asked by farmers
lprssent. There was p very' large at-
tendance and the fair was pronounc-
ed one of the biggest successes of the
series of seed fairs held in the was-I
tern capital.
'The' Fair closes today with the sale
of prize grain which commences at
10 o’clock this morning.
_......_._._.._--
VISCOUNT MILNIR DID NOT IN-
TERFERE IN RUSSIAN POLI-
TICB.
(special to Title Guardian) .
LONDON, March 21- Foreign
Secrets y
the House of Commons today that
recent visit to Russia. to interfere di-
rectly or indirectly in Russian interg
‘nal politics.
g_Mg\al:d'e Llnirneng Ulllln D_legel_l'lp_e;,
'~ y D ,
that produces them is THE GUAR-
mcat bills materially if ylou instal a.
. M nm;
worth Sc per lb. bcing highly nut~`
lsn 1 D '
'convenience in li. time of need. fed n, snnatorillm for the treatment of,
I
r Balfour' 1118110 H 'Twill i\1;well We don’t want our gift to the
Viscount Milner attempted, during hisi-put your hand; in your pocket md
TUESDAY. MARCH 20th.
Premier' Mathieson continuedz-
The hon. gentleman cannot keep
'sway from the Dalton >Sanl1torium. l
know that last August he nearly raised
a. riot among his own people with the
attitude he took towards that insti-
tution, lasd now he is at i-t wc~rse than'
ever. I-le stated then it would cost
$14,000 to $20,000 a year' to maintain
the institution._ Well, he dm not
know what he was talking about any
more timn when he said $400 was the
lnc1'ease_oi' tax on some unknown
school dlstrict in the Fourth District
of Prince. But he thought that that
would make the people dissatisfied,
that to say the institution was going
to cc-st $20,000 -a yenl' to keep 27 pa.
.tients would mnko tho whole matter
objectionable in the eyes of the people
. und make them unwilling to meet anyi
rospollsilbility ill regard to it, Oi'
course, it was not true. We asked;
for a vcte oi' $7,000. That gentlenllan
who made this gift to the province,-
|ll1€ greatest gif; in amount and the
.greatest ln value that we had ever
j received-intenderl first a. gift of $20,-'
'000; land when suggestions of more'
accommodation and better were af-\
'f0l"i0d. he went c-n and on until he
ilgfecd to $50,000. One improvement
after another was made, until to-day
thlat institution stands approved by
ithose wllo have inspected every sana-
‘torium from here to the Pacific Coast,
'ranking first of all, in every modem
equipment, in every modern conve-,
|uience, in everything that goes tol
lnake such nu institution of great vla-'
I lue. He went beyond fifty thousand]
_“Hd Silent some thousands more in
|P"°"|di“€ eilllilimmlt. and when we
_met the House ill August last we had
ill view the filling up of the institu-
|tion with soldiers disabled on account
lot’ tuberculosis and it required consi-
derable furnishing material to com.
plete the accommodation in the insti-
tution. That seven thc-usa_nd went
largely for that purpose. The insti-
itutlon, since the first January, is ae.
comlnodatillg from 2.5 to 27 soldiers,
l
andwbon the hon. gentleman says it
is a charge upon this province ol'
$10,000 a year he mukcs n, sta.temf_~,n¢
which has no foundation in fu,-,|_ The,-0
will bc submitted to this llousc, at
U10 earliest Orrvrlllniiy, a statement
,showing how the institution stands
'and what its running expcnscs are.
What docs the i-ion. Leader ol' the Op-
position wish to get at? ` llc says
it costs too ulucll. llc says it costs
l $20,000 a year and that $20.000 should
be taken and spent some other way,
which would involve, of course, the
,Cutting oil' c-1' the Dalton Sunatorium.
A STRAIGHT QUESTION.
l want io ask him il’ he has thc`
courage to back up his insinuations
,and mis-statements by proposing ln
~ this House tllat the statute which lm-
'posed llpon_iho Government certain
responsibilities in regard to the main.
tenanco of that institution. should 'bo
rcpealcd. ll he would not do that,
if be has not the courage to
'do that, then_'I say his insinuations
and mls-stamenlents are a disgrace
land ll discredit to any man in public
or private -life. Now the session lien
before us for weeks. Will he have the
courage to stand up and introduce n
bill in this ilouse-he has the right
and power to do it-refusing on the
part of this province to, take any re-
sponsibility in regard to that insti-
tution? He has given us a disquisi-
lion here' upon what a suuatorlllln
should bo. it should not be it snnn-
torium 10 doal with incipient case-'.
he says; it should take in advanced
cases. 'l’hel'e` is over in Nova Scotia xl
gentleman who for some years has,
led tho' Liberal Party and who nligllti
with some callse-nltllollgll ll don'ti
think he would be so presllruptuolls--‘
rise up and say "i am thc Lender or
the Liberal- Party in Nova Scotia.' lie
might however, lifter all the pc'l'ioli 'Ln
which the people have placed their
confldcllce in him, bc justified in so
doing. But he is a man ol' too llluch
modesty to do that; ll man of too
little vanity to do th-at, Bu; he put
forth. as one strong reason why lilo
people of Nova Scotia should support
him, that his Government had erect-
I
i
incipient cases of tuberculosis and at
a very large cost. Now, there we ree
n mall. who actually led the Liberal
'Party of his province; a man who rec-
ognized something of his dufy fo-
wards the public, and he was proud
of the fact. and expected
the people to support
himl by reason of it- and they did-
that he had taken the public money
and built this institution and was op-
erating it solely upon the public.
charfe. They had no mlm in the
prov nr-9 of Nova Scotia as broad-
minded and as generous as the hon.
member for' Tignish. They had no
man who came forward and' built, out
of his own pocket. a first.-class
institution and handed it over for the
public use. Ii' they had such a
man. do you think that |Leade`r
of the Liberal Party would have said
to him: No, you have to support it as
. Y
people of Nova Scotia unless you
psy for the whole support as well as
the cont of emotion of the institution.
There ia a pretty wide gnli fixed be-
tween the Leader of the Liberal Party
in Nova Scotia and the gentlemen
C0-. Market ,B\lildill's. 'rl-ls DALTON sANA'rol=ilulvl. who pl-presses tp load the Liberal
Party ill Prince Edward Island.
SITE OF THE SANATORIUM.
lie .lays that the Sanatorium is bad-
ly situate, and _vet the situation was
chosen by the greatest experts in re
gard to sannnoria whose services
could be bought with money. The bolt.
gentleman has no hesiitation at all,
in the vastness"oi' his ignorance of
the' subject, in condemning their
knowledge. Dr. Miller, who has
charge of the Snnatoriunl in .\'ova
Scotia, thought worthy of that posi-
tion, a native oi’ this province, lvell
known and highly respected. ' was
consulting phys-icilln who lleherlnin-
ed uporl that cite; but the hon.
gentleman. while he would do away
with the Dalton Sxlnatoriu-nl, turn
away our soldiers to wander' wilerc
they would ami filul shelter in other
provinces, has a pllln of his own.
lie would' cover this' whole province
with nurses and would spend lnost
of twenty thousand dollars. and llc
would allow tile( nurses to cover the
whole of the collntry and nurse peo-
ple in their homes, 1-le would confer
on them power to enforce thell' direc-
tions so that they could go about lronl
place to place. and whatever' direc-
tions the might give would be enfor
ced by law, The modern advance' 0'
medicine and surgery has been
through the hospitals; not the treat
ment of people at their homes but
through the hospitals, This gentle
lnan would upset all this, l-le would dc
away with modern methods and
revert to conditions of disorgalllza
tion. That is- the way he would spend
the $20,000. Why does he not spend
it? When it calnc to the' question oi
providing a srinatoriunl the
honorable member for Tignish
did not ask thc Government or any-
body else to put up the money. lic
came forward and put up the mc-ney.
and the road is open for others wllo
are benevolent to follow suit. The
i-lon. Leader of the Opposition would
not cure those cases or take them
into the Sauatorium.--those cases that
are curalble. His idea would be too
put the advanced cases, those which
arc incurable, into thc 'Sanatorillm.
That is what. he says. I have thc
record of his speech here. lt secln.-'
incredible, but tillat is what hc says.
l-ic would pllt tllcnl in the Sa-naiorium.
\V'hy docsll't he tllcrl. with ull his
wealth? Why docslri, llc do some
i.hillg to ilolp out such cases? We
llavc a person who has provided a srl-
natoriuru for incipient cases, and li
we had anotllcr pcrsoll to provide a
rcfugc for incurable cases we would
cover the wholc ground. Therc ir
an opportunity \`or that gentlclnall
and he may not have such a c-llc vcr_\'
long,
TH E FOX TAX.
Now. Mr. Speaker", l must revert for
a monlcni. to thc question oi' taxation.
Tho hon. gentleman. in seeking to
stir up discontent and strife, has said
that the Government ilnpo;-lad ll. vlllull~
tion of $2,500 on foxes and various
other valuations. That should go
into tile column where he says “,\'es"
and means "no." it should go into
one ot' those parallel columns. As it
stands it has no truth ill it. ln 191-i
the valuations placcll ll_\' owners upon
their foxes lvlls llllnt'-st $800
apiece, the average oi' reds was with-
in a few 'cents l;-f $60 apiece. M-any
persons paid their taxes upon those
valuations; but when the wall' broke
out. although the Government might
have collcctell every cent, _vet tho pri-
ces fell and the (ioverlllncnt l'on.~|idel'
cd that ill orllcl' to sl\|>pl;»l'1 the indus-
try to that extent. illstc-nd of roller-
ting a tnx on about $10,000 u plllr
they would lnoke il one-lnllt' ol’ that.
They reduccli front almost $5-.000
apiece on silvers to $2,500, and those
who had Daid on the higher valllll-
itinn, unless they had sold foxes at
|the llighcr vllllnltlon. were nllowell ll
i rebate.
. it was zl iiifilclllt llllltit-l' to tical
wltll. but wg lit-alt with it and us fur
as l knoll' tllcrn was no vullsc l'ol' dis-
satisfaciioll lcl`i; and when the lion.
gentleman says thug, the (lovernnmnl
put a vnlulltion of $2,500 upon them
when they were not worth that his
statement is the precise opposite ol’
the truth. Tile truth is as I have
sated. that thc Government volunta-
l'ily. ill vie-w of tho fall in prices. l'e~
duced the valuation from almost
$5,000 apiece to $2.500 apiece. and of
those of lesser value. from $793 to
$400 apiece, and reds from $59 to
$30 apiece. So that istesd of rhe-
Government being the hard-grinding
task master. as the Leader of the Op-
position would have people believe.
they considered it fair, on the other
hand. to take one-half ol what the
strict letter of the law allowed. When
that goes forth to the public-and
avory man who has had tc do with the
fox tax on the Island will know that
what I say is true-where will the
Leader of the Opposition stand? How
can he expect anyone of them ever'
again to accept. unless at a terrible
discount. any statement which he
makes?
WHAT THE GOVERNOWS SPEECH
CONTAINED.
The speech of His Honour at the
opening of the House on Thursday
laai.,1rhile short. yet covers tile range
of those subjects of deepest import
to us. There ie _this clause in it:
DEBATE ON- THE ADDRESS
    .'t,‘.':f'.il':°r..$ls°'E2r:.“r.32222;' .'.::'...'?""”°~
"Wlith undaunted courage the resour-
ces of the Empire are being marshall-
ed for victory against the foes of free-
dom and justice. With confident hope
we look forward to victc-ry in this
yeal"s campaign." \Ve should re-
joice to-day that on the Western
front the enemy is in retreat and
whether they may cali it s. strategic
retreat or -anything else, n. retreat in
such ll case luenns defeat and it
marks one stage in the closing drama.
of the war. The last scene may be
llonl' c-r for uw:l_\', but we have one
step marked clczll' and definite of pro-
gress mode, and the hope of the Ger-
llnlnsl lo strike towards the coutit of
(Tnlnis or lo strike any vital part of
il‘l'nlll-c lluw lies lielul; and tho roac-
tioll upl;-n the German poplllation as
the knowledge is borne home to them,
that lhcrv is no hope of victory. will
be one ot' thc most potent causes in
accr-ulpllslring tho success oi' our Al-
lies and in shortening the days that
lie. be-tween us and trilllnpll.
OUR RETURNED SOLDIERS.
The tilird clause of the Speech has
to do with providing for the soldiers
returlring from the war: “You will
be asked to conf-lidel' a measure ha-
ving in view the organization and pro-
purlltioll for settlement of the nnusoll
lands of this province. l will not
,say very lunch upon that. When
-the measure is introdllced you will
have an opportunity of dealing with it
fully. I may merely outline this.
however: that in certain paris of this
province there are considerable tracts
oi' vacant lands which our people here
will not enter' upon as raw farm land
and redllce to a condition oi' cultiva-
tion. The ploncer days in this pro-
vince ill that respect are past. " The
plan will involve the preparation of
those areas ill blocks to 'be divided
into farms as may 'be considered most
suitable, when their fitting up and de-
velopment has been carried on to such
an extent that the intending occu-
pants may go' in and prosecute their
cultivation as a means of livelihood.
This providing of farms has been ear-
rled on successfully by the C. P. R.
and -by private enterprise and ,is
being evolved in Now Brunswick on
a considerable scalo, The Govern-
mcni will ask the Legislature to
grant power to procure, ig lay out
and define areas of this kind and to
.undertake such work as may he con-
sidered desirable in respect thereto,
and it is hoped and hclicved that such
a plan, meeting as it does the propo-
sals that ct-nic from the British Go-
vernment, that cvory province in (lu-
lladll may do something' ill tho wav of
providing land on which soldie/rs may
scl.tlc,- it is hoped that the Govern-
ment will rcceive thc cooperation of
every member ill the iiouse in putting
that plan illtocffect.
Tilly llcveioplncnt -(lonlnlisslon I
have already relcrrcd to. it has
been one year at work. The presi-
dent, Mr. Frank R. Heartz, has devo-
and special talent to examining and
enquiring into the possible resources
c-I this province and the means of em-
ploylnellt that may bc afforded our
pcoplo, and llc has had associated with
will go down to the future as having
rendered splendid service and great
assistance on this invaluable work.
-At the proper time l shall lay on the
table oi’ the ilouse a report containing
the various articles which they have
thought suitnblc fel' pllblication, and
l believe all will agree with me in
torlc l'ccol'll of the very highest, nn-
illre- and will lnark ll distinct stage
in lilo dovclc-plnenl of this province.
lt nlrlrks this stage-, above ali: that
lllere lllls been follnll, by a Provincial
llleoting. z\._ holly of men who. without
the sligilest regllrll io 'political bins ol'
politir-:ll relations. have combined
the province. There is no more
`llopr.-flli circlllnsmncc in the history
‘ oi' the province than thai. such a -body
ol' men have been found rendy to as-
sorirll.; lliolnsclvcs in such an under*
faking. and it should receive, from
every loyal citizen and i'rorn everyone
who wishes well to this province, the
lnosi unqualified and enthusiastic sup-
port; and l trust -the Leader ot' the
Opposition llifnself will fake tile very
lirst oppc-rtunitv he can in making
good his terrible defa.ult in slighting
this splendid institution. ‘
EDUCATION.
I
There is this clause in the Speech:
"ln the Department of Education there
is evidence of increasing interest in
our public schools. More liberal sup-
plements have 'been voted and marked
improvements made in equipment. In
|eve'ry branch the service has been
well maintained. Tile work in many
of tin, schools has been disorganized
by the enlistment, for war service of
experienced teachers but this disul-
vsntage will soon pass. while the spi-
rit of loyalty and devotion to duty
shown by those teachers will inspire
the present und future generations
of our scholars."
The statement laude by ills Honour
covers the ground almost sufficiently.
Now. Mr. Speaker. l may say in regard
to Education: This present year of
1917 we hope will see the end of the
war. We had hoped that of 1918 and
we had hoped it in 1915. and still the
war goes on; and we would be very
iunwise, even unpatriotic. if we felled
| to take into consideration those things
(Continued on gage Six.)
THE GERMANS ARE
STILL RETIRING
Allied Forces Now Within Sight oi St
Quentin Headquarters oi German
Emperor and Stall. -Numerous Slight
I Enga-glements andAeriaiCombais. Ger-
man' ailing Place Not Yet indicated.
(Special to The Guardian.) conlc of the great drama being Staged
i.U.\‘D0i\', March 21-- Posslbiiiy ofiln l‘iczll1i_v, the Germans continue
the Gcrlntln withdrawal in lilo region I their efforts to create? a diversion in
north of Arras extending into ilclgiunl I thc legioll oi' \'erdun bllt so far' no-
,territoly is l‘or'caslell irl ll (‘entl'zll|th|ng has developed to indicate that
ted a great deal of his time his energy-E wM 
him a number of men whose names'
saying that it will constitute a his-‘
lhclnscll'es tl;~ work i'ol' the good of,
News despatch from Amsterdam.
St. Quentin, the houdqllurtcls ui'
rho Gcrnlllll ldmpcrol' and gcllorzll
stall' for two years, following the
llizrttlc oi` thc .\lnrne. and the scene
I oi' the great Frencll d`e'i.'eat in the wal'
oi' 1370, is today within sight of thc
,lfreuch illfantry who are 1`ollowil\_l:.
last on thc heels ofthe retl‘c`atil1xGcr'-
man army. Twelve miles south thc
Frencll troops are also looking down
upon Lu Fere and ure within reach
oi' German in-nvy guns, it' the invari-
ers have really elected to hold the
famous liindenburg line, running
from Lille to Ltlon.
i llow far the Gol'nlun rctl-elif has
gone is unknown and there is no evi-
dence that they halted such facts
us' are known indicating ille contl'al'y.
I La l-‘ere is supposed to be! one of
,the corner stones oi the ilindenburg
line, _vet General Nivelle has been
able to occupy Tergnicr, less than
,two miles from La Fere. apparently
without encountering serious 'resisf
.ta.nce. Tergnier is an impobtant rail-
.way junction from which three roads
branch, one north to La. Fere, a sec-
ond, southwest to Noyon, and a third
northwest to St. Quentin. Even more
significant is the fact that the British
_are advincing on the' north against
|Cambrai, another village point on the
|liindenbnrg line. Fires have been
seen blazing in the rear of that town.
.The only fact to offset these evi-
dences that the Germans are still re-
treating is that the a.dvance` of both
‘British and French materially slack-
ened yesterday. This is officially ex-
plained' as duc. to an equlnociial Kill”
which swept ovcl' thc blackened
wilrierncss in wllirll thc opposing
arlmics are nlauocuvoring. Tho Brit-
ish, whose alivallu-.c busy boon con-
stantly siowcr than that of thc'
French al'c still :ln :lpprrciahlc dis-
tance from t'alnln'ai. their i\U3.i‘0'=-`i~
olltpost being about 1`.'0 .lnilcs from
thllt city.
The grl-al. ilnporlancc of (lamhrai
ues in the rat-l that lt l. the rn-lnclolll
bal'ricr'betwecn thc Allies and lilo
great French coal and iron iicldu
around Vaicnuienllcs, twenty miles
. further on.
Thcsc flclds havc hcl-ll in posses-
sion of tho Gcrnlalls .=-incc tlln first
sweep through Belgium, While un-
certainty still reigns as to the out-
li HISTURIII EVENT
TUIJAY Ai YURK
The One Hundrsdth Anniversary
of the lrrlvlll of the Original
, Founders Being Celebrated.
_fx-
(BV W. C. WEST.)
Tho good ship Valiant, Capt. lzznrd.
salleil l`l'oln llull, England. for l’. E.
island, on March 22nd, 1817, with liili
passollgf.-rs aboard. Among ‘those who
were bends ol` faulillcs thc following
'settled on the road 'leading from Sl.
|l‘ctcl°s Road in Uovcllelul Bay; Roh-
ori Vessoy, George \\'cs'-I. und Geo.
l{ul'dy_ Quite ellrly they felt thc need
of it nrlme for their adopted homo and
culled it Little York. since abbrcviui-
cd to York. 'Others of tho pass'e1lgvrs
iseitled in diffcrcni parts of the plc-
vlllce and New Brunswick, viz. ilicb-
llrd illldson. Tryon, local preacher
nnrl member of the island Lcgisl.l-
ture: Cliristopher Smith. Joseph
Trow-sda.le, Wm. llodgl-ou. George
Wlgginton. John I’e'arsol\, Thomas
Best. Thomas Curr, all ol' Crapalld;
Isaac and Henry Smith and Richard
Cross. Charlottetovlm; Wm. and
Robert Lund. Lot 48; Thomas Paw-
cett and l\il°. Stesd.Covehesd: Vincent
,Bell and John Hutclleson. Tracadie:
‘Robert I-lawkes and John Rcmison
Albert C0.. N. B.; John Milner. Sack-
ville, N. B. - -
The voyage lasted 74! days and
was not without incident. A Scotch
brig wus dir-covered in a sinking con-
dition. and the crew and 60 passen-
gers were rescued by the' Valiant.
Among those were, Dr. -McGregor,
St. Peters Road. afterwards murder-
ed in the gold fields of California;
Thomas Hodgson, local pre'ache'r';
,Robert Morrison. Sussex. N. B.
| Capt. lllznrd died on his next voy-
-age and ls- buried in the old cemetery
lat Charlottetown. .ln 1889 his ship was
used as n floating chapel in 1-lull, ‘ °
| The centenary of this event
will -be celebrated in York
'today by a display of
*children in the district.
Mlnarlib Linfmgng oggn colds, Ae,
ll nnljor operation is undcl' way.
1 luilrls, yl-.li-.-li El- 'rho French
are still rapidly pursuing the re-
' treating Germans and have made
gains on both sides of tho Leon Road.
len villages being ca.ptul'e‘d. They car-
ried Suvriennois (‘as,i.le and the vil-
` lage of Jussy, nine miles south of St.
Quentin.
STORM8 DELAY BRITISH AD~ '
VANCE.
(Special to The Guardian.)
LONDON March ZiThe situation on
the western front seems to be that
the British advance was delayed for a
day or so by storms of ruin and' wind
and also the llecessity of providing
roads, The French are twelve mides
south of St. Quentin, the German
headquarters. They are within gun
reach of La. Pere and hold Tergnier.
two miles from that ciiy. The' nearest
British patrfol is twelve miles from
Cambrai, and thirty miles from Valen-
ciennes. the centre' of the French coal
and iron fields.
_____?.___.-
SERIUUS RIUTING
A IN- GERMANY
(Special to The Guardian.)
/LONDON, March 21- Reuters
Amsterdam correspondent telegraphs
that serious riots have broken out in
Berlin through food shorta86 and
sovcml regiments have been called
from tho frontier io proceed t0 U18
t'llpit'.ll to rostoro order.
___......___----
(Spe|:iaI to The Guardian.)
LONDON, March 21- Some of the
l
morning newspapers givc DVOIDUIGUCU
to wireless rcpolts from Switzerland,
saying, news of the Russian 'revolu-
tion has started a serious alll'-9-N011 l“
some of the German industrial towns.
Among these towns are Leii>Z|E-
Dresden, and Munich. wh0l`0 Strikes
and other disturbances are said to
bo taking place. A similar rumor was
received from Amsterdam but it hilt:
not been traced to BUY 1'0U“bl‘5 S0‘"`°"
and is entirely lacking ill C°l19\'m“'
tion.
_________.---
THE WEATHER. .
TEMPERA'1"URE»
TIDE, MOON, ETC.
TORONTO. March. 22--l"Hi'\‘ WWI
higher temperature local sleot or
rain in the evening.
The highest tenlperature recorded
yesterday was 21 degrees above. At
10 a. m. it was 17 above; at 9 p._rn.
20 above. The coldest the previous
night was 30 above.
The tide will be high this mornin!!
:lt 9.59 and tomorrow at 10.40; it will
be high tonight at 10.10 and tomorrow
nt 11.07. '
The sun sets tilisevouing at 6.33 and
tomorrow at 6.34; it rises tomorrow
morning at 6.15 and Saturday :li 6.13.
Tile moon sets tonight at 6.
Tho last quarter of the moon was
on Friday. March 16th at 7.37 a. m.
Therc will he a new moon on Thurs
day. March 22nd at 11.06 p. rn.
Th.. length of today will be twelve
hours and slxteun minut es.
Minard’s Llnlment Cures Tooihlche.
(IOINIING EVENTS .Q
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
MEETINGS. ETC.
"iiaslcel social- and concert Norfil
Wlusloe Hull, Monday. March tl6th_or
ncxl fine night. Talent from New
Glasgow. V 4054.
"*Mr. Wm. Kerr will give an ililus-
trated lecture on “The (lo-operative
selling of eggs and* poultry .in the
Msrshfleld liall. Saturday, March 24th
al R p. m. Ladies specially invited.
4950.
l
i *"l`c-nders will be received from
parties willing to become manager of
the Springfield Egg Circle No. 26.
Tenders to state price per dozen end
be in directors hands not inter than
March 26th. Contract to begin April
lat. Geo. H. Mayne, Secretary.
4900-3-20M3i.
"There will be a grand social and
entertainment in Afton Hall on Thurs-
day 22nd. Proceeds in aid ot Afton
Hall Co. and Red Croes work-done
by lCumberiandl Wbmen'a J`.n¢ltnte.
Mr.. F. J. Nash will likely givellltd-
dress on Red' Cross Endeavor. Doors
open at 7 p. m. Admission 20°. Lali-
les with baskets free. Come and hear
Mr. Earle sing. 4008.
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