St. John's Daily Star, 1921-02-28

              The St. John's Daily Star Our Average Daily Circulation, September 9181  NeiufoimcHsm<* THE WE A 7HER Probs~.-fm Today j . _^M,-a,,a,,,,,a^a^^a i. ■■' " '" ■ ■ " - ■ " f!K_ir T//£ FT&4 7/_/£/? />rofe--Fair Today •_» _ _ »* VOL. vii. «.' ■ II II ■ I ->*^ Price: One Cent ! MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921  ($3.00 per Annum.) No. 47 40 DIE IN TRAIN-WRECK, U.S.A. * American Destroyer Cut In Two In Collision ; One Sailor Killed And Fifteen Others Missing <* HOST OF CHINESE PERISH OF HUNGER AT CITY OF TIENTSIN ARE DRIVEN FROM HOME Several People Badly Injured in Brooklyn, N. V., of a Gaso- Une^Tank. HUNDRED THOUSAND DAMAGE TO HOUSES BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 27—One ' hundred persons were driven from their homes and several badly injured by the violence of an explos ion of a tank containing five thous _nd gallons of gasoline here today. ■ Direcfily following the explosion ihe block of streets surrounding it changed into a sea of flames. The w:ndows of more than thirty houses were broken end many smaller structures were shaken down. Several of the homes were almost wrecked. When flames started shooting up ! in all directions around the block j the fire department was called and flushed much of the burning gasoline into the sewers. The loss to the oil company is piaced at on_ thousand while that to the homes nearly totals a hundred thousand. . *m i  Japs to Evacuate Siberia • Tokio, Feb. 27—The Japanese forces will evacuate Siberia in March, says The Kokumin Shimbun. Confirmation of this report is not as yet available in official quarters. 1 a» I  I Mr. H. B. Simms, leaves by the Rosalind on a business trip to U.S.A. and from thence to Europe. SAILOR LOST LIFE OFF PANAMA COAST United State* Destroyer Wooltey Is In Collision With U. S. Steamer Steel Inventor WASHINGTON, Feb 27—One naval enlisted man, fifteen are missing and two are injured as the result of a collision yesterday between the United States destroyer Woolsey and, the United States steamer Steel Inventor off the Pacific Coast of Panama. The Woolsey was cut in two at the after tank by the collision and sank this morning while in tow of the destroyer Aaron Ward, which with the destroyer Philip, have one ■ hundred j and twelve of the Woolsey's surviv- I ors aboard. PETITIONS SIGNED AGAINST DIVORCE _______ . Roman Catholics of Canada Object to Legailsing of "Moral and Social Evil." i I  j ATTAWA, Feb, 2a—A circular letter was read in the Roman Catholic churches of Ottawa yesterday, accompanied by petitions signed by thousands, against the proposed legislation for the establishment of divorce in Ontario. Parliament is asked to abolish divorce ki Canada "as it is a moral and social evil which should not be legalized." _ Conference Report Adopted Washington, Feb. 27—The conference report on the Fordney tariff : bill was adopted yesteiday by the house and sent to the senate for final action. ■————» m^mmmmtmmmm^m^^^mmmmmmmtwmmmamvmmmmmmmmm-—w^■ THOUSANDS STARVED AS THEY WAITED IN VAIN FOR SUPPLIES OF FOOD Thirty Thousand Chinese, Gathered On Great Open Plain Outside Tientsin, Slowly Perished of Hunger Before Relief Could Reach Them, American Engineer Reports After Arrival at New York From Famine Areas. SAYS CONDITION OF STARVING HORDES TOO AWFUL TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED BY HIM Crops in North China Absolue Failure and Ten Million Chinese Face Probability of Death From Starvation—Urgent Need of Rushing Food to Forty-five Millions Who Are Now Almost Destitutebarely enough food to support its own people. That is why the prosperous' provinces have been able to do so little for the famine-stricken ones. They have not the food to send. "The crops in North China have failed since 1919. The people have been unable to get more than scraps of food from other parts of China. They have been unable to get much from outside because food has been high priced all over the world. They have tried to move to better districts where they" could raise crops but such districts are so far and they have had strch poor- resources" that they have died like flies on the way. "There is no question that more than 10,000,000 Chinese will starve to death this winter and spring unless food is rushed to them." He declared that millions will die despite aid, that the population of 45,000,-000 in the famine districts is in such dire straits that it will be a physical impossibility to rush enough food to them to save all. Great irrigation projects, control of flood producing streams, and improvement of transportation were cited by Mr. Glines as the only salvation of the agricultural and economic life of China. "These things will be done in time." he said, "for China is awake America will probably have a big part in this future of China, but we . must lay aside these things for the present and devote every effort to getting food to the starving millions." MEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Thirty thousand Chinese gathered on a great bare field outside Tientsin, China, waited patiently for food which never arrived and then slowly died there so, E. S. Glines, American Engineer, reported upon his arrival here after passing six months in the famine stricken areas of North China., The condition of the starving hordes was so pitiful, Mr. Glines said, that he "did not have the heart to take photographs of such misery." He said that the crowd at Tientsin had gathered because they believed food would r*ach them there more quickly than in the country. * Along a roadside near the field, he told of seeing the bodies of a whole family —father, mother and five children— each a few yards apart, where they had dropped and died. "The crop failures have been almost complete in the five great provinces, that makes up the northern part' of China proper. Chihli, Shantung, Shansi, Shensi, and Honan," said Mr. Glines. "This is the part of the country around Peking, south of Mongolia and Manchuria." Explaining why the sections of Chi na not stricken by famine were un able to relieve the starvation districts, Mr. Glines said: "China is largely an agricultural nation. Ninety per cent, of the population lives on the tiny farms into which the country is divided. The Chinese work their land to the limit but they cannot raise more than enough to feed themselves. Each district can raise PRUNTY RESIDENCE DESTROYED BY FIRE Family Barely Escape From Burning Bailding—Save Nothing—House Burns Quickly. THE residence of Mr. Peter Prunty * manager of the Standard Oil Co. ir. Newfoundland, was razed to the ground by fire this morning. Nothing now stands but the foundation all household effects were destroyed.The fire, breaking out at 8.30 found the family in bedi Mr. Prunty with wife and children were forced to leave their beds in sleeping attire only. Nothing could be done to stop the progress of the flames and the few bystanders had only to wait until the firemen from the West end hall (put in an appearance, shortly before the house was demolished. As it was one stream from Tessier's place nearby was applied 1700 feet I distance but made very little differ ! tnce», Af;couple of firemen had a narrow ! escape from injury when the ehiml ney|;which, they were pushing dowh ; fell Unexpectedly on them. THe. garage in which Mr. Prunty kept his car, while not catching fire wasfjn danger and the car was remov ed. I The fire is thought to have been ; cauj|d through the explosion of an oil feater in the hallway'. TRAIN NOTES "IjU express which left here Fridaj last left Pott Blandford at noon today.! A rotary is clearing Placenti* braofeh to-day, T«e Heart's Content branch is nov worfjng with regular connections. TUe Bonavista, train left Trinit} Junction this morning. Tfte Carbonear train was due a L 1 P.*i. i RED CREWS MUTINY MURDER OFFICER Men of Ha8f a Dozen Warships Participated in Revolt at Kronstadt IONDON, Feb. 27—Detils of the recent mutiny of soviet sailors at Kronstadt, says the Central News Helsingfors correspondent, lead to the belief that the crews on the soviet battleship Andreipervosvanni, the battle-cruiser Petropavlovsak, the cruisers Rossya, Admiral Makaroff, Oleg and Aurora, and several gun' boats participated in the revolt and murdered a number of commissaires. Soviet troops, sent against the ' mutineers, were unable to cope with them, the correspondent declared and j the government is trying to reach a ' peaceable agreement with the seamen.STRUCK ICEBERG OR ELSE DERELICT Steamer Princess Matoika, With 2000 Passengers Geat Jar Off Newfoundland ' fl|EW YORK, Feb. 27—The steamer Princess Matoika, with two thousand passengers is reported to have struck an ice-berg or a submerged wreck off the Nfld coast on Thursday night suffered no damage, said a radio message from the captain of the ship, received here yesterday by the United Utates mail steamship company. The message added that the vessel had struck something but was not in danger. The Princess MatOika was formerly the German liner Princess Alice. ■ mm *  Weather across country to-day is S. W. winds light, fine. Thermometer 15. GOVERNMENT STANDARD BEARERS IN THE DISTRICT OF HARBOR MAIN M. E. HAWCO. CHARLES FUREY MCREADY WOUNDED? Was Shot From Ambush is Report Current in Sinn Fein Circles in Ireland. MACROON AMBUSH NOT SO SERIOUS nUBLIN, Feb. 27.—That General Sir Nevil McReady, commander of the Xrown troops in Ireland was the victim of an ambush a fortnight ago at Merrion gates behind walls of the Merrion blind asylum and still is suffering from a bullet wound in his shoulder, is the report circulated in Sinn Fein circles to-day. Con firmation of the report, however, has been impossible up to the present. No Reports Yet. Dublin, Feb. 27.—Reliable details of Friday's ambush at Macroon and the fight which followed it still are lacking. It is believed, however, that the casualties reported are exaggerated.Ambush Spoiled. Dublin, Feb. 27—Incidents reported to-day in the hostilities between Crown forces and Irish insurgents included the discovery of extensive pre parations for an attack upon the police barracks at Clentich, Count) Donegal, in which the roads hac been blocked with and cut and rail; removed from the railway tracks anc the line diverted. The attack, it is announced, prov ed aboritive, as the police were pre pared for it. FOURTEEN HUNDRED ARRESTS IN RAIDS Big Round-Up Operations by Federal Prohibition Officials in New York City MEW YORK, Feb, 27—Feleral prohibition agents raided sixty-four cafes and cabarets, many of them in the white light district, yesterday, taking more than fourteen hundred prisoners and seizing a large quantity of alcoholic beverages. The raids, which began simultaneously at three o'clock in the afternoon, extended over a period of five hours and included places in Manhattan, Brokryn and Staten Island.The raiders, about fifty in number, were brought to New York from Boston, Philadelphia and New Jersey cities for this particular raid. ■ i i ■ ■ — Thrown Out of Work. Sudbury, Ont., Feb. 28—Between six and eight hundred men have been thrown out of work following the closing down of the British-American nikle corporation's mine and smelter on Saturday for an indefinite period. Champ Clark Very HI. Washington, Feb. 28—Representative Champ Clark, leader of the house, was described as seriously ill, in a bulletin issued yesterday by his physicians after a consultation. TALK OVER MATTERS i Reparations Discussed By i Lloyd George, Briand i and Generals Foch and Wilson. READY TO TALK I TO THE GERMANS 1 I ONDON, Feb. 27.—0n the virtual r eve of the Allied conference with s the Germans on the reparations and t disarmament questions, the two.,prinf cipal allied military chiefs, Marshall s Foche, of France, and Field-Marshall s Sir Henry Wilson, British chief I of staff, spent the weekend by invitation with Lloyd George and Premier Briand of France in their seclue sion at Chequers Court, the new country home of the prime minister of England. s The purpose of the consultation d was to reduce to a definite form the c various proposals for the application r, of military and economic pressure ;- sufficient to change the mind of Germany should her government refuse the reparations terms of the Allies. :- Germans On The Way. n Berlin, Feb. 27.—Eight German i- delegates to the conference with ale lies in London, headed by Foreign ,- Minister Simons, accompanied by a y staff of some fifty secretaries and d clerks and a party of several Gerls man newspaper men, left Berlin und ostentatiously to-day on a special train enroute to England. r- Chancellor Fehrenbuch and many :- of the lesser government officials bade the delegation farewell at the station. IMMIGRATION LIMIT IS SET FOR 15 MONTHS Conference Report to This Effect is Adopted by American House and Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—The conference report on the immigration bill was adopted yesterday by the house and senate and the measure sent to the president. It would limit immigration for fifteen months from next April one to three per cent, of the nationals of the various countries who were in the United States at the time of the 1919 census. Forged Passports Washington, Feb. 27—Forged passports to enable dangerous aliens to enter the United States are being issued in almost every European country ,it was announced yesterday at the state department. ■ mm* m MAY BE GENERAL MiX-UP! Row Between Panama and Costa Rica Likely to Spread. Panama, Feb. 28—Hostilities between Panama and Costa Rica threaten the possibility of developing in a conflict involving all Central] America and Colombia. It is learn-J ed officially that President Porrasj has signed a proclamation declaring! war against Costa Rica, but is hold'ing it temporarily in abeyance. I FORTY ARE KILLED IN U. S. COLLISION : Michigan Central Train is Derailed and Collides With Train on the New York Central Tracks. - Unknown Number of Persons Injured—Relief Train is Rushed From Chicago to Scene of the Disastrous Wreck. CLOSED SWITCH SUPPOSED CAUSE ANOTHER THEORY IS SPREAD RAILS CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—The Michigan Central Railroad officially announced to-night that between thirty and forty per| sons had been killed in a wreck at Porter, Ind. An unknown num- I ber of persons were injured, officials said. i Relief trains were sent from here and from Michigan city, j The wreck occurred when train number twenty, on the Michigan Central, derailed and collided with a New York Central train. The New York Central officially announced that two men : had been killed. , , The Michigan Central train left Chicago at five o clock tor I the east. Officials of both roads said the actual cause of the | wreck could not be determined, but it was presumed that the Mi) j chigan Central train either ran into a closed switch or else the rails i spread as the two rains were passing each other. .. 7 j The Michigan Central and New York Central use the same 1! tracks out of Chicago.  i ——— —  3 WOMEN ROBBERS ARE UNDER ARREST J  * Money They Stole From Northern Pacific Mail Car Recovered 1 By St. Paul Police J CT. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 27—The -i*7 arrest of three women and the '1 j recovery of forty Thousand dollars, U I stolen from a mail car of the Northern f | Pacific on Feb. 18 is announced by j '- federal officers. Those arrested j l" are: Mrs. Alice Hendricks, forty; l_ Mrs. Grace McDonald, twenty; her * daughter; and Mrs. Elizabeth Anderr son, twenty-seven, a cousin. According to the officers the money n was found in a locker in Mrs. Ane dersons apartment, n • mm •  e NOT MUCH OF PROPHET e Shackleton's Defence of His Weather Predictions New York, N. Y., Feb. 27—Sir j n Ernest Shackleton returned to Eng- \ I- j land yesterday. Sir Ernest's atten- D j tion was called to the fact that j a shortly after he had predicted a I d "broken winter," the heaviest blanket r- of snow of the winter fell. But the I i- explorer replied that he still main-i il taincd he was right. "One swallow doesn't make a summer," he said, y I "no more does one good snow storm POLICE GET BOND ROBBER AND LOOT Captured Man Had All of His Booty of $700,000 Except Five Hundred DECATUR, His- Feb. 27—Wm. Dalton, who robbed the Chicago Bank of seven hundred thousand in liberty bonds Thursday, was capj tured at Hayworth, north of here. j according to Jack Draper, constable. He had all but five hundred dollars' worth of bonds in his grip. Dalton said he took the bonds because his salary was too small, that be had asked for an increase and it had been refused him. He said he i was sorry that he had taken the i bond's and said that: "It does not N '■ pay. ■ mm 1 — VISCOUNT MILNER MARRIES | Weds Lady Cecil, Widow of Colonel Lord Edward Cecil London. Feb. 27—Viscount Milj ner, recently retired secretary of - ! state for the colonies, was married j yesteday to Lady Edward Cecil, wid- I ow of Colonel Lord Edward Cecil. i The marriage occuned at St. James' Church, Paddington. 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