♦ WHERE TO GO TO-NIGHT WEATHER FORECAST Variety—Her Social Value. 1HW: Columbia—A Small Town Idol. For 26 hours ending 5 p. m., Wednesday: Dominion—Back Fay. , Royal—All's Fair tn Love. Victoria and vicinity—Light to mod­ Capitol—One Glorious Day. erate winds, generally fair and colder. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. 60. NO. 44 VICTORIA, B. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922 BALFOUR HAS SOUTH AFRICAN DAYLIGHT SAVING STRIKERS WORK DECLINED TITLE End of the Freight LIVES LOST WHEN « TO START MAY 1 DECLARES VEREÜ ON RETURN HOME London, Feb. 21.—(Canadian Press Cable)—Reuter’s Johannesburg cor­ Daylight saving will become ef­ London, Feb. 21.—Offers of special respondent cables that tne strike of ATANEW LEVEL fective here at 12 o’clock on the REPORT IS TRUE honors tendered him for his work at the coal miners and the staff of the the Washington Conference are re­ Rates Case to Come night of April 30, and will remain electric power station at Verseniglng in force until October 1. Inaugur­ ported to have been rejected by A. was broken yesterday by the return Koftinoff Says Doukhobors J. Balfour, who headed the delega­ Highest Figure in History, •Death List in Virginia May Be of as many strikers as were wanted ation of daylight saving, in ac­ tion. Says Official to the Cornelia colliery and of thirty- cordance with the expressed will Plan Slaughter Last week King George offered him Feily one of the operating staff to the Vic­ of the electorate, is provided for peerage but he declined the honor. Three Weeks Hence toria Falls Power station. in a by-law introduced by Aider- Meeting of Board Is Held in Roma Crashed and Exploded; There also has been a resumption man John Harvey and passed Hinting at Massacre of Chil- X.fourth llme he ha“ of work in the brick and tile in- through its first readings at the The Kirjg also is reported to have London Built in Italy City Council meeting last night. dren and Aged offered to ma)*çlake him a Knight of the Penalties for failure to observe The position of the gold-fields Vancouver, Feb. 21.— (Canad jNL London, Feb. 21.—(Canadian Press Concluding Arguments on Equalization Effecting Norfolk, Va., Feb. 21.—Ex­ strike is unchanged except for a daylight saving will be similar to Cable)—Deputy Chairman Davidson slight increase in the number of men the penalties of last year. Press)—“The statement that Peter of the British Columbia Electric . British Columbia to Be Heard March 13 or 14; ploding after crashing down­ who have returned to work. Veregin, Doukhobor chief, contem Railway Company board, presiding at ward during a trial flight, the plates slaughter of children and aged TO MEET TO PLAN a meeting of the board here yester­ McGeer Secured Adjournment. and infirm persons so that the fit day, announced that the railway’s United States army Italian-built gross earnings for the past year con­ Doukhobors may roam about as vag stituted a new high record. This was airship Roma was destroyed to­ Valera Advocates Split rants in protest against extortionate due, he said, to the steady growth of taxation is quite true,” declared M. STREET CAR FI6HT day neàr the naval base here population and the development of Ottawa, Feb. 21.—(Canadian Press)—Three weeks’ adjourn­ M. Koftinoff, manager of the Bril­ the areas served by the railway. In ment of the British Columbia section of the equalization freight with the loss of an undetermined liant, B. C., Christian Community of the year's business freight alone the Universal Brotherhood, this after No Victoria Representative at showed a slight setback. rates between the east and west case, now being heard before, the number of lives. Estimates an In thé Sinn Fein Party noon over the long distance tele­ Board of Railway Commissioners, was secured this morning by G. phone. “The statement was given to , Municipal Conference hour and a half after the disaster the press,'’ said Mr. Koftinoff. Mr. Davidson, speaking of electric G. McGeer. British Ciriumbia Government counsel. placed the dead from half a Mr. Veregin could not make him Ask Council Again to Help power, said : When the inquiry opened Mr. McGeer. following the line of his dozen to nearly forty out of the Dublin, Feb. 21.—Eamonn de Valera, apparently regarding a self understood over the telephone “It lias become fashionable to rep statement yesterday, again urged an adjournment on the ground line and delegated Mr. Koftinoff to Block Federal Charter Move resent that given waterpower, we more than half a hundred per- split of the Sinn Fein party as inevitable, openly advocated such speak for him. have only to turn it into a money- that he required time in whicji to analyze the statistical evidence softs on board. a division at the national Sinn Fein convention, at its extraordinary Municipal representatives from all earner. That Is far from the truth. presented by the Canadian Pacific Railway but which lie claimed The naval hospital at Portsmouth British Columbia will meet An Many waterpowers are impossible of was officially informed that thirty- session to-day, saying it would be better for. Ireland to have two Vancouver to-morrow to draft plans development into the production of the Canadian Pacific Railway had promised to give him several eight of those aboard the airship, for fighting the application of the electric power as cheaply as steam. weeks ago. This action deferred argument of all counsel until the largest semi-rigid dirigible in the armies, each ready to assist the other if the country was imperilled, B. C. Electric Railway Company for There are others which if developed world had been killed, while under­ at the present time would have no March 13 or 14. rather than one army divided in itself. a Federal charter, but no Victoria In the meantime the Board will ex­ takers In Newport News were notified representative will be present. adequAte market for years to come, that thirty or more persons had lost De Valera’s speech was the outstanding feature of the morn­ haust all available evidence before This became clear to-day after the either because the communities with­ adjourning. Mr. Carvell pointed out their lives. ing session, which had only begun the discussion of the party's City Çouncil had failed last night to in reach are already adequately pro­ future policy for pror against the FUNERAL IN QUEBEC that the Board would have to give a endoVse or reject the recommenda­ vided or because of insufficient pop­ great deal of study and consideration Washington, Feb 21.—The navy de­ Anglo-Irish Treaty when the luncheon tion of its delegates to a previous ulation to take the quantity of power partment was notified of the dirigible adjournment was taken at 1.40 p.m. to the case prior to delivering judg­ Last Ceremonies in Honor of street car conference that the Com­ to make the working costs and in­ ment and indicated that it would he Roma disaster in the following tele­ until 3 o’clock. pany’s Ottawa move should be stren­ terest of the undertaking." gram from the naval authorities at Speaking to his resolution urging some time after the conclusion of the Norfolk: “Army dirigible Roma His Memory uously ppposod. Alderman Joseph The danger of the waterpowers in investigation before judgment would the Sinn Fein party to continue the Patrick lias been named as Victoria's Canada being developed too rapidly caught fire and fell to the ground fight for a republic, de Valera won be delivere(f. near army base Norfolk about 2.10 representative on the committee Instead of keeping just ahead of the hearty applause at numerous points Soldier - Journalist’s Death which will meet "in Vancouver to demand, which had been referred to The remainder of the morning ses­ p.m. Thirty-five persons reported he made fn his address. Unconfirmed Dispatch Comes sion was taken up with the renewed dead out of fifty aboard. TAYLOR INQUIRY rrow but. as the Council has taken at a previous meeting of the board, I would rather see the country Cause of Regret no action on the street car question cross-examination of W. B. Lanigan, Thirty-nine Killed. flooded with British troops than give was emphasized ' by Mr. Davidson, From Madrid and has not asked him to attend the who said that when asked to provide Canadian Pacific Railway chief Boston, Feb. 21.—A bulletin receiv­ Los Angeles Murder Unsolved; them the irrevocable right to be here,” Quebec, Feb. 21.—The general re­ conference, he will not go to the freight traffic ^officer, by H. J. Sym­ ed at the Boston naval yard by radio was one of 'his assertions, made in a gret which was felt at the death of capital for the development of such Madrid, Feb. 2Ï. — President Mainland. It had been thought that power the shareholders should make ington, counsel for the Province ol this afternoon from Washington said Negro Is Sought dramatic manner, which was loudly Majof-Genpral Sir David Watson, not Mayor Marchant might take it upon d’Almeida, of Portugal, has ordered Manitoba. that it was reported there that cheered. only in this city and throughout Can­ very sure that the proposed develop strong detachments of troops concen­ Chairman's Attitude. himself to ask Alderman Patrick to ment had a convenient market. He thirty-nine of the fifty men aboard Los Angeles, Feb. 21.—Investi­ Mother Country. i ada, butin the United States and attend but HisSWorshlp said to-day trated between Fort Caxias and Lis­ Ottawa, Feb.