À ♦ ♦ ♦ WEATHER FORECAST A WHERE TO GO TO-NIGHT For 34 houjs ending 5 p.ni., Saturday : n Caâltol—"Qh. Doctor." os Dominion "The Thundering Herd.” Vfrtof^a and WflnU,—Moderate te Playhouse—"King iHKlo." freeh southerly and weeterly wind», trn- «’olfseum—"A Slap Most Llve." entity fair and nuid. followed by rain. * Volumbia—"Oh. You Tony." -- .BiU. VOL. 66 NO. 62 VICTORIA, B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1925 -18 PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS ROSS WATSON HEARING BEGINS IN NANAIMO RECEIVED CANADA’S FACES COURT CANADA’S DECLARATION ON NOTE TO LEAGUE; MANY SETTLERS WILL COME ACTION IN FRANCE; DUNCAN BUTCHER, WITNESS WORLD COURT IS CAUSE OF SIRE. DRUMMOND TO CANADA SOON FROM U.S. ALFRED MAGINOT AT NANAIMO BANK ROBBERY Vancouver, March 13.—“-We expect a greater number of settlers to come in from theTnited States this year than in any v MUCH GENEVA DISCUSSION previous year,’’ declared Dr. W. J. Black, director of coloniza­ HEARING. IDENTIFIES WATSON tion and development for the Canadian National Railways, who This Country Willing, With Certain Reservations, to left for Victoria to-day to confer with members of the British Consider Extension of Compulsory Jurisdiction of Columbia Government on colonization and co-operation between Says Seattle Ex-Detective Accused of Sharing in Coal the provincial administration and the railway company. City Crime Bought Meat December 12 in His Store Permanent Court; Problems of Security and "There a real revival of interest in Canada throughout the Disarmament Sent Over to Next Assembly. central part of the United States,” Dr. Black stated. ‘‘I have in Cowichan Town; Great Interest in Preliminary jqst had a conference with our United States representatives at Trial Indicated by Crowd in Courtroom. St. Paul and we expect quite a movement northward this year.” Gear *a, March 13—The expected decision of the League of Nations Council to throw the whole problem of arbitration, Nanaimo, March .13'.—That lions Ç. Watson was one of a party security and disarmament into the next Assembly, registered to- that entered his hnteh^r store at Duncan. on or about the "da.v by resolution, was quite overshadow'd in league opinion by d*y-*of the Nanaimo bank robbery and bought meat there was Canada's note to the League in which she announced her willing­ tho evidence given by Mr. Frye, proprietor of the Frye Meat ness, with some reservations, to consider extension of the com­ WORST BREAK Market. Front Htreet, at the preliminary hearing of the accused, The note sent from Ottawa, pulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International dealing with the security Pro­ which begau before Magistrate Beevor-Pctts in Nanaimo this ■ Justice. tocol and thf World Court, was morning. V The communication from Ottawa, receipt of Which was an­ reported to the Council by Sir« YET HITS WHEAT Other witness for the Crown at the morning session included Eric* Drummond. ' Secretary- nounced here i this morning, showed Canada pisd rejected the General of the league. three people who had been in Nanaimo on the day of the robbery protocol partly because of non-par­ Winnipeg. March 13.—It Ex-Senator Charles Humbert and told of the scene at the Royal ticipation by the Unite dStates. which wav “Friday the thirteenth*’ alleges Ex-Premier Poincare, Bank of Canada during the robbery. madh the operation* of sanctions or Flashes and Maginot libelled him. These did not identify Watson, it la penalties practically Impossible. FRENCH SECURITY Annual Civic Balance for holders of wheat to-day. EMPIRE SHIPPING understood. Thr Canadian docupicnt caused u On the Winnipeg drain Ex­ The hearing, which was adjourned nortceable new emphasis to be laid DEBATEPOSTPONED change wheat prices broke a COMMITTEE IS TO at noon, continued at 2.30 this after­ upon arbitration in the IPartie con­ ' Sheet Almost Ready FIRE IN COQUITLAM noon and will be featured by the tes­ sultations and the opinion was ex­ total Af sixteen, cents before INVESTIGATE RATES timony of some of the chief witnesses Paris. March 13.—An urgent Victoria City's—bskmee- shect Coquitlam. B.< ’.. March lJ.—Prem­ MORRIS’ APPEAL pressed in some circles that Canada’s the. disorganization was for the Crown. W. E. Burns appears telegram from ex-Premier Briahd will probably be completed before ises of the Coquitlam Meat Company for the defence, and A. M. Johnson, stand had caused Austen Chamber­ in Geneva, delivered to Premier Ottawa, March 13 (Canadian lain. British Foreign Secretary, in his the end of this month. CHy Trea­ and the home of W. 8. Pyle were de­ halted. On the Chicago Board Preea)—The Imperial Shipping i K.C.'Tor the Crown. Harriot juet as he was about to surer Edwin timith intimated this stroyed end the Masonic Hall and remarks to-day to refbr pointedly to apeak in the Chamber of Depv* of Trade there was a collapse Committee of Great Britain will CROWD PRESENT arbitration, he saying he wished to morning. "Everything financial the Coquitlam Hardware Company ■ POINT investigate the queatien of North ties this afternoon headed off The Nanaimo court room pre­ repeat that Britain remained firmly seemed to break In favor of the premise* adjoining were damaged by almost as severe. Atlantic shipping rates and their a debate on the problem of city last year, and the results to sented an animated scene, packed to attached to the principles of arbitra­ fire which caused lose estimated at Wheat poured into the pits effect on Empire trade, with spe­ the doors by the crowd that gathered tion and disarmament. -------- French security as related to the be shown In the accounts should $30,000., maintenance of the present Pol­ be pleasing to the cltlsens," said from everywhere and brokers cial reference to the influence of to see the first presentation of evi­ IN GILLIS CASE the conference system or of eny dence in the bank robbery ease. ish frontier adjoining Germany. the city treasurer. / tumbled over one another in a EUROPEAN ALLIANCE No completed schedules are yet TREATY FIGHT ENDS ether forms of negotiations en Ross. C. Watson, who formerly was available for presentation to the frenzy to dispose of their Report of Additional Arrest these rates and on the service. a city detective in Seattle, la council, but tentative calculations Washington. March 13—Pending holdings. This waa revealed in correspon­ charged with complicity in the |42,- Paris, March 13.—The result Denied by Police 000 robbery of the Nanaimo branch Considered in circles around the show that Victoria’s financial for twenty years, and surviving a dence between the Secretory of The*, most bearish news yet State for the Cdleniea and the of the Royal Bank of Canada on Foreign Office to-day ae meet position has improved all Along filibuster at the end. the treaty for December 12 la»t.- He was attended likely te follow the British re­ the line, the betterment ranging formal recognition by the United was responsible for thr break. Preliminary Hearings May Canadian Government, tabled in i REVISION OF from increased taxation Income States of Cuban sovereignty over the the House of Dominons here thia in court by his wife and father. No jection of the Geneva Security ( able* from Liverpool opened demonstration was attempted. Protocol will be a European alli­ to lowered percentage* of costs Isle of Pines waa ratified to-day by 2|d lower and then dropped Proceed Here SJgprtly * afternoon. / ance in which all the states whose in almost every municipal under- ~ the Senate. frontiers are exposed to the to 5id lower. The European As already indicated in The Times dangers of invasion will unite, ULSTER ELECTION markets were glutted with the GilHs,mur4er trtala may proceed In FLAGS AT HALF-MAST unless the British Government is this city without undue delay. It was EIVE CANDIDATES able seen te suggest something British Newspapers Say heavy shipments of Argentine eiT SUM TO BE Beirut. March 13 -TM-Plr-t P»r- and Australian wheat, leaving learnt to-dar from provincial police IN HONOR OF LATE better te take its place. Chamberlain’s Rejection of IreUml tun The League of Nations protocol afternoon A no dcmanJ for North Ameri­ authorities in touch with the cAae. DR. SUN Y AT SEN -*hm Is now considered In all politi­ Proposal Final dluolutlon proclamation will be la can products. The report that an additional arrest FOR PRESIDENCY OF cal and diplomatic circles here as had been made in the case was given dead. Peking. March li.—The memory of it was learned in Official circles to­ Much Speculation Among EXPENDEJp a specific denial to-day by Col. J. H. Dr. 8un Tat Hen. first President of day that the British cabinet has been WINNIPEG DEATH McMullin, superintendent of the pro­ Observers as to What is to the Chinese Republic, was honored -pressing France to take the German B.C.E.R. Estimates Provide vincial police, who stated that while by representatives of foreign nations proposals Tor a pact under consider­ Come Next Winnipeg. March 13 — John T. to-day when all legation flags were ation. $100.000 For Victoria Spier*, former Winnipeg alderman some talk had mentioned tha Point , and president of the Spiers Parnell Roberta ihcjdenvconnection with ^ Tord. °J Election March 29 May Give GUARANTEES ASKED London, March 13.—The passing of District Baking Company, died here to-day the eu#, It had no material bearlnf <*«"’ of '."T", ‘“.Ier hf'd The German proposals, however* the Geneva Security Protocol, which after an Illness of more than five oh the Beryl been transmitted to the legations by no Clear Majority; Second was rejected by Foreign Secretary ithe Chinese Foreign Office.