WEATHER FORECAST .WHERE. JÛ.JÀ0 IQJUGHT... Jbr J* hours ending 6 p. m . Thursday: Victoria aad • ^tcinlty—Moderate to fresh southerly winds, mostly cloudy and cool with shows» VOL. 61. NO. 39 VICTORIA, B.C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS Prosecutions Follow British Light Croiser Raleigh, Known to Victorians, Wrecked in Belle Isle Strait British Ministers ; Liquor Raids Made Take Up Problem of At Interior Points London Conference About Thirty Men Arrested at Penticton, Oliver, Cabinet Called to Meet To morrow to Discuss Differ­ Oeoyooe, Coalmont, Granite Creek, Ptinceton and ences of Opinion As to Course Affecting Germany; Keremeos; Hearings In Court. Poincare to Consult Colleagues. ■ I -, „• ^ Vi-n:i<(..ii. V>.<\, Aug. 0. Excitement rose to high pitch here ft* i*- London. Aug. 9.—The British (’abinet will meet to-morrow to »when it Iwcnnie known that the residences of D. C. / MU consider the Mtualioji grbwing out of the conference of Allied I. ? j «. Winnipeg Street, and A. Nieol. Fairview Road, had leaders here, it was announced this afternoon. eat 1> <1 liy the municipal police and the owners placed in the It is understood that at the same time Premier Poincare will •pal 1«m knp on eliargi's of contravention of the (iovernment consults with his colleagues. | ; \<t Interest was further stimulated when trucks contain- •> j • »rrel« of hier and other ‘‘wet goods" were seen Jiteing un- .x London. Aug. 9.—As a result of a three-hour conversation be­ I HR i»«i<le the munieipa! lmilding. Others arrested at the same S gtse . at/ * tween Premier Poincare aid Premier Lloyd George to-day it was charges of selling liquor were Alice and H. P. Stokes, - decided to refer haek to the committee of exports of the Allied of Meadows. conference Premier Poincare’s plan for control of German » Reinlan nnd<Xicol were both released later on bail. finances, with the request that the points upon which the British The raids form only part of the tümSÊiti concerted roundup made by muni­ and French are hot in agreement be re-examined. cipal and provincial police and offi­ — *■ Johns. Nfd., Aug. il—The British warship Raleigh, which has been cruising off the Labrador coast with Vice-Admiral Sir Mr. Lloyd George agreed to the i cials of the Liquor Control Board. French suggestion regarding the col- j FOORTEENAT Over 14.000 worth of beer and hard W illiam Pakenham on board is aground at Point Amour, in the S traits of Belle Isle. She struck last night and a message received lection of ^6 per cent, of German ex- I. liquor was seised and arrests in Pen­ to-day said she probably would be a total wreck. ----- Ports at her frontiers, which would ! ticton. together with those nt Oliver, All on board reached shore safely. be paid into the répara!lonTund. He AID SENT TO Osoyoos. Coalmont, Granite Creek The Calcutta, tender to the Raleigh, is standing by. ___ _ also agreed to the suggestion for MOSCOW GIVEN and Princeton totalled about twenty- taking ever th*» state forésts and seven. Several arrests were also _ , . _ . south and. passing through the Panama Canal, went again to her base at mines in German occupied territory. made at Keremeos. I The British light cruiser Raleigh Ttelted B. C. waters less than eight Bermuda. Her present cruise along the shore of labrador was in the Two Feints. SUFFERERS AT Over forty barrels of beer and 271 :month* being at anchor In Esquimau Harbor from December 14 till bottles of hard liquors were found ! Ut*ember 27- on which dale shc beamed to Vancouver. ' Many Victorian* course of her work with the North American and West Indies Squadron of The important points on which the DEATH SENTENCES tw-« Premiers were unable to agree the British navy. In Giordan's cellar and 64 barrels of v*fllted the ship while she was at Esquimau and many dtisens shared in the v Vice-Admiral Pakenham was not a stranger to this port when he came were the establishment of a customs 1 entertainment of Vice-Admiral Sir William C. Pakenham and the officers barrier along the Rhin** providing for Stay of Execution If Politics on the Raleigh. Many years ago he was "stationed at Esquimau as flag A Surprise. and crew of the cruiser. duties on everything going into and The Raleigh, a 10,609-ton craft, was put in commission early in 1921 and lieutenant aboard 11. M. S. Garnet, lu the Battle of Jutland he commanded coming from the Ruhr region, the Dropped For some time past th- police had left England for Bermuda, the fleet base of the West Indies station, on the Second Battlecruiser Squadron, his flagship being the battlecruiser principal purpose being to tax coa* Hongkong Chinese Appeal to been working quietly wi*h the pro­ New Zealand. going into the rest of Germany, and Pressure Against Social Revo­ vincial authorities gath. -ing data August L During her voyage up the coast to British Colombia from Cali­ Compatriots Overseas fornia a test of her speed was made and she averaged thirty-two knots. Captain A. Bk>mley was In command of the cruiser, Vice-Admiral Allied participation in German ip- for this coup, but owing to what in dysirlal concerns. After her visits at Esquimau and Vancouver, the Raleigh steamed Pakenham’s flagship, when she \ ieited the British Columbia coast. lutionary Party the past appeared to be delays and Although the conversation took British and Japanese Ships slips in the gear of the machinery place without the appearance of an> Moscow. Au*. 9 (Associated Press) for bringing offenders against the personal aspersions. both th« Carry Supplies Free —Fount eeh of the thirty-four tfoeial Government Liquor Act to Justice, Premiers were described as tenacious Revolutionists accused of high trea­ both the public and persons engaged ly holding their respective viewpoints son against the Soviet Government in the illicit traffic had become used Hongkon-. Aug. 9—Chinese have been sentenced to death by the to the idea that nothing ever would Canada Prepared to ovc.l .*as are being appealed to tievoluttonary Tribunal. Among the be done Thus, when the trap was PREMIERS MET condemned are several of those who sprung it came as a great surprise. by the Chinese Chamber of turned informers. In Court. AT BREAKFAST Commerce here to aid their Three of the other defendants were Discuss Reciprocity The hearing of the charges against TO BE PREPARED stricken countrymen at Swatow. acquitted and the remainder given 1 risen sentences of from two to ten those arrested has been proceeding Ix>ndon. Aug. 9.—The differences the port 250 miles northeast of years. and will likely occupy most of the Fullerton Keenly Disappointed; World League Members Asked between the French and British The death sentences against twelve balance of the week. viewpoints on the German repara­ here which was praeticajly de­ of the first group of defendants later At S o’clock Hon. A. M. Manson, If Requested by U. S. Amundsen Chose Omdai for Information tions problem, which seém to be stroyed bv a typhoon and tidal were upheld by the Central Executive Attorney-General, passed through the threatening the breakup of the Committee, but an indefinite stay of town and saw the police work pro­ Nome. Alaska. Aug. 9.—Lieut. E. O. Geneva, Aug. 8.—The League of Allied conference, were discussed at wave a week ago with the loss execution was ordered on the condi­ ceeding. Inspector Miller of Victoria Fullerton arrived here this morning length over their breakfast this of 28,000 lives. tion that the Social Revolutionary lions has Issued a circular to morning by Premier Lloyd George was also present. The Penticton Leamington, Ont., Aug. 9.—More than 2,000 persons heard The General Chamber of Com­ I‘arty cease its counter- revolutionary municipal police force was left to on th* mall schooner See. Wolf from member states of the League request­ and Premier Poincare. merce of Hongkong is inviting sub­ activity. Otherwise the sentenced make the raids and arrests here, Premier King*eview. in an address here last evening, the achieve­ Deering, Kotsebue Sound, where he ing them to forward to the secretary This "diplomatic breakfast." which leaders are liable to the court’s Judg­ scriptions for the Swatow sufferers while provincial constables operated ments of his Government since it took power and the results of severed connection with the Amund­ all information they possessed %g>n- lasted for three hours, was the out­ ment. in other places. sen Expedition. standing feature of the early part of The Chinese Tungwah Hospital Com­ the first session of Parliament since that time, and heard also an cemlng the situation in Russia as re­ mittee has appropriated f 10.000. The Defiant Tfoe court proceedings in Penticton Lieut- Fullerton claims that the third day of the conference. Defiance of the court was shown by ntimation that the Canadian Government was prepared to consider Amundsen selected IJeut. Oskar gards agriculture, the movement of Premier Poincare went directly from British - American Tobacco Company were held in the Council chamber gave $1,600 to the relief fund and twenty-two of the condemned during the regular courtroom being too reciprocity with the United States at any time the United States Omdai to make the flight from Itoint population and conditions of life in nis hotel to the French Embassy, pronouncement of sentence, which Barrow. and that it was then up to towns arid country districts. When where he met Mr. Lloyd George, and shipped another 100 tons of rice las; small to accommodate the principals Government should make ail advance in that direction.