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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
7
The Minister of Finance asserts Canada must retain capital domestically. He notes banks should block large foreign drafts and restrict overseas transfers to prevent capital flight. The stance aims to protect national finances during trade tensions and ensure liquidity for domestic business.
A partial report describes an explosion at an artillery depot in Maarienss near Wilhelmshaven. Twenty three people were jailed as tabosatotees aided by a founder of ammunition sheds caused the blast. Details remain unclear amid an accident investigation.
Cal O. M. Mier reports busy days as Canada Temperance Act vote approaches in Manitoba Saskatchewan Nova Scotia and Alberta. Seventy seven districts will vote on October 25 with officers receiving forms and instructions for polling and ballot handling.
Edward Brown proposes trading 390 000 in Victory Lands for Winnipeg city debentures. City bonds would be realized quickly and funds loaned to home builders at seven percent interest. A special meeting approved a by law authorizing the procedure. 5000 will enable about 700 more homes to be built this year.
A dispatch to Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen reports serious uprisings against the Rustin Soviet government near Moscow, with heavy bloodshed. The message cites telegrams from Riga, dated the 3rd, describing clashes and suppression by authorities.
In Trieste outbreaks flare into street battles between Nationalists and Socialists. Two deaths are reported with about twenty wounded as authorities scramble to restore order.
The London Times argues attacks on police in Ireland must stop before considering freeing hunger strikers led by Terence McSwiney, Cork lord mayor. It notes Lloyd George’s view that Sinn Fein is not criminal, while Republican forces push to end British rule. The piece criticizes repeated releases after Easter 1916 and subsequent conspiracies.
The press notes a forthcoming French government loan in the United States with a 24 2 percent rate including charges and premium on the 195 trillion dinars equivalent. Commentators say the rate seems high to French readers unfamiliar with U S money markets but are comparing it to securities yields and loan rates in Switzerland and Belgium.
Reports from pulp and paper circles forecast another newsprint price increase around October. Mills may set rolled news at 130 to 140 per ton with sheet news growing to 200 or more. Historical figures show prices rising from 80s to over 280 per ton, signaling sharp cost hikes for publishers.
Pans-Georgs Clemenceau, former French premier, plans travel from Marseilles on September 20 aboard the Taverdiller to Singapore. A British ship will take him to Hitsalaya to hunt the tiger and return to France around New Year’s.
The Irish constabulary will be equipped with service rifles and revolvers, quantities having arrived in Belfast and Dublin for immediate issue.
Paris reports German government handed 100000 francs to French ambassador Charles Laurent as indemnity for the Breslau consulate attacks. Berlin dispatches say the payment settles France’s damages from the incident.
News from Italy reports a severe earthquake with hundreds dead and thousands injured. Towns and castles suffer extensive damage. hospitals in Spezia treat hundreds with many more to be reached. Surge of aid from across the country is underway as survivors recount a terrifying shock and dust-choked air.
London reports the Bolshevik foreign minister Tchitcherin answers Balfour’s note with a lengthy argument. He says Russia faces allied blockade and can only express astonishment while stressing peace as Russia’s main aim. Poland Lithuania mediation and Aland precedents hinge on the League of Nations meeting in Paris on September 16.
Lord Burnham head of the Imperial Press delegation praised Canada on arrival for the start of their four provinces visit. The group travels to Quebec before boarding the Empress of Britain on September 5, continuing their journey through Canada.
Gabriel d Annenzig has disapproved the seizure of the American vessel Coyne by his officers and will order its release, reports advise from Fiume sent to the Exchange Telegraph Company.
Washington Bureau of Medicine and Surgery issues final order prohibiting spirituous liquors on naval vessels for medicinal purposes, ending their issue by the United States Navy.
The board of railway commissioners issues a detailed judgment justifying freight and passenger rate rises. It notes costs have surged over four years while previous increases remained modest and cites Chicago wage awards driving higher Canadian wages. It warns back pay and potential strikes could press railways to adjust rates, with Canadian Pacific facing nearly 22 million dollars yearly for wages.
Women from neutral and opposing countries gather in Christiania Norway for the first International Council of Women meeting since 1914. About 400 attendees discuss education health housing public welfare and social reform with royal reception and civic entertainments planned.
Four ships of the Alaska Steamship Company carry British Columbia coal to Alaskan ports. Another vessel with 1000 tons of coal sails for Alaska, reinforcing the freight move to areas near the Alaskan coal fields.
Epoca estimates more than 500 killed and over 2,000 left homeless amid the quake in central Italy. Rescue teams and aid efforts intensify as officials warn of aftershocks and continuing danger.
In Montana Governor Cox pledges to present the Irish cause to the League of Nations once elected, arguing the Irish question must be settled to ensure peace between English speaking nations and widen cooperation across the Atlantic. The speech cites League Covenant article eleven and notes U S Gaelic communities’ influence.
Reports claim Yugoslav forces seek control of Albania and have occupied Turabosh while attacking Kastrati Dibra and Elbassan. Dibra fighting saw losses of artillery and machine guns. 1,200 prisoners reported. Bosnian and Slovenian troops surrender in the broader clashes.
A Toronto milling firm manager rejects freight rate fears, stating Liverpool sets global prices for flour and grain. He notes Liverpool seeks the cheapest market but believes Canada offers the best buying conditions.
District forestry inspector F. K. Herchimer reported that bush fires at Norway House are controlled with no reported loss or damage to buildings. The fires, the worst in ten years, come amid drought drying pastures and forcing farmers to feed stock.
Estimates by American and Canadian revenue officers place illicit liquor profits in the Detroit district at millions of dollars in 1920 with some quarters showing up to 100000000 in profits for the year. The figures reflect cross border smuggling between Canada and the Detroit area.
Wireless despatch from Moscow reports General Semenoff's Far East expedition ending as his troops under General Lokhvitski join the Russian Far Eastern Republic government. It is claimed Semenoff's entire gold reserve was captured and handed to Vladivostok authorities.
Arthur Griffiths denounces Lloyd George suggestion that MacSwiney murder charges imply a government implication. He cites court findings and calls for Bishop of Cork backed tribunal to hear evidence against officials. Dublin raids hit Curtis printing works. five arrests including Councillor MacCloughlin amid removals of MacSwiney and Mannix portrayals.
Berte ard John Dahinian and Gertrude Idella Barbeau wed Sept 21 1914 in Quebec and were later annulled by Superior Court Justice Bruneau. The ruling held the mixed Protestant Catholic union invalid under Quebec civil law after the couple briefly sought a church wedding and then married in an Anglican church by license. The husband later repudiated the marriage as non binding spiritually religiously and civilly. the petition faced no contest.
R J Hutchinson flax expert for the Dominion Government sails for Europe to market 6000 tons of flax fibre and 200000 bushels of fibre flax for Canadian producers. The Canadian flax crop is reported exceptional with about 30000 acres cultivated this year versus 18000 in 1919.
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