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hiss realities none AS A Dillilllllhl‘l (ll he: no lllll'. Govemor-General Timothy Healy T: lees Oath of Office; Ministers and Members Sworn inâ€"One Deputy Shot and Another Seriously Wounded on Way to Parliament. “J D 1 Mi 4 I. IV! A desm-atch from Dublin sayszâ€"lnâ€"r wounded, being shot in the head and nugurration of the Irish Free State as: arm. ‘ one of the Dom-inions of the British When the deputies emerged from Empire took place on Wednesday. The the hotel. the assassins appeared to ceremony was simple and unmarred be loitering on the porch. Nothing by blos'ti-le demonstrations from the happened as the deputies passed the Republican minority. Igroup. The shots were not fired until The oath was administered tov Hales and O'Mai-lle hired the cab and Tim-thy Heal}, as Goven10r_General,\velle getting into it. Then the murd- ytlhe Lord Chief Justice at erel‘ers opened fire. hey oriented m eally‘s residence in Chapellizod, on. two KI'OUPS- Eight to ten shots were thé‘mfl-‘ey’ three miles west of Dub“ fired, most of them directed at Hales. fin, and afterwards the new Governor. Another hotel guest who stood chat- Gendml administered the oath to' ting with Hales and O‘Maille as they Professor Michael Hayes as Speaker? entered the cab had a narrow 8503119 utthe DaiL ’from being hit. _ u A lorry load of British soldiers, arâ€" htnigoggsmvio:?;lt2§efigfi one toFriving on the scene, opened fire on The‘ as 'l t wh) were fiorm of the oath of allegiance wa sal an S’ t '5‘! the Deputies’ 3 scattered and pursued. It is not known mgrfietosgt: :ofitfiugsozodlcflfij whether any of the attacking party '5. were injured. G“ 9W8 i: tléewliggdo ‘01. the 85:32pm! The shooting of the Deputies is in I”; e n 1 ommonw "‘ ' fulfillment of a constant threat. Not Mr- O'ngg'lns and‘ the Other Min‘l only the Ministers who ordered the ism 15001: the 03th "1 tum: “wowed recent executions, but all the mem- hy the members 0f the DaiL . ‘ ,bers of the Dail Eireann who voted in The 031111 was admlmsmred '09 930“! favor of repressive measures had their m individually and “1051; 0f the, names published in a black list and repetitions were audible through) it the Chamber. Some of the military, members, including Defence Minister Mulwhy, were in uniform. f‘A' later despatch from Dublin fishâ€"Sean Hales, a deputy of the ’h Parliament, was shot and killed on ,Thursday as he was leaving the Duncan! Hotel for Prliament accom- panied by Brigadierâ€"General Patrick O’Maill'e, who was sworn in as Deputy Speaker of the House on Wednesday. General , O'Maille was seriously Stamp Tax rhnposed A .7 on All Receipts | i A despatch from Ottawa, says:‘â€"A_nother of the new taxes, imposed by the Govern- ment's budget legislation at the' last session of Parliament, will become operative at the beginning, of the new year. This iswthe stamp tax on re- ceipts given in acknowledg- ment of the’payment ‘of sums of ten dollars and upwards. The tax is not a graduated one like that on cheques. In the case of receipts a two-cent stamp is to be affixed to each instrument regardless of the amount involved. CLUNGA TO ICE FLOES WHEN LAUNCH SUNK Parents and Baby Rescued After Floating for Three Hours in St. Mary’s River. A despetch from Sault Ste. Marie, Out, says:â€"â€"The passenger launch Mopioa, running between this cityl and Neebish Island, sank in the Stl Mary's River on Wednesday night when its hull was crushed by striking am ice-cake. It's three occupants, Mr. and Mrs. Guy McIntyre and their baby narrowlyescaped death. Mrs. McIn- tyre is in a hospital suffering from exposure. Her legs were frozen When the 'boat sank the occupants jumped into the river and clung to calms of ice, McIntyre struggling to l i were warned that they would be held responsible. Hence some of the Ministers and several of the members of the Dail have for some time past taken up their residence in the Government of- fices. But some were willing to risk their lives by residing outside. Had-es was a prominent supporter of the Government and had been a strenuous fighter against the British. He was one of Michael Collins” closest personal friends. Jack Mckelvey Captain of Queen’s University football team, which won the Dominion Cham- pionship. _ M ve the baby as well as himself. He managed to get onto a fairly safe ice sheet. His wife climlfed onto a floating piece which constantly tipped and rolled, keeping her drenched. For three hours they floated with the cur- rent in near-zero weather. Their Screams finally were heard by a coastguard at Oak Ridge Park, a mile and a half away, and he came to the rescue. % Light a Christmas Candle, Neighbor, In your window let it shine, It may help to tell the story 0f the Christ Child’s love divine. The song Marseillaise was written by an arfillerrofficer in the garrison at Strasssburg in 1792. , REBEL arson RS EXECUTED AS WARNING T0 lililihiltdlis - A despatch from Dublin says:â€" Reprisals swift and terrible have fol-‘ lowed the assassination of DeputyE Sean Hales and. the wounding of: Deputy O’Mazi'lle in Dublin on Thurs-‘ day. On Friday morning Rory O’Con- mat, Liam Mellowes, Joseph McKelvey, and Richard Barrett, all of whom were irregular leaders of some note,I ware“ executed at Mountjoy Jail, where‘they had been imprisoned since: Weir.ch at the Four Courts in: July. The announcement was ac- companied by an explanation that the executions were “reprisals for the est caesimtlon on his way to the Dail’ mm on! Brigadier Sean Hales, and a a solemn warning to those asso- ciated with them who are engaged: in their conspiracy of assassimtlon against the representatives of the Irish peophn This announcement has bad a. stam- ning effect upon public opinion. The reaction. so far as the Repdbfleam are concerned, is dubious, and every- one is prepared for an intensification of the vendetta which claimed Hales as its first victim. I A policy so relentless as that dis- closed by the executions is probably without parallel in history. Time alone can prove its wisdom or otherwise. Neither in Government nor military circles can any information be obtain- ed additional to that contained in the bald statement relating to the exe- cutions. It is not clear, for instance, whether the dead men were first tried by court-martial. At any rate, they were regarded as immune from the penalties imposed in the non-retro- spective powers conferred in October upon the military courts, and in pur- suance of which previous executions have been ordered. It should be re- memberedâ€"and in point of emphasis of the stern decision of the Govern- long ago on July. Other equally prom- men! is 1313;] as soon as possible The International Postal Conferen Hubert \Vork. Postmaster General: Jol Wain Sands. Superintendent of Foreign railway mail service. CANAEA’S till it till liiililii The picture shows the delegates attending from the United States. row. left to right. W. Irving Glover, Third dillll l0 Sleigh U. S. DELEGATES TO CANADIAN CONVENTION ce opened in Ottawa. December 4th. Bottom Assistant Postmaster General: Ill Edwards, Solicitor. Top row, Ed- Mails; Peter J. Schardt. Div. Supt, ! Elli li’li A5 lilll. 145 Speaker Lemieux Selects Site of Monuments on Vimy Ridge ~Construction Will Begin Next Spring and V‘lill Oc- cupy Five Years. Ottawa, Dec. 10.r~*Cana‘d»a’s great monument on the summit of Vimy Ridge will commemorate not only her army's great victory of April, 1917, but also the valor and sacrifice of her missing solders. The names of 19,- 000 missing Canadian soldiers will be inscribed on the memorial. The erecâ€" tion of the memorial will be commenc- ed next spring, says Brigadier-Gen- eral H. G. Hughes, C.B., C.M.G., D.S. 0., engineer of the battlefields mem< orial committee, who spent a few days! in Ottawa on his way from Europe to: Victoria, 8.0., where he will remainl with his family until some time next, month. The construction of the mem-f orial and the laying out of the park' on the 250 acres of land on Vimy Ridge granted by France to Canada will occupy five years and will cost half a million dollars. General Hughes states, will be the most striking war memorial of its; kind in the world. General Hughes,1 accompanied Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux,i Speaker of the House of Commons! and a member of the battlefields memâ€"l orial committee, in his recent tour ofl the sites for the monuments to be] erected by Canada. General Hughesl gives great credit to Mr. Lemieux fori the part he played in securing froml the French Government the tract of; land on Vimy Ridge, which is forever, sacred to Canada. The Speaker of} the Commons, Gen. Hugh-es says, by his tact and diplomacy and his kno-wl-t edge of the French language, was able, to con-duct negotiations with the; French Government, to smooth away,E difficulties which might have arisen‘ and to secure a grant in perpetuity of ' the land directly from the President of France. I , Mr. Lemieux, with Gen. Hughes,’ too, selected the site for the mem-_ orial on the elevation known to those who served in the Vimy Ridge sector! as Hill 145. The Speaker of the House of Commons also inspected the work on the figures for the memorial, which‘ Mr. Alward, the sculptor, whose de«{‘ sign is to be followed, is doing in Lon-r don, England. 1‘ The Canadian mem-' orial at St. Julicn is nearing comple- tion and will be unveiled on July 1‘ next. On the site of the memorial atl Passchentlaele Canadian maples have, been planted and are growing. Of the, Canadian army of France and Fiend-i ers, Gen. Hughes is the last livingi member to inhabit the historic neigh-i . “W I}? ' l t King George of Greece Who protested against the Greek menttochalhenge the terror-List tactics executions, and was confined to his 0! the Wareâ€"that Rory O’Connor palace in Abbens as a prisoner when and his colleagues were captured as he attempted to flee from the country. His uncle, Prince Andrew, has been Mullins are prisoners, and it tried for treason and sentenced to life suited that they will be brought to 10118 83118. bOIhOOd of the Ypres salient. He has resided, as engineer of the battlefields memorial committee, at Poperinghe, through which Canadian and British troops moved in thousands during the war. In the Ypres salient, he says, 100.000 British missing soldiers lie and are uncovered in the work of re- construction at the rate of two or more a day. With them in some sec- tions of the front lie their German, opponents. the remains of three of whom, lacking means of identification,I were dug up a short time ago. Ypresi itself, Gen. Huggins says, is being,1 rapid-1y rebuilt. Gen. Hughes lodgesr at “Skindles,” familiar of yore to Brit- ish and Canalfan troops. There he' was on Armistice Day, November 11, and thence he walked alone from Pop-,' eringhe to Ypres and back along the‘ unlighted road, peopled only by the! l l trod it in the years of the war. Finds Blg Trade in China. F. C. T. O’Hara. Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce, who points out to Canadians that there are “stagger- ing” opportunities for trade in China.‘ “They will buy everything we are pre. pared to sell,” he says. Peace-Makers Are First | Victims of Rebel Plot; l A despatch from Dublin 3 says: 1 l Republican documents: captured recently revealed a ' ‘ - plot to kidnap deputies and asâ€" l to $11-75; sassinate the Ministers before; the Free State was formally in-F augurated. A general asses-f 'sination seems now to have: t I been substituted for the originâ€" al plan. The Republicans de- clare that they regard all depu- ties supporting the Governâ€"j ment as traitors to the Repub- lic. Hales and O’Malley, the: first victims of the campaign,‘, were peace-makers between; the rival army sections, and J i abandoned their peace effortf' only when they found it hope- less. o o New Zealand Votes Against Prohibition! A despatch from Wellington, N.Z., sayszâ€"Complete figures on the licens- ing referendum show that the major- ity against prohibition was more than five times the majority whereby pro- hibition was defeated in 1919. ., i l l The Week’s ltiarliets Toronto. Manitoba wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern” 31.22311. Manitoba ca ' Manitoba ha. Nominal. v-â€"-Nomlnal. 0. All the above. track. Bay ports. l l l I i t I American mm No. 2 yellow, 88:; N0. 3 yell 870, all rail. Barley Mgft'naz. 1‘0 to 62c, accord- ing to freight ourside. Buckwheatâ€"â€".\.H. 2. 73 to 75c R3’%N0. 2, TI; to 78c. Millfeedâ€"Del. Montreal freight, bags included: Bran, per ton, $24; shorts, per ton. ‘; middling», $28 50; good feed flour, $2. Ontario wheatâ€"V0. 2 white, $1.08 to $1.10, according t1: f eights outside; No. 2, $1.05 to "51.07. Ontario No. 2 white catsâ€"41 m 13c. Ontario cornâ€"Nominal. Ontario flourâ€"Ninety per cent. pat, in jute bags, Momreal, prompt shipv ment, $5.10 to $5.20; Toronto basis. $5.05 to $5.10; bulk seaboard, $4 to $5. Manitoba flourâ€"lst pats , in Cotton sacks, $7.10 per bbl.; 2nd pats... $160. Hay Extra No. 2, per ton, track, Toronto, $15; mixed, $13.50 to $15; clover, $13.50 to $15. Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, track, To- ronto. Cheeseâ€"New, large, 25c; twins, 2515c; triplets, 26%c; Stiltons, 27c. Old, large, 27c; twins, 28c; Stiltons, 29c. Butterâ€"Finest creamery prints, 40 to 42c; ordinary oreamery prints, 38 to 39¢. Dairy, 29 to 31c. Cooking, 21c.t Dress-ed poultryâ€"Chickens, 4 lbs.; and up, 28c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 25c; fowl,I 5 lbs. and up, 28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c;1 do, under 4 lbs., 17c; geese, 24c; duck; line's, 33c; turkeys, 50c. Margarineâ€"20 to 22c. Eggsâ€"No. 1 candle-(l, 33 to 39c; selects, 43 to 44c; cartons, ne‘w laids‘, 75 to 80c. Beansâ€"Canadian, hand-picked, lb. 6c; primes, 51/2c. Maple productsâ€"Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.50; per 5 imp. gals, $2.40; Maple sugar, 1%., 23 to 25c. Honeyâ€"GO-lb. tins, 12 to 121/3c per l‘b.; 5~21/2-l"o. tins, 131%.» to 14%c per 11).; Ontario comb honey, per doz., $3.75 to $4.50. Potatoesâ€"New, Ontarios, No. 1, 80 to 90c; No. 2, 75 to 80c. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, med, 26 to 28c; cooked ham, 38 to 40c; smoked; rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 35 to 38c; breakfast bacon, 32 to 35c; spe- cial brand breakfast bacon, 38 to 40c; backs, boneless, 39 to 43c. Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $21; 70 to 90 lbs., $20; 90 lbs. and up, $18; lightweight rolls, in The whole, spirits of the armed thousands who‘bam‘el‘s’ $41; heavwveight ron‘s’ 337‘ Lardâ€"Pure tierces, 16c; tubs, 16%c; pails, 18c; prints, 1654c. Short- ening, tierces, 1314 to 13%c; tubs,» 13% to (14C; pails, 141/4 to 14%c; prints, 16%. to 1714c. Choice heavy steers, $7 to $7.60; butcher steers, choice, $6 to $7.25; do, good, $5 to $6; do, med, $4.50 to $5; d'o com., $4 to $5; butcher heifers, choice, $6 to $7.25; do, med., $5 to $6; d‘o, com., $4 to $4.50; butcher cows, ohri-ce, $4 to $5; do med, $2.75 to $3.75; canners and cutters, $2 to $2.25; but-. cher bulls, good, $3.50 to $4.80; (lb, com., $2.50 to $3; feeding steers, good,‘ $5 to $5.50; do, fair, $4 to $5; stock- ers, good, $4 to $4.50; do, fair, $3 to $4; calves, choice, $10 to $12; do, med, $8 to $9.50; do, com., $3 to $7; mil-ch cows, choice, $80 to $100; supringers, choice, $90 to $110; lambs. $11 to $12; sheep, choice, $6 to $7.25; d'o, culls, $2 to $5; hogs, fed and watered, $11; $10. f.o.b., $10.25; do, country points," 10. Montreal. Corn, American No. 2 yellow, 92 to 93¢. Oats, No. 2 CW, 64 to 65c; No. 3 CW, 59 to 600: extra No. 1 feed, 57 to 58c; No. 2 local white, 55 to 56c. Flour, Man. 5 lug wheat pats, firsts, 51‘ $7.10. Rolled oats, bags, $3.30 to $3.40. Bran, $24. Shorts. $20. Hay, 'No. 2, per ton, car lots, $16 to $17. Cheese, finest eastern-3', 2214c. iButter, choicest creamery, 37 to 1371130. Eggs, fresh', 45 to 46c; select- ed, 40:3; No. 1 stock, 35 to 36c. Pota- toes, per bag. car lots, 90c. (Tanners $1.75 to $2; cutters. $2.25 to $2.75; cows and leifers, slightly better quality, $2.75 to $3.50; bulls, com._ $3; calves, best, $10; do, med., Q up; grassers, $3.50; lambs, good, ; do, com., $11.50 up; hogs, $11.50. sows, $9 to $10. $13 Captain of Western Champions : Shelman, of the Edmonton Elks. who were defeated by Queen’s Unt- versitfy, in a game at Kingston to de- l cide the Canadian championship h rugby football. ,.\\. .4..~’ T‘s. ~W-W ." . fl