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YO1(011AMA, TOKIO RESIDENTS ESCAPED
Casualty List in Japanese Ea rthquake Still Uncertain —,
Neither TOaila Nor Yokoha ma TotallyDestroyed, Red.
dental Districts Being C omparatively Uninjured.
A deepatch from Louden
The impalliag nature of the Japanese
eartheualco, fire and tidal weve, with
the greatest loss of life and property
Q any similar catastrophe an modern
times, continue e to be told by meagre
and unconnected prose deepatehoe and
private messages from foreign reei-
denM and thuxiets who survived the
.holocaust But Europe atilt aweite
the grephie tory of how the earah
ehook to pieces and then consumed In
flames Jens capital and :mores of
towne around Tokio Bay, including
the great commercial port of Yoko-.
Munn.
The loss of life is estimated at such
varying figures, in some casee
lun-
ning into hundreds of thousands, that
any certainty ot the casualty le im-
possible evhile- communicatiorm with
the devastated districts remain as which include most of modern Tokio,
they are. where four or five -storey buildings
On the whole, tho news received on lined the principal thoroughfare, the
Thursday ie o a'more hopeful nature Ginza; This section also include Tsu-
than any since the disaster, one autli- kiji, ia which, before Japan was com-
oritetive message from a British pletely opened to the western nations,
navel official at -Yokohama placing the foreignem were compelled totreeide.
Allevailabie inforehation ehovve
thet"Toicio and Yokehame were not
tetally destroyed, the foreign reeidee-
tial district of the port eity, which ie
on a high blue' overlooking the bay,
suffering comparativeiy little damnae,
while the residential suburban dis-
tricts of Tokio also oecaped. This
would accouat for the few deaths> am-
ong the foreigner:a' therm, for on Sat-
urday afternoon few would have been
In their office, '
The destruction in Tokio extende
over twoethirde of the moeropolitan
district .of foreign warda, with the
lowlying districts completely wiped
out Theee inelude the eluma of Fuka-
gawa, the induetrial section of 1Ionjo,
both on the right bank of the Surnicla
River, Aealeuse, femotie for its amuse -
meet parlts, Kyobashi and alibonbashi,
18 ALLAN"GRAWFORD ALIVE?.
'Seefandsoa, the Canadiien explorer, is Tieing sappere,ed in his belief .by
Matadi explorers that Ailaa Crawford and his, cornmenione may be on the
coa,st of eibeela, perhape detained by the Soviet. The mem shows Wrangel
vvhere Crawford raleed the British flag, in ine relation •to the mein. ,
Med, for which the three mionstarted. The diatance between Is 110 miles.
cannot be handled, efticlently. .
The X-1 in ;submergible trim is ot
8,600 tonsewhich is much in excess of
the U-142, the biggest German sub-
marine constructed during the , war.
It ie now well known that the most
' deaths of foreig,nors in that port at It has recently beeh occupied armee. efficient German submarine command-
' seventy and, stating teat an the fee_ pally by missionaries, their schools ors preferred the smaller undersea
-eigners in Toklo escaped. Even this and hospitals. 'During the summer craft as being more manageable. It
number of dead, whie,h is small es most of the Tsultiio residents are out WaS said to be difficult to gauge how
compared with first reports, is enore of 'beee cit ea but the lose of property far the large submarine would dive
mous for a foreign colony of a few has been heavy. and impossible for the commander to
thousands and indicates that the lose In other sections of Tokio—Asabe, have the whole vessel under his sure
of life among the native population Shiba, Alcasaka, Yotsuya and Ushigee 'me as he could in a smaller craft.
/ilea reach the highest reported —where the foreigners live in ,more The fate of the Japanese eubmarine
figures. , or less isolated foreign compounds, and the trouble which it is understood
The only official estimate is based consisting Of a few western style has been experienced with some of the
on Home Office information from houses leidet on small hills, the damage lerger American submarines has made
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Tokio that the loss of life there was wes by fire, which, on account of -the seculation more keen as to how the
30,000, but Yokohama isknown to number of open spaces, could be cone .x..1 will act in the trials. These trials,
have suffered much more severely than trolled. The foreign embassies and like the launching of the big submar-
, the capital city, and the Home Mee legal centres were widely scattered Inc at Chatham, 'Jima 16, will he con-
figures -do not attempt to take into theoughout the highee distriets of ducted with the greatest possible se -
consideration the one hundred miles Tokio, and a number of them, include crecy. In naval quarters here to -day
i
, of eoast-nne ioevns and villages, all ing the United States Embassy, have s impossible even to ascertain ap-
it
in the path of the tidal wave. been deetroyed., proximately the time when the X-1
- will go through her paces. If she
SOLE SURVIVOR TELLS
FATE'OF ARCTIC PARTY
Crawford Expedition lants
British Flag on Wrangel Isle
at Cost of Lives.
A despatch from Nome, Almeka,
says:—An Eskimo woman, solo sure
vivor of the Crawford expedition,
which left hero for Wrangel Island,
of the northern coast of Siberia, in
the fall of 1921, described the fate of
the leer *late men composing the ex-
pedition. The trip was arranged by
Vilhjahnun Stefanssme with the prin-
cipal object of raising the British flag
over the island, which had been claim-
ed by the Soviet government.
Thime of the party—Allan Craw-
ford, of Toronto, leader; Frederick
Maurer, New Philadelphia, Ohio; and
Milton Galle, New 13runfela, Tex.—
perished the second winter,tthe Eski-
mo woman, named Ada, said. 'They
went out on the ice seeking the main-
land and never returned.
The remaining man, Lorne E.
Knight, , McMinnville, Ore., died of
scurvy June 20, 1923, and his body
was brought back by the, relief expe-
dition, headed by Captain Harold
/Voice, which left here August 3. Cap-
tain Noice said his power schooner,
the Donaldson, had little eroubk
reaching the Wand.
The first evidence of the missing
party found by Capeain Noice's expet
dition was a bottle in a deserted camp,
containing the names of the party
with the declaration that they claimed
Wrangel Island in the name of Ring
George of Great Britain.
Ada fainted when she saw the men
of the Noice party approaching aria
the Donaldson near by. On recovery
she told the tale of the clisaeter. Di-
rected by Ada, Note° found Knight
dead in his sleeping bag. Ada said
she had done all the hunting and had
cared for Knight for two months be-
fore his death and that after he died
she left him in the sleeping bag and
put up another tent fifty feet away.
talive upon the islaad, how the four
.men met their fate e whether throrigh
starvation, pestilence or disaster, We
Premier Benito ,Muesonni
The Dictator of Italy, whose dei
enanne upon Greece are described as
lnflnitoly triere humiliating" than
these Presentea by Austria' to. Serbia
in 1914,
can scarcely suppose that the Soviet
Russians fulfilled their threat of go-
ing thither and murdering them. Pend-
ing such revelation, minds shrink from
the picture of those four men, wonder-
ing why they were neglected—for they
could not know that for the first time
In many years the ice pack was so
dense as to prevent approach to the
island—daily climbing the highest hell
to look. for comitgahelp, to see only
the unbroken wilderness of ice and
snow, and at last „lying down to die,
feeling themselves deserted by those
whom they had se bravely songht to
serve. It is the latest chapter in the
grim annals of Arctic tragedies and
Last December, Ada said, Knight
one of the saddest ofethem all.
and two other men started for the
mainland, but through some mistake
BRITAIN'S NEW SUB
landed near Perald Island, and after
two vveelcs feturned to .Wrangel. OBJECT OF, INTEREST
Knight was too ill to travel. Craw-
ford, Maurer and Galle etarted for lale. al Authorities Await Sec -
Siberia, taking dog feed for seventeen ret Trial of Huge Suhrners-
days and very little other provielons. ibkx..1, of 3,60,0 Tons.
Ada said they, too, took a wrong de A despatch from London says:
—
rection, moving to the southeaet as ecause ofthe recent disaster to
they paesed forever from her ,vision,
The Tragedy of Wrangel
Romance become' griin
ttagten, opinion bete :watch inclines to the bee
That ea the tale of Weaeteel 'Mance
lief that beyond a certain size it is
only
it wallthe other day that etr. likely to be found that big submarines
' l
rief.ansson eves epee:tine eonfideetly
of the splendid itelvent me of the four
men who, in the midse of ineonceivable
loneliness, wore holdMe that desolate
Yet valuable island for the Britieh: 1a1 IF'
Empire and of their relict by the exe
pi cition which he had diepatched from
Nome. "The eetuanhe party," he said,
'wel have a story :0 tell 'that wial
reek with the most emeitintic in Armee
lartory.a The only returnine party ie
the relief party itself, and the simw
it mile 15 One of tbn flii0 pi1 Id in
Araeic history - that all four of the
, adm etuvere' aim dead. ' '
14 wae two eears aeo this .month
tbet Crawford, Ci elle, Knight and
MatIVer landed on Weenge: esland.
ell that time no word came from thorn
aor Wet AOM to thorn None eauld be
tent In either directloo, They were
ts completely out oa. touch with the
world ae theugh they li oen
Mere, Thee had food 14111 lies for only
one year, 'But they had, /Amite of em-
Menition, and garee is eupposed to be
plentiful en Wimegel To1J rwo of
thana laeight and Maumee, wore
Otan Arctic eXplover, who knew how 0 411 0404
to care for ihmeselvee le the icy wild-
enese. Tbere wee, thereiore, groom!
or exacctatieri that thee' 'would bo , TAR sTRICKSN KiNaitaolel
,etted aliere and
.koIiii, the Mailtal, and Yoltoluinite the arena Peri aini Nut:meth/el cite, both deetroyeal ate shereit be the
We iney hope th maim teem tho and Many Whore of the Japanese Mate mehtlefied Itithe liewe despatches tie etrieiceit. alie 10 $ of life hos beee
,
heti Woe:elate Who alone Was P,otlati herrot 40± eeethquelte,
Japan's super -submarine, 77, naval
autheeities here are awaiting the
trials of Gaeat Britain's giant mys-
tery sebmersible, X-1, with greatly in-
creased interest. There is a school of
comae' up- tothe, highest expectations
then it is likely she will be the fore-
runner of two other similar craft in
the rear future.
e
Natural Resources
Bulletin
The Natural Resources Intel-
ligence Service of the Depart-
ment of the Interior at Ottawa
says: ---
e Northern Ontario is a sealed
book to many of the Ontario
people, especially those .of -mid-
Ole age who attended echool
he -
for the northern portion of
the province came into prom-
inence.
It would well 'repay anyone
to closely study a map of north-
ern or newer Ontario, as de-
velopments are taking plsae at
a very rapid rate. Mining arid
pulp and paper snaking are
outstandihg industries of the
province, and practically all of
the foraner and the greater por-
tion of tae latter are loaated in
newer Ontario. 'reeding thie
develeprient is the produetion
of hydro -electric power, new
plants are constantly beingaput
into operation, and the demand
fotapower is -ahnost insatiable..
There id already developee or
in course of development 100,-
000 horse -power far the mining
industry only. On the Ilth
instant the firs6 power from the
new' plant of the 'Great N rth-
era Power Co. at Indian Chutee,
On the Montreal raver, was de-
livered to Porcupine, 2,000
horeepower aeing provided with
an additional 4.000 to he pro.
vided'at a later date.
Aero Photography Urged to
Appraise French Land.
The Freneh Committee of Aerial
Propaganda has just brought before
legislators an appeal or the use of
amial photogeaphy in completing the
-register of area and valuation of land
of France. ',If they continue to use
present method of surveying it
will reg9ire.400 years to complete "Hie
register and the cost will be at least
6,000,000,000 francs.
Ilia technical service for meieter of
lends, created by imlaw of 1305, bas
eompleted only 101 communes in
twenty-five yeare, By the aid of
aerial photography it is estimated
that the register of lands can be
Chief of Greek P ople
Peemier bol. Gonatas, whose reply
to Premier Mussolini In reference to
the, demands of Italy tor reparatione
andaapolegiemover the maraca' of the
Ithelan Mission in Albania, includes as-
oeptance of four of the eeven articles,
The other, tereee are infringements of
Greek s'overeignity, he declares,.
Wrangel Expedition Does Not
Touch Russia's Rights
A despatch from Moscow says: --In I
reply to the note sent by Foreign lalin-
ister Tehitcherin to Great 13ritain pro_
testing against the reaping of the
British flag on Weangel Island by an
expedition of VelhjalenurStefanssom
the, explorer, Great Britain has in.
formed Russia that the expedition was
a private effair, organized by Stefane
son, and that it does not touch the
'question of Russia's sovereign rights
over the island. However, any attempt
by Russia to hamper the week of the
expedition ewould be viewed by Great
Britain with utmost gravity, the note
says. In a reply to Great Britain, M.
Tchitcherin accepts the \expianatien.
He declares, however, thee co-ordina-
tion between the coantries conceaned
must exist when the sovereign rights
of one State are at issue.
Tchitcherin's note to Great Britain
said Wrangel Island had been incor-
porated .4nto Russia's territory in
1821-24,- that Ennio had built light-
houses and other works there, and in
1915 formally notified all allied and
neutral Governments that the island
was an'integral part of Russian teril.
tory. The note added that the'Soviet
Government regarded the raising of
the British flag there as a violation. of
Russian sovereign rights.
Meted in forty years at a cost of 1100,- be. Gustav stresernann
e00,000 francs, With the use of a Chancellor of Golan -any, 'under whose
ss.linarelneppaaerroatulasn; ea,n,eni pigarpolecd3 eovci ilneadhoGrertmorananyrisatatpapruadreentitirowraeriedn_ttihr ge
orcrators in a pleetegeepliee's laime_ French ocichtecierietisoprio„nsaiibidniiitiyaysefvemneteutaitg
liy
atory the regieted of siety communes aaka119
could be taltee in a single year, hes debts. .
1
A
nada from Coast to Coast
'Yarmouth, N.S,—A shipment of
puro bred Guerneey cattle wee made
reeently by W 11. Condi* to Bar -
bailee. Mr, Corning's Guenisey stOCIt
WAH snad Icriewn te Barbadians eomo
time ago, eince which time moverai
phipments have followed
Vaeaealeteni N,$. --A decision th
proceed with the forMation of a ere.
mincial organization for the peomotion
of the production of eeedmotatoee Was
reached et a meeting ol'potato grow -
era of the various potato belie of tho
province, held here recently, Over two
hundred potato growers were in ate
tendanee. '
Montreal, Qtre—The eagerness with
which, Britiehcre are taking advan-
tage of the opportunity to etane to
Canada to help garner Canada's bum-
per cram, is howe by a despatch frorn
London, Eng., which states that it
was accessary to employ a largo num-
bee of 'police to quell tho mad ecramble
of prospective harveetere to get
aboard the laat Ship which left Eng-
land. In view of tho fact that a
large number were unable to secure
berths, another batch of harvestere
will be sent to Canada on the next
ship, which will arrive here In time
to 'enable the Britishers' to proceed
West and help in the harvest.
Sudbury, Ont,—The second furnace
has been blown in at the British -
American Smelter here. A third fur-
nace is on the ground but has not yet
been erected. Approximately 1,000
tons of ore is being treated daily et
the timelier at preterit. With both
furnacee opeeating af capaeity, it lo
eepectiel thee IC will be inceetteed to
ettch im extent that the monthly an -
omit of ore treated will be eloem to
50,000 tone
Wthaineg, Man, --A loan echeme Ms
cattle feeding mime the !Remota that
will enable the farmers to teed and
hold cattle to Meet reericet require-
reente, line boon announcea by the
IVIanitoba Cettle Loan Co; 'It is hoped
the reault will show a coneiderable in -
crew In live stock n the province,
with bettor return for the farmer.
Regina, aesk,—On g turnover, of
$4,107,280 the co-operative aeseeia-
Hone of Siieltetteliewan earned a net
Profit of 03,0,997 during the Jima
year nding April 80th, 1920, acconit
Ing to the annual report of the eot
operation and markets branch of the
provincial Department of Agriculture,
Calgary, Alta,—Alberta iFP- third
among the provinces of Canada in the
quantity and value of butter produced
last year, being beeten out by Ontario
and Quebec. Alberta produced 16,-
417,070 pounds, valeed at $5,126,844.
Vernon, B.C.—Several Indian Army
officers have this summer 'taken
land in the Okanagan and are doing
very well. In addition fieveral• Ceti-
adian veterans have come into the
district under the aegis of the Soldier
Settlement Board. They are of a fine
type and will eventually secure valley
land thernselies.
Intelligence Service '
for Readers
Our financial and commercial
interests are - demanding the
more energetic development of
our natural regourcee to assist
in the liquidation of oer war
debt. This recagnition of the
value 01 our national heritage,
has created and inteneifled the
demand from Canadian and for-
eign numufacturers for accur-
ate information as th tho loca-
tion, available eupply, and pro-
gress in development of theme
resources, especially as they
Pertain to ouMfoiests, mineral
and water -power. RAW
terials and power supply are
the first necessity of industry,
and the Department of Interior -
at Ottawa, through its Natural
Resoureas Intelligence Service,'
impeats an increasing number
of
requests regarding these.
This branch, fortunately, is in
a position to answer 'such 'en -
e
quiries, and has also. issuecl a
series of resource mapand
other literature of value to the
commercial Mterests. These
are available on application,
and it is suggested that bur
readers make themselves fame.
liar with the services which the
Natural Resources Intelligence
Branch is able to render diem.
The Prince Regent.
Heir ao the Japanese throne, who
escaped from the Imperial Palaceein
Tokio after items partially destroyed.
He -is directing. 'valet work, and bite
thrown open what remains of the pea -
aceto mefugees.
,large meteorite that recently fell
In India appears -to include three kinds
of matter.- is igneous rock of
O slate -gray color, rather heavy and
marked with epots of dark turquoise
blue; a quantity of jet-black, highly
glazed lava with turquoise blue veins;
and a material that resembles coke in
appearance -and weight.
1VeelilY NiiiketReport
TORONT
Manitoba wheat--aTo. Northern,
Marritoba berley—Nominal.
.All the above, track; liay ports.
Am. corn—No. 2 yellow, $1.,08.
Barley --Nominal.
Buckwheat -.No. 2i: nominal.
Rye—No. 2, nominal.
Peas—No. 2, ramble'.
Mdntreal freights,
bags included: Bran`, per ton, P8;
shorts, per ton, $31; middlings, $87;
good feed flour, ee.10. „
inaointaiio wheat—No. 2 white, nom -
Ontario -No. 2 white oate---Nomital.
Ontario corn—Nominal.
Ontario flotri—Ninety per cent. pate
In . jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, $4.60 to $4.70; Toronto besis,
$4.50 th $4.60; bulkseaboard,. $4.60.
Manitoba flourelst pats., in cotton
sacks, $6.90 per bbl.; 2nd pats., P.40.
Cheese --New, large 24to 26e,
4 •
twins,, 25 th 26c.'triplets, 26 to 27e;
Stiltons, 26 to 27n; aad, Stiltoies, 880;
twins, 331e to 84c. New Zealand old
cheese, 31 to 32c,
Butter—Finest creamery prints, 88
to 40c; ordinary creamery, 36 to 87e;
No. 2, 84 to"85c.
Eggs—Extras in cartons, 42 th 48e;
extras, 40 to41e; firsts, to 87c;
seconds, 28 to 29c.
Live poultry—Spring chickens, 8
lbs. and over, 36c; chickens, 2 th 3
lbs., 80e; hens,' over 5 lbs., 24c' do,
4 to 5 lbs., 22c; do, 3 to 4•Ibe., 17c;
roosters, 15c; ducklingm over 5 Thee
22ca turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up,
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 3
lbs. and over, .38c; chickene, 2 to 3
lbs.' 35c; hens, over 5 lbs,,•80e; do, 4
to 5lbs., 28e; do, 3 to 4 flee., 20c; recast.
are, 18e; ducklings, over 5 lbs,, 28e;
do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys, young, 10
lbs. and up, 30c,- ,
Beans—Canadian, haridepicked,
7c; primes, 6111c.
eaimeisiesimale
inea, tee
Seatteb salt.
ilood Adding 601 o
Maple productea-Syrup, per imp.
gal., ;2.50; per 5 -gal. tan, e2.40 per
gal.; maple sugar, lb, 25c.
Honey -6(1 -lb. tins, .1 60' 12e per
lbm 10-1b, tine, 11 to 12e; 5 -ib. tins,
0182.2to5 1$c;6008.80. 23f, -lb, ties, 12 to_ 14c; comb.
honey, per dozen, $175 to e4; No. 2,
Smoked meats—Hams, med., 27 to
29e; cooked hams,. 48 to 45ci smoked
reale, 22 to 24e; cottage rolls, 23 th
26e; breakfast bacon, 80,60 84c; spe-
cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 88c;
backs, bonelese, 82 to 88c.
Cured meats—Long clear bacori, 50
th 70 lbs., $18;70 to 00 lbs., $17.50;
90 lbs,arid uji, $16,60; lightweight
rolls, in barrels, $86; heateweight
rolls, $88.. ,
Lard—Pure tierces, 16 to 163f5c;
tubs, 1641. th 17e) Palle, 17 to 1714c;
prints, 18e41o. Shortening, tierces, 14
to 14aec; tubs, 14'4 to 1481,c; melba
14% to 155rc; prihts, 17 to 17eec.
Heavy ethers, choice, $8 to $8.50;
heavy steere, good, $7 to $8; butcher
steers, choke, $6.50 to $7; do, geed,
$6 to $6.50mde, ined, ;5.60 to $6.50;
do, cone, 04 th $5; baby beeves, $8.60
to $9.60; cows, fat eamiee, $4 to 114.75;
do, rried.e 08 to $3.76.; do, eanners ahd
cutters, $1.2‘ to $2; bells, Mitchel',
good, 04 to $ .50; feeding- ethers
good, $5.50. -to 6.a5; etockees, 04 to
;6; bulls butcher $4 60$4 501 cal es
choice, $10 to $10.76- med , 08 to
$10; do, cern., $4 to $8; milch cows,
e60 to $100; springers, $80 to $310;
sheep, choice, 06; de, heavy, $8 to $5;
do, yearlings, .08 to $0; lambs, ewes
and wetbars, $12 to e12.25; bucks,
010.50to *1015; commons 08 to 091 a
hogs, flat rates, $10.85.
Quotations, fed and water basis:
Select bacon, $11.40 to $11.90; thick
smooths, e10.35 th 010,85; lights,
$71401 heemes, ee,.42; sows, $6,90,
MONTREAL.
Corn, Ain, No. 2 yellage; $1,04 to
$1.611, Oats, Can. West. No. 2, 673e to
58e; do, Can. Wesa No. 3, 56 to 56%e•
do, extra No. 1 Seed, 65 to 55e41c; do,
No. 2 localewhite, 64'to 544c, Flour,
Man. spring wheat pats., lets, $6.90;
do, ends, 1(I.40; do, etronge bakers,
e4.20; do, aVirithr pets, choice, *5,75
to e5.85, Rolled- oats, bag 90 lbs.,
$82. Bran, e28.25, Shorts, $31.25.
Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $15.
Cheese, aneet easterns, 23ee to
23 % c. Butter, choicest creameiw,
3654oczn. dairy e
Eggs, e7eiveted2e
' to- C 8.50; com.
Mille, $2 to 02.50; good veal calvee,
$8; need, sucker. calves, $6 to $7;
Reaseees, $3 to $8.50; ungtadecl hogs,
$10,50 g; $10.80,
Mineral P'�tucti
in Cana a
A
Tiro imprtivament, le the Mantua
eitleation l Citnaave and in the metal
markote of the world ee 14e6e14606 16
the remarkable reoovere Or ealooral
proauction In tap Doinialoe during
L.40 year 1922, lereliminary figiume
oompiled im the Dereau ot Statistlee,
alamOnPiataratmellxiictucoattoeletegieo efxmteaxi‘otmo inwebriacena
the Canadian raining incluetry leas re,
coaerod from the market aeadieet-
meets 0( 1020 and 1021, The value of
minerals produced Met year, es report,
eCl by the Dominion a latiSti011.13.,
021100111401 60 $183,030,000, en increaSe
of e11,100,000 °am 1921. The aearai
output Waii made up as fellows: mae
talltee eel 145 000. nonmetallce 382,-
1532,000; etructuial materiale and" clay
Producai, $3e,e03,0001u comParleon
with iereeeame yeers the 1922 mine
yield, may be conaidered 'Imre .oredita
able and le only exceeded by the re-
cords establialied en 1918 of $211,301e
000 and isi 1920, .when the peak of
0227,859,000 was reached. The in-
creaae in the -value of Metals pro.
dmced, which was 23,9 per cent, great. '
or than the peevioue year, was largely
responsible for tho improved showing
of Mineral meditation in 1922.
The featuro of the increase in the
yield for laSit Year Was tile gain made
he the output of gold by the two great
producing armaIncee, (enteric anct Bra
Wile Columbia. Of the total. ot 1,263,-
384 ounees valued at 328,118,050 pro -
deiced in Canada, Ontario' . mines
yielded 1,000,840 ounces or 79.18 per
cent., .and British Columbia pacidticed
e07,370 ounces Or. 16.42. per cent. Sil-
ver reco:rded a substaatita increase In
both quantity end value over 1921, pro-
duction rising 35 per Cent. end value
increasing 48 per cent, Lead saowed
an even wider speead in its Increase,
the.yielcaleeing 40 per cent. in, advance
of the previoue year -while the prices
receiVed hieproaect up to 52 per cent.
over the reoerci 01,19;1.
Non.Metallics.
There was a Slight decline in the
production of nommetallies including
mai, which amounted to about $5,280,-
343 in value, largely due to the loes of
production caused through labor trou-
Wes. The output of owl, notwith-
.standing this loss afetime, reached that
encouraging amount of 15,045,286
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Alberta coal mines had the highest
outpet with 5,991,000 tons, while Neva
Scotia contributed 5,569,000 tons and
occupied seemed place among the coal -
producing provinces at the Dominion.
British Columbea accounted for 2,927,-
000 tone,
The Production of natural gas be
Canada reached 14,954,097 thousand
oubio feet valued at $5,468,983. One
tario retained the - premier, potation
and produced 7,800,000 thoueand cubic
that while Alberta followed with an
output or 5,887,000 thousand cebio.
feet. About 753,897 thousand cubic:
feet were produced New Brunswick,
Asbeatos mining in Quebec: in 00111.
inlan With other asbestos -producing
countries, of the world, suffered a de.
'aline in 1921 whicli continued through.
aut the 'first half of 1922, In the lat-
.
ter part of the year there was cone
reiderable activity, the output 'reach-
ing 163,700 tons of ell grades as com-
pared with 92,761 tons in 1921.
The revival of building activity- at.
favorably the produotion of ad
classes a atructuase rnaterlals in 1922
and uetrythseaomfoane waada,t
y the wmaisoyeex
atmine
e .
pecited; will benefit from the improve.
tient in the general situation in the
werld'a metal marketre
Flying Fortress the Work of
French Engineers.
French engineers have aueceeded in
teaming out a new air monster which
will serve as a veritable llying farthest'
in future 'wars. When tried out near
Marseilles recently it came up to ell
expectations, ite fi.Ve tons of metal re-
sponding te all the tests to which it
*elas pat for several hours with a load
thirty tong.
This is the first all -metal machine
turned Out by French factories, even
the wings being composed of a compo-
sition tef aluminum especially hard-
ened to give paotection against bullet
mhnost as great as quarter -inch solid
ethel plate. Six large machine guns
iinel four automatic rifles mounted he -
hind the pilot provide Is formidable
battery sufficient to ward off enemy
ttacks and it is estimated that .tho
Canada Sends Supplies
'Earth ak V' t*
to e tin3
, .
A, despatch from Vanceuver, B.C.,
eays:—With 500 tons oa supplien from
Caeada for the earthquake ' stricken
people, the steemee Entprese oa Ruse
tile sailed Thursday afternoori los 7a -
Pee. The tare° is eoneigned to the
relief commiselori at Tokio, It is Made
up op nom. stamen, mimed milk and
other tirade
The Erepreze of atuesia tvfll be the
fleet eft:Malan, esierying relief timplioe
to reach' aitpen freln the Aiiieeican
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to.rtir)p; lite in e everkliotfee, f lel
haa jtiet takee hor BA, &twee 0'
ralrighnin
new plane will carry ten one ton
bombs without difficulty.
The benders claim that its flying
range 1 emeee helms ateevehty-aive
miles An Fouaia motors of .260
horsepower each are required, but the
Machihe ia so deeigned that only two
are realty necessary to maintain a
flight 10.2085 cif accident.
The testi; were all on the ground,
but the Government experts present
were satiefiod with France's leading
aerial eachielement said will .recom.
mend the construction of several
planes of this type as soon as the first
flights are completed.
New elberel 'Lender
Mr. W.10. N, Sinclair, who hes b
elected es leader of the Liberal 14064
Mahe Onteetio