HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-9-29, Page 7EXPLOSION IN GERMAN CHEMICAL
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The Thi:•ty Se:ond Army •Corps of
the r;eash Arlby is in : crmn+ile e
;eliar•gteof the aroa'end etery•av r lebie,
French medical oJ'fieer, had' arrived
o:izly` hur•sday morning t> co-operate
With the 'German physicians 'and sur-
geons. The Fxeneh and G,er»rtln Rel
Cross are co-operating and a big • Ger-
man sanitary train has" brth. ght ranee
quantities of medical ,supplies, The
Geriiran offlciale thanked General De-:
geutte, for the prompt 'manner in;
which the French Army came to the
assis•tanee of the vietigia: •
The Freneh•High Commissioner on
the Rhine, 1V1, Tyrard, and his entire
staff, took 'charge of the relief. work.
The members of hie staff were sent to
all the surrounding town's to enlist • the
the . mayors •and people in the relief
plan, in which the labor unions are -
,uniting. Several of the funds have
already assumed large proportions.
Several French,soldiers were killed
and many wounded when the force of
the Oppau explosion wrecked the
French barracks at Eisenheirn. A. train
which had just left that station was
blown off the tracks plowing through
the wooden sheds where French sol-
diers of occupation were quartered.
General Degoutte personally decor-
ated a Moroccan soldier whp rescued
eleven wounded from the wreckage,
the African being Beverly burned
about the hands and neck.
Primarily, it is reported, the dis-
aster was caused by the explosion of
fifteen tons of :ammonium sulphate in
the preparation' of a new gas, in
which the pressure of 300 atmospheres
and a temperature of between 600 and
700 degrees Centrigrade were needed'.
A :despatch from Mennhein; Ger-
many, says:—ppeeletlpi and ruins
alone Tremain of. What was once the
fienKieehlxts.,towneof:Oppau,'• The town
Firy�l i$ 500 residents, of .which 'a mi;-
ioritY••of the men engaged in. the
ehenael works were killed or wound—
ed by a series of ; expiosiong; in t}i
Badieehe Anilmfab'rili chemical plant
at Oppau,,ip,the Rhine palatinate, 49.
miles front, here, Seidiers in. French.
ninfornis are.: cleaning away tb wrecks
age, picking, up the;. dead and injured
Sa.after, a big battle,
Eleven hunclred'.dead and four thou-
sand injured is the latest estimate of
the, disaster,, which: caused a greater
number of casualties in the Mannheim -
Ludwigshafen district that the four
year of war. The desolation around
Oppau equals anything seen at Verdun
or in Flanders over a similar area;
Hundreds of persons are digging • in
the ruins for the bodies of relatives
or friends, nearly a thousandof which
haws been recovered thus far:
Thirty-six hours after the explosion,,
from the gaping, funnel-like hole
where 'the Badische works formerly
stood, there ar'e still tobe heard moan-
ing and cries of the wounded, while the
soldiers search for possible survivors.
Twenty-five hundred of the injured
are reported to have passed through.
the hospitals of the surreunding.cities.
The east crater is slowly filling with
water, and it may never be known how
many victims found a grave there. All
mutilated but still living, animals
crawling' amidst the twisted girders
and blocks of coneretee.are' being put
out of their misery; The firemen and
relief workers have not yet been able
to discard their gas masks.
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SEND FINAL LETTER
TO DE VALERA
Every Irish '.`Cabinet". Minis-
ter to. Receive Copy of
British Reply.
A despatch from Gairloch, Scotland,
says:—A copy of the draft of the
British Cabinet's reply to de Valera
will 'be sent to every member of the
.Irish Cabinet, This means that all
will be held responsible for the final
draft of de Valera's answer. It is ex-
pected that this will delay the Irish
reply for a week or snore.
It is learned that the present draft
is likely to be the Governnfent's final
letter. The ministers are debating the
eepaeity in which the Irish represen-
tatives will attend the conference, as
well as the "basis" for the conference.
It is felt by the members of the
libBritish Cabinet that de Valera's let -
ter admits of more than one interpre-
tation on these points, and de Valera
will be asked to make a plain and
definite statement' as to the basis on
Which' he is willing to confer. ' - •
The attitude of the Government is
that the only possible basis is the
continuance of Ireland as a part of the
British Empire- Those hoping . for
peace gather little consolation from
the Gairloch meeting, as a strong sec-
tion of the. Cabinet wishes to sternly
insist upon the. abandonment of de
Valera's sovereignty claims as an es-
sential preliminary to any conference,
They are pressing the view that the
Government cannot bandy words ins
definitely, They complain that de
Valera is making no concessions what-
ever, and profess alarm that he will
bring up the question of sovereignty
as soon as -the 'conference meets, and
nullify everything.
On the other hand appeals to the
Cabinet not to break off the negotia-
tions do not fall on deaf ears. The
present time is, therefore, a period of
suspense, and things are not nearly so
hopeful after the Gairloch meeting as
they were before.
New Zealand has 4,391 registered
apiaries, representing more therr•'50,-
000 colonies of bees.
Major-General Griesbach
M.P. far West Edmonton, who ha;;
been appointed to the Senate.
Government Crops
Estimate, 1921
Wheat 288,493,000
Oats . 457,544,000
Barley 58,027,000
Rye . 11,707,100
Flax Seed 6,930,000
Potatoes 99,937,000
The average cost' in Canada of im-
prisoning a prisoner in the peniten-
tiary is 32,800. To this must -be added
the loss or damage resulting from the
commission of the crime, together
with the Support given to dependents
Of tho•man imprisoned, as well as the
economic loss to the state of the man's
labor. Though a limited amount of pay
work was done at the penitentiaries
during the past year a revenue of
3143,334 was returned to the govern-
ment.
PERSONNEL OF L , RAL CAt1NET
Prime Minister and Minister of Ex-
ternal Affairs—Right i•Ion, Arthur
Meighen.
Railways and Canals—Hon. J. A.
Stewart, Lanark (new).
Trade and Commerce—H, H. Ste-
vens, Vancouver (new).
Justice—R. B. • Bennett, Calgary
(new),
Postmaster -General= -L. deG. Belley,
K. C., Quebec (new).
Secretary of State - Rodolphe
Monty, Montreal (new)„
Healthy Im•.nigration and Coloniza-
tion—Dr. J. W. Edwards, Frontenac
(iiew). '
Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment—R,
J. Manion, Fort William (new).
Customs and Excise—J. B. M. Bax-
ter, St. John, N.B. (new),
Publid Works—Hon. F. B. McCurdy
(no ehange),
Finance—Sir Henry Drayton (no
change),
President of the Privy Council—
Dr, L. P. Normand, Three Rivers
(new).
Agriculture—Hon. S. F. Tolnrio,
Victoria, B.C. (no change).
Labor—Hon. G. D. Robertson (no
chenge). • `
Marine and Naval ---Hon. C. C. Bal-
lantyne (no change),
Interior—Sir Jaynes Lougheed (no
change). •-
Militia and Defence—Hon, Hugh
Guthrie (no change):
Without -portfolio—E. K. Spinney
.(no change); Sir Edward Kemp (no
change); .James Wilson, Saskatoon
(new), and Edmund Bristol, 1{.C., To-
ronto (new),
The portfolio of Solicitor -General
remains to be filled.
WILL SHE' EVER MAKL" I'1'?
SCOTLAND O YARD TO
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SCP. AP 0 METHODS
OS
IN FERRETING CRIMES OF,
THE WORLD.
Sweeping Changes Will Give
London One of Best Staffs
of Rogue Chasers.
The Scotland Yard system, admired
and feared by the wrongdoer in the
four corners of the earth for half a
Century,' will be scraped, days a Lon-
don despatch. The old order o3 things
will be revolutionized. A thorough re-
organization Is being directed by Gen.
Sir William Harwood, Commissioner of
Police. He has outlined far reaching
reforms.
As a result, London is, soon to have
a new detective force recruited from
the best and smartest brains of the
metropolitan police. Some changes al-
ready have been made.
"At present 60 per cent. of the Crim•
incl Investigations Department is em-
ployed as inquiry offices," one ofacial
says,. "The department has been al-
lowed to become an inquiry bureau
with only a small nucleus of the staff
real detectives. Wo have many able
nen, but their energies have not been
directed in proper channels. It is a
tragion of Scotland Yard that once.a
member of the 'C. I. D.' (Criminal In-
vestigation Department), , always a
'C. I. D,'
Expert Criminal Harmful.
"Now it will be the duty of the
department heads without partiality or
favor tq tell when, a man is getting
stale. During the last three years pro-
gresshas been made quietly until now
a detective tore Of 860 has Beer'
equipped in such a manner as to en-
able the men to take the field agaInst
the forces of disorder.
"The expert criminal is the most
harmful to society nowadays. It' isn't
the dull witted fellow but the bright,
alert, intelligent; well educated chap
who stops at nothing. To meet this
type face to face Scotland Yard' must.
produce his equal'in ability, skill and
resourcefulness There's been too
much merit given because of a system
that hitherto existed,- A11 this must be
altered,"
The official said that the new policy
means that sweeping changes will be
put into effect which will perhaps
change the complexion of 'Scotland
Yard' completely, but he was certain it
will be inlproved,
•
The Frenchpopulation during the
war decreased by 4,000,000.
Personality.
Variety, we say, is the spice of life.
Nature provides many sorts of
flowers'. We'd tire even of the Tose
if we' had po other flower.
The seasons alternate. Perpetual
summer or perpetual. winter is mono-
tony.
The weather changes. Sun all the
time is as undesilable as continuous
rain.
National customs differ. Modes of
dress and of architecture are not the
sante. Languages" are minutely sub-
divided into dialects.
Life at sea is utterly different from
life on land-. To boarrd a ship is the
next thing to "going from' the world
we know to one ei wonder still,"
A voyage through the air is not
like a journey by water or en land.
All through our lives the rule of
perpetual -variance prevails.
And so it is with persons. The inex-
haustible resourcefulness of Nature.in
creating so many types of character,
so many races, infinitely various in
feature, is amazing.
Nature did not intend us to look and
walk and act and feel too much alike,.
-She meant us to own our souls, to de-
velop individuality, to speak out of.
our minds with our own voices; in
short, to assert a personality. ,
Life is too tame and tepid if we
remain neutral in the background al-
ways.
Seekers of the limelight and the
headlines we have with us -always, and
they are odious.
But it is possible to have a strongly
developed personality without making
a bid for noisy notoriety.
It is important that we should dare
to be ourselves, that we should be
willing to be different. If through
moral cowardice we invariably essent
to the prevailing fashion on our opin-
ions, we make one mere in a crowd;'
but a place of leaderf1lTh''is' denied us.
A controlling foreo wherever 'ire
goes, whatever he does, is. the man
who has convictions, end takes sides,
and does not hide on the defensive in
a twilight zone trying to assume the
tint of the background.
It is a glorious event in a lifetime
to meet one who has a strong; and
vivid. personality. ' To, such' a person
we cleave where and when we flnd'him,
grateful that the contact gives light
and accent and electric stimulation to
keep us going through "these head-
long
ead
long days.". -
The only sure way to keees a secret
is to slay: nothing.
' Settlements, one with a population
of 40, previously uerknown, have been
discovered during the • taking of
Japan's first official census. Scientists
are being sent to investigate into
some of these unknown villages.
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A U'lI4lloWE •P.HOTOGRAPH. OF' BRITAIN'S PRIME' MINISTER
D. Lloyd, George, at Inverrroe.s, signing a message boy's book after receiving
a parcel from London. ,1 -Ie Is using the gold pen which he used to sign the
o ee teat ,
led t y •
The Leading Markets.
Toronto.
>,th n'itobe wheat—No. 1. Northorpt
$11 50',• nominal; No, 2 Northern, 31,•61.,
no��iil'i„nal;; No,. 3, $1.47, nominal,.
Namtoba oats—No. 2 CW, 51e; No,
3 PW 53e; extra No, 1 feed, 53c; No.
2 feed, 491/2e.
Manitoba barley—Ne, 3 CW, 77%0,
nomfnul.
All the above track, Bey ports.
American corn. -,-No, 2 yellow, 00c,.
rwrilinah Sty p9rts..
' Ontario oats—N9, 2 white, 48 to 46c,
Ontario .wient—No. 2 Winter, pen
lets, $1,25 to 31.30; No, 3 Winter,
3,1 to $1.27; No. 1 commercial, $1.17
o;31,22, No. 2 Spring, 31.20 to 31:25;
No: 3 'Spring, nominal.
Barley—Maltin , Q5• to 70e, accord-
ing to freights outside.
I3uckrvheet—Np; 2r nominal:
RY No 2i 31.90
MOniteba' fipur--Fira't pate., $9,86;
second pats., $9 35, Toronto.
Ontario floor $6 old:crop. '
Millfeed—De] Montreal freight,
bags included: Bran, ,per ton,, 327;,
sheets per ton, $28; good feed flour,
$1;70 to $1.80.
Baled Hay Track; Toronto, per ton,.
No, 1, $24; No. 2, 322; mixed, 318,
Cheese—New, large, 21 to 21%e;
twins, 21% to 22c;•triplets; 28 to
23%:c. Old, large, 28 to 29c• twins,
29• to 29%e; .triplets, 29% to 80c; Stil-
tons, new 24 to 25e,
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 33 to
35c• creamery, prints 'fresh No 1 42
to 113c; •No. 2, 39 to 40e; cooking, 22
to 24o. '
Dressed T ' oultr --S rin •
Y , p g chickens,
35. to •40c; roosters, 20c; fowl, 80c;
ducklings, 35c; turkeys, 60c.
Live poultry—Spring chickens 20 to
25c roosters, 16c; fowl, 16 to 20e;
.ducklings, 35e; turkeys', 50c.
Margarine -22 to 24e.
Eggs --No. 1, 44 to 45c; selects, 50
to 51c; cartons, 52 to 54c.
Beans—Can. hand-picked, bushel,
34 to $4.25; primes, 33.50 to 33.75.
Maple products—Syrup, per imp.
gal., 32.50; per 5 imp. •gals.; $2.36.
Maple sugar, Ib„ 19 to 23c..
Honey -60-30-1b. tins, 14% to 15c
per Iib.; 5 -2% -lb. tins, 16 to 17c per
1b:; Ontario comb honey, per doz.,
$8:75 to 34.50.
Choice heavy steers, 37 to 38; but-
cher steers, choice, 35 to $7; do, good,
$6 to 35.50; do, mod., 34,25 to 36;
butcher .heifers, choice, 36 to $6,50;
do, med., 34 to $5; butcher cows,
choice, 34.50 to $5;; de, fined., 32;50 to
$4; canners and cutters, 31 to $2;
butcher bulls, •good, $8.50 to $4; do,
cont,, $2 to $3.50; feeders, good,. 900
lbs., 35,50 to 36; do, fair, $4 to 34,60;
milkers,.375 to'$95; springers, $80 to
3100; calves, choice, $12 to 313; . do,
mod„ 39 to 310; do, coo„ 33 to 35;
lambs, good, 38,50 to 39; do, con's., 36.
to $7; sheep, choice, 33.50 to $4; do,
good, 32 to $3.50; do, -heavy and bucks,
31. to 32; frogs, fed and watered, $9.50
to $9,75;'>do, oft cars, 39.75 to $10;
do, f.o.b., 38.76 to 39; do, country
points, 8.50 to 38.75.
Riimtr•eal,
Oats, Can. western,, No. 2, 60,h to
610; do, No. 3, 59% to 60e. Fleur,
Man. Spring wheat pats„ firsts, $9.50.
Roiled oats,bag, 90 lbs., 33.10 to 33.20.
Bran, $27.. Shorts, 329. Hay, No. 2,
per ton, car lots, $28 to 329.
Cheese, finest easterns, 161/ac. But-
ter, choicest creamery, 36e. Eggs,
selected, 46c.
Good butcher steers, 36.50 to $7;
good fat cows of dairy type, $5 to
$5.50; light thin heifers, 38; green
calves, 33 up; good veal calves, $10 to
$12; lambs, 38; sheep, 32 to 34; hogs,
310.
State Education.
A political speaker remarked the
other day, "Is it not just as reason-
-able that the province should main-
tain a school for blacksmiths us that
it should pay for the education of doc-
tors who charge high fees for their
services?" He had not reasoned far
enough. One learns a trade in' less
Clue and at less expense than one
learns 'a profession, Besides, the ap-
prentice is paid while he is learning
whereas the student is under' great
expense during hiswhole unlversi
Course. No one is deterred from be
coming a blacksmith. solely 'becadse o
the cost of learning the trade, bu
Dominion, News in, Brief
Victoria, B,C,—A, slllpine11 of 2,-
000;000 feet - of eprpee aril hamloek is:
belajg prepared tor BIM Peke by. the
Whalen Pulp and Paper plant on the,
west coast of• Vancouver TsiPnd,
Spruce ie selling,weel9n the south ns
its �ightness is appealing to the build -
ors
Ifamloops, B.C.—The CrQeklehpr,lt
orchard of the British Columbia
Finiitlan(is,,h.�s shipped ov4r se7olzaee{a
thousand boxes of crabapples to the
east this'sitnneer, consignments going
to Winnipeg',• Brandon, Port •Arthur,
Mi neapolis and Chicago, Its. is .esti-,
mated that the harvest .of y'esitify
and Mackintosh Reda Will reach ,four-
teen thousand boxes, making a total
production of thirty thousand boxes
fro' the orchard of fourteen thousand
tic: s,
' clmonion, Alta,—In less than 000
week; twenty carloads of. Alberta
white. flab from Lesser Slave and Lac
La jBiche passed through Edmonton en
route to the' Chicago market. It is
est meted that there are still eighty
ear oads before. this season's eateh in
Lesser. Slave Lake will all be mark-
eted, -
Regina, •Bask.—An indication of the
value and extant of Saskatchewan's
crop this year is the number of steam
boiler and engineers' licenses taken
out in the province which is almost
double drat " last est year, Already
more than 3,500 of the former and
1,590 of the latter have been granted
by' the provincial authorities..
Winnipeg,• ,frau,—Recent sratisties
belied on the railway mileage of Con-
ads give the total for all railways at
38,288, of which total Ontario's share
amounted to 11,000, population per
mile 260; Quebec, 4,792, 420; Manitoba
4,108, 183; Saskatchewan 6,162, 1115;
Alberta 4,273, 116; British Columbia
4,227, 106; New Brunswick 1,959, 180;
Nopa Seetia, 1,428, 367; and Prince
Edward Island 279, 386.
Ottawa, Ont.—Announcement hes
been made that the Canadian Govern-
ment will open a trade commissioner's
office in New, York city. Frederic
Itudd, at present acting director, Do-
minion Bureau of Information, New
York, has been appointed to the post.
The government also intends to open
a trails eoehnlssi9nor's Wee. in
J1ama10a,
St, Catharines,. Ont, --Largo •qutm»
tities of pe,aars are being ehippesl to
the Uniteii Ifingdop from the Niagara
district, The pear crop is a good one,
being about, the beet in fruits this
year, with the, exception'of grapes,
which are also, heavy,
Montreal, 91.1e,,—.4.111(Mgat those in
the cabin of the S,S, Corsican e h
whit.
arrived here recently was a party of
130 Ciznadian school teachers, Who
Wye been touring Great Britain and
the continent fox the past two months.
Some 35 more, who were with the
party' when it left Canada, 8,1.0 still
in England but will .sail shortly. The
school teachers, who cause from all
parts of the Doaninion, and represent
all grades, were ,sent on an eduoatlon-
al tour by the various provincial gov-
ernments, who made grants for the
purpose. The trip was' organized`
under the supervision of the Federal
Department of ' Education,
Halifax, N,S..-More than 2,000,000
barrels of apples, probably the"great=
est yield in its history, will some from
the Annapolis Valley this year, ac-
cording to P. J. G. Comeau, freight
traffic manager of the Dominion A.
lantic r c Railway, The great yield, states ,
Mr. Comeau, has resulted in inquiries
reaching the Valley from every pro-v-
ince3n
the Dominion and nearly every.
state of the United States, -Indica-
tions are that 1,000 cars of apples will
be shipped to the United States.
St. John, N.B.—A contract has been
let to Kane and Parker, or -this city,
for the erection on Partridge Island
of a brick and concrete building to be
used as a powerhouse, bath and 'disc
infecting centre in the handling of .im-
migrants. The cost of the structdre
u1II-I a $100,000. Work will be started
immediately and the building, it is
expected, will be completed in seven
months.
St. Johns, Nfld.—What is believed
to be one of the mot promising cop-
per deposits ever discovered in this
country has recently been unearthed
on the west coast of Newfoundland'. .
The full extent of the lode is said to
be of a very high percentage. Develops
went work has already commenced,
Lord Finlay of Nairn
Eminent Britisher elected to, serve as
one of the judges on the International
Court of Justice of the League of
Nations.
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POPULATION MAY NOT
REACH 8,500,000
Preliminary Estimate of the
Census Will Not Aa!
Before Nov. 1.
tyi A despatch from Ottawa says:—If
- 1 Canada gets a population of 8,500,000
t; it will be considered" to have made a
many a boy would have tb give up his
ambition to be a' doctor if the province
bore no part of the Bost of his medi-
cal education. And what a price in
human lives would be paid if some
youth with a nature] .talent for sur-
gery were prevented by poverty from
becoming a surgeont
The education of its leaders in medi-
cine, in law, in theology, in teaching,
in engineering, and in other walks o
life costs the country a great deal of
money, but it ds money •wel•1 spent
"Where there is no vision, the people
perish," Where there are no leader's
the state retrogrades. Civilization
itself cannot exist without education
Canadigne will require to ,become ae-
eus:tomer] to greater: expenditures on
university education. . for railways,
for water power, for roads, there is
abundance of money but, to'provide
th
for these, e universities must sires -
gip along on pitifully inadequate
revenues. On the part of„the general
public there is deeded some clear
thinking 00 the' relative value of edu-
cation,
wonderful advance in population in
the past ten years. -
In the 10 years from 1901 to 1911,
the increase was' about 30 per cent_,
but in the previous ten years the per -
mintage of increase was only about
10 per cent. In 1911 the population
was about 7,200,000, and if it; were
8,500,000 now, that would be e gain
of 18 per. cent., which is considered
f too high in view of the stoppage 'of',
immigratfcn on account of'the 'war:
and the e..eodus of many 'people of
o foreign birth after it.
It is'not expected that the prelinii-I
nary estimate •of the census of the
Dominion will be given before No-
vember 1.
Allhough'bl'ind, a 'Canadian ex -sol-
dier recently passed the Canadian
Civil Service ecamriretion.for employ -
anent as a shorthand clerk.
lladiunr is found in nature in quan-
tities so exceedingly small that it is
never visible, even when the material
is examined with a microscope. Rad-
iwn ore ordinarily carries only a small
fraction of a groin of radium to the
ton, and radium will never be found
in large masses. because it is formed
by the slow decay of uranium, ,rid
itself decays and ehsngerto other ole.
meats so rapidly that it;doee not ac-
cumrslated naturally in visible masses.
The Destination of Canada'b
Crop.
During the seven years 1015 to
1921, the total exports of grain front
Canada amounted to 1,222,664,772
bushels. Only fifteen per cent. of this
went to the United States, the balance
of 813 per cent, going to other coun-
tries. Of the total exportation of
grain 'lining this period, 415,050,7.18
bushels, or 37 per cent., left Canada
by Canadian sea porta, whilst 511,900,-
167 bushels were exported via the
United States. Grain, haweeer, ex-
ported through the customs ports of
Abercorn, Ooatieock anal St. John's,
P.Q„ has to he hauled for len;; dis-
tances on Canadian linea. The quan-
tity of grain destined for other coun-
tries than the United States and ex-
ported through these three ports dur-
ing the seven years amounts to 137,-
449,846 bushels, which for practical
purposes may be regarded as an addi-
tien to the quantity exported through
Canadian seaports, viz,, 415,60,748
bushels and making the total to be
663,400,594.
In the -period under review, the
heaviest export shipments of wheat
were made in the three war years,
1916, 1917 and 1918, the Largest quan-
tity being 189,648,846 bushels for the
year ended March 31st, 1917. For
1919 the quantity fell to 41,808.807
bush els, the smallest of the series.
The total wheat exported for the
seven years was 818;696,828 bushel's.
Of this quantity 713,522,796 bushels,
or 87 per cent., was destined,for coun-
'tries other than the United States,
'451,691,748 bushels or 69 per cent. go-
ing through United States ports and
,2(11,881,062, or 37 per cent.; going
through Canadian seaports.
The latest returns of Canadian ex-
port trade show that more than one-
third of Canada's exported wheat and
one-quarter of its flour in the season
just elapsed, went to the United
States. From September 1st, 1920 to
May 31st, 1931, wheat exports am-
ounted to 122,649,528 bushels, valued
at 3268,262,638, of which 47,656,963
bushels valued at 3109,689,425 went to
the United States, 28,171,966 bushels
veined at 360,079,446 to the United
Kingdom and 46,720,609 bushels valu-
ed at 3107,493,768 to other countries.
Of 'the wheat shipments to countries
other than the United Stale1,,52,373, '
194 bushels valued at $109,238,164
went by way of United States ports,
and 22,519,371 'bushels valued at 358,-
386,040 by way of Canadian seaports,
Experts•of Canadian w'i eat flour fox
the nine. months ending May 31st,
1921, reached a total of 5,432,405 bar-
rels valued 'at 356,713,745, of which
2,617,963 barrels vallued at 326,140,756
went to the United Kingdom, 1,2.45,611
barrels valued at $12,198,107' to the
United States' and 1,568,980 barrels'
valued at $18,870,896 to other eon -
tries. Of the exports of Can..
adian wheat flour to other coup•
tries than the Unitech States, 1,.
801,964 barrels valued at $17,3.29,866
were shipped by way of the United
Steyter ports and 2,884,929 barrel4
valued at 327,190,791 by way of Carr.
widen 'seaports,
Suppresses Noise When
Rile is Fired(,
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claims to have discovered an ap7
paratus which suppresses all
noise when a rifle is fired.
Swim experts have tested the
invention, according to Weber)
and have found it to work sue.,
ecssfully. Ile declares that he'
expects to develop it so that lit,
can be applied to c�unalions.
J3enrhina the record height of 93,008g
feet in en aercp"cant, a Frenchman said
he eco ane l to be llyhsg throwgh a rose.
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The use of the word "blizzard" hes
been traced back only to the year 1867;
and the oriiginof the word is unknown.
Kerosene lamps are generally of
fro'•m ten to twenty-five candlepower.
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