The Clinton News Record, 1928-03-29, Page 6House tlt'Gont nittee Agithtiom,'£oi
a snevey of 'Ontario s ' game andanh
resotuces, as the sole salvation'•:foi
their :thneatened depletion, is gaining
s ground, rapidly,; RgpY4litatwes- of
associations ,intezested •`prrman'ily: nn
fhb p%oteethon"qcand oosfierva,tiezu'; of
!game appeased; before ;t}i ,Fish .
s:Oantl
Game ommttteel aril supported'; the
"need 'far rove tigathon: e
Meeting for an hour:, the. Public Ac-
counts lCominitteo heaid'S L• Squire
ActingD putt'•; Minister of P1zb1nc
�l*oiks': and
±P -y dr{rmg ,1925,
rivedetails o8 how construction work
In the•,new Ea's't Bleela.}vas as?ledron
Speaking of ;"tone need in the, new
block, .Mr. Squire stated'• that; while
isoihe';Iiidiana ;Thneptone tied been ;spa
cifiedr,;the material chiefly used'was' an
Ontario product from Queenaton, and'
than ,the Government in using this
stone hadSeevived an old,:indiestry„and
thus increasedinduatria1 progress in
the province:
MONHA.Y,•MARCH 1TIi�”
On supplementary estimates; ,.,with
Uouse• in Coininittee of Supply passing
fey the Prime Minister's hepartMen't,
the Department o£ ;Education, Mines,
Healti and Labor Theestimate.•:£or
• Hyde odevelopnnent were ,the most; in
teresting_ and ".these,;Were' dealt; With
at -some length by theP•enmier iin the'
• absence of ;Hem: ,T.' R Cooke, In short;
the. points stressed were,as fellows:
' By'the ro osed "booster" sY stem' of
" overbomiiAP. ig loss ofower `' on. long•
• ,
P
transmission' lines' therovince' May
Y
yet receive a substantial amount from
great waterpowers in Northern On-
tario:
Agreeinent with Quebec for, use of
Ottawa River power, is hoped for d'ur-
ing the coming•summer.
More water, may• be tiiken from the
Niagara, subject to treaty, by use of
artificial islands or submarine weirs..
Both eastern and -western. Ontario
will likely be receiving power from the
Gatineau contract by next 'fall','::the
station at Leaside feeding both the
60 -cycle and the 25 -cycle, systems."
On the Nipissihng system, it may be
necessary to develop at Elliott's' Chute.
With all these' arrangements, On-
tario will be inore than ready for St.
Lawrence .power when it becomes
available, because the demand in the
province is growing at an "alarming"
rate.
The estimates passed were as fol-
lows:
Niagara system—Transmission and
distribution Lines; ,extension to rural
distributing ystenis, $400;000.,
Georgian Bay system—Transinis-
sion and distribution, $75,000.
St. Lawrence and Ottawa systems—
transformer station, $350,000; trans-
mission acid distribution lines, $1,-
250;000.
Central Ontario system—transform-
er stations, $125;000; transmission
lines, $240,000.
Nipissing ss;stem — Transmission
lines, $20;900.
Sault Ste. Marie District -Rural ex-
tensions, $10;000.
The Prime Minister's fullest state-
ment ewe in connection with a vote
of $75;000 for transmission and dis-
tribution, Georgian Bay system.
"There has been an increase in the
old Georgian Bay system," lie explain-
ed, "which reached the capacity of the
line between Waubaushene and Mid -
laid and they have an increase of
equipment. There is a Vote of $50,000,
and the estimate of extensions ruins to
considerably more than that. Then
thele is an extension to the rural line
in ,the. Georgian Bay system this' year,
we expect of 62 miles, 152,000, and the
estimates Only provide $50,900. This'
takes care of two things: the increas-
ed load and the projected rural dis-
tribution,
TTJESDAY, MAILC'II 20TH-
With the blue sky legislation well
under way, the ambition of the On
tario Government towards the protec-
tion of the public is to abolish what
are known as tipster sheets, purport-
ing to give advice on good investments
and speculation, but in reality provid-
ing a menace to the gullible.,
The Security Frauds Prevention Act
Passed second reading with unanimous
approval and provided the opportunity
for the Attorney General'to bring up
the matter of the tipster sheet, which
he took care to emphasize must not be
confused with the investment guides
Published by- reputable brokerage
houses. r
',Thirty-one out of 42 bills standing
for third reading•were,finally passed.
Among those left over was IIon. Chas.
McCrea's amendment to the Mining
Act. Those read a third time were
amendments to the Public Lands Act,
Boys' Welfare 'Home and School Act,
Public Service Act, Children's Protec-
tion Act,. Adoption Act, •Children of
7Jhnnarried Parents' Act, Juvenile
Courts Act; also the` Acts- respecting
Toronto General Hospital, City of
London, City of St; Catharines, City
of Windsor; Niagara Falls Suspension
Bridge Go., Town:of LaSalle, Village
of Markdale, Town, of Sandwich, City
of St. Thomas, Beechwood` Cemetery
Co. of Ottawa, Sarnia General Hospi-
tal, Industrial Mortgage and Savings
Co; amendments to the Controverted
flections Act, Loan and Trust Cor-
por.itions Art, Marriage Act, Weed
Control Act, Worki nen's Compensation
'Act, Companies Act, Protection of
Cattle Act, Public Vehicles Act, an
• Art respecting the Town of Walker-
ville, an flet to provide- for extension
of University' Avenue, and th'eRegula
tionof the Cutting of Timber Act., .
All the private bills in conn'mittee
stage, were replotted." These were Es-
sex Border Utilities .Coinniission, City
•.of Ottawa, Township of Sandwich
1 East and Township of Maidstone,
WFDNhSDiY Mt.l i 216"14
`I:lous iii Committee an legis
e and �h lat'ion
rapidly
l
eaIty with, the ros
•tinterest
mget>e>n beingxthoone whereby all l
, public•conipanies,'Whether 'incor;•por
ated provinoiolly, by :Federal charter,
or in iuntey - ' a 'Cote ga co i, nil ,future will
be required, 1p�_er
ore eonimencing basis
'nese
'in this province, to file certain
information With the Departmentpariueit of
thero '
P vnhcial Secretary. Incidentally,
• the 1resent le W'as to filing of a pros-
pectus, and n•eceasity .of a certificate
entiltling the,egmpaiiy°tR stai:t`bliei-
"less, are "done a`lvay }with ";rTl i9 ii w
legielattoit,. Conhplernentany p'.thetP9
ourcttes Fraud Pi:evantton Act, was
introduced 14.4-10%..w. Ii Price,
treney Gez}eraly in 'the form , of iatn
amoiidinent to the Cgpilpanaes Aet, and
sit Abt Iteepeating Infoitnaton'Being-
Givein by CoWpaines
!xtliURiSDAS'' : MARCH 22ND—
Clianges and' additions -ole• legit:
aneewore made in the Highway'Traf-.
fic,ilet 4in ndinents yyhen the bill• came:
before "eolaun tree of trio whole : Hop, �.
Creprge S ,ITenay was leading the
House rn absenceiof Premier Pergii
sent- l 1' ie . Clauses , respecting braking
systeiris and spotinglita'Were modified;
that. authorizing. pity ;by-laws calling
forloclting, devices was deleted; and`
one'ieepecting passing of safetyzones
wit's :added:
The follpwimg sub -section permits,
use.: of three candlepower: taillights;
instead of `a. ,minimum` of four. The
trade has been making the former,4he
Minidter said, and itis' use rendes
divers,liable:td prosecution
- `.The spotlight clause has been en-
tirely redrafted,/ atetli- as accepted by
the House, new reads:
"No.spotligbt or -searchlight or other:
auxiliary ;lamp •sihall beg atteched to
.any;. part 'of. a' Motor 'vehielehigher
than the head Janina .Of. sueh'vehic'le,
and. he ray. of ,light from any. such
spdtlig)rt, '" seaichlight' or .' auxiliary
lamp shall be directed' to the,.extreme
right of the traveled portion' of the
highway in''such :a,`Manner 'that,`the
beam of light shall strike the highway
Within 75 feet of the vehicle;:provid'ed
that this shall not prevent the use of
what are commonly known as cowl or
side lamps, or clearance lamps; nor
shall this section apply to' a motor
vehicle of a municipal fire department
or a motor vehicle used by a public
service :corporation, commission or
board, for locating breaks in or
trouble With overhead wiring."
, The beakingeeystem clause, also re-
drafted, now reads: '-`After July 1,
1928, every motor vehicle other than a
motorcycle, . when • operated upon ' a
highway; shall be equipped, with
brakes adequate:to stop and to hold
such 'vehicle, including two separate
means' of application, each of which
means shall apply a brake or brakes
effective on at Ieast two wheels, and
each of which shall suffice to stop the
Vehicle within a proper distance. Each
means of application shall be so con-
structed that the cutting in two of any
one -element of the operating mechan-
ism shall' not leave the motor vehicle
without breaks effective on at least
two wheels: Every motorcycle; shall
be equipped With at least one brake."
Channel Air Liner
Crashes in Field
During Heavy Fog
Three American Passengers
Unhurt in Kent Landing=-
• "Baroness Kavanagh Cut_
Pilot Brings the Plane to Land
With One Motor •
None Hurt As Mist Forces
Half -Dozen Other Pas-
, senger Ships to
Ground
London,—Of' halfa dozen forced
descents of cross channel airplanes
because of a thick fog, only ono ap-
parently was accompanied by•clangor,.
A dispatch from Folkestone to the
Daily Mail said a French airliner from
Paris to.Lon'don recently. crashed in, a
field near the Lympne Airdrome, Kent.
Three Americans had a narrow es-
cape, Baroness Van Till Candi Kava,.
nagh, of The Hague, was cut in the
face, being the only one of the eight
passengers' aboard to be injured.
As the passengers emerged white-
faced from the wreckage, their first
thought was praise for Roger Maury,
pilot, who brought the machine safely
across tlno fog blanketed waters of the
English Channel, with one engine dis-
abled. -
. Plane Listed Over Water.
When tike , machine neared the
French coast the left wing dipped end.
denly, J. W. Wilesmitin, an English
passenger said, The pilot turned as
if to head inland. The machine then
seemed to right itself and the pilot
headed seaward again.
Listing to the left and traveling
slowly It reached., the Li'nglish`coast,
Tho left wing dipped again. The plane
spiraled rapidly, toward the earth.
"There was' a. crash," said Wile -
smith. ''The machine bounced sever-
al lames after the wing struck tTie
ground and slithered sideways about
one hundred .yards. The passengers
were joltettl all over the plate, The
baggage tumbled about us.
Other Planes Held Up.
"Tho women were wonderful. They
made no sound until the pilot brought
his machine to a standstill. He climb-
ed out of the cockpit and quietly open-
ed the door for us, We got out quick-
ly because both engines Wore wreck-
ed and we feared the machine might
catch fire»
The pil61,lhe'said, explained a varve
spring in .one of the engines had ap-
parently broken.
Other planes, British, French, Bel-
gran,. Dutch and' German, matte forced
landings on the coasts• of England,
Frauoe and Belgium, without accident.
Because of tete fog many pilots re -
1 flight. t
fhised to risk ;the Chant ue al t. A
German plane bound for Berlin • re-
turned 'to,Croydon two hems atter
starting in the thick weather..: •
•
• `Dad Knows they Breed.
•
'jJoi�i7l`h�--•ttJDad,: Jack and I buve
gone „together alt ttrly: two year's, ,.1. --Ie
etas'noalIy graduated frons toilege and
la -Mgt -It lie wants to have a long, seri
ons talk with yen."
but it:
hen' Fallrer—"i'm sorry Dot, t
i
u .
'wont d'0 the Young.nlail cod,._ any good, My.
mind; is firr•ily made up. I've bought
all the .bonds, 1, can.itfforcl this year."
• BRITISH;. PIjEPARINC, TO MEET ARAB ONSLAUGHT
From the Red sea to the • 'Persian 'Saud lie 1924 swept with his fanatical tain and site is bound to defend their
-gull • there are ominous rumblings of
an Islamic upheaval which directly
affects Britain because of tier vast
Mohammedan interests and her league
mandates over Irak, Trausjordania
and Roweit. Linked with the die=
turbances in Asia IS the crisis pro-
voked In Egypt by the` rejection by
Cairo of the alliance pact offered by
Britain. The Egyptian nationalisie
are reported to have been in contact
with Ibn Saud, sultan' of Nejd and.
king of the Hedjaz, the dominant Mos- subdue tribes he regards as heretical.
lem figure in Asia, who controls the These tribes, governed by desert mon
holy city .5f Mecca. Ever since Ibn archs, are under the protection of
Wahe,bi• wafriora ever :the Arabian
dessert of Nejd to crown himself in
Mecca as king of the Hedjaz, thus
ousting the monarch recognized by
the allies, the desert chief has been
looked, upon as the founder of a great
Arab state with its capital at Damas-
cus. It is believed in some circles
that it in an attempt to realize the
dream of pan -Islamism that Saud Is
Launching his Arab hordes against
-Transjordania, Irak and Roweit to
frontiers. On the, A'ther,hand .itis
believed by others that Sand's diver-'
sion is merely an attempt to black-
mail the British government into re-
storing the annual subsidy of $800,000
paid Irina up till. recently to keep the
peace. In any event the whole Arab
peninsula is seething with unrest. The
borders of the various territories and
mandated areas are shown in the
above map with an indication of the
position of the reported Arab concen-
trations. Ibn Sand's base of opera-
tions is said to be,Rayheid, his capi-
tal, in the heart ,of the Nejd desert.
Great. Jungle Area
Cleared by Britain
For New Airport
Millions of Tons of Earth
Make Landing Near
Singapore
DOCK ON WAY
Huge Hangar. Will House-
Largest
ouseLargest Existing Flying
Boat
London.—A great tract of undulat-
ing country at Seletar, six miles front
Singapore, has been cleared of rubber,
cocoanut and mangrove trees, and mil-
lions of tons Of earth have been shov-
elled, to make a landing ground -for
Great Britain's new Par East air sta-
tion. A few months ago the area was
virgin jungle, but through the efforts
of seventeen'British'engineers, with a
Torte of 1,500 Chinese and Tamil cool-
ies, the air base has rapiclly-been tak-
ing shape,
PLAN MOORING MAST.
Singapore is likely, from its geo-
graphical position, to be one of the
great air ports of the future. The new
base is designed both for land planes
and seaplanes, and the probability is
that if the Anglo-Indian airship route
is extended to Australia a huge air-
ship mooring mast will also be erected
it.Beletar.
Material .is already the}e for the
construction` of a seaplane hangar 250
feet long,'giving a clear opening -of
120 feet and capable of housing Brie'
Min's largest existing seaplane or fly-
ing boat. It is here that the four
Royal Air Force supermarines which
recently made a night from England
will be permanently based. A fifth
oying boat of the same type, which
arrived dismantled as a reserve plane,
is now being, erected there.
BARRACKS FOR AIRMEN.
The barracks at the Seletar Base
will house fifty airmen, while more
than 1;000 yards of firm gravel roads
have cen constructed as runways for
aircraft during wet weather.
DOCK EN ROUTE.
Wallsend -on -Tyner Eng.—To leave
built in 10 months a floating dock 855
feet long, capable of lifting, the largest
battle cruisers, and long enough to
take six Trafalgar Square Nelson
monuments end to end is an achieve-
ment likely, to interest even American
industrialists, who have many .fine
performances .in rapid construction
work to their credit. This record has
been achieved by Swan, Hunter &
Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Wallsend -
on -Tyne, in the construction of the,
huge 50,000 -ton' floating :clock, contain-
ing over,3;000,000 rivets.'
The Singapore dock contains about
20,000 tons of steel, in the maltufac
tore and haulage of which to the ship-
yard appniximately 90,009, tons of..coal
were consumed, Thcl delivery of the
steel began in January, 4.i 27, and was
completed by July, but during all these
months a vast amount of work was
done, the erection and'riveting of ma-
terial proceeding so rapidly that it
ware,' possible to launch the fret sec-
tion en,, July 15.
The inside of the dock is sufficiently
long to take the Royal Mail Steannslnip
Mauretania contior'tably inside with
80 feet to spare at bow and stern. One
fact: which is often .overlooked with
regard to a floating dock is e
x-
telsive
electrie installation, and in
this'conneption it is of interest.to note
that the Singapore dock will contain
sufficient cable. to reach half -way .fronn
Newcastle' to London, One 'hundred
squads of riveters were 'engaged on
this work, the: average number of
platers, platers' apprentices, etc., wa's
about 250, and the' total number of
wor)ccrs employed was eppeo-ximately,
1,150.
e ton a g •e distance to Singapore,
T1i v
about 8,500 miles, is not the longest
voyage undertaken by a dock built by
Swan, Hunter & Wigharil Bichardson;j,
Ltd., for a 7,000 -ton dock ,was safely
delivered in Callao, Peru, after being
towed a distance of 11;000 miles, in-
cluding the hazardous passage of the
Magellan Straits. But the Singapore
dock will be the largest structure
which has ever essayed the passage of
the Suez Canal or crossed the Indian
Ocean. The dock will be towed by two
main sections with two tugs in front
and two tugs behind each main sec-
tion.
Test Movement .
OfAlberta Coal
Arrangements for Shipment
at $6.75 Rate Being
Ratified -
Ottawa. -- Arrangements for the
movement of Alberta coal to the On-
tario markets have been,ratified by the
Government, There is to be a three-
year seasonal test movement at $6.75
per ton.
The actual cost will be checked, by
representation of the railway and coal
operator and reported to the railway
commission which is to determine
what is a reasonable permanent rate.
At the end of each season the board
is to certify the amount of the excess
cost, if any, above $6.75 and the Gov-
ernment will assume any such dif-
ference.
Farmers r Join
�'
Reds in China
Communal Government Is
Said to Have Been Estab-
lished in Kwantung
Canton, China—More than 1,000,000
farmers, fishermen and salt -makers of I
northeast Kwantung have "gone rest,"
established a .communal G•overnnnent, 1
and are attempting to enlarge their
sphere of control. This has resulted
In a reign of terror—wholesale mur-
ders, the burning of villages and the
disruption of trade.
The area in which the so-calied
Soviet has been set ups is a little more
than 100 miles north of Hong Kong
around Hangs! and Htechechin bays,
and the towns of Haifnng and Luk-
fung are the Communist headquarters.
Chinese. Christians have been per
seeuted and foreign mission property
has in some cases 'been destroyed,
The numerous appeals for aid sent
by the harassed peasants to the
Chinese provincial authorities have
thus far been ignored.
New Cruisers Sail
For Canadian Navy
Champlain and Vancouver
Leave Portsmouth After
Refitting and Overhaul
London,—The two new Canadian
cruisers, Champlain and Vancouver,
recently obtained from the British
Navy, have left Portsmouth for Can-
ada, after being inspected by the Can-
adian High Commissioner, Hone P. C.
Larkin,
The boats, formerly the Toreador
and the Torbay, have just been over-
hauled and ;refitted at . Portsmouth.
Their displacement is 1;075 tons, and
they have a speed of 36 knots.
These cruisers are taking -the place
of,the old destroyers Patriot and. Pa-
trician, and evil' form the main
strength of the Canadian Navy force
until the two modern torpedo -Boat de-
stroyers, which the Canadian Govern-
ment has decided to order are ready
for service, about three years Bence.
Commander C. T. Beard, R,C.N.,
will command the Champlain, and
Lieut. -Commander R. I: Agnew, R.
C,N.. will command the Vancouver.
Canada Welcomes The Tourist As The Nation's Guest
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CANADA, with
endless travel
attractions, lie:,
next door to the
world's• greatest
source of tourist
trade.
UNITED STATES
citizens annually
Spend abroad —
$761,000,000
t'e nd1by
Natwel hna roes fn1Otorlece Seed00
•DBpp1 t the ruled""
Dlla.Ve, Canada
If the„valuato of United States tour-
ist' travel continues to grow. at any-
thing like its'recont rate, it will be-
nl "matter• of two or three years
o y ti
until the annk unt of money expended
by Americana abroad reaches the co-
lossal sum of a thousand million dol-
lars a year. For 1926, acco'diug to
the United States Department of Com
mer'ce, the at tlay of American tettristi
was roundly .11761,000,0007—or nearly
twice ;as nn ell as the Dominion Ger:
eminent collects in tax revenues in an
orclinnary yoan:
Canada's position in relation to this
trade is one of 'matchless advantage..
Already our !, tourist busitsdss repre-
sents a
epre-sents';a big. item, the' expenditures of
tobrlets fu the Dominion iimounting te,
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6.1
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.roughly $260,000,000 a ` year And
there is ample roason to believe that
this total can be doubled in the next.
ten years. Canada possesses an end-
less variety ofattractions, for holiday
seekers of all kinds, pins'.a 4,000 -mile
frontage facing; the country which con-
stitutes the 'ivoi'Id'swealthiest and
largest'anpree of tourist travel. 'Taken
all in all, there is probably noother
country so favorably situated for at-
tracting tourist trade.
The warmat-
tracting
Fe
w lcome which Cana-
dians extend to .visitors is au over-
growing
ver
g g
'rowin influence in directing ;travel
toward the Dominion. Those who
come gladly return and bring their
friends with diem,
C17AnLors STEW ALIT,
Minister of the Interior.
•
o 'Silence mors in Fillrx: Coi: troversy, Dr: Benn . Break
{ Ten -Year , Silence' ,to Reveal. Details of : Nurse "s
' Execution. by Firing'5 uacf
B',ei leu ---The 'dath before St, German
.firing Squad of Edith' Caveh, B,ritlsiz,
World War nilrss wee- debi'ibed or
the first tl[ue"`in ail its dnariiatic .de
tali recently by the^Germac,doctor
wino witnessed her,exeoution tor:help-
,ing war- prisoners tir'eaeape
"A-. brave: ii'tughter of ,a gloat aa-
'ti.on,": the army physician, Dr, :Gott
,frled`Benn; palled Miss Cavell "iii: tell
Sug the story in the newspaper Acht
'lYhr,Abenbiatt.
Ile told how .0he walked un8lneli-
Sngly to the execution",plape, •said she
"was, grid to. die for England, end re-
ceived twelve bullets in heart - and
Bungs:
Ayr,. Benn broke .a ten-year silence.
to help clean up .the controversy that
followed. the .banning by the 73i'ittsh-
government 'ot 'a. motion,'ploture film
purporting to describe Miss Cavell's
•eiceoution. The view was takelhat
the portrayal would reviles had feeI-
ing between .Britons and Germans,
Dr. Bean was- medical officer et
German headquarters iii Brussels"dun
ing-' the tear, a' Ile: attended,`, to ailof''I
'Ojai capaeity, both'the = trial .and
execiition'ef'the British:nurse.. •After
slice7hud fallen before. the' bullets of
the'''firing 'squad it was his ' duty to
examine 'her:' body and . certify'he'r
death.• , ,
•
This is his story: •
—
"I received orders to go by motor
car to an unknown destination known
only to the •"chauffeur. At dawn we
arrived at th'e, shooting range at
Brussels, where a company of in-
fantry lined a path leading to the
wall where two platoons of• twelve
men each—tire firing parties -were
waiting.
"Wire waited for some time, and then
another car arrived in which was a
Belgian engineer -named -Brogue, who
had been sentenced to die for com-
plicity iu the Cavell case.
'Brogue nonchalantly went to a
place indicated, to him and, standing
between two white poles,.' doffed his
cap to th firing squad drawn up be-
fore ]rim. He bade them "Good morn-
ing" and then said:—
"'In the face of death we are coin
rades.'
"The oficerinoharge,of the tiring
party, fearing that the man was go-
ing to make a provocative speech,
interrupted. Brogue then stood sil-
ent and erect.
"Another carin which were Nurse
•
Oave11 and e. priest, `She wan dreeeecl1
in a blue ;tailor-made eostunre, `with
m' small hat Iles face was ; like a
inaplt' Ilci•;;`gait- was- etaggeriirg ow- e
iiia to intiacular intliedintent, but slip
nevertheless• walked without hesita-.
tion toWas'd the place between the
two pales ;whare the, Belgian. stood,
'.`She stopped for•.a moment -to 'tell
tlia' priest:- ; }
•
I,am glad to be dying for Eng
land, Other women, are eaoriflc}ng
more --husbands, brothsrs,;eons.
leave •only my own life 'to, give,'
• "She asked the priest to send a
message firom her to herr; mother and
to her brothers, who ;were serving
With the British. Army in France."
"'The flual,acenes *ere over quickly,
Tine flrg. sQpresented i•mand
trio milinitary juduadge read the veahrdie ct oft
the ocurt Which had found tire.accus-
ed' guilty;: - Both the .Englishwoman
and the Belgian were blindfolded and
each was tier to a pole;
"At a single word of command both
platoons...fired-from a,distance-.of••a- .
couple of yards, Brogue's body sag-
ged ,bpi for• a.few mosiseii:ts the Eng- `
1155 woman `remained upright:' Like -.
the Belgian, however, eba .had been
1011 ed instantaneously; . receiving
;twelve bullets,which had pierced her
hatrt and' lungs,
"It 1's untrue that -she receivtgd the
coup de grace (a finishing shot from
an officer's pistol fired when 'there is
doubt regarding death). •
"I immediately went to the. pole to
which her body was tied and felt her
,pulse. When I found that she was
dead -I closed her eyes.
"I assisted in placing' her in a small
yellow coffin. She was immediately
interred at a place which 'leas been
kept secret,
"I am not attempting to correct the
legend which has grown up around
Nurse Cavell. I want only to tell
what I remember, and remember her
as an active woman who paid for her
deeds as a brave daughter of a great
nation."
Speaking of Miss Cavell's trial, Dr.
Bonn said he heard Miss Cavell ad-
mit that the organization the had
formed to help "the enemy"—the
Allies—had smuggled 300 soldiers and
Belgian civilians across the Dutch
frontier.
Dr. Bonn added that although she
was betrayed by various accomplices
at the trial, Nurse Cavell remained
reserved and calm:`
Canada to Have
Forest Week
Protectibn is Necessary for
Country's Prosperity
Ottawa.—April 22 to April 28 has
been set aside by royal, proclamation
as "Canadian Forest Week," "Our
national income depends on our forest
industries more than on any other
Source except agriculture," declares
the proclamation, which industries are
dependent upon the timber crop, as
are also water powers and irrigation
works and subsoil moisture for agri-
cultural lands.
It also refers to the protection of
forests for game and fur -bearing ani-
mals, and as an attraction to tourists,
and urges that Canadian Forest Weelc
be kept "as an appropriate time for
the citizens of our Dominion to recog-
nize the situation and to give careful
heed to information issued by the sev-
eral forest, authorities and , agencies
in Canada, to the end that all may be
encouraged to a sustained and patri-
otic effort in promoting the conserva-
tion of this valuable resource, and
especially that:
"1. Proper precautions against fire
in the forest shall be demanded of all,
and carelessness or neglect shall in-
volve the fixing of responsibility on
the individual and the application of
the penalties provided by law.
' "2. Woods operations shall be so
conducted as to 1 provide the best con-
ditions for regrowth of valuable spe-
cies of timber,"
•
Bottle Makes
British. Guiana
Bill Passes
Third Reading
Governor, Under Measure,
Has Overriding Powers
in South American
Country
London.—The British Guiana hill
passed its third reading in the House
of Commons this morning; 178 to 70
votes, and is thus assured of becoming
law.
The pleasure igves a new constitu-
tion to our rich tropical sister colony
in South America, as -big as England,
Scotland and Wales, with 300,000 in-
habitants, chiefly Negroes and In-
dians: It abolishes the hitherto exist-
ing dual system of government, under
which .the financial control was di-
vided between the Governor appointed
by Britain and the "Combined Court"
(Legislature), in which the members
elected by a portion of the general
community had a majority over noin-
inated representatives and officials.
It also establishes a new Legisla-
ture in which the elected members are
in a minority and the Governor is
given overriding powers.
This has been bitterly opposed by
the elected members as a retrograde
step, but defended officially en the
ground that an impartial commission
has found the existing system unwork-
able and' unless the British Govern-
ment is able to control the Legislature
as in other crown colonies, it is impos5
sible to raise the loans necessary for
the development of natural resources,
The Undersecretary for Colonial
Affairs, W. G. A. Ormsby -Gore, de-
fending the measaure on the occasion
Long Tripof the third reading, repudiated the
suggestion by Labor that the changea
Letter Carried From Bay of
Biscay 10 Bahamas
London. -Dr. John McNamara of
Holland Road; -Kensington, has just
received from•Ilarold Lowe of Abaco,
Bahamas, a letter which Dry McNa-
mara threw overboard in a bottle when
returning in tike Peninsular and Ori-
ental steamer Nyanza from India 12
years ago. Mr. Lowe writes that the
bottle Was found on the shore of Nine -
jack Pay, three miles from Abaco, and
must have been drifting a number of
years, traveling many thousands of
miles. In the letter which, though
faded, is still legible, was written:
"Whoever may find this and will send
it to the address on the envelope,' giv-
ing particulars as to where it was
found will hear• of nothing to their
advantage or disadvantage. It was.
thrown overboard to the south of the
Bay of Biscayon the night of March
5„ 1916, r We have been attacked .by a
hostile' submarine in the Mediterran-
ean and have escaped: All well Deo
gratias," t
RZr.: McNamara adds: " Psesuinabi y.
the bottle grit' into a ;south -running
current off the. Spanish African coast.
Tlnis current, 'erroneously supposed to
be, a branch of the Gulf Stream, pass-
ee • through the Canary Islands and
joinsthe great equatorial current'
which could earry the bottle thousands
of miles westward and cast it on the
shores of the,sahannae."
,shores of the Bahamas. 1 The 'Ba-
hamaa are 3,00.0 miles' direct from the
Bay of Biscay,.
have been influenced by any financial
interests. Mr. Ormsby -Gore added
that the powers reserved for the Gov-
ernor are to make clear on the face of
any prospectus issued by the crown
agents in the London market for Brit-
ish Guiana that the Colonial Secretary
and the House of Conunons have ulti-
4nate ability to secure the service of
such loans,
ndon L.ii1 Have a
Huge Hockey Rink
Interest- in the Ice Game Has
Spread Even to Tokyo
London—Work has been started on
an ice', rink, 85 by 86 feet, the dimen-
siens exceeding in size the Berlin Ice
Pelaee, en tho Twickenham bank of
the Thames at Richmond, to be com-
pleted In September. A public gar-
den will adjoin the structure.
The project indicates •ting wide-
spread revival of tinso Ice sport in Lon -
'don, Manchester and other cities, hav-
ing large, successful clubs. The new
rime will be open to the public eight
months of. the ,year and will also, be
used. far:cotcerts and flower shows.
The architects report inquiries
about possibilities of erecting similar
arenas to 12 of the British provincial
cities, including Glasgow and New-
castle, as well as The Hegne, Geneva.
and Tokyo.
7.`ihe appearance of Amercan, Cana-
dian dLhockey, and:English � ice 1 oc. y, tennis
will be a feature of the opening at.
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