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London's "Doom" 'weevily untnhabitteblo, and there is no
doubt that this menace can be 'net
y� ' by the-brganiration 'o% chemical units.
Froni l df resembling ire Ay'liting companies,
1 oeniPPad with neutralizing apparatus."
Necessity of Superior British tlo in Aust
Air Force Pointed. Out wla retia
pyduey Bulletin; It is a curious
by Experts paradox that in Britain, where rho
London was "wiped 04r",---theoroti.1 railways are privately owned, their
oa11Y—in a resent attack by the Royal most termldable competitors; the aero
piano and the motor -ear, have been
Air Force, which staged a eour•da r discouraged by the Government from
mimic invasion and defense test, and entering into competition with them:
the question of what to to be learned weereas Aestraifa, which :leas a 'M-
iran such a demonstration of the help- Dena" liability for all its railroads,
elessness ofgreat cities In the "next and is sorry for it, loads the whole
war" raises keen dlacusslon here as
well tis overseas, "High explosives
and gas bombs will be usea freely in
the next conflict," save Brigadier•
General Groves, secretary of the Brit -
/sit Air League, and "it will be the
aim of eaoh side tie terrorize the
'civilian population of the other." The
London Times and -other papers call Wheat Crop Estimated as
for .a bigger, better, and faster air Largest in Canada s
History
Empire in the matter of developing
commereiai aviation.
Moving of Grain
in Full Swing
force that will make an enemy_slow
to attack beeauae of the danger to
linerve centresof Its own homeland. Winnipeg—The rush to move what
e,, Liberal and Labor organs, however, is estimated as the largest wheat
discount the; maneuvres as trope- crop in the history of the Canadian.
ganda. Lloyd George takes occasion 'west is on 10 earnest, with' 2,325,769
to declare that "of all the armaments bushels of grain marketed Tuesday"
thatshould be cut clown, armament of at various -points, The rush is earlier
the alr is the most urgent." than ever bolero,; railway oMclals
British Army exports agree that the said:
capital of the Empire le absolutely et With threshing reported general all
the• mercy of an air attack launched 'over the west, 'cutting virtually corn -
Vora the Continent, because in this pleted be Manitoba, and, more rolling
sham battle in the air at least half' stock and general equipment massed
th'e "enemy" bombers .were effective, at strategic points on the Prairies ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS REPELLING THE RAIDERS
They madeaefty-seven: daylight raids, than ever before, indloations are that EXow an air raid is ilondueted and how antiaircraft guns come to the
in nln of whieh they completely the whole operations of taking oft reseuse was demonstrated bya great mimic war at London.
laid vital points int ruins, retically the crop and marketing it will be
evaded the defense; they thoo
and they It di ' rd time
• made all other sections uninhabitable Cutting is reported to he 75 per
by means of gases. Theoretically, 300 cent, oompletod in Saskatchewan and
fifty per cent. in Alberta.
All Ready to 1P
ect l,.ondon
tons of bombs loaded with gas and
high explosives were dropped in these Interior elevators are swept clean
xaaneuvres, equal, dt is said, to all and ready for the pouring In ofthe
that the Germans dropped on England new grain. Stocks do the Lake head
during the World War, and it is calcu- terminals have been reduced to 4,531,-
won e o aw h
lated that an attack from the coast bushels.
could be accomplished before defend- Reports of wheat yields are favor-
ing airplane squadrons could get out able on the whole and at most Points
of airdromes into fighting altitudes. the grading la high,
Considerable comment In American Rrinnlpeg�',00d harvesting Worth
papers is condensed in rho Baltimore i reported f th th Prairie
Evening Sun's editorial, which says:
"John Smith, taxpayer, long ago
Praises Radium
IL ng Distance
As Cancer C. <re Should
Engineer Tells of
Arctic Conditions
Premier Fergus 'a n Cbl Now Offers
Commends French Chance to Youth
Major Burwash Sends Mee- Writes Letter of Appreciation Democratic Regime Oppor.
sage to. Ottawa Frorn of Course for Ontario tusities Mentioned by
Far North Teachers Speaker
Native Population and Wild THANKS TO QUEBEC CANADA'S INTERESTS
Animal Life to be Quebec—Premier Ferguson of On- Chinese throughout America wore
Studied taste, greatly approeiateo the French advised to return to their homeland
Ottawa—Valuable information am. courses Por' Ontario teachers conduct- now that a democratic regiriue replay-
ed In the Province. of Quebec each Mg the Manchu dynaety es in farce,
yarning the native population of Can- Summer, and is particularly interest- for no Chinese you eau ever become a
ado's Arctic coast between the mouth ed in the medals presented to the policeman here, whereas in China they
of the lliaaltenzte Inver and Hudson teachers this year, so "much so t11at become oteatial presidents or cap -
Bay and wild life oonditfone was op- he has written the following letter tains at industry, said' Dr. Tellyi
tamed by Major L, T. Burwash, ex- to Premien., Taschereau, veleipg his Hsieh.
piaratory engineer of the" North West appreciation, ' I Dr, Telzyi Shieh ebressed the need
Territories and Yukon branch of the "On my return there was shown to of estab'behirug friendly relations be -
Department of ,the Interior during ale of your edale oe 10 the eutborittes tween Nationalistic Chiral fi rm Wier -
trip
me the medals which
by auxiliary schooner to the re enrrously pre- elfin powers and he made a etirect plea
glen around Boothia Peninsula. Word seated to the Ontario teachers Who last evening' for the eo-�openation of
of the successful oompletion of the took the Summer course iu French his hearers in establiohinle friendship,
1,000rmile voyage was contained .in a at Quebec this year.: 'between Onieve aunt Canada. "1 wants.
wireless dispatch received at Ottawa "It is needless to assure you how you all to co-operate whole-heartodtp
from the Hudson's Bay Company's much my department and myself ap- with Me to cement the friendship o1
steamer, Baymaud, while caning at preelate this token of appreciation Canadians for the new cause which is
Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island, and encouragement. Will you kindly spreading through -cut the Republic of
Major Burwash left Ottawa in June oonvey 10 1I15 X-Ionor the Liotutenant Chine
for Bdmouton en route to Aklavik In Governor, my thanks for the medal The possibilities of China as a mar -
the Mackenzie River delta. At that bestowed In his name; to your Mini- kkt foe Can�ad'ian wheat were predict -
Point he took over the Department's ster of Education, Hon. Mr. David to ' ed by the speaker in these words
motor aohooner, Ptarmigan, a 40- the superintendent, Dr, Deluge . and "When we come fa/ea' bo face, all dif-
foot craft which had been brought all the officials of the Department of ferences vanish. East is facing west,
down to that point from Great Slave Public nIstruction, and other persons' and the trade of Canada interests our
Lake. About August 1, he began his for the courtesies and attention eastern epuu'brios. No country in the
trip eastward along the coast, Inspect- shown to those who attended this East will buy more wheat from Can-
ing native settlements and visiting' valuable course of instruction. Let ada, in a few years to come, than
trading posts. and "lioyal Canadian' me thank you personally, as head of China."
v ^ m for ur friendll I CHINA'S CON'rui8(J ONS,
Mounted POltoe detachments, (.the Go can ant, so
On August 31, he arrived at the • Hass in this, as in all other good' What China has •alreadq contributed
trading post and police detachment ofipauses, of :common concern:" Ito the betterment of the world and
Cambridge Bay on the southeastI The Prime Minister of Quebec Is civilization was outlined by the speak -
coast of Victoria Island. Replenishing l also In receipt of a copy of a letter er, who said that 285,000 Chinese had
���� � his euppUes at this point, he con-� of thanks sent by the Ontario teach Participated in the great war. Chime
tined the next day up through Via -I ors to Premier Ferguson in coney- lras also given the world tea, the host
L. Prohibited, 1 ever silk the haat wearing anof -
"== 1 Strait to west ""lac a) yen roni esus M-„-„.�-'�., parol, and rice, the beat.foocL She has
mss Editorial Refers to III- Boothia Peninsula where he wilt ee. sent from the Jesus -Marie convent ¢t
creasing Efficacy of tabltsh hfe winter camp in ici ity f Slllery last month and signed by also cont 'b ted fix tly in the art of
Treatment
Ti
the vicinity, rtt u ea
Twelve Miles Suggested as of the magnetic pole. This winter' eight of the teachers, reads: printing and in the m¢nufactnre of
Limited fol' Future he will travel south by dog team Thanks and Appreciation astronomical instruments; Dr. Tehyi
Hsieh said
Races making investigations around King "At the close of the second Sum- In concluding, the speaker' hoped
Modern Methods Much More William Island and a survey of the, mer ashool in French held in Quebec,
Hopeful Than Former Members of the•Antarlo Government pro'Posod tractor route from Cce,k•i we, the Ontar1a teacb•ors 1n attend that China would now remain united
ri ants strongly disapprove swimmnig "mars•
turn Bay to Wager Bay. anise, wish to express to you our and that peace would" give her a
Expo m
thous” of the dimensions attempted In M¢y Maier Burwash expect
er a repos a from a res ra e s to thanks and appreciation. yhance 1w demonstrate her poseibilr
Provinces and threshing Is on in full London—An editorial in the Times here on Wednesday, on the ground proceed northward on board bbel "To tie and our pupils, French le !ties for development.
swing, according to the weekly crop captioned "Radium and Cancer," re- that beyond a 'certain distance the ptarmigan through rankJIn Strait no longer merely a subject in a text
o -
of Commerl^e Frost affected the creasing efficacy of radium treatment :sport, but an endurance ;test which Lancaster Soun
learned that whenever military nten
stage a sham battle to test the de-
-femme of a city, whether the attack
be by land, by water, or by air, .the
defenses are going to prove inade-
quate. Itis lay convincing him that he
is left practically naked; to his enemies
that John Smith can most easily be
soared into supporting huge military
expenditures.
"So' we here and now make a: gen-
eral prophecy: The next time London
is the"objective of a sham battle, its
defenses will prove. inadequate again."
Nevertheless it is quite generally as-
sumd by' our editorial writers that, as
the Washington Post declares,. the re-
sults of the sham bombardment of
London were ominous and "vindicated
the conetution of exports that that
city—and presumably any other—will
in future be utterly defenseless against
this mods of warfare," The progress
in aviation leads naturally to the con -
elusion that London is not the only
*'peculiarly vulnerable" city, according
to the South Bend Tribune:
"Citizens of the United States have
acme their traditional natural safe-
guards, the Atlantic and the Pacific
•oceans, spanned by planes. The cruis-
ing power of airplanes is increasing
• rapidly, and the theory held only a
few years ago that planes would be
important unless they had warships
accompanying them to serve as fuel
and supply stations is less. forcible.
"The lessons to be learned from the
British Royal Air maneuvers are valu-
able to all governments. The balance
of power may restwithin a generation
with the nations that take a rational
View of aviation."
The Chicago Tribune, which admits
that the airplane and airplane bomb
have been considerably improved since'
the armistice, sees no reason to be-
lieve that these offensive wagons will
not b successfully counte,:ed by im-
proved defensive methods. In the
W9rld War `bombing never "proved a
serious menace to the Allied cause or,
for, that matter, to the German,.
although all the important railroad
centres in western Germany were sub-
eected. to repeated attacks from the
air." `Feriae, we read:
"One reason for the. failure to cause
permanent damage is the inability of
the airplane, moving at high speed, to
hit a mark; as most bombing is done.
at night the difficulty of striking the
.target is considerably augmented. A
more fundamental reason for failure
over citiee Nes in the nature of the
target itself. • A great city Is a collec-
tion of a vast number of buildings. A
bomb which penetrates the roof of one
f eplode within four firmly btfilt
walls. It may do much damage falba
building it. strikes, but the damage
will be strictly limited to that small
area. Cities built of wend might be
considerably more vulnerable from the
air than the masonry cities of `western
Europe, but modern American build-
ings of steer and reinforced concrete
are ;far better able' to resist bombing
than' the older masonry types,
"The possibilities, of destroying a
civillon population' in a rain' of gas
are easily exaggerated: The amount
of 'gee required to' maintain, ay..lethal
cencentratton'.. In an area ae vast as
that of a modern city is ea far greater
,than can be carried by a fleet of air-
planes that the possibility of 'discos-
ing of a civilian populatiou by those
rneehs mei be considered fanciful:
Thr, worst that gas bombs can accom-
plislt'IP Citi tender a Waited area: tem -
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report issued by' the Canadian Bank fere to recent statements on the in -contest can no longer be classedhiahe and Peel Sound and then eastward up book but a Irvin language of the D
Frostsimperils
d to the post at Dun-, minion of Canada Thcee of us who
i
crops slightly in Saskatchewan and and continues; Radium if properly mr eril the health and even the lives s urdas Harbor, Devon Island. Major attended last year oar speak with as -
Alberta, but on the whole excellent Ot, S Chicago
used can be counted upon according of those participating. Premier p
Fer- Burwash hopes to complete his work surance of the aotual classroom value Special Jurv' Reo g
yields aro expected. The report fol- to well-informed opinion, to kill the guson laInclined
A Sad State
about five hours inclined `to consider that 12 and return to Ottawa in the fall of of this course. -I Police Branch "Rotten
lows' cantor cells. Lt is not a new die. miles, t 1 i b t h rre En
1920.
-Manitoba—Harvesting is well ad- covers for as longus 1913 the efficacy
tensed throughout the province. Cut- of radium was disussed but the treat -
ting is about 90 to 95 per cent. com- anent aebieved in those early days
pleted and threshing operations are days was much less than hopeful,
generaL The weather is ideal. The which 2n consequence discounted it
wheat crop promises to be a setas- to some extent.
factory one although in some email "New claims now being made are
areas which suffered from excessive based on modern methods of using
moisture in July, the yields are-' a lit- radium and•of bringing radium into
tie below expectations. Coarse grains oontact with the cancer cells. What
are turning out well with the possible is called 'Surgery of Access" is as ha -
exception of barley In isolated dice 'Portant as proper preparattou of the
trlets where the yields are somewhat needles of which the object, briefly,
below average. Harvest: help Is plenti- "Is to surround the caner with points
ful, of radium so that every part will re-
Saskatrihewan Good harvesting calve a lethal dose, an operation de -
conditions have prevailed. throughout mending a very: 'high degree of skill
the week. Cutting of wheat bas pro -
on the part.of the surgeon who must
ceeded without interruption and it is know where to place the tiny bat -
expected that the bulk of it will be 'teriee so that the cross-fire from thein
done within the next few days, The .will be most effective.
nights have been cold and further "Ifo must know how to remit the
frosts have occurred at many points. areas where batteries are to be placed
Estimates .of ,the amount of frost and also the power of theneedles and
damage, however, vary widely. It ,the period for which they ought to
would seem to be undoubted • that the be employed. '
late wheat and coarse grains goner- "Unhappily, this knowledge 1s not
ally have been quite seriously affect- the only requisite for, without ra-
ed. It is estimated that about 15 dium, nothing can be ecaompliahed
ff
per cent: of the crop has suered. and the medium is lacking In sufdcl-
Very few points estimate that oats ent quantities to meet existing seeds
will produce better than a feed crop,. while the study of cancer is hindered
Little threshing has been done so far, by the same want. Radium, 11 hap -
but operations are expected to begin Pens is nearly everlasting so that a
within a few days: Labor appears. donation of radium is a gift of which
to be sufficient at all points. I only the interest can be spent while
Alberta -Weather excellent for the capital remains intact for many
harvesting and probably 40 per cent.' centuries and will g e wing five's
has been cut. Moderate frosts report- year after ye y after
ed at , cecattered" points and later century."
crops may suffer by lowered grades
and loosened yields. With continu-
ed good weather cutting will be com-
pleted and threshing general in ten
days.
Man Says He Was
Rescu d by Bruin
Algoma. Traper Relates Queer
Experience in Wilderness.
Sault Ste. Marie, nt.—A graphic
talo of how an Algoma bear saved his
life freed the hollow interior "OVa mite
pine stump is related by elrefiington
17. Thomson;.,Algonia trapper, woods-
man and prospector, who has just re-
turned -t'e the Soo from his camp in
the Goulais Bay wilderness, avowing
eternal friendship to the entire bruin
family.
"Miles from camp,"?said Thomson,
"I was trapped by a pack of timber
wolves sad,sought refuge at the top
of an old weather-beaten pine stump
15 feet high and about three feet
through, wt:th,a hollow interior. Dark -
nese wee coming on, and I was dead
tired and soon fell asleep..
")Horning came and I heard a
scratching ,on the' outside of the
plump,- The hole at the top darkened
end'sorne living thing Isoon (Recov-
ered it. was a boar—was backing down.
rho holo, I whipped out my knife, and
when old bruin came within striking
dietanco I Jabbed him In the' flank, and
grabbed hold of Ids fur.
"Wit a cry of pain the bear shot
upwards. In a twinkling I was drawn
too -safety."
Alfred—"In New 'York a man is run
over by a motor car every 20 min-
utes." Albert—"Poor fellow!"
tthi"At Slllary ,one at the finest col '
to COYe'
a charmingan dt-oroua'sly French at Chicago.—Declaring that evidence.
the wa er is e maxmum which
ought to be attempted, and Hon.
Forbes Godfrey declares "they have
got to shorten those races."
Thera is great clanger of swimmers
being injured for life, It is pointed
out by the Minister of Health.
"No swim marathon should be'
longer than 10 miles, for men and six
for women," he said. "Fifteen miles
is far too much of an enduranee test,
too exhaustive, and proves nothing. I
do not want the youth of the province
to take such sport as an example of
the proper kind of athletics to im-
prove their physical condition. I have
known more than one great swimmer
of other years whose heart has 'blown
out' at 50 years of age."
Braes and copper products produced
in Canada in 1927 were valued at $24,-
54,057. This is the highest value ever
recorded for the Canadian industry.
To handle Western Canada's crop
this year the Canadian railways have
dospatohod to key points on the prai-
ries 80,000 box cars and 1,913 locomo-
tives.
Sir -Austin
In Bar uda
Will Later Co to Havana and
Will Make a Brief Stay
There
Havana., Cuba.—Sir Austen Cham-
berlain, Great Britain's secretary of
foreign relations, whose impaired
health caused him to embark on an
ocean voyage, is scheduled bo arrive
at Iiamilton, Bermuda, on Sept. 12,
and here Sept, 16, aboard the Ormoca,
according to an official cable received
at the British consulate here.
It is expected that Sir Austen, Lordly
Chamberlain and two children will
make a stay in Havana for only the
durationpf the ship's stay, going bo
Panama and thence to Saar Francisco
aboard the steamer President Adiame.
Visits at California and another at
Vancouver are planmed prior to em -
'barking at Montreal for the return
'bo London, it was made known at the
British consulate.
In Memory of Arctic Hero
BUST OF AMUNDSEN—"':.c moor V VIKING
rrTile work of pini .HaakonFrolich, Norwegian mean le 'was un•s ed at the Pacific Southwest Tixtiosttion,
Lolig Beach, Calif.
leges In the province we are living in
mosphere.In the dining -room, in the presented showed the Chicago Ponce
dormitories and In the garden, as Department was
well es the classroom, capable French the special election teachers from the city of Quebec:, are gating charges o
always ready to assist us In acqulr- and violence in t
Mg the French language In its Purity I returned its report
and perfection. in true bills,
"It Is our sincere hope thls course,) Those indicted,
welch 1 Instituted d r t in mon and two
vn • c you caro an put
"rotten to the core,".'.
on grand. jury inyesti-
ffraud, intimidations
he April preliminary,
naming 14 persona
including two Police-
your "conspiracy to to
of the University of Toronto, will Personal liberty.
;continue and become more widely The special grand jury was con-
known among the teachers of French veaod August 10 with instructions to
in the Province of Ontario." . investigate elections dating bank to
April 5, 1927. The murder of "Dia-
mond Joe" Esposito in the recent pri-
mary campaign and that of Octavius.
C. Granady on election day were the
chief incidents to occupy the attention
of the grand jury. Both were candi-
dates for ward committeemen.
In its report the grand jury an
flounced it had questioned 24 witness
Also Demand Substitution of es, including bankers, members of the
police force, and politicians.
Native Missionaries for "From the testimony heard and evi-
dence presented," the report stated,
"the utter disregard tor the fulfillment
of thir duties by the police department
is appalling, and there is no question
in the minds of the members of the
jury the police department is rotten
to the core!'
The report urged that corrective
measures in the police department he
taken immediately and suggsted•a re-
vision of the election laws as a means
of curbing vice. '
Joseph Slattery and Edward Curran
were the policemen indicted; Morris
Krakow and Samuel Meyers were the
court balifts named in true bills.
The April primary election cam-
paign filled with bombings,. shootings
and intimidations, brought a demand
for the investigation. The homes' of
Senator Charles S. Deneen and Judge
John A. Swanson, leaders in the -De-
neen-Emerson Republican faction,
were amo$g those bombed.
Kidnappings, eluggings, and shoot-
ings,
hoot
ings, including the murder of Gran-
ady, occurred on election day and
charges of crime and fraud were heard
on all sides following the counting of
ballots. The special grand jury was
summoned as a result.
The report of the investigating
board indicated that more indictments
would be returned lathe,
The Farmer and the World-
Market
Spoctator.g.,9iclot); Flat the yggrrz�j
rapid growth of lndusaryin ail civt•
lined eounirles, apcj of rho orgap1zQQ
polltiaal .power of the toeing,. the el�
balance between industry and agriouir
tura has been tilted unduly against
the farmer, But to restore the equilb
brium is no easy matter, and moral;
Political remedies stem to bo of littlb
use,. even where, as ire ,America, the,
have been applied with a sublime dim
regard of the coat, Probably no nouns
try acting by and for itself can mate t.
ally improve the lot: of the termer& 1
Our advertising man says the gal
who marries a rr"lionaire h:.,e a mile
lien reasons for stir /king.
t tato obstructs were
the competent hands et Mn, Jeannebet charged with "c
Samoan Home
Rulers Decide
on Boycott
White •
Wellington, N.Z.-According to a
despatch from Samoa, the Samoan na-
tive home rule league at a recent
meeting decided toignore he report
of th League of Nations mandate com-
mission and reinstitute a boycott on
shops. There would be no picketing,
however, it was decided.
The meeting .also demanded that
the 1 budon Missionary Society with-
draw all white missionaries and sub-
stitute natives, failing which the
league would establish a "Pan -
Samoan" church.
Tho league, or "Mau," as It Is term-
ed, has been extremely active for the
Past week and several disturbances
have occurred.
Agitation by natives of Samoa,
largely sponsored by the native home
rule league, was considered by the
League's mandates commission last
June, and the commission decided
that most of the blame should be at-
tached to C. F. Nelson, known ag the
"uncrowned King of Samoa," for the
aotivit1es among the natives. The
commission also suggested that great-
er firmness in future was necessary
on the part of the mandatory admiuta-
tratton under the New Zealand Gov-
ernment,
The "Man" has made general com-
plaint against the administration of
native affairs, and whites in the is-
lands complained of the prohobition
of liquor and of extravagance in ad -
minis flatten.
Bumper Potato Crop
Charlottetown, P.B.L—A bumper po-
tato crop throughout Prince Edward
Ieland and the other Maritime Prov-
inces of Canada seems assured. Pota-
toes are one of the chief farm prod-
ucts of this part of the country, They
are of excellent quality and are mar-
keted as far south as Cuba.
The potato crop of Prince Edward
island has in recent,,years been a70l-
aging about 4,000,000 cwt., Nova
Scotia averages over 3,000,000 ewtt
and New Brunswick over 0,000,000
swt.
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