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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-01-17, Page 7Gee ue's Part in Stopping 'War In,Soutb America Told by` rian.d. -Acceptance of Its Advice by Bolivia and Paraguay Re- enforces. Its Prestige. Genevan—Ariotido Piriand's letter to League and the United States for iho proventiou of war. The Bolivia Paraguay incident, therefore, is regarded as afording- additional reason for early ratification of the ICollogg,Pact by all concerned, for if the pact has moral significance in the present circunletanoe, Trow much more weight would it have after ratification: States Recognize League's Authority It is interesting' to note that all through the: excliango gi notes tho Latin-American, atates recognized the authority of the League and their ob- ligation under the Coventuit. M, Deland, while•recoguizing the part the United States and tho Latin-American' states Played, is' naturally proud' of the fact that Bolivia and Paraguay should say that it was la accordance with suggeetlons from the Council that they had recourse to Mho whit's: - flan of the Pan-American Conference. Ile is naturally anxious to make it plain that it was not only the getter ons action of the Pea -American Con- ference that prevented war, but that the League meet be given its full share of creditto the matter. Congratulatory telegrams sent to M. Arland include messages from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Uruguay, tied Mexico. Costa Rica speaks of the prompt, efficient action of the .Longue, while Uruguay r.11udes • in glowing United States, states' which break the terms to the lofty part played by the Kellogg Pact, even at the present League and the prestige which the stage, may expect to find themselves Council gains: from the prevention -of up against joint pressare by the war, members of the Council of the Lsagun •explaiuiug the steps' witiolt he., teak as its acting Preeideut in the Bolivian- learaguanyan dispute reveals how closely M. Brland on his return to Paris, inept in touch with the resziee 1'y tive Governments of the United, States, the Argentine and tho'atiu'Aneeriean members of. the Council iu order to co-ordinate the efforts of all parties who were .working for peace. ],roto tlils it may bo aseumocl that if the crisis luta not boon settled, the Council of the League would 1u -temple pealed to the United States,aua to •trio South American states who aro,znem- bers of the League, to isolate the can- iliot by severing financial and eco- notilie relations 'tvith the quarreli;ig states; For they would have brok•>n not only the Covenant of the League, but ;their moral obligations -to ze- Aminoe war under tee Kellogg Pact, for the signing of this treaty, which conveys tate intention tq .ratify, un- doubtedly implies a moral obligation to observe it. • Effect of Kellogg 'pact • Without pushing the 'argument too far, it is felt here that since the Counoll's efforts to preserve peace. had throughout the approval of the Kabul Air Ex ploit Stirs British Pride Plane Rescues of Foreigners May Have Averted Cost- ' ly War, Military Ex- perts Say also possibly at ah earlier date Ottawa—A-freaky permitting the in - his against Bachai Sagao, who still holds creased diversion of water from Nia- his position 20 miles north of Kabul. Little importance is attached here gara Falls for power development to tine story from India of the disap- Mitoses and for the building of ex- pearance. from Allahabad, where for tensive'remedial works for the preee many years he has been a refugee, of .ervation of the scenic beauty of the Omar I%han, Afghan representative of falls, has been signed by W. L. Mac - the royal family of Ayub Khan, who lrenzie King, Canadian Prime Minis - was defeated by Amanullah's grand- ter;, and William Phillips, United father in 1881. This ,family, though RULER ACTIVE, once e -c ediarly influential as claim - Serious Business For Many Nations ENGLAND'S FOREIGN 118INiSTER IN UNUSUAL POSE Sir Austen Chamberlain vigorously debating a point with Herr Stresemann, M. Briancl and others during the League of Nations' meetings at Lugano, Switzerland. Pact With States On Niagara Has • Historic Interest Treaty Increasing Water Pow- er is First Signed by Uni-, ted States. Minister ants to the Kabul throne, has now London.—The exploit of those mod- been en long exiled that it has lost ern Paladins, the flying officers in the much of its 'prestige., Royal Air Force, who rescued, the for- . Amanullali's problem is. thus nearer eign residents la Kabul 'from the home, and despite the optimistic com- p p perils of the civil war" raging there munlques daily issued' from the AI - over Am -mullah's impetuous reforms, ghan Legation here is not considered has stirred British prids.during the in informed circles by any means yet week just past. More than that, ac- solved. -cording to the military authorities, it has probably, prevented a troublesome order war, which would have been Weeder to Britain:in and lives. x Ymoney In days not long gone the Empire would' have needed to send a -strong expeditionary force • north from India to protect her nationals in Afghanis- tan. Two divisions, it is estimated here, would 'have' been the smallest force' capable of doing the job, for the Military authorities say the 'border tribs near the Khyber Pass would un- doubtedly have risen against invaders falling on their rear—a line of cone munioation strongly held. It would have meant long, hard fighting, with the 'safety of those women 'and chil- dren in the legations' in Kabul always -a matter of doubt. Thus, the advance in aeronadtics has cut the Empire's risks of border wars in the unsettled Orient and Near East. 'Troop -carrying planes are be- ing added in numbers to the small air force stations in Iraq and Egypt.. The days when Chinese Gordon waited vainly :and valiantly in Iihartotim Per relief which arrived' too late are gone, Never again will a small outpost. of Britisir civilization, like that of Luck- z'ow during the Sepoy rebellion, en- dure an agonizing siege till the sound. of bagpipes tells it :the fighting High- landers have arrived at last. 23i'itain's.- flying knights brought French, -German and : Italian women safely from Kabul to Peshawur, there- by writing a fair paragraph in the cur- rent history of European reconcilia- tion. The Italian Charg d'Affaires in London called at the Foreign Office' to express his nation's appreciation of *England's aid.' Amanuliah Busy Reliable information from Afghanis. tan that Amanuliah, partly by repuls- ing an attack made by the rebel Afghan Mullahs Now Neg Hating With "Am .t nullah Move Considered Important in Effort to Restore Peace. With Tribes London,—Refugees from Afghan- istan contieue to. reach India in Brit- ish troop carrier airplanes which have been able, despite four inches of snow, to land and take off in Kabul air- drome, where they have been cordially assisted by the Royal Afghan Air Force. , About 80 women and children in all so far have arrived, 'including the Italian Minister's wife and the famil- ies of Indian, Persian and German businessmen,' who themselvesare maining at their posts, - Kabul itself is now quiet and Aman- ullah is reported to have opened ne- gotiations with recalcitrant mullahs (Muhammadan religious teachers) who regard social reforms as inter - feting with their own traditional authority. This is considered'here as an.. important move, • as the mullahs are still the main 'political force am- ong the tribesmen in revolt. • • Year Opens With Bad Storms Freezing Temperatures Tak- ing Toll of Life in South Europe Paris—Winter storms and freezing Bache,' Sagao upon Kabul, partly by a temperature spread death and damage series of concessions to Mulhamma through France, Italy and in the Medi - den feeling, has for the time being re- terranean recently and the death toll was' high, It was feared that more than 70 persona might have met death in the regions' affected by the gales and bee - gained -at least much of his old ascen- dancy. These concessions ' are varl- ously reported. `^• They are understood definitely to include such steps to orthodoxy as the ,zards that continued to spread• de- closing of girls' schools in Kabul,` also struction'after more than 24 hours ot reversion to the observation of Friday unabated force: instead of Thursday as the ollietal Shipping suffered severely along '���"y�abbath, and the formation of a come the French Channel and Meditorran- ell on which the mullahs (Mplham- can coasts and communications' and madam priests) as well as Birders transportation • were )card hit: ' (hereditary nobles) and maliks (tribal Five deaths occurred in: Franco. chiefs) are to sit. Thebuying off of Snow continued to fall In many see• some of the powerful Shinwarl tribes tions, mon who have been in revolt in East- A report from Madrid said the ern Afgheniston since November is steamship Malakoff foundered off also reported, but the information do Mahon, Minorca Island, and that 27 this case appears to be less depend- of the vessel'a crew were lost. able. Italy was still swept by severe what fs regarded my certain, how- storms and eouth.eru rivers were over - ever, le that communication both by flowing their: banire : in many elaeeg read • and tollograph between Kabul and .and .the Tibet' was skewing 'a steady Kandahar has been completely re- Mae' la Route, stored, and the raising of one man in eight to serve as levies is going On over the area with a view to etrength- ening the forces with which the King hopes , to take the field against the Sbiuwer'it in the opting wheal. the Meow molts in the inolliitele pas!3oa1 "Confound itl" cried a passenger: Who had been tumbled to the pave- ment by a motorbus. "Can't you wait till `I got off?" "Buhl" returned the conductor. "If you ain't oar now, you never will be." States Minister to, Canada. As recommended by the. Interna- tional Niagara Board, the amount of water allowed by the boundary water treaty of 1905, namely, 83,000 cubic feet per second for Canada and 20,000 for the United States, is in- creased for both countries by 10,000 cubic feet: per second - At the same time excavations and submerged' weirs will 'divert some of thewater from the deep channel to i the bared flanks of the Horse Shoe Falls and the GoatShelf and Island insure an unbroken crest line from shore to shore at all seasons. The cost of the remedial work is esti-! mated at $300,000 for Canada sad! 11,450,000' for the United States, with appr•cximately $1,000,9.00 of this lat- ter amount required for the Chip- pewa Grass Island pool changes.. Particular interest attaches to this treaty as be is the first signed per- sonally by the Prime Minister on be- half of the Canadian and British Gov- ernments and the first signedbyMr. Phillips since the appointment of a United States Minister to Ottawa. Virulent Cholera Epidemic aging Half of. Population of Travan- core State, India, Have Perished , Bombay -A virulent cholera, epide- 'sic is raging in Travancore -state, end 662 death .occurred duringthe last week in December• In many families,all the adult mem- bers were stricken, leaving the chil- dren deetitute. During the past four -months, 7;880 have died froth the disease among 14,- 000 whoswere 4000'who"were sticken. Colonel Lawrence Ordered Arrested y Afghan an `Leaders tics "Arch Spy of World" Seen Behind Revolt Against Kabul PRETENDERESCAPES Al'iahabad• India.—Afghan author, it:zs have ordered the arrest of Gd. Thomas E. Lawrence, famous British' adventurer and army officer, on the belief that he has' been assisting rebels in the pr'esent:uprising to cross the frontier, according to advicesre- ceivece here. • Lawrexce, known as "Lawrence of Arabia," because of his wartime ad- ventures in the struggle to drive the Turks and Germans out of that .pen- insula, was described as "the arch spy of the world." Photographs, supposed to be of Lawrence, were distributed among' Afghan army commanders. It was - reported from Delhi that rumors were current concerning plans fora fresh assault on Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, which was success- fully defended recently by govern- ment troops when insurgents attack- ed. The rebel tribesmen revolted against King Amanullah's reform ,laws. The brigand leader, Bachhakao,'was said to be collecting a fresh force of insurgents' for a march on Kabul, The 'insurgents were reported better arm- ed than the government troops. • TELEGRAPH LINE CUT Apparently the situation had taken a serious turn. The. Quetta telegraph line had beencut and only wireless. communication' with Kabul remained. Tho escape of Mohammed Omar Khan, aspirant for the throne of Afghanistan, from Allahabad added to the complexity of the situation. Omar Khan had been retained here by British authorities. Sir Austen Chamberlain "Traver" in the Fortnightly Review (London): Since the Locarno Treaty no longer considers himself a plodding diplomat, but a Bismarck impatient of advice. Thfs attitude is encour- aged by the French; who are able to inspire him with their own policy, knowing well that his obstinacy will he has given the ,impression that he prevent him from weakening. Classics Urged on For Recreation Australian Farms New Zealander Gives Son. Classical Education fir "Good Company" Perth, Aust.—Prof. R. S. Conway, president of the Classical Association of Great Britain and Hulme professor of Latin in the Victoria University, Manchester, Eng., has been advocat- ing very strongly the teaching of Latin in the higher schpols through- out Australasia. Professor Conway says that when he was.en New Zealand a prosperous farmer said to hint: "l have given my son a sound 'classical education, He intends to become a farmer, and as tor ^'r.a greater part of eaclx day he will be alone.I want him to be in good company. He deplores the fact. that in tevo of the big public schools in Victoria Latin is not taught at all. Great' attention was being given there to the teaching of French,. which was of very little use in Aus- tralia. "Nothing but the study of a dead language can," he declares, "free the modern child from the slavery to mere words and formulas. Many French words may be learned without the child's ever having the slightest knowledge of the things for which the words stand, and the baffled state of ignorance thus occasioned often re- mains for a lifetime. French is only of very .occasional use to the average man .whereas- Latin is of vital con- sequence to him every hour of the day because throe -quarters of the English tongue has been derived from the Lathe" The growth of classical studies in England during the last half -century was, he added,.amazing. Where as in 1880 there was only one English peri- odical devoted to °lassies ane clas- eical' research, to -day there were six journals of that character. Canon Tollingtou tells of a lady who asked one of her domestics, after the latter had returned from church, what the preacher had said. "Well, ma'am," was the reply, "I can't tell you all he said, but he did say that hell is not what it used to be." "Cornet players," says a prominent physician, "are seldom affected by lung troubles." We feel confident, however, that there is some special punishment reserved for them else- where. - At Mercy of Seas seeeetteesete ..:, eteeliseeee ABANDONED TO HER FATE seen Watching at Roches' Point Queenstown, Ireland, waiting to give tee sigua Lone sentinel is a n w g Q house ohould the Liner Celtic „break up, to the light - Large Casting Job 1 Canada and Hoover For C.N.RO Engines n ines 1iBefore lYir.. Hoover settles deal to Itis administrative dutloo in Washing Work Involves Handling of ton Ili Marcie" write the Vanaonvor SA,OQO Pounds in Cask Sun, ono or the meet inlnsntial Pens Payers of the Dominion "lie slsouid Steel also visit Canada," There can be 0e Kingston, Ont, --The largest cast- doubt that time wards bespeak the hog job in the world will be handled gracious and irietidy esteetn, of the shortly when the framework for the Canadian people for iho 'Gaited States gra 'of the five new Canadian Nation- and for its,Presidetat.eleet, who has al Raihvay's paseenger and freight been se premettand profitably de- loconlotives will eonto front the shops. voting his also to the fiitpravnt there of These laeoulotives will be made at the Pan-American redone'', But there is plant of the, Canadian Locomotive more than friendly sentiment which 'melte at Kingston, and will be the actuates the Canadian lane's in Pr'''. last of an order .of 80 locomotives of '.'ening its ii feeeiie to Area, itelele various types, which that company is 1,.cre is behind flair invitattan the desire to better .the economic rola- Thefor the National y tem. ' tionsltlps' between Canada and aloe The order for 80 been olives', ° United Satter and the wish. that the made up of 10 switch engines of the whole situation, from trade harriers to 4800 type, one[ fi15 steamve ,engines of the international waterways, could receive 4800 type, one fire ong,•ines of thea first-ltand°study 111 Mr' Iloover•bo- Northern type, which kava heti sFe G t e 'hs takes oftice: cially designed by Canadian National Unless the pressing tasks whioh engineers and have the adiiitianal ad await. the P,resident•elect upon itis re - vantage of being convertible for both turn from' South America 'buil COM' fast passenger and freight traffic, It mend every moment of iris time be» is in casting the frame, cradle, cross fore inlxuguration, Mr, hoover would ties and cylinders that a new depar•- do well to nisei this invitation to ex- ture is being made in the industrial tend his itiaerars' northward, : Can - works, and one which industrial en- gineers believe, will revolutionize not oda is a neighbor ot growing import- only foundry equipment but also its once, and this importance can scarce - allied industries. ly be overestimated or overapPreciat- The casting job is one which lit- ed. Since its confederation, the Do - wolves the handling of approximately minion's population has increased 90,000 pounds of cast steel, and in- from 3,000,000 to nearly 10,000,000. eludes the entire main and funilainer- Nature has generously endowed Can- tal' structure -of one of the titanic oda with water -Power resoeroes steam engines .of today, which, with .�r,ti•ing the past decade that to -day Canada stands which It has so developed third among the nationsin this field. its per capita wealth of $2406 is esti- mated as second onlyto that of the United States and Great Britain. In Volume of trade Canada is fifth, and its per capita balance of a year ago was unsurpassed. Todate the United Status has been the largest recipient of Canada's rapidly expanding wealth. The com- paratively small' Dominion population is the best ,customer ot the United States, buying approximately $850,- 000,000 wprth of manufactured goods, and while Canada's trade was declin- ing in other important' points of the world, it increased with the United States $53,000,000 for 1927-1928. As Mr. Hoover well knows, the continu- ed growth of commerce between the United States. and Canada is basically contingent upon the sustained and in- creasing purchasing power of Canada, thereby building up the United States' nearest market. Canada, possessing valuable raw materials on which im- porters in the United States might wisely draw, is able to export but $476,000,000 to the United 'States. A roes: trade agreement agr ement which would improve the commerce of both nations is, therefore, the subject to- ward which Canadian industry is rightly desirous that Mr. Hoover should turn his attention. The highest stand of political con- fidence prevails between Canada and the United States, and the [highest standard of commercial intercourse should be • attainable. — Christian Science Monitor. tender, has a length *1 mere than 92 feet and carries a weight of not less than 320 tons. • Channel Tunnel Topic Is Revived Chances of. Anglo-French Un- dertaking Seem Brighter. London.—The prospects for a tun- nel under the English Channel were considerably brightens y e adherence to -the idea of such. prom-1 inent then as Lord Sydenham„ Baron d"Erlanger and Sir • William Bull, Lord Sydenham states that' he intends strengthening the forthcoming action' in the' Commons by endeavoring to get; the Lords to discuss the matter also, and he bases his advocacy of the pro- posed tinned on the argument that the Locarno and Kellogg pacts in existence, some faith should he shown in them despite the advice of military; experts. Moreover, as a fortifications expert, he declares it would be a simple mat- ter to blow up the tunnel in the event of a threatened invasion from the continent of Europe. Baron d'' . r1 n� er looks to benefit' E a g the ferro-concrete and steel trades, while'; Sir William Bull thinks "there has never been so good a psycholog- ical opportunity as,the present one." Each of the three men estimates that the cost of constructing the tun- nel would be in the neighborhood of $160,000,000 and.that the gigantic task would' take from four to six: years,. employing at least 4,000 men, Coincident with this agitation, the Southern Railway announces it will reduce in the spring the: time of the Dover -Calais crossing by 30 minutes. d b th New Value to Brazil's Wastes Explorer Finds Vast Plains of Rich Land on the Border of Brazil and Dutch Guiana Sao Paulo. -General Candido Rondon has penetrated into the unexplored region of Northern Brazil along the Dutch Guiana border. The Federal Secretary .of Agricul- ture in Rio de Janiero has received a telegram from General Rondon,.\vbo, states that he has "reached the fron- tier and has discovered vast plains of rich pasturage. These plains occupy almost all of the northern plateau, perhaps exceeding 15,000 square miles. General Candido Rondon is at pres- ent on his second trip of exploration to the comparatively unknown north- ern frontier of Brazil. He has a party with him, including a motion picture photogrhpher: It is reported that ono aim of his work is to survey this section of Brazil's boundary, It has been stated that his survey is purely a technical undertaking, as there are no disputes between Brazil and her northern neighbors. The leader of this work, General Rondon, is the Brazilian army officer who was chosen to accompany Theo- dore Roosevelt as a guide, when the latter made his voyage down the River of Doubt. The King's Recovery New York Times: This modern "Sailor King" .has struggled against odds back to lite, back., to his own people, who, though they live as did the Phoenicians "in the wash of the waves," "the outermost of men," are, as *they, very "dear to the gods" and help mightily to hold up the pillars of the earth. Tris progress toward nem- plete recovery has made a 'happier Christmas not only far leis own people butfor all the World, 'and warrants the hope that he may come forth, as did Ulysses from his sufferings, "greater and more nighty to behold:' New Industry F t►ir England Kent Termed Rich Oil Field As British Prepare to Bore Hythe England, -01l fields richer than those in America are reported to have been found in Kent, the garde, of England, and application has been made to the Home Office for permis- sion to start boring on unused gov- ernment -owner ground at this town. The Monne Office has stated that it . is "considering" the application: ,and es soon as a lease isgranted work win be started that may change. Hythe from a sleepy Old World village to a blooming oil centre. "There is no 'question that flowing oil can be tapped if a bore' is sunk on this land at Hythe," said a partner in a London firm of foreign exchange brokers, who has applied to the War Office for a lease of the; land adorn- ing the ranges of the Royal School of Musketry on the outskires of the town, so well known to many Can- adian war veterans. The oil is said to exist at approwi-. mately 1,000 feet below the surface. Its volume can only be ascertained by a test, but the promoters are con- fident that it is enormous, Empire Buying Toast Anglican Daily Times (Ips- wich): The efforts that have been made for some time past to induce the British public to buy Empire fruit, and particularly the dried fruits, from Australia, have apparently excited some jealousy on the part of import- ers of such goods from foreign sources . The campaign in favor of Em- pire fruits . has apparently been effective in convincing British housewives, who do most of the buy - tug of such things, that it is good policy to support the enterprises of sons of the Empire In this way. A large number of 'patriotic tradosnton have assisted in upholding the cause of reciprocity with Australln, whose people are amongst the best eastern. err, of Groat Britaln. Let the 1929 registration plates re- gister your New Year resolution to "Drive Carefully,", Thio resolution will make Ontario roads safe for all,