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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-05-16, Page 7ting tltenitall,beievr lite water -line:!' I �A Ruin Ruane ° roughly estimate, Witt about sixty pr a seventy shote ettntck :the vessel, �11� Enx�te �.ligla� "laitrhlg ail'this tithe ,the wen hap In t 1 raring closer and oioeo-r with their tido, cutting through kite eahin house, tkronglt the or in the cabin and around myself and my men gathered aft. None of my men was cuticle ex - cent lty splintO1'e, which were , flying all reunii; "The engineer repotted to then that the water was (Weir :tile engine - room Noor and that the vessel appear• ed to be settling Own, I immediate- ly gave orders to stop the engines and clear away the dories, witicit ,although they were of no use, would . be some- thing for fay men to cling to in the heavy sea. sy the time my boats lead been put over the side, which was, roughly, ten minutes, the yes - eel's forward decks were level with the water, '"I` told my men t0 Jump into the water and cling to tate dories and throw overboardanythitng. that would help float them. T believe I was the last to Jump from the ship, My tow • was then about twenty feet under water and her stern about ten feet in the air and she was beginning to dive., 'We were -a11 taken on board the _ cutters, just as we jumped, from the vessel, some of us without any more clothing than a shirt and trousers. The People on board ,the outtara treat- ed us very well and gave us dry cloth - nig and allowed us to remain on deck during the day. To my surprise, on going below atter. supper, Ir was told that I would have', to submit 10 leg, Irons. I remarked to the captain that I {lid not .consider that I was a prisoner of war and had no intention of..doing anything. rash.' But he as - Mired 'me that it was his orders and,, as huh, I told hini that:0 could only submit to force. Sinking of the '-I'nn Alone"' Makes "Front Page" Copy But No Law Abiding Canadian Can Take Situation Seriously A k.AWYER TANGLE ' Sunk by guuflre from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter , Dexter on March 22, some 200 miles • from the American ,coast, .the Canadian rntn-runutug schooner I'ut, Alone nits raisedinter; eating quostiona of interuatiottal law and comity,'; It is a matter of tradi- tion, others remind us, that the sink- ing of either a British or an Ameri- nut ship on. the high seas is a rather ;pencils business: "We went to war with Great, Britain' once on that is= one, and nine entered the. World War against Germany on that issue,'" -re, marks the New York Telegram. While en this instance ,there is tie talk of war, U.S. papers.generally agree that the sinking of the •.I'm Alone, . with the drowning :'of, one of her crow, Wings aharpiy'to the fore certain atnsettled questions of Melte' at sea, and emphasizes afresh the '.needfor clarifying and refitting interntitional maritime law. A typical .American 'comment is: that of the Philadelphia Inpuirer when it says: 'The'' matter is one for friendly adjudtcatioh, and ' neither. government has any reason tor' getting into, a bitter dispute over rights." As , the Boston Trausorittt points not, "this is apparently one of 'Chose borderline oases .•-where it is easy for ooth_palties. to think them- polves in :be right." The case of the •Canadian 'rum -runner, declares Sena- tor Thomas J. Walsh of •11Iontana, 'presents a controversy which, should an amicable solution not be' recoiled by representatives o; the nations con• .cernee, la •particularly appropriate for adjudication by the World Court" The Story In Short Before dawn . on the morning of Wednesday, Alarch' 20,' the inn Alone, -carrying, according to • Captain. Ran- . sider it a most cowardly 'action • to dall's own statement, "2;800.cases of blow my boat to-nieces'witk a gale 'assorted 'itquors;' drepted anclter off of wind blowing and a. heavy sea ion- the'Louisiena coast; in the neighbor ning: when any .•nlau' but a strong - hood :'Of'Trinity Shoals. ', The.so,toon- swimmer would not be expected'to er's Position ,says the .captain,' was life. 4`about fourteen and one-half to fifteen The Coast Guard Statement miles offshore." But Capt. A. L. Gamble, commander. of the - Coast t a •Guard `gorses of the Gulf, states that smuggler and . had been engaged ged In th'e .position was less titan twelve smuggling liquor into the United miles from the coast. Shortly after daybreak the crew of the I'm Alone saw the Coast Guard cutter. Walcott approaching. and immediately hove up ,anchor and made for the open sea. When called upon by the Walcott to heave to for boarding and examina- tion ,the sohooner refused to stop, Cap- lain Randeli's contention being that he was on the 'high seas, outside, of treaty waters,and that therefore the Coast. Guard cutter had no purisdie- tied over Lim. For a full day -the I'm Alone'eontinued its course toward the Mexican .coast, :with•the Walcott In pursuit. Then the schooner }cove to and permitted the, commanding of- ficer of the cutter to come aboard smarmed, but refused to submit tp an inspection. The cutter's commander returned to his -ship, and the pursuit continued' throughout Thursday.' On the morning of Frtn ty, March 22, an- other'Coast Guard patrol, the Dexter,' summoned by radio, joined the chase. ;The I'M Alone, signaled to stop or be sunk, continued .on her course, and the Dexter sank, her with shells from a three -pounder. The crew of: the schooner jumped . into the water, which -was lashed into heavy seas by a gale. With the exception of one man, who drowned, they were resou- nd by the Coast Guard boats. The survivors were taken in irons to New 'Orleans. Skipper a War Hero Captain Randell, a veteran of the World War, who won the. Distinguish- ed Servicer Cross ,and the Croix de •Guerre while serving as a Lieutenant Commander to the British Navy, de- clares that. "there was no more cow- .ardly act since the operations of the German submarines than this act of shooting my ship from -under me." He gives this vivid description of the actual sinking: "When the second nutter came up, we recognized her as tate Dexter, She, 'after a conference with the Walcott, came up flying the signals: 'Heave to or Int fire at you.' I replied by Aetna pLore and megaphone„ that 0 did not consider that he had any jurisdiction over me or my Ship on the high seas, and that he could fire if he wished. He then commenced to fire shell after shell, first to my rigging and sails and then opened fire from the bridge with sever a1' quick -firing' rifles, "After'.about twenty shells had been area, several of,, willeh hit the ship in various places, I semaphored' to .liitn,,aftor he had caked to mo and again said, 'Now, will you •heave to?' that he might fire and sink my ship, but I refused to heave to. He opened fire again' ,both \visit t•iffes and guns, "After that. we remained, in custody down below until yesterday,. Satur- day, when we were allewel to come on deck; and we were kept in irons tmw this morning,'w•heri we arrived' 'alongside tate dock in New Orleans. "I do not wish to lay any blame en the, captains of the cutters tor slut:jug, my ship, as theyassured me -that the',, were 'acting under orders, but •I con - "I'm Alone was a notorious liquor States for ;nearly five years, The vessel was registered at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, by the I'm Alone Stip ping Company. .. "On February 2.thte I'm Alone clear- -ed. from Belize, British. Honduras, for Nassau, Bahamas, with liquor, and on February -8 was found by the Goast Guard oif the coast of Louisiana, She returned to Belize on AIarch 6, 1n bal- last, having' obviously succeeded in landing her cargo in the United States. She never arrived at Nassau. On March 12 she again cleared from Be- lize, elize, with liquor .for Hamilton, Ber- muda. "On March 20 the Coast Guard patrol boat Walcott picked up the I'm Alone, within twelve miles of the Louisiana coast, the vessel thus be- ing some 500 miles off her course for Bermuda. The Walcott called upon the smuggler to heave to for board- ing and examination ,as authorized by the United States Tariff Act. The order of the United States vessel was refused, whereupon the Walcott fired across the bow of the I'm Alone, hail- ed the vessel, .and wxs defied by her master., The Walcott then fired throughntlte smuggler's sails and: rig- ging, but the Walcott could not stop the I'm Alone because the gun Jam- med, '_ • "The Tm Alone fled, being ,eon- tiuuously pursued by the Walcott, and by the Coast Guard patrol boat Den - ter, which joined in the chase. • "The Dexter overhauled the 'I'm! Alone on the morning of March 22, the Walcott also being close up. The master of the I'm Alone was told to heave to. He .refused, saying that he would be sunk. first. The Dex- ter megaphoned to the I'm Alone that he wouldhave to sink her, but he first fired warning shots ahead, which the smuggler did net heed. The Dexter then' fired tlirougl} the rigging, but still the smuggler refased to stop. The master of the 'I'm Alone had a pistol and had waved it in a threaten- ing manner.Finally the Dexter was compelled to Mitre a number of shots into the smuggler's hull, and the vee-, sel sank. The Coast G.tard rescued all the I'm Alone's crew except one man, who was drowned. The Coast :Guard man worked for two and a halt hours trying to resuscitate him. "From the time when this notorious rum smuggler hefted .a.vessel of the United States, within tour leagues of our coast, there wns a continuous pur- suit precisely in accordance with this wolf -known doctrine of international law, until the vessel was overtaken and again defied the atttitority of the United, States, Under this doctrine Where Wealthy Man Restores Romance on the Sea AMERICAN' BUYS ALMOST EXTINCT CLIPPER SHIP FOR. SOUTH SEA TRIP Seven Sims, one of the last of the full-rigged clipper ships, formerly Swedish training ship, will be equipped with auxiliary eugines, after which her new owner, Inglis 112', Uppercu, will make a south sea oruise during the summer./ thorized by our law, niters v'onld seem to be,no.other course then to compel compliance With American law:" a Press Views The Canadian and British, Govern- ments, according to_Aiber't W. roc in the Washington -Post, also intend, to ratite. "a hroad gage question' of na- tional affront" Says Mr.. Fox: "The .United States will be called h i ish-and Cana- dian upon -to ' inform the Blt dian' Governments whether it Is Amol,•ica't intention to claim the right under any circumstances to sink British ships by gun -flee on the high seas, pint leg irons ou the ofileer and manacles on•tite crew, and carry th-eao for trial to an - American port 250 miles distant.'" '.T r . Mail and Em • 'The o nate i/e sees u p 86111'01111'g !Ironic in such "high -band edness" on 'the pai"t•of a nation "which has jest been malting. itself conspicu- ' ons es •tlte•asserter-of the freedom of` the.seas."- ,Sensible-peoPlein Canaan; however, 11110lcs the'•Windsor Border Cities•Star, "are rather disgusted with all the fuss being' made in diplomatic circles overthespiking of a,,British rum-onuner by United States Coast Guards." And in the Toronto Globe we read.. cutting my rigging adrift and elle,, the American elite •:slorte -was con- after shell plunged into the ship clemned by tlle'British Columbia Ad- tbt•ouh our butwarice, meshing both miralty Court in 1925, the decision.be- inty bitiwarks to pieces, and one shell ing upheld by the Supreme Court of went Tato tate side of the ship. Canada, The World Act of 1922. "Ho again called to lee 'Will you states: heave ton- I replied again in the nega- tive. Ole then commenced firing, smashing our Ooreboom, firing through our mainmast and eltell after Otto United Status, refuses to stop for eitell carte on board smashing oiir boarding by a United StatesaGoverti• wtttci0P/sr engine, and. onyasioftally hit -,meat vessel, said boarding being au' "'If a vessel rogisteued under the laws of a friendly dation, and with a long record of violating tiro laws of "No one on this side of the lino -will willingly tolerate 'the flouting of in- ternational laws by the United States or any other nation. At the same time it can not be a matter for grati- fication to decent people of the Brit- ish Empire that near -piratical crews of bold lawbreakers continue to use th eBrittsh flag as a cloak for their own nefarious operations." How. England feels about the sink- ing is shown in an Evening Standard editorial, as cabled to the New York World: "American opinion cries: 'Why should; our -Prohibition fanatics use shot and shell on this floating saloon to provoke mixed grins and wrath in the outer world?' To which -British opinion replier, 'If your. facts are right, you have a legal case, and we can't parade our injured. dignity, over a rum -runnel? So both sides are doing their utmost to• be friendly be- cause shote were 'fired and blood un- fortunately spilt." , Characteristic of the dispassionate tone of the American prase' in discuss- ing the incident is the following edi- torial comment"1u the, Newark Neil's: British- interest in the smiting of the rum-runned I'ni Alone follows Madras Official 1� Entertains Tiger Finds Animal, Under His Table at Din er. Time Atadi'as,' Indta.—Although A. ,Winn bush, Conservator of Forests `in the' Madras district,. 'regarded. as a mere' incident ithe i n ,routine of his day's t ys work", to discover a tigress under one's table might (tome as a -shock to more urban people. 'As described in a magazine called the "Indian Forest. Ttanger," the "incident" was as fol- lows One evening 'at sunset as Wimbush and • some of his' party . were taking their-batba, it villager•knooked•en tile door ttn'l . advised vlrinibush that "a large -striped. Minitelhad just jumped o:1 the verandah." ' Wimbush leisurely finished his absolutions finder the 1m• pression that someone had prohakly seen a large dog jump. • However' once dressed, he decided to investigate. There. Was no animal on the. verandah,. So he •strolled into the sitting room and was "interested'' to see a full-sized tigress' seated 'coni Portably under a table on which an oil lamp was burning, Ole backed out quietly closing the door and ran for bis rifle at the same time calling for 'assistance. Retut'n- ing he opened the door a. oracle and fired, - Tile next few moments, even by Wintbush's own confession, were not exactly dull. The tigress Jumped' rap knocking over' the table and tete lamp which by good luckhappened to be extinguished by the fall. Wimbush slammed the door shut, and for the next minute or so could hear the fur- niture being banged around' the room in lively fashion. Then all was quiet. 1GTimbush, 1»' now accompanied by several companions, peeked through. the keyliole. The tigress was nowhere in sight. A door on the opposite side of the room offered another field 'of view, so they went around and. -tried peening through that. The reason they had not been able to see the ti- gress from the first Itoor was that It was crouched at the foot of the door waiting to spring the moment it should have opened, - Althotigh the tigress could be seen from the second door her position was such that it was impossible to get a shot at her. A council of war was held with the result that a ladder was se- cured and a hole made in the thatched roof .of the dwelling, Through this a •rifle was poked and the daring tigress was given her coupe de grace. How To Be 100 London Sunday Express (Ind. Cons.): When a man ,becomes 100 ,years of age ,110 .is usually_ interviewed, by re- porters, and tliialn, e?11�";`•iaaoe,avail• ably come bacic'''tti'itlt tiiatthe centenarian ore s•fiis-�,� g a e>,e h r to drinkor teetotahcit`tin<swr'krlsing or much sleep, to smoking; or"non- smoking.. The truth ie. that healthy old men Bever think about their health. If you wish to keep out of. the grave put your health out•of your mind.; r s0 The Channel Tunnel Spectator (London) : When the tun-: ue1 has been built the military and naval objections of -to-day will be laughed at, as we now laugh at the former objections to 'iron ships, and broechloading guns, and the railways from Portsmouth and Dover, and cables, ancr a great many other things. It has been said that a new and. bold proposal goes through three stages. First -people say that it is impossible. Next they say that it is.coutrary to Scripture. Lastly (when the plan has succeeded) they say, "I told you so." New - West Offers slavery Lingers Enormous Riches in Lands of East Rapid Development Reviewed Persia Takes the Lead in By J, M. Ilnrie ofEdmontoan ' A review of the outlook inthe neW fortilwest which is steadily opening Slavery, which still exists 34,211a0 up as the frontiers of Weetere Gan- Aalatle and ,African countries, brae ada are •puslied farther northward, boon abolished Uy the 'Hallie, the . Persian National Assembly, Ths. wns given recently by John M. Imrlo, Majiis acted on the appeal of the managing director of the Edmonton Persian people, many of whom object• Jourus,i. This new northwest Ile Oti' to this aacient cuetam, 01 Is hoped Pointed out, is new in itsgeograpliical that the action of the Maitrl will ins fluence otherOriental countries to de away with 'slavery. Inland China' with its huge popular Non, has perhaps the largest number of slaves in any country, In china many of the slaves are girIa who were "adopted" when very young and trained in household duties. Slave Marts are said'' to do a thriving bean a0sa in some of the more inaoeeseibte Parte of China, and it is estimated that that country has 2,000,000 eleven, Of the slaves in- Arabia, s majority were born itt bondage and they. re• gard themselves as better than the ordinary tribesmen. They are : found In the household of some emir or tribal chief, and are well fed and pre tented. In the great desert distrlefe of the Arabian Peninsula almost every household of any pretension has lt4 slaves, and in aome cases they follow the Professions of their masters, often rising to .positions of honor and dle Unction. • SIaves that ens fyund is Hasa, Iiowelt and Osman, the Arabian provinces on the Persian ,Gulf, are the negroes brought from Africa b7 Arab traders before the World War, Arrangement has been made with the King of ,the Hejaz whereby slave% sold in Arabia have a right of sancta- ary with, the European consuls al .Teddah, Gone are the days when Morocco, Tunis and Algiers were slave marts, Clot: only for negroes but for Circan eian and Georgian !mantles. .Tile famous slave trade of. the Barbary Coast is ca' thing of the past, and, although there is still some slave hurling, the buying and selling of ha' man property' 15 frowned upon, The .French Government has shown din• approval of the slaVe Mertes though slaves aro bought on the oaaet is the Northern African desert. In Entre, m the Libyan = Desert blacks are smuggled in from Sudan and sold for largo slime. The Tuaregs, an adven- turous, warlike' people, obtain their ' slaves from the Southern Sahara, but the slave raids and slave caravans are growing fewer in these parts. Slavery is now disappearing in the Sudan, and it is only in the remota acting in thin new north-west of Can- parts that :it:still exists. The section Which is now the. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was the area for slave trafdo for hundreds of years, and 11 was from here that the giant blacks were, procured as guardians of the harems. The great surviving stronghold of slavery in Africa is Ethiopia, whtch lies 'southeast of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The traffic is so great and FORESIGHT "Pap you bought sister 'a piano, can't you buy me a season pass to the baseball?" "Well, son, I don't know about a Mass for the season." "Well, it will be somewhere for me to go every day white she's practic- ing." When the "Silent Service" Speaks it Roars Abolishing Human Bond- age and Other' Lands Discourage It dimensions, new in the variety' and extent of its known wealth ;in the character and number of vooatienal opportunities, distinctive types of men. and women, and in its reactive ef- fect upon Canada and, Canadians,. "Premier Bracken," he said, "has predicted that by 1933, Manitoba's mineral production • will exceed in'val- ue its wheat crop. In Saakntchewan, a large mineral development Is now under way in the western section of the Orlin Flon area and engineers and, prospectors are flocking to halt a dozen districts in tite far north of that province where recent. discoveries and known geological formations give promise of great mineral wealth. Al- berta with 14 per cent. of the world's coal reserves, is presently running neck to neck with Nova SCotia.ini oat' production, and this' summer itspor- tion of the pre -Cambrian Shield will be prospected by a government engin- eering party. Ana' to the stillfar- titernorth—to Chesterfield Inlet and the Barren Lands of Keewatin, to Great .Slave Lake. and the Nahanni country of the Mackenzie district otlt-: er groups of prospectors are flocking, to -day seeking to wrest from -Mother Earth her secrets'of mineral deposits. Hydro Development - "Nor are tate mew productive ele-, meats in Canada's mid -west ' confined to minerals. Hydro development has already taken place at many points anti is in early prospect , at many, more, One newsprint industry, recent- •ly, established ' in Manitoba lin the forerunner. of others. + `Alberta has quickly jumped into first place an an. oil producerand new wells: are coming• in so fast as to,foreshado-rt'a large 0i1 industry there. . In teach of the prairie cities there is a new indus- trial situation, spirit and oittltiok bas- ed. 1>000 a new westward movement of industry. And in the great Peace River country a new rush of settlers is steadily pushing farther north the boundaries of profitable agriculture. "It is on a magnificent scale. that our great railways are planning and ails: It reflects a breadth of' vision, a bigness of conception, and a 'cour- age in action that ars reminiscent of an early synchronization of these same qualities in the original con, etruction of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way across the western plains aad mountains. "As to the Peace River country, the pre -Cambrian Shield tbat is the coat- slaves are so plentiful -and cheap that. mon source of mineral wealth from even the servants have their own per- Quedec to Saskatchewan covers only sonar attendants, The Ring, Ras Tee- the northeaatern aethe'north-eastern cbrner of Alberta. But the great agricultural belt that stretches in an ever widening band across Manitoba and SSaslcatchewan broadens sharply in a northerly di- rection after crossing the Alberta boundary and contiuu's up to and be- yond the northern boundary- of that province. This gives to Alberta its great Peace River country side by side with its portion of the pre -Cambrian Shell. "Only those who . have visited the far away 'stretches of the Peace can have any adequate conception of the extent and possibilities of its water- shed. Climatic conditions and fertili= ity of soil have combined to make title one 00 the most productive areas in Western Canada. "The `suit -case homesteader,' a fea- ture of all -pioneer distrita, has al- most disappeared. The farmers of the Peace River country to -day are per- manent settlers, developing a prosper- ous and stabilized agriculture. - "New towns are spriuging into be, fug and older ones Vie growing rapid- ly. On my fourth visit last summer 40 or 50 buildings 'where a hamlet I found at one crossroads a town of of two or three had existed two years fain, its. trying to abolish slavery, but time is needed to .educate the Ethi- opians to regard slavery as undesir- able. It is estimated that there are still more than 2,000,000 slaves in Ethiopia, Go If Club for Miners and Wives Loudon—A golf course for misers and their wives Is being constructed in Seghill, Northumberland. Seghtll Colliery has been called the "working man's public school" on ao- count of its magnificent welfare schemes. Its latest enterprise, the golf course ,4s being laid down ,by.the miners themselves. It is a nine -hole course, with some natural hazards ,and- the men will have at professional to teach theta; Already! there is a memershlp of about 150. It is, probably one of the most re- markable clubs In the country. The _ subscription is 12 cents a week, and the rules insist that all players -shalt be shaved and shall year collars and earlier. At a neighboring paint are There are 1,000 men employed at seven. grain elevators where none had the colliery, and extraordinary facia been built a year befere. hies have been made for their moron" "Railroad transportation is now tion. These include: rapid, efficient and dependable. It Classes where lectures are atraug has been gradually extended follow- ing the lines of the naw settlement. Further extensions of 528 elites were chartered last moath, "Already its agricultural produc- tion exceeds that of all Alberta 20 years ago, Who shall' estimate its value and purchasing power 10 years hence? Its area of good land is at least two-thirds more Chau the total under cultivation in all Alberta to - clan. By tbetime its density oC popu- lation equals the present average for Alberta, it'"will be sustaining 000,000 people on its farms alone, and these will be producing crops worth. $400,- 000,000 400;000,000 annually. . Even then it will be capable of more littenstve settle• 0d on almost any subject. Spacious rooms with billiards and dance halls, reading rooms and chess rooms. A vast hall, whose rafters are en' cased in wire netting, so that football. may be played by electric light, Three Rugby grounds, with pavi'. Ilona and dressing rooms used by seven teams composed of pitmen and boys. Three tennis courts, and mora being laid down, A brawling green, a cricket pitclt, and a Boy Scout troop. "The question, raised are too lm' portant for, each casual treatment!, meat and. ouitiration—as Is the rest of They are questlous to be settled judt' Alberta today --and other sources or. I dally. They happened to arise Id wealth will be 00111800 in 1tstimber colttteelion with a ruin -;aimed. Neat and mineral deposits. time they may arts in eennoetioi, , "It ie no fanciful statement or with lawful commerce, Perhaps Mtnvisionary flight to say that tho potett' own neutral commerce in a war zona„ tial population of the Poace River] The I'm Alone case often an op( BRITISH LION GROWLS DURING GIBRALTAR MANOEUVREScountry must be reckoned in mllltonstperttmity to have the laws of the nett;,. t a f the Rodney, which, w nth her Meter ship, the Nelson, are the only two ,vassals and the value 00 its annual prodttc- clarified and, it necessary, revised, The nitre sixteenit h guns 0 armed, fitht broadside during manoeuvres of the Br leek fleet cit Gibraltar., ,. ,,, ,f •,. • •-..'P tion in ;biltions," Let it go to au International court "t