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Glorious Tale algin. The Agures repreeentaLWo ot
Of Merchant the tall war wart of the merchant
service as a whole would make stag-
�r o goring totals, Tttoreta it wan cart:y.
Na
in ar lug on and oven bettering the trate-
tion of centuries,
Notable Triblate To Heroism
On Tower Hill a fitting and impres-
Rind Endurance of "Our sive memorial, bearing the names of
the officers and men of the Merchant
1 Magnifient Seamen" Navy and Fishing Fleets who have uo
P
By VW . RINCA OF WALiOS grave but the; Bea, and who died that
. R' Master of he country might live, was unvcsiled
The Prince Wales 2
tMerchantNavy by Her 21ajeety the Gaon on Decem
he
and Fishing.. ber 12. It has been ereoted by the,
Fleets, contributes a foreword to Sir Governments of all the inmates of the
Archibald Hurd'a latest volume On' whole Empire as a tribute, to last for
'"Tile British Merchant Navy" all time, to these mens hereto services.
As Master of the Merchant Navy It has been said that'two•thirds of
and p'ishing Fleets, I welcome the the Elizabethan fleet which met se
oPportuntty offered me by Sir 'Arohl- triumphantly, the shock ot the SPauish
bald Hurd of contributing a .few in. Armada were merchant vesseta, and
troductory remarks to the voltame that the proportions of force with
whichcompletes the history—based which Drake "singed the Ring of
-on official documents -of the magni-
ficent part played by British 'Mer..
•chantmen in the Great Vlrar,
It has been m¢ fortunate lot to be
a world-wide traveller, and I have en
countered the British liner and tramp is as 'essential to -day as ever it was,
not only on every sea but in many a 'to the operations of the Royal Navy
port l nboth remispiteres. The sight and the safeguarding of the life ot
of the Rod Ensign has, in these fates Use British: Commonwealth, of Nations..
days, glue i me a thrill el a very spa-
•dial kind, for that familiar piece of
bunting can never' fail to recall the
wonderful record of ourmerchant sen -
men throughout the struggle of four
and a•half years ,
The present volume raises the otic
'tale on what I take to have been the
•climax of that vast drama -the
enemy's plunge into unrestricted sub•
marine'warlare on our merchant ship-
ping, Thus was provided tie final
'test of a herolem and endurance un-
+paralleded in history, and how magna-
"flcently`'our seamen responded to the
test is to bo found chronicled in thes
pages. To view that record in its
proper perepective it is well to recall
thosedays at the very outbreak of
war which already seem to some of us
to be almost lost in the mists of timer next six months, The cost of their
The participation of our seamen in transportation and settlement will be
-the struggle began with the operations defrayed out of a fund subscribed bye
of the German raiders, There was the merchants of London for the Pur -
'nothing 'surprising or unprecedented
in the destruction achiever by the Ern -
den and other German cruisers. and
,armed merchantmen in Eastern waters
and elsewhere.
Hostilities were conducted in har-
mony with the principles laid down
by international law. and, though
..many valuable ships were sunk, the
toll was no greater than might have
been expected,and not a single life
.of the captured crews was sacrificed.
The British seaman recognized' that
nothing more was being asked of bran"
than to accept the usual hazards of a
.naval conflict. It was a phase ofthe
war, in short, in which the dictates of
'humanity were st'r'ictly regarded, and
every reasonable consideration was
shown to the passengers and Crewe of
the vessels unlucky enough to be tak-
en.
This Abase, however, was short-liv-
ed.
hort-liv of the Dominion as a whole, It is in
•ed. With the.arrival iscri eneof the hf ghost degree necessary that they
-the. submarine and the indiscriminate should be given as encouraging a start
use- of the mine, the whole position as possible, that they should be made
the
r
to feel' they are welcome from to
moment of their landing among us,
and that their path., which must of
necessity be more or less rough at
first, should be smoothed as far as is
possible consistent with Canadian
ideals. The Overseas League holds
this idea before it,'and plans to pursue
11 steadily.—Montreal Star.
Bombs in India
London Daily Chronicle' (Lib.):
They (the hidian Nationalists) cannot
at one and the same time put them-
selves on the side of disorder and work
effectively for constitutional liberty.
The outrage sit Delhi should at least
serve to show them the direction in
which their intransigence is leading
them. Constitutional •'capacity can
only be proved by those who will fall
in with the spirit of constitutionalism.
The British Parliament would be-
Wrongto shake oft its responsibility
for India till those who aspire to rep-
resent her show they can safely shoul-
der the burden.
Spain'e beard" was much the tame,
The relations of the two' great Ser-
vices ;have altered •since those days,
but the. Great War has served to prove
once more that the Merchant Navy
-Edward P., Master of the Merchant
'Navy and Fishing Fleets,
Settling Britons.
There is much to be commended
in the plans of the Overseas League
for the settlement of one thousand
young Britane throughout the Cana-
dian West this year, They are not
to be dumped into this country, and
lett to seek' their own devices, but
from first to last will be, kept in close
and sympathetic touch with League
officials,' through the medium of
migration stations which the travel-
ling secretary of the League has come
to Canada to establish during the
pose.
The principal shortcoming in the -
past in Canada's treatment of immi-
grants is that they have been left
largely, to their own devices after their
arrival here, and have been severely
handicapped in consequence in their
efforts to establish themselves in
their new homes. While there has
been considerable improvement in
this connection of .•event years, much
still remains to be done, and the ac-
tion of the Overseas League will be
a real help, for, it is action in the
right' direction and along the neces-
sary lines.
These young Britons will in due
course form part ot, the backbone of
our West. They will be among the
future citizensand administrators of
the West ,and they will play their
part in shaping its destinies and those
;for the merchant seaman was chang-
ed. He found himself faced by 'haz-
ards and perils such as he had never
'before experienced, or indeed had
-ever conceived as possible.
With the •intensification of thisl
enemy's- campaign, the British sailor,
a non-combatant following an ordin-
arily peaceful avocation, ,saw himself
.directly involved in the whole fright -
mechanism •of
right-mechanism'of war, whose grim',
•operation, as i.have said, reached its
'climax in the phase 'of unrestricted'
submarine attack recorded in detail
-fn this third volume of the history.
Let us wba are land -dwellers not
-mince words over this thing. It in
the glory of our Merchant•Navy, and
will be so acclaimed by generations to
'Conte` that they laced without hesita-
tion the tremendous odds and the fro -
spent hazard of death, undaunted in
spirit to the bitter end. Let us not
forget, also, that had it been other-
wiae this country of ours must have
terished.
One highly characteristic phase of
'the work of our Merchant Navy, des-
.crlbed in this volume, to that,covering
the aettvities of the; Auxiliary Patrol.
I . imagine the Auxiliary Patrol was
one of the most striking, as it cer-
tainly wee •oneof the mot successhul,
.of the many piecesof war- time inc.
,provisatton- which history will place
to the credit of the British nation.
It was born, as need hardly be retail-
er, out of those new Conditions,. of sub-
marine attack and indiscriminate
mine raids to which I have referred,
.and it gradually evolved into a vast
•aupplementary fleet.
Here was indeed, a medley of small
vessels—trawiera, fresh from,.pur fish•
lug grounds, drifters, whalers, paddle -
steamers so familiar to Channel ex-
cursionists, steam yachts so .well
kuowu in the Solent, motor -launches:
and motor -boats. • •
Their hazardus duties were as var
ied as their types. In their long
hours of riatrol they watched for and
Taunted German submarines; .they
searched for and dragged• mines; they
fought hostile aircraft;. they control!.:
ed and examined millions of tons of
• shipping navigating the Narrow Seas;
and in many other ways splendidly
seconded the efforts of the Grand
Fleet. '
Varied indeed these craft were in
type, but their crews were animated
by One heart and one spirit, .As time.
went on, this ,collection of ships was
welded into a great disciplined service
51 4,000 vessels wit hits operatiohs ex-
tending as far north as the White Sea,
to the Mediterranean and Aegean in
the south, and westward to the 'West
Indies The Auxiliary Patrol was in
Its .'14•ys of complete development
A Strange Wreck With No 111 Results
NONE HURT.IN SPECTACULAR TRAIN WRECK CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS
Loosening effect of the recent heavy rains is believed to have caused a dirt slide which recently wrecked the
Lehigh Valley New York -Buffalo express, The only casu alties were slight bruises received by two members of
the train crew:
World Flight
Billed for Fall
Washington Post Prints 'De-
tails of Proposed Feat—
Five-Motored Plane to
Hop. Off from New York
in September, Ac-
cording to Plans
Washington — Six internationally
known aviators, are preparing to be-
gin a monstop flight around the world
from New Pork on the first clear day
in September, according to the Wash-
ington Post, -
The 'armee of ,only three of the
aviators are given—Lieut, Albert D.
Raise, former army and air mail
pIlot;' Capt. Harry W. Lyon Jr., navi-
gator on the transpacific flight of the
Southern Cross, and Lieut. L. T.
O'ConnelI, radio officer at Lakehurst.
The commander, the newspaper said,
will ' be a World .War 'aviator with
more than 5000 flying hours to his
credit.
The make of the plane in which
they intend to attempt the most 'am-
bitions flight ever undertaken was not
learned, but it was described as`be-
ing constructed partly of metal and
partly of linen fabric, powered with
Eve 420 horsepower Pratt and Whit-
ney engines, equipped to take on fuel
in flight,'and capable of a maximum
speed of 150 miles an hour and a
cruising speed of 120 miles,
Twenty-two -stations are to be es-
tablished along. the 13,500 -mile route,
of which 10 will be usedonly in case
of emergency, the Post says, and two
of the five engines are to be held in
reserve. They wilt be sufficient to
bring' the ship through, the aviators
believe, if alt three of the other en-
gines break up under the five or six-
day strata:
The fuel • tanks wilt have a maxi -
muds capacity of 1900 gallons, but
ball about halt that amount, the
newspapers say, will be taken aboard
at New York to prevent overtaxing
of the engines at the start. More fuel
'will be taken on while passing over
Boston, and the supply will again be
replenished over Nova Scotia, under
the plan, while .a third refuelling
Oahe Is to meet the ' nonstop • fliers
near Glasgow after completion of the
transatlantic leg of the flight.
' From Glas ow the route outlined
g ,
Ilies over Siberia, thence to Nome,
Alaska, south of the United States
and along a northern .route back to
New York. Engine trouble is not ex-
pected until_ Nome' is reached, if it
is to be encountered at all,
Tho cost of the flight is placed at
approximately $385,000, and the back-
ers of the plan are said to have under-
written it to the extent of $500,000.
Radio Police Call Gives
Chicago Burglar Tip -Off
Chicago.—Radio is .a great inyen-
tion, the burglar said.
A woman, recently observing a
burglar leisurely looting the third-
floor apartment at 6737 Prairie Ave.,
telephoned police. Police notified
radio station WGN, so that word
might be flashed to touring squad cars
equipped with receiving sets.
A moment later listeners on the
WGN programs heard. this:
"Detective squads, attention. There's.
a burglar on the third floor at 6737
Prairie Ave"
The squad of Lieutenant Walter
Storms heard the call and sped toward
the address given. They entered the
apartment' and found the robber gone.
In a corner a radiowas going full
blast, Tucked under the lid was this
note:
"Dear Radio Mian • Thanks for the
tip-off. You;re a swell announcer.
I'irt now signing off."
Canadian Combines
Act Found to be )Valid
Ottawa—The Combines Investiga-
tion Act of 1923 dealing with con-
spiracies in the restraint of trade,
and challenged in 1927 by the Pro-
prietary Articles Trade Association
as ultra vires, has been declared
valid by the Supreme Court of
Canada.
When this association of druggists
was found to be a combine in re-
straint of trade, following an injury
by ,the Federal Government they filed
a complaint and the matter was refer-
red t0 the Supreme Court.. The effect
of the judgment is'to.uphold the act
and any procedure of injuiry or sub-
sequent prosecution which• it sets up,
in combination between the Dominion
and provincial' authorities.
An old saw is best if not too cut-
ting butnever dui.—Christian Science
Monitor.
Shackles of Past
Are Thrown Away
Revolutionary Movements in
Recent Years Find' Sex
Clamoring for Its
Rights
Although the days are past when
Chinese parents • tarew their girl
babies into the••river, says "The
Pathfinder," they are still vet•y anxi-
ous that their babies should be buys
and not girls.
One of the best things about the
new regime in China,which mean
largely the shaking off of tile shackles
of the past, is the improveme t in
the condition of the women, whey
are coming into their ,own. They
were active in the revolutionary move-
ments and there is a widespread and
growing demand for women's rights.
Not only has the drowning of girl
babies stopped, but the old barbarous
habit of binding the feet of women
to -keep thein small is rapidly becom-
ing a thing of tile past. It is forbid-
den by the new republican govern-
ment.
One of the real powers in the pre-
sent Nanking government is the wife
of the president, Mrs, Chiang Kat-
shek who has been accused of aiming
at a throne. Another woman, Mrs.
Soule Cheng, represents the Nankin.
government in France. Several of
the women now prominent in political
life are graduates of American and.
European schools,
The new governthent in its ignor-
ance has tried to tell the women how
to wear their hair and how to make
their dresses, but it has already learn-
ed that such efforts are useless.
One evil practice, still apparent, is
the selling of women into slavery dur-
ing the times of distress. The Rev.
F. J. Griffith of the Church of England
recently stated at Peking that 17,000
women and girls of the new province
of Sutyan had been sold into slavery
because of the famine and that they
brought $100,000 in gold. They were
taken into Inner Shansi. The women
are bought by wealthy people who
use them for servants. That practice
forms one more • problem for the new
government.
It' Is well to know that right to al -
Ways moving toward victory.
A Story of the. Sea Told By Camera
This picture of a oscine at sea was
.cue. m
COAST -GUARD CUTTER EFFECTS RESCUE AT SEA
leu as the coastguard cutter Moja ye passed a tow -line to steamship West Hika disabled and unable to proceed
Describes Causes
Of Unemployment
Sir William Clark Gives Sus-
vey of Situation in
Britain
QUESTION OF TIME
High Commissioner Asks
Welcoming Hand for
New Immigrants
Vancouver.—Causes underlying Un-
employment in the old country were
described by Sir William Clark, high
Commissioner for Great Britain to
Canada, in a statement that gave a
comprehensive survey of .the situation
from pre-war days to the present.
The obvious momentary relief, emi-
gration, was referred to by Sir Wit-
liam when he bespoke a welcoming
hand to those men and women of Bri-
tish race who came to Canada to make
a fresh start. "While we look for-
ward confidently to the eventual res-
toration of our trade, we must recog-
nize that the necessary readjustments,
the fuller reorganization of our older
industries must all take time," said
the speaker.
"Our financial position is strong
enough to enable us to carry on during
this intermediate period but that does
not help those who want employment,
and d ant sure that all of you in Can-
ada will desire to give a helping hand
to those who come here."
INSURANCE QUESTION
Sir William suggested that unem-
ployment insurance was organized in
recognition of the well known econ.
omic fact that there nmst always be
some measure of unemployment in
great industrial countries, especially
in trades affected by the seasons of
the year.
"There is a new spirit of -co-opera-
tion, a new desire of employers to
get together and study jointly the dif-
ficulties besetting our trade," Sir Wil-
liam said,
Various plans of the Government
forreducing unemployment were sug-
gested by the high commissioner, in-
cluding that of emigration to the
overseas Dominions,
"There is no question," he said, "of
trying to place nlen in Canada who
have not first been approved before
the Canadian authorities as thorough-
ly suitable and of a type likely to
make good; The training which the
men undergo, is an additional and
very important safeguard, •It not
only, gives a man some knowledge of
his job and some acquaintance with
Canadian methods and Canadian farm
implements, but it also serves to try
him ,out thoroughly and to test whe-
ther Ise is likely to make a success
on the land."
Ancient Ur
Proves
Flood
Leader of British Museum Ex-
pedition Declares Discov-
eries There Confirm Story
of the Deluge, and Alter
Whole Aspect of
Archaeology
Brunswick, lire.—"The excavatious
at the city of Ur during the past
seven years by the point expedition
of the University of Pennsylvania
Museum, of which I am the leader,
have changed the outlook and given
an entirely new aspect to history and.
archaeology," declared 0. Leonard
Woolley, British areltaeologiet, speak-
ing at the second session of the Bow -
Sciences recently.
Sciences on April 30.
"It is not only a picture surprising
in itself but it Is an addition to the
science of history which Completely
revolutionizes our ideas andobliges
us to look for the roots of our civUb
zation to -day in a field hitherto un-
suspected.
"The rise of this civilization was
interrupted at a period we cannot yet
date by a great disaster, whisk has
left its record in the story of the
flood. Of this disaster we found last
winter material proof enabling us not
only to confirm ancient Sumerian re-
cords, but to state that the Biblical
story of the deluge is based -ultimate-
ly upon historical fact.
"The excavatious which bare been
going on for seven years!havedealt
almost exclusively with the central
part of the city, which was the reki-
gibus quarters' dedicated to the Moon
God, Nannar. The period of the city's
greatest political importance was
about 2300 B,C. when it was the capi-
tal of the empire.
"The tombs of private People and
of kings of that date have yielded
most astounding relies In gold, silver,
copper, stone, and mosaic work bear-
ing witness to culture older than the
First Dynasty of Egypt, and equal
to almost anything that the ancient
world produced. Its art was of a
remarkably high quality; its meld -
teats were familiar with all the bolo'
principles of 'construction known to-
day, Writing had already been in-
vented; society was well organized.
and international trade extended over.
half the continent"
Old Fasltiohed Youth:' "Eunice,
worthy as l am, I; have resolved' to site
for your hand." Business Man'a
Daughter; "AU right, go ahead and
suet"
Sisue Marlccets
Found Active
In Orient To clay`
Despite Work of League
Raids Still Take Blacks
to Points in Near
East
Jerusalem—The slave traino not-
withstandiog resolutions passed by
the Longue of Nations, be still operate
Mg in the Orient.; Reports fust pub -
Melted sey'aome. 2000 bloke each year
are brought from Africa Into the Arab
slave market,
The trade in human beings extends
over the Sudan, Abyssinia, the Hejaz,
the Nejd, the Yemen, and the coast of
Somaliland, Even to Transjordan
is not altogether unknown; abclks
there have black attendants who serve
all their' lives without Payment,
In Arabia proper, slave trading
goes on fairly' openly, The Hejaz
Government levies a toll of 210 per
capita on slaves. In Djedda, the port.
of Mecca, the slave market is but 250
feet from the consulate of one of the
great European pourers.
In Hathar, to the north o>! Medina,
there are semi.btaok Moslem tribles,
the descendants' of .Jewish ,peoples,
Who were subjected centuries ago to
the Arabs anti have been treated as
slaves ever aloe, They have long
been intermixing wiht Negro tribes,
King •Iba Saud himself, . powerful
chief of desert tribesmen, has a body-
guard of 120 slaves, Intae war
against King Hussein 02 .aa. Hejaz
he had to put his slaves to digging
trenches, for his Wrahabis refused to
do that work.
In the Yemen, the number of slaves
is computed to be as high as that of
the free men. This computation in-
cludes
ncludes the 40,000 Jews who belong to
Iman Yehia, the ruler of the land,
or to the sheiks of the various dig•
Meta. Like serfs of the Middle Ages,
they maynot migrate without pay,
meat of a heavy ransom,
There is scarcely a Moslem family
to the Yemen that has not .at least`
one slave. Wealthier families :have '
as many as four or five:
Most of the slaves aro drawn from
Africa. The blacks are brought acmes
the Red Sea in small vessels and
packed off in troops of 20 and 30. On.
lauding they aro started along the
pilgrims' road to Mecca, sometimes
journeying veldt the pilgrims them-
selves.
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India Will Free
Women in Mines
32,000 Workers Underground
' to be Emancipated 10
Per Cent. Yearly
Geneva—India willstart the emanci-
pation of her thousands of .women`
underground mineworkers July 1, ac-
cording to official information receiv-
ed
eceiveed by the, International Labor office,
whleh for years has waged It cam-
paign to free these unfortunates from
economic bondage.
The; program, approved by the gov-
ernment over heavy opposition, plans
to stamp out one of the most revolt-
ing practices in a country where wo-
men have long been regarded as dis-
tinctly inferior beings within a period
of ten years. Curtailed at the rate ot
ten per cent, per annum ,the coal and
salt mining, industries will require a
decade, it is calculated, to adapt them-
selves to the displacement of more
than one-fourth of its underground
workers and one -ninth of its total
lab
Aorccordingforces. to official figures, the
mining industry of India' employs 32,-
000 women as underground workers,
hewing out coal and digging salt from
the bowels of the earth, The condi:
tions under wvhicb these women work
are deplorable, and yet they have be-
come so accustomed to their lots that;
they mustered considerable opposi-
tion among ,theirranks against their•
forced emancipation.
For the Lights, of Course
Snddenky Rich Yacht Owner—"Be.
sure you have a plentiful supply of
green and red oil on"board, captain!'
Captain—"Wiry-er-What for, slrf"
S. R. Y. 0.—"For our starboard and
port lights, of course."
There must lite more than sonnet
days in Heaven
Than April days or Fall—
For Heaven would not seen like
Heav'n if winter
•'Should never come at all,
If on a sky as bine as God's owgi.
laughter
No feathery trees Could sift
Their lovelier -than -emerald show fel-
rage,
To purple -shadowed drift,
There must be more than stammer.
time in Heaven,
Since an eternal yoke
Of flowered hours would make a holt
of Heaven
For Northern fond
---111, The Chatelaine,