HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-10-10, Page 7Report is Spread
Britain Prepares
To Abandon Irak
povernrrient Believed to CQn
template Surrendering
Mandate to League
EGYPTIAN EXAMPLE
Rhineland is
Sorry to Lose
British Tr s ops
Many Affecting Scenes at
Railway Stations When
Tommies Entrain for
Home
Wlesbadeu, Germany.—Tito powers
that move the soldiers of the world
Support May Be Given king have made Germany rejoice and Gret-
chou weep, iDugllsit "Tountlicief who'
for three years have been stationed in
this quaint old Germain CRY and have
now started theirtrek homeward, are,
leaving bellied many frauieine with
heavy hearts.
Feisul's Ambitions at
Geneva
London,—That the, Labor Govern-
ment has decided to 'reliuciuish S3ritish
•control of the Kingdom of Irak ie
clearly the implication of' a report for-
warded by the Colonial Ofllee to the
mandates commission' of the League
of N¢tione, just nlade public here, and
there is ioterential confirmation of
this in a responsible quarter.
The. British report states 'baldly and
'without qualification the reasons why
Icing Veleta and all sections of opin-
lou in Irak desire to see the Brinell
mandate terminated. No compensat-
ing reasons' are adduced by the Got-
•onlal office as to why the British
should remain in Bagdad and continue
garrisoning. the country against the
wish,of the inhabitants.
British support will be given to
Irak's request for membership in the
.League of Nations this year, Such
membership would automatically tet'
minate the British mandate. '
Irak's appeal -for membership in: the
League was refused last Year by the
.Conservative Government, largely for
the reason that a similar request by
iSgYpt had been turned down, and it
was felt that to support Irak's league
membership, while denying • Egypt's,
would enrage Egyptian nationalists.
For the same reason the Egyptian do -
mend for independence could not be
:refused if Great Britain at the same
time was preparing •to clear out of
Trak.
This situation has been changed by
the recently 'drafted 'Anglo-Egyptian
treaty; still to be ratified, and for
these and other reasons it seems clear
that Labor has decided to bring the
expensive adventure in Mesopotamia
to an end and clear out,
It is generally thought here that the
British will retain Basra, with troops
tetationed there as a protection for
Anglo -Persian oil fields and pipe lines,
His t;ajesty
Pass Quiet Winter
King Will Not Be Permitted
to • Shoot—Reads Detec-
tive Thrillers
Lc udon. The King is fighting his
way back to health on a literary diet
of detective yarns and thrilling my-
stery stories. Th'e Daily News `re-
ported the health of His 'Majesty is
extrardinarily reassuring attar his
long siege of illness last winter,
AtSandringham, the royal eoun-
try estate in Norfolk - where he is
spending• las summer holidays with
the Queen ,the Daily News says the
King's existence is simple. There
are none of the great house parties
which In former days featred the life
at his country seat, and there. is no
indication the King will be permitted
to engage in his favorite pastime of
shooting.
His physicians felt it would. not be
wise to make undue demands on His
Majesty's reserve strength- and he
must prepare to spend the coming
winter and future winters living very
-quietly and carefully.
Will
Unemployment in Britain
Manchester "The Policy -Holder":
Unemployment as an industrial des=
ease is not confined to this country
icor to any country, not excepting Rus-
*la. Unemployment is world-wide. It
is a sigh that either we are dissipat-
ing capital already created, or else we
are tailing to reate sufficient new eapi-
tat, Int England, we do both. The un-
productive expenditure of all classes
terms an initial check on the creation
of new capital. An das fast as new
capital is created, too large a propor-
tion 01 it goes down the sewer of
bogus or ill -managed enterprises, The
capital surviving thee,risk is swooped
upon by . state authorities who levy
death -duties without the slightest en-
quiry as to whether ,the heir to the
capital is going to squander it or con-
serve it -indeed, the state promptly
seta the example. of squandering all
it an collar from him. To use a tren-
chant expression of Mr. Willis of Nor-
wleh, tlfere is no probeent in unem-
p oymett: there is only ignorance.
Three years have fostered many re-
ntancos, There have not been inany
marriages because the authorities -
have frowned upon the soldiers mar-
rying .while on duty, Fifty-two Bri-
tish soldiers, however, will return to
England with Getman wives, many of
whom cannot speak English,
When Mark Was Cheap
In the early days of the occupation
when the mark was heavily inflated
and Tommy's wages represented a
princely income the champagne flow-
ed freely and the soldiers ate of the'
fat of the land. Many of them mar-
ried and supported their wives in a
lavish scale while the Inflation lasted,
Disapproval of such marriages by
the military authorities did not lessen
the rush to the marriage altar half so
fall al the mark's return to a solid
footing and Tommy's sad ,realization
that he could not afford a wife on his
wages.
The tearful scenes at the station as.
each contingent departs demonstrates
tate affection in whip the residents of
Wiesbaden and especially the frau
loins hold their former enemy. Some
of the last scenes between sweet-
hearts recall the deperture of the sot-
diera to fight in the recent war.
The Germans a,4e glad to have the
Rhineland evacuated but they regret
that the evacuation takes• away the
friendly Tommies with whom they
have had such pleasant associations.
Life Less Colored
The troops, likewise, have grown
fond of Wiesbaden with Its charming
open-air cafes, its bands, cabarets and
gardens. Tltey realize that back in
Aldershot they will miss the warm,
entertaining life' of Wiesbaden.
A young Scottish tartilleryman sum-
med up the situation admirably from
iris angle. He said:
"It is muchcheaper to have a sweet-
heart here than back home, They
make you save more money, and when
you take a German girl out she al-
ways wants to pay her share,"
First Canadian
Air Map Issued
Published By Geographical
Section of Defence
Department
Ottawa.—The first air map , ever
compiled in Canada was published by
the geographical section of the Do-
partment of National Defence recent-
ly.
The, map, drafted for the use of air
pilots and navigators, covers that sec-
tion of the air mall route extending
Prom Montreal as far west as Morris -
burg, Ont., and is the first sheet of a
series which will eventually cover the
entire route from Rimouski, Que., to
Windsor, Ont.
All detail which is of no importance
to the pilot has been omitted, and:
only those features included which
will aid him in finding hie way about
the country from the air.
The first draft, an experm[ental
map, shows airports, entergepy land-
ing fields, ground elevations wooded
and cultivated areas, power lines,
wireless stations, and: magdetic varia-
tion. On the back of the sheet ap-
.pear plane of the airports and sea-
plane bases occurring along the route.
Grain Mixing
Winnipeg Tribune (Ind, Cons.): (By
an amendment to the Grain Act pass-
ed at Ottawa last session grain mix-
ing
ixing in grades 1,2 and 3 was abolished.
The wisdow of this amendment is
questioned in the West), If any farm-
er could reasonably expect that year
after year be would produce nothing
but top -grade wheat he could logical-
ly oppose mixing in the standard
grades, for without mixing he could
expect the top grades to run a little
closer to the maximum, of the grade
and command a slightly hipper price.
But the fact is that for four year's the',
cars of No. 1 wheat have been con-
spicuously scarce. Last year the,
crop, as Mr.' N. M. Paterson told the
Saskatchewan Commission a hew Jaya
ago, was little better than a No. 5, be-
cause of the frost damage in the grow-
ing season. When there IS eo much
low-grade wheat to be handled un-
doubtedly the producer can market it
to somewhat bettor advantage of mix-
ing is permitted than otherwise. All
the substitutes for the mixing process
that have been suggested would not
solve to create a worthwhile market
I for seine of the wheat that now is
mixed and soli
j
The primary class in punning could
Wilco--ofile dress; is too small look into the $50,000,000 merger of
it's not a fill" yeast and baking -powder firms, with
Hubby-- "Seems to give you couvul- a view to saying something about rals-
sious get in it though." ing all that dough.
Everyone Wishes' dim a Speedy Re *very
September Storm
Is Almost Fatal
Australian Boys Caught in
Blizzard Are Almost
Frozen -- Reads Like
Northern Canada
Story
Melbourne, Auetralla.—Caught iu a
blizzard that covered the ground with
a mantle of snow two feet deep, two.
brothers, Albert and William Milia,
aged respectively 17 and 14 years,
wandered for four days among the
foothills of the Australian Alps in the
Nitta Mitts district before way bound in the past two years there has
their way back to their camp. Owing! been a rapid increase in the use of
to the intense cold and their Plodding
bout refinery and mill nickel products
hour after hour through snow and According to the International Niels^l
water, the boys' feet began to show Company of Canada, sales of metall..r
signs of frostbite, but with great forts• nickel in theStiited States during
Ludo they kept on walking. it took 1928 were aproxlmately 97 per cent.
them almost a day to cover a mile onin excess 01 those of the previous
the last stage of their struggle to year, and world sales at nickel, exclu-
rettch safety, sive of the United States, increased
They are now la the Melbourne hos- approximately 52 per scut, Coinci
pita'. suffering from frostbitten feet. dont with this large increase in the
Those of the younger boy are the more consumption of metallic nickel the
severely affected and it is thought sales of nickel products from .the
possible that he may lose one or more Huntington works (principally Monel
01 his toes, metal and rolled nickel) increased 36
The boys, who had been staying per cent: The company attributes:
with an nude at Lightning Creek, in this expansion not only to generally
the Tallangatta distrit, travelled on good business conditions, but largely
horseback to a spot known a$ Vl'om• to new applications of nickel intro -
bat Creek, 12 miles from Lightning duced through the efforts of its teehni-
AGRICULTURAL HEAD D CONVALESCENCE Creels, where they pitched their camp cal and sales organizations. Also a
Canada's Immense
Nickel Deposits
Sudbury Mines Contribute
About 90 per Cent, of
the World's Produc-
tion
It Is generally known that tie
unties of the Sudbury district of On-
tario contribute about 9 per cent, of
the world's production In nickel, and
that development during. the past few
years has proved the existence of
large deposits oai'rYinghigh .values in
copper and in metals or the platinum
group as well as in nickel.
URING
During convalescence after recent hitless, Hon, John S. Martin, Ontario's 'Meister cf agriculture, enjoys feed- for a holiday, spent in shooting and vast amount of nickel steel acral, ac
lag his prize Wyandottes, of which he has several thous and on itis farm, He can't participate in election campaign walling over the hills. After a few cumulated during the world war has
Nays snow began to fall, and, afraid been consumed, and steelmakers are
Iof being snowed -in the boys decided consequently increasing their pur-
?itacilin Renews Ito return to their uncle's place, Their chases of metallic ' nickel;
p I horses, however, had wandered off and The merger in 1928 of the Interne -
Soviet Overtures' could not be found. They set oat on Lionel Nickel Company and of the
foot for a point six miles from the Mond Nickel Company has resulted is
camp, where they were to have been the mines and smeltereh
oP bock com-
Note Sent to Norwegian Gov- picked up by a friend in his motorpanics m
wader cueinthe coutroi,Sudbury Extensivedistrict copianings
for the increase of mining, smelting
and refining operations are being
rapidly pushed forward, and the ca-
pacity oP the smelters near Sudbury,
and the nickel refinery at Port Col-
borne, Ontario, are being inreased. A
copper refinery and sulphuric acid
plant are also being erected near SW. -
bury. The completion of this pro -
grain should result 10 a further large,
increase in the Canadian output et
nickel and copper and of metals •.1
the platinum group.
Explorer of Arctic • A Gerinan View
Tells of Recession See New Alliance Forming in
Of Great Ice Cap MacDonald's Trips
Newagon, Mo.—Discovery of the Moe
cap which now covers auarea of 700
square utiles, with a maximum depth
of 3000 feet between Frobisher's Bay
and Hudson Strait, long sought by na-
tural scientists, was recounted by
Lieutenaift Commander Donald 13,
MacMillan, on his return from his sum-
mer's arctic trip on tete schooner Bow -
cloth. The pap was estimated to have
at one time extended over 4,000,000
square mites,
Commander MacMillan said this
was believed to be the last of the
ice caps of the Pleistocene period,
which covered all of New England, ex-
cept the tip of what is now Mt. Wash-
ington, to a depth .of 5000 feet, over
a period of 35,000 years. He said
the ice cap actually conslstod of two
caps, one of approximately 400 square
"Is an accord possible here, or is this
miles and tete ether o[ 300 squat's I antithesis loading to open warfare? At
miles. Four glaciers were discharg- the burning center of this battle any
ing from its tato the bay, all flowing
Britain's Labor Government will
throw both France and Fascist Italy
overboard and start a violent flirta-
tion with America, according to some
German editors, who declare :'tat Bri-
tain can no longer bear "the load of
French imperialism," and believe that
the key to world politics bit the im-
mediate future lies in harmony be-
tween Britain and the United States.
Rivas naval strength, however, is not
the critical factor in this matter, says
the Berlin Vossische Zeitung, but busi-
ness rivalry, and it adds:
'The bitter fight of the pound
against the dollar rages in all the
world markets. Everywhere the in -
(thence of the pound declines while
that oP the dollar rises. Even in the
British Dominions London shrinks be-
fore the financial power of Now York.
north,
-The ice capes "receding" according
to Commander MacMillan thus set-
tling a longdisputed question. Phots-
graphs 'of the ice cap were made by
the expedition for comparison with
other photographs to be made on next
accord seems moat difficult if not im-
possible. This center is made up of
South Americo and the Far East.
"The Anglo-American harmony sen-
timent may be left out of considera-
tion. Far more intense in effect is the
interlocking of capital between New
York and London. Iii England it is
ernment for Moscow
Delivery
LONDON TAKES LEAD
London. -Great BrItaiu took new
steps toward resuming commercial
and diplomatic relations with Soviet
Russia. The British Government sent
to the Norwegian Government for
transmission to the Austen Govern-
ment,
overnment, a note expressing the view that
the time had come when it would be
desirable to resume the conversations
interrupted several months ago by
the departure of the Soviet Plenipo-
tentiary, M. Dovgalevsky.
It is thought possible a meeting
may bo arranged between Right Hon, , Alleged Slavery
Arthur Henderson, British Foreign
Secretary, and a representative of the
Soviet Government while Mr. Hender-
son is at Gaeta,
Deadlocked on August 1 Commission Named to Investi-
Mr. Henderson and Ambassador gate Conditions of Labor
Dovgalevsky, who came to London in Liberia
from Paris for the purpose, began
preliminary conversations fo rthe re- Geneva. -Liberian delegate Sottlle
sumptiou of trade and commercial re- notified the League of Nations assem-
kitions and the renewal of diplomatic lily sixth commission recently that
summer's expedition to definitely es- services on July 29. the United States had agreed to ap-
now so close that the electrical, the They reached a deadlock on August point ¢delegate on a commission to
!dish that the ice cap is growing chemical, and a portion of the metal 1, when Great Britain refused to ac- investigate slavery and forced labor
smaller. industry work with Ameriau capital, l cede to tire Russian desire for 'mine. in Liberia.
Next year the party wilt "stales" diate appointment of ambassadors be- Liberia, the little republic in Africa
out with rock cairns the outermost On the other hand, English loans to
edge of the Ice cap, so that explorers America, which before the World War fore questions in dispute were taken founded for the benefit of freed sla4es
In Future years can determine with ac-, stood at 754 million pounds, are now , up. The Russian ambassador return- is now the scene of large operations
curacy the rate of recession or ad•
some 470 millions only, ed to his post in Paris. by American rubber companies. It is
vancement. Moreover, both' counh'ies for aelan- The question has been in abeyance charged that certain American con-
i
car. Nightfall came and Pound them
"bushed," The blizzard had ceased,
but it was followed by a thick hill fog
which blotted out everything. Cold
and weary the boys gave up hope of
continuing the journey and snuggled
into the shelter of a hollow tree.
Three more days of wandering and
suffering from hunger, cold and expos-
ure were spent by the boys in search
of a camp, which they finally found,
though it was deserted and contained
no food. 'They were found the fourth
day by the friend who was to have
picked them up in his motor car their
first day out from the camp.
In African State
tired years and more nave had the
since then. A note handed by M, terns are taking advantage of native
same economic structure, Both are since
to Mr. Henderson said labor-
Molfe>English Tour Germany conscious of facing an impending that Mr. Henderson's declatation that The commission to investigate
world•market crisis does to the decltn- immediate resumption of diplomatic forced labor will include, in addition
Berlin,—Lops a travel. bureaus re -
Ing loan capacity of Europe and the services was impossible showed that to a member from the United States,
port ease of 80
per cent. over i 928 f an then n number' of closely knit resources of America. So the British Government was unwlll- one name by
yNatLiberia and one by the
English teoeistr• gisitin Germany, those has long been as ea beim s.on ing or unable to agree to the restora-
League g g tion of normal relations between the
The nun her of group trips ilready an -
Parity sides to forestall and obviate any
last year., The first month of the Ber- ley
tin season attrt,cted 3,512 American Ottawa Journal (Cone,): In two
visitors. years Great Britain has reduced mill-
tary bills by 923,000,000; the United
flower does a shoe -Maker gen- States has increased here by $117,-
Whaterally like'—Lady's slipper,
nouneed is 20 per cent. greater than open conflict between Loudon and two countries.
Par
New York financially. Neither land
can afford to keep up the costly
struggle for supremacy."
What precious stone is like a door?
—Agate.
Referred to Soviet Chiefs
The note added that Russia would
have to devote special new.considera-
tion to the question and that tate com-
missariat for foreign affairs would ap-
ply for instructions to tate Central
Executive Committee of the U,S,S,R.
Nothing has been heard on the Rus-
sian side since then.
Keeping Up the Friendly Relations
Cancer Treating
Centres Proposed
Dr. Gordon Richards Sug-
gests Five Establishments
Across Canada
Winnipeg.—Placing of four or five
centres across Canada devoted exclu-
sively to treatment of cancer, was ad-
vocated by Dr. Gordon Richards, of
Toronto, before the Manitoba Medical
Association convintion here recently.
He said these centres are specially
needed as the life of a patient de-
pended almost entirely upon the de-
gree of skill exercised in the first
treatment by radium.
Such centres should be staffed with
men who could be trusted to do work
of high standard, He declared that
the greatest danger attending use of
radium now was that it might be used
by someone lacking the necessary skill
and experience, with consequent di-
rect harm; or, what was worse, failure
to obtain success where success was
possible.
Possible location dor the concer in-
stitutes would bo Vancouver, Calgary
or !Edmonton, Regina or Saskatoon,
innipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Hali-
fax.
INTerms—rlNl PIOURge IN SUI4dPEAN POLIYi d Dost thou love life? Then do not
Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain and Aristide Briand, French premier, squander Limo, 10 rthat 15 the stuff
photographed at the Qual d'Arsay,'Frottcet'foreign 'Alec in Paris, recently. life Is made of.----Boujamin Franklin.
000,000. This year tete Milted States
isspending $194,000,000
Britain on her army and navy—"at a
time," to quote Mr. Hoover, "when
there is less real danger of extensive
disturbances to peace than at any
time iu more than half a century."
The most sceptical Congressman will
find It dil1cult to prove from these
figures that Britain needs to be watch-
ed closely for fear that she might
grab the Panama Canal and seize New
York and San Francisco some dark
night.
more than
Reggie—"Algy and I entertained a
mind reader iawst everting,"
Miss Sharpe—"What an uninterest-
ing evening Ile must have spent"
Italian Sets Balloon Record
Brescia, Italy, — Captain Stolt-Leg-
nani receutly established a now Ital.
Man balloon record by remaining In
the ah' twenty-seven hours. The pre- Cation of the reputation .they 'Might
vious record was twenty-one !tom's, 'r^ve made. -0, W. Ilolmes.
in addition to these operations,
prospecting and development work is
being clone in the Sudbury district by
a Pew independent operators. Fore,
most among these are the operations
of the iraleonbridge Nickel Mitres
w --hick has proved the existence on its
property of large ore bodies and is
proceeding rapidly with the erectirn of
a concentrator and a 200 -ton smelter.
Development is also being carried on
by the Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Company on its nickel -cop-
per property at Rottenstone Lake in
northern Saskatchewan, where an ap-
parently important discovery was
made in 1928.
The Canadian production of nickel
in 1928 amounted to about 48,400
short tons as against 33,400 short toes
in 1927, and these figure swill prob-
ably be largely exceeded by the 1929
output, production for the first three
months of 1929 being about 3,400 tons
greater than for the corresponding
period iu 1928.—Prepared at the direc-
tion of Dr. Charles ,Camsel, Deputy
Minister of Mines, Canada, by Mr. Ar-
thur Buisson, Mines Branch,
Unusual Sampler
Found Among Rags
Century -old Bit of Fine
Stitching Bears Family
Register
Windsor—A sampler, done iu cross
stitching, beating the family register
of Amasa and Sally Murdock and dat-
ing
aling back to 1819, was the somewhat
unusual find made by George Aldeus,
operator of the East Windsor Hydro
substation in a bale of rags intended
for wiping machinery. Aldous said
he was about to use a rag from the
bale on a large blob of oil on a trans-
former when he noticed It was some-
what unusual. His curiosity was
aroused and he continued reading—
about Amass Murdock who was born
July 22, 1772; oP Saliy Murdock who
was born October 16, 1779; of Mary
Murdock; or another Mary; and of
Amasa, Sr„ who was born in 1810; of
John and of Sarah B. Mardock, of
William and of two Elizabeths.
At the bottom of the cloth he read:
"0 may these names in Heaven bo
writ which on this canvas I have seta
Wrought by Sarah E. Murdock, aged
13, 18'9,"
The samp)er is about 24 inches long
by 10 Mein:a wide and is of heavy
linen wedeln was probably orginaily
is an ecru shade, The names and
dates aro all clone in the fine cro8t
stitch work, some in green and some
in dark brown. The fancy frames
embroidered around each name aro t
green and what must been a,gold
shade, although now it is yellowy.
Across the lower edge is some inch
wide fringe, It was evidently put
on at a mucin Inter 1910, tor 11 is
morcerisedcotton.—Mall and Empire.
Reputation
now many people live on the repu+