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Dominioi
ews Brief
Vancouver, B. C. -It is estimated
that during 1928, 800,000 tourists
visited Vancouver and from which
revenue of $24,000,000 was derived, as
compared with 700,000 and a revenue'
of 520,000,000 in 1922. In 1.916 less
than 2,000 autos entered British Col-
umbia, In 1920 the number had risen
to 18,424; in 1.922 to 38,284; these
coming from Washington, California
Oregon, Montana, Idaho and other
.abates. More autos arrived from Now
York alone than front all Canada east
of Winnipeg.
Calgary, Alta.- One thousand
young buffalo will be taken from the
big park at Wainwright, Alberta, and
turned loose in the north in the region
in which wood buffalo are found, IIon.
Charles Stewart, Minister of the In-
terior, announces. This will remove
hart of the objection to the slaughter
of these animals made necessary by
the increasing size of the Wainwrigb
herd.
Regina, Sask.-It is estimated th
askatchewan's: 1.920 crop will yield
76,844,650, distributed as follower
eat, $189,466,500; oats, $56,805,600;
ey, 57,620,800; rye, 516;93,500;
ax, 59,168,250. These figures are
crop yield reports end gaug-
average price which is ex -
prevail during the selling
reg, Man. -All transporta-
scords have been shattered in
the handling of grain shipmuets from
the Prairie Provinces during the past
two months. Since the commencement
of the crop year on September. ist
loadings totalled 121,596 cars, repre-
senting 169,053,085 bushels, as com-
pared with 158,795,320 bushels, handl-
ed for the same period of last ,year.
a Of this quantity the Canadian Pacific
has•'loaded 68,469 cars,' representing
100,307,085 bushels, as against 94,071,-.
320 bushels during the 1922 period.
Port .Arthur., Ont. -Plans are said
to be in ;course of preparation by ele-
vator companies now ,located at. the
, head of the lakes, for the construction
of an additional 3,500,000 to 6,750,000
bushels etorage capacity in Port
Arthur next summer. Ono company
now'' operating at Fort William, is
stated to have sanctioned plans for a
plant in Port Arthur with a' capacity
of 1,500,000 bushels.
Quebec, Que.-Work on the Keno-
, gami dam is reported at.the Running
Streams Commission offices hero as
progressing very well, and the 52,000;
000 works Located at the upper part
of the Saguenay River are expected to
t be completed within fifteen months.
As a result of these works, the mills
at operated by the Price interests will
be kept in full aotivity during the
whole year, instead of partly closing
down in the winter months, as they
had to do in the past.
1 Woodstock, N.B,-The Victoria
Mills plant of the Fraser Company,
' Ltd., will be operated throughout the
• coming winter following The same pot -
icy which was adopted last winter.
The winter's operations will be con -
'fined to the cutting of laths and
shingles. The expectation is that the
operation of the anill and the getting
out of material for the winter's saw-
ing: will give about two hundred mon
continuous employment throughout
the season.
FRENCH DEMANDS
REFUSED BY BRITAIN
Italy Also Declines 'to Support
Punitive Measures Against
Germany.
A despatch from London' says: -
The British Government will not ac-
cede to the demands of France for
punitive measures against Germany,
and has notified the British Ambas-
sador in Paris to so inform the Coun-
cil of .Ambassadors.
This action was taken after the
Cabinet at a lengthy meeting had de-
liberated on the punitive measures
M. Poincare, the French Premier, pro-
poses to take against Germany to
force the extradition of former Crown
Prince Frederick William, and permit
a full resumption of Allied military
control in Germany, which bas been
suspended for the past ten months.
The 'Foreign Office, immediately
the Cabinet meeting adjourned, tele-
graphed Lord Crewe, the British Am-
bassador to France to inform the
Council of Ambassadors when it re-
sumes its sittings, that Great Britain
remains firm against the imposition
on Germany of the severe coercive
penalties threatened by France. As
Premier Poincare declares France will
enforce these penalties separately if
Great Britain refuses to join her,
there appears to be a hopeless dead-
lock betweon the two nations which
some of the political observers .believo
portends an ultimate dissolution of
the entente cordiale.
It felt in Ministerial circles here
that matters are exactly where they
were last August, when Lord Curzon,
the British Foreign Secretary, sent
his famous note to Premier Poincare,
in which he declared that Groat Bri-
tain could not much longer delay sep-
arate action toward a settlement of
the Ruhr situation without the grav-
est consequences to the recovery of.
trade and to the peace of the world.
A despatch from Rome says: -"The
Italian Government' cannot give its
approval to any further occupation of
German territory," Premier Mussolini
declared in the Senate on Friday
,night.
"One must have the courage to say
that the German people cannot be
destroyed,". the -Premier continued.
"They are a people which has known
eivilization and which may to -morrow
be an integral part of European civil-
ization,"
Signor Mussolini intimated that
Italy did not contemplate such an ex-
tremely grave step as broaleing with
France, which might involve another
European conflagration and • leave
Italy isolated.
The Premier declared the request
to deport the former Crown Prince
from Germany was a mistake. It'
meant - another deadlock, for the
Prince could not leave Germany with-
out further complicating the situation.'
Prices in Britain
of Canadian Cattle
tn
A despa � �'' from Ottawa says: --
Two further outbreaks of foot and
mouth disease at Glasgow are report-
ed in a cable received by the Depart
Ment of Agriculture coveringthe
British cattle market during the past
week. Quotations at that port are
not available as all sales of live stock
have been prohibited.
During the week 756 Canadian cat-
tle were sold at Birkenhead mostly at
from 18% to 191,1 cents per pound in
sink.
There were three shipments of Can-
adian cattle from Montreal during the
past week, with a total of 1,358 head,
The shipments were to Liverpool,
Dundee and Glasgow, respectively. 1.
Canada's Wheat Crop Runs
• Close to 500,000,000 Bus.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
"There seems little doubt now that the
crop of 1923 will run close to 600,-
000,000 bushels," said IIon. T. A. Low,
Minister of Trade and Commerce, in
commenting at length upon a trip of
inspection through the Western prov-
inces and as far as the Pacific coast
from which he has just returned to
Ottawa. Mr. Low spoke of a general
spirit of optimism which he noticed in
Western cities. He said that it was
felt that the turninghad now been
made towards pre-war prosperity, and
good harvests for another couple of
years was all that was needed to com-
pletely put Western Canada back upon
its feet.
The increased use of the Vancouver -
Panama Canal route for shipping
Western wheat was one of the most
significant things he noticed on his
trip, said the Minister.
J. E. Fortin
Recently elected president of 1,1 e
Canadian Weekly Newspapers' As-
sociation,
Canada Now Takes Second
Place as Dairy Exporter
A despatch from London says: -
New Zealand has displaced Canada as
an exporter of dairy produce. In a
speech at a meeting of Dalgety and
Co„ Hon. Edmund Parker said that
New Zealand had now become the
greatest dairy produce exporting
country in the world.' While in Aus-
tralia the dry season had checked the
production of dairy produce there was
a substantial increase in New Zea-
land's. output and her exports of but-
ter and cheese reached- a value of
£18,000,000.
Kills Deer With Stone
on East.Ontario Road
A despatch from Brockville, Ont.,
says : -Dazzled by the headlights of
their motor car, a buck weighing 185
pounds dressed, was stunned' by a
stone hurled at its head by Simon
Richards, Carleton Place, on the road
between Fergus Falls and Lanark,
and finally' despatched by hint and his
companion, Vincent Stafford, with a
jack-knife. Richards intended start-
ing upon a hunting trip the following
day, but abandoned it,.
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Lake Vessels Carry Wheat
to British Ports
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
The steamships Lieken and Vesla,
which sailed from Fort William to
Queenstown this week, 'carried the
first cargoes of wheat to be shipped
erom the Canadian head of the lakes BARRIOADE5 IN A RHINELAND TOWN,
to Europe, it is stated in grain circles
here. The bills of lading made out to
German Nationalists guarding the town hall of a Rhineland city against
cover the shipment were identical with Separatists, who have set up a republic under the protection of the ocoupy-
those ,issued 'a b seaboard ports ing French troops.
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THE BIG STAR IN THE POLITICAL FIRMAMENT
Britain again faces an election on the issues of Protection versus Free Trade. Premier Baldwin and the
Conservative party has declared for Protection, and Lloyd George and Asquith have patched up a difference of
seven years' standing to fight for Fres Trade, Lord Birkenhead, who was believed to be in the Conservative' fold,
has apparently broken with Baldwin and Wray support Free Trade. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Labor party,
will make a strong fight to secure the reins of government, and it. is expected that the Labor -Socialists have drop-
ped Capital Levy from their program In an effort to capture pabllc support. Lord Rotherntere, tho greatest news-
paper owner in Britain, whose.papers are said to roach eighty per cent. of the reading public, has yet to declare
his position in the light,. In the.picture above are, left to right, to) row, Lord Birkenhead, H, H. Asquith; second
row, David" Lloyd' George, Premier Baldwin; bottom row, Ramsay MacDonald and Lord Rothermere.
CANADA IS SELLING
MORE WHEAT TO U.S.
October Figures Show In-
crease, Smaller Shipments
to Britain.
A despatch from Ottawa says:-
Exports of wheat from Canada to the
United States showed a big increase
in October over those of October a
year ago, whrrens exports of wheat
to Great Britain showed a marked
falling off. For the two months cndcd
October --that is to say, for the fleet
two months of the present grain sea-
son, total experts of Canadian wli•at
',vele considerably less than during the
same period last year, while exports
of flour showed a slight increase.
Wheat exported in October amount-
ed to 29,070,547 bushels, value $29,
528,796, as compared with 97,503,071
bushels, value 540,017,249, in Octnber,
1922, according to the Dominion Bur-
eau of Statistics. The United States
purchased 8,119,982 bushels of Can-
adian wheat last month as compared
with 1,716,020' bushels in October of
last year.
Exports' of wheat to the United
Kingdom last month were 20.582,233
bushels, compared with 30,700,138
bushels in October, 1922. Of last
month's exports, over 16,000,000 bush-
els went via United States ports,
while five million bushels odd went via
Canadian sea ports.
Total wheat exports for September
and October were 84,370,074 bushels
as against 46,826,554 bushels durin
the similar two months in 1922. Ex-
ports to, the United States, however,
increased from 2,581,053 bushels to 3,-
594,437 bushels. Exports to the Un-
ited Kingdom fell from 37,509,139
bushels to 24,413,433 bushels.
SMUTS "URGES INTER-
NATIONAL MEETING
South African Premier Advo-
cates Conference on Repara-
tions Regardless of France.
A despatch from London says: -
General Smuts, Premier of South
Africa, on the eve of his return home
from the imperial Conference, urges
an international meeting, with or
without France, to settle the re/mire-
. tions question. In a letter to the
Tines, he says
"Our duty is clearly to go forward
even if France does not march with
us. France, on January 11 last, went
forward without us to seek repara-
tions in the Ruhr and shall we shrink
from going forward without her when
something far deeper, far more funda-
mental is at stake?
"As a limited inquiry is new ap-
parently dead, the wider conference
acceptable to both Britain and the
United States should be reverted to.
That clearly is what the Imperial
Conference contemplated. That prob-
ably is what the British Government
contemplated when they hinted at
separate action in their ,tote of Aug-
ust 11."
Even should France absent herself
from this conference, General Smuts
hopes that the United States would
attend.
Inquiry in official circles elicited
the comment that tate: election situa-
tion here makes any such move from
England impossible until after the
new Government takes office about the
middle of December, It is certain,
therefore, that whatever happens in
the international situation, short of a
tremendous catastrophe, Britain will
refrain from any action during the
next month.
Dr. A. E. Marty, M.A., LL.D.
The only woman school inspector In
Canada, who has been elected presi-
dent of the Toronto Public School
Teachers' Association.
TRADE DELEGATION
RUSSIA TO CANADA
Personnel of Soviet Party Will
Comprise Eight Repre-
sentative Members.
A despatch from London says: -
The Russian trade delegation to Can-
ada, which has been sanctioned by
the Foreign Office and the Canadian
Government, will proceed to the Do-
minion at the end of two months,
Jenson, who is in Italy on a trade
mission for the Soviet Government,.
will be at its head, and with him will
- be Yessakoff, managing director of the
Volga river fleet.
Col: H. J. Mackie, who has been
in Russia for many months as a sort
of unofficial representative of _ the
Canadian Government and commer-
cial interests, and is now in London,
say the personnel of the delegation
is above suspicion. It will comprise
eight members and will have head-
quarters in Montreal. It probable
that the Arcos Union of Russian Co-
e operative Societies, which has been
given a monopoly of all, foreign pur-
chases by the Soviet Government, will
also open a branch in Canada. Russia
can hope to sell little to the Dominion,
but expects to be able to , place its
furs on the Montreal fur mart. It is
prepared to buy from Canada, Col.
Mackie says, practically every kind
The Week's Markets
$1.04
TORONTO,
Man%itoba. wheat -No. 1. Northern,
No. 1
Manitextraoba feedoats, •--N424f oc.. 3 CW, 42% e;
Manitoba barley ---Nominal,
All the above, track, bay ports.
NoA. merican2yellow, $1.17, corn -Track, Toronto,
Ontario barley ---58 to 60c.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 72 to 75e.
Ontario rye -No. 2, 73 to 75e.
Peas -Sample, 51.50 to 51.55.
Millfeed-lel., Montreal freights,
bags included: Bran., per ton, 527;
shorts, per ton, 530; middlings, 536;
good feed flour, $2.05.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, 94 to
96c, outside.
Ont. No. 2 white oats -40 to 42e,
Ontario corn -Nominal.
Ontario flour -Ninety per cent. pat,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
mbulenlst, se, 54.75;
oard, Toronto$4.25. basis, $4.70;
ab
Manitoba flour -1st pats., in jute
sacks, 56.80 per bbl.; 2nd pats,, $5,80,
Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,
track, Toronto, 514.50 to 515; No. 2,
$14.50; No. 3, $12.50; mixed, $12.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 59,
Cheese -New, large, 23 to 24c;
twins, 24 to 25c; triplets, 25 to 26c;
Stiltons, 25 to 26e. Old, large, 80 to l
31e; twins, 31 to 32c.
Butter -Finest creamery prints, 41
to 43e; No. 1 creamery, 88 to 400; No,'
2, 86 to 38c.
Eggs -Specials, 60e; extras in car-
tons, 46 to 48c; extras, 42 to 430; fists,
88 to 89e; 2nds, 30 to 82c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 4
lbs. and over, 25c; chickens, 8 to 4
lbs., 22c; hens, over 5 lbs., 22c; do, 4
to 5 lbs., 15c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 15c;
roosters, 15c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
20c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 18c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs. and up, 28c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 4
lbs. and over, 33e; chickens, 8 to 4
lbs, 800; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4
to 5 lbs., 24c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 18c;
roosters, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.;
280; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25e; turkeys,
y7coung,'prim
10 lbs, and up, 83c.
Beans -Canadian hand-picked, Ib.,
es, 614c.
Maple products -Syrup, per ir.p,
gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, 52.40 per
gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25c,
Honey -60 -lb. tins, 12 to 180 per
lb.; 10-1b. tins, 12 to .130 ; 5-1b. tins;
1) to 14c; 2% -lb. tins, 14 to 15e;' beth, "the inventor of the chrononret-
"The New Bath
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Natural Resources
Bulletin,
The Natural Resources Intel
ligence Service of. the•Depart-
ment of the Interior at Ottawa
says:
Few of Ontario's population'
are aware' of the extent to
which the Norfolk: Provincial
Station is contributing to the
upbuilding of the forest indus-
try of this province. While the
total area of the Forest Station
ie 1,600 acres, the actual nurs-
ery covers 100 acres: From this
nursery there were supplied
this year 1,000,000 trees to pri-
vate individuals, 2,240,000
transplants to two new govern-
ment nurseries, and planting
material for 400 acres of 19
state and municipal reforesta-
tion projects throughout the
province,. At present the nurs-
ery contains 7,000,000 trans-
plants and 11,000,000 seedlings.
The conifer's mostly grown are
white, red, Scotch and jack -
pines, whits 'spruce, European
and Japanese larch, and white
cedar, while the hardwoods are
mainly hard and soft maples,
walnut, hickory, ash, cherrrr
basswood and black locust.
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Too Many Craves
in Westminster Abbey
A despatch from London says: -If
Britain is to continue to bury some
of her greatest sons in Westminster
Abbey it will be necessary to remove
thence a number of those frequently'
described as nonentities, or there must
be a chamber set apart for dee over-
flow. Bonar Law's interment has 0.11,`,more focussed attention upon its scant
space. Carlyle% phrase was that Clri-
tain trust some day crake up it, nand
to "gaol delivery."
Recently criticism of the burial of
John Broughton, pugilist, in the abbey
was revived. Charles IL's pages of
the bedchamber were buried there,
and also the "Taster" to Queen Eliza -
comb honey, per doz., No, 1, 53.75 to er," the author of
54' No 2 $3.25 to $3.50.
Guide" and "Miss P. Beaufoy"---a
Smoked' meats -Hams, med. 27 to
28e; cooked llama 89 to •41c • smoked stranger to historians.
rolls, 21 to 28e cottage rolis, 22 to
24c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34c; spe.
sial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 38e;
backs, boneless, 30 to 35c.
Cured meats-Longclear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., 518; '70 to 90 lbs., 517.50;
Bonar Law was the first Prime Min-
ister of this century to rest in the ab-
bey. Of the twenty Prime Ministers
of theprevious century only four had
this honor conferred upon them -Pitt,
lbs: d16.50 lightweight .Canning, Palmerston and Gladstone. .
rolls, in barrel$$30; heavyweight
up,Tn the eighteenth century there was
90
rolls, $33.an
Lard, pure tierces. 18 to 18%e;
tubs, 18% to 19c; pails, 19 to 19%c;
only one -Chatham. In the past many
of England's Prime Ministers were
the members of old families and it
prints, 20% to 211,Sc; shortening was generally the preference of their
tierces, 15i to 1591c; tubs, 151/2 to relatives that they be buried on their
lac; pails, 16 to Write; prints, 18b own estates.
to 1833c.
Heavy steers, choice, 56,75 to 57;
butcher steers, choice, $6 to $6.25; do, Walls Laid. by Romans
gd., $6. to 55.75; do, med., 54 to $5; do, Uncovered in London
com., 53 to $4; butcher heifers, choice,
55.75 to 56.25; do, med., .$4 to 5; do, A des a
1 come to $3.50; butcher cows, choice, p tch from London says:-
$4 to $4.50• do, med., 53 to 54; can- Masonry thought to be of Roman
nets and cutters, $1.50 to 59.50; but- origin has been discovered in White
cher bulls, good, $8.50 to 54.50; do, Friars Street during the demolition of
cont., $2,50 to $8.50; feeding steers, a glass factory. The factory dates
good, 55 to 55.50; do, fair, $4.50 to back to 1670, when it was founded on
$5; stockers, good, 54 to 55; do, fair,
n the site of the Monastery' of the White
x,3.50 to `$4; inflicters and springers,
$80 to $110; calves, choice, 510 to Friars, who first came to London
{511; do, med., 58 to $9; do, con., $4 about the time of Edward I.
to $6; do, grassers, $8.50 to 54.50; The supposed Roman walls aro
lambs, choice, 510.25 to 510.75; do, about 6 feet thick by 80 feet long, and
bucks, 58.75 to $9.25; do, con., $8 to are close to two long subterranean
58.50; sheep, light ewes, good, $6 to passages, the origin of which is not
56.50; do, fat, heavy, $4 to 55; do, ertain. Relics' of later date were
culls, $2, to $2:60; hogs, thick, smooth, also found amongthem a` number of
F.W., $7.75 to $8.25 do, f.o.b., $7.25 ,
to 57.75; do, country points, $7 to clay pipes manufactured there about
$7.50; do, selects, 58.50 to 59. 1680.
MONTREAL. Until recently' the excavators, ig-
Oats, Can. West, No. 2, 55 to norant of the value of these pipes,
55%e; do, No. 3, 54 to 54%,c•'
41 c; extra have been smoking and eventually die-
white,No. 1 feed, 52to 58c; No. 2 Local carding then;.
5132 to 52c. Flour, Man. spring,,
wheat pats., 1sts, $6.30; 2nds, 55.80; Motor bakers', $5.60; winter pats., Motor Safety Device.
choice, $5.'75 to $5.85; rolled oats, bag
901bs.,$3:05, Bran, 537:25. Shorts,
$30.25. Middlings, 536.25. Hay, No..
2, per ton, car lots, 515 to 516.
Cheese, finest westerns 1745 to
184o; finest easterns, 17% to 1708c.
Butter, No. 1 creamery, 87% to 87%c.
Eggs, extras, 42e; No. 1 stock, 370;
No. 2 stock, 80 to 32c. Potatoes, per
bag, car lots, 95e.. to $1.
Common dairy type cows and heif-
ers of canner and cutter quality, $1.50
to 53; con. bulls, 52.25 to 52.75; fairly
good veal calves, 510; grassers, 52.50
to 58; lambs, 510; hogs, thick smooth
and butcher types, $8.26 to $8.50;
lights, $8' to 58.25.
Alberta Oil Find Causes
Rush to Land Office
A despatch from Edmonton ;lays: -
It was estimated that four thousand
acres in the Wainwright oil area had
been filed by leasehold seekers when
the Dominion Lands Department
office closed late on Thursday after-
noon. The rush resulting from the re-
port of the strike` of the British Pe-
troleums, Lid., just announced by the
company,
Throughout the day land office ofll-
rials attended to a steady lineup of
citizens anxious to file on leases. On
Wednesday shares in the British Pe-
troleums, Ltd., were quoted at the par
value of 51, but with the report of
the strike, the, shares were not to be
purchased at any price, though eager-
ly sought after.
The consensus of opinion of those in
lose toueh with the drilling opera-
tions is that the flow of 100 barrels
day has been considerably under-
stir/toted. • From the commencement
the British Petroleum Company has
eon conservative in its information,,
nd•persons interested in the old field
ook for a much greater production.
coni the well.
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of manufactures. Part pee/tient could
be made for the purchases but credits .a
would have„ to be arranged for the e
remainder. The board of the Soviet
Governmentwould.have to be accepted .b
as -;security, and Col.:Mackie states a
that the :Soviets have, so far, met 1
every obligat.loul of this kind. f
Broken front axles on automobiles
have caused man ya serious accident,
often with lose of life. To avoid such
disasters a Danish automobile maker
has invented and tried satisfactorily.
a device to keep the car upright in
case a }wheel comes oft or if the front
axle breaks. It consists of SEi pair of•
trailing shoes made of spring steel of
varying widths for. different sizes, of
cars.
When the accident happens the car
rests on this shoe, and in one of tbo
tests it was found that the machine
could even be steered fairly well. The
cost of the device ranges from 59 to
518 and it can be applied in a few
moments.
A campaign was started recently to
raise 5100,000, among the business In-
terests in Vancouver for the purpose
of advertising the city in the hope of
attracting a greater number of tour-
ists, So far the campaign has been
meeting with success, and it is anti-
cipated that the fund will he aver -
subscribed, •
Canada's highest lookout station has
been completed and will be ready for
use next year. It is situated on Mount
Cartier, near,Revelstoke; B.C., and le
8,628 feet above the sea level. It will
be used for the detection of forest fires
and for 'meteorological and otherob
nervations. The Dominion Forestry
;?ranch has charge of it.
The United .States of America., it is
estimated, now hold 45 per cent, of
the world's total of gold money. Of
the remainder, the British Empire
holds about 1235 per cent,; France,• 11
per cent, Japan an 6 mei,. cent. Spells,
p ,
5 per cent.; and, p Germany and Hol-
land about 2% per cent, each: