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The Seaforth News, 1926-04-08, Page 3O,NT 1 ,'i10 SWEPT BY BLIZZARD DAMAGE ESTIMATED IN THE MILLIONS • Toronto, A,pt it t:= -As ifs -the match. rained. These, were• no cancellations Lion were. giving his tail one final and few were more than lialf an hour derisive lash, the month of winds came late. In some ease there were slight to a conclusion in one oftheworst hold-ups whilo fallen poles were clear- - storms in the history of Ontario. All ed from the tracks, and tho engineers over tho province, but more especially had to proceed cautiously. to the east" of Toronto, .the gale made . The Niagara fruit belt escaped the its appearance -and left in its wake full force of the storm, and damage in towns, villages andaides deprived, the peach district will be, practically wholly or in part, of their various negligible. There was rain at Grime- formsof communication with the rest by, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, of the world, but no sleet, and not violent. Damago to tite Bell Telephone sys- The storm centre in Western On - tem a'l'one was placed at between $500,- tario was Guelph, and for this reason 000 and $750,000, so that the total the C.P.R. Telegraph system could not d'amag'e allover the province is esti- reach I•Iatnilton, as its wires are root - mated in the millions.Neither of the ed via Guelph Junction.' Urgent mes- two telegraph companies would give sages were -telephoned from Toronto to an estimate of the damage done their Hamilton. plants, but from ' reports received During the day only five Western thousandsof poles will have to he re- Ontario points-ISitchener; Waterloo, placed or reset. Hundreds of men will Guelph, -Elora and Fergus --could be be sent out to begin the reparation of reached front Toronto, while the cast the damage, which will not be finally and north were absolutely cut off.; cleared away for weeps. Owing to limited communication Communication with Eastern On- facilities, particulars of the storm taste was entirely cut off for the great. could not be secured from minty places. er part of the day. Meagre reports In many towns anti villages, break - coming through told a tale of tangled down of Hydro wires leftthe streets wires, shattered trees, and power see- ..in utter darkness,while householders vice demoralized.. It is believed the were forced to get along on .candles. loss to the apple orchards will be The disturbance came from the heavy. Southwest States, according .to in - Though telegraph service was gout; formation vouchsafed by the Weather operation of trains was well main- Bureau. CATTLE BOATS TO HAVE MECHANICAL KILLERS I or Humane Slaughter of Animals in Case of Storms at Sea. A despatch from Ottawa says: - The Dept. of Agriculture has received physician to get en absolute accurate record of human heart beats. The stethoscope's function is to amplify .heart sounds. Hitherto it was pointed out, every physician who listened had a different ear, and even when the seunds were filtered, dis- agreements in diagnosis resulted. The cardiograph has been attached to the stethoscope in such manner that the , heart beats are recorded mechanically, advice from the High Commissioner's thus doing away with a large amount Office that the British Ministry of of error. Agriculture has decided to require that in future every vessel carryink a « cattle or other animals to a British Fw: c ��a , T,, ,•v port must be supplied with a proper mechanical killer. This action is taken owing to the occurrences on the S.S. Manchester Producer on its last voyage with a shipment of cattle to Great Britain, when, owing to heavy storms, which partially disabled the vessel, a con- siderable number of cattle suffered severe hardship, and finally had to be jettisoned. This new order becomes' effective May 1, and is intended to provide a means for the humane slaughter of animals which it may be- come necessary to kill during a voyage because of conditions similar to those suffered by the Manchester Producer. CARDIOGRAPH ADDED TO THE STETHOSCOPE Device Will Make Possible An Accurate Record of Human Heart Beats. '• A despatch from Chicago, says: - Staff physicians of St. Luke's Hospital have combined two modern inventions -the radio -stethoscope and the elec- tro -cardiograph, in a device 'which • Shooting stars are really meteors, they believe makes it possible for a or small` bits of stars, Mr. Justice Beck OP the appeal division ofthe supreme court of Alberta, has been appointed royal commissioner to investigate charges of alleged irregularities intheconstituency of Athabaska, Alberta, during the recent general election. / 'Canada from Coast to Coast Summerside, P.E.I. Tn order to stimulate the growth of the 'foicfarm- ing industry along line's calculated to better ensure the financial and'econ- omic future of the industry, the Can- adian National Silver Fox Breeders' Association has established a modern ranch at Summerside, where the var- ious problems connected with the in- dustry will, be studied. This experi- mental- ranch is, equipped ` with 70 breeding pens and -there still remains adequate space for further expansion. The ranch has been stocked with `.high- class animals, .registered and -pedi- greed, supplied by breeders in the vicinity of Summerside. Halifax, N.S.--The Provincial Min- ister of Mines, in a statement to the Legislative Assembly, said that an ex- pert had been surveying gold pros- pects in the province for some time, and the'report was that large gold de- posits were yet untapped, comparing favorably with these in Ontario and other places where gold mining; was being carried on successfully. b1 ny. years ago this province was a success- ful gold producer, yet the industry has dropped off hi -recent years and the annual production now amounts to about 750 to 1,000 ounces. Jt is con- sidered more than likely_ that at a future date Operators will give serious consideration to days and means of etplgiting, the geld resou les of this province: • . Newsprint Service Bureau. Int 1925 I there were ten new machines started ted with a capacity of 890 tons daily. With the exception of one machine of 100 tons ,capacity, all> the new ma - f chines slatted for 1926 will be installed in Canadian mills. ' I: Hamilton, Ont. -P. V„Byrnes, pees- ident of the Hamilton By -Products ,Coke Ovens, has announced that con- itracts have been signed for' a battery of 35 ovens and that work -will be coo- menced-at once. It is a little over a year since the production of coke under the _by-products process was started in Hamilton. The popularity of this fuel has been'suffibientLy de- monstrated' said Mr. Byrnes to war- - rant the company spending $1,500,000 land tho increasing of the capacity of theplantto. 1,000 tons daily, Winnipeg, Man. -Beginning on Juno 1, a corps of enumerators, 2,500 strong,, will begin a ten-day drive to determine the population of the three -Prairie Provinces, This census is taken under the authority of the fed- eral statutes which provide for a cen- sus every five years, to fall each time midway between .the decennial Doneize ion census: Thus a census is takep on , the Prairies every five years, while in the other provinces it is taken every ten yarns.. Saskatoon, Sask. --Saskatchewan now owns approximately one-third of, the hotses'in'Canade, hating 1,109,958 in a total of 3,554,041. Alberta comes next with 849,939, while Ontario is third with 644,133. Manitoba has 358„ 839, so that the three Prairie Pro- vinces have altogether 2,249,730 head of horses, almost two-thirdsof the total number in the Dominion. Sas- katchewan has an average of about bight horses per farm. Vancouver, B.C.-Construction of the first units in connection with the buildings required .for the new hop yards located in the Sumas reclaimed lands has commenced, Several thou- sand pieces of special lumber will be required' for the trellises. Five hun- dred acres are being planted into hops this par.. Saint Jahn, N.B.-Orders for three carloads of seed potatoes have been placed with the New Brunswick Seed Potato Growers' Association by par- ties in the State of Massachusetts, ac- cording to the secretary of the Asso- elation. Inquiries have also been re- ceived from Newfonndland, New Jer- sey and Ontario, and the outlook for general business this year is consider- ed good. Montreal, Quebec: -Tho program of new newsprint machines in Canada and Newfoundland for 1926 includes eighteen machines, with a combined rated capacity'ef 1,715 tons a day, ac- cording to a' report issued by the PRINCESS VICTORIA ILL WITH INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA Princess Victoria, sister of the king and second eldest daughter of the late I{ing Edward, Is 11.1 with what a Marlborough House bulletin describes as "iniluetizal.pmeumoiria. There is ,some anxiety regarding her, because she Is rather frau of plivsienee The death of her mother, Queen Alexandra, affected her greatly: The prinoeee 1s 68 years o1 age. SPECULATIVE BUYERS DIES AT WHEEL PURCHASING CLAIMS OF MOTOR CAR Ground Staked in Snow is Suffers Heart Attack While Driving on Steep Hill. Readily Sold Like "Pigs' in a Poke." A despatch from - Sioux Lookout says :-The trail to Red Lake is now in excellent condition after a sharp frost, following five days' thaw, and unless theice is weakened in spots, travel by horse or dog sleigh should- be better than at any previous time this -winter. Local men are disposing of claims staked in snow at from Asa() to $1,000 each, expecting to stake again on their 1926 licenses. Speculative buyers of this class of claim seem to be numer- ous, and it is likely that some of them may have a good thing in one of these "pigs in a poke," unless geology is in error. The large aeroplanes of the Patricia A despatch from Toronto says:- Stricken with heart failure at Lans- downe Avenue and Davenport Road while driving his motor car, William J. Millsap, 7 Ridout Street, died al- most immediately. Mr. Millsap was in . his 49th year. Mr. Millsap was south -bound on Lansdowne Avenue, when he was fatally seized. At this point thehill is quite steep. It is thought that Mr. Millsap collapsed aboutihalfway down the incline, so that the car, with no guiding hand at the wheel and no foot on the brake, ran across Davenport Road, jumped the low curb on the south side of that thoroughfare, and crested through the fence which sur- rounds the old Canada Foundry pipe. Air Exploration Syndicate, flying shop. The car remained upright. Wit- from Sioux Lookout, are expected to messes rushed to the spot. When they start their service this week, There saw Mr. Millsap'sitting motionless at the wheel they adjudged that the shock of impact with the fence had rendered him unconscious. A. doctor was called, and after an examination he pronounced Mr. Millsap dead. Two More Magazines is a long waiting lest of passengers. Finds the "Scrawlers" Are Most Intelligent A despatch from Pittsburgh says:.- Persona who have been termed "scrib- blers" and "scrawlers" will find solace in the words of Dr, William T. Root, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, who expresses the opin- ion that "as a rule those of low men- tality are good handwriters." "Intelligent people," said Dr. Root in an address, "think twenty times faster than they can write, and there- • are Film Fun an illustrated magazine Banned From Canada A despatch from Ottawa says: Announcement has been made by Hon, George Botvin, Minister of Customs rind: Excise, that two more United States magazines are to be banned from circulation into Canada. They fore muscular movement is so far be- I featuring the movies, and. Theatrical Life, published in New York, and the Art Lovers' Magazine, g ne, another picture, publication, published in:the same city. Wide -Spreading Oak. The great Hooker oak in California can shelter 8,000 persons ander its branches, hind the activity of the brain that the result is a poor scrawl: A person low in mentality has nothing else to think about but the shaping of his Ietters. "But," continued Dr. Root, "it does not necessarily follow that if you are a poor penman you are intelligent, or vice versa." . MR. JUSTICE THE 'HONORABLE JAMES MAGEE Who celebrated his seventy-ninth, birthday on March 26. On Anvil 9 he coin plated 16 years• upon the beech et the Supreme Court of Owtai•io, THE WEEK'S MARKETS TORONTO. Man, wheat ---No, 1 North,, 51.041 ; No. 2 North., $1.59%; No, 3 North., $1.54.. • Man, oats -No. 2 CW, nominal; No. 8, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 482c; Nee 2 feed, 461/2c; western grain quota- tions on c.i,f, bay ports. Ani. eorn--No, 2 yellow, track, To- ronto, •551c; No. 8 yellow, 803e. Mii,feed-Del. Montreal freigle•, bags included: Bran,per ton, $80.25 to $81.25; shorts, per ton, $32.25 to $33.25: middliugs, 539,25 to $40,25: good feed flour, or hag, $2.80. Ont, oats -40 to 42c, f.o.b. shipping point,. Ont, good 'milling wheat -$1:80 to $1,32 f.o.b. shipping points., according to freights, Burley, malting -62 to 64e. Buck.vhe:ct-No. 2, 72c. Rye -No, 2, 85c. Man, flour -First pat., 58.60, To- ronto, 85%c; No. 8 yellow, 88'c. Ont. flour -Toronto, 90 per cent. pat., per barrel?, lit carlots, Toronto, $5.75; seaboard, in bulk, 5535. Straw-Carlots, per ton, 59 to $9.50, Screenings -Standard, recleaned, f. o.b. bay ports, per ton, $22.50. Cheese -New, large 22c • twins, 22%c; triplets, mac; Stiltons, P24c. Old, large, 28 to 30c; twins, 29 to Sic; triplets, 30 to 32c. Butter -Finest creamery prints, 49c; No. 1 creamery, 47 to 48c; No: 2 46 to 47c. Dairy prints, 41 to 42c. Eggs -Fresh extras, in cartons 38 to 39c; fresh extras, loose, 37 to 88c; fresh firsts, 85 to 36c. Dressed poultry -Chickens, spring, Ib., 85 to 37c; hens over, 4 to 5 lbs., 80c • do, 3 to 4 lbs., �27c; roosters, 25c; ducklings, 5 lbs. and up 30 to 32c. turkeys, 40c. $cans -Can:. hand-picked, 52.60 per bushels; primes, $2.40 per bushel. Maple pi.•oduce-Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.40; per 5 -gal., $2.30 per gal.; 1 maple sugar, ib., 25 to 26c; maple syrtee, new, per gal., 52.50. Honey -50-1b. tins, 11% to 12c per lb.;; 10-14. tins, 11% to 12c; 5 -ib. tins, 11 to 12%c; 21/2-1b. tins, 14 to 14%c. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 29 to olc;. cooked hams, 43 to 45c; smoked breakfast bacon, 33 to 89c; backs, boneless, 35 to 48c. Cored meats -Lang clear bacon, GO to 70 lbs. and up $22.84; 70- to 90 lbs., $23.75; lightweight rolls, in barrels, 524.25; heavyweight rolls, 539.50 per Chi. Lard -Pure tierces, 18 to 18%c; tubs, 18% to 19c; pails, 19% to 200; prints, 20% to 21c; shortening, tierces, 15 to 15%c; tubs, 15% to 16c; palls, 16 to 16%c; blocks, 17% to 18e. Heavy 'steers, choice, $7.50 to $8; do, good, $7.25 to $7.50; butcher teers, choice, 57 to $7.25 do, good, L6 to 56.75; butcher heifers, choice,. 6.50 to 57.25; do,, ood56.00 g $6.50' do,- mad„ "5.50 to $6;; do, cool, >iito $5.60; butcher cows, choice, $5 to $5.76; do, fair to good, g4 to $5; butcher bulls, good $5 M 55.50; bolognas, $2.25 to $12,75; TANNING CAUSES LOSS' OF PEW VITAMIN Vegetables and, Fruits ' Littidj Affected, Says Expert' at New'. Yorks A despatch from New York says :- Fruits and vegetables do not suffer elf 1 appreciable loss of vitamin content through canning. That was the ceiz elusion announced by Dr. Walter Hs Eddy of Teachers' College at the mee i' ing of the New York Medical SoeietilF in the Waldorf Astoria. Hitherto vitamins, niore particular- ly vitamin C, which lurks mysterious- ly in fruits and green vegetables, wer$ thought to be fragile things which faded into thin air when heated. But Mr, Eddy says not, especially when the heating is done tri air -tight, cosi'- canners and cutters, 52.50 to $3,50; tahners, springers, choice, 85 to 5100; good "Foods sealed in cans before heat- milch cows, $70 to 580; medium caws, ing and then heated for a long period $45 to $60; feeders, good, 56.25 to at high temperatures suffer much less 56.75; do, fair, $5 to $6; stockers, good, $5 to 55.50; do, fair, $4.50 to in destruction of vitamins than when 55; calves, choice, $12.50 to $13.50; cooked in open kettles," he said. do, good, $11 to $12; do, grassers, Dr, Eddy emphasized that vitamins $6 to $6,50; Ight'sheep, axe neta panacea, but merely one im- 58; heavies and bucks $5.50 to $6,50; portant quality of food not recognized good lambs, $13good to 514; do, mad,, until recently, $11.50 to 512; do, bucks, $9 to $11; Tba banana, he said, was. as groat a do, culls, $10 to 511; hogs, thick smooths, fed and watered, $13.85; do, protection against scurvy, which lack f.o.b. $12.76; do, country points, of vitamin 0 induces, as oranges and 512.6'0; do, oil cars, 513.75; select tomatoes. Besides being well fortified premium, 52.60; thick fats, f.o.b., with this vitamin, the banana also has 12.25. vitamins' A and B, he added. MONTREAL In anotherpaper on dtamins, 'Dr. Oats, Can."west., No. 2, 66c; do, E. V. McCollum of Baltimore express - No. 3, 62c; extra No. 1 feed, 62c. ed belief that in the recent stressing Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., firsts, of the need of vitamins other essential 58.60• do seconds, 58.10; strong bak qualities of healthful diet had been ers', ;7.7b; winter pats., choice, $6.10 q to $6.15. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., neglected. $3.20 to 53.30. Bran, $30.25; shorts, "Probably a lack of calcium, and $32.25; middlings, $39.25, Hay, No. the taking of a diet disproportionately 2, ton, car lots513.50. perrich in phosphorus and lacking in Cheese, finest Wests, 25c. Butter, vitamin D is the fault of greatest sig - No. 1pasteurized•, 48r{zc. Eggs,.fres h niflcance in the diet of many people," extras, 40 to 41c; fresh firsts, 36c, he sa: id Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 53.50. Calves, fair quality, 57; do, poorer During the morning session of the lots, $6 to 56.50; hogs, $14 to 514.25; sections on public health and neurol- do," selects, 514.50; sows, $11.75 to ogy and psychiatry there was a strong $ rally to the defence of the bad boy. "In many instances the so-called bad boy has nothing the matter with him," said Dr. Frankwood E. Williams of tagious- MADE 100 -MILE TRIP ess of heineur tic is the of the IN A SNOW MOBILE parents. To cure such a boy you have tolls, 22c; cottage, 25 to 27c; break- fast bacon, 32 to 36c; special brand 12.25; steers,northwest 57; cows, good, 55 to $5.50; do, med., 54 to 55; do, corer., 53.50 to $3.75. The Duke of Orleans Pretender to the throne of France, w is dead at ,Palermo, Sicily, of preu mouia. to cure the parents." Sault Doctor' Ventured to Aid _ o- of Veteran Guide in Danger Henry Ford Builds a Fence of H is Life. and Violates Old Custom A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: -A tale rivalling in inter- A despatch from London says:- est and thrills and some stories of, Henry Ford, although more than 8,000 pioneer days when perilous trips were miles away, appears to be at odds with made afoot by dog teams' and later by old English custom, and possibly with the horse, is told by Duncan Mc114illan the common law of the right of way. of the Lynch Auto Sales, who, in coo- His adversaries are the longshoremen pany with Duncan Featherstone. as his of Dagenham Dock, where Mr, Lord assistant driver, and Dr. J. H. Gimby, has recently erected au automobile made the journey to Batchawana, a factory. Having paid $1,500 an acre round trip of at least 100 miles, where for about 800 acres of land, he, or his the doctor had been called by the Lake manager, felt entitled to surround the Superior Paper Co., to attend John property with a barbed wire fence, Towab, a 70 -year-old guide, who was thereby closing upa footpath which suffering from mastoid and in danger of his life. The journey was made in a snow - ho mobile, the party leaving the Sault . Sunday afternoon at 3.8O, and arriv- ing back after a successful trip on be removed again next morning. Tuesday at five o'clock. It is estimat- Even the threat of turning out of ed that it would take at least a -week their cottages within the property to cover the ground under preeent such men as were concerned in this winter conditions with a horse and rig. warfare has not deterred these Eng - At times the party braved the ice of lash workmen from insisting on what Lake Superior and on the return trip they consider an ancient right. A.ban- took to the bush at Haviland Bay, and Boning it would mean a long detour successfully negotiated the unbroken on their way to work. forest, the machine at times under- Unless some compromise is torr" 1 going the experience of a sailboat in a the matter may have a sequel in the • storm, standing on her beam -ends and courts, and Mr. Ford may find himself the huge drifts of snow and • on the up against the Commons and Foot sides of rocky hills. paths Preservation Society, a formi 4-•- dable body which obtained a decision 1.5AP:ITOBA TO BUILD lar Justice Lord Romi :y in a simi- l�OAD lar case, involving laborers who had TO RED LAKE removed a 55,000 fence. The decision was that the removal of the fence was Government Undertakes km- no more an act of violence than its CREW OF FREIGHTER ARE ALL RESCUED Terrific Northeaster Swept the New England Coast With Disastrous Results. A despatch from New York says:- The crew of the British steamer Lale- ham, rescued from the helpless vessel by the steamship Shirvan, is bound for Falmouth, England, the Cunard liner Mauretania wire:eased its New York offices. At the time the Mauretania received the first distress cal "from the Lale- ham the freighter reported that she was standing on beam ends and in imminent danger of sinking; The freighter was stood upon end by a terrific northeaster which swept all along the New England coast and took toll of human life and shipping. A Coast Guard cotter o12 the Connecti- cut coast reported that she had lost a seaman when she was caught by the TG1 • storm, Another S.O.S. call from the mi freighter Blair was picked up, but the call was not repeated, so the fate of nee has been usedby the dock laborers for more than sixty years. The workmen promptly took down the fence barring "their" path, which was as promptly put back, with heavy threats, only to iDrOVemeiit of Portages erection, even although its erector owned the land, A footpath in Eng - on the Route, land is a sacred and inviolable insti- A despatch from Winnipeg says.- tution. Opening up of road communication to within 40 miles of the Red Lake min- British Boat at Vancouver ing district is assured as the result of an agreement between Hon', W. R. Ge#s Orient on Short Waves s ubb, Minister of Public Works, and A. Anderson, representing a large ning syndicates According to the terms of the agree- nt, the syndicate is to put into op - the freighter was still a matter of er uncertainty. rou The "Soaring gale also smashed and bel sank a dredge off the Delaware Capes and fifteen men were rescued from the un dredge, gi raw - -- me Sets Minimum Wage ioa iter A despatch from :Vancouver, B.C., says: -Direct communication by short wave wireless with England, Ita•Iy, South America, Japan, China, New anon a boat service over part oP the Zealand and Australia has been estab- te and will furnish transportation ween four intervening portages, 'he .Provincial Government has dertaken to improve the roads. En - ears are at present making esti- tea for the Public Works Depart- nt covering those sections of the to which the Government has ecd to put into shape. he boat service will operate from verton, Man., on the west side of o Winnipeg. For Youths to Marry On T Ri A despatch from London says:- Lak Three pounds a week (about $15) is the minimum -income necessary in England for .married happiness, ac- cording to a decision handed down by 1) a magistrate at Greenwich, The de- cision was in connection with the ap- plication of a youth of 20 for permis- sion to marry, his mother having ob- jected an the ground that Ise was too young and would "run himself into poverty." Under a new law persons of less than 21 who wish to marry and can- not obtain their parents' consent may power to overrule the parental objec- tions. The youth in this, ease showed he was earning approximately 43 a week, and the magistrate set aside his mother's opposition and gave him the fr fished by wireless officers of the R. M. S. Aorangi. The big motership plies between this port and the antipodes. The feats performed by the motor - ship have been creating great interest in the wireless marine world, and er- forts of the United States merchant marine and navy officers, it is sold, have not been 'able to duplicate the vessel's work. Reports from Italy and Sidney, Australia, say that the Aorangi's sig- nals are of inaicinrtue strength. ,The Great Benefit to Radio. power of the ship's short wave trans- mitter is just two and one-half kilo- watts by women soientists of watts, and it is contended that the short electroneienetle waves which it efficiency of short waves for long cris- is claimed will revolutionize radio- tances with lowerrpelver is made evi- telephony, raicBo•tebegrap'hy and photo- dont from her sueoesses, gfaghy, !s aunpiinoed by Prof. Wetn Although the harbor of Vancouver berg, of Lenligrad 17nivers'lty is bad:y "screened" in all points of the Maria Levitakaya, a physieiet, dis- compass for wireless purposes, the covered waves measuring lean than- Aorangi's signals are continually be ibur4eait)ys cif as mUlimetre (.0157 of in reported es the strongest on 110 fen iusb), while sdsntIar waves, esti Pacific. mated to be only t -be' SOOth part of a A. la, 11:67, chief wtreleas o:ffcerof Heretic in length, were d:is•covered the Aorangi, :lad at present. in charge Gl.agoli'eva _arcadleva, of tits wireless servies •of the Union -9 ' Steamship. Company of• New Zealaud Early Maple- Sugar. (is condu.:tin ex crimen Early colonists+ in 4merica learned' P ce in shoah. � wave transmission and reception with om the Iudiraue a crude way of col- a view to its more extended .use on ng saggar trot maple trees, ' other vessels of the fieet.' appeal to the magistrates who have b 111 y required permission. 1eoti