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Zurich Herald, 1919-05-30, Page 7DARK C '' ITISH AVIATORS, :::AWKER AND (1U VE, RESCUED I Forced to Alight in Atlantic Because of Machine Trouble, They Were Packed Up by Danish S teamer "Mary" -Admiralty Sent Destroyer to Con vey Them to Scotland. London, May 25, -Missing for six clays, and virtually given up for lost, Harry G. Ilawker and his navigator, Lieut. -Commander Mackenzie Grieve, the British agmen who essayed a flight across the Atlantic Ocean with- out protection against disaster save what their frail airlplane afforded, are safe to -night aboard a British warship off the Orkneys. Some 1,100 miles out from New- foundland, and 800 from the Irish coast, on Monday, May 19, the lone ed of much advantage when it became aviators, making the best of an en- necessary to alight on the surface of gine which was failing to function the water. The airplane remained properly, were forced to alight on the afloat without difficulty during the water. The little Danish steamer hour and a half it took the Danish Mary, hound from New Orleans and steamer to come up and effect a Norfolk for !rrhuus, Denmark, pick- ed the wayfarers up and continued on her northwar.1 voyage. From this safe haven Hawker sent a message to -night that his machine had stopped owing to the blocking of the water circulation system, When the airplane sped away from her starting point Pilot Hawker let loose his wheels and under -gearing, thereby lightening the weight of the machine by a considerable amount, but making a possible landing on the soil of Ireland a more hazardous ven- ture. This, however, probably prov- rescue. All Britain is stirred by the news of the safety of these two stout - Lacking a wireless outfit, the Cap- hearted aviators. tain of the steamer was obliged to withhold the good tidings of the res- cue until he was opposite the Butt of Lewis, where- the information., was signalled by means of flags that Hawker and Grieve were. aboard his ship. Iimnediately word was fla,hed to the British Aemiralty, which sent out destroyers to overtake the Dan- ish vessel and obtain absolute con- firmation. This wars done, and one of the destroyers took the airmen off and later transferred them to the flagship Revenge. The one person in England who had always held hope was Mrs. Howker, She always maintained thdt Provi- dence would protect her man, and, though she received condolences from all classes of people, including the King, she said to -day that she had never ceased to believe that some time and in some way her husband would come back. The Daily Mail has awarcled a con- solation prize of $25,000 for Harry G, Hawker and Lieut. -Commander Mackenzie Grieve to divide between them. LEADING MARKETS Breadstuffs. Toronto, May 27. -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $2.24%; ` No. 2 Northern, $2.21%; No. 3 Northern, $2.173; No. 4 wheat, $2.11%, in store Port William. American corn -Nominal. Montreal Markets. Montreal, May 27. -Oats --Extra No. 1 feed, 861/c. Flour -Spring wheat new standard grade, $11 to $11.10. Rolled oats -Bags, 90 lbs., $3.90 to $4. Bran, $42. Shorts., $44. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $38 to $40. Cheese, finest easterns, 301/2 to 31c. Butter, choicest creamery, 55 to 551/c. Eggs, fresh, 52 to 53c; select- ed, 54 to 55e; No. 2 stock, 50e. Po - Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 75 to tatoes, per bag, car lots, $2 to $2.10: 77c, according to freight outside. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $30.50 Ontario wheat -No. 1 winter, per to $31. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 34c. car lot, $2.14 to $2.20; No. 2 do, $2.11 to $2.19; No. 3 do, $2.07 to $2.15 f.o. b., shipping points, according to freights. Ontario wheat -No. 1 spring, $2.09 to $2.17; No. 2 do,. $2.06 to $2.14; No. 3 do, $2,02 to $2.10 f.o.b., ship - pint points according to freights. Peas -No. 2, $2.10, nominal, ac - :Carding to freights outside. Barney :Malting, $1.16 to $1.21, nominl. good,10.50 to 11.50 Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal.$ $ ; do, medium, Rye -No. 2, nominal:- $9.25 to $10; do, coin., $8 to $8.50; Manitoba flour -Government sten- stockers, $8.75 to $12; feeders, $12.50 Bard, $11, Toronto. to $14; canners and cutters, $4.50 to Ontario flour -Government sten- $6.50; milkers, good to choice, $90 to card, $11 in jute bags Toronto and 8150; do, com. and med., $05 to $75; Montreal, prompt shipment. springers, $90 to $160; light ewes, Millfeed-Car lots dellveTed, Mon- 813 to $15; yenrliigs, $1.2 to $14; treal freights, bag included. Bran, choice lambs, 518.50 to $20; spring 542 per ton; shorts, 41.4 per ton; good Lambs, $12 to $1.5; calves, good to feed flour, $2.70 to $2.75 per bag, choice, 814 to $10; hogs, fed and wat- Hay--No. 1, $$32 to 835 per ton; era, $22.50 to $22,85; do, weighed mixed $20 to $24 per ton, track To- ()IT cars, $22.75 to $23.15; do, f.o.b., ronto. 531.50 to $21.85. Straw -Car lots, $10 to $11 per REPORT OF CANADIAN TRADE COMMISSION Live Stock Markets. Toronto, May 27. -Good heavy steers, $14 to $14.50; choice butchers' steers, $13.50 to 514; butchers' cattle, choice, $13.25 to $13.75; do, good, $12,75 to $13; do, medium, $11.75 to $12.25; do, com., $10 to $10.50; bulls, choice, $11.75 to $12.50; do, med., $10.50 to $11; do, rough, $8 to 58.50; butchers' cows, choice, $12 to $13; do, ton, Country Produce -Wholesale. Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 Market reports which will serve to to 410c; prints, 40 to 42e. Creamery, guide Canadian exporters and farm - fresh made solids, 52 to 53c; prints,' ors show that livestock ,in Great Bri- 53 to 54c. tain is in keen demand. The Board Diee Ne~tr laid, 47 to •18c. of Agriculture's ,weekly returns for Dressed poultry -Chickens, 30 to 3•ic; roosters, 25c; fowl, 30 to 33c; the middle of April show that prices na for nearly al neat animals arc mein- ducklfrgs, ,,Lc, turkeys, 35 to 40c; , y 1 squabs, doz., 56. tained, especially for store cattle, 'Wholesalers aro selling to the re- though qualities vary considerably. tail trade at the following pelves: es: i'rom several market centres the re - Cheese -New, large, 30 to 0?! c; i ports .ere that the supply was not twins, 301,2 to 1c, triplets, of to lup to the standard, and that sheep 31%c; Stilton, 31 to 311/2c. showed no improvement,as many lots BUtter--Fresh dairy, choice, 48 to 50c; creamery, solids, 54 to 55c; were marketed in unripe condition prints, 55 to 50c. owing to wet weather and the short - Margarine ---35 to 38c, !age of artificial feeds. The same Eggs -New laid, 51 to 52c; new shortness marked the reports on laid in cartons, 58 to 54e. I hogs of which all classes were sell - Dressed poultry -Chickens, 40 to , ing well. At Shrewsbury some An - 45c; spring; chickens, 75c to 800; us cross bullock inacie u to eighty - roosters, ht roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 87 to 38c; g m(,xn21p g y turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings, Ib., 25 eight shillings .12) per cwt. live to 38c; squabs, doz., $7; geese, 28 to weight, while at Birmingham the live 30c. weight price for hogs ranged about Live poultry -Spring chickens, GO twenty-one shillings per score ($3.52 to 65c. per stone of 14 lbs.). Prices every - Potatoes -Ontario, f.o.b., track To- where showed an upward tendency. route, car lots, $1.75; on track out- The same shortage was reported in side, $.1.G0 to 51.65. Beans -Can. hand-picked, bushel, provisions, especially butter and $4.25 to $4.50; 'mimes, $3 to 53.25; cheese. Imported hand-picked, Burma or In- dian, $3.25; Limas, 12c, Honey -Extracted clover: 5 lb. tins, 25 to 26e lb.' 10 1b,wtins, 24% to 25c; 60 lb. tins, 24 to 25c; Buckwheat, 60 1:b. tin, 19 to 20c. Comb: 19 oz., $4.50 to $5 doz.; 10 oz., $3.50 to $4 dozen.. ProvisioneC -Wholesale. Smoked meats -Hams, rood,, 39 to 41c; do, heavy, 33 to 34c; cooked, 54 to 56c; rolls, 38 to 34c; breakfast bacon, 44 to 48c• backs, plain, 47 to 49c; boneless, 80e; clear bellies, 28 to 29c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 29 to 52 to 55c. Lard -Pure tierces, 34 to 84%e; tubs, 34% to 85e; pails, 84s/a to 35%; prints, 35% to 36c, Comp. tierces, 2172 to 28c; tubs, 281/. to 29c: pai1P, 18Ws to 290; prints, 291, to 30r CLYDE SHIPBl•,TILDERS TO EMIGRATE TO AMERICA A despatch from London says: - A despatch to the Times from Glas- gow says that the shipping compan- ies of the Clyde are deluged with en- quiries indicating that there will be a great exodus of emigrants from Scotland to North America immedi- ately when transportation facilities are available. Will Produce Fish Meal, It is hoped to produce a million pounds of fish meal annually from fish waste and offal at a plant that Is to be established at Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Most of tho product will probably be Marketed in the Maritime Provinces. "Goo allasS kiOW FR I GJ4TI-INEO t WAS, I THOUGHT 1 1'HEARte THE GROCERS WIFE'S Voice," HKRE Wit.L. i� toe PUT,THE WR'APPItV, PAPER, MAMA , IN THE WOOD i30illr, ee f ae. es se.- , - "CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS." Shaine, Fear, Deceit and a Guilty Conscience all come wrapped up in the mail order package. We should never be ashamed to look a neighbor in the face. In a community like ours, all are neighbors and friends, work- ing together, Our interests are common. We are all in BUSINESS together. 0 U R business is home -town -de- velopment. Unlike the overcrowded city, our community has a soul. We tamper with our community -SOUL whenever we boycott home interests. Then let us keep our conscience clear, let us so LIVE that we can at any time look our neighbors in the face, knowing that no action or ous is holding back the progress of our own home town. RAKE! BE DISMEMBERED Allies Who Are Unsatisfied With Other Arrangements Bach to Have Slice. A despatch from Paris says: What- ever doubt existed as to tha,adisposi- tion of the once mighty empire, Tur- key, was dissipated on Wednesday af- ternoon when the conclusion wax, finally reached to begin a dismem- berment process of distributing choice bits among the allies who have been disaffected by their treatment on other subjects. Turkey is to be a sort of universal sop. Britain's insistence that Constan- tinople shall remain Islamic is likely to result in her receiving a mandate possibly in conjunction with France and Italy, supervised by a League of Nations commission. Another of the latest suggestions concerning Con- etantinople is that it should be cons- tituted an independent state with a residence for the Sultan, who would retain his spiritual and temporal power. British apprehension as to the effect on Mussulman subjects if tho Sultan were to be expelled from Eur- ope explains the revision of plans to that end. hq �- TUT H,W ,:�.T EBREVOIC A,.A N Holy War Being Preached and Natives Are Arming Against British. London, May 25. -Serious events are. brewing on the frontier of Af- ghanistan, Reuter learns. The Af- ghans have concentrated forces in- cluding many well -armed and well- equipped regulars against the British Expeditionary Force. Attempts of emissaries of the Emirs to induce the frontier tribes to participate in the operations against the British are meeting with only moderate success in the operations which are about to commence. The British representative in Kan- dahar, who has reached Quetta, states that a holy war is being vigorously preached, and everybody in Kandahar is buying arms. Crown Prince Also Is Liable to Trial. A despatch from London says: -- Frederick William Hohenzollern, the former German Crown Prince, will be liable to trial under the terms of the German Peace Treaty, it was declared by Andrew Boner Law, the Govern- ment Leader, in the House of Com- mons, Mr. Bonar Law said that the Commandants of prison camps would also be liable under the terms or peace. Z L EBEKE ONE OF THE RED MILESTONES IN ANA DA'S PATH OF GLORY Dominion and Troops Stemmed the Tide of Advance Against Ypres Calais During Two Weeks of June, 1916, Adding Fresh Lustre to Their Immortal Renown. The Battle of Zillebeke opened on '45eno- , 1916, and really continued un- til June 13. The • Zillebeke sector is situated two miles due east of Ypres, on a front of two miles from Hill 60 to the upper edge of Sanctuary Wood and Hoodge on 1\ienin Road.' At the time the Canadians were occupying the southeastern portion of the Ypres salient. The British were massing troops for the Somme offensive and the Ypres salient was practically stripped of forces. The Canadians were at a groat disadvantage. There was no air service. There was little artillery and only a tlliii line of in- fantry. There were no series of sup- port and reserve trenches, owing to the' nature of the ground, while the Germans had even the advantage of position, being on high ground, while the Canadians occupied the low. The Zillebeke sector was defended by the 3rd Canadian division, under the command of General Mercer, with the 7th and Sth Brigades in the lino. The front line trenches were occupied by the 2nd and 4th .,counted Rifles at the lower end near Hill 60, and Mount Sorrel. The Princess Patricias, two companies of which wore largely made up of University men from To- ronto, Montreal and the West, occu- pied the upper part of Sanctuary Wood. 'A Terrific Bombardment. At 6 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd, General Mercer, aeoom,xaniod by Brigadier -General Victor Williams, be- gan inspecting the trenches occupied by the Mounted flifles. thik Town to the Canadians, the Germans had for several days been filling their trench- es with trench mortars as preparation for a surprise attack which they pur- posed launching on this day. At 8.45 they suddenly opened a terrific bom- bardment of the Canadian trenches. For four hours they kept it up, They destroyed emplacements and devasta- ted entrenchments. The Mounted Rifles were blown out of their trench- es and fell back. The right flank of the Patricias was left in the air. General Mercer was killed and Gener- al Williams wounded, later taken pris- oner; A }nips ex llodod tiong" t the "Le deatroyecl the rigiii of the Patrlpies, but still Captain Niven's Company.en the left huug on. Captain Niven was wounded, and No, 7 Pla- toon, with its commander, Lint, Iia - gaily, was wiped out. • Checked German Advance. To the Germans it appeared that no mortal being could live through the terrific hail of lead and iron. At 12.45 the bombardment suddenly ceasod and the enemy, confident of an easy vic- tory, came over, but he had not taken into consideration the indomitable Canadian valor. A remnant of the Princess Pats still remained alive, and these, under the command of Lieut. Molson, subjected the enemy to a blasting enfilade as he passed on the right to the rear. Attempts were made to reinforce the Canadians. Colonel Duller was killed as lie was leading up supports and Major Gault was wounded. The remnant in the front line hung on all night, though surrounded. On the following morning at day- br: aa:, a coent: i' -attack failed. The 1 th Highlanders were badly cut up and Lieut. Maurice Ma 1:..c .;a„ l.'.11ed while leading his company. The Pats lime;; en tenacioit':ly until Siuuh'y, the -tll, when they aero ordered to the rear, liaviug been relieved by t'ia 42n1 Highlanders. It wits a pi lfal rem- nant that musters d to roll call. Though they had paid a great price they had aciileved a momentous vic- tory. It was the dc;ged horoiem of the Princess Patricias that balked the Germans from a straight walk tato Ypres and on to Calais. The fighting continued on the Zille- beke ecttor ui;til June 13, when a counter-attack drove the Germans back, exe,;,tt from the edge of Sanc- tuary Woods and iioogc. The Cana- c+alni.le act Ly the st Et os of at:Arn m, diens suffered 11,000 casualtien daring in connection with foreut Conseil atio:1. The states of Vi. turia and West Aua- trilia, in particular, grave, recently en- acted forest legislation so progressive in tll'.'.raeter that our situation P C en- itla .seems backward by contrast This pq74{, cls. rer it1 L it..u- i .fl•5�(iy�/ . ,f,'n ` t la.rl, as to lead „cl;:seiniatie , ferret 1'e :'ti4rvati on, Vnntrol of ci tirg FORESTS AND ECN T UCTION CANADA NEEDS LARGE EXPORT TRADE TO BALANCE IMPORTS. Australia Sets An Example in the Matter of Forest Conservation--- Enormous Possibilities, Statesmen and business men have repeatedly emphasized the part that the further development of our natur- al resources must play in reconstruc- tion after the war. Any such pro -- gramme must take full account of the forests. Such increased development will assist materially in providing against unemployment, through the building up of new forest industries, in addition to the 5,000 wood -using industries already in existence. It will be a large factor in stabilizing econo- mic conditions generally. A large export trade is particularly essential to Canada, to redress her un- fa.vourablo trade balance, especially With the United States. In this direc- tion, our forests hold a position of pe- culiar strategic importance, both act- ual and potential. In British Colum- bia, for example, it has been shown that the annual lumber cut can be in- creased five -fold, under good manage- ment, without impairing the forest capital stock. This means an enor- mous export trade to which the short- age of shipping.,,is still the greatest obstacle. The present and potential value of Canada's export luiiiber trade is Indi- cated by the order recently placed by Great Britain for lumber from Canada, aggregating around $50,000,0000 in value. In the east, the value of our pulpwood forests is indicated by the fact that the value of the exports of pulp and paper now total around $60,- 000,000 annually. One-fourth of the newsprint used in the United States comes from Canada, and fifteen per cent of the pulp wood consumed in that country is the product of Can- adian forests. Our forests have a wealth -producing capacity, the possibilities of which, from a long-time standpoint, have as yet been realized only in small part. To transmute these possibilities into permanent actualities requires, how- ever, the general acceptance, by' the people in general and by Governments in particular, of the fundamental prin- ciple that the forest is a crop, rather than a mine, and that cutting opera- tions en non-agricultural lands must be conducted always with a view to the perpetuation of the forest,as such. The practice of silviculture is still in its veriea,t infancy in Canada, as it is over most of North America. There is still far too strong a tendency to- ward the practice of forestry any- where except in the woods. At the suns time, it mutt always be realleed that forestry i, c .•.enti ally a business prapr,silicu, am]. that husiiless con- siderations rloce definite limitations upon what it is 1-.,:tAble to do in the di;ectiun of intensive methods, On the other hand, the foleet lands of Canada ,..E i , :lainiaantly Crown iands and are ti .foie for the nio:t part. the property of the people of the country. It fellows that the public; interest, from a ling -time viewpoint, should govern in f'_`'? e1'mining the con- ditions and r which e rlct;ti?tion tales place. Vb ith 'tri: pre c: t inerzasod stumpage values. veal; things in the direction of better mann•°ei ent are i7 „,- ; now becai?iii? t�i't)._l, 3`cally feasible which wccld have been uut of the question ill ye:?rs 1"1i -t. Canada n;ay well profit from the the two weeks. APS �`� ea.��t�T�)�f` �� ���+mss e tions, reforestation, and amount of All Warships Being Surrendered mniley to be spent on the protection Together With All War and development of state fereiis Supplies. Paris, May 24. -It was announced to -night that the treaty to be presort- ed to Austria would be considered at a plenary session next Tuesday and would be laid befora the Austrian delegation probably on Wednesday, the new fiscal year show a de, reaee The Council of Four to -day con- of $29,244,403 in the total of Cana- sidered the military terms as framed dian trade as compared with April, by Marshal F•oeh, Comnicnde -in- Chief of the allied armies; General Diaz, supreme coininand r of the It- alian army, and other military lead- ers. Austria's formidable army of upward of a million inen, whieh was second only to that of Germany, is reduced by the treaty to 15,000 nien; virtually all military supplies would be surrendered or destroyed and further military production abolish- ed. The naval terms are similarly sweeping, all warships being sur- rendered and Austria's position as a naval power terminated= generally. DECREASE `OF 529,24.1,400 IN TOTAL APRIL TRADE A despatch from Ottawa says: -- Trade figures for the first- month of 1918. The total for last month was $121,5:7,962, as compared with $150,- 772,355 in April, 1018. The decrease was chiefly in the total value of mer- chandise iniperted, which declined 524,868,720, as compared with last year's figures for April. The total value of imports was as follows: - April, 1919, $54,255,219; April, 1918, 578,628,939. A decline of $0,972,493 in the total value of domestic neer- charidiise exported is shown by the figures. In April, 1918, the total va.lte of domestic merchandise ex- ported was $71,161,652, while last month it was $84,489,159,