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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-05-22, Page 7I How British Flying Boats Ended Career of U020 .444 .41141444-4-44-4-.44-414+44-+-04-•-i-f +44-444-P444+4-a4-*-a-a+++4,-* et, correspondent of the Tittles con. trilattee the following racy account of the deetruction ot a submarine by two ;flying boats off the Essex coast; The life Of Fritz. as the, service called the German submarine, was not pleasant, 'When tired a fright. fulnese end foul play, he blew his tanks and -Male to the surface, far frozn the, shipping lanes, for a breath o ozotie, there he would find the flying boats.' And the flying Poats Carried bombs, Bombs detonated, near a aubmarine might merely elialte the boat, Nee cutouts and extinguish all eleetric lights. Or they might cause leaks, say by buckling a hatch, OF the pediscope bases might be shaken or damaged, or the hydro - vanes might be foveae hard down, causing the boat to dive to a clan- gorous depth. Direct lilts, of course, destroyee a submarine. In the early part of the war a submarine was sunk by a direct hit of a 161b. bomb, and the bombs the flying boats car- ried weighed 100 lbs. or 280 lbs. KILLING IT DEAD, On a pleasant evening in .Tuly, with a clear sky, a slight haze and a 10 - knot easterly wind blowing—ideal weather conditions.; for submarine hunting—two flying boats pushed oft from Felixstowe at half -past 5 o'cuock to do .the Spider Web patrol centred on the North Hinder light vessel, The leading boat, No. 8676, carried two • long, slim, yellow 230 -lb. bombs, one on each side of the hull, tucked up under the wing roots, and No. 8662 • carried four fat, dumpy 100.pound- ers. Thrusting out into the North Sea on an easterly course, the first pilot of 8676 steadied at a thousand feet and throttled back his engines until he was sauntering along at his -cruising speed of 60 knots. Glancing over lila left shoulder, he saw that 8662 had taken up station at the same height a mile on the poet beam. .A.fter passing over the well-known buoys at the approaches of the harbor, he croesed a fleet of trawlers swe,ep- ing upt mines laid the evening before. Be putted on in the open sea. His second: piloe slapped • him on tae shoulder and pointed ()ear the star- board bow. Some seven miles away ha sate four white waves appareatey xushimg without any visible means of propagation across the surface of the sea. Taking his hands from the eon. ,trol wheel, he made the -signal "Wash Out." He recognized the bow wavee ara foue, destroyers; pealed through the water at top speed, although the low. grey shipwere invisible, end lea knew that no Hun destroefere would'. be playing about in Michele • -dangerous ana. Presently the 'wire- less operator: came forward, lifted the -flap in the tide of the first pilot 'fitting Cap and shouted in his oar that he had- heard the wiresess of a Ger- man eubmaxine working. Ali four men onthe flying boat were now keeping keen• lookout, the first Pilot swing- ing . his head from side to side NVi.th ,a slow, steady motion, thoroughly searching a half -circle of the horizoh. German submarines operating in the North Sea had their aulia• painted a „dirty grey color, with the decks black, aedgblending with the tints of the , water, 'wore 'difficult to see. He kept ehie eyeslocuesed for a distance of four miles, as he knew that this was the 'average distance for sighting ' sube marines, although submarines had . been. spitted a distance of fifteen miles. et was now half -past B o'clock, and the flying boats were fifty inilest Aare, land, the ten -knot head wind having cut their speed over the sea down' to fifty knots. THE SUBMARINE SIGHTED. Suddenly, with a shock, a pleasant shock which cannot be described, the first pilot. of. 8676 saw e submarine. It was dead . ahead about four miles. away, fully blown, and travelling on the same course and in the same di- rection. as the flying boats. Slam - =lag on. his engines, and pushing his controlforatard so as to lose heights and gain hie' maximum speed quick- ly, hehurled his eix-ton machine . through the air towards the sub- -marine at a mile and a half a min- • ute.' 'As our own submarines oper- in thisi area, he did not know whether it Was a Fritz, but fervently hoped it was. He noticed that the submarine was running at about six knoth, in which case it waa.probably a German, travelling on one engine and charging the batteries from the dynante on tiee other. The submarine 'statement reeeived from the naval „authorities ethe evening before hat. twee mentienee one of our own sub- _ Matinee as wozkingt in the vicinity, eat tben submarines are a law unto • thenthelves tie regards time "and nava Wien, and have a habit of appear- • ink.; in the most unexpected. plum With the opening of the engines, the -alai* for action stations, the en - tinder ahrust himself up in the rear . •coelteat, and seized the stern guns in atieS. hostile4 seaplanes had been 'sighted Abe wireless operator quickly %nand inhth trailing aerial to pre - gent it being carried away if the stoat came dowfl near the water, and the Seasond pilot, whirl had seen the submarine, ducked into the hetet cockpit, eliapping back the levers which removed the eafety device on the bombs as he passed, aad sent the bonrb sight for height, nine and aritid. Looking back he saw 8662 Cleo Astern. Two minutes only hall Outvote tsinee the bmarine was eighted, and S676 aras etOw only a mile away, a distance that eould be overed in 40 iseeeilds. But in this tilne the sub- tnarkte Conimander, if the flying beats were sighted, eceeld do a "erasit 1DRS. SOPER •Sc WHITE SPECIALISTS Puna• Eczema' Asthma. Werth. Pimples,' Dyspepsia, Epliopay, Rheumatism, Skin, Kid- ney, Bloods Nerve and Badder Oistutiat. C1111 et send blau,*, (fir fat ;dyke. Ide(liciao timithed in tablet tome Pease lo a rn. to 2 p,10. *ha to 6 pan. Sundays -10 gum to 1 Nth • Coataltatto a Fred DRS, 80IDER ol WHITE t5 Taranto St., Totonto, Ott, Pleaba Mention his Paper. dive," that is, go Under with full weight on, hydrovanes set hard down, and tatting in water ballast, and so make good target practice difficult. lint UOW the first pilot was near enough to reeognize the submarine as of the U. B. class, from the 4.1 mounted close before the conning tower, the net -cutter above the stem, the very high conning tower, and the deck sloping down aft to the eterre where it was awaeh. And then he lost sight of the submarine. The second pilot, however, in no front cockpit, with view unobstructed as was the first pilot's by the hull of the boat, could still see the sub- marine shoving peacefully along, and guided the first pilot by hand signal. The first pilotkeeping his ege in the boat, watched his cross level, to keep himself in an even keel, his speedometer, to keep a steady speed, and the eloquent hand, for in these circumstances the hand Almost eeems to talk, to make small adjustments In his course. For to do good bomb eropping the boat must pass on a line vertically aver the submarine, on an even keel, and at a constant speed. THE BOMB FALLS, As ehe sights came on the secona Pilot pulled one of the .bomb release levers. The '230 -lb. .bomb, with armour -piercing noce, left the bomb rack. The second pilot, leaning far over the side, caw it start on its fligat path downwards and forwards. Unconsciously he held his breath, and time seemed to stop. He watched it all the way down. Anil- then the bomb crashed into the stern of the submaeine and detonated. With the explosion the submarine's stern went down and the bows rose out of the water. Close behind 8676 came 8662. Fifteen seconds later two of her 100 - lb. bombs detonated just in front of the submarine, damagiag the hydro - vanes. tam U-boat was now obvi- ously out of control. It did figure eights. It' dived and came up -again. And then, after seven minutes of such. revolutions, its propellers stop- ped, and it began to sink by the stern, The -flying boats were now eirelina, about their quarry at a height of 400 feet. Nnmber 8676 passed over and obtained a second direet hit just in front of the conning tower, and 8662 dropped two bombs which stra.ddied the submarine.he U-boat, Which was well down y the stern, sud- denly stood on end, remained poised there for a pereeptiale fraction or time: and then slid down backwards and disappeared 'a a smother of white water. , At belf-pat 7 o'clock the tare !ly- ing boats were back in harbor, their erews lust In time for dinner. But U. B. 20, its wicked career ended, lay• on the bottom of the North Sea,. It had been killed dead. MAKE A VICTOR' GARDEN C) National war Garden Conunission The saisfied worker is the one with a victory garden, say the Ca- nadian Trade Commission and the National War Garden Commission • of Washington. ME WAR CAUSED MORE MARRIAGES Rowell Places Housing Bill Before Commons, Dr. Clark Wa,nts Better Dis- tribution of Wealth. 1 Ottawa report: The Federal Gov- ernment's plan to loan twenty -Rive million dollars to the Provinces to relieve the acute shortage or houses for workingmen was under consider- ation in the Commons- to -night. The general prefect was outlined by Hon. Newten Rowell, Chairman of the Cab- inet Committee pf Housing. He said the scheme formed a largo part of this eear's programme of reconstruction, and explained that the demand for increased housing acconentodatioa due to the return of several huhdred thou- sand soldier to Canada was the prim- ary reason Which caused the Govern- ment to take action. It Was evident that the idea had proved popular with the various Pro- vinelal Governments, Alberta and Sas- Itatcheevcal being the only Province that have not latlinated their inten- tion of taking advantage of the echeme. The President of the Council made the iateresting stateMent that the war hag Nee the effect of stimulating earlie Marriggea elld that in addition to the 'Weddings at hoine1OEIW 004 - sands of Canadian soldiers latVe Pieta ried in (Britain. Coming hoine with. their brides, they found it iniposeible to ocure houses. Inasmuch Eta tne home Was tbe unit of the national intereet that a. Man should raise his family in a house of his own and not at a flat or boarding house, the Gov- ernIneat had decided to act. it was de- sirable that a Met illtotild Glen his ovvn home because that made for strength and stability of the national life. Dr. Michael Clark of Red Deer, who moved to the crose-benches just be- ' fore Mr. elelteneie made his protec- • tionist KWh, criticised the measexe • on the ground that It would benefit I only forty thousand opie. In other wordm, tvrenty-fitee Million)! would not ge arotind.Futherinore the people were looking to the nacre of the country just now for fundamental reforms, , The housing plan seemed 1121411 and likely to be tardy, and he would bo better pleased. 'with something more substantial in the way ot relief when the Budget came down. "If this country was properly gov- erned," said he, "and the wealth Pro- perly distributed, every man with any- thing in him woule soon get his own house. The reason he does not do it Is because there is too mach wealth In the hands of a few." IIe added that the kind of social welfare the people wanted was the kind that would put somettng in their stomachs, on their beaks and on their feet. •Wlien Mr. Rowell reminded Dr. Clark that in free -trade lengland there wore slums, and that therefore the fiscal system bad not eelerecl the pro. bleat of the equitable distribution of wealth, the member for Rea Deer den- ied that he had advocated free trade as a universal panacea for poverty. Free trade in England bad given so much prosperoitw to the worltingmeu that they were drinking intoxicating beverages at the enormous expendi- ture of ee00,000,000 a year. Spending so much money with comparatively limited • incomes, they would soon gather into slums under whatever fis- cal arrangement they lived. The poor were with us for many reasons, none being more potent than the excessive use of strong drink. PREPARING TO - EXPEL THE TURK •11/* Likely Meaning of Ally Moves at Smyrna. Big Concentration of En- tente Fleets. A Paris obi(); An extensive allied naval concentration has been begun at Smyrnainconnection welt a man- date to Greese to administer the ate. The British and the French each have fleets on the scene with land- ing parties, the Greeks have a bat- tleship and five gunboats, and, the Italians have five large warships, The United States naval forces aro the bat- tleships Arizona and four aestroyers. The various allied naval contiegents are drawn from the forces in the Adri- atic and the Blade Sea. Troops are also being concentrated from Saloniki It is understood that British and French forces are co-operating in the Greek administrative mandate. The Italian attitude has not been disclosed, but the recent landing of •southern coast of Asia Minor, and the presence of an Italian squadron at Smyra, leads to tho belief that Italy is seeking to safeguard her interests in Asiatic Turkey. Advices to the Peaco Conference says that transports carrying Greek troops have sailed from Saloniki for Smyrna. • In connection with the military and naval movement at Smyrna, L'Intran- sigeant says that allied troops already have been debarked. It says that the concentration at Smyrna is being tak- en against the day when the peace conditions imposed on tho Turks will be put into effect and when the Turks mey be invited to leave .Europe. e ONE B1.11 UNION • NOW ON TRIAL Real Meaning of the Great Tie -Up in West's Me- tropolis. CITY iii3L1S But Through Wires Served —City Quiet—Train- men Voting. "Wianipeg Man., despatch: Approxi- mately two hundred telegraphers, out- played by all commercial telegraph companice, brokerage firms, and the Canadian Press, Limited, Will waltz out at noon to -day. The service of the only other go we -gathering aseocietion in Winnipeg was discontinued, owing to the shutting off of the power in the telephone office, through which their leased wire passes. Thus tee city will be obliged to depend on the courier ystem, ir communication is Lo be had with the outside world, as the poetal and telephone service Is completely tied up. In all probability communication between western and eastern Canada will not be ectriousle affected by the'strike, as it is ex- pected that a sufficient otaff of wire eillefe will remain oil, the job to cut all wires through the local telegraph efleces and keep them in working order. A limited broad and milk delivery system was maintained thio morning, as wae promised at yesterde.ya meet- ing of the etrike committee.- Pleety of bread is being baked for the node of all. No announcement was made by leaders of the trainanen, but the re- port persieted at union labor halls that a strike vote Would be taken to- day. Union men linked this repeat with ,a rumor, wholly unonfirmed trent any edictal source, but much discussed in strike circles, that a force of Mounted Pollee has been ordered to Winnipeg.. Winnipeg was quiet at 9 o'clock. Some of the shops In the business clis- eriet wero open, ancl a few restaurants are operating. The leading hotels, crippled by the strike of their \voltam and cooks, are serving ea.feteria, meals .0 their guests, THE TRUE CAUSE. A Winnipeg despatch: Now that the Maracter of the local strike situation aas developed it is of interest to trace week to its genesis. That was not the .i.e-up in the Winnipeg metal and )uilding trades, as might superficially appear, but goes .back furtb.er, 114111e - !y, to the convention of western lebor men held at Calgary in the late with ter when the idea of the "One Tag Union" was produced and a,deatee. The cause of that meeting avowedly vas dissatisfaction on the part of western delegates and labor men gen- erally with the results of the Trades end Labor Congress of Canada, held n Quebec City a few menthe previ- msly. The westerners claimee that ffat organization was too conserve - TR lava tee mute, untie: Cite int:ht.-Mee at the kat tee:eta eastern labor men, nes fossilized In it4 machinet7 aue ataloole age eould no longer be pee - Mined to emelt for wetter:a labor. It wee proposed to make a dealt CWOOp .oe the old Berstein oetteollective bar al tie between hidividual tracks and their employcrs, and to replace this by "Ono Big Union," which, work- ing through a, central .committee, would, when deemed aevinable, call a general etrIke in order to enforce employers to concede the demands of enatieular tretle. During the sessions at Calgary a sharp divergence of opinion develep- ed, the conservative minority claire- ing that the "One Big 'Union" was nothing more nor less Clan the I. W. Nee. camouflaged, and, further, that Canadituaborn' workingmen were not behind the sante, which owed its strength to foreign -born citizeus, many of whom were enemy aline. They protested especially at breaking down what they claimea was the val- uable affiliations of Canadian trades through their internationals with the powerful American unions. For the root idea ot the "One Big Un- ion" is to cut loose from interne- tikonca control and set up in Canada, for Canada alone, a body of labor, die- tiona,1 control and set up in Canada, and With before it the ideal of a 'Government in Canada of Soviets of working' men to replan the present Parliamentary system. These ideas prevailed at Calgary, where the miners, the lumber men and the Pacific coast 'longshoremen were the chief bodies of support, while many of the 'smaller and more conservative unions, such- es the Typographical, voted against them. The programme filially adopted was so radical in its scope that the nearest analogy is the form of government existent to -day in Russia,. An active campaign of propaganda was at once embarked in, labor circles being flood- ed with Bolshevist literature. With some few exceptions, the Trades and Labor Councils of Western Canada proceeded by vote to endorse the "ono big union" idea but in leastern Can- ada it met With' a cold reception. In Winnipeg the vote was decisively and oven overwhelmingly in favor, the Typographical Union being almost alone in ite oppottition. What follow- ed is matter of recent history. A dead- lock arose between the motel and building trades and their employers, neither more nor less than has arisen before. Next came trouble between the street railway employees and the Winnipeg Electrie -Railway. The men asked thee the present minimum of 39 cents an hour be increased to 70 cents. The company applied for a board ,of arbitration, but the men refused to appoint a ropresentetive or have any- thing to do with its sittings, nOWin progress, except wimg directly sub- poeneecl. Meanwhile a vote was taken for general etrike, etamineting Tees - day ntght la,st. The "Otte Big Union" is now under tripe in 'Whirtipea, It Is significant that among classes celled out, encl who obeyed, are municipal employees, including firemen, wags claims were but recently settled on a basis that the mete themselves' de - cloaca satisfactory. Now Wily? la a not etrauge When petticoats are at the lest gasp, That they ehould Jammu lovelier and lovelier? Perhaps We the final 'plea — Who knows? Anyhow, they are bloseoming frautically. The newest is of palest flesh satin, flounced in cobwebby lace and gar- landed laviehly with silken flowere —a lingerie dream. VEL BY FLOWERY WAYS aaseestetreteeteMerTile e 'R4:fto eel: s 'sea- ete „ .e a eta, e ate se There arektany who believe that all big 'corporations tinG ineustrial concerns only look to the material lade of things and work natchine- like for the precluction of waalth, re- gardless of the winter's snow and un - ht eding of the summer's bloom. This Is often an erroneous idea, for it Is generally realized that man does not altogether live by offices and pens and papt re and ongiaos and ether aecoutremente oflabor—he requires trots and shrubs nee flowers and the loveliness Of nature. The Canadian' Pacific Railway has raways paid considerable attention to tbe develop.nent of garden ' plots acing its lines. It iit just thirty years ago since a ann. employee need a few varieties of flower seede in his own garden, and distributed teem amongst his friends in the service of the comaany, With the °eject of promotleg flower gardening at (be ettriees station Opts ot the railway. A vast advance has been turete since then; and now the coin - peaty ponsesres a Floral Department evi h headquarters at Wiralser etteet Statfen, Montreal, and a VIOral Onitir mittee which einbraccs MtnnbErs 40112 the Etinterft .0,11d IA/eat:VI lines, it is Wider the guidance of this de* pertinent that tho various station plot and other properties of the company aro cleared up and bcatiti.. fied.,•re, Thousands of Packages ae flOteet geede, bulbs, treete and shrubs and large quantities of antes seeds and fertilizers have been dietribtited during the last few yeere to station agents. tieetion format, caretakers Of nand lieu/Ate and all ,etnployees living on the property of the coin - (1) Along the line at Moose Jaw, Sask. (2) Woodstock, Ont. (3) Vaudreuil, Otte. tonanee of the gardens and selection pany. Travellers on the line observe the happy results achieved. The of the seeds, bulbs, and plants are cultivation work is dene hi all cane supervised by Mr. fl. M. Winneger* by the employees themselves, Who forester of the corapany. In most came acquired the art of The encouraging infinenee of amateur gardening by taking their flower growing on the C.P.U. dur- lessons Vein leaflets issaed by the ing the last thirty yeare has in a Floral Depertment. The best ma- large measure assisted In the ia- terial is always provided. Amongst auguration of floral eocieties all over the varieties of trees supplied are: the country. There are hundreds of Maple, birch, beech, poplar and eat- C.P.B. officials connected with these ghat. goroo of the shrubs are: yeti- societies, and Moat of them received gclia, bilberries, leant leaf willow their first lesson th flower eititure Mid MOW, Perennials djetalbuted at the C.P.R. flower beds. Flowers iirci miaow mica, 'ia, .1)1ii0t. have improved the railway stallone, veronica, lettillerdlealera Baur, ate, and inepired by the beauty of the umbine, sweet withal% and pinka, stationa reridents et the toWne heats Bedding Plants Used inelUde; Ore planted flowers and imenoved the anilime, 0010110, 00.2111414 pansies, aPpcarances, of their homes. Xn asters, verbenas, petunias, and easter every division Of the prizes oil plants, tg" Standard Need packets are givea every year for the best sent eat contain:.. NaStartiume, dieplayte and Many of the.S3 MAW' alyeettM, mignonette, (tweet peak railway ge.rdehere have tried tb phioa and koala. Perris and house products with suceess against plants are given to the larger sta. comers at the big Canadian tione, eStablisinnent and main- Aiteriean nower ttzhibitiona, NAVAL EASPLANE' AVE EACC RZJhES St. John's,. Nfld.---The alr1110/1 lieVo N.\ ill 11.1 all probability fly this afternoon. 4*.1 Ponta Del fiada, _Azores Cable—The svaplane N. 0. 4 arrived at the port or Horta, in the A.zores, at 1,25 Orreem ich time, The N. C. 4 first sighted. land at Flores at 11,35 a. in. N. C. 1 then was close behind her. The N. C. 4 pass- ed station No, 17 at 9,15 o'clock. The first two seaplanes were in wireless touch with the torpedo boat tender Melville shortly before noon. W.A.SIIINGTON'S WORD. Washington. Report –Tile official despateb to the Navy Department said: "The. N. C, 4 arrived at ITorta (Island of Fayal, Azores) at 12,20," No word has reached the department from the N. C. 1 since she passed station ship No. 22, 75 miles from Horta, thirty minutes behind the N. C. 4, The last re- port from the N. C. 3, flagship of the seaplane division, was when she passed station ship No. 13 at 2.25 am') Washington time. A later despatch said the N.C.-1 passed station ship No. 19 at 6.14 a.m„ Washington time, while the N.C. was off her course somewhere be- tween station ships Nos. 17 and 18, about 100 miles from Herta, at e.15 a.m., Washington time. An interceatee -message from the N.C,-4 said she had passed station No. 22 at 8,10 era, Washington time, and the "weather was foggy," whieh was taken her to account for the landing at Horta rather than proceed- ing to Ponta Del Gado., The Navy Department later correct- ed the time of the arrival of the N.C. 4 at Horta, according to the official report to read 9.20 a.m„ Washington time, wbich would make the time of the flight 15 hours and le minutes from Trepassey ThaY, RADIO'S GREAT WORK. 'Washington despatch: From the time the aerial voyageurs left Trepas- soy Bay, shortly after 6 o'clock, last night, Until tleey heel passed destroyev No, 13, more than 600 mile out, radio stations on this coast, were able to trace their progrese by intercepeed radio messages. 13y this means the powerful Government station at Ber Harber, Me., kept tae Navy Depatt- want, cogetantly informed regarding the expedition for entire than eight hours. Although the radio apparatus on board the seaplanes was only tie - signed for a radius of about 239 miles, the Maine station intercepted messages exchanged bet ecu the planes when they Wee more than 1,- 200 miles distant. This was declared by expert radio officers at the department to be one of the most surprising features of the epochal undertaking. When the flight was planned it was not expected that the stations oh this side would be able to hear Commander Towers' messages •after his squadron was 200 miles at sea PUNTA DEL GADA READY. Punta Del Gacla, Azores, report •The section of the harbor where the planes will be moored has been cleared of all craft to permit of e safe landing. Two destroyers are reader to assist the planes if they alight outside the break- water. • The city here is in gala. dress for the expected event of the day, and crowds gathered on the waterfront shortly after claybrea,k. The weather was misty and the vis- ibility poor early this morning, •but clearing weather was predicted for this afternoon, when the planes are due to arrive. FAVOR STATE • OWNERSHIP 'Brotherhood of Trainmen Oppose Reversion Old Plan of Private Control. Columbia, Ohio, Report,—That the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen will • announce that its 186,000 members are opposed to restoration of the railroads to private ownership. and management, and in favor of some sort of Govern- ment control, was the prediction here -to-clay. The Brotherhood's triennial con- vontion is in session. • The predictions were made by leaders of the organiza- tion. Probable action is uncertain ,they say, but sentiment Is overwhelmingly against a return to the old regime. It was de - dared the men seem well pleased' with their treatment during the war and feel that the Government, if continued In control of the roads, will give them moro satisfactory working conditions. It was said to -day that steps will be taken during the present convention, if pos- sible, to seek representation on such boards as will fix wages and working eonditions, if the Government control comes. Much attention of the convention will be directed to the formulating of a polipy respecting future management of the roads. RIOTS AT STETTIN, Prison ,Stormed and Cap- tives Liberated. A Berlin cable says that serioes rioting occurred at Stettin on Thurs- day night, according to the Lokal An- ezeiger. A crowd stormed the prison Rad liberated all under detention there, and attacked the barracks. It is be- lieved that all roads and railway lead- ing to the city have been occupied by the leaders of the mob to prevent the arrival of reinforcements to the Goa- emment troops, the withdrawal of which is sought by the leaders of the disorderly elements. Many shops are reported to have been plundered. Rioting continued all of Thursday, thetroops ia the barracks :offering obstimete resietance. The number of casualties in the fighting is unknown. ilAD FOR SEEDING But the Weather is Pine for Fruit. Seeding operations throughout Weatworth have been seriously af- fected by the continued rains, and some of the farmers this morning stated that less than half of the et:e- on's seeds were in. Thaese favoreble weather is forthcoming Antler there will be a serious shortege. The geeeti now irt will tot proilece good crops. Many of them having eiready been Washed out by the messier° Nue. A week of goad Wether Wattle give the • fanners aniple time to finish their work. "We will adopt a buckwheat pancake diet for neat Winter if we do not get better Weather soon," was • the most optimistic Message Warden. • Biggs could offer. . Fortunately the condition of the • fruit crop is reported to be more fav- orable, The rain has not done any damage to the trees and a bumper • crop is lookaa for. With everyth:ng so high it is really remarkable that the drug storee eon- thlue to cell reatage Mauve at eost. ARE TO BLAME THEMSELVES Max Harden Talks Plainly to Germans As to the ,Cau-se of the Blockade. Paris Cable --Germany's block- ade troubles were primarily brought upon her by herself, writes Maxi- milian Harden, the German Lae lance, in the latest number of his periodical, Die Zukunft. Both Bis- marck and Caprivi had predicted such a measure against Germany if she went to war, the writer points out, but he argues that it would have been impossible for the 'blockade to have been imposed if Germany had not refused at the Hague in 1907 to accept the British proposition tend- ing to the abolition of pre right of capture and that of prohibited zones on the sea. The men who at that time were directing German foeeign policy, Herr Harden continuos, were convinced that in case of the outbreak of an Anglo -German war, the British peo- ple, no longer devoted to agriculture, would suffer from famine much be- fore Germany, a country highly de- veloped agriculturally, and •adjoining Russia, Holland and Denmark. In these circumstances, therefore, In Her Herdenes opinion, the Ger- mans have no right to complain about thc blockade imposed upon them. 111, ALIENS QUIT U. S. A Widespread Movement Back to Europe. A 'Washington despatch: A wide- spread exodus of aliens from this catintry wee reported to -day by the Department of Labor. Inquiries by the department's inve.etigation and inepection service 'lave revealed that already large numbers of for- eign -born residents are leaving the country, and that even more expect to depart when steamehip accom- modation and passports can be ob- tained. Unemployment and family • in - toroth were said to be important factors in stimulating the eastward flow of the human tide which for decades hale set only westward. Many aliente reported they had not heard from their families since Europe was thrown into war, and that they wore going overseas to make a personal In- vestigation. hother cause ot the em- igration is the desire of eome anew to participate ill the settleMent of estates of reletivee killed In the wat. There also is the deeire of many for- eign..bora to return to lands now freed, from German or Austrian domination. POIANDATItitAlisTE. Agieement On Division of the Territory. (Berlin cable says: According to the agreement reached between the Poles and tekreinians through the good Offices of the Entente representatives, the demarkation line between the two forces' which 'have been 'contending in Galicia litia been 'drawn between Lem- berg and Przemysl, according to a Vienna despatch to the'Arossisehe Zel- tung. Lemberg goes to the Poles, while the district of Boryslaw-Dro- hebyos aild the rest of eastern Clelicin falls to the Ukrainians, It is said. MART tITEMS OF OF .THE IlAY Publication of Terme of German Peace ',treaty to Be Postponed, TURKISH CRISIS EY, S, Secretary Lansing Be. lieves the Germane Will Sign, A movement to unionie9 all Unskill- ed labor is in progrese in Toronto. Developments in tile Toronto ladP situation during the week-ond, indieate that the city may be plunged into t49 throes of a general strike. Thomas J. Thompson, aged 17., Ote Toronto, was drowned In Ashbraliee's Bay. IROV. R. J. AI, Perkins of $t. Jame' Church, Ingersol announced bie mho nation to accept the appoltatment rector of Christ's Church, Methane. William Hurley, a Hydro eraplortee of Simcoe, wae eleetrocutea at Azle lierstburg, The steamer City of eleaford was burned at Collingwoed, the result incendiarism. Paris despatches quote Booretari 4 State Lansing as saying be bellovete the Germans would sign the peatee terms. The Victoria Cross has been gazetted to Capt. Edward Donald Bellew, setti British Columbia Regiment, ear a great deed in the second battle a Ypres, April 24, 1917. The Havait Agency says It under- , statute the Big Four has eecided to postpone for the present, publicatian of the terms of the Peace Treats with Germany. A former captain in the German army was arrested in Cobleuz on Vs* charge of having at his Peaseeeked property .taken from France tiurre the war. W. E. Smith, n shoemaker gad a Me sident a Moaford for over ten yeast: dropped dead while setting out etravre berry Maras in his garden, A town-elangeng -latitute tot Ottsre ada has boa termed,' and one of 145 immediate objects is to promote educ- ational ecnirses i town -planning tana rural development In the univereittese A political crisis has arisen In COna stantinople sine the debarkation ot Greek and allied forces at Smyrna. the Journal says: The Turkish Grand Vizier, or Patine Minister, is Said tO have resigned,' Harry Price, aged la Toronto, deed in the Western -Hoepital early Sun- day morning, from head injuriee gas - tattled on •Saturday night, at the Ot P. R. West'Toroato station. In reply to On,gratulatione trona Foreign MiniaterePichon of France, ete. the success,es obtainea by his treble% Admiral Koichak, the head 'oe thei allellussia.n, °moment at Omsk, ete- newed fis assuraace el iiitiMmouivg constituent assembly. Soraewhere In the neighborhood of 5,000 Toronto labor men took part in a big demonstaation on Saturday 4/- ternoon, aimed tp quicken intereet fee the demand for the eight-hour .4a,Y, which reached its eulatinatiotta he tt mass meeting in Queen's Peri follow. ing a parade from the Labor Temple. A cablegram received from the- las ternational Institute- of Agriculture Saturday gives the official prelimin- ary estimate of the wheat cesep ere India just harvested as 278,023,00 budhels, compared with 879,830,ef1t bushels, compared with 8S2,370,000, the annual average of the five Vtare' 1013- 17. Herbert Copeland, who is in„the at Coburg, awaiting tritte on the' Omelet of having merderee his meither ea Newtanville II few weeks' 'age, hail been pronounced Insane by a hoard a doctors who examined him. The Right Hon, James Aeneas lemmas, veho is regarded as the feed» ing representative of labor In the Britt Ish Parliament, well shortly leave England for a tour of the Eastern Un- ited States, and will extend his trip into Canada, where he will ctddrese three or four gatherings, probable' ot Canadian clubs, Walter Edward Bromley, who ea September 17th last murdered his five small children fifths* home, at Moose Jaw, Seale., by cutting their tbroate with a razor, was found guilty by a jun and sentenced to hang Aug. 21, Mrs. John Rush died in the Gener- al Hospital, Wocidstock, following In- juries received at her home earlita the day, - HASTENING CORN ••••••••••••.••••••.• A Tip for Those in Northern Distriets. The corn growers in the colder an more northern parts of Canada flue some advantages front the uee of superphosphate as a fertilizer. Dr. F. T. Shutt, Dominion. Chemist, paints Out, in at article in The Agriaultural Gazette for May, that one Ot the more important funetlems of a phoephorie acid fertilizer is to beaten maturity and expresses the elm that an apple' cation of it will ato.terially hasteit the ripening of the cora crop, more es- pecially in the adverse season, nr this means the corn ratty roach the "glazing" stage before theta is much risk from early auttiont frost and tfce". time for tutting has arriVed. Ua suggests an application 04 say, 20 pounds of 'superphosphate per awn broadcasted or drilled in Oh preparell land before planting. lo order that the effeet Might be netted, Dr. Shutt suggests that a grip alangelde theta() be left untreated. Revers on /rocket. Bed patent leatiter Witte Shawi ee111irs 0f4.0p1:qtle for coat. Taillette Ohio. Ikeda pipings. Jacket backs abited, button fastenings.