The Exeter Advocate, 1924-9-11, Page 7WiSIL FRENCH AND ISS. SAILORS PRO-
TEC- FORMN SETTLEMENTI SHANGHAI
Rival Military Governors Wage War With No Material Pro-
gress Being Made by Either Side -- Defenders Divided
Into Three Armies, Only One of Which is En.-
. W • gaged in the Fighting.
A ` despatch from Washington the boundary o f Norther n,Chekiaouter
to
e ! o.t of Shangll ti. The third army,
of Shanghai volunteer corps and Brit -I some 8,000 strong, is stationed in
ish, United States, Japanese ands H tng Chow . and Ningpo in Northern
French sailors, will be thrown about! Chekianb,
the foreign settlement in Shanghai 101 Though troops r, ctien ted to number
prevent the entry of armed Chinese; 40 000 battled throughout the day,
forces theme• eye -witnesses s
A depatch from Shanghai says: --
Although only one of the three armies
of General Lu Yung Hshian, Tuchun
of Chekiang, who is fighting to retain
• control of Shanghai against the as-
seults of General Che Shieh-Yuan of
Kiangsu was engaged in the battle
which continued throughout Thursday,
tae Chekiang headquarters assert it
was able to more than hold its own.
Despite the fact.that its line from
the Shanghai -Nanking Railway to
the Yangtse River was lightly held,
the Chekiang leader reported their
army held their positions in the centre
says :-A protective cordon, compos dl a point west
n
competentss declared t let
neither side had .nada any material
gain in the fighting. .
The battlefront extended from the
line of the Shanghai Nanking Railway
to the Yangtse River, about 18 miles
from Shanghai at its nearest point
and about 25 miles at the moat distant.
There was no evidence that the
Kiangsu had any co-operation from
naval forces on the Yangtse River. In-
dications were that the Chekiang
troops would be able to hold that sec-
tor unless the attacking forces were
( heavily reinforced.
At several points the opposing fight-
ers were hidden from each other by
d me progress in the
in
and made so progress
If 'n through w etc
n
TM..... PREMIER MA O ALD APPEALS
FOR ADOPTION OF ARBITRATION
Defined -French �*lor�e Speech
A despatch from om Geneva say
--- Questions of Security and his-
British Position on IL -sassing
annam ts
on General Linea.
es s:--• Will find en honored and welcome
Prime Minister MacDonald, of Great place." to
Britain, dominated the Assembly oft He said it was ile Berlin remains
avidins
tho League of Nations on Thursday! with Germany w.
lin an hour speech, during which he, isolated, and while there is a menae••
defined the British position. I Ing empty chair in our. midst, He a'k-
i lie declared against military .alii-1 ed to have Germany join the League
ant' s by groups of nations. He de- now.
e encs definitely pleadedarbitration
with the sin smaller arle urged the mament conference convocation
Europe et-
' mems. He prepresentatives of all the
nations to base their security on in-. tended by States
rather arbitration agreements,
act , ands andons, Germany,lng the and he United
nrnendsd
rather than on military p also elaboration of the covenant of
sui3: l the League and that the authority of
"History is full of military pacts,
but always there have been invasions."'thee council
be exercised
existencespas o insure
prosper-
'
said the United States, Germany'
and Russia must come into the League ity of the League.
w _ `lt Nations. His he1 in the ented London. ish-Sovietred that the
step Brite. to -
Here
ited States for its hele the
recent ortraits of the Prince of Wales, who is settlement, and said: "Europe for te ward
rde bringingFnRussia into meeting e.:
is one of the most p past few years has not offered United
visiting his rancb in :� o -tern Canada. The picture shows the forceful char- cti ed compa ion -1 Thursda speech, decided to endorse his
States a very attractive companion -j Thursday afternoon following ac-'•
actor and determination which is the foundation of a king. _ ' ship, but when the UD ,. cide lines.
- heart will incline her to -come in, she position in its ,..
Canada from Coast to Coast
lQiusty Documents Found in Committee �r cantos
Plan'
f 30 per cent.; London Bear Valuable Stamps Re
Amhe: et, N.S.-The rolling mills of 1 cent.; silver bulli°nand Haws
Ix d fields o growing gnat _
ent. 1 A despatch from overLoof old dace -1 Reparation n atch from Paris decided'iThe
Winnipeg, During the turning
up reinforcements. Men and women undoubtedly the fighters e of the Dawes reparation plan, the
Chinese • to be used for construction re ion reinforcing!
tondance, including buyers from all menta in the Record Office here, al Thursday that,
daring the application,
in on
the affected area are being con- large amounts lofd ammunition in the rods t hundred tons of rctnfoworic fur centres of the world, batch of New South Wales poster
scripted, causing a further influx of characteristic manner of rods
1:0
Shanghai, the Chinese troops firing wildly, in Montreal. f this eIts isthe first time that; the principal stamps
offcthes value5i them at as discover-
Committee
the Guarantees
y s Versailles
not refugees into Sod , Lu Yung -Hsiang, command- work of this description has been car;thefur auction sales held here during stamps lthe 1855 issue $4', a . upon ite bye the u ibutio s �.on
ferred .
quitter of which is already crowded General g lied out at the local mill. 1 August, were the most successful yet
odathe schedule of paymentsrof
• experienced. Pelts to the value of The stamps were attached
with people fleeing to escape mei command defending hforces,
ix n Shanghai bout a tth N.B.-Wool gradin;, 1021
fighting. he defenders are divided for the. New Brunswick Sheep Breed $825,000 were di:posed of during the port sent to
of New Colonial
Secretary by a y, bynd zee -egg-
'
General Lu has two t one of which ' Association as a -- -'
The second, held Y , _ Sask.-Creamery
(. n engaged ed in Livestock Brant o e ,
Dept. of Agriculture. nth of July .m-
al graded this year am-. cit,. A
ounted to 25,000 pounds. The qu .the
is declared to be the best ever andto the Commissioner. rt of This Ps thefir t ltime .
under the co-operative arrangements;
Quebec, Que.-Tourist traffic in the in the history of Saskatchewan that it
Province of Quehec in the past year has been possible to record an output,
or two has developed into one of the of ever two minter. pounds in ,i Single'
= ` . province's most important industries,' month. Coma -nod with July, 1923,1
pec s is an
�� : , _ _, and in order to melee better known the thisEdmonton, ,.4;t•a. of Alta. -Completion i��UnFd a
' � attractions which this province has to •
offer the tourist, the Provincial Gov.; new well at Wainwright, Alta., whic
eminent has authorized the expendi-! will
1 Apr dueay, announced wore than by rr le o I
f
ture ofu some $50,po for advertising oil
erintendent and geologist of the Brit -
and. be e eny purposes. The Honey ish Petroleums,. Ltd., at the inn tall
Quebec Spent ins conjunction with the. !general meeting of the comp nny held'
Tourists' Association. + Vancouver.
North Bay, Ont Exports of the,
products of Northern Ontario to the' Vancouver, B.C.-Tartan Second,
United States for the first six months the largest wooden scow in the :corlcl,
of the present year show an increase was launched She isttly oneat the thousand Wallace'onsi This little•
shack is the temporary municipal building at Haileybury, On -
of approximately 45 per cent. over Shipyards.
exports for the Columbia lumber in her make-up. The feria, which has served the purpose following the disastrous fire which wiped'
those of the same period of last year. burden and has 300,000 feet of British'
.h_,
The tptal value of the
0 937 670 in comparison scow is to be used as a carrier for a out most of the town some time ago.�
period was $-4. great pile-driver for the Sydney E.
with $17,292,803. Gold bullion exports enkins Co.
show an increase of more than 100 p
wangtu sector, on the railway rn print 40
the vicinity of Litho on the river. the rifle and machine-gun bullets cut
Both sides are said to be rushing their way. Eye -witnesses said that the Cara'ian Car & Foandry Co. here lahc450 per cent.; fi ht rs were wasting are bu�].v engaged on an order for' per Man. -With a record at -
t further lines of force. T h been completed three days b tter
defence. d 1 11 b 20 000 into three armies, only � ors h f the Pro -1 Regina, Sask
in has thus fax actually bee g g by thetel reduction In the, Province of aaskat- .� � >�n ��� � % �.�•�.�� ` ' � }"'�,»� r �� �>��,!�x^Yr a ,ter" :•
same number as engaged It The to P ,
men, the vincial Dep oduc during the mo
Thursday's battle, extends from near' the fighting.. Haunt of wool gra e y
,� h quality' canted to 2,284,609 pounds scoot c log
Iieie is shown the quarter-deck of H.M.S. Hood, giving a view of some
of the "big guns" of the navy. The photograph was taken while the special
service squadron was at anchor off Quebec.
W ld' '...arrest Sapphire Oversupply of Pennies
Useds in Coinage of Engl
ns Children's Plaything
A despatch from London says :- Canadian Section. Proposed for
There is a glut of pennies in this
1925 Exhibition at London
English and German Finns
Make Bids for Canada's Fruit
A despatch from London says: -
Hon. S. F. Tolmie states that arrange-
ments have been concluded whereby
a Hamburg firm takes half a million
boxes of Canadian apples, if procur-
able. Mr. Dettart, acting for their
agent, sails on Saturday on the Pitts-
burgh for Halifax. and will see the
Nova Scotian merchants there before
heBritish
via
K proceeds Mr. Cosgrave, of the Columbia, pt.
Kootenay..
of Trade and Commerce, has also con-
cluded a deal with a leading British
firm prepared to take an unlimited
quantity of first-class fruit and
freight, Mr. Dettart is also this firm's
sole agent u deal offers to the Canadian fruit
al opportunities
trade.
and
Still another attraction- has been
added to the British Empire' Exhibi-
tion at Wembley, says a London des-
patch. This is the world's largest
sapphire, a jewel weighing ten ounces
and valued at more than $25,000. This
stone was discovered reiently in the
'n Hy-
derabad
y
country, and the royal mint which has
k of"r any since 1922, is unde-i A despatch from London says: -F.
The Week's Markets
ets
TORONTO.
Man. wheat -No. 1 North., $1.44%;
No. 2 North., $1.3914 ;
th.,
$1.86%.
Man. oats -No. 2 CW, 611/4c; No.
•
3 CW, 59c; extra No. 1 feed, 69 Sc'118c.
No. 1 feed, 58c; No. 2 feed, 56c. Dressed poultry --Hens; over 5 lbs,;
All the above c.i.f., bay ports. , 26c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 22c; do, 3 to
Am. corn, track, Toronto -No. 2 lbs., 18c; spring chickens, 2 lbs. nit
over, 30c; roosters, 15c;
yellow, $1.3G• i
Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights, to 5 lbs., 25c.
bags included: Bran, per ton, $29;1 Beans- Canadian, hand-picked, ib.,i
Y
shortt..-, per ton, $31; middlings, $87; ; 61,4c; primes, per impi
good feet: four, per bag, $2.10. 1 Maple products --Syrup, $er pelt
Qnt. oats -No. 3 white, 50 to 52c. • gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin,
Ont. wheat -No. 2 winter, $1.12 to gal.; maple sugar, Ib., 25.to 26c.
$1.17; No. 3 winter, $1.10 to $1.16;' Honey -60 -lb. tins, 18%c per lb•y,
No. 1 commercial, $1.07 to $1.12, f.o.b. 10-1b. tins, 13%e; 5-1b. tins, 14%c.
shipping points, according to freights. lb tins,14 to 15c
Smoked meats Ham
45c; extra, loose, 43c; firsts, 37c; sec-
ends, 30 to 81c.
Live poultry --Hens, over 5 lbs., 20c;
do, 4 to 6 lbs., 17c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 15e;•
rsoosters, duck duck2 lbs, lings, to over,d bs,,
2y -
i-, , , meats -Hams med., 27 t0,
R f� Barley -Malting, 75 to 78c. 29c; cooked hams, 42 to 44c; smoked
Rye -87 to 89c. 'rolls, 18 to 20c; cottage roils, 21 to
Ont. flour -New, ninety per24c; breakfast bacon, 28 to 2,c; spr
Lord over the y's difficult lob is to Pre ' cial brand breakfast bacon, 29 to 81e4
side the affairs of the Senate of pat., in jute bags, Montreal, prompt
the Irish Free State. With boundary shipment, $5.75; Toronto basis, $5.7b; backs, boneless, 86 to 40c. ,
I Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 60
disputes holding sway his work has bulk seaboard, $5.6b. in jute
to 70 lbs., $17; 'TO to 90 lbs. $16.50;
been particularly exacting of late• I Manitoba flour-Firstbarrel;2ndpats $15.50;ligiitweighty
sacks, $7.90 p 90 lbs. and up,
Last year 64,466 automobile licenses $7.40. ton,rolls, in barrels, $32; heavyweight
Ha -Extra No. 2 timothy, per its $27
were
]catch
17 to 18c;
' lower '
private
ears, 2,086 for trucks, 1,225 to $3-2.per ton, $9.50 to prints, 2014 to 20%c; shortening,'
ivory cars, and 224 for motor Straw-Carlots, p tierces, 16 to 1614c; tubs, 16% tot
not strut 1 the sh n 'for
cided whether engineering and lnachlnery trade cycles. W. Bridges, who organizes
• r to coin any next year. 8 This represents one automobile $10. ' 17c; pails, 17 to 17%c; prints, 18 0
The London"Gas Light Co., which is ping, ung' for each 11.75 people, the population Screenings -Standard, recleaned, 17e;
per bay ports, ton, $22.50. Export steers, choice, $7.50 to $7.76;:
o a Mahometan official i - proprietor of the largest number n- exhibition held yearly since c, to at 2• twins, do, good, $
home f dieters in this city, has an h ch Olympia, has sailed for Quebec, s in- of the province being 75 e Pr f.o.b. Cheese -New, large, , ' B.bO to $7; export heifers;
reduction in the Province of
dexabad State, who had been using it slot22 $6 to $6.60; baby beeves, port a $10;;
establishing a Canadian section in the Alberta during 1924 will probably be 20�c; triplets, 2to �24a totwins, t24 gto butcher steers, choice, $6 to $6.60; do,;
for many years as a paper -weight. ghs In ul Th of t can ,000 pennies which it to pas on in November, 1925 manufacturers Mr. ` 20 er cent. in excess of the previous Old, large, ' good, $6,60 to $6; be med., $6 to nee fact, so little value did this man at • is unable to unload.26c• trip lets 25 to 26c.
tach to the curious -looking stone, } The mint can well afford to let up exposition in Nriots 38
acture of copper coins, Bridges, who is in touch with the high-, year, according to the Provincial Dairy , do, tom.. $3 to $4.50; butcher heifers,
s here Commissioner. Last year the province! Butter -F1 creamery, 86 to 37e;'No.
choice, $6 to $6.60 ; do, mod., $6
to::
do, which is intricately carved to the form on the manufacture i to 39c, No. $8 to $4,25, butcher\
760,000 pounds of butter, 2, 34 to 36c; dairy, 28 to 30c. $5. r5; do, tom.,
of an ear ornament, that he frequently' as it i U sotoaote ou ds twee hewn onrthe wishessto arrange for Canadian visited' and the output this year is estimated Eggs -Extras, fresh, in cartons, co'vs, choice, $4 to $4.50; do, Flied.,,
S3 to $4; butcher bulls, good, $4 tel
$4.25; do, fair, $3.50 to $4; bologaas,{
22 to 3; canners and cutters, $1 to
• $2.50; feeding steers, good,
t $6.25; do, fair, $4.50 to $5; stockers,
i good, $4 to $5; do, fair $3.50 to $4.25;
milkers, springers, ch., $75 to $100 ; do,
fair, $40 to $50; calves, ch., $0 to $11;
do, med., $6 to $8.50; do, com., $3.50;
to $4.50; lambs, choice ewes. $12 to
$12.50; do, bucks, $10 to $10.50; do,
culls, $8 to $9; sheep. light ewes, $6.50
to $7.25: do, culls, $2 to $4.50; hogs,
fed and watered, $10.10; do, f.o.b.,:
'$9.50; do, country points, $9.25; do,
select, fed and watered, $10.50; do,
' off cars, long. haul, $10.50.
IMONTREAL.
Oats, CW, No. 2, 65 to 66c; do, CWe
!No. 3, 64 to 64aec; extra No. 1 feed,;
163c; do. No. 2 local white, 61%c -
IFlour, Man. spring wheat pats., firsts,,
: $7.90 do, seconds, $7.40; do, strong,
• ibakers, $7.70; do, winter pats., choice
! $7 to $7.20. Rolled oats, bag 90
lbs."!
1$3.66 to $3.76. Brat, $ ,
$31.25. Middlings, $37.25. .Hay, No.'.
r•er ton. car lots. -$16.60 to $17. 1
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... .. .... . � ,,.:�r,•>,. > ...:: y , .. :_ ,,,;..... .. V.M< a�. ..:: :;$8.75 t�
suckers. Y
� 50 • lam '
to -
S10; $3-,50 to $6 ; hogs, $
• ...-•»-:+.• .ti"10 sheep ........his $10 to
•--� greeted by: thcusauds of interested spectators, who . tL•e C3uebec.
When the visiting British naval squadron arrived off Quebec they were
ILM.S• Repulse. The squadron recently sa]led for Newfoundland.
•
gave it to his children as a pretty of 7,00 p last year, due to the use for several of them e
• plaything. I silver coining Canada thirty-six years ago.1 at 21,850,000 pounds.
1st
The stone has a long and romantic of a new alloy in this currency.
history which has been traced from 1
the twelfth century, when it was an!
ornament on a Buddha belonging to !
the Ballala kings of South India. It
�
was handed down from generation to 1
generation until it cane into the pee- i
session of a white man, who eventually
gave it as a present to the ancestors,
of its present owner. i.
Policy of Tax Reduction.
in. Vogue in New Zealand
A despatch ftiaom Wellington,. New
Zealand, says :-New Zealand is one
of - the few countries which is able to
steadily. reduce its taxation. This
year's budget reduces the land tax by
10 per cent. and the.income tax by
131-8 per cent. Mr• Massey, Prime
Minister, also intends to ask the House
to reduce the amusement tax and. the
tobacco duty, thus making the re-
missions of 63,000 pounds in all.
The huge gates of Henry VTT.'s
Chapel in Westminster Abbey are be-
lieved' to' have taken eighteen years
to make.
and Levis shores. Here are .seen. H.M.S. Hood an{l
,aa
$9.50 ; do. better weights,
$10.25; sows, $6 to $7.