The Exeter Times, 1923-9-13, Page 7YOKOHAMA, TOKIO RESIDENTS ESCAPED
Casualty List in Japanese Earthquake Still Uncertain —
Neither Tokio Nor Yokohama Totally. Destroyed, Resi-
dential Districts Being CornparativelY Uninjured.
A despatch from London says— All available information shows
The appalling nature of the japanese thet Tokio aed Yokohama were not
earthquake, fire and tidal wave, with totally destroyed, the foreign resider -
the greatest loss of life and property tial district of the 'port city, which is
of any similar catastrophe in modern on a high bluff overlooking the bay,
times, continues to be told by meagre suffering comparatively little damage,
and unconnected press despatches and while the residential suburban dis-
privete messages from foreign resi- tricts of Tokio also escaped. This
dents and tourists who survived the would account for the few deaths tun -
holocaust. But Europe still awaits ong the foreigners there, for on Sat -
the graehic story of how the earth urclay afternoon few would have been
shook to pieces and then consumed in in their office.
flames Japan's capital and scores of The destruction in Tokio extends
towns around, Tokio Bay, including over two-thirds of the metropolitan,
the great commercial port of _Yoko- 'district of foreign wards, with the
harna, low-lying districts completely wiped
The loss of life is estimated at such out. , These include the sloths of Irulcad
varying figures, in some caees rue- gassier, the industrial section of Honjo,
ning into hundreds of thousands, that both on the right bank of the Suraida
any certainty of the casualty is irn- River, A salcuea, famous for its amuse -
:possible -while communications with ment parks, Kyobashi and Nibonbashi,
the devastated districts remain AS, which include most of modern Tokio,
they are. where four or five -storey buildings
•' On the whole, the news received on lined the principal, thdreughfare, the
Thursday is of amore hopeful nature Ginza. This section also includes Tau--
• than any since' the disaster, one auth- kiji, in which, before Japan was com-
oritative rneeaage froma British pletely opened to the western nations,
naval official at Yokohama placing the foreigners were compelled, to reside.
deaths of foreigners in that port at It has recently been occupied princi-
seventy and stating that all the for- pally by missionaries, their schools
eigners in Tokio escaped. Even this, and hospitals. • During the Summer
number 'of dead, Which is small as; most of the Tsukijo residents are out
• compared with first reports, is enor- of the city, but, the loss of property
mous for a 'foreign colony of a few has been heavy.
thoussinds and indicates that the loss; In other sections of Tokio--Asabu,
of life among the native popu1ation hiba, Alcasaka, Yotsuya and Ushigon
may reach the highest • -reported' —where the foreigners live in more
figures. • or less isolated foreign compounds,
The only official estimate is based consisting of a few western style
- on Home Office Information from houses built on small hills, the damage
Tokio that the loss of life there was was by fire, which, on account of the
30,000, but Yokohama is known to number of open spaces, could be con -
have suffered much more severely than trolled. The foreign embassies and
the capital city, and the Horne Office legal -centres were widely scattered
figures do not attempt ete take into throughout the higher districts of
conaideration the one hundred miles Tokio, and a number of them, includs
of coast -line town e and villages, all ing the United States Embassy, have
in the path of the tidal wave. been destroyed.
SOLE SURVIVOR TELLS
FATE OF ARCTIC PARTY
Crawford Expedition Plants
British Flag on Wrangel Isle
at Cost of Lives.
A despatch from Nome: Alaska,
says:—An Eskimo w,ornan, sole sur-
vivor of the Crawford expedition,
which left here for Wrangel Island,
off the norther,n coast of Siberia, in
the fall of 1921, described the fate of
the four white men composing the ex-
pedition. The trip was arranged by
Stefahsson, with the prin-
cipal object of raising the British flag
over the island, which had been claim-
ed .by the Soviet government.
Three of the party—Allan Craw-
• ford, of Toronto, :leader; Frederick
Maurer, New Philadelphia, Ohio, and
Milton Galle, New Brunfels, Tex. --
perished the second winter, the Eski-
mo woman, named Ada, said. They
went out on the ice seeking the main-
land and never returned.
The remaining nen, Lorne E.
Knight, McMinnville, Ore., died of
scurvy June 20, 1923, and his body
was brought `back by the relief expe-
dition, headed by Captain Harold
Noice, which left here August 3. Cap-
tain Noice said his pewee schooner,
the Donaldson, had little trouble
reaching the island. .
The first evidence of the missing
party found by Captain Noice's expe-
dition was a bottle in a deserted camp,
containing the names of the parey
with the declaration that they claimed
Wrangel Island in the name of King
George of Great Britain.
Ada fainted when she saw the men
• of the Noice party approaching and
hathe Donaldson near by. On recovery
the told the tale of the disaster. Di-
rected by Ada, Noice found Knight
dead in his sleeping bag. Ada said
she had done all the hunting and had
cared for Knight for two months lae-
fore his death and that after he died
she left him in the sleeping bag and
put up another tent fifty feet away.
• Last December, Ada said, Knight
end two ether men started for the
mainland, but through some mistalse
landed near Perald Island, and after
two weeks returned to Wrangel.
Knight was too ill to travel. Craw-
ford, Maurer and Gallo started for
Siberia, taking clog feed for seventeen
days and very little other provisions.
Ada said they, too, took a wrong di-
• rection,- moving to the southeast as
• they passed forevee from her vision.
• The Tragedy of Wrangel
Romance hecome grim tragedy.
'that is the tale of Wraeisel
11 was only the other day theb Me.
Plefensson was speaeine- corehlently
of• the splendid advent ire ,of the foot'
seen who, in the midst of inconceivable
lonelinesa, evere holdine that desolate
tu,i, valuable island COL' the ildtiSh
Empire and Of their relief" by the ee-
, pfseition which he had dispatched from
Nome. "Tho returnim- party," he said,
"twin have a story io ton that \yin
3 ahals with the most romantic in Aectic j
Ilistory," The only reel:liming party it
the relief party itself, and tlie story
1 tells is one of the "most
retie history ---that all foes ef the
tithe aurora are dead. I
It was two years eao this month
that Craw feed,- -0 tile, Jen i tait a si
Maurer landed on Weangef Island. In
all that time no word came from them
nor was sent to thern None could be
sent in either directien. They were
re completely out of touch with the
-world as though they lied heen tin
-Mars. They leacl food sepplies for only
one year. But they had. plenty of 'am-
munition, and games is supposed to be
plentiful on Wrangel Island. TwO of
them, Xnight and Maurer, were 'Vet-
eran Arctic explorers, who knew how
to care...for themselves in the icy wild-
eeness. There was, therefore, ground
for expectation, that they woald be
fcund alive and well.
,
We may hope to learn from the
Eskimo woman, vslio-alOue was found
alive upon the island, how the four
men met their fate; whether through
starvation, pestilence or disaster. We
'Premier Benito Mussolini
The Dictator of Italy, 'sea,o,se de -
mends upon •Greece are described as
infinitely more •• humiliating" than
those presented by Austria to Serbia
in 1914...•
. IS. ALLAN GRAV,VRORD ALIVE?.
,
Stefaneson, the Caeadian explorer, is being supported in his belief by
•
Britis,h explorers that Allan CrawfOrd. and his competions may be on the
coast of Siberia, perhaps detained by the -Soviet. The. map shows Wrangel
- •
Island, where Crawford relied the British flag in its, relation to the inain-
land, ter which the ,three mea. 'started. The d,is,tance' between is 1.10 miles.
can scarcely suppose that the Solfletlde---
Russians fulfilled their threet of go-
ing thither and rnerdering them. Pend-,
ing such revelation, minds shrink from
the picture of those four men, wonder-
ing why they were neglected—for they
could not know that for the first tem°
in many years the ice Pack was so
dense as to prevent approach to the
• island—daily climbing the highest hill
to look for coming helfie to see only
the unbroken wilderness of ice and
snow, and at lest lying down to die,
feeling themselves deserted by those
whom they had so bravely sought to
serve. It is the latest chapter in the
grim annals of Arctic tragedies and
one of the saddest of 'them all.
BRITAIN'S NEW SUB
OBJECT OF INTEREST
Naval Authorities Await Sec-
ret Trial of Huge Submers-
ible X-1, of 3,600 Tons.
A despatch from London says: --
Because of the recent disaster to
Japan's super -submarine, 77, naval
authorities here are awaiting the
trials of Great Britain's giant rays-
tery submersible, X-1, with greatly in-
creased interest. There is a school of
'opinion here which inclines to the he -
lief that beyond a certain size it is
likely to be found that big submarines
cannot be handled efficiently.
• The X-1 in submersible trim is of,
8,600 tons, which is much in excess of ,
the U-142, the biggest German sub-
marine constructed during the ware
It is now well mown that the most'
efficient Gennan submarine command-
ers preferred the smaller undersea
craft as being more manageable. It
was Said to be difficult to gauge how
far the large submarine would dive
and impossible for the oommander to
have the 'whole vessel under his sur-
vey, as he could in a smaller craft.
The -fate of the Japanese submarine
and the trouble which it is understood
has been experienced evith'some of the
larger Americen submarines has, made
speetiletion 'More keen as to how the
X-1 will a.ct in the trials. These trials,
like the launching of the big submar-
ine at Chatham, June 16, will be con-
ducted with the greatest possible se-
crecy. In naval quarters here to -day
it is isnpos,sible even to ascertain ap-
proximately the time when the X-1
will go through her 'paces. If she
comes up to the highest expectationa
then it is likely she will be the fore-
runner of two other similar craft in
the near future.
Canada Sends Supplies
to Earthquake Victims
A despatch from Vancouver, B.C.,
says :—With 500 'cons of simplies from
Canada, for the earthquake stricken
people, the steamer Erhpress. of Rus-
sia sailed Thursday afternoon for Ja-
pan. The cargo is consigned to the
relief commission at Tokio. Ibis made
up of flour, salmon, canned milk and
ether articles.
The Empress of Russia will be the
first steamer carrying relief supplies
to reach Japan from the American
continent. •
Natural Resources
Bulletin
• The Natural Resources Intel-
ligence Service of the Depart-
ment of the Interior at Ottawa
says:— •
Northern Ontario is a sealed
book to many of the Ontario
people, especially those of Mid-
dle age who attended school be-
fore the northern portion of
the province 'came into prom-
inence.
It would wen repay anyone
to closely ;Study a map of north-
ern or newer Ontario, as de-
. veloPmenta are taking pla,:e at
a very raPice rate. .Mining and
pulp and paper making are
outstanding industries of the
pro -vine, and practically all of
the former and the greater por-
tion of the latter are located in
newer Ontario. Preceding this
• development is the produetion
of hydro -electric powers new
planes are 'constantly being put
into operation, and the dernand
for power is dmost insatiable.
There i already developee or
in course of development 100,-
000 horse -power for the mining
induetry, only. On the 11.th
instant the first: power from the
new plant of the Great N rth-
ern Power Co. at Indian Chutes,
on the Montreal river, was de-
livered to Pore epin e, 2,000
horsepower being provided with
an additional 4.000 to be pro-
vided at a later date.
Wrangel Expedition Does Not
Touch Russia's Rights
A despatch from Moscow says:—In
reply to the note sent by Foreign Min-
ister Tchitcherin to Great Britain pro-
te,sting against the raising of the
British flag on Wrangel Island by an
expedition of Vilhjalrnur Stefansson,
the explorer, Great Britain has in-
formed Russia that the expedition was
a private affair, organized by Stefans-
son, and that it does not touch the
question of Russia's sovereign rights
over the island. However, any attempt
by Russia to hamper the work of the
expedition would be .viewed by Great
Britain with utmost gravity, the note
says. In a reply to Great Britain, M.
Tchitcherin accepts the explanation.
He declares, however, that co-ordina-
tion between the countries concerned
must exist when the sovereign rights
of one State are at issue.
Canada from
oast to o s
Yarmouth, N.Se—A shipment of
pure bred Guernsey cattle was made,
reeently by W. H. Cornieg to Bar-
bados. Mr. Corning's Guernsey steels
was made known to Barbadians some
time ago since which time aeveral
Shipments have followed.
Frederieton, N.I3.—A, decision to
Proceed with the formation, of a pro -
organisation for the premotion
of the production of seed potatoes was
reached at a meeting of potato grow-
ers of the various potato belts of the
province, held here reeently.lOver two
hundred potato growers were in at-.
tendance.
• Montreal, Que.:—The eagerness with
which Britishers are taking adean-
tage of the opportunity to come to
Canada to help garner Canada's bum-
per erop, is shown by a despatch from
London, Eng, which states that it
was necessary to employ a large num-
ber of police to quell the mad scramble
of prospective harvesters to get
aboard the last ship which left Eng-
land. In view of the fact that a
large number were unable to secure
berths, another batch of harvesters
will be sent to Canada on the next
ship, which will arrive here in time
to enable the Britishers to proceed
West and help in the harvest.
Sudbury, Ont.—The second furnace
has been blosvn in at the British -
American Smelter here. A third fur-
nace is on the ground but has not yet
been erected. Approximately 1,000
tons of ore is being treated daily at
the smelter at resent With bo
furnaces operating at, cepecite, it8
expected that it will be ieceeaied to
steel an eeteet that the nionthlY am-
ount of ore treated will be close to
50 000 tons.
Winnipeg, Man.—A leen scheme for
eattle feeding among the farmees -that
will enable the fanners tO feed and
hold cattle to meet market rdquires
silents, has been annovinced by the
Manitoba Gettig Loan Co. It is hoped
the result will show a considerable in-
crease in live stock in the province,
with better return for the farmer.
• Regina Sasig—On a turnover of
$4,107,28e the co-operative essocie-
tons of Saskatchewan earned a net
profit of $110,997 during the fiscal
year ending April 30th, 1923, accord-
ing to the anneal report of the co-
operation and maricets branch of the
provincial Department of Agriculture.
Calgary, Alta.—Alberta is third
among.the provinces of Canada in the
quantity and value of butter produced
last year, being beaten out by Ontario
and Quebec. 'Alberta produced 16,-
417,070 perunds, valued at $5,126,844.
Vernon. B,C.—Several Indian Any
officers have this summer taken up
And in the Okanagan and are doing
very well. In addition several Can-
adian veterans have come into the
district under the aegis of -the Soldier
Settlement Board. They are of a fine
type and will eventually secure valley
land themselves.
Aero Photography Urged to
Appraiie French Land.
• The Freed' Committee of Aerial
Propaganda has just brought before
legislators an appeal for the use of
aerial pitotography in completing the
register of area and valuation of land
of France. If they centieue to use
ilia present method of surveying it
will require 400 years to complete the
register and the cost will be at leas
t-
5,000,000,000 franca.
The technical service for register of
lands, created by e law of 11398, has
eompleted only 101 communes in
twenty-five years. By the aid of
aerial photography it is estimated
that the register of lands can be com-
pleted in forty years at a cost of 900,-
ee0,000 francs. With the use of a
single aeroplane, equipped with spo-
de]. apparatus, and a force of fifteen
°eel -eters in a phothgrapher's labor-
atory the reeisted of siety communes
could be taken in a single years '
Starting life in a workhouse, a girl
has just taken her B.A. degree at Bia-
s
niingham University.
The Prince Regent.
Heil- to the Jaisan,ese thron,e, who
escaped from, the Imperial Palace in.
Tokio after It was ,partially destroyed.
He is directing relief work, and has
thrown open whet reraains of the pal-
ace to refugees,
Weekly Market Report
TORONTO.
Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern,
91.2717e.
Manitoba barley—Nominal.
• 'All the above, track, bay ports.
Am. corn—No. 2 yellow, $1.08.
Bayley —Nominal.
Buckwheat—No. 2, nominal.
, Rye—No. 2, nomirial.
Peas—No. 2, nominal.
Millfeed—Del., Montreal feel hts,
bags included: Bran, per ton, 28;
shorts, per ton, 931; middlings, .937;
good feed flour, $2.10.
Ontario wheat—No. 2 tvhite, nom-
inaL
Ontario No. 2 white oats—Nominal.
Ontario corn--Norninal.
Ontario flour—Ninety per cents pat.,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship -
anent, 94.60 to 94.70;, Toronto basis,
94.50 to $4.60; bulk seaboard,, $4.50.
Manitoba flour -1st pats., sn cotton
sacks, $6.,90 per bbl.; 2nd jsets„ 96.40.
Cheese—New, large, 24% te '25el
twins, 25 to 26c; triplete, 26 •t.p 27e;
Stiltons, 26 to -27c; Old, Stiltons, 8$„el
Tchitcherin's note to Great Britain twins, 331e to 34e. New Zealand old
said Wrangel Island had been incor- cheese, 31 td 320-
porated into Russia's territory in Butter—Finest creanierY Prints, $$
1821-24 that Russia had built light- to 40e; ordinary creamery, 36 to 87c;
r3
houses and other works there, and in °-
1915 formally notified all allied and, Eggs --Extras in cart,ons, 42
neutral Governments that the isla to 43o;
was an integral part of Russian terri-
cextras, seconds, 28 to 2 e41e ; firsts, 86 to 37c;
e
.
Government regarded the raising of Live poultry—Spring chickens, 8
tory. The note added that the Soviet
le'si 530
jibs, lbsand. ever, 36c; chickens, 2 to 3
lbs.,
s.h, hens, ; odvoe,8
r 5 tol b s4., ib2s4.c, el7deot
the British flag there as a violation ofe
Russian sovereign righth. froosters, 15c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
. 00, Med., $3 to : $8.78; do, canners an
It.••••ii...1%••••••••1•011
22c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up,
25c.
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 3
lbs, and ever, 38c; chickens, 2 to 8
lbs., 85c; hens, over 5 lbs., 30c; do, 4 feet were produced in New Brunswick.
to 5 lbs., 28e; do, 8 to 4 lbs., 20e; roost-lAsheitofs mining in Quebec,- In coin-
ersa 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 2,8c; other asbestos -producing
eeB;
Beans—eo? aly2adei.arh hand-picked, ib., Cut the first half of 1922. In the lat-
oelciunne'Llnies11.921 -which continued through-
illixi withof the world, suffered a (le-
cke 4 to 5 lbs., 25e; turkeys, young, 10
lba. and up, 30e.
Minera Productio
n Canada
The bxlpthyemeat'in the rnbiijii,
situation in Canada and in the metal
mar,lc.ets of the world l& reflected in
the remarlsable recovery ot
1)1'0 diletion in the leo,mini011 during
the year 1922. Preliminary' ilgurel,
complied by the Bureau of SLaitiztte$,
Department at. Trade and Comaterce,
Canada, indicate the extent to which '
tho Canadian mining industry has re: -
covered troni the market readinete
meute of 1920' and 1921. The value of
minerals produced last year, as reports
ed by the Dominion. Statistician,,
amounted to $183,030,000, an increaees
of, $11,106,000 over 1921. Tee years
output was ,macie up as follo•ws:
me-
talilos, $61,145,000; non-rnetallies, $82,-
582,000; stnretural materials and clay"
products, $39,303,000.' In comparison
'with precedilig years the 1922 mine
yield may be considered very credit-
able and is only exceeded by the re-
cords established in 1918 of $211,301,-
1000 and in 1920, when the peak of
1$227,859,000 was reached. The in-
crease in the value of metals pro-
, duoed, which was 23.9 per dent. great-
! er than the previous year, was largely
respon,silaie for the imeroved showing
of mineral proauctien in 1922. ,
The feature ,at the inareas,e in the
yield fo,r last year was the gain mad*
in, the output of gold by the two greasi
produeing provinces, Ontario an,d, Bra
tised Cols:tablas Of the total. et 1,263,-
364 ounces valued at 926,116,050 pee-,
dueede in, Canada, Ontario's mines -
yielded 1,000,340 ounces or 79.18 per
cent., and British Columbia, produced,
207,370 cance,s •or 16.42 per 'cent. Sil-
ver recorded a substantial increase in
both quantity and value over 1921, pr -
duction rising 35 per cent, and value
ilicreaiing 46 per cent. Lead ehowed
an even wid,er spread in its increase
the yield- being 40 per cent. in advenee
of the previcees, year while t.h,e prices
,
reoeived iraprov,ed up to 52 per cent.
over th,e record of 1921.
Non -M etall les.
There was, a slight decline in the
production of nen-rnetalltcs including
coal, which amounted to about 96,260,-
343 in value, largely due to ,the lees of
production caused through: labor trona- ---
hies. The output efecowl, notwith-
standing this, less of time, rea,clae,d th,e
encouraging amount of e5,045,286
tons with a value of 966,186,025. The
1921 preauction was 16,057,193 tons.
Alberta ,coal mine,s had . the highest
output with 5,991,000 tone, -While Nova
Scotia eontributed 5,569,000 tons and
occupied escrond place among the coal.
producing provinces of the Dominion,
British Calumesia, accounted for 2,9270
000 ton&
The Production of natural gas ha
Canada re,aeleed., 14,951,097 no-flew:xi
cubic feet valued at 95,168,963. Ons
tario retained the premier poeition
and produced 7,800,000 thousanSi cubic
feet, while Albeeta followed with an
output of 5,867,000 thousand cubic
feet. About 753,897 thous,and cubic
Maple producte—Syrep, per imp.
gal., 92.60; per 5-gs-ls tin, 92.40 per
gal,; maple sugar) lb., 25c.
Honey -60 -lb, tine, 11 to 12c per
ter part o,f the year there was con-
siderable activity, the output reach-
ing 163,700 tons of all grecles com-
p,ared. with 92,761 tons 1921.
lb.; 101o. tins, 11 to 12c; 5 -lb. tins, The regival of building activity. af-
12 to 13e; 21Aelb, tins, 12 to 14c; comb fected favorably th,e peoduotion of all
bony, per dozen, 98.75 to $4; No. 2, classes of structural ma,terials in 1922
$" to $8'50. and in tile same way the whole min-
Smolzed meats Ha.rns, med., 27 to era:1 industry of Canada, it may be ex -
?9e; cooked hams, 43 to 46c; smoked p,ected, will benefit from. the improve -
rolls, 22 to 24e; cottage rolls, 23 to
26e; brealsfast bacon, 30 to 84e; spe-
cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 38c;
backs, bonele,ss, 82 to 88c.
Cnred'meets—Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs., 917.50;
90 lbs. and up, 916.50; lightweight
rells, in barrels, $36; heavyweight
rolls, $83.
Lard—Pure tierces, 16 to 16%c;
tubs, 16% to 17c; pails, 17 to 171ec;
prints,
Sc, Shortening, tierces, 14
to 141/2c, tubs 141/ to 14%c; pails,
14% to 1e4c; prints, 17 to 171/2e.
Heavy steers, choice, 98 to 88.50;
heavy steere, good, 97 to 98: butcher
eteers, choice, $6.50 to 97; "do, good,
96 -to 96.50; do, med., $5.50 to 96.50;
do, cone $4 to $5; baloy beeves, $8.50
tO $G,O; COWS fat choice, 94 to $4.75.
meeme j
•, • ,
'THE „STRIORRN KINGDOM
Tokio, the ,cripital, erid Yokohama, the greet port and commercial el ty, both destroyed, are &hewn, on the nap, esesVeleas Nagoya, Sr:slosh: Osaka
d.
anmany nth ors oI the Seeanoee citieS, mentioned, in thew
nee despatches aS stricken. The loSi of life has been .a peening, fire .0..tia flood ,a,c1cling to the
,
eerrer, 02 eertineiake,
- uc
cutters, 91.25 to 92; bulls, butcher,
good, $4 to $4.50; feeding steers,
good, $5.50 to 96.25; stockesc, 94 to
$5; bulls, butcher, 94 to 94.50; calve,
choice, $10 to 910.75; do, med., 98 to
$10; do, corn., 94 to 98; -milch cows,
$60 to $100; springers, $80 to 9110;
sheep, choice, $6; do, heavy, 93 to $5;
do, yearlings, 98 to 99; lambs, ewes
and wethers, 912 to $12.25; bucks,
$10.50 to 910,75; commons, 98 to 99;
hogs, flat rates, 910.35.
Quotations, fed and water basis:
Select bacon, 911.40 to 911.90; thick
smooths, 910.25 to 910.85; lights,
97.40; heavies, $9.40;"sotirs, 96.90.
MONTREAL.
Corn, Am. No. 2' yellow, $1.04 to
91.05. Oats, Can. West. No. 2, 57ae to
58c; do, Can. West. No. 3, 56 to 561/2c;
do, extra No. 1 feed, 55 to 551/2c; do,
No. 2 local white, 64 to 54/c. Flour,
Mate spring wheat pats.; lsts, 96,90;
do, 2ncls, .96.40; do, strong bakers,
96.20; do, Winter pats., choice; $5.75
to 95,85. ' Roiled' oats, bag 90 lbs.,
$8.25. l3ran, 928.25. Shorts, 981.25.
Hay, NO: 2'peidton, car lots; 915.
heeee, finest °esteems, 281i to
29 4,e. Butter, choicest creanaery,
95aec, Egga, selected: 40c.
om.aairy cows, e2 to 93.50; eons,
,92 to $2.50; good veal calves,
98; Med. ancket calves, 96 to 97;
a:lessees, $3 to 93.50; ungraded hogs,
10.50 to $10.8.1
anent in the general situation in th,e
world'smetal markets.
Flying Fortress the Work of
French Engineers.
French engineers have succeeded in
turning out a new air monster which
will serve as a veritable flying fortress
in future wars. When tried out near
Marseilles reeently it came up to all
expectations, its five tons of metal re-
sponding to all the tests to which ie
wee put for several hours with a load
of thirty tons.
This is the 'first all -metal machine
turned out by French factories, even
the wings being composed foe a camper
sition of aluminum especially hard.
ened to give protection against bullet;
almost as great as quarter -inch solid
steel plate. Six large machine guns
and four automatic.. rides mounted be-
hind the pilot provide a formidable
battery sufficient to ward off enemy
attaelss, and it is estimated that the
new plane will carry 'ten one ton
bombs without difficelty.
• The blinders claim that its flying
range is seven hours at seventy -eve
miles an hour. Four motors of 2i30
horsepower each are required, but the
machine is so designed that only two
are really necessary to maintain a'
flight in case of accident,
The tests were all on the ground, •
but the Government experts present
ivere satisfied with France's leading
aerial achievement and will recants
mend the construction of several
planes of this type as soon as the iciest
flights are completed.
A large irieteorite that recently fen
in India appears to include three kinde
of matter, 'there is igneous rook c./
a slate -gray color, rather heavy and
marked with spots of dark turquoise
blue; a quantity of jet-black, highly
glazed lava with turquoise blue terns,
and a material that resembles coke h• e
appearance aed weight.
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