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JUNE 20—THE BLACK HOLE OF
CALCUTTA.
+NI: hundred and seventy ate
kPyoars arse, a,n thit loth' of Juno,
1 occurred the tragedy.
Prisoners pleaded with the jailers.
loiew-n • a; the ma sacro 1 1 j"
or the lila k Hole of Caleuttn, an ins
cirlent which ]ed indirectly to the cs•
ttilli=hntent of British :trammel. "y in
brei: .
At that time Calcutta was only a
small town and, although it was onfe
of the most important of the trad-
ing- po-t • of the East India Company,
it was provided with no adequate
i- an.: of defense- It was situated
it, the province governed by Surat-j-
ud-i)owlath, the Nabob of Bengal, a
cruel and worthless youth of 19, who
had succeed, ed: _I to the throne of his
sistadfauter in the early part of
1156,
Two month, after his succession his
to governable temper le,1 to a rupture
with the llriti-1 authorities, :ail on
the flimsiest pretext he declarers war.
against theist and starched on Cp 1-
cutta with a great army. The rnttj-
ority of the llriti'Ih residents escaped
from the town before his arrival and
111i1ed clown the River Iiugli to safe-
ty, and the remainder, 1111 in num-
bet, including one woman, were
compelled to surrender to the nabob
when he captured the town on the
26th June after a feeble resi,tanee.
Tho prisoners were practically all
merchants or employees of the East
India Company, who had remained at
their posts to protect the property of
the Company, which consisted of
goods and money to the value of two then the other Indian provinces pass -
a tilhon pounds. This rich booty was mi into the. keeping of the Britishseized by the nabob, who promised
his prisoners that thein• lives should i Crown.
• he spared, but ordered that they were
The site of the Black Hole of Cal -
to be kept for the night h the ,hili- c'utta is marked by a marble ,lab, and
tory- jail, which consisted of one stone 'the suffering's of its victims is corn-
tory
measuring only 18 .foot by memorated by 0 tnomunent erected
14 feet 10 inches. int the spot by Lord Curzon in 1002.
The whole of the 146 ill-fated in 10- 1127 dates for the Canadian DTat-
otrcas v:crc forced into this small tonal Exhibition is August 2'7th to
room at the point of the sword, and September 10th.
the, door was closed upon them. It
was one of the hottest night) of the
tropical summer, and as the only
ventilation was by two small win-
dows barred by iron gratings the air
soon became deadly, In taut the
They offered br+he^ :1114 h • 1 N"
the nabob might be told of their
plight, but the despot was sleeping
roil none of Itis men dared tai aruuae
him foe orders.
The scene in that tortn'•e chamber
beggars description. A large num-
bei of the prisoners went raving mad
and many wore su11'ocate11 by the
heat and the stench, while others
wore trampled to death tilt,tr the
feet of those who fought like,: gild
hearts art to r, aeh the windows fmia
breath o1 air. When the door was
opened 00 the following morning only
2S; ghastly figures were able tat stag-
ger out into the sunlight, and the
bodies of the 123 victims were flung
into t hastily -dug pit.
The nabob retained possession of
Calcutta until the 2nd of January
1717, when he was driven out on the
arrival of a military and naval face
under the respective commands of
Robert Clive and Admiral Watson,
and he set up this camp in :i strong
Position' outside the city. His army
numbered 34,000 mat and 40 heavy
cannon, but on the dth of February
Clive routed it with a small farce of
1,000 men and 7 field gun,, The
nabob entered into peace treaty, but
his failure to keep faith led to the
memorable Battle of Plasty in the
following June, when his power was
finally crushed, and first Bengal and
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CONFEDERATION AND AFTER—
CANADA'S
FTER--..CANADA'S FURL
At the time of Cour sleratioc ('air
tela had no fold pros,l,ve. Every
1'.1,1111 had a wood lot :tittle i 0r .) ,skirt-
ed 111e towns 11i1d ("Rios. Weed, w':tt
aloin.;t the uuiver ire 1' (4) caul 1„ could
111• obtained itt t•1.1•y low co;1, Wood
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...King Cal," ba:, u u ], d 1h..• place
of
thoernottareli. of tile fovea.
(.1081(1 pn + 3r:` 4(u '.I:all or the
world's supply of coal, out the 10••.00
of production are so d110ii,ttl,:1 that
she t forced to import ()Ai,: 1111 hoe
:untual supply,
The coal industry of Vancouver 1 -
1:n has to face the competition of
cheap oil fuel from California, Mex-
ico and Peru. Alberta need,; to ex-
tend her markets so as to absorb the
production she is capable of snaking.
Now Brunswick faces the problem of
11ow hest to mine her thin SWAMI; in
Nota Scotia there 4(e. problems of
markets and sub -marine mining,
Tho greatest K01110111 is connects('
with our imports of coal into the coal -
less area of Central Canada, and .he
most urgent phase of this i, to .secure
a substitute for about 11,000,000• tats
of anthracite imported from. the
United States and to thne^probl,rm the
fuel hoard is giving special attention,
There are several reasons for this,
among the most isnportaunt being (1)
The certainity of 1111• ultimate ex-
Iuuiotinn of the American anthracite
supply; (2) possibility- of an ember -
go against export.; (3) rising prices;
(-11 the fact that Canada cannot con -
(111 supply, pri00, or quality of this
coal.'
Danger Emphasirod.
The danger of Canada's depend-
ence on American anthracite was
emphasized by the strike in the lJnit-
e'1 States coal fields in 14 22. Manu•
fa turulg industries w and joapardized
and hardships endured by people
generally. :1 ntlb1tittIt r was a n:T-
e ssity for the imported anthracite.
Attention oon w•as turned to tete product-
ion of coke. In 1933 the comminut-
ion of coke in Ontario aucl Qaebec
was 275,000 tons; in 19313 this had
risen to 607,000 tons. At the last
session of the Federal Parliament a
bill was introduced providing a sub-
sidy applicable to the erection of by-
product coking plant. "'This measure
had a dual purpose--ta assist the
Canadian mining industry and to re-
lieve the fuel situation hi the indust-
rial areas. If 70 per sent of Cana-
dian coal is used the manufacture/-
is
anufactureris entitled to 11te full subsidy but if
less than 50 per cent., no subsidy is
paid,
Badly Located.
There would be no fuel problem i8
our coal fields were situated near our
industrial centres, but unfortunately
they are in the far east and far west,
whereas our great centres of popula-
tion and industry are in Ontario and
Quebec. To meet this situation the
question is so to adjust freight rates
that the eastern and western coal can
reach central Canada at a price that
will enble it to compete with the
'United States .product.
The coal situation would have: been
more acute hall it not' been for the
development of the water -power,. I1,
1013 the consumption of coal was
4.2 tons per capita; in 192+3, only 3.5
During this period population had in-
creased about 25 pe reoi•, but the
installed turbine waterWer 170
per cent. It would require 27,000,000
tons of coal to do the work don.: by
the 4,556,000 turbine horsepower in-
stalled at the end of 1925.
Coke and "white coal" will go far
to solve the fuel problem and free
the Dominion from dependence on
the United State mine operators.
Foot Ball Schedule.
June 21—hinburn
June 24--hinburn
June 27—Listowel
June 28—Brussels
July 5 --Listowel
July 5•—hinburn
at Brussels
at Listowel
at Winthrop
nt hinburn
at Brussels
at Monkton
Announcement.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gogarth, of
Hamilton, Ont,, -announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Vera, to
Vincent Way Albin, son of the Rev.
and Mrs, S. J. Albin, of Toronto,
Your Eyes Need
Attention
If your eyes bother you in
any way;
If they tire quickly or be-
come inflamed
If you do not see easily and
well;
If headaches impair your
efficiency or interfere with
your pleasure;
If you cannot enjoy every
minute of your reading? --
SEE
Maude O. Aryans
Optometrist
Phone 2Gx , Brussels
;
d fove 1ty of 1111-1, the i,uuri
„•,• to 'MN, "plaeo at ib , -lei or .1)1.10.
1c•I?pse of the Moon,
Phe•i'e• 15',•r'o
1101, 4(113 p1;0l11r• up ;-
1•t �i 1)'�rul,•-day 111011111;". to ,,. (hr '
,clip,>•, 4(t' tire. Ittoon. 11 ';ars t'i,1 1110 -
nbnut (1.:? 1 :1.111. Oa 11+' '1711 au- I
o+h-•r e vent ofimpurt.luit•: in 1i1�'
l4(:evlu:, will io-lkt
Mao, when the
1'ua--1i'iuin•cic conu•L w°111 lot (1,1 de,
Anou:'1 Convenl101 at BIM)
The nn,.uacl County Coeventioi or
Huron Co, In our' ,1 r r 1111 1 n 1 .'1 -
ranee I.a1r •1 sill be r else
`)) ('alt. ] t hurrh Myth, on I.ntr:-?
July 7. There will b three
non
held. annual r.poKs of
work Mop ar•itn, the year will t:,•
^ !veil and Mist 1.11 mend ?tail',
r arty f90the 1i i T. 1 '11
h th • Convention speaker. 1 good
o,i
mu h:oil 1141 bt(4(y program alts wi11
111.4) }e givla at et ail .11 m, A
goodly Inunber from I r..s I expert
to attend. Sirs, (I ,v,1 Brown, of
Walton and Mrs. i Str:uh,u., are
(43(100 (rd 1 ies:•atcrs,
Jubilee Postage Stamps to be on S:l,r.
Thr 1'o t (i1]iee Department
nt It r
fled postmasters 11181 six ilimmulaa-
tions 01 the new Canadian lii.4.0sical
postage stamps 4(•e now being pl ne-
ed and will be on solo oa Tung 21
jaA, before the Confederation Jubi-
lee. The d -nomitt trions and L.,s na
are 11:4 follow 1. cent stomp, orange
color, with head of Sir Jean A. Mac-
donald; two rent .tamp, green, pic-
ture or the 1(111101 of ('onfecieratlo411
three cent stump, red, picture of the
„entre block of ,the Parliament
Me; floe rent stamp, purple, heal of
Sir Wilfrid Laurier; 12 eent stomp,
Hue, map of Canada, 18(37-1927; 20
o4•111 ,tampspecial delivery, red,
1111014(;; 11011 t ;e, of mail tratn.,por-
tatioa in Canada.
Motorists Warned.
The Ontario Safety League is one
of its posters pttt the gas,. pointedly,
"If you :nae driving an autonaobll•' you
need not. he killed at a railway er0s5-
ing unless you want to be. Absol-
ute al•ty at such places van be se-
cured' by absurdly simple meant. You
4(e not in the position of the mouse
that ventures out. of its hole when a
eat is watching for it. The danger
yo Uh.n•c to avoid is not a sir:: and
mysterious one, lying in wait for
you. Your danger is coining down
17 ,4. tree]: and making an awful 11 not: -0
about yto..4 .11(344(41
and blind ',bore is oo e(—cusseyeuse for you.
Thus the ri 1. i • plainly that of the
driver who takes a 'Dunce.'' Another
pastesays: '.1 dead stop before you
reach the coos -int will prevent a dead
stop at the crossing."
Attended Perth Co. Convention. ,
Mrs. A. McGuire attended the
Perth Co. Convention of the 1Vomares
('hristian Temperance Union, held in
Listowel, on Tuesday 14th, and gave
an address at the afternoon session.
A press reports states:—Mrs. A. Mc-
Guire, of Brussels, president of the
Huron County W. C. T. U. gave some
of the reasons why fifty years of
prohibition results seem to have been
lost through the introduction, of Gov-
ernment Control. She. stated that the
prohibition law existing before the
change was made was the best law
the province eevr had. The law was
discredited by those who said 'there
was a vast amount of drinking, but
who hall no definite information. Pro-
fessing christians, she stated, did not
support the law in the last election,
while lack of home training was an-
other cause of its non-support. Mrs.
McGuire advocated the training of
our children to beliswe that alcohol is
a poison. Then, she added, they will
not grow up to belong to the class
that stands in lute before the liquor
stores.
CONFEDERATION AND AFTER—
OUR GREAT WATER WAYS
In our water -borne commerce, the
Great Lakes, Superior, Ilnron, Erie
and Ontario,, with the 11.ver St.
Lawrence, link the Canadian West
with the Atlantic ocean, They are
mvibated by vessels of a special
type, drawing from twelve to twenty
foot 0f water, and calling at the re-
motest points on the Great Lakes.
Some, of these vessels carry passere
gers between the United States and
Canada.
A large part of the ,grain crop of
Western Canada passes down the
Great Lakes and is transhipped at
the ports of Montreal, Buffalo, New
York or Portland for export to
Europe.
In traversing Lake Superior, a ves-
sel covers 400 miles; on Lake Huron
and Georgian Bay, 020 miles; on
Lake Erie, 290 miles; on Laker On-
tario, 260 miles.
The principal Canadian ports -on
the Groat Lakes are fort William
and Port Arthur. At these two ports
the vessels are loaded with wheat
fro'nthe Wost, consigned to England
via Montreal. The voyage from Fort
William to Quebec is 1660 miler.
The development of transportation
on the Great Lakes has given an in-
ctticulabie impetus to the production
of grain in Western Canada, This
is one of the advances upon which
Canadians may congratulate them-
selves on the occasion of the sixtieth
anniversary of Confederation,
The St. Lawrence—a National High-
way.
In last month's record of rivet'
truant there appeared the news that
a trans-Atlantic steamship of 19,000
tons had arrived at Montreal. Tltis
press item certainly created 110 sen-
sation. Yet economists read it with
an interest; which should be shared
by every -Canadian who desires the
advancement of his homeland.
This simple' fact of a ship of 19,-
000 tons entering Montreal harbor
WEDNESDAY, 311141
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without difficulty is indeed a strik-
ing illustration of the importance
which our St. Lawrence has acquired
in maritime trade, and a moot sails-
factory
at -factory result of the labor espemded 1
upon making this river a teal nation-
al highway.
Not long ago the channel of the
St. Lawrence was only tea feet deep
in certain places. The first statistic
dealing with th eimprovement of this
waterway published in .18:51, 10101(1
have led 110 one to suppose that the
St. Lawrence channel would ever he
deepened to 30 feet. Todc1 this
channel is being cut to 35 feet, Very 1
soon ships ,of still grader tonnage
will be bringing their rau•311es 41,141"1
1y' to Montreal.
From D7ontrea Ito Father Point, ,
the channel of the St, Lawrence is
340 miles long. From the 111801(
to Montreal, the St. Lawrence route
has a length of 000 mllcs and possess -1
es unusuakadva1tages for navigation. I
In length and depth this waterway
is unique. Its system if lighthouses
and other aids to navigation 14 one
of the finest in the world, so that
vessels are 00 safe by night no -by
day.
The St. Law'1101100, With ito 1100
chief ports of Montreal and Quebec,
already plays .#n part of tip first im-
portance in the commerce of Can-
ada. It is the great artery' of the
country's maritime trade, and is of ,
12111111 interest to the West, with
which it is connected by the Groat
Lakes, as to the East.
Much could be written of ill lust '
toric interest attaching to this -river,
the point of departure for all our
explorers, the scene of so many her- i
oil exploits, the pathway of hope for
each nation in turn. Tts banks are'
crowded with memories,
And how much it holds of majesty,
of charm, of romantic beautyl The
towns, villages, and hamlets all a-
long its course, interspersed with
:forests or meadows, its beaches,
sandy or stony, the broad lakes into
which it sometimes expands, the
mountains and ]tills which form a
picturesque background to the land•
scope, the color and even the sound
of its waters, the inflow of its in-
numerable tributaries, the surprises
of its slightest bends, and a thou-
sand other attractions should in-
fluence us, whether on pleasure bent
or of education, to travel by' our
own St. Lawrence. It eon supply
subjects for our paintsrs, for our
poets, for our novelists, for our his-
torians, for our musicians, for all
our artists. Without leaving our own
lend, we can go on journeys quite as
interesting, in 111auy r1•spects, as
those which we undertake in fore-
ign countries,
C If tl;wherry, veteran pri•lcipa
of -to•ttotd Collegiate, was the 10019-
ient of a substantial chi. que by etud-
e to, t•x•htnden)i and eitizei 0 13e
h as 11001, connected with the eolleg-
i for 86 years,
1411, a Janet Murray, of Mothevwel'.
in 111(letlou 10 1evolving her d111b'.me,
a 1 he regent •LTi adll :rims exercises 111
the Hamilton General hospital, was
a aided a pi me of 550 in gold for the
nigllest st,luding in the department of
t'ed,iide nursing SIiss'Mins ay has al-
eady coonnler.cedpractice in Hamil-
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