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The Seaforth News, 1925-03-19, Page 3L •EST BREAK`EVER RECORDED IN ONE 1 DAY ON WINNIPEG GRAIN EXCHANGE' A despatch from Winnipeg saye:- Suffering the largest break, ever re- corded in wheat in one day on •the 'Winnipeg Grain Exchange, May fu- tures fell 1.51/e cents, to $1.721/5 at the low point, and closed 14 cents' lower, at $1.74. This represented a total break of 47% cents from the ex- treme high, of the season's movement of $2.2074. The July future clesed with a loss of 14 cents, at $1.70,' after having touched the low mark of $1,68. It was the wildest market of the year, and the bear traders had abso- lute control of the 'situation, The heavy selling was, brought about by weakness in'foreign markets and fav- orable -weather conditions in the Un- ited States winter wheat areas: Coarse grains followed wheat in Hie record-breaking slide, with rye leading the way at a loss of 16 cents. A despatch from Chicago says: - Breaking of the drouth in the West and Southwest on Friday broke the back of the, whole wheat market. Rye and the whole list of cereals were like- wise smashed down in value, the ex- treme range of prices for all grain being probably never equalled before ii any Ode day, The biggest losses Were .in wheat and rye -wheat 151/1, coats :e ban dshel d•eye at one time as much as 171/ cents. • Prom start to finish, quotations for the breadstuffs, wheat and rye, were constantly toppling; and talk of world shortage, lately so rife, was Po longer to be heard. Lsstead,.the report cur- rent; aside from the news about the ending of the dro th, were confined nearly altogether to advices indicating that for at least the present the world was in an overbought condition. In ,such circumstances news at hand that droctth in the domestic winter wheat territory was at an end and that the crop scare proverbial for March was apparently banished lett: the wheat market helpless in -the face of wild selling that set iii frena every side. • When at last the day was over traders stared blankly at the chalk marks on the blackboards telling in grim figures that :the best prices met were at the very opening of the mar- ket end 'the worst just at the close. They pointed to the closing price of May wheat, • $1.66%, to $1.67, as against the recent top record of $2:05 Ys. SEALER CRUSHED BY FLOATING ICE FLOES Vessel Reported Sinking and Cres+r of 80 Men Are Rescued. A' despatch from St. John's, Nfld., says: -Word was received here late in the evening that the entire crew o£ 80 men of the sealing steamer Stella. Maris, which was last report- ed to besinking by the head after be- ing crushed in the ice, had been res- - cued and taken aboard the sealer Prospero. The sealing steamer Stella Maris, one of the fleetwhich sailed from this port Saturday for the annual seal hunt, sent a radio message at day- light that she had been crushed in the ice and was smiting. The Stella Maris, with eight other sealing steamers, was on its way to the northern Grand Banks, where the young seals are found on floating ice floes. The hunting season will open on Friday, but the vessels were. per- mitted to sail earlier so that they might have time to locate the herds and prepare for ]tilling. Tho message received from the Stella Maris gave her position as 90 miles off Notre Dame Bay, which is on the north-east const of New- foundland. Sun Y,'it-Sen,South China Leader, Dies of Cancer A despatch from Pekin says: -Sir Yat-sen, the Soutit China, leader, died .Thursday morning. Dr. Sun Yat-sen for some time had been suffering from cancer of the liver, and in December was operated on in an effort to prolong, if not save, 'his life. Immediately after the opera- tion it was declared his condition was. critical, and that there was no hope for 1115 recovery. As the Southern leader was slowly passing into his final sleep, his head- quarters in Canton announced that his troops had occupied Swatow, in the Province of I{wangtung, whence 'all the rebel leaders were said to have fled without giving battle. Three Powers Change to Summer Time Simultaneously A despatch from Paris says:-- Summer ays:-Summer time will become effective in France, Belgium and England simul- taneously -the night of April 4-5. The British Government has notified France that a bill providing for the inauguration of Summer time then will be presented to the House of Com- mons on Friday. • The French Government will issue a similar decree, and Beigitim has agreed to follow suit. SITUATION IN N.S.COAL MINES IS UNCHANGED Appeal Sent Out for Assist- ance in Relieving Needs of Sufferers. Halifax, Mar. 15. -The week -end passed without change in the situa- tion throughout t1e coal. fields of Nova Scotia, precipitated by the with- drawal, Trine days ago, of 12,000 miners. Premier E. H. Armstrong, who is convalescing from an illness which kept him confined to his residence for the greater part of the week, stated to -night there were no developments in the situation as far as he knew. Hon, A. S. Macill:itlae, Minister of Highways, who proceeded to Cape Breton, Friday night, in order to ob- tain first hand information on the ex- tent of the distress and need for re- lief, throughout the collier districts', is not expected back before Tuesday. Right Rev. James Morrison, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Antigonish, caused a pastoral let- ter to be read to -day in all the church- es of his jurisdiction, appealing for help for the stricken women and children. It was reported that Glace Bay Col- liery 21 of the Birch Cove Mines from which tho company removed the. pumps at the outset, is now full of water. Britons Pay for Allies 9 Per Cent. of Their Incomes A despatch from London says: -An influential deputation from the Asso- ciation of fhe British Chamber of Conunerce, including many peers and British leaders of business, asked Chancellor of the Exchequer Church- ill to, attempt to collect the Allied debts. The speakers said the current trade depression, the high cost of living, and unemployment were largely due to excessive taxation. They said the payments to the United States on be- half of -the Allies amounted to nine cents on the dollar in the income of every British citizen. o Jamaica Provides Funds for Delegation to Ottawa A despatch from Itingeton, Jamaica, says :-The Legislative Council ap- proved the expenditure of $7,500 to cover the cost of sending delegates from Jamaica to the general confer - 'once of representatives of Canada and the West Indies and neighboring Brit- ish colonies, which will meet at Ottawa next May. The conference is for the purpose of reviewing the :Canadian and West Indies trade agreement. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ARD OF ONTA RIO SHOWS SURPLUS A despatch from Toronto says: The annual report of the Agricultural Development Board of Ontario, which was made pubbe 00 Thursday at the Parliament Buildings; showed 990 ap.- plications considered for .long -team. loans during the past year and $3,- 582,150 disbursed in farm borrowers. This number of loans was 84 in excess of the number handled during the pre- vious year, but the total sum distri- buted was some $147,200 less. The report of the Board revealed' the farm loan policy of Ontario as essentially in b, healthy condition., Earnings during the yeas totalled $373,824, and administration expenses $847,119, the result being ant -sur- plus of $20,705, which wiped out pre- vious deficits from the Boar'd's initial years and left a balance of $16,641 on' the right side of the ledger. Con- siderable care in safeguarding the in- terest of the Province in the risks which were carried was also empha- sized as' a feature of the work, five ,foreclosures having been carried out during ,the' year, in, which the total loss to the Government had been less than $1,000, this item representing arrears of interest which the sale prices .of the properties failed .to re- cover. Features of the work of the Board are commented upon in the report, During the early part of the year, it is stated, the, applications for loans increased greatly over tine same months of the previous'year, some of the spying tnontire showing; it -total most double those of this correspond- ing months or the eget:: before. In the Atrtuntn, however, there was a distinct falling• of as compared with the same months of the, year previous. Whether or not such a fact indicates an improvement of 1.:rm conditions, the report eapresses itself as unable to decide. . In old Ontario the loans granted numbered 482, aggregating $3,126,000; as against an inspection value 'am- ounting to $6,737,902. The loans granted, th relore, averaged $4,271. In New Ontario 258 loans were grant- ed, totalling_ $455,550 as against in- spectors'.valuations .of $1,133,124; the loans therefore averaging $1,765. CROSS -WORD PUZZLE 3 10 15 zor• '29 31' 36 35 40 414 �`.., 15 ..46 50 • The INTERNATIONAL aYNe1.ATt• SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to 'still others. A letter,beiongs'in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either bcrizontally or vertically or both. 1 -Customs 6 -Boas • 11 -Part of verb "to be" 12 -Shanty 14 -•-Mineral earth 15 -Pen 18 -Choicest part 17 -Motor fuel 18 -Before 19 -Urge on 22 -Black sticky fluid 24 -The spikenard 26 -First steamship to cross the Atlantic (abbr.) 28 -System of worship 29 -Colon So -Praise highly 81 -Long for 32 -Liquor 34 -Willingly 36 -Also 37 -For 3B -Suffix to form feminine nouns 40 -Boy's nickname 43 -Fertile desert spot •' ,,45 -Parcel of ground 47 -Self 48 -Earthen pot •4r""4,; 49 -Anger I 50 -Mantle worn by Turks 51 -More kind VERTICAL 1 --Hurry 2 -Skill 3 -Turkish title 4 -Definite article 6 -Only..' 6 -Measure out 7 -Liquor 8 -To dress up 9-Perlod 10 -Place for recreation 13 -Polson 23 -Urchin 21 -Wonderful . 22 -Spring flower 23 -Change 25-0wI ng 26 -Ocean 27 -Perceive ' 28 -Far west State (abbr.) 31 -Separated 33 -Looped rope 86 -To cherish 38 -Deserve; merit 39 -III 41 -Self 427 -Unit of money (abbr.) 43 -South American plant 44 -Kind of snowshoe 46 -Cover 46 -Raw metal FLAG OF JUDEA AGAIN FLOATS ON HIGH SEAS Unfurled for the First Time in More Than Two Thousand Years. A despatch from New -York says: - For the first time in more than 2,000• years the flag of Judea again floats on the high seas. Amid the cheers and tears of more than 10,000 Jews, participating in an emotional demon- stration, the President Arthur of the American -Palestine Lino, sailed Thursday noon on her maiden voyage, carrying 500 Zionists to the Holy Land. At 7 a,m., four hours .before the scheduled sailing time, the crowd be- gan to assemble on the pier and along the water front. The crowd became so large that 100 reserve police were called. Her cargo of 4,000 tons included farm implements donated' by. Nathan Straus, and a large quantity of medi- cines given byJewish women's organ- izations,. LEAGUE REMOVES DANGEROUS WAR SPOT Britain and Sweden Persuade France to Withdraw Troops from the, Saar. Geneva, March 1.5. -Behind the scenes of the thirty-third session of. the Council o£, League of Nations, one of the most dangerous war spots in Europe was .removed to -day when Britain and -Sweden persuaded. France to promise to withdraw its troops from the Saar within a year. Appearances indicate no great ac- complislmr•ent in the Saar. The Coun- cil to -day recommended that the League Governing -Commission "study the situation and prepare a report on the advisability of moving French troops outside the zone to a place from which they could be called into action immediately if necessity arose. Solution of Last 'Week's Puzzle, emmergwr aI mus m©©Qin"©oL•:u® 0 u© ocrimuummunivum P ®(per © uilmn•� me WIDUMt.'Ur,©'f©i ❑►©©IG 0pp• MOWWEIGlORM2 •pit a • m 0 gungg • oo©o . o�©dim. Flowe • Money Builds Home for the Aged OLDEST RELle.OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 'PRINCE -HOLDS FIRST DISCOVERER` IN TRE, MOHAVE DESERT A despatch from New York says: - Older by thousands of years, accord- ing to the Hays foundation expert, itan the tomb of., Tutankhamen, older even than the recently discover- ed tomb near the great pyramid of Giza,there lies in Southern Nevada a buried city, its walls covered by the drifting sand of the Mohave Desert. It is the oldest relic'ot a civilization that 'existed on the American contin- ent nearly 10,000 years ego. This buried city, stretching for six. miles along the muddy river between St. Thomas and 1Tveeton in Southern Nevada, was discovered by an ex- ploring party in charge of M,GR. Har- rington of the Museum of the Amer- ican Indian, Haye Foundation. An- nouncement of the discovery of the A despatch from Stockholm says: - Happy homes for the living instead of flowers fir the dead is the aim of the Swedish 'Flower Fund drive, that has just scored its first signal tri- umph in the laying of the cornerstone of a large building designed exclusive- ly for the aged and infirm, who other- wise might have to end their days in the poorhouse. The idea of such a fund was launch- ed about four years ago by Miss Alma Hedin, sister of Sven Hedin, the ex- plorer, and now, thanks to many small contributions, in lieu of floral tributes at funerals, enough money has been procured to guarantee the financing .of the first. building._ Otherswill be started later. • )as Quakes in Alaska Shake Bears Out of Winter Sleep Trappers bringing in their furs re- port that the recent earthquake in in- terior Alaska woke up the hibernating brown and grizzly bean, s, says a de- spatch from Anchorage, Alaska. Beare are being seen on' the wind- blown slopes fully six weeks to two months before their usual appearance. The earthquake also caused many avalanches in the mountains, large volumes of snow and debris cutting wide swaths through valuable forests, declare the trappers. TO EXTEND T. N. AND O. INTO ROUYN. Phe above firaposboe'e how the Toronto and Northern Ontario 'railway will be exteu1ed tap the Rouyn mining fields as announced by Premier I Ferguson in llee i;egisiw•turc 'Phe-exten5i•on ts, Pram tibe present terminus at Lake Laraler to Lake 0sislci, near the Noranda Mines, a distance of 37 Tulles. buried city was made for; the first thio at the museum Thursday morn; ing1 The party came upon the buried city late in last November, and have excavated between fifteen and twenty rooms of the continuous Pueblo dwell- ing that Iles sprawled out for size miles in the desert. From the present excavations and Froin the relics discovered in the rooms cleared of sand the explorers are able to say positively that this' buried city -christened Pueblo Grande de Ne- vada -is the oldest example of Pueblo civilization in America, and goes back to a period between 5,000 and; 10,000 years ago, The ruins uncovered` are classified by archaeologists as pre - Pueblo, PLANNING TO MARKET FISH FROM CANADA British Centres Offer Advant- ages for Development of Trade in Sea Products. ' $1.79; No. 4 wheat, $1.69. ' Man, oats -No. 2 CW, 59%c; No. A dpspatch from London says: -A 8 CW, 55%c; extra No. 1 feed, 56%e; large party of commercial sect bus}- No. 1 feed, 53%c; No. 2 feed, 49%c. nese men from London interested in All the above c.i.f, bay port's, the importation of fish` from Canada' American corn, track, Toronto -No. 'visited Newport, . Monmouthshire, on 3 yellow, $1.35. Thursday and inspected the facilities Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights, this port has to'offer,for 'the deve'.op- bags included: Bran, per ton, $30; icer, of this trade. shorts, per ton, $32; middlings, $38; Although the business has as yet ,gOnt.od oodats-No. 2 per white, 47 to 50c. reached only the experiti.ental stage, Ont, wheat -No. 2 winter, $1.19 to the results are highly encouraging; $1.54; No. 3 winter, not quoted; No, -1 Six tons of Nova Scotian fish were commercial, nominal, fo.b. shipping recently sold at Billingsgate and at points, according to freights, Glasgow and on_two French markets, i. Barley -Malting, 74. to '780. the dealers of which, although skepti- i Buckwheat -No, 2,..nominal. cal at first, afterwards admitted that RYe-No. 2, $1.01 to 41.00. Layers from the big hotels and stores l Man, flour, first patent, $10,20, To- had been unable to distinguish be- ionto; do, second pat, $9,70, Toronto, 0 tween the Canadian fish and that ordi- Ont. flour -90 per t cent. pato ono; to $7.30, in hags, Montreal or Toronto; narily offered. do, bulk, seaboard, $7 to $7.10. Attention has been more particu_ 1 Straw -Car lots, per tort $8.50 to $9. larly directed to Newport as an in Screenings. -Standard, recleaned, f. coming point by reason of the exis- o.b. bay ports, per ton, $28. tense of a large area of covered sheds,! tray -No. 2, per toil, $14; No, 3, now vacant, which adjoin the quays per ton, $11.50 to $12; mixed, per ton, and railways, and which could be $IO to $12, 0 1 readily converted into markets. Am- Cheese -New, lar ye: 4 /e ; twins, bitions of importers are not, confined Torg ,triplets,5 o 261cac;Sins, 26, 2to. Old, p large, 26 to 26c; twins, to 2'7c; merely to Canadian fish, but hopes are triplets, 27 to 28c. entertained of admitting Canadian Butter -Finest creamery prints, 36 dairy products and meat on a large, to 37o; No. 1 creamery, 35 to 36c; No. scale. 12, 33 to 84c. Dairy prints, 28 to 29c. A tentative scheme has already • Eggs -Fresh extras, in cartons, 38 been negotiated' with the Canadian to 89c; loose, 87 to 38s; fresh firsts, Government Merchant Marine for 34 to 85c; splits, 32c, Government steamers, i Live poultry -Hens over 4 to 5 lbs., chartering 120c • do, 3• to 4 lbs,, 15c; roosters, 15c; Among the participants in Thurs-' ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 22c. day's inspection at Newport was' Dressed poultry -Hens, over 4 to 5 Chief Inspector of Fisheries Cowles lbs., 28e; d, 3 to 4 lbs., 20e; spring of Ottawa, who has just arrived to chickens, 4d lbs. and over I1LF„ 25c; report on the situation generally. Iingso5 iba. and�up�27�er u20eeysl35c. The Great Western Railway hast•Beans-Can. hand-picked, lb., 6t/ac; promised to provide a quick special primes, ee. service from Newport to British mar -I Honey -60 -lb. tins, 1330c per lb; keting centres and the chief Contin -10-1b. tins, 1340c; 5-1b. tins, 14e; 2 - ental markets: Iib. tins, 1530 to 16c. Apart from this, a population 021 Mala products -Syrup, per hip. ten millions exists within one huh gal., 2.40; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.30 per to dred miles radius of Newport. The gal.; maple sugar, lb„ 25 to 26c. party returned to London greatly int- Smoked meats -Hants, mod„ 29 smoked 31c• cooked hams, 43 to 444; pressed with. the opportunities this .rolls, 20 to 21c,• cottage rolls, 22 to port offers in this line, one Canadian, 24e; breakfast bacon, 26 to 28e; epe- e recent arrival here, remarking that he had seen more shipping at Newport than he had ever beheld at Montreal, though until Thursday he had never heard of Newport. e THE TORONTO. Man. wheat -No. 1 North., $1.871/ ; No. 2 North., $1,821/; No. 3 North., cial brand breakfast bacon, 32 to 34c; backs, boneless, 34 to 39c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $17.50; 70 to 00 lbs., $16.801 90 lbs. and up; $15.50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $38; heavyweight rolls, $27. Lard -Pure tierces, 19 to 191,ac; "Th�Gate of Palestine" Gives tubs, 19% to 20c; pails, 20 to 201ac; Way to Iron and Concrete prints, 22 to 223ac; shortening tierces, 14% to 15c; tubs, 15 to 153c; pails, - Jerusalem, Mar. 16: The much 15% to 16c; prints, 163x0. used meta hor, "7.'he ate to Pales- Choice heavy steers, $7,75 to $8.50; p g do, good, $7 to $7.50; bitchier steers, tine," and "The keys to Palestine,' choice, $7 to $7.75; dogood, $6.50 are in danger of losing their symbol- to $6.75; do, med., $'5,50 to $6; is meaning, as the Public Works De - choice, com., $6 to $5.25; butcher heifers, partment has just built a real gate choice, $G75 to $T; do,Teed., $55.60 to Palestine consisting of iron and to $0; do; cpm., $5 to 45.25; butcher concrete. cows, choice, $4.50 to $5.25; do, fair to good, $3.50 to $1; canners and On a picturesque rock, which di - control cutters,$2.25 to $2.75; butcher bulls, vides Palestine from Syria, a frontier I good, 44.50 to $5.50; do, fair, 43.75 control station for passports and visas, to $4; bologna, $2,50 to $3.25- feeding has been erected. Travellers to and; steers, good, $5.75 to $0.50; do, fair, from Palestine must pass -the narrow $4.75 to $5.50• stockers, good, $4.50 to road and present themselves to thei45•50; do, fair to $4.26 calves, officers there. Nobody is able to leave' choice, $11 to 412;_ do, med., $7 to the. eine-try for S ria withoutpassingco do, grassers, $3 .00 to tole0; much y y cows, choice, $60 to $70; fair cows, the control station. I$40 to $50; springers, choice, $75 to 1$90; good light sheep, $8 to $9; heav- ies and bucks, $4.50 to $6.25; bulls, . $8 to $4; good ewe Iambs, $14.50 to Again Postponed 416; do, med., $10 to $12;. do, culls, ; $8 t° $9; hogs,thick smooths fed and London,- Mar. 15. -]ting George, watered, $12.85; do, f.o.b., $12.2'0; do, who recently, has been ill with hilly- country points, $12; do, oft cars, onza, again had a walk to -day 'in the $13.25; select, premium, 42.42. grounds of Buckingham Palace. The departure of the Ring and MONTREAL. Queen for a cruise in - the Mediter-' Oats, Can. west., No. 2, 613c; do, Can, west. No. d, Glc; do, extra No. ranean, which recently was ordered: 1 feed, 58c. Flour, Man. spring wheat by the Icings physician, again has pats., firsts, $10.20; ilo, seconds, 49.70; been postponed owing to the rough' do, strong bakers', $9.50; do, winter weather on -the sea. Next Thursday _'pats, choice, $8; rolled oats, bag 90 has-been provisionally set as the elate lbs„ $3.65. Bran, $28.25. Shorts, for' the `start of the Ring for the 430.25. Middlings, 436.25. south. Butter -No. 1 pasteurized, 34 .to 3414,0: No. 1 creamery, 38 to:331iac; seconds, 32 to 821/2c. Eggs -Fresh First German Presidential extras, 38 to 39c; fresh firsts, 85 •to 36c. Potatoes -Per bag,: car lots, 70 Election Fails of Majority to 75c --- Bulls $3.50 to $4; calves, good Kerlin, March 15. -There will be no weight, 410 to $11; ,do, mixed lots, result in the first German Presidential coni. to fair, $9;, bogs, mixed lots, election. None of, the, candidates will $13.50; do, selects, $14; sows, $11 and get the necessary majority. Sis are p running: larges for the Nationalists, Marx for the Catholics, Helpaeh for Good Advice. the, Democrats, Braun :for the Social- lets, Thahnan for the. Communists and Never let the radio set stied before I:leldt for the Bavarian People's le's party. an open window. It 'night rain and p the set would be damaged if it were In the second election there probably will bo a Monarchist coalition for ,80 get wet, Eveu'if the set were not James or some new candidate., while touched by the water• Itself; it might the Republicans will ,cluster around be damaged by the molstilre carried in iVIarx by the atmosphere. LEVEE OF THE SEASON Dominions' Nigh Conamis- sioners Are;Given Definite Ceremonial Status, A despatch from London says: - The Prince of Wales, in consequence of the King's illness, held the first levee of the season at St. Janine' Pal- ace recently. ' His residence -York Houses not 20 yards from the pal- ace, across. the courtyard, and the Prince usually slips across to the ceremonies' there afoot. To mark the importance of his position as repre- sentative of the Ring, he drove in a state coach, with an escort of Life Guards, by•way of the Mall, to the garden entrance of the palace. Nearly 1„000 attended the levee, in- cluding the Premier, Archbishop of Canterbury, Reedyard I�ip;ink, Sir Eyreo Crow, the Earl of Haig and the French, Japanese, United States and German Ambassadors. The crowds outside, which were among the larg- est since before the War, cheered the Prince as he entered St, Jamas', where he, was received by the Lord Chamberlain and other officers of State, and conducted to the levee rooms. The Dominion Thigh Commissioners in London were all present at the levee. This is the first time they have r+eceived'a definite ceremonial status, being presented' to the C Prince ' of Wales, officiating in the absence of his Royal father, inunediateiy after the six principal Secretaries of State of the British Government. OUTPOST HOSPITALS FILLING GREAT NEED Ontario Red Cross Reports In- creased Activities in the Northern Districts. A despatch from Toronto says: - The opening of four new outpost hos- pitals in Northern Ontario was the most important development of work reported' to the executive committee of the Ontario Red Cross. Two of these outposts -at Nakina and Hornepayne-have been erected by the. Canadian National Railway and will be operated by the Red Cross, with' a staff of two trained nurses in each outpost and provision for seven patients. A one -nurse outpost at Qui - bell and a small hospital with seven beds at Rainy River complete the ad- ditions to this branch of work since the end of 1924, n>.aking a total of twelve outposts now in operation. Ap- plications for as many more have been received and it is hoped to increase this service during the year. Valuable co-operation in equipping and main- taining the outposts has been given by the local women's organizations, Women's Institutes, Chapters of the Daughters of the Empire., and the As- sociation of alining Women of On- tario. It is estimated. that the four. new outposts will provide a nursing service for some 12,000 persons in the scattered communities of Northern Ontario. An encouraging increase in the en- rolments in Junior Red Cross was re- ported -148 new auxiliaries with a membership of 4,568 having been add- ed in the past two months, bring the total membership up to 26,872 for the current school year. 8' 1 WINTER LINGERING LATE OVER EUROPE. King George's Convalescence is Delayed by Weather Conditions. A despatch from London says, - While the European Governments aro concerning themselves over the date for the' introduction of "Stu -rimer Time,' there has not yet been the slightest prospect of simmer temper- ature. On the contrary, winter is lingering over Europe unusually late and a heavy snowfall has reached as far south as Naples, with a curios:.; phenomenon of a 'snow-capped Ve- suvius emitting fire. Violent snow storms have been ex- perienced in the Rhineland, and hold - day -seekers on the Riviera are finding, extreme discomfort in the cold easter- ly winds, while severe frosts have been registered.in South Germany. England, after a comparatively mild winter, remarkably • more for the heavy rainfall than the cold, has ]rad during the past week the'sevcrest cold of the whole winter, with snow storms in the north and a general.biting easterly wind. This is considered re- sponsible for an epidemic of influenza. Among the results of these weather conditions has been the delay in Ring. George's canvalescciiee through his in- ability to venture out, even into the palace gardens. Friday's cold was so keen that the Ring had to wear a heavy overcoat while walking through the corridors of the palace. I-iundreds of Passengers Drown When Ship Sinks Tokio, ]larch 14 '1'he casting ashore of fifteen survivors of the small steamer 'Uwajima Meru off Takashinia, North-eastern Japan, seems to have established that the I ship foundered with about- 100 pee:,, stingers -in a gale that swept the coas,. on Thursday. Many fishing boats 1 were wrecked, ;and it is feared that theirs was 1. much loss of .ifs.