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Flesherton Advance, 15 May 1929, p. 7

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I ^f^mm manned by nearly 50,000 otBcers aud men. The tigiiies representative of the full war effort of tlia merchant service aa a whole would make stag- gering totals. Therein it was carry- ing on and even bettering the tradl- j lion of centuries. I On Tower ilill a fitting and impres- sive memorial, bearing the name-i of the oflicers and men of the Merchant Navy ai.d Fishing rieets who have no grave but the sea, and who died that thi^ country nilght live, was nnveiled Glorious Tale Of Merchant Navy in War Notable Tribute To Heroism And Endurance of "Our Magnifient Seamen" â-  By Tin: PRINCE OF W.XI.ES The Prince of Wales as Master of | i,v Her Majesty"the Queen on Deceni- the Merchant Navy and fishing ; he,- 12. U has been erected by the Fleet.s, contributes a foreword to Slrj Governmeuls ot all t!:e peoi)les of the Archibald Hurds latest volume on whole Empire as a tribute, to last for *'The British Merchant Navy." all time, to the.se mens heroic aervicoa. As MaatPf of the Merchant Navy jt has been said that two-thirds of and KI.shln.^' Fleets, I welcome the n,e Elizabethan Ueet which met so oi>poiiiin!ly offered me by Sir .-Srchi-t triumphantly the shoclc of the Spanish br.ld Hurd of contributing a few In- 1 ,\,.n,ada were merchant vessels, aud t.\)diictory remarks to the volume j ti,at the proportions of force with â- which completes the hl.stnryâ€" based which Drake "singed the King of on official documentsâ€" of the magnl- Spain's beard" was much the same. •Mer- The relations of the two great Ser- vices have altered since those days, but the Great \Var has served to 4>roV(' once more that the :Merchant Navy is as e.sseutlal to-day as ever It waa to the operations ot the Uoyal Navy iiboth remispheres. The siglit i ^nd the safeguarding of the life of Ued Knsign has. in these later [ the British CommonweaUh of Nation.s. â€" Kdward P.. Ma.ster of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets. A Strange Wreck With No HI Results flcent part played by British cbantmen in the Great War. It has been my fortunate lot to be a world-wide traveller, and I have en- countered the British liner and tramp not only on every sea but in many a port 1 of the day.s. Kiven nie a thrill of a very spe-l cial kind, for that familiar piece ofi bunting can never fail to recall thei wonderful record ot our merchant sea- men throughout the struggle of four and R-halt years . The present volume raises the cur- tain on what I take to have been the climax of that vast drama â€"the enemy's plunge into unrestricted sub- marine warfare on our merchant ship- ping. Thus was provided the final test ot a heroism and endurance un- paralleded in history, and how magni- ficently our seamen responded to the test is to be found chronicled in thes pages. To view that record in Its proper perspective it is well to recall ! these days at the very outbreak ot ; â- war which already seem to some ot us to be almo.st lost in the mists of time.! Settling Britons TheEc is inucii fo be commended In the plans ot the Overseas League for the settlement of one thousand young Britans throughout the Cana- dian West this year. They are not to he dumped into this country and ' left to seek their own devices, but I from first t,) last will be kept In close I and sympathetic touch with League officials, through the medium of migration stations which the travel- ling secretary of the League has come to Canada to establish during t";'.e ^, ..... . , ne.\t six months. The cost of their The par tc.pat.on our seamen in, ,,,„,p„,.,3,i„„ „„„ settlement *m be the struggle began w.th the operations, „^f^ .^^ „„^ „; „ f„„,, ..^scribed by of the German raiders. There was, ,, :_..„u„..... „. r „_,â- ,., .-„„ ,u^ .,„, nothing surprising or unprecedented : in the destruction achiever by the Em-[ den and other German cruisers and; armed merchantmen in Eastern waters ; and elsewhere. irostilities were conducted in har- mcHly with the principles laid down hy international law. and. though; many valuable ships were sunk, the i toll was no greater than might have â-  teen expected, and not a single life i ot the captured crews was sacrificed. I The British seaman recognized that' nothing more was being asked of him j than to accept the usual hasards of a' naval conflict. It was a phase ot the â- war. in short, in which the dictates of 1 humanity were strictly regarded, and I every reasonable consideration was ' shown to the passengers and crews of; the merchants of Loridon for the pur- pose. I The principal sliortcoming In the : past in Canada's treatment of Immi- ; grants is that they have been left I largely to their own devices after their 1 arrival here, and liave been severely ! handicapped in consequence in their i efforts to establish themselves in I their new homes. While there has j been considerable improvement in I this connection ot icrent year.s. mudi still remains to be done, and the ac- tion of the Overseas League will be i a real help, for it Is action in the right direction and along the neces- , sary lines. i These young Britons will in due I course form part of the backbone of , o\ir West. They will be among the I future citizens and administrators of I the West .and they will play their ! part in shaping its destinies and those ' of the Dominion as a whole. It is in I the highest degree necessary that they ; should be given as encouraging a start â-  as possible, that they should be made j to feel they are welcome from the ! moment of ihf ir lauding among us. I and that their path, which must ot necessity be more or less rough at 1 first, should be smoothed as far as is possible consistent with Canadian the vessels unlucky enough tu be tak- en. This phase, however, was shortliv- ed. With the arrival on the scene ot the submarine and the indiscriminate xise of the mine, the whole position for the nienhant seaman .was chang- ed, lie found himself faced by haz- ards and perils such as he had never before experienced, or indoed had ever conceived as possible. With the intensification ot the enemy's campaign, tlie Britisli sailor. i j,|p.j]^ rj-j^g overseas League holds a non;Conibatunt following an ordin-| ,i|j^ jj^j^ i,yf„re it. and plans to pursue ariiy peaceful avocation, saw himself j j^ steadily. --Montreal Star, directly involved in the whole fright- 1 ful mechanism ot war. wluise grim | â€" *> ' operation, as I have said, readied its climax in the phase ot unrestricted submarine attack recorded in detail In this third volume ot the history. Let us who are laud-dwellers not NONE HURT IN SPECTACULAR TRAIN WRECK CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS Lnoseulug effect of the recent heavy rains is believed to have caused a dirt slide which recently wrecked the Lehigh Valley New York-BuCfalo express. The only casualties were slight bruises received by two members ot the train crew. World Flight I Billed for Fall Shackles of Past I Are Thrown Away Botnbs in India Washington Post Prints De- tails of Proposed Feat â€" Five-Motored Plane to Hop Off from New York in September, Ac- cording to Plans Washington â€" Six internationally known aviators are preparing to be- gin a monstop flight around the world from New Pork on the first clear day in September, according to the Wash- ington Post. The names ot only thre.» ot the aviators are givenâ€" Lieut. Albert D. Hulse, former army and air mail I lies over Siberia, thence to Nome, Alaska, south of the United States and along a northern route back to New York. Engine trouble is not e.x- pected until Nome is reached, if it _ , . .. . â- â€" is to be encountered at all. \ Revolutionary Moyements m | the year. The cost ot the flight is placed at approximately $383,000, and the back- ers of the plan are said to have under- written it to the extent of $300,000. .% Describes Causes Of Unemployment Sir William Clark Gives Sur- vey of Situation in Britain questionTof time High Commissioner Asks Welcoming Hand for New Immigrants Vancouver. â€" Causes underlying un- employment in the old country were described by Sir William Clark, his'n commissioner for Great Britain no Canada, in a statement that gave a comprehensive survey of the situation from pre-war days to the present. The obvious momentary relief, emi- gration, was referred to by Sir Wil- liam â- when he bespoke a welcoming hand to thore men and women of Bri- tish race who came 10 Canada to make a fresh start. "While we look for- ward confidently to the eventual res- toration of our trade, wo must recoij- nize that the necessary readjustments, the fuller reorganization of our older industries must all take time," said the speaker. "O'ar financial position is strong enough to enable us to carry on during this intermediate period but that does not help those who want employment, and I am sure that all of you in Can- ada will desire to give a helping hand to those who come here." INSURANCE QUESTION Sir William suggested that unem- ployment insurance was organized in recognition of the w^ell known econ- omic fact that there must always be some measure of unemployment in great industrial countries, especially 1 in trades affected by the seasons of Radio Police Call Gives Chicago Burglar Tip-OfF | ^^^j^^^ Chicajco.â€" Radio i.? a great inven- tion, the burglar said. A woman, recently observing a burglar leisurely looting the third- floor apartment at 5737 Prairie Ave., j telephoned police. Police notified I radio station WGN, so that word might be flashed to touring squad cars "There is a new spirit of co-opera- tion, a new desire of employers to get together and study jointly the dif- ficulties besetting our trade," Sir Wil- liam said. Various plans of the Government Recent Years Find Sex Clamoring for Its Rights Although the days are past when 1 Chinese parents t';rew their girl' Into the river, says "The j for reducing unemployment were sug- Pathflnder," they are still very anxl-jffested by the high comi.-iissioner, in- ous that their babies should be boys , eluding that of emigration to the and not girls. One of the best things about the new regime la China, which mean largely the shaking off ot the shacklea overseas Dominions. "There is no question." he said, "of trying to place men in Canada who have not first teen approved before of the past, la the Improvement ia | the Canadian authorities as thorough- the condition of the women. They | 'y suitable and of a type likely to ^„,, , • J -m - • I are coming Into their own. They ! make good. The training which the pilot; Capt. Harry W. Lyon Jr., navi-^''"'^ w.th receiving set.s. ' were active in the revolutionary move-' "len undergo, is an additional and A moment later listeners on the! ^^^^^3 ^^^ ^^g^e is a widespread and 1 very important safeguard. It not gator on the'transpacittc flight ot thet Southern Cross, and Lieut. L. T. O'Connell, radio officer at Lakeburst. The commander, the newspaper said, will be a World War aviator with more than 5000 flying hours to his credit. WGN proj^rams heard this: "Detective squads, attention. There's a burglar on the third floor at 5737 Prairie Ave." The squad of Lieutenant Walter Storms heard the call and sped toward The maka of the plane in which I ^I^^ address given. They entered the they intend to attempt the mo-^t am- p^^""''"''""^ '"'^ ^°"'''' "^« '""'^^'er gone. bilious flight ever undertaken was not! '" » '^'''"''â- " * '"='''"' "^'^^ ^'"^ ^"" Tucked under the '.id was this ! blast note: "Dear Radio Man: Thanks for the tip-off. You're a swell announcer. learned, but it was described as be- ing constructed partly of metal and partly ot linen fabric, powered with live 420 horsepower Pratt and Whit- ney engines, equipped to take on fueljl'''" "*^">' signing off.' in flight, and callable ot a maximum '^ speed ot 150 miles an hour and a I Canadian Combines cruising speed ot 120 miles. | ^^^ Found to be Valid' ''^® *'"'' g'-'^'Iu^tes ot American and European schools. The new government In its Ignor- growing demand for women's rights. I only gives a man some knowledge of Not only has the drowning of girl j his job and some acquaintance wnth babies stopped, but the old barbarous 1 Canadian method? and Canadian farm habit of binding the feet ot women j iâ„¢Pleni«'nts, but it also serves to try to keep th*m small Is rapidly becom-jliini out thoroughly and ' test whe- ing a thing of i.*e past. It is forbid- ther he is likely to ma'.._- a success den by the new republican govern- 1 o" the land." ment. j ^5^ . One of the real powers in the pre- ! sent Nanking government is the wife | of the president. Mrs. Chiang Kai- shek who has b^en accused ot aiming at a throne. Another woman. Mrs. Soule Cheng, represents the Nankin government in France. Several of the women now prominent in political Twent.v-two stations are to be es- tablished along the 13.500-mile route, ot which 10 will be used only in case of emergency, the Post says, and two ot the five engines are to he held In reserve. TUey will be sufficient to bring the ship through, the aviators believe, it all three ot the other en- gines break up under the Ave or six- day strain. The fuel tanks will have a maxi- mum capacity ot 1900 gallons, but only about haif tliat amount, the Ancient Ur Proves Flood London Daily Chronicle (Lib.) : They (the Indian Nationalists) cannot at one and the same time put them- mince words over this thing. It is j ggives on the side of di-^order and work the glory of our Merchant Navy, and j effectively for constitutional liberty. â- will be so acclaimed bv generations to The outrage at Delhi should at least come, that they faced" without hesita-j ge^ve to show them the direction in !).''\":;;i'"';?„.f ''; ''"' ^^ '"''^" "'^'"'''"â- ^ tion the tremendous odds and the tre- j ,^.),jj,j, their intransigence is leading quent hazard ot death, undaunted in n(,j,r„_ Constitutional capacity can spirit to the bitter end. Let us notioj,jy i,e proved by those who will fall 1 in with the spirit of constitutionalism. !The British Parliament would be 'wrong to shake olT its responsibility forget, also, that had it been other- â- wlsp this country ot ours must have perished. One highly characteristic phase of ' jyyjj^jji"^ tm those who aspire to rep- the work of our Jlercliaii* Navy, Jes- , ^.^^g^^ j^^,,. g^o^v they can safely shoul- cribed In this volume, is that covering' ,„ ^^e burdon. the activities ot the Auxiliary Patrol. | ___^_^___^,^______^â€" I imagine the Auxiliary Patrol was â€" one ot the most striking, as it cer- tainly was one of the most successful, ot the many pieces ot war- time im- provisation which history will place to the credit ot the Briti.-ih nation. It was born, as need hardly be recall- er, out of those new coiwlitions ot sub- marino attack and indiscriminate mine raids to which I have referred, and it graduaHy evolved into a vast siipi)lPtnentary fleet. Hero was ludeed a medley of sin:ill vessels trawlers fresh from our Ash- ing grounds, drifters, whalers, paddle- steamers so familiar to Channel ex- cursionists, steam yachts so well known in the Solent, motor launches and motor-boats. Tl:elr hazardus dutis's were as var- ied as their types. In their long hours ot patrol they watched for and lumtod German submarines; they searched for and dragged mines: they fought hostile aircraft; they controll- ed and examined millions of tons ot shi|>;>iiig navigating the Narrow Seas; and In many other ways Rplondidly seconded the efforts pt thd Grand Fleet. Varied Indeed these craft were in type, but their crews were animated by one heart and one spirit. As time went on, this collection of shirts was welded Into a great disciplined service of 4.000 vessels wit hits operations ex- tending as far north as the While Sea, to the Mediterranean ami .Aegean in the south, and westward to the West Indies. The Auxiliary Patrol was In Its days o( complete develupmeut at New 'i'ork to prevent overtaxing Ottawa -TI19 Combines Investiga- tion Act of 1!'23 dealing with con- spiracies in the restraint of trade, and challenged In 1927 by the Pro-| prietary Articles Trade Association | as ultra vires, has been declared I valid by the Supreme Court oti Canada. When this association ot druggists, was found to be a combine in re- straint ot trade, following an injury by the Fe.leral Government they filed a complaint and the matter was refer- red to the Supreme Court. The effect ance has tried to tell the women how to wear flieir hair and how to make their dresses, but it has already learn- ed that s'.ich efforts are useless. One evil practice, still apparent. Is the sel'in; of women into slavery dur- ing the times of distress. The Rev. F. J. Grimth of the rUurch of England Leader of British Museum Ex- pedition Declares Discov- eries There Confirm Story of the Deluge, and Alter Whole .Aspect of Archaeology Brunswick, Me.â€" "The excavations at the city of Ur during the past seven years by the point expedition of the University of Pennsylvania :Museum. of which I am the loader. j recently stated at Poking that 17,000 j have changed the outlook and fclven I women and girls of the new province an entirely new aspect to history and of Sulyan had been sold into slavery | archaeology." declared C. Leonard because ct the famine and that they! Woolley. Briti.sh archaeologist, speak- ot the eneiues at the start. More fuel ot the judgment Is to uphold the act will be taken on while passing overUo'l a"-^' Procedure ot lujuiry or sub- Boston, and the supply will again be ; f^quent pro.socution which it sets up. reploiiished over Nova Scotia, under the plan, while a third reiuetling plane Is to meet the nonstop fliers near Glasgow after completion of the transatlantic leg ot the flight. From Glasgow, the route outlined in combination between the Domiuion and provincial authorities An old saw is best it not too cut- ting but never dul. â€" Christian Science Jlonitor. brought $100,000 in gold. They were taken into Inner Shansl. The women are bought by wealtliy people who use them for servants. That practice forms one more problem for the new government. .> It is well to know that right U al- ways moving toward victory. A Story of the Sea Told By Camera ing at the second session of the Bow- Sciences recently. Sciences on April 30. "It is not only a picture surprising In itself but it is an addition to tlie science of history which completely revolutionizes our Ideas and obliges us to look for the roots of our civili- zation to-day in a field hitherto un- suspected. "The risp of this civilization was Interrupted at a period we i-annot yet date by a great disaster, which has left lis record la the story ot the flood. Of llil.s disaster we found last winter material proof enabling us not only to conflrm ancient Stimevian re- cords, hut to state that the Biblical story ot the deluge Is based ultimate- ly upon historical fact. "The excavations which have been going on for seven years have dealt almost exclusively with the central part of tile city, which was the reli- gious (piarters dedicated to the Moon God, Nannar. The period of the city's greatest political importance was about 2M0 B.C. when it was the capi- tal of the empire. "The tombs of private people and of kings of that date have yielded most astounding relics in gold, silver, . copper, stone and mosaic work bear- ing witness to culture older than the First Dynasty of Egypt, and equal fo almost anythin.:: that the ancient world produced. Its art was of a remarkably high quality; Its archi- tects were famtHar with all the basic principles of construction known to- day. Writin'T had already been in- i vented; society was well organized and hiternatioiml trade extended over halt tho '•oiitinent." j Old Fa.'shioned Youth: ••KuHice. worthy as I am. I have resolvod lo sue COAST-GUARD CUTTER EFFECTS RESCUE AT SEA ' for your hand." Business Mans T;iU picture ot a rescue at sea was taken as the coast-guard cutter Moja ve passed a tow line to steamship West HiUa disabled and uaabi* to proceed Uaughter: "All right, go ahead «:•. 1 to port. sue:"

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