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1 he' EE number 'of victims were first and' second class passen- gers." x The Dutch steamer Alhena; the g tar; the British, A [Ra he Bric, aveoas us | 0} 'all these lous losations, ang lists: nt the truth be known as to who was lost and who was sa True to their trust, the Gaptain of the ill- fated liner "and his eat Radio Oper- ator are. to have gone down with their a | Infantile Mortality Ta Presse (Ind.): It is astounding to g6a how indifferent the public opin- fon of our, people appears to remalii face to face with the annual massacre of out thildren, while each one of them speaks with pardonablo pride of the fecundity of our race, and ap- plauds with enthusiasm the patriotic hes which lebrate the virtue as an eloment in our fu- : ald captain, Si i, a veteran ike ml, remained until all the passengers dad left the ship. 1 under- that hé was not saved. Air, on het 'Canadian air x ay ac tire Thursday. A Y 'seaplane. took the British mail from, ering a Mount: Royal Thursday ! "at Father Point and dropped' 'Quebec, Ton hat chy, Manivenl [or numb or that city. Anotherryre, t 1s the use of havin 'picked 'up the Ottawa mail! children, it 'we only let thom dfo 'as at Quebec and arrived here at one sgon as they set foot In the world? The time: saved .in- delivery | sh mail was forty-eight ---- ee ' True lovers may be few, but never far between. , Formose; the British, Em-| tt], and others Joan in]. The charred remnant of the launch in the 'Georgian Bay, near Victoria Harbor. ONTARIO CHEESEMAKER WINS EMPIRE HONORS |. W. C. Taylor, .Burridge,|" Stands Second Only to New Zealand Kingston.--W. ©. Taylor, of Bur- ridge, Frontenac County, who has made Dominion wide reputation by the fact that his cheese in Empire competition has on more than one oc- casion won the first prize, has been informed that he has received the fol. lowing announcement from the Bri tish Dairy Farmers' Association Dairy 'Show, London, England: Cheese-- New ealand, first and third; Outario |; (W. C. Taylor, Burridge), second. - Yo RECOVERED FROM GEORGIAN BAY WATERS . ; burning of which three yoully men Facently lost their lives ia settled Ontario is indicated by the timber limit sale recently announced by the Hon. Wm. Finlayson, Minister ! / Roumanin F Faas Revelt For Prince Carol as King The Discovery of the Carol Plot Conses Turmoil in Govern- ment Circles--While The Baby King Celebrates Sixth Birthday SITUATION PERILOUS 'Events 'in the situation created by, the discovery of 'a plot to bring about the return of former Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. moves rapidly. According to Bucharest and Vienna despatches martial law has been de- clared- throughout the country, and troops sent 4o guard the frontier; against a possible attempt by Carol to enter Rumania. A tight censor- ship on news is also said to have been Jammed down by the Government. Bucharest declares the Government to be master of the situation as the nation gelebrates the sixth birthday of 'King 'Michael. : The plot to restore Carol to the throne was discovered in letters in the possession "of "M. Manoisesecu, Under-Secretary of 'Finance in the people to give up their decision on "the question of his recall to the | throne." One' letter purported to be a proclamation addressed to the Ru- manian people at large, Premier Bratiano proposes to ask all Opposition and Government par- ties to declare: their attitudes in face of Carol's aspirations. This step has been taken as the result of the pres- ent uncertain situation, and also be- cause of a declaration of open war- | fare upon the -Bratiano_ regime by M. Michalache, leader of the Nation] Peasants' party. Meahwhile Manoilescue, in whose possession were found the comprom- | ising letters, will be tried by court] martial. Paris,--Former Crown Prince Carol | of Rumania, who is at present at St. | late Averescu cabinet, who was ar- Malo, confirms that M. Manoilescu, | rested. former Rumanian Under-Secretary of | Following a heavy crop of rumors Finance, arrested at Bucharest, was | "| the Government issued an official the bearer of letters from him to the | stitement in which it was admitted leaders of the political parties in Ru. T of Lands and Forests for Ontario. * The price to the Government was ne. 50 per thousand for red and white pine and $6.50 per M. for jackpine and spruce. EXTENSIVE AREA. The cutting rights in the big deal were for approximately 78 million feet of pine timber, The largest of these sales and, in- cidentally, one of the biggest reported by the Lands and Forests Department in many months, is that of 72,000,000 feet of red and white pine, packping and spruce in the To sels, and Riddell; Part of this tract lies in the Timagami Réserve. It goes to Gillies Bros., Limited, of Braeside, at a price of $12.60 per thousand for red and white pine, and $6.60 per thousand for packpine and spruce. J. A. Mathieu, Limited, were sold 700,000 feet of timber in the Town- ship. of Watten, ' District of Fort Frances. The prices paid are $9.10 per thousand for red and white pine, $6.per thousand for jackpine and 60 cents per cord for jackpine pulpi: A tract -of 175,000 feet of pine on Split Rock Island, in the Kenora District; was successfully bid for by the Keé- watin Lumber Co. The price involved is $10.60 per thousand feet. The award in each sale went to the . highest tenderer. All prices are board measure prices and include Crown and other customary dues. SPLENDID MILL. While the lumbering industry may not be as flourishing, generally speak- ing, as it might be at the present time, there is one company which, ac- cording to Mr. Finlayson, is unques- | tionably in a state of speeding up. hat is Carpentex-Nixon, Limited, of | lind River,* whose pine mill, in Mr, Finlayson's estimation, is the finest in Canada, if not in the whole of North | America. This electrically operated | mill is capable®of cutting 100,000,000 | feet a year, and with its facilities for turning out the finished product, to- gether with its holdings, represents an expenditure on the part of the | Shevlin-Clarke Company, the parent concern, of approximately $6,000,000. Last year the Shevlin-Clarke people bought out the McFadden holdings in Toonod | passengers and crew. insures speed.. in rescue work th tain, This of r stranded ships is now fin practice here and at Cape May, N.J., and already proved its BuperioHity over the old system. The U.S. coadt guard has installed radio receiving and transmitting sets on several of its airplanes, and these are used not only in combating smug- gling operations, but fn rescuing pers sons on endangered ships. In this new mothod of rescue, the thea 4 & sticks on a framework resembling a chessboard, the line or rope being sa. arranged 'as to pay out freely; One end of the line 'fs carried through clips on two masts, planted on the shore about 200 feet apart. The. air plane, flying low, picks up the line from these upright poles and carries it seaward to the disabled vessel. / A special pick-up fs used on the alr plane for making contact with the lite-line, suspended between the. two poles on the shore.' The! ship-wreck- ed crew gets the Mte-ling from tlie air plane, Them, on by one, the persons aboard the stormswept ship are pull- od ashore in safety by meals of the breeches buoy and other comventional life-saving equipment. reef ee Search Expedition Starting for Brazil Fully Equipged and Strongly Officered to Hunt for Lost Explorer An expedition, paralleling in peril, Importance and public interest, the historic guest of Stanley for David Livingstone, the missionary, in Afri ca, 1s to be set gfoot' within a fow weeks, The expedition 1s héaded by Com- mander George M. Dyott, British afr man, big-game hunter, and engineer, and {ts purpose is to seek Col. P. H. Fawcett, British explorer, and two companions, who have been lost in the. wilda-.of---Bragil--for--nearly two the old fashioned gun could nok ats le 18 wouhd around short upright - that Carol "attempted to send an in-| mania, including Premier --Bratiano. years and a half. [the Mississauga Reserve and acquired GRANDSONS 'OF FAMOUS ENGINEER AND RAILWAY BUILDER Countess de Lesseps, wife of Count de Lesseps, now given up as lost' when, hig plane erashed in' "easter Québec, is shown. "here with her two sons, | Guy, aged 16, and Franco 3 an ERE vitation to the heads of the various | parties, including the Premier, with. 'the object of inducing the Rumanian * 'His arrest was a direct provoca- | tion to public opinion," said Carol, | 'and an infringement on liberty," To Expropriate : Ottawa Property Russell House Will Be Razed \ . in Beautifying Plan Ottawa.--The Morning Journal, in its news column says: "Parliament will mest early in the new year and it is more than likely that the Government williask for an appropriation of approximately' $1, 000,000 for the expropriation of the Russell -House Block, according to That Settles That | KKK for 'Backing 'Thomp- "son, ChicaBo's' Mayor, Gives His Action True Status Springfield, Ill. -- Grand _ Dragon Gail: 8. Carter, of the Illinois Ku Klas Klan; who has announced his s pathy for-Mayor William Hale Thoms gon's: anti- British: p; said the Klan | procut vices: of a Troma "compile 'a' record vi "The: "Kian Has has found that' there is 'the reli 1: 'propaganda in' the' school text- well-informed ' sources 'on Parliament HilL "Certain criticisms about' the mil- lions. spent ime beautifying: thé: capitals have not disturbed members of the Government who. feel that Ottawa as the national capital should be worthy of thé Dominion." = Present plans of the Federal Dis: trict C ission for 'the '® to the Parliament Buildings, and the laying of a central park 'in thelr stead. The Russell House block, which was formerly a leading hostelry of the | city, 1s one of thfs group of'buildings, Britain Building "Secret Airplane" Capable of Carrying Five Tons of Bombs, is Report London.--A "strictly secret". air- plane, reported to be the largest in the: world, «js 'under construction at Martlesham airdrome by Air Minis- try experts. Newspapers declare that the 'plane was designed originally to carry 30 to 40 passengers and that it is capable of carrying from four to five tons of 'bombs: It is said that the 'plane will be a four-mptored 'pne, developing 2,000 of the nal I 'capital, call for: the demolition of a group of buildings standing in the northeast: approach ying: 4 horsep y It was the Air Ministry that ap- plied the "strictly secret" term to the 'plane, in ref flatly to discuss it. from the 'Government an additional four townships of timber. Under their contract with the Government §4,000,- 000 was to be spent on the mill pro- ject by Dec. 31 this year. Operation of the mill will commence in 1928. At the present time the company has 3,000 men engaged in cutting in the bush. Present timber holdings will keep the mill going, it is predict- ed, for 20 to 25 years. ai Industrial Warfare London Spectator: Industry, if it Is to succeed, requires collaboration, not enmity, jealousy and suspicion, The interests of both sides are Identical. Everybody loses by war, even the nominal victor who sits triumphant suhveying a fleld covered with wreck- age and fifled with suffering. Even from the point of view of a Socialist who confidently belleves that "Bo- clalism In our time" is a possibility, the policy of warfare is sheer mad- ness, Socialists could conveivably re- construct into the Socialist model a go- ing concern, but they could make no- thing of w heap of ruins. Euphemistic expression - of polite fistion fs that the college boys and girls have returned to their studies. Col. Fawcett penetrated an unex- plored area of 100,000 square miles, in search of a lost civilization, whose walls and temples, he believed, still He crumbling in the jungles of the Brazilian hinterland. Commander Dyott has crossed the Andes eight times, he has explored in the Bouth Seas, the Congo, India and Burmah, and recently he returned fpom an expedition which retraced the course taken by President Roose- velt on the River of Doubt, He is known on the lecture platform, and has written many articles and two books, Laborer Acquitted Child Was Slain Because of its Sufferings, Accused Says * Chester, Eng.--Albert Davies, las borer ,who confessed that he killed his 38-year-old - invalid daughter be- cause he loved her so much that he could not bear to gee her suffer, was acquitted by a jury in the Court of Asslzes here. Bvid showed that the child had been in hospital for treatment 'of tuberculosis; that following this she had been operated on for appendicitis and that after this she contracted measles and pneumonia and became infected with gangrene. Davis told how he had watched the child suffer' ungfl 'he could bear it na longer. Mr. Justice Granson, in his sume. mipg 'up to the jury, said that one, steed out above all otheys, and this was that if Davies did the life of his child he did &o hb he was actuated by love and sym- on Murder Charge' I a