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the emarkable. increase in fiyl ature, particularly in the last yea riefly summed up In the fact t while such services accounted 4,091 hours fiying fn 1926 and 5,860 hours in 1926, this; increased to 12,080 hours in 1927. In the two-year period 'the number of passengers carried by : hese services Increased from 4,987 to 716,677, thte increase in the past year alone being equal to more than 162 per: cent, - Freight carried almost doubled in the two years, rising from 692,220 pounds to-~17098,348 pounds, while the increase in mail transporta- 'tion was even greater, from 1,080 pounds to 14,686 pounds. "The work carried out by these ser vices, umostentatiously, largely un: known, 4s In many ways remarkable and constitutes a unique and outstand: ing phase qf aviation.= Dapg, arduous | trips into the wilderness, "requiring days OfJdifficult and hazardous travel, have been reduced tot an hour or two 'of comfortable transport. Mining pro- perties have heen efMpeditiously sup- tonishing loads at times. camps have been furnished with such 'hitherto unknown luxuries as regular mining flelds and plane in December planes in operation of spring. With an aircraft in 1927, this 1,200 paying passenger pounds of freight, and three Wintetr months ti passengers, 30 tons of 8,000 pounds of mail "So great and recognized has been | 54 the 'value of the assistance of the air plane in furthering preliminary min- ing development In the flelds of Que bec, : Ontario, Manitoba that a com- pany was recently organized at Toren- to.to. give a general service to the mining industry instead of operating regular services into definite fields. The proposed operating plan of the Notthern Aerial Mineral Exploratiton, Ltd., whose object Is to stimulate min- eral development in the Dominion, in- cludes the establishment of headquar- ters iposts and bases at stratetgic voints as jumping off places. Fuel, oll and spare parts will be kept at these bases, and by the use of radio in conjunction: with airplanes it will be possible to maintain daily touch with. developing properties in the re- motest sections. -- "Ag to the matter of the cost of the --maintenance of such services, only meagre information is procurable. Discussing the question recently, J. A. Wilson, _ Contrqllér of Civil Aviation, stated that the cost of operating a 200- horsepower commercial machne for glx days a week over fin $00-mile route in both directitons, dnd through easy country, such ho W ™m Prairies, worked out mile or §1.30 per. © ton mfles per day for y air. . nef ux quarter of a billion acres of for- | roteation for the first time, Inven- 8 ron '| bassador Sch no country elved greater State in return, | on he conserva-| f natural re. found such work be accomplished more efficiently est land have been given efiicient fire 8 have been prepared of 50,000 miles of forest lands by type| mapping from the air. A quarter of a million' miles of Canadian territory has been photographed and mapped from the air. Iishery protection has _been greatly increased on the Pacific , Coast. Ice conditions in the Hudson Strait have been under observation for the first time through the use of aircraft, and the transportation of | thousands of pounds of material and {hundreds of men has been furnished to all remote ts of Canada. "Will Re ee La] here are that Cap-|| Reports iehl and Baron von Huenefeld ven up the project of returning many by another transocean and that they will sail instead p Columbus, leaving New York pg id arriving at Bremen May tex, will bring the mono- with thega'or Teave it ge museun® has not been ih 1s advanced decided to re- n by air. on in Getmany &Y (and Irish heroes 7 4S dot Berlin, which &° Bh honor of the ny's aerial de- even! fran and Tephe Governmeny pay tril fers il h yelopment on. 7 enta- 'tives of the (J aviation herole de ter speeche Of Batkerin does not waht to i countries outdo it in re- celVIWgPILs sons, and a serles of recep- tions nd anquets are planned 'from the tig the Columbus arrives, The Acr6 Chub of Germany is giving a din- ner to which Major Fitzmaurice is in- vited. Official receptions by the cities and the Government also are planned. - ten planes in formation over Berlin for more than an hour recently in honor of the achievement in crossing the ocean East to West. The City of Bremen has finally wir ed Congratulations to the filers, this} act having been delayed by the radi ca] elements, German is gradually warming up and it is belleved by the time the air- nien arrive the population will have been werked up to the highest pitch and will show the enthusiasm which sacmingly has been lacking or least not expressed at first. The largest Dlone operated by the Lufthansa lines now is called "Koehl," and this huge mac lead the formation of the Staaken student pilotsin their demon- stration. viE : Forest Industries Pay-roll . The salaries and wages in Canada's [forest industry total annually about 2 Pilots of the School Staaken flew |" dri > Ee % ap c phone is me attributed the L! partly to the reduction of toll from £14 to 89 for three but principally to the fact that the business worlds of New York and London are beginning to appreciate 'the advantage of tele- phoning, The recent activity in the stock markets is sald to have been another factor. One day re- cently there was a small queue of persons waiting to get a connec- thon; re dy ea The new hours ot service for the oceanic phone here will be from 11,30 a.m. to 2am, Bo London Change ~Bweep £504, : Double Last Year's London--The Stock Exchange Sweep on the Derby totals £500,000 more than double the stake last Jogp when (Le list of subscriptions wads closed. : The general belief is that Lon- don's pool on the year's greatest horse race will surpass in size the Calcutta sweep, hitherto the Em- pire's largest and most famous. A quarter of a million persons are sald to have subscribed and ong of them will win the first prize of more than £100,000. When the Stock Exchange sweep started in 1920 the :teta] was only £100. Ancient Industry -to 4% per cent, Britain Makes Debt Payment nounced by Churchill London ~~ Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Hxchequer, in his preliminary Budget statement in the House of Commons, announced the placing of the sixth annual payment of '£356,000,000 to the service of the national debt, for which bie is making full provision this year. The speaker was greeted with remarkable clieer- ing. The Chancellor calculates that even if the Interest charges should fall only this provision, it maintained as the Government in- tends shal] be the case, will repay the entire national debt in 50 years. The Chancellor also announced that In Remote Hamlet Archoeologist Discovers Vil- lage Where Portuguese Na- tives Still Cut Quartz Im- plements With Clumsy legislation would be introduced this year subsidlary to the gold standard | to consolidate tlie "Bradbury" £1 and {10s notes with Bank of Fingiand | notes; at the same time greater elasti- (city will be provided for the Bank of England and tbe Treasury acting in unison to meet trade requirements, Tools Lisbon.--The case of the alleged mystifications of Glozel leads a daily industry that exists in the district of Leiria, in the Portuguese province of Estremadura. from tow «follow the occupation of H) the remote origin of this on, which has been handde on Olympians Will Ise Holland's Central Position of Dutch Air-| -..drome Will Help Visitors to. Coming Games dam 1928 Olympic Games will find Holland one of the centers of the ever- expanding European alr transport system. The K. I. M. Royal Dutch Alr Services, will offer better aircraft and increased accommodation on a ier number of lines than ever he- : The summer sorvice will be ntained by six new big Kokker F. VIII machines with two motors gn eight of the F, Vila one-motor plan In the summer there will be fou dally connections each way with | don, two with Paris, three with Har burg, two with Brussels, two with] Copenhagen-Malmo, two with south Germany and the Ruhr, one with Prague-Vienna, one with Bale-Zurich, one with Berlin, one with Lyons- Marsellles, The part of the K. L. M. in these services is preponderant. A new connection through Europe will be Amsterdam-Madrid. Starting: at 9 am. from Schiphol-Amsterdam, one arrives at 4 p.m. at Geneva, Next morning one makes the frip Geneva- Marseilles, then by hydroplane to] Barcelona, and" thé 1ast stage of the | trip again by airplane, arriving at 8. p.m. on the second day, in the capital , of Spain. Ratterdam-Constantinople, | another transacontinental journey, will only take 50 hours. The Czecho- | slovak Air Service opens a line | ay,' The 19237-1928 winter service of she KLM, has been very successful. Its, regularity has been maintained as | Prague-Marienbad-Cassel-Rotterdam in high as §6 per eent; compared with 70. per cent, In former years. Ss were transported by the K.L.M. ). contracts for 50 {New Air Lines. The Hague--Visitors to the Amster y generation to generation, being eable. There are some very old habitants of the district who remem- me hearing that by royal decree the iabitants of this hamlet enjoyed tho lege of being exempt from obli- Paty servies, in virtue of remarkable aptitud® in cutting gilex) and preparing it for the foned guns or muSkets at that ed in the army. In return for pnption each youth of the ham- BQ present to the authorities | ITT. ANS duly cut and chiseled for placing in the guns. Bach youth received for his lot of flints the sum of 1,200 reis (about b shillings.), This industry was "rediscovered" 36 years ago by a Portuguese archaeolo- | gist and writer named Vieria Nativi-| dade, author of a work published in ench on the art of fint-cutting in| th fig Tr F fh nineteenth century. This man of | pr nktural science had carefully arrang- ed in glass cupboards a collection of lances, arrows and many other flint, articles of the Stone Age which he! 'had found during the many excava- tions that were one of the interests of his life: One day, as he was examin- ing some pieces of sliex for some flint and steel lighters that were much used by smokers in the provinces at that time, he noted with surprise the sim- ilarity of the stones to those of his, neolithic "collection, and inquired where they came from. It was thus he discovered the an- clent industry in the remote haml where he went himself, and came upo a truly neolithic gcene, as ing methods go. Inside huts, seated on the ground, men worked in silence cutting and chiseling quartz with primitive tools. As he watched them the archmologist formed a plan, A fow days later he returned there and told the men he wanted them to make some stone articles for him. He showed the modern artists his prehistoric models, and the stonecutters reproduced them with such exactitude that no one could possibly distinguish the false from the ral nts. n newspaper here to recall a prehistoric London--Winston Churchill, intro: ducing his new budget in the House «of Cammons, showed what he alluded to as "a modest, but not unwelcome | surplus," of £4,500,000 for the year Just ended. This was due largely to an Intensive economy campaign which + {had been waged in all departments, | In a Ce Shyated far He predicted a surplus of £6,302,000 | [Tor the next year, with an estimated decrease, £2,600,000, The estimated revenue for the com. Ing year was fixed at £812,497,000, {and the expenditures at £806,195,000. | It is estimated that the new impost | will yield £14,000,000 fn 1928 and £17,000,000 in 1929. The production | of Scottish shale ofl and other British bils, it 1s expected, will be stimulated by the new taxation plan, in expenditure of roughly ae Thanks Canada Officlaj Gratitude Conveyed Courtesles to Bremens Crew Germany for Ottawa, Ont.-----QGermany has thank- ed Canada for assistance rendered in behalf of the crew of the "Bremen" airplane which blaed the West-to-East transatlantic afr tralh The following! Kempf!, German message from I. Consul General for the Dominion, was received by Premier King: "I am instructed by my Government to express the sincerest thanks of the | Government of the German Reich for all the assistance rendered to the filers of the 'Bremen' by Government departments and to 'the numerous or ganizations and individuals who have ! 80 generously and efficlently come to have vis the aid of the 'Bremen' crow." A te Exports of Forest Products Exports of Canadian forest products constitute one-quarter of our total ex- port trade. t | sarily Budget Surplus Also _An-| London--Thers are many signs of & growing volume of dissatisfaction in British commercial circles over the present relations between Great Bri: tain and Russia. Manufacturers whose plants are not fully employed, and who are keenly aware of the vast demand which remains latent in Russia, be- lieve that the Government should find some middle ground for improving commercial relations, even If neces "continuing the diplamdtic break. y During the last quarter of 1926 Bri- tish exports to Russia totaled £3,963, 243, but (n the last quarter of 1927 they had dropped to £1,782,729, a fall of 65 per cent. New orders placed by the Russions In Britain dropped from more than £5,000,000 in 1926 to £1, 135,944 last year. These orders were of saluta thelr DO Weapons; they are peaceful, It fs well, tbe custom ls good. . . . . Just as their language sameness of the desert of Gobi, so thelr appearance. Thoy all look alike, though differing in height, some being very tall. The remind me of the' water-buffaloes I have often seen in our rice-flelds, an tinguish one from the other, I have heard, nevertheless, that these animals have each a different countenance for the farmer who owns them, So it may be for the inhabitants of this country. My present idea of them is ugliness and stiff, angular demeanour, pertaps due to ungainly garments. Thelr eyes have ap ecullar look in them; they lle on a straight line, and are green and blue, sometimes brown. Their garments are tight-fitting, and very uncomfortable in hot weather, mainly for textile and otter machin- ery and for rubber. There Is a small amount of machinery business still] being done, but the rubber business | has entirely vanished. It may be sald in general terms that the Russians] are not buying anything in Britain which they can possibly buy anywhere else. In the meantime Britain continues to import large quantities of Russian raw materials, mostly foodstuffs, tim- ber, and petroleum. About the only British import from Russia which has dropped is furs. What seems to interest commer- clal circles the most is the fact that 'while the United States has been from thefl rst strongly against any diplom- atic recognition of 'the Russian! regime until that country takes steps to recognize the rights of investors in Russia, nevertheless trade between Russia and the United States grows gleadily and {3 now twice what it was fn pre-ar days, = Ip such ofr cumstances {t seems to many busi ness men that some less vigorous method could be found for dealing with the Russians in Britain than the unceremonions ousting of the Arcos organization, : | Wikdle export trade in general is stagnant with Russia, it ls a fact that a few companies, which pad cordlal relations with the Russia of pre-re-| | volutlonary tlmes, are managing to! ldo business. The Ena Goldfields Com- | pany and the Unlon Cold Storage, | hoth large enterprises, have Enccess: | | fully carried on thelr Russian opera. tions despite diplomatic coolness, | Heretofore, every demand for bet-| | ter relations with Russia tas brought | | forward the statement that the Bol- | shevist regime cannot last much long- ler and i8 in straightened clrcums- | tances. There is a growlng disposl- | | tion to doubt the accuracy of this be-| i llef. In any case it seems clear that | I ousiness circles are keenly desirous | ot dropping an unremunerative walt- { ing attitude and trying to come to soma sort of terms with the Russians, | | | British Girls to Tour Canada Winnipeg. --Arrangementts are be- Ing made for 26 girls from schools of ithe United Kingdom to make a tour of Canada during August, September and October of this year. The tour is under the ausp!ces of the women's branch of the Overseas Settlement Department, and the Independent Or- | der, Daughters of the Empire, are co- operating in making a success of the plan, on this side. The girls will be {between 1 and 19, and will bo chosen | | from the public and secondary schools | (of Great Britain. This will Le the | first party of girls to make such a tour, although parties of boys already itetd Australia and thls year | win 80 to Rhodesia and South Africa. | | | Pulpwood From Our Farms 'c About one-third of the pulpwood' jused In Canadian pulpmills comes | from farmers' and sottlers' holdings, Tp ol § eS er Lest We Forget 3] all, take fits place, |k as it Is now; in the dignity and grace of our floging drapery they are wait- ng, «. al The people in the streets of this city seem to be-always in a hurry; they appear to be flying In all direc. fons. . . . When first I noticed this, and the look of anxiety on their eager faces, 1 asked my cousin if any pub- lic calamity had befallen. For answer, he smiled and sald: "No, Hwuy-ung; what 1s wrong with them fs not en- ough' to hand upon the teeth; each one fears he may be after the appointed hour to begin work; to deliver a mes- sage or to despatch a letter, to con- clude some business--in most cases, matters of a few taels--or one or more of the Five Hindrances. , . . Rice seems to be little used hers, whereas in our eotithern provinces ft fs eaten every day and offen twice, Here large square cakes of great corn Chop-sticks are un- known; fnstead, they make use of a thin-bladed knife with rounded end, Ad a threepointed implement lika that we use for candied fruit--but larger--which Served to hook thelr meat and thrust it into the mouth. In the beginning I wondered how they * did not wound their lips and tongus with the g'arp points, When I used this Instrumént I was careful not to hurt myself; now I am expert, They have many. rules in the use of these eating-helps. My cousin Informs me that it is a sign of ignorance greatly condemned to put the knife into the mouth. The three points may be put there as often as deslred--for what cause? It is more dangerous than the knife. You must not cut your bread with your knife, nor may it be used with fish. Why this is, he does not now.--Hwuy-ung, Mandarin of the Fourth Button, in "A Chinaman's Opinion of Us and of His Own Coun~ "Is your husband as loving and af- fectionate as ever?" "I sues so. All the other girls say he 1s." aerate i rs mia Notes on the Current Mode Those things, small in themselves but actually go important, which will set the chic woman apart from the near chic this summer are revealed in the current issue of "Delineator", Saye the fashion monthly: "Much of the chic of the mew femin: Ine frocks lies in thelr youthfulness. Wide sleeves are soen on all evening ooats, Moire is new for these Wraps, satin is used by several of the most important French houses, and velvet, metallic fabrics and tafteta are good, The dotted prints are very popular in daytime fashions, with dots from merest pin points to coin spots. A widened silhouette for afternoon fis olde and tlers are often the means to the new amplitude, Taffetas in a. lovely mauve blue were extremely im- portant in the recent Parls openings. For gay and imprompt summer parties, the printed chiffon frock has Just the right degree of formality and teativity." g i ---------- eawyer: "You say you passed this middle of the road." ee ee The mayor of a French town had, in accordance with the regulations, to make out a big truck near Scotts cormer? Did