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ult 1 ee a London Now Free to Cope With Problems of INDIA AND EGYPT London.--The end of the naval con- ference leaves British diplomacy free #0 cope with perennial problems of the * wideflung British Empire. They are many and pressing. The Government was faced with conflicting demands from India, Egypt and Palestine, and the Laborites' re- putation for skill in foreign affairs, which the naval conference augment- ed, might be lost or further enhanced by the conduct of these three problems alone. It was hoped in British circles that the Indian question--or that part of it dealing with the native desire for self-rule--might ultimately be met on the basis of the report of the Simon Commission which recently investi- gated the Indiuns' capacity for self- g-vernment. The report will be pub- lished mext month, Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, 1in- tehded to result in a new treaty, were deadlocked because of insistence by the Egyptian delegation here that Egypt must have a larger share in the government of the Soudan, with the into that country, The negotiating between the For- right to send its surplus population eign Office and a delegation of Pales- tine Arabs were believed in the same stage, because of the Arab demand tlat Britain repudiate the Balfour Declaration establishing a Jewish homeland in the Holy Land. Strong sentiment has developed here for a policy of British firmness on all three questions, first, because a vel- vet glove policy has failed to halt the: independent movement in India; sec- ond, because Britain cannot afford to imperil the $500,000,000 she has in- vested in the Soudan; znd third, be- cause the Balfour Declaration is a moral obligation England cannot eas- ily drop. The three proolems interlock, since Egypt and Palestine are strategical approaches to the Suez Canal, which is the British path to India. A further connection was driven home when the All-India Conference on Palestine affairs, meeting at Bom- bay, declared that Palestine was a, trust of the whole Moslem world and not for the Moslems of Palestine alone. In this conneetion, it is known that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who is a member of the Arab delegation now in London, wields great influence with the Moslems of India and Egypt. This fact causes the more timid Britons to raise the spectre of a "holy alliance" of oslems if the Egyptian and Pales- tine delegations return home disap- pointed. * Will Visit Canada On R-100 Flight British Secretary for Air is Planning to Become a Passenger London--It is learned Lord Thom- son, Secretary of State for Air, will be a passenger on the R-100, when the girigible makes her flight to Canada late in May, provided it is found the secretary's duti s will, at that time, permit of his absence. The minor mishap suffered by the great airship the other day when she was being taken from her shed will not interfere with plans for the trip. One of the port éngines has proved unsatisfactory, so will have to be re- placed, but_this will soon be attended to One of the minor troubles agitating the official mind ia the problem of uni- forms. Most of the officers of the erew. are air officers or alrcraftsmen of the Royal Air Force and"are en- titled to wear the uniforms of the ser- vice, Some of those aboard, however, will be civilians, with an expert knowl edge of the handling of lighter-than- sir craft. Hence the question of uni- form has cropped up. Special precautions will be taken to Bee there are no adventurous stow- aways on board when the ship takes ber westbound departure, ----e es Work on Graving Dock At Singapore Under Way Montreal.--Construction work on the new graving dock at the British ®aval base at Singapore is proceeding without interruption, according to Sir Vincent Baddeley, K.C.B,, first princl- assistant secretary in the Brit- h Admiralty, who is the guest of ir Willlam Clark, British High Com- missioner to Canada. 'Commenting on the Singapore base, und which considerable controversy revolved, Sir Vincent recalled the ritish government awarded ga £4,000, contract for the graving dock there p year ago. "There was a suggestion fn the House of Commons that the should be held up, at least Two Days by Air ; Route for Such ice to be Surveyed this Year OVER NORTHLANDS Ottawa--Possibilities of a two day alr-route between Great Britain and Central Canada are being canvassed by a group of men interested in aviation and in Empire transporta- tion, Col. the Hon. J. L. Ralston, Minister 8f National Defense, told the Aviation League of Canada at the an- nual banquet of that organization here recently, In order to ascertain if such a route is feasible, one of their number is this year proceeding to Greenland to spend 12 months in that northern re- gion, surveying the ice-cap for land- ing fields and studying meteorological conditions. The Toute would be via Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Hudson Bay to Win- nipeg. Major-General J. H. MacBrien, pre- sident of the League was in the chair. Other speakers were J. A. Wilson, controller of Civil Aviation; Wing Commander Breadner and Professor J. H. Parkin, of the National Research Council of Canada. Valuable for Canada Aviation had more of a chance to show its usefulnesé in Canada than in any other country in the world, said Colonel Ralston. It was a coun- try of great distances as contrasted with Great Britain where the dis- tances were relatively short. The minister outlined the work of the de- partment and the distribution of the alr services, under civil and military operations. The civil branch was extensively used, more so than the military side. In forestry patrolling the civil wing had covered over 80, 000,000 acres of timber land. Last year over 1,000 fires had been detect: ed and dealt with and more than 400, 000 square miles of territory had been surveyed by aerial photography. The Minister pointed tq the air mail service as illustrative of the strides Canada had made in this department of activity. The Government, how- ever,- was not in the alr-mail trans. portation business. Like all other phases of post office work, the carry- ing of these maiis was let out by con- tract, the mevernment merely conduct- ing an initial survey of the best routes and furnishing the safeguards against natural flying hazards. Referring to his recent trip to Eng- land, the minister said that the Brit- ish Government had been almost lavish on its expenditures on aviation. He had visited eight aircraft factories and found them all busy. The execu- tives of those works were anxious to get Canadian business, but the minis- ter informed them that Canada itself bad an aircraft construction industry of which the country was proud. He advised them that they would have a much better chance of securing orders in this country if they established branch houses here. Already several had done so with marked success. Ready For the R-100 Colonel Ralston had visited the R-100 at Cardington and had been much impressed with the care with which this dirigible was being groom- ed for its trans-Atlantic voyage. He had assured those in authority that Canada was ready to receive the giant airship at St. Hubert. The Aviation League, General Mac Brien sald, was ga patriotic society with its objective the stimulation of interest in flying throughout Canada. In addition to those act'vely engaged in aviation, the League sought to en- list those who had not any practical connection with it. Paying tribute to the League as an educational agency, Mr. Wilson laud- ed its efforts to encourage air-mind- edness among the people at large. Mr. 'Wilson traced the history of civil avia- tion in Canada and cited the achieve- ments of the past few years as indlcat- ing the rapidity of its development. No part of Canada was now more than two days distant from any other part. Within a few years this country would have a regular Trans-Canada air ser- vice. 3 Prince Returns To Fine New Home London--An * open-air swimming pool in the garden is one of the many features of the Prince of Wales' new country residence, Fort Belvedre, at Sunningdale, Berkshire, which was put In readiness for His Royal Highness. Work on other alterations, which the Prince approved before uid departure, is being rapidly completed, In the centre of the house is an old room built by the Duke of Cum- and in 1746. This has been con- verted into a comfortable lounge hall. the Prince's the other a drawing room which has best converted from an old banqy A Workless World In every big industrial courftry of the world the tragic tide of unemploy- ment is said to be rising rapidly. A few years ago, we are told, it was estimated that the total of unemploy- ed was 20,000,000. The figure now is believed to be nearly 30,000,000. So declares the London Daily Herald, a Labor organ and the official news- paper of the Labor party. Recent reports from America and Germany, it adds, coupled with the serious situation in Britain, have em- phasized the fact that the crisis ex- tends over the globe. Japan is no exception, for business depression is wide-spread there, fac- tories are shutting down, newspaper continues: » "A short time ago the late Govern- 300,000... To-day the figure exceeds 800,000, and it is forecast that the mil- lion mark will quickly be passed. "Labor organizations in Japan are drafting remedial measures, and the Government is preparing a scheme of unemployment insurance. "As in Japan, so elsewhere. The latest estimates of the unemployed in the United States vary, but some put the total at the enormous figure of 6,000,000. "Mr. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, says the 'danger point' has been reached. He declares that 22 per cent, of organized labor is idle, and that 43 per cent. of the building work: ers are out of work." It we turn to Europe, The Dally Herald goes on to say, we find a similar condition. At the end of December, it informs us, Germany had 4,583,000 idle organized workers. During a week in February, it Is pointed out, no fewer tha 30,000 were added to the Germans receiving un- employment benefit. We read then: "Italy, whose industrial activity is comparatively small, has nearly half a million workers recorded as unem- ployed. "France is the only known exception among countries which have large- scale Industry, though there the pe- culiar circumstances make compari- son difficult, "No recent figures are available for Russia, The latest were for Oetober, 1928, when nearly two millions of the 11,000,000 organized workers were idle. "Claims have been made that indus- try in Russia will absorb 5,000,000.new workers in the mext two years, but that is not fact, but prophecy." Economists have suggested that the unemployment was temporary, and to post-war conditions, production and trade would right themselves. That view is now discredited, and the out- look is regarded with apprehension, t------ CONSCIENCE The voice of conscience is so deli- cate that it is easy to stifie it, but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.--Feltham. How's this for a lot of dog in one plece? The little Kensington Dog Show 4t Crystal Palace, London. that when the world had settled down | 'Intra-Empire Trade . to Be Investigated Toronto. -- Recommendations were made by the Empire Trade Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce to the Federated Chamber of Comiterce of the Empire, which will be in sessions during May at London, | that the congress recommend to the imperial economic conference, that the governments appoint a commis- sion from the business interests in the different empire units. The duties of this commission wil be to inquire in: to empire resources, markets, and other factors entering into the promo- tion of empire trade. This commis- sion will also include economic ex- perts from among the various govern and this | TENLS. It wis agreed that this commission after having made its reports to the ment estimated the total workless at | Yarious governments of the British Empire should be maintained as a permanent adyisory economic council , of empire which would have executive offices throughout the Empire units. | Other important factors In the fur- therance of inter-Empire jrade sug- | Bested were: An Interchange of text- books between the Empire units for | correction and the addition of up-to- {date information regarding the vari- | ous parts of the Empire; the appoint ment of Canadian business men to dis- cuss bilaterally with business men from other parts of the Empire cer- tain products which might be more advantageously interchanged between Empire units. It was decided to recommend to the Capadian Chamber that that organi- zation invite on behalf of Canada the Federated Chamber of Commerce of the Empire to hold its 1933 meeting in Prince George Visits "Pubs" London. -- Prince George, youngest son of the King and Queen, visited two "pubs" and a tenement house re- cently but declined all offers to "have a pint." He first visited the "model public house" of the Rev. Basil Jellicoe, who believes beer and wine in moderation can play a part in bettering the lot of the poor. Queen Mary recently made a similar inspection. The Prince went behind the bar and shook hands with several inhabit- ants of the disirict. Children who had gathered to greet him sang "He's !a Jolly Good Fellow." He then went to the Tavistock { Arms, where a woman challenged him to a game of darts. "I don't play darts," sald the Prince. "You're blushing," cried another wo- man, and he was. All the women at the bar laughed loudly and then gave him three cheers. Prince George later visited the model flats of Garden City, the section {in which both the "pubs" are located. | apr tmin If the child has a temper it cannot j control, it means that it has parents it cyclist Is making friends with Mrs. Dickens' mastiff at the ~ To Rescue Hound London.--The humanity of Captain' A. W. Turton, commander of the 6,000-ton Clan liner Clan MacNab, in turning his ship round in mid-ocean to save the life of a foxhound bitch which had fallen overboard, was re- ported by & friend of the captain. The liner was carrying a number of valuable foxhounds from Liverpool to Bombay. . - "When the vessel was crossing the Bay of Biscay," stated Captain Tur- ton's friend, "this particular hound was exercised as usual round the deck and then tied up on the after-deck. - "About 8 a.m. she was missed. "A search was made, but the hound could not be found, and it was con- cluded that she must have slipped her collar and been lost overboard. "When the loss was reported to the captain half an hour later he turned his ship round and steamed back the estimated distance travelled since the mishap, plus an extra mile. "The hound was not sighted and the vessel resumed her course, The Bouny was then sighted a short distan away right ahead. A boat was low- ered and she was hauled aboard, ex- hausted. She recovered after a few hours' attention, however. A New Healer Sulphur Compound as Healer of Abrasions in Two- thirds Ordinary Time New Discovery Philadelphia, Pa--Boys and girls-- from seven to seventy--who cut fin- gers and skin knees soon may be healed more quickly by a discovery reported to the American Philogophi- cal Society recently. Two-thirds the ordinary healing time is enough. In two serious hu- man cases tested 'the rate was even faster, and some forms of rat cancer have been slowed down by its use. The discovery is not a medicine, but a principle of nature, whereby new flesh is either made rapidly by divi sion of cells, or such formation is re- tarded. It was reported by Dr, Fred- erick S. Hammett, director of the Re- search Institute of Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, The control, he said, is sulphur, al ways in compound. Kept away from too much contact with oxygen it pro- duces cell division rapidly, but be- comes a retarder after absorbing suf- ficlent oxygen. Dr. Hammett said that at Lankenau Hospital Dr, Stanley P, R used one of these sulphur compounds, thiogucose, on a man of 78 with an' ulcer that had not healed in 18 years, In two weeks the ulcer healed. s rt smn Jugutsu, or Japanese wrestling, is one of the very few sports in which women can compete on a footing of equality with men. It is a question of skill and not strength. largest canal lock in the world, that the famous Gatun locks on the Panama Canal, of which we have the Welland Canal, and, finally, that one concrete wall connected with one of these two locks is almost the height of the Horseshoe Fall at Niagara, we will begin to realize the magnitude of the job that Canada set herself some twenty years ago and on which $120,000,000 of public funds have been spent. Whatever may be the outcome of the controversy over the development of the St. Lawrence waterways, whatever may be the policy ultimate- States, nothing can alter the fact that the Welland Ship Canal is entirely and exclusively Canadian, Canadian ' brains, subject only to Canadian jurisdiction. If the waterways development comes, in the whole system, without which it would be folly to move one ton of earth in the larger project. If, on the other hand, the larger scheme is held over for a day when of the colossal expense involved, the Welland Canal is now and will re- main an integral part of a steadily de- veloping Canadian canal system. of domestic politics er international relations, Canadians have every right to be proud of the huge undertaking that is brought virtually to a conclu- sion. It has taken a long time and it has cost a great deal of money, but there is enough confidence in the fu- that the time and money will not have been spent in vain.--Monstreal Star. Hostile Comment Greets War Book Writing of Vivid Cam- paign Stories London.--Brigadier Crozier's war book 4s the subject of hostile comment in the Daily Mail which carries a headline declaring that it should never have been written, and adds: -- "It ought naver to have been writ- ten seeing that it specializes in the discreditable and leaves the impres: sion that the British soldier was a drunken and debauched creature and emphasizes unduly the side of life which nobler and truer authors leave in obscurity. Those who served in the war know of instances of coward- ice and misbehavior such as are al- ways to be found in large assemblies of men who are not' plaster saints. Taken by and large the officers and men who fought in the Great War are worthy of the nation's love and ever- lasting respect and honor. This cam- paign against their memory is a cruel wrong to the immortal dead." "CEASE THESE BOOKS" The Daily Chronicle, under the cap- tion "Cease thes: war books," says: "We have received for review a copy of "A Brass Hat in No Man's Land" G 1 Crozier published by Jon- athan Cape. After a study of the contents of the book we have decided to give no space to quotations from it --the Daily Chronicle is second to none in its hatred of war and in the de- termination todo all we can to make future war impossile, but we do not believe that these ends can be achieved by slandering the men of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland who fought for their country between 1914 and 1918. Such volumes as "A Brass Hat in No Man's Land" are a slander on the men who were sent to France, They may be true in detail but the general is to lay the whole British Army x the imputation of brutality and ar In the opinion of the Chronicle the time has eome to an end to the spate of sensational ( disgusting books about the British y. i No Doubt About It When blind Bartimeus ecelved and mi better. His reply is poe ; Lowell we are told that lock No. 8 fs the' .ada and perhaps heard so very much, have little more tributes to its memoership ai than half the lift of locks. 5 and 6 of {interested," it is performing an im- , portant service. It is gratifying to built by' with Canadian money, through Canadian territory, i the Society from his office at 381 Wil- the Welland Canal is the central link Canada can afford to pay her share; ture of Canada to justify the beliet | Zoi: | London Press Calls For End to its efforts to provide informative speakers to groups throughout Cane ¢ above all, the publi- cations and literature nd others hear that increased pablic support is ! now indicated. In its appeal this year to individual responsibility rather than committee responsibility for the securing of new members it is trust- ing to an awakened public conscious- ness. The returns to the members are |many times the con ribution the ber need make. " Onz of the difficulties that organiza- tions such as the Association of Can ,adian Clubs, the Canadian Institute ly adopted by Canada and the United A of International Affuirs or the Can- |adian. Problems Society is to arrange suitable organication in the small centres of tha Dominion. A feature of the last annral report prepared by Lt.-Col. C. P. Mered th who directs brod Street, Ottawa, is that develop- ments of 1929 indicated an incréased membership in the smaller places. When discussing before the Com- mittee of Industrial and International , Relations of the House of Commons the agencies that are under considera tion nere Dr. O. D. Skelton, Under- Sccretary of State for External Af- fairs in the Government of Canada, said: "Perhaps above all, so far as its | widespread influence in this particu- Quite aside from any consideration 'lar field goes, we have the League of . Nations Society. It is g very «fficient and far-reaching organization which does its best both to reach the chil- dren in the schools and the ad ilt citi- zens, endeavoring noi only to inform them but to rouse their interest in League affairs." When the annual meeting of the Society was held recently in Ottawa, the guest of honor at the annual luncheon was His Excellency, Vis- count Willingdon, Governor-General. His Excellency spoke very feelingly of the work the Society is Coing and rade a grofound impressicn. He said: "There are two great matters of im- portance to keep vigilantly before the people. Memories are short and one, too often, forgets. But--and this is my first point--you must never allow people to forget the horrors, tragedies, sorrows and sacrifices of the last war or fail to remind them that if war breaks out once more the development of science has been so great that war will be beyond human control such as to constitute irreparable disaster, not only to civilations, but to victor and vanquished alike. And secondly, you must impress on the youth of the Dominion the necessity for patriotism and love of country--not the patriot- ism of the old days, for if I am to put it to you figuratively the greatest pa- triot in the old days, was the man who, if he was strong enough, knocked the other man down and took away most of his clothes, but the patriotism of the man who wishes to see the admin- istration of his country conducted on the highest ideals of freedom, of juss tice, and to live on friendly terms with his neighbors all round him. "Thus, I say to you, go on with the good work you are, doing; because Canada is bound to become increas- ingly influential in the pursuit of peace as the years pass. Work and strive and strain for peace so that the young people growing up may never see the horrors of war and that those g:llant gonsr who paid the supreme sacrifice for us all, may know, what- ever they are, that their sacrifice has not been in vain." Don't forget that April 27th is League of Nations Day. If you are interested in joining the League of Nations in Canada send in your membership to Lt.-Col C. P. Meredith, 381 Wilbrod St. Ottawa, and you will receive all the Soclety's publications and you will assist in the great work. , Ta. en Britain's Burden ct Sir Henry Austin in the Spectator (London): The whole world is suffer ing from the want of a proper adjust- ment of efforts and supplies--look at the present unwieldly surpluses of wheat, wool, rubber, and sugar. This casual and that it dis - ?