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a ay a "THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1929 af h TO OUR MANY FRIENDS "AND CUSTOMERS WE WISH tt A Merry #l Christmas and "Happy New Year CANNINGS KING STREET EAST J ry. ARIS FBIM BIPM IM EO IMI | : BURR SEES RED ED Season's Greetings! ES HEME MRE RE RE MAY A KINDLY PROVI- DENCE ALLOW YOU TO SHARE THE GOOD THINGS OF CHRISTMAS DAY AND THROUGH- OUT THE NEW YEAR OF 1930, J. McDonnell Park Road and Kingston Rd, Phone 1568 ES 5 HEMEEME O MELELEME EIR NEED EE Ey xm Extending . . ... CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO EVERYONE HOES RE ee Conant & Annis Simcoe Street South Phone 4 18 mame eu ees ORI © BN BN € IBIS BID |eeeoeeess ¢ BN . I ----_--., HEALTH ANB PROSPERITY ' That the coming of the Yule Day and the New Year will bring you the best in life is our wish Hendersons -- King Street E. Be SII © BORD CRBS BBN | Yh he wid dene | DISARMAMENT 13 HARD ON SHIPYARDS Costly Plant Going to Waste in Lancashire Now BARROW'S FATE Few War Vessels Now Un. der Construction For Foreign Powers ------ Barrow-In-Furness, Eng~To ap: grecinte the far-reaching effects of naval disarmament one must spend a few days in the districts which de- pend for their material prosperity on the construction of warships and nay- al equipment, Here, in this remote corner of Lancashire, Is a great con munity, three-quarters of whom are economically interested, more or less directly, in the pay-roll of one local firm, As at the Elswick works in New- castle-on-Tyne, 1 have walked miles through great shipyards and work« shops which, though carrying en bras vely in the teeth of adverse eireum- stances, are hard hit by naval re- trenchment, writes Hector Bywater, in the London Daily Telegraph, A few facts and figures may be glven to show Barrow's contribution to Bri- tish sea power, and also to indicate the price which this part of England is paying in the interests of peace, Some months before the outbreak of war the Vickers' establishments here were emploving 16000 hands During the war, when all yards and factories were working up to capa city, the firm employed 35,000 people, including approximately 10,000 wom en, In the post-war slump the Bar row staff declined to 5,000, Owing to recent orders from domestic and tor cign sources, the number rose to 13, {to 11,0600, and will continue at thi HOLI May the Chr to you and ways, King St. W; |EONeaO EEnRIINTEReYTeS aa % BUGS UE ORS EES EE GREETINGS day bring joy and peace ones this year and al- UE Joe Welsh, Caterer DAY istmas Holi- your dear Phone 73 Sree SCO COE Eee 100 last summer, It has now dropped iutre throughout the winter, but un s8 more naval contracts are forth ming in the spring it will be dif ult to maintain it for long, In the summer of 1914, 99 per cen the employees of this firm in Ba: w were engaged in the constru lon of warships and armaments hortly after the war armament work dropped to zero, Today 75 per cent wre employed on armaments and war ships, and the balance on gommercia work and Industrial engineering, Th loeality has been fortunate in secur ing torelgn orders, including subnag ines and a depot ship for the Chilean navy, and an armored gunboat | Slam, / Contracts from Abroad A truth often overlooked is that foreign naval contracts gravitate au tomatically towards these yards and arsenals which are kept busy by their own Governments, But for the series of magnificent cruisers, destroyers, and submarines which our yards have been turning out for the Admiralty since the war, they would probably not have booked the valuable orders for warships and naval material from abroad which have helped in recent | years to tide over a difficult period But welcome as is this foreign werk, it represents only a trickle compared with the flood of pre-war contracts from abroad, In 1914 our yards wer building for foreign governments fou: | great super-dreadnoghts and several other armored ships, as well as eruls- ers, destroyers, submarines, guns and armor plate, Facts and figures such as these are striking enough, but they do not sink nto the imagination until one has personally inspected the colossal plan vequired for the production of mods erm naval fighting material, Much of this plant is now inactive, and the PIO INTL IDRC DE TE amtal imvested in it yields little or o roturn, Sl serious is the et on clapioyment, Long quesues men at the Laber Kxchanges ) te and Barrow represent We are paying tor nt, A modern cruiser Ula) ton class costs about vy bill, no doubt, but fpr cent, of it 1a patd out in wages Evi oi Uneeriainty The Vi! vrmstrong plant at Jarrow, waiea I visited today, has in (he past three years been thoroughly resoiganized and Liought up to dale, together with the great slipways on which war vessels and merchantmen are built, there are gun-mounting an guns-erection shops, steel; iron, and brass foundries and forges, It is one of the few establishments in the world where a submarine can be com pletely built, engined, and equipped, Ships now under construction here include seven submarines, a flotilla leader, a destroyer, and a naval re pair ship, all for the British Adi alty; a subarine depot ship for Chile, a gunboat for Siam and several mer chantmen, Many big liners have been built since the war, amongst them the Orient Line leviathans Orama, Otran- to, Orford, and Orontes, the Cunard. ers Scythia, Antonia, and Carinthia, and the former Australian Govern. ment ships, Morcton Bay, Hobson's Bax: and Jervis Bay, 0 everyone interested in naval affairs, Barrow ls of special interest as the birthplace of the British sub. marine, From the slipways here was launched in 1901 the first undersea boat ever built for the British navy, Since that date the same yard has launched no fower than 155 submar- ines, Among the famous warships which have glided down the ways Barrow are the Princess Royal--one of Beatty's "Cat Squadron" battle cruisers at Jutland--the Dreadnought Vanguard, which was destroyed dur- ing the war by a mysterious internal explosion, and the battleships Re. venge, Emperor of India, and Erin, all of which were units of the Grand Flget, 104 m.1 After the locomotive had smashed a flivver at the crossing, a flapper rose from the wreckage, uninjured, and powdered her nese, The engineer and others gathered around, "Why in the world didn't you stop when you saw the train coming?" asked the engineer, : ; The flapper was indignant, "T sounded my horn before © vou wishes for an CHRISTMAS and Oshawa, POLITICAL TREATY T0 AID DISARMING Italy in Reply : to France Proposes a Pact of Non aggression Rome, Deo, 238 The latent Itallan reply to France in thelr Interchange of conversations pre. liminary to the London naval dis armament conference Is under To whom we have been privileged to extend our service. . friends we offer our most PEROUS NEW YEAR, W. J. Trick Co. LI ITED 2) gp LEIMMUPBED CRISP CIIMM EPIC J 4 | 3 . to all our cordial ENJOYABLE a very PROS. : : + 1 ; Ontario stood to repeat the Italian conten tion for parity with France, It suggests that an agreement on disarmament may be aided by A political agreement, such as a Franco-Itallan pact of non-aggres- slon, for treaty of friendship and arbitration, which has been under discussion for several months, The Itallan forelgh ministry declared itself willing and ready to discuss any agreement of such a nature, Doctor "You must keep to diet, no oll in your salad, lemonade without sugar, egg yolk, black bread." Patient: "To be taken before or af- ter meals VALUABLE RELICS Pre-Historic Research Work- and nowsunheard of mammils are all sketched in the preshistroic caves of France, which are now being explor- ed by Dr, Henri Ami, Ottawa director of the Canadian school of pre-histor- ie research in France, ed from five months' intensive study at Combe Cappele, Dordugne distriet, T0 BE SENT HERE er Tells of Latest Finds In France STUDIES EXTENDED Caves Revel Strange Mam- mal Life Dr, Henri Ami Declares Wooly rhinoceroses, bison glant Dr, Ami, at present stopping at the Mount Royal Hotel, has just return- France, The Royal Society of Can nda is cosoperating 'with the Heaux Arts of France In secyring valuable historic Information, "studying the races of people that lived during those paleolithic ages, and securing such relies as are available for museums, some of which are coming te Mont real, Dr, Ami was as enthusiatic as a school boy with a new toy about th recent valuable discoveries, and tric to condense into a briet Interview much as he possibly could, Cha ters Added "Four new chapters have heen add ed to the history of the race us th result of our endeavours," he deel ed, "By the varlous strata in th rocks we have learned a great den) about these early dwellers "They belong to the Paleolithic Age, and the people are very much like what we think the Neandertha Man was, We call these people the Moustieerians, from the French dis trict by that name, We found thei mplements, and records of their live as they must have lived then, They Juried thelr dead, they helieved in a jereafter, and they knew the value «| regular sleep like eclvilized peopl hey made Instruments,' and they rew pletures just as we do, "They show all sorts of animals at lived there during the glacial age, nd the Inter-glacinl age, when for a me, the lee melted and the climate ew warmer, It is all told in the ocks by our digging, We also have ween many designs on the walls of caves, These show the bison, the musk-o0x, and such things as the lon and the rhinoceros, When these ani mals lived in the glacial age, they urew woolly coats, and hence we have the woolly thine" Coming Here Some of these Interesting prehis lorie treasures are coming to Mont real, and some have alrbady been re celved, Monsignor Piette of the Un iversity of Montreal, is to be the re ciplent of some, while Laval and Dal housie will alse benefit, Over 3,000 specimens have reached McGill Un versity Others working with Dr Herbert Campbell, Ottawa; Miss Syl. | via Seeley, who is collaborating on al hook with Count Hergouini Chard Smith, and L. N, Richards, a B.Sc from McGill, Two other helpers have remained in France, since they aro | native French eltizens, { EE ---- Primi EEGs Ess Ami are | A little boy was balancing himself on his head, when an old lady, whe knew him, came by, "Aren't you too young to do that, miy lad) you are only six!" she sald, "It's orlifght, missin" replied the Woy, without losing his balance, "I'm nine while I'm upside down," May This Christmas Be a Merry One And The New Year One of Prosperity Luke Furniture Company 63 KING STREET EAST A PT ness Geo. Hart & Sons "CN MERRY, MER p: WE WISH TO EXPRESS TO OUR CUSTOMERS OUR SINCERE APPRECIATION OF THEIR CONe FIDENCE AND PATRONAGE DURING THE LAST TWENTY, YEARS AND TO WISH THEM ALL A Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year a Prasa Oshawa Dairy GEO, HART & SONS 434 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH PHONE 618 PRM O IIMS PRI DBI BID: ; o HEARTIEST WISHES FOR THE Festive Season \ND THE NEW YEAR ABOUT TO BE USHERED IN, WILL BE TO YOUR GOOD SELVES, THE BEST EVER! 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