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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1927. 3 New Meaning: Given Links Uniting* Empire PRONOUNCEMENTS OF PREMIER KING AND HON. ERNEST LAPOINTE. Crimean War Officer Dead General Sir George W. A. Higginson, who won promotion for his service in the Crimean war, died recently at his home, C/I/dernsoroft, Marlow - on -Thames. He celebrated his 100th birthday last June by reviewing the Grenadier Guards, which bo joined 82 years ago. He held decorations from the French and Italian governments. Huge Banquet of Ontario Liberals Hears Prime Minister Declare That Constitution of This or Any Other Dominion is Not Altered. HAMILTON PLANT JBTR0YED Spectacular Fire Caused Damage of $100,000 and Threatened Whole Block. Hamilton, Ont,--Fire did $100,000 , damage to the Aitchison Lumber Com-1 %^™?a pany's plant on Main street, between Park and Bay streets, and while the flames were still shooting into the sky at midnight, the blaze was under control. For a time it appeared as if the whole block must go. Residents of apartment houses were warned to prepare to get out and many of them left, scantily attired, with a few household effects, but they were able to return safely. The conflagration was the most spectacular in many y< and the reflection attracted thousands. | Officials of the company had not' had a chance to enter into the ruins of the planing mill, storeroom or other -that the . Toronto.--Canada received from her Premier, Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, the assurance that the Imperial Conference had in no way altered the Constitution of this or any other Dominion; that the rights of any citizen or any province in Canada under the British North America Act remain intact; and that no fundamental change in the intra-Imperial relationship of the nations within the Commonwealth had been brought about. "While in one sense it is true," he told the monster reception honor at the King Edward, "that, as - p ts the constitutional position of Great Britain and the Dominions, the Conference has established nothing it is equally true that it has wholly new force and meaning to the established position. 'That position now carries with it the imprimatur of an Imperial Conference voicing in one note of common agreement the opinion of all parts of British Empire as to the basic principles on which that Empire rests. "Does it mean nothing to the future of the Empire that this unity should be mads known not only to all parts of the Empire, but to the world at large; does it mean nothing that the foundations of Empire itself have been made broader, deeper, and more •tue of the clear, definite and authoritative statements of Great Britain and the Dominions, which it has been the great achievement of the Conference to bring Upward of 2,00-0 people, overtaxing this capacity of the Crystal Ballroom of the King Edward, did hoonr to Libera! chieftain and his Cabinet leagues, and heard Mr. King declare himself seriously and assuringly -the matter that hos constantly infe British Opinion Favors Diversion Chinese Forces DEFENCE TROOPS OF SHANGHAI MOBILIZED. Great Battle About to be Fought by Chinese War Lords for Possession of Shanghai. GENERAL CHUNG CHI YUEN igtien troops that have taken over the control at Pukow. s men while resting- Tne presence of these troops, part ■my, ensures against any attack from the Red army from yea5S, rogated him JSands-! overseas. An ovat '! which, it is safe to predict, has seldom been equalled in his long Parliamen-care-ar was his reward. The ac-tiaim of tho audience that had listen-maenmerv i-n-ey contained would be ^ ^ Wa tWo-and-a-half-hour oration ruined Dy water, even it they had | indkated that he h.ad succeeded in das-escaped the flames. There were many th& fearg for Canada,s «sta. costly pieces of apparatus contained £ - Mch h% &t times w&s indined there. The company s representatives M ^ ^ worri „ but which estimated then- damage at »100,000. L ht &0 painstaklngly to b. The Bottling Works of Best and 1 Bennett at the rear of the Aitchison stec-k and ntrolled ai .badly gutted reral thousand dol-nachinery. The firo ;er it reached this I Special Glasses for Children With Physical Handicaps. bu.il.din i Toronto crippled children are Canned heat drinkers are blamed J given the same opportunity of acquirer the blaze. Officials stated that hug an education as normal children, the men gather in the yard at night! Hitherto a teacher has visited the and as many as 18 empty tins have \ children in their own homes, giving been found in the morning. It is be- j each one a few hours of instruction a lisved that they secreted themselves I week. Many of them have been so in one of the sheds, for it was in a i eager to learn that they made propor- lilding t west that th Gold from Canada is Pouring Into New York New York,.....-Canadian {fold has been pouring into New Y'ork since January 1 at a rate far in excess of the average for 1926. Imports in the first 28 days of January were $37,500,000, according to the Bank of Montreal, which :.lone received $11,000,000 of the consignments. This compares with $83,000,000 total Canadian gold imports for 1926. Production of paints, pigments and varnishes in Canada, according to the Dominion Bureau cl Statistics, amounted in value to $22,234,268 in 1925, portionately far greater progress than others who attended school every day A new policy with regard to thes< children has been decided on, sine* their number has so greatly increased Instead of being taught at home they are to have special classes in a school, and are to be given free transportation in busses. These classes are to be held in Wellesley School. When it is considered that in a rrral district having 5000 children of school age, there would not be more than Ave children so badly crippled as to be unable to walk to school, it is easily seen why the large cities have been the first to establish special classes. The cost and ■ difficulty of transportation have been the great obstacle in sparsely settled communities. In Ontario during the past year a number of associations have attacked the problem of rendering practical assistance to the handicapped child. UNITED STATES APPOINTS FIRST AMBASSADOR TO CANADA Canada's Potential Resources of Oil. The petroleum oil fields that have so far been found and developed in Canada have produced, during a period of 65 years, some 27,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum, or less than 2% per cent, of the present annual world out-It is evident that, in Canada, oil fields have not yet been found that may be compared in extent of output with the great oil fields of <.'■:■*•■ » of the world. Intensive prospecting is under way at the present time, the results of which, particularly those of the Tui its phe: of Ugh couraging, for the tut province of Alberta and the oil shall areas of the Maritime Provinces. Th< development and perfection of crack ing processes, which make it possible to recover high percentages of motor spirits and other oils from petroleum residuum, the bitumen of bituminous sand and shale oil, has brought into prominence the possibility of utilizing the bituminous sands of Alberta and the oil shales of the Maritime Provinces for the manufacture of such petroleum oil products. It has been estimated that the bituminous sands mi Alberta can supply raw material for manufacturing motor spirits and oth&r oils sufficient to supply the demands of the world for many years. The oil lley field in Alberta with shale resources of the Maritime I tl individual well output i vinces, though they have not been London,--British opinion is growing in favor of the proposal to hold the | Shanghai defence force at Hong Kong, j thus placing Great Britain in the same position as Japan, being able quickly I bo move troops to Shanghai in of need. It is belfeved that such a decision would facilitate resumption oi negotiations at Hankow, now practically deadlocked, and give the Cantonese Foreign Minister, Eugene Chen, time to win over support from some of the extremists who are opposing his policy of conciliation. Premier Baldwin and Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, received deputations from the Trade Union Congress and the Labor party, with whom they discussed the Chinese difficulty. In view of the close association between Eugene Chen and the British Labor bodies, it may be supposed that Sir Austen desires, as far as is practically possible, to carry the Opposition with him in his Chinese policy. The latest Hankow advices report calm and the absence of the usual New Year celebrations. Shanghai.--A great battle that may determine the possession of Shanghai is about to be fought in Central Che-kiang Province between Cantonese 'forces and those of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, striving to prevent their penetrating farther northward into } the eastern' war lord's territory. Thrust back to Yenchow by 30,000 I picked troops of the Cantonese, Sun's j army dug in along the Ysien-tang | River. Reinforcements are pouring | into their camp from Northern Che-' kia.ng and Kiangsu Province, of which Shanghai is the chief city. The Cantonese followed the foe northward, but halted to bring up heavy forces to their best troops for the attempt to break through toward Shanghai, a main objective in their campaign, which began last spring for the domination of all China. Foreign experts believe the Cantonese will make the most strenuous efforts to capture Shanghai from Sun Chuan-fang before the arrival late this month of the large British force being sent to protect British interests. That tho Cantonese can defeat the Sun forces and push on to Shanghai is doubted by those familiar with the situation. They point to previous attempts of the Cantonese to break through on this line, in which they were thrust back after penetrating farther north than the present battleground. CHILDREN SAVED BY PLUCKY GIRL Led Five Other Children Out of Burning House and Goes Back to Save Another. Wallaceburg, Ont.--Fire, believed to have originated from a defective chimney, totally destroyed the borne 'th contents of Mr. and Mrs. John King, some four or five miles from Wallaceburg. The loss will be con-'derable. Mr. and Mrs. King were both absent from home at the time, Mr. King being engaged at his' duties in the' glass works here, while his wife was' town doing some shopping. Alone in the house were seven children, the eldest of whom was a thirteen-year-old girl. She led five of the other children from the downstairs portion of the building, and then pluckily made her way upstairs to where a three-year-old girl was asleep at the time. When her elder sister rescued her from the burning dwelling the flames had almost crept to the bed in which she was lying. It has taken fifty years to provide a telephone exchange for every countj in Great Britain and Ireland, but with the provision of exchanges in County Mayo and Sutherlandshire the chain is now complete. Markets, oils and gas, are highly en- j amined : ate possibilities : of even a r y of natural oils j oiI content ugh Canada, howe- i, bitu detail to permit timate of their total •e believed to be of These great 3n and oil shale thus con-valuable assets as poten-of oil. King George's Spring Cruise Hinges on Events in China ich in poten-hich will undoubtedly be utilized when the world's petroleum fields begin to show actually serious diminution of output and approaching exhaustion. Processes for the complete liquefaction of coal by means of high pres-1 Londln. -- The King's proposed sures and temperatures and by cataly-, spring cruise in the Mediterranean tic action were prominent in the , hinges on the turn of events in China, papers and addresses presented at the j The King's health has been good this recent International Conference on winter, but he has been longing for a Bituminous Coal held at Pittsburgh, \ bit more sunshine. Pennsylvania, U.S.A, Indeed the out- if the situation does not become standing feature of*his meeting is re- raore acute, the King pli ported to have been conclusion fuels, including the ignite coals of a all kinds, will, when natural petroleum sources are exhausted, prove to be the principal^ sources of oil. This conclusion is of he greatest significance to Canada n view of the country's enormous coal The rapidly increasing demand for liquid fuels of all descriptions, coupled with the threatened depletion of the al oil resources of the United States, from which Canada derives the major portion of her oil supplies, has already directed to leave England in March for a month or so. The present plan is that the King and Queen, as they did in 1925, will cross the Channel and travel overland v Paris, joini^the royal yacht Victor and Albert at Genoa or some other Mediterranean port. ;and deposits of the ': Five Ships to be Used on West Indies Route Ottawa.--Five steamships will be used on the Canada-Westlndies route to implement the trade treaty between these two parts of th Empire. It is j understood three of these will be built ritain and t l Canada, TORONTO. , Man. wheat--No. 1 North., $1.55; iNo, 2 North., $1.51; No. 3 North., '$1.42%. Man. oats--No. 2 CW,nominal; No. 13, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 62c; No. 2 | feed, nominal; western grain quotations in c.i.f. ports. Am. corn, track, Toronto--No. 2 old yellow, &0c; No. 3 old yellow, 88c. Millfeed--Del. Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $32.25; shorts, per ton, $34.25; middlings $40.25. Ontario oats, 50c, f.o.b. shipping points. Ont. good milling wheat--$1.28 to $1.30, f.o.b. shipping points, according to freights. Barley--Malting, 60 to 64c. Buckwheat--79c, nominal. Rye--No. 2, $1.00. Man. flour--First pat., $8.10, Toronto;' do, second pat., $7.60. Ont. flour--Toronto, 99 per cent, patent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $5.60; seaboard, in bulk, $5.60. I Cheese--New, large, 20 to 20%c; twins, 20% to 21c; triplets, 22c. StiU I tons, 23c. Old, large, 25c; twins, 26c; triplets, 27c. Old Stiltons, 28c. Butter--Finest creamery prints, 45 to 46c; No. 1 creamery, 44 to 46c: No. 2, 42 to 43c. Dairy prints, 34 to 35c. Eggs--Fresh extras, in cartons, 60 to 62c; fresh extras, loose, 53 to 59c; (fresh firsts, 52 to 53c; fresh seconds, 142 to 43c; fresh pullets, 48 to 50c. j Storage extras, 49c; do, firsts, 46c; ! seconds, 42 to 43c. Poultry, dressed--Chickens. 5 lbs. ■ and up, 40c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 38c: do, 3 to 4 lbs., 36c; do, 2V2 to 3% lbs., 35c; do, 2 to 2% lbs., 35c; hens, over 5 lbs., --- --------------«.~ i Williair Phillips, Now Ambassador in Belgium, Will Officiate at Ottawa---Frederick Sterling Appointed to Free State and Robert Bliss is Given Argentine Post. Washington.--William Phillips, now job more important than the title indi-j ambassador in Belgium, is to be Un-!cates- Mr. Phillips was assistant Sec- j ited States Minis to Ottawa I i »^ary of State during much of the; . , _ ,. , . , . , ., i negotiations with Canada over the enck Sterling has < • -n i« note red to the pvo{OS! d st , av<,ct ca waterways, Irish Free State .s first diplomatic I whicli may have something to do with representative, and it is reported that-' his selection. In addition he has serv-• Robert Woods Bliss, now Minister to ed in various capacities in Pekin, Lon-the Netherlands, is to be given the don and elsewhere, and before he went Argentine post from which.Ambas dor Jay resigned recently. The three appointments cordance with the policy of advancing "career men" in the service. The cumstance that the appointment is Canada and that there is bound to be considerable diplomatic activity between this country, and the United States northern neighbor, makes the to Belgium was Minister to the Netherlands. Robert Woods Bliss, succeeded to the Netherlands post when Mr. Phillips went to Brussels. He had had much the same career-as did Phillips, having served as Secretary of Legation or in simitar positions in Venice, Paris and Buenos Aires. He also has been third assistant Secretary of State. 32c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 30c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 28c; roosters, 25c; turkeys, 4(! to 47c; ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 35 to 38c. Beans--Can. hand-picked, $3.60 to ?3.90 bushel; primes, $3.45 to $3.60. Maple products--Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.25 to $2.30; per 5 gal., $2.15 to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25 to 26c. Honey-- 60-lb. tins, 12% to 13c; 10-lb. tins, 12% to 13c; 5-lb. tins, 13 to 13%c; 2%-lb. tins. 15c. Comb honey--$3.40 *o $4.50 per doz. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 28 to 30c; cooked hams, 42e; smcked rolls, i.5c; breakfast ba^on, 32 to occ; backs, boneless, 33 to 40c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $22; 70 to 90 lbs., $20.50; 20% lbs. and up, $21.34; lightweighi rolls, in barrels, $41.50; heavyweight, rolls, $38.54 per bbl. Lard--Pure tierces, 15 to 15%c; tubs, 16 to 16%c; pails, 16% to 17c: prints, 17% to 18c; shortening tierces, 12% to 13i4c; tubs, 13% to 14c; pails, 14 to 14%c; blacks and tans, 15% to 16c. ' Heavy export steers, $7 to $7.65; heavy steers, good, $6.25 to $6.50; butcher steers, choice, $7 to $7.25; do, fair to good, $6.25 to $6.75; do, com., $4,75 to $5; butcher heifers, choice, $7 to $7.25; do, fair to good, $5.50 to $6; do, com., $4.50 to $5; butcher cows, good to chcice, $5 to $5.75; do, com. to med., $3.50 to $4.50; do, canners and cutters, $2.25 to S2.75; butcher bulls, good to choice, $5 tc„ $5.25; do, med., $4 to $4.75; do, bolognas, $3.50 to $3.80; baby beef, $8 tc $10; feeders, choice, $5.50 to $5.80; do, fair, $5 to $5.25; stackers, choice, $4.75 to $5; do, fair to med.,. $4 to $4.50; milch cows, $65 to $80; spring-$80 to $100; plain to med. cows, I $40 to $60; calves, choice, $13 I to $14; do, med., $9 to $12.50; do, icom. and grassers, $5 to $6; lambs, j choice, $12 to $12.25; bucks, $9 tc $9.50; sheep, choice, $6.50 to $7.50; do, heavies, $4.50 to $5; do, culls, $3 to $3.50; hogs, thick and smooth, fed and Watered, $11.50 to $11.75; do, f.o.b., $11 to $11.25; do. country point?, '; $10.75 to $.11; do, off cars, $11.90 tc !$i2.l hog, tirs, $7.40; to $6.1" a $2.25. MONTREAL. an. west., No. 2, 75c; do :•; extra No. 1 feed, 65c! 1. spring wheat pats., firsts, RJO; do, 2nds, "7.60: do, strong bak-winter pats., choice, $6.10 Roiled oats, bag 90 lbs., Bran- -$32.25. Shorts--$34.25. ings, $40.25. Hav--No. 2, per in- lots. $14.50. ■use--Finest wests., 19'4 to ; finest Easts., 19%c. xs, per bag, car lots, $1.40. quality dairy type cows, Sis' 75; common ones, $3.50 ■ ulls, com., $4 and $4.50; calve $11.50; hogs, $12 to $12.21 price for hogs, $12, with lead bonus on selects.