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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927. BRITISH AND U.S. CITIZENS PERISH IN NANKING UPHEAVAL Mob of Undisciplined Nationalist Soldiers Take Unknown Number of Foreigners' Lives. BALDWIN ANNOUNCES STRONGER MEASURES. London.--Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin indicated in the House of Commons that a sterner British policy might be necessary soon in China, following despatches describing the sheiling of foreigners in Nanking, which resulted in casualties to British citizens. "I cannot say what modification of our policy might be rendered necessary by the present development," Mr. Baldwin 3aid, adding that the Government is continuing to maintain contact with the Cantonese at Hankow. Labor members renewed their demands for British recognition of the Cantonese Government as the best means of protecting British lives in China, but these requests were received with a stony 3iience by the' Prime Minister. Shanghai.--The fate of Britishers and 155 Americans, who, authorities at Nanking believe, are still ashore, was uncertain, say despatches sent from Nanking. It is feared that some have been killed and wounded. The Anglo-American authorities ar-e attempting negotiations with the Cantonese to effect the rescue of the remaining foreigners without further bloodshed. The foreigners ashore are those who failed to reach the Socony Compound. It is believed that they remained at mission centres, which are widely separated within Nanking walb. All who reached the Socony Compound are believed to have been brought out. The United States destroyers Preble and Stewart are still standing by at Shanghai, awaiting any call for reinforcements. The Peary, Pillsbury and John D. Ford, which were at Manila, are proceeding to Shanghai, while three further destroyers from Manila are going to Southern ports. The President Hayes sailed at daylight. Washington.--The Chinese situation flamed to a sudden crisis filled with gravest possibilities in the roar of British and United States naval guns at Nanking. An unknown number of British and United States lives have been taken, by a mob of undisciplined Nationalist soldiers. Guns of warships and rifles and bayonets blasted a way to safety Other foreigners, including more than a hundred American men, wo-children, are still in the seething turmoil of the river city, their fate unknown. Solemn warnings have been served on Nationalist leaders by the British and United States commanders to produce these unharmed or take the consequences, j Menacing muzzles of naval guns, j trained on a swarming city of a quarter of a million-population, back- | ed the demand. MAP OF THE CITY OF SHANGHAI AND SURROUNDING TERRITORY Synopsis of Proceedings of Provincial Legislature PROGRESS DAY BY DAY so far as the Dept. of Mines were concerned coal had not yet been discovered in Ontario. In the Private Bills:--Bill passed which authorizes Toronto Transportation Commission to operate busses chartered by anyone, from Toronto to any place in Ontario, but they are not to compete with local bus service in outside localities for charter run business except in the County of York. Express service to Niagara continued and extended. Many debenture requests were granted. MARCH 17TIL--L. .W Oke (U.F. O., East Lambton), and T. W. Le-gault (Lib., Sturgeon Falls), continued debate on second reading of Liquor Bill. Oke was against but Le-gault was for the Bill and was in favor of 5-cent beer for workingman. Legault adjourned and opens the debate Monday. In committee the House divided on bill to reduce tax on race tracks: division showed 85 to 15 in favor of Government. Mr. Raney objected to bill and wants an audit of race track books for figures showing track business to be seriously decreasing. MARCH 18TH.--Several new bills were introduced, one to facilitate development of power in rural districts, charging same to capital account. Hon. Win. Finlayson introduced bill to prevent running sawdust into rivers and streams by lumbering concerns. Another re Niagara Falls Park md cuts in assessments passed Canadian Dollar at Premium on New York Exchange Commissioners would be: D B Hanna, $20,000, and the other tw( members, $10,000 a year each. Inter- and the second reading of the Act1 half completed, without *NTew York.--The Canadian dollar, which sold at a discount of nearly one-quarter of one per cent, early in the month, sufficiently low to make gold shipments from Canada to the United States profitable, was quoted CONTRACTS FOR NEW HIGHWAYS REACH TOTAL OF $3,000,000 All Sections of the Province Included in Construction Program. SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATIONS LATER. Toronto.--Upwards of $3,000,000 of rate change, except to add "Cherries' a natural produce from which native wino might be made. MARCH 28RD-- Estimates for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1928, involving a to-tale expenditure of $44,616,516, were tabled. They are distributed as follows Lieutenant-Governor's Office, $5,450; Prime Minister's Department, $15,800,100; Legislation, $376,-100; Attorney-General's Department, $2,128,360,- Insurance Department, $47,050; Education Department, $7,-429,052; Lands and Forests Department, $2,326,725; Northern Develop-_ ment, $501,700; Mines, $358,550; dissenting vote. ^Twenty-two' Game and Fisheries, $517,635; Publii indicated Works Department, $1,216,330; Highways Department, $525,725; Health Department, $736,675; Labor, $2,-512,980; Provincial Treasurer's partment, $634,550; Auditor's Office, $88,750; Provincial Secretary's Department, $6,342,904; Agriculture Department, $2,471,880; and Miscellaneous, $596,000. The discussion of the Liquor Act continued. Hon. W. E. Raney want- bills in all were handled. MARCH 19TH.--It is that the session will open Monday and night session will" be held every night but Friday. Ministers of Mines, Health, and Agriculture are to put in their estimates and departmental views. The Premier wishes to complete session by April 1st. A busv week indeed. MARCH 21ST-- Bills to amend Assessment Act to ed the appointment of employees reduce Income Taxes, to give aid to with the Commission and taken out Banting Research Foundation, and of patronage. Col. Currie (Ci soiiie ten other minor matters were'r°nto) wanted advertising of liquor given either third reading or approv- j in the press permitted, but the only ed. Hon. Chas. McCrea (Minister of! amendment was that the Commission Mines) gave his departmental report, j must present a statement to the Mineral production for 1926 was some House fifteen days after close of fis-three million dollars behind 1.925,*! cal year. Ninety-nine of 144 clauses which had set a record. Copper and j carried, lead zinc deposits were the most not-1 MARCH 24TH-- able discovery in Ontario mining cir-1 Liquor Control Act passed to Com-cies for the year. mittee stage with only 55 members in The 1926 production was made up the House. Hon. W. E. .Raney ^laim-as follows: Metallic minerals, $59,- ' ed "spotters" would still be necessary. 191,203; non-metallic minerals. $8,- j The Premier promised serious con-472,811; structural materials, $11,- ■ sideration to the various points of 634,448; and clay products, $5,088,-' criticism made by th<> Opposition. 256. Gold, as expected, proved the' Minister of Mines McCrea stated that most extensive product, the output in I . „_____ this field attaining the figure of $30,- j 949,689. Silver, with a valued pro-j duction of $5,768,823, ranked next. A I total of $84,386,718. "a the debate on the Govt. Control! Bill, on Hon. W. E. Raney's demand for division on both the Lethbridge ] Amendment and his own resulted in the Government receiving not only their own supporters' votes but the "wet" wing of the Liberal party. The] rotes stood 70 to 30. T. Legault (Lib., I Sturgeon Falls) suggested Govern-1 ment controlled taverns to enable the poor man to get his five-cent glass of beer. Rev W. G. Martin (Con., Brant-ford) Miported the Bill and commended the elimination of "sale at meals." Dr. Geo. McQuibban (Lib., N. E. Wellington), Christopher Gardiner (Prog., East Kent), F. Oliver (Prog., South Grey), P. W. Pearson (Lib., North York), T. K. Slack (Trog. Dufferin) and C. A. Robertson (Lib., North Huron) all spoke in the delate and in opposition to Government Control. MARCH 22ND-- In Committee the House approved the reduction of assessment on race track returns, but not without strife fiom the Opposition leaders. The Premier stated salaries of Control -year. 100.01 9-16. Two reasons were assigned by bankers for the sudden demand for Canadian exchange--first, the prospects for an unusually early opening of navigation on the Great Lakes; and, second, the increasing flow of United States capital from New York to Montreal to take advantage of tjjg higher interest rates in the latter city. No Ship in 15 Years, Just Hears of Czar's Fall Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka.--News of the overthrow of the Czar and the establishment of a Soviet Government in Russia has just reached a large island in the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, with the arrival of the first ship in fif-. . teen years. The Slav and Eskimo Provincial residents of the island were much astonished to learn that Russia no longer is a monarchy. They said their last previous contact with civilization had been when an American trawler brought some supplies from Alaska. Dollars Endorsed as Souvenirs of Canadian Jubilee Vancouver.--Silver dollars coined from British Columbia silver were suggested and endorsed as highly suitable souvenirs of the sixtieth anniversary of Confederation at the initial organization meeting of the civic Celebration Committee. The suggestion was forwarded to C. G. Cowan, Ottawa, Secretary of the Committee on the Diamond Jubilee of Canada. Barnacles TYPHOID RAMPANT IN MONTREAL THOUSAND STRICKEN BY TYPHOID FEVER. Montreal Physicians Discover That Epidemic Had Origin in Contaminated Milk. " Montreal.--One hundred and one new cases of typhoid fever were reported in the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o'clock Thursday evening, and this brought the total for the typhoid epidemic in Montreal up to 1,07 since Jan. 1 and to 988 from March 4, when the malady became! At a meeting of medical men sum-! moned at the instance of Dr. S. Bou-I cher, director of the public beak i! department, it was established that the typhoid had its origin in contaminated milk brought into the city from some source not specified. The meeting expressed surprise at the absence of medical supervision over pasteurizing plants in the city when Dr. Boucher told the doctors that for the 41 plants in Montreal there was only one inspector available for their surveillance. The Executive Committee of the City Council, however, has promised to appoint additional inspectors. The services of Dr. E. M. A. Savard of the Provincial Health Service have been accepted in an effort to run the cause of the epidemic to its source. Precautionary measures against the malady have been advised, and the public notified with regard to the steps they should take in order to protect themselves as much as possible against infection. , Dr. Boucher is confident £hat the epidemic has now been controlled and a diminution of it is now looked for. road contracts to be carried out as soon as the construction season opens were awarded on Thursday by Hon. George S. Henry, Minister of Highways. The contracts concern all sections of the province and represent the major part of the construction urogram which the department has in view for the coming season. Some time ago the department called for tenders for some 32 different projects, and those upon which it passed were some 18 of the more important ones. There will be a supplementary letting of contracts'later In the season, when the remainder of the construction program will be definitely apportioned amongst the competing contractors. The work for' which bids were accepted included the following. Wendover East 4.2 miles, a penetration macadam road. Norval West 2.7 miles, a penetration macadam road. Arnprior East 5.9 miles, a screened gravel concrete road. Flesherton to Markdale, 6 miles of grading. Peterboro South 9.5 miles, a mixed asphalt macadam road. Reece's Corners East 10.6 miles, <a concrete roack- Gaps near Freeport Bridge, .8 miles of concrete paving. Clinton West, 5.6 miles, a screened gravel concrete road. Orleans to Roeklands, 10.4 miles of mixed bituminous macadam. Leamington East, 7.6 miles, a concrete pavement. Brooklin North, 4 miles, a concrete pavement. Simcoe West, 10.4 miles, a concrete pavement. Approaches to the Sarum and Orwell Bridges, .9 of a mile. Acton East, 3.6 miles, a concrete pavement. Aylmer East, 4.9 miles, a concrete pavement. Barrie South, 4.9 miles, an asphal-tic concrete pavement. Filling work on the Belleville Bridge. Kitchener East, 6 miles, a concrete. Canada's Carillon to Ring Over World Toronto.--A carillion of 53 bells being installed in the peace tower -the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa. One of these will be made similar i tone to "Big Ben!' at Westminster, according to Premier Mackenzie King, who, during an addres luncheon* in his honor here, stated that the visitor to Ottawa will hear the Westminster chimes ring out the quarter hours in Ottawa as they do London, the identical note to which i is accustomed in the Old World. "On July 1 we propose to proclain the historic event of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation by ringing .for the first time on that day the 53 bells," stated Mr. King. We hope that His Majesty the King from the capital .of Great Britain will inaugurate the occasion' by causing to, ring forth from the: capital of Canada the finest peal of jyo' bells to which the world has ever) ' listened. By the development of j lel,Sth of a mile." radio broadcasting v/e hope that on ; ----$_. this occasion that the peal of bells j I^t us be of good cheer, however, will be heard not only in Great Bri-. remembering that the misfortunes tain but in the distant dominions j hardest to bear are those which never of Australia, New Zealand had come.--James Russell Lowell. Would Go Any Length. -"I'll go any length to plei you'll only say yes." She--"Yes. Please go at least ( Markets TORONTO. Man. wheat--No. 1 North., $1.61%: No. 2 North., $1.47%; No. 3 North., $1.40. Man. oats, No. 2 CW. nominal; No. 3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 57%c; No. 2 feed, nominal; western grain quotations, in c.i.f. ports. Am. corn, track, Toronto--No. 2 yellow, kiln dried, 84c; No. 3 yellow, kiln dried, 31c. Millfeed--Del. Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $32.25; shorts, per ton, $34.26; middlings $40.25. She--"Does Marie still love her hubby?" "He--"Yes. He says she writes him from Palm Beach whether she needs money or net." ' $1.24, f.o.b. shipping points, according to freights. Barley--Malting, 68c. Buckwheat--75c, nominal. Rye---No. 2, 97c. Man. flour--First pat., $8, Toronto; do, second pat., $7.50. Ont. flour--Toronto, 99 per cent patent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $5.25; seaboard, in bulk, $5.35. £heese--New, large, 20% to 21c; twins, 21 to 21%c; triplets, 21% to 22%c. Stiltons, 23c. Old, large, 25c; twins, 26c; triplets, ?7c. Old Stiltons, 30c. I Butter--Finest creamery prints, 46 to 48c; No. 1 creamery, 46 io 47c; No. 2, 43 to 44c. Dairy prints, 34 to 3oc. Eggs--Fresh extras, in cartons, 37 to 38c; fresh extras, loose, 36 to 37c; fresh firsts, 33 to 34c; fresh seconds, 31c. Warships lying further away tu the U.J the Bund, They ar Shanghai. The ship nearest awaiting any emergency tl the camera is H.M.S. Hawkins. Next to it is a French battleship, and it may arise to protect foreigners iu the foreigu concession. Poultry, dressed--Chickens, 6 lbs. and up, 40c; do, 4 to ft lbs., 38c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 3oc; do, 2% to 3% lbs., 35c;: do, 2 to 2% lbs., 38c; hens, over 5 lbs.; 32c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 30c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 28c; roosters, 25c; turkeys, 46 to 47c; ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 35 to 38c. Beans--Can. hand-picked, $3.60 to $3.90 bushe:; 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.; manle sugar, lb., 25! to 26c. Honey-- 60-lb. tins, 13 t6 13%c; 10-lb. tins, 13% to 13%c; 5-Ib. tins, 14 to 14%c; 2%-lb. tins, IGc. Comb honey--$4 to $5 per dozen. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 28 to 30c; cooked hams, 42 to 44c; smoked rolls, 25c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 35c; backs, boneless, 33 to 40c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $21; 70 to 90 lbs., $19;: 90 to 100 lbs., and up, $18; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $11.50; heavyweight rolls, $38.50 per bbl. Lard--Pure tierces, 14 to 14%c; tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, 15% to 16c; prints, 16% to 17c; shortening tierces, 13 to 13%c; tubs, 14 to 14%c; pails,; 14% to 15c; blocks and tins, 16 to 16%c. Heavy export steers, $8 to $8.40; do, fair, $7.50 to $7.85; butehlr steers, choice, $7.50 to $8; do, fair to good, $6.90 to $7.25; butcher heifers, choice, $7 to $7.75; do, com., $6 to $7; butcher cows, good to choice, $5 to $5.75; do, com. to med.. $4.50 to $5; do, fair to good, $5.50 1 S2.50 0; butcher bulls, good to choice, $5 to $5.75; do, med., $4.50 to $5; do, bolognas, $4 to $4.25; baby beef, $8 to $10; feeder-, choice. $6.50 to $6.75; do. fair, $6 to $«.25; stockors, choice, $6 to $6.25; do, fair to med.. $5 to $5.75; springers, $80 to $95; milch cows, $65 to-$80; plain to med. cows. $40 to $60; calves, choice. $12 to $13; do, med., $10 to $11; do, com., $7 to $8; lambs, choice, $13 to $13.50; bucks, $10 to $10.50; sheen, choice, $7 to $8; do, heavies, $4.50 to $5; do, culls, $3 to $3.50; hogs, thick smooths, fed and watered, $10.50; do, f.o.b., $10; do, country points, $9.75; do, off cars, $10.90; select premiums, per hog, $2.05. MONTREAL. Oats--Can. west., No. 2, 73c; do, No. 3, 64c. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., lsts, $8; do, 2nds, $7.50'; strong bakers', $7.30; winter pats., choice, 9 to $6.00. Rolled oats, bag lbs., $3.40 to $3.60. Bran, $32.25. Shorts, $34.25. Middlings, $40.25. Hav, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50. Cheese, finest wests. 16% to 16%a Butter, No. 1, pastuerized, 44 te 4>4C. Eggs, fresh extras, 38c; do. fresh firsts, 36c. Calves, $9 to $9.50; hogs, $11.65.