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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT„ THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1927. i CANTOKESE CONFERENCE CALLED SETTLE POLITICAL DIFFERENCES British Admirals Have Instructions to Confer With Other Powers on Punitive Action in Cafe of Refusal for Redress for Hankow Incidents. FIGHTING BETWEEN THE CONTENDING FACTIONS Shanghai.--The political differences between the Moderate wing of the Cantonese party, headed by General Chiang Kai Shek, and the Radical wing, which has its headquarters at Hankow already productive of actual armed conflict, are expected to come to a head at the meeting of the Kuo-mintang (Cantonese political organization) called by General Chiang at Nanking. It is at this projected conference that General Chiang hopes to rally sufficient strength to oust the Hankow Radicals from the party and to | -tractive cutting methods expel from the Kuomintang other ele-j thought of ensuring - U.S.-BRITAIN PHONE CALLS TO BE CHEAPER Forest Fires HaVe Consumed Marconi Predicts That New Half Canada's Timber Supplies. Beam System Will Expedite Wireless Service. London.--By use of a new beam wireless system North America and Great Britain soon will be able to Canada's national campaign to protect her forests from the scourge of fire has taken one crystallized form in the setting aside of a forest week • communicate at a greatly increased each year, in which a great education-! speed by the code system and at less al campaign is carried on, looking to - j cost by telephone, Senator Marconi I ward the elimination of human care- predicted recently. lessness as a factor in destroying Both the telegraph and telephone Canada's forest resources. This year services wU1 be hmdM b j le| a proclamation of the Governor-! tran8mitti and receivi/K gtation> General has fixed the week of_ April he sai(J ThJs ^ bg through; jthe recent invention allowing the sup-j erimposing of the commercial telephone ohannel upon the existing high- 24 to 30 as "Canadian Forest Week. The proclamation sets forth that Canada's forest resource is threatened with two great dangers, both of which are man-caused and therefore preventable, the one of universal carelessness ' in destruction of timber, young growth, and even the very soil which produces it, by fire, and the other, the use of wasteful and de-ithout any crop. POWER DEVELOPMENT PLANNED IN NORTHERN ONTARIO RIVERS Hydro Commission Has Started Survey of French, Mis-sissauga and Montreal Rivers. F. B. Holtby speed beam telegraph service, thus! Of St. Thomas, re-elected president of obviating the cost of erecting separ-j the Children's Aid Society of Ontario, ate stations for carrying out tele-' Through the medium of the platform, the press and the radio it is hoped that all Canadians may be stirred and encouraged to a sustained effort in promoting the conservation of this valuable resource. Just how great are Canada's forest ndustries is indicated by some ments whicl are not sympathetic with the so-called Moderate branch. Among the questions to be decided are whether the capital of the Cantonese Government shall be moved from Hankow to Nanking, and whether Chiang Kai Shek or the Radical leaders, of whom Michael Borodin, Cantonese adviser, is one, shall dom- %ures prepared by the Director inate the party, or whether there will of Forestry. The capital invested in be a definite split, with the oommun •; tbe forest industry of Canada approx-ists functioning from Hankow and the 1 ™a.tea $666,000,000, nearly one-third Moderates from Nanking. being in lumbering plants and saw- On the eve of this projected inter- mills the balance in pulp and paper party meeting at Nanking at which operations. The pulp and paper ln-he hopes to destroy the power of the ! dustry contributes over Sl^OOWOO radicals within the Cantonese regime,' and lumbering roundly $12;, 000,000 General Chiang Kai Shek, Cantonese jto the monetary sum of Canada s i generalissimo, was beset by an ap-1 *ual production. The total value parent determined drive of the North- production from the forests of the erners and fierce fighting between; Dominion is ahout $450,000,000 an-contending factions behind its own ■71 ually. lines Over 2.500 saw-mills e*igage m London.--Premier Baldwin inform-! 'umber, lath and shingle manufacture, ed the Cabinet that instructions have'The annual cut of lumber approxi-been sent to admirals commanding! mates 4'000 mU,,on feet' , , m,6aS' British warships in Chinese waters to ure- While producing much less lum-consult with " U.S., Japanese and ber than the United States, Canada French admirals as to contingent Ihas surpassed her great neighbor in plans for the application of sanctions ' t,mber production for the pulp and in case the Cantonese refuse the de-! PaPer trade- From 4^ to / n,.,lllOT mands of the powers for redress for cords of pulpwood are produced an-the Hankow incidents. I ™all>'- Three-fourths of th.s pro- It is impossible to definitely con- duct,on 18 manufactured in Canadian firm here that U.S., Japanese and i mills, a large part being further con-French officials have assented to1 verted into paper and other wood-• their admirals drawing'up plans for | fib™ Preconcerted punitive action with the British, such plans, of course, to be subject to later approval of the Governments. The impression exists, however, in a responsible quarter, phonic communications. "The commercial advantage of such an important development of the beam system "and the opening of the first multiplex telephone and telegraph will be epoch-making in the history of long-distance radio communication." The apparatus already has been constructed for the establishment wireless telephonic communication with Canada and a further step will jbe to link up the United States by telephone and telegraph, both, bj the Dealing with beam telegraphi ice to Australia which was opened last week, Marconi sa!.d the official tests proved that the stations were capable of handling up to 325 wnrds a minut: and 150,000 words a day Because the learn waves are confined to a certain angle, Mar , surance that there will be greater " privacy, and he also promises that the rates will be cheaper than those at present. "The beam system undoubtedly will enable concerts and speeches to be transmitted from continent to continent and to be re-broadcast by stations at both ends," he predicted. "Then the radio listeners with crystal sets will be able to pick up almost any part of the globe." that this is true, otherwise tions of this nature would not have been sent to the British naval authorities at Shanghai. According to the Dept. of the In-: terior, twice as much Canadian timber has been burned as is now available to maintain these industries and ever four times as much has been de- oyed as has been used in the wood- LONDON-NEW YORK TELEVISION NEAR "Seeing by Wireless" Expert ONE KILLED, 4 HURT WAVE STRIKES SHIP consuming industries. In other words, sixty per cent, of Canada's forest heritage has already been destroyed by fire. It behooves every responsible ctiizen therefore to face the facts and °thf s, including Capti do his share to stop these ravages or|Cork.um' seriously injured when at least to bring them down to as low ' a proportion as has been attained in j other countries. The British Budget. Crew Fight for Lives When Huge Comber Breaks Over Schooner. Luneffcurg, N.S.--Root. OorkuirT*'*1' 50, member of the crew of the Lunenburg schooner Alsatian and a native of Pentz Settlement, near here, almost instantly killed, and four Harold struck the schoonei was lying at anchor on the western banks last Saturday night. The Alsatian, which arrived here Wednesday afternoon with flag at half-mast, was swept from stem to stern of everything movable and FULL FRANCHISE FOR BRITISH WOMEN Premier Baldwin Pledged to Lower Voting Age from 30 to 21 Years. London.--John Bull may be outvoted in the next general election by the women of his household. This prospect was created by Premier Baldwin's announcement in tht House of Commons that the Government will introduce a bill at the next session of Parliament lowering th< minimum voting age for women from 30 to 21 years. It is estimated that 5,000,000 women will be enfranchised under the measure and when the next general election comes around--normally late in 1929--there will be 13,-900,000 British women able to vote, compared with about 11,800,000 men. The announcement immediately became the political sensation, of the day. The Budget introduced Monday by Chancellor of the Exchequei Churchill and the Government's much-discussed bill for regulation in trade unions were forgotten as press an public started to discuss Britain' political future with the balance of power in the hands of the women. There are now about 11,800,000 men and 8,800,000 women in the country entitled to vote. But it is understood that the Government intends to remove 2,000,000 women aged over 30 who now cannot vote on account of the special property qualifications required for women and give the women voters a majority < of about 2,000,000. Asserts New Machine Been Perfected. Has was Important items in the Budget pre- forced to abandon her trawls, which j s<;ited to the British Commons by had been set before the blow fell. ! Right Hon. Winston Churchill, Chan- j When the wave passed, Robert ! cellor of the Exchequer, are: | Corkum was lying 15 feet from the London.--Television from London I More taxation and new economies, j hoisting gear where he had stood to New York wil be the next wonder i Duties increased on wines, matches,> when the wave broke. He died a 1 of the world, John L. Baird, English ; tableware of translucent and vitrified minutes later from head and body inventor of "seeing by wireless," de-' products, tobacco and automobile juries. Captain Corkum was crashed clared recently. tires. j against the windlass and suffered "We are completing the construe- Abolition of Transport Ministry, four broken ribs. Elbert James, of tion of a most powerful transmitting Overseas Department, and other post- j Round Center, Nfld., was taken from station," he said. "Our signals have war Governmental agencies. | beneath the debris of three dories been heard in New York and I am j Proposals to prevent law evasion! with his right leg broken below the confident that within the next few \ m payment of super-taxes. | knee. Paul Naugier, of Upper La- months we shall be in a position to ] Provides for deficits aggregating have, N.S., had one leg badly twisted demonstrate television from London1 £36,000,000. and the other bruised, and Samuel to New York." -*- Brown, of Burin, Nfld., suffered a Images in television are transmit-! . . C wrenched shoulder, ted through the air as modulated British to Visit War Scenes. Seven dories were smashed to kindl- wireless waves which can be heard as --*■-- ing and others torn from their iash- sounds in transit before they are re-! The national executive committee ings and scattered over the deck. The ^converted into sight. These sounds,! of the British Legion is organizing a engine box and chain locker were According to Mr. Baird, have been! series of excursions for its members smashed to pieces, and the vessel flashed across the Atlantic by him next summer to the battlefields of smarted leaking. Mate Otto Naugier and all that, now remains to be done France and Belgium. It is estimated brought the schooner to harbor after is to erect a television receiving act that 15,000 ex-service men will take the gale abated, and the injured men in New Ycrk and perfect a broad- J part in these excursions. j were taken to the Marine Hospital. casting apparatus in London requii - - --------------------~ ing more power than the present de- ' Briton's New Dirigible 90 P.C. Cheaper, He Says London.--A 90 per cent, reduction in the cost of constructing a dirigible is claimed by a British inventor who is now attempting to prove his theory by building a small ship for the British Air Minist „. The novelty of his method lies in the adoption of an entirely new system of internal rigging and bracing which is not only far cheaper than the Zeppelin type of construction but which, according to the inventor's claim, is much safer as the strain is taken equally over the whole frame. It is also asserted that landing masts and large ground forces are unnecessary for this new type of dirigible, which can be landed in an em-ergency by two men only._ NEEDS OF PROVINCE ARE BEING STUDIED. Toronto.--Announcement that the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission has undertaken a survey of the French, Mississauga and Montreal Rivers to determine power possibilities, and that, if development is warranted, plans will be laid before the municipalities involved at the earliest possible moment, was made by Commssioner C. Alfred Maguire, speaking at a Hydro rally here. Mr. Maguire touched on this when outlining power projects in the North Country. He spoke of the Commission's vigilance in looking out for power possibilities, and its study of the needs of the province. He referred to the initial 70,000 h.p. development on the Nipigon and to the further construction, two and a half miles distant up the river, of another 54,000 h.p. development. 'Now," he went on, "the Commis-n has ordered an investigation and survey of the Mississauga, Montreal d French Rivers." The prelii ary work in this, he said, was ui way, and as soon as it is complete time will be lost" in offering development to serve the North Country and the Province. Admlra. Sir Roger Keyes Who is slated to succeed Admiral Beatty, who Is soon to retire, as first lord of the admiralty. Two Princes Compete at Poultry Congress Ottawa.--Heirs to the Thrones of Great Britain and Spain will vie with each other at the World's Poultry Congress being held here from July 27 to Aug. 4 of this year. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales recently announced his intention of exhibiting some live birds from his farm in Cornwall, England. Word was also received that H.R.H. the Prince of the As-ts, heir to the Spanish Throne, intended exhibiting some fowls from iwn poultry farm. Scientist Grafts Sheep to Raise Wool Supply Paris.--Bigger and woollier sheep, produced through gland grafting,1 may meet a world shortage of wool,* in the belief of Dr. Serge Voronoflv who offers man longer life through application of his methods. Dr. Voronoff has been experiment-, ing with sheep in Algeria. He claims1 that grafted animals increased 25 per cent, in weight and 20 per cent, in wool production. Descendants inherited the increase, and the surgeon declares that experiments in grafting the descendants forecast a bigger and woollier race of sheep. The world needs 20 per cent, more wool than it produces, according to Dr. Vor-1 onoff, and he believes a race of sheep 3e produced to make up the difference. The French and British governments and the New Zealand wool growers have displayed interest in the experiments. Markets TORONTO. Man. wheat--lVo. 1 North., $1.54% No. 2 North., $1.49%; No. 3 North.', $1.44%. Man. oats, No. 2 CW, nominal; No. , not quoted; No. 1 feed, 55%e; 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, 81c. Millfeed--Del. Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $32.26j shorts, per ton, $34.25; middlings $40.25. Ont. oats, 50c, f.o.b. shipping points. Ont. good milling wheat--$1.23 to $1.24, f.o.b. shipping points, according to freights. Barley--Malting, 68c. Buckwheat--70c, nominal. Rye--No. 2, 98c. Man. flour--First pat., $8.00, Toronto: do, second pat., $7.50. Ont. flour--Toronto, 99 per cent patent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $5.25; seaboard, in bulk, $5.30. NEWFOUNDLAND AWARDED VAST WATER POWERS IN LABRADOR AREA Ottawa.--Perusal of the text of the part of Canada. The Grand Falls are judgment of the Judicial Committee | 302 feet high, and constitute one of of the Privy Council in the Labrador i the most wonderful cataracts in the boundary case leaves no doubt as to : world. e ownership of the vast water pow.- Newfoundland, by the decision, gets s on the Hamilton River. I an area of 112,000 square miles, or Both the Muskrat Falls and the; a territory greater in extent than Grand Falls go to Newfoundland, j England, Scotland and Wales corn-id there will be no appeal on the bined. Irresistible Advance of Canadians at Vimy Ridge Ten Years Ago Rej> ihng York this we "England Television v. eighteen mon; de demonstration of ashington to New -. Baird said: ! long way ahead, nonstrated heac p and that was the of television given orld." Haii nabii i! vithout the t lonths Mr. of vi- making possible' an "invisible searchlight'," which! would give vision in total darkness. He regards this as of even greater j importance than ihe achievement of simple television snd points out that! the United States has not yet produced a method of seeing in the dark. Tribute Paid to Ypres Dead. Brussels.--William Phillips, the newly appointed United States Minister to Canada, the day before leaving Belgium paid a visit to the graves of Canadians who fell in Flanders fields in the cemeteries in the vicinity of Ypres. Wreaths were laid bearing the inscription, "To the Canadian jiead from the first United States Ambassador to Belgium." Cheese--New, large, 18%c; twins, 18% to 19c; triplets, 18% to 19c. Stiltons, 21 to 22c. Old, large, 21 to 22c; twins, 21% to 22c. Old Stiltons, 23' to 24c. Butter--Finest creamery prints, 48 to 49c; No. 1 creamery prints, 47 to. 48c; No. 2, 46 to 47c. Dairy prints, 36 to 38c. Eggs--Fresh exlrar. in cartons, 35 to 36c; fresh extras, loose, 34c; fresh firsts, 32c; fresh seconds, 29. Poultry, dressed--Spring chickens, 60c; chickens, 5 lbs. up, 40c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 38c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 35c; do, 2% to 3%c, 34c; broilers, 1% 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 bushei; primes, $3.45 to $3.60. Maple products--Syrup, per imp. gal., S2.25 to $2.30; per 5 gal., $2.15 to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25 to 26c. Honey--60-lb. tins, 13 to 13%c; 10-1b. tins, 13% to 13%c; 5-lb. tins, 14 to 14%c; ?%-lb. tins, 10c. Comb honey--$4 to $5 per dozen. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 30 to 32c; cooked hams, 43c; smoked rolls, 25c; breakfast bacon, 28 to 33c; backs, boneless, 32 to 42c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $21; 70 to 90 lbs., $19; 90 to 100 lbs., and up, $18; light-weight rolls, in barrels, $11.50; heavyweight rolls, $38.50 per bbl. Lard--Pure tierces, 14 to 14%c; tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, J.5% to 16c; prints, 16% to 17c; shortening tierces, 13 %e; tubs, 13%c; pails, 14%c; blocks and tins, 16%c. Heavy export steers, $8.25 to $8.75; do, fair, $7.75 to $8; butcher steers, choice, $8.25 to $8.75; do, fair to good, $7.50 to $8; butcher heifers, choice, $8.25 to $8.50; do, com., $6.75 to $7.25; butcher cows, good to choice, $6.25 to $7; do, fair to good, $5.50 to $6; do, com. to med., $4.50 to $5; do, canners and cutters, $2.50 to $4; butcher bulls, good to choice, $6 to $6.50; do,-med., $5.25 to $6: do, bolognas, $1 to $4.25; baby beef, $3.50 to $12; feeders, choice, $7 to §7.50; do. fair. $6.25 to $6.75; Blockers, choice. $6.50 to $7; ao, fair to med., $5.50 to $6; springers, $80 to $)00; milch cows. $65 to $80; plain to med. cows. $40 to $60; calves, choice, $12 to §12.50; do, med.. $9 to $11; do. com., $6 to $7.50; lambs, choice. $13.f)0 to $14; bucks, $10 to $11.25: sheep, choice. 58 to $9; do, heavies, $4.50 to $5; do, culls, $3 to $3.50; hogs, thick siii'.-oths, fed and watered. $10.50; do. f.o.b., $10; do, $9.7 do, $2.05. per hog, MONTREAL. Oats, CW No. 2, 74%c; do, No. 3, . j%c. Flour, Man. spring wheat j pats., firsts, $8; do, seconds. $7.50; 'strong bakers', $7.30; choicew$5.90 to h $6. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $3.30 to yi $3.40. Bran, $32.25; shorts, $34.25; ddlings, $40.25. Hay, No. 2, per , S14.r; Cheese, finest ' 16% 17c i. 1, pasteurized, 37c. Eggs, ctras, 35c; fresh firsts. Tic. quality calves. SO to 86.75; ,od quality, $11.25 to $11.50.