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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE,W.K THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927 THIRTY-ONE BODIES RECOVERED FROM RUINS OF ORPHANAGE; LARGE NUMBER MISSING Few of Bodies Show Marks of the Flames--Most Perished by Suffocation CHILDREN ALL ABED Roused From Sleep, They Were Carried From the Building Almost Unconscious--Fall of Roof and Walls Prevented Rescue of More Quebec.--Of the. 31 young children,; apparatus. Over eleven hundred were all girls, and an 18-year-old girl who in the building at the time, including are known to have lost their lives in i 170 infants in the creche, infirm old Wednesday night's tragic fire at the: people and wounded soldiers. A Hospice St. Charles, 11 had been posi-j wounded sergeant of the 13th Battal-tively identified by parents or rela- j ion saved ten infants taking them out tives at noon Thursday. Two others! two at a time. Nuns had to be pre- had been identified, but not positively while the remaining 10 bodies had n->t been chimed. Six bodies were taken from the ruins. According to Sisters St. Amie and Mario cJes Angss, of the Good Shepherd Order, who visited the morgue shortly before noon to identify theifii bodies', 27 children remained unac-1 pic counted for. A number of these the j The most disastrous fire in Ontario sisters expect, are probably being; occurred in Oct., 1922, when seventy cared for by relatives or friends in | people are believed to have perished various parts of the city, though it! in the Haileybury fire. Five towns is feared that later inspection of the j and 100 square miles of territory were ruined hospice will bring further' devastated. vented dashing into the flames by policemen, and several were unconscious from tho smoke. Thirteen young people at a Foresters' Social in London, Ontario, were burnej. to death on Jan. 23rd last, when file building underneath caught believed, owing to an | Tempest Bating Helpless Ships to Pieces "j bodies to light. THIRD IN A SERIES. The fire in the Hospice Saint Charles early Wednesday is the third disaster to take toll of numerous young lives in Canada this year, bringing the number of child victims to around 120. The other two were the fire and panic at the Laurier Theatre, Montreal, Jan. 9, when 78 were killed, and the orphanage fi] Lac La Flonge, Sask., Sept. 19, when 20 children were burned to death. Other fires in Canada this j claimed upwards of 40 victims. OTHER DISASTERS. Seventy-five infants were burned to death when the Grey Nunnery at Moi treal was destroyed by fire on February 14, 1918. Part of the building Other great fires in America were: Chicago, 1871, 200 dead; Brooklyn theatre, 1876, 295 dead; Iroquois Theatre, Chicago, 1903, 575 dead; General Slocum, 1904, 1,921 dead; New-hall Hotel, Milwaukee, 80 dead; Ho-boken shipping, 300 dead; Shiloh church, Ala., 115 dead; San Francisco fire, 452 dead; Cleveland school, North Carolina, 1923, 73 children dead. Waterfowl Attracts Tourists The manifold attractions of ePrce, in Gaspe county, Quebec, influenced some two thousand tourists to visit that charming village during the past summer. Most of these, during their stay in Per»e, enjoyed a thrilling visit to the bird canctuary on Bana-,. venture island and Perce rock, close was muse as a military hospital, and: at hand 0ne ,ocal boatman akme the fire was believed to have origin-; t0((k three hundre(i atcd in defective wiring for the X-ray bird-covered rocks this Santa's Toy Store In England GREAT LAKES AND STR. AGAWA BELOW. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP ATTACKS PREMIER KING Objects to Thornton's Visit J> Mexico Saying Such Visit Besmirches Canada, (filling Mexico "Most Infamous"of EXLANATI )N GIVEN Premier Issues Official Statement and Draws Interestin; [ Parallel On Thursday was published in the daily press an open letter from Bishop Fallon of London, Ont.; to Premier King, opening as follows: Minister: "I notice with some interest that Sir Henry Thornton, President and General Manager of the Canadjj tional Railways, after a sojoul some weeks in the society of the. nent that has been described by the Father of Christendom in the terms have quoted above. "I remain, "Yours faithfully, "Michael Francis Fallon, "Bishop of London." THE PREMIER ANSWERS "Bishop Fallon's letter is rvice to a government with which 5 are in peaceful relations. "The Roman Catholic church ily church in Mexico that counts in the life of the country. The only Protestants there are a few foreigners. The Catholic church has been the great spiritual force of Mexico for three hundred years and if the trouble to-day is due to any spiritual force it is due to the Cath< lies themselves. Any quarrel they may be havir necessarily a quarrel between Roman Catholic government and the Roman Catholic people of Mexico. THORNTON IS SILENT. Montreal.--It was stated at Canadian National headquarters that Sir Henry Thornton did not feel it cumbent on him to make any reply to Bishop Fallon's letter regarding Mexico. He had gone there with the permission of the government and it was to the head of the government that the bishop's letter had been addr-- .closes The Tragedy in Brief THE KNOWN DEAD. Thirty-two children and ca-i attendant, Rose Anna Goudreault, who gave her life in an effort to save her charges. THE MISSING. Thirty-five children. THE RESCUED. At least 310 children, ranging in age from 3 to 16 years. THE SCENE. Hospice St. Charles, an orphanage and school conducted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Quebec City. THE CAUSE. Believed to be a furnace explosion. FEATURE OF THE TRAGEDY. Heroic rescue of more than 300 children by nuns, firemen and citizens Canadian Railways To Build Jamaica Hotel Halifax, N.S.--Word has been received here that the Canadian National Railways of Canada has decided to erect a $500,000 hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. This is in line with the policy of the company which controls the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, now operating freight and passenger ships from Halifax to Jamaica, and will be controlling the Canadian National Steamships Limited, the company that plans to have five modern de luxe lines between Halifax and Jamaica by this time next ^Oiie of the features of the Canada-West India trade and transportation treaty is the manner in which it strikes directly to the competition of American transportation companies operating in and out of British possessions in the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, and the Canadian National s entrance into the hotel business is but another indication that the Canadian people and government are waking up to their opportunities in those countries which being under their own flag should afford them, it is believed here, a tropical province for commercial purposes at least. Grange Master Urges Rigid Enforcement Concord, N. H.--Recommendations that a state and rural police force similar to that in Massachusetts and Maine be established in this State and the Grange insist upon a mora rigid enforcement of the prohibition laws;marked the address of James C. Farmer, state master of the New Hampshire Grange, at the opening session of the fifty-fourth annual meeting here. IT WILL BE A GRAND CHRISTMAS WHEN IT COMES! Seldom have the Christmas preparations throughout the world equaled those of this year. These little English, children have fallen in love with the "Mascot" toys In a big London department store. London Announces Rubber Merger ^ers and Government of Mexico, has returned alive to Canada. In this achievement Sir Henry has been much more fortunate than the thousands of innocent Mexicans who have been ruthlessly butchered by the gang of venal ruffians and treacherous assassins ^ho have displaced civilization by savagery, and have destroyed the last vestige of civil and religious liberty in the Republic of Mexico." He continues: "I write as a Canadian to publicly inquire why you have besmirched the honor of Canada and have subjected my native land to the most disgraceful, indecent and indefensible episode in its whole history. In asking this question I transgress no principle of truth or of courtesy." The Bishop then quoted Pope Pius XI on Mexico, to some length, partly as follows: NO HISTORICAL PRECEDENT my personal reply. (en for that purpose, as is evident from its tenor, and the fact that it appeared in the press before the letter itself was received. 'The government of Canada had no more to do with the acceptance by Sir Henry Thornton of the invitation he received from the government of Mexico, than the government of the United States had to do with the acceptance of Colonel Lindbergh of the invitation received by him from the | same government. Before accepting the invitation exbended to him, Sir Henry Thornton made known his de-to visit Mexico a; d his intention o doing, providing no obstacles w,sre put in his way -by the government. The government adopted towards Sir Henry, in the circumstances ourse it would have adopted toward the president of any other railroad in Canada. 'Insofar as there was any actuating motive in the attitude of our government in the relations of Canada and Mexico, it wa3 solely that of goodwill, something for which there is the highest authority, as regards both the actions of men and nations. I might people of confessors and add that thia appears to have been the " 'Nothing like this persecution has ever been known in history, not even in the first centuries of the Church. For then, even under Nero, Caligula and Domitian,'" c Reinhardt's, Three Concerns Amalgamcite With Capital of £4,500,000 London.---A rubber plantation amalgamation, with a capital of £4,500,- The idea originated with his wife, 000, announced here, involves trie Princess Hermine, who has'lbng been Amalgamated Rut»cr and Gon.:-id dissatisfied with the dullness of Dutch Estates, Limited, r.nd its subsidiary,! village life and the lack of enter-the Amalgamated Rubber Develop- J tainment there in the evening for in-ment Co., Ltd., which have agreed, vited guests who are becoming more subject to the companies' conflrmat >n„ numerous. Performances by com-with the United Serbang Sumatra : panies from the leading German the-Kubfoer Plantations, Ltd. Excepting j aters, especially M: one small est ate in Java, the wholei being arranged. properties concerned, 1O0 square miles j---- in extent, are In Sumatra. The Dutch I territory voluntarily observes the i British output restriction system j under what is known as the Steven-j son scheme. The merger is expected to reduce j the costs of production, thus enabling] it successfully to meet the increased competition which is anticipated when- ever unrestricted production is re- j sumed. It is described as the biggest rubber consolidation yet materialized and is expected to bo the forerunner of other sirnila • deals designed to re-; store prosperity to the plantations. j How Muci Per Pound? ' Modern seven-zoom apartmteut; also two large cooks.--Ad in a Pittsburgh paper. Dreams that come true never spring out of sleeping on the job, and usually are the result of being awake to one's opportuaitin. Ex-Kaiser William To Run Theatre Doom, Holland.--The former Kaiser is going into theatrical production, martyrs finds hardly a soul to respond I ^ The former German Emperor intends ; to their cry for aid to save them taK^^ onthaileUtSnsZ-being built within the grounds .t! ^-5^^ ^^..t'LT.^f I tween Mexico and the United States. Doom House, his residence. PEACE TRAINING FOR T. ATKINS Christmas "Crackling" with the squeal still in it. training center in Wiltshire men about to leave his ma being fitted for agricultural work. This particular Job is Canadians Wear Fewer Shoes Ottawa, Ont.--A decre .s pairs of boots and shoes i private theatre now ( utter ruin, and to save all civilized ^in^„£r°UndS Et nations, and indeed, the whole human. .Terh B^op F 1Jon should be race, from the infamy of a savage thanlce(3 for So tinf;ng the appearance persecution now being tolerated in thekf Ma letter a3 to permit the Mic m7as compared wlth the previous twentieth century the boasted era ofttffc. jud for itself of the mf>rits of | th aud a drop of 10G;138 pairs civilization and progress. Umewhat remarkable parallel in in- ft'oS October i926 Is suo~" ltt a re" "INSULTS AND OUTRAGES" ternational relations." | turn issued bv the Dominion Bureau "^'•S!l,S',,,C'^lI OTHER OPINIONS o£ Statisties °n' th<» production of protest with all the energy of which| boots and shoes in Canada. Of the I am capable against yoiTT Conduct in. R*V. Dr. Tucker, rector of the An- 177 factories in Canada, 173 made re-loaning paid public services of the glican cathedral, St Paul's, declared: turns. Their output totaled 1,711,244 people of this country to a Govern-1 "I cannot see how we can refuse such' pairs of footw Tug Frees Imprisoned Seamen from Ice-Coated Freighter PICTURE TAKEN JUST AS THE Above is a striking and exclusive photograph of the tug General, est photograph was taken by a Star reporter, from aboard the tug Strathbog The ice-coated pilot house of the Agawa is clearly visible at the right. eighter Agawa of Manitoulin Island, and the Agawa behind it. and on the Poland and Germany-Discuss Treaty Anew Warsaw.--It is supposed both in German and Polish circles that the trade negotiations between Germany and Poland promise better results than the former ones which were so abruptly interrupated. The chief of the Polish delegation was received at <-?«k by the German P^~^ ^ private con\Tr"*tion carried on expressing mutual goodwm 'di understanding. A certain obstacle is presented by the question of the importation of pigs, against which German agrarians protest. The President expressed the hope that the treaty would be signed at latest in the first quarter of the coming year. By that time tho advantages pertaining to German Upper Silesia from the regulation of economic relations between the two states will become evident. New Afghan Policy Tho present Afghan Government has departed far from the exclusive-ness that marked its predecessors - I generation or more ago and is seeking to cultivate friendly relations with all the world. This change in policy has led to the teaching of European languages, particularly of French and German, in the high schools of Kabul. Also, groups of young Afghans are being sytematically sent on tours of observation and study lo the countries Europe, including Great Bri.aiij nee, Itely, Germany and Russia. '