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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT.. THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1921. 3 SMUTS WINS VICTORY IN BITTER ELECTION FIGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA General Election Returns Give Gen. Smuts' South African Party (Loyalist) a Majority Over the Secessionists and All Others of 22 Clear Seats. A despatch from Capetown says: General Jan Christian Smuts, t Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, and his Coalition of the South African and Unionist parties have won 43 seats in the House Assembly in the bitter election fight against the Secessionists, who had only 12 seats to their credit. Labor had seast and the Independents one seat. Altogether there are 135 seats to be filled. The returns received to date were mainly from urban districts and it probably will be several days before the full report from the country is available. The followers of Gen. Smuts claim that he is certain of victory, since the bulk of his strength heretofore has been in the country districts. General Smuts has been returned for Pretoria West by a big majority. The feature of the results, so far as known, is the collapse of the Labor party. Apparently the Labor party will only have nine members in the new Assembly, against 21 in the last House. Col. Gresswell, Leader Administration has been defeated by a Nationalist in Potchefstrom. Sir Abe Bailey, well known in racing circles, retains Krugersdorp. Enormous majorities were given the South African party in Durban and Cape Town, while the L-.bor party suffered a severe reverse in the Rand district. In Cape Town the South African party gained two ■ seats, in Durban three, in the Ran.! j tight and in Vast Lor-lOr. one. The victory cf the party headed by j Prime Minister Smuts is attribute! to the fact that workingmen voted; against the secession issue raised by General HerUog, and did not pay; much attention to sectional issue* raised by Labor leaders. A later despatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, says:--Tho position of the parties in the South African general elections, now in progress in that country, at 9 o'clock on Thursday night 'Aeneral Smuts' South African ONTARIO PLOWMEN'S ANNUAL MEE TING Front row, left to right: Capt. G. B. Little, Second Vice-President, Agincourt; J. Loelde Wilson, Managing :ector, Toronto; D. D. Gray, President, Ottawa; A. B. Rose, First Vice-President, Brantford. Second row, left right: W. H. Patterson, Agincourt; A. E. Wilson, Port Hope; Frank Weir, Agincourt; James McLean, Rich-nd Hill. Third row, left to right: Wm. Doherty, Toronto; W. C. Barrie, Gait; F. P. Johnston, Toronto, Treas. WIRELESS SERVICE BETWEEN LONDON AND PEKING SOON ACCOMPLISHED FACT Chinese Government Establishing Great Radio Stations, Making a Stride Forward in the Opening Up of China and Affording Unlimited Scope for British Enterprise and Trade in the Far East. A despatch from London says: will soon be possible to send a v party T7777.',77.7..". "..777.....73" less message from London to Peking, Nationalists ....................89 owing to efforts being made by the Labor............................9 Chinese Government, according Laborites, was defeated in Treyville.' Democrat .......................1 Henry Barnes, the Shanghai cor The urban results have been very'Tied results ..........,...........2 pondent of The Daily Mail. igcouraging to the South African j This gives the Loyalists a majority There -3 a fine gpirit ^ enterprise e over the Secessionists and all others and a touch of romance in what is :. j of 22 clear seats. Eleven seats are ,being <jj0ne> A chain of wireless sta. tions is being established which will link Peking, the seat of the central New Opposition Party | Government, with Kashgar, 3,000 in British House miles away party, but the country retu: causing anxiety to the Gove The Minister of Justice in the Si still to be heard from. A despatch from London says:-- Lord Robert Cecil has accepted the j Chairmanship of the group of members of Parliamen tfavoring economy. ThL I of a new Opposition party, with Lord i Robert as the Leader, at the opening J of Parliament next week. The new party is expected to have ! about thirty members in the House. nerget; possible Lloyd George in the Prein »*rship. He is opposed to imposing harsh terms Dusting More Effective Than Spraying Trees A despatch from Boston says: --Dusting trees is better than spraying them as a preventative of pests, the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association was told by F. H. Dudley, State Hor-ticulturalist for Maine. Dusting has been proven by tests in Maine to be quicker and more effective than sprawing, he said. SOUTH OFFERS NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGES Mennonites Warned of Conditions Regarding Settlement in Southern States. A despatch from Herbert, Sask., says:--Should the Mennonites of 'Saskatchewan and Manitoba decide to settle in Mississippi and Alabama, according to plans which have been under way for some time, they need not look for any special territorial or religious privileges, according to the statement of H. A. Emerson of Yellow Pine, Alabama, who addressed a large audience at Herbert recently. Mr. Emerson, who has a controlling interest in more than half a mil-n acres of fertile agricultural lands Alabama and Mississippi, has been negotiating with the Mennonites for 8 time, with the end in view of establishing a colony of these people ' "le South. i far none of the old colony Mennonites nor any of the Sommerfelder Mennonites have actually settled in the South, although a tract of 125,000 5 has been selected for purchase, an option taken on 100,000 acres The communities affected in the proposed trek to the South are those at Government. One great high power' A crew can dust 300 trees in II^Sasl^'JSf^SSra^SS"' station has been clipped at Urga, | fifty-four minutes The material ^'fS^atSd^mllS' * the in the Province of Kansu, 800 miles used IS arsenate of lead, sulphur ! south district from Peking, and these two places! and tobacco dust. Cost will de- I At the close of the meeting no one are already in communication. Urga penc] on the proportions of the seemed particularly is also in touch with Shanghai and mixture, Hankow and messages -- The Provincial University. Turkestan, he says. Kashgar will then be within reach of the wireless stations in India and so with countries farther afield. The wireless chain may be said to follow the line of a great trade route1 madi u-jranization wllicn was ancient before the Romans witli T.nrH landed in Britain. For thousands of years this track has been a highway from the uplands of Central Asia into i China, and has been trodden by eount-j less races and tribes of men both in I peace and in war. ho has been looked upon for n The. «heme> which, * *?,dl>" pla"-nnssible successor to I ned' ,s bein^ camed 0Ut hy the ed from the long distance stations America. Another similar station is being tablished a thousand miles farther at Urumachi, and, all being well, it the L833 students who applied for will be in operation in about three ' admission to the University cf Toronto months' tim.e. Subsequently the ter-! in the session of 1919-20 are as fol-minal station of the series will be lows: Farmers, 351; retail merchants, erected at Kashgar. i 2IS; artisans, 144; finance, 124; Thus a stride forward is being the country without first giving careful consideration and counting the cost. The number of families affected in the new colonization scheme is ap-The occupations of the fathers 0f | Proximately five hundred. the opening up of Chii Modern methods of communication will assuredly be extended in other directions. It is permissible to hope that railways will be developed on a big scale in the near future, and therein lies unlimited scope for Brit ish enterprise and the advancement of British trade relations with 400,000,000 of inhabitants of Ch Mrs. Rogers, M.P.P., Seconded Reply to Speech A despatch from Winnipeg says:-~rs. Edith Rogers, the first v, Royal Winter Fair Ready Next Fa C. F. Bailey, General Manager of f Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, 'I ronto, who told the Swine Breede gathered at ToroMo that he expect the Institution to be ready by Decern-1 Legislature, seconded the reply ber next. Speech from the Throne in the Pro- .--.---.;.-- vincial House. E. A. August (Duff- The impulse to do our best,--ah, er in) moved the address in reply to here lies the secret of all living! j the Speech from the Throne. Weekly Market Report Toronto Manitoba wheat--No 1 Northern, $1.89%; No. 2 Northern, $1.86%; No. 3 Northern, $1.82%; No. 4 wheat, $1.74%. Manitoba oats--No. 2 CW, 48%c; No. 3 CW, 44%c; extra No. 1 feerJL.J he elected a member of the Manitoba 44%c; No. 1 feed, 42%e; No. 2 reetf!"-'1 " -38%c. BRITISH OIL INTERESTS BUY TITLE TO CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS Remarkable Political-Commercial Bargian Which Speculates on the Downfall of Bolshevik Power in Russia Within Ten Years. A despatch from Paris says:--The Considerable secrecy surrounds the Shell and Royal Dutch oil interests| deal. But it is learned it is of such are reported on good authority to have ■ magnitude that lawyers who handled concluded a rather remarkable pel - the deal here got mercial bargain which amounts to beiting that the Bolshev regime in Russia will fall within ti Under this arrangement, which, is understood, was consummated Paris, the British oil interests have bought from Russians who held ti to the property under the Czar's i gime the rights to oil from t Grosnyi district in the Caucasus. The basis of the agreement is a payment now of frcra five to ten per cent, the estimated value of the product: from those fields in return for wh British interests are assured the 1 elusive control of all production that district. There is a time limit of 10 ye: to the agreement--in other words, if at the end of 10 years the old are unable to regain their property the deal is off. Naturally, if the B >!<■ eheviks fall this year and are repine-ed by a regime which recognizes 11m old property rights, the British mt r-tsts may get the oil quickly. several million francs. The payments made by Shell and Royal Dutch are said to run into many millions of francs, gold. A number of Russians owning property in the Grosnyi fields are refu gees in Paris and are engaged direct !y in the negotiations, it is said. It is a common report in Russian colonies here that a number of Russians recntly have had much money to spend--men who didn't have much a short time ago. Negotiations are said to be under way by both British and French oil interests to make a similar arrangement for th* control of oil in the Baku district. This district is now under doubtful control, being held by Soviet organizations of Azerbaijan, whose subservience to Moscow appears at this time doubtful!. A pipeline from Baku to Batum on the Black Sea built by the Czarist Government, runs through Azerbaijan and Georgian territory. This is the richest oil district cf the Caucasus. --Out of pickle, lc less Manitoba barley--No. 3 CW, 83c; No. 4 CW, 69c; rejected, 68%c; feed; 58 %c. All above in store, Fort Willi Ontario wheat--F.o.b. shipping points, according to freights outside, No. 2 spring, $1.75 to $1.80; No. 2 winter, $1.85 to $1.90; No. 2 goose wheat, $1.70 to $1.80. American corn--Prompt shipment. No. 2 yellow, track, Toronto, 90c. Ontario oats--No. 3 white, 47 to 50e, according to freights outside. Barley--Malting, 80 to 85c, according to freights outside. Ontario flour--Winter, m jute bags^ prompt shipment, straight run bulk, seaboard, $8.50. Peas--No. 2, $1.50 to $1.60, outside. Manitoba flour--Track, Toronto: First patents, $10.70; second patents, $10.20. Buckwheat--No. 2, 90 Rye--No. 2, nominal; No. 3, $1.50 to $1.55. Millfeed--Carlots, delivered, Toronto freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $40, firm; shorts, per ton, $38; white middlings, $41; feed flour, $2,407 Eggs, new laid, cartons, 62 to 64c; new laid, 59 to 61c. Butter, creamery prints, 56 to 59c; fresh-made, 69 to 61c; takers', 38 to 45c. Oleomargarine, best grade, 29 to 32c. Cheese, nei large, 31 to 31%c; twins, 31% to 82 old, large, 32 to 33c. Maple Syrup, ore-gal. tins, $3.50 Honey, extracted--White clover, : 6O-S0-lb. tins, per lb., 23 to 24c; do, 10-Ib. tins, per lb., 24 to 25c; Ontario No. 1, white clover, in 2%-6-!'b. tins, per lb., 25 to 26c. Churning cream--Toronto ies are quoting for churning cream, 60c per lb. fat, f.oJb. shipping points, nominal. Smoked meats--Rolls, 80 to 33c; hams, med., 38 to 41c; heavy, 88 to 36c; cooked hams, 53 to 57c; backs, boneless, 55 to 60c- breakfast bacon, 42 to 50c; special, 50 to 56c; cottage rolls, 35 to 37c. Green meats than smoked. Barrelled Meats--Bean pork, $35; fhort cut or family back, boneless, $46 to $47; pickled rolls, $53 to $66; ess pork, 38 to 41c. Dry salted meats--Long clears, in .,.»». 23 to 25c; in eases, 23i4 to 25% c; clear bellies, 29% to 30'4c; fat backs, 22 to 24c. Lard--Tierces, 22% to 23 %c; tubs, 23 V* to 23%; pails, 23% to 24c; prints, 24% to 25c; shortening tierces, 14% to 15%c per lb. Choice heavy steers, $9 to $10; good heavy steers, $8.50 to $9; butchers' cattle, choice, $8.50 to $9.50; do, good, $7.50 to $8.50; do, med., $6 to $7; do, com., $4 to $6; butchers' bulls, choice, $7 to $8: do, good, $6 to $7; do, com., $4 to $5; butchers' cows, choice, $7.50 to $8.50; do, good, $6.25 to $7; do, com., $4 to $5; feeders, $7.75 to $8.75; do, 900 lbs., $7.25 to $8.25; do, 800 lbs., $5.75 to $6.75; do, com., $5 to $6; canners and cutters, $3 to $4.50; milkers, good to choice, $85 to $120; do, com. and med., $50 to $60; choice springers, $90 to $130; lambs, yearlings, $9 to $9.50; do, spring:, $10.50 to $11.50; calves, good to choice, $15 to $16; sheep, $6 to $7.50; hogs, fed and watfred, $15 to $15.25, do, weighed off cars, $15.25 to $15.50; do. f.o.b., $14 to $14.25; do, country points, $13.75 to $14. Montreal. Oats, No. 2 CW, 68c; No. 3 CW, c. Flour, Man. Spring- wheat patents, firsts, $10.70. Rolled oats, bag 90 tbe., $3.30. Bran, $40.25. Shorts, $38.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $26 to $27 Cheese, finest easterns, 27 to 27%c. Butter, choicest creamery, 56 to 57c. Eggs, fresh. 60 to 62c. Potatoes, per bag, car lot's, $1 to $1.10. Good veal, $13 to $15; med., $10 to $13; grass $6. Lambs, med. quality, $12; sheep, $6. Hogs, selects, off-car weights, $16.50; sows, $12.60. Tour of India Planned by Prince of Wales despatch from London says:-- The London Times says it understands that the Prince of Wales has planned a tour of India in October or November next. ' church, 116; wholesale merchants, 105; ; manufacturers, 106; medicine, 81; teaching, 62; railway employees, 56; Dominion officials, 41; law, 40; engineering, 36; municipal officials, 21; journalism, 17; pharmacy, 17; Provincial officials, 14; lumbermen, 13; dentistry, 10; soldiers, 8; art, 5; veterin-.ary, 4; library, 2; fishermen, 1; not specified, 240. The homes of the 4,777 students in attendance during the same session were distributed as follows: Algoma, 24; Brant, 90; Bruce, 96; Carleton, 108; Dnfferin", 26; Dundas, 24; Durham, 41; Elgin, 56; Essex, 68; Fron-tenac, 14; Glengarry, 9; Greiwille, 14; Grey, 93; Haldimand, 49; Haltori, 57: Hastings, 45; Huron, 125; Kenora, 8; Kent, 58; Lambton, 67; Lanark, 46; Leeds, 48; Lennox and! Addington, 22; Lincoln, 64; ManitouHn, 5; Middlesex, 121; Mnskoka, 14; Nipisuing, 23; Norfolk, 36; Northumberland, 39; Ontario, 112; Oxford, 79; Parry Sound, 12; Peel, 72; Perth, 185; Peterborough, 66; Prescott, 4; Prince Edward, 14; Renfrew, 27; Russell, 6; Sim< Stormont, 18; Sudbury, 10; Thunder Bay, 15; Temlskaming, 11; Victoria, 56; Waterloo, 81; Welland, 64; Wellington, 142; Wentworth, 169; York 182; Toronto, 1,828. Attention is drawn to the wide representation of all parts of the Province in this distribution of students, and to the fact that the homes from which they represent in a remarkable way almost every variety of occupation Province. These figures show how thoroughly democratic is the character of the student body. St. John's Uses Tank to 'Level Snow Drifts A despatch from St. John's, Nfld., says:--Newfoundland is fighting to beat back its worst snow siege in 30 years, with monumental drifts blocking its gates after a four-day blizzard. Railroad, steamer and highway transportation still was suspended on Wednesday night, although the storm had ceased. The first sally from this city against the besieging element was made by a whippet tank captured by Newfoundlanders in the war, which was put to work crunching down snowbanks on Water street, the city's main thor- Mrs. Ralph Smith, M.P.P. for Vancouver, has declined the post of Speak- is the first time in history that such an honor was ever offered to a woman. The wife of a Newcastle miner, Mrs. Smith came to Canada. twenty-eight years ago, and it was through helping her husband, who ultimately became Minister cf Labor, in his political work, that she acquired the knowledge and experience which led to her parliamentary election. Many stories are told of Mrs. Smith's tact and ability in controlling unruly meetings. On one occasion a man was heckling her. "Come up on the platform and have it cut," said Mrs. Smith. The heckler hesitated. "He's shy, Mary Ellen, he's shy," shouted a wag in the audience, adapting the words of a popular song. "Don't be shy of me, sonnie," retorted Mrs. Smith; "I'm everybody's pal." The crowd laughed heartily and the heckling ceased. Ulster to Have Old Mace and Chaii An official list of the heroes who fell in the Great War is being published to be completed in eighty volumes. Between June and December British towns adopted about fifty places in France which had suffered in the Great War. A despatch from Belfast. Ireland says:--Negotiations are in progress to obtain the old Irish House of Commons mace and Speaker's chair for the new Ulster Parliament. They are heirlooms of Lord Massereene at Antrim Castle. The offer of the use of Belfast City Hall as a temporary building for the new Parliament will be accepted. The Russian ruble, before the World War. was worth a little ovei fifty cents. Now it takes 5,000 rubles to buy a pound of salt pork. The mou-jik owning a hog that would dress at 200 pounds, is a ruble "millionaire." REGLAR FELLERS--By Gene Byrnes \ axr tut oocfb»'.