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Page Eight THE COLBORNE EXPRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th, 1921 DO YOU KNOW HIM ? Even the Byng Boys will hardly recognize their former leader in the above. It is, however, Lord Byng's very latest picture, specially posed for the Canadian National Exhibition, a few days before he sailed for Canada, for reproduction on a_ medal commemorating the opening of the 1921 Fair, over which he will preside on Aug. 27. Divested of his military attire the new Governor-General looks a very different person to the stern soldier Canadians knew through hi? wai' photos. UMBRELLAS RE-COVERED AND REPAIRED BROWN'S UMBRELLA 3 TORE 10 Campbell Street, Belleville When in Cobourg Call at the ALBION HOTEL Good Meals and Service EDWARD LISTER, Prop. Brunswick House Colborne UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT First-class Meals and Accomodation Give us a call when in Colborne J. F. WOLFRAIM, Proprietor E. QUINN Funeral Director SUCCESSOR TO BUSINESS OF LATE G. M. PEEBLES Day or Night Calls Promptly Attended MOTOR HEARSE Phone 65r2 .... Colborne C. L. CRYDERMAN Funeral Director Succesaqr late W. A. Gerow CASTLETON Prompt Moderate Troop & McArthur | FUNERAL DIRECTORS COLBORNE Telephone Motor Connection Equipment I ROOMS IN PHILP BLOCK Is Ironing Hard Work? If you have to stand over a hot stove, heating old-fashioned sad-irons, and walk backwards and forwards between the stove and your ironing board, it undoubtedly is. But, if you use a SOVEREIGN Electric Iron you can do your ironing on the back porch if necessary. The " Sovereign " Electric Iron is truly the housewife's friend. It has a cool handle, tapering nose, and is beautifully balanced. Telephone us, and we will deliver a "Sovereign" immediately. It sells for the remarkably low price of Sold in Colborne by G. M. PEEBLES ESTATE Colborne, Ontario SKPR-ES6 AOBS BRING RESULTS, TARIFF QUESTION ISSUE An Appeal to the Country Will Be Taken This Year. Challenge Thrown Out by Mackenzie King and the Farmers' Party Has Been Accepted -- Redistribution Abandoned -- New Census Returns Will Not Be Ready In Time. LONDON, Ont, Sept. 6. -- The challenge thrown out by William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Farmers' party has been accepted. Within the next three months the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen will ask for the dissolution of Parliament and appeal to the country. He made the announcement to a gathering of two thousand people in the Grand Theatre here on Thursday night. "It is in my judgment the duty of Parliament and my duty as Prime Minister of this country to asR " the dissolution of Parliament at early date and an election before the new year, and that is the cour I am going to pursue." Mr. Meigh< declared at the close of a matter of fact explanation of the considerations that had led to that decision. Mr. Meighen admitted that he would have preferred to bring down a redistribution bill before appealing to the people. It had always been his intention, though he had n< pledged himself ■ to redistribution, but he had cosie to the conclusion that it could not be done without prolonging indefinitely the uncertainty and the lack of confidence that were retarding the commercial a industrial recovery of the country. Inquiry had revealed the fact that the census returns upon which redistribution would have to be based would not be available before December, but even if they could be ready in November and a special session of Parliament held, lt would still be necessary to commit the country to a long winter campaign. "A winter campaign through December, January and February is something unthinkable," he commented. In making his announcement the Prime Minister placed before the people the issue upon which the election would be fought. The cleavage between the advocates of a policy of moderate protection and the free traders of the Farmer Party and the Liberals, with their "muffled drums" of free trade, was set forth as the issue in the campaign. Mr. Meighen stated his own position and left it to his opponents to explain theirs. The national Liberal and Conservative party was going into the contest to fight for a policy of protection. In that policy there was no room for dependence upon the good will of other nations. He spoke of the dangers of the policy advocated by the free traders, pointing his argument with the evidence of events. Those who were wont to speak of free trade in food products as "A new heaven and a new earth" had learned of late. Reciprocal trade in grain had been arranged. It had been interrupted during the war, but it went into operation last fall. It had been in operation only a few months when the United States fastened a duty of 35 per cent, on it. Potatoes were admitted free into the United States but scarcely had a trade been built up when the Fordney Bill put on a 25 per cent. duty. Arrangement had been made for mutual exchange of fishing products, but six weeks ago, without notice or negotiation, the Americans had changed their minds, and now Canadian fishermen must look for markets elsewhere. "These are not new experiences," he said. "These are repetitions of lessons we have been taught for sixty years; lessons written for our in-ction ever since we set up in the business of being a nation alongside great republic." "I speak these words, not in a spirit of hostility--they have a right do what they have done if they conceive it in their interests -- but I speak in the words of a Canadian, with all the aspirations and feelings , Canadian, sharing with my countrymen the spirit which animated the founders of this Dominion, a determination that no obstacle, no fickleness, no discourage-t will turn us from the endeavor in which we have persevered so long. "Surely, if there is one thing we have learned in all these years from the '60's' to the '20's', it is that situated as we are, the young beside the old, the small beside the big, the scattered beside the compact, the Canadian beside the American, we t guard jealously always the industrial structure and the integrity lis country, and we can do it in and in one way alone, by a tariff system, a tariff system made by Canadians for Canadians in the pres-of facts and the knowledge that it must not rest on the insecure foundation of arrangements with the United States." r. Meighen scored those who : been seeking to stir up class feeling by making the farming corn-unity believe that their interests ere different to those of other classes. They were sowing tS« seeds nhappiness and discontent when there was no cause. He maintained that the farmers were being led ay by a false doctrine of Free Trade and ventured the prophecy the time would come when in Canada, as in Great Britain and the United States, the farming commun-svould be found staunchly supporting protection. Moors Launch Attack. LONDON, Sept. 6.--An attack by Moorish tribesmen was launched' against the Spanish forces in the regien of the Spanish post of Ciel-ilco late Saturday in which the ipaniards lost one colonel, two cap-ains, two lieutenants, one doctor, nd about 50 men, according to a despatch from Tangier to the London Times. ........ IRISH ARE STUBBORN. British Cabinet Will Consider Sinn Fein Reply. LONDON, Sept. 6. -- De Valera's reply to the Lloyd George note of August 26 is an "irrevocable rejection" of the terms handed the Irish president at the close of the London parley. The reply was handed out at Down Street Sunday. De Valera renewed his expression of willingness to continue negotiations, which both as to general peace terms and details, shall be conducted on the guiding principle of government by consent of the governed. It is absolutely.impossible at this stage to say whether the British Government will renew the parleys, or send an ultimatum to de Valera, bidding him to accept the existing proposals or prepare for a renewal of warfare. Ministers are now hastening north for a Cabinet meeting, summoned especially at Inverness. Gen. Macready was at Gairloch discussing the situation with the Premier, who had summoned him urgently from Dublin on Friday. Among the hopeful signs discern-able in London is de Valera's comparison of the Dominion offered by Lloyd George and that actually enjoyed by other members of the British commonwealth. This is interpreted here as meaning that a real Dominion status might be accepted by the Dail Eireann, provided England prepared to relinquish naval, air and economic control of the country. It is a singular fact that up to the time of the publication of de Valera's letter, opinion in Dublin was more optimistic than that in London. This is apparently based on an Idea that Lloyd George will amend his peace offer rather than embark on further warfare. That view is not entertained, however, in any quarter of Britain. Even the staunchest English friends of Ireland are convinced that allegiance to the British crown, the special status of the Ulster counties and the retention of definite ties between Ireland and England will remain the deadlock basis of the Westminster's Cabinet terms, whether amended or not. NIGHT TRAGEDY ON LAKE. Schooner Went Down With All But Two of the Crew. - ST. CATHARINES, Ont., Sept. 5. --The steamer Key West, which went up the Welland Canal Saturday, reported when she reached Port Dalhousie, her first stop after leaving Lake Ontario, that on Thursday night she had collided with and sunk the schooner Oliver Mowat at Duck Island, down the lake. All but two men on board the Oliver Mowat had been lost, the Key West captain reported. He had picked up the two men in the water, their names being George Keegan and John Menaker. There were either five or seven on the lost boat. The two men were taken on with the Key West, up the canal, and could not be interviewed, nor could the Key West captain, as the boat had left Port Dalhousie before the fact of the loss of the Oliver Mowat was known here. According to the brief story of the wreck, told by the captain of the Key W«st at Port Dalhousie, the Oliver Mowat apparently had not been carrying lights and was not seen by the Key West until she was right on her. It was thought there was plenty of time for the Oliver Mowat's crew to get off, as they were all standing ready, but the boat suddenly gave a lurch and sank in a few seconds. The Key West lowered boats and cruised about trying to find the other men, but only rescued Keegan and Menaker. The Oliver Mowat is owned by Hepburn, of Picton, and the Key West by the Keystone Transportation Co., of Montreal. The Oliver Mowat was an old boat, having been built at Milhaven in 1873. She was igistered at Kingston and was a vessel of 341 tons. THRONE IS ROCKING. Revolution in Spain May FoUow Reverses In Morocco. PARIS, Sept. 6.--Moorish forces have entered the suburbs of Melilla. After four days of continuous fighting Spanish troops have been thrown back and suffered severe defeats at several points on the battle front. An official telegraphic despatch ceived here Sunday from Madrid reports casualties to have be»n heavy on both sides in the heavy fighting the past few days. The Spanish forces are declared to have lost approximately 2,000 in dead and wounded. The number of Moorish casualties are as yet unknown, the despatch states. Fears for the safety of the Spanish throne should the Moors finally capture Melilla are expressed by high officials in monarchial circles. Strong measures are being taken by the Spanish forces to repress a 'ous revolutionary movement-un-way in many of the larger cities. This rebel movement has been especially notable in Barcelona, Tarragon and Valencia. The strictest censorship has been mposed on all newspaper corre-ipondents in Spain. As rail and wire communications have been cut at eighteen points in the kingdom, it proven almost impossible to obtain definite information on the situation in the battle areas. In diplomatic circles here officials 'xpresssd doubt that the Government vill be able to cope with the situa-ion owing to the fact that lt has ecently been necessary to send large numbers of troops into Morocco. AUTO BANDITS ESCAPE Sawed Through Window Bars and Got Away. Murrell Brothers, Whose Bandit Career Ended In Slaying of Russell Campbell, of Melbourne, Ont., Escaped, Leaving No Trace of Direction They Have Gone-- Are Dangerous Desperadoes. LONDON, Ont., Sept. 6.--William and Sydney Murrell, two of the quartette of auto bandits whose depredations ended in the slaying of Russell Campbell, a garageman, when they attempted a bold daylight robbery of the Home Bank at Melbourne last April, escaped from the county jail Friday night. They are at liberty, with no trace of the direction they have taken, leaving behind them the route of their escape as marked by sawn cell bars, a six-inch hacksaw with muffled guard, and a bricklayer's ladder with which they scaled the wall to freedom. Three weeks hence, on Monday, September 25, the Murrells, with "Slim" Williams, who remains a prisoner, were to have faced Justice Logie and a jury on a oharge of murder. The escape was a surprise so complete to the authorities that the prisoners were probably gone a hour before their cell was found empty. Turnkeys Ellison, Hodgins, McLeod and Blake, who were on duty during the afternoon, charged guard the alleged murderers with the utmost vigilance, claim to have seen both men several times in their cells. When taken from the outer corridor and locTced in the inner night cell each evening at eight o'clock, three turnkeys usually stood guard, one at the door, armed with a re- On Friday, Turnkeys McLeod and Hodgins and a special guard, Arthur Corsaut. proceeded to the cells for the usual routine. McLeod entered first and called, "Come on, boys," but the prisoners, whom he believed to be there, made no response. He stepped then into the night cell and saw the aperture through which the men had fled. 11 was then a few minutes after eight o'clock. Blake claimed that he had seen both prisoners at 6.15. Nothing is known of their activities in the interval. The night cell was housed In a one-story lean-to in the southeast exercise yard. The narrow window in a brick wall 20 inches thick waa barred about two inches from the exterior surface by an iron grill composed of three upright and three horizontal bars spaced about four Tffltleo apart. The centre perpendicular bar was sawed off top and bottom and the three horizontals were sut at each end to make an opening about 18 inches high and nine inches wide. The sill of the window was but five feet from the ground. A brick wall is being built by Wilson & Co., contracts, inside the exercise yard, to make a storage space for equipment for the county of Middlesex Works Department, and gangs of men have been at work there every day. A bricklayer's ladder stood against the Jail wall, reach-pig to within four feet of its top, embedded with broken bottles and other supposed obstacles to escape. fke yard was in darkness and unguarded. The prisoners, since the time of their arrest, have practiced physical exercises each day, and both, according to jail officials, are good athletes, capable of performing astounding feats of strength and agility. From the top of the wall they appear to have jumped down to a small shed and thence to the ground and liberty, within half a block of King street. Whether accomplices awaited them in a motor car is nothing more substantial than a suspicion, but it is not doubted by the police that tho escape was carefully planned and coolly executed. Doubtless already armed, both expert automobile drivers, they are probably on their way, and he who attempts to block their path must reckon on an encounter with a pair of crack-shot gunmen, who at Melbourne are alleged to have shown that they will not shrink from shooting to kill. , The crime was one of the most sensational ever perpetrated in western Ontario, and its enactment In Melbourne village was the climax of a series of crimes that alarmed the whole district. On the day of the crime the bandit gang stole a touring car at Lambeth and drove to the village in the early morning. They built a bonfire and eat a meal in the fields, and at 11 o'clock drove into the village and halted at the Home Bank. As they rushed in with drawn pistols, a lady clerk emerging grasped the situation and ran with a warning to the bank across the road. Manager The,aker responded, gun in hand, while the village telephone operator spread the alarm throughout the munity. Meanwhile a second lady clerk in the bank slammed the door of the vaults and turned the combination. "Slim" Williams scooped up packages, of bills from the teller's till, while the others beat Manager McCandless almost into unconsciousness because he refused to open the vault. Russell Campbell and his two brothers, village garage keepers, were among the first on the scene, and as they rushed for a side door of the bank, Sydney Murrell, according to the witnesses, started out to make a break to escape. Russell Pain is an Indication of interference with the normal functions pf the body. It is a sign of trouble, and if allowed to continue, causes itself still further disorders- Common Sense and humanity agree that relief from pain should be the first step in the treatment I of any disease which is present. Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatic, Backache, Sciatic and Ovarian Pains, ONE or TWO Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills and the pain is gone. Guaranteed Safe and Sure. 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