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oung Voters HAS 00K NE W g Anthur Kkent $# ted "Invasion‘" or a glaw missâ€" ‘sters we serve _wo can‘t stop ‘b other in the amilies ERROR AnY In Â¥ D rake this £ the winâ€" rce. _ Wong residing in rney, Reed very pretty the case is ot so handâ€" except that Hongkong, 1; and he, re deserted Francieco‘s tary, 1926. aume up in : According 00 coples of 1 come iInto °y come in tiso United y. _ United ipt in very y money in try. They rough their r advertiseâ€" in the Fort om): The esapective of vly so often nclple. The man is not by the way though biy lously taflu« 7 his grandâ€" ) the thinkâ€" generaclon boing published Vlal Press. This T‘mes states ‘ogans and t old $tqâ€" cal to the by Joan val product of 1 a Canadiat _ l.«‘! is placâ€" two familieg Urban labor hing to gain nization and policy, tm Bugnet ‘ prosperity Y new counâ€" ind develop by permanâ€" tes the de sthens land t may be telq" the job. "Foct ‘anadian o adverâ€" ind opin!ons, . of the men War as well the c orette politics n thig colump has taken the is noy ..o.,,. He is twenty. it "a:filn' of i published it years, is ruglug out ed. â€" rather ‘graphy of irely to the it R. Tratâ€" 3 the Jook *‘o present i2 populag the &n Co..ni by Alerh‘ 1® .m’" "quered the * novel, and 0 for New * Canadian arned hig Bbome ang ¢l "White consorious, buy it, ang unette ‘ _ shortly Michael‘s ried â€"dur. Foch‘s Native colump the the Variled indeed these craft were in type, but their crows were animated by one heart and one spirit. As time went on, this collection of ships was welded into a great disciplined service of 4,000 ressels wit hits operations exâ€" tending as far north as the White Sea, to the Mediterranean and Aegean in the south, and westward to the Wost Indies The Auxifiary Patrol was in ts A:ys of complete Thoir hazardus duties were as varâ€" ted &s their types. In their long hours of patrol they watched for and hunted German submarines; they searched for and dragged mines; they fought hostlle afrcraft; they controllâ€" ed and examined milllons of tons of shipping navigating the Narrow Seas; and in many other ways splendidly seconded the efforts of the Grand Here was indeod a mediey of smail vesselsâ€"trawlers fresh from our fishâ€" ing grounds, drifters, whalers, paddleâ€" steamers so familiar to Channel orâ€" cursionists, steam yachts so well known in the Solent, motorâ€"launches and motorâ€"boats. ‘ to the credit of the British nation. It was born, as need hardly be recallâ€" er, out of thosb new conditions of subâ€" marine attack and indiscriminate mine raids to which I have referred, and it gradually evolved into a vast aupplementary fleet. J i LeuL ic 5 oo the activities of the Auxiliary Patrol. I imagine the Auxillary Patrol was one of the most striking, as it cerâ€" tainly was one of the most successful, of the many pleces of warâ€" time {mâ€" provisation which history will place One highly characteristic phase of the work of our Merchant Navy, desâ€" eribed in this volume, is that covering quent hazard of doath, undaunted in sapirit to the bitter end. Let us not forget, also, that had it been otherâ€" wige this country of ours must have With the intensification of the enomy‘s campaign, the British satior, & nonâ€"combatant following an ordinâ€" arily peaceful avocation, saw himselt directly involved in the whole frightâ€" ful mechanism of war, whose grim operation, as I have said, reached its climar in the phase of unrestricted submarine attack recorded in detail in this third volume of the history. Lot us who are landâ€"dwollers not mince wotds over this thing. It is the glory of our Merchant Navy, and will be so acclaimed by generations to come, that they faced without hositaâ€" tlon the tremendous odds and the freâ€" use of the mine, the wholo position for the merchant seaman was changâ€" ed. He found himselt faced by hazâ€" ards and perils such as he had never before experienced, or indeed had ever conceived as possible. This phase, however, was shortâ€"livâ€" ed. _ With the arrival on the scene of the nqunrlno and the indiscriminate Hostilities were conducted in har mony with the principles laid down by international law. and, though | many valuable ships were sunk, the? toll was no greater than might haves been expected, and not a single life| of the captured crews was sacrificed. The British seaman recognized that nothing more was being asked of him than to accept the usual Razards of a naval conflict. It was a phase of the war, in short, in which the dictates of humanity were strictly regarded, and every reasonable consideration was shown to the passengers and crews of the vessels unlucky enough to be takâ€" en. 12 N : EllL1iig tons The present volume raises the curâ€" C Br1 tain on what I take to have been the There is much to be commended alimax of / that vyast _ dramaâ€"the in the plans of the Oversdas League Alo 6 blunge into unrestricted subâ€" for the settlement of one thousand mnrine Warfare on our merchant shipâ€" young Britans throughout the Canaâ€" ping, _ Thus was provided the final dhn West this year. They are not test of a heroism and endurance unâ€" to be dumped into this country and paralleded in history, and how magniâ€" left to seek their own devices, but ficently our seamen responded to the from first to last will be kept in close test is to be found chronicled in thes and sympathetic touch with League pages. To view that record in its officials, through the medium of Tanks O bhactive it is well to recall migration stations which the travelâ€" those days at the yery outbreak ot ling secretary of the League has come war which already seem to some of us to Canada to establish during the to be almost lost in the mists of time. I next six months. _ The cost of their The participation of our seamen in transportation and settlement will be the struggle began with the operatlons’ defrayed out of a fund subscribed by oo o00 Cerman raiders. ‘There "sj the merchants of London for the purâ€" nothing surprising or unprecedented pose in the destruction achiever by the Em-’ The principal shortcoming in the don and other.German cruisers and' past in Canada‘s treatment of immiâ€" armed merchantmen in Eastern waters]‘"ms is that they have bedn loff and elsewhere. It has been my fortun; a worldâ€"wide traveller, an countered the British line not only on every sea bu port i nboth remispheres of the Red Ensign has, it days, given me a thrill of clal kind, for that famil bunting can never fail t wonderful record of our m men throughout the strug and aâ€"half years . Bry THE PRINCB oF wWaLE3 The Prince of Wales as Master of the Merchant Nary and Fishing Fleets, contributes a foreword to Sir Archibald Hurd‘s latest volume on "The British Merchant Navy," As Master of the Merchant Nary and Fishing Fleets, I welcome the opportunity offered me by Sir Archtâ€" bald Hurd of contributing a few ln-i troductory remarks to the volumo‘ which completes the historyâ€"based on official documentsâ€"of the magniâ€" fcont part played by British Merâ€" chantmen in the Great Waâ€" Notable Trib:te- To Heroiam’ And Endurance of "Our , | Magnifient Seamen" Glorious Tale _ Of Merchant the Great War _ _ _ | The relations of the two great Serâ€" the Great War, 'vlces have altered since those days, 1 my fortunate lot to be | but the Great War has served to prove traveller, and I have enâ€"| once more that the Merchant Navy : British liner and tramp‘ is as essentlal toâ€"day as ever it was enc Lil is manl #| to the operations of the Royal Navy remispheres. The sight and the safeguarding of the lifte of nsign has, in these late? | ns British Commonweaith of Nations,. e a thrill of a very sD€â€"| _Edward P., Master of the Merchant ° that familiar piece of Navy and Fishing Fieets. never fail to recall the ord of our merchant seaâ€"} m~ketsoei s . ut the struggle of four‘ anaams _ s the Great War, , _ my fortunate lot to be | traveller, and I have en-l British liner and tramp very sea but in many l, l me by Sir Archtâ€" ributing a few inâ€" s to the volume the historyâ€"based London Daily Chronicle (Lib.): They (the Indian Nationalists) cannot at one and the same time put themâ€" selves on the side of disorder and work effectively for constitutional liberty. "l‘bo outrage at Delhi should at least serve to show them the direction in which their intransigence is leading them. Constitutional capacity can only be proved by those who will fall in with the spirit of constitutionalism. The. British Parliament would be wrong to shake off its responsibility for India till those who aspire to repâ€" resent her show they can safely shoulâ€" der the burden. These young Britons will in due course form part of the backbone of our West. They will be among the future citizens and administrators of the West ,and they will play their part in shaping its destinies and those of the Dominion as a whole. It is in the highest degree necessary that they should be given as encouraging a start as possible, that they should be made to feel they are welcome from the moment of their landing among us, and that their path, which must of: necessity be more or less rough at first, should be smoothed as far as is possible consistent with Canadian ideals. ‘The Overseas League holds this idea before it, and plans to pursue it steadily.â€"Montreal Star. _ The principal shortcoming in the past in Canada‘s treatment of immi{â€" grants is that they have been left largely to their own devices after their arrival here, and have been severely handicapped in consequence in their efforts to establish themselves in their new homes. While there has been considerable improvement in this connection of recent years, muchl still remains to be done, and the acâ€" tion of the Overseas League will be a real help, for it is action in the right direction and along the neces sary lines. s This picture of a rescue at soa ie m o o y NtE | tion of centuries. | On Tower Hill a fitting and fmpresâ€" sive memorial, bearing the names of. the officers and men of the Merchant NaÂ¥y aud Fishing Fleoots who have no grave but the sea, and who died that ; this country might live, was unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen on Decem ber 12. It has been erected by the Governments of all the peoples of the whole Empire as a tribute, to last for ! all time, to these mens heroic services. MBb clivnptiast Araistc esns d Bcia d d in c It has been said that twoâ€"thirds of the Elizabethan fleet which met so triumphantly the shock of the Spanish Armada were merchant vessels, and that the proportions of force with which Drake "singed the King of Spain‘s beard" was much the same. men. . The fAigures representative of the full war effort of the merchant service as a wholo would make stagâ€" gering totals. Therein it was cartyâ€" ing on and evon bettaring the tradtâ€" manned by nearly 50,000 officers and Bombs in India COASTâ€"GUARD CcUuTTER EFFECTS RESCUE AT sEA was taken as the coastâ€"guard cutter Moja ve passed a towâ€"line to : day strain, _ _ 5 i When this association of druggists ' The fuel tanks will have a maxi.| Was found to be a combing in reâ€" mum capacity of 1900 galions, but| straint of trade, following an injury only about halft that amount, the | bY the Federal Government they filed newspapoers say, will bo taken aboard ; & complaint and the matter was reforâ€" at New York to provent overtulnz, red,to the Supreme Court, ‘The effect of the engines at %o start. More fuel 0f the judgment is to uphold the act will be taken on while passing over| and any procedure of injuiry or subâ€" Boston, and the supply will again be| Sequent prosecution which it sets up, r.p!.nl.h“ over Nova Scoth' under in mmb’““ofl between the Domlnlon the plan, while a third refuelling | and provincial authoritles, plane is to meet the nonstop fllers feccomatatifec iz near Glasgow after completion of the| An old saw is best if not too cutâ€" transatlantio leg of the flight. ting but never dulâ€"Christlan Sclenca of which 10 will be used only in case of emergency, the Post says, and two of the fivree engines are to be held in reserve, They will bo sufficlent to bring the ship through, the aviators belteve, if all three of the other enâ€" Twentyâ€"two stations are to be esâ€" tablished _{loug the 13,500â€"mile route, | The names of only three ‘of the aviators aro givenâ€"Lieut. Albert D. Hulse, former army and air mail pilot; Capt. Harry w Lyon Jr., naviâ€" gator on the transpacific flight of the Southern Cross, and Lieut. L. T. O‘Connell, radio officer at Lakeburst. The commander, the newspaper said, will be a World War aviator with more than 5000 fiying hours to his credit. 1 The make of the plane in which they intend to attempt the most amâ€" bitious flight ever undertaken was not learned, but it was described as beâ€" ing constructed partly of metal and partly of linen fabric, powered with five 420 horsepower Pratt and Whitâ€" ney engines, equipped to take on fuel in flight, and capable of a maximum speed of 150 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 120 miles. From Glugo;. tho’r;;t;"outllnod Washingtorn â€" Sit internationally known aviators are preparing to beâ€" gin a monstop flight around the world from New Pork on the first ctear day in September, according to the Wash: ington Post, Washington Post Prints Deâ€" tails of Proposed Featâ€" . Fiveâ€"Motored Plane to Hop Off from New York _ in September, Acâ€" cording to Plans World Flight NONE HURT IN sPECTACULAR TRAIN WRECK Loosening effect of the recent heavy rains is belloved to have ca Lehigh Valley New Yorkâ€"Buffalo express, The only casu alties were the train crew. ® L break up under the five or sitâ€" Billed for Fall A Story of the Sea Told By Camera 3254 eace ting but never dul.@hfiu(l;;l H;le;‘;o Monitor. Ottawaâ€"The Combines Investigaâ€" tion Act of 1923 dealing with conâ€" spiracies in the restraint of trade, and challenged in 1927 by the Proâ€" prietary Articles Trade Association as ‘ultra vires, has been declared valid by the Supreme Court of Canada. 5 ‘ A Strange Wreck With No IIl Results "Dear Radio Man: Thanks for the tipâ€"off. You‘re a swell announcer. I‘m now signing ‘off." The squad of Lieutenant Walter Storms heard the call and sped toward the address given. They entered the apartment and found the robber gone. In a corner a radio was going full blast. Tucked under the lid was this“ note: Canadian Combines _ Act Found to be Valid Te . 5 c clle ied ol SE t se PeRne A moment later listeners on the WGN programs heard this: "Detective squads, attention. There‘s a burglar on the third floor at 5787 Prairie Ave." floor apartment at 5737 Prairie Ave., telephoned police. _ Police notified radio station WGN, so that word might be flashed to touring squad cars equipped with receiving sets, A woman, recently obser burglar leisurely looting the floor apartment at £797 P..i.: Chicago.â€"Radio is ; gre;t invenâ€" tion, the burglar said. Radio Police Call Gives Chicago Burglar Tipâ€"Off The cost of the flight is placed at appreximately $385,000, and the backâ€" ers of the plan are said to have underâ€" written it to the extent of $500,000. lies over Siberia, thence to Nome, Alaska, south of the United States and along a northern route back to New York. Engine trouble is not exâ€" pected until Nome is reached, if it is to be encountered at all. ACULAR TRAIN WRECK CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS ins is believed to have caused a dirt slide which recently wrecked the The onl, casu alties were slight bruises received by two members of 10f your ho â€"line to steamship West Hike disabled and unable to proce®d Daughter: * recently observing thirdâ€" It is well to know that right is al ways moving toward victory, are bought by wealthy people who use them for servrants. That practice forms one more problem for the new government, ‘ F. J. Griffith of the Church of England recently statedâ€"at Peking that 17,000 women and girls of the new province of Sulyan had been sold into slavery because of the famine and that thoy‘ brought $100,000 in gold. They were taken into Inner Shanst. ‘The women One evil practice, still Wa';;pia‘re“nt. is the selling of women into slavery durâ€" ms_ the times of distress,. ‘The Rev. The new government in its ignorâ€" ance has tried to tell the women how to wear their hair and how to make their dresses, but it has already learnâ€" ed that such efforts are useless. ‘ One of the real powers in the preâ€" sent Nanking government is the wife of the president, Mrs. Chiang Kaiâ€" shek who has been accused of aiming at a throne. Another woman, Mrs. Soule Cheng, represents the Nankin government in France. Several of the women now prominent in political life are graduates of American and European schools. > Not only has the drowning of girl babies stopped, but the old barbarous habit of binding the feet of women to keep them small is rapidiy becomâ€" ing a thing of the past, It is forbidâ€" den by the new republican governâ€" ment, 1 One of the best things about the new regime in China, wlllch mean largely the shaking off of the shackles of the past, is the improvement in the condition of theâ€" women. They are coming into their own. They were active in the revolutionary moveâ€" ments angd there is a widespread and growing demand for women‘s rights. . ‘Shackles of Past , Are Thrown Away Although the days are past when Chinese parents threw their girl babies into <the river, says "The Pathfinder," they are still very ‘anxiâ€" ous that their babies should be ‘boys and not girls, Revolutionary Movements i Recent Years Find Sex Clamoring for Its Rights Old Fashloned Youth?® "Eunice, worthy as I am, I have resolved to sue "The excavations which have been going on for seven years have dealt almost exclusively with the central part of the city, which was the rellâ€" gious quarters dedicated to the Moon God, Nannar. ‘The perlod of the city‘s greatest . political importance was about 2300 B.C. when it was the caplâ€" tal of the empire. "The tombs of private people and of kings of that date have yielded most astounding rolics in gold, sllver, copper, stone and mosaic work bearâ€" ing witness to culture older than the First Dynasty of Egypt, and equal to almost anything that the ancient world produced. Its art was of a remarkably high quality; its archi tects were familiar with al‘ the basio principles of construction known toâ€" day, _ Writing had already boeen inâ€" vented; society was well organized and international trade extended over half the continent." C | _ _"The rise of this civilization was interrupted at a period we cannot yet date by a great disaster, which has left its record in the story of the flood. Of this disaster we found last winter material proof enabling us not only to confirm ancient Sumerian re cords, but to state that the Biblica! story of the deluge is based ultlmateâ€" ly upon historical fact. _ "It 1s not only a picture surprising in itself but it is an addition to the science of history which completely revolutionizes our fdeas and obliges us to look for the roots of our civiltâ€" zation toâ€"day in a field hitherto unâ€" suspected. ( archaeo108y," declared C, Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist, speakâ€" ing at the second session of the Bowâ€" Sciences recentiy. Sciences on April 30. Archaeology Brunswick, Me.â€"*"The excavations at the city of Ur during the past seven years by the point expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, of which I am the leader, bave changedâ€"the outiook and clvon{ an elflu‘l‘y_ new aspect to history and Amal a l mol ol 8 Leader of British Museurg Exâ€" pedition Declares Discovâ€" eries There Confirm Story of the Deluge, and Alter Whole Aspect of Ancient Ur "There is a new spirit of coâ€"operaâ€" tion, a new desire of employers to get together and study jointly the difâ€" ficulties besetting our trade," Sir Wil. liam said. \ Various plans of the Government for reducing unemployment were w.-‘ gested by the high cominissioner, inâ€" cluding that of emigration to the overseas Dominions. "There is no question," he said, "of trying to place men in Canada who: have not first beep approved befom' the Canadian authorities as thoroughâ€" ly suitable and of a type likely to make good. ‘The training which the men undergo, is an additional and | very important safeguard. It not only gives a man some knowledge of his job and some acquaintance with Canadian methods and Canadian farm implements, but it also serves to try him out thoroughly and to test wheâ€" ther he is likely to make a success on the land." the C O memnenermeretaee ns the fuller reorganization of our older industries must all take time," said the speaker, "Our financial position is strong enough to enable us to carry on during this intermediate period but that does not help those who want employment, and I am sure that all of you in Canâ€" ada will desire to give a helping hand to those who come here." M INSURANCE qQUESTION Sir William suggested that unemâ€" ployment insurance was organized in recognition of the well known econâ€" omic fact that there must always be some measure of unemployment in great industrial countries, especially in trades affected by the seasons of Mha 2e uike High _ Commissi ioner _ Asks Welcoming Hand for New Immigrants Vancouver.â€"Causes underlying unâ€" employment in the old country were described by Sir William Clark, high commissioner for Great Britain to Canada, in a statement that gave a comprehensive survey of the situation from preâ€"war days to the present, The obvious momentary relief, emiâ€" gration, was referred to by Sir Wilâ€" liam when he bespoke a welcomin‘] hand to those men and women of Briâ€" tish race who came to Canada to make ; a fresh start. "While we look forâ€"| ward confidently to the eventual resâ€", toration of our trade, we must recog-‘ nize that the necessary readjustments, M t URA CC ... y ol vey of Situation in escribes Causes Slave Marxcets Of Unemployment‘ Found Active QUESTION OF TIME All right, go absad and Proves Flood ONTARIO ARCHIVEs TORONTO time in Heaven, Since an eterpal yoko Of flowered hours would make a hell of Heaven For Northern folk! â€"â€"J. H. Mitehel! in The Chatelaine, nore must me more than 8 urmnz@i days in Heaven Than April days or Fallâ€" For Heaven would not seem â€" liks Heav‘n if winter IfM :'nt eoao at all, on a as blue as God‘s own laughter No feathery trees could sift Their lovelierâ€"thanâ€"emerald snow f iago To purpleâ€"shadowed drift. There _must be more than summer port lights, of course." There must For the Lights, of Course Buddeniy Rich Yacht Owner â€"Be sure you have a plentiful supply of green and red oil on board, captain." Captainâ€""Whyâ€"erâ€"What for, sirf* 8. R. Y. O.â€""For our starboard and 000 women as underground workers, hewing out coal and digging salt from the bowels of the earth. ‘The condiâ€" tions under which these women work are deplorable, and yot they have beâ€" come so accustomed to their lots that they mustered considerable oppostâ€" tlon among their ranks ngainst thete forced emancipation. sait mining industries will require & decade, It is calculated, to adapt themâ€" selres to the displacement of more than onefourth of its underground workers and oneâ€"ninth of its total labor forces. According to official figures, the -l_nlu Industry of India employs 3%, men have long been regarded as disâ€" tinctly inferior beings within a period of ten years, Curtailed at the rate of ten per cent. per annum ,the coal and The program, approved by the gorâ€" erament over beary opposition, plans to stamp out one of the most revoltâ€" ing practices in a country where woâ€" 32,000 Workers Underground 32 Â¥ r gr to be Emancipated 10 Per Cent.. Yearly Genevaâ€"India wili start the emancotâ€" pation of her thousands of womenr underground mine workers July 1, ao cording ‘to official information recetvâ€" ed by the International Labor office, which for years bas waged a camâ€" paign to free these unfortunates from economic bondage, India Will Free Women in Mines TeRC, Tme/mixing wiht Negro tribes, | King Ibn Saud himself, powerful chief of desert tribesmen, has a bodyâ€" guard of 120 slaves. In the war against King Mussein of ta« Hejas hombwthhchwuu‘km trenchkes, for his Wahabis refused to do that work. In the Yemen, the number of slaves is computed to be as high as that of the free men. This computation inâ€" cludes the 40,000 Jews who belong to Iman Yehia, the ruler of the land, or to the sheiks of the various dis tricts. Like serfs of the Middle Ages, they may not migrate without payâ€" ment of a heav‘y ransom. There is scarcely a Moslem family in the Yemen that has not at least one slave. _ Wealthier families have as many as four or five. Most of the slaves are drawn from Africa. The blacks are brought across the Red Sea in small vessels and packed off in troops of 20 and 30. On landing they are started along the pilgrims‘ road to Mecca, som **fmes Journeying with the pilgrims themâ€" soives. In Haibar, to the north of Medina, there are semiâ€"black Moslem tribles, the descendants of Jewish peoples, who were subjected centuries ago to the Arabs and have been treated as slaves ever since. They have long been intermixing wiht Negro tribes. JTerusalemâ€"The slave trafic notâ€" withstanding reaolutions passed by the League of Nations, is still operatâ€" ing in the Orient. Reports just pub lished say some 2000 blacks each year are brought from Africa into the Arab slave market. spite Work of Leag Raids Still Take Blacks In Orient Toâ€"day to Points in Near