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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928. 3 "Mutiny" of Stowaways Arouses British Query on Safety at Sea Captain's SOS and Need of Passengers' Aid in Subuing Eight Disturbers Draw Criticism; Delay in Cruiser's Response Also Assailed AN INTERESTING CASE London.--The sea is famous for.leaving Fremantle, were separated producing strange stories, but this (from the passengers and 'given light country is yet undecided, whether it,work, which they resented. After be-should laugh off or regard as a serious ' having insultingly before the reflection upon the present methods passengers they were put under the for insuring safety of a ship at sea hatches in an area "barricaded off the affair aboard the Australian Com-'from the rest of the ship.' monwealth liner Jervis Bay, which jecbed the sinister word "mutiny" for the first time Into recent maritime history. Fresh proof that truth is stranger than tte fiction the most robust imagination would dare invent is provided by the way things happened aboard the 14,000-ton liner, with a crew of 120 and a passenger list of 600, which left Fremantle, Australia, on June 14 for Colombo, Ceylon. The' ship w the middle of the Ind' to have been inadequately barricaded, for the dreadful eight broke out and staged an unauthorized demonstration. There was a general melee with unknown results. After a few hours, a sort of interval between acts, the eight were at it again, "running amuck along the decks." Then there was a second struggle in which "four British naval ratings amongst the passengers dered invaluable assistance. Finally wwaji when! the eight were battened down again, c »ulu iuc^<*sc „aa lla,.-hecl from her j gut the desperate fellows still swore master, Captain Frederic* Daniel,! and threw things overboard and set announcing "having trouble with eight fire to their straw mattresses. It was desperate Stowaways," and request- at this point the captain radioed foi ing naval aid. | assistance, but the crew turned on i A drama of the high seas seemed in hose, the fire was quelled, and so wer< course of unfolding, as successive S( the stowaways, and when the marine; O S calls proclaimed "mutiny and' in-; boarded the Jervis Bay they found cendiarism tried. Constant guard on the desperadoes quite tame. L- -olunteer passengc" " Yet, "Mutiny, j another message c Threatening set ship immediate assistance.' WIDE INTEREST AROUSED The world rubbed its again. Muitny on a li PRESS VOICES CRITICISM fire. Send\ The general newspaper reaction | here is that Captain Daniel showed ! too much leniency or indecision to be-s and read with and too much jumpiness . js n!>t on,e later, but some commentators strike issitudes in more serious note. "This is scarcely maritime life. The conditions in which the ideal basis on which order on "eight desperate stowaways" could British passenger liner ought to rest, make themselves dangerous to a crew declared a typical editorial, pointing of 120 and hundreds of passengers out that }n _a community of 000 pas-invited fantastic speculati which sengers, including many i s further fired by the fact that the children, provision should surely exist Whi .ale of the Commonwealth liners by fw Putting down any eight V» Australian government to the armed ruffianism without calling P Star--the Jervis Bay was mak- the passengers to fight for themselves ler last voyage before transfer--, and summoning naval aid. Htterly resented in Australian' "One can't help asking with M circles. disquietude," one comment says, "what e sentences of five and one-half would have happened if the stowaways mment imposed Upon had had arms and a plan. Who knows mprr. l Magistrate's Court if some dangerous international gang for non-payment of fares and for de- may not even now be asking them-■ troying bedding seem but a tame and selves the same question?" -.rd'd ending to this exciting story. | The affair is afeo read as a 9atirical All the elamor was taken out of the commentary on British insistence on reports of mutiny and hurry calls for, cruiser9 at th,e Gen,3va Conference, protection in mid-ocean and the re- The cruiser Enterprise in port at Col-quest to rush bluejackets to safeguard ombo received ,an g 0 S call at 9.30 the threatened liner, as the true tale; am_ on Wednesday. But part of her of the stowaways was bared when the, crew wa3 hundreds of miles in,- -Jervis Bay docked at Colombo on sche-,nd & sJow tanker> dispatched after dule time. The only serious charge som0 d,e,jay; only made caB/buA with arainst _ the stowaways was that of(th. H,ner on Saturday at midnight. ner s, Tng difference might have been vital and of this they v offi if the radio messages cted, | fa,cts> one indignant editorial points TOWAWAYS RESENTED LABOR j out, demanding to know "what is According to reports from the ship's fast cruiser at Colombo for but and passengers, the eight j cover precisely this sort of risk?" ays were discovered soon after' N. Y. Herald Tribune._ Belgians Blamed by Germany 6leven <*i,drf they burned the St. "I, , rf « j Pierre Church, the university halls tor Louvain Iragedy land the large llbrary which it con. Ever since the Belgian city of Lou- tained, the Palais de Justice, the rail was burned and sacked by the Academy of Fine Arts and over 1,100 German Army in August, 1914, an em- private houses; they deported to Ger-nternational controversy many 600 inhavltants of Louvain, 100 over the question of responsibility j of whom were women and children; hay raged between the respective finally they expelled all the popula-Governments of Belgium and Ger- \ tion of Louvain (about 40,000 people) many. Professor Christian Meurer of from their homes, leaving what re-the University of Wurzburg, Germany,' mained of the old Brabant city to the whose official report on the episode ' mercy of their soldiers." was recently published in Germany, | The cause for these atrocities Pro-sets forth in an article contributed fessor Mayence attributes, fro- the specially to the July Current History/results of the Belgian investigations, the whole German side of the contro- to shots fired by mistake by German versy. guards against the returning German Professor Meurer categorically ac- tro°P3- He dismisses as absurd the cuses the inhabitant of Louvain of be- German charge that the citizens had g'nning on Aug 25 1914 an insurrec- begun the shooting. The whole city, tion against the Germans, which, he he P"ints out- had been terrorized by declares, was quelled only after three the "iron discipline" inflicted on the davs' severe repressions. In the even- Population since Aug. 19, when the he charges, the citi- German troops occupied Louvain. But : the Germans, seeing "the dead and nded who lay scattered on the ground,' 'immediately decided that they had been the victims of the Bel- A Lesson in Felial Duty PRINCE BOWS BEFORE HIS FATHER THE KING The Duke of York greeting his father, King George, on the latter'* arrival at the Richmond Royal Horse Show held at Richmond. 200,000 See French Flier Burn to Death; Canadian Board Considers Control of Radio - |C Survey of Syster- 1 l Operation in England; Suggests Public Ownership Royalty Views Antiques held under the auspices of the British Antique Dealers Association. They were shown round the galleries by Frank Partridge, who is one ol the past presidents of tae association. Their Majesties took a very great interest in the exhibits. The King was specially interested in a model ol a ship made in about 1700. It waa mt there specially for His Majesty as it was only recently sold of the London auction rooms Montreal. -- Organization of the royal commission to advise the Dominion Government regarding the future of radio broadcasting in Canada will be considered by the Cabinet within the next few weeks. The commission will make a survey of cond'itio'ne throughout the Dominion, and may! to possibly go to England to study the! jn system in operation there, where all j an(j realized 3000 guij broadcasting is under government con- His Majesty spent quite 10 min trol. I utes explaining all the details of this ndation_ of the j shlp to the party. Tile King was also interested in the gold enamel French snuff boxes . of the eighteenth century, and in the Chinese porcelain, some of which are quarters j very beautiful specimens of the Canada ■ Kang Hsi dynasty. When he came medals, he explained all the at different varieties, showing how well s was en this subject, took a great interest in established in each province, with the all the old English furniture, this be-provincial governments assuming re- J ing her second visit to the exhibition, sponsibility for the programs that are i Their Majesties were interested to put on the air. j know that over 20,000 people visited The Dominion Government would i the exhibition, and asked what behave certain responsibilities, and it is j came of the proceeds. They were believed that if radio listeners would, pleased to learn from Mr. Partridge ■■"'"that one-half was given to the National Art Collections Fund and one-half to the benevolent fund of the association. Upon the i commission the policy of the Canadia Government will be based, and legislation along this line may possibly com* at the next session of Parliament. It is suggested in som that radio broadaas't'ing : Should bo under public ownership r ther than by private companies a present. And one suggestion is thatf informed powerful radio stations should he. The Que pay an annual fee of $3 worth-while programs could be arranged with a minimum of advertising matter. British programs are criticized by Canadian experts on the ground that they are elevating, uplifting, serious and not sufficiently varied, while United States programs have the variety which is considered the spice of life, but in many cases contain too much jazz. Perhaps a combination of the ■o will meet Canadian requirements. Canada is demanding more exclude channels for Canadian broadcast-dng, protesting that the United States should not have ten to one. Madrid. -- Nearly four centuries have elapsed since the death of Prince Carlos, son of Philip II, of Spain, but the thirtieth Academy of Spanish History, in an attempt to disprove the popular legend that the Prince was poisoned by his father, decided just His Falling Plane Kills Two Women in Crowd *b»M'OTJ£ ST^^tS^ t^T^ST*?*£ sufficient to 1 Prmces'_crypt in the Pantheon e* ™- Jobs for Canadians Toronto Mail and Empire (C What Canada needs is jobs. To make Digging Up Past Spain Will Exhume Prince Buried in 1568 To Test Legend That Philip II Poisoned Son Paris.--Many former pilots of the French Government at the interna- Is. tional flying meeting and some of;chandise of foreign countries that them were accompanied by their fam-'pouring in at an increasing rate every . (year. We cannot build up Canada by Quick appreciation by the aviator a policy that is doing so much to proof the desperate situation saved the' mote the prosperity of the United lives of many, for in the few seconds' States. Instead of leaving our mar-elapsing between the time the wingkets open to th9 inrush of manufac-collapsed and the plane started tofallitured goods from across the line, we Captain Brager was able to direct its^hould be providing for the manufac-'descent away from the body of the ture or such goods at home, instead crowd to the edge of the field. The Rat Peril Calgary Herald (Ind. Cons.): (There re no rats in the Prairie West--yet.) le is coming this way. Time was could be found In Win-are there now and mov-Like sow thistle and sreed am 'i liable I Lafayette Escardrille, who came from all parts of the United States for the dedication of tte monument to the memory of the American air volunteers who died in the World War, witnessed an accident at the Vincennes aerial meeting recently, when Captain Brager, a well-known French aviator, crashed to the ground from a nei8J^ in the wreckage of his airplane. The aeronautical engineer who accompanied him is not expected to live, and two women spectators among the huge crowd which was pressing upon the field were killed almost instantly when they were struck by the falling plane. j--w ^ The tragedy so shocked the gather-!nlpeg- J1167, ing of nearly 200,000 people that,'0? westward, thousands of them left immediately!0.^ T^LZTr lT!Z for their homes. The meeting was the largest in French civil aviation and more than 100 ships were participating. Captain Brager had just completed the first tour of an aerial from Paris to Brussels and Antwerp and return and had barely crossed the; j-, - ~ . finish line when the left wing broke,! lhe forgotten lighting Man causing his plane to go into a head I Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph (Ind.): spin. | It is easy to forget, when the crisis Engineer Capy jumped with a para- has passed, the generous promises | criminally chute, bu the distance was too short'made in the hour of national peril,;driving and he received injuries which are,but Canada cannot afford to forget " :pected to prove fatal. the debt which it owes to its soldiers'should be dealt The Americans were guests of the and which never can be fully repaid. s of tariff protectior shield our home market from the n icademy hopes to deter-f th9 body contained any of aiding the growth of the United States by driving hosts of thf loyal Canadians and efficient pro- ducers to contribute to the upbuilding this we of that country, we should be afford- ian-ing employment to our own people.1 The Instead of sending to the United nli«de States vast quantities every year of posing il. The i m'ine whether trace of poke Academicians are confident that th< examination will vindicate the memory of Philip and prove false'the scandal so long attached to his name. The nearest contemporaneous alio gation that Don Carlos, Prince of th< Asturias, was poisoned by his fathei is to He found in the biography b-3 C. V. de Saint Real, a Frenchman who wrote about a century after thf Prince's death. A hundred years ago ; denied by the German histor-»n Ranke. idence that Philip was a not even circumstantial, re-large part on the assump- appear at any timt let him get acclimated we , hard job getting rid of . He is no earthly good, is a dis-^ ease spreader and a destroyer of our products. Kill him cm sight. will have ' material or semi-raw material, jtion that the death of the Print should be turning these into pro- mysterious and that the King was ducts at the hands of Canadian labor \ 1uite capable of putting him out of dwelling prosperously at home. It Itn,e way- the settled policy '•■ Historians like C. de Mouy and of the King Government to make Can-; Maurenhrecher remind their readers only an adjunct of the United : that Don Carles was afflicted with pro- gressive insanity. Hence, they say, his death was very likely due to natural causes, possibly induced by the depression he felt when his father ( married his own promised bride, Prin-ugly word, but when cess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry II, negligent and reckless : King of France. es the loss of a life, then! The Prince was born July 8, 1546, unquestionably manslaughter and ' at Valladolid. He died twenty-three ich, speedily | years later, on July 24, 1568, in Ma- States. Dangerous Drivers London Free Press (Cons.): Man-slaughi and without favor. A Revival Which Should Boost Horse Breeding delicate and sub-ii and rage. uvain, knowing of ive of the Belgia 2rp, and believing l soldiers to have (though they had actually | srian franc-ti Ictorio attack i .shooters). the German soldiers after a concerted ' soldiers and officers burst brutally in-signal. The Germans hunted down10 the houses * * * Men- women, old and shot the culprits whom they cap-1 men- children were all driven out of tured and set the houses on fire. their homes; some were assassinated; Bitter fighting between the Rei- others were led, under a strong guard, gians and Germans went on through amidst shouts and iijsults of every Aug. 26-27, according to Professor \kind. to different places of concentra-Meurer, who describes the measures tion- Meanwhile companies of sol-taken in reprisal as fully justified by ,dlers beSan tQeir sinister work of in-this revolt which, he charges, was ac- cendiarism, setting fire to the companieir by atrocities. Professor Meurer denies, furthermore, that the Germans were responsible for the burning of the St. Pierre Church and the University Library, asserting, on the contrary, that these buildings were set on fire "by sparks from the burning houses in the immediate vicinity. ) the library Blame the Cat? Kitty has been blamed for countless things since she was first domesticated but don't curse her roundly when your "cat" gut leader breaks and you lose a whale. For the term cat gut has nothing whatever to do with cats, domestic or otherwise. Pussy is absolutely innocent It doesn't come from cats at all. Gut used for fishing is a by [product of the silkworm. Silkworm, gut is really the material found in j Belgium's Reply. "The sack of Louvain one of the tragically celebrated episodes of the invasion of Belgii the German Army in 1914,' Fernand Mayence, professor at the , the silk gland or sac of the silkwo University of Louvain, Belgium, in the This material occurs in a liquid or July Current History in reply to the j viscous state and it is pulled out in Louvain were themselves responsible ' long strings. When it strikes the air German charge that the citizens of it hardens. After being sorted and for the Louvain tragedy. "On Aug.1 graded it becomes the silkworm gut of 25 and the following days the Gorman • commerce. Whoever originated that Imperial troops at the order of their i cat gut story, points out the "Field commanders, put to death 209 inhabit- ! and Stream" editor, blamed something ants among whom were eight old men ] on the feline population of which it * * * twenty-one women * * ♦ and ' is not at all guilty." great coaching marathon, . drid. The boy v ■ ject to fits of depre '■ 1559 he was betrothed to the Pri Elizabeth, but reports of his character and mental condition at the French Court causad the engagement to be broken off. Other brides were suggested, but all dadlned. Meanwhile, his mental derangement had become more acute, with homicidal tendencies moro pronounced. Ho also showed an increasing morbid antipathy toward his father, and even contemplated taking his parent's life. This plot was discovered and Don Carlos was arrested in January, 1568. A few days before he died the King had appointed^ a commission of gran-clees to try him. There were two charges, treason and heresy. Ocean Liner's Cow Those traveling on ocean liners can-! not take the family cow along, but science has evolved a substitute which has proved especially valuable for ships which ply between temperate re-' pons and the tropic?.. It is an emul-Sor, a machine which mixes powdered : milk, swtet butter and water, producing by emulasion a product which in \ taste and nutritive properties' is hard to distinguish from fresh milk. So thorough is the job that when the arti-; ficial milk is allowed' to stand it produces a heavy cream. < Bad .Both Waif Pat and Mike were busy" at work when they noticed an aeroplane. They were leaning on their shovels, watching it in amazed wonder. Suddenly Pat exclaimed, "Begorro, I would hate to be up there with that thing." v Mike looked at him a moment and remarked, "Be dad, I would hate to be up there without it."--True Story Magazina.