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or less; 6 to 10 and 11 to 16: pounds The three Maritime Pro-; exploration in Cunada's great great North- land when, some. time in En w, © THE SEA CAN HIT HEAVY BLOWS Great Britain have not left Iroland a a vinces are linked as one. Between |B. Hoare of the Northwest Terrl- points in the same province the rates tories branch of the Department of are from 30 cents to a maximum of 60 toh interior begins his trip that will cents, according to welght. Between | !Inst between one year and 18 months points in adjoining provinces, from to that region at the junction of the 40 cents to a maximum of 80 cents, | Hanbury and Thelon rivers. These and betwen more distantly separated ' flow eastwards out of Great Slave provinces the rate is from 50 cents Lake and empty into Chesterfield In- a Yaad at Whit The pr County - Flerce -| Antrim, Antrim, smashed by heavy seas duting tite severe gales, pe * IRAQ GOVERNMENT PROPOSES inasmuch as the only her ery in the night was <184, G-24 and B-129, 1 | The radia set in tho Parke home is al uy as 8 30 ---- When ME: Parke re- | Parke's ti on, nde by Mss. ur; ut 11 o'cl was| Lloyd's Marine Ins®nce thanked told of the & all; and he; too,| Mrs. Parkes and wanted to know the was Sonvinced it was some message make of the set used, _-- ATE TGR Shale 2b 1 "wealthy oo men, particularly at from the provinces. . = METHODS. MEH al method for the woman to take her victim to her flat, where Crime Rampant in London! , they are surprised by her alleged hus- Scotla f | band, who demards money as the and gd Yard is price of silence. Once the victims part with money, there is Says a REGULAR _ GANGS demand for more. It was recently revealed | at the into the 'Memberye of Sosicty. Fall-Vie- tims to Degoys and ;son of a well-known peer "hands of -a ~who' knew that the victim's father was a mil- 'lionaire, In three years the father | paid more than $3,000,000 to keep the rE bl | persons involved were kept secret. h" Ca8e oo vorad by blackmailers: One is to thy g Are Asking 'g Royal Air Force To Assit But Neighbors Attitude May Alter Situation SHEIK FLEES The Iraq Government has concurred with the British Government in 'send- ing a punitive expedition against the Wahabl tribesmen," who have been carrying out raids on Iraqui frontier tribes. Making announcements in Parliament, Jaffar Pasha El Askari, the Prime Minister, said: "In co-operation « wit] military forces, we W% preparing a tive expedi- sufficiently powerful tion to punish the 2 sponsible for the outrages. the British ibesmen re- "Our mili- tary plans have been sanctioned. Op- erations will not be prolonged for 'TO PUNISH WARLIKE WAHARBIS The Prime Minister added that Iraq was not in a state of war with the Wahabi tribe, which had disclaimed responsibility for the acts of Sheik Feisal Ed Dowish, leader of the raid- ing tribesmen, and said he would co- operate against the latter with a loyal Wahabi force. It is possible that the King will find difficulty raising a large force for his proposed attack on Feisal Ed Dowish's headquarters at Artawiyah, ag the Sheik's two tribes dominating that locality are believed ito sympa- thize with Feisal Ed Dowish. ,The latter, for the moment, -has vanished into the desert. Survivers of his last said speak with terror of the barbarous savagery of his tribes: men. It is understood that the Royal Air Force in co-operation with the Iraq army is preparing to act with the to a m est distance. Goods prohibited under the regula: tion and to which the regulations will not apply, are money bonds, bullion, securities, live animals, birds, fowl, iced goods, and liquid oils and greases unless packed In sufficient absorbent able' them to "set up independently." Such boys, he said, were too good to be lost to this country. The Council; however, decided to try the training scheme. The Boot, A daily says that Italians play ex- cellent football, Why shouldn't they? Look at the shape of their country.-- Passing Show. should the 'container be brokem. A! package will not be accepted wh length and girth combined exceed Hix feet. Winter Sport in Canada of $1.65 for the groat- | lot. material to fully absorb the contents | {among very old and very young > The, mean, of | Then | the blackmailer | There are other methods equally ; nd a professional man, preferably!' more than a month." utmost vigor. FLOODS IN ENGLAND CAUSE UNTOLD MISERY --_-- Thames Four Miles Miles Wide infin Surrey, theifldods are four miles County of Surrey; Nearly ing while neatMaiderihead, Berks, at Maximum 3 -- p to enjoy a swim Private dispatches begin to come inn the King's Hig vay. The River descriptive of England's plight when Thanos ary is four and a half real winter weather sets in, Fires! a ormial resulting in Eton- town' pragiinting an island-like appear- from overheated grates, suffering of! ; ance, i the grounds at Windsor an acute nature causing many deaths Castille also inundated. In the ne responsible meteorologists B that the unusual weather of the present winter is merely a sample of what is to come next year when the River Thames freezes over. impossibility to keep warm are th high Yolnts of the recent unusual ¢9 ed in some sections of the § they have become worse in o new areas affected by ih aaa ers include Dartford, Kent, where 200 fantilies were marooned in their homes during the night, but they were re- leased before experiencing any undue hardship as the waters rapidly sub- sided, Ggod Canadian Citizens Liverpool,--Liverpool City Council | decided to adopt a scheme for the {training of prospective boy migrants to Canada, One member of the Coun- teil objected that boys trained in Eng- rvancy Board exp i the | 18nd for Canadian farm work had to infor: that the floods in the uppen SIE Wooden cows and harness timber h _ Councillor Richardson said Boys t to Canada could save $500 in five 3 'out of wages of $150 a year, e River Thames also burst its} at many new points, but the! reached a maximum, providing more rain falls. Cool weather accdth ied by frosts at might is helpi¥ the evacuation of the floods, 'Between Chertsey. and Weybridge, | * wide, and deep." dt' Object Being to Make Them! and then receive grants of $600 each' from the Canadian Government to en- | "The Result of the Death Blow | | city and town with hills in Canada. « "SKIING THE GREATEST THRILL { Wonderful popularity is developing for this Norwegian sport in every: 000 square miles near the junction of G.B. S. Human Shaw Champions Cause of an Old Postman Wha Stole Ten Shillings and ° Lost Pension London, -- George Bernard Shaw came vigorously to the defense of a sixty-year-old London postman who recently- lost his job, his pension, his state Insurance and his wife because of his theft of ten shillings from a let- ter. When arraigned in Marylebone a police magistrate released the post- man, who was a first offender; stating that he. already had been punished enough. It was sald In eceurt that the post: man's wife dled from shock when she tearned of her husband's crime: "In your issue of Dec. 17," writes Mf. Shaw to The Evening Standard, "you rightly feature as appalling the consequences to a postman aged sixty who had heen convicted in Maryle- bone police court of the theft of ten shillings. It was obviously one of those cases of senile. pilfering which indicate that the pilferer should be | rétired as worn out for positions of trust. "This man earned by thirty-six years of public service state insur- ance, a £300 pension and two pounds and fiften shillings a week. The ap- palling consequences to which you call attention dare not the ordinary | consequences incurred by the theft of ten shillings but the assumed inten. | tion of the Government to confiscate his insurance. May one ask under what law the Government has power to commit this monstrous outrage? "When eminent financiers, crimin- ally negligent company directors; fraudulent trustees, income tax evad- ers and other gentlemanly culprits pass through the dock to penal ser: vitude, are their insurances confis- cated? 1 have never heard of such practice. "What 1 want to know is why after {his confiscation has been abolished and forgotten in the case of pro. pertied classes it is still calmly con- tinued without &-word -of -protest-as it it were the most natural thing and obvious course on earth in the case of poor men like postmen, police con- {June Mr. Hoare's special task will be to carry out a census of the wild life in that country and, among other things, study the migration of the caribou, His journey has been prompted by reports that musk-oxen still Burvive on the Canadian main. land, 8nd although their numbers are g, there are severa] herds of rowsing in the neighborhooll of bury and Thelon rivers. Istence of musk-oxen in that vicipdty was reported 27 years ago when J. Burr Tyrrell undertook a topographical survey of the district, and this was confirmed three years ago by John Hornby and Captain tl jCritehell Bullock, The latter conducts ed an exploratory expedition from Great Slave Lake through the Artil ilery Lake, and crossing the height of land travelled down the Hanbury and Thelon rivers to Hudson's Bay by way of Chesterfield Inlet. They reported having seen about 50 musk- (oxen on the banks of the rivers, and actually took photographs of them. Animal Sanctuary With a view to preservation of {these animals, go nearly extinct on the mainland and so easily killed since they allow hunters to approach | close to them, nor do they migrate, like the caribou, the Government in this year issued an Order-in- Councll setting aside an area of 15, the two main rivers as a game sanc- 'tuary. No hardship was impésed on the aboriginal inhabitants of the Northland by so doing fasmuch as that particular area has no settle. ments to speak of, consequently the preservation of the wild life there does not react adversely on the food supply of the Indians and the Kski- mos, As part of Mr, Hoare's equipment, the Government last year brought five huskies down from Baffin Island and these are now In Ottawa. He will usa them on hls exploration trip. The dogs were Dorn in the barrens and are much better sulted for that type of work than any other breed. Mr. Hoare will proceed from here to Fort McMurray, Alta., at the junc- tion of the Clearwater and Athabaska rivers, by. rail, and wil] travel by water down the Athabaska, across the lake of that name and down the Slave River to Fort Smith, There he will pick up a colleague from among the wardens of the wood buffalo park®" The two will continue to Resolution on Great Slave Lake and proceed to the east end of that body of water to stables and weekly wage earners gen- erally. "Is there any warrant except thoughtless usage at the expense of | men too poor to appeal to the courts | for a declaration of law for this Kil burn infamy, whic hnot only Infiicts' on the postman punishment savage | enough for the most brutal crime but reduces his innocent dependents to penury as well?" --------p ent The Kaiser "Wasn't Speaking" Critic of Emperor's Policies in War Refused to Meet Chief of Cabinet Berlin.--After having carried on his relentless editorial warfare against William II. for many years, the late Maximilian Harden toward the end of the World War thought the time had come for a heart to heart talk with the Kaiser with the object of finding a way to avold the altimate disaster to the German fatherland, is just starting out in The w On October 16, 1918, Harden tele- graphed the Kaiser at the latter's headquarters: "My conscience urges '| me. to reqeust an interview at the earliest: le. As every hour now is fateful I meither fear a refusal nor tho imputation of being considered | resumpty nt that official who suppresses this Ha ply that though the Kaiser had taken nee of his dispatch, his ma- i { jesty wae riot in a position to grant the desired Interview, - but that the 1 ehlef of the imperial 'cabinet had been' Linstructed. to receive any. information Fh with: We. chet. of [ t 4 the least conform {be established as Fort Reliance, where their investiga- tions will beghi=art Reliance will their temporary headquarters. It is expected that the work will occupy Mr. Hoare and his companion | until the mid-summer of 1829, Region Not Known Very little is known of that portion of Canada, although from time to time various expeditions have travers ged it, The earliest discovery of any | part of it seems to have been in 1747 by officers of the Dobbs and Cali. fornia, two ships of 780 and 140 tons respectively, sent out from England {in 1746 by the "Northwest Association | for the discovery of the Northwest 'Passage. In 1761 Chesterfield Inlet was again entered by a Captain Christopher who ascended it for a distance of 100 miles, and asyear later the sloop Churchilk suiled up the Inlet to Baker Lake. The most important erpedition, how. ever, was that of Samuel Hearne In the years 1760 and 1772. Hearne has left an exhaustive report of his dis recoveries, much of which, however, has since -been discounted by later and more careful observers. Other exe 'plorers; "Captain Charles Duncan in 1792, Sir George Hack in 1833 to 1835, Dr. John Rae in 1858, Stewart and Anderson in 1858 and Warburton Pike in 1892; all ¢ssayed to pierce the silence that shrouded Canada's North. land; and bit by bit info ac. | Eathered vf Sw Wibliogtashy of vx ow of the 60th parallel has ploration north rden received the curt officlal re: | duties to conduct any geologleal sur | confined to study.