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, tain on what I take to have been the Bh "Mn this: third volume of the history. It hag been my fortunate lot to be a world-wide traveller, and I have en. countered the British liner and tramp mot only on every sea but in many a 'port 1 nboth remispheres. The sight Ensign has, in these later "days, given me a thrill of a very spe- Kind, for that familiar piece of "bunting can never fail to recall the "wonderful record of our merchant sea men throughout the struggle of four and ahalf years . The present volume raises the cur- cimax of that vast drama--the -snemy's plunge into unrestricted sub- marine warfare on our merchant ship- 'ping, Thus was provided the final test of a heroism and endurance un- paralleded fn history; and how magni: Toft "figently seamen responded to the test is to be found chronicled in thes pages. To view that record in its proper perspective it is well to recall 'those days at the very outbreak of war which already seem to some of us to be almost lost in the mists of time. The participation of our seamen in the struggle began with the operations of the German raiders. There was 'mothing ' surprising or unprecedented in the destruction achiever by the Em- den 'and other German cruisers and armed merchantnien in Eastern waters and elsewhere. - Hostilities were conducted in har- mony with the principles laid down iby international law. and, though smany valuable 'ships. were sunk, the toll-was no greater than might have '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 hazards of a maval 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 tak- n. This phase, however, was short-liv- -ed, With the arrival on the scene of the submarine and the indiscriminate use of the mine, the whole position for the merchant seaman was chang. ed, He found himself faced by haz- ards and perils such as he had never 'before experienced, or indeed had ever conceived as possible. With the _ intensification of the enemy's ; the British sailor, a ! following an ordin- arly 1 avocation, saw himself directly involved in the whole fright: ful mechanism of war, whose grim 'operation, as I have said, reached its climax in the phase of unrestricted submarine attack recorded in detail Let us who are land-dwellers not mince, 'over this thing. It is r.- Merchant Navy, and ns the work of our Merchant Navy, des- crib in this volume, is that covering 'of the Auxiliary Patrol. 'tainly was one of the most successful, of the many pieces of war- time im- provisation" which history will place, to the oredit. of the British nation. It was born, as need hardly be recall , out of those new conditions of sub- 10 'attack and indiscriminate mine raids to which I have referred, 'transportation and settlement will be pean Settling Britons There fs much to be commended young Britans throughout the Cana. dian West this year. They are not to be dumped into this country and through . migration stations ling secretary of the League has come to Canada to establish during the next six months. The cost of their defrayed out of a fund subscribed by the merchants of London for the pur- 50. 4 The principal shortcoming in the past in Canada's treatment of immi- grants is that they have been left largely to their own devices after their arrival here, and have been severely handicapped in consequence fin their efforts to establish themselves in their new homes. While there has been considerable improvement in this connection of vecent years, much still remains to be done, and the ac- tion of the Overseas League will be a real help, for it is action in the right direction and along the neces- sary lines. 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 it steadily. --Montreal Star. nimi Bombs in India in the plans of the Overseas League] for the settlement of one thousand] AX 'the train crew. World Flight Billed for Fall Washington Post Prints De- tails of Proposed Feat-- Five-Motored - Plane to Hop Off from New York in September, - Ac- cording to Plans Washington -- 'Six internationally known aviators are 'preparing to be: gin a monstop flight around the world from New Pork oa the first clear day in September, according to the Wash- ington Post. The names of only three of the aviators are given--Lieut. Albert D. Hulse, former army and alr mall pilot; Capt. Harry W. Lyon Jr., navl- gater on the transpacific flight of the Southern Cross, and Lieut. L. T, O'Connell, radio officer at Lakehurst, The commander, the newspaper sald, will. be a World War aviator with more: than 5000 flying hours to his credit. The make of the plane In ich they intend to attempt the most'\am- bitious flight ever undertaken was not learned, but it was described as be- ing constructed partly of metal and partly of linen fabrio, powered with five 420 horsepower Pratt and Whit. ney engines, equipped to take on fuel in flight, and capable of a maximum speed of 150 miles an hour and 'a crulsing speed of 120 miles. Twenty-two stations are to be es- of which 10 will be used only im case ot emergency, the Post says; and two of the five engines are to be held in reserve. They will be sufficient to bring the ship through, the aviators believe, If all three of the other en- gines break up under the five or six- day strain. The fuel tanks will have a maxi mum - capacit 1900 . gallons, but 0! abodt 'Ball that: amount, the 'newspapers say, will be taken aboard New York to prevent overtaxing 'at the start. More fuel 'taken on while passing over and the supply will again be over Nova Scotia, under a, while 'a third refuelling plane is to meet the nomstop filers ne; 1 w after complbtion of the tiantio leg of the flight. tablished along the 13,5600-mlile route, | 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 ex- pected until Nome is reached, if it is to be encountered at all, The cost of the flight is placed at approximately $385,000, and the back- ers of the plan are said to have under- written it to the extent of $500,000. r-- Radio Police Call Gives Chicago Burglar Tip-Off Chicago.--Radio is a great inven- tion, the burglar said. ' A woman, recently observing a burglar leisurely looting the third- 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 moment later listeners on the WGN. programs heard this: "Detective squads, attention. There's a burglar on the third floor at 5737 Prairie Ave." 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: "Dear Radio Man: Thanks for the tip-off. © You're a swell announcer. I'm now signing off." rth Canadian Combines Act Found to be Valid Ottawa--The Combines: Investiga- tion Act of 1923 dealing with con- spiracles in the restraint of trade, and challenged in 1927 by the Pro- prietary Articles Trade Association as ultra vires, has been declared valid by the Supreme Court of Canada. When this association of druggists was found to be a combine in re- straint of trade, following an injury by. the Federal Government they filed a complaint and the matter was refer. rod to the Buprems Court." The effect of the fudgment is to uphold the act and any procedure of {njulry or sub- sequent prosecution which it sets up, in. combination between the Dominion and provincial authorities. eritceimeeatm-- An old saw fs best if not too cut. m Glasgow, the route outlined S------ mn ting but never dul.--Christlan Science Monitor. 3 "7A Story of the Sea Yold By Camera NONE HURT IN SPECTACULAR TRAIN WRECK CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS Loosening effect of the recent heavy rains is believed to have caused a dirt slide which recently wrecked the Lehigh Valley New York-Buffalo express, The only casualties were slight bruises received by two members of Shackles of Past Are Thrown Away Revolutionary Movements in Recent Years Find Sex Clamoring for Its Rights Although the days are past when Chinese parents threw (heir girl babies into the river, says "The Pathfinder," they are still very anxis ous that their babies should be boys and not girls. One of the best things about the new regime in China, which mean largely the shaking off of the shackles of the past, is the improvement in the condition of the women. They are coming into their own. They were active in the revolutionary move- ments and there is a widespread and growing demand for women's rights. 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 rapidly becom- ing a thing of tle past. It is forbld- den by the new republican govern: ment. One of the real powers in the pre- sent Nanking government is tha wite of the president, Mrs, Chiang Kal- 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. The new government in its ignor- ance has tried to tell the women how to wear their hair and how to make their dresses, but it has already learn- ed that such efforts are useless. One evil practice, still apparent, 1s the selling of women into slavery dur- ing the times of distress. The Rev. F. J. Griffith of the Church of England recently stated 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 they brought $100,000 in gold. They were taken into Inner Shansi. The women are bought by wealthy people who use them for servants. That practice forms one more problem for the new government, se iin It is well to know that right fs al- ways moving toward victory. Welcoming Hand for ~ New Immigrants Vancouver.--Causes underlying un- employment in the old country ere described by Sir William Clark, high commissioner for Great Britain to Canada, in a statement that gave a comprehensive survey of the situation from pre-war days to the present, The obvious momentary relief, emi- gration, was referred to by Sir Wil- liam when he bespoke a welcoming hand to those men and women of Bri- tish race who came to Canada to make a fresh start. "While we look for- ward confidently to the eventual res- toration of our trade, we must recog- nize that the necessary readjustments, the fuller reorganization of our older Industries must all take time," sald 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 Can- ada will desire to give a helping hand to those who come here." INSURANCE QUESTION Sir William suggested that unem- ployment insurance was organized in recognition of the well known econ- omic fact that there must always be some measure of unemployment in great industrial countries, especially in trades affected by the seasons of the year. _ "There is a new spirit of co-opera- tion, a new desire of employers to get together and study jointly the dif- ficulties besetting our trade," Sir Wil- liam said. Various plans of the Government for reducing unemployment were sug- gested by the high commissioner, In- 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 been approved before the Canadian authorities as thorough- ly suitable and of a type likely to make good. The tralning 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 whe- ther he is likely to make a success on the land." Ancient Ur Proves Flood Leader of British Museum Ex- pedition Declares Discov- eries There Confirm Story of the Deluge, and Alter Whole Aspect of Archaeology Brunswick, Meo.--"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, have changed the outlook and. given an entirely new aspect to history and archaeology," declared 0. Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist, speak- ing at the second session of the Bow- Sclences recently, Sciences on April 30. "It is not only a plcture surprising fn {tselt but it is an addition to the science of history which completely revolutionizes our ideas and obliges us to look for the roots of our eivill- zation to-day in a fleld hitherto un- suspected. "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 Biblical story of the deluge is based ultimate- ly upon historical fact. "The excavations which have been going on for seven years have dealt almost exclusively with the central part of the city, which was the rell glous quarters dedicated to the Moon God, Nannar. The period of the city's greatest political {importance was about 2300 B.C. when It was the cap! tal of the empire. "The tombs of private people and of kings of that date have yielded most astounding relics in gold, silver, copper, stone and mosaic work bear world produced. . Its art quality; High Commissioner Asks with slave market. x The trade in human beings extends over thé Sudan, Abyssinia, the Hejas, 'the Nejd, the Yemen, and the coast of Somaliland. Even in Transjordan it is not altogether unknown; chefrs there have black attendants who serve all thefr lives without payment. In Arabla proper, slave trading goes on fairly openly. The Hejas Government levies a toll of $10 per capita on slaves. In Djedda, the port of Mecca, the slave market is but 250 feet from the consulate of one of the great Buropean powers. In Haibar, to the north of Medina, there are semi-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 lofg been {ntermixing wiht Negro tribes. King Ibn Saud himself, powerful chief of desert tribesmen, has a body guard of 120 slaves. In ts war against King Hussein of {ye Hejas he had to put his slaves to digging trenches, for his Wahabis refused te do that work. In the Yemen, the number of slaves is computed to be as high as that of the free men. This computation ins cludes the 40,000 Jews who belong to Iman Yehia, the ruler of the land, or to the shelks of the various dis- tricts. Like serfs of the Middle Ages, they may not migrate without pay- ment of a heavy ransom. There {3 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. Om landing they are started along 'he pligrims' road to Mecca, some imes journeying with the pilgrims chem aelves. India Will Free Women in Mines 32,000 Workers Underground to be Emancipated 10 Per Cent. Yearly Geneva--Indla will start the emanct pation of her thousands of womem underground mine workers July 1, ao- cording to official information receiv. ed by the International Labor office, which for years has waged a cam- paign to free these unfortunates from economic bondage. The program, approved by the gov- ernment over heavy opposition, plans to stamp out one of the most revolt ing practices in a country where wo men have long been regarded as dis- tinctly Inferior beings within a period of ten years, Curtalled at the rate ot ten per cent. per annum ,the coal and salt mining industries will require a decade, it is calculated, to adapt them delves to the displacement of more than one-fourth of Its underground workers and one-ninth of its total labor forces, According to official figures, the {ning industry of India | loys 32- 000 women as underground workers, howling out coal and digging salt from the bowels of the earth. The condi tions under which these women work are deplorable, and yet they have be- come so accustomed to their lots that they mustered considerable oppost- tion among their ranks against thelr forced emancipation. For the Lights, of Course Suddenly Rich Yacht Owner--"Be sure you have a plentiful supply of green and red oll on board, captain." Captain--"Why-sr--What for, sir?® 8. R. Y. 0.--"For our starboard and port lights, of course." : There must me more than summeg . days in Heaven Than April days or Fall-- For Heaven not seem like . Heav'n if winter = uld never come at 4 Tons shy a8 bins ss God's Owl Al : he ei