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The King's World-Wide Broadcast The B.B.C. announces that an analy- sis of reports received from abroad makes It clear that the world broad- cast which was proposed and planned by the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion, proved a triumph. In Great Britain reception was uni- formly good. In France eleven Gov- ernmental stations, including the Eiffel Tower, were in action, fed by the speech-line, London-Paris; Radio- Paris also rebroadcaat. Belgium and Holland both satisfactorily relayed the ceremony which they received by line or by wireless pick-up from Daventry 6XX according to circumstances. In Germany, Cologne and Berlin were the main foci of lines for the Contin- ent. Cologne supplied Hamburg in the one direction and Frankfurt, Stutt- gart, Munich, Switzerland and Italy In the other. From Berlin. South- Eastern Kurope, Poland and Scandin- avia, were supplied. In Germany it- self nearly all the regional groups of stations rebroadcast the proceedings. Information from Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yu- goslavia, Poland, Latvia, Finland, Den- mark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland shows that in many of these countries t'.ie quality of reception was excellent. In Canada, the Canadian Nat.onal Railways' chain o' twenty^teur sta- tions rebroadcast with excellent re- sults from coast to coaat. Similar success was obtained in the United States, where the two great chains of the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia broadcasting system distributed the relay, the former with fifty-five stations and the latter with thirty-eight. Results in South Africa and Australia were not so good, but New Zealand reports excellent recep- tion and rebroadcasting, while in Jap- an, contrary to the first report, it now appears that the rebroadcast was suc- cessfully carried out by the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation. In India there was a rebroadcast from Calcutta as well as a good deal of direct listen- ing to the B.B.C. In all, it Is esti- mated that between 270 and 280 sta- tions were In action. The organization and execution of this relay of the King's speech to all parts of the world were significant of the great potential value of broadcast- ing as an aid to civilization in Us struggle against both war and ignor- ance. Chinese Famine Toll May Reach 4 Million in '30 2,000,000 Natives of Shensi Province Died Last Year; No Harvest Since 1927 Taliyaan, Siu-nsi. The main. Louis Coatelen With Kaye Don Famous French-Born Engi- neer and Expert Builder of Racing Car* RUSSIAN BEAUTY ,0f the 13.000 Mennonltes who tried to leave Russia, one thousand only succeeded and will eventually reach Canada. Here is shown younger mem- ber of the religious sect. Canadian Girls 'Soviet Trade In Visitor's Eyes With Great Britain A Tribute to Currie SEGRAVE'S TEACHER Louis Contelen, one of the outstand- tral section of Shensi Province the j ing automotive engineers of tie world [ Rive Valley, centering around Si:,n-is in the mklst of the most ap- ... . pallmgly disastrous famine which has affected any part of China since the and designer of the car in which Kaye ; Don wiu seek to establish a new- world's speed record at Daytona : Beachi ^ wl| , accompanv the Brl . Ush race driver to the United States. catastrophe of 1876-77. Estimates lt j a announced by the American made from the best poslble sources I Indicate that those 'dead from starva-j tlcn during 1!>29 number at least 2,- 000,000 with another 2,000.000 prac- tically certain to die from the same ; Automobile Association. The governing body of racing, which will supervise and time the attack on the existing record, says that Mr. ! Coatelen. with Kaye Don and mern- cause before the next harvest. The ber3 ot thelr partyi win sail for Ameri .; total population of this region before ca on tne stea mship Berengaria.' famine was about 6,000,000. February 26th, aniving In New York I Just completed a trip of investiga-i on March 4th. tion through a part of the Shensi area j Merest of' the engineer In Mr. and what I saw made the week or BO] Don 't attempt to shatter the record of! In S'nensi a continuous ghastly night- ' mure of pist, present and prospective h:-:nan misery. Practically every one man. woman and child on the streets ! signed the ''Mystery S," in which Sir | nnrt on the roads looked as thouih he ' Henry eglaD i isl , ed the first world's re- ' 231 miles p3r hour made last year by Sir H. O. D. Segrave will be intensified by reason of tho fact that he also de- and on the roads looked as though he was just about ready to drop from cord'in'excess o'f 200 miles per hour. starvation. They were not cowed so much as dazed to the point of utter apathy by long continued lack of food. Record of Harvests What has caused this condition? Britisher Since 1901 Coatelen is a Frenchman, 51 years of age, though he has spent half ofj his life ia England. He obtained his ; flrst automotive experience in the For one thing, this is the record of , draftlnf? rooms of tue DeDlon-Bou'.Mi ' harvests: Spring, 1927 Excellent. Autumn, 19-7 Practically nothing. Spring, 192S Practically nothing. Autumn, 1928 Practically nothing. Spring. 1929 Practically nothing. Autumn. 1929 A millet crop about 1 per cent, of normal. And the prospects? Spring. 1930 uuder the best possible condition?! not more than 10 per cent. Drought last autumn made it possible to plant only about 20 per ivnt. of the normal amount of wheat. Of that only about half germinated. There have boon good snows, ami tho prospects are ex- cellent for what wheat did get a start before the cold weather. But only 10 per cent, of a normal crop got a start. Human causes unquestionably con- ! works in France, going from thi-o (a | Clement and the Panhard. He mi- grated to England in 1901, because of the greater opportunities there for I young men. His flrst employment was | with the Humber Company. In 1907 i he entered into partnership with Hill- i man in the production of the Hillman- Coatelen car. In 1903 he accepted the j invitation of the Sunbeam Motor Car Company, Ltd.. of Wolverhampton, to j joiu it, and the first products of his ! designing figured la competition on ! the race courses in 1909. His con- ' cerns Sunbeani-Talbot-Duracq. have j ; been tho leading figures ia competi- ; . tion ever since. Aided Royal Air Force Long before the war he became la Canadians of every class will read with keen satisfaction the remark ab'e tribute paid to Sir Ar'hur Curric by Major-General J. E. B. Seely, Com- mander of the Canadian Cavahy Brigade during the NV'ar, in his auto- biography just issued from the pre>s. No man was in a better position than t'.'e Major-General to know what was going on at headquarters. He was in Sir Arthur's confldencce, and he speaks with the authority of a man whose word must carry weight with all impartial people. Major-General Seely testifies that Sir Arthur had almost a fanatical hatred of unnecessary casualties, and his further statement that again and again the General nearly brought hU military career to an end by "bluntly refusing to do things he wa3 certain would result in grea* loss of life with- out compensating advantages" will come as a welcome corroboration to those who know Sir Arthur best. They will realize that this is quite in keep- ing with the character of the man. His men's lives were to him a sacred trust, and he would not wantonly fling them away. It is a good t'r.ing. and a pleasant thine:, to find a brother- officer who knows what he is talking about pay this spontaneous and un- sought tribute to the humanity of the man who guided the Canadian Army to victory and upon whose shoulders fell the brunt of a burden few could i.ave borne unaided as he did. Mont- real Star. Canada's Pools World's Greatest ^ estern Farmers Have Or- ganized the Biggest Thing ot its Kind Ever Attempted Ottawa There are four Wheat! Pools in Western Canada, the Mani-j toba. Sa-k.! ..ewan and Alberta "Canadian Wheat Pool." tributod to an important degree to ! terested in aviation, and bought a | making the famine as serious as it is. j Barman airplane. He then studied But natural causes were the primary : aircraft so assiduously that when the : cause of the famine, as is demon- ! war broke out the Sunbeam Coatelen The "Empire Crusade" Nation and Athenaeum (London): The "Empire Crusaders" have not yet thought oat their policy, and they are putting Protection before the country in a cruder form than any which h.u been produced since the days of Adam Smith. There Is, therefore, no d.ui- r of its adoption, in its present form. The danger is that the Tories, who never cease from hankering after Pro- tection, will seek to take advantako of the touch of real enthusiasm in Lord Beaverbrook's propaganda to foist an ordinary protective tariff upon the electorate From a party point of view we could wish for nothing bet- ter: but there are bigger issues at stake. strated by the fact that famine also came in southwestern Chens!, where the drought conditions were substan- tially the same and where the human elements all contributed to relieve engines were said to be the only ones of British manufacture, in big produc- j tion, which had sufficient power to [ fly British seaplanes. Sunbeam- Coat- j elen aircraft engines wore in the ' rather than intensify the effects of the j P'anes that gave the news ot the en-. successive crop failures. i emy's disposition in the battle of Jut- In any case, the appalling famine! lan <l: that dropped food in Kut when; conditions are there. Ontario Drink Bill Set at $56.486,514 IS General Townshend's force was be- sieged, and played a consistently irn-j portaiit part iu aviation throughout' the war. The two huge motors used in Don's . record challenger are the products ofj Coatelen's engineering genius. They j are designed, it is understood, for work on super-airplanes, which ac- counts for their great power. May Outdo Pupils Tho Golden Arrow, present record holder, was designed by Captain Irv- ing, in conjunction with Sir Henry Se- grave, who drove the car to its re- markable record of 231 miles per hour on March 11. 1929. Incidentally, both Segrave and Irv- produced in Ontario and sold to resi- 1 " at one timc - when tUe "Mystery dents of other provinces, and $69.721 s " was built - were attaches of tho Least Said, Soonest Mended Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. Cons.): By a typographical error in printing the King's opening speech at the naval parley, an Irish newspaper has His Majesty calling for "early reduction of arguments throughout the world." If that could be accomplished, it would not merely reduce armaments, but would bring the millenium. Anyway, that royal wedding has served to remind the world that Italy still has a royal family. The thr*-' pools of Manitoba, Sas- katchewan and Alberta are now oper- ating on their second five-year con- tract period. These have a to'al membership of approximately 140.000 farmers in tie: world's greatest non-profit producers'; eo-opera'.ive marketing association. In less than six years the Canadian Wheat Pool has become the leading marketing agency for Canadian wheat, I handling more than half of all thej wheat sold by Canadian farmers. The Canadian Wheat Pool organiza-l tion is an evolution rather than a re- volution ia the grain marketing sys- tem of Canada. The pioneer farm- ers of our Canadian West, after they had found out by a long series of ex-, periments on their farms and at the Dominion experimental farms, the var-, leties of wheat which would give a . satisfac:ory yield of high quality wheat, were faced with the neces- sity of improving marketing methods | : ;:;im isr'>-.>r was to have any margin above the bare cost of produc- tion for his crop. For more than thirty years the wheat farmers of the West were en- gaged in a continuous stniKs'e fjr some measure of control over the mar- ' keting of their grain. In the report i of the Royal Grain Inquiry. 1925. it is; stated that: "Between the year 1S97 j and the outbreak of the Great W.ir ::i 1914. thirteen investigations into; vjri.nn departments of the grain; tradu were held by Royal commis- sions, in some cases appointed by : Federal, and other cast's, by Prov- 1 Incial authority. AM of these investigations were promp^d by complaints emanating from the producers of grain and they | all resulted in the bringing about of at least some beneficial changes In the conditions about which there were I complaints." Who Eats the Butter Halifax Chronicle (Lib.): Two ves- sels within a short time have be- tween them lauded 15,000.000 pounds of New Zealand butter at Halifax. It. of course, does not stay here, but conies to Halifax for distribution all over Canada. This is a very large amount of butter, but side by side with it place this fact, that into Can- ada came last year 15.000,100 people as tourists. That huge amount would make a pound each for the tourists. Attitude Towards Men Criti- cised by English Woman Who Stayed Two Months London. As a result of a visit to Canada which lasted two months, Mary Locke discusses co-education of boys and girls- ia this contribution to the Daily Mail: "Once I believed that co-education must produce a saner attitude towards sex than our present system of segre- gation. The two or three of my young acquaintances who have been so edu- cated have a frank and friendly man- ner towards members of the opposite sex that seems to me quite delightful. and when I visited Canada, where most of the boys and girls go to school together, I expected to find the same thing. "Not at all. The Canadian girls whom I met. either in their own homes or in hotels, seemed to me to have the same attitude towards men as the magazine heroines of the 'nine- ties. "They talked about their 'beaux,' j and were not only most artlessly anxi- ous to get married but apparently regarded marriage as the only satis- factory tareer. They lapped up the I most incredibly sentimental films and songs with frank delight and exclama- tions of 'Isn't it darling'." "If by any chance they were con- versing intelligently (as they were very well able to do to one of their own sex) and a man entered the room they Instantly became arch and allur- i ing, and seemed quite incapable of talking to him without somehow intro- ducing a sort of 'te-.e-a-te:;-!' atmos- I phere. "This sort of thing, I s-uher. starts quite early in life. I am told they have 'petting' (^otherwise 'necking') parties long before they leave school and continue them with unab.ited fevour throughout their coliegs life. One exceptionally austere young science student whom my brother and I invited to a picnic flatly refused to come until we pledged him our word that it was not giong to be a necking party. "I do not say this is not all quite natural in the young. Perhaps it is even as well to get the sentimental stage over early. Neither do I Imag- ine that I can judge of the effect of co-education in a two-months' "It is a good inauguration of the r newal of tho diplomatic re'ations be- tween Great Britain and the Soviet Union that Soviet purchases in this country have shown a considerable in- crease during tho fist th.-ee months of the financial year 1923-29," says the Bank for Russian Trade Review. "Or- ders placed by the Soviet trading or- ganizations during October-December, 1929, amounted to 4,770,228, as com- pared with 1.693,962 in October-De- cember, 192S. The following table shows the amount of Soviet orders each mouth ia pounds sterling: 1923 1929 October 637,Siit 2,994.022 November 537.470 1,593.591 December 498.62S l,082,61o Total 1,693,962 4,77 "The orders reached the highest level in October, but declined some- what during November and December, which is due mainly to seasonal fluc- tuations. "The work of the tractor service stations is of great importance in view of the attempt that is being made in the Soviet Union to improve agricul- ture. These stations were organized in connection with the existing collec- tive farms in order to utilize the avail- able tractors and agricultural ma- chinery for the cultivation of private peasant farms la exchange for a cer- tain portion of the crop. The first sta- tion was established near Odessa, in the Ukraine, less than two years ago, and by the end of September last there were mure than a hundred, whilo t'ae estimates uf tile current fin- ancial year provide for the establish- ment of another hundred stations dur- .- period. "In addition to supplyin; tractors and agricultural machinery and teach ing the peasants t-j work tiiem. th tractor stations give the peasants se- lected seeds in exch.ia,;a for t^tii own. Tor all the services rendered :ioa receives from 25 to 30 per cent, oi the crops. "The number of tractor service sta- tions is to be increased by October 1, 1933. to 575. The estimated grain pro- duction of the farms worked by tha stations in 1933 is 22 million tons. half of which q'.iaatity is to be aiu." Prison Sentence For Abusing Boy Immigrant Youth Receives Terrible Injuries When Thrown Against Revol- ving Wood-saw Regina. Sisk. A prison tonn has just been. meted out to a Saskatch- ewan farmer who was found guilty j of crippling a young immigrant lad. ' Alex. South was sentenced by Mr. } Justice Bige!o'.v !n i:ia King's I>::ch court at Prince Albert for a one-year : term. H. A. South, his fa:l::r. was lined by the Court. William Pealiinff. a Britis.li insml-. ernnt boy, received terrible injuries when he was thrown against a re- volving wood-saw allegedly by South: and his son. Peailing had a deep grnsh ha'.:' \v\y around his head. Other Injur manently disabled his rlj;ht han.i He was In H'e hospital for months and he was lucky to live. Nearly a year ago. the -ad wa- :r.- ployed on the South farm. Another' immigrant !>oy aud tlia Souths were sawing wood. According to George Bakie. !> was brought back from the State of Maine to testify in the case. South 1 and hU son hit Pealling and knock-' ed him against tie saw after they' had grown angry at the way the youth was handling saw-logs. The accused pair denied tiiat there had been a fight or an assault. They^ said that Tealling had stumbled over a log ac d^ad fallen against the saw. ' Increase of $8,534,396 Shown Over Figures for 1928 TorontoAOntnrlo's total drink bill for 1929 was set at $5WS6,514.S1. by Hon. W. II. Price, attorney-general, iu answerins a question iu the Legisla- ture. This represented an increase of $8,534.396 over 192S figures. In ad- dition, wine valued at $1.168,253 was worth to purchasers outside of Cnn- ad a. Tht> amount of spirituous liquor sold Sunbeam Company. Wil the great Coatelen be able to outdo his former pupils'.' This is the by the Liquor Control Commission j Question to the forefront in the racing during 1929 was $32,3'3$,502.91, wine 13,237,844. .50 and beer $2,120,430.50. Winf> sold In- wineries direct to On- tario consumers was $1,126.945. Beer sold from Commission warehouses w:n set at $1I,157,S65.I5 and sold dl- fraternity throughout the world. Fog at Westminster Truth (London): Two facts emerge from the fog. One, that their is no such thing as a Free Trade Party now. reel from tho breweries. $3,675,934.15. | The Socialist Party is so honeycomb- The above information was sought ' ed with Protectionist dissenters that by T P. Slack, Prog., Dufferln, In re- oven the stern and sardonic Mr. Snow- ply to u question put by \V. O. Medd, den shows signs of recognizing and Pros:, South Huron, the AUornoy-Geii- j condoning the backsliders of the back eral said that 1,146 persons. Including ; benches. That the trade unionists throe members of the board, were em- must come sooner or later to protec- ployed by tlu> Liquor Control Commls- j tion of their labor is obvious, and It slon. The total payroll was $1,721,- looks as if it would be sooner rather 822. 1:1. j thau later. Snow Sheers Still Hold Huge "Meets" AN ANCIENT CUSTOM WITH FOLLOWERS OF THE TRAIL This siunvshoe club Initiates new members with a "b lanketins" ceremony. Here Is shown a member "sky- Ugh", during the ritos attendant upon his Joining the fraternity. Zinc the Leader In Peach District Niagara Peninsula Agog Ovei Reports of Ore Dis- coveries Beam.-!-,-:'.:-. A!l lie farmers in t'ae Niagara peninsula xvlll be dropping their pruning knives for miners' picks anJ replacing their pitchforks -.v.-.i) diamond drills if the incrtiu-ius'y op- ."-.: -jo reports coming out o Lincoln County persist. A'. .;.:> pro-peels of un-.'arMrlng I<?.:d. :::ic :i: 1 silver ia paying quanti- ties in Clinton Township, between Smithvi!:* and Beamsvii'.o. have provi-d rosy enough to interest the Treailwell-Yukon Mining Company. rs of this and oilier concerns have ii.vUt-il ev.-r the property ,i::,i surface- assays a:i,l advis,' 1 commence- ment of diamond u- T-.v - drills n-;:i be brought from Trc;i>: *.-::= property in . w;:'.ii:i f to pre- sent pun-. nr.ected v. nation are vi~iui'.iz;nK a r-.:-!i c prospectors, promoters and develop- ment operatjrs into the (:is;:-:c\ A'.- if.:.:y they can see property values : an I ser feet tramplics down the sturdy pencil trees and lissome vines which cover Uie property a: pre- "c:it being tes:eil. A. J. Byles, of Toronto, a prospector who first ir.ienr-!icd traces of lead, now controls 3.000 acres in the section which he acquired at prices ranging from 540 to ?100 .in .acre. Kn.u.:icers are confident they can de- velop the property by scooping up ore in a steam shovel. Mail and Empire. State Purchases of Wheat Spectator (London): (The bulk pur- cinsi? of raw commodities by the Stats has been proposed in the British House of Commons). The dangers In- herent in State tradins ought not to be overlooked. Every time there was a rise in the price of bread a tornado of abuse would break over the head of the Govcriiuii-nt cf the day. And if a deal were put through by the Control Board with, for example, the Argen- tine, for nn exchange ot wheat and manufactured articles. It would cer- tainly bo represented as a serious blow to Canadian farmers, and could not fail to jeopardize the cause of Im- perial economic co-operation, and, in- deed, of Imperial unity In every sphere. Thcro , however, a grow- ing disposition on the part of mem- bers of the present House of Commons to consider Mr. \Yise's schemes on its merits, as a business rather than a political propoitien. A -*;:-; el h-':j searched was found to have tho following articles attach- ed to his underclothing: fish-hooks, scissors, knife, nibs, spoon, keys, shoe- horn, razor-blades, coat-hanger, ink- stand, and petrol-lighter. Heavy win- ter underclothing feels just like that this time of year.