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A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City The Osh L4 aa Dail Succeeding The Oshawa Reformer y Times PROBS, Cloudy Tonight and Sat urday. Not MuchChange in Temperature, VOL. 10--NO. 54 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy / TEN PAGES | COUNCIL WILL NOT FIGHT ACTION Sinclair Says Hydro to Blame for Seaway Delay LEADER OF LIBERALS IN HOUSE SAYS GOV'T. HOLDS ONTARIO BACK M.P.P. for Ontario South Rekes Government in Fighting Speech in On-| tario Legislature and Says Hydro Has Been Made Political Body QUEBEC HELPED BY GOV'T ATTITUDE Scores Minister of Mines for Dragging in Irrevel-| ant Matters as Smoke i. Screen to Cover Up Hydro Irregularities Toronto, Mar. 4--At the door of Hydro William E. N. Sinclair, Leg- jslature Opposition Leader, yester- day unceremoniously dumped the blame for the hold-up in the St. Lawrence development. Sounding an entirely new and ringing note in the debate that has engaged the chief attention of the Queen's Park House during the last two weeks, the Liberal chieftain bluntly charged that Hydro, instead of being in the forefront of the battle for the seaway and cheaper electric current, had gone on a pow- er-buying spree to Quebec that had made th. Beauharnois contract pos- sible, and, with that contract, the present halt in seaway progress. "Hydro, by the development of public opinion," he contended, "could have had the development under way long ago, but it did not want it, and does not want it. It filed plans at Ottawa, and then sat down. Hydro is with the Province of Ouebec and is buying its power, and is advancing Quebec and re- tarding Ontario." Mr. Sinclair's St. Lawrence pol- fey' exposition came as a stirring climax to a ninety-minute fighting address, to which he characterized "the strong, sure right arm!" which Hon. Charles McCrea, on behalf of the Conservative Party, threw about the shoulders of Hydro last week as the same right arm which, by its very intimacy with and closeness to the Hydro, had arous- ed all the demands for a complete and thorough Hydro investigation, "If all credit for the success of Hydro is due the Tory Party, as the Minister of Mines claims," sub. mitted Mr. Sinclair, "then all blame for failure must lic at its door. If the Conservative Party is so close to Hydro as it claims, then all the contracts into which the latter has entered become political." Mr. Sinclair's spcech was prim- arily a reply to the four-hour effort of Mr. McCrea, and he went «after the latter with a persistency that at times was most exasperating, al- leging that, for the purpose of "smoke-screening" the main issue before the eyes of the public, the latter had talked everything under the sun'but to the point before the house, and that his (Mr. McCrea's) explanation for the Government's refusal of awide-open Hydro probe consisted of such irrelevant matters as the record of the Ross Govern ment, the weakness of the Drury Government, th. Sifton manipula- tions, the Liberal London Conven- tion resolution and the Beauharnois scandal. Text of the Speech The text of Mr, Sinclair's speech was as follows ;-- "This debate has been interesting, The premier took two afternoons and the minister of mines took two afternoons. A well can only hold its own capacity. It is soon pumped out, Both of these speakers would have been better to have stopped with their first day's speeches. Their speeches will go down .in history as two of the longest and most ir- relevant speeches of all time. There was a concrete proposition before the house, but extraneous matter was introduced. Editorials and (Continued on page 7) "HAMILTON BANDITS TO RECEIVE LASHES (By Canadian Press) Hamilton, Mar. ¢.--Three youths who were arrested in To- ronto recently and faced robbery charges in this city were sen- tenced in police court today. Magistrate Burbige {Imposed - terms of eight years upon John Marshall and six years on Rob- ert Cooper and James Hunter, The trio were found guilty of the holdup of a grocery store. To these sentences the magistrate added 12 strokes of the lash in each case, to be administered during first six months. ' The Japs are not finding their Chinese enemies such easy prey as they may have imagined they would be, L 2 POLITICAL GIFTS USUAL, FRIENDS T0LD SEEZEY All Big Interests Paid, Beauharnois Head Says He Was Advised Ottawa, March 4, --Before mak- 2 his contributions to the cam- paign funds of the two main poli- tical parties, Robert O. Sweezey, former president of the Beauhar- nois Power Company, made it his business to ascertain if 'bankers and industrial interests" usually gave such sbscriptions, he told the Senate investigating commit- tee here yesterday. His enquiries resulted in his being told that be was "very simple if he didn't know that." Continuing, Mr. Sweezey assert- ed that information supplied to him was that any big organiza- tion which held any position on the political horizon would gener- ally pay into the campaign funds of both parties. "Their bet would be larger on the one they thought would win," he commented. Mr, Sweezey's testimony was given in the course of an examin- ation which covered much of the ground traversed last year by the Holise of Commons committee on Beauharnois. However, the Senate's investigation differs from that completed by the Com- mons in one outstanding respect, and in a way is supplementary to it. The House of Commons com- mittee in its report had eriticized Senators Raymond, Haydon and MeDougald for their connection with the eBauharnois enterprise, and the Senate committee is en- deavoring to establish the extent to which those criticisms were justified. Conservative Donation Asked Though a Conservative ap- proached him for a $200,000 con- tribution during the 1930 elec- tion, R. O. Sweezey, president of the Beauharnois Power Corpora- tion, was "not pursued' in the matter and made no donation, he swore yesterday. He named Jac- ques Cartier as the Conservative who approached him. Mr. Sweezey, who had the crowded committee room In laughter several times as he can- didly detailed his $600,000 or $700,000 donations to the Liber- al party, was queried regarding his dealings with the Conserva- tives hy R, S. Robertson, K.C., counsel for Senator Andrew Hay- don, one of tho three Liberal Senators whose Beauharnois ac- tivities are under investigation. LINDSAY YOUTH IS GIVEN SENTENCE Lindsay, March 4.--Abbott Crimmons, 18-year-old local youth, was yesterday afternoon sentenced to one year determin- ate and two years Indeterminate in the Ontario Reformatory on the charge of criminal negligence. The youth had been on trial at the local Spring Assizes, presided over by Justice Raney, for the accidental 'shooting of William Thornton at the Long Beach Pavilion, Sturgeon Lake, last November. The sentence will date from the time of Crimmons's ar- rest last November, and he will be paroled for two years on the termination of the same. | | MILK SUPPLY OF | Col. And Mrs. Lindbergh Make Direct Appeal to HIGH STANDARD Kidnappers of Infant | SAYS INSPECTOR Samples Show Low Bac | teria Count and High | Butter Fat That tests show the butter-fat content of pasteurized milk sup plied by local dairies to be "wel above the standard" required, with "very good bacterial counts" was noted m the monthly February submitted by inary and Food Inspector night's meeting of the B Health Dr. Dickinson, in attention to the plaints which he 1a 1! report ror the Veter at yard of Wis report called asional com- regarding 1 occ receives : Lan food products offered for sale, and | necessity of com- od complain- to emphasized the plainants preserving yoo ed of if his investigations were be effective. The Inspector's report part, as follows: Food Products "Occasionally, complaints been receive ith quality of d for sale, or their fitng consumption, Invar been found that plained of or destroyed a for examination, "In order to ma vestigation, ] such a type, to keep a sample, or even the cc plete article of fou ; and preferably in its 1 original container or wrapper It is only under such a method of handling that samples can be propetly exam- ined and investigated, City Milk Supply "Forty-one visits were made to the Dairies during the past month, read, in dealing Ww products offered 1 uman izable m= and at the time of these visits 105 | sediment tests were taken. Sedi- ment tests are taken each me milk samples from cach indivi producers herds~-oitencer if tests indicate that such is feces sary. sary, 'Tests taken last invariably good. J "Or -the samples of pasteurized milk and pasteurized cream submit- ted for examination, the reports in- dicate very good bacterial counts and Butter Fat content well above the standard. - "There has been noted consider- able over-hauling and cleaning of (Continued on page 3) GORDON CLAIMS HIS SPEECH WAS MIS-REPORTED Tells Committee He Is Ready to Express Re- grets to Premier month were (By The Canadian Press) Ottawa, March 4.--G. N. Gor- don, K.C., Peterborough, told the House of Commons committee here to-ady he had been wrongly reported in his speech at Hamil- ton on Jan, 6 last, when he was alleged to have made charges against Premier R, IB. Bennett and Major W, D. Herridge, Cana- dian minister to Washington, Mr. Gordon told the committee the story in the Toronto Globe cover- ed only part of his speech at Hamilton and that '"innuendoes and inferences' were written into it without basis in fact. He was ready to publicly ex- press his regret that he had made statements which were capable of such misconstructibn, he said. He had intended no charges against the probity or honesty of the prime minister, Mr, Gordon said. Britain Reduces Expenses of Maintaining Army and Navy London, March 4. -- Great Bri- tain has tentatively sliced $18,- 842,036 off the cost of her army, navy and air force for 1932, but left her naval comstruction pro- gram at last year's level. Total expenditures for ' the three branches of the service wero estimated in a Government statement at £104,364,300, a re- duction of £5,270,700. Thig announcement was lump- ed in with estimates of civil ser- vice and revenue department costes, showing that .the armed forces and the two civil depart- |i mouts must lop off a total of £1%,8567,360 if Goverument esti- mates are followed, The navy estimate called for an expenditure of £50,476,300, a decrease of £1,128,700. Most of this was accounted for in a de- crease in wage allotments and ¢imilar expenses to the tune of £1,059,000, © An average person- nel of 91,140, a decrease of 2,- 240 men, was provided for, The army estimate was £36,- 488,000, taking the biggest cut of the three services, £3,442,000. The air force was alloted £17,- 100,000, a decrease of £700,000. The new naval construction program contains little change from last year's. Two cruisers of the Leander class top the list, with one of the Arethusa class (5,000 to 6,000 tons), Also in- cluded are one destroyer leader and eight destroyers, four sloops, three submarines, one shallow- draft gunboat, one destroyer ae pot ship, and these small craft: One hoom defence vessel, one last | of i (By Canadian Press) I'renton, N.J., Mar. 4-Col. and Mrs, Charles Lindbergh issued an { appeal direct to the kidnappers of | their baby today, assuring the crim- inals that entirc confidence might placed "in any promise we may make", The appeal was issued through the office of Governor A. Harry Moore. It was given to the press in the hope that the kidnap- pers would read it and open nego- be Ask For Immunity (By Canadian Press) Hopewell, N.J., Mar, 4--State po lice revealed this morning that an us telephone call to the h home shortly arter mids m asked whethér immunity { would be granted to the kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby. The call was disclosed by Captain J. J. Lamb of the New Jersey state police, sta- tioned at the Lindbergh home, in telephone interview, through Lt. Conklin, of the State police, Police intercepted the call and immediate- le an effort to trace its | New York, March 4, -- tional radio appeal, which broad caetink officials sald was author- ized by an intimate friend of Colonel Charles A, Lindbergh, last night said: "Colonel and Mrs, Lindbergh not only wish but hope that who- ever is in possession of their child will make every effort to communicate with them." Held For Questioning Long Branch, N.J., March 4. i A man who talked with Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh by tele- phone last night was picked up by Long Branch police at the request of State troopers, He was Ernest Nedina of 241 Alpine Street and was held at headquarters to await the arrival of the troopers. Chief Charles McGarvey sald Nedina admitted talking with the father of the kidnapped baby but ta:d that the conversation was his "own business," and not that of the police. Threat to Colonel Hopewell, N.J., March 3, - Srurred by the steadfast confi (Continued on page §) plained of, | Shanghai, Mar, 4.---~Official Chi- nese despatches from Taltsang, 25 miles northwest of Shanghal, this afternoon gald the Japanese eleventh division attacked the Chinese forces there and a severe ¢ battle was under way, Despatches from Taitsang reached here by | way of Nanking. They sald the {| Chinese were putting up stiff re- sistance. Two Generals Killeg Shanghaf, Mar, 4.--Two Chin- | ese generals, Tang Chi Shui and Cong Chao Yuan, both of the 19th route army, perished in the de- fence of the Woosung forts, an official commnique sald to-day. Both refused to follow the orders of General Tsal Ting Kai, 19th route army commander, that they evacuate the forts yhen the Chi- nese retreat hegan. They chose, however, to die fighting and left a message pleading with the na- tion "to continue to resist the foreign invader" and expressing hope that the lost territory would soon be regained. Demands Rejected Shanghai, Mar, 4.--The Chin- ese National Government late to- day rejected a series of new Jap- gnese demands presented yester- day as a basis for further peace parleys just as the city of Shang- hal, surrounded by war for month, had begun quietly to get down to work again. The an- nouncement was made by Lo Wen Kan, foreign misister. Japanese official circles sald they did not care to discuss the rejection 'of their demands by the Chinese. They had received no oficial noti- fication of the rejection, they said, but they expressed the opin- ion that if it were true the situation was deadlocked, and '| New Battle Under Way Northwest of Shanghai that the Japanese military forces were likely to maintain their de- fense lines around Shanght{ in- definitely, Confident War Over Tokyo, Mar. 4.--Japanese gov- ernment officials sald to-day they were confident the war is over in China, in spite of the declarations made by W. W. Yen, Chinese rep- resentative to the League of Na- tions assembly at Geneva yester- day. An official here said they be- lieved the Chinese 18th route army was so disorganized it would ba unable to return to the ¢on- flict. Japanese egorts from now on, the spokesman said, would be concentrated on securing an early convocation of a round-table con- ference of world powers at Shang- hal. He sald Japan would parti- cipate in such a conference wheth- er the Chinese joined it or not, although efforts would be made to persuade the Chinese to join, Demands Action Geneva, March 4. +{--~ China's spokesman in the League of Na- tions assembly demanded today that the league act immediately to halt the advance of the Japan- ese army in the Shanghal area and to arrange a formal armis- tice. He charged that Japanese troops kept on fighting yesterday after an order had been given to cease fighting. Tsuneo Matsudaira and Naotake Sato, Japanese rep- resentatives, denied this, and as gerted their troops would be with- drawn from the rea as soon as conditions warranted. Mr. Sata said the troops of which Dr, Yen complained were Japanese rein- forcements which had started from Japan before the fighting was halted, and which no doubt would soon be returned, PENSION TRIBUNAL HERE NEXT MONTH Seven Cases Are Listed For Session on April 14 and 15 Notice has been received by the Oshawa Branch of the Canadian Legion that a session of the pension tribunal will be held in Oshawa for two days on April 14 and 15. Seven cases, four of them cases of Osh- awa veterans, have been listed Yor this season, but an effort is being made by the adjurnment officer of the local branch to have this list extended by the addition of other urgent local cases. The veterans whose cases will come before this Jession of the tribunal are as fol- ows: No. 895426--W, J. Scott, Brook- lin, Ont. No. 83225--John T. Dalby, 31 No. 40370--H. R. Bright, Myrtle Station, Ont. Warren Avenue, Oshawa. No. 57467 314 Gliddon Avenue, Oshawa, No. 853181--Thomas A. Day, 745 No. 746403--John H. Gulliver, R. R. No. 1, Town Line, Whitby, Ont. before, will hold its sessions in the auditorium of the Centre ' Street tug, two tenders and three light- ers. 4 Burke Street, Oshawa. No. 1063104--P. J. L. Gould, 109 '--T. Nightingale, Margaret Street, Oshawa. It is likely that the tribunal, as School. WATER SUPPLY IS * SATISFACTORY Condition Complained of Recently Has Now Been Cleared Up Commenting in his monthly re- port on the city's water supply, W. D. Muckler, the Sanitary and Plumbing Inspector, stated to the Board of Health "I am pleased to report that the water supplied through the city mains this past month has regained and maintained its former satisfactory standard af- ter the temporary lapse noted dur- ing the first week in January." It will be re-called, in this con- nection, that a test made in the Provincial Laboratories in Toronto, proved the water supply to be most unsatisfactory, this, it was found later, being due to the fact that the samples were taken at a most un- fortunate, time when the engineer at the pumping station had been overcome with chlorine gas and no person was attending the chlorina« tion system, The Inspector reported a busy month with communicable disease which, according to his report, are "now definitely on the decrease." Few Complaints The whole month of February, according to Mr. Muckler, "has been comparatively tree of serious complaints. Only a few complaints (Continued on page 3), A na- | for in January ten 1 "of ry {pecs INCREASE SHOWN IN CONTAGIOUS DISEASE IN CITY Over 300 Cases of Measles | Were Reported in | February From the report of the publi health nurses submitted at the reg ular meeting of the Oshawa Board | of Health held last night, and cov ering the month of February, it ap- pears that the number of cases of contagious discase ' reported has largely increased during the month, The po ast ! | the 238 report for January showed measles while for the February, the total was 318, an crease of 80 cases. Decrease Expected It is believed, however, according to the nurses' report, that the epid reached its peak last month and may now be expected to de- crease rather than increase in its violence. There was also an increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever reported during F the fifteen while nth of cases f month oli of m enue , tal ruar total hh 'being last mo Casts w CASCS pox cases ed during last month four as compared with thirty- January; whooping twelve as compared with ten; mumps, only two cases in February Dealing with the matter of a pre- valence of contagious disease in the city the nurses' report read, in part, as follows: Measles Reached Peak "Measles is still prevalent in epi demic form, thongh it looks as if this month has shown the peak of (Continued on page 4) was COugn BEAUHARNOIS GIFT WAS NOT RETURNED Secretary of Company Says Recommendation Is Not Yet Met (By The Canadian Press) Ottawa, March 4. -- The re- commendation of the House of Commons committee on Beauhar- nois to the effect that contribu- tions made to political parties from the company's funds should | be returned to the company's cof- fers had not, to his knowledge, been complied with, Hugh B. WILL STAND FIRM ON ESTIMATES, BUT WILL NOT GO TO LITIGATION LARGE GATHERING OF FARMERS AT THE SEED FAIR Addresses Delivered by Of- ficials From Government Departments (By Bowmanville Staff Reporter) Jowmanville, Mar. 4.--Yester- day being the second day of the Quinte District Seed Fair, the at- tendance was very gratifying, many farmers having come from quite distant points in the prov- ince while the attendance from Counties in the Society and the local district, shows®the interest that is taken in the sced fairs. Considerable part of the after- noon was taken up with addresses by the visiting judges and others, while President John Baker, of Hampton, presided. Mr. Baker expressed his pleas- ure in being a visitor to Bowman- ville and congratulated the exhi- bitorz on the excellent displays of grain, and especially those of Durham County which had figur- ed so conspicuously in prizes. He stated the success of the Fair wag greater than had been anticip- ated Mayor James, who was then asked to address the gathering, extended a hearty welcome to the visitors and wished them all fu- ture prosperity in their underta- kings, T. G. Raynor Mr. T. G. Raynor, of the Do- minion Seed Branch, Ottawa, was the next speaker, and in his ad- «dress congratulated the officials on the success of their efforts, which were especially commend, able considering the pessimistic sentiment prevailing. Mr. Raynor has been twenty-seven years with the Seed Branch, but has now reached the age, when on the first of November, he expects to be superannuated. "But I do not re- gret it," he said, "as I think a younger. man should take my place." Prior to his connection with the Branch Mr. Raynor spent three years with the Farmers' In- stitute of the State of Minnesota, and brought back many ideas, which had been studied and car- ried out in Ontarie. "Many feel that the bottom hag (Continued on page 3) ALDERMEN HAVE HANY MEETINGS Griffiths, former secretary of the Beauharnois, told the senate com- | mittee here today. As far as he | could remember, the only money | subscribed direct from the cor pany's funds was $10,000 given | to General Eric McQuaig in Mont- | real, for the Conservative party ! That sun had not yet been restoy- ed to conform to the recommen- Sation of the Commons commit- ee, PENITENTIARY TERM ON ARSON CHARGE (By The Canadian Press) Sudbury, March 4,-- John Slot- Insgki, who pleaded gulity on Jan. 29 to setting fire to the Sudbury Transit Company's garage on Sept, 6, 1931, was sentenced to four years in the Portsmouth Penitentiary hy Magistrate Mec- Kessock this morning. Some Dissatisfaction Being Voiced Over Meeting on Saturday Apparently the members of the City Council cannot look forward this year to any let us in the number of committee meetings which they are required to at- tend. During last year there was considerable dissatisfaction among the members of Council at the necessity for holding meet- ings on Saturday afternoons but this year, it seems, the same practice is being followed. A meeting of the Board of Works, of which Ald. Hawkes is Chairman, has been called for Saturday afternoon of this week and already some members of this important committee have voiced dissatisfaction with this arrangement, China Refuses Japanese Peace Terms, League Assembly Told . Geneva, Switzerland, March 4. Declaring that negotiations for a truce at Shanghai had broken down, Dr. W. W. Yen, Chinese spokesman, yesterday appealed to the specially summoned assembly of the League of Nations to ex- hause all means provided in the League Convenant in a deter- mined effort to establish peace with justice in the Far East, The Chinese spokesman open- ed his plea with a dramatic an- nouncement that armistice nego- tiations in Shanghai had failed, because the Japanse virtually dem#nded that the Chinese surd render. Dr. Yen did not call directly for the imposition of economic and military sanctions against Japan, Instead, he expressed the belief that "moral forces" still would be able to solve the con- flict. ; Troops Ordered to Halt When he had concluded, Ame bassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japan's representative, asserted that the Japanese troops in the Shanghai ara had been ordered to halt in their present position, and to cease fighting, provided the Chinese took no further hos- tile action. The Ambassador recounted the Tokio view of the responsibility for the conflict, citing anti-Jap- anese feeling in China and the boycott as the provoking factors. Mr, Green was a resident of Osh- the League Assembly--the second in history--was called by China under the article of the League Covenant, by which economic and military sanctions might be ap- plied, Dr. Yen concluded a long and moving appeal, by urging the As~ sembly to seek a settlement in conformity with the Covenant; to bring: about cessation of fighting and the withdrawal of the Japan ese forces; to recognize that the Covenant had been broken; and to declare that China was blame- less for the "present terrible jatate of affairs. * Mayor Macdonald and Ald. erman Boddy Give Coms prehensive Statement of Councils Attitude to Ed« ucational Estimates ~~ WANT STATEMENT FROM THE BOARD Suggest Ways and Means Whereby the Board of Education Might Make Further Reductions in Its Expenditures for 1932 If unfortunate controversy between the City Council and the 3oard of Education comes to the point where legal action is brought by the Board in the Supreme Court then the Council will allow the case to go by default, without putting up a fight, but nevertheless up to the that point Council apparently is still "standing pat" unless more detailed information is given to it regarding the estimated expenditures for the maintenance of the public schools. This much was learned last night when a representative of The Times discussed the whole attitude of the Finance Committee and City Couns cil with Mavor Macdonald and Al William Boddy, "The Board force our hands through some legak technicality, but still we in council think we are quite right in the stand we are taking", said Alds Boddy, chairman of Finance Committee, During this interview the Mayon had before him the reply from the Board of Education to the sugges« tion put forward by Council tha the two bodies meet in a furthes conference, the contents of this let ter being made known to The Times with the request:that detailed pubs lication be withheld until it has been formally received and tabled for the information of Council ag a whole. Invitation Refused It may be said, however, that in this communication the Board de= finitely, though courteously, refused the invitation to any further cons ference with Council, The letter refers to two other conferences and infers that {furthet action of the same kind could not improve the situation, The Board also informs Council in this letter that the Chamber of Commerce has offered to act as a "court of arbitration" in settling the whole controversy, and suggests that Council give its consideration to this suggestion, Discussing the letter from 'the Board Ald. Boddy stated "therg have not been two conferences, there has only been one, the fired one, when the members of the Board met the members of Couheil before the budget was passed. The second conference was not an official gathering at all. It was simply a case of certain representa« tive members of Council, the Mayor Ald. Hyman' and myself, meet 1g Dr. Brown, chairman of the Board's Finance Committee, and two of three other school trustees for an informal talk and an exchange of opinions, Not Bindng "I myself made it perfectly clean to Dr. Brown at that time that anys thing we said or did could not pos= | sibly be binding on the whole couns | cil, or even the Finance Committed of Council, and that the whole pro«# ceedings must be considered ad purely informal and unoffical. Dr Brown understood that thoroughly, | That meeting could not possibly b classed as a 'conference' between (Continued on page 3) : BRITAIN TO LIMIT RUSSIAN CREDITS: the Will Not be Extended Ea cept Under More Strings. ent Conditions a London, March 4. --Tightening | of British export credits to Russ | sia was indicated yesterday in Government announcement in th House of Commons, A Hereafter, the announcemen said, credits for longer than om year will not be extended excep under more stringent conditionsy but the exact nature of the coms: ditions was not announced 4s. they still were a matter of negos tiation with Moscow, "It was generally assumed "im political quarters that Great Britain was insisting on greates | purchases of British manufactu os. Na British-Russian trade and creds it relations are expected to b one of the subjects. discussed the coming Imperial Confere: at Ottawa. !