m mil TAXI Boston Grill 25 and Ambulance Large Upstair Dining Hal!, Service with newly laid dancing Anywhere at Anytime floor, for hire. NEW SODA FOUNTAIN. Slnnd: Kxchnnge Ilullding PRINCE RUPERT The latest and best for the .MATT VIDECK, Prop. . least. Phone 4S7. Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper VOL XVII., No, 4. PRINCE HUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1927 Circulation 1528 Sales 401 Price Vive Cents CHRIS BRITISH Women and Children Put on Shins While Military Evacuates Chinese troops and pickets take possession of besieged city, disperse mobs of angry j coolies and soon restore order HANKOW. January C. Ilritish residents of Hankow aban-vd thrir conceMion shortly before mldniKht whin the women , hiidrcn were put aboard ships in the Yangste River and Brit ailnrs, marines and volunteers left the place and boarded a sh warship. Three hundred armed Chinese troops and two dnd Chinese pickets immediately occupied the concession. On miry, the Chinese troops disiersed the angry mob of coolie ' restored order. The streets, which immediately became quiet, c leaml of all Chinese except troops and pickets. All the British were withdrawn from the streets and the Chinese were left ,n complete control. VANCOUVER HAS 137,197 PEOPLE in in i s im-iskihc mm: TIIOIMMI IN rT KH XH mntKT or MTV .iit -01III.H IMOKMUION .ZR Jan 0 Vnwou ..r reaped by almost 9 POO t i ; ui nr. T .: rensus taken by the Hty r amis loner shows Van-t- i- ; . today m 1ITJ9T. ThU lit' vei! flrar was 128.366. Aft rtu ut IllJDOOOOO In th X t.rwr.M.; 1m It tlxxa Of thU I! 500 90S .t .i, und tur mod tit ,dr i, improvement, du to tb - 1 : lruvUoo Of th past year. T I - asaeaamtnt of laad U DO H :IJ60 and of Improvement l8. iceo " Ml mill tax rat. whleh bn r i :td t t th put year Uit In- assessment UI produco 1190.- 053 c r a taxation rvenu. for the 3 last year DUKE OF YORK SAILED TODAY "NO tov.uu: Of iiovai. totri.K niMMKNCEII ,T roltTSMOtTII TlllH MOUMSU lllt()Tlll it" AMI OIUCIALX -Ittr.r fORTSMOUTU. Jan. ft-The Duke and !' in of York left thla mOTitlni Oil batti cruuer Renown for th 3. .ill Klobo enclrellni eorace dealcned ' titen ..... the .... bond between ' th ir Country and th Dominion of , r.u. tna new seawna. uur,n . Norm,n Morrl. orn tour, the Duk. who I. th. Kin,'. J Mr Porler daon. wtnrnth.nwAu.tral..n. all hta llf. alnce nmuh at uanoerra, A larea uwmhltn yltnwted the r ... . .- ... . 1. I -elllng co.npan.ona Among thoa. er :en, were th. Pr.nc. of Wlea. Prlnc. Cl Premier Baldwin and other gor. ' -Jiicnt offlclala, IS SAVED FROM TIBER WOLVES ONTAUIO l.l MIll'.UMtN1 lll IlifKINd KM'rillll.MK IN' AMIOMJIIV rtiiK iton u iiv oami: W.t IIPKV HUNTSVltXE. Ont., Jan. 0. Alone d unarmed and surrounded by pack llen howling timber wolvea on Cano Lake in Algonquin Park, Elwood Blow, lumhrrmsn, xnu saved rrom rJpsth Dy gam. warden whri- .attracted by th howl of th animal, cam. to the reacue. killing aeven of im. Bloaa on hta -way to HunUviye 'i'om cft,nP hn he waa punned an'j aurfounded y th. pack. II put p a dwperat. 41 "Kgle bofnn the warden arrived. MOELLER RESIDENTS ABANDONED Representatives of Ubar, faraera. merchants, tludrnts and soldier kav already formulated demand to b pf-sented through th Can tone government to the British consular rtrtot demanding Indemnity for Chloe alleged to hart been killed and wouoded Id Monday disturbance. Um withdrawal of gunboats and an apology to the ChiiVM government Liimkiv mil i:t-liit IOXOOH. Jan. . Orrat DrtUM to day aa brratBtnc a tlU raator over tat UflM attuaUon at Kaiikov (km rthlo( croadi of ChlHn oaUea havo overrun th Brttlab osweaatM. Tit aMthtett proTocaUon by th BrttWh. boetvrr. It U frit ! U. tir to turn th ucty erodt Ihrr into UBOoatroUaMo moba. Th rorrlfn oSict UaH rmrntnc aaM that no further aoaoal derttep-mnu bad occurrnl In Hankow Mot tt Brttlah marten wr iibdrawa on Tuday hn tb BrtUab volunUcrt atrr dtaarmod and th Cblnca popuVa-tloo vaa allowed frr entry to tfle Drltlah quarter fremlrr Baldaln and foreign Secretary Chamberlain ha been la frequent confrrenc but there ai no Indication thla mornlnf that th cabinet had yet been tummoned to dtaeuaa tb grat outlook. Meanwhile, naral force art being concentrated In Cbtneae atert. YETERAiTiiNING" " RECORDER PASSES AWAY IN CAPITAL Ijitr Jamen rrler .Mining Kiinler at Orav Uae and Ooternnirnt .tgenl at Telegraph trrek VICTOnlA. Jan. . After 73 ycara cf eventful llf a hunter, mining recorder. gcernraent agent and maglatrat In th proTlnc( of Brltlah . Columbia. Jame comlni around anent Columbia. He waa former mining recorder and oernmrnt agent at D.a Lak. and ac ed M MMraU -1 Telegraph Creek He . - ....... hunter wnn me urc j-w laid out th tlrat tranacontmentat railway through th Yellowhead Paaa. MORE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS ARE FELT MEXICAN BORDER CALEX1C0. Jan. 6. Six mor aharp earthauake ahocka were felt her and In the town of Metlcall acroaa th. Mexican border WUa mornlnf. Several walla of building prevloualy damaged wert ahaken down but otherwlae there wat nn inu nwiev and El Centro aUo felt th trrmora. Ensland aolaahed through th. wet .(. November on record. Five Inchea of rain fell Inalcadof th average two, Total aunahln wa 41 hour. N Ten thousand sutomoblle and truck will be mad In England during 1937 and aeut to Melbourne. Amtralla. TITAXIA'S PALACK, the Hmallest palace in the world, deiijrred by Sir Neville Wilkinson of London, is now on a world tour on behalf of children's charities, and it is on exhibition for three weeks in New York for the benefit of the Babies' Hospital. The palace, which is valued at $100,000. is built on the scale of one inch to the foot, and covers an area of 63 square feet and stand 27 inches high. The picture snows Sir Neville Wilkinson with the tiny palace, complete in every detail QUALITY OF ACHIEVEMENT Mil IT t MVUiHN Ml!T IXAHN IX-fTi:W OI ,t.tTITV MiV MIV- MCi.u Mioi i oit riKioiti: kimam ( Lin Wl.VNirEO. Jan. 6. (By Oanadlan j Prw).--Depacrlat the pr.eoeeat fashion . ..... . . . . . . . - - w of nvartog oetvlev by a raatertal ntaaoMtt lrof W. T. Oshorn. soeaklrm before mMSJber of the Winnipeg Klwanla Club, declared that OanadtoM must learn to think of achievement In terms I of quality rather than quantity if they would ream for thetr eouairy the g lor lou deetliiy of whleh every true Canadian dreamed -W (peak with aatlsf action of In creased railway convtrvetlon. of a fa-1 vortbi balance of trade, of bank profit. and wheat oropa. and think to measure -our groatneo thereby. But greatness Is ; measured primarily by mental and spir itual achievement." Prof. Osborn aald. Referring to th glory of the ancMni world, the summit attained by Egypt. .Babylon and Chaldea. by Oreece and Rome, and later by Oreat Britain, the tpeaker declared that In each case their greatest glory had been realUed In the mental ana spiritual field. The golden age of Oreat Britain had ben the day of Shakespeare. Marlow and Jonaon. of Baeon and 8encer. The reason for the lack ef Canadian literature. Prof. Osborn attributed wrong standard of aehlevetrint. Men wrote to make money, nt to make book, h. stated. Not untU th. baser motive of writing to sell, was driven out. could we expect a Canadian literature to flourish Books that lived were books drawing their Inspiration from the heart of the writer and not merely from til" brain LANDSLIDE AT PORT ALICE ItEM'l.TN IN HEATH OF ONE MAN, tin noi m. HE.Moi.isiit:ii AMI ANDIIIIU CAUItlr.ll INTO MIA VICTORIA, Jan. 6. The provincial police reporta that two houses were demolished, on house wa carried Into the sea and J. Clark, a milt employe at Port Alice, Was drowned In . landslide from recent heavy rains on tht north end of Vancouver Island. TWKNTY.TWO KILLED When At alum lie Engulfed Military lUrrnrks or Klmkalikl DMrlct In MtirrU MOSCOW, Jan. 6 Twentytwo mo.t were killed when an avalanch en gulf ted the military barracks of K.n kahskl district In Siberia. LIQUOR DISAPPEARS Detectives Attempt to find Where Portion of . Schooner's VICTORIA. January 6. Detectives are attempting to solve on i.u.ir td. ,.itnm anthnrittp mnajj u v u.-.s..... - r mjoirj u. mc uikci' RCfUWJier viiris jiue.icr w.m... wan ucms .t wnnu n.v stance of the customs commission according to the Victoria Times. "One hundred cases of whiskey are put In reports as having been dropped overboard or having left the ship in some other manner." says the newspaper. "Just how much of the cargo will be missing before all is unloaded and put in one of the government , . warehouses here will likely never be BOAT COMING FOR REPAIRS CANADIAN KAMJEIl Ol" (MJ.M.M. DIE IIEKE NEXT IVIEUCOASTAL SEKVH K MKIIMIAV CJl.M.M. freighter Canadian IUn;rr U due here on January li In enter dry dock for repairs and nterhaul. The verl, whleh li In the company's lnlerviwtal ertlre. will route up from Vanromer where he arrlel early thl week from Montreal with cargo. It will be her first Wt to till port. The flrt C.II..M.M. to be torn-plrteil miller the CanadlAn gov-eminent ' shlpliiiUdlng pngruin, tl.e Canadian lunger was built In Montreul In IBIS. he l one of the (MI.M.M. largest rla lilp. bring IihI fret. I In. lit length with beam of 3'i feet, S In; depth SJ fret. I In.: gros toiinage. liti rrgMerrd, SAIL SURVIVOR OF SIEGE AP I IIPtl Allf nlP(,f,lnun," taring o!is.cnrB.. iukjc Ur LUIKNUW rAojfcO itember. the horses were landed at Len- lngrad late In October. Five hundred of (inure Mlllrlt. Aged K. lMtf llroldent of Vltinrla, IMnl There U-t Mght VICTORIA, Jan. 6 Oeorg. Millet, aged 68. the sole currtvor of the alege Lucknow in the Indian mutiny of 1859, died here last night. He had long been a resident of Victoria. VANCOUVER KXCII ANG E Bid. Asked. Wheat 1344 B.C. Silver 1.80 1.70 Dunwrll U0 131 Olacler 08?; .09 Oladston .29 .30 Independence ' .00 .09 li Msrmot 10 MY, Porter Idaho UH .14 Silver Crest 05 yt .08 y, Richmond UH .18 Vt HANKOW CONCESSION Cargo Went nnH th l.innnr Control Board the i i, nf K H..r r,n nf (h. !." -y ..t- -e- - known. Official explained today that no complete cargo manifest had been discovered although customs figures shoved there were 17.779 cases on board beside about S.000 cases on deck. OTTAWA, Jan. 6. No report has been received here by the department on th rumored ahortage in liquor cargo on thte schooner Chris Aloeller at Victoria, RUSSIA TAKING CANUCK BRONKS Ml VIET (iOYEKVMENT HAS 1(1)1 till! I.IMH) DtAIKIE HOUSES AM) WANTS MANY MOKE REOINA, Jan. 6. (By Canadian Press Satisfied with the first shipment oi 1.000 prairie bronchos, th. government of Soviet Russia plans to purchase between 3.000 and 8.000 we-.ern Canadian horses in 1927. stated Jack Byera, representative of the Dominion Livestock branch, who with J. C. Hargrave. of the Dominion Health of Animals branch, delivered th. shipment at Leningrad. General Botlnny. Cossack hero of Rus- ala, inspected the horses and expressed j satisfaction wtth the majority of the them came from Saskatchewan "knd the remainder from Alberta and British Columbia. "We received courtesy and constdera- otltion practically all the time during our stay In Russia. Mr. Byera aald. "Our op portunlttea tor observation were of course limited, but our movements wer at no time hampered. From what we aaw of the life of th people and of thtlr Industrial activities. It would appear that many of the reporta we sometimes read. the alleged chaotic conditions In th Soviet cannot be based oa authoritative Information." Powerful searchlights, sunk below ground level In ooncret. trough, with flat glass cover, have been Installed at London's air port, so that airplanes can land directly on the lights if necessary. 1 THO BOATS HEIMi ' LINEh SAME TIME il ,. li ' lined here at once. Work on the i i Ocean Transport Co.'a freighter J I Ryoka Mam. has been done at the dry dock pier, and the res- set will be finished and ready to move down to the elevator tonight. Th Smith line vessel T Welsh City. U being lined at tb i ocean dock and the vessel will . nave to B ko to arr oock. T Z. . .. . 7 wora oa win tne ooais is d : f carriea out oy nc ary ooca ' staff. , WEATHER TIGHTENING ALLOYER DISTRICT Krrexln; Temperature Kerorded at all Central Interior lulnts In Cotern-men! Telegraph Morning Ke-port j ! There has been a tightening up of i the weather throughout the district dur- Ing the past few days with f reefing! temperatures reported this mcrnlng at 8 j o'clock at all points as follows: , Prince Rupert Clear, calm, tempera-! ure 29. Terrace Clear, calm, temp. 20 above. Qalyansh Clear, calm. temp. H bove. Anyox Clear, calm, temp. 23 above. Alice Arm Clear, calm, temp. 26 bove. Stewart Clear, calm. temp. 19 above. Haze it on Clear, calm, temp. 12 above. Smlthers Clear, calm. temp. 3 below. Burns Lake Clear, calm. temp. 5 below. PIONEER VANCOUVER WOMAN PASSES AWAY Mrs, Catherine Tlerney. Widow of CP.lt. Coiil rati or, fame to fuut fifty Yeurs Ago VANCOUVER, Jan. 6. Catherine Tlerney, widow of the late William Tlerney. Canadian Pacific Railway contractor died yesterday at the age of 83 years. She came to British Columbia fifty years ago via the Ithsmus of Panama. UNITED STATES WILL PERMIT ARMS BEING SENT TO NICARAGUA WASHINGTON. Jan. 8, The Department of 8tate haa notified the Dial government of Nicaragua that it will permit the exportation from United Slates of arms and war munitions purchased In . this country by that government. And woman's reputation tor curiosity actually rests on the on. question: "Where hav you been JOHN BUCKHAM NEW CHAIRMAN HARBORBOARD SIKVKEIl or LKtiILTlKK MILL IIE.I VANfOlVtll IIAKUOIt COMMISSHOV IN htCCESSIDN TO t()U KIUKI'ATKICK 7ICTORIA. Jan. 6. Hon. John Buck-hain of Golden, cpeaker of the Brltlah O lumbla legislature, will be chairman of the new Vancouver Harbor Board according to Ottawa advices. He will succeed in that pcsltlon Lieut. O. H. Kukpatrlck who. with other memberj of the Vancouver Harbor Commission, haa Just teen asked for bis resignation by the minister of marine and fisheries. It Is cot known whether Mr. Buck-bam will have to resign from the legislature, of which be la member for Columbia riding, when be accepts the appointment THREE BODIES ARE RECOVERED ino ARE VET TO BE ItllNU OF VIC- tim of ,.tn; VEAK .MORMM1 IIKOH.M.NU ON AllllOll' LtKES NAKUSP. Jan. 8. The bodies of six- lund. 27. two of the five victims of the drowning on the narrow of the Columbia River across from Arrow Park wer recovered on Wednesday. The others who were drowned were '''.'covered on the day of the accident; jy The tragedy mg. occurred about 3 jo New Year's morning when the party were returning In a small boat from the other aide of the lake after1 having attended a dance. Their boat capsized ncd all fire were drowned. Arrow Park Is about half way between Upper Arrsw Lake and the Lower Arrow Lake on the narrows of the Columbia River. Constable W. A. Jupp of Nakusp has been In charge of search parties for the bodies. JAP FISHERMEN MAY BE DROWNED lEAItS EXIMtESSEII rOK SAFETY 1)1 SEINE 110 IT WHICH I.KIT CHE-.MAIMS IIIK WEST COAST VANCOICEII ISLAM) ON' DECE.MUEK tl VICTORIA. Jan. . Anxiety la being felt by West Coast fishermen for the safety of the crew of th aelne boat Jessie Island No. 4 which left Chemalnus on December 26 en rout to Barkley Sound with a cargo of herring nets. The name of the owners of the vessel, which la now long overdue, is unccr-tslra but It Is believed to have been operated by Japanese and manned by a crew of from three to five Jap fishermen. In fair weather, the trip would take from thlrty-alx to forty-eight hours but mishap la feared from the severe storms that hare been aweeplng th west coast off and on for the last two weeks. TRANSFERS IN NAVAL SERVICE I'AY.MASTEU- COSSETTE (IOES KKOM ESIJCIMAI.T TO HAI.It'AX 1.11'ET. COMMANDER KINO TO Es-(JCIMALT OTTAWA. Jan. 8. Announcement 1 mad. by th Department of National Defence that Paymaster Lieutenant Cos-sett. R.C.N.. of the naval establishment at Esquimau has been transferred to Halifax. Lieut. Commander a. H, Xing, R.N.. will be loaned by th British Navy to th Canadian government to replac Cassette at Esquimau.