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.1. _ . l")... - . '- . ‘M; "of tli ‘" llestris ‘ still .j3uilerlris a! ai-esult g ir sir- Igfloh "when the vesseiiounder- 13‘ grave-charge! , tier oath before‘! United States Commhsioh-

a wdsy- . _. ‘witnesses at the opening session do Fcdoral lnilillly bcfbre United gutahOomlnisisoner ‘Francis 0'- Neil. were all passengers. Freder- fck w, Puppe, whose -wife‘and sev- gr! months’ old baby were lost. was the iii-st to testify, and Carlos Quir- os, chancellor ‘of lthc Arltlitme consulate at__ ashlngton, the last. ‘ puppcin a broken voice-choking at times ahirooocb eakihs oil , testimony 00 N150 "hi! IP60" "(soles and polish thenn-told how h, stood with lls wife and bab on 1h, gym-ply sloping deck of the es- t is Monday forenoon and-anxious- ,‘ gcanned‘ the horizon for the Fsteamers we were-absolutely sure ‘jjnust l-iavcbsen oelledh our heir." "Suddenly. though we heard no orders and though no officers wore in sight," ba . ".the,or,ow be an to take down ‘ ‘lifeboets. oil ‘could see that none of them had {ever even tried to lower a‘ lifeboat 1.. “mo, ‘They ran from-one boat to ~ another. talrinrvhinsirfrom one»? putting theln into another. i didii t ‘realize what this meant. but later 1 , discovered. . ' , _ ."At night when we were out in Y the lifeboat. we saw that there were flares ‘insoindijbfi ‘the ‘other boali. though ours were wet. Then I real- ized’ what it meant when I saw men taking think! (Wm one boat‘ and putting than} into another. They “ were axing‘ a» few with proper eti- ‘ uipinent, planning. to rldelri‘ them ' themselves,‘ 12d“ the " "winked ‘to their friends ‘ ‘ioirr chi?" Puppe charged the‘ ‘ship's crew ' with aniihemcieiicy which,‘ he said was indicated first when they sailor‘ ~ Saturday ‘and fidwaitold that the steward in charge of his‘ stateroom was ‘drunk. ' and continued “right through to the doing‘ hours in the y lifeboat, whefifhe testified‘ that the ‘occupants found salt. water lfl the

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Jdrlniting cas 4 910010119 who," ‘

Quiros, a- dapper flgurtiln-spats

‘ wlth- pearl. greyohat rusting \on~» hi: .f lineesff ‘ . dramatic niornentaof thesfteriiooif ' . “A man Tirfoetn s-"niisiiisi!" he ‘ said. Fcame iipto and said

4 v

Announcements, Coming‘ Events, Meetings, Etc.

5:10am sloop, an» oars. Better dais. All Grocers.

"See "The White Feather" in Victoria Hall, Monday, . November 19th at ll30 p. m. Charlottetown talent. ~ - ' 9109-11-16-31

"Club loading hogs arid Monday, Nov.‘ fletiryat 8t. Peters. 0. W. J. Mcinnis; Se'o'y.

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- , ‘cube’ 8529-10-20-8

"fir. t, min-start nowboino vreven 4 cure. Purdv Weatchaatcr Co.. N. Y. U‘. S. A.

iI-‘l-omos

°Dona on Party Trinity Social

‘ Hall neat] Mend evening. Brim; Fancy Work for‘ ‘ , ‘ _

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“Lo _ livehogs atiiavelbrook

0h ' ‘lsday. Novembe 21st-

Jiarry ‘ ‘N ins. .90_o2-i1-i4-5i

A "a e Bale in st. Petcrfs

schoolrbom next Monday, 19th.. at 8 o'clock!" ‘ ‘ ‘ c140

duo-tn I . Paul's tea and

' [ on ‘ ' . r iilat-ii-iiéai

Annandale Hall. 19th.. ll-l5-3i

.' "ta ' 4i; lambs , 01¢ . . It g t$m of _ , _ a ‘.1 m-l-ii-s m tf an ‘ - -at_ ti 30th. ‘ '\ ‘ v L.

"Whit, M0010. Monday. gvcnilll. November ‘ , ' 0050-

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some of the most

CHINA

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‘Tea, Games‘

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"W088 are getting bad. I just saw an offlcer pull a gun on a. negro gen-

andthrew itninto the sea."

“Anyone with common sense.“ Qlliros‘ said, "would have sent . an BOB from the Vestris more than‘ l2 gossip‘ earlier‘ than Captain Carey

Quiros testified that as he left the harbor Saturday, the. vesLrlg was listing. Friends who saw him off. he declared. warned him against the boat. My")! it was "one of the worst in the service."

Quiros declared that men were separated from their wives as the lifeboatswere filled. and their plac- es in the iifeboats taken by, memb- ers of the crew. He said that, as one boat was being lowered, memb- ers of the crew were patching a hole in its side-Pan old" hole," he de- clared. “dark around the edges."

Wallace Sinclair,‘ one of the calm- est witnesses. said that<the flares in his lifeboat were in a “cannisteflso rusted that nobody could get it op- ened until a negro seaman finally ,_ ‘ it off with a hatchet. o inembe a of the crewdn that li e- boat, he charged, knew where the flares were. “We had to find them ourselves." he said. “and when we did and finally got them out oi the cannlstcr. half of them broke."

LIFEBOAT LEAKED

Sinclair said the lifeboat in which he rode was minus patches of paint. ias ‘big as his hand and leaked through the seams.

Sinclair charged that there was “an entire lack of any plan of get- ting the lifeboats down, or getting" the passengers into them."

“Illld nothear. at any time,"lie

declared. “an order to the passeng- ers to put on their life-belts." ' Herman Rueckert. of Leipzig. Germany. gave a graphic picture of the way the ship lurchcd before the storm that struck it almost as soon is it got. to sea. He said that on Monday‘ morning he opened his ca- . bih ‘door to see o. steward rilnxiing woo a. ifs-belt on. "Should i also have a. lie-belt?" he askodnand said the steward-told him-that he might as well; Thatybe said-was all that was done by way of preparing the ‘passengers to go overboard.

T called. Charles Tuttle. United Sta- tes attorney in charge of the en- quiry. told reporters at the close of

r wdays session thatrhe was not sure

about th Jurisdiction oi the unizsa States urts in the matter. he Vestris being a British ship. _

"What I want to find out," he said. “is. whether the charges are true that American citizens have lost their lives at sea through neg- ligence. I-f lariybodyb negligence has cost the lives of American citi- zens those people will be called to account by this office. We'll talk about jurisdiction later."

Important Moi-l, ' Lost in Disaster

(Special to the Guardian) . OTTAWA, Nov. 16:,—The sinking of the steamer Vestris sent many bags of registered and diplomatic mail to the bottom of the ocean. among which were several import- . ant reports which Juan Margueriat, Argentineconsul at Ottawa. had spent many long and weary hours preparing. The pouch of mail in which Mr. Margueriat had placed important documents destined for diplomatic hands in his native land of Argentine contained the results of many weeks survey (In his Dilli- and he feels quite disturbed at its loss, Mail in considerable quantit- ies from news ‘agcnciesin the cap- ital was alao lost. according to post office officials.

succésrzolv‘ i ISHABSURD r

. (Canadian Prom) - 8T. JOHNS. “fldvv Nov. _l6‘ —

ab- Richard Squires. whose penny

man and the negro grabbed the gun»

omen-row uflccrs‘ and-members - oftho, crew of the Vestiris will be "

‘ s4 YS SQUfRES _.

be thB . continent biit

Elli

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L’Evenement says Pre-

mier Kins‘ Will be

; Forced» to Appeal

, Sept. 1929 Due to Hoover Policies.

QUEBEC. Nov. m-noocrsl clog-

Prediction of the Conseifvativq daily LEvenmen-t. vmicli sees in the “Whmmlnfl twill and waterway activities of President-elect Hoover the two reasons’ that will force Pfemlfl‘ Kins to the country, even though ‘his lVLP/s say they canny; afford an election before 1930.

“In oib- view." says Ldiivenemcnit, “the King Cabinet is obliged to have recourse to this expedient to avoid serious eiiitarasslnent. mom the moment he takes office, -Mr. fioover will work on achieving his economic program. Two of the ele- ments directly affect Canada-the mcreosck-in the tariff crn agricul- tural products and the canaliza- tionof ilhe St. Ualw-rence.

“The question of the tariff leaves

but -it is not the same with the con- troversial question of fomililg an in- itemsrtaonal partnership m exploit St. Lawrence waters. Mr. King will have two powerful motives to solicit renewal of his mandate‘ be- fore being shoved into recalling thenearip. ‘lscahehasmadeln connection Milli the waterway. Cer- tainly he villi not beauxiious to ap- pear like linking orders from. Wash- ingfozlyand ‘he will prefer not to

'give two rrruchfiocount to/hhe peo- ple on the manner in which that "

question will be tackled."

‘(In addition, one West is already crying ‘out that the pnioe of wheat is ilropllifll 00o quickly. and it is just as‘ well not to wait much long- ee. Wlth- the promise of another railroad us. cwhcirepr other. there ,oiiglirt to be means to shop Mr. |.Bennetit 1mm gotta-rig the cotuitryh

“ence. The nelet sewion, there windy be long, and the phob- is‘ that it will ‘be followed tn the people in Bel!-

' fore. I ability

by an appeal tember." i029‘.

PIRESENTED a CREDi-ENTIALS

we dfltllll #0, the Govcrrioruieiiei-al, Viscount wil- lingaoa at’ svvmimflit ‘hiiw today. With the Dominion gov- ernment‘- rcwesentedb! DP- 0s n. exciton. Undoi- secretary fer " External Affairs. the ceremony was brief.

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Sir Aliuten Chamberlain Addresses Canadian Club. in the French

Llflfllllfi _

l’ i ’ ' (Canadian Press) QUEBECflNW. 164-111 an ad’

dress before the Canadian Club her? today, -Sll‘ Austen Chaiiiiberlain. British foreign secretary. evoke on the British Empire. Canada's duty twards 4hr: British Commonwealth of Nations arid the part played by the French-Canadians in the de- velopment of the dominion. He spoke in French. '

The empire, he declared. Permit- ted the component peoples t0 Dre‘ esrvmtheir traditions, It was not an empiric of conquest or aggres- sion but a union which guaranteed peace wherever King George reisn- 8

do \ 1

‘"1 find here in Canada." the $118111! er continued. “‘a' nation bound by the traditions of two great races. the combined efforts of which have resulted in the high position held by Canada today. -

"Fmncla ‘ ," Sir Austen went. on, "you. have added your qualities; yon have made of Can- ada. throu ‘ your union. your loyalty an your traditions. a ‘ strong nation. The people of"Great Britain hold you in the highest‘- re- gard. You find in the British Em- pire all the liberties you could have found. had you constituted yourself into an independent state; but you have received security, a security you would have not obtained had

remained alone."

Sir Austen then referred to Ca- nada's membership in thesociety of nations. which is the British Em pire. "As a ituilnber of this society you agar-cue a gyeat ‘influence in world aflaih that will increase Wi h

years tit-dome. not only on t ‘throughout the world."

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lions in 89111094011191‘. 1999. are the -

part of the electorate indifferent, f

CANADZ‘ AND. ' '

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Iain. British secretary, fairs, and Paul Clair

' I

Audience Last

Dumbells in the tenth annual re-' vue of the company _under the:

gtiven at the Prince Edward The- atre last night, elicited‘ the. enthus- iastic appreciation oflan‘ audience which, as um) on the occasion of! the Dilmbells‘ visit to this city, filled‘ the theatre to capacity. No visiting theatrical troupe is so popular in, Charlottetown as this now falnoils; organization, and no audience‘ has been known to resist their appeal.’ It might be said of chem as of Cleo- patra that "age cannot anther, nor custom stale ‘their infinite vanetyfll Every season they came (to us with a new programme. and every pro-i gramme, by some miracle of ‘the producer's amt. seems more enter- taining and amusing than the pre-fl ceding ones. A I This year one rather misses Ross Hamilton and flock Holland in the female parts which were a. feature of earlier Dilmball reviews. ‘In their plaice, however, is a. bevy oi‘ chann- ing young ladies who car; dance‘ gracefully; and it must be ad- mirtted that they add htness said color to tile perfo cc. ‘Hie heavy end of iriovldiilg a two and

still falls mi the “oldreliablcsfl- Fred Enmey, Al Plirnkott, Sooilty Morrison, Red Newman, et ail-but (the female chorus isasiundoubtedly happy addition.

"Why Worry?" is the title given to the show this year. . _ y. fnom the moment when Contain Plunkett introduced his company in a novel and dramatic opening nilm-

plobtd a brilliant prmg-iia. e of wholesome comedy and eliizhtfu-l singing and dancing, there was no sign of worry or wciaswiness upm the faces of the ituiflence. The "hits" followed each other in such rapid succession the/t one grew con- fused in countiifi8 irheni. Every Iii-im- ber was loudly applauded, and many numbers were little ouster-sitcom“:

attract-iv; and h a“ u” the the‘ r riharlce as nulsiepselysoore hlch wee brilliantly

played. i ‘ - . .

fined" Newman came orcearly with ‘was ingtosthlibaarta

socialists. f i $000005"

Honorary degrees were‘ doiffefisd ambassadorto theU

Thursday on Sir Austen Chailiber-"the University of or ioreigu af-Jbotog

del, Flcrichikoliefl Falconer,

management of Captain Plunket-Llroarioils enjoyment of -the au“

ber. to the grand finale which oom- ,

qgrijglhoaiers to d .p1_'Q\_iEIIl‘-"&‘ID1W‘P Yyittlljviee- “Re.-

‘Shades s‘,

tonic. ‘The caught both, with Slr universally presi- dent, in characteristic pose. Presi-

spzoo.1i.1‘ Roo oo At"‘Prin¢e Edwo.rd

“my w....,~ Delighted- Large

Night. Dumbells

‘ .Score.d.. Sensational “ ‘ i‘ Success in Musical Comedy. ‘

Tho opening performance by thclmerribér ‘when Brussels

sprouts, you're robbing a cabbage of its young." hows-lied to the up-

It was the some voice that. sang. "Oh, oh, oh it's a lovely Witri" and '"I‘he Stoker." ‘in earlier perform- ances by tfiie Dirmbells in this city. And last night's song hilt was pui.

over with the same old gusto He appeared later in a danc- ing , lumber and also in a

military scene.‘ without which no Plunkett show would complete. As the eri-ing Private icicles, don- deanned by oourt-nliartis-l to be shot

. bcoirsrousiaor the red flag,

l

dent Falconer Sir Austen are ‘shovmon this lLIl-“I, UPPER can. ‘EBB gives a splendid-view o: the

CENTRE, Pall Claudel.

isnnisrtstunssnssnlts Elfi MUST CONTINUE TO '

g5 HOLD THEIR. TITLES 5- s . g7; (Special to the Guardian)

5w LONDON,‘ Nov. IGv-Ullwll- Lg no; holders or British titles 5i must continue to hold them, 5 Promisi- sisulcy Baldwin %_ said this afternoon, answerf Eli llig a oueatlon ln the House 5 of Commonsfllt is ,v posed‘ 5 to >hke no action enabling !ii.holden.of truss to Icllmp" 5 Illlh them. cousins-laci- 5 csnsyoii Bellairs who pat‘ Q)‘; the question thenaslscd the as Premier ii he thought titles looiica well against the,

‘is raisin-in"; to the case oi Sir ‘E Oswald, Moseley, whose wife ‘iii is a‘ daughter of Lord Cur- ‘fii son. and who recently tn- Ifi hcriteil a barorietcy. Sir 0s- Tfi wald Is l. member of the la- ‘fi "bor party. - . . §BEEEQHWQE%§EEHQEE%

l ma. -B0(lh limped

British secretary In profile; LOWER

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TRADE

(Canadian ltrcas) , UPPAWA. Nov. w-csmqo-c trade increased by

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“The 0750.11. Revenue ‘"50!’ Sedan g M01111“ Period Just Ended ‘is » Given qs. $194,000,000, ‘

period uiiasr review. who

months i10- total revenue is drown. at $194,000.- 3500300000 000 during the seven mimtha,

(@-

“PPNXIMWIY M the Wm with $100,000,000 lfl mi. m-

Qhdddoclhlllnhstcag Wlil-hlfileuui "ngpqelmi

and

endedtiobal

fflllfilllbvllfi aid llltlunetinoiteasebeing 145W ~ o- year, "iiweevmmoniienerodmstaiosostoonootioos exports reached stat-ed“, gggoqologo ‘

flflures indicate in glllfilnfr- 019.900.1100

000.000. al RSMIiat $079,000,000 for 1n 1931

theslmlilgrperloddfiificdOctfl.

OTPAWA Nov. ltf-A will revenue

1937- Imam-ts for thwperiod under g ~ review‘ totalled $737,000,000 iii value, m; ihiiifli“,§*;:},“';;,°°,,,“;°,".,“,,:g',;

‘While 1“ the We“ mimi-‘he vi 1W1 was, by the three divisionspf trio

imports were 3645.000000- Thb 9n- depsrtment of national revenue ace" -orease in exports was 310830031000- cording to figures Just l leased. 'l‘hia

while the ‘increase in amounted to 893.000.000.

daybytiile

which lumped‘ ii-om . $103,-

$73k

dustry contributed an increases of appwoxlmailely $6,000,000. the moreases in imports available.

818

excise reveriuefa net increase b!

amount ripasents more than eighty . percen o s total revenue f the . The 0811199. whim vtlsjtlwdutf‘ dominion. or approximately i? mil? ' llo d so» so»... o... o... o» vrio- no‘; was; Stress: M‘ cipal increase in exports was in on“ mmughw; the yum

“a

Customs and ‘excise duties contri-

iio $237.00°.000. N0w$iflt b wd‘ ' "1 . . u »_ . also increased.- iiom 369.000.1100 w all sndneizircyigizhogoptag; $19,000,000. while the automobile in- B, wgy or comparison. uio depart- Detmls d mental reports P01nts out that the not collection. for 1827-28 were more

a ne‘ “F” fifiioo... Unda- the held of customs andmmh u.‘ em‘ in? magma‘; more .tiian dou‘ ‘

in excess of rile tot-

the revenue‘ col-

Discrirriination ‘ Against Ports ' Is §laimed

(Canadian Press) . Ponnlalvn, Maine, Nov. 1s. -.' Manufacturing and business op- portunities in New England and th‘ possibilities of improved lagricultur al methods Wen the subjects oi discussion in group mcetings- herr today of delegates from the ‘siv states to the fourth annual confer- ence of the New England council. Alleged discrimination Bflfllns‘. ports, ships and trade of New Eng- land by “neighbors of the north" was emphasized by Congressman Wallace H. White of Lewiston. in an address before the main group 0i thecounbll in which he urged thv necessity for new and fast ships. ‘

"We have seen export trafllc or- iginating ln the western part of the United States and of Canada dlvsr-‘ ted from Portland and Boston by the joint effort of the Canadian Railways and the Atlantic ports of the Dominion," he sa.id.~ Other dlscriminations also exist- ed. He declared that’ thenationfle welfare depends on transportatior and stressed the importance tn New England of an adequate merchari.

Race For Oil 0 g In Qilallomg

(Special to the cool-also)

for assaulting) ‘a -i he was quite at home. For the better en- joyment of. those who will see 11hr performance-this evening we re- tymin from describing the anti- climax to thiisaoene. Suffice to say it brought down the hmsse. " Fred Emney. another old flavor- ite-tihe portly funstor ‘with the English air and the ‘inevitable mon- vv-ie-iirnvid-rl an extra. mints o‘ laughs and the audience would have

Continued on page 11.

\ABSIST3FAT WEDDING

(Special to tlisffluardiaul’ l6—’l‘he‘nil'npsnl; ese e g r agasakl, . rri reported to have sunk of! the c" r l‘ is 1v l c so Mara. Onlyothe captain lllll’ two - offlccra all this Nagasaki Mani werereported steel , “

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. LONDON, not; Iii-Seventeen rnsmben ol- the crow of the lifeboat hhey Stanford, were drowned‘ W atglit of their relatives and. rlcnds. vvlio were Powerless to help them when the life saving vessel oapaiaed in’ a ‘will Iotrvvhile returning w Ever-emu. early today’ ' ,' ' ' .- * ‘ REGINA; Nov. IO-‘Iliroe olill (Inn ‘WOIG- GIIMIIG III

a half hours‘ running-fire of liulnvcir mi \

Freddie ltiybarn. ‘United Stat- es issfitatit ‘trade commissioner at Ottawa since Aiarust 1. is beinf‘ iiiferrod to Toronto to “its Ill of tho ofloca here gwwe" 1a ma: lmm w.

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1H8 ’ ‘GRANDMOTHEB

ST. THOMAS. Onto Nov. l6.-- Canadian Prowl-Mitchell F. Hep- turn. JM- P., for. Elgln‘ West, had a ‘other unusual honor bestowed on "im when. with Mrs. Hepburn, he’

Fsisrcdatih _ o ofhis -

“other; “magzidgpbum, to _ entail a cost of approximately g4, be“ A; “mpun, broker, o! ohve- 000.000. EHO]! well, l0 l8 estimated land’ ohm“ v , will force the expenditure of more