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mlknrg oultomero feel that y l. m; ctcro In which they m...“ pleasantly.

lncrclu ycurulu, notby mum of percussion or trickery, but by

I.‘

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a? Annllll fluhoorlfltlonl Delivered I5.“ n, Igll, Canada and U. l. A. “J0

mitt SHIIIJK-

ll ill KITIJN- NEH ‘HNAX

Makes Feeble Reply

to Scotland Yard.

LQNDON. Aug. 17. — 'i‘he Brit- m, nation yesterday found itself m, yictini of a hoax of a particcul- my unpleasant character, when the investigation of the Home Office [QYPBIBLT that the coffin brought "on; Norwiiy tu the accent- pniiiiiiciit of much IIEWBIJIIDBI‘ Dill!"- unv no.1 purporting lti-contain the body of the late British Field Mar- shal Lord Kitchener, was empty.

l-‘riiik Power, a British newspap- eriiian, was responsible for the gigf)’ iliui lie hkid f0i1nd Kitchenefs botlv iii Norway, which he brought to London and delivered at the Waterloo Station. Officials from the Home Office and Coroner 0d- dis wcrc present when the case “n5 opened this tnornlng, and shofll)‘ tifterwarti the Home Office “ant-n the following statement;

‘Tin: packing case, alleged to contain a coffin and a bumitu body. which oir Saturday night was re- iiioveii by the police from an uii- tieritrksi-‘s on Waterloo Road, to tiit- lnitnbctli Coroner's Court, was [his morning opened in the pres- cure or (‘owner iiigiehy Oddie and 3r ut-rtiarti Spillsbtiry (noted path- oiogistt. The packing case was found to contain an empty coffin. Tito coffin was new and obviously ltzni not ctillitllliflti a human body."

’l‘lit- government public ii ilelaileil statement whit-h hnn vtiliviiillfiil a majority of the pcoplc of thc graiindlessiiess

iiiauy tit’ the jinblislieti Kitchener myths. lint such myths tile hard, ziiui iuaiiy persons stil-l entertained doubts respecting the fate of the ittitloiiiil hero. These doubts should finally ‘lie set at rest after yester- iiiiy‘s revelations. in the meantime the police are Tniikillg for Frank Power, originat- or of tlio hoax, who seems, for the llinr iii-lug nt any rate. to have dis- appciireti. Powerks real mime is de- >clarcti lo be Arthur Vectis Free- man, and he ls said to have been a sliidcill of criminology. lie is al- rt-atly admitted, in Iils last press ntntt-iut-iit he made yesterday, that flllltttlii-tli lic began In a bona fide spirit. his investigation into the sinking of the II. M. S. Hampshire. on which Kitchener was voyaging win-ii hc ivitiflhflll. he had later ac- "Pltit-ti an offer from a moving pic- fur. promoter, with a view to re- "ttllitiili: himself for the heavy ex- i>rn>tc< Hf his investigation. What view the authorities will lulic oi’ the affair is not known, but l'ui\'t-i"s strange ‘activities are tho ‘illllivcl. of general denunciation by llit- newspapers. Not in many years has England been so shocked and distressed, for tho memory 0f the great soldier is liclti sacred in every bouseboldln tin- hind. Even while the coffin was resting in the mortuary, surround- ed by sacred emblems and treated Willi all respect, some of the news- lwiicrs attacked Power's action. Tho Daily Mail ‘declared: “lt is a ghoulish act thus to exploit the lsiin- of one of the greatest of Eng- laiitifi-t stildiens" and the Morning Post said: "it lg repugnant to de- vciit ice-ling that the disinterred cof- TTIIIIT remains of the dead should be curried about here and there ti! ll. private persons caprice anti Without any sanction of authority.

0 Condensed Specials

llATia-Ac. pot word, net each inoetrtion in this column.

wvoooo-ovoovwnwo-uo-ow ‘MAID WANTED WITH some

Censiire lab/feted Out to Power — Latter

recently made.

of‘ l

Canada T0 Raise A

(Special to The Guardian) ‘LONDON- Allli- |7-'~“(3aiiatia l coming to the city of loiidou f0

Flveiiiiig N w _- today, referring to e s ‘My

"T l! flilecial committee tiate between tho

llflllfll Railways not] t ers of the (fraud Trunk Pacific,

versatiuiis," the “Mr. Reginald McKeiinais help ha been invoked. it is the autumn (ianarin win

111F843 loan lu this country."

Channel Swimmer

(Canadian Press) CAP GRitS NEZ, 7. Miss

Lillian

Iii her first effort lisli Channel.

lightning and thunder,

00018. forced her t0 quit the water after having been two hours and 35 minutes.

I525 Years 0f

(Canadian Pres!) QUEBEC, Aug. 17.~A remark-

day when no less than four niius celebrated the seventy fifth anni- Vehflfy of tiielr entry to religions orders, A fifth pletioii of fifty years and seven others of twenty five years, in all 525 years 0f religious life.

tlnventor 0f Time‘

(Special to The Guardian) NEW YOIRK, Aug.

business offices is dead, aged 77. —<-O-§——i_

NEW YORK. Aug. 17. —-itudolph Valentino, screen star, who wns 0p- erated upon last night for appendi- citiB and rmovnl of n gastric tilcer, was reported stronger at the hos- pital. but it was iiniti his condit- ion was siill somewhat critical. Physicians say iliat. they were guarding against n peritonitis Optgr. utiou. Joiio Acker. former wife of Valentino called at the hospital but was not pcrmliietl to see liiiii. —-—<0a-. - -

MOUNT VESUVIUS RESUMES ERUPTlON- BUT NO SERIOUS DANGER IS IMMINENT

NAPLES. Aug. 17. W ‘Viouiit Vesuvius, which was in eruption during the latter part of July, has resumed activity, several fresh streams oi‘ lava flowing down its sides. Flames were visible all night iiiid u stet-itiy rumbling was heard. Semisniologists liuvc assured the population that tliert- is no danger 0f a serious eruption.

If the dead were without note Jfience would bc rank." Apparently iioltoily dreamed of the troiitlligeiitiy that the coffin troultl, as the iiomo Office states, be tihsolutely empty.

LONDON, Aug. 17,- ‘The disclos- ure that the coffin iillegctl to have trtiiitaliied the body of Field Marshal Iiorii Kitchener was empty appears to liavo east-d the British mind to such ttu extent that interest iii the "mystery" has died down. British- ers arc no longer paying much Mt- tentlou to the vagaries of Frank

the

Loanln England

the formation lti lingo- Canadian Na-

lie sharehold-

“That is the meaning of tho con- News proceeds.

expected that in raise n

Forced T0 Quit

France, Aug. Cannon of Baltimore failed this morning to swim the hing-

A sudden storm, accompanied by with the Drvflllects 0t‘ still worse weather to

swimming for

Religious Life

- ordinary grnnhy has ‘fiéert consti-utrfetl at the able ceremony took place here to-

iiiarkcd lliu coni-

Stamp Is Dead

17.-William H. Thompson, inventor anti mann- fucturer of the time slump used in

ValerTtin0 Stronger

not... partisan-s if he permitted Mr.

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Only through bonito can general or aoeclai roco experience be oodl- fled, crystallized, rendered of great- en permanent usefulness.

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1920 A- ........ .......... ........ i: -H_'_ i-Q . Charlottetown Gandhi Ty. 0g.“

$100,000 Monthly

(‘Special to The Guardian)

MOSCOW, Aug. 17.-The Russian central council of trade unions has notified the ‘British Miners Federation that It la forwarding a monthly m". trlbutlon of $100.00!) collected from Soviet workers on behalf of the striking English miners. The telegram also suggest: holding the next meeting of the consolidated council at Berlin on August 20 to consider furth-_ er IIIEBHUFQ: to assist the strikers.

Memorial T0

H l‘ H

S

(Special to the Guardian) OTTAWA. 0nt., Aug.

tlic memory of Col. By_ {Qundgr 0 Bytowii, which later became Otta

noon gun merit Hill.

Submarine Movie

sounded from Parlia

WlASl-IINGTON. Aug. 1,7.- marine motion picture

wa vos by anyone motion

accustomed picture

Smithsonian Institute

inentiii work.

air to him.

Sir John Willison On Constitutional Issue

formed publicists Til‘ Canada. the following to say regarding SO-CllTTEd constitutional question.

Lord Byng by Mr. King and ills ai- I'll-lg in the press. in Parliament, and iu the country. It is said that lie has refused to take the advice which Ministers alone have the right to glvti, that be has ticizruded Canada to the level oi‘ a Crown coi-

aiithorlty of Parliament and deny not ventured _to exercise for a cen- tury, and that he has become a D01- itical pllfltibtlfi and an unconstitu- tional autocrat. What Lord Byilg refused to do was to usurp tlie authority of ‘Parliament and leiiy the right of the elected represent!!- tives of the people to pnssjudgmeilt upon n ‘Government while the tnial wag tin progress, if be not! done otherwise. he would have brought parliamentary institutions into con- tempt, have become the mere tool oi‘ a Cabinet in distress. and have cheated the strongest group in the House of Common-s out of its clear constitutional right to have dissol- u‘tlon,lf upon the question actually before the ‘House the Government should be defeated. Mr. King must have known that dissolution could not be granted by the Governor- Gciieral to Ministers facing defeat, and indeed thrice ziefeated below hii was asked to come to the rescue of the Atlmilnistratitm. Mr. KlnK could not fail to-know that he was placing Lord Byng in n. position

From Soviet Workers

Ottawais Founder

i7.—’l‘he corner stone for the monument T01

W11. was itnveiieti here today as the

' ' that the others will Ive an account Trlatlcf their conduct in gcourt.

A mm. referred at the beginning of his ud- (tgmgrg dress to the need in this Province which can be operated beneath the‘

m prepare photo-

hflfQ' and treatment of their ports, especially will be used immediately in experi- It is ltellaved the violated had camera will have considerable edu- cational anti scientific value in re-i venline the conditions of untlerseal life. The camera is set on a tripod anti can ‘be focussed as readily as "Bait Willi ‘it!’ Mi‘- on land. it carries 400 feet of filniflllld lllfll and reouires besides the operator, only a launch and a man to pumpi

Willi-son's Monthly, edited by ‘Sir John NVTTTTBOII, one of the best in- has out of competition in many outside i118 markets.

‘Much has been said In criticism OTJTTTIIMLTEILTOII for his contention that

oiiy, that be has assumed to possessl

.0»

Impression With

road was as prosperous as Liberal candidates said it was. could the farmers or “Prince Edward isiandffis“ well as of all Canada. look forward then to a substantial reduction in freight rates iii the near future, asked Mr. Myers, in the course of his address last night at Corran Ban. The four federal candidates contesting Queens County spoke at a well attended meeting, and on the whole received a good bearing. The splendid order maintained, however, was marred for a few moments by a noisy iti- terruption for which several visi- tors, and not residents of Corran ‘Ban district, were to blame. 0m- at. least of these hoodlums was tie-alt with summarily, and it is expected

I’.

Mr. IMesservey, the first speaker.

of a canning industry that would for export vegetables, meats anti fish. He said the rights !of the Maritlntes, included just Halifax, which

Mr. tMesservt-y

against. and much of

to tMoiitreal. The train service lie- tween here and Sackvlile was also Messervey, who first class passengers travelling over this line often had to ibe satisfied with second class acctimniotlatiou. He again touched on the necessity for branch rail- ways, and said tlint one should tap some of the rich mud fertilizer beds of ilie Province. The farmers and fishermen of Corraii Ban he considered were entitled to a. wharf, that they might get cheap- cr transportation and ibetter murk- ots for their produce. As it was. high freight rates out the ialknd

Referring briefly to the tariff, Mr. lMesservey took its au

this_couiitry needs protection, the sale of llslaiid fox pelts iiitu the {United States, in which to tho act- ttal sale prico oi‘ say, tlirce hundred ‘dollars, there must ltc paid lu ud- ditioii. a duty of one hiiiiiirctl and fifty dollars by the American buy- er. Oii the other liuiid fox furs could come into Canada free.

MEETING AT BTIRRAN BAN “ ' TIAS lliEl.l ATTENDED

illl PEN BENT llllENll [EINS-

‘National Armies In Full Retreat

(Canadian Pren) KPEKING. The Koumanchln ria- onal armies of the government ov- erthrown last April are in full ie- trcat to their base at Kalgau, 116

[lillllll SEASNN ll

Conservative Speakers Given Good Recep- tion and Continue t0 Make a Favorable

IATINN SNNN

Premier Mei-ghen Sca-

miles northwest of Pekin.

believed to have

Forced from Naiikow Pass utter bombarding in which both sides are suffered heavy

llfi ililllHi

‘it the Canadian National Rail-izTabliized the the and

been discriminated, the traffic , that port should receive, diverted '

the Electors.

market for fox pelts implied that the American market was of no account. Refer- ring to the Conservative policy of a. protective tariff, Mr. Sinclair said he doubted if there was much difference between that: tariff and a high tariff. The principle of a

that was in the best interests of a country such as Canada. ,

Mr. AIYBPB. the following speaker said in the course of bis address that it was not fair to tlio electors of Canada, the majority of whom had elected either Liberal or Con- servative members. to bu ruled by, a small party of Progressives. in‘ the last election, lie said, Mr. Mac- Kenzle King's government been defeated in seven provincel

f0 hold on to the reins of office. Mr. .\iyers said the question 11nd,‘ beau asked at the Tracutils meeting

iuwlly derile no

r

this way it would have to make up y means of direct taxation. The! Conservative party

was prepared to revise the tarlfi’, taking away a certain amount. of

Canada should be

of equality. Mr. Jenkins spoke much along ibe same lines as at. other meetings. iic referred to the Old Age Pension Bill to provide for ‘Canadian sub? jects over seventy years of age. I A vote of thanks moved by “Mr. Myers, and seconded by Mr. Slit- clair, was extended to the chair- man of the meeting, MT‘. “halter

' Mr. Sinclair, in his address, said

tlint it was the British markct that

Campbell, for the impartial and ca- pable way in which he had occu- pied tlie chair.

Destruction 0r Unlimited Riches

(Canadian Press)

‘WLLLItAMrSTON, Mass, Aug. 17. - Chemists in their search for a means of releasing the energy of atoms and other radio active sub- stances are leading toward either catastrophic destruction or 1iiilim- ited riches for the world according to speakers at the institute of Pol- itics today. Dr. Umbberto Pondlio, Italian chemist, predicted that the st-ttret of wrestlng energy front atoms would be discovered witliiti the next 2‘5 years and declared that the certain progress of science to- ward releasing and harnessing ra- dio activ substances points toward either struction or unlimited riches.

from which he could not escnlle without certain, if unfair. attack from LlbBPfll illlru-‘ii-in" it be fetus‘ ed to dissolve Parliament and cer- tain and just attack from Conserv-

King to dissolve. if Lord Bynq hid

Power, the newspapermtin who brought the case holding the coffin i'ro-iii Norway. Power himself liiti- mates that the coffin had been tum- peretl with uiid is quoted by one pa-

experience. Apply Guardian Of- llco. 108i-8-5-tf. _____.

~wat~rrso - nausea. APPLY Rises and Berrigan. 1339-17-21.

‘IF YOU WANT GOOD MEAT M t0 Saunders’, Ihlt 0nd of llarhai unilding. Phone 81.

M ‘A RABBITS

‘CHINOHILLA FOR stile pedigreed English Chinchilla ritbblts. Apply Charles Mellett, Jirarklev, 1'356-8-I8-3l.

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"J0! PRINTING OP EVERY description, ohupi, and 011ml!‘ tiously executed. Guardian Coni- nl Job Priritory. Piioiu 1n.

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‘YOU WANT GOOD ENVELDPEI Prices, 50 for I00, 100 for 86c,

WATER SPOUT SWEPT LONG

water spout swectiiug In from Inilg

night cdiised

per as saying: "lt obviously can- not lio iili- shell whit-Ii rnntziirit-ti the hotly which I placed lti tliu cot‘- ilii iii Norway."

.4o&—-——

JSLAND. TAKING TOLL IN

LIVES AND PROPERTY

1 cnnucowu. T1. r, Arts. i1.--A

Mum; 300m] “hoot 9 o'clock lust. extensive Draper-ti’ of about

made the subservient of a party cabinet.

TH REVIVED FOR CUBAN BAN-

Pena, convicted 0f having “$339M!” uted Mayor Villsloii Santiago do Cuba iii 1924, was ex- ecuted oti the sarrote to-tliiY-

refusing to reveal liie the men believed to have hired him to kill the official. The execution

taken Mr. King's advice. I16 WWI“ have ‘food before gTIO country witli- out a shred of defence for an Im- proper action. and the office of Governor-General would have holn lnotruwnorit

--——-<O}j- WEIRD JNSTRUMENT OF DEA- DIT ‘HAVANA, Aug. 17. — iierntind

Ascenrlo of

H9 remained ctilm to the last. names of

has been replaced by a. mere youth.

Stalin, head of the Communist par- ty.

the knob under the haiid of the a!- ecutioner.

damage for a distance half a mile along the Creek road-

T

other ls said to be two men were iiilnrrtl. ‘Elie spoéi: travelled at terrific 8P9" - "P", ing trees, demolishing coitalfll 0" the road. which imm" 0" ‘he m“! Island ‘Sound, and DTQBTKIIIB phone poles. The estates 0f J. T'-

took plgce-gt 0.10 n. m. All‘ Alhtlfl- can negro named DtlVls acted as assistant executioner. Pena was tho second in Cuba in 20 years to die in this manner. The garrote consists 0f a heavy wooden chair into which the per-

wo men were reportod killed. I111- IIITBRTIIK- 11ml

Kamenefl Ousted

MOSCOW. Aug. 17. — Another Bolshevik idol has fallen. Leon H. Kamenefflcommlssar of trade, once member of the so-called trliimvirste which rules Russia, and one of the principals of the Communist world.

M. Mlkoian of Tiflls, a friend of M.

high protective tariff was not one‘

Melgben proceeded, “i would rath- er they had passed the bill so tbeI people would know what 8. sham it. was; Senators walked out. to inake sure the bi_l_|_ would be defeated.

King government, said, was based on co-operation by

Matches Shot Under m,

Conservatives in the

thingly Refers

Session and Defeat ed in the Sen-ate.

NEW WESTMINSTER. B. C Aug. l7.-—“That

able to tbs last degree," Premie

the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The same rumor, Mr. Melglien h“ said, had been spread in the last in out of nine, and yet it had seen sell-it'll"! m“ “n” °T ma"? “mus” and: and determining the result in

election and was successful

some doubtful counties. "The fabrication has

it r. s~. use. t:.oy tie-e g0,- {fee u-Me-Mr. MacKenzie King. "l don't need lti-t ‘hey WP"~i only hug m 03mm to say more. My pledge cannot be

‘ ,, e Conn"). m.“ n0 “my l, (.0010 more specific. We have no thought ,._,,,,,,-|,, from of it. We never had. it. is a fabri- source, nnn .01,“ i; “m: “fcation from the first word to the

last." Premier Meigben

ernnient.

lt bad sham written right across, ‘the protection. Mr. Myers said he "- A" "d Tm" M“ M91571“ added’ was m, thgmrme, 0,.“ ma, and The senate said it was a. sham and always. lie coul'ln‘t sea any m". defeated it. lie never had much ness in allowing American farmers cimfidenc“ i" “i M“ Mmghe“ 9m‘ u preference in international trade. ‘waded- bm- “mum m‘ "ppm" m 3010 w "adejknowing that if he did so he would with the United SiateLon a basin-vb‘? held "P i“? ‘Wmsed l" "M "g9

pensions,

Old Age Pension Bill

“l never interfered with Senators n discharge of their duties," Mr.

indeed some of the Liberal

The old age pensions bill of the Mr. Meighcn provincial government and House bail

to the Old Age Pension Bill Passed Last

kind of politics is beneath contempt. it is despic-

Meigheu in such words here this afternoon referred once again to "rumors" that ‘he proposed to amal- gamate the Canadian National with

been re-

spoke of old knew m,“ a age pensions. He declared that the tariff was necessary for the concur-Will 35° Peuakm" m“ ‘it The King a ‘~~‘*‘=':‘.":','::":.": r.:.'".:'; strata‘: induti,bth th li-s roe '

mesflgzs: anud tgeiinprofltefiinclag; eighty percent. of all legislation put 0d out. of proportion, this [lflfiyllll the statute books by that gov--

Oriental Potentates and U.S. Soap Kings Meet in Spending Orgy - Everyone is Millionaire for Lim- ted Period.