Japanese Warship Tragedy at Vancouver Cut in Ocean Freight Rates from B.C
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♦ WEATHER FORECAST WHERE TO GO 'TO-NIGHT For 26 hour* ending 5 p.m.. Tuesday : Capitol —Secret*. Victoria and vicinity—Decreasing I dominion—The Golden Bed westerly wind», partly cloudy and %mm • Cwlwimt * One Kxciting Night. l’Iajliouué-The Man Life Passed By- Columbia- The Painted Lady. , ........................ VOL. 66 NO. 34 VICTORIA, B.C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1925-18 PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS JAPANESE WARSHIP TRAGEDY AT VANCOUVER CUT IN OCEAN FREIGHT RATES FROM B.C. TO EUROPE ASKED M'GEER URGING OTTAWA TO ELEVEN OF CREW OF JAPANESE HAVE OCEAN FREIGHT RATE Dewdney Riding to Have By-Eledtion CRUISER IDZUMO LOST LIVES LAYS B.C. OCEAN ROTORSHIP MOVED TEACHERS INTEND CUTS APPLY TO B.C GOODS RATE CASE BEFORE SLOWLY WHILE BIG TO CONTINUE USE WHILE SHIP LAY OFF VANCOUVER ^: FEDERAL CABINET STORM CONTINUED OF AIDS TO BEAUTY Counsel for British Columbia Government Asks Federal Hamburg. Germany. Feb. 9.—A Vancouver, Feh. 9.—"Burnaby Men Were Returning in Pinnace After Shore Leave Just Cabinet to Place This Province on Par With Eastern violent frtorm area in which It teachers arO progressive, modern was found impossible to utilise and keep in tune with the spirit Before Midnight Saturday When Craft Came Into Canada When Proposed Lower Rates on Shipments her unique revolving sails was en of 'the times." stated, a prominent countered by Klettnsr's rotorshlp member of the Burnaby Teaches’ Contact With Freight Car Barge; Two of Men to Ports in Britain and Other European Countries Ituekau. which arrived In the Bay Federation in referring to the of Kiel from Danzig yesterday edict sent out by the Burnaby Rescued From Waters Died; Nine Were Drowned; Come Into Force. after a seventy-eight - hour trip School Board that all teachers in Five Others in Small Boat Were Saved; Worst VVhllp progress was difficult and Its employ appearing Ag, _ ççhjool gloy.• -the captain expressed eati»-x< and Sho’tflhg "signs of rouge on Disaster of Sort in History of Vancouver. faction with the manner In which their faces, would have to secure 'By Times Staff Representative1 the rotorshlp had withstood the positions elsewhere. Ottawa. Feb. 0.—With a clear-cut demand- for reduetiohs in heavy seas As the matter is believed .to be Pacific Ocean freight rates equal to those planned for Atlantic The liucknu Is expected to re beyond the jurisdiction of the Vancouver, Feb. 9.—Eleven seamen of'the Japanese navy lost sume her voyage to Scotland to board, the Burnaby school teach their lives just before midnight Saturday- in* the harbor here as shipping, British Columbia suddenly fired the first gun of a morrow after being fitted with- ers are stated not to be taking the new ocean rate campaign here to-day. Vigorous representations wireless apparatus. resolution seriously and will con a result of the pinnace in which they were returning to their tinue. if they so desire, to add to ship, the Idzumo, coming into contact with a heavily-laden Can for a cut of approximately thirty per cent in rates on freight their feminine charms by the usç moving out of British Columbia ports to Europe made to members of cosmetics and powder. adian Pacific Railway freight car barge. The death toll in the disaster was the greatest in the history of the Federal Government this morning by U. G. Metieer, K.C., J. A. CATHERWOOD Provincial Government rate counsel, took the capital completely of the port. Two of the victims succumbed from shock and ex by surprise. PRESIDENT WIRES posure after being taken from the water. Nine were drowned. Nearly all the men who met dêath Believing instant action is needed to protect British Columbia were members of a liberty party, who interests in the reported arrangement for rate reductions on TRIBUTE TO HEAD after having spent the evening ashore ELECTION OF CATHERWOOD Damage Was Done were returning to the ship, lying at the North Atlanite Ocean, Mr. Ale (leer moved on his own anchor in the stream with its two responsibility as soon as the eonseqmmees of the new situation By Wind in Seattle consorts. the Asama and the Yakumo, when the disaster occurred. became clear. He announced he would report immediately' to OF COMICE A liberty boat containing fifty or Premier Oliver, the Vancouver Merchants' Exchange and other AS M.PP. FOR DEWDNEY IS Seattle. Feb. 9.—Sweeping in from sixty men and towed by the pinnace Mr. Beatty Praises Plan to a low pleasure area over the Pacific escaped and the men immediately set interested bodies on the present sensational turn of events so Ocean, a forty-four-miie wind visited abiiut the work of rescue, taking the Pacific coast could take steps to save itself from competition Honor Capt. J. W. Troup Seattle yesterday and last night, seven of their comrades from the caused inconvenience to harbor craft. Water. of greatly reduced Atlantic shipping costs. G. G. McGEER, K.C. tore down light wires and smashed UPSET BY RULING OF JUDGE The disaster has somewhat marred In a statement McGeer commended the reported action of the Dinner Engagement Has Been one' piateglaa» window. The wind, * McCORMACK ILL 7 which was accompanied by a heavy the visit to this port of the Japanese Government in arranging With "a "British line to reduce Atlantic Moved to Monday Evening rain, ' blew intermittently, reaching training squadron. rates in return for a subsidy, but he added, "unless these low New Orleans, La„ Feb. 9. — John Vancouver. Feb. 9.—Election of J. A. Catherwood, Conserva its maximum velocity several times An official inquiry will be held. rates apply on the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, another big McCormack, the tenor, la ill in his “It is a very well deserved tive, in Dewdney riding at the recent provincial general election during the afternoon and night. MIDSHIPMANS STORY ~ ' hotel suite here with grip, and his honor to a competent officer of At North Head, at the mouth of ■“^Tracked with pain and tossed with handicap will be added to British Columbia’s export business concert arrangements for to-night waa^voided this morning and the constituency thrown open for the Columbia River, a velocity of fever, " the young midshipman in have been postponed. this company, and outstanding sixty-eight miles an hour w&s re that we shall feel very severely.”_____ a"bÿ-election, which under the Constitution Act must be held corded. while at Tatooah Island the charge of the ill-fated pinnace gasped citizen of your city,” telegraphs within six months. maximum was forty-eight miles. gut his account of the tragedy. He fiad been in charge of 100 laughing Commons Receives E. W. Beatty, K.C.. President of Irregularities in the handling of the absentee ballots was the and singing sailors whom he had been the Canadian Pacific Railway, to ground on which Mr. Justice 1). A. McDonald to-day granted the detailed to convoy to the Idzumo. He FISHERIES DIRECTOR ARRIVES was at the steering wheel and could Report on Shipping Mayor Pendra*’, in expressing petition of Maxwell Smith, Liberal candidate, for upsetting of NEW EFFORTS hear the sailors telling stories of the his regret that he cannot attend the election. night’s experiences. Ottawa. Feb. 9 (Canadian the citizens’ banquet to Capt. J. W. The judge held that certain elec Twenty yards astern, carrying Press) — "The North Atlantic TO START ON RESEARCH WORK Troup. Manager of the B.C. Coast tion ballots vast at absentee polls eighty or ninety sailors, one of Jho Shipping Conference is an ob Service, on the arrival of the steamer and forwarded to the returning of TO FREE MAN ship’s cutters was in tow. vious menace to the natural de Princess Kathleen. ficer in Dewdney in plebiscite en CRY FIRST WARNING velopment of the export trade of owing to a private engagement. velopes could not be counted because Sighting the lights of the tug Canada and an evident deterrent TO SAVE B.C FISH RESOURCES Capt. Troup will not he able to at these envelopes did not carry the af Nanoose through the rain and recog to the prosperity and welfare of tend the dinner oq Saturday evening, fidavit which each absentee voter is HELD IN CAVE nizing the two-light signal for tha the population of the country. and the function has accordingly required to take. This is the first following barge, he swung the helm The moving spirits in this gigan been set over until Monday next at decision of the kind recorded under HE CIÏÏ to port. and. as no lights were visible, William F. Thompson, director of investigations of the Inter the absentee vote system. tic world-wide maritime organi the same hour. 6.30 o’clock. Rescuers Try to Enter Ken he believed he was out of the barge’s sation have conspired, combined, national Fisheries Commission, created by the Halibut Treaty be Numerous applications have al APPEAL PLANNED agreed and arranged to unduly ready been received at the City Hall tween Canada and the Cnited States, reached Victoria yester Hamilton Read, counsel for Air. The shrill cry of the lookout as ho limit the facilities for ocean for tickets'for the xx^e»fri||nn ^,n Sat tucky Pit Through Fissure Catherwood. etsteri an appeal would, was struck by the how of the scow transportation. They are pre day, for a conference with John Pease Babcock, the chairman of urday to meet the new Princess liner be taken Immediately. was the first warning of the impend venting. limiting and lessening the commission. (Concluded on page 3» JustFound ing tragedy.