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ENORMOUS FOREST BISHOP'S DEFIANCE

FIRE IN CANADA.

CONFLAGRATION ON 200- MILE FRONT,

RESIDENTS FLEEING FOR THEIR LIVES.

(UNITED PRESS.}

Winnipeg, June J.-A forest fire is sweeping over a 200-mile front in northern Ontario and residents of the province are fleeing for their lives to the south.

OF U.S. SENATE.

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WITNESS WALKS OUT.

BLANK" REFUSAL TO ANSWER QUESTION,

[UNITED PRESS,]

Washington, June 5-A dramatic termination of efforts to compel Bishop James Cannon, Jr., to testify before the Senate Lobbyist Committee came to-day when the Bishop, in the midst of a barrage of questions which he had refused to answer, suddenly arose from his seat in the committee room and

said:-

"I am no longer bere as a volun-

Many have reached Port Arthur, and preliminary inquiries show that several of the refugees are known to be missing. It is feared that some, trapped when they lagged behind because of fatigue,tary witness. may have been suffocated or burned. Aeroplanes are directing the work of fighting the fre, affording valuable assistance to the workers below and informing them of the progress made and the directions of

fire.

The blaze is moving through valuable virgin timber. Heavy fires extend from Nipigon westward, reaching Sioux and Cookout.

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In the event that the committee desires to subpena me, I will be at my office."

Bishop Cannon thereupon walked No out of the committee room.

Senator Thomas Walsh of Mön- cart was made to detain bin

tana and John J. Blaine of Wis- consin, both Republicans of the Liberal or Left Wing faction, had

been making strenuous efforts to elicit information concerning Bishop Cannon's expenditure in his Virginia campaign against ex-Governor A. to report amounts.

ECHO OF RECENT TRAGEDY.

MURDER CHARGE AGAINST

A CHINESE.

Li Man Fun who is alleged to have been concerned in the deaths of five perous in the premises of the Hung Tak Bark on the morning of May 24, was charged yesterday before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with the murder of Fung Sik Cheuk."

DOCTOR MURDERED IN SZECHUAN

ATTACK FROM BEHIND BY COMMUNIST...

News was received in Shanghai last week of the assassination in Chengtu on Friday of Dr. Clifford Stubba, a missionary sent to China by the Friends Services Council.

The telegrams received contain

very meagre information, but from these it would appear that Dr. Stubbs was riding in a ricsha in Chengti on Friday evening when He was remanded for a week. he was attacked from behind by Addressing Mr. T. Murphy, Asasis-ome person, believed to have been ¿ Communist seat from Chungking. tant Superintendent of Police, and stabbed in the back with a Lindsell said:"In view of the knife or bayonet. The wounds Dr. published statements in the local | Stubbs received proved fatal and Press, I would recommend the ad- he died on Sunday. risability of keeping accused under close supervision in gaol.”

CHINESE RIOT IN SOUTH SEAS»

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Deceased, who was married to Miss A. Margaret Leca in Chengtu in 1914, was born in Newcastle- on-Tyne about 40 years ago, and he held the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Science. He left England" on September 20,

NATIVE POLICEMAN KILLED 1919 for China and his wife ar-

First news of a riot of Chinese

rived in the following year... He went on leave in 1920 and 1995

and was due again to go Home,

Many well known scenic reso L. Smith, together with his failure Phosphate workers on the island of this ear. When he returned to

in the forests have suffered damage

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LATER.

While fire fighters were digging trenches in the suburbs of Port Arthur, Outarie, to-day a slow rain

started..

All reports stated that the forest fires in the vicinity of Port Arthur were spreading, and indications were that much rain would be re- quired to check the flames.

The situation at Sioux and Cook. out is reported to be very bad.

Temporarily Checked by Rain. Winnipeg, June 4.-Rain has only temporarily checked the fires which are sweeping Ontario, it was reveal ed by reports to-day.

Dyment has been entirely evacuat- ed. Larsen is reported to have been destroyed,

Five persons are believed missing

in the various fire areas.

The winds ara încreasing, fanning

the flames.

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LATER

Renewed heavy rainfall has quenched all the menacing forest fires in Ontario, according to re- ports here this afternoon.

Steam from the recently blazing areas is banging in clouds over vast portions of the country.

TOO LAZY TO DRAW THE "DOLE.”

MAN'S ADMISSION.

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To all questions Bishop Cannon had reiterated his previously ex- pressed refusal to answer, standing on the ground imply that of a work had been private citizen..

More Talk to the Press.

LATER.

Nauru on April 13 was brought to Sydney last month by the steamer Frances Massey. Officers stated that during an engagement between the rioters and native pelice, a police "boy" was killed, and numbers. of Chinese wounded.

The riot took place whilst the After defying and walking out white population of the island was on" the Senate Lobbyist Committee, watching a cricket match. For- to-day, Bishop James Cannon, Jr.tunately the rioters had no firearms, talked freely with newspaper re-

porters and revealed details of his and weapons varied from lengths of expenditure in fighting the preaiden-iron to broken bottles. After the tial aspirations of former Governor native police had. quelled the dis- A. L. Smith.

Of the contribution obtained from Mr. E. C. Jameson, Bishop. Cannon said that G.816,000 was used to pay speakers, to rent automobiles and halls, and for general campaign ex- penace.

turbance, 12 Chinese were arrested. So great was the indignation of the Nauru zatives that a deputation demanded that the prisoners be hanged, as a reprisal for the death The remaining G. $32,000 was of the police."boy." As a Chinese divided among the ten Congres convicted of murder, however, must sional Districts of Virginia for such be sent to Hong Kong for excer. expenditure as Republican leaders

tion, or imprisonment, the request might see it, he said.

Members of the Lobbyist Com of the deputation was not acceded mittee were meanwhile trying to to. decide whether to subpoena Bishop Cannon to appear before them again and compel him either to answer or to take the consequences, which might go so far as to include imprisonment.

ENFORCEMENT OF "DRY" LAWS.

China in 1097, Mrs. Stubbs did not

company him and it is not known whether she is at present in Chengtu or not. At the time

of bis death, Dr. Stubbs was hend of the department of chemistry of the medical department of the West China" Union University. Apart from the widow, Dr. Stubbs leares several children and a host of friends to mourn his loss.

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN

SOUTHERN FRANCE.

Paris, June 3.-Torrential rains

during the past few days in south- ern France have caused disastrous floods, especially in the Bordeaux District where the Garonne over- flowed," inundating large areas and isolating a number of villages.

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Washington, June 4-By a rose of 918 to 170, the House of Repre sentatives to-day passed a Bill pro "This is a most unusual and exviding that a United States Court tremely difficult case," said the Commissioner may hear petty pro

hibition cases involving a gallon or Chairman (Alderman Willett), at

less of alcoholic liquor. Southport Police Court last month,

This Bill, like the one passed by when William Kershaw (23), Lloyd's Sidings, Birkdale, WAS

Most Central Position of Hong the House yesterday with referenceET, on Lease SHOP in the summoned for neglecting his one- to the elimination of juries for Kong, Fading on Two Main Bonds potty liquor cases, is part of Pres: Early Occupation could be arranged. year-old child.

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*[9242 secuted for the N.S.P.C.C., said along lines outlined by the Wicker- Kershaw was "bone lazy," He was

shram Law Enforcement Commis 8 bricksetter'e labourer, but would

sion. not work and would not go and get his "dole.". He stayed in bed for the best part of the morning and then went for a walk and visited a billiard saloon. For the past few months he had given his wife nothing except the proceeds of the sale of some articles in the house. The child had not suffered because" Kershaw's parents had looked after it. Kershaw made the excuse that he was not well, but the doctor had said there was noth ing the matter with him..

Inspector Holmes said Kershaw was entitled to 268. "a week unem- ployment benefit, but he was too lazy to go and draw it...

Kershaw's wife said that on one occasion her husband went out to go to work, but he stood on the station and watched the train go out and afterwards went home for his dinner.

Kershaw said he had been unwell because he smoked too many cigarettes, but he was trying to break off the babit by degrees. In cross-examination, he admitted that two doctors had told him there was nothing the matter with him.

Moore Bill Passed, Washington, June 3.-The House of Representatives to-day passed the doors Bill, a part of President enforcement pro- Hoover's law gramme; permitting defendants in federal liquor eases to waive jury trial.

The vote on the measure was 998 to 107. Strong attack has develop ed against this measure as tending to deprive defendants of their con- stitutional rights, though propon- ents of the Bill say that it will nocelerate court business and cut the expense of conducting trials.

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