DAILY NEWS. THE DAILY NEws THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. H. FP. MeRAR, EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. Telephone 98, TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. rates on application, Contract DAILY EDITION tga Friday, September 4, 1914. doubt of helpfulness, There is no in the Another line world but that the first shock outlined by the Rev. Canon of war dislocated business Rix in his address to the through Canada as well as Daughters of the Empire, was other countries to a marked the practice of economy in the degrees. For ‘days and per- ha . haps weeks business men just household. There is no fam stood on corners and discuss- ily but has considerable waste ed events and gasped for the of some kind and perhaps a latest from dhe front. This certain amount of extrava- feeling grows on one and if it gwance at times. This should is not checked it will work riot be done away with and the with business. It is time, there- strictest economy exercised. fore, that business men re- There are liable to be cases turned to their ordinary rout- where public ‘assistance’ will ine. Those who are prepared be necessary and steps hould to go to the front ean be relied be taken to have this earried on to do their part and those out. If everybody would econ- at home should do likewise, omize a certain amount every and see that production is in- day and place it in a relief creased, fund there would be no need for any one to be in want. * * * The work undertaken by the Daughters of the Empire along the line of articles of clothing for the soldiers who enlist here deserves every encouragement. Not only will the articles turn- ed out be of particular * * * Canada is situated very hap- pily in that our trade with the United States cannot be inter- fered with and they are one of our biggest customers. Then our trade with Europe is per- fectly safe with the British navy supreme so that the out- service look for business is good. As to the men in the field, but it The News has pointed out on will be a gentle reminder that several oceasions and as is the women of this town are substantiated fby history, the following their career. In so only ones to be affected by the vital and patriotic a cause ev- war are the unproductive ele- eryone should feel that they ments in the community. It is have contributed something up to them, therefore, to get toward the success of our busy and take up some produc- arms. To many this will be a tive line, better for country. and the quicker the themselves and the splendid opportunity to assist along with the efforts of the Daughters of the Empire. ooo moh omme Locate oil use the drill. To test FLOUR BAKE BREAD. Day in and day out we apply the bak- ing test — the only practical test — to ROYAL STANDARD after the wheat: and then the flour have been subjected to every test known to science. We give ROYAL STANDARD the test you will give it in your kitchen. ROYAL STANDARD behaves in precisely the same beautiful fashion 365 days in the year. AT YOUR GROCER’S. Royal Standard Flour F. G. DAWSON, Wholesale Distributor. 2 FPriNCE RUPERT ' ss = = = = = — = = ESOUDA A map showing scenes of Darkelmen, Johannisburg, Insterburg, Goldapp and at Lyck, dau is deseribed sia, from the Vis as a rout. tula River, ORE LSBURG NEIDENBURG Russian victories, Ortellburg, Arys. Gumbinnen and Soldau. The W The THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE INTO PRUSSIA. The illenbureg, Russians he German defeat at S ld Neidenbureg, Heavy battles have been fought | fate of the east side of Prus is said to have been decided Washington, Sept. 3.—-The for- tifications of Paris and their abil- ity to resist a siege are the close servers, now that Paris is the an- nounced objective point of the| German forces, and the French} gent means of strengthening the city’s defences to the utmost. While the eity’s detailed de- fences are surrounded with se- creey by French military authori- ties, yet their general character and formidable” strength are known to military experts, who describe them as among the strongest in the world. Three Circles of Defence. The fortifications consist of three distinet circles sweeping around the city: First, the solid wall of masonry, eighteen feet high, extending for twenty-two miles around the old sections of Paris; second, the system of sev- enteen detached forts, arranged at intervals two miles beyond the wall and making a cireuit of the city thirty-four miles long; and, third, an outer girdle of forts, seventy-five miles long on the heights commanding the Valley of the Seine. Rach of these circles of ma- sonry and steel is a complete de- fence in itself, the forts being linked together with redoubts, bastilion and glacis, which per- mit a cross fire against approach from any direction. The magnitude of the system 1st Ave. and McBride St. PHONE 26 receiving | attention of military ob-| ministry of war has adopted ur-174, is shown by ceeds 400 square The seven by been third of st tion, roune eludi resid Th and have the tion vices teries Inner Wall Guards BestParts. rhe along teen miles beyond the ouls greatly (rer Villiers are with and ng t the and west of the city, in Quartier EYES OF WORLD TURN ON PARIS CITY MAKES READY FOR SIEGE its area, which miles, detached = forts Phillippe They strengthened of forts on the maine, of modern constr the latest type heavy guns. best known SPECULATION OF CAPACITY oF THE FORTS TO WITHSTAND ATTACK—DEFENCE SYSTEM EMBRACES 400 SQUARE MILES eX. wall around Paris and the two wall were built sus jtained the German siege of 1870. and the outer forts have since The hills Cormeilles and of bat- inner wall about Paris sur- Is the important sections of the city, and most in he business sections grand boulevards, the sections on the north and the Lat- and other approaches to the capital. Gates Closed at Night. e 67 gz been and rece of owing ates. some abandoned But recent here from trade. eived SHINGLES, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS PRINCE RUPERT LUMBER 60. A. 4. BURROUGHS, Manager PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. Branch Vaerd at Smithers sections of the left bank of the Seine. On the outside of the wall a circle of suburbs extends = for many miles, ineluding Neuilly, Argenteuil. Versailles, Vincennes and many others. The forts of the second and third line of de- fences are dotted among ‘these suburbs, protecting them and the wall contains 93 bastions these to pressure of modern construc- Paris state that all the gates still ex- POOPIE EERE URDU EOOONI EET ELS High-Grade Work Plumbing, Steamiitting and sheet metal work at fair prices Western Plumbing Co., Ld FERRIIIOIIIIDIIIIIIIDIIISIIOIIIOIIOIOIII IOI II ih ts * pHa oe Delicacies can’t Day Phone 190. Night Phone 978. be BAKERY SUPPLIES Whether you want a thousand loaves os or one, see us. Our KNOTT - CLIFTON LIMITED. letting are now closed at 8 p. m with rigid regulations of move ments from within of without The second line of forts cludes the famous fortress of Mt Valerian, which was the center of attack in the German siege of i870, It is strengthened by two groups of works—Hautes Bruy j the Chatillon forts bat teries, South of the city is the row of forts al Ivry, Bietre, Mon Vanveves and Issy. North are three Denis and eres ant trogue, and east of the city great forts around St. two others at Fort Aubervilles and Fort Charenton, commanding the approaches from the great wood of Bondy. Defece Requires 170,00 0 Men. The outer circle of forts, which are of most modern type have from twenty-four to twen and 600 to 1,200 men ty-six guns each In all the three lines of defence require 170,000 men to operate them, not counting troops asembled within the eity,. Accord ing to military experts it would require a foree of 500,000 men to invest these defences General von Molkt. fleld mart shal of the German forees at the time of the siege of Paris in 1870, states in a report on that siege that the French artillery arma ment consisted of more than 2,627 pieces, including 200 of the larwest calibre of naval ordnance Railway Control Essential rhere were 500 rounds. for each gun. Von Moltke points out that the bombardment of a forti fled place in the heart of an en emy's country is diffieult if not impossible until the invader master of the railways or water ways by which heavy siege artil- be brought up full is lery can quantity. Ile explains the bard Paris at the outset former siege by saying would have required 300 heavy guns with 500 rounds for each gun. The movement forward of these heavy guns would have re quired 4,500 four-wheeled wage and 10,000 horses, which not available Siege Guns in Play. in to bom- of the that it falure ons were At a later stage the Germans brought up their big siege guns, attacking the enciente and ports 300 to 400 fifteen daily into the and dropping centimeter shells heart of the city. Notwithstand the fury of the Paris withstood the days. ing Germans siege for 132 Since then the entire new and third of defence has been erected and military experts the fortifications as a whole far more formidable than which resisted the former outer line say are those siege, Pantorium Phone 4. FOR RENT TWO 5-ROOM HOUSES WITH BATH, WATER INCLUDED $25.00 Cleaners. tf Pioneer PATTULLO & RADFORD SECOND AVENUE PRINCE RUPERT BOAT Boats and Launches for hire. Gasoline for sale PHONE RED 391 North End of Manson Way ly Xai \C SEALS STEAMER PRINCE JOHN POs, Leaves for VANCOUVER and ViICTORIa. 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