— AILY NEWS anciae eee eee BRITISH COLUMBIA Pablished Daily and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation to say nothing of their esoteri tribal organization. They supremely intelligent as a race form a strong bond of union ar Hi. F. MeRAR, EDITOR AND MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. rates on application. Telephone 98 Oontract and the whole civilized world should be willing to see one more “small nation’ experi F ment tried under such excep- tional conditions. Toronto Globe. - DAILY EDITION aisyeo Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1914. EDITORIALS It is perfectly futile for Ger- many to take roundabout ways of bringing the war to an end; if she really wants. peace she) must ask for it. ‘The United States’ offer of intervention early in the war was not ac- the Allies, and no other offer of the same sort, or cepted by for the same purpose would have any better result, no mat- ter from what power it might emanate. This war was of Germany's seeking, and when she becomes thoroughly tired of it she can let the allied gov- ernments know without indi- rection. Before she does this, how- she had better, with, a view to expedite matters, de- cide what her irreducible min- imum is to be. Talking at large would be of no use, ex- cept to give Germany a chance to recuperate, and that will certainly not be allowed to her on any plea whatever. In this war the fighting will go on con- currently with the pourparlers, until the Russian army is in Berlin, and perhaps also the allied armies of the west. The only way to prevent what would be a catastrophe from the Ger- man point of view is to be frank in admitting collapse and in discussing conditions of peace. ever, Mr. Asquith, who certainly spoke with authority, stated publiely a few days ago some of the terms on which the Al- will Militarism must be abolished in Europe; “small al- lowed to develop in their own Digestive Disorders Yield When the right help is sought at the right time. Indigestion is a torment, Biliousness causes suffering. Either is likely to lead to worse and weak- lies insist: nations” must -be way without foreign tion, and there must be some way found of preventing one nation from trying to dom- There must customary of behavior among inate the others. be a.general and “propriety” the binding on all, so that shall be if feels at liberty to behave in an the recognized powers which one overbearing others with way have a right it to There must be no more reliance on to eall account. or the any other traditional device to keep the “balance of power,” “European concert,” or the peace among the nations; an tribunal of some sort must be found. international * * There seems no reason to doubt that in the pending re- modeling of the states-system of Europe and Asia the Ger- man element in the foreign control of Egypt will be elim- inated by expulsion and the French element by voluntary withdrawal. As the Khedive has of his own choice cast in his lot with the Sultan of Tur- key he must meet with what stoicism he may the “fate Allah has store” for both. If Egypt becomes entirely a Brit- ish provinee in name as well as.in fact it will be interesting to watch in the future of Pales- tine, which is the adjoining Turkish province. 6.2 ° = There seems to be already manifesting itself a stirring among the Jews of the disper- sion in different countries, and stranger things have happen- ed than a partial Jewish resto- ration to the ancient Canaan under international guarantees would be. That Russia, France and Great Britain will dom- the rearrange- ment of the map of Europe and Asia inate coming is absolutely certain. probably be glad to get rid of her chronic Jew- ish trouble; France will be kindly disposed to people of whom she has long been tol- erant; Great Britain be enthusiastically of helping a race the British peo- ple have delighted to honor. * * * Russia will will desirous What will happen in this di- rection depends on the Jews ‘Theee pairs of our famous themselves. As a people they AMERICAN SILK HOSE are wealthy enough to set with written GUARANTEE, themselves up under a new in- stitutional. organization. Their estimated number is eleven and a half millions. molesta- any It might be both practicable and politic to let them have a lafge section of Syria, to the east of Pales- Many Officers Who Had Been Left Without Places Will Get Them Salisbury Plain, Dee. 2.—The iplatoon system has been discard ed, and the Canadians have re- turned to the old double company formation, which was worked in Canada, on the advice of the war This that spent training office. means many hours in troops have been practically wasted. The reversion is the result of ex- The pla- toon system in use by the French perience in this line. and Germans was adopted by the Imperial army, but it is now that huge of 250 men are unwieldy. found companies system will be reinstated. Victor Williams gone to France, following other Colonel few day's experience of real war- fare. GERMAN MISSIONARY ATTEMPTS TO WRECK BRITISH SHIP DWARF Dec. 2.—A German tried to blow up the British gun- boat Dwarf with an infernal ma- London, chine in a West African harbor recently, according to to the oflice. discovered a it was a mis- report colonial that was he sionary. “When found questioned how he act compatible with his work,” the report said, “he first such an and a missionary after- wards.” charges, we will send, jeot to duty, absolutely free: any color, or Hose in Black, Tan or White colors, with written GUABANTEE PLATOON SYSTEM UNWIELDY Scores of officers who were left without a place under the platoon | has | officers who visit the front for a! replied that he was a soldier | THE DAILY NEWS. ANOTHER GALLANT DEED BY BRITISH SOLDIER.—West York- action. Yorkshire infantryman carrying a wounded comrade out of | SOUTH Washington, Dee. 1 jed States government jasked by the principal nations of | South ligerent powers of Europe bring about the exclusion of all belligerent warships from the wa- of the safeguard Americas of with two the countries ters trade Pan- American other. each Chile, Peru and laid their sugges- tions before the Washington gov- Argentina, Uruguay have ernment, while the Brazilian gov- ernment the ad- visability of taking a similar step. Practically all the and South American countries have been circularized by some of the is considering Central prineipal nations, resulting in a series of diplomatic conferences in Washington and the capitals of South America, which are now m progress. Trade ts Interrupted. While the proposals are differ- ent in character and sec pe, they all seek the same end---the res- toration of the tgade of South America, paralyzed by the Euro- The has for its object the removal of pean war. movement also possible causes of serious fric- tion between the countries of this hemisphere and the European bel- ligerents of trality, on questions neu- Already Chile, Colombia have and had serious diffi- culties with the belligerents over EKeuador The Unit-jto America to co-operfite with! to them in negotiations with the bel- seek | and | bian AMERICAN REPUBLICS DON'T LIKE SOUND OF BATTLE WANT UNITED STATES TO JOIN WITH THEM IN DEMAND THAT FIGHTING BE DONE IN OTHER SEAS. South American countries. has ats Nati of the nations which have made is committed suggestions any particular plan, but all the co-operation of the to|United States. Colombia’s Explanation. Don Julio Betancourt, Colom- to the . United issued the following ofli- minister States, cial statement: “Mr. Metancourt, the bian minister, says that the gov- Colom- ernment of Colombia has main- tained every effort to compel all foreigners in Colombia to main- tain the. strictest neutrality ever the European war broke lie said that if either the English or the French govern- ments have proofs of violations since out. of Colombia's neutrality by any persons or corporations in Co- lombia and would present them at Bogota he could guarantee that most severe would meted out to the offenders. “Mr. that the plained of was punishment Betancourt out com- pointed wireless station now under gov- ernment censorship in the same manner as wireless stations in the United States, but despite the most active efforts of the Colom- bian government to make its neu- trality at all of the belligerents may have succeeded in erecting costs, one temporary wireless stations hidden somewhere along Colombia's long coastline on the Atlantic or on the Pacific. 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