THE DAILY NEWS. Teenie af Dae cADT sa TIIREN |CANADA TO Buy 6.000 HORSES Wf Jui pull | Will Not Pay Evoosiva Priccens Needed for Cavs CONSTIPATION ofrt-a-tives” Cured Paraly- Ottawa lepecial eo; of which s&s head, ae SMALL ARMY IN UNITED STATES IS BADLY PREPARED FOR WAR ROOSEVELT SAYS HOSTILE POWER COULD TAKE BOSTON OR NEW YORK AND DEMAND MILLIONS—ARMY WILL BE STRENGTHENED. be i Bowels and Digestion er is i vw " it pit SHAWINIGAN, QUR, hemett g! committee ty " pe you ithe tas) f Washington, Dee, 10. Only one iG Oo e i* | ng from Chronic twent ‘he great nations of the earth >i , Lhave been wenty : s xeaesy? ‘Wh ef ' helpless to defend itself ‘ . airy each cured t Berthier College, I Wh ind than the United States. was ® forced to leave the |W! re nece | ‘ . Ch a od State ng re pains across the [purcos Ph, na. The United. States ily tortured me and | such a mobile army t when I could not ichase : vt and my Digestion | ad nted wi ompared with SOS One advised | *0" ~ I establishment a-tives’’ and atonce ichased w: i : roverent, After I |. ith ; big republic looks pit- e boxes; I realized |! = y cured and what |taken to pr: so, was that they [1 4 é ind ke eye-opening s causing no pain [SC Gepartine , w being dinns ' * wels. Allthosewho | prices ; ined into ¥ ronic Constipation | in ¢a by scores of well ’ y example and take | nforn j They acs ad : for they -are the | [If we enuid ire of all res” oe for so far neith- ve ric ‘ el MAGLOIRE PAQUIN told our 1 it, Republisad: ered iis yle anr , sit resold byalldealers | ''' piqasant have made a move to- for $2.50, trial size, | «ide in iaeape * uly espousing this new lamit ttawa. — = ldenly grown of over- : eae | PEPER ER EERE ERE es my tance i . w rte 6 eee eee geeeee® *| FOR A _ TAXI; i! party from now on * this ssue owever ‘ LATEST WAR NEWS #| ws : 3 iis issue, however, ‘ P *| * t a very risky predie- : » @ The t war bulletins #| * say that some party will & received isively by The # ne ONE--75 3 iking a national pre- € Daily 3 are posted im- # t : ess for trouble : @ mediate fler coming off #| *# * ‘ , the following @ zt * umount of argument, of & the w Tr ng ‘ : PRINCE RUPERT AUTO CO ; t) liscourses on the “Yel. » se . , Store, 3rd Ave #* Sththtenenee tent heeeeeenes re could impress the na- # Wa velry Store, 3rd #| - t is four months of the great # avenue ad wd Z I pean war have done. With- Prince er otel, 2n i :|| CANADIAN PACIFIC taking sides in this conflict, ‘ o lotel * RAILWAY bservers from this shore of the . D tel. * ae | Atlantic almost unanimously # Windsor Hotel. * have drawn the concl s ‘tate Motel e Princess May northbound * . See le - : ghteousness and treaties, to- # Daily News windows, 3rd * for Alaskan Ports ‘ * December 14 together or singly, cannot protect avenue eeeeeee eee eeee ee inl 1 people when war mounted on Princess Sophia southbound an idiot horse omes riding their Sunday at 8 p. m. way WETEFE ese E EE ETIE SETS SS The speaker denouncing ‘the { FIRE ALARM SYSTEM jj 4. o aman, cms poms |military unpreparedness of the ; 5 jUnited States is embarassed by $ cmeoUIT NO. 1. 3| Snihtiedntaiiiiiialiniites eas —_——- the wealth of material. The most § on 12 St. and Sré Ave ;| jextreme statements can be borne $ Se 13 » St. and Sra Ave a| ° R F d Co uit by careful statistics and the = Bo 14 St. and Sra Ave. | Prince upert ee . 2) : + Sor 16 ten of (st, 2nd end : greatest anxiety is apparent in 5 ind A Z| DEALEKS {N ihe minds of the best informed. q Sor 16 ist Ave, between 61h and 9) H G Feed $ Fi St. (Knox Hotel.) s| ay, Grain, Fee One Army Corps ina et Ave. and 7th St. (Cen . and Seeds rhe navy of course is vastly | *| better off than the army. But even ‘ CHICKEN FEED A SPECIALTY ew - a ' ‘ CHROUIT NO. 2. ; here sx-Secretary of the Navy, $ be 22 Srd Ave. end Sra 8 z Agents for a me . : . Mice > tu ree y eyel aeciares, 5 om = Ave. end McBride St. MINION NURSERY & the efficiency has fallen alarm- ¢ Ser 24 Ave, and MeBride st 3) ORCHARDS CO. ee — 5 Oe 2a od Ave. and fad St > ts ainda aie ia gly in the last two years, The @ bor 26 od Ave. and 6th St z ener general board of the navy, which « Gor 27 iL. te . ‘ — has f ght unsuccessfully for ‘ cIROUIT NO. 3 - : ie 2 a . > 908 Third Ave. Phone 58 four battleships a year, has just _* m Atp.. GE ean Ot. 3 taf h disappointment. It q Sox 32 réen and Taylor Sts. * : Gor 34 «7b Ave. and Pulton St : tes lecided 18,000 more officers and , Sor 36 Ave. and Comox Ave : Certificate of improvements. men are needed to man the ships : Gor 37 stb Ave. and Dodge PI. Aldebaran Mineral Claim, situate in the . j , Ser 38 bh Ave. and Thompson St ¥ | Skeena Mining Division of Cassiar Dis-| now built building, but Jo- : *) Ww wwhus Daniels, Secret f the | Where located:—About three-quarters;seplius Lair cretary 0 i¢ ; CRONT GS. 6 * | (3-4) of @ mile, more or less, from the wet , Bor 41 sch Ave. and Emmerson %| jorihwest point of the head of Alice Arm| Navy, refused to make this ree- : ® | and adjoining the Black Bear Mineral claim © Bor 42 > ym the southwest mmendation. ; hb Ave. and McBride St © TALE NOTICE that I, Pedro Salinas, as : nger the g Bor 43 5th Ave. and Green Bt % agent for William J. Vaughan, Free Min- Phe navy, even if 1 mnger the * Bo th ors Certifeate No. 81545B., and for my- i 5 i on th Ave and Basil St © | seit, Free Miner’s Certificate No #03138.,,sccond strongest in the world, is : Tih Ave. and Eherte. | intend, sixty days from the date hereof, . arte @ ared to the army ¢ Bor 141 7th Ave. and Young St w|to apply to the Mining Recorder for a midable ecompared to the army. . Certificate of Improvements, for the pur- . ianest ne t of tertt hen ti tener eee ee! owed! |pose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the \ccording to the recent report ¢ bov claim ‘ Stai7 ‘ aners ~— eet \* And further take notice that action, he Chief of Staff, Major General GT section 85, must be commence pe - “ ‘ . e lfore the fasue ot such Certificate of Im-| WV. W. Wetherspoqgn, a document DVERTISE 1? provements. . - ome oric ERTISE IN Prpated this @1st day of September, A.D.| Which is likely to become historic, T t08e PEDRO SALINAS. |the “actual fighting strength of HE DAILY NEWS a ee es Certificate of Improvements. without deduetions for officers ri Chance It Fraction, and Black Bear | Minera! Claims, situate in the Skeena Min-| 4).) men sick, on furlough, de- Fling Division of Cassiar District, ms | "Where located:--I'll Chance it Fraction'ta¢hed service, ete., is 2738 } ® llocated between the “Lilly Bertha’ and - é sldebaran” Miner.) Claims near bead of viicors and 45,968 men. | ' | Alice Arm, Observitory Inlet, and “Black ‘ |Bear’ Mineral Clim, located one mile, This is a single army corps, more or less, from the northwest point of : ithe head of Alice Arm, @ branch of OD-|ipat unit of the European cam- SS | servatory Inlet. Hebe PRL Wi | TAKE NOTICE bat 1, Potro gpttms, Free paigus Which sounds so small in e mbes s intners Association iM Certifica'e No. 8031 intend, ; dies vey rs bog By from the date hereof to apply {}); present cable news But it oe to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate 7 of Improvements, for the purpose “. = does not mean ah army corps ini wh (irant of the above claim. : WINDSOR WOTEL = And ‘Turther take notice that hy drawn up on shore at the point Corner of « section 85, must be commence : Viet ANG, Gnd Giga O ty “we issue of such Certificate of Im-) where an enemy is trying to land. . B. Wright, Prop. MOTEL CENTRAL Avenue and Seventh 81 Ecropean and American Plan vvtee Bfathe eap KNOX MOTEL Pir between Eighth end Ninth . Pian, Rates $0¢ to $1.00 Per Day Gener & Besner, Prope. y hester Vv. D. Casley EMPRESS HOTEL ' Ave, Between Sixth and Seventh Street Evropeen Plan, 6O to $1 Per Dey WOYAL HOTEL rey & Burgess, Props es ‘rd Ave, and Sixth St “roe " Plan Gleam Heated MEAVE® WHOL ReALE LIQUOR 0O., LiMiTED O° Ave. and Sixth 4 Phone 108 PRUNCE RUPERT IMPORTING 00., UmrvTED fraser ena Gixth Ste PP etecccs Phone 7 rovements |" Dated this 2st day of September, A.D. 1014. PEDRO SALINAS 1836 TH« MAaANK OF 1914 | Te Years 18 Business Capirat ano SuRrivus $7, "86.60¢ The Convenience of a Joint Account Account may be A Joint opened in the nan Whichever one 1e8 of twoor more persons can most convent ntly seach | the bank can then ds posit the | joint funds of withdraw the cash needed, It saves time and troubie | Pp. MARGETTS, Manager, BritishNorthAmerica vay 0 « clover enemy | liions of dollars from the inhab itants Phat would not be eon-|problem as it confronts us now. ‘quering the country, of course.) There exists equally the necessity rhe Middle West and the Pacifie|for building up, with as little de- States might resist for years,jiay as practicable, a reserve of sfowly arm and even finally drive|oficers qualified to serve as com- out the javader, but at what a pany officers of reserves or vol. fearful cost in lives and money/unteers. If we were called upon +~ | PRINCE RU PERT BRANCH this result would be achieved, stares | his litthe mobile foree is seat- tered all through the forty-eight states, Alaska, Porte Rico, Haw- and the Phillipines, What a miserable little body of troops to evading the United States navy ind swooping down on some of the thousands of unprotected points along the coast, Could Seize New York. Theodore Roosevelt has re- cently pointed out how easily a strong power could seize the ereat cities of Boston, New York and Philadelphia and demand bil- the defence Senate, Congress in the face in the shape of resolution introduced by Representative Augustus R. Gard- ner, Of Massachusetts, for the lereation of a National Security Commission. This board is to consist of three senators to be appointed by the President of the to of per- three representatives the Speaker the three other sons to be appointed by the Pres- ident of the United States. They are to investigate and report upon the ol the States appointed by House and United of- ' prepareaubhess for war, defensive or fensive. is the of better preparations in the Na- Congressman Gardner most active exponent military tional Legislature. He declares: We battleships, should have built building. e have twenty-eight ef- forty-seven and Instead, w fectives, with four serap-iron|ganization may be, they are being relies and eight venerable sur-|rapidly remedied, and the fact vivors. We need 187 destroyers,|that it gives them time to remedy ready or on the way; we have|these shortcomings makes the of- fifty worth the name, with sixteen|ficers at least acquiesce more which are jokes. We need thir-!willingly to the period of enforced ty-nine fast seout cruisers, butj waiting. we have only three. With our It must be remembered that limitless coastline our submarine|very few of the officers are pro- fourth We have an av- strength is world’s navies. erage of about five torpedoes to each torpedo tube in but three-quarters of them are the old, short-range variety and should be serapped. “We have not a single dirigible We armored aeroplane. balloon. have not a single planes we have are too few to reckon. “Our navy is now short 18,000 men, according to Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy Roosevelt, without taking into account the ren to man the ships now build- ing. Our coast guns have a less inge than the big guns on mod- dreadnoughts. Need Half Million Men. We should have at least 500,- i) men, regulars and reserves, eady to take the fleld the moment war breaks out. We should be ible to raise and have available f service a million men within a few weeks. Instead, we must lepend on 35,000 regulars, a handful of militiamen and no re- serves Three-fifths of the mi- litiamen do not know how to use a rifle properly. We have not a single movable sit gun exceeding six inches in Nor we a single tractor.” statements are echoed as with Major Leonard Wood. A point that ap- peals especially to General Wood the lack of officers. It takes longer to train an officer than to train a private. The offi- trained first, and then train their men, “The mobile army in the con- tinental United States is about 6 per of the foree which it would be necessary to eall to the colors in the early stages of a war with a first class power,” said General Wood recently. *“The mi- furnish probably 10 per leaving a balance of practically 75 per cent to be made up of men necessary to fill up the regular army and the militia stat- utory strength and of volunteerg. “To fill up organization to full strength with unin. re calibre. have motor These interviews General is much must be cers cent litia eould cent, statutory fill them up would be to have relatively little power. to mobilize to question power v among the/fessional soldiers. C I our fleet,|/training which they are now get- t k What aero-| ‘found the temptation too, ] structed men would be to destroy largely their efficiency; to fail to leave them so small that they would “But the need of more men in the ranks is only one phase of the moet a first class we should require imie- diately several tho Where are we to & isand officers t them? vital This is a matter of and one which sh importance yuld be atven to at once and not left to hurry and confusion BRITISH PAPERS WHAT POLITICS DID FOR THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT the rush, preceding a Our 1915 Catalogue Which Has Just Been Distributed a a maa Will aid you in making your selection of Christmas Gifts. Write for this book if one has not reached you. Note the fine range of SIGNET RINGS on Page 11 and our assort- ment of Ebony, Silver and French Ivory Toilet Ware from Dec. correspondent of The London, 9. The special Times, visited Salisbury, says that it fact that boots have is an unfortunate do | to strong point in the equipment of the not seem been a Ca- | heard hard | of the nadian troops. One things, he says, Canadian | eontractors who furnished the | boots to the field force. It is per- haps as well that the troops did not have to go at once to the front with the footwear in which they came over. Nor it is the only detail an in- nocent visitor gathers in which the universal scapegoat, prevented the gathéring and dis- patching of thé force from being altogether ideal, but whatever the shortcomings of equipment or br- polities, Most of them sheerfully admit that they are at east as much in need of the ing as the men. On the-cother rand, the whole force is on*an extremely high level of individual intelligence, so that the men learn quickly and all ranks are sonspicuousfy keen. 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