THE DAILy NEws THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation i. FP. MeRAR, EDITOR AND MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C, Telephone 98. ‘RANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Gontract rates on application. DAILY EDITION GEER BHO Friday, Decomber 11, 1944. E D I T O R nd A L Ss. ’ ; Sina. A writer in a German com- mercial paper says that after the war Germany is going to boycott Britain and trade ex- clusively with the States. It's just like the Germans to buy in the highest market but do that how are they going to arrange their finances. The war has shown as never before how Britain is the for the world’s American writers used to that New York was as much a mon- ey centre as London but when it came to a show-down New York owed London some $5,000,000,000 and couldn't pay the bill. The war has em- the importance of Britain as a world’s centre and if Germany does not wish to trade with her she will have to move off the planet. * ¢ @ The war has also opened the eyes of the United States as to its military and naval standing. The people who were saying a few months ago that the Unit- ed States was prepared for aH comers now realize that they are one of the weakest powers from a military point of view. There are many, too, who want the States to get in the race and adopt the system of the Kaiser. What the States should do is to hold up the hands of the Allies in the pres- ent war and make the need of even should they clearing house finance. pretend phasized a military system forever un- necessary. day for the world if the United | States should throw all its re-| sources into the creation cf 2 military machine. are only made for use and if the peace loving nations would now get together there will be no future for machines. * 2-8 The News is in receipt of a communication {from the In- terior making a bitter attack on the Germans and Austrians in that district and asking that the government take the mat- ter up. There are no sperciic charges made and until this is done The News does not feel inclined to support it. We have jnvited these people to come to Canada and make their homes with us and so long as they are inoffensive and keep their views to themselves they should not be interfered with. It may be quite proper to take every precaution against spies in the vital parts of the Em- pire but there is nothing to spy on in Northern British Colum- bia so long as the British fleet is afloat. Those people there- fore who have been good citi- zens in the past and who have not forfeited public onfidence left strictly alone. When the war is over we shall the good citizens In the meantime any need military should be all available. need ——- of confidence reported will be promptly dea with. breach proper WAS ORDERED TO LET THE GOEBEN ESCAPE Nov, 17. York, Admiral Troubridge, commanding British Mediterranean at the opening of the war, ordered to permit the Goeben and Breslau to the Strait of Mes is the explanation given of the admiral’s acquitta London, By mail to mc FT the squadron New was German cruisers escape from This jhim for allowing the two ve It would be a sad! |Goeben and Breslau secure! Machines | by the court martial which tried sel to elude him. mn thre het Admiral Troubridge’s squad) was supposed to have had tied up and after their escape he was called home, supposedly in and vindicated. disgrace, at ‘his trial was completely By testimony log and the of his flag lieutenant, means of his his secretary and his wireless op- he received a radiogram in the British Admiralty’s secret worded and signed in regulation | Admiralty form, ordering him to} permit the Goeben and Breslau to get away. The was received on the morning of August 6. Under the laws of neutrality, the Goe- ben and Breslau were to leave the Italian port that evening. They left on schedule time, unmolest- ed, entered the Dardanelles in due season and were turned over sub- sequently to the Turkish govern- ment, It was not until he reach- ed England that Troubridge learned the order he received was not sent by the British Admiralty. It was sent from the Goeben itself or from some other wire- less station under German con- trol. The most surprising, as well as baffling feature was that only a week previously the Ad- miralty had changed its wireless code, as it always does periodical- ly, code, message and very often indeed in war QE FP . Uy Bri tish Columbia When you bake bread you want to get as much bread from your flour as possible. You cannot get full value in bread from poor flour. Your flour must be of tne very best, made from Number One Hard Canadian Wheat by the best possible process—The Roya! Standard. That kind of flour is “strong,” it yields the maximum number of loaves from the sack. Moreover, Roya! Standard Fiour is made in British Co- lumbia and it makes jobs for over a hundred people. You can help yourself and the province both by using Royal Standard Fiour. The order Troubridge re- ceived was times. in the new code. 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Prince Georg: Salis for Vancouver, Vio. toria and Beattio on Fria eat 8 A. M. ays Through Service to The F Over the GRAND TRUNK PACIFICO RaILWway erator, he was able to prove that, I R. Preston's life of Lord] Brown, true to the memory of her Passenger train ‘ . . ing ‘re ap-/distinguished husband, sent an e carrying Gtandard Bleeping Oars. p : Strathcona is becoming more ay Care leave Prince Rupert on Wednesdays and sa: day parent to Canadians now that/account of what was on foot to ae bene an on Winnipeg, eto, connec . ; 7 tv of read ida. suggesting that, to pro , cago and all Eastern Centres they have an opportunity read a ' ; For points EAST of CHICAGO use the GRAND een ing the book itself, which has just in for eontingencies in the fu- Make your Bleeping Car Reservations early. For + EM been issued in Toronto. ture, it might be advisable that Full Information apply to @. T. P. Ticket OMmee, Thira ay. ' In addition to the references al-|the eontrotling interest in The AGENCY ALL ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP Line: ready make, there are other sec-/ Globe should be in the hands of . . ¥ r onithe Liberal party She suggest oni tions which throw new light jth Liberal pa ; — some of the momentous period led what she considered a fair ooo. | Bor 60 in Canadian political history.«Mr iprice for her interest, and it was MUSIC Preston tells of the bitter, but fu-|learned afterwards that this was Teacher of Violin and All ; A} \ tile, attempt made by the Con-|far below the sum that had by Band Instruments ; A) servatives to defeat Mr. Smith injoffered by the agent of Donald A A. PESCOTT OL! 462 Eighth Ave. East ' the election of 1878, and his sub-|Smith. Phone Green 327 WA! Wi sequent declaration to support When the news of the pros lthe Liberals. “In the meantime,’ pective transaction was received | he adds, “the syndicate of whichiin Toronto, the effect was start M : nae he was destined to be the mostiling The party was struggling artin Swa SO Second A iprominent member was secretly along, ill-supplied with funds for ; (pouring money into the coffersjordinary organization, but there CUT PRICES jor the Tory party. The forces’could be no delay about a matter ) ‘ ' | were at work in which he had im eo vital as this. Sir Richard Cart Call and Save Money PW Wellingiy i} 1} fal | portant interests that were to | wright, Hon. A. 8. Hardy, Hon 3° Jil i |bring about the defeat of his own | Geor we A. Cox, all now deceased The favorite W friends and aid in the Success of | Mr Robert Jaffray, now Senator, DR. GILMOY, DENTIST ar SeMee, Bes his most bitter political and per-|and the writer diseussed the sit : NEW WELLINGTON coaL co my ' . Orown and Bridge Work a R . sonal opponents. fuation. Messrs. Cox and Jaffray Specialty ogers & : . > ws Bai } ec ; Becond Avenue Phos Following the loan of 830,000,- | offere ; sribe ‘ . “19 ie ered to subseribe half the | gepigg: Smith Bik. Third Avenue 000 the Liberal press was partic-| amount. necessary, if the balance | ” ™ ularly insistent that the C. P. R.jeould be re ised elsewhere. It fell sien etientin aiemainets te aa forces should withdraw from pol-|io the lot of the writer to visit! UNION TRANSFER C0 ror Puumuine AND HEATING’ } ities. Mr. Preston refers to the|Liberals in different parts of the} : : Toronto Globe as being the lead-|Dominion for the purpose of get-| GENERAL TRANSFER AND STORAGE SMITH é MALLETT } oc ; er in this criticism and then tells . ence. The 6 | Geuth Wellington Gas! Vartouver, Cr ' ting the helance. The pe hase (PHONES : 86 Office RESIDENCE t10 tings, Pipes c as ' of an attempt to obtain control|was satisfactorily completed, and! 933 second avenue PRINCE RUPERT |] THE Ave. Head of Secon sired nee ’ of it. the newspaper placed beyond the | oR F as ene ncinaieeiidaal Tried to Buy Globe. possibility of falling into the pos- OAT BUILDER \ } in “The Globe was formed into a/Session of the syndicate during B . ‘'ea. M Manson, b 4 company, odd shares being held|the present generation. H JOUNSTON Ww. £. ¥ b in different parte of the country. “Wanted it Very Much.” | Seal Cove Phone Green 321 WILLIAMS & "ONSON But the dividends were not such} Thirty years afterwards, in the| patie . oe sient Barristers, 80! Et as to justify very great anxiety|eourse of a conversation with! eee, TO Lone on the part of the holders to re-|[Lord Strathcona on journalistic | | Helgerson Blocs ; , re tain them as an investment. Se-|work and the influence of the MAJESTIC ROOMS cretly, Donald A. Smith's agents} press, he said to the writer: ‘Do! CENTRALLY LOCATED office corner Ynd 8 ‘ bought up all the shares that!) you know that once I came nearly Steam Heated——Ali Conve- 5 TMITED i t t : ih were available. The probate of bis|peing a newspaper man myself?" niences—Very Moder- PACIFIC CARTA( Gi L ANITED will shows that his estate hoids|] replied that I was aware he had| ate Price Pees. alien ne on : a Leg $100,000 worth of The Globe|tried to get possession of the SPECIAL RATE MONTHLY aeweeTN COAL stock. He learned, however, that|Giobe in the ‘eighties. ‘Ah, yes, el i. " The Globe stock was held by Nel- you know, but I would not have ” _ son & Sons. publishers, Edin- changed its polities except as REE EAR ERR ERE RRR RD , vail . . * ' jbtrgh, as trustees for the widow) regards the Canadian Pacific. It) " JOHN CUR b lE jof the gfeat founder of this jour-| was very abusive then. 1 wanted! 35--PHONE--35 > Co & Bul jnal. Mrs. Brown was a sister of|it very much. How did your party | s| miractor a ithe Nelsons. Donaid A. Smith in-|raise the money to get it? 1! eo ” patructed his representative to}told him about our determination | | XI joroceed to Edinburgh and pur-|that he should never have it, and A peer panmse Brown's interest at any|my own personal efforts in col : te pe ngghamammaias ites ie v > re. . . ? jcost. The sum offered was far lecting the money: He added:| mbm 3 ce : ; jin excess of the then value of the|‘go it was you, so it was you. z C. B. PETERSON ; jshares, but the object of the|and that I shauld only know it ALF enkssens * EXPERT ACCOUNTANT ; yrospective purchaser was ; , ; ; ; |! #8 Pp ' as only}now. But I would have hati it kkkwikkiewrkiwrhrireerh keen AND AUDITOF ; too evident—to silence one of the) within a month if you had been|___ Phone 318 ; Oldest and the most influential much longer. The Globe was! cecere ree reneet esponeats of public opinion in}yery insulting, very personal. It} DOMINION |Canada ~to prostitute the repu-/treated us as if we were odes Undertat and Embaimere JAMES GIL) M0 RE jtation of a great newspaper that|pers.’ ” FUNERAL DIRECTORS , for fifty years had stood in the ontnatiil } Saehete ons Undertakers’ Supplies forefront of the battle for the] Stream of Prisoners Endiess. Tghipping Onsee e Opesisity | — rights of the people, and was : i never known either to be silent London, Dec, 10.—A_ dispateh|_— oe | nd Avenue, near ¥ or to advocate any cause from|to Reuters from its Minsk corre-| o unworthy motives. jgneseneasarancancccccers eeere ooeets “There could be - but one reason why the syndicate wanted to get possession of The Globe—to drag into the dust this organ of publie spondent says an endless stream Delivered to any part of town, or can be had at Spurr's Market, Knott's Bakery and the Fulton Cash Market. Good Pure Milk of Austrian and German prison- ers is passing through that city on its way to the interior of Rus- The sia. number Saturday last Govt. Inspected Cows kh Phone 87 SAVOY HOTEL eIReT CLase oUrsINe ’ pires when dealer in your morality for its own interested}/alone was 86 officers and 504 sol -_ ~~, "poome. age ee i locality is selected. Give ends. But again, as in the case |diers. The Best Equipped and Most Oniy finest brands of ii on Vancouver Milling & Grain Company, Ltd. cole and size desired. a: om Alexander Mackenzie, the syn- -_—_—_—— — ; Sanitary Dairy is the THE SEST worm. ™ 7 ' nternational dieate ran u ze , : : . Pp against a descend- An epicure says that a lot of . . SAITISH COLUMBIA Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo and Victoria ea ae ant of the old covenanters. The|divorces come out of the frying Prince Rupert Dairy PRUDHOMME & FISH ! ° r ? reply that was received settled the | pan. 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