THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly Guaranteed —- Circulation H. F. MeRAF, 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 Contract DAILY EDITION ED —{E_ The only ean advance for its amazing ylea that Germany The departure of the local i contingent again brings wat iecst: aanthat “neutre) odinc near home, and war is Hell.|" merce is that it is not strong The spectacle of such a fine enough to exercise the right of body of men+marching out to search. It must strike and run meet the bullets of the enemy Weakness is assigned as the . » . excuse [@ lawless rlence is disquieting in the extreme. _ 7 oe oe |} But if weakness is the plea on The tremendous sacrifices that} sea, strength is the exeuse on have already been placed upon) land. There are parts of Bel- the altar of the God of War '§} gium in which Germany has terrific, and should be sufficient| exercised as great a power as to turn the world forever from | that of Great Britain on the this brutal practice. In the | sea But how has the power | meantime the foes of liberty been exercised? Belgium was must be overthrown and it lawlassly invaded, and as far speaks well for our race that as Germany could do it, an- men can be found who will nexed, its people plundered, willingly offer themselves. and many of them murdered. What our brothers have al- This is, upon land, an aet ready done others may be call- equivalent to ed upon to do a little later, and} the seizure and capture of neu when the task appears, may it tral absolutely free be done with a will. from any suspicion of breach vessels Only cow- ards require coercion. men do their duty voluntarily. es If there are any British sub-| jects, Canadian other other-| their crews, and the robbery of their cargoes, Judging by her conduct upon land, Germany would, if equally powerful ai wise, who feel that this is not! | sea, have not only seized neu- their struggle they better first tral cargoes without compen of all find out what conditions | are like under German rule, sation, but have murdered part of the crew and compe!led the for this is a war to determine rest to pay ‘blackemail. Ali whether British or this would have been defended laws shall rule the world, Can- upon the plea of military ne ada and the other Dominions German cessity. of the Empire have as much e ¢ = liberty as if no connecting tie existed. On the other hand, the Not having the power at sea to rob in this deliberate ma: colonies of Germany are ruled ner, Germany resorts to reck- from Berlin with an iron hand. less and indiscriminate de- It is a simple matter to deter- struction. Even the highway mine under whieh system one man usually gives his vietim prefers to live, and the issue the choice of holding up his should not be confused. If hands or submitting to plun there is anyone who wants a der. But as Germany cannot policeman at his elbow every rob deliberately and systemati- time he turns around he better cally she proclaims her inten- get away to Germany with al! tion to shoot at sight. If she possible haste. can aecomplish her purpose ones * © the sea will be made more dan- The maritime situation is put very clearly by the New Belgium is for Belgians. It is York Tribune when it says that no wonder that the German the whole German argument is note is received in the United simply an appeal to neutral nations to help her to overcome serous for an American than States with amazement and in- dignation. Germany has done the military disadvantage un- her best to bring about an- der which she labors from the archy and barbarism in Europe. ‘inability of her fleets to keep She is now trying to produce “the sea. cannot control the sea, she e's .4 History and Because Germany the same conditions on the sea proposes to abolish interna- fietion have tional law and to sink any ship made the familiar with the spectacle of the gun- The posi- man American which crosses the path of one of her submarines. tion is made even more absurd by the coo! proposal that every American ship which wants to be assured of safety must be accompanied by warships. That is to say, the neutral country must act as if it were at war and at enormous cost and in- convenience furnish convoys for its commerce. shooting up” a_ town Having shot up a peaceful neutral nation, Germany now proposes to shoot up neutral commerce on the ocean.—To- ronto Star. Salvation Army. Publie meetings, Tuesday WHEN BUYING YEAST INSIST ON HAVING THIS PACKAGE poierg » Die a man’s the soil England is still grimly hated, piracy at sea, to]; Brave of neutrality, the murder of]; bomb-splinters, ky, benzol, ** appertain to the pious_nights. We thought that ridiculous was on its to us from the other side hand-to-hand ‘ached the » tears open his tunic son of King George, Buckingham Palace. seems to enjoy life er brothers, schools, y, a lot of slang, ing with the Queen he "as applied t GERMAN HAS PRAISE FOR BRITISH ARMY Zukunft, a political re view edited and published in Herr Maximilian Harden prints the following: English army has dissi- many of the prejudices o tacticians against mercena- the British Isles are plenty of professions bringing rood money If a man volun- joins the army instead a clerk, agent, games- professional, or jobber, then has done so because he likes pleasure in his work German warrior in its apprecistion, has over again praised the stamina, and shooting » English. “The beggars are artists them two fingers above the ¢ trench, and they hit Dum-dum bullets? Still, such arrows fro minenwerfer,” Now every one takes him | Twice three he fights on bared breast flings himself on th | g steel. Such fighting is | worth the doing.” A VERY LIVELY PRINCE. John, the bench in St. James’ Park the other day and shoutetd at the top of his! “Votes for Women.” crowd immediately gathered, ¢ ‘ anembarrassed nurse some get her charge back to! boys of his age. He sd, doubtless from his eld- rified his mother by his. very Recently while motor- * his use of slang and par for his use of the thought the thing *, and pointed out that all talked about “kids” else would a fellow sale plunder = in eturn to shows no expectation achievements |submeree average On German THE DAILY NEWS RUSSIA RAISING NEW VAST ARMY Great Force of Fresh Soldiers— ‘ British Ships Sailing a as Usual. London, Feb, 20 The Daily legraph says British shipping jcireles are still perfectly ealm heir ships, great and = small, hpunctually observe their appoint ed a hedule The Morning Post says Rus sia is preparing vast armies of ceeded at best in checking an delaying, but not defeating, our illy The Germans, as it were, are butting into a sack of wool. rhe Times says latest vindictive scheme of who exacting times last year’s taxes sent Belgian refugees unless a Belgium #@y March 1, of retaining the conquered territory A man is never as good as he says he is, or as bad as others say he is. When there is no ice in the house, and there is butter to keep » hold a potato at the surface i|' deress of Mr. © crermany § it in brine heavy enough things armory Tommy has : And wher struggle end of his tether and with} 9-year-old jumped on a} ' Prince John Wise Precaution will prevent the little illness of today from becoming the big sickness of tomorrow and after. 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Faleoner, presi ident of Toronto University President Faleoner took as his subject rhe Policies of Bis marek in Preparation for the Present War Bismarck, he said, shaped the jinstruments~ which were to be ised by the helmsman who fol wed him. He it was who inaug urated the system of controlling the press and directing the vie ws | jthe papers were to set forth rhe consequence was that the |modern German is steadily delud- ed into believing existent a state lof things which does not exist and lhe acts upon this belief. With the loss of her free press Germany lalso lost parliamentary govern- jment. One of the first things Bis marek did when he became Prime Hohenzollern dynasty against the rising demand for jen the ¥ jparliamentary government. The people got a Diet, but it could not govern. The military system was then strengthened in deflance of Parliament. 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