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lL. Vi, NO. 99.

 

poRT THAT JAPANESE ARE

(Special to The Daily News)
Washi April 17—Con-
srable excitement has been
report that
are establish-
Turtle Isl-
ear where the Japanese
was wrecked,
wn of the Japanese
attempting

itor

bcad here by the

wal h p

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a naval base on

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OF GENERAL ELECTION

(Special to The Dally Newe.)

 

ttawa, April —Notwith-
hding the serious charges of;
t that have been proven
st the Borden Government,
till believed here that a gen-
imminent. Well-
run says the date is

r June 44,

ality, satisfaction and econ-
New Wellington Coal.
e 116 63tf.

FERRE RHRHRHEHEHE SE
DICK STILL SCARED.

It's a great thing to be
ble to scare your oppon-
nt. Once you have done
tthe rest is easy. A
ed man has no fight in

He begins to trem-

bie at the knees and soon
ll his strength is gone.
s in just that place that
he Liberals have Sir Rich-
td MeBride. A few weeks
£0 he decided to come

id try his strength at the
polls, but the Liberals pre-
Bented such an array that

it Richard was almost
cared it of existence,
Saresult he has devel-
ped a bad chill, which is
Poni med by the follow-
Ng despatch from London

HK HRHHHREHRHRHRHEHRHEEH ER E

AS publ
ince:

Londo

shed in the Proy-
April 414,—Sir

J
tichad McBride is econfin-
bd to }

room in his ho-
tel with a bad chill and is
Mhable to fulfil his en-
4gement to see Mr, Lloyd
orgs His associates

here Si

'y he certainly in-
tends to stand in the
orthcoming British Gol.
Umbia Clections,

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APANESE BUG AT WASHINGT ON;
FEAR JAP. ATTACK ON MEXICO

 

ESTABLISHING A NAVAL BASE

ON TURTLE ISLAND—JAPS SAY THEY ARE ONLY
TRYING TO RAISE WRECKED WARSHIP.

— a

raise the wrecked warship. It is
that they

mined the harbor and that forces

said, however, have
have been landed on Mexican ter-
ritory.

Admiral Howard,
the Pacific fleet,
New Orleans

commanding
has ordered the
to
Bay and report.

cruiser
to Turtle

MAY ARREST ALIENS
ON AMERICAN BOATS)

(8pecial to The Dally News.)

proceed

AWAHASREPORT I

Seattle, April 17.—The British
Admiralty announces that all
Germans, Austrians or Turks on
American vessels touching Can-
adian ports will be arrested and
imprisoned, This applies” to
Alaska steamers touching at
Prince Rupert.

POPULAF DANCE.
The Girls’ Chapter of the

Daughters of the Empire gave a
in St. Andrew's

last word in

dance last night
Hall which was the
entertaining. The hall was beau-
tifully by
scheme of pink and green stream-
mingling of
carnations, and

decorated a color

ers with a sweet

peas and was
highly creditable to even such ex-
cellent taste as is possessed by
Prince Rupert young ladies.

The refreshment table was also
a dream, Overhead was a canopy
of
while the
of red and white carnations.

made

and streamers,
table itself was a mass
All

by

pink green

the refreshments were
the young ladies of the
and were first-class in every re

chapter

spect.

Everybody, too, was there, and
such a display of brilliant -
travel for to

just a lit-

eu

tumes one would
see, each one looking
tle better than every other one,

The Westholme Orchestra was
there with bells and made the at-
mosphere tingle with their de-
lightful
away feeling that they had one of
the best times of the season.

The of the Girls’

music. Everybody came

members

Chapter who were responsible for
the dance are as follows: Miss
Taylor, regent; Miss Jenns, vice-

regent; Miss King, treasurer,
Miss M. H. Walker,

Other members are Miss Stewart,

secretary.

Miss Irvine, Miss Brand, Miss
Morrissey, Miss Suttaby, Miss
»}Kason, Miss L. Macleod, Miss H.
Macleod, Miss MaeGregor, Miss

Barnsley, Miss Enoch, Miss Wal-

ker, Miss Garmichael, Miss Nick
erson. The honorary regent is
Mrs. Kggert,

THE WEATHER.

 

By F. W. Dowling, Observer.

 

 

(5 avm,, April 47
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EDERAL ELECTION SET FOR JUNE

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indicates the tremendous eff«
tween Metz and Verdun. They

tween ¢ jonfian and the Germatr

positions near Etain and prev

COLOSSAL STRUGGLE BEING WAGED IN WOEVRE—This map

rt being made by the French be-

have captured Gussainville and
ented direct communications be-
1 headquarters at Etain.

 

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

MILCHED OUT OF HUGE

(Copyrighted.)

Somehow or other the public

accounts committee resembles

one of Cromwell's parliaments |
these days. Major General Sam's |
armed men drill under the very
windows. The sergeant major
barks his commands. “Form
ours.” “Swing your partners,”

.’ or words to that
effect. The air is tense with mil-
itary authority. It looks as if the
committee might be cut short al-

“Double

cross

most any minute.

Meanwhile Carvell, M.P., ably
assisted by his brigadiers, Kyte,
Mackenzie and German, goes

ahead with his task of unveiling
the Carvell’s theory is
that when one hundred and fifty
to be

army supplies the occasion gives

patriots.

million dollars are spent on

rise to two classes of patriots

those who pay the bills and those
who put bills in to be paid, Those
who bleed for their country
those who bleed it. It is with the
latter that the
counts committee is chiefly

and

class public ac-

con-
cerned.

When the news got abroad that
the government at Ottawa would
have hundred and fifty mil-
lion dollars to redistribute, there
was flutter among the
patfiots with things to sell. All
there anxious
the patronage list,
who them-

one

a great

Canada was
of
and patriots
selves not included hurriedly took
two into

over
scrutiny
found

a good Conservative or
the
contracts.
to be
asures

game and prepared to ree eive

Others who happened
the United States took
me to repatriate them-
selves temporarily, Others again
tightened up their ranks by tak-
t charters and incorporat-

in

ing’ ou
ing themselves as companies,
Their objeet as patriots was to
stand the
and the manufacturer to prevent
any direct clash between the man
who made the goods and the man
who bought them, to ease the sit
uation off contlict

throwing as many of their bodies

between government

and head by

as possible between the producer

 

 

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COMMITTEE

AND THE MILITIA SCANDALS

SOME MORE EVIDENCE ABOUT THE WAY THE

COUNTRY WAS
SUMS BY UNPRINCIPLED

POLITICIANS — CORVEL ON THEIR TRAIL.

The

outdone,

and the ultimate consumer.
be

patriots who should

government, not to
added other
save the country money by taking
off the top
before the other fellows got their
In this way was
avoided and all the patriots were
satisfied except those who pay the
For the last nine months
with do-or-die light
in their eyes have been charging
What they have been
charging the Capital is the sub-
the public
committee is now investigating.
Patriots as far away as New
York sniffed the battle and re-
membered that they Cana-
notably Colonel John

their ten per cent.

friction

taxes.
patriots a
the Capital.

ject which accounts

were
dians again,

Wesley Allison, an old friend of
Major General Sam's, who has
put him at the job of buying am-

munition for the British, Russian
and Canadian governments in the
United States. The colonel’s

forts have met with suecess and

ef-

he and his purchasing board have
reason to regret their pa-
Orders for hundreds of
through every week
have the allies
they got their

not
triotism.

go
ho

rounds
in case
that
cartridges too cheap.
it that
spread between the
the
paid by the

and
complained
Rumor has
the
price paid to
the price
British government
was seven dollars per thousand,
but this only goes to show that

in some instances

manufacturer and

a patriot’s place is in the middle
where the profits are thickest,
Honorary Major Thomas is an-
New York patriot with Ca-
nadian branches, He is cleaning
up the Canadian motor transport
problem for to nothing
only the one and a half per cent,

other

next

on the savings effected—but he
is also a member of the New York
purehasing board, which is out.
side the three-mile limit for
Canadian patriotism, and natur-
ally he gets more out of it from
that end, The publie accounts
committee has no fault to find
with what Major Thomas has

(Continued on Page Two)

DARDANELLES BO

MBARDMENT

HAS BEEN RESUMED BY ALLIES

FAVORABLE CHANGE IN WEAT
RESUMPTION — TEN BAT
SAROS AND DESTRO

HER Is IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
TLESHIPS ENTER GULF OF
Y TURKISH CAMP.

 

(Bpecial to The Daily News)
London, April 17.—The bom-

bardment of the Dardanelles has
been resumed owing to the wea-
ther being favorable. Ten batthe-
Gulf of
Saros and destroyed the Turkish

ships have entered the

camp. The occupation of the Mit-
ylene Islands by the Allies is im-

minent. A French cruiser sup-

porting an aero reconnaisance
bombarded the fortifications of
Elarish near the boundary of Pal-
estine and destroyed a Turkish
camp.

Vancouver, .April 17.—In the
Coast Baseball yesterday Ta-
coma lost the first game. They
were defeated by Vancouver by a
score of 16 to 2.

 

GERMAN REPRISALS.

(Special to The Daily News.)

Halle, Germany, April 17.—As
reprisal for the treatment ac-
corded submarine crews in Brit-
British of-
ficer prisoners were taken from)
the camp and placed in solitary}
confinement at Magdeburg.

ain, ten prominent

BAPTIST CHURCH.

 

Morning worship 11 a.m., sub-
ject, “Individual vs. Corporate
Morality.” Evening worship, 7:30
p.m., subject, “Is It?”
School meets at 2:30 p.m.

SKATING PARTY.

 

About sixty young people,

members and friends of the Bap- *

tist Young People’s Society, took
part in a skating party at the
Auditorium last night.

The floor

thoroughly overhauled, Mr. Mar-
ren having everything in first-

class shape, and everybody had

a real good time.

 

 

METHODIST CHURCH.

Rev. T. Albert Moore, D.D., of

point. If Liberals have

Toronto, general secretary of Bo. | done wrong in the past
cial Service of the Methodist, they were made to pay for
Chureh and one of its leading it. But that doesn’t excuse
speakers, will speak in the Meth- the present Government
odist Church morning and even- that has robbed the coun-
ing on Sunday. Dr. Moore will try through the purchase
also lecture in the Methodist of military supplies. When
Chureh on Monday night. a governmnet has been
ean On eatin caught at robbery, and

TO THE ELECTORS.

 

Kindly allow me to convey my
sincere thanks to you for your
support in my behalf in yester-
day’s bye-election, I will try and
prove worthy of your confidence.

GEORGE B, CASEY

68tin REGIMENT, EARL GREY'S
OWN RIFLES.

—_—-—--
Orders by Major J. H. MoMullin,
Commanding, April 10, 1915:

 

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Parades.
“A” Company will parade at the

 

Sunday |

and skates had been |

Exhibition Building on Wednes-
nesday and Friday, April 24st and | E L F’
23rd, at 8 p.m, |
“B” Company will parade at the
Exhibition Building on Monday | CA FE
and Thursday, April 49th and on ow
22nd, at 8 p.m, OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The bayonet drill squad will} oO0eee
start at 9 p.m, every drill night. WHITE DINING ROOM
S$. MARSHALL, Lieut. | A WHITE KITONER
84-89 Acting Adjutant WHITE HELP
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Safety First—Use New Wel- Next Majestio Theatre
ington Coal. Phone 116, 67tf. Phone 553

FIVE WOMEN KILLED
BY GERMAN BOMBS

(Special to The Dally News.)
Amiens, April 17.—Seven per-
‘sons were killed and eight wound-
jed by bombs from two German
aeroplanes yesterday. The bombs
were dropped in the vicinity of
the Cathedral here. Five of the
dead are women. The property
|damage is trivial.

 

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Remember the 68th Regiment's
/concert on the 27th of April, Pro-
ceeds to buy cigarettes and to-
‘bacco for Prince Rupert's First
Contingent. Tickets 25c, 50c, and
, 75e. 8stf

 

KRHRHKHRHH HHH HH HH HHH
SAME OLD ARGUMENT.

The only answer’ the
Conservatives can give to
the charges of graft that
are leveled against them
is that some former Lib-
eral Government had also
done things that
were not “up and above
board.” Well, what has
that to do with the case in

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some

 

that at a time when the
Empire is fighting for ex-
istence, it is not enough
to hurl them from power;
they should be put behind
the bars. Decent govern-
ment will never come until
terror is driven into the
hearts of corrupt politi-
cians. The time for that
may soon come, Let every
patriotic citizen be ready
to strike the vital blow.
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