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st Lord or ¢ British ish Adutiralty Answers
Questions i in London Concerning
§ Naval Policy in This Country.

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Ihe News via GO T. P, Telegrapns.)
25 In the House of Commons yesterday,

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ONDON, M
; , as to whether it was true that the Canadian

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7 : ied to close the two dockyards at Halifax

| had declined the offer of warships fron

; oes is a result of the report by Admiral Viscount
1s the First Lord of the Admiralty said he hac

c on | Canada had declined the offer of the warships.

Ee nant his impression was that Canada had practically

ted the ¢ ffel

he First Lord said he did not know that the dockyards had

ed bul would make an inquiry. He added that Admiral!
: -ppyices on his recent tours had been of immense value
eood would accrue to the Empire in the pro-

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MDUN. MM 25. —- More Rose Craig, the woman of mys-

16,000 ¢ Bolshevik sol- tery, came up in the police court
to death this morming and was fined $10,
Ti vag nnounheda pleading guilty to the charge ol
viet ailtiters communication drunk and disorderly. She sas
a4 today { , Moscow by {Just recently arrived in town and

/ " [is an American, claiming to be a

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lains is the steer Aa nurse. Her case has caused a
he w itic provinces good deal of local curiosity.
e st el ports progress Pleading guilty to the charge of
e Red troops against Gen- drunkenness no evidence was

nikine’s forces along the taken, but before her trial she
i in the Ekaterinodar peat statement to the chief of
or the s fpont. police clearing anyone else from

any charge.
ory “! just arrived from the States
NY NOV ELIST lately to go to Stewart,” she said,
“and on my arrival in town went
iT to the Prince Rupert Hotel. About
RN) YF STERDAY two o'clock in the morning the
Li) manager of the hotel ejected me
. on account of disorderly conduct.
Humphrey Ward was the| After wandering about for a time
I finally managed to obtain the
loan of a room at the St. James
Hotel.

“Shortly after, on the same
night, I met some people who in-
Viled me out. Previous to this
I had been drinking and then I
had some more, Liquor has the
effect of making me crazy and on
this occasion I got the idea into

from ‘heaseioee head that these people were

ly began trying to nob me, I ran away in
ng going. *o hysterics shedding some of my
wearing apparel on the way and
oF finally went to a house on Fourth
anddaugh- .

Arnold, well known as Avenue. Here I was admitted in
ashonil® drunken condition and the mat-

mt if Brown's ter was reported to the police.
Pol Days S first: agua “Tl realize now that my fears
elist with | “ere unfounded and the people I
in 1888, | 85 with were all right. The faull
‘\is my own drunken fears. I am

written a ; :
ories leaving for Stewart on the next

p , steamer,” en
AVICH PUT ALF LARSEN DIED

ON OBSERVATION AT THE HOSPITAL

to be Dra
Sded Out of Court Tne
Room Loudly Voicin Death from Uremic Poison Which

9 His Seemed to Have Been Result
of Drinking Squirrel
1, the Whiskey.

‘n Who ¢laims

nd Daughter of Famous
Head of Rugby.

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NDON, March 25.—Mrs.
) ie novelist,
hospital.
ng for many
ement in
at Aylesbury, She

! Rugby publie

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With vagy “. and} The death oce urred at the
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N the polices coupe aed Genera] Hospital this morning of
B and was ana 8) Alf Larsen, a fisherman from the
phe ght day neteG 'o be|Corvona. He is an American, 40
Certain hig ,, &'vation} years of age, and died from ure
Wanted | os 7 : Condition. mic poisoning:
Horning and fr ge on bonds Before leaving Seattle Larsen
a the i anather | had been drinking squirrel whisky
bean Wragged down ica which he called French vinegar,
ing he let of polic ; 'e@/It seems to have contained a
8 indignation, oudly | quantity of wood alcohol, for the
"@ reached the tinue patient developed the symptoms
cell-| whieh follow the drinking of that
smi oo, : | poison, including blindness.
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one 45. G.O, Walker, Phone Blue 389, tf

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the United States, taken while he took a stroll in Hyde Park, I
with a friend

CAR SHORTAGE C

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BIG STORMS

here and have been indignant that the

on worrying over

» to supply the
reason for the trouble.
Canada and this has
1,050 cars

the east indicate the
Frederickton alone
and men had to turn out with picks to free
there have been

frozen in the
them from the ice.

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railway company
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In many Cities of New

and there has been rauch sulfer-
In fifty cities holidays we

team,

In New Hampshire the condition Hockey

to be postponed and business Was
a standstill.

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LINCOLN

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With two victories
ive but to

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» Lincolnshire

mile straight
7,500 was won yest the south ves

eded to Hazelton on the train.

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March 25.

man hockey, the
the Pacific Coast,
champions

holders-

strenuous

night, the home

by three

to their

Mrs. D. A. Harris are
on their way to Stew- |
Harris also

tenday ar

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Ww as Virtual Chaos
in U.S. Navy when
States Entered War

(opecial to The News via G.T.P. Telegraphs.)
WASHINGTON, March 25.—Virtual chaos existed in the Navy
Department at the time the United States-entered the war, Capt.
varris Laning, assistant chief of the bureau of navigation during
ihe war, testified yesterday before the Senate Investigating Com-
mittee,

Capt. Lauing said no one knew what to do after a plan of

ction submitted by the bureau of operations had been dis-
ipproved and the “personal characteristics of the secretary of
he avy taade it impossible to get approval of really important
policies. te

FINANCIAL POST UNITED STATES
‘TELLS OF B.C. NAVAL BILL IS
compiimentary Avaate on Finan [JP TQ SENATE

cial Statement paecentiy Issued
by Provincial Government. chelate

_—— Provides for an Expenditure of
fn c; gard to the financial state- $425,000,000 in All—Passes
ent recently issued by the Pro-
neial Government the Financial — pcos
Post of Toronto says:— (Special via G.T.P. Velegrapns.»
ihe first annual statement of WASHINGTON, March 25.—The
public accounts of any Canadiar Vaval Appropriations Bill carry-
vernment — federal or Drover ng approximately $425,000,000,
ial—to be issued with revenut } >4sSed the House today without a
and expenditures of each denart 7 , aow goes to the
ment of the government seg, senate
ruled under one heading, and The appropriation includes
with corresponding tables ShOW-} jpevious expenditures aggregat-
ing actual and estimated revenue ing $104,000.000 The remainder
and expen Giure 2 each san is to carry on construction of new
side by side, 86 tabled in the ships authorized in the 1916
British Columbia legislature last§t)pe¢_year program and for an
week. This business-like form of anliated personnel averaging 125

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) presenting the public. accounts-4¢ 800 in the navy and-20,000 in the

tLe sculmination of a series of
important improvements in gov-
evunment auditing that have char-
acterized the accounts and esti-
mates of.the coast province dur-
ing the past two or three years.
it will be remembered that esti- Bean a eee

mates of revenue and expenditure
‘or the year 1918-1919 showed PREMIFR MINE
improvements in anrangement a4
and classification, and these im-
provements have been adapted to MANAGER TELLS
ie public accounts. 2 ud :
Departmental Classification.
“Under the old form of esti- PLANS OF YEAR
nates and public accounts, which

is still followed in all the other so
Canadian provinces and by the] Wilt Continue Development and
Dominion Government, it was ln- Expect to Ship Ore All
possible to arrive at the total cost Summer-

of any one service, nor could re path

liable estimates be made from Dale L. Pitt, manager of the
year to year. Unler the new sys-] Premier, mine at Stewart, is in
tem, “it will be possible to make} the city today on his way back to
these comparisons, and the ac-/{he mine after attending a meet-
counts are simplified to such an]jinge of the board of directors in
extent that in one small table the] Spokane. It was at this meeting
revenue and expenditure of each that R. K. Neill resigned as man-
unit of service—the premier’s of-|ager and Mr. Pitt was promoted
fice, department of mines, depart- from the position of assistant to
ment of agriculture, etc.—is]take his place.

shown in comparison with the es- Speaking of the intentions of
timates for the year- the company Mr, Pitt said that
“Net revenue of the province] jt was the purpose to continue de-
‘the year was $10,931,279, ex-| velopment work with the diamond
ceeding the estimates by nearly} driJl. Two engineers were ac-
1,000,000 and the 1918 figures} e¢ompanying him back to the mine,
by $2,100,000. A large part of] Messrs. Hansen and Trojanowski,
the increase in revenue came}of the American Smelting & Re-
from the income tax, which} fining Co. staff. They would look
brought in $1,506,669, as against] after the plans and the site for
omy $670,638 in 1918 and $296,-|the new mill which is about to be
804 in 1917. The largest single] erected at the mine. The equip-
item in the revenue account was] ment is already on the ground.
again timber licenses, which Increase Capacity-
prought in $2,276,795, as com- Mr. Pitt further said that the
pared with $41,797,978 in 1918.) saw mill would be operated again
Other important items, with com-] just as soon as they could get
parative figures for the previous} started in order to cut timber for
year, are: real property tax, 1919,/the new plant. They were also

marine corps:

he bill has no provision for new
construction in addition to ves-
sels already authorized and con-
tracts for which have been
awarded.

/ $991,203; 1918, $1,013,983; wild] installing two new compressors

land tax, 1919, $792,416; 1918,)in order to increase the drilling

| $690,638; personal property tax;| capabilities.

1919, $800,415; 1918, $524,206.” Labor conditions Mr. Pitt said
_-— were more satisfactory than dur-
WANTED ing the winter, The company ex-
-_—— pected to continue to ship high-
A good pump action shotgun] grade ore and to mill the low
and -22 high power rifle. Must| grade. They hoped to ship all
be in good condition and cheap] summer in wagons over the road.
for cash. Apply room 7, Savoy|'The lower part of the road was
Hotel.—J. F. Osterbauer. 72} not good, but they hoped to have
——-— it good enough for the purpose,
Sidney we ermig returned from|He hardly expected that aero-
Vancouver on the Prince Rupert] planes would be used to any ex-
yesterday afternoon on his re-|tent at the Premier.
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