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GERMANY Li JOKING TO THE EAST F OR SETTLEMENT — ROUMANIA [A MOBILIZING

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RUSSIA \ REJECT S GERMAN
| OFFER OF SEPARATE PEACE

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EVIDENT THAT GERMANY LOOKS TO THE EAST FOR SETTLE-
MENT OF THE WAR—DARDANELLES OPERATIONS
MOST IMPORTANT—RUSSIAN FRONT
STILL UNBROKEN

(Special to The Daily News.)
London, August 9.—Offers of a

rate peace, take
to retain a

Russia to
Gal 1 and Germany
have been re-

tion of Poland,

ected by Russia. It is becoming
t that Germany looks to the

a settlement of the war.
that

Serbia

she will next

It he eved
ittack in order to
with Turkey and

the plans of the Allies

thus
Dardanelles.

Allies’ Chief Hope.
rhe impo of the Dardan-

rations is realized

tance
as the
checkmating Ger-

ef hope of

in | s in eastern Europe.

HUBERT WARD
S RECEIVES PROMOTION

Word has reached the city that

Piiubert Ward, who was promoted

to the rank of sergeant on reach-
» Victoria, has now received his
lieulenant’s commission and has
left Shorneliffe for Chelsea Bar-
cs, London Mr. Ward is a
veleran, having been through the
south African war,
CALL FOR HOLLANDERS
| i, August 7.—According
a Lo 3 ust received by 0.
Ii consul for the
BN el : Ovegon and Wash-
igton, all male Hollanders born
mn 1895, must report to their
( try 1 nilftary purposes.The
ord iid to affeet about 800
rn each state.
GARDEN COMPETITION
judging in the garden competi-
| take place between Aug.
ind 44th, A, H. Tomlinson,
judge
M. M. STEPHENS, President.
M. Il. HOWITT, Secretary.
POeroooooe.

 

Majestic Theatre

Tonight and Tomorrow

Epleade of the Greatest
Serial Ever Exhibited.

“THE BROKEN COIN” In two parts,

 

Second

ANIMATED WEEKLY
; Latest World and War News,

“THE DECISION”
A Pleasing Comedy Drama.

“THE VILLAGE SMITHY”
A corking Comedy,

ADMISSION 10 and 15 cents.

Coming Wednesday and Thuredaye=
Paramount Bosworth Attraction,
THE CAPRICES OF KITTY” In
Five Aots.

 

 

LONDON CAFE

And Grill

Fauitless Service of Fault-
less Food
Hart Bik.

Third Ave.

 

 

BOXES FOR LADIES

rea

Berlin Report.

Berlin reports” that
suburb of Warsaw,
The
a retreat across the Vierprz after

Von

is occupied by
the Germans,
their line had been pierced.
the
concentrating

has abandoned
Riga,

efforts on the

Buelow
tack on
Warsaw-Petrograd
line.
Petrograd Report.

Petrograd, in announcing
retreat, says it
the

armies at

was

the

Vierprz

lowed by arrival of Rus-

sian their second

of defences with an unbroken

front

ANOTHER RUPERT
MAN KILLED IN ACTION

Word has been received in the
city that H. McKenaie,
ane. G, “Li- RB;
been
Mr.

having

formerly in
roadmaster's office,
killed

McKenzie was a re-

has in action il
France,
served in the 2nd
When broke
England to join

His widow

servist,
Inniskillens, war
left

Dragoon Guards.

out he for

the
is living in

eastern Canada.

 

PRINCE RUPERT ARRIVES

The Rupert arrived on
this morning after

with delightful weath-

Prince
time a pleas-
ant voyage,
er all the
Venture at
near

She passed the
Bella the
Bay.

were

way.

Bella
Alert

following

and

Sophia
The

the

amongst

first-class passengers:

Mrs. Brown, Miss Dorothy Tre-
mayne, Miss Pete Tremayne, Mr.
and Mrs. Freeling, Mr. H, B. Hol-
land, Mr. Freeling, Mrs. J. Bon-
neau, Mr. D. O. Neil, Mr. T. W
Woodland, Mr. J. Bostrom, Mr.
McKnight, Mr. 8. Hunter, Mr. R.
S. Brown, Mr. A. J. Jury, Miss
Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, Miss A,
Cane, Mrs. I. Lotsman, Mr, 8. G.
Robinson, Miss McBride, Mr, W.
W, Johnson, Miss B. McBride,
Miss J. Higgins, Mrs. W. Ww.
Johnson, Mrs. and Miss Gunn,
Mr. E. Heaton, Mr. J. A. Brady,
Mrs. Clifford, Mr. J. McBride, Mrs.
A. L. Williams, Mrs. 8. G. Sills,
Mr. EB. BE. Payne, Mr, J. I, Polan,
Mrs. MeMurray and child, Mr.
MeMurray, Mr. W. J. Saunders,
Miss Egan, Mr. BE. W. Fleming,

Mr. R. G. Rogers, Mr. J, Dybhavn,
Mr. and Mrs. R, Hill and child,
Miss L. EK. King, Mr. and Mrs,
Kaufmann, Miss B. Alport, Mr.
and Mrs. Gamey, Mr. and Mrs.
Almond, Mr. and Mrs. Errington,
Miss Wait, Miss K. Iestello, Mr.
L. A. Keith, Mr. P. W. Howell, Mr.

I. Hanson, Mr. H, A. McColl, Mr.
G. D. Shaster.
Be ete
Mr. Beaumont, assistant man-

—

of the G. T. P. 8. 8. Co., a
Mrs.

accompanied by Mr,

ager
Beaumont,

and Mrs. D.
the round

Vancouver, and

 

q trip to

MeDonald, are making

Praga, a

Russians made

at- |
his}

the |
fol- |

line |

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LIFE RAFT ON

shows precautions taken in danger zone

rafts and other

her decks in case of

 

Picture
as transports. The Lapland has
transport since the outbreak of

life-saving contrivances have

emergency.

S. S. LAPLAND.
by ships acting
constantly

been engaged as a

and specially constructed life

war,

been thrown loose on

 

MUST RECLAIM

YEARS FROM THE DISEASE

 

August
full

Ottawa,

carding the iron-gray mane

typical of good times, Sir Richard |
|

McBride now appears with a close |

hair cut which is more
British
Sir Richard and his as

with Columbia's altered

fortunes.

cial investigation into British Co

finances, and has put an
expert, M. B.
the horrid details of

boodling ex-

lumbia
English Cotsworth,
to work on
loot,

ploitation of British Columbia re-

and general
Cotsworth previous:
ly worked for the government, but
what was

sources. Mr,

getting a full view of

going on, threw up his task and

joined the progressives.

The opinion here is that Cots-

worth’s preliminary report 1s

precipitate a general

British

enough to
election in Columbia to
head off the seandal
In Manitoba the
first and the election afterwards,
but hopes that it
will the about in
British Golumbia, At all events,
the Conservative party in that
provinee, though almost cleft in
two by the McBride and Bowser
that

overnment could

revelations.
scandal came
are expressed

be other way

factions, will strive toward
end because no eg
survive the disclosures threaten-
the Ministerial Union, In
short, British
New Brunswick and Manitoba, I

has enjoyed the blessing of Con

ed by

Columbia is like

servative rule for a term of years
and is obliged to clean house or

he condemned as unsanitary,

 

Anyox,

in keeping |

sociates in the government, have |
trimmed the province so fine that
the Ministerial Union of the Low-
er Mainland is calling for a judi-

PEOPLE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

THEIR HERITAGE

 

BRITISH COLUMBIA, LIKE MANITOSA. HAS SUFFERED FOR

OF CONSERVATIVE PARTY

POLITICS — McBRIDE’S LEGACY OF
PROMISSORY NOTES

7.—Hastily dis-|

the

Columbia

A glance at facts in
British goes
for to prove that the sham shoes,
Birkett

main
ithe case

binoculars, founde ed

horses, Garlands and_ Fosters,
which afflicted Ottawa, were
jmerely symptoms of a general
disease which has ravaged Con-
|servative party polities from

ocean to ocean. The disease con

| ‘ '
sisted largely in having too mica

mey to distribute among
Nich-

|

‘easy m«¢

a policy which Mr,
Nova
candor

friends,
lolson of Scotia, in a
summed up as
As a result of
along’ the

handed

ment of
“dashing along.”
“dashing potiey

McBride

this

government has

over almost the entire resources
of British Columbia to the specu-
lators and the railways and has

nothing in return but their prom

issory notes and a back-breaking
interest account.

British Columbia has, or rather
had,

available

million acres of
Of this
gobbled up oy
after

fifty

seventeen .
land ninety

per cent. has been

syndicates, who,

first

ereedy

making a payment of

cents an acre, propose to pay
nothing more, not even taxes,

until the land is resold at higher
prices to the set-
tler. With the land boom in ruins
and the British Columbia tinances
a battered wreck this great public
tO be tied up for
unless in the meantime the

unsuspecting

asset bids fair
years,
British Columbia people repudiate
those bogus transfers and reclaim
their the
Court of Canada and the Supreme
Court of British have
both declared that the system of

heritage, As Supreme

Columbia

 

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, ROUMANIAN ARMY MC MOBILIZING
CABINET PASSES WAR CREDIT

 

 

(Special to The Daily News.)
Aut.

called all men to the colors.

9.,—Roumania has
The

in Paris has

Paris,

Roumanian minister
for consultation.

has

been recalled
The
credit of hundred million
($20,000,000) to be
military purposes.

Corizia Shattered.

cabinet approved of a
one
francs used

for

Rome, August 9.—Corizia has
been practically destroyed by

Italian artillery. The reply frorm
the forts is feeble. The
of the city are filled with debris.
Cutter Sunk.

Aug. 9.—The

streets

London,

VAN NESS LUMBER MILL
DESTROYED BY FIRE

(Special to The Daily News.)
Winlock, Wh.,

destroyed

 

August 9.—Fire
the

dry kiln and power

has planing “null,

house of the
$125

Van Ness Lumber Co. here.

000 damage was done. To pre-
it was

the

vent a spread of the fire,
found necessary to dynamite
dock.

THE CRADLE

large

 

 

 

John
East, ¢

To Mr. and Mrs.
213 5th Ave.,
at the General Hospital

BORN-
Watson,

daughter,

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this morning.

BORN—To Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
A. Vaughan, a daughter, at the
General Hospital this morning.

 

fortified

signatures

staking land “by agent,”

as it is with “dummy”
“power of attorney,”
this
not as hard a job as it looks, par-
if the government which
befriended the kicked
What makes this land grab
little worse is that

and spuricus
is fraudulent and illegal, is }
ticularly
system is
out,
bing Just a

revenue |

-| yesterday

ROUMANIAN MINISTER TO PARIS CONSULTED—ALL MEN ARE
CALLED TO THE COLORS—CORIZIA DESTROYED
BY ITALIAN ARTiILLERY—REVENUE
CUTTER SUBMARINED

cutter Lowestoft has been sunk

by a submarine. The crew was

saved.

FOOTBALL

 

The

the Callies in their game with the

following will represent

Regiment tonight at 7 o’clock

sharp. This will be the last game

in the present league.

W. Martin, A. Mur-
McIntosh, W. Murray, Hunt-
er, Winsby, Williscroft, Smith,
Dowther, Foote, and

Macdonald,

ray,

 

Neilson,

Dunn.

 

SCHOONER SITKA
IS REGULAR VISITOR

The American halibut schooner
Sitka, commanded by Captain
Johannsen, is a regular visitor at
this port now. She left for the
banks last Monday and returned
morning with 70,000
pounds, taken in about three and

a half days fishing, in weather

 

which was not of the best. The
|Sitka returned to the banks this
lmorning with everybody satisfied
with their treatment at the hands

of the Cold Storage Company.

FINAL ELECTION
RETURNS IN MANITOBA

(Special to The Daily News.)
August 9.—Belated
no change

 

Winnipeg,
returns show
the only change
being in Majorities. 39 Liberals,
2 Indepeud-

election
in the results,
5 Conservatives and
ents have been elected.

THE WEATHER

Dowling, Observer.

 

most of it has been done by out-

side syndicates controlled from
cities in the United States or
The-presence of many Ger-
the list of
indicates that the sweet
Alvo Von

crowd stood in

the

Eu-
rope.
man capitalists on
“stakers”
Alven-

scented Count

sleben and his

pretty well with powers at
Victoria,

According to the Forestry Com-
missioner’s latest British
Columbia had a stand of two hun-
dred and fifty billion feet of mer-
chantable timber, valued at $350,-
while the annual crop of
timber was worth more than $10,-
000,000, When the MeBride goy-

in 1905

report

OOU,\

ernment came into power
it proceeded to lay hands on the
timber laws which were not as
kind as they might be to stakers
and exploiters. As a result of its
effort the
were granted increased 1,000 per
1907, 10,000,000
lands were grab-
bed by the fact
stands per cent,

(Continued on Page Two)

area for which licenses

cent. and in
acres of timber
syndicates, As
60

now, nearly

 

 

 

 

F. W.
Barometer cove aol be 29.817
Maximum temperature ...... 60
Minimum temperature ..... > ST
Retell. 50.0 smeores « eaweek 65

John Dybhavn returned from
the south on the Rupert.

Follow the crowd to Self’s
Cafe. There is a reason.. Next
Majestic Theatre. 102tf.

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Two-part Essanay Drama,
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Western Comedy.

“THE VOICE OR SILENCE” Drama,
Featuring Mable Trunnelle Bige-
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