THE DAILY NEWS" ——— re T 7 SS ' VI NO). 194. PRINCE RU PERT, B. C.,, SE eee — ———- - MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915. — — = PRICE FIVE CENTS ——— or nee = BALKAN, CRISIS REACHES CLIMAX TODAY oe Oe eee ———_ — CREAT GERMAN CAMPAIGN TO CONTROL AMERICAN PRESS | — ae FINANCE GERMAN NEWS AGENCY — AMERICAN WRITERS FINANCED BY GERMANY —AUSTRIAN NOTE (Special to The Daily News.) York, Aug. 16.—The World| contro! of the |year, anc t W ivticles revealing the finance a ne he pro-German propa-| | Germany has paid , ed on offieial ecorres-| - |} American \ It asserts that there ial oane Inagazine society promotors ; campaign from Ber-/using gas in the trenches, 1 the American press; | re papers; breed dis-|rine industrial strikes in | the Allies. Note To Austria. plants from supplying event traflic in muni-| to organize American}; Washington, August 16.—The ; ties Berlin is alleged|/American note, in reply to one option on eae) from Austria, Smith, | stop the Press| Allies It that ly iolation of the ired an firmly Courtland export of the American denies that ind control of ivment of $900,000 and Smith of $15,000 a/in America. $1R MACKENZIE BOWELL —|SERGEANT DEMERS PASSED THROUGH CITY | } . } Sergeant E. Mounted Rifles, Mackenzie wis Howell accom- by his son Jack and his |¢ anadian | iughter Miss Jean Bowell, ifrom mn the George this morn- i eft for the east on the} Demers says he feels cs years younger as a result of the e e, who is 92 years strenuous training in camp, and D ioks nor feels his |e certainly looks fit enough, Mr. t this morning he}|Demers wishes to take back 25 pi 1 preparing to|cayalrymen to Vernon with him. j is full of PRINCE GEORGE ARRIVES s as nimble on his —_——_ in of sixty. His mind The following first-class passengers on the premier were amongst } ilert as ever, and he|the Prince George this morning: Mackenzie Bowell, Mr. J. Miss Bowell, man, wife and daughter, Jansen, Mr. ooking ahead with a be Sir Bowell, ed smile, He must st old man in Canada. Senator Til- ‘THE BROKEN COIN” AT MAJESTIC THEAT: e Sprung, wife and family, Mrs. Albert Davidson and family, Mrs. ). Erich and family, Miss Hart- Miss Archer, Miss Capewell, Mr. Os- Sylvester, ' it sees the production of { { d installment of “The]S. ¢ Coin” at the Majestic |nett, H { In order that all may|Mr. J. McLean and wife, Mr. Gor- i there will be three shows.fdon McLean, Mr, Adams, Miss Ii addition there will be two most{Beckwith, Mr, J. J. Samuel, Mr. ‘ ‘ comedies and a splen-|Heath, Mr. J. R, Fuller, Mr. Smith, ‘ ited weekly. Mr. Oakes, Mr. T. Jenny, Mr. HJ. lhe management announces|etter, Mrs. Arneil and family, Brown, Mr. Demers, Mr. Shaw, McCatflie, Mr. E. Madison Thursday a|Mr. J. Elner, Mr. Alexander, Mr. mitilled “A Gentleman of Leisure.|Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Warner and wife, Mr. i. Trickey and wife, 8. Whit- Wednesday and fal Paramount five-act feature RED CROSS LUNCH and wife, Mr. Mr. Watt and wife, Mr. H lhe Scandinavian lunch in aid|more, Chief Allen Harvey, Mr. Brady, is expected that the] child, Mr. Montgomery, Rev. to the extent of]/Burke, Rey. O'Hearn, Mr, Lin TI, ve Noble, Mr. Dietrich, Mrs, Streete, Mrs. Ross and child, Mr. White Seif’s|}and wife, Mr. Warton and wife, Justice ‘he Red Cross Pund was a great wife and ess, - St id will benefit ollow the erowd to Cafe. There is a reason.. Next|}Mrs, Walton, Mr. Bebbington and Majestic Theatre. 102tf.|] wife. eee oe wer Granby. Gillies and wife, Miss M. bi} LONDONCAFE flaiics tice. 0. Steake and And Grill sloane, Mes. Mee Faultless Service of Fault- Ware- family, Mr. J. Savaney, Mr. Morton, Mr. less Food ham, Mr. Kenney, Misses Olding, Hart Bik. Third Ave. Miss Nicholls, Mr. Lister, Mr. Keith, Mr. Collie, Mr. Campbell, BOXES FOR LADIES WPeos : ‘a Keates and has also tried to secure} New York-Evening | agency to supply] expenses of | his writers and Before Ger- many tied up two American chlo- gas to declines to arms to the} this is a spirit of neutral- ity and says Austria is free to buy ARRIVED THIS MORNING Demers, of the arrived Vernon this morning. Mr. twenty Senator borne, wife and daughter, Mr. Harvey, Mr. ———_-——- — IcERMAN SCHED. : TO CONTROL AMERICAN PRESS—GREAT | ITALIAN INVENTION CANADA F RECKLED WITH SAM HUGHES’ HONORARY COLONELS SCHEME TO SUBSIDIZE AND CONTROL NEWSPAPERS AND TO /SAM COMBINES BUSINESS WITH LAUREL WREATHS — MINIS- TER OF MILITIA TAKES HIMSELF SERIOUSLY—SAM KEEPS ON DISTRIBUTING SAWDUST Ottawa, August 14.—According to all accounts, lishes the first of a| Mail and offered $850,000 to }is being had in England by Major General Sam Hughes, minister of summer holiday to combine business with laurel wreaths in the exact proportion sive him a renewed appetite for both. pt ised that will | Nobody in Ottawa was sur- Major unqualified General | | when the went where glory iwaited him, hard knocks of last session are considered. A war Lord is very much like a prophet, in that he is| not without honor, save in ae own country. | The Major fame is like the fire that is not quenched and the worm that dieth General's thirst for} not. Sir Max Aiken, his appointee as Canadian Eye Witness at the front, can hardly give him enough of it. At the time Sir Max was appointed there were heart burn- ings among Canadian journalists, who took it as a slap in the face | that an expatriated Canadian pro- hastily should be acquired taken | motor, with a English accent, from his familiar work of writing and put to the ur- work of writing for the prospectuses familiar : Canadian newspapers, either di- | Morning Post proxy. that a rectly or by thought newspaper man in touch, speak, with the Canadian would be selected, and were sore | They naturally accordingly. But now that 3i | MILITARY DECORATIONS a pleasant time . e iconfliet, but | Major lwestern front. | seriously. loficers iselves on the P i fice, the ing but the Hutton correspon- he and “my man Turpin” fhurled the foe back time and again. The present wa same opportunity for extended to keep pace cumstances so that ‘‘my are doing now what he fifte means of thi man Turpin” did ago. By General Hughes able to be the important battles ithe major general, he would get into it son thine and they were right. they wonder at is that r has not Minparttal news from Germany. militia for Canada, who utilizes {afforded the major general the individual his personality has with cir- soldiers” and ‘‘my en years s private especially when the ownership of the Canadian army will be present in spirit at all on the People who know predicted that ie way or What his mes- sage to Genera! Botha did not go further. general's, then the “sha the foundered horses, window-pane which the army his also and he ought ‘them. binoculars If the army is the major m shoes, and the with is supplied, are to claim The latest reports from London indicate that Major ership of the Canadi promote poses to who jurisdiction of the For one thing, distinguis field of battle. so to|people had the idea that when the trade, |Ganadian forces passed under the British power of promoting General } ° : + Bo Hughes takes his individual own- an army he pro- Canadian h them- Many War Max has passed out a lot of snap | passed to the British War Office Hughes, they Max is just the io Major General can see that Sir man for the job. As an authoritative praiser Major Hughes, he mands even more the late Lord Roberts, who alluded to the Minister of Militia as the greatest Driving Force in history. | For this statement by the grand | General | Max's General com- attention than} old hero we have Major Sam’s word, but for Sir tributes to his benefactor we have the newspapers, which give them almost the force of affidavits. Moreover, what Sir Max over- Major General Hughes at- himself. The Minister no chance td4 looks, tends to of Militia blow a good blast for Major Gen- Some people might misses eral Hughes. call it delusions of grandeur and things like that, but his Ottawa friends understand that it is just Sam functioning in a higher immortal progressive meglomania Hughes sphere. As the Sam Weller would put it, they can see visibly’ under the words and ten- course dinners in England. That the major general's great- ness grows with what it feeds on, his cablegram to General Botha amply demonstrates. In the Boer war the major general performed valor, fre- him ‘“‘swellin’ shower of kind tremendous feats of surrounding the Armed with noth- quently enemy single handed, | tially sir John French may promote | they please, | ° Sam holds himself free to give the Like Midas, he also. true. Lord Kitch crowning touch. This it seems is only par- ener and of|CGanadians as much and as far as but Major General |Slories in his gift, and goes round turning common colonels with almost glee. Peace has not him to any extent. ¢ clay into childlike hampered tanada is THE FAIR 1915 ARE YOU A MEMBER? It costs $4 and no more to join the N. B, C, Agr. at any October next. Membership time spells The government base grant each year on roll, 450 was the roll Ass’n., before the ist of payable strength. the Fair membership for 1914; $500 the government grant, and 1,000 is the number 1915. Your $§ and larger fair. meany wanted for a better Your dollar means more dollars in September next will be spent in your City, Your dollar is aiding ment, rolls, prosperity and develop- and helping to make pay- profit. Send in your name to the sec- ret ary, al and Industrial Ass’n., City. Northern B. C. Agricultur- Box 1657, tf. ee — GREECE A AND SERBIA TODAY DISCUSS BULGARIAN DEMANDS BALKAN CRISIS IS AT HAND—FEARED THAT GREECE WILL REFUSE CONCESSIONS—GERMANS ON SERBIAN FRONTIER — RUSSIANS HOLDING ON—. ITALIAN INVENTION (Special to The Dally News.) Great Invention. London, August 16.—A Balkan Paris, August 16.—A new in- The national a8-|yention by an Italian engineer, Greece and Serbia/eajjed a quarine, drives torpedoes the Bul-| trom course and explodes The outlook is|/them. It has proved successful regarded pessimistically as it iS|quring tests. The secret is t) be feared that Greece will refuse the| supplied to all the Allied fleets. concessions asked for. The Ser- crisis is close. semblies of to consider meet today their garian demands. HARVESTERS’ RATE bian minister believes that a mid- dle ground can be reached. Ger- mans are massing on the Serbian A rate of 1e per mile out and froMer. { 1-2c per mile for the return Russians Holding On. trip is being offered to men who Military operations on _ thejqdesire eastern field are developing thefts the prairies. to assist with the harvest City Clerk Woods 78 have services. and both sides are showing the effect of the intense struggle. Th | Russians are holding the Ger- arenes buiaeasiasiblinniot mans back along the Dwina and Rey. Dr. Knox Wright left for the Kovno. Hazelton this morning. NEW YORK TO PRINCE RUPERT VIA PANAMA About six o'clock on Saturday H. J. Cambie, consulting engi- evening a trim little steam yacht! neer for the C. P. R., and father of Mr. Cambie, of the Bank of Montreal staff, passed through on She turned out to be the Ttuna,'the Princess Alice this morning, names and their is enrolling already offered H. J. CAMBIE CAME NORTH TODAY slipped into the harbor and east anchor off the government wharf.} Vogel and | | accompanied by two of his daugh- They are making the trip with her owners, R. F. H. O. Vogel, board. and a few friends on, ters. to Skagway. York saad iy: and proceeded via the ©jumbia’s real old pioneers, hav- Panama Canal to San Franciscy, | The party left New Cambie is one of British November ing shared in’ the railroad devel- visiting practically every point “f) opment of the province since interest on the way. After spend- 1874 ing some time at the exposition, they continued the cruise up the} LL, who designed all of Vancouver, Watson, the recent America Cup challen- Thomas Valkyrie I and Valkyrie If for Lord Dunraven. left’ early yesterday morning eoast to Seattle and to Prince Rupert. Messrs.|gers sent their cruising as far north as the across by Sir intend|Lipton and Aleu- thence Vogel and friends also tian Islands, making side trips to|She indulge in fishing and hunting. on her trip north, The Ituna was built in Glasgow, pier begs! Tk Scotland, and was designed by G. Mrs. Arneil and family returned from the south this morning. freckled with honorary colonels. One trips over them everywhere, Sit ; oe except in the firing line, which is} MAJESTIC :: THEATRE | Tonight and Tomorrow Srd Episode of the greatest Serial ever exhibited. “THE BROKEN COIN” In two Parts, ANIMATED WEEKLY World and War Latest News. “AT THREE O'CLOCK” Sterling Comedy, Featuring Ford Sterling. Its a scream from start to finish, “CAUGHT BY A THREAD” A Roaring Comedy. cap- For the convenience of the pa- trons we exhibit “The Broken Coin” three times during the evening—10 greatly to their credit, because being honorary colonels it would | | them ta fight- be against the code for do anything but honorary ing. The chanees are that of the real battle-breathing Can- distinguished several adian colonels, as from the variety, will come back garrison-ball-churech parade generals and many majors, tains and lieutenants will also get their step up from the British p, m. is still In time to see It, War Office, And just here an Coming Wednesday ‘and Thursday— ; . : A rare offering. Paramount Lasky, awkward question arises. If the the big attraction of the year. British War Office, “A GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE” In Five Acts. supreme authority, makes them|%, ooo generals, what can the Depart- ment of Militia do to cap the Unless Major General Hughes has the power to create Field Marshals, which a case of the fountain higher than its source, what can he do that will not contravene Ruclid’s statement that the whole which js the Walker,s Music Store Removed to Werner’s Old Stand On Second Avenue. PIANOS PLAYER PIANOS, MUSIC ROLLS, SHEET MUSIC, AND SMALL MUSICAL GOODS. climax? would be rising is greater tt » part? , is greater than th part All "s Terhaul-Heintzman Planos. can hand out is an encore, anc Pianos to Rent. lontinued on Page Four.)