isin. x ‘- ad Es Maja Gales & => * ee ee " PA et aay Sata ale ta eB caer i. 2 | ‘THE DatLy NEWS. THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Week'y Guaranteed Largest Circulation HEAD OFFICE Oaily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince TISING— TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVER rates on application. Rupert, B.c. Telephone 98. 560 cents per inch. Contract DAILY EDITION EB Thursday, Sept. 2, 1915. RECRUITING Britain has now a complete register of every tween the ages of who is not serving the govern- ment in some way. The minu- test details regarding present and past employment have been collected, and it is ex- pected that, at an early date, a new plan of recruiting will be adopted. The country has been divided into districts, it is proposed that each dis- trict be asked to quota of soldiers. and furnish its There are several millions of -without depend- not yet offered single men, ents, who have their services to their country, and, as many more men are needed, it is expected that the new plan will be effective in bringing along the necessary number of recruits. Care has been taken gathering employ- ment information in order that no men capable of making mu- nitions abroad. Britain is at last getting down may be sent in organizing her so that the best results both at the front and in the muni- tions factories. to business supply of men, will be obtained Conscription is repugnant to most Britishers, but it is freely admitted by men of all shades of opinion that, if men do not come forward in_ sufficient numbers, form of com- pulsion will certainly be adopt- ed. During the past few weeks munitions have some in largely increased quantities and many more men must be got into training immediately. $$ — - person be- 15 and 65, been produced! With the upon the responsibility thrown various communities, there should be no difficulty in securing as many men as are needed. GERMAN COPPER SUPPLY Are Germany's stores of cop-j ptr inexhaustible?) The ques- tion may well be asked when in the campaign in Poland big gun ammunition is being used upon a scale before at- tempted. At ban- directed their tire upon a single fort, and literally While this expendi- never Kovno six dred guns blew it into the air. prodigal but paying ture of ammunition was going on @long the eastern front ar- tillery taking place in Flanders and n -rthern France of a most violent sort, actions were in which the Germans must have expended many thousands of shells daily. Some tin.e ago the copper contents of. tl. daily output of German she!ls at 318 have been almost late, for the shell of totalling a quarter of a million projectiles as in the were estimated tons. This doubled of must output, instead daily, earlier months of the now believed to be half a war, is much nearer mil- lion. that for all Germany Assuming war purposes requires 500 tons of copper daily, where is the metal coming from? The sources of copper production controlled by the Germanic powers, or open to them in neutral countries such as Sweden, cannot provide more than 50,000 or 60,000 tons a year, while the consumption must be about 180,000 tons. Already the in domestic copper contained utensils has been much of commandeered, and the other copper in the form of statuary and _ household bric-a-brac has been turned over to the government. Church bells in the of Poland are conquered distriets eagerly seized and shipped to the German mu- It would take of the keep the armies in shells for a nition factories. a great many finds sort mentioned to Ger- nan SS THE UNION STEAMSHIP €0., OF B.C, LIMITED