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PRINC;: RUPERT MAY HAVE SHIPBUILDING

REPORT THAT VARNA HAS FALLEN TO RUSSIANS~MILLION MORE MEN WANTED

LUMBER SHIPS
MAY BE BUILT

AT PR. RUPERT,

 

B. C. Manufacturers Forming a
Stock Company to Build 20
Lumber Carriers on
This Coast.

(Special to The Daily News.)
Dec, 22.—The B. C.

Association is

Vancouver,
Vanufacturers
ing a meeting to devise plans
the building of

of British Colum

twenty ships
Lie carrying
t lumber.

sed that the

Victoria

It is prop ships be
ilt at

nee Rupert.

Vancouver, and
\ joint stock company is form-

to carry out the project and
000 was subscribed last night.
a committee of

Asso-

time
the B. C

some ago
Manufacturers’

in Was appointed to make ar-
vements for some definite plan
The

ng this line, idea of the

nmittee is to build wooden
ps and that a steel and iron
stry will ultimately develop.
‘he lumbermen are loaded up

vith orders, but, as in all parts

the world, bottoms are not to
be had, ana ship-owners are mak
ng unheard of profits.

|"EUTENANT PETERS
GIVEN NEW COMMAND

City Peters just
Fritz,

for gal

Solicitor has

eceived word that his son
received the D. 8. O
in the great fight in
the
sunk, has

of the

Grey a

tL conduct
North

iser Blucher

Sea when German
was
given command
rpedo boat
id,
Commander
of the

ently

been

destroyer

Peters’
latest

in commission by

new ship is
re-

the

destroyers
put
dimiralty,
Footwear is the real
ds at the right price—Leather
’, Hart Block. 300-2.

Foge’s
Store
to get their

Men wanted gifts

iL Wallace's,

ow oe

WESTHOLME.

OPERA HOUSE
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

 

 

MARY PICKFORD

“LITTLE PAL”

Five-ree] Drama.

 

“THE BUTTERFLY”

Two-act Comedy-drama,

‘POPULAR PRICES, 10 and 15 ots.

Coming, Charlies Chaplin in
“SHANGHAIED”
5 ‘

nore oeee

LONDON CAFE
And Grill

REASONABLE PRICES
Hart Bik. Third Ave.

 

BOXES FOR LADIES

 

 

BRITAIN CALLS.
FOR A MILLION

House of Commons Votes that the
Army be Increased to Four
Million Men—Germans
Lose Heavily.

(Special to The Dally News.)

London, Dec. 22.—In the House

of Commons last night a vote to

increase the British army by an-

other million men, making its

strength four millions, was pass-

ed.
Staff

res which have been

that

chang
there will be

the

made indicate

closer co-operation between
Allies on the
Germans Lose Heavily.

On the
lost

to oecupy the

western front.
western front, the Ger-

mans heavily in an attempt
craters caused by
mines near Armentieres.
The French carried the German

defence works near Hartmans-

Weilerkopf, taking 1,200 prison-
ers.

Artillery Actions.
been violent artil-
front,
destroying
along the
The

Essen

There have
lery actions along the Yser
our completely
the
Yser

enemy’s

guns
German defences

canal near Dixmude.

cantonments at

were destroyed by our shells.

 

“PRO PATRIA” AT THE
MAJESTIC THEATRE

There is an eight-reel prograan
at the Majestic tonight which will
rank as one of the finest ever
brought to this city. The great

attraction is “Pro Patria,” in six

historical mas-

acts, a Pathecolor
terpiece. It is a story of old
Spain and the scenes are laid in

Louvain, the historical and beau-

tiful old
since been laid waste by the Ger-
mans, The
Paul Gapellani, one of the world’s

Belgian city which has

star of the piece Is

greatest dramatic actors. This is

a picture which no one should

miss.

There is also a Pathe Gazette
with the latest European news and
our old friend Colonel Heeza Liar
in one of his highly amusing war

comedies.

 

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GIFTS FOR CHILDREN
OF OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS

 

Tuesday, 28th, at 4:30
p.m, in the Hall,
the auspices of the Queen

Dec.
Presbyterian

On

under

Mary Chapter, L 0. D. E., a tea
will be given to the children whose

fathers are away fighting for our

country. Anyone desirous of

showing their gratitude and ap-
preciation for what these men are

can do so by sending fruit,
nuts gifts for the
children to either of the follow-
ing: Mrs. Humble, Mrs. Ritchie,
Mrs. Bazett-Jones or Miss Davies.

doing,

candies, and

PETER PAN BAKERY REOPENS
24th, at

on ‘Thursday, December

MORE SOLDIERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUSY WIRES
The field telephone plays an
picture shows British so
hot off

and the

ing orders the wires at

AT GALLIPOLI
important part in the operations,
Idiers at work receiving and copy-

the Dardaneiies,

 

PARKER WILLIAMS
SCORES GOVERNMENT

Mr. Parker Williams, M. L. A.,|

spoke last Sunday night in Van-

couver Labor Temple under the

auspices of the People’s Forum.
His address was a slashing attack
on the methods of the government!
during the past few

followed by a

years, and

was closely good-
sized audience.

B. C. Worst in Dominion.

PITTSBURG SAVINGS
BANK GOES UNDER

(Special to The Daily News.)

Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 22.—The
Pittsburg Savings Bank, one of
the best known banking institu-

tions in this state, failed to open

its doors today, on an order from

the Pennsylvania banking depart-
ment,

The bank failed to weather the

 

Mr. Williams, during the course

of a lengthy speech, said working

|

class conditions are worse

British

any |
other part of the Dominion, White i
|
|

Columbia than in

miners have been forced to leave
the province and they were crowd-
ed out of their positions by China-
men. British Columbia is the only |
part of the British Empire where

 

Chinese are permitted to work
underground. So negligent has

the
have

|
been the government, speaker |
that
from the province,

said, thousands gone |
and this prov-
ince suffers as does no other
province or part of the continent. |
Not to the anything |

but maladministration of the gov-

war nor to

ernment can present conditions

be charged. The boundary country

the influence of A. C.

through

Flumerfelt, a man who is slated
for a cabinet position, has been)
made a miniature Balkan States,

Mr. Williams asserted, and a man

with a good Anglo-Saxon name
cannot get a situation.

Men Workless Everywhere.

In every corner of the province
there are men absolutely depend-
so of

The
single

ent on the two months or
work the government gives.
largest

government is the

employer of labor, and the largest

with the lowest

purchaser, and
type of patronage ever designated,
All legislation has been remodel-
led to vob the individual and place
all power and right in the hands
of the government.

Labor Legislation Obsolete.
During the past ten or twelve
years there has been progress on
all parts of the continent on labor
Protective
life
has been

lines except in B, ©.

legislation to make easier

from day to day, there

Ten years ago B, C, stood

foremost in this respect, but the

none,

 

 

124 Third Avenue, next Bank of
Montreal. 800-2,
Open evenings Wallace's.

jJames 8.

}showing

a failures of

. Kubn, its two

following
and W.

largest creditors.

storm

MARY PICKFORD AT
WESTHOLME THEATRE |

 

the five-act}

the

Pickford in
“Little

Mary

drama Pal” is

attraction at the Westholme to-|

night and tomorrow. It is a story
of the big gold rush to Alaska,

the wonderful scenery of

ithe great north, while it depicts
the rough and ready ways
those early days in the mining}
camps.

The dainty Mary plays the part}
of the half-breed daughter of the
of the Monte Cristo saloon)
and scores in it another triumph. |
The little half-breed is staked in

a gamble and is won by a notor-

owner

ious gun-man_ called “Black
Brand.” It iS a most thrilling
drama, and Mary Pickford never

appeared to better advantage than
as the Ittle girl of the north. A
splendid two-act comedy, entilled
“The Butterfly,”
reel which
seen by all.

completes a 7-

program should be

TELKWA RED CROSS
SOCIETY DOES WELL

 

The Red Gross branch at Telk-
wa held a very successful sale of
work last week when the sum of
$250 was realized.
the
when

was
the evening
The sum
to the

A dance given by
gentlemen in
$30
of $280 was

Red Cross Society.

more was earned,

handed over

and industrial progress has been
that
legislation as exists for the pro-

rapid with the result such

 

last ten years has added nothing

-—B, ~, Federationist,

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|
|
is
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great |

iwhich a
ltaken

| shouted a

tection of labor today is obsolete,

SERB STABBED
BY AUSTRIAN
IN VANCOUVER

Toast to the Allies leads to Stab
in the Back—Police Hope to
Make Arrest—Wound
May be Fatal.

€Special t> The Dally News.)

Vancouver, Dec. 22.—Mike La-

venich, a Serbian aged 35, has

the

Austrian on Hastings Street.

back by an
The

may

been stabbed in

 

which is a foot long,
to be fatal.

police are searching for his

} wound,
| prove
| The
assailant and confident that they
to effect

and

will be able his arrest.

Lavenich some friends,

while in the Bodega Hotel, drank
a toast to the Allies. An
who was present threw down his
left the bar,

When Lavenich passed

Austrian
glass, and hid in a
doorway.
the Austrian rushed at him with
inflicting a wound in the
the

a knife,
back
crowd.

and disappeared in

CALLOUSNESS OF THE
GERMAN CROWN PRINCE

On several occasions while in

India the Crown Prinee of Ger-

many’s hand had to be stayed to
lsave a beater who was in danger-
jous proximity to the quarry, and
in one of these instances it is re-

Lon-

 

says a writer in the
that
impatiently

corded

don Magazine he shrugged

and asked why a

‘damned coolie”’ should be allow™
ed to spoil the sport of the person

for whom the hunt was held.

More cruelly callous still was
the remark he made to a Maha-
lrajah whose guest he was, and

iwho was with him in the howdah

| when a beater started to enter a

of |dense clump of jungle grass in

wounded panther had

refuge. A native officer

warning to the man
howdah of the next ele-
whereupon the
the Maharajah in

protest.

ifrom the
| phant, prince
jturned to im-
|patic nt
‘Tell him to let the chap go on,
said, “It is

your Highness-"" he

not every day that one can see a
man mauled by a leopard!"”—-Ex.

XMAS TREE FOR THE BOYS

 

This week there will be another
sale for the Red
here, beld in the vacant store next
to Wrathall’s Bookstore, The sale
Mrs. L. W. Reilley
The event

Cross Society

will be under
and Mrs. J. H. Kelly.
will be a little different from what
the ones in the past have been.
the afternoon,
be tea the
evening there will be sandwiches

There will, during

and cake served. In

and coffee served,

the Christmas tree

go to aid the soldiers,

 

Block, 800-2

 

lace’s,

 

Elaborate
preparations are being made for
for the soldiers |

which is to be dressed there and

High grade shoes for all al
bargain prices at Fogg’s, Hart

Fill the Xmas stocking at Wal-

 

KRUPP’S WORKS
DESTROYED BY
BRITISH AIRMEN

Krupp Works near Constantinople
Wrecked — German Ships
Sunk by Submarines—
Russians Advance.

(Special to The Dally News)
Copenhagen, Dec. 22.—A Da-
nish correspondent at Constanti-
nople reports that Krupp’s gun
outside of

de-

and munition works

Constantinople have been
stroyed by British airmen.
Submarine Success.
Dec. 22.—British sub-
marines in the Sea of Marmora
sunk the German steamer
other
carrying war supplies.

Unofficial Report.
Unofficial from the
eastern theatre of war state that
Varna has fallen to the Russians
and that the Russian army has

landed on Bulgarian terri-

London,

have

Leres and smaller craft

reports

now

tory.
Advance in Persia.

The Russian army of the Cau-

casus has advanced into the in-

of Persia, occupying the

town of Kum.

Reserves for Saloniki.

Dec. 22.—The British

reserve troops have been with-

from Lemnos and other

islands in the eastern Mediter-

ranean to the Allies’ headquarters

at Saloniki.

Serbian Treasure Moved.

terior

Berlin,

 

drawn

   

Marseilles, Dec. 22.—Eighteen
million franes, constituting the

Serbian treasury, has arrived here
for deposit in the Franco-Serbian
Bank. :

HERRING FISHERMEN

Our last herripg run started
between the ist and 6th of Jan.-
Another run is due in
Are you ready to take
advantage of it? We are pre-
pared to take delivery of any
quantity gill net herring at good

uary last.
two weeks. ¢

prices. PRINCE RUPERT FISH-
ERIES. See Mr. Green, 341 2nd

Avenue. 300-4,

 

MAJESTIC :: THEATRE

Tonight and Tomorrow
— a
sarees Extreordinary Offering at
Popular Prices. Written by Victor
Sardou of Unifersal Fame, Featuring
Paul Capeliani, World Famous Dra-
matic Star In
“PRO PATRIA”
In six acts Pathecolor spectacular
historical masterpiece staged in

 

 

 

Louvain, Belgium, that beautiful
city which has since been ruined
beyond redemption, “Pro Patria”

deals with the efforts of the people
of the Netherlands to throw off the
iron rule of Spain,

PATHE GAZETTE—Latest news from
the zone of war.

“COLONEL HEEZA LIAR WAR DOG”
A corking war comedy.
Don’t Miss It—it Is really good.

 

 

 

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

 

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