eine BE

RUPERT, B. C., MONDAY,

Jane ARY 17, 1916-

_ ———_ $s ———_—.

SH SCORE VICTORY

THE DAILY NE

 

PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

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METZ F ORTS WITHIN RANGE OF F RENCH GUNS—-RUSSIAN CAPTURES IN CAUCASUS

 

BRITISH SCORE
BiG SUCCESS IN
MESOPOTAMIA

Turkish Forces in full
Towards Kut-El-Amara with
British Pursuing—Greek
Crew Rescued.

 

 

(Special to The Dally News.)
The

has

London, Jan. i7- Official
British

gained a victory

expeditionary force
in Mesopotamia,
Aylmer, in com-

defeated

where General

mand of a relief column,
forces

the Turkish twenty-five

niles south of Kut-El-Amara
1 two days’ battle on January 12
ind 13

[he enemy is in full retreat
long both banks of the River
ligris and is pursued by the

British. The enemy has now re-
treated to within six miles of Kut-
k}]-Amara-
Greek Crew Rescued.

Providence, R. I.,
crew of the
wl if h
that
torpedoed
Medite

They

Jan- 17 '
Roma
state

crew of

Fabre liner

arrived here today,
rescued the

Greek

rranean.

they

steamer in thi

that a
the

below

report destroye)

which came to rescue sent

the submarine with a tor

pedo, when it came to the sur-

face

INTERIOR NEWSPAPER MAN
JOINS NAVAL AIR SERVICE
J.. 3B editor

of the

one to

formerly
Post,

Daniell,
has

George

to take

Prince
Halifax a course
naval aviation

first

of training in the
service. Mr, Daniell was the
newspaper the Cr

and Fort George districts and has

man in riboo

always been a prominent figure
in interior political and business
circles. His old friends will wish
him every success in his efforts

to aid the Empire in her struggle

Prince Rupert is beecomins
quite a winter sports resort, Tw:
young gentlemen came careerin}
down Third Avenue on ski Sat

night.

urday

MAJESTIC :; THEATRE

Tonight and Tomorzow

r = r

upeptions! 7-reel Variety Program.

 

 

“THE STONE HEART"
“THE PARK HONEYMOONERS”
“IN THE MIDST OF THE WILDS”
“ON THE TURN OF A CARD”

“THe MILLINERY MAN"

 

 

“THE PASSING evonm”

HAM AT THE GENTLEMAN’ 8 BALL’

POPULAR PRICES, 19 and 15 ote.

 

Coming Wednesday and Thursday—
Classis Photoplay, “A Bolt From
The Sky”

nore

~~)

LONDON CAFE

And Grill

DAINTY MEALS AT
REASONABLE PRICES
Hart Bik. Third Ave.

BOXES FOR LADIES

Retreat |

.Jrink on Saturday night,

 

 

we =

 

NORWEGIAN SEAPORT
HAS A TERRIBLE FIRE

(Special to The Daily News.)
Christiania, Jan. 17
third of the

a Norwegian

Norway,

One city of Bergen, |

seaport of 90,000, |

has been reduced to ashes. Two
}thousand people are homeless and
lost,

has

two lives have been while

$15,000,000 damage been

done.
The conflagration is the
King

ruins to-}
}

ever experienced in Norway:
Haakon
day.

GRANBY GAVE $12,361
TO PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Division who will be given com-
of the 24 new divi-
sent to the

worst |
|
|

is visiting the

 

COL. S. C- NEWBURN
Adjutant

General of Toronto

For five from July to

year, the

months,

mand of one

November of last em-

sions to be front from

ployees of the Granby
contributed the
$12,361.00 to the

Patriotic

Company
Canada,

MINING ACTIVITY IN
PORTLAND CANAL REGION

That the Portland Canal is now

handsome sum of

 

various Cana-
Granby |
this
and clai mthat they

dian funds.

people are justly proud of
achievement,
have contributed than any
other
Dominion.
The det

as follows:

more

town of 2,500 people in the

jcoming into its own as a mining
jdistrict is evidenced by the fact
jthat Collins & Watkins have ship-
‘Iped a carload of silver-lead ore

ailed contributions were

Machine gun fund

 

$1,000; Canadian Patriotic fund, | fit 9)? ;
Red : Yang jto Trail from the Kansas group
$3,550; Red Cross Society, $3,800; |
nicind es anal eer hy ‘lon American Creek which showed
Belgian Relief Fund, $41,000; S440 to the tou
s ( >» ton.
Prisoners of War, $850; Italian |

Bruggy

Red Cross, $850; Province Tobac-

$800; Rescue and Child-

147 tons from the Friseco-Montana}

¥ jgroup on Marmot

‘ens’ or ‘e Xmas

ren ' Fie Seek mS showed $100 to the ton,

2 , $200; Telegrams, $ :

Fund relegrams 111 j}well known old timer,

Total, $12,361. |
jsent down a smaller

co Fund,

river, which

Home, $200;

cons
from near Redcliffe, which worked

DANDY SKATING

lout at about $200 to the ton. With

Tn ae }steady development work going

The citizens owe a deep debt|on jn this district, Stewart will
if gratitude to the boys of the

jonce again wake up to a new lease |
|
of life.

Athletic Association for

the provision of a

Amateur
wonderfully

good outdoor rink, which is|**THE DIAMOND FROM THE
reckoned to be the largest of the) SKY” AT THE WESTHOLME
kind in the province. On Satur-| ee

day, about four hundred people | This is “Diamond from. the
enjoyed the skating, and, if the|Sky" night at the Westholme.
frost holds, the rink should con-|This great serial is nearing com-

but the
| fortunes of the

5
tinue to be immensely popular | pletion

with the young of all ages. Stanley
jand the diamond is unabated. To-

SKATING ACCIDENT night's entitled “The
ee. henm There is
Market Place

Miss Olive |Gaumont

episode is

Against Harm.”

On the skating|a good bitl besides, including a

Graphic with some of

: |
who was learning to/the latest war features, two good

|

Goodmanson,
two-act
entitled

had the misfortune to fall)comedies, and a great
'
leg. Dr. W. T. the latter

Kergin, who happened to be pres- “Ex-Convict.”

skate,
drama, being

the

and fracture a

ent, rendered assistance and had The comedies are “Dr. Carven’s
her removed to his home, where|Experiment’” and “Hogans Out
she is employed, West,” the latter being one of

those rollicking western comedie
full

——

Perey Shallcross, of the Shall-|which are so of action.

cross & Macauley Co., of Vancou-

 

ver, came north on the Prince Get ready for’ Bryant's Clear.
John and left for the interior on/anece Sale. Ad in tomorrow's
the train this morning, paper:

 

& Macleod also shipped |

while the |‘
Bill Forest, |

interest in the}
family |

 

RUSSIANS TAKE.

| MEN AND GUNS

IN CAUCASUS :

| Enemy Driven nbd Many Niiles,
Leaving Material with the
Russians—Turks Flee

In Persia.
(Special to The Daily News.)
Petrograd, Jan. 47——-On_ the
Caucasus front the Russians cap-
tured, on January 14th, twenty
l'Turkish officers; four hundred

|

men; a number of heavy guns

and machine guns and a quantity
of engineering material.

The Russians on this front have

 

| driven the enemy back for many
| miles.

Turks Flee in Persia-

| The Turks in Persia are now
lin full flight, after sustaining

losses:

heavy

EDWARD GOLD DEFEATED
IN SOUTH VANCOUVER

(Special to The Dally News.)
Jan. 17——William
Winram has been elected reeve o!

 

Vancouver,

 

Vancouver Edward

the late

South over

} Gold, reeve. The vote

| ry: . . ‘

iwas: Winram, 1,686; Gold, 1,203

| B. A. Cunliffe, reeve of Point
| Grey, and Reeve Fraser, of Burn-

aby, were both re-elected by ac-

clamation.

ignment|

|“HAM’ COMEDY AT THE
| MAJESTIC THEATRE
The Majestic presents

\@ splendid seven-reel show com-

tonight

| prising a wide variety of subjects,

|The re are four dramas and three

|comedies, and Mr. Delasala says

that all are good. The leading
comedy is a “Ham” feature, in
iwhich that most laughable of

j comedians is up to all his old
jgames and some new ones.

“The Heart; “On the
Turn of a Card; “In the Midst
lof the Wilds” and ‘The Passing
i Storm” full of thrill
and there

Stone

are dramas
and the human element,
jis bound to be interesting features
ifor every member of the audience
“The Millinery Man” and “The
| Park Honeymooners” are both
lfirst-rate comedies.

 

\
ICE CARNIVAL

The P. R, A. A. A. hold a
dress carnival on Wednes-
19th, at

Program and

will
i faney
ce January their rin
on Market Place:
Iprizes will be announced lomo
5 cents.

| ‘ i
row» Admission 2

admitted —

in costume

free,

m
Those

 

Best quality of household lump
and nut.coal—Prinee Rupert Coal
Co, Phone 15. {8

ANNUAL MEETING

ANNUAL GENERAL

THE
ASSOCIATION OF
ASSOCIATION'S
FRIDAY EVENING,
O'CLOCK.
ELECTED.
GRAM OF SOME

furnishings
Jan.

Good clothes and

at sale prices, Get ready.

19th sale starts at Bryant's. JANUARY

 

CHEAP FUEL

 

GOOD,

Good wood cut to any length,

PRINCE RUPERT WILL BE HELD IN THE
ROOMS, STORK BLOCK,

OFFICERS FOR THE
AT THE SAME TIME 'THERE WILL BE A
ROUSING SPEECHES.

LIBERAL ASSOCN.

MEETING OF THE LIBERAL
2ND AVE,, ON
21ST, COMMENCING AT 8:15
WNSUING YEAR WILL Bl
PRO-

 

 

$5.00 cord, 2 feet—$4.50, 4 feet
$3.50, Also best lump coal,
J30, PONY EXPRUSS,

 

EVERYBODY WELCOME

EEE

FRENCH GUNS
_ WITHIN RANGE
OF METZ FORTS

Troops Being Heavily Massed Be-

‘ERA OF PROSPERITY
| REIGNING IN JAPAN

If America has benefitted from |
the war commercially, Japan has |
This lit-
been

gained proportionately.

kingdom has always

looked upon as impoverished as
}a result of her several wars, but tween Verdun and Metz—
the demand for munitions and Serbs and Montenegrins

ships has done wonders in build-
this little of the

Leave Soutari-
ing up island
Orient.

Russia

(Special to The Daily Newe.)
Verdun, Jan. 17—There is
massing of Freneh troops
between Verdun and Metz, the
latter being the stronghold of
the German Crown Prince’s army-
The fortress of Metz is now within

the
Japan could let

has absorbed all

munitions which heavy
her have, while shipbuilding has
become a great industry and every
the of the

chrysanthemum is prosperous.

line of trade in land
French 75 centimetre

a fleld

range of the
guns and is visible through

Japan's specie reserve now

amounts to about $400,000,000
telescope.

Headquarters Changed.
17.—The Serbian-
have

Alessio,

and her bankers are having the

same troubles with idle funds as

American bankers have experien- Geneva, Jan.
the outbreak of war. ¢
the

commerce of the Pacific ocean ond

ced since Montenegrin governments

abandoned Scutari for

owing to the rapid advance of the

Japan alone is handling
Austrians:

has pledged
the assistance

in Montenegro.

resource to
When the war
Japan will have a merchant

is straining every
herself to

of the

meet the demand. Italy

ends, come to

fleet second only to that of Great|Serbians

 

 

Britain. The new American ship-
ping law has done much to foster
in the Orient.

of the utmost

BROTHERS ADOPT A

the industry DESPERATE SCHEME

im-
(Special to The Daily Newec)

This is all

portance to Canada, as Japan is

: Chicago, Jan. 17.—Irving and
now ready to receive much that bth iat Updike, brothers, have
Canada can produce and, in years |} .6n arrested on a charge of con-
to come, will have an enormous spiracy to murder their mother
demand for Canadian wheat, both atid- ister: it. Ondés to obbaia’ &
hard and soft. At no distant date fortune of a million dollars

f s:
there will be @ ling OF Wapanene Detectives discovered the plot
stes or ‘alling ‘egularly at :

eamers callin regularly by means of a dictagraph wi
rince art an all that is : ;
Pring Rupert snd al a8 they had hidden in the garage.
necessary is to show them in the The brothers had been disin-
right way that we have the goods herited-

From Prinee Rupert to Japan is ee geen:
and Japan is well aware of the NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
the shortest trans-Pacific route, ce

 

Take notice that I shall not be
responsible for any work done by

fact, and at no distant date will
take advantage of it-
—~ others who may have been form-

shall

THANKS
ceeeeree represent
me unless they bear a written

erly in my employ qr who
themselves as working
Mr. and Mrs.

sincere

Porter wish to ex- for
thanks to the
Royal and the

authorization from me to do the
The object of the above is

press their
proprietors of the work:
patrons from in-

and to protect

and their many other] to
liberally
theip assistance in replacing their

Knox hotels, protect my

friends who so extended|competent work

myself against misrepresentation-

household effects, lost at the fire “FRITZ THE HANDYMAN:.”
in the Dyer Apartments, on the}Pprince Rupert, B. C., January 16,
evening of January 8th. {3-14

1946,

WESTHOLME

OPERA HOUSE

THE WEATHER

 

By F. W. Dowling.

hours 5

ending 5 a. m.

 

For 24
Splendid Seen-reel Show.

 

 

January 17th. “THE DIAMOND FROM THE SKY,”
Barometer... secs erase 30.29 Episode Eighteen
”
Maximum temperature .....-. A‘ “THE OHARM AGAINST HARM
Minimum temperature .....- 28 “EX-CONVICT”
Two-act Drama,
The Madeline J. got 7 cents “DR. CARVEN’S EXPERIMENT”

C comedy,

Independent iat
“HOGANS OUT WEST”
Some riot of a Comedy,

from the National

Company for her cargo of hali-|
in yesterday. It was dahumene animenes
Seattle, there Italian Flag Day; The London Srot-

is a great shortage of halibut. tish; Serbian Munitions on their
way to th@ front.

 

but brought

shipped to where

 

—_-—_——

Andrew Kelly, ADMISSION 10 and | 15 cents.

 

 

 

 

 

The of. the Cold ewes VY ORS Se Soe
Storage Company, brought in Coming Wednesday and Thursday—
140,000 pounds of halibut last Ceoy Senrand ih "mnen” Se ee
night,

Don't fail to be at Bryant's
Clearance Sale which starts Jan.
19th. It is a money-saver for you.

 

 

High class shoe repairing; war
prices. QG, Hill, opposite post-

 

crowd to Self’s
Next

the
Cafe. There is a reason..

Follow

 

 

office, tf. force,

Majestic Theatre,

 

 

 

 

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