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NAVAL ACTIVITY ALONG NORWEGIAN COAST

 

 

 

 

RUSSIANS HAVE SURROUNDED ERZER UM--ZE PPELIN DEALS OUT DEATH IN PARIS

 

 

 

ERZERUM FORT
BOMBARDED BY
THERUSSIANS

uthorities Flee on Approach of
Army—Russians Advancing
Along the Tigris—May
Join the British.

(Special to The Dally Mewec)

Paris, Jun, “31---The Russians
have inflicted a fresh defeat on
he Turks ‘in the Caucasus, and
ave now surrounded the fortress
nd the town of Erzérum.,

The Turkish authorities fled at
She approach of the Russian army,
whose artillery

g the fortress.

Along the Tigris: —

A Russian column is advancing

ong the valley of the River Tig-
The Turks are now fortify-
bg Angora and Siwas, which are
pspectively 215 and 425
ast wf Constantinople.
The Russians are moving in
hree directions with the object’
f effecting a junction with ‘the
ritish expeditionary forces-

a:

Ss.

miles

LASKAN PORT HAS A
VERY CHILLY EXPERIENCE

I. G- Dawson, who has just re-
urned from a business trip to
ic north, reports that vessels ar-
iving in’ Alaskan ports haye the
Mppearance of fantastic icebergs,
o thickly coated are they . with
@ and snow. «Juneau is having

16 to

anied

{8 below zero, accom-
gale at

Many. of the store windows

by a sixty-mile
: mes,
re boarded up, the glass having
en shattered by the wind, while

householders have been
out of their and
had to take refuge the
Otels. Evidently Prince Rupert

mild

any
ozen homes
ave in
as had it comparatively
all.

THE CRADLE

ater

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Ank, 6th Avenue and Thompson
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is now bombard- |

24 KILLED WHEN
AIRSHIP DROPS
BOMBS ON PARIS

Zeppelin Raid Under Gover of Foc
Takes Paris by Surprise—
Sub-Lieutenant Chases
Enemy off.

(Special to The Dally News.)
31.—A Zeppelin at-
tacked Paris during a fog on Sat-
urday night, killing twenty-fou
and injuring twenty-seven people-

The airship was first discoveres
by its dropping a flare to give the
pilot the location of the city.

A French
then sighted the Zeppelin in the

Paris, Jan.

 

sub-lieutenant, who

air, gave chase and pursued it for
fifty minutes at a distance of only
one hundred feet. He
to strike the Zeppelin many times,
but failed to bring the
down-

managed
monster

EASTERN CANADA
MUCH BE-KNIGHTED

Ottawa, Jan. 29.—The present
year of grace starts
hundred Sind twenty knights scat-
tered throughout the length
and breadth of Canada. Although
they bave not been violently em-
ployed so far there is reason to
the military guthor-

with one

and

believe. that
ities look upon them as our first
line of defence not
hesitate to mobilize them in case

and would

of real danger such as an inva-
sion by the Esquimeaux:

Looking the list
Parliamentary Guide one is struck
with the fact that fully fifty
cent. of the knights are concen-
trated in Ottawa, Montreal
Toronto and fully seveny-five pel
cent. in Eastern Canada. Thus the
bulk of the force is within easy
Ottawa the
of any single
Canada, and this
also done with a military purpose.
It is not without significance tha‘
Sam recently be-

over in the

per

and

reach, has largest

number city in

no doubt was

Major General
came a knight himself and thus
got into direct touch this
gallant company: When the fight-
ing is over and Sir Sam leads our
heroes to Berlin he will be
found riding at the head ofaselect
brigade of knights and honorary
colonels: In view of the glory it
store the ranks of
knights and honorary colonels are
constantly filling up and will soon
in bottle array.

When the first contingent left
Quebec Major Gen, Sam stood on
the King’s Wharf and waved them
bye he
“God be with you. 1
can't go.’ -He left them the
hands of the Almighty as the next
But the knights and the
colonels he will take

with

on

sherried

be

farewell. ‘Good boys,”
shouted,

best:
honorary
charge of himself.

As a Knikht of the
mostly electric—Sir Sam
soft spot in his head for this or-
der, but. he shows no partiality
Knights of St. Michael and St,
George, Knights of Pythias,
Knights of Columbus, TenKnights
a Bar they all get
square deal Sam. Rumor
has it that he is urging the gov-

Bath
has ;

in Room a

from

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GENERAL SMITH-DORRIEN’'S MARCH INTO THE UNKNOWN

This striking photo vividly illustrates

-

of the cé
Dorrien,
subjugating

gaged in

hundred thousand
of. the

file.

nearly four

ways and much
Not

are

to go single

possible

lions, leopards and hyenas

Germany's

marching

2inpaign in German East Africa,

formerfy head of a Brititish army corps in France,

square

only

c

of the
General

difficulties
Smith-

is en-

some
where
last colony, which is a country of
miles. There are few rail-
is through jungle, where it is-only

enemy snipers, but prowling

omimon-

 

MORE FLOODING IN
LOWER CALIFORNIA

$1.
victims of
the

re-

Cal., Jan
Righteen bodies of the
the bursting of the

lower Valley

San Diego,

dam in

Otay have been
covered,

It is feared that many have bee
to the

rush of thirteen

fort e
billion

which had been

carried out sea by

of the
gallons of water
pent up in thereservoir.

a dam

At Cuyamaca, on Sunday

burst, releasing three billion gal

lons and fears are expressed that

there has been serious loss

life
property.

and much damage done to

the full com

Bachelor

to make
of
the ground that single men should
the

singin

ernment

plement Knights on

first: Sam does not like

go
way the married men are
in the trenches—-he considers it
a reflection on matrimony that so
seek

it

good fellows should
the

therefore his policy to correct this

many

peace in firing line. is

enougl

the

creating
to

by
Bachelor

tendency
Knights repair
wastage.

To the
as if there were
in Ottawa—they
ting under one’s feet

casual stranger it looks

too many knights

are forever get

but this is

a deliberate plan on the part of

the government which aims |

make Ottawa the most home-like
place fop knights in Canada, With
this object the citizens of Ottawa
and

heartily agree

made in the city’s publicity liter- |

of the which

salubrious

ature knight air

always except when

ithe

jalone

speci

prevalent
the knight’s lady doing

knight

SLIGHT FIRE
8: this the
received a call to the
Mehan,
the G. T. P.,
broken out in a clothes
Mrs. Mehan was
at the
gone

About 30
» brigade
of W. CG. C.

superintendent of

morning,
fire
home
fire having
closet upstairs:
time,
to his
valiant

in the house
Mehan

office,

Mr. having
but

very

and, fop her
outbreak
would have oceurred. The fire
spread to the hall, but Mrs. Mehan
after the kept
the flames at bay until the arrival
of the

was finally

efforts, a serious

sending in alarm,

engine, when the outbreak

quelled.

sulphite mill over in Hull

belches a little brimstone.
To the
merchants

same end the hardware
advertise knight keys,
bells, knight
knight lamps and such like mat-
the drug
ally of de

knight lanterns,

ters; stores. make a
adly knight-shade;
and the docters, one and all, pro-

It
seems that knight sweats are very
both after,

the sweat-

ess to cure knight sweats.

before and

,ing until he gets the title, and the

himself sweating forever
afterwards to keep up the social
pace. Sueh is the minute atten-
wants of knights

Street

tion paid to the

in Ottawa that a Sparks

book store displays yominently
lin its windows a Knight's Calen-

dar which tells the knights what

j\to do with their days and how to

mention is)

|

fill them with beautiful and chiv-

alrous deeds such as playing golf

lifting highballs-
What's more knights in Mon-

and

is!treal and Toronto are encouraged

Continued on Page Two.)

general

FRENCH MAKE
MITYLENE AN
AIRSHIP BASE

Greek Fortress Believed to be
German Submarine Supply
Base—French Land
on Mitylene.

 

(Special to The Daily News.)

Paris, Jan. 31.—Folowing the
action by the Allies in taking pos-
session of the Greek fortress at
the entrance to the Gulf of Salo-
niki, which was suspected of be-
ing a German submarine supply
base, French troops have landed
Island of Mitylene-

Mitylene will become the head-
a flotilla of French
aeroplanes which will make daily
of the of

on the
quarters for
coast

reconnaisances
Asia Minor.

Greek Rumor.
According to the Hotel Rupert
bulletis, King
Greece may ‘become an exile in

Constantine of

France.

This looks as if the Greek peo-
were at-last -going to take
matters into their own hands.

PRINCE RUPERT BOYS
WON THIRD HOCKEY GAME

off the
series

ple

Prince Rupert carried
third game in the hockey
Hazelton on Saturday by 3
to 2. The game was de-
layed at the start to allow Lavery
of the team to

doctor. “warming-up.’

with
goals
visiting visit a
During the
he received a blow on the mouth
the puck
sever! teeth, but he pluckily came
back bandaged up and= stayed
right through the game.

The third was undoubtedly the
best of che series, the team work
on both sides being better than
any of the- previous games. Still
feature of the
match was the brilliant individ-
particularly that .o
Irwin and Holtby, both of whom
stick-handling. ‘The
weakness on the home side was
openings
La Casse played

with which eost him

the most. notable

ual work,

shone in
front of goal,
going abegging.
steadily throughout, but was not

in many

so much at home in centre as in
his old position of rover.

For the visitors, Keddie, Mac-
dougall! and Warner out-
standing, all three putting in good
efforts, while their
combination caused the home de-

were
individual

fence several anxious moments.
There was a good deal of strenu-
ous checking and occasionally a
little tripping, but, considering
the closeness of the play, th
game was fairly clean.

If conditions are favorable, the
Prince Rupert boys will journey
to Hazelton next Monday, and, if
they are able to take along a full
team, the interior folks should see
some real good hockey.

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NAVAL ACTION
LOOKED FOR ON
NORWAY COAST

German and British Naval Activity
Pronounced—German Attack
on Western Front—More
Guns for Albania.

(Special to The Dally News.)
Christiania, Norway, Jan, 31—
There is extraordinaryBritish and
German naval activity along the
Norwegian coast. Naval aetion is
expected-

Western Front.

- The Rupert Hotel bulletin states
that the Germans are making a
most determined attack on the
French positions on th ewestern
front, and have taken the village
of Friese. The French are putting

up a strenuous resistance and
the enemy is making little head-
way.
Albania-

Berlin, Jan. 31.—Italy has de-
cided to continue her campaign in
Albania. Vienna advises that the
Ttalians have landed an additienal
infantry division and heavy ar-

tilléry at Avlona.

 

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Society is extended for the dona-
tion of $32.95 by Lawrence Munro,
being the proceeds of the Hard
Times Ball given by the Bartend-
ers Union of the city-

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