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THE FRENCH STRONGHOLD IS IMPREGNABLE

 

GERMANS WITHIN RIFLE SHOT OF OUTER FORTS — FRENCH LINE STILL INTACT

 

HUNS CONTINUE
GRIM STRUGGLE

ON WEST FRONT

French Retire in good Order to

 

the Stronghold—Germans are
Within Rifle Range of the
Outer Forts.

 

(Special to The Daily News.)

London, Feb. 25.

their tremendous drive

Verdun, which is one of the great-
est battles of the war, the Ger-

last night penetrated with-
in rifle shot of the forts,
and within five miles of the great
The

1ins unbroken,

outer
French stronghold. French
line remé

An oflicial
that the retirement of the French

statement reports

works which they had
built at their

and had rendered

to defence
previously leisure
impregnable,
most de-

was conducted in the

liberate manner and was carried
out in order to avoid unnecessary
loss of life and to obtain addition-
al security.

Fresh French Troops.
believe that the
mans will not attempt to.storm
Verdun itself, which bristles with

lern guns and contains hun-

f

Criti¢s Ger-

dreds thousands of fresh
French troops.
The German effort with 350,000
nh on a nine mile front is de-
clared ti
with the purpose
cover the lost

have been engineered

of trying to re-

prestige of the

German Crown Prince Frederick
William
German Losses.
lhe French position at Verdun
is defended by General Humbert
and 200,000 men, The German
losses in the attack have been
enormous, amounting to not less
than 50,000 men. Long trains
of enemy wounded are crossing
the frontier and there are heaps
of dead left on the fleld,

\n order has been discovered

signed by General Von Deimling,
urging the fifteenth German corps
‘0 renewed acts of bravery in a
last offensive against France.
The French insig-
those

losses are
liicant in comparison to
of the enemy,
of the

struggle.

France is confident

outcome of the terrific

lortnightly Club meet-
Mg on Wednesday Mrs.

William Millar was the soloist of
the evening

At the

night,

» Miss Irwin being her
’ecompanist.

 

MAJESTIC :: THEATRE
Tonight and Tomorrow

BROADWAY STAR FEATURE

“ANSELO LEE”

pe Three-part Drama.

“THE PARSON'S BUTTON
MATCHER,” Scream Comedy
‘THE GIRL AT LONE POINT’
Thrilling Railroad Drama.

it

one JARR FAMILY Dis-

7 Rs HARLEM Roaring

rea No, 4 of that Cele-

rated Jarr Family Series.

Coming Monda kaa
Seen-Reel

 

y and Tuesday, Special
Variety Program.

 

Continuing
against

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

SKIPPER ENCOUNTERS
FAST GERMAN RAIDER

(6pecial t> The Dally News )
Feb, 25.

of a vessel which had been

London, The captain
sunk
by a German raider has arrived

the |

raider as a veSsel of 2,500 tons,|

at Teneriffe. He describes

|
carrying six seven-inch guns; two}

torpedo tubes and mines. She|
has a speed ef seventeen knots!
and carries a crew of 250 men |

under the command of a German
count.

HALIBUT FISHING
METHODS EXPLAINED

The following extract from an

‘

article -in the Pacific Fisherman

Year Book on halibut line traw-

ling should prove interesting to

the people of Prince Rupert:

The halibut

 

industry is the

second most important upon the
coast, a large fleet of the latest
type of power vessels being em-

All halibut are taken
The

line used to a dory will vary con-

ployed in it.

on trawl lines, quantity of

siderably. Formerly from five to

skates were used, but the

seven

sharp competition in the industry |

has caused the fishermen to in-

crease the quantity of gear to

from eight to ten skates. A skate
of. 50

comprises seven lines”
fathoms each, and each of these}
: |
lines will have hooks on gangions, |

or side lines, which are attached

to the
ten feet

main line about eight to

apart. Ordinarily there;
is an anchor and a buoy at each |
end of a skate, but for deep-water
fishing an extra anchor and buoy
about the

are placed middle of

the skate.

When a good ground has been
reached the vessel drops” her
dories, in each of which are two

men, As one man maneuyres the

boat the other pays out the baited

trawl in a straight string, and

this is done by each boat crew,

the various lines being usually
parallel to each other, The first
about daybreak and

set is made

the fishermen commence to. lift
about an hour after the line has
all been paid out, In the bow
of each dory, in a socket, has been
set a wooden roller in a frame,
and the line comes into the boat
over this roller. When a gangion
with a fish on the hook comes to

along
until it

man,

passed

boat

the surface, it is
the side of the
who
and

reaches the second

stuns the fish with a elub,

(Continued on Page Two)

Brigadier McLean, of the Sal-
vation Army, will arrive from the

 

east on tonight's train,

ibers of the

}portunities

 

 

     

 

 

_ ad
THEY REPRESENT THE KING

In the absence of the King, wh:
is not considered strong

enough
to open Parliament, the ceremony

s in charge of a commission
left to right

Buckmaster, Duke of Devonshire,

consisting of Baron

Marquis of Lincolnshire; ~ Lord

Sandhurst and lower picture

Lord Farquhar.
RECRUITING MEETING
IN EMPRESS THEATRE
Tonight at 8 o'clock, in the
Empress Theatre, there will be a

recruiting meeting which will be
addressed by Lieut.-Col. Warden,
of the 102nd Battalion. The mem-
battalion have at
ranged a musical program which,
efforts of the
in the Ma.

should be rood,

judging from the

boys at their smoker
Theatre,

This will be

jestie
one of the last op-
fop recruits to enlist
in this contingent, which is one of
British

outbreak of

the finest assembled in

Columbia since the
the war.
—--— -e=

NARLIE CHAPLIN AT
WESTHOLME THEA7 .i

eight-reel
tonight,

monsr
Westholme

and Charlie Chaplin oecupies the

There is a
show at the
screen for two of these reels in
His New Job.’ It is the

of Charlie’s adventures in a moy-

story

ing piclure studio and he doesn't
do a thing to his old pal Ben Tur
pin, who makes a splendid foil for
Chaplin’s funny stunts. ‘This. is
one of the great comedian’s fun-
After

havoe with everything and every

niest comedies, playing
body, Charlie is ultimately thrown
this he

sangfroid. It is a

out, but takes with

even
his usual
scream,
“The Net of Deceit” is a power
three acts,
friends Bud
Jeff of the
funny in

ful modern drama in
while our old and
Mutt

extremely

Ham, the and
sereen, are
Counter.”
entitled

western

Rushing the Lunch
There is also a comedy
“Her

drama in “Sheriff’s Choice,

Choice’ and a

”

come

pleting a bumper eight-reel show.

 

Be at the recruiting meeting in
the Empress Theatre tonight,

 

 

‘MASKED BANDITS ROB
NORTH COAST LIMITED

| (Special to The Daily News.)
|
|
|
|

 

Seattie,

Feb, 25.—Two masked
bandits held up the North Coast
Limited neap Covington last night
and stole five pouches of register-

jed mail which arrived at Van-

| couver from the Orient on the

|} Empress of Japan yesterday. The
jbandits blew open the safe with
after

They escaped into the bush

dynamite uncoupling the
cars,
near Ravensdale.

GYPSY ROMANCE AT
MAJESTIC THEATRE

 

“Angelo Lee,’.a charming 3-act
romance of gypsy life, is the great
attraction at the Majestic tonight.
It is the love story of a strapping
young scion of a gypsy race and
a fair society maiden. It is rather
a pathetic story, as the young
couple have more than the usual
obstacles to surmount in their
love, The staging of the drama
is of the
beautifully

The Jarr

Harlem”

finest and the story is
unfolded.
Family Discovers
is One of those seream-
ingly “Jarr”’ fea-

funny comedy

tures which have made a big hit

in the east. This is the fore-
runner of a series of these stories,
all of
‘The Girl of
of the
dramas evep screened here, while
‘The Button Matcher”
ia fall pT This is a

show,

which are “top-notchers.”
Point”

railroad

Lone is one

most thrilling
Parson's

fun, good

LIEUT.-COL. WARDEN IS
BACK FROM PRINCE GEORGE

Lient.-Gol, J, W.

from

Warden re-
turned Prince George yes-
terday afternoon, after inspecting
the Prinee George contingent of
the 102nd Battalion whieh is be-
ing trained by Lieut. J. C, Halsey.
rhe commanding officer says that
the boys at Prince George are
ust as fine a body of men as the
part of the battalion located here,
that the

measure up

and he feels satisfied

entire battalion will
to a high standard physically.
It is expected that the boys will
remain in their present quarters
for about three more weeks when
they will be transferred to Comox
for battalion drill, At
there are about 1,000 men in the
ranks and the battalion will short-

ly be up to full strength,

present

 

THE WEATHER
For 24 hours ending 5 a. m.
February 25th,
Barometer 30,448
Highest temperature ...... 47.0
Lowest temperature 37.0
Precipitation .....eeesee08! 24

eee wee ewe ene

 

‘RUSSIANS CHASING

| TURKS IN PERSIA

Feb. 25.—The Rus-

| sians have dislodged the Turks at

Petrograd,

Bidesurk Pass in Persia and the
Ker-
have
guns, machine
guns and ammunition.

T. D. PATTULLO ASSISTS
MACDONALD IN SOUTH

Exchanges to hand

Turks are fleeing towards
The

four big

manshah. Russians

captured

 

from Van-
couver, in dealing with M. A. Mac-

donald’s campaign meetings on
Monday night, state that ‘Mr.
Macdonald brought to the hall

with him a sturdy northerner, Mr.
T. Dufferin Pattullo, former
mayor of Prince Rupert, and the
Liberal candidate for that
trict.”

Mr. Pattullo

meetings in

dis-

two
deserjbed

addressed
which he
the state of affairs in the north.
He dwelt on the fish, timber, min-
eral and agricultural resources of
this district, pointing out that, in
spite of these, thousands of men
had obliged to
other parts, this, he threw
the entire blame on the govern-

been leave for

Fx rr

LIBERAL OUSTS
CONSERVATIVE
IN PEEL COUNTY

W. J. Lowe Defeats Fallis—Bow-
ser Holds Big Meeting in the
Orpheum—P. G. E. will
be Completed,

(Special to The Dally News.)
Feb. 25.—W.
J. Lowe, Liberal, has been elected

Brampton, Ont.,

member for Peel County over J.
of 305.
majority at the last

RK, Fallis by a majority
Mr. Fallis’

election was 627. He resigned his

seat in the house over an ex-
posure regarding his profiting by
with
purchasing remounts for service
at the front.

The Liberals magnanimously
offered to allow a Conservative to
be returned by acclamation if the
party in power would put up a
new candidate, but the offer was
treated with contempt by the Con-
servatives.

Bowser Meeting.

Vancouver, Feb. 25.—Premier

horse deals in connection

 

 

ment who had spent the people's
money to keep the political ma-
and to keep the
He told ot
where

chine greased
miles
there

Those who re-

gang together.

and miles of roads
were no settlers.
inained in the country were hang-
ing on by the ragged edge, hoping
a miracle would waft them into
affluence,

In speaking of Mr. Tisdall, he
described him as a man of the
same type as Wm. Manson. A man
who was content to do as the boss
matter what the
What the province want-

ed was men who had the stamina

instructed, no

results.

to oppose that which they knew
Mr> Pattullo told of
the chartep Bowser gave them in

was wrong,

Prince Rupert. They were not
William

the member, said he would voice

satisfied, but Manson,
the objection of the people on the
of the But all he
said was that the government in

floor house.
its wisdom had not seen fit to give
them what they wanted—he sup-
posed they ewould have to let it
go at that.

Mr. Pattullo said that the only
way to develop the country was
on the community plan as out-
lined by Mr, Maedonald.,

with

Dealing
that the
Whole of the salmon industry was

fishing, he said

in the hands of a monopoly.
Miners, like the fishermen, had
never received § fair treatment

from the government, being ham-
pered at every turn in their efforts
to develop the mineral wealth of
the province, The speaker claim-
ed that if development work were
started and continued-along sane
lines there would be wonderful
progress and in the next ten years
the province would be prosperous,
In the northern districts they
were going to return Liberals be-
cause the people were disgusted
with the government.

At both meetings, Mr. Pattullo’s
speeches were received with the

greatest enthusiasm, the people

evidently being greatly interested

 

in the affairs of the north,

Piowser, the Hon, A. GC. Flumer-
felt and the Hon. C. E. Tisdall
held a great meeting in the Orph-
eum Theatre last night, with an
overtlow meeting in the banquet
hall of the Hotel.

The premier announced that it

Vancouver

is his intention to carry out the
promises of ex-Premier McBride
with regard to prohibition and
that it is the of the
government to complete the con-
Pacific Great

intention

struction of the
Eastern Railway.
Mr. Flumerfelt announced that
arranging a with
which to make a start on the Agri-
Credits Bill, and stated
Dominion government
asked to aid in the

he was loan
cultural
that the
would be
erection of a smelter and to assist
in ship building.

George A, MeNicholl is expected
to arrive from Winnipeg tonight
acconipanied by CGaptain Nichol-

son.

 

WESTHOLME

OPERA HOUSE

Rupert’s Popular Play Mouse

 

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

 

 

Great 8-Ree!l Show at Popular Prices.
“THE NET OF DECEIT”

Drama in three acts,

CHARLIE GHAPLIN, IN
“HIS NEW JOB”.—2 acts.

‘Rushing the Lunch Counter’
Comedy, featuring Ham and Bud.

“Her Choice’—Comedy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Sherilf’s Choice” Western
Drama. Ben ce ee
Monday and Tuesday are “Diamond”
Nighte. -
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