THE DAILY NEWS

 

 

 

 

FEBRUARY 26, 1916,

 

PRINCE

RUPERT, B. C., SATURDAY,

 

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

 

TERRI BLi: SLAUGHTER CONTINUES IN WEST

 

 

 

GERMAN LOSSES ARE ESTIMATED AT 150, 000 — BERLIN CLAIMS FORT CAPTURED

GERMAN LOSSES
IN VERDUN FIGHT
NUMBER 150,000

Terrific .Assault’ .Continues .on
Smaller Front—Enemy Attack-
ing Regardless of Sac-
rifice of Life.

(Special to The Dally News.)

Paris, Feb. 26.-—The Germans

are continuing their terrific as-
sault north of Verdun without re-
The
attacks in the region of Beaumont
failed.
Tremendous Slaughter.
There
and it is estimated that the Ger-

gard to the sacrifice of life.

have
is tremendous slaughter
man losses amount to 150,000.

The left
French army have

to take

fensive positions,

and right wings of the
drawn back in
advantage of de-
and battle front
has now narrowed down to three

order

miles,
The attacks east of the Meuse
have failed. The situation is re-

garded as serious, but not dis-
quietening.
Naval Activity Expected.
London, Feb. 26.

activity is looked for in anticipa-

Great naval

tion of the emergence of the Ger-
fleet to the

man assist in land
campaign,
_ Critics that the tremen-
Ver-

it impossible to hope

state
dous German losses before
dun render
for any

German success in the

attempt to reach Paris,

 

Do you know what a kitcher
symphony is? It's different from
the one mother used to make.

Hear it at the English Church
next Wednesday evening. i8

rhe New England Vish Com-
pany will shortly start the con-
struction of a building on the &G.
T. P. wharf. It will be 40 feet

by 60 feet, with box making ac-
Commodation on the upper floor,
there being also storage room for

a’ hundred tons of ice.

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WEEKLY G. T. P. BOAT
SERVICE TO ALASKA

George A. MeNicholl, assistant

general freight and

agent, Nichol-

manager of the G, T. P.

and Captain C, H.
son,

steamships, returned on last

night's train from Winnipeg,
where they have been in confer-
ence with other officials of the

company in regard to the opening
up of a new freight and passen-
ger service to Alaskan points.

It is expected that there will be
a weekly Prince

service between

Rupert and Alaska beginning with

the Prince John on or about
March 16th. The Grand Trunk
Pacific will open offices at the
various ports of call in Alaska
and it is likely that several of the
western Canadian officials will be
transferred to the north. Final

arrangements will be made early
Vancouver.

BERLIN CLAIMS
GERMANS HAVE
CAPTURED FORT

Germans Claim Advance of Two
Miles with Command of Plains
of Ornes—Russians Take
Kermanshah.

next week in

 

 

 

(Special to The Dally News.)
Feb, 26.
capture by the

London, Berlin re-
claim the

fort of Douamont,

ports
Germans of the
outside of Verdun, at the
the bayonet on the 24th.
It is stated that the Branden-
burg regiment is four miles north
east of Verdun
southeast of the
to which the

point of

and three miles

ridge of Louv-
mont, French retired
on Thursday. This means an ad-
ditional gain of two miles for the
Germans together with the dom-
ination of the plains of Ornes.

Russians Take Kermanshah

Ker-

position

The Russians have taken

manshah, an important

in Persia, by storm.

 

“ANSELO LEE” AT THE
MAJESTIC THEATRE
“Anselo Lee,” the three-act
drama at the Majestic
a beautifully staged story of gypsy
striking
wild free life of the
that of the child of

Anselo and a young so-

tonight, is

life which throws into

contrast the
rover with
the city.
whom he has rescued

ciety lady

from drowning fall instantly in
and then there is trouble for
all concerned, ‘The old gypsy

mother of Anselo is just as much

love,

opposed to a wedding between
the young couple as is the society
mother. In spite of all obstacles,
the attachment
The laughable
the ‘Jarr’ family
which is highly amusing, while
“The Parson's Button Matcher"
keeps the fun going heartily. ‘The
Girl at Point,” another of
Helene’s hair-raising adventures,

provides the thrills.

lasts until death,
adventures of
provide a reel

Lone

You will hear your favorite
singers at the English Chureh
choir concert next Wednesday,

 

the program,

passenger

 

PORTUGAL CUTS
OFF FRIENDSHIP
WITH GERMANY

Treaty Allowed to lapse—Premier
Favors the Allies—Berlin
Issues Notice to
interned Ships.

(Special to The Daily News.)
Feb. 26.—The Portu-
guese premier has announced that

Por-

Lisbon,

he has decided to allow the

tuguese treaty with Germany to
lapse, and that Portuga! is pre-

pared for
The
ordered the

any eventuality.

premier states that he had

seizure of the ships

in the Tagus, as attempts had
been made to damage seven of
them, while an explosion had oc-

curred on the North German Lloyd

steamer Buelow.

He had Aus-
trian and German vessels in re-
to a request from the Al-
lied nations.

German Bluff.

The Hotel Rupert bulletin says
that the
in the

requisioned the

sponse

German ships interned
United States

ceived notice to be ready

have re-
to sajl,
April

as the be over on

15th.

war will

FISHING INDUSTRY
ON NORWEGIAN COAST

fact that
Rupert depends so much on the
harvest of the

learn

In view of the Prince
it is interest-
that the
which
15,000,

sea,
ing to town of

Aalesunds in Norway, has

a population of about
to the

regularly

North Sea fish-
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than

sends out

ing banks fishing

steamers, all larger any

plying out of Prince Rupert, and

that, in 1915, 22 new steamers
were built at that port, while 25
more were in course of construc-
tion at the end of the year.

In addition to this steamer fleet

there are over 5,000 gasoline

craft engaged in the same in-

dustry. ‘The vessels are adapted
to all

each in its season,

lines of fishing, following
Recently one
brought in a_ single
catch of
herring, barrel

about 350 Ibs. This
of about

steamer

night's 700 barrels of

each weighing
herring

fetched a price $45 per

ton, while the 24 tons brought in
here recently by Captain Selig
was disposed of at $5 per ton.

The Norwegian price of course

was a record and was the result

of the in Eu

enormous demand
The Brit-

rope, owing to the war.
ish North Sea fleets are debarred
from visiting their fishing

grounds, and Scotch and English

buyers are in the Norwegian mar-

ket for fish, driving prices away

up. It is up to the Pacifle coast
fishing coneerns to endeavor to
enter this great market in some

way or another, as the Canadian
population is still too small to
consume the huge quantities of
fish which are being taken off
this coast. It is interesting to
note what the fishing industry has
done to build up eities in Europe

as it points clearly to what is in

 

 

PRINCE GEORGE MAYOR
CUTS LIGHTING WIRES

Feb. 25.—Mayor
committed for

 

Prince George,
Gillette was today
| trial by the

'a charge

police magistrate on
of having cut the wires
of a local concern which was sup-
city with electric light.
caused quite a commo-
tion in the city and there is likely
to be a lot of hard feelings.
Mayor Gillette has been strong-
ly in favor of the city owning its
own lighting system and a bylaw

plying the

The case

was passed to provide for it.
Trouble arose over the existing
system, which was owned by a
local company, which ended in

the mayor cutting the wires.

THE CRADLE
Born at on February

 

Victoria,

2ist, to the wife of Major W.
Barratt Clayton, C. A. D. C., of
Prince Rupert, a son.

TUPPER CALLS
UPON TORIES T0
VOTE LIBERAL

Hibbert Tupper, at Great Mass
Meeting, Urges Conservatives to
Provide Opposition in in-
terest of the Province.

(Special t. The Daily News.)

Feb. 26.—M. A.
Macdonald’s Campaign ended last
in the

Vancouver,

a mass meeting
Theatre,
flow in the banquet hall
of the Hotel.

Sip Charles Hibbert Tupper was

night with
Orpheum with an over-
meeting
Vancouver
the chief speaker of the evening,
He urged all
rally to Mr. Macdonald's support
to return a Liberal to the opposi-
tion in the interests of good gov-
to end the rule of the

Conservatives to

ernment;
provinee by caucus, and to restore
representative government to the
province.

Heavy polling is expected today
and the betting favors M. A. Mac-

donald.

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uRw HAZELTON RED
CROSS BRANCH ORGANIZED

A meeting to complete the or-
ganization of the Hazelton
branch of the Canadian Red Cross
Society was held at the home of
16th
members were en-

New

G. O. Graham on the inst.
Nineteen
rolled, and the following officers
were elected to conduct the affairs
of the
S. Sargent; 41st Vice-Chairman,
2nd Vice

Sec.-‘Treas.,

hew

branch: Chairman, Mr, W

Mrs. Graham: -Chairman,
Mrs. Warner;
Mrs. Affleck; Executive Commit-
tee, Mrs. Anger, Mrs.
Miss McLeod, Messrs.
Harris and Anger.

Hon,

Sargent,
Noble, E.

 

FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS

Postmasters are informed that
the exchange of money orders
wilh Denmark, Holland, Norway
and Sweden, which was suspended
on the 8th of August, 19144, has
been resumed and money orders
may be issued on these countries
at the same rates of commission

 

 

 

store for this city in the future.

 

The Empress Theatre was well
filled last night when Mayor Mc-
Caffery took the chair at the re-
cruiting meeting. He was accom-
panied on the platform by Lieut.-
Col. J. W. Warden, in command of
the 102nd Battalion,
Rix, Rey. Father Bunoz, Mr. E. P.
Spaulding, of Spokane, Wash.,
Captain N. J. McNeill, M. D., Cap-
tain Brandt, Lieut. Bowen anc
Lieut. Christie.

In the

remarks,

Rev.

course of his opening

the said that,
a younger man, he would
feel it his duty to don the King’s
uniform and go to the front.
Rev. Canon Rix.

mayor

were he

Rev, Canon Rix, in a fervent ad-
dress, said that there were men

in Prince Rupert, and elsewhere,
who were not stirred by any feel-
ing of patriotism. From one end
of the Empire to the-other there
vas an urgent call for but
the men who felt no stirring of
patriotism in their blood were not
Rix referred to
the barbarism of the enemy,

men,

wanted. Canon
who
had even crucified Canadian sol-
diers,

He said that the call for
men was from the men who were
now at the front and from the
men who had fallen. It was not
but a call of

more

a, call of ‘Seo,?
“come,”

Rev. Father Bunoz.
Father
address,

Rey. in an elo-

quent

Bunoz,
said that he was
regarded as a messenger of peace.
but not
They were

He was always for peace,
for peace at any price.
fighting for justice and the right
and it was the duty of every pa-
triotic Canadian to respond to the
call. It was Canada's war because
it was the Empire’s war. He de-
scribed patriotism as a great vir-
tue whieh inspired to do
their duty by the community and
lived.

men

the country in which they
No man lived to himself
as a community or nation was an

alone,

aggregation of living souls band-
ed together for the good of all.
He called upon the men of Can-
ada to do theip duty.

‘ E. P. Spaulding.
KE, P. Spaulding, who

came as a brother from
the line, said he had
a private in the ranks
stirred his blood to see the splen-
did battalion in this city. The
president of the United States had
tried to keep his people neutral,
but their hearts would not remain
neutral.

He predicted that many
men from across the line would
join the forces of the British Em-
pire to fight for the liberty and
justice which they stood for. He
hoped to see many more of the
men in this town join with the
splendid body of men he had seen
drilling here, and he only wished
he were young enough to be one
of them,

said he

across
served as
and it

more

 

as formerly.

Canon

STIRRING SPEECHES MADE
AT RECRUITING MEETING

COLONEL WARDEN DELIVERS SOLDIERLY SPEECH IN WHICH
HE REVIEWS THE SITUATION — PATRIOTIC AD-

DRESSES BY CANON RIX,

BUNOZ AND E.P. SPAULDING

REV. FATHER

 

Col. Warden.

Colonel J. W. Warden said that
he was disappointed that such a
small gathering of civilians had
come to the meeting. He shad
noticed many men on the streets
who looked eligible for service.
He saw the pool rooms crowdeu*
and crowds flocking into the
picture houses. He felt that the
lack of interest in the war here
was not because of a lack of pa-
triotism, but because people did
not realize the needs of the situa-
tion.

He pointed out that the war
had not been won and that, were
the Germans to conquer, we
would be in servitude to them and
subject to taxation to pay the
cost of the war. The Germans
would take a toll of fifty per cent.
of our incomes. ‘That, however,

 

was the least of it. He wished
that the men of Prince Rupert
could see what he had seen in
Flanders and France. Had they
seen the deeds done by the Uhlans
to the women of France and Bel-
gium, every man would volunteer.

Before the war is over, Ger-

(Continued on Page Two)

 

HARLIE CHAPLIN AT
WESTHOLME THEA7..~

The Westholme was packed last
night, Charlie Chaplin undoubted-
ly being the attraction, The
antics of this most comical of all
movie comedians kept the audi-
ence in a continual roar of laugh-
ter. “His New Job” is the story
of Charlie’s efforts to become a
artist and provides end-
Chaplin's

“movie”
less opportunities for
little pleasantries.

“The Net of Deceit,” in three
acts, is a powerful drama in which
a pretty girl attempts to procure
the formula of a deadly new ex-
called mallonite, from the
inventor. How she is foiled in her
attempt by a fisherman whose love

pl sive

she has scorned is strikingly de-
picted.
Ham and Bud ran Charlie a

close second as laughter raisers,
in “Rushing the Lunch Counter.”
A good western drama and ‘Her
complete a

Choice,” a comedy,

good eight-reel bill.

 

NEW GOVERNMENT LAUNCH

George B. Hull left for Vancou-
ver this morning to take over a
new launch which he is bringing
north to Prince Rupert. He took
with him Joe Seott, H. F. Macleod
and C, H. Orme, who will form
the nucleus of the boat's crew on
the way north,

 

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