VOL. VU. NO, 68 PRINCE RUPE at} B. G., TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1916. eee OE PRICE FIVE CENTS iER NG REPORTS FROM BATTLE FRON por HON NAVAL SUCCESS -- RUSSIANS PROGRESS IN BUKOWINA AND PERSIA HUN OFFENSIVE BEFORE VERDUN NOW CRUMBLING Check Is Turning Point of War— Germany Now on Defensive— German Promises to Bul- garia Worthless. (Special to The Daily News.) Mareh 24,—-The Ger- before Verdun is London, man offensive now crumbling. An enemy attack on Malancourt was repulsed with heavy German. losses. The check lmmense received at Verdun is an disaster to Ger- many and marks the turning point Henceforth Germany of the war. entirely on the defensive. Cheering Reports. the other In an effort will be rhe reports from fronts are cheering, to induce Bulgaria to attack Salo- niki, Germany formally ceded the Greek port to Bulgaria, with a promise to uphold the cession at conference. Venizelos political the peace hix-Premier has re- entered the arena in Greece. Belgium Invited. ~ The Entente Allies have notified Belgium that she will be invited to participate in the peace nego- tlations. LITTLE PAUL THOMPSON PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT Paul Warren Thompson, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson, of Seventh Avenue, passed away last night at 10:30 ult of an attack of pneu- monia following upon measles. The little fellow, who was three years and six months old, was a particularly bright child and a general favorite with all who knew the family. The deepest sympathy of the whole community out to Mr, Mrs. Thompson in their sad bereave- ment, The funeral conducted by Will go and services will be the Rev. W. W. Wright in the parlors of the B.| U, Undertakers tomorrow at 2:30 P, ™m., Interement taking place at Fairview Cemetery. -mreanamreieniadie mut DEVELOPMENT WORK ON HIGHLAND BOY MINE Herald Wo shifts are now on the The Omineca that ¢ reports working Highland Boy mine whieh 1S being developed by Mr. E. P. Spalding of Spokane, who is as- sociated with Mr. Rust, of Ta roma, and several New York financial men, The men are driving a 4,600- foot cross-cut and the number of men will be increased as the tun- he orl el work proceeds, Financial ar- rangements the h are for : ‘udiing of the property and 1 » iS expected that the Highland Boy will I be & shipper this season. CONCRETE CHIMNEY BLOCKS 80 Cents ber ft. F. O. B. Prince Rupert Conor Prove ete Works, McBride St. completed VIENNA ADMITS RUSSIAN GAIN AT USCIECZKO Russian Army has Crossed the River Dneister to Make Attack on Bukowina—Russians in Persia. (Special to The Dally News.) March 21.—The crossed the tus- London, sians have river Dneister for an attack upon Buko- wina. evacuation Vienna admits the of Uscieczko on the Dneister, after a six months defence, owing to losses resulting from the heavy fire of the Russian artillery. soldiers as they appear in the Russians jin Ispahan. which they use when within Petrograd announces that the ,;~— northern ran ge GHOST-LIKE GAS MASK WORN BY SCOTCH REGIMENT.—7T They French war of the zone, enemy's bombs, he photo shows guard df Scotch are seen wearjng the gas mask Russian forces have entered Ispa- THE BOARD OF TRADE han, the ancient capital of Persia. The subjugation of Armenia is! now in progress. IMPORTATION OF | At the city council last a letter from D. G, Stewart, man of special committee LIQUOR P PROHIBITED Board of Trade, was read, asking=that the city contribute Ottawa, *March 24.—Hon. C. J.) ae $100 towards the publication of Doherty, minister of justice, in- and troduced a bill into the House of cageoe Mr. Garde’s mining report ; ..,/also $50 per month for -the re- Commons yesterday to prohibit | , ttl the importation of intoxicating maining ven months 0 1e yeal ifor publicity purposes. o- liquors into provinces where pro- The finance committee, to whom hibition is in force. The liquor shall not be imported from any the letter was addressed, recom- other province or from foreign mended that $50 per month be issist in |COntributed, dating from April 1st, $4750 in all. Ald, countries. This act will ¢ the enforcing of the prohibition Casey said that it seemed law as provinces at present have not the power to prohibit the im- portation of liquor. of spending the people’s money. a i He thought it was entirely out of} VENTURE SKIPPER IS THE ordep for the city council to ap- | by a body whieh was in no way Captain Noel, the genial skipper | pesponsible to, or representative of the Venture, was the recipient /of, the people, without knowing congratulations all from the of hearty how the money round on his arrival $500. He DETECTIVE DRAMA AT lthat advice had WESTHOLME THEATRE 5), Qu ¢ht that the “The Diamond from the continues to draw large audiences cost finance com- mittee was an irresponsible body | Sky matter. and dealt loosely with the had |Last to the Westholme and the adyen- | e800 for leranting of year he tures of the Stanley boys and | work, part of which he had undet their friends are still the centre | stood was to pay for this minin of interest. The ‘Riddle of whe | sport, but he found that Mr Wooden Leg” is a particularly Gardeehad drawn up the report good two-act detec tive drama, in g ‘atis. He stronely opposed the which a young lady detective did | rant Ae pe covers that the secretary to 8)" Ai) Montgomery that he banker plays a dual role of Ter ad opposed the grant last yea spectable young man and thief. | and he In ordep to mislead the police, he | this further: said still of the -opinion voted to was that no money should be organization for pub that attaches a wooden leg to one of é oniuate his normal pins and thus throws | the innocent | cripple. Of right in the end, “Sympathy Sal” in two acts, and licity purposes. lle felt suspicion upon an lwas in the interests of the com munity that the mining report be (Continued on Page Two CITY MARKET course it all comes is a pleasing western comedy the Gaumont Graphie isthorough ly up-to-date in war features, The cily market clerk reporte (| to the that the month of news and! Y } icil last evening European coul sales in the market for the ye New furniture at Tite’s March) sale can't be beat for prices. 7! | $787.35, February amounted ‘LEGISLATURE DIED ON AND PUBLICITY WORK as | \‘ | | | Signed March 14, was to be spent. | When the question of publish- | | less he ithe chair- | of |years from the day that the re- TUESDAY SAYS TAYLOR that four “T have already advised legislature terminates turning officer sections 38 and 39 Act, | certificate per of the 1911, issued in the Provincial Elections 1912 election. The vear is reckoned exclusive of the lay of signing the return, which eans that if the certificates were 1912, midnight of the legis- iture would ex March 14, 1916, ‘pire I positively dis- agree with the opinion of the attorney-general that the legisla-| ture can sil until June 1 because for all writs was June 41, 1912.— ~~ Ss A Taylor, K. C., PROUD FATHER OF TWINS propriate this money to be used| MEXICAN BATTLE IS EXPECTED TODAY (Special t> The Dally News ) El. Paso, Texas, March 24. Villa is moving General now succeeds in avoiding a iclash between the troops of Car- | 1ranza | : he will south yesterday morning. There|ing Mr, Garde’s report came up was good cause for the hand-|oy qa former oceasion, he was shaking, in fact there were two} fayor of its being published, but causes, a boy and a girl, Mrs. Noel |the finance committee, to which having presented the captain with | jt was referred, evidently was too twins just before he left for the| weak to come to a decision and] north this trip. jhad referred the matter to the | e |Board of Trade for adviee and | favored the| : ’ tee 5 : blicit istating that the city’s private bill pu mICLLY | and the American have to fight. is expected to take place today. The clash} PRIVATE BILL The mayor reported to the city ouneil last night that he expected wire from Vietoria tonight jhad passed through the committee istage, but | | wires were McCaf- the that the Mayor bill } meantime, fery said that the was first to be considered by the ecom- jmittee and the only clauses there | | : e diffieulty were that which applied to a Vas any over reserve fund and to the issuing of short-term notes. m STREET IMPRO\ EMENT The acting @city engineer re- ported to the council last night hrough the board of works that the changing of the curve at the corner of Enghth Avenue and Me- Bride would cost about $50 in abor and that there was sufficient material on hand to carry out the work, Tt was unanimously agreed ito proceed with the improvement, signed his return! in respect of the first wikia! - stocked forces, | LIQUOR MEN WANT COMPENSATION CLAUSE (Special to The Dally News.) | Victoria, March 241,.—Premier | Bowser spoke on the debate on the address from the throne in } jthe legislature last night. RUNNING FIGHT BY DESTROYERS OFF ZEEBRUGGE German Destroyers limp into Port After Two are Hit—Belgian Port Shelled by Our Monitors, (Special to The Dally News.) London, March 21.—Four Brit- boat defeated three German destroyers in a running battle off the Belgian voast vesterday. ish torpedo destroyers The enemy ships sought refuge at Zeebrugge, two of their mumber being hit by shells. The British casualties were four men wounded. Zeebrugge Shelled. Rotterdam reports that great damage done to Zeebrugge and many were killed’jn the great air raid on Sunday, A squadron of British monitors continued to shell the Belgian port after the fleet of aeroflanes had retired. was FISHERMEN’S STRIKE STILL UNSETTLED He criticised his Liberal crities ‘and said that only $18,000,000 of the $40,000,000 of Pacific Great ‘Eastern bonds had been issued. He did not refer in his speech to shipbuilding or prohibition. A delegation of financial will ineet the the insertion of a men premier today to urge compensation in the Prohibition Bill. clause to him a very unsatisfactory way/the maximum | return date fixed GERMAN UNDERSEA PETROL , SUPPLY TANKS | When war broke out the Ger- man had foreseen his difficulties in the North Sea. His purpose had {been well defined, and his plans | were complete and his depots says a special corres- jpondent of The Scotsman writing | |northwest from Naminquina. Un-,;on German U boat ruses.) the service, for after They too elaborate | The underwater depots of } German | submarine ‘xample, were not created ithe beginning of hostilities. Stk of a character to be laid, as mines were, by anxious crews who rushed in_fear and trembling from the shelters behind Heligoland and sped back if they had not been caught at their vile work. thankfully Some- thing of the care which had been bestowed by Germany upon peace- the war at may be realized from an in- time preparations for sea cident in which two vessels of our County class figured many months ago. The vessels were on duty in the North Sea, out from the eastern edge of the Dogger Bank, at the time, They were not “per- iscope hunting,’ but were keenly probability of a hostile periscope appearing at any moment, and the lookout on board was very sharp. A Pretty Game. Quite a lively time was exper- ienced on one of the ships when in the distance an object which appeared to be a periscope was seen just lifting above the sur- face of a very calm sea. The sighting ship which was about to (Continued on Page 4) alive to the extreme The latest report from Seattle with regard to the fishermen’s strike is that only one or two of the smaller owners have signed on crews and that the great ma- jority are holding out against the demands of the men and are strip- ping the boats of gear prepara- tory to laying them up indefinjte- ly. The owners consider that if any further concessions are made that it will not be worth while sending the boats out, as profits for the boat-owners in the past few seasons have been very small and in many cases non-existent. COMEDY, DRAMA AND NEWS ITEMS AT MAJESTIC THEATRE “According to Their Lights,” at the Majestic, is a two-act drama of a coal mining deal in which a gang of mining crooks are cleverly countered. It is quite an exciting story, being full of incident. “The Cornet’ is the story of how a musical instrument broke up a happy home and how, years afterwards, the runaway wife, who objected to the hobby of her husband, is brought back through the medium of her little boy. ‘‘The Merry Moving Men,” with Ham and Bud doing the moving is just as funny as Ham and Bud can make it, The Selig Tribune Weekly shows some most inter- esting views of recent happenings from all over the world, including French war scenes. ‘Just a Lark,” a real good little drama, makes up a good show. the headliner Big reductions in prices still going at Tite's home-furnishing sale, 71. @0 TO LONDON CAFE FOR THE BEST MEALS STRICTLY UNION HOUSE Hart Bik. Third Ave. BOXES FOR LADIES Pe ee | | as gee i ~ Sg ee Re met