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HIT BY AVIATOR -- GERMANS ARE STILL FIGHTING AROUND VERDUN

 

ZEPPELIN HIT
SATURDAY OFF
ENGLISH COAST

Sixteen Killed in Latest Raid on
Northeast Coast — Danish
Fishermen See Sink-
ing Airship.

(Special to The Dally News.)

London, April 3.—Two Zeppel-
ins raided the northeast coast of
England on Saturday night. One
went injland and dropped bombs
while the other travelled north off
the coast following the coastline
closely, the object evidently being
to locate munitions depots. Six-
teen were killed and one hundred

injured,
Friday’s Raid.
The total casualties resulting
from Friday’s raid are forty-three

No
mililary damage was accomplish-
ed,

killed and sixty-one injured,

Commander Breithhaupt, of the
destroyed Zeppelin L-15, in an
interview, said that the German

object always was to attack armed

positions, warships or factories,

and that women and children were

unintentional victims of the war.
One Zeppelin Hit.

It is believed that affother Zep-

pelin was badly damaged by
Lieutenant Brandon in an aero-
plane The British aviator drop-
ped three bombs over the Zep-
pelin from a height of 9,000 feet.
Brandon’s machine was hit sev-
eral times but managed to land
safely. Danish. fishermen report

that they sighted a half-submerg-
ed Zeppelin in the North Sea.

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Wednesday evening in the Pres-
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including a clever sketch.

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GERMANS STILL
BATTERING AT
VERDUN FORTS

Batteries Moved Closer in—Ger-
mans will Make Another In-
fantry Rush — Zeppelin
Bombs Dunkirk.

 

(Special to The Dally News.)
Paris, April 3.—There has been

fighting all night around Verdun
east of the
tween Douamont and Vaux.
the

captured positions in the Cailette

be-
The

who

and Meuse and

issue favored French
woods

The battle is developing a new
phase, the new German batteries
having been tnoved closer in to
the forts, It the

Germans will attempt to rush the

is believed that

forts after their infantry has been
rested. «
Yesterday, the Germans length-
ened theip front and made an at-
tack over an area of two

Dunkirk Bombed.
A Zeppelin dropped bombs on
Dunkirk last night and two civil-

miles.

ians were killed,

SKUGAID’S SKIPPER _—,
FIXED RUDDER AT SEA

The Chief
Saturday

arrived in
after

Skugaid

port evening, ex-
periencing one of the most serious

accidents which can befall a boat

at sea. Last Tuesday morning
while a gale was blowing and a
very heavy sea was running, an
exceptionally heavy sea struck

off both

collar of

breaking it
the

her rudder,

at the step and at
the rudder-trunk,

Captain D. Gandow, who was

on deck at the time of the acci-

with the of mind

dent, presence

for which practical seamen are
noted, had a heavy rope made
fast to one of the ship’s dories

and out over the stern,

and, with a rope from each quar-

swuhe

ter made fast to the stern of the
dory, had at once a rudder which
them to steer for, and
make, Harbor.

Arriving there, all hands got to

the

enabled

Ross

work at once, and, with as-

 

sistance of a bar of iron and a
lsheet of the same metal, some
wire rope and blocks, and consid-

erable seamanship, in less than

two days a rudder was made and
shipped that
them here but would have taken

not only brought

her to Japan. Great credit is due
Captain Candow, his chief officer
and for the
possession of a knowledge and wit

which got the
very trying predicament,

able-seaman Penny

vessel clear of a

“SUN AND TIDE

April 4th, 1916.
Sun riS@S...+eeereeee 6:09 a, m,
Sun* setS...+e+see8 bo F484 es
High water...++eee .2:45 a. m,
Low water...ceecereee 9:19 a. m,
High water....+++++.3:23 p, m,
Low waler...ceereeees 9:16 p.m.

Captain J. McGee, M, M,S8.A,

Fred Lange, an interned Ger-
man, was the
Princess Maquinna Sunday night.

taken south on

 

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appeared at a City Hall

A, Cooper, of the 198th Battalio

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR SAM

Ottawa, March 30.—Major Gen-
the face of
the enemy has the effect of pro-
the the Shell
Committee. His friends confidently
that the Major

remain to hurl

eral Sam’s retreat in

longing battle over

expected General
back the
so when Sir Sam

would
Carvell charges,
beat it to England via Palm Beach
it naturally threw their arrange-

ments out. The reserves consist-

ing of R, B. Bennett and Arthur
Meighen, were brought up hur-
riedly and they made rather a

mess of it.
As a matter of fact Major Gen-
retreat stroke

Sam’s was a

eould

}
erat

of strategy. He not hurl

Toronto

STRATEGIC RETREAT BY

MISS PHYLLIS NEILSON-TERRY MAKES STIRRING APPEAL. Tlic talented English actress

recruiting meeting under the au

n (the Buffs

and made a strong appeal to men to join the colors.

 

spices of Lieutenant-Colonel John

 

Miss Nielson-Terry ls in the centre of the picture. On her left is Mayor Church of Toronto.

| volver people for instance, for
| orders at large, so to speak, The}
| code of honor |
| it—if he

these insults in the form of cash,

Colonel has his

land sticks to swallows
he does it for the love of country
When

a man is inethe business of saving}

and Major General Sam.

the Colonel is, it is}

hould

millions,

as

only natural that he save

a few for himself,

 

With the Major General out of
the country it is not likely that |
Parliament will clap eyes on}
Colonel John Wesley Allison this |

session. The Colonel is also a}
military man, though an honor- |
ary one, and understands quite!
as well as his Major General that
the better

To put in an appearance

discretion is part of

valor,

 

back the Carvell charges because

he had done all his hurling in|

reply to Mr. Carvell’s first attack }

some weeks ago and the burling |
be.

off
stuff all the time and as the

wasn't as good as it used to

Colonel Carvell kept pulling

new

Major General didn’t know where

he got it or what else he might
have up his sleeve he concluded
that the time had arrived for
withdrawing, which he did ac-
cordingly. This, in itself, proves
that Sir Sam is one of the great-
est commanders of all time, He
knows when discretion is the
better part of valor—he has the
moral courage to run away when

necessary. Napoleon wasted hi

life

lesson,

whole without learning this
useful
The Major General may or may

not have paused in his masterly
flight to confer with Colonel John
Wesley Allison
United States

and

who makes the

his headquarters

who never by any

comes north of the

Wesley Allison has been fully in-

structed by his superior oflicer

how to save more money for Can-
ada and Great Britain during the
Major General’s absence. Colonel
John Wesley Allison has a method
all his own of saving money for
the British Empire—he does it by
peddling contracts at fat prices
to United States ammunition com-
panies in which he has a fatherly
He does not eccept com-
missions—for Canadian business
—but he has Been known to ac-

interest.

chanece}in the way of argument or facts,

i9th parallel|/naturally made a gas attack, The

when the Publie Accounts Gom-
mittee happens to be meeting.
The chances are that he did so|
pause, and that Colonel John

now would be a sin against good

tactics. Meanwhile, if Parlia-
ment can’t see Colonel John Wes-
ley Allison it would like to see}
his picture. If it can’t lay hands
like to

glimpse his features, his counter-

on him bodily, it would
feit presentment, as it were, with
the the

Fancy limns him in various ways,

accent on counterfeit.
but always with long white hair,
shiny forehead, and a heavenward
befits his first
What does this other half of Sir
Sam's soul, this expatriated lover
of the British Empire look like?
A man who goes

gaze as names.

about saving

millions for nothing but exercise
and the love of humanity is wort

The
pay a visit to Canada and see the
gets. It

him a jolt, or I lose my bet.

knowing. Colonel ought to

reception he will give
Major General Sam left his reap
guard in the hands of R. B, Ben-

nett, who, having no ammunition

member for Calgary gave vent to
)a number of beautiful sentiments,
that
would be able to get away while

hoping Major General Sam
the noise was going on. He spoke
as Ll remember, of Thermopolae, of
at the front, of

mother overseas,

heroes
the

jasked for our tears, wept in our

our own

the sob of

lears, worked the pump good anu
| plenty, but by no chance answered
the Carvell charges, What Mr.
Carvell said, substance
“somebody is grafting,” to which
Mr. Bennett replied ‘what glor-
ious sunsets we are having!” or
that effect. This is
known in military circles as creat-

was in

words to

jland, from the southern polar re-

is
f1ons.

 

 

cept presents, from the Colt'’s re-

 

ing a diversion, and it must be

AURORA ARRIVES
AT NEW ZEALAND

(Special to The Dally News.)
London, April 3.—The Shackle-
has ar-

ton relief ship Aurora

rived at Port Chalmers, New Zea-

vessel had broken loose

The
from her moorings at the Shack-

HOLLAND WANTS
TO IMPORT A BIG
| WHEAT SUPPLY

Special Session of Dutch Parlia-
ment Decides to Take Over
Railways as Precaution

—Wheat Wanted.

(Special to The Dally News.)

The Hague, April 3.—Following
the special session of the Dutch
parliament to consider what ac-
tion should be taken over the
sinking by a German submarine
of the Dutch liner Tubantia, the
government has decided to take
over the railways as a precau-
tionary measure.

It is announced that the war
measures are made with no bel-
ligerent motive but simply as an
further the
observance of a strict neutrality.

Wheat Wanted.
The Dutch government is gsk-
ing Great Britain to sanction the
special importation of a reserve
stock of a hundred thousand tons
of wheat.

act of prudence to

HALIBUT ARRIVING

 

 

leton supply base in the Ross Sea,

leaving several of her party

ashore, before food supplies could
be delivered. The

Aurora made

IN FAIR QUANTITIES

The men of the Atlin: Fisheries
were busy as bees from nine yes-

 

 

for New Zealand under a jury
the She
was towed in to port for a hun-
dred
which

rudder from Ross Sea.

and miles by a tug

had

forty
been sent out to find

her,

 

admitted that as a diversion cre-

ator, Colonel Richard Bedford is
a lollapalooza.

In the course of a two. hours
speech, R, B. Bennett wove gar-
lands for all the cabinet minis-
ters; twined a laurel wreath for
Sir Sam, gilded the old Shell

Committee as a body of misun-
derstood patriots, gave the Brit-
ish Empire his unqualified ap-
proval, took the muse of history
by the hand and told her what to
the
an-
de-
tails of a sentimental journey he
with Premier Borden
the British War Office,
described his emotions on visiting

write, slapped Destiny on
wrist, mentioned his U, E. L.
cestors once or twice, gave
made

through

the trenches, and wound up with
a peroration that soared into the
empyrean, and crowded the firma-
ment with jewelled rhetoric.
But when all was said and done,
R. B. never got down to cases, It
all because R. B,
likes wind, he is getting more and
of the but
cause there was nothing but wind

was wind, not

more out habit, be-

to work on. It’s pretty tough on
a rising young statesman, after
he thinks he’s got rid of the old
camp style he brought
with him from the prairies and
has built up a reputation for close
reasoning and crisp utterances
it’s pretty tough on R, B., I repeat
to be asked to go to the vacuum
cleaner stuff again. But that was
(Continued on Page Two)

meeting

 

 

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and nut coal. Prince Rupert Coal
Co., phone 15, t!

terday morning until midnight,
handling halibut.
Besides handling the fare of

the Leif E.,
day, they hag quite a big Sunday’s
arrival to take care of.

The Thelma had 20,000; the
Gilford, 11,000; the Viking, 3,000,
the 1,500, The
fetched cents.

which came in Satur-

Messmate,
9%

and
fish

K. OF P. DANCE

The Knights of Pythias will give
a dance and whist drive in their
hall on Sixth Street this evening
of the of War
The Lodge is defraying all
that
the proceeds will go to the fund.

in aid Prisoners
fund.
expenses so every cent of
There will be splendid musie by
the Balagno-Harvey orchestra and
a real good time is assured to all

who attend.

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