EET ae 7 THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly | Guaranteed Largest Circulation HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. rates on application. aGQsgBD Thursday, April 13, 1916. Telephone 98. Oontract DAILY EDITION ————_—_—=—= ————— Ss THE WAR SITUATION After fifty-one days of the | the Old Land, most desperate fighting of the the standard demanded at the war, the French still hold the beginning of the war. Germans at bay on the Verdun) ; Allies front, while they have the sat-| isfaction of knowing that each | man, the have always attack made by the enemy dur-| and the difference is becoming ing that weakened his power and that} even were he to in| the war will be over this fall, taking the it} and, if the time has materially | more marked as tine rolls on. succeed fortress now would be only to fail. It seems | can hold the! position almost indefinitely and| be that the final result will be that | speaking, have to sit} down and take a prolonged rest | both fronts this spring, that is as if the French possible, but when the war will over is, comparatively the Germans will Allies as time is always on their at that point, unless the Allies | as aes decide to begin an attack on} NOTES AND COMMENTS their own account. A month hence, the Russians So the Kaiser has sustained a will be able to get busy, as, by |severe shock, Well, old Bill will that time, the worst of the|have a few more before he is very spring season will be over and. the movement of big guns will be possible, then there should be a big change on both fronts. Germany is wasting tens of |man Suffrage Bill of his own, not, thousands of men Place will have great difficulty in re- |measure is inadequate, but simply placing effectives and, |as one more bid for favor which when the real pressure begins|is gone. In drafting the bill he on the eastern front, she will) should call in William Manson. realise how much the attacks ee on Verdun have really cost, It} If Bowser does bring in a Wo- that the it will not be man-power is to be Germany’s}surprising to find that the Hon. stumbling block, just as Hil-| William has completely pointed out in the | his mind on this subject. The Tory in a turmoil of many’s reinforcéments are a these days. much older. The Premier is in a quandary as to whether to introduce a Wo- which shelwe suppose, because the with seems clear loss of|man Suffrage Bill, changed laire Belloe early stages of the war. Ger-|} mind is inadequate to cope with es Menage the situation on the fronts, but the calibre is slowly only various The exposure of the Tory rent caused quite a commotion This is not the game which is being it will game Meni t who were formerly regarded as | only “shell” unfit are now in the trenches|played by the gang, but and it is impossible that they|do to go on with meantime, can make up the efficient fight- Meck ay nae Germany It is to be hoped that real estate men don’t make an effort but surely degenerating. he other day. ing machine which placed in the field at the outset. | With Britain this is not the to boost rents in town after learn- case, The men who are going/)ing what is being paid for a few from the Dominions,/rooms in the Stephens Block. to Europe FRED STOR “STORK’S HARDWARE FRED STORK’S HARDWARE Get*More Money” for your Foxes Muskrat, White Weasel, Beaver, Lynx, Wolves, Marten and other Fur bearers collected in your seniien SHIP YOUR FURS DIRECT to “SHUBERT” the la house in the World dealing exclusively in NORTH AMERICAN RAW a reliable—responsible—safe Fur House with an unblemished — utation existing for ‘more than a third of a century,” a long suc- cessful record of sending Fur Shippers prompt BA TIBY AS TORY AND PROFITABLE returns. 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It is end of commotion, even to moving some baby and causes no to please it, Baby Rosen plays | the part of the disturber of the | peace with the necessary amount |} of vigor, in fact you can almost hear her yell. “Her Prey” telling of how a young lady, has been told off to rob a young is a two-act drama who gentleman of a valuable pearl, finds herself in his debt and in- stead of robbing him of the pearl heart. King gets tries to steal his Bagot, in into a great mix-up and provides lots of fun.