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MONDA AY, APRIL

17, 1916.

 

 

 

 

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

KAISER SAYS VERDUN BATTLE DECIDES WAR

 

 

 

BRILLIANT F EAT BY BRITISH NAVAL AVIATORS — TURKS ARE AGAIN DEF EATED

 

 

KAISER SAYS
VERDUN FIGHT
WILL END WAR

Fighting Resumed with Vigor—
Germans Preparing for Another
Attack on French Lines—
French Take Trenches,

(Special to The Daily Newe:)
paris, April 17.—Following a
jull there is a renewal of spirited
fighting at Verdun. The French
in an infantry attack
Douamont, captured several Ger-
man trenches and took two hun-

 

 

south of

dred prisoners.

The Germans are carrying out
bombardment of Avon-
court and the front from
Deadman’s Hill to Cumieres and

a heavy

French

Haudremant,
Petain, in thanking
the French its heroism
in the previous battle, sayS .-.at
the Germans will attack again.
Verdun Decides War.

The Kaiser, in the

German army at Verdun, told his

General

army for

reviewing
troops that, just as the war of
{870 decided at Paris, so
would the present war be decided
at Verdun.

was

THE LAND CRUISER
VS, WILLIAM MANSON

NAVAL PLANES
MAKE RECORD
FLIGHT OF WAR

conseneunente Gert Bombed by British,
Naval Aviators—Powder Works
Attacked—Aeroplanes Return
Safely to Their Base. *

(Special to The Daiiy News.)
April 417. Official
British

 

London,

Four naval aeroplanes

raided Constantinople on Friday
the
on the
the

safely to

bombs
Works,

hangars
All
base near Saloniki after mak-

night, dropping
Zeitenluk

aeroplane

on
Powder
and on
railway, returned
the
ing the longest flight of the war,
three
miles in the return trip.

Turks Again Defeated.
General Lake, who
the British relief expedition in
Mesopotamia, reports that the
Turkish lines on the rignt bank
of the Tigris have been driven in
and that the

advancing on

having covered hundred

commands

relief column is now

Kut-El-Amara.

dR. ALFRED THOMPSON’S
MILITARY APPOINTMENT

April 11.—

member

 

Dre Alfred
Thompson, for the Yu-
kon, has been gazetted as a lieut.-

Ottawa,

 

colonel attached to the Canadiar

‘IT notice that the Hon Wm.}

Manson savs there are 450,000 | Expeditionary Forces and is as-
acres of covernment owned agri-|Signed for duty to the Military
cultural lands in the Francois- | Hospitals Conimission, of which
Ootsa Lake district,”’ said a wel] | Senator Lougheed is the head.
known land cruiser to the Herald.| Dr. Thompson has accepted the
‘IT wonder if that Victoria | Position of superintendent of the
bunch falls for that kind of bunk? military hospitals for the soldiers
I cruised that country up, down, who have been invalided home.
across and repeat and, say, if 1| These hospitals are situated at
thought there was one acre of | Sydney, N, 8.; St. John, N. B.;
g00d land in that district I missed | Ste. Agathe, Ont; Ottawa, To-
I would do a hari-kari on Man- | Ponto, Hamilton, London, Winni™
son's doorstep.—Omineca Herald, peg, Regina, Calgary and Esqui-
Are a ere malt. Others will be openea from
DOLLY VARDEN MINE time to time as more soldiers re-

RK. B. MeGinnis, of the Dolly|turn,.
Varden Mine, who has been in Dr, Thompson has had an ex-
town for a few days, says that | tensive experience in medical
the property is now capable of}work and hospitals and is well
Supplying a mill of four hundred| qualified for this position. He

tons capacity, The company has

ample water supply for power
Which will be developed later,
Power meantime being produced

by a steam plant, timber, of whieh

there

is & big supply, being used

as fuel,

Repairs of all descriptions,
Wor} eee"

OTK in and around the house,

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© Case of Judge Legarde’

 

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is one of the members of parlia-
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Ottawa
members by the
the

Thompson

course in provided for

the
militia

minister of
present

during ses-
will enter

upon his duties immediately,

NOTICE
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ing to each house in the city a
copy of the
he Strange Case of Judge Le-
Read it and you will en-

is send-

sensational story of

Garde.”
joy the picture better. 92

THE CRADLE
Rorn to Dr. and Mrs. Tremayne,
a daughter, on Friday, April 44th,
Born to Mr. and Mrs, Alec. M.
5th Avenue, Hast, a
Sunday, April 46th.

Manson, 215

daughter on

Grand Shakespearean Festival
by the students of the High School
in the Westholme Theatre April
20th, General admission 25 cents,

 

 

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hington, April 4

to Germany's

submarine controversy

oday.

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in barque Imperat«

rranean without

Austrian

TODAY

(Special to The Daily News.)
Was

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note in

leaves

Is were
sub-

on the

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warning.

Villa Story Denied.

re is no confirmatic
that the body
exhumed by the ¢
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he latest casualty

he names of Neil Me
and Bert Flewin, |

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TWO MORE LOCAL MEN
AMONGST THE WOUNDE:

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SUN AND TIDE

esday, April 18th,

‘CREE RAE er ‘

High water. .0:;56- a, m,

High water..1:37 p, m.

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7:89 a.m.

40 p. m,.
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1916.

+44 @. Mm.

339 p. Mm,

Ht. 21.8

Ht, 2.5
Ht, 26.0
Ht, 5.6
As

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at Cranbrook, arriy

the south today to take t
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ager who is going to Port Alberni

’, Doherty,

hree weeks. Mr.
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north with him

returns,

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recruiting sergeant

Battalion,

the loc

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Doherty
and

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LATE GERMAN DRIVE
Upper map shows in detail the
district west of the Meuse.
shows direction of recent German
attack which imperils Bethincourt
the attack in
Bethincourt
directed
coveted

Arrow

shows
the

thrust is
Hill, the

Lower map
relation to
The

Man’s

its
salient,
at Dead

French Tere

HIGHWAYMEN HOLD UP
CITIZENS IN SPOKANE

(Special to The Dally News.)

April 17.—Two mask-
ed highwaymen the
southeastern part of the city for
four last night, making
their escape afler holding ‘up
Harry Walker, M. Hausman, B. H.
Rothwell, C, and J. J.

 

Spokane,

terrorized

hours

Anderson,

Rouse and wife.
The gang first held up Walker
in his auto and forced him to

 

ldrive his car in quest of the other

|

victims. They later transferred
their prisoners to Rouse’s car and
made off,

MINISTER OF MILITIA
ARRIVES IN OTTAWA

(Special to The Dally News.)
Ottawa, 17.—Sir
who arrived in New York
on the liner St.
Sunday

April Sam

Hughes,
Paul,

on Friday

arrived in Ottawa on

afternoon. On his arrival he had

a long conference with Premier
Borden. He
the

on Tuesday,

will make a_ state-

ment in House of Commons

PRINCE RUPERT MAN
RECEIVES SCALP WOUND

left with

contin-

Mayer, who

George

Prince Rupert’s second
gent, has sustained a scalp wound
in the recent fighting. Mr. Mayer
is a splendid shot and was en-
training recruits in
before taking his place
r. He

is fortunately not severely wound-

gaged in
shooting
at the front as a sharpshoote

HAIR SEAL BOUNTY
the local
fisheries, has re-
Ottawa that
Naval Service

“Mr. Stewart Norrie,
overseer” of
ceived notice from
the Department of

‘Fisheries branch) will pay $1.00

bounty for each hair seal killed
on this coast from the 15th of
April. The tails will be accepted

will be
April

No bounty
paid on seals killed hefore
{5th,

as evidence.

nor on sea lions.

for the
may be

The reserved’ seats
festival

vooked at Orme's, tf.

Shakspearean

 

 

 

FOUR HONEST CONSERVATIVES
SUPPORT LAURIER’S RESOLUTION

“HONEST ANDY” BRODER REFUSES TO GIVE IN TO THE BOR-
DEN SCHEME OF PARTIaL INVESTIGATION—DEEP
GLOOM REIGNS IN CONSERVATIVE

CAUCUS

 

Ottawa, April 14.—Certainly a

has been cast over
community. It can be cut
with a knife—this Stygian melan-
It hangs like fog in the
in Green Cham-
But it settled
the Conserva-

deep gloom

this

choly.
halls and lobbies,
ber and Red,

thickest in No. 16,
tive caucus room.

Gone is the light word, the
sparkling anecdote—Ccl. Hugh
Clark not told a new story
for a week—the cheerful banter,
the merry quip, the loud laugh
that speaks the peaceful party
mind, Gone—all gone. Instead,
the long face, the bated breath,
the whispered fear. old
friend R. E. Morse is in their
midst looks like making
a good visit,

The strikers all came back but
four. They be
pleased with a Royal Commission
that Would tnd out as little as
any old excuse for fall-

has

Our

and he

were glad to

 

 

possible
ing out of bed and falling back
But now they are not so
The

again.

glad. biggest gallery of the

session greeted Sir Wilfrid's
speech on bloodstained graft, a
gallery more than half women,

which shows that the better half
of the world is thinking, When
Wilfrid that the
object of all patriots was
to demand an
dollar

Sir proclaimed
good
account of every
the
and every drop of blood shed on
the battlefield,

had sons and brothers,

drawn from treasury

the gallery which
husbands
and sweethearts on that distant,
showed signs of
and the
stop-gap

dangerous field,

deep emotion strikers

realized that masures

were not enough. They realized
that the widows and_ orphans
whose tears moistened the mil-

lions so lightly looted by Colonel
John Wesley Allison and his pals
took a different
thirfgs from the party politicians.
In short they saw that their party

view of these

game was a long way behind
public sentiment and they would
have to catch up or be left out
in the cold at the next general
election.

They were sore then and are
sore: mow that they did not go
the limit like the Hon, Andrew
Broden, W. F. Maclean, Mondou

and Lamarche, who said by their

votes that they would rather be

right than hide-bound. Andy
Broder, honest Andy as_ he is
called, has had a run in with

Colonel John Wesley Allison be-
fofe now and knows just what to
expect from this gentleman with
the pious name and the predatory
Mondou and Lamarche
displayed the ultimate courage
of their convictions and W. EB,
Maclean went the length of stand-
ing by a week-old editorial of

nstincts,

the: Toronto World, which is al-
most revolutionary in W. F.’s
case,

On the whole No, 16 is wrapped

 

CHAMBER

the division,
was that the
boldest are the safest
and who are “they to go behind
the ripe wisdom of that great
leader? If safety first is the line
to take, why didn’t they take it?
If Mark Twain was prepared to
sacrifice all his wife's relations
why -shouldn’t the Conservative
party in the House of Commons

show up better on

Nelson’s maxim

measures

be prepared to sacrifice Major
General Sir Sam Hughes? Has

more right to escape
than the
of Marlboro who was one

he any
complete
Duke
of the examples cited by Sir Wil-

investigation

frid Laurier?

“ Sacrifice Sir Sam? Would he
be the only sacrifice? Aye, théere’s

the rub! There's the considera-
tion that. gives them pause.
Wouldn't it mean the sacrifice of
the whole government? Time
was»-and «4 so long ago at that
the cabinet ministers
making free detec-

—when
were use of
tives to hang something on each
other, How far did they succeed?
It is all right for the cabinet to
collective ignorance of
doings, but the fact
in the War Lord's
Sir Robert Bor-

and Lougheed

profess
Sir Sam’s
remains that,
various absences,
den, Hazen Kemp,

served as acting minister of
militia and must have had a peep

(Continued on Page Two)

 

COURT OF REVISION

The Court of Revision has
completed its work.
the appeals were sustained by
the court. A slight
was made on the lot at the corner
of Fifth and Fraser
the lot at First
Place,
duction of 6% per cent. was made
to meet the reduced valuation on

Very few of
reduction

Streets and
Avenue and Goy-

ernment A general re-

land.

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