THE DAILY NEWS Oe pL, Vi NO. 10 pocseanlasninee PRINCE RU PERT, B, 0, 8 ‘ SATU RDAN aie 6, 1916. | | ——E PRICE FIVE CENTS WA: iHINGTON REPORTS DANGER IS AVER GERMAN 5 SOLDIERS RECOGNISE THEY ARE HOPELESSLY BEATEN AT VERDUN cERMAN SOLDIERS REFUSE TO OBEY Milan, May 6.—It is reported that the German officers on the verdun front are having great difficulty im making the German eoldiers obey their commands. There is @ rumor amongst th soldiers that the battle is now hopeless and simply means mas- sacre for them. Three German officers of high position at Verdun were court- martialled at Leipzig and ordered to be shot, for having failed to arrvy out an important charge. They claim that the soldiers re- fused to make the charge. German soldiers opposite the Irish troops on the western front put up signs telling them that Ireland was in revolt and that the British troops were shooting down Irish women and children in the streets of Dublin, They promised the Trish soldiers a hearty welcome if they ~would come over into the German trenches. FAMILIAR NAME IN THE CASUALTY LIST In the latest casualty list ap- pears the name of Collingwood Schrieber amongst the missing. His next of kin is given as at Clarkson, Ont. There is just a possibility that this may be C, B. Schrieber, one of Prince Rupert's well known pioneers, who enlisted in Victoria shortly after the out- break of the war, though it was supposed that Mrs, Sechrieber was ent in Vietoria and not in HUGE DRYDOCK FOR SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco, May 4.—The contract for digging the “hole” for the largest dry dock in the World Was let today by the Union lron Works to dhe San Francisco Bridge Company. The contract valls for the expenditure of $700,- "00. The remainder of the work is to be done by the Union Lron Works, the total expenditure be- Ng approximately 2,000,000, lhe dock will be located at Hun- lers point, on San Franeiseo bay, and will be 1,000 feet in length, 125 feet in width and 45 feet deep, It will accommodate the largest ‘hips in the United States ieee ‘JITNEY” COACHES Letters were received last even- ‘lg from some of the boys of the ‘2nd Battalion, who arrived Mngland on April 40th and are navy. 'oW at Shorneliffe, The British “olumbia boys were greatly lickled by the little passenger “aches which are used in the ‘'d country and promptly dubbed them “Jitneys.” The boys are all Vell after a most enjoyable trans \Hantic voyage, rrrnree. Con . Qo To LONDON CAFE FOR THE BEST MEALS STRICTLY UNION HOUSE Hart Bik. Third Ave. BOXES FOR LADIES Csi iy The sea disaster that finally was towed into port after rou being IMPOSSIBLE TO FASTEN GUILT ON THE LIBERALS May plexion has been given to the 9 Victoria, 2,—Another. com- | al-| leged plugging operations at the} | | | recent by-election in Vancouver. | Conservatives now admit that it} 1 is impossible to fasten any guilt| on any of the Liberal nominees | or the candidate for what is, charged to have taken place. They recognise that the investigation is falling flat, that it has failed of its object, and that the best thing to go is to make insinua-| tions and allegations which will implicate some person or persons } unknown. Accordingly, they have | been busy all day circulating th The witness added that to do anything to tell. Kelly was to get out.” “willing The evidence of Waller, as well as the other imported witnesses, all were peculiarly L. brothers showed they friendly with not only John Sullivan, but his father, and uncles, Seattle saloon men, Waller went so far as to say that through here he came over friendship fop Sullivan, Sullivan also was waiting for them when they arrived in Vancouver. Waller also said Sullivan told him, “they slipped it over on us and we want to show them up.” Sullivan is directing the case for the government, He takes care of the wilnesses——-pays their board and room and takes them to and from the parliament build- ings, He the while the hearing is going on and Tom Taylor, stays in corridor last night he and provincial secretary, the hall. were frater- in +} nizing | | THE CRIME OF THE SUSSEX—iT STIRRED PRESIDENT WILSON the across the bow as with a knife, by the German torpedo. Washington did not involve eut DEVELOPMENT AT SURF INLET MIN: Full Surf Inlet arrived . Holler, The Moon, the jlaunch, here EK, A Bradshaw on board. jwith F, . Cleveland and F. t that the cavation for the big dam is pro- They repor work on the ex- gressing well. It end that before the the is expected of the year, reduction be of when be plant will in operation, 250 handled. tons ore day will per SPLENDID SHOW AT WESTHOLME THEATRE Road,” another of Chevalier’s fa vorites, MORE HALIBUT the halibut yesterday were the Anne St, with 8,000 pounds; the Directo Amongst Leon with 9,000; Daisy, 38,000; Dick, 14,000, and the Leif bk, with 14,- 000, Several of those | | | } | } of the ship, SInKInNE WASHINGTON REPORTS DANGER IS AVERTED May 6.— sensus of opinion today -The con- is that the danger of a break between the United States and Germany has been averted, Washington, Members of Congress state that Germany has complied with the basic demand contained in Presi- This is taken to mean that Germany will aban- submarine war- dent Wilson's note. don her illegal fare. JAP CONSUL-GENERAL TO VISIT PRINCE RUPERT E, H. Mortimer, publicity com- BULGARIANS ARE RECRUITING NEUTRALS Rome, May 3.— Despatches yesterday lfrom the Macedonian front state that the Bulgarian army has been considerably of late, eleven new battalions, altogether, it reported have been formed, composed of Turks, increased is Macedonians, Greeks, Jews, Roumanians and Serbians, who have been pressed into service, Bulgarian field ar- tillery supplied with German guns concentrated on has been Roumanian frontier. WIRELESS FOUND IN EGYPTIAN DESERT May An official re- conditions London, ¥ port are rapidly says jreturning to normal in the north- ern area of the desert in Western Egypt Small patrols, usually in to hunt jarmored ears, continue land @estroy hidden stores, and since the re-occupation of Sol- lum, on the Mediterranean, near ithe border jwere of Tripoli, more than rofinds_ of been discovered. of discovered 250,000 ammunition have wireless the Two sets German hidden in desert, Moghara has been occupied to} lstre nethen the cordon around the | troubled district. The British are jharrassing their foes at Dakhlu | There was another crowded statement that it was not the Lib- Cneks oF ce ‘i roe _ ouse ¢ 1e sstholme as erals of British Columbia who eae . : : s | itl tit evening When Marguerite Clarke plannec ie personacing opera- 3 jappeare “Still Waters,” a six- tions, but the Liberals at Ottawa. | appeared in ul ee is Sullivan the Man eee drama of circus life. Chis mia Senannva’ chk ati waist] |play is produced by Daniel Froh- 3 te de ” 4) ; iman and is one of the finest ex- PAN ONT: SA Ranttios amples of the art of this great | jail-bird, who is the star witness | I . : lartist. Marguerite Clarke as the in the government enquiry into} ; ; Vel rs the Vancouver by-election, wal is as ceinty and clever'se lever. John L. Sullivan, proprietor of| \ | \ fefture of the show was the} the Irving hotel, according to the} of f W. H. Waller rs [re production of “My Old Dutch, evidence Oo ° ’ aier, OF se- i ‘ bert Chevalier’s great play, over attle, before the special commit-|* Albert wren yert : t tonight The admission wa |} four hundred people remaining 0 ) : et SS10 as e - ae #30 | : thee ok luntil nearly midnight to see the made unwilthngly. elly had re-}. : : llast of it. The male choir mad fuseu to give the man’s name and | ’ : . ‘ are la great hit with the singing ol had appealed to Neil Mackay, i ‘cia boni hile HH A. H 4 oO dutch,’ while A. Har chairman of the committee, who} — : a fi le : { , gave ¢ ine rendering 0 gave a ruling that he did not have lye: Pes - wan “Knocked ‘em in the Old ~land Kent | porhood of this oasis. are able to detect every move- the neigh- A small ment of their enemy in jhostile detachment is occupying | Baharia, refugees from which | point report there are prospects arrivals | | fares had |that J, W. if famine and typhus in that re- and that hand, icrion, no medicines are on SHIPBUILDING Mortimer, Dat. haing learned Stewart and his asso- wot been sold last night, the tish-|ciates are contemplating entering ermen thinking the price of 5 cents too low after the high rates which paid Last year at this time they wou! have thought 5% a big price. have been recently. IRISH SECRETARYSHIP London, May 3,—According to the Daily Telegraph, Thomas Mec- Kinnon Wood, Liberal for St. Rollox division of Glasgow, Scotland, will sueceed the Rt, Hon, Chief Sec- member Augustine Birrell, retary for Treland, as ithe shipbuilding business at Bell- Wash., written to him drawing attention to the dry- its desirability ingham, has as lock here and a shipbuilding plant and asking) that its claims be considered be- fore the company decides to enter into a contract below. N OTICE Prince Rupert Public Pupils will not be taken into the receivng classes later than Mon- day, May the 8th. W. D, VANCE, Secretary. Schools. the {to man them, \ as-the photo shows the Sussex as she | missioner, advised the Board of There were 50 lives lost by the explosion |Tpade last evening that he had ee et been advised that C. Yada, the BASEBALL SEASON Japanese Consul -General, was WILL OPEN MONDAY /apout to make a tour of this country in connection with trade There will be two teams in the and that he would visit Prince Rupert. have the trade and commerce committee of the Board meet him at this point. matters local baseball league this season, the Colts and the Catholie Club. It was decided to A start will be made on Monday evening when the teams meet at Park at 6 should PUBLICITY Being notified that the Chamber of Commerce of Lawrence, Mass., intends organizing a tour through the west this summer, the pub- when a game The following is the schedule for the Recreation 245, good result. season: May 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 26, and 29. June 1, 5, 8, 12, 45, 19, 22, 26, licity commisioner of the Board land 29. 7 of Trade has written to the sec- July 3, 7, 10, 43, 47, 20, 24, retary suggesting that the com- Las 27. pany include the trip over the G. { Ee ee aye Roe on T. P. to Prince Rupert in their ‘LACK OF SAILORS program, and offered to have a FOR WINDJAMMERS |CO™mmittee conduct the party se around the canneries, etc. | San Francisco, May 4.—Three vie British windjammers are being THE PESSIMIST held up in the bay and unable to There were pessimists in the long ago. Somebody poring over the old files in the Patent Office sail on account of lack of seamen Two of these ves- sels have been ready for sea for|of the United States has lately nearly two weeks, but owing to}found a lettey from an old em- the scarcity of sailors have been ployee there offering his resig- unable to leave. nation on the ground that “as It is predicted along the water- everything inventible has now front that before these three ves-|Deen invented, and the Patent sels can sail with their grain|OfMice would soon be discontinued, lcargoes they will have to pay|there would bo no further need lnearly, if not fully, $50 monthly|of his services, and he preferred | to seamen. to leave before the blow fell.” The letter is dated 1833, when there was not a railway train, a The ships held up are the Brit- ish and Talus and the Yawry British bark Yoeman. ships telephone, or a the world!—War telegraph, a steamship in cry. ALICE ARM STRIKE SUN AND TIDE Ald. Montgomery has received a telegram from Alice Arm stat- srerenety : ; : Ss ay, May 7th. ing that the strike still unday, May 7th Son PiPOGs. as ake as 4:37 a. m. and the making emphatic] Sb Si Use boo eae 8:31 p, m. demand $3.50 $4.00 for|°U" pd the| High water .. .3:57 a.m. Ht. 18.2 vei , 10: m, Ht. 5.7 government scale of wages in the] ~~ High water .. 21 p.m dialaet: . Ht. 16.0 compromise has been rejected and water ..10:57 p.m. Ht. 10.4 Monday, May 8th. Bran Pi GOs vc s4:03k eae 4:34 a. BOS ia tia see 8:34 p. m. High water ...4:414 a.m. Ht. 17.2 water ..44:40 a.m, Ht. 6.4 High water ...6:20 p.m. Ht. 15.7 Captain McGee, M. M, 8. A. is on, men . s 3 8. for and sets a nine-hour which is Low water 53 a. ot The company’s offer of Low the men are confident of having : m. j their demands acceded to. Sun While J. in ithe south, the 102nd Battalion at Comox in ‘company with the Hon, William Manson, It is not recorded wheth- er they discussed the votes for soldiers bill, E. Merryfield was oN . OW he visited the camp of Low — OK RO RR RR Ee OR * WIRES DOWN * Owing to the government telegraph system being in trouble, The Daily News had to go to press without its war despatches. KRRE HEHE HEH EHH The Board of Trade has decided to send two delegates to the meet- ing in Vaneouver to discuss the formation of an Association of British Columbia Boards of Trade. * * * * + * * * » % * % * *