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vOL. VII. NO. 430,

 

 

PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1916.

PRICE FIVE CENTS

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RIMFIC BATTLE ON THE CANADIAN FRONT

 

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DISPLAY

 

 

CANADIANS

FUSE ENQUIRY EVIDENCE
REVEALED AMAZING FACTS

WHY THOMAS STEPPED IN—WHERE COLONEL ALLISON GOT
HIS, AND HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON FUSES WITH-
OUT MAKING FUSES—HOW THE “PAPER
PROFIT” WAS HANDLED

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Ottawa, May 25

lic mind shouid be confused byjof turning it in to help the Brit-
the wrangles of lawyers, the ques-
tioning along the

s of the court, and the mass |

 

jish government to finance other |
many. clues, transactions in Canada.

ruling Another strange thing about this}
of perplexing detail published by “paper profit” was that although |
the newspapers, let us gO ®Ver|the Shell Committee professed to!
the main points of the evidence.|pegard themselves as contractors |

What has been brought out s0/for the British government and |

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far? Sir Sam Hughes as their agent,|

First:—The Bertram Shell|/gome one actually made a pro-|
Committee, so far as its manu-| posal to hand the surplus over
facturing members were CON-/to the Canadian Patriotic Fund.
cerned, was simply a quartette of| just here the question arises,

contractors for the British War) what right had they, as contract-
Office, whose agent was Sir Samjors for the British government
Hughes, the Minister of Militia | to hand that surplus over to any-
This group Of CON-|pody but the British government?
tract of money!/An equally pertinent question is,
placed to its credit-by the British) what right did they have to ac-
of which they|cumulate a surplus at all? If
iid themselves when they man-j;they had cut prices down to the

f

for Canada.

rs had suin

a
government, out
pé
ufactured any war material and point justified by the increasing
paid the subeontractors to whom |competition and cheaper produc-
they In these con-|tion of war material, they would
tracts and sub-contracts for the have been able to show no such
The

lel contracts.

British government the Canadian /swollen surplus. best way

 

people have a definite interest,/to help the British government
because when the accounts are/was to save money for it on the

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adjusted aftep the war Canada/prices for war material, AS a|
will have to pay her share, This| matter of fact the Bertram Shell
admission by the Finance Minis-| Committee prices were presently
ter, Sir Thomas White, if pressed | edited by Messrs. Thomas and}
to its logical conclusion, not only | Hichens, who were sent over from

es an investigation of the|}ngland by Lloyd George to see
contracts now being probed) apout it. After their visit the

Meredith-Duff Commission, |CGommittee was reorganized and

of all the transactions prices wok a big drop. Incident-
of the old shell committee, which,|ajly it was aftep Messrs Thomas’
as has been said before, was not/and Hichens’ visit that the ulti-
a little band of superpatriots d0-|mate destination of the “paper
It

pire, but simply a very much/pacek to the British War Office

goes
go¢E

ing it for love of the British Em-|) pofit” was decided on,

ed and highly impromptu| where it belongs and Sir Sam’s
board of trade fishing for war | lawyers make a great virtue of its
DUSITLESS, handing over, although the an-
Second:—By quoting prices to) nouncement comes somewhat late
the British War Office, quotations] in the day.
based on the fat prices of the | Both these revelations were
ament trust during times of} ,.tside and beyond the Kyte

 

 

 

peace, and sticking to those prices] wnarges. They may be taken as
jong after general competition bY) good measure, pressed down and
thousands of munition factories running over. The standing of
had tg a :
Had brought prices down to 8! the Old Shell Committee was ap-
More reasonable level, the Bert- | arently ‘“ataplosed before the
ram Shell Gommittee accumulated | 4) Commission so as to give
| Roy : ‘ ‘ :
over and above the amount cred-| 1), government a chance to drop
led to them by the British War |<... Sam if his “war baby” gets
noe * ane profit” of any- him into too much trouble. In
Where from $31,000,000 to $41,- other words, the government puts
Y00,000, whieh strangely ehough it right up to Sip Sam and the
peoone oe.| Bertram Shell Committee. We now
ESTHO M ome to the Kyte charges and
WESTHOLME their contingent revelations.
OPERA HOUSE Third:—The Bertram Shell

Committee, through its imported

TODAY (MONDAY) ONLY

 

’ t factotum, Colonel
Jane Novak and Hobart Henley in expert and fa
the 7th Episode of David Carnegie, the man with a
| tongue hung in the middle, the
Iman with a Kitchener salary,
which is, we believe, more money

than 1 r say « lu ny | fore
ET he eve iw ina mp be
in his lift the Shell

Committee, working through Col-

“tewart Baird in a fine drama Bertram

“THE RUNAWAY WIFE”
In four acts,

onel David Carnegie, was highly
isuccessful in scaring off Colonel
Frederic Nichols first
proposed to make loaded shells
It

however,

\ real good Selig Comedy
“POLISHING UP POLLY”

UNIVERSAL ANIMATED WEEKLY

when he

SO S8uc-

olf

in Canada, was not

CONCERT NIGHT —. TUESDAY.

eer; ppp CORO OODOORE TOOT

 

 

cessful in searing

 

 

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-—Lest the pub-,they kept hanging around instead |

GREAT GALLANTRY — GERMANS LOST EIGHTEEN SHIPS

 

GERMANS LOST
_ EIGHTEEN SHIPS
IN NAVAL FIGHT

|British Navy Scores Big Victory
But Losses Heavy on Both
Sides—Contradictory
German News.

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(Special to The Daily News)

June 5.—The British
last night issued a
saying that there was

5

London,
Admiralty
statement
the
lief that the British navy, in the
battle with the German
fleet off Jutland

week, accounted for eighteen Ger-

strongest ground for the be-

great
high seas last
man men-of-war.

German Losses.

A wireless received on Satur-
day from Berlin stated that the
+}German Admiralty admitted the

of the
Westphalen.

loss

super-dreadnought

A despatch from Copenhagen
says that there is a rumor current
that two additional
German ships to those anounced
the German communication
lost. The battleship West-

phalen and the battle cruiser Lut-

in Hamburg
in
were

zow were sunk in the battle.

It
man battleship Pommern was tor-
that of the
under, besides one of

seems certain that the Ger-

pedoed; two Kaiser
class went
the

third class cruiser Frauenlob was

Derfflinger type, while the
also accounted for as well as the
new light cruiser Wiesbaden, be-
sides many smaller craft,
British Losses.

The account of the |
British losses pemains unchanged. |
the battle
Vice-Admiral

the
the Invincible, all battle cruisers,
with the light
Fortune, Ardent, Shark, Defiance,

Page four.

original

eruiser
Beat-
Indefatigable;

They were
Mary,

flagship;

Queen
ty’s
cruisers

smaller

Continued on

 

Lloyd Harris and the Russell
Motor Company when they want-
ed to make time fuses, After
these Canadian manufacturers

had been strung along until they
were thoroughly sore, they were
order for five hundred

given an

thousand time fuses at seventy-
five cents less per fuse than the
American companies, just to make
them be good, A sop to Cerberus,
so to speak.

It was in this connection that
Mr.

son.’ Seeing a man, as every good

Harris was told to “see Alli-

poker player knows, costs more
money than any other part of the
It certainly cost the Brit-
ish government a lot of money to
Allison—he kept on
‘em all the time,
ing Allison, it was Mr. E, B. Cad-
of the American Ammunition

kame,
see raising

Apropos of see-

well
Company, one of the favored fuse
companies, who testified that the
first time he saw Allison was in
the company of General Sir Alex.
Bertram and Colonel David Car-
at the Manhattan Hotel
New York. From which it appears
that Colonel John Wesley Allison
was Close enough to the Bertram
Shell Committee to travel with a
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negie

 

emotions is to waste breath.
persuasion.

for it.

way and why he does certain
cherished belief of the

as a sort of colored screen in

of this war, for example, may

take its color.

have already formed.

conform to their color.

has determined.

 

 

USELESS ARGUMEN71

To argue with any manon a subject which engages his

His emotions first
then prompt his logical faculties to devise plausible defenses
In an interesting little book on the Psychology of In-
sanity, Dr. Bernard Hart observes:

That a man generally knows why he thinks in a certain

human
for the most part, an erroneous one.

There is a thing that psychologists call a “complex.”
consists of an idea charged with emotion, and it operates

whose emotions are deeply engaged on one side or the other

But, in fact, he is incapable of reasoning, because whatever
impressions his mind receives come through his complex and
His logical faculties operate only by way of
inventing plausible defenses for the judgments his emotions
It is impossible to change his position
in any respect by reasoning, because
his mind until his emotions have dealt with

Complexes play an important
insanity and every expert knows the utter futility of trying
to argue an insane person out of any position his complex
Saturday Evening Post,

His mind is not open to logieal

determine his opinion and

things
race,

is a widespread and
It is, unfortunately,

It

front of the mind. A man

think he is reasoning about it.

cannot touch
it and it

reason
made

part in the psychology of

 

 

SPLENDID ADDRESS
TO KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

in the Presbyterian Church last
evening, the Rev. Hugh R. Grant
address to the
who oceupied

delivered an
Knights Templar,
the four front rows of seats.

At the of able
discourse, Mr. Grant outlined the
the
its 1113,
first crusade, showing how

 

outset a very

early history of Order, ene
inception in after the |
: |
it be-}

came a tremendously wealthy and

powerful organization in the next |

two centuries, during which time}
it had twenty-two Grand Masters, |
the last of whom was Jacques de
Molai, who was Grand Master in
the 1343; the Order
was outlawed on the

year when

and, con-
tinent of Europe, seattered, evi-
dently because of jealousy of its
power.

Mr. after
that the original mission of the

Grant, pointing out
Knights Templar was the protec-
tion of the Holy Sepulchre against
the to show
that, today, it was the privilege
and duty of the Knights of this
in

Saracens, went on

noble Order, whose members
past ages were willing to defend
the Sepulchre of Christ with their
life’s blood, to stand in defence
of Christ and His teaching in the
world today, In an age of skepti-
cism, there noble
work to be done by the Knights
Templar as was done in days of
old.
real and demanded strenuous war-

fare on the part of the Order and

was just as

The forces of evil were very

all who named the name of Christ.

In pointing out that the Order
is essentially Christian, the
preacher explained that’ Free

Masonry, with which the Knights
Templar are affiliated today, is
not a Christian Order, though an
Order whose teaching is of a very
high moral character. He said it
was supposed, that the two great
had first been joined
Scotland, probably to give
Christian aspect to Masonry.
dwelt the

Orders in
a
He

upon responsibilities

 

}swim, impulsively

NARROW ESCAPE FROM
DROWNING ON SATURDAY

Mrs. J, E. Boddie and her little
daughter had a very narrow es-
cape from drowning at Seal Cove

about three o'clock on Saturday

‘
1é surrounding

CANADIAN BOYS —
DISPLAY GREAT*
VALOR AT YPRES

Terrific Battle Raging Along Two
Mile Front at Ypres—The
Canadians Make Bril-
liant Recavery.

(Special to The Daily News.)
London, June 5.—The Canadian
troops and the Germans are bat-
tling fiercely on the Ypres salient.
‘The engagement began with the
‘German heavy artillery deluging
1e Canadian positions with shells
territory being
smothered in a terrible shower of

 

high explosive and shrapnel.
When the artillery had finished
its work, the German infantry ad-
vanced along a front of two miles,
capturing the
trenches. There followed a series
of counter attacks by the Cana-
dians in which bomb and bayonet
played important parts. Wilting
before the terrific onslaught with
cold steel by the men from Can-
ada, the Germans gave way, and
the Canadians regained most of
the ground they had lost in the
first impetuous rush of the enemy.
The positions retaken have now
reorganized and are firmly

Canadian advance

been

held by the Canadians,

 

afternoon. The little girl, who is
three years of age, had, unnoticed
the

intimation Mrs.

mother, fallen into
The first

of the

by her
water.
Boddie

the sight of the little mite in the

had accident was

water. The mother, who cannot
jumped in to
save her child and both were soon
out of their depth and in grave
danger of drowning. Some pass-
got a boat and
them, but it was some time before

ers-by rescued |

the little girl came round, For-
tunately both are now progress-
ing favorably, though still suffer-
ing from severe shock and chill.

PETER’S CHURCH
ANNUAL SALE OF WORK

ST.

The of work ar-|

ranged by the ladies of Seal Cove

annual sale

Later Report.
Serious fighting continues un-
ceasingly southeast of Ypres, be-
Ypres-Menin

following

Hooge and
railway, the

up the initial

tween
Germans

advantage gained

by them yesterday, when, in a
night attack, they pushed their
way through our defences to a

depth of seven hundred yards in
the direction of Zillebeke.

The Canadian troops are hold-
this
counter
this

enemy

strong
o'clock
the
had

ing sector, and by
at
they

from the ground

attacks seven

morning, drove
he
gained.

The
the utmost gallantry in the face
of a terrific attack and the enemy
losses were very severe.

Canadians behaved with

 

 

|\“THE RUNAWAY WIFE” AT

THE WESTHOLME TONIGHT

 

June 7th, The sale will be opened
by Mrs. Du Vernet at 3 p. m. and
will be continued until 10 p. m.
with an interval from 6 to 8 p.m,

There will be the following
stalls: Work Stall, (Mrs. C. Free-
; Junier Stall, (Mrs. Kelsey) ;
Home Cooking,

man
(Mrs. Freiburg) ;
Candy, (Miss “White
Klephant” (Miss Freeman) ;Wheel
of Fortune (Mrs, Boddy) ; Weigh-
(Mrs. Grimble). Re-
freshments will be served after-
noon and evening by Mrs. Knight-
all. 134.

Grimble

,

ing Machine

SUN AND TIDE

 

Tuesday, June 6th,
Sun rises... -4:22 a. m.
.8:58 p, m.
Ht, 47.4

Ht, 5.4

Sun: sateee ee) oe eee

High water
Low water
High water .. Ht, 16.6
Low water ...14:24 p.m. Ht. 9.6
Captain J. McGee, M. M.8.A.

23-420 R,
44:3 a.

35 p.

re ¥ m,

 

 

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church takes place on Wednesday, |

“Graft” at the
| Westholme the
}seventh story of this great serial

is the feature

tonight, when

lwill be presented. There is also

Pr very fine four-act drama, en-
titled ‘The Wife,” in
| which Stewart Baird is the bright
A
comedy and a Universal Weekly

Runaway

 

star. most amusing Selig
make up a good show.

Tuesday night is the first of
the concert nights, when a first-
class musical program will be
given between the shows.

 

 

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