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{SQUITH GOVERNMENT FACES CONSCRIPTION

 

VENIZELOS REFUSES TO FORM CABINET-ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON WESTERN FRONT

ASQUITH FACE
TO FACE WITH

CONSCRIPTION A NEW CABINET

Fate of the Government Hangs in

Balanoce—House is Sharply
Divided on the Great
Question.

(Special to The Dally News.)
London, Dee. 28.—The fate of
juith government is hang
The

will be

the balance, question

tription decided
secrel that the
though

number

It an open

Derb ecruiting scheme,
produced a large
done what
f it Many
men have failed t
s on the list
i of those who
iilable,

ion with

has not was

expe oO thousands
put
and a large
have are
thei

trades which are

because of

irom service,
dea was that, if sufficient

not forthcoming, some

of conscription would be

ated The time for such
has arrived, and it finds
‘roment divided. A force
hundred members, com

chiefly of Radicals and

| en, with the support of
tt Irish brigade, are ab-
opposed to any measure
ilsory service. The cab
n¢ ilso) sharply divided on
the ject, the premier and

Sf f his ablest support
ely in faver of abiding

oluntary pian.

famous “too late speech
delivered in the house by
Da Lloyd George has done

to strengthen the hands of

scriptionists, large

the

and a
press is clamoring

of government

SALONIKI IS THE
ANCIENT THESSALONICA

iki, Which is expected soot
big battle
and British

ines

the scene of a
the French
Germans, Turks and Bul

the

whose

parla iS ancient Thessal«

Christian com

ly St. Paul addressed the two
tiles to the Thessalonians,
| connected by rail swith
Belgrade, the capital of Serbia,
fas direet rail communica
With Vienna, which ts 820
les distant,

~uloniki has a population of a

and a half and is a busy

 

‘imercial city, its total mari
trade being in the hands of
Britain, Direet British trade with

niki began after the Greek
Of independence.

Che price of prosperity Is pa
ence, persistence and persever
hice

i se

ea\iwhich,

 

LONDON CAFE
And Grill

REASONABLE PRICES
Hart Bik. Third Ave.

BOXES FOR LADIES
PPeoooe.

VENIZELOS IS
ASKED TO FORM |

 

quest, as it is now too Late to
Apply His Policy—Activity
On Western Front.

 

(Special to The Dally News.)
-King

called

Premier Venizelos to form a ecabi-

Paris, Dec. 28. Constan-

tine of Greece upon ex-
Venizelos
Hie said that he
the
could have
that Serbia
too late

successfully.

net,
would have ac-
cepted
but that

crushed, it

saved Serbia,

now was

was to apply his policy

Western Activity.
There is an artillery engage
ment of great activity over tie
whole western front and in the

Vosges today.
Indians Leave France.

A British Indian corps has left
for another field of opera-
Before the
of Wales message

from the

France

tions. leaving, Prince
delivered a
King to the officers and

men,

PORTLAND AND LUMBER PLANT
IS DAMAGED BY FIRE

(Special to The Daily News.)

Portland, Ore., Dec. 28 Dam
the

caused by

extent of $100,000 has
fire to the

Hardwood

age to
bee! plant

of the Emerson Com

pany here. 200,000 feet of lum
kiln has
of the

dis-

which was in a dry
The
yet

been destroyed. cause

outbreak has not been
covered.

LADIES BASKETBALL
GAME PLAYED TONIGHT
the Ladies’

been

members of
Club
the
which is staged to
ricultural Hall, At 8o'

should be a big attendance as the

The

Athletic working

have
basketball game
at the Ag

clock there

hard for big

night

is bound to be a good one.

game
The fact that the entire proceed
ire to be devoted to the Red Cros

fnud should help to swell the

crowd. Doors open at 7:30
Mrs. J. E. Merryfield and Mrs

Hivde Parker will captain the op

posing sides.

 

DIES AT MOMENT OF
SOLO GAME TRIUMPH

 

ohn
Dawson, Dee, 26. Levi Vaugon

Fogler trumped the ace of spades

in a solo game iD the Moose Club
leaned back 10 his chair and
laughed at the discomfiture of

who was

and then

his friend, Jerry Doody,

playing a solo m hearts,

quietly died in his chair.
Levi's only trump,

the ace of spades,

It was and
in capturins

super-
among upel

more

stitious card players Is known a
the death card, het defeated Jerry s

solo.

A general players
A B

laugh from

and spectators followed

When
Levi that it was his

inother player reminded

turn to lead,

Refuses to Accede to King’s Re- |

refused to do so.

premiership when he

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand stand at Oriental Pa

TEUTON SOCIETY WOULD
DEPOSE KAISER WILHELM

manifesto containing a_ violent
Prussian con

the

indictment of “the

spirators,” bitterly attacking

imperial German chancellor, ac

cusing Germany of barbarous

}
cruelties and insatiable lust} and
concluding with the demand that
the Kaiser “be
dishonored throne.”

The

consists of German

deposed from his

German Humanity League

Socialists re-
outside of

siding Germany.

homes being deso-
the

manifesto as

“Our are

lated,’ correspondent reports
the

campaign waged not in lawful de

saying,
of German territory, but to
the

and greed of
We

wage earner

fense
satisfy insatiable
Prussian conspira-
tors. again appeal to every
not yet stirred to the
heart by these awful holocausts
to register

main silent spectators of the stu-

a Vow no longer

bed us

of history an indelible stain.
“In the

sworn to

reichstag,
defend the

We have examined |

oppressors.

through trusted sources the eco-
nomie condition of every state
and province, From all comes

the ery, ‘deliver us from this ter-]
rible suffering!’

‘In July, 1914, we were honored
and respected throughout the
world. Today the German name
is the scorn of civilization, and
the German flag a badge of in-
famy. For our crimes we are
loathed by all honest men.

“What are more contemptible

than the hollow, lying sublerfuges

for breaches of diplomatic eti-
quette and all the canons of eivi
lized communities and of the

eustoms and usages of honorable
warfare as published by the im-
perial chancellor?
“Napoleen failed,
ser fail. There can be no
peace until he is deposed from
the throne he has fouled and his
meet their
execu -

and the Kai-

must

fellow-conspirators

the hands of an

fate at
tioner.”’

 

CHEAP FUEL
Good wood eut to any
2 feet—$4.50, 4

length,
85.00 cord, feet

$3.50. Also best lump coal.

 

id fled from his body.

 

his spiril hé

rk, Havana,

London, Dec. 27 The German
pHumanity League, says the Ex-
jchange Telegraph's correspond
ent at Rotterdam, has issued a!

“mM at

to re-
jalso had suflicient knowledge of

pendous crimes which have rob- | the work to

and left upon the truthful pages |
j mittee
men who had question.
rights of the

people have joined hands with our | mittee

ithe
fed,

NEW HAVANA RACE TRACK

Cuba, where the

day winter meeting of the Cuban Jockey Club opened on December
{6th. It is the finest stand ever erected at any winter track and
compares favorably with the best in America. The betting ring is
under the stand and the eS aOeR is seen in the rear.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

—E=_——

 

17 CHINAMEN
ARE ARRESTED
FOR BURGLARY

'Vancouver Chinks Spent a Merry

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iby the

ithe

Christmas—$3,000 Worth of
Stolen Goods Taken
by the Police.

(Special to The Dally News.)
Vancouver, Dec. 28.—The big-
rest stolen

for

haul of goods made

carried out
last
basement of a Chinese room-

Street.

many years was

police here night in

ing house at 270

Keefer

Clothing, cameras, soaps, per-

fumes and boots which had been

FIXED FOR JANUARY 13 stolen from three Main Street
| jstores, have been recovered. The
| At the city council last night, | 89095, which “are :yalned :at ‘over
a motion by Ald. Dybhavn, sec- en rqee seater OR SR
| onded by Ald. Edge, in the finance et pad aa. Arrested.

jcommittee, that nominations be|  petectives Rieci and Sinclair.
lreceived for mayor, aldermen and | who had tracked down the goods,
school trustees from 12 to 2 p.m.jlast night arrested seventeen
on January 10th, 1916, and that/Chinese in the house. There has

the held on
{3th, 1916,

m. That E,

elections be
from 9

A. Woods be

and that R. H.
perton, W.

and T. J.
jdeputy returning officers at $7.50

Shockley, A. Clap-

Denning, A. Slocumb,

Davidson be

 

Montgomery, moved an

that

1 Ald.

jamendment more names be

savagery ladded to the list of deputies and

la ballot taken.
Ald. Edge said that the

committee had carefully consider-

finance

led a list of names and had decided
jthat the above were deserving and

prove useful to Mr.

of our sons and brothers | Woods.

Ald. Dybhavn said that the com-
the

had fairly considered

The mayor

had carefully

ithose names with a view to giving

work where it was most need

The motion carried.

 

BRITISH NAVY WILL

TEST NOVA SCOTIA CO. |he a ate

London, Dee. 27.-—For som
time past Nova Scotia has been
anxious to secure an Admiralty
test of washed nut coal obtain

able in the province, Sir George
Perley and Agent-General Howard
authorities

who approached the

here, have
that a telegram has been sent to
the commander-in-chief of

West instructing
him to the

possible test of this coal on

Indies station,
earliest
Ad-

and also to con-

arrange for
miralty vessels,
sider the possibility of making

the
the
sent to

test on warships on
A quantity of
same coal to be
Portsmouth fer testing.

similar
same station,
is also

 

VICTROLA DRAWING

 

The
Bros.,
who is with the Pacific Cartage,
with ticket 816,

Victrola McRae
was won by George Brown,

given by

 

received an intimation

Qim. ite °7 ie

appoint- |

appointed |

iglobe

each, was presented.
Ald. Beveridge, seconded by}

ideliver a lecture

| . . +
oe _ |been an epidemic of house-break
svanuary |.
jing

in Vancouver recently, which
had been attributed to Chinamen.

ed- returning oflicer without salary FAMOUS GLOBE TROTTER

WILL LECTURE HERE

the
who has been visit-

Dr. Jack Dawson, famous

trotter

PAUL KOENIGIS
IDENTIFIED AS
QUEBEC VISITOR

German Agent under Arrest at
New York Sketched Docks at
Quebec Before the War
Broke Out.

 

(Special to The Dally News.)
Quebee, Dec. 28.—Paul Koenig,
the German agent who is under
arrest at New York on a charge
of conspiracy, and who was im-
in the attempt to blow
up the Welland Canal, uas been
identified as a man who visited
June, 1914,
who posed as a son
the French chocolate

plicated

Quebee in with an=
other

of Meunier,

man,

king.

Sketched Docks.
Quebec, these men
the docks and
ammunition testing grounds and

sketches wherever’ they

While in

visited Valcartier,

made
went.
They tried to purchase
lands in Ste. Lucie, which,
they stated, was for the purpose
of erecting a cement factory.
They {ried to purchase a
steamer.

They engaged a captain to take
command of an Austrian barque,
at that time loading
but the vessel was

also

high

also

which was

at Rimouski,

 

ing in Prince Rupert for.the past
has kindly consented to

in aid of the Pa-

few days,

triotic Fund in the Empress
Theatre on. Wednesday night at
5 p.m

Dr. Dawson, besides being one
lof the greatest wanderers into
out-of-the-way corners of the
earth, is an university man and

ja most entertaining speaker.

has had many varied experiences,

|both exciting and amusing, during
his peregrinations and is. well
able to entertain a large audience

said that the com-|

for hours.

A charge of 25 cents will be

selected | made and the entire proceeds will

Patriotic Fund.
to make
off
has
bit”

per-

the
Dr. Dawson is
but

his way to

be given .to
not here

money is simply stopping

on England, and

kindly consented to ‘do his

is a remarkable

be alii and no one should miss

this opportunity of hearing him.

“THE TELEGRAPHER’S PERIL”
AT THE MAJESTIC THEATRE

 

The Majestic program for to-
night is full of good things. There
are thrills galore and no end of
fun and frolic. “Blow for Blow”

drama in which a

two-act

young fellow who has been sent
under gets back at his enemies.
In “The Telegrapher’s Peril”

there is a realistic train holdup,
has a most
Slayer”
with splen-

tiger in

while a girl operator
“The
love story,
did views of the
his native haungs.

exciting time. Tiger
is a jungle

lordly

good,

is also

Marmaduke” and ‘Hans and His

Boss" provide smiles for all,

 

Dyspepsia may be disappointec
love,

 

The comie side of the program
*“Double-crossing

the naval authorities

before it was ready to sail.

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
OPENING ENTERTAINMENT

On Wednesday evening, the
29th, the P. R. A. A. A, will hold
an open night to entertain their
cultivate the ac-
strangers or

seized by

 

friends and to
quaintance of
new residents who would care to
take advantage of this very pleas-
f becoming acquainted.

any

ing way o
A program consisting of vocal
Mr. Fletcher Mr.
Corkhill; something amusing by
an adept, Mr. Moore; skilful club
swinging by Mr. Porter; acrobatic
horizontal bar stunts by Mr.
ers and a four-round boxing bout
between Messrs. Gilmore and Bid-
dell, Rupert's two best
lightweights, has been arranged.

All cordially invited to
be this enter-
tainment which will be given in
the MeIntyre Hall on Wednesday,
the 29th inst., at 8 o’clock sharp.

solos by and

Som-

Prince

are
present at

 

 

WESTHOLME THEATRE

 

The side of the West-
holme program tonight is the
best seen for a long time and no

comedy

one should miss it. “Tussle's
Rival Jonah,” a Keystone comedy
of two reels, simply brought down
the house last night, while Gaso-
line Gus is a cireus. There are
two good dramas as well and the

entire show is good,

 

 

Follow the crowd to Self'’s
Gafe. There is a reason.. Next
Majestic Theatre. ide2tt,

 

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