THE DAIL ———<<— 1 vil. NO. vot We 149, I PRINCE RUPERT, B. a, TU pomay JUNE 27, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS TERRIFIC OFFENSIVE ON THE ITALIAN FRONT CHINESE PREMIER RESIGNS BG 3G OFFENSIVE HAS BEGUN ON ITALIAN FRONT Advance on Fifteen-mile Front— Austrians Driven Back—The British Artillery Battering Enemy Trenches. Special to The Daily News.) London, June 27. The Italians, 1a terrific offensive on a fifteen- mile front, have driven the Aus. back and have recaptured seven positions taken by the en- y under the Austrian in the recent big drive. Sritish Front. at which the: Crown Prince At the same hour KINPOLUNG IS OCCUPIED BY THE RUSSIANS: Drive continues Towards Kolomea —French Success on the Verdun Front—Disaster In the Black Sea, } (Special to The Daily News.) | London, June 27.—The Rus-| sians have now conquered the | whole of Bukewina and the province now oc- cupy Kimpolung, in south of that the Aiong the extreme and right} Roumanian border. the on River Pruth, in Kolomea, the Rus- ee Wi drive towards sianis lave llischoff | CHARLES EVANS HUGHES has | of the tial el Who support | presiden SERIOUS SITUATION een promised the Progressives in the ection, Mr, Brew- pig Italian rush began, the British |and Teuiounoff and are still ad-| artillery started a visient bat ter ly ancing in Volhynia. The advance | g attack upon the German! on Kolomea will cut off any ps «PROVINCE FACING hes from the La Basseé@jsiblity of an Austrian retreat to- Canal southward to Bomme, wards the southern passes British Steamer Tansn. through the mountains The British mail steamer Brus- French Front, sels, with passengers on board, The French have is been captured by German de-/the trenches taken by the Ger-| royers and taken into the har-|mans recently west of Thiaumont | roof Zechbrugge. and have also made progress in| Greek Steamer Sunk. the village of Fleury. | jhe Greek steamer Niisa has 400 Lives Lost. been sunk in the Mediterranean. Petrograd, June 27.—The nus. \j| the members of the crew were/sian steamer Mercury has been) saved sunk in the Black Sea by striking Gre ate a mine. Four hundred lives were Many Killed in Air Raid. iost. the The Hote! Rupert bulletin says The steamer Klazotemkin ju st) sin that in the recent air raid by the! preceded the Mercury and those | Fren Karlsruhe, the aviatorsjon board of her were aware | dropped the bombs on a circus | the disaster but the Scene] 1 the railway station, | forcibly prevented the captail 1} {146 and injuring 200) rom going to the aid of the peoj Istricken vessel. MERCHANTS WANT THE LICENSE FEE REDUCED J ‘hompson and H, E, Peck, ting the Retail Mer- fants’ Association, waited upon last reduction in the license the city council evening to i merchants, | char 14 Mr. Thompson said that the mer- chant® felt retail that $20 a year was loo high and in view of the fact | is higher than that] any other municipality | that the | city are now on stable the make some reduc- he ry} th province and the more hances f much cour basis, Cil might lion, lhe the finance inatter was referred to committee, WOMEN MUNITIONERS WANTED IN CANADA ‘“peclal to The Daily News.) ee 0, June 27,—Major ecruiting officer for Al- berta, says, “The Dominion Gov- fTimen ' ment js asking for four thou- ] Wo Y i iti { en to work in munition Mlories and other ore Sans positions in ler to t enable men who are eli- Bible fo * for military service to en- list.” oe I} **tOerrnrrereorsonnnnononereeer, WESTHOLME OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT ONLY “ THE RULING POWER” ree Aleo os “ct Vitagraph Feature - 900d Comedies and two ene little Dramas. Sday: Marguerite Clark In isternly notifies the Carranza gov-~- He suggest WILSON’S NOTE TO GENERAL CARRANZA\. Special to The Laily News Washington, Wilson, in his latest note to| Mexican government, release of ; lr | tee June 27.—Presi- dent the demands the the United prisvner it Lue Uarl not only immediate taken | but States troops izai fight, ernment that the United States Dy a | j iwould b ster, jlowing The Liberal leader who has been in the city statement to reply to the | who are seeking The Sun in premier to grossly for recaptured |the last few days, made the fol-, and others mis- MOSLEMS RISING ~ AGAINST TURKS -INMESOPOTAMIA Sacred Shrines Shelled—Italians Entep Durazza and Sink Two Austrian Transports—WNo Mail for Greece. (Special to The Daily News) London, June 27.—It is report- ed that the Shu Moslems at Ker- bela and Nejeft, in Mesopotamia, the Turkish In order have risen against garrisons near Bagdad. to quell the uprising and strike the Turks have shelled the sacred Kerbeat. Austrian Transports Sunk. 27.—Italian war- ships have entered the harbor of in the Adriatic, and sunk transports loaded terror into revolutionaries, the shrines at Rome, June Durazzo, two Austrian with arms and ammunition. Greece and Germany, 27.—The department Amsterdam, June German post office represent his action in issuing a|@!nounces the suspension of all writ in the supreme court to de-,| postal ‘communication between termine the validity of the actions |“e™™many and Greece. This move of the premier under the Pacific |!s believed to have been made in Great Eastern subsidy legislation | o'der to prevent stories of in- well as the constitutionality ofj ternal German trouble from the laws enacted by the legi slature iching the Greek people. sinee March 14th last: PT Mn OR ete uy atyoet ws appealing & the PREMIER ALONE LEFT courts is to set as to the legality that may exist acts passed since March 14th. iMy object is 1 to cast doubt on any such legislation but to have its validity put beyond question. Phy is not of my creation but was eke by the attorney- general when he expressed from sis seat in parliament his uncer ainty as to the date when the ife of the legislature terminated, Phat uncertainty continues to exist, an funtil it will not be taken advantage of by] every power! interest adversely iffected by recent legislation, It is entertained by leading counsel for financial interests and affects a great body ol legislation. | Prompt steps were necessary if | we were to avoid contusion and chaos, and substitute confidence) and complete certainty, This [| have undertaken to do by bring- expects an early statement of the j aller purposes of that guvernin nt. TENDERS FOR UNIFORMS Tenders for uniforms for the members of the fire brigade were | opened at the council meeting last night. They were: J. Weinstein, $40; Swedep Bros., $43 and $47; , 2.50 and $45 Bry Limited, $27; and In view of the the ten fire and J. Harnett, $4 Company, Tailors, $4.9. in price, ant Rex wide difference ders were referred to the light committee, PD. CG. McRae said that he derstood that last year the by a China- un uni forms had been made man and that on another oceasion they had been made vd that how in Vancouver. and where they were to be made should be carefully gone into. Let's have lots of that stulf What® Good feeling and good fellowship—July ist. Show our American neighbors a good time on July ist rooe ing the question before Had the ed my issue W court of appeal, at Viet thew dec preferrl proyinee to cause d will is removed decision e folly continue to exist once for all of the courts. It } ; to expect that it the courts attorney-general accept- suggestion to refer the hen it first arose bo the oria, W isloné ng to accusing delay . then e would have it onee, He re fused, travel over the me of seeking Without his as- Continued on Pcge Three Born Pierre, eeneral hospital this to Mr. Born Loop, a rhe Moon 1s ink, — THE to Mr. of Te! son, Ol Surf at the Inlet 4E CRADLE and Mrs, G. G, race, a son at the moruing,. ... , Mrs. CG, GU. June 26, and l Monday, Full wharf this morn- launch at rest any doubt had | ON ORIGINAL TICKET As was the Conservatives, who are thoroughly the rule expected, young machine the Bowser went on record as in disgusted with of the combination, past, under favor of a new convention and the beheading of all the old ticket— "| with the possible exception of the who is the party leader premier, and? therefore, still retains 4 measure of respect from the The news of the de- Conservatives it a surprise, They had been expected to do the very thing. In fact, it was all framed that they should do it. Although Premier Bowser would liked, to dictate entire this would youngsters. cision of the young was nl much, new ticket, his hand too plainly have very ithe be showing though he needed a new con- vention, it would not be good ball to have the old guard suggest it, shown a de- hand, ‘for this would have lgree of political weakness which jthe acknow- ledge, that the suggestion should come from lthe “democratic” part of the Bow- premier refuses to So it was arranged in session} ser machine, | Therefore, with a great blare, Hater on in the campaign, the fact lthat the young men of the party “started the ball rolling’ will be used for all it is worth by the old guard to try to that “democratic” conven- prove theirs is a tion. However, the premier, Hon, Dr. McGuire, A. M, Harper, president of the Vancouver wheel of the machine, F. W. Welsh, CG, BE, Tis- dall and some of the others, all the time will have had prepared a nice little slate which will be (Continued on Page Two) j | | | j | istic canism” to Hughes by Roosevelt. -- RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING TOWARDS KOLOMEA | | “TEDDY” ROOSEVELT Who has come out solidly in support of Hughes, in character- attitude. ‘Patriotic Ameri- is the election ery handed gressive Evans the United States by a vote in the | making to six. a lengthy Democratic C port He gave detailed reasons for his | action, sity GERMANS PLANNED conspiracy, vade jsteamers to TUAN SHI JUL HANDS IN HIS RESIGNATION Chinese Cabinet Resigns Over the Japanese Loan—President Re- fuses to Accept—Australian Premier Busy. (Special to The Pekin, 7.—Premier Tuan Shi Jui and the other members of the Chinese cabinet have attempt- ed to resign, but the new president Li Yuan their Daily News.) June 2 of the Chinese Republic, Hung, resignations. refuses to accept The cause of the dissension is that Japan is endeavoring to make China a loan of a hundred million yen, as a reorganization loan, and President Li Yuan Hung willing to actept the Japanese money as he favors an American is un- loan. Premier Hughes Busy. 27.—Premier Hughes of Australia, who has been for some time in the inter- of the and who has. done much to stir things up, has purchased a fleet of fifteen be Commonwealth London, June here ests Commonwealth operated as a government line “TEDDY” ROOSEVELT | TO SUPPORT HUGHES (Special to The Daily —The Pro- Charles | | News.) | Chicago, June 27. party endorsed Hughes for president of 1ational committee of thirty-two | } Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, ir} denunciation of the administration, de- lared that he Hughes : ' would actively surp- . ° | for the presidency. | the the neces- for a patriotic chief being Americanism. —————— CANADIAN INVASION Hotel June 27.—The Courtesy Rupert.) New York, evi- jot the itaxes had not been paid, of holding | present. in moving the Australian harvest to the European market. TAX SALES A resolution city read at from the jcounceil of Kelowna was ithe city council last evening set- forth the of arrangements whereby ting advantages buyers could take up at any time year property on which instead yearly tax “sales as at The resolition was re- leeived and filed. HALIBUT ARRIVALS There several small in- dependent schooaers in this fore- noon, The Magnolia had 30,000 pounds. of halibut; the Corona, 6,000; Volunteer, 19,000; Alvilda, 20,000; Petrel, 8,000; Fram, 14,- 000, and the Ganadian schooners Anna D, and L, T, 3° with 3,000 were dence taken yesterday in the trial jand of Hans Mais: on a charge of the fact that the Germans had planned to in- the United force. her, reveals Canada from States with an armed INTERESTING COMPARISON OF MUNICIPAL COSTS In discussing the estimates for the the council meeting last Ald, D, C, McRae made compari- sons between Prince Rupert and other capita cost of operating various They were as fol- year at evening, some interesting cities, in regard to the per departments. lows: Fire Dept.—-Prince Rupert, $2.- 80; Edmonton, $2.70; London, $1.00, and Hamilton, $1.25. Schools—Prince Rupert, $7.00; Edmonton, $44.25; 4.50, and Hamilton, $4.00, London, $ Police — Prince Rupert, $2.50; Edmonton, $2.55; London, $4.20, and Hamilton, $4.20 7,000. ALL ENTHUSIASTS Swimmers and able bodied men come on over to the Salt Lake to- night and help the Club build the floats and dressing rooms for the ladies. Boats will be leaving at 6 and 6:30 o'clock. axe and The come too and wateh but heavers get sometimes thirsty. Swimming Bring your saw. ladies can the hungry Nuf sed, beavers, and SAFETY FIRST—USE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, VHONE 116. Go TO LONDON CAFE FOR THE BEST MEALS STRICTLY UNION HOUSE Hart Bik. Third Ave, BOXES FOR LADIES . . 2 Ph ee ee ~ | } | i { : } Ra soe eee SEE a.