The Daily News VOL IX SO. i!3. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C, WKDNK8DAY. MAY 15, 1918. GENERAL II II 11 II A NCH I CUT ROL OF IRELAND WILL EXERCISE FULL POWERS AS VICEROY-HUN SUB. CREWS ARE DEMORALIZED FIGHTING RESTRICTED TO NEGOTIATIONS FOR MUNITIONS BOARD SCARCITY OF FUEL OIL MAKES LEASE OF DRYDOCK i PURCHASES SEAL COYE RAIDS AND LOCAL ATTACKS ARE PROGRESSING SAWMILL OUTPUT NORTHERN B.C7S OPPORTUNITY i jpUt M TK Dll ." I here. The onlr occurrence! re.1 "efore leaving this morning for 1 Just returned this morning In of this northern recent press reports it is requirements entire I Lon n May 18 The artillery ported Uvm the main Lattlefront 8'nHhern, whither he ia going onjfrom a buelneas trip to Seattle country. (rsm the Herman batteries in Plcardy are patrol actiona. ?. oualneM viiit fon a few daya. d Vancouver Mr E P Dubv mmeu mat ine cnueu mates go In the Telkwa river. Ground .... , ernment, through its Fuel Con violent ,Ml n'8bl ,n lhe wccj o w uguiing in spiniea menr hog and Copper river districts gcsmc tnd Ancre region. The the Champagne region near Hulte lcleram one of the prin- manager of the new sawmill at troller, may prohibit the export there is an approximate tonnage ftiiiib troops carried out a suc- Du Mesnll, and in the Vosge. cPaU ,n lhe negotiationa which Seal Cove, slates that while in of Fuel Oil. Should such mea. of over 350,000,000 tons of coal tt1L, raid nortneasi oi itooecq A German local attack north of ara now und,er WT regarding the Vancouver, arrangements weryj sures be adopted, and from all that will compare with any other a (be Flanders front, and cap. Lelfrclil was repulaed by our ,ea",n of the ehipbuilding plant virtually completed with the Imperial accounts it is very probable that coal mined in Canada. The aver Munitions Board for tbe al "nya Cove. All the indications without Ore. ati a f prisoners any of the Telkwa river coal age assay ar thal these negotiations purchase of spruce logs sufficient they will, the various railway l themselves. A slrpng Amsterdam. Mav 15 Six aro. are is, Fixed Carbon, 68, Volatile proceeding satisfactorily and high to run the mill lo its full companies and steamship lines; party of the enemy w hich attacked tilanF iioinlifil lh Austrian naval Matter, 20, Ash, 8, Sulphur ntof ;ur positions was repulsed baae on the Gulf of Catlaryo. ac- hP' are entertained that they capacity. The mill will be put also the large manufacturing 1, and Moisture 3. tib btavy loaaea. cording to advices received here'"1 be "Uimately successful, into operation early in June and, companies in Uritish Columbia With the exception of the Do French Front. from Vienna. No loss or damage' 1'tfmler Oliver, and Minister of will be devoted entirely to the will be compelled to come back, lo minion Coal Company's product tr::i, May 15 Heavy artillery was sustained. One of the allied ,,nance "" OI ine I'rovincial production of aeroplane lumber. coal as a means of generating mined on Cape Ureton Island, tf&'Jaf ia the Champagne counts macblnes ia reported to have fa.OovernmBl, are in Ottawa at the Specifications are being prepared power. In this connection, a brief Nova Scotia, which runs 82 for machinery to it reported in the official ten, and Ita occupants captured lirrcriu moment, ana are appar- some special history of the introduction of fuel Fixed Carbon, the coals of North, lUitmeat issued by the war office uninjured. ently getting action on tbe mat facilitate the production of this oil into British Columbia by tbe era Dritish Columbia stand out lumber, which will be installed as ter. They are both working on oil magnates of tbe United Stales as one of tbe foremost domestic this subject. The people who are soon as delivery can be had from may be interesting. or steam coals found or mined HOLE SQUADRON OF GERMAN seeking lo lease the Prince Ilupert the factory. Previous lo 1912,the consumption in Canada at the present time. Some of the big cribs of plant on this occasion are sub i spruce of fuel oil in Iirjtish Colum It must be understood that the logs expected to arrive from are stantial and responsible. bia was very small. About that coals of Northern British Columbia, SUBMARINES FAIL TO RETURN Their, credentials are in tbe the Queen Charlotte Islands with-)n time a serious strike occurred in owing to their high carbon the next ten days or two weeks hands of the Iloyal liank and are the coal mines of Vancouver Is. content, are anthracitic in char A-l If the matters upon which and it Is lite intention to firing land, which lasted for almost two acter and require to be treated bven a surplus of ten or twelve IpMUl le Tb Dilj !tt) they are at present treating al years, and this caused a shortage differently from the highly volatilised million feel of logs during the l-r i Switzerland, May 15. Ottawa, come to a succeasful conclusion, of coal on the Pacific coast- Tb coals of the Vancouver Island BOHEMIA IS NOW IN summer months, which will be they are prepared to go Canadian Pacific Railway, that coalfield and the Alberta TU l!iit.b naval operations ahead with Ibe building of ten pawn during the winter, when the great instilution which claims to districts. STATE OF FERMENT m .t tbe uerrnan submarines weather conditions are unfavorable steel the steel ships. They've got have been such a big factor In the The general run of Vancouver u.ug consternation among and they've got the money, too. for towing across from the development of Canada, saw an Island coals give an assay of 2 ti al the German subma. Damon stratlon by Women Gets a 'and Prince Rupert will welcome Islands. This will be necessary opportunity to increase its profits only 50 Fixed Carbon, 30 lo u tsr and at the German Ad. Hundred ArrvsUd Troops litem. as tbe sawmill will be kept running and immediately went over to oil, 35 Volatile Matter, and from 7 esrafty la the meantime, the tnt Away Assignation the year round notwithstanding that their sys lo 12.5 Ash. As a domestic coal csu-sct a operations have been of Burgomaster. KAISER BILL WILL Steam was put on Che boilers tern tapped the coalfields of the the Vancouver Island coal Ignites Uasl week and all the. machinery mpfsdfd at Wtlbelmthaven and Nicola Valley and the Crows' Nest easily1 owing-to the high percentage in the sawmill was put In motion. lu n tbe new super-submarines lfr"ll M Tb HllJ 5w. STAY WITH FIGHT Pass, whene the mines at that of heavy oils or Volatile Mat. The test was gratifying, as baute ibry were found to be too London, May 15. A state of everything started very off without a time were only running about 60 ter as compared with the northern kr t&d many other faults in their 8ml. per cent, capacity. coalfields, but as carbon is the has been declared at siege (Special la Tb Ditlr .iwt hitch and ran like clockwork. The Rcttroctinn have been found, Their example was followed by essential quantity or quality in chow, a suburb of Prague, tbe Paris. May 15. The Kaiser, construction of such a plant as i - (be work had been well ad. other companies, with the result coal for either domestic on steam iuc4. It is admitted that many capital of Bohemia, and Ibe during his conference with the the Prince Rupert Lumber Company that when the strike was called purposes it is easily seen that the if lis utrman fleet of submerge troops have all been sent away. Eniperor Karl at headquarters. has built at Seal Cove is a off on Vancouver Island the mines coals of our northern coalfields t, s have been destroyed One hundred and fifty women are was insistent on the big Austrian big undertaking, especially under there could only operate two and are much superior to that of Van ui ea whole squadron has fail. said to have been arrested on ac- offensive against the Italians be- the conditions as obtain at this three days per week and at times couver Island or Alberta- The 4to irturn after a cruise in the count of the demonstrations ;ing undertaken, simultaneously time, when deliveries of material were compelled to close down entirely. Carbon content of the Telkwa which they held throughout the i with the renewal of the drive on are slow and uncertain, and there As a result of this condition coal in particular shows 20 per T extreme reticence which city. The scarcity of food stuffs the western front. has been such a scarcity of laborv hundreds of men, women cenL. more than the Vancouver, ihBr.Utb Admiralty has main. has accentuated the position Hecent dispatcnea nave empna-throughout In addition, weather conditions and children found it harjl to get Island product, and volume for lal since the beginning as to Uohemia almost to the slsed the preparations which are have been very adverse during the enough to exist on. Quite a num. volume with the Island coal, will '-t I the German subma. noinl of insurrection- The being made for the resumption past winter and spring, holding:ber of these men were brought give exactly 20 per cent more rmihla in lh citr of Prarue rf the offensive on Italy- The back construction to a considerable into Canada by this same railway efficiency. ' has got at last on the have become so acute that the :Austrians reserves ther? are be-burgomaster extent. company's agents in the Old The fact that we have such a ntt of tbe crews and officers has resigned, and ing strengthened, and heavy con- Country, who pictured the large large tonnage of this hlgh-grad dike underwater craft. This. the frment started in the capital cenlralions have been made of IREAND IN CONTROL OF wages that could be made here fuel available in Northern British with the largely increased is spreading with amaiing rapidity artillery end aeroplanes. FRENCH and the Ideal conditions for making Columbia will mean considerable ucbtrs f these boats which throughout the whole country. FIELD MARSHAL a home. After dumujng these to Prince Rupert If the Unite--' " ft ici to rrturn within the The Czechs have given their; Aus "POLLY OF THE CIRCUS" men on Vancouver Island and in States prohibit the export of fuel W few m nths. has had ita due trian rulers very great trouble AT WESTHOLME TONIGHT Will Exercise Full Authority as other places in British Columbia, oil, and as it looks now, this is Whether the submarines since the outbreak of the war, and Viceroy to Put "Distressful" the great C. P. R. went to work liable to occur any time. Coal has bn raptured, or whether a violent explosion is very prob All through the story of "Polly Country on Proper and installed oil burner on their always been king and always will forces or reaction of the Circus ' Which is to be and and looks if the coal ed : mpletely with the loss able against the War Footing. locomotives steamships, be, and it now as . oa board remains unknown which have held thla people screened at the Weslholme this in this way directly undermined mining industry of Brjtish Co tbc-e are now no volunteers so long in aubjectlon. afternoon and evening, runs the fpcUl W Tt Dill J Sews.) the coal markets upon which lumbia is about lo come back into ' ward for this service. thread of a romantic and at times London. May 15. Field Mar these emigrants depended for a its own in spite of the strong opposition 'becloiinff In nt I h. Kn.il. R.n PREMIER BORDEN pathetic story of the little orphaned sbal French Is now In suprema living. The excuse at that time it has to contend with In Mfn Scotland and Norway and circus girl. This lale is control In Ireland "exercising in was that they were compelled to past years. frnt auccessful raids upon MAINTAINS POSITION punctuated by seven big spectacles, practice those powers which have go to oil, yet asalready stated, Jbrnffe and Ostend have ren-fcrl which are among the masterpieces always been held by the Viceroy their system tapped coalfields The Carpenters will hold an Ibis of photoplay production. in theory. He will have full au which were running to only sixty hall arm of the Kaiser's Upwards of open meeting In their on "v Ottawa, Max The race track, with the thority in questions relating to per cent, of their capacity, and practically useless for ita Wednesday. May 15. All men us "waded four thousand fanners representing stands crammed with people with national defense and the internal quite apart from the Vancouver invited and the tools are cordially purpose, Germany sections ing tt ii!t Ilia eastern farming Polly riding tbe winner, lhe parade administration, and will put the Island coal field. The real reason SMOKER- ct now beginning to realite of Canada have submitted their; of lhe circus through the country for the first lime on what for going into oil was that to attend. in all its fullness. petition asking the Dominion gov. streets, with every detail complete, may be called a proper war looi-ing." they could cut down costs in fuel eminent not to further minimise with the whole menagerie ond labor, and not as a result of Sign the launch petition- NOTIOC the possibilities of production in in nrocesslon: and soforth bring The importance of this statement the shortage of coal- V t al those Cau&du by conscripting their sons the atmosphere of the circus rjght is significant of the inten Uritish Columlfia ia rich in coal :na . receiving Launch or reusing exemption lo rami to the theatre. This play was one tion of the Uritish government to and there is no reason why its (St.;nrr uiraiff a urn iitm im t' employees, thus endangering production of the greatest successes of the compel Ireland to fall In line with coalfields should not be developed. TO REWT ' ' mail them to the mln of foodstuffs. American stage, and made a fortune the other portion of the UNlisii Our railroad companies owe their 3-rjwtned cottage partly marine and fisheries at Sir Hubert llorden, for the gov for Ita author and owners, Isles with regard to conscription. position today to tbe wealth of furnished ...... f 10.00 ' ,l,'Pei r lo t. i,,. -i tin lna ernment, reitemlfd nis recen and In the film. It lakes its place The Irish regiments already In natural resources which were 5-roomed house .,.$12.50 before May 18, and declaration that the ural con- as one of the most remarkable action have proved themselves to handed over? to them by our governments, FOR SALE ideration of the nation Is lo hoia productions ever made. It i be fighters of the first quality, or In other words, by I.roomed house and lot., UUUXES K. FflEEMAN the allied line in France. The government picture of laughter and tears, a and the material still available the people of Canada, and it is 1.1 00.00 r- ..w wsiiington Coal and appreciated the splendid picture of a scor?j of circus thrills in that country Is no less good, the duty of the respective railway Residential lots .. 9300.00 of a'l dimensions. loyalty of the farmers, uui mej and In fact, you see a complete once it is trained. The outcome companies to develope the re. Apply to n..." 11 a. had not been called upon to contribute circus performance on the screen. of the government of Field Marshal sources of the country through ED. H. MORTIMER more heavily than any The moKt amaiing of ad the French will be eagerly awaited. their system passes. No serious 357 Second Avenue other claas In the Dominion. scenes is lhe burning or ui hardship would result from the tent during the evening perform-...... proposed ban upon the export of WESTHOLME RUSSIA PROTESTS AGAIN and lhe wild sUmpede of The trawler "Carruthers" arrived fuel oil Into Uritish Columbia. TOKiqht the audience and lhe wild a.'imals. back in port last night with There Is sufficient fuel available ONLY Petrograd, May 15. Foreign The eight bi reels make a very tO.OOO lbs. Hat fish . She only put all over this province to meet the U"T SOIOWYN -MTUaT" Mlniiter Tchllclierin has sent a line picture indeed out on Monday. Today the Noiyna requirements of our railroad and wireless message to Ilcrlin demanding is In with 1,500 lbs; Fearleaa 3,-500; steamship lines and it seems sws an explanation of the Anolherarty of Serbian, ar- Murgallce. 6,000, and Mayflower, ridiculous that our coalfields autlwrltlve reporjls that the German ried in town laii " 2,000 lbs. halibut. should remain undeveloped soldiers now In Russia have the itorlli They are on their way. . through the Introduction of fuel LlYtW THE CIRCUS" FOR QUALITY "1 , ..i..n,i..r.i mid burnt many vil tn camp on the AI,anUo ';T Ladysmlth Welllnoton Coal re- oil. We have in Northern Uritish l'RVICK and SATISFACTION Tvam, 3;15 p. uu lage! in While Russia, and killing twining wore ,ir...,. fue w and 9,M Columbia coalfields that could be s AND A hundreds of the inliaimaiiis-Blirn seas fur military iM satisfaction. Phone 15. .P, R. made In three months to produce IX DAY WKEK FOR HKLP. w" i and Ma. Coal Co. a auiuoient tonnage to meet tue petition- launch ,gn the the launch petition- f