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Advertising and Circulation Telephone Editor and Reporters’ Telephone Member ot Audit Bureau of Cireulations f CITY ADMINISTRATION “Immediate action by the city council is required, with- out waiting for next year. It is imperative that the cost of the civic administration be reduced by a very considerable sum. Every service that is not absolutely necessary will have to be dropped and others will have to be severely cur- -- 98 86 DAILY EDITION i tailed. The city cannot come through with a clean sheet 3 without doing so. The drastic retrenchment should begin right now, because the failure to do so simply means lay- ° ing up greater trouble for next year.” : No, this does not refer to the Prince Rupert city fin- ‘ ances but to the city of Winnipeg, the quotation being at. from the Free Press of that city. The city is rapidly run- 1 ning behind financially and the controller announced that Viet there will be a large adverse balance at the end of the year. SPEECH FROM THRONE There does not seem to have been anything very out- standing in the speech read at the opening of Parliament vesterday by Lord Bessborough and prepared for him by Premier Bennett and the other members of the cabinet. Holding over the bank charters fer a year simply indicates that there will be revisions in the Bank Act before the charters are extended the usual ten years. What those re- visions may be, it is impossible to say just yet. 7 Railways, ratification of the work of the Imperial con- ference/unemployment relief, none of these are new, sub- jects but they are vital. ’ CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT ‘ The British Conservatives look upon the Imperial con- ference as the “crowning achievement of a wonderful ’ year.” Probably it was. It certainly was an important event and the year has been a wonderful one in Great Britain where the country has set out definitely on a period of in- dustrial improvement. — ie perience. Throughout the past 63 The Royal Bank of Canada nas banks of the world. ower ‘vest TOLD ABOUT PRISON LIFE IN CERMANY aged to Escape and Attempt to Form Irish Brigade One of the features of an address given by F.S. Walton at the Rotary Club hincheon yesterday afternoon George Munro presiding, was the account of how the Germans tried to form an Irish brigade at Lem- berg prison camp. According to Mr. Waiton. the Ir- ich Catholics were separated from the other prisoners and they were | persuaded, cajoled. threatened but | with no effect. Then Sir Roger Case- ment and his wife would come and jlecture to them but Casement neve! jwent where could get at him. Later he was captured by the anyone Friday, October 7, 1932 |ppitich and hanged. Mr. Walton also read from a cir- cular that was sent around inviting the men to fight for Ireland. not for Germany. They were promised if they did co that they would be enlisted under the Irish flag, serve under Irish officers, wear e7een uni- forms and if they wished at the close of the war they would be sent to the United States. All these ef- forts had little effect. for very few, f any, joined the regiment. The speaker then told of one of 'his efforts to escape. He was away from the prison camp four days and was near the border when he was retaken and sent. back. The punish- ments giver mi and other inci- dents of the life were told about. At the close Mr. Walton was thanked for his address on behalf of the members. SENATOR CRITICAL Brookhart of lowa Dubs Promises of Hoover as “Empty Gestures” DES MOINES, Oct. 7:—Senator Smith W. 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Condition of Lilyan Tashman Ser ious Following Aprendix Operation NEW YORK, Oct. 7—Consid able concern is felt in’ regarc the condition of Lilyan Tashm popular screen actress, followin an operation for acute appendicitis in Harbor San arium & > wie she was removed from the Waldort- Astoria Hotei. im declared by surgeons to have been successful but Miss Tashman had dirticulty in breatk- ing and use of oxygen had to b resorted to. Miss Tashman is the wife of Ecmunc i.owe, also a well known screen figure. operation wa hid ils 2 DIE / COUPON Ganadian Milk Products Limited, 115 George St., loronto Please send me free booklet “Camp Cooking.”’ OO anit 4 er Special Hard-Time Bargain Offer To Subscribers to the Daily News or Any Wishing to Become Subscribers All our advertisers have been offering special bargains to the custom- ers. Here is our contribution. 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