Exeter Times, 1916-3-2, Page 2GERMANS DETERMINED TO CAPTURE
FORTRESS OF VERDIN
Some of th,e Best Troaps. in Kais
Before it
A despatch from Paris .says; The
German losses during the first four
days of the battle around Verdun are
authoritatively estimated at 150,000,
'The Garman offensive is recognizednow as probably only the beginning
of a determined efterb to take the fort-
ress, formerly the key to the French
front, anti compares in violence and
losses to the battle of the Yser. The
French assume the battle may con-
time for a fortnight. The German
forces are known,to be at least 300,-
000, supported by numerous 15 -inch
and 17 -inch Austrian mortars, with
all the heavy artillery used in the
Serbian campaign and part of that
formerly employed on the Russian
front,
Preparations for the battle were
observed early in December, when the
fleet troops assigned to the operation
were brought up, Eight divisions
which returned from Serbia were sent
to Belgium for a rest and then trans-
ported to the region of Verdun in
January, Five army corps in all are
known be have been brought up , to
reinforce two corps which previously
held that part of the line ` between
Etain and Vauquois.
is Army r1asseci
These were the best coops of the
German. army, including, ; as it is
learned from prisoners, the famous
Third Corps of Brandenburg, suppose
edly equal in valor to the Prussian
Guard, d,
andthe Fifbeant
h Army
Corps,
s
e
commanded by General von Deinking,
known: in France as one of the most
brilliant of the German general of-
fivers.
The French compare the ground
gained by the Germans in the four
days with twice that amount taken
by the French in the firsb two days
of their offensive in Champagne, to-
gether with eight times the- number
of prisoners, The confidence of the
French is unshaken by the fierce at-
tacks and the slight bending of ' the
French line,
The military critic of The Temps
reports that heavy French reinforce-
ments have been brought up. Lieut.:
Col. Leonee Rousset, another military
critic, relates a conversation he had
with a surgeon just returned from
Verdun: On February 22, during the
present battle, the surgeon saw an
entire brigade, which was advancing
in close order, caught by the eoncen-
traced fire of the French batteries and
annihilated in a few minutes.
OVER J0,000
CHEQUES MADE E OUT
More Than a Third of Soldiers Assign
Part of Their
Pay.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
monthly payments of assigned pay or
separation allowances to relatives or
dependents of the men under arms
now aggregate more than $2,000,000.
More than 90,000 cheques are made
out each month by the branch dealing
with this part of the work. Over
one-third of the soldiers who have
enlisted are now giving part of their
pay to friends or dependents at home,
and about one-quarter of the total
force, representing approximately the
married men, are on the list far sepa-
ration allowance. It is interesting
to note that the proportion of the
mein who are assigning their pay .is
considerably larger among the re-
cruits of the past few months than
was the case with the,men who went
overseas. at first. This is accounted
for on the ground that a considerably
larger proportion of the later re-
cruits are Canadian -born, and have
dependents or relatives in Canada.
With the first and second contingents
a large percentage was composed of
unmarried men who were born in
Great Britain and who had no family
ties or dependents in this country.
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BERLIN OFFERS PRIZES
FOR NEW NAME OF CITY.
A despatch from Berlin, Ont,, says:
Canadians will have -an opportunity
of offering suggestions for the new
name of this city. A publie subscrip-
tion is being raised, and liberal prizes
will be offered for first, second and
third choices. Suggestions will have
to be accompanied by reasons why bhe
name should be chosen, and the com-
petition. will be. Dominion -wide. The
judges will be named by the City
Council.
TRADE ADE OF DOMINION
TAKES A BIG JUMP.
Ten Months Show an Increase of
Nearly $300,000,000.
A despatch ,from Ottawa says: The
CANADIANS UNDER
BOMBARDMENT
"Our Fellows Are Paying the Enemy
Back in His Own
Coin."
A despatch from Ottawa says:
"Artillery bombardment upon the Can-
adian line is very heavy, but so far
our casualties have been comparabive-
ly light, five killed and eight wounded
on Thursday, and our fellows are pay-
ing the enemy back in his own. coin"
Such was the announcement of Ma-
jor-General Sir Sam Hughes when
Parliament met on Friday afternoon in
response to a question by Meg E. M.
Macdonald as to whether the Canad-
ian troops at the front were involved
in the terrific battle raging on. Ver-
dun. The Minister replied that the
Canadian forces were ra considerable
distance away from; the Verdun fight-
ing, but while under heavy artillery
fire, were holding their own. The
heaviesb fighting, according to official
despatches received by the Militia De-
p< ment, was. north andtstaf Ver
d'tri The French had,- • �onipletely
smashed the first attacks, and the
Germans were now using reserves and
practically raw troops. In some places
bhe front line of trenches had been'
broken, but, at the time of the latest
despatches, the second line of trenches
was absolutely ilytact.
FOE BANKS IN TROUBLE.
Financial Pinch is Affecting Some
Big German Institutions.
A despatch from bhe London Daily
Express correspondent in Geneva
says: "A banker who has just return-
ed here after spending several months
in Germany tells me that the prin- i
cipal banks in the chief towns on the
Rhine, and also in Munich and Dress
den, are in serious financial difficulties '
and some big crashes may be expect-
ed within the next three months.,
The losses involved will be at least.
£180,000,000," the banker added, "and
if the war continued another nine I
months Germany would be ruined fin-
ancially."
Airmen Bombard Station at Metz.
A Plucky Russian Nurse.
One of the party of Russian nurses
who 'reached England recently on
their way home to Russia from Nish,
Serbia, where they had been nursing
in bhe Serbian hospitals. They had.
many narrow escapes and it took
them seventy-five days to get to
London from Serbia.
Markets of the World.
lleeadatuffs.
Toronto, Feb, 20,-I►lanitoba wheat
"—New erop, No. 1 Northern;$1.20Ys',
No. 2, do., $1,18; No. 8, doe $1.15%, ! 1OttthS Ja1'
in store; fort Williatnri' ' �1. p a r W, and ' Even Eyelids , Ma .tr ..%O Move
1��'
r Manitoba oats—No.. C,W, 4-,•sc ' Naturally by British Sculptor
No, 3, do., 4.01/se; extra No. 1 feed„
40'�/ac; No, 1 feed, 39%e., in store, {t
Fort will"la
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REPLACES PARTS OF FACES IFROIYI SUNSET COAST
DESTROYED ED. BY WOUNDS IN WAR HAT TIIT+1 WTERN PEES
� 0I'L1d°
m,
American corn—No, 3 yellow, 821*c,
track Toronto,
Canadian coria,—Feed '74 to 7€e,
track., Toronto.
Ontario oats—No. 3 white, 43 to
44e; ::oinmercial, 42 to 43e, according
to freight outside.
Ontario wheat—No. 2 Winter, car
lot, $1.08 to =$1.10; : wheat slightly
sprouted and, tough, according to
sample, $1,03 to $:1..05; wheat sprout-
ed, smutty and tough, according to
sample, 98 to $1.02; feed wheat, 85
A tdcspatch front London says;
Derwent Wood, the 'distinguished.
British .sculptor; who enlisted as a
private in the' army tnedieal corps at
the beginning of the war, is now turn-
ing his talent to a unique use, . An
kis leisure time is at present employ-
ed in replacing the parts of men's
faces destroyed by wounds in battle.
These include mouths, jaws and even
eyelids, •all of which he has made to
move naturally..
He has just finished remaking a
to 90e, according to freights outside.
Peas—No, 2,: $1,70; according to
I nose for a soldier whose nose was
blown away below bhe bridge. His
addition, which he prepared of elec-
trically treated metal, is so perfect
that where it is joined is absolutely
y
imperceptibe, and the patient has re-
gained his sense of smell.
Wood/is now giving up most of his'
tine to thiswork, and is able to
treat ten eases daily. Surgeons who
never thought that "a"sculptor's art
could be adapted to this work are now
absolutely amazed at the remarkable
results Wood has obtained,
sample, $1.25 to $1.50, according to $8.00; Culled lembs, $7.00 to $7.25;
Spring ":
EX
freights outside.rine a -L a,.B
ght1 mins, $10.00 to $12.50; Ewes,��
( Barley—Malting,-. 64 to 66c; feed, light, $7,50 to $9,00; Sheep, aseetaane DAY
57 to OOc, according to freight out- and bucks, •$6.550 to 18.00; }roe's,, fed . tt
A despatch from Paris says: A
squadron of French aeroplanes on
total trade of Canada for the ten Wednesday bombarded a railway sta-.
months ending with January .was tion on the outskirts of Metz and a
$980,359,000, compared with $714,- gas tank. A great fire was observed,
465,000 in bhe same ten months of the War. Office reports. The announce -
the preceding year. Imports totalled
$394,094,000 and exports $595,265,000.
DUTCH TO WIPE OUT
THE SMUGGLING EVIL,
ment follows: "One of our airship
squadrons bombarded with. 45 projec-
tiles, some of which were of large
calibre, the Metz railway station at
Sablon (on the southernoutskirts of
Metz), and a gas tank, in the region
of which a great fire was observed."
A despatch from Amsterdam says: e
The Telegraaf says en Friday that Germany Loses Thirty Zepps,
the new Duteh Minister of Finance is A despatch rom Copenhagen to the
determined to stamp out smuggling, Exchange Telegram Company, Lon -
and has asked for 2,000 new cusboms don, asserts that Germany has lost
officials, who are to be recruited from , thirty Zeppelins since the war began, ,
the military.. l and that she now has sixty.
WIER MINISTERS' SALARIES
TO
BE
PARTLY PAID BONDS
Premier Asquith Declines' to Move That Members
Receive No Salaries
A despatch from London says: to
response to strong agitation by the
newspapers to set the eountry all ex-
ample of economy, preferably by tie-
cctpting reductions in their salaries, it
is announced that the Ministers have
• agreed for the future to aecept
quarto of of their sataries'in the form
Of five per cent. Exohetater bonds, It
is considered probable robable that
the whole body of the civil servants
will be invitedto accept a portion of
their salaries iri a similar foam of
Exchequer or war loan bonds.
In reply to an interrogation in the
Hulse of Commons, Premier Asquith
declined:.to move that the members of
Parliament should receive no salaries.
CANNOT TAKE
ALBANIAN POSITIONS
Italians Have so Fortified Them as to
Make Them Stand Any
Attack.
A despatch from Rome says: The
commander of the Italian troops at
Avlona, in Albania, has declared that
his positions are now so fortified as
to be ready to stand any attack, and
he is even 'able to take the offensive if
necessary. His second in command
has undertaken to instruct the Al-
banian' troops according to the Italian
system of warfare.
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SI � se -SEVEN lil'L,.Ewi9 IN e j
JANUARY AIR RAID,
A dsepatch. from London says: The
revised official figures of the casual-
ties in the Zeppelin raid of January
31 over England ore given on Fri-
day as 67 killed and 117 injured. The
official oinmunication announcing the
figures says:
"The final figures of the air raid
of January 31 are: Killed, 27 men,
25 women and 15 children, a total of
67; injured, 45 men, 53 women and
19 children, total 117. Grand total,
184.
"These figures are • greater than
previously given -59 persons killed
and 101 injured—because several
persons reported injured have died
from their wounds, some children
under 16 years of age had been re-
turned as adults and several cases of
slight injury had been treated 'at hos-
pitals,and sent home without a record
being made of them.
"The number of bombs dropped ag-
gregated 393."
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GREAT BRITAIN ADMIRES.,
FRENCH GALLANTRY.
Side, and watered, $9,75; ,do,,. f.o.b. $+9.40;.
Buckwheat,-74'to 75c, according to do,, weighed at plant, $10.15,
freights outside. Montreal, Feb. 29. -•Butcher. steers,
Rye—No. 1 commercial, 90 to 91c; best, $7 to $,7.50; good, $G.50 to $7;
rejected,
according to sample, 83 to fair, $6 to $6,.i5 0; medium, $5.75 to $6;
85c, according: to freights outside, butcher bulls, best $5.75 to $6^25; Hued
Manitoba flour -First patents, in num, $5.25-to:$5,75;; canners, $4 to $5;
jute bags, $7; second patents, $6.50; butcher cows,. best, $6.25; • good $6;
strong bakers, , in jute bags, 6.30, fair, $5.75; rough, $4.25 to $5.30; can -
Toronto. - ners, $3 to $3.50, Sheep, 5a to -7;
Ontario flour—Winter, according lambs,, 8e to 9%. Hogs, selects, $10'
to sample, $4.60. to $4,70, track, Tor- to $10.50; roughs and mixed lots, $9.25
onto;. $4.60 to $4.70, bulk, seaboard, to $9.50; common, $9; cows, $7.50,1
prompt shipment: ; ti to $7.75. Calves, milk -fed; 8c to 91/4e;
Millfeed—Car 'lots, delivered Mont- grass-fed, 4leee to 51/2..
real freights.—Bran, per ton, $25; ,g
.shorts, per ton, $26; middlings, per
ton, $27; good feed flour, per bag,
$1,75 to $1,85. RA`' HEROISM
Lord Mayor of London Sends Coun-
try's Recognition to President. Minneapolis, Feb. 29.—Wheat—
May,
A despatch from London. says: The May, $1.21% to $1.21%; July, $1.203/4
Lord Mayor of London on Wednesday to $1.20%; No. 1 hard, $1.261/2; No.
presented to the French Ambassador 1 Northern, $1.22' to $1.24%; No. 2
for conveyance to President Poincare Northern, ye$1llow,
/2 to $1.221/2. Corn
an album containing, an illuminated 3, white,
473 to 77.c. Oats -No.
address and the seals of more than 3, white, 43% to 433/4 e. Flour—Fancy
450 municipalities in the United King -
20e
20clower,.0;$6:70•, first clears
dom. The address offered the respect 20c lower, $5.00; other grades els,
and gratitude of the signatories to changed, Shipments, 64,357 barrels.
the French nation,sympathy for Brain, $19.00 to $2j .00. -
FraTice in her sufferings and profound Duluth, Feb. `29. Wheat—No. 1
admiration• of the gallantry of the' hard, 23%;x; No. 1 Northern, $1,21%
French troops. to $1:23 /s; No. 2 Northern, $1.18/s
to $1.20%. Linseed, $2.31; May, $2.33;
,nilly, $3.33.
Butter--Fre'hry dairy,luce27 to 30; in- OFITALIAII MRPIAN
feriae, 23 to 25c; creamery prints, 34
to 36e; solids, 32• to 31e.
Eggs—Storage, 25 to 26e per dos; 'Wounded in Head and Blinded by
selects, 27 to 280; new -laid, 30 to 310, Blood He Brings Dead Com-
case lots. rades Down.
Honey—Price, in 10 to 60 -Ib. tins,
12% to 13c. Comb—No, 1, $2.75 to A despatch from Ronne says: De -
$3; No. 2, $2.25 to $2.40. .tails now made public concerning the
Beans—$4.20 to $4.40. recent Italian air raid on Laibach re-
Poultry—Spring chickens, 17 to 20e; veal the heroism of Capt. Salomone,
fowls, 15 to 16c; ducks, 17 to 20c; . pilot of one of the Italian aeroplanes.
geese, 15 to 19e; turkeys, 23 to 27c. On his reburn journey Capt, Salo-
Cheese—Large, 19c; twins,191/c. move's machine was attacked by five
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario quot- Austrian Fokkers. • He was severely
ed at $1.70 to $1.75, and New Bruns- wounded in the head and temporarily
wicks at $1,80 to $1.90 per bag, on blinded by blood, while two other
track.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Feb. 29.—Corn—Amer-
icon No. 2 yellow, 86 to 87e. Oats=
Canadian western, No. 2 53%e;• do,
No. 3, 511/ c; No. 2 local white, 483zo;.
No. 3 do., 47
� o. 4
do., 4
6V
c,
Arley—km.�.,to63c, malting,
76 to 78c, Buckwheat—No. 2, 80 to
82c. Flour -Man. Spring wheat pat-
ents, firsts, $7.10; seconds, $6.60;
$5.90 to $6.00; straight rollers, bags, SITUATIONstrong bakers', $6.40; straight rollers, , CRITICAL
$2.80 to $2,90, Roller oats, barrels,
$5.35; do., bags, 90 lbs, $2.55 to $2.60. TURK � 3tAL
Bran, $23.50 to $24.00. Shorts, $26.
Middlings, $28 to $30. MouilIie, $31
to $33. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, London, Feb. 24.—An Athens de-
$20 to $20.50. Cheese—Finest west- spabch to The Morning Post says:.
erns, 18% to 19c; finest easterns, "News from. Constantinople repre-
1814 to 18%c. Butter—Choicest seats the situation there as the most
creamery, 33% to 34%e; seconds, 31% critical since the news of the fall of
to 32%c. Eggs—Fresh, 30 to 32e; se= Erzerum has leaked out. The always
lected, 26 to 27c; No. 1 stock, 24 to latent dissatisfaction of the people.
25c; No. 2 stock, 21 to 22c. Potatoes, with their Young Turk rulers is now
officers aboard the aeroplane, one of
whom was Lieut. -Col. Barbieri, were
killed.outrigIft. Despite the difficulty
of sbeering, the bodies of his dead
comrades having fallen over the levers
Salomone refused to surrender. He
succeeded in returning, • and landed at
Talmanova, Salomone is now recd
eruig in a hospital. A medal hes bent
awarded to him for valor.
Per bag, car lots, $1.80 to $1.85.
Winnipeg Grain.
assuming hourly more.
proportions, both in -the capital and
the provinces, especially at Smyrna,
Winnipeg, Feb. 29.—Cash: No; 1 where the populace is in almost. open
Northern, $1.20; No. 2 Northern, revolt. The popular anger is aug-
$1.75%; No. 3 Northern, $1.15; No. 4, .inenbed by the great dearth of neces-
$1.111i4; No. 5, $1.033/.1; No. 6, 97%c;' series, due to the blockade and the
feed, 91%c, Oats- .No. 2 C,W., 42%c, stoppage of trade and industry. The
No. 3 C.W., 40%c; extra No. 1 feed, leaders of the disaffectio.i ale Osman
40%c; No. 1 feed, 38%c; No. 2 feed, Pasha, Abdi Pasha and Suwat Pasha.
87%e, Barley --No. 3, 65e; No. 4'n 59c; Startling developments, it is asserted,
feed, 54e: Flax—No. 1 N.W.C., may be confidently expected very
$2.06%; No. 2 C.W., $2.03%, shortly."
United States Markets. �r
LORD DERBY IN CHARGE
OF AIR SERVICE BOARD.
A despatch from London says•:
Lord Derby's acceptance of the chair-
manship,of a joint naval and•military
board of control` of the British air
service was announced in the House
of Commons on Thursday afternoon
by Premier Asquith.. The position is.
not a salaried one.
WILL, NOT 'USE NATIVES
IN AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
A despatch from London says: A.
suggestion was made in the House of
Commons on Thursday that African
natives of Zululand and Basutoland
permitted to volunteer for the cam-
paign. against German East Africa,
This plan was rejected by Harold J.
Tennant, Parliamentary Under-Secre-
tary fee War, whet said he considered
the enlistment of natives es undesir-
able and impracticable,
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Feb 29. Choice heavy
steers, $7.65 to $7.75; Butcher steers,
choice $7.25 to $7.50; do., good, $7.00
to $7.20; do., medium, $6.60 to $7.10;
do., common, $5.50 to $5,60; Heifers,
good to choice, $7.25 to $7.50; , do.,
medium, $6.50 to $6.75; Butcher cows, English I+'i *htk» Lord Remelted
chance, $6,50 to $6.$5, do., good, $5,75 An g fi
to $G,75; Butcher Malls, choice,$6.UO to From the Sea.
$7:00; do.,ll $5.50 to 'G.00; Colonel Lord Montague: of Beau-
� , good bulls, $ $
do., medium, $5.00 to $5,50; do., rough
'bologna, $4.40 lo $4,50; Feeders, 900•
to 1,000 lbs, $6.40 to $6.80; do., bu1Ts,
$4.50 to $5,50; Stockers, 700 to 800
lbs, $6.00 to $6.50; do., med., 650 to.
750 lues., $5.75 to $6,00 do., light, 500
to 650 lbs., $5.00 to $5.50; Canners,
$3,50 to $4,25; Cutters, $4.25 to $4.50;
.Milkers;choice, each $60.00 to $85.00;
Springers, $60.00 to $85.00 Calves,.
veal, choice $9.00 to 11,00; do,, med-
num $7.00. to 8 00 do, common '5:50
$0 $ $
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London Naval Expert Looks for an
Early Battle in the
North Sea, •
AIE DOING.
Progress ot6 the Great West Told
in a Few Pointed
Paragraphs..
Potatoes are very scarce and dear
•
in Vancouver.
Vancouver' police are waging a
vigorous campaign against undesir-
ables.
I School Board estimates for Van.
A London cable to the New York
Tribune says; "A high naval,authority
told the Tribune correspondent of al
belief widely held in Admiralty circles
that the German fleet may make a
dash for • the open sea at any; : pine
now, giving as a reason .for this not •
only the pressure of political opinion
hi Germany, but the innumerable re-
cent reports all pointing to the pre-
paration of a combined German naval,! l
aerial and military offensive, with the
object of forcing peace and impressing
neutrals. Vice -Admiral Reinhardt
Scheer has been appointed command='I
er of the German battle fleet in sue- ;
cession to •Admiral von Pohl, who, af-
ter holding the position for a year, is
retiring on account of ill -health."
YARNS MADE FROM PAPER PULP
Factory Spins Threads for Gas
Mantles or Ships' Cables.
London has, no doubt, existed many
new industries to its list since the
war begasi, but few, perhaps, of great-
er importance and fascinating inter-
est than that of paper spinning and
weaving.
I have bad the opportunity of. ,see-
ing some wonderful things in the way
of yarns and textiles manufactured
from paper pulp, and also :of seeing a
demonstration plant at work spinning
threads of paper into twine fine enough
for gas mantles and strong enough to
hold a ship, writes a London eorre-
spondent,, 1 ,,
This wonderland is to be found in
Southwark and at the works of the
Textilite Engineering Company,
which is. now supplying British -made
machinery, made according to its pat-
ents for the manufacture of every
kind of thing imaginable which for-
merly was made of, hemp and jube and
flax. •
"The things you see around you,"
said Mi. George Seaton Mills, the
managing director of the company,
"are neon and yet they are not new.
What I mean is that the people of
China, in the days of Confucius, i rob -
ably twisted a strip of paper in bhe
fingers absent-mindedly and found It
had remarkable tensile strength, but
what we have done is to make that
idea into a practical proposition. .
"The Germans, wibh the faculty for
imitation, have spun paper for years,
but they never could spin -it fast
enough to make it nay. We now have
found means of spinning.: the paper
four or five times faster than the Ger-
mans and of producing the goods _4
per cent. cheaper.
"Mr. Mills then showed me around
bhe works' and demonstrated all the
processes, from the raw material,
which iri this case is a reel of fine
Canadian wood pulp to the highly fin-
ished fancy wall coverings in pattern
and crake..
"The paper is first cut into strips,
according to the width of yarn or
rope strand required, then twisted on.
frames very similar to those used in°
cotton or woolen manufacture, and,
afterward, by means of spools of weft
and warp, the material is transferred
bo looms which will weave anything,
plain or fancy, ribbed or patterned.
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GREATEST WAR BRAIN
t ` BREI) SINCE NELSON.
London Papers Demand that Fisher
Resume Naval Command.
A despatch from London says: The
British Weekly, which recently sig-
gested Lord Northcliffe as Air De-
fence Minister, now cries for Lord
Tacky" Fisher' to yecume the naval
command, "lacking whom," says the
Weekly, "England will lack the great-
est war brain she has bred since Net-
song. The greatest war ever waged has
produced very few war brains, Only
lieu who is slowly recovering from ono nian has beaten the Germans in
the injuries and shock caused when brain power, and that man is Lord
the Persia was torpedoed • and sunk Fisher,"
by ate enemy submarine, in. the Medi
terranean has waived back in Eng-
land.
land. Ile was in the water for .32
hours when: picked up by a British
steamer,
Brown --"They say Green: has been
wandering in his mind lately." Black
- "Nell he's safe enough• he' can't
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ESSEN BANK QUITS;
K,RUPP WORKERS. LOSE.
A 'desatch front Zurich says: The
p
Rheinische Bank ab Essen has lige:-
ac ordin to rearts received
elated, , o g reports .
of e orkrnen in the.
v h
ltei e. Hundreds
0 .' ;y.. ,, Workshave lost their Savin c,
to , 4r,00 Lambe, yeaiXings, -$7.00 to o .#ars � li;.iupp g
.Dover last year amounted to $153,-
782.16,
Point Gary is 'brying to have mean
nal' training introduced into its
schools,
- Triplets all boys, arrived at tui S✓
Y,
home of J. A. Pallott, a Vancouver
druggist. ,
.A ship building plant and dry dock ,
to cost over $5,000,000 will be built
at North Vancouver:. e
Last year over 900.:unowned dogs
were killed in Vancouver by the Van-
couver pound keepers,
Out of 39,798 telephones in the pro-
vince of Britsb Columbia, on Jan. 1
last; 8,750 ware in Victoria,
New Westminster's new market
site comprises five • acres near the
Water front and will east nearly $40,.
000.
The old weather is driving the
wild animals nearer into Vancouver
than has. been the case for many
years.
Four new post offices were lately
opened in Vancouver Province. They
are at Fawn, 100-Mile"House, Penny r
and Seton'
;`Lake.
Another. inip.rovement in the Vie-
toria harbor is now being effected.
through: the removal of practically
all of Platform Rock.
Counterfeit $20' gold pieces have
been circulating ,in Vancouver re-
cently, soma victims innocently of-
fering the pieces at the banks.
Between 20 and 30, Japanoes from
camps back ,of Port Coquitleen, came
into Vancouver recently bo. join- the
Jap military company.
An order has ben received hi Van-
couver for another 150 men to be
sent -to Ottawa for duty with .the.
Canadian Engineers at the front.
Because of heavy snowfalls, heavy
freshlebs this spring on 'the. Fraser
and other rivers. of British Columbia
aro predicted : by railwaymen and
old-timers.
The death rate in Victoria. last year,
according to the annual report of the.
medical health officer, Dr. C. A. B.
Hall, was but 7.86 per thousand, 24
percentage slightly higher than in
1914.►
The Dominion Government taxi-
dermist, Mr. C. L. Fetch, recently
brought some specimens of 'sea lions
down the west coast. They will be
consigned to the Victoria Memorial
Museum, Ottawa.
BOMB IS LIKE A WOMAN.
"You Calf Never Tell What It Will
Do Next."
"A bomb is likea woman—you can
never tell what it is going to do
next," weites an. Irish officer from the
British front in Flanders. He has
beeii' engaged for several, weeks in.
experimenting with bombs, and vari-
ous newfangled bomb -throwing de-
vices.
"Tho more one has to do with
bombs the more afraid one becomes
of them," he continues, for one can
not slay with explosive all day with-
out going aloft some time, and the
boll of good men who have been blown ,,
to pieces by their own bombs is both
long and sad. -
"Bomb throwing as an art is still
in its infancy, changing almost from
day to day, and what state of develop-
ment or perfection it will have reach-
ed before the end of the war cannot
be guessed. At the best it is e fiend-
ish way of fighting, for its injuries
are 'ever of the ghastliest.
"Yet, bombing, like most other
aspects of war, has its humorous side,
and I have seen a whole trench help-
less with laughter at the sight of two
men running opposite ways to avoid
a sausage bomb they had spotted sail-
ing over from a German trench mor-
tar. They collided, and sat down fac-
ing each other like •vaudeville come-
dians. The bomb dropped in the mid-
dle, almost, touching ,them `both, and
then completely failed to explode.
"One morning twenty or inoro mem-
bers of the general staff .came around
to our trench to witness a test of a
new catapault arrangement for throw-
ing bombs to the considerable distance
of 250 yards,. With groat interest
they watched the screwing down of
the great arm, and the placing wed
securing of bhe bomb in positioth elPir
Then upward and forward swung the
arm, but the missile, instead of hurt-. 4
ling in the direction of the enein
, y,
rose gently a few feet in the air, riot
having been properly secured, and
then prepared bo descend again to
earth. Such a rapid and complete
self-effacement of staff' officers had
never before been seen; they fled like
rabbits, and as they rounded the cor-
ner of the trench, the bomb went off a
few feet from the grouted, completely
destroying tho new catapault."
While waiting for a dead mann'is
shoes you could probably earn a beta
pair. pail
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i fSone girls
ma i o that at ever: une
married roan they meet
a y is looking for
a wife,