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.m eeta swifnompenson of the, results of
he -year's warfare in Eu
rope by viewing the con- The ;ratepayers of town will
trasts between the situation Lave an oppovtanity ofre-electing
now and a year ago this time. On ao tite nyev fishuncil
tits neaher. Those in
the western front slight progress has the( field are; -
been made) by the Allies, and there is Harry 'Fitzsimons
an ever increasing weakness observ- en. T., Hawkins
able an the German artillery. The W. J' Nediger
opposing lines. in France and Bel- ` T Paisdefy •
3v.'P Shap,paid
giuin remain practically where they .. R. J. lWlille;0
were at the beginning of 1915. How- H. Wiltse
ever, this line of about 400 miles in C. J. Wallis
length haseen altered but little. Wesley Walker
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Hostilities between Italy and Aus- ;,,`'ori names were put up for t
The uselessness of the German Wiltse and W.Jackson, Di. C. 11 . aged 55.
tria began in May, and in October position of mayor ,and wills
the
12 W. Ih Rowley,
maP'resident of ,
Bulgaria invaded Serbia. • withdrawal of Mayor Jackson ,
M. the C. A., died rstiddeply in
Toronto; 04,
navy was apparent at the beginning Thompson was declared elected 17.Gen, A. M. aged (34.el, noted in the
of the Year. The strongest squadron Mayor For 1916 -defense of Port Arthur in 1904 -
afloat, that. of Captain Spee, compris- . Rt,eve' Fot d hacl n'o one oppose 5, et Petrograd, aged 67,
ing five cruisers, had been wiped out him so he went in by acclamation. February.
in the south Pacific ocean in Decem- Di Shaw tetirt•d front the Pub -
4. Lieut. Wtn. Sharpe; of Ottawa,
bet. A few cruisers were sailing in lie Utilities C ntintiseion and B.
killed while flying at Shoreham,
African waters and in the Pacific, J. GibbingS not qualifying on Tues Eng
raiding British commerce, Of these d:y. Mr. A. T. Cooper goes back 12. Fanny. Crosby, Winn writ -
the Dresden was sunk early in the to his first levee Hydro and Water er, in Bridgeport, Conor
Year, and the. Prince Eitel Friedrich wort tt and The New Era hopes he March.
and Kronprinz Wilhelm were intern- cant furnish the ratepayers with,a historian
ed at Newport News. Finally on Jan. complete record of the business 20• and rpubl c stele nnaWashington;
24 Vico-Admiral Beatty routed .the dome during the year.
German raiding squadron in the Two, new l trustees were aged 80.
North Sea. oh eted by acealin100n Geo. Mc- 21. Colonel F. D. Farquhar killed in
Throughout the winter and spring Leeman hi St. James' Ward and T. action while leading Princess
the submarine operations furnished J. McNeil in St. John's Witidalong • Pats at St. Eloi.
the chief elements of, public interest with N. Ball in St. Andrenvs and I April.
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Dr. •.T. S. Evans' in; St. Georges, 7. F. Hopkinson Smith, author and
in the war. However, the situation..The s6 serve for two year's. I artist, in New York city; aged
on the Russian frontier began to take Messrs. Thos.11'lasonn and E. 31.1. 76.
on new and striking phases. 13unnifor'd were also nominated for 24. Lieut. -Col, Hart McI3aig killed in
The Russian chief, with his centre ' ihq Council butwitted evu' ` .� Pub- action at St. Julien, aged 46.
eld to the Vistula west of Warsaw, ile neetiutg was he d titer the nom May.
sent an army to strike I oenigsberg, :nation, and under the (guidance 2. James Stewart Tupper, eldest
on the Baltic sea. Still another Rus- or Ex-Couneil1or A. J. Holloway son of Sir Charles Tupper, at Ox-
sian force was operating toward the I tea speaking was rushed through ford, Eng., aged 63.
westward on the southern border of 1 and all over by nine o'clock. Miss Alice Fitzgibbon, Canadian 17.
East Prussia, aiming- to flank the The Election takesplace on the literary and social worker in To -
German position before Warsaw. 3rd of January and the new Cone- ionto.
Making a fierce lunge on the Warsaw cit meets on the 101)1. 31. John W. Alexander, portrait art -
front early in February for a feint, ,:•'ollowing are the nDminiatiolls net, president of the the German general Von Hinderburg from other municipalities' in'Hur- fit, f] former of Design, Na-
threwn
a column into East Prussia, 00 Co.- i New York city;maged 59.
surprising the Russians. This. move } GUDER1017. June.
compelled the Russians to abandon For Mayor --U. A. Rid, G. R. 17, Lieut, R. A. ,rune ford, killed at
their attempts in East Prussia, and Wigle, Rutlert McLean and D. 'J• Bun, France. by fall in rteroplane.
by the'end of the month the Germane AL,nning. Lieut.-Cdo1. Campbell Becher,
had pushed the foe across the Rus- Reeve -Robert Me -Lean and i). A. of London, Ont., killed in action,
sian border. Nairn• aged 42,
Meanwhile interest in the move- Deputy Reeve -W. l+`. Clarke, I. O, 2p. A. R. Clarke, Toronto manufac
ments on the eastern frontier was en- Lxtrhwiute and J. 6 tutor, died larged by the developments south-
ward, involving most directly Russia
and Austria. The Allies under the
leadership of Great Britain attempted
in February to open up Constantin-
ople for Russia. The movement be-
gan by a bombardment of the Dar-
danelles in February by Allied war-
ships.. This failed, but in March an-
other and more powerful fleet open-
ed fire on the Turkish forts along
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being sunk
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bice battleships
and two put out of action.
This eastward sweep of the Ger-
mans promised important develop-
ments far to the north. Austria,
however, had been cdnfrouted by a
new foe far to the south and west of
the scene of her orgies thus far,
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