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It was one of the regu-\nkr government establishments for the\nTare of the insane, but was used only\nlor female patients.\nj- Another part of the building was\nby the Sisters of Charity as a\njchbol'llil*young girls, and when the\nNre broke out there were 30 girls in the\nlullding.   They were rescued, but- ow-\nto the difficulty of handling the\ntae women, 55 of the latter perished\nf)he hundred and thirty-five were sav-\nwtth the greatest difficulty.   The\nfunding Is some'distance from other\nlaibltattons and .when the' flames' se-\n' red a good hold little chance remain-\nlot rescue.   One sister perished in\nJier efforts to rescue the inmates.\n*  Building In Ashes. \"'\nI The building, a large one, the pro*\nVty of the Quebec Sisters of Charity,\nwas reduced to ashes.   The loss Is ap-\nirtnlmately J100.000.\nAocordlng to all information received\n\"j sisters had lo.cope wl(h aJfraat\nproblem l\/irtunfflngWirii ffic insili*\n\u2022tlents, but ihe IK saved were finally\n\u00abtlsM In the hospital building, a short\npittance away, where the girl boarders\ni also being eared for for the iires-\n:.   There were no men to aid in the\nwork of rescue, and the sisters had to\nnove many of the patients forcibly.\nhe cause of the fife Is unknown, and\nl the building was entirely destroyed\nle cause may never be learned.\n8lf UATION IN GREECE\nSAID TO BE DESPERATE\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nATHENS, Deo. 31.\u2014A cabinet\nmeeting today at which the king\npresided, .disoussed the situation in\ntha country, whloh is desperate,\nacoording to despatches received\nhere from the interior of Greece.\n. The king has instructed the gen-\nsral stsff to hasten by all possible means the transport southward\nof tha Thestalian troops. The chief\nof staff informs, the Aisocisted\nPress that' despite the difficulties,\nthe transportation of the troops\ncould be accomplished by Jan. 2,\nwhereupon the government hopes\nthe blockade will be lifted.\nH TOOK 75,000\nONERS AT \t\nFIGHTING HEAVY\nON EAST FRONT\nRussians  Strive  Hard\nHold Enemy\nSOME POS TIONS ARE\nLOST; OTHERS CAINED\nBerlin Report Claims Many\nVictories Obtained\nby Teutons\nKing Recognises Services\nof Many\nParis Reports en Successful Fighting\nDuring Year^-Britith  Blow  up\nAmmunition Depot.\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nLONDON, Deo. 31.\u2014Today's official\nstatement says:\n'Southeast of I* Transloy, ihe enemy's defenses were bombarded during\nthe day. An enemy ammunition depot\nwas blown* up as the result of our fire.\n'The enemy's artillery has been more\nactive than usual In the neighborhood\nof Martlnputch. Beyond the usual artillery activity at other points on our\nfront, there is nothing further io report,\"\nFrench Take 78,500 Prisoners.\nPAWS, Dec. 31.\u2014No event of Importance occurred during the day.\"\nsays the bulletin Issued tonight:\n\"In the course of ihe year 1916 the\nFrench troops, In breaking the assault\nof the enemy against Verdun fortress\nand forcing the enemy to withdraw\nboth banks of the somme, have\ntaken 78,500 German prisoners,\" the\ncommunication says. -\nGerman Post Captured.\nPARIS, Dec. 31.\u2014Today's) official\nstatement reads:\n\"South of the Somme we carried out\nan attack on a small German  post\nsouth of Chilly.    We took prisoners.\n(\nVANT DOMINION DRY\nRROM COA8T TO COA8T\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nI OTTAWA. Dec. 31. \u2014 Temperance\nporkers say that iho movement for\nrilnlon wide prohibition Is gathering\n:e. Arrangements are being made\nor the visit to Ottawa toward the end\n'. January of a deputation from two\nthree thousand strong to usk the\novernment to bring Dominion wide\nprohibition legislation Into force he-\ni. the end of the session. It is said\nnany of the temperance people\nbnfident that they will be suc-\nil In their efforts to make Canada\ne from the Atlantic to the Pacific.\n-kiting this they expect as a compro-\nIo see tho power of the provinces\nsed so thai they may in future\nIt the Importation of munufnc\nf liquor. This could be brought\nby Imperial legislation delegat\nthe provinces powers which now\nto tho Dominion under the pro\nof the British North America\nElsewhere the night was calm.\n-iv- i\u00bbl\u00abla.tl. StasSjmanyfc . ,,\u201e ,i\nRIS, Dec.'31.\u2014\"There was Inter-1\nmlttent artillery activity on both sides\ntoday in ihe sector of Dlxmude and\nin the direction of Sieenstraete,\" says\nthe Belgian communication Issued tonight.\nDepot Fired by Enemy.\nBERLIN,' Dec.  31.\u2014Today's  offlclnl\nstatement says:\nI \"Western front: The artillery fighting was violent at times south of La-\n'bossee canal on both sides of the\n'Somme and north of Reims.\n\"On the south,bank of the Ancre our\nlong range guns set fire to several ammunition depots.\"\nONE THOUSAND SHU'S\nBUILT IN U. S. YARD8\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nNEW YORK, Dec. 31.\u2014A bulletin\nwhich was issued today by the New\nYork chamber of commerce shows\nthat for the first 11 months of the calendar year there were constructed In\nthe shipyards of this country 1060 vessels, with a gross tonnage of 488,446\ntons which wilt fly the American flag.\nThe compilation does not include v<\nsels 'built for foreigners.\n|RTATION OF RAG8\nCONFINED TO EMPIRE\nly Daily News Leased Wire.)\nfAWA, Dec. Si.\u2014The exportation\n-ohi Canada of rags and linen and\narticles consigned to any port\nban those of the United    Kingdom,\ntlsh possessions .and protectorates\nbeen prohibited  by an order In\n\u25a0tell.   Tinned meats and extract of\n\u2022t, bladders, casing   and   sausage\ntitle have been deleted from the list\n' articles, the export of. which will\nprohibited to all foreign ports In\nurope and on the Mediterranean and\nI seas other than those of France,\nliuisla. Belgium, Spain and Portugal\nDUTCH STEAMER AGAIN\nSEIZED BY GERMANS\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nBERLIN, Dec. 31\u2014Tho following announcement was mode today by the\nadmiralty: \"The Dutch steamship\nOldambt, with contraband from Holland for England, was stopped by our\nFlemish naval forces on Friday and\ntaken into.Zeebrugge.\"\nLast month the Oldambt was cap\ntured by a German submarine, which\nplaced a prize crew on board. A few\nhours later a British destroyer recaptured ihe vessel, after the prize crew\nhad attempted to blow her up.\nCAPTAIN AND CREW SApE.\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nTOULOUSE, Frane,. De. 31.\u2014The\ncaptan and 2 2members of the crew of\nthe French bark Emma Laurans, 2125\ntons gross,' have arrived at Port\nVendres, In France. Tho vessel was\nsunk- by a. submarine.\n'ERNIE MINERS* UNION\nEXTENDS TIME LMIT\\\nSiring Ultimatum of U. M. Workers\nif America te Discontinue Work\nAfter Dae. 11 Discussed.\n(Special to The Dally News'.)\nFERNIE, B. C. Dec. 31.\u2014A lengthy\nfclal meeting ot the Fernie Minors'\n\u00bbn was held this. afternoon, when\ni matter of the expiring ultimatum\ni United Mine Workers of Anfer-\ni hot to continue working after Deo.\ni event of the workings of the\non commission Investigating the\nPjtf living controversy between the\nliners And western coal operators not\n\u2022Ing presented.   .\nI After receiving a report from the in-\n\u2022rnatlonal representative, D. Rees, who\nhphwlsed the glfantlo task with\nhleh: the commission had to contend\ni going thoroughly Into the mats of\nIvldence taken at Calgary, Lethbridge,\n1 Fernie, and the physical Impossl-\nof completing the ealme and\nan Intelligent   award within\nthe time specified and coupled with\nthe announcement from Ottawa, that\nanother Joint conference would be held\nhere on Jan. 5 to consider the commission's findings, It was overwhelmingly\ndecided to extend the time limit to\nJan. IS, and work accordingly will continue.\nThis decision has been communicated tb all local unions urging endorsement of some In accordance with the\npresent defined policy of the miners-\norganisation. Coal, mining operations\nhere, therefore, are not likely to be Interrupted by labor unrest until the expiration of the agreement on March 31,\nas the forthcoming Ottawa conference\nwill.undoubtedly, allay present discontentment by granting wage Increase*!\nwhloh, while possibly not being unanimously satlsfaotdry, will be acceptable\nto the majority of the mine workers.\nDavid Rees (ltd Thomas Biggs, miners-.representatives, dopart tonight for\nOttawa,\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nPETROGRAD,. Dec. 31.\u2014Tonight's\nofficial statement reads:\n\"On tho Moldavian frontier the enemy after, artillery preparation made\nstubborn attacks In the valley of the\nSuits river and south of this valley,\nAll these attacks wero repulsed by our\nfire and by counter attacks.\n\"In tho region north of tho Dofttona\nriver and south of the Oltus valley\nheavy battles continue. The enemy has\nreceived reinforcements in this region\nand succeeded after repeated attacks\nin taking possession of several hoights\nin front of our position on tho\nOltus river, compelling us to-retlrc to\na new position.\n\"The enemy continues to make stubborn attacks on the Rumanian front,\non the Upper Kaslno river, atthe Moldavian frontier. In ihe region northwest of Sevek, on the Upper Sushitza,\nthe enemy assumed the offensive, defeated the Rumanian troops and captured a targe number of prisoners and\na machine gun' company.\n\"In ihe morning tho enemy began an\nattack on the Russian front near the\nvillage of Kosa, on the upper Putna\nriver. The heights in this vicinity\nchanged hands several times and finally remained in possession'of the enemy, Attacks by ihe enemy near\nBordesohl, 30 versts southwest of Fok-\nshany and north of that point continue. Our troops and Rumanian troops\nsis a result of an attack, dislodged the\nenemy frohi the village or'Borde'schi;\nwhich he occupied yesterday, enemy\nattacks In the region of tho Bezeu-\nBraila line' and near Bordoeverbe\nsouth o.f Yanka on the same railway,\nalt being repulsed.\nHeavy Losses Suffered.\nThe enemy suffered severe losses.\nThe commander of one of our Cossack\nregiments undertook an attack on the\nvillage of Berleschi and southwest of\nYanka station, killing 30 and capturing\n35 Austrians.\nThe enemy succeeded in repulsing\nthe 'Rumanians In the region southwest of Beseu-Fokshany railway. In\nthe sector southwest of the railway all\nenemy attacks were repulsed.*\n\"In Dobruja the enemy, reinforced\nby heavy and light artillery, three\ntimes attacked our positions four\nversts northeast of Grotcsi, 20 i versts\nsoutheast of Braila. The third attack\nenabled the enemy to occupy a height\nIn the centre of our positions.\n\"Gallcian front: Northwest of Zlio-\nrow our scouts attacked an enemy outpost In the region of Prlzovco and In\na hand to hand struggle annihilated\npart of tho post. The others wero\ntaken prisoners,\n\"In the region west of Kontushki, a\nparty of our Hcouts, having worked\nto the rear of an enemy guard post,\nbroke into the trench and captured\ntho whole guard consisting of nine\nmen, '\n\"In the river Bystritza region a successful reconnaissance was made by\nour scouts In the region of Krlchta\nvillage.\n\"Caucasian front: There is nothing\nto report\"\nBerlin  Claims  Victories!\nBERLIN, Dec. 31.\u2014Rumanian front:\nIn the frontier mountains toward Moldavia the situation continues to be\nfavorable to us. In the Uzul valley\nGerman troops captured Solymtnr\nheight from the Russians and held It\nagainst strong oounter-attacks. One\nhundred and eighty men were made\nprisoners. On both sides of the Altuz\nvalley German and Austro-Hungarlans\ntook Rumanian and Russian positions.\nThey made gains in the Putna valley\nIn the course of hard fighting.\n\"Front of Field Marshal von Mac-\nkonzen: Our troops encountered strong\nresistance north and northeast of Rlm-\nnlg Sarat, especially on the edge of\nihe mountains. By a strenuous attack they succeeded in entering tho\nhostile position, und repulsing strong\ncounter attacks. Between Rtmulli\nSarat and tho Bulzual lowlands we\ngained   ground after violent fighting.\n\"The Danube army Is fighting Its\nway toward the strongly fortified lines\nbetween Gurgueti, west of Braila und\nCiucla, southwest of 'Brslla.\nIn Dobruja- Bulgarian troops have\ngained further, victories nnd are progressing toward Matohln.\n\"Macedonian front: \"Oil. tho Struma\nsuccessful enterprises were carried out\nby the Bulgarian and Turkish patrols.\n\"On the Gallcian front the activity\nof the artillery increased south of\nJncobstadt\"\nSHADE\nnimafc\n4 Officers Promoted Major-\nGeneral and Many\nGiven. D.8,0.\nLONDON, Dec. 31\u2014The following\nCanadians nre mentioned in the New\nYear's military honors list issued tonight:\nCommanders of the Bath: Col. Herbert Stanley, Col; H, H. Blrkett, Col,\nJ. A. Roberts, nil of the Canadian medical corps, and Brig.-Qen. A. C. J. De\nLotblnlere, who is a member of a well\nknown Cnnadan military family.\nHonored with C. M. G.\nCompanions of the Order of St\nMichael and St. George: Col. Huntley\nDouglas Ketehen, Lieut-Col. Robert\nRennie, Lteut-Col. Garnet Hughes and\nLieut-Col. H. W. B. Morrison and\nLieut.-Col. Edward Charles Hart,\nBesides the foregoing, who are all\nmembers of the Canadian overseas\nforce, the following officers are honored with tho C. M. (!.:\nLieut-Col.- C. C. Van Starubensee,\nroyal artillery, who Is a native Canadian; Lieut-Col. Francis, Lieut-Col.\nDuffus, Imperial army service corps.\nMade Major-Genersls.\nThe following officers nre appointed\nmajor-generals:\n\u25a0Lleut.-Col. H. C. Cunlacke, royal artillery, well known in Canada.\nCol. G. T. Wining, formerly in tho\nCanadian militia, now In tho Imperial\nforces.\nCol. G. N. Cory, formerly In the Canadian militia, and Co). L. J. LlpBett of\nthe Canadian forces, were appointed\nbrevet colonels.\n..Temporary Brlg.-Gen.\u00bbITO. H. Mc-\nBrine.of the Canadian dragoons, Is appointed a brevet lieutenant-colonel.\nAwarded D, 8. O.\nThe following, all Canadians, are appointed to tho Distinguished Service\nOrder:\nMajor Ronald Okedn, Major Alex*\nander Merrill, Major Vincent Allen,\nLieut-Col. William B. Anderson, Major\nWilliam Andrews, Lieut-Col. R. C.\nAndrew, Major F. F. Arnolds, Major W.\nM. Balfour, Major J. c. Ball, Major W.\nG. Beeman, Liuet.-Col. A. H. Bell,\nLieut-Col. Charles E. Bent. Major W.\nR. Bertram, Major H. E. Book, Llout-\nCol. R. H. Brltton, Lieut-Col. G. S.\nCantlie, Lieut.-Col. H. G. Carscallon,\nMajor F. C. Constantine, Major A. J.\nCarrlgan, Lieut-Col. J. J. Creolman,\nMajor Ludger Jules, Major O. D, Gln-\ngras, Major A. N. Dnbuc, Lteut-Col. W.\nH. Flndlay, Major K. C. Folger, Major\nJ. W. Forbes, Lieut.-Col. F. A. Gas-\ncotgne, Lieut.-Col. H, A. Ganet, Lieut.-\nCol. William Gibson, Lieut.-Col. H. L.\nGordon, Lieut.-Col. J. A. Gunn, Major\nH. W. Harbord, Major F. O. Hoglnson,\nLieut-Col. T. F. Dixon, Lleut.-Col. W.\nS. Hughes, Major Barnard Henble,\nLleut.-Col. E. W. Jones, Major T. P.\nJones, Major W. F. Kemp, Major James\nKirkcaldy, Lieut-Col. G. E. McCralg,\nMajor E. W. Macdonald, Major J. A.\nMncdonnell, Major A. B. MoEwen,\nLieut-Col. Archibald, Lleut.-Col. Ernest Graham McKonzie, Major J. P.\nMcKenzie, Major J. A. McDonald, Major Bartlett McLennan. Capt. William\nE. Manhard, Lieut-Col. Henry Mllll-\ngan, Major G. F. .Morrison, Major F,\n8. Morrison, Major L. F. Page, Major\nH. H. Palmer, Major John Lindsay,\nMajor R. Parsons, Major T. B. Powers,\nMajor B. W. Roscoe, Major J. M. Ross,\nLleut.-Col. Loren Ross, Lieut.-Col. J.\nA. Shaw, Col; A. E. Snell, Lleut.-Col.\nJohn Smith, Lleut.-Col, Stewart\nThomas, Lleut.-Col. Louis Tromblay,\nMajor P. F.VHlers, Major B. F. Ware,\nLleut.-Col. William Webster and\nLleut.-Col. R. P. Wright.\nWAR MAP CHANGED MUCH\nDURING THE PAST YEAR\n(By Daily Nows Leased Wire.)\nThe dawn of 1917 finds tho belligerents,  for the time at least, virtually\ndeadlocked everywhere except In Rumania.\nThe war map In the main theatres\nof the war at the commencement of\nthe new year shows at numerous\npoints material changes in the lines as\nthey stood a year ago. On the front\nIn France the Germans In the Somme\nregion and before Verdun have been\ndriven back by the French and British\nover fronts of considerable size, While\nthe Germans in the Verdun sector\nmade gains toward tho fortress, but\nlater lost a large part of the terrain\nthrough a counter offensive.\nA great drive, begun In .Tune by the\nRussian General Bmslloff from tho\nPinsk marshes to the Carpathians'\nwas successful in clearing the Volhy-\nninun fortress triangle of Austro-Ger-\nDEMANDS Of ALLIES\nPRESENIDJO GREECE\nGuarantee.! and Reparations   Ordered\n\u2014Flags of the Entente to be Saluted at Athens.\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nPARIS, Dec, 31.\u2014A Havus dispatch\nfrom Piraeus, Dec, 81, says: \"The\nministers of France, Great Britain and\nRussia signed a note for presentation\nto the Greek government demanding\nthe following guarantees und reparations:\n\"Guarantees\u2014First, all Greek forces\noutside of Peloponnesus to be reduced\nto a number strictly necessary to tlie\npreservation of order and police duty;\nand corresponding arms and ammunition to be transported to Peloponnesus,\nIncluding all cannon and machine guns;\nthis situation to last as long as the\nallies Judge necessary.\nSecond\u2014Prohibition of all meetings\nof reservists lu Greece north of the\nisthmus of Corinth and no civilian to\ncarry arms.\nThird\u2014Reestnbllshment of the allies'\ncontrol.\nReparations: First\u2014All persons detained for high treason or for other\npolitical reasons to be released forthwith.\nSecond\u2014Dismissal of the commandant of the first army corps unless the\ngovernment shows that this measure\nshould'-be applied to some other gen\neral.\nThird\u2014The Greek government to\nmake apologies to the allied ministers\nand flags at some public spot fn Ath-\nmans and in the capture of much terrain In Galicia and Bukowlna.\nHalf of Rumania Seized.\nHalf of Rumania, which entered the\nwar in August on the side of the entente, is now in the hands of the Teutonic allies. The sweep of tho Russians through the Caucasus region and\nTurkish Armenia has compelled the\nTurks to yield much territory, while\nin the south the British In their .advance toward Bagdad are making progress In the direction of Kut-el-Am-\nara.\nAside from Rumania, there is little\nactivity on any fronts except by 'the\nartillery of the belligerent armies.\nThe Italians have advanced their line\non the east closer towards Trieste,\nand' the entente allies operating from\nSalonikl have placed the Serbians on\ntheir native soil again, and also have\npushed forward their lines at various\npoints in Macedonia.\nAre DescribedJasJOnly War\nManeuver\nWOULD ONLY BENEFIT\nrowots\nPenalties, Separation and\nGuarantees the Terms\nDemanded\nIS .\nCROW Mil POMP\nCeremony Was the Moit   Brilliant in\nHistory of Country\u2014Austrian\nPrinces Hold Aloof.\nBRITISH STEAMER TORPEDOED\n(By Dally Nows Leased Wire.)\nPARTS, Dec. 31.\u2014The Urltlsh steamer Aislaby, 2692 tons, has been torpedoed by a submarine, says a HavaB\nNows agency announcement. Twenty-\ntwo members. of theN orew have been\nlanded. They declare, says tho announcement, that their captain was\nmode prisoner.\nINCONCLUSIVE; PEACE\nMEANS DESTRUCTION\n(By Dally News Leased Wire,)\nLONDON, Dec. 31.\u2014In a New Year's\nmessage to the primrose club,    Earl\nCurzon, a member of the war council\nsays:\n\"This is the third year of such a\nmessage In circumstances of war, and\nwe all pray It may be the last year. It\nIs impossible, however, to say as yet\nthat the end is in sight\n\"Signs of exhaustion are. visible In\nmany quarters, peace kltos are flown,\nbut meanwhile tho struggle goes on,\nand neither side has obtained that decisive preponderance which points to\nconclusive results, lit seems1 likely\nthat well Into another year, perhaps\nlonger, must we continue this dreadful\ntragedy that la turning the world Into\nhell and wrecking the brightest prom-\nine of nations.   Our spirit cannot fal-\n(By Daily Nows Leased Wire.)\nBUDAPEST, Dec. SO.\u2014An assemblage of 1,500 Hungarian nobles attended tlie coronation of King Charles aad\nQueen Ztta. It was the most brilliant\nin the history of tho country. Not\neven the crowning of Francis Josef\npresented such a spectacle\nkingdom's wealth.\nThe coronation was entirely a Hun\ngurlan event. No Austrian princes\nwere present except Ferdinand of Bulgaria; who attended In the capacity\nof a Magyar magnute, which ho ls by\nbirth.\nTho king and queen appeared at the\nchurch at 9 o'clock, and the crown was\nplaced upon the king's head by Premier Tisza on the stroke of 10. The\nservice obliged tho king to kneel long\nand frequently, and he moved uneasily\nwhile Cardinal Csernoch, primate of\nHungary, was reading tho prayers.\nDuring the few short intermissions In\nthe protracted religious ceremony the\nking chatted with members of his entourage and nodded to friends in the\nchurch. .>\nLater In the afternoon parliament\nmet in Joint session, and took official\ncognizance of the accomplishment of\nthe coronation,\nKOOTENAY UNIT\nBESTJN DIVISION\nBattalion Is Warmly Praised by General for Splendid Work in Attack on Germans.\nA Kootenay battalion was described\nas the best battalion in the division by\nthe general in command as a result of\nthe splendid account of Itself It gave in\na recent attack on the enemy's position.\nThe loss of life was heavy, 14 officers\nfalling In the move, but the objective\nwas gained and the lines advanced by\n500 yards.\nStatements to the above effect are\nmade In an Interesting letter written\nto his father by a signalling officer in\nthe battalion, who is well known In the\nKootenay neighborhood. Tho letter Is\ndated Nov. 23 and is as follows:\n\"We have Jtfjftt come out at a little\nscrap in which we pushed our part of\nthe line ahead about 500 yards, and\nwere complimented by the general of\nthe division as being the best battalion In the division in the execution\nof Its work. Wo gained the objective\ngiven us, consolidated, and turned over\nthe line in first class shape to tho relieving battalion, which happened to\nbe the 72nd. The colonel is naturally\nvery tickled and is all smiles and good\nhumor these days. Of course, the battalion Is very much depleted in\nstrength Just now, only being about 60\nper cent strong. We lost 14 officers\nin the move, and now have only nine\nof the original lot which left Bram-\nshott with us three months ago.\"\nHaving \"Continental Tour.\"\nResuming his letter on Nov, 28 the\nwriter states:\n\"This ls continued considerably later,\nisp't it? But the reason is we've been\non the move lately, and I had all my\nwriting materially packed up in my\nkit roll and until now have not had\nthe opportunity of getting hold of it.\nWe nre on our way out now from this\nmuch disliked district, and are tak\nIng what wc call a continental tour\nagain, traveling from farm to farm\nin more* quiet and peaceful places than\nthe battlefront. It's a great change,\nand everyone is tickled to death to be\non tho move again. On top of that our\nleave has opened up, after the custom-\n\u00bbry three months here, and everyone\n(is  In  the  highest  spirits.    The  first\nof the' party hns already left, They allow two\n' officers and 20 men out per week at\na time. At that rate It will tako some\ntime to run through tho battalion. The\nofficers go in order of seniority, and I\ncome about tenth ou the list, so my\nturn should come some time near the\nend of January, I should think. We\nare staying at our present billets for\nabout four days, when we start to\nmove on again. We travel for about\n10 days, going north to a training camp\nwhere we stay for several days. We\ndon't expect to see the front again\nfor about one month, or more. So It\nlooks as though wo will be let out of\nsome of the trench mud this winter,\ndoesn't It?\"\nTowns Are Threatened.\nBERLIN, Dee, 81.\u2014The Teutonic Advance in Rumania has now reached a\npoint which threatens the Important\ntown of Braila, In Wnllochln, on the       \u201e\u00bb. .y..\u00ab\u00abw.^u\nDanube; and'the town of Matohln, on ter, since an Inconclusive war or \u00bb. \u2014. *.-..-\u00ab \u00ab.,.\u00bb.-\u25a0>,.,w uu\u00bbne\nthe Danube in Dnbrnja, the official | patched up peace moans for us not] has been lost, of which 2,794,\nstatement issued this evening suya.        only humiliation, but destruction.\"        British*\"\n191 8HIPS SUNK BY\nSUBS. IN NOVEMBER\nS3 Were NtutraI\u2014Berlin Claims Total\nTonnage lost Since War Started\nIs Over Three Million.\n(By Dully News Leased Wire.)\nBERLIN, Dec. 81.\u2014\"During November,\" says an admiralty statement Issued today, \"one hundred and thirty-\neight hostile merchant ships of a total\nof 314,500 gross tons were lost through\nthe war measures of the central powers.   Of this tonnage 244,500 tons was\nBritish,   In addition, 58 neutral ships\nof 94,000 tons gross was sunk for carrying contraband   to   enemies.   The\nmonth's total le thus 408,600 tons,\n-   \"Slnco  the beginning of the war\n, through the war measures, of the con\nI tral powers 3\u201e6M,500 hostile\nMUNITION DEPOT EXPLODES.\nROME, Dec. 81.\u2014Today's official\nstatement reads:\n\"There was tho usual artillery fighting yesterday in the mountains cast\nof Gorlzla und on the Carso. Direct\nhits on the Carso caused the explosion\nof an enemy ammunition depot.\"\n(By Dally News Leased Wire.)\nPARIS, Dec. S0\u2014In reply to the proffer of Germany and her allies for a\npeace conference the entente allies in\na collective note declare tbat they\n\"refuse to consider a proposal-whloh ia\nempty and insincere,\" The note waa\nhanded to the American ambassador,\nWilliam Graves Sharp, today 'by Premier Brland, and was made public\nsimultaneously in London and Paris.\nThe entente allied governments Insist\nthat no peace is possible so long as\nthey have not secured reparation for\nviolated rights and liberties and the\nfree existence of small states and have\nnot thought about a settlement for the\nfuture security of the world. The note\ndeclares that the proposal of the central powers ls not an offer of peace,\nbut a \"war maneuver.\" It ls declared\nto be founded on \"calculated misinterpretation of the character of the struggle in the pnst, the present and the\nfuture.\"\nThe note does not specifically outline the war aims of any of the entente governments except Belgium. Before the war, it is pointed out, Belgium\nasked for nothing but to live In harmony with her neighbors. Assailed in\nspite of the treaties guaranteeing her\ninviolability Belgium, the note says,\nhas taban u..ii*ma to defuid her Independence and \"her neutrality violated\nby Germany.\"\nBelgium's aim, which is declared to\nbe the only aim of her king and government, is described as the \"reestab-\nlishment of peace and Justice,\" but\nthey only desire peace which would assure to their country legitimate reparation, guarantees and safeguards for\nthe future,\"\nWar Due to Central Allies.\nThe note, which is the joint act of\nBelgium, France, Great Britain, It*v,\nJapan, Montenegro, Portgual, Rumania, Russia and Serbia, declares that\ntho present strife was desired, provoked and declared by Germany and\nAustria-Hungary, and that Germany\nmade no effort to bring about a pacific\nsolution of the trouble between Serbia\nand Austria-Hungary as did Great\nBritain, France and Russia.\nA peace concluded upon the German\nidea would be only to the advantage of\nthe central powers, says the note, while\ndisasters caused by the war demand\npenalties, reparation and guarantees.\nThe German overtures are described as\na calculated attempt to influence the\nfuture course of the war to end it by\nImposing a German peace. The overtures also are said to have the effect of\nintimidating neutral peoples' opinion\nas well as to stiffen opinion in the central powers \"'worn out by economic\npressure and crushed by the supreme\neffort which has been imposed upon\ntheir Inhabitants.\"\nFinally, it is asserted, \"these overtures attempt to Justify in advance In\nthe eyes of the world, a new series of\ncrimes\u2014submarine warfare, deportations, forced labor and forced enlistment of the inhabitants against their\nown countries and violations of neutrality,\"\nText of Reply.\nPARIS, Dec. 30\u2014The text of the note\nof the entente governments in reply to\nthe recent German note is as follows:\n\"The allied governments of Belgium,\nFrance, Great Britain, Italy, Japan,\nMontenegro, Portugal, Rumania, Russia and* Serbia, united for the defense\nof the liberty of their peoples, and .\nfaithful to engagements taken not\nlay down their arms separately,\nresolved to reply collectively fj\npretended propositions of f *-\u00bb*\u2022\nwere addressed to 1\nthe enemy governs\nIntermediary of\nSpain, Switzer1\nmaking\ndesire pi\nthe two (\nKAISER CLAIMS\nALL\nll.U..\nGerm\n J     The Daily News has the largest eir- I\njeulation  of   arty: daily   newspaper   in\n| Canada in proportion to the population\n| of its home town.\nj The only paper in the interior of |\n| British Columbia carrying the full I\nI service of t^e Western Associated J\n| Press over its own leased wire.\nVOL. 15   No. 223\nNELSON, B.C., MONDAY MORNING, .JANUARY 1, 1917\n50c. PER MONTH\nnFTY-HVE INSANE WOMEN AND\nNURSE PERISH IN ASYLUM FIRE\nBuilding   Near   Quebec is\nDestroyed\nGIRLS\nPERIL BUT ARE SAVED\n135 Women  Inmates Rescued by Sisters of\nCharity\n<By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nQUEBEC, Dec. 31.\u2014Fifty-five insane women patients, inmates of the\nasylum of St. (Ferdinand de Halifax,\nand one sister of the community of\nthe Sisters of -Charity of the Quebec\nbranch, were -burned to death when\nthe asylum building was completely\ndestroyed by fire Saturday night.\nThe asylum was in the parish of the\nsame name, in the county of Megantic\nnear Plessiville, and was for inmates\nfrom Quebec.   It was one of the regu-\nSITUATION   IN  GREECE\nSAID TO BE DESPERATE\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nATHENS, Dec. 31.\u2014A cabinet\nmeeting today at which the king\npresided, discussed the situation in\nthe country, which is desperate,\naccording to despatches received\nhece from the interior of Greece.\nThe king hasinstructed the general staff to hasten by all possible means the transport southward\nof the Thessalian troops. The chief\nof staff informs the Associated\nPress that despite the difficulties,\n' the transportation of the troops\ncould be accomplished by Jan. 2,\nwhereupon ethe government hopes\nthe blockade will be lifted.\nINCH TOOK 75,000\nPris .Reports  on  Successful   Fighting\nDuring   Year\u2014British   Blow   up\nAmmunition  Depot.\n.i (By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nJONDON, Dec.  31.\u2014Today's official\nstijement says:\ntoutheast of De Transloy, the en-\nem's defenses were bombarded during\nth<iday.   An enemy ammunition depot\nwaj blown up as the result of our fire.\n'Ihe enemy's artillery has been more\nlar government establishments for the j ac^e than usuai \\n the neighborhood\ncare of the insane, but was used only\nfor female  patients.\nAnother part of the building' was\nused by the Sisters of Charity as a\nschool for young girls,* and when the\nfire broke out there were 30 girls in the\nbuilding. \u2022 They were rescued, but owing to the difficulty of handling the\ninsane women, 55 of the latter perished\nOne hundred and thirty-five were saved with the greatest difficulty. The\nbuilding is some distanpe from other\nhabitations and when the flames secured a good hold little chance remained of rescue. One sister perished in\nher efforts to rescue the inmates.\nBuiiciirTii>;lheABhes.\nThe building; a large one, the property of the Quebec Sisters of Charity,\nWas reduced to ashes. The loss is ap-!\npi^mately $100,000.\nAccording to ajl information received\nthe sisters had to cope with a great\nproblem in rounding up all the insane\n#atiehts, but the 1&5 saved were finally\nhoused in the hospital building, a short\n.distance away, where the girl boarders\nare also being cared'for for the present. There were no men to aid in the\nWork of rescue, and the sisters had to\nremove many of the patients forcibly.\nThe cause of the fire is unknown, and\nas the building was entirely destroyed\nthe cause may never be learned.\n\u00ab*\n78,500 Prisoners.    \\J\n1.\u2014No  event of ijn\\\nWANT DOMING DRY\nRROM  COAST TO COAST\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nOTTAWA, Dec. 31. \u2014 Temperance\nworkers say that the movement for\nDominion wide prohibition is gathering\nforce. Arrangements are being made\nfor the visit to Ottawa'toward the end\n\u2022of January of a deputation from two\nor three thousand strong to ask the\ngovernment to bring Dominion wide\nprohibition legislation into force before the end of the session. It is said\nthat many of the temperance people\n\u25a0are confident that they will be successful in their efforts to make Canada\ndry from the Atlantic to the Pacific.\nFailing this they expect as a compromise to see the power of the provinces\nincreased 90 that they may ih future\nprohibit the importation of manufacture of liquor. This could be brought\nabout by imperial legislation delegating to the provinces powers which now\nbelong to the Dominion under the provisions of the British North America\nact.\nof Jartinpuich. Beyond the usual ar:\ntill-ry activity at other points on our\nfro*f, there is nothing further to\nporf'\nFrench Take 78,\nP|RIS,   Dec.   31\nporince   occurred   during   the   dpfy:\nsayUhe bulletin  issued tonight:\n\"li the course of the year 1916 the\nFreijh troops, in breaking the assault\nof t\u00a3 enemy against Verdun fortress\nand forcing the enemy to withdraw\noh *j>th banks of the Somme, have\ntakej '7'8,5*O0> German prisoners,\" the\ncomtunication says.\nGerman Post Captured.\nDAIS.    Dec.    31.\u2014Today's    official\nstatoent reads: WWt       *\n\"Sath of the Somme we darried out\nan stack on a small German post\nsoutl of Chilly. We took prisoners.\nElsenere the night was calm.\" (\nBelgian Statement.\nPAIS, Dec. 31.\u2014\"There was intermitted artillery activity on both sides\ntodayjn the sector of Dixmude and\nin th-idirection of Steenstraete,\" \"say.\nthe Bgian communication issued to\nniglit.'\n'pepot Fired by Enemy*\nBERIN,   Dec.   31.\u2014Today's   official\nstatemit says:\n\"Weern front: The artillery fighting wa violent at times south of La-\n'basseecanal on both sides of the\nSommeind north of Reims.\n\"On e south bank of the Ancre ou:\nlong rage guns set fire to several am\nmunitic depots.\"\nEXPORTATION  OF RAGS\nCONFINED  TO   EMPIRE\n(By Daily News Leased Wire*.)\nOTTAWA, Dec. 31.\u2014The exportation\nfrom Canada of rags and linen and\nother articles consigned to any port\nthan those of the United Kingdom,\nBritish possessions and protectorates\nhas been prohibited hy an order in\ncouncil. Tinned meats and extract of\nmeat, bladders, casing and sausage\nskins have been deleted from the list\nof articles, the export of which will\nbe prohibited to all foreign ports in\nEurope and on the Mediterranean and\n31ack seas other than those of .France,\nRussia,   Belgium,  Spain and  Portugal\nONE  IOUSAND  SHli\u00bbS\nBU'lLt  IN   U. S. YARDS\n(BjDaily News Leased Wire.)\nNEWfORK, Dec. 31.\u2014A bulletin\nwhich as issued today by the New\nYork camber of commerce shows\nthat fothe first 11 months of the cal\nendar jar Ah ere were constructed ii\nthe shijards of this country 1066 vessels, wk a gross tonnage of 48*8,446\ntons wth will fly the\/American flag.\nThe conilatio^j does not include vessels bul for foreigners.\nDUTCI-BTEAMER AGAIN\nSEIZED BY GERMANS\n(By)aily News Leased Wire.)\nBERN, Dec. 31\u2014The following an\nnouncerht was made' today by the\nadmirali % \"$he Dutch steamship\nOldambiwith contraband from Holland forCngland, was stopped by our\nFlemish.aval forces on Friday and\ntaken in Zeebrugge.\" .\nLast >nth the Oldambt was captured b3*t German submarine, which\nplaced a*trize crew on board. A few\nhours laf a British destroyer recaptured thvessel, after the prize crew\nhad attested to blow her up.\nCAPTiN   AND CREW fftm^riv\n(By Ely News Leased Wire.)\nTOULCSE, Frane, De. 31.\u2014The\ncaptan ail 2 2members of the crew of\nthe Frencbark .Emma Laurans, 2125\ntons groj have arrived at -Port\nVendres, I France. The vessel was\nsunk by Submarine.\nFERNIE\u25a0 mNERS' UJION\nEXTENDS 1ME LIMIT\nExpiring Ultimatum of U. M. Workers\nof America to Discontinue Work\nAfter Dec. 31  Discussed.\n.(Special to The Daily News.)\nFJfeRNIE, B. C, Dec. 31.\u2014A lengthy\nspecial meeting of the Fernie Miners'\nunion was held this afternoon, when\nthe matter of the expiring ultimatum\nof the United Mine Workers of Amer-\ni-fairjot to continue working after Dec.\n3l, in the event of the workings of the\nHarrison \u2022commissioft$iivestigating the\ncost of living controversy between the\nminers and western coal operators not\nbeing presented.\nAfter receiving 3. repc-Vt from the international representative, D. Rees, who\nemphasized the gigantic task with\nwhich the commission had to contend\nin going thoroughly into the mass of\nevidence taken at Calgary, 'Lethbridge,\nand Fernie, and the physical impossibility of completing the s^mse and\nfnaking an intelligent    award within\nthe time ecified and coupled with\nthe annouBment from Ottawa that\nanother joi conference would be held\nhere on Ja6 to consider the commission's findijs, it was overwhelmingly\ndecided tojctend the time limit to\nJan. 15, ancork accordingly will continue.\nThis decijn has been communicated to all loi unions urging endorsement of sai in accordance with the\npresent de:ed policy of the miners'\norganizatior Coal mining operations\nhere, therefc, are not likely to be interrupted bjibor unrest until the expiration of t'( agreement on March 31,\nas the forth.hing Ottawa conference\nwill undoubtfy allay present discontentment byranting wage increases\nwhich, while isibly not being unanimously satis.-Jory, will be acceptable\nto the majori if the mine workers.\nDavid Ree^f Thomas Biggs, miners' represeni es, depart tonight for\nOttawa.        jjr^t - iy\nFIGHTING HEAVY\nON EAST FRONT\nRussians  Strive   Hard\nHold Enemy\nto\nSOME POSITIONS ARE\nLOST; OTHERS GAINED\nBerlin Report Claims Many\nVictories Obtained\nby Teutons\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.).   .\nPETROGRAD, Dec. 31.\u2014Tonight's\nofficial statement reads:\n\"On the Moldavian frontier the enemy after artillery preparation made\nstubborn attacks in the valley of the\nSulta river and south of this valley.\nAll these attacks were repulsed by our\nfire and by counter attacks.\n\"In the region north of the Doftiana\nriver and south of the Oitus valley\nheavy battles.continue. The enemy has\nreceived reinforcements in this region\narid succeeded after repeated attacks\nin taking possession of several heights\nin front of our position on the\nOitus river, compelling us to retire to\na new position^**\"^\n\"The ene^efycontinues to make stubborn attacks on the Rumanian front,\non the Upper Kasino river, at the Moldavian frontier. In the region northwest of *Sevek, on the Upper Sushitza,\nthe enemy assumed the offensive, defeated the Rumanian troops and captured a large number of prisoners and\na machine gun company.\n\"In the morning the enemy began an\nattack on the Russian front near the\nvillage of Kosa, on the upper Putna\nriver. The heights in this vicinity\nchanged hands several times and fin\nally remained in possession of the en\nemy. Attacks by the enemy near\nBordeschi, 30 versts southwest of Fok-\nshany and north of that point continue. Our troops and Rumanian troops\nas a result of an attack, dislodged the\nenemy from the village of Bordesch:\nwhich he occupied yesterday, enemy\nattacks in the region of the Bezeu-\nBraila line and near Bordoeverbe\nsouth of Yanka on the same railway,\nall being repulsed.\nHeavy Losses Suffered.\nThe enemy suffered severe losses.\nThe commander of one of our Cossack\nregiments undertook an attack on the\nvillage of Berleschi and southwest of\nYanka station, killing 30 and capturing\n35 Austrians.\nThe enemy succeeded in repulsing\nthe Rumanians in the region southwest of Bezeu-Fokshany railway. In\nthe sector southwest of the railway all\nenemy attacks were repulsed.\n\"In Dobruja the enemy, reinforced\nby heavy and light artillery, three\ntimes attacked our positions four\nversts northeast of Grotcsi, 20 versts\nsoutheast of Braila. The third attack\nenabled the enemy to occupy a height\nin the centre of our positions.\n\"Galician front: Northwest of Zbo-\nrow\/our scouts attacked an enemy outpost in the region of Prizovce and in\na hand to hand struggle annihilated\npart of the post. The others were\ntaken prisoners.\n\"In the region west of Koniushki, a\nparty of our scouts, Having worked\nto the rear of an enemy guard post,\nbroke into the trench and captured\nthe whole guard consisting of nine\nmen.\n\"In the river Bystritza region a successful reconnaissance was made by\nour scouts in the region of Krichta\nvillage.\n\"Caucasian front: There is nothing\nto report.\"\nBerlin   Claims. Victories.\nBERLIN, Dec. 31.-^|birianian front:\nIn the frontier mountains toward Moldavia the situation continues to be\nfavorable to us. In the Uzul valley\nGerman troops captured -Solymtar\nheight from the Russians and held it\nagainst strong counter-attacks. One\nhundred and eighty men were made\nprisoners. On both sides of the Aituz\nvalley German and Austro-Hungarians\ntook Rumanian and Russian positions.\nThey made gains in the Putna valley\nin the course of hard \"'fighting.\n\"Front of Field Marshal von Mac-\nkenzen: Our troops encountered strong\nresistance north and northeast of Rim-\nnig Sarat, especially on the edge of\nthe mountains. By a strenuous attack they succeeded in entering the\n\u25a0hostile position and repulsing strong\ncounter attacks. Between Rimnik\nSarat and, the Bulzual lowlands we\ngained    ground after violent fighting.\n\"The Danube army is fighting its\nway toward the strongly fortified lines\nbetween Gurgueti, west .of Braila and\nCiucia, southwest of Braila.\nTn Dobruja Bulgarian troops have\ngained further victories and are progressing toward Matchin.\n\"Macedonian front: \"On the Struma\nsuccessful enterprises were carried out\nhy the Bulgarian and Turkish patrols.\nM'On the Galician front the activity\nof the artillery increased south of\nJacobstadt.\"\nTowns  Are  Threatened.\nBERLIN, Dec. 31\u2014The Teutonic advance in Rumania has now reached a\npoint which threatens the important\ntown of Braila, in Wallachia, on the\nDarube, and the town of Matehin. on\nthe Danube in Dobruja, the official\nstatement issued this evening says.\nHONORS LIST\nKing Recognises  Services\nof Many\nFOUR ARE HADE CI;\n8\n4 Officers Promoted Major\nGeneral and Many\nGiven D.S.O.\nLONDON, Dec. 31\u2014The \\ following\nCanadians are mentioned in the New\nYear's military honors list issued tonight:\nCommanders of the Bath: Col. Herbert Stanley, Col. H. H. Birkett, Col.\nJ. A. Roberts, all of the Canadian medical corps, and Brig.-Gen. A. C. J. De\nLotbiniere, who is a member of a well\nknown Canadan military family.^-****'\nHonored with C. M. <*.4T\nCompanions of the \"Order of St.\nMichael and St. George: Col. Huntley\nDouglas Ketchen, Lieut.-Col. Robert\nBennie, Lieut.-Col. Garnet Hughes and\nLieut.-Col. R. W. B. Morrison and\nLieut.-Col.  Edward Charles Hart.\nBesides the foregoing, who are all\nmembers of the Canadian overseas\nforce, the following officers are honored* with  the  C.  M.  G.:\nLieut.-Col.  C.   C.  Van   Starubensee,\nroyal artillery, who is a native Canadian;   Lieut.-Col.   Francis,   Lieut.-Col,\nDuffus, imperial army service corps.\nMade  Major-Generals.\nThe following officers are appointed\nmajor-generals:\nLieut.-Col. H. C. Cuniacke, royal ar\ntillery, well known in Canada;\nC51. G. T. Wining, formerly in the\nCanadian militia, now. in the imperial\nforces.\nCol. G. N. Cory, formerly in the Canadian militia, and COl. L. J. Lipsett of\nthe Canadian forces, were appointed\nbrevet colonels.\nTemporary  Brig.-Gen.  W.  H.    Me\nBrine of the Canadian dragoons, is ap\npointed a brevet lieutenant-colonel.\nAwarded  D. S. O.\nThe following, all Canadians, are ap\npointed to the Distinguished Service\nOrder:\nMajor * Ronald Okedn, Major Alexander Merrill, Major Vincent Allen,\nLieut.-Col. William B. Anderson, Major\nWilliam Andrews, Lieut.-Col. R. C\nAndrew, Major F. F. Arnolds, Major W.\nM. Balfour, Major J. C. Ball, Major W.\nG. Beeman, Liuet.-Col. A. H. Bell,\nLieut.-Col. Charles E. Bent. Major W.\nR. Bertram, Major H. E. Book, Lieut.-\nCol. R. H. Britton, Lieut.-Col. G. S.\nCantlie, L|eut.-Col. H. G. Carscallen,\nMajor F\/^C|'.Constantine, Major A. J.\nCarrigan, Lieut-Col. J. J. Creelman,\nMajor Ludger Jules, Major O. D. Gin-\ngras, Major A. N. Dubuc, Lieut.-Col. W.\nH. Findlay, Major K. 0. Folger, Major\nJ. W. Forbes, Lieut.-Col. F. A. Gas-\ncoigne, Lieut.-Col. H. A. Ganet, Lieut.-\nCol. William Gibson, Lieut.-Col. H. L.\nGordon, Lieut.-Col. J. A. Gunn, Major\nH. W. Harbord, Major F. O. Hoglnson,\nLieut.-Col. T. F. Dixon, Lieut.-Col. W.\nS. Hughes, Major Barnard Henble,\nLieut.-Col. E. W. JoTies, Major T. P.\nJones, Major W. F. Kemp, Major James\nKirkcaldy, Lieut.-Col. G.' E. McCraig,\nMajor E. W. Macdonald, Major J. A.\nMacdonnell, Major' A. B. McEwen,\nLieut.-Col. Archibald, Lieut.-Col. Er-\nne'st Graham McKenzie, Major J. P.\nMcKenzie, Major J. A. McDonald, Major \/Bartlett McLennan, Capt. William\nE. Manhard, Lieut.-Col. Henry Milli-\ngan, Major G. F. ^Morrison, Major F.\nS. Morrison, Major L. F. Page, Major\nR. H. Palmer, Major John Lindsay,\nMajor R. Parsons, Major T. E. Powers,\nMajor B. W. Roscoe, Major J. M. Ross,\nLieut.-Col. Loren Ross, Lieut.-Col. J.\nA. Shaw, Col. A. E. Snell, Lieut.-Col.\nJohn Smith, Lieut.-Col. Stewart\nThomas, Lieut.-Col. Louis Tremblay,\nMajor P. F. Villers, Major B. F. Ware,\nLieut.-Col. William Webster and\nLieut.-Col.  R.  P. Wright.\nBRITISH   STEAMER  TQiRPEDOEID\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\n, PARIS, Dec. 31.\u2014The British steamer Aislaby, 2*692 tons, has been torpedoed by a submarine, says a Havas\nNews agency announcement. Twenty-\ntwo members of the crew have been\nlanded. They declare, says the announcement, that their captain was\nmade prisoner.\nINCONCLUSIVE PEACE\nMEANS DESTRUCTION\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nLONDON, Dec. 31.\u2014In a New Year's\nmessage  to  the  Primrose  club,    Earl\nCurzon, a member of the war council,\nsays:\n\"This is the third year of such a\nmessage in circumstances of war, and\nwe alltpray it may be the last year. It\nis impossible, however, to say as yot\nthat the end is in sight.\n\"Signs of exhaustion are visible in\nmany\" quarters, peace kites are flown,\nbut meanwhile the struggle gchs on,\nand neither side has obtained ,*t.hat decisive preponderance which j oints to\neoncltfsive results, jit .seems likely\nthat well'-anlo another yef .\\ perhaps\nlonger, -must we continue vhis dreadful\ntragedy that is turning the world into\nhell and wrecking the brightest promise of nations. Our spirit cannot falter, since an inconclusive war or a\npatched up peace means for us not\n[pni>'.humiliation, but destruction.\"\nALLIES REFUSE TO ENTERTAIN\nGERMANY'S PEACE PROPOSALS\nWAR MAP CHANGED MUCH\nDURING THE PAST YEAR\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nThe dawn of 1917 finds the belligerents,  for the time at least,  virtually\ndeadlocked everywhere except in Rumania.\nThe war map in the main theatres\nof the war at the commencement of\nthe new year shows at numerous\npoints material changes in1'the lines as\nthey stood a year ago. Onvthe front\nin France the Germans in the Somme\nregion and before Verdun have been\ndriven back by the French and British\nover fronts of considerable size, while\nthe Germans in the Verdun sector\nmade gains toward the fortress, but\nlater lost a large part of the terrain\nthrough a counter offensive.\nA great drive, begun in June by the\nRussian General Brusiloff from the\nPinsk marshes to the Carpathians\nwas successful in clearing the Volhy-\nninan fortress triangle of Austro-Ger\nmans and in the capture of much ter\nrain in Galicia and Bukowina.\nHalf of Rumania Seized.\nHalf of Rumania, which entered the\nwar in August on the side of the enl\ntente, is now in the hands of the Teu\ntonic' allies. The sweep of the Rus\nsians througn the Caucasus region and\nTurkish Armenia has compelled the\nTurks to yield much territory, while\nin the south the British in their advance toward Bagdad are making progress in the direction of Kut-el-Am-\nara.\nAside from Rumania, there is little\nactivity on any fronts except by the\nartillery of the belligerent armies.\nThe Italians have advanced their line\non the east closer towards Trieste,\nand the entente allies operating from\nSaloniki have placed the Serbians on\ntheir native soil again, and also have\npushed forward their lines at various\npoints in Macedonia.\nDEMANDS OE ALLIES\nPRESENTED TO GREECE\nGuarantees and   Reparations    Ordered\n\u2014Flags of the Entente to be Saluted   at  Athens.\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nPARIS, Dec. 31.\u2014A Havas dispatch\nfrom Piraeus, Dec. 31, says: \"The\nministers of France, Great Britain and\nRussia signed a note for presentation\nto the Greek government demanding\nthe following guarantees and reparations:\n\"Guarantees\u2014First, all Greek forces\noutside of Peloponnesus to be reduced\nto a number strictly necessary to the\npreservation of order and police duty;\nand corresponding arms and ammunition to be transported to Peloponnesus,\nincluding all cannon and machine guns;\nthis situation to last as long as the\nallies judge necessary.\nSecond\u2014Prohibition of all meetings\nof reservists in Greece north of the\nisthmus of Corinth and no civilian to\ncarry  arms.\nThird\u2014Reestablishment of the allies'\ncontrol.\nReparations: First\u2014All persons detained for high treason or for other\npolitical reasons to be released forthwith.\nSecond\u2014Dismissal of the commandant of the first army corps unless the\ngovernment shows that this measure\nshould be applied to some other general.\nThird\u2014The Greek government to\nmake apologies to the allied ministers\nand flags at some public spot in Athens.\nIS\nCROWNED WITH POMP\nCeremony Was the Most    Brilliant\nHistory of Country\u2014Austrian\n.Princes Hold Aloof.\nBy Daily News Leased Wire.)\nBLJDAPEST, Dec. 30.\u2014An assemblage iof 1,500 Hungarian nobles attended the coronation of King Charles^and\nQueen Zita. It was the most brillmnt\nin the history of the country. Not\neven the crowning of Francis Josef\npresented such a spectacle of the\nkingdom's wealth.\nThe coronation was entirely a Hungarian event. No Austrian princes\nwere present except Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who attended in the capacity\nof a Magyar magnate, which he is by\nbirth.\nThe king and queen appeared at the\nchurch at 9 o'clock, and the crown was\nplaced upon the king's head by Premier Tisza on the stroke of 10. The\nservice obliged the king to* kneel long\nand frequently, and he moved uneasily\nwhile Cardinal Csernoch, primate of\nHungary, was reading the prayers.\nDuring the few short intermissions in\nthe protracted religious ceremony the\nkii^g chatted with members of his entourage and nodded to friends in the\nchurch.\nLater in the afternoon parliament\nmet in joint session, and took official\ncognizance of' the accomplishment of\nthe coronation.\nTIN DM\n191 SHIPS SUNK  BY\nSUBS. IN  NOVEMBER\n53 Were Neutral-\u2014Berlin Claims Total\nTonnage lost Since War Started\nIs Over Three Million.\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nBERLIN, Dec. 31.\u2014\"During November,\" says an admiralty statement issued today, \"one hundred and thirty-\neight hostile merchant ships of a total\nof 314,500 gross tons were lost through\nthe war measures of the central powers. Of this tonnage 244,500 tons was\nBritish. In addition, 53 neutral ships\nof 94,000 tons gross was sunk for carrying contraband to enemies. The\nmonth's total is thus 408,500 tons.\n\"Since the beginning of the war\nthrough the war measures of the central powers 3\u201e636,500 hostile tonnage\nhas been lost, of which 2,794,500 was\nBritish.\"\nBattalion Is Warmly Praised by Gen<\neral for Splendid Work in Attack on Germans..\nA Kootenay battalion was described\nas the best battalion in the division by\nthe general in command as a result of\nthe splendid account of itself it gave in\na recent attack on the enemy's position.\nThe loss of life was heavy, .14 officers\nfalling in the move, but the objective\nwas gained and the lines, advanced by\n500\/yards.\nStatements to the above effect are\nmade in an interesting letter written\nto his father by a signalling officer in\nthe battalion, who is well known in the\nKootenay neighborhood. The letter is\ndated Nov. 23 and is as follows:\n\"We have just come out of a little\nscrap in which we pushed our part of\nthe line ahead about 500 yards, and\nwere complimented by the general of\nthe division as being the best battalion in the division in the execution\nof its work. We gained the objective\ngiven us, consolidated, and turned over\nthe line in first class shape to the relieving battalion, which happened to\nbe the 72nd. The colonel is naturally\nvery tickled and is all smiles and good\nhumor these days. Of course, the battalion is very much depleted in\nstrength just now, only being about 50\nper cent strong. We lost 14 officers\nin the move, and now have only nine\nof the original lot which left Bram-\nshott with us three months ago.\"\nHaving \"Continental Tour.\"\nResuming his letter on Nov. 28 the\nwriter states: \\\n\"This is continued considerably later,\nisn't it? But the reason i\u00a7 we've been\non the move lately, and .1 had all my\nwriting materially packed up in my\nkit roll and ,yntil now have not had\nthe opportunity' of getting hold of it.\nWe are on our way out now from this\nmuch disliked district, and are taking what we call a continental tour\nagain, traveling from farm to farm\nin more quiet and peaceful places than\nthe battlefront. It's a great change,\nand everyone is tickled to death to be\non the move again. On top of that our\nleave has opened up, after the customary three months here, and everyone\nis in the highest spirits. The first\npafty.has already left. They allow two\nofficers and 20 men out per week at\na time. At that rate it will take some\ntime to run through the battalion. The\nofficers go in order of seniority, and I\ncome about tenth on the list, so my\nturn should come some time near the\nend of January, I should think. We\nare staying at our present billets for\nabout four days, when we start to\nmove on again. We travel for about\n10 days, going north to a training camp\nwhere we stay for several days. We\ndon't expect to see the front again\nfor about one month, or more. So it\nlooks as though we^ill be let out of\nsome of the trench' mud this winter,\ndoesn't it?\"\nMUNITION DEPOT EXPLODES.    \u25a0\nROME, Dec. 31.\u2014Today's oflEiciiB\nstatement reads:\n\"There was the usual artillery fighting yesterday in the mountains east\nof Gorizia and on the Carso. Direct\nhits on the Carso caused the explosion\nof an enemy ammunition depot.\"\nAre Described as Only War\nManeuver\nW\u00ab ONLY BENEFIT\nPenalties, Reparation  and\nGuarantees the Terms\nDemanded\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nPARIS, Dec. 30\u2014In reply to the proffer of Germany and her allies for a\npeace conference the entente allies in\na collective note declare that they\n\"refuse to consider a proposal which is\nempty and insincere.\" The note waa\nhanded to the American ambassador,\nWilliam Graves Sharp, today by Premier Briand. and was made public\nsimultaneously in London and Paris.\nThe entente allied governments insist\nthat no peace is possible so long as\nthey have not secured reparation for\n'violated rights and liberties and the\nfree existence of small states and have\nnot thought about a settlement for the\nfuture security of the world. The' note\ndeclares that the proposal of the central powers is not an offer of peace,\nbut a \"war maneuver.\" It is declared\nto be founded on \"calculated misinterpretation of the character of the struggle in the past, the present and the\nfuture.\"\nThe note does not specifically outline the war aims of any of the entente governments except Belgium. Before the war, it is pointed out, Belgium\nasked for nothing but to live in harmony with her neighbors. Assailed in\nspite of the treaties guaranteeing 'her\ninviolability Belgium, the note says,\nhas taken up arms to defend her independence and \"her neutrality -violated\nby Germany.5'\nBelgium's aim, which is declared to\nbe the only aim of her king and government, ?is described as the \"reestablishment of peace and justice,\" but\nthey only desire peace which would assure to their country legitimate reparation, guarantees and safeguards for\nthe future.\"\nWar Due to Central Allies.\nThe note, which is the joint act of\nBelgium, France, Great Britain, Ita-v,\nJapan, Montenegro, Portgual, Rumania, Russia and Serbia, declares that\nthe present strife was desired, provoked and declared by Germany and\nAustria-Hungary, and that Germany\nmade no effort to bring about a pacific\nsolution of the trouble between Serbia\nand Austria-Hungary as did Great\nBritain, France and Russia.\nA peace concluded upon the German\nidea would be only to the advantage of\nthe central powers, says the note, while\ndisasters caused by the war demand\npenalties, reparation and guarantees.\nThe German overtures are described as\na calculated attempt to influence the\nfuture course of the war to end it by\nimposing a German peace. The overtures also are said to have the effect of\nintimidating neutral peoples' opinion\nas well as to stiffen opinion in the central powers '\"worn out by economic\npressure and crushed by the supreme\neffort which has been imposed upon\ntheir inhabitants.\"\nFinally,, it is asserted, \"these overtures attempt to justify in advance in\nthe eyes of the world, a new series Of\ncrimes\u2014submarine warfare, deportations, forced labor and forced enlistment of the inhabitants against their\nown countries and violations of neutrality.\"\nText of Reply.\nPARIS, Dec. 30\u2014The text of the note\nof the entente governments in reply to-\nthe recent German note is as follows:\n\"The allied governments of Belgium}\nFrance, Great Britain, Italy, Japan,\nMontenegro, Portugal, Rumania, Russia and Serbia, united for the def-* ;?p\nof the liberty of their peoples ana -\nfaithful to engagements taken not to\nlay down their arms separately, have\nresolved to reply collectively to the\npretended propositions of peace which^\nwere addressed to them on behalf of\nthe enemy governments through the\nintermediary of the United States,\n&5pain, Switzerland and Holland. Before\n^baking any reply the allied powers\ndesiite particularly to protest against\nthe mo essential assertions of the note\nTContinued on Page Two.)\nKAISER CLAIMS EFFORTS OF\nALLIES HAVE BEEN FOILED\nIssues   Charecteristic   Manifesto\u2014Says\nGerman Troops Have Been Everywhere Victorious,\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nBERLIN, Dec. 31.\u2014Emperor William\nhas issued the following order addressed to the army and navy:\n\"Another year lies behind us with\nhard fighting and sacrifices and victories. The efforts which our enemies\nput forth in 1916 have been foiled. The\nassaults east and west have collapsed\nowing to your bravery and devotion.\nOur efforts  to  march to Rumania\nhave by divine providence, again added\nimperishable laurels to your banners.\nThe greatest naval battle this year was\nour victory in the Skagerrak and the\ngallant deeds of our submarines have\nsecured for my navy admiration forever.\n\"You are victorious in all the results\nof war on land and sea. A grateful\nfatherland looks to you with unshake-\nable reliance. The imperishable warlike spirit lives in your ranks, your\nlove of the faherlarhd are to me a guarantee that in the new year so every\nvictory will remain with our banners.\nGod also in the future will be with; us*'*\n .    I\nT\nU\n**\u00bbAGE TWO\nTHE DAILY NEWS\nmm*     *\nMONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1917.\nLeading Hotels of the West\nWhere the Traveling  Public  May Obtain Superior Accommodation.\nTHE HUME\nA la Carte Table d'Hote\n.GEORGE BENWELL, Prop.\nSpecial Daily Lunch, 50c.\nHUME\u2014A. C, Dorr, C. W. Busk, B,\nO. Farrell, Mr, Harper, Mr. and Mrs.\n\u2022J. H. Taylor, Douglas Taylor, Air. nnd\nMrs. R. Andrew, .1. J. Stephenson, Jr.,\ncity; A. A. Burbank, Danville; F. C.\nTownsheml, Trail; Miss E. Geigerlch,\nJoseph Geigerich, D. P, Kane, J. J.\nStreit, Knslu; John D. Caverhill, city;\nS. J. White, Mrs. F. White, C. M. Mohr.\nMinneapolis, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. 15.\nDoney, Three Fortes; M. M. O'Brien,\nPortland; C. C. 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They\nsuggested a conference without conditions is not a pence offer, the note\nsays,  but is rather n war maneuver.\nPARJS, Dec. 31.\u2014The French armored cruiser Gaulois was torpedoed in\nthe Mediterranean on Dec. 27 and sank\nIn half nn hour, according to official\nannouncement, owing to the coolness\/\nof the crew and the arrival of patrol\nboats, there were only four victims,\ntwo of whom were killed by the' explosion.\nServed in Dardanelles.\nLONDON, Dec. 31.\u2014The naval list\nregisters the Gaulois, which was sunk\n1 the Mediterranean as a battleship of\n11,2-30 tons displacement and a complement of 631 men. She carried 42 guns.\nThe battleship Gaulois served in the\nDardanelles operations but was sent, to\nToulon in March. 1915 for repairs. It\nIs possible that nn armored cruiser\nhas replaced  it.\nHungarian Premier Quitting.\nBERLIN, Dec. 31.\u2014Despatches from\nBudapest concern themselves more and\nmore with the queston of the possible\nretirement of Premier Tiszn, Audi\n3nccs granted yesterday by the emper\nor to Count Apponyi, the Austrian\nleader and to former Premier Kheun\nHerdervardy tended to strength the\ngossip that Count Tlszn, as Hungarian\npremier and dominant personality in\nthe dual monarchy, wns quitting orfice.\nThe same gossip named Count Zichey\nas the most prominent candidate for\nthe leadership.\nIR_.\nMINJMLS\nSTEAMER IN PORT WITH\nGERMAN PRIZE CREW\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nPARIS, Dec. 31.\u2014The Norwegian\nsteamer Thyra, 3742 tons gross, is\nreported in a Havas despatch from\nCorunna, Spain, to have put into\nthat port yesterday with a German\nprize crew of five men on board.\nIn addition to the Thyra's crew of\nfourteen, there were on the vessel\nseven members of the crew of a\nBritish steamship whioh had been\ntorpedoed. According to the despatch, the Germans declared they\nwere going to torpedo the Thyra.\nIMPRESSIONS OF VISIT TO\nBRITISH  FRONT IN FRANCE\nEDINBURGH, 'Scotland\u2014By invitation of Sir Douglas Haig the moderators of the Church of Scotland and\ntho United Free Church recently visited tlie British front in Prance, and ou\ntheir return they communicated their\nImpressions to the general assembly\ncommissions In Edinburgh. The scale\nof the British operations was stupendous, they said, the organization was\nmarvellous, but the greatest of all impressions was mode by the men themselves. They were simply splendid.\nThey could not hut be Impressed by\nthe magnitude of the work in which\ntheir soldiers were engaged, by their\nwonderful endurance in the midst of\nhardships to which they were constantly exposed, and by the patient,\ncheerful optimism with which those\nhardships were borne. Tiieir visit had\nImpressed them with a profound admiration for the self-sacrifice and the\nheroism of the soldiers. The honor of\nthe country nnd the cause of humanity\nwere safe in their hands, and In the\nhands of their gallant allies. They\nlearned, as it could never be learned\nby reading, the importance of the base\nfor the very existence of an army.\nThoy marveled at the organization by\nwhich the army was fed nnd supplied\nwith those stores of munitions which\ntheir comrades at home were now\nsending out in such plentiful abundance. They could never forget those\nlong rows of transport curs steadily\nand readily making their way to and\nfrom the front.\nPrincipal Sir George Adam Smith,\nspeaking In the United Freo Church\ncommission, said they conducted along\ntwo of the most important bases, up\nthe lines of communication to the front\nand along most of the front itself.\nThey saw in detail many of the elaborate and complex departments of\niho life of the troops nn service. There\nwere some convictions with which they\nhad returned, he continued. As a nation, they were up against a task more\nformidable, more exhausting and more\nlikely to be prolonged than the bulk of\npeople at home even yet sufficiently\nrealized. One could not give all one's\nreasons for such a conviction; but it\nwas certain that, unless events happened\u2014of which there were as yet\nfew signs\u2014their battle would be a\nlong one; their sacrifices would he\nmore costly even than they had already suffered; and they would require\nfor their victory the full, unsparing\nemployment of all their resources, material and moral. It would require unfailing reenforcement from the organized and individual resources of the\nnation, all the disinterested patience\nand skill of which the peoples of those\nIslands and the overseas dominions\ncould contribute.\nEdward Gillls, a well known Toronto barrister, is dead.\nSevere Bronchial Cold\nYields to Delicious Vinol.\nPhiladelphia, pa.\u2014\"Last fall 1 was\ntroubled with a very severe bronchial\ncold, headache, backache and sick to\nmy stomach. I was so bad ! became\nalarmed and tried several medicines,\nalso a doctor, hut did not get any relief. A friend asked mo to try Vinol\nand It brought the relief which I craved\nso now I am enjoying perfect health.\"\n\u2014.Tack C. Singleton.\nWe guarantee Vinol, which contains\nbeef and cod liver peptones, Iron and\nmanganese peptonntes and glycerophosphates, for chronic coughs, colds\nand 'bronchitis.\nRutherford Drug Co., Ltd., Nelson.\nIso the best druggists in all British\nlumbia towns.\nSafve\nSKIN AFFECTIONS\nluge proves It.   Sold and\ned ojr above Vinol druggist.\nof the eneipy powers that pretend to\nthrow upojithe allies responsibility for\ntho wa^^jftnd proclaim the victory of\ntho cental powers,    .\n\"Th* allied governments cannot ad\nmlt-jan affirmative doubly inexact and\nwhich suffices to render sterile all tentative negotiations. Allied nations have\nSustained for 30 months a war they\n(did everything to avoid. They have\nshown by their acts their attachment\nto peace. That attachment is as strong\nas it was in 1914. But it is not upon\nthe word of Germany after the violation of its engagements that the\npeace broken by her may be based.\nNot An Offer of Peace.\n\"A mere suggestion, without a statement of terms, that negotiations should\nhe opened, is not an offer of peace. The\nputting forward by the imperial government of a sham proposal lacking\nall substance and precision would appear to be. less an offer of peace than\na war maneuver. It is founded on calculated misinterpretation of the character of the struggle in the past, the\npresent and the future.\n\"As for the past, the German note\ntakes no account of the facts, dates\nand figures, which establish that the\nwar was desired, provoked and declared by Germany and Austria-Hungary.\n\"At The Hague conference it was a\nGerman delegate who refused all proposals for disarmament. In July, 1914,\nit was Austria-Hungary, who, after\nhaving addressed to Servia an unprecedented ultimatum, declared war upon\nher In spite of tho satisfaction which\nhad at once been accorded.\n\"The central empires then rejected\nnil attempts'made by the entente to\nbring about a pacific solution of a\npurely local conflict. Great Britain\nsuggested a conference; France proposed an international commission; the\nemperor of Russia asked the German\nemperor to go to arbitration and Russia and Austria-Hungary came to an\nunderstanding on the eve of the conflict. But to all these efforts Germany gave neither answer nor effect.\nBelgium la Invaded.\n\"Belgium was invaded by an empire\nwhich had guaranteed her neutrality\nand which had the assurance to proclaim that treaties were 'scraps of paper* and that 'necessity knows no law.'\n\"At the present moment these sham\noffers on the part of Germany rest on\nthe 'war map' of Europe atone, which\nrepresents nothing more than a superficial and passing phase of the situation and not the real strength of the\nbelligerents, A peace concluded on\nthose terms would be only to the nd-\ntage of the aggressors, who after imagining that they would reach their\ngoal in two months, discovered after\ntwo years that they could never attain\nthat.\n\"As for the future, the disasters\ncaused* by the German declaration of\nwar and the innumerable outrages\ncommitted by Germany and her allies\nagainst both belligerents and neutrals\ndemand penalties, reparation and guarantees. Germany avoids mention of\nany of these. In reality these overtures made by the centra] powers are\nnothing more than a calculated attempt to influence the future course\nof war and to end it hy imposing a\nGerman peace. The object of these\novertures is to create dissension In\npublic opinion In'the allied countries.\nBut that public opinion has, In spite\nof all these sacrifices endured by the\nallies, already given its answer with\nadmirable firmness and hns denounced\nthe empty pretence of declaration of\nthe enemy powers,\nStiffen Opinion in Germany.\n\"They have the further object of\nstiffening public opinion In Germany\nand in the countries allied to her\u2014one\nand all severely tried by their losses,\nworn oul by economic pressure and\ncrushed by the supreme effort which\nhas been imposed upon their habitants.\n\"They endeavor to deceive and intimidate public opinion in neutral\ncountries whose inhabitants have long\nsince made up their minds where the\ninitial responsibilities He and arc far\ntoo enlightened to favor the designs of\nGermany by abandoning the defense of\nhuman freedom.\n\"Finally these overtures attempt to\njustify in advance in the eyes of tlie\nworld a new series of crimes\u2014submarine warfare, deportations, forced labor and forced enlistment of the inhabitants against their own countries and\nviolations  of  neutrality.\n\"Fully conscious of the gravity of\nthis moment, but equally conscious of\nIts requirements, the allied governments, closely united to one another\nand in perfect sympathy with their\npeoples, refuse to consider a proposal\nwhich Is empty and insincere.\n\"Once again the allies declare that\nno peace Ib possible so long as they\nhave not secured reparation for violated rights and liberties, the recognition of the principle of nationalities\nand of the free existence of small\ncountries; ns long as they have -lot\nbrought ahout a settlement calculated\nto end once and for all forces which\nhave constituted a perpetual menace\nto the nations and to afford the only\neffective guarantee for the future of\nthe world.\n\"In conclusion, the allied powers\nthink it necessary to put forward the\nfollowing considerations which show\nthe special situation of Belgium after\ntwo and a half years of war. In virtue\nof the International treaties signed by\nfive -great European powers, of whom\nGermany was one, Belgium enjoyed before the war a special status, rendering her territory inviolable and placing her under the guarantee of the\npowers outside all European conflicts.\nShe was, however, In spite of these\ntreaties, the first to suffer the aggression of Germany. For this reason the\nBelgian government thinks It necessary to define the alms which Belgium\nhas never ceased to pursue while fighting side by side with the entente powers for right and justice.\nCase of Belgium.\n\"Belgium always has scrupulously\nfulfilled the duties which her neutrality\nimposed upon hor. She has taken up\narms to defend her independence and\nher neutrality violated by Germany\nand to show that she remains faithful\nto her International obligations.\n\"On the fourth of August, 1914, in\nthe reichstog the German chancellor\nadmitted this aggression constituted\nan Injustice contrary to the laws of\nnations, nnd pledged himself , in   the\nTHF WONDERFUL\nFRUITJjflEDICINE\nThousands Owe Health And\nStrength To \"Fruit-a-tives\"\n\"FRUIT-A-TIVES\", the marvellous\nmedicine mude from fruit juices \u2014 has\nrelieved more cases of Stomach, Liver,\nBlood* Kidney and Skin Troubles than\nany other medicine. In severe cases\nof Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago,\nPain jn the Back, Impure Blood, Neuralgia, Chronic Headaches, Chronic\nConstipation and Indigestion, \"Fruit-\na-tives\" has given unusually effective\nresults. By its cleansing, healing\npowers on the eliminating organs,\n\"Fruit-a-tives\" tones up and invigorates the whole system.\n50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25c.\nAt all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-\na-tives Limited, Ottawa.\nname of Germany to repair it. During\ntwo and a half years this injustice has\nbeen cruelly aggravated by the proceedings of the occupying forces, which\nhave exhausted the resources of the\ncountry, ruined Its industries, devastated Its town and villages and have\nbeen responsible for Innumerable massacres, executions and imprisonments.\n\"At this very moment while Germany\nIs proclaiming peace and humanity to\nthe world, she is deporting Belgian citizens by thousands and reducing them\nto slavery. I'   '\n\"Belgium before the war asked for\nnothing but to live in harmony with\nher neighbors. Her king and her government have but one aim\u2014the re-\nestabllshment of peace and justice. But\nthey only desire peace which would ns.\nsure to their country legitimate reparation, guarantees and safeguards for\nthe future.\"\nWE WISH YOU\nA HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS\nNEW YEAR\nSmillie & Weir\nNORWAY  UNEASY ABOUT\nTHE U-BOAT WARFARE\nCHRISTIANA, Norway\u2014As a result\nof the German submarine warfare, a\nthreatening situation has arisen regarding the North Sea area. Norway, as the most democratic nation\nIn northern Europe, has always during her history displayed great sympathy for Great Britain and France.\nThese sympathies are to lie explained\nalike by racial nffinity, the Intercourse\nand exchange of ideas covering a long\nperiod, and all the links which bind\ntogether two ancient seafaring peo\npies. During the war the attitude of\nNorway has, of course, been materially affected by the fact that the\nchief trado of the country was carried on with Great Britain, and Norway, as a food-importing country, is,\nto some extent, dependent upon that\npower which commnnds the North Sen.\nCommercial interests, ns well as natural sympathy, therefore, influenced\nNorway in regarding with forbearance many of the restrictions imposed\non her trade by the British, though\nthese were not always tactfully enforced.\nIndirectly the war has resulted in\nNorway rendering great service to the\nallies. Before the war she was the\nthird seafaring nation In the world,\nas regards tonnage, and after the German shipping trade had been put a\nstop to, Norwegian shipping ranked\nonly second to Great Britain. Of this\nshipping, not more than 10 per cent\nof the tonnage was used in coastal\ntrade, 90 per cent being devoted to the\nworld's trade in general, and at the\npresent time .it may bo said to bo\nentirely in the service of the allies.\nThis fact, together with the sympathy\nbetween Norway and the allies already\nreferred to, has induced the Germans\nto wage a more persistent submarine\nwarfare against Norway than against\nany other neutral country. In fact,\nduring the past few months there have\nbeen more Norwegian than British\nships sunk. Great Britain possesses,\nat least in home waters, the protection of her navy, while in more distant\nparts, the British mercantile ships are\narmed, and are thus able to defend\nthemselves against the undersea boats.\nBut the Norwegian vessels, ns neutral craft, havo no protection at all.\nThe result Is that the German submarines have carried on this ruthless warfare against Norwegian ships, on the\npretext that they enrry contraband\nfor the allies.\nA great portion of tho carrying trado\nbetween Archangel and the west, hns,\nas before the war, been in Norwegian\nhands. By mutual agreement Norwegian ships havo never accepted war\nmaterial for Russia. Nevertheless,\nGermany would like to put a stop to\na great deal of this trade. For this\npurpose German submarines find Nor\nwegian waters extremely convenient\nas a base of operations, and the dlffi\nculties In the way of effectively con\ntrolling the long, rugged and thinly\npopulated coast, are only tvto obvious.\nWhile, In these days of conditional\ncontraband the Norwegians, true to\ntheir judicial nature, stand out for\ntheir rights, and claim that only a\nprize court is entitled to decide whe\nther a cargo is contraband or not, the\nGermans have very good reasons for\nnot (attempting to convoy captured\nmerchant vessels from the north of\nNorway to the Elbe. The submarines\ntherefore take the law into their own\nhands and sink Norwegian ships at\nsight, sometimes without the slightest warning, and in almost all cases\nthe crews of tho sunken vessels have\nbeen exposed to serious dangers, being\nturned adrift In open boats in tho Arctic ocean. As a result, several Norwegian seamen have succumbed to\nthis exposure. Up to Oct. 26, the losses in tho Norwegian merchant service\namounted to 147 steamers of a total\ngross registered tonnage of 218,208\ntons, and 50 sailing vessels totalling\nover 40,000 tons. These losses represent more than 10 per cent of Norwegian merchant tonnage. Under the\nstate scheme of Insurance their vnluo\nwas estimated at about \u00a35,600,000, and\n155 lives have been lost. Germany's\ndeliberate aim, It appears, is to force\nthe Norwegians to abandon tholr car.\ngo trade, and thus indirectly to embarrass the allies, and especially Great\nBritain, by accentuating still further\nthe growing shortago of tonnage.\nThough there Is practically no doubt\nthat German submarines have used\nNorwegian territorial waters to reach\ntho scene of their operations In the\nArctic ocean, no direct evidence has\nas yet come to hand. But the suspicion that they really violate Norway's neutrality in this way in order\nto be able to torpedo allied ships and\nneutral ships with allied cargoes\nmight, from the Norwegian point of\nview, form a pretext for allied warships to enter Norwegian water to\nsearch for hidden German submarines.\nAs a precautionary measure, therefore, and in order to preservo a strict\nneutrality, the Norwegian government\nprohibited the submarines of any belligerent nation entering Norwegian waters unless in distress.\nNow Sweden adopted exactly tho\nsame measure some months ago, without the slightest protest on the part\nof Germany, but the Norwegian measure, curiously enough, brought forth\na furious German protest, on tho\nground that this prohibition had been\nadopted under British pressure, nnd\nwas therefore, specially directed\nagainst Germany.\nThe Germans also contend that to\ndiscriminate between the various kind\nof warships, and regards neutral hospitality, and thus put the German submarines at a disadvantage, contravenes international law. To these contentions the Norwegians point out that\nin the first place German and other\nbelligerent submarines will be treated\nexactly alike, and in the second place\nthe Germans themselves discriminate\nbetween submarines and ordinary war\nships, by pretending that submarines\nowing to their special construction,\ncannot be obliged like other war ships\nto bring their  prizes  into harbor or\nto take special measures to save the;\ncrews.       ... \u2014\u2022    :\nIf the German submarines cannot\nbehave like other warships, the Norwegians argue, they cannot be treated\nlike other war ships.\nUndoubtedly the Germans reckoned\nupon the support of the Swedish government, and thought that Norway\nwould not hold out in deference to her\neastern neighbor. They appear, however, to havo misjudged the temperament of all three Scandinavian nations. It was Sweden which, at. tho\nfirst meeting of the Scandinavian\nkings in 1915, proposed that their\nthree countries should adopt Identical\nmeasures with regard to belligerent\nsubmarines, but at that time neither\nDenmark nor Norway was prepared to\naccept that proposal. Subsequently,\nDenmark mined her own waters and\nthe Belts in particular; and this year\nSweden took even more elaborate precautions to Insure respect for her neutrality. It was thus hardly to be expected that Sweden would relinquish\nthe standpoint which she was the first\nto uphold, and even the pro-German\npress in Sweden has supported Norway's attitude.\nIt would, indeed, seom as though the\nScandinavian solidarity hnd at .last\nturned the tide of German propagVVla\nIn Sweden, The influence of the \"Activists\" Is already on the wane. The '\nallied offensive for the first time shook\npublic faith in a German victory. The\nfriction with the western powers has\ngiven way to a better understanding,\nand at the moment of writlhg a Swedish commission Is In London to discuss the question of trade between the\ntwo countries.\nBUG \u2022AG.OEPT\nOut Today\nNew Victor Records\nfor January\nThe New Year brings a most desirable list of Victor Record's\nwhich will delight ton,\nAMELITA GALLI-CURCI\nThe marvellous new Italian Soprano, whose singing has captivated European and South American audiences hns just made\nher first Victor Records.\nRigoletto\u2014Caro nomc Italian    Amelitn Galll-Curcl 74409\nLn Partida Spanish Amelitn Galll-Curcl 74500\nBEAUTIFUL RECORD BY McCORMACK\n\"Love, Here is My Heart\" (64623), sings John McCormnck, to\none of the most Joyous refrains thnt ever this genial tenor chose\nto sing.\nANOTHER GLUCK-HOMER DUET\nA duet by these artists is always hulled with delight and this\none is most pleasing.\nLong, Long Ago Alma Gtuck-Lousc Homer 87267\nFarrar sings \"The Holy City\"; Maud Powell plays \"Love's\nDelight\"; and many other seleotions are given by suoh artists as\nCaruso, de Gogorza, Ruffo, Whitehill, Williams and Withsrspoon.\nNearly 70 others Including\n16 popular song hits 6 stirring band renderings\n6 enticing dance numbers 8 vocal records\n14 miscellaneous Instrumental      2 comedy specials\nselections 2 educatinnnl\n2 splendid orchestra numbers      2 choruses\nHear them at any \"His Master's\nVoice\" dealers'\nAlways look for \"Hi. 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American plan.\nROSSLAND HOTELS\nThe Hotel Allan\nRECENTLY   REFURNISHED\nSMITH    &    BELTON,    Proprietors\nmm.\nMAKE RESERVATIONS EARLY\u2014PHONE NO. 53\nNew Year Dinner\nand Dance,  1917\nMONDAY,   JANUARY    1,    1917\nFirst Sitting 6 p.m.    Second Sitting 7:15 p.m.\n$1.00 PER COVER\nCRAB  FLAKE  COCKTAIL\nCHICKEN   CLEAR   AU    CELERI FAUSSE TORTUE\nHOTHOUSE   LETTUCE SALTED ALMONDS\nQUEEN OLIVES\nBREADED   CHICKEN   HALIBUT,     HOLLANDAISE     SAUCE\nBOILED    CAPON,    BREAD    SAUCE\n\"^ FILLET   OF   SPRING   DUCK   A   DA   FINANCIERE\nFRICANDEAU   JUGGED HARE, A LA ANGLAI9E\nLEMON   PUNCH\nROAST  YOUNG  TURKEY,  CHESTNUT  DRESSING,\nCRANBERRY JELLY\nSTUFFED  GOOSE,  POMME  SAUCE\nPRIME RIBS OF BEEF,   YORKSHIRE   PUDDING\nFRUIT   SALAD\nBOILED POTATOES\nPETIT   POIS\nCELERY HEARTS\nQUEEN POTATOES\nASPARAGUS TIPS AU BUERRE\nDEEP APPLE PIE, WHIPPED CREAM\nHOT   MINCE   TART\nENGLISH  PLUM  PUDDING,   HARD   AND   COGNAC   SAUCE\nNEAPOLITAN    ICE    CREAM\nCHRISTMAS   FRUIT   CAKE PORT WINE JELLY\nASSORTED  CAKE CANDIES ASSORTED  FRUIT\nNUTS AND CLUSTERED RAISINS\nAMERICAN AND CANADIAN CHEESE CAFE NOIR\nJOHNSON'S ORCHESTRA\nAfternoon Summary\nBright    Flashes   from   Yesterday's\nTelegraph   Service   to   the\nAfternoon  Papers\nPARIS, Dec. 31.\u2014The entente governments in replying to Germany\ndeclare that they refuse to consider\nGermany's insincere and ineffective\nproposition for a conference. They\nsuggested a conference without conditions is not a peace offer, the \\note\nsays,  but is  rather a war maneuver.\nPARIS, Dec. 31.\u2014The French armored cruiser 'Gaulois was tprpedoed in\nthe Mediterranean on Dec. 27 and sank\nin half an hour, according to official\ninnouncement. Owing to the coolness\nof the crew and the arrival of patrol\nboats, there were only four victims,\ntwo of whom were killed hy the explosion.\nServed in Dardanelles.\nLONDON, Dec. 31.\u2014The. naval list\nregisters the Gaulois, which was sunk\ni the Mediterranean as a battleship of\n11,2-30 tons displacement and a complement of 631 men. She carried 42 guns.\nThe battleship Gaulois served in the\nDardanelles operations but was sent to\nToulon in March, 1915 for repairs. It\nis possible that an armored cruiser\nhas replaced it.\nHungarian Premier Quitting.\nBERLIN, Dec. 31.\u2014Despatches from\nBudapest concern themselves more and\nmore with the queston of the possible\nretirement of Premier Tisza. Audiences granted yesterday by the emperor to Count Apponyi, the Austrian\nleader and to former Premier Kheun\nHerdervardy tended to strength the\ngossip that Count Tisza, as Hungarian\npremier and dominant personality in\nthe dual monarchy, was quitting office.\nThe same gossip named Count Zichey\nas the most prominent candidate for\nthe leadership.\nSTEAMER IN  PORT WITH\nGERMAN PRIZE CREW\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nPARIS, Dec. 31.\u2014The Norwegian\nsteamer Thyra, 3742 tons gross, is\nreported in a Havas despatch from\nCorunna, Spain, to have put into\nthat port yesterday with a German\nprize crew of five men on board.\nIn addition to the Thyra's crew of\nfourteen, there were on the vessel\nseven members of the crew of a\nBritish steamship which had been\ntorpedoed. According to the despatch, the Germans declared they\nwere going to torpedo the Thyra.\nIMPRESSIONS OF  VISIT TO\nBRITISH   FRONT  IN   FRANCE\nEDINBURGH, Scotland\u2014By invitation of Sir Dougjas Haig the moderators of the Church of Scotland and\nthe United Free Church recently visited the British front in France, and on\ntheir return they communicated their\nimpressions to the general assembly\ncommission's in Edinburgh. The scale\nof the British operations was stupendous, they said, the organization was\nmarvellous, but the greatest of all impressions was made by the men themselves. They were simply splendid.\nThey could not but be impressed by\nthe magnitude of the work in which\ntheir soldiers were engaged, by their\nwonderful endurance in the midst of\nhardships to which they were constantly exposed, and by the patient,\ncheerful optimism with which those\nhardships were borne. Their visit had\nimpressed them with a profound admiration for the self-sacrifice and the\nheroism of the soldiers. The honor of\nthe country and the cause of humanity\nwere safe in their hands, and in the\nhands of their gallant allies. They\nlearned, as it could never be learned\nby reading, the importance of the base\nfor the very existence of an army.\nThey marveled at the organization by\nwhich the army was fed and supplied\nwith those stores of munitions which\ntheir comrades at home were now\nsending out in such plentiful abundance. They could never forget those\nlong rows of transport cars steadily\nand readily making their way to and\nfrom the  front.\nPrincipal Sir George Adam Smith,\nspeaking in the United Free Church\ncommission, said they conducted along\ntwo of the most important bases, up\nthe lines of communication to the front\nand along most of the front itself.\nThey saw in detail many of the'ela\nborate and complex departments qf\nthe life of the troops on service. There\nwere some convictions with which they\nhad returned, he continued. As a nation, they were 'up against a task more\nformidable, more exhausting and more\nlikely to be prolonged*, than the bulk of\npeople at home even yet sufficiently\nrealized. One could not give all one's\nreasons for such a conviction; but it\nwas certain that, unless events happened\u2014of which there were as yet\nfew signs\u2014their battle would be a\nlong one; their sacrifices would he\nmore costly even than they had already suffered; and they would require\nfor their victory the full, unsparing\nemployment of all their resources, material and moral. It would require unfailing reenforcement from the organized and individual resources of the\nnation, all the disinterested patience\nand skill of which the peoples of those\nislands and the overseas dominions\ncould contribute.\nEdward Gillis, a well known Toronto barrister, is dead.\nSevere Bronchial Cold\nYields to  Delicious Vinol.\nPhiladelphia, Pa.\u2014\"Last fall I was\ntroubled, with a very severe bronchial\ncold, headache, backache and sick to\nmy stomach. -I was so bad I became\nalarmed and tried several medicines,\nalso a doctor, but did not get any relief. A friend asked me to try Vinol\nand it brought the relief which I craved\nso now I am enjoying perfect health.\"\n\u2014Jack C. 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But it is not upon\nthe word of Germany after the violation of its engagements that the\npeace broken hy her may be based.\nNot An  Offer of  Peace.\n\"A mere suggestion, without a statement of terms, that negotiations should\nbe opened, is not an offer of peace. The\nputting forward by the imperial government of a sham proposal lacking\nall substance and precision would appear to be less an offer of peace than\na war maneuver. It is founded on calculated misinterpretation of the character of the struggle in the past, the\npresent and the future.\n\"As for the past, the German note\ntakes no account of the facts, dates\nand figures, which establish that the\nwar was desired, provoked and declared by Germany and Austria-Hungary.\n\"At The Hague conference it was a\nGerman delegate who refused all proposals for disarmament. In July, 1914,\nit was Austria-Hungary, who, after\nhaving addressed to Servia an unprecedented ultimatum, declared war upon\nher in spite of the satisfaction which\nhad at once been accorded.\n\"The central empires then rejected\nall attempts made by the entente to\nbring about a pacific solution of a\npurely local conflict. Great Britain\nsuggested a conference; France proposed an international commission; the\nemperor of Russia asked the German\nemperor to go to arbitration and Russia and Austria-Hungary came to an\nunderstanding on' the eve of the conflict. But to all these efforts Germany gave neither answer nor effect.\nBelgium Is invaded.\n\"Belgium was invaded by an empire\nwhich had guaranteed her neutrality\nand which had the assurance to proclaim that treaties were 'scraps of paper\" and that 'necessity knows no law.'\n\"At the present moment these sham\noffers on the part of Germany rest on\nthe 'war map' of Europe alone, which\nrepresents nothing more than a superficial and passing phase of the situation and not the real strength of the\nbelligerents. A peace concluded on\nthose terms would be only to the ad-\ntage of the aggressors, who after imagining that they would reach their\ngoal in two months, discovered after\ntwo years that they could never attain\nthat.      Ka^lSB\n\"As for the future, the disasters\ncaused by the German declaration of\nwar and the innumerable outrages\ncommitted by Germany and her allies\nagainst both belligerents and neutrals\ndemand penalties, reparation and guarantees. Germany -avoids mention of\nany of these. In reality these overtures made by the central powers are\nnothing more than a calculated attempt to influence the future course\nof war and to end it by imposing a\nGerman peace. The object of these\novertures is to create dissension in\npublic opinion in the allied countries.\nBut that public opinion has, in spite\nof all these sacrifices endured by the\nallies, already given its answer with\nadmirable firmness and has denounced\nthe empty pretence of declaration of\nthe enemy powers.\nStiffen Opinion in Germany.\n\"They have the further object of\nstiffening public opinion in Germany\nand in the countries allied to her\u2014one\nand all severely tried by their losses,\nworn out by economic pressure and\ncrushed by the supreme effort which\nhas been imposed upon their habitants.\n\"They endeavor to deceive and intimidate public opinion in neutral\ncountries whose inhabitants have long\nsince made up their minds where the\ninitial responsibilities lie and are far\ntoo enlightened to favor the designs of\nGermany by abandoning the defense of\nhuman freedom.\n\"Finally these overtures attempt to\njustify in advance in the eyes of the\nworld a new series of crimes\u2014submarine -warfare, deportations, forced labor and forced enlistment of the inhabitants against their own countries and\nviolations   of   neutrality.\n\"Fully conscious of the gravity of\nthis moment, hut equally conscious of\nits requirements, the allied governments, closely united to one another\nand in perfect sympathy with their\npeoples, refuse to consider a proposal\nwhich is empty and insincere.\n\"Once again the allies declare that\nno peace is possible so long as they\nhave not secured reparation for violated rights and liberties, the recognition of the principle of nationalities\nand of the free existence of small\ncountries; as long as they have -iot\nbrought about a settlement calculated\nto end once and for all forces which\nhave constituted a perpetual menace\nto the nations and to afford the only\neffective guarantee for the future of\nthe world.\n\"In conclusion, the allied powers\nthink it necessary to put forward the\nfollowing considerations which show\nthe special situation of Belgium after\ntwo and a half years of war. in virtue\nof the international treaties signed by\nfive -great European powers, of whom\nGermany was one, Belgium enjoyed before the war a special status,. rendering her territory inviolable and placing her under the guarantee of the\npowers outside all European conflicts.\nShe was, however, in spite of these\ntreaties, the first to suffer the aggression of Germany. For this reason the\nBelgian government thinks it necessary to define the aims which Belgium\nhas never ceased to pursue while fighting side hy side with the entente powers for right and justice.\nCase of Belgium.\n\"Belgiui* i always has scrupulously\nfulfilled the duties which her neutrality\nimposed upo.i her. She has taken up\narms to defei.-d her independence and\nher neutrality '\u25a0 -iolated by Germany\nand to show that she remains faithful\nto her international obligations.\n\"On the fourth of August, 191.4, in\nthe reichstag the German chancellor\nadmitted this aggression constituted\nan injustice contrary to the laws of\nnations, and pledged himself   in   the\nTHF WONDERFUL\nFRUITJPICINE\nThousands Owe Health And\nStrength To \"Fruit-a-tives\"\n\"FRUIT-A-TIVES'', the marvellous\nmedicine made from fruit juices \u2014 has\nrelieved more cases of Stomach, Liver,\nBlood, Kidney and Skin Troubles than\nany other medicine. In severe cases\nof Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago,\nPain in the Back, Impure Blood, Neuralgia, Chronic Headaches, Chronic\nConstipation and Indigestion, \"Fruit-\na-tives\" has given unusually effective\nresults. By its cleansing, healing\npowers on the eliminating organs,\n\"Fruit-a-tives\" tones up and invigorates the whole system.\n50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25c.\nAt all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-\na-tives Limited, Ottawa.\nname of Germany to repair it. During\ntwo and a half years this injustice has\nbeen cruelly aggravated by the proceedings of the occupying forces, which\nhave exhausted the resources of the\ncountry, ruined its industries, devastated its town and villages and have\nbeen responsible for innumerable massacres, executions and imprisonments.\n\"At this very moment while Germany\nis proclaiming peace and humanity to\nthe world, she is deporting Belgian citizens by thousands and reducing them\nto slavery. *^^^P\n\"Belgium before the war asked for\nnothing but to live in harmony with\nher neighbors. Her king and her government have but one aim\u2014the re-\nestablishment of peace and justice. But\nthey only desire peace which would assure to their country legitimate reparation, guarantees and safeguards for\nthe future.\"\nNORWAY   UNEASY  ABOUT\nTHE U-BOAT WARFARE\nCHRISTIANA, Norway\u2014As a result\nof the German submarine warfare, a\nthreatening situation has arisen regarding the 'North Sea area. Norway, as the most democratic nation\nin northern Europe, has always\" during her history displayed great sympathy for Great Britain and France.\nThese sympathies are to be explained\nalike by racial affinity, the intercourse\nand exchange of ideas, covering a long\nperiod, and all the links which bind\ntogether two ancient seafaring peoples. During the war the attitude of\nNorway has, of course, been materially affected by the fact that the\nchief trade of the country was carried on with Great Britain, and Norway, as a food-importing country, is,\nto some extent, dependent upon that\npower which commands the North Sea.\nCommercial interests, as well as natural sympathy, therefore, influenced\n-Norway in regarding with forbearance many of the restrictions imposed\non her trade hy the British, though\nthese were not always tactfully enforced.\nIndirectly the war has resulted in\nNorway rendering great service to the\nallies. Before the war she was the\nthird seafaring nation in the world,\nas regards tonnage, and after the German shipping trade had been put a\nstop to, Norwegian shipping ranked\nonly second to \"Great Britain. Of this\nshipping, not more than 10 per cent\nof the tonnage was used in coastal\ntrade, 90 per cent being devoted to the\nworld's trade in general, and at the\npresent time dt may be said to be\nentirely in the service of the allies.\nThis fact, together with the sympathy\nbetween Norway and the allies already\nreferred to, has induced the Germans\nto wage a more persistent submarine\nwarfare against Norway than against\nany other neutral country. In fact,\nduring the past few months there have\nbeen more Norwegian than British\nships sunk. Great Britain possesses,\nat least in home waters, the protection of her navy, while in more distant\nparts, the British mercantile ships are\narmed, and are thus able to defend\nthemselves against the undersea boats:\nBut the Norwegian vessels, as neutral craft, have no protection at all.\nThe result is that the German submarines have carried on this ruthless warfare against Norwegian ships, on the\npretext that they carry contraband\nfor the allies.\nA great portion of the carrying trade\nbetween Archangel and the west, has,\nas before the war, been m Norwegian\nhands. By mutual agreement Norwegian ships have never accepted war\nmaterial for Russia. 'Nevertheless,\nGermany would like to put a stop to\na great deal of v8k trade. For this\npurpose German submarines find Norwegian waters extremely convenient\nas a hase of operations, and the difficulties in the way of effectively controlling the long, rugged and thinly\npopulated coast, are only tvfo obvious.\nWhile, in these days of conditional\ncontraband the Norwegians, true to\ntheir judicial nature, stand out. for\ntheir rights, and claim that only a\nprize court is entitled to decide whether a cargo is contraband or not, the\nGermans have very good reasons for\nnot .attempting to convoy captured\nmerchant vessels from the north of\nNorway to the Elbe. The submarines\ntherefore take the law into their own\nhands and sink Norwegian ships at\nsight, sometimes without the slightest warning, and in almost all cases\nthe crews of the sunken vessels have\nbeen exposed to serious dangers, 'being\nturned adrift in open boats in the Arctic ocean. As a result, several Norwegian seamen have succumbed to\nthis exposure. Up to Oct. 26, the losses in the Norwegian merchant service\namounted to 147 steamers of a total\ngross registered tonnage of 218,206\ntons, and 56 sailing vessels totalling\nover 40,000 tons. These losses represent more than 10 per cent of Norwegian merchant tonnage. Under the\nstate scheme of insurance their value\nwas estimated at about \u00a3 5,600,000*, and\n155 lives have been lost. Germany's\ndeliberate aim, it appears, is to force\nthe Norwegians to abandon their cargo trade, and thus indirectly to embarrass the allies, and especially Great\nBritain, by accentuating still further\nthe growing shortage of tonnage.\nThough there is practically no doubt\nthat German submarines have used\nNorwegian territorial waters to reach\nWE  WISH   YOU\nA  HAPPY  AND  PROSPEROUS\nNEW YEAR\nSmillie&Weir\nthe scene of their operations in the\nArctic ocean, no direct evidence has\nas yet come to hand. But the suspicion that they really violate 'Norway's neutrality in this way in order\nto be able to torpedo allied ships and\nneutral ships with allied cargoes\nmight, from the Norwegian point of\nview, form a pretext for allied warships to enter Norwegian water to\nsearch for hidden German submarines.\nAs a precautionary measure, therefore, and in order to preserve a strict\nneutrality, the Norwegian government\nb take special measures to save the\n<rews.\nIf the German submarines cannot\nehave like other warships, the Norwegians argue, they cannot be treated\nike other war ships.\nUndoubtedly the Germans reckoned\nipon the support of the Swedish government, and thought that Norway\nivould not hold out in deference to her\nastern neighbor. They appear, ho\n^ver, to have misjudged the terr\niment of all three Scandinavian\ntions. It was Sweden which, at\nfirst  meeting    of    the    Scandinavian\nprohibited the submarines of any bel- kings in 1915, proposed that their\nligerent nation entering Norwegian wa-three countries should adopt identical\nters. unless in distress. measures   with   regard   to   belligerent\nNow Sweden adopted exactly the submarines, but at that time neither\nsame measure some months ago, with- Denmark nor Norway was prepared to\nout the slightest protest on the part accept that proposal. Subsequently,\nof Germany, but the Norwegian mea- Denmark mined her own waters and\nsure, curiously enough, .brought forth the Belts in particular; and this year\na furious German protest, on the Sweden took even more elaborate pre-\nground that this prohibition had been cautions to insure respect for her neu-\nadopted   under  British   pressure,   andjtrality.    It was thus hardly to be ex-\nwas    therefore,      specially      directec\nagainst Germany,\nThe Germans also contend that t<\ndiscriminate between the various kin<\nof warships, and regards neutral hos<\npitality, and thus put the German sub;\nmarines at a disadvantage, contra\nvenes international law. To these con\ntentions the Norwegians point out tha\nin the first place German and othe\nbelligerent submarines will be treate\nexactly alike, and in the second plac\nthe Germans themselves discrimina1\nbetween submarines and ordinary w?\nships, by pretending that submarine\nowing to their special constructio\nCannot be obliged like other war shi3\nto  bring their  prizes  into  harbor *r\npected that Sweden would relinquish\nthe standpoint which she was the first\nto uphold, and even the pro-German\npress in Sweden has supported Norway's attitude.\nIt would, indeed, seem as though the\nScandinavian solidarity had at last\nturned the tide of German propaganda\nin Sweden. The influence of.the \"Activists\" is already on the wane. The\nallied offensive for the first time shook\npublic faith in a German victory. The\nfriction with the western powers has\ngiven way to a better understanding,,\nand at the moment of writing a Swedish commission is in London to discuss the question df trade between the\ntwo countries.\nOut Today\nNew Victor Records\nfor lanuary\nThe New Year brings -most desirable list of Victor Records\nwhich will delight you.\nAMEL^  GALLI-CURCI\nThe marvellous new Itian Soprano, whose singing has captivated European and Sou American audiences has just made\nher first Victor Records.\nRigoletto\u2014Caro  nome alian    Amelita Galli-Curci 74499\nLa Partida  Spanish Amelita Galli-Curci 74500 |   \"\nBEAUTIFUL  RCORD  BY  McCORMACK\n\"Love, Here is My Hec\" (64623), sings John McCormack, to\none of the most joyous re fins that ever this genial tenor chose\nto sing.\nANOTHER LUCK-HOMER  DUET\nA duet by the.se artists always hailed with delight and this\none is most pleasing.\nLong, Long Ago Alma Gluck-Louse Homer 87267\nFarrar sings \"The H*' City\"; Maud Powell plays \"Love's\nDelight\"; and many otherelections are given by such artists as\nCaruso, de Gogorza, RuffiWhitehill, Williams and Witherspoon.\nNearly'O others including\n16 popular song hits 6 stirring band renderings\n6 enticing dance number 8 vocal records\n14 miscellaneous instrumtal       2  comedy specials\nselections 2 educational\n2 splendid orchestra nurers       2 choruses\nHear them t any \"His Master's\nVoie\" dealers'\nAlways look for iis Master's Voice\" Trade Mark\nWrite for freeopy of 450-page Musical Encyclopedia  lislg over  6000  Victor Records.\nBerliner Grai-o-phone Co., Ltd.\n844-'258\n137  Loir  Street,  Montreal.\nMade in Canada  One Prifrom Coast to Coast  Played Everywhere\nDealers)  Every Town and City\n\"His MasterWoice\" Nelson Dealers\nRUTHERFORD   DRU<CO.,\nLimited, Baker S\u00bbet\nMASON   &   RISCH,   Limited,\nAnnable Block, Ward Street.\nLargest Vic^r Dealers in Canada\nCOMPLETE 1NE   ALWAYS   ON    HAND\nMASOIN& RISCH, L*td.\n\"The hmeofthe Victrola\"\nANNABLE   BLOCK, \\   WARD   STREET NELSON,   B.C.\nf\n MbWbAV, JANUARY 1, 1917.'    f    :\n. miiii'.i i i'' '    \" 'Ti'\nffHE DAIL^NE\nrww\nWE WISH  EVERYBODY A\nHAPPY AND PROSPEROUS\nNEW YEAR\ncap?\nft\nStar Grocery\nPHONE   10\n*****\u00bbr****i*\"\nCOAL,\nOwing  to the  advance  in  cost,\n'-\"'- the price of coal ia now:\nPer, toil  SI0.00\nPer halt ton SB.2B\nCASH MUST; ACCOMPANY\n'7     ALL ORDERS\nWest Transfer\nCompany\nRWWME 33\nAGENTS\n'-     FOR THE BEST IN\n|Cigar8, Cigarettes\nand Pipes\nse Goto\nTHURMAN'8 CIGAR 3T0RE.\nBIG INCREASE IN\n'     CUSTOMS FOR YEAR\n|Collection.  Are  $62,184   Higher\u2014Fig-\n'\u25a0afira for Month of December Shew- W\nif. Drop of $2891. -. *'\n_*^(Speclal to The Dally Nows.)\nTRAIL, B. C.i Dec. 31.\u2014There is an\n\u25a0 Increase In the customs collections for\nIthe year 1916 of \"162,184 over the year\n11915,'. The figures are: Jan,'1, to Dec.\nIll, 1106,759.1\u00ab, compared with. $44,-\n1675.16 for 1916.,    '\n1 'For the moqth of, December, 191G,\n\u25a0there was a decrease In thoVeturns of\n\u25a01*9891,22, the flgurqp    being   $8313.19,\n\u25a0 compared with 111.204.38 for Decem-\nI ber, 1915.\nHARROP NOTES.\nj (Special to The Dally News.)\nHARROP, B. C, Dec. 31\u2014Miss Mc-\niGrogor  is  spending  the   holidays  at\nI her home in Kaslo.\nI    CV. D.  Ogilvie  of Grand, Forks    Is\nI spending several days with his family.\nI    Mr, and Mrs. J. Mackreth are vlslt-\nI Ing itholr son, A. Mackreth, at Broad-\nI water. Arrow lakes.\nI    Mys. J. Cadzow   cntertaiuod   Miss\nI Fawpett of Kaslo over Christmas.\n1    Fiipnk Hamilton has returned from\nI Slntaluta, SaBk:, where he  has been\nI Btnao last; spring.\nI Miss Gladys Ogilvie arrived from>\nI Phoenix Sunday to spend Christmas\nI wltfi. her parents,\nHockey Shoes\nFOR THE     - \u25a0 ,\nMEN\nLADIE8\nAND\nCHILDREN\nAsk for the . Famous\nLightning Hitch    '*'\nSkates\nSharpened\nR. Andrew & Co.\nLEADERS IN FOOT FASHION\nAsk for ticket with your purchase.   A pair of $5 Shoes given\n\u25a0away every week. Winning number last week, 12064\n\"jK(^ena^mdBdt^\n\u25a0 \u00abM\u00abM> \u00ab\u00bb MtMIH a 00 Ull MMI .*\u25a0\u00bb \u00bb.*\u25a0\u00bb \u2666 a ' \u2666 < > ' * 1*\nfruitvale rep qrq88 ,,\n\u25a0 Workers have box sale\n(Special to T^e Daily News.)\nFBUIT-VAliBi B, T!.; Dec. 28,\u2014The\n'Women's auxiliary, of the, 'Red Cross\nheld a most, successful box, social in\nthe. school house on Tuesday..eyening,\npte. IJ. Cojebrook, w.ho has been, in-,\nvallded home from France, gave a very\nInteresting talk on the Bed Cross work\nat the front and in England, which was\ntvery much appreciated by, the large\naudience present, Dancing was kept,\nup till the earls; morning hours. The.\nsale of boxes realized $30 to bo applied\nto the .fund. This branch has. forwarded $830 to the head office during\nthe past year.\nF U R 8\nGuaranteed high class furs, nice selection kept in stock or made to order\nfrom selected 'skins. Customers' furs\nmade up, remodeled and repaired.\nSkins dressed and mounted at moderate prices. Best price paid for raw skins.\nG. GLASER, Manufacturing Furrier,\n410 Ward St., Nelson, B. C.   Phone 106\nPROCTOR SOCIAL HELD IN\nAID OF RED CROSS FUNDS\n(Special to The Daily Nows.)\nPROCTOR, Dec. 31.\u2014A social in aid\nof tho Red Cross funds was held In\nGullup's hall on Thursday, when $23\nwas collected. Prizes for the whist\ntfrive wero won by Mrs. A. G. Gallup\nand J. McKay, consolation prizes go-\n}n% to, Mrs. F. Coglo and Capt. J. Fer-\n^usQl\u00bbP:4n the raffle a cushion was won\n:by. Miss j&ilafcay, a variety bag by P.\nColes, a.pair of bedsocks by O. P. Ap-\npleton.\" A. purebred White Leghorn\nrooster, donated by J. McKay, was won\nby Mrs. 13. Marrlfleld, und a guessing\ncompetition for the weight of the contents of a box.by Miss Marjorie Severn.\nOn Friday, Dec. 22, Miss Woods, tho\nschool teacher, and her pupils \"gave a\nChristmas party in Gallup's hall.\nGames were played in the afternoon,\nufter which tea was served, and a\nwell laden Christmas tree was stripped\nby Santa Claus. In tho evening thero\nwas a dance which was kept going till\nmidnight.\nSergt. H. Severn and Pte. P. F. Coles\nof the 225th battalion, C. E.F., hnve\nbeen spending their furlough here for\nChristmas week, and leave early next\nweek for camp at New Westminster.\nMrs. J. R. Redpath of Pincher Creek,\nwho has registered at the Outlet hotel\nwith he.' family for tho winter, has\nbeen spending the week with her mother, Mrs. Botterell, at the Stratchona\nhotol, Nelson.\nMiss Watson of Pincher Creek arrived last week and ls registered at the\nOutlet hotel.\nMr. and Mrs. J. Grundy arrived\nfrom Ainsworth nnd Mr. nnd Mrs. E. A.\nWalton from Silverton for Christmas\nweek.\nMOYIE   NOTES\nMOYIE, B. C, Doc. 27.\u2014Mrs. T. H.\nMilne of Vernon, B. C, on her return\ni mm a visit with friends In Godcrich,\nOtii., spent Christmas In Moyie as\nMrs. W. H. Laird's guest,\nMiss Lily Conrad ls visiting friends\nIn Missoula, Mont.\nMessrs. Taylor, West and Holland\nvisited friends in Kimberley for\nChristmas.\nMiss Y. Martin spent Christmas tn\nMoyie.\nJamos Ayre spent the holidays with\nhis family in Fertile..\nMidnight service was held in the\nCatholic church on Christmas eve,\nMrs. .lames Wright of Rossland\nvisited friends ih Moyie this week.\nF. \"J. Wrlghtson returned from Calgary Saturday.\nGood housekeepers use-\nBest grocers sell-   N\nTaylor\nBrands-\nPride of Alberta\nMother's Favorite\nWANETA  CONTRIBUTES\nTO PATRIOTIC FUND\n(Special to The Daily News.)\nWANETA, B. C, Dec. 29.\u2014The local\nbranch.of the patriotic fund collected\nduring November the sum of $19.65. The\ncontributors were: Miss J, M. Wright,\n$t; John .Sterling. 50 cents; A. G.Lang,\nIX; Itenry Adie, |1; Andrew Adie, II;\nMrs. Adie, |2; Fred Adie, |5; W. J.\nWhite, |1; J. W. Falls, IS; Whist\nclub $3.15; A. S. Young, |1.\nPupili Give Concert.\nAt the closing exercises In connection with the Nine-Mile creek school\nthe pupils,, besides exhibiting, proficiency in their oral examinations afforded enjoyment to parents and\nfriends present with a pleasing program of recitations, songs and physical drill, The teacher, Miss J. M,\nWright, has gone for the holidays to\nher home nt Canoe, B. C.\nMrs. A. J. Sinter Is visiting Mrs.\nJ. R. Crnlg In Trail.\nGeorge Galbralth and Adam Armey\nfrom Vulcan, Altn., are visiting Miss\nGalbralth at Waneta.\n4     \u2022 :     B\u00a3LFORD   NOTES,\n(Special to The pally-News.)'\n. On , Thursday, Dec. .21, tho, teacher\nand'pupils of Belford.school hejtlthe}^\n.closing, ejiercltjes.,. which .were much en-\nJoyed by parents ntt'wpil, as.'pupils.\nThe pupils ..rendered a short but good\nprogram of, instrumental ,music, sliig;\n.Ing, dialogues and recitations suitable.\n.to the Christmas.season. Lunch,,which\n.was provided by the parents, wns then\nserved, after which all Jpi.ned In'tfumes,\netc., until about 0 o'clock.\nMiss V, A. Chastenoy is spending her\"\nholidays with her parents lii Vancouver,-\nPte. H, Liivdblad, of the 225th battalion, New Westminster, is spending\nhis'holidays under the\" parental,roof.\nMrs. A.'.T. Laviolette left Dec, 18 for\na three months' visit, to Chicago, hnd\nother eastern' points.\nMrs. W. Shaw and family spent -Friday! in town, where they attended the\nChristmas tree provided for the soldiers! children,\nMrs, George Robinson gave another\nsuccessful tea in aid of the Bed Cross;\nFINE SPECIMEN OF LYNX\nCAUGHT AT BENTON SIDING\n(Special to The Dally News.)\nBENTON SIDING, B. C, Dec. 31\u2014\nThomas Dowd caught a fine lynx on\nChristmas day. He says it is a record\nof bad luck for him. Never before has\nhe taken less than two lynx at this\ntime and ono year he managed to get\n11. Weather signs this year are so\nmixed that not even an experienced\ntrapper can forecast the length and severity of the winter,\nMr. and Mrs B. L. Rash, with\ndaughter, Marie, were visitors here this\nweek from Fruitvale.\nMr. and Mrs. C. H. Hookings left\nFriday for an extended visit to friends\nin Bermuda. They embark on the\nBermudlan from New York.\nMrs. Leonard Wood and daughter,\nEdith, left Friday to visit Mrs. Wood's\nparent, Mr. and Mrs. Scovll, at Apple-\ndale, B. C.\nSANTA CLAUS IS GOOD\nTO, DENORO CHILDREN\n(Special to The Daily News.)\nDENORO, B.C., Dec. 27.\u2014A most en\njoyable evening was spent on Christ\nmas night when the inhabitants or\nDenoro gathered together in the bunk\nhouse (Emma mine) with was beau\ntifully decorated for the occasion.\nSanta Claus arrived on time to the\ngreat delight of the children and pro\nceeded to hand out the beautiful gifts\nwhich adorned the Cristmas tree, after\nwhich there wero refreshments and a\ndance. Mr. Warren of Eholt provided\nthe music, which was all that could\nbe desired, and W. Miller acted as\nmaster of ceremonies. The ladles in\ncharge of tho Christinas tree and r\nfreshments carried out their duties\nin an excellent manner and wore ably\nassisted by S. Young, Charles Demp-\nsey, Eric Hammar nnd otrters.\nTRAIL LADIES DO HONORS\nAT LEAP YEAR DANCE\nTRAIL, B.C., Dec, 30.\u2014A.successful\nleap year dance wiui held last evening\nIn Swartz hnll by a number, of young\nladles of tho city. The affair was. a.\nnovel one, the ladles doing the honors\nusually assigned to the gentlemen,'\neach lady paying the, admission, charge\nwhile the gentlemen were admitted\nfree. One of the most amusing situu\ntlons of tho evening wns that caused\nby the gentlemen pvesont patiently sl't:\nting around the hall waiting, the ladies1\ninvitation lo dance. About 75 couples\ntook pnrt fn tin- dancing. , The hum\nber of leap yenr'proposals'made during\nthe evening Is not mentioned.\nROSSLAND NEWS.\n(Special to The Daily News.)   u\nROSSLAND, B. C\u201e Dec. 31.\u2014.T. J\nLefoo of Revelstoke is the guest of\nMr. and Mrs. ,1. A. Caley.'\nMiss Christina Lursou Und her\nbrother , A. Larson, are spending New\nYear at their home here.\nA most successful concert nhd\nChristinas tree wns held last night In\nthe St. George's parish rooms. A large\nnumber of children enjoyed the cveiv\niog nml much credit Is due Miss Florence Saundors for the success of the\nenlcitninmeni. '\nThe remains of the late Mrs. PureeU,\nmother of M, E. Purcell, superintendent of the Centre Star mine, were\ntaken from the hospital this morning\nlo the Groat Northern depot, whence\nthey were shipped to Cociir d'Alene,\nwhere the Internment will take place.\nMiss Olga Freeman returned today from visiting frlepds at Trail.\nA Paulson of the 225th buttulion ar\nrived iu the city Saturday to spend\na lew days with friends here.\nMiss Llty and Blanche Buxendule\nwont to Trail Saturday morning to\nylslt their sister, airs. Bisset..\nMiss Genevieve George of Trail. is\nspending thi! holiday at her home here.\nMrs. n. H. Johnstone entertained a\nnumber of the young people to a skat\nIng party on Thursday afternoon foi\nlowed by a house party from 5 tu,S\no'clock. Refreshments-wore served at\n5:30 after which the young guests indulged in dancing, games and music\nThose present were Edith and Helen\nTownsend, Edith and Esther Peters,\nMay and Letltla Wilkes, .Muy Gllmour,\nAlice Archibald, Edith and Billy Ter-\nnnn, Adelaide and Stephen Atkinson,\nMaurice Wadds, Lome Campbell. William Slllston, Molly and Havelock\n.Johnstone.\nMrs. Gunning entertained at a child\nren'n party on Wednesday afternoon\nand Mrs. Giiinour on Friday afternoon,\nDRAINAGE TO  RECLAIM\nSWAMPS OF N. CAROLINA\nFarms to Be Laid Out on 45,000 Acres\nof Bogs\u2014175 Miles of Ditches to\nBe Constructed.\nRALEIGH, N. C\u2014 Forty-five thousand acres of swamp land near Bel-\nhaven in the enstern part of the state,\nwhich it is proposed to reclaim by\ndrainage, using the reclaimed lands\nas a nucleus for colonization purposes\non a scale never before attempted in\nthis state, have been purchased by\nNow York investors. The purchasing\ncompany has been incorporated as the\nNorfolk Southern Farms and Is headed by Mark W. Potter, prominent Now\nYork investor and lawyer and president of the Carolina, CInchfleld *\nOhio railroad.\nThe large acreage of the proposed\nfarm will permit plans for the operation of a packing house and grain\nelevators which will assure a market\nfor all products. It ls said thnt tho\ncompany will operate and manage the\nfarms for purchasers of small tracts\nwhich will bo sold after tho land Is\nthoroughly developed nnd put in thorough shape. Regular shipments of\npork and beef are expected to be sent\nin carload lbts to Now York.\nTho | drainage of this great tract\nof land wtl! Involve the digging of 175\nmiles of ditches. The land Is in the\nfamous \"black belt\" that Is regarded\nas part of tho richest farming land in\nthe country. Its rich, black soil, from\nthree to seven feet thick, contains from\n50 to SO per cent vogetablo matter. It\nIs not unusual for more than 100 bushels of corn to be raised on each acre\nof adjoining lands thnt havo been\nbrought into cultivation. In addition\nto corn, these lands arc now producing phenomenal crops of potatoes, cow\npens, soja beans, winter rye, oats, cotton, peanuts, alfalfa nnd clovers.\nSoy beans, cow peas, crimson clover, vetch, winter wheat, oats and rye,\nsown In the corn at tho last cultivation, furnish excellent grassing throug-\nout the winter, so thnt the land will\ngrow tho best of stock foods,the entire year. The long season permits a\nspring crop of potatoes, followed by\na summer crop of corn, and the fall\nand winter clover crops reforred to.\nIt is stated on authority that crops\ngrown while the land is being cleared\nby cutting, and burning tho standing\nlimber will mare t(iari pay for the expense of reclamation. Tho lands at\nIhe pi-puna tlmo carry a dense growth\nof tieos umi shrubs,   They arc cleared\nburning them where they fall. The\nfirst year's burning disposes of ev^ry^\nthing except the larger logs and the\nstumps. Immediately after tho first\nburning corn Is planted or \"stuck\"\namong the logs, without their removal\nby dropping kernals In small holes\nmade.by a stick and the yield Is-about\n30 b'ishcis to the ncrc without cultivation]\nTho second nnd third year the land\nis -again burned and planted In tho\nsame manner. The fourth year, as\nmust of the logs and stumps have softened up, the land Is cleared at slight\nexpense and put under the plow. '\nApproximately 10,000 acres of ad\nJoining lands have been brought Into\ncultivation during the Inst five years\nand are yielding upwards of 100 bushels of corn without the use of fertilizer or lime and with only Indifforent\ncultivation. These lands He between\nAbemnrle and Pamlico sounds.\nIRIAL LINES IN  NEAR\nHUTU RE ARE PREDICTED\n,nf\u00bb\nuld Lead to More Beau-\n, It l> Said\u2014Better\nnine Plana\n^^sss^^a^fBOa^aam^^W\nWASHtW'flioN, D. C.\u2014A feature of\ntho recent session of the conference of\nthe AmfJlpan^ivlQ association was a\nlalk on the Influence of the development of air fligh-t oil the growth of\ncities by Henry Wood^iouse, delegate\nappointed bjr lG^ernOT\\Whttman of\nNew York. Mr. Wopdljduse Is a member of the boVd of gAvemors of the\nAero Club of America- anft the American institute of Efficiency.\n\"The time has cofhe,\" he said, \"when\nevery city must establish aerodromes,\nterminals where aircraft passengers\nand merchandise can land. Considering -that we have aeroplanes capable\nof traveling easily at a speed of 125\nmiles an hour, others capable.of lifting J5 tons and that the development\nIn aeronautics proceeds at a tremendous pace, we must admit that the\naerodrome Is as logical an Institution in a city as the railroad station.\nWe are growing near to the time when\nwe shall have alr-llners. We have the\nengineers to build them, large reliable motor? to drive them, Instruments\nto operate them, the aviators to pilot\n\u2022them. There are also financiers ready\nto, finance the establishing of air linos\ndud operate scores of these big liners.\nAll 'this, reminds us that today aircraft by making every placo an aero\nport, also makes it Imperative to\nhavo anti-ntrcraft defenses for every\nplace.\n. \"Aerial transportation will lead to\nbeautifying tho tops of cities and\ntowns. Elevated terminals will ,come\nwith the employment of dirigibles first\narid then with the advent of the hovering aeroplane, which does not yet exist but is sure to come, the present\nhigh, frames of buildings, such as the\nQrarid Central nnd Pennsylvania stations In' New York, will be fitted as\nnero landing places.\"\nReal estate speculation, with Its\nenormous proflts^and exploitation risks\nmust give way to home building\nbacked with adequate capital and economical factory methods, if the AmeriT\ncan city of the future is to house its\nIndustrial population under circumstances which will eliminate tendencies toward vice, crime and degeneracy, according to a paper by Dr.\nJohn Nolen of Cambridge, Mass., read\nnt the onventlon Friday morning.\n\"Housing is big business,\" said Dr.\nNoten's paper, \"and should be handled\nas such, More than $2,000,000,000 is\nspent in the United States for\ndwellings ench year and a large percentage of them are poorly conceived\nfor their purposes and fully 80 per\ncent are of wood. Usually, in such\ndwellings, there is excessive depreciation and a fearfully costly fire risk.\nEither the cost of the house and lot\nmust be substantially reduced or tho\nstandard of healthful living must bo\nlowered or the wages of tho poorest\npaid workmen must be raised. I believe the solution lies in recognizing\nthat the subject ts primarily ono for\nthe right application of broad economic principles. This great change\nIn housing methods will come, if It\ndocs come, from' the substitution, for\nexploitation and excessive returns, of\nreasonable profits of business, from\nthe transferring of housing from the\nfield of speculation to that corresponding to lcgltimnte manufacturing.\"\ni\nDESIRE TO THANK THEIR MANY CUSTOM CUSPOft\nTHEIR-LIBERAL PATRONAGE1 DURING THE PAST\nYEAR, AND TRUST THAT THEIR USUAL GOOD VALUES AND COURTEOUS TREATMENT WILL MERIT A\nCONTINUANCE OF THE SAME FOR THE COMING.\nYEAR 1917.\nMEAGHER & CO. ALSO WISH ALL THEIR PATRON8 A\nMOST HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW. YEAR\nM\nMgr, Joseph Emard, bishop of Val-\nI'-vileM has addressed a circular\ntetter to the peoplo of his diocese,\ntouching the pope's letter on the school\nquestion and Canada's position in the\ngreat war. The voice of the pope,\nsays his lordship, must be heard and\nobeyed without reserve,\niRanchers   Do   Good    Business\u2014Large\nDisplay of Turkeys, Ducks, Geese\nand Chickens.\nClear' stalls were the closing order\nof tho day ut the public market Saturday, almost the entire showing of\nranch produce, meat and home cooking,\nbeing sold out before the morning's\ntrading concluded.\nThere was an especially fine showing of turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens, but no drop in price was to bo\nnoted. Prices held firm without giving any evidence of Immediate change.\nTho quotations follow:\nV\u00bbflflt\u00bbDl\u00bbt,\nPotatoes, per sack    1.75@2.00\nBeets, lb 02\nCarrots, lb 02\nMnti,\nTurkey 35% .40\nDucks    30\nGeese    30\nChicken   ....     28\u00ae .30\nRabbits, each   ,50\nSausages, lb 20\u00ae .25\nFresh mutton, lb   - .30\nLamb, lb 25@ .35\nTork, lb 157^ ,20\nHomo Smoked Ham, Ib ..    ,25@ .27\nBeef, lb 15@ .25\nVeal, lb 12\u00ae .25\nBeef steak 18\u00ae .25\nBeef, boiling 12\u00ae .15\nBeef, roasts 15\u00ae .22\nLive- Turkeys, Ib. 30@ .40\nHome smoked bacon, lb... .25\u00ae .27\nHome smoked shoulders, tb .22\u00ae .24\nChickens,       drawn      and\ndressed, lb 32\u00ae .35\nChickens, plucked,  lb 25\u00ae .27\nDairy Products\nI3ggs, per dozen GO\u00ae ,6*5\nButter   .50\nCream, per pint ........^. .28\nButtermilk, gallon .....M ,40\nIII health has forced Oeorge Slecman\nto forwnrd to the Guelph council his\nresignation as a member of tho parks\nand shades commission and of the light\nand heat commission. Mr. Slcoman\nhas been for years one of the outstanding figures In tho business and municipal life of the city since 1876, having served terms as mayor and in\npiany other capacities.\n; Joseph M. Green, 22 years of age,\nson of 'John C. Green, manager of the\nTemple theatre, Gait, was killed by\nbeing struck by a street car in Erie,\nPa.\nU. S. AND CANADA\nAS WORLD TRUSTEES\nTORONTO, Ont. \u2014The degree, of\ndocior of letters wus conferred upon\nDr.; J, A, Macdonald by tho college\nof Wooster, o., upon the occasion of\nthe Jubilee exercises nf that institu\ntion on Dec, 18, when he gave an address on \"Wooster l-'ifty Yours Hence.'\nIn the course of Ills speech, Dr. Macdonald said: \"The United States and\nCanada are trustees for alt humanity.\nBefore the world's Judgment seat we\nmust give account of our-stewardship.\nIt* Is In the power of their common\nideas, not by their cothmon ancestry\n\u2014their dominant Ideas of life and, of\nlaw and of liberty\u2014that tho American\ncolonies of Britain first separated In\ntheir thought from their mother country, and then united among themselves lu tho common struggle for the\nrealities of political self-government.\n\"Aud it is by their community of\ndominant Ideas, the Ideas whloh express themselves in their common Institutions of International law aad liberty and life, that these two self-governing nations of North America are\nbound together, indissolubly bound together, no matter what war spectres\nmuy hover about, for the defense and\nfor the supremacy of our North American civilization.\" .    ,   ,.\nWe wish to extend to our friends\nand clients our appreciation of\nbusiness entrusted to us during tho\nyear 1016 and also to extend to all\nOur best wishes for a\nHappy and\nProsperous\nNew Year\nSt Denis fit Lawrence\nSome 40 miles of railway have already been taken up. from the,government railway.system for shipment to\nFrance, They are from sidings In different parts of enstern Canada, and\nhave been laid dytvn at Halifax. The\nrailway tiopdHntent is now prepared tu\n\u00bbU# WV WIN ot m|lt} every. WwK\nTo Miners\nContractor! Fand Prospectors\nWe offer for njilo a fino complote\nsmall mining plant consisting of the\nfollowing: j!200 feet light railroad\ntrack, 7 jackknlfe dump carts, 20\nwheelbarrows, steel bowls; stationary upright ateutn engine, rotary\ngravel screen, all complete; Crescent\ncombination saw bench, completo;\n18-Inch Pelton water wheel with\nconnection, 750 feet lit-lnch wire\nrope, portable blacksmith forge,\ncomplete with tools; gin iblocks,\npinch bars, timber dollies, peuvlos,\naxo\u00bb, crosscut saws, pipe cutter,\ndrill steel, etc, etc.\nTerms: Cosh or time. For Information apply to\nO: F. WILLIAMS, LIMITED,.\n524 Seymour 8treet, Vnncouver, B.C.\nHoney.\nSyrup,. -aple, bottle\t\nSyrup, gallon \t\nHoney, comb, pound\t\nHoney, local clover, Jars..\nHoney. 1-lb. Jars\t\nLocal honey, in bulk, lb..\n.509 .60\n2.00\n,2B\n.3S\nM\n.26\nFruit\nApples, box,..' !-... 1.0001.75\nMlseeltaneouh\nHome-made Pickles, quart. .10\nHomemade bread, white .. M\nI loavea ,....\u201e M\nHomemade bread, brown.. .10\nI loavea ......... ....\u2014\u2014 Ji\nLayer cakes, each ~> JI\nChocolate cakes, 8x10 .... .SO\nRoseates, per dozen   \u25a0?\u00a3\u00bb\nFruit Cake, per lb.  .\u00bb\nOlder, per gal.   M\nCut Flowers, dozen    10@.26\nPotted plants, each 106 .26\nTea cakes, dozen 100 .16\nDrop cakes, dozen. \u2022*,.*\u2022\u2022*. \u2022**\u25a0\u2022*\nBuns, dozen ...-...-\u2022 v..\u2022\u2022* .11*'\nScones, doz ..\u25a0 -Mi'\nTea biscuits, dozen 10O .16\nCider vinegar, bottle ....- JI\nPot plants, each    .MB .11\nPies, 10-inch, each   JI\nCocoanut Macaroons, dozen ..       .25\nLocal full cream cheese, lb   .35\u00ae .40\nWINNIPEG WHEAT $1.7\u00bbi\/j.\n(By Dnlly News Leased Wire.)\nWINNIPEG, Dec. 30.\u2014Wheat: Dec.,\n$1.77; May, fl.mii.\nOats: Dec, 54Vi; May, 54'\/4.\nBarley: Doc, 87; May, $1.01.\nFlax:  Dec, $2.S9'\/4;  May, $2.68M.\nMACHINERY\nBoilers, EnglneB, Sawmills, Logging\nEngines, Mining Machinery, Bailway\nand Contractors' equipment bought and\nsold.\nVANCOUVER  MACHINERY DEPOT,\nLIMITED.\nVancouver,   B.   C.\nThe Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co.\nof Canada, Limited\nOffices, Smelting and Refining Department ___\nTRAIL,   BRITISH   COLUMBIA\nSMELTERS AND REFINERS\nPurchasers ol Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead Ores\nTRAIL BRAND  PIG  LEAD,  BLUESTONE  AND   SPELTER\nTHE NELSON IRON WORKS, Limited\nPARTIAL   LIST   OF   SECONDHAND   MACHINERY   FOR   SALE\nOne 36-ln. x 48-ln. Vertical Boiler.\nOne 20-h.p. Vertical Boiler.\nOne 100-h.p. Corliss Engine.\nOne 100-h.p. Ball Engine.\nOne 6x7 Vertical Engine.\nOne 20-h.p. Fairbanks Oil Engine.\nOne 8 x 10 Link Motion Hoist\nOne 6-h.p, Fairbanks Motor.\nOne Buffalo Forge Co, Fan.\nOne 46 K.W. Generator, D. C.\nOne Lot 8-in. Standard W.I. Pipe.\nOne 16 x 8 x 16 Knowles Sinking\n\u25a0 Pump.\nOne 7 x 10 Blake Crusher.\nOne Five-Ton Chain Block,\nOne Small Assayer'a Crusher.\nOne Small Gates Crusher.\nTwo Large Gyratory Crusher*.\nOne Hydraulic Elevator.\nOne 6 x 24 Surfacer and Matcher.\nKusa Spelter Company\nPurchasers of All Classes of Zinc Ores and Concentrates\nNewton W. Emmens, Representative\nCREDIT   FONCIER   BUILDING VANCOUVER,   B.  C.\nwsmmm\nBabbitt Metals\n\"XXXX NickelM      \"Copper Hardened\"\n\"Special No. 1 Railroad\"\nTHE   THREE   BEST   GRADES   FOR   ALL   ROUND   MINE   AND\nSMELTER  USE\nMade in B.C.\nGreat Western Smelting\nand Refining!Company\nVANCOUVER)  B.C.\n(The Largest White.Metal Concern in the World.)\n^^^^^^^mxS&MmBw&nW\nm\nMil\n ww*&?*\n\"r~\nPAOE POUR\niTHt^\/DAICy NEWS\nMONDAY, JAlr-.'.*r\nDAILY NEWS\nWished   every   morning   except\nlay by the News Publishing Com-\ny, Limited, Nelson, B, C, Canada.\nBOBB SUTHERLAND,\n;. General Manager.\nBusiness letters should be addressed\nand cheeks and money orders made\npayable to the News Publishing Company^ Limited, and In no case to individual members ot the staff.\nAdvertising rate cards and sworn\ndetailed statements ot circulation\nmatted on request, or may be seen at\nthe, office of any advertising agency\nrccofnlied hy the Canadian press\nAssociation.\nSubscription Rates\u2014By mall 50 cents\nper Month, $2.60 for six months, $6.00\nper year. Delivered: 60 cents per\nmonth, $3.00 for six months, $6.00 per\nyear, payable In advance.\nson and of $64,000 at Trail are good Indications of tho Improvement In the\ndistrict as a whole.\n-H\u2014\u2014\nMQNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1917.\nMAY; 1917 BE YEAR OF VICTORY\nFOR   LIBERTY,\nThe Dally News wishes all its renders a happy now year and that in 1917\nprosperity will aid them in the undertaking which Is nearest to everyone's\nheart\u2014that of assisting the Empire in\nwinning the war for liberty and humanity.\nNeV Year's day 1918 may or muy not\nfind the world at peace, but It docs\nnot require any great foresight lo anticipate that it will find the entente\nallies well on the way to decisive vlc-\ntory,'}which is more Imporlunt nn end\nthan peace. Decisive victory means\ntriumph over the forces of evil and\nWill give assurance of tho permanent\npeace, and security for which the entente' allies are fighting.\nENTENTE   REPLY   TO   GERMANY\nAND WILSON.\nThe entente reply to Germany's\nfalse and hypocritical pretensions toward' peace Is all that could be desired. Its terms leave no room for\ndoubt as to the determination of the\nallies Ho refuse to enter into negotiations which would either be futile or\ngive 'victory to Germany and mako in\nvain all the sacrifices of the entente\npeoples.\nIt speaks of Germany's \"pretended\"\nproposition of peace, exposes the Teuton attempt to lay upon the allies the\nresponsibility for the war and points\nout that Germany's pretensions to victory are- based upon the \"war map\"\nof Europe, which represents nothing\nmoro than a \"superficial and passing\nphase of the situation and not the real\nstrength of the belligerents.\"\nThe note recognizes the fact that\nGermany hopes to create dissension In\nthe entente countries and to Intlmi\nditto neutrals by veiled threats of s\nnew campaign of frightfulucss.\nIt concludes, after refusing \"to con\naider a proposal which is empty and\n-Insincere,\" by dealing with the case of\nBelgium, which although it represents\nonly one of Germany's crimes, is typl\ncal of all of them, proof enough that\nthere can be no enduring peace until\nthe German monster haa been crushed,\nThe entente note answers President\nWilson as well as the central powers.\nWrite It 1917.\nKing 1916 is dead; long live King\n1917.\nA summary of the \"war map1' of\nEurope shows that outside of Rumania\nthe entente troops have advanced considerable since Jan. 1, 1916.\nThe number of well-intentioned people who make good resolutions is always considerably greater than the\nnumber of strong-willed people who\nkeep them.\nIn a New Year messnge to his troops\ntho kaiser soys: \"The imperishable\nwarlike spirit lives in your ranks.\" As\nlong ns that spirit lives in the German\nnation permanent peace will be impossible. Only decisive military defeat\ncon kill It.\nDr. Charles F. Aked of San Fran\nCisco, pacifist, has found that his congregation will not stand for his efforts\nwhich, intentionally or not, tend to as\nsist Germany, His former church, the\nFirst Congregational has refused to\nrecall him and he will Inow preach from\nthe pulpit of a newly formed congregation of interdenomlnatlonists.\nThose who believed that the situation In Greece hod finally'cleared evidently were mistaken. The demand\nof the entente allies for an apology to\nthe entente flags for the treacherous\nattack on entente troops at Athens, the\ndismissal of the officer commanding\nthe 1st Greek army corps and other\nmeasures by King Constantino's government shows that the relations between Athens and the allies arc still\ncritical.\nX LORD BRYCE ON SLAVE RAIDS \\\nWHAT THE PRE88 18 SAYING.\n3\nA Pressing Need.\nNow that Mr, Lloyd George has become premier of Great Britain, we may\nexpect a recrudescence of interest in\nthe International Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman Car Porters George .\u2014Toronto News.\nNo Less  Hopeless.\nDiogenes took down his lung-unused lantern from Its rusted nail and\nstruck a match.\nAre you going to repeal your historical search for an honest man?\" one\nof his disptcles asked.\nNo,\" sighed the great cynic, \"but\nI'm going on an errand nn less hopeless. I'm going to search for a neutral.\"\u2014New  York  Life.\nLord Haldane, the former minister\nof war, who has been savagely attacked by a section of the press on nu\nmorous occasions since the war started hus again \\ been assailed in a\nwordy way, tliis time by a number of\nwell dressed women who called him a\ntraitor, a pro-German and worthy of\nbeing executed in the Tower of London. Probably lie will regard the incident as being in tlio day's work.\nTo offset such attacks he has the\npraise of Gen. French, among the\nothers, who not long ago stated that\nHaldane's work had been of Immense\nvalue to the nation from a military\npoint of view. And the field marshal\nis a qualified observer.\u2014Montreal Gazette.\n\"Nothing could be \"moro shocking\nthan tills wholesale carrying away ot\nmen from Belgium. I know of no\ncase in European history to surpassW.K\nNot even in the Thirty Years War wore |\nthero such things as tho German government has done, first and last,' in\nBelgium., The lost case is virtual, slavery. The act Is like ti-jat of those Aral*\nslavo raiders in Africa who carried off\nnegroes to tho coast to sell. And\nthe severity is enhanced 'becaAse these\nBelgians and the work forcibly extracted from them are going t{, he used\nagainst their own people.XHaving invaded Bolglum and murdered many\nhundreds, indeed even thousands,\namong them women and children, who.\ncould not be accused of 'sniping' the\nGerman military government dlslo\ncated the industrial system of the\ncommunity. They carried off nil the\nraw materials of industry nnd most of\ntho machinery in factories and then,\nhaving thus deprived the inhabitants\nof work, the Invaders used the unem\nployment as the pretext for deporting\nthem In very large numbers to placei\nwhere nothing will be known of their\nfate and they were not even allowed\nto take leave of their wives ond child\nren. Many of them may never be heard\nof again. And Von Blssing culls this\na humanitarian measure.\"\nActually, it is all a part of the invasion policy. They defend it us being \"war\" as they justify everything,\nhowever inhuman, done because the\nmilitary needs of Germany are alleged\nto call for it. It shows how hard\npressed the military power is begin\nning to find itself at this latest stage\nof the war. It Is said that Attilla when\nhe was bringing his host of Huns out\nof Asia for his great assault on west\norn Europe, forced the conquered tribes\ninto his army and made them a part\nof his invaders. I can hardly thing\nof a like ease since then. In principle\nIt resembles the Turkish plan when\nthey formed the Janissaries. The\nTurks used their Christian subjects,\ntaken quite young and made Moslems\nand enrolled as soldiers to fight\nagainst Christians) to fill their armies\nof which they wero the most efficient\npart. These Belgians are not Indeed\nactually made to fight, but they are\nbeing forced to do the labor of war,\nsome of them probably digging\ntrenches or making shells or working\nIn quarries to extract chalk to make\ncement for war purposes.\nThe carrying off of young girls\nfrom Lille wns terrible enough, and\nIt seemed to us at the time that nothing\ncould be worse. But the taking away\nof many thousands of the Belgian\npopulation rrom their homes to work\nagainst theif own countrymen, with\nall the mental torture that separation\nfrom one's family brings\u2014this is the\nmost shocking thing we have yet heard\nof. I have been shown in confidence\nthe reports received from Belgium of\nwhat has happened there. The details\ngiven and tlie source they come from\nsatisfied men of their substantial\ntruth; The very excuses the German\nauthorities are putting forward admit\nthe facts. I'll Belgian Luxemburg ]\nhear that they havo been trying to stop\nthe existing employment In order to\nhave an excuse for taking orf the\nmen.\u20141'ro-ttelgia.\n*frJT!g^*^w x^'&iP^tT^&ZTT*\nfBM\"H\"6LL cALi; cMftistMAs,\nfc\/1914, AND-CHRISTMAS, 1916\nDEDICATE  1917 TO  SERVICE   FOR\nTHE  EMPIRE.\nCanada enters the year 1!*17 with the\nknowledge that the primary purpose of\nits activities during the coming 12\nmonths .must be victory In the war.\nGreater efforts must be put forth,\ngreater sacrifices made, than during\nthe two and a half years of the\nstruggle which have passed. The ranks\nof the Canadian armies at the front\nmust he maintained at strength, tiie\nsupply of munitions for the entente\nforces must be tremendously increased,\ntho output of agricultural produce and\nraw material must he limited only by\ntho country's ability to produce. Funds\nmust bo provided in ample measure\nfor tlie pursuance of the war and for\nestablishment of credit for tho purchase by the Imperial government of\nmunitions and supplies in this country. Those funds can be provided out\nof the savings of the people and by\nIncreasing production, which means\ngreater revenue.\n\u2022ftr \"increased measure, also, must\nfunds bo provided for the maintenance\nof tne-families of soldiers on service,\nfor Red Cross supplies nnd comforts\narid tor the care of returned soldiers.\nThe year 1917 must be for Canada\na?year. of service, ,\nr*\nCOLD STORAGE.\nBRINGING    HOME    THE\nMEKSIBLE.\nSUB-\nTHE YEAR IN KOOTENAY AND.\nBOUNDARY.\nThe people of Kootenay and Ltoun\ndary can look back upon 1916, us ;\nyear in which the district added to Its\nsplendid .recruiting record, maintained\nits place of honor on the list of donors\nto the Canadian and other patriotic\nfunds and increased enormously its\noutput of metals needed for war mu\nnltions.\nIt was a year of prosperity for tho\nmining industry. Total output is not\nyet known but it was very much moro\nthan in 1915 and, In addition, development operations and improvements to\nplants were carried out which will\nmake for a still heavier production In\nthe future\nThe lumber output of tho district and\nsales in the prairie market was also\nmuch greater than In the previous\nyear while agriculture in all its\nbranches .continued to progress.\nCustoms collections are a good barometer uf general business conditions,\n^creases of $48,000 In receipts at Nel-\n*V\u00bb4\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nMarried couples would get along\nbetter if each would learn that the\nother is bound to he right a part of\nthe time.\n\"Can you make anything out of tho\nnews from Europe?\"\n\"Kasiest thing In tho world, I only\nread the newspapers every other day.\nIn tills way 1 get a connected story of\none side or the other and avoid the\ndenials.\"\nA Chicago woman who hud received\na legul summons to appear in a certain\ncourt at a certain period was put out\nthereby. In explaining tho matter lo\na friend, she said:\n\"I have certainly received the citation, but I shall not appear\u2014could not,\nIn fact. Not only am I not socially\nacquainted with Judge Jones, but the\nwhole tone of the communication is so\nImpossible that 1 absolutely refuse to\nknow him.\"\nAccording to their own account tho\nchildren were first In something at\nschool, ono was first in reading, another in arithmetic, another in sports,\nBertie alone remained silent.\nWell, Bertie, how about you?-' said\nuncle asked. Aren't you first In anything?\"\nYes.\" suld honest Bertie. 'I'm first\nOut of the (building when the boll\nrings.\"\nWillis\u2014What sort of a man is he?\nGlllis\u2014Well,   if   he   hud   a  country\nestate he'd  have Iho Katydids saying\nKaty  done   it,\"   before a week  was\nbut.\nTHE WEATHER.\n\u2022>\u2022\u2666-\u2022>\u2666\nMln.\nRlnx.\n23\n-2\n40\n28\n26\n25\n   2\n12\n23\n2G\n22\n18\n34\nM\n  23\n34\n32\n. 36\n24\n24\n3\nA Hamilton cltlsen has given $1,000\nto the parks board for making a paddling pool In one of the parks next\nsummer.  \t\nMiss Jane Anderson contributes to\nthe Times a fascinating story of cool\nbravery -and 'skilful -.seamanship in\na British submarine, The boat was\nbadly damaged by a mlno explosion,\nbut nevertheless made hor way\nback to port, a distance of nearly 300\nmiles. The following statement by\none of the officers is given below, as\nrecorded by Miss Anderson:\n\"You see,\" one of the officers explained to me, \"wc didn't know what\nhad happened\u2014the water was spurting in und broken glass was everywhere. We didn't know' how much\nof her was gone. We knew that\nevery man aboard her hod been\nknocked flat on his face, that the\nglass off the dials was rattling about\nunderfoot. But wc didn't know\nwhat was to become of us. We wero\nas far down as we could be, and, us\nfor getting up,\u2014well, it didn't look\nlike much of a chance,\n\"It was fine, you know, to see tho\ncrew. They got upon their feet and at\ntheir stations before tiie commander\nbad time to order them there. In two\nminutes the order to rise had gone\nthrough the engine room, lund the\npumps were going. Bpt whether we\nwere going lo rise or not remained to\nbe seen.\n\"It was still enough, down thero.\nafter all the noise of the explosion,\nYou could hear the motors turning-\nit's not much of a sound they make.\nBut we were glad enough to hear it\nAnd when we saw tlie bubble In tho\nclinometer was registering, and the\nInclination was becoming less, we\nknew that matters were not as bad\nus they might have been.\n\"Then they reversed the motors. Wo\nwaited. That was a bad minute. Then\nthe broken glass began to ruttle about\nagain.   Wo wero moving.\n\"We weren't long In getting up. At\nany time there's nothing like coming\nup into the air and sunlight after you\nhave been under for a bit. But this\nwns different. Yes, this was a hit\ndifferent. . . . Wo came up. In the\nsilence room there was the noise of tlie\nwireless speaking. The operator wai\ntesting it. At any rate, We were float.\nIng. So we started looking her over\nfor the damage.\"\nIt wns his ship he seemed to think\nof above nil other things. \"We found\nout what we'd come into,\" he said\nknew thut there was no mistake about\nthe mine. . . . Things didn't look\nparticularly promising. But it all came\ndown to whether we could make a port\nalone, or whether we couldn't.\n\"Tho wireless was working; that Is,\nwe could send; we couldn't receive, Wo\ntook a look at the .bow plating and at\nthe bulkheads. They looked pretty bad,\nhanging loose in strips. But wo decided we could make It. The engines\nwere right, nothing broken there. The\nperiscope was true. It was only her\nbow and her rudder that were gone.\n\"So we started -back. Wo drove\nalong under our own power. It was\na bit of a sea, but we made it. The\nwaves broke over the bridge and\npounded on tho one bulkhead we had\nleft  forward.\n\"And ho,\" he said, and smiled, \"wo\non mo home.\"\nCHrlstmas71914,'Tset my\"hand\"topen\nto chronicle some incidents of soldier-\n\\ing life in the new armies as experienced In Sussex by the sea In preparation for active service aboard. Christmas, 1915, and the same pen recorded a\nhunnish Christmastlde spent In the firing lino, along the line of La Bassee canal. Fritz was in troublesome mood;\nhe meddled with his poisonous gases;\nblew up a mine on our right and strafed us right* merrily; rivers of muddy\nwater knee deep in the trenches, rain\ncoming down, no rations coming up;\nhigh explosive shell tossing sandbags\nalong the line. Yet we managed to\nget the Christmas mall up\u2014some came\nfrom the Golden West. We were not\ndownhearted, only abjectly miserable\nfor the time toeing, and us a company\nwere practically intact; comrades of\nmany months training in the, green\nfields of England. True, \"Crumps,\"\nthe sanitary man, out of sheer bravado,\nhad \"crawled beyond the parados and\npaid for his tormlty with a shell-\ncrushed head, and brains splattering\ntho ground, thereby leaving a woman\na widow and five children fatherless.\nAlso, my left hand companion at dawn,\nscorning the periscope, raised his head\nbeyond the protecting sandbngs, and\ndied ere the crack of the sniper's rifle\ncould reach his ears. Some others,\ntoo\u2014\nBut what of Christmas, lfllfi? Boys,\nwhere are you all? Thero hos been a\ngreat mustering for the last roll call of\nail since Christmas last. Raymond\nDrew, \u25a0 an old Etonian, who came from\nout the teakwood forests of Burmah\nWhen the call reached him, and will\nnever again walk \"on the road to Man-\ndaiay,\" who cried, \"My God,\" and died\nwhen ti. jagged shell piece caught him\nIn the abdomen, as the whistle sounded\nthe advance. His llfeblood flowed in\ncrimson red over my equipment. Little\n\"Bunny\" Pierce, who ever carried his\nBible in his haversack, and its precepts in his heart, who led his section\nlike the little Grentheart he wns till\nhe crawled Into a shellhole wounded to\ndeath alongside of Fowler, our best\nloved officer, whom we never saw\nagain. \"Bud\" Fisher, who was exploring on the high tablelands of far Thibet In August. 1914, and puzzled tho\nrecruiting officer hy nominating his\nreligion ns \"Buddhist.\" The D. C. M.\nand the King's commission were his\nreward for rallying the men in an enemy trench atop Vimy ridge. From me\nhe borrowed IB francs whereby to celebrate his fortune, nnd stepped out of\nlife on a higher exploration when a\nbullet crashed Into his brain a few days\nlater. \"Borlasch of the Guard,\" of\nwhom I have written an earlier record,\nwith leg torn off by a chance shell, and\nwho for 10 minutes suffered the agonies of a torturing dissolution, crying,\n\"Mother, mother.\" Wheeler, the artist\nfrom New South Wales, who over\ncherished the hope, In darkest hours,\nof once again lying atop the cliffs of\nSydney Heads and watching the long,\ngray rollers hastening in to break in\nclouds of spray on the rocks below.\nThe D. C. M. was his earthly award,\nand now maybe he is one of those immortals M\n\"Wlio splash at a ten-league canvas.\nWith brushes of comet's hair,.\nWho work for an age at a sitting\n.nd never get tired ut all.\"\nImmy MarkEe from Vancouver island, carrying bombs to tlie crater line;\naccidental detonations left but little\narthiy tenement for a recklpss spirit.\nFreddy\" from the [\/Rand, who, from\nlistening post aggravated Fritz in opposing snphead by throwing lumps ot\nchalk at him, and at \"stand to\" the\nsame evening, trekked to tlie great beyond, a small, round hole in his forehead marking tho accurate aim of his\nrevengeful enemy. And old \"Bill\" (who\nknew his other name?) sniped in tlio\ndawn of a summer's perfect day, with\na bullet In his lung, he gurgled his life\naway through the age-long hours of a\nblistering day, and gave it up when\ntlie westering sun brought hopes of\npassngo back to where \"across the top\"\ntlie dressing station snuggled under\nthousands of sandbags. Van Tromn\u2014\n\"Van Tramp\" to all of us, wlio fought\nfor England in South Africa, a man of\nwealth, sporting a car nnd aeroplane of\nhis own in piping days of peace, Never\nagain will he roar along the old Roman\nroad to Bath with cut off open on his\nsmooth running motor bike, and tho\njoy of speed in ills*' heart. A shell\ncaught him as we dug for dour life itself on the crest of a hill, nnd mangled\nhim beyond recognition. Not very\npleasant reading, my friends, not a\ncameo of war, but war, grim, stork und\nmechanical, invested with all the dead\nHest devices of man-killing by means\nhitherto unimaginable. Names to you\nonly; but all sons of the Empire and\ncomrades of mine for 18 months and\nmore In billet, fn bivouac, and on fire-\nstep. For each a -woman maybe wont\nnigh the valley of tho shadow that he\nmight call her mother, and now\n\"For  those to whom the call  has\ncome\nWe pray Thy tender welcome home.\"\nThey will no more respond to the thrill\nof the \"wanderlust.\" Young to die,\nbut not too young to die a splendid\ndeath for England. Their lives and'\ncountless others, too, have -been laid\non the high altar of the supreme sacrifice, f\n\"No more old England will they see\nThose men! who've died for, you and\nme,\" \u00bb\nAnd the end Is not yet. Your kith and\nkin, your flesh and blood must still offer their bodies as a living rampart.to\nthe storm of shot and shell on England's frontier line. Your hearts are\nwith them this Christmastlde. Theirs\nare with you. -Day by day, the battle\nrages. Night by night the Very lights\ncrawl In long lines of flame to the sky\nand quick death flashes red from gun\nand cannon amid the horror of intermittent darkness. \"Equality of sacrifice.\" Havo you ever pondered tho\nmeaning of this war text? Without a\nmeasure of which, it may not be given\nto us to win the victory even now. The\nchief of tho imperial staff states \"We\nare not yet fully awake.\" And the third\nwar Christmas has como; the great\nshadow lies across England, and England beyond the seas. Not a \"Morrio\nChristmas\" can it be, hut yet a Christmas of hope; of a clarion call to unity\nand full effort of purpose against tho\ncommon foe, and then, shall now tho\nnew year mark the closing stages of\nthe world war, and the Christmas' bell\nof 1917 \"ring in the thousand years\nof peace.\"\nIt was the magic of our chieftain's\nname, \"K. of K\u201e\" no less than the\ncall of the motherland in her hour of\nneed, that brought these comrades of\nmine across land and Ma to fight and\nfall, across the channel, and it is as\ntribute to their memory that, my pen\nwrites In faltering manner. And I\nseem to hear in the storm sweeping on\nthe wings of mighty winds across the\nwaters that make our island story,\nthe chieftain's voice\n\"Out of the deep ho culls, out of the\ndeep\n;   His valiant roice rings like a clear\nsea-bell, >\nOut of his sleep he culls, out of his\nsleep,\n'Go forward, Britain! Forward!  All\nis well.'\"\nGERALD S. REES.  \u25a0\nEngland, Christmas, 1916.\n%       THE PRICE OF PAPERS.       t\nSome people in Toronto are objecting to paying 2 cents for a newspaper and the Toronto Globe more than\nhalf seriously suggests the coinage of\nl\u00bb\/j oent pieces of nickel. It is an extraordinary thing that the only commodity which the public expects to\nbo sold for less than the cost of production is the dally newspaper. No ono\ngoes to a grocery store to buy a sack\nof flour expecting to bet It for half\nIts cost, the difference to be made up\nby tho grocer In some other way; but\nhe does expect to get a newspaper for\nless than cost and looks to the publisher to discover somo way in which\nto mako up the deficit.\u2014Vancouvor\nNews-Advertiser.\nJohn Burns & Sons \u2022\"3SS?m\nSA8H   AND   DOOR   FACTORY. NELSON   PLANING   MILLS.\nVERNON   8TREET,   NEL80N,   B.C.\nEvery Description of Building Material Kept in 8took.\nEitimatei Given on Stone, Brick, Concrete and Frame Building*.\nMAIL  ORDERS  PROMPTLY  ATTENDED  TO.\nP.O. BOX 134 PHONE 171\n' T, 191T... <\u2022\"\u25a0\nPrivate Hospital\nLICENSED' tfY PROVINCIAL GOV*\nERNMENT.\nWe give particular attention to all\nfemale trouble\u2014home-like apartment*\nfor ladles awaiting accouchmcnt.\nHighest references; reasonable\n'terms; - inspection invited.\nMrs. Moore, Superintendent. V\nTHE  HOME   PRIVATE   HOSPITAL*\nFalls and Baker Ste, Neleen, B. C.\n..KO.'Bo'x'M'*''. '....\/v-^J\nPhone 372 for Appointmnnt.     ''\nRAW FURS WANTID f j\nTrappers, farmers, ranchers, it Dom\nnot cost you anything to get our cash\noffer on your furs. Express them to\nus. We will pay all charges .over a fS\nvaluation. We make you our offer Mid\nhold your furs for your reply, returning them at our expense If not piir^\nchased. Try us. Special prices paid for\ndark marten. In business sine* 1881.\nBend for price list,\nMACKAY A DIPPII,   ;* :\u25a0\u2022.\u00ab.\"\n818 Sili Ave. Wi '\u25a0'\u2022\": Cal\u00ab\u00abry!\n\"  %.\nCORPORrTHNI Of tiff\nMO\nNELSON\nIt Pays to Keep\nBirks' Catalogue\nIt pays to deal with a firm\nwhose name is a guarantee\nof quality, and whose rep.\nutation is an assurance of\n*h*onesit and straightfor-\nward dealing. It pays to\nremember that Birks'\nprices are most reasonsble\n\u2014they are the eame prices\nat which we sell ths same\ngoods in the olty. It pays\nto consult our catalogue\nthroughout the year.\nHenry Birks & Sons Ltd.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nTo Our Customers\nand the Public:\nWE THANK VOU FOB YOUR PAST PATRONAGE AND\nTAKE PLEASURE IN WISHING YOU AND ALL\nThe Season 8\nGreetings\nNelson Hardware Co.\nBAKER   STREET\nNELSON,  B. C.\n-\\ WE WISH YOU ONE AND ALL\nA Prosperous\nand\nHappy New Year\nP. Burns & Co., Ltd.\nNELSON\nl NOTICE.\nPublic notice Is hereby given to tho\nelectors of the Municipality of tho City\nof Nelson'that I require the presence\nof the said electors at the City Hall on\nMonday, the 8th day of January, 1917\nat 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of\nelecting persons to represent them. In\nthe Municipal Council as Mayor and\nAldermen and on the Public School\nBoard as Trustees.\nThe candidates shall be; nominated\nin writing; the writing shall be subscribed by two voters of the Municipality, as proposer and seconder, and\nshall be delivered to the Returning Of-\nfleer any time between the date of\nthis notice'and 2 p.m. of the day of\nnomination ami in the event of a poll\n*b|clng 'necessary, such poll will be\nopened on Thursday, the 11th day of\nJanuary, 1917, between the hours of\n9 o'clock a.m. and 7 o'clock p.m. at tha\nCity Hall for the Bast Ward; at.GOft\nKootenay street (the City Band Room)\nfor the West WUrd, and In the city\nhall for that portion of the school district included Jn subdivisions No. 9%\\\n182, 304, 619, 5180, 5290, 5291. - 5W9,\n8349, 9013, 683, 393, 6585, 370, 372. 7671\n3212, 909, 908, 3690, 7873,, 7705, of which\nevery person Ib hereby required to\ntake notice and govern themselves'accordingly. -...-. - \u25a0\u25a0 ..-\u00bb\u201e\u2022 v*.--\nThe persons quallfled to be' nomU\nHated for and elected as mayor of said\ncity shall be such persons as arc male\nBritish subjects of the full n^e'\"pt\ntwenty-one years, and arc not dlsqualU\nfied under any law and have been.-far\ntin-, six months next preceding the;\nday of nomination, the registered own*\nem In the land registry office of land\nor real property In tho city of the us-\nsessed value on the last municipal assessment roll of ono thousand dollars\nor more, over and above any reglsterr\ned judgment or charge,:and who are\notherwise duly qualified as municipal\nvoters.\nThe persons qualified to'.be nominated for and elected as aldermen'for\nsaid city shall be such persons as are\nmade British subjects of the, full age\nof twenty-onp years, and are not disqualified under any law and havo been\nfor the six months next preceding\nthe day of nomination the registered *\nowner In the land registry office of\nland or real property In the city of the\nassessed value on the* last municipal\nassessment roll of five hundred dollars\nor more over and above any registered\njudgment or charge and who are otherwise qualified as municipal voters..   ;\nThe persons eligible to be nominated\nfor and elected us school trustees of tlio\nNelson School District shall be any\nperson being a British subject.of the\nfull age of twenty-one years and\nhaving been for the six months next\npreceding the dato of nomination thn\nregistered owner In tho land registry\noffice of land or real property In the\nCity School District of the assessed\nvnluo on tho last .Municipal Assessment roll of five hundred dollars or\nmore over and above any registered\njudgment or charge, and being otherwise qualified to vote at an election\nof school trustees In the said school\ndistrict.\nGiven under my hand at the City of\nNelson aforesaid, the first day of\nJanuary, 1917.\nW. E. WASSON,\nReturning Of fleer,\n\\ A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE FROM  '\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL.\nti\nCanada ia heart and soul with the Mother Country and\nthe Allies in their fight for Liberty and Justice.\nEvery Canadian man and woman oan assist by placing\nhis or her services at the disposal of the State.\nGovernment House,\nOttawa, 20th December, 1016.'\nM\ni^Cijvan^l\nNational Service Week, 1st to 7th January.\n\":k\n*!\u00a3\u00a3.\n. ....^ .__-...\n \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\namm\n3\n.'      I\/IONDAY, JANUARY 1; 1917.\nTHE  DAILY NEWS\nPAGE Five\nLittle Ads that Bring Big Returns\nOONDEN8ED ADVERTISING RATES\nOne Insertion, per word     lo\nMinimum charge   25c\nSix' consecutive   insertions,   per\nword.       4c\nTwenty-six consecutive' insertions\n(one month), per word. \u2022  l5o\neirths, one insertion    Mc\nMarriages, one insertion.    50c\n(Deaths, one insertion    50c\nTard of Thanks. ,.\u2022    50c\nEach subsequent Insertion   25c\nDeath and Funeral Notice........$1.00\nAU condensed . advertisements are\njosh in advance.\nIn computing the number of words\nIn a classified advertisement count\naeh word, dollar mark, abbreviation,\nnltial letter and figure as one word.\nAdvertisers are reminded that it is\nnntrary to the provision of the postal\naws to have letters addressed to in-\ntlals only; therefore any advertiser\nlleslroUB of concealing his or her iden\n.lty may use a box at this office with\nbut any extra charge if replies are\npalled for; if replies are to be mailed\n\u25a0o advertiser allow 10 cents extra In\naddition to price of advertisement, to\nmy postage,\nj The News reserves the right to re.\nieet any copv submitted for publica\ndon.\n8ffUATION8 VACANT\u2014MALE.\nNELSON EMPLOYMENT AGENCY\u2014\nW. Parker, 309 Baker St., Phone 283.\nWANTED\u2014Coal miners; shingle sawyer; waiter and waitresses; woman\nifor housework, $30.\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE-\nments in Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you saw it in The News\u2014it\nwill help you.\nFEMALE   HELP   WANTED.\nWANTED\u2014At the Home private hos-\n, pital, a clean, willing girl for kitchen work; no washing. (45G8)\n'WANTED\u2014Housekeeper for family of\ntwo.    Apply box 4508, Dally News.\n[WANTED\u2014Waitresses or waiters for\ndinner January 1, 1017, 5; 30 to 0;30.\nWageU <3.00.   Apply Hume hotel.\n(4574)\nWANTED\u2014At once, companion help;\nfond of children.   State wages; good\nhome.   Mrs. Noakes, Balfour, B.C.\n(4591)\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE.\nments'in Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you saw it in The News\u2014it\nwill help you.\nTEACHERS WANTED.\nENGLISH LADY required In private\nschool for elementary teaching and\nsupervision. Certificate not essential.\nExperience in boarding school desirable. Salary $20 a month resident. Hox\n4548,  Dally  News (4648)\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE,\nments In Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you saw It in The News\u2014It\nwill help you.\nARTICLES POR 8ALE.\nTOR SALE\u2014Mentgvi newspaper fold-\nfold. 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 pases; In\nflrst class condition. Snap for cash.\nShe Dally News, Nelson. (678)\nPOR SALE\u2014Dry cedar, $5.00 per cord.\nSplendid green wood, $6.00 per cord.\nApply S. P. Pond, 208 Mines P.ond.\n(4573)\nFOR SALB AT A SACRIFICE\u2014The\nlibrary ot the late Sheriff Tuck,\nWhich Ib one of the most select In the\nprovince, containing more than fifteen\nhundred volumes of the world's best\nliterature. An unusual opportunity for\nL city, community or individual. Apply\nto box 4117, Dally News. (4117)\nFOR  SALE\u2014Short   wood   and   cord-\nwood.   Apply ,T.    Reid,    Fairview.\nphone 475-L.  - (4583)\nFOR SALE\u2014Edison Dictograph, complete; electric power. Apply to Dally\nNew. business office. (664)\nFOR SALE\u2014Automobile, flvo passenger, model 42 Oakland in first class\nrunning order. A snap for some one\nIf sold before new model cars arrive.\nNelson  Transfer. (4515)\nFOR SALE\u2014Shaving machine for Edison records. Box 686. Dally New..\nFOR SALE\u2014First class microscope;\nalmost new; one of tho best makes.\nISO.   Box 611, Daily News. (611)\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE-\nments In Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you .aw it In The News\u2014It\nwill help yow-\nWANTED.\nWANTED\u2014We will contract our lumber, hauling this winter at $1.26 per\nthousand from mill to Taghum. A\nBPlendid, easy four-mile road. Mill\nwill cut upward of twenty thousand\nper day. A. G. Lambert & Co,, Ltd.,\nNelson, B.C. (4618)\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE-\nments In Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you saw it in The News\u2014it\nwill help you.\nLOST  AND  FOUND\n\"LOST\u2014Between Mason & Risch store\nand postoffice on Ward street, bunch\nof keys on chain key ring. Finder\nplease return to Singer Sewing Machine shop, 513 Ward street and receive reward. (4586)\nFOUND\u2014Change    purse,    containing\nsliver.   Apply Daily News.       (4592)\nLOST\u2014On  Friday   night,   Dec.  29,   In\nthe Eagle hall, whlsto silk sweater.\nFinder please  return  to Daily News\nand receive reward. ..        (4599)\nLOST\u2014Would the person who took a\nguitar In canvas case, ulso a paper\nparcel from the 'wharf last Saturday\nnight, Dec. 23 or early Sunday morning, Dec. 24, please, return the some\nto the Dominion Express office and\nsave further trouble. (44100)\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE-\nments in Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you snw it in The News\u2014It\nwill help you.\n\u2022THE  NEAL  INSTITUTE.\nIt makes no difference how confirmed\nthe drinker, how long he has been\ndrinking, or how much he is drinking\nor how many other treatments have\nfailed, the Neal Treatment will give\nsatisfaction.   Cranbrook, B.C.\nFUNERAL    DIRECTORS\nD. J. ROBERTSON, F. D. D. & E., 303\nVictoria St., phone 292; night phone,\n157-L.\nGROCERIES.\nA. MACDONALD &~Ca, WHOLB-\naale Grocers and Provision Mer-\nohants. Importeiu of Teas, Coffees,\nSpices, Dried Fruits. Staple and\nFansy Groceries, Tobaccos, Cigars,\nButter, Eggs, Cheese and Packing\nHouse Products. Office and ware*\nhouae, corner of Front and Hall Sts.\nP.O. Box 1095; telephone 28   nd 28.\nAUCTIONEERS.\nC. A. WATERMAN & CO., OperaTblfc\nWM.  CUTLER,  AUCTIONEER, BOX\n474; phone 18.\nASSAYERS.\nE. W. WIDDOWSON, box A-1108^ Nelson, B.C.   Standard western charges.\nSECOND HAND DEALERS.\nTHE ARK pays cash for second hand\nfurniture, stoves;  606 Vernon.\nLODGE  NOTICES.\nKNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS\u2014MEETS\nTuesday nights In K. of P. hall,\nEagle block.\nPROFESSIONAL   CARDS.\n^^REEirBROSr^URDEN^sT^\nCivil Engineers, Dominion and B, C.\nLaud Surveyors.\nSurvey, ot Lands,' Mines, Townsite.,\nTimber Limits, etc.\nNelson, 616 Ward street, A. H. Green,\nMgr.;  Victoria, 114 Pomberton Bldg.,\nF. C. Green; Fort George, Hammond\nstreet, F. P. Burden.\nA. L. MoCULLOCH,\nHydraulic Engineer.\nProvincial Land Surveyor.\nBaker St., Nelson, BC,\nTAYLOR A DUBAR.\nFinancial ana insurance Agents, Notaries Public. Conveyancers, Accountants, Auditors, Assignees, Estates\nmanaged;  602 Baker St    Phone 254.\nMUSIC.\nMISS HELEN MOHR,\nTeacher of Music, Pianoforte and\nTheory.\nPhono 373R Oak St., Falrvlow.\nBELGIAN HARES; breeding stock a\nspecialty.   Rose, Balfour. (4563)\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE\nments in Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you saw it in Tho News\u2014it\nwill help you.\nFURNISHED   ROOMS  TO   RENT.\n.FOR RENT\u2014Suite, of furnished house\nkeeping room, in Annable block.\nInquire room 82. (4433)\nfe\nFOR RENT\u2014To lady, warm furnished\nroom.   Apply Mrs. Dancy, 411 Ccdnr\n\u2022trect. (4677)\nK.W.O. BLOCK\u2014Housekeeping suites\nand room, for rent.   Term, moderate.   A. Macdonald & Co. (4434)\nFURNISHED SUITES for rent. Apply\nKerr apartments. (4435)\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE-\nments in Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you saw it In The News\u2014It\nwill help you.\nPOULTRY AND EGGS.\nFOR SALE\u2014Some cholco White Wyandotte pullets, laying. Also Whlto\n(Leghorn cockerels, bred from prize-\nwinning stock. APPly S.\u00bbSmythe, Ncl-\n\u00bbon. , (4696)\nPATENTS.\nBABCOCK i4^0NSr^eglstered Attorneys. Estab. 1877. Formerly\npatent office examiner. Master of\nPatent Laws. Book, \"Patent Protection,\" free; 09 St. James St, Montreal. Branches: Ottawa and Washington.\nACCOUNTANTS.\nPublic Accountant, Bank of Montreal\nChambers. Rossland, B.C.\nNELSON NEWS OF THE DAY\nGive the soldiers a smoke.       (4603)\n'Only one street car will be run today\non account of the holiday, (4604)\nSkating every afternoon and evening\nat the rink. (4547)-\n.. Five-cent  matinee for kids at  the\nStarland today. (1602)\nAll the barber shops in Nelson will\nclose at 12 noon today. (4601)\nMrs. Sherlock, teacher of pianoforte\nand theory. Patenaude Block, Phone\n478. (4575)\nSee '^Rolling Stones,\" the big Famous\nPlayers' comedy at the Starland today. (4602)\nClub hotel for best draught beer and\nporter, always fresh; big schooner 10c.\nBottled beer and ported, 26c. Rates,\n$1 and $1.25 per day. (4438)\nRemember the Soldier Hoys today\nand give something, however small, to\nCanada's Tobacco fund. E. M. Bird,\ntreasurer. Nelson.   \u25a0 (4603)\nThe C. P. R. Bobby hopes to sec all\nhis little friends Saturday next, Jan.\nUth, nt 2 o'clock at freight sheds. Then\nhe will escort them all to Ihe Gem.\n(4593)\nMESSENGERS.\nNELSON MESSENGER CO.\u2014Baggage\nand express.    Prompt and reliable.\nDay and night.   Phone 241,\nWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISE.\nments In Condensed Columns, kindly\nmention you saw it in T*he News\u2014it\nwill help you.\nMISCELLANEOU\nIIOUll\nWANTED TO BUY-^OId falso teeth,\nsound or broken, on vuloanlto; also\ncrown and bridge work, or m\u00abtal plates\nIn any condition; best possible prices\npaid in Canada. Send any [you have\nto J. Dunatone, 1459 Georgia street,\ncity Vancouver, B.C. Cash'. sent by\nreturn mall. ,    (4419)\nA SNAP\u2014To make lot. of money this\nwinter. High grade, assay scold, silver and copper. Will lease or bond all\nor part. Apply to Jacob Green, manager and' vendor. Royal fjlftndun!\ngroup, (4690)\nJOHN M. MACLEOD\nON EFFECTS OF WAR\nGLASGOW, Scotland\u2014Speaking at\nthe grand annual meeting of the Glasgow Young Men's Christian association. John M. MacLeod, M. P., said\nthat in every branch of existence of\ntheir people an evolution was going\non which they could not compare with\nany other age. They ail wero conscious even now of change, and that\nwas perhaps a feature wanting In past\nnational crises. Their treatment of\nthat change would determine their future good or failure. How was that\nevolution going to effect the future\nwork of tho Y. M. C. A. Many thousands of young men were coming back\naftor tho war changed mon. No man\ncould define what that change would\nbe. They went out leaving everything\nbehind them, all thoy held dear, to\nfight for freedom. Justice and righteousness. Comparatively few of tho\nwhole were members of the Young\nMen's Christian association, or the\nguilds throughout the country. They\nwere coming back with an experience\nnone of those at home had had. That\nmust effect a mighty change. How\nwere they in thnt association and others going to influence those men on\ntheir return who were not Influenced\nby them before? He would say without hesitation by working on brand\nlines. It must be realized that the\ntemperament of man war vn'ridii;' By\ntemperament, he meant the peculiar\nphysical and mental character of an\nindividual. He did not sny that man\ncould not improve his tempernment.\nTf that were so there would bo no hope\nin this world or the next; but temperament must always be realized and\nsympathetically treated. Lot there be\ndecent liberty and no license. They\nmust gnln their sympathy by understanding them nnd realizing that their\nlittle families in the largo majority of\ncases were only passing. They musl\nteach them to enjoy everything in moderation, and then there wns some\nhope of the great change coming over\nthe country they wore all devoutly\npraying for.\nJames Johnson, a cattle drover residing In Mndoc, was driving nn auto\nnear Tweed, when it swerved and\nturned turtle. Johnson sustained serious injuries.\nSkating Today\n3 to 5 O'clock\nBand Will Be in Attendance.\nSYNOPSIS    OF   COAL\nMINING   REGULATIONS\nCoal mining rights of the Dominion\nin Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, tho Yukon Territory, the North\nwest Territories and in a portion of\ntho province of British Columbia, may\nbe leased for a term of twenty-one\nyears at an annual rental of $1 per\nacre. No more than 2560 acres will\nbe leased to one applicant.\nApplication    for    lease    must    be\nmade by tho applicant tn person to the\nagent or sub-agent of tho district of\nwhich the rights applied for are sit\nuated.\nIn surveyed territory tho land must\nbe described by sections or legal sub\ndivisions of sections and in unsurvoy\nod territory tho tract applied for shall\nbe staked out by the applicant himself.\nEach application must bo accompanied by a fee of $6 which will bo refunded if tho rights applied for are\nnot available, but not otherwise. A\nroyalty shall ho paid on tho merchant\nable output of tlio mine at the rate\nof flvo cents per ton.\nTho person operating tho mlno shall\nfurnish tho agent with sworn returns\naccounting for the full quantity of\nmerchantable coal mined and pay the\nroyalty thereon. If the coal mining\nrigiits nre not being operated, such\nreturns shall be furnished at least\nonce a year.\nTho leaso will include tho coal mining rights only, but tho lessee may be\npermitted to purchase whatever available Burfaco rights may bo considered\nnecessary for tho working of the mlno\nat the rato of $10 un acre,\nFor full Information application\nshould bo mado to tho Secretary of the\nDepartment of tho Interior, Ottawa,\nor to nny Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion lands. W. W. CORY,\nDeputy Minister of the Interior.\nN. ]?.\u2014Unauthorized publication of\nthis advertisement will not be paid tor,\nNews of Sport\nHOCKEY SCHEDULE OF\nKi\nSeason Opens New Year's.. Day hWen\nPhoenix Meets Nelson and Trail\nOpposes Rossland.\n(Speclul to The Daily News.)\nTRAIL, B. C., Dec. 31.\u2014The following is the hockey schedule as settled\nby the executive of the Kootenay-\nBoundary league Dec. 29, Messrs. Buchanan, Hamilton and Winn representing the association of Trail, Nelson\nand Rosslund;\nPhoenix at Nelson  January   2\nRossland at Trail  January   1\nPhoenix at Rossland  ' January   5\nPhoenix at Trail  January   3\nTrail at Nelson  January   6\nNelson nt Phoenix  January 10\nTrail at Rossland  January 10\nNelson nt Trail  January 13\nRossland at Phoenix January 13\nRossland at Nelson  January 17\nTrail at Phoenix  January 19\nPhoenix at Nelson  January 22\nRossland at Trail  January 22\nPhoenix at Rossland  January 24\nPhoenix nt Trail January 26\nNelson at Rossland  January 27\nTrail at Nelson  January 29\nNelson at Phoenix  January 31\nTrail at Rossland  January 31\nNelson at Trail  February   3\nRossland at Phoenix February   3\nRoBsland at Nelson  Februnry   7\nTrail at Phoenix  February   7\nNelson at Rosslnnd  February 10\nTRAIL AND ROSSLAND OPEN\nHOCKEY SEASON TONIGHT\n(Special to Tho Daily Nows.) .\nTRAIL, B. C, Dec. 31.\u2014The first\nhockey game of the season is announced for Monday, New Year's evening, at the rink, when Trail and Rossland puck chasers clash for the opening game under tho West Kootenay\nhockey schedule. The ice Is reported\nto be In perfect condition, and with\nboth teams confident of victory, an interesting gnmc Is looked for. The Trail\ncity band will be In attendance.\nOTTAWAS   EASILY   WIN\nFROM THE CANADIENS\nFrank Neighbor, Though Playing with\nBadly Gashed  Head, Is Star of .\nthe Match.\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nOTTAWA, Dec. 31.\u2014The opening\ngame of the local schedule of the National Hockey association championship race took place at Iho arena Saturday niglit and resulted in a victory\nfor the Ottawos seven to one. Cana-\ndlens were their opponents. Ottawas\nhad the advantage all the way. The\nmatch was played on fnst Ice, and was\nexciting throughout.\nFrank Neighbor rejoined the Ottawas\n\u2022Saturday morning and played through\nout the game, despite the fact that he\nhad a painfully gushed head.   He was\ntho star of the game.\nSEATTLE HAS VICTORY\nOVER VANCOUVER\nGame Was Fast and Spectacular\u2014Tremendous Rally Made By Millionaires But Proved Futile.\n(By Dally Nows Leased Wire.)\nYANCOUVrca B. C, Dec. 31.\u2014Seattle puckchnsers continued their drive\ntoward the Pacific Coast hockey championship at the arena rink last night,\nwhen they defeated Vancouver by a\nscore of 7 goals to -I in one of the fastest and most spectacular contests seen\nhere this season. The tennis were at\ntop speed for practically the entire\ndistance, and when the Millionaires\nfound their unbeaten home gnme record slipping In the lust session they\nmade a belated rally. But Frank Foy-\nSton steadied Ihe fast-tiring visitors\nwhen the locals attacked in a body,\nand finally rallied his men together\nlor a furious drive against Lehman's\nflags, which netted enough goals to\nclinch victory and the leadership of the\nleague for tho first time this season.\nI AT THE THEATRES. I\ni. \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 \u2666\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u00bb\u2666 oo-o-o-*\nGem  Monday and Tuesday.\nHenri Bernstein bas written many\ngood plays. Among them all \"The\nThief\" stands pre-eminent. It Is his\nsupreme success. The plot may be'told\nin a few words. Tbe heroine, a young\nwoman of weak character, hut with\nan Infinite capacity for love, has centered her affections upon a man of social position. Without beuuty or wealth\nshe bas no means of attracting his attention and so. In order to mako herself desirable in bis eyes, she steals\nlarge sums of money from her friends\nwith which she buys beautiful clothes.\nHer peculations are discovered nnd attributed to a young man, who, knowing the truth, remains silent to shield\nher. That very love, however, which\nat first led her astray, haH ennobled\naud strengthened hor character, and In\nthe wonderfully dramatic climax she\nconfesses her guilt.\nNELSON-PHOENIX\nHockey\nGame\nPostponed\nTILL 8:30 P. M. TUESDAY\nNIGHT\nBAND IN ATTENDANCE\nPHOENIX PLAYS CITY\nTOMORROW EVENING\nGame Scheduled  for This  Afternoon\nPostponed, Owing to Phoenix Not\n\"  ^       Having -Full Team.\nTomorrow evening the Phoenix and\nNelson hockey teams will meet at Nelson In the first game of the season on\nNelson Ice. This game was scheduled\nto have. been played this afternoon,\nbut owing, it was said, to Phoenix not\nhaving its full team available, the\ngame was laid over for one day. Tomorrow evening's game has been called\nfor 8:30 o'clock.\nPhoenix is said to have an unusually\nstrong team this season, having secured services of players formerly in the\ncoast league and a keen fast contest\nIs looked for. As there will he no\ngame this afternoon, tho rink will be\nused for skating and a hand will be\nin attendance.\nQUEBEC UNABLE TO HOLD\nTORONTOS\u2014BEATEN 5 TO 2\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nTORONTO, Dec. 31.\u2014Tbe superior\ncondition of the Torontos enabled them\nto defeat Quebec here last night toy a\nscoro of 8 to fi. The Bull Dogs were in\npoor physical condition and could not\nfollow the pace set.by Torontos.\nWANDERERS SUCCUMB\nTO 228TH  BATTALION\n(By Daily News Leased Wire.)\nMONTREAL, Dec. 31.\u2014Bottled up\nand outplayed at all stages of the game\ntho Wanderers were badly beaten last\nnight by the 282th battalion hockey\nteam of Toronto in the first appearance here in the N. H. A. schedule of\nthese teams. The Cleghorn brothers,\nRoss and Lindsay were tho mainstays\nof the Wanderers, tho rest of tho 1-\ncals failing lo show anything against\nthe soldiers. The visitors showed\nthemselves to be in the best of condition. They play was clean and fairlv\nfast.\nHOW WAR HAS AFFECTED\nOIL FIELDS OF THE WORLD\n(By Prof, Arthur Lakes.)\nIn the recent events In Rumania,\nthe value of the region as a great oil\nfield hns been of great importance, according to accounts and statistics published by tho U.S.A. geological survey, in its bulletin on petroleum, published in 1916. It nppears that in the\nlatter:half of 1014 a greatly restricted\nmarket was the result of the closing\nof the Dardanelles and declaration by\ntho government of an embargo on\nmany petroleum products with the decline of nearly a million barrels of oil.\nThat the decline was no greater was\ndue to the success attending drilling\nduring the first half of the year, proving the presence of vast stores of petroleum in previously untested areas\nand now fields were discovered. The\nrotary system of drilling has been successfully employed. The production of\npetroleum in Rumania in 1913 and\n1914 inclusive was over throe million\nnad n half barrels, of 42 gallons per\nbarrel.\nIn Galicia, Austro-Hungary, the\nprinclpol oil field is that of Baryslaw.\noperators became curtailed or stopped\nwhen the adjacent territory became the\ntheatre of conflict between the Russian and Austrian armies. Prior to\nthis a vast amount of petroleum was\nproduced. The German Kmplre, Including Bavaria, has oil fields, but not\ncommensurate with those mentioned.\nItaly has no oil fields of importance.\nThere are some as yet undeveloped oil\nfields in Turkey in the Tigris nnd Euphrates valleys and in the vicinity of\nBagdad and near the river Jordan in\nPalestine.\nTbe vast inexhaustible oil fields of\nRussia arc well known such as those\nof Baker in the Apsheron peninsula.\nIn 1914 the production of this field\nulone was nearly 50,000,000 barrels.\nBritish India in 1914 produced nearly\n8,000,000 barrels. Cunada has as yot\nonly one small production oil field located in Ontario. There are good signs\nof oil in various parts of B. C, but as\nyet no producing field. The strata and\ngeological conditions are very similar\nto those In Colorado, where are two\nsmall productive fields.\nOil Shales\nGreat Britain has no true oil fields,\nhut a considerable output of potroleuat\nand its by products has for many years\nbeen obtained from the distillation of\noil shales in southern Scotland. Although tho yield rarely exceeds 30 gallons of oil to a ton of shale treated, tbe\nIndustry has been an important ono\nfor more than 40 years. The profits\nlie In tbe by-products, parrafin-wax\nand sulphate-of ammonia, rather than\nin the petroleum obtained. Although\nsomewhat embarrassed by the war, an\nudvanclng market for their products\nbaa uriseu from tho removal of competition of parrafin-wax Imported hitherto from Galicia, and ammonia sulphate from Germany, with a demand\nfor their products from America. In\n1914 upwards of 3,000,000 tons of products wore the output, valued at $3,-\n700,000.\nLarge quantities of those petrollfcr-\nnous shales havo long boon worked\nin New South Wales and there are\nvast doposits of them as yot unwork-\nod in New Brunswick, Canada, also in\nthe mountains of Colorado.\nThere are some promising oilfields\nin Japan, as yot but little developed,\nbut which, However, produced nearly\nthree millions of barrels In 1914, Tho\nEast Indies, Including Borneo, Sumatra, and Java produced in 1914 nearly\nthirteen millions of barrels. Thero\nare good signs of oil In various parts\nof China needing development.\nErnest Parker of tho grain exchange,\nhas bought tho Lindsay building, ono\nof Winnipeg's skyscrapers paying\n1600,000 for it to Frank Lindsay, tho\nowner and former hotel man.\nEdward Ktino of New Cumberland,\nPa., hus not missed a single session of\nSunday school In 24 yearn. His Bible\nclass gave him a surprise party In\nrecognition of this,\nWishing you all a\nBright and Prosperous\nNew Year\nand mag the Sun of Peace^shine on\nthe world before another pear rolls\nround, bringing home many of our\nabsent loved ones.\nTemporary Schedule\nKootenay River\n(WEST   ARM)\nColumbia River\n^y- (ARROW LAKES.)\nOwing to ice conditions, undermentioned service will supercede\n.schedule given in current time cards for Kootenuy and Columbia rivers.\nNELSON-PROCTOR\u2014Boat service withdrawn, trains to leave Nelson\n7 a. in. daily for Kootenay Landing and points east. Leave Nelson at\n4 p.m. except Sunday for Kaslo and Kootenay Lake points.\nArrive Nelson 10:20 a.m. except Sunday from Kaslo and Kootenay\nLake points. Arrive Nelson at t'.Oo dally from Kootenay Landing and\npoints east.\nSLEEPING CAR AT NELSON\u2014The Vancouver-Nelson Sleeper will be\nrun through to Proctor to catch 'the Kootenay Landing boat. Passengers may occupy berths at depot, Nelson alter 9:30 p. m. Berth rate\n$1.50, i) ,|*  jlttli!\nARROW LAKES.\nTuesday, Thursday nnd Saturday. Arowhead to Nakusp and return\nWith direct train connection at Arrowhead from and to Revelstoke; also\ndirect connection at Nakusp with present train from and to Kaslo. Note\nno direct service between Nelson and Nakusp and points beyond in\neither direction. Monday and Friday local boat; service Arrowhead to\nBurton and return. Leave Arrowhead 6 a.m.. Nakusp 9 a.m. Returning\nleave Burton 1 a.m. and Nakusp 1 p.m. No train connection with this\nlocal service at either Arrowhead or Nakusp.\nLOWER ARROW LAKE\u2014S. S. Watshan, leave West Robson Monday,\nWednesday and Friday, 9:ir\u00bb a.m., going as far north of Edgewood as\nice will permit. Returning, leave Edgewood Tuesday, Thursday and\nSaturday, 12:30 noon. This service connects With K. V. train from and\nto Nelson. J. S. CARTER, D. P. A., Nelson.\nGREEKS IN CANADA\nPLAN  FOR AN ARMY\nTORONTO, Ont.\u2014Resident Greeks\nare raising a volunteer army in Canada, including also those living in tlie\nUnited States, to be sent as an expeditionary force to aid tlio Venizelists.\nNicholas Kallmanis, secretary of the\nGreek brotherhood \"Katoria,\" has been\nselected to confer in New York with\nG. Kafnndaris and    N.    Aravantlnes,\nfromer members of the Vcnlzelos cabinet, who were sent to the United\nStates to aid the cause of the \u25a0 late\npremier.\nEvery eligible Greek in Toronto has\nsignified his intention of joining. Free\ntransportation of Canadian and United\nStates Greeks from this country to\nGreece is promised.-\nTho Greek brotherhood is the strong\nest Greek organization in Toronto, and\nis solidly behind the propaganda.\nBngGeorgelV\nTHE\nTopNotch'\nScotch\nThe Beautiful New Famous Players S tar, Marguerite Courtot at the Starland\nTed ay.\n_\u2014\n___\nmktttm\n \u2022w\n\u25a0BF\n( PAoi six     ' -*-\nUNjjjQUALLED POR GENERAL USE\nW. *. TI*\u00abNEY, Qeneral Sales Agent,\nNelson, B. C.\nCitfe supplied to all railway point*.\ns\nHot\nWater\nBottles\nOF QUALITY\nA Hot Water Bottle is an indispensable article in every household. These goode are guaranteed for  two   years.   All  sites.\nCanada Drug & Book Co.\nMall Orders Filled Promptly.\nEastman Kodaks  and  Supplies,\nWillard  Chocolates.\nTHE\nJL.\nDAILY NfeWS\nMONDAY,-JANUAtrV 1, \u00abftf,    %\nTHE ARK\n'For goods at the old price before\nthe war. Men's Shoes, Mackinaw*\nand Underwear, Ladles' and Chll.\ndren's Underwear and Hosiery,\nRugs, stoves, Iron Beds, Springs,\nlace Curtains.\nNew and Second-hand   Furniture.\nCheapest In the Olty,\n8IQN RED r-OCKER, 60S Vernon St\nOdtf Tea and\nCoffee Pots\n\u2014in\u2014\nFINEST   QUALITY   SHEFFIELD\nPLATE\n\u202217.50,   S20.00,   S22.50,\nS23.50, S25.0Q\nTHESE   PRICE8   LE8S\n20PERCENT\nFOR   ONE   WEEK: ONLY\nJ. 0. Patenaude\nDEALER IN FINE SILVERWARE,\nEXPERT    OPTICIAN    AND\nWATCHMAKER\nU8B   DAILY    NEWS   WANT   ADS\nCANADIANS HAVE JOKE\nON ENGLISH TROOPS\nImperial  Solditr\u00bb  Boast   of   Achievement, But Oanucka Go On* Better\n\u2014Lieut. Claridga Talks of Front.\nHow the Canadians -gave \"Ut for tat\"\nto a division of British regulars in\nFrance, which boasted of its achievements, Is told by Lieut. G. Clarldge of\nFernie, who returned from the front\nlast October, to take a commission with\nthe 326th battalion. Lieut. Clarldge and\nLieut B. Wilson, also of Pernio, and\nson of \"W. R. Wilson, manager of the\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal company, are\nvisiting the city on their way to rejoin the battalion at New Westminster,\nand ore staying at the Hume.\n\u2022Lieut. Clarldge told of how a division\nor imperial Infantry captured what is\nknown to the soldiers as \"Plug street\nwood,\" and held it against numerous\nenemy attacks from October, 1914, until October, 1915, when It was ordered\nto go into billets and turn over the\nposition to a Canadian division. Lieut.\nClarldge stated that the men of the imperial forces were not at all pleased at\nhaving to leave the trenches they had\nheld so long and therefore could not do\nso without giving a parting \"crow\" over\ntheir success, so, when leaving, they\nerected, a sign at the entrance to a\ncommunication trench which read:\n\"This way to Plug street, taken over\nfrom the enemy hy the \u2014th Imperial\ndivision, October, 1914, and held by It\nuntil turned over to the Canadians,\nOctober, 1915.\"\nThe Canadian division promptly\nerected a companion sign which read:\n\"Plug street taken over by the Canadians October, 1916, and will be held\nby them until peace is declared or hell\nfreezes over.\"\nLieut. Clarldge enlisted as a private\nwith the first contingent, and was first\n, wounded during the second battle of\n\\ Ypres, while on his way to bring de\nVs patches to his colonel. \"A bullet\nstruck him in the left leg and put him\nout of action for several months. After leaving the hospital he returned to\nthe front, with the rank of sergeant in\nthe signallers. He had been recommended for a commission when he re.\neelved a slight wound, which again\nput him out of notion. While in England he heard of the mobilization of\nthe 225th and put in an application for\na commission, which was granted. He\nreturned home last October and has\nbeen In training with the unit ever\nsince. *\nYpres Won by Nerve and Bluff.\nSpeaking of the second battle of\nYpres, Lieut. Clarldge declared that he\nbelieved none of the actions since had'\nbeen marked by the *same reckless daring that marked the fighting of the\nImperial and Canadian forces on that\noccasion. It was a case of sheer nerve\nand bluff that stemmed the relentless\n.tide of gray coats at Ypres, he said.\nThe German forces had it in their\npower to have utterly overwhelmed the*\nscanty British forces which were\nthrown against them, he declared, had\nthey only known it. Everything was\non the side of the Huns,, artillery,\nnumbers, and gas, but in spite of all\nthe Canadian and Imperial forces held\non doggedly, until the Germans lost\nnerve and gave way before them.\nVindicates Turcot.\nMuch had been said, he declared, regarding the demoralizing effect of the\nGerman gas on the French Turco\ntroops, but although they were utterly\nrouted when they first encountered\" It,\nthere was a good reason for this being\nso. These troops, he said, came from\nAlgeria, and were ignorant of anything\noutside their own country. They were\nfull of superstitions, and believed that\nsome supernatural powers had been\nunloosed upon them when the choking, strangling fumes entered their\nlungs. Not understanding the enemy\nthey were called upon to fight, and being utterly bewildered by an intangible\nsomething, which was killing them In\nheaps, he said, they fell back disorganized, with nerves shattered.\nSpeaking of the 225th battalion,\nLieut. Clarldge declared that he was\nproud to be a member of that unit and\npaid high tribute to the smartness, intelligence and morale of the men. The\nbattalion, he said, numbered about 760\nand he believed would soon be up to\nstrengnth. Men, he said, wishing to\njoin could obtain transportation to\nNew Westminster by making appllca<\ntion through any one of the officers or\nthrough Capt. L. E, Borden, medical\nexamining officer at Nelson.\nLieut. Clarldge and Lieut. Wilson\nwill leave for the coast tomorrow\nmorning. Last night both attended the\ndance given In Eagle hall to the soldiers In the city on leave of absence,\nby the Nelson Returned Soldiers' Aid\ncommittee.\nA judicial recount conforms M. B.\nJackson, Liberal, in' hts seat as member' for the Islands, B, C.\nTODAY AND TOMORROW\nMiss Dorothy Donnelly\nLata Star of \"Madame X\" in a Photoplay of Transcendent Merit\n\"The Thief\"\nThe eupreme effort of Henri  Bernstein, the famoue French\nDramatist.\nON THE SAME PROGRAM\nA  DORSEY TRAVEL PICTURE\nSpecial New Year'. Day Matinee at 2:30\nCOMING\u2014Wednesday and Thursday\u2014BES8IE BERRISCALE\nAND EDDIE FOY.\n\u25a0ui111 e    .\nWHILE THANKING OUR NUMEROU8 OLD AND NEW CUSTOMERS\nfOH THEIR  LIBERAL  PATRONAGE DURING THE PAST\nYEAR,  WE  WISH  THE  WHOLE  COMMUNITY\nA Bright and Prosperous\nNew Year\nWood-Vallance Hardware Co.,Ltd.\nWWWMALi ANO  RETAIL\nNELSON, i, 0.\nNelson News of the Dag\n:ii'S'i>riseetsi|s'><>r>'\u00bb'e<'\u00bb>e'ii|e'i'\u00ab's>i\u00ab>'irs'sat'rs-\u00bb'si'a!i|i'i|s,ei\u00bbi >!\u2022\u00bb\u00bb.'.<\u25a0\nFEDERAL REVENUES SHOW\nBIGGMMTtt B NELSON\nCustoms Return* for 1916 wen 148,430,\narid   Inland   Revenue   Receipts\n\u00ab1*>,B\u00bb Better Than1\u00bbfBi\nCustoms revenues at the pert of\nNelson shewed an increase during\nthe past year of 148,430 over year\nprevious, while, inland revenues\nehowed an inorease of $17,539 for\nthe.earn* period; .. ... .\nComparison* of- customs - returns \u25a0 at\nthe port of: Nelson during the past\nfour years show that although, immediately after the outbreak of the war\nthe receipts from the importation of\n1913-\nJanuary .\u2022..$ 11,116.97\nFebruary        10,272.45\nMarch     10,841.68\nApril      13,872.37\nStay \u2022  18,868;04\nJlune   1M8M4\nJuly       12,362.92\nAugust     16,882.51\nSeptember 9,76814\nOctober   ;    14,200 97\nNovember :   18,286,92\nDecember    11,263.08\nvarious forms of produce and merchandise fell oft as much as 176,386\nin 1915; as against' 1918, the last complete pre-war-year,\" the returns for the\npast 12 months have recovered until\nat ,the end of 1916 the receipts were\nonly 818,906.below those of 1916. This\namount is 116,946 greater than the total; receipts of 1914, of which but Ave\nmonths were war months, and $48,-\n430 greater than .the-receipts.for 1915\nDuring 1913 the receipts totaled\n(151,321; during 1914, 1116,470; during\n1915, $83,985, and last year $132,415. A\n^comparative statement of the receipts\nfor the past four years follows:\n1914 1915 1916\n$   9,066.31     $   2,986.99     $    7,066.08\n16,644.20 5,274.99 7,130.64\n9,991.62 7,007.65 7,992.20\n'9,832.79 6,561.65 6,244.91\n13,397.14 71750.80 9,963.82\n11.506.41 5,626.96 19,408.25\n9,768.02          5,761.21         12,897.18\n12.544.42 8,782.32 15,192 87\n6,334.41 8,446.53 11,621.88\n6,159.97 7,146.90 9,915.62\n6,748.32 9;697.17 12,387.06\n5,691.09         11,014.41         12,590.42\nTotals     $15tt',321.B4\nInland Revenue.\nInland  revenue  receipts at Nelson\nfor. the past   year,   totaling   $51,890,\nshow an increase over 1915 of $17,639,\nthe receipts for which year were $34,\nSpirits      Malt\nJanuary    $1,448.17   $  180.00\nFebruary     2,174.18,     240.00\nMarch     1,288.56 480.09\nApril  1,605.61 360.00\nMay  2,5S2.\u00ab0 720.00\nJune  2,251.64 810.00\nJuly   1;960:5\u00ab 37&50\nAugust    1,889.69 607.60\nSeptember   2,389.34 375.00\nOctober  2,730:18 300.00\nNovember  1,567.85 360.00\nDecember   .. 4,456.34 360.00\n$116,470.07 $ 83,985.48 $132,415.95\n351. The following is a statement of\nthe receipts showjng the totals foreach\nmonth in the various classes. Included in the totals are $20 in each year for\nlicenses and $81.90 In 1915 and $109.87\nin 1916 for methylated spirits:\n1916.\nRoll leaf War\nTobacco   Cigars    Stamps     Total\n$ 66.3G    $\u2022 46.00         $ 1,739,53\n05:24\n44.53\n45.92\n41.72\n' 34.16.\n98,84\n31.08\n41.44\n31.60\n27.00\n31,86\n30.00\n34.50\n31.50\n39,30\n31.50\n33.75\n50.85\n42.00\n280.05\n69,45\n25.40\n117.08\n94.60\n152.23\n110.50\n108.77\n179.06\n176.68\n2,445.63\n2,325.61\n2,031.65\n3,352.51,\n3,258.99\n2,495.88 .\n2,720.62\n2,940.50\n3,767.64\n2,208.64\n5,074,46\nTotals\nJanuary ...\nFebruary ..\nMarch \t\nApril.\t\nMay \t\nJune \t\nJuly\t\nAugust ....\nSeptember\nOctober ...\nNovember\nDecember .\n.$26,134.36\n.$2,400.84\n. 2,215.49\n. 2,909.77\n. 3,287.32\n. 3,289.96\n. 2,760.15\n. 2,444.46\n. 3,189.00\n. 3,695.63\n. 4,813.72\n. 7,635.14\n. 4,614.34\n$6,128.00\n$469.28\ni\u00bbie.\n$   120.00\n$ 68.88\n600.00\n32.48\n420.00\n75,32\n780.00-\n29.68\n720.00\n36.00\n660.00\n960.00\n102.76\n720.00\n78.40\n360.00\n107.80\n240.00\n$428.25   $1,307.87   $34,361.56\n$ 40.65 $ 173.60 $ 2,703.98\n23.10 136.35 2,407.73\n31.60 125.30\n41.10 124.94\n24.00 126.42\n26.33 196.62\n22.80 89,10\n265.37\n146.02\n177.86\n420.00\n38.25\n34.50\n30.45\n42.00\n29.66\n(8.96\n3,899,06\n3,948.68\n4,350.06\n3,738.10\n3,264.67\n4,505.38\n4,874.46\n4,989.93\n8,153.40\n5,366.17\nTotals    $42,705,71   $6,000,00     $563.48    $884.23   $2,026.90   $51,890.60\n\\ Social and Personal\nS. I., Scott of Kaslo Is registered at\nthe Hume.    *\nA. J. Newell of Fernie is registered\nat the Strathcona.\nF. J. Edwards of Nakusp Is a guest\nat the Strathcona.\nF. C. Newcomb of Penticton is staying at the Strathcona.\nM. M. O'Brian of Rossland reached\nthe city yesterday and is at the Hume.\nMiss Ruth Link of Mirror Lake is\nvisiting Miss Maebel Steel of Silica\nstreet.\nJoseph Giegerlch and Miss E. Qlege-\nrlch of Kaslo visited the'clty Saturday\nund registered at the Hume.\nMrs. E. Boyer and Robert Boyer of\nWillow Point will leave this morning\non the Oreat Northern for San Francisco.\nMiss Florence Lean was successfully\noperated on for appendicitis yesterday\nmorning by Drs. 'Rose and Kartln nt\ntbe Kootenay Lake General hospital\nMr. and Mrs. Charles Bookings of\nBenton will leave this morning on the\nOreat Northern for New York from\nwhere they will sail for Bermuda to\nspend the winter.-\npte. d. Mclennan of nelson\nreaches coa8t on way home\nPte. McLennan, whose address Is\ngiven as box 776, Nelson, Is one of a\nparty of returned wounded soldiers to\nreach Victoria, recently. Word to this\neffeot wa*; received Saturday by .the\nNelson Returned Soldier*1 Aid committee.\n20 OA8E8 DURING 1916 IN\nPROVINCIAL  POLICE COURT\nCases In the provincial police court\nat Nelson showed a falling off In number during last.year from the previous\nyear of, from 33 In 1916, to 20 In 1916,\nwith no seflous charges appearing upon the records during the past 12\nmonths, with the exception of one\nhorse-stealing charge from Vernon, at\nwhloh a.conviction was litter obtained\nat a,, speedy trial before Judge Forin.\nThe majority of. tho 20 cases heard\nlast year were for minor assaults and\npetty thefts, but nothing of a serious\ncharacter,\nPTE. COM HAY\nGET MILITARY MEDAL\nIs Recommended for Honor by Commanding Officer\u2014 Not Yet Lo-  .\ncated in Hoipital.\nMrs. J. S. Goulding has received a\nletter from Major C. W. Peck, in answer to one Inquiring for news regarding her son, Pte. Joseph E. Goulding,\nwho was reported- wounded last No-\novmber.   The letter states;\n\"I regret it ls impossible for me to\nrender any further information about\nyour son, at the'present time. When\nthe men are sent out wounded the battalion loses track of them for the time\nbeing, and they ure temporarily struck\noff the strength, However, there\nshould be some record of him in the\nbase hospitals, either in England or\nFrance. All that we know from members of our battalion is. that he was\nseen to ibe hit in throe places, but none\nof the wounds were supposed 'to- \\.e\nvery serious. You will be pleased to\nhear that I have recommended him fot\nthe Military Medal, and 1 hope it\ncomes through.\"\nMajor Peck suggested, that inquiries\nmight ibe made through the Canadian\npay and' record office, London, England.\nTWO POSTOFFICES CLOSE.\nl'ostoiflces at Newtonla and Summit\nLake will close today, according to the\nannouncement made by the postal de\npartment. Mall matter for Newtonla\nwill be sent to Trail and for Summit\nLake to Nakusp.\nSPiINOT Rrearenuublmwylt\nCITY POLICE HANDLE\n300 CASES IN 1016\nCity Gets Reputation at Bad Place for\nCrook.*\u2014 Last Year's Cases 42\nin Excess of 1010.\nCity police court records for the past\nyear show an Increase of 42 cases over\n1915, the number being 300 as against\n258 for the preceding 12 months.\nIt waa expected by officials that the\ncases for 1916'would have been great\nly In excess of this number owing to\nthe attraction to the city of a floating\npopulation- of undesirables, drawn\nhither by the increasing Improvement\nin local, conditions, which the police,\nit was thought, would not 'be able to\nkeep moving without recourse to po>\nlice court proceedings.\nThis, however, has not proved to 1>e\nthe case, although a oertaln element\nInsurance Is a Serious Matter\nDuring, th*, M*t wsek,. Mr. Man, you hav* worked h\u00abrd and\ndan* your best to provide \"good cheer\" and present* for the wife\nsnd kidtll**\u2014tha* I* all wall and good and only what wa ill should\ndo\u2014but what absut th* future? Hav* you protsotsd the wife and\nkiddies against went \u00abt future Christmas times by taking out\n\u2022ufflolsnt insurance? If not, start the New Year right. Statistics\n\u2022haw thai th* great majority of man los* what they hav* mad*\nand *r* dependent on other* at alxty. Don't be In th* majority.\nPrffajt yourself!     Proteot  thos* entrusted  to  youl    INSURE\nyou\ni\u00ab.f|pas^isi       rws.HS    siihh  .sis, u.s.u    w    jus..       iisvunss\nWl    If you live, you g*t your money back wfth Interest,   If\ni di* your wife and family ar* net dependent en other,, '\nCharles F. McHardy,,\nIN8URANCB\u2014REAL   ESTATE-FUEL\nMRS.\nBOOMER BURIED\nI hi THE OITY CEMETERY\nTho funeral of Mrs, Emma H. Boomer took Place on Saturday at 1 o'clock\nfrom the residence of Mrs. A. A, Per.\nrlcr, sister- of the deceased, to the city-\ncemetery. Rev. Fred H. Graham offl\u00bb\nelated. Many friends from South Slocan attended and a large number of\nwreath's-were. sent. \u2022 The. pall bearer*\nwere William Coles, Leslie Steele, John\nBell, Jr., c. Orhuselle, Bert Steeper and\nWilson Whitely,\nEichard c. Shaw, about 60 years of\nage, who worked at the Reliance Moulding companys' plant at. Kingston, was\nfound dead in bed.\nYOU HAVE\nBEST\nWISHES\nFOR HEALTH  AND   PR08PBR-\nv ITT   DURING   1917.\nThe Brackman Ker\nMilling Co., Limited\n~r   j ,\nDon't Cough\nUseI20l\nTHE BEST COUGH AND\nLUNG PRESCRIPTION\nHotTwater_Botties\n\"\"fresh stock just\"in\"\nGuaranteed Two Years. Best\nBottles   Made.\nPRICED   AT  *\u00bb1.50,  12.00,  t9.7S\nBiwkup-i-CiW TaHeti\nThese tablets are jUBt the\nthing tn break up a cold, allay\nthe fever, ease the pain and oure\nthe grippe.\nPrice 25 Cent* th* Bex.\nPRESCRIPTIONS\u2014BRING  YOUR , PRESCRIPTIONS TO US.      Your Doctor Appreoiat** Our Sorvlc*.\nCITY DRUG\nMAIL ORDER8\n& STATIONERY COMPANY\nNELSON, B. C.\nm\nLadies!\nAny Garment Cleaned\nTO YOUR SATISFACTION\nGentlemen,   have   your   suit   well\ncleaned   and   neatly    pressed   for\nNew Years.\nButler Houston Co.\nArt Dyer* and Cleaner*\nPhone 3S5      NEL80N       Box 832\nBracelet Watches\nare both practical and ornamental.\nThey are In style to stay. We have\nthem in every shape, color and price,\nS15, S18, $20 AND $20\nDEPENDABLE QNES.\nA. D* Papazian\nWatchmaker, Jeweler and Graduate\nOptician. \u2014\u2022\nBaker Street, Madden Block\nfrom outside points has drifted to the\ncity, during the early part ot tho year,\nthis has been reduced to practically\nnothing by the efficient surveillance\nof the police force and It is said that\nNelson now has the reputation among\nthe brethren of the underworld of being\na good place to keep away from.\nDuring 1916 there were but two\ncases of a serious nature. One was\nthat of M. J. Mullen and J. E. Matoy,\nwho were convicted of breaking Into\nMeagher & Company's store and sentenced April 4 to five years eaoh In\nthe penitentiary. The other was that\nof James Rose and David Mauger,\nconvicted of assault and robbery in a\nlocal hotel, and sentenced Aug. 12,\nRose received four years and the lash,\nas the leader, and Mauger two years\nless one day in the provincial jail. Jn\nboth case the stolen goods were recovered by tho police.\nThe 'balance of tho cases were for\npetty thieving and other minor\ncharges.\nHAWAII  PLANS TUNNEL\nROUTE IN MOUNTAINS\nHONOLULU, H. T.\u2014In order that\nthose concerned may have data on\nwhich to determine what is to the advantage of the community and the\nUnited States army, Governor Pinkham has mailed a public letter to the\nchamber of commerce, which carries\nInformation that the Hawalin department U. *S. A., has under consideration plans for boring a tunnel through\nthe Koolah range of mountains at the\nhead of Kulihi valley, Honolulu, cap\nable of receiving the military and com\nmercial traffic of the island of Ouhu.\nGovernor Pinkham's letter, among\nother things, deals with a proposal of\na local engineering company to establish an aerial tram system from\nthe Pall to the windward side of the\nisland of Oahu, and voices in no un\ncertain tones a protest against the\nplan. Local army officers assert, as\ntar as they are aware, the tunnel pro\nposal is not very recent from the\nstandpoint of the Hawailn department.\nThe letter filed by the governor to\nthe chamber of commerce ls as follows.:\n\"Gentlemen; I understand you are\nto consider the proposed aerial cable\ncarrier over the Pali, intended to tran\nsport fresh pineapples and other\nfreight to the top of the Pali, and also\nfreight vice versa from and to the\nwindward side of Oahu. The freight\n'would have to pass up and down Nu\nuanu avenue.\n\"It ls estimated that tha?e are more\npineapples grown on the windward\nside tributary to the proposed carrier\nthan at Whaiawa, The greatest\nmovement of pineapples in one day\nfrom Wahiawa over the Oahu railway\nwas 2010 tons. Twelve tons Is the\naverage capacity per ear, hence one\nday's traffic required 168 cars. Similar traffic would number In five-ton\nmotor trucks, 402 loads in Honolulu\nfrom the Pall and 402 empties or part\nloads to the Pall, Sidetracks covorlng\nquite a number of acres would be necessary,   'besides   extensive   sheds.\n\"Nuanu avenue would bo prohibi-\ntatively dangerous and its value for\nresidences and scenic attractions destroyed, and. the Pall, as well, would\nlose' Its character.\n\"It was my privilege to give the territorial forrester some of these facts,\nafter he had hastily failed to appreciate the obstacles. I also informed\nF. J. Lord what my attitude as governor would be.\"\nMr. Lord is of tho engineering firm\nwhich lb working on the proposed aerial tramway plans. The governor continues:\n\"The Hu wail un department has under oonslderation the advisability of a\ntunnel through the Koolau mountains\nat. the head of Knllhl valley for mill.\ntary purposes, and also civil transportation. It is not impossible that suoh\na tunnel might lie a source of water\ntmi>l>ly for, Honolulu.   The plans und\nA HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL.\nTODAY\n* Matinee at 2:30\u2014Children only 5 Cents\nTonight, 7 to 10:30\u2014 Usual Prices.\nTHE FAMOUS PLAYERS PRESENT\nOwen Moore\nAND THEIR BEAUTIFUL NEW STAB\nMarguerite Courtot\nIn the celebrated comedy of Adventure\n\"Rolling Stones\" \u00ab\nIN FIVE PARTS\u2014AN UNUSUAL PHOTOPLAY OF LAUGHS.\nAND THRILLS.\nCOMEDY\n\"DID HE OR DID HE NOT?\"\nWednssday, Jan. 3.\u2014\"The Half Milion Bribe.\"\nThursday\u2014Marguerite Clark in \"Little Lady Eileen.\"\nways and means will .be considered at\nthe earliest possible date.\"\nPersona who have studied the question closely point out that such a tunnel as ls now proposed by the military\nauthorities will ot necessity come before many years, and that It probably\nwill be of great value as a water producer as well as furnishing a short\ncut to the other side of the Island of\nOahu from Honolulu, It Is entirely\nfeasible, according to engineers, as the\ncliffs at several points are narrow In\nthe extreme and the .boring would be\ncomparatively short.\nSHIPBUILDING BOOM ON\nIN THE DOMINION\nDemand for Vessels Expected to Continue After th* War\u2014Many Ship,\nfor Lumber Trad*.\nLONDON, OnL\u2014After 41 years of\nsteady decline In shipbuilding, the Dominion of Canada ts now experiencing\nthe greatest shipbuilding boom In Its\nhistory, directly due to tho war. Tho\ndestruction ot'ocean-golng vessels has\ncreated a strong demand for more\nships, a demand which marine authorities claim will last for several years\nafter the war.\nAccording to reports from the Atlantic coast, there are 53 vessels\nbuilding nt Yarmouth, N. 8., or within\na'20-mlle radius. Practically all these\nboats are wooden vessels. The prohibitive price of steel Is driving men back\nto tho wooden vessel of sailing ship\ntype so common as late as a quarter\ncentury ago. Shipbuilding activities in\nthe wooden vessel 'building line are\nparticularly active in the province of\nBritish Columbia by reason of the accessibility of fine timber. Twenty-\nfive boats are on order at the shipbuilding yards of Vancouver and Victoria. Of these only four are for Bteel\nships. Norwegians are the largest or-\nderers. A -special law was passed in\nCanada forbidding the export of vessels to non-British countries. But the\ngovernment has power to annul this\nwhere It seems well to do so, and In\nthe case of* shlpB for Norway the regulation has. been voided.\nIn connection with the shipbuilding\nboom, quite tho most Interesting par\ntlcular is the building now at Toronto\non Lake Ontario of two steel vessels\nfor an American and Norwegian firm\nto be delivered In July and August,\nM17. The contract calls for four ve*.\nselB at a total cost of $4,800,000; the\nlast two will likely be delivered in\nIthe middle of 1918. By reason of a\nsystem Mt lakes and canals and a $20,-\n000,000 harbor .being built at Toronto,\n*|| '\"\u2022'\">\nIt is nearly 24 years since. Joy\ncame to the Kootenays. We halve,\nseen many people - and; many\nchanges, \u25a0 have become acquainted,\nwith optimists and pessimist*,- and'\nwe have read many articles about\nthe future. Many dreams of the\npossibilities of Nelson and district,\nhavo come true. As yet we have\nnot made a million, but We have\nmade some friends\u2014and some that-\nare not friends\u2014and at thla New\nYear, and at any time, we bear not\na person ill will, but wish them all\ngood luck and happiness during the\ncoming year, hoping tb see Peace\nany Joy settle on the old world In\n1917.\nThanking our friends for their\npatronage In the past and dreaming\nof the wonderful buslnes possibilities of the coming year, I remain,\nyours' sincerely,.\nJOY,   THE   GROCER,\nN*lsonf B. C.\n*!\u25a0\ngreat ocean-going ship* can now coma\nto this Inland city. In all a total of\nS200.ooo.ooo worth of orders tor ships\nhave been placed In Canada, . \/;\nThe sailing vessels now under con,*.\nBtructlon In .British Columbia., are.\npractically being built of Canadian,\nmaterial. They are mostly 215 feet\nlong, 42 feet beam, with a hold of 19\nfeet and a carrying capacity, of 1,600,- ;\nooo feet ot lumber. They will be\nschooner rigged, with five masts, with\nauxiliary power of oil Burning engines\nof Rolinder type, and. will cost, about.\n$150,000 complete. These vessels wlil\nbe engaged chiefly in the lumber carrying trade. It is estimated they, can\nmake three trip* a year to even- so\ndistant a point as Australia.\nMajor Roacoe D. Arnott, who It is\nreported, has been awarded the Victoria Cross, practised In Stratford for\na year.   He is likely to lose a leg.    ,'*!\nRev. C. S. Quulnton, rector of St.\nMatthew's church, Brandon, has accepted the appointment; of rector of\nChrist church and dean of Columbia,\ncathedral, Vancouver,\nPractically', every- one of the graduating class in,.the dental faculty at\nToronto has decided to enlist.\nSpeaking at schomberg In th* Inter*\ncats of the 220th battalion, J. A. M.\nArmstrong, M. P. for North York, said\nif necessary he Is prepared to voto tot\nconscription,\n\u25a0*\u25a0\nNet because it Is an henorod\ncustom, but because of th* sincerity of our appreciation, w*\ntake thi* opportunity to thank\nyou for th* part you have played\nin our, buslnes* prosperity th*\npast 12 months, and w* wish you\nA PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY\nNEW YEAR\nJmory & Walley\n","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Newspapers","@language":"en"}],"GeographicLocation":[{"@value":"Nelson (B.C.)","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"Nelson_Daily_News_1917_01_01","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0387912","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Latitude":[{"@value":"49.493333","@language":"en"}],"Longitude":[{"@value":"-117.295833","@language":"en"}],"Notes":[{"@value":"The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris. <br> Microfilm pages substandard quality, replaced with image from physical copy.","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Publisher":[{"@value":"Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https:\/\/touchstonesnelson.ca","@language":"en"}],"SortDate":[{"@value":"1917-01-01 AD","@language":"en"},{"@value":"1917-01-01 AD","@language":"en"}],"Source":[{"@value":"Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.","@language":"en"}],"Title":[{"@value":"The Daily News","@language":"en"}],"Type":[{"@value":"Text","@language":"en"}],"Translation":[{"@value":"","@language":"en"}],"@id":"doi:10.14288\/1.0387912"}