1m HE Daily News V iL ' PRINCE RIPFRT. II. CL, THURSDAY. FF.HRIARY II. 1018 PHICE nVE CENT ROMANIA WILL FIGHT TO END OE PEllSM WILL STAY WITH ALLIES TO THE LAST ... CANADIANS HARRY HUN FRONT LINES LLflYD GEORGE CHALLENGES iCOL REPINGTON GOVERNMENT DELEGATION TO GO TO OTTAWA HIS CRITICS IN COMMONS WILL NOW BE MAY TAKE OVER TO PROTESTRE REGULATIONS tikes BOLD COURSE AND TELLS HOUSE OF COMMONS THAT PROSECUTED' G. T. P. RAILWAY INDIGNATION MEETING IN EMPRESS THEATRE LAST NIQHT IF DISSATISFIED WITH HIS GOVERNMENTS CONDUCT ! DECIDES THAT DEPUTATION SHOULD 30 EAST REGARDING OF THE WAR TO PUT ANOTHER OOMERNMENT FISHERY REGULATIONS FOR THE IN ITS PLACE AT ONCE Bonar Law, Leader of the Com-'Likely to be Operated Along With SKEENA SPEAKERS UNANIMOUS mons, Announced Yesterday C. N. R. and Other Government ti rmj .iw. public over lhe Versailles Council. Action Would be Taken Owned Lines C. P, R. to I. The indignation meeting which licence yet. Still the New Kng- , i it. The British Declaring absolutely that lie Under D. O. R. A. be as at Present. had been called for last evening land Fsh Co. could get practically . yesterday ould "t Teld on lhe matter of in the Empress Theatre was at- the whole of the West Coast of a-..'nibled revealing more about the doings (fptcui ts lbs !tnj ;.) (Spwui to Ttx dut :. landed by a goodly proportion of Graham Island restricted for their f expcetaney nt th Kutirni War flfitinail nf Ottawa. Feb. II. The belief is the fishermen in town interested own special benefit, whenever they -,iy as evinced on H London, Feb. li. Mr. Andrew rrrw.-l n tr nt tti ranital that lhe in Ihr- -ofrtif ntfnna Imt tha iron 'altt tnr- it Thai -aa i,fl1lnt lhe A,M wulen n)el al Versailles .. Premier wuld Itonar I-aw, leader of.the IiOUSei-..-nnl ..ill InVn . Ihm fl 1. t ...!!- I. . I, Ik- t,.n IV.n T k .1 i, thr the other week, the Premier ehal- ...i fiiit.i. "iii viva mv v. -1 h iuuifl. n uu aic aim v J tiu" luc vuuuiviuii luc lCJial b of Commons, and Chancellor of l. ni Vilofi'a latest lenged the House,' if il were dls-a T. I and operate il in conjunc- tauch interested in these fishery ment of Fisheries was in. Mr. Mie J'Jeiiequer. announceu on mo ,n llh h nnaiian Vrlhprn ',-r,,Unn nnl lhv rfnn'l kni.-' Mrkpr.nn ri)ntiitMl lhat tUm rr dissatisfae- satisfied with the Government's ,d the w o manifested by rondurt of the war, to put another floor of the House today thai ac- ne intercolonial, and other pub- it, was conspicuous by its ab- council did not need to call this iron wouia we lasen owTjed through the ' The matter baa been f ;u press and the government in lt place. .fjcly railways, sence. meeting. if "Defence of the Itealm Act, f-llway war board. ! Mavor McClrmonl called the threshed out so after that the against Colonel Iteplngton. tbe; Thm n n n iri. ronaidered. 'miinir In nnlr and invited those'neonle of the cilv are oraclicallr BEEFLESS DAYS ARE military oorrespdndenl of the wiJl be ,efl a, a prjVately owned who were prepared to voice their of one mind in the matter, and Tha Strongest Protest. Morning Post, for an article ap- ,fM, w,mpeimg wjth the govern-1 ideas to come on the platform, their knowledge of lhe facia appearing NOW TO BE ALTERED in The Post on Monday. ,- in.. but under more con.Hlr nnhprl Hannah was the first ready was Drobablv the cause of We hate a local member Information against Colonel Hep- lro, (nan al pre$eQt 'speaker, and from bis wide and the small attendance. He thought li Or I'Utf .1t.l ufKin the Fishery Advisory inglon and lhe editor or me Morn- !n certaJn quarters it is not long experience on this coast, be,thal the council had sufficient leu. I.--Tbe food eon. Hoard. U has been slated Ing Post were later on lodged with jeered that the people of the showed convincingly why it was leverage on which to act without ja. that be had-tnade certain the police officials. Mr. Law said omJnkm are getting a square that the Skeena fishermen wanted calling this meeting at all. The . '-guiation in respect to representations to the that the charge lay against Col. n lnj8 railway proposition, to use gas boats. Conditions on people in the east are crying out $ u-.ri; and baeon in public Itoard. wbieh the Govern, itepington on account ol his reve- in.nf-P . the government aroar- the Kkorna are altogether differ- for cheaper food. The fish are 4 t r i in una J a have been meat did not look upon latious of the conclusions reach. , mi-nrf- tn .addle the neoole'nt from those on the Naas. or al here waiting lo be got. If we can .c .j: j duesday and Friday with favor. If the member Vd al the Supreme War Council al with the non-paying lines, and Rivers Inlet. At Rivera Inlet, only gel at it, despite the efforts a j are now to be Can- from this district gives Versailles lately. leave the C. P. It. which does pay pbere the fishermen had no uieAif lhe cannery monopoly. The and kless day., advice to the Department, Colonel Itepington. it will be remembered, o dividend, and whose stock is al- for gas boats, there was no eur- tcanners did not depend upon send-waya por a which presumably is the severed bis eonneelion al a premium, lo continue 'rent. It was an inlet twelve miles Ung telegrams lo Ottawa when i at ua ana a,i rritiay, rettswfi for bis appointment, with the London Times and Lord In do so. The rail war situation inns with eiaht canneries, and!they wanted anything. They went effective and and has the support kNorlbeliffe only recently, w tutt be n Canada, it is held, ought to be fishing there could be done Jusl right there, and stayed there un- it on a g- Ash Wednesday, of the fishermen of this eritieiied toe attitude or ixra dM,t wiln a8 a whole, and if the well with a skiff as with a gas.lil they gol what they wanted. ) locality in that action, and Xortheliffe tow ards lhe govern. B11vernment take over the O. T. P. boat. But on lhe Skeena. w here.Prince"'Ituperf last delegation LeaL Under the t . a -f beef muat the government refuses to hnenl very severely, but ho did nol.ff should also take over the C. P. there was such a strong lide, once(bad hardly left Ottawa, until the a iuos. take thai advice, what's leave the government alone eituer. i unon the same basis. the fishermen had drifted down, 'canners had their representatives a b- cr.ca al more than one the use? Our local mem. K.fler breaking with Xortholiffe. he , , - 'it was impossible for them to buck there finding out what had been set) a; uar. while ita uo on ber ought to protest vigorously immediately started writing for AI1CTDIA MAV MA IT the current wilh a sail boat. They Alone and doing their best to Ww:'v.u.v3. a-ud. I Iriday.TIiIm... -.la tn abso.ml... against the opinion the Morning Post. iiujiam mm amnu nad lo wait unlil tne tide ,urnedt counteract it, wnicti, you see, tney :' f -S Dork.V M.V of this district being overridden A SEPARATE PEACE th cou,d oal mak? have done. and bis resigning ROUMANIA IGNORES ,drj(l per Jfc Whereas. with a Captain Rorvik followed. He from d he board, where bia ' hnaf ihev enuld make two. also considered that the City AN OFFENSIVE advice is flouted, is the GERMAN ULTIMATUM London. Feb. 11. According News lo There-were numerous fishermen Council should have been able to of the Daily he could a correspondent strongest protest decide for themselves whether to COMING IN MARCH make. facta are known which bring the had gas boals'"'on'"'"V...-. The semj a delegation to Ottawa or tpeUl lo I be DsUr .vs). possibility of a separate peace be- Skeena eason being earlier, they not. A delegation should be sent, Washington. Feb. 11. Aouma- Austria-Hungary and the fOUld fish it, and get back south he thought, and should stay right i Osltf .. m..h w,rr fireat re- France.!i nia has ignored Germany s:,Jude ru;7anc;;b;,ay..Vman.festedin-ml. i lUn. to get the run o n the there until they got what they . CANADIAN FORCES carters. f.mr tinur ulliinatum lo "c. . ... . , . wanted. There were many who r i L .1 r i-rantr. xucao u.c. - uifee in March has and lias d Austria nsroi wie pro . . . ACTIVE IN FRANCE an immeiliate peace." , cnnerr boats when were fishing halibut at present. t-e Hermans for al ctared ber intention i survive or ngnung me rui ,"J" m. nnf.th. a. ther could not wlto would, engage in the salmon sive on the Hrilish with the allies. troons on tlie western ironi. i " leaky perish fish with their own gas boats. Ufthintr. but not in an open, 8 lo the German pUl to Tt Dsily if. -Bob" much against ja oat with no prelection from was very have Jusl been t .'hrtiarv II. Another line w earner, ue cuusiuertu iu r w Tarse captives did not'daring ralJ was carried oul by GERMANS MASSING TROOPS sending tawa. who any might old delegation be paying to more Ot the halibut was going to be much was a general of-'tne can,in forcea in France i attention to. their own personal scarcer in the near future, but "," ,n-yesterday, when they bombed the fishery regulations. there was no cannery association than interests ,,m 'seventeen dugouts in the first line AGAINST THE SWISS BORDER He thought that the best to jack up the government to restrict r.,is of the prison- fish Hi f lhe (Jermau trenehes. and thing to do was to send Mayor the number ot halibut -tug no surpriso In tueM n n,e upper line, in the C0DfU ermen. "3 x . ' ive preparations kK.n,lu. of .v.rK)oourt. Many GERMANS OPENLY BOAST THaTs.SS FORCES WOULD GIVE J. Mr. Fred Stork was called upon. au y mo enwiiy pruoners were caplured in addi- CERMAN ARMY JS Second speaker Mr. T. He did not like the idea of restriction ' Tje wa, i finl. and the! re. Ltmn to several guna. ; WMETJr",J--, who thought the of lhe uumber of fishermen, - v I. L. Maclennon. 'ring weather lhal I Twn Canadian nosts northwest' ""u 1 it all their nor yet the number of canneries canneries were having iii.uwl for several iH,ctnjaele wero occupied proposed, for the flf have as was .i.- w.. ..- ..n..nr. i- th hieheat own way at present, as they lenMrarU"y by lhe Germans. The.' pc4. w i- w ........v.. .... ..., ,un.l II. wa. against neit five years. He compared the L,,einy attacked the forward jiosU Zurich. Feb. tS.-After Hel- m Europe, one time wnen u.e Y""' 7gel; h,ch manner of doing things in B. a Fc 'llrt-sn Coal and;,,f the Canadians in strength wllh-ot g,um. is .1 Sw.uerlandV turn!Emperor Wilhelm waa attend ng all j" 1 will, fttio way the same things if mbar ail dims.-.slona.lout any waruiug, but were sub- next? The people of Switzerland the Swiss army manoeuvres in lhe he ""ideft;ml1 s ;were conducted in Alaska, where 11l counter at, . .... -...i i.. .v .,r-Mr ,Uvi. he nassed a laugh, the vj (.,. equeiilly ejected by nave reason ui.H"' ri"'ZZ't' .uL. leinir coraDelled lo use sail boals, i" 7 tacks. thmelves this auestlon on ac- mgromn to the bwiss comman- V"" by bounds. He stood French Front. counl of the manner i n which der-in-chief asking where would the ""Th thv wid 5th 'fSr eual ?ISht for all. n.hern,e JUST ARRIVED Paris, Feluary !. Aided by .iiimietiburg. . s massing troop, bo the little Swiss army o a ., . . wi, WMeh,. a.hcrs, and special, ii iiu mtm w- ... .. . ... winrr at r t iiuvj j - i. u i.i ii.nv iinnriMr ni n minion neioru un motner T -..nto. a large effected artillery nr. inirwn against me rn "- T,'.'" a.........s t.. The could taka them round This privileges in Hstiing. as -D effected a big raid in me wiUl vast stores of ammunition iniiuuu ui of was things, ror none. Mr. Mors was pai.-nl of iroops state of affairs, course, region south of Butte Me.nll on and guns. Th people here are .oWJ eraouI.J "'d lo fhJ jU8t whal the canneries wanted, ot very much impressed w ith the Spring Dresses whelhei- lb. twice Commission which the a Uelvo hundred metre front. The atW themselves f.0" I Mr. Geo. W. Nickerson followed, Uoyal gov. : ' ...it inn ure i)eiifiraiei iratv iruaranieeinr uv iiruui.w . ,, .... .... .. on eminent had. appointed. . . to come to aimns in Bilks T" . . . .7 . ... K. ...n-.ta.l. - iwtio saiU an wium uvu v , Vne h - - Utest styles. lo the third line, ana tne ue.euce. uf swiueriaim rVI.r'r'-rrv rNnINrrR and ASSESSOR rent, of the fishermen of the city,"'" V . Vul ' It ' a iifui triors. destroyed. Many prisouers were j,y the Germans as juiv o liuuirr.v" ,were probobly on the water, be! reeommendations which MODERATE PRICES captured. ,"erap of paper. .., t,vt.nriion for the roition of aiy exnected that some of the thou their said to be contained in , Italian Front, ! Germans tn uricn are ,0,, tn4 Aetor. m ! rwi4 by nJt. res,lUnK (n this town, living were sea thern at 1 Rome. Febuary tt.TheIUHan boasting that nJr J. ia. rkjjp . J fl,hermen. and dependent reMirt. He thought that the mat. Swiss am y in a Jf Ll. dJa. (Continued on Page four.) GOLDBLOOM'S hnu.ne.nnthe. Valligarinadls-- smash . .1 Vn 1 oa ....on their business, would have nersed enemy patrol on rasuu.a. uuui-. npu.iinns. wiiiid itM lit Mirth tii. r, taken enough interest In their af- a. mine was. aiso I ejiiuucu,... t .1 I v aaallsl gorging themselves on me i.i ni inrn rrrrns. aiy ara 'fairs to at least attend this meet- Ladysmlth Wellington Coal reduces ic nrag .. .-, showed how your fuel bill and gives Iiir constdirable damage to lhe repub a ing. Mr. Nickerson satisfaction. Phone 15. .P. It. the whole coast enemy position.. eupy thai practically ..rder. WANTED 'of British Columbia had been tied Coal Co. WESTHOLME tii. declare that Swltierland's different TO THE PUBLIC I up to some twenty-nine fifteen hundred maeimw firms In the shape of special tonight ONLY eighty bat-terlesofthree-lneh One aet falters. . . nt II To assist the Y. M. C An ll sixteen six-iiwh guns,fle Id guas., nd a One head boom man. privileges ror tuning, mese uu- M 'ferent fishing which were i. .. ids W. 0 T. V. will hold a lag day on, One second boom man. areas William nigh Hatunlay. the toll. February. The lb 'i.,, One fireman. 'closed to the ordinary fishermen Y. M. C. A. is doing splendid work .which "Teh trouble, Three Swampers. 'nrobably" . comprised.. ...some r two RtNE them miles or coast line. uap. HOWLEV thousand and to cause for our boy. at the front, Two signal men. tain Rorvlk of this city was denied FOR QUALIYY needed. Please. rigging men. 'LIFE'S funds urgently ,,lghl). Two are SHADOWS" u fy !a licence, and Captain Oillat of ' i in - Apply F.RVlCi: and SATISFACTION give as generously a. you can. is a had CHARLIE iiruiuru - ., 1 1..,- J, R. MORGAN, LTD. .Queen Charlotte Maud had s AND A I.N CHAPLIN Care Williams & Mason, an application In for three years IX DAY WF.F.K FOR IIIXP. ' and he bad not received any ,55 ADVENTURER" """" Lu SXVS EST & - - i