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Previously Proved False Statements were ile- iierated. Sir Thomas White Eiieciualiy- Dis-
posed ol_ Olnposition Insinualions. Kyle oi, Nova Scoha, ndertook io Restore Damage Done"-
hy Carveil and Failed.
(From our Own Correspondent.) _ OTTAWA. March 28.-A determined `efi'ort on the part, of the Opposition ,to underpin their demand for an lu- vestlgation of the Imperial shell pur- chases in Canada, marked the final stage of the debate on Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s resolution. This effort was put forward by Mr George W. Kyle of
Richmond. N.S., ieplm mate of F. ll. Cnrvell, in proseculug Inquiries in-~ fore the Public Accounts Comiulttel-.. Mr Kyto set ihimseli’ to accomplish two things, first. to restore the dam- aged case presented to the liouse' some weeks .ago by Mr Carveli and later badly damaged by tho speech of the Solicitor-General, and secondly, to present new material with regard to the alleged irregularities in the trans- actions of Col. J. Wesley Allison. As amcsns of salvaging the Carvell case Mr Kyte presented a statement secur- ed by Mr Carvell from the Imperial Munitious Board with reference to western shell orders. With respect to these orders there had been a wide gulf between the statements ot Mr Curvell and Hon. Arthur Mcighen as to dates and deliveries. The stato- ment obtained by Mr Carvell and pre- sented by Mr Kyte agreed with the statement made to the House by the Solicltor~Genersl. Mr Kyte, however, reasoned to the contrary. The Rich- mond Liberal spoke till after eleven o'c1ock, having begun shortly after five, and did not reach the gravemen of his speech until late. Ile then read t.o the House a series of declarations purporting to show that Col. Allison had taken very large shell fuse orders tothe Unil,ed States. had placed them with' mushroom companies. newly
ing n`o.plants and that heavy advance payments were made to these com- ponies.
Mr Kyle said that nine tiays before
the contracts were given by the Shell' Committee an agreement was entered into between E. B. Cadwell, president of the American Ammunition Com- pany, one of the Ilrnis ll. 1<‘. Yokum of
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New York and E. W. Bassick of Brid- geport, Conn., ln which it was declared that by virtue of their services in ob- taining tbe contract for 2,500,000 fuses from the Shell Committee, the three men were entitled to n commission of one million dollars. or 40 cents a fuse. This sum was to be divided as follows: --To Yokuni. $475,000; to Bassiclr. $270,000, and to Cadwell, $250,000. Mr Kyle told the House that In September 1915 another partnership was entered into by J. Wesley Allison and one Eugene Lignunti louse all their efforts for their mutual advantage and prnttt to secure contracts for supplies to be cxported to certain Iduropcnn collu- tries. This partnership Mr ll. l\‘. Yokum joined n few mouths later. Mr Kyte said that the agreement; dis- solving last September gave informa- tion regarding a number of contracts in which the associates had been in- terested and the sums of money each had received. He asserted that the $475,000 received by Yokum as com- mission on the contract for fuses be- tween thé Shell Committee and the American Ammunition Company was divided. 'iignati being given $60,000 and Allison and Yokum sharing the 'balance equally. On a contract for 500,000 cartridge cases awarded by the Shell Committee to the Edward Valve Manufacturing Company, the partner- ship had secured 20,000. of which $2,500 went. to Lignati. Mr Kyte also said that there were other contracts, some executed and some pending for rifles, picric acid, powder und chemi- enls. If ull these contracts were con- summated ilignatl would bc puld n total of $26ti,tl00 and Allison and Yokum would have $1,600,000 hct.ween them, ' . " "
(From our Own Correspondent.) OTTAWA, March 28.-Sir Thomas
White, who followed the member for Richmond, pointed out that Mr Kyle had attempted to support fundament- ally false statemcutsliy adding to them. The Finance Minister allowed that statement, after statement. made by Mr Carvell und shown by thc Solicitor-General to have been incor- rect. had not been rc-t'erred to by Mr Kyte at all. As to the new allegations. he asked why the member for Rich- mond did not lay his complaint. before thc Department of Justice and have the man charged oltradictod: the De- partment would do its duly.
-Sir Thomas emphasized thc fact
that in all -that had been said by Opposition members there was no charge of fraud, dishouestylor corrup- tion against membern of the Shell (‘,ommitIee. He questioned whether any good purpose would be served by investigating the work of a. defunct committee and pointed out that no real investigation could takc place without the bringing ot’ witness from the Wlar Ofilce and without the consent of the imperial Government, as to the prices paid and the orders placed hy the Shell Committee. The -Dominion Government had no authority and therefore no responsibility. Dealing with the fuse contracts. Sir Thomas explained thatlarge initial payments were not unusual but a rule guaran- tees were takeu. He would Investi- gate as to whether this had been done in the case under discussion. Referr-
ing to tv statement by Mr Kyle that s_lr.Bam Hughes had a gned an endors- . ation for the contracts Sir--Thou. Z explained that the Minister of Militia I had cone this- on behalf of the Impenist andnot-of the Canadian Governruoht; _ At- .halt-past. .twelve the .F_l_nlnce‘ Minister adjourned- lthe debate, .stat- that he had -a good deal more to any ; anti- some things. to look into. Othel- spaekers today were Mr F. I<‘. Pardee ot,-Weetlaanbtou. and--Mr W. A. _Boise
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(Special to the Guardian.) ,
LONDON, March 28.-Another de-
termined attempt by the Germans to break through the French lines north- `, west of Verduu resulted in failure -with heavy losses tothe Germans' _After a day's intense artillery prepara- tions another effort. to lessen the six miles intervening llctweeu them ami the Paris-Verdlm railway and the nine _ mile.-I still between them and Verdun, the Germans launched a great inl`antr_v attack on the Haucourt Bethlncourt sector. Successive waves of Germans were thrown into the fray, but their attempts were put down by the cur- tain of fire of the French and volleys from the rifles of French infantry. Still intermittent bombardment is going on north-east, of Verdun. in the Woevrc region the French have been shelling German positions; in Argonne they are bomhardlng the German lines in the north-east, while in the Vosges artillery action is marked on both sides.
On the British front in the St. Eloi
sector the Germans opened n heavy artillery fire on the British forces holding ground ,gained Monday. Brit- ish artillery replied effectively und.. according to the British official state-
- In
lnent, those positions are still in the hands of the British.
in Postavy region on the Russian
front Berlin reports that onsiaughls of the Russians against. German lines have been held and tllat the attacking forces suffered heavy casualties. '
A semi-oiilcial despatch from Berlin
says the Russians attacked their new offensive with sixty divisions over it front’ of 120 kilometres and that their losses have been less than 80,000 men.
Heavy Italian bomhardments of
Austrian positions on the Doherdo heights along lsonzo continue. A Ger- man air squadron dropped bombs on
Entente Allied encampment north of Saloniki. A German destroyer has been rammed and sunk by the British light cruiser Cleopatra. Therc were no German survivors. V
(Special to the Guardian.) `
PARIS, March 28.-A bombardment
of great violence against French posi- tions from Avocourt to Bethincourt. west oi’ the Meusc, was followed this afternoon by a German attack launch- ed against Hnricourt on the Malan-
the harbour works at Saloniki and the'
Bolubardmenl of Great Violence Against French
Positions, Followed by Furious infantry Attack which was Repelieli by French turlain of Fire. Heavy Fighting Along both Sides oi the illeuse. A German Battery FX-ploded by French Gun Fire.
[court front, in successive waves. lt was repulsed with heavy losses, ac- cording to an official statement by the French Wfur Office to-night. The text. of the statement follows:
In Argonne our artillery continued
active against enemy organizations north of liouylctte in the sector of La Fontaine nux Charmes, and Houte Cllevauchee, as well as in eastern Argonne. Our fire directed cu an enemy battery in Montvacoun wood caused a violent explosion. West of the Meuse ‘bombardment was resumed in the course of the day against our positions from Avocourt to Bethin- court. About three o'c1ock the Ger- mans launched u. powerful attack against our Harlcourt-Malancourt front. The successive waves of assault were, repulsed by our curtain of fire and the fire of our infantry. Our second lines east oi' the Meuse, have been bombarded. In Woevre our artillery concentrated its fire on visible points of the enemy trout.
In the Vosges artillery was quite
spirited in the region of St Ossweir, Muhlbach and I-lartmanns-Weilerkopf.
The Belgian otliciai communication
says there is nothing particular to re- , port. ' ,
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. Bombarll Turks
LONDON, March 28.-A Suez report
says that a successful air raid was made ou thc .Turksih advance base 100 miles east of the Canal by British
airmen on March 24th. Our gtirmeu routed a body cf the Turkish ii fautry, descending to 200 feet and opening fire with a machine gun.
Britain Also ' iiad Blizzard
LONDON, March 228.--in the mid
lands. north of England and in Wales one of the worst blizzartls in it quarter of a. century raged last night and this morning. -_
Than the Armeninis
ROME. March 28. - The Govern-
dence and documents which will short- iy'be published proving that Austria and Bulgaria were guilty of horrible crimes in Serbia, where massacres worse than in Armenia were perpe- trated. According to the evidence which the Serbians have communi- cated to the Italian Government and the Pope, the victims exceeded 700,000 Whole districts and towns were de- populated.
Women. children and old men were
shut up in a church by Austrians and either bayoncted or suffocated hy_ asphyxiuting' gass. In one church In Belgrade it is alleged. 3.000 women. children and old men were sulfocatcd. The Serbian refugees stated that they were- present when - bombs and
macnvines for producing asphyxiating gas ere_d(strll;utot_I_to the Bulgarians.
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(Special to the Guardian.)
WASHINGTON, March 28. - The
American Government, through the ambassador at Berlin, asked the Ger- man government if its submarines were responsible for the damage to the steamer Sussex and the sinking of the British steamer Englishman.
Two additional steamers were sent
to the bottom. the Eagle l’oint, a Brit- ish vessel. presumably by a torpedo, and the Harriet. n Danish vessel, by n mine. The crews of both were saved. (Special to the Guardian.)
Million Dollar Fire
Strikes 0klahoma
TUl.S.\. Okla., March 28.-Damage
csiliilzitf-tl :ll more than one million
dollars u-nn done in the oil fields near Ilumrlglil, when .l tire, starting in a ;»llc of rt~l'u:~u\ s||:'tn<l to the wells.
’|‘welvc wells arc burning. 24 der-
ricks have been d .slro ed and an
ments of thc Allies have secured evi- .th IH r | _(2,, yr 'H i T -,Z
ousuiu o mir s o o u an age consumed by the iluulcs. Olltnen feared that thc loss would extend into many millions of dollars.
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Bulgarians -ll ill
- Scatter Mines
MILAN. March 21. -» A Bucharest
despatch to the Secolo.-says that the Bulgarians ure making extensive mili- tary preparatlons ‘alongthe Roumsn- ian frontier. A number of boats laden with mines have arrived at Giurgevo, and it is believed that the Bulgarians intend to scatter the mines broadcast in the Danube. The Bulgarian news- papers, the despatch adds, are becom- ing daily more threatening in tone to- ward Roumsnia.
Ginrgevo is a Roumauian town on
the Danube, forty miles south-west oi' Bucharest, of which It is the port. Sir Edward Carson to llppose Government
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LONDON Merch B8 --Sir Edward
, , gms is restored to 'health and is
ted to preside to-dpy over the
Conservative paI‘ty‘s war committee. The Mornln Post believes that he
intends to md lead en opposition to the Coalition #ernment end wish- es him -success declaring the Govem- mont weak. _-
Til UP SILK PUANT8.
PATRSON. N-.J.,, Mer? 28.,-The
executive committee of _t e Brother- hood of Amerloea Silk Wdriert, which-
oleim to Include III il.e‘;'l'e'?h§erehlp virtually every worker in sl branches
ofthe eiih lndustry ef ht nounced today that tbd men _ have been girth until Wedneedey to
favourably to il demernl for e er- e
’ Washington To Ask "` "Bombs Dropped '
_QI Saloniki
LONDON, March 28.--Saloniki re-
ports the bombardment on Monday by five German aeroplaues. 18 civilians were killed. the latter including a Greek officer; 21 wounded. The Germans lost. two of their aero- planes.
A Forlnighls Results . 01 German Piracy
. LONDON. March :8.-The Daily /Telegraph says that the Germans in their new submarine warfare have, in ,less than a fortnight, sunk 70,000 tons of shipping. of which one-third be- longed to neutrals.
Mr. John E. Redmond
0pposes Exemption
LONDON, March 28.-John E.‘Red-
mond, Irish Leader, advises against the proposed public meeting to pro- test against further war taxation in Ireland. He adds that Irela.nd's high- est. Interest is the speedy termination of the war and that the men who seek to prejudice Ireland in the eyes of the world hy»a ridiculous claim for ex- emption from war taxes are by their apathy, so-called neutrality, hostility to recruiting and their pro-Germanism doing' their best to prolong the war.
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Then we come to the third onc.
We have passed the other two, and i am sure the hon. member is proud of the charges he is levelling against these business concerns in Canada and against the Shell Committee, that has nothing to do with them. Tile Manitoba. Bridge and iron Works are next. The hon. gentleman says that they got an order for 20.000 shells and tllat not a shell llns been delivered. He had hardly taken his scat until the answer to this libel was hurled at his head in a telegram from the Mani- toba Bridge and Iron Works themselv- es and he was compelled to admit on the floor of Parliament next day that so far from having stated the truth. the act.uul truth was that that rom- pany had had three orders. ihnt. thu first. two they had dclivcrcliin i'ull and on time, that' the third was only given recently and that it would be delivered in time as well. That company has already delivered 47.880 shells, and that is the company which, he says. has not delivered any. its last order for 20,000 shells was given on the 28th January. 1910, and therefore he brings home guilt to the Shell (lonlinittcc which went out of oillco on the 30th November, in the year before, bc- cause in giving this contract to the Manitoba Bridge and iron Works, they were distributing political patro- nage. Tlio hon. gentleman made n statement in the House--he had often made it before--as to what lm was ready to do and to be interesting l am going to read tilat statement. ll.- was going to apologise. Ilert- is what he said:
lt' is trun that sometimes we llnvc
n. lot of difficulty in getting informa- tion and possibly wc might noi. bc right exactly to a cent, but I am suf- ficiently assured of the facts that 1 am going to read to the House t.o stake my reputation as rt member of that-
I congratulate the hon. gentleman
that he did not make the stake any higher. -If you will give me a committee i will prove them to the hilt or apolo- gize to this House and to the com- mittee aud say that I did not know what I am talking about.
In fulfilment of that contract, it is
the duty of the hon. genleman, in re- spect to these three companies to which I have already alluded. to ad- mit that he did not know what he was talking about and _to apologize to the liouse and to the country. l wait with considerable interest, hut. with
licr he does it. Well, l pass on to ill. other i0iI.
‘ Some hon. MEMBERS: Get up; get up.
Mr. SPEAKER: Order. Mr. PARVI-11.1.: Give us the coin-
miflce and we will show you.
Ml'. MEIGHEN: Now he wants r.
committee so that he will have n chance to apologise to it._ Haviiw got, through with the Manitoba Bridns. and Iron Works, I come to the Manl- tobn. Shell Company ot' i-ll. Boniftwl-. lio says they get an order 10.04:/l shi-lls, und thut sonic ol' them have |n~|~,u Iloliverod. They got. au order for 10,000 shells, and when did they receive it?-in December, 1915, nl- most it mouth after the Shell Commit- tee went out of existence. That is the position of that company, and of course this is another nail in the cotlln ot' the Shell Committee, and a bring- ing home of the charge that they used their position to distribute political patronage. New I come to No. F.. The 'l‘rauscona Shell Company or Winnipeg, he says. got an order for 250,000 shells, and nothing delivered. The Transconn Shell Company did get an order for‘ 25,000 shells but, so far from having: delivered nothing, they have deliver- ed 28,530 shel1s,and the order for 250.- 000 _-:hells was not received until thc 4th January, 1910. There certainly should he an igvestigation, but it is not into the Shell Committee. The lion. member for Carleton posslblv knows where the investigation is most required. Then. the Vulcan Iron Works :irc thc next offenders. The Vulcan Iron Works Company is a firm, I do not, know how large, but of long stand- ing in this country, doing business lu Winnipeg when l wcnl. there in 1898, and I believe for many years before. That is the next company that comes in for casfigntlou and lampooniug at the hands of the hon. member for Cur-
lctuu. They got an order fo; 20,000 sin-ll.-\. and nothing dclivere. Well. tllcy got, ordcrs for 50.425 shells, and they have already delivered 40,416 and the 20,000 order was not given until the -till January, 1916. Another apolo- gy from tin- hon. gentleman. .
Tllesc fncts were just as accessible
to him as to me. He »-onid get them to . day or tomorrow, or any other day and he has been told that ll;.~ menihcrs oi` the Government. repeated ly. The members of the Munltinn Board are ready i0 give ally member of Parliament these facts. They do not feel justified lu exposing to the counl try prices and other matters conne¢~I~ ed with the resources of the country. but they are ready in regard to these matters Io take any lnernbcr of Parliu ment into their confidence and reveal to hiln any facts to which he feels that
as a member he has rt right.
Mr. (IAIIVELL: l wish to state to
the hon. gentleman that within it month l received from the hon. the Minister of Marine and Fisheries (Mr. Hazen) a copy of a letter purporting to be from tho Chairman of the Muni- tious Board-I do not have it with mo-practically refusing me all the iuformation which my hon. friend in
now speaking about.
Mr. MEIGIIEN: i do not fully
know the contents of that letter. 1
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