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I IN IIIOLENT ATTACKS LIBERAL MISREPRESENTATION I OVER NEW SITUATION

Another. Fierce Infantry Attack Premier lliathiesilil and llther Government Members instead ol the fishing Expedition

Launched by Germans alter a. _gtontinue to Lay Bare the Faliacies and lncon- They Wanted for Campaign pup. _ Fierce 'llombardment was Corn-_ 7 sisiencles of Liberal Criticism. poses the Royal Commission now

pltiell' Checked' by French Cnr-

talll oi Fire.

(Special to the Guardian-) -

LONDON, April 2.-The following

otlicial statement on the campaign OH the western front was issued to-night: Tllere was considerable activity yes- terday on both sides. Hostile artillery was active to-day along thefront be- tweell the Hohellzollern Redoubt. and Soucllez. We retaliated by shelling the enemy’s positions. Enemy artll~ lery was active about Ypres. The enemy fired mines yesterday and to- day opposite Fricourt and in the ,I-lollenzollern Itedoubt. Little dam- age was done to our trenches. Last night there was heavy shellillg on botll sides about St Eloi and_ the ‘enemy made three bombillg attacks against our new position. All their attacks were repulsed.

(Special ,to the Guardian.)

have occurred in Pervyse and Oost- kcrko district and south of Dixmude. .__.___.._._- (Special to the Guardian.)

LONDON, April 2.- The ,Germans

are still carrying on strong offensive operations north-east and north-west of Verdun. About four and a half miles north-east they penetrated Call- lette Wood outside of Fort Douaumont after a violent bombardment. From part of this wood the French in a counter-attack drove them back. An- other attack was delivered against a portion of Avocourt Wood held by the French, but the French fire and machine guns held the Germans. The French have entirely evacuated the village of Vaux and drawn their lines south of the town, but in the immedi- ate outskirts.

Berlin says nortll-east of Haucourt.

between Malancourt and Le Mort Homm the Germans elltirel cleared

THE VALUATION OF FOXES.

flow did we dare to change tile, val-

uation of foxes he asked. New the fox industry Is a very important one to this province. It was flourishing and we trust it will flourish again and tllat 'again it will yield a good revenue to the province. But hard times had struck it and we felt it was due to thc Province not_to kill the goose that was laying the golden egg,and it was due to the goose that some consideration -should be given it. We followed this plan: We found that the average valuation that people were' willing and ready to accept would sum up to about one-half." and everyone wllo spoke to me in regard to it was satisfied with that. Some' had already paid taxes in full. To those we gave credit upon the basis that had been agreed upon. People who had valued fox- es at $10,000 and had not been able to sell 'them had to hold them over. We brought them wltllill this practical clause, and if they had over paid we placed that overpayment to their credit. We coll- sidered the question with all the abili-

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PAl'tl$. ADF” 2~-The Ge"m°'“5 °°“` the French from about 1.000 yards of I ty and the best advice that could' be

tillued their intense bombardment of French positions between Avocourt and Malancourt to-day. A heavy bom-

trenclles, where they have r1).nained since March 30th.

Ou other sectors about Verduu there

Iinfdmenf WM “|50 Cllfflefi Ulli- 935! Of' have been intermittent bombardments I-H0 MNH- TIIIB WHS f0l\0W€<1 bi' il 'and artillery duels on the remainder

German attack between Douaumont alld Vaux which, according to the com- munication of the'Freuch War Office. was completely checked. The text of the statement read:

in Belgium our artillery bombarded

enemy cantonments at Langemarck, north-east of Ypres. In Argonne our batteries were active against German

,orgrxintiona-north of Laharezee and

,... La Ile Mort and against enemy camps

in the northern part of Cheppy wood. . west of the Meuse. Bolnbardmcnt has been intense against our positions be- tween Avocourt nlld Mulallcourt. East of the Meusc a quite violent bonlbard- ment was followed ill the course of the afternoon by a Gorman attack on the ravine between fort Douaumont und the village of Vaux. The attack was completely stopped by our cul-_ tain of fire.

of tlle‘front.

Aircraft is active around Verdun.

The French brought down three Ger- man macllines, but Berlin asserts the aerial combats were ill their favour. Both sides are dropping bombs on military establishments at various polllts. '

Greater activity displayed in the

flghtillg between the Germans and Russians in the region of Baranoviclli. Elsewhere the Russian frollt is un-

changed. -

Tllrce British and, one Norwegian

stoumers were sunk by submarines or mines. Two of the British boats. the Acllillcs alld the Ashburton, were on their way to London from Australian ports. and the British steamer Gold- nloutll.to Loudoll fronl Texas with oil. Tile Norwegian boat. Peter Homre, was sunk at anchor, only one of the

ill Woevre artillery activity has ‘crew of 15 escaped. Four of the crow

been less marked. On the rest of the

of tile Achilles are missing, two of tli'o

front there is nothing to report. -crew of the Goldmoutp were wounded

A _B9lBium official communication

read. Artillery actions on both sides

and five of the crew of the Asllburtoll are ill hospital with sbrapnel wounds.

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eglacbed to thc 5th Canadian Mounted Rffes is reported da.nge:iously ill ill the last casualty list.

NEW WAR MINISTER.

TOKIO. Avril 1.` - Llont.-oclloral

,lcllinosukc Okn. Minister oi' Wiir, has

, (Special to the Guardian.) AMI-IERST, April 2.- -- Two fires

occurred last night. The first are was -in the sore of P. T. Smith At Co., gcut’s furnishing. Tile fire broke out shortly after they had closed. in the rear of the store. Considerable damage was done by smoke and -water. Tile loss is fully covered by lllsurnuco `

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RECRUITING BRISK IN THE WEST.

WINNJPEG. April 1.-Reports for

the month of March obtained fronl the commanding officers today. indi- cate that between 7,000 and 8,000 men will have been signed on since Febru- Hfy 29, when figures for March are submitted to the local War Office on Friday evening. This is a record.

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brought to bear on it and arrived at that conclusion; and I am sure that any one of the gentlemen in the House wllo examined the facts would readily agree that we took tile best course we could. Here comes in the constitu- 'tional,lawyer. whose law is subject to variation and also subject to grave cor- rection. He says, how could we make such adjustment? I will tell him ilow alld he should have known. _ Tile fox Tax Act at section 24 reads: "The Governor in Council may from time to time make 'such regulations not in- consistent with tbis act as may be deemed necessary for the following purposes or any of them. tllat is to any . . . . for regulating lhc amount ot' tax in particular cases where special circumstances .ulay call for its adjust- ment. l would leave -it to ally lawyer or ally nlclnbor on thc other side of the llousc if that docs not cover the cnso and authorise the government. whore special circumstances may call for adjustment. to nlako that adjust- ment. Then llc tells about ‘ putting the tax to $2.000. It is one of those statements of mixed facts and false- hood that are most dangerous and di- llicult to deal with. It is only where the owners fail to comply with the re- quirements of the statute and put the value on their own foxes tllat tile government comes in and fixes that value. Iiut no mall need pay that un- less llc is a defaulter and fails to put his own valuation on his foxes. Tho lloll. gentleman said that foxes w -rv only worth last year about six rn- _-lv- von hundred dollars a pair. I in-iw that some .foxes were sold at lilo-<1- pricos, but I think that such sales worn a very great mistake, and ovory mall who has to do with tho fox' bllsiness new realises that if he has good foxes he can get good prices, and that tho business is sound By what right, llo says, did we fix 1914 at $5,000 a pair and 1915 at $2,000? Uy what right? By tho right of the statute nlld`by the right of the government to adjust tllosc things which cull for ndjustulcnt.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT-

' Tho hon. gontlelnall has referred to the Public Works Department. Ile charged negligence incompetence and so on. I-le might have extended his charges. We had a case where a mls- take was made in the Public Works Department. It was not the first mis- ,take made by a Now the campaign in and this certainly had for the of it as

a was at the

where one

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Ligutiell will' show that those poor uu- fortunato Arsenaults wllo arc llludo to play the role of illfornlants and rogucs will stand forth ill very much better colours than those wllo tempted them to do tile wrong and urged tllcnl to continue ill the wrong, Now, thc hon, gclltlelllall can llavc his colnlllit- tee and I will go furtllcl' and say that ovell if he and his colleagues who made the charges have not the courage 'to make a charge of fraud,-if their' courage fails the committee will still be appointed.

MR. BELL: Will the Leader of the

government insist on selecting the committee?

THE PREMIER. I will have tho

House select the committee. The hon. Leader of the Opposition refers to a mistaken conception of his own mind. He thinks he may select a committee. Let him purge his mind of that. Iiis position is tremendously important but Ile is not so importnllt that he can over-ride the will of the House ill any single particular. '

Proceeding to speak on tile last

electioneerillg campaign the Premier said: I don’t think we could, certainly not within the memory of those ill this House, point to a campaign ill which there was so much scalldalous misre- presentation as was made by the mem- bers of the Opposition; and I don’t charge it against any of those gentle- men. They would necessarily takc their information from those wllo were leading them, and wllo illdeed sorely nlislcd them. Tile salary oi’ thc Pre- mier was one oi' those things dealt with by thenl, and yet there sat in that seat opposite four years ago -a gentle- man who, I think, isas great a mall as the present incumbent. alld he and ills colleague botll votod for tile snlary and they botll put it through. I would like to know frolu the lloll. gclltlclnull what his policy is ill -Lllaf. regard. I would. llkc to know wllctiler hc coll- slders the auloulll paid the l"’l'cluicr of this province is ilroxccss of what is absolutely llecossllry to llvc ‘upou. There is no office ill I".E.,lslulld that taxes u lllull- more und requires more close and assiduous attention and tllerc is none to-day. ill proportion to what has to bc done and the ilnporf- ancc and magnitude of the work. that is so poorly paid. We suffered many yours in this province because tllo Premier. giving his services free, un- less he was a man of wealth, might have to look for at way out as quickly as llc could. I tlllllk in this I have the lrupport of the House when I say tllut ' 'ni-fl wo have come into power I have -Zevolwl the whole of my time and I\vl\ai<-v"" ability I possess. solely to illi- inf "¢~-‘is of this province. and tilat in liollllllg villl the Govcrllmeut at illlzlwll :mil Ill p~'ognnth1g‘0\|r g|pL|;|Js and worllillg out ilu- conditions of the provllloo, we have had li siligle cyc to ilu- llrivalllingc of tilt: pruvlllcc.

AUTOMOBI LES.

The dutulnolliln qllc-niiull, said tile

Loader of jp" <lpposil_p»li. was sull- lllittcd to tile' sch:-fl inn-otlllgs and we didll't abide ily till.-lr decision. 'l‘llai_ was hoard all over tllo province and ovcry misroprsolltatiou of fllut that could bo made was made-against the Govorlunollt. The people were told all the Goverlllllcllt was -going to do was to opcll out tllo whole country and defy

the law. Tllerc never was allafronsoll for making tllat statement. hy are motors not runlllllg in Prlllce County? Because the people at tile meetings said they did not want them. and they never revoked -tllat decision. If the people of lCing's County desire to have motors run alld so petition the Gov- ernment they can have them and will not be held ill check by a few narrow- minded people who happen to be sup- porters of the Leader of the Opposition and would like to impose their will -upon the wholc province.

The Premier then dealt with the

oats scalldal and the statements made by the Opposition inthis regard ill the election campalgll, pointing out clearly that therswas no foundation in fact for any of them. I ’ -

'rl-le coursnéucz.

' ' " Now," he proceeded; " we consideratloll of some importance. Many

of this House

conference

and a

active I nent of the

of the obfect

for any

sure every member ill this llousc who wisllcs well to this province will glvc all the assistance he possibly can to tile working out by thc conllnlttcc oi' the problems tllat arc lluw most ur~ gently confronting us. A meeting of that. committee will bc held ill this Cllanlbcr on Monday, and such uf thc members who call'attell<l will llc glad- ly welcomed there. One ol' thc ques- tions dealt with at the collferellce was tllat of drainage of lands ill this pro~* vlnce, and that is a matter which will receive the careful attention of the Legislature at this session. Tile Gov- ernment will introduce a bill ibr tllat purpose. it is new legislation ill this province. it is legislation 0l` zt kind that will require the most careful con- sideration of all; and I would ask the Opposition, many of whom are illter- ested tllrougil their constituents direct- ly in this question, to give all the assistance and offer all the suggestion they cull, and we sllall bc very glad to use tllcnl to thc best advantage. I believe, from the information we have from Mr Reek. who is second to no authority ill Calludu upoll tllat sull- ject, that there arc at least 200,000 acres in this province that ill thc course of time may b_c brought illto nlucll nlorc productive collditioll by ,development of a sound drainage system.

Tile Premier tllell referred in flltillg

terms to tllat clause in the speech from tile Throne touching olltlle 'death of Sir Charles 'i`upper, recalling tile fact tllnt that building was tllc place where the first nlectillg having confedcratiell ill view was llcld and that ill the adjoining chamber leading men assembled from Quebec, Ontario. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to- gether with the leading men of this province, and there laid tllc foundation upoll which Canada is llow reared.

llc llcxt remarked on the excellence

of the speeches of the mover and sec-ondcr oi' the address, especially ill their rcfcrellcc to. the war and tile part illia uatioll is playing ill it. lic believed that thc trial would serve lo' weld thc Empire more closely together tllull ally other cause could have wrought

ill conclusion the Prcnlior appealed

to, the lnombcrs to lift the discussion

of thc plgllic affairs of the province to _ u higll le cl. “ We are not yet through with our work." hc said, “wc have duties more onerous than members of this _liousc have been accustomed fo bear; and I trust and bolievo that wo will ull risc to the lligllor level that the occasion l'equires."

Mil. GEORGE E. liUGIiES.suidtllev

were proud that tllo Dolniuions had come to the assistance of the mother country ill this great wur. and especial- ly ofthe part which Canada had taken. lie bclicvcd that the result of the war would be a lasting alld enduring peace. The recruiting in Prince Ed- ward Island had been highly creditable ,to our patriotism. and people of all classes had colltributod generously to all tllc patriotic funds. Certain people were having their patriotisln severely strulllcd by the fact that they did not receive patrollago from the Militia Dc- partmollf. lie thought tllnt all sup- plies should bc ohtulllcd by puillic toll- dor. llc gathered froln his talks with people in tile coulltry that parents would prcferc if gardens were encou- raged ut llolue instead of ai, lilo scllools, wllero they were apt to rull to weeds during the vacations. i-lo approved oi' the proposals of the rv- ccllt convention, ami thought all infor- mation bureau should be opened for thc immigration that would be drawll to tllo province after the war. lic coll- sidered that the teachers and inspec- tors who had gone to the front deserv- ed all the congratulations tllnl. had been showered upon them. lie also gave the Government credit for the substautial progress being made ill nxt- riculture, but he thought that every effort should be made to improve tllc main roads of tile provillcc. If ally- tlllllg could be done ill a reasonable

way tzgéiluprove the lallds by sllbsoll drains , Ile felt it was the duty of tho legislature to.see that it was done. Regarding the fishing illdustry llc tllougllt the tiling was to obtain quality. and stops were mkcll to iilorc llsilvr- men ill of lilo reference 'Jllnrles Tuppor. wus fair to judge for the past year brought down. 'l-le to the

was duo."l1ut

(From our Own Correspondent.)

O'i"l‘AWA, April 2. - 'l`1lc Govern-

mcllt has not yet appointed counsel to act ill connection witll tile Royal

will be settled witllin the next few days. Among the names mentioned most promillently are those of Mr I. N. Helmuth, K.C.. ol' Toronto. and lion. A. W. Atwater, K.C., ol’ Montreal.

Tllcrc is no illtinlntion yet as to

ment's proposal. It is apparent to- night that illc terlllillatioll of the dc- butc oll Sir Wilfrid Laul'icr's resolu- tion lol' u general investigation of the

allytllillg about. except tllc comm ttec.

_dnlydnihorized will Investigate to a lleiinite Conclusion. '

the Opposition would, of course. llam- a nllllority representation of such u colnulittce, wlllcll would 'enable them to complain if the report of thc conl mittee was unfavourable to their pur-

Comnlisslon which is to investigate pose. The Royal Commission will deal the Kyte charges. but the matter islwitll the four specific charges and will under immediate consideration and' bring lu a verdict.

A notice was issued on Saturday'

from the office of Lieut.-Colonel John Stalltleld. Chief Government Whip, ln- formillg the Ministerial members ol' the intention to conclude the debate ell the Laurier resolution on Tuesday

whether or not Sir Wilfrid Laurier will , it will be remembered that on Thurs- namc counsel _and to tllat extent with-| day night Hon. George P. Graham, on draw his refusal to accept thc Govern-I the motion for adjournment. suggested

that the debate be not resumed until the returll of Sir Sam Hughes. Ther-.' seems to be no reason for this coursv. as Sir Sam Hughes will make his

Sllcll Collllllittec’s operations by astatement properly bebore the Royal Pzlrlianlclltary (Jolllnlittee will not be,Comnlission and will still have thi- deluyed beyond Tuesday. it is frallk-iopportullity ol' stating his position in ly admitted what tile Oppositioll sccks the House on a questen of privilege. to obtain under this resolution is the 1 The Coulmissioll will begin its investi- opportullity to conduct u prolractedigation before the arrival of Generali iislllllg expedition. I-luglles, who sailed for New York on

Oli the zlssumptioll that the Shell a French lincr on Saturday.

Conllllittec has done a llulllbel' of rc- Tile Cabinet has passed the Order-

prellcllsiblc filings that nobody kglows ill-Council fofmially constituting tili-

l s ll.

Royal Collln s o

f. rs;.._.._~ , _ ,,Vtl,,.

-(Special to the Guardian.)

LONDON, April 2.- Scotland and

the llortllcrll und solltlrcnstorll coull-

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ZEPPELINS AGAIN I - IIISITED ENGLAND

Zcppelins which dropped bombs. ill the nil' raid on the north-east const ~ ol` England Friday and Saturday nightl- 5ll persons were killed and 106 woullrl

tics ol` Ellglalld rcccivoli :l visit frollljcd.

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HIS LEG GIINE, _ IIALLIEI] MEN

AND WUN V.[I.

LONDON. April 1.--Six new awards

Di thc Victoria Cross have been all- nounced. The most amazing act of courage was that ot' Corporal Cotter. of the Sixth East Kent Regiment. _\Vhen ills right log had been blown off at the kncc. and Ile was also wounded ill botll arms. llc llludc his wzly un- -aided. for ilfly yards, to lt lninc crater ulld steadied the men who were hold- ,ing ii. controlled lilo ilr=-, issued orders and altered lilo dispositions oi' his lnoll to llloci ll fresh uollnlor-aitllck by lilo enemy.

For two hours llc lurid tll<~ position.

und ollly llllowcll his wounds io bc roughly tire:-¢:~lcd when the attack

CANADIENS WIN DECIDING GAME.

MON'I`lil:JAl.. April 1.- C)inadlen'=

last night defeated thc Portland. `Orv» goll. team ill the illlai game for til'-~ Stanley Cup and thc hockey cllanlpiull ship of thc world, winning by a scorn of 2 to 1. Each team had two gsm:-.~' to its credit previous to to-night’s coll- test, hence there was great interest ill thc outcome of this deciding gami- Thc game wus hard alld fast through

out.

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WASI-lll\'G'l‘ON, April 1.-- Depart

lllcllt uf .lllstlcc officials announced to dey that two alleged consplrators will. Captain Tens 'Vauscllcr ill a plot lo hlow up tho Wclland Canal. wcr-- lllldcr al'l'vst ill New York tllat n tlllm

was ulldcr surveillance in New Elm land. and that they expected to al-ri-sl

quictcd dowll. _ ll fourth ill a few days.

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