¢ _ ‘--.ft a,--P-».:’¢ -_,_t . = -.t= 'f. ;.-4’ I 5'. - BRN IW. '*°"""° °°`"Y '°“"°°° 1'" ' I cHaRLOTTB'r0WN- CANADA MoNoA`Y APRIL 3 1916 _ ' {‘”° "°'_ "°" “‘°"'°'*'“ "' °°""'°° ' ' "” ' » wuxlyolw awning muy) lm __ _ . g _ ,. V _ , ___, » g _, _ » _ Z '» » _ gg tg,” Porvngtmgllggl Invsmmlil c»agol~an_a tuojon 0.3,; 1 I cannons cHEcllEn Funulsll .Exrosunr or l Llnfalls nlsnlvrn ' 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 $10,000 and had not been able to sell 'them had to hold them over. We brought them wltllill this practical clause, and if they had over paid we placed that overpayment to their credit. We coll- sidered the question with all the abili- el Y PAl'tl$. 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. ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'Tr' ~ ~ ' "~`~`~ -'-*~`-'-'-'-‘-'- - » --A-~'-‘ .~-_-v-_-_ » - - -,-_-_-_- ~ _-_ _-_ _ _. _Y_e_Y_.,_ v ___ _ ___ _ __ _ _ I P.iI.IIS_IIAIIIIIII IWII IIIIIS ` III EISIIILII LISI III IMHIIISI Major Sinclair llnuliltml, P. E, 1_, 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 ` I3 U10 Kumi _ a ` The second fire was in a bungalo on mn oslllin l l fl l 'lu lor" 0" ' . H, W I0 IR I Vice Minister of War. lc le post or Minard'o Llnlmont curn comp, gtg, ` nolvnnnsnn ans. TOO LATE FOR _ ULASS11"IOA'I‘ION ONE CBNT_ per word each inser- tion for advertising in this column. Cash must accompany orders. Mini- mum Charges twenty-five cents. “IQE`AL"“s'a`U87C¢i¢`5`RLwAvs on _“ilsnd.ai. Holman‘_s. Charlottetown. °V8TKBoW1Tb rs R ' Lorllwall Avc.. owned by Mrs Edmund Snowdon ulld occupied by n family by tho name of Gillis. The interior and contents were badly damaged. 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. Minas-d's Llllimonx euros Diotompor; -Street-r ‘ 'woes-so-nn - I -- - ' - E NEITHER .- _ ' .TH S a » - me lzoolu. apply not fofcimilgl TIDE. ETC. Oiilce “ -_ -i - _ #tilts-el-Mrl.' WAN`TEDl¢_- -A” _'lf-f|'=lTh’o`|`l=7l`E"r.o_ll el;l~;raa..S°~e°t-no setlists;-gil’ rrnsteslfp dsflvlnllgi wmvlo -' woMAN“"r`o"A'so|s‘r with housework. Apply Mrs. A. W. E., Deuce, Welt Royalty. _ . _ '_ ~socc~4-amsl. 'ro |.:°r'--"_liT'T iv‘A'rI"FIHl Lv. A large bright sitting room, 'cali ily located. All modern eonviiliésos; aviilv Guarnlmhomco WEB IIB recorded above aero. mornin it laat. natal. previous thi! Oflliill I 1 B4; it ‘ll 48 Bild t0~ evening at 6.82 it rises and Wedlles at ' it it Sunday 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 WCB 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"