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(Special to the Guardian.) .
PARIS, April 1tl.~-Saturday nlgbt's
otllclal communication sayst West
nt the Mouse the enemy heavily bomb-.
arded during the aft.ernoon positions
in Carrelter Wood and in the neigh-
borhood oi' Esnes. East. of the Mouse
there was heavy nrtiliery nction on
both sides in the t-u>ct.or Dournumoni.
and south I-lnudromont. Itond.
(Special to the Guardian.)
I’All.iS, April lti.~--A l<‘ront-h infantry
attack in tho region of Vcrcluu, south
of.Douraumont yesterday, resulting in
capture ot' portions of German
trenches, a War Oillce' statement on
Sunday afternoon says. Bombardment
was continued last night on the left
bank of the Mouse in the sector
between` Avocourt and Cauretter
Wood. 011 the right bank we deliver-
ed a spirited attack toward the end of
yesterday .against German positions
south Ol’ Douaumont. This effort.
which was completely successful,
made it possible for us to occupy
certain of the enemy's trenches and
capture 200 men, of whom two were
officers.
(Special to the Guardian.)
LONDON, April 16.--British oiliciai
statement on the campaign in Francei
and Belgium was issued Saturday
 cirwrr  
  GERMAN TRENCHES
German Attempts at iierdun iiecom
ing More Hopeless. it 'Their Tren-
ches were Stormed and Captured
by French and Number oi Prison-
ers Taken. Heavy lighting on
night. 'l‘ho ,ofncnty matic sovcrul
bombing attacks on British craters at
St. Filoi but all were repulsed. Five
mines were exploited Saturday but
tho damage was very slight. There
were military actions during the day
and the British bombarded Annay und”
enemy trenches north of Dnnve ltlvcr
with good results. Tho oiliclal state-
ment. on the campaign in Egypt says
that the Australian troops on April
lllth carried out t1 successful recon-
naisnnco at Jolla. 'l‘ht-ro wort- heavy
__ I ' __ .
Campaign Mercilessiy Exposed by Premer Mathie-
son in ills Great Budget Speech. The 0yster,
llay and 0ats Scandals liuiiy Tllreshed 0ut anti
0pposltion Members Challenged 'to Substantiate
any one oi the Conieniions on which they Secured
Their Election. Prooi Adduced that Liberal
PREMIER MATHIESON SCORES
OPPOSITIDN CAMPAIGN TACTICS
° The liisgraceiul and Uniruihtui Statements Made hy
0pposition Leader and Supporters During Recent
Misrepresentations ilindered Development oi
1 0yster Business.   1
casualties among the enemy but the Premier Mathieson continuing llisithcy begun again, and thcrc wcrc' service that had been promised SiIlC0
loss to the Australians was slight.
(Special to the Guardian.)
LONDON, April 16.-British troops
going to the rclicf of Kut-el-Amarn
gained further ground against the
Turks who are barring their way along
the Tigris ltivcr. Pushing steadily
ahead the British have drlvcn the
Turks from the advanced lines on the
right bank of the river anti occupied
the lines. killing many of the Turks
and taking prisoners. The Turks also
met another defeat at the hands of
the Russians ln the Black Sea Litterol.
l”'et.rogrnd reports the Russians have
driven the Ottomans from strongly
organized positions fifteen miles east
oi' Treblzond and are pursuing them.
Minard'e Lilimont__curoa Dlphtheria.
SPAIN HAS TAKEN '
INSTANT ACTION
MADRID. (via Paris), April 13.-
"We are confronted with such an in-
comprehensibly absurd act that 1 am
loath to believe it until a thorough in-
quiry has been made," said Count
llomanoes, the Spanish Premier last
night with regard to thc torpedolng of
the Spanish steamer Snntanderiuo in
the Bay oi` Biseay. an u cotnleqtiotico
ol’ which four lives woro lost." _
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o littlc.
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“WORD TO THE SPORTMEN.-»
Every port ot a gun made at,Brotvn'-s
` you can have _lack walnut stocks
put on asneiot as can be done in any
gun factory in the world. All or
dere and guns left at Fennel & Chand-
great Budget speech in the Legislature
said:
- r
THE OYSTER BUSINESS.
The other source of income that
largely failed was the oyster' buslness.i
The oyster revenue fell off $11,314 from
our estimate, and I am sorry to any
that the shrinkage in that revenue was
in no small degree owing to the action
that was taken by members of the
Opposition; You know, Mr Speaker,
that it is an easy matter for one to go
around with a iircbrand anti do enor-
mous damage. A child can dp damage
in one hour that it. might take a gen-
eration ot mon to build up in property.
in regard to the oyster business, 1 will
deal with that more fully later on; bitt
1 will any that the shrinkage of our
revenues had to do in no small degree
with the unwise and unpatriotic action
of a. number ot members on the other
side oi` the llouse. During the con-
test there was not at meeting at which
they were not present with their littlc
story of misrepresentations about thc
oyster business. ln districts where
there was not an oyster to be found
around the shores, they still had their
little cbnptcr learned; and they recited
it at East Point just as they did at
Miscouche; the same stories, tho same
inaccuracies. the suino niisciticvottu
nlisrepresentutions. ’i‘l1e oxpr\nditurt~
which we ostimatrgtl at your ago-was
$l'.1tiL21il~i. Tho actual expenditure-
that did not include the war expendi-
ture-wns $F.tl7,8£'»‘5. 'l‘ho 'war cxpendl»
ture was $1l.2i£l3i; so that, omitting lilo
war uxpctuiitttro, tho other expenditure
Roads ovcrran by $15,432, permanent
works by 13.014, bridges by $66,204.
tolcphonc extension by $1,408, Falcon-
wo`od by $1.038, elections by $1.-il.\;.
administration of justice by $1,692. on-l
agriculture by $1,056.
Now, I am going to read in this
House, Mr Speaker, the carefully cct-
sldercd statement of the I‘rovlnciai
Engineer, a man whom wo have all
learned to trust. llc says:
“In regard to the large number of
bridges requiring to be rebuilt. or re-
paired, -it must be said that on Septem-
ber 26th and 27th. the l’rovlu<.-c was
swept. by u. violunt rttinsiorm. The
wind, blowing nt ilrst from the south-
west with n velocity of ,‘l2 nxilos por
hour as recorded at the Meteorological
Oillcc. vecrod to the north-west. blow-
ing with cvcn greater fttry. At the
same time, a tidal wave oi' extraordin-
ary hclght. covered the bridges span-
ning tidal writers. and where they were
exposed to n long swf-ep from wind
and sen thc greatest damage was done.
Tito effects were most. disastrous on
tho North Shore. Darnlcy Ilrldgc was
almost completely ruined. The bridges
at St l"otor’s, Clermont, indian River,
Fuilcrtcu’s lilnrsh and Stanley suiior-
etl vory severely. Tho lllsquid Ilrldge
over tho Hillsborough Itiver had its
cover lifted completely oil’ the walls,
which thou fell into the stream. ln
tact every bridge reached by the tide
was damaged in some dogrco. A fair
estimate or tho cost oi' repairing the
bridges drunuged by~this storm would
exceed $50,000.00. Happening as it did
at a season of the year when thc fail
tralllc was just beginning. immediate
itepn had to be taken io- put th_g_m in
quiiieient repair to at-contnicdute this
trniilc. Labour and material. scarce
and expensive under the most fayour-
able conditions increased in price with
the forced demand. p - ,
“ The Department was compelled to
taco an un oreseen expenditure for in
excess of _thc yenr's eatimatfe. Where
tcatporary repairs could be mode.,
these wore done; but many of the
smaller bridges had t.o be completely
rebuilt. and in the case oi' Darnloy
Bridge lt. was necessary to rebuild 800
feet of the structure. which was done
in a permanent manner.”
'l‘hat,alono would be suiilcient to
account. according to the ugtneefs
estimate. for the difference between
the estimated expenditure and the
expenditurothat was actually called
for by the conditions of the public
works. But the honourable members
know that-emma more than that..
%(TRAURi)£NARY UQNDITIONI.
e know t at tn_ the burly port of
tho norton. _ particularly in 'Prince
County th rains descended sofa the
=’ttumo't» ttntmnt amen oem. me
., V' ,..», ’ ,fr,~-,~y,,¢~-s¢- ~? ini*-1' '~\`=»f~ _` " " V, -'..._,m W. -
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wus $40,121 mort- than thc estimates!
parts in that county where work was
done three times on the roads before
it iiually stayed,- where the road
work was done in the early part of the
season and destroyed, and done again
and destroyed and done a-
gain. The approaches of some
of the larger bridges suiiered
by the saturated condition of the
country. When tho Commissioner oi'
Public Wlorks comes to deal with this
matter he can give us more details.
The effect of the war upon the fox
business, and the effect of various
causes upon the oyster business dried
up those sources of revenue, and 'tho
storms and llooda and special condi-
tions that arose, calling for greater
cxpcnditurc. accounted for thc in-
crease; but even so, and allowing for
it, ull. ii it were not for the war ex-
penditure which no man could foresee,
we would still have reduced our in-
debtedness ln our four~year term by
$16,000. if we had left all the public
services, the public schools, the public
works. to continue to r`un down as they
were doing when we came in, we
would still have that to say, that wo
had stopped the deticit and changed
the tide, however little it might bc.
But we have something to show be-
sides thc killing af the tlcilcit for what
was done with the motley in those four
yours. What hnvc wc? We have por-
lilu\t`u=nt works in these fotlr years that
rep ‘esont $201,000. We have agricul-
tural buildings, proctircd out ol’ the
agricultural fund in part and part out
ot` tho diroct revenues of the province,
that t'cprosont tt value oi' $24,000. So
that in property we have today $225,-
000 worth morn than when we came
into power. When our i’riends tho Lib-
r-;.i.. were in power they also spent
.....uoy cn capital account, and I have
1: tocord ritowlng that in their twenty
_t-wit-s their f~,\-oendituro in this regard
itnlottiitotl to 11-218.088; so that in our
rour yt-are wt- lmvf- added more to the
p opt-rty ot' tht' province by $7,000,
hun our |»t‘<~dt-or-stairs in all their 20
yours. (lo to tht- North River Bridge
and you will soc n work there limi.
cost $16.8-i4. 'i`hc contract was let by
our protle<'t\.=:fiors just iiefono they went
out of oillcc, nnti they bought several
stool spans that wont to construct
that bridge, and no givt- litem credit
l'or it.. But thoy did i-vt-rything but
pay for it. Wo did thc paying as wo
did the building; and 1 must npologiso
to those who have to use that bridge
for thc fact timt it. is ono foot at the
very least narrower than it should bc
We have put down no such narrow
bridges in our time, and while l am on
that point. and lest I might forget it._
let me say this. that we have bought
our bridges at front 111 to 20 per cent.
less than they werebought by our pro-
dccossors, oven mi higher inarkcts
and wc have put. in no steel bridge of
quality us inferior as the best of those
put in before- our timo. Talk about
letting work by dny‘s work and not
calling for tenders! Thore never was
a contract let for a steel bridge by ten-
der before we camo into power in this
province. They were taken on trust
from the one set of manufacturers and
at. their own prices, and when we cali-
ed for tenders we found competitors
throughout thc province of Quebec
and from various points in Nova Scot-
iu, and the result was, we got our
bridges right down to rock bottom
prions. We got our bridges wider,
more modem in every respect, and oi’
thd same. dimensions in all other re-
spqcte.-,- and we got them vastly
cheaper. Montague Bridge stands
there too, a modern steel bridge, with
approaches of concrete, as permanent
as coucrcte and steel can make it. at a
cost of $14,248; Cardigan Bridge at
over $7.000, Fortune bridge $0.900. and
over forty other permanent bridges.
Let mo say of Cardigan bridge. that I
doubt that there is in the- Maritime
Provinces a bridge of such excellent
construction and quality. It ie not by
any means as large as some of the
other bridges. but it is made of con-
crete. It was made aaa toot. Tenders
were coiled for all through Ontario
and a firm of which a Charlottetown
man. Mr. McKinnon. ie one of the par-
tners, tender_od.lowes_t oh-this concrete
and steel structure and they vsut up
a megniticent piece nigh . e have
Home other thillll U0 Ihow for that ex-
penditure besides time btiidaees There
- ilootie using. and whois ttiey dried up
,p , _ . ... ,
is the Cardigan terry boat, a_!ungy
my earliest recollection, and it was
never carried out until now. There is
the Tuberculosis Hospital at Falcon-
wood. lt is not large, but suthcient
to accommodate 20 patients, and it
was all done with material supplied by
the Government and work done by the
inmates. \Vhen we came into power
this building in which we are now was
heated by between thirty and forty
stoves. so far as it was heated at all.
it was lighted with gas that leaked at
every joint. We had wooden floors
that were in the last stages ol’ de-
lapidation, and we had various other
defects due to age and neglect. Go
through this building now, and you
will ilnd it heated with modern plant
and lighted with electricity. There
are harwood floors in all the rooms in
special use; and I will say this, that I
belicve the improvements that have
been made in title building are typical
of the general improvements that have
- been made throughout this province in
'public work. A new jail in George-
town has been built. There was an
ancient structure there that had stood
for over seventy years. lt has stood
just about as long as it was going to
stand, and grand juries invariably ro-
ported that the Georgetown
jail was in a condition that required
ycomplete rebuilding. We took the
t matter up and made an addition to tho
‘Court house ol' stone and steel. and
we did away with the old buildings nt
an expenditure that would not. exceed
the cost required to repair it. So
n\\\ch for public work. I am only nam-
ing a few of the most conspicuous ol'
those- public works. We built u
wlmri' at St. I"eter‘s Bay. We built a
mud scow. and they are can'ying on
there the business of digging mud and
distributing it among farmers who
were never able to take advantage of
it before. That represents an expon-
diture of $9.000 in one instance and
$0,000 in another, and everywhere you
go in this province you can ilnd perma-
nent results for the money wo have
|expended. Go up to the head of the
town here and you will ilnd a building
in which the soldiers are quartered.
That was bought by this Government
through the monies advanced to tho
Agricultural Department in part and
in part by this Government. But where
the Dominion advanced money tho
title was vested in this province. in
g former years, when the Dominion Gov-
‘ernment was getting the Experiment-
al Farm. we paid a large part of the
money. when we had to borrow lt, and
ithn Dominion took the farm. We
changed the system somewhatzz thc
Dominion paid the money and we took
the building. The same thing could
have been done, I have no doubt, by
our redecessors, but the did not do
0ilicers.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
OTTAWA. April 16.-Major-General
Sir Sam Hughes reached Ottawa to-
day. He will be in his place in the
House to-morrow and will probably
make a brief statement to-morrow or
Tuesday. The Minister was greeted
on his arrival at the Central Station
by fifteen hundred people, including
it large number of soldiers from but
talions organizing in tlttnwu. This
crowd clicercrl him, tho band of ilu-
(iovernor-(1onoral's l-‘oot titturds play-
ed " Home Sweet iiome," and ti knot
of the Minister’s friends gntht-red
about the train to shake hands with
Sir Sam.
Sir Sam's arrival was delayed by
an accident. The New York train
with the Mlnister’s private car attach-
ed, was held at Muxvillo through u
breoktiowu. and did not arrive in
Ottawa till two hours after tho
schoduied time. A lnrgc crowd which
had gathered at tho station at noon
y, - , g. .
was there when the l.rain pulled in.
Among thc parliamentarians who
Went to thc station to meet Sir Sam
were the lion. itobt.. Rogers, Major
Stewart of Lunenburg. Col. 'l`rc-
lliailm. J. A. Seasmiih, Wm. Gray,
Frank (ilass,"I`om \’\'uilace and W. 1l_
Bennett. From the lrcatlqttarters stall'
there were Colonel ilelnroro. General
licnry Smith, Colonel lttucdonum gmt
Mr J. \V. Borden, ibtytnnstcr-(iencrul,
1@_ +'- _a-is
SIR SAMHUGHES
ARRIVES IN OTTAWA
, -... . -~,
is Given a Rousing Welcome by
1,500 People, the Band oi the
Governor-Generals Fooiguards
and a Number oi Parliament-
arians and Prominent Military
t'olon<-I lluvld t‘ut'|ti~glo ot' tho Simi)
Cornmiltci- was also preswxll. `
Tho Minister ot' Militia was accom
partied from New York by two ot the
,counsr-l retainotl by him in connection
‘with tho Royal Commission, Mr
Eugene Latiour, l\'_(‘_, nf Montreal, and
A-John S. l»`.\vari K, t‘., of Ottawa. lion.
‘Wallucv Nesbitt, who incl Sir Sam tit
New York, did not t‘otnt~ on to Ottawa.
As tlcuernl liuglif-s stopped from
,the train ht- was mot by his military
i~*'\'i‘l't‘|=\l'_\'. t‘ol_ t‘, l". \\'init‘r, and then
‘by lion. ltobt-rt Rogers, whom he
gr:-t-ted with a " ilello. Bob, l'm glad
I0 H00 YOU." After' shaking hands with
itht- _rest of thc welconiitig party and
bowing his acknowledgements for thc
<'i1\"cr which hc rccoivcd. he loft thc
`station. llc vvns in nitlfti. This after-
noon Sir Sum was in <:onf<~i-cpu; with
the Ilrimc iiiinislt-r, when hc repoatetl
thc ntatetmutt. chilli-ti by hint from Eng-
land, ond added at dt-tailed explanation
ot` thc lrtcint, oi' tht- fuso tonirarts in
» - D ' ~ . .
went awa but returned n .tin .unhso tar as hc was at-<|u:1intr>d with thc
ltrtlnsuctionr-t. llc had no statement
to-night for publication.
. The Royal Uonintission which has
been appointed to investigate the Kyle
chargt>.~r, will begin its inquiry here im-
"\<>tliutf~»ly an.-.~ lntsttfr. slr wiutnm
Meredith is expected in he hm-fl on
Wcdnostlay when hc will meet Hon.
Lynmu lluff, and will make thc neces-
sary preparations for beginning thc
investigation.
ISLANUEH IN
Matthew A. Allan,
Charlottetown.
0'-UIWH. Ont., April `l?..~Sluveroly
l‘0Zl'f~i to inform you 80138 Private
ally reported admitted to No. ji Ge
oral ilospitnl, Bouiognc, Aprn 7th, gun.
Shot woimd. scalp. slight. win semi
further particulars when rocoivod.~~
Adjutant General.
Private Allan joined tho Illst llut-
wlion of Calgary. where he hem a
position in the Bank. of Commerce.
ment about u year nge and before
the fight in which he was wounded
had been behind the tiring line attend-
ing a class oi' N.C.O.`s. lie is a son of
Major M. A. Allan. ol' 81 Fitzroy Street.
Floods hamper
The dperations
in Mesopotamia
LONDON. April 13.-Lieut. General
Sli' P0l'C.V Loke, commanding tho Bri-
tish forces in Mesopotamia. reports
titut the British attack on thc 'i`urki:tii
Dosition at Sarrayat on the Tigris Iti-
vcr. just below Kut El Amarn, failed
to break through the Turkish line.
lc osopotaniia stat(-mont. given
on this evening. by the ofilciai press
bureau says:
April ti. as reported in tho Turkish
tonimunicatlon ot April 10.
"Sir Percy Lake rcporte that an at-
tack ntntlo at down on thc niuth
failed to get through the nnemy's lines.
The opt-rtttions were mitch hampered
by floods, which are extending."
'i`l M
  "No attack on Sarrnyot was made on
George l-‘rnncis Allan, lnt`antr_v. olilt;-i-
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TEMPERATURE,
TIDE MUON ETC.
’l‘0it(>N’i‘0.  -- Maritime:
lhiotierute winds. fair and milder.
I 'rin-: tvawrtrnn.-\'esu-racy was
He proceeded overseas with his regi-A mi" ‘md com Wm’ high “'l"““'
= Tito highest. temperature recorded
yesterday was 38 degrt-cs above zero.
.At nine o’cluck yesterday morning it
registered 217 above; nt. nine last. night
;Zi0 above. The coldest thc previous
'night was 30 nbovo.
'I`hc t.i_tlo will be high this cvening
at 9.53 and to-morrow at 10.27; it will
bc blah ‘O-nlslit. at 10.117 and to-morrow
ui 11.27.
The sun suis this cvtenlng nt 0.51 and
to-nlorrow ut ti..'»‘_'; it rises tomorrow
morning at 5.08 and Wcdnostlay nt
l'»_0ti.
Tin- moon rlscs this cvoning ut 6.46.
'i‘ht- tirsi quartt-r of tht- moon was
on iiiontiuy, April iiitll nt 10 n,m_
'l‘hort- will be at |`uii moon on ’l'ut~s»
day. April 18th, at 1.07 tam.
_ The length ot' to-day will be ihiricen
hours and forty-one minutes.
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ii. in Summerslde we have a magni-
tlcent agricultural building. and it was
through thc means of having this
building constructed as it was and ad-
apted as it was to the service, that
we were able to get recruiting first
established it\ this province. As soon
H9 0PDortunity arose the Government
made an offer to the War Oilics, offer-
ing this building for the purpose oi
tho war, and that offer was the basis
upon which recruiting ot soldiers in
this province was proceeded with, and
but for that the work could not have
been carried on.
THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.
Now,
works.
service
by our
from the public
important public
service rendered
What did
excess
in their
it not
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notb
redeem
decay
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