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I _. if ~ yt .~- PAGE. 1,-UUE _ ff" mn cnA1u.o'rra'r0wn ‘GUARDIAN _ _,__, _ V _ __-MARCH ._ .tha _. ~ °-wr' tntttttitt limit perialists. opportunist Liberals. opportunist patriots and Sir.-I svuieurptéilsinglytvlxglggillm-Kg opportnnm 10y;||,¢s_ sufficient for the day with them. this morn ng n rea ng a proclamation of the food we eat. 11:’ t vegetables we grow orltryu to 'Bro ottr unpaved roadways- ea nl; o ou _ the more moderate of theta do, that they dare not chal wharves em-_ Can it be possible, if The fouewms extract’ from the Lon England is such an ideal place to live do .nm t h th m b I i _ in that one half of our population- n es ° Marc 4 ' W G ° B g_ who are En8lish or desended from the mm: En lish could have endured this London has been up to now the _ sf chief fur market of the world, and. i 'l'l!'| I --:- liltarlolilown Gartiian -2 cl - 5 . Tri/_lltir _. Advertising Phone .. .... .. .. ......132-5 Subscription Phone .. .. .. .. .. .. ....132-2 Newoand Ed|t.,Day Phone .. .. .. ..133 News and Edit., Night Phones .. .. ..1$2 G 133 Head Office at Charlottetown Branch Office at Sum- lnerslde, Alberton, Sourlo and Montague- London Office, Marconi Mouse, Strand, W. O. President ...... ....A.A. Bartlett Managing Editor.... .... .. R. Burnett THURSDAY. MARCH 18. 1915. THE SPEECH E; The opening ot” the Fourth Session of the Thit'ly»sev- ents General Assembly of the Province yesterday will so down as one of the most important and memorable in the history of the Island. Seldom has there been a larger or more interested attendance of thc general public, and never has the Ilnion Jack played a more important part in thc proceedings. The emblem of the Empire was con- spicuous not only nn thc Speakcr's dais, from which His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor delivered his speech, but throughout the legislative hall. Two chairs bore eloquent though silent testimony to the stirring 'times in which we live. These were those of Major McPhail absent at the front with his regiment, and Col. Jenkins, on duty at llali- fax. The chairs were unoccupied and tastefully draped with thc Imperial colours. The speech itself ,for the greater part, dealt with the war and the part played in it by the I"rovint‘c. Testimony was borne to the generosity of the Islanders, especially to the Belgian lit-iief I~‘unl>°i'f\lliiSt labor Sym pathizers,oppppm|_;|st cspitalexploiters, opportunist. Im- is the opportunity it affords to advance their personal lil- terests. Policy they have none. and they know. H! |933 lenge an appeal to the people. Here also they are oli- portnnlstg, for they are anxiously waiting for somethin to turn up that will afford a suitable election cry to 0|! set their disloyal opposition to Sir Robert Borden's emer- gency naval policy. caN.uuaN° soloists There has been a good deal of criticism of the back- wnrdness of Canadians in enlisting and very “lim” °°m' parisons made as to the relative standing of Cauadiiiil and British born in the Canadian contingents that have been sent to the front. _ The alleged disloyalty of Canadians and the compari- son are both unfair and misleading. In the first P1309 there are no statistics available as to the number of Can- adians who enlisted and who could not be equipped in time to join the departing contlugents but we know that there were some thousands who did and were obliged to wait. We know also that within the past few years over a million people born in the British Isles came to Canada. That means that more than one eighth of our population are British born. An extraordinary proportion of these are young men thousands of these Old Countrymen are of military age, and all of those who enlist are set down as born in Great Bri- tain even if they have been with ua for ten, fifteen or twenty years. Many thousands oi Canadian-born have enlisted and others are ready to do so as soon as there is a. real call for their services. Each time the Government has appealed for men the response has been overwhelming. From many points have come complaints that volunteers could not be accepted as fast as they offered. The Canadian Militia Department is working in complete co-operation with the British War Office and it cannot well enlist, equip and offer troops faster than the Imperial authorities are prepar- ed to take them. If the British War Office asks for a more- rapid enlistment the response of the Canadian-born will be satisfactory. General Hughes has said that three more contingents can be got together in as many weeks and Sir Robert Borden has declared that Canada can furnish up to 300,000 men.. in view of these facts it is unfair to Canad- ians to make the unjust comparisons that are so frequently heard and to build up from those comparisons an allega- tion of want of loyalty among Canadians. .G__ SOME SHIPS AND GUNS What it costs to kill Germans and to have the Ger- mans return the compliment may be inferred from the fact that the latest pattern naval and military guns have to be fed with shells each of which costs thousands of dollars. ln a sea. fight if the large guns on a. dreadnought only fire ten shots each and the smaller guns fire twenty-five shells the cost of the ammunition consumed is $800,000. The type of shell fired from the German Howitzers costs $6000 each. Even the small field guns are loaded with shells which cost over $10 each. The German 8.4 quick firing guns re- quire a shell costing $260 and the pro jectilcs from the iortugsl'» eds swan to in as-sesrantea-me of é ____ _ terest to those engaged in fur produc- .C0¢f_ ; Prgtty, inexpensive Materials for early Summer ' P Dresses t K . shocking life, of eating butternfrom paper bag, and watched the BRU SELS" ou the pigs feet immaturel sprouting. ‘ giftie sie us _ To see ourselves as others see us. _ I am Sir, &c.. “DUM-DUMB" USED BY ENEMY IN THE Y ,_ its losing that position. on March 1 I GLIB CROAKER. SUE! CANAL HGHT' duction in the number of buyers. This CAIRO. MUCH 14--' The bamenem prices. In the narrow streets. which spite of war. there is no likelihood D . big general sale of the year. _ The principal result of the war will be the absence of the German and numbers, there will be a noticeable re- is the factor which may influence on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal run down from Queen v|ct°|.m_m.eet yielded evidence of yet 111100191' i“` and Cannon street to the riverside stance in which .~Germans. and U10 possibly three-quarters of the offices zed warfare. tion fell into the hands of the British Turks, too, violated the rules of civili- First, a` large quantity of ammuni- and warehouses are occupied by fur and skin merchants, and not one of them, .so far as could be gathered from 1 opinions expressed yesterday, regards nearly the Whole 0! it bein! f0l' fines' the coming sales with anything ap and revolvers. The cartridges are all pmncmng a“xiety_ The common be. dum-dams. The revolver cartridges “eg is that the market mn qum, wen have a flat laden nose and four slits in dispense with the A“st,.0_Ge,.man eta. ' t bod f tb bullet. On the base of t 5 ml | e 11 buyers who migrated to the Dominion without other members of high msd? of cartridges are the letters me" an B Supp y mug their families, to make careers for themselves. Tens of --D_W_M__~ indtcaqng that they were manufactured by the Deillliche WM’ believed that there will be the same fen and Munition Faoriken. a large readiness to purchase as in normal German concern which manufactures “mem though possibly the wonderful Mauser rifles an .the ammunition pac- figures of last year Wm not ho repeat. kets that contain them are, in the case 9d_ During the sales of last Mai-oh of the rifle ammunition, marked "F91" 183,754 skunk skins were disposed of tig Metal Patronen," or ready metallic ln me morning of the day_ in me .t-,ep cartridges. together With V-he Dame noon of which 136,623 opossum skins. Calcutta, and the description “A11Bf0h- 80,242 racoon skins, and 3,602 civet to keep business up to the standard of the past. Moreover, it is confidently rgut" or gods for export. The cartridges were doubtless orig- inally made there for the use of sports- men in India, and it is at present a. mystery how these cartridges came in- to the hands of thc Turkish soldiers. cat skins were sold. In all over 4% millions of musquash skins were sold. It may be found when the sales be- gin that there is a slight diminution in supplies. Canada and the United States .send most of the skins that Meanwhile the Djemal, balked in his come to the London market, and the ambition to march in triumph into existence of “a state of war" has kept Cairo, has opened a great campaign gaiust the Jews. A number of them from other places there seems to have been arrested and are waiting trial on charges of being Zionists. Zionist organizations are being rigor- from which a. certain quantity was o“’=i‘lli!cIi‘l‘:ei:J`i‘(d%::(ia§§!:i:‘;ci'appears to be tribute nothing this year. The market. sq aggravating to the Djemal as a. red however, draws upon the whole world, ring to s bun. no instructed the petit- and very probably e reduction in shiv- office, which acted on those instruc- ments from one ‘lUHf“"\` mill' be 1110110- uons, to prohibit the use of Hebrew in up from alwther- correspondence. Turkish and Arab a- no fraction of these supplies out; but have been some decline in shipments. The Leipzig fair was once it source received, but it will, of course, con- - Get busy with your Sewing- Here § are some ot the newest fabrics, Holly f0ur Play makes the purchasing of a piano so simple and convenient that even people of moderate means may have one of our high quality instruments \ placed in their homes-a few dollars .-1-_H1- _.___-__-1-» L tt Rec tion Voiles th Chi I £8 Z. hi ' ° ° “Oh W°“|d 501119 P°W°" me foter dag: aiistet:ratlii%edr\:i`b;;ssinrCoTl'eg; Bauste' Irish m.e ’ ep - ’ 0 , nut wut be thrown 0 sn an- the in-st Lace Voiles, F2lSh10l1 Crepe V011eS» F3“¢Y-. Organdy, etc. 912'? T55. '°.l‘€{2‘.`.’ii..‘.i”" if 2‘$2?.’.?""”"_ P O N S’ Victgi-is Row# Wil C to ~ ~ I .A 'PORTION Youn _ EKLY S r. Y _ I ll “_ FV \»°Q