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THE I)AILYIBOVINCK. VASOOUVJUt, mUTlSH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, JANUABY 2, 1915, 11 WINS IN GAME OF KONIGSBERG IS Tales of Adventure Related By the Men On the Battle Front In Spite of the Fact They Are Completion of First Section of Big Improvement Marked by Luncheon. GERMANS ARE BEGINNING TO REALIZE THE FIGHTING QUALITIES OF THE BRITISH INDIAN TROOPS WORK THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS-PATHETIC CEREMONY AT SEA. body has gone to Us rest in thirty fathoms. The pathos of It all Is indescribable! The men stand at attention with the tears streaming down their faces, There Is a pause for a second and then on the evening air break the 'weird haunting notes of "The Last Post," a fitting accompaniment to the Badness of the scene.

Again a pause, and then the band breaks in with a double-time SAFELYBOnLED Collier Is Sunk in River Mouth So the Germans Can Not Leave. H. M. S. Chatham Still Keeping Watch to Sink Enemy Should She Appear.

That the German cruiser Konigs-borg is effectively bottled up In the Kelwa River, German East Africa, is established by a letter which has been received by Mr. J. R. Connorton of Olive street. Victoria, from his broth- br-ln-la-w, Mr.

Stanley -Bardo, of Zan-sibar. A brief telegraphic despatch was rnoelvod some time ago announcing the fate of the Konigsberg, but no further particulars have been received Mr. Uardj gives details which make it clear tint the veasel has been put out of comirdsalon for the rest of the war. Following ar i extracts from the letter referred to, which is dated November .11, on the point in question: "They have wot the Konigsborg bot-. tied up In the Kelwn River.

She is seven milea tup. She naa taken her wireless masta down and haa tied branches at oocoanuts on top of the masts to make them look like trees. H. M. 8.

Chatham has found her there, and is now keeping guard at the mouth of the river. Tho Chart- ham sent launch up this river about seven mi'eu. She suddenly came on the Kon-ignbcrg just around a bend. The started firing at onoe, and hit crie man on the launch. The Chatham sent several shells at tho Kontgsbm'jr from a distance of twelve miles without being able to see her, According to some natives, several shells hit (her.

They also struck a mall steamer called the Somali, which wag full of ammunition and stores. She caugiit fire, and has been destroyed. A snell also hit a steam launch going from the Konigsberg to the Somali and sunk it. "On Nov. 12 H.

M. S. Chatham went back to the Kelwa River with a collier. Tho Konigsberg had come down in the night to Ihe mouth of the river, and was anchored there just round a point. The Chatham bombarded her with 6-lnch guns, and th Konigsberg went back up the river six miles.

The collier had armor plate put all around the ehart house where all her men would be. They put the Royal Naval Reserve men on her, and" sent her up the river followed by the Duplex, a smaller boat, which was to take the men off the collier when they were ready to sink her. All the way up the river they were fired on from both banks with 3-pound guns. The Duplex wan like a pepper box. The armor plates saved the naval men.

They (rot the collier up to the narrowest part of the river, and left for the Duplex. A 'hole was blown in the collier by means of an electric wire, and she was sunk in the right place. Two of our men were killed and fourteen wounded. One of the R. N.

R. officers Lieut. Trigijs. had a shell pass right through his Bhouldar, and I am afraid that the arm will have to be amputated." NEW TUNNEL RECORD Contractors at Rogers Pass Exceed iMst Month's Totals. Further continental and world's records for Tunnel-boring have been hung up by Messrs.

Foley Welch Stewart, contractors on tho Rogers Pass tunnelling scheme for the C. P. R. Last month the previous record of 817 feet in thirty days wus exceeded by driving 8f2 feet of the "pioneer" heading. The "pi meer" is a small shaft bored parallel with the main tunnel.

The previous record for tunnelling operations stood at S10 feet in a month of 31 days, so that the achievement of the contractors in a noteworthy one. Mr. A. O. Dennis, superintendent of construction for the contractors, to-day gave some Interesting particulars regarding the progress of the work.

He is In the city In connection with a law suit pending between Messrs Foley Welch Stewart and Mcllween Sons, who held a subcontract for boring work. The new record established last month Is more than 200 feet in ex cess of Ihe American record for simi lar work. The former Canadian re cord was made when the C. N. R.

tunnel wns being bored at Montreal. An a vera bo of 27 K- feet of rock was excavated per day last month on the central heading, nearly half a foot more than in November. Considerably more tnan two miles of tho preliminary shaft has been from Uoih akls of Mount Mae-donald. one of the principal peaks in the Selkirk range. From the eastern end, the driilers are (500 feel into the heart of tho mountain, and from the western end 4:100 foet.

A large por tion of tho tunnel, which will be wide enough for douhle trucks, hoe been fin ished ready for traffic. The acceleration of during the past few lnont'hs it Ik c-xpec-i- ed. enable the i-ontrnctcrs to -nm-I'lele thi tunnel well ahead of schvd-I uli'il time The whit will bo live miles lung, will bo the Inrtfew railway bore, on the continent. The terms of the linn's upvument with ho P. li.

cull for ihe passutie bclnp for trnflV he iln- enn of in expected that it win be dui'- by summer of net' vear. TOOK POISnW IN PARK l. oiiiiicl 'iorloii l.iii Not, lliin-rli Alone. Leaving a not" font lie in t-' i a ned Leonard J. evident!) stranger in the ril nnd'led sui, idf Ir, night.

Hi- en Siiinlev Park on a le-ncii a bottle M.ill bad I. his hat over his 1 1 i seating Point histoid with which mixed- 1 1 pulled eyes, cross was ci his it und died. lie i years of age and lillv good li I am found ran te old In a poekei, "it Is suicide. TH. no necessity of bnlil'ng II Invos'-i-alion into my death as no one had I--- band In except myself." I'loiilini; Mines Drift Ashore.

Vi.rl.-. Ja.i 2. More than 300 riuiitini, mines have drifted ashore on the bull li const, according to ths ciinitiuitiiler of the Swucltsh steamer Vsi-H, Captain Williiigren, which arrived (udav from Rotterdam and I'oftlnnri. K.ig. Wllllngren said that he bnd pnssed three mines adrift in the North S-a.

Mr. Allan Couldery Rescued by Search Party After Being Lost for Four Days. In an exhausted condition after four days of being lost In the snow-covered woods in the vicinity of Welcome Pass, Mr. Allan Couldery, a well known resident of Vancouver, has been rescued by a searching party. News that he had been found and la being cared for was flashed to the city this morning by Provincial Constable Fred Markland, who headed the search party which found Mr.

Couldery. From the information obtainable, It appears that Mr. Couldery, in company with a friend named Minty, were in the Welcome Pass district on a hunting trip. They set out on December H9 with their guns and after a day's sport were returning to tho settlement. Coming to a snow covered bluff they decided one to go round one way and the other by the other way, in search of the road, ana to signal each other by gunfire, if necessary.

Minty twice signalled Couldery and got replies, which led him to believe that his friend was quite safe, so started back to tho settlement. To his alarm Couldery did not arrive and night rapidly fell. Constable Markland. who had called in at Welsome Puss on his return from a. search for another missing Vancouver hunter (who arrived safely at his home in Central Park a couple of hours after the officer left the city) at once organized a search party.

By instruction of Chief of Police Thomas Smith, the uarty engaged ten local settlers to assist them. For three days they kept up the search and at last were rewarded by finding Mr. Couldery in the bush, four miles away from the settlement. He was then in a very exhausted condition from lack of food and through exposure. Fears for Mr.

Couldory's safety In the meantime reached the city, and his friends have experienced great alarm as the days passed and no wora of his discovery had been reported. AZOV FOR ESQUIMAU Damaged Tanker left on New Year's Eve for Repairs to Hull. The British tanker Azov which arrived here on December 14 from the west coast of South America, left on New Year's Eve for Esquimau to undergo repairs to fourteen plates and a few frames damaged when she went ashore on Talara Keef. The Azov has been purchased by the Imperial Oil Co. and will be engaged In carrying crude oil from South America to Vancouver.

Captain Williams, who brought the vessel north left here on Thursday for Wales where he will Join the newly raised Welsh Horse for active service. He is Just as good a horseman as he is a seaman. TAKEN BYALLAN LINE Vancouver Trader Is Operating Over Atlantic Route. The British steamer Ocean Mon arch which has made several voyages to this coast in the past, Is now under charter to the Allan Line, and is Ply ing between the United Kingdom and Eastern Canadian ports. As the ma jority of the Allan fleet have been re qulsltioned by the admiralty, the com pany has had to charter outside Ion-rage to take care of Its Atlantic trade.

The Ocean Monarch Is a freighter and will be used for the transportation of passengers. GLENROY REPORTS Royal Mail Liner Reached Honolulu Wednesday. To discharge European and Oriental cargo consigned to Hawaiian importers, the British steamship Glen-rny, Captain Holman, of the Royal Mall Steam Packet arrived at Honolulu on Wednesday from London and Yokohama. Vancouver Is the next port to be touched at by the Glenroy. and the company's agents are looking for her about January 12.

On her last voyage to this coast the Glenroy narrowly escaped complete destruction by fire at Portland. WILLASTON DAMAGED New Steamer Put lit at Cape Town With Logged Deck. The Wlllasrton, a new steamer, owned bv Messrs. J. Edgar of Liv erpool, and bound to Australia with rails from the United Kingdom, recently put into Town with very- serious damage to her hull It is stated that her forward shelter deck bottom stanchions are broken and her deck badlv down.

Her value is placed at $240,000. TANKER RUNS TRIALS Stewart to Enter Cosat Oil Trade. Th nfflcldi trial trio of he T'nlon Company's new tanker Lyman Stewart was made last week off the Golden Gate with the principal officials of the oil concern abosrd. Tho vessel was under the command of Captain A. Alberts.

The Lyman Stewart which is Intended for the coast oil trade, is 42G feet long, 5" feet in beam and draws 27 feet of WHter, The vessel contains sixteen cargo tanks, with a capacity of 62,000 barrels. The horsepower is Juuu the speed 11 knots, Indicated and MAHUK0NA CHARTERED Nrhnourr Will I.osd Mimlier for South Africa nt Moris. The American schooner Mahuknna, Captain McDonald, 633 tons, has been chartered to load a full cargo of lum ber fit AVktottia for Routit. 'Ill Mnhiikonii has been fixed for January loading and she is expected to arrive on January 1" from Kan Francisco, She has been taken by the Cameron Lumber Company, which concern will load the vessel at the Canadian Puget Sound wharf in the Inner Harbor. The is reported to reached San Francisco on October 14, after completing a voyage from Newcastle, Australia.

Have a Surprise Party. Mr. Arthur Henthorn, agent for the Admiral Line, who Is spending the holidays here, ran Into a very pleasant surprise party on New Year's Eve although he was a non-combatant, His son, A. Heathorn, In with the second contingent at Hastings Park, but was nt his homo for the holiday. About thirty of his young friends Invaded the Heathorn ranch at 835 Thirteenth avenue west and gave young Heathorn a surprise party in which his respectPd father Joined with glee.

Mr. Heathorn's are now at flpoksne. of of of British Steamship Vestris Dodges German Cruiser Karlsruhe. New York, Jan. 2.

The British steamer Vestris, sister ship of the Vandyck, which was captured by the German cruiser Karlsruhe, steamed Into the harbor today at the end of a game of hide and seek with the Karlsruhe between this port and Buenos Aires and return. "The captain of the Karlsruhe boasted when he got the Vandyck that we would be captured next," said Captain Davles of the Vestris. Tho Karlsruhe was not sighted, however. Captain Davles said he heard Montevideo that when the German cruiser Dresden put Into Punta Arenas after the nnval engagement near the Falkland Inlands, she tried to get coal from an American steamer in port but was refused. The Dresden left port after twenty-four hours.

HIT WARSHIPJVITH BOMB Ifoulett, Uic Aviator, Tells of Adventures nt Cuxhuven. 4 London, Jan. 2. The experiences of Flight Commander Francis Hewlett's recent aerial raid on the German naval base at Cuxhaven are described In an interview with tho aviator transmitted to Router's from Amsterdam. Commander lllewlott, who was believ ed to have lost his me until It was learned yesterday that he had been picked up l- a steam trawler and landed at Hulden, Holland, says he believes that 'he hit a German warship with one of the bombs he dropped.

"I led the airship squadron," said Commander Hewlett. "I ran Into a thick fog and after a time found niy-Belf near the coast of Schleswlg. I flew over German territory and eventually came near Cuxhaven, "When the mist had cleared I saw that I had lost my tftrectlon. I descended at a certain point, ascended again and flew over a great German fleet and the trawlers which were lying tinder steam behind Heligoland. "Formidable fire was directed at me, and I replied with several bombs.

It Is my opinion that I hit one of the German vessels, because soon afterwards dense smoke arose from her. "I was unable to find the British fleet. My motor was running hot and I was compelled to descend. I was picked up by a Dutch trawler, but destroyed my motor and sank tho hydro plane before I boarded the trawler, at 10 o'clock Christmas morning. I stayed aboard the trawler six days during a terrible storm." DEATH -OF T.

BERTHIAUME Proprietor of La Presse Passes Away in Montreal. Montreal, Jan. 2. Treffle Ber- thiaume, proprietor of La Presse, died this morning, aged 67, Mr. Berthiaume was born at St.

HugheR, on August 4, 1848, and gleaned his early education at St. Hyacinthe College, and after some years experience in the ranks of the printer, became partner in the "Geb- herdt-Berthlnume Lithographing Printing Company" in 1884, But this was not sufficiently exciting and-jn- nuential to hold Mr. Berthiaume, and five years later he was found at closer proximity to the front rank in pontics as proprietor of La This not unnaturally led to honors and in 1896 Mr. Berthiaume was called to the Legislative council of Quebec province. In 1904 he sold La Presse to a Joint stock company, but In 1906 he bought it back again and conducted it, to the time of his death, as an independent Journal.

STUDYING FIRE CONTROL Commanding Officers of Canadian Regiments Return from School. Salisbury Plain, Jan. 2. New Year's Day was celebrated in fitting fashion by the Canadian regiments, Hogmanay being observed with the usual festivities. The commanding officers of the various regiments of the contingent have Just returned from Hayllng Island Hchool of Musketry which they attended for a course of Instruction In fire control and to come to an understanding us to how regiments would uso the Ross rifle in action.

Colorado Is Denver, Jan. 2. State-wide prohibition became a part of the constitution of Colorado today with the issuance by Governor Amnions of proclamations putting into effect two constitutional amendments, one initiated and one referred law approved by the electors nt the November election. Prohibition under ihe con stitutional amendment will become effective January 1, 1916. To Restrain Lee Magee.

Cincinnati, Jan. 2. A temporary Injunction to restrain Leo Hoernsh- meyer, known in baseball circles as "Lee Magee" from playing with or managing any club other than the 8t. Louis Nationals, wag asked for in a suit, filed today by the American Baseball and Athletic Exhibition Co. operating the Ht.

Louis National League Bni.ehall Club. Harrison Line Charters. Tn addition to 1he liners on the Vancouver run. thi Harrison T.lne has chartered the steamers Penrith Cnstle. and Clarissa Ttadellffo for extra service.

These steamers will not come to Vancouver hut will handle the extra cargo offering on the Sound and San Francisco. WAR NEWS IN" A LINE Dunkirk, on the northern coast of France, was again bombarded by four German aeroplanes Thursday, according to reports to reach Paris. It Is known that the Austrian battleship Rarictsky has been docked at Pola badly damaged. The heavy guns tile Austrian forts. In the confusion of the attack by the French submarine Curie, opened fire against their own warship anchored In the harbor.

The commander of one of the forts has committed suit Idv. F.mperor Nicholas visited the army front yesterday. At the quarters of the commnnder-ln-i'hlef he received reports concerning the war operations. Afterwards he reviewed the line of troops, distributing Inslgnias of honor among the soldiers who had distinguished themselves Ihe most In the fighting and thanked the various units the army for their services In the war. After having received the report General Itussky, commanding the army of the northwest, the( Emppror departed from the army front.

Forced to Pay Taxes to Germany. Amsterdam, Jan. 2. A despatch received here from Ghent describes a meeting of Belgian 'burgomasters to determine upon methods of raising the German war levy of 480,000,000 francs. In the course of which there was witnessed an extraordinary outburst of enthusiasm for Belgium, The local German garrison made no at' tomut at Interference.

The hall in which the meeting was hold was decorated with 'Belgian nags and portraits and plaster casts of the King and Queen of Belgium. The Belgian civil governor of Kast Flanders, Herman DeL'autz, perslded. He lost no time In making it clear that the meeting had taken place under the sovereignty of the King and Queen, "with whom," DeBaetz declared, "we ars more than ever united." At these words, the entire assembly arose, filled the hall with shouts of "long live he King, long live the Queen, and long live The meeting agreed that the German demand should be met by a general levy on individuals. GERMANS 0N STEAMER British Tanned Tetmel Out of Ousliler-atlon fur InKed States Mlnlsler. London, Jan.

i. Through consideration for Dr Henrv Van Dyke. Ameri can minister to The Netherlands, lie British Government permitted the steamer Nleuw Amsterdam on which Dr. Vim Dyke was a pasnger during its last voyage from New York to Rotterdam, t0 proceed without being searched, notwllnataiHling certain sux-Diclotin circumstances. The British consul-irenei-iil at Rotterdam subue quently discovered that five members of the craw were Gorniuns who worked their way over and then proceeded into Germiny.

It Is said here that there were also among the pnssengers several other German reservists, with false pass-uorts from neutral European countries, imd that they went from Rotterdam to Germany, ARE NOT DESPONDENT German Prisoners Have Some Weird Ideas About Their Allied Knemlcs. London, Jan. 2. "While some of the German prisoners ttppear gloomy and criticise their leaders, that is no fair indication of the sentiments of their fighting troops." So says a British official eyewitness at the front In a despatch dated Dec. 31, adding: "Neither the pinch of real want nor the lack of men, material of war has yet been felt by the Germans, nor has the consciousness of defeat been brought home to them.

"They believe that Russia has suffered decisive defeat; that England Is decadent and France exhausted and ready to make peace. They ure con sclous, however, that the war will last much longer than at first expected NEWSPAPERS RAISE PRICE San Fraud wo Publications Add Another Cent to Stiles on Streets. San Francisco, Jan. 2. After more than a year of experimentation, two of the afternoon papers puhllshed here advanced their price today from one to two cents a copy.

War news has increased circulation, but inasmuch as domestic business conditions have not permitted any advance In the advertising rates, the cost of white paper has gone up by leaps and bounds. SIX CORPS WITHDRAWN Germans Reported to. Have Taken Many Men From Front. London, Jan. 2.

The Warsaw correspondent of the Times sends a report lhat German army corps have been withdrawn from that front, supposedly to guard against the rumored plan of the Russians to make an attack across the Vistula River on the German line of communications between Lowlcz and Thorn. Carrana Captures City. Washington, Jan. 2. Capture of San Luis 1'otosl by Carranzn.

forces was reported in advices today from Galveston to the Carranza agency here. Seclnl New Year's services are to be conducted at the First Baptist Church when the pastor, Rev. Dr. Perry, will occupy the pulpit. In the morning ho will preach on "Yesterday and Today." at the evening service, "Another Chance," will be his text Mr.

K. Yttiiianoiichi, a Japanese expert in trade mutters, is in tho city on a special mission to Canada from the Tokyo Government, lie will endeavor to arrange practical openings for commerce between Japan and this country. "Tho Treaty of Glirm" was the theme of an address delivered by Rev. .1, K. Unsworth at the weekly "round table" luncheon of the American Club today.

The development of the two great ftngllsM-speaking nations since the signing of the memoruble peace agreement between Great Britain and the United States, more than a century ago, was traced by the speaker. New Year's Day wan marked by an Interchange of courtesies between the officers of ihe 29th (Vancouver) Battalion end the various local regiments. Informal "ut homos" were held at each of the regimental head-fliiurters. Leave wus given the men under arms at Hastings Park for tin-greater part of the day. As at Christmas fifty per cent, of tin oi-diers were given three days' furlough.

Mr. Pat Welch of Spokane, head of the railway contracting lirrn which has charge of the construction of the Pacillu Great Eastern Railway, is in officials of his concern. Ho remarked that construction work was I ing satisfactorily along the route of the new railway and that a large force of men was at work. He is registered at the Hotel Vancouver. Indicating Its partiality lor Itilli-li Columbia lumber, the (ireat Northern Railway, It was learned this morning, placed extensive orders In the province through local mills for dimension timber, plies ami poles.

More than 50 cnrluads have already been shipped to various points in the middle western states and sover.il other consignments will have shortly. The timber is to be used for construction purposes and for telegraph lines and bridges. The company's purchasing ugent was in Vancouver on Thursday' conferring with local timber InteresiH with a view of placing subsequent orders. The shipments hsvo been made during the last, two weeks. le.

ports from other sources Indicate ihut the demand for provincial products is Increasing In the 1'nlted States 0 New Westminster, Jan. 2. The completion of the first section of the ambitious harbor improvement scheme of the City of New Westminster was formally marked on Thursday by a complimentary luncheon tendored to Captain A. O. Powell, harbor engineer, by members of the City Council, Board of Trade and Progressive Association ait the Hotel Russell, The captain was Bhowored with congratulations and felicitatlonj on the successful completion of a work which involved no small amount of tact, Initiative and engineering skill and ability, and the hope wus expressed that he would he present to see the final completion of the whole scheme, fn his reply Captain Powell paid a tribute to tho members of the City Council, the contractors, his assistants on tne work and others who had con tributed in no small measure to the success -of the undertaking.

He re ferred with pride to the fact that of the 1500,000 voted by tho ratepayers tor tne nrst section of the work out $420,000 to 4426,000 had been re quired. The actual amount expended was In the neighborhood of $475,000 but the city had a plant which at a conservative valuation was worth $40,000 to $50,000. Particular emphasis was laid by the harbor engineer on the tact that this is only the beginning of the work of establishing a harbor at New Westminster on the Fraser River. In this connection he had Uiree suggestions to offer to the citlzons in the matter of carrying forward the work thus Initiated. One was that the proposed city market site at the foot of Tenth street should be improved In consonance with tho work already done along Front street.

This market site was the logical completion of the first section of the work. Then the Legislature should be proached at an early date with view to having tho necessary leglsla tlon passed creating a harbor im provement district. An act of this character was necessary to enable the city to secure government assistance and to make assessments to carry on tho harbor work within the harbor urea of the city but outside the city limits. This would include the pro posed Improvements In the vicinity of Annacis Island, The third point emphasized was tho Importance of continuing efforts to secure grain shipments for the Fra ser River. Agitation for the erection of a government and other grain elevators on the Frnser River should be continued without abatement.

Mayor A. W. Gray presided and In a Drier speech called on Aiu. T. a.

Annandale, chairman of the harbor committee of the City Council, who proposed a toast to Captain Powell He paid a warm tribute to the guest of honor as a gentleman and as an engineer, saying he had displayed great resource and rare ability In dealing with many perplexing problems In connection with his work. He thought the fact that the work had been done with a surplus was a cause. for gratification. His conrreres on the harbor committee. Aid.

Gotilet and Aid, Smith, were also thanked for their untiring assistance. Aid. Goulet added hla meed of praise for the harbor engineer and took occasion to empnnsme tne lm portance of the work on which the city was launched. The initiation of the harbor Improvement work was one of the greatest forward moves the city had ever taken and he believed in lime many of the present critics the work would come to see it that way. Thetftreat transcontinental rail ways had already recognized the splendid efforts beinr made to make New Westminster a shipping port of imnortanee on the Pacific coast.

President W. G. McQunrrie of the Board of Trade recognized in Captain Powell combinations of engineering ability, tact and business ability an. I expressed the hope that he would be nresent to witness the completion of the whole of the great scheme of harbor improvement work. -Mr.

Vt T. Reid, president of the Progressive Association, endorsed the sentiments of the previous speakers, and referred with pride to the early movement In support of the project given by the Progressive Association. The luncheon guests all Joined In wishing Cnp-tnin Powell a happy and prosperous New Year. EL SEGUND0 GONE Left This Afternon for the Sound to Loud Oil for Alaska. The Standard Oil Tanker Kl Segun- do Captain John Mclvciiar, saueu ai 1 p.m.

today for tne souiui wnere sue will load oil for Alaska. iho r.i Segundo arrived here Thursday night with oil for Impoco. The Standard (ill tanker Lansing is due here on January 0 witn oil from Sn i'raa- cisco. Makes Plea for Itelglnns. Washington, 2.

Senator Root made an eloquent ploa to tho Senate todsy to amend the Immigration Hill to exempt from restrictions the refugees from Belgium. Ha argued it could be done without violating any treaty, because of the specific conditions due to tho war. "There is nc other people In the worid without, a government, and without a country," be said. "Two millions of them are exiled In foreign lands without, means of earning living. It Is an excep-tlonel cane and should be entitled to exceptional treatment In this bill." Ordination Service.

Abbotsford, Jan. Tho oi'tllnii tlon of Mr. Arch. McLean, and induction into the pastoral iharge of Latifflev and Murrayvllle congregation will take place nt tho Murray-villc. Church on Wednesday, at IS p.m.

Rev. J. H. While, in" of. the Presbytery, will lilillill uml J.

iiri-ri of North Vancouver, win cci- duct public worship. nr. Ininn address the minister ami Rev. JlilMf the congregation. oi i I llliie l'nniiel Sail TiniiglU.

The Ulue Funnel liner Antilm-hun. CoptHln Flynn, will leave port tonlgtit for I'rdou flay where she will bunker. The liner brought 1i5n tons of ear'" here and loaded 2li.O(H cases of salmon mihI 10.000 sacks of flour till will complete on the Hound. Connies Butswcret Dies. Washington, 2.

Private dei-patclioH lodny told the death in Wednesday, of Hi; UuisHoiol, il.uighter Major Ucnerul Story. I', 8. A. She th-wife of the Belgian minister to Pelro-grnd und rei.i'iitiy hud undergone un operation. For some lime her relatives were unable to get In cnrriiniiru-cation with her.

I Mt I Extracts from a German soldier's lettef In the "Frankfurter Zeltung" ahow that the German army la beginning to realize the fighting qualities of the Indian troops. The soldier writes: "Today for the first time we had to fight against the Indians, and the devil knows those brown rascals are not to be underrated. At first we spoke with contempt of the Indians. Today we learned to look at them in a different light. "For three days we lay in our trenches under an uninterrupted shell fire from the English, and were lacking in the barest necessities, us only Ht night-time could wo obtain provisions.

Water we had enough both above and below us, but we were hungry. The English seemed to tako a diabolical pleasure in showering shells on ub. When for three days it had rained shells and the British thought we were beaten to a Jelly, they had then in store for us a visit from' their brown allies. "The devil knows what the EnglUh had put those fellows. Anyhow those who stormed our lines seemed either drunk or possessed with an evil spirit.

With fearful shouting, in comparison with which our hurrahs are like the whining of a baby, thousands of those Wown forms rushed upon us as suddenly as if they were shot out of a fog, so that at first we were completer ly taken by surprise. "At a hundred metres we opened a destructive fire which mowed down hundreds, but In spite of that, the others advanced, springing forward like cats and surmounting obstacles with unexampled agility. In no time they were in our trenches, and truly these brown enemies were not to be despised. "With butt-ends, bayonets, swords and daggers we fought each other, and we had bitter hard work which, however, was lightened by reinforcements which arrived quickly, before we drove the fellows out of the trenches." Work of the R. A.

M. C. An officer in the R. A. writing to his brother from the frbnt, says.

A field ambulance is divided into three sections: and C. And each of these is again subdivided into two parts a tent division and a bear er division; the latter goes out with the ambulance wagons to collect the wounded and bring them Into the first field dressing station! where" they are treated by the tent division. 1 belong to the bearer part of section, and as A section is generally held In reserve Is tne first to be sent off in any emergency, and so it has fallen to my lot to get a fair snare of the work. Our work of collection is generally done at night. We set out just as It is getting dark to find the regimental aid posts; these are convenient places under cover, where the wounded are carried to from the trenches.

Sometimes it Is not safe to bring up ths wagons to the regimental aid posts In which case we bring them up us far as as we consider, and then advance with the bearers (who number thirty-six) and stretchers. It is Just this little bit of work which is so weird and uncanny because we march the men two -deep, separated widely apart, and open them out. The later Is ddne In case of shells which might do much damage to men in close formation; then all lights are put out; we can't take lanterns; no one is allowed to light a match or smoke a cigarette (a light might draw fire suddenly); and all this ten.ls to make the men silent a silence that can be "felt," and this adds to the "excitement." The other day I went forward with a sergeant and a couple of men to find nut If there were any wounded at a particular place; Just as we were about to return a most deadly hot fire (both infantry and artillery) suddenly began. The bullets whizzed by us, and the village we were leaving was lit up by the bursting shells, several houses belli? set on fire. We at first took cover behind a ditch, but on' the fire getting very bad we thought it better to get away as quickly as we could.

It was about a quarter of a mile along an open road to the next village, ii nd I'm sure none of us ever did a "quarter mile" quicker in our lives be fore the sound of the bursting shells Is terrlnc. Just as we cot to the next village a fellow on the road was shot In the leg, and this delayed us some lime getting him on a stretcher and carying him to a safe place. Sometime we are out half the night; other nights we don't go out at all and maybe for days we do nothing. Night attacks are common; one night on arriving back at 11 p.m. a fearful artillery attack commenced on the end of the towmwhere we had our dressing station.

We had to move off at once. We went back into the country; no one knew our destination. One fellow afterwards when writing his diary aptly expressed the move by saying, "We marched out Into the night," A Burial at Son. (A British officer at sea writes.) We had such a pathetic little ceremony on Tuesday. On Monday night one of our young A.

such a nice boy, passed away after a had accident, und a sunset we buried him. It was a fine sight but terribly gad. The whole of the Grand Fleet was steaming along, ship after ship, division sen mtidenty tJte en-signs were all lowered to half-mast and the old drew out of line and took her position at the very head of the huge assemblage of ships. Did anyone ever have a finer hoarse or a more glorious congregation? Be we steamed with the sun just setting. The men were all lined up in the waist when from the screen door came those wonderful words, "I am the resurrection and -the life," and slowly a little procession, headed by the chaplain, came out.

Behind him was a plain grating on which was laid the remains of the lad carried by his messmates. There was no fine oak coffin or brass plate, but Just his hammock, in which his body had lain many a night and now lay for Its long rest. The little procession brings him to the side of the ship, and the sad and solemn service goes on while the sun sinks deeper and deeper, till ts the solpmn words are said, "We therefore commit his body to the rlnep In tths sure and certain hope of a Joyful "rMtirrtoUon." thtr Is a splash and the' march. The men form fours, the chaplain takes off his robes, and officers and men, chaplain and all, double round the ship to the liveliest of tunes, We do not brood in the navy, but we rememDeri Kxclting Air Duel. (An officer of the Chasseurs Alplns writes.

Yesterday I was present with my section at a most dramatic and excit ing air-hunt. We were finishing a trench on a hill, which I had nlanncd the day before, when we suddenly heard over our heads the characteristic noise of a Taube aeroplane. I instructed my men to keep porfectly still, us when aviators are at a great height they can only recognize the presence of troops when they are moving. The Taube was coming from the German rtnes and was making for our rear ones. A moment afterwards a very large biplane passed over our heads in the same direction.

Then both got out of sight, as flying in the direction of the buii wo could no longer follow them with our eyes. After about five minutes we saw the Taube returning at full speed towards the German lines, and the biplane, which evidently was French, chasing, It at a tremendous speed from 60 metres higher, and gaining at every turn of tho propeller. The two must have been firing at one another, and et a certain moment, finding probably that the target of a man, three-quarters hidden by the armored seut, was too small und too uncertain, the French aviator, by a most admirable and courageous munoeuvre, dived straight down. nassed under the Taube and fired at the Boche's motor. The spirit tank certainly was struck, as 1m.

mediately a huge cloud or yellow smoke marked the track of the Taube. The biplane then turned round to come back to our lines, and the Taube, with the motor stopped, began to descend in a "vol-plane" towards the German lines, continuing to belch forth heavv fumes. We saw it land on the hills facing us without knowing whether it had been able to reach 4ts own lines. In the evening we heard that it had fallen Just between our lines and those of the enemy and in the act of catching fire. Three Germans jumped out and start, ed to run towards their own trenches.

From our own, occupied by some chasseurs, they were fired at, and ithln five seconds they fell a few 'eps from their burning machine, 'Vic transit gloria Taubl." A Spy as a Priest. A British officer writes: There was a spy caught in rather a funny way- near where I was. Some French of ficers saluted a priest, and instead of taking off his hat, as is usual, he gave a military salute. Theft- promptly ar rested him, and. of course, he was not a priest at all, but a German soldier.

The two following stories were also told me as being quite true and they may be, but, of course, there are lots going round and I can not vouch for them. An olficer, corning across a haystack, proceeded to pull out a sample wit'h an eye to forage. Greatly to his surprise a big lump came away in his hand and left a hole leading into the interior. On being Investigated the stack turned out to be a hollow fraud, The room inside contained three Germans with a telephone installation; they also had complete sets of French and British uniforms, beside civilian clothes, and enough food for three weeks. The last tale is more horrible.

Some men in trenches noticed a movement In a heap of dead, which had Iain in plain view for four diyys nt least. They eventually came to the conclusion that one of the enemy was in tho habit of creeping out at night and hiding there all day with a telephone. We spoilt that little game, too. You a3k if we ever do any shopping in the villages. Yes.

we buy fresh French bread for a treat when we can get it. Usually the loaves are those ring-shaped ones. On the retreat after Le Cateau I saw a whole glittering group of staff officers ride past, each officer wearing a loaf like a huge armlet. At about the same time we picked up a friend who had had his horse shot under him, was soaking wnt, and had lost everything he possessed but hie loaf. We rave him a rest In a car, but he was taking no risks and nurs ed His bread the whole time, -never putting It down for a minute.

Even tually he left plus a mackintosh, There was a good deal of giving away or spare clothes Just then. Another shopping affair will amuse you. One day, when we had not had any milk for weeks, 1 saw an old, refugee woman driving three cows, and I screamed for my man and gave him twopence and mug; then, in about four seconds the old lady was surrounded by a few hundred Tommies, all rattling sous and itln cups. She calmly camped down In the and systematically milked her herd thoro and then. She must have made a good thing out of It.

BATTERED -CYCLONES Russian Liner Tambov Had Rough Weather for Seventeen Days. The steamer Tambov, of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, which arrived on Thursday night from Vladivos tok, via the Orient, reports contin uous bad weamer on ner transpa cific voyage. The steamer left Yoko hama on December 14 and was seventeen days crossing and during that time she was battling against a series of storms which Included three ty phoons. The Tambov brought 3900 tons of Oriental freight, some of which she discharged at the Balfour, Guthrlu dock, but today she Is putting out the balance at Pier No. 2 section.

The Tambov is commanded by Captain Alexeiieff and the chief officer is Mr. Yonovosky. She is a twin-screw steamer built In 1 893 and her nes and accommodation remind one of the Australian liner Aorangl, formerly on this run 1'.