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THE VANCOUVER DAILY PROVINCE TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR No. 15. VANCOUVER, B. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, PAGES. cYSn 45,569 PRICE FIVE CENTS.

RESULT 1)F PLOT SSllS CERTAIN OF VICTORY iSSi TO STRANGLE TURKS That Munitions Plant Was Blown Up By Conspirators P.1 14 Canadians' Success At Vimy Described As Astounding Page 2 Troops Are Backing Ottomans Up Into Bad Situation P. 15 Hindenburg's Forces Suffered IS Fled For Their Lives Before H-8 tt- -M- Cyclonic Burst of British Artillery 44 S-fj Terrible If Not a Disastrous Defeat PREMIER BORDEN IDE REEMAN OF EDINBURGH Makes Graceful Comment on TO BE GRAND PURVEYOR TO THE ALLIED NATIONS Germans Could Not Stay When Guns Opened Fire. British Victory Was Decided When Vimy Ridge Fell Before Canadians No "Leisurely Withdrawal For Strategic Reasons" For Huns. Presence of General Smuts. Dominions Are Far Apart, but Peoples Are One in Their Ideals.

As Fighters They Are Done, Declares British Officer. FRENCH ARE PREPARING SEPARATE ONSLAUGHT With Bastion of "Hindenburg Line" Manned by Canadians Retreat for Kaiser Will Not Be Comfortable Counter-attacks Failed. Replies to the Critics of Britain's Aerial 3 LONDON, April 11. Herbert C. Hoover, head of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium, after consultation with his colleagues on the commission, has accepted the chairmanship offered him by the National Defence Council of the new food board in the United States.

Mr. Hoover expects to leave shortly for America. Meanwhile he has initiated a wide enquiry in France, England and Italy regarding the existing food situation. The enquiry includes examination of the prospects of the coming harvests, import necessities, methods of food regulation and control now in operation in the Allied countries and the results achieved. Forward Movement Continues in Direction of Cambrai.

MA to Points Scottish Audience Riches of Canadian Provinces. I ITH the British Arml Si! Afield. April 11. The salient which Sir Douglas Eastward of the ridge and southward the British wound forward through the snow, preceded by their waddling tanks, and took Farbus, directly south of the town of Vimy, clearing the wood beyond it of German machine-gun crews. But the greatest progress of the day was along the banks of the Scarpe, which flows right through the German lines.

Here Haig's battalions spread fanlike to the north and London April 11. Sir Robert Borden, at Edinburgh today, received the freedom of the city and also a degree at the university. The first ceremony took place at Ussher Hall, where a HOItVKR. 1 t'. largo company was assembled, which il .1 i.

i- BORE STARS AND STRIPES INTO BATTLE ON BAYONET soutn, passing inrougn tne vniagc oi ramyuux aiiu demonstrated Its pleasure in honor-establishing themselves in the outskirts of Monchy ng the Canadian Premier personally le Preux. Airplanes Tuesday were helpless in the and the pride felt by the liritish peo-storm. but Monday in this area British fliers darted Vhe pref nt ot jlnls fellow-countrymen In battle. ahead of patrols, sailing just above the ground, and Acknowledging the honor, sir Rob-peppered hostile reinforcements with their machine- ert norden alluded first to those con-guns. Bombing expeditions were also pressed and one case a great weight of explosive was dropped i side, and who wag similarly honored on a German railway reinforcing station.

The Berlin I Kdinuurgh namely. General smuts. ne vi. a distinguished soldier and states- Haig is driving into the German line reached a depth of five miles east of Arras today. With this sweep forward the strength of the British offensive increases with each battering of the enemy line.

The push today was pressing along the entire fifty miles of battlefront. The Canadians' hold on Vimy Ridge grows stronger each hour despite desperate efforts of the enemy to dislodge them. Counterattack after counter-attack was repulsed during the night and day. Through the whole forest covering the northern slope of the ridge today British patrols were actively pressing on. From the plain beyond the ridge, the Germnns feverishly lly ARTHUR S.

IRAPER. fty Special Cable to The Vancouver Daily Province. Copyright LONDON, April U. Sir Douglas Haig's "big push" has swept on today almost from La Bassee to St. Quentin and.

driven a wedge into the very vitals of the German front, five miles beyond Monday morning's line at Arras. The number of German prisoners has almost doubled since yesterday. It now exceeds eleven thousand, including 235 officers, and the total promises to reach more than fourteen thousand before evening. The victors have counted over one hundred guns, among them a number of Krupp monsters of eight-inch calibre, sixty trench mortars and 163 machine gups. Despite heavy snowstorms and tenacious resistance by the Germans, the British infantry, clad in heavy sheepskins, are advancing so fast that the line must be revised from hour to hour.

The new front now runs almost from the outskirts of La Bassee beyond Loos, just this side of Lens, east of the Vimy Ridge now firmly held by the Canadians along its entire height through Farbus and the Farbus Wood to the south of the town of Vimy and along the northern and southern banks of the Scarpe, a good five miles beyond Arras. Here it connects with the British advance flung after the so-called Hindenburg retreat to St. Quentin, and along this line Haig's men have also progressed through the village of Louveral toward Cambrai and to the dominating heights north OTTAWA, April 11. Describing the capture of Vimy, Stewart Lyon, Canadian Press correspondent at the front, cables: "To a young Texan, who came to Ontario to enlist and who is now lying wounded in the hospital, belongs the honor of first carrying the American flag into battle, in the European war, into which the United States as a belligerent has just entered. He went up to the assault at Thclus carrying the Stars and Stripes on his bayonet and fell thus." ivii ui iuv.

uaiuc aiuug inv. man," sajj Robert, "who was fact of the whole Arras battlefield, is perfunctory. fighting against us to the b-st of his It simply says: "British attacks delivered after ability not more than fifteen years 1 1 ago. Today he und General Botha strong artillery fire on the southern bank of the are ai assets to the Empire and raoro than that, to the world. bcarpe failed.

I'nlty of Ideals. "We come irom different dominions, have sprung from different but kindrod races, we have grown up under widely different conditions. Is Will French Soon Strike Blow? The British advance upon Cambrai from the southwest and upon St. Quentin has not halted before the served their guns, directing shells at all parts of the forest in the hope of DECLARES filRL Beyond Roisel Haig's patrols pressed plriJ on a r0ad larger battle. CHEERY WOUNDED FROM BIG BATTLE When I find his conception and my own aa to the course and the method ROYED PL11 of future constitutional relations and DOT development substantially the same, I of St.

Quentin. north of the village of Louveral and during the day strong forces established themselves on the high ground between Leverguier and Hargicourt, just north of St. Quentin, after hard fighting. German counter-attacks deljyjwed.yarious. ojntslong the fine" were uniformly shattered.

It could not be otherwise, for the foundations on which the British coromonwekiUi -aljMid. -are Jus- autonomy ahii unity, 'Since we were invited to receive Though there were no actions in open engagement German Losses ofHeavy Artillery There is no shadow of doubt now, no matter what may develop, that the Germans have suffered a terrible if not a disastrous defeat. The brevity and half-admissions of their official reports on the battle, this honor from Kdinburgh," Sir Heated Argument in Restau- Good to Be a Canadian, Says rant May Clear Up Eddy-! Wounded British Colum-stone Mystery. bia Man. nn th lin hplrl V.

tV.i Prcnrh there, arf sfrnnrr Kobert continued, "the great event liiuitauuiis uidl iiivciic amy uc auuui uwivi found effect not only upon the war blow on the other "hinge" of the Hindenburg line, but the future of our Empire, u- (f tv, I-I: I The President of the United States, rt I the futility of their counter-attacks, the inaoility ot checking; the onward rush. CAPTURE OF MOXCHY. Capture by British forces of the village and heights of Monchy Le Preux and, the village of La was In .40, Kir UougLa Haig today. "Satisfactory progress Is being made elsewhere," the report declares. "The battlefront situation Is developing generally In accordance with our plans." Monchy Le I'reux lies at the southern extremity of Vimy Ridge and the heights of La liergere are Just adjacent.

The inash by which these new positions were gained puts the Urlfish line another half mile southeast of Arrus in the direction of Cam-lira I. Front despatches indicated no let up In the constant hammering along the whole of the fifty-milo front at various sections of which Sir Douglas Haig had been thrusting his forces forward no diminution either in the artillery hammering or the blows by massed Infantry forces. The territory northeast of St. Quentin is being swept clean of German forces as the Urltlsh encircling movement goes on. Bomb Made from Shell by an! Fine, Yet Terrible, to Watch Shells Bursting Over the German Trenches.

Employee Caused Damage. Camden. N'. Anril 11 In a London, April 11. The cheeriest inmates of a big London hospital are the wounded from the big battle, A tumuicusuidic wuu uic uuuui.t a meE.sage of wonderful eloquence The Berlin day report speaks of the violence of i and convincing reasoning has invited the French artillery along the Aisne and Paris refers congress to declare a state of r- ami war exists between the United States to the activity of the French guns from the Aihettej Hml to Neuville sur Margival and the intensity of the "in that message he has set forth German reply.

All the way up through the ta-l lLu pagne and eastward past Rheims the trench guns i within our Kmpire to tuko up arms, are thundering. No man can say just where the No one can deny that the rmted ii j- i- A ri 'States fiovernment exercised all pru- stroke may fall. In the direction of Betnincourt antl Ina(1(, cvory imAhU. effort German troop train rolled into the range of French consistent with honor and seif-rcspect fire and was "completely destroyed." I The battering power Of the British drive Still un-jVote declared war. is the last and checked, is the fruit of the lessons of the battle of convincing proof that the spirit the Somme, which proved a magnificent training ftyZmXTZu Canadian, describing his experiences, said: was at bombing post on Vimy liidge, where we were holding the line.

The Germans put up twenty-four- hour bombardment over us, but we gave them three times as much stuff heated argument in a restaurant at noon today Frank Miller, 4, shouted: "It's a damn lie that the Hermans blew up the Kddystono plant; 1 know the person who did. It. was gi'l." Judge Lloyd, at a table nearby, sprang to his feet and calling Judge French and ('arrow to his aid, slatted for who ran the restaurant. At ais boarding-house, half a block distant, he closed and locked the door, but the pursuing party broke it down und seized him. Kind Many Maps.

In bis trunk were found maps or' nearly every bridge ill South Jersey. sround. At the close of July 2, a year ago, the as they sent uh. Our casualties were cast out. If Cicrmany should perish, it will be because the evil spirit that possesses her has willed it.

Soon Caught t'p. Sir Robert Borden went on to speak of the thorough preparation made in British had taken only 3500 prisoners, and had advanced at a considerable cost to a maximum depth of half a mile over a nineteen-mile front. The present huge concentration of artillery, the co-ordination of artillery and infantry and the added efficiency of CLKXKINO OUT S.Ml'KRS. With the Armies Afield April 11. In freezing, blustery wca ther, with bursts of blinding snow, the liritish advance continued today unabated by the fiercest resistance from the enenij.

in the crest of Vimy Ridge alotn It was established by count today that lhn Canadians had taken almost prisoners, including seventy-twe officers and twenty-three guns. In-eluded In this number were nine gmu of heavy calibre. The bootv Iron tlcrnianv and of our own prepared- re2imental commanders already apparent proves the ness. The wonder he. remarked.

He was commuted wltnoui ran Penn power of assimilation of the British army I not tnai mistakes were made, out that our preparation so quickly fol of ine action of the United Siuto: lowed and overtook that consummated i iermuny, officer in few. At my post, seven of our boys were bowled over. It was tine and yet terrible to watch our shells bursting and 1 figured to myself the fright of the Germans. We knew there was going to be big lighting; we also knew, too, that they would have to get off i hat ridge. Some of us thought our fire was never going to slacken.

I received my wound just as the Canadians were moving to see what the German trenches were like, but 1 knew by the yells of our fellows that Fritz was getting it. it was bad luck for mo, but I guess I shall get back again before it is all over. 1 shall be disappointed If I don't. "The spirit of the Canadians is great. Suv, is it not good to be a To take that ridg? 1 am one of five brothers who left a farm In Columbia, to tight for flciais.

was born in hot served as an American Rings With Praise of Canadians England today, from the King to invalid corporals, He was the Spanish-American war. 'the defeated Germans also Include'; 'seventy mat blue guns and about forty trench mortars. movements 'if unable to explain the the past few days. their fliers to take the air, the comparative feebleness of their artillery protection, and their newly-recorded loss of heavy guns are all separate signs of worry and demoralization, though they have by no means given up the fight and they retire sullenly only when forced. But if the fighting keeps to its present pitch of fury and the British success continues for a while longer conservative observers here predict that "The Battle of Arras" will be the decisive action of the war on the west front at least.

Indeed, military experts say that the British victory was decisive in the first rush when Vimy Ridge fell before the storming Canadians. This 'famous and sinister height which already bore more than a hundred thousand graves, has been called "The Hinge of the Hindenburg line." Mining District Falling to France Wherever that doubtful front may have been established, with its supposed impregnability, fortified by every device of warfare, Vimy Ridge must necessarily have been the pivot upon which any German retreat would have swung. In Allied hands, with the plains of Douai beneath its guns, no "leisurely withdrawal for strategic reasons" is possible and the rich mineral resources of Lens, upon which the Germans drew so freely, are doomed once more to French management, with the industrial activities of Lille a promise upon the near horizon. Vimy Ridge slopes westward at a fair angle, but on the east drops almost precipitously, making it immune to all but the most heroic counter-attacks. Yet the Germans did try to counter-attack yesterday.

British patrols sweeping the sky above the battlefield descried German troop trains debouching upon a railhead toward Vimy. The British guns were notified and immediately a steel curtain was dropped ten miles back of the German lines, possibly the longest range barrage on record. The attack did not materialize. Though the Canadians had cleared the eastern slope of the ridge, their grip upon the northern end of it was not so sure. Furious fighting took place there Tuesday afternoon in which further important positions fell into the Canadian command with prisoners and machine-guns.

It is in this direction that the Canadians hold Hill 140, considered the dominating crest of the line of heights. Except before a stupendous German effort the Vimy Ridge is safely in Canadian hands. by the enemy during more than a quarter of a century." Passing on to speak of the air service, Sir llobert remarket that Canadians had joined that service in large numbers, lie was proud to k. that, they had proved daring, resourceful and efficient. Any criticism, therefore, of the ser is ringing with praise for the brave Canadians who; seized Vimy Ridge and held its summit against Prince Rupprecht's Bavarians.

But the public ha3 been warned not to look too certainly for ultimate along the line when General Haig pushed his men forward, three corps of liritish troop tooit prisoners, including lTti officers. They also seized eighty-eight guns, eighteen trench mortar: ami eightv-fo-ir blue guns. From the top of imv Kidge. nou vice aroused his deepest Interest. "We virtorv that the Germans are still strong and bound recently had a full statement in the to strike back with venomous power if their hour rSethTer.1 aar' France.

Sha.ll I on pleased to get home -Veil, yes, when there's notblni: more to do In Kurope." Made in Chester, April 11. That the explosion at tile Fddvstone ammunition plant yesterday, which cost ll lives, was the result "ot a dialrolieal plot conceived In the d-generate mind of a demon in human guise." was the assertion of a high o'licial of the corporation today. This official said that investigation concluded this afternoon had shown that a bomb manufactured from a shell in the plant by one of the employees hud caused the comes I ago and as they are today. The in- the one German COUnter-blow thus far de- formation thus affordej me was very But I attained and thinly held, the I'ritisb were systeuiat ical clearing snipers lu farther ail' ad 01 the lover stupes. The steady pound-ling of field guns searching out such I nests of the enemy continued iaces natil ly.

hvered that southeast of Ypres sputterea out with tlirning out tortav are cquaI if not su PLUGGING ENQUIRY the capture of but fifty prisoners, and that one serves perior to any the fiermans have htth- wnrrv fnv thp rest of Produced, and ours are being Ilrou; hi FORWARD IN A US ivj "luivun, at a rapidly-increasing rate lilll to ApiMiinl Judges He im; Into llou.se Today. no difi'erenef of the. bi-- weather made today in the strength push." Klat.ed by their t'iib ut by their suiicrior IS 19 WEEKS SUB TOLL 1 he average efficiency ot our machines now in use Is equal to the average efficiency of the (fermans. The average casualties of machines which have been most severely criticized is less than the German average on all machines." line. The British now stand somewhat less than ten miles from the Douai-Cambrai front and Lille is but six miles away and in an awkward position if the British wedge bites much deeper.

There has been nothing in the German communications to indicate vb-toi iet siri-ngt on iicl i secure in the perfect of all arms of the sen ii poured forward in wave -c. the r.ruai s. stcudiiv en Victoria. April 11. A bill to provide for an enquiry into the plugging of last year's will, it is understood, he brought down in the House Ibis afternoon.

Tho court of enquiry which is being given wide powers is to eonsis' of Justices Galii-her, W. A. Macdonald and it stated that the Prince ch.irges will not be in-epnled In the work of thi.s enqulrj Hut the most important fact to London Makes Announcement on I.e-ronl London, April II. During the weekending April S. seventeen I'ritish merchant vessel-- mor than Two vessels of less th-ni that the Kaiser western armies have suffered one realize and remember is that the unt- t.

Ish airmen undertaking extensive du- of the worst reverses of the war. But if the British U(lf. whlch never havcKhpP attemptPj can definitely hold Vimy ridge and the surrounding; to anything like the same extent by crouching the land and as ntcadily eating it auav (row the enemy. It was possible today to understand In a way, why the Rrltisli losses in jfino tons sent down. This was offbiulU- announced tonight.

territory it is believed here that soon the Germans nr air service, me casual icimuiy it. is UI.WV. amonK onr officers neor-ssarilv ar, re WILL DEMAND PASSPORTS been far less Vhan the great, because the proportion of offi- vers in the air service fs very much larger lhan In other services. tlcipated. British in its con- DISCHARGE MARRIED MEN must retire to wnat is cauea tne ivieuse une, running from Verdun through Mezieres, Maubeuge and Lille, With the bastion of their western lines manned by the Canadians, the retreat will not be comfortable.

to Germany to Quit centr.iUM fury of discharge, tho ground the Germans belt Let National Guard Department. Those Serving in Out by Wai Ills Post. London. April 11. The Brazilian minister to Germany will demand his Passports tomorrow and leave Gtr- Washington, April 11.

All married men serving In the National Guard having families dependent upon them will lie discharged whether hey wish to serve or not, according to an order isstie'i by tho war department. many by way of Switzerland, France 'and Spain, according to a despatch 'from cologne forwarded by the Kx-I change Telegraph correspondent at Amsterdam. SEVERE GRENADE FIGHTING Reported by tlic French Near Maisond de Champagne. Paris, April 11. "Active artillery fighting continues between the Somme and the Olse," says today's ofllcial communication.

"South of Oiso a German attack east of C'oucy was broken up. Near Maisons de Champagne there was severe grenade fighting. In Le Fretre Forest the artillery firing was rather into a muck, it "as the tame over ugain that was tlist told whet Ihe Germans parted their They had to go back, liritish artiller? hud made their positions a horror, shambles, a sea of liiimmocky earth pock-marked by cri'fers. FIN MILD AS 1 K.H lEPv. prisoners today ba? behind the lines declared the Brltisl Ire was so cyclonic that many of theii officers fled for their lives at the firs titanic outburst.

The terrific hall oi shell fira had a perceptible effect oi. the morale of the Germans. "As fighters, they are finished," marked one British officer today had been fighting conetaally for twe davs. "Picked men faced na but vtt Were Well lasted. "I take leave to put forward these considerations because an unfounded rumor was tending to discourage the spirit of the Uritlsh airmen, and such criticism was entirely without foundation." Proceeding to speak of after-the-war conditions, Fir Robert remarked that there was reason to helieve that Germany before the war had a more thorough knowledge of developments within the Dominions than could be found In the United Kingdom.

Outside, of Europe were the great theatres of action In which the future of our Kmpire will ultimately he worked out. "I speak of said Sir Robert, "because 1 know that In that Dominion there are half a dozen provinces each greater In territory, and not less rich In resources than tho Unites Kingdom. Are quite sure that the NEW U. S. ARMOR PLANT DUPONT OFFERS VESSEL New Type of Craft Virtimlly Immune From Kamago by Torpnlors, Wilmington.

April It. Alfred I. Uupont last night announced his intention of turning over to the government a submarine destroyer of a new type, now under construction at Bristol, R. and which is pronounced by exports to -be one of the most efficient yet conceived. It is to be of all-steel construction, 110 feet long, 15 feet, beam and a draught of only 4 feet and will be completed by July I.

Tho light draught of the vessel, it is snid, wil render it virtually immune from torpedoes, HOT TIME FOR HUNS IN RIO Pro-Ally Pctuon.it rat ions Growing in Brazil's Capital. Kio Janeiro, April 11. Pro-Ally demonstrations are growing In volume throughout the city. The flags of the Entente Allies are visible everywhere, and the streets are thronged with pat-aders cheering for France and England, and Bhoutlng "Down with Germany." The crowds gather In front of German establishments and hoot. Several newspapers today began a bitter attack on tho government, demanding the resignation of Foreign Minister Muller because of Mullor's German descent.

Will Be Built a Clmrlowton at Cost of work which Is being curried on overseas is unite uiea.snrealily realized here? If there in an adequate vision, it is clear these considerations must continuously assume, larger proportions in tin future purpose and activities of the Imperial Commonwealth. Meantime all effort must be devoted to the unfinished task still before us. Sir Robert Rorden enthusiastically appl at the close of his 1.000,000. 'Washington. April 11.

The new government Ml.OuO.OOO armor plate mid projectile plant will be located at our violent. North of Arras Court patrols brought back prisoners. In we in-in the his lines Ii Charleston. W. Va.

Announcement to this effect has been made by the narj department toda. the region of Ban de apt tlicted losses on the enemy ciurse of an incursion into jiorth of I'ontcnelle." (Continued on page I spec-b..