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941 24 sÂ¥ The people of Ontarigq and Western Canada will also understang the reaâ€" son for his advocacy of r policy that will not estvange from mis leadership his _ Frenchâ€"Cang@dian _ compatriots, whick leadership has in tife past been a most powerful factor in the unifying of the diverso ecleme®ts in French and English snpeaking portios of Canada. That leadorship, we believe, all rightâ€" thinking CanmMans feol can still be safely enirusted to Sir Wilfrid. Sir Wilfrid also charges the Govâ€" ernment ~with falinre to educate his peopleand introduce proper recruiting moethods, and those familiar with the hopeless Tailwre of the Covernment to give lesdership is recruifing in Ontarâ€" loâ€"leaving all togpatrâ€"©ile lecal ‘mn- iativeâ€"will readily necept h'h stateâ€" mments. In arriving at a policy on this quesâ€" tion Sir Wilfrid, and doubtless a large section of his Liberal and ‘other friends, have been confrented*with manifest difficulties. On the one hand the proposal comes from a Government whose record of bungling and missanâ€" agement of the country‘s affairse is such as to cause ene to hesitate beâ€" fore entrusting it with the ad:ministraâ€" tion of so vital a measure as a _ conâ€" scription law; we have ailso the known opposition of a large proporflbfi:: population of the province of € s and large numbers of the working classes in other provinces to compu}â€" sory service, Bir Wilfrid‘s defense of the showing of his Frenchkâ€"Canadia patriots in the matter of enlistm but 14,000 out of the 360,000 men Canada has sent overseas bebm Frenchâ€"Canadian originâ€"â€"wes chiej eriicism of the present Gevernii| which by its flliance with the Nation@ alists in the eleotions of 1911 had seâ€" cured > the election ‘of .twentyâ€"seven members pledged against participaâ€" tion in the Empire‘s wars â€"and this was largely the root of tke present @Miculty in Quebec in regard to enâ€" listment. On the other hand we have the Jnâ€" sistent call from the CanzdiAn divisâ€" ions at the front, for men and more man, if their strength is not to be deâ€" pleted to the point of ineffectiveness. Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than . Saturday noon. 1’»3yummmuu later Tuesday noon. ewo vertisements accepted up to day cach week. i Advertising rates rtasonable and will be made known on application. Bir Wiifrid Laurier, the Liberal Leader, bus submétted an amendment to the G,vernment‘sâ€"conseriptivn bill, providing for the reference of the whole uyuestion to the peeple before the enactment of the compuisory miliâ€" tary service law, w flmfi.mm BAVID BEAN & SONS, LiIMITED. THE PROPOSED REFERENDUM. _ Mrrortox® is fadéless, washable, longâ€"lastâ€" ing and sanitery. _ Ask for a color card showing the softâ€"asâ€"theâ€"rainbow tints. * . _A kn .. _ ~ Mruy10ToN® colors are rich and warm. They seem to catch and hohd the sunshine. They cerâ€" tainly do brighten things wp for the indoor hours, â€"the liquid oil paint that is taking the place of wall paper in modern homes. The skilful painter can bring into your home the soft! beautiful colors of the big outdoors by decorating your walls and ceilings with Lowe Brothers _ WATERLOO, ONT. Liphardt Bros. Just like bringing i the outdoors ADVERTISERC Waterloo, Ont. ! Aun Aflantic Port: June 16.1 iâ€"Belgium‘s offickrd missinn! |to the Unitéed States, hmdod, Eh_v Baron Moncheur, of flm} | Bolgian Foreign Office, arâ€"‘ [rived in this country tu-d:l_v.! It is to be regretied that Sir Wilâ€" 'trid Jdid mot see fit to give leadership to the country by declaring his own atâ€" titude on the great, vMal fesue of conâ€" scription at the same time that he asked the people of Canada to declare ‘tbeii'-. _ Stockholhn, June 16.â€" The Social Demoarats say Cterâ€" many has madeâ€" an offer of neace to Russia through a member of the Swiss Federâ€" al Council, TCy BELSIUM MIS8ION IN UNITED STATES @ERMANY MAKES _ _ NEW PEACE OFPER ‘18, June 1§.â€"Reconnoitering parâ€" were sent out by the Germans nizm in the Verdun sector at Hili V4 and on the Heights of m Meuse the war offiec announces. y were caught under French fire and dispers ed. Be cheerful. Everything is grow ing. & Will it be a reforendum or conscrip tion ? If the United States, in a sinilar geoâ€" graphical _ position, _ but not bound by tm _ tics of Govern ment to France or En, and; sers the necessity of defonding herself and reâ€" péUling invesion by draftns armies tor service on the felds of France and Pianders, gurely it is late in the day for Canadian statesmen to advance the argument that the Militia Act should not be enforced because our armies are not fighting for the "de fence of Canada." There should be only one party in C@madaâ€"all united to win the war. France to light at the plase of greatest vantage is not to repel invasion seems to be begging the question. ‘The Gerâ€" man plans were for world domination, and they would undoubtedly: try to his be@ift the taw of Canada §jnce Conâ€" MM‘â€"In:-“mbu&uhfinnfl “ federation, on the ucmm British during the war, Jan‘ MacPherson, parliamentary stcretary to . tlucauc,'-qh * -.uo:co:.u“::mn.::-’mw 4 Â¥4 Abmentitontnemaniamices: eannot agree with him. . Not . only p to last i7 prisoners were taken on the western the security of Canada but democracy| front, to which must be added at least 8,000 for the month of June.: hmwd throughout the world in threatened. | in Mesopotamia 10,900 prisoners have been since July 1, 1916. How She was Cured. To say that sepding en army to "WNW#M“H"j”hM omm France to light af the plase of greatest } 8739 ' h::'h-fi‘lnmu vantage is not to repel invasion seems On the western front the British armies have captured 434 guns since | Olus, pains in my sideand be opposes a measure in which are emâ€" bodled, with slight modification . the e oollh the e at canedifiacs ihee NOTES AND COMMENTS. CGHM DISPERSE FA.N sCoUTING ARTIES BY FIRZE Duch ! ?! ? 1 1 ‘This kind of rough talk will be heard less here in town if people troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Cincinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug calied freezone when applied to a um, «aching gorn‘stops sorencas at om nd soon the corn drice up and*lifts right out without pain. ~He says freezrone is an ether comâ€" pound which‘ drics immediately and never inflames or even frtitates the eurrounding tissue or skin. A quarter &nwluoffmne'mfldm le at any drug vtouhht in Clent to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one‘s fest. Miliions of American women will welcome this In making the annguncement 8or. Law, Government spokesman in the Commons, said that all Irish prisoners would be released without reservation. gGovERNMENT WILL RELEASE IRISH REBEL PRISONERS London, June 15. â€"It was sanouneâ€" ed in the Commons this after > .n that the Government had decided to reâ€" lease all prisoners taken in the Irish rebellion of Eacter Sunday, a year age. Paris, June 14.â€"No important enâ€" gagements during the night are reâ€" ported in toâ€"day‘s official statement. The Germans violently bombarded French positicnsâ€"at various points. FRENCH POSITIONS ARE VIOLENTLY BOMBARDED GALT, June 13.â€"Lieut. Blair Gourâ€" lav. popuar Gait officer, formerly with .the 111th Rattalion, reported wounded in May, is in a very serious conditfon at No. 20 hospital, Camieres, France. In a letter just received by his father, A.G.Gourlay, East Main street, the imatron of the hospital states that she is sorry to report there is no improvyement in Lieut. Gourlay‘s condition. Everything possible was being done for him. He was very feverish, conscious in the daytime but delirious at night. i POPULAR GALT OFFICER IS IN SERIOUS CONDITION London, June.14.â€" Zeppelin . L43 has ‘been destroyed over the â€" North Sea by. navai forces, Bonar Law anâ€" nounced toâ€"day in the Commonse. The Admiralty recorts that no survivore of the Zeppelin were scen. ZEPPELILN Lâ€"43 _ DESTROYED BY NAVAL FORCES Toronto‘ June 14.â€" HMarold Morris, manager ‘of the Dominion ° Bank Branch at the corner of BJoor _ and Sherbourne St., was found dead in his motor at hisigarage at an early hour this morning. It is gupposed that he had been dead several hours from heart discase. He was grandeon of the late Hon. James Morris, of Brockâ€" ville. . He was born in Quelph. "From being pioncers of this beautiful country," the editor says, "We have become valets of a race which pretends to ‘be superior but which is nothing more than a modernizted product of the rapacious Jew." London, June 14.â€" The Norwegian steamers Socrliand, Tordenvore an» Sricid have been sunk ° by German submarines, according to a despatch from Copenhagen to the Central News. _ Some of the _ Tordenvore‘s crew are missing. > BANK MANAGER m FOUND DEAD SEATED Montreal, June 15.â€"The paper La Croix, which circulates almost soleâ€" ly among the FrenchCanadian clergy, comes out boidly for the destruc tion of Confederation. The editor, Mr. Joseph Begin, writes that Confederâ€" ation has been fatal for fifty years to Frenchâ€"Canadians. THREE NORWEGIAN 'Bnlm MERCHANT STEAMERS SUNK CRUISER AVENGER BY SUBMARINEGS â€" SUNK IN NORTH SEA July â€"+,â€"1916. in Mescpotamia 132 guns have been taken since the beginning of the war, exclusive of those lost at Kutâ€"Elâ€"Amara and subsequent‘y recaptured. in Egypt 18 guns have been taken. t i The territory regained by the British on the western front since July 1, 1916, amounts to 600 square miles. » FRENCHâ€"CANADIAN PAPER COMES OUT FOR DESTRUCTITIONK OF CANADIAK CONFEDERATION Try this yourse!! then pass it along to others, It worke! Laugh When People(\ _ Step On Your Feet® CECOH Will Wwewome this Us â€" usls mt ceaneule tase the Mecone â€" wl ‘wince tho inanguration luo and @new campaign is held up l#, _ p, ____ ______ ,__ luntil the Wirgars have bean secured. IN MOTOR CAR Stratford, June 15.â€"On the advice of Sir Herbert Ames of Montreal, Honorary Secretary of the Canadian | Patriotic Fund, that "there should be : no hegitation in pressing for payment," | the local committee of the fund will ongage a solicitor to collect arrears in last year‘s pledges. About twonty per ! cent. of the money promised has not | been prÂ¥d, while in most places only : about four per cent. is outstanding. : Much of the unpa:d subscriptions here | was pledged by poople well able to fpny. and the committee feels justified | In taKing legal steps to collect it, purâ€" | ticularly as the year ended two months PATRIOTIC FUND \_ COMMITTEE WILL banking centres indicated tgnt the amount remaining would cerfainly be taken up by onightfall. Telegrams from ail the Federal Reserve Banks Inte in the day announced that _ the loan was receiving a great popular support in the last hours in which to subscribe Flag Day patriotism helped. In many cities it was â€"reported _ that long lines of intending subscribers had stood for hours waiting to make sure of getting thcir subscriptions reâ€" corded. The banks generally had anâ€" nounced that they would remain open til! midnight to receive subscriptions. A strovg demand for bond buttons came in from all parts of the country, which afforded a basis for estimating the grand total of subscribers, which is now placed at 2,200,000. New York alone had asked for 1,200,000 buttons. Each individual subscriber is to reâ€" ceive one button: af ‘ Washingtcn, June 14.â€"The Liberty Loan is clearly overâ€"subscribed, ac cording to all advices to the Treasury Department. UnofMcially it is estimatâ€" ed that it will go four hundred miltion dollars over the two biliion dollars called for.. Secretary McAdoo _ anâ€" nounced this afternoon that. the re ports to one o‘clock toâ€"day gave _ a total for the entire country of $1,843,â€" 000,000. ~Unofficial reports from all banking centres indicated tgnt the amount remaining would cerfainly be ] Birmingham, June 15â€" An exploâ€" sion occurred at the plant of the Aetna |Power Company on the outskirts of ‘this city about 11 o‘clock this mornâ€" ing. _ All telephones to the plant are out of comminsion and details are 'lacking. & "‘Ninetyâ€"four â€"prisoners, three maâ€" chine guns and two mountain guns. and military stores, camels and the harbor plant were captured., "One Britisher was killed." Fort Saliff is on Kamaran Bay, in Yemen province, scuthwestern Araâ€" bia. Large rock salt works ‘are locatâ€" ed there.. The captured fort lHes about 175 miles north of the Guilf of Aden.. A force of Turks to the noith of Aden has been long in the way of the â€" British in attempts they have made to advance from the city. The purpose of the seizure of the fort may be in facilitating a movement to work in behind this force and capture or Aisperse it. U. S. LIBERTY LOAN OF 1917 OVER SUBSCRIBED "‘The Commanderâ€"inâ€"Chief in the East Indies reports that Tuesday morning his Majesty‘s ships under his command captured the fort at Sdliff after a resistance of three hours. The fort is situated on the eastern shore‘of the Red Sea, in the Kamarâ€" an anchorage, 130 miles north off Por, im between Lohelya and Hodeida. EXPLOSION OCCURS IN AETNA POWDER PLANT; NO DETAILS London, June 14.â€"Fort Saliff, on the east shore of the Red Sea, has been captured by British warships. it was officially announced this evening. ‘The announcesnent says: + BRITISH TAKE Anarchist Kramer Sentencâ€" ‘TURKISH FORT ~ ed to Three Years and ON RED SEA | ° $10,000 Fine. ed merchant cruiser, Avenger, was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea were saved. London, June §1.â€"The British armâ€" night. Ail but one Sa London, June 16. â€"Casuaities, in muâ€" nition factory at Ashtonâ€"Underâ€"Lyne, on Wedneaday, were reported officially toâ€"day as 41 killéd wnd 130, imjured. . . _ Petrograd, June 16â€" Toâ€"day‘s war official report on military operations on the western front reads; There has been rifte and artiliery firing _ in the course or certain sectors of the front. Our batteries last night made a surprise attack on the enemy posiâ€" tions in the region of Shelvov. Roumanian Front:â€" Fusilades and minor skirmishes have occurred. ‘"‘This country does not want your kind. This is a country where free men live, because free men obey the majorâ€" Ity. Your offence does not call for mercy, but for the severest punishâ€" ment. I wish I could give you life, at all o« your ilk. I hope by the time your term expires this nation‘ will be rid of all such creatures as you. "I sentence you to three years in prison and impose a fine of $10,000, As for you, Becker, eightcon months is all 1 can give you under the law." "I noticed that on the standâ€" you were careful to give perjured testiâ€" mony in the essontial features which were damaging in your case. Yours was the perjured testimony of a coâ€" ward. "You,you, defy the Government and , the laws of the United States. Youl have put yourself above the laws. You ‘ have talked bravely . here, You have F mistaken the country to which you / have come. But you have shown' the characteristics of menâ€"like you.l "By the contributions of lawâ€"abidâ€"‘ ing.citizens you got your education in this country, Your offence does not[ call for mercy. You have been convicâ€" ted on ‘ a conspiracy charge and al!ot for not registering. Coward, Perjurer, Says Court. The court room was crowded when Judge Mayer passed sentence on Kraâ€" mer and Becker.‘ The auditors broke into wild cheering, and it took the atâ€" tendants several minutes to quiet them. After order had been restored, Judge Maver, po:nting his finger at Kramer, said: ~ Herman FP. Levine, 23 years old, of No. 315 Riverdale Avenue, Brooklyn, a teacher in Public School No. 60, Manâ€" hatterm was sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary on Blackwell‘s Jsâ€" land by Rederal Judge Chatficld in Brooklyn for failure to register. Morris Becker, another ‘Anarchist was sentenced by Judge Mayer to eighteen months for conspiracy in conâ€" nection with the registration law. If on nonpayment of the fine,Kramâ€" er must serve a day for each dollar, 28 years will be added to his term. a coward!" aimost shouted Federal Judge Julins M. Mayer in sentencing Anarchist Louis Kramer to three years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta and imposing a fine of $10,000. Kramâ€" er was convicted: on charges of: conâ€" spiracy against the registration law and failing to register. New York, June 14.â€""I shall see that you are deported, but not until you have â€" served every day of your sentence. You are a craven! You are a coward!" aimost shouted Federal HOW SLAGKERS ARE PUNISHED . IN NEW YORK good and I hopce every suffering woman will give them‘s trial"â€"Mrs. Awna KELLY,â€" 710 Chestout Street, Burlingâ€" stantly :uu.ad in the newspapers ought to be proof enaugh to women who t to be proof enaugh to women who mfifldnndi-h* ills pecuâ€" lar to their sex that Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound is the medicine His letter gives the facts briefly and tells how ‘he was finally cured by using Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food. Can you imagine any more severe teat of this great nerve restorative? Mr. Henry F. Venn, Cefu Ranch, I.Ial?, B.C., writes: *"Dr. Chese‘s Nerve Food has restored my nervous The writer of this letter was inâ€" jured in & mi{xâ€"up with some colts, resiained _ unconscious for _ three weeks, and in spite of _ continued treatment in hospital could not obâ€" tain _ restoration _ of the intecnal nerves which conirol the action of the digestlive and ciher vital organs. HMe travelled to Europe and consulted England‘s greatest . nerve specialist. Relief was only teniporary, in spite of many ‘treatments used. . â€" Nervous disorders frequeptly result from injury to the nerves in accidents or because of the shock to the sysâ€" tem. But Nergous System Failed to Respond Prescribed. Best Nerve Specialist in England Was Co CANADA TO HAVE DAYLIGHT SAVING THIS SUMMER Mr. A .K. Maclean asked wheâ€" ther it was proposed to make the bill effective during the precent summer. Sir George replicd in the affirmative and intimated that the reversion to solar mean time would come again with the end of September. ° He promised "to exâ€" plain the bill fully on its second reading. Ottawa, June 15. â€"Canada 46 to have "daylight _ saving." Sir George Foster at toâ€"day‘s Parliaâ€" mentary sitting intro@uced a Govâ€" ernment bill to @provide for the time in Canada being in advance of the solar mean timg.during the summer months."~ He explained that it meant turning the clocks on one hour, and would come into eHect upon prociamation by the Goverment. THE MOLSONS and #liyen <me. new * health. 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Bank Money Urders. a saviues saux orrartk interest Allowed at Highest Current Rate. 96 Branches in Canada. < A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Tw Circular Letters of Credit. % | Bank Money Orders. â€" wl " .1s 516‘6:;'::!6:'5-;" lm&"&; no‘ofia 197 in.. CAPITAL and RESERVE Kitchener Branch, J. R, KitkPatrick, Mgr. Waterioe Branith, W. 8. Maylor, Manager. of Canada "Good service * * * gur true intent." Having met with a s seveén years ago, from unconscious _ and â€" whi nerves in a very sore treated by ductors .l: sulted one of the gro#wt | ctalists in _ England, | seemed t, do me much | phesphites and, in fact, ;kn.d of nerve mixture i WÂ¥orm was used, but nel | than tetmporary bene@ft "But Dr. Chasc‘s aected very differenti bullt up my nervousn f!eel like my old self & | medicing. will do fof § & Co., 14. Toranto. In the armies of all t= ho said, there are now t which excludes the great. les behind the front; im [Pmssum War the total & ties was less than 590, this war the killed alone « ed:by the million. ‘ ‘Durths the last five ‘have, 1 suppose," m jertson, "expended some of: ammunition, which moved by road, rail and« factorics in England to France and manâ€"handled |less than hali a dozen having written this lotte recommended the Nerve sonally to many, and estsem iis #sroat rest Lr. Chasc‘s Nervo‘ box, ail, dealets, or medichg has dor haying 1 London, June 14.â€"Gen Robertson :r a speech 4 @ graphic impression of Sxtraordinary aspects of war:. It;has become me observe.that the war B pletely bvershadowed ev cnpaflo: and interest t Lut (hn’mm-yt to which 4 this is uszested in a 3 way bf some figures W Robertson employed.. ‘ .« 24,000,000 220C