$ . -- I eb ee bg gt -- I ni rim : a. ens - = THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1914, ; INVASION "SCARE.™ TE Bugabou Started by Whick | Added RS RRA RR TI YT rT Tr TTT rR RRR 2 TTT s . { 2 £ y * Torosito BR. and A. A. Drops Out of % Semlor ©. H. Alou Marsh, of about Toronto, Is Recovering, Toronto World: 1t looks as if St. Michael's have up the senior OHA. series this year. "Sam" MeVey and "Jim" Johnson will: meet for bon rounds to-night at Lesteur has tiot' yet beth the Ottawes. He Homi within twen- tting his poss- lares he will re. one year, if he t with "Jack" 545 : He tava College has arranged its an- as holiday hockey trip States. Besides play- ston and New York, the eet the Dartmouth Univer. E2 uty rink nas been offersd for the izing of 1,000 troops this win- br, but if the rink is not utilized, 'obotirg" will have a junior team in ths O.H.A. There is a difference of opinion on the propriety of holding the Olympio in America next year. With ful- & Batt the best athletes of the world out, on account of the war, what would the winners claim ? Toronto Rugby and Athletic Associ- ation has dropped out of senior hoe Rey for this year at least. The jump- ing of severed of the clubs star play- ers to other local teams is the cause. T.R. & A.A. won tha setiior O.H.A. championship last year. Lou Marsh, the well-khown sporting writer of Toronto, who was on Presi: der "uinn's referee. staff last winter, I ug around nicely from a com- Iracture of the leg received sev: * aths ago when he crashed into a ' van while speeding a motor +v ¢. Lou expects to be able to s:tap on the skates again this season. Toronto Telegram' The drilling of all the amateurs from coast to const up to the O.H.A. standard by the new Canadian Association won't be worked out in a day, but it is bound te meg O.H.A. has been capa- ly and is pretty clo fo perfection. Most of the other Te will take time to reach the proper height. President Charles Farquharson, af the 0.H.A., announces his two ap- pointments to the executive commit- tee, at poet he holds under he constitulion. 'he * tlemen selected are Robert Hamilton, of Hamilton, and G. B. Dawson, of Sarnia. -- VALUE ARMY LIQUOR BAN. ------ Paris, Dee. 10~The medical corres: of "We Journ des' Debats, \y---where there i largest military hospitals --gives striking proof of the value of the almost complete abstention from be soldiers. Of 1,500 cases operated on during the sag 10 not Aue 'sqjuowm way] gsu] per cent., due, actically without o's; which is usually eight or , to over-indulgence in gl- reacts against anasthe. t physique @¥eat recuperative powers seem. to wvecover antage over the rest vice. He Seo notes the wounded experience alter their rival i which be considers being unacoustomed to in the open inflitary training, ves as possib of their country. - - cal corps of fifty can be obtained a drill i for Restored to France. .. Paris, Dec. 10.--An offic - 'ous for consideration. * | of workin, greater havoc among the London, Dee. 10.--Although Lord Kitchener belle e sthat the chanced in to public notice the "bugaboo" of a German invasion, aud incidentally are ng read with n satisfaction in Ber- Thé Times* military correspondent started the Hvasion scare in an the The truth 18 that British battle: stilbe Sud British battle crulsers w éir auxiliary war craft pro- tect Great Britain more effectively from invasfori than any trained ar- my of two million men stationed at strategic points near the coast. To assume that the Germans would en- deavor tq transport a great army across the channél and go through the elaborate process of embarking and disembarking men. antmals and the tremendously cumbersome equipment of modern warfare with- out control of the sea is too ridicul- SHELLS FOR WAR OFFICE Orders to the Amount of $8,000,000 For Canada. Ottawa, Dec. 10.--~Canadian man- [ncturers are receiving, ot will short- ly receive, orders to the amount of some $8,000,000 for the supply here of shells for the British war office. There have already been turned out here some 200,000 shells, and 600,000 more are now being manufactured. Canadian steel works and factories, which ate able to adapt themselves to their manufacture, will have {he orders impartially distributed among them. The contracts are being handled by a shell committee; comprised of Col. Serta, of Sortie, Col. Cantley, of New Glasgow; Col. Carnegie, of Welland, and Col. Fred, Nicholls, of Toronto. This committee was formed at the instance of the minister of militia on his receiving enquiries from the war office as. to the prospect for | a supply of shells from Canada. | Further large orders are in pros- pect. ee | MOVIES MADE HIM EAGER. Canadian Belgian Saw-His Family in Refugee Picture. London, Dec. 10.--At a local mo- tion picture theatre last night Joseph De' Nolf, a Belgian, attached to the aotive service battalion in training here, j in a film depicting the: German devastation of Belgium, his mother, little brothers and sis- ters, with all their belongings Lud- led in a little cart and fleeing be- fore the Germans in the vicinity of Termonde, his old home. The man broke down completely. The sight but served to intensify his eagerness io gob at the enemy, however, and to-day he got transferred to the ma- chine'gutt section of the battalion, that he might stand a better chance Germans when he reaches the firing line. U. S. DIPLOMAT DEAD. Expired at Honolitlt White En Route to China. Honolulu, Dee. 10-~Wiltam W. Rockhill, the distinguished American diplomatist, died on Monday. Mr. Rockhill was carried ashore at Honolulu last Friday from the Chiyu Maru, being too ill to continue on his way to China from San Fran- cisco. He was on his way to Peking to accept the post of adviser to Pres- ident Yuan Shi Kad, of the Chinese républic, a position which was to have paid a salary of $1,000 a month. United States Coal Supply. Washington, Dec. 9.--~Up to the close of the 1913 the total amount of coal produced in the United States, including Alaska, was 2,446,- 696,010 short tons of anthracite and 9,844,247 843 short tons of bituminous according to figures compiled by the United States Geological Survey. In obtaining the above production there was an additional exhaustion of coal, consisting of ming walls, roofs, pillars, 'etc., which could not be dis- tributed, #mounting to 98 per .cent., and 61 per cent. respectively of the actual production of anthracite and bituminous. Night Wife in Disfavor. Venice, Dae. 10.--Reporté received from Austrian official quarters admit that 60,000 wounded soldiers are now in the Vienna hospitals and that at ledst double that number are slightly wounded or convalescent. 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