[nen | The YEAR 83, NO. 13 AE ------ Daily B ' - KINGSTON, ONTARIO Pitish MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1916 A big ly | PACES 8-12 - S Kingston Has Done Well But Can Do Better Yet 8 MILLION * SHELLS SENT So Far From Canada To Bri- tain. 72 WILLON ORDERED THE COST OF THESE WILL BE £300,000,000, Imperial Munitions Board Is Direct. ing Operations In 122 Plants In Cannde" --Need Is Number Of Assembiing Points, For Greatey \ 'Ottawa Jan. 15 A. statement o the shell bu that been transacted in Canada in behalf of the British Government the break of war was given to The Globe to-day, showing that there have been orders given to Canada for 22,800,000 shells, and that only § 000,000 shélld out of that Sumber 'have gone forward to Brita n The cost of all the compon parts required in the 'manufactur of that many sheHs, including machinery and assembling, ated at $282.000.000 In there havesbeen orders War Office for cartridge ers, forgings, £20,000 000 exceeding ness has since out ent ing the is estin addition om CASS ete dmount making a $500,000. 000 ng tota lightly ht Million Shells, shipments of forward Shipped E The actnal tion that have tain from the have amounted to 2 voon.000 and 6,000,000 "unfixed This total output of 8.000.000 shells: ou of 22,800,000 contracted for repre sents an actual expenditure to date of $65,000,000. The late figures also show that some 422 plants engaged contracts at the present the direction of the. lmperial tions Board The different kinds are being manufac tured for ish: Government in this described "ax follow shrapnel empty, IX-pour nel empty amuni to Bri Canada "fixed' gone factories of hell shells st availal there" a tilling under Muni time' Of she that re) under hrap fix empty tixed, "4.5 18-pounder shrapnel ed, 18-poun'der high-explosive 18-pounder high explosive howitzer euipty! 4.5 fixed (except loading), 60-pougider high explosive empty, 6-in, high-explosive empty, 8-in. high-explosive empty, 9.2-In. high-explosive empty ' It should be explained that a pro jectile to which been attached or "fixed" a cartridge case containing the propelling charge "constitutes ~lixed ainmur whethe shell contains the not 2 howitzer has Conditions Awkward In Canada. The natural conditions une which these different kinds of she 'McBeath - tonnection with the finishing of each copper bands, br, steel dists, br, sop buckshot, resin, shell; forgings, tubes; tin cups, kets, plugs, bullets, grub screws, paint, cartridge cases, primers, ps. cordite, pellets, pow- der, fuses, loading and 4 rd, boxes." The number of components, of course, varies The "18-pounder shirapuel empty" contains only the following number of parts; fo ngs, copper bands, br tubes, tin cups steel dics, br plugs, bullets, buckshot, resin screws, paint and 6 rd. boxes socket, grub Munitions Board's Rig Task. Ihe other shells also vary in their number of- components frou ten to eighteen jut the two instances quoted are sufficient show the number of processes: which have to be undertaken by the 422 manufac turing plans before a complete shell! cah be turned out, whether fmpty or fixed Add to complex nature of thi hell the fact that the plants engaged in filling British nent in Canada € scatleréd .at various intervals righ across the" continent, with no one plant able to do al Ithe work essen- tial to the complete manufacture of one piece of ammunition, and magnitude the task assigned the Imperial Munitions Board comes fairly plain In England in the regular tions factories an 18-pounder fixed | shrapnel would turned out complete in one place Hére in Can- | ada probably twenty different plants, scattered over a two or! three thousand miles mak- | ng thd, same naturally | up till recently anxious to do ly, make the he result Agures how, that only 2.800,000 fixed plec €8 of ammunition have'gone forward, as compored ith 6,000,000 unfixed pieces . to the industry Gove contracts of to be- muni shell be distance of are 1 ud every the eas Heel cg busy She has been name- shell has been the > organization of the British | n Canada is improv- ed and made more efficient, assemb ing points where finished or *'fixed" ammunition may be produced in suf. ficient quantity to supply the de- mand of the Britislif Government will be established At present there are only the Dominion where explosive loaded pro- periy making of fuses © upera- upon the! The 500,000 sone 8,000,000 have rom Canada. The ma job now is to hasten | forward a remaining 14,000,000 shells with as large a proportion of | them as possible * ed two places be The delica check shells uto the shells also anothe tion which acts as net output of fi 11s ha orders a2 1 ahd only been shipped Vancouver Has Young Mayor, Jan. 17 1 ele Vancouver M. McBeath was mayor eof Vancouver, ds ur rivals Hou. Joseph Martin was a poor third Alderman | ted feating fc a you Van mayor ever ouver He ane Ont and County pany Bruce have to be manufactured in Canada make it 'extremely difficult to send forwgyd to Britain in a steady flow.a - huge volyme of "fixed" Fach of those shells has its vital require ments, which must be met, in the mi nutest detail For nstance, the .'18-pounder shrapnel fixed anmuni "tion" containg the following parts in addition to the special machining.and assbmbling that have to be deme iu Pian, shells CASTORIA For Infants and Children InUse For Over 30 Years Always bearc hon Bignature of ro Peace Is Peace Any Way You Get It ALL Big Tp PUTES WiLL ME THREW a = ve Re : BE, REFERRED To RD nE Compan the | tion of the Anglo-Saxon r | chance of peace It is { Rich or poor | have gone-or they are going A CLARION CALL To DUTY : r= = (One of the Saddest Sights . For Human Eyes. AT QUEENSTOWN, IRE. RATHER FILL A HERO'S GRAVE THAN BE A 'COWARD: - The Great Call For Men Kill the Dragon of Militarism--A\ Splendid Appeal For Aid to An Empire That® Has Given Mankind Liber ty. True W. & a Wid Record There an ancient Greek proverb which says that the only animal"that wm not for its dead." » ) BRit it must be noted that thi horisSm was created prior covery of America One of the saddest sight held by human eves dead, drowned bodies more titan one hundred American men, woinen and children borne along the streets of Queenstow)r 'covered im deatl the Stars and Stripes -- a flag in life gave them, no pr ion As an American cit I God for the privilege i country that not 0 fight" for their dead and an ong fathers, who say and fight for the word is more than er, love iy A sheep is light ap to the dis ever be was the poo of by which thank aged LO the country Whose A scrap of pap among others who, though they their better than self, say, Go' I had rather that fill a hero's grave than remgin home and be a coward, --imong doc- tors who sav to their patients, who fear thejr capacity to stand ti of army life, Go! in Tisk you shall find a life happiness that you enjoy. : Across the frontier ing red-blooded American « hundreds and thousands to American Legion They have Telt the cy 0 democracy I'he same very rightly as we realize their forefathers against the country in their hearts fight for peace sous, Go! sons it you ug you "of health and never dreamed 10 ere are com tizens in join the freedom, of ause, rade arms old' ringing in dding them humanity now 1p ons of the take imposit 1776, is and justice, for | ome to us through the ice through British dragon of militar world - may have a war they n thelr hundreds and thousand? to seek uly true happiness that is left fc 1 Son of Briton, the happiness of doing , their- bit Peace earth and toward 'In a splendid appeal recently made In a western theatre for recruits the", speaker employed this beautiful per oration which breathes the spirit of all the loyal sons and daughters of Britain at home and abroad: "Gen tlemen, I know that I feel deep Town in my heart that there is not such a| thing as a coward here in this thea- | tre to-night Such: things | out the 'world of the Empire, to kill ths | ism, that the great i peace 's 'all the same the for the cause of on Good-wili men OFF Cia OF THE GUID ng ME, fviuines MAINTAIN Code or Proto Ce rand crew like a gallant British sailo | hot n, EC ABoarh oN THE LOSS mm, ~ 3 : t "4 p iY $ i 3 i x Ite i oe ---- OF THE GALLANT HMS HERMES 'I saw the sinking of H On the deck. of 1 rn bred in Canada Western and Cd of plone back the soul and "Many you sons bone of felt the 1 pray God 1 have Telt so, I Vou have not front you call once, your as ringing cheers a hearts many ni may If that beg may career ghts will listen- to you. If e not' stress of "feeling you GENUS OF MUTE » Ww pn SAM THT Sa SY DEL the all prevailing fiet, as she disappeared. w ALS. Hermes, tor Channel, while protecting | The greai' call for more men nas! 40d comes through our connection with the determina- | Inen swimming about in A tada OW' are he you to soldiers may from ies, urge them to come up here great vessel finally oi S Sritish and the he He aved But the assuredly that will your most PT word hand pleading . through hand reverence to your wishes, the great. army Peace among and the you place very the empire nig just here becau all your ear the n all answer to go to 1at through echo of come be started that with great gladden your Lad hoy hey by their lives, they may be now the sac) from the ver) cannot speak also be ~Y ment ins tend him up, why d upon that he "may "this the great I say that as they, in 'come and join that is to bring us you will silently : devotion io duty and the possible sacrifice of their earthly brought fice of His blessed Son, who laid down His life for 0s, so that as they 'may suffer with Him they may glorified together." ve herself up to the dee 1 the Majesty of the Sem a 16-year-old light cruiser. world's London Daily Mail 4 the water, and the nose of a comrade res, aft, can be seén an officer co oh captain. whose "figure can 3 * comune ree Wid his arm New touch call of and :2\ mounds her pray God! lice say young n ly took nigh to was ij! What ness i Cautious GOING ARGO NON REEL ABLE He EAR wit, BE Close oy, THSCLUTE DY DUR Elvine AL ® a » a widow, to-have Riverside and foolishness NOY AGE 5 ww It was #4 wierd and mos mg spectacle, but the This statement from an eve-witness deseribet which was subinarined 'early in the war in the English This picture has just beey released by the censor, neture services, en dimly on the brid low' Robbed OF $12,000 York; 'Jaw 17 led t&~ search a welrs S set wit Mrs, Ros been keported 1 from po- a stoien drive home I'he wish question 10m Mrs her they an w ieven recent- unaer Are iuse he called "neck cowardice 1 sometimes combination LATED WAT ala TWATER Biri « DAGS uO HO ge, In the photograph can be seen ship on the right, with a lifeboat in the fore-wator directing the work of rescie, Nearly all the officers went down with his ship ete ee A A A AAA eA AA ae oto Ring's Girt To Mikado. fokio, Jan King Georges coronat to Emperor Yoshihito b horse which are rived the imperigl stables from india Some of the best English racing blood uns in his veins, and 4s a three-year-old he himself wen a race at Doncaster Taken to India for racing, he was purchased at a high price by the Indian Government or stud purposes Was a autiful bay Knowing when to keep still is of 45 much importance ' as knowing how to keep still . 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