nu * ILLUSTRATED SECTION Where Brave Canadians Sleep } } BBA Sri Sib leben btnk | 70 CLOSE SHOP | EACH MONDAY Te Kingston Merchants Degide to Further Help the Fuel Controller. [ron we 35 THE BUSINESS HOURS OTH onl 2s o DAYS, EXCEPT SATURDAY tion, back of the Fuel ontroller, ugh | Nickle, in his efforts to conserve the] coal supply. At a meeting on Mon- | day morning in the Board of Trade | room which marked the annual meeting, the coal situation was dis- cussed, dnd the members placed themselves on record as being in fa- vor of closing their places of business every Monday, at the same time fix- ing the hours for business on other days of the week, with' the exception of Saturday from 9 til 6 o'clock. The local fuel controller was pres- ent at the Meeting, also Mayor Hughes, and the question of the coal shortage was discussed at some fength. The rheeting was well attended, and was one of the best ever held in the history of tie local association. hoon } i PAS AR man) msientian. had R. J. Rodger Elected President of | the Retail Merchants' Associatic ted ~=An Appeal Made Vor Co-opera- | raids softh THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY = PATUZDAY, FEBRUARY 9,19 ee, mm Seman tt ARTILLERY ACTION GROWING VIOLE! Both in France And In Italy German Raids Have Been Repulsed. (Canadian Press Despatoh) London, Feb. 11.--In France, | violence of the artillery' action dally increasing. On both sides: the Meuse and in the Vosges French and Germans are engaged an artillery duel, while frequent. i emy raids on French positions g reported, the ost recént in the 4 ion 6f Boursuilles having failed. As on other fronts big guns a the briint of the work Italy On the Asiago platean ar - west of Monto Grappa artillery due are refiorted to be lively, Advan i Italian posts repulsed two enemioads" of Daone Chiese. one of the i - a r-- The members of the Kingston re TILL WORKING ON SCHE i tail Merchants' Association are at the | TO SUPPLY ELECTRICAL POWELL TO PORTSMOUTH The' Utilities Commission Is Unabl to Give Free Water and Adght the War Associs tion. The Utiliti Commission met ¢ Monday morning with Chairman ( Y. Chown, Mayor Hughes and R. ¥. MacFarlane in attendance. | MacFarlane, the new member i pointed by the City Council, took t declaration of office and was welco ed by his confreres, The Commission decided that could not grant the request of t local branch of the Great War V, erans' Association which asked f free light and water for its el building, as this would create a » cedent. Great Veterans Ald. J. W {fore nost men of the Province Manager Folger reported that ] PFrontenae Ward in the City ividence of how Genera) Plumer's army has ar shed in an Ttalian village. OFFICER ON WEST FRONT read trafic of the British \ J Ea 3 AlSna an0 Veraun routs 1 reporea [Man [im Monday's 'ometal ommtamiore® : bY i Hon: A. M. Rankin, M.P.P. for Fronte iley Smith, representing it waste former aie . Belles of Arques CS ------ orris, o Mr, iban 16th, lian Battalion. Switzer, son of and Ont with psents resenta trer on ov the 20th Ca t, who enlisted in Belleville, with 3attalion, and is now with 24th Batt on, serving in France. 18 wounded ih June, 1916, and her, William 8. Reed, elected W arden Mr. wnship Frontenac County Reed is Reeve of Portland TISH TROOPS IN ITA ¥Y. | Italian girl at the hillet helping soldiers pluck turkers and geese. HE OU saad wine [oi weswa of t rd Divisional men Se er---- NE his district who have been eigteen months in France Ammunition Column, \ingston, and seated is Driver W, A. Standing is Driver 'W. i. Child, Gananoque. - THE BELLE OF ARQUES. \ pretty French girl wi amd bridge trafic at Argues. controls the signals and locks for the canal She has many volunteer assistants. : GEN. ALLENBY ENTERS. JERUSALEM. . Cenersl Allenby, first ot the soldiers foot with his staff and States. Sea fer Or MR Luvs : British walking in the foreground rowan [ites 1 marvin ts" ait prs tas Br - Caine,