A HE A A Ea SANG, Fr re rear te e op rt tmtheee re Li 3 Fr x : ; rn -- " i " & \ ed x tan THURSDAY, APRIL, 1, aad The theory that the Minister of Marine. scrapped the Canadian navy | out of pique because the caucus said | wait-a-bit to any oc-all al Admiral Jellicoe's suggestions will not hold water. Mr, Ballantyne may be some- thing of a dictator in his own de- partment, but he could hardly make way with sixteen million dollars worth of national property on itis mere Say-so. . The thing was done deliberately after earnest consultation with his colleagues, It is the most popular thing Union Govermment could have done in a year of Sundays. The hope is expressed that it foreshadows oth- er slashing retrenciments by a gov- ernment which has at most two years to live, and might as well go to its grave with a record of necessary and disagreeable things done in a cour- ageous way. : At all events there" are no real complaints about our vanished navy from any quarter, the general senti- ment being that a good riddance has been made of bad rubbish. The far- mer members are openly delighted. Quebec, which never had any use for & Davy Shyway, wears a broad grin. i OUR VANISHING ARMADA By H. F. GADSBY 3 dle-Europe crowd, brought up to be- lieve that war is an outdoor sport. The less we have to do with this damphoolishness the better. We are disposed to agree with Uncle Sam, who refuses to lend any more money to people who would rather fight - L er ------ than work. Anybody who has visit-| ed Europe since the war was over | will tell you that revenge is still the uppermost thought in men's minds and that the little nations we were 80 keen to free make use of their freedom to scrag each other. The trouble is that they are not educated up to democracy. On the contrary they sre sunk in ignorance. What they need even more than freedom is public gchools. It" goes without saying | that we cannot afford to mix up with the Dark Ages, as exampled by the Rumanian, Bulgarian, Ukranian, Polish and other backward peoples. When we fight for them again they will be worth fighting for. When we SCrap our navy we serve notice that we wash our hands of them until they are fit for enlightened company, What we want is ships to carry our own trade--and by the same token we must be careful whom we trade with in that bunch of bankrupts. We The prairie provinces pin their faith | must take the eash and let the credit more than ever to box cars. Ontario | believes that any money we have to spend on ships is better applied to a merchant navy than to a war fleet. in short everybody is satisfied ex- = cept a few people in Halifax and Es- quimauit and Ottawa who will be let out of their jobs. Round Table Good-Bye. The sadly solemn fact is tha} Ca- nada has never been in love with her navy. What Sir Wilfrid Laurier did in the matter was under pressure from the Waperialists and what Sir Robert Borden failed to do in a sim- ilar direction was a squeeze from the same quarter. Out' navy, actual or potential pleased. only a few imper- falists of the Round Table type, put Quebec's nose 'out of joint, offended the west and left the. east cold. It was mighty poor business all round. It sopped up a lof of money, caused 8 lot of bad feeling and had no prae- tical results®worth mentioning, Its disappearance will sweeten publie opinion which is dead sick of war and all its works. * They're a queer breed of cals over there in Europe, especially the mid- £0. This North America is a world by itself, guarded by two oceans and the breasts of free men. We are se- cure in our own puissance and if the old world wants to commit suicide, it must not reckon on our interference. I can honestly say that I have not heard one member of Parliament complain of our defenceless podition since the navy went to the junk heap. We are friendly with the Es- quimaux and the Yankees and, these sources of invasion being discounted, we hayen't an enemy in sight that we couldn't fend off with one birch bark War-canoe. The United States is building a bigger navy than Eng- land's and if Japan ever threatens to bite us in the leg-wé'feel perfectly safe there too. The navy out of the way, I under- stand that we are to concentrate on an air force. Aeroplanes have this ad- vantage---they are as useful in peace as in war. «For example at the next general election why shouldn's 'we use 'em to drop pamphlets on the beleaguered Sigles, plant colonies of voters wherg they will do the most good, and Then wisk 'em away as soon as they've got their work in. » Got Rid Of The Cough oo * t Sticks -- coughs seem hard to shake oft ek right to you in spite of all you do to get rid of them. Those are the kind of coughs that are dangerous---that weaken the lungs so that the germs of consump- tion find a ready foothold, { We know of no remedy that will cure stubborn coughs--coughs that won't let go--like Dr. Wood's Nor way Pine Syrup. It allays the inflammation, soothes the irritation, and heals the diseased mucous lining of the lungs and brop- chial tubes. . 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The managers of the bull fighters indicated, that owing to dif- ferences of opinion between them and their employees, several bull fights have had to be suspended, especially because of a lack of toreadors, "Holy Week" at Seville is threat- " pned by e strike of the men who earry the celebrated images in the + famous procession. Spend $8,000,000 on Roads, Victoria, B.C., April 1.---An- nouncement is made by Hon. J. H. King, provinelal minister of public that approximately $8,000. 000 will be expended on ways in the province during the next three to five years. "ONLY TABLETS MARKED _ NEW GUN IN FRANCE EXCELS BIG BERTHA Mystery About Cannon With Range Estimated at 100 to 150 Miles. Paris, April 1.--France's long range cannon, reports regarding which have 'been current in Europe for some time, has become a chief topic of discussion here, since Eng- land has paid the destructive mon- ster the compliment of expressing coneern about it in the House of Commons. Anticipating 'whatever reply the French government may make to Great Britain, the. French press is treating its readers to a fulsome de- scription and analysis of the sue- cessor to the German "Big Bertha." Indeed, judging by reports here, this great French cannon could easily tumble down the Dover cliffs and |. perhaps knock Nelson off his pedes- tal in Trafalgar Square. It is generally believed here that range of this cannon, at its present stage of development, is between 100 and 150 miles. However, some com- mentators disagree with this. M. Breton, minister of hygiene and social welfare, and formerly under- secretary of inventions, discussing the new cannon, said : "A man by the name of M. de la: Mafmaze perfected the plan for this great firing plece. He applied a new and interesting principle in artillery --one which makes it possible for a cannon to absorb and survive.a most violent recoil. Wk constructed ten cannon in experiments before we per- fected the present one." M. Breton did not tell the secret of the construction of the cannon, but added, enigmatically, that it was not greatly different from an ordin- Ary cannon. One of the Paris newspapers prints the following description of the ean- non by an anonymous artillery ex- pert : 'The cannon burns powder in a certain kind of a reservoir, and is so comstructed as to give the shell, when fired, the greatest velocity, The la- teral grooves of the cannon's walls are so disposed as to permit all the burning gas to escape in the rear, which has the effect of creating a reaction against the recoil. This arrangement makes possible a very high pressure from the reservoir to give a tremendous velocity for the on "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN Not Aspirin at All without the "Bayer Cross" 2 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG "Walk Inside and Save Ten" On baster Morn BINSON'S Lead the (CLOTHES Parade There's Only One Way to Dress Upfor Easter --that's the Robinson Way M OF $10 to $25 ON EVERY GARMENT. 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