- « Vice with $800 or more per year. A 12 PAGES SAYS. QUEBEC 15 NOT ALONE In Recruit Foie--Licat Gol Pelitir ; Defends His Province. JOANST CONGES DE OF UNPATRIOTISM IN REGARD TO THE WAR. Evidence Growing That Anti-War Party in Quebec Will Be Over whelmed in Flood of French-Cana~ , dian Euthusiasm and Support. London, Feb, 9.--Lieut.-Col. Pelle- tier, Agent-General of Quebec, who returned from a thréé months' visit in Canada, informed the Morning Post representative that he -had every reason .to be proud of the part that Quebec was taking in the war. Government, Parliament, church, press, and professional, business and industrial classes were all co-operat- ing in the promotion of every kind of war measure calculated 'to strengthen the forcés which Canada was putting in the fleld and to far- ther the production of munitions and supplies for Britain and her allies. Latterly there had been a slackening in recruiting in Quebec, although not in that province alone, This was due to two or three causes which affected the recruiting in. more than one prov- ince if not in most, apart altogether from the fact that Canada had al- ready contributed hundreds of thou- sands of men for fighting forces, and the further fact that production of munitions and other war necessaries had absorbed a vast proportion of her industrial forces and manufac- turing plants, all of which constituted a big draft on Canada's resources in men. ~ Flaws in the System. There were one or two things in connection with the organization of the Canadian army not conducive to successful recruiting. One 1h par- ticular was the practice of the Can- adian military authorities of break- ing up units formed in Canadian training camps. These units were sometimes formed of men personally known to each other:or become so . or five mMonthe: training; but when they come over --to-this S66 the units wero split up, and the men so distributed among other regiments and companies that they hardly ever see anything of each other again. This practice, in' the opinion of many Canadians, was calculated to weaken the esprit de corps of men forming the original units. Whether this opinion was justified or not, the fact is that it Is generally held, ac- cording to Colonel Pelletier. Obser- vations discouraging recruiting not only in Quebec, but also in Ontario, are another discouraging but hap- pily decreasing influence. In Que- bec theré «ds an active propaganda promoted hy a section of - young French-Canadians against Capada's participation in the war on the ground that it is no concern of Can- ada's. However, these people, says Colonel Pelletier, are only in the minority, and a dwindling minority at that. Evidence is growing dally that they will be ultimately over- whelmed in the flood of French.Can- adian enthusiasm and support for the war throughout the whole province. ALL GOOD JOBS FOR MEN ' No Salary of Over $800 a Year for . Women, Ottawa, Keb. 9.--H. Boulay, M.P. for Rimouskl,: wants to reserve for men all positions in the civil ser- He has given notice in the House Commons of the following resolu- tion: "The Government should de- cide that in the fyture men only tloner sl be vise the work do 'no similarity to the Oe Bai Betis PROTEST FROM VATICAN What Sympathies Remained for Ger. mans Now Alienated, Milan, Feb. 9.--The Corriere de Ja Sera says it has reason to believe that the Vatican has already present- ed a remonstrance to the German Government against the new submar- ine policy. "1 am able to state on authority," says the Rome correspondent of the ering of relations cauked an enor- mous impression In the Vatican. The Pope's allocation at the last con- sistory, deploring certain barbaritles which the whole world knows are practiced only by the Central Em- pires, and his marked silence at the time of the German peace proposals were symptomatic of the growing distinction the Vatican is making be- tween the moral causes of the two groups of belligerents, "The change of tendency is fur- ther accentuated in Cardinal Gas- parri's letter to Cardinal Mercier re- garding the Pope's efforts op bebalf of the deported Belgians. Accord- ing to my informant the latest Ger- man threat of unlimited piracy has completely alienated what Vatican sympathies remained for the Ger- mans, Followed as it is by the firm attitude of the United States, it is bound to ¢reate tension in the re- lations between the Pontiff and the Germans, It should not be forgot- ten that during the war the Pope has had fo depend almost entirely on American Catholics for enormous war benevolence." SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. A Record Year--Assets Over $8,600,000, A year of remarkable progress has been achieved by the Sun Life of Canada during 1916 as is shown by the published statement which ap- pears elsewhere in this issue, The big Montreal company again maintained its position as the larg- est of our Canadian life companies. Its assurances now in force total over $280,000,000, policies issued and paid for during the year amount- ing to over $42,500,000, the largest amount ever issued by a Canadian life company, Assets increased by over $8,600,- 000 daring the year to $82,050,000, the largest resources held by any Canadian: assurance organization. Net surplus over all labilities and capital now exceeds the handsome of $8,500,000. Sun Life of Canada policyholders received last year to- tal payments of $7,578,017, bringing the total sum paid policyholders since ithe organization of the Com- ., Cash, nco r the year to Say 000, an increase 'of 'more than $2, 500,000 over that for 1915. The showing of Canada's largest assurance company during the year just passed affords grounds for just pride on the part of the Canadian people and for gratification to Sun Life of Canada policyholders, Increase UNLIKE THE GERMAN LAW The Bill for Mobilizing Civilians in 3 France. Piris Feb. 9---The Government bill providing for civil mobilization is ready for presentation to Parlia- ment, 'The proposed measure bears law recently adopted in Germany.. The French bill does not provide for mass re- eruiting of non-mobolizable men and women, but gives the Government thie right which it already has in part by a previdus law to impress persons for the needs of national defence, for war manufacturies, for transports and for agriculture. ka » Claim Children Were Killed. Berlin, Feb. 9.--A British air raid on Bruges is reported in last gyen- ing's supplementary army headduar- ters statement. Belgian children to the number of sixteen were the vic- tims, together with one woman, but so military damage was done, the statement declares. * Wealthiest Trade Union. London, Feb. 9.--1It is claimed for the Amalgamated Society of Engi- neers that it is the wealthiest and most powerful trade union in the world. It has a membership of in each departme A ' Merchant's * w WB ae A 230,000 and accumulated funds of $8,750,000. Dr. Chase's Medicines \g Dr. Chase's Medicines for 40 Years, Found in paper, "that President Wilson's sev- | KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY FEBRU ARY 9, 1917 é yy PAGES 9-12 & w-- SECOND SECTION SUBMARINE BASE OFF THE US. American Secret Service Mea Amst Eight Germans For Complicity. ABC PLOT 1S EXPOSED OF HUN PLANS FOR RUTHLESS SEA- WARFARE. A Letter From Count Von Zéppelin Shows That More Than One Sub- marine Operated Within the Three- Mile Limit. New York, Feb. 9.--1It is learned that secret service agents connected with the department of justice of the United States have now in custody eight men, one a resident of Newark, N. J., who are being held under the! double charge of being spies in the employ of the Central Kuropean pow- ers and of conspiracy against the United States. » On the person of one, said to be Joachim W. M. Von M. R. Demmer, a resident of Newark, documents and letters were found that purport that there has long been a submarine base for the German U-lpats, located be- tween this city an New London, Conn. One of the letters, said to have been dated from Friedrickshaven,. Ger- many, on Dec. 20th, 1916, and signed by Count Von Zeppelin, is declared to show beyond a shadow of a doubt that the U-53, which startled the whole United States when it bobbed up in the harbor at Newport last autumn, was not the only German submarine that has been operating within the three-mile limit of the United States coast. ¢ It is asserted that these documents issued definite instructions to Dem- mer what hig dutiés and those of his fellows were to be, should hosilities be opened between this country and Germany. Plans and maps of stra- tegical points are also said to have been taken from the persons of the eight men, and also directions for the supplying of the U-boat base no mat- ter what course the break between the United States and Germany might take. Demmer, it is said, came to the United States a year ago. He has often spoken to his acquaintances concerping. his experiences while serving in the Germany army on the Marne, but he refused to be drawn out as to his business in the United States. GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS _ HAD $316,223 SURPLUS Minister Not Aware of 'Any Illegal Movement of | Liquor. Ottawa, Feb, 9. --According to an answer given in the Commons by the Minister of Railways to a question by Mr, Duncan Ross (West Middlesex), the net surplus of the Canadian Gov- ernment railway for T9016 was $316,« 223. Total receipts were $18,668,- 956, and total expenditures - were $18,342,733. The total number of tons of coal purchased in the United States for Canadian Government | railways for the past year was $553,-| 8586. 'Hon, Mr. Cochrane told Mr. J. J. Hughes (King's P.E.1.) that the Rallway Department "had no infor- mation and was not awarg of any movement of liquor on the Govern- ment railway or steamship lines cori>- trary to the agt in aid of Provincial legislation prohibiting the sale or use of intoxicating liquors." oir. Cochrane told Mr. J. H. Sin- clair of Guysborough that $9,919, 000 had been expended on the Hud- gon Bay Railway since the outbreak of the war, COL. BRUCE WILL NOT TALK FOR PUBLICATION Has Come Home to Operate on Sir Lyman Melvin Jones. Toronto, Feb, §.--Col. (Dr) Her- bert A. Bruce, whose report on con- ditions in the Canadian hospitals in England caused so much comment some time ago, returned to his home, 84 Bloor street west, Toronto, yes- terday. It is understood that he has secured leave, and will in that time perform a surgical operation o r Lyman Melvin Jones, but that heé/an- ticipates returning to Eng in a few weeks, where he will probably consult surgeon to the army. . Bruce ined to 1hake any statement for pubkcation. 'hat he | them away for good until tie adie RRR DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT AND DUKE IN LONDON. Her Royal Highness. who was so popu who left just after a long seige of illness, health in England, and is seen in the picture passing to open the "Exhibition to Teach Economy" in Eng SIV ACCOUNT 1S WROKG HAD BOILS For Six Months B.B.B. DROVE THEM AWAY. | When the blood becomes impure the very first symptoms which mani- fest themselves are a breaking out of | various forms of skin trouble such as boils, pimples, sores, etc., and to get rid of these troubles you cleanse the blood. thoroughly with a| good blood remedy. The best blood cleansing remedy on the market tp-day is Burdock | Blood Bitters. | Thousands of people from one end | of Canada to the other have used 1t| during the past forty years, and have nothing but words of praise for its cleansing properties. om Mr. Rufus Beers, Upper Main River, N.B., writes: "I want to say a few words about your medicine, Burdock Blood Bitters. I had boils for over six months and sometimes was so bad I could not work. I tried lots of cures but nothing would drive I took B.B.B, In a &hort time I was all | Hubbs, formerly proprietor must | Hastings Star; who was until recent- { letter to P. ta in Can but has regained her the Duke and. "EYE WITNESS" STORY OF 'Zif- LEBEKE NOT CORRECT. | According to Lieut, F. 8. Hubbs of Hastings Who is & Prisoner of War Interned in Switzerland. Hastings, Feb, 9.--Lieut. F. S§ of the ly a prisoner of war in Germany, and is now interned in Switzerland, in a M. Howard, Hastings says: "ofuch water has rolled over the dam since you heard from me and I from you, but that ¢an aH be reme- died now. Since July, or rather June, I have been very, much in the | dark as regards :things even in On- | tario, and at home, at Hastings, as | well. I saw: the Eyewitness' account | of my mixup, that is the general mix- up at Zillebeke.. Take. it from me, | he was no "Eyewitness" who wrote iit, as absolutely nothing is right, even to troops engaged, excepting | that they were Canadians. I was hit | about three hours before the attack, better. It is a dandy medicine. I! and was out of business when they keep it in tHe house all the time." |cae over, but my guns were going, Burdock Blood Bitters is manu-| and from accounts from chaps I have factured only by The T. Milburn Co., | Limited, Toronto, Ont., but so well and favorably is it known that there afe many imitations on the market: See that our name appears on the wrapper. ASQUITH'S DEEAT DUE TO MAX AITKEN Article in London Truth Gives Canadian Credit for Cab- inet's Overthrow. London, Feb. 8.--Lord Beaver- brook (Sir Max Aitken) Jigures pro- minently in *'Scutators" ticle in Truth, which suggests that had Asquith, McKenna, Samuel and Runcithan taken Aitken into account the late Premier might have come out on top. Although the Times takes the credit for the "coup d' etat." Lord Northeliffe had nothing to do with it. The king-maker in this instance was a gentleman who had arrived from Canada six years ago, got elected for Ashton-under<Lyne, never opened his mouth in the House | of Commnos, and within the last few weeks 'has been summoned by a dis- cerning, Sovereign to take a seat in the House of Lords as Beaverbrook. This sudden pelitical apparition de- scribes himself as a bond merchant. It has an Elizabethan ring. Lord Northcliffe must look to his patent there for new peers if rival hustiers must hot be encouraged. Lord Beaverbrook is still far from well; and Is unlikely to take his seat in the House of Lords just yet. 5 --------------------------. * . A worthless can ean generate a lot pa weekly ar-| "| munication on met who saw my cr working I | have every reason to be, proud of them. They are all gone but four, {from the latest I can find out. !" "1 was exchanged " as a useless crock on December 13th at Con- stance, 1 passed a commission at Bischopswerde in Saxomy on Novem- ber 2nd, and came to Constance, which is on Lake Constance, just on the Swiss border, on November 15th, remaining there until I came over. "I was all over Germany, up the | Rhine to Stuttgart, then to Bischops- werde, throug Leipsig, - Nurnburg and Dresden to the Bohemian bor- | der, ther back, across Saxony, Ba- | varia and" Wittepbifrg, to Munich, where [ had the pleasure of sleeping {on two planks in the town clink, | then a boat trip from Lindan up | Lake Constance, past Fredrickshaf- en, where the Zeppelin shed is, with most of its tail feathers pulled out, where one of our aviators dropped a brick on it. So you see I have { been some tourist, and all I await | how is the word for home, which I expect is a year away." RIGA FRONT BATTLE 18 STILL RAGING The Most Violent Conflict of the Year in Coldest Winter. Petrograd, Feb. 9.--The battle on .the Riga front rages with unabated severity in defianco of the weather. The winter is the coldest known in Russia for many years, yet fighting around Kalnzem on both sides of the river is as stubborn as the conflicts before Kovel or Halici were last summer, and the violence of the bombardment reminds the partici. pants of the artillery fire of Macken sens phalanx In Galicia, except now hat it is equally violent on both es, For Run-Down People Vinol Creates Strength Weak, run-down, nervous m and women need Vinol 'because it contains the most famous reconstructive tonics in an agreeable and easily digested. form :--Beef and Cod Liver Peptones, Iron and Manganese Peptonates, Gly- cerophosphates, etc. i i } Full Formula on Every Bottle is always sold with a definite guarantee.to return the purchaser's money if it fails to give satisfaction. Very few bottles are returned. MAHOOD'S DRUG STORE, KINGSTON, ONT. Also the best druggist in all Ontario towns. LES MAKE YOUR DOLLARS - FIGHT AT THE FRONT. BUY DOMINION OF CANADA I : THREE-YEAR WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES $ 25.00 ror $21.50 50.00 " 43.00 100.00 86.00 INDIVIDUAL PURCHASES LIMITED TO $150). i' FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY AT ANY BANK OR ANY MONEY ORDER POST OFFICE FINANOE DEPARTMENT JAN. 9, 1912 OTTAWA Women's Low Heel alking Boots on We are now showing the new spring stylés of Low Heel Walking Boots in Black Kid, Black Calf and Dark Brown Calf Lea- These shoes are the new 1917 spring models and right up to the minute in style and quality. 7 $6.50, $7.00 and $8.00. en ---- Apparently the Germans cannot reconcile themselves to the loss of their carefully prepared winter posi- tions before Mitau, and again and aga return to the attack in the hope recovering lost ground. By throwing up strong reinforcements they did succeed in making a little heallway, but now have been brought projects within about vwo miles of the Mitau-Tukkum raliroad, the most important German line of com- is front, On the four-mile Ritts tram. division, 'they now have two army corps, and fling heir men inte. in- wil] make/Ms appearance in J.H.Sutherland & Bro. THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES. | . v ey' £1 | What kind it iL be has not yet been, | «definite ecided, but experiments gas shells of a novel and virulent | now re Delh made with : new bread type are freely used. Their losses' that will contain more whole wheat are enormous, while Russian losses | flour than that now sold. » are compartive slight, and the Kai: | . nzem operation, which 4s contiaupd | with fruitiess destruction of life, is | becoming a kind of minor Verdun, Se -- a War Bread to Make Appearance. Paris, Feb. 9.<~War bréad soon '; J ' cessant attacks under cover of a fierce bombardment, 1a which poison 2 P: