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Premier's Statement The l’n-mi -r' it"iâ€"Iiiil by briefly quot- ing excerpts i'rozn his Spt'i'cil delivered in the ”nitric oi' ('oinmons during the oa.ly since-:4 of the debate upon the Laurinr n-suiuiinn for an investigation of the She-ll l‘nnimittee. These ex- cerpts. take-n infirt’tiier, stated what had been the pos" Lon of the Govern- ment They recited in detail the rea- sons for retusing an investigation. The principal reason. of course, was that tne (.‘anmlian Parliament had no juri3¢ diction to sit in judgment upon the conduct or misconduct of the British Government or officials of the British Government. They also contained the {Imposition that it any member of the oule. upon his responsibility as a member. made any charge against a member of the Government. then such charge would be promptly invostlxat‘ 0d. “This has not been done,” said the Prime Minister. “but" he contin- ued, “the Hull. Member for Richmond (Mr. Kytel made statements as to the connection or the Minister of Militia with certain contracts entered into by the Shell Committee, and as to enor- mous profits or commissions arising out of these contracts to certain com- panies Willi'll he mentioned. It is al- leged that Mr. J. Wesley Allison had a very large interest in these profits or connnisrrimw. and it is suggested that. through his influence with the Minister u; .‘lilitia, the Shell Com- mittee was imluz-ed to make the con- tracts in mica-Jinn. The Minister of Militia and. llt‘Zt‘llt‘t} had previously Stated in " . .Enle his close relation to Mr. J. \k ».t h-y Allison and his great confideziu- 7!. that gentleman. Having regard in lil"‘-‘ t'OllSidt’f‘dliOllB." the Premier unqualhd, ”I think it desir- able that Q all wiry should he made into the film contracts made by the Shell ('(Jlllilllttz't' Willi the American Amn'lllllillull t'u., and the International Arms and Fuse to. and the cartridge case com: ‘ made by the Shell Com- mittee \\il-" m Edward Valve Co. Scope Not Limited “Upon careful enquiry I cannot find that any of the other contracts out of which it is alleged by the Hon. Mem- ber for ltlvlmiuml that J. Wesley Alli- son Obtaillml profits or commissions. were made either by the Shell Com- mittee or by any department oi the Government of Canada. However, as it has been alleged that the Shell Com- mittee made a contract with the Providence Chemical Company of St. Louis that alleged contract will be in- cluded. 1 therefore propose,” said the Premier. “to recommend to his Royal Highness the Governor-General that a Royal Commission shall issue appoint- ing one or more Judges to make a thorough investigation into these tour contracts and all matters connected therewith." The Prime Minister then read to the House a cablegram he had sent to Major-General Sir 8am Hughes. The message stated briefly the Kyte charges and contained the following peremptory command for the Minister's immediate return to Canada: “I propose issuing a Royal Commission forthwith to investigate [use and cartridge case contracts, and it is necessary that you return imme- diately for the purpose of enquiry.” Sir Robert then read the Minister’s re- ply. which ran as follows: “ Please state to the House 1 have no im- proper connection wi contracts re- ierred to or any other contracts. If any suggestion to the contrary is made i respectfully demand full investigation by the judicial tribunal presided'oyer by Sir Charles Da- idson. I shall sail iirst available boat. (Signed) “8am confidence i regard to t Premier co nble that :3 into the fu Shell Comr Ammunitior. Anna and I case contra mmee with The Dom.nion Government has de- cidcd to a; joint a Royal Commission to investigate the contracts for fuses. under which. it is alleged. $3,000,000 was advanced to two “mushroom" companies in the i'nited States and out of which Col. .1. Wesley Allison and his associates divided a commis- sion of $1,000,000. Major-Gen. Sir Sam lluxhes has cabled a denial that he had any improper connection with these contracts. and will return to (‘anada as quickly as possible. Bit william R. Meredith, Chief Justice of Ontario, and Mr. Justic, Lyman P. Dun, oi the Supreme Court of Canada, have consented to serve upon the com mission. Able counsel will be retain- ed to assist the commission. One of them will be selected by the Govern- ment and the other by the leader of the Opposition. The Prime Minister in his speech admitted that the Gov~ eminent was receding from its orixinal position. The Jurisdictional point as to the power oi the Canadian Govern- ment to investigate expenditures by the haperial Government will be not- ten over by obtaining the consent of the Imperial authorities to such in- vestigation. A cable was sent to the Colonial Secretary asking for such permission. While no definite charge, in the Prime Minister's opinion, had been made against any member of the Gover..ment. he said that there was room for the insinuation that Col. 1. Wesley Allison took advantage of his personal friendship with the Minister of Militia to influence him to sanction improper contracts. Liberals Not Satisfied Several Liberal members manifested strong opposition to the proposal of Sir Robert Horde-n to commit the in~ Vestigatiun to it Royal Commission. Mr. (‘arw'l H‘arh-ton. Nil.) who haul led the hunt for it l’ariiunwntai‘y iu‘ vestigtttmg .til,t-i'i'li[)t,e:d the Premier with His» «:1 "Shunw, shuttle." Sir \Vlii‘ritl lm‘... .sr olxxminatit'uliy ii“‘"ill‘t‘(i that 'i» g"‘»'«.~..~ls W'tfi‘t' tmiro 1y uh. att'o'um'u el..i:niiet: H..:i 13w only court it» '11-. 'i' ( .gtz'w-s mm ihw high t-mu't M .' 1.. l. mu. ”.‘x‘u pi‘n,.t>sztl;4 the i t z:z.‘. ,' 51;.- imh.-ri 5w [uric ll, . mi .. .--.)' ['16- iiigili HHKI‘ cram.- l»..m" «.7 ‘iit' Uppimiilun. 1 am i~ . .. ' :«i, iim'mx’o-r. about satisfying u 1 21:1: 'lm'n satis- l)iil‘_'_ "9 '~ ‘ Hi. ‘.ili.;‘.' l lune no doubt : .. t.u- gwnplt- ni' ahis (win- {{‘5' “in [H v :ii'i‘!}' :_ i{i-‘~.‘i(’ii.n Dr. A. W. Waite. the New York dentist, but been charged with ma. «er in the first degree. ROYAL COMMISSION T0 SIFT CHARGES Sir William Meredith and Mr. Junie. Dun Will Investigate Fuu Con- tractsâ€"Sir Sam Will Return April 0. 1916. ' Hon. W. T. White followed on be- ' half of the Government. He st id that there was nothing unusual in the Gov- ernment ailiilllCing money to contrac- tors before the work was actually done. Whenever there was a large ginitial expense, :uch as nstalling :mathlnery, it was customary for the iGovermnent to make advance? to the icontractors. The Minister said he Iknew nothing about the particular cor- lporations, the American Ammunition {Company and the International Arms :and Fuse " mpany, but he took it 'Ior granted that they had given ample guarantee bonds for the faithful per- formance of their contracts. g In the House of Commons, Ottawa. ‘ on Tuesday night George W. Kyte (Ubenl) of Richmond, preferred an ' elaborate indictment against the shells committee in connection with th . con- tract for fuses. He read from the record to prove on June 9, 1905, con- tracts were .twarded to two American ' companies for fuses involving an ex. ipenditure of 822,000,000. One com pany was called the American Ammu- .nition Company, and the other was lcalled the International Arms and “ Fuse Company. He read from the l articles of incorporation to shOw that lthe first company was incorporated ‘ under the laws of Virginia just three iweeks before it received an order [from the shell: committee aggregat- ling about $11,000,000. The company * had no plant or business of any kind and its paid up capital was $1,000. Hughes' Formal Approval ! Mr. Kyte charged that the American Ammunition Company, capital 81, 000. having no plant, received fus orders on which 31, 566 .400 waz. paid before :any delivery was made. That the International Arms and Fuse Com- pany. capital 83, 000, having no plant, received $1, 687 .000 before delivery. "That E. B. Cadwell, president 4 the «International Fuse and Arms 00.; B. F. Yoakum, New York, and E. N. ‘Bassick, Bridgeport, Conn., entered into a written agreement to divide $1,000,000 for getting contracts from ,the shell committee before such con- {tracts were in writing. That Col J. JWesley Allison was in‘ an agreement 'with Yoakmn and Eugene Lignant, musician, of‘Montreal, to secure con- tracts, and that Lignant disoosed of his one-iv-mh interest later for $50,000. That. Mujurfien. Hughes gave his for- mal approval to Allison’s transactions. Mr, l\'_\t¢ argmd that the trail led diro'cflx up to tilt Minister (it Militia :imi i'-t. (t huause the contract with 1; «nu-"riwn Amm'mition (10., at'h :- l.- . . .iuly executed by the slit-ll (-unimz““~. was formally ratified by .‘vlajui‘t. Hughes. 8 r Thomas Defends Hm; \x. 'i'. \Yliitv t'uilnwwl (m lie- halt’ in ii ~ lihYPi'lilllPlll. llw SRiti that then: v.:.â€". 2-. him: unusual in the Gov- i-rnmi; .«1..;.¢-ihg nmmy to contrav- t:»r- lulu" liw work was actually (lulu: \Hwn-Ve" iizi'l‘w was a large initial (.‘sztllb't’, 5:1le as listalling l.:e ‘il‘u-‘z‘y. i: was ('liHi()i“:tl‘)' fur the (.m: rm. «01.! to make atiam: v to the' iKYTE CHARGES ALLISON T WITH HUGE RAKE-OFF GERMAN HORDES STILL DRIVEN T0 SLAUGHTER Despatches from London on Sun- day said: “The Germans are still car- rying on strong offensive operations northeast and northwest of Verdun. About four and one-half miles north- east ot‘ the fortress they penetrated the (‘aillette Wood. just outside Fort Douaumont, after a violent bombard- ment. From part of this wood the French. in an immediate counter- attztcli, llrm'e back the invaders. An- other powerful attack was delivered z'é'uinst that portion of the Avocourt iimd held by the French, but there I - "..nt-.i barrier fire and machine {4.4.4 in 1.1 the Germans wit iout gain. 11..» Front" have now entirely evacu- ' '7 New 01 Vaux and have . .. . tin :' :iIl'.‘ south of the town, .. i... its imnmliate outskirts. On ,. t»? . ;' ML: about Verdun there .ILlVQ seen only intermittent bombard. 1 ~.. s; or: iiiery ,duels have charac‘ ' .; .. . iilt‘ ..ghting along the remain- t. .‘ -.,. 33.n- i‘t‘tm‘t. Aircraft have been i f“) amine around Verdun. The i «('11 brought down three German 1.:...£:ities, but Berlin asserts that the lit‘f'il‘d t'illlli,l‘. ts have resulted in their l.'.\1):'. lath sides have been busily .curygeti in dropping bombs on mili- tary establishments at various points. liming captured the Village of Ma- lti'it-ourt, the Germans have now shift- ta] their offensive eastward to the sec. t-vr around the famous Le Mort lislllllllt’. With heavy forces the Ten- tms have attacked the French line i-w 'ewi llil'. “.395 and Le Mort Homme : mi succeeded in entering French first lme trenches. A vigorous counter- attack by the French, however, almost immediately expelled the invaders. and another attack by the Teutonl. delivered a little later, is declared by farts to have been put down complete- Y Verdun Defences Roll Back More At- tacksâ€"Aircraft and Artillery Busy Around Crown Prince's Objective The Germans have made no tttempt to tiebouch from Malaneourt since thei occupation of the viLlage. The heuy bombardments of preceding days in the region northwest 0! Ver- dun have greatly slackened.. and there also has been only moderate activity by the big guns to the north and the east of the fortress. Paris reports the failure of a German infantry attack agar.“ <1 the French to the south of the Somme River, near Dompierre, the shelling by the French of German troops on the march in the Argonne Forest. and the battering of Germ positions in the Forest of Apremont. A despatrh from Colorado Springs and a message received by Mrs. Lavell herself in Toronto indicate that the three-year mystery of‘the disappeu. ance of Prof. Cecil F. Lavell. Ph.D.. formerly of Queen's University. King- ston, has been solved by his being found in that town. The message aid that “he was picked up here after wandering nearly three nun. Be a victim of anneal: (loot m). “I edmiu his Identity." Alleged Mushroom Unlud State. Com-z panic: Made Profits Long Bafon Delivery of Shell Fuses Professor Lavell Fcund 7 Another Attack Falls “I'do not think you would find an officer of the German navy or army who would willingly participate in the killing of women and children ” said Death-Commander Breithaupt, commander of the Zeppelin L15. “1 am very well satisfied with the treat- ment here. We have a much more important object‘ in view than the killing of women and childrenâ€"name- ly, the destroying of the enemy‘s armed positions, 11 arslnps and tatter- ies. Women and children become the victims of our operations, but not be- cause we ‘1;%1i 11 111 inttntnnially. It Eis war.” Lieut. Kuehne. second in Icomniand. 511111 that it was his first iraid on Engmnd. “i 118d liOpf’d to 'come again. ” '1 11 added. Asked whet» r ihe participated gladl3 in air I'n‘nis, ! Commander b‘reithhaui-t replied: I“Yes. I do my duty as an officer 1gladly. As to the risk in air fighting 'we know the chantes we run.” Breitm kaupt wore an iron Cross of the ()c tober, 1915, raid, and had been “it“ the Zeppelins since war broke out. lAll the members of the airship ’s ere“. lwhen interrogated, eXpressed satisfac- gtion at the treatment they had re- Iceived. I 0 With the exception of the big raid of January 31, when the casualties 'aggregated 67 persons killed and 117 :injured, the Zeppelin raids of Friday and Saturday nights caused greater ,loss of life than any previous aerial iattack this year. The total casuan ties for the two nights, according to an official report, were 69 persons .killed and 166 wounded. The casual- fties of Sunday’s raid in which Scot- ,land was attacked by Zeppelins for .the first time, are not yet known. .The British public finds satisfaction tin practical proof afforded of a great improvement in the defensive methods of dealing with aerial incursions. For .the first time since the inception of .this method of warfare on the British tcoast. not only has one raiding Zeppe- plin, L-15, been brought down and its ,crew taken prisoner, but the official ' report recounts an exciting aerial fight between a Zeppelin and a Britis' air- man, Lieut. Brandon, who, mounting 'to a height of 9,000 feet, got over the 'raider and dropped several bombs on 1with effect. The L-16 was brought ldown by land batteries in the Thames iestuary. sent ‘m: htmw 1;";th Sixlv'cll persons were hiliod azui about ind injurwt. 'lho total casualties reporttn lll tile Leppelin rain! on Hm night of .‘iinrrj: IlloApl‘il 1 now ainount to tom ;‘:r« \ liillcd and shit} six injured. Ntar'ly 200 exolosive and incendiary'bombs were dropped. There was no military damage. A number of our aeroplanes went up to atttack the raiders.” Crew Were Afraid “None of the men of the 11-15 would admit that bombs had been dropped during the raid, probably from the unfounded fear that any such admis- sion would entail punishment. The prisoners will be placed with the other German prisoners, and no dif- ference will be made in their treat- ment. All the captured German offi- cers and men will receive the same pay as those of equal rank in the British service.” Four hundred American cavalrymen under the command of (‘01. George. A. Dodd, have fallen on the main body of Francisco Villa’s bandits at the San Geronimo ranch, scattering them in many directions and driving the ban:- dit chief, wounded and crippled, to seek a hiding place in the mountains. Villa wag hurried from danger in a carriage. The fight opened at 6 o’clock in the evening! of March 29. and continued for several hours. (fol. Dodd with picked troopers of the Seventh and Tenth Cavalry fell upon the unsuspecting Villa camp, where 500 bandits were celebrating the mas. sacre of 172 Carranza soldiers two days previously at Guerrero. It is stated that a number of perb Ions who were injured in the Zeppe- lin raid were rendered unconscious by asphyxiating bombs. Eyewitnesses concur that Zeppelin raiders never previously met with such a cannonade from anti~ajrcraft guns. The raiders, individually and in concert, attempt- ed to progress inland during a greater part of the night, but were repeatedly checked by a tornado of shells. W machine of Lieut. Brandon was several times by machine gun bullets from the leppelin. Alfred Brandon, the British airman, is a native of W'ellington, N5. He only joined the Flying (Tents lust July. Hundreds of Casualties ()ffitfiial lmhvtins dealing with the '/.o~,.pelin lands (’1' Sunday, Silurday 11ml l‘ridny l‘LIL'IILS read as i'n_m'»'.'s: “A /¢ p «L .L ru.‘ Lhuk place ”Linden lHL’lz‘ WLJ': I (UH: L m .‘nniluiill. Hi l..x- lini‘imfin timl mun... mm In Ullfl ll! .‘5 UK i.. 3.“ Ju net-LT u_u; in ii lln'. Ills 3.. I'i' (INN/.04 vau‘iwus PlilCz"i No details approacl day night. The other Official Figures of Enlistments in Canada and Cast in Dollars Sir Robert Borden announced in the House of Commons last week that the enlistments in the Canadian army to date were 290,000. 0! these 112,000 are in Great Britain or at the front. and 136,000 are in Canada. There liave been 222,000 casualties, and the wastage has been 21,700. At the end at February the total war cost to Canada was $187,000,000. Sir Robert has given notice of a resolution to provide for $250,000,000 for war ex- penses, to give the Governor-in-Council power to raise by way of loan such sum as are required for war purpose; Raider’: Band Scattered in First Clash With Pursuers BABY KILLERS TAKEN; 2W HEAVY LOSS or um § 33.33:: or THE BLIND. § “It is War." Says Hunâ€"Captor: Very Kindâ€"New Zealander the Heroâ€"- Three More Raid: Nearly 300,000 in Khaki Villa’s Band Scattered {111 H un Captain's Story Defences Improved northeast lUle crossed the c ack. For the L sixteen per mm 100 illjl 3 reported in CO the pr¢ person injurec e coast 11 THE DURHAM CHRONICLE A Serbian Woman The peasant costume of the Serbs is most picturesque, the feature of it being a fringed apron of guady colors and beautiful finish. The wbmen are usually healthy and powertul and in my case: bout “Is it far?" “Just a short distance,” was the reply, so he jumped in a boat and started to row there. When about four miles from New Orleans an ac- quaintance on the bank hailed him with: “Hello. Link, ole boy!" Link started. for the shore, musing to him- Bonk “Ah,wondah who knows me in To“ onto ?" its mails. “numb: was tile iiz‘si to grant Ilel' trivilv/v. and this '\‘\‘2ih' largely (mix: to the insli'nmvnizilny of Sir Frcaivrit-li 'l‘mgtr. Anwrit-zi followed Canada’s lnz-ul z: [ow you"; Inter, by allowing l'rve “may? of books from jgnblic libraries 10 the in.- vidual only. In Engand illcrc are a large number of voluntary workms for the blind. who print books in the Braille, that. is the personal service and interest. In the United States each state is compelled by constitu- tion to provid for its blind citizens. that is the interest of the state. Can we not hope for a combination of these two examples throughout the Dominion, and commence right away by arousing public opinion every- where to the great need of the blind in this country ?â€"â€"Grace E. Kennedy. A Quick Trip After the racing season closed at New Orleans one season a colored mustabout asked where the next meeting was to be held. He was told “Toronto." year 1598 no \ountry allowed lltel‘a‘ ture for the blind to go free through its mails. Canada was the first to grant this privilcce, and this was largely owing to the instrumentality SOME RUSSIAN PROVERBS. an get well for nothing. and it I . . ._ marry a minister I can be good The cynical humor 0‘ the 3‘8“ ;!or nothing.‘-Woman’s Journal. lane is admirably illustrated m 'their proverbs. a selection of ghich we give from the “liationa‘l roverbs of Russia ’ publis ed M." t . ,r‘rank Palmer: ‘ . fl .1 _ _ A“ Dbgs bark and the wind carries it away. ‘ When money speaks, truth keeps silence. . The German may be a good gellow, but it is better to hang 1m. The spoken word cannot we swallowed. A dog is wiser than a Woman: he does not bark at his master. Where God builds a church. there the devil has his chapel. 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