Prince George Citizen V,,,,. 3, No. 86 PKINCP] GEORGE, B. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1919 [/ Five Cents Will Determine Enemy Ability to Make R ICEPQRTED (GOVERNMENT WILL ASSUME CONTROL OF Special to the Citizen). The Ottawa correspondent of the Winnipeg Telegram says: "According to the latest reports it is expected that the Grand Trunk Pacific will soon be taken over and operated by n <;. t. p. Allied Armies To Guard Against Enemy Aggression WINNIPEG WAR VETERANS TREAT SOCIALISTS ROUGH (Special to the Citizen). Winnipeg, Jan. 27.�(Winnipeg war veterans raided a Socialist hall and j broke up a meeting last night. They I pummelled the agitators, giving some j of them black eyes. The cause of Paris, Jan. 27.- -A commission is the government. It is said that the' London^ Jan;. 27.�The Entente j the disturbance was the placarding l0 be appointed to determine the road will be incorporated into the Allies are to guard against any pos-jof billboards with posters by the amount of reparation which enftmy | Canadian National Railway system sible enemy aggression. Sufficient'Social Democrats, many of whom Htr.ies ought to pay, what they witliin the next couple of months. It J�rces are to be kept during the com-1, openly favor Bolsheviki doctrines. are capable of paying, and the js aiso believed that the Edmonton, inS year in all war theatres. The j inethod, form ami time within which ' Dunvegan & British Columbia line Entente will see that the terms of such payments slrall be made. | will come under government opera- j Peace are fully complied with. The peace conference has unani-jtion. This will mean that the Can-1 According to advices received here' Vancouver, Jan. 25.__The steam- nluiisi\ adopted the league of nations; adian National Railway will control j th-e Bolsheviki are atlempting to raise' ship Empress of Asia docked here proposal, j the largest road in the world, with an army of two millions for the. cam-' at (J:30 this morning with more than mileage of appoximately 14,000 ' Paign in ,S,outh Russia. | 900 veterans from the west front, KM PRESS OF ASIA ARRIVES. p for peace may be finished by the middle of March KAISKK MAY (i<) TO GKJtMAXY. ondon, Jan. 27y^~A Berlin dis-!i says: "A sensational special miles." UNEMPLOYMENT IN U.S. LOSE CIVIL KIGHTS. most of whom enlisted from Vancouver, and were met at the dock by relatives. The city gave the veterans Ottawa, Jan. 27.�Measures for a great welcome, although the trans-dealing with defaulters under the port, arrived in a typical midwinter oil lling rapidly on the streets (Special to the Citizen.) New York, Jan. 27.�Ten million military service act are, it is under- Vancouver rain. men and women are out of work in stood, to be taken up shortly by the re maintains that the ex-kaiser and; tne United States. The federal dir- cabinet. A proposal made is that all s fami'ly intend to return to Ger- ector of labor predicts a period "not those who failed to report or register as s >on as the national assem- j terrible but serious." ;i� required by the act shall lose civil : has given the country a legal j :onstit ution." S (SALE OF BEER. Vancouver. Jan. 27.�The prohibi- iii iirics ofXhe province have de-(1 to call a provincial convention the session oKthe Legislature hich ojumis next week/\. The organisation launch em ly tor the ptrcpose of en&eavor-ng to legalize the sa^fi of gh.t Aines has taken thtNiiame ilqderation League," and perm lonimittees have been appointed Police Squad Raid Disorderly Premises A complete clean-up in the city police department, including the suspension from duty of Chief of Police rights for ten years. . Proceedings in the courts are also being taken. The position of the conscientious objector will be taken up at the same time. CANADIANS IN SlliElUA. Vladivostock, Jan. 27.�The Can- ? ?*??? + + ????> f ? ? LOCAL AND PERSONAL. + Mrs. V. N. Bogue left last night for Seattle where she will visit relatives. Charles E. McElroy, of Calgary, one of the early business men in this �district when he was manager of the Fort George Trading & Lumber Co., hjgj.0 rg.j Doian, was decided on by the new board of police their meeting Friday night. ditions regarding the existence of leged gambling dives and Chinese premises were discussed and at the close.ot. the meeting a raiding squad, adian force in Siberia is now com- \ is a visitor in the city today. ItKKTItlCTlONS OFF. , plete, the final party arriving commissioners at^December 5tn Con- on PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER. headed by\Comniissioner Fisher and LouiB Yibbai who had been tern- >m Thursday last the restrictions porarily^aDpoin^d chief, visited the public eating places on beef and j Chow Lee establishment where a il tfere taken off by the Canada search revealed- complete opiuni- �d In.aid. . Official anouneement i smoking paraphernalia ahd a seem- Vancouver, Jan. 24.- * * * Confirmation of the death of Al. Payne, formerly of this city, reported killed in action at Cambrai on Sept. 29th, has been received here by Col. James Thomas Rush from Pte. Payne's * * * The dance given in the Alexandra Schlater, D.S.O., Croix de Guerre, pother in England. Belgian Order of Leopold, who re-j cently returned from overseas, has' been appointed pohibition commis- hotel last night in honor of Scotland's sioner for British Columbia. Colonel poet, Robert Burns, was largely at-Schlater went overseas with the 29th: tended and thoroughly enjoyed. The Battalion, but his reputation as a'rendition by Mrs. Radeck of several lias been received this week j ingiy well equipped "hopNgoint." marksman led to his being chosen Scotch ballads was a pleasing feature mail from Ottawa. The order as | Phe equipment was promptly cbnfis- ( to conduct schools of sniping in Eng- of the occasion. land. France and Italy. The salary j * * * Colonel Schlater has been raised; Corporal Stewart, one of the brave - Before Magistrate Daniel! on Sat-j to^iOOO a year. Purchases of liquor boys who enlisted early for the war, ] l utter restrictions has been re-[cated and the owner and occupan ed and the food board has an- of the place arrested. ced that the supply of sugar,� k [ i.rd and other Cats is now sufficient; urday Chow Lee pleaded guilty to willlie>^after be made by the regular j arrived here last night, and was wel-for general use; [conducting a disorderly house and j purchasrnfc\department of the gov- j corned by wife and ichildren and a was fined $100 and costs. Chow ernment. Kim and Yum Lee, frequenters, con-j CHILDREN j large circle of friends. Few men \ from Canada have equalled Corporal j Stewart in length of service. He "carried on" through all the desper- AT THE IHWOAMLAM). By far the most magnificent screen i tributed $20 and costs each. Production ever shown in Prince j Gamblers Discovered. George will be finally presented to! While one of the police squad was Dreamland patrons tonight. In "The endeavoring to capture a fugitive Ionian Cod Forgot," Geraldine Far- Chink who had escaped from the rar rises to the heights of her career Chow Lee joint, he was led into a lts Hit- Princess of the Aztecs. His- j neighboring shack where a full-sized ! gasoline in a burning lamp instead of I AT THE REX. lorical incidents of the time when | "game of draw" in which several I cpaf oil. The lamp exploded and To help awaken you, the public, lhe Spanish under Cortez invaded! white men were participating, was f Mr. Landre was severely burned on I to the criminal folly of food profit- Winnipeg, Jan. 25.--Throe chil-j ate figging and dark days of the dren were smother^ to death early! early campaign and saw hundreds of Thursday morning when David Lan-; his brave comrades fall in battle, dre, of iS}t. Elizabeth, Man., poured Mexico ionus the background for a Underfill romance that is thrilling U!1' interesting, . Wednesday and discovered. The constable immediately put the entire party under arrest. In police court the keeper was Thursday Jacki fined $100 and costs and the players th.te face and hands. Mrs. Landre es- eering, that you may assist our gov-fcaped by jumping from a window i eminent in controlling it�this is the with her small baby. The three chil- j message the producer of "Cheating dren were not awakened and were i the Public," to be seen at the Rex "'KI()1"'i in Mark Twain's- famous I Various jsums aggregating another smothered to death by the fumes. *lory. "TOm Sawyer," will be the at- hundred dollars. The new commissioners are meeting with cordial commendation for < 1 HID TO PURCHASE�Gov-1 contracts in South or Cen-'rul Kort George. Apply Gordon illn r<>- Ltd., George street. �Woodsmen; also gang 0 cut shingle bolts by cord or con-act| Reliance. the firm stand they have taken in curbing the lawless conditions that were rapidly growing in Prince George. Heretofore the excuse has prevailed that while the authorities were cognizant of such disregard of the la\v:3 it was Impossible to secure a conviction. BOKDEN BIUTISH DELEGATE. Paris, Jan. 24.�The British war cabinet met here this afternoon to consider the personnel of its contribution to the joint commission to confer with the Russian delegates at the Princes Islands. Premiers Bor-den and Botha and General Smuts, South African representative in the cabinet, were considered. Friday and Saturday nights, hopes to convey. This is the most soul-stirring melodrama the screen has ever produced�a powerfully dramatic story of business brutality and ruthlessness, interwoven with an expose of child labor , conditions and the heartless operations of a food profiteer. The scene of the story is a factory town and the life depicted there is declared to be a cross-section cut from human life.