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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
I'KlXt.'K UKOKdK, B.C., WKDXEWDAV, QCTOBEB jfi, 1919.
FIVE CENTS
Land Improvement Area will Embrace Lands Near City
pro! dliortU
mlnary arrangements will be made by the Land Sct-Hourd of DritiBh Columbia
l,l|g|i ;i Sold lew1 La.id lm-i,l Area near Prince George, 11,000-acre truct of land re-,Mined hy the government
,. North Coast Land Company, isd io Prince George on Frl-Dl Mr. II. M. Nelema, chair-Hie Land .Settlement Hoard,
uinl Davids, one of tiie exo-
niticialH, was In connection examinaton of the land and
. .�[ Jin expression of opinion ill war veteranB on the land
Driefly stated, it is the Hoard's ,�. (finion to recommend thai a clearing or a* least 20 acres be made and a house erected to cost in tha neigh bprhood of �smi. These improve ihentB would Ix; made on each qiiar tcr section applied for by the return ed men under the schenw, though land would still be available for thoae
Sidelights On Life In a German Prison Camp
� �,v CAPT. .1. II. DANIELL.
! lion rumps. This was an opportunity
At the request of my old friend afforded the wayfaring Hun to exer-Mid associate, the editor of "The c'se llirt blood and iron propensities Citizen," I take pleasure in recording upon us, for we had no means of re-sonie of the Incidents which occur- taliallon, The memory of these and red io me during my captivity Jn;u(ller weary days rankles In many Germany, to illustrate the conditions minds, serving to augment and jus-
who preferred to make their own Im- MfV "^ "^ PTiB0Mr* �f �\�yJ** bllt#r ia*\�tm*a{ of the Huu'
proposal. At a meet-
provement?. The cost of tiu- improvements, together with the pur-chase price of the land, were roughly estimated at $3000, The. entire cost would t>e covered hy the federal loan to soldiers; also the provincial
xisted
The concentration camp at Karte-
ll.-foro proceeding to this subject, ruhe was located iu the heart of ttie
however, 1 would like, to dwell for a
11 h position was decided upon
government's discount of $500 to re-
ay <'vening attended by turned men would be effective. The schem
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moment upon the circumstances of after one of our air raids in, I think, my capture. I find that a great mini 1916. One of our machines dropped ber of people here have never seen ah a 112-lb. bomb into the public
where the camp was later lo , and unfortunately killed
City Lot Sale Proceeding Today
The "potlach" of city property is talcing place today and eager specu-laiors are snapping up the parcels In the long Hat being offered. There Is no upset figure on any of the property offered, and 95 per cent, of it is being sold at a fraction of the accumulated taxes. In aome cases lots are selling as low as $10 each. The sale Will proceed until all the lots are disposed of.
GKRMA.NH USING GAS
AGAINST RIGA DEFENDERS
and have little or no con- dens cafe
�x-soldlvrs ajul citizens niH and colonel Davtes out-;,,. . principal features of the -i lieine and gave an Inter-ouni of what had been done lar way at Courtenay and the lower country.
on "f local returned men, ..nd while details of the. plan are yei
made on the work early next
Footwear Prices
Lower In U. S.
Special to the Citizen.) York, Oct.
roplan
ption of the theory of flight. Somo
e Impressed with the idea that large number of women and childrei ? when an engine of an aeroplane who were attending some sort of out stops working the machine becomes door amusement. The Kaiser wired unmanageable and falls to earth. nis sympathy, using the words: *'M:
ncompleted, it is hoped that a start T!lis' ()t course, is not so. A rotary heart bleeds for beautiful Karlsruhe.
aero engine revolves ab ut 1200 -^s our raids upon open towns were times a minute, and some of the mod- on\y carried out in reprisal for sucl ern machines can clhno to 10,000 feet wanton extravagance of murder ai in less than that number of minutes, the sinking of hospital ships, the Ho When a machine has gained altitude henzollern heart could well afford to ii .VK1> OF iOM.MKKCK.
Chan
swn oring Day ; daj ,1 Daj I
Op|MI-
>.n. C IK., Oct. 13.�The fifth ill invention of the Retail Mer-is' Association of New Bruns-ha.i concluded its two days ses-
i!�Hf>lutij>n� were ^gf^d v-legilation making Thanksgiving i permanent peace celebration til that both this and Armistice � on Monday each year, strongly ling the methods of the Board rnmerce and expressing the con-n that it would not succeed un-ompetent commercial men were
board, and opposing the carry-' parcels post packets by mail
ik paying of losses out of ol the country.
the
OUTLAWS WILL
THEMSELVES
Muui
Vancouver, Oct. 1^.�That the *CQU(ttal Hi the Indian outlaw Simon Petei Gun-a-Noot will have a much Rrealei effect upon the future of the Hazflton district than many people Imagine is the pronounced opinion of George M, Ueirnes, supply contractor '"' Hi*1 Yukon Telegraph line.
In addition to Guu-u-uoot there �"'� �'' ! .i-i four other Indians who havp i,, ,ii obliged to take to the oall i.n.li. i.. i,K various alleged offences.
�I hi them, like Qun-a-noot, navp ,,,,,| been waiting to Bee what ffouli| happen t<> them in the event 1 "' ii giving themselves up.
I'liere la no doubt'that they are likely to come in no win a body Da soon ns lie gets back and has a talk will them, for he is regarded as 'tair king pin.1
Hundreds off tourists every year
''''�'' '.....ii kept out of the country
win?: 11, i)i,. exaggerated reports tha,
'' ' l 'i Is ure full of dangerous ont-
-�i)i all) become alarmed at the
Ability of encountering a real live ""law Kveh settlers have been in-
'""'I ' okeep away from the same lie continued.
Al1 of us up th�re will breathe u. s't'li ui relief when they lnally decide
tu POlllft IU."
Shorter Road to Cariboo Towns
and "stunts" are carried out with the canteen, the KommandaHteur and a engine cut out. j bath house comprised the camp.
1 was attached to Naval Squadron! There were usually about 200 officers No. 3, under Squadron Commander I Mien*, of many nationalities. Ft. H. Mulock, D.S.O. Legion of Honor The senior British officer during etc., who is now a full Colonel R.A. ' my term there was Lieut.-Col. Rath-P, He is a Canadian, and a distin- borne, a wing commander R.N.A.S., 1 guished and gallant officer, under! who led the great reprisal raid on An official of the local public whom I consider it a privilege to have! Freiberg following the sinking of the works staff stated this week that an served. The record of the squadron' hospital ship "Sussex." In this raid extra effort is being made to com-, was among the finest in France. 30 Sopwith bombing machines each
plete this fall the wagon road- now i On May 11th, 1917, our squadron | dropped three 112-lb. bombs on the under construction on the east side; was ordered, by the wing, to rendez- town of Freiberg. The bombers all of the Fraser River. By this road.' vous with 18 Squadron, R.C.F. bomb-1 returned safely, but each of the three as surveyed, the distance to Quesnel � ers. of the "Fighting Experimental" J escorting mamchines were driven is shortened 20 miles and there are class at a point near the lines. Our down, one pilot and three gun-layers no hills of any account. Over the flights were to escort the bombers were killed and Lieut.-Col Rathborne new route the distance Is 80 miles. and keep them as free as possible land Flight-Lieut. Gus Edwards were
It is expected that the coming win- from attack by hostile aircraft. I ter will see a brisk freight business was one of the close escort, flying between here and Cariboo points, about 2000 feet above the bombers, owing to the troublesome navigation.!The stand-off escort flew about 3000 season on the river. The new road feet above us.
will also prove a boon to the settlers! After the bombers had "laid their
eggs." anxi just before we were to re-
located south of here.
taken prisoner.
Karlsruhe was a distributing camp and consequently always full of newly-arrived prisoners. Pood wa,s generally very scarce. One was forced to try and live on the terrible Hun ration. In the canteen all that one
MUSKRAT SKINS BRING
HIGH PRICE AT AUCTION
turn to the lines, we were heavily at-i could buy to eat were cherries and
New York. Oct .1 l.^-Muskrat was king of the closing day of the fur sale in the Masonic Temple here. Both the brown and black skins brought the highest prices paid for them at a public auction in this city, and
tacked by Hun machines which had been gathering above us. In the fight my gun jambed, and in clearing it I got into a vertical nose dive aud drew the concentrated attack of a number of Huns upon my isolated machine. An Albatross diving past me at close ranfre hit my engine In i the ignition group, I think, for the
largely because of this a new high eng|ne- jmniediately refused to func record for a single day's selling at a. (,- but l never had an opportunity
New Vork sale was established. The day's total was $1,500,000, and the grand total for the sale was J7,050f-000, which is also a new high record for a Now York auction
The top price paid for niuskrat to-
day was $ for black,
.9ii for browns and $12.85 Compared with the auc-
<;. \v. v. a.
On Monday
next at 8 p.m. the r�ga-
w meeting will be held In Hitis-Kifar lull
� �e discussed: Nomination of
a lor ensuing six months, the
�'illity question and the Land De-
pnient Scheme for this district.
' per cent, and blacks \wtii up 30 per cent. The brown skins, dyed, and worn under the name of Hudson sea), are iu fashion's favor this season, and this, coupled with their great scarcity at the preseni time, was chiefly responsible for the high prices.
Other outstanding features us to prices Included $112.60 each for two prime grizzly bears, |70 tor the beet. red foxes and $167.50 for the finest cross fox. The last named averaged 25 per cent, above the spring prices. The best s(|iiinv) skins sold up to $1.24 each and advanced to 35 per cent, over April. Northern red rox w,ent up 20 per cent, but the eastern skins which dropped 10 per cent, from the April level supplied the only decline of the day.
�VJLLIAM �
Coming to the Dreamland
of fin-ding what the damage was. I had to dive to earth, dodging the fire of the attacking machines, for I was about ten miles behind the enemy lines, with no engine, and my altitude by this time was only about 2000 feet. 1 "crashed" my machine on landing, as I had to.go through a field telegraph, and I crawled out' and set fire to the petrol which was flowing out of the petrol vent. In conse quenoe, 1 was roughly handled by a crowd of Huu soldiers, but was ins-cued by an officer who rode up. 1 had some satisfaction iu seeing an Albatross machine "crashed" in ft nearby field, whoso pilot 1 u.ii wounded in the arm.
) tind 'hat a lnrge number of people are .'iHler il'e impression that \ir Force officers taken prisoner received better treatment than the other arms of the forces. 1 cannot imagine how this impression was created, for it is without foundation. It was the practice on both sides of the line to take captured airmen to the aerodrome of the pilot who shot their machine down. There they were usually entertained in the mesa. Some time i;9fore my capture Plight-Lieutenant Malone, K.N.. D S.O., who was unlor-lunacly killed a few days later, shot tipwn r.n enemy two-seator in the Australian lines. The pilot was sent to our aerodrome where he was en-tertaiied and equipped with clothes by contributions from our personal kits. Intelligence officers seek to gather from such captives any infor-i mation of value to the airtaJ arm Our pilots were warned in t'.w- communique that this was an enemy practice.
I was taken, in conformity this Rvstem, to the Eplnoy which we bad been bombing. Thore I bad tea with the Hun squadron. Some of them seemed very decent fellows. After my removal from this aerodrome followed the worst period of my captivity. I will pasB over this period, as it does not deal with or-ganixed conditions affecting the Offl-iitT-Kriegsgefangenenlagers. AH of us went through these time* when
with
sardines. Weird and wonderful were tthe cherry pies which we used to made by soaking old bread and making it into a paste with which we covered the cherries, and had the beastly thing baked.
We had a good library in the camp chiefly composed of Tauchuitz editions. Prince Max of Baden and the Princess contributed a set of Shakespeare and a few other works. The "Red Prince," as be is called, by reason of his Socialistsic tendencies, sometimes visited the camp, and on one of these occasions I conversed with him. He deplored the advent of England into the war, as this seemed to have deranged his immoderate ideas of the Hun re-mapping of Europe. I am convinced of his sincerity in endeavoring to improve our conditions, however, although this, like his later Chancellorship, was of little avail.
We had a small theatre which we built in thi} muster.hall, and some �potted plays" were produced with great success. Iu this hall we also had lectures and debates, and as the camp included some very clever an 1 distinguished men we spent somo pleasant' and profitable evenings.
The precautions taken to prevent escape at Karlsruhe were many and efficient. There was a ten-foot barbed wire fence which was continually patrolled by postens on the inside. Twelve feet' outside this was a high-board fence Burm'omunited by barbed wire and alarms. Outside this again there was a mesh-wire fence connected with an alarm system to the house where -police dogs were kept against an emergency. There were no escapes from the camp during the six months that I was there.
At Karlsruhe, walks on parole were not allowed, and the days passed monotonously. The constant arrival of new prisoners kept us well informjed regarding the front.
Frequently the maroons would go up, signalling an air raid, and at: night on some occasions the numer-j ous anti-aircraft guns would put up a wonderful barrage. Thousands of shells were expended on these barrages, although no bo-nfb w&� ever dropped on the town during the time that I w�8 there.
(Continued on page C.)
(Special to the Citizeu). Copenhagen, Oct. IB.�Germans are attacking Riga with poison gas and also bombarding the town with trench mortars, says a Lettish foreign ofilcial communication issued Monday. Great damage has been done to quays and harbors, the commjni-
"B.C. Express" Arrived Today
The steamer "B. C. Express" has arrived fiom Quesnel and is today being loaded with freight for downriver points. There are hundreds of tons of accumulated cargo to go to Cariboo, und it is questionable if all can be handled in the brief remaining season of navigation. Whether the "Express" will be able to make even one more trip will depend, of course, on the river, which is now at an extremely low stage.
NEW Hl'SlNKHS HOUSE
OPENING TOMOKHOW
cation adds, and there have many civilian casualties.
been
DIVOHCE8 INVALIDATED.
O nTbursday morning, October 16. Mr, \V. L Hughes will open his new store, on Third avenue, showing ladies' coats, dresses, overskirts, waists and millinery, also an assortment of novelty goods. Excellent and modern premises have been fitted up
by Mr., Hughes, bis credit to the city.
store being a
Budapest. Oct. 15.�The Hungar-an government has issued a decree invalidating all divorces granted un-j der the Soviet regime, during which [ period very liberal divorce legislation was put into effect.
SIMOV GCN-A-NOOT
FOUND NOT GUILTY
Vancouver, Oct. 10.�After an absence from the courtroom of about fifteen minutes the jury returned with a verdict of "not guilty" in the case of Simon Peter Gun-a-Noot, the Indian, who was charged with the murder of Alex. Mclntosh, a half-breed packer, near Hazelton, on the morning of June 19, 1906.
The culmination of the trial excited great public Interest in the adventures of the celebrated ex-outlaw, who, for thirteen years, eluded ar-reet in the northern wilds of the province.
Supreme Court "SitrNext Week
Supreme Court sittings will be held n the City Hall next Wednesday, Oc-ober 22nd. Only one criminal case s set for hearing, that in which several Orientals are implicated in a charge of theft of money from some of their compatriots. The list of civil cases is not yet complete.
Following are the names of those summoned for the grand jury: Thos. Austin, Alex. H. Cochrane, Geo. E. VfcLa'ughlin. H. G. Perry, Frank Clax-on, Dick Corless, E. H. Livingstone, (as. Munro, Bernard Keegan, A. B. Moffat, Thos. Griffith', Arthur Leith, A. Wimblea. x
Fire-swept Vessel
Abandoned at Sea
(Special to the Citizen). Halifax, Oct. 15.�The French steamer Venezia has been abandoned at sea doomed to destruction by fire, was the news in'a wireless message received this afternoon by the Marine and Fisheries department. The word came from the French steamer Chicago, but no details were given. If is confidently assumed that the passengers, if there were any, and the crew, were taken off by the Chicago. The Venezia was reported by the Chicago to be a menacee to navigation. The position given for the derelict is about 200 miles east of Halifax.
HRISTTAX ENDEAVOR SOCIETY.
A Christian Endeavor Society has been organized by the young people of the Presbyterian church, with a view to enlisting the young people for training for larger service and efficiency in the various activities of the church and community. It is planned to hold meetings that will develop the social, Intellectual and religions sides of life. All young people are cordially invited to join the society. The following officers have been elected:
Hon. President, Rev. Win. Graham.
President, Mr. Uennett.
Vice-President, Mr. Partridge.
Sec.-Treas., Miss An nil Murray.
Pianist, Miss Eileen Rolston.
Committees�Social, Literary. Religious.
iiooo LIVES BELIEVED
LOST ON BRITISH STKAMKI!
Archangel. Oct. 10.�Two thousand lives havo been lost in the wreck of an unnamed Uritish ship on the Norwegian coast, according to a wire-leess dispatch received here from Helsingsfors.
London, Oct. 10.�Neither the admiralty nor Lloyd's have received information relative to the wreck of a British ship on the Norwegian coast. At these sources the report is dis-
The-ninthly meeting of the Women's Hos&ttsfcl Auxiliary will meet an Friday, October 17th, at 4 o'clock in the cWy hall; A large attendance is
If ibe loss in life in the wreck reported in the foregoing dispatch is as large eas indicated, the disaster will mark a new record in the annals of the sea. It would Beem probable the ship which, was wrecked was a military transport bringing British sol-diers from* Archangel from whi^h port Great Britain has been embark-ta|f largtf numb1)", of tr-en during last month.
PRESIDENT IMPROVING.
Washington. Oct. 15.�JDue to an unimportant-tout irritating new com-plication, President Wilson spent a restless night and uncomfortable day, but his condition is said by his personal physician, Rear Admiral Gray-son, to be somewhat improved.
FURTHER DISARMAMENT.
Paris, Oct. 15.�The Senate today adopted theresolution, which has already been passed by the Chamber of Deputies, asking the government to suggest to the Allies further measures for disarmament of Germany, and another resolution suggesting that France be given a prior claim in the distribution of repatriation payments made by Germany.
LIQUOR RING UNEARTHED.
Winnipeg, Oct. 13.�Following the seizure of liquor by the local police the opinion is now expressed that they have uncovered evidence of the operation of an extensive liquor ring which has been doing business on a large scale. S. Gold, of the firm of Gold & Chichik, alleged to have been conducting a wholesale bootlegging business, appeared in police court and hia (>ase has been adjourned.
On Gold's premises, it is claimed, that large quantities of liquor, t modern machine and attractively-designed labels were found. Theso appliances, together � with load after load of liquor in barrels and bottles, were taken to the police estatiou. The police expect to make a clean-up in the next 24 haurs.
SIX HKM)\V IN DAWSON.
Dawson, V.T., Oct. 10.^-On the Btroke of midnight Monday the mildest autumn the Yukon has �ver known changed over in the twinkling of an eye to the severest weather ever known at this time of year.
Flowers remained abloom out of doors until early Monday morning, when the thermometer dropped to G degrees below zero, bringing with its Icy breath the first ice slush in. the rivers, cutting all dredge hydraulic operations like a flash two weeks ear-Jier than usual..
LATHES' (AUXILIARY G.W.VVA.
Owing to a Masonic meeting previously arranged for In the Rits-Klfer hall on Friday, 17th inst., the "Hard Times" dance will not begin till 10 p.m. Much lime should not be lost, however, as most of the local dances do not get well under way before that hour. Come In large numbers.
good time is assured, cents each, inclusive.
Tickets
A
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