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PEIN'CE GEORGE, B. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER-19, 1918
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Five Cents
PRESIDENT WILSON
WILL ATTEND THE r PEACE CONFERENCE
Prince Ge6rge# ooiic splendidly.^'over the top" in �\\)c Victory;�> ii< ['action J:o th^ committee and to the people^generaily. Despite the Heavy haixdi�ai>61 the influen-ra epidemic
Washingt6n, Nov. 19.�The VVhite House announced today President Wilson will attend I trie peace conference. He expects to sail for France immediately after the opening of the regular sessiort^of Congress and will be accompanied, by delegates who willact as the representatives of the Unite'd States throughout the cbnferencer
committee,': whicn made a j,lete canvass of the district inP pu^ibie. 'a great .finish was made in the last three days of the earn-. -I'.r^n which, ..assisted by . "the t public interest, put the re- hVydnd question. The district generally lieu it i I y.. congratulated.
FRENCH TROOPS IN METZ.
.-Paris. Nov. 19;�French troops.
is-to be
German Delegates Meet Representatives of Britain at Rosyth
18.�^German'
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OY SYSTEM AVED BRITISH
London, jSIov. 16.�One . hundred killed during� revolt in Berlin according to aispatch exchange Telegraph. Army\desei;ters who formed flying division plunder towns. Three are executed, a score .sentenced to death.
In resume shipbuilding tions, the secretary for- Minister of Shipping stated that cphvqy systern had saved British many vessels. The small losses in � September prove U-boats -beate
Germans are nttw evacuating Poland. �
British election fixed for ember fourteenth. .-.
London, Rov. delegates meet atives today "at Rosyth, Firth of
Forth, "Scotland, to_arrange / for the yielding up of war cralt. The terms call for all submarines be. surrendered, ten battle; six" battle cruisers," eight cruisers, �fifty ,'c
- Ex-KaiserjStfys It
neomfortable In Holland Now
IS 11
London, ,Nov. 19.�The Brit-air � force keeps pace With tlief
mtered- the Jortress of Metz to-, Barnes, (!;tv. The British, forces continue: their advance with "the Germans -\vithtlra\ving rapidly. \ , The- postal- /Service
Lloyd George, Bonar Kaw, and ition leaders, com-j
! Qer-man withdraAval.
� -� � ! t(
^Krawce and Belgiujir established.
tTv parliament says Vernier: l�tctito-the Exchange Telegraph: must be fleeted so that represen-. . .
VIGTORY^OAN HAS
PCT OVER-SUBSCRIPTION
Toronto, Nov. -i 9.�The Victory Loan has-been oversubscribed in the Dominion by more itfian .35: per cent. The total isr $676,027^] 217. Every province has |d its allotments -
POLICE JA AY Winnipeg, Nov.-i9.-f:The city
strike on
ye' sent an
�j'ltimatuni to 'ilhTer^b^Wfssioil'Mer
re cognition
s ben re-_j witlr the 'authority- of people be-"["h.ind-them. � >-~ -I Excitement is stiil great in Hol-1 an d. Si t ua ti on wel I7 in hand, ho w-c^ier- Volunteers, called out to preserve order; , "" '�'�'�-� ,/-
The ex-kaiser intends to return -Germany, according to a dis-
�xchange Tel(
He is disturbed about the conditions in Holland and state make him uncomfortable:
Three Mem Killed
Railway Slide
In
slide on the
Grand Shere, of Tete
injured, attir-
Trunk Tacihc\Sg^ade at about fifteen jaune< three men killed and threes others one of them seriously, clay last. ��
The names of the v-iptims of tm disaster are: A^^McKinley, M. Munro aiid F^Tv\'e. The injured men an^R Boyssell,.J. Corpeck ' serj^fusly), and T. Peyton. The men were part- of a steam gang employed by Carle-ton haid Fetter of this city and were engaged in work on the
.- \vhere the slide occurred.
particular, section of line has long- been a\ source of trouble to the railway company "owing to the peculiaf~ahd slippery nature " of the ground�a greasy quicksand'T ;Eye-witnesses of the disaster say th at not -a monTent's^varning c-j the slide was given^ Suddenly the whole hillside, ^containing millions of to.ns of earth'^rees'and gravel came thunderingv down and were precipitated uponv the tMc-k, completej^'stibmergine^th
police "of Winnipeg may s I Imrsclay.' Theyii have' s
imlwg immediate �their union.''./.-'- '
FLOOD DAMAGE.
OucT)ec,: N ovf 1 Q.r�Floods have great damage in Quebec Q}j- A gale lias caused the inflation of the'lower town. '
CANADIAN-ARMY ">
j TO BE REDUCED
."tt'awja^ .Nov;' jS.�Army in nacla lo lie 'immediately reduc-C(' Will be cut doA^njii1 to number
�lOcde(l foil,special purposes. Vet-~ L1^ns and married ni.eii among lliosc wtio will get first choice of. rt'U'asc?'.iBefciulters notft6 escape
v^w York,
>oo�cvclt- jss-to visit 1
^ 7". J^ance. i~He 6
Hie
Colonel his son's bjects to
Pioposall that the body be re-
ycd to the! tlnited States.
GERMAN FLEET MAD -/ ORDERS TO FIGHT
TILL LAST SHIP SUNK
Copenhagen, Nov. i�j dent Wilson informs the German goyermnent that "tlfe* armistice will l>e dissolved:~ if Bolsheviki represeiitatives are received at
wd- hundrechcadfets,, 103 other sailor^abdrd the German training ship"; Schlesien were drowned when the vessel was sunM>y two
German
flag/:'::
battleships flying red
DEMOBILIZATION.
Ottawa, Nov. 19�The plan is ebmplete for1 the demobilization of the army overseas and ..will, be put into execution when the \\;prd is given by the,.higher command, ^i men willibe returned -at the of-20,000 a month,^starting 111 draks of five hundred. 1
Parish Nov. i|8.�Germany's debt to France |isj-placed ait 68 billidin dollars. ^ �--"��"' r
More of the smaller, German principalities are taking steps to for-nirepui5lican governments.. It
is jreported Bulgaria is to.be a rer public. - v , �
Detachments , of .American f forces start for home next N\yeeM
vSir Robert Borden is-no win
roadbed and- sweeping evefythrag movable in its *path towards th< river/ The -huge steam �.-shovel' with its human ' freight was thrown high"in the air J>y the de-stendiiio; avalanche� and -swept
of
England. _
FOOD SITUATION IN
_ EUROPK IS SERIOUS
into the river. The v.olu
river
j_vvas blocked.
i The bodies of^FTe victims, were discovered hrfmy. �mangled. Cbr-se^iously in j ured- was hur-Edmontori for- treatment.
[London, Nov: 19.�To-feed Eur- Ijxis.not believed he can feepver ope is a grgat probiein for- the Al^ifrom his injuries.
lied , nations. � Conditions^ are rapidlyi growing Britishlgovexiiinent' is arranging' for the departure to States of a numbet 6f~ German vessels for the1 purpo.se_x)f bring-s which ^tlie^ Allies
\vill |>ermit Germany to7receive.
TAKE GERMAN FLEET. y Loadon;s Nov| 19.�-The AWies are taking the foest. p�art of the Cenna|urleet. PJDrts at which the warships vare to be interned are being kept secret. , - : *
The GVv^y. A. club con^niittee desire to� thank Messrs. Leith Bros, for a couch, Mrs. P. E. Wilson for books for, the library, Mr. Al.i foiinsort I for furnishings for three bedrooms, and Mrs. Avison for" bed 1 linen* ^wels, etc. It is h oped \fy thercommittee touhave the rooms open shortly,_when a 1 ublic house-warimngi, I will be theld^v-^..:;..;'����>.- ''3y. -I -"::",'.
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Two of" the victims, McJvinleyT and Murirp, \Vere returned sol-L dieri;'A".' -'!:� -' \s> �'.;�..- h- - j 1 Fully half a. mile of the-"railway grade was torn out by the slide and througri-traffic is' naturally-� disorganized as a result., Passen- mail andJ^aggage ar^ being
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S^msTerred at the slide. �-A Targe number of men are working nighj and day repairing the damage ^o that freight traffic may be resume
ed.
� }:. P. Charleson, of Vanderhoof, is in the city today.. He states that th^ 1 influenza: plagu,e has proved particularly deadly arnong the' IrTdiaris of that section, over fifty of the Stony Greek tribe and more than ..forty of the Stuart Lake Indians having fallen vic-
tims. As a resu
ll of so_ uka'riy natives fur
deaths among the
dealers believe this ^inter's catch
in thje local kectidn will jbe bne-of the smallest on 1 record..."