VOL.J. NO. 26. Hearty to Local Volunteers War was again brought seri ously to the attention of the people of the .Georges oh Wed nesday night, when a large gath oring of the people massed at th depot, to bid Godspeed to twentj of our young men who had volun teered to the nation's call. All cannot go to the front, but -those who bade adieu to the gallant fellows, felt the strong pul at the heart strings to gq with them to their country's service, when amid cheering the train steamed out. / Following are the names of the volunteers who_jwJll proceed to Victoria to join the 68th battalion light infantry, third contingent. •Captain Leatham, (retired^R.F;A.) George Elliot Benjiiman Kendrew Wrn. Wilson David Rounyeil V-. M. Morgan M... B. Patterson John R. Smith H. D. McGrath m. E. Fletchhr A. Empson P. DuBaitard R. Wells. ' - D. McDougalL^, R. T. Oaklejr S. Sirtfnw J. lick. Knight E. Hilton. men were, expand passed, but owing to the instructions received at 5 p.m. on the 24th, that only twenty would be required, they could hot be sent. Should word be given to send more-men, these will be given first place: W. H. Moore Clifford McNavi J. B. McLean - 8... J. Gaul' Chas. E. Taylor M. Gruich :', Dr. W. Richardson was the examining officer. ' : . Saskatchmui Farmers GEORGE, ¦ B. C:, gRJPAy. tIbRUATIY 26th, 1915 COASTING STEAMER SUNK London^-The small Irish coasting steamer Downshire/has been sunk by a German submarine in the Irish Sea. The Germans gave the crew five minutes in which to leave the ship. The crew landed at Dundrum, County Down. The submarine was the U12. The Germans fired three shots at the steamer before her captain hove to. After the crew had taken to the boats, the Germans sank the steamer. <^ the engineer of the Downshire gave the following account o£tlie sinking of the vessel: "The submarine ^was sigh tec two miles away by the lookout, of Dardanelles , Accomplished by Allied Fleet Londdn.-Gfficial |tnnouncement.-Ari at entrance to^Dardaiielles have been reduced by Allied^fl^t. Report follows:; - I $3 PjSR ANNUM Vyeather moderating, the bombardment of o&feerfort Dardanelles was renewed at 8 o'clock this morh and the .captain thereupon order-tirie to push my^ engines alI it was possible. .* He steeredii zigzag course, but we ivere oyer-Jauled in a shorf time/ They fired three .shots at us which were most accurate, mmediately. The Irew up fully above We stopped submarine the surface >f the water a hundred feet away. ts captain hailed us in good Eng ish and told us fo get into our boats with haste. ' I counted 19 men on the sub marine!* deck. When our boats cam^pbngside the submarine we waited their while/five German sailors boarded 'one of our life- )oa|r/carryitig «- bomb, which was ih> a hollow brass canister to Assist Empire Provinoial (GjcaiiffGrowers in con- \aat week affirmed every farmer or that should _set aside one acres, the proceeds would be handled by^fhe central association as a patriotic fund or behalf'of the grain growers.. 11 was annpunced that 220 elevators Had already stated tiiey-' tfould purchase wheat^thepro ceeds ot which wasHntended for A t utratewould['be secured from ^iiills which would grind the wheat into flour, and it was nopal that the railways wouldjwt onlyfiaul the flour-free^to the coasti but might-even deliver it without charge across the water. ^JU-is"e*pected that there are at "least 30,000 farmers in the province who will take part in the movement, and one acre is the least that any of them will give. - All the diplomatic representatives at Mexico City have asked their home governments for authority to abandon the legations if the situation warrants. • ' -.'"". bout eight inches long and four iches wide. This they placed in lie water under the side of the K»t amidshipt. Thef lighted 'use and then rowed back toward be submarine. Suddenly there waa an explo-ion. In the dusk it seemed to have done little damage, but a few minutes later the ship began [own/ Uorest Apt Actfe London j —The case the A merican \ steamship Wilhelmina, whose cargo of foodstuffs bound from New York to (Germany was seized by the British authorities, proba^ly-wll be taken before the prize court very shortly and~it is expected that the hearing will be brief. -^ >-v> A. G. Hays, attorney for the owners of the Wilhelmina, is of the opinion that there will be no dispute as. to the main facts, and that the prize-court will have nothing to adjudicate^evond the international questions involved. fitchene/s Army Make M Cities through Fhuice. Paris,—In confirmation of re-con t messages stating that about 500,000 British troops were to be landed on French soil within a fo w days, visitors returning from Stapl Bl t les, near Boulogne, report regular cities of British soldiers withxa population of 300,000 to 600,000.. . 1.....,,..... ;;,-:x v ^ This vast army of ten to twelve^ ¦'•¦army CQrps is part of the big .Jarmi.Lord, Kitchener has been 'trainjng for^the past half-year, and is expected xtb complete the task of hurling |he Germans out of Erance and Belgium. x i i.The rest of Kitchener's army :;ol 1000,000 are expected to be anded in France within the next .three weeks. - '. ; ' v Among the lately arrived sol- are regiments Cafiada. -- from Malta No amazement is now expressed aTthe many German air and submarine raids' of last month. The Germans undoubtedly were searching for the British transports.. Kitchener did not &nd \he troop ships directly across the chapnel to try to land in the noKh^of Prance. They were sent out into the ocean and then to southern French ports. Some of thelroops iM known have been landed as far.-south, as Marseilles and BonJeaux. ~~ To meet the requirements of housing the British forces,' mile* of water pipes have been laid and res of forest haye been razed. At Rouen Preparations for receiving Britishers are going on even on a larger /seated than at Etaples,.s'_. '/ •/"" "-.•.; \:".:i;,r! , of ock this morhlSff Feb. 25. After a period of long range fire, squadron!) battleships attacked at close range. AH forts at entrant to straits were successfully reduced. Operations are con tifiuing. London.-^fPetrograd correspondent describes position of Austrians in East Galacia as critical. Activity of Aus tro-Germans m Bukowina seems to have reached its utmosjt limits. Meanwhile Russians contihue to move across Car-pathiens immediately on fla^of invading^eolurnns whose position is hazardous. Telegrams from Budapest report fierce fighting around Stanislau, Galicia. Reuters yeilice correspondent reports as follows: Russians are saidtobe hurling reserve^after reserve into fighting line and to be defending^their positions with greatest stubbprness. (Chief "struggle is'.. proceeding on heights around. town^^where Russians have concentrated with object of^stopping-advance of Austrian rightwhich threatens,their whole^ront. ^Londoh.--turkish warship Goeben reported seriously damaged and having three guns out ofaction. Since the beginning of the war she has lost about 200 men killed and wounded. Her speed now only 17 knots when she really poes out. London^Treasury bills to the amount of £20,000,000 ($100,-000,000)^were offered here-Tuesday. The offering was oversub- serf Amsterdam. -German attacks in North of France and Flanders have lost much of their violence, says despatch from Dunkirk. Cairo.—The Turks have now made a practicflly general retire ment on Damascus, j They havequit Suez Canal district owing to a sudden fear for their communications. Toronto.—The medical faculty of the .University of Toronto has sent a cable to Lord KJtcfiener, offering a base hospital of l,04( beds, to be equipped in Canada* and; recruited from Jthe staff and medical students of the university. Berne.—AH the youths in Germany between the ages of 1 and 20 who' have failed to volunteer for the army and cannot gi^ adequate excuse, are now-being called out to serve-as^untrained landsturmer.s. week there have been artillery engagements from Eys to Aisne, at, times rather spirited and^alMfavorable to is. Our artillery on height* of Meuse hassjlerfc^d several German catteries. The most important otour-stfecesses was at where the enemy lost 3000 men; more than half their a very small sectionjottmfc carried by us we have already^ound 600 Germansjdlled. "'; delations Between Japan and Qrina Tense. New-¥ork.^The New x York Staats Zeitung publishes the ro^ owing wireless dispatch from its rterlin bureau\ "Therelations between Japan and China are becoming and more tense, and the uibl'eak of hostilities between ,he two countries would scarcely be surprising. Rome reports more early acres R p j paper Corriere Del La Sera, pub-ishes the information that Japan s mobilizing against China, and las already called to the colors he reserves of the next three years' classes. In addition to ;his, it says, Japan has declared of war in Korea. Jhf a state same newspaper furth that China has positively declined to install Japanese instructors in the Chinese army and that China has declared that it cannot accede to thei -other demands jfi. Japan withoutiirst obtaining the sanction of parliament. , The Russian newspaper Rech reports that in. manyx towhs in China, placards have been-posted in public places calling on the population to defend tjie country against attack* by a»P*n« In inahy towna |n China the houses are covered with flags and everywhere there is the t citement" ,v:'::;" "j Dominion Trust Directors Sued Vancouver. - -A; writ has' just been issued by the liquidators of the Dominion Trust Company against the directors, claiming damages for breach of trust and misfeasance of office. The eighteen, directors of the company-are included in the.writ and^'any of them are prominent citizens of this ciir COST OF PANAMA CANAL jhe Panama JCanaI>^ccordihg to Colonel Goethal's annualreport has, so far, cost $353,558,049, or nearly $20,000,000 less than^he total appropriation for the workv; The report also- shows thai-tKe total amount of material reimoved in the dry-frorj^Culebra Cut, from the bejfiifning of operations to June 15th, 1914, aggregated 1,882 cubic yards ; of this amount 25,206,100 cubic yards being removed .because of slides, or 22.86 per cent. The giant locks and dams the canal have also" successfully withstood during the past year the most violent and most numerous earthquake shocks, that Paris. —The B a 1 k a n N e w a AgencyShas recefved a dispatch from Athens, saying, that_.the allied fleet in ^bombarding the Dardanelles threw 2,000; heavy projectiles into the Turkish forts last Sunday. The Ottoman batteries replied feebly without hitting any of the allied warships. . Petrograd, via London.—Making claim to markedjsuccesses in the Carpathians anp to having defeated the German offensive campaign in the north which - 'never^emergeidi/ from its period of preparation," Russian staff officers todk^an optimistic view/ to-day of the Outlook along the wKole fronjU -\ Thd German advance frbm East Completed Sections of j u^Operation Regular service was started this week on the Pacific Great Eastern's recent extension to Liliooet, 120 miles from Vancouver. Mixed freight and passenger trains will be operated three times a week each way,, leaving Squafnish on Mondays, Wednesdays and'Fridays. and returning on the intervening-' days. The northbound trail, is will depart at^ 7 6'clQck in the morning^ariti the southbound will arrive in the afternoon. /^-^^ \ The new line runs almost paralleled'the section of the Canadian Pacific between Hope and Lytton. Between them lies a district that now may be. easily preached by the melting of-fsnow, while the; sportsmen. The Britannia on of Howe Sound is the most important mine, in the Prussia has been stoppjed^owing j mountain and lake to the flooding of the rivers and attempt torcfoss the has been thwarted. A new tat- tle line has thus been formed in the north, along which there is uninterrupted'fighting. On the other hand, operations in the Carpathians are developing rapidly and the, Austrian right flank is now. threateneel by the Russian offensive' movement Near Krasne, thirty miles east of Lemberg, the Russians repulsed an Austrian division. ^s^ The situation in nothern Poland however, is regarded as of great-, est immediate importance, The position of the Germans near Os-sowetz is considered critical since they,are under attack from the heavy guns of the fortress and are unable to bring up their heavy artillery owing to the poor roads. No Tears are felt here for the safety of Lemberg. The town of Halicz with its extensive fortifications is expected to provide an effectic barrier to the Austrian advance toward Lemberg. Yucouver U Without a. Mayor. The elestion of Louis D^a. lor as mayw^of'Vancpu^ef has beenjdeclarea nulI an^vqid, on jrtje^gTound that^Mj^TayJpr did -rtot at the tjm^oi the January; electionsjposfless the necessary projper^yr^ualifications:' A new " ictiairis to be held^ in the near Second .American Ship Strikes Mine Berlin. ~=The American steamer Caribitas gone to the bottonjt off-the Oerman coast in therNofth Sea, as ,a result of runnings a mine. ' :-:' ¦ . ". .. At-the time of the disaster to the Carib,' the vessel was not using the route laid down in the German marine instructions. • The steamer Carib belonged to he Clyde Line. - She was of 2280 tons net and left Charleston, Jan. 27th, for Bremen. She was in command of Captain Cole. Coast of German East . Africa Is Blockaded ^-Washington.—It was formalfv announced at the State Departr meht today-(Fel). 26) tha^ Great Britain has declared a blockade area, but other properties are now likely to be developed in the basin of Green River, about 40 miles by rail out of Squamish^. and in the hills north of Harrison Lake. Running alonguAnderson Lake (about 20milel from Lillooet), the/new railroad taps trailsleatiing from the Bridge River mining country to the northwest. . Quite a large agricultural area lies in the vicinity of Pemberton and along the upper Lillooet River. A fine sportsman's district is that 'along Cayuse Creek, which empties near Lillooet. Hon. T. W. Patterson buil Wagon road up more than a dozen when the Golden-Cache ment took m lhat ¦¦" - " to Run in July or August That the Canadian "Northern .Railway company would run its first trains across the continent some time in July or August, by . which time the line would be open for both freight an d passenger traffic; was,, the statement^ made by Sir William Mackenzie; president of the j^fc^RT^company, at Wi^graeg this week. The driyjn^ijf^tne golden spike ^k tie of the western end of the transcontinental, he said, had been postponed owing to the general conditions .now existing. BRITAIN JAY STOP COTTON SHIPMENTS Britain has declared a blockade f the coast of German^EastkAf-ica as from midnight Feb. 28. London.-—The Britjsh^tiovern-ment niay recpjjsider its ruling permitting-the entrance of cotton intp^Germany. This has been intimated in the- House of Commons by the under secretary of war, Harold J. Ten nan t. Jie; stated that'when the decision was reached not to make cotton contraband the government believed that the requirements of: Germany were alreadv satisfied, but, he must be tirn^/V added, revised this from attitude time to SB Selected Seeds for the West have occured since the work was begun, eighty-seven shocks being recordejd in Ancon alone. ottrlaii Gorern- d is ti nc t tConllicatetall Grain and Floor London.—A despatch to Reu-*rs Telegraph Company from Venice says Austrian Government is confiscating entire «tockg of grain and flour in Monarchy. Parly Ymn' Bspcrlmc* as Practical Canadian Seedsmen supported by exhausti testing on oar own ped Trial Grounda^tias given nowledge of eycry Knewn variety. TENTIAL WORTH of ' R SEEDS procures the Vplf•rm Hlik R«a«lt« from Hewmn to Muon tliat •nour* «on« tiniioiu aueceM to thavrowar. ON CULTURE (152 eopyrtehtod) by J. Cocka. hwhad tuny Mars' ex hwhad tuny Mars' exj tha¦ -WSL "«}• Tbfst and t kid i Cd ana* of thatr kind in Canada, aup- SedCjUJwM.