¦¦ PiU Ndft G¥:ofeEr RETRA L D CONFIRMS REPORT OF Returning Soldi^iSdiyes Par- ticulars of Ge'rma^ Inhumanity -L'ondon, "May lS.^ gol- dier of the King's Royal Rifled just returned from the front, .tells/the, following purticuliu'H, with reforonco to the crucifixion of .Canadians:' J "This. Canadian," he said, "was a sergeant of a mnejrine gun company • of the Princess Pats Canadian Light Infantry. On/die 10th inst. the Patricias with/other, units formed part of a diyjf Geiiiiany, British interest, previously.diHEourag-ing to such rnen:_as_JVlaekinnori - iih'd Johnston, awoke somewhat, languidly Sir William Mackinnon succeeded i» the seeurijng1 of .the,region now Brit ish East Africa, and Britain acqui esced in Germany's occupation"!)^-thi great region now passing from he grasp. The lands were at first leaset to Germany by the Sultfaii of Zanzibar, and Jater-dn-werp ceded, the tan pocketing £200,0()0. ' y' "Germany took over the land aboii. thirty years a£o; and -hits had to cope with^peripdicai I'evol.s till within th last eightkyears. Tne coast Arabs re volted withirv-a few weeks after the German method was first applied, and it took a'year of fighting, with native levies from the Sudan and^from New Guinea, and a riavaT"fonSe frorrt Germany, to beairthem. The-most-serious b "J panied Montreal,.' of May the lo.r^Five woumlerl Princess Patricias;1 regiment have . arrived in Montreal. One of theMuimber, Pte, Holiries Ac-, • court, who is staying vrith his cousin Brian Ward;, manager of Molsons Bank, had a badly injuredr ight arm, which indicates clearly and unmis-_takeably that trie Germans have been using dumdum bullets. The other in-' validcd are from Toronto. Pte/' Thomas Longford sight of his left eye from, sKrapnel shell, and Pt ley lost his right •cause. Lance^Corp outbreak was one which ,occurred .by arrangementwith the Southwest African Hereros ten years ago. It cost East Africa the lives of abou£/l£©r 000 merjj women and children^ More sympathetic methods of dealing have been adopted since 190V, and this land of wonderful clirnate, great fertility and enormq,usresources undeveloped, had entered, upon a period of steady prbgfess when this war began. There are eight fairly good harbors on the coast, and the Germans, as usual, have built good..towns. Dares-Salaam^ "the Harbor of Peace," is a fine haif' bor and a delightful place. It dW"not come up to expectation a§ a/port, but its possibilities are very/jgreat' panied by full information for '.'t'ft guidance -of those interested, fuFthe enquiriesrbeing' invited1 ^bythe forea fbranch" wjtJTTi 'view to. placing _ thi oversea^ importers ,in touch with the British Columbia milter. Similar exhibits' will be placed at Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and other points for the information of prairie and eastern buyers. Death of One of In the death at the Vancouver "Gen-, e.ral Hospital. last week j)f Mr. Walter Moberly, British Columbia" lost one of its most prominent pioneers and one who, durinjj^tHe activities of half a century, has done more prob ably than arjy 'other man to explore the^provjnee-and-biaze the-traill_fox pvj succeeding- generations. The Pte. Chapnia ofjjl* ^Vie^yA'ccQnr^!received^his wound' the^ilghtingrarourid Ypres, 'Princess Pats havVbeen in of it fop-.some/time. 3Jtfe" German bullet hit him in thVright foreariii shattering/the h&ne in such a way that it could^s^have been made by tire No one, Fie ing to a cor or'joreig'n, accord pondeht to an exjhahg is aNoweir to Jeave Paris^ without "f^^ conduct," a perrriit obtaine -ftjprn the/police, or a passport, aiv you catihot enter the platform t board a train until you-have^how it/ The railway line jerytie coast i guarded by militaj^—a Cold occupa tion for the spJifary,sentine>s "you se< every hecfe-and there on, the route. A. ailway statioif permits and ¦sports must_agajn_be-produ'ced for cAamfnatioihT On declaring;1 myself to .be a British'subject,.mine was exam-tlllck|ined by^a British "tommy," who had jusj/had a sound rating from\a'_ disagreeable . Englishman who objected to the ordeal. Again, no one; French of civilized warfare. pftotos of the wound have been iken and they^-are said to bear out trie .contention- thafdurn dum bullets were used; *:' | Iri a letter,, to his father, a private in the Royal Scots writes: ^-^ "The British/gUrineirs are very ^accurate. They shellxthe G.erman fire line, ijjid the /shells paas^just a foot Or two above our fire line.^ Even their passing thus^nialces you keejt^downT The Gerrjian guns caiicrfliiiTy^ get at our^fvre li ^hfil ctrasT^nally, most of landmg either between or foreign, can leave Havre by rau or boat without a fresh permit from the police or a visa on your passport. It sounds like a story of the days .of the French Revolution.' If crossing to Englaud,_--you must go to the British consul, for a visa on your passport whet is your ultimate des-, The*" trains'aFe^running-^wTl, but the timetable isvcujta;fled,.iand the best or the evening. I was ruminating1 on the life of a/locomotive engine the other day,' looking at one^ of those draiwing/a.train on the Etat'line. It bore tKe The lire and support trenches, or hit- Cr<^<^ W V^ ^™acr & u©., ting the support. One. can see very WW ™fi^constructed 1884," plainly the dTfference^between the na' #^fj" ^7 ™11 If a.mn^' tionsk war here. Every night • we %£TtW^ t0 the PsalmJ5^ " ?*st-s. of threescore years Juitften, or ***S fou'-score^whaMs^the longest life of an engine 7>%n can never be "reconstructed^-at any^age. His machinery gjves out and canNnever be re-_on the \Tain one y_we pass two (churches. ;One is admass of/ ruins1—shelled and destroyed, by the Germans. AH the wlage, too, is destroyed. In another village, wh^qh. the Germans held some itilie ago. there is a church, on the tower of which the Germans mounted four Maxims. It had to be shelled to get rid of these, lyifc now'every, part, of that chuj^rTs^staiiding as^beforej ex-gejjt tne very top;' where; the .machine guns were, and. this h'asj been taken clean off. This will give you an idea of Iiqw''accurate our men can be." "The coast of German East Africa is now under blockade," writes a correspondent, "and it may be assumed that there is greater British interest in the territory now than there was in the days when Sir William Mac-kinnon, through la^k of_foreign office support,' could not avail himself of an offer of {he territory by the Sultan of anzibar, and whh Sir Harry Johnston's freaties with chiefs in the interior went for nothing. East Africa is a white man's country, as equator-;h\l territories go. /When the Portu-guese/Itouehed thirtrftast on" their way to Indhi. in the sixteenth century, they found! that the coast line had .been "known to andnised fy the Arab tracers for-five^hundred gear's. The Greeks had been before the.Arabs, -and^tne Persians > had been 'too. Some great unknown race had preceded!them all, and in the midst of the all-e'oniiuering' -forest, on the island ofj Songa Manara • there are still are revealed the splendid ruins of a mighty! city raised by these, people. Discoveries, ,'niade in .the vicinity of the ruin,s seem .to indicate that the race which built J.he city had some^jlirect 'connection with .China. , • 'IGer.inan East Africa is. almost, double the size of Gerinany in Europe, the urea of^thd/t#ritory being 864,-000 square miles. There is a large population, and in the coast lunds-particularly there i? that: useful -trading-mixturej^of--peoples const itute3^ by comnTunities' of A.mlJs7^Syrians and Hindus. Jftfh«li^Carl. Petersr with his ^g _n the fcrain day, of wiipm "I'lSfiked a question in French, .claimed m£ as a fellow-countryman—from my accent^ he said, lie" was a baker by trade, seeking work in his own line, arid having been unsuccessful in a village was going on to a sniall town; an expatriated man, driyen-out of his own land by the German land robbers, but taking up his burden among strangers. The wonderful awy in> which the French women have taken up the work in place of the men at the ftprit is a credit to Prance and to her woman-. hood. -They are business wjomen,'our> sisters across the channel, and never • before was this so well exemplified. And everywhere the Hed Cross nurses are giving' service in the great cause. You see them walking outi with a batch of convalescent soldiers, great numtjers o£ whom seem to suf- Moberly was one of the pioneers who ware "attracted to this coasp by the Cariboo , gold. discoveries^ ;ahd, whip joined in the great ruih in 1857 and i858. He had been>suffering for sprne iroe from cancer'of the larypx; Dur-hg the past-month-he suffered great-y, but through-it alljve^qisplayed that heerful/spiritwhidi, during.his long nd arduouscufeer had endoa'red him o/a hostr of British MJolumbians^ ho^g^of' latej years a resident of' tncouyer, he was kndwn''in every omer of the province, and wjierever e went was at home . among /his riends. .„]. // Mr. Moberly's great^-wdrk was done in locating the route of the Pacific Railway jbetweenXlSTl and 1878, dur- FeacHed the Yellowhead Pass arid discovered the source of the Trnser riverr.lt was on this trip that ho coll,Qcte(Lf'ata \vhich_uvelituiilly led i to the selection of the Kicking Horse Pass as the route for theJ,rans-moun-; tain line of the C. P. R. in preference to the Yellowhead Pass. The late Mr. Moberly was born ilt'| Steeple Ashton, Oxfordshire, England, on August 15, 1832. His lather was I a retired post-Captain of thex Royal Navy,,and on \ his retirement was awarded a-graht~of~lan(tih the County-of Siiiicoe^ Upper Canada. His mother,' of a Polish family, was btfrn in Sebastppol, where his father j lad been ternporarily stationed. Wai-' ter was teii^ years of age when his parents^migrated to Canada and purchased a home on the old military re-of Penatanguishen^f^whefe rniany military and naval^officers set-led. At the age of/tfiirteen he was ing which time' .some 47,000 miles of route were/surveyed," a difficult work, which, cost the lives of thirty-eight prospecting engineers. Mr. Moberly j>ad charge of__the section between Great Shuswap lake and House and ie,, presided^tiver by Mr^ Frederick lore, whb^.gave the future ex;plorer n"e^ctfelient grounding/in mathema-vx, a good foundation for his future ctiyities; .^/' '¦:'' The Cariboo/Excitement attracted Ir. Mobwlv/as it did thousands of thers throughput the North Aineri-ah continent, and he sailed from New York for V)etoria^irrl858; For e time he; remained at the dig- ut his ¦ stay there resulted in i Standard little materiairprofit. He settled at "Vancouver long before there was anything there but a mere settlement; No; one was better acquainted with the province than he, and his wide experience only confirmed his faith in the future^'prosperity of British Columbia; Eagle passes. It;was iiToeptember, coroner's inquest. Farmer (bursting into the village inn) -What d'ye think, Silas? The bones of a prehistoric man have been found on Jim White's farm. Innkeeper—Great Gosh ? I hope poor Jim'll be able to clear hisself at the REAL ESTATE. ML ESTATE M.C. WIGGINS SPECIALIST IN PRINCE - FARM LANDS. AND GEORGE LOTS", OFFICE-: • y THIRD AVENUE, OFF1 GEORGE STREET, PRINCE GEOR -J fer only from bad feet or slight tworc6nipanior)'s, made his'secret dash into-the interior between thirty and forty' years ago^ahd^eaflle^to agreements with' the-chiefslrwhicKTreclarcd ¦ ¦ ;¦'"-.. ¦ ¦ -"J !¦ "*7 .1 . • -ri__i " ¦¦• . . -\ wounds in the leg, and are using tem-porary_crutches. Many of them will soon recover and will return to |the front, and ^nieantime they .are well tended.- Here, where so many families have given one, two or three relatives to the war, we are doing well; but in,France I met a man who had thirty-fiver elations in the field. 8PC. LUMBER TO FOREIGN LANDS. lumber exhibits have 1.—Furthei' now been des- patched to foreign- markets under instructions "^from .Jthje Minister" of tiands; As a^'jBsultroC-thi.s the trade in overseas markets will-hJve a coil; prehensiv-c Vange' of. samples^of British Cohinibia woods^both in the natural and finished'^states, fotr^the in-fo^trthtiorr of buyers.., The Canadian trade ^commissioners in London, Birr minghnm, ManchesterT~Bristol, Glas^ gbw, Paris; Shanghai, Yokohama-, Auckland, Sydney^ Melboume,';.A.de-lrdCt JhbDV larde,-Capetown, bsin, 'Coliurnbia (Central vArncrica) and iiuertos^Syrcs^willha^ chargi! of the exhibits, , EachT exhibit is There.are few people who do hot' know the story of the wonderful carpet on which the owner had but to sit, wish.to be at some place, and, Jo ! immediately he found himself there._ Some agents of this nature would be appreciated by many a man^lacturer in-jumping the demand for his product into a thousand places,, sand miles away. Apparently to a man there is no means .of "getting there ^and^g^acing his name and his goods right into thaLlerritory, except by slowTiaiorious bl^by-bit acquaint-ancestiip, and rnouth-to-mouth testimonials. , x,' " .= Biit- he has overlooked the modern Carpet of Bagdad— -,' •- is Newspaper Advertising. if you a,re doing a local business, talk-over your advertising^ problenisjvith the Advertising Itepartni^riV ol; this STOVES for GOAL or WOOD HEATERS RANGES of all lands and sizes for every Kitchen We are exclusive agents-for the famous '1GURNEY STOVES?' Our PRICES are right.. \/y • , We are ^allowing a special 10 per cent discount on every article in: our stores. Orders^will be taken at{our Prince George Yarci as well as at our store at South. ^ LOOK UP YOUR STOVE Remember the 10 per cent; CASH Discount, THE NORTHERN LUMBER k MERCANTILE CO.. LTD. W. F. COOKE. Prei. /." RUSSELL PEDEN,Vice-fi». G. E. NcUUGHUN. Secretaiy. 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Leave T^_4, Arrive Edmonton ridays and Mondays CONNECTIONS AT EDMONTON TO AND FROU POINTS EAST Travel via the BEST NEW RAILWAY EVER CONSTRUCTED. Our Aigen informati W. is will be pleased to furnish any in desired. -. ¦ 5>2. - L QUINLAN. ' , ¦'. ' |:'; | , District' Passenger -Airent, . • ' .» . Winnipeg:,- Man, , . -.' Automobiles for hire, ~-^ Machinery Repaired. \ Skates^Sharpened. Lathe Work. ^ South Fort Ceorge. HARRV COUTTS, - ^ DHUMMOND m MOK4V. Macninist*. Launches jStorage; Gasoline Oils and Accessories.