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Newspaper
Maple Creek News
Location
Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
1
London reports the British Hampshire and Earl Kitchener's staff are lost off the west Orkneys. The ship HM Hampshire was en route to Russia and sunk last night by a mine or torpedo.
Word reached Maple Creek that Lieut Albert Smith of the Grd CM R’s was wounded in the right arm in recent fighting. The injury is described as not serious and he is under care in a Boulogne homeport hospital. Friends here anticipate a speedy recovery.
British admiralty statements align with Berlin and report a six to eight ship cruiser squadron with battleships and destroyers engaging the German high seas fleet off Jutland. The battle lasted a day and night in fog and produced heavy losses for both sides, with British ships including several destroyers sunk and German losses heavier in absolute terms. Survivors claim the Hindenburg was struck by torpedoes and sank after destroyers attacked.
War driven demand lifts urged breeding of mares across Canada. The appeal, endorsed by horse breeders associations, warns of postwar replenishment needs and calls farmers to breed to best available stock now. Notices include estate claims for John T Bertram of Piapot and various local advisories from Maple Creek and Gull Lake.
A wartime statement lists German maritime losses as two battleships two battle cruisers four light cruisers nine torpedo boat destroyers and a submarine.
The May report for Aylesford School lists student updates across grades including Perrin family members Roy Jessie David and Peter with scores ranging from 10 to 3007. Other names include Bromley Buckingham Newby Coles and Harold Perrin with varied tallies and class identifiers noted.
Mrs. A Gow died Monday June 5 in Maple Creek General Hospital at eighty. An Armagh Ireland native, she came to Canada in 1884 and married Mr. Gow, settling in Graburn to work in the stock business. Funeral services were held at St Marys Church and laid to rest in Maple Creek Cemetery.
The Honourable Siward Ludlow Wet and Messrs Herbert Gerveys Smith and George Douglas Mackie, commissioners under The Public Inquiries Act, invite anyone with knowledge of or information about expenditures by the Saskatchewan Board of Highway Commissioners in 1914 1915 and 1916 related to roads and bridges to come forward. They seek details to decide if traveling expenses and witness fees should be paid.
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