Greece Gears For Defense As War Front Focus Shifts
Allied forces retreat to Grecian line while Saloniki receives fortification work and aid boosts. Plans include new timber mills at Port Simpson and Alice Arm with box making to utilize lumber, aiming to ship to the old country via cheap water transport. Durling and Michaels push port projects and expect early start with Darling staying to oversee. a box factory and possible Prince Rupert expansion are in view as a Holiday Drawing promotes a sewing machine and other prizes.
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Old Country
F. J. Durling
Detroit
Messrs Durling and Michaels
Port Simpson
John Flewin
Britain's Burden in Financing War Approximate UK War Costs
At a Canadian Club luncheon in Montreal Hon. R. H. Brand explained Britain's wartime finances. He said daily expenditure reached 25 million dollars and annual costs about 9 billion dollars, while normal revenue was 1 billion, doubled by taxation to 2 billion, leaving a vast deficit to meet the 9 billion annual outgo.
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Montreal
R. H. Brand
Mr. Brand
Trades and Labor Council Endorses Aldermen Candidates
The Trades and Labor Council met in Carpenters Hall and backed aldermanic candidates Ald Nicol, Ald Casey, Ald Kerr, and J. J. Anderson, a long time city resident and laundry wagon driver. A mayoral resolution was carried, urging support for a candidate.
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Trades and Labor Council
Carpenters’ Hall
Ald
Nicol
Casey
Kerr
J. J. Anderson
Anderson
Prince Rupert recruiting for 102nd Battalion opens
Capt H B Scharsmidt arrives to establish a recruiting station in the Little Building on Second Avenue. Prospective recruits begin training soon as uniforms arrive from Esquimalt. Major Warden expected to organize drill and dispositions while Red Cross cooking sale planned at Bulger Denike store with a canary raffle.
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H. B. Scharmidt
102Nd Battalion
Second Avenue
Scharsmidt
Warden
Red Cross
Bulger & Denike
Wark Jewellery
Henning
Morrissey
Derry
Violent Artillery Fighting Along Serbo Greek Frontier
British and Allied forces face ongoing artillery clashes along the Serbo Greek frontier near Saloniki. Reinforcements strengthen fortifications as Greeks and Allies prepare a formidable base. Central Powers threaten to push Anglo French troops to the sea. Greece blocks by sea. Casualties are modest on the Allied side.
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Greece
Saloniki
Canadians Eager to Fight in Frontline Trench Action
A London telegraph notes Major-General Albert Currie visiting for leave from the front. Canadian troops led a daring trench attack, bayoneting or capturing enemy soldiers in a smaller assault that revived hand to hand fighting. Question about military purpose of omitting Canadian involvement from the dispatch.
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Currie
London
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Ning
T. M. Michaels
Mrs
Mr. Darling
East
Mr. Michaels
Darling
Alice Arm
Prince Rupert
D. Tite Grand Holiday Drawing
Mrs. Darling
the Morning Journal
Britain
Canada
Motherland
Trades and Labor
Prince Rupert Company
Constantinople
Andrew Ness
Porcher Island
Capt. McGee
Nautical Academy
Esquimalt
Geo
D. Tite
Balkans
Iyecara
Pby
Germany
Alderson
Westholme Opera House
Selig
Rex Beach
William Farnum and
Roy Glenister
Kathryn Williams and
Cherry Malotte
Fox
Matiner
Dominion
McIntyre Hall
Ning of
Queen Mary
Daughters of
The
Empire
ORME
Bulger
Denike
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