We Are Prompt lï r«iu went an Express. Furniture Van. Truck or Dray. 'phont u& Wellington Coal Pacific Transfer Co. sue FIR TON, CASH ONLY *** "www®»!»;-1 BAGGAGE STORED. Hall A Walker ltll Government St Phons IS. VOL 46 ' VICTORIA, B. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1915 ' SUCH A NOISY ANIMAL ATTEMPT AT BLOCKADE WILL NOT STOP SHIPS London Times' Correspondent* Two Portions' of trench Finds Much for Commenda­ tween St. Eloy and Ypres tion in Reviewing Situation Canal Recaptured TO AND PROM BRITAIN ARTILLERYMEN KNOW SEVERE ATTACK IN THE Majority of Shipping Lines Will Continue Usual EVERY RANGE TO AN INCH ARGONNE WAS REPULSED Sailings; Government Has No Intention What­ ever of Relaxing Pressure on German Trade; Airmen Have Missed Only Six In Champagne Trenches Were Announcement Awaited. Days S;nce August; StH! — Taken; Gains Made at Maintain Supremacy Several Points London, Fob. 17.—At the stroke of midnight the waters sur- rounding the coasts of the United Kingdom will become, so far as Paris. Feb. 17—The French war of­ London. Feb. 17.—The military cor- fice this afternoon issued the following lies within the power of Germany to make them, a war sone, which all rc.siMivIvnt <>f (he Times writes as statement on the progress of the war: follows: “N-iw that two-thirds of the vessels, neutral or otherwise, will penetrate at their peril. Some of “In spite of an active cannonade, the -w4nter fan are passed and the French and British avlâtbre who yes­ the services across the Channel probably will be curtailed, but a m*. weather shows signs of mending Its terday threw bombs in the region of manners, the opportunity Is favorable jority of the neutral shipping lines will accept the risk and continue Ghlstelles and Ostend have been able for the reviewing of the general situa­ to re-enter our lines unharmed. their sailings. The names and nationality of the vessels and the fieg. tion of the army -under Field Marshal “Tile Belgian artillery ha» carried Su John French. of their nations will be painted on their sides in the hope that Ger­ out some effective shooting against “The district In which our army Is gathering of troops and shelters. man submarines will not sink them by mistake. < perating is at present practically “in Champagne ten of the enemy’s Britain*» announcement of the de­ swamp, ând more os less unfit for the counter attacks were repulsed during any immediate and widespread acti­ passage of trwopa. Large sheets of the night. —; tails of her proposed retaliatory policy vity by the German submarines, but water cover some *reaa. Water stands In the Argon ne there was consider­ by which she plans to shut off ther the developments regarding neutral on the stiff, slippery and holding clay, able activity. Near Fontaine Aux German food supply from the outside ships should bring to a head one of the rendering thé movements even of ln- most interesting and threatening situ­ Charmes w$ have destroyed a block­ Is expected momentarily. and ap- fantn rn ras . -»u-itry next to ffnpfBc- house and 100 metres of trenches. A ations oftSewar. tlcable. For weeks * on end It has German attack launched by at least parent!) there is not the slightest Britain was noticeably cheered by n.ined. hid when It Has not ruined three battalions between Four de Paris prospect that she will accept the Ger­ the second big air raid on the German thick nilst» have enveloped the coun­ and Hill 203, west of Boureullle*. has man proposal, to call off the blockade ha#*-* on the Belgian coast, but. as try. presenting ail aspect that can only been very severe. We have entirely if Britain will relax naval pressure on w-as the case at .the previous raid, the he described as forbidding. The fatp repulsed It, inflicting on the enemy shipping. official report does not state the extent trenches are in many places tilled d'ith huge losses and taking some prisoners. It is not expected that there will be of the damage. water up to the men’s waists. The “More to the east, in the forest of c old water nn*-deep mud Li- which Mehmcourt, *tve have75" captured TOO some troops have to fight produce frost metres of trenches. atmosphere, as he has described It, Is bites which have cost us many casual “From the Meuse to the .Vosges exceedingly tense. He Is not existed ties. It Is «inly upon slightly rising nothing noteworthy has occurred." to humiliate himself, but he ha» been SAW SUBMARINE AS ground. In some woods, and in The vil­ urged to keep the negotiations alive, for lage.» and farms, that life Is at all Paris, Feb 17.—The French war office so long as negotiation» are in progress supportable. Issued the following statement yester­ the administration believe» there be no danger of a rupture. IT HASTENED AWAY “The roads have, on the whole, stood day afternoon; —Montreal Star. - well, and th* pavements are a bless1 "The British troops captured yester­ Why does the donkey bray, papa. 15 Germany, in view of the sentiment ing If the pavements were six feet day the two parts of the trench which Why does the donkey bray? which exists may decide to tell Mr wider it would more easily permit the they had lost the night before between The reason for the donkey’s bray Gerard that his presence Is no longer passage of two motor lot ries abreast desired; and it may recall Count von St. Eloy and the Ypres canal. Is because the beast lu built that way. Sailors of Collier Dulwich Did but as this is not the case, there is « Bernetorff, the German ambassador. 'On the front of the French armies And so he has to bray. .. ' _ good deal.of mud churned up at the The bitterness of Germany 1» shown the day of February 15 was. on the —FATHER GOOSE Not Save Belongings; Two s.des. Fnst or a fortnight of fine whole, calm. No Infantry action» have I» incidents relatively ùtilmport­ weather may alter the conditions been reported and particularly Import ant. For example, no reply whatever Men Unaccounted for rapidly at any time, but It Is necessary ant success of our artillery are con has been received to the complaint of to bailee the difficulties un 1er which Damaged Airship Dr. Van Dyke, the American minister opera lions, if they can be dignified by The official communication Issued by to Belgium and Luxemburg, that the Havre. France. Feb. 17.—The British The nanny have, been cor ducted during the war-office last night say* that Ger­ PIANS MUST AWAIT RELATIONS STRAINED German military authorities have in­ steam collier DuTwlch. bound from Hull the past few weeks. man trenches, three kilometres in ex­ Was Seen Drifting terfered with his correspondence with , “The fronts of the rival armies are tent (nearly two miles) have been the Luxemburg authorities and there- to Rouen, was torpedoed at night by a everywhere covered by a labyrinth of taken In Champagne, to the northwest Toward Zuyder Zee by^prevented him from discharging his German submarine twenty miles north­ trenches, resembling the Hampton DECISION IN EAST of Perthes and north of Beausejour. WITH UNITED STATES west of Cape de la Heve. As the crew Court maze In plan. On both sides of The text of the communication fol» It Is manifest that if the German the front line are only poet* of ob­ London. Feb. 17.—A big airship, be­ government, declines to permit an took to the boats, the submarine which servation. In the rear stretch many “Along the whole front the day of Resumption of German Offen­ lieved to be of the Parseval type, ap­ Germany Sends Notification to American diplomat to perform his duty torpedoed the ship was seen speeding lines, zigzag. and communication February 16 has been favorable for us. parently damaged by gunfire, flew over and Insists that "strained relations" away. The Dulwich sank in twenty trenches, while acres of barbed wire In Belgium there has been an artillery Amsterdam, this morning, says a dis­ exist, the United State» can not long sive in West Depends on U, S. Government Through minutes. cover most of the positions. Breast­ engagement. patch from that city to Reuter's Tele­ remain in charge of German interests works have been constructed by* both A small French air squadron has Contest With Russians gram Company. The airship was fly­ Ambassador Gerard In the belligerent countries. Twenty-two nhembers of the crew of armies on the top of the ground to bombarded a German aviation park at ing at a height of about 600 feet and To assume what Is regarded here as thirty-one men were picked up by the meet the present difficulties of holding Ghistellas. A small British squadron Its crew was unable to keep it In a impossible and accept the view of war, French destroyer Arquebuse and flooded trenches, while strong posts, baa bombarded < intend. horizontal position. Assuming a verti­ what will happen? The United States brought to Havre. Seven others rowed defended village» and farmsteads and “To the south of ‘Fprea the British STUBBORN FIGHTING AT* cal position, the aircraft drifted In the PRESIDENT AND CABINET and Germany cannot get at each other. to Fecamp. The fate of the other two other arrangements complete the post- «re masters of a number of trenches direction of the Zuyder Zee, an arm of jThey are separated by the steel walls is unknown- v here for two d iys a rather spirited BOTH ENDS OF EAST LINE the North Sea.