THE OMINECA MLUNER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918 -

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Speaks Well Before Good Attendance
On His Thirteen Years Among Turks

tion of Turkey brought looks of:
anger and surprise to the faces

Instead of the usual debate on
Tuesday evening, those who <at-
tended at St. Andrew's Hall were

treated to a delightful address by .

Rev. Canon Gould, of the C.M.S.,
who spoke at length on his thir-
teen years of life in Turkey.

The speaker, who has lived in
many places in thé land of the
Turk and who has travelled very
extensively, recited instance after
instance of the terrible cruelty of
the ‘‘Unspeakable’’ Turk, of
where malcontents were spirited

.away, of where” prisoners were
incarcerated in gloomy dungeons
and murdered secretly, and of
where British divers working for
a British engineering firm before
the war in the Bosphorous re-
fused to po. on the floor of that
waterway because it was literally
carpeted with sacks of the bones
of thousands of .the enemy’s of

- the cruel Sultan Abdul Hamid.

The maltreatment of the Ar-

menians and the misrule of the

differant elements of the popula-

of the audience,

‘we

The speaker gave many humor-
ous instances of the ignorance
a
vein of humor running through

and crudity of the, natives,

practically his whole address.

He concluded his talk by a
thorough condemnationof Turkey
and her allies in the war and was
roundly applauded when he refer-
red to the the victorious raising
of the Union dack over Jerhsalem

MAY NOW SEND
CIVILIAN ‘LETTERS
TO GERMANY

Ottawa, Reb. -$:—Up ‘to the
present it-has been permissable
to send. letters: to persotis in en-
emy countries or countries held];
by the enemy, subject to eensor-
ship through the medium of an
intermediary in a neutra!“coun-
try. An arrangement has now
been made whereby such corres-
pondence can be forwarded
through the medium of Messrs.
Thos. Cook & Son, Montreal, in
eonnection with’ authority re-
ceived from the British govern-

after 13 centuries of Turkish oc-} ment. . woe

cupation of that city.

Before the address J. J. Me-~

Innes gave one of his popula
recitations,

The sum of $19. 20 was collect-
ed for the sterilizer fund of the

Hazelton Hospital. -

Dr. Wrinch acted ably as chair-

man.

A number of New Hazelton
townspeople drove over for the
expected debate, but were pleus-

ed at the oratory of Canon Gould.

The letters to be forwarded
must relate only to private news
rland must not contain any refer-
ence to military or naval move-
ments, to. political or economic
conditions or the like. The let-
ter should be enéloged in an ens
velope legibly addressed to its
ultimate destination, and must
be left open in aceordance with

enemy countries, This should
then be placed in anorher envel-

A Brilliant Career

A despatch from London to
the Canadian. press announces
the awarding to Joseph Burr
Tyrrell, of Toronto, of the Mur-
chison Medal by the Geological
Society,

Mr! Tyrrell, who is associated
with M. W. Sutherland in the
Golden Wonder group at Carna-
by, near Hazelton, is one of Can-
ada’s foremost geologists, ex-
plorers and mining engineers,
In 1912 he was appointed by the
(Ontario government to head the
exploring party: to Ideate the
five-mile railway strip through-
out’ the wilds of Keewatin to
Hudson, Bay.. Before that he
and his brotheer, J. W. Tyrrell,
had done much exploratory work
for-the Geological Survey of Gan-

ada.

exploration in northwest Mani-

toba. as far north as Lake Atha-
bases; a’trip across the Barren
Lands, during which he ‘discover:
ed the Dabaunt River and lake,
one of the greatest waterways in
In 1898 he -left the
Geological Survey and has prac-
ticed privately hig pr ofession in

Canada.

the Yukon and Toronto.

from death have been innumer
able. — '

The Murchison Medal of the
Geological Society was founded
in memory of Sir Robert Impey

Murchison, a famous British peo

logist, who died in 1871.

His journeys include a sur-
vey of the Rockies; of Alberta
between the Bow and /North!.
Saskatchewan Rivers; five years’

ope addreased to Thos. Cook &
Son, 530 St. Catherine St, Mon- |
treal, towether with a slip bear-
ing, legibly written, the narrie
of the sender and also a posta!
note for 25 cents to cover the
charges to a neutral country and
from there to the enemy-country.

The arrangements necessary to
ensure the transmission to the
writers of any reply from the
correspondents, in enemy couun-
tries will be~made by Messrs.
Thos. Caok & Son.

During 2808
his adventurous career hise escapes

This does nat affect correspon-
dence addressed -to prigoners of
|war, which is lo be forwarded in
accordance with the prisoners 3 of |"
war reguletions.

-|ed by writing to
Son, 530 St. Catherine St.; WW,

‘Montreal, enclosing stamped and

- 25-Miles:
«gq To Hazelton

“One gallon of gaboline
, Bas.aane it o

rence, with the Ford car.
man (name omrequest) reports
_ an average of 33 miles per gal-:
‘Jon for20,000 miles,
this is a record that ‘few, if

any other makes of cays, ever os
equalled... .

36 to 68 per -
: cent more
“mileage

. - 20 bo 25 miles. to a gallon of |
, “gasoline i is a frequent oceur-.

One

‘

Surely.

It demonstrates the economy

of owning rand driving, a Ford,

- You can average. 1000 miles
; more travel on \Ford-size tires,

. The saving on oll and repairs is. proportionately large. ‘The i
. name “Ford” ‘stands for lowest coat and d dheutest tee a

addressed ehvelope for reply,

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CANADIAN ENGINEERS -

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Field Company,
pineers, North Vancouver, B.C.,
has réceived instructions to re-
eruit 500 men of, bhe. following
trades: ~

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Tradesinen | and. meehanies a a
should not miss this oppor tunity | Bo Bey 7
to join a skilled. bratich. ‘of the] poo eS

army. Men. drafted i in‘the first

The number is ‘limited, 80 carly

the censorship regulations of;

Fall particulars may be obtaiis .
to Thos. Cook &|

CALL FOR more MEN]

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npalication ig necessarye 0. E ;
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‘WOMEN PLAY A

BIG PART IN

The. womenhood of the world
in the aggregate has never. been
abler mentally or as: ‘pewerful as
itis today. With the accumu-.

r

lated practical art of centuries, | -

the skill of the world’s women-

hood is ready for use. . What’ will

women do fora worldin jeopardy?
asks the Toronto Daily Star,

Canadian. women must think

out their own methods of ser-
vice. No one ean ‘direct them
with the ability with which they
can direct themselves, .No food
controller can make or carry out
their plans, Every woman car-
ries a weight of responsibility.
None caf escape, | Is: there.a
single Canadian woman who_is
willing to shirk her share of the
food crisis? °. We do not believe |
such a woman exists,. Wherever
you are, you are the woman who

must “make. goad to save our Al-|.

lies from Starvation, and Canada
from being a vassal ‘to Germany.
‘This is no idle, sensational ery.
{t is-as true as the fact which

Fou could nat believe at first, the]

sinking of the Lusitania,

“Think out what women can do.| .

Do not: leave this,
‘Think for yourself...

to others.
* Women’ of |

the country, women of the town, .

think, pian, invent.’ Our fight
“Thust now be won by food saving,
substitution; /” production.” You
only ean do it best.
tian ‘an yone else,

lems.

‘Far better ;
‘Think it out. | $=

“Think out | ‘hew wiiys;. think |}
out: new methods; Lhink out new.
ways oF dealing with ald prob-| 4
‘Dou’t,always ‘be thinking’
of getting back to where you

were before the war,
really. new world.” Thatis what
Lloyd George says.
But thisi is what Canadian ' women.
“thave got to do.

“Drop ‘that: piece of white

bread which you~are raising’ to
your lips! The fate of the world
five hundred. years hence. is ate
stake!*” . :

We must share: Canadian bread”
with England, Scotland, Ireland, ~

Get a

-He knows, - os

France, Italy,.or we,may he de-

feated, enslaved by Germany.

- Think out plans today for beat~
ing your own record.

The Divine Helper of the Unie .

verse is depending on our ‘help.

Hazelton Hospital

for any period from ona month upward at $1 per -
month in etree This vate includes office ‘con -

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