Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press Woty Peg Friday june 1918. Hundred thousand More for the red Cross fund it ferday s collections make i country total still going Strong final returns will not be i known for Field of wheat even though Rcd Cross Cain has turned into the last half of and districts Al passed their objectives the of the fund total proceeds visor almost an even 1 thousand dollars being added of the Day s reports from provincial committees. The to the provincial fund now is 539-91. And instead of lagging on last map messages from the Heads a committees indicate that the n rotors taking on increased As they go stimulated by the wonderful interest that is manifested work of Swan River Iris now apparent that the final 4--95 of the country Campaign Ivill greater Winnipeg grand total to data District. Municipalities Headquarters Shell River and Koblin Grandview Gil. Plains total for District i 2 Shell River Hills burst. Grand View and Gilbert flow Len a Grandview Gilbert Plains total for District. 3 Mossey total for do strict. 4 ochre re. Ste. Rosa do total for District 5 Silver available for another weeks or to the great distance be i erased in the North by enthusiasm canvassers. From Swan River the whole province is be look for inspiration comes Mcmase that the committee will require until next wednesday to nov their outlying and Cut. St Raulte. The returned Soldier speeches have helped in the Etc arable Campaign in this District Jill remain t Here several Days Long with him Chal Umaji chamber Secretary Vii Stantley Are personally visiting each school Dis Rich and driving the Campaign to a Ilse the per capita donation of to entire District has now reached i for each Man woman and child of re population and this same rela j Jive proportion is maintained at the Reeve Frank of St. Clements and Secretary treasurer Thomas Bunn i left Selkirk for the Eastern Hinter land monday and will travel to the Kelson River and Back visiting every i comp settlement and fishing station before they return Early next . Another Field of wheat the Cartwright enthusiasts have sided a second wheat Field to thai Cross acres and they now have of splendid crop to watch in to maturity. Brandon reached her objective on wednesday but she is not Content last night reported still further collections with the surrounding Brand party of Corn Vallis still to be hard from. One of the richest districts of the province. Turtle Mountain with Kil Urney As Headquarters Only started in drive yesterday and report As the result of the first Day s work from Only a. Few wards. The tabulated Fig Uros of the results 19 por. La Prairie. P. La total for District 6 Shoal Lake total for District 7 River total for District 8 William City total for District i 3 Lake total for District 10 total for District total for District x. Total for District 12 South total for District 14 total for District 35 i total for District 16 i Turtle total for District 17 total for District 18 x. Norf total for District Beach residents wanted to help the red Cross Campaign com Mittee men Jjo spend the w.ee1c-end at Winnipeg Beach to help the local Beach committee. Saturday each visiting one of the school houses in. The settlement Back of the Beach and taking red Cross Pledgee while registration is in Progress. Preparatory meetings have been held. In these schools by. Geo. W. Prout the men Are and a Biff collection is promised. Volunteers Are asked to communicate with Headquarters. Main 62, today. 21 Lake total for District 22 Mound Stanley and. Rhineland total for District 23 division of Russell municipality re ports an amount t o Date of Roland municipality. Roland Man., june red Cross committee of Roland compels ing municipality of Roland ports a total to Date of j5.950. Contribution. Elkhorn Man., june red pros committee of Vej Khourt com j prising the Elkhorn District and the i municipality of Wallace reports a total to Date of Stra thelmur and diet riot. I Man., june red Cross committee of Strathclair comprising the municipality of Strathclair reports a total to Date of i Winchester municipality. Deloraine Man., june red Cross committee of Winchester comprising Deloraine and District i reports a. Total to Date of South Cypress. Glenboro Man., june red Cross committee of the municipality of South Cypress reports a total to St. Laurent Armstrong Eriksdale. Total for District 34 St. St. Selkirk total for District Rock tone Wail total for District 2s Virden and District. Virden Man., june red j Cross committee of Virden Empris j ing tha town of Virden and part of ithe municipality of Wallace reports i a total to Date of big sum from Birtle. Birtle Man. June red Cross committee of Birtle comprising the town of Birtle and seven and 264.25 i 16.85 6.00 850.00 583.50 old campaigner had rousing reception in red Cross drive a half Rural reports total of Morton municipality. Man., june 20. The red Cross committee of Morton com prising Boissevain and Morton municipality reports s. Total to Date of Regina figure already nearly fifty thousand Reg Ioa. Sask., june a total of How a barrage of education and publicity prepared the ground and paved the Way for the tremendous Success of the red Cross drive was aptly explained to a free press interviewer yesterday by major b. A. Alson formerly of the 226th Bat Talion too was one of the corps of speakers who went up and Down the highways of the like the circuit riders of old in the preparatory Campaign Lor the bed Cross fund subscription. Major Alson is a fighting Parson a. Breezy Stalwart son of Erin who is an old campaigner on the Battle Field As Well As on the platform and in the pulpit. At the outbreak of. The War he left his Church to find a new pastor and instantly Witti experience in two campaigns to Gerofe him. His experience on the hustings for the Cross Campaign last fortnight is typical of that of the corps of Twenty speakers All the Turied officers and men who had been wounded at the front bad personal experience with the work of the Rud Cross in the Fjeld. These men spoke from improvised platforms they travelled with Itin that now barrage was lifted and even the typewriter had been pressed into service the. Time had come when they must go Over the top " i said tour objective is not the first. Nor the second nor the third line trenches but the final line. The sky is your to one of my addresses the people stayed till 12.30 at night to hear me. There Are Many wealthy men in All these localities who if they had not been awakened to the True meaning of this drive would have thought they had done Trier. Full duty in Contri buting through taxation their por Tion of t he municipal Grant. At Neepawa there was collected just in the town. Another vigorous campaigner in the drive was private j. A. Car Penter a returned Soldier. Arriving one evening at a town where he found his meeting Hail not been announced he went to the local school House the pupils called for four boy volunteers to prepare the meeting Hall and get out hand and ultimately addressed capacity meeting with great Suc Cess. Grant moving picture town to they shows from visited the a s recorded in the red Cross total for District 27 .5 -133.4 Bank Lac do t3u Whitemouth. All the returns lire in it is expected total for District 2s de 114.718.37 of too i total 129700 29 Carillon Carillon 200.00 j4.010.00 7.113.00 6.850.00 573.00 487.75 350.00 5.000.00 4.500.00 for District a Emerson b Dom. City. Total for District 30 St. F. Total for District 31 the total for District he of i am Palgon this evening at the close of 360.00 the third Day of the drive and when i j All the returns lire in it is expected j that the Mark will be reached. I the allotment to Regina by the National committee was but the local committee endeavoured to raise this o drive on at Woore jaw Moose jaw june City s sed Cross drive allotment was 000. And the objective the local executive set was tonight the citizens went handsomely Over the j671.55 833.35 ?100.00 ?100.00 5.130.00 j2s.277.00 1.520.60 to Midnight Are presented herewith Cam bed Cross provincial pain. Top with the final figures still to to announced. Moosomin District going Well Moos Orain sask., june min and District in the Saskatchewan i Campaign Are responding nobly to i the Kjall of the red Cross. Up to 1 to o clock tonight had been netted by the corps of energetic col j lectors nearly double the original of i Yective of 53.000. With two More Days Swan River Man., june 20. Red of the big drive to go there is a Good Cross District no. 1. Swan River and probability of being raised Banner District is Minitonas not Content with beating every record in the province tonight decided to extend the drive for the first three Days of next week in order to give the Central committee time to personally canvass every District. This method which has been carried out thus far has resulted in the unparalleled showing being made by the Swan River Valley. At 6 o clock Here. Rocanville. Twenty Miles North of Moosomin. With an objective of 311.500. Has already raised and expects to raise by saturday night. Missionary work among Ottawa june need of progressive missionary work among the foreigners settled in Western first Canada was the subject of a vigor schools the picnics and the blowing matches they occupied the pulpits of country churches everywhere they carried the Torch of the flaming Emblem of mercy the Story of the cause that is the. Outpouring of human sympathy in this War. By Eeyore who has taken any in Terest m the red across Campaign through the that Means of the Mani to bans who by this time have Given to the red Cross were anxious be fore the inception of the provincial drive to know in just spin it the message of the campaigners waa received and the experiences of _ major Alson Are interesting and typical. He was listed As one of the red Cross speakers and allotted to a route through West Central Mani Toba with a touring moving picture yer few appearing during a period of a week in Miniota Crandall Hamiota rapid City. Strathclair and Oak River. The manner in which the major handled his subject As Weiji As tha intrinsic humanity of the subject itself made a combination which proved irresistible. At Strathclair the speaker left the Community busily at work with voluntary contributions pouring in in addition to the " municipal Grant of at Oak River the audience which listened to major Alsen s virile 45 minute speech was swelled by the arrival of three apron loads of people who triad previously heard his address in Crandall. Where the major s address was delivered in a picture theatre Atter the show the people waited enthusiastically none leaving an fact More arriving. In a Short talk with the free press the major said All t he people needed was the right Appeal the human note. In Strathclair i used a j local incident to Point by argument. A boy had been killed on Tolje Street j Lauria not very Well. Ottawa. June 20. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will be unable to visit to Ronto and. Other Points for the present at least. The opposition Leader is in has a Inderg one treatment at pre sent being administered. He is suf Fering from neuralgia but apart irom that is somewhat run Down needs a rest and change. Double Shell output Canada at present manufacturing 18-Pound shells monthly Ottawa june Imperial munitions Board has received a Mes Sage from the minister of munitions urgently asking Canada to double its output of 18-Pound shells. At the present the output is understanding had been arrived at with the University so that in the near future German will no longer be necessary either for the Honor matriculation or for any University in italian uniforms Rome june 20. Italian military officials Learned before the austrian offensive began says a Semi official note issued today that the austrians had dressed italian speaking soldiers in italian uniforms in order to Throin them at a suitable moment into the entente Allied lines so As to shells per month at an expenditure panic disorder. Captured Austri of the munitions Board is in communication with manufacturers and Hopes to with the request. It is stated that april the output of British Columbia Spruce for aeroplane manufacture has been quadrupled. Inspect dockyard of new Plant Halifax n.s., june 20. J. W. Carruthers president and w. I Starcross vice president of the can Ada steamship together with m. J. Haney of Toronto and h. A. Brown of Vancouver representing Halifax shipbuilders limited spent yesterday inspecting the dockyard and the proposed site of the new shipbuilding Plant. Ans so garbed were executed a drumhead court martial. In. Accord Ance with the Laws of War. German not necessary in Toronto. Toronto. June Stu dents both in the Hoph schools and universities Are affected by the an no in Cement of sir William Hearst this afternoon that German is no longer necessary for students Eric demand increased rations London. June workmen s Council of Vienna in an All night ses Sion ending thursday morning adopted a Resolution demanding that the bread ration be raised immediate in. And that until it reached Normal size greater quantities of other victuals be Given the population according to reports reaching and transmitted by the Exchange Tele graph company. Lodge re elects grand Toronto june 20. The master Canadian the hands of this physicians and May Deal Brinig to secure a compelled to take a Holiday after standing in moderns specialist ? and that an grand order of Odd Fellows re elected Thomas s. Hudson of Montreal. 2-ra.nd master. The other officers elected were sued s. Hamilton Deputy grandmaster r. Fleming Toronto grand Secretary v h Shaw Toronto grand Treasur r or. H. S. Toronto medical referee. 1m Friday specials 500 very Beautiful lingerie waists at regular values from to we secured this lot of waists at very Large reduction and we Are offering the same Large reduction to our customers Friday. Lovely Fine voiles and muslims. Dozens of very pretty styles. Also a Good assortment of stripes and color combinations. Dome Early if possible. Regular to values. Friday a c progressive report no. 7, Jon 20. Dated 11.30 p.m., thursday provincial total to total for District .fj3.000.00 20 Creek 994.uu s. 4.600.00 total for arrival belated can Tonigs. When the totals were first j Canada was the us Ojest or a vigor x said to my audience made up for the Day figures Cue address by c. R to strongly Over this Sven out were ?27.7lio and this tary of the Western Union. Want who was Kuva the re was wired to Headquarters. Suit of an much More strongly should you feel in the Case of the boys Over in France who through no Accident but by their own. Free and deliberate Choice Are shedding their Bloomi for in this place i gave my from a amount later the Man that meeting of the Ottawa Baptist association in Mcphail memorial so pouches raised the fund to i thu vol this morning. He declared Mark at 10-o clock chair that the Church was the Only Agency announced through which triese polyglot Peoples. Been rec Efrom i be reached and transformed. Winnipeg confirming the committee s desire to prolong the drive until next wednesday _ District 16 doing Well. A -Man., june red Cross drive is making Good Progress in District 16, in Winchester mum Turkey desires Black sea Fleet. Athens. June dispute has Arisen Between Turkey and Ger Many Over the Possession of the rus Sian Black sea Fleet. Replying to deputations from the turkish nary Jesrue. Which pointed out that tur Cipa Lity the a collections Are 5s.500. J Kev Nad an inconte3tlble claim to and in Morton the total . Pasha grand vizier the District up to 6 of clock was j s. That negotiations were proceed women there is wok a you have greater tasks before you now than Ever before in history. The spirit of Joan d Aro must guide you to infinitely wonderful accomplishments. Look to your health and remember perfect health depends on the regular and natural action the of elimination. Take of cd Mornini it it. The and to Abb. It u will do ;