SHIRKERS BANNED BY MUNITION GIRLS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 39, 22 May 1917, Page 3

SHIRKERS BANNED BY MUNITION GIRLS.

LONDON, May 17. A meeting of London munition girls resolved not to associate with any man under 41, working or skulking in munition factories. NEUTRALS AIDING ENGLAND. IMPERATIVE GERMAN DEMAND TO DECLARE WAR. BEENE, May 17. Herr Roventlow demands that Germany shall immediately declare war on every neutral continuing to trade with England. He also announces that the Pan-German League supports the demand in a petition which is to be presented to the Kaiser. EXPLOSION IN AMERICA. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. PRO-GERMANS SUSPECTED. SAULT STE. MARIE, May 17. Four people wore killed and three fatally injured by an explosion which was intended to destroy the “Soo” Canal and docks and interrupt navigation. Pro-Germans arc suspected. . The so-called "Soo” (vernacular mutilation of Sault) canals arc artificial waterways loading out of the eastern end of Lake Superior at the sides of the river. St. Mary River, being blocked by a large expanse of rapids, is not navigable. There are two canals on the Canadian side (Ontario), and two on the American (Michigan). One of the latter is a channel to supply the huge power house with water. The ship canal on this side is the one attacked, and it carries more traffic than any other canal in the world.