A ---- KINGSTON ONTARIO. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1914 YEAR 81 NO. 21. GERMANS RAISE | SIEGE OF VERDUN Crown Prince's Army Has Again Been Forced to Give Ground Before the Com- bined French Central Armies. At All Points the Allies Are Yoldirg Fast.--Geimen Right i Wing is Reported Encircled, znd it 'is Repoit- / | ed That General Yon Kluck's Line of ~/ || Retreat is in Denger. Paris, Sept." 17 (3 pi) --That the Germans have been compelled to raise the siege of Verdun, was consid- ered certain here to-day when an official announcement was received from Bordeaux that the crown prinec's army has again been forced to give groufid before the] || combined French central armies. The German centre | || has been shoved north and e f ast of Varennes. It is stated at Gen. Gallieni's headquarters that the battle line of the army of the kaiser's heir is now rapid- ly encroaching on the headquarters at Montfaucon. It is expected that he will now be compelled to move: his headquarters to the Meuse river in x direct line to Sten- ay Gap. : At all other points on the line, it is stated that the forces of the allies are holding fast although it is admit- ted that the Germans have now been heavily aeinforeed 'and are making a determined stand. I Cen German Right Wing Encircled. 18a London, Sept. 17.--The Daily News this prints a deshaton from a corre says the right wing of the circled by the allies, and th retreat is in danger. afternogh spondent at Amiens, whieh German army has been en: at Gen, Von Kluck's line of ing vas fail Russians Capture Austrian Fortress. Paris, Sept. 17.--The Matin has received a despateh from Petrograd which says the Russians have occupied Przemysl on San river, Przeinysl is a most important' Austrian fortress and has been reported foi the last few days as invested by the Russians. co] of Special De f Germans Fiercely Resisting. ~~ I.--The war office statement indicate: n no changes of movement in the posi- tions of 'the contending armies. and that . the Gernian have not succeeded in assiping the offensive. "The battle continues along the entire front _hetween | Wet the Oise and the Meuse," says the statement, *'with the tan Germans fiercely resisting the French attack, and fortify-; ing their positions along the lines previously indicated." | ¥ i: den O He Khe whi Paris, Sept. 1 that there has bee Qn Rain Bad For the Germans. Paris, Sept. 17.--Reports from the front to-day say that a cold drizzly rain is falling everywhere, and it seem: certain that the rainy season is now weil begun. This will harass the Germans far more than it will the French, in- | de ni tha {ed It asmuch as the Germans are badly battered and far from: jth im, heard hey proceeded without : police fired at the car | entered the geneval's heart. 4 i their supply bases, while the French can bring up all of their supplies and be able at all times to retréat if neces sary, wy | The Germans are reported as very short of food and forced to eook oats and beets which they gather Elin the | surrounding country already 'well stripped. The Nrenel:! troops, reports from the front say, are extremely well fed. According to the stories told by the German prison. | ers, the German ranks are greatly disillusioned hy their: defeats, and by their theatrical entry into French eitie: only to immediately be forced to abandon: them. The French soldiers are cheerful in the rain, singin: constantly and finding no fault. Expect To Fight in Germany. London, Sept. 17.--Germany is striving déspérately to resume the offensive in France, but so far every effort has been nullified by the fierceness of the British-French attack. This fact was emphasized at the foreign office! this afternoon, where it was also stated that the general battle continues with the slight, advantage so far noted entirely in favor of the allies. : 5 It is admitted at the war office that the Germans are fighting with desperate valor, but it is also insisted they are being forced-fo fall back on their centre and left. Es- pecially is the vy of the crown prinee being hammered already his battle line has been forced back between eight and twenty miles at various points. _ Adviees received from various points in Holland say i rted there that the Ge have been greatly bing the fortifications Rhine. This T ( ' Lin con the epiy on hy yea Bes At N Bri ing 41 FE -------- Austria Loses bureau ceived, 000 killed 'and wounded, Soners and 400 guns forte to save the thirty-six and at another several dozen Sept. 17 (via eobus Hendrick de la known Boer general, a military leader. went eneral Beyrers, ine esterday khown to be using a car similar caused a great Nouth Africa. Ww, J ity Hospital suf the hospital ae criti How Me. Burlingame received injuries found nnconseions, Yom known merchant of Clayton for years, Mise Emily Burlingame, use university. ) German Lloyd liner Kron Ixinz Wil Ambroz channel day. Pring Wilhelm was sunk was not sta- ted. } Later---Pilot Nichols, 'the THE FIRST PRIZE GUN OF THE CANADIAN i CONTINGENT 0 ""B' battery of the Royal ery, Kingston, now at Val. Shown- above is considered 8 artillery which is noted for nd crew took the cup at Pet. neral efficiency in firing and expected that the R.C.H.A. 0 leave Valcartier for the ars and have a maximum of This gun belongs t adian Horse Artill cartier, with its crew. the very best of Canada' its efficiency. This gun a awawa this year for ge taking position. Tt is will be about the first t front. They are regul training. Allie Trying | To Dislodge The Germans Paris, Sept. 17.- The German. ar- mies who fall. d to pierce a road for their retreat by way of the frontier toward Meta, apparently have.décid- ed to fight another great battle for supremacy inthe territory northeast of Paris. They have iaken up a line almost as extensive us that of the battle of the Marne and for the last twe days there hag heen in progress a desper ate struggle in which the entire Ger man foree Which made the rapid ad. vance on Paris has been engaged. The allied troops, strengthened by new arrivals, s1so are bringing their whole strength into play. pose is 250,000 Men In Galicia 17.--The oflicigl press issued ; the follow ing announ- ent last night : It is stated from Russian rees that 'the rout of the arty. in Galicia is ugh full details hawe not ondon, Sept official \us complete, been re in The Austrian loss since the tak- of Lemberg 'is estimated at 250, 100,000 pri- 40 » many colors and t quantities of stores The Germans made desperate of Austrian army, but ed completely At one point the lost artillery pieces (Germans pieces - of heavy siege artillery." uffering fron exhaustion their long continued marches countermarches | The Germans lelieved | great plateau cf undulating country, l'interspersed here and there witht wooded heights; SHOT, THROUGH MISTAKE. In Rey Killed; Police ¥ Hin Desperado. ape Town, Union of South Landon) Africa, "General Jy Rey, the well | has been tally 'shot near .Johannesbu et eneral de Ia Rey was born in 194% | commanded the Lichtenbiirg bus vs. during: the Boer, war, during ch he won a high reputation After the war he to England with '« Generals de Lap Botha and took am impor tL, part in the peace negotiation eneral de la Rey, GERMAN MILITARY CRITIC aceq German Dia, BerTin, Sept. 17. (via and London): ---A military éritic ol a Berlin paper Says: 'Wao must accept the new | French sources concerning the treat of thé "Germans with Duich calmness and not imagine that the French already are before Berlin "If the French pursue 'the Ger mans with were will get into the s: tic ns | from accomnpanjed by who has just re ned his commission as commander hief of the deience forces of the on of South' Afriea, was returnitlg antomaohile ame difficult posi bin which the Germans were. "The French, however, have a: vantage in the support of the Bal n army, but even if the Germans | Were beaten back over their own borders I W( evening hy to when the police, who rang of desperadoe farm Were ching d for a tor t of General de la Rey, challeng the general in evident Rey uld be no better for the than var," CONVICTED BY HIS OWN EVIDENCE Prussian Soldier Writing Home Tells . Of Brutalities of the Sack: ing of Louvain. | Paris, Sept. 17.<By their own ud mission the Germans at Louvain 1x that neither General the -men inthe the challenge, for stopping. The and a bullet it wana Ria et Ia NOT car it was at the beginning of ti he shooting 'of the general: has | sensation through LAYTON GROCER BURNED. Critical Condition at Watertown | Huspital. alertown, N.Y, Sept. 17. ~The dition of Edward A. Purlingume, Clayton grocer, brought. to the fering from burns gé- store, was reported af cal. es. Here is a passage from a letter published in the Frankfurter Zeitung written to his parents by a German officer : "The houses in which ammunition and suspected persons were found were burned and the rascals shot About thirty swere thus shot on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. "Later we shot those whe kill ed and wounded geveral of our men Then we sot fire to that cuarter. UT his He was with his, clothing ment of his store, passers who saw smoke coming the store! He is about fifty ra of age and has heen a well is not known. fits, in the buse ides his wife, he has a daughter, now in Nyra- | and. then we fired still other honses. We shot fifty, or 'sixty persons, among ; RE ws AT whi" were a corfain number of Bel. BIG GERMAN LIN ER SUNK, gian soldiers in civilian clothes, Sea By the British Cruiser Lan- caster. Sept. 17.~The Streets order to search several houses on which had remained intact, in to seize in them any arms or am- munition. There ' ocourred there has been sunk at 'sen by the | scenes which would break your heart, tish cruiser Lancaster, now off | but it was necessary. lightship, accord | 'Finally, last night they left us to information brought ashors to- | quiet. Nevertheless my. troops were W hen the ~ Kron u in another quarter of the Jhrs and. he te city, hat is why today' the en- ew York, North be who told Story about the alleged sinking the Kron. Prinz Wilhelm, by a' afternoon, ad-] gow drawn up on almost a straight ~ |Lieut. Hay, Their pur- | to dislodge the Germans who, | in some quariers, are believed to hs | due to | * and | are stationed on a | Rotterdam | re-1{ the same haste as they | pursued by the Germans they | the aspect of the situation | French | haved themselves Tike veritable brut. } "On Wednesday we wore fired Lpon | "Then 1 went with my detachment | jel ] GERMAN RIGHT W ING Has Retired Seventy Miles In Two Weeks, | dondon, Sept. 17.-- The German arin¥, which less than a fortnight ago was at the "gates of Paris," and the right-wing then extended to the Southeast of the French capital, is { line, extending from the neighbor. | hood of Noyon, in the west, to Bois Forges on the Meuse, north of Ver. dum, with left resting on the Ger- man fortress of Metz. Thus the right wing, at least, has gone 'back more than seventy wiles {In two weeks, while the rast of the army has had also to ratiré before the whole could 'find ground on which to make another stand against the advance of the allies. CANADIAN CONTINGENT Equipped For Two War Service Abroad, Ottawa, Sept. 17.--The Canadian army division at Valcartier is being [equipped for two years of service, the view. taken by the authorities here being that the campaign will be a lengthy one. It is highly pro- bable that the proposal te send a second: army division: to the front | win be Tteconsidered. There is in | war sixty per cent. wastage through Yours' | | Being | GERMANS GIVE LAST EDITION way BEFORE THE ALLIES The Enemy Has Received Some Reinforcements. POSITION OF ALLIES ALONG AISNE RIVER CONTINUES VERY FAVORABLE. The German Loss Is Heavy--Berlin Wireless Report Claims the Brit. ish or Frei«h Have Not Won n Victory. London, Sept. 17 ~The official press bureau gave out a statement which says; "The general position along the Aisne river continues very favorable. The enemy has delivered several casualities, illness, ete; and so in order o maintain the force Lat its | strength, many drafts of fresh men | will be sent from time to time to fill up the first contingent, | - Next Governor. | Vancouver, Sept. 17.--~Frank S. | Barnard, former member of parlia- ment, is understood to be the pext {lieutenant-governor of' British Co- {lumbia. He is a brother of Harry | Barnard, present member of parlia- ment for Victoria. Gov. Patterson's | term will run out in November, | -- R.M.C. Boy, Shot at Marne counter attacks and especially against the. first army corps. These have been repulsed and the Germans have given way slightly before our troops and the French armies on our left. "The enemy's loss is very heavy, and we have taken 200 prisoners." The German Statement. Berlin, Sept. 17. (by wireless tele- graphy hy way of Sayville, L. I.)-- The German prospects in the battle in the Marne region are still char- acterized in Berlin as favorable, The general staff has authorized the announcement that nowhere along the line of battle have the British or French forces won a vie- tory. No details of the fighting in France are given out, and it is said that no decisive turn of events seems probable for some time to come, Hamilton, Sept. 17.-- Word was | received by Mrs. Hay, of this city, to-day, to the effect that her son, Gordon, had been wounded at the battle of the Marne. He graduated from the Royal Military college a Kingston, 'last year, and was givon the commission of lieutennnt . with the Royal Scots regiment. rp | 3 itt dh EE ER SRA MADE AN APOLOGY. Washington, Sept. 17.-~ The British gpvernment, to-day, through = Ambassador Spring Rice apologized and ex- pressed great regret to the American Government for - an interview alleged to have been given by Sir Li- onel Carden, in which Carden criticized the administration for withdrawing troops from Vera Cruz + WHEE REPRE Leb ddd heb PD bd PITH OF THE NEWS. French Take Prisoners. Paris, Sept 1/.--The following of- ficial communication was made pub- lic here: "During the days of the 14th and the 15th of September the rear guard of the enemy was overtaken by our pursuing force and obliged to turn and face us, Re-enforced by large armies, the Germaus waged a defensive. battle aleng their entire front on which certain of their po- sitions show strong organization. "During the pursuit of the enemy executed by our troops after the battle of the Marne, the Germans abandoned numerous prisoners to our hands To these men there has been added a large number 'of strag glers. who were hidden in the for- ests. More Berlin Jokes. Jerlin, via the Hague, Sept. 17. The general staff to-day declared the French attack is spent and that the German positions are well main- tained. The official announcement de- clares that the Germans are every Presented In the Briefest Possible Form, Redmond, the Irigh National | leader, issued a manifesto calling | { for Irish recruits, . The British 'parliament will be pro | rogued Friday to reassemble on the | | first week of November. | Miss Dorothy Kilpatrick was 4 | signated by the Toronto presbyter for mission service in India. The Toronto Hydro:-Electrie system i Will 'ask the city for $2,000,000 with { which to extend their works. William Wilkinson, 198 Brunswick nvenue, Toronto, a trainer, killed at the Dufferin race track. Ong of the big public works in aheyanee indefinitely because the war is the Georgian Bay { scheme, John ist was held of canal Rev. Dennis J. Downey, Windsor, | has been 'appointed to succeed the late { Mgr. Mounier, and named dean of | Windsor district. | The provincial government has gis en assurance that all. municipal ap- | propriations to patriotic funds will | be, ratified by legislature. Fhe minister of agriculture has been given power to use at his discretion, to suspend or cancel patents held by cifizens of hostile powers, Partial moratorium legislation, re ; troactive to the commencement of the war, will be submitted to the pext , session of the Ontario legislature. {| An aerial machine has been order. od for the Canadian expeditionary } foros, and an aviator from Ottaws, i William F. Sharpe, engaged to oper- ate (il. | Foreman C. S. Faulknor was sus pended in consequence of evidence giv- en at the Hamilton works depart. | ment investigation, and arrests of | oflicials may follow. SPAT IN RESCUER'S FACE. | Saflor Writes Dramatic Incident of i Battle. : ' | Toronto, September 17.--Submar- | {ine E4 took part in the ses fight off Heligoland, -and concerning the re- scue work a member of the crew writes to Stewart Menzies of this Ly: "While the rescue work was going | on, one of our officers helped a Ger- { man officer on board. As soon as ho was on his: feet he spat In his res. boners face. -A big brawny learning better manners, we will hope." | | TO COURT-MARTIAL COM- : MANDER. Ghenf! Sept. 17,--~The Belgi- ans have refused{to treat as a # prisoner of" war,| Commander Meune, commander of the Landsturm at Louyain. He is being held as a criminal pris oner at Antwerp, and will be court-martialed for gross in- fractions of the laws of war, R & PLETE PEPE re ate PPhtbFree Three Bodies Found ~ Trenton, Ont, Sept. " 17.-- The bodies of Clair Jenkins, Fred Gerow and James White, the three Belle« ville men drowned by falling oul of a motor boat in Bay of Quinte last Sunday evening, svere found in about sixteen feet of 'wale: this afternoon by some men on R. Weddell's tug, which, passing over the location, stirred up the water so {hat the bodies came to the surface. A 'Tes ward of $75 had been offered. A Nickel To See Prisoners. 4 Paris, Sept. 17.--A Munich papen, is quoted as saying that French pris: oners at that city are enclosed in an encampment, where the public is admitted for a 20 pfennings (5 cents) entrance fee. It adds tha the 'visitors are numerous and dd lighted to see the well-born Frene' obliged to contort » with low-bor Apaches, %ll 2ating at the same mes U. S. TARS SING "RULE BRITANNIA"" No Doubt Where the Sympatbies of Uncle Sam's Fighting Men Are. : London, Sept. 17.--A- Times cor- respondent In France describes an incident at Havre when the United States cruiser Tennessee lay in the harbor and a British transport , the decks of which were thronged with soldiers, passed her. The American cruised dipped the stars and stripes. and suddenly. the British Tom ¢ broke into. 'Rule 3 J "Then," "the dol po) "an amaziig thing happened. = T hear and was thrilled by it. The bronzed American sailors took up the rolling chorus: "Rule Britannia, Britannia, roles he waves, Britons never, never, never shall be slaves, was the most brotherly act 1 'at have ever witnesged." DAILY MEMORANDUM. Bee top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities . Meeting. of Y.M.C. A. Ladies' Auxiliary at 3.30 on Friday afternoon. ymoid Hitchcock in "The Beauty Grand Opera House, 8.15 p.m. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG where again c¢n the defensive and that at no point of the line are the German forces threatened, The in- | vestment of Paris, it is stated, while | temporarily bolted, will take Plage when the present campaigning is completely worked out. The Russians in the east are fall- | ing back at every point and the Ger- mans are taking many prisoners and alsp some guns, it is stated. CONSCRIPTION DECREE Signed By Austrian Emperor to Fill up Gaps. Rome, Sept. 17.--A Vienna des patch to the Corriers Dells Sera says Emptror Francis Joseph has signed a conscription decree in order te fill the gaps in the Austrian arog. The correspondent quotes the_ pperor as saying on signing the datos 1 have never felt so grieved oyer no decision of such gravity." Austrians In Full Rout, Sept. 17.--~The official stute- ment today says:' "The Austrian armies evacuating Galicia are in full rout. Their losses in killed, wounded and prisoners are estimated 1 at several hundred thousand men. | The German army corps which went to their suecor are retreating." Paris, Coulter's Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Princess & Alfred NEW LANDS, OATS. © OLD LAND, WHEAT | | the Crops. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 17.--The gov- ernment is giving consideration to -the question of the desirability of largely increasing the western Cana- dian wheat acreage, in view of fhe certainty of a wheat shortage next year. It has been suggested that large areas of new lands should be broken | for that purpose. It is pointed out] however, that eshly broken { prairie sod will not produce wheat | the first season, hough oats cao | be grown with some success. Firm- | ers may, therefore, urged to plant their oat crop in newly broken ant reserving all tueir old lands for the production of wheat) : Is On Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depot ..206 King HB Clarke, J, W. & Co. ......353 Princesa College Book Store 163 Princess Grocery 209 Princess Frontenac Hotel Gibsdi's Drug Store ..Market Square McAuley"s Book Store ....93 Princess MeGall's Cigar Stora, Cor. Prin. & fcLeod's Grocery ....51 Union Bt vee Mediey's Drug Store 260 University Ave daul's Cigar Store. ...... 78 P an. Prouse's Drug Store ....312 Princess' Valleau's Grocery L Lowe's Grocery Portsmouth BORN. yoga LIE NG 4 J ston oral : al hye. Jim ay, Sent TOT or to Mr. and Mrs. Noel Banford Flam. = - ing, a daughter. "DIED. CULKBEN--In Hotel Dieu, Kingston, Sept. 16th, 1914, Elizabeth Bean heioved wife of John Culkeen, of | tead, ' ' Interment 'at Read, * $ McDONALD---At Gore Bay, Mani Island, 2? a Shember, 5 Agnes R. 2 nines, belov Of Rev. John A, MeBonald. Interment at Cataraqui Thursday afternoon, o ¥ ah