atly British 27, 1912 TU ESDAY, OCTOBE KINGSTON ONTA RIO, YEAR 81 NO, 248 Cr ------ Whi FIGHTING TO THE D GERMANS DRIVEN ACROSS FRONTIER In the Direction of Metz by the French Who Are on the Offensive in the Vicinity of Nancy. Allies Hold Firm in the North---Fighting is Desperale--| Germans Making Supreme Effort---British Force Germans Back Around Ypres, Armentieres and Lille. Paris The French on the offensive in the vicinity of Naney, on the eastern' frontier, and have driven the Germans across the frontier in the direction of Metz. This was the chief declaration contained in the official communique issued from Bordeaux at three o'clock this afternoon. It contradicted fla tly the re ports| _ coming from German sources that the kaiser's forces were i" crumpling the Finch right wing between Toul and Ver- dun, | If the advantage secured by the French left near| Naney ean be maintained, it is declared here that it will | be only very short time when the Germans must surrend-| er the fortifications in the vie inity of St. Mihiel, whie h| Tom the west bank of 'hey re reduced, and also retire . + EE a Cain, foun the west hank of Men Wrestled and Died by Drowning---Hardly Ore Out of tured. 3,000 Germans Who Crossed the River | Vser r Got Back. { Oect. 27. are = COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, A. v FRENCH AIR SCOUT DIRECTING MOVEMENT OF HEAVY ARTILLERY. THE NIGHT WAS HELL FROM DARK TO DAWN": ~::. Al Teut.-Col. F, Ferguson. Prof 1g R. Mulloy, of the Royal Military C TT lege, and Rev. E. LeRoy Ric pastor of the First Congregational shureh, had been expected that Dr. A Richardson would have bhesn one speakers, hut the last minute found it impossible to leave the and M¥. Rice went in his place, | Rev. Mr. Codling acted ag chairman. Col. Ferguson referred to the war and what it to Canada. Mr i . urged on present the ne- the Daily cessity of contributing liberally y tele eraphiig under date of Sun- produce to the contingent which | Lo 2 >: ws d-be sent to the front to the ting on the River Yser, en who are fighting Pritain's an bodies in the Yser « | . Mulloy, who thé night. Many o of the evening, rs were bavonetted. The | large audience f He told . ' tof 8 experiences in the Boer Dixmude fiered the on the MEETING AT ELGINBURG. rof. L. W. Mulloy and Rev. E. Le Roy Rice Spoke, largely attended was held at paty 1011 Flginburg on I'he meet Mon- were Ww. speakers | the he ity al . Allies Hold In North. Dealing with the general situation in thé north the Londo. Oct. 27 official statement said that everywhere the allied lines are Mail in northern Franc holding. Between the mouth of the Yser and the Lens the Jan night re garding the Hi; hattle. is declared to he particularly violent, but tthe al- bi SLIDE me gir lies, although on the defensive, are-maintaining their po- | this Morning Wier tha sitions. They are also declared to have gained ground in th fed and ot] en were Hed and. othe the territory directly between Ypres and Roulers, [very water itself bloody, Suecess in the protracted actillery duel in the regidn} wore strewn thick with dead. of Soissons and Berryv-au- has turned in the e direction | "Phos 'ghodlish facts alone of the allies, who have been able to destroy several Ger- [savagenc ss of the fighting de spera : man batteries. rand the stubbornness of the allies resistance. ¢ pb "The-night was hell from dark to dawn. At alniosi |i every point of the line man opposed man, sometimes a but more often in close orips. | meant Rice those The correspondent of of | Savs: alii | 18 © speak- Hgnting mm stained rv one - hour arow was while 8 Sireets| loss gathes » ning to the front Br vitain in every wa the evening solos were ren William B. Pillar. Mrs. Wal ogg played the accompaniments W. Bell took the from the city in his of hi idea of the attack 3, : eressi ie SOLe elite During £1V¢e Lof German two speakers automobile At Westbhrooke, nusiastic held in Westbrookse The hall interest was the farmers in the cause . M.P.P., opened the meet with a short talk on the practi owing of patriotism by the now Speeches were made Lavell, W. F. Nickle, M.P., ind Township Council Several patriotic selec rendered GERMANS IN AUTOMOBILE | i { | 4 : | sta Meeting lerce Fighting at Night [few hundred vards di 2aris, Oct. 27.=With a number of their heavy guns | Face men even wrestled and died by drowning | mounted to protect their front, and with hundreds of light [each other in the canal's waters. The Germans had or-| pieces and rapid firers deluging the allied lines with | [ders to get through that night, cost what it may. shrapnel and bullets, tthe Germans continued Ao-day, "It is helieved that some 5,00 ) Germans crossed the |A their supreme effort to win through to the coast from thé | River Yser, but hardly one of them got back. Those to north and east. the north and northeast of Dixmude, probably 2,000 were |t «Inside of the Dixmude-Nieuport tine, the fighting | met | by a fine rally of Belgian infantry and of the cavalry. | continued without a let up last. night, the combatants | "When Sunday morning broke dead ood, wounded operating in the glare of enormous searchlights that made | were everywhere. Pixmude was a ceme tery : ut in the the seéne as light as day." The rival aviators flew over | woods not far away, the Germans still lingered. They | trenches dropping bombs, while the monitors of the Bri-|held Heir position under a desperate fire and eventu: lly | tish fleet, which withdrew to sea Sunday after three had |were reinforced. The allies could not oust the m and Cer been hit, were back throwing shells from their long range {mans are still ACTOSS Y ser at some points. guns. nee, to face, lor Sproule fons were Passed Throug sh K Kingston Early Tuesday Morning. on I'hree Germans passed through the in an automobile very early on Ciesday morning, is the story told y W. Marshall, a chauffeur in' Por ritt's gakage. About two o'clock on | Tuesday morning Mr. Marshall was {awakened by a tourist party below i who asked for gasoline. The: three men were dressed in heavy coats and the car looked as if it had been driven a long distance. As the tank vas being filled one of the men said to the other in German that he whald like to see some of the a in the { fort The other answered that if he did Sot keep quiet they would have him over there, Only ome spoke Ioglish and it was very broken, A et eit BRITISH HELD BACK OVER.230,000 GERMANS figl s northem British Forcing Germans Back. In the territory lying southwest of Ypres, and tween Armentieres and Lille, further desperate fighting | was in progress. Here the British, who are bearing the | brunt of the struggle, are reported to be losing very, London, Oet. heavily. be- Telgraphi leg raphing about the Times in -i. * But they are also said to be slowly foreing the lin Be lginin, the correspondent of -Giermans back to the east and on their he wvily entrench- | France ed positions at Lille. "The enemy's most The main purpose of the Germans, officials at head- | along the line of the Yser wa quarter of Gen. Gallieni say, is apparent. They are now |, quarter of a million Germans for five critical days, concentrating their efforts to break through to the coast | lie dd back by British forees. on an direct line to Dunkirk and leave along the! "The artille rv fire against British in the trenches was coast a thin line of French and Belgians who aré holding | terrible, churning up the earth and often burying men by joe. street, was united jn marriage the coastal positions at frichtful odds. ' dozens. Repeatedly the enemy's infantry advanced 100. 5 Curry, pastor of Primers St. i lo ithin a few hundred vards s, but eve ry time our men leap- | Methodist church. The bide, who ed from the trenches and went at them with the bayonets |e "mttended, was dressed in naty Allies Position Constantly Improving 1'Fhe Germans have blue, with hat to match. After the no relish for the bayonet charge and | ceremony the party repaired to the London, Oct. 27-~(5 p.am.)--The general war situa- they fled, fiving the "tion in France and Belgium is declared to be constantly ry ar rifles over their shoulders as the vy { bride' » fide, where breakfast ' was improving. . While the Gerinans are being held in the! "Many bundreds were captured and thousands were | TE Stn Ron places of | Monday morning when the general 'the Germans in Alsace-Lorraine, and are pressing for-|Gernans who had been decimated. Tt | the value of 350, east since the early days of the war, and is declared atisheer weight of munbers. Still thev held on. Friday Antarctié expedition headed by Lieut. | southward on Monday. say N: urious and most vigorous attack | s at Ypres, where more than] Wer | Wood- Patterson Ww edding. | Princess street Methodist church was [the scene of a quiet wedding, Tuesday | morning, when Miss Wilhelmina, eld- est daughter of R. W. Patterson, Vie- toria, street, was united in marriage | Sir Erpest H. Shackleton departed dau gorved, and Mis. Wood | will take up residence in Odessa. i Bath Store Robbed. 'north, the French have assimed the offensive all along | killed and wounded. Still their shrapnel rained into the | A daring robbery ocourred early their eastern frontier and ave striking hard blows against | British trenches. and fresh inf: antry took the | stor of opurt Moti, 30 Ra, as broken into and robb of goods to ward against Metz. "The situation grew More and more eritical, and. a, © This is the first real offensive by the Freeh on the seemed that the British were likely to be borne down by | rom uae Ayres, Aho British fers fo be of the highest significance. |eame at last, and with it, needed reinforcements. The| | Fi H . 1] " o The Colonial Player company, in the north continues uninterrupted, position was saved and the Gie rmans fell back Rftoent he i ow cuatio mo ng | ficed, ha i he | ro port wr the | and | possible, | 1 dyke will go to the front with was | THE KAISER ORDERS THAT CALAIS BE TAKEN BPPddodd dd b dpb WAR BULLETINS. No Matter How Many Lives 2 Are Sacrificed. MARCH TO THE CHANNEL THE GERMAN DECLARES, Latest report says allies ve advanced in neighborhood of ! , Ypres Arras. Enemy's losses heavy in Ypres district. « Russians pressing Germans hard in Galicia and Poland, A German "journal places their casualties in this district as seven hundred and fifty thous- and killed, wounded "and pris- oners, : + * + + * + + SUCCEED, EMPEROR MUST Russians Continue to Harass the Germans, Inflicting Heavy Lossey -- Germans and Austrians Fail to Resume Offensive. London Telegram's corre- spondent at Amsterdam ves ports arrival of German heavy howitzers at Bruges also near Zeebrugge. Allies' position im- proved near: Nieuport. FEFLLPIEP SESE 40544 London, Oct. 27 The Copenhag- en correspondent of the Times wires that reports received there from German sources say that the Kais- er has issued a direct order that, no matter what the cost, Calais is to taken. It is reported the Kkais- er was in Belgium on Sunday, and listened personally to reports of his officers. He is then reported to have stated that the occupancy of Calais and Dunkirk were necessar- | ! ily vital points in the German strategical plan, but that this was especially so in the case of Calais Therefore the order was issued, that, no matter how much war ma- terial or how many men were sacri- the march to the channel must I succeed | -- Thousands' $1 Belgians ately. ing and leaving on Hol trains. Gernfans forbade en- trance of automobiles into Ants werp. } De repulsed Austrian Bosnian front Servians fierce attack on Monday. Copenhagen reports from German sources say the kaiser has directed that Calals must be taken no matter what the Cost, A French timer was sunk by a mine near Bologne, and twen- ty-five hundred refugees were transferred to rescuing steam- ers, Battle for straits of Dover continues with unabated fury. Russians Harass Germans, Petrograd, Oct. 27 It was offi- cially announced to-day that sever al more determined attempts on the part of the Germans and Austrians to resume the offensive have fail- ed. The Germans, it is stated, are endeavoring to entrench under cov er of their artillery but the Rus- '- | sians continue to harass them, in f | flicting heavy losses. | +» + LJ + * *> + + * * + + + * > * * - + +. » * + * > * +> * * * | ® | # * Fret Germans continued their tre mendous efforts during Mon day night with the aid of gigan- tie searchlights. BIASES Asa es tsar tnt teria ren al Will Order Her Away. F Washington, Oet. 27.--Ambassador Chinda, of Japan, has delivered a note rr his government to the state de Colonel Marita 0 again ete leaders driven to partment, it was. learned to- deg, re Africa, questing that the German cruiser Ge jier be expelled from the port of Honolulu, where she recently put in for repais. Steps to comply with the Japanese were taken by | government Hono- { lula port authorities were ordered to whether the Geer is now If an order will made, officials state, that she diately depart, War Notes. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is On Sale at the the Following City British government has mot given ruling on question of taking reservists | irom neutral ships : Stores: | Thirty-five picked men from Bucknell's News Depot ..396 Clarke, J. W. & Co. College Book Store Coulter's Grocery .......208 c Jullen's Grocery, Cor. Priicess & Alfred Frontenac Hotel, ..... vs, Ontano Gibson's Drug Store ..Market McAuley's Book Store ....9% rl McGall's Cigar Store, Cor. Prin. & fcLeod's Grocery ....51 Union St. W. Mediey's Drug Store 260 Unlv. Ave Caul's Cigar Store .,.... Prquse's Drug Store lets s § Montreal Valleau's Grocery « Lowe's Grocery Portsmouth Russians in another big battle on' Ger man territory. The A are again weakening in request SE eeeeRRRRI III ITIS officials to-day + sea be imnie- worthy 80, DUM. See top of page 8, right Band ecofaen for probabilities. v Klon ma coir dE chine gun battery. | Northwest Flanders is heaped | German dead. British and warship fire was frightful. W. G. Tretheway, Toronto million- aire miner. has joined the airmen's corps for service in the British ex peditionary force 100 Miners Dead, and 200 Are Imprisoned Royalton, Ils., with French | | { | DIED CARTWRIGHT--On Tuesday, Oct. 27th. in Portsmouth, Cosmo Theodore Cartwright, in the 32nd year of his and Vancouver papers please Oct. 27.--At least a ; hundred miners are dead and 200 more imprisoned with slight chance of escape in a Royalton mine No. 2, near here, according to rescuers who returned to the surface shortly after | 10 am. A terrific explosion of gas! took place in the lower shafts of the i | mine "early to-day. \ Funeral notice later DRUMMOND--In Ottawa on Oct. 1914, Dermot the late J. K. Drumshond. Funeral took place this afternoon f: 4G. T. R. station t6 Catarsqiti cemetery i rest in - Tole" dobers MOXLEY--Entered into ston, on Oct, 28th, thrtvate. from Ms late resi 76 York street, on n Wednes- Funeral, dence, day, Mox } Oet bo at 2.36 HOSPITAL WOMEN'S AID | Annual Meeting Was Held on Mon- day Afternoon. The annual meeting 'of the Wo- men's Ald society of Kingston Gen eral hospital was held on Monday a>- ternoon, The sum of $250 was voted to purchase linen for the next six months, as required. Mrs. G A. McGowan, Mrs. T. Milo and Mrs. H. W. Snelling" were appointed visit- Ing ladles for next month. The annual report stated that on the completion of the Empire wins the problem of furnishing had to be faced. There were thirty bedrooms, ten bathrooms, three kitchenettes and three corridors to furnish. © these the Aid assumed the responsi bility of nine rooms and the three kitchenettes ata cost of $2,218. The remaining {twenty-one rooms were furnished by private " In order that the cutlery might be unifofi a certain amount given or to'the ladies and they the buy- ing and also made up and marked the linen. The officers for the ensuing year are: President, Mrs. J. C. Connell; first Vice-president, Mrs. Mrs. H. A.C vin: second vice t, Mrs. J. LE. Reid; treasurer, G. A Me Gowan; ROBERT The Leading U! Phone 577 JAMES REID The Old Firm of U) 254 and 256 P "Phone 147 for Ai y