81 NO. 281 A BIG ENGA MENT ~~ SLOWLY DEVELOPING Four Hundred Thousand Fresh British Troops Have Reached France, and Are Now on the Firing Line. The Allies Are Pressing a Vigorous Counter-Offensive to German Attacks---British Held Line Along Yser Where Garmars Are Expected to Centre Their Main Attzgks. Paris, Dec, 4.--(Noon)--Every attack of the rein- foreed German forces in Flanders is now being met by a | Four hundred vigorous counter-offensive of the allies, thousand fresh British troops have reached France with- Jin the last month and are now on the firing line. The British now hold the line along the Yser where the Germans are expected to centre their main attack in a final effort to break through to the coast. nonading has been in progress during the. past twenty- four hours, and thé Germans continue to mass a force be- tween Ostend and Ypres for the general engagement that is expected. Heavy can- destroyed by the Australian cruiser. THE WAR WILL LAST AT LEAST THREE YEARS he full force of the counter offensive of the allies! no means yet been felt by the enemy. This is! gradually developing, however, toward an engagement of greatest proportions. Allies Aim To Get Round German Flank. Paris, Dec. 4.--The development of an offensive! northeast from Ypres, is indicated in today's official com-| munique from the war office. The statement reports! heavy ecannonading intermittently between Ypres and Roulers. Fighting is also reported along the railway and about selaere and Passchendacle Road. Passchendaele i8 midway between Roulérs and Ypres, being about six and a half miles from the latter point. Beelaere is about four miles south of Passchendaele. It is believed this move- ment represents another attempt of the allies to reach Menin, an important point on Lys, upon which they have been unable to advance along the direct road from Ypres. The fighting reported to-day would apparently indi- cate a movement northward along the railway toward Roulers, as a part of an attempt by the allies to get around the German flank in this section in Beeclaere For- est. FAILURE OF GERMANS TO CROSS YSER ON RAFTS North-eastern France, Dec. 4.--Fierce fighting is now taking place along a considerable part of the battle line. he Germans anticipated the concerted forward move- ment of the allies by making a ¢pirited attack themselves, The allies were not taken by surprise. Never was an army more ready to defend itself. In the dark hours before dawn yesterday morning a large force of Germans crossed the flood waters of the Yser by means of big, broad rafts. The venture was a desperate one, for not a man who set out on it-could have been ignorant of the fact that death was most certainly awaiting him. The rafts were punted through the shai- low waters in dead silence and in utter darkness. Bach carried about fifty or sixty men and some mitrailleuses, in preparation for the dawn. A further fleet of rafts drawn by motor boats was waiting on the German side of the muddy waters, but be- fore dawn came the plot was discovered and when day- break arrived the artillery of the allies met the advancing Germans with devastating effect. In spite of their loss- es these » brave even to madness, still essayed the crossing. They were partly covered by a heavy ean- nonade by their field artillery, and until mid-day the Ger- Tens tl persisted in their plan. Several rafts were up- + dstream by the fire of French guns and a great|? if Germans were drowned as well as shot. Once Yer claimed its heavy toll, once again German stained its waters crimson. The attack eventually |e immense losses in|, er the Germans had suffered | other possible contingency." "If Germany Gives Up Sooner, So Much the Better," War Sec- retary Said. London, Dec. 4.--Irvin Cobb, in this week's Saturday Jvening Post, re counts an interview he had with the British war lord. He says the mili- tary chief said : "This war is going on until Ger- many has been defeated. There is no "Lord Kitchener," 1 said, "in your opinion how long will this war last 2" "Not less thun three years," he said. "It will end only when Ger tnany is thoroughly defeated, not be- fore=defeated on land and on ses. That the allies will win is certain. That for us to win will require a mini- mim od three vears 1 think probable, ' It might last longer--this war might. It might end sooner. It can end in only one way. "That it will end in a month from now, or six months or a year, 1 do not think likely; 80, to be on the safe s'de, I say three yeurs--at least years. o "li Germany gives up sooner, so much the better for Germany and for us and for all the world." 1f three years are required for the undertak- ing, or more than three years, the world will find that we, for our part, are prepared to go on, and ready to go on, and certain to go on. In any event this war can have but one out- come~one ultimate conclusion." His big jaw muscles twitched. three ARRESTED DON JAIME. Pretender Advised His Partisans to Side With France. Paris, Dec. 4.--The Eclair de- clares that Don Jaime of Bourbon the Spanish pretender, addressed au appeal to his partisans some time ago to side with France in the war This came to the knowledge of the Austrian authorities, and as Don Jaime lives in Austria he was placed under close arrest in his castle at Frohsdorf. The immediate excuse for his action was the fact that Don Jaime had been a colonel in the Rus sian army. An appeal was made to Emperor Francis Joseph, but his majesty said he could do nothing in the matter. Don Jaime persisted in his efforts to gain his freedom, and he was told finally that he could either remain a prisoner in Austria until the end of the war or leave the country. He chose the latter course, and is now in Switzerland. Military Notes. Fifty-five men has joined the Ar- my Service Corps to be sent to To- rento and Mqgntreal. Seventy-eight men have volunteer- ed for overseas service with the 5th The new terror of the seas is emulate the example set by the Em company Canadian Engineers. Only seventy-five have been asked for. - The / Kingston Veterans associa- | tion held its usual Thursday night drill in the armouries, with a large attendance. Corpl. Young, of the :A.M.C., conducted the ambulance class; Lieut. A. 'Stroud the sighalsr| ling class. There was also drilling | and shooting. i "but the artillery kept up a deter-1§ 5 position, meeting with |W Amsterdam, Dec. 4.--The number of suicides in the German army is: rapid- spondent of the Telegrai. sw woially true among men with | year are estimated at $58,000,000. This is {ees ward GERMAN _CRUISER "BREMEN." being sought by the fleet of the allies, 'who fear that the Bremen may |GERMANS DROP BOMES ON DEFENCELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN. A Striking Parallel--The New York Herald Refers To the Feat Accom- plished by British Aviator at Ess. en. New York, Dec." 4.--Under the cap- tion of "An Air Raid on Krupps," the Herald says editorially : "The daring and skill of aviators in the service of the allies again has been demonsirated, according to the | despatches, this time by the at- { tack from' the air on the Krupp gun {factory at Essen. {| "Even Dr. Bernard Bernburg may | be able to detect the difference in the { methods, pursued by opposing forces in the western theatre of war as applied to fighting in the sky. To den and do as much damage as did the last named vessel, until she was { damage the great war factory of the REV. J. A. WADDELL Invited to' Brock street Methodist | Church, Rev. J. A. Waddell, of Seeley's Bay, who has been extended an in. vitation to become pastor of Brock Street Methodist church, has spent all his ministry in the Kingston dis- trict, He entered the ministry of the Me- thodist church in 1903 as a proba- tioner, serving Perth Road and Bat- tersea charges. Since his ordination in 1910 he has been stationed at { Harrowsmith and now at Seeley's Bay. He was educated at the pub- | lic schools in Scotland, Brockville Collegiate Institute and Victoria Uni- versity, Toronto. | Irving the summer of 1909 Rev. Mr. Waddell supplied at Brock Street church and Bethel Congregational church. Cracow to Soon Be Completely Invested Petrograd, Dec. 4.--An attack on the outer defences of Cracow is report ed to-day. With Wieliczka now held by the Russians, the enveloping move ment at Cracow is progressing, and the city will soon' be completely in vested. BERLIN HAS HEARD . That 34,000 Canadians Have Landed In Egypt. | Berlin, via wireless to Sayville, Dec. 4 thens reports state that England has landed 34,000 Canadi- an volunteers in Egypt," a state- ment here to-day declares. { It is supposed that Berlin's | Athens correspondent has the Ca- | ngdians mixed wp with the New Zeal- | anders and Australians, who i Australia's war' expenses for this A. H. Watt, a British reservist from Toronto, has been recommended or the Victoria Cross for rescuing an officer from the River Aisne, under rain of ts. The correspondent declares one "sol dier told him that going to the front Was DOW a every Ger- i have PORT SAID IMMUNE (for the Teutonic cause. { weré made by her = during November. have | odist, 1; Congregationalists, 2. Dona- | landed in Cairo, according to yester- | k | day's despatches. German empire is one thing; to hurl bombs on.the women and children of cities without thd possibility of ob- taining military advantage is an- other. "It will be interesting: to note FROM TURKISH ATTACK | bat parallel the apologist for / the kaiser will be able to draw between SE -- Essen 'and Antwerp." ' The Large Area of Desert Eastward Inundated --The Turks Have Retreated. Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 4.--The great area of desert, east of Port Said, has been inundated. Following the sharp lesson which was learned on Nov. 20th, when Turk forces defeated a jmall detachment of British, and were able to announce that they had reached the Suez canal, the military authorities took this method of ren- dering the city immune from attack. British aeroplanes, which recon- noitered over the Sinai peninsula to- day, reported they found no trace of the enemy, which. retreated east- ward from Gatia and Birelnuse. the passes of {he Vosges, and are in' a position to gather beliind them troops which at any time they wish can 'be poured through gateways easterly for a serious invasion of Germany. WOMEN TO REQUEST HEARST FOR VOTES Deputation Wants Votes For Mar- ried Women as Well as Widows and Spinsters. Toronto, Dec. 4.~--The annual pil grimage of Ontario women see the boon of votes will take place to the shrine in Queen's Park on Wed- nesday next,, when the Canadian Suffrage association and will visit by appointment Premier Hearst. The deputation -will press only for the Erauting of votes to married women War Tidings. Three score Cossacks captured three hundred German cavalrymen, killed a number of others and found out much of interest for their com- manders in a night raid upon Czen- stochowa. When the prisoners came to be examined forty were found to be women dressed in soldiers' uni- forms. : King George is likely to prolong and extend his stay at the fromt in France and Belgium. After over four months of war the eastern French fortresses are as inageessible to the kaiser's armids as Paris itself. THINK KAISER IS A MOSLEM. Mohammedan Leaders Tell Them Germans Are Joining. Daily. London, Dec. 4--Kaiser Wilhelm has turned Mohammedan, and says his prayers with his face turned to- ward Mecca every morning and even- ing--this is implicitly believed by the Turkish soldiers now. fighting They also know---for their leaders have told them so--that the Germans are jdining the faith of the Prophet at the rate of 10,000 a day. The Cresvent is to fly in every great capi- tal at last! These stories, absurdities to the Otcident, are not hard for the Turks to believe. They have always be- lieved that Mohammedanism would cover the earth. They themselves are fierce warrior proselytes whom the Arabs converted, and who then outdid the countrymen of Mobam- med in battling for the Crescent. There is just a grain of truth in fhis Mohammedanization of Ger- many, too. Of the tens of thousands of German school teachers, engineers soldiers and business men who Have gone to Turkey in the last ten years, large numbers have learned the Turkish language and learned it with Teutonic thoroughness. And a great many have espoused the faith of the Prophet! Even men who have come as missionaries are among this num- ber. There may be a few hypocrites, but most of these converts are sin- cere. Their addition to the hordes of Mohammed have been made the basis 'for the most absurd state- ments in the speeches of fanatic priests sters and widows. « SUCCEED JUDGE TEETZEL. W. B. Northrup, M. P., May Soon Re- ceive Appointment. Ottawa, Dec. 4.--~Rumors ate reviv- ed of changes in the not distant fu- ture in the judiciary of Ontario. Those who are mentioned as eligible to retire, and at least some of them are likely to do so, include Sir Johny Boyd and Justices Britton, Leitch and Garrow. There is a vacancy. al- ready, due to. the residnation of Justice Teetzel. retirement of supreme court judges, however, is a wholly volun- tary i With county ju it is now compulsory on -attai seventy-five years of age. It learned that nothing official . transpired, but there or less Victorian Order Of Nurses. The regular meeting of the Victorian Order of Nurses took place in St. George's hall on Thursday ' afternoon. The nurse's report -showed : 122 visits Religious denominations Roman Catholics, 7; Baptists, 2; "attended : nglicans, 5; Presbyterians, 3; Meth. tions of infants' clothing were receiv. ed from Miss Benn and Miss Jackeon. Want Labor Used. The Trades and Labor Council met on Thursday evening and a warm dis-| cussion ensued over the OI ous cil proposing to let the ding of the breakwater by contract. It was keenly voiced by many of those present that a strong objection should be taken against action. Day labor is the method favored. Elected Vice ft Of C.P.R. ptm Or i cEpLEIEET hh The - French now. hold most' Jokl on the same terms as given to spin-{, Gireat Britain promises not to delily unduly United States vessels held'for | examination. i wt ro Mm Canadian Pacific railway earnings for the period ng Nov.. 'were: 2,308,000; O00, oy Te ey cis in the of Westmoreland 'and Jacques: The Johitef | canners are government suspend but the fishermen are David - Lamar, found personation, was years' in iy ing that Ttaly must be re sent any aggression. Th ay ati Manitoba government an of der in couneil | req) thet: at's and social clubs to- ¢ a Tora, and wholesale liquor: 8 at 6." The ills » means of the five or six t horses. | the second contingent direct from the farmers. Fieami : Wi Premier mming, has accepted the nomination servatiye candidate for the = federal seat of Victoria and Ci and will resign his seat in. the legislature and the premiership, "avo dismissal by the lieutena COMING FROM TURKEY. Canadian Missionaries: Due in New York December 12. Berlin, Ont., Dec. 4.--~Word bas been received here from Hev. A BN Yoder, of Wakurusa, Ind., that adian missionaries from Tur] due to arrive in New, York 6 cembér 12th. - Mr. Bark , ot city is expecting his wife + children, whom he left in Tu June. Nine missionaries col with the United Orphanage'and Mk sion, together with a large number of missionaries of the. Congregation- al churches of Canada, are in' the party. GN a A gossipy but when a g Bucknell's News Depot +» king [OWrke, J. W. & Ob. 1} College Book Store ae Coulter's Grocery "ae HEGAN--I ton, on Dee, GE 191 ca Ee TR eophaptt immigta mn custom " od 67 ag ih . rood rE rom i "sole a. orn ae i . -- rene a / oh 30 0 be sung. MILNE--At 302 Unik , rd, 1914, Funeral from is Ba