we ~~ MADE BY ALLIES Who Are Pressing Forward With Dash at Al Points in Belgiom and North ern France. The Strength of the Allied Armies Has Been Constantly Increascd---A Bloody Battie in Poland in Which the German Forces Were Terri- bly Decimated. Paris, Dee. 5.--The allies "have further advanced their lines in Belgium and northern France, on the west- ern end of their battle line, and-also in the Argonne where desperate fighting is reported, is the statement in the of- ficial communique from the war office to-day. -------- u Indication of German Failure. New York, Dec. 5.--A Herald cable this morning says: The return of the kaiser to. Berlin yesterday is re- garded here as a sure indication that German éxpecta- tions of an early success in Poland have heen effectually blocked. The kaiser, who will make only a brief stop in the capital, has been on the eastern battle front for near- ly a week, and it is assumed he would have remained to witness the victory of his troops had one been in nen prospect. ' ; he tremendous conflict in Poland continues to hold the interest to the prictieal exelusion of other arenas of war. In faet, all other military operations apparently are hinged on the outcome of the titanic struggle betwee the Russians and the Austro-German armies. 3 Bloodiest Fight of the War. Petrograd, via London; (Dec. 5,--The most tragic moment of the fighting about Leds thus far reportéd here. occurred 'between Tuszyn and Bizeziny, southeast of Lode. Heavy German forces which had penetrated to Tuszyn, it rs, were surrounded and obliged to fight their way to. Brzeziny to unite with the main army., The Russigns essayed counter attack after counter attack to prevent a junction, but the Germans cut a passage at the point of sthe bayonet for a distance of fifteen miles. This battle is called the bloodiest and most pitiless fight of theswar. Ninety per cent. of the German dfficers were put out of action, and many regiments had less than one hundred men left. The fighting lasted thirty-six hours. The Germans fell in rows, but their comrades pushed forward over the bodies and hurled themselves against the Russians. How Prussian Guard Vindicated Honor. London, Dec. 5.--The Daily Telegraph has the fol- lowing special despatch from Paris: e Cri de Paris to-day .gives publicity to an as- tounding story, the absolute authenticity of which is vouched for by an officer of Sir John French's general staff, During the battle of Ypres the Prussian Guard was flung up to assault the allied lines, and was compelled: to retire before a withering fire. But the Prussian Guard never retires. Such is the cardinal dogma in the German army. « The stain must be wiped out with blood. On the mor- row, therefore, at broad noonday, the Guard was sent out. Without arms and without artillery support they walked toward the allied lines, marching as on parade." The al- lied soldiers fired as on a rifle range. Out of 1,000 men who advanced, not one escaped. The honor of the Prus- sian Ghiard had been vindicated. from London 2 most point reached in their advance, but. with this town as a War Tidings. Duriuguies ministry resigned on turday. Resignation was due to terms of interpolation regarding the mobil EE ---- 2. tish KINGSTON ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 191a work of strengthening the positions taken from the Germans in the fighting of Monday, particularly at Vermelles, between Lens and La Bassee, Two hundred members of the French parliament out of the total of 897 are serving with the army. German infantry 'essayed new at- tacks against the French t hes in the Argonne region but all met with failure. . Certain it is that the presence of King George has gre-tly heartened the British troops, and their fight- ing of the past three days has been marked with daring and dash. . The German cruiser Karlsruhe is reported to have left South Ameri- can waters and cruising near the steamship lane in the North Atlan- tic on a .hunt.for sips flying flags of the nations allied against Germany. HOLD AMBULANCE MEN, Germany Breaks Rules Of The Gen- - eva Convendion. Bordeaux, Dec. 5.--~The French gov- ernment has protested to Berlin through the Spanish A ambassador that the Germans are detaining as prisoners of war members of the French ambulance instead of sending them back to their army, in accord- ance with the rules of the Geneva convention. A similar protest has been made by the International Red Cross committee, The French government at the same time advised the American am. bassador, who is charged with Ger- man; interests in France, that mem- bers of Ggrman ambulances would be detained until satisfaction was re- ceived. Although there has been no reply to -the protest as yet, a number of those serving in ~ French ambulances have been released since the protest was filed. More Bombs Are Dropped In Germany Berlin, via wireless to London, Dec. 3.--Hostile aviators dropped four bombs yesterday in the neighborhood of Freiburg (Freiburg) in Breisgau, it was reported from Karlsruhe. An- nouncement, of the attack upon Frei- burg was made in an official state- ment, Freiburg is in the grat¥ duchy of Baden, on the Dreisam, seventy-five wiles south-west of Karlsrhue, and forty wiles north-east of Altkirch, where fighting between French and {iermans was reported yesterday. ------ TREE TRUNKS AS GUNS. Dummies Left By Germans: To De- ceive Aviators. Paris, Dec. 5.--The Temps correspon- dent ' describes a meeting near Sois- sons with a French infantry ; soldier who had Yjust escaped from the Ger- mans, 'hey had forced him, he said, with fifty others captured at the same time, to dig trenches, after shooting' those refusing. 'The soldier said : "Under a French cannonade which killed many, we were compelled © by blows to dig in.the most exposed situations in the trenches the Ger- mans now occupy, which are very wide and deep and cemented against damp at frequent intervals. We re- ceived only one meal, at 11 p.m. We had no coverings, and slept in the trenches. Finally, when my comrades' were mostly all killed, I crept from one end of the trench and crawled 100° yards to a shell hole, where I spent the following day, then I crawled two hundred yards to the French trenches. t "The Germans received food and munitions regularly, but seemed dis- pirited, and 'they suffered from :rheu- matism greatly. The majority are middle-aged. During the last fort- night, the Germans had withdrawn many guns, which were replaced with trunks of trees to deceive - aviators, and some were even mounted on wheels." NO DISCRIMINATION. Germany May Buy In America, Says Ambassador. London, Dec. 5.~The London Times says > The American ambas- sador in Berlin, Mr. Gerard, is re- ported to have had a conversation at Munich with a representative of the Nubnerneuste Nachrichden. In reply to the German journalist's question as to how the delivery of war material to Germany's enemies was to be reconciled with President Wilson's declaration of neutrality 'at the beginning of the war, the 'am- bassador said he ad no personal knowledge of such deliveries but if the reports were true there was no offence against international law. Private firms of America, he saidi would send the same goods to Ger- many - if they were ordered, and if German cruisers could catch the ships that were taking contraband of war to they would seize them as . The ambassador added, perhaps, rather unkindly, that. of course, the transporting of goods to was more difficult and the risk greater." Government Aid To Farmers. Ottawa, Dec. 5---The aid which the government is extending to the wes- tern farmers who last spymmer lost their crops is much more extensive than at first reported. In place of $1,- 000,000, it is almost $2,000,000. The exact expenditures proposed up to date on seed grain for the afflicted farmers is $1,800,000. This will en- able them to put in heavy crops over the pr 8 to be disbursed in this cou in the purchase of various TO ATTACK FROM SYRIA HAVE FALLEN BACK UPON THIS SCHEME AFTER FAILURE, Some Of The Difficulties -- Coast Route Commanded From Sea and Desert. Routes Present Formidable Obstacles. London, Dec. 5.--Declaring that the Germans have failed in their at- tempt to create trouble in Egypt dor England, a correspondent of the Chronicle, writing from Cairo, says they have fallen to attack Egypt from Palestine and Syria. He says: "Travellers who have just come from Palestine tell me the Turks are massing troops in considerable (force at Jerusalem and Damascus in Syria, theif number being given as between 160,000 and 120,000. The country, it is stated, is comparative- ly quiet, and the military authori- ties seem to have the situation well in hand. "Already the Turks have taken possession of a number of public in- stitutions founded and maintained by the English and French and oth- er nationalities. The convent of Notre, Dame. parsonage ofthe Eng- lish church there, and a large Freneh school are among the buildings seized. "But the difficulties of a Turkish invasion of Egypt from Palestine are enormous. The coast route is com- liainded from the sea. The two desert toutes present great difficulties. A force coming by either of these would have a tremendous problem to deal with the matter of trans- port. Nothing could be more admirable than the attitude of the Egyptian people in the crisis. "The Egyptian army is absolutely loyal 40 British rule, and nothing has taken place to suggest that there is 'disaffection of any kind in its ranks." The correspondent says that large numbers of German and Austrian sjies have been arrested and sent to M: Ita News that the Suez canal isin no immediate danger from an Arab raid iz contained in a despatch from Cairo. "Reconnaissances have failed to discover any hostile bodies in the vicinity of the canal." says the mes- sage "The Arab force previously reported near Kitieh evidently have wetiied." First Loan In America, New York, Dec. 5.~The Swedish government has placed a $5,000,000 treasury note loan in the United States for two years at six per cent. commodities. This is supposed to be the first loans negotiated in America by a neutral European nation ' since the outbreak of the war, Outbreak Of Smallpoxd North Bay, Dec. 5--Dr. George Provincial health officer, and George Young, provincial sanitary inspector, left here to-night for Fort Frances and Rainy River districts, where a serious outbreak of smallpox is re- ported The inhabitants claim tha: the infection is due to the influx of settlers from the other side of the line, ENGULFED IN CRIM HOMICIDE FLOURISHES IN NEW YORK CITY. Murderers Can Be Hired by the Day Like Taxicabs, Declares Police Com missioner Woods, New York, Dec. 5--Greater New York is engulfed in a crime wave of appaling proportions. Murderers can be hired like taxicabs for the day, hour or job. To take an unmuzzled dog on the street, whether leashed or at large, is to invite arrest and a heavy fine, but to hire a murder neat- ly and expeditiously done involves less risk of detection and punish- ment than to carry a lighted cigar into the subway. . Police commissioner Woods is re- sponsible for the statement that there were 73 homicides with 623 felonious assaults, any one of which might have resulted fatally in the Same period. He admits that murder can bé done cheaper in New York than in the wilds of Arizona, supposedly the haunt of "bad men," and that a mur- derer takes less risk in New York than heé does in China. Bomb throwing also is flourishing and the police are almost powerless to check it. Between September 16th and November 26th there were nine- teen bomb explosions and only four men were arrested, three in one case and one in another. The perpetrators of the other seventeen dynamite out- rages are still at large without a clue to their identity. 200 SURPLUS OFFICERS RETURNING TO CANADA Some Will Join Second Contingent --Some May Join Brit- ish Forces. Toronto, Dee. 5.-- The surplns of the Canadian officers at Salisbury Plain, who have been anxiously Waiting for official news from: Otta- wa, have been notified that they can apply for temporary commissions in the British army, without separation the acreage pro- ext year. Martin Burrell, minister of e. is ill with a severe tas allowances or even Canadian rates of pay, failing which they are to hold themselves in readiness to re- turn to their regiments in Canada at an early date. Some iy Join And holidays New MANY AMERICAN SETTLERS. Dominion Immigration Inspector De. clares Prospects Are Bright. Saskatoon, Sask., Dec. 5-- W. J. White, Dominion government immi- gration inspector for the United States, registered at the King George on his way to Ottawa. Mr. White has just come from the Pacific states and his general impression ' of the prospects of American immigration nex: spring is decidedly favorable. "The total volume of American immigration will not be as large as in some years. To keep up to the high water mark would be phenome- nal, and next year's figures will not be as high. But there is this pleas- ing feature about it, that practically all the American immigrants will be farmers. The cities used to draw a large proportion of new-comers from the United States, but from the pre- sent time until the end of the war it is only prospective farmers 'that are being attracted." That there will he a larger num- ber of purchasers of farm lands in western Canada than ever before, is Mr. White's opinion, based upon the increasing scarcity of desirable home- steads. The average American farm- er coming to Canada at the present time is possessed of some means, and he will be inclined to purchase a good farm with an advantageous location ALFONSO IS FOR ALLIES Heads Fund for Belginm With $2. 000 Subscription Havre, Dec. 5.--E1 Universo, ~ a well known clerical and anti-Carlist paper of Madrid, has opened a sub- scription for non-combatant Bel- gians, King Alfonso, whose sym- pathy for the allies is an open sec- ret, has headed the list with a gift of $2,000, and the results of the ap- peal are stated to have been very satisfactory. CR Canadians To Get Brief - Holiday Toronto, Dec. 5.--~A Globe cable from Salisbury Plain says : A big rainstorm has so flooded the camp of the Highland brigade of the Canadian expeditionary force that the men have been sent to shelter. tne nearest towns for Fiiteen thousand of the Canadians will be given leave for Christmas and the remainder of the force of 32,000 will. get, a. holiday at ear's. Dr -- NERVE SHOCK PHENOMENA Soldiers Lose Memory of Senses. Paris, Dec. 5. --Extraordinary ef- fects of shell fire are shown by the and Use Fondition of¥et* men back from the front, who are now under special treatment in the hospital. Two have been struck deaf and dumb----that is to say, apparently so for neither of them seem to have anything wrong with the organs'of hearing or speech but they are suffering simply from nervous shock. A third imagines that he cannot see, and behaves ex- actly as if he were really blind, whereas there is nothing the matter with his eyes. A particularly bad case is that of a corporal, mentioned in despatches for the brave manner in which he arried his wounded captain out of the danger zone. His regiment was badly cut up, and the corporal was the only man left out of his com- pany at the end of the day. He had lost 'his reason, in the sense that his mind is a complete blank. He re- members nothing, not even his name, or that he is a soldier and has been fighting. He acts and speaks just like a child, and is as helpless as a new-born infant. The doctors say it is more shock, and that in time he will become normal and rational once more. To Use Night Sticks, New York, Dec. 5--New York's 10,000 policemen are expected by Mayor Mitchel to use their night sticks when necessary, although they were: forbidden by Mayor Gaynor to do 0. The mayor so announced, ad- ding that police commissioner Woods had instructions to command: the po- lice to use night sticks wherever ne- 'essary "When dealing with thugs ana gunmen the police should use their sticks for their own protection," the aayver said. 'When thugs are plying their trade the police should use their sticks in self-protection, and self-protection, to my mind, consists in getting there first." They Couldn't Find Work. Chicago, Dec. 6--Sixteen-year old Lillian Dunn and her eighteen-year- old sister Margaret, who tried to end their lives by gas, will recover, phy- sicians said. Before the end of the week they'll be able to resume their weary tramp in search of jobs. The European war threw the girls out of employment. They lacked money, clothes and even things to eat. After a vain search for work the girls returned home exhausted last night. A little while later they were found clasped in each other's arms, the gas jet open. Veterinary Officers Needed. Ottawa, Dec. 5.---The militia de- partment is asking for a large num- ber of veterinary officers for ser- vice in the imperial army veterinary corpse at the front. They are need- ed at once. Veterinary officers nse alo needed for, service with the sec oud Canadian . expeditionary force. Volunteers are asked to enlist at ounce, either by wiring to the termaster-general at Gltawa [LAST EDITION TORONTO RIDS ITSELF GERMAN P "LEAVE OF ABSENCE" WITH SALARY IS GRANTED IN THE MEANTIME, Three Professors Are Thus Dispensed With-----Dean Fernow, Well-Known In Kingston, a Naturalized Ameri- can, And Not Included. Toronto, Dee. 5.--The University of Toronto has given "leave of ab- sence" with full pay to three Ger- man professors who had not taken out their naturalization papers at the outbreak of war. An official state- ment was issued last night by Sir Edmund Walker, on behalf of the board of governors which reads as follows: "The charges against the profes- Sors' were not substantiated, but in view of all the difficulties surround- ing the situatien the board has given leave of absence with salary until the end of session to Professors Mueller, Benzinger and Herr Tapper." Further than this no statement was made by any other member of the board of governors. The® an- nouncement came at the end of two And Their Work. : London, Dee. 5.--~The Canadian Ae sociated Press has been asked to cir- culate the following : ¥ ited kingdom, the distribution of comidrts as and when required to the Canadian = contingent at' Salisbury Plain to supplement those supplied by the govermment authorities, sur- plus supplies that may be will be stored in anticipation of the requirements of the contingent - while at the front. "Miss | Plummer and Miss Arnolds, who were nominated by the minister of militia 10 undertake the work of this neture, will act as 4 tives of the association for dis- tribution of comforts, making their headquarters at Amesbury for the pre- sent. "The Canadian Red Cross Society §s utilizing the association for the dis- tribution of comforts by that society in Canada and the asso- ciation will be glad also to act as mittees interested in similar work in the dominion, All i ts of comforts should be forwarded to the association 'Care of the Canadian Pa- cific, Liverpool." " Takes $50,000 Post. days' discussion by the board. "President Falconer did not re- commend. the dismissal . of these men," said Sir Edmund, "and it} would be necessary for him to make! that recommendation before the! board could act That is specified in. the University Act." President Falconer had nothing to! say. It is felt that the announce-| ment by the board was the result of. a compromise between the presi- | dent, who would not dismiss the Ger-| man professors, and those members of the board who thought they should | not be in the employment of any pub- | licly-supported organization in Can-| ada. The announcement does not! affect naturalized Germans on the | university staff. Prof. Needler, head of the German department, and Dean Fernow did not come within the seope 'of 'the. enquiry: + The former is now alone in the German department. Dr. Imman- uel Benzinger was appointed to the oriental department in 1913. He | was then spoken of by President Fal-| coner as having "a wide experience of teaching in Berlin and elsewhere, and of archaeological work, during his ten years residence in Palestine." Herr Tapper, who left jermany three years ago, had been released from - military service there on ac- count of ill-health. He spent a year in Iowa, taking a degree In state college there, He went from there to Chicago and thence to To- ronto. He was known as an anti- militarist and strongly opposed. to German military ambitions. Prof. Mueller had been in this country twenty-one years, without taking out his naturalization papers. He was in Germany two years ago, but claimed that his citizenship there had lapsed. Prof. Peter Toews, assistant pro- fessor of German, is already on leave of absence. AUSTRALIA'S WAR COST. Buage. Anticipates $58,000,900 For Present Year. ~ Sydney, Australia, Dec. 5.--In "the budget speech the government esti- mates Australia's expenses in. con- nection with the war at $58,000,000 for the present year. The speech expresses the hope "that the day is not far distant when the sister do- minion of New Zealand, while. main- taining her identity unimpaired, will be closer associated with Australia." The speech adds that "the war pro- bably will bring us new obligations in the Pacific." OENYING AUTHENCITY OF THE INTERVIEW That -lrwin S. Cobb Had With Lord Kitchener on 21st of October. : London, Dec. 5.--~The official press bureau Jo-duy iswied ha nying™t aul tact a with od Herbert Kitch- ener by Irvin Cobb, in this week's is- sue of the Salusiay Evening Post, of Philadelphia. The "With ® view with Mr. Cobb, Kitchener saw Mr. Cobb a 4 utes on October 21st, nothing in the nature of a i interview granted, and the remarks attributed to the secretary of state for war are imaginary." -- What. Mr. Cobb Says. New York, Dec. 5.~Irvin 8. Cobb made this statement regarding his in terview with Lord "Ritchencr » St, Luke's Chris! | concert, Wednesday, Dee. . in Chicago, Dec. 35: B, Cald- { well, formerly president of the Invest- ment Bankers' association, signed as vice-president of the Con- tinental & Commadal ust, Co. to become president general mana- ger of the Sperry & Hutchingon com pany, trading stamp comcern, and the Hamilton Corporation, New York, at a salary understood tobe $50,- 0Q0 a year. For bread and pastry, White * Rose flour. &s DAILY MEMO! Vaudeville, Grand Opera' House, 7.30 and § pm. * "See top. of page 3, Fight hand corner. for probabilities. ' AN in and 4 Order your nl C a hee FRE Ran. ton Street. RSET a |THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is On Sale at the Following City . . Bucknell's News Depot "haa Clarke, J. W. & Co. «sisss 5 » College Book Store i.i+.168 Princess Coulter's Grocery ....sis Prince Jullen's Grocery, Cor. Prilicess & Alred Frontenac Hotel ....sss¢sOntario Bt Gibson's Drug Store + Baricet McAuley's Book Btord ....08 McGall's Cigar Store, Cor. Bagare fcLeod's Grocery ....B1 XE Medley's Drug Store 360 University Ave caul's Cigar Store .evess 10 Heine Prouse's Drug 'Store .... Valleau's Grocery" ..sses Montreal Portsmouth Lowe's Grocery vessnane BORN HUBBS--At Picton, on Nav. jsnd. to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Hubbs, Belleville, a sen. 3 TAYLOR--At Napanee, on Dec. Ist, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Taylor, a daughter, MARRIED RUSSELL--MOWBRAY--At Belleville, on Dec. 2nd, Miss le Mo bray, only dau of Albert Mowbray, Tye to Clatr Russell, Selby. DIED, BOWEN--At Napanee, on Nov. 30th, Alberta Victoria Bowen, aged nf- ty-two years, GLENN--Suddenly in Montreal on Dee. 4th, 1914, Chas. W. Glenn. Interment at Newburgh onday. SCOBELL~--In Syracuse, NY. on Nov. 29th, 1914, at this ; noe, 364 South Ave, Geo. M. . roungest 30D of the late 8. W. and rs. ell. Funeral took place Wednesday to Oak- 'wood cemetery. ' SPEARING---At Conway, 'Willam John, son of John Spearing, aged and ten days. TLL M3, fei ter nage, aged Funeral agents for individuals or other - com- 7% "The Canadian War Con nt As sociation, in order to note unity of action in both Canada and 3