| a YEAR 82» NO. isn The 1 KINGSTON ONTARIO, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 915 ----_ BRITISH TAKE iN RI 'GERMAN PONTOON BRIDGES ~~ WERE BLOWN TO PIECES By the French Artillery _at conte St. . Miiel. PROGRESS IN DRIVE AGAINST POINT OF GERMAN WEDGE NEAR VERDUN, Rritish Made Slight Gains East of St. George--Fog Prevents Fighting jn The Vosges and In Lower Alsace, Paris; Jan. 25.<-How German pon- toon bridges across the Meuse at St. Mihicl were Blown to pieces by French hells, was told in the othcaal com munique to-day. The German gunners on bank of the the west Meuse attempted unsue- cessfully to silence the French artil- lery. Additional guns were brought into position 'by the French. Shells fell in the dity of St. Mihiel, inflict ing louses among the German defend ors, Exeopting this, progress in the drive against 'the point of the German wedge, south of Verdun, and a slight gain by the British east of St George, near the seacoast, the fighting m the past twenty: "four hours hag re © sulted in nb mors important changes. according to the war office. A Bavarign detachment was surpris ed hy French infantry. Attacks at Berry-AwBae and in the Argonne were successfully ropa. In the Cham- pagne region, Frenoh shells demolished a section of earthworks apd German shelters. A thick fog overhung the Vosges an: Lower: Alsace, halting the fighting in these regions. From the River Lys aouthward to the Oise, ouly intermit. tent canuobading was reported. ln The © Bunk near Sin- ape, Asi Sin," the steamer Georg- ios, on board 1 were sixtean aeroplanes, Gomprising the entire Turkish aerial i foot. & England the Zeppelin raiders wdje assisted by persons in an auto- mobile, "who aighalled to them the focation® 6f the town which they bombarded. Harry Thaw will be arraigned in New York on a charge of conspiracy. A AA AAA A A A GERMANS WERE SMASHED IN NORTH SEA FIGHT Admiral Beatly Commanded the bh Son th Pursued and Thrashed Attempting 1 Raid London, Jan. 25.--An attempt by a German cruiser Sguadron ¢ to yapeat horeugh, the Hartlepools and other Brivish coast towns, was frustrated yesterday by the British patrolling squadron, and I a running fight the Seria armored cruiser Bluegher, of 15,500 tons displacement, was sunk, and two German battle cruisers were seriously Jumaged. The text of official press burs follows: -- eau's statement "Karly this morning a-British patrolling squadron of battle crufs- rs and light crul ; under Viee- Admiral Sir Heatty, with a destroyer der Commodore Trywhitt, si German battle cruisers and hind I oh cruisers and a Ausber of yers, steering mtly making once made for ied, They were im- PITH OF THE NEWS. nsed Items By Telegraph And From Exchanges. Rev, Pereival Jennis, vears a clergyman in Church at Vietoria, aged sixty-four years. J. M. Douglis, Fdmonton, Alta. sitting member, has Fo n chosen liber: al federal candidate in" Strathcona constituency. Raeffele Ruffini was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Gaeta- no Melini, at Hamilton -on the 20th of December. Spinal meningitis has est vietims "Jack" Kennedy, 5th Battery, formerly the 2lst mount Battery At Ottawa, cently, perial conference does not seem to couragement, William toshier, a young farmer living near Brampton, was instantly killed by G.T.R. train when driv- ing with a voung lady, who escaped death, though the horse was killed Land the cutter smashed Commencing Monday, the Coniagas and two other mills in the Cobalt camp will close down for a Week and until spring the thirteen mills in the camp will in turn close down one week out of every month. The water is very short. for the B.C twenty Anglican dead, among its. lat- of the West- suggestion 'made Tre in London, that the next im- be held this year, be finding much en- the VALUABLE. SOUVENIRS Received By J. McDermott: From ' His Son, in England J. MeDermott, 289 Johnson street, brought into the Whig office on Mon- day, three very interesting souven- irs that his son, Edward, sent him from England. Two circular pieces that surround the point on the Ger- man helmet had been given to Pte. M¢Dermott by a soldier who had bean invalided home from the front. The third souvenir was a part of a German shell that had heen fired on Scarborough in the first German raid, The plese of the shell is of steel and about two inches thick, and the thread of the cap is shown. Mr. McDermott has two sons with the mechanical transport depart- ment of the first contingent. A pie- ture was sent him showing some of the boys in the company diving off an auto-transport that bhgd been stalled in the mud, and thé water was about the seat. the Germans Who Were have yet been received at the ad- sirlty, though some has apparently i ir lordahips. A rl hi satisfaction to Viee-Admiral Sir Da- vid Beatty." Admiral Beatty commanded the cruiser squadron in the battle in. the Bight oi Heligoland Strategy Of Beatty. . London, Jan. 2§--The Daily News' naval expert says: _Yester- day's fight was by far the biggest of the war, and its results, even if none] of the enemy's light eraft was ae- counted for, were "the least important. battle cruiser as a type has distin- miral Sir David Beatty, who the second time has Santis of of th the splendid vessels. under Ss comma The ---- must have Seana ter rific one, Swing it to the A SISCHARG] SOLDIER ad Once again the the guished itself, and with it Vive-Ad-|. made ph if i A GERMAN SOL DIER-Y "Ww A CANADA ADOPTING FRENCH ARMY BOOT Present Shoe Issue Found by Commission to he Very Poor. Ottawa, Jan. 35.---The army boot ngw used. in 'service by the Canadian militia department, which hag "met with erftleism and dissatisfaction in many quarters, has becon discarded by the goverment, and a new: pattern, te Rrenshanay angle hoot, Nas adopted by the Ottawa authorities. The change took place on the re- port of the cotumission which = was recently appointed by the Dominion government fo ifvesiigate and re- port on a new specification of foot: wear for the soldiers. The commis- sion was composed of Col. R. Brown, of the militia department, Ottawa, who aéted as chairman; E. E. Dono- van, general manager, of the E. T. Wright Shoe company, of St. Tho mas, and the Royal Shoe company, of Toronto; George A. Slater, Mont- real, and E. A.*Stevens, of the A. J. Stevens company, of Ottawa The commissioners, who are all experts on shoe and boot construe- tion, in their investigation discover- RITING UP" HIS DIARY. GERMAN AIRSHIPS BORE TRI-COLOR And Their Aviators at Dunkirk Were Uniforms of Al- lies': Soldiers. London, Jan, +25. ~That German aeroplanes; engaged in the world's first great air battle over Dunkirk on Friday, bope the tri-color of France painted on the under-side - of i their heey | irom row Sign lero in ped (disguise, the twelve German . aviators word -uniforms of allies', soldiers, the messages said. System of Gas Buoys. Ottawa, Jan, 26.~With fhe, Jing of navigation - "at. the the marine artment will Ei a uniform system of gas yen and beacons. © Red buoys will carry lights and black buoys white Boy regard. to Middle ground, fairways, ete. L n------------------ Dean Williams' Consecration. Quebec, tion of the Ver Rev. Wikams, to the Bishopric of Quebec, ed that the present shoe used by the government was far from meeting the standard requirements of an 'army boot and that the construction of the footwear was very poor. It is understood that the govern- ment has given contracts to several Canadian firms for jmmediate dee livery of 120,000 pairs of boots of the new. patiern. Hall of this order will go to Western Ontario, with To- ronto firms getting a very large pro= portion of the contract. The other nalf will go to eastern manufac- turers. Cried "Hureah ¥ For Germany," And Started Row In Police Cells "Hurrah for Germany !" cried a dis- soldier im" the police court om took place to-day. Were Executed For Wearing Londen, Jan. raided Dunkirk on RE forms, the déspatches stated, international warfare. Jan. 25.--The consecra+ Dr, Lennox Allies' Uniforms 25. --It is reported (hat the German pilot and observer, captured when one of the taubes that day, was shot down, were immediately executed. sand Praneheaais and therefore, came within the definition of a spy, laid down by the rules of SCALE OF PENSIONS GENEROUS. Measares to Provide Separation Al- lowance For Officers. Ottawa, Jan. 23.--The details of the pension - s¢heme for the Canadian wrmy have "heen completed, and it is understood, approved. The pen- 'sions can be made operative without new legislation on the authority of an order-in-council and this. course { will, it 'is understood, be = adopted. While no announcement has heen made vet, it is believed that the govern- ment has decided upon a very gener- ous scale of pensions for Canadians who are on active service in the pre. oni war. Measures are also being taken toward providing a separation allowancé in the case of officers serv- ing, with the expeditionard forces. 4 REBELS ARE ROUTED ------ Attack On South African Cos* Lives. Jan. 24, Forces Jan. that guns under Maritz and Pretoria, 25. --1t is via London, officially ' announced 1,200 rebels with jour their leaders, Lieut.-Col. Kemp, attacked Upington, Bec¢huana- land, Sunday. The - rebels were re- pal: od, leaving behind twelve dead and twenty- three wounded apd ninety-six prisoners. The Union lost three ! wounded. | -------- THREATEN THE U.S. German Papers Say it is Vio- ing Arms to- Allies. Berlin, via The Hague, Jan. 26.-- German newspapers on Saturday. ap- Rasded a semi-official Satenient ven out by the government, testing against the sale of arms. od Amy ~the..al- lies. The statement of South Africa forces men Billed and twenty-one lity is beipg viclated by Stateslin #his respect. 'Soma #5f° the most: radical phgeby display a strong anti-American tone, They charge that it has been réveal- ed that the terms under which al les purchase arms and ammunition in the United States make such pur. chases mothing short 'of subsidizing the United Statés under the veil of a trade war. "Once Germany is Zonvinced that America is determined - to. continue supporting the allies against Ger- {| many, that knowledge will leave ddep traces on the German mind, the im- portance of which America can hard- ly afford to disregard," observes one of ithe more radical yadical pewspapers. Protest st Made By Germany To the U.S. Wasbingion, dan. 20.--~Germany to-day protested to the state depart- ment against the manufacture of hydro aeroplanes in the United Sta- tes for the yse of Britain Rus | oon FE 'German ambassador declared the works at Hammondsport, N.Y%, has offended in this wap, MORE DUTY ON CANADIAN GOODS Increases Dues Payable On Articles From Dominion. Ottawa, Jan. 25. - the spirit, if not the len of ten "lowed -by the chanting of MILITARY HONORS PAID TO LATE LT.-COL. STRANGE rm -------- LAST EDITION mm Service Was Hold i in St. hn-| drew 's Church. THE MILITARY CORTEGE ACCOMPANIED THE BODY CATARAQUI CEMETERY. TO Outside Military and Yachting Repre- sentatives Were in Attendance -- Two Bands Played "The Dead March" Along the Route. At one o'clock Monday afternoon, the remains of the late Lieut.-Col. F. Strange; who died in England on Jan. 6th, while on military service, reach ed Kingston, and were borne with full military honors through the streets of the native e¢ity of the dead officer, 'and out to Cataraqui cemetery, to be laid with kindred dust. Word reached James Reid & Co., funeral directors, that the body of Col. Strange, which = left Liverpool, Eng., on the steamship Grampian on Jan. 15th, had reached Halifax that morning, and would arrive in King: ston by the G.T.R. International Lim- ited on Monday. When the suburban train pulled into the' Johnson street station, the troops, which were drawn up on €ntario street, presented arms, while the casket was transferred to a gun carriage of the 22nd Battery. The pall-bearers were Col, T. P. R. Hemming, Col, G. H. Ogilvie, Lint; Col.. A. W.. Richardson, lhieut.-Col. E. Kent, Lieut.-Col. A. B. Cu ham and Liedt.-Col. W. 8. vals When the caskdt was placed the gun striae and wrapped in pe Union Jack, the cortege moved off from the left along Ontario street, up Clarence and Brock, along Mon and Princess street, to. St. ; where the burial ser- wviee 'of the. Presbyterian Church: was "The Strange, chief mourners © were J.C. Strange and J. : Strange, three brothers of deceased; Maxwell M. Strange, a son; R. S. Davis; W. A. Fleming, Otfawn, ond C. M. Strange, Montreal, a. cousin. The cortege comprised all' units the city, and marched in the follow- ing order : Firing party, comprised of 300 riflemen of the 21st Battalion, under command of D. H. McLean; band of the RCH.A. the Pipers band, Bugle band, 14th P.W.0. Kifles band; Reid brothers, funeral directors, and clergy; cabs containing flowers; gun carriage, conveying the remains; charger, with boots feversed in the stirrups; mourners; citizens; Kingston veterans representatives; 2lst Battal ion; 22nd Battery; Depot Battery; de- tachment of 14th Regiment. Lient.-Col. McDonald, principal ord- nance officer at Ottawa, represented the quazierunstergosetal, and Lieut.- Col. C. N. Perreau, commandant of the Royal Military College, and sev- seral senior cadets, represented that institution, All the ex-commodores of the King- Halon Yacht Club marched in a body, an the Crescent Yacht Club, ot Watertown, N.Y, was represented b hr Reaves The local achtamen of {Ee Ri the Dee... 01 ER chor STE Service In St. Andrew's When the cortege regehed St. An- drew's Church, the remains were | horne into the edifice and placed be- for the communion railing. "The|" Dead March in Saul" was played by the organist. The choir loft dnd pulpit were draped in white. Rev:| pp. 8. J. M. Comptom, B.D. officiated and opened the service by scripture reading. The invocation Was hl Psalm andthe reading of the 90th Psalm. "Peace Perfect Peace" was sung, and was followed by a portion of scripture from 1 Cor, xv. Lord's Prayer was John in 'Gaimans (tam twenty to: thicty miles the ie es iad lent tread through the ' snow-man- tled roads. At the vault, he com- mitment service was read by Rev. 8. J. M. Compton. The firing party dred a» last salute and "The Last Post" was sounded. BATTLING FOE FIVE DAYS, French Reach Wire Entanglements ot German Positions. Paris, Jan. 25.--O0ne of the most mportant battles of the war In Western Europe is raging at Hart: mannsg-Wellerkopf, in Alsace, little more than fifteen miles from the Rhine and to the north-west of Mueliausen. Last last night the government was without news of the outcome of a battle which has been violent and continuous for five days, and in which the aliles have reached the barbed wire en- tanglements of the German posi- tions. Heavy Losses On the Other German Ships Amsterdam, Jan. 25.--A courier from Germany this morning declares there were three hundred killed one thousand 'wounded qu the' man ships in the battlelyeste addition to those lost with the a er Bluecher. Over 2,500 men were engaged. Sunday in clearing snow from' lio streets. te M. Millerand, the French sar, visited Lord = Kitchener on. Si of iY | OMLY Band at Palace Vaude ley sea of page + 4 Dane carmen, for Ft By righ THE DAILY BRI BRITISH WHIQ Is on Sale at She the Following City tores : Bucknell's News Depot L208 Ring B Clarke, J W. & Co. .... 35% Princess College Book Btore ...« 183 Princess Coulter's Grocery ...... 209 Princess Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prin. & Alfred Frontenac Fiotel ........ Ontario Bt Gibson's Drug Store ..Market Square Lowe's Grocery ......sas Portsmouth M ley's Book Store ....93 Princess all's Cigar Store, Cor, br & Kong & ae W Mcleod ts Grocery ....51 Un Medley's Drag Store, 250 Peters' (rocery Store ..iss n Pine BL ft Paul's Clgar Store ....,.+. 78 Princess Prones's Drug Store .... Princess Valloan's Grogery ...sve Montreal BORN. HOW NSLOW----in Kingston, 22nd. 1915, to Mr. _ and Mrs. J. Hourélow, 26 MaipeSt, a Smiighigt ---- DIED BUSTERD--AL Wolfe Island, 23rd. 915, Margare am Busterd, aged Te ven Ty island "vault STRANGE---At Ealigbuby 19815, January, Strange, nian youngest son of the W. Strange, of Kingst DL Re RAVES--AL laverary, on Jan, 24th, 1815, John T years. Funeral "from. his ate. £1} i ary, to den oon. at 1 rs ' fc iriateds tre ress. who Po as rgd ss Er finemce, He was kind and good gown --P.8 R ROBERT J RB BID ae. nding Dh & "OATS. Funeral was Rel this fernoon at 1 o'cloek fr the nee of her 5 a A "Syierlan chureh, oR Tt 'to We!