N | » The report continues : YEAR 82 NO 47 ON 'LAST EDITION o . . front line when making an attack. Greater Bitterness is Display- "me virus" vus "simicucus, ind . ed Against Them. A ------ ers." . The réport continues : | j UPON FRENCH THAT QUARREL of the particular regiment referred to. NOT WITH THEM. Suspicions are anoused by the fact did not necessarily mean anything more than that the attacking line PRESS "But it. allows interpretation which, | in view of the efforts made to inflame soldiers against the British, might {that some time ago the colonel gave orders that no British prisoners were ---- Bee was not to stop to make prison- easily have been adopted by the men wanted." The Germans On the Front Line Or. dered to Take No 'British Prisoners When Making An Attack. London, Feb. 25.~The campaign of | hatred and abuse conducted by the press and public men of Germany against Great Britain is not without | its effect upon the German soldiers," says a report from the official eye- witness with the British forces, made public last night. "There are signs of greater bitterness displayed to- wards us than towards our allies." WHY CANADIANS STAYED. | They Were Held to Protect Britain From Invasion. London, Feb. 25.--Now that near- ly all ot Canada's soldiers have been safely landed in France and ar» looking fofward to, an opportunity of matching themselves against th best of the German war lord's cans scripts, it may not be amiss to di vulge a hitherto unpublished reason for their long stay in England. It is this: That for many weeks the. Ca-* nadiads were the only large organiz ed and completely armed force in that particular part of England. In other words, it was the only divi- sion that ednld at short notice be moved to any particular point along the coast to repel an invading ar: my. "This is noticeable lately in the at- tempts to press upon the French that the real quarrel is not with them, but with the British. "A few days ago the (Germans shouted to the French that they had no desire to fight them; that the British were their only enemies. They threw messages into the French trenches to the same effect. Taken in connection with other incidents, these actions are not without signis ficance."' reasons for the long months spent on Salisbury's muddy plain. But, ac- cording to a well informed officer! the reason named in the first pars | graph of this article had a great deal to do with the length of their! stay in this country. | It is interesting to note -that ev-| {ery battalion commander had in his| possession definite and comprehen- sive instructions to he carried out in| the event of a reid on the English coast. | - AVIATORS OF THE ALLIES = i SPOILED GERMAN ATTACK Paris, Feb. 25. (3 p.m. official).-- | Germans ato zoufusion, preventing a a ators a i | success attack. Allied avi ¥ tplaged an pram In the Argonme, the enemy's at. | part in the' repulse of German troops tacks near Maria Theresa were check. | who attempted to tetake lost ground | 4 pofsre they were well under way. | in the Champaigne region, it: was | Dgfween the Argonne and the Meuse | announced in official despatches to- | a series of German attacks were likes | | wise repulsed, and the allied made | than | slight gains a counter attack. | sixty bombs upon the railway sta- | Violent artillery ' fighting continues i tion where the raiser's forces were | around lombaertzyde, near the sea- | concentrating. "They shelled trains | coast. British gunners demolished a loaded with troops, and threw the | German block house. 1 NINE SHIPS THE TOLL ~~ OF A WEEK'S BLOCKADE "Take No Prisoners." The Military Observer attached to the British headquarters in the field states in a report given out by the Official Faformation Bureau here to- day that a diary found on a German officer captured ot Cuiochy, France, contained an order stating that no prisoners were to be taken hy the aon { i i day: Phe airmen rained no less London, Feb 26.--The German lost with their crews. i blockade of the British Isles has| ua almost TY he he Steamer} | 8 ne been in effect for a week, with the °C vessel, and at least three result that so far as is known two | of them were caught while at an- Norwegian, one French and six Bri- | chor or while they were barely un- tish steamers liad been sunk or tor-!der way. This, with the failure of a /pedoed by submarines, with the sur- submarine to hit a fast eross-¢han- prisingly small Joss of four lives. | nel steamer at which it fired a tor- Two of these steamers succeeded In| pedo, apparently proves to the satis reaching port: | faction of British naval writers that On the other side of the account|steamers with moderate speed, Of course, there are several other one dollar of the money raised hy di ------ w-- S------ . CAPE VINCENT MEN TALK At Apniversary Present and Past Members Give Speeches. Cape Vincent, N.Y., Feb. 25. -- Alert Hose Company of the Cape Vincent Fire Department held thirtieth anniversary in the rooms of the Firemens Buildin, Tuesday evening. Forty members were present, including several of the "old guard." Otis Robertson, foreman and, toastmaster of the banquet, first cai- led on Major Durham for a talk. The major was the first foreman of the company. He is now in his | ninety-fourth year, and his speeca had to do with the times when. the organization was started. Major Durham was followed by R. J. Newman, one of the original members; Charles Armstrong and John H. Grapotte, who was the sec- ond foreman of the company. OVER THE BUPGET OF THE BOR. | DEN GOVERNMENT. 4.G. Turrift Attacks the Finance Min. | Ister's Work--The Worst Finan. cing He Has Heard of, Ottawa, Feb. 25.-- "Why not let par- liament be honest ?" exclaimed J. G. Turriff, in the course of the budget debate last night. 'Ministers of the crown are directors for the sharehold.- | ers, the people of Canada, in the | transaction of their business, Why seek to deceive the shareholders WW hy | tell the people that hy paying the in- creased taxation provided in the budget they are helping out the war, | when we all know that is false ? Not | rect taxation or by the increase in tariff goes for the purpose of the war | ~and all of us know it. How long tefore the shareholder finds out ? You tax almost everything he eats, every- thing he wears, everything he uses. He's going to understand before long. Then there will be a reckoning. "lf the minister of finance were fair to the people of Canada, whom he is here to serve, instead of placing a| war stamp on every postcard of -let- ter he would have put in every post- oflice a contribution box and require every man, woman and child who buys a posteard or a postage stamp to deposit one cent in this box. On the box should be printed in bold and honest letters, 'Public subscriptions for two poor men, Mackenzie and Mano. All must contribute to Bill and Dan,' How long would the peo- ple stand for) it if they knew the facts 1" Sir Robert Borden, reply i to a Huesticn from Sir Wilfrid Laurier, said | at pending a conference with Sir (icorge Feeley as to the reorganiza- ton of the high commissioner's aflice in London, there would Le no'change in the present acting commissioner- ship. The premier said Sir George Perley had been "commissioned to] mave some inquiries as to the status of the office." Another interesting announcement by the premier . was that "the government does not in- tend to introduce legislation this ses. sion to reimburse the depositors of the Farmers' Bank." Hon. Mr. Lemieux was informed that the government had purchased 2,350 pairs of slippers for the Cana- dian contingents. The slippers were made by Ames, Holden, McCready, at $1.50 per pair. Canvas shoes were orde from seven firms at $2 per pair. The total order was 45,000 pairs, No Franchise For Ladies. Toronto, Feb. 25.--There will be no legislation this session extending the municipal franchise to married women with property. Hon, W. H. Hearst made this quite clear yester- day in a frank and friendly state- ment to the deputation of ladies rep- resenting the Canadian Suffrage As- sociation that waited upon the gov- ernment, uae TARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915 PITH OF NEWS au. Despatches. From Near And Distant Places. THE LATEST: TIDINGS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News Of the World From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Ex- changes. C. R. McKeown, M.P.P., was cho- sen conservative whip in the legisla- ture. Gerard B. Strathy, Toronto, has donated a motor ambulance for war hospital purposes. The bureau of municipal research, Toronto, has issued a report point- ing out that many poor families are suffering for lack of nourishing food. Professor George F. Stevenson of the English department of the Uni- versity of Toronto, died after a short attack of pneumonia, Capt. James Ross, R.O., Rainy Hills, Alta., has been directed by the department of militia to raise 'in North Oxford an infantry company of 240 men, one the English "pals" re- giment plan, as part of the 32rd Bat- talion in the third contingent. Phree Canadian steamship lines | made grents to the men on their ves- i sels at Glasgow. Percy township council has given $5 to each of the young men from that municipality enlisting with the third contingent was made. At Vancouver, Rev, pa Gurd, for thirty years a Church of England missionary to the northern Indians, is dead. The Dominion government has un- der consideration a bill for the es- changes, and legislation may be in- troduced this session providing there- for. Edward Fountain and George) Chanler (colored) London were sen-| tenced to three year each in peniten- tiary for stealing brasses from Grand! Trunk Railway premises. MARRIAGES O.K. IN HIS DAY. { So Testifies Dad, in Divorce Suit Of | Daughter, Albany, Ore, Peb™g5 2 before he was 17 years old and now, | at 68, the father of 17 children, Les- | lie Walters of Foster sat on the wit- | ness stand in the state circuit court here and said that the day had pas- | sed when young marriages were des-1 rable. He was appearing as a wit- ness for one of his daughters, wh had married before ste was 16, and now, before she is 17, was applying] for a divorce after a few months of | married life, { Fifty years ago, he said, young! marriages were desirable, because! young people were serious, and the! earlier they got started in life the | better. But now, he asserted, young people were thoughtless and careless and he deemed it advisable to wait. The divorce was granted on the young woman's promise not to marry | again before she should reach the age of 18 years, i Russia Makes Grave Charges | | Jeffreys, R.N., of Atr ocities i: Feb. 3rd, and it is feared that | Washington, Feb. 25.--The Russian it is reported that two German sub- which observe obvious precautiohs, ! marines are missing and that al cea invariably ascape ne wnserver CTO Rewarded th possibly sunk er craft: and such 15._4re- COB Oh tinuing to cross the seas. . British Steamer Sunk. London, Feb. '25.---The British steamer Western Coast was mined or torpedoed off Beach Head yester- day. Her crew ond ngers werd landed at Portsmouth to-day. RX 'by French ers. Besides t! ussels which fell vie- tims to the arines, two Ameri- can and one . Norwegian steamer hove been by mines in the North sea, and a Swedish. steamer and one or two British steamers are overdue, and it is feared have been 4 2.--The names of Col. Houliston, of Halifax, formerly Bading the differ. of infantry will be divided fato Col, Sissons, of Medicine Hat, wili : BO as brigadier in comand of three 2 of Sutaley from the west. Col. Thacker, of Halifax, will com- _ For Sinking A Submarine Paris, Feb. 2--French maine as- surance - companies ve- turned . over to Minister of Marine 5, 000 francs ($1,000) to be Ze to the erew of the ship of the second at first definite * word tha Tussday » ing Germany and Austria with viola- tions of the Geneva Cross _con- vention and of part of The H, convention ing of w ting to death i id, not as a matter of in- El tablishment of government labor ex- Kingston, 'had been admitted to the | hospital, on February 15th, suffering { versity, | At the college he took a | part of the missing vessel has bee: | found. The official statement reads: ambass, ioff, sent | ered. tothe tate™ departmant- yesterday x oe" , George Bakhmet yes from his government, charg- | '| Her Tength was 429 feet, beam 53, Iast vear. She was owned by Cay- FOR SAFETY OF NEUTRALS. | Scandipavia To Ask Permission To Use Naval Gonvoys | London, Feb. 25--A Copenhagen despatch to the Exchange Telegraph | company says that the Scandinavian! conference has decided to recom-| mend the trial of naval convoys for { neutral merchant ships. Negotiations! will be opened with London and Ber- lin, with a view to obtaining a per-| mit for.warships of any of the three Scandinavian countries to convoy merchant men belonging to those countries. | The question of the number of] chips which one warship will be al-| lowed to convoy and the right to en-| ter the territorial waters of the belli-| gerents will also be a matter of ne- gotiation. NO PINCH TO POOR. Owing To the Rise Of the Bread Prices, | New York, Feb. 25.--The recent increase in the cost of wheat, bread and flour will not cause suffering amdng the poor, in the opinion of C. H. Canby, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, who testified yester- day at the investigation of the New| York state attorney-general into the cause of this increase. | The rise in the price of wheat, he! said, will be balanced by a decrease! in the price of potatoes and other| edibles, The witness also jexpres-| ses the belief that, despite the heavy exportation of wheat, there will be a | surplus at the end of the crop year, | June 30th. (FRACTURED RIBS | PUT HIM ASIDE Lieut. James M. Macdonneil is in! Hospital in France Through Injuries. A despatch, on Thursday morning, | stated that Lieut. James McKerras Macdonnell, son of G. M. Macdonnell, | x a member of the third | Canadian Field Artillery, French rigade, from fractured ribs. No further par- ticulars were given. . Lieut. Macdennell was practicing law in Toronto when the war broke out and enlisted in that city. He graduated as M.A."at Queen's Uni securing honors in classics prominent. | part in athletics, being captain of both the football and hockey teams. Another brother,, Philip Maedon- H<is-now-in- Ottawa with ~ the Queen's Eagineering Corps, and will go to the front. Members of the family have receiv- ed no further word apart from a bul- letin similar to that received by the Whig. 4 AN AUXILIARY CRUISER HAS LIKELY BEEN LOST ft is Feared the Clan Macaaughton Four ug 3 oct lo { { London Feb. 25.--Probably ' 281 { men lost their lives with the auxili- | ary cruiser * Clan MacNaughton i which has been officially reported] missing. She carried 20 officers and | 261 men. Wreckage believed to be | "The secretary of the admiralty regrets to announce that H. M. 3S. Clan MacNaughton, an armed mer- chant cruiser, Commander Robert has been missing the vessel has been lost. s "An unsuccessful search has bedn made and wreckage supposed to be portions of this ship has since been "The last signal received from the Clan MacNaughton was made in the early morning of Feb. 3rd, and it is feared that she was lost during the bad weather which prevailed at that time." : The merchant steamer Clan Mae- Nanghton was built at Glas 1911 and was of 4,985 tons gross. and depth 34 feet. She had been in the Indian service, for she | hasten | struggle] for they | capnot | battle Hoodstuffs. in| ymong the German population, : | For Not Enlisting With the Canadian 10 Their Knees. | that Canadian-born young unmarried sa * - Contingents. Toronto, Feb. 25.--"It is not a {why I am not serving," said Lieut. AN ARR-TIGHT EMBARGO c- Ponton here to-day in discussing : {the slowness of recruiting in many i Col. Ponton said EXPORTATION OF FOOD- men in man municipalities of Untar- STUFFS THREATENED {io are not doing their duty to the To Bring Britain and Germany SCORES OF ABLE YOUNG MEN | question of why shold I serve, but parts of Obtario. jempire. He has two sons with Cana- ON | Unless All Parties Yield to American | dian contingents, and would go him- self if acceptable to the government. GALICIAN FIGHT OVERSHADOWS ALL Germans Outmanoeuvred in Attempt to Make New Ad- vance on Warsaw. Petrograd, Feb. 25.--The first great battle since the Austrians began their It is claimed it is needed for do- |Rorthward drive to recapture Lem- mestic purposes; hence it could be | berg is being waged ast and: south of applied on that pretext without draw- | Stanislau, along the Eastern ho ing the United States into the Euro | jhians, Joconding to advices rece! pean conflict. At the game time its |" . efiect, it is/ believed, would be that Duly meagre Senpatshe have arivtd both Great Britain and Germany | Pere tom, this gow Galician | the would give absolute immunity -to Am. | Eround. the flict oa rd Stanisla erican ships. Moreover, peace advo- Present 1 Ee alar t ro bor cates hold that in additiop\it would a ows 1 velopment Wi : dof Burope's bitter | 18nd, where the Russians are driving "mn r the exhausted German in upon their "Urope | wn frontier. 3 Tiea Ss | Elsewhere, both in the Carpathians nan and in Poland, the Runtian Slsusive tinues successful. ermans London Papers Urge Block Son heen ' 'Gut-manoeuvred in: their London, Feb. 25.--A demand that] attempts to concentrate around the governuent declare an immedi- | pryasnyaz for a new advance upon ate blockade of the German coast Warsaw. ' was voiced by several London pap-! ers to-day. : | C. P.R. traffic earnings for the They pointed out that the British | week ending Feb. 21st were $1,614, public is daily becoming more exas-| gos Por the same week last year perated over the repeated Al | hey were $1,706,000 tacks by the German submar- : : x ines in England's coast waters, and | urged that there be no more delay | n directing reprisals against Ger-| civic Finance Committee, 8 p.m. many. 7" Syinter Carnival at Covered Rink, Comment on the United States in-|% wm. " formal note was very guarded. Tie |g jg 1TIestones, Grand Opera. House, London papers generally did not |, pening new wing Vitoria School, ceive the suggestion of a possible 2-45 pm. » " pn American supervision of Germanys, ror protantidies 3, right Said Corner, I wT AOUW, imported foodstuffs with favor. | Amestone = The government was urged to es- Meets to-n tablish a blockade at once, regard-| ean 2 a me reidey less of any pending negotiations witl | the United States regarding the food | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIC situation. The newspapers pointed | ---- out that nine steamers, six of them | British, have been torpedoed since | Is on Sale at the Following City Germany established her 'war zone | Stores: one week ago, and that the kaiser| Buokdell's News Depot ..305 King B was showing no disposition to re-| Clarke, J W. & Co. «vi: 353 Princess maln: inactive while diplomatic ex-| College Book Store 163 Princess changes were in progress. | Coulter's @rocery ...... 300 Princess "We prefer Germany to do her | Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prin. & Alfred worst, knowing the worst to be quite | Frontenac Hotel ........ Ontario Bt bearable," said the Daily Mail, urg-| Gibson's Drug Store ..Market Square ing that the government "politely| Lowe's Grocery ......... Portsmouth refuse" the American suggestion. McAuley"s Book Store ....98 Princess "The government should issue its McOalls Cigar Store, Cor, Prin. & King long overdue proclamation of a real | Mecleod's Grocery ....51 Union Bt. W. blockade of the German coast." | Medley's Drug Store, 350 Untversity Suggestions -- Peace Advocates | Think It Would Hasten End of Europe's Bitter Struggle. Washington, Feb. 25.--United States may call "hunger" as her ally to 4. bring England and Germany to, their knees in their submarine warfare now threatening United States com- merce. : Such was the unconfirmed hint in oficial circles to-day. Sponsers for the suggestion said the president would lay an air-tight embargo om the exportation of foodstuffs to both the allies and Germany, unless all | parties involved yielded to America's | latest "Suggestions. insisteq without DAILY MEMORANDUM. Unfavorable weather, with low vis- ibility and a strong south-westerly gale, has interrupted operations at the Dardanelles, London from Caleut h zer, Irvine & company, of Glas~ow, {ous and resolute application of all "jvesmary. If we do it we shall win." |p oon, 3 o'clock. { Olean, | Paul's Cigar Store ....... 3 Princess . | Prouses Drug Store .+:.81% Princess War Tidings. | Valleau's Grocery ...... 108 Montreal The question of Italy's participa- | -- tion in the war is likely to move a| ROBERT J. REID momentous step forward in the next | Th Undertaker few days. February 27th is the date | py pr Princess Street get for military preparations. | i. : The German government has . made known that it objects to the] JAMES REID use of expressions like the oft-quot-| The Firm of Undertakers ed words, "God punish England!" on | 254 and 256 PRINCESS STREET mail going abroad from Germany. | Phone 147 for Ambulance & The Danish foreign office announ- | BORN. es that the government has adopted | yrarroNE Y--A the proposals of the Christiania con- February Sith to ference regarding joint Scandinavian Charles A. Mahoney, & son. measures against floating mines. MARRIED. Germans agents are buying dogs MACKNEY--BRISTOW--in Kingston, of all kinds in West Jutland from On [February 01h. 1915, by ey farmers and peasants. There, it is| (1.1 Canpheit, Nettle Irene Bris. sald, are being made into sausages both of : for- human consumption, principally DIED. EVES---In_ Kingston, 26th, : IE Jar Patio vast) ge Fi Years. Fi ih his late 1 Sahin hats "Hon EE od wh lemn r wi Be Sung (55 The MARY Tove Rls sou ia Friends nd a mount importance. This is a not merely of men but even is the subject of Mrs. Wade's Joctute inthe YM. J or af ter- oT artes our strength---that is all that is Leiving welcome. s On N. T. Greenw 6%