GERMANS PUSHED BACK FOR A GOOD TWENTY MILES 'Mong a Sixty Mile Battlefront Extending From the Vistula to Przasnysz---The Enemy's Retreat | is Continuing. The Russians Are Also Sweeping the Germans Back in the Region North of the Vistula---Grand Duke's Drive Has Developed Great Momentum.-- Austrians Retiring in Great Disorder. ) Petrograd, March 2.--Along a sixty-mile battlefront extending from the Vistula to Przasnysz, the Germans have now heen pushed back for an average distance of twenty miles. The enemy's retreat continues, according to despatches from Warsaw to-day. The new German line, reaching fifty-five miles from Lipno to a point near Mlava, is being pressed back toward the Prussian cities of Soldau and Thorn. : The grand duke has discovered an unexpected we ness in the German lines north of the Vistula, the general staff declared to-day. To support his offensive in the Mazurian lakes region, Von Hindenberg drew heavily on General Francois' army avound Mlava and on the Ger- man forces moving. toward Warsaw through Ploek. These forces are now massed west of Niemen, between Augustof and the fortress of Grodno. floundering in unfamiliar swamps, their offensive has been shattered by Russian artillery commanding swamp causeways from Grodno. Sweep Germans Back North of Vistula. Meanwhile, the victorious Russian army: that' recap- fured Przasnyas, operating as a right wing of the Rus-! sians north of Ploek, is sweeping the Germans back in the region rorth of the Vistula. > Southeast of Stryz and around Roznatow, the Rus-| sian drive has developed great 'momentum, The Aus-| trians are retiring in great disorder. General Tvanoff has begun a new movement against Cacrnowitz, the Bukowina capital. A The Russians have taken Sadagora, four miles north | of Czbrnowith { pend upoh ~~ ORP. "JACK" HANNAFORD WAS WOUNDED IN KNEE Young Kingston Soldier Received Bullets in the Knee--- He is in Good Spirits in Shomcliffe Hos- pital, England. C b A "~. London, March says: Corporal "Jack" Hunnaford, Kingston, Ont., is one of the second battalion now at Shorncliffe hospital. He is suffering from two wounds in the knee. "We of the second battalion had 'a small dose, the first on the 20th," he said, "and stuek to it throughout that day and until the following night. One only knows what is going on just round about yon. I was the only man I knew of who was hit in my section of the trench. I got away without difficulty - anff was taken; straight away to the base hospital and came here Saturday. "When I left, the battalion was i Armentieres asylum. We certainly had nothing to com- plain about in the way we were fed and cared for. Tt was a Jolly sight better than anything we had on Salis. bury Plain, a lot better than having blankets freezing on - to you or being soaked in the wet." 2 AS RIGHT CHANGE RULES OF WAR & a position of the W _. ot war and under whieh na.' still exists, and must be lived uy has the Hight 49 shangs the inter! mes. verbiage and dip-| of goodwill this, pe "the - United! nded of these : lJ | most friendly but annolincement of | manner. & duties in pert, the fir .tdisaprointed people, ~--A cable published here to-day! +the room; and Washington, March 2.--No nation Great Britain and France. It is the : ison administra= Fules of war. The condi- lon and will be adhered to at ail, President Wilson emphasised to ------ + -- - --tr - KINGSTON FORTIFICATI ONS GUARDING THE WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE. j The forts in the picture guard the Bosphorus near Constantinople, and are typical of the fortifications along the Dardanelles, which are now being A A samt wi ROBINSON C OPENS A oner's Dock With his Wife and Brother. By a Whig Reporter # . Napanee, March 2.--The trial of Dr. Clifiord K. Robinson for the murder the every conversation" on the in shops, hotels, and, flace. The town street, in faet, is aily APANEE . ak- Accused Chatted From Pris- «ii E ONTARIO, TUE reduced. a Ai REPARTEE AT THE FRONT, Exchanged Between Ger mans And French. March 2.+The Journal des ats describes an exchange of mes between French and Lerman iers, written alternately on a blackboard in the schoolroom: of a village hetwedn the opposing hnos. Firat the Germans wrote : "You French fools. Do you realize that you are working for the English and Russians ? Sign peace with us, who do not wish you harm. Answer." The next Messages not morping an adventurous Exhausted and | of Blanche Yorke is the main topic of Frenchman answered : "Your poor idiots, used as tools for the ambitions of Wilhelm and the filled to over- .doggering Austrians. Come over here, flowing » 'with people anxious to hear you'll find a good supper, lodging and the evidence; T opens at two o'clock 'this afternoon there will ke quite a large number of as the court roam will not seat two hundred. This morning the court rogm was locked and will not be opened until 1.30 to the public. A Whig representative who was on the job to be satisfied with .ag look u through the key hole. 'It is expectec that there will be a mad rush for seals as soon as the doors are open. There is another important case on the docket, kill threatening to his ase will be heard first. This will de- | areived 1.30 o'clock from ~ To- ronto. J, A. Hutcheson, K.U., Brockville, | crawn prosecutor, arrived this morn ling, and T. C. Robinetje, KU, | ronto, is also in town and in consul- | tation with the accused. | "Dr. Robinson is bearing up well, {and is confident that he will be set free. His wife has arrived and will be present at the trial. Shortly before the doors were open- ed the jam was so bad in front of the door that two constables had all they could do to keep the crowd or derly. The crowd was' very boister- ous, On the stairway, people almost fought to 'gét into the room. After the judge arrived, a grand jury was sworn in, cqmposed+ of the following : Robert Ballance, John Brown, Mel- ford Dupree, Charles Lessard, Thomas Mellow, CO. W. Neville, Malcolm Ol- ver, Levie Perry, H. M. Ryan, Wil- liam Sollot, David White, Willet Wil- son. ! Dr. W. T. Connell, bacteriologist, Queen's, arrived this' afterncon to give evidence. He conducted the post- | mortem examination on' the body of {Miss Yorke, i Dr. Robinson was led into the court at room by a consthble at 2.30 o'clock.,| been" lighting when -- the cotrt-- rest Justice Sutherland, who ly intended as 'the--sooner war is ended the sooner You will enjoy your wives and children." The Germans replied : "Brave Frenchmen, you are being fooled. Join us. Let us fight the British together and afterwards live happily, hand in hand. Answer." The French response was brief - and nprintable. \ Daggers In Parcels. March 2.--~A number Paris, 2. of that of ' William Wells, | packets addressed by the German Red who is charged with writing*a letter | Cross to German civil prisoners at sweetheart, Quimper and lorient. contain prohib- iit it js expected that the Robinson "ited printed matt > weapons of offence, This is the second time such practices have been discovered. The parcels were opened in the presence of the United States consul at Nantes, and a to- formal protest has heen addressed to his government. CANADIANS ARE FIGHTING © IN FIRST Against the Prussian Guards and Saxons---They Have Brit SDAY, MARCH tion of piltaging," arson ter dangerous-looking poinards, clear- | « 1915 hig TT I IIE IRR LAST EDITION BRITISH PUBLIC APPROVES PLAN TO STARVE GERMANY London Papers Advise New: trals to. Stand Aside WHILE THE ALLIES DEAL | A DEATH STROKE TO THE ENEMY OF MANKIND. ; Some People In England Doubt If the British Government Will Ever Carry Into Effect the Embargo De- cree. London, March 2.--The British pub- lic to-day registered its hearty ap- proval of the allies' new plan to starve out .@ermany in retaliation for submarine attacks. The London press gave the ernment's announcement of an em- bargo its enthusiastic endotsement. Everywhere it was evident that Pre- | mier Asquith struck a popular chord in his speech in the House of Com- mons yesterday. Following the lead of the prime minister himself," London papers = ex- pressed regret that the United States and other neutrals should suffer. But without exception they backed up the premier In his declaration that the allies would not be swayed | from their course by the protest of any neutral, no matter in what terms it is" couched. In effect, they ad- vised noutrals to stand aside and | bear the inconvenience, while the allies deal a death stroke. But despite the prime minister's sturdy declaration in parliament, and despite the equally strong posi- tion takén by the British press, an under-current of feeling to-day car- iried the opinion that an embargo decree against Germany may 'never be put into effect. Even in gov- eryment circles ' to-day many per- {sons were found who were unable to [see how the government could ever lenforce such a wide, sweeping and unprecedented a policy in the face | of the combined protests of the strongest neutral countries, includ. | ing the United States. If a bom- bardment of protgsts from neutrals | force an abandonment of the em- | bargo idea, Britain and France 'will {have graceful retreat. can gov- RECORD PRICE FOR PANELS Gives Million and Half Dollars For Morgan Collection, New York, March 2.--Henry C. Frick has bought from Dureen Bro- thers the famous Fragonard room now in the J. Pierpont Morgan col- lection at the Metropolitan Museum. The price paid was $1,425,000, When Mr. Morgan béught the pa- nels in 1898 from.Agnew, of London, he paid $350,000. The Fragonards will not be added to Mr. Frick's great collection in the magnificent gallery he has erected in connection with his new house at Fifth avenue and Seventeenth street. They will find a' permanent place in his drawing room, which will be re- modelled especially for the reception. The Fragonards are not gallery "pictures, the fourteen panels making % complete scheme Of decoration for a drawing room, having been design- sed for this purpose by. the artist, who executed them "for Louis XV. of France, for the Pavillon of Louveci- ennes, which the monarch built for Mme. du Barry. Saxon Private to Die. Paris, March 2.--A French court- wartial sitting at Rennes has sen- tenced Carl Vogel Gesang, a private of the 26th Saxon Infantry, taken 3 3 | prisoner in September, to military point out that they merely 'reserved | | degradation and death on convic-|the right to act if compelled, but i of Xili- never aciually -decided to put ° tha | ing French wounded before he was programme -into force. They can | captured. The chief qyidence: explain that Premier Asquith's pub- | against him was furnished by his lic declaration was made for the | own diary. purpose of bringing Germany to her | He denied killing wounded, but 'senses and foreing her to abandon | admitted the pillaging and arson her "inhuman warfare." i charges, saying he had acted under orders of his superiors. | THE WATCHERS FLEW. % Dig Scares Off Posse Of Watchful Waiters, York, Pa,, March 2.--Waliting un- | der high nervous tension the appear- | (ance of the writer of two Black! | Hand letters treatening to blow the! | heads off Emanuel Jacobs and F. T.! | Bentz, prosperous farmers of North Codorus township, unless they placed $300 apiece under a chesnut tree a: | posse from the neighborhood and a! post-office inspector a few nights ago | had the scare of their lives. i Done Splendid Work and Their Losses Have ay crunched. Ander eover af} Been Surprisingly Small. Toronto, March 2A World cable to-day from Northern France says: For some days the Canadians have against the Prussian He was looking well, although a [it- Guards and Saxons in the first line due to his confinement { le, La He i the Jail, smiled as he enteved {Fiz acquaintances. the proceedings, in of trenches. to several of contrary to reports; have been His wife was giv. prisingly small. len a seat next to the railing of 'he | abled, ® owing billeted "in the | prisoner's dock, 'and during the lull | bite sickness. They have shown them- selves splendid soldiers and losses, sure jriscivally to frost n their first engage- waiting for the nent the mén acted like old soldiers, | selection cf a jury, the doctor chat- being cool under fire, while their dis- ted with his wife and his two broth- | ters, Other relatives occupied promin {ent seats. ¥ All eyes w 188 he wi in, but the crowd was | so dens; im the passageways that only | those na front rows were able to ¥ a hi i 48. cof over of him. a ry w three o'clock. ' Several } Gr were al al LO Liner Chased "Halifax, March 2~Capt. D. 8. Davis, Canadian "Fider-Dempster steam: { fought for' twenty-four hours - IW relieved turned onthe doctor British troops. 4 i 4 t stand | op trenches are {dugouts are snug. {to the frost the Canadians, in | reserve | variety of ty of gun pline was good generally. They then by ere for that period The Canadian infantry was geparat- ed from the enemy by only. eighty- five yards, while others were 700 yards apart. Some of the trenches men suffered ffom exposure. Until moved up the ack John- , Were under every fire from "J y Accord: (ing to an ial who has just re- Sixty-three were dis- | "and inca few hours after 'the | i {mans that the enemy dog, running a rabbit in the far end of an adjoining field, crashed into! the wire fence. ~ In the sflence the | noise was so startling that it put the | | majority of the watchers to flight. | - | The blackmaller did not appear. | turned to the base, the men con- | | ducted themselves admirably. The ine | AS JBN | fantry would have welcomed a bayo- | PLENDID OPERATION, {net charge 16 pelicve the monotony. Relievbs Depressio i of the work in trenches, but - this | Dupre . m Sin And Re: yas Jponsible; ywing - hire _- Altoona, Pa., March 2.-~An opera al a Y. para: {Hea to relieve depression in his! On § i the P ian Guards | 8850 as result in the restoration Ong; aocasion Lhe | Tussish IWarya | of speech to Augustus Pfaun, 28, a char the Canadians | : | former Austrian cavalryman. | caught by the wire entanglements be- | "po has been an. about | i . < | fore the Canadian trenches and the po United States for four years un- | {whole company was mowed down. | able to make himself understood un- | tl he landed in the county hospital From each company crack shots were did several weeks ago, {chosen as snipers and they fective work. man was Observations disclosed a depres. | sion in the frontal bone. Part of the skull was removed and his pow- | a > bench Ieturned. He sald he y a cavalry horse | {and became ie 8 mute, oo cool | in- {to it, fought as though the Shking {was an every day oceurrence. Af first ithe strain was i but {soon got used. to i £ he lep {artillery silenced The men were so close to hand grenades, | machine guns were officer. but great, + Aa * WARNING TO THE VA _{Hion Rquipmhent. > May Lose Belgium in Effort to Re- |' tain Austria, iat the time, FEES FRE WAR TIDINGS. Dardanelles operations are delayed by Storms. Russian troops occupied port of Khopa on the Black Sea, which is of great military im» portance to the Turks. Russians have driven 80,000 Germans from Poland. Another casualty list of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, issued at Ottawa Monday night + includes two killed and seven wounded. : CPP PEP P CPT Nd The crew of the American steamer Dacia has been sent back to New York, United States views the new policy of the allies as "novel, and unprecedented," and a strong protest will be made, The British House of Come mons on Monday night unani. mously passed a war credit of one and a quarter billion dol lars, which was the largest ever asked from parliament. General opinion in govern. ment circles at Washington is that Britain's blockade of Ger- man ports will have to be recog- nized. France has joined Britain in the blockade of Germany, and Russia will follow suit immedi ately. Germany on Monday cabled Washington a most friendly re- ply to America's last note. FPP RPE PIPAPPP EP PRIP EPID FREER P RPP P EPP rb t itd : 2220S EPELRPPEEOES VE 440 PEPPPPP EEE D Shell Strikes Houses. Halifax, N. S., Mareh 2.--A 13- pound explosive shell, presumably fired from one of the harbor forts during the target practice, entered two houses in the residential district yesterday. No one was in the houses Persons living in th? vicinity were panic stricken for a while, thinking that an enemy's lgshp had fired the shell. DAILY MEMORANDUM. Band at the Palace Rink to-night, Band at Whe Covered Rink to-night. 2 of Fabia b ne | for pro THE DAILY BRITISH WHIC Is on 'Sale at the Following City Stores: | Bucknell's News Depot ..306 King B Princess Clarke, J W. & Co. .... 363 College Book Store .... 103 Princess Coulter's Grocery ...... 209 Princess Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prin. & Alfred Frontenac Hotel ........ Ontario Bt Gibson's Drug Store ..Market Square . Portsmouth McAuley's Book Btore . McGall's Cigar Store, Cor Prin & King McLeod ?s Grocery ...81 Union t W Medley's Drug Store, #66 Universiiy Paul's Cigar Btore ....... 768 Princess Prouses Drug Store ....313 Princess Valleau's Grocery 208 Montreal DIED. DOYLE--In Kingston, on March 1sf, 1915, James Doyle, aged 59 years. Funeral (private) from his late resi. dence, 445 Johnson street, on Wed- nesday morning st 5.30 o'clock. BCHOLBES---In Kingston, on February 28, 1915, Mary Dillon, beloved wife of James Scholes, aged 64 years and ninéd months, . | Funeral from her fate rewidence 188 Rusen street, Friday morning at Friends and acquaintances are respect fully invited to attend. Napanee papers please copy. YOUNG--On Monday, March 1st, 1915, Frances Barglay, infant daughter of Dr, and Mrs. E.| H. Young, Rockwood Hospital, aged three months and a. half, | Funeral (private) on Wednesday morning. | IN MEMORIAM, In loving memory of Cordukes, who ded Ma 3 We miss thy kind and willing hand, fond and t care; Our me is We miss i of