Daily British Whig (1850), 3 Mar 1915, p. 1

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dor England. "alive, and wore than 100 are «Yin in' YEAR 82 KO 52 LANDING PARTY ATTACKING FORT CHANAK IN REAR After Defeating a "small Turkish Force on the Asiatic Shore of the Dardanelles fort Chanak Bombarded. Serious Situation in Constantinople Where a Public De. mand For Peace is Made---Threats of Revolution Have Penetrated Several Other Turkish Interior Cities, Including Adrianople pple. London, March A landing party from the allied fleet to-day routed a small foree of Turks on 'the Asiatic shore of the Dardanelles, according to despatches received here this afternoon. Following up their victory, the troops are moving northward, supported by several guns, to attempt a rear attack upon Fort Chanak, now under bombardment: by the allied warships. Reports from both Sofia and Athens to-day again] emphasized the seriousness of the situation in Constan- tinople. Public demand fer peace and threats of revolu- tion have penetrated several other interior Turkish cities, | including Adrianople, : To Destroy ~All Goods For England Ainsterdam, Mareh 3.----Commeht- ng upon the announcement of an Anglo-French "blockade" of Ger- many, the Cologne Gazette, the most powerful unofficial newspaper _in Germany 'to-day, said editorially: "German submarines will now en- deavor to destroy all goods destined 5 0, A AP Pl PP rt a ltl tt at PITH OF THE NEWS Condensed Items By By ' Telegraphic and | From Exchanges Four defehceless persons were Killed | in Northern France by German aerial | bombs. Galt Red Cross Society decided to raise funds to send a fie id ambulance to the front. The American alonmi Dacia - was formally seized at Brest by the French authorities South Waterloo liberals chose Brown as eandidate for eral election. The American ambassador to Hol | land: declan h; Jute ) He Bieta i and: declared that thé Dutch were re solved to 2 utral. war to the knife she shall have it." | The private Dilla. mitted of the BIG FIRE. AL 3% HRANIFORD. legislature passed a bill giving Galt | 1oectparation as n sity, od 4 : ol are: decic 0 gran The Crompton ry Goods Block Com | gai 000 00. te a agricultural schools, | 7 pletely Destroyed. Brantford, Mabeh 3.---Ome of Brant ford's greatest fires occurred to-day, Jad $5,500 for veterinary schools. Dr. Ernest W. Brown, arrested at the BE. B. Sroanpton dry goods block being a mass flames. The loss | | Paterboro on' charges of performing a | criminal operation, commited suicide. At- Welland, the soldiers and con: will be total, and will, even if con- fined to one block, be at least $200,000. The - fire started about John the next fed- 0 ional Cap- was raided] by the Mitchell arrested on A "he office. of the Intern the bitalists, Limited, | police, and W. J, a charge of Fraud. . "Lamberinen and millers ontered = | 3igorous protest before the Railway Commision against increase of freighty rates in Eastern Canada. The railway committee of the com- mons has decided that 'the Canadian | Pacific should be allowed to separate its railway and steamship enter- { peiten. George ~ Rollings, Jr., of St. Tho- | mas, was on his wav te ontint gor the war, when he was killed by a traia,. | according to the evidence at the in: | quest. r stable, who shot .the Buffalo duck Hants, were acquitted by the grand | 11.20 from the furnace room. twelve o'clock every fireman in city was, , with every stream | of hose possi to play on it. The | Crompton block, four storey brick | with busement, is already a total loss. Seventeen Dead Were Removed From a Mine Layton, W. Va., March 3.--Seven- teen dead had been removed at eleven o'clock to-day from the Layland mine, wrecked by an explosion yes- terday. Nine miners 'were rescued. THREE INDICTMENTS Returned Against Werner T German Military Suspect. Boston, March 3.--Three secret in- dictments were returned yesterday in tthe --tnited States court here Agajnat "Werner Horn; German -- Horn. the mine. All hope of rescuing a alive has been abandoned. tds. ETE -------------- cratic party, and ia Poets ~in connection with attempt the C.P.R. ternational | brides ar V nowboro, Maine, Fach of the indictments contains {two counts charging illegal transpor. {tation of certain explosive on a com- {mon carrier. Cape Vincent, N.Y., March 3 reported that the politicians rng the selection of a taster at Cape | Vincent, ' have upon Frank J. Brady for that position and that his name been sent to Washington ! for con Srmation. The selection of Mr. | for this office will, in all pro- bability, be satisfactory to the pa- trons of the Mr. Brady has "been an active worker for the demo- . Prof. Geikie Is Dead. Edinburgh, March 3.--The deni E s (occurred here yesterday of his apholatment to James Geikle, a distinguished geolo- a {ust reward Jor figes Ten He 'was emeritus professor of pr -------------- [oes and Tinéralogy of denn 30 he "port, for only niversity, gad formerly dean of! oe 423 hushels of faculty of science of that institution. York coming next | He was the author of a number of an open (scientific works and a member of hand Be i sles and abroad. 803 pin.' oficial. ~Frendh attacks lines in the Champagne region in the} have resulted in very important gains, official communique 'this afternoon. hold all the first line of German Th aw | the forearm while Noam more | many learned societies in the British REV. T. C. BROWN RESIGNS Pastorate of New St. Church, Toronto. Toronto, March 3.-- Rev, T. Craw- ford Brown, minister of new Sh An- drew"s church, King and Simcoe streets, placed his resignation in the hands of the presbytery yesterday. His health has been far from good lately. His health has been far from good lately, and it is under- stood that his medical adviser. has instructed him to take an absolute rest. ¥ Mr. Brown hasibeén ten years in the pulpit of Si. Andrew's church, and has been a popular and success- ful preacher. The church has grown materially duriug the decade. Mr. Brown is a Queen's University graduate. The Andrew's UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT / By German Aviator to Blow Up Glas- gow Steamer, Dundee, Scotland, March 3. -- A German taube made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Glasgow steamer Dalbair in (ie English Chan- nel, the captain reported on his ar- rival to-day. An aviator hurled three bombs at the Dalbair. Each narrowly missed its mark, and fell into the sea. Say Attack Was Repulsed. Londcn, March 2.--A Berlin official statement" says that the attack of two British. companies on German positions at Ste Floi yesterday, was repulsed after severe hand-to-hand fighting. This is the point where Ca- nadian troops are in the trenches. NEW TAXES PUT - BURDEN ON PO Hon. Or, Pugsley Suggests Reduction in the Control- labie Expenditure. Ottawa, Murch 3.--Inktead of add- ng $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 to. the burdens of the Canadian people by way of new taxutic, why not exer. ese alittle economy iy reduce the controllable expendit by that amount, thus avoiding the necessity f new taxes altogether 7 That was the proposal of Hon. Dr. William Pugsley put up to the government in parhiament yesterday afternoon in cgsuming the budget debate. aew taxes put an unequal burden on poor man. He thought Membepy iament and others who on. passed should not be ex- | rinse from the railway tax. He | asked why a higher duty had heen | imposed off cottons, woollens and | linens when no addition was made in the taxes on silks, velvets and rib- bons. = There was no justification for such discrimination. The increase in taxation against British imports. was severely arraighed by Dr. Pugsley. He de clared it to be "uu-Gnnadian, un- British and un-Imperialistic." He con« tuded by charging the government with extravagance, when overy effort should have n made to huspand resourced, to prepare for a war mem- bers of the government had {hem- selves predicted. "Unfortunately," said he, "the government has sown country will have to reap the whirl She wind, and the people of the | Major Gault as Wounded Leading Charge Montreal, March 2 3.--~A star eable | to-day says Major Hamilion Gault, duties { i _ charge of the Princess another | officer is missing. Carnival Committee $200 Short. A mest of the carnival commit- tee was Bold on ay evening to | wind up the business in Sonmection | with event. A. F. sided. mittee was ae ishort in funds, ter paying accounts. Consideri the bad weather at this time, the | vary fofbumte. Ju 'off so well. eh this be road is for the executive to | decide, It figure 8 Mpor entertainment "at, Pats, an the im- Lia 'trenches, "Front the northwest of 2 | who seized the corres { { giving an tor date. 3 LAST EDITION NEW OFFENSE 0f the Russians fo Retake Bukowina, ARTILLERY SHELLING THE BUKOWNIA CAPITAL LONG RANGE. Combined Austro:erman Forces Routed at Three Distinct Points in Carpathians and Galicia-- Heavy Austrian Losses. Petrograd, March 3.----Austrian Togses in killed, wounded and pri- soners Low total more than 10,000, as a resui' of fierce fighting which continueé at several points along the Carpathians andl in East Gali- cia, accofding to despatches from Lemberg to-day ¥ The Russians have brought heavy artillery into positon along the railway, north of Lzérnowitz, and are now¢# shelling © the Bukowina capital at long range. A new offensive ovement to re- ; ut to develop. take Bukowina is Combined AustrodGerman threes have been routed #t three distinct points in Carpathiak and Galician fighting. AT War Tidings. Belgian troops arel to! be clad khaki, after the style of Tommy | kins. The transforiaation will , take place gradually duping the spring, and by the middle of the summer the L whole Belgian army Will be in khaki. The Bulgarian prefier has sent go note to the diplomatio vepresentatives of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Ser- via protesting against the use of | mines in the Danube river. These have ! caused heavy damage on the Bulgar ian bank of the river, A wireless' despatch 'received from Berlin contains the interesting state- { merft that largo numbers of the Ger- man soldiers in Kast Prussin whre (put out of the lighting through heavy marching. The agent of an Italian maritime company, who disembarked at. Jed- {dah, Arabia, to deliver correspond- ence to the Italian consul, was wur- rested by the Turkish 'authorities, ence.' The sent a de- | m At- talian government Hon. Dr.. Pugsley claimed that the | mand. for satisfaction to "Constantino. | Erverum from the west. | ple. Herrera } + BERLIN SHORT OF FLOUR, Berlin, via' Amsterdam, + March 3.--Afl htads ef house holds in Berlin were to-day or- ¢ dered to furnish to the govern- 4 ment an estimate of the amount + of flour on hand. . The figures $ + must be handed in to-morrow. + The scarcity is more pro- & | + nounced every day. * i 4 * * + + + ERP PEER LEP R EP bbb bbb bbe DELAY IN BRINGING DOWN | Hydro-Electric Report To The On- | tario Legislature. Toronto, March 3.---On the orde s Lot the day being'called in the legisd | Ilature yesterday, Mr. Rowell again 'drew attention to the delay Ti bying- | ing down the Hydro-electric and T. & | N. O. reports. Beyond a mere line] {in the public gecounts, the house was | | not informed of the business of these | jue departments of the government, nd the members had little time to rn them adequate consideration aud deal with the large some re | quired when the information was oppiied late in the session. Mr. MeGdarry explained | Hydro report was held municipalities sending Tn [Their books did not close until the end of the calendar year, conse that up by 'quently the final statements were not 'completed as early as those of the | provincial departments. Now Ontario figured to some ex- tent in the legislature yesterday, { when the bill to amend the act for !sidered in coramittee. : The Attitude Of Britain Unrelenting Washington, Peach 3. -- Ger- ¥ {many's reply to the American sug-| _ |Bestions for the solution of inter-| J arranging | aside, destroying and taptusing aby the the « 1 were greeted with: , SUBMARINE SMASHED UP. Captain of Thordias Reports Running One Down, Weymouth, March John William Bell, Thordias, bound from Blyth ww Ply- mouth, which arrived at Portland yesterday, reported that during the voyage he observed the periscope of a submarine on his starboard bow. All hands were ordered on deck. The captain noticed the submarine cross! his bew to port, where it took up a position about 40 yards ahead. Shortly afterwards he noted the wake of a torpedo, which had been fired from the port side ahead of him, 6n his starboard bow. He put the helm hard over and ran over the periscope. As he did so there was a crash under- neath The submarine disappeared and oil was observed to be floating on the water 3.-- Captain of the steamship MEDIC 0 REC IPROC ITY. Bill in Ontario Interests British Med. ileal Council. London, March the British Medicg terested in the Ontario 3 ~Members of 1 Council are in- bill introduced in the legislature - with a view of reciprocity between Brit-! ish and Ontario medical men. The opinion is expressed that it would be better if such a bill were introduced in the Dominion parliament. The general feeling is that a qualified Britieh medico should be allowed to practice. in Canada and other over- seas dominions without further ex- amination There soems to be no objection to a reciprocal status be- ing granted io Canadian doctors serv- ing with forces in Great Britain or to those desiring to settle here. RUSSIANS MOVE TOWARDS ASIA All Turkish Opposition in That Direction Has Been Swept Aside. Petrograd, March 2 hissing' troops are again moviog forward on the As- intic frontier, having expelled = Lhe Turks from the Trans-Caucasus re: | gion. The Russians have now ad vanced several = marches, sweeping | de- to are tachments that have attempt any venturi opposition. They | now approaching. Oli Bhai along one of the main high roads towards | From the | {east also a certain liveliness is again | being exhibited, the Russians having | much "cheering" taken a cou from # | Turks in an encounter in the moun- the room. | tain passes to the south of Alagh- | + kort, the two forces marching im-con- { passageways, | the doors. cert about an equal distance the goal on opposite sides. Nothing more has been heard of | the Turkish raid into Persia, which ended so disastrously at Tabriz From all accounts received the Tyrks are heartily sick of the ad- venture into. which they were forced the Goeben on behalf of Ger | many. from AUSTRIA IN A BAD WAY, Financial Situation Could Not Be Worse. Berne, March 3.--A well-informed | Austrian financier admits that the financial situation could not be worse | in: Austria and Hungary. The fm perial Bank is issuing billions of ex- | tra bank notes, although the gold re- serve for ordinary bank motes 'is al, ready exhausted. ' No statement to this effect may be published; but it is an open secret in| Austria-Hungary. "HELLO | CANADIANS," Po SAID THE GERMANS mer ee 10 Canada's Soldiers Whom They Recognized on the Firing Line. March Toronto, 3A. World| t wasfound that the a {raising money on the credit of the cable from Northern France says: | hin health. af- | consolidated revenue fund was con- | Canaflians were engaged in heavy | | trenth fightfng on Saturday and | | Sunday. According to information | eived atthe base, the foree moved to another position on! Monday. While entire. commanding a patrol, | "ident. Herbert Alley, "Toronto, - wes: Pr: slightly wounded, and hospital ins xadians Were recognized by enemy at one part of the line, "Hello is now in| Canadians!" NO MOKE USE KOR CARUSO a German Hate For Talia > Ha Jul Sian Bethune He | to heat | were finally opened, | their way into the room. lin, by High Constahle Vankoughnet. | I. health, and smiled as i nodded to them. | he ad Lget an interview with him but of | Funer jcoutse the law would not allow his. THE YORKE MURDER CASE BEING HEARD AT NAPANEE Georgb Chambers, North Fredericks: urg. W. J. Warner, Camden. J. W. Gault, North Fredericksburg. D. Finnegan, Amhersp Island. J. L. Clark, Ernesttown. George Sandicook, Ernesttown. Refused The Case. 'lI assure you that the one alm oi the crown is to see that the accused TO has a fair trial," said Mr. Hutchin- | son, Unipresenting the case to the jury. All the evidence possible to The Judge To Decide If a Statement | secure will be given, no matter whom Written By Pr: Robinson To Pe- it hurts: It iv up to the crown coun: tective Miller Can Be Admitted as sel to see that he is giveh a fair Evidence trial. We must place the responsi- : : bility where it belongs, and we must not shirk this responsibility, Il & important that all the evidence is pre- sented to the court without fear or New Evidence Was Offered on . Wednesday Morning. LONG TRAIL OF BLOOD FROM MISS YORKE'S HOME DPR. ROBINSON'S OFFICE. By Stall Reporter. Napanee, March' 3.--Dr, Clifford K. Robinson, the young Kingston phys: | ician, is on trial for jthe 'murder ot favor." Blanche Lillian Yorke, at Tamworth, | Mr. |] on July Bth, 1914. | the evidence The case was opened in the court | Tamworth. . He told the story of the house here late yesterday afternoon, | search made in Dr. Robinson's house, before Justice Sutherland, and a | and the finding of the body buried in crowd of spectators which filled every [the cellar. During 'the course of his Mmch of the small court room. 1eo- remarks he referred to a letter which ple were packed in like "sardines in| he said would be produced as evi a box," showing the intense interest dence. The letter, he said, had no which has been taken in the case. date line, but bore the post ollice The court room "will hold about two | stamp, "Kingston, July 18th, 1914, hundred people, but there were about and was signed, "C.K.R." "The let. as mavy on the outside as the in- | ter was addressed to David Floyd, side, and' as a result it was a very Tamworth. In this letter, the writer much disappointed crowd that was asked Mr. Floyd to collect all the uc- provenged from securing admittance. | counts of the writer, and also Te- two hours before the court | quested him to secure all his medical opened, the corridors and stairway | instruments, diplomas and clothing, leading to the court of justice were and sénd the same to 247 Queen erowded with people from Napanee | street, Kingston. The writer also and the surrounding districe. Old resi- asked Ny. Floyd to keep the letter dents say that they cannot recall a | "mum," as Mr. Hutchinson put it. iminal case in the counties of len- -------- Bi and Addington creating such ine Made A Statement, terest. Owing to the limited space in Mr. Iutchinson further stated that the court room, only the members of | Dr: Robinson had made a writton the grand jury, the witnesses and | statement to Detective Miller, of the members of the press were at first ad- | provincial police force, but that the mitted, And they had to be ushered | court would have to decide whether lin via a side entrance, the main door | the dovument nould be admitted as being blocked with "people. who came | evidence. y ¥ the case. When the doors! "Yes," said the judge, and this there was a mad | was all that was stated about the {rush for seats. Men and women mix- | document at this stage. \ od together, and practically fought | (Continued on Page 6.) The scene presented a scramble of lads making | "Do you need a tonic?' go to Gib- their way into the gallery of an op- | son'. era house. 'Two stalwart policemen | stood at the door, hut they had more than they could do Wm keep the ex- | cited crowd im check. 'There was! and loud talking as | ed its~ way into the | In a few minutes the! | erowd had filled the seats and all the | and the police locked | | Hutchinson vigwed in Sewnil iven at the inquest in For DAILY MEMORANDUM. Band at the Palace Fink to-night. See top of page 3, Am hand corner, for probabilities. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Ts on Sale at the he Following City Stores Bucknell's News Depot 298 King B Clarke, J W. & Co. ..++ 853 Princess College Book Store .... 168 Princess Coulter's Grocery ...... 308 Princess Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prin. & Alfred Frontenac Hotel ....ss. Ontario Bt Gibson's Drug Store ..Matke: Sguare Lowe's Grocery .......ps Portsmouth vdcAuley's Book Store ....98 Prindess McGall's Cigar Store. Cor Prin & King dcleod ss Groeery 61 Union t W dedley's Drug Store, 350 Un'versity (re Cigar Store «+ 18 Princess | "rouse s Drug Store ....513 Princess dock. The accused was chewing gum | Valleau's Grocery 208 Montreal as he entered the room, and kept | chowing during the entire time ther oase was on. At no st of the pro | ceedings did he show the least sign | | of breaking down, but, on the other! | band, gave one the impression thal | felt confident after all had been | said and doue, he would be a freq | DIED. man. f | MeKENDRY At Glenburnle, da 2nd, McKendry, ag 238 years months, Toungest ke jon of Mr. and Mry, Jo Fhnerny, will ake a om family residence Thur arch 4th, at 2 p.m. to Cataraqui Cemetery. SCHOLES---In Kingston, on Februar: 28, 1915, Mar; tion, beloved wife of James Bc] %, Bged 64 years und-nine- months. eral from her lute "residence, 8% Ausen street, Friday morning wt { Friends and acquaintances he 4rh respect fully invited to atten: hod | Napanee papers please a. tor was making his way. Me: re- |g ong 4 "ri npaton, 'of 2nd, March lcognized the reporter, smiled, and, Tats, William: eldest son of Thomas {stopping for a second, shook hands Sands, aged 42 years and 4 months. with the scribe and enquired about gh + treet, fa Then he continued on Friends and acq his way. His demeanor was not atl fully Invited to all that of a man ig serious trouble, TRAYNOR-In = residence, Mrs. Mary Selecting The Jury. Thom J. A. Hutchinson, K.C., ville, crown prosecutor, T. C. Linette, K.C., Torouto, counsel the crowd' Then there was a wait of about | twenty minutes before the judge and | the lawyers took their places. Short- | ly after his lordship took his seat-on | the bench, Dr. Robinson was usherod | Immediately every eye in the court | room was focused on the Kingston | doctor. ligwswsis not handcuffed, and | walked quite smartly to the prisoners' | dock. le looked to be in good | he recognized | some friends in the court room, and | The high constalile occupied a seat mext to him in the * on March Sod, W. N.Smith 34 Ellice BORN. od Kingston, 1916, to Mr. and Mrs. (nies Grace Pollitl), street, & son. Spoke To A Whig Reporter. There was an interesting feature ws | the accused was being led from : jaa) to oh court room. Several rela. | been watching for Dr. | ~----tome-had-even-tried --to+-- A Whig representative happened {be in the long corridor as the te No. 2311 " iimre Traynor, widow of late raynor. » Brock- Rob- for ROBERT J. REID Stobimson; wid. his assistant; - W, arr 8. Herrington, K.C., Napanee, fol: BT. Jdowed Dr. Robinson. into the room, {and the stage was set for the hear- ing of the tri Ri wile sat m a chair oext to the prisoner's box, with just railing between her and her hus I Outs Ma led Jas Redden &

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