YEAR 82 NO 59 We KINGSTON ONTAKI10. THURSDAY, | MARCH 11, 1915" ily British Whig LAST EDITION FRENCH OFFENSIVE RELIEVED RUSSIANS : Prevented Reinforcements Going to Von Hin- denberg to Complete His Victory Over the Russian Army in Poland. The French Made Vigorous Onslaughts on the Germans in Champaigne Region For Two Weeks, and These Attacks, it is Claimed, Saved War- saw---The Coup Was Successful. GREY ON JAPAN'S DEMANDS European War Puts Moibenton Questions in Background. London, March 11.---The Dilite News, in an editorial, says: "Sir Edward Urey's answer in the House of Commons og the subject of the demands which Japan has made on China were vague, but d Hiquieting. "As to the nature of the demands, the Daily News --continbes, "there seems to be no dispute. They are of a character which in normal circum stancig world evoke world-wide dis cussion, for they amount practically to an overlords.ip Ly Japan in re gard to China and a far-reaching claim to control China's internal economy with all that claim invelves in gegard to thy inter sis of other ni. tions. . : "Sir Edward Grey said he had made no communication on the sub- ject to any Joreign Govermment and, while he expressed reaciness to listen to authoritative commercial opinions and stated we were considering how to safeguard British interests, he de- clined to make any detailsd statemen:, on the subject at pr.seat. Hs resecve is in the circmstancks natural, and doubtless necessai, but the incident shows that grave problems are eut off from public discussions by the s'lence imposed by the war" (Special to the Whig.) Paris, March 11.--By two weeks of violent attacks in the Champaigne region, the French tioops have lifted the pressure upon the Russians, who retreated into Pos land, and have saved Warsaw. The war office made this claim 'to-day in explanation of 'the recent onslaughts against the German positions in the Champaigne. The explanation was made in the form of an official "Eye- Witness" statement. It confirmed the claim made by the German general staff vesterday, and cabled here from London, that the object of the vigorous offensive around Perthes, which puzzled the military ecrities, was the relief of the Slavs who retived from the Mazurian Lakes. The *'Eve-Wit- ness,"" however, denied the Berlin claims that the French had lost 45,000 in the C('hampaigne fighting. It was! achnitted that the French losses were heavy, but the war office said that they were small compared to the damage inflicted on the German troops, and the effect upon the! campaign in far-away Poland. « French Coup Was Successful. Working in conjunction with the Russian general! staff, the French planned a coup that would keep the| Germans in France so busily. engaged that the v could not | send reinforcements to Von Ilindenburg s6 he could eom-| . plete his wietory over the Russians. The-Freneh suddenly | i began storming the (ferman 'trenches in the Chainpaigne. | ; Day and night attacks continued for two weeks. The esp has worked out ds nlanned, according tos the "Eve-Witness"' story to-day. The Germans been compelled to bring up heavy reinforcements in the Champaigne, They have bee 'n unable to spare a single ir fo the Eel compan, and Von, Hiden T5325.10 2 57°52 5 qnents. © Furthermore, | state. the French have ide i gains in the Cham-| ae io uo fear iu any branch - of poisne Felon, particularly near Be anséjour. A German the es will te followel by "any var: ort, which they captured in this vicinity, is still hel Si Judstres on. the part of he Uni« despite unending ar 'ks by the enemy. oto Shan, but" Frstont neni SENT TO PRIVATE LIFE, to insist on the rights of the United | 4 FER A rd art tt BRITISH CONTINUE. SURYE ARETE Thoin Nes" the Pain New Vetalon" Of Kaiser's States being respectod. GERMANS LAYING SNES. 10 GAIN GROND 5 eS Copenhdgen;, March Ho Maun) * Paris, March 11--The Auto says! I e---- + - It Looks as if Allies Spring frdm seaports that (« | it 1s generally believed in Alsace, layers Apo boc" atively angie which is usually well informed about | Forward Movement laying mines near the coast. | the German Imperial family, that | It a reported, a at, the Kalser and Crown Prince Fred- (Social to oo Whig) Par's, M 41 8. Wa NIGHT CLU -- British Army Men Must Keep Away o From Them. London, March 1l.~Major-Ceneral Sir Francis Lloyd, commanding the London district, issued orders vester- day forbidding 'officers in uniform to visit night clubs. The order follows revelations young ollicers have been victimized and even ruined at dancing halls, cabarets and gaming houses. PRESIDENT WILSON ASSUMES CHARGE 0f Iiternational Situations Caused by German Cruiser Eitel Friederich. March 1l.--Pre:- cancelled all his that (Epecial to the Wash ngton, D.C. dent Wilson to-day in order tq assume personal charge of international situations. He will re- ceive no political callers of any sort, ond will only see officials who are in i i meh with various problems thatai- | the American foreign policy. Wotion on the president's i sinking of the American sailing vess:|, Will'am Frye, by the armed auxiliary German cruiser," Fite] Frigderich. The have sisking of this vessel flying the Am- ercan flag hes created an unprece- dented situation, and the President ke- | lieves the time has come when it is necessary for him to be personaly on Dispute b erick Willlam have been on bad! Saastul rights of ark have heen | tong "Mince September. The Politiken says that the ex of German goods via neutral siates'is now at a complete standstill. © Scan. dinavian shipowners will not take h isk of their v ing, si rackett | pited Shining. Com | troops yesterday Pany Has forbidden its captains to miles of trenches by SI |suil without guarantees that. 'their saults. The British have pushed this |vargoes are not for | 3 advantage stout a mile and A sensation a a a the village of Neuve Chavoelle, w, the German artiflory | rotiving after firing w few shots. It the Norst, in believed this is the heginning of the | | o&ner, to Allies' spring Jorwany movement. ders contrary to his wishes. ~The Crown Prince Peplidd--with a eritic-! Hlsm of his father's military strategy WHITR ThE © nted 16 his soldiers at "Christmas | Twith an address which seemed to ig- | nore his father's supremacy as gener- | ahisiimo formed another offence. : e Kaiser at that time summons in {gq The fon to Potsdam and there w a stormy interview, at the conclus- Hom which the Emperor relieved his of his command and army , Te and Jeht him to private lite. silence in ref to t rown Christiania. Pron doings in recent weeks is fa thie disagreement. "impo; ian state HEE Xe aio 1 Mar h 1 desk was that alt * {the Germans to engagements for the next three weeks | is admitled $6 be due directly to the | i of! The Em- | 'peror accused his son of encroaching | of the Russian armies there. Sugren- 'on hile Kuthority and of 'issuing or-| ders during the present retreat south' pre-| or = 0x Crue clad, to othe Whig) APPETITE. GONE - For a Big Battle With the Russians. AUSTRO-GERMAN ARMY PODGING® FIGHT WHICH THE CZAR'S GENERALS WANT Strategic Moves Likely to Corner Big German Army Near East Prussian order When Tables Will Be Turned Upon Foc, : Petrograd, March 11.--The pres- ent movement at both ends of ' (he Russian war zone show that the Ger- mans and Austrians are manoeuvring for delay. They are striving lo gain time to avoid a great pitched battle which the Russians hope to force on them. Twa German armies in the north have now completely retreated gderogs their earlier lines in the ad- vance on Kovno and Grodno. Throughout their eccupation of the strip of land adjoining the left bank of the Niemen, the motor scoured the country for horse forage, but the Russians had removed ev- erything ang the Germans could on- ly burn down the empty barns. Since Saturday they have been with-drawing their heaviest calibre artillery from the bombardment of Ossowetz, and the operations there {are now dying down io an occasion- al shelling from 6-inch gums. The characler of the German re- tiremsent, however, still leaves the possibility that the Russians will be po to engage them in battle in the country above Lomza, possibly along the line of Kolone, St. Chuchin, with the Germans moving from their bas- es at Johannisburg and Lyck. It is | believed there are about 150,000 Germans in this triangle between Lomza and the East Prussian fron- tier, which is about the number de- feated by the army at Przasnysz. It is of the utmost importance for get their Niemen {army, which is retreating chiefly | through the Suwalki region, back in- {to the permanent positions amon the Mazurian Lakes before the Rus- sians are able to cut through the frontier line from the south. The i stubborn lingering efforts by single | German corps against Ossowetz are doubtless also for the purpose of en- | abling its northern Pastiery to move i toward safet This re- | treating arn to number 1 : { have at least 350, 000 unengaged vet | {along the line of the frontier railway far to the west of Soldau. The real danger to General Elchhorn's army | may compel this force to accept bat- {tle frem the Russians, { Decisively Beaten Off In separate sharp battles on both sides of the middle Pilica, in Central Poland, the Germans on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, were decis"vely | beaten off. They probably engaged in this battle with the aim of making i the retreat from the Niemen more honorable and also to feel out wheth- | {er it would be possible to develop a | new line of attack in Poland below | the exhausted entrenchments of the . | Bzura and Rawka. With this wilb"bé&! ' ebupled the withdrawal altogether of {the main striking Totce dent out trou East Prussia, Yet the Germans have much rea- son to deplore the Austrian failure {in Eastern Galicia than the empti- ness of their "own campaign from! East Prussia. The Austrians: have | failed to establish ning of a spring campaign which would effect the general disposition { ward orofoundly influenced the soc- ial feeling of the mixed races in | Eastern Hungary. policemen. bi ang Country policemen of Aus- Ltr ive heen rent into the fleld ar- my; for them sdetly members of tte , fire brigades are being E- Substituted. MINISTERIAL CRISts | Premier Who Desired pesired War, Reported Paris, March 1A ministerial even the begin- | crisis similar to that in Greece has py rred ; GERMANS HANGING FIRE. Lille Report Says They Weep When Ordered to Front, Paris, March 11.-----A cprrespond- ent of the Matin reports a Lille re- fugee as stating that M. 'Prepont, prefect of the North, with Secretary 'Horromoe, was recently imprisoned by the Germans because he opposed the formation of a inter-city combi- nation to raise funds to meet the war levies imposed on the captured cities. The little population remains ecour- ageons, but the morale of the Ger- mans is said to be noticeably lower. Troops ordered to the front, it is as- serted, show much 'discouragement, and many weep. Owing to the num- ber of derertions, the commander has ordered ail civilian clothing to be stored in the citadel to prevent the Germans using it. Since December the Crown Prince] of Bavaria has occupied the house | of Hugo Gatry in Lille, THINKING ABOUT IT Proposed For New York City. York, March 11 Local op- tien for New York city loomed up among the possibilities discussed at the City Hall here to-day, where it was said unofficially that the present day adminictration would favor the passage of such law by the legisla- ture, While Local Opticn New Mayor Mitch2: refuse! commit himself, proponsats «of the law' claimed his support. It was said that the sort of law wanted was one under which the city would be divided into districts, in each of which the citizens could vote on the question of excluding liquor from to «the distriet. City wide prohibjtion, it was said, was not sought, BEER AND WHISKEY DELAY WAR JOBS Traitorous and Pro: Serpan in Effect on Britain's Efficiency. London, March 1l.--Beer and whis- key are among the major curses of | this -country at the present time, ! They are doing an unusual, amount of harm, interfering with tke quick de! livery of wer jobs of all kinds." They | are, therefore, traitorous and - | German in 'tendency and in effect. Further, they are weakening ths ten- | i ans | acity. which 'w ans A ohio of Toe ha wakes | ! -- be as miraculously "beneficial to | this country as <the abolition of vodka | | has been in Nussis, but beer and] whiskey will mot be abolished in this country. A nation under an autocracy | can Le saved; a mation politically free can only save itself. Beer and - whiskey cannot be abol- | ished, but they can be ostracized and | cold-shouldered, and the Government, | van as:ist in the ostracism. The Gov: | erument ean properly give aid to the | aspiralions towards sobriety which al! | of us, even tipplers and drunkards, | have in our secret souls. It is said Mr. Lloyd-Géorge has long d sired to cut down most deasti- | caly the still enormous opportunities | "Tor idle "soaking ' which the war re gulations have left us. 1 wish he | could: inoculate tho €abivet with some | of 'I's own courage, 5 CAN ADIAN MARKSMA NSHIP British And Russian Governments | Ordering Ross Rifles. Ottawa, March 11.--Semi-official | advices received from ' England by | the militia authorities here nue | to speak in the highest terms 6f the marksmanship of the Canadians en | the firing line. The shooting abili- | | | Some hundreds J Of the Canadian forces hus « i- | condition was reported at first satis- "(HE TASS BAPE : FREE Te vervedhe dis NOTHIN wes The éntire. force of | Of the British commanding | Rebellion and wis a member of the The Rots. rifle is OVing-| entirely satisfactory, and 4 com: plaints whatever have been received | with regard to it, In this connec- { tion It is worth noting that the Rus. 'sian Government has put ip an order for a million Ross rifles, while the British Governmnet is for a suply of five hundred Ross nr per- day from the factory at Quebec. Ottawa, Mirch 11.-<An ing question placed on the ¢ per of he Com { Jail, of the steamer Dacia .. BRITISH WARSHIPS' FIRE = ANSWERED BY KRUPPS Fort Namazieh is Stil Reply- ing to Bombardment } BRITISH UNDER ORDERS TO SILENCE FORT BATTERIES AT | ANY COST. No Firing Heard Off Sinyrma For a Day -- Believed That British Ad- miral Has Given Non-Combatants Time to Leave. {The admiral re {was the unfailing policy of (Special to the Whig.) London, - March 11.--Under orders to silence her batteries at any cost, four British warships. are pumping shells at the Turkish fort Namazieh, at the entrance to the Dardanelles Narrows, according to the Intost despatches from Athens to-day. The hombarding battleships steamihg slowly up and down strait, firing at Numazieh, at a range of several miles. Her big Krupps ve | splashing the water with a rain of projectiles, 'while Fort Kilid Bahr, nearer the water's edge, interrupts the -duel .with an occasional salvo from her guns. All Athens despatches agree to-dav that the Queen Elizabeth and her supporting warships are meeting the sternest kind of opposition from 'Na- mazieh. Twenty-four modern Krupps of various calibres are mounted in thd" fort's batteries high on a. hill overlooking Kilid Bahr. The whole work is supported by.three batteries, each mounting' four guns. German officers are believed to be directing the sartillery fire. No firing has been heard from the direction of Smyrna for twenty-four are the { hours, according to despatches from the Islanu .. Venedos. It was ru. mored at Athens that Rear Admiral | | Pierse, commanding the British squad- ron, has consented to the suspension of hostilities to give non-combatants ' time to leave Smyrna. ANXIOUS TO REAC H BARRACKS. Commandeered Hand Car to Come | plete Rail Journey to Brockville | Broeekville, Ont., March 11.--Return. | fine. Jrom, Peterboro, where he had the gy Canadian ("ontingent, | to comilete his journey home over | © the C.P.R., stole a hand car near | Smith's Falls. The act landed him in | but he was allowed by Judge | Reynolds to go on suspended sen: | tence. The prisoner said he missed train connections, and rather than have a bad mark chalked against him for failing to report on time at the ex- piration of bis leave of ab.ence he appropriated the use of a track velo- ci Toronto Major Dies in England Of Appendicitis 3; Spiel al tn th the Whig.) Toronto, March 11---Word-was re- | i celved here to-day that Major George | M. Higginbotham, Toronto, is dead at !8horneliffe hospital, England. He | went with the first' contingent from | the Queen's Own Rifles, Toronto, was | {nvalided from the trenches in| France with appendicitis, and wae | operated on by Col. Dr, Armour. His | Vietoria Order, War Tidings,' ; Flight S8ub-Lient Shepherd, of the Royal Navy, fell into the sea with a biplane while scouting off Bast: bourne. He was killed . * During the recent fighting near Grodno a single German corps last from 12,900 to 15,000 killed alone, Liquid fire" 1s being used hy the Go troops to repel the fierce at- tacks of the Russian fo forces in Poland of the Pilica' river. E. N. Breitung, New York, owned . hap entered a Jiotent Auains the sel, of his ves |. sel by the French maritime anthori- | . -- COSTLY SLY FAIL RE Gurmans Stake Everything On Vie tondon, March 11. ~Telographing fo Fora the a She Tous | forward a similar petition to SMYRNA GOVERNOR'S ACT. Placing Male Enemy Subjects in Athens, March 11 ~The military {governor of Smyrna sent a vesterday to the British admiral com. apding the squadron off Smyrna, {through the American: consul-genéral {to the effect that he was arresting ali {male subjects of enemy countriés and {would have them placed in groups at unfortified points bombarded by the Allied fleet as a preventive measure. He alleged that unfortified villages were being shelled, He to adopt similar measures in the city of Smyrna if it should be bombarded. , stating that it Great Britain to respect. unfortified and to confine bombardments to military works, but that batteries had been placed so close to certain villages that it was inevitable that in such eases some damage should {done to them. LET GOVERNMENT HELP MAINTAIN COUNTY ROADS As Well as Bearing 2 Third of the Cost -- To. Modify Auto Fee. Welland, March 11, --Welland County Council yesterday passed a resolution that a memorial be pres- ented to the Ontario Legislature asking that the Government bear a portion of the cost of maintenance as well as one-third the original cost of good roads built under the county system. All counties operating vn- der the good roads system Will be asked to co-operate in making thiy request of the Legislature. Another resolution was passed to memorialize the Ontario Government | to reduce the automobile license fos to one-half for foreign automobiles from States or Provinces which ex- | tend the same priviloge to auto-own- ers of this Province. All County Councils in Ontario will be ashed 10 o Legislature, PAILY MEMORANDUM. trintic coneert, Grant BAL $8 pm or BrobabliCion arch 19th Nd 30h, 258 Frlncees street. . City Hockey Leagie finals, Coveréd Rink ache" 7.30 pm. Limeston Lodge, No. 81, AOU. Wy | meets to-night o'clock. | THE DAILY BRITISH WIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: 5 | Bucknell's Nowa Depot «. Ww. £0. vieks Bt 8 Mota) () ¢ Bock bore, Og d's Groce Mediey y's Dr fhEsese = Eh Vapicau's Grocery Frontenac Hotel . 4 Gibson n's Drug org pare Py BORN, | REID dn Kingston, o Mareh, , 1918, orpora: and 1 Mew TT. Reid, - to Col Johnson street, & DIED. | COURINBAU~Entered into 'ednesday ev 1518, at her 12 Harbord stree Ww Torguuun, adh tore ..... ald rest. on 10, bronto, AO wite of FX Cousii Puneral from GT.R Junction on aerls Fungal from OTR Junction, on ~ Marvel noon to Cataraqul eommetory. n Kh 1916, of William Me Funeral (private) dence, 320 Q tornogn, at amit