Q 8 PAGE YEAR 82 NO 62 GREAT BRITAIN BEGINS T0 STARVE OUT GERMANY Order-in-Council Issued For Blockade of the 'German North Sea Coast, Without Using That Precise Term, Programme For "Starving Out the Kaiser"---The Blockade Order is Effective at Once---No Merchant Ves- sel Permitted to Continue Her Voy- age to a German Port. > (Special to the Whig.) London, March 15.--Great Britain today struck the promised blow against Germany. By issuing an order- m-couneil, she throttled Germany's tommerce in a dras- tic manner, unprecedented in international law. The decree practically declares a blockade of the German North Sed coast, without using the precise term. This is contrary to all precedents, which reqiire the presence of blockading warships. "To complete the programme of "starving out the Kaiser," the government laid certain drastic restrictions upon neutral commerce. These are designed to prevent Germany from exporting or importing any commodities through Holland or Scanflinavian countries on the Baltic Sea, controlled by the German navy. The "'blockadé order is effective at once. In faet, the government served notice. that it had been in effect ever since March 1st, No merchant vessel of any nation, which sailed from its port of original departure after Premier Asquith's an-| nouncement of March 1st, wilt be allowed to continue on its way to a German port, No merchant vessel, which steamed from a German port after March 1st, carrying a cargo of German goods, will be permitted to continue to her destination. Her cargo must be discharged at a British or allied port. Treatment of Neutral Vessels. Themext section of the ordersin-council; dealing with the treatment of neutral vessels earrying goods to neu-| tral countries, hut ultiinately designed to Germany, or carrying German goods transhipped at a neutral port, is| different in its phraseology. This fact was considered highly significant in government circles. In the preceed- ing paragraphs, dealing with voyages direct to or from! Germany, the order-in-couneil uses the positive phrase: **No vessel will be allowed to proceed." In its reference to commerce between neutral governments, over which the most emphatic protests are certain to be made, the word "may" is used. In some quarters, it was asserted that by avoiding 'the positive word "will" the govern- | ment left a loophole, though it might be withdrawn if dip- lomatic negotiations failed to smooth out. difficulties with the United States and other neutrals. : «The government laid emphasis on the statement. by Premier. Asquith that while neutral commerce might suffer, no neutral ship would be endangered nor the lives of non-combatants imperilted in the carrving out of the provisions of the deepee, In this respect British action | was contrasted with the note of warning from Germany that her submarine warfare might result in the loss of | { ivered his bitter criticism of the KINGSTON ONTARIO. MONDA be Daily British ARCH 15, 1915 'This is Predicted in the Late MORE WARSHIPS SINT AN AEROPLANE CARRIED ON MOTOR CAR CONSTRUCTS D FOR PURPOSE, The Picture shows an aeroplane with wings folded, packed on a spe 'lal car Tor conveyance to another point ANP AN Ni TO RESUME TRAFFIC, Steamer Service Between Flushing and Felkstone, Amsterdam, March 15.--Announce. ment is made of the resumption of a daily steamer service between Flash- ing and Folkestgne on Monday. Cross-channel service has been ir regular since the announcement of the German submarine blockade order, and presumably also because of the heavy movement of troops from Eng. land to the 'continent. "All regular sailings were postponed. Announce gent" from ' Amsterdam of "the re starting of such trips is to be con strued as indicating supreme confi dence by the British in the abatement of 'the submarine peril. Daily Despatches From Near And Distant Places. {PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE FORM, LONDON'S MAYOR SUES, The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News Of the World From Telex graph Service and Newspaper Ex- changes, Wants Unstated. Damages Against Free Press For Slander, London, Ont.,, March 15.--A writ for unstated damages on a charge oi slander has . been issued by Mayor Stevenson against the London Free Press. One of the statements that caused the. suit was the allegation that Mayor Stevenson was endeavoring to close up the garage oh property bought by the!' city to form a city hall site, in order that the business reforms to the attorney-general, might be diverted further down the! Dr. Cornwall, ex-reevé of Omo she recently erected in the | mee, and a former warden of Vic- ty. , | toria, is dead at the age of eighty- id f FOR NEUTRAL STAND Prince Mehemed Burban-Eddin Effendi, favorite son of Sultan Ab- Famous Belgian Author rst ----; 1 WI NG G : bs Jotkan bos Been (Special to the Whig.) tian. Bucharest, March 15.--Ger- man banks at Constantinople are making heavy shipments of (8petial to the Whig.) gold from Coustafitinople to Rome, March 15.-- Maurice Mae- + Berlin, according to despatches térlinek, a noted Belgian author, who | # recéived here to-day. Several is 'attempting to stir up pro-Aly German merchants in the Otfto- sentiment by lectures . throughout aly, to-day made an attack on the Vatican for maintaining a neutral at- man capital are preparing to > titude in the war. He declared FEREPPP REP ER ESR R EI 0e Rev. Wesley Casson, a Methodist minister, is dead in To- ronto at the a eighty-five, Adolphus Rivards died at his home in Dover township at the age of one huhdred and five years. The council of the Ontario veteraa our. Colonel Macdonald, Toronto, in an address on insurance taxation rais- ed the guestion, "Can a government confiscate funds?" PREP Peer read Tle PrP rere bbe leave. i Blob db that the Holy See, in taking this po- man ttn sition, has abandoned the teachings dul Hamid, was found strangled in of Jesus Christ. Maeterlinck de- his bedroom in Constantinople. Rev. Patrick Quinn, parish priest at Richmond, Que. for half a -cen- Sigs Vatican in the course of an appreci- ation of United States aid to the PITH OF NEWS. THE LATEST TIDINGS - Bar | Association will present requests for | ¢luding the-ships sunk by submar- {ines during the week ending March CN A A GERMANS IN FRYE CREW S. Authorities May Demand Their Surrender From the Eitel Newport News, Va., March 15. -- A demand for the surrender by the German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, of German mem- bers of the American sailing ship William P. Frye's crew who still re- main on board the war vessel, was congidered a strong possibility hers to-day. The pair are Charles Frank and Robert Rogge. Being hubjects of the kaiser they refused to leave the Eitel when the rest of the Frye's company was landed, preferring to enist with the ralders* erew. The local federal authorities were not certain whether or not to per- mit this, and asked instructions from Washington. An early ruling was expected. 800 BRITISH MERCHANTMEN. Have Been Lost Since the Big War Began, London, March 15.--The Admirai- ty issued a report last night giv- ing the total number of British merchant vessels and fishing boats! destroyed since the war began, in- 10th, all of wihch have been report- ed. The report shows that 88 mer- | chantmen have been sent to the bot- tom of mines, submarines, and hos- tile: warships. Nineteen fishing boats have been destroyed by mines, DAKOTA LIFE DULL: YOUTH JOINS ALLIES Missing Farmer's Son Found in France With the Cana- dian Army. Mandan, N.D., March 15--'Im | with the Canadian soldiers in France farm life is not exciting enough," is | the information received by the fa- ther of Ray Crandall, and the mys- tery of the disappearance of a form: er local high school basketball star i$ thus solved. Crandall disappeat- | ed last fall, A letter says that he and anothér | boy left the threshing fields near "New Salem, going. to Portal, N.D., | and being stopped by the authorities | and sent back to Minot. They tried | to eross the line again, but were 10h & 1 PAGES 1-8 LAST EDITION FOR FALL HOPE OF SMYRNA BEFORE END OF WEEK Athens Despatches. TO HELP ADMIRAL PEIRSE SMASH DOWN FORTS. Battleships Are Now Inside the Straits and Battering Away at The Dardanelles' Forts--A Panicky Feeling in Constantinople--Capi- tal To Be Removed. London, - March 15.--The fall of Smyrna before the end of the week was predicted in Athens despatches received here to-day. More warships have been sent to reinforce Admiral Peirse, whose squadron is 'smash- ing away at the Turkish forts and the Smy¥ne garrison is reported to be preparing to evacuate. Mean- while another attack on the Dar- danelles forts has been begun from inside the strait. Mine sweepers, whose work was hampered by the fire from Turkish land forces, on the European side, have resumed clear- ing the waters inside the entrance under the protection of French cruisers. Several allied battleships steamed into the strait early on Sun- day, according to Athens despatches, and their shells cre. again grinding away at the land batteries. The attempts to seize the Isthmus above Bulair and cut the line of communication from Constantinople to the European forts has been re- newed. Despatches from Sofia, to- day, brought more reports of pan- icky conditions in. Constantinople. Refugees declared it has been posi- tively decided by the, Turkish Gov- ernment to remove the capital to Es-| ki Shehr in Asia Minor. Yar Tidings. ° The Norwegran Government has determined to spend ten million kroonen in a hurried modernization of naval stations at Christiansand, Bergen, and Ofoden. The Swedish steamey Anna struck a mine off Scarborough, on the east coast "of foundered. Two members crew were killed by the expl . Eighteen were rescued by a passing: steamer. The German submarine U-29 on Thursday torpedoed and sank . the Fremch steamer Auguste Conseil of the Compagnie Des Chargeurs Ren- uis. The crew were saved and land- ed at Falmolith, England, A trawler which arrived at Copen- hagen Brought two pontoons of a German hydroplane believed to have beén lost in the North Sea. The wreckage was found floating far from land. Despatches from Berlin say that the German press is united in scor- of her ing peace suggestions "until the vic- | tory ls secured."; nevertheless, it is understood the: Reichstag committee Is preparing secretly to discuss pos- sible peace plans. Berlin papers on Saturday for the first time were permitted to publish despatches from America, reporting the #inking of the American vessel William P. Frye by Prinz Eitel Friedrich. Not one of the papers made any comment on thé case. President Poincare called Satur-| day afternoon upon Gen. Maunoulry, who was woun: Michael ded while England. Saturday and | | Is on Sale at the F converted cruiser Eitel Frederick released at Newport'News Va., reach- ed New York on Sunday enroute to England. It is believed the Germans lost ten thousand men In fighting the British around Neuve Chapelle. Sir John French has sant an offi- cial despatch praising the valor of the Canadians. { - The total of freight steamers de- stroyed by German submarines within the last few days is nine British authorities still confident- ly expect the fall of Constantinople in three weeks. CHASED BY SUBMARINE, London, - March 15.De- spatches received from Ross lare, Ireland, late Saturday, said passengers landed there from the Great Western, an Irish passenger boat, reported a thrilling escape Friday .night from attack by a German sub. marine. The vessel steered a zig mag course when the peri. scope of the undersea boat was observed, and by crowd on all steam, escaped, sided by a dense fog. Passenge were almost panic-stricken 'the chase. * ® + * be + + + + * + + 4 + * * Ld +* + SEPP PEHe Austrian | Boys Must Harvest The Next Crop Venice, Italy, via London, March 15, --Intelligence reaching here from Vien: na shows that many articles of daily fgod have more than doubled in price in the Austrian capital since the war began, and that there has been a se cret speculation in foodstuffs, which | has aroused the indignation of the people in both Vienna and Budapest. The Government is doing all it pos- | sibly can to secure labor to. harvest | the next crop. To this end all school children from twelve to fourteen vears of age have ex from sticod- | ance at school and are being dri'lxd for | the 'work ahead of them. 1 I DAILY WHEMORANDUM; | City Council, 8 pm. | . Spring assizes, 2 p.m, Tussdsy. | Bee top of name §, right hand corner, | tor probabilities. Vaudeville, Grand Opera House, 2.30 { land 7.30 p.m. | 'Musical concert ' COCK Hall Indght at 8 o'clock. Admission 1b6e. Hockey match, Covered Rink, Wolfe tisland vs. Verona, 8.15 pm, | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ollowing City rs by : SPPPEPPEPEPRPPF 040% wo : Stores {| Bucknell's News: Depot .. Clarke, J. W. & Co. ... { College Book Store .... { Coulter's Grodery .......20 | Cullen's Grocery, Cor, | Frontenac Hotel .. { Gibson's Drug Stor {Lowe's Gr iy | MeAuley's. Book Store ... | McGall's Cigar Store, Cor. | McLeod's Grocery ....51 | Medley's Dr | Paul's Cigar Store .. | Prouse's rug Store | Valleau's Grocery Ling Bt th it 8 i ian St. W Store, 250 University ntreal MARRIED. | MULLIN - -HINCKLEY--At Portsmouth, | inspecting a' German trench, and at! on Monday, March 15th 1915, by tury, died at his residence there, starving people of Belgium, "On | aged seventy-nine. # | {the other hand," said the Belgian| The date on the bill befor: ihe | writer, 1 am sorry to say that the Provincial Legislature to incorporate neutral ships and cost the lives of non-rombatants. - sto a fecond time and t to the request of Gen. Joffre, the Rev. J. Dawson, Ola Helen, next Grand Fore pn they drogsed | French Commander-in-chiet: and | Woide ising. to Hollie, son of My. the line at night and walked to Win- Alexandre Millerand, - Minister. of | and Mrs... John Mullin, Prescott, Vatican _has_proved un-christian. It. Galt as a city has been changed 167 nipeg aud jofhed the army. - | War, conferred upon him a military | Ont. [has not followed the teachings of June 1st, i917 from March 15. The father of Crandall is a farm- | medal. i Jesus Christ, "The Vatican, in this General Manager James Kent of er near Golden Valley, a Canadian LOSSES SPELL A TRAGEDY, Since War Began 400,000 Men H. "London, March 1 Concurrently With Petrograd's announcement that! roll of the first Canadian contingent an imporiant decree relating to the! autonomy of Poland is shortly to be' issued. The London Chronicle says DOW mounted up to 159. CANADIAN DEAD, 159. ave Roll Includes First Contingent and Pri os Petrie Ottawa, Mareh 15.--~The death TGRAY--TIn Kin eh 16th, 1916, i Sarah, bel wife of Thomas Gray, aged 66 years. Sous eéril from her late residence, = 58 Alma street, Wednesday after- mn, a 2 o'clock. th ty and acquaintances respeectfu invited to attend. emia rkd » nd he made | It is denied that the steamer Lap- war, has allied itself with the rich the i Com-.a Jong sgaren without result ~The | tand Was chased by a German sub- oppressor, -- Germany -- by holding | pany has resigned. He will be sue boy is 32, {marine after leaving Liverpool. i aloof. It has not stood by the op-: ceeded by John MeMiflan, Calgary. ° { {The Austria Government has re- | Fun v pressed, suffering and poor. Its Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was. dis-| oH B Dose ; {leased Dr. Adolph Brodsky, an emin.: Alm including the Princess Patricias, has | pro-German sympathies are bound to | charged from the hospital at Paris ont fo Hang Bulgar riers, | ent violinist, who had been interned | Friends Of these, affect. the Church in Belgium and | Saturddy pronounced entirely and Paris, March 15.~The Balkan Agen- | in Hungary for several months. Dr. that the war has spelled greater | 58 have been killed in action, while | 'tragedy for Poland than even strick-! 101 have died of disease or actiden- eri Belgium. The Chronicle's sum- ts. The total number of wounded mary of Poland's losses say that the is well over the 200 mark. war has cost that unhappy country daily lists of killed and wounded are 400,000 men, six hundred million now heavier than ever before, since dollars in property damage and the | practically the whole of the first con- | tingent and the Princess Patricias| are right at the front. d S UP 10 STANDARD | ! razing to the ground of fie thousand villages, wl CANA 3 | ---- dr 1d oe Tu on the Firing Line--first Death in the tat ------------ $ . Ar - - F 3 ¥ ny x _ Porouto, Mafth 15.--A Mail and; Hospital at Shosnelife. Guaner Empire from Lomdon ' says: | Johnston w a OF BEST IMPERIAL TROOPS = =: John Froach Praises Their Work France after the war." ' safely convalescent from th | operation by which her right Jeg «| Was amputated. " (Special to the Whig.) i Athens, March 15.--Turkish Mussul- | mhn ve Greek fan e recent | C¥'8 S | } { | its decision. ofin correspondent sy): } court-martial which has been hearing the case of the soldiers of the #3 and 34th Regiments, who in July, 1913, were sent against the Roumani- ans but has just wendered A lieutenant-colonel, two officers and + anajors, twenty minor Brodsky is a Russian. The steamer Bryssel, of Copenha- g 1, bound from t tockholm, with oll was stopped in the Baltic by a German. cruiser and taken to Swinemunde. France has taken steps to stop the sale of German and Austrian securi- 'ties on the Paris Bourse. ¥ _ It is officially anndunced that the British Collier Iyvergyle was tor- on Saturday off Cresswell, All the crew were saved. ly statement re- ports everything favorable along the entire front. have been repulsed. and an a cadlands were Scilly Island | submarine 'wen was also 'All German attacks | KNIGHT 18 Kingston, oh March 13th, 1915, Hannah, idaw of the late Puna vas rom Wee) resi uneral (private) ate - de k street, Wednesday nee, afternoon, at 2 o'clock. MeOONNRELL~~At Winn Man, March 6th, 1915, tine Qar- : Jetty ite of John McConnell, for- > r 3 4 Tajerment at Winnipeg. : i BMITH In Ki Baoward W and Mrs. W. Smith, Funeral from hs i