82 SG 68 YEAR 'PRZEMYSL FALLS TO THE RUSSIANS The. Austrian Fortress Surrender Wil Release 160,000 Russian Soldiers For Action in Poland and Along Carpathians Front. Przemysl Was Besieged For Six Months---Garrison Num- bered 50,000---Austrians and Germans Tried in Vain to Relieve Fortress---Wild Scenes in Petrograd Over the Fall, nt (Special to the Whig.) : Petrograd, March 22.--Przemysl has fallen, the Rus- sian war office announced this-afsernooy. The Austrian garrison has surrendered to the 'Russian hesiegers. J The capture of the Austrian fortress came at the end of several months of siege. It automatically releases: a Russian army of nearly 160,000 for action in Poland and along the Carpathian front, and constitutes perhaps the greatest victory for Russian arms since the beginning of the war. The Austrian garrison that surrendered to * General Dimitrieff is reported to number about 50,000, Przemysl has been under almost continuous siege sinee September 20th, 1914, when the Raossians first be- gan shelling the Galician outer forts. A month later an Austro-German force advanced northward through the Carpathians; relieved the besieged city and drove the Russians back to the north. Within a fortnight a new Russian' foree appeared before Przemysl and resumed | the siege. : Since that time four Russian army corps, the sev- enth, the ninth, the tenth and the eleventh, under General "Radke Dimitrieff; a former Bulgarian avmy officer, have' been battering at the defences to the fortress itself. A ee Wild Scenes In Petrograd. The news of the fall of the fortress evoked the wild- est Beenes in Petrograd since the beginning of the war. | Crowds massed in the streets and before the government buildings, cheering wildly. § Austro-Germans advancing to the relief of the gar- rison were battered and hurled back bv the Russians south of "Praemysl. That aviators carried the news to' the besieged eity is certain, and it is believed here that the Austrian garrison beeame disheartened when this word was received and decided to surrender. The Russian war office, however, gave out fhe state- | ment earlier in the day asserting that the reported at-| tempt to relieve Przemysl was only a feint by the Austro- (iermans designed to divert Russian troops from the in- vasion of Hungary south of Dukla Pass. ~~ NN A rN A GREATEST BLOW STRUCK FOR ALLIES SINCE FALL On All Sides Germans and Austrians Are Hemmed in--- Italy is Believed Roady to Make a Dash Into Austria. i i to force the Germans | tg their own soil. To the South Ttaly's armies are putting on! -(Bpecial to the Whig.) A London, March 22. --The capture] one Advance of Pisumye) is the realest - blow struck for the Allies since the Ger- | regard: mans were checked in their drive on | dike Ena} tohches for What Je ror : Paris last fall. Consequently the!" ob soot ol Atstre-Ger] ocial annouficement from Petrograd | n a he the hats aroused the greatest enthusiasm in| Mane foe ves con uted by official circles hare this afternoon. .*| SAL ariies, eagerly on the. ag The fall of the great Austrign | STessive andy Ye strike; An fortress came at a crucial moment | iy, a Russian force of four for the Austro-German Allies' In [Ul army corps is thrown into the Prussia has been invaded balance against m by the surren- 5. Vou g's forse der of the. oper rain 1 are being | Military pointed out here or he 7 re fron to-night that 160,000 Russians that ¥ have taken invested Przemysl are almost as : fresh as new levies. The capture of [ of the east-!the Austrian Slavs are again Russians an unbroken wina. In France from the.sowth of by Britain s| Oalicia along the Carpathians to struck hard | Bukowina. 0 oS Soh Hne, Che Dail "Hospital, | kenzie King, ¢ fortress-city gives the | OW across = K ARMY HEIGHT REDUCED, Men Five Feet One Inch Now Being Admitted. London, March 22. The standard of height for reeruits has been 're- duced to five feet-one inches in infantry regiments. Age limits re- main the same, from 19 to 38 years, as also the chest measurement of 34 inches. ; : 'Rally round the flag," is the la- test, recruiting inscription for Lon- don's taxicabs. The words stand on 4 brilliant yellow background, flank- ed by the colors of the Allied powers draped around the Union Jack. The recruiting campaign of the ar Office is maintained as vigor- sly as ever, with posters.and band concérts. But the call made to the shorter' men is expected to consider- ably raise the percentage of enlist- ments. 25 w ou BOMB DELUGED U. S, BARK. Bat the Manga Reva, of New York Escaped Damage. London, March 22. -- One bombs thrown from the that flew over Deal .on Saturday dropped alongside the American bark Manga Reva, of New York, and deluged her with a great volumé of water. British .air scouts started in pur- suit of the German aeroplane, but ap- parently were too late to overtake it A second bemb dropped near. the Dutch steamer Flora. RUSSIAS SEEKING ~~ VICTORY, NOT PEACE The Story of a Senet Approach to Germany Branded 3s Calumny. Ottdwa, March 22.-- "The Whisper- ed calumny of a secret approach to Germany by Russia is utterly and wholly false. Russja will fight through this war to the end..y Thesé were the assertions 'in an address de- livered by Hon. Curtis Guild, former Governor of Massachusetts, and late United States ambassador to Russia in an address before the member- Club of the: aeroplanes ship of the Ottawa Canadian Saturday afternoon. "Never has the whole Slav been so wonderfully uplifted and united {n '4 ¢dmmen cause as at the present time," he continued. "War, dreadful as it is, has at last strip-, ped the evil veil spun by venomous insects from the face of the Slav and the world knows him fo-day as he is." PITH OF THE NEWS. Despatches From Near And Distant | . "Places. x ! The Canadian Association of Pas- sadevo, €al., have a celebration plan-,/ ned for next Tuesday. The town of Boucherville, Que., abolished the one hotel bar in the municipality by a vote of 110 to 0. Lieut. Lynch-Staunton,son of George Lynch-Staunton, Hamilton lawyer, has joined*the headquarters = sial, Torchto, as an orderly officer. Joseph Hamlin was buried under tons of stone when a charge of dyna- | mite exploded at Pointe du Lac. Que.+ while he was éxamining it. ! Major-General S. B. Steele, Winni- | peg, Inspector-General of the Canad- ian forces in Western Canada, slip- ped from his herse before the Tor-! onto military parade began Saturday #fternoon, and is now confined to It has been ascertained thar tho American steamer Maracas, now be- | ing held at Hull for action by a Brit-| ish prize court,' was, formerly the Bri: tish steamer Carmarthenshire, and' that she was transferred to American registry since the outbreak of the war. { MACKENZIE KING STARTS | womans of i An Investigation Into Industrial Con. ditions Tn Celorado. Denver, Colo., March 22.--Mac-| former Labor Minister] of Canada, and now special investi- | gator for the Rockfeller Foundation, is yi _ industrial conditions in * Mr. King arrives at a time when union officials are appealing for ail to save minors and their families from starvation as a it of strikes in coal mires, Including those con- £4 trolled Rockfellers, | - Were Killed At Neuve Chapelle and 1B INGSTON ONTARIO. MONDAY, race. In Denver {0 SLArt an Investigs-| ~ FARQUHAR. Princess Patric tion. tomy « is, ho was killed CALLS FOR PLAIN TALE the "New Blockade." . London, March 22.--S8ir John Maec- Donnell, who is considered an auth- ority on international law, in ah. arti cle in the Naticn, discussing the "new blockade," suggests that "if the new order-in-council is to be put into operation on a large scale thé proper complement to it i= an Anglo-Amer- ican convention by which questions arising under the new order might, along with other matters, affecting American claimants ia courts, be referred to "a joint bunal."" ° Sir John says that he considers the' order-in-council "a measure or reprisals of a degree of stringency unexampled since the order-in-coun- cil which were England's answer to Berlin and the Milan decrees of /Na- poleon," and that "if it be the opin- ion of the civilized world that a neu- tral must stand aside, that his rights always are to be suspended in a state of war, let us have courage to say 80." tri- Hoffman House Closed Doors. New Hofman House, years has . sheltered many widely known men, closed ite doors, Satur- day. The building will be demolished to give place to a commercial struc- ture. 'The Hoffman House was open- ed in 1864, . mpc Turkish Attacks Repulsed. (Special to the Whig.) . London, March 22. Several Turkish attacks south-west of Batum and along the Black Sea coast have been ropulsed, the War Office announced, in an official - statement this afterncon; deal' og with the Caucasus sitnation. The largest potash supply in Ca-! destroyed ina bad fire! nada wa which, toek place on the prefises of Gunne, Limited, West Toronto. SAPPER FRANK The first Kingstonian 16 yield wu his life in delense of the British empire was' Sapper Franklin. Thomas Bristolin, who formerly resided at 44 Main street. A week ago he was wounded al set in, and resulled in his death on Saturdny, March 20th. His wife received © the "telegram on Sunday, which tok] the sad news, and grief to the family. On the 18th day of August the left Kingston: with No. 5 viti MARCH GUT priee York, March 224-The famous | which in fifty-one | "DIES OF HIS WOUNDS Which He Received Wile at the Front in France With Queen's Engincers---His Wife Resides at 44 Mai Stet, Kingston, ~~ taken to No. 1 Kastern | Hospital, . Eambridge, where tetanus brought i & : h CRANK AND IGNORAMUS. SE ------------ 22, 1915 en Remarks Attributed To Morphy Dis. turbed August Senator's Sernity. Ottawa, March 22.--In the senate Senator Choquette said that Mr. Morphy, M.P., had recently been re- ported as having said in the course of an address at an Orange meeting in Gttawa: "If the French in Quebec hope to put the beastly, horrible French they | speak into this Province, then I say, brothers, it is certainly an incentive fo us to rise up in our wrath agd indi- gnaticn and protest against such a thing being brought about." Senator Choquette said he was surprised that any public man in Canada should allow himself to utter such sentiments. "All that I can say of such a man.is that he is a beastly crank and ignoramus," said Senator Choquette, LIVERPOOL COAL HEAVERS. © Again Go On Strike and Delay Sail- ing Of Vessels. Liverpool, March 22.--The strike or coal-heavers at the Liverpool! docks was renewed Saturday Two thousand men quit work, and in con- sequence sailings of a number of! vessels, some of them in the Govern- ment service, were delayed. The men struck last - month, tying up sailings from Liverpool for several days, 'but returned to work March 3 when it .was announced that a sel- tlement had been reached. HAS TAKEN IN HAND CONTROLLING: OF LAND Government Will Grant Licenses for Taking Sand From Great Lake Shores. Torento, March 22. The Ontario Government is taking in hand the control of lands along the shores of | the great lakes, which contain sand and gravel. Hereafter, annual licen- ses will be issued under special or- der-in-council te work any sych de- | posit, and previous regulations are! reseinded. New licenses will be granted for one dredge only and will expire on December 31st, following | issue, and any export intentions shall | be brought to the attention of the! minister before being acted upon. ina desire to protect these dega-! sits from undue exploitation com- plete details of sections desired will be presented on application, license fee will be $100, royalties per cubic yard will be paid at rates struck, accurate returns. as amounts used will be made, exclu- | sive rights will not necessarily. be. in- | cluded in the licenses, work must be | guaranteed, no license will be sublet | without the consent of the minister in writing, and no intérference will | be offered to inspection. i It is made imperative that the Hi- censes must not interfere with nuvi. | gation, and will be held responsible | for injury to public or private rights, | At all times Also the crown may take | what amounts they consider nécess- ary without paying royalties or con- | siderations, } to be at {Champagne LAST EDITION THE SLAVS HAVE STRUCK "SOME CRUSHING BLOWS Austro- German Losses in Two. Days Over 40,00). OVERTHROWN, Purpose of Enemy's Onslaught Was To Divert Russians--Germans Have Lost Large Supplies of War Munitions In Poland. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, March 22.--Austro-Ger: man losses . in attempted - sorties from Przemysl and fighting south of Tarnow, in the last forty-eight hours total more than forty thousand, ac- cording to a semi-official statement from the war office to-day. The enemy's entire plan of com paign in the Carpathians apparently has been overthrown. The Slavs have struck crushing blows in the Lupkow and Dukla Pass regions, and have riddled portions of the garrison at Przemysl that attempted to storm the positions of the Russian besieg- ars. It is now known that the recent savage onsldughts hy the Austro- Germany south of Ptzemysl did not constitute an actual attempt to re- lieve the besieged fortress. Its pur- pose was to divert Russian troops from the Dukla and Lupkow Mass regions, where the Ozar's soldiers were making steady progress in the movement into Hungary. For the same reason the Przemysl became suddenly active, wasting am- munition recklessly in an ineflectua bombardrhent of the Russian tions. : Developments in Poland in the last two days have been equally satis factory. The Gesmans have lost large supplies of war munitions, including epough machine guns to equip . an entire corps. posi- Latest War Tidings. Germans made unsuccessful ef- Oris to recapture lost ground in the region. thrown back with heavy losses. German aeroplanes dropped bombs on' at tack by British airships. The naval censor has declare! there was '"'absolutely. no truth" the widely published report vice-Admiral Sackville Carden been killed or wounded durin bombardment of the Dardanelles. One million (Germar pigs have been billeted on the civilian popula- tion of Belgium. fed and cared for by the | who, without distinction a¢ to class, | must perform this service. BRISTOLIN $ i ionly child of the late Charles Mead {and daughter of Mrs. W. J. { Tarking- { ton, residing at 44 Main street. this union three children are eft to mourn, besides .a wife. The child- ren are Thomas, fo ToS {survive, Mrs. Herbert Moore, this [¢ity, and Mrs. Ruth Cole, Toronto. : bear . : lin , {member of Granite Lodge, No. $63, {LO.O.¥., and also of the Carpenters' {Cnion. In religion he was an Aw (glitan and mem of St. George's | Bey, Beril {ana 18 Islan general the Two Zeppelins early Sunday ing dropped bombs on Paris and sub- urbs, starting several small fires which were quickly extinguished. Several persons none were killed. A desivise struggle for possession | {of Czernowitz in Bukowina is pro-| In the Caucasus the Rus- | | slaps are advancing toward the sea, Several American firms recently have {depriving the enemy of all means of | been endeavoring to purchase in porting troops and munuitions. | Chile a consignment of 12,000 rifles, the but no effort iu this direction has reinforced to | been attended with any success. | the number of eighty thousand and |is believed, that this same inquiry | it is reported that ten thousand troop | for arms is gressing. trans Turkish forces on the coast of Gulf of Smyrna, are have been sent to strengthen Dardanelles garrision: Emperor William received Y, dannelles situation. Constantinople. . German and Austrian have been advised by the consuls of their respective Governments to leave Italy within the shortest (ime. - the Argonne, French progress continues at Les Eparges. artillery destroyed a block house and several ammunition wagsgons with stores in the Woevre region. Violent Bight attacks were repulsed at La- lle with heavy lozses to the en y t einy. ; In a jortie by the Przemysl garri- son on Friday, the Russians ecap- imental machine guns. say the losses among the garrison in and wounded f | 'he New Move Of the Russians A Close Secret. Mareh 2%.-The Rus . Petrograd, staff continued to main- Were enormous. | ENEMY'S ENTIRE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN IN CARPATHIANS | garrison | Deal, Englanfl, but fled after an/ in | that had | & the| morn- | were injured but | subjects | "French | Sera. ding one |: 3,954 men, Prisoners | Tre * ARE FULLY SATISFIED.. Paris; Mirch 22. --Rear Ad- miral Guepratte, commanding the French squadron at the Dardanelles, sent the following despatch to the French Minis. try of Marine. "Despite the loss of the Bou- vet, we are fully satisfied by the results of the latest action at the Dardanelles. The Brit. ish naval officers are openly ex- pressing their apreciation of the brilliant and important part taken by the French warships." PEPPER EPPPRPE IEE PEEP PIPE P PEPSI Pe i NO TROUBLE WITH JAPAN, | - Britain Is Not Interfering In Chinese Situation. Washington, March 22.-- The Bri- tish embassy has issued the follow- ing: "The British embassy learns that there is no truth in a. report eman- ating from Pekin that the British and Russian ambassadors at Tokio have made joint representations to Japan on the subject of China, or that the British and United States Governments are 'in consultation with a similar object." nr 1 mma. Fortify Memel From an_ Attack By the Germans (Special tv the Whig.) Petrograd, March 22.--The Russians who penetrated northern east Prussia and occupied Memel, on the Baltic, have thrown up entrenchments to protect the town from an expected German attack from the south. Rus- sian cavalry have entered the village of Karlsberg; three miles south of | Memel, without' spposition. They re« ported that the Germans who fled from Memel had retreated heyond Pro- kuls, fifteen miles south of Memel, on the Tilsit railway. They were Ty Bull-Like Rushes | tricia's returned from St. Eloi de- | scribe recent fighting thers as a The pigs must be | Series of bull-like rushes by either t Belgians | side against the enemy's trenches. | scarcely a stone's throw away, the | same trenches being taken and ve- | taken time after time. 'They say { some trenches are now ohly twenty yards apart. The advance posts of | both Allies and Germans busy them- | selves throwing hand-grenades into { the opposite trenches. Trying To Buy Arms. Valparaiso, Chile, March 22.-- It being 'made in other +the South American countries. Dijavid | Cardi Turkish Minister of Finance in | leader n on Friday to discuss the Dar-| The Emperor | is much concerned about the fate of! nal Agnardi, a distinguished at the Vatican, is dead. DAILY MEMORANDUM, See top of page 3, right hand corner, | tor probabilities. DIED. BLAKE--In Kingston, on March 21st $945 Margaret Jane Blake, aged 66 i oben iad Funeral from 26 york street. of Tues. day @lternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are respect- fully invited to gattend, ELKINGTON--At "levna, on March 19, 1915, Frances Elizabeth BI ton, in her 90th ¥ late Francis « and sister of the late nl ton, M.D.. ail: formerly of ham, England. FOWILER--At the family Brock Ki 9! on Sai 1 eau EY - old MD. ; BE: ar. Mareh wor Fife Fowler, Funefal (private). dE ROBERT J, RED : -- JAMES REID SERIE pique US Ine Ce 1 Joi