The Daily British Whig 12 PAGES | 0-1 YEAR 82 NO, 42 [PRESS GALLERY GLIMPSES | Special Whig Correspondence F Commons, "rom the House of | A DAY WITH GEN. SAM | (Copyrighted.) A day "with Major-General Hughes, Not the dull. rout day of the Militia Dgpartment with the Major-General surrounded by secretaries and near-colonels, but day in the open, an aclive serv day, so to speak, with our hero double- quick marching through the committees and smiting the enemy hip and thigh or any other spot t may be convenient. Being the Minister of Militia, on whom the greatest amount of lime light has fallen in the history of Canada, we are naturally curious to see how he behaves What the methods, so far as we can judge by his _pdblie performances, made him the equal perior of Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte teem of mankind? Let us answer that riddle at once and follow it up with details, Speak- ing broadly our Major-General's tics are those of Scipio Afric he carries the war into the enemy's country He does not defend, he at- tacks. He seizes the dilemma both horns and shakes it piece He does this with his. bare hands, the regulations. not permitting him to appear before a parliamentary committee with his sword, though otherwise in full uniform How- ever, his amswers are sharp enough, his remarks cut, and ene way and another the Major-General's 'ongue makes up for his lack of side arms One member of Parliament, toking his clothed and his replies into ac tount, taveen a peacock and a snapping vr tie, but that seems to be overdraw- ing the picture, This is the Major-Generalls day for explaining. Naturally the name of the Minister of Militia has been mentioned quite often before the in- vestigating committees, so tlie" Ma jor-General has devoted a dav to, re- moving the agpersions. Not that the aspersions sre of a very violent ¢haracter but they nettle the Ma- Jor-General and he won't.be happy until he cleans them up. He calls it explaining but it is really cha) lenging." 'Phe Major-General ry a if > su Marlboro in the es not to of his coat, an Impossible task, bo- cause the Major-General wears a tunic these days and a tunic with a tall would be as much out of place] as a bird of paradise with whiskers Keep step with the Major-General, He is now in the Shoe Committee. The Major-General's vice, as 1 have pointed out before, is friendship, and friendship for the shoe manufacturers is under a great strain in this com- mittee, because the Major-General has publicly stated that the man who will make rotten shoes for the sol- diers should be led out and shot. Moreover, seme of the manufacturers who began their contracts with pray- er wound up with split leather and glued insides and their work so disgracefully that Doe- tor Edwards, M.P., was moved to say that if the convicts at Kingston pen- itentiary were put to making shoes they would not he competing with honest labor. Now the Major-fene- val knows all this and realizes friendship for the manufacturers, however much he might like to try it on, i an untenable position. With tne eye of genius" he scans the | stricken field and decides to change front. He cannot befriend the manu faoturers--he will befriend the shoes and thus tive up to his reputstion | for 'magnanimity. Although = this | brings him into direct conflict with | his own brother; Col. W. St. Pierre Hughes, who has sworn on oath that | the shoes were rotten, the Major-Gen- eral does not let a little thing that stand i his way. He has seen the one stroke that will save situation--for Major-General and like the great commander he is, he carries it through, let Brothers fall | where they may mimay which have" by | _deseribed him as a cross be. | dares! all and sundry to tread on the tail] others skimped | that { like | the | Sam | a statement that the Canadian boots have its faults--~the men may bave burned the solfs drying them out--but take it by and large it's'a blamed sight better boot for the sol- diers than the British army boot. To put this surprising statement over re- quires all the Major-General's reserve of warm language and vivid impreca- tion but he does it with great dash and vigor. The Majortieneral could- nt consider it a victory if he didn't meet obstacles. When he has finish- ed the field is strewn with shattered reputations, but the Major-General has no! shed a hair. He hestrides Lis little world a conqueror, hav- ing slain. everybody's evidence but his LW K Alderson's Macdonald, M P. retorts the "What about General report?" suggests 'Second-hand opinion' ; Major-General "he probably liad 1't seen half a dozen pairs of 'em in his life." General Alderson nothing to do with any than you have." "What about®Sir George 2" Mr. Macdonald guestion, 'Perley's reports ¢ on reports submitted to him vajor-General doesn't eveu give High Commissioner hi "What about the reports mental boards?" "Most of these gentlemen donc know what they're talking about they'll sign anything." "Are you serious in that?" y mildly from Murphy, i " The Major-general blaz- "I'l no -impertenance from You 1're a pe ttifogger. What about the evidence of Maj Doane of Hall wlio swore t the men were bliged to parade with their feet tied up in shingles?' this from Macdonald, M.P. I'd like to have the handlin of that officer for five minutes," snorts the Major-General. "The man's a liar!' And there you have the Major-Gen- eral at top heat. Almost any other witness would-have put it in the par- Hamentary -- way: "The honorabie gentleman has knowingly mis-stated the facts, " or something soothing like that, but the Major-General pins his Fat to plain Anglo-Saxon, This brief resume of the mora picturesque parts of Major-General Sam's evidence is not by way of dem onstrating his short way with Gen- erals, High Commissioners, Kings Counsel and such, but merely to show how far a seven-league friend- ship for bad boots will carry a min ister of militia once he gets stari- ed. In the Public Accounts Committee { where he appears next he is a more subdued Major-General, but still a valiant champion of old friends fo give the Major-General"s friends their due they put his defensive powers to the fullest test. For in- stance there is Honorary Major Me- Quarrie who has sworn just a few days before thdt he received $1,200 for using his influence with the Min- ister of Militia. What is Major-Gen- eral Sam's answer? "One of my old boys. He began his life as a parson and is very green like most elerical gentlemen. He signs foolish receipts." The Major-General | this with such a charming smile Lthat we are almost persuaded of Honorary Major MeQuarrie"s invo- i eence, especially if he would cough {up the twelve hundred. Surely no Major-General hath greater love than this, that he give his word for ia friend like McQuarrie! Another , friend whom the Major: General stands by is Honorary Major Thomas Russell, who handled the transport problem in the first rush, Major-General Sam having chosen him | as the best man in Canada to htiag | has me more Perley s ses the msed The the repor pre titie of the take You order out of chaos. Ma or Russell, being in the automobile business him- self, not only btought order out of i chaos but also orders for his own company. He went further and ce cured the agencies of various United | States companies and sold to. the Government at the list prices with ton per cent. off. The Major-General did The ero plan of Major- Ciene- 4 not 'go back on his good friend Maior tal Sam's re nee in force is + Russet for getting atl that was init; says | I ppen Shen valor 'and beaut KINGSTON ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915 | but the hurry being over, he found | another friend in New York by the | name of Thomas, who got twenty-five per cent. off the list price and effected | saving of 32200000 "on the same No.. 1. friend The dificrence " hose by friend having in a first name is Fhomis thus £200,000, Major Thomas sot British, as newspapers have said. He is of that pure New York breed which does not acknowledge that the letter *'r"' | has a place in the alphabet. He comes from the country with which Ma or General Sam and his eolleagues would have no track or trade as far back as September, 1911. Since then thay have not only had truck, but true v hundreds 'of 'em.- Major Thomas' re port, to which Major-General Sam listens with unteigned approval, drags in the fact that all the extravagances in motor purchases took place whey Major-General - Hughes was absent, but that things are going better pow that the rush over and the emer gency price is broken. Incidentally it explaing why Honorary Major Tho mas Russell had to pay $200,000 more ,that he would have paid a few months later on. This report, edited no doubt by the Major-General, ex pounds all the necessary facts with the art which conceals art and proves that while Major-General Sam may be addicted to friendships they can't make a fool him eral as the serpent occasion indeed you might expect who Mas Hockel with Mackenzie and Mann as long as Sam has, Honorary Major Thomas gives his evidence in uniform, this being or- ders from headquarters, Major- General Sam explains to the commit- tee that he makes all his friends who have anything to do with contrasts honorary majors co that he will have a hold on them. If they do not tell the truth while in uniform he can hale them before a drumhead court 'martial and put them out of ness. Consequently some of friends he stands by are majors, while others are colonels--the higher the rank the more standing by they need. On the other hand some of his friends like "the Ellis boys"--neither of | whom can be a day over sixty----are neither honorary majors nor honor- ary colonels and can tell the.truth as well out of uniform as in... Meanwhile Major Thomas, who is not enly cleaning up the transporta- tion problem for Canada, but who also has a long job ahead of him buying ammunition for the British and 'Russian Governments in New York, always testifies in uniform as a guarantee of good faith. The Ma- jor is high-chested, high-purpoeed, and high-priced and if the war goes on long enough he will accumulate a neat little fortune in commissions but not more than an honest man should. The Major-General has a 1% per cent, arrangement with him on savings affected which beats vir- tue being its own reward by many thousands of dollars. It pays to be friends with the Minister of Militia. A friend in need is a friend indeed and the Major-General is no piker, Another friend the Major-General stands by is Honorary Colonel Me- Bain, one of the C. N. R. lands head- quarters staff, who helped to pur- chase the ground for Valcartier Camp. Colonel MgeBain has the whitest of teeth, the bluest of eyes, the rosiest of cheeks, the merriest of smiles and no one wonders. at the Major-General taking a shine to him. One would as leave mistrust a.cher- ub and the colonel has. a portfolio full of documents to back his inno- cence up. Meanwhile the Major- General tells the committee what a fine fellow he is. Colonel McBain, by the way, has come across twenty- four of the four hundred missing horses and has placed them with farmers in the neighborhood of Val- cartier until they get well and strong again. Of the remaining three hun- dred and seventy-six there is no trace but the Major-Geseral prom- ises to cable to the British authori- tles about it. The fact that there is no duplicate record of these animals in the Militia Department is, so to speak, a horse on the Major-General. No passes the Major-General's busy day, eight solid 'hours defending friends and patriots who have under- taken to see contracts throvirh at the smallest profit a friend dare take, Eight hours and still the Major- Ueneral is not weary of well doing. He Sancluden rigualy w with a touch of chivalry. He bet lady, he rescues a adhoy in a an his secretary, Miss Ina McAdams, who is in danger of being despoiled. Miss Ing has invented a shield shovel with a hole in the middle to shoot through. The hole has been patent- ed and 25.000 of the shield shovels are now on their way to the front i the supercilious British War Office will let the Canadians use them. Mut, alas, envious males, some colonels lamong 'em, state vel is as old as the Middle Ages and that the hole is _not- much younger. This spurs the Major-General supreme effort of gallantry. He elie how Miss MeAdams came to imvent figures up to is some 18 ol ig as wise when arises, as of a warrior the honorary rihing may y travel H. F. GADSBY. Pre. A c Innis of Port Arthur ; took command of a company in an Irish Regiment when all the officers were put ont of action, leading the a men to capture two posts.' R. B. Bennett supported Sir Wil- to the Supreme oe ea oy Sania. quantity of 'motors as was purchas.d | Thomas and one whose last.name is | about | The Major-Gen-! frid Laurier's protest against making from Provincial elee- KEPT IN THE DARK BY MERELY REPOR TING, TAKING OF POSITIONS, RE- | Russians Have Got Over Early-Day bifficulty Of Gun Shortage and Are Vastly Superior In Numbers. London, April 8 The Morning Post publishes the following from jEudapest, 'All ews one gets officially ns that Rus- cre repulsed and any prisoners. They ng positions, but hen these positions were 2 can learn from the through private gees and wounded, who 1Qus in one thing only lange are very ntimer- arpathia is that we { talk abo never ay lost, Ww situation aki general situation, it is imposes get even a vague idea, The wounded describe their own per- sonal exper nd do not know even what bappened in the trench to the left or 1 them. The refu- gees are poor and iiliterate people, stared cut-of their wits, who will tell you terrible stories of the Russian ad- vance guard breaking open their sta- bles and milking their cows, but that is all.they. know' or have experienced. "What I gather is that the great proportion sian forces who previously in «t Przemysl are in {the Carpa a ady and some 0! bl ible to ience ight of | busi- | | honorary | HALDANE. interview with a discussed the war, Allies win, no nation il be Mkely to pin its armaments. them have éven been taken prisoners. These and new nts make it possible for the Russians to con- tinue their offensive in sanguinary fights day and night, continually storming positions and giving no rest. One of the wounded said where he was fighting the Russians on the oppesite height had two separate contingents. One attacked by day and the other by night. " 'We had to be on our guard day and night," he said, 'and this had lasted a whole week when I was wounded.', Scme of our men fell as- leep when stormed by the Russians, who were 100 yards in front of us and nothing would put them on their feet again. The can't take our po- sitions otherwise. They wear us down with their numbers and with continuous attacks until we can't see and can't move anywhere, and then they ¢harge.* LORD Who in" a recent press corrésponder He thinks if the in the future faith to Victory Rests On Numbers, "As far as one van see it is mere- ly a question' of numbers, and no wonder the general staff is calling up units that have been in training a very short time. The Austrian po- sitions on the mountains are exceed- ingly strong. They have been im- mensgely strengthened during the last few months, and only the wearing out of the troops can promise suc- cess, and to .achieve this the Rus- sians use their superiority in num- bers. "Another important factor in the great battles now raging in the Car- BE FULL OF JOY ! TAKE CASCARETS Feel fine! Remove the winter's liver and bowel poison while you sleep. Spend 10 cents! Don't stay sick, hilions, headachy and Austrians Try pathians is the artillery brought up for the Russian forees last month, There were short of guns, but it is stated now that they are well sup- plied with heavy and small calibre guns, presumably brought from ar- ound Przemysl. Owing to the lack of these and a shortage of men, their offensive was not effective before, but having now conquered these two dif- ficulties; the Russian offensive can- not but be successful. '"Pariiament will begin work on April 19th, apd the session will not pass without incidents, for some In- dependent wembers will ask ques-- tions regarding the operations, es- pecially the Przemysl sortie of Mareh 19th, sacrificed for on purpose whatever, As I wrote in.-one of my previous! articles, peace talk is quite general in Hungayy, and this is the only sub- Jeet the people are keenly intérested At first it was a question of a 8 peace. Now the adjec- tive is disappearing in most cases. Only officials and swollen-headed po- liticians with the view of keeping up the nation's spirits are talking of vie- tery; but the talk peace, too'An honorable peace,' is also a term po- pular now. The gap between the two adjectives lies somewhere in the spring in the snowclad precipi- ces of the Carpathians. 4 ABU KOWINA FAILURE: To Duplicate fierman East Prussia Act, Petrograd, April 8. Despatches from Chotin received here tell of the development and failure of éxtensive Ausirian operations in Bukowina, near the Russian frontier, by which the Austrians hoped. to achieve a coup similar to the German feat of cutting off the Russian Army Corps during the last advance into East Prussia. The Austrians, it is sald, attempt: ed a lightning advance in two diree- tions from Czernowitz, which was us- ed as a base, The firdt of these, striking northward to Zale Szczyky, to the west of the Russian frontier attempted an encircling manoeuvre, while the other group proceeded dir- ect to Chotin, across the Russ'an border. Thus exerting pressure from the north and west, the Aus- trians hoped to catch the Russian left flank along the River Dniester in a vise, cutting them off from their main forces. Three and one-half Austrian columns were employed in these manoeuvres. The preliminary northward move- ment of the first Austrian group was successful in repulsing the Russians occupying Sadegura, a village six miles north of Czerndwitz, and then moved on two parallel roads toward the Russian frontier. In the mean- time, the second 'group reached a point con the right bank of the Dnies- ter, seven amniles {rom the Russian border. Thence an Austrian brigade of cavalry led an attack upon Chotin, where, according to reports, two col- umns of Russian cavalry in smaller numbers than the Austrians engaged them in a fierce battle, driving the Austrians from the frontier. Despite the failure of the direct attack upon Chotin, the Austrians continued to develop the encircling movement, attacking the Russian for- tifications covering the line on the Dniester, near Zale Szezyky, Al- though the Austrian offensive in this region is still continuing, it is re- garded here, in viéw of the retreat of the other group from Chotin, that the success of the venture is not like- 1y. victor mist SISTER OF PINCHOT is the Wife Of British Minister At The Hage. The Hague, April 8.--Both Henry Van Dyke, the American Minister 'to the Netherlands, and Gifford Pinchot, attached to the American Legation, has endeavored to the utmost to keep the matter of ..r. Pinchot's expulsion from Belgium by the Germans from publicity. Ua learning that the fact had been published, however, Mr. Pin- chot issued a signed statement = ex. plaining that he had agreed to become a member of the commission for the distribution of relief 10 the Belgian sufferers and procured the necessary pure for entering that country. On the frontier "his passes 'were examined and he and his wile were, after three hours' delay, sent, under an armed escort to Antw 'The mext morning Ss came from: the German governor, Gen. Von Bissing, through the head of the Pass Office. in , that we were to leave Belgium without delay. No rea- son was assigned for this action... 'Before leaving, however, 1 receiv. od a letter from the American Minis- Ser at Brussels, Brand Whitlock, say- ng that the reasoms given by Gen. Von Bissing for our ¢ relationship to the British Minfster at The H hy Sir Alan Johnstone, who marrie when 10,000 men were { sion was my | SECOND SECTION KINGSTON'S ELECTRIC STORE Motor Boat and Automobile Owners We invite you to see our stock of: Batteries (Dry Cells) Spark Plugs Spark Coils . 6 Volt Bulbs .. Flash Lights .... Head Lights from Low Tension Wire High Tension Wire Volt Meters Am. Meters 60c and up $4 and up 85¢ and up «+. 70¢ and up $1.23 and up Gc per foot -10¢ per foot 81.50 . $1.50 H W. Newman Electric Co: Phone 441. WAR CONF S COURTS. | France's Legal Procedure Is Very Much Disorganized. Paris, April 8. --Legal procedure | in France has been disorganized by | the wa Lawyers and witnesses in | many civil suits are at the front, many of them have fallen in battle and no one can now anticipate the extent fo which cases may be con- fused by the disappearance of par- ties as well as witnesses and attor- neys. Maitre Chenu, the eloquent ney for the Calmette family in Caillaux case, and former the order of avocats of the Par.san bar. sayg that death certificates are such an essential element in alt te gal procedure concerning - inheritan- ces, and there have been already, and will be so many more, unknown dead, that the number of probate tangled estates is incalculable. "For the moment," Maitre Chenu adds "judicial life in France is al- most entirely interrupted and will continue to languish until the end of hostilities. We don't regret it. Le- gal quarrels would seem to us fo be an attack upon the sacred pact of union that the war has sealed be- tween all the citizens of France." The business of civil courts is al- most entirely confined to the seques- tration of the property of German and Austrians subjects and the list aJready long, grows every day, show- ing that the number established in business in France was for underes- timated. Instead of the 20,000 se- questrations anticipated the number | may reach nearer 50,000. 'The practical suspension of court proceedings gives Maitre Chenu lei- sure 10 use his pen and in the Par- sian press he is sparing no effort to defend the Justice of the French cause. . attor- the chief of William Nunn Passes Away, Alexandria Bay, N.Y. April William Nunn, one of the oldest Tesi dents of Jefferson County, died at the home' of his grandson, Henry Nunn, ! on Wellesley Island, on Sunday, after an illness of two weeks, aged ninety- four years. He was a native of Eng- land, comingto this country seventy years ago and settled on Wellesley Island, where he had since lived. Mrs. Sarah Patterson, one of Alsx- dria Bay's oldest residents, died at her home in High street, Sunday, from pneumonia, after an illness last. ing about three weeks. Mrs. Patter. | son was born in Ogdensbur Septem: | ber 26th, 1832, and lived AB a fev | years, coming to Alexandria Bay | nearly fifty years ago. She was the | widow of Henry Patterson and is sur- vived by two 'daughters, Mrs. J. H. Senecal and Mrs. Luly Comstock, il two sons, Oliver and Wells Patterson, | all. of Alexandria Bay. ye JRA Nicaragua is declared "to be on the verge of bankruptcy, by Clifford D.| Hamm, collector-general of customs | there, who discussed the situation | with President Wilson and Secretary | Bryan. § sure! and enjoy the nicest, genticst Hver and bowel cleansing you ever experi- |; enced. Cascarets will liven your liver and clean your thirty feet of bowels without gripping. You will wake up feeling grand. Your head will be clear, breath right, stomach sweet--Get -t Mayor Donn M. R Take . Chscarets | Lo? aule tongue | who had day Hague on my 'way to cordingly we returned to March 31st, and since a been staying with the American Minister at The Hague, awaiting instructions from Washington. "In entering and leaving Belgium Mrs, Pinchot and I were by the German military authoriti » CONVICTED OF FRAUDS. Sentence will Re Passed On 116 Next Monday. Indianapolis, Indiana, April 7.--:) All of the 27 defendants, including oberts; in ahs. were found gully by Ty ne day. The case has on trial in the Federal Court here since March Sth. Judge Anderson announced "that sentence would De passed on the 27 who were found guilty and the 89 pleaded guilty next Mon- many A Fred Meen, Jack pt ats an D. Brown, | She is the Fitzgerald, with | bushels aboard. +. [four with any wheat shoard. 79 Princess St. INCIDENT NOT TERMINATED. | Serbia Wants No More Promises But Decisive Action. London, April 8.--According to the Serbian Legation in London, the re- port that the Serbo-Bulgarian inci- dent has terminated is altogether pre mature, Speaking for the minis- ter, the secretary of the legation in- terviewed by a' Daily News' represen- tative said: "If this were the first time such an affair had occurred, the-report might be true, but practically the same thing has occurred five times. Previously each time promises have been given of strict neutrality in the future. We now require no more promiges, but the fulfilment of those already made. "Of course, it is beyond all doubt that this episode is the work of Ger- man agents; but it is difficuit to ac- quit Bulgaria, as the attackers were equipped with guns, ammunition and rifles and numbering 2,000 men are within her frontiers. Among the dead Austrians as well as Turks ~ were found, "Bulgaria has insisted that Bul- garians living over the Serbian fron- tiers shall return to. their native land, and then has stated quite un- justly that their return was to be at- tributed to Serbian ill-treatment, The position is very difficult, and to say the incident has terminated As altogether premature." UNLOADING BUFFALO CARGOES. Of 45 Loaded Vessels Till Un Last Fall Only Four Now Have Wheat Buffalo, April 7,--0Of Nearly 12, 000,000 bushels of wheat afioat in Buifalo harbor at ihe close of navi- gation last year there remains to- day but one vessel with a full eargo 254,000 remain only Ele vator men say these will be unload ed by the end of the week. Less than 200,000 bushels of oats are afloat out of 1,000,000 when the last boat arrived. Of 45 vessels thers Intimations have come to the American Government that General | Carranza will not consent to'the neu- tralization of Mexico City, as. pro- posed and agreed to by the Villa- Zapata forces. ORO Clic 5 have proved of re- markable value in the Great War They' are equally valuable in the home. They yicld 'warmth and sustenance in a moment. - An 0X0 CUBE toa cup IN 10e. AND 2c. 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