PAGE EIGHT f That comes { through per- fect and skil- # ful tailoring 11in these suits | will appeal to you at once. Will you step iin for a look it' the rem Livingston's Brock Street, A Little Out of the Way, But It win Pay You To SPECIAL OF SALE ladies' Raincoats Saturday Morning $8.00, $10.00, $4 v $1200 fo 98 110 High Class Rain Proof Coats, purchased at ' of bay in the near future. | | sent it is selling f} | wgolesale, but there is ab i | the hay needed ff | until the Canadian price is somewhers § as low as the American price i} | One. Kingston IN MILITARY CIRCLES Dr. F. ETHERINGTON BECOMES A LIEUTENANT-COLONEL. While In Command of Queen's Sta- tionary Hbspital--The 21st Battal- ion Will Take 100,000 Cigarettes With It. Dr. Ethérington will be given the rank of lieutenant-colonel while ov- eérseas in command of No. J Station- ary Hospital (Queen's) The 21st Battalion when it goes overséas will take with it 100,000 cigarettes beside a corresponding quantity of tobaeco. This amounts 10 a package 'of cigaretes for every man for each of the ten days of the voyage. Kit inspection occupied Thursday morning for the 21st Battalion. The dormitories were completely cleaned out of everything that the soldiers own. Each soldier spread out nis water-proof sheet on Artillery Park and placed everything in his kit on it. The officers took an inventery ofthe articles and everything. lack fhng will be replaced. . As it will soon be six months since the first enlistment, new equipment will issued to those who need it, Wita the exception of certain articles, the | men must make their first issue of equipment last them six months and if in the meantime they lose or de- stroy any. article it must be replac- ed at their expense. At the end of six months new equipment is issued free, On the field, new equipment will be issued as often as necessary without any expense to the men ag under active service a uniform might only last a few days. Dr. E. B. Sparks has been re- | commended as dentist with No. 5 Stationary Hospital (Queen's). There are still a few vacancics in the list of nurses. The privates | have all been chosen and they are drilling every morning and even- ing on the lower campus, 1 Capt, 8. M. Polson is acting pay- master with No. 5 Stationary Hos pital, (Queen's). Lance-Corpl A. S. Bleakney, sig- | nalling section of the 21st Battalion | has taken over his duties as leu | tenant in the 39th Battalion. He { has been in Ottawa on sick-leave for {ome time past. | Ptes. BE: McKogg and W. Barrett, {14th Regiment, have heen transfer- fred to the 21st Battalion for over- | seas service: | The soldiers of "C" Battery have {discontinued the wearing of | during the day. {times by the artillery men walktog out. when Six officers from different parts of the Dominion have sent in their ap" pligations to take a field officer's | courdve, beginning on April 19th. | LOWER HAY PRICES EXPECTED. | | | | Big Difference Between Canadian and | Américan Prices. . | Wholesale hay-buyers : that | they expect price At pre- $16.30 ly no an hay The Canadian purchasing nearly all across the border and report a decline in the | at about | demand as the price of Amer |is- around 810 a ton. | Government is | v the | Canadian farmer cannot expect to dis- | pose of any of this commodity tb [the Government. has had a hoat- load of bay in Montreal since last November, and. though it is costing no buyers, THE BASEBALL SEASON Will Be Omieiallx Opennd On 15th of y. The baseball season will be official ly opened 'on May 15th, when two of the City League teams will clash. The "Varsity men in the newly-organ- ied 26th Nattery have made appli- cation to put a team in the league. These men played on a team in the Toronto Senior City League last year and' should. be able to put upa *., that he may have found $5 a day 'to! keep it there there are | HOPE FOR STEFANSSON. Just Possible He Has Been Up By the Mary Sachs. Tacoma, Wash., April 8.--A letter received at Dawson from Inspector Phillips, of the North-West Mounted Police, dated at MacPherson, Febru- {ary 13th, says in regard to Explorer . Stefansson, that if he made Bank's Land of Prince Patrick Island he in all probability was picked up there for the winter by the crew of the schooner Mary Sachs, which left last summer in search of the explorer. It is possible, Inspector Phillips writes, land in Beaufort Sea, and in either event it would be impossible to hear from "him before the opening of the Are- tic. However, says the inspector, if Stefansson drifted eastward the chances are he will not be heard from again. Police patrol brought no other word regarding Stefansson from Macpherson or Herschel Island. Picked BELGIAN ARMY IS FIT In Fine Condition for Spring Cam- paign, Says Soldier-Professor. Toronte, April 8.---Professor A. Ledoux, formerly of the University of Brussels, now of the University of Toronto, arrived here yesterday. Professor Ledoux fought through six months of the war as an officer in the Belgian army: He figured in the sieges of Liege and Antwerp, and was wounded at the battle of the Yser. He has been appointed lec- turer in minerology. | The Belgian army, he asserts, is in splendid shape, and, owing to the efforts it will in fine condition to open the spring campaign with the Allies. GERMANS OUTFLANKED BY RUSSIAN HORSE The Rempants of Hindenberg's Amy of lovasionin a Tight Coraer. London, April 8.--Thé corres- | pondent of the Morning Post at Pet- | rograd "cables: On Monday the Rus- {sian horse artillery got behind the | German line of retreat towards My- | «chinetz and destroyed the bridge | over the Rozoga that carries the] { high d to the frontier a mile or | two from the village of Vakh. | Altogether the German remnants of the vainglorious raid into Poland are now in an uncommonly tight corner, being unable to move either | forward or back, according to mili- | tary rules, the choice 'being between total less and Jprolonged and hope- i lets struggle, which must end in a | break and run for the frontier, cloaks | which at different parts of this fron: A letter accompanying the The order also no- | is five to fifteen miles distant, most- | festo says : ited that spurs must be worn at all | Iy With impracticable marsh land | and without roads for retreat Spelling Reform Necessity | Toronto, April 8.-- Advocates of | simplified spellilig set forth ' their arguments yesterday at the Oatario "| Education Associition, in the depart- | ment organized for that purpose, W | F. Maclean, M.Py" gpoke "of the | newspaper opportunities for leading | in the reform. English, he declared, | was the most living thing in the | world, and if the barnacles were re- | moved and the worship of style | stopped it would be much more effec | tive. Put in the melting pot, it | would emerge stronger. Simplity- {ing of spelling, declared the speak- {er would be an economy. It would | save 15 per' cent. in printing paper | and press works ebsts, and millions | would be saved in a year. "THEATRICAL TRUST" | T0 BE INVESTIGATED Matter of Restriction of Bookings May be Brought Before | {| New York, April 8.--Complaints recently made to the Washington au- thorities that the so-called "theatri- cal trust" has been violating the Sherman law by restricting bookings £0 that independent fpanagers afe un- able to get - theatres in which to play, controlling' the output of favor- ed authors and making certain agre- ments in restraint of interstate trade have been taken up at the United States District Attorney's of- f the King and his officers, | __THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, APRIL 8. 1915. GERMANY'S SOCIALISTS SAY THAT OPPOSITION TO THE WAR GROWS, ! | They Make a Plea For Peace To the Independent Socialists of Greaf _ Britain And France. a Paris, April 8.--A manifesto sighsd by nari Liebknecht, George Ledevour, Otto Ruehle, Franz Mehring, Ulara Zein, Kose Luxembourg, and other | members of the minority faction oi | the .ocial Democratic party in Ger: many, has been sent to-Uritmn ani | France, appealing to the independent Socialists of' those countries tof wors Up a sentiment lor immediate Feace. The mandesto says : . "The number ot men who have Fer- ished through the monster of war on the eastern and western fronts sur passes a million. © The number of | wounded is thrice higher. 'lhe haman | mmd cannot grasp the sum of mis.xry which these figures represent; it can nut conceive of the sutierings of the millions of human beings whos: | homes have been devastated by the war god. "Those who gare responsible know that the materia, damage caused by |@avasion can: only be repaired witn | ditficulty. 1he damage caused by the mvasion of astern Prussia was esti mated in January at over a hundred million dollars. * The figures amount to billions in Belgium. The Furo- | Pean war expenditure already exceeds | sixteen billion dgilars. 'The bill in- creases daily and the working classes will have to pay it. "Besides exhausting us the ETesent {war )s ruming future generations. | While the ery of national defence could be used with sincerity at the beginning, the imperialists on both | | sides now make it clear that they are | fighting the destroy" the rival nation. i To avert a new period of armed Feace | | they wish ta crush the enemy so that he cannot rise again. 'lhe same pro- clamation is made in Germany, Brit- ain, France and Austria. : i "But what would be the result if | | this' bloody fury were allowed to.run {its course unopposed ? Either tyran- jiical domination by the conqueror | or! bloodshed until both were entirely | exhausted. In both cases Europe's | | economic, democratic and socimlistic | {development would he retarded a cen- | tury. ; ' | Want No Annexation." | ""The indisputable fact to-day is | that we occupy the bwiter military | situation because our territory in un- | |invaded. Germany, therefore, should | {be the first to raise the cry of peace. | | We want no annexations, but the political and economic independence | {of all nations, general disarmawent |and compulsory arbitration." mani- "Although placed bépeath the iron | { heel of martial law and unable to ex- | | press our opinions publicly, we can | {predict surprises in the near future. | The opposition to this abonimable | {war 8 growing ceaselessly in Ger | | many, but efiective peace action de- i nds 'upon the help of our French, | British and Belgian comrades." | Karl Liebknecht, George Ledebour | {and Otto Ruehle, whose names are | signed to the above manifesto, are all | { members of the German Reichstag, | Liebknecht and Lebedour have been read out of their party and discip- lined for. voting against the war bud- | { | Be . wai | Franz Mehring, another sigmer, is | | well-kmown. as a writer in Germany, | | but is without great influence in the | | Socialist party. Clara Zetkin and Rose Luxembourg have gained con- | {siderable notoriety as agitators} but | | are not recognized by the more con- | servative Socialist leaders, Pons Pace at 111 Years Standish, Mich, April 8--In fuil | enjoyment of all her faculties, Mrs. Catherine Tucholski, a pioneer re- { sident of northern Michigan, cele-! brated her one hundred: and elev-| | enth birthday hére yesterday by run | 'ning a 50-yard race with one of her | | great-grandchildren. Up to eleven years ago she read without glasses. | | North Perth Tiberals, Stratford, April 8.--The presence! {of Hon George P. Graham and Mr. | | F. F. Pardee, M.P,, is assured the| | nomination of the Porth Perth Re- { form, Association, to be held at Mil-| | ¢erton on Friday the 16th, and the | prospects are for a rousing conven-| | tion to sélect a candidate for the! | House, of Commons. i 878) 8) Ww ORO JC TR i 7 Ja DRUROR SR CL ZR) RUBBER) IURUSUNORON SE - Voe we ORO For Our Soldiers if : fl On the firing line are urgent: ly needed and you can help | Now either by knitting or buying the socks. We are helping this'work by supplying the best wool for | this purpose. The Genuine Unbreakable Fingering Yam at less tion actual wholesale cost to-day in order to keep folks knitting. N 'Now when these socks, are most | needed. a big discount from a manufacturer who ndeded the money. These come in all the new shades ang are' § made from the best silk finished water proof ma if ials; all the latest styles, straight and belted bac {i With set in or Raglan sleeves and ventilated; full , assortment of sizes. Regular prices $8, $10 and $12. Baturday morning all one price, : $498 See them in the corner window. nine that will give the locals some hard games, *There will = be a meeting of the League on Monday evening in the Y.M.C.A. buildi and Secretary fice here, it was learned to-day. An] Se -------- inquiry is being coyducted. { Lieut. Molson Killed. A number of mahagers and book-| , London, April 8 Relatives of Lieut. | ing have been imerragaled and the) Erie Fladale © Ma son, Rozal Scots, { 8 matter may be brought to the atten- have receiv news tha was a ake: hat oll tenng tion of the Federal Grand Jury. { killed in action. He was twenty-one | fing at onoe, a | years old, and the second son of Ma- | argues mp AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. | jor Molson, of Goring Hall, Worthing | FALLING OFF IN BUILDING. . o {and Gainshorough. He was con- | ras Priest and Chauffeur Thrown Out At tected with the wellknown Mon | [Foran NS SR a NOT SO Ya Year er War Time Has Its Effect In Erection! =~ Of Buildings. . A Collins Bay. treal family of the same name. * 2 automobile accident occurred at War time certainly is baving its | Collins Bay on Wednesday afternoon effect on the amount of building , in |W one of the Roman Catholic else- | clergymen, of Odessa, had a narrow escape from being -killed. The clorgy- man's chauffeur lost control of the steering gear by a nut coming off. The machine ran inte a - John Laidlaw & Son For Those With 12 toy Ladies Spring Suits | We have Just opened up. a case of Ladies' Plain |i clear Saturday morning for Toe Patent Button, Black Cloth Top, good walking sole; all sizes, 2 1-2 to 7. He p he Pure Wool Army Socks for Soldiers.