ee ri > | The Daily Dritish Whig YEAR 82 NO, #6 STARVED BRITISH PRIS BROKE GUNS OVER GE Terrible Treatment of Soldiers Held in Ger- Sb ns man Camps---White Paper Issued. Correspondence Between British and German Foreign Offices Contained Many "Painful Statements" ---Prisoners Tortured Until They Ask- ed to be Shot. Apri last the passed between 13 night, corre the Loudon, publizhed News, gives man foreign oll ed States Ambass the treatment of 1 war in Germany. "painful statements, the News and the foll by a"'¥French priest, referring to treatment of prison Minden I'he oldiers kicked British prise broke their They forced marshy consumptive niost starved torture that be shot Fhe testimony is ward Grey ber 26th the 5 al th and backs Gierman ners in the guns them to stomach their leep on over §0 that many are The Pritich uch h of them places now al 18 been thivir d to are and thirty asi gioted. by tad letter dated Decem stated that f tion on the had treatment of prisoners had reached hm variety of sourecs A Ru Petrograd aftex Ralsund, were or in a Grey informa Tom a had return being « said ineult sian doctor, who letained that d ed to three British by a lieutenant who A letter received hy the House of Commons from a French man - known to him, statement : "At Minden for a prisoners ground with no shelter." Sir Edward Grey also quoted th statement of Major Vandalen, of the First Cameromans, who escaped from the internment at Urefeld, the eon tents of which have already ben § ib lished. : Another report from an American states that the Britiesh prisoners were kept on very short rations and there is a report giving details of the terrible conditions of the beds. A letter from the internment camp Ruhleben "Fhe officers the prisoners with great brutality, even using personal vio lence The men sometimes not received a scrap of meat weeks near otlicers openly was in charge the speaker contained this th marshy long time were camped on at there treat have for a A ANNAN AN lr CANADA'S WAR FINANCING Arrangements For Advance in Lon- doa Penewcd. London, April 13 Sir Perley has negotiated with the tish Treasury a renewal of the rangement made in the early period of the war for payment.of Canada's war expenditire. The British Treas- ury will continue to pay on the Do minion Government account £2,000, 000 monthly, of £1,000,000 in the middle of the month and another £1,000,000 on the last day of the month, which will be for the Do minion"s war expenditure alon2 Eventually, at such time - as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Dominion Minister of Finance con- sider it opportune, probably towards the ¢lose of the war, a Canadian loan will be floated for the liquida- tion of this indebtedness to the Bri tish Treasury. ~ The Can¥dian 'loan recently issued was not for war ex- penditure at all, but for public works in the Dominion. The British Treasury the Canadian Government at the same figure as they receive it from the public, namely, four per cont. Canada's own loan recently raised was on a four.and one-half per cent. basis. | Bri ar- The earnings of 'the Panama Can- al in March wefe the largest of any month since it was-opened.& They were. $560,784, . exceeding. by about $140,000 the previous record, made 'in January. British | "hulitebien George is lending this money to] whole -week ingredients soup condemned stores The eem to be fo a great ext the Fhe all day, but no doctor « he could be =¢ wall re for hourse smok Ame, en complained ; on the t tment Sch horst Edward" Grey January 29th that rs at Kavalier, geburg, was er of beth deterioration:" There of and fe tal seh } here physical and nre was some inva tion at Ruhleben and gince March very important change ha place in the foed suppl; The terer has been dispensed with." Not withstanding this, Sir Edward again Mar that in- frbm a promi official Red Society prisoner 1 Germany being kept very short tH---not-starved On March communication German { er fact that there are female i I n the "th "a taken ca complained on th formation ent the British howed thi cf were of foed, 20th he that a from wraje the 1me r aled rman detention camp Fhe German reply aye the it came xeuses such as this, "It to the complaint, long delayed and made of denials which the will certain diserimina- Ca at the to bill is above all criti= News, was en was inde y er quotes admitted by every British inmate of the that in the face ittempt of his own Governrdent starye the German people, the Lill of fare--offered ' ting cism. \ statement forwarded erican ambassador on March 17th, relating to a fund of $100,000, made available by the British Government for British . combatant and non-com, batant prisoners, says: 'The Ger- man foreign office states that there are no opjeetions to this distribution but it cannot be 'used in any event for the purchase of tobacco, choeo- late, bread or cake from the German and Austrian supplies. ' "owever, no objection by the Am- 18 inter- Aris pk AAA AAA MA HOOVER CAN'T BELIEVE IT. Relief Commiss- Disaster. Herbert Hoov- Chabrman of U, 8S. ion Talks of London, April 13. head of the American Commis- ion fpr Relief in Belgium, confirm- ofl the statements that the Har- palyce was chartered by the com- mission to carry food to Belgium. » has received no official confirma- tion of the disaster, but said to a Dyily News reporter: I charged her cargo at Rotter- dam and completed her employment with it I eannot believe that the vessel has been the victim of a tor- pedo attack, as she flew the flag of the American Commission, for we had the distinct assurance of all tha belligesents that = steamers engaged on this errand of mercy would not be molested: Personally, I think the disaster must have been caused -by a mine' * { As against this, attention must be drawn to the statement of the cap- tain of the Elizabeth that he dis- tinctly saw the flag of the American Commission and the periscope of the submarine, A large consignment of mules in- tended for service drawing German London, and is following a more peaceful occupation in the London streets, harnessed to the delivery carts of the Army and Navy Stores. The animals weré taken from a Ger- man steamer on her way home from the Pacific. "ion March 29th on German TeoTTeRpondent ¢ NERS MAN BACKS posed to veots sending simple oO lori, to but prisoners will not bread in of the allotment which is the same as that of the German troops, quartered am- ong civilians. The alloted rations being adequate for Germans, they ara adequate for prisoners, too, who be permitted to lives better that the population of the captor." foodstuffs, and prisoners from home; be allowed aXéass cannot mn S KINGSTON ONTARIO, TUESDAY, HADE mo STATE MONOPOLY ON BEER. It Government's Plan. Daily Express Says Has Learned Lond April 1 + Daily press s t vrs that the solu lem 'which the voring is a tion of th Goverm rewed or sold, will be brewe > All in ioveroment, it iting the early or ie. new machinery the big Provincial unto operation. is le: ganl ation which wil highway 's ® racd, Is OF-OLD ht a BW % 7 / 7 oo i 0 we 10 Other Injuries. . | FOR ONE WHOLE HOUR HE WAS SUBJECTED TO FIEND. ISH TREATMENT. | Kaiser's Brutal Officers Cut Off His | Right Ear--Russian Now In Hos. pital at Warsaw--Photographs. To Be Supplied to Press. London, April 13.--The Petrograd dent of Says: A Russian scout orphry Panasjuk was caught ! territory north of Myszines and"taken to Ger- . man headquarters. Here ten German {was placed under INGENIOUS JACKETS, FOR CARRYING SHELLS. Men of the, Royal Field Artillery ing ammunition where it is' impossible re a | officers spent a whole hour torturing | the man to extract information about Russian troops. Panasjuk resolutely {declined to betray his country, and (apparently scorned to invent. When | the offiders tired of torturing him he tdoner of war, but contrived fo get 'away under cover of darkness and | returned io his - own lines, when he {was rewarded with the Cross of land a gift of meney for loyalty to his 'soldier's cath. 5 : __ Torturing means more or less, Ac. RTURED ~~ BY GERMAN OFFCERS 'Scout Loses Ear and Receives ammunition wagons has just reached ! The London Morn-| Profeeded to . treatments in t form of suufis -{Orderdof St. George of the any iy she eording to preconceived ideas. To then, by details: officer in preseace of nine fice in TIME PIR APRIL 13, 1915 GOD WILL "HELP DESTROY." So, It Is Said, the Kaiser Assured a Regiment of Guards Rotterdam, April 1 Addressing the Fourts Guards Regiment. th: Kaiser, according to a Cologne des- patch, "When God wills it He will he her to destroy the en- emy This is the aim we must Keep before us "Until quered, d In f the ene , ho ny is defin ly cor mat' + how Ijag tLe may last, God help us in Thomas Cekoski, Toronto, will not pay the death penalty for his part in th Frendo. 'the petition, which was sent to Ottawa in his Lehall has been successful and result sentehce has been com to twenty ifiprison murder of Bqngero as, a muted ment. years' PA AA A rt i SECOND SECTION THE SCARCITY OF COAL HANDICAPS TURKISH NAVY (Fleet Ventured Out After Visit of Russians. RETURNED UNDAMAGED GERMANS ABSOLUTE MASTERS | OF TURKEY'S DESTIN The Kaiser's Soldiers And Officers Join Regiment/ Garrisoning Con- stantinople--The Teutons Fear a Mutiny. By Martin H. Donohue. Constanza, Roumania, April 12.--- |The Daily Chronicle courier arrived | nl | Panasjuk to give information, threat- ening if he refused, to cut his ears and nose in pieces and put out his| eyes, but if he would betray his com- | radés and spy for Germany he would be richly rewarded. As the man con- tinued obstihate, the officer called for a pair of wire-cdtting shears. He first cul off the <dobe of (he seout's right ear with this brutat ip strument. ' Panasjuk continued ob- stinate, and the gallant German offi- cer in the course of an hour, cutitng four times, a bit at a time, worked ' all around the ear, finally severing if: LA little bit of gristle round the ori-. fice of hearing is all that remains of the right ear. Another officer took his turn, first hitting the man in the mouth 'as a little introduction. He ork upon the nese; getting his fingers well into the nos- trils he tore Panasjuk's nese out, not : the nostrile merely, but bringing the cartilage bodily, away from the bone. This lended the examination of the "WHAT CATARRH 1S It bas been said that every third person | i is troubled with catarrh in some form, guard as a pri-| Science kas shown that nasal catagrh | indicates a weakened condition of the body; that the secretion of the mucous | membranesare quickly affected, and local and | vapors do little, if any goad. To correct catarrh you should ! Sito a Sets Arp hick is a | : food » Yuilding-t0 : Try 'who ft. { prisoner by ten German officers. Panasfuic is now inthe hoapital in Warsaw, and a medical report and photographs are to be supplied to the press, ROOSEVELY TO TOUR CANADA. Will Return From The West Through The States, New York, April 12.--Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt is going abroad again, and this time he will travel through Canada. He will start late in the spring or early in the summer and is now arrangipg his itinerary; It is not at all unlikely that he will he offered the hospitality of the Canadian Pacific Radway and ehjoy the comforts of a private ear be- longing to one of the officials of that road. oY While seeing * Canada will be his first object, undoubtedly some politi- cal significance- may be "attached the trip, as it is hix present pur-, pose to return to New York throug the States. after visiting the Pana: ma Exposition at ~an Francisco. ing east when campaigns are in Pro- 'gress in many States. and he will have an opportunity to participate in the contests. Rector Of Ottawa College. Ottawa, Aprili 12.-- Rev. Father Louis Rheaume, director fo the Grand Seminary, the theological branch of the institution, has been appointed rector of Ottawa Univer- sity in succession to Father Gervais, retires 'owing to ill-health. Father Rhezume is a native of Lev- is, Que. His su r as director of the Grand Seminary will be Rev. Father Anthony Bourassa, of La- chine, Que. : : to | here last night from Constantinople, after. an absence of ten days. ~~ He reached the Bosphorus after the bom bardment by the Russian fleet. While waiting for daylight, the stea- mer on which he was a passenger was fired on by either the forts or the Turkish warships. Happily, the shots fell wide and no damage was done, The Turks, fearing an in- cursion of hostile ships, have mined the channel. Vessels are entering by pilotihg a divious route, which may be described as zig-zag. The forts were much damaged by the Russian fire. After the departure of the Rus- sions, the Turkish fleet, numbering ten ships, including the Goebeén and Breslau, ventured forth. They con-| voyed three transports, which" were being sent to Heracles with coal for the fleet. They returned after an absence of four days, but without the Medjideh, which struck a Rus- sian'mine and sank. While not seriously injured, some of the ships bore evidence of having been in action, holes in the fumnels and deck-plates being visible. The Germans are absolute masters of the destinies of Turkey. The regi- ment garrisoning Constantinople has been increased by German soldiers and officers. The Germans fear the Turkish soldiers might mutiny and | kill the emissaries of Kaiser Wilhelm PIN i. ri RECRUIT MEETINGS. Campaign Undertaken by British Parliamentary Committee, ! London, April 13.--The recruiting campaign to be undertaken by the Parliamentary Recruiting Commit- | tee in London during the next two weeks opened yesterday, when ninety | meetings were held. Speakers ad- dressed | large gatherings in Hyde Park, on Parliament Hill, at Hemp- etead and about forty other places. The non-party character of the campaign is shown by the fact that the speakers were from the Liberal, | Unionist and National branches. At Rochdalé one speaker touched ' on the lighter side of recruiting. He told how a woman taking leave of ber husband at a railway station re- marked: "If you thump the aKiser as you thump me he will be sorry he ever went to war." The merriment of the. audience was easily turned Into an argument. | "Why, you are here and laughing simply because of the,living shields in the trenches yonder--go help them." The appeal had an immediate re- sponse in 260. volunteers, who were taken at once in automobiles to the central recruiting office. : Meetings to-morrow will be held in Guildhall Yard, Finsbury Square and Many other places in the London suburbs. Throughout the campaign flags are to be . displayed on all dwellings. Fifteen hundred meet- Ings in &ll are to be held during the two weeks' campaign. | ---- Renfrew relatives attended the diamond wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reid of Gratton township, who were married in Horton town-. ship on April 5th, 1855, by Rev. Mr. | Thompson, the first Presbyterian | minister stationed in Renfrew. | hiding their valuables. er A i | of Professor Friedrich Loeffler, | The courier left the Goeben and the Breslau light, apparently with empty bunkers, anchored #n the Bosphorus, { The scarcity of coal js severely ham- pering the Turkish naval movement and it is estimated the supply will be exhausted in another three weeks. General von Saunders, Enver Bey, and their staffs, fearing ass tion, have taken Jefuge on bho German transport which lies of al atia. They are in wireless commu nication with a station on the he of Peru and also with the Dar les and are in telephonic communica tion with the Sublime Porte in Stam boul, All foreign telegraphic des- patches are controlled and censored from the headquarters ships. Famine and fever are raging in Stamboul. A week ago, the Peru Hotel was filled with German officers, but they now gone, having left suddenly the dead of the night for the Dar danelles The Turkish officials seem anxious to ascertain the views of the Euro pean and American publics regard ing their participation in the we Id War. With true Oriental fatalism these officials admit' their country is beaten and say there must be peace soon They declare, so far as Tur- key is concerned, the war will finish in three weeks' time, but the great problem' is not making peace with the Allies, but, as a preliminary, getting rid of the German incubus. One high official with whom the courier discussed the situation drew his hand significantly acrdée® his threat, and remarked that was a sure and not improbable method of settling the fate of the Germans. Everybody has left Peru ' after The-wife nf the Khedive has gone to Bursa, The hotels and ambassadors' vias "ars occupied by German and Turkish of ficers and the heloht adjoining | ert Coliege has been fortificed average Turkish officer and soldier is unsympathetic towards the war wedry of-the struggle ané would be heartily glad to see the Allled fleet roundling Stamboul point. They be lieve they can soften the hearts of Britain and France and. recupe peg gonable peace terms, bint they dread the advent of Russia, are fr toh The GENERAL D'AMADE French general who is commanding the Allied land forces at the Dardan ) elles. Evidence héfore the Public Ae counts Committee showed that Mme Plamondon, Deputy Speaker Sevigy's sister, had made profits ranging from 100 to 1,200 per cent, on drugs fur; nished to the Department of Militia for Valcartier Camp. The death is announced in Be iia, the dis Dr. German scientist, who in 1884 covered /the diphtheria baccilus Loeffler was born in 1852. 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