| 12 PAG YEAR 82 NO 87 THE FRENCH RENEW FURIOUS ATTACK Against Both Sides of St. Mihiel Region and Penetrate Some of the Enemy's Positions. Berlin Says the Attacks Were Repulsed With Heavy Losses ---German Airmen Are Active---Dropped Bombs on Bailleul---Two of the Enemy's Air- men Captured and Are Killed. Berlin The French 1 ous attacks the German the W need afternoon region, this ghts + been north oof und The French The enemy most viole the wedge, between Maizerey Marcheville, east of Verdun War Office admitted that the infantry penetrated the German positions along a narrow front near Marcheville Reinforcements wero brought up and the Germans rec ip tured the positions violent assault Other strong attacks in this same region before the French reached the German wire en tanglements The German tore--great--gaps--in--the ts a Martial Law Is Imminent In Austria ial to the Whig.) London, April 14.--The situation in Vienna = is growing worse daily, the Rome correspondent of the kx change Telegraph Company wired to day. A proclamation of martial law is imminent. The population, ac- cordiig to the correspondent, is growing extremely restless because of the Russian advance through the Carpathians. by an equally broke down artillery advancing mm (Spe Fedde Pree Peed rbd ib bb Pid * + MADNESS AMONG GERMANS. > -- -> (Special to the Whig. London, April 14.--A de spatch from Lausanne, Switzer land, says that according to the Swiss Nationale, Professor Gauppy nerve specialist of Tu- gingan, has been drawing atten- tion to an alarming increase in cases of madness in the German Ld + + * * +> + * + army. * -* $ + + +> + + + * + + * + * + PREP RR LEEPER REEF PLR IP ------ aad SOLDIERS' VOTES BILL Again Considered In Committee Of The Commons, (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, April 14.--~The Commons to-day again resumed its considery tion in committee of the Soldiers' Votes bill, the discussion relating more particularly to the conditions under - which the polling will take place at camps in Canada. The Min ster of Justice submitted a number of amendments which were adopted One provides that a soldier may be sworn; another that if a volunteer's name is left off the list of thos: en titled to vote, he may vote after tak ing the oath; still another amend ment provided tor the naming: of agents or serutineers on behalf of the two parties. Hon. Rodolph Lemieux again mov- ed an 'amendment that no action be taken under the provisions of the bill until it had been submitted and approved by the Secrctary War for the United Kingdom, Kitchener. "The only observation 1 have to make 'in connection with this amend- weit,' said the Prime Minister, "ig that! if it went into effect it would constitute a severe blow to the aa tonomy and independence this Palmment." The amendment was put and "lost on division." Hon. Charles Marcil moved to strike out the age Limit, This amendment was also lost on division and tha bill passed and will now ate. of Lord of BRITISH COMMONS MUST ~ DECIDE LIQUOR QUESTION (Special te the Whig) London, April 14,--~The British Cay inet will take no action to prohibit the sale of intoxicating 'liquors... Af ter several conferences the Ministry has decided to leave the liquor ques tion to the people, through their re- presentatives in the House fo Com- mons. Premier Asquith made this an nountement to-day. When Parliament reassembled alternoon the lignor question his and Land | ployees of the company, were trav- to | gy the Nen- i interest to the Brit > The Daily 1 KINGSTON ONTARIO, "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 UNITED STATES HORSES FOR THE FRENCH ARMY. a - a the German Wedge German Airmen Are Active, April 14 explo 8 OI t f Rs il, Arment Paris, dropped French tos nor Zeppelin I old miles a eight thwe 0 res killin to an offi Office act three civilians, according the War Several thousand horses have on cattle boats at the Ladlow Docks cdl tatement [rom noted Iy the rew to-day that the part A Zeppelin « a French aviation the War Office missiles went A German airman descend inside the All Braine and also at Lunev aviator made the valley of iver, Verdun an fell fre a grea ht increased French "Movie" Men Sent Out By War Office Paris, April 14.--1n order ti world in gene al in parti of the work of the the French War Office ganizing an expedition of graph operators "throughout whole French lines able films already hav t and they will at o and circulated The German war films in t Sti and other "neutral proves of great.interest; attacl the photographic reproduct the war. on of airmen a enemy mbs la aimed be lleul, it al camp at announced, astray t b 1 was forced to led lines near lle Both In f of were pr Orne north another ( birdmans ov : at the and coun was and may l¢ ag im r thing PLUNGED INTO OIL TANK. army, S------------ inemato- Petrolia Young People In Auto Had the Miraculous Escape, k- April 14 Mr. Tavener, the Canadian Oil .Com here, and three of the people are receiving con- gratulations on their miraculous es- cape from old underground oil tank, filled with oil, scum and water, into which were plunged head- long from Tavener's automobile I'he party, consisting of Mr. Tav i . ener, James Clark, Miss Bessie Scott | Milburn Dam Migs Lillas . Riddle, all em-| " : Is Blown Up ror Third Time For the third ti dam was blown up Many rema Petrolia, manager ol pany's plant local your aken itiplied demand for United countries : to ee es an on they Mr eling in the automobile along one of the paths on the oil property when the machine skidded sharply, and the four were precipitated inte the unsavory bath. Mr. Tavener and Miss Riddle sank twice before help arrived The lat- ter would certainly have been | totally wrecked.. This dam has been drowned had not Mr. Clark seized | constructed each time by Mr. Jack- one of the wires near the top of the! son for supplying water power to his tank and, supporting himself, caught | mills, but unfortunately he dees not the girl as she came up the second| enjoy the results of it hecause a time. He was able to hold her! catastrophe comes just when the until men working on the property | Water power would be at its ' best reached thie spot im response to the Pynamite has been used in each case franzied cries for help Miss Scott, | to bring about the destruction, but an expert swimmer, was able to keep Where it is pure Based no one can her head above water, but the top 8%certain. The guilty party has of the tank was just beyond her | COmplished his dastardly . act 1nsee reach. It was some time before times now, gelting away iree, Boa the victims could be pulled to safe-| 't is hobed that a clue will be foun ty, their clothes heavy with the ofl that will bri and scum, and their hands and arms so slippery that their rescuers could not hold them. the Millburn rday night and ac justice FORTY-SEVEN SOLDIERS DIE Will Consult Canada About Terms of Peace (Special to the Whig.) London; April H=fn response "to a query in the British Commqns this afternoon Secretary of State for the Colonies Harcourt intimated that the tagious. Government would consult Canada Gen. Hughes also gave further in and other self-governing dominions | formatioh concerning Major McQuar- most fully when the time to discuss | rie who in the Public Accounts Com- peace terms arrives. Ie had mo ob- | jy jitee acknowledged having given a servations to make regarding the pro- { receip to W. Wylie for $1,200 re- bability of an early peace. ceived by him for his influence with a, General Hughes, The = Minister | stated that Major McQuarrie re- | signed. He presumed that the mon- {ey which he had received had been | paid to the Major just as commission {is paid to any agent. The Depart- | ment Had not yet considered wheth- | er the Major would retain his rank or not. From Spinal Meningitis--Ma jor Wylie Resigns. ial to the Whig.) , Ottawa, April 14.-~In the Commons this morning replying to a-question by J.H. Sinclair, the Minister of Mili tia stated that since the opening of the war there have been Bnav cases of spinal meningitis hmong Canadian soldiers Of these forty- seven had proved fatal and in the case of twenty-eigh®yhe patients had completely recovered. He stated that the disease was regarded as can- Ww. (Spec Dutch Command Obeyed. "The Hague, via FLomdon, April 14.-- It is announced semi-officially that the German - steamer Main, which, bad been lying in port at Flushing since the war began, left there yes terday for Antwerp. The Dutch Gov- ernment, it is asserted, discovered that the steamer was communicating | by wireless with German subZarines | and ordered her to leave Flushing. Scandals Of Long Ago. ni ee | Ottawm, April Mo Five Jorge Bi I'he United States 'War Risks Bur- | tmes, aggregating many hundreds of ean paid the first claim made to it | pages ol evidence and : flings n since. the war began. | cases investigated during the past No itwo years by T. R. Ferguson, K.C 'of Winnipeg, who-was appointed ithe present Government to look for scandals under the late Government {in conmection with the disposition of ithe public domain m western Can | ada, was presented to Parliament yes {terday. All of the cases referred to iby Mr. Ferguson have reference to | transactions of from five to ten years (ago. In the immense mass of ver- | biage in the reports-brought down {it is rather difficult to find out what !the real facts are. » rumors of early peses were uppermost mm the public mind. The Cabinet's position on the liquor question was | quickly made--Known. Parliament had | scarcely opened when a member quertad the Prime Minister on the result of the recent liquor discussions. Becomes A Partner, Toronto, April 14. -- Messrs. Wood Gundy & Company announce that The Premier replied that the Min- i Gordon T. Finch, who has been as- istry had reached the conclusion that | sociated with the business since its the Commons and not the Govern- inception ten years ago, has been ad- tment should decide the matter of vi-| mitted ito parinership as from the ish people. first of February last. 'or rvs [service between 'Montreal, New | UE gathered rom all parts of the "Yonkers, N. Y,, destined for the Fr TO STOP SALE Of LIQUORS "Schnapps" to be Unobtainable 'Until the War is Ended. n, April. 14 It is learned that the shortly the sale of dis aloons from peria a eilable Government will issu a decree prchibiting tilled liquors. in hnapps of the terman e traditional drink workingman; 15 to be rinab intil the war is ended to enforce this asure be : order is not measure, how- to con- ) Fear [ potatoes, the spirits the Gov- new op- the the unobt I'he decree proposed d o a but is WOrk now teinperance made ne upply of serve the ernment | order positic order Lhe No against Ip work bot n 8 yok for at its MEX hares = CLOTHING THIRE GEES TERM, Was Fugitive From Justice, Having Previously Escaped. rnwall, Ont., April 14 ~Ralph el, a young man of eighteen nineteen years of age, was tried before Mayor Stiles and Hill Camp- bell on the charge of stealing a pair of trousers and an overcoat from the residence of A. I. Mulhern and plead- ed guilty He was sentenced to a term of one year in the provincial re- formatory at Guelph. Muscarel, while serving a five- year sentence at the refermatory im- Posed cn him by Police Magistrate Danis € years ago, managed to elude ards and make his escape after serving a year and a half of the term and had since escaped recap- ture by the authorities. o Mus the & August Fived For Aerial Raid On Old London Geneva, April H.--Germany tem; lating a great aerial raid London, with two squadrons of Zoppeling each, according to Zeppelin's secretary, who was viewed by Nachrichten. he is con- on five Count inter the Constance newspaper The raid probably will ordered August, the count's in tary said. "Our wir fleet now comprises 1,366 units, including nine dirigibles," said Zeppelin's segretary. "Nine Zeppelins which were destroyed during 'the war have been replaced by others of new. er types. By July 15th we will have sixteen new Zeppelins of the armored type, | capable of carrving two tons of explosives each and operating under all atmospherie conditions. "When the Kaiser orders the great offensive, expected in August, we will employ a new proeess that will cause the utmost perturbation. We will render it irpossible for the enemy to eross German lines without enor- mous losses," A SPLENDID TRADE, Prince Rupert Sends Million Pounds Fish Fast Each Month. Vancouver, April 14.--Some staiki figures showing ths remarkable growth of the fishing industry in the Coast Waters of Northern British Columbia have just been made public at Prince Rupert by the fishery comypittee of the city. Over nine million pounds of halibut, in o 1914. Sines the ny inauguration of through Prince Rupert and Winnipeg over the Grand cific it was claimed that a million pounds of fish had been shipped east each month to the Prairies, Chicago, York, ete: The catch was worth more than half a million dollars in 1914 and in (the present year it will be even larg- uable, er and more val addition to salmon, | and herring, was linded there in | Trunk Pa- | Lured States and ench army service, A cc tA stag, GERMANS VIOLATED OWN SCRAP OF PAPER we being leaded - Harpalyce Carried Safe Conduct Pledge of German Min: ister at Hague. .ondon, April 14 In a despate. otterdan the Daily Tele correspondent says:--*1 am informed that the British Harpalyce, under charter to merican Commission for relief in Belgium, which was sunk several days ago in the North Sea, by a tor- pedo gr a, mine was actually 'carry- ers issued by the German er at the Hague. These took orm of a safe conduct and were led to protect her against at from German submarines returning to the United ph's officially ste . the inte tacks while PPI » [OXF OF YOU MUST COME * HOME." * " London, April 14.--The fol- + lowing story is told by the Shef- + ficld Paily Telegraph: *"K. of + K." heard that a distinguished +" and recently married officer was % being visited by his wife at his #+ headquarters in the field. "One % of you must come home," was + Lord Kitchener's wire. > TEEN L PLAS PEPSI EI PII bE od * + * -* + * $ + * * GERMANY HAS BIG DEFICIT War. Expenses $ Budget-~France Has Surplus, Paris, April 14.--The Matin sum- the German and French idgets up to March 31 as follows: Ger ny--HExpenses, $2,720,000,- 000; :ipts from loans, $900,000 - bills on the Reichsbank, $400,- 000,000; total, $1,300,000,000, de- $1,420,000,000. France "Xpenses, $1,759,000, 00; receipts from loans, $171,800,- national defence bonds, 2,200,000; Bank of France ad-' $820,000,000; total, $1. 174,000,000, a surplus of $15,000,000 narizes re 006; ficit 000: $68 vances, leaving Will "Do Their Bit." London, April 14.--Premier As- @uith' réceived the following pledge of support from 21 engineering and shipbuilding unions which had a conference at Newcastle on Sunday: "You may tell Kitchener we shall deliver the goods. The north-east coast worker will dg his bit." The First Dockers Battalion, 850 men strong, paraded at Liverpool in Khaki uniform before Lord Derby, | their commander, to-day, and then | marched between lines of cheering crowds to the docks to begin work. Deles R. Davis, kt the first colored nian admitted to the Bar in Ontario, died at his home, aged sixty-nine years. Hon. --M. Ferguson, Minister of Lands, Mines and Forests, refuses to extend the time limit for working claims, The President of the St. i Board of Aidermen was indicted forgery. Last vear 7,344 patienis wers treat- ed by the Grenfell mission on the La- brad 5 Amherstburg; | Louis for * cessful in capturing the first 420,000,000 Over | { London, April 14.--Frenc pital, Brockville, were married: ATTACK DARDANELLES PAGES 1-8 aaa ae ooh LAST EDITION ON A LARGER SCALE -- Two British Battleships Penetrated Ten Miles Inside the Strait and Returned Undam- aged---Violent Attack on Monday. Constantinople Reports That Two Allied Warships Were ~~ Damaged---The Roar of the Big Cannon in the Bombardment Could be Heard More Than Forty Miles Away. (Special to L.endon, April warshi fire from the 14 Whig.) Two allied were severely damaged by Turkish forts in the -bom- bardment of the Dardanelles on Monday, according to despatches from Constantinople to-da passeq by the British Press Bureau as with- out confirmation. A British cruiser, the Turkish War Office announced, was hit by several shells and a tor- pedo boat wag damaged. The ad- miralty has issued no statement re- garding the bombardment. The official statement from Con- stantinople and unofficial reports from Sofia and the Island of Tenedos indicate that the attack was resum- ed on a larger scale than has been developed since the sinking of three allied battleships on March 18th. The Turkish War Office announcd thta several of the enemy's ships en- tered the strait and partieipated--in the bombardment. NIA. tA A sn "INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH" German Attacks Show Their Absolu- te Contempt For Slaughter Paris, April 14 There has been given out in Paris a description. by an eye-witness of the attempt made by the.Germans on April 8th and 9th, to retake a small fort at Beause- jour held by the French. The companies of volunteers led in this attack. They showed an ab- selute contempt for death, but, ne- vertheless; they were stopped by the fire of the French artillery and infan- try. Only a few of them escaped. Tr attack, in. Ger: mans paid 'a heavy price, was line of trenches. These positions were held by two companies until April 9th. The Ger- mans were so thick in these trenches that they crowded each other and in- terfered with the freedom of operat fons. | Into this mass of men the French artillery fired. Those who escaped the shells were mostly bayonetted by the French infantry. Only ten men survived. French Bombed German City Of Hamburg h aviators bombarded H8mburg, Germany, Mon- day, setting fire to the barracks, ac cording to an unofficial report re ceived here. If the London report is true, the rad by the French aviators is with. out parallel * in the history of the war. 'From the nearest point within the French lines to Hamburg is a distance of about 375 miles. If hos tile aviators flew over Hamburg they might easily have been within strik- | ing 'distance of Berlin itself The report reached here in a spatch from Kolding, Denmark, 'I'ra- vellers arriving at holding reported that the air raid was made early Monday, the Frenchmen dropping two bombs which fell gn the barracks in Imbuwtterstrasse, wounding several soldiers and setting fire to the bar- racks. The airmen escaped, according to the Kalding despatches. de- Bakery Makes Shells. Chesley, Ont., April 14.--The idle plant of the Canadian Pread Com- ~pany will be humming this week mak ! mg "shells" for Canadians to aim at Germans. It is expected work will start about Thursday on a contract for 25,000 shells,* which will necessi- tate the employment of two shifts of fifty men, working day and, night. On Monday John Williams and Miss Mary Lambert, two voung and es-| teemod employees of the Fastern Hos- | RUSSIANS HAVE ADVANCED TEN MILES INTO HUNGARY Cleaning Special to the Whiz.) Petrograd, April. 14. -The Rus- sian right wing in the Carpathians has advanced ten miles into Hun-| Bary in the last few days of fighting, | 'and is now ir a position to strike at the railway leading south through ! Lupkow Pass, according to despatch- ies to the War Office to-day. The Slav advance in this region rs has again been halted pending the! outcome of a fierce struggle for the Uszok Pass. ! To the north the Germans are pressing nearer Russian positions in| Poland, partfeularly north of Vis- tula. 2 Fighting is: going on north Vat Bukowina. At nearly every section of the %00-mile battlefront the op-, posing armies are again in clash. i suc- | | Funeral Thursday A Dedeaghateh correspondent wired to Sofia that allied warships engaged in a heavy bombardment of the Dardanelles forts on Monday. The attack was most violent at about » Pp... according to the Dedeau- hatch despatch, which added that the roar of big cannon could be heard for more than forty miles. A despatch from the Island of Tenedos mentioned only two war- ships as partictpating in Monday's attack. The British destroyer Re- nard ran past the Turkish forts at high speed, penetrating ten miles Inside the strait, according to the Tenedos despatch. The battleship London followed, drawing most of the fire of 'the Asiatic batteries, those on the European shore remain- ing silent, 1 TheTriumph bombarded a battery on Saturday, but dréw no response, ac- cording to information at Tenedos. A ------------ Lady Girouard Married. London, April 14.--The sequel to the recent divorce of Sir Percy Gir- ouard is found in the announcement of a marriage on April 10th; at the Military Chapel at Abbassa, Egypt, between Marv Gwendolin Girouari, Selomon, ana Captain Robert Oppen- Solomon, and captain Robert Oppen- heim, of the Fourth Dragoon Guards, third son of the late Henry Oppen- heim Tt is possible that Italian inter- vention may be announced when Par- liament reopens on May 12th, al though, pe tion, the King is en 0 ' war, the Parliament's approval mot being necessary. Col.-Sergt. J. RE. Oliver, Toronto, the Princess Pats, returned from France, where he. was wounded eleven times of vm oe DAILY MEMORANDUM. Vaudeville, Grand Opera House, and 7.20 pm i Rummage sale Friday afternoon and evening. - Next Crown Bank Hee top of page 3, right hand corner, or probabilities 2.20 ' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depot . Clarke, J. W. Co. . College Book Store Coulter's Grocery Cullen's Grocery, Frontenac Hotel' ...,..,. Gibson's Drug Store'..M Lowe's Grocery .. McAuley's Book Store McGall's Cigar Store, C. McLeod's Grocery .... Medley's Drug Store, Paul's Cigar Store Prouse's Drug Store Valleau's Grocery 295 King St .363 Princess 250 Unlversity 31s Princess .312 -.208 Montreal MARRIED. EVES "WILLARD. Cathedral, 1815, by In St George's Kingston, on April 3rd, the Rev Dean Starr, Marion Willard, daughter of Al- fred Willard, Amherst Island, to James Eves, of Kingston DIED. Suddenly, GRAVELLE in Calgary, Alta, on April 13th, 1915, Thomas Wiltred Gravelle, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. Gravelle, Front road. Funeral notice later. HOURIGAN-"In Smith's Falls, on April 13th, 1915, Charles Francis, infant son of John Houriga aged five months and eleven 4d afternoon on arti. val of C.P.R. train, to St, Mary's ROBERT J. REID . The Undertaker. Phone 577. 230 Princess re ESSERE Old Firm of 254 and 256 PRINCESS 'Phone 147 for a RERY Antiques 1 aint ay ahagany, at Turks For House Ronuk Floor Polish, Veneer, Cobra Furnl Brasso,; Silvo, Lux, Wool Wash, Sa- pollo, mn Ami, Dustless Mops, Fibre Tubs, Fibre Pails, Brooms, Brushes, Gold Dust Washing der, Dutch Ci Wyandotte, Pearline, Wing-Wing. Jas. Redden & Co. Liquia ture Polish,