12 PAGES The 1 EE ily British Whig YEAR 82 NO, 88 SEA RAIDS THAT WERE MADE BY THE KRON PRINZ WI The Chief Surgeon With the Aid of a Diary Tells of Thrilling and Amusing Incidents. Why. Prizes Had to be Rammed---This Occurred on Three Occasions When Ammunition Was Scarce ---Captains of the Captured Ships Were Very Angry. Newport News, Va., April 14.-De- claring that overything of interest that had happened on the voy age had been told and published 'and that what had not happened had been told | as well Commander Thierfelder has issued orders to his men and officers hat they are Jet 3 give any when we gaptired. aud sank_the Be. ing more concern 8 OF | tish steamer Hemisphere. en the Bo Semnikable . voyage, Boarding | boarding party went aboard they oug e courtesy o ound her Officer C. F. Crause, of the Customs [back and forth across the bridge Force, your correspondent spent am | and exclaiming, "Where is our great | hour as the guest of Chief Surgeon {navy ! Where have all our sh ps Perrenon, who proved a genial host. {gotten to 1" We captured the Hem- Be suplgiond With 8 eetsie Sugres | sphere in latitude 30.16 and longi- of satisiaction tha e. excellence | tude 4.37 south on Dec. 28th. bis wines' and the flavor of his cigars | "Transferring the 5,750 tons were due to 'the gemerosity of the | coal from the steamer to the Kron- | French, to say nothing of the quan: | prinz was slow work and it-was not tity, of which there seemed no limit. | ;til Jam. 9th that we finished and When interrupted by igitory the doe- | sent, the steamer to the bottom. tor was sumly engaged in answer-| "When we took the--sten er In- ing letters and telegrams. The tele | qian Prince on Septem To ote | grams were from all places all Over | first prize, the captain of that » ip | the country, from New Orléans 10 | became enraged when told that the ! Wisconsin, and from the Atlantic. | (eamer would be sunk, and angrily | Coast to the Pacific. Some of these |told us: 'I hope it will be your | were from friends, while others were | ym next.' . But his wish didnot | ftom io tT mphthizets, au | materialize into fact and our turp | rought. congratulations and well |} 0 (04 come yet. 1 yy The letters were principal- | On January 14 we overtook the ly from relatives in Germany, and |pritish steamers Wilfrid and High-| { land Brae and so close were the ships | | together that for a time we were at a loss to know which to capture first. | i nn [account of the 255 days' voyhge at | sea, Captain Was Wrathful. "One of the most amusing inci; dents of our voyage," ho» said, speak- ing 'in faultless English, "occurred were from five to six months old. With the aid of a diary the sur- geon was able to give an 200 EACH DAY interesting | cause I thovght I would be better off | | 88. & prisoner than fighting the | siansbut 1 did not know what 1 ane | going to find here.' | . "In another place 1 found 55 Aus Died From Tyohu in a Ser- trians herded in a single room. Serbia | Rhodes Scholar Back----Appointment Of Surgeon-General Gorgas To Lead Rockefeller Foundation Ex- pedition Approved. London, April 14.--The report that Surgeon-General Gorgas, of the had at one time 45,000 to 50,000 pris- | vi Town ' | now. At Kinshevatz we lost 200 4 { an lo | day; at Nish, 60 a day; the rate was own, but the difficulties of adequate | treatment are immense. 3 IVOLUTION. was told, but 'they are dead." Neith- | SANITARY RE ' er the Serbiap nor Austrian doctors good results." Dr. Davison predicted that out oners of war; she bas not sc many » s i -- higher at Valjevo. In SCOURGE | CARRY "In one 1 found an orderly for for- helieve in the treatment of typhus by | break of cholera was more than likely some places | the Austrians have hospitals of their | ty patients. 'Why not more 7' OFF HALF POPULATION UNLESS | "0 ow. should have more" | baths which we other doctors gave to keep the temperature down, with possible when warm weather came. | Conditions of filth in Serbia were in- | | instead. captain wildly stamping | some of the of | not so. | fect hits. work by --eur--gunners: AAA A AAA AA AAA A ot Rus: | wn LHELM We decided upen the Highland Brae. ' As a boarding party went on the steamer the master greeted them with the query: 'Why do you take us first?' We did not have time to explain and soon also had the Wilfrid alongside. ¥ 'Some of the ships tried to escape after being ordered by us to Etop, and on several occasions we had to fire across their bows to bring them to. The French passenger steamer was one of these and gave us a little trouble. However, the prize was well worth it and that reminds me, the last beer we got was from the Guadelupe. There were 28 or 30 kegs, and it was very good. We still have some of it." = Here the surgeon halted his recital | long enough to press a button and al- low his guests to themselves pass judgment. : "We also got big quantities of li- quors from the Guadelupe, and, the best of all, about 12,000 bottles of mineral water. We were entirely out of fresh water and we drank this ' A Mt A. atl, tt i | PRESS GALLERY GLIMPSES | Denies Bad Marksmanship. H "I noticed from the papers that | Englishmen we put! ashore yesterday said that we fired | | five shots at the steamer Tamar try- | ing to sink her and that two of them | went wild, even though we .were but three hundred yards away. That is We fired four shots at the waterline and all of them were per- The fifth we purposely gent into the salon. It was fine We were short of ammunition and on three oc- casions rammed our prizes when we got ready to sink them. The Nor- wegian sailing ship Semantha was one of them. We sank her on a beautiful moonlight night. We backed off and put on full speed ahead. The bow of our ship eur through her hull like a knife through cheese, and we cut her cleanly in halves. We hardly felt the jar. The same procedure was followed in sinking the French steamer Monta- gal and the British steamer Wilfrid," Charles M. Schwab is credited with 48,161 shares--of the preferred; and 1 07r of "the common. James H. Ward, a director, holds 9,100 prefer- red, while E, G. Grace, B. H. Jones, and F. A. Shick, together own 3,700 of the preferred, and 1,700 of the common. Alvin Untermyer,. Son of Samuel Untermeyer, heads the common list with 15,500 shares. Dutch investors hold 5,410 of the common stock, while Andrew Carnegie has no stock of either class. Notes Of Three Railroads. New York, April 14.--It was au-| thoritatively stated yesterday that more than 50 per cent, of the liold- ers of the $19,000,000 Missouri, Kansas & Texas 5 per cent, notes ma- turing on May 1st had consented to an exteneion for one year at 6 per cent. These notes are held almost entirely by banks. The Missouri KINGSTON ONTARIO, THUR SDAY, ---- SUNK BY BRITISH PATROL. How Rumors Of a Naval Engagement Originated. London, April 15.--Your correspon- dent understands that there has been no naval fighting in the North Sea. The true explanation of the origin of the reports to this effect is that a patrolling squadron frustrated by | gunfire an attempt by the Germans to lay mines in immense numbers by means of trawlers. The squadron sighted numerous ap- parently innocent trawlers the Norwegian flag. The 'weather was thick and 'the density of the fog in part of the grea resulted in a col lision between one of the British warships and a trawler. The latter was instantly blown up by a terrific explosion. ' The other trawlers tried to escape, but were pursued and eap- tured. It was then discovered that they were (iermans, whereupon they were sunk by gunfire, which with the huge explosions of the trawlers gave a vivid impression of a battle. The incident is additionally interesting in view of the endeavors to again raise the ery of Great Britain's misuse of neutral flags. ardhy Needs London Fair Grounds. Londony Ont., April 15.--It is re- ported that the Militia Department will ask the Western Pair Association to abandon its exhibition this year in order that the training camp at the fair grounds will not be dis- turbed. The Department, it is un- derstood will recoup the Associa- (tion to the extent of its average an- pual profit from the exhibition, flying | y APRIL 15, 1913 CLAL._S TO CURE LEPROSY. | Late King Chulalongkomn's Surgeon Makes a Statement, San Francisco, April 15. Leoprosy is curable and there is httle danger of contracting the disease, as I have shown by having' none but leprous servants in my house for years." This statement was made vesterday iby Dr. Adolph H. chmer, who has arrived here from Siam. Fer five years Dr. Boehmer was surgeon- general of that country and private physician to the late King Chulal- onghorn. He has studied leprosy exclusively for several years. "All the houseboys 1 had during many years in Siam were afflicted with leprosy and I cured them all, except those who had the disease in a too advanced form when they came to me," Dr Boehmer said. "The cure is sure and leprosy could be stamped out in this country in a short time." Dr. Boehmer intends to go to Cuba to study the treatment of tropical diseases, | f S-- in Another Raider Expected. Newport News, Va.,, April 15.-- There is an insistant rumor here from what is said to be reliable sources that another German warship is ex- pectéd to arrive in the next few days. It is thought to be the Bre- men or Karlsruhe. - Your correspon- dent is ; unable to trace the rumor to its source, but it is believed to from a wireless message pro- fron Prinz Wilhelm. -- It come bably to the Special Whig Correspondence From the House of Com mons. & Shall The Soldiers Vote? Both sides of politics agree that the men who are good enough to do the fighting are good enough to do the voting but the Votes-for-Soldiers bill received luke-warm support in the House of Commons just the same. Neither Liberals nor Conservatives were prepared to pledge their com- mon sense that the measure was practicable. The story goes that the Hon. Charles Doherty did not exactly treat the bill-as a favorite child when it was being "drafted" in com- mittee and certainly when he intro- duced it to the House he indulgea in no wild transports of enthusiasm. He avoided purple rhetoric, smoth- ered the thing with long - sentences and one way anfl another took most of the nip out of it. The best he could do was to "earnestly and sin- cerely commend the principle of the bill" which: was what you might call faint praise from an'official sponser. You see the Minister of Justice has a' reputation for levél-headedness and he doesn't want to ruin it by crying up leaky tubs. No doubt, too, Mr. Doherty con- sidered that they had gone far enough, in treating it as a Govern- ment measure instead of putting it in the hands of 4 private member on the Government side and treating | it as a public bill entitled to the. us- The Senate is an expect amender of obnoxious clauses and it just natur- ally can't keep its hands off a bill like that. At least that is the theory | Whether the Senate rises to the bait or not it's a safe statement that at most anybody could make that bill a great deal better than it stands now. He would be doing a good work at that and if any Government support- er yelled traitor at him he could get back by retorting "Boots" or "Binoc- Lulars" or "Horses" er something { equally relevant. Indeed there are | plenty of good answers to those who | may be using the old flag at the next general election to cover a multitude. { of sins. | The objections to' the bill were many and interesting. One was that there were at least four places on the way there and back where the ballots might go wrong. Consider- ing human frailty the opposition was not inclined to ask the Govern- ment to incur this great temptation. The limits of virtue must not be strained. Colonel Hugh Clark blurted out the truth when he said that, the bill was framed with the idea of a general election and that a general election which did mot in- clude the votes of the eighty-nine | thousand soldiers who are now over- {geas or in Canadian training camps would not be a complete expression is Conan Doyle Writes to the GERMAN HAS NO MORE | had UNDERSTANDING OF CHIVALRY | of B THAN COW OF MATHEMATICS, Soldiers Should Be Told How Modern says: in the case of these European Red Indians who torture their prisoners. by spitting on, starving or freezing Germans who are in our power. unavailing, man has not more understanditig of chivalry than a cow has of mathe- matic§, understand our attitude speak kindly of Capt. w who has shown some approach to de- cency, his papers ascribe partly to sentimentality and partly | to hypocricy. that when German aeroplanes away our boats while we were en- dom. TT Tr YL in vote. the issue so I will not confuse minds by going into details. regiment o'clock sharp to-morrow when all those who vote Conserva- tive will hand their ballots over me. Those who vote Grit will spend | thé day in the trenches. I have desire to influence their opinions, I beg to remind them that the Ger- man fire has been very brisk the last week." absurdity, but there is an element of | and Robert reason in it even at that. It never do, for instance, to politicians in casuality lists for election with a view to checking off | tion," said Mr, the votes lost through death or capture by the Ger- mans. Parliament which causes them to be| While the P regarded as a sporting event by rival Sreatness is war, sets of politicians is an insult to the nation. numerous. portant one was raised by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who pointed out bill created a new and separ: inion franchise with such loose pro- | visions in regard to proving the vot- German idea is heaven, er's age that it might lead to grave! abuses. cn which this article has dwelt are | °®0d into heaven, a Potsdam lance the more serious. a least of these moral objections is that| 4°07. and, old Frits, springing from under the bill the voter votes not for | the golden throne will give the com- the candidate, but for the party, the| mand gy! Present arms. »" ballot being - marked Government, | Co for young Germany. Opposition, : SECOND SECTION CAN BE NO RETALIATION AN BARBARITIES Are | deavoring to pick up survivorsso! the | FOR GERM Blucher, they were really unable to | conceive what it was we were trying | to do. = { "Tt is worth noting that since they | endeavor to excuse their barbarity {by saying that it is retaliation for our naval blockade, that they acted in exactly the same fashion to our prisoners before the maritime policy been declared. The uarrative | ritish Red Cross doctors who | were in Belgium shows that they | endured similar inhuman persecu- | tion, "If there is no retaliation which We as a nation can employ, there is at least one line of action which { might be taken; that is, to print 2 4 { Major Vandeleur"s account with the 15.--~Canon Doyle, | American official reports and such London Times, | documents as the narrative in the | Dutch paper aid -of the torture of three wounded British prisoners in a frontier station in October. This paper should be officially sent, not only to all neutral countries, but it | should be circulated among our sol- diers in France. No man fights the worse for having nis soul aflame with righteous anger, so we should use the weapons which the enemy has put into our hands. We will | teach our men also, if any of them need the lesson, that it is far better When we|to die upon the field than to trust to von Muller | the humanity of a German victor eddigen, or any of our opponents, "Iebour enemy ig unchivalrous, he is at least intensely practical, and it i he realizes that We.are gaining any | military advantage from his mis- doubt | deeds he may perhaps reconsider, drove | not their morality, but their wis. London Times. i Huns Torture Their Captives--Bet.- ] ter To Die On Field Than To Be- | come Prisoner Of Germans. London, April a letter to the "It is difficult to know how to act is clear that we cannot retaliate shaking, beating, "All appeals to good feeling are for the average Ga:- He is honestly unable to it "due We have no Canada on which we are asked to I have only a general idea of -- 'your | Their Idea of Heaven As The eleven morning, BELIEF OF GERMANS, Party Lead. er Wrote Of It, New York, April 15. ~The Cana- dian Club of New York held its | monthly dinner in the Hotel B('. © more, with 150 members and guests present. John Emery Mclean, pre- NO: gsident of the elub presided. The but | guest of honor was Newton Wesley Rowell, Toronto, leader of the op- position in the Ontario Legislature George McAneny, president of the Of course, this is reducing it to an | New York City Board of Aldermen, J. Flaherty, commander would | of the 8ir Willlam Mackenzie expedi« have the | tions, were among the speakers Canada scanning the "The Germans believe that feeble- weeks before an ness is the one great sin of a na- Rowell, 'but ww their opponetittg! Anglo-Paxons belleve that thé func- | tion. of the state is to improve the The heart's blood of Canada | conditions of the public who called in those casualty lists. Any Act of | It into being, and for whom 1t acts, russian conception . of ours is peace. | After tracing the growth of | many's conception from its Technical objections to the bill are| When Bismarck told the men to be Perhaps the most im-|the king, Mr. Rowell sald that a {leader of the young German party that the | Wrote -in an official 'organ in 1913, ate Dom-| "War is the noblest and holtest ex- | Pression of human activity-- the Whenea here on earth a battle is won by Ger- But the moral objections! Ma&0 arms and the faithful dead as- will parade at for to Ger- origin, Perhaps not the! "OTboral will call the guard to the There is Continuing, Mr. Rowell said: | Independent, without | "While I do not misunderstand Ger. ual amount of support which the Government gives its friends. Per- haps this was the reason the bill was held back until the closing days of the session. The Government may have been pondering -- under pressure from the outside---whether they would take the bill under their wing or not. As a matter of fact the bill would have made more stir if a private member like R. B. Bennett had of opinion. Which not only goes to show that the Government does not intend to wait until after the war is over to hold a .general election but also that the predominant party is very much of Mr. Dooley's mind when he said, "I care not who does the votin' so long as I do the count- in"," It's in the matter of ¢ount- ing that mistakes are liable to oc- cur, particularly in the counting' of the thirty-five thousand overseas further identifying labels. It is con- | i celvablo that some of our British- | ror aa ower in re dor born Canadians who have not resid. have inherited from Great Briain ed here much longer than the thirty | jiberty, and all parts of the empire, days specified by the bill may be in| i, loyalty, love and truth, will do doubt as to which is Liberal and| their share to maintain the liberty, which is Conservative, not to ment- | g4 | bring to you a message from tion the fact that the word Opposi- Canada--that we will continue (ri: tion is open to miseonstruction by the | ymphs, not only for ourselves, but soldier, who may get it into hi: for all Burope as well." that one party opposes the war, whereas this is a war on which we United States Army, will lead the Rockefeller Foundation Expedition to combat the typhus epidemic in Serbia, attracted much attention | here. The Manchester Guardian edi- | torfally 'sald that if General Gorgas | maintained his past recofd this Am-| erican should be of more value Lo Serbia than any man could be at! this moment, and other papers equal- ly warmly commended the appoint- ment. eredible and drastic measures such®as | Pacific is seeking an extension for General Gorgas could only have re- | its $25,000,000 one-year notes. The course to if ha had unlimited author | New Haven alco will come into the ity were, in his opinion, the only way | market soon with about $30,000,000 of coping with the epidemic. | of short-term notes. One. railroad : {man saide yesterday that there was { considerable skirmishing among the | bankers to be first on the market Consolidate | With their particular note issues. In | the case of the M., K. & T. and the | P., one prominent banker PLAN BIG UTILITY MERGER. ------ Republic Railway To Seventeen Concerns. General Gorgas' task, according to Wilbert C. Davidson, of New York, a Rhodes scholar, on the medical side of Oxford, who hag just return- ed from Serbia, where he worked on the Amnierican relief expedition, will depend for its successes simply up- on the question whether he is in- vested with sufficient authority by the Serbian Government. "Only ability and authority," said Mr. Davison, "are required to clean up Serbia and arrest the epidemic which otherwise will carry off halt the population of the county, not to speak of the Austrian prisoners of war. General Gorgas, or whoever "undertakes the task, will need to 'have plenary powers. 'Only a complete sanitary revolu- tion can prevail. Wells will have to be stamped out, houses torn down, an Ww ated since Ahe "panic" day at the out- Sharon, Pa., April 14.--The lar-- | gest merger of traction companies | and power plants that has taken | place in. Western Pennsylvania in many years is now being planned by the Republic Railway & Light Com- pany through a bond issue of $25, 000,000. Owned or controlled by the Republic Company are 17 active and inactive subsidiaries, and for some time the legal department has been engaged in a comprehensive plan to merge them all under one head. In the event of the bond issue be- ing put through, mu 'y important im- provements will be made on the trac- tion lines and power plants operat- ing in Youngstown, .Sharon, New Castle, Warren -and other Eastern, Ohio and Western Penusylvania ter- ritory. "In Wall Streei. New York, April 14.--Total trans- actions on the Stock Exchange which on Friday amounted to 1,275,760 shares, were the largest of any time réak of the war" last July, when when sales on the 30th of that month were 1,329,925, and on the 28th, 1,032,600. Before that time, since December, 1912, there had been : pat the prospects are so good ement that the § per cent. | dividend M. O. thought, some of the notes would have to be bought up at maturity. It was recalled that ode bank had to buy in a considerable lot of the Mis- souri Pacific notes last year when the first extension was proposed. : oer Exorbitant Interest Rates. Washington, April 14.--The exor- bitant interest rates charged by na- tional 'banks to small borrowers, mostly farmers, will be the object of attack in Congress by Senator Shep- pard, of Texas, who has begun ag in- vestigation of the subject. - Senator Sheppard is preparing a bill for introduction in the Senate as soon as Congress reconvenes, which will provide a penitentiary sentence for bfficers of a national bank who indulge in usury. He believes high interest rates are the trouble with to-day, and are respon-| sible for the depression in certain sections. $73,600 In Dividends. Winnipeg, April 14.--Grain Grow- ers' Company of Winnipeg will mail during the present week dividend cheques to 15,000 shareholders. The sum to be sent out will amount to $73,800, which is one per cent. of the par value of the paid-up stock of the company. The earnings of the company for the year were suffi- cient to pay the considerably larger dividend, the sum of $60,000 haviag been added to. reserve. Montreal, April 14 compared with $171,530 in 1913 the president of Wm, A. Rogers, Limited, Tate will not be. ea, . 14.--Although net! since the | "AFHIngs Tor 1914 were only $85,468 started it rolling. Fancy loves to dwell on what R. B. would have done with it if they had given him the chance. Oh, that perorlation -- all lame and thunder! "King or Kaiser, which?" he would exclaim at the proper moment. Whereupon he would draw a Union Jack from his tail pocket, wrap himself in its folds and the patriots would break into the National Anthem instead of into the National Treasury, as has been the case recently, As it was the Calgary man came in somewhere near the finish when the debate had crawled .into the cel- lar and the best he could do was to provoke a burst of wrath from Frank Oliver, who asked, among other things: "Who should we trust this Government with the soldier's votes when we can't trust them with the ' Well, there may be something in that. All all events it wil give the reader pause. This was the only flash of 'heat in the discussion, both sides seeming quiet- ly confident that the bill would not get too far. That is to say, it could be stopped this side of the ocean by the Senate or the other side, say by Lord Kitchener. ~~ x votes which are not subject to the usual restrictions. To the fifty-four thousand voters encamped in vari- ous parts of Canada the opposition does not strenuously object because these voters will be fully apprised of the issues and will be provided with the customary apparatus of Canadian elections in the shape of polling booths, scrutineers, deputy returning officers and such, but the thirty-five thousand overséas voters are another story. The popular majority of the Government at the last election was only fifty thous- and in a vote of one million two hundred thousand and with the ebb of Conséryative sentiment what it is the opposition does net feel Jie losing track oT thirty-five thousand votes which might tip the scale one way or another. , is are all unanimous. Independents feel that they should be more strictly classified into Soc- falist, Labor, and the Ii Independent like W. F. M House, cannot be conv ballot doesn the worst of it. tion, it which reverses' couplet: --- The Best Treatment Extreme Cruelty. t was the cause of their qtiar- Moreover, the! ; { "Wha rel?" ke, and an| "It's in the bill of d'vorce as ex- aclean, who | treme cruelty." otes in the! "But he's the gentlest mannered inced that the! man in the world." : 't deliberately give him! "I know, but that's the only Way | the lawyers could explain the cose. Taking everything into considera- | You see the trouble all started when a poorly contrived ballot, | he didn't return her lead in a bridge Macaulay's famous game." Consérvative in his v "Then none were for the party And all were for the state." --H. F. 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