== Incidental \ IE Sy, 12 PAGES J v YEAR 82 NO 0% THE "SPRING DRIVE' DRIVE OF ALLIES PR KINGSTON ONTARIO. FOUR MEMBERS OF NEW ONTARIO LICENSE COMMISSION. TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1915 oe 15 NOW A REALITY The British Troops Are Forcing Back the Ger- man Entrenched Line From Near the Sea ) to Lille. I-- The Centra of Attack East of Ypres---German Line of Communications Will Soon be Threatened--- French Drive Towards the Rhine is Gain- ing Impetus Every Day. (8pec'al to April 20. the Whig.) { Fdward L. Keen London, cables : I'he France ity. From .a point near the sea in Bel- gium to the vicinity of Lille, British troops are forcing the German en- trenched line back. The centre of the attack is to the east of Ypres and the main strength of the British force is believed here to extend northward beyond Pilken. It is accepted here that the present movement, referred to,in official re- ports as "important," is the be- ginning of an attempt to reclaim jelgium from the Germans. [here has been much criticism of the Bri- tish War Office for failure to con- centrate its efforts on Belgian tern- tory because of the large number of Deigian refugees now in England, and it is thought here that the gen- eral staff has finally decided at least to test out the strength of the Ger- man lines. in real dritish + "Spring Drive" and Belgium is now a should the movement main Getman lines of communiohtion will be threntened, which will be of great assistance to Gen. Jofire in the movement begun by the French Commander-in-Chief. While the British are forcing the fighting 'on the jextreme northwest of the long battle line, the French are also very active at the other. extrem: ity in Alsace, where the drive to. ward the Rhine is gaining impetus every day. Weather conditions have materially improved and highways and fields are again in such shape that move. ments of artillery are possible. The British losses are admitted very heavy because of the necessity of at tacking heavily entrenched positions. War Tidings. Lieutenant Roland the famous French been made a prisoner mans at Gelmunster. Field Marshal Baron Kolmar von der 'Goltz has been appointed com mander-in-chief of the first Turkish army The London Daily Mail's correspondent says he learns G. Garros, aviator, has by the Ger- Berne from A A eet At at UNITED STATES DEMANDS | RIGHTS BE HONORED Does Not Intend to Recede in China According to Despatch From Pekin. London, April correspondent is authority for statement that the United Government has sent a note to which bears now under wa Tokio. It is said that the pointed Chi 20.--Reuter's Pekin the States upon the negotiations y between Pekin and hak 4 United out that it Had priviloges in which were td ry and that it did not intend t, recede from them. - The Pekin despatch adds that the Chinese believe the American note was to have a "valuable moral eof- fect" on the China-Japanese nego- GERMANS ARE. ~ T0 EVACUATE MENIN (8petial to the Whig.) London, April 20.--The Daily Mail's Cortes po! t at Rotterdam tele graphs : "Accounts of iets fighting south- east of Ypres reached me this motn- ing. All yesterday wounded were ar- riving at Bruges. and it is stated the Germans are prepari «Menin," fourteen miles south-east of Ypres." v _ Fighting Is General. Paris, April 20 (Official). --~General China | lon. leave States | ng to evacuate the a) " THE RIGHT To Tax Liquor Sent From Provinces To Yukon, Ottawa, April The right of the Dominion Government to Impose an excise on liquors imported into The Canadian Scottish have en- | the Yukcn Territory a----Pro- joyed two weeks' rest in billets and | vince of the Dominion is called in are in better fighting trim and. hum-- question and a million dollars is or than possibly they éver were, claimed by way of refund in a pe They have been. playing baseball tition of right which has been pre within the reach of shells, but lik: sented to the Government through their friends in Kitchener's army the Exchequer Court. have 'been quite unruffled when the The action. is taken by a Germans pumped an occasional City liquor merchant named Lowe, Weary Willie among them. who is acting for himselipgnd others It is estimated that the entire Ger engaged ¥n the liquor hugindxs in the man losses since the war began have ' Yukon. totalled 2,750,000 Under the Yunon Act it German submarines are active in tax of 82 per gallon is the North Baltic. They are believed | upon all liquor imported, to be laying mines "for 'Russiai has heen collected in the ghips. Swedish and Finnish ship- way by the Yukon officials ping in these waters has practically period of about twelve ceased. reliable German sources that several new will enter into the work of blockading England to-day He adds that new submarines are new being completed at the rate of two each week by Germany. submarines 20. from Dawson appears a imposed and this ordinary during a years. the liquor did not un outside country, but a Province of the Dominion to of its jerritories the constitu He was sixty-five | tionality of the regulation is ques- tioned, and a refund of all excise The total Prussian casualties in| paid demanded. the war are now 1,106,969, accord-| The Government ing to six fresh lists of losses pui- act and contest the lished in Berlin to-day. The six! the action. lists contained 32.524 names. A total of 000 'British and French soldiers were landed at Mud- ros. during Wednesday and day of last week Japan has ordered ships in Pacific waters near the American coasts, except those -sal- vaging the wrecked cruiser Asama in Turtle Bay, to return to home stations, The call issued a few days ago for volunteers for a Canadian awia- tion corps has brought forth scores of responses. Considering that At Briare, France, General Char- come from les Louis Tremeau, former com- !from mander in chief of the French army, one died on Sunday. years of age. the by will uphold issue raised SHOT BY HIS OWN MEN, Carranza Loses One Of His Garrison Commanders. Thurs- all her war- Laredo, Texas, Maclovio Herrera, garrison commander, men of his own command their [west of Nuovo ek, took him for Villa. The Villista version rera rode out the head of his Villistas, that a force under April 20. the Ca p killed five They was miles mis that Her Nuevo Laredo at troops, was from looking | his men clashed Japan has ordered all her Wwar- Gen, Santos, ships in the Pacific waters near the! Carranzista, and that in the American coasts, except those salving [ Herrera was shot dead. the wrecked cruiser Asama in Turthe| The Carranzisia story waa that the Bay, to return to their home stations. general was killed in a fight with Lieut. Goschen, a son of Sir Wil-| Villistas. liam Edward Goschen, former Brit-| i ---------- ish ambassador in Berlin, is believed. on * to be one of the ten British officers | Turkish Fleet ' . Running Short Of Coal Supply in solitary confinement at Madge- Whig.) for with another fracas burg. en Nn i, TRANSPORTS SUNK: TEUTONS BROWNED Story Reaches St.- Kitts of Fur- ther North. Sea Fight Detaiis. | Russian fleet successfully mined the St. Catharines, Ont., April 20. -- entrance to the Bosphorus. The Unpublished information said to bave| Turkish fleet in returning sent. de- been received from a British naval|stroyers in frent. _ Twa of them officer at home at Dundee, Scotland, | struck mines and were sunk. The contained in --a--letter. fleet & 3 and flegt--was-without-mine-s ahd per written to a woman residing on Rus: | has been unable to clear away the sell avenue, St, Catharines, ly her! mines with the result that its coal daughter, who states that the office supply is nearly exhausted. informed her that the German cruis- | en hich was tunk by (dmiral Sir. ONE HOUR IN PRISON d Beatty s squadron in the Nor'h | Sea were escorting two transports The Sentence | Which had 5,000 Germans aboard. | The letter states on the authority of | the officer that the two transports were also sunk and all on board per- Hshed. % an P (Special to the Salonika, April 20, fleet is marooned in the Black Sea, where its coal is rapidly becoming i exhausted, according to a report | reaching here to-day. During its is Hughes, Edmonton. (Special to the Whig) Toronto, April 20.---One hour's _ confinement was the unusual sen- | téfive imposed this afternoon by Jus- | | tice Clute in the Criminal Assizes on! {Dr. F. G. Hughes, Edmonton, found | in connection ; (with the affairs of the Union. Life! The Judge express-| (guilty of conspiracy Assurance Co. ed the opinion not the chief and with his family had lost $30,000 in the concern. former K.C., that Dr. Hughe icase. Pollman ffendant, is still at farge. fighting has commenced at several im- | portant points. along the battle front. At- present the ex | chiefly confined to artillery and this | belligerent, countries was is believed to be the prelude to: the td in New York Monday Allies general along the line. The chief French ac- composing the National Workmen's i tivity is in the region of Soissons, in Committee on Jewish Rights. the main sector at Rheims, and at a | number of points in the Argomnes. [fastest train in Australia collided hat fighting is expected to be push- (with a mall sraly ia Dinalong early {ed with vigor is indicated by the en- | Monds cieahi hy 34 | forcement of striet censorship. | The extension of a movement inaugura- Smid The Turkish. irecent-dash into the Black Sea, the. teate will, nominally be prisoners un- mposed Upon Pr. F. G. | fender in the matter, serving five years in the peintentiary on this | Evans another de-! tel are Obtain equal rights' for Jews in all | ] as the re forward movement' all sult of a meeting of 300 delegates |. The Melbourne-Sydney express the | JOHNA., AYEARS'T, TORONTO. "J.D. FPLAVELLE, v LINDSAY ~Y, CHAIRMAN + PII dedededoloddobdod did dd BE "OVER IN FIVE MONTHS ? London, April 20.--In a shbrt, optimistic address to the Canadians after inspection a few days ago General Smith- Dorrien, under whom they are brigaded, predicted that the war would be over, the Ger- many thoroughly conquered, and the men of the Dominion ready to return to' their homes in five months. og oe ole 2 -* de 5 4 le oh We hb bb Rbr bb rer YREDERICK DANE » del pl PRR RR GRR ORS SPRL ES + TORONT + ni sibly learn or communicate any- thing of service to the enemy. Now that they are taking a stake in the country they are regarded as per- fectly harmless Several thousand cabins will- be erected in the wilderness for these priscner picneers. There i8 no fear but that their circumstances and their situation will assimilate them, and that they will become good Ca- nadians. Hon. C. J. Doherty, whose depart- with bi mj FAMILIES JOIN Fathers in the "Piisoner-o-| of every kind left yesterday for the north to see how his alien charges wintered, and to see how they have been handled and how they are be- ing handled. War Camps THE MEN INTERNED SHOW EAGERNESS TO GET LA FOR THEMSELVES. CHRISTIANS IN DANGER Gloomy Picture Of District Surround. | using deadly gases in their ing Smyma. Mitylene, April 20.--Merchants who arrived last night from Smyrna draw the gloomy picture of the state of things in the district surrounding that city White Smyrna itself is quiet, pillage and murder are rife in the villages and smaller towns of the littoral, all Christians ND The Minister of Justice Left Monday For the/ North to Have a Peep at His Alien Charges and See How They Are Being Handled, Ottawa, April 20.--The wives and the children of the Austrians held 1s prisoners of war are being taken wrth th veek, "They will join Lhe inghands and fathers who have been working in the woods all winter uu- ler military surveillance, clearing the land for the Ontario and Quebe Governments and for themselves. The women and children have been looked after in more civilized | centres through the winter months. | Now that severe weather is over 2 ee i eto i British Gains Are Reported By Gen. rrench way, part of them going to the vicin- ity of the detention camp at Spirit (Special to the Whig.) London, Apri Large Turkish reidforcements ar- are being constructed with the ut- most energy particularly wear Vour- la. fence preparations: fig Lake, Quebec, and a part to Kapu- kasing Camp, Ontario. The prisoners of war tad a busy winter and have cleared not merely | the area required for two - experi-| mental farms but & cousiuerable ad-| ditional area. They are showing] eagerness to get land for themselves and their efforts to settle are being! facilitated in every possible way. This is turning out to be a state- aided co-operative enterprise, and a great success. The families who lo- in his report to-day. gases in assaults, but ithe Germans did. .'The improvement in the wea- {ther has resulted in an increase in irksome, they are so distant from air activity and. has resulted greatly Important centres that they could | to our advantage in 'the Ypres re- not easfly rin away and could not) gion' he said. "During the last three S------------ | (A Y8 'We have brought two German charges that til the: close of the war, but the supervision over them willT not be {have downed two more." Denied Roosevelt Motion. { Syracuse, N. Y., ijam Barnes won the first important {onel Roosevelt after the jury was j completed yesterday afternoon. { Justice William S. Andrews denied i counsel to Colonel Roosevelt, to dis- miss the complaint on the ground [Tha he state the i suit is based was part of a legitimate "aeroplanes to earth and the French i April 20.--Will- | ent upon whieh the, Che Daily British Whi | ment for jurisdiction over prisoners |. ing in dang- | stupify the English, if er of their lives. At Vpurla a Greek | This expedient, the ( notable and others hafe been killed. | (5 pe followed by a vigorous infan- rived last week and defence works | ug Several mere German officers said had been supplied them to plug | reached Smyrna a few days ago and | thelr noses and prevent. the gas from | have taken over the direction of de- | killing them also. It is not 20.--Sweeping | concerning Italy's demands for claims of material gains in the Ypres | ritorial concessions have been broken | region were made by General French! off remains for the moment an offi- { He denied the German allegations | versally agreed that the temsion | that 'British troops used asphyxiating | approaching the breaking | matum from TTtaly's milits { ~{ victory in his legal battle with Col- de | the motion of John M. Bowers, chief | volver was found near his body | political controversy, in no way per- herefore privileged. i sonal, and t i Urge Germany To Yield ? Amsterdam {Zeitung prints an article 'allegin that influences are at work with t | abject of persuading the German peo- ple to bring ahout a reconcilliation {with Great Britain in a way "which f pal foe the fulfilment of her aims in { i the war." i PAPINEAU. | William Ritson, Welland, was {Of the Pr 8. Who along eager to enlist that he had with Lieut G. fquahoun, -alse of } toes ! oes Pats. was 'the first Canadisny| hammer" h LONE ON for | , April 20.--The Kreuz | would guarantees Germany's prinei- | hE Killed By Aerial Raid Buried In a! el | | the city. | Baron, Head of Big News Agency, de Reuter was prostrated by ths death of his wife last Thursday. Her 0 PAGES 1-8 LAST EDITION re gn T0 CONSIDER PEACE They Are Now Prepared With Men, Money and Ammunition to Continue War Until Ger- many is Completely Defeated. President Wilson's Personal "Observer" is Told in Paris That Germany Would be the Only Country to Benefit by Peace Now---Prussian Mili- tarism Must be Crushed. (Special to the Wiig.) Paris, April 20.--*"This is no time even to suggest peace talk. The stoppage of the war at this time would benefit only one country -- Germany. The Allies have assumed the task of crushing Prussian mili- tarism and must refuse to be di- verted from that task" That is the word given.Col. E. House, personal friend and 'obser: ver" for President Wilson, who now in this city. The. position of the Allies was made very plain. In blunt, but very courteous language, Col. Hause was told that if he de- sired to initiate a movement for peace this was not the time. Such a mission was worse than useless Any real or attempted movement to end the war with German troops holding a long line through French territory and. Belgium would give i -------- | Germany too great an advantage. And Col. House was told that France could view only with disfavor the initiation of a movement for Ger- many's benefit. The Allies are now prepared, he was told, with men, money and am- munition, to continue the war until Germnay is completely defeated. The countries are united on the ne- cessity of continuation to ultimate victory. The Allies daily are grow- ing stronger while Germany daily is growing weaker Any attempt by the United States to bring about peace now would be regarded by Frenchmen, so Col. Houre was in- formed, as an unfriendly act on the part of the United States, It is understood that Col. House will communicate the substance of the statement presented to him to President Wilson at Washington. A ------ ANS USE GASES DESERVE HIGHEST PRAISE. GERM Canadians Buckled Down Like Sea. PRISONER CORROBORATES THE | xoned Soldiers, 3 OFT -REPEATED REPURT, | General Headduartors of the . Rei. 4 ~Via To Plug up Their Nose--Kaiser's Sol. | London, A b A of in Canadians dian diers Supplied With Cotton For| "oY they ro in" Lnglan v To vs This Purpose. [they have Leen men in the trenches," said a stafi. officer of the British army, commenting on the report that the Canadians have been lack- ing in digeipline. "They've buckled down like British soldiers should, and their conduct has not omly heen without 'reproach, but deserving the highest praise." This is the first official statement of gosta officer in the field relative to {& much discussed question. TIT SlITIseIaed * M. 18 General Headguarters of the British Army in France, April 20.-The bit- repeated report that the Germans are trench warfare has been attested by wu Ger- man prisoner speaking voluntarily te @- British stati officer. I'he officer related t6 the Associated Press cor- respondent the description given by this prisoner of threefpot cylinders charged with an unknown gas, which they proposed releasing at some ex- pedient time, the plan being to kill poastble. ierman said, was bd * : d : # Toponto, April 20, -- The & infantry advan- | 5 world says that Monday, June $ artillery clears the wav. # 28th, has practically been decid- & prisoner exhibited cotton | + ed on as election day. + "which he + CEPR PEER IP EERE RPR RIN quite | ver, B.C., Police Con- clear to me, however, why =a shift 1 AL Vaneou Newinghon, Was -- of the wind would Tot turn the | 2nd then clubbed into insensibility tables, blowing the gas into the Ger. | by two burglars, surprised by him man trenches instead of ours." { while robbing a store. LECTION JUNE 28TH. try attack, much as a after "The wool," said the officer, DAILY MEMORANDUM. C | See t t page 3, right hand cormer, Negotiations Between Austria and | ro on of Dag Italy May End In Ultimatum. "Mutt and Jeff In Mexico," | Opera House, 8.15 pm. London, April 20.--Whether the ne- | otiations ween. 7i | B g between. Rome and Visuna | DIED. IRWIN---In Kingston, 'April 19th, 1915, William Irwin. { Puneral (private) from his late real. | dence, 301 King street W., on Wed- nesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock te Cataraqui cemetery 'OTTER--1p Portsmouth, on 'April 15th, 1915, Christopher Charles, in- NEAR BREAKING POINT. Orand cial secret, hut it appears to be uni- 18 | int. It is suggested here that the Ital- |' ian foreign office is awaiti | i ter, aged four months. THEIR private Wed noon, at 2.30, tery. weaneeaey fren to Cataraqui ceme- ROBERT J. REID The Undertaker. hone B77. JAMES REID the vemaining ties barri break of hostilities r i REUTER ENDS HIS LIFE, Found Dead. London, April 20.--Baron Herbert Reuter, managing director of'Reu- ter's Telegram on Sunday Reigate, Surrey. y, was found his 'home mear re- at A and the muthorities declage there is little doubt he committed suicide, on OGRESSING 'THE ALLIES REFUSE fant son of Mr. and Mrs Jghn Pots a body is still in the house awaiting interment. © Their only son is in the army. EIGHT GERMAN CHILDREN eo Clean Ronuk Floor Polish, Liquid Veneer, Cobra Furniture Polish, Brasso, Silvo, Lux, Wool Wash, Sa- pollo, Bon Ami, Dustless Mops, fibre Tubs, Fibre Brooms, Brushes, Gold Dust Wa Pow- der, Dutch Cleanser, Pearline, Wing-Wing. Phones 20 and Common Grave, (Special to the Whig) {via i i « i cent merial raid over Freiburg, Ger many, by French aviators have been buried in a common grave with an ate ceremony at the expense of entire population of - the Sols saslogle elegrams of sympa- ved from school children and other German centres. the cit;