12 PAGES * YEAR 82 NO 94 MORALE OF SUPERIOR Success at Battle- of Neuve Chapelle Has Resulted in Noticeable Dropping Off in Number of British Sick. Big Rest Depots Established For Amusements---Turks "Entrenched Along Saros---Allied Fleet Bom- bards Turkish Encampments---Greek Sail- ing Ship Suk by Mine in Aegean. (Special to London, April 22. To-day's contribution to the act count of events at the front by "Eve Witness" KINGSTON ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APR A AFTERMATH OF BATTLE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE. The Daily British Whig [= | PacES 1-8 IL 22, 1915 LAST EDITION BRITISH TWANT ALL WAR BABES 70 ENEMYS T0 BE LEGITIMATED ------ Movement in England to Provide For Mothers and the Offspring of Soldiers Who Were Not Married. 'There Are 20,000 Women and Girls Living Near British Training Camps Who Are to Become Mothers Within the Next Few Months---Many of Them Unmarried. the Whig.) Some of the British wounded makes the claim that the morale*of-the British troops is now RUSSIANS WEARING much superior to that of the weakened sinee the Neuve ( ish success in this fight, ace of the spring and summer's work, has resulted in a notie- able dropping off in the number The troops are now supplied with many things to take the minds of the men LChief of these is the bathing system, which keeps down net, the Petrograd correspondent Big rest depots are also ostablished. at which band concerts, competitions, vermin, and boxing divert the men. In addition, The beneficial result is very Bombarded Turkish Encampments. (Special to April 22 -- Athens, formidable works opposite poli.) The Allied fleet vesterday bombarded Turkish en- { campments near Bulair, the had been indicated by aviators. A British torpedo boat at Katophanagia, near Smyrna. was sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea crew were killed. Germany Ready For a War of Silver Bullets Berlin, April 2. ( via Hague rulin, Apr this Ph to, be y war of silver bullets Germany is prepares Wall 'Street is and can be with the Allies, but Germany will remain un- frightened. The German people have overs -subscriped two war loans. In my opinion they etand ready to over- subscribe a third, should a third prove necessary." This is the opinion of financial Germany, as expressed to-day by Dr. Karl Helfferich, secretary of the Im- perial Treasury. It reflects the offi- "eint--view ot the relations of hance to the war. Killed In Action. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, April 22. -- Capt. bull Warren who succeeded the late tant of the 48th Highlanders was! killed in action. Col. Martin R. Sackett, Gouven: | _ eur, N. Y., announces his. TOF CoNEréss to succeed the late Ed- win A. Merritt, jr., Potsdam, N. REPLY TO BERNSTORFF BY PRESIDENT -- Washington April 22.--The_United Jovernment yesterday replied to the recent memorandum in which Count Von Berostorfi, the German Ambassador, declared that "ii the Am- SAS Pople mir T 'ObStve true neutrality they will find means to stop the exportation of arms te one side, or at least to use this. export trade as a nets io uphold the le- gitimate trade 'he American note, which is signed hy Secretary Bryan, was drafted at the 8 State Sete, but was final "is ilson himself Ait oi HF pe as im- hat ry ith of the Unit Sales in the . - th iced ies as a neutral," the note tak ive hs akes it was intended, dently the under thousands of whistles have been distributed, and the soldiers are en- couraged to stage football matches in their rest periods. The themselves strongly along the coast of the Gulf of Saros frdm a point near the Knoson mainland, with partie ularly and | 'but we must progress-to-the- Trum- | Captain Datling to the post of Adju-| 188 106 forest ApH] ton cargoes at Gibraltar. al sta insolar as enemy, which has noticably 'hapelie fighting. The Brit- epted as the commencement THEIR ENEMY BOWN of British sick. gaged Between :Lupkow and Uszok Pass. off the serious side of April 22.--Frederick war. London, Ren of New WSs, have sent through Moravia north Hungary. These have now entered the scene of action and are mouth organs and pe nny the vanguprd of the Austro-German forces in their attempt to develop a counter-attack against the Russian positions among the hills and villages of the southern Carpathians. About 600,000 Austro-German troops aré now engaged there over an irregular. line between. the Lupkeow and Uszok Passes. 'The fighting in the middle of this position is very entrenched desperate, but the Russians are slow- ly wearing down the enemy's gpesist + | ances The VAustrian railway The Roumanian frontier closed. against ordinary traffic doubt- {less because they are evacuating | Bukowina and are bringing { around, under German orders, V | Hungary. Although the Austrians have lost half a million prisoners to the Rus- sians since the war began besides a terrible total of dead and wounded, Tl the Magyar controllers of the = Aus. 1e¢ captain and | trian policy know well that Germany will not permit them to make a separ- ate peace. Accordingly + the present battle is being fought with terrible ferocity by | the German-Magyar sombinator, ! with the knowledge that the destiny of the Dual Monarchy the | result. the London Daily The Germans' vaudeville inforeements cables : large re- moving pictures, into marked. the Whig.) Turks have system . near has been Bulair (peninsula of Galli: into position of which previous] bombarded a Turkish camp A Greek sailing ship | A A i, Some 'Hot Air" rrom a Leader In the ¢ Reichstag . a (Special to the Whig (Bpecial to the Berlin, (via wireless), 'April 22.-- Ottawa, April 22 "The pen of the diplomat must not casualty list to-day i | spoil the sword has so well achiev- : od.' impassionately proclaimed Coun: | sellor Passache, Liberal leader and _Woundedyon April Ith, Driver Wil vice-president of the Reichstag in| jam Banfield; a of kin at Trenton, discussing a suggested peace here Ont. to- day. Eighth' "The land which we have conqtier- 18th Pte. ed -at the cost of so much German | kin in Fort blood, our bravest and Jour best, | April 18th, Pte. Kolskuggar Thor- must never be returned," he said. | steinston; next of kin in Winnipeg. "We must not stop where we are! Tenth Battalion-- Wounded on April | FIBER CSF" Yamund ames Scott; Channel and capture all the British | next of Kin in Brandon. stronghold as an. earnest , perman- | Thirteenth Battalion--Wounded on ent peace. v {April 16th, Pte. Thomas Richard ------------------ Adams; next of kin in Montreal. In New York several 2 ion--Kitled 1 - straw hats appeared on Fourteenth Battalion--Killed in ac hangs on CANADIAN CASUALTIES dst Issued at Ottawa on day Afternoon, Whig) I'he. Canadian includes the fol Thurs- lowing™: Third Field Company of Engineers Battalion--Wounded, April Russell Whiteside; next of William. Wounded on hundre Broadwa 20th, since 1896. The temperature was seven- | ty-nine degrees in the afternoon. | Great Britain declared she was i not responsible for the delay of cot shot wound in right arm; next ol deere DMO 2x MP was erect Pp] lorie, Bb Ted President of Jhe Toronto ' Association. ander; next of kin in Montreal. Sixteenth Battalion--Wounded, Ma- jor Lorn C. Ross, admitted to hospi- tal in London, April 19th, with gun- 8 ioias-- Wounded, Reform | 18th, Pte. Thomas Francis; next of | | kin in Edmonton. Wounded on April | 18th, Pte Benjamin Holt; next of kin | in | Valgary. April | ABSENCE OF REAL NEWS To Repurt. (Special to the Paris April- 22. ther be- | cause of the tightening of the censor-| | ship lines or the failure of command- ers at the front to report, there is pts "cannot { again an utter absence of real news of discus- | from the Allied front. This after-| relations of the United States with | any one of the belli wisely be made a sul correspondence. betw irate gererat States and the Allies as has been | PO that publi shows "the steadfast refusal | of the American Government" to ae- | knowledge the right of any belliger- | ent to alter the acpepted ules of of Soe | "WAS Tun | thing new" to report. sights and Jntersste of Fg attit of the United ator Beir Mn d on the question of the ex tion of | } ng asse ukiasis restored--namely, t to Phuse 1 Y efabargo on arms, during the pro bev Ay of a war would be a "divect | violation of the neutrality of the Un- | sind note refers to the spirit of friend: ship . which the United States fiend | Special fo thes to thea Whig.) Londen aon" See German' along the no 'from Soissons to the = that the lity o "ig sion with a third Government," such | noon's official communique declared | een....the.. "situation troops | { ranean, [tion on April 18th, Pie. William Ales | | Prom the Allied Front--Nothing New, i | there was "no-| 1 "To Meet British from the Neuve Chapelle fight, SPANISH EX. PREMIER DICLARES FOR ALLIES About 600,000 Austro-Germans En- Romanones Says it is a Crime to Of Attack and Their Line is Now Delay the Expression of Sympathy. April vrame; fo Madrid, sent the Silence if we to is at wit : pre until show our tor pro y late," was the Alvaro de of Spain, Balearic Isles. Spain's foreigm igema agreement and 15 a nt ot ---vietox for. the bal hall be t assertion made b former Palma, capital of tl He pointed out tha policy since the Cart in 1907 had been favorable to the Triple Entente. "The present hours are so grave and important," said the former Pre- mier, "that it is necessary for Spain | to solemn aration. With! out violating itrality we must whom belligerents we one ¥ Count ount Romanones, Premier more more make a ie our 1 say among consider our friends speaker said that the Covern ment obliged to be. silent on the subject, but that men not in office could declare that Tangiers was a national aspiration, and that the future of Spain was in the Mediter- while the future ol Portugal was in Africa. The ex-Premier's address thustically cheered. PEPE EPP FS LE FEE E LEA wa was en WERE REPULSED, (Special to the Whig.) London, April 22.--The War Office announced on Wednes- day night that the German counter attacks near Ypres were repulsed with 'heavy losses when they attempted to retake positions. +* * > + - * + 4 + 4 i + * 3 vesirSossiirersiie BIG TROOP MOVEMENTS, Reason for Germans' Watch at Dutch- Belgian Border. Rotterdam, April 22.--The Bel- gian-Duteh frontier is still definitely closed. Even those holding passes have not been allowed to enter or leave Belgium. Those responsible for delivering bread to the people living just across the irontier have been compelled to throw it from one cart to another and not enter Bel- gium. : ~The TFONIEr COrTespondents say that the reason for this is the great troop movements, Trains are run- ning continuously between Germany and Belgium, but no inkling of the intentions of the Germans has leaked out. wl INVALIDED HOME. * | He Has Been Suffering From Pneu- | monia. Pi Vy } i } {also issued instructions that all dogs' {in the cily must either be tied up! {muzzled or_shot, owing to the fact! , SIR MAX AITKEN. London, April 22.--Major Sir Max | Alten, the Canadian official Eyewit | ess in France, has been invalided Home, suffering from pneumonia. Br -------- Some 8,000 members of the First verseas Canadian Contingent now | Orangemen, arriving in Fngland at one of the south coast pons awaiting tre pusporiation to th e hospitals. A AAA AA A A A LAlity has been broken. Tater Writing home letters {color and headed lvice." LWtion, {ing but private and family meer" Wall N, t Tell 3] Dogs Must Be Tied Up. ! {the Union of South Africa have oc- ary under-secretary for war stated (Special to the Whig.) London, April 22. --Admittedly greatest side-problem of the will be the caring far the "war bies'"" who are brought into world with soldier fathers, and some cases without the sanction Church or State. Statistics oom- pleted here show that there are 20,- 00 women and girls living in close proximity to the British training camps who are to become mothers within ' the next few months. There are many women . whose husbands have been killed at the front, who have only the meagre allowance granted to soldiers' widews to finance them through~ the ordeal of child- birth. In order to solve the problem, re- presentatives of over a score of sociological and philanthropic relief societies met to-day privately in the headquarters of the Women's Imper- ial Health Association to agree on a concerted plan for rehef. It is the. intent on of the leaders to have Parliament pass a bill to legitimate: the child of every Sojdier, whether married or not, the ther and child to be provided for out of the public funds. [fo-day's Suf- fragette discussing the subject says : "War babies must not only be wel- comed but given a greater rather than a smaller advantage. Every one will be needed and must be made a valuable asset to ithe nation." the war ba- the in of GERMANS HAVE LOST INITIAL ADVANTAGE Besieged by the French. April 22.--A correspond the Times in "Easte n supming up tle fighting about St M Sel wedge, says: "The net result of the autumn and winter campaign is that the Ger-| mans have lost their initial advan- tage of attack, and their line is now being besieged by the French." The correspondent emphasizes the importance of the capture of Les Kparges "in the teeth of the Ger- man Crown Prince," and notes that the French "are steadily pushing for- ward from Verdun toward Metz." He says that the strength of the Ger- man positions in the Toul-Verdun barrier of fortresses is now more ap-| parent than real 'It sems to be certain," ke adds, "that the Germans have begun - to withdraw their heavy guns from "+3 Romains. Confirmation of this be important, because it London, ent of France," GERMANS DEMORALIZED. Turkish Troops Are in Retreat Before Indians (Special to the Whig.) London, April 22.---The official re- | port of the Indian Office says: "The losses of the enemy in the Shaiba action total 2,600, and we took 515 prisoners who have been brought to Basra. The Turks every- where are in a demralized retreat. de- | We sank twelve Arab vessels and here occupied Nakhailah." mc dda + To Tax Liguor Sales. | Albany, N.Y. April 22.<Lieuor | dealers whose sales exceed A [will be taxed two and a half = per cont. annually on their gross agles by Denies German Reports Involving {the provisions of a tax bill a Burns And Hardie. | upon by Republican legislators in con- ary Praise For Zepps. London, Eng., April 22.---Ram-| fercnce. The vote for the tax was Rotterdam, April 22.--After a. say MacDonald, M.P., authorizes the about three to one. long and weary wait for aerial suc-| Daily News to say that there is ab cess, Germany is delirious with joy | solutely no truth in the statement over the visit of Zeppelins to Egng-|issued by the German Overseas that land last week. The papers are still he, John Burns, and Kier Hardie full of extraordinary praise. T he are starting a new radical party ad- Hamburger Fremdenblatt, writing vocating the speedy termination of apparently with a confused idea of the war. English geography. says the aerial | where he is acting as drill instruc cruisers flew over the mouth of the! Pe tor. Thames and passed by way: of Kent | * | pe . across Sussex. [It proceeds: le WERE DRIVEN BACK. 4 Ther was a very small market on "With what feeling did London $ 4 | Thursday morning. Eggs sold at 20¢ awake the morning after the German + 4% a dozen and butter at 33c a Ib. airships had been within a few miles | & *| of London and flown over Brighton, & > which on Saturday afternoons in| summer shows half of London on its & sands. It must be a painful experi-| § the Germans tried to land an ence for London's population of & clerks to have our aerial cruisers so| 4 near their 'place of . work in the city + and right over their place of recrea- tion and sport, and to know their for-| & mer proud and century-long inviolab- General Staff Had Terrible Awaken- ing At Neuve Chapelle. Berne, April 22.--The widest pub- licity is being given in the German, Austro-German and neutral press to an alleged statement in a London evening newspaper that, with better | leadership, the British losses at the Neuve Chapelle fight would have been | mueh less. Nevertheless, four officers belonging to a neutral state who hive just returned from Germany, and were with the German General Stafi on the Western front, have as- sured me that the British fighting at. Neuve Chapelle produced a moralizing effect on the German Gon. | leral Stafi. One high officer said: | "Now we see that the British oan | ficht as well as we cen.' would would be impossible for the French to occupy St. Mihiel, even if the rumors that the Germans tave evacu- ated it are true, unless the Germans | also quited Camp des Romains." NO NEW PEACE PARTY. » GLOAT OVER AIR RAID. German Papers Full Of Extraordin- cpl ---- Joins Territorials. Trenton, April 22.-Capt. John McDonald, son of A. A. MacDonald, Marmora, is now serving as captain in a regiment of territorial cavalry, {and is stationed at Canterbury, (Special to the Whig.) Liverpool, April 22.--Well- known naval experts in address- ing a meeting says that al- though not generally known, DAILY MEMORANDUM. +! Bee top of page 3, right hand corner, # for probabilities * Limestone Lodge, No. 91, AOU W expedition force in Britain, + meets to-night at 8 o'clock ary y . | Open night Y.W.C.A Gym. pus Sate driven back by the *| Queen's Gym. Thursday, 8 pm. sh navy. Rummage sale at Congre %| Hall, Johnson street, Friday FEE EERE Lh PEP Peb bb debby 2nd cvening EMPEROR NOT SATISFIED. Displeased With Results Obtained by | class. ational ternoon a DAINAID--An Kingston, Ont, April 21st, 1915, Sergeant and Mrs. E. J. Dainald, 225 Montreal street, & daughter 'We are filled with 'expectations, | What has been done can>be done again. Spring is in the air, birds! are on the wing, space is free, the Zeppelins. nights are dark. What are distan-| Geneva, via Paris April 22.--Ger- tes? Unhindered, our airships ar- man and Swiss newspapers published "rive; unhindered they go; Tin town around Lake Constance, out the deeds, watched by proud ane | Where the Zeppelin works are situat- | thankful Germany. Britons have ed, say that Emperor William learned that between heaven and | Sispleased 3t the results obtained by | earth there are things undreamed of | Zeppelin airships in recent raids an en in their philosophy and they are has ordered much larger dirigibles ae "Hoy AR er German. things... constructed. Twe-of the --new mire rest Aprit-- ---- craft, the newspapers assert, are to The home was once so bright and clear ! be finished each month. Formerly a every roomy thread : e Soldiers Are On Honor. | one airship was built every three EL ad ie stovm London, April 22.--in at to re- weeks. The number of workmen at | --Father, mother, brother and sisters. lieve the hard d vorked sons 8 4 4 plant have Leen nearly. Tm ubled and the machinery has been | front are-now being' "pul on their greatly augumented. honor as te the contents of their! . Count Zeppelin has ' arrived at | letters. A special envelope has basen | Friedrichshafen to supervise the ex- {issued to the troops in the fighting | ecution of the new order, the object 'line for the purpose. It is green in | of which, according to the newspap- "On active 1 ers, is organized raids against Paris On the flap is this declara- | and London. The new Zeppelins will which must be signed by the cost over $600,000 each, while the writer: | bombs they will carry will ba double "1 certify on my honor that the, | the size of those now in use. contents of this letter refér to noth-| MARRIED, = < Gananoque, --on April 21st, 1316, in Christ Church, by the Rev, W. Cox, Bessie Clark to William H. James. IN MEMORIAM. As \ Phone 708. Brantford, April 22. -- Mayor {Spence has instructed the police to lenforce the city by-laws, with ' pecial reference to the one prohibit- The Strength | Esther Howell yesterday. He Ad London, April 22.--An attempt was made in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon to satisfy keen public interest regarding the official figures of Great {land forces and the result of ieruiting, but it met with a definite | refusal from the war office. Harold J. Tennant, Parliament. that four eases of been found here. Tables have; Ronuk Floor Polish, {| Veneer, Cobra Furniture a Union Forces Occupy Town. Cape Town, 'April 22.--Forces of | {cupied Keetmanshop, the most im-| that the ent had no ag" portant town in German South-west | tion of di the strength of Africa, next to Windhoek, the capi- | the British army in the field or in tal. It is an important june- [training as ft considered that such -| disclosure would be detrimental Of British i Hose