Daily British Whig (1850), 1 May 1915, p. 1

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YEAR 82 NO 102 BRITISH ENDEAVOR TOCUT OFF TURKS FR I D AY, MAY 1, 1915 LAST ED ITION From the Mainland After Driving Them Inland on The Gallipoli Peninsula--The Fight- ing Is Very Heavy. The Entire Allied Fleet Is Shelling Turkish Fonts--French Advancing on the Asiatic Side--No Change Report- ed in General Situations on Western Frontier. (Special to "the Whig . London, May 1.--Further ay of the heaviest character was reported to-day to be in progress on they Gallipoli peninsula, where the British forces are making | every effort to eut off the Turks from the mainl: ind. Lpeeial despatches from Athens say that in a series | of night assaults on the Turkish positions the enemy was| driven further inland." The entire Allied fleet is co-oper-| ating with the land parties, shelling Turkish forts from| a inside the Dardanelles, from the Gulf of Saros, and from the Aegean Sea. on the Asiatie side. The Admiralty has no confirmation of Turkish claims | that several of the Allied warships have been disabled by | the bombardment of the land forts. It is stated, however, | that it would not be surprising if some of the warships had Meanwhile the French are advancing| FRENCH CRUISER LEON GAMBETTA VICTIM OF Amp bagtidtddtttdttidtiitididsd WAR BULLETINS. : ALLIES LANDING "it The Dardanelles Was tf- fected Successfully. : ONLY ONE OF BEACH The Allied forces have made considerable gains along the whole front at Ypres, It is expected the Canadian Government will call for the re- cruiting of the fifth Contingent within a few weeks, Hundreds of citizens were killed in bread riots in Austrian towns. WAS THERE ANY TION REAL BY ENEMY, There Orrosi- 'Allies Continue To Make Gains ici' se" | Were In the Kighting. North of Ypres Londo fal 19 the ra , May 1.~-The Brat h War | Office has made public this official (Special to the Whig.) | communication concerning the oper Paris, May 1.---The War Office | ations of the Allies agaiast the Dar | last night made public the following | danelles: : ; offic ial communication: "The disembarkation of the army in "In Belgium, to the the Dardanelles began before sun Ypres, our attacks have rise 'cn April 26th. Six different But CESHOE Landing Was Carried New Also Suc. sfully Out--Aus- tralian and Zealand Ticops north of progressed AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE. A A A A at a At it AAA been. made to the Krithia. neighborhood of Australians In Fighting. "Meanwhile the Australians and New Zealand troops at Sari Bair, who pushed on, with the utmost boidness after the 'landing on the 25th, had heen engaged almost constandly with the enemy, who made strong repeat ed counter-attacks which nvarian:y were repulsed. The Austriallan and New Zemland troops fought with the fine &pirit of determinatio:=. "On the morning of the 27th a fresn Turkish division was launched against Sari Bair, precéded by a heavy -artillery fire, A hot en- gagement followed. The enemy came on boldly time after time, but 'the Australian and New Zealand troops defeated their every attempt and by 3 p. m. 'had resumed the of- ! fensive," wpededetededesdedededeododedeo dodged dodododededid oe SUPREME HUMILIATION, Paris, May 1.--"Let me die without shame. Do not demand of me supreme humiliation of ceding © territory to Italy." These, according to the Vienna STORY 0F GLORIOUS FIGHT OF Who Fought As They CANADIANS Did At the Battle of Langemarcke Because They Came From Fighting Stock. Sir Max Aitkens Gives Offici al Eye-Witness Story of fa. mous Battle In Which Canadians Lost So Heavily But Prevented Germans Break- ing Through (Special to the Whig.) London, May Following is a part of the official Eye-Witness story of the Langemarcke fight by Si Max Aitkens, Canadian record offi cer with First Canadian Contingent in Belgium: "The story of the second battle lof Ypres is ag story of how the Can- adian division, enormously out- numbered, for they had in froat of! them at least four divisions, sup ported by immensely heavy artillery, with a gap still existing, though re- duced, in their lines and with dis-| positions made hurriedly unde | | stimulus of critical danger, fougat| through day and through night and| then throughout another day and! | night, fought under officers until, as| {happened to so many, they perish-} | ed gloriously, and then fought from i the impulsation of sheer valor be- cause they came from fighting stock. | particularly been hit, as they are steaming well within range. Latest reports indicated fanded south of Jenikoi had advepeed {sland and was en- gaged by the main body of Turks. the campaign to isolate forts and then reduce them, if possible by eross fire from the fleet with the Queen Eliza- and other big gun ships operating from the Gulf of Saros and other warships operating from. in- The. Turkish pesitions at Nagara were heavily bombarded last night. beth, the Warspite side of the Straits. "T0 ARMS!" APPEAL MADE JO THE MEN OF CANADA (Special to the Whig.) Max Aitken, ness with the First Canadian Contingent in Belgium, has issued a supplementary report of the operatons in Bel- He concludes with this appeal: The Empire is engaged in a strug- and without compromise, against an enemy still superbly organized, still immensely powerful, still confident that its strength is mate of its necessities. London, May 1.--Sir gium. '"Arise, O Israel! gle without quarter "To arms, then, and still in Canada, in Australia, there is need, and there is need now of a commupity organizéd alike in military and in- dustrial co-operation. That even while their hearts are still bleeding, every call which is made upon them, we well know. graveyard of Canada in Flanders is large. large. alien soil. ories and their glory: "On Fame's eternal Their silent tents are And glory guards in solemn round The bivouae of dead." No Change on Western Front. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, May 1.--The War lows: "No change has been reported in the general situa- tion on the front since the giving out of the official eom- munique of last night. "Ten more shells fell on terday and there were several vietims. » LT. C. 6. CARRUTHERS WAS WOUNDED WHILE FIGHTING IN DARDANBLLES, A Cablegram Reached His Parents From the Hritish War Office-- Four Sons are in Military Life. J. B. Carruthers received a cable- gram on Saturday announcing that hig son, Lieut. Colin G. Carruthers, of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, (re- ported from Alexandria) was wound- ed between the 25th and 27th of April. The message was sent from 'the British War Office and does not intimate the character of the casual- ty. Lieut. Carruthers is the third son of Mr. and Mrs, J. B. Carruthers of " idale'" and is about twenty- five years of age. He was educated at the Upper Canada College, Toron- to, and - Military gazetted Ldeuténant of the 1st Dublin Fusiliers, on |. Battalion 26th July. 1913, and Rutiaked a ndia. He was was gazetted Lie a Kn 1914. He ls a Those who.lie there have their mortal remains on To Canada they have bequeathed their mem- Sraduated from the Royal in 1913. He was that the British foree which It is the intention of official Eye-Wit- "" to arms.' In Great Britain, our countrymen in Canada, will answer] The | It very is 'amping ground spread, Office to-day reports as fol- Dunkirk the evening of yes- capable soldier and his valor and Saray. were evidenced in his last Mr. and Mrs. J, B. Carruthers have three other sons in military life. Cap- tain Kenneth B. Carruthers, their second son, graduated at the Royal Military Coliege in 1906, and is now Captain in the 26th Battery OB Tth Brigade, Kingston. ruthers, their fourth son, is Lieuten- ant instructor on the Mechanical Transport, C.AS.C., stationed at Shorncliffe; England, and Erie Dud- ley Carruthers, the fifth son, attend ed the Royal Military Col! and is now Second roid in Royal Field Artillery in France in the Im- perial service. + Another important battle will be fought in a few days in the vicinity between died at his home in Brooklyn on on Fri- {at the hands of the Belgians, on the whole front on a depth vary- ing from 500 metres (about 1,600] feet) to one kilometer (two-thirds | of a mile). "We have taken twa successive] | lines of trenches and captured a great | | cessive many prisoners. "The correspondent of the Associ-| ated Press visited the summit of Hartmans-Weilerkopf, which the en- emy has not attacked for the last! twol days. "One of our airships has bombard- ed the railroad and sheds in the re-| gions of Valenciennes. | "One of our aeroplanes, which | war "destroyed by on "xploaiony fob | inside the enemy's lines.' i German Force Mowed Down By Our Guns Havre, May 1.--How a German force which tried to surrender when its retreat was cut off through the! destruction of a bridge across the Ypres Canal was mowed down by Germans was related yesterday by of- ficers returning frem the front. An advance guard of 4,000 Ger- mans forced its way across the can- al at Steenstraate. After they had | crossed, the Belgian artillery, which {| had the exact range, destroyed the bridge and cut off the treat. The Germans, German re+| facing annihilation | tied | white handkerchiefs on the barrels! { of their rifles as a signal of surren- | | der. At this moment the German | guns on the east bank of the canal | were opened on them and hundreds of them were slaughtered. The re-| mainder ran to the Belgian line and | surrendered, PITH OF THE NEWS Condensed Items By Telegraphic and From Exchanges Rev. Timothy F. Howard, Pompey Hill, N. Y., has been appointed to the irremovable pastorate of St. Paul's Church, Oswego, N. Y. The Grand Duke Nicholas is not ill. He is in perfect health and has been accompanying the Emperor, in his recent visit te Galicia. Six blocks, con ing nlany im- portant stores, busffiess houses and banks, already have been destroyed in Colon. The damage is estimated at $750,000. The steamers Arlington and Bran- don, sold last winter to the New Eng- land Coal and Coke Company of Bos- ton, have left Ogdensburg for the At- lantic coast, A number were killed, others in- jured and much material damage was done as the result' of an explosion in an ammunition factéry in the suburb of Okhta, Russia. aad lar MeValty, Safeated, pS aads date for the Ottawa mayo dropped his hint a 4] he turn of Mayor Porter and Controllers Ella and Nelson. A German taube aeroplane visited Suffolk county on Friday, but dropped no bombs. The Brit- ish airmen are said to have gone in pursuit of the hostile aircraft. Was Poisoned By Gas. Winnipeg, Yay, Will be Interred uh Sunda. a { Bahr, | fleet and army. | Bahr was taken about beaches were used and the operation was covered by the whole fleet. "The landing was immediately suc- | cessful on five beache®, although it the ! was opposed with vigor strongly entrenched enemy in suc- lines which were protected by barbed wire entanglements, in some places fifty yards wide and sup- ported by artillery. "On the sixth beach, near Sedd-El- by until evening when a fine attack by British infantry from the direction | i of Cape Tekeh relieved the pressure on. their front. fhe arrangements | for the lahding Tad been concerted | in the utmost deiall between the Fleet Assists Land Foree-. "At daybreak on the 26th the en: emy was still holding the village and | pesiticn of Sedd-el-Bahr, wnren was a-labrinth of eaves, ruins, pits and entanglements Aided by the guufire of the fleet, this position was stormed by the British in the | frontal attacks through undamaged wire entanglements. Sedd-el- p. m,, four pom-poms being captured. pe "The sitvation at this end of the peninsula thus was definitely se- cured, and disembarkation of the | French and British forees proceeded. "On the morning of the 27th, af- ter repulsi a Turkish attack upon their left towards Cape Helles, the Allied force advanced, and at 8 p m. was established in entrenched 2 2 | line running from a point about two miles north of Cape Tekeh to a small plateau above De Tott's battery. From this line an advance since has | a A AANA ANN NINN NINN LIBUT. CALVIN W. DAY, Killed in action Friday week Canadian charge near the Yser, the troops ceuld not advance | trenches, correspondent of Le Temps, are the last words of the Austrian Emperor on the Italian negotia- tions. Italians are flocking from Vienna to Maly, the correspon- dent avers. The extraordin- ary fact is, he says, that the $ Austrians would heartily © wel: come a war with the Italians, against, whom they are infari- ated. "The enemy, of course, was aware, whether fully or. not ma | perhaps be' doubted, of the advan- tage his breech in the French line {had given him and immediately be-: gan to push a' formidable series ot! attacks upon the whole of the new #+|ly-formed Canadian salient. If it 3 is impossible to distinguish when the attack was everywhere so fierce, | . it developed with particular inten- sity at this moment upon the apex of # | the newly-formed line running in| $444 Aid ddd 3d ddd 444444 | the direction of St. Julien. { "It bas already been stated that | four "British guns were taken in! the weod tomparatively early in th. {evening ef April 22nd. In | course of that night and under thal | heaviest gun fire, this wood was| {assaulted by the Canadian Scottish, | {the 16th Battalion of the 3rd Bri | gade and the 10th Battalion of the | 2nd Brigade, which was intercept-| {ed for this purpose on its way to] | reserve the trench. ; Battalions were | respectively commanded by Liegt.- {Col Leckie and 'Lieut.-Col. Boyle, {and after a mgst flerce struggle in the light of the misty moon, they * + * + + + * + + * + + * + an eosasevieerriteraratd Germans Start New Campaign Against Rassia (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, May 1.--A general Ger- | man offensive movement once mage ! is under way along the entire Prus- sian Borde Er, Shilsit to fl Lvs | took the position at the point of| tula River, the bayonet. The German advance (his time evi- | -- | | dently is aimed at the Baltic provin- | Canadians Never Wavered ces, which are rich in ctops and other) "At midnight the 2nd Battallon,| food supplies. under Lieut.-Col. Watson (3rd Bai For months the military opera talton) under Lieut.-Col. Renal», tions on the Prussian border had | Voth of the 1st Brigade, brought up been limited to scouting parties, iso- | I\uch-needed reinforcements ana lated artillery duels and aeroplane! | thdpgh not actually engaged in Lie warfare. | asa it that night were in reserva From Polangep, od town in the Bal-| All Wrough the following day ana | tic province of 'ourland, it was re-| Right the battalions shared the for- ported to-day that an increasing | tunes anh misfortu number of Gernian cruisers were pre- | Brigade. A paring to attempt the contemplated | In the attack desc | advance of the land forces. - {men about him fell under the fire On the Carpathian front nothing! of Juachi guns, which," in has happened in the last two days | Ph mc yed upon them "like a to alter the situation. pot." but the the never wavered. When one man fell an | other took his place, and with a | final shout the survivors of the tw) battalions flung themselves into the| wood. The German garrisot wai completely demoralized and the im | petuous advance of the Canadians id not cease until they reached tre | far side of the wood and entrench | ed themselves there in a position s> dearly gained. They had, however the disappointment of finding that the guns had been blown up by the enemy and later on in the samo {night a most formidable concentra {tion of artillery fire, sweeping the wood as a tropical storm sweeps the {leaves from a forest, made it impos | 7 TY {sible for them to hold the position Election A Crying Shame. | for which they had 'sacrificed so Toronto, May 1.--"The people of | mueh. the United States, at least those! "The fighting continued without whom I met and talked with, are not | intermission all through night and backward in expressing the opinion to those who observed the indica | that it is a crying shame to force ations that the attack was being Dominion election on this country at | pushed¢with every growing strengta, this time," said Dr. W. H. Hamilton, | it would hardly seem possible that the Fort William millionaire. ithe Canadians fighting in positioas ; ; {so dificult to defend and so Nttle > Germans Grinned at Survivors London, May 1.--B. T. Peak, sec: ond engineer of the British steame: | Falaba, who was rescued by a traw- | ler when his ship was sunk off the Irish coast on March 28th by a Ger- man submarine, with a heavy loss tof life, has just made a statemen'| {to the admiralty definitely charging | that the submarine crew laughed ali 'the struggling survivors of the Fal«-| ba and were Indifferent to the ap- peals for help. Peak has been dan- gerous ill in a London hospital Sine his rescue. | could maintain their resistance for Nn CANADIAN OFFICERS id 0: = | Y Canadian Counter-Attack. (Special to the Whig) Ottawa, May 1.--Another tragie officers opposing nearly one | the 'subject of deliberate choic) "At 6 am. on Friday it becam~ apparent that the left was becomin more and more Mvolved. It was, therefore, decided formidable at the attempt undoubtedly was, to try anil give relief by. a counter-attack upon the first line, of German trenches. now far, far advanced from thos» originally occupied by the Fremca This was carried out hy the On- tario First and Fourth Battalions of the First Brigade, under Briga- dier-General Mercer acting in com- CASUALTY LIST ninteen are Semler of the 15ta Battalion under command of Lieut.- Col. J. A. Currie, M.P., and mos. . 48th High ot is safp to say that the young: in the ranks, as he set = teeth for the advance, knew the task In front of him and the young- esh subaltern knew all that reste. non its success." 't did not seem that any human beiig conld live ia the shower of and shell whic) began to play upon the advancing They terrible er For a short time wey} casualties of issioned: officers 'and men « out Ic batches of twenty or thirty at a time, and ¢ hundred names are now - ilention, ered { spring. [HUSTON Allied Lines. | other man seemed to fall, but the attack was pressed even closer and closer. The 4th Canadian Batta. fon at one moment came under a withering fire. Fer .a moment, not more, it wavered. Its most gallant commanding "officer, Lieut.-Col. Birchall, carrying afte: an old fashion, a light cane coolly, and cheerfully rallying his men and at the very moment when his ex- ample had infected them, fell dea: at the head of the battalion. The Memorable Attack. "With a hoarse cry of anger thes sprang forward (for indeed they lov ed him), and if to avenge his dea'n { The astonishing attack which {i lowed, pushed home in the face of a" direct frontal fire made in broad (Continued on Page 4.) 3,000 People Sail From New York For Europe (Special to I to the Wh New York, May 1.---In z - face of { an advertisement signed by the Ger- man embassy and published in all { the New York papers to-day warn- ing the public that 'they travel to | Europe at this time at their own risk, *| nearly three thousand persons sailed on the trans-Atlantic liners to-day. Booking offices reported ' their heaviest day's work so far this United States people are apparently satisfied that Britannia, | not Germany, rules the waves. A Turkish transport off Maidos has been destroyed by the battleship Queen Elizabeth, DAILY MEMORANDUM. See top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities . 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