EEE SEY 8 PAGES YEAR 82 NO 103 he Dai MONDAY, MAY 3, 1915' ly British ° KINGSTON ONTARIO, Whi { PACES 1-8 LAST EDVRION CANADA'S FALLEN SO NS MUST BE AVENGED THE CANADIAN WILL TOTAL OVER 6,000 LOSSES Official Statement Issued By Militia Department. HOW- THREE BRIGADES FOUGHT TILL THEIR RANKS WERE SADLY THINNED. Canadians Held 5,000 Yards Of Trenches at the Most Difficult Portion Of the British Line To Hold. (Bpecial to the Whig.) Ottawa, May 3.--A clearly detail- ed story, giving the disposition of the Canadian troops and describing how they held their position gal lantly while faced with tremendous odds and' handicapped by the nature of the front they were forced to hold, was issued this morning by the Militia Department It. is a straightforward story of a stand in jhe face of terrible odds, as inspir- ng as any in history, and indicates that there was not a single one of the now terribly decimated battali- ons and their officers who did not cover themselves with glory The casualties in killed, wounded nd missing total over six thousand, | ith over 700 killed and 2,000 miss ng. The number of Germans who battered against the position is giv pn as 100,000 at least. With rifle! hell, machiné gun fire and deadly [gases projected against them, three Canadian brigades formed and re- formed, attacked and counter-attack | and stuck to their pusitions waiting | n vain for reinforcements. anti | heir ranks were sadly thinned and heir front was extended to a length pot justified by their numbers. Held Difficult Ground. The memorandnum says: "From | uthentic data it appears that on| he 22nd the Canadighs held 5,000] ards of trenches near Ypres. They | ere on the extreme left of the tish line. This has always been | ro a very flat _countr cost" part of the ih | was admitted. about 200 yards from the Allied line, and the, wind being from the enemy's direction towards the Allied line, dense volumes of heavy gas were projected towards the Allied line, evidently by compression through tubing, and upon reaching the Allied trenches were found to be asphyxiating. It is generally sup- posed .that chlorine was principally used. The fumes seemed to have enveloped all the French front and part of the-Highland Brigade and in many instances proved immediately deadly, in other cases completely disabling soldiers, while in others the effect was only temporary. WAS AT ANTWERP. But Nothing Was Said About It On Saturday. (Special to the Whig.) Amsterdam, May 3.--The Kaiser, acompanied by Prince Henry of Prussia, visited Antwerp on "atur- day and inspected the construction of the fortifications and new sub- marine yard. Antwerp newspapers were pro- hibited until to-day making men- tion of the visit as the authorities | feared an attempt might be made | al assassination. United States Will Conduct An Enquiry (Special to the Whig.) Washington, May 3.--Press 1» ports of the torpedoing of the Ameri. can steamer Gulffight and the loss| of her captain, and some of the! members of the crew, created a stir! last night in official circles here, where seriousness of the occurrence In the absence of President Wil-| son, officials made no comment as! to the probable action of 'the Unite. State Government, beyond saying | that a thorough inquiry as to the| manner of the totpedotnd and the wi are a n cou requi tine, that is the most difficult to | reached as to the kind of represen- | d. The Canadian position was) pid by two of three infantry brig- | . On the right was the 2nd] rigade under Brig.-General Currie de up of western Canadian regi-| ments. On their left was the High- | land Brigade, which included Win- nipeg, Hamilton and' Vancouver, al: so the Fifteenth Battalion which in- cluded the 48th Highlanders and various units fromi Ontario points. "The First Brigade was in reserve | some miles in the rear. It was com- manded by General Malcom 8S. Mer- | cer, Queen's Own Rifles, Toronto, | with Major Ross Hayter, Halifax, as brigade major. It included the First Battalion (pade up of Western | Ontario men under Colonei Hill, Ni- | agara Falls, with Major Beecher, London, assisting him); the Second | Battalion (made up of Eactern On-| tario men under command of Colonel | D. Watson of the Eighth Royal Rifles | of Quebec); the Third Battalion | (under command of Colonel Rennie, | Toronto, and the Fourth Battalion (made up Central Ontario men, North and Northwest of Torento). "Owing to Col. Labatt's illness, Col. Birchall, of the Permanent Stall, wis placed in command of the 410th sations to be made. If first reports are horne out, the attack on the Gulflight constitutes] the first case of an American ship! struck by a torpedo with the con- sequent loss of lives. Twn Ameri-| | can vessels have been sunk by mines, the responsibility for which never has been fixed, and an American, TWO STEAMERS TORPEDOED. Engiadd and France Each Lose a Vessel. tondon, May 3.--The British steamer Fulgent was sunk by a Ger- man submarine northwest of the Skellig Rocks in the dark of Satur- day morning, says a despatch to Lloyds from Kilruth, Ireland. A boat containing nine survivors and the body of the captain of the steamer, who had been shot. and killed, was rescued by a trawler and landed at Kilruth. The trawler was unable to find the second boat of the Fulgent, containing the re- mainder of the crew. The French steamer Europe, from | Barry for St. Nazaire with a car- go of coal, was torpedoed by a Ger- man submarine Saturday morning near Bishop's Rock and sank, says a despatch to Lloyds from Pen- zance. ¥ The crew was rescued by a steam drifter. BLOW TO TRADE When the War Ends Is Feared By Taft. New Haveu, Conn., May 3.-- "The present stimulus in business in tae United States is artificial. The war in Europe has caused it. Manufac- turers are busy turning out material for the belligerents. No man can say for certain, but a sudden end of the war might thrown the country back into a condition as bad, if not worse than it was before hostilities began." In these words Ex-President Wil- liam H. Taft appears for the first time in the role.of a pessimist. Rest Of Landswurm Called. London, May 3.--The Berliner ageblatt, a copy of which has been received here, says Landsturm who have not yet served, have heen sum- moned to Schoenberg, beginning to- day. The concentration will com- mence with the class of 187) and continue until May 12th, ending with the class of 1876. The news | paper adds that a further calling out of the Landsturm will begin June 4th with the class of 1875 and end June 16th with the classes of 1869 and '1870. WEALTH REDUCED BY $60,00,000,000. or «Cont. of Wealth of Nations . | bs Invelved. Blelphia, May 3.--Simon N. Patten, noted educator and econom- ist, in discussing "the menace to America of European war *expendi- tures," before the American Acad- . Leon C. Thresher, was drowned ®my of Political and Social Science, when the British ship Falaba was estimated that one year of the war torpedoed. | will meag-dthe destruction of $30,- 000,000,000 worth of property, and Mrs. Carman Again On Trial. a total reduction of the value of the Mineola, 1.1, May 3.--Mrs, Flor-| World's capital of $60,000,000,000. ence Conklin Carman, accused of | This means, he said, a destruction the murder of Mrs. Louise D. Bailey | of twenty per cent. of the wealth of | in the office of the former's hus-|the countries involved. . band, Dr. Edwin Carman, in Free-| "If the war continues more than port, on July 30th last, goes on|a year these losses will be enormous- trial for her life here to-day. This | ly increased and the difficulties of will be her second trial. | readjustment correspondingly great," [ve a. not, however, from this in- The Germans Se To Are Using fer that the tgtal value of the world's | wealth will be permanently de-| creased. No matter how destrue- tive the war is, none of the perma- nent resources of the world will be | disturbed. "The liquidation of the losses will | take place, bringing a higher total Battalion. (Special to the Whig.) . Paris, May 3.--That the German | The Deadly Gas. |are again using their asphyxiating "Canadian guns were posted far 10 | gag in their efforts to gain ground | the rear. Four heavy Canadiah |porth of Ypres and in. the vicinity | guns it seems were some one or two of Ypres was admitted by the War | or more miles in the rear of the | Office to-day. In its regular after-| French lines. On the afternoon of [noon communique the War Office the 22nd, following a prolonged and [said that the Germaas had tried by| terrific artillery fire, the enemy's [this means to gain ground there | value than before. Such, at least, has been the result that has followed all the financial crises in the past, | and It is likely to be true again." {two hundred German prisoners, i WHAT MAY HAPPEN. French Think Germany Will Invade | Switzerland. | T0 BE A CLASH But It Will Be Between the' Lighter Ships. THE MOSQUITO FLEETS ARE MOVING ABOUT IN NORTH SEA WATERS. The Possibility of Read Fighting Is Constantly Improving--The Great Fleets Are Not Likely Together Just Yet. (Special to the Whig) London, May 3.--The sinking of the British destroyer Recruit i :l.¢ North Sea off the Holland coast, followed by the sinking of two - man torpedo boats Saturday, is pected to be followed by more agements of this character scon. th navies now have their nos quito fleets" out from their bases in full strength. 'The weather is now ideal for cruising and both belligerents have all of their small vessels op scout duty, while it is again reported that the main Ger man fleet has been sighted cruising ofi Heligoland: There has heen a significant re-| alignment of the British battle fleet during the last ten days and offi cials at the Admiralty say, tha: the possibility of real fighting is con-! stantly improving. It is not expect ed that two great fleets will clash but there is bound' to be more or less fighting between the rival sqnad-! rong of destroyers, armed trawiers and light cruisers all of which are] now on sea duty. French and British cruisers of| the Arethusa type are reported in! the North Sea, near the Balgian| coast, where a flotilla of thirty knot] German light cruiser has been re-| ported. These may clash at any time: | wother hand to Come ex- one. -- | Sunk Some Trawlers. g (Special to the Whig.) Aberdeen, Scotland, May 3.--The Scottish trawler Endosia, Brenning- ton and Aries made port to-day re porting having been chased by Ger- man submarines. They saw two JRkaED. sunk by is teved all the War Tidings. Gen. Savoff, at one time Minister of War of Bulgaria, has arrived at Budapest. He will remain a few days and then proceed. to Petrograd on a| fecret mission. | "Five million Australians salute Canadians, exult and sorrow with them," cables Percy Faithful, of Sy- dney, NSW. to Prof. J. Charles Fields of the 'University of Toronto. The Dutch steamer American, out- | ward bound, picked up two German | airmen from a wrecked airship at al point five miles west of the Noord Hinder lightship off Flushing. Berlin claims that the main line of communication for the Russians about Warsaw is now threaténed un- | less the commander there can throw the German invaders back. The Russian 2,000-ton steel screw steamer Sverono, bearing Welsh coal | to Archangel, a Russian port on the White Sea, was torpedoed and sunk! by a German submarine on Friday. near the Blasket Islands, on the west coast of Ireland. The crew escaped. The British steamer Edale was sunk off Scilly Isles. All the crew was saved. | A Capetown official despatch says: | Union forces destroyed the railway! north of Giboni, captured. a whole] railway train, a number of transport | wagons, live stock, field guns and | trawlers, identity. a submarine; it crews perished. It is believed that the great Ger-| man gun which bombarded Dunkirk from a range of twenty-three and a ball miles has been put out of ac PEP PR PPR RRP TEP e " NE ISSUES | STATEMENT. Will Not Resign But Will Depead On Conver lon, z Ottawa, May 3.----Issuing % state ment to the electors of Uarleton County, Mr. W..F. Garland, M.P. stales definitely that he will not re- sign his seat, but will allow his name to go before the Couserva- tive Convention. : The statement reals: , "According to a report in an Ot- tawa newspaper you might be led to believe that 1 had sent in my re- signation as your repre'enta. ve in the House of Commons. This 1 sa phatically deny. I do not wiend to pursue this course, but ou. the intend to submit asain my name to the Conservative As- sociation pf Carleton County n con- vention. [| do =o admitting that an error was committed on my pail in recommending Mr. Powell for. the purchase of the large order of neid dressings for the Militia "Depart- ment, but restitution was fully made in this connection to the creldi. of the young man. "Every person has made mistakes in his or her lifetime althougn all do not admit them. I will seek your suffrage after a full explanation on my part, and will leave it to your sound judgment for a verdict. You will agree with me that no one has! suffered more than myself through the public press and public senti- ment. "After what I have been pri:ileg- ed to do for the constituency _ it must be sufficiently obvious thal I have the interests of the county at heart, and if elected" will try te serve you to the best of my _ avili ty." | SUBMARINES ACTIVE. (Special to the Whig.» London, May 3.--German submarines sunk altogether, five steamers on Saturday, In. cluding two British, one Ameri- can, one French and one Rus sian. It is officially announced that two German torpedo beats and the British destroyer Recruit were sunk in the North Sea on Saturday in a battle of the mos- quito fleets, $34 P bbb bbe + mah The Women's Peace Conference Adopts Resolution of a Hus- garian Delegation. The Hague, May 3.--The Wo- ov e000 P00 i 8 KINGSTON SOLDIER DIES ~ OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE river Frederick Muay Suc- | combs at Boulonge. | =u, Beier SE Pte. Hawley was formerly witn the Ontario Powder Company, Kings ! System. ton. Two fears ago he left for Ed- monton, and received a position in WITH OVERSEAS FORCES, ONE, BEING AT FRONT. i the 'office of the Alberta Telephone morning received a telegram from the Adjutant-General stating- taat her nephew Pte. R. Harold Hawley, When war broke out he was among the first to volunteer. Pte. Hia'wley was formerly with the 14th Regiment, Kingston. Pte. S. Wilder, Kingston, Recovering From Wound--Other Kingston Soldiers Who Were Wounded In The Great Battle In Belgium. * +* * + + + + * + + + * + * * 5,000 CASUALTIES ! a So far the list of Canadian officers killed and wounded in the Langemarck fight totals about 220, Several are miss. ing, which indicates that a num- ber of prisoners must have been taken. The impression is growing that several of the bat- talions were almost annihilated, and that the total casualties will approximate 5,000, Driver. Frederick Murray, who went from Kingston with the detach ment of the ¥ifth Field Battery, dipd of wounds in Boulogne Hospital, France. The sad news was received by his mother, Mrs. Thomas Murray, 224 Montreal street, on Saturday. Driver Murray is well-known in the | city, having lived here for eight years. He drove a hack for about five years and before that time drove | for the late P. McFadden and others | Being an expert horseman he was one | of the most proficient soldiers in the Fifth Field Battery and was looked { upon as a highly capable and ener- getic artilleryman. Driver Murray was born in Dover, | England, twenty-one years ago this week and at the age of thirteen, with the rest of the family, came to Can ada and resided in Kingston till he went to war. He was a devoted member of St. George's Cathedral. The first news of this casualty was received by the mother was on Wed nesday when the Adjutant-General| notified her that her son was in No. { 13 General Hospital in-Boulogne suf- fering from severe wounds. The news of his death was therefore not altogether unexpected. Driver Murray was a true soldler, as he came from a military family. | His father died some nineteen years {ago after completing twenty-one | years of service in the Imperial at Dardanelles; the town of Army. Thyee brothers survive: danelles be totally destro Thomas, the 1st Regiment C. M. R..| J 0uelies being totally " Toronto; George, of the 21st Battal- | go. ahd Samudrut | PPP EPP PLP 4H FEE EPEFIN PRR FS IMME I NS | Lieut. Thompson Wounded Mitchell, Ont, May 3.--Lieut. Henry Aubrey Thompson, repoited wounded is a son of F. H. Tho son, K.C., Mitchell, Ont. He gradu ated from the Royal Military ol. vo lege; Kingston, in- 1913; and sinve 3 then has been an engineer in th: Department of Public Works, Caase, B.C. At the outbreak of the war he was attached to the Royal Man treal Regiment, and later was mace commander of. the 3rd Brigade Grn ade Company. [+P SERRE PREP PI EE INOPPS DOING HEAVY WORK. (Special to the Whig.) London, May 3.--Refugees say the Queen Elizabeth's guns $ are doing tremendous dama % PEPE Pe? re ond . yy | Buffalo has givén § Belgian relief fund. DAILY MEMORANDUM. Bee top of page 3, right hand con for probabilitier > THE DAILY BRITISH WH Is on Sale at the Following § V detachment from the 14th Reglment. The lyst photo received by the mio- ther is one of Samuel and Frederick | fon the field. i | Beside the mother and thrée bro- | { thers, three sisters also survive: Mrs. McCready, whose husband 1s at the { front with the Imperial Army; Mrs. { J. Taylor, whose husband (formerly Flood men's International Peace Congress with the R. C. H. A.) Is now with came to a turbulent close Saturday | the 6th Royal Scots, Montreal, and with the adoption of a resolution | Mrs. E. Dainard, whose hulvand is sponsored by Miss Rosika Schwim-| in the 8th Regiment C. M. R. at Ot- mer, of Hungary, calling on the eon- | tawa. Three cousins of the late driv- gress to send women delegates to the | or are also on active service. rulers of all neutral and belligerent | nations in Europe, and to the Unit- | , ed States, presenting the resolutions | Pte, 5. Wilder Wounded. as adopted by the congress and mak-| That he had been wounded in| ing an appeal for an immediate end | France, was the message conveyed to the present bloodshed. {in a cablegram received on Satur- One of the German delegates, | day night by H. 8S. Wilder, living at Frau Augsburg, propesed a me e | the corner of Princess and Frontenac | of greeting from the congress to the | streets, regarding his son Private French delegates, who were unable | Sherby Wilder who is a member of | to be present. It was adopted. {the 14th Regiment. | While at Salisbury Plain, Private | Wilder got acquainted with an Eng- | ish family and he wrote to them ask- ing that they send a cable to his par- fuoyd | ents in Kingston. They did so and | the message made good time it being received here an hour and a half af- INCREASE DRINK PRICES of Protests Again George's Tax Prdposals, Bu Cla College Book Stor Coulter's ¥. Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Pri Frontenac Hotel Gibson's Drug Store | Lowe's Grocery McAuley's Book Store . ncknell's Ne Stores: ws Depot J. WW. & Co. 4 205 Kin rke, 3 «353 Pri 163 Grocer 200 Pri n & f McGall's Cigar Store, Cor. P McLeod's Grocer | Medley"s Dru Paul's Prouse's Valleau's Grocery NEWMAN HAY ¥ .. Unlon Store, 250 Uj : tore 76 § Store Cigar .312 20 BORN, the Kin on April Mra. J. H. Street, a son. MARRIED. SNYDER ww At. Kin Thursday ¥ ston Ged ® Oth, 1015, Newman, At Hospital, Mr. and Nelson by u London, May 3.--A flood of pro- tests have come from all parts of the country against the proposals of David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to increase th. duty on alcoholic. drinks. Distulers, brewers, saloon and hotelkecpers have held meetings of protes. and in many places have*decided upon an immediate increase in prices. | ter it was filed. It is understood that Private Wilder is doing well and al-| most recovered. i Private Wilder joined the 14th] Regiment under Lieut. George Rich-| ardson. While at Salisbury Plain he | was transferred to the machine gun | section. He was well-known in King- | ston. i On Sunday Mrs. Wilder was offi- y., April 22nd, Ray. G. camphall, 3 M son of 4 A Kingston DIED. MORRISON--In Kingston, on 1915, Florence Fouine b rison. aged 16 years, Funeral from her father's 94 Rideau street, on Tuesd moon at 2 o'clock to cemetery. A er] CRY Irgland rticularly is disturoed,| | d -Lfing hare) rim seoed. | cially notified by the Militia Depart-| Friends and two German proposals were adopted thes would Ment at Ottawa, of thé wounding of acquaintances a on. spectfully invited to attemd. trenches being on an average of (but had failed. It is reported that Parls, May 3.--Immediately Italy|" dee war, Germany will invade od GERMAN TORPEDO BOATS SUNK IN London, May 3.--The British Ad- miralty stated last evening that twb German torpedo 'boats had been sunk in the Norih Sea. The British torpedo boat destroyer Recruit was also sunk. The text of the admiralty state- ment féllows: "A series of small affairs took place in the neighborhod of the Gal- loper and North Hinder lightships on Saturday. . "During?ihe forenoon H. M. de- stroyer Recruit was sunk by a sub- marine, four officers and twenty-one men being saved by the trawler A to "At 3 p.m. the trawler Colombia tof was attacked by two ; pedo boats, which approached her from the wv ard, and commenced an action witwout hoisting their col- ors. The Colombia was sunk by a trpedo, only one deckhand being $av- od by other trawlers. "A division of British destroyers gaged Leoni comprising the Latorey, das, Lawford and Lark, chased the Ger- vessels, and after a brief run- |r man ning fight of about one hour, sunk "The British 8 rland with two army corps, occupying Zurich and the country around it. This assertion is made positively in last night's Liberte. Information from Berlin shows that the German plan, which has! been worked out, is as follows: When Italy intervenes, the Kaiser will inform Switzerland that he no longer feels under obligation to re spect her neutrality, alleging (hat Italy already has violated it by f,- ing over Swiss territory. Germany also will assert that she feels bound to protect her interests in the Goth- RUNNING FIGHT "Two German officers and forty- four men were rescued from the sea and made prisoners of war." The destroyer Recruit was on pat- rol duty Saturday morning when the submarine sank her. According to details received here, she was struck amidships by the torpedo and began to sink. The wounded vessel signalled for assistance, and her call was answered by the traw- ler Daisy, and thirty men out of her complement of sixty-five were sa It ja Star that a torpedo was fir- the Germans at long range the vicinity of the North Hinder- Germans endeavored to them both. destroyers sustained no casudities. : ; ard Railway, which is under, German and Italian control. While one corps enters Basel, the other will march from Constance, the two joining at Zurich, 'whose important industrial machinery will be .Inyaluable to the German army. C. A. M. C. Corporal Dies. London, May 3.--Corporal F. Sla- gg with full military honors at en, where he had been ser- ving in the Canadian military hes- pital. "He died after an operation. A firing party from the Dovon Regi- yu anicd the funeral party, of Colonel Gorrell and the hospital. nn ssinsiie. ter, Canadian Army Medical Corps, | - belonging to Montreal, was buried | many of the deceased's comrades at! torpedo boat destroyers were sunk in the North Sea. & The oil tank steamer Gulk Light, flying the American flag was torpedo- ed of the Scilly Islands, the captain was killed and the rest of the crew were saved. LATE ESTIMATES, (Special to the Whig.) oronto, May 3.--The Empire estimates the CEPA 4494000 i, CPP EPP eben spell ruin to brewers, licensed trad-| her son. ers and farmers who have sown barley in large quantities thi. year. | CARNEGIE HERO AWARDS Niagara Falls Man Gets a Gold M Lorpl. R. A. Bolton Wounded. | Lance-Corporal Robert A. Bolton, | reported to have been wounded, left | with Queen's Engineers. Me 15 a | graduate of Queen's University, and pwhen war was declared, left his po-| Pittsburg, May 3.--At the spring sition in Northern Ontario to come! meeting of the Carnegie Hero Fund to Kingston to enlist. His home is Commission, fifty-two acts of hero-|in Strathroy, and his friends re- ism in many sectiuns of the country | ceived official notice that he had been | were rocognized. In two cases gold, wounded in Ffance. i medals were awarded. in fourteen! It will be remembered that the! cases, silver medals, and in thirty-, Whig some few weeks ago published | | O'BRIEN--In Tacoma, Wi { 0 { Funeral will leave the | | Frie jon. 0 eld ho dence, 87 Union street oy Wednesday morning, y 915, for St. Mary's Gaihed where a solemn requiem mass w be sung for the happy repose az ashi April 28th, 1915, Bdward on of the late La' nds and vain spectfully a ROBERT J. RE The ndert "hone 577. |G L give $100 in prizes at Renfrew six bronze medals. Among the iat-- Falls, Ont., aged forty-one, who sav- ed Peter W. Langaard from drown- ing while attempting to shoot the rapids of the Niagara River in a motor boat. Hon. Mr. Graham's Donation, Renfrew, May 3.-- Han. P. raham, M. P. for South Renfrew, is All of the ter is Frederick G. Preston, Niagara | an interesting letter from Lance-Cor-| | poral Bolton in which he referred to! {the fact that 'Major Macphail had! { his hat shot off his head by a Ger-| | man bullet. Canon Forveri's Son Wounded. On Sunday night, Canon R. 8. For- imeri received a telegram from (he | Adjutant-General at Ottawa stating that his son, Pte. D. A.Forneri, had been wounded at the battle of Lange- | marck. Pte. Forneri when war was declared, was connected with the, staff of the Merchants Bank, Mon-| treal, and was also. attached to the Montreal Rifles. He went overseas in the First Canadian Expeditionary force, being attached to the Third y, Brigade The telegram did. not state the ex- tent of Pie Formeri's injuries but asserted that he was 'now lying in the hospital at Boulogne. ' . Pte. R. Harold Hawley Miss Etta Smith, of R. Company F's on