® u British ; KINGSTON ONTARIO, MONDAY, MAY IT, 1915 19 PACES PAGES 1-8 Thy Whig YEAR 82 NO 115 ¢ Dail LAST EDITION Nm i nt | | PORTUGUESE LEADER KILLED | | | up the at four distinet points. | tivities attending the President's first reported as growing more {requent| mans had massed an enormous army! In a few minutes their stretoher oases { detective force six hundred strong | 2bout five miles behind. They are | large body of Portuguese troops | which threw the Algerians into con- | only finished he job when the shel: ----worthrof ATTaS; pointing toa renewal of the Infantry yen | ime | { -- In Bloody Fighting In Blinding Rainstorm Around An English Tommy Said "Blame Me If There . | | . 3 : Neuville And Sochez, Where They At- | | Is Anything Left Of The Canadians But Point | | i " tacked At Four Points. | a a | Their Good Name. -- | | ---------- Proceedin North f U. 8. FLEET OF ATLANTIC IN NEW YORK HARBOR. bys. gh An Extremely Heavy Bombardment Is g 0 Winston Churchill made a hit by concentrating the' British fleet ""in manovu-|LiguL.-Gol. A E. Ross Says it Was ; Real Hell---Medical Arras Denoting Renewal of Infantry Engagement--- | vres" in the fateful davs last Julv. ii this moment the American fleet is ""mobiliz-| Corps Had Awful Time Caring For Wounded---Recalls The Mii Have Made Furthe Pro In led" in New York harbor, but it is for review pu.poses. The President expeets to re- tun Si i Benis h 16S I FTOgress | view 'the fleet. LS ring Dreadful - i NN Nn a tN ttt tas ine Region. | UNITED STATES ARMADA Conflict. Het S25 | UNEMPLOYED AUSTRIANS | *° | Sa-------- | Greeted President Wilson Off New At Least One Victim Of Riots In Lis. : . 4 : at : C . : 4 A Crier Lieut.-Col. Ross has t a letter,| to clear our hospitals; did it all in % (Special to the Whig.) York Sunday. ARE LEAVING CANADA bon. : written --- April 28th, to Dr. £2 T.| good shape. Col. 0 our A.D. . x2 ' 5 bie Sheetal to the WINE), ee Madrid, May 17.--Dr. Alfonse | Connell, in which he says: |S. came over and said, "Now, Paris, May 17.-- (Official communique.) -- W hole | New Yorke ay gy Baa ars Three Thousand of Th Th sp Costa, prominent Portuguese leader| We have been through an awful] Ross, 1 have two wounded cases in : " y red in bloody fight-| mada, the Atlantic fleet, to-day greet Sand 0! eM 00 THe :na writer on finance, has been kill- | week, an experi he oinot t| that chureh." Tt naturaliy caused companies of Germans were slaughtered in bloody fight- | 5", commander-inchief President ; | week, perience one can put | th " ; i Toa . x vest Q J} | Wil forthe first time. Rain. oil] Way To Enter The United ed in the rioting in Lisbon, accord- | into words, but which will be im- | him a great deal of worry, so I said, ing in a blinding rainstorm around Neuville and Soc M02, | Wilson, for + ® fiw, time. Ruin, chil y ing to one report. Mobs Gre fight. | printed on the. mind for many dage. | "Never por ged cas i Se I . : . hog fi » he op dav. { SANE, a "Denil of ing with the troops in the streets of { To many of the battalions the fight | cal for volunteers a according to despatches from the battlefront to-day | ed a soggy pall over the opening fes States. uk | -- pe etelione Se ght oiled Jor voluniss sud » The Germans attacked fiercely tivities Winnipeg, May 17.--The advance -- | were over the Frenchman and into the| and we had a procession to They sought to recover the ground gained by the French | Oe iow ol. the interniitional situa: | SUSId i the Austsing wy of Lhe Politieal disturbances have been| Canadian trenches quickly. The Ger-| church, Capt. Gordon and I leadi a . . * do a 4 Hi : , nati wre | Unemployed making for e Unite A in the Saturday and Sunday fighting in this region. The | ten groaamdingry Ra i ater® | States reached Otterburne yesterday. | in the past three months, With the in front of us and made the attack at | were all marching up the street 10 8 War Office announced this afternoon that in each in- In addition: 30 the usual Secret Ser-| This ip about halt ef fo the United military authorities in constant clash aa Sppuune time for thgmael ves. Aur Plas, Spt. Gordon ¥ 1 ' ' x iS . ; ) iv i mn, had stance the enemy was repulsed with heavy losses. | vice guards and uniformed police, a | States border ind They are] 1th ceftain political leaders. <A} They 'usel a very oppressive gas : »xtremely heavy bombardment is oceedi . i | expected to reach Emerson' to-night. | were recently sent t Li | fusion. They fled and the press came An extremel) ayv bombardment is now proceed ng Nas sesigned Lo. Statiohs along the fo ers of Cam RTE To ate the Br te. South on our men. The left of the Cana- gagement, » In the region of Het Sas the Allies have made fur- ther progress, it was officially announced. SIXTY BOMBS DROPPED. | | i Fate of Missing |, "om mom. Canadians Will | 55 0 ' (Special to the Whig.) on, May 17.-- Summarized 'Soon Be Known (8Bpecial to the Whig.) | Ottawa, May 17.---Canadian easual- | ties sustained in fighting at Lange- | marcke and later are rapidly reach- ing the 5,000 mark. Since April] 22nd the total éasualties up till this morning were 4,761. This includes 678 killed, 867 missing and 3,206 wounded. There 48 no apparent abatement in the numbers coming in each day to the official records' office. } A sinister fact about the more re- ceng lists is that the killed in action and the missing figure most promin- ently. It will soos be possible to ascertain how many of these now numbered among the missing have been taken prisoners and how many have been buried by the Germans. By the system of exchange of identi- fication tags, it will 'be possible later to place the missing in the proper category. A Revolution Breaks Out At Trieste, Austria, (Special to the Whig) Rome, May. 17.--A zevolution has broken out at Trieste, rare, ac- ing to a m to Idea Na- zionale, tolugraphed from the frontier. The Governor. ordered the gendermes to charge the crowd, which retired, fighting stubboruly. The despatch states that forty-seven women were killed and over three hun- dred people were injured SLAUGHTER AT VAN. An American Mission Centre In Ar menia By Turks. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, May 17.--The Armen- fan city of Van, an important Ameri- f Turkish irregu- lars and Kurds, and six thousand Ar- menians wers killed, according to despatches here t elgners alse 'y | gate, Indicate that at reports from the towns visited b; the two Germans Zeppelins at mid- jmight, in the neighborhod of Rams- least sixty bombs were dropped by aerial bom- barders. Three civilians were slight- ly 'injured and several buildings and two fishing smacks were damaged. Despite the police warning, the peo- ple flocked to the streets and it is a wonder more were not hurt. Zeppelin Bombed Calais. (Bpecial to the Whig) Calais, May, 17.--A Zeppelin flew over Calais early - to-day dropping several bombs. A number of chil- dren were killed and a woman was injured. Was Severely Damaged. (Special to the Whig.) London, May 17.--The Admiralty to-day announced that it has good reason to believe the Zeppelin that raided Ramsgate early to-day has been "severely damaged." BY LONDON TO BE BOMBARDED By Poisonous Gas Bombs, Announce German, Fiends. (Special to the Whig) Geneva, May 17.--London is to be bombarded from the air with poison- ous gas bombs similar to those used { by the Germans recently at | Ypres, to word b t here to-day from the in w. at Friedrichshaven. The twelith pelin completed at Friedrickshaven since the war n, manoeuvred over Lake Constance all day Sunday in trial trips. May Prohibit Race Meetings. (Special to the Whig.) London, May 17.--Premier As- quith stated in the House of Com- mons this afternoon that the gues- tion of prohibiting race meetings during the war is now receiving the Government's attention. : es, King Of Greeks Very II spatch to the Greek Mou: "hare Sunday ong the dead. 3 : eo E (Special to the Whig.) Charles Wein, Crediton Landon, May. Vrain: oficial dev Legation to-day 'THE GERMANS ADMIT RETIRING From Advanced Positions at Hetsas And Steenstraate. (Special to the Whig.) { Berlin, May 17.--In an official statement this afternoon the Ger- man War Office admitted that their | forces had been compelled to retire from their advanced positions in the! neighborhood of Hetsas and Steen-| straete. DAYS OF ANARCHY AND FIERCE. RIOTING Is Now Almost Ended In Portugal A New Cabinet Is Form. od. "(Special to the Whig.) Lisbon, Nar 17.--After {wo days of anarchy and fierce rioting, Portugal was peat} normal to-day. Despatches reaching said that the garrisons in Santarem and several other cities surrendered to the revolutionary forces at midnight, The sew Cabidet, formed aboard the _battleship Vasco Da Gama, last night, assumed control of the Government to-day. The whereabouts of the de- posed President, Dr. Manoel Arraga, are unknown. Jomo Chagas," the pew President, is en' route here from Oporto. STRASSBURG GOT IT. (Special to the Whig). Geneva, May 17.--Aviators the have inflicted dam- + | amounting to more than & illing. ie vahncries Cat + Strassburg, which are wo +! material for the German 3 2 * 1% Eee e bbb eee + * s ------------------------ MORE MEN MISSING Seen (Special tosthe Whig.) Ottawa, May 17.--~These new cas- udlties 'are announced in the Second Battalion: «Royth Haldane, Olds, Alta.; Grant Anthony Haight, Wel- lington, Ont.; Albert Hickman, Ed- monton, Alta.; A. * Ruben, Picton, Ont.; W. Nolan, Stirling, Ont.; David | Ing the reported attempted immigra- | marines in the Mediterranean," says tion officers of the United States are mingling with them in an unsuccess- | ful attempt to get them to back. Another body of more than a thou- sand Austrians are finishing prepar- ations to start for the States late yesterday afternoon. Canadian officials vigorously de- nied that they had instigated the Austrians to leave Canada in order to solve a situation that was admit- tedly bothering them. turn No Money, No Admission. ! Minneapolis, Minn., May 17. --*Un- | less they have money they connot | come to the United States', was the | declaration of officials here coneern- tion of 3,000 unemployed Austrians | £n Toute to this country, They sal that the test =A, Ne ub to ths im- migration authorities at Fmerson. Oxford Att Oxford, Eng., May The sum- | mer term-has begun ford, with | the roll' of students showing a still | further diminution. The number of undergraduates in residence for| the summer term was 1,400, for the | Lenten term 1,000, and it has now | fallen below 900._ Oriel College, | chief of the "sports colleges", has| only 18 students. King's and! Queen's have the most, with 60. Few | of the-other college have more than | 30 or 40. Big Reward For Subs. { London, May 17.--*"Owing to the reported presence of German sub- Reuter"s Athens correspondent, "the British Legation has issued a notice through the local press offering a re- ward of $2,500 to anyone supplying information which will lead to their destruction." a -------------- No Booze; No Rowing Club, | Toronto, May 17.--A wincing up order for the Toronto Rowing Club was issued by Justice Britton at Os- goode Hall on Saturday. A member of the club states that "the new Li- cense Commission has refused to re- new the license of the club, so the winding order means the club will go out of business." -- i -------- Makes a Donation. . Toronto, May 17.--~Word has just come from A. C. Hardy, Brockville, of a splendid donation of $40,000 to- wards the University Hase Hospital Mr. Hardy wishes this his gift shall be used for the maintenance {The expenditure, figuring in GERMANY STILL TRIES ~------T0 KEEP ITALY. OWT 5 Paris. However, Believes That Ma- | fall," a high official told me. "Mark THE COST TO CANADA. Now Spending $200,000 Per Day On ! the War. Ottawa, May 17.--The war is cost- | ing Canada $200,000 a day and in a | short time the total will be a quarter {of a million daily. The $50,000,000 | originally voiled has been spent and | the second appropriation of $100, | 000,000 is now being used. the above, are for the maintenance of troops at home and abroad, the pur- chace of arms and equipment and the cost of transport. Chinations of Enemy Will Net Paris, May 17.--France confident: ly expects that Ttaly will deciare war against Austria before the Italian Chamber 'meets next week. With one accord Government officials here blame German intriguers for the crisis in Rome, and the resignation of the Salandra Cabinet, "Bat Germany's machinations Will my words. The new Italian Cabin- et, whoever its leader, will be a war Cabinet, and will declare Italy's po- liey before five days have passed." For the moment Parisians have forgotten their own war, All eyes are turned toward Italy, The French communiques, telling of fresh sue- cesses around Arras, are read only after the bulletins from Rome have been devoured. The public is fever- ishly interested in the troubles of their sister country, The opinion is universal here that Germany is now playing her last and most despérate card. The belief is of that Germany, unable to in a duce Italy to join Is now determined to frustrate Italy's plan to join the Allies at any cost. "German mats are stirring up all the Arouble'in Tato y Italy." the French official told me. "If pos- sible they plan to disrupt the coun- try by civil war to keep Italy out of "object was attained dians was in touen with the right of the Algerians and, of course, when the Germans attacked they let loose gas of a peculiar odour, which must be chlorine and bromide, and it hurt the eyes much like formalin. The - Alger- ians could not stand it, but broke and in a very short time the Ger mans were over their trenches and on the Canadians. The Canadians were not only able to stop them, but in turn made a counter-attack. The re- sult you know. There is not a good brigade out of the whole division. An English Tommy packing along the road sized the whole situation up well when he said, "Blame me if there is anytning left of the Canadians but their good names." We have lost some of the finest men ever seen, but the position was held long h to} t the whole Bri army m | flanked and , or an-| One hears | other experience of Mons. of all sorts of trialé. Tt is known | that several battalions were com- y flanked, but held the position jor thirty-six hours. Next day the Canadians were led to attack and the in keeping back the German rush. -- I do not know enough about the situation and the -attack-----neither can you find out anything here. We only know that remnants remain. I bave passed back 1.800 in these days aid No. 3 Field Ambulance has done a great deal more. Praise is on everybody's lip for the good work. Nobody can find any fault with the Canadian medical service. Since Thursday | have been on the Job without sléep, eating when you can snatch a bite. The dress- ed wounds and fractures till strength failed; rest for am hour and back. One day I found only one at work and I had to turn in myself. I had a buliding which held 110 and a lawn. When these were full we had to stop till a convoy arrived. Then the place was swept out and sear Ypres lost many wounded several killed. 1 sent Major joys this experience. He is a and a worker. You. would enjoy see ing him hustle stretcher cases al night and most of the day 4.30 p.m,~We have * + ~ SPECIALLY MENTIONED. 4 Lieut.-Col Ross in a. # hand says: There walks # that George but. have : i 3 faz P2900 090000 090 i 2 | 3 CPP 000 A Cayuga Candidate. Cayuga, May 17.-~Thé candida- ture of J. J. Parsons for the Federal House received hearty endorsation at the annual meeting of Haldi- mand Liberal Association. -- DAILY MEMORANDUM. ¢ top of page 3, right hand corner. ne hae : THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale gt the Following City Stores: JONES At the nt, on nay to the wife of the Jones, a daughter, Rev. Rural Dean Funeral took place from B¢ , Wamworth, May 16th, 1915, ESE infant son = rk, serving 'with - eers. si Cataraiul wireet this afternoon to cemetery. Street. i hii £ =