12 PAGES PAGES 9-12 YEAR: 82 NO, 116 The Baily British Whig [ KINGSTON" ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY .IS, 1915 THE SITUATION AROUND YPRES GETTING BAD FOR GERMAN The French And Bitsh, Working In Perfec Harmony, Are Doing Remarkable Work--- Form An Unbreakable Line. Strong Strategical Base Established South of Ypres---Ger- mans Have Met Terrible Losses in the Recent Fierce Onslaught---Hacking Through Proves Very Expensive. | North France, May 17.--The situ- ation around Ypres has decidedly taken a turn for the better. Once more the harmonious relations of the French and English staffs have been | demonstrated, and the reciprocal support which the two armies have! given each other has worked wond-| ers. The French have carried out| a successful diversion north of Ypres and relieved the pressure on the| British front. It is more than pro-| bable that the French advances] northeast of Het Sas will mean the! saving of Ypres. The enemy had] been bombarding the French and! English trenches for several days! with all their forces of artillery. | When the bombardment began to slacken somewhat the French order ed a forward movement during the! night of 4 considerable number of | troops, who passed the canal under | the cover of darkness. In the morn- ing these forces opened a stromg of>| fensive movement from the trenches | which they had already captured at! Het Bas a few days.ago. The Allies| fierce hand-to-hand fighting took | also succeeded in outflanking the Germans on the morth end and in menacing the rear defence of the bridgehead of Bteenstraate, which will doubtless soon fall. ' At present, despite-heavy shelling, | the French eontinue to cross the canal and are making progress in! the direction of Pilkem. This move-| ment is bound to stop any German of- fensive coming from St. Julien to St. Jean. I understand that south of! Ypres wa have. established our lines | on a very strong strategical base, | rather similar to the one we occupied in October. This line is absolutely unbreakable. Behind Nieuport and | Ypres or St. Georges the Germans two days! ago attempted the offensive, but were repulsed with considerable los- | ses, for which the British ships off | the coast heavily contributed. Since | yesterday morning the ships, close in shore near Nieuport, began - | barding the German batteries in| front of and behind Ramscapelle | with great efféct. None of the Brit- ish vessels have suffered so far, des- | pite the heavy fire of the Germans. | Efforts Cost Foe Dearly | Rotterdam, May 17.-- Information | which has just reached me from | across the frontier shows that the! Germans during the last three days have made further determined ef- forts to hack their way into Ypres at all costs; but their losses have been terrible. The sudden advance of the Allies to the north in the neighborhood of Steenstraate and Het Sas has some- what felieved the pressure on the St. Julien-Ypres road, where some | place on Friday on a small section | of the front. Here the Germans | made. 'another effort to break through on an 'even more contracted section... i. At Ingelmunster troops are still being concentrated and it is said that more forty-two centimetre guns have beem sent-up near Dixmude. The greatest concentrations have taken placepat Cdurtrai, Tournal, Rodles and -Deynize. The last-named is a new <¢éntré, mid-way between Ghent and Courtrai; with important railway communications to the north-west and south. Tremendous energy has also been other wise bits of advide t use of tea, coffee and Sound advice! ers, tion of Wholesome mol flavour, yet contains no in tea and coffee) nor any ~~ Bostum come in two Both kinds are cup is about the same. "You Don't Look Right, Jones" Errors of living, among whieh tea or coffee- drinking is one. of the most common, has stirred the New York Health Department to prepare a book- let of suggestions for indoor workers, and among 'Bracers are harmful. Loa) All over Canada, for years, tea and coffee drink- indoor and out, prompted by their own feelings and enlightened by science, have gotten rid of tea and coffee troubles by changing to wn Postum, made of choicest wheat and a small por- caffeine forms:. 1--the original form -- [thrown into the further fortifica- {tion of Lille and villages lying im- | mediately west of that place. Lille, jit is believed, is the objective of the new offensive of the French, and the Germans are determined that if it shall be gained it will be only at a! tremendous sacrifice. Along the line of Lampret, Peren- chies, i | and Lomme--the last-named an important place on the Armen- tires-Lille road and southward of { Honbourdin and Ligny, just behind their line at Au! "rs, and command- ing the Bethune-uille road, the Ger- {mans have been throwing up very | formidable earthworks and fortify- |ing them strongly to resist the Al- | lies' advance. All their efforts are directed at {defence in this neighborhood, the only chance of an offensive being the Dixmude neighborhood, which may be adopted in the hope of weakening the allied forces meed- ed for the fight around Arras. Not content with spreading broad- | cast huge posters announcing their victories in Galicia, the Germans in order to depress the Belgians, th', week issued in Brussels a poster an nouncing the capture of King Albert | and forty thousand Belgians. This is the second time such a notice has appeared. Nobody loves a fat man with a! lean pocketbook. i TO ENCOURAGE SETTLERS. i Immigrants Needed Owing to Falling Off From Europe. Ottawa, May 18. -- Immigration from Europe having greatly dimin- ished since the war, every effort is being made by the Canadian Immi- gration authorities to encourage that from the Untied States. Immigration from 'the Mother Country and continental Europe has now practically ceased. Between August 1, 1914, and April 30, 1915, the British immigrant arrivals have been 12,000, and the continental ar- rivals 3,700. Consisting as it does largely of agriculturists, the move- ment of settlers from the ' United States to Canada is encouraged by the Canadian Government, it being felt that the greater number engag- ed in farming operations, the better able will the Dominion be to provide the food supply required by the Em- pire and its Allies Since the out- break of war as a result of these ef- forts 30,000 settlers from the States have taken up their homes in Can- ada, The greatest care has been taken to place no unnecessary barrier be. tween Canada and the United States. There is an immense trade between the Domipion and the neighboring republic which necessitates constant crossing of the International boup- dary by commiercial travellers and other business men, while there isan immense tourist traffic and officials have been instructed to give cour. teous treatment to the bona fide tra- | velling public as was customary be- fore the outbreak of war. United States citizens need not go to the trouble of securing passports nor will unnaturalized residents of the Unit- ed States coming to this country for naAARh ETA a ~nq ha in way anv interfered with. his booklet says: This applies to the alcoholic beverages." t pure food 'has a delicious snappy + (the harmful drug other harmful element. $ *.[ trusion. George's ribbon for attending wound ed in the actual firing RUSSIAN WOMEN AID ON THE BATTLEFIELD. A Russian Sister of Mercy who was awarded a medal with the St. line. OUTRAGE MEANT RECRUITS. Effect Of Lusitania's Sinking On Li. | verpool Men. | New York, May 18. Captain F.{ { M. Passow, of the American liner| St. Paul, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool, and at one time a! midshipman in the British navy, said the sinking of the Lusitania had been [the best recruiting stimulant Eng- land had had since the war started. So many of the crew lived in Liver- pool and had relatives there that the news of their drowning created a rage which sent a rush to the re- cruiting stations. There was con- gestion in the Liverpoo] docks, he sald, 'because of the hundreds of ves- sels of all sizes and déseriptio loading stores for the armies France. $4,000,000 OF RELIEF. Eight Ships Arrive At ' Rotterdam Week Ended May 15th. New York, May 18.--Eight relief ships, carrying the flag of the Com- mission for Relief in Belgium, re- during the week ended: May 15th. The eight ships represented a 'ton nage of 44,350 tons, 'and cargoes valued approximately at $4,000,000. The Strashbland finished her load- ing at the Erie elevators . Saturday and will probably : sail | today for Rotterdam. The: Queen Adelaide, from Galveston, reported at Fal- mouth, May 12th, and other ships of the commission are .from.tho last reports, en' route with their food cargoes for the Belgians, not' ex- ported their arrival at Rotterdam |. "TS BOOM. England's. Character Is Wrapped Up In Time-Honored Institution. Our national individuality bas been threatened, with the result that all English institutions are at this mo- ment specially dear to the English- man," says The London Spectator. "We are prepare« to defend them from first to last--{from the system of government to the spare bedroom. Indeed, though we may jestingly call the spare bedroom the least among our typically English institutions, it counts for a good deal in our nation- al life, It has been instrumental in the development of the middle-class Englishman, and he, after all, is the typical Englishman "Among th: bourgeoisies of Eu- rope the Englishman alone can have a friend to stay. He regards the power to dispense hospitality as a necessary pait of his dignity. On the continent a spare bedroom might al- most be said to be an attribute of greatness. Plain people know of no such social luxury. "Just now English spare bedrooms are full of foreigners, who throw up their hands in amazement at this strange feature o" the Englishman's castle. Our ways are not to be un- derstood, they say. We are the only people who understand how to make a good fire, a fire which can take the place of the sun, yet we will keep the windows open. We boast that we alone can make a 'home. We hate a life lived in public, yet we all aspire to keep "pen house, We are the shy- est nation in the world, so stiff and gauche that all foreigner: laugh at us when they have no immediate rea- son to like us; but we alone have sufficient effrontery to invite third persons to witnéc: our domestic life, and to go anc loo': on at the domesti- cities of othe s. '"Have we no feeling for the priv- acy of the family? The immediate re- sult is a certain ceremonialism, from which perhaps springs seme of our 1 stiffness our hig" standard of cofm- fort and cleanliness, our less admir- able liking for show, and our strong house-pride. Wu are not unconsci- ous of the witnes. who sleeps in the spare bedroo », « '© of the witnesses who constantly come to tei or dinner. Moreover, we knew what 'a great many other Lom.cs are like, and we feel the force of emulation. We all want our home anc our Labits to be as handsome and refined as those of other Englishme¢ of our class. "There is one obvious effect of the presence of tle spare bedroom upon the English midd.e-class soul which may or may not be a gaod one, ac- cording to how yc « look at it. It does in a measure disintegrate the less close ties of bloc .. In England we bring our children up to admit out- aide influence ini. thé very heart of the family. The spare bedroom is the | symbol of this legitimatizing of in- We pay a price for it, but not 'a very heavy ome, "Quite apart from. its larger uses, however, we in England could never give up the spare bedroom--- whatever may be the final high-water mark of town rents--Because without one we should have nowhere to put those | household gods in whith we have ceased to believe. " "'Thé spare room is an honorable asylum. It has helped to form our children's characters, per 8 it has had something to do with the found- ing of the empire. The governing Qualities seem to bear some relation to the custom of hospitality. Al} aris- tocracies keep the custom. If teaches something about y and some- thing about conform which can hardly be otherwise d no inhospitable nation will ever discover the Englishman's secret of the easy yoke. An Euglishiman's house is his castle. It is neve: his prison. It is a haven, not a stronghold guarded by relations. Into ic his friends come freely, and out of it he himself goes Toadlly, yet seldo=a without looking He Was Mistaken, Miss Ellen Terry, who underwent a successful operation to her. eyes recently, is noted for her wit, and she was always the life and soul of the - various ' theatrical companies of which she was a member. i] The famous actress was once ap- pearing in a play with a certain iE il ~~ 3: i 4 : 1g HT ed out and which went down with the 1& 4 eth day. We solicit your SECOND SECTION ASSETS OVER $48,000,000 The A; B,C of Banking [I Mey Saved is Money Never Defer Saving, but 17 Oo a Savings Account to- account in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT INGSTON BRANC . 2 HE Richarkon pa el H, policy. a good thing Life of Canada. 60 S. Roughton, Phone 610 or B61. BUY ALBERTA BONDS. Western Province Floats $4,000,000 Five Per Cent. lssue, New York, May 17 ---Announce- ment-was made by Spencer Trask & Co and William A. Read & Co. that they had purchased $4,000,000 Pro- vince of Alberta, Canada, ten year b per cent. gold debentures, which they are offering at 97 and interest, to yield about 5.40 per cent. New York, May 17.--Atlantic Re- fining Company declared a dividend of $5.00 a share, the same as three months ago. The dividend is pay- able June 15th to stock of record May 20th, The April Fire Losses. New York, May 17. --The losses by fire in the United States and Canada during the month of April, as com- piled by the New York Journal of Commerce, aggregate $18,180,350, as compared with $17,700,800 in April Ayr and $16,738,260 in April, Big Shell Order for Scotia Steel. Halifax---It is officially announced that Nova Scotia Stgel and Coal Com- pany has received new shell orders Aggregating $3,600,000 from the Im. perial Government. To Be Histed in Montreal. i Montreal, May 17.=<8toek of Tar-| riage Factories, Limited, is Hkely to be lsted on the local exchange be- tore mid-summer, if present plans go through. The company suspended its dividends last fall, and is de- creasing its bank indebtedness. The plants, which are located at Mont- real, and Brockville, Alexandria and Orillia, in Ontario, -are doing well with one exception, where orders are slack. Brock 910; Ren. 561. Atlantic Refining Co. Dividend. | as The Key To Success Many a man owes his start in life to the purchase of an endowment This has proved the beginning of many a fortune, Start going at once by purchasing a policy in the Mutual - Rates on request. GENERAL AGENT, St, Kingston. Office Phone Harry Sharp, Special Agent. RAILWAY ELDRED Double Track Route (The. International Limited-~No . ally Ww Lv, K PETEPYY EEBEBRE UND Lv. Kingston . Ar. Ottawa .... Ar. Montreal .. r, Ar, N ork a Eide . Bprin Ar. Boas . + Ar. Hartford .. HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS. 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