tetanic YEAR 82 NO 116 KINGSTON ONTARIO, JUBSDAY, MA ri is, 12 PAGES The Daily British Whig PAGES 1-8 ttc etree ented 1915 LAST EDITION 2,000 GERMANS WERE MOWED DOWN When They Made Their Last Stand On The :: West Bank Of The Yser And Were Pressed Back. Allies Artillery Demolished Several Bridges Over Yser--- Gorman Surprise Attacks Failed .--Indications That An Important Engagement Is About to Begiv Between Lorette And Arras. (8pecial to the Whig.) rifles in the enemy's advanced tren- Paris, May 18. --Two thousand |ches. Germans were slaughtered by shell fire when the Teutons made their | last stand on west bank of the Yser according to official despatches the War Office to-day. The Germans fought valiantly to retain the positions they had won at a terrible cost of life. They coun- ter-atacked with great daring, but were pressed back steadily, while shrapnel mowed down their ranks. Heavy artillery of the Allies de-| molighed several bridges over the ¥ser. Those that remained were! jammed with retreating Germans at- tempting to carry off some of their wounded officers. The official report sald in addition to 2,000 bodies, the Allied troops found several hundred | German Night Attacks Fail During last night the Germans * made several attempts to cross the 10 | canal by surprise attacks. From sunset until sunrise 'to-day the French illuminated the whole district with "white light" bombs | and every body of the enemy that approached the canal was spattered with shrapnel. The Germans aban- doned the attempt at daybreak. From Notre Dame de Lorbtte (south to Orras the opposing artil- leryman are eont g-the duel gun Sunday night. The emntire re- gion is being shaken by the boom of big guns. There is every indication that an important engagement about to begin in this section. SOME CANADIAN DEAD BURIED WITH THE BRITISH. (Special to the Whig Wh? kill Ottawa, May 18.-- The casualty ahd the ed reyurita humbor- 108 list from the front continues to grow Apparently the wounded have been at a fairly rapid rate. Of six thous-| practically all reported, But there and odd Canadians stated .to be are still names of many missing 1 to 4 Killed, wounded and pdising after 5 aint 10 the lists, ; 'have up to : of the nam tioned in el are ori pr Ry The missing ried now exceed | stahce news is just -arrivi that one ae mark, the exact nufn- | rome Canadians were buried by Eng 'ber being 1,00 | tan Regiments with their own dead." Lord Fisher May Resign As First Sea Lord (8pecial to the Whig.) London, May 18.-- There have been no new developments se far to- day in the threatened break between Winston Spencer . Churchill, = First Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord. It is Sindgrat tpod, however, that the matter wi rd the subject of a statement in-the House of Commotis to-day. The Daily Tel- egraph this morning says the fesig- nation of Lord Fisher is thought to be probable. War Virtually Declared By Italian King To the' the Whig.) 18. "The men pet he GERMANY'S. "SACRED DUTIES." Prevent It From Stopping Its Mur- dering Un Seas. (Special to the Whig.) Berlin, May 18 (via London) ---- The American note to Germany has not yet been officially given out. The afternoon papers, however, print the version of the document at tele graphed here by the Havas Agency. With the single excepton of the Lokal Angolp os all Joteain from comment. © al An er "The German oie orm. ly will not delay with the answer requested and probably will reply that in occupying itself with its 'sacred duties' it is not to be dis turbed from any side. "That the American Goverment should comsider the Lusitania as & harmless packet boat, without tak- {ing notice of the fact that it was { really an auxiliary cruiser and am- munition steamer of the British hg appears 'to us scarcely believ- able. "But the German answer to | Washington will make it comprehen i sible to Mr. Wilson, in language as polite as it will be clear, that we must conduct the war as we are eon- ducting \it 'and can comfimet it with a clear conseishen." . An order Isgued on Tagued ap Monday by Presiding Jusiige 1 the (Special . Rome, Ma Giorpa: | ham in D'Italia says the war has been virtu- | Appelate Div! the Supreme ally declared with the unanimous ac-| Court, New Sark: cord of the King, Government and} ceedings in Nation, i tion of Harry K uation, the na says: "The die| preme Court pass upon is cast, the is crossed, and] brought another delay. in the the Triple Alliance has been de-| drawn out agai nounced." slayer of In an article summarizing the si. | Thaw seeks to have a Ta is the Sur : upon his' sanity, ANOTHER ONLY SON. A Royal Military College Died Of Wounds. { 'Chatham, Ont., May 18.--W. C. Crawford, of Tilbury, has received a | message from England stating that | his son, Lieut. Richard G. Crawford, has died of woupds. Lieut. Craw- {ford was 23 years of age. He was {a graduate of the Royal Military College. He was lefc in England when the First Contingent went to { France, 'but later was drafted as lieutenant with the Privcess Patrici- He was the only child of Mr. i a Mrs. W. C. Crawford, of Tilbury. Lieut. Crawford was engaged to be { married td Miss Reva nglish, of this city, who is at prezent very ill Ordered to Portuguese Angola. London, May 18.--The Daily Mail correspondent at Copenhagen learns from. Berlin that the German army: in German South-West Africa has! been ordered to enter Portuguese An- | gola in order to avoid capture by; the Ynion of South Africa forces. New President Of Portugal (Special to the Whig.) Lisbon, May 18, Jomo Chagas, the mew president of the Cabinet, was shot four times with a pistol wh'le on board the midnight train from Oporto. His assailant was Semator Freitas, who also was shot and wounded by a passenger of the train. Senor Chragas was taken to a hos- pital, where it was announced that lis comdition was grave. In addi- "Pe | tion to-other-wounds, he ix suffering: from a fracture of the skull. Assassin Reported Dead Madrid, May 15 (via London). A despatch received here from Lis- bon concerning the shooting of Sen- or Chagas says the attack ocourred at the Enthrotamento Railway sta- tion. The despatch adds that Sen- ator Freitas was killed. Mother Gives Only Son. Lindsay, May 18.--"I would rath- gr die of Starvation than in dishon- Sergt.-Major Allen, her son, oversea service. The young man | was doubtful whether "his mother | {in he she allowed her son' to | don the i;-and he isqo-day tran: | ing at Lindsay headquarters. MONTREAL 273 YEARS OLD. : two hundred and + venty. tiki anniversary of it ion to-day. . May Jain, 1642, » + + Ter ra Tiees * oe Cy Michigni's state tax for 1915 will| --------------, { have been very Shot On rain (via London)-- | ' Buch was the answer of a Lind. | say mother When in the presence of | Pte. | Blair, asked permiision of his moth- | er to join the Canadian forces for | ye *| land. | her one | England to enlist in the British ar- omy as soon as he arrives. & | with a rifle, ad with the men,' and her | declared most 'enfphatically to a re # | porter. | + other way, 1 + +#944v | Lo Major-Gen. Sam Hughes, minis: he intent on record, $9,598,568. { wee DUG GRAVES Aud Died In Them, Says Sax- on Press. THE SPLFNDID WORK AND DETERMINATION MARKEL WORK, Many Left on Ficld After First Ad- vance--Prisoners and Wounded Are Receiving Attention to Their | Wants, He Writes. London, May 18.00 Hemile! isends us the following letter from | { Captain Streight. In sending it Col. Rennie remarks: "Our heavy, but as you can see from the enclosed the regi iment behaved most creditably." Captain Streight's letter follows: was wounded and made pris- oner on the evening of the twenty- fourth. I cannot go into details, ex- cept to say that my command was! completely wiped out, The men] ere wonders and faithful to the st . We were the last to be taken, ot then after a hand to hand struggle. "The press here gives a good ac- count of us. It rays we dug our own graves and died in them, and their troops never met such pluck and determinaticn. truth We have fallen into | hands and everv attention to our wants and needs. "The casualty list is impossible to as many were left behind on field. We never got in touch! PLUCK good is say the with them after the first advance. +P All well here, bered main." In the foregoing Captain Streight is referring to the press of Saxony, Wish to be remem- Better luck to you who re where he writes from. THIS GIRL IS FRANTIC T0 GET AT GERMANS 'Wants Revenge For Death of Eight Cousins --Says Sex Is Not Bar. London, Ont., May 18.---Impelled by the urgent message from her aged grandfather In Scotland and by her would her consent, ag he is her | own fitense longing to avengé the However, with pr | doll of EL sins, Miss 35 Bp, develo James Jessie | street, is now trying te find a way to | go to the front. Miss Strickland is young, and pret- | ty. She has lived in London for on: ly a year, haying come from Scot- Her parents are dead, and brother is on his way to "I want fo go to fight, too, 1 {don't want to be a nurse, because ] ! | would never get a chance to be right 'on the firing line. 1 want to fight shoulder to shoulder Miss Strickland "1 Sangol get to France in any will dress myself as a boy, and 1 think I could fool them if 1 once got in France." Miss Strickland is going to write of militia, to ascertain if there is any chance of her being able to fight right in the trenches. ! his work is finished or thinks it a | the Allied Governments. He and all} KNOWS WAY CAT JUMPS, Dr. Pernburg' s Anxiety To Leave U.! 8. Is Obvious. London, May 18.--The i News, referring editorially to Dr. Dernburg's apparently anxiety to leave the United States and return| to Germany, rays: 'Either he thinks London | definite failure. he real test is; whether in American politics Ger- man-Americans will pat Germany before other issues and causes. of Dernburg's sudden distaste for Feit erica suggests that he has no doubt] which way the Germans will move, It is amusing to find that Dr. Dern-| burg would like safe conduct from | casualties | They speak the) paid | | hands while chasing a German machine. the German propogandists have been proclziming that the British feet! has been driven to cover in harbors) and that the British command of the S60 18 HE dead as the dodo. Now" ol confesses that he cannot cross seag without British conduct, haps, 'whether he gets it or not, will stop this "partieular form of stillness." BUYING COMMISSION Per RUSSIANS SWEEPING GERMANS BACK AGAIN Austro-German Advance. on Przemysl Again Halted---Russians Have Forced a Cross- ing Of The Ri River Pruth © Nil Nid Moving Soatiward For For An Invasion of Bukowina } t IS GETTING TO WORK The Dominion Patronage List, It Is Now Claimed, Has Been Abolished. Ottawa, May 18.---The system of purchasing war supplies in Canada| bas undergone very radical changes since the beginning of the present! year, At the commencement the] Government here undertook the pur- | (Special to the Whig.) | Petrograd, May 18.--The Austro- | Germans have again been halted in | their advance on Przemysl, according! {to despatches received here to-day.! The enemy's losses in the infantry en- | gagements, twenty miles north of the | fortress, were described in semi- of- | ficial despatches as "exceptionally | heavy." i i for an invasion of Bukowina have ---The Austrians Were Routed Along the Entire Dnies- ter Front---Russians Took 30,900 Prisoners. | greatest alteration in the battle line | for months. A French column, commanded by Colonel Mayer, occupied on May 11th the post of Hsoka in the German | colony of Kamerun. Seme 460,628 toms of British shipping, other than warships, have | been sunk or cavtured by the Ger- The War Office announced: to-day | man navy since the outbreak of the that the Russians moving southward | war, Prince Kurakine, the special Red | chase of supplies not only for the | forced a crossing of the river Pruth! cross convoy at the frgpt, telegraphs | Canadian forces, but for the allies. { Sub.committees of the Cabinet were appointed, Zand purchases were su | pervised by them and contracts plac- | ed by them, As a result of revelations in the|®r, capturing German trenches and ling petrol and bengine ahout, Public Accounts Committee in cofi nection with the Canadian purchases | it was decided to take the purchas. | ing business out of the hands of the | Government, and to place it in 'the of a Commission of business | men. While the patronage list formerly "guided the letting of con-| tracts, the patronare list is, it claimed now, to be abolished, and contracts let where they can be most | expeditiously and cheaply filled. The Commission is now getting down to work. In the case of the purchasing | {OF the allies by the Government sub- committees, the patronage system also played its part. It is true that Liberal firms were in some cases given small orders, bat in many cases firms oh the patro Hst 'were accorded large' con though in some instances ing small capacity, while firms aot so for- tunate, though possessing large ca- pacity, 'were accorded contracts small in comparison. The Government sub.committee is no loriger in charge of purchases for the allied governments. CONSERVING SUPPLIES, Italy Is Buying Heavily And Selling - Nothing. Paris, May 18 Italy has stopped selling, . exporting and delivering on contracts already signed for export, and is now buying heavily, eon crude oil, gasoline, cereals and flour. Roumania is not buying and has not is | day. near Kolomea. tinues to the north -Shavli.- 1 The Russians have SWept the ger} The fighting con-|that after the German artillery had of Courtland 'bombarded the station where our woutided were | finished off the German caval ry wounded with mans back beyond the Dubissa Riv-| their carbine butts, and, after spray- {taking a number of prisoners. | Big Russian Victory. Petrograd, May 18. -- Complete | victory for the Russians in South- eastern Galicia and, Bukowina is an-| nounced by the War Office in an of-| ficial statement issued here year | The Austrians have been routed | along the entire Dniester front of 100 mtles, .it states. The Russians have taken 30,000 prisoners. For ten days there has been severe fighting aleng the Dniester front, where the Russians have been assail- ing the Austrians' right wing after checking its attempts to advance and strike at'the lines of communications upon which the Russians depend for '| to the: troops. wh have. been with: drawing before : the Austro-German assaults in the nas and in estern Galicia. | The Austrians have been driven from their positions along the south bank of the Dniester Riyer and have been compelled, to cross the Pruth- Nadworna, twenty-two miles south of Stanislau, has been recaptured by the Russians. This is the fifth time Nadworna has changed hands. On the river Pruth the Russians have occupied Sniatyn, twenty mines west of Czernowitsz, The Russians are wheeling their entire left wing once more toward the Jablonica Pass. In Northern Poland the fighting is progressing tavarably for ' the Rus- 1 sians. bought anything of importance since | the war began, although she made | many inquiries three or four months | ago. A British aviator looped the loop | | | Germans. The War Tidings. The Italy forces number over 2, 000,000, Lens cannot long be held by the French have reached Souchez; vitally close to the railway jine to Lille. They are still pro- sending supplies and reinforcements A Church, May 21h, § pm set fire to the station, which was burn {ed down with the men inside. Gerard 'Reports Reading The U. S. Message Washington, May 18.-- Germany received the Wilson protest against submarine war, as applied to mer. chant vessels, in the most friendly Her Foreign Minister treated read the forth by the Preside ised that the nete. most careful consideration, and that a reply would be made without delay. Ambassador Gerard, at Berlin, re- ported this to Secretary Bryan yes- ld ha io. the terday. He emphasized the friend- liness of his reception. Whether, he intimated however, what the ex- pected outcome is to be, Bryan re- fused fo say. Hé refused also to discuss the Gerard report in any way. Nevertheless his attitdde showed that he was in a far more hopeful" frame of mind than at any previous time since the Lusitania was sunk. Tuesday, May 25th, had been fix- od as the date for the trial at To- ronto of Emil Nerlieh on the charge of treason brought against him at the last assize, and held over pend- ing the decision of the Court of Ap- peal on the stated case granted af- tér he had been found guilty of con- spiring to commit tredson. DAILY MEMORANDUM. Bes to! ton oF Sage 3, right Band corner tor Prof. ry nine mont prisoner of war in Germany, at ween street Admission 26e¢, BORN, SMITH «In Kingston, on May 15th, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs Theodore Smith, § Chestnut street, a son. KIRKPATRICK--AL Toronto, on May 17th, 1915, Miss Mary A. Kirk- patrick. Funeral (private): from the OGT.R Outer Station on ie Arrival of the noon train Wednesday, tg Catara- qui cemetery NOTICE OF Notice is hereby ¥ lyon of riage of 'Roy De fan, to Mrs. Jog poe Py Jrorker all of the city of he marriag e will he eity of Kingston. ROBERT J. REID Phone CR Ly - JAMES REID The Old Firm of 254 and 256 Phone 147 for bdo; mar ; electrics w, fancy. Waterco, place in