* $ el The Daily British Wh A 12 PAGES 4 | 0 | PAGES1-8| | LAST EDITION HE EVE ECLARING WAR Order For Mobilization of Her Army May Come At Any Hour---Chamber of Deputies i Meets Thursday. Beri and pron Lucas. Tatoming GOVETAMENL Has Fully Determined Upon Its Policy---It Is | ----Andrew onar aw, the arquis » - Expected That Parliament Will Give Government Power to Act and Vote a War i-of Lansdowne, the Earl of Derby, Earl | Curzon, Arthur J. Balfour, Austen Fund. YEAR 82 NO 117 ATTACK BY GERMANS "IN A FOG FAILED The Enemy Approached to Within a Few Yards of the French Trenches on the East Bank of the Yser. | The First Linz of Germans Were Annihilated---Supporting Companies Broke and Retreated in Disorder---Fog | And Rain Are Impeding Operations Around Ypres and Arras. KINGSTON ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY I9, 1915 COALITION MINISTRY TALK. Discussion Revived by Statement in| the Commons. | London, May 19.--The discusion' of the possibility of a coalition minis- | (try has been started anew by the statement of Frederick H. Booth in| the House of Commons that "a large number of the members of the House | favor a new united ministry repre. senting the whole House." Mr Booth added: "In my opinion a unit- ed Government is coming before long." The Daily Express leads its froat page with an articie headed: "Gov- ernment of all parties--ecabinet un the verge of reconstruction' Iti !says that certain ministers will, in any case, remain, adding: "We give a list of those likely to come in and go | out: Outgoing--Viscount Haldane. * { Chamberlain, Walter Hume Long and Arthur Henderson, and possibly. Sir Edward Carson and John E. Red- mond. Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty, will prob- ably be shifted to another office." a -- wr = 3 3 Thio | . (Special to the Whig.) ' | ARE THEY SOON TO LEAVE THEIR POSTS 2 Paris, May 19.--A bloody battle in the mists over-| On the left James W. Gerard, United States Ambassader to Ger hanging Flanders resulted in the repulse of a strong Ger- many, and Count von Bernstorfl, German Ambassador to America. Tam hy y | : feed the Belgians and having induced g me, and it may not come for short, being devoted to voting funds . . | A A PtP PP om man detachment with severe losses. How the Germans > SPLE D OR | several days for war purposes, and giyi th the French to feed the population of purposes, 81X08. the seized upon the fog and rain to cloak their advance] : against the position held by the Allies on the east bank 'f He Attempts to Go Through Eng { These were the reports in circula- | Government full power to aet, | those districts of Prance occupied by | tion to-day while: members of the| Other advocates of neutrality have 0 v a". lish Waters. of the Yser, was told m official despatehes- to-day. i London May 19.--If Dr. Dernburg They approached to within a few hundred yards of attempts io get Back Bo JGermahy also having waited | Chamber of Deputies were arrivi ne into hiding because of hostile ' y O11 WF i ng | go 0 8 the French trenches and opened the attack by showering until a TEular system of sending for to-morrow's session. At a SoA SA against. thom dad to the prisoners of war in Ger- | three hundred were in by pro-war mobs : through English patrolled waters he b. b 11 1 I Tl they. came ch \rging runs a risk. of being seized as a Bost. ombs and hand grenades. en ey came c¢hnar {age of war. The news from Wash- ! : toate re . - . | i many was organized, now suddenly | Rom 1 t > ? toward the French trenches over the flooded fields. The fgion Xt Dr heruurps amiey w1 discovers she is much better off for supporting. the eager | The Sutomobiles of nb 'nachine guns spattered their foremost columns! led wonderment as to the motives RRL Nashitell- | he, Stmtiment Among the . deputies jof Premier Salandra, were comman- The first line was almost completely annihilated. The|ibat lead him to want "rhe opinion ten states that the amount opreserve |= Another session. of ten inet fea, Tiny By the argy wat supporting companies broke and retreated through the!is that Dr Dernburg feels that the EE hare aa, earned Serer Into adjourned after midnight to-day. Noi Michel do Giets. the new Russian : ; | i L | 8 was recet fog in great disorder. | propaganda spread 3 hi in Amer. A | dred thousand tons. This again that the Government had fully de. | yesterday by King Victor er : ND | bears, out what I said months ago [termined on its motich any would (to whom he presented his credent- {that there has been no searcity of | make it known when the deputies |ials. ' {food in Germany, and the system of meet to-morrow. | It is asserted that M. de Gilers al- bread ecargs and maximum prices is {80 delivered to the King an-wuto- Merely Precautionary and adopted Neutrals Lack Leader | graph letter from Emperor Nicholas, nh DS Sane - inprodying Beutrals Rome, May 19.-- Apparently | congratulating Victor Emmanuel on glands sin in trying to [abandoning all hope of preventing the attitude takes by Italy. starve Germany, - ---- Renn cm imi PEACE IN SWISS EYES. (Special to the Whig.) four between Italy mua her former ! Rome, May 19.--Italy may order | allies--Austria and Germany-- eX- Reserve Reported as Two Hundred | the mobilization of her army with- | Premier Giolitti left Rome yesterday. Tho: a Tons {In twenty-four hours. A declaration | Lacking a leader, the neutralists are B M 9 : {of war is not expected until after | expected to make no fight when Par- b erne, May 19.--Germany having | parlisment meets to-morrow to ap-|liament reconvemes on Thursday, Obtained the assistance of charitable | prove the Government's war pro- (and 'the session is expected to be persons in England and America to! GERMANY'S GRAIN STORE. WILL INTERN DE.NBBERG Of Canadian Engineers in Rc- [ Yanan, tes THEY ACTED AS INFANTRY DEFENDED LINE. Except at this point there has been a lull in the fierce | view of the cumulative evidence of struggle around Ypres and Arras, the War Office an-|Germany's policy, which reached a nounced to-day, the fog and rain impeding operations. THE FORTS OF PRZEMYSL climax in the sinking of the Lusita- inia, and that Dr. Dernburg finds , | himsélf hopelessly out of touch with | real American sentiment. However that may be,Great Britain would like to see Dr. Dernburg try to get home on any steamer touching British shores. If he is audacious enough to sail. on a British stéamer there Found Trenches Muddy and Left Them Drained and Boarded-- For Five Nights They Had No Sleep. London, May 19.--Canadfan offi-| cers now im London, recuperating from their terrible experiences, say {that not half enough tribute has MAJOR BLAIR DBAD, ARE BEING BOMBARDED (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, May 19.4-The bombardment of the outer forts defending Przemysl from the west by the Austré- Germans is increasing in violence. Russian aviators re- port that the enemy has brought up heavy piecés in the vicinity of Babice. The boom df guns continues through- ll ai naturally would be no escape for him. ! British authorities in that event would arrest him the moment he stepped on land. If he sailed on a Holland steamer, the British, if cer- | tajn he was aboard, might stop the | steamer and arrest him when the ship got into English waters. What would happen to Dr. Dern- burg after his seizure would prob- ably be nothing less than imprison- ment 8% an enemy alien, but England really does not think he will head this way. Officials are inclined to | think that if he leaves America he | | says: been paid to the work of the Canad- ian Engineers in the recent fighting. At critical stages of the conflict they behaved with unexampled skill and courage. They even acted as in- fantry, helping to defend the line until reliéved. AT nightly placed Canhdiin' ofMicer N 4 "They built bridges under shrap- nel fire, and had their building ma- terial blown to pieces more than once. One man was badly wounded in the face while carrying planks. He had them blown out of his hands. will go to Brazil or Argentine, where | The fire was awful, it was just hell, 'out the day and the noise of battle can be heard distinctly within the eity itself. The Germans north of Przemysl are making a seri- ous attempt to surround the fortress. They have at- tacked the Jaroslau-Przemysl railway. at severgl points, but have been driven back with heavy losses. The Austrians west of Chyrof, south of Przemysl, have been unable to advance. The War Office has no confirmation of reports that Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, has again been occu. | pied by the Russian army of General Ivanoff, though the report is given some credence in official circles. ~~ THE CANADIAN DIVISION Has Not Been Heavily Engaged In Recent Fighting. (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, May 19.--The casualties reported to the Military Department up to ten o'clock this morning num- ber 5,041. Of these 709 have been killed, 3,275 wounded and 1,067 missing, The names of several hun- dred more who were missing after the battle of Langemarcke are still to come in, The impression prevails in official circles that apart from the Princess Pats, the Canadian Division has not been heavily engaged in the fecent forward movement of the British for- IN DARDANBPLLES ARENA. Heavy British Casualty Lists Are Reaching London. London, May 19---The casualty lists issued last night were again heavy, compri 137 officers and 1,300 men, of wi 684 were sol. diers and sailors engaged in the Dar. danelles. Among the killed was the Honor- able Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Phil- lips, elder son of Lord St. Davids, an officer in the Royal Horse Guards, who was the second son of the Duch- ess of Beauford and the late Baron De Tuyll.. : She: If I marry you let me handle all the money? i, bis he might feel safe, { To Reconstruct | On a Broader. | Political Basis (Special to the Whig.) London, May : 18.--Premier As- guith in the House of Commons this afternoon announced that the '"'re- construction of the Ministry on a broader political basis is under con sideratioh."" This announcement from the Prime Minister was regard- | ed as 'official confirmation of the re- port that a 'coalition Cabinet is to replace the present Liberal Ministry, | In some quarters it is stated con fidently that Lord Kitchener will re-! sign to abtcept the post of General] Officer Commanding all the Allied forces in France and Belgium. i Any change to be de in the cabinet will not affect the Prime Min- | ister, the Foreign Secretary, Sir Ed-| ward Grey, or "Britain's policy for | the prosecution of the war," Premier! Asquith announced. Unionists Favorable Special to the Whig.) London' May 19 Attracted ministerial criss, Jo | SEseshiErhatise {five nights and days, they worked { with practically no sleep, but they | front' under shell fire. i but our engineers worked on., "They also superintended tlie con- struction of trénches, and built 1,- 200 yards of trench in one night under the noses of the Germans, who were only 200 yards away. For were well fed. "The Canadian = Army Service Corps did splendid work, and kept up going with rations regularly, and good rations, too. They even trans- ported material for 'us--sandbags, barbed Wire and zine roofing, to the "One company of Engineers Jost their pontoons, they being destroyed by shell fire. Another company spent two days in the trenches. "We Canadians are justly proud of our men, for while the British territorial engineers received a stiff- ening from the Royal Engineers, who are regulars, ours were left to their own devices. "Our Enginers found the trenches muddy, and left them drained and boarded, so that you could walk in them in carpet slippers. A "Sir H. Smith-®orrién and Gener- al Alderson both congratulated the Canadian Engineers on their work." 7 1 their Allies. ish a much sounder base and has! i 8 GERMANS HAVE REACHED RENFORGEMENT LIT London, May 19.--A despatch to the. London Morning Post from the North of F ce, says: "Thére ' signg 'that the Gere mans have reached the limits of ther available reinforcements. The' extra- ordinary heavy losses which they re- cently sufféred (they are said to have a casualty list of 160,000 in connec: tion 'with 'the last battle of Ypres alone,), have upset all their plans for a renewed onslaught. "Meanwhile there is a tremendous artillery action in progress; and there is no longer any doubt that the Allies are obtaining the mastery over the German gunners. As regards the Fremth advance on Lens, there is reason to believe that General Joffre, with his accustomed level- headed caution, has been most eon- servative in his official statements of the advance claimed. "The readjustment of the British line north of Ypres has proved of great advantage to the B and It has given the Brit- rendered. any offensive movement by that Hath ff 8 What Should Be Considered When Hostilities Cease. Basel, Switzerland, via London, Mag 18.---The Swiss Peace Society, jhisannaal meeting adopted the fol- WIRE resolutions, which it was de- clared should be considered when the comes for a conclusion of peace "PFirst--The avoidance of any an. nexation or territorial changes which are in opposition to the interests and wishes of a population. A guaran. tee of religious .liberty, free speech and -equality before the law for the winority. "Second--The creation of a per- manent organization, in which all European states shall be equally rep- resented for the purpose of safe. guarding the order, peace and safety of our portion of the earth. "Third--The development of an international law organization by continual Hague conferences." The proponents of the second re- solution hope to establish a kind of European people's court before which all international questions may be discussed and decided and wars avoided. " COL. FAREWELL INJURED, Automobile Upsets His Buggy Three © 0 Mites Flom Whitby, Whitby, May 19.--Colonel Fare. well] Crown Attorney, received se- vere injuries to his head when he was tifrown from his buggy as a re. sult of a collision with an automo. bil The Colonel was driving from Port Perry, and when about three miles north of Whitby a large automobile dashed past, upsetting the buggy and throwing Colonel! Farewell on to the road. The automobile party stop- ped and assisted the Colonel into the buggy, in which he was able to pro ceed home . The Colonel is confined to his house N from '4 wound in the head and severe shock. Vancouver Offers Hospital. Ottawa, May 19.--The Vancouver ral has offered a hos- | 1 | British Officer Was Instructor at Kingston, London, May 19.--Major Playfair Blair of the Field Artillery, who died from wounds, was for somé time instructor at the Royal Militagy Col- lege, Kingston. He r of artillery from 1906 to 1911. To Issue in Every Language. London, May 19.--The Bri Gov ernment hag decided to issue & penay edition of the report of the commit. tee on alleged an ol of which Viscount Bryce was the presi. dent. The report is being trans lated into the chiel languages of Europe and India. ' The Shuberts will give the biggest theatre party on record when the United States fleet is assembled In New York harbor. ] vite all the men of the shi the Hippodrome and the ¢ bert theatres as the geusts of the ma- nagement. ; The bankrupt stock of Dewey Jackes, who carried on business the Mackay Block, Renfrew, will, as notified by Osler Wade, the assignes, pay a dividend of 56 1-2 on the dol- lar. Marmora has sryanized a fire bri- gade; the two them engines -re- cently purchased by the corporation having 'arrived. tm DAILY MEMORANDUM. Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.30. Cheese Board, 1.30 p.m, rasday. Bee top of 8 right hand corner, tor probabil Rummage sale, 232 Princess street, Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. BORN, x. BURNETT In Havelock Thursday, Say 13th, "1915, to "and Mrs, Harry Burnett, & son--Berle Nor. man. . EWILANDS--In Kingston. on May 17th, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. : Cre Newlands, 29 nion street West, a son. .. DIED. i og MITOHBLL~Killed in Corporal Robert A ton Mitchell, son of W. C. E, Calgary, Alta. ROBERT J. REID The