Ht A -- 12 PAGES PACES 1-8 YEAR 82 NO 118 he Daly Brits Whi i KINGSTON ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915 LAST The Italian Cabinet Given _JTALY IS AWAITING DECLARATION OF WAR She Charges Austria With Responsibility For the World's Greatest War And With Breaking Faith With Her. Infringement of Triple Alliance Agreement Gave Italy Right to Resume Full Liberty of Action---Spectacle of Reassembling of Parliament Being Made One of Exalted Patriotism. (Special to the Whig.) Rome, May 20.--Amid great enthusiasm, Parliament this afternoon practically unanimously voted full power to Premier Salandra's War Cabinet to act immediately in the dispute with Austria. (Special to the Whig.) EDSTIO NEW BLOOD FOR THE BRITISH CABINET. HI the Coaition Cabinet becomes a fact, Power To months ago or risk the danger of be-;-Along the To Act PRIENYSL IN DANGER "OF BEING CAPTURED Armies--The Enemy Has Crossed the ~~ San in Large Force. The Russian War Office Announces Successes [n South- eastern Poland---The Slavs Pursue the Enemy. There ---Along the Entire Galician Front the Fighting Continues. | about to fall before the Austro-Ger-| { man armies under Gen. to-day announced in Poland. "An intense battle continues in Mackezen. | the region of Opatow," said the offi- { Crushed by successive defeats, the! cial ftalement, "We have defeated | Russians must either abandon the | considerable columns of the enemy, { Galician fortress they captured two| pursuing them beyond Ivanisks. entire 1ront- ing surrounded and captured. Only| fighting continues," aN Military "exper ndon char- From the Russians By the Austro-German it will represent a mobilization of the nation's statesmen on a reinforcements can save the gity. | ol arrival of large bodies of Slav| [acterized the retreat Mfithe Russian scale never before approached. According to forecasts the Cabinet wi!l retain all the strongest personalities of the past with the addition of Unionist leaders Bonar Law, Austen Chamberlain and F. E. Smith. In ad Ad- | dition A. J. Balfour, former Unionist Premier and Lord Reading who as Sir Rufus Isaacs, was a former Lib- | mission by the Russian War Office] The Austrian? Galicta eral Minister, are expected to re-enter the Cabinet, the former as First bord of the Admiralty and the lat- | that the enemy had crossed the San | Is not yet complete, according to Lon- ter as Lord Chancellor. Labor is to be represented by Arthur Henderson. He will serve side by side in large forces. | don's information, but the impression with two leading Peers, the Earl of 'Derby, an enthusiastic recruiter, and Lord Curzon, foremost Imperialist. | Semi-official advices, received here|is growing here that the .defeat of | to-day confirmed the report that the the Teutonic Allies in thls section . | Austro-German enveloping movement | has been severe enough to prevent DESTROYER TORPEDOED | Is sweeping forward. the complete success of the wholesale Rome, May 20.--Tosday the eyes of the world are turned on Rome. The Government realizes the faet, and. is determined that the spectacle presented by the reas-| sembling of Parliament shall be one of harmony and ex- alted patriotism. : The Government's decision has been definitely taken, | This was the opinion of military | Third Army as a eat which { critics here to-day followed the ad-| must have cost dearly. and parliament will sanction that decision. Rome last night was preparing for the historic sitting. - Every pre- caution has been taken to insure order. The proceedings will be simple and not without precedent. As in the last | war with Austria, the Government will introduce a bill consisting of one article in which will be embodied all the! requirements for the prosecution of the war. iis. Austria's Offer Too Late. > | Austria made one last effort to avert the inevitable. Her final proposals made at the eleventh hour were sub-| mitted to the Cabinet yesterday. By unanimous vote the! Cabinet rejected them. The concessions came too late. | Lieutenant-General Count Cadorne, Chief of the Ita-| lian General Staff, conferred with the members of his staff at Vineenza, on the Austrian border. | Italy yesterday declared martial law on her railway | Guptee lines. §lilitary officials were placed in charge of them. | Italy Blames Austria For the War. (Special to the Whig.) Rome, May 20.--Italy charges Austria with the re-| sponsibility for the world's greatest war. Another sum- mary of the Italian Green Book was made publie to-day just before Parliament convened to approve the Govern! 'ment's war programme. It chdrges that Austria broke faith with Italy when she sent an ultimatum to Serbia that tumbled Europe into war. + Austria's action disturb- ed the whole Balkan status to the detriment of Italy, says the statement. ; "This infringement of the Triple Alliance agreement convinced Italy that she had the right to resume full liberty of action," said the summary. "On May 4th we denounced the Triple Alliance treaty as void." THE BRITISH COMMONS ADJOURNS TILL JUNE 3RD 5% of Crewe's portfolio at the India of- fice or that he will succeed Mr. Har. court as of State for colo- nies. Mr, Chu is a major in the Torritorialh, and pn sive i rprise if he should prefer ra line to a cabinet position (Special te the Whig.) London, May 20.--The Commons adjourned last night until June Sra before its next meeting the new Cabinet will be formed, and its first act will be to challenge a vote of fidence from thie House of Com- aD ity for his LO! ; Marquis of Crewe and' Mr. Birrell will go willingly. Mr. Harcourt may be raised to the peer- age, and promoted to be viceroy ¢ ni . $ offite in the Admiralty yester- lel a, taken 10 Sitan that "vice: y which would give him no opportun- |' GEN. SIR WILLIAM BIRDWOOD, R . Mm k | Australian Commander-in-Chief At! ams a e the Dardanelles, Wounded, SERIOUSLY ils Has Been Working Hard for German Cause He |, * (Special to the Whig.) Op London, May 20.--The British erations the.pames of 170 officers and 1,400 men. Nine hundred casualties in Peninsula are reported as well a: (Special to the Whig.) naval losses of 150 in the same area. = Paris, May 20.--Heavy rains have name of General Sir William Bird-| Nortliern France and. Flanders into Wood, Commander-In-Chief of the a see of mud and rendered military . -- | War Office announced this afternoon Canadian Casualties Summary. * | that because of this faet "there is' Ottawa, May 20.--Summary of NEI TS casualties ammounced till noon to-! DIED AND BURIED AT SEA. missing, 1,116. | Sad News For Daughters Of Mrs. Halifax, May 20.-- The Royal Mail packet steamer Chignecto yes . the two daughters of Mrs. Mary Cul- Will Be Walled | len, matron for fourteen years of the { Mrs. Cullen had gone to the West | Indies to recuperate her health,and n y ayonets :.: family heard fhat she was re cov ah wea | Demerara on her return Mrs. Cullen (Special to the Whig.) i 4 Geneva, Switzerland, May 20 (via 100K ill, died and was buried at sea. Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, her daughters went to the steamer Russians, Italians and Serbians now ©°n its arrival to greet their mother, tection from the Swiss Government in the event of Italy's entrance into From a military standpoint all four Alpine Swiss borders will be] ; New York, May 20.--Herman Rid-, Swiss mebtrallly will wot be violated, | or. Owner and: edilor of the Stastt safeguard the frontiers. | 32 West Seventy-fourth street. . 'There is no thought, however of a I8 suffering from a complication of most important question concerns the | Ovérwork due to his tireless efforts Bol impo for more than 5,000,000 in behalf of the German cause. persons Last "a wall of bayonets. Hope is ex- South with his wife in a vain search a Lot hay belligerent govern. | Gf Beaith, ' - He has not been In his i be very weak. ! MORE CANADIAN COR : § Jv | RE CA rg Germans to Destroy Winter Wheat' | Paris, May 20.--The German 5 : | thorities | ordered the destruc-: + = caneetal to. the, Whik.) tion of all growing winter wheat in| diay io rne Militia De. | that portion par : authorized the forma- berte. | about 8,000 men and the Dominion to- of the new 'upits has not bee definitely casualty list issued to-day includes I ibl Australian' radiks on the Gallipoli Imposst e The list of wounded is headed by the | converted the trench country in Australian forces in the Dardanelles. operations out of question. The (Special to the Whig.) ' nothing new to report." day: Killed, 714; wounded, 3,001: a ---- Cullen, Of Halifax, P eople terday brought a tragic surprise for | Immigration Department at Halifax ering. Two days after leaving Faris) --There dre nearly 1,000,000 This was eighteen days ago. To-day in Switzerland who will receive pro-! 8nd were infornied of her death. the war. closed, Although the Government it has taken stringent measures to Beitung, is seriously ill in his home, general Swits. mobilization. The diseases, which are aggravated by who soon may be surroundea December 'Mr. Ridder went w ents will give their aid. | office for two months, and is said to | ¥ 5 . -------- | Of Infantry and Artillery Are To Be| Au. | a ve of Fretich, territory aA etapa To vara So] mans ao wo exper ¥ artillery batter- ments will go from Sassi minions British Craft Submarined in the North Sea Baltimore, Md., May 20 --Captain K. Pauw and officers of the Holland- American line steamship Walldyk, just here from Rotterdam, witnessed the torpedoing in the North Sea of a British torpedo-hoat destroyer by a German submatine. . They also as. sisted in rescuing 'the crew of the vessel. blown to pleces, and the survivors, numbering about twenty, were pick: up by lifeboats from the Walldyk and a steam trawler which rushed to the rescue. he Captain Pauw said: "We were ob- {serving the British torpedo-boat de- stroyer near Calloper Shoals Light on May 1 about noon when we heard a terrific explosion, and saw a large column of water spout high in the air, followed almost instantly by a second tremendous detonation. "The war vessel was seen to part in the middle, each section slanting on end for a few seconds, and then disappearing into the sea. When we arrived close by, men were seen | struggling i the. floating wreckage from the sunken vessel. Others man- aged to keep their heads above water by small rubber life-rings about their necks, which were blown up with air, Not a moment's time was lost in launching a lifeboat from the Walldyk, ¢ "1 do not know how many men comprised the crew of the torpedo- boat, but the vessel was of the larg. est type used in the British navy. As néar as I can judge,about twenty men were taken from the water alive: some of them were terribly injured. The torpedo vessel was numbered, but bore no name." s TRENCH RABBITS IN PARIS, Children of Belgian Farmers Brought From Piring Line. Paris, May 20.--Three hundred | children of Belgian farmers, living near the fighting line--152 of them girls and 148 boys--arrived in Paris to-day. They made a total of two thousand children who have been brought into the capital from Bel- gium, French and 'British camps in recent months. Many of the chil- dren are orphans or have been sepa. rated from their parents through the exigencies of war. ' Many of the waifs had been cared for by the soldiers, who call them |p; trench rabbits. Some of them have been actually sheltered in bomb. proofs. Nearly all those who arriv- to-day were carrying toys which 32d heen fads for them hy theif sol 8. ; Many children have been by shells during hern A The British war Vossel 'was | | To offset this admitted defeat in A German Spy Hangs Himself In England (Special to the Whig) London, May 20.--Anton Kuep- ferle, former resident of Brooklyn, N. Y.; on trial here as a German spy, committed suicide by hanging early to-day In his cell in Brixton Prison. Kueplerle, the British authorities charged, gave to the German Admir- alty information about the location of British warships, by interlining letters with invisible ink. The au- thorities said he was unable to prove he was a naturalized American. The suspected epy left a message admitting his guilt, but glorying in his service to his country. His death was accomplished by hanging with a silk scarf to the ventilator of his cell. WAR CHEMICALS ALL UP, Demand for Use in Explosives Has Sent Prices Soaring. New York, May 20 --Carbolic acid, { used in ammunition manufacturejhas | advanced over 1800 per cent. it price since the war started. It has gone from seven cents a pound, the ruling price In July of last year, to $1.25 i & pound now, The purchase of the product by outside speculative inter. ests has contributed to the tunpre- cedented rise, © All acids that go to {make up explosive material are now | very scarce, This is particularly i true of carbolic and picric acids, All chemicals used in the making of powder and explosives have had tremendous advances in price. Other products besides those mentioned are toluol, benzol, quicksilver, guncotton, nitro-glycerine, blue vitriol, sodium chlorate and saltpetre. whose. advance has been af speculative purchase, has risen from 40 cents to $1.80 a pound. . Quicksilver, which is used in making fulminate of mercury for Iminating caps on shrapnel, gone from $35 to $75 a flask, Gun. cotton has advanced from 50 cents to 75 cents a pound. Blue vitriol, part. because of the advance in the 3 100 pou LAR Pieri acd. ) of copper, has gone from $4.65 | ° | offensive movement which they initi- | the Jarouslau district, the Russian | ated along the eastern front. | KING'S AIDE IN THE PLOT. {Sought to Ally Italy's Ruler With { Giolitti, Paris, May 20 --The Rome corre- { spondent of the Journal des Debats | telegraphs that Italy will declare war hig week at the latest. otters. One of the most important opponents of Salandra. was the 'King's aide de camp, General Brasatl, who tried to separate the King from the cabinet and ally him with Glemi(1. Brusati declared that Signor Son. nino, the foreign minister, was in- sane Lo make an agreement with the Triple Entente and that the Germans had 1,200,000 soldiers already mass. ed to join Austria against Italy. They would easily take M and probably even Rome, he averred. Another neutralist card was the Egyptian question, the late Khedive having most powerful connections in Rome. All these efforts proved useless, the King being fully determined to exe- cute the popular will. ~ A France to Requisition Wheat. Washington, May 20.--France has decided to requisition all stocks of wheat in the republi¢ at a uniform price of about $2.80 per hundred pounds, according to & eablegram re- ceived at the Department of Com. merce to-day from Commercial At tache Veditz in Paris. ¢ 7 Typhus Outbreak Suppressed London, May 20.--It is announced that the typhus. fever which broke out recently in ten of the prison camps in Germany where British prisoners are interned has been stamped out in two of them, Alt 'damm and Zerbst . Two German sobmarines have just been completed in the harbor at Os- tend. " DAILY MEMORANDUM. Vaudeville, Grand, yd and 7.20. Vaudeville, Grand, 2.880 and 7.30. 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