12 PAGES ona oa PAGES 1-8 7 YEAR 82 NO 124 KINGSTON ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MAX 28, 1015 The Cera = Had "Many LAST EDITION sses ~ FRENCH PUSH AHEAD IN BRILLIANT CHARGE Capture a Number of German Prisoners Fighting With Uninterrupted Vio- lence. A Vigorous German Gusiaught Was Met By a Rain of "Shells That Caused Heavy Loss---Slight Advance on Edge of For- est. " (Special to the Whig.) Paris, May 98. --French troops stormed and oeccu- pied the (German earthworks near Souches in a brilliant charge that resulted in the capture of a number of prison- ers, The fighting in this region and everywhere north of Arras continues with uninterrupted violence. Around Ablain the French artillery drove the Ger- mans out of several strongly fortified farm houses. Near Angres, a vigorous German onslaught encountered a rain of shells that sent the enemy reeling in retreat, leaving several hundred dead and wounded on the field. The official communique this afternoon announced a renewal of the fighting in Lepretre Woods, near Pont-a- Mousson. The French realized a slight advance on the edge of the forest. Austro- Germans Decis Decisively Defeated. (Special to the Whig.) ' Detvograd. May 28.--The Austro-Germans have heen decisively defea ol § in their attempt to surround Przemysl b; GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT IN A ROUGH SEA. through a heavy sea. This remarkable picture shows a German torpedo boat under full steam running 1 OCCUPY MISSION CENTRE | ! Did Spy Cause Blowing Up Russian Troops Have Entered Urum. | iah in Persia i (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, May 28. 2 Russian | troops have occupied Urumiah, the ? mission gentre in Persian Armenia, Of S wher wholesale massacres of Ar- teamer . menfans by Turks and Kurds re- | 5 cently occurred. i ASpecial to the Whig.) Urumiah lies sixty-four miles] Sheerness, Eng., May 28.--Persist- southwest of Tabriz and is one of the | cnt rumors' that u German spy chief missionary centres in Persia. | touched off the gigantic explosion The Fiske Seminary for girls, under | that sent the steamer Princess Irene United States direction, and Urum-| skyward with a loss of more than iah College are located there. [ 200 lives caused fhe British Admir- The War Office also announced | ally tc-day to order an immediate in- the defeat of a band of Kurds in the | vestigation. Admiralty officers who Caucasus south of Meliaz = Gherdo, i were on the ground early to-day ridi- and another victory over the Turks |culed these rumors, near Bashkala. onc BIITISH STEAMER SUNK, A WORTHY SLOGAN reins Lon the Coast of © ornwall=The Crew Was Saved, Prosperity." (Special to the Whig Pensange, Bng., May 28. ne he Brit "Borden and Poverty; Laurier and | battering artillery oa infantry a 8 Shi the railway. For twenty-four hours the the enemy 's artillery poured a torrent of fire against the Rus- - sians between Jaroslau and Przemysl. At the same time a German force that crossed the San above Jaroslau re" owed the River Lubaczovka and struck at the Russian ank, Left Wing Met With Disaster. Berlin, via wireless, May 28. --The admissic® is made by the German War Office this afternoon that General Mackensen's left wing has suffered a slight reverse and| por have lost six in the fighting on the east bank of the San north of Jaroslan. =» The official despatches also reported the beginning of = a new German offensive along the Dubissa, in the Rus- sian Provinee of Kovno. In the western theatre of war, the French have oceu- Pledmart of th of the German position near Metzral, in Alsace. The Office admitted this, but reported that the fleree French attacks in Lepretre forest w were repulsed. MAY NEVER BE KNOWN, 4 ------ Princess Irene Shattered by Mysten- ous Explosion. Mont 1, May By in an address ish steamer Cacdby, PUD Oh FRD ot B80 hang | Pit T% ibiedond And sunk a : ( s would country. ' * Thé speaker attacked the financial. poly f the Government, using the 'Borden and poverty; Lau- Noga, Flor ad prosver sperity." He stated that were due not to the war but to deficits caused by governmen- tal extravagance. The tax on let- ters and cheques he characterized as fines against the poor man. 8 LBS PEOPLE ARE KILLED, Falling OFF in Raflway Business Re- * § ND BATTERY IN FRANCS, (Special to the Whig.) London, May 28 received the Ont. and all are 22nd February. Major iy i] i Ei Ja ! ¥ ¥ BE Lie i ST ati tit es if li - TO TURN OUT TOLUOL. By-Product Of Coke Ovens Used In Powerful Explosive. Ottawa, May 28.--Gen. Hughes announced last night. that the manu- factore of toluol, the new and pow- erful explosive, was begin for the first time in Canada at the Dominion Steel Co.'s works at Sydney, N.S. This is two months earlier than i i anticipated. It will soon be manu- factured also at Sault Ste. Marie and at other points in the Dominion. Toluol is a by-product of the coke ovens and is in the manufae- ture of high explosives. It has tre- mendous powers of expansion. on i-------------------------- Rev. Dr. Fisk Coadjutor. Utica; N.Y., May 28.---At the an- nual econ tion of the diocese of Ottawa, May 28.--One compensa- tion for the falling-off in railway traf- fic is the marked decrease in the number of killed and injured on rail- ways as shown in reports tosthe La- Department. ast mont uly hid il an njur- _-- LT hgh below the usual ber of men killed. - In farming tions, 12 "were killed, in min- ing 9, in. iumbering 5, metal trades 6, vuliding trades 4 Big Steamer i Fisk, Baltimore, was elected coadju- 1 to Tio the Whig.) . se lasgow | tor bishop. A request for an assist- - ef hie. wes po ant had been made by Bishop Olm- Central New York, Rev. Dr. Charles | yj "TOM" RILEY STAYS AWAY. Freed Prisoner Not Likely to be Brought From. Missouri. Ottawa, May 28.-- Tom" Riley the wrong Riley who was release by mis- is still down in Missouri, and inquiry at the Justice Department to-day failed to disclose any new develop: ments in his case. ~~ Some weeks ago it was intimated that Riley would come back voluntarily. Now it is stated he intends to stay where he is. Officially it is sald the depart has taken steps looking to the Riaiont of the prisoner to custody. Nothing has come from this action. It can- not be said that any great antiety is displayed about bringing Riley back. He ig out of the country, is reported to be conducting himself like a re- spectable 'citizen, was deported at the request of the Government, and the probabilities are fairly strong that if he does not come back of his own ac- oord he will stay where he is. = At all events no one here appears to be wor- rying particularly about it. ---------- Seattle Wash., May 28 Wil | ters. helm Meuller, German consul here for the last three months, has been. transferred to Atlanta, Ga. He will be succeeded here by Dr. E. Zopfell, the present German consul at At lanta. Dr. Mueller, who was German con- sul at Shimonodseki, Japan, until the war began, attracted notice soon af- ter coming to Seattle because of a clash with Prosecuting Attorney Al Al- fred Lundin over German treaty rights. Dr. Mueller was a arrested on a state warrant charg- ing conspiracy to bribe an em of a shipbuilding company to close the company's business ns Sserdta in an effort to learn whether the company was building sub for Canada. The consul that he was immune from arrest te der treaty, and made complaint thé. State Department. Babscauonty the | ouspiracy charge was dismis~ Dog-In-Manger Hotelmen Are _ Given n Warning|.. ties who have resorted to closing their houses phe yr efusit sell or lease to others in ¢ Tr tom people against the 'mew | will Brobably nd the us t take from Portsmouth hd BEGIN BOMBARDMENT FROM THE INSIDE And the Allied Land Forces Have Renewed Their Attacks Along With Navy. Fier Attacks on Trish Positions Near Bulair and Gaba Tepe---There Has Been Little Dismay Over Sinking of British Battle- se. (Special to the Whig.) London, May 28.---Undismayed by ithe loss of the British battleships Triumph and Majestic, the Allied fleet has begun a fresh bombardment of the Turkish forts from inside the Dardanelles and from the Gulf of Saros. . Despatches from Tenedos to-day said that the renewal of the warship attack was the signal for simultan- eous attacks by the Allied land forces. Australian © and French troops swept forward in the direction of Krithia, storming the Turkish trenches in rapid succession. Other Allied troops are making fierce attack on the Turkish positions near Bulair and Gaba Tepe. The Majestic Torpedoed. London, May 28.--The British battleship Majestic, another of the ships supporting the Allied army en the Gallipoli peninsula, was tor- pedoed and sunk by a German sub- marine on Thursday morning. Near- I all the officers and crew were sav- The Majestic, the oldest: battleship 'om the active list of the aikth sapital auiy" oat 3 ey ho A ran: German en & victim to submarines Shieh recently arrived in those was War Coming Is Statement Of Secretary New York, May 28.--The Herald London special says: Robe n, Secretary of State in Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet, left for home aboard the Philadelphia yesterday. "War hatweon the "United States and Germany is coming as surely as night follows day," sald Mr, Bacon. "Germany is calculating on the feel- ing in the United States cooling off, and now tells us she will get around to the Lusitania case in a week or so which is another crowning insult to the nation." ---- British Press Comment. London, May 28. The Daily News, in 8 an Sgiiorial on the torpedoing of raskan, says: "The inca incident is not likely to make relations between Germany and ne United States aolor. Clearly no | | self-respecting Power can suffer this v The Majestic was a battleship of 14,900 tons displacement, and nore mally carried a crew of 767 men. She was built in 1895, being one of the old pre-dreadnought class. Her length at the water line was 399 feet and her beam 75 feet. Her length over all was 413 feet:. . She was armed with four twelve inch guns, twelve six-inch, sixteen twelve-pounders and twelve three- pounders, besides two maxims and two twelve-pounder boat guns. She alsd had four eighteen- ineh torpedo tubes submerged and one above-wa- ter, She was covered with vy Harvey armor. Her speed limit'w sixten and ome-half knots. She was laid down at Portsmouth in February, 1894 and completed in January of the following year. Bhe was one of a class of nine ships, which included the Magnificent, Hannibal, Prince George Victorius, Jupiter, Mars, Caesar and Ilustri- ous. The submaring metiace is a grow- ing one both in the Aegean Séa and home waters, and these vessels ise to take an active part in tish erations in the- narro Meet Aerial Gas Bombs. London, May 28.--/The Daily News says the London polite authorities are taking precautions to protest their officers and men from the ef- fects of poisonous bombs should London be raided by enemy aircraft. Although respirators are mot being = served out to indi , each sta- tion has been supplied a ne stock as a precautionary measure. + "We do not anticipate there will be a big air raid on London, when poisonous gas by means of bombs will be distributed | Te. "v nt 1 di t yeste: "but there is & a bombs may be dropped in iso! Isolated cases. M Should this emergency arise and an alarm be given tors will be served out police and special ¢ Ai i ---------------- Joseph Lang, Peat of 4 it old- tithe minstrels, after an is lasting three years. o DAILY . 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