12 PAGES \ - - - -- ---- =X -- YEAR 82 NO 132 h e Daily British Whig KINGSTON ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915 LAST BLOODY ENGAGEMENT FOUGHT IN tie-Many Were Also Taken Prisoners By the Russians. There Were Also Other Heavy Losses Alon Fronf---The Russians Who Quit Przemys! Have Lo- cated East of the Fortress in the Direc- ~ tion of Lemberg. -- (Special to the Whig) Petrograd, June %. Five thous- and Austro-Germans were killed and! 720 prisoners taken in an engage- ment in southeast Galicia, the War Office announced to-day. Those sev- ere losses were suffered by the en- emy on one sector alone, between Kolomea and Nadvorna. Along oth- er portions of the battle front, in southeast Galicia. Austro-Germans also lost heavily, Despatches to the War Office to- day admitted that the Russians who evacuated Przemysl have withdrawn several miles to the east of the fort- ress In the direction of Lemberg. The Russian position around Lem- berg are described as tory." ' Busy On Western Side. Paris, June 8. Pressing steadily eastward toward Lens, the French have occupied another group of houses east of Souchez sugar by daring 'bayonet dashes. Every- where in the region north of Arras the enemy Is making desperate at- tempts to step the Froucl by heavy counter attacks, but with- out results., An official from the War Office this said that.thé French made A "satisfac- | forces into clash. mill | ang 1 advance | statement | wounded being left on afternoon | ment. slight | oners, PRESIDENT WILS COMPLETES MESSAGE progress on the slopes east of Lor- ette Hills. The Germans counter- attacked three times during the night. But were beaten off with heavy losses. The fighting around Neuville and "Labryinthi' is piling the ruined trenches with dead and wounded. Artillery fire goes on without ces- sation and neither side can collect the wounded. In one German trench the French found several Germans, | who had been severely, but not fa- tally wounded, dying from starva- tion and thirst. The fighting south of Arras, where the French launched an offensive | near Hebuterne, has brought 'large terday captured two lines of tren- ches northeast of Hebuterne. i likely a Fairy Story. (Special to the Whig Constantinople, June 8, vi wireless --The British | ports to-headquarters here. {ly heavy, hundreds of dead and the retire- The Turks took many pris. NA A Naini Secretary Bryan Is Not in Accord And He Is Seeking TO Se- : cure Modifications. (Special to the whiz) Washington, D. C., June 8.-- Presi- dent Wilson caused an announcement at 1.60 o'clock this afternoon that the German note was complete. 'Through Secretary Tumulty he Jet ii be known that he hoped that it would go forward to-morrow. But his Cabinet was not unanimous in its ap- whose name it will bear, if the Presi- dent's plans are completed, Secre- tary Bryan, left the Cabinet meeting determined to fight for modification right up to the very minute that the note is placed on the cables. Bryan believes the United States Is on record for arbitration so as to make it a mockery to send to Ger- many a document which he consid- ers savors of an ultimatum. And "although the majority of the Cabi- net was against him, to-day, he car- ried his persuasive powers from the PAUSING | should send to Germany. \proval of the document, and the man | Cabinet meeting to the Club where he and his f bers had lunch. It was understood that Secretary Bryan carried to the Cabinet meet- ing a memorandum which he had prepared in which he justified his views that the propesed note was not of a character that the United States He took the proposition that the United States in executing arbitration treaties with the great majority of the countries of the world, has taken a direct posi- tion against war. Secretary Bryan is understood to have urged that the United States could stand firmly for its rights and not close its doors to any explanation ellow mem- that Germany might make. Although | Secretary Bryan will continue his ef- | forts to secure a modification of the! note, persons close to the President | insisted this afternoon that they will | prove unavailing. T0 THINK OF FALLEN COMRADES British Army Headquarters, June 8.--Addressing the troops recently, General Alderson said: "Before we go any further let us pause and give thought to those brave comrades of ours who have gone. - My faith in the Almighty is such that I am perfectly ree He takes to Himself and looks after den like them (whatéver their past lives may have been), who, doing their duty nobly, have died fighting for their country and empire. Let us leave them at that. We could not leave them _better. France, "Since May 16th our line, that is, Canadian | our first line, has advanced on the front just over three miles; the whole hostile front been captured on the front of 3,200 yards, and on the remaining portion the first and sec- ond line trenches have been captured and nearly 800 prisoners have been faken, twenty-two machine guns cap- tured or destroyed, and a consider- able quantity of material and equip. ment tak PITH OF THE NEWS. 08 Condensed Items By Telegraph and From Exchanges. The Sues Canal Company has tdk- © en steps to oust a German from tu: employ of the concern. ' : War orders for 8,000,000 pairs of shoes have been placed a has been in France. + The work of submaze ined in the of Marmora has de- GALICIA Five Thousand Austro-Germans Fell in the Bat- g the Battle The French yes-| ) a Berlin | general | offensive on Gallipoli has been re- | pulsed at all points; actording to re- | The | casualties of the Allies were extreme. | | TO MAKE ENQUIRY Into Suspicious Transactions of Goy- ernment Purchase. (Bpecial to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 8.--Sir Charles Da- vidson, commissioner appointed to hold an enquiry into war phrchases made by the Government. will hold a conference with Hon C. J Doherty, to consider the method of procedure and scope of the enquiry Only iy case of suspicious transactions wil { public enquiries be held and. wit nesses called. * { | | | | | | - ' GEN. VON AUFFENBURG Former Austrian Minister of War and early in the war. commander-in-chief of the Austrian forces, who has been ar- rested amd is being treated as a "serious political criminal." He was deprived of his command owing to h's failure to complety an enveloping movement Was Wounded In Action _ At Front A cablegram from: Ottawa an- {nounces that Lieut. Hubert Stethagn, | of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, was | wounded in action, by cdncussioh. He |is a son-in-law of R. J. Carson, and | a son of G. W. Stethem, Westmount. { Lieut Stetham was in charge of a | machine-gun section, having gone to {the front as an infantry officer. Mrs. Stethem is on thefSB. St. Paul and is | | expected to arrive in New York on| Friday or Saturday. Mr. It meet her there. POOL CABINET SALARIES { Liberals Said to Have | Unionist Proposal. London, June 8.--The Daily Ex- | press says the members of the re- |organiged Cabinet have decided to | bool their salaries and divide the | University | total equally, Premier Asquith by "~~ | general consent being excluded | {irom the scheme. The pian is entire- {iy voluntary. It was suggested {by the Unionists and was worked | {out by Reginald McKenna. Sir | Edward Carson's fees as Attorney- | | General will not be included in the pool. | | Buffalo Hears That Pope Benedict Favors Appointment. Buffalo, N.Y., June 8.--A report! { from Ottawa, Ont., states that Bish-| {op Michael Fallon, London, {Ont., has been endorsed by Pope | Benedict as the new Bishop of Buf-| falo, sugceeding the late Bishop Col-| ton, but a local Catholic clergyman | stated It would be too early yet to| know the successor. | { Hits at a Secret Treaty. | London, June 8,--The Daily News | | this morning states that the Vos-| | sische Zeitung-recently published fu | | the form of correspondence from an | { American residing in Berlin a sug-| | gestion that the course of the Unit- ed States Government in the present crisis might be due to the existence of a secret treaty, concluded Great Britain by a predccessor of President Wilson, and that it was not 10 guess who that pre- decessor was. BISHOP FALLON ENDORSED, } | { Minister ;of Justice. this afternoon, ! \PRIVATE CHAS. COTTON | | # test against war with Germany, NOW-OVER 8,000, anadian Casualty List Grown Larger, DID FINE WORK he © tr (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 8.--~The Canadian Canadian Aitillery at Work ji] Casualty list now exeeeds the eight! Recent Fighting. thousand mark, the total up to ten! o'clock this morning being 8,008. The killed now number 1,213, wounded, 5,230 and missing 1,565.) | From the missing there may now be! deducted almost a score of mew for- merly reported missing who have! turned up. The cabled statements facie that the Canadians are resting in| SC INDED F » {reserve for the past few days pro-| RI ONNENIED OE A 3 C M- | vably means that casuaity lists will . Sg ig | be smaller for a while. | { -------------- | Canadian Gunners Showed Exactness | In Landing Shells In the German | Lines--The Second Contingent | Anxious to Reach the Front. Folkestone, June 8.--Magnificent work was done by the Canadian ar- tillery in the fighting in progress dur- | ing the last few days very close to {the German lines. Our batteries! | were pouring in shrapnel, and the | precision of the gunners made al-| | most every shell burst over the Ger- | | mans, who had severe losses. i | Private Charlie Cotton, Montreal! | Battery, son of the late General Cot- | | ton, Toronto, has been recommended | | for the D. C. M. and a Commission | | for the fine work done by telephone | in directing the fire at the Lange-| marcke fight. The Canadians at Shorneliffe and |" the neighborhood are in splendid con- | dition, and all anxious to cfoss the Channel to the shores of France, plainly visible from here to-day. While waiting for a train to Lon-| don to-night a special from Dover | passed bearing Premier Asquith, who | + has refurned from a visit-to the army | in Flanders. - It is reported that a number of Canadian officers who have been at the front since the First Contingent landed in France, including some | still in active service and others in- valided home sick or slightly wound- | ed, will be detailed to drill reinforce- ments in Canada, as their experience of field service is invaluabie. | YANADIANS BILLETTED IN CHURCH Na ancient Roman Catholic Church and the convent beside it, are billetted some of the First Canadian Contingent soldiers. The postcard with this view was addresséd from "somewhere in France." Many Turks and Germans in Dire. Need (Special to the Whig.) Athens, June 8.--Forty' thous- Campbellford, J 8.--0C. .jand Turkish soldiers, wounded in gy FH Ra3: boun abvintei | the Dardanelles fighting, and 250 Postmaster of Campbellford, to suc-| German officers, are in pitiful need ceed J. A. Loucks, whose resignation °f medical attention at Constantin- was accepted by the department. | ople. Despatches received here to day said that the hospital facilities in the Ottoman tal inadequate for wounded are reported to be dying daily for lack of proper care. An epidemic of typhus and smallpox has added to the sufferings of the To Soon Come, (Special to the Whig.) { London, June 8.--Questioned in! the House of Commons, under Sec- {retary of War Tennant, said he hop- ed the opportunity would soon come 'for sending the Royal Canadian Henze Artillery to the front. A New Postmaster. * + * + # or anybody else, unless United + States territory invaded. + The Government | Laval University's | thousand beds for { wounded soldiers. has accepted offer of one hospitals for The Kirk in Cound] 'Specially Written For the Whig By "Cleric," "The Assembly adjourned to meet again in this place to-morrow moet ing of which public intimation was | given, and this sederunt was closed | with the benediction by the Modera- tor." In the General Assembly these words are as familiar ag the doxol. Ogy. 'They are part of the stereo. typed phraseology embalmed in the ancient minutes of the Kivk. It would never do to put a word out of order, It would be like a discord in Old Hundred. Or to call an "in. | timation" a notice would as up- | pardonable 8s to speak of a session | as a committee. Dr. R. Campbell, the clerk, has a melodious voice, and has chanted the above words » ex- actly the same rich notes, thousands of times. It was a great hit, when in combatting th Yes, and the mighty Joffre hag step- ped in to see the Fathers and Broth. ren, No, it is our versatile leader. Dr. Bryce, Winnipeg. Then we see a row of young "seven-footers" who are familiarly known as Jack MoMil. lan, Bob Scott, Fred. Anderson, Ro- chester, Van Wyck, PB6b Laird and Arthur Burch. But which oaks. the most like popular King Albert, we want more than a quarter to guess. And if "Uncle Sam" walked in, look- ing for a reserved seat beside his friend "John," he would never sit any place but alongside of that fine type of Britisher, Mr. Walter 1, Montreal. He might, however, want a word with the Moderator, believing him to -have a family likeness 10 Longfellow and Emerson. "But Dr. W. J. Clark, Montreal, 1a in the middle of his recruiting for Church Union, and we must that we may hear the call. What a variety of tasks is usually given to a popular man. 3 thers may be more learned, more am ious, more boosted by friends, and yet be dead failures. © "But you cannet scarcely ever beat a popular man. At ar rate, he could not be downed any a a a. ark is wel . can over, and get them through slippery Hig voice keeps within a sweet alto, and we hear : ; i fi ; i ; = a i if i it Has | {Queen Efizabsth in the Fighting Line to Determine Any De- POSITION How Italians Were Enabled to Gain swept away thie obstacles, so that the | BRITAIN BUILDING SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS Warships, Each Displacing 21,500 Tons, Car- rying Eight 15-Inch Guns," Ready Soon. -- a ' fects in the Mountings or Battery Equipment and to Guard Against it in the Construction-of the Other New Ships. New York, June 8.--A Herald spe- aeroplanes now ready for the great- cial from London says: est aerial raid in the history of the The statement of Winston Spencer | world, according to Henry Wood- Churchill that the British Navy has | house, chairman of committee on di- been increasing 4n strength by Jpaps | rigibles of the Aero Club of America. and bounds since the beginning of the | Weodhayse said to-day he had this war is borne out by the known addi- | information from trustworthy sourc- tions to the fleet of superdread- | es. noughts which were not complete! "This number is now ready for an when war was declared. The list | active compaign," he said. "1 have of new ships includes such vessels as'| authority for the statement that the the Barham, the Malaya, the Ramill- | British makers of a new typé of ies, the Resolution, the Revenge, the | plane are confident of their ability Royal Oak, the Royal Sovereign, the | to approach three mile a minute Valiant and the Warspite, each dis- | speed. With this air fleet, Britain placing 27,500 tons and carrying in) will invade Germany and more than the main batteries eight 15-inch | counteract Zeppelin raids on Eng- guns, { land." The Queen Elizabeth is one of this | group of superdreadnoughts and isi the only one of {he new sea fighters! which has been put forward into the! fighting line. The reason for em- ploying the Queen Elizabeth has been | ing two nuns. to determine any defects in mount-| Some 2,000 persons, mostly wo- ings or battery equipment which de-| men, assembled in - front of the fects, if they developed, could be ta-| Reichstag building on May 28th in ken advantage of, and guarded| Berlin and shouted for peace. They against in the final inspection work! not only protestéd against the war in the newer ships. | but complained of the h'gh cost of : | food. Mighty Aeroplane Fleet. | A squadron of the Allies' aero- (Special to the Whig.) | planes raided the German supply New York, June §.--Great Britain | station at Valenciennes, doing much has a fleet of more than a thousand | damage with borfibs. TAKEN HELPING THE CAUSE. _BY-WiLp CATTLE "> ha New York, June Carn foundation for the advancement of teaching shows a total endowment of Montecordo Sum- | $14,250,000, a surplus of $1,245,000, {an annua) income of $746,000, and mit {an annual expenditure. $716,000 . | for the year nding. mber 30, Rome, June 8.--Fifty wild cattle | 1914, according to the ninth annual materially aided Ialian troops in| report made public to-night. capturing a strong Austrian posi-| Of this amount $32,000 was spent tion of Montecordo, according to the| in administration; $47,000 in educa- Corriere d'Italian. The Austrian tional inquiry, and $884,000 in re- garrison had surrounded itself with tiring allowances and pensions, says a high barbed wire entanglement,|the report. The total expenditure against which the Italians drove| for allowance since the beginning of the cattle. Startled by exploding| the foundation is $8,661,000, bombs, the unital aitacked Rie oi] ; nd horns, | a or oy And borin | Many Boats is Torpedoed By Germans / London, June 8.--Oaptain Wirth, his wife and daughter and fourteen men of the crew of the Belgian steamer Menapier, torpedoed by a German submarine in the North Sea, were drowned, i despatch es received here to-day. Only five members of the crew ware rescued. Three Norwegian vessels have been sunk by submarines in British waters in the last twenty-four hours, accord- ing to other desp They are the Burgen steamer 'Trudvang, of 1,040 toms, the Christiania, steamer Glittertind, of 650 tons, and the Chistinsand bark Su . Y MEMOBANDUM. t t hand corner, tof ATR Gage % mS RCHMER~In Coll th, 1915, Mary | daughter of fhe is erchmer. pi Funeral from Joseph Losed's residence, 130 p.m, Wednesday, to Cataraqui [Satnetery; a Friends and acquaintances respectfully invited to attend. is War Tidings. The Gérman Zeppelin "wrecked by British monoplane near Ghent and | Brussels fell upon a convent, kill- SW ean Se ae Italians were able to gain the sum-| mit easily. { The charge of the cattle, for| which no previous military experi-| ence had prepared them, is said to| have stampeded the Austrians. | NEVER SAW THE LIKE OF IT. What a Coldstream Guardsman Says Of Canadians. w London, June 8.--"It gives us great courage to know that we have such men to rely on," writes Cor poral O'Brien, of the Coldstream Guards, of the Canadians. "Only the other day," he says, "they went into an attack just as if they were drilling in Hyde Park. I never saw anything like it, each man keeping at about two paces intorval, going at a walking pace, with dozens of Maxims turned on them, besides the field artillery guns and the whole of the German rifle fire for-about a mile in front of them. In face, no better example could be shown by any regiment under the British flag. ITALY WILL REPLACE | | HE! yon June youngest wrence nd