12 PACES -- The Daily British Whig | PACES 9-12 Glorious (ITALIAN AEROPLANE T0 FIGHT ZEPPELINS ------ The Enormous Machine Has Three Engines, Totaling Some Two Hundred And Fifty Horsepower. Caries Many Bombs---lts Ammunition, it is Said, Was! Sufficient To Do Serious Damage to -- Rome, June 9.--An aeroplane "de-| On the section of wing which ad- stroyer," designed for attacking diri- | joing the two bodies is placed the gible airships, has been, perfected in | body work of an ordinary pusher bi- Italian Government workshops dur- | plane, with the engine and propeller ing the past few months. it is an | behind. In this way the body pro- enormous machine with three sepa- | jects well forward in front of the rate engines and with a total energy {screws of the other two engines, 80 of over 260 horse.power. The aero- | that it can carry a gun of consider- plane combines the tractor and push- | able size and have a clear field of fire er type of machines--that is, those | forwards, backwards and on both which are drawn along by an air [sides without danger of hitting fits screw in front and those which are |own screws or wings. | pushed by an air screw behind. | The tail ends of the two bodies | It consists, in fact, of the bodies | are joined together by a very large | of two ordinary tractor biplanes [tai] stretching from one to the oth- placed side by side and far enough |er, so that actually all parts of the apart, so that there is room between machine are in proportion. them for the propeller of a third en-| The big machine is capable of iift- gine, Each of the two main bodies | ing a huge cargo of bombs large has its own engine and tractor screw | enough to be certain to destroy a in front, so that it looks at first like | Zeppelin if they hit it, and even ca- two ordinary tractor biplanes flying | pable of doing serious damage to a hand-in-hand. battleship. | | { | \ | | | { mn, PRISONERS IN GERMANY Reported To Be 900,000 In the 247 f Camps. London, June 8.---The | "My general impression was that | once the prisoners have reached the | camps and have learned to comply | with the regulations they are not "Neutral | treated badly. In comparison with Correspondent" of the London Times, | the British, the French are the real describing the prisoners' camps in| favorites in camps and outside. The Germany, says that they number Russians also are well looked u, 247, of which, 556 hold 10,000 to 20,- | and are praised for their spirit of 000 each, The latest official infor- | resignation and for their discipline. mation gives the total number of pri-{ The French are commended for their soners interned as 900,000, He| 800d humor and readiness to work adds: and willingness to look at the bright "Dissemination of the camps | 5ide, even of a prisoner's life." throughout the empire may be neces- 3 sary or desirable as a practical mea- Has Made Good. sure, but it creates an impression Another Kingstonian has made that it was inspired also by another | good in the United States, this time in motive. By dotting these camps all | the person of W. H. Barr ,who has over the country they are accessible | been promoted to be secretary<trea- to the whole civilian population. They | surer of the South Side Savings Bank, form ocular demonstration of the | Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Barr was successes of the German army. On| born at Lake Opinicon, and later at- Sundays and holidays I saw large tended the Business College here. numbers of people going to have a| When he graduated he was appoint. look at the prisoners of war. The ed an insurance agent under J. B. spectacle may engender sympathy or | Cooke, and resigned from this posi- arouse passion, but it is quite certain | tion to bécome assistant to J. B. to give a feeling of satisfaction and | Mackay when he opened a Business security to the Germans at home. To | Collegé in Youngstown. The bank see large numbers of French, Rus-|opened its new branch last week, sian. Indian and other prisoners safe- | and reports say # is one of the finest ly interned behind barbed wire in the | buildings in the state. Fatherland is a gladdening sight to | German eyes. "More and more prisoners are to be seen at work outside the camps on farms and in factories. The au- thorities evidently hope the labor ! Took Degree at Columbia. William Harold Young, son of Rev. Dr. Young of Broadway Taber- nacle, Toronto, who has been tak- KINGSTON ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1915 | ASPHYXIATING GASES, | Hague Convention Violated: by the Germans. / The use by the Germans of poison. ous gases as a means of warfare was recently referred to by the British Minister for War, Lord Kitchener, as "being contrary to the solemn sentatives at the Hague Convention. Speaking in the House of Lords on April 28th, Lord Kitchener said: "The Germans have introduced a method of placing their opponents hors de combat by the use of as: phyxiating and deleterious gases, and they<employ these poisonous | methods to prevail when thir at- | tack, according to the rules of war, {might have otherwise failed. On this subject I would remind your Lordships that Germany was a signa. tory to the following article in the Hague Convention: '" "The Contracting Powers agree to abstain from the use of projectiles. the object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases.' The above was signed by the repre. sentatives of: -- Great Britain .. Belgium. .. .. Denmark |. Spain... ..... United '© States Mexico ,. . France .. .. Greece .. .. Montenegro .. Netherlands .. Persia ve Portugal .. .. Roumania ,. .. Russia .. Siam ., .. Sweden and Turkey .. .. Bulgaria .. .. . Germany .. .. .. Austria-Hungary ABIY viii on on JAPAN..." Switzerland. | .. ..July 29th, 1899 of Norway . .Skptember 4, 1900 .. October 6, 1900 ..December 29, 1900 Servia .. .. ..May 11, 1901 Luxemburg i aie July 12, 1901 China .. .. ., ..November 21, 1904 James + Ackerman, a coly.ed preachep, of Chatham, was sen' u- pledge signed by the German repre- | 600D SENSE TACTICS CANNOT T BEHIND WALLS WHERE GERMANS HIDE FLEET. Let Warships Leave Stome locked Fortresses For a Few Hours, How. | ever, and All Will Be Over, London, June 9 -- Commander Carylon Bellairs, the great British naval expert, replied to the recent criticism of the British navy appear- ing in Amorican newspapers suggest- ing that the nayy might try a little | initiative occasionally, sending sub- | marines to Cuxhaven, Kiel and He. | ligoland. Commander Bellairs | sald: "The man who wrote that | {ought to procure a scale chart and | study it for a few minutes with an | { American naval officer at hig elbow, | Then he might learn quite a lot. Cux. | haven and Kiel are hidden away be. hind miles of heavily mined sand banks, as well as breakwaters, At Heligoland there are only a few Ger- man torpedo boats and submarines. In naval warfare one goes by proba- bilities, not possibilities. The Brit- ish submarine wouldn't have hind the stone walls where the Ger mans hide their fleet. "It is not a question of initiative. | What our submarines have scouting around Heligoland around the Dardanelles proves this, It.is just a question of common-sense | tacties. done "The German fleet only needs just | its | to come out to sea and leave stone-locked fortresses for a few hours in order to get all the trouble it ever will be able to seek." Swiss Are Cut Off. Berne, June 9.--Communication by telzgraph and telephone between Switzeriand and Austria hag been in. terrupted by order of the Austrian Government The Swiss authorities | state that they do not understand | this action. Mrs. R. Lorne Gardner, wife of one | chance in a million of getting be. | ! { It jollies the person supposed to be ti and | COMES TO PENITENTIARY. Beat Farmer Into Insensibility and Robbed Him. Chatham, June 9.--Rev. James Ackerman, a colored preacher, was sentenced to four years in peniten tiary for assaulting and robbing Fred. Mayhew, a Raleigh Township farmer Ackerman beat Mayhew into insensibility with a "billy" and robbed him of $50 as the two were driving along a dark stretch of coun- try road one night recently. On be- ing led out of the court room Acker. man shouted that on securing his re- lease he would shoot all those re- sponsible for his arrest and convie- | tion, Diplomatic Language. The diplomat's language is cleverly | veiled, That the person addressed is due to be whaled Unless he subsides--the old dear! | It tells him we've known him so long and so well, | We'd bank on his worth any 'ime And then it proceeds with much nman- | ners to tell -- We fear he's committed & crime! | i child -- Informs him 'tis perfectly plain He couldn't have done what | know that he did, And better not do it again! we Advice For Churches. Hartford, June 9.--John Wana- | maker wrote to the convention of | roof and ground of an Episcopal Church Clubs of the Unit- | near Ghent. {ed States, here, telling how a church | He said: clean should advertise. "First it should up | minister is fairly, adequately completely paid." Belleville Store Robbed. Belleville, June 9. -- Mr, Jonas | | Bargman's place of business in this ced to four years in the penitentiary Surgeon-Major Gardner, Ottawa, for- | city was burglarized, and watches, for assault and robbery. Lady Sifton is at her cottage at Assinaboine Lodge, near Brock- ville. | merly of Brockville, has just re- ceived an important appointment as superintendent of a hospital i Boulogne. nn ENGLAND'S GREATE | rings, chains and tie pins valued at | upwards of $1,000 were taken, The led, ST RAILROAD WRECK. problem, which, must grow more dif- ficult as the war goes on, will be solved in part by the use of prisoners. I found by personal investigation that an increasing number of prison. ers prefer work to the depressing in- a-tivity and monotony of camp, This tendency is more marked among the French and Russians. In one of the large camps I visited more that 4,000 of the 11,000 prisoners were work- ing for local farmers. The wages are usually sixpence a day for farm work, and eighteen-pence for indus- trial work. This difference is due to the desire not to undersell Ger- man industrial labor. The wages are paid in stamps which can be ex- changed for goods in the camp can- teen." 3 The writer found little difficulty ing a post-graduate course at Col- umbia College, New York, received the degree of M.A. at the convooa- tion this week. The Cheese Markets, Lindsay, June 7.--The Lindsay Cheese Board met this morning. About 200 cheese were boarded; 17 1-2¢ asked; no sales made; 17¢ highest bid. On Saturday, Rev. C. 'W. Shelley united in marriage William James Flanigan, of the staff of the Wol- thausen Corporation, and Miss Mabel Herbison, both of Brockville. E. McGrath, Belleville, died Mon- day morning after being ill for some time. Was seventy years of age. express is one of England's fastest trains, and the result was terrible, diers are here shown working with the doctors and nur ses. in visi several camps and talking to the ners. He says: LAY ALL DAY IN SHELL CRATER FLINGING BACK BOMBS British Solder Craved t fis Own Lise: in Bakes a alts London, Jung 9.--The exploit of a British soldier who lay in the crater | ter As a tacks collector the pneumatic tire is a howling success. from the front, of June 4, from the offi. attached to the Brit. a8 given out i n London to- ing got into a German | nds he was the only its | tor's bombs, its crew of twenty building, jog up' its different depart-| men were killed, as were also | ments, remedy its system of finan-| 5) occupants cial support, and see to it that its | buildings. and | at | back door of the premises was fore- | More than 200 British soldiers who were on their way to the fighting line in France were killed and ove 230 injured in the train disaster which oceurred two miles from Gretna Green on May 22nd. A troc route for the coast collided with a local passenger train and the Scottish Express dashed into the w the wreékage becoming an inferno. | Bon i i 'which numerous Moslem shops were - EEE SECOND SECTION LONE AVIATOR WINS ~ BOMB BATTLE IN SKY Canadian, in Aeroplane, tacks Ard Outgene- fals Huge German Aircraft Manned By ~~ Twenty-Eight Men. He Attacked It With Great Vigor and Sent it Crashing to | the Roof of Orphanage---Feat Without Parallel in Annals of Warfare. I ---- London, June 9.-- For the first craft was headed for hér home han- me on record a Zeppelin in the {gar when Warneford came winging | air has been destroyed by an aviator | swiftly under the gray skies. in an acroplane. Reginald A. J.| The Zeppelin flying comparatively | Warneford, a young Canadian sub- | low began to mount at once, but the | lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who | British wasp was speudier and | mastered ceroplaning only this sum- | elimbed into the air in long spirals, { mer, has performed the feat, and | reaching a position at length, over | to-night is somewhere within the the German's vast balk. Frqm this | British lines, while the Zeppelin | point of vantage Warneford pierced {lies in ruins sprawled on the | the Zeppelin's shell repeatedly with orphanage | his incendiary bombs. Without parallel in this war or {-1in any other is the story which the a- | young aivator will have, to, relate, -eight | for details of the fight have not yet sever-| been told. First came the long pur- rphanage | suit, for according to 'the Admiralty { report, the aeroplane was 6,000 feet The: theory is advanced that this| up. To reach this altitude would | Zeppelin was the craft which raided | require nearly twenty minutes, and | the east coast of Englond last night, | the Zeppelin meantime, could for the fact that it was in the air drive forward approximately fifteen over Belgium, between Ghent and miles. Brussels at 3 o'clock, in the morn- | Then followed the manoeuvering ing leads to the belief that it was | for position and finally the dropping returning from an expedition. {of the bombs, from which the di- Dawn breaks early these days and Irigible tried vainly to escape. in- the huge Zeppelin could be sighted lor explosions occurred and at last, far off, and it is presumed that the [one of terrific force, and the Zep- | pelin burst into flames. At that moment Warneford must {have been at close range over the | dirigible for almost simultaneously | with the outburst his machine turn- ed completely over, and for a mo- ment he hung head down with his mronoplane, all control of which had been lost, pitching and tossing in the swift currents of sir which - ed up to fill the vacuum created. Then by a desperate effort Warne- ford righted his machine far above the earth and placed to a landing be- hind the German lines. He alighted unhurt, set his propeller going again and flew off to the west. Whether the .Zeppélin's machine guns or rifles were turned on the aviator is pot disclosed, but in or- der to attain such 81 advantageous position the British lieutenant must have hanéléd his machine skillfully, for this is an extremely difficult feat. the Zeppelin Falling there a blaziyr mass, a | ter being struck by the young avi of the Although the ta: presents is extensive, it can be Iift- ed by its own buoshncy to a great heigitt, while the p! ing aeroplane has to rise in spirals by the power of its engine alone. As the fight in over that part of um held the Germans, hopes a raised w London that the Germans will be forced 2 Tove their Zeppelin bases eastward, t making raids on Eng- and more hazardous. os x me of the réports say that the non-combatant victims were two and that | other persons were injured. A Reu- {ter despatch received to-night {two nurses and two Elilidren were | killed and many others injured, All versions agree the Zep- pelin crew perished, and this seems certain as the great shaft was struck while more than. a mi @ in the air and must have béén a roaring 'torch before it struck the earth. ISTS SLAY MO! alr occurred Op train en reckage. The Sol- Western, Central, Southern, North- western and Sabara Gamuwa Prov- London, June 9.--There has been & riotous outbreak Buddhists against the Moslems in - gs