PACES 9-12 12 PAGES Che Daily British Whig KINGSTON a YEAR 82 NO, 141 ~ SECOND SECTION United S TELLS OF FIGHTING AT THE DARDANELLES Observer "Sees Litle of It-Even As Shells Hurtle From Land And Sea, Nature "iprsnen Stems Calm. Compton Mackenzie Tells of the Pulse of Battle---Green, Red and Pencils Mark 0ff the Advances | ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1915 I. tates Busy With War Munitions "BRITISH SOLDIERS IN STREET TRENCH AT ST. ELOL MANY WiLL LOSE "ON WAR CONTRACTS The Specifications Have Been Severe---The Pro- - fits Being Made By Brokers And Contractors. Millions of Dollars Worth of Orders Are Going Begging In Gained or Checks Encountered. By Compton Mackenzie. | ardanelles, via Malta, June | a) The 16 --We boarded ship and travelled | for nearly an hour toward the sound | of guns coming down through a grey, indeterminate day that was | very slowly changing to a clearer at- | mosphere. A northerly wind was | blowing, therefore most of us stayed | fluttered the magenta flowers imme. | ately outside the window. It seem. | in the wardroom until off Cape Hel. | les. Among the transports and trawlers and various craft'at anchor, maps, pegged out upon the tables, | a small green whalelike object, all that is now visible of the Majestic. lay motionless upon the water. She is subsiding rapidly, and already in the watery sunlight, she gave the il- lusion of slowly assuming to herself the nature of the waves that splash- against her still rigid sides, we walked up the slopes from the ch where we landed, there br upon one the realization that the guns were thundering Sud- denly an emply stroteh of dessicated scrub rolled on before us, and the homely chatter of the bgach was forgotten. There was nothing but the noise of guns and the wind, and for the eye nothing but blank white telegraph poles. The wires were winking in the sunlight, and imper- turbable larks were rising and fall- ing. It was unnecessary to enter a trench originally dug by the Turks, and good enough, 1k seemed, to with. stand any but the heroes of the im- perishable assault of April. 26th. We hurried on, here and there, al- most sticking in rank clay that was sometimes even wet enough to need mattresses of boughs. for passage. Finally we came to a shelter label- led "Low doorway" upon the lintel. The walls were hung with canvas, and each low oblong window gave us a new aspect, framed in branches, of the battle for a hill, somewhere behind which a sixty.pounder crash. ed at intervals, and we could hear the moan and rattle of a shell go forward on its way, . In front of the shelter the coun- try dipped gradually down, to rise again more y beyond a wide, partially wood hollow. Here through glasseg could be seen a number of mules, tranquil enough notwithstanding a concentration of shell fire that was sweeping, shriek- ing and buszing over their heads, to explode half way up the opposite slope. Every shell burst with its own shape of smoke, and so substan- tinl was the vapor that the wind could only carry it away bodily, un- able for a long time to disperse it. Shrapnel is materialized from the air, at first small and white as wads of cotton wool, then growing swiftly larger and turning to vivid grey, then fainter again and travel. ling across tha view like tadpoles of cloud unti] last they trailed their tails in a kind of fatigue before they dissolved against the sky. THE UNITED STATES Washington, 18. -- Former .Secretary Bryan in the first section of his statement on "The Causeless War," 'that the greatest peace-making to come to the nity in all his- | 5 Heavy shells created volcanoes all ong the line, and from the sea, like drums solemnly beaten, came . the sound of ships firing. - Calm Before Action, It seemed very calm in the shelter as the wind fretted the grass, and ed very calm as one looked aL the but it was ten minutes to twelve, and at twelve o'clock the advance would begin. The gunfire legsened, and from the whole line the noise of musketry and maxims came sharply--a noise that was tenser than that of the guns, and more portentious. It was as if one had been listening to a change of orchestration in a sym- phony; as if, after a heavy, and al- most dull prelude, the strings were leading to a breathless finale. Yet, as one gazed through the glasses, there was scarcely a visible sign of action. - Once, indeed, a large body of men were visible as they climbed the green slope, but they were sqon lost, and notwithstanding these an. gry rifles, we had nothing at which we could look except the mules, standing motionless in the hollow, and down the ribbon of road an or. derly galloping. Yet all the time wires, all the time it was possible to mark with green, red and blue pen- cils the redoubts gained, the trench occupied, or at some point, perhaps, a check. One message brought the news that fifty prisoners were coming in upon our left, and a staff officer went off to meet them, It ha d to be my chief, and I was glad of an excuse to go with him. The grey- ness of the morning had quite gone now, and the air was very brilliant after the damp and gloom of the shelter. The road toward the line of bat- tle ran by a cliff's edge, and out at sea, escorted by destroyers, two bat. tleships with guns and turrets in blackest silhouette against a flashing sea and silver foam, went backward and forward at their slow, stately business of solemn firing. We met the escort just where the Red Cross flags were flying. Above the cliff were the burrows of the field ambulance, Some of the pris- oners were badly wounded, and these were at once taken off for medical attention. The rest were halted, and several of the escort really danced around us, talking and laugh- ing, not yet free from the first wild elation' of the charge. 'Tho dust and 'sweat caked upon their faces made it almost impossible to see where the khaki ended. They were like clay models of a sculptor, and their bayonets lacked even so much lustre as a tarnished foil. = ~~ this war. This nation, the head of the neutral group and the sincere friend of all the belligerent, in - duty bound to set an - ple - tience and self-restralut. Youngstown, O., the Unit- to the press of orders ne aad messages were coming in along the}. | { | | | | | | | | 1 By Adopting the Advice of |. H. Birkett. REPAVRED WATER PUNP MADE IT EFFICIENT FOR THE SUM OF $445. -- The City Council Committee Had Proposed To Purchase a New Pump-=The Old One Will Suffice For Many Years to Come. J. H. Birkett, a member of the Utili Commission, who has ren-| @ people a very valuable ser- | @ attention he gave the plant, was interviewed d it al by the Whig facts with d 'tg Kelley pump, which thro his instrumentality has been. rendered so efficient and at so small a cost that the purchase a ew pump at an expenditure of 0, as was suggested sevepal J ago, '1s "wholly unni A sajd that the Utiliti has had the oldest pump 0 pump house com- uled and repaired at of $445. The result of in order to secure the Po money for a new pump is also re- moved from consideration for many years, or until Kingston's popula- tion is over 40,000. "The increased capacity of the pump means a capacity of about $9 every 24 hours to the city." Six years ago Mr. Birkett declar- ed that the Kelley pump could be made good, and he has prove his contention. A Policeman's Boot. Kansas City, Mo., June 18.--The largest pair of shoes ever made in Kansas City now adorn the "tootsie wootsies" of Samuel D. Crowley, the big patrolman who guards pedestr- ians at Eleventh and Main streets. The shoes are size 15 and are 14% inches in length. Across the ball they are 13% inches and the instep measures 14 inches. Each shoe weighs and one and three-fourths unds. "I have been in the shoe business fifteen years," said C. W. Crow, No. 100 West Twelfth street, who made the shoes, "and I niust confess that Patrolman Crowley has the largest 'Trilbies' I ever measured. I sent | east for a special last to make the shoes." Crowley is the largest man in the ent. He weighs 320 pounds and stands 6 feet 6 inches in his stocking feet. . RUSSIANS OPPOSE GGA otc Nearly Three Million Men Estimated To Be Pressing Mus- covites: London, June 18.--Reutés's Petro- ©o! Scene at St. Eloi, where the fiercest fighting of the war has been taking place. P__ture shows English defenders of a street trench. THE UTILITIES COMMISSION SAVED THE PEOPLE $30,000 > A BOY DROWNED At Mississippi Station--Fell Of A - Bridge. { Mississippi, June 17.--A sad death occurred here on Tuesday evening, when the eight-year-old son 'of Mr. and Mrs. James Kennedy had the misfortune to fall off the Mississip- pi bridge and was drowned. The little fellow was returning to his home with his mother and on cross- sing the bridge stumbled and went over the edge into the watég, The call for help was quickly responded to but the swiff.. current of water dragg him under. A search was made all that night and the next day and it was not until five o'clock Wed- nesday afternoon that the body was found. The water is. very d at this bridge and it was difficalt to reach the bottom. The little boy was very bright and cheerful and will be missed by many. The funers' will take place to-day at one o'clock. LIGHT STEEL HELMETS Give Partial Protection Against Fragments of Shell, Paris, June 18. French soldiers in the field soon are to begin wear.: in | 1a. ing light steel helmets, su their design -the antique hi of men-at-arms. In color F will be gray-blue, harmonizing "the service uniforms' which French sol- diers have been wearing for several monthg past. > The ministry of war has adopted a design for this helmet, after & pro- longed examination of various dif- ferent types submitted. helmet wil} afford co tection to the head from Every tennis or ball player, every swimmer, every canoeist, e new United States---Much of New Machinery New York, June 18.--Millions of dollars in war orders are going beg- | ging in this country, it is stated by men familiar with the situation, be- cause of the inability of domestic plants to cope with the enormous demand and because many of the contracts already taken will prove a loss to the manufacturers who have undertaken their fulfillment. These authorities estimate that the orders received since the beginning of the year total $1,500,000,000. The severity of the specifications, { which has resulted in numerous re- | Jections and the expense of new tools and additions are factors which have cut into the huge profits so fondly expected. Millions of dollars are being ex- pendéd in additional byilding capa- city and new machinery. Much of this will be useless for any other purpose after the war ends. Pro- fits on existing work will have to l'e made to pay for these extensions. When the ledgers are closed on the war contracts, it will be ascertain- ed that many will find their pro- | fits are being made by the brokers | and contractors who have nothing | \myested. | A steel manufacturer of Pitts- burgh, while in New York recently, was offered 6 per cent. commission if he would place $350,000 in con- tracts for shells. This the Pitts- burgher undertook to do, but he learned that the specifications were so severe and rejections so numer- ous that, when completed, the work was actually done at a loss. When shell contracts 'were first offered in this country they were snapped up by manufacturers hav- ing idle plants. Prices were quoted which could not be duplicated * in Europe with its cheap labor. When it came to inspection of finished ma- terial, however, the manufacturer had to stand by and watch his profits thrown in the scrap pile. Since this has become known American bid- ders on this class of work are so numerous. Difficulties and added expense were found in the labor market. In the New Buildings and Will be Useless After War Ends. spite of unheadof wages it was found that there were not enough mechanics trained in this work to man the new factories and white men were being trained for the work steps were taken so to divide up the making, say, of a shrapnel shell, that metal workers with no previous experience in the making of ammunition could be employed. These shells are then assembled by experts, When the war started, orders were placed for shrapnel, but this has been changed. It has been learned on the battleficid that shrapnel does not do as much damage as shells fired with Ligh explosives. Shells have.to be machined accurately and ground to the thousandth part of an inca, Otheirw,se they are reject- ed. Of the great total in war orders placca in this county, nearly $950,- 000,000 rave been shared among 20 of the iargest firms in the country. The largest single order Js said to have been given to the recently or- ganized Bridgeport Army Company of Bridgeport, Conn. The British Government ordered $168,000,000 worth of goods In which one item is a million rifles at $28. each The Bethlehem Steel Company comes next on the list, with orders for $150,000,000 worth of goods, followed by the: General Electric Co., with $100,000,000 In orders; the Canadian Car & Foundry Co., $83,000,000; the Westinghouse Electric Co., the Du Pont Powder Co., the American Car & Foundry Co., the- Pressed Steel Car Co., the New York Air Brake Co. the Baldwin Locomotive «o., the Aetna Explos- ives Co., the Cole Firearms Go., the Crucible Steel Co., the E. W. Bliss Co., the Hercules Powder Co., the Studebaker Corporation, the Savage Arms Co. the Winchester Arms Co., and the Locomoblle Co. of Bridgeport. These orders are all in large amounts, ranging from the fig ures given down to $10,000,000 each, to the Winchester and Savage Companies, and $5,000,000 to thé Locomobile Company for motor trucks, MAKING POWERFUL TORPEDO. Bethlehem Steel Plant Also Working On British Guns. Bethlehem, Pa., June 18.---Among recent orders received by the steel plant are contracts for a large num- ber of four-inch guns for England and air flasks from the Japanese Gov- ernment... It is said the four-inch guns are to be used to fire lyddite shells. The pieces can be turned out at the rate of 10 to 15 a week, depending on success in handling ma- « The air flasks are being utilized by the Japanese Na in the de- velopment of its s arine flotil- They are, in fact, a new and in- THE _ SPORT REVIEW | Following his suspension. with a fine of $100, for fallure to get into condition, and his release. Pitcher Howard McGraper of the Montreal team appealed to President Da- vid Fultz of the Players' Fraternity. The appeal was turned down. "Pepper Joe" Yeager has been re- leased to Jersey City by Montreal, ard the Royals will not seem the same. Yeager has been a member of the Royals for seven years. The world's and English sculling Shamplon, Ernest Barry, one of the most r od " Barry, who will be associated with a number of the professional boxers who have joined. Ottawa Free Press: Hamilton is taking on the appearances of a reg- ular pennant chaser in the Canadian The Tigers sent out it i 2; 52ite