i ae i AT LTE dO A 12 PAGES ~-- mn---- YEAR 82 NO 141 BRITAIN WON A FUROUS BATILE | Whig [| KINGSTON ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1915 LAST EDITION AT WATERLOO RAGES AROUND ARRAS Tremendous importance Is Attached to This Conflict, For the Germans May Be Pushed From Lens. | French Trying to Surround Force of Enemy at Bay East of Lorette Hills---Germans Fighting Desperately As Loss of Lens Would Force Them to Readjust Lines. ------ Funeral services for a Canadian officer killed ix. France, FANO BOMBARDED BY THE AUSTRIANS | It Is The Home of a Famous OK! Cathedral ~~ And Churches Adorned With Rich Art Treasures. A Noted Watering Place on the Adriatic---The Battie of ~~ Goritz is Being Waged With Renewed Intensity ---Seized Heights Surrounding Plava on East Bank of Isonzo. { } 7 (Special tothe Whig.) | ~~~ Paris, June 18.--On an eight-mile front around Arras, picTeeN a furious battle over wrecked trenches and hill sides strewn with corpses is proceeding. The French are fighting desperately to surround a large foree of the enemy at bay in a ravine east of the Lorette Hills. From a hill near Souchez, heavy artillery is sweeping y the enemy's lines with a semi-circle of terrific shell png ting the Convalescents. All.around Souchez the fighting is going on with the great-| ae aa, BEE Lo est intensity. HUNDRED pointed to Work of Distribu- WOUNDED EXPECTED 'Commission Will Probably be Ap- of | siderably increased by the attention Tremendous importance is attached to the conflict noth of Arras by military officials here. The War Office this afternoon announced that no official bulletins regard- ing the progress of the battle would be made public for twelve hours. tension here. The Germans are counter-attacking with great fury. Bombs, hand grenades and bayonets all are playing their part in the great conflict. i+ - The loss of Lens would force a re-adjustment of the German lines from Arras to the sea, and for this reason the Teutons are throwing their forces into the battle with utter disregard for lives, : No estimates of the loss of life have reached Paris, but it is accepted here that heavy losses are oceurring on both sides, This announcement only increased the Berlin Admits the Advance. ~ (Special to the Whig.) Berlin, via wireless, June 18--The German War Office admitted this afternoon that the French troops have penetrated the German trenches at four different points in the fierce battle now in progress north of Arras. The War Office, however, announced the almost com- plete annihilation of a small British detachment in the fighting north of the Bethune-Ia Bassee canal. The British launched a determined attack ating with the French in their drive around Arras. British troops rushed forward to within a few yards of the German positions. The terrible hail of artillery and machine gun fire was turned upon them and few enemy's troops escaped. The official statement frankly admitted reverses the fighting north of Arras, but stated that at one north of the Lorette Hills, a section of trene ated bythe Germans purely for v The in point, strategic reasons. ALD. O'CONNOR SUPPORTS THE UTILITIES COMMISSION Alderman N. E. OComnor is strongly in faver of government of Kingston's Utilities by commission and will so vote on Monday. When people to vote to retain the Utilities Commission, for I think Kingston Heuld make a big mistake if it bi {back to the managing of the Utili- Seen by a Whig representative, Ald, | ties by a committee of the City O'Connor said it was unfortunate | Council. that there has not been some dis- ' "I fully realize that the cominis- efssion by the City Counctk on the' sioners give more thought to mat- referendum to the le. y | ters affecting the plants than would The alderman did not fully real-|aldgrmen who have so many other ize the importance of the question | civic duties to attend to. I might When they hurriedly sent it to a! say that I cannot see any friction vote of the people," he said. "I can existing between the Council and see that there should have been a|the Commission. Both bodies the merits of commis- | working in the | mission." , apparently co-oper-| of the | hes was evacu-4 are the interests of-the city My advi {vote in favor of the Utilities Com- | to applications for pensions which is | now required and also by the neces- | sity of making provision for the care {of the 1,500 wounded Canadian sol- diers who are heing sent home, or will be as soon as they can have a hospital, and will be placed in con- valescent homes in various parts of the country. The pensions for ahe families of those killed in action or those permanently disabled, are be- ing dealt with now at the rate of { 26 or 30 per day. About 400 have | been passed fo far. The work of distributing the re- turping wounded and of looking af- ter the convalescent homes, may be entrustéd ta a commission. World Peace "Historic Hall Philadelphia, June 18.--Within storie Independénce Hall on | Thursday, the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, there was | formed an organization whose object | it will be to promote the creation of | a league of nations with a view fo | preventing wars or, at least, of les- | sening the possibilities of them. { The name adopted by the organiza- {tion was "League to Enforce Peace, | American Branch." | Former President Taft, who pre- | sifled over the conference for a part | of the time, was elected permanent | president. KIND-HEARTED WIDHELM. | Shocked Tha { | | | hi { | + | t Eight Citizens of Liege Were Executed. Amsterdam, June 18.--Every sen- tence of death by a court-martial in | Belgium must hereafter be endorsed | by Emperor William before the pris- oners are executed, according to a | telegram received by the Tyd from | | its correspondent at Maastricht. The | | writer the despatch intimates that or Willlam telegraphed these instructions on learning that eight eitizeng of Liege had been exe- cuted for alleged espionage, and that twenty others were in prison charged with the same offence. SWEPT ¥ FIERCE STORM. Great Damage Done In Kansas and - Missouri. . » {Bpecial to the Whig)' KaosaenOrty, Mo. June. 18.--Re- ports to-day from Kansas and Mis- | { swept through these sections last night and early to-day. A number of cities and towns as cut off from oul ire communication; much damage to crops; seven dead. souri indicate that a terrific storm | GERMANS NOT TOLD OF ARMY'S 10SSES Have Yet to Learn Also of Warne: ford's Brilliant Aerial Exploit. London, June 18.----A Rotterdam despatch to the Dally News says: "Count Reventlow, a German naval writer, is apparently getting very angry with tne Germans, who in in- creasing number are asking whether it'.s worth while endangering rela- uons with America by a continuance of submarine warfare. Admiral von Tirpitz has throughout found in Keventiow his warmest supporter o? the war on helpless seamen. He says: ? "The effects of the war are so clear and simple that those who can- {not see them and appraise them of {their right value show alves lect looked upon as a reproach. It is a thing that cannot be helped. "It must be recorded that more than ever the German authorities are carrying out the policy of hid- ing the losses from 'the people. The Germans have yet. to. learn the re- sult "of "Lieut. Warneford's brilliant exploit, nor have they been informed of the attack on the Zeppelin sheds near Brussels, or the destruction of the Zeppelin there. The only an- nouncements now made are those of real or imaginary victories." 221 ARE KILLED | During Past Days By Raids From Skies. London, June 18.--Two hundred and twemty.one persons, mainly non. combatants, have heen killed and many more mortally hurt in air raids during the past few days. Despatches from Amsterdam stat. ed that 200 persong had been killed in the great air raid of the Allies over Karlsruhe, capital of Baden, Germany, on Tuesday. A telegram from Paris said that five persons were killed at Nancy by bombs from German aeroplanes. The Admiralty admits that sixteen persons were killed in the Zeppelin raid over the north-eastern -coast of England Tuesday night. The loss of life, if any, in German air raids over Belfort and St. Die was not known here when this de- spatch' was written, The following Paris despatch gave the details of the air raid over Nancy: "Six German - aeroplanes - took part, advancing in pairs. The French gun fire drove off four of the ma- chines, but two persisted in the at- tack. One bomb cut open the skull of Mme. Caquant and killed her daughter on the spot, while they were seated in a hair dressing parlor. A painter was killed while at work. Of all the victims only one was a sol. dier." 3 . (Special to the Whig.) I Rome | fleet bombarded Fano, a noted wa. | itz. | | tering place on the Adriatic, this | Italian forces have seized and forti- | morning. The official statement | fied the heights sirrounding Plava, | from the Ministry of Marine did not | on the east bank of the Isonzo. | report the extent of damage. | | Fano, with a population of 12,000, | War Tidings. | lies eight miles south.east of the | The Austrians have removed all | tiny republic of San Marino, and is [the bells from the lonnsbrick | the home of a famoug old cathedral | Church.towers and are melting them May be Needed Before Par- { and churches adorned with rich art into guns. | f liament Sits. | treasures. {| It is estimated that Germany has Ottawa, June 18.--Boards of medi.| The Austrian naval base of Pola, [taken $1,250,000,000 worth of pro- cal men are to be appointed in every | from which the attack probably was |perty of all kinds, including raw military division of Canada in con. | directed, lies eight.-five miles north- | materials and manufactured pro- | artillery has bombarded and de. PENSION VOIE 1S INSUFFICIENT Addition to $2,000,000 Set Aside Bix miles north of the city June "18 The Austrian |stroved the railway station at Car. {ri gli a nm thes dias sent from | 4 boards to the pensions board in Ot. nection with the granting of pensions | to wounded soldiers, 1 Already between 300 &nd 350 | pensions have been granted, most of | them being for the families of dead | soldiers. It is already apparent | that the sum of $2,000,000 set aside for pensions this year will be quite insufficient for the purpose. If more is needed before another pes. sion of ParMament it may be obtain- | ed by Governor-General's warrant. The establishment of ! boards in the different divisions will | materially assist in the work of pay. | ing pensions which is expected to tawa, which will then pass on each case. Where a man is temporarily inca- pacitated, the practice so far has been to pay him his regular active service pay un€il he recovers: Where it is evident, however, that the in- jury will outlast the war the man is put on the pension Mst at once. "LOCUSTS OESCURE SUN. Honduras Plantations Ravaged By Swarms of Insects. Néw Orleans, June 18.--After do- ing millions of dollars'of damage to cereal and fruit crops in Nicaragua, | swarms of locusts so vast as to ob-| scure the sun for hours, have in- | vaded the Atlantic coast section of | Honduras and are ravaging the great | bangna plantations near Ceiba and Truxillo. Passengers who arrive in | PEPPPIP IIL EOI ROSS 1 |New Orleans to-day from Ceiba told of the appearance of the locusts over | the city of Ceiba on June 9th, { | They said that for several hours { the sky was hidden above and to the | south of the city by millions of in-| !sects. They had the appearante of | a great cloud, moving rapidly and getting more dense every minute. | The high mountains back of the ei'y | were entirely obscured for more than an hour. After hanging over the city the lo- custs began to settle down in the rich banana valleys to the south. In spots the ground was even covered to a depth of several inches and so numerous were the hundry Insects that they left great trees bare of leaves and bark. SAD DAYS FOR TURKEY. Disease Rampant and Shortage of Necessities Serious. Rome, June 18.--The Idea Nasgion- ale depicts the situation in Constan. tinople in the darkest colors. It says the stocks of fogd, medicines and ammunition are running low, that typhoid ig rife, that es 4 ments have been obl to for lack of coal, while the fleet is helpless. It says that the Houses of Christians, especially Gree have been methodically sacked t any attempt being made by taking their precious longings along, are attacked | charge on the land. east of Fano, across the Adriatic. Fighting for Goritz. (Special to the Whig.) Rome, June 18.--The battle for Goritz is being waged with renewed intensity, General Gadorna reported to the War Office to-day. Italian | ducts, as war indemnity out of Bel- | glum. | The whole of the 3rd Brigade of {Canadians has been issued the Lee- | Enfield rifles. : | William Marconi has asked that {he be enrolled as Lieutenant of En- |gineers and assigned fo duty with | the telegraph at Florence. { | Shh BEE PEE ERE RE Sb medical | ¢ { + & REAL SANITARY TRENCHES ¢ --_-- + London, June 18.~--The latest ¢ mail left JE: FEES } f * * THe d 00 S404 $44 PEE hE d GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME T0 HELP UNEMPLOYED will lear Scrub Off Land For Cul tivation in the Far West. Ottawa, June 18.--To provide em- ployment in the West the Federal Government has arranged to give set- tiers on Dominion lands covered with scrub or timber an opportunity to in- crease the amount of the tillable area on their holdings. In North- ern Manitoba and parts of Saskatch- ewan and Alberta there is much scrub. land on which the settlers ve not received their patents. The Federal authorities will, with the consent of these settlers, utilize the { services of the unemployed to clear this land and make the cost a first As the Dominion Government has authority only over unpatented lands it the provincial authorities wish to the scope of the work by arranging & similar plan for patented lands. ANOTHER VICTORY For the Russians Near Zarawna the Whig. al to .) 18.--The Russian (Speci London, June SELLS LPEPS SSS ACROSS THE DNEISTER. { -- | The Austro-Germans Made =Russian Successes. (Special to the Whig) Petrograd, June 18.--<Austro-Ger- man troops have crossed the Dnels- ter fifteen miles ny ast of Stan- islau. Phe War ¥ e this of- ficial admission to-day, but announ- 'ced that Russian east of Stryj threw back the efemy and cap- turing 202 officers and 8,544 men. Transport Attacked. Quebec, June 18---A letter re- ceived in Quebec to-day from a mem- ber of the Second Canadian Contin. gent says that ag the steamer Saxo. nia, with troops from Canada, near- ed the Irish coast on her last voy- age, she was attacked by a German submarine. A torpedo was fired, but went amiss, racing on the sur- face of the sea some forty feet be- hind the transport, Advaace C. P. R. earnings for the past week showed a decrease of $685,000. DAILY MEMORAN DUM, Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.30, See top of page 3, right hand corner, {for probabilities. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bpoknell's News Depot . 205 § Clarke, J. W. & Co. ....353 College Book Store Coulter's Grocery Cullen's Grocery, Frontenac Hotel Gibson's Drug Store Lowe's Srogery McAuley's Bool McQall's Cigar Store, A McLeod's Grocery ....5l Medley's Drug Store, Paul's Cigar Sto « Prouse"s Drug Store Valleau's Grocery .. Cin 2 s Bt . & Alfred + «Ontario Bt. rket Square Siore 11108 in. & nion St 1 praity PY Mopicons BORN. CAMPBBLL~On Jusie 19th, 1915. to Mr. and Mrs. A. Stewart Campbell, '248 Alfred street, 4 SON. MARRIED. GBRALDI-MeCALLUM. At vr incess Kin Juyetary, Rev. A. F. leima, only Mrs. John eCallum, won, of Thomak McCallum, Sunbury. ROBERT J. REID The ¢