Daily British Whig (1850), 22 Jun 1915, p. 9

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12 PAGES The Daily British Whig KINGSTON ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1918 ian Enginee SECOND SECTION J 's Dislodge Disguised Foes | SWITZERLAND FULL OF SPIES. | tion of a priest of the church who | WOLFE ISLAND WEDDING | Desperate Attempts to Embroil Re- | public With Italy. . had disappeared. The incident has | | | caused. great excliement at the Va-| Greenwood--0'Brien -- Pretty Wed- | 4 . : - | ding Solemnized at Church of | { + Tngano; June 22.--There is no | { Sacred Heart | { doubt that Germany is deliberately | 3 ; i > | Tam IS LIKE CROMWELL'S | trying to éreate trouble between { ; { o'clock, a pretty wedding took place | | Italy and Switzerland. The chief | {at the Church of the Sacred Heart, | | proof of this is thé establishment at > | the Palace Hotel, Lugano, of the | Wolte Island, when Miss Nora Agnes | Prussian and Bavarian Legations to | O'Brien became the bride of Ray-| | mond John Greenwood, both of the| - the Vatican, This, the Italians re- | | gard as a direct provocation to Italy, The Canadian Engineers Made a Discovery of mi, ies; ies su ie 'Island. The bride, as she entered the | | church on the arm of her father,| | James O'Brien, looked charming in| a gown of a pure cream satin trim-| med with Irish lace. Her bridal veil) {of tulle fell over her face from a nation in Ttaly has already found ex- pression in violent articleg in the press. The incident has assumed many intends it as such. Indig- | German Motor Guns At Their, Rear. A Masked Entrance Was Found and the Germans Were Tak- on Prisoners---Secured Provisions and Gas---The Germans Had Secured British Uniforms and Were Dressed In Them. Northern France, June 21.--The Canadian Engineers, have been giv- en a full measure of praise for good work, A British soldier tells me a re- markable story, For several weeks, in fact ever since our last advance on the Festubert front, complaints have been made by advanced dressing sta- tions that they were being fired upon by our own guns behind the British lines. The headquarters staff in- vestigated and their reports 'said that it was impossible. But the shells came, making life very uncom- fortable for §he men in our reserve trenches and for the engineering parties at work each night. The Canadian - Engineers stood it for three nights, distinctly saw flashes of «gung about 800 yards to the rear, and reported to headquarters, They obtained the same answer and then decided to go stalking' for it them- selves. They noticed the flashes came from several plates, sometimes 200 yards apart, and from fragments of shells picked up, stil) warm, they decided that it was anti-aeroplane { guns firing. "Watch out on these byroads for a motor car," a Canadian captain told them, and a few nights ago they stumbled right into the car busy fir- ing away at the enemy over the Brit- ish trenches. JKeeping concealed, they followed the car until it arrived at a clump of trees and disappeared suddenly. When daylight came searched the woods, but could find no wheel tracks. After a long search they found where the bush had been moved, and soon discovered a masked entrance to what had onee been a German officer's dugout un- der ruined farm buildings. In it was an armored motor car with an They were taken prisoners, and in the search of the place enough pro- visions and gasoline for several months was unearthed. British uni- forms were found buried in one place. By being dressed in these, the Ger- mans h isled the few soldiers who had anced to see the car on its midnight tours. mn 08S : . . Petrograd, June 22.--Moscow suf- féred damage to the amount of $20, 000,000 during the recent anti-Ger- man demonstration, in which nearly "600 stores and factories and more than 200 private lodgings were to~ tally w The infu mobs turned the city into wild disorder, according to eye-witnesses. From music stores, pianos and other musical instru- ments were hurled into the streets until the pfles of wreckage made progress through these thoroughfar- es im le. The rioters, heated with lquor which the¥ found in the demolished wine stores, became reckless in their pillaging, setting fire to and destroying many sto.es and apartments, the owners of wuich were Russians. Of the total num- ber of buildings destroyed only 113 belonged to Austro-German subjec.s. The demonstrations, beginniag early on June 9th, lasted more than +34 hours. Buildings burned and crumbled to ashes, and the fire by': gade, although active throughout the disturbances, found it impossible to cope with the flames; so extensive were the co tions, ' The neil at a meeting held on June 10th took measures tu quell the disorders ond prevent a repetition of the rioting. ' The num- ber of fatalities is not known. The Germans Demoralized Says McBride June 22.---"1 have lose to the front to be aie postive at the Gor mans are de and discour- New Yo "» question of the out- '00ps are supremely con- re are - PLAN. 10.GET JEWS BACK. A Political Organization May Be Launched After the War. New York, June 22.--The dispo- sition of Palestine after the war and its organization as a Jewish State, with ancient Jerusalem as the capi- tal, is an ambition which will be seri- ously considered at a great confer- ence of Jewish organizations of the United States which will open: in Boston next Friday and continue for a week. Palestine, it is estimated, can ac- commodate a population of six mil- lion. With the establishment of new political control of the Holy Land, it is proposed that Jews shall migrate there from Russia, Germany, Austria and other European States. The investment of foreign capital has resulted in a marked improve- ment in the physical features of Pal- estine. Until a few years ago the country was a treeless region, with much desert land. The ground has been rendered productive, with soil formerly considered barren, yielding great wheat crops. MOTOR FARM TRAOTOR Claims Machine Will Reduce Tilling . Of Soll Third. Detroit, June 22.---After more than thirty years of toil, Henry Ford has announced that he had perfected sa motor tractor that will give the high cost of living its greatest blow yet. ' "A tractor has been my idea for many years," said Mr. Ford, "I HaVe worked at it constantly. ready and it means much." The inventor claims the new farm implement. will reduce the tilling of the soil at least a third of the pres- farms and will mean a boom in lake shipping. M to build 1,000,000 tractors and 4,000,000 engines year- will sell for $200 wr anti-air craft gun, two German offi-| cers in uniform and five privates, | It is pow ent cost, will keep young men on the He says that operations on the buildings will start at once and he expests to employ about 20,000 men whedi operations begin. The tractor such 'proportions that the president | | of the Swiss Republic has taken no- | | tice of it in the federal council He | declared that ag the right of asylum | wag one of the most sacred of Swit- | the government could not | zerinad, expel the two ministers, but as they | ness with the Vatican from Berne or | miles from the Italian frontier and | one known to be the headquarters of the German gpy organization against | Italy, is an open defiance of public | opinion in Italy. Matterg have now been rendered orse by the arrival of Erzberger, the head of the Catholic party in the [w | Reichstag, who intends to carry on | La. | | an anti-Italian agitation from | gano. He has behind him two | German multi-millionnaires, Reider- i man and Gukemann, who are pre. | British successes in the western bat-| | pared to devote their millions to res- | toration of the temporal power of | the Pépe in order to punish Italy | for taking part in the war. As the | two German ministers can no longer | vigit Cardinal Gaspari, papal secre- | tary of state, they visit Bishop Peri Marosini, who i3 said to fee] very tween Germany and the Vatican. iErzeberger has found another ally found a newspaper at Lugano to de- fend German interests, The Ital. fan police are daily making arrests of spies who are attached to the bu- reau at Lugano. A week number of bundles of old clothes brought over the frontier by special courier to Milan excited suspicion, and they were examined. Between the cloth and lining a number of let- ters were found. Unfortounately had evidently ad- , and when po- house he had gone. The audacity German spies knows no LA few days ago a priest of the church at Caparetto was ar- rested for communicating with the enemy by means of a wireless ap- paratus concealed behind the altar. The Vatichn now declares that the monk arrested was not a priest of the church, but an Austrian officer, could just as well transact their busi. | any other inland town, thelr choice | | of residence in # town only a few | honored to be the intermediary be- | in Signor Donini, who proposes to | ago a | MAKING DENTS IN GERMAN Map showing the LINE, recent French and (CAN HAMS KAISER | (F HE IS CAPTURED 'The Verdict of Murder That Was | Reached Means Trial and Condemnation. | London, June 20.--On two occa- sions recently a coromer's jury has | returned. a verdict of "murder" | against the Kaiser; the first verdict of this description was returned at | Queenstown in respect of a person | drowned by the sinking of the Lausi- | tania; the second at Ramsgate in re- spect of a person who was killed in | the ' Zeppelin raid. Are these ver- dicts merely empty words, mere ex- | pressions of condemnation of infa- | mous acts, or may they be followed | by the usual consequences of such findings by a coroner's jury? A writer in the Liverpool post discusies "this Yuestiom, which is, he says, "of more than academic in- terest, for if the verdicts are not nullities it would be the duty of the police authorities to bring the Kais- er before a criminal tribunal to be tried for the alleged murders should he ever eome within the jurisdiction who had taken the costume and func- {of the British courts." |. | wreath of orange blossoms and she | | carried a beautiful bouquet of white| | bridal . roses. Miss Lousia M. O'-| | Brien, sister of the bride, acted as] | bridesmaid gowned in white silk | trimmed with shadow lace and car- ried a bouquet of white bridal roses. | While Howard J. Staley, cousin of the groom, performed the duties of i best man. The high mass was cele- | brated by Rev. Father McNeil, the | music rendered by Mrs. R. J. Spoor, { Miss Nora C. Greenwood a sister of | the groom and Miss Bertha M. Sta- | ley, an aunt of the grooms sang the | "Magnificat" most impressively. Af- | ter the ceremony the bridal party | drove in automobile to the home of | the bride's parents, where a sump- { tuous wedding breakfast awaited | them. The tables were nicely de- gorated with flowers. The groom's gift to the bride was a pearl neck- | Jace to the bridesmaid a pearl ring | and to his best man a pearl stick pin The gifts to the bride were numerous and costly, Besides members of the bride's family who were present were Rev. Father McNeil, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Staley. The bride's travelling costume was of blue broadcloth, with hat to match. At 4 p.m., the happy young | couple left, with the prayers and | hearty good wishes, that they {both * may enjoy many years lof peace, happiness and pros- perity during their married life, They left for Cape Vincent, N.Y., where they took the train for Utiea, Syracuse, and Troy, N.Y., .~ Upon their return they will reside on Wolfe Island. Fined For Singing At Wife, New York, June 22.--Because he attempted to drown his wife's com- plaint against alleged ill treatment by raising his voice in song, George F. Plant, contractor, living in Woods haven, L. 1., was fined $10 by Mag- istrate Fitch, in the Jamaica police court. Mrs, Plant sald that her hus- band had used abusive language to her and then sang in order to drown her replies. He denied this, but said that he sank to keep' his neighbors from hearing the curtain lectures given by his wife, "WELL, CAN YOU BEAT THAT?" the, Camp Feels by Herbert Co St. Omer, France, Tone 1.--A big eorpora] stood at the turn in the main street of St. Omer. His duty was to wave a baton at the drivers of the ambulances and show them where to take their loads. We began to make éenversation. Eventually, having discovered there Were some questions he would not answer, some, one asked him if the English soldiers sang at their camps at night. 'Not very mueh," said he. now." "Not even 'Tipperary'?" No, they didn't even sing "Tipper- ary" He didn't know just what they did sing. He shuffled about in embarrassed fashion when the query was pressed, and we let it drop. Later that night it was answered for us. Our car stopped on a shoulder of a high hill, dn the valley be- neath a white patch told of the pres- ence of British tents. The sound of singing came to use on the chill breeze, but for a time we could not distinguish the air. Then thé wind died down. The chorus rose from below, clear and strong. "Onward, Christian Soldiers--" That unimportant little incident made clear to me the change in the menta] attitude of the British sol- diers as compared with thosé I had Seen in the first weeks of the war. He is much more quiet to-day, the Britisher, He doesn't smile so much, He is very grave and very earnest, and very determined. He knows the maghitude of the job that is ahead of him, and he proposes io do that job and he knows he will pay the price. War isn't a summer pic- nic for him now. It is the bitterest, grimmest, most sorrowful thing in the world. Bn by Rholy that he prays--many of m: 'erhaps he doesn't know how. But away down inside him he feelg the need of ac- knowledging his reliance upon a Higher Power. _'He can sing with less embarrassment than he can take to his knees. Then, too, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" is a fighting man's song. It the of the man who belleves in his 4 On the Lord's Service, Somehow, one doesn't feel very far away from the Roundheads when one is in a British camp. No doubt Cromwell's men were not as godly 4s they have been painted. Per. haps they sang psalmg in the lack of more tuneful aire. These British fighting men are not saints, But they have that same tight-lipped alr of being on the Lord's service that the oM crop-ears may have worn. The men who made up Eng- land's professional army may have enlisted because of the promise of "sport," or because 'the squire had determined to cut down his stable, or because it was hard serabbling in Whitechapel. That army in good part died at Mons and on the Marne "Not of Former Songs With Some of the British at Front. Herbert Corey Says New Men Are at the Front Because of Their Convictions They're Right---Remarks That { was beautiful and appropriate, while | Like That of the ward, Christian Soldiers." . The French feel this same need for divine aid. Not in forty years have there been 80 few people to go | to church in France--and not in forty years have the churches been so full. Every flay In Paris--I might almost say upon every street ---Oone passes little girls dressed in their confirmation robes of filmy white. "The French have been call- ed an unreligious people. " There are 20,000 priests fighting in the French ranks. Fighting, you un- derstand. Carrying rifleg and us- ing them. Digging trenches. Pray- ing between times. The .polluge-- "the hairy omes"--the soldiers of whom France is most proud--wel- come their presence. "Do they pray with you?" I once asked a prigst who had but just re- turned from the front. He wore the brown robe of one of the orders. Under it was hig uniform. "No," sald he, somewhat sadly. "But they desire us to pray for them. And we close thelr eyes" A Pleasant Spirit of Hate. There fs. another aspect of the British spirit as shown at the front. Being a soad Behl men, the Brit. . on probebly kills his enemy in a pleasant spirit of hate. But he doesn't call him names. Everyone I have taied with has assured me hat the German ig a brave man and a good soldier. He is not alone in this attitude. The nearer you get | to the front with an army---and the farther away from the non-combat. ant who yaps ou street corners sr' writes letters to the the more certain are you to find the fighting man giving ful] praise to his antagonist, o Englishman goes beyond this ® becomes chival- rous, "What did you think when the Germans fist used the poison gas?" I have asked. ' answer 'was very apt to be couched in these terms: "We did not believe it at first. We thought there must be some mis- late. We did not think they would 0 it." If England has not yet awakened to what this conflict means, the man near the trenches has. To the jast man he believes that the fate of the British Empire swings with this war, He believes, too, that it will be a longer war than his people at home lize, it I may judge by the ex- ons that reached me. { hard for him to u thy of those safe island. Sometimes he is angered by it. Mostly he & sort of com. fortable certainty t in time--af- ter they at the front have suffered enough--the people at home will do their full part. That is why the man on the lines 4 always ad friend- ly to reporters as his officers permit him to be. "You ean tell them at home what this war is," ssid one. "We can't, you know." ;

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