19 PACES he 1 YEAR 82 NO. 144 THE. UTILITIES LOSSES ARE FEARFUL IN ARRAS BATTLE Berlin Reports Say Fight Now Raging May Decide Fate of France--Both Sides Fighting Desperately. Germans Again Using Asphyxiating Gas Bombs---Enemy, Repulsed North of Arras---The French Made Fur- ther Progress in Lorraine and Along River Fecht. . (Special to the Whig.) Paris, June 22.-- The Germans have again resorted to the use of asghyxiating gas bombs, partic ularly in the Labyrinth region. ""North of Arras, the Germans attacked at several points during the night, but were repulsed," said the com- munique, "At one point, after a violent bombardment, they succeeded in holding part of one of our trenches, but their losses were very heavy. "The Belgians attacked south-west of St. (eorge's, taking a trench and killing all the defenders. Near Quennevieres Farm, south of Arras, all German counter- attacks have been repulsed. "We have made further progress in lorraine and along the River Fecht." The Suwalki, tured Sawalki and are sian ovens. in Russian Poland. now | OFFER SEPARATE PEACE. Germany Willing to, Evacuate Bel: gium and Bay Possessions Athens, June 22.--Germany and Austria have offered to make sep arate peace with Belgaum and Ser- via, according to the newspaper Messenger. his newspaper says that the Germans have offered to Battle to Decide Fate of France. tion that troops of the Ades #halt (Special to the Whig.) | To. Servia the offer of Bosnia and © Berlin, June 22.--*"Neutral reports"declare that the | port on the Adriatic has been made battle now raging near Arras may decide the. fate of] France," said the Government Press Bureau to-day. he «with unheard of "courage | and herois, "The "French have strong forces. The Ger-| 'mans are receiving reinforcements. The losses on both sides are fearful." A RU SIAN SUBM; ARINE Sank Two Turkish Barks (Special "to the Whig) London, June 22.--A Petrograd! despatch this afternoon reported that a Russian submarine torpedoed and sank two Turkish barks and a steam- | | er in the Black Sea about 150 miles { west of, Constantinople wo - A ---- Germans Admit Withdrawing. (Special to the Whig.) Berlin, June 22.-- (Via wireless.)--The War Office | admitted this afternoon that the Germans in Alsace have withdrawn to the east bank of the River Fecht. Ask Bulgaria to Mobilize Army at Once (Special to the Whig.) Berlin, (via wireless), June 22.-- The Allies have demanded that Bul- garia immediately mobilize her army and march against Turkey. Bul- garia, according to semi-official ad- vices received here to-day, has avoid- a direct answer and has requested detailed information as to the terri- torial concessions to be made to the other Balkan nations. A ng Czar Bound to Fight on | to Victory (Special to the Whig.) Rome, June 22.- ~A special to The | Messagaro from its \Petrograd cor- | respondent via Bucharest, states| that the Czar informed the Italian | Ambassador, Signor Carlotto, that, regardless of temporayy discourage- ments that may arise, Russia will | » until a final vie- fight the German eved A high ha official in Rome in a pnivate inferview to-day declar- | tory is achi ed that the Allies are absolutely de- 4 termined to force the Dardanelles 'regardless of cost and that every ef- fort will be made to complete the operation within the next two months, i LIEUT. R. A. WARNEFORD, Indian-Canadian airman, who on! June 7th, accomplished the unprece-| dented feat of destroying a German | BOMBARD DUNKIRK. Speciat~to the Whig. Paris, June 22.--German ar- + tillerymen have again bom- + barded Dunkirk with 14-inch % guns. (ficial announcement % this afternoon said that several 3 civilians were killed, REFS IE SEI PI PEE TRIE4 men. He was killed Needham, an with Henry American writer, by Gustav Stahl, a German reservist, {3408 11th, caused bya slghv explosion} | pleaded not guilty to the charge of * | perjury. #| Major Lumsden, a British army +44 | aviator, was killed at Brooklands. CHAIRMAN T. J. RIGNEY'S STATEMENT I ------ { President, said that although the T. J. Rigney, Chairman of the Utilities Commission, | wes Meabures Act has added im made the following statement with regard to the vote of | ehsely taithe ceponsibilities and] the people on the Utilities by-law: ar nee al adod ma: "The members of the Commission are gratified at the! jerially I securing ye unLLy Im v n e result, which they interpret as a vindication of the Com-| Which I a solable feature conaiqor: mission form of management and a renewal of the eonfi- | Ing the number of alien, enemies in dence of the people in its members. Iti is also triumph for the Whig, which has a an at] *** midst. B53 gui ad-| mirable cam paign in support of the Commisson, and de-| monstrates the influence your paper wields in the eom- The Canadian onl of Honor Issued munity. on Monday. *'The cimbers will | Ottawa' Jane develop the Bu bicy Mopted in connection with the man-| | ene n names have been added to ihe agement o! ant. e hope to so re-arrange the rates | {anadian roll of honor since yester. 5 fo Sreatly beduce the cost of Slovtrisity to, the people | som mer aid indicates 'nat the a us render its use more genera! for all purposes. We| C2 onses In the 15 ne believe this result will follow the adoption of the rates ween Jone 3a and 16h "eens recommended by the Hydro-Electriec Commission. ed a en I ra "The members desire to work in: complete harmony | Killed, 1, jo wounded, 5,891, and plant may be operhited with the sole object of Tendering] the most ef efficient service to the publi¢ at the minimum of | THE POLICE OF CAN ADA Have Done Splendid Work Seki The War. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, June 22.--Speaking at the opening of the eleventh annual | convention of the Police Chiefs* Asso- | ciation of Canada, Colonel Sherwood,, - A SMALL LIST. feel encouraged to further light as compared with thosé sus- with both the City Council and the citizens, so that the | mnie $ : York yA owner, LL on as he could not a a nt pt ond Wk K INGSTON ONTARIO, tvacuate Belgium and purchases the | Belgian Congo possessions on condi | And_A | | Zebpeolin with a crew of twenty-eight | B.| the | all of his aeroplane at Buck, France, | former New Biltish Whig [=] § a x hommisshrot"' g seserrssnos + rd *23009094444 TO PAY LIBEL DAMAGE 1 * * > * * * +> + + + + y Ottawa. June 22.---Le Droit, the clerical organ publihsed in Ottawa and the main medi- um of publicity in the bilingual agitation, was condemned to $1,000 damages in the Hull court yesterday for libel against Louis Cousineau, a lo- cal lawyer, who was Conser- vative candidate in Wright at the last election, PREP PP PPD Ie Ppsd {BEd FAH E EE IPIIIIEL EEE Some Poison -Has Caused Man's Death (Special to Me w hig.) Tamworth, June 22.---J. O'Brien and wife called 'away this morning at four o'clock to R. A. Reid's, be-| . tween here and Enterprise,where Mr. | Reid and daughter lives. They had taken some kind of poison on Sun- day morning in mistake, notwith- standing all the doctors could do, ! Mrs. | Mr. Réid died this morning. | Reid will likely recover. A late despatch says R. A. Reid and his wife took what they thought | was a dose of salts before breakfast and. later doctors discovered they had taken strychnine. E. 7 PATENAUDE, M.P.P. To Succeed Coderre In the Borden : Cabinet. (Special to the Whig) Ottawa, June 22.--E. L. Paten- | aude, M'P.P.,, for La Prairie, and Conservative organizer for Montreal, | | Will be sworn in this week as mem- | {ber of the Borden Cabinet in the | vacancy caused by the resignation of | | Hon. Louis Coderre, Secretary of | State. | TO ENLARGE SCOPE, So that Fullerton 'Oharges Can. Be! Enquired Into (Special to the Whig.) Winnipeg, June 22.---The Mani- | toba Government, it is officially an | nounced, hag decided to enlarge the | scope of the Royal Commission to | | enable it to fully investigate the Ful | lerton charges. SOON T0 SEND SHELLS ABROAD Engine Company's y's Machinery Found Satisfactory in Tests---First Watertown, N.Y., June 22.--Ship- ments of shells manufactured at the New York Engine Company's Plat | Iss | here as a part of the New York Air | Brake Com press tract with the | European A 'made within a short time, it pe this after- noén. A quantity has Already been made but most of the shells were in the Bature of tests of the machinery. | i 3° Whig. Ww) oe twenty- | they of available space is being utilized. The The Hathites which have been op- eratéed have proved satisfactory so far as the production of the 'shells is rhe opening order calls for about 200,000. There will Je mide at the engine company plant '| Island plant of the New york Air J Bre ™ ESDAY, (army JUNE oe 1915 HOW AN ARMY GETS ITS BREAD. iicture shows a Russian field bakery hurriedly set up in riding seliocl During the recent Austrian drive on Warsaw thev « haking their © cap- bread) ~------ DF SE RTS WIFE AND C HIL D Italian Re: servist of of "Rochester Arvest. ed In New York. New York, June opposed to Germany, Austria and Turkey, were diminished by one] when Detective Stevens. arrested En- | rico Manello on a charge of abandon- ing his wife and two-year-old child. The arrest was made at the tele- graphic request of Chief of Police Quigley of Rochester, where Manello | lived up to last Tuesday and worked | at his trade as a tailor. Manello is an His country called him, but his wife objected. Tuesday night, while friend wife slept, Manello departed from Rochester, came to New York, {and reported to the consul. He was] | quartered "with 508 other 'ré¥ervists jat 429 Washington) street and was | | to have sailed for Italy on the liner Dante, at noon to-day. Instead of 80 | ing to war he will have to return to hie wife and child and~the taflor shop at Rochester. | D. A. THOMAS, Prominent Welsh colliery owner, who has been appointed Lloyd George's {reunions agent- in Canada He will likely visit all cities and towns in | Canuda where munitions can be made SAYS HOME RULE IS DEAD, | William O'Brien Calls Redmondites | Powerless Under the Coalition, as Cork, June 22 William 9 Brien, | leader of the Independent Irish Na- | tionalists, announced to-day that the Free Press would no longer be | published daily. Mr. O'Brien, who is opposed to the Home Rule plan as adopted, stated that the objects for which the news. | paper was started had been achiev- | ed, declaring Home Rule was dead. [The followers of John Redmond, he said, were powerlesg under the coa- lition government, The Free Press hereafter will be' issued 'weekly. in these Rus-| 22.--The forces | Italian reservists. | LAST EDITION | "HOT BOMBARDMENT BY ALLIED FLEET At Gallipoli, Where Turkish Munitions And Mili- tary Warehouses Are Said to be Des- troyed or The Anglo-French Naval Forces Have Been Shelling the Turkish Town and Flames Were Seea---t is Said the Austrian Forces Are Halting the Italian Forward (Special to the Whig.) Athens, June 22.--The Turkish munition docks and military ware- houses at Gallipoli are believed to be destroyed or badly damaged in at |@ heavy bombardment by the Allien | fleet on Monday morning. Mytilene despatches to-day several units of Anglo-French nav forces shelled the Turkish town for three hours. Observers reported | (several buildings burst into flames and loud explosions were heard. Halted the Advance. Rome, June 22.--The strong Aus- trian defences in Trentino and Car- Mr. White Chose Ignoble Part, Toronto, June. 22 | Says editorially: "When Mr. accepted an invitation to {the electors of South- -east Grey, he | {had two courses open to him---to | make a high-minded appeal to a pa- | triotic people passing through a per- | flous and unprecedented crisis, and to make a partisan appeal, calculat- ed to draw attention-away from pa. | triotic duty #@nd direct it to a ques- | tion of holding office with its emolu- {ments and other incidental advan- | | tages. It is not to the Finance Minister's credit that he chose the more ignoble part; 22 -- "The Globe | White | address began to associate himself with men Who have deliberately . put HL under the domination of a sin ister plotter for the promotion of his | own self interest. Mr. White has | chosen to out-Rogers Rogers in his | vulgar partisanship. He should have | been able to discern that the 108% | table public association of Mr, Rog- | ers' name with the slowl Ny | ing mass Of criminal corrliption in | Manitoba hag made an appeal to the electors of Canada too unsafe to be attempted." | { GEN. DEWET SENTENCED {To Spend Six Years in Prison -- | Money Fine. (8pecisl to the Whig.) | Bloemfontien, South Africa, June 22.--A sentence of six years impris- jonment and a fine of £2000 was im- | posed to-day on General Dewet, for- mer Boer leader, convicted on eight charges of treason in raising a re | bellion against the Government since the present war began. Canadian Casualties (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 22.-- These casual- {ties in the Second Battalion are an- nounced: Wounded--Private Walter Thom- Robus, England; Pte. F. W. Fos- { ter, England; Sergt. Joseph Scott ; | Stone, England. Austrian Spies Arrested, (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, June 22.--Several leged spies were arrested as t s.lt of the explosion in Amherst. burg. | { | | Jerry Fowler, a young homestead- ed at Stanger, northwest of Edmon- ton, died of eating poisoned candy sent through the mails. (Special to the Whig.) TY New York, N. Y., June 22.--"The high point of German military effie- iency has been passed. The morale of the German troops in the west has been broken. From this time on a gradual giving away of the Ger- man line is certain. Ew final result is inevitable. "Basing their Saleulations on the known military figures, the Allies ery step be contested by the Germans but the GIVING WAY OF GERMAN ~ LINES PROBABLE Albert shall Ricvrate Christmas, 1915, in his own palace in Brussels." The foregoing is the opinion of George Gordon Moore, the young American financier who as friend of Sir John guest at the front, has seen more of the war from the British standpoint than any other civilian. Moore, Who |: 'recently returned to England from the British front, is in New York to- 5 enroute to his home in St. Cla'r, that King said | Globe Says it goes to show | how far he has descended since he | them- Movement. nic Alps and the heavy enemy re- inforcement aloug the lzonzo, are halting the Italian forward movement nearly all along the line the War Office admitted to-day. War Tidings. The French postal service Is handling mail in 90 towns and vil- lages in Alsace, all of which now bear the names they had 45 years ago. Advices reaching Tokio from Via- | divostok are to the effect that mu- nitions of war intended for the use of Russia's armies at the front are arriving at that seaport In great | quantities. 'War Prisoners | Wanted Teeth Pulled Out Capt. 8. H. Simpson, dental sur- | geon at Barriefield camp, made a Teas to Fort Henry oh Monday af- ternoon. The prisoners for some | reason suddenly devel a mania pio have their teeth attended to, pre ferably extracted. At first Capt- | Simpson had three cases, all of a minor nature, to attend to, but be. | fore 'long the room was full. He pulled teeth out of fifteen prisoners, | and refused that many more because | there wag nothing wrong with their grinders. DAILY MEMORANDUM. R. M. C. closing Wednesday. Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.30. Take Ontario Park, vaudeville, p.m. See top of page 3, right hand corner, {for probabilities {THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: | Buckners Nows Depot «296 § | Clarke, J. & Co. ....363 n {College Book Store princess | Coulter's Grocery 20 | Cullen's Grocery, Cor, Prin, & Alfred Frontenac Hotel . ..Ontario SL Gibson's Drug Store Lowe's Sragery . McAuley's Bool Store ... a McGall's Cigar Store, cor. Prin, McLeod's Grocery .... Lonisn LB . Medley's Dru WI LH ity Paul's Cigar Store rin Prouse rug Store Princess Valleau's Grocery Montreal MARRIEy. GRBENWOOD-O'BRIEN--ALt the Church of the Sacred Heart, Wolfe Island, on Tuesday, June 16th, by Rev. Father McNeill, mond John Greenwood to Miss ora Agnes, daughter of James O'Brien, both of Wolfe Island. CASEY-CROWLEY At Convent Chapel, Monday, June 24st, 1915, by the Rev. Father A. J. Hanley, rector of St. Mary's Cathedral, Mary Brivis, youngest daughter of MES. Mary FE Crowley, to William F. ey, oth of Kingston. 8.15 ing 'st we 208 Notre Dame Kingston, on DIED. ROBINSON --In Kingston, 2ist, 1915, Marguerite beloved wife of Bert F. Robinson, ged 28 years and § months. Pui (Private) from her mother-in- law's residence, 247 Queen street, Wednesday at 2 p.m. ROBERT J. REID The Undertaker. Phone 577. 230 Princess Street. 'JAMES REID The Old Firm of STREET 254 and 256 Phone 1°" for Ambulance REFRIGERATORS. nT Bhdte Ge he a, on_ June Ruth Brown,