Ontario Vaccination het of Kingston - poe | io gh ---- ER "THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, ed a little and a working party] OLD DIRECTORS RE-ELECTED. {managed to open up ao trench {again and stretchers came through "At a Meeting Of Kingston Yacht! {and carried the wounded away to, Club Association. the: end of the trench, - There they . | {have to remain till they ean be got| The annual meeting of the Kings-| j out under cover of darkness. {tan - Yacht Club Association for the! __ PAGE SIX" " . FRENCH NOYES HS TROOPS INTO TRENCHES $ | s { window of the car with a fork. which I ship PE own f picked up from the tabie. It | was the signal for stopping. { ¥, HOW. GEN GOONS PROVE HEROES, "LIEU. STETHEM WRITES Their Terrible: Experience "The dead are thrown out ovér fhe | @lection of directors afd other busis! | back of the tremeh and if the shell- |DeSs was held on Monday evening, | ing is not too heavy we bury them|iRt the Club House. The president, at night--unless we attack the next H- W. Richardson, was in the chair. trench ahead, in which case we| The secretary-treasurer submitted cannot do so. his annual statement which was "Two of my men went almost in- adopted. | beyond the reserves and walked to {my billet, where I threw myself) {down and slept till noon the next the Festubert Battle. THOUSANDS OF MEN MERITED VIOTORIA CROSS FOR GALLANT DEEDS | Lieut, Stethem Tells Of Work Of Ma- { chine Gun Section--Trench Paved | puns placed and ready by daylight.| Dave in your bottle, although in some With Dead and Men Had To Sit | All Night on Bodies. The first account of the fighting of the Royal Canadian Dragoons since | they went to the front as an infan- try corps under General Seely, M.P., has been received at Ottawa in a let-| ter from Lieut. Hubert Stethem, son- | in-law of R. J. Carson, Kingston to Rev. A. W. MacKay of Ottawa, Lieut. Stethem was with the machine gun section of the corps. The letter re- fers to the fighting at Festubert, The letter is as follows, in part; "I will try and give you a brief description of the last two fights 1] have been in. The scrawl is due to a plece of a German shell having come in contact with my forefinger, and the pencil due to a lack of ink. I expected all kinds of horrible sights, terrible dangers and priva- tions when we came here, but what I have seen and felt has far ex- ceeded my expectation, Words just fail to describe it all. '"l cannot mention names of places and so cannot tell you ex- actly where I am, but I am in that district where the fighting has been very heavy and, what is better, very successful---near the south end of the British line. His First Engagement. "My first engagement was on the 22nd inst. . I was ordered to pro- ceed to the trenches on the might of the 21st, without my mem er ma- chine guns, to act as an observing officer and assist the M, G. officer of the -- Battalion. About 150 men of my regiment were also detailed to fill a gap in the line. We march- ed 3 miles out of five and a half with no trouble. The next mile was un- der long range shell fire and then we struck the reserve trenches, The next mile and a half was awful, The ground was littered with corpses-- English and German--not a case of an odd body, but thousands, it be- ing the ground over which the -- English brigade charged a week be- fore, This area is being constantly shelled by Gefman artillery and it is impossible to bury the dead. "As we left the reserve tremches we had to wander over this awful field by moonlight and under fire from artillery, I had only gone per- haps 30 yards, when a sniper nearly got me--"behing-g-g"" and a bul- let passed within 6 inches of my face. I was at the fail end of the column, Jt certainly broke by nerve for a minute. A few sdconds later and a shell shrieked overhead and burst with a deafening roar. We threw ourselves flat on the ground at once--many of us having to lie beside or even on those khaki clad corpses. i i | day' 0 up. No amount of earth can protect you from a 'coal box' from trench. There was a gap in the rear wall of the breastwork and outside One can hardly descrihe it. shiek past overhead and are harm- ess. a short sharp shriek and a deafening explosion and a shell bursts some- where by you and even before its gassy yellow smoke there is an urgent call for "'streteh- er bearers." HN for my brigade to move to the trenches a trict a little more southerly. The first twenty-four hours (25th May) we spent in the reserve 500 yards from the firing line. "trenches" were really breastworks. about 10 p.m., pdirs and alterations. The I had my All went well till 10 a.m., when the F couldn't make you believe the number of shell they send into a place, nor the awful terrific force of the shell. After a few shrapnel shell, they sent a few well placed 'coal boxes'---six inch high explo- sive. Then came the call "Stretcher bearers.' One of my guns being near this point, I rushed along the works and saw a sight I shall not forget. The shell had blown up the parapet and caught two men in a dug-out. One, an Indian of ours, was yelling terribly, his hand was torn off and his body one mass of shell wounds, gashed and torn. He died shortly after. He had forty- one wounds on his body. The other man was already dead---a hole about four inches in diameter through his chest. They carried them away to the doctor's dug-out. "That Awful Call." "This kept up all day long--shell after shell bursting and blowing up. That awful call of "'Stretcher-bearers at the double" just seemed to make one's stomach turn cold. "Several times I moved my dug- ut and several times it got blown The shells seemed everywhems. shell. For a while they changed to shrapnel. One of our men (Hartland) got a piece ond his head and crossed the Great Divide. "We were able to get our wound- ed back from here as fast as they got hurt. to advance my guns to the firing line This sounds easy, but it was just a case of taking your hands and taking a chance of shells catching you. Eventually we reached these them in an absolutely state--bodies all ments there were three pairs of legs At 9 pm. 1 was ordered life in your the trenches and found indescribable over. In my epaul- n German uniforms sticking out the wall (sandbag) of the t lay about eleven bodies. (We bur- ed them before we left.) They had been there some time and when the sun came up we had to put on res- pirators. The Worst Of All. "The worst of it all is shell fire. Shells Then suddenly there will be has cleared What is morse is as In Trenches At Last. "Several shells followed and we had to move in short spasms, When trenches the earth seemed to shake, and a deafening roar of cannon, rifles and machine almost at our guns started and flares of a vivid green lit up the night. We lay there, hugging the ground as close as we could for 1% hours, till it blew over, It was an attack by an Indian divi- sion on our left. Then we reached our trenches and set to work with shovels to effect repairs and alter ations. "Daylight came at 3.46 and we stood to. The trenches at this point were hastily constructed ond only about four feet deep by two feet six inches wide--and one man to ever four feet. The worst of it all was that the bottom of the trench was paved with Germans. 'The stench 'was beyond descriptions, I sat on a body all night--with just my rubber sheet between us, I had to either sit there or stand up and be sho! t. £ SAN went well till about six a.m., when the: shell started to come, bad by this time moved to the ma- C gun emplacement, talking te thé machine gun officer shell landed ' and a ° poor chap lost his leg. Lasted All Day. "The shelling lasted all day and battalion had numerous casuals At one time they landed a es" of about twelve melinite Is within twenty-five yards of and by the time they were ough, thank God, I had not my nerves in. At7.30 with a It Hd £8 trouble got back 'Swing g-g-g--Bang!' of jagged pieces of iron, a cloud of smoke and flying dirt. clears. I hear a groaning and there lies one of my gunners, man, too), his leg, shattered above the knee. We tie it up and cover it and drag him into a dug-out. 'Bang! and at the son' (nimeinc! d also : SE gon ering men m., I was relieved [off an ammunition the shells burst to hear the awful yell of some poor beggar who has been caught and: torn asunder--just a sort of death ery. et "In some unknown way they dis covered my emplacements, and at 9.30 p.m., started to rain shells of every kind around us. I ordered my guns to be dismounted and laid in 'the 'bottom of the- trench. men 40 lie flat in the bottem and close to the parapet. In a few min- utes the shelling got so hot 'that' 1 and the we must soon all get it-- A whistling The air- (my best A bang!'--two more shells not quite so close. Anothér man gets a couple of shrapnel balls in his shoulder. Cut Of By Shell. "We call for stretcher-bearers e time a 'Jack John- shell) drives in the parapet of sandbags and hurdle work 1 at the end of our epaulments, cut- tng us off from our support trenches ily reaching I 'the 'caving-in of preventing our our the e and I was | suff box. ;After two hours the shelling © BR t 5 p,m., the 24th orders came | "a0€ Owing to their nerves { t dusk. This time in a dis- | B0D€ by might. | | giving out. My own nerves were -absolutely I had had forty-eight hours of it----shelled nearly all the time---and never had a chance to fire trenches, | 2 shot (in my section.) "Food? Yes, at 1 p.m., on the seg- sandbag | 00d day a bag was passed up con- We arrived there at | t2iding bread, cheese and jam. It is and I started our re-| difficult to get rations into some of the trenches. Water? Only what you trenches water parties manage tp { Germans decided to shell us. Really, | Taw! out and get some. A Hero's Death. "Outside our tremch in front lay a poor Highlander, with both legs shattered badly. He had lain there three and a half days. One of our men (Sergt. .Hollowell), together with Corporal Pym, decided to at least try and get him and jumped over the parapet with a stretcher. Hollowell got sniped through the thigh just as he reached the man. Pym managed to get back. Hollowell gave his water bottle to the wounded man and tried to crawl back to the trench but got three more shots and finally a shrapnel shell ended his mis- ery. 'The trenches are full of men 'of this type. Thousands of men should get the V. C. who are never heard of . We did get the Highlander evimntually---after dusk. "A shell burst near me at dabout 8.30 p.m. and a piece of it caught my hand-and tore my forefinger pretty badly---but not enough to go sick with. We came out at midnight on the 26th and I was all in. There is no such thing as sleep in the trenches (as long as shells are going, anyway.) "We came back to our billets clothes torn and absolutely covered with mud and all kinds of equip- ment lost. I was tired, absolutely dead tired and fagged out--too tired to even wash the grime and blood off my face and hands--but not too tired to get on my knees and thank my Heavenly Father for having brought me through safely. "We'll, I guess, I've written a re- gular book, so had better draw to a close. What I have told you is not by any means an exaggeration. Of course, I had the bad luck to get in 8 very hot spot for shells. My nerves are about gone and I hear that I am likely to be sent back to England for two weeks' rest--to which I will not object." | HORTICULTURAL SOOTETY. Decided To Hold Show September 15th and 16th. Af an enthusiastic meeting of the directors of the Kingston Horticul- tural Society it was unanimously de- cided to hold fhe annudl exhibition on Wednesday and Thursday, Sep- tember 15th and 16th. A liberal prize list is mow being" printed, It will offer first, second and third prizes in each of the various classes of plants, flowers, fruits and vege- tables, which it is intended to en- courage inexperienced growers to ex- hibit as they can learn much by com- ing in competition with other grow- ers. © The usual prize of $15 for writing competition and exhibition from our city schools is provided for. The di- rectors have under consideration the matter of offering special prizes for small boxes of articles for our sol- diers at the froamt, it being the in- tention that every box exhibited will be labelled and forwarded as direct- ed by the exhibititor. In order to make thié year's exhi- bition patriotic as well as educational the directors have decided to donate all of this year's surplus over and above the actual expenses of run- ning the exhibition to Red Cross work. By joining the society one gets val- ue for his money, and also encour- ages and assists in making the city beautiful. MADE TRIP BY AUTO. W. D, Toland Arrived Here From Kalamazoo, Mich. W. D. Toland, wife and two sons, of Kalamazoo arg visit. 4will line-n The former directors were re {elected as follows: Messrs. D. A. | Black, G. Y. Chown, W. B. Dalton, | E. C. Gildersleeve, W. C. Kent, John {McKay and H. W. Richardson. {No CONFIRMATION OF REPORT. b, | That "Scotty" Davidson Was Killea in; Action, ¥ cy "SCOTTY" DAVIDSON. The Toronto Telegram of Monday stated that Allan "Scotty". David- son, the well-known Kingston hoc- keyist, had been killed in action on June 15th. His parents, who reside in Portsmouth, have received no word, and are wondering where the news came from. In view of there being no official announcement they | are inclined to doubt the report. | Pte. Davidson is a member of the| First Contingent, and has done splendid work as a bomb-thrower. Word came only on Monday that he had been recommended for the Dis- tinguished Conduct Medal. BURNED THE TELEGRAMS That Passed Between Roblin, Monta- gue And Rogers. ] Winnipeg, June 22.---At midnight on June 10th, J. Paddington, District Superintendent 'of the Great North- western Telegraphs, quietly entered the company's Winnipeg office and carried a large number of telegrams to the basement, where he burned them in the furnace. He left his job half-finished, however; as a re- sult he had to repeat the perform- ance next morning. This unusual proceeding. according to Padding- ton's evidence before the Royal Com- mission examining inte the charges regarding the new Parliament Build- ings yesterday, was. carried out in order to prevent the Commission get- ting hold of certain telegrams sent in March, April and May between Sir Rodmond Roblin. Hon. Dr. Monta- gue, Dr. R. M. Simpson. and Hon. Robert Rogers. MORE OFFICERS AND MEN. Will Be Required By Queen's Sta- tionary Hospital, ! Dean J. C. Connell, Queen's Medi- eal College, has cabled Lieut.Col. F. Etherington to find out what officers and men he can secure in England for the Queen's Stationary Hospital which is to be increased from 200 to 400 beds. Four ofcers, four. ser- geants and 32 rank and file will be needed, and part of this number may be sent fram Kingston. No more nurses will be required. Dean Connell is receiving: applications from those who wish to. join the Hospital Corps. y City Baseball League News. A picked team from the City Base ball League will play a Rochester team in Trenton on July 7th at a demonstration of the Oddfellows. would make a nice addition to the trophies held by City League teams, On Saturday the fastest game of the season will be played to break the three-cornered tie now existing in the senior series. The Ponies will clash with the Victorias. In the junior series, Regiopolis p against Park Nine, Found Shot Near Madoc. Madoc, June 22.--John Scott, Ma. lone, twelve miles from here, was found dead in a neighbor's field, a mile from the house, with a rifie in Nia Jana aud a pallet his 4 is not known w was suicide or accident. Deceased left the hause on Saturday morning, taking the n, and when not re- turning Sunday search was started. He was aged fifty and unmarried. 3 RL i, Get Rested MOTOR BUSSES CARRY - BRITISH TROOPS TO AND FROM FIRING LINE. A Sergeant Tells a Correspondent How Spies Keep Watching Them and Cause Conveys To Be Fired Upon, : Headquarters of the British Army, Northern France, June 1.-- (By mail to New York.)--Living in an :aute- bus is about like living in a street car. You can do it happily and eas- ily after you get .used to it. And there's a world of romance in it. Our four-pacsengered car backed into a ditch, with a grunt, and set- tled there for the night. it was after nine in the evening} town was fifteen miles distant, but a littld village of four houses was half a mile away and we started for it on foot. There would be soldiers en- ough to carry our automobile off on their shoulders, for our asking. Our accident had occurred on a nar row, side road, but the four house village stradled a great malin road, paved with stone. "Halt! who goes out. "Press correspondent es," "Advance and be recognized," We did ond them we told him our trouble. "Why don't you go inte town on the convoy?" he said. "It's. passing along here You can see its lights now," added. In thé distance gleamed a great whiteness; the air throbbed with the sound of thirty big gasoline engines, and in a moment the glare of the first car silvered the stone road. In a small automobile, leading the glant worm of automobiles, rode an officer, who stopped. his car when the sentry made a signal. We told the offiéer our troubles and showed him our passes. The big line of buses halted . while we talked. A sergeant from. the first bus came running up to see what the halt was about and the officer sald' "You go back with him and cmb into the first bus. We'll have there?' shout with pass- soon. he you home in quick order." The New Strap Hanger, It was like climbing onto a Lan- don autobus, one of London's gaso- line street cars; in fact that's exact- ly what we were doing. But over the doorway hung a plece of heavy canvas. Every window was board- ed up, tightly. A swinging table was at the front end of the "room." A candle, hung from the ceiling above it. A soldier was sound as- leep on one of the narrow seats. Rifles ' stretched across the ceiling, resting on the bars from which London strap-hangers support them- selves, Advertisements of soap were still in their places. but they had been scarred by rough usage and dim- med by candle smoke. The "room" minded me of a cozy dug-out. There was a mirror and some pic- tures tacked to the wall. "Do you fellows sleep in here?" The sergeant who had seated homself by the carpeted door and was rolling a cigarette, said "yes." "Pretty narrow beds." "I've slept on 'am for several months now. I wouldn't feel com- fortable in a real bed that was wide enough to roll around in." "That last car is the repair car," he added. "We always take one with us. ' "Then in the car just ahead of the last one, there's our stove, We can do wonders with it. I can turn oul roast beef and two vegetables and enough coffee for ome hundred men on it." ; x The soldier who had been sleeping on the narrow seat across the aisle, got up, lit a cigarette, took a comb out of a case and combed his mussed been a lot of music in " he finally said, "The I that we've taken to the ways sing and whistle and are to get a chance for action and the fellows we take back are always musical because they are going to get hot baths and dry beds to sleep in." One Unhappy Lot. prize is a cup valued at $75. which | hak {tor | The "We took the signal bells out," he explained. "The cords were in the way of our rifles. "Now, I'm going to cook that 72 pounds of meat while the crews stock up their cars with oil for to- morrow. We've got to turn out at four o'clock in the morning." ------------ DIED AT SHARBOT LAKE Was A Highly Esteemed Farmer-- Suffered From Stroke. , Another land-mark has been re- moved in the passing of Robt. Charl- ton, wh) died at his home, Sharbot Lake, in his seventy-second year, on Wednesday, June 16th. Mr. Charlton is one whom we will all miss. Though born in this country, upon the old homestead now occupi- ed by John Conboy, Zealand, he re- presents the original settlers, who before the advent of the railway, or the making of roads, biazed a trail, hewed down the forest, and making for himself a clearing, built a littie log house for himseM and his Irish lass. For many years Mr. Charlton farmed at Zealand, where his son, Thomas, now lives. Three years ago he had a stroke from which he never recovered. Leaving the farm he came to live in the village and for a while it seemed as though his health might return. Gradually, however, his strength failed him and he realized he was going home. He had no fear and felt but ope regret that he must leave his family behind. He died in peace respected by all and loved by those who knew him best. Mr. Charlton is survived by two sons, Robert and Thomas, and one daughter, Maud, (Mrs. W. Butterill) The following relatives will also mourn his loss, three sisters, Mrs. Henry Rigney, Mrs. John Garrett, Mrs. William Conbey, and five bro- thers, John and William (Zealand), Arthur, (Perth), George,- (Winni- peg); Thomas, (Meberly.) Thé funeral took place from the Methodist church, Sharbot Lake, on Friday last at 10 a.m., and was lar- gely attended. Revs. F. Williamson, and H. W. W,. Bromwich officiated. The interment was at Zealand. The little village of Zealand was suddenly aroused last week from its repose in the death of one of its most popular young 'people, Mise Rosy Emaline Conboy, aged 21 years, fell asleep in Jesus on Wed- nesday June 16th at 9 a.m., She had been ailing for some time, probably two or three years, having contract ed a eold which develoyed into con- sumption. A year ago last fall she had a severe attack of pleurisy from which she recovered and for a while was able to go about, apparently en joying a measure of her old-time health and? good spirits. In January last however, she took to her bed from which she never again arose, At first one could feel how the dear girl hoped to again combat the dis ease and take her place once more in the life of the community. When this was denied, she never once com- plained, but patiently let the Great Healer prepare her for her heavenly home. At first it seemed hard to have to go, lite was sweet and joyous, but when the summons came, and the coming of the Master draw near she had one only desire which was that He would come and take her home, Towards the end she suffered much but never once murmured. She seem- ed to enjoy the remembrances of flowers and messages that were gent, and tried to welcome those who visi- ted her room though she found it hard to talk. She will be missed in the home where a widowed mother and two brothers--Harris and Herbie remai to mourn her loss, and in the church where she was an honored and faithful worker for years, and in the community where she was always the same a warm and sympa- thetic friend. The funeral took piace in the Methodist chudch at Zealand on Thursday June 17th at 2 p.m. It was one of the largest in years. The interment was at Zealand, where her body rests side by side with that of her beloved father until the Resur- rection morn. AMONG THE ISLANDS Thousand Island Olubhouse To Be The Thousand Island Country a stag club located on Island as been, however, it has Had as its patrons, such persons as ys and others of New York : " Bac ear inn of pone Sih house, started a year or some iE x to y will June 25th. ohne, Masaniris "year if enn Yon a i to handle not cnly the regular je of the house but hotel is week. Since| instai- | Notice is: hereby given, (that as a precautionary measure to prevent an epi- demic of 'smallpox in the Municipality, and in aecord- ance with the Ontario Vac- {cination Law, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of King- ston, at a Special Meeting held on the 15th day of June, 1915, a By-Law was passed, as ordered by Statute, au- thorizing Som pulse vaccin- ation in we, 0 Bip. The tute bearing on the case reads as follows: "Regulation 9.~In every munici- pality where smallpox exists, or in which the Provincial or local Board of Health has notified the Council of its breaking out owing to the facility of communication with in fected localities, the Council of the municipality shall order the vaccin- ation and re-vaccimation of all per- sons resident in the municipality who have not been vaccinated within seven years, and that such wvaccina- tion or re.vaccination shall be ear ried out in so far as the same may bo applicable in the same manner as the vaccination of children, except that a person of fourteen years of age or over, but under the age of twenty- one years, who is not in the custody or under the control of his father, mother or any other person, and every person of twenty-one years or over, shall present himself for vac- cal practitajoner shall adopt the same measures. to secure the vaccimation or re-vaccination of every such per. son as he is required to take with re- gard to children." By order. CHAS. F. ADAIR, Clerk, Cataragul, June 17th, 19185. PRICES CUT IN. TWO of Men's and Boys" Clothing . Prices cut in two. Never have been in \ lot of samples ine Shirts, regular Also a big line of Rain Coats, Hats, Caps, Trunks and Suit Cases. Inspection invited, Don't Miss this Chance Barnet Lipman, 107 Princess Street. The Up-to-date Clothing and Gent's Furnishing Store. vemeyers, the sugar "peeple, ng painted this week, a ha been adopted. The ner season from ). Henry Walierion; Louisville uriers to arrive at'the to be the guest Se: So-------- v : Liberal member for 10 enter the Scott Govern Saskatchewan, bt