| 8 PAGES Fos YEAR 82 --- NO 14¢ Che KINGSTON ONTARIO, THURSDAY ° JUNE 24, 1915 ish Wh FRENCH SPRAYED GERMANS _ EADLY GUN FIRE WITH D And The Enemy's Attacks Were Easily Repulsed. SISTERS AND NURSES WERE KILLED DURING THE BOM- BARDMENT OF ARRAS Violent Cannonading From Arras to Point North of Souchez-- Germans Falled to Drive In French Line Near Damplerre, (Special to the Whig.) Paris, June 24.-- (Official) Several gisters and nurses were killed by German shells that fell on St. Sacra- ment hospital during thé heavy bom- bardment of Arras yesterday. The shells tumbled several buildings in ruins. The French gunners replied, and the artillery duel lasted for sev- eral hours. All along the battle front from Ar- ras to a point north of Souchez, a most violent cannonading has been going on since early yesterday. The official communique this af- ternoon reported an unsuccessful at tempt by the enemy to drive in the French line near Dompierre. The Germans first exploded a mine under a section of French trenches and then shelled the adjacent earth- works The French artillery spray- ed the Germans before the-trenches with a deadly fire. The Germans at- tacked in considerable force, but were easily 'repulsed. War Tidings. Archduke Eugent of Austria, com- | mander-in-chief of the garian forces operating against Italy, has reorganized two army corps de- signed for mountain warfare. A Berlin despatch says: Russian diplomats even fear a new Balkan war, if satisfaction by the quadruple entente of the demands of one or two of the Balkan nations incites the others." A telegram from Vienna says Em- peror Willlam and Emperor Francis Joseph purpose to meet soon in the re-captured Galician capital for "fit- ting ceremonies to mark the end of Russia's dominance in Galicia." Austrian correspondents with the Teutonic armies pay tribute to the | magnificent rear guard action fought | pared with the previous year. Austro-Hun- | Bre cniaiensis am------ by the Russians, who are declared to have retreated eastward in good or- der, leaving behind few prisoners and even removing the Russian docu- ments from Lemberg. DUKE NICHOLAS' STRATEGY ~~ The German Artillery Is the Only Surprise, London, June 24.--"The Russian leaders continue optimistic over the situation in Galicia, where the Ger- man desire to meet and destroy the Russian main forces in a pitched battle has been eyaded by steady re- tirement not as the bayonet point, but quietly by night after due warn-! ing and thorough preparation," says The Morning Post's Petrograd cor-| respondent, "The Russian strategy of the past | fortnight," the correspondent con- | tinues, "was decided on well in ad- | vance by the Grand Duke Nicholas | and his advisers. The only element | of surprise in the German onslaught | was the artillery attack, which re- | mains astounding and inexplicable, | How any army could fire in a couple | of hours a thousand railway car-| loads of ammunition and continue | normal artillery work for weeks af- | fterward with similar extraordinary | outbursts at frequent intervals cer-| tainly amounts to a military sur prise." ' Enquiry Has Begun. (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 24 Sir Charles | Davidson, Royal Commissioner ap- | pointed by the Dominion Govern- ment to inquire into the Government | war contracts, formally opened an | fnquiry in the Railway Committee | room in the House of Commons to- | day. John Thompson, KC. then | | proceeded to take up the Powell | drug and hospital bandage contract, the evidence given being practical- | ly the same as was! given before the | Pulgic Accounts Commifgece, I Hard Times For Brewers, London, June 24.--Sir Thomas Dewar, managing director of John Dewar & Sons of England, distillers, says the decrease in the sale of alco. holic liquors in the United Kingdom since the beginning of the war has been %0 great that brewers and dis- tillers. wil] curtail the output, Dur- ing eight months from July to Feb- ruary the consumption of beer de. creased 2,400,000 bulk barrels, com- LLOYD-GEORGE WILL TURN BRITAIN INTO AN ARSENAL London, June 24.-- Minister of Munitions Lloyd-George took the country into his confidence yesterday in introducing in the House of Com- mons the munitions bill, He said: "The Germans undoubtedly-- we may as well recognize it--anticipat- ed the duration of this war as no one else has done. They realized it would be a great trench war, and they had organized an immense sup- ply of machinery applicable to these conditions. We assumed that vie- tory was due ug as a tribute from fate. Our problem is to organize, not to take it for granted. To do this the whole engineering - and chemical resources of this country and the Empire must be organized. When this has been done France and ourselves alone will overlap the en- tire Teutonic output." "It will take months before we can obtain the maximum output," Mr. Lloyd-George went on. "It is entire- ly a question of labor, Machine Guns Needed. "I cannot forecast Germany's next move, If she swings her forces from the east to the west it is vital for the lines of our troops and in order to enable them to maintain their po- sitions, It is essential that trade union restrictions which interfere with a great olitput of munitions shall temporarily be suspended at once." ' The minister of munitions said that a vast improvement already had been, made by inviting business men to organize in their own localities. For instance through local or- ganization in one town alone 150, 000 shells monthly already were be- ing turned out there, and these fig- res were expected to rise to 250, Great Britain, Mr. Lloyd-George sald, would be organized into ten munitions areas. In London, he said, there would shortly be another Woolwich arsenal able to turn out prodigious quantities of war mater- ial. Mr. Lloyd-George emphasized that he intended to rely largely upon de- | centralization, and real progress, he |said, already had been made since the establishment of the munitions department. | Take Over Metal Market. | "With regard to the supply of ma- terial," Mr. Lloyd-George said, "it | may be necessary to take complete control of the metal market in order to be sure that valuable material is not wasted in non-essentials, "I am sorry to say," the Mimister continued, "that there are indica- tions of the holding up of supplies of material in certain quarters for higher prices. This is the cause of serious delay and this practice"must be brought to an end. "We must appeal to the men at a time of dire peril to put forward their whole strength in behalf of their fellows now in the field and to rely upon the nation to see that they have fair play at the end of the war, "I have a guarantee from the em- ployers that no advantage will be taken of any relaxation i the regu- lations. As many old men as possi- ble win be brought back from the ranks. Unions Promise Workers.' "The trade unionists have promis- ed to get-all the munition workers the government requires in seven days, to ga anywhere needed to turn out munitions. If the scheme suc- ceeds. there will be no need for com- Jisian, which will be so much the er," ecide disputes, and will be limitation in the profits of tablishments working for the sidns are retiring from Lemberg in| right perfect order. North of the city, the Slav right wing has attacked the en. out, three com- ani r Peking the enemy's at-| Fook, Tres Satienarg south of Ra- | inf: emy's flan! panies and The {also taken by ough troops under arms at London, A -------- COMPENSATION LAWS Passed by Eight More States -- Twenty-Two Now, New York, June 24.--To the list of twenty-two states in which work- men's compensation laws were al-| ready in effect, eight more states and the territory of Alaska have this year been added by the. action of) their legislatures during sessions which have just come tq a close. This growth of the movement toward safeguarding the welfare of the la- borer and his dependents is regulat- ed in the summary of this year's leg-| islative activities, which has been] compiled by the Associated Press. The summary also shows progress in| {the abolishment of child labor and in the direction of limiting the work-| ing hours of minors. The additional states to adopt workmen's compensation are Wyom- ing, Montana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Maine, Indiana, Vermont and Penn- sylvania. Favorable action toward the enaction of such a measure was the Legislature of Utah, which created a commission to investigate the question and report a bill for the consideration of the next Legislature' Prince Of Wales Made Captain. london, June 24 --The Prince of Wales was promoted to a captaiucy in the Grenadier Guards in honor of] his twenty-first birthday. He uas hitherto held the rank of lieuten- | ant, Small Boats Sunk. (8pecial to the Whig.) London, June 24 --Shipping cir- cleg received advices to day that six | | small fishing vessels have been shell- ed and sunk off the coast of Scotland | by a German U boat. A German Spy Shot to Death In London Tower London, June 24.--F. Robert Muller, who on June 4 was found guilty at the Old Bailey Police Court | of being a German spy, was execut- ed in the Tower of London yesterday by shooting. a. \ Another alleged German spy, Roby ert Rosenthal, who is said by thg police to have confessed that he was sent to England by the German Ad- miralty to obtain information on! naval matters, is to be court-mar- tialed. Drastic Temperance Law, | Regina, June 24 --After a confer- | ence with the temperance leaders of | the province the Government decid: | ed to make its temperance legisla- | tion still more drastic. Hon. J, A. | Colder announced that a néw propo- | sal was that "no liquor may be kept or consumed after June 30th in any | hotel or other place of accommoda- tion." This will preclude either proprie- | tor or guests from having liquor on hotel premises. 'Total prohibition | is also to apply to all clubs and to | buildimgg any portion of which is | used as livery or feed stable, lumber office, grain elevator, or garage. | Tong Way From Base London, June 24.--Further evi- dences of the widespread activiies of German submarines was secur.:d when it was learned that the Aber deen trawler Premier was sunk oy one of the under-water craft on Sun- day, seventy miles north-west ot Saint Kilda, a Scottish Island in ihe Atlantic Ocean. Gets Permanent Post. Washington, June 24.--Rqgort Lansing, retary of State ad in- terim since the resignation of Wil- liam Jennings Bryan has been dc- finitely selected by President W i- son for the permanent post and has accepted, To Seek Spies In All Parts Of Ontario {Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 24.--"We hate en- N 4, Barriefield and other parts of: ida to discourage any at- tempt at invasion of Canada at any point by uy armed parties of Ger- States," declared an official of the Militia Department this morning, discussing the Jheaatiess at various points in Ontario in this regard, fol- owing the dynamiting of the Pea- body factory and the FLA C------------------ Inland Revenue Returns. 1 to the Whig. "af TN in inland | the former place. {are held at Hudson Bay Junction by {the R. N. W. M. P., in connection From Near od THE LATEST TID PRESENTED IN THE | POSSIBLE FOR the Whig's Daily Conde tio The News Of the World From Té'e- graph Service and Newspaper Kx- changes. : : Fs War scenes depicting battle seen- e3 are barred from ORtagle moving picture shows. Ege Senator Lougheed Minister of Militia in eral Hughes during which he plans to and France a acting ce of Gen- h "short trip © to England A sentence of six mu * intpris- onment was passed om ehy Skef- fington, a noted Home Ruler and Irish Volunteer in Dublin for pro- German talk. a Baron Reading, Lord Chief Jus- tice,, has granted am order in the Court of the King's Beneh, directing Sir Edgar Speyer and Sir Ernest | Cassel to show by what authority they claim to be members of the Privy Council in Great Britain. Both are German born. 3 eit "PLL PAY EVE CENT," Says Siegel; Now Is a Prison Book. keeper. Rochester, N.Y., June 24.--Con- vict No, 1-A spent a pestless night in his 4x9 cell, and to-dR¥ entered upon his new job as bookkeeper in the prison office, with memories of the life of ease he had once enjoyed. In the outside life the prisoner is known as Henry Siegel, he department store operator, who led for near- ly $8,000,000 a few Fears ago, and who is now paying the penalty for using $2,500,000 deposited by 15,- 000 persons in his private bank in his stores. Siegel Was sentenced to ten months, but wil} Serve only eight and a half, if he reeeives hig "good behavior" time off. He declared to-day it is his intention to pay back every depositor of his defunet bank, starting in business as soon as he gains his freedom, ATTEMPT TO DERAIL TRAIN. HE m---- Austrians Held at Hudson Bay Junc- tion as Suspects. Prince Albert, Sask., June 23.-- An unsuccessful attempt was made to derail the C. N. R. train running from the Pas to Hudson Bay Junc- tion at a point about 43 milés from Eléven Austrians with the case. Few Canadian Horses Are Being Bought Toronto, June 24.--While the commercial horse trade in Canada is almost at a standstill, little is being done" just now in the army horse trade. This means that owners of horses in thig country have a meagre outlet for horses of which they wish to dispose. The country, with sev- eral milion® horses, has large num- bers suitable for army purposes, for cavalry, artillery or transportation work, and it appearg from present trade conditions that owners are not getting a fair show, Horses bought by the Canadian army commissioners this week have averaged two ani. mals out of twenty offered. Meanwhile, army horses continue to come from United States sources in thousands, -~ The Western States have profited chiefly by Britain's need of these animals. Canada has provided comparatively few. Rep- resentatives from St.Louis visited To- ronto last week-end and stated that that centre alone had sold 200,000 horses to the. Allies. Chicago has sold about the same number. In St. Louis ves from Brit- ain, France, Belgium and Italy are operating, while commissioners from these nations and Swisg' buyers are at Chicago. Of | Wego by whiat was then the finest I | chartering } PITH OF NEWS . { Mrs. THE OLDEST RESIDENT. Nancy Sweet Celebrates Her 102nd Birthday. Oswego, N.Y., June 24.--Mrs. | Naney Sweet celebrated her 102nd | birthday Sunday. Despite her great lage she is in good health and re- {tains an active memory. | Mrs. Sweet was born in County | Armach, Ireland, on June 20th, | 1813, and came from a family of {pure Scotch descent on both sides. {She came to America in 1847 on an | old time sailing ship, which earried i500 passengers. She landed at | Crosby Isle, in Canada. and later | went to Williamsport, where she re- mained for two years, coming to Os- steamer on the lakes, the Passport. {Since that time she has spent her life in Oswego and the vicinity, hav- ing lived in Scriba the greater por- | tion of the time, except for a few oars when she lived in Clairmount, a. She was married to John Sweet as Oswego. Her husband died for- ty-four years ago and she now lives with her one son, Eugene Sweet, Mrs. Sweet is proud of her age, | but does not consider it anything so out of the ordinary, as she has a sis~ | ter in New Orleans now, who is 107, {and two brothers in Ireland who are approaching the century mark. Her father lived to his hundreth birth- | day and her mother died at the age of ninety-eight. She was brought {up as a Scotch Presbyterian, but has been an attendant at the Baptist Chureh of North Seriba for many years. FREESE EERIE PIPE PEER IRD CANADIANS HONORED. + -- a London, June 24.--~The fol- ¢ lowing additional honors to & \ Canadians are gazetted: urstall, and Colonel Foster. ¢ To be C. M. G's.~Colonels ¢ | % Leckie and Ford. +* NAA d a andar nat anna) MAN WHO SUICED OFF HS TOE DIES John M. Bouck Succumbs to Gan- grene Following Self Perform- ed Operation. Gouverneur, N.Y., June 24-~John M. Bouck, for nearly fifty years a resident of Gouvernetf, dled Mon- day afternoon. The deceased had been in poor health for the pasts three years from a gangrene trou. ble on one of his feet. The infec- tion started on the great toe, and more than a year ago he sliced off the offending toe with a butcher knife. The gangrene proved, how- ever, to have gone beyond the great toe, and about six months ago an- other piece of self-performed surg- ery followed the first ong, and two more toes were cut off. However, the disease and lack of care and oth- er unfavorable conditions made their inroads upon his former robust constitution, Mr. Bouck was very eccentric, and refused to allow the attention of a physician, He was never married, and lived alone on the third floor of a business block. Mr. Bouck wag born in Matilda, Ont., the son of John and Julia Dil. labough Bouck. He came to Gou- verneur when about seven years old and learned the trade of blacksmith. ing, in which he engaged here for a number of years. He contiffued at his occupation until about three years ago. He was considered a workman of high class, CAPTURED KUMISSENJE . (Special to the Whig.) Havre, June 24.--- rr: PEEPS P200 00 i ; § i : London, June 24.--The fact that the prices of cereals and other food- stuffs recently have fallen heavily in Great Britain has brought about a rharp fall in freight rates. since mer- chants, seeing that there is no profit on imports, have refrained from tonnage. Yesterday the official price for In- BALKANS AND TO HAVE CONFERENCE ig YP -------------------------- PAGES 1-8 LAST EDITION ALLIES This Is the Suggestion of the| Roman Tibia. ~~ TO SOLVE DIFFICULTIES BULGARIA 1S TELLING RESER- VISTS TO BE READY, The Montenegrings Have Made An Onslaught Against Scutari, An| Albanian Town--The Attack Is! Developing With Success Says An Italian Paper. Rome, June 24.--The newspaper Tribuna, commenting on the Balkan situation, proposed that Greece, Bul- garia, Roumania and Serbia send rep- | resentatives to Rome to confer with representatives of the Allies. Such a. conference, the Tribuna says, would quickly remove all obstacles now preventing Greece, Bulgaria, and Roumania from entering the war on the side of the Allies. Bulgaria Calling Reservists. Paris, June 27.--A number of Bul- | garian reservists living in Switzer | land have been notified by their gov- | ernment to hold themselves in readl- | ness to rejoin their regiments at a| moment's notice, says a Geneva de-| spatch to the Journal. Montenegrins Attack Scutari. | Rome, June 24.--The Montenegrin offensive against Scutari, Albania, is| developing with success, according to | a despatch to the Giornale d'Italia. | Montenegrin troops are said to be| marching against the city in three columns. { | War Tidings. { Austrian women and girls are] distinguished themselves by carry-| ing water and food to the army po-| sitions, which at some places are] at an altitude of 3,600 feet, and also | by attending the wounded. The First Canadian Division is now reorganizing. The officers of all the Canadian Battalions are be- ing granted a few days' leave and the first on" furlough are now in London. . Prussian casualties in the war are estimated at 1,408,489 ia an of- ficial statement issued at Berlin. The same- statement said that $75, 000,000 damage had been done. to German soil by the Russian invasion of East Prussia. It is reported that five submar- ines of the Allies have entered the Sea of Marmora, preventing the con- centration of fresh Turkish troops at the Dardanelles. The Allies on the western front are forcing a great German army of one hundred and fifty thousand men into a precarious position on the La Bassee sector. Of 4,500 British civil prisoners interned in Germany 4,000 were at the held at Ruhleben, the remaining five hundred being scattered in small detachments in various other intern- ment camps. Russia's losses, after the first lit- tle mishap .in the retirement from the River Dunajec, have been dis- proportionately small in comparison with German losses, though Russia could afford to lose men in inverse proportion if necessary. 4,000,000 TEUTONS IN EAST. One-half Of Them Are On oa Front. London, June 24.--A Reuter des- patch from Petrograd says it is es- timated that there are two million Austrians and Germans on the 100- mile front from the lower Tanew to Mikolaiow, and 450,000 along the Dniester front. The number of Germans and Aus trians from the Baltic to Bukowina is placed at 4,000,000. British Warship Lured Sub. To Port Arthur, Dougall, Port Arthur, has received a letter from his mother at Aber. Hi HHT i i : Bucknell's N larke, J. W. SHELLS GOING OUT BETTER Such Is Text of Letter From Kitch ener to Tillett. | London, - June, 24.--~Preparatioi for the supply of munitions making good progress. The Nation- al Advisory Committee, ing over fifty trade unions interest- ed in the making of munitions, nas submitted a plan, which has been accepted by the Ministry of Muni tions, under which all skilled lab or not already engaged in this busi ness will be enrolled for six moa for employment wherever they required in the making of tions. David Lloyd George, is | capacity of Minister of Munit 4 expected to make an intere Statement on the situation in Par- liament -to-day. Earl Kitchener, the Minister of War, in a letter to-Ben' Tillett, sec- retary of the Dock, Wharf, River- side and General Workers' Union, who has been visiting the front, says: "I am glad to say that the high explosive eighteen pounder shells are now going out better. -------- Died in German Hospital. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, June 24, Sergeant Percy Ives, Royal Grenadiers, Toronto (Third Battalion), who is among those gazetted for the distinguished conduct medal, died in a German letter received by his mother here. A Norwegian Steam Craft Is Held (Special to the Whig.) London, June 24 Nor glan steamer Bergensfjord, with Bernard Bernburg, German pro gandist, and his wife aboard, is tained at Kirkwall, with the Sw ish steamer Varing from Savann The Bergensfjord was due to Bergen to-day. The action of the British auth ties in stopping the steamer is not all unusual, It ig understood t Scandinaviin vessels crogsing th war 20ne have agreed to enter Kir wall for an Inapeotion. to ® controversies over their cargoes. DAILY MEMORANDUM, Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.90. Lake Ontarjo Park, vaudeville, 8.15 m. See top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. {Limestone Lodge, No. 81, AOU W, meets to-night, § o'clock. BORN. DILLON-~In Kingston, on June 22nd, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Dillon, 113 York street, a daughter. MARRIED, STROWGER-ROSS--In Toront June 9th, 1915, Nora W, Ross, ston, to Corporal A. G er, 'Royal Cahad Dragoon: oronto, by. Rev. J. D. Morrow, o Dale Presbyterian Church, DIED. CAMPBELL~--In Kingston, 23rd, 1915, Mary Jane Lyon, relict of the late Geor Campbell, In. verary, in her 36th year. Funeral from the residence of Mrs. Sydenham _ street, Ferguson, 161 Friday, at 2.30 pm, to Latimer a nds and acquaintances respectful ly 'invited to attend, MILLER.--At North Bay, on June 21st, 1915, Kathleen Greer, beloved wife of Stanley Miller, aged 39 rs, Funeral from the residence of her sis- rue, No. 1 ter, Mrs. (Capt.) T. Su Pine street, Friday afternoon, at ex. i lataraqul cemetery. cquaintances are . fully invited to attend. Youpset THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: on ing- . M. Strow- on June Frie Depot , Shore Ti 0 Doom fen E { i ' T i li | m hi represent-. are Ee | hospital on Mav-9thi, according to a