Daily British Whig (1850), 25 Jun 1915, p. 1

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| 19 PACES tarts dt ttt ttn YEAR 82 NO 147 Tr IST BATTALION VIOLENT ATTACKS MADE BY GERMANS On French Position Near Calonne, But the Enemy Was Repulsed With Very Heavy Losses. Caught Under Deadly Cross Fire in Retreat---Two German Attacks Along the Lorraine Frontier Repuised--- Attacks Also Made By The Enemy Against The Labyrinth. I---------------- At sumed La ) (Special to the Whig.) Paris, June 25.-- (Official) --With flery liquids and asphyxiating bombs, the Germans are violently attaching the French trenches on the Meuse heights near Calonne. The battle raged all day yesterday and at midnight the enemy re-at- tacked in large force. The first onslaught drcve the midnight the attack was re-| by large bodies of enemy troops The French lighted up the ground before their positions with illuminating bombs and search- lights, 'and turned a score of ma- chine guns on the charging columns. The Germans were caught under a deadly fire and retreated with heavy losses. . An official communique from the 'The Daily British Wh RN ONTARIO, HAS SAD LOSSES French from a row of trenches they captured from.the Germans several days ago, the French troops retir- ing in good order when their posi- tions were sprayed with liquid flame Immediately afterward a the War Office this afternoon report- ed that two German attacks along the Lorraine frontier were repulsed. "During the night we repulsed | counter-attacks between Augtes and Souchez and against the labyrinth. ' PAGES 1-8 KINGSTON ONTARIO, FRIDAY JUNE 25, 1015 LAST EDITION mm] ' WILL NOT ACCEPT DENIAL OF BRITAIN That She Has Hamed American Trade-- Wash: "ington Government To Reply To Note Next Week New York Importers Claim ~~ Hampered By British And French Warships Which Divert Neutral Vessels Into British THE GREAT RECRUITING CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND. Whether conscription ought to replace voluntary enlistment is still the subject of controversy. favor of the voluntary system are still largely in the ma ority though recognizing that the system is still on trial. The picture shows one of the meetings taken to promote recruiting. Monster parades keep before the eyes of young men the fact that their King and country need th 'm. The battalion shown is marching from the Mansion House, London, to the headquarters of the H.A.C. en -- The Italians Heavy Damage - Are Advancing | Has Been Done Those in Are Waiting For The Lists | the United States. Sea (Special to the Whig.) Washington, June 25.--Britain's denial that she has harmed Ameri- can trade will not be accepted by Issue will be taken with the assertions in the Brit. | ish note In addition it is stated herp that {the reply eyades the main point-- the right of neutral nations to carry on their trade with each other un- That Their Trade Has Been 4 ports tically all vessels from neutral na- tions into British seaports. War Tidings. A number of Bulgarian reservists living in Switzerland have been no- tified by their Government to hold | themselves in readiness to rejoin | their regiments at a moment's no- tice, |- molested by any belligerent. counter-attack threw the cnemy out of the works, and they fled with shrapned beating down upon them More Dynamite Is Discovered Around Windsor (Special to the Whig) Windsor, Jung, 25.-xWould.be dy-. namiters are e around this neighborhood, At the works of tho Gramm Motor Trick Company, which has large contracts for the British' Government. Forty sticks of dynamite were found. There is no clue as to how they got there. Other explosives have also been lo cated in houses in the neighbor- | hood, and the police now have un- der surveillance a large number of foreigners. They also stated there had been more discoveries of explo- sives In factories In Walkerville. A violent artillery duel followed this infantry engagement and is still pro- ceeding." A i mn JUSTIFIES THE BURNING Of the Political Bosses Telegrams at Winnipeg. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, June 25.--In a long | statement issued this morning, Pre-| |sident Z. A. Lash, K.C., of the Great! | North Western Telegraph Company, {in justification of. the burning of| {telegrams at Winnipeg, which tele-! grams. were later demanded by the | Royal Commission, gays the order {to burn telegrams was made as pro | tection to thosé who had entrusted! | their business to the company s {care. President Lash says the co. {pany has always considered its day to keep inviolate a confidence e1-| trusted to it by those who use ics! telegraphs. | -------- x HALTS BEECHER, MEMORIAL, Doubts Propriety of Moving Preacher's Body to Crypt. New York, June 25.--Colonel Wil- | Mkt b bd bbb bbb edb bbb tdi debe | liam C. Beecher, executor of the will # of his father, Henry Ward Beecher, #|in a telegram sent from his summer | ----b # home at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsyl- (Special to the Whig) | Vania, yesterday, asserted that he Pretoria, June 25.--General | knew nothing of the plan of the | Botha's forces have occupied #| Henry Ward Beecher Memorial Asso- | the town of Kalkfetd, in Ger- + | ciation to disinter the body of the | man South-west Africa with. 4 | great preacher, now buried in Green- | out resistence. 4 | wood Cemetery and place it in a| crypt in Plymouth Church, and that | PEPELPPESPEEE IEE Herries I Sobre the propriety of such a Son TAKEN GERMAN TOWN, Pee rr ee ee TO BLOW UP CARNEGIE. ---------- Canadian Hero Hurt In London. | : : . London, June 25.---Lieut. H. Three Sticks of Dynimite With Fuse, | Hertzberg, of the Canadian Eng. Found at Residence. | neers, belonging to Toronto, has New York, June 25.--Three sticks | been awarded the Military Cross. He | of dynamite, wrapped in a paste- | returns to the front, ha ing tecov- | board box were found on the door-| ered from his wounds. step of Andrew Carnegle's Fifth | Two days age he was run over in! avenue residence here. r. Car-| Trafalgar Square by a navai motor | negie and members of his family are| Wagon. Several teeth were knocked | out of the city. A fuse attached to| Out, and his chin was badly cut. A the package had been lighted, but| doctor in the neighborhood put in a | evidently had been blown out. The | Rumber of stitches. package was delivered to the police, ro { by the watchman who found it while] Five Sons At Front; One Killed. making his rounds. i London, June 25, -- Alderman | . | James Stephenson, of Doneaster, an. | | nounces that his son George Stephen. Saskatchewan Passes Measure. | son, Canadian Engineers, was killed Regina, Sask., June 25.---With|in action June 15th. The alder- | thumping on desks and Parliamen. | Man has nine sons, five of whom are lary "cheers," the Government's Serving in the army, anda daughter | temperance legislation was last | Is also a nurse, : vo evening, in the Seskatchewan Logis- - . i fatura, given a third reading and is| Want Sir High John As Leader | now law. The bill was given a Winnipeg, Man., June 25.-- The third reading after division. Divi- | Free press says that at a meeting | slon was forced by the presentation of the Conservative workers to dis- | by the Opposition of an amendment {cuss the approaching Provincial! : NE for a referendum on the | elections, the prevalent opinion was | egislation an attitude adopted by | that a supreme effort be | ihe Opposition early in the session. | made to secure Sir Hugh John Mac- | © Government representation vot- | donald jo. lead the party, with San-| ed solidly against the amendment, | ford Evans as his first lieutenant. | DECLARES THE ROSS RFLE "THE BEST IN THE WOR (Special to the Whig) Ottawa, June 25 --"The post rifle in the world; t's all I have got to say," was the reply of Major-General Sam :ughes 4 inister of Militia, | , 10 an enquiry regard. | Ing The ohaliment of Under -- ¥ nan the British Com. mons, to the effect that cortain am. i culties had arisen over the Ross ri. is Mehich are! BOW being investiga Men who: have just returned from | the front state that du dy weather force, but among the British; the Lee-Enfield was ; With regard to the certain portions 'now armed with {is suggested that these were plied to make up for considera | waste sustained 8 in w A ie Canadians have been engaged. N | ing gradually, reinforcing our { of the plateau between Sagrada and | % and sank it. Along Isonzo (Special to the Whig.) Rome, June 25.---An Italian offi- cial statemant to-day says: ! "Along the Isonzo we are advanc- | Selves in positions on the right bank of the river. We thus have occupied Glob na, north of Plava, and on the low- er Isonzo we have captured th: edge (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, June 25. Russian troops in South-east Galicia have in- fiicted heavy losses on Austrian troops attempting to cross the Dnies- ter. "In the region of on Wednesday, we stormed with "ayonets the strong Austrian tion on the mountain side," said the official statement to-day Our troops annihilated most of the en- emy garrison, takipg the survivors | prisoners. Near Rouzdwiany we repulsed the enemy forces who cross- ed the Dniester on Wednesday morn- Kosmierzhyn, Monfalcone. we CENSUS CONTROLLER. Former Toronto Newspaper Appointed to Post. Ottame, June 25.--R. H. Coats, editor of the Labor Gazatte, and sta- tisticlan 'of the labor department, has been appointed to succeed the late Archibald Blue as censug com- missioner. The scope of the office has been broadened, and the new ti- tie will be Dominion statistician and controller of census, Mr. Coats will come into the Trade and Commerce Department, under Bit George Foster, and he will "have charge of the collection of much statistical information which is gathered by varioug departments. This will now bo concentrated in the one branch, Mr. Coats is a Clinton, Ont., boy, and .an honor graduate of Toronto University, He was in newspaper work in Toronto for several years, and was appointed to the labor de partment by Hon. Mackensie King, Man 709 men." The War Office admitted that at certain points German troops suc- ceeded in crossing the Dniester, but declared that at other points the enemy hag been thrown back across the stream in great confusion. The Russian retirement from Lemberg continues in orderly fash. in, the Russians now holding a line twelve miles eastiof the city The Turkish Casualties Are Now 143,000 Athens, June 25.~--Turkish casual- ties thus far in the fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula arc estimated at 143,000, * + & GERMAN AEROPLANE SANK SUBMARINE. ( ial to the Whig.) Berlin, via wireless, June 25, --=For the first time in history, an aeroplane has sunk a sub- marine. German airmen bom- barded a Russian submarine in the Baltic negr Gotland Island that in three days of fierce fighting on the peninsula, the Allies carried several of the enemy's trenches, the second French division bearing the brunt of the attack. * + $ * + * * * People Have Less to Give. London, June 25.--At a meeting of the committee formed for the pur- pose of giving relief to { from the Lusitania disaster held yesterday it was announced that only | £20,000 ($100,000) had been sub- | scribed, whereas for Phe Titanic Re. | lief Committee £418,000 ($2,090, { 000), and for the Empress of Ire land Committee £67,000 ($33: v00) had been raiscd Spanish Premier to Remain, Madrid, via Paris, June 25.-- King Alfonso, it ig now believed, will de. cide to retain Eduardo Dato as Pre- mier, but with a new set of Minis. ters. Premier Dato and his Cabi- net resigned Tuesday because they +> rbd bb bddddddb bd bbibddd Cannat Ge Enough Shoes For Soldiers The soldiers both in the city and at Barriefield camp are literally "on their u "" In four monthg no shoes have reached 'the local Ord- nance Stores, although repeated re- quisitions have been made. There are soldiers at the camp who have not been able to drill for the last two weeks because shoes cannot be secured for them. It Is thought that war orderg have taken the en- tire output of the factories. TOKIO ISSUES WARNING Hears From Rome Of 7 Submarines In Mediterranean. . Tokio, June. 25.--Official rts having been received from Rome that seven ' submarines have suc- i. a vote of lack of confidence. Cobalt has requested that all {aliens in the district be interned. B---- the Mediterranean t of Gibraltar, has Japanese companies to issue : h i to all steamers traversing| County Constable Dowker, Har- the Mediterra; rowsmith, a posse which is on fanean, and also to ex- heads tend war the trail of two men whe abused a ough the Strai isutan ce on vessels from So hea Ion ean of Harting. k ook, two ml Evade Censor. ¥ = ton on Thursda mn, June 25.--Because of = United States mai i for way, Sweden, Den mark and the Netherlands in transi t be sent on and not touching at any To Austrians posi- | ing, capturing forty officers and 1,- | { { threatened, or he was hindered jn | A Mytelefis despatch to-day said | sufferers ! considefed tha failure of the recent $150,000,000 loan as equivalent to a | SING TWO DESPERADOES WHO ABUSED YOUNG WOMAN: {culprits bad been seen by or Godirer and wore Mos Ot Casualties (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 25.--The Canadian casualties now include. 1,475 kil- | ed, 5,916 wounded, 1,609 misging | and 450 who are put down in 'the! list as prisoners. The casualty lists | received since yesterday consist | largely of prisoners of war from the 15th Battalion, commanded by Col. | J. A. Currie, M.P. A long list of the | casualties in the First Battalions lat- est fight are hourly expected. MOVE VATICAN TO SPAIN. Offer Causing Animated Discussion | At the Holy See. } Rome, via Chiasso to Paris, June! 25.--1t is asserted that the question of the Pope accepting the invitation of the Spanish bishops to transfer | the Holy See to Spain ig causing | animated discussion at the Vatican. It is recalled that aftes the troubles in Rome\in July, 1881, during the transfer of the body of Pope Pius IX. from St. Peter's tq its last rest. {ing place, and when the coffin was almost thrown into the Tiber river, Pope Leo appointed a commission of | cardinalg . to study the situation of the Papacy. i Some of the cardinals favored the | immediate transfer of the Papacy elsewhere, but the majority agreed | that the transfer should take place | only if the safety of the Pope were | jhe exercise of his spiritual minis- | try. The commission agreed, how- | ever,. that the Pope should be. left free to decide when it was necessary to take such a step. At this time Emperor Francis Joseph offered the | Pope his castle at Salzberg. DANGEROUS TO OHANGE NAME. | i reports that he has been wounded Norwegian "Ceylon" Became "Dav. anger"; Caught and Sunk. Christiania, via London, June 25. ~That it is very dangerous to change | the name of a ship in wartime ig the | moral drawn by the Norwegian Ship- | | ping Gazette from the attack upon | | the steamship Davanger by a Ger. | | man submarine. 'The . Davanger | formerly was the Ceylon, and the | iatter. name appeared on the ships! papers. . i The cap'a.n. of the submarine stoppec the Davanger and demand- | ed the vecteis name and national. | ity: le so asked for the ship's! papers. When he observed the con- | flict in namos, he declared the Dav- anger not only was sailing under a | false name, but a false flag. He | gave the crew fifteen minutes to leave, and then fired upon the steamer, ' ml -- The French Government has de-! cided not to issue any more ass- | | ports to Americans of German origin | | for fear of spies. : led after the desperadoeg . until Hs The swamp is on the shores of Silver Lake. Dr. The Whig was in telephone com- munication Friday afternoon with Dr. Geddes who stated that the two The chase for Westport. 7 | asked United Stateg Consul F, 8 8. | the Fourth Company, Second Bat- | talion, First Brigade, First The Kaiser has conferred the rank of Field Marshal in the "Prussian Lansing will prepare the reply note | army on the Austrian Archduke early next week. | Frederick, commanding the Aus- The present intention is to have trian forces at Lemberg. _ _ the note ready for President Wilson! The Norwegian steamer Truma, when he returns from his vacation [of 1,557 tons, has been submarined. trip. The German reply will be |The Finnish brigantine Leo was here by that time, and if it is satis. | sunk by a German submarine on factory, as it is hoped, the President | Tuesday fifty miles southeast of wil] turn his attention to matters in | Fair Iste, Scotland. dispute with Britain and her Allies.| The British Government has de- A delegation of New York import- | cided to allow prisoners of war to ers is. to confer with Secretary Lan- | help in the harvesting of crops near sing to-morrow. They will explain | places where they are under deten- in detail how their business has been | tion. This outside labor will Je hampered by British and. French | performed only under specified con- warships, which have diverted prac. | ditions. Austrian Fort Is D estroy e/ | Constantinople via Berlin, June | 25.--Prof. Israel, Berlin surgeon, op- B Ite JAN | er2t*d on the Sultan of Turkey yes- y | terday, removed gall stones. . The | Sultan's condition was pronounced { satisfactory to-day. It is said that Secretary of State | i mt § REMOVED GALL STONES {From the Turkish Sultah, WhoIs | Somewhat Better. | (8pecial to the Whig) | (Special 10 the Rome, June 25.--FY ' of the principal wof of the Aus-| A Washington report on Canada's trian fortress of Ma' sorget, has been | treatment of Indians contains no- destroyed by Italian shell fire, Gen. | thing but praise for the Dominion's Cadorna reported to-day, He also | gystem and its results, announced the capture of the Aus- | trian town of Ciorna, north of | DAILY MEMORANDUM. Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.30. Plava. Lake Ontario Park, vaudeville, p.m, Leo excursion to Clayton, Dominion .) Aonsel, one 8.15 WOUNDED AND MISSING, | { | | {Day. United States Consul Wili Endeavor | See top of page 3, right hand corner, Locate Renfrew Y. Man {for probabilities. » (8 who to th Young y : Thousand Islander among the Islands P! 0 the Saturday, 2.30 p.m. 385th Batt. band on Matthew Donnelly of th board THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depot ..205 § |Clarke, J. W. & Co. ....363 College Book Store +163 + vos nix 30P Prin £8.) is city has Johnson to have a Renfrew young man, who went to the front, located. Private Lorne V. Frood, soh of P. J. Frood, grocer at Renfrew, is the missing young man. The Adjutant-General at Ottawa Coulter's Grocery Cullen's Grocery, Cor. . Frontenac Hotel .. Gibson's Drug Stor we's Srogery 'se Store igar Store, Cor. P cory . Union St. » Medley's Drug tore, 350 University N Jaurs Cigar hore 78 Prin Private Frood took part in the [Prouse"s Drug Store battle of Langemarcke. Corporal | Valleau's Grocery .. W. 'Elliott and Private McCallum, | DIED. two of his companions, are prison-|pypng can Rochester, N.Y. on June ers of war in Germany. 22nd, 1915, at the home of her sis- ter, Mrs. Willkam Gallagher, Ellen : ° 'Burns, widow of the late Mgr. Gauthier Succeed at Bugle Major Patrick Burns. . At. Boniface uneral Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, from James Reid's undertaking parlors, to St. Mary's Cathedral, where a solemn requiem mass will be sung for the repose of her soul Friends kindly accept this invitation to mass. ROBERT J. REID Ottawa, June 25.--Any announce- The Undertaker. ment regarding a successor to the |Phome 577, 230 Princess Street. late Archbishop Langevin will be made by the papal delegate, Mon- seigneur Stagni, who lives in the capital. Such an appointment will not be made for some time is the opinion freely expressed here by minent members of the church. Few believe the rumor that Bishop Ma- thieu, Regina, will be transferred to the St. Boniface Sed, is well found- nt churchman has point- Baskatche: and is missing. He is attached to Cana- dian Expeditionary Forces, and be- fore leaving for the front was en- gaged in one of the banks in Ren- frew. From' $2 7, they last, at Turks. Bis Vis While af A pro

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