Daily British Whig (1850), 28 Jun 1915, p. 1

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"i The Daily 19 PAGES a .-_ ann-b iaior»hjcr4itvio NE ltr arr a : : YEAR 82 - NO 149 British Whig LAST EDITION PREMIER T0 CONFER TH WAR OFFICE | Sir Robert Borden Will Sail For England This Week to Discuss Equipment of Cana: dian Troops. The Mister of Militia Also To Go.--ol, J. J. Carrick MP. is Back From the Front--He Was "Assosiate Eye-Witness'" With Sir Max Aitken. KINGSTON ONTARIO. MONDAY JUNE 28, 1915 fr-- ~ ' % - | APPONYI IS BITTER | | : cit iis esa J | Found Americans Much Opposed To! . ; g » Germanic Allies. ¥ a 4 3 London, June 28.---Count Albert + Apponyi in an interview with the wt THE SULTAN Oi TURKEY. So ill that an attempt is being made to appoint a regent A German | sur- geon has operated on the monarch ni ~~ ts APA Sas, tarry | TELLS WOEFUL STORY LEMBERG'S CHIEF SUFFERERS | ity WERE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS Kent Growers Donate Large Quanti- ties For Front. Rich Men Begged To Satisfy Hunger | Ridgetown, Ont., June 28.--The " | --Russian Officials Began Leaving | (ohacco growers of this district and City In May and All Had Disap- | the townspeople are co-operating in peared Before Lemberg Fell. a movement to send tons of Kent- LATE CASUALTIES. A List Issued Of Wounded and Pris- oners Of War, Ottawa, June 26.--In the casual- ties in the Second Battalion are: Wounded--S8ergt. -Harry Single- ton. England: Corp. James Mitchell, | Scotland; Lance Corp. John Blake, England; Robert Steele, Scotland; Thomas O'Hara, Ireland; "William TOBACCO FOR SOLDIERS referred to his experiences in the United States, saying: ' | "It was a most painful disappoint- | ment for me to see the majority of the American people, among them | . Ss ad 4 {my American friends that th Attacks at Calonne and on the Meuse Heights Were Re- | my Smericas friends that ther wore! a . oe i they were destined to play, that of er p oti 5 p kers, by their bi -| pulsed---The French Official Communique Reports Ee rr her aw alull Elsewhere Along the Western Front. (Special to the Whig.) {es will also go with the Premier. the two are to be in Eng'and at the | There have been a good many deve- | Same time if present plans are to be lopments in the relations of the Mo- | carried out, therland and Canada since the war S------ broke and most of these have been Col. Carrick Back From Front. Ottawa, June 28.--Col. J. J. Car- treasured friends of mine and people the everlasting glory of America to! Yaris, June 28.--(Official).--The Germans are worked out with the gfeatest degree | sides. How-| rick, M.P., for Thunder Bay ana I came into contact with at the time! { taking up an attitude so opposed to PRINCE YUSUP I1ZZED-DIN. act up to the role of circumstances | wing to illness of the Sultan. The [this historic task aside.' I do not for | alarmed at the progress of the French advance upon Col- Several strong attacks were delivered last night of satisfaction to bot who has beén associat- | us. Ey "Through my American connection it was made possible for-me to get\a! appointment is opposed. a momént assert that my action in| : i . . | . Ottawa June 28.--Sir Robert Bor- | their commanders in the field. It is this regard will have any substantial | will leive for England this| Possible that with Sir Charles David- against the newly-acquired French positions at Metzral, but they were broken up hy French shrapnel fire. The enemy also attacked French positions during the | hearing in the American press, even | effect, for individuals at this stageof | son sitting as commissioner, inquir- night at Calonne, and at several other points along the of my former visits to the States, Nominated as a Regent of Turkey 8scribed to her, and yet she brushed | mar and have sent reinforcements into Alsace. (ever, there have beer some points of | Rainy River, Vienna correspondent of the Buda- pest - journal Pesti Natio, after an i , > . Upon Colmar and Send Reinforcements Into ' Alsace---Enemy's Attacks at Meizral |in the most notorious anti-German | | organ, the New York Times, and I! sis { . ied R. i] eetiel et: Wp- of Calars: ht Is pa. | gy 2g wa" Achat Gera "Meuse heights. repulsed. audience he had with the Emperor, Were Broken Up. . | used this opportunity to point out to! 'sible that Major-General Sam Hugh- {the same boat with Sir Robert, but This afternoon's official Im each ingtance these assaults were 'communique reported a lull elsewhere along the battle-front. Pn PITH OF NEWS. Despatches From Near and Distant Places. At London, Ont, work is to be begun on thie erection of a $250,000 temperance hotel and business 'block, In the Thaw sanity case in New York the State may summon Evelyn . Nesbit Thaw as a witness against her husband. At New York Rafael Josefly, well "known as a concert pianist and a former pupil of Liszt and Tausig, died on Friday. Gonzalez cut the lines of com- munications between Vera Cruz and Mexico City in order to isolate the Ma. ha. » WHEN 'the Centenary Methodist Church, Hamilton, may accompany next con- tingent. Washington is advised of a smash- ing defeat of Geheral Gonzales and the Carranza army advancing on Mexico City, by the Zapata forces. At New Lofidon, Conn., gh June | 206th, for the first time iA many years Yale crew swept the Thames in the annual dual regatta with Har- vard, Five mud and rock slides, just east of Field, B. C, on line of Can- A A A A Pt i No, Amman + 4 KE CANADA ? ~ GERMANS SE Then Promote a Revolt in Ireland-- A Fantastic Scheme, : London, June 28,--The German newspaper Kreuz Zeitung, has evolv- ed a delightful scheme for the ending of the war. A propaganda has been begun among the Irish-Americans to induce them first to seize Canada, | then organize a revolt in Ireland. It declares Canada is one'of the most vulnerable parts of the Empire, and its separation from the Motherland would not be difficult. , The paper | declareg that Canada, once made in- dependent and free through Ger- {many's aid, the gratitude of the Irish people would then Jead A 1 . Then, says the uz Zel. | ung, bs 8 oat had our hands he throat of England, « Is. on + | BELIEVED THAW SANE. | This Was the Statement of General F. Streeter. (Special to the Whig.) New York, June. 28.--Harry K. Thaw scored heavily in his fight to prove his sanity before Justice Hen- drick and jury to-day. General Frank Streeter, Concord, N. H., who was chairman of the commission ap- adian Pacific Railway, occurred dur-| pointed by Federal Judge Aldrichs, ing a storm, Gangs are now trying to open up the line, William Lefler, of 589 avenue, Detroit, waichman Tate Electric plant, Ford City, con- fessed to Crown Attorney, J. H. Rodd, of Windsor, on Saturday. that he had conspired with two other De- troit men to blow up Windsor fac- tories and public biildings. He was to get $200 to handle the explosiv- es. Warren | at the ' in 1914, to examine Thaw as to his sanity, swore he firmly believed Thaw was cane. A New Minister of War. | (8Spevial to the Whig.) ! London, June 28. is stated here that General Ruzsky, who play- 'ed a prominent part in the capture of Galicia for Russia will be the new Minister of War. ; ny OUTSTANDING RESULTS OF THE WAR TO DATE The war to date, according to con- servative estimates compiled from the best available reports, has caused a loss to the various belligerents of more than 6,000,000 men, dead, wounded and prisoners, were war vessels. many have béen taken by the forces of the Allies. | Italian troops are iy possession of {a strip of Austrian territory. The outstanding results at sea are and more these: than 500 ships. Of these about 120] German and Austrian mercantile { shipping has been driven from all The outstanding results on land | the open seas. are these: The greater portion of Bel under the control of Germany. Germany has been driven from the | Far East. A part of the Dardanelles is in the Possession of the Allied troops. Portions of France and Russia are in the possession of German troops. A strip of Alsace has been taken | m from Germany. On the continent of Africa parts : of territorial possessions have been | Holland and the Scandinaviah lost by both sides. Various island possessions of Ger- | German and Austrian war vessels gium is having a total displacement of ap- | proximately 267 tons have been de- stroyed. | War vessels of the Allied nations | having a total dishiacement of ap- (proximately 192,000 tons have been | Sent to the bottom. ' | The greater portions of the Ger- an and Allied fleets in the North | Sea remain intact. 5 | Except for communication through na- tions, Germany is cut off from the rest of the world. | from Lieut.-Col. Queen's Hospital ed one with the hospital | officers | REC ers. motor drivers, mechanics, order | lies and. attendants. Application may be made to Dean Connell or to Fs ¥. Sparks who will examine applicants. i Letters received on Saturday state McPherson, Scotland; Alexander Mc- Donald, Scotland; G. W. Bush, England; Harold Elias Berlin, via London, ¥ Steacy, | The 'Berlin Tageblatt has received a | diers at the front June 28. | Brown tobacco to the Canadian sol- > A local office Mor- | despatch from its correspondent a: building, loaned for the purpose, has Bade: tnd 2 Soin b ton, England; Herbert Nathaniel Lemberg descriptive of the situation | been fitted up with tobacco-stripping Wheeler, Ireland; Charles Barrett, in that city, which reads as follows: | 2nd 'pressing machinery, and every England; Heary Nelsan Simpson, "Reviewing the nine months' rule | afternoon and evening townspeople Scotland; Neil Fred. Rabey, Eng- of the Ruesians in Lemberg, it is|and tobacco growers are busily en- land. found that among the chief sufferers 8aged in preparing 50-pound bales Prisoners of war--Robert Rd-|in the Galician capital were certain |©f the weed for shipment overseas. wards, Scotland; Frederick P, Row, | former Governmeat officials, whese| Every bale bears the label *"Canad- England; Richard Walter Bow, Eng- | salaries could no longer be paid. Pro- | ian raw leaf tobacco, donated by the land. minent families were reduced to beg- - ging in the streets and vonipelled to Teutons Cross =. hiner be Fichens the Dniester, Berlin Claims of Lemberg chopped and sold wood, while their wives baked and peddled bread and cakes around the city. "The prices of food reached exor- (Special to the Whig.) Berlin, (via'wireless) July 28.-- The Austro-German troops have stormed and eaptured Haliciz, north | bitant figures. Butter cost 6 crowns of § itl; and have crossed the D) diers at the front." George Perry, 93 Years Old, ($1.20) per kilogram (2.20 pounds, or equivalent to 55 cents a pound). The City of Lemberg issued emer- | gency 2-crown notes which, however, had a barter value of only 1 crown. "Regular Russian policemen and Cossacks patroled the city. The schools were permitted to stay ope only | 'the. 0 t of the On Saturday afternoon the resi. dents of Inverary were shocked to hear that George Perry had drowned in Loughboro 2 of age, been a great | ] ing, and when all eyes were off him Saturday afternoon 'he wandered down to the shore. Getting into boat, the old gentleman began bale out the water, and it is thought he was overcome by a dizzy spell, causing him to fall into the water, which is 'about four feet deep. It Ax pwitzer wrecked u Rus: | mi i v sian at Haliciz bridge-head : hours evely week had to be de and forced the enemy to retire after! te the study of the Russian language. a battle that lasted nearly a fort- Only text books approved for usé in night. Russian schools were permitted in . Lemberg. The Russian calendar Berlin Paper growers of Kent to the Canadian sol- | Victoriano Huerta and party were at Newman, N.M., yester- ; Bi qd held pi ors af Washingt 0" was introduced. Certain prominent residents favorable to Russia assist- Prints Appeal to Government ed the invaders and one of these M. Gluszkiewicz, a well-known Ruthen- Amsterdam, June 28.--The Ber- lin socialist paper Vorwaerts prints ian leader, was later rewarded by be- ing named mayor of Przemysl. an appeal signed by the Social Demo- cratic party calling upon the Govern- "All men of military age were taken into custody by the Russian ment to convey to other powers its willingness to discuss peace terms, authorities, as were also pensioned Austrian and Hungarian officers. These included Gen. Ryck, a veteran of Sebastopol, over 80 years of age. "The Russian municipal officials began leaving the city the latter part of May and all had disappeared be- according to Berlin despatches. The appeal declares that German Socialists from the start have op- posed war for purposes of annex- ation and will support a peace agree- ment on those terms. It concludes by urging Socialists in other . belli- fore Lemberg fell. Emperor Nich- olas paid one visit to the Galician gerent countries to use their efforts to end the war. capital while it was under Russian TRIED TO END HER LIFE, control. Ruthenian books were des- troyed by the Russian authorities Husband Recently Enlisted ¥or Ser. vice Overseas. and the exchange of telegrams and letters in the Ruthenian language (Special to the Whig.) London, Ont., June 28 -- Mrs. was prohibited." -- Mary Turner, whose husband re. cently enlisted for ovefseas, jumped from Clark's bridge to-day, attempt- ing suicide. She sustained internal ijuries which will probably be fa- tal. She has three small chil. War Tidings. Germany has requested the Swiss government that it ask the Italian government to fix, through a Swiss commission, damages sustained by Germans during the Milan riots at the time Italy was entering the war. There is specific proof that the Germans are now using vitrol against the Allies. It is thrown in fragile glass bulbs. - « The exhausted troops returning from Galicia, will be granted partial rest doing service as inland reserves. The French still have their eyes on Lille, with its factories and rail- road lines, and the recurrent and persistent attacks week in and week out along virtually the same section of the t-prove this. The Bank of England is prepared to receive applications for the new war loan from abroad. A terrific battle with hand grena- des was fought Saturday night in the Quennevieres. vicinity . A surprisé attack on Ar- racourt, near the Lorraine | border failed. French aviators dropped twenty A Berlin despatch says: The Ger- dren, Uncle Sam Fears a Big Alien Plot Chicago, June 28.--More arrests will be made in what is reported to be a nation-wide plot on the part of adherents of the Allies in the Unit- ed States to recruit men for the fighting armies in Europe. Two hundred Serbians and Montenegrins 'are being held here by Federal au- thorities, following their arrest on board a iain bound jor Canada Sat- urday night, a rigid investigation is being made of all circumstances surrounding the movements of the bombs on Douai. aszowice and Chodorow - in Galicia, and taken the hills on the northern aby Bey, Turkish Ambassador to ; -his ' passports, » | The Russians Are Resisting Austro. Is thought the body had been in the water for an hour, Mr. Perry was missed from his home, and his son, Sheldon Perry, started out in search. From his home to the scene of the fatality was almost 'a mile. The son brought the body of his father to the shore. The coroner deemed an inquest necessary. Messrs. Samuel and Frederick Reid, undertakers, prepared the body for burial, The deceased wag a Methodist in' religion. On Mon. day afternoon the funeral] was con. ducted to Sand Hill Cemetery. STAYED THE ADVANCE. German Attacks. (Special to the Whig.) Petragrad; June 28.--The Grand Duke has frustrated another deter- mined attempt by the Austro-Ger- mans to pierce the Russian line be- tween Lemberg and Brzesany, and cut off south-eastern armies from those operating east of Lemberg says official reports to-day. The arrival of the Czar at the Ga- lician front has inspired the Russian troops to fresh attacks along the line from Lemberg to Stanislau. An official statement issued to-day reported the capture 1,600 Aus. tro-Germans and two machine guns. in the fighting north of Warsaw and in the extreme south-east, north of Cernowitz, all the enemy attacks in the last twenty-four hours have been repulsed. COASTING STEAMER SUNK. She Was Laden With Coal 1 (Special to the Whig.) Queenstown, June 28.--The crew of the coasting steamer Lucina.sunk by a German submarine off Bally ona by a trawler. having been up by a wlor. The Lucina was bound for Queens- town with a cargo of coal from Liv erpool. The submarine hailed her and gave the crew five minutes fo leave the steamer, then shelled and sunk her, friction, and scme questions are still to be settled. It is felt that a personal confer- ence between the Rritish Govern- | ment, War Office, and Admiralty | authorities on one hand, and the | Canadian Premier and Defence Min- | ister on the other. would produce | good results. . { Most matters to be discussed con- | | cern defence, the equipment of Can-| adian troops, and the personal of | Gen. Huerla Held Prisoner By the U. S. (Special to the Whig.) Elpaso, Eexas, June 28.--General Secretary. of State Lansing sta- ted that questions involved in Gen- eral Huerta's presence had been re- ferred to the Department of Jus- tice to ascertain whether any neu- trality laws of the United States had been violated. BOMBARDED CATTARO. Italian Aeroplanes Dropped Bombs on the Fortifications, (Special to the Whig.) Rome, June 28. -- Italian aero. plapes bombarded the Austrian for- tified seaport of Cattaro on Sunday, according to Scutari advices. Bombs are reported to have seriously dam- aged the fortifications and docks. Cattaro is the most southern port » of the Austrian province of Dalma- tia, and lies near the Montenegrin border. Its harbor and gulf form one of the gtrongest fortified centres on the Adriatic. | ALBANIANS DEFEATED, 2,000 of Attacking Force Killed or | C 'Wounded, (Special to the Whig.) Cettinje, Montenegro, June 28. -- Two thousand Albanian troops were either killed or wounded in an at- tack on the Montenegrin frontier Saturday, according to official de- spatches. In the attacking force were 4,000 Albanians. They ' attemjted to storm the Montenegrin positions in the Djakovitsa pass, but were driven off. 4 Rl BRITISH EXPEDITION Destroyed A German Fort and Wire. less Station. (Special to the Whig.) London, June 28.--The German fort and wireless station near Bu. koba, on the western shore of Lake | Victoria Nyensa, German East 'Africa, | was destroyed by a British expedi tion from Uganda. 'Many boats, field guns, rifles and valuable docu- Delayed By Mist. '(Bpecial to the Whig.) Liverpool, June 28. The Ameri- 'liner St. Paul arrived here to. She was delayed for several the Irish ed with Sir Max Aitken as eyewitness { with the Canadian troops, returned | to Ottawa Saturday, Col. Carrick de- clined to Be interviewed until -after he had seen the Minister of Militia, Col. Carrick has been keeping the Minister in touch with affairs atthe front from the Canadian viewpoint for some time past, and will advise the Minister regarding conditions preparatory to the latter's departure for Great Britain at an early date. CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY. Filed Against Huerta, Who is Re. leased on Bail. El Paso, Tex, June 28.--Charges of 'conspiring to incite a revolution against a friendly country were filed yesterday against General Victori- ano Huerta, former president of Mexico, who was placed under ar- rest at Newman, N.M., by Federal Diicars. Similar charges were filed against General Pascual: Orozc Was Afrosted at p BAme th) Gib HET $7,500, and ho Kiso. was rolednet tm -- ------------. Boy Drowned----Canoe Upset Eganville June 28.---Alfred Woe- rmke, aged nine years, eldest son of Charles Woermke, G.T.R., "section foreman at Golden Lake, was drown- | ed there on Thursday evening by the upsetting of a bark canoe in which he was paddling alone. The body was recovered in about five feet of water twenty minutes after the accident' occurred. DAILY MEMORANDUM. Leo' rehearsal, City Hall, 8 p.m Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.40. Board of Works, 4 p.m, Tuepday. Lake Ontario Park, vaudeville, 8.15 Lm. Bt. George's night at § o'c See top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. AA at tit THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's. News Depot .. larke, J. W. & Co. .... Collega Book Store ,,..l Coulter's Grocery ....... Cullen's Grocery, Cor, Frontenac Hotel ... Gibson's Drug Stor Lowe's Grocery McAuley's Boo McGall's Cigar Store, C MeLeod's ed Saw Medley's Dru tore, pauls Cigar kare al pr ouse's Drug Stores .... incess Valleau's Grocery ...... Montreal et ear AAs Ags DIED, HORNE. --In Montreal, Jue 26th, 1915, moonlight exeursion to- lock. nlon Bt. W, University rebawn Princess Catherine Horne, relict of the late 'Alexander Horne, Funeral from. the reside of her bro. ther-in-law, James Hanley, 73 Gore street, y morning at 10 Priondt asd acqualntanes sn t ain - fully invited to ationg. B Peapee SMITH---In Hamilton, Ju 21st, 1915, Raymond A, 8 3 son of Nathaniel G. Smith, estbrook, Interament. took plage. araq © ent too age at Cat ul cemetery on Mandy. June 25th. ROBERT J. REID The Undettaker.. J Phone 577, Princess Street.

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