PAGES 9-12 12 PAGES tatu The Baily British Whig @KINGSTON ONTARIO, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1915 inclined to doubt whether he was { 1 feel said, *very m YORK GRAFTERS strained also by the possibility that OF HE Al LIES i: and he showed me a miniature | Lawyer Says certain, however, that Becker | could distinguish not a single letter, | i ta be used as tools and then cast aside the death house at Sing Sing, | { ggasi. rw - -- YEAR 82 NO. 154 ___ SECOND SECTION I 1 | well and is just as interested in life! make public the names of the officials now as 'he was then. Indeed, he is EE Ee ---------------------------- {accused bly Becker, He said that] | he was bound not only by the ethics! {of his profession and his promise to! . jOovaruos Whitman, but - was re- -- sani aware in himself of any physical in| eh ---- **, he ! uch as I | . felt when 35 years ol Begble | {some of the men named by Becker jo in- | [dirtionary, the pages of which were,| Going To The Electric 'Chair' On | tends to tell, and explains that Bee | July 26th. | ker is swayed mostly by the feeling | Inot even the capitals at the top of ta when they are no longer useful and! / | hibition for more years than this." BECKER WILL SQUEAL ON NEW | adds. : "We were speaking of eye- He Will Tell All Before | Might be falsely accused. He is perhaps, the breadth of a sixpence. 1 or 15 EW 3 Sh Joelins | . i Ss not wan er n New York, July b.--Charles Bec- at he dues n | the page. 1 put on glasses, but the | ker, in The Longer the War the Better For England ! Is View of Sir William Crooks, the Noted Scientist. The Hun Must be Utterly Destroyed And He Who Hangs on the Longest Will Conquer in Great Conflict. London, July b.--The Daily Chronicle prints an interview with Sir William Crooks, by Harold Beg- bie, wherein the eminent scientist gave his views on the war. He said: "I think we started badly; we were certainly not as well prepared as Germany. I do not know that any- body can rightly be blamed for that state of things. We have done very well considering, and I am inclined to say that as regards that part of the work in which I have been able to render the authorities some help, this country will very soon be on an equality with out foes. There is no need for anxiety, certainly no need for panic. "It looks as if it will be a long war, but the longer it lasts the stronger will be the power of the Al- lies, We must simply set ourselves to wear out.the Germans. To do that we have only to press steadily and quietly forward on our road. We have not got to take cities and oxe- CuteY wonderful marches. All we have to do is to go on with our abso- lute and unquestionable duty of thinning the enemy. We must stay longer, we must £ap him, we must weaken him at every point, we must destroy him by inches. After that we can enter his country and do what we like with it. "A great thing for men to' con- vince themselves of is that this war will be won not by fury of attack and pot by gallantry, but simply by hanging on. He who hahgs on longest will win, and & man need not think very profoundly to assure himself that whereas we can hang on almost indefinitely the Germans cannot. Ev: eryday might be called a victory for the Allies. Tifne fAghts for us." Asked his opinion on the employ- ment of asphyxiating gas, Sir Wil- liam said: "On the whole I am against its use by the Allies. The Germans have gone to the devil to help them. I don't like to think that we, with our just cause, should go to the same source for assistance, but I can see the justice of argument in favor of employing gas. We in England, I believe, have now made our preparations in this respect and it rests with the authorities to decide whether our troops should be sup- plied with such a weapon. If it is possible, I should like to win with clean hands. "We must destroy the Germans. There can be'no other end for civiliz- ed mankind. I take it the German Empire will fall into its original parts. It will be left with no power | of attack; it will never again be an organized machine for world mds- | tery." -- Mr. Begbie referring to Yr Wil- liam's vigor, and intellectuyality at | the agesof 85, says Sir Wiliam was | conscious in himself of no change of | faculty during the last 30 or 40 years. He can work as hard, see as | well, hear as well, bear fatigue as | 1 { words were still a mist of minute | grey. Sir William gave me a makni- | fying glass and 1 could then just | epell the words, but he took this tiny | book out of my hands and without | glasses read aloud and quite quickly | three or four words with their defini- tions in much gmaller type." SWITZERLAND ~ NEXT | Germany Has Closed The Frontier Of Republic. { Rome, July 5.--Swiss troops have | been massed on the Austrian and will reveal before he goes to 'the elec- tric chair the names of the Police Department officials living and 'dead | with whom he divided the $100,000 | graft money that was wrung from {the gamblers and illegal resort keep- {ers in his violent career as command- ler of the strong-armed squad. | This was the prediction made to- |day by the condemned man's lawy- ler, Martin T. Manton, who gave to | the Governor on Thursday the names of the six men who worked in the background and took the cash that Becker ground out of evildoers. Not all of these men are living, but those | merely dangerous. Crushed to Death On Flat Car. Ottawa, July 5.--The body of a v {man was found at Smith's Falls on {a flat car loaded with steel which i left Torontw ' Thursday night. A | Montreal adldress was found on him which led to inquiries In that eity, and it is believed the description fits a man named Murphy. It 1s assum- [ed that he went to sleep near the {end of the car. During the run from | German frontiers, owing to the clos- | {pat are alive ought to be shaking in|, Toronto the train broke in two, and ing of the Swiss-German frontier by | Germany and the latter's refusal to give a reason. It is feared that Ger- | many's action is a prelude to a pro- {test against the proposed imposts | trust, which is intended to cut off | supplies from Austria and Germany. | Germany evidently has decided to re- [gort to reprisals, and possibly to the | violation of Swiss neutrality. The | Spanish Ambassador at Rome has | been asked to look after German in- terests in Italy in case of a rupture between Germany and Switzerland. Germany's interests here are now in charge of the Swiss minister. FRANCE NEEDS MUCH BEEF Minister Authorized To Buy 100,000 Head Of Cattle. Paris, July 5.--The Chamber Deputies adopted a bill authorizing the minister of war to buy in foreign | countries 100,000 head of cattle on the hoof. the thirty bought in the United States and the 240,000 tons of refrigerator beef contracted for. The consumption of beef since the war began has increased, it being es- | * timated at 36,000 tons for refugees The | and 250,000 tons for soldiers. high cost of living in France was discussed during the debate on bill, the speakers urging in particul- ar the adoption of measures against | the increased price of meat. A French aviator bombarded and sank the Austrian submarige V-11 in the Adriatic. of These are in addition to | thousand head . already | the | | their shoes, according to Mr. Manton, because Becker is desperate now that hope is practically gomne. | The lawyer himself would not the sudden application of the emer- | gency brakes is thought to have | shifted the steel, which crushed him [to death. ' | | TREY - --- BATTLE LINE a EXTENT OF RUSS IN A Ww THE EASTERN There seems to be no halting the German-Austro advance from Lem- | berg Further south'\on the Gnila Lipa river the Russians have made a BATTLE LINE. % | & description of the contrivance AE SAREMENT [ #iven ina narrative written by the POLAND AWD 1% GALICIA | able reservoir | The form in which it is carried strap- {| ped to a man's back is a steel cylin- | der containing oil | twenty yards. stand. Germans think the Russians will evacuate Galicia and attribute | the heavy fighting near | defenses. Halicz to a desire to give time for preparation of Throw - Burning British Examine Apparatus by Which Germans Liquid---Story of Eye-Witness. Official Narrative of the Recent Events on the British Front---A Good Description of the Fiery London, July 5.--British troops have captured one of the machines used by the Germans to throw burn- ing liquid upon the Allies' troops and is official English "eyewitness" at the front and issued by the Government press bureau to-day. "The captured apparatus." says the eyewitness, "comprises a port- holding inflammable liquid and means for spraying it. and compressed alr. Separate chambers for the latter consist of suitable lengths of metal pipe. "It is fitted with universal joints and a nozzle capable of rotation in any direction. When the valve is turned on, the air pressure forces the oil ouf of the nozzle in a fine spray for a distance of more than The oil ig ignited au- tomatically at the noz and con- tinués to isste in a sheet of flame un- til the air pressure falls low or the oil is exhausted." The narrative gives the following information as to military opera- tions: » "South of Messines on the night of June 24th, some Bavarians who had recently taken over a section of the defence, celebrated their presen- joe in 'the front line by making a local Contrivance. lieutenant advanced to make a bomb attack on our trenches, but the men did not follow their officer, who was bayoneted on our parapet. "In one quarter of the front on Friday (June 25th); our artillery si- lenced three German guns, blew down a house which was shéltering a fourth, and also dispersed hostile working parties in front of Cuinchy. "The La Bassee church, which has been a familiar lahdmark in front of our right, is gradually disappearing. The Germans so far have knocked down the front part of the roof. It is not known whether the disman- tlement is rendered necessary by the structure's unsafe condition or un- dertaken for other reasons. It is re- ported the Germans are again using engines for throwing burning liquid against the French." TO OUTBID THE ALLIES Berlin Says Roumanfa Will Get More Favorable Concessions. Berlin, July 5.---Among the news items given' out - by ' the Overseas News Agency was the following: *"Re- ports have been recelygd in Berlin political circles confirming the state~ ment that the new offers submitted by the quadruple alliance to the Rou- manian Government were without effect because that Government ex- pects more favorable concessions offensive effort. A party under a from the central powers." In honoring Canada to-night let no one think that we are leaving out of sight the magnificent conduct of our Australian and New Zealand comrades, whose heroic conduct at the Dardenelles has thrilled the whole world, or the Indian troops, who have been fighting so bravely and devotedly through the, to them, uncongenial winter, or the loyal Af- rican troops for gallantly upholding the empire far away. The mother heart of the empire which beats in this cathedral feels pride and sorrow with all her children' and another night we may well commemorate the gallant deeds of all. But without any disregard for others, to-night Is the Canada night, and we commem- orate a feat of arms performed by Canadians which will live in history for ever, It was a terrible moment when our gallant French allies, naturally not expecting a species of human de- viltry in warfare the like of which has not been seen for hundreds of years, were overpowered by the fumes of noxious gases, whicly Ger- many, among other nations, had pronounced {illegitimate ivi warfare. We have learnt by bitter experience and the whole civilized world has learnt it at last from a further dia- bolical act which will stain the name of Germany while time shall last, that no laws, human or divine, bind her for a moment, and no prom- ise however sacred, is considered by her anything but empty words. The two children, clasped in one another's arms, found dead in one of the boats of the Lusitania, and the hundreds of gallant soldiers gasping for breath as they died in agony from poisonous gases, cry to heaven for vengeance on the nation which, with all its boasted culture, shall be look- ed upon by the whole civilized world as the enemy of the human race. It was then, at this awful moment, in what had all through been a tre- mendous "Day of God" when the French had been overpowered by the noxious gas, that the manhood of Canada was tested, and came out as pure and unadulterated gold. Their us was so clearly shown in an | tali line, eloquent deseription by the Canadian record officer, was left hanging in the air. Guy Drummond, a man known he was mortal- was the first of that | ed. When heroes to fall. -- Lost and Thereby Fe Sermon Preached in St. Paul's Cathedral, May 10, In Memory of Fallen Canadians, by A. F. Winnington-Ingram, D.D., Bishop of London. Cebit Julien two miles in the rear of the original French trenches. "The story of the second battle of Ypres is the story of how the Cana- dian division, enormously outnum- bered--for they had in front of them at least four divisions, supported by immensely heavy artillery--with a gap still existing, though reduced, in their lines, and with dispositions made hurriedly under the stimulus of critical danger, fought through the day and through the night, and then through another day and night fought under their officers until, as happened to so many, those perished gloriously, and then fought from the impulsion of sheer valor because they came from fighting stock. "The enemy, of course, was aware --whether fully or not may perhaps be doubted--of the advantage hi breach in the line had given him, and immediately began to push a formid- able series of attacks upon the whole of the newly-formed Canadian sali- ent. If it is possible to distinguish, when it developed with particular in- tensity at this moment upon the apex of the newly-formed line running in the direction of St. Julien. It has already been stated that four British guns were taken in a wood compara- tively early in the evening of the 22nd. In the course of that night, and under the heaviest machine-gun fire, this wood was assaulted by the Canadian Scottish, 16th battalion of the 3rd brigade, and the 10th battal- fon of the 2nd brigade, which was intercepted for this purpose on its way to a reserve trench. The battalions were respectively commanded dy Lieut.-Col Boyle, and after a most fierce struggle in the light of a misty moon they took the position at the point of the bayo- net. ht the 2nd battalion, "At mid under Col. Watson and the Toronto the wood as a tropical storm sweeps the leaves from a forest, made it im- possible for them to hold the posi- tions for which they had sacriticed s0 much. -- "On Fame's Eternal, Camp-Ground". "The fighting continued without intermission all through the night, and to those who observed the indica- tions that the attack was being push- ed with ever-growing strength, it hardly seemed possible that the Ca- nadians, fighting in positions so diffi- cult to defend, and so little the sub- ject of deliberate choice, could maintain their resistance for any tong period. At 6 a.m., on Friday it became apparent that the left was becoming more and._more involved, and a powerful German attempt to outflank it developed rapidly. The consequences, if it had been broken or outflanked, need not be insisted upon, They were not merely local. It was, therefore decided, formidable as the attempt undoubtedly was, to try and give relief by a counter . at- tack upon the first line of German trenches, now far, far advanced from those originally occupied by the French. "This was carried out by the On- tario 1st and 4th battalions of the 1st brigade under Brig.-Gen, Mercer, acting in combination with a British brigade, , It is safe to say that the youngest private in the ranks as he set his teeth for the advance, knew the task in front of him, and the you t subaltern knew all that its success. It did not seem that any human being could live in the shower of shot and shell which to play upon the advane- ing t They suffered terrible casualties. For 3 short Hime ayery man seemed to fall, bu ® a vy cl and closer. daunted, facing the foe. Well may the record officer close his descrip- tion with these words: "The graveyard of Canada in Flanders is large. It is very large. Those who lie there have left their mortal remains on alien soil. To Canada they have bequeathed their memories and their glory." On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards 'with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." And well may this great comgrega- tion assembled. to-night to pay its last tribute to the honored dead. Mother, with unbowed head, Hear thou across the sea The farewell of the dead, The dead who died for thee, Greet them again with tender words and grave, For saving thee, themselves they could not save. And what are we to say about these glorious young lives flung down so readily for King and coun- try, for the freedom of the freest thing in the world, the Dominion of Canada--nay, for the freedom of the world, for Christian principles as governing the future conduct of the world instead of pagan doctrine that might is right. As I said to the diocesan conference last week, you had only to look at those 10,000 free fresh faces whom I addressed in a certain country town in France, with all their officers around me--a third of whom are now dead----to see the madness and folly to talk about ours being a robber : Who could tame these children of the prairie? They had drunk in freedom with their mother's milk, they were child- ren of the free, and would be fath- ers of the free, and gladly they ing down their lives rather than that the 'juggernaut car of German despotism should crush underfoo. 3. That so far from God disap- pointing the young soldier when he dies, He more than satisfies him. In these words we must be able to look up to God and say, 'He asked life of Thee, and Thou gaves him a long life, ever for ever and ever." The Rewards Of Honor. The first. two points are certainly more easily grasped by the young «than by the old. It was sald the other day that the young grasp by a kind of instinct the idea that life is not merely a question of living so many years; they understand that it is possible in a short time to fulfil a long life. As Rupert Brooks, who has himself given his life for his country, said so truly: Then laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that un- hoped serene That men call age; and those who would have been ! Their sons they gave--their, immor- tality. And in his sonnet on "The Dead" he says: These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth, The years had goven fhem kindness, Dawn was theirs, And sunset, and the colors of the earth. 7 There are waters blown by changing winds to laughter And lit by the rich skies of all day. And after, Frost; waves that dance And wandering . leaves a white . . Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance; A width, a shining piece, under the And as Shakespeare says in words which still fire the blood of every young man to-day: This story shall the good man teach his son; And Sumy Crispian shall ne'er go From this day to the ending of the world ST But we in it shall be ber We few, we happy few, we t brothers; 'ot For he to-day that sheds his blood Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so "This day shall gentle his condition: I A al an ow abed with a gesture, stays the t5eF unreal pictures of the life after death that no man desires it. It is a pale, ghost-like, unreal existence with no life in it, no fire'and no interest, and the heart grows cold to think that when the spirit of the young passes into the spiritual world it encoun- ters this shadowy, death:-alive,depres- sing existence which is the popular idea of the life after death. But have we fully grasped what the poet means when he says: It is not well that man should know too soon The lovely secrets kept for them that e. Have we not faith enough to argue from the beauty and the interest and the variety of the life God has pro- vided for us here to the still greater beauty and interest and variety of the life which He must have provid. ed for us there? Do we really sup. Sohal God had come to the end of Wis creative skill] when He made this world, and had no imagination left for the next? Do we really think that a God, I will not say of boundless love, but even of moral rectitude, could create a mother's or a wife's love and then disappoint it? "In My Father's House are many mansions; if it were not so, 1 would have told you," said our Lord; using this very argument, that God's moral character, demands a spa- clous and beautiful life after death. And do we really suppose that love can die? They sin who tell us love can die; With love all other passions fly, Al] others are but vanity, In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Orvarice in the vaults of hell; birth, But love is indestructible; Its holy flame forever burneth; heaven it came; to heaven re- At Hille deceived; at times oppress- In heaven it finds its perfect rest, It soweth here in toil and eare, 'But the harvest-time of love is there. ho Sy = fail men? 5 i : : dl £ i fie fie 7 : i} ; ! a pi t Full oft on earth--a troubled: Life Gaine d for them a great promotion; they long for you to share their honors. "A little while and ye shall see Me, and again a little while and ye shall See Me!" they repeat, as their Mas. ter did before them. "Behold, sce; it is I myself," will be their greeting to you when you do see them. They will not be perfect in their fe un- til that time comes, for you are part of their. life still; they are incom" plete without you. Just as your own Canadian river passes over some great fall and then dashes on with renewed and glorious life which shone first in the sunkMght in Flan- ders, then séemed for the moment to fall, rush forward with more of its old grace and force, and each one of your dear ones will be the first to acknowledge in those old fa. miliar words the faithfulness of God: "1 asked life of Him; and He hath given me a long life, even for ever and ever.' And so we do wel] to have our me. morial service to-night, "and we mean by it at least thrée things: h Remember! 1. Wg remember these heroic sons and brothers of ours before God. They are still alive, and because they are still alive we pray for them, as we prayed for them when we saw their dear faces. We pray with reticence, with humility, as for those who have passed into a fuller, larger life than ours, but we know that We may without presumption send them forth with the most ancient and loving Christian prayer: "Grant them eternal rest, and may everlast. ing light shine upon them!" 2. We remember them at home. Never,while the British Empire shall last shall we forget glorious sons and brothers who have given their lives so bravely for the flag which binds us all together, and no care is too loving or too great to be taken for the wounded, many of whom are with us in this church to- night. And, lastly, we remember the land from which they have come. Canada will be bound to us henceforth by a more sacred tie than ever; it was dear to all of us before; it will be ten times dearer now, for greater love hath no man than this, that a Soapuir, 4 They found the secret of the wor saith that "Service is sweet, for al] true life is death,'