YEAR 82 - NO 154 . : ee ee BIG BATTLE RAGES ~ ON EASTERN FRONT Austro-Germans Throw Full Weight of Offen- sive Against Russians in Effort to Break Through to Lublin. But Their Preliminary Attempts Were Repulsed---The Ger- mans Captured 1,000 Yards of French Trenches in the Fighting Near the Moselle River. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, July 5--The greatest battle since the | fighting before Lemberg is now raging along a sixty-mile front between the Bug and the Vistula rivers. The Austro-Germans, under General Mackensen, are | throwing the full weight of their offensive against the | Russians in an ecort to break through to Lublin. Ef The War Office admitted to-day that "the ultimate | result of the battle is_in doubt." Official despatches, however, meported the repulse of | the preliminary attempts by the enemy to press forward. The French Lose Trenches. (Special to the Whig.) "per Paris, July 5.--The capture of 1,000 yards of French | trenches in the fighting near the Moselle river was admit- | ted in official despatcehs to the War Office this afternoon. | The Germans swept forward on a three-mile front, hurling | superior forces into the attack. The assault was precelled by a violent bombardment | that wrecked portions of the French earth-works and made them untenable in the face of a determined infantry | assault. Phe French therefore retired and took up| stronger positions a short distance in the rear, from which all further enemy attacks have been repulsed. Other German attacks, east of the same region, and along the seetor north of Arras, have been repulsed with heavy losses, : NP lt PP No ; -- KTCHENER'S GREAT ARMY S STILL IN ENGLAND / (Special to the Whig.) 9 New York, July 5.~<A special London letter fo the World, dated June 98th, says: Daily LORD NORBURY "HAS TAKEN A JOB. He is one of England's wealthiest noblemen, and is' now employed in | | an aeroplane factory as a fitter, both to do his share and by his example | ges to American anglers in the wa- to encourage others to go to work for their c« Ne tn & ONE-THIRD AFFECT But Many Are Back On the Line, (Special to the Whig) Ottawa, July & Over Sunday casualties - reported from the front number slightly over 100, They in ¢lude thirty one members of the Firing Fight Battalion among the missing. | The total number of killed is now 1,668; wounded, 6,405; missing, 1, 766; total, 9,829. The First Overseas Contingent numbered 33,000, so that the Cana dian casualties represent almost one- third of the original force A large number of wounded have, however, returned to the firing line or will do so. Holt Fugitive From Justice, Chicago Claim Chicago, July 5.--Information pointing to Frank Holt, the would- be assassin of J. P. Morgan, as Erich Muentér, a former student at the University of Chicago, who disap- peared from Harvard following the death of his wife in 1906, was wiv- en to a newspaper here by a college agsoolate of Muenter during his Chi- cago days, who says he knew of KINGSTON ONTARIO, MONDAY JULY 5, 1915 A AA AI "| BRITONS AROUSED ~~ SHIPBUILDING Companies Have More Orders Than | They Can Fill. | New York, July 5.--Shipbuilding| | companies are finding more orders | | from this ¢duntry and from abroad than they can fill, and most of the {yards of the United States-are work-| ing overtime on orders which it will! take many months to complete. Ow-| ing to the shortage of ships fer Am-| erican trade, and the loss of so many | since -the war started, this boom in| | building is expected to last for many | years. All boats owned by rail-| roads on the great lakes, which have! been ordered sold by December 1st| next, whick can be moved 'through | canals and be brought to the sea-| ard, are being bid for at higher| | Prices than their original cost. | FEPPPEER LESS I III ED PRES + HOLT SET BOMB. + -- * Glen Cover, N. Y., July 5.-- # Frank Helt who attempted to assassinate J, P. Morgan on Sat- urday confessed that he set the bomb which exploded in the United States Capitol at Wash- ingion cu Friday night. Mr. Morgan is resting well. # No vital organs were injured. AMERICAN ANGLERS = MUST PAY LICENSE FEE To Fish in the Waters on the Cana- dian Side: of the St. Lawrence. Toronto, July 5.--Special privile- Cre r rer bebe d niry. He runs a lathe, ters of the St. Lawrence on the Can- "ores Ladian sidé In the Thousand Island {fection of the river, enjoyed since [| 1909, have been revoked by order-in- | | Council approved by the Lieutenant- | BY GRAVITY OF WAR governor and gazetted on Saturday. | +On-June 3rd, 1909, a special order { peep | Jas made covering that portion of | . $ in. | the Canadian side of thé river be- Public Now Tuna Aside From Ordin- | tween Kingston and Prescott, with- 3 | drawing the necessity for the i- ary Business to the | : Aoi |ing of a fishing permit by non-resi- Grimmer One {dents of the Province desiring to fish London, July 5.--There are mani- | proposition | there, At that time there was a emanating from New fold indications throughout the Unit-| York pa¥ties to make the Thousand ed Kingdom that the people only |Island section of the St. Lawrence now, after nearly a year, fully sense an International Park, with a reci- the seriousness of the war. Only |procal arrangement in the matter of a few months ago the motto was: |the fishing. These waters contain "Buinegs as usual." = Theatre pa- | small mouth black bass and masecal- tronage was undiminished and the |onge, but the American gide has been restaurant trade normal. The ca-| fished out to a great extent, and the ; Canadian side of the riy | binet ministers now are urging the | necessity of the _moetaisid.e rite angling ground at" v shoo! y Be The free part idea, upon which the i by individuals, fare being besought to invest in the Jorder-in-council of 1909 was based, never came to a head, though in the war loan. The newspapers daily are carrying full page advertisements meantime American fishermed--and some of these it is whispered were of of this war loan. The Teutonic advances in Galicia, the professional variety dealing with hotels--have been coming over to the slowness of the Dardanelles op- erations and the e of the Al- lies to inaugurate the much-discuss- | fish among the islands on the Cana- ed offensive in the west, are respop-| dian side without being required to sible for this change in public de-|secure the Ontario permit, (which meanor. costs two dollars. | Ee i fee will now be collected, and ai 3 RYY vas the department declare enough GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK | money will be realized from the sale of licenses on this section of the river to pay for the establishment and maintenance of a first-class game-fish hatchery. § Divers Found Crew Alive, But Could Not Get Them Out. Amsterdam, July 5.--According to vitish Wh BOOMING, | PEDRO ie) PACES 1-8 . v * gq LAST EDITION GENERAL ATTACK AT THE DARDANELLES ' Turkish, Positions on Both Sides of Gallipoli Peninsula Were Hotly Bombarded For Some Time. Then the Infantry Began its Work---British Destroyers Ran in Close to the Shore Along the Gulf of Saros, and Shelled the Right Flank of the Turks. (Special to the Whig.) Athens, July 5.--=A .generdl attack on the Dardan- elles by the Anglo-French naval and land forces was be- gun on Saturday morning and continued throughout Sunday, according to Mitelyne despatches toeday. The warships bombarded the Turkish positions from both sides of the Gallipoli Peninsula for several hours be- fore the infantry attack was begun. Several British destroyers ran close in shore along the Gulf of Paros and shelled the Turkish right flank. Active Artillery Work. (Special to the Whig.) Rome; July $.--Italian artillery, all along the Tyrol- Carnia frontier, has wrecked the modern works erected by the Austrians at a cost of many millions of dollars, ac- cording to stories told by the Austrian prisoners, As fast as the new guns are mounted in Malborget's main de+ fences they are silenced by Italian shells, "'Artillery actions along the Tyrol-Carnia frontier continues," General Cardona reported to-day. "Our in- fantry passed the enemy down the south slope and at Val Piccolo, on the Carsic plateau, we repulsed the enemy's attacks, capturing 500 prisoners and two guns,"' Glen Cove, L.I, July 5.--A writ- ten statement was prépared by F. Holt 'addressed to William E. Luis- ter, the Justice of the Peace, who had questioned Holt about the shoot- ing. Holt signed the communica- tion "F. Halt, Dallas, Texas, and Ith- aca," The statement reads as fol- lows: "My motive in coming here was to can without causing the slaughter of thousands of Europeans? "I am very sorry that I had to cause the Morgan family this unplea- santness, but I believe that if Mr. Morgan would put his shoulder to the wheel he could accomplish what I have endeavored to. Of course I did not want to injure Mr. Morgan as I wanted him to do the work I could Not a man of Kitchener's army, some two and a half millions strong before the last eall, has vet left this coun- try for Flanders or the Dardanelles. is published, probably a quarter of a millibn of them will be under way in one direction or another: The force at present operating and in reserve in Before this letter France is over 750,000, made up of regulars and territor- | ials, whose losses are being automatically made good. | Kitchener's army, however, is the most splendid fighting machine physically and morally that Britain has ever put in the field. < wo gh g There are many mysterious stories of the new class of warship, nicknamed "'whippets,"' that has been con- structed in considerable number. It is declared to be of extremely shallow draught, low-lying so as to be almost " invigible, in fact practically a sea-going platform. These strange craft are oil driven, with a speed of forty knots PEPPPOP PPP EPP and more. anti-submarine warfare and shallow waters, DALZIEL STILL ON WARPATH Determined To Clear Out The ,Men Who Failed, London, July 5.--Sir Henry Dal- ziel, Liberal Member of Parliament and newspaper proprietor, whose ar- raignment of the Ordnance depart- ment in the House of Commons last Thursday caused a sensation, to-day announced his determination to con-|and Torsten were captured by tinue on the warpath until, in own words, the "men directly uy for the failures of the past Year are cleared out ba and baggage." Sir Henry will ask Premier As- quith te IHS, Howes of Commons facilities for discussion, on the Their use is conjectured to be two-fold, for for operating in extremely lack of guns and ammunition. Sit Henry Dalziel asserts that a | conflict of authority already has | arisen between the Ordnance depaft- {ment and the Ministry of Munitions {and he declares that the only solu- | tion is-to give David Lloyd George | supreme authority for munitions sup- | plies. § u 4 | The Swedish mail steamers Bjoern the Germans and mail from Russia and | Sweden opened and the contents cen- sored. Durazto has been occupied by two | Serbian Regiments. J Dumasze is a | Albanian seap n the | tty threo miles south of Scutarl. (Special to the Whig.) Queenstown, Ireland, nian, 2) July b-- ed the submarine. Ambulances and sh stear Or- | SUrgeons are a : of a German subma- | The | torpedo attack and had out-distanc- ing her arrival © rine attack, is proceeding into this | ton vessel, rt with dead and many of | the crew i She wirelessed | London. { @ Muenter's rehabilitating himself as| the newspaper Tyjd divers who in- Holt." The informant added that he spected a German submarine sunk had known of him as Holt in Van- | recently off the mouth of the Ems derbilt University and Cornell. found the crew still alive. It was i. impossible for the divers to raise the Feb Sbdobab ib bbb bbdb bbs craft; however, and the men had to * + be left to their fate. * NO CONSCRIPTION, %| The submarine, the newspaper * we & adds, lies in comparatively shallow * (Special to the Whig.) % ! water. Ships are now at the scene London, July 5.--The Brit- % for the purpcse of raising her. ish Government is not contem- % plating conscription to obtain #4, pyaANT BY CANADIAN GRAVES men for the army, Premier As- & | quith declared in the Commons # Red Cross this afternoon. + Matter U His statement was pro- &! atter Up. moted by a question from a % London, July 5.---A large supply member who said he thought # of Canadian maple seeds has been re- he saw a step toward conscrip- # ceived here. Negotiations are pro- tion in the introduction of the #% ceding with the English Red Cross National Registration bill. # Society in an endeavor to have these : seeds planted around the graves of the cemetries where the Canadian soldiers are buried in Flanders. The Overseas Club proposes later to {plant an avenue at Langemarck asa memorial to the Canadian dead. Not Concealing Any Bad News Andover, N. B,, July 5.--An auto- eo |mobile driven by Patrick Hefferan, Fi P: bl {and in which Miss Geneva Johnson rom u 10 > also riding, plunged over a . twenty-five-foot bank, and turned over against a tree. The girl was crushed to death between the car and the tree and Hefferan was badly, perhaps fatally, injured. IRELAND DOING DUTY Expected To Take The | | 1 (Special to the Whig.) London, July '5.--Under Secretary for War Tennant denied in the House 6f Commons this afternoon | that the War Office was concealing from the public any news of a sbri- ous reverse at the Dardanelles. On v the , he said, the Allies IN CRISIS OF WAR made oo hipattunt gains on the Galli- I poli ) la in the last fortnight, GL e-- ARRIVES WITH CAPITALIST. N (§pecial to the Whiz) oe ob nd at a SST Lot, J ok. here Jaday trom Liverpool. She was mond, Joadur of tie Pn. Nationalist Sacorisd 4 channel Dy two OF up to the 15th of Jume, 120,741 boat Daunts robabyy | Irishmen from Ireland had : a H a, deson EL menor h 3 4 4 n's 1) Sa uss, the Bri 4 Tr Joudou late to-day. Siates to supervise and exped! Production of munitions for the Al- are Convinced Of Becker's Guilt. Albany, N. Y., July 5.--Governor Whitman in a sta'ement gave Martin T. Manton permission to divulge any of the mames which Manton men- tioned to him in his appeal for ex- ecutive clemency for former Police try to force Mr. Morgan to use his influence with the manufacturers of | munitions in the United States and | with the millionaires who are financ- ing the war first to have an embargo put on shipments of war munitions 80 as to relieve the American people from complicity in the death of thou- sonds of our European brothers. Lieut. Charles Becker. In the state- ment the Governor said he was abso- lutely convinced that Becker is | guilty. "If Germany should be able to buy munitions here we would, of course, positively refuse to sell to her. The reason that American people have not as yet stopped the shipments seems to be that they are getting rich out of this traffic; but do we not get enough prosperity out of non-contra- | band shipments, and would it not be | better for us to make what money we | At Marseilles, thirty bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the illuminating rocket factory, destroy- ed by an explosion. A number of the injured are expected to die. rs min, | GERMANY NOW PANDERS | San hs ned | TO THE UNITED STATES Berlin, via The Hague, July 5.-- "Germany will strive in the coming note, and in any subsequent ex- changes, to interpret fully the desire of the German people, which is one of entire good will and which is al- ways ready to adopt any honorable means to prevent misunderstanding and discord." Baron Mumm Von Schwarzenstein, how attached to the German Office, and one of the leading mats of Germany, made this ment in an interview to-day. is expression is particularly significant! find because of his intimate relations with thé Kaiser. The Baron at one time was the German Ambassador to 'Tokio; during the Blaine Adminis tration he was a special attache Washington. ' £0 "lI am glad to see the effort both sides to Fleas. up Many of primary causes of the misune bearing fruit," continued the baron, "It was believed in America tha to) world, with her | peaceful posit of the world. =| world long to find this out. | and | could understand. | | eventually fle neutral be questioned in the new continent. | Quite naturally she resented the in- dictment for responsibility for this war, without judge, jury, or witness- es, but upon the wholesale evidence supplied by ker enemies as soon as the war broke Dut. Our people feel they have the right to expect at least a suspension of judgment un- til the proper means of communica- tion are again established. "The cutting of the cable was a wanton act which all neutrals dis- approved. I hope America will soon the way clear to re-establish this communieation, the suspension of which has been of as much in- to her as to us. "Germany is fighting half the back against the wall, and almost completely isolated from the rest of the world. Because We were well prepared for this cop- flict, because we kept our soil clear' of the foe, we have been charged with leonic aims. Germany wants g but an honorable and ion among the nations It will not take the "England tied 10 Sut off i com- neutrals wire neutral vessels. She rol RT and starve us im- before the outside world We believe that not do. I hope that he will do his share anyhow. We must stop our participation in the killing of Euro- peans and God will take care of the rest." Holt was held on an assault charge There was no formal arraignment. General Huerta was re-arrested at Antonio, and was released on $15,000 bond. An "Inventions Board" has been appointed by the British Govern. ment. DAILY MEMORANDUM. City Council, 8 pm, Vaudeville, Grand, 2,30 and 7.80, Division Court, 9 am. Tuesday. p.3ake Ontario Park, vaudeville, 8.15 m, See top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. MARRIED, SPENOE-SHBRA--In _ Kingston, July 3rd, by Rev. J. W, Mcintosh, Louis Bd, ard Spence to Lottie Louise Bhea, both of Kingston, DIED. BPARHAM--In Kingston, on Jul 1915, Sophia Margaret Raph, widow of the late William Henry Sparham, y Funeral from her late residence, 476 Brock street, Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock to Cataraqui cemetery. ROBERT J, REID Phone 877. Hyon OR wl * Phone 1 for Ambulance REFRIGERATORS, From $2 to $7 they last, Tura: Phone Sos le - All This Week Wili be demons store. 4th, ©