| 19 PAGES YEAR 82 NO 156 She wd _ KINGSTON "ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY JULY 1, 1915 ~ ~- LAST EDFTI ON Momentan Upon Nid Land Forces at the Dardanelles But Forced to Retire By Anglo- French Fl Fleet. The Austro-German Rush n la Eastern War Zone Seems to be Losing Its Momentum---The Russians Are Hold- ing at Most Points All Along the Line. [a ' (Special to the Whig.) Paris, July For the first time since the Dardanelles operations be- gan, the Turkish fleet has partici- pated in a violent assault on Allied land forces in an attempt to hurl the expeditionary troops inte thre sea: An official statement from the War Office this afternoon reported that the Turks opened a general at tack against the Allies Monday after soon. Turkish battleships' steamed into the Stratt ant protected by guns of the Narrow forts shelled the allied lines for several hours. The Anglo-Freneh fleet and the Asi- atic forts, sending projectiles durv-| ing over the peninsula toward the Turkish squadron in the Narrows., The fire was evidently very ef- fective. French aviators broustt] word that the Turkish warships had | retired in the diréction of the Sea of Marmora, In 'their pursuit of the Turkish | airmen, fifteen allied aviators bom- barded an enemy aerodrome. ds q 1 t t r t t The Russians Are Holding. (Special to the Whig.) London, July 7.--With the ception gf certain sectors bet the Vistula and the Bug, the Austro-| German rush in the eastern war zone | seems to be losing its The . Russians have braced themsel- ves and are holding at most poinis! all along their line, althougn the Austrians claim continued progre to the northeast of Krasnik and ia SS. Adriatic Due in Zone Sometime To-day (Special to th to the Whig.) New York, July 7.--The - White Star liner Adriatic, for the safety of which much concern is felt, because of the rumors that she is marked for a Submarine attack, was due to en. ter the "war mone" to.day, provid- ing she has not radically changed her course, Included among her 620 passen. | gers are, Premier Borden of Canada | and eight prominent Americans. It | is said she carried a large cargo of war munitions, -------------------- Vacancies in Parliament. Ottawa, Ont., July 7---There are now four vacancies in the House of Commons---Kings, Nova Scotia, and Carleton, Ontario, owing to the resig- nation of Messrs. Foster and Garland | in the light of revelations over army contracts; East Hamilton, on death of Hon. Sam. Barker, and Prince County, Prince Edward Island, by the death of J. W. Richards, M.P. | Three of the seats were held by Con- | servatives adndone by the Liberals. Melfort | Montreal mil. I ex- | 1j t By his will, Lieut. Guy Drummond, a young lionaire, killed at St. Julien, gives | $20,000 to MoGHI University, $40, 000 to church societies, and $20,000 to his friend, Gregory Barclay. COL. ROSS ASKS has received the from Lieut.-Col. A. "Dear Mrs. Dubbs, 1 ai sue You will be interested in doing thing in this war. There Is she great need here 'that is a Horse Am- bulance for: Ontario crs the Brigg. | Offi f the . -- Papiak Ham =xperience here, 1 nice chestnut horse; able to use, owing. ury in the I. The poor to walk, Mrs. J. R. C. Doble; Albert street, following a cerped, Russians are ance the in weeks, view of the land front, field entirely | with heavy bardment continued ween 'night. | held to the trenches momentum. | Souchez railway station where the | Germans made a feeble attack but were driven off. 83 | positions on the Meuse heights r-' repulsed. | Many Killed, ed compilation of 1915 fatalities and | accidents due*ditectly dence Day Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Tribune to.day annoumced a death |58d that commission seemed to him | list of twenty-nine, ed. country. $369,025, Zeppelin Fell {with shrapnel--it had to ther along the River Vieprz in the neighborhood of Tarnogrod. This is a critical sectop so far northward blow at Warsaw is con- but it is evident that the stiffening their resis:- their long retreat, and press, for the first time takes a more chee.lu' eastern situation. that yesterday after British It is noteworthy Berlin official communication speaks nly of a, gain on the Nartherp P). leaving the southeastern to the Austrians, wlo n their official statement emphasize hat an advance on the centre be- ween the Vistual and the Bug was | nade by the Austrians. | Heavy Fighting In West, (Spe cial to the Whig.) Paris, July 7 (official).-- A deter- the War Office admitted | his afternoon. By subsequent coun-| er. attacks, the enemy was ejected | losses. all along the | ine north of Arras throughout the | The shell fire was so terrific hat the infantry on both sides were except at the Similar attacks against the French More Injured, on Holiday cial ty the Whig.) July 7.--In a complet. | New Ye or rk, to celebrations, Indepen- including the | and 1,110. .injug- | The figures are for the whole The fire loss amounted to,| Last year's figures were twelve | leaths, 879 injured, and a fire loss | 'of $99,545. While Headed For or England (Huedial to the. to the Whig Amsterdam, July th eppelin headed for England became unman- ageable and fell several hundred feet alighting on a farm-house near Asseneve, according to Ghent advic- es to-day. The German authorities suppressed the details as to the casu- alties and the damage. have one horse 'absolutely peppered "As Capt. Walsh is a officer 1 would like to see initiate the movement. Fingmion would Bulance than anything else. There is nothing I know of that would be so useful. The heavier the fighting, the more we need the Horse Ambu- | sned A heavy. bom-| which for three or four years been laid up, are in commission and it looks like old times to former de: "er Declares Warmly T That He. Never | way Hon. T. C. | Hon. | er: ro ae Home Oe GERMAN PRE-DREAPNOUGHT DEUTSCHLAND SUNK? Petrograd statements of the naval engagement in the Baltic state that this shin of 12097 tons was torpedoed. ments deny the loss of the ship. or 100,000 WERE KILLE in. French Casualty List Reached" 1,100,000, (Special te the Whig ) London, July 7.--The casualties tot alled 1,400,000 from the beginning of the war until] June 1st, 1915, according to an appeal is- to-day by the French Reliof Of this number four hun- are reported killed, thousand wounded, thousand taken The Has | French Sodiety. dred thousand seven hundred and three hundred prisoners. IMPORTS INTO BRITAIN In June $89,000,000 More Than In June 1911, CTRT TO The Whig y f Jaly 7.--For the months of June 1915, British imports in- creased more than ecighty-nine mii-] ions over the same months in. 1914, a large part of the inerease coming from purchases in the Uwited States: | Exports for the same month show- ed a corresponding decrease of thir-| ty-three millions Visitors Crowd The Islands, Clayton, N. Y., July 6.--More -per- sons are now at the St. Lawrence | | River resorts than last year. sTherg is now scarcely an Spi London, empty | mined attack by the Germans upon | cottag@p from Clayton to Alexandria | | French positions east of Aillywoods, | Bay and all houseboats hage carried the enemy into the first line of trenches, been | taken up, and some of the cottage | leases are running for three and five] years. { Many ya yachis| have of .the handsome ¥otees of the beautiful St. Lawrence. A COMMON LIAR Talked Saw-Off With Anyone. Winnipeg, July 7.--This is the Norris spoke about J. H. Howden to an interview- "Howden is a liar of the worst type, and I'll tell the commission so. Jim Howden and any other man that | tries to connect me up with that so- | called fifty-thousand-dollar deal is a plain, orllinary every-day liar. 'He came to me in the hotel and | we talked for a few minutes: only, and it was about the commission. o saw-offs were mentioned. He | to. be vindicative. He asked me what our position was in rega'd to the commission. I replied that we did not wish to prosecute anyone, but that as far as we were concerned the commission must continue its work and the law take its course, no | matter who was hurt. He talked | for a little time about this, and then | he left." Mr. Prout said as to the statement connecting him with the case: "Well, it's a lie in every particu- lar. I'll tell the commission that, too. I'll only be too pleased to give my evidence." "In Lakeside and Kildonan we have an asylum, and anyone who sug- gested that I got money from the Conservatives would find admiesion Har institution very easy if they 1 to the electorate. "Why, I don't even know Cham- ' The Humane y will have a meeting on oe Society will will be araaged 'Must Stop Exporting Product to rectly or indirectly from Switzerland | .manufacture of explosives. | and that may be the trouble. MAP OF SHOWING WHERE BATTLE BALTIC TOOK PLACE Russian fleet put to flight the German light squadron - between Des land and Courland, The Deutschland is wiaimed to have beet torpedoed near Danzig Gulf rt tse SWISS ARE WARNED BY GERMAN BYE MEN The England or Their Supply Will Be Cut Off. London, July 7.--~The Morning Post's Berne correspondent says that in Swiss commercial circl®s consider- able dismay Eas -beeh caured by a leading German aniline and other dye manufgeturers = and evidently aimed at Preventing Switzerland from doing any business in dyew on her own adqgouni with England or France. © circular says: "It has come to the knowledge of the signatories that Swiss dye works are supplying considerable quantities of dyestuffs to countries at war with us, and that, although a considerable shortage of dyestuffs prevails in Swit- zerland, nevertheless Swiss dye works prefer this export to supplying Swiss industry." The circular goes on to say that if German dye manufacturers continue supplying Swiss customers they lay themselves open to reproach by en- abling the Swiss dyemakers to supply Germany's enemies with dyestuffs. "Consequently," it adds, "The Ger- man dye manufacturers will refuse to supply Switzerland with any more | dyestuffs unless absolutely guaran- | teed against any being exported di- | to countries fighting against Ger- many." France Conserves Chemicals. Paris, July 7.--A Government de- | cree, made public yesterday, prohib- its the exportation henceforth of a number of chemicals, used in the Includ- ed in the list are hydrochloric acid, sulphuret of carbon, s@iphuret of sodium, phosphorus of 'any kind, ar- senic and arsenic salts. Defy Them All! (Special to the Whig.) Berlin, July 7 unt von Re- ventlow in a scathing article, issued on Tuesday, called .on Germany to keep up its submarine campaign in spite of the United States or any- body else. William Hill was arrested in Buf- falo to Jswes, for numerous robber- ies in nto's residential @istricts. Brantford will probably - start a vigorous recruiting campaign. | been appointed munitions agent in German semi-official state- | | for an indefinite stay, and 1 may re. main until the end of the war | matter how | the J. | of VILL LOOK IST. AFR AFFAIRS CAN NEVER CONQUER THE CZAR'S ARMIES W. W. Butler, Montreal, Declares That Russia Is a United Nation Behind Her Great Forces. I---- Germany Will be Ruined in Any Event so Far as the Rest 0f the World Is Concerned---Everything Spells Ruin For Her at End of War. Montreal, July -W. W. Butler, | the war would surely come and the vice-president of the Canadian Car same question could be asked regard- and Foundry Co., Limited, who ar- 'B8 our ally, France. : rived h resterd: ¢ " He said that criticism of Russia is Hye Bie Baton BY ii Rusia quite easy, but it is different when x 8 e / qa' v a : $ 2 conside: hat her line exte like to say something of the condi- Ope considers tat he ihe extends ; all the way from the Black Sea to tions prevailing in that country, Rus", i o i e sia had a mighty army in the field, the Baltic, yet one thing is certain, Germany's problems will become dif- Duk Jaek Br munifiue of VIF Yao me ficult to solve the further away they alone can remedy In the first get from their own country. On the place, he said, Archangel is five Bon. other hand, Russia is united as she dred miles from the army base, and Rever was hefore, within the mem- of this distance there is but a narrow °C!) Of the Dresent: generaifoh, aud gauge railway half way while the van Dy be Senquered. vill stuff landed at the Pacific porf of the 1 e helieves that the war will be a trans- Siberian railway has to come ONS One. Another winter campaign six thousand miles. The army, how- is a certainty, and, perhaps two, al- ever, is all right, and alfhough the | though people. neay official life in men may not be as bright as the Ger- the Old Country believe "that Rou- mans tWey are splendid fighters and | Mania and- Bulgaria-will. both :.be will make good in the end. | fighting on the side of the Allies be- There is, he said, a united nation fore long. Asked if Germany's acon behind the army and Grand Duke °Wi¢ situation is not bad, and if her Nicholas will get everything possible | inances were' not hordering on a out of his command. ruined state, Mr. Butler sald .Ger- Being as"ed why Russia had. not Many would be ruined in any event | built more strategic railways towards | 2% far as the rest of the world is the German frontier when she knew | oncerned, and that they were adopt- that Germany "Was her natural en-|iPE methods more and more barbar- emy, Mr. Butler answered the' ques-| 0US in order to secure success. Any- tion by asking why Great Britain | thing to succeed is her watsh word, had not got into Better shape when | AS the whole situation spells ruin for it is only too evident that they knew 'them at the end of the war. a PAA A AA A A A ANNAN HARD LUCK DOGGED . | mm mvtover ' NEW REGIMENT COMMANDER, SOLDIER'S FOOTSTEPS), Lieut.-Col. Dansercan Will 'Return | Athens, July 7--Turkish losses in the Dardanelies fighting both on and Rouzerens_¥ Returned From Front With Many Montreal, July 7.--Lieut. Col. J Wounds to Find Mother Had | Toe d and sea now {otal 180,000, ac- advices to- H. Dansereau, it is officially a . | chased in Venezuela about 15,000 nounced, will command the first of ed During 1 |oxen to use for food. The first the three new French-Canadian regi- " Absence shipment of the eattle is expected fo ts which are to be immediately | Montreal, July 7.--A sad story was | reach Switzerland in the month of hid for overseas service. e| related last evening by a passenger |, .o qt new commanding officer is the young- | *0ldier Who came back on the Meta- | "myo" Swedish Forelgn Office has est man in Canada to leave With the | SAMA, and was landed at Quebec.| .Gored an investigation of charges k of leut.-colonel. | He was a wounded private from a |y}.: British authorities had censor- an ; Dansereau | French-Canadian regiment, his home villages At present Lieut.-Col. ed mail on board Swedish ships. is STi on sick leave, having served | Veing in one of the little ep -- with great honor with the Canadians [ronting on the River St. Lawrence, ~ DAILY MEMORANDUM. in France. He is a son 'of | below ' Quebec. The wounded sol- | Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.30 Adolphe Dansereau, editor-in-chief of | dier had. eleven shrapnel wounds in | Lake Ontario Park, vaudeville, La Presse. his body. Nine of the pieces of bilitie itmnlig orbs shrapnel had been successfully ex. |' g, uy ot Still Creeping Up. BORN, See tracted in an English hospital, and [for pr (Special te the Whig) {al the way across he was carefully | Ottawa, July 7.--The LLAGHER~In Township of King- GAMLAG on July 2nd, 1915 to Mr. a Canadian | ®ttended to by one of the Red Cross | casualties continue to creep up to. male nurses. When nearing his old Mrs. Emanuel V. Gallagher, a daughter. And Will Co operaté With Firms in | This Country. New York, July 7.=~D. A. Thom- | as, the Welsh coal king, and member of the British Parliament, who has | this country for the British Govern- | ment, was met by Ambasador Sir Ce- | cil Spring-Rite and Willard D. Strait, | of | the J. P. Morgan camp, .; "1 might say," sald Mr. Thomas, "that my mission is almost Canadian, | for 1 shall soon go there to investi- { Bate the reports that the Canadians | | have not been fairly treated in the awarding of contracts. I know poth- ing about it at pre=ent; but I do | know that Ameriéan business me and Canadians are quite difterent. "I have come to. America prepared ¢ don't know how jong that will be. No long it does last, thero can be but one ending, Germany must, and will, be defeated. "My business is to co- operate with P. Morgan firm and. firms. in | Canada for the Sf of munitions war for England. in this con-! nection, I want to say there has been no -criticism of the manner in which | Mr. Morgan nas fulfilled 'his con- tracts, \ "What criticism there was, was in Canada, and that was to the effect that Canada had not been faverad so much in the award of' contracts as the United States" A SERIOUS SCANDAL. * fn Victoria, B.C., Only Friends Can Tender, Victoria, B.C., July 7.--It is un derstood that the attention of Sir Charles Davidson is being called to the situation in Victoria relative to army and naval supplies. Great in- dignation has been aroused by. the | fact that only the representatives of | favored firms are given an opportu- nity to handle any of the contracts being given out, and. the situation | at the navy yard is no better. K. A. Mclellan, representing a large wholesale firm, was refused ad- | mission to the yard, where he sought | to tender on supplies for Japanese | vessels which may be expected at | some time in the future. Patronage of Conservative firms | has become so flagrant that the eiti- | zens of Victoria are greatly incens- | ed. It is realized that politics abe, being: permilted to play an all. erful part in all suppli d a Bt committee of busines mon is belug | orghinized for the purpose of bringing | the matter to the attention of the | commissioner at Ottawa, Sir Charles | Davidson. Political hug 2 to Constantinople day. Swiss Government has pur- { 8.15 of hago 3, right hand corner, wards the ten thousand mafk. The | home village be begged to be taken number of names reported to ten | up on deck where he could sec the o'clock this morning is 9,893 The | familiar surroundings, since leaving killed total 1,684; wounded, 6,434, | which he had gone through such ter. | DUMPHY-In Kingston; and missing, 1,775. {rible pain, A pair of field glasses | PUNY TN CHAE Dutaphy. -------------- vet loaned him, as the wounded of Mr. ] Advanced at Heavy Losses. | soldier, who was in delirium most aged one year an (Special to the Whi | of th& Way across, was under the im- Paris, July 7.--Reports Hom the | pression that he could see his home front last night indicated er | and his mother through them. Quiv- advance of the British oa ind | | ering hands held the glasses; and af- Pilliken. The losses were very ter a long look he put them down heavy. | with a sigh. When the Metagama - | reached Quebec the soldier was very Headed For Bankruptcy. { ill, and in company with his atten. (Special to the hi | dant he was landed there, but he will . London. July 7.-- d Chancellor | never see his mother again, as she Loreburn declared - HR House of died whiie he was at the front, and Lords on Tuesday that Europe was owing to his serious illness the news headed for bankruptcy unless wis- | was kept from him, | (Germans Admit ~ DIED. on July 7th, Youngest daughter 5. 4 Dumphy, months. Funera! (private) on Thursday after- noon at. 2.30 o'clock. MAHER--In Oneida, N.Y. on July 6th, 1915, Nellie Cashman, beloved wife of G. H. Maher, Funeral will take place from the resi- dence of her father, William Cagh- man, Glenburnie, Friday morning at 9 o'clock to the Chruch of the Holy Naie, Cushendall Friends and acquaintances are spectfully invited to attend. PICK ETT-<At Hotel Dieu Holpital, July 7th, 1915, Mary Catharine, in- fant daughter of Mr, and Mrs. John Pickett, Howe Island Interment on Howe lisiand, Thursday, at p.m. two a re- on London, July speaking at the Club, said: "The method of attrition may turn out to be the real method in this war. 7.~--Lord Haldane, National Liberal 3 » land's taking part. Attrition May Prove Best Weapon To Win the War, Says Lord Haldane "1 did not have the smallest doubt of the imperative sicemsity of Eng- Wad we stayed out, with the out shrift would have been very ROBERT J. REID rtakr. . Submarine Not Great Success Berlin, via amt: July 7.-- Late developments serve to empha- 'size the impression, gained through informal al conviisations with promi- nent German ofilale, H that Germany's reply to the Amherfcan note on sub- remove any probability of trouble but ween the From $i $7, while they last, at Turk"s. hone 705. Table "Wate 8 Poland, in qua quarts. Poland in half Gurd's inks. Gurd's Caledonia, half Gurd's Soda Water. Radnor, pints. Vichy he quarts. What counts leven more than the ; ) endeavors .of 'the Ameri- {can Embassy is the fact that the sub- fn te a Teast, this is the view in ef not re]