Daily British Whig (1850), 8 Jul 1915, p. 1

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A 8 PAGES YEAR 82 . NO 158 ESCAPED FROM A TRENCH Every One Was Staughtered by French Battalion. GERMANS AND FRENCH LOCKED IN A FIERCE STRUGGLE. North of the Bethune-Arras Road Both Sides Bringing Up Reinforce ments Around the German Wedge | At St. Mihiel. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, July 8.--1In a bloody ba yon- | et struggle north eof the Souchez rail- | battalion | way station, a French slaughtered the defenders of a Ger: | man trench and occupied the earth- works, permitting ah approach to the | village itself. Despatches from the front this af- ternoon reported that not Teuton soldier escaped alive: All along the region of the Beth- une-Arras road, the Germans and French are locked in a fierce infantry struggle. The battling again be- gan early. yesterday, following a heavy bombardment from on both sides and continued through- out the night. Both sides are bringinge up rein-| *forcements around the German wedge at St. Mihiel. The enemy is | making desperate attempts to rush the French positions at the tip of the salient. | The official communique this after- noon reported, "Lively the entire re Jon between the Meuse | and the Mosel Soissons a heayily bombarded. | by the Germans during the night, | but no serious military damage was done: 2 War Tidings. By the smiployment of strong re inforcements the Russians have tem- porarily, at least, checked the Aus- tro-German advance toward the Lublin Railway. Predictions of a tremendous drive | by the English and French armies in the West in two mdnths are made by Dr. Q. Sterling Ryerson, surgeon- general of the Canadian forces. At Venice, Italy, Captain Liebsi-'| cher and Engineer Hoppe of the | German. Lemnos, were each , ned 10 ten years' | prisonment in solitary confinement. They were convicted by a military | tribunal on the charge of spying. | The wilitary authorieies of Hav-| aria have issued an ordinance pro- | viding for the , maximum of one] year's imprisonment for dealers charging excessive prices for arti-| cles of dally consumption, including | food. and heating and lighting sub-| stances. The Allies are only six miles from their goal, the narrows of the Dar- danelles, but the country between is strongly fortified and a gain of a few hundred yards is all that can be expected at one time. There | is talk of a new combined general attack by the land and sea forces. | HELD TRENCHES LIKE LIONS, -- : Germans Were Beaten Back Again | And Again, London, July 8A hot action in which the Princess Patricias had been engaged is described by Corp. | William Dalby, who states that they had been in the trenches for a fort- night when one morning the Ger- mans started a concentrated artillery fire upon their position. "Within half an hour," says the corporal, "it wad a regular inferno, shell and' shrapnel fell like torrents of rain. All day we were ghelled, and in the midst of it the Germans tried to ad- vance, but were beaten back again and again. Our fellows held on like lions, and although they were mowed down, they held the line until re- | lieved by another regiment. We were pretty well é4t up when this | British regiment e to our sup-| port. They were & proper sample | of the bulldog breed, for under a | terrible shower of shrapnel they jumped in, set up their Maxims and | handed us cigarettes." | FEF PPPCE PLP P IIPS | TAKES OVER WIRELESS, (Special to the Whig.) Washington, July 8. --The United States Government has taken over the Sayville wire- less station, as the result of British charges that it was us- ed to notify Germany of the departure of British ships, con- trary to y laws, Yoss0s0et®r ts LR . Cars Partly Made at Kingston. and trailers by T. A. general manager of the Russel Motor Car Company, Toron- to, for the Militia early stages of the war occupied al- most the Em tion of the War Cai r ned that. after war broke out he came to Ottawa ta see about the sale of trucks to the Government by his firm. He propos- to Ap cars with a "stake" ods at 33 3,600. - These cars were rtly made at Kingston, and could faished in the Russel in the Russel factory. orn of Manitoba Uni- sketches -- | terday from a two weeks' | cry batteries | | the Detroit United operates the street railway system of agreed to sell the city *osseesstrtate HR WARM WEATHER NEEDED, Pessimistic thern Ontario. { Toronto, July 8.--1Unless | weather comes soon in the part of the province, the crops the great section from Port to the western limits of the will prove a serious disappointment. Bailey, returned and C. F minis ter, | agrie ulture, | ant deputy yes- spection in northwestern {anything but optimistic. "They have had rain stated Mr. Roadhouse, districts the fields are literally ered with water. The crops into the ghound in | and over a much ever before, unless they some warm, dry weather from now on there wil bé a big shortage: many places the potatoes rotting in the ground." Officers Of United Railway Sell City "Lines, Mich., July 8. Railway, Detroit, which Detroit, have lines of the company to the city of Detroit. The approval of the direc- tors and counsel of the railway com fighting in, Pany was communicated in a letter Hutchins | written by President J. C. | to the city street railway sion. The Commissioners immediately adopted a resolution giving the com- commijs- | pany until August 2nd to secure-the | ratifications of-4ts; stockholders and bondholders. The assent of the stoek- holders is said virtually to be assur- ed, as proxies for a majority of the | shares are held by the directors. Ap- proval of the bandholders also is de | clared to be certain. The terms of sale provide for a vote of the people | on the question and upon a favorable vote the price to be paid by the city is to be fixed by the circuit court sht- #ting in C hancery. DETAINED Cnt, VESSEL A ------ Held RL at On Ohnrge-of-Sinking Barge | In River. July 8.--The American steamship Neches, whose cargo westbound from Rotterdam was :hrown into a prize court two weeks ago, has been released so far as the British naval authorities are con- cerned, but still is 'being held in a libel action on account of sinking a London, {barge in the Thames. The captain of the Neches teelined : sinking | to assume responsibility for the barge on the ground that he had no command at the time of his ship, | {which was being escorted into the port. of London by the admiralty as a prize. Captured Monte Monticello, (Special to the Whig.) Geneva, July 8.--By a daring mid- night attack, Italian Alpinists have | captured Monte Monticello, driving | the enemy down the northern slopes. The Alpine troops roped themselves together in long chains and made their way up the peak by clinging to | The Austrians | were attacked in the rear and taken | with regard to the horse purchases | | by surprise. rocky projections. Report or Crops In Nor warm northern in Arthur province tour of in- Ontario, and their opinion of thé outlook was | pay practically | Reginald | every day since the first of June," {the Exchequer, "and in many cov- | VOrs went compensated for their lost cffects, better condition | larger area than but they have been held | back to such an extent by the cold, | wet weather that a single | got fn are already. TAKES OVER STREET CARS Agree To Officers of * UNION SECRETARY SHOT, Physicians Say Wounds Will Probab- ly Be Fatal. July 8.--Charles Johnston, seeretary and le rs of the "Brickmakers union, was shot twice below the heart as he answer- ed a ring of his doorbell on Wed- nesday. Physicians said the wound +probably would-be fatal: wie assall- ant, whom he failed to cognize, escaped. Police attributed the labor troubles. The brickmake have been thrown out of Sand ment as a result of the action of the construction material interests in re- fusing to deliver building supplies until the Chicago, shooting INFANTRY W. B. Roadhouse, deputy minister of{'* settled. asgsist- Won't Pay Submarine Losses, Londen, July 8. -The British Government "cannot undertake to compensation for losses at gea owing to the action of the enemy," McKenna, Chancellor of informed the House who wanted the survi- Cunard liner Lusitania of Commons, of the Munition Ship _Afire on Ocean Whig.) The (Special to the New" York, July 8 Atlantic Transport line issued a statement to- | that a wireless messag received from the captain Minnehaha saying that the was afire and making for The blaze is a small cne fined to the hold of No. 3. The Minnehaha cleared f York for Liverpool last Sunday and is said to have carried a large cargo of ammunition and supplies for the Btitish army. 'Phe Minnehaha one of thé largest vérsela of the lantic Transport line. She i steel twin serew steamer, displacing 13,714 tons, and is 600° feet in length, with a 65-foot be am. The fire was caused by an explo- sion, Captain Claret wirelessed to the Atlantic Transport Company's office. {| The blaze is under contrel. This message ient celer to the possibility that a "dynamite! trunk" of Frank Holt, Morgan's assailant, found its way aboard the ammunition carrier before she cleared from New York for Liverpool on Sunday afternoon. day been the had of Halifax and con rom New 18 At A Caretaker's Deed. "Alexandria Bay, N.Y. July 8. | {Stameless 11." was taken on Tuesday | night from the boat-house of Touts, |T. Hunt of Alexandria Bay by its caretaker, Garfield Smith, and with {Max Brennan and two young women {went for a ride. The boat struck a {shoal at Pine View, the occupants were thrown out and the boat went to the bottom of the St. Lawrence river. Smith, Brennan and the young women escaped injury, Smith gave himself up to Police- man Harry Powell and was taken to] jail. When arraigned before Jus- tice of the Peace Benson he pleaded | guilty. Smith was given six years {in the Onendaga County Peniten- tiary. Sentence was suspended with | instructions that he report to the {chief of police each Saturday. | Nameless Il, which was raised, a damaged to the extent of $400. strike of 16,000 carpenters! "And | froin | steep embankment and Returning ship | man = Le : KINGSTON ONTARIO, THURSDAY JULY 8, 1915 . TORNADO Tou in Cincinnali----12 Dead And 20 Missing. .« SCORES ARE INIURED MANY BURIED UNDER THE INS OF BUILDINGS in Hulks of Steamboats That Sapk--Four Train Coaches Rolled Down Embankment--All Hap- pened in Ten Minutes, ial to the Whig) » Ohio; July 8. --Twelve known dead, moré than a score known to be miss.ng, scores injured, buried under ruins of build- and in hulks of steamboats that BANE thdt is the toll of the tornado that swept Cincihnati about 9.30 o'clock last night. Four coaches of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company train were blowa the track and rolled down a at Reechmont, Lindwood, The .a suburb. police and fire departments have been so busy digging for the dead d injured that no accurate count has yet been made of the fin- ancial & It is thought it - will come close to a, million dollars. It the greatest disaster has ever befallen €incinnati, all happened in ten minutes. loss. is that and it Due This Afternoon, (Special. to the Liverpcol, July 8.---The White Star Line Adriati¢, from New York with Premier Borden aboard, report- ed to have been marked -for a Ger- submarine attack, is dock here this afternocn. agents of the- line said to-day would not use her wireless arrived off the Mersey. The she until she He Must Step Out, (Special to the Toronto, July 8.1 the Ontario -Licensna 'renton hotel case, was that the hotel until August 1st to get a new tenant and that H. A. Cook, thg present pro prietor, must relinguish his post \ The Are Now Ready to Move Ahead (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, July 8.--Fresh sup- plies of ammunition and fresh regi- ments for the Grand Duke's. armies) have halted the Austro-German drive Whig.) "he. decision of Board in the this afternoon, on Warsaw and Von Linsingen's east- | ward sweep through Galicia. With a few weeks, officials de- clared to-day, the Slav armies will be prepared to resume the, offensive | on all fronts. The official statement issued early | to-day emphasized the fact that the] Russians' shell fire halted Macken- | sen's advance between the Bug and A. De Witt Foster, Kings, N.8., is expected ex-M.P. for to present himself as a witness at the Davidson | inquiry when the commission goes to the Maritime Provinces, and will endeavor to improve his in Nova Scotia. EEE position | the Vistula., In - sevgral sectors] | along this front the Slavs took the] offensive capturing two thousand] prisoners in the fighting around | Krasnik. Every attack by the Austro- Ger- | mans in Galicia in the past twenty- | four hours has been repulsed. gs seme ITI RU- due to | would be given | Officers of the 21st Battalion, C E. F. LAST VESSEL w AS 'UNARMED. EDITION And Carried No More War x tions Than Usual. SEVENTEEN EXCRS IONISTS (Special to the Whig.) |." Lomdon, July 8 ~The Elder ner | LLED AT QUEENS ON Falaba, torpedoed on March 28th,| with a (loss of 111 lives, was yharm- ed and carried. no greater cargo' of 'When a Trolley Car ed | war munitions -than onan ordinary | Toronto, July 8.--At ten o'clock trip in peace times. So« Lord Mer- the total dead stood at seventeen. sey reported to-day in his: official AND THE MOTORMAN COULP NOT Six bodies at Queenstown and Nia< findings. Included in the general, cargo were thirteen tons of cartrid-| STOP IT. y {gara Falls are awaiting ldentifica- tion, Muni- | by the passengers themselves. They say he told everybody mot to mind him, but to look after the passen. gers, He was brought to «Niagara | Falls and taken to his home in St. { Clair avenue, | ges and gunpowder. The Turkish Casualties, (Special to THE Whig.) Athens, July 8.--The Turkish os} ualties in the last three days fighting! at the Dardanelles totalled more than 20,000 according to Tenedoes | despatehe d to-day. Prove edd A F ailure. Increased to Seventeen. | Knew After it Passed Brock's Monu- ment That it Was Doomed--Stuck To His Post and Was Badly In- jured. The List Of The Dead. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, July 8.--The dead are: | Crombie, Miss, maid to Rev. J, McP. Scott. L Grant, Sidney W., advertising man- ager Westminster Publishing Co. Hart, Mrs. J. Moore. Jennings, Charles P. Keats, Dorothy, aged seven. Orr, Mrs. William. Page, F.,, Westminster Publishing Company. Partridge, Harold Jeffray, organ- ist and choirmaster of Woodgreen | Methodist Church. Sloan, Mrs. Watson, Robert, Westney, Mrs. A. . cla t h on, July 8 at Holt's great" plot interests Washi belidved part of @ the Allies' States, now M were to demoralize in the United (Spécial to the W hig) , Niagura Falls, July 8. --Thirteen | Toronto Bunday school excursionists | Were killed and eighty injured When a trolley car jumped the track on | { the historic Queenstown Heights 1 { | last evening { Sidney Boyd, the motorman of the death trolley, received a diSlocated | shoulder, gashed hands and generat! shaking up. Motorman Boyd knew shortly after the car passed Brock's | monument that it was doomed to de- | struction. He knew that even if it rounded each corner successfully jt would pile up against buildings at | the wharf at the end of the run. Boya, Rowever stuck to the plat- | orm .like a captain to the bridge, " " and did everything in his Owe | Ing signet ring Weraveq "'R. W." (at stop the runaway. Boyd is regard- | Girl, about twelve, fair hair, wear- ed as one of the most careful driv ing fi ne gold > ers on the road His trolley was of ae Ly SIMD Sudsloiel tat the usual open reversible seat type, Man, age about 40 equipped with air brakes. ton). ' ' Up above the road where the grade Man, age about 20, fair, and of is steepest, there is a safety car f slight build, (at Queenston). the purpose of derailing a trolley Boy, age about fourteen. {This point 'was passed-before the car | had started on its mad career. Sto- Comparison With Famous Bag, | ries have been printed in American (Special to the Whig { border papers that the car turned Toronto, July 8.--The Brtish loss | over and over down an embankment. | if the famous battle of Queenston | This is untrue. The car simply | Heights was only 11 killed and 60 fell ol its' side and ended up no | wounded. The loss in last night's in ; more than fifteen feet from the rails, | trolley accident at the Heights was shipped aboard the Hakua for Aus- | The second car made the trip down | larger, 17 killed and 97 he The American 'loss at the battle of tralia yesterday. Usually the ship-| | as 'ments come from the other direction, | Rar Sab; SI9v Sy: youn die Queenston Heights was 90 killed and 100 wounded. 'Government Is to Control Liquor Sales London, July 8 Under the pow ers conferred by the Defencd of the Realm Act, the British Government | by an order-in-council decided to take over the control of the sale and supply of intoxicating liquors in| many districts where war material is being made and loaded, unloaded or otherwise dealt with, Members of Parliament of al] par- ties have undertaken a campaign to | thank the employers and workmen in munition contracts for the work they have already done and to urge them to turn out ag great a quantity of Munitiods as the" 'country Is ca- | pable of producing. pp in Unidentified dead: Woman, about twenty-five. Girl, about twenty, fair-hafr, wear- (at Queens- os Butter For Australia. | =*Vancouver, Jaly 8.--Fcur thous- [and cases. of Alberta butter were for New Zealand butter has quite a | reputation here. But following a draught in Australa, there is a but- ter shortage. The shipment to-day | was in response to cabled offers to | Vancouver commigsion houses. Italy Loses a Cruiser In Adriati (Special to the Waig.) Rome, July 8.--The Italian arm-| ored cruiser Amalfi was torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian submatine in the~ Adriatic yesterday. The Amalfi is the first large fight- | The Motorman's Story. "We left Bridge street at Niagara Falls to connect with the boat," said the motorman, 'at Lowrie"s Cor. ner, the third curve before the last, and past the monument the: car be- ry " ira) her in," said the mo- | torman, meaning that he had thrown on reverse, "and I knew that the car was getting away from me I tried half a dozen times, and did every- ' thing in my power to stop it. The second curve before the last was | passed, but the car was gaining! into, and the blame centred where it | speed all the while, { properly belongs," sald Coroner "I realized that even if the next | Green to-day. feurve was passed safely, there would | wheter | be no way of stopping the car, and | Additional Dead. (Special to the Whig wot h | at The wart Hrough the sia: Toronto, hy rn oiling are Ean "I did not lose my head," contin- additional dead identifie 8 morn- | the EE oF pe Satan Tae ued the motorman, "but tried again Ing golly the ies it the Queens. | war. The majority of the crew of | {0 break the speed. I felt the car | ton trolley disaster. a. EE about 684 were saved. The ecruis-| leave the tracks, and felt oy ast Jao. | A5€d 15; Marguret ged 14 all t | er was attacked while on scout| ment had come. 38d Rosie Chawer, 46 at-9 | duty. | "The next thing I remember wag | Toronto. adiucted b She was launched in May 1908, trying to extricate myself from the | The Pleaje Was R24 ad > dienlaced 9,958 tons, carried = four| debris. My right arm was jammed | St. John's Pres yterla Foal 10-juch and eight 7.5 inch guns, and | between the controller and thé ves. | Breen Methodist, ure ' op .y had speed of 22.5 knots. | tibule. A number of hampers which | Schools on the East end of Toron ae --------; | excursionists had with them, and had to. | placed on front seats, covered me | Dr* Cameron Wilson, son of Rev. | up, and after great difficulty I got J. P. Wilson, was presented by the myself free. At the time I did not | | Liberal Club, Napanee, with a hand- | realize that I was injured. My | some wrist watch, before leaving for | thoughts were for my passengers' | Valcartier Camp, having joined the | Boyd talked: in an unassuming Army Medical Corps. | way. The rest of the story is told An Inquest Called. (Bpecial to the Whi Niagara Falls, July 8. ig. Green, St. Catharines, the coroner in charge of the wreek inquiry, has called an inquest to"be held at the school house at Queenstown, and will make a strict inquiry into the charge that the car was overcrowded and that the equipment was not sufficient to | hold a heavily-loaded car upon the | Steep grade and curve, "Every phase will 'be enquired DAILY MEMORANDUM, Vaudeville, Grand, 2:30 and 7.50. Searchlight excursion, to-night 7.48, Lake Ontario Park, vaudeville, 3.15 "Bee 1 f Joxe 8 right hand corner, for Sreon bitte MARRIED. MARDIN-Mc WATERS. --In on Thursday morning, 1915, by the, Rev. . pastor of Queen street Church, Hilda Alt daughter of James Mo Union street, to George Kent Mar- Kingston, tin, eldest son of Charles H. Mar. tin, both of Kingston. PIED: MAHER~--In Oneida on Jul 1915, Nellie ahi belove er. Buneral will take place f he real- dence of her ie Thiam Cash- man, Glenburnie, Friday morning ad of the 6th, wife at § o'clock to t Holy Name, Lush Friends and acquaintances spectfully Tvited to" Bttend. NASBH---At Bath, Ont, on July 7th 1916, Samuel L. Nash, M.D. R | 82 years Puners) from ils late Fésidance Satur. dy at 10 am, to ardaqul ceme- Friends 'and acquaintances respectfully invited to attend. Napanee and Picton papers please copy re- Phone 1 Tare Pons is, Jh.y Jast, o Table , Wateas P in quarts. Foland, in qua

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