12 paces . YEAR 82 - NO 167 | ~ FRENCH AIR RAID MADE ON CONFLAN The Junction Point of Important Railways | PAGES 1-8 1 " LAST EDIT ION ~ The Hour of Destiny is Striking "There are no terms and no retreat in this war." Such is the message that Rudyard Kipling, the imperial interpreter in prose and poem of soldier life, sends to the men of the Empire. He adds. the further ominous statement: ge ---- GERMANS SWEEPING ONTOWARDS WARSAW Bertin Expects That The Polish Capital Will Be Supplying German Armies Around Verdun And French 'Aeroplanes Also Drop Bombs on Colmar---French St. Mihiel, Troops Make Progress Towards Crest of Enemy's Line Defending Colmar---German Attacks at Apremont Repulsed. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, July 21.-~Thirty-one French aeroplanes participated in the great air raid on the railway station at Conflans, the War' Office announced this afternoon. Bombs were hurled on several buildings and a locomotive shed was seen to burst into flames. Conflans lies fifteen miles west of the German fortress of Metz, and is the junction point of important rail- ways supplying the German armies around Verdun and St. Mihiel Several bombs were hurled on the locomotive shed at Conflans, the War Office reported, and all were well placed At Colmar, two French aeroplanes A ct ns Rule to Allow Ship to Carry a Gun Astern (Special to the Whig.) London, July 21.--The American Government has issued rules prac- tically permitting merchant ships carrying a gun astern purely for de. fensive purposes to enter American ports, Lord Robert Cecil, Under Bec retary for Foreign Affairs, declared in the Commons this afternoon in response to a query, This action was takén, he said, after the American Government ng been approaghed on the sub- ect," Financial Secretary for the Ad- miralty glcNamara said that the Germans have destroyed 95. neu- tral ships since the beginning of the War, i 4 Sir Charles Henry urged that the Government take measures to sure the stability of the ~ Anglo. Ameritan Exchange during the war. | Chancellor of the Exchequer Me. | Kenna replied that he was carefully watching exchange rates, but could not make a public statement at pres- ent, * The Cheese Markets. Lindsay, July 20. board yesterday, bids opened at 12 cents; all offerings sold at 13 cents. Campbellford, July 20. There were 585 white cheese offered; 285 sold at 13 1-2¢; 300 sold at 13 1-16¢ RATIFY THE SETTLEMENT OF WELSH COAL STRIKE (Special to the Whig.) Cardiff, July 21. Delegates rep resenting 200,000 - striking Welsh conl, miners at noon to-day ratified the settlement made yesterday by the Miners Executive. It was an nounced that the men will return to work at once. Minister of Munitions Lloyd Soorgs, who was in the hall when ote was escol ~the platform tH tv ey ln miners. In a gtatulated both miners owners for reaching a Speedy settle ~---- The: article in Tuesday' showing the needs bf os ch -At the cheese | 8 Whig) the 59th Bat- | dropped eight more bombs on railway station. Thies afternoon's communique re; | | ported a sudden resumption of se- vere fighting in the Vosges wékt of Colmar, "Liyely infantry engagements are! proceeding in Alsace, in the hills dominating - the east bank of the! Fecht River," sald the official com-| munique. { { "Advancing from the north we ceized part of the enemy's works and made good progress toward the crest of the enemy's line defending Colmar," In the Apremont forest determ-| ined German attacks have been re- | pulsed. i the - { { A STREET RIOT in Bayonmg, N. J., When People Were Hurt. (Special to the Whig.) Bayonne, N. 3% July 21.--One man | shot to death, several others hit by| stray bullets and many seripusly| hurt by flying cobble ¥tones in a! riot in the street to-day between 1,500 striking employees . of the! Standard Oil Company and 100 po-| licemen. | | ssssmessssstterssiseertenl | + | CAPTURED RUSSIANS. + by * * ia Berlin, July 21.--The Vos- $ |% sische Zeitung estimated to- # | # day that since the beginning of + the new drive on Warsaw the #| Germans have captured 175 of- » ficers and 66,790 men, re marking that "this is a nice start." | (Special to the Whig.) [ [# [ | ' | | + | | PETE PL EP PEPPOF PIED P PPP bP | Frustrated Attempt. Montreal, July . 21.--Arres,' an | Austrian, frustrated a big . plot to blow up the C.P.R. shops at Angus, according to evidenge in the Police Court this morning. It was planned to destfoy , Dlace with bombs and | dynamite, the, nl Pope Has Denied Interview. { Paris, July 21.--Pope Benediet has sent an autograph letter to Car- dinal Amette, Archibishop of Paris, | denying the interview ascribed to {ihe Pope in La Liberte on June 21st, LEMENT { L jment and recognizing the country's interest were above their own. "When I was first asked to come | here, I was horrified at the thought jof taking part in a struggle between {my best friends," said Lioyd-George, | | "but now my trip bas become al source of joy, I am returning to | London, having hands with | my fello! N biman and Aa gentle- | men. on other: side of the ques- jan 2 Cle ig Ce "Britain faces a sitpation so seri- {ous as to call for the united concen- i tration and action of every man, wo- man and child in the nation." | t | | ment, 1 might 'dimost say financial who | dl & od import of these words decision "hordes are not this work is on bleeding Belgium. "The war must go forward, and with those men eligible for service, have not yet offered themselves, the. decision of the Do we fully realize the mean anything to us? The bof this cole between darkness and light, between civilization and hands of those who have not yet come forward. The young men of Canada must come forward. It is now a matter of life and death for the British Canada--our own beloved home. Shall she be defac was? Shall her women and children be mutilated they will be if the the only place to 'acco of Flanders and the ravaged plains war rests." ? © Does their gravity of this colossal world-war--this struggle savagery--rests in the The need is' urgent. Empire. That means ed and defiled as Belgium as were those of Belgium? thrown back or annihilat- the blood-stained fields Therefore must Canada send more and still more of her sons. Will Kingston do her part? She has done splendid] 'more. Let her sons rally round the old flag, an "They who reckon with England Must reckon with England's sons." A AA i y already, but she must do d show the world that EMPHASIZE THE GRAVENESS | Of the Financial Situation Created | By the War. (Special to the Whig.) London July 21.---Great Britain | should come to a full realization of | the graveness of the financial situa- | tion egeated by the war, Lord Lans- downe declared in the course of a de- bate in the House of Lords yesterday | on the necessity for national econ- | omy, saying that, although some pa- tions might emerge from the conflict with increased territory, none would emerge With resources unimpaired. , "F'believe the traces the war will | leave will be in the form, not only of arrestation of progress, but an im- | mense burden of financial embarrass- | disaster, to bear which will tax the | resources of the civilized world," added Lord Lansdowne. ° Lord Qromer, who took. part in the debate, said: "The only way to rehabilitate the fina¥ees of this or any other country is a Sompléte victory, resulting in the overthrow of Kaiserism and the es- tablishtiéht "of real constitutional goverament in Germany." z Predicts That Ue S. Will War on the Kaiser #5 e tos the Whig.) Lande 5 k 21. Writing in the current issue of The World, W. F. Wend-Fenton says: "In my judgment Warsaw is cer- | tain to fall within a fortnight, and | within sixty days from now America will a declared war on Germany | and €hant. vessels in New York. harbor and will. have placed her powerful navy at the disposal of the Allies. "I predict that this step on the part of the United States will be the signal for Germany to open peace negotiations, having Warsaw and Poland to the credit side of her ac- count and the excise which Ameri- ca's intervention will provide to save her face to her own own peo- ple. "Whether these peace negotiations will prove successful will depend bn the ability of Germany's statesmen: and "the attitude of Russia." : RECRUITING IN HULL, QUE. Has Improved Since the Big Ottawa Hull for regiment for overseas service, is pick- ing up somewh thege last few days. | The ot le big recruiting rally in s Arena last Friday night is bosinbll to show, and the young At Toronto. 1 to the Whig.) os re last night, Ottawa, - July 2i.--Reeruiting in!' the 57th French Canadian| - July 21.--It is estimat- dred men joined the | the iit of recruiting | GAVE 'A BIG DINNER 'ON DOMINION DAY Officers and Me of the 21st Cele- ce Foidiv inn is told in a letter from ato soup. en, lam { in recruiting. men are omits forward in greater| nuitibers 0 offer their service. i i brated the Day in Proper Brockville, July 21.--How the 21st Battalion (at Sandling Camp lebrated the anniversary of Con. Pte, Alyn G. Donaldson, of that umit, received by his father, Mayor Don- aldson. The letter reads : , "Well, father, our officers of the 21st Battalion celebrated Dominion Day by giving a big dinner. There were about twenty guests from oth- or battalions, also Rev. Mr. Wood- chk, of. Trinity Church, Bi ville. The bill of fare was as fo IT Rie plum: pudding, ice cream, etc. «We had the bagpipes playing during the dinner. We also had our colors, the ones présented to us in Kings. ton. There Were tWo sergeants guarding them with rifles and fixed bayonets. The room was beauti- fully decorated with Union Jacks, bunting yard maple leaves. Colonel Hughes gave the toast to the King. When the offices and men of the 21st Battalion do anything they do it right. a We cannot say when we will be called to the fir- ing line, nor where we will go, but We are all in splendid condition, and ready to réspond and serve the pur Pose we came for. It is rumored in our camp that we will be sent to the Dardanelles." LATEST IN RECRUITING, haye seized all German mer. | TO Berlin" Street Car in Toronto a Big Hit. Toronto, July 21, -- The 109th Regiment has evolved a new wrinkle 1 They have obtained from the Street Railway Company a car bearing in front the sign, "To Berlin, via the 109th - Regiment," and on the fender, "Your King Calls You, How Will You Answer Him?" On the side In conspicuous lettering are the words: "If you want to en- list, jump on this car." Inside at a table sit the recruiting officers. The car to-day made a tour of a number of streets, and the response Was more than was expected, "To Berlin" catching the popular fancy. ------ A Lit ad a 18: To. | W THE CANADIAN ARTHAERY Lost Very Heavily at Ypres--Figures Just Coming Out. London, July 21.--It ds likely some misapprehension still exists in Canada concerning the part played by the Canadian artillery in recent engagements. After the battle of Ypres, for instance, the Canadian eye-witness omitted to mention that the artillery engaged were Cana- dian artillery. Casualties which then occurred among the. infantry battalions were published at once, but artillery casualties came out fn driblets for six weeks, which, with other incidents, aroused an impres- sion among Canadians that their own artillery were not engaged at Ypres, The indisputable facts are . that the Canagian artillery 10st more men at Ypref than any other artillery division bas so far lost during the war. The losses in. Killed and ounded. were over 350, which . ! , wel the remainder being rear with the horses. The t artiflery brigade, for instance, Yost a Ypres, chiefly gunners, out of -- TRUCE TO BURY DEAD. Russians and Austrians Exchange Papers 'and Cigarottes. Budapest July 21.--There was a four hours' truce on the Dneister front recently for the burial of the | dead. This truce is described as following a sanguinary fight that | lasted for several days. There were {thousands of Austrians dead lying {before the Russian trenches, and thousands of soldiers' bodies before the Austrian entanglements, in conse- quence of frequent attacks and coun- ter-attacks, all breaking down in the entanglements before the well-built positions. During the truce Phicgrs met 'and chatted cordially and exe anged Ger- man and French papers and cigar- ettes. Ome of the Austrian officers wrote a letter to his brother, who is a prisoner of war in Siberia and a Russian major undertook to post it for him. Visiting cards were ex: changed and the officers parted with the wish to meet again under more peaceful circumstances. Y ---------- From eighty to one hundred thous- and lives have been lost in the floods in the vicinity of Canton, China. 0 HELP bia, ff » first, wh Mévor Mayor [Evacuated By the & | Russians Within a Fortnight. 'Russians Stubbornly Resisting the German Advance Frem | Behind an Intricate System of Trenches and Wire Entanglements---Berlin Looks For a Speedy (Special to the Whig.) Berlin (via the Hague) July 21.--| German shells are falling on the out-| | er defences of Warsaw to-day and] {the Teuton armies are within fifteen miles of 'the city. | - Despatches from the front predict | the fall of the Polish capital within |a fortnight. The Russians are ex- pected to evacuate when the rapidly advancing German armies break through the outer chain of defen-| give works encircling the city. | The Kaiser has. arrived at the headquarters of Gen. Von Hinden- berg. The Kaiserin will leave for Posen on Friday, and it is under- stood here that she plans to enter the Polish capital with the Emperor when Von Hindenburg's triumphal | sweep carries the Germans into War- saw. Berlin is wild with excitement over | the succession of victories that are sweeping the Russians from Poland. Not since the drive on Paris last fall have .the bulletin hoards been sur rounded by such eager créwds. The popular belief here is that Germany The Italians Are Winning Special ts' the Whig.) Rome, July 21 Reports of decis sive victories Tor the Italians both north and south of GoritZ, led Rome newspapers to-day to predict the early capitulation of the fortress city known as the "Prazemysl of Isonzo." The Giornale D'Italia declared that the Italians are now winning the most decisive victories of the war all | along. the Isonzo, occupying strategic | positions and inflicting heavy losses jon the enemy. {| Frontier advices quote refugees arriving from Goritz as declaring that the city is about to be evacu- ated, The railway bridge over the fson- cone, destroyed by Austrians in their retreat across.tlfe river, has been re- built.' * The first trains passed over yesterday. - TOR MACHINE GUNS, * (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, July 21.-- The On- tario Government announces the gift of half a million dollars to the Dominion Government for machine guns. This amount will purchase about 500° of these guns. SEPP 94909 | SPP ede bed * Poet | OHAMEMAN D. M. MANTYRE | Refuses to Comment Upon Toronto Toronto, July 21.--D. M. Mcin. tyre, chairman of the Ontario Rail- way and Municipal Board, declined to make any comment on what May. or Church has sald regarding the Board. He statpd that they would do nothing until the inquiry at Queenston was completed, after which he proposed to meet the com- pany and its engineers, and prob- {ably the engineer of the Parks Com. ith a view to determining, says that the grade on the line is only five t., and his engineer tells t. o of th gn cent. on one e roads near ronto, § ! 20, between Cervgnano and Monfal- | the War. may bring a speedy ending to the war. Both north and south of Warsaw the jaws of the great German fight- | ing machine are slowly crushing in upon the Polish capital. : The Pussians are stubbornly resis. - ing th: German adyance from behind the mos. iutricate system of wire en tangicnients ana trenches yet facel by the Germans in their movement against the capital. Not Menacing Warsaw. Petrograd, July 21.--German and Austrian reports that the Russians were evacuating Warsaw were offici- ally denied at the War Office yester- day. "These Teutonic reports are ab- surd," said an attache "The Ger- mans are - not menacing Warsaw. They must overcome six fine defen- | sive positions before they can strike the fortress. "The Russian troops are in excel- lent positions, and our rallways pow permit the shifting of troops to any is striking a tremendous blow that) dayserous points," De NEW OPENINGS FOR WOMEN. Their London School of Doubles Its Plant. London, July 21..A statement asned by Premier with, [20 SE Ah ey J. Lfour calls nt : 1: yin openings for women §o%ton... The school 1s a pet charity of the Duch- ess of Marlborough, who heads the committee for assisting the school. The statement begins: *""The war constitutes the turning point in the position of medical women, for whom there are new openings and new op- portunities in many directions." Medicine Italy has asked the United States to protect her citizens within the Ot- toman Empire, DAILY MEMORANDUM. Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 and 7.30. Cheese Board, 1.30 pan, Thursday. Lake Ontario Park, vaudeville, 8.15 p.m, Big Recruiting Meeting, Artillery Park, 8 p.m, See top of page's, right hand corner, for probabilities. Ponles vs. Victorias at Oddfellows' plenie, Monday, at Brophy's. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depot ..296 Clarke, W. & Co. |...383 College Book Store Coulter's Grocery Cullen's Grocery, Frontenac Hotel . McAuley's Book Store ....93 Princess MoGalls Cigar Store, Cor. Prin. & King MARRIED. HAMILTON-PURVIS.--In Bt. George's Cathedral, on Tuesday, July th, 1915, by the Very Rev. Dea D.D, Alce Ellen Purvis, a. ter and' Mrs. John Purvis, r ; 14 deorge t, to Wil- liam Gardiner Ham $y PERLEY-PHILPS --On_ July 6th, 1915, © in. the Methodist Ch h, Button, Que, by the Rev. BE. . 8 by Rev. FJ. Bins Anna J. Philips, of PeTRey eof Hema tod, ROBERT J. REID 3 : 0'd Firm ot Under ERATORS. TREES Fatt, Hg wile they tat, Table Waters. Poland, in quarts. Poland in half gallons. \