12 PAGES PAGES1-8 LAST EDITION YEAR 82 NO 173 " KINGSTON ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY JULY 28, 1915 ee -- TT BATTLE RESUMED AROUND SOUCHEZ The 'Germans Made Three Furious Attacks On a Very Small Front But Were Repulsed. i a-- French Aeroplane Bombarded Turkish Aviator Camp North ~ of Chanak and Did Much Damage---French Right | } Now Is Not The Time To Hang Back ! ! You say the war is a long way off. We do not hear the great guns or see the smoke of battle. But the struggle is on. No matter what might have been; the call to arms is irresistible. The loyal Canadian must stand by the i THE STREET RAILWAY Mother Country in her desperate need; he must stand by his own land, which \ . sa isa part of the British Empire. The Hydro-Electric Commission Makes Report Young man, you who are thinking about the war; dreaming about it, | i i i hh. but doing nothing to end it; your flag would be trailing in the dust; your Em- About Its Financial Standing to Utili pire would be degraded; the Kaiser would have been crowned in London as ti 0 100th : his grandfather 'was crowned at Versailles, if all the men who are able to fight es ommission. were as slow and incompetent as you are showing yourself to be. iain ; There is nothing too good for the soldier. The politicians last winter li Hope Radi Improvemen i i ) were discussing whether the men at the front should be allowed to vote. They Little . For Any Radical A . tin Railway $ would have been better employed in discussing whether or no the men who Business---If Company is Assisted it Musi be stayed at home should be allowed to retain the franchise. : Wing Has Made Slight Progress in the {Bpecial to the Whig) Paris, July 28 battle for the trench country around Souchez was resumed by the Ger- mans, after a lull of nearly a week, in three furious charges during the night. An official communique this after- noon admitted that the Teutons pen- etrated the French trenches at one point, but only op a twenty-yard front. A "DAMNABLE OUTRAGE." SAYS ROOSEVELT "It is Perfectly Hellish." He Adds, When Told of the Sinking of the Leelanaw. San Diego, Cal., July 28.--Rising up out of his chair and shaking his fist, Col. Roosevelt, when told of the sinking of American steamship Lee- lanaw by a German submarine, de- 'clared: : f "It is a damnable outrage, but one that is to be expected. 1 am won-| dering just what our pacifist friends will say to this now. Wait a whole year, I suppose, to discuss it, and then do nothing." "It is perfectly hellish," thé Col-| onel continued." "Phe condition to which our peace-at-any-price policy| has brought wis. Any man with an | ounce of red blood In his bedy will | feel the deliberate insult that Ger-| many puts on us by this deliberate flouting of the demands made upon! her by the United States, an insult] that is the more aggravated by rea-| son of the utter senselessness of this] latest attack on an unarmell iner- chant ship." AMERICAN ARRESTED. For Attempting To Leave Germany ! Without Passport. (Special to the Whig.) Washington, July 28.--Harry L. Wilson, Oregon, clerk to the Ameri- can Consul-General of Berlin, has been arrested by the German auth- orities on the Danish frontier on the technidal charge of attempting to leave Germany without a passport, it was learned at lhe State Depart- ment to-day. He is relating it to President Wilson, Wilson's real offence, it is under- stood, was issuing a passport to an Englishman as an American citizen, thereby enabling him to evade the German authorities. Wilson is not immune from German" law, and the offence is believed to be grave. The State Department is investigating. DIRIGIBLE EXPLODED In Its Hangar, Killing Three and In- Juring Twenty. (Special to the Whig.) London, July 28.--Three persons wer Killed and twenty injured by the ¢éxplosion of an army dirigible in its hangar at Wormwood Scrubs to-day. The dead and injured were mostly mechanics employed about the camp. Escaping gas was set off by a light- ed cigar. (Official) --The | | forces. Peninsula. | i «+ The infantry onslaught was pre- ceded by a heavy artillery bombard- ment that tore away sections of the French wire entanglements. The | Germans then charged in three sim- | ultaneous pushes at different points on the French line. - Excepting slight' loss admitted by the War Office, the! enemy's attacks were repulsed. Soissons was heavily bombarded | during the night. Elsewhere, the War Office said there was little to re- port. ad WILL LAND MARINES, If Necessary To Stop Hayti. (Special to the Whig.) | Washington, July 28.--The cruis- er Washington, with Rear Admiral Caperton in command, will reach Port au 'Prince, Hayti, before noon| today "with- an expeditionary force | {of 800 bluejackets and marines. Ad-| | miral Caperton will land marines if | necssary to prevmt further fighting. | Fighting In Shot President | Guillaume in | Port au Prince (Special to the Whig) Port Au Prince, Halti, July 28.-- As a climax to the two days revolu- | tion that has swept the Haytien capi-! tal the revolutionary troops to-day | dragged President Guillaume from the French Legation, where he had | taken refuge, and shot him in front | of the building. Guillame's body | lay on, the spot where it had fallen | for several hours while the mob | | marehed by. War between Santo Domingo and | | Hayti loomed up as a strong proba-| bility. to-day. CONFIRMATION RECEIVED Of the Changes In the Canadian! Overseas Forces, ! (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, July 28.--Confirmation was received to-day by the Militia Department of three changes in the Canadian } | | | { important | overseas { Major-General Sam Steele, D. 8. | O., Winnipeg, who left Canada in| command of the Second Canadian | Division, has been promoted to com- | mand the solth-western district of England. This includes Shorn-| cliffe. It is further announced that Gen- | eral Steele will be succeeded in the command of the Second Canadian Di- | vision by General Turner, V. C., D.| 8. 0, C. B., Quebec, who as com- | mander of the First Brigade did dis- | tinguished service at St. Julien and | elsewhere. Gen. Turner is recog-| nized as one of Canada's most dash- | ing and efficient officers. He won | the Victoria Cross in South Africa. Official announcement is made of | the appoint t of Col, A. D. Me-| Rae, Victoria, to the position of di-| rector of supply and transport for the Canadian forces overseas. | © m-------------------- i Chicago Buried { t German Naval Expert Howls. to the Whig. | was | orsen, | land's hull. | trenches. are pinned to the King's uniform. A learned judge the other day told the jury that in spite of the war usual in England, but if the British navy disappeared houses of parliament and courts of law amount to? If our forces are vanquished by land and sea London will be as Nineveh and Tyre. So the men who fight in this war will return to be the leaders of The man with ambition is killing Qis future when he hangs back justice was going on as what would statesmen, judges, the nation. at this time. IDIOT REGAINS MIND, Afflicted Youth Is Cured by Patch on Skull Lexington, Ky., July 28. --As a re- | sult of a tréphining operation per- formed on him_ Matt Bryan, an eigh- teen-year.old boy of Athol, Ky., has been reclaimed from idiocy. When four years old Bryan suffer- ed a fall, \which is now known h that time on his mind has been that of a child mentally, amusing himself- with strings, toys, ete. right eye looked upward, giving him an expression of feehle-mindedness, Following the operation, performed at Jackson, the young man's mind has become brighter and his eye has been res stored to its normal position. Alive In The Hull. Chicago, July 28, --Harry liolver- diver for the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, teld of finding a man alive in the hull on one of his descents into the East. The man, about thirty- five years old, lived only a few mo- ments despite heroic work by Thom- | as A. Carter. Divers foufd a new "death pocket" on Tuesday. They said they could see dozens of bodies in the dining room of the ship. An effort will be made to get these out. French Progress In Gallipoli (Special to the Whig.) Paris, July 28.---A Freneh aero- plane bpmbarded a Turkish aviation camp north of Chanak, setting fire to hangars and a gasoline depot, | causing a big blaze that destroyed | the surrounding buildings. The right wing of the French for- ces on the Gallipoli Peninsula has made slight progress. Always Poking About 'Hottest Part Of Line Ottawa, July 28.---Lieut.-Col. Mor- rison, commanding the 1st Artillery | Brigade In Belgium, in a letter to his wife says: "Speaking of the chaplains, one of the best is Rev. Alexander M. Gor- don, of St. Andrew's Church, Rev. Dr. Herridge's assistant. (You re- member how I jollied about his ser- ies of 'Aviation' sermons on Elijah). Well he is always poking about where he shouldn't be, in nearly al the hottest corners in the forward He comes to see my map of the trenches, and with all the guilefulness of the serpent inquires: 'How do you get down there?' " Mr. Gordon is the eldest som of Principal Gordon, Queen's Univer- sity, Kingston. : 0 to | ave fractdred his skull, and from | His which | (Special ig.) { _ Rotterdam, July 28.--In yester- day's Tageblatt, Capt. Persius, naval | expert, breaks out in a frantic effort | to prove by inference that all British of Disaster, ori nierencs dae an brian (Special to the Whig.) | mo * Chicago, Ill, July 238.--Under come "a partner of streaming skies, Chicago buried its | scrupulousness. dead to-day 600 Victims The hue and cry for the guilty in | : the Eastland catastrophe was muff-| London, ott Lime. In Sev place bells ) ; PB tolled t! a sorrow. In official quith in "doors closed. Over pub-! parliament -- September em bablc buildings : told the House of Commons, this af- at f mast. Close to 600 ternoon, that the situation is quite Victizas were laid to rest. the { |family is well known For all our hopes BRITAIN CONTENDS | SEIZURES ARE LEGAL Note Admits, However, There is 2 "New Application" of Principles of International Law. Washington, July 288,--Great Brit- | ain's reply to the American note of March 30tl), protesting against en- | forcement of the orders-in.council, | which restrict neutral commerge, | wag received here to-day, . It holds {that the orders are within interna- | tional law, although they may in- volve a new application of princi- ples, and argues that it is proper to await a judicial interpretation. The note in the most ' courteous language holds that Great Britain's action in seizing shipping is justified by decisions of the United States Supreme Lourt in cases arising dur- ing the Civil War. | Any differences with the United 'States over what is termed the new application of prin- ciples are held to be proper for sub- mission to judicial settlement. | GHRMAN HAD MONTREAL PLANS | Location of Armories, Stations and Other Public Buildings. | Montreal, July 28.--A man, who {gave his name as Jean Bouchard, | and his home as Luxemburg, was ar- , rested on Mount Royal. - Among pa- pers_found in Bouchard's pockets was a small map of the city, on which the locations of the different (armories, the railway stations, pub. i lic buildings, pumping stations and reservoirs, as wel] as some of the largest establishments where war munitions for the*allied armies are being maunfactured, were carefully noted. He also had a notebook | that was Well filled with copious notes in German, as wel] as copies of a German newspaper published in New York, and a couple of local newspapers. Though poorly dress- ed, he had $275.73 in his pocket, in- cluding some German coins. Bag- gage checks were also found one him, and the police think the man made frequent trips to the United States. v Bouchard was handed over to the military authorities, AN AWFUL DEED. Insane Parent Shot Son and Him- self. St. John, N.B., July 28._Arm- strong's Corner, thirty.nine miles from St. John, on the main road 'to Fredericton, was the scene of a mur. der and suicide early Saturday morning the facts of which came to light yesterday. ' James- Fran- cis, sixty years of age, a farmer, and father of fourteen children, shot his fon, Fred, the head, killing him instantly, and then placed thé barrel of the gun to his mouth and blew off his own head. Aranda wife Ded bh and since that time ind had weakened. Recently he haa- made in- h last, threats to i ti {tended to kill Simantt, but br {tention was paid to his threats. + There will be no inquest. The and respeet- nity is given as the cau le deed Suge ~~ SERBIA BIDES HER TIME. Moment Not Yet Opportune For Re- suming Offensive. Rome, via Paris, July 28.--Cor respondente from Serbian headquar- ters to the Messaggero confirms to a certain extent the report that Serbia does not intend to undertake offen-| sive operations for the present, al-| though the Serbian army is now fully equipped and compares favorably with the other fighting armies. i The frontier is guarded hy French | aeroplanes, and Belgrade is defended | by six batteries of Serbian artillery | and two each of British, French and | Russian. The Serbian army consists | of 230,000 infantry. | According to these advices, the| Serbian Goyernment sigys that the! time is not gpportune for the resump- | tion of fighting and that for the! moment it is necessary for the people | to have patience. | It appears that the Austrians, how- | ever, ara preparing for. a Serbian offensive. A despateh from Kra- guyevatz to the Metsaggero indicates that the Austrians have constructed three lines of fortifications along the Serbian front. : AUSTRIA HIDING DEFEAT | | While! Cadorna Continues His Isonzo | Front Advance. Udine, July 28.-<Ausiria is re- sorting to every known means to dis- guise her defeat alomg the Isonzo River, which has cost her more than 25,000 in" killed, wounded and pri- -soners. Meanwhile, General Cador- na, with his usual balanced judg- ment, instead of being tempted to continue a rash advance, repeats what he already has done in the past --he employs about a week fortify- ing himself in conquered positions | to rest his troops, fill vacancies, and | prepare them for a fresh leap, which the Austrians oppose. as fiercely as before, but are unable to stop at pre- sent. . On their side, the enemy spends several days, but especially nights, | attacking the Italians, hoping to re-| take lost ground and molest their foes' work, while strengthening them selves in newly-acquired trenches. This method of General Cadorna aims to inflict heavy losses upon the enemy with a mifilmum of cost to the "Italians. AUSTRIA"S LAST CALL Means 700,000 To 800,000 Men Ad- ded To Army. London, July 28.--The Post's Budapest correspondent esti- mates that the calling up of the last Landsturm class 1d Austria-Hungary, which he says will be comple Oc- tober 7th, will add 700,000 to 800,- 000 men to-the army. This class includes men between the ages of 43 and 50. > » { kilo-watt hour. ning | Indian Princes Continue to Send '| through the Viceroy, a lakh of ru- Done at Expense of Taxpayers at Large. Xo -------- The Utilities Commission at its meeting Tuesday afternoon heard a report from the Hydro-Electric Com- | mission with regard te the financial | | standing of the Kingston Street Rail- way Company. Some time ago there was a confer ence between the Utilities Commis- sion and members of the railway company with reference to a renew- al of the power agreement. The Commission has been supplying the company with power at 1.20 cent a The Hydro Com- mission after an investigation report- ad that the new figure should be 2.09 cents, which is cost. At the regent conference the street railway officials asked the Commission to ro- néw the agreement at the old rate, declaring that the company was not making any money. To prove their assertion they offered to allow the Jommiseion to examine their books. The fixing of the new power rate was withheld, and the Utilities mem- bers arranged that the chief auditor | of the Hydro-Electric Commission should make the examination. An outline of his report was given at Tuesday's meeting in a letter from F. A. Gaby, chief engineer. The company's books were exam- ined for 1913,1914-and 1915, the revenue and expenditure being checked over for those three years, with this result: 1913---8§1,778,82 net profit, 1914--- 8,379.22 net loss. 1915 512.19 net profit. The figures for the present year were not. complete of course. The receipts and expenditures for the three years were: Receipts Expenditures 19313... 1914 1818 .... The auditor $38,578.37 $36,800.05 42,238.86 50,618.08 40,041.37 39,529.18 reported that there was a $4,000 chagge each year on 8 [bond issue of $100,000 which the | company claims Is the amount actu- ally paid in cash for the seeured Lelaims against the property when purchased at an average price ol 206 conts on the dollar In _1914, $13,687 was paid for double-tracking on Princess and King streets and charged against revenue. That caused the large net loss that year. The company has made no attempt to ever pay {dividends on preferred or common stock and it has no depreciation ac- | coun*y The office pay roll amounts to only $2,600. The company has been very lucky in regard to actions for damages, although two writs for $10,000 have recently been issued. Mr. Gaby stated that from a'care- ful view of the situation in Kingston | there is little hope for any radical improvement in the business of the Street Railway Company. Further- more privision néeds to be made for {a renewal of the company's power plant which has been in service many years, and which was second-hand | when purchased. After stating the findings of the | auditor, Mr. Gaby concludes: | "The Commission must maintain | its attitude that the ability of the | Street Railway Company to pay more | or less for its power or other ex- penses has no pessible 'connection with the rate at whieh the power | must be sold te it By the municipal- | tty; and that the electrical users of the municipality not Aaxed indirectly to support a utility which is not otherwise self-sustaining; and if the city of Kingston wishes to as sist in the operation of the street railway it must do so at the expense of the taxpayers at large through a general tax levy." The Utilities Commission is await- ing another report before it will fix the new power rate that the company must pay. RUSSIAN FLEET (Special to the Whig.) since the war began, the Black Sea destroyers on Sunda 150 Turkish sailing vessels the coast of Trebisond. escape. An official statement to-day, de: LAKHS OF SRUPEES * | MACHINE Gifts and Money to Britain. aS 'tion. has given David Lloyd George pees ($32,000) for munitions. He and two other rulers have offered their workshops to the Government for the making of munitions, The Premier of Nepal has given a' lakh of rupees for the purchase of ma- chine guns. Other chiefs) have comtributed motor ambulances, aero- planes and tents, while one offered Other gifts include Red Cross motor ment) E Indian press continues to in- i on the most rigorous int.ro- of all Germans. Petrograd, July 28.--In the most successful raid on Turkish shipping | Caucasus, reported that the Turks in Russian | the vicinity of Mush have been rein- y sank [forded and are making a stubborn in the | resistance. harbors of Samaun and Riza along Simla, India, July 28.--The In-|, didn princes are continuing their | generous assistance in every direc-| The Maharajah of Gwalior | a camp for the Turkish prisoners. | Jas. Redden SINKS 150 TURKISH VESSELS ing with the operations of Black Sea squadron and fighting in the A Russian cavalry regiment charg- A Russinu va and sabred two companies of motor boat pursued and sank a load- ed Turkish vessel that attempted to | the Eu {Turks in a hot engagement along phrates and drove the rem- Ants to the right bank of the riv- r. Zh Fired a & Bark. (Special to the hig.) Copenhagen, July 38. Fhe Swed- ish bark Madonna, bound from { Halmstead to Hartpool, was stopped by a German submarine in the North Sea and set afire after the crew had taken to the boats. » DAILY A Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 ana 7.30, oaks Ontario Park, vaudeville, 5.15 ' Bee top of '3, 0 tor probabilities Hight hand corner BORN. WHALLBY --On Sunday, July 25th. t 0 Rev. and Mrs. Cecil hatley, 13% Bagot street, a its od SONS | HD) ; ha i Vadnsakor. REID 254 and 206 STRERT Phone 1 for REFRIGERATORS. Tis Padme Hi ile ther ah, ue This is the season for 2 - JAMES The 0'd Firm of And the perfect Te for this OUR OWN SPECIAL 'BLEND, 35¢ per 1b, yy m & Co