PAGES 9- i2 Che Baily British Whig [v= YEAR 82 NO, 184 RUSSIKS PLAN OF STRATEGY INTACT nent Army Retains Freedom of Movement, With Foe Drawn 100 Miles Further In--It is a Relief to Petrograd. Realizing That Whole Operation of Retirement Has Been Effected With Remarkable Strategic Skill-- - Evacuation Has Only Moral Sig- nificance. Petrograd, Aug. 9.-- Warsaw has fallen the hands the mans without a fight, as a result of their strategic moves, cleverly com- bined at distances of from 100 to more than 200 miles away from the capital To that extent, therefore, the occupation is a real success for Germany It is not a victory, but at least the Germans have not gain- ed, indirectly by use of force, what they failed on several previous oc casions to win by direct force of Arms. The Russian, armies remain intact, however, and therefore the Germans are no nearer attaining the main objects of their Russian cam- paign. Warsaw, when entered by the Ger- mans, of coyrse, was not the Warsaw of a few months ago. It had been leisurely and thoroughl ystripped of everything valuable, particular care having been taken that nothing made of copper or brass should fall into German hands, The church bells had been sent to Moscow. All factory machinery had been removed and set to work elsewhere far away in the interior, Even in cases which destruction by explosion had been determined on, care was taken first to remove all copper and brass parts. The railway stores and engineering and fitting shops had been removed into the interior. In short, the Ger- mans having cracked the Russian nut at Warsaw find the kernal missing. The Austrian General Staff has trumpeted still wore the empty suec- cess at Ivangerod, where the Rus-| sians have withdrawn to the right bank of the Vistula after totally des- troying all the defensive works and bridges. Ivangorod is an ancient for- tress built of brick and useless against modern weapons. When the Austro-German armies attacked it last October they were thrown back from earthwork defences hastily con- structed far outside the perimeter of the fortress proper. In fact, Ivan- gorod fortress, one of those condem- ned five years ago, has served in this war merely as a bridgehead defence, fis main strength being in steel works erected before it. The capture of Warsaw and Ivan- gored has not altered the strategic situation, for the Germans are still PATHETIC MARRIAGE IN FRENCH CAPITAL into of Ger- Lieutenant Who Lost Both Eyes and Left Arm Weds School Instructress. Paris, Aug. 10.--The most pathet- icic marriage in Paris since the war started was celebrated in the Church | of the Antoine Quarter between Lieut. Canlera, who lost both eyes and his Jeft arm in the explesion of a shell at Vauquois, Lorraine, and Mlle. Mariolle Pothion, instructress at the Normal School at Tunis. They were attended by Comtess: Jan de Castellane, sister-in-law. of Boni de Castellane; Miss Holt, foun- der of the Blind Institution of Amer- ica, and Mrs. Bliss, wife of the First Secretary of the American Embassy. The engagement dated from be- fore the war. After being so badly wounded he tried to release his flancee from her promise. She re- fused. x Despite the mutilation of pearance, before the religous cermony filled the spectators with deep emotion. Upon the official excusing the bridegroom from signing the regis ter, the bride spoke up with charw- ing and tender eagerness: "Yes, yes, he can sign. He would rather. I can help him." As she smilingly guided his hand across the page there were few on- lookers whose eyes were dry. Barring The Kaiser. i Even in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's in London, the Kaiser is not given a place in the show. Shortly after the war cc@- menced the owner of his portrait by a celebrated English artist determin- ed to sell it for the benefit of char ity. No offer being forthcoming. he approached Madame Tussaud's with the suggestion that they should ; purchase the picture for the Cham- ber-of-Horrors. The answer was, "Very sorry, but we have had to de- clipe five other similar offers." Some one suggested the other day that Madame Tussaud's real reason for refusing was that, as the way figures and portraits of the criminals exhi- bited were classified; there was no ~ground bad enough for Emperor REL ie ig faced by the problem set them by the Russians -at the outset. The Russian army getting away in time, retains full freedom of movement while opposing to the German invas- ion the same problem as on the Vis- tula, but another 100 miles deeper into the vast spaces of all Russia The Russian public had been pre pared for the evacuation of Warsaw for some time past, but the pain of yielding up this fine city even to tem- porary German occupations, is none the less plainly felt and no attempt is made here to minimize the moral significance of what has happened The military. necessity for this step is obvious. It is better that War saw should be abandoned than the Russian army, one of whose aims will be to recover Warsaw, should be surrounded. On the whole, the retiremént from Warsaw and Ivangorod in present circumstances is rather a relief. The prevailing feeling here during the last few days has been that if War- saw was to be abandoned it would be well if it were done quickly so that no hitch at the last moment might lead to catastrophe. It is now plain that the whole operation of the re- tirement has been effected with re- markable strategical skill. The Ger- mans have only one Polish city at the cost of huge fighting and: very heavy losses, and their main objec- tive, the Russian army, has slipped out of their clutches. The struggle is by no means over, The Germans will now probably throw redoubled energy into their operations in the Baltic provinces, but the Russians have at any rate accomplished one stage of their very great and complex task with a sue- cess, that considering all the cir- cumstances, is simply astonishing. Thousands of Polish refugees are making their way into the interior. Poland is a desert with blackened ruins. The agony of Belgium was short and sharp, that of Poland is long and protracted, with armies again and again sweeping to and fro across the land. Yet, in spite of the terrible suffering, the Polish lea- | ders affirm their persistent faith in the causé of. the Allies and believe that in 'the end the agony will prove not to have beés-in vain. | STEEL 'OR THE WAR ZONE {Some Big Contracts Were Closed In U.S. Last: Week. New York, Aug. 10.--Buying of steel to be rolled into bars for the manufacture of high explosives shells { here and in Europe, was heavy again {last week, a¥gregating 75.000 tons, Domestic siness, however, outside | of structufal work, was not impres- sive. 'Among the largest contracts closed were 25,000 tons of billets for 2,000,000 shells for Russia to be made in New Jersey, shipment over the thir quarter of 1915 and the whole of 1916; 1,200 four and one- | half inch shells for Great Britain, {25,000 tons billets to be rolled into | bars in Europe for 2,000,000 shells for France; 10,000 tons of bars to | be rolled in New England for export; {| 30,000 tons four peint barbed wire {for the war zone, Italy. | Negotiations continue on 7,000,000 | three to six-inch shells for the Allies that will require 150,000 tons steel. i | BRITISH WAR CANVASS his face, | Nat Registrations To Be Distri- the couple made a magnificent ap- | ations) ¢ The scene at the Mairi» | buted This Week. 3 London, Aug. 10.--Every house- hold in-England will ' receive this | week 4 national registration form which must be filled out and be | ready for collection by August 16th. {One hundred thousand voluntary dis- tributors have been engaged to give jout 27,000,000 printed slips, which will indicate the war value of all men and women between the ages of 15 and 65. Most of these distribu- tors will be women supplied by the | Women's Emergency Cause. The indexing system to be follow- ed has been carefully worked out. The registrar's general staff through the press exhorts the people to give to give the Go the fullest opportunity to m the nation intelligently. gt KINGSTON* ONTARIO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 19185 -- THE PESSIMIST: "'Notner SNAG : A Ca) \ " TH' COMPRESSION IS GREAT AN' SHE SPARKS FINE Butr-" FRONT -- IT'LL LOOK BIGGER INTHE PICTURES" 3% a AR WRNSON =TTe wn ha [EI ) Soldelid = T_T, A 0 \ GITADISH | PAN! SWARM or Bees is comnL 3 Must Rely On Imports to Obtain Mu- nitions. London, Aug. 10.--In Dutch offi- cial circles, America's reply to the Austrian-Hungarian note protesting against the export of ammunition from the United States is awaited! with 'intense interest. Holland is Just now making herculean efforts to| strengthen its defences against pos- sible aggressions on the part of any one of the belligerent powers. No doubt is entertained here that this natural, pacific little kingdom will fight to the last grasp before it will} permit the violation of its neutral- ity by either Germany or England. | Under a new law just enacted, it| has called to the colors practically | every man capable of carrying a rifle, the total of the immediately | available force having been raised | trom 330.000 to 559,000. The prob-| lem providing ammunition for the! increased army has -become one of | critical urgency. Dutch officials now point out that Holland, a8 a nation| devoted to the pursuits of peace, and very inadequately supplied with metal resources or ammunition fac-| tories of its own, is absolutely de- pendent for ammunitions upon what it can import from other neutral | countries, especially America. The! | RUSSIAN AMMUNITION CONTAN RUBBISH CASES Munition Factories. turped from a trip saying that he was greatly surpris- ed to find one of the Russian hos- Ditals occupied by women soldiers wearing military uniforms. He says these women had not been enrolled in the fighting. regiments, but had been serving in the transportation corps and the commissary. They had' been under fire during the re- The Daily Mail's informant sian officers as asserting that Czar's atifiiés were terribly - handi- capped. munition when opened at the front were found to contain rubbish,he de- clares. This is attributed to tho ac- tivity of German agents in the Rus- | sian munition factories. | The revulsion of feelin FOR TROUBLE, treat. was | Prisoned and thea sent to join the army on the Isonso. o i I able 5 lean #otaile About the | termined to die rather than fight the | Thousands of. cases of am- | question of obtaining large supplies of steel and other raw. materials and manufactures from the United Sta- tes has been the subject of conmsid- eration by the Government for some | time to come. | According to the Dutch conten- tion, the adoption by the United Sta- tes of a regulation forbidding the export of munitions would practie- ally foredoom not only Holland, but every other small neutral power to certain defeat at the hands of any powerful and well-prepared nation that might choose te attack it. THAT CATTLE EMBARGO Scotchmien In London To Obtain Its Renewal. London, Aug. 10.--A group of Scotsmen, headed by Baillie Watson, | of Glasgow, has arrived in London | to remove the embargo on the im-! portation of Canadian cattle. To-day! they will send a delegation to see Lord Selborne, president of the | Board of Agriculture and Sir Ro-| bert Borden. t Baillie Watson expressed the opin- | ion that Canadian . cattle raisers | would find it advantageous to be un- | { trammelled in regard to the British | market, while Britain would also & in Swed-| en since last January, when every-| body was pro-German, the Mail's in-| formant ascribes mainly to the sink- ing of the Lusitania. Sven #iden the noted Swedish explorer and author, is declared to be unpopular | because of nif pro-German propa-| ganda. He is reported to have made $25,000 on his autumn tour with the German armies. The Swedish people, ac ng to the interview | in the Mail, rd hini as a German | agent, paid by the German Govern- ment. ! ' GERMANS JUST GET COAL Not Looking To Future Im Mining On Invaded Domain. London, Aug. 10.--A despatch to the Daily Chronicle from the north of France says that the Germans have organized 'a sort of general coal bureau at Antwerp In order to exploit the mines which they have taken possession of in Belgium and the vorth of France. The mineral is divided roughly into two parts, one of which is requisitioned for the needs of the army and the German munition factories. The rest is ex- ported to Switzerland, where it is resold by agents. Only one end is considered in working the mines--getting as much all the correct information in order|] benefit greatly. He contends that| out of the pits as possible, without the embargo is unjust, as the suppos-| any consideration for the customary ed disease was not genuine pleuro-| operations necessary for the consoli- pneumonia, Baillie Watson suggests | dation and permanancy of the mines. that the - Canadian Government |It is unfortunately only too clear should intimate its willingness to see | that after the war a considerable the embargo removed, in which case time must elapse before the mines he thinks that the Government would | can once again be put in sound con- legislate. dition for economical working. Sir George Perely appears to sym- pathize with the deputation's object,| One of the joys of married life is but thinks it is their affair rather! the pleasure he has in listening when than Canada's to conceive the im-|his wile tells him how good and kind perial Government. other men are to their wives. [o-- "Our fathers in the time of Cromwell refused to submit to the Sia May Be A Prispner. Wesley Young, Hillier, has been { tyranny of their own King. Are we, their soms, so craven as to bow down beneath the tyranny of alien kings?, Our Empire con- fers her privileges on all alike--her obligations on none. if we enjoy this freedom and fail to respond in the Empire's supreme who is able and who does not offer his services, proves himself un- worthy." --X. W. Rowell, K. C., before the Vancouver Canadian ANOTHER TRAGEDY OF WAR. Mother Aimlessly Wanders Country After Three Sons Are Shot Brecia, Aug. 10.--A Russian lady | working for the 1talian Red Cross | Crar's Armies Terribly Handicapped | By Activity .Of German.Agents In | writes: "In the Dolomite Country 1 met a woman wandering about the road whose hazard features and worn | clothes showed sigus of an aristd- London, Aug. 10.--The Daily Mail | Flic breeding. Quotes a traveller who has just re-| bad through Russia | and the Sc ia p i e Scandinavian countries 83 | each others arms in my sight by the | Austrians because they loved Italy, (and tried to escape from the Aus- Asked if she need- d help, the old woman replied: 'I don't seek charity. I seek the peace of God. My three sons were shot in trian army to join the Italians. "The unfortunate mother was born in Vienna and was a daughter of the Roman Count Bernardi, who fought with Garibaldi. She taught her three sons to love Italy. When the war broke out all three were im- They were de- against Italy. Their attempt to as- cape being discovered, they were shot in the presence of their moth- er, who had followed them to the front hoping to assist them. "The grief-stricken woman, un- able to rest, wanders through the land. the love of which cost them their lives." ASHES OF COL. 8. B. HANCE Will Be Taken To Cape Vincent From Seattle, Wash. The Rev. D. F. Giles, Cape Vin- cent, N.Y., has received the follow- ing communication from Herbert Ainsworth Blogg, of Seattle, Wash: "You have probably seem in the Cape Vincent Eagle the account of | the death of Col. S. B. Hance, who was for many years a resident of Cape Vincent and Kingston. He was my great uncle on my mother's side. Her mother was an Ainsworth. . "As executor under Col. Hance's will, it becomes my sad duty to ac- company his ashes to Cape Vincent and see them laid to rest beside his wife in Riverside cemetery. * This will occur some time this fall. "We would very much like to have you officiate at the cemetery, if you will. I am also asking the G. A. R. Post to take part and use any form of service they may have. I will leave betweéh you the arrangements for the service. Please write me here. "I will write you again and let you know when I will arrive in the Cape." : BUT RUSSIA WILL WIN Even If Forced To Retire To Ural Mountains. Petrograd, Aug. 10.-- via Lon- don.--The general committees ap- pointed to organize industries for mi- litary purposes began their labors yesterday under the presidency of Alexander Guehkoff, formerly presi- dent of the Duma. Addressing the committees, M. Riabouchingky, the Moscow mil- lionaire, said: "We shall retire, if necessary, as far as the Ural Moun- 'tains. We shall fight to the last man, but we shall gain victory. ig Srtckrs I i id COST TO DOMINION OF A YEAR OF WAR Nearly $90,000,000 Has Naval Expenses Slight Since minated---The Financial Ottawa, Aug. 9---A year war 'has cost Canada $90,000,000. The great struggle in which many Canad- ians have already laid down their lives is also calling for great finan cial sacrifices. It is costing Can- | ada, in fact, $300,000 a day. Figur- "ing this out .even more finely, it will, be apparent that Canadians are go ing down into their pockets to pay the expenses of the present struggle at the rate of nearly $15,000 an hour, or about $240 a minute,and the statistician who cares to reduce his calculations to the ultimate unit will discover, of course, that the Canad ian financial war clock is ticking at the rate of only a little less than $4 | per second. | The total war expenditure up to| July 31st, or practically twelve | months after war was declared on August 4th last year, was $81,500.- | 000. The ratio of expense, of course, | is going up all the time as the Dom- inion places more and more troops| in the field. Almost the whole ex- penditure is military in character, | | of 1000 i. SECTION SECOND s Been Spent In Twelve Months Of Struggle Chiefly on ~The Army German Cruisers Were Exter- War Clock is Ticking a Little Less Than $4 a Se- cond. I -- Canada's navy, especfally now that German cruisers have been driven from the sea, costing her comparati- vely very Hitle The "main items are in the equipment and upkeep of men at home, in England and at the front. The pay of the troops alone costs little less than $100,000 per day Of the $90,000,000 which consti- tutes the total expense of the war so far. $50,000,000 was voted at the special August session of Parliament last year and $40,000,000 came out of the war appropriation of $100, made at the last session, and which is being borrowed in England Besides providing for the direct war | expenditures. the Minister of Finan ce had to increase the revenue, which were falling as a result of the war, and for that purpose imposed extra tariff and direct taxation. That this will be sufficient to take care of the financial situation till the next session is now being demonstrated, Customs revenues during the past few months having largely increased PUSHING AHEAD The Scheme Of the Germans Is Un- & folding. London, Aug. 9.--The Germans are making attempts in all direc tions in their efforts to cut off the | retreat of the Russian army from | the Polish Salient. They have com- | menced an attack on the fortress of | Kovno, and attempted to storm Osso wertz, which are among the obstacles | they must overcome in order to reach | the railway running from Warsaw through Vilna and Devinsk to Petro- grad. They have taken the minor for- tress of Serock, at the junction of the Narew and the Bug, and have cross ed the Vistula in the vicinity of War. saw, Further south Gen. Weyrsch is advancing eastward, but Field Marshal Mackensen is being stub- | bornly resisted, and apparently mak- ing at the best very alow progress On the whole, the daring scheme mapped out by the Germans as a grand sequel to the capture of War. saw--the destruction of the Russian army--is unfolding itself slowly, as must be the case from its very mag nitude. With the three main raijl- ways, bésides those built since the, war, it is believed in military circles here that the Grand Duke Nicholas will be able to extricate his Warsaw army, The events in the east, how- ever, will continue to rivet the atten- tion of the world on them for some | time to come, There has been some rather heavy fighting in the Caucasus between the | Rusisans and the Turks, but the offi- | cial reports from the opposing camps | are so contradictory that it is im. | possible to say in whose favor it is | going. | | RY | | | EFFORTS MEET SUCCESS Events Hanging Fire Which will End Neutrality. | Rome, Aug. 8.--The Tribuna, in| an officially inspired comment upon | the Balkan situation, points out that! the Allies' efforts toward interven-! tion by the Balkan States have been | practically successful. | The article says that while here- b tofore the diplomats' persuasive ar-| guments have been limited to the! cially andounced that the Allies are! negotiating with Serbia. | Eventual concessions will be ne-| cessary to bring about interven-| tion on the part of Bulgaria and | Greece, : | A detailed announcement is with-| held, however, until the success of | the representations is definitely as-| sured; the Tribune asserts, adding! that important events are hanging fire which will end the neutrality of the Balkan States. neutral governments, it is now off-| B AUSTRALIANCFINDS PREHISTORIC SKULL Fossilized Headpiece Twenty-Five Thousand Years Old Present- ed to University. Sydney, Australis; Aug. 10. The first truly fossil skull discovered in Australia was recently handed over as a gift to the University of Sydney by Joynton Smith of the state legis- lative council. This is the skull which caused such a sensation at the Congress of the British Association of Science last September. It is be- lieved to be 25,000 years old. Since the British Association's convention the petrified enerustation inside and | outside the skull has been removed by Profs. David and Smith, of the university. At the formalities attending the receipt of the skull from the donor, Prof. David explained that it be- longed to the Pleistocene period, and was found after a flood thirty-one years ago in the bed of a creek near Talgki ranch, on the Darling Downs, in the State of Queepsiand, by a stockman. Prof. Smith said that the sequence of teeth in the skull was such as to show' that it was that of a youth about fifteen, yet one of the teeth was the largest human tooth yet dis- covered. The extremely primitive characteristics of the skull 'were so great, he sald, as to warrant its be- ing placed with such anthropological specimens as the prehistoric Heidel- burg jaw and the Plitdown skull TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY PROVED HIMSELF HERO Dived Repeatedly Into Strathroy River and Saved Lite of Strathroy, Ont, Aug. 10.--S8teps #re being taken to secure both the Royal Humane Society and Carnegie medals for Preston Brandreth, 12- year-old hoy of this town, who on Saturday rnon saved the life of seven-year-old Bobbie Wilson, in brilliant fashion. Young Wilson got beyond his depth while in bathing in the river, and, being unable to swim, had soon gone down for the last time. Brand- reth heard the lad's cries, and rush- ing to the scene dashed into the wa- ter with his clothes on and dived ' time after time for the body. finally orate oe and swam ashore, young n being in an a 1 lifeless condition. . Bparently Young Brandreth worked heroi- cally over the boy, and finally suc- ceeded in resuscitating him.