. PAGES 8-12 The Daily British Whig [om PAGES 3 YEAR 82 NO, 180 THE LINE EXPECTED T0 CHECK THE FOE Inn pn, Berlin Reports That the Germans Are Making | Progress Towards Bn London, Aug. 16.--The Germans are making pfogress towards the fortress of Brest-Litovsk, if the Ger- man official statement is correctly | interpreted, for it depgcribes fighting! beyond the Losyce-Miedzyrzee line, which is less than forty miles west of Litovsk, From the south Gen. Mackensen is also approaching the fortress, having reached Vliodava. His troops hold the road running from there to Radiyn, via Dawidy. Vliodava has. been gained only after a long struggle, though over a week ago Petrograd believed it lost. The following despatch received from Petrograd seems to deal with the situation prior to the latest Ger- man advance: bad This Line Will Check Foe. "The new positions occupied™ by the Germans and Austrians were out- lined with approximate accuracy on good authority, to-day, for the first time since the fall of Warsaw. The line, starting from the vieinity of Ossowetz, near the Prussian border opposite the Mazurian Lakes region, curves to the south and east, runn- ing through Sokolow, Siedlce, Luk- ow, Ostrow, and Viadova, "The concentration of Austso-Ger- man forees in the direction of the fortress of Brest Litovsk is proceed- ing along three 'roads, running to that point from Malkin, from Luk- ow, and from Malkin, from Lukow, and from Vladova, The invaders are still between 40 and 50 miles from Best-Litovsk, and are meeting in with strong opposition at every step of their advance. "According to Russian military ob- servers, it is expected that in the near future the original plan of re- tirement from the Vistula line wil ' i Brest-Litovsk. In Petrograd the Opinion is Expressed That the Russian - Line With That Fortress as One End Will Check the Advance of the Austro-Ger- mans. the Fortress of | | | | Serbian capital has been resumed by | the Austrians with largé howitzers: No loss of life is reported. | On the Yser, there was artillery fighting before Lombaertzyde, St, George's Boesinghe and Woeven. In Arteis, east of Lille, a violent can- nonading was reported. | Petrograd reports no essential] changes in the region of Riga and | between the Narew and the Bug ri-| vers. Desperate fighting is taking! place in the region southwest of Gie- chanowice. . | The Austrian submarine U-3 sunk| in the Adriatic on August 12th was] sent- to the bottom by the French tor-| pedo boat destroyer Bissen. i Indication that Roumania may be considering immediate entrance into| the world war was seen in the news| from there Saturday evening that all | military factories have been ordered | to prepare lists of men available for | military service. | The Berlin Vossiche Zeitung claims, that the Russian fortress of Ostro-| lenka is in the hands of the Teuton- ic army. It is stated that the Grand Duke's forces still hold Osswitz, to the north. Ostrolenka is back of the German lines, and it was presum- ed to have been taken long ago. General Cadorna, Italian com- mander, has practically completed KINGSTON ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915 preparation for a general attack on the Austrians along the Isonzo river, and expects to take Gorizia, opening | the way for a march on Trieste. It is hoped this campaign may be a | success early in September. There was hand-to-hand fighting near Puisalene on Sunday. Nineteen French aeroplanes drop- ped 108 bombs on German depots in the valley of Spada near St. Mi- hiel. Constantinople reports that An- glo-French attacks against the Turk- KAISER BILL: 'It's eas and t'other plays with gases." JAMAICA'S $10,000,000 STORM Destruction Of Banana Crop on Coast Believed Complete. Kingston, Ja.,, Aug. 16.--Detaiis of the damage done by the severe be accomplished, and that Brest-Li- tovsk, although not yet in the phere of activity, will assume its function as one end of the Russian line. In Petrograd the opinion is expressed |in the last two days, and broken with confidence that the advance of 'through Russian position in the re- the Austrian and Germans will be ! gion of Losyce and Medzyrze. checked on this line." { The situation further north Is al-| so of supreme interest, and Berlin | makes the important claim that a+ fortified forest in front of Kovno has | been taken, War Tidings. -------------- Greek Army recruits of the 1915] The one absolutely certain thing class were called to the colors Sat-| in life is its uncertainty. urday. When it comes to debt, most men The bombardment of Belgrade, the are glad they are not in it. ish right wing north of Aribkari Burnu were repulsed on Thursday. Berlin reporis that thé Germans have' taken about 115000 prisoners Seeks A Divorce, Ottawa, Aug. 16.--Robert Ww. hompson, broker, of Toronto, has filed an application for divorce from his wife, Ida Lois, now a resident in | New York City. storm which swept over Jamaica Fri- day are coming in slowly, as telegra- phic communication with the north side of the island has not yet been resumed. It is known, however, that three lives were lost at Anotto bay, on the north coast, where con- siderable material damage was done and many persons were made home- less. A small section of the coast railway was destroyed, it has also been learned. Destruction of the ba- hana crop on the northern coast is believed to have been complete, jud- ging from the severity of the storm. The western section probably has not suffered, the storm having turn- ed north in the vicinity of Falmouth. Railway traffic on the north coast is entirely suspended. a Proper nourishment and well chosen those who are fitting themselves for the fettle--bright and alert to absorb the For "thinkers" and "doers." MADE IN CANADA. = = - I Food For Thought s are food for thought for les of life. "x GRAPENUTS by providing thorough nourishment to both body and brain, keeps one in fine world's great lessons. . ~ "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts : Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Windser, Ont. y to tell the little todgers apart. One wears glasses SATURDAY'S. BASEBALL VICTORIAS DEFEATED ATHLETI- OS BY 8 TO 0, In the Semior City League Baseball Match At the Cricket Field. -- | Victorias Are Now Champions. | On Saturday afternoon at _-the | Cricket Field, Athletics ~ were de- feated by Victorias in the Senior City League contest by the score of 8 to 0, Cotman, the regular catch- er for Athletics, was not present on account of injuries received to his leg, and Cummings who originally held down positions at centre field and first base was out of place in filling the vacancy. Several easy foul fly-balls he might have secur- ed had he exerted himself a little. His throwing from home-plate to se- cond base was deficient, Had it not been for 8. Toland, doing some mighty good covering the scoring would have been much higher. Blackenbury was a little nervous at first and allowed Nicholson, the first man up in the first innings, to walk. Through good support from Kelly, first baseman, D. Pound, the next batter, was cut short, but H. Dick secured a single, and Nicholson who had reached third base, scored the first run for Victorias. Gillespie allowed 8. Toland to walk on balls, but the latter was caught going te the second, as was also Spoor, who tried for the initial plate, Cummings went out on a fly- '|'ball to the pitcher retiring the side. The second and third innings ad- ded nothing for either side. The fourth innings brought a little en- thusiasm into the contest. Somer- ville, the first man up for Victorias made a nice drive securing two bases. Laird*went out at first, Shultz made a single, scoring Sommerville. A double play was again pulled off by Victorias in the last of the fourth innings. Cummings reached his ini- tial bag and Blackenbury was thrown at first. Previous to this Coyne had gone out on a fly to the second base- man. * Sommerville started the sixth in- nings with a two-bagger, but the three batters following him were Ipid low in one, two, three order Had the seventh innings not tak- place the result of the game en | would not have been so bad, for it was at this stage that Victorias hit Blackenbury hard, Four runs were made. Gillespie secured a single. Nicholson followed with a two bag- ger, placing the former on third plate. . Pound making a safe Athletics--Blackenbury, p; Cum- mings, ¢; Kelly, 1b; 8, Ti i, 2b; H. Toland, 3b; Spoor, ss; Milner, It; Coyne, ef; Lummun, rf; Score by innings: R.H.E. Vietorias--1 001004028152 Athletics--0 000000000 21 Umpire--E. Hartrick. -- AUTHOR BECOMES ASHAMED Of His "Song of Hate --=Written In Heat. Amsterdam, Aug. 16.--Ernst Lis- sauer appears to be becoming ashamed of the "Song of Hate." He writes to the Berlin Tageblatt say- ing he agrees with its viewsthat the song is not intended for the young, and he has often advised against its publication in school books. "The Song of Hate," he writes, "was written as the result of a pas- sionate impulse. in the first week of the war, when the impression cre- ated by England's declaration of war was fresh. The Song of Hate is a political poem not directed against individual Englishmen, but collec- tively against the English will to de- struction which threatens Germany. "In the excitement of those days my feelings were deeply stirred by this. Whether those feelings can continue with .the cool considera- tion of practical politics Is another question." 0 sPOLES PROSORIBED Death Penalty For Communication With Kaisei's Enemies, Copenhagen, via London, Aug. 16. --It is stated that the German Gov- ernor-General of Poland has issued a proclamation forbidding the 'holding of meetings and the carrying of arms and ordering the closing of shops.at 8 o'clock in the evening and the theatres before 9 o'clock. The death penalty is prescribed for anyome communicating with Germany's en- emies. Smuggling Aliens. Brockville, Aug. 16.--The first were caught at Morristown, N.Y, af- ter being landed from this side. They. were held by the United States authorities until, when Inspector Foster, of the Dominion Im 1 Was Revealed By Pres Investigation Under Way to Washington, Aug. 16.--The re- cent Mexican flurry was a plot to | stampede the United States into war, | President Wilson has uncovered it. | Three hours after his arrival In | Washington the Mexican excitement | petered out. | The identity of the plotters Is not | public property as yet, but Investi-| | gation is under way now, in Wash- | {ington and other cities, to discove- { what * interests were behind | Burry. { These facts stand out: | When Secretary Lansing met with | {the South American diplomats in | | Now York to discuss the note to the | | warring parties in Mexico, the plot- | ters felt that the time for action had | arrived. Part of their scheme was to make | trouble on the border. The White | House knows that, for several years, | several interests in the United States have offered sums to several "bad men" along the Texas border if these "bad men" would organize "armies" of American Mexicans, lead them ito Mexico and then turn around: and march back into the United States,. killing Americans and re- stroying property, and making the American people believe that Mexi- the BRANTFORD STREET RAILWAY. Had Net Deficit Of $3,438.85 For Six Momths. Brantford, Aug. 16.--The Brant ford Municipal Railway system, after six months of operation, earn- ed in that period sufficient to cover the operating expenses, and leave a balance of $8,283.90. This sum has been applied for the payment of local improvement and the tax for interest on pavements between -the car rails, amounting to $1,251, and the sinking fund, amounting to $2,- 214; bond and debenture interest. $3,257.75, and debenture interest makes a net deficit for the six months of $3,438.85. FIND HUMAN BLOOD GREATEST CLEANSER New Antiseptic Method Makes Use of Those Qualities in the Blood. London, Aug. 16.--A year of war SETTER SECOND SECTION PLOT TO INVOLVE THE U.S. INWAR | ident Wilson And the Mexican Excitement Petered Out in a Few Hours. Find Plotters---Plan Was lo Make Trouble on Border by Fake Invading Army ---"Bad Men" Boasted of Offers Made Them. the border states. The present bor- der troubles bear all the ear marks of such a campaign. The interests that advance such a campaign as this may be considered guilty of ac- tual murder, The White House knows the name of at least one prominent western character who had boasted for many years that he had a standing offer of a large sum of money from certain American interests, 'who might pos- sibly be backed by foreign interests, to organize a fake Mexican army of invasion. At the same time that the border scare was worked up, the same plotters succeeded in working up a scare at Vera Cruz. The White House has learned that, at no time, were foreigners in danger in that part, but, in some manner the plot- ters stampeded a few of the Jess cool heads in the navy, and the éhips were headed for "southern waters." That there are certain interests in the United States who are deter- mined to get the United States Into war, at almost any cost, has been clearly .proven by the recent Mexican flurry. If possible, these going to be uncovered. Intervention in México is as far interests are cans from Mexico were marching inaway as ever. A A AeA AAA AANA AS, SS tats nt | THE SPORT REVIEW | a_i en Mis. Locke, the widow of the far- mer secretary of the Pittsburg Club, and latterly the controlling factor in thé Phillies, may sell her stock in the Philadelphia Club to Frederick Chandler, a stock broker of Chicago. There is a meeting to be held in Cleveland next Saturday to organize professional boxing and to formulate iron-clad rules to govern it, Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit Americans, has made Connie Mack an offer of $15,000 for pitcher Bush. The leader of the Athletics refused the offer. "If 1 can get an- other pitcher of class, I will win the pennant, with considerable to-spare," said Jennings. He was greatly chagrined over his failure to. get Bush. Jennings has made offers to others clubs for star pitchers, but all seem to fight shy of giving the Ti- gers any assistance in their pennant fight. --- has worked a revolution in the army surgeon's method of dealing with the ordinary wounds of the battlefield | which, on account of the changed | character of the projectiles, are In almost every instance of wounds {from modern artillery the broken tissues are found by the surgeons to have become infected by scraps of cloth or other material, on a scale with - precedent. + At the start] most of the surgeons relied on a{ stringent application of recognized methods of antisepsis to combat this infection. The tissues were deluged with: powerful germicides, even strong carbolic acid being employed. The success of this method, how- ever, was far from complete, and gradually a new system, based on well-known principles, but . entirely novel in application, was substituted. One of the elementary principles of physics is that if a vessel contains two solutions of varying strength, divided from each other by an ani- mal membrane, liquid will pass from' the weaker to the stronger solution until ultimately both are at the same strength. This principle was brought into action in the treatment of wounds in order to stimulate the action of the serum of the blood, which has strong antiseptic » ties. The wound is filled with' a liquid 'solution of salt and sodium citrate at a considerably greater con- cen the blood. dér the influence this liquid the serum is poured out from the body i i _proper- A than that in the serum ori North Bay, Au ni Campbeliford won its eightn straight game at home when it trim- med Trenton in an exhibition game by the score of 15 to 4. Campbell- ford will meet Tweed in the latter more severe than in previous wars. Place next Friday in the first of home and home games for the Eastern On- tario championship and the right to Eo into the finals of the O. A. L. A. The first grand circuit meeting ever held in Quebec Province will be staged at Dorvall Park, Montreal, commencing on Thursday next, to continue for six days. All the best performance in harness, including the great pacers Direstum I, Wil- liam, and Frank Bogash Jr., will be seen in action at this meeting, whica is expected to make a great hit with harmess-horse lovers in' Eastern Can- ada. Bob Dibbie, of the Don Rowing Club, Toronto, retained his title to-day as champion senier scullef of the Unit- #d States by winning from John B. Kelly, of the Vesper Boat Club, Phii- adelphia, by one length. = The time was 7.27 3-5. By his victory - the Toronto sculler mes undisputed champion of the continent, he having won the Canadian title at the St. Catharines Hetlley a few days ago. A -------------- Reported. 16. --Commission- . : bd BE a a A pec ST TRY $3 At Springfield, Mass., on Saturday