PAGES{-8 YEAR 82- NO 191 KINGSTON, ONTARIO. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1915 LAST EDITION 900 On Briti TURKISH TRENCHES TAKEN BY BRITISH Berlin Reports That the Germans Have Cap- "tured the Forts Defending Kovno After Storming Them. : Canadian Doctors With the Royal Army Medical Corps May Have Been Aboard SS. Royal Edward---Not Likely Any Canadian Units Were on That ~ Vessel. (Special to the Whig.) / Athens, Aug. 17. Severe fighting continues both at Krithia and on the western side of the Gallipoli peninsula, near Gaba Tepe. Mitylene despatches to-day said the British nave captured a row of trenches of strategical importance near Krithia. No Changes on Western Front. (Special to the Whig.) . Paris, Aug. 17. (Official) -- Heavy cannonading throughout the night at Boesinghe, the Quenneviners farm, and Leintrey, and grenade combats near Foniaine-Aux- Charmes and other points in the Argonne, were reported in | al this afternoon's communique. A German night attack Lathe Point was repulsed. Germans Capiure Some Forts. (Special te the Whig.) : ; Berlin, Aug. 17.-- (via Wireless) -- The foris defending Kovno have been stormed and captured by German troops under Gen. Von Eichorn. Three of the forts on the north- eastern front of Novo Georgievsk were also captured. Canadian Doctors May Be Lost. (Special to the Whig.) : ) Ottawa, Aug. 17.--It is not likely that any Canadian units were on board the SS. Royal Edward, but it is possible that a number of Canadian medical men serving in the British army may have been en route to the Dardanelles. Canadian nurses are also known to have been serving at Malla. THE DOLLAR NOW SUPREME. All War Supplies Must Henceforth Be Paid For in American Money. pe {Special to the Whig.) New York, Aug. 17.--The American dollar ruled the financial world _to-day with an iron grip. Pounds sterling, francs, lires, virtually foreign exchange went down to new depths in a torrent of bills that poured into the exchange mar- kels from 'American manufacturers seeking to pay for the big war contracts of munitions and other supplies purchased here by the warring nations of Europe. Coincident with the startling decline in exchange rates came the assertion from an unimpeachable source that every contract made by the American manufacturers ror the sup- plies sent abroad called for paymem in American dollars and not English pounds sterling, which have heretofore been the standard of finance the world over. . The immense losses, therefore, due to the decline in for- eign exchange rates will be borne, to the last penny, by the foreign buyers, and@vill not be sustained by the American manufacturers--a-situation exactly the opposite of what had heretofore been the popular belief. The 'maximum depreciation yesterday in pounds sterling was 4% per cent. below normal; in francs, 19 per cent.; in Halian lires, 25 per cent. The assertion that dollars and not pounds sterling had been the financial standard on which all contracts for war supplies had been accepted in this country came as a distinct surprise. ENEMY PAYS HIGH . ~~ FOR NEEDED FOOD Roumania Willing to Export But at Her Own Figures; Fixes RECEIVED A LETTER 2 {Special to the Whig.) Rome, Aug. 17.--A special mes- senger reached Rome last night bear- ing an important communication from" the Kaiser to Pope Benedict sh Tran The Tarif, Paris, Aug. 17.--A delayed de- spatch to the Havas News Agency filed at Bucharest on Saturday, says that Austrian and German agents at points along the Foumanian fron- tier, are paying three times the nor- mal price for wheat, corn, hay, flax, peas and beans exported from that country. This is the result of heavy export taxes placed upsn Roumanian agricultural products on urday, following the action of the Govern- ment on the previous day in remov- ing the prohibition against sénding certain food supplies put of the country. The export tax amounts to 400 to 1,000 francs ($80 to $200) on a carload and from 200 to 500 francs on a farm waggon load. Be War Tidings A German submarine struck a mine in the Sea of Marmora and sunk. * - Ttaly has trebled her artillery re- . giments armed with Deport quick-fir- by letting go forty shots & min- ute, + ' Serbian gunvers with a few shots he defeupes, while 12 rounds PPIA III I PIE I IERIE according to reports circulated here to-day. No confirmation was ob- tainable at the Vatican, but it was understood that the message had to do with the Pope's latest peace ef- forts. | WAR BULLETINS. ® British coast towns in Cum- ® berland were by #_ German submarines. There ¢ were no casualties. * * * ---- | | | | | { is a picture of Commander Ross. ANNAN MN, NAMI ltl | PLACED FAMILY ON ISLAND, | | Cruelty of German Farmer, Arrested jo at North Bay. North Bay, Ont., Aug. 17.--A | story of unusual cruelty and wife de- | | sertion was brought to town on Sat- | iurday by Provincial Constable Le- | tebre. A German farmer by the | name of William Brehm, who resides at Ess Lake, back of Wanapitei, on | the C. N. R., was arrested on Friday and lodged in the Sudbury jail on the alleged charge of non-support. "On Monday last Brehm packed his | wife and four small children into a rowboat and landed them on a lone- | ly island. For four days and a half the family subsisted on berries { they picked, and the only covering | they had through the inclement wea- | ther was an old blanket. When | discovered by the police they were in | a pitiable condition. On the ar- { rival home the inhuman father was | arrested and taken to - Sudbury, | where he appeared before Magis- trate. Brodie and his case remanded | for a week to enable the wife to tes- | tify. Italians Closing in Upon Plozzo (Special to the Whi STEAM YACHT WINCHESTER NOW GIRLSE OF CAN Recent New York despatches tell of the purchasé of this 30 knot,-the fastest | yachts, by J. K. L. Ross, the Montreal capitalist, alleg>dly for use as a unit of the | York Herald %says her elegant fixtures have been torn out and Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 17. | =--That the Entente Powers have granted Bulgaria's demands in or- der to gain that country's aid is the belief in Sofia, according to a de- spatch from the Bulgarian capital to the German Journal. "The note of the Quadruple En- ténte is kept secret, but it is believ- ed the demands of the Bulgarian Government are granted," says the despatch. ' Sudden Action By Roumania. London, Aug. 17.--The Daily News says editorially that Rou- mania may make a sudden move which will solve the Balkan dead- lock. "The force of events," the paper says, "may cut the knots at which diplomatic fingers have been pick- ing in vain. Decisive action by Rou- tained assurances of Bulgaria's atti- tude, which is the great danger- point. Thus we are driven hack, as always, to a rift between the Bulger ) Rome, Aug. 17,---By sealing trea- cherous heights and taking the en- | emy's pdsitions at the "point of the | bayonet, the Italian Alpinists are systematically closing in upon Plez- z0 Despatches to-day said the bom- bardment of Plozzo forts has contin- ued for forty-eight hours without interruption. The Austrians have made several attacks on the Carnia frontier in the last forty-eight hours, but have been thrown back with heavy losses. These assaults were not renewed yes- terday. Artillery duels continue all along the Tyrolean frontier and in the Val Appezzo region. Austrian trenches along the Bodenbach and Bacher- bach valleys were taken by infantry charges, and held in face of counter- attacks, General Cadorna reported. TO LAND TROOPS. It Is Said Strongly Fortified Centre Will Yield. (Special to the Whig.) London, Aug. 17.--Germans are preparing to land troops on the coast of Finland according to a Stockholm despatch to the Morning Post to-day. The Russians are beginning to evacuate the fortified railway cenjre, Bieloztok, one of the vital points on the Kovno-Brest-Litovzk line, before the onward rush of Von Hinden- berg's armies. ' ee -- Wedded Three Days; Ends Life. St. Mary's, Ont., Aug. 17.--A. J. Langford, twice a widower, who three days ago married his house- keeper, yesterday, shortly after he went into the barn, put a bullet into his head. He may die. Domestic trouble is given as the cause of the shooting. Leo. M. Frank Taken Away and the. Serb." The article closes with an impos- sioned appeal to Serbia fo yield the given place to guns and torpedo tubes. BELIEVED ENTENTE POWERS HAVE SATISFIED BULGARIA mania would mean that she has ob-| ADIAN NAVY of 'American pleasure The New Inset Canadian navy. concessions sought by Bulgaria. German Report Of Allies Offer Berlin, via London, Aug. 17.--Re- | Entente garding the note: of the Powers to Bulgaria, the correspond- ent at Sofia of the Vossische Zei- tung telegraphs: | "The Entente nations promise as a consideration for Bularian, assist- ance, to secure from Serbia the ces- sion of the non-contested zone in Macedonia ,with the exception of a small strip of the Serbo-Albanian frontier, which is to be retained to permit of a common Greco-Serbian frontier. | "By the non-contested zone is un- { derstood to mean that part of Mace-| donia which, under the provision of! the Balkan Alliance, should have fallen to Bulgaria after the Balkan War. "The extent of 'the cessions from Greece in the hinterland of Kavala is left undetermined. The Entente Al- lies point out that this depends up- {on the extent of Greek compensa- tion in Asia Minor. "The Entente Allies; in addition proposed verbally that Anglo- French troops should occupy the territory before the results of tne war were known." GERMANS FLUNG BACK THIRTY MILES FROM THE PORT OF RIGA. Von Hindenberg Forces Retreating | At All Principal Points--The Rus- sians Are Reécapturing Towns. London, Aug.17.---Frederick Ren- net sends the following wire from | Petrograd to the Daily News: In the region of Dvinsk and Wil- komir the Germans are not making a general attack now, only short coupter-attacks, in an effort to check the Russians: It is notable that fewer prisoners are ng taken on | either side, which is hoot of the in- | creased anger of both armies. Their lack of success here is due to the frustration of their fleet, upon the active co-operation of which their plan depends. Having repuls- ed the Germans from Riga, the Rus- sians have within a fortnight thrown them back over thirty miles. The Germans now evidently un- derstand they cannot get Kovno as they did Antwerp, hence they have changed their method to slower but fiercer hammering at the forts. All their attacks have been re- pulsed at Novo-Georgievsk, which is now definitely and widely blockaded. its artillery fire has been succecssful against the German batteries, ' the fort holding down a big German siege army. The Russian front is daily im- proving under General Alexieff's ad- mirable handling of its diverse units. In his withdrawal from the Vistula to a defensive front of fortresses, every unit extricated itself to a pre- assigned in a straighter line, which is naw ovér sixty miles dis- tant from the Vistula. Von 40000040 CPPS 444BE P00 0%0 0 Retreating. London, Aug. 17.--A special cable YT ED a Bh wn a 8 to the Times from Petrograd says: - Considerable reinforcements ap- pear to have reached the Russians in the most northerly theatre, where the army of General Von Hindenberg is operating. For several days the Germans have been retreating at all principal points. During this time Berlin has been authorized to observe a discreet si- lence on the situation in this region, but there is ample evidence to show that for the time being the enemy is overmatched. German failures be- gan in Riga nearly a week ago, when a concerted attack by land and sea broke down in both directions. South-east of Riga, Gen. Von Hin- denberg's army had advanced till his front formed an arc nearly 130 miles long, reaching nearly to the Dvina. Near Jacobstedt, on the Dvinsk, three or four days ago, he was check- ed, and since then has been retreat- ing, closely pressed by the Russians. Still further to the south the Ger- man right wing is also retiring. The Russians have recaptured towns lost during last week. The aspect of af- fairs, therefore, at present is favor- able in this quarter, especially as desperate attempts to break through at Kovno and thus link up with Gen. Von Hindenberg's north- ern wing have been frustrated. FATHER BOURKE NAMED As Successor to Archbishop Langevin of St. Boniface. : Ottawa, August 17.--The quarrel between the French and English- speaking Roman Catholics, which has nearly ruined the Separate Schools of Ottawa and which is becoming so acute in Eastern Ontario, may be carried to Rome in a fight for thé appointment of a successor to Archbishop Langevin, of St. Boni- face. The Western Archbishop has + fo. A port Were Drowne op BRITISH TRANSPORT | | | There Were 1,350 Troops Aboard And Crew of 220--In Al About GOO Were Saved. Royal Edward, Formerly of the Canadian Northern Steam ship Company, Was the Ili-Fated Vessel --She Was Commandeered by British Government at -Be- ginning of War, (Special to the Whig.) London, Aug. 17.--The British transport Royal Edward, formerly of the Canadian Northern Steamship Company, was submarined and sunk in the Aegean Sea last Saturday, it is officially announced to-day by the Admiralty. The Royal Ed- ward was en route to the Dardanelles. It is officially announced there were 1,350 troops aboard the Royal Edward when sunk, and 220 of a crew. In all about 600 were saved. only the Second T rt Lost. Although a million or more troops have been safely ship- ed across the submarine-infested seas since the war began, his is only the second transport lost by Great Britain. In an engagement off the Turkish Asia Minor coast several weeks ago, a small British transport was lost, bit without heavy loss of life, according to the Admiralty statement. An official statement just issued says that the troops aboard the Royal Edward consisted largely of '"'reinforce- ments for the 29th Division at Dardanelles and for the Royal Army Medical Corps units." & Was Well Known Here. Presumably the former Canadian Northern Royal Edward registered at Toronto, Canada, was the vessel torpedoed. She was 11,117 tons, steel-triple screw. The steamer was owned She was built in 1908 w, was 526 feel long, and had sixty-foot beam, modernly built throughout and d with wireless. Lake Ontario Park, vaudeville, £5.18 Capt. Mouck Fans Fe Sih, ba Was Killed |- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG at Dardanelles! «x sae at the Following city PF. L. Wormwith, Arden, has re- Stores: ceived word that Captain Ernest Bucknell's News Depot ..298 Kis Slarke, Lk: a oon ..3 A Mouck, who went overseas with the | Coulis eS wer 3 HG first Canadian contingent, was killed & Coulter's Grocery ....... Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prin. 4 in action while fighting with the Erontenac Hotel . | Northumberland Fusiliers at the Dardanelles, on August Sth. Before leaving Kingston for over- seas service he was signalling officer of the 47th Regiment. He was a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, A.F. and A.M., Arden. DAILY MEMORANDUM, sesns Princess ++.813 Princess 8 Montreal Prouse's Drug 8 Valleau's Grocery a BORN. ABBOTT--At the Lower Depot, King- ston, on August 16th, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. Wihilam Abbott, a daugh- ter. PITH OF NEWS. Despatches From Near and Distant Places, Twenty-five per cent. of the wheat and oat crops of Manitoba is already in stook. Ten days more of fair weather will see practically all the crop down. Samuel Stocker, implement mer- chant, of Belleville, was drowned Monday afternoon in the Bay of Quinte at the entrance to Belleville harbor, while rowing. - i The Allies' intention to declare cotton contraband has been commu- nicated unofficially, but authorita- tively, to the U. 8S. State Depart- ment. CAM + Parton, Harrington and Whitehd= 1 MARRIED RICHARDSON SEYMOUR -- At King- ston, August 9th, 1915, at the Arch- bishop's Palace,by the Rev.Father A. Hanley, Roy Richardson, son of Mr. and Mra. Albert Richardson, Brigh- ton, Ont., to Amelia Agnes (Millie) Seymour, of Portsmouth, Ont. DIED. BISHOP---At Hotel Dieu, Kingston August 16th, 1915, the infant son r. and rs. W. 5. Bis ; ert nt, on August th, 1915, John Grey Campbell, aged rs, a hes S---- SUNK BY SUBMARINE by the Canadian Northern Steamship Company, and was commandocred-by-the-Biilish Government for use Rs port at the beginning o e war, 8 Suny i ven, in Cumberland, England, on the Irish Sea, were bombarded on Mon-