| 19 PAGES | WATCH EVERY MOVE MADE BY BULGARIA Greece And Roumania Will Join Allies Mo- ment Bulgaria Sides With Teutons -- Allies Warned Germany Contem- plates Drive to Constantinople. (Special to the Whig.) Rome, Sept. Both Greece and 'move made by Bulgaria side of the Allies if Bulgaria joins the Austro-Germans, according to ad- vices received here to-day King Constantine received of the Cabinet yesterday. Agéncy despatches report classes of Greek reserves have been summoned to the colors. News that three Bulgarian newspapers, with a leining to Austria, are attempting to stir up public sentiment in favor of immediate intervention. They print letters from Macedonian leaders urging that Bulgaria attack Serbia with- out further delay and seize Serbian Macedonia. Germans Plan Drive to Constantinople. (Special to the Whig.) Rome, Sept, 20.---Active operations are likely soon to be under way along the frontiers of the Balkan states, The Tribuna declares it learns from competent sources It says that an Austro-German movement has been planned for the latter part of October, the plan involving the expect- ed diversion of 500,000 men from the Russian campaign to the Balkans, with the simultaneous securing of Bulgaria's adhérence in the movement to open a route from Budapest to Constantinople. | The Tribuna and other journals argue the necessity of offsetting this | move by the concentration in the Dardanelles of all possible forces of the | Euténte Allies, declaring the issue turns on which side takes, Constanti- nople first, the Austro-Germans through Bulgaria or the Allies through | the Dardanelles. FIGHTING VERY HEAVY ON THE WESTERN FRONT i (Special to the Whig.) Paris, Sept. 20.--Germans bombarded St. Menehould with long range guns last night, killing a 18% number of civilians, among them the assis- tant Mayor. The City Hall and other public buildings were damaged. St. Menehould lies west of Verdun on the Rheims-Verdun iailway, | whieh probably was the object of the German bombardment. | The German lines lie near Vienne Le Chateau, about eight miles | north of St. Menehould. . | Blocked German Ammunition Supplies. | French batteries throughout last night cannonaded the German ar- | tillery positions all along the battle front. This afternoon's official com- munique said the shelling was particularly successful in preventing fresh | supplies of ammunition from being brought to the enemy's front. The Germans bombarded the suburbs of Arras and the front near Crichon, The cannonading was accompanied by lively fusilades. from rifles and machine guns. Thé Rifle Fire Was Hot. : The German fire was hot in the regions of Foueaucourt, Herleville. and Tracy Le Val, the French replying énergetically. a Before Fontenoy, the Germans repeatedly raked the French advanced positions with rifle fire, but did not leave their trenches. The Berry Au Bac region was the scene of lively throughout the night. bomb fighting Captured German Observation Post. ! French troops ggptured a Ge man observatioff post east of Sapignoul, | the War Office: announced. : LGerman battefies that had been bombarding French positions north of CampyChallons were silenced, and one of the German munitions depots was exploded. The artillery. fighting in Lorraine and Alsace is now becoming more violent. 1 'German Crews of Submarines Lose Faith London, Sept. 'Telegraph says: "Of late there Js apparent, in con- nection with submarine crews which but iately~left ports in Germany a e in favor of George Ball, an old significent change of spirit. It al-poneervative veteran and ex-M.P. for most appears for the first time sinco Nicolet. Charles Beaubien, K.C., of the beginning of the war that the yongreal, is another of along only active section of -the German! wih F. J. Bisaillon, K.C., who a few navy has lost faith. « {days ago declined a judgeship. Sir , "It may be that the grim suc-| Adolphe Augers is'mentioned, hut his cession of failures to report has atl zdvanced years may operate against lenigily had the inevitable effort in his return to the Chamber, of which sapping the nerve of the men en- | he was once a member. trusted with the U-boats on hopeless missions. 3 "Most significent ev ce of dry rot having set in among the Ger- man submafine sailors. has been af- forded this week. Details may not be given, bul .t is sufficient that the evidence is of a mature not hitherto experienced in war, abject In 1s chief features and astonishing in the Fopelessness of the outlook reveal ed." : | WHO WILL BE SENATOR? That's the Problem Engaging Quebec bia Politicians Now. : | - Ottawa, Sept. 20.--Though many of the ten Senate vacangies are of | much longer standing, there ds a pro-| | bability of the seat of the late Sir Charles De Boucherville being filled Daily | Ih @ short time. It is the first break A11Y | that has occurred in Quebec, and as la rule they lose little time in filling such Dositions in that province. Strgng representations are being ma | i | 20.--The To Det Dumba Scold. Washington, Sept. 20.--High offi- cials indicated last night that no further steps were contemplated against Dr. Constantin 'Theodor Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian Am- bassador, on account of his letter to Secretary Lansing criticising the treatment accorded him by the Am- erican Goverment in connection ONLY OXE LIFE LOST, + a & | his_passports (Special to the Whig.) & ered. Hahfax, Sept. 20--The An- & #_chor Liner Tuscania has rescu- #| Finance Ministers To Confer, ® ed 408 passengers and. the crew &| 8 to the Whig) + of the Greek steamer Athenia # = Paris, om + whieh burned at sea. Oniy one # lor $f Exthequer McKenna is expeet- + life was lost, according to a from the country by handing him had not been consid: Ea A Roumania are watching every | and are making ready tp enter the war on the | Premier Venizelos and several members | | man was shot te death and another Downing. 'Bulgaria May | The Bulgarians, having secured what -{ luring the last Balkan war. | cedonian recruits now in | bia, Greece and Roumania, and her tish Chancel | guised ¥ ed to arrive here the latterépart ofl' a conference with Min-; The Daily KiNGSTON, | } | i LOAN ARRANGED. (Special to the Whig.) New York, Sept. 20._The proposed mammoth credit loan to Great Britain and France, it was reported jo-day, is to be underwritten by a large syndi- cate of American financiers and bankers who are to 'receive a commission for their services. The securities offered, it was said, will be British and French 5 per cent. government bonds and the price to the investor is to be par. The amount of the loan, it was reported, is as yet undetey- mined, 'but will be between 600,000,000 and $800,000,000, Whether munitions. of war will be included within . the scope of the proposed credit, so far 'as can be learned has not been decided, | PEEP LIE PIPE PE PEE PEPE Feb B REISE PEPPER EER Ge ded dob FP dd Pb bP PRE R Redd 1 ree ree | SASKATCHEWAN'S BIG GIFT. | 100,000 Bushels of Wheat Contrib. uted by Grain Growers. Moosejaw, Sask., Sept. 20.--Secre- tary J. B .Musselman, of the Grain | { Growers' Association, announges that | | Saskatchewan farmers contributed | for patriotic purposes the crop of five thousand acres, representing ap- | proximately 100,000 bushels of wheat, or 5,000,000 pounds of flour. | Some Austrians and Germans were | among the contributors. The wheat | {is to be ground into flour, and Mr, | Musselman said he had the assur- | ance that the Dominion Government 'would arrange for its transportation to Liverpool free of any cost to the fund. It will be a gift from the Saskatchewan grain growers to the Impérial Government. y i i SHOT TO DEATH In Fight With Game Wardens Near Syracuse, N, Y. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 20.--One seriously injured in a fight between two Italians and two game wardens in a field on the Dug rgad, about three miles south of Lafayette, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Nicholas Di Stefano, twenty-seven, was instantly killed by a shot from a rifle fired by Murvin Ainsworth, and Dominico Lucanellavwas hurt when he was struck on the head with the stock of a rifle in the Hands of Alton Attack Serbia | And Greece ? (Special to the Whig.) London, Sept. 20.--The political situation in the Balkans is . still shrouded with considerable mystery. they wantéd from Turkey in session of a railw line, appear to be well satisfied for the present. But there is now talk in Berlin of the Bulgarians taking by force, if they carnot get it otherwise, the portions of Macedonia taken from them by the Serbians and Greeks It is asserted that the Bulgarians have called to the colors all the Ma- Belgaria and that generally there is warlike feeling: in existence among the Bul- gars. With Bulgaria surrounded by Ser- coasts open to attack. by _Anglo- French, Italian and Russian fleets, however, it is believed here that Bulgaria will hesitate before throw- ing in her lot with the Central Pow- ers and Turkey. Turkey is declared to be having her.own troubles over the cession of Dedeaghatch. Railway. The Mussul- man population in this strip of land is said to be in revolt against being placed under the Bulgarian Govern- ment. Liner Afire On the Ocean; Is Abandoned ( cial to the Whig.) | Hallas. Sept: 20.--The Donald- son Line steamship Athenia is on fire at sea, according to a radio mes- sage received heré late last night. The steamer is bound from a British port, believed to be Glasgow, for Montreal and Quebec. It was believ ed here that there are few, if any, passengers on Tara A subsequent message to the Do- minion Marine Department said that the steanier had been a The Anchor liner Tuscania .pre- viously been reported standing by. and it was thought here that she had taken off those on board. CAUGHT IN DISGUISE. German Submarine 'Torpedoed : . By Another. Sept. 20.--Norweg- ian rmeén who have arrived at Stavanger, on the south-west coast of Norway, state that off the Island of Utsine, near the entrance to the Gulf of Stavanger, a German sub marine by mistake torpedoed anoth- er German submarine. believe One. hin + ihe week for 3 and &, Finance an Minister #| who arrived here last sight from "Toulon, A MONTREAL: SOLDIER itish ONTARIO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1915 OFFICERS WHO ARE INVISIBLE AT NIGHT. These phantom uniforms, worn at the front, enable the wearer to in- spect the 'trenches in the open without fear of being seen by the enemy. It is the strangest invention of the war. "Since that we have been in and out of the trenches, working on trenches, building reserves, etc. We are all pretty tired, and would wel- KILLED IN ACTION WROTE AN | come a few days' rest away from | INTERESTING LETTER | the sound of, the guns. ee Shortly Before His Death--He Slept | Even On Top of Dead Germans. Moiitreal, Sept. 20:--The follow- Narrow Escapes. JAll through this I don't know how many close calls I have had; ing letter from Lance-Corpl. Alexan-| PUllets flying past; within an inch der Michaud, of the Sor ollexan- | or being buried by shells; the two Expeditionary Force, to a friend in | Closest calls I had were &t Festubert. Montreal, was received two days af- | i ter the official apnouiicement that the |of shrapnel caught me behind the writer had been killed in action on 8%: It eda lot, bub tier having August 18th. The) letter says, i {it dressed it was not worth while to part: {80 to the hospital, so I stayed. A "You must have read accounts of | [¢W days later another shrapnel shell what we did at Ypres; if you take | burst behind me, and a piece caught Sir Max' Aiken's version it is a fair| ™Y rifle 1 had hanging on my side, compte rendu of what happened. 'The cut a groove in the butt, and cut my Canadians did the impossible.' iflege{ bresches abuwt thive inches; ; never Henin? ords used by 2 Aviny Sen | "This has been 2 hard life all old" man, It 'Was OER Fo ay right; our daily menu is far from the You cannot imagine what it was un- | Bodega, and we seldom have. night less you have been through it, and SUPPer like the Regal, but, on the at that, my company was not in the | other hand, I would not give the five thick of it; we were holding the ex- months 1:have dpent:in France fora treme right of the Canadian line: whole lor. During these Few months we were never attacked. The battle|} have lived, 1 have 4xperienced all raged on our left all the time, but | the feelings and all the chords of didn't they pepper us with shrapnel, | emotions of the soul. I have known high explosive shells, black Marias, | coal boxes, Jack Johnsons, whistling Willies, ete, that day and that night { I' have 'been in action Since, and 1}! would rather make a charge any) day than sit still and, get shelled, | wonderipg if the next une will fall! on top of your bean, and nothing you can do to help yourself. It is the worst nerve-breaker 1 have ever ex- perienced. We finally were relieved | after having been at it for twenty. ans would never make good par- three days, the longest twenty-three | ®de ground soldiers, but when the days 1 have passed in my life. | time came 'to- fight they would be a right there with the goods, and the Huns would find them hard nuts t Best Death Possible. ierack, I was right. Time has proved "We had nine days' rest. the my word. When I enlisted I never moved to the other end ob the. Brit. | expected it would be: that hard; go ish front. There we had a ge at four or five days without hardly any Fritz and Hans. We (2nd Brigade) sleep. 1 have slept everywhere you relieved them and carried on what! S22 lmagine, even on {op of dead they had started. On the morning | Germans, under apple trees most of of May 24th, Victoria Day, we made | the: time, on the bare ground, .or. ir our attack, and came out O.K. We! farms--some difference to the life even captured more German trench-| "°° leading in Moytreal, and- still 1 es than were called for; our officers| *™ NO! the worse for it. had to check us--we wanted to keep SE on going, after we got them going, we wanted to chase them to hell, but better judgment prevailed, so we had to stop. The start was deadly, however, I had charge of No. § see- tion of my company. I was the on- ly one to reach the German trench, the rest of the boys got either killed or wounded on the way across. . It takes nerve to face machine guns that pump. lead into you, and you see your chums fall on the right and left of you, but we are here for that-- that is fight. We take our chances, and should we fall, well, it is the best death a mah can wish for, tc give his life for his home and eoun- try. If you come: through, well, you have the satisfaction of having done your bit it makes a man Staal; pression. On the other hand, I have also tasted joy, glory, ambition, sat- isfaction, and I don't know what else. Good Soldiers. "By the way, I have had another stripe, and hope to get the. third be- fore 'the war is over. Seine class. When I gvrote to you that the Cana- GIVEN FULL POWER. Berlin, Sept. 19.--Count Von Bernstorff has been given full power to negotiate terms of set- tlement of submarine problems with the United States, subject only to the revision and appro- val of .the German Govern- ment. SEPP PP PPD SREP P PPE Pee "'Pestilential nonsense; mischev- ous article; piffie," are London press descriptions of the alleged Cabihet crisis to. which the Daily News sage prominence on Friday. L MY COUNTRY AND | { 5 * ¥ There is a love of country as there is a loyé of self implanted by the Creator in the human heart. Whosoever therefore is indif- ferent to her fale, to her preservation, to her honor, and her glory. must be & degenerate. We not only live in L. and love ourselves, but we &lso live in the life of our country and are identified 'therewith. The patrimony. we inherit from our ancestors must be tra mitted to our children, not impaired, but augmented. We are to be identified therefore with the future of our race as the men and women of ages gone by are ideatified with us. "Hence every private interest, nay, even our very. lives, should be sacrificed, if need he, on the altar of our love of country.' Our country is at war not for ambition, not for congnest, but in defense of the weak against the tyranny of the strong, In defense of the downtrodden against the cruel oppressor, in defemse of the rights of humanity, against the might.ofgthe sword. , y Then let us glory in the cause and rush to her standard, bear R otut the seas and hol it dioft in the face of the foe like true a ow ns- Whig fess LAST EDITION TRY T0 SURROUND SLAVS AT VILNA Petrograd Confident Czar's Army Will Escape or Smash Its Way Through---The Ger- man Losses in | | the Vilna Region Are Enormous. ---- (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, Sept. 20.--Three hun- | dred thousand Russian troops, fall- { Ing back' from the region of Vilna, {are under heavy attack on both | flanks by the Germans, who are mae | king herculean efforts to surround | them. | _ Their position is more critical than {that of any Russian army since the | Great Austro-German campaign be- | gan, but every confidence was ex- { pressed here to-day that the Slavs smash. their way out of the German | trap. : The Germans have suffered enor- mous losses in the past few days fighting, in their attempt to encircle the Vilna armies. woo Cavalry forces attacking the right of the retreating Slav forces are be- |ing mowed down by Russian artillery | but persist in their attacks, | The Bavarians attempting to. cut {off the Russian retreat from - the | south, are within a few miles of the | Lida-Baranovitshi railway, but are | will either make good their retire- | meeting with most stubborn resist. { ment without being forced into a ance and suffering unparalleled loss- general battle, or failing in this, will | es. A mmr rerAn-- TT inp -------- The morning of the charge a piece] anxiety, fear. hate, madness, and de-| | A Convict Charged With Simcoe Murder Emmerson Shelley, a convict con- fined in the Portsmouth Penitentiary for the past two months on a three | year term for committing a minor of- fence, was removed from his cell on Saturday and taken to Simcoe to an- swer to a charge of murder in tle | first degree. | The description of the prisoner an- | swers in every detail the man wanted in Simeoe for a brutal murder of a resident of that place. Shelley was taken away on the 1.40 o'clock train Saturday afternoon in charge of two guards. He appeared quite cool, and did not show signs of agitation. Kingston Plan Likely To Be Tried in Toronto Toronto, Sept. 20.--Conversation | with military officers in the 2nd Di- | vision in touch with headquarters | leads to the belief that the Kingston programme of closing all bars at 7 | o'clock in the evening will be sug- | gested to the - licensing authorities | for adoption in Toronto. This would | allow soldiers on leave the freedom { to choose for one hour in the even- | ing whether they will have a drink or not, or possibly the bars may be continued open to a later hour, but | with restrictions forbidding soldiers | getting strong drink after 7 o'clock. { Whether or not total prohibition | may be eventually deemed necessary | by the military authorities, a month's | Irial of a less rigorous schéme on thé Kingston lines holds the field among temperance policies at the present time. The big trek to Toronto, which be- gins on October 18th, "will occupy about fifteen days. Restrictions of the sale of liquor on the route 'are more than likely during this time, and temperance policy in Toronto would naturally begin with Novem- inisters Like 1 i Ministers Kings Might Be Held Inviolate "Winnipeg, Sept. 20.--There is said to be a possibility that the counsel defending Sir Rodmond Roblin, Hon. Dr. Montague, George R. Cold- well and J. H. Howden may present the claim that criminal charges can- not be preferred against men who have been Ministers of the Crown based on acts committed while in office. One of the defending counsel ad- mitted that this point had been con- sidered. R. A. Bonnar, chief of the Crown counsel, said he had consider- ed this possible plan, and had decid- ed that it was not good law to say of Ministers as it is said of Kings, that they can do no wrong. Mr. {| Bonnar added that he did not know {of any previous case in the British penhagen, Sept. 20.---All ans up to 45 years of age and who bave lived in Denmark ¢ Shee | | AWFUL CONDITIONS. FAERIE PEELE EES Cobourg, Sept. 20.--That the men fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula have the hardest end of the war Is the atement made by a nursing sistér who is with Queen's Stationary| Hospit- al, now stationed at Cairo. She says: "Conditions here are aw- ful, and so many of the boys are sent down with bad dysen- try and enteric fever; they are tanned black as Indians." PERSP P PPR PPIPE CPE 4P4 44000000 | Take Census In Western Provinces. Ottawa, Sept. 20. ---Arrangements are being made by the director of the census for the quinquennial census in the western provinces next year. For Canada generally the census is taken, but the act.provides that in the west- ern provinces it shall be every five | years. Compared with the general | cengus, however, it is simplified, and | relates only to population and argri- culture. DAILY MEMORANDUM See top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City ° Stores: Bucknell's News Depot Clarke, J. W. & Co. College Book Store Coulter's Grocery ... .. 209 Cullen's Ogocery, Cor. Princess § Frontenac Hotel Gibson's Drug Store we's Grocery McAuley's Book Store ....98 Pri McGall's Cigar Store, Cor. Prin. & ing McLeod's Grocery ....51 Union St. W. Medley's Drug Store, University Paul's Cigar Store .. P; Paul's Cigar Store .. Prouse"s Drug Store Valleau's Grocery MARRIED O'NEILL-LITTLE In. St. James Cha- pel, by the 'Rev. Father Hanley, Florence Irene Little to Leo ©O'Nelll; both of Kingston. DIED, LAUGHERN---In Kingston, on Septem- er 19th, 1915, James Laughern. Funeral will take place from the fam- ily residence, 99 Rideau street, at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning to St. Mary's Cathedral, where a sol- emn requiem mass will be sung for the happy repose of Ris soul ends and acquaintances are fre spectfully invited to attend. Saginaw and Detroit Papers copy: MacDONALD--At the Hotel Dieu iHos- pital, on Monday morning, Sep- tember 20th, 1815, Annie Agathe, second eldest daughter of the late. Peter MacDonald, Esq. of King- ston, and of Mrs. Anhle MacDon- ald, of Ottawa. Funeral (private) on Tuesday to St Mary's Cathedral, where a solemn requiem mass will be sung at 7.30 a.m, for the happy repose of her soul. Friends and acquaintances are respect- fully ingvit to attend the mass. MoKENDRY--At Joyceville; on Monday, August 16th, 1915, James McKen- dry, aged 68 years. . WRIGHT --In_ Kingston, on Septembe 20th, 1915, at the of bor daughter, Mrs. Lowery, 39 Undon widow Year. ,. Mary Ann Hayw Funeral Jurhate) 'Wednesday morning +. 206 B 353 L163 {ing St. Princess Princess Montreal ' LS i. Fri please of Zedor ight, in her & at 19 o'clock. ROBERT J. REID : Phone 577. A Princess Street. JAMES X The Old Firm of Ui 254 and 2054 'Phone 147 for Ambulance. : Tore Fuone Yis "Me ther haat. ae seed 23