Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Sep 1915, p. 9

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PAGES 9- 14 YEAR: 82 NO: 219 CAN SLAVS ESCAPE THE GERMAN JAWS? Nemesia Enemy's Big Tuning Movement Meets Effec- tive Resistance in North of Parallelo- gram--Heavy Losses Inflicted Upon Pursuing Armies. Petrograd, Sept: 20.--The main | question now ig whether the Vilna | troops will be able to make good] their retirement from a very difficult | position. Everything was fairly | simple until the Germans cut the | Vilna-Dvinsk railway at Svientsany | and flung a big force of cavalry into | the parallelogram north-east of Vilna bounded. by the railways connecting the junctions of Dvinsk, Polotsk, Molodutchno and Novo Vilask. This | xald heralded a big German turning movement, In the north of the par- allelogram the enemy's cavalry met with effective resistance, and after several fierce engagements with the Russian horsemen they were driver back beyond reach of the Polotsk an- | gle. The one result of their action here was that the Germans were able to capture Vidzy, thirty miles south of Dvinsk, and dig themselves in, | but for the present the Dvinsk oper- ation is of secondary importance for the Germans. Inflicting Heavy Losses. The Russian army of Vilna is now on the narrow outlet along the rail- way passing through Lida to Barano- vitch and upon the Lida the Ger- mans are advancing from Orapy, but the vigor of their advance is met by | the equally vigorous Russians' resis- tance. The Germans are progress- | ing slowly and with heavy losses, and though they have reached Radiun, | sixteen miles north-west of Lida, it | may be hoped that the main body of | the Russian Vilna troops will be able { to fight their way out of the danger | zone before the northern and south- | ern flanks of the enemy meet, Un- til the smoke of the terrible Vilna fighting clears away it is impossible to tell what further object the Ger- mans may have in view in their out- flanking movement, pesides the at- | THE SPORT REVIEW With the National League clocing on Oct. 7th, Philadelphia going strong with a 3 1.2 game lead, look like winners. - "Toronto was possibly the best team in the International Baseball League at the finish and the fans are justly proud of McCaffery, Clymer and the team. They wind up nicely in third place. The Ottawa Football Club com- mences practice on Monday for their Big Four games. "Eddie" Gerard is again in charge and the players will get down to hard work at once. James A. Gilmore, President of the Federal League has made public a letter he has sent ta the National Baseball Commission challenging or- ganized baseball to a world series With the Federal. Catcher Bradley Kocher, of the Toronto ball club, has been drafted by New York Nationals. He is the second break in the ranks. Herbert also going to New York by purchase. Sarnia Hockey Club will lose one of its liveliest players this season. 'Dickey" Lesueur is taking a mili-f! tary course at London, and will alto- gether likely go to the front with the next contingent. Toronto Telegram: Otero, sold by Harry Giddings to Dr." Hanley of Kingston, won the Canadian bred race, just lasting long enough to win from Puritan Lass. Otero was the medium of 'a good sized Killing by Toronto talent who were on strong, both here and at the track. If Ottawa St. Patricks do have a team this year it is likely that Nick Bawlit will be engaged t8 coach them. Bawlf was a member of the Ottawa | College team which won the .Inter- collegiate championship in 1907. Cobb still is the leading batsman in the American league, with an av- erage of .377; Speaker, of Boston, béing the runner-up, with .320, and Jackson, Chicago, next, with .319, Connie Smythe, one of the mem- bers of last season's Varsity junior hockey team, winners of the O.H.A., Junior honors, had joined the Hamil- ton Sportsman's battery and he will have the rank of lieutenant. "Tom" Flanagan has secured a permit from the police authorities to stage his professional boxing stars-- Freddie Welsh, Ahearn, Coffey and others--in Toronto on a date to be fixed. The bouts are for the Sports- | men's Patriotic Fund, the fighters coming for bare expenses. There is a possibility of an inter national senior hockey series next winter, One of thie Canadian hoe- key gnates is in possession of a pro tion from Pittsburg to ar- range for a twenty-one week interna-| tional schedule, to commence in Nov- | than {same kind. {enabled to transmit tempt to surround the Russian Vilna army group... It shoilld be pointed The Daily B KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER { # i ' 1 out, however, that farther down the | line of exit the Germans have been moving slowly towards Slonim and Baranovitch, and that still. farther | south, on the Breithomel line, they have reached Pinsk, which covers Luninetz, another junction. On the important Vilna-Rovno railway south of the Breithomel line | the situation is much brighter. The Russians are taking full advantage of the swamp region and frustrating all attempts of the enemy right flank to come up level with the centre and left. No Official Anxiety. ™ trograd, Sept. 20.--Assurances are given that it is considered 'im- rossible for the Germans te succeed in their threatened envelopment of the Vilna group of armies, although they have succeeded in outflanking the Russians on their right, and even in spending cavalry to take the rail- way in the rear at Vileika. Confidence is felt in the steadiness of the Russian retirement and their ability to escape from the sack in which the Germans had calculated on catrhing them: The chief groun* for this belief is supposed to be tne | inability of tke enemy to bring a) forces large enough to surround cnc Russians. The Germans have car- tainly taken a big risk in sendin: their cavalry so far east, and the position of the Russian troops is un- doubtedly difficult, but this man- oeuvre of the enemy i8 more perilous previous movements of the It is satisfactory, therefore, to be official assur- ance that no anxiety is felt as to tie | outcome. mii surface of 30,000 square feet and the owners want professional hockey eof the very best class. The ten leading batters in the In- ternational League are:--Gilhooley, Buffalo, .337; Shorten, rovidence, .323; Rath, Toronto, .322; Judge, + ARTHUR NEHF, The new and youthful southpaw of the Boston National Baseball Team. Buffalo, 317; Channell, Buffalo, .316; Shean, Providence, .311; Kraft Harrisburg, .309; Witter, Harris- burg, .308; J. Smith, Montreal, .307; Jamieson, Buffalo, .306, « One of the latest of Toronto sports- men fo take up military aviation is "Eddie" Longfellow, the crack cen- tre player of the Rosedale Lgcrosse Club, whose team is playing National of Montreal for the professional hon- ors... 'Longfellow formerly lived in Vancouver, but came East to play lacrosse. Neft year will see the Hamilton Jockey club's grounds converted in- to a suitable athletic grounds, and it willbe abailable for almost every line of sport. Baseball diamonds will probably be cuf out, and the spacious grounds made a Mecca for sport lovers. Eddie O'Leary, one of Ottawa's noted athletics, will be absent from the city during the football and thoc- key seasons this year. O'Leary, who first. played these two games with Ottawa College under Father Sta ton, is leaving on . 25th for Tor- 'onto, where he take a onal course in Toronto Varsity. played on the defence of the Aber. deen Hockey Club and is a clever man. A letter has been received frowh Sergt. "Charlie" Gage, of the Divis- ional Ammunition Park, ember, = Pittsburg will have a new 0 "What They Found" waiting for the removal of the whole second contingent to France. The International Baseball League ended its season Saturday, with the | pennant going to Buffalo, after one of the closest finishes in years. The championship was not definitely-.de- cided until Saturday, when "Buffalo won by taking one game of a double- header, while' the Providence team, last year's champions, lost two games | to Tcronto. "The two teams®at the finish were separated by just two games. HIGH LIFE LED TO DOWNFALL | Canadian Arrested In Watertown, N. | Y., For Larceny. |. Watertown, N.Y, Sept. 2].-- A | week of high life in this city and evi- | dently more of it before reaching here, has caused one "Jack" Gervin, | of Gouverneur, to make 'his debut | into the criminal courts here. Gervin | is locked up at the City hall on the { charge of petit larcency, being ar- rested in a lower Court street saloon upon a warrant sworn out by Frank A. Empsall. The alleged theft amounts to $57, which Mr. Empsall charges he procured from him on worthless checks. Gervin is a resident of Gouverneur and. up until recently he had been identified with H. C. VanAllen of that place as a business partner in the clothing firm of Gervin & Van- Allen. According to all accounts Gervin drank heavily and partner- ship was dissolved. Gervin left Gouverneur for Chicago, while his wite and young daughter left for Brockville," Canada, to reside until Gervin secured employment. Gervin became quite well known about town as a 'secret service han for the Canadian Government. Ger- vin told nearly everyone he met that this was his mission. He displayed cards bearing names of Chicago cafes and said he generaly hung around the places in the questionable districts of cities in order to gain information. He says he can speak Dutch and can also understand German. His mission to Chicago, he says, was to. purchase supplies to be sent to Barriefield concentration camp, near Kingston, Ont. He also claims to have stopped at. Cleveland on his way back, where he purchased 12 aytomobile trucks to be sent there. Whenever talking about this to a stranger he would always say he was just about to start for Kingston to report. y Gervin is said to come from a pro- minent family in Ottawa. His fa- ther is in the real estate business and a brother is a clergyman in that city. It is anticipated that a settlement will be made and a suspended sen- tence given Gervin, who will leave for Kingston, Ont. HUN GOLD IN RUSSIA. Believed Td Be Responsible For < Many Strikes. Petrograd, Sept. 21.---We have 'good reason for believing that strikes that have broken out here and there have been procured by. the free use of German gold. The strik- ers at once mill hére were openly saying, "Why should we not strike work? The Germans give us pien- v of money without working for tr p o In other places, while some ad- mitted that they had received Ger- many money, and said they did not need work while it lasted, others talked 'patriotically about refusing No put a. "to their tools until all German managers and overseers had been dismissed by the Govern- ment, which they say, was betraying the country by favoring the enemy. NEW PULP MILL RUNNING. 'Double Shift Will Be Pat On to a Catch Up. Datchford, Ont., Sept. 21.---The : t of the Cangdian Pulp and ' , which was built the im mission Soon. REPORT TO BE MADE | ON PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTA- | TION AND EMPLOYMENT The Death Of Sir William Van Horne Necessitates New Commission -- Canada's Borrowing Capacity Also To Be Considered. Ottawa, Sept. 21.--The personnel of the new commission, decided upon by the Government "for the purpose of investigating and reporting uppn conditions of production, transpo tion and employment in Canada, will h This is the | commission of which the late Sir Wil- | be announced shortly. {liam Van Horne was to have beer | chairman, | | tem of branch lines to support great east and west trunk lines ready constructed, out by the Government. ed acreage and and cold storage facilities producers. arly with regard to th flux when the war i reported upon and for so handling thif immigration so as to promote the tultivation of the great areas of idle land in the Dom- inion. Questions affetting Canada's position as a borrowing country are alse embraced in the order-in-coun- eil. TO BUY MORE FROM CANADA. British War Office Sending Out An- other Purchaser. Ottawa, Sept. 21.--A statement was made at the Agricultural De- partment yesterday to the effect that nothing was known of the reported intention of the British War Office to increase its purchases of hay and ozts in Canada this fall and. send an expert buyer to Canada in con- nection therewith. While it is admitted that a repre- sentative of the War Office will come to Canada In regard te supplies for the British Expeditionary Force, it iw stated that his visit concerns an- other commodity and not hay or oats. The Agriculture Department has been ackng for the War Office in this 'matter since October 1st, last, has been asked to continue doing so and no other arrangement is to be made. ] Near_a Decision. 4 New York, Sept. 20.--The pennant races in both the major leagues are near a decision. - In fact, it looks as if the pennant in the National League was already fairly well with- in Philadelphia's grasp, while with portant American League se- ries in Boston nearly over, it seems ble that the Red Sox will see the fruition of their hopes. Pomc WILL ANNOUNCE The Personnel of New Com- , His death will necessit- | ate the selection of a new commis- sioner conversant with transportation | and kindred subjects, as the railway facilities of the Dominion provide one | of the most important aspects of sthe 4 | problem which is to be solved, parti- | cularly the question of a proper sys- the al- It is understood that the commis- sion will be a fairly large one and that it may work in groups so as to adequately and at the same time ex- peditiously cover the large field of in- vestigation which has been mapped The qrder-in-council, under which the commission will work, provides for an investigation of matters relat- ig to scientific production, increas- improved methods, the existing facilities for marketing both at home. and abroad, the desir- ability of providing proper highways and the importance of co-operative action by The question of unem- ployment and immigration, particul- - ec 21, 1915 FOUGHT TRAIN ROBBERS New York Central Detectives Killed One In Battle. Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 21.--Eight New York Central detectives engag- ed in a battle with train robbers near Fairport at one o'clock Saturday morning, Joseph Radajczak, 27, of Buffalo, was shot through the abdo- men and is in a dying condition ata hospital here. The attempt was made on a through train from Al- bany to Buffalo, and consisted of 85 cars loaded with merchandise. A mile east of Fairport a torpedo was discharged. The train was stopped. Inasmuch as an effort" was made to hold up the same train two weeks, ago, eight detectives manned it when it left Albany Saturday night. officers started to inspect the train, and in the centre Raymond Rogan, of Syracuse, found a door broken open. As he stepped in front of it three stalwart Poles leaped out upon him. He was borne to the ground, while Radajezak fired J three times at his head. { biijlet made a flesh wound in his side. 'Rogan managed to get his gun and fire "point blank. The bullet struck Radajczak. The others ran. Fellow officers pursued, firing as they ran; and overtook Walter Dyczwinski, a Buffalo car burglar with a record. The others got away. Six care were found with broken seals. Daylight showed that the Lake- shore freight train, bound from New York to Chicago, had been boarded by robbers near Fairport. Boxes of merchandise had been thrown: from the cars and scattered beside the Cen- tral tracks for more than a mile. FRANCE'S CALL FOR GOLD. Much Rivalry In Rural Districts To Bring In the Metal. Paris, Sept. 21.--Through the stir- ring of the local and professional pride in overy part of the country to turn in the largest sums, the volun- tary exchange of gold for paper 'at the Bank of France and its branch- es, which has dropped to 50,000,000 francs ($10,000,000) weekly, has again risen to 6¢,000,000 francs. The railway men have thus far done the most toward swelling the total, and there is also considerable rivalry among parish priests and mayors of cities, who are issuing calls to the public, urging them to give up their gold for their country's sake. As an example, Mayor Ballamy of Nantes posted the following on the bill boards of the city to-day: "Our branch of the Bank of France has taken in fifteen millions in 'gold, but this is not enough. To keep your gold is to betray the hero- es who are giving their blood. Keep your gold and you delay victory. To bring in your gold is to be a good Frenchman. For France, for the honor of Nantes, depésit-your gold." Farmers who came to a Fair at a village in Touraine on Wednesday brought to .a representative of the bank 46,000 francs in two hours. SMALLEST IN THE WORLD. And Yet They Have Staffs and Are It is announced that H. W. Cooper has been appointed manager of the Thousand Islands and Oshawa Rail- way Company, and that J. H. Val- leau has been appointed Secretary- Treasurer of the Thousand Islands Railway, vice Mr. Cooper, assigned to other duties. These two railways says the Mont- real Gazette, are perhaps the small. est in the world. If that antique bit of a line at the Lake of Bays, where they carry the water to the en- gine in pails, be excepted; but, at the same time, they are full of life and abtivity. 'The Thousand Islands road which has a trackage of six miles, runs from the Grand Trunk main line at Gananoque Junction to Gananoque Bay, while the Oshawa road runs between Oshawa, and Osh- awa Junction, about one mile. Both are in the centre of great traffic; both derive large business from the The} + 4 itish Whig [ee THE TURK FORCE IS 10 BEGUT Sure---Achi Baba # Montreal, Sept. 20.--After witnes-, sing four months of fighting in .the| Dardanelles, from "April 25th to Au-! gust 15th, when 300,000 British sol- | diers® had been landed Within easy! gun range of Achi Baba, Capt. Rev. | W. A. Brown, returned on the Pre. | torian to-day for a well-earned rest | "The Dardanelles must and will be | forced," was the summing up of his| impressioff. "The Allies will never | retire, although they. now realize | that Achi{Baba may not be taken by | assault. "It is now heavily engaged | along its front. Kitchener's army, | 300,000 strong, are there, but on too | narrow a front to make such weight | felt, Meantime small French and | Australian forces are working their] way around and will soon cut Achi) Baba off from its base." Speaking of the British' losses, | Chaplain Brown said: "Our losses | some days were incredible, but I can tell you on the best authority that} 10 Turks have fallen for every one] of thé Allies. The Turks are brave fellows in defending trenches, but | are completely lost in the open: At] such times their losses have been ter-| rible, They are fair fighters. They! treated our wounded well and never | 'gassed' us. The reason the Turks] continue to fight in spite of whole-| sale casualties is because they fear| the Germans. Every time the Turks | charge from a trench there are ma-| chine guns behind to blaze into the| trench if it is not immediately eva- cuated. Turkish gunners are now chained to their guns. I have these facts directly from Turkish officers we have captured. The German offi- cers refuse to speak. Great Difficulties. "The difficulties the Allies are fighting under are tremendous. All the water must be brought from the ships in tanks; gullies and ravines have to be bridged to allow the guns and men to cross. There is-a re- gular plague of flies and there are no regular hospitals; just clearing points for the wounded. "But once Achi Baba is taken the Dardanelles are forced. As to pending developments, it is signifi- cant that within six weeks there will be weather conditions which will compel the Allies to advande or leave the peninsula. They will never leave. Just after the fleet had left the Aegean, the German amd Turk aviators pamphletted our lines with the information: that the torrential rains were soon due, making trench life on the 'peninsula impossible. mm A NAAN days of big mileage it has a queer sound to mention a railroad with a mile of trackage, and .which never- circularized, ment, precisely as Trunk and C.P.R. in respect of appoint- are the Grand Generous War Gift. London, Sept. 21.--New Zealand Government announces that a weal thy woman resident has offered one of the most valuable mining proper- ties in the country, estimated by ex- theless, has its proper staff, who are ' SECOND SECTION FROM BASE Chaplain, Home From the Dardanelles, Says Big Developments Within Next Six Weeks Fortress Is the | g 0 em. Be ¥ » eg oT . Cl a revolver The third] They also told us that the fleet had deserted us. "There are now two monitors with the Allies, and although they draw only three feet of water, they have 17-inch guns aboard, which they fre at Achi Baba. The Turks cannet reply, as the monitors and under the cliffs, close inshore, and out of sight. Capture New Sub. Three German submarines were in operation' when I left. There was a brand new one, but we captured it. Their presence rendered the stay of the warships impossible, The Tri- umph was an instance of this. The warship was surrounded by about 30 smaller craft and completely shield- ed by netting. One day the captain wished to go ashore in the launch, and to permit of this the nets had to to be lifted. They were not up two minutes, when a torpedo crashed In- to the Triumph. "I also saw the Royal Edward tor- pedoed. She wis on her way from Alexandria, while we were going back on the Soudan. We had hardly passed her when she was hit. Our ship took up 150, of the survivors. The Canadian liner went down head- first very soon aftér she was hit. There were plenty of other vessels near at hand when she sank. "Althongh the difficulties met with have been huge, the soldiers, British and French/ are cheerfully determin-~ ed to see it through, and they know well that in hand-to-hand fighting they are superior to the Turks. "The Australians and New Zea- landers gre greatly liked, along with th inseperable brothers, the Ghur- kas, who love them. 'Po the Ghurkas the. Australians, who are all huge fellows, look like giants. To strangers the troops must look like wild men. They dis- pense with most of their clothing in the blazing sun. Trousers are cut off short, socks are thrown away, on~"# ly undershirts are worn, and in many cases boots are missing. They know big developments are due, and the rank and flle are only too eager to be In at the final spurt." Capt. Brown is going to Regina on leave and hopes to return to the 29th division in two months. Alexandria he says, is swarming with troops of three nationalities. There is no let. up in the work of pushing the attack on the key position. The effort of some weeks ago almost succeeded in cutting off the Turkish army, but failed through lack of transport faci- lities. ADVOCATE REPRISALS Prominent Men Discuss How To Tackle Zeps. London, Sept. 21. "How should we tackle the Zeppelins?"' is a ques. tion replied to by several prominent men in the Weekly Despatch. The general note of their suggestions 's favorable to reprisals, both now and after the war. - Coulson Kernahan, the Irish novelist, would have ten German nen-combatants executed af- ter the war for every life lost in a manufacturing of the - places tioned, which the roads make with the Grand Trunk on its main line; but in these a men- through the . connections |free gift abled soldiers. perts to be worth $75,000,000, to the Government, proceeds to be used in caring for dis- as a Zeppelin raid. Samuel the Donald Masmaster, M.P., K 'TUM ~ Drinkers + «Usually Enjoy ; Better Digestion Sounder Sleep ~ Steadier Nerves and Clearer Brains py Tea or Coffee. ; Ten Days on Postum Shows "There's a Reason" : SLEEP DESTROYERS Tea and Coffee | : She sulfered from nervousness by day and sleeplessness by night. "Up to thrée years ago," writes a young woman, "I was in the habit of drinking coffee freely and did not realize that it was' injuring my health," (tea contains caffeine--the same drug found in coffee) "till I was finally made the victim of ner- . vous headaches so violent that | was compelled to give up household ac- tivities and stay in hed much of the time. ~ Then insomnia - came upon mé and the wretchedness of sleepless nights was added to the agony of painful days. - "This lasted until I was persuad- 'ed by a friend to give up coffee on- tirely and use Postunr. « The result was, in less than a week I began to feel a change for the better; grad- ually my nerves grew stronger and Samuel, MIP., says he believes in reciprocity, .C., ad- vocates a strong defensive air fleet,

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