Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Sep 1915, p. 1

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TEAR 8% NO -221 War ) | 8 PAGES FRENCH BATTERIES BLOW UP DEPOTS 0f the Enemy in the Champagne Region And Daily British Whi Clou ~ Silence Guns---French Aviators Bombed oy ¥ #7 \ pecial to France, blew the Paris, Sept French batteries up several! German depots in the Champagne night and the uns that fire munition region enemy steady works. The Germans chelled the Roelin Court sector and the trenches south of Searpe throughout last night, the French replying with. great vigor. North and south of Avro, this af- térnoon's official communique report ed that the French fire was rhost in tense and very effective Artillery | fighting raged violently around | Beuvraignes. Paris, Sept. French aviators | ee last silenced were in upon pouring a the French oa the German Royal Palace At Stuttgart. have bombarded Stuttgart, capital of the Kingdom of Wuertemberg, ac- cording to the French official com- munication lssued last night,. They dropped about 100 shells on the roy- al palace and the station. They al- so dropped bombs at different points] along the way. The French official statement s : "In retaliation for the bombard-| ments by the Germans of open towns and civilian populations of France and England, a group of aeroplanes set out this morning to bombard Stuttgart, capital of Wuertemberg About 100 shells were dropped on the royal palace and station. Our aeroplanes, which" were cannonaded at different points along the line, re turned fely to their bare. ! Canadian mail p DR. JAMES DOUGLAS BUILDING TO Q . ' - Dr. James Douglas, New Yo brary building to Queen's. Printipal Gordon, when ask said that the site had not been ¢ arranged. _ Full annountement o be made later For many years the Univers callege. A larger building is req be greatly appreciated. whe \ Queen's University, has announced that he 66,000 volumes, besides many thousand pamphlets, has been situ- ated in the-west wing of the old arts building, now the theological ™N GIVES LIBRARY UEEN'S UNIVERSITY. rk, a trustee and benefactor of intends donating a li- ed by the Whig on Thursday, chosen, nor had the details been f the gift of Dr. Douglas would ity library, which contains over uired, and Dr. Douglas' gift will NURSING SISTER CHRISTIE WRITES FROM CAIRO, EGYPT - The following letter, dated August | 28th, has been received by Ars. A.l G. 'M. Stowger, Barrie stréet from | Miss Nellie J. Christie, nursing sister with No. 6 Queen's Stationary Hos- | pital at Cairo, Egypt. ! "It is a long long way to Tipper ary" sure enough now. We came| here two weeks ago to-night and 1 was lucky enough to get night duty. | It is lovely and cool then, but the] heat of the day would almost melt] you. We left Prance almost on an hour's} notice though a few days before, we! heard that Miss Willoughby had left | La Touquet, for England, with two sisters, and we felt in our bones that we might go. Etaples was the name | of our nearest village, and I don't! know why we were not allowed to tell .you in our letters, especially when it appeared in black and white in the papers. We were in Londoa from Thurs- day till Saturday this time just long! enough to do some shopping, making | purchases suitablg for this warm eli-| mate. The trip over was beautiful.{ We touched - at Malta, and had to await orders there. We never! know where we are going when we| start 'ou "Proceed to Alexandria | x4 | ceeded. Units Nos. 1 and 3 left us| at Alexandria for Limnas, and after| being In the harbor for four days we| were at last sent on to Cairo. One afternoon we got off the boat and had | a drive throughthe city. It was all] very strange and wonderful, so differ-| ent to dnything we had ever seen be- foo. The parks are beautiful] though I couldn't tell you now all'the | different trees and flowers we saw there. I rather liked the date palms with their tall stately trunks and bushy tops. The dates hang in huge clusters, but they are not quite ripe yet. Fruit is plentiful' man. gres, melons, grapes, pears, etc. though 1 prefer the taste of the fruit at home to this. e Rode On a Camel. Captain Towers is one-of our medi- cal officers. He chaperoned Miss Brydon, Miss Armstrong and I out to the pyramids the other day.. Of course we had a camel to take us around when we got there, and it yas great fun getting on and off. "™MVé Had bur picture taken in front of the spline, They are very good but we only #5t two each as they are quite a large size. * The sphinx looks inst as you see it in the pictures, with part of his nose off and his left ear damaged. One of the guides sald "Napoleon shot his nose off." We did not argue the point. We "were also in the temple. The en trance looked just like a big hole in thé 'hillside as were, Quite near Was a native village, and I wish you could see a real native village. The 'sticking en their eyes, and at leas | ¥ | though I have seen it a ia lot of bugs in Canada but it does | BO As we are still a divided company, hens, chickens, the geese, 'the don-| keys the cats, the dogs, etc., ete., and the whole family are ones living ip! the same broken down dilapidated looking place. Sueh filth and dirt] would be hard to find even in the| {Slums of our big cities. children, of them, had flie some two-thirds 'of the people have sore | eyes, red and inflamed, and very of. | ten only one eye to depend upon," A! Ereat many women are. cross-eyed,| the result, I think, of wearing those| black veils over their faces fastened | by a huge brass business to thei noses. The better class wear white | veils, at least the lower half is white. and they have Jots of jewels, neck:! laces, bracelets, anklets, ete. ] Sail On The Nile, i Last week we had a sail on the Nile just at sunset. The riverMs rising just! now, and the natives were crowding | to the banks to offer up prayers as is their custom at this time of the | ear. It is rather a muddy-looking| river, colored almost like cocoa, lovely blue; The lights and shades It is| at times: are very fascinating here. comes along. Darkness and day- light come and go very gquickly.| There is no twilight. We sleep with | a canopy over our beds (white net- ting) to keep off the flies, or rather mosquitoes. They are numerous and enjoy the like of us, fresh from a sea voyage. 1 thought there were uot hold a candle to Egypt in that respect. There are ants by the mil: lion, as we well know. when we go to get our midnight lunch and find they. | are walking off with the chicken. | This hospital is really a school and ia fine big one it is, too. Our own | place is not quite ready yet. They | {are cleaning it up before we go out | there. It is about five 'miles from { here. We can get the street car! | out, and we don't care how soon we {and the sisters want to get settled jonte and for all. It will soon be four months since we left. We have | had no mail since before, we left France; but we live in hope. After we get into our own hogpital I mean to turn over a new leaf and be a real | good correspondent. I am having a very quiet night | duty. We are not at all busy just | now, though one or two of the sis- i ters: who were sent to other Jhospit- {als in' the ei | prétty hard. ' There are nimety-four | patients on my ward, but they sleep | well and there is not much treatment | as they are able to be up during the | day and look after theniselves. They | aré mostly sunstroke and a few sur- { gieal cases. I do seven in | bull side of the wheat market. ty have been working! KiNGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1915 SURPRISE LAN -t brite ' ds Still Hover DING AT SUVIA OF -- BRITISH TROOPS. Photo shows the scene at' Anafarta Bay during the landing battle which resulted in the capture of important j under battieships' fire 3 > work of the night so you see I have a 'snap' 'just now. It is _quite dif- ferent from the work we had in France Taking it all through' it seems just like one grand' holida since we started, and I am glad we had the chance to come to this part of the world. I wonder when we will get our We are all waiting for it. WHEAT BULLS RULE MARKET AT CHICAGD Small Receipts And Decreasing Stocks in Northwest Sway Pit Sentiment. Chicago, Sept. Decreasing stocks in the North-West and disap- pointingly small receipts here gave a decided advantage to-day to the Af- advance, 929 ter a pearly "continuous prices cloged strong 1% ¢ to 43% net | ") | higher with December at 95%ec to ! 96 %c and May at 98c. Corn fin- ished. one-eighth to sue-quarter of a cent off to one-quarter of a cent up, oats with a gain of one-eighth to one- quarter of a cént to one-quarter to three-eighths of a cent, and provis- ions varying from 23%c¢ decline to a rise of 12%ec. September wheat shorts in par- ticular found themselves in a tight position. According to one author- ity, the scarcity of supplies was ex- plained by assertions that exports have not been restricted dnd that millers in the Mississippi and Mis- souri valleys, have been buying free- ly at Minneapolis and elsewhere in the spring crop belt. Uncertainty as toe whether No. 1 elvet chaff wheat would be accept- d on ordinary Septémber contracts | here helped cause the September op- tion to ascend in a spectacular man- ner, a Despite frosts over Illinois, Indi- ana and Ohio, the corn market rang- ed lower, Higher prices for hogs strength: ned provisions. On the bulge, however, packers took to the selling | side. Can Do Without a Big Loan From the U.S. Paris, Sept. 23.-- "France is pre- pared to do without meat or cotton and to eat black bread till victory comes, if that is necessary," said a member of the French Government to-day to an American financier who was spéaking of the prospect of the Allies obtaining a loan in the United States, The Frenchman pointed out that the Allies could get along without a loan from the United States, if neces- sary, but they. would immediately have to cut off their orders for all supplies in the United States, as they | could not permit further exportation of gold across the Atlantic. . GERMANY HAS AGREED, To Arbitrating Frye Steamer Case At the Hague. fal to the Whig.) Washihgton Sept. 13 In a note to- , the German Government con- sents to the arbitration of the loss of the steamer Frye and names ex- perts to reach an agreement as to the peeuniary loss, but does not ack- nowledge any treaty was violated in the sinking of the Frye. The note suggests settlem ration. i » ------ ------ No Changes In British Cabinet, {Special to the Whig) London, Sept. ;. quith this afternoon made a formal statement in the House of Commons dén; the rumors that there were a a a ent by Hague arbit-} 23.-- Premier As- : oints by the English. Note A TERM VON PAP EPISTI USES IN HIS | Attache of U. 8S. German Legation Insults People of Nation in Which He is a Diplomat--Latest Archi- bald Letter. New York, Sept. 23.-- The letter carried by Archibald in which Capt {Von Papen, of the German legation | in Washington, refers to "these idi- otic Yankees," was to-day made pub- lie. Document No. 11 in.the Archibald correspondence is a letter from Cap- tain Von Papen to his wife, dated New York. August 20th, in which the German military attache says: "We are in great need of being bucked up, as they say here. Since Sunday a new storm has been raging against us. Because of what? I'm sending you a few cuttings from newspapers that amuse you. "Unfortunately they stole & portfolio from our good Albert in the elevated. - The. English seeret ser- vice, of course. Unfortunately there were some very important things from my report, among them such as buying up liguid chlorine and about the Bridgeport projectile com- pany, as well as documents regard- ing the buying up of phenol and the acquiring. of the Wright aeroplane patent, "But things like that must occur. I send you Albert's reply for you to see how we protect ourselves. We composed the document to-day. "It seems quite likely that we shall meet again soon; the sinking of the Arabic may well be the last straw Hope in our interest that the danger will blow over. How splendid things are on the eastern front--I always say to these idiotic Yankees they better hold their tongues. It's better to look at all- this heroism full of admiration. way." +. WANT SUNDAY PAPERS. Windsor Eager To Sccure Papers On the Sabbath. Toronto, Sept. 23.--A deputation of six Windsor citizens, led by May- or Jackson, waited upon the Hon. IL B. Lucas, attorney-general, to urge the permission of the distribution and sale in Windsor of Detroit pap- ers on Sunday. They wanted the suspension of the clause in the Sab- bath Day Act which prohibits the importation and sale of papers on Sunday. William Rochester, general secre: tary of the Lord's Day Alliance, and D. W. Snyder, his associatiate, gave their view of the case. Mr. Roches- ter pointed out that, while the Ali- ance might be willing for some ar- rangement to be made, the law ex- plicty provided that foreign news- papers anust nbt be distributed in Canada on Sunday. Mr. Lucas deferred ruling on the point, but observed that the case seemed to be clear. | dressings ihe morning and that is the hardest Ei 3 2 fat | My friends in | the army are quife different in this | Detroit | '| sion © | Wools to the United States, the barges used for landing A A A A A AA A i "IDIOTIC YANKEES" "TIPPERARY" NOW A HYMN. Adopt Popular Tune And Add Reli- gious Words, Philadelphia, Sept. 23. than 100 Baptist ministers adapted the tuna of "Tipperary" to the words of a hymn of their own composition at the weekly conference here to-day as a means of attracting public at- tention to things religious. | "We should utilize popular ditties : which everybody whistles and sings, in order to focus attention upon the church," declared the Rev. Clarence | Woolston, the author. | Here's the way the chorus goes: -- It's a good thing to be a Christian; It's the best thing I know; It's a good thing to be a Christian Wherever you may go. Good-by sin and Satan; farewell all that's'bad, It's a good thing to be a Christian, For it makes my dglad. The tune "caught 6%' at once in the meeting. or i DISMOUNTED DECK eamer Waimana Newport Newsis GUN. | British St Left | k - | The British steamer Waimana, which | | has been detained here several weeks | | because she carried a mounted gun | lon. her after deck, dismounted the fun and cleared yesterday for Bue- | nos Aires with 3,850 tons of fuel coal, almost a cargo for an ord'nary- | sized steamer. © The Waimana is jo i ing to Argentina to load horses for the French army. Our Foreign Trade. Ottawa, Sept. 23.--Canada in the! month of August exported goods to the value of $41,094,154, an in- crease of ten millions over the same month of last year. The exports for the five months 6f the fiscal year are valued at $200,262,413, or.an in | crease of fifty millions. Imports ports in August valued at! $40,833:822, a decrease of four mil- | lions. For five months the imports: were $175,561,199, a decrease 'of! forty millions. Excess of exports 25,000,000. Valcartier Is Not Suitable For Winter Ottawa, Sept. 23.--Valcartier is | not yet suitable as a winter camp, and will probably be closed up in a month or so. The troops there will bé quartered in the various armour- ies throughout eastern Canada. The utilization of these armouries has row engaged the attention of the mi- | livia authorities here, and no doubt | the disposition of the troops in train- | ing amongst the various armouries | of the country will soon be anhnounc- ed { At Valcartier 350 interned Ger- mang and Austrians have been at work on permanent improvements to the camp area, building roads. ete. At Petawawa 800 Germans and Aus- trians have been similarly employed. il They will continue all winter there, as there is ample work for them to do. § : Altogether about one thousand aliens of enemy, nationality have been interned, all engaged upon milita work of this nature. Those who are at Valcartier now will perfarm some work for the Gov- ernment during the winter, Buying Horses At London. 'am Beck las been authorized to Ye. gin the purchase of horses for the British army, and will be at the Western Fair stables on and Fridays. The British Government has been buying horses in. Canada making lately, treal the center ' of its purchases-\ This work is mow in part transferred to London, and will be vigorously pushed. ------------ ; Wool Exporting Permitted. Melbourne, Agstralia, #3. The Commonwealth granted permis- the exportation of eross-bred and the Allied countries. { Newport News, Va., Sept. 28. | over imports in the five, months were | trade. wy | London, Ont., Sept. 23. -- Sir Ad-| Over Balka AS MOVED 0 | pacES1-8 EE ------ LAST EDITION n TROOPS TO FRONTIER In Reply to Bulgaria's Moilization-- Diplomats Believe Serbia Will Send An Ultimatum to Bulgaria Which Will Result in War. (Special to the Whig.) London, Sept. 23.--Developments in the Balkan crisis moved swiftly to-day, each new event bringing Bul- garia and Greece nearer war, with Roumania's attitude seemingly in doubt. Serbia: replied to the Bulgarian mobilization order by moving two di- visions of troops within striking dis- tance of the Bulgarian frontier. The Crown Prince Alexander, ac- cording to Nish despatches, plans to lead the Serbian armies in person if | Bulgaria strikes. The Greek Cabinet was in continu- ous session until after midnight, and no reports of its action had been al lowed to leave Athens at an early hour to-day. Diplomats here believe Serbia will {deliver an ultimatum to and that this communication will re- sult in a declaration of war. Merely For Defence ? Sofia, Sept. 23.-- "Simply for our own- defence," said the Premier of Bulgaria last night, explaining mobi- lization. To Prevent German Violation. London, Sept. 23.--1It is believed in some quarters that Bulgaria is mobilizing merely to prevent Ger- Allied Armen Do Big Damage fo Bruges Base (Special to the Whig.) Amsterdam, Sept. 23.--Allied avi- ators bombarded the German naval and military base at Bruges Sunday and Monday nights, doing heavy damage. "# Reports reaching here to-day said that a ierman factory was destroyed. PITH OF NEWS, Despatches From Near And Distant Places. Sergt. J. G. Troup of the Canad: {lan division is gazetted Second Lieu- tenant in the Gordon Highlanders. One thousand Grand Trunk Rail- way employees in the Barrie divis- ion are contributing to the Patriotic Fund. Sir Max Ajtken will in future act as the general representative of the Canadian Government with the Can- adign troops at the front. The beginning of the end of free That is the sentence sum- marized in parliamentarians' com- ment, Liberal and Unionistfalike up- A British Commission which {on the British war budget. is | coming to Canada to look into the possibility of securng coal miners in Canada, and is expected to arrive | this. week, will go to British Colum- bia. Over 250,000 British miners | have enlisted. British Steamer Blown Up. {Special to the Whig.) London, Sept. 23.--The British steamer Groningen has been blown up by a mine. One of her crew was killed. The survivors are being brought to shore. Evans Is Busy Planning For Shipping Grain Ottawa, Sept. 23. --W. Sanford Evans, who is acting as secretary of, he Cabinet Committee dealing with the problems of grain transporta- tion, is in Montreal to-day consults ing with shippers in regard to faciii- ties and rates. "Every power of the Govern- ers, mittee will take the initintive in results, and every | proposition off2red from ou will receive sideration . The farmers, merchants and dealers, the transportation com, panies, and the banks 1.4 have their part and the committee will not hesitate to call upon all these | interests for the action that properly ! belongs to them." { The immense zine ermale i o nov likely rm are be developed for war : Montreal and Toronto Bulgaria, | tsideys' prompt and careful con- | many violating Bulgaria as she did | Belgium. Greece and Roumania. Athens, Sept. -23.--1t is reported here that the Greek and Roumanian Governments will at once issue mobi- lization orders. War Tidings. Berlin announces that comman- ders of "U" boats, when in doubt about a ship, are to let her alone rather than risk an error. Australia has sent 76,000 men to the war zone, and among these there have been 13,976 casualties, 3,032 having lost their lives. All male Serbian subjects be- tween the ages of eighteen and fifty who are residing in the United | Kingdom are ordered to. report themselves to their consuls prepara- tory to rejoining the army. Eight: biplanes presented to the British Government by the Overseas Club were commissioned for service { on Wednesday. They include three from Canada. The artillery bombardment con- | tinued with great fierceness on Wed- | nesday on the western front. Aero- plane observers reported huge gaps torn in the German defences, which they are unable to repair. METAGAMA SAFE IN PORT. Troopship Carried About 1,800 Of- i cers and Men. Fr Ottawa, Sept. 28.-- The troopship | n which sailed from Can- {ada on September 11th, has arrived in England. She had on board the following troops: Infantry 'drafts from Alberta--25 officers and 1,250 men; from Mani- toba, 5 officers and 260 men; army service corps; 5-officers and 100 men; medical corps, 1 officer and 50 men. Details (including four Belgian reservists), 3 officers. and 6 men, A French aeroplane, presumably becoming disabled, eame down at Lommeringer, near Metz. The two occupants set the machine on fire and escaped into the woods, DAILY MEMORANDUM Board of Education, 8 p.m. | King's Daughters rummage {15th and 16th of October | Limestone Lodge, No. 81, meets' to-night, 8 o'clock ' See top of page 3, right hand corner, {for probabilities Brock Street sale, Friday and ton street. A A co A AN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG {Is on Sale at the Following City : Stores: Bicknell's News Depot .:295 F Clarke, J. W. & Cp. ....353 College Book Storé~....1683 {Conlter's Grocery {Cullen's Grocery, Cor | Frontenac Hotel {Gibson's Drug Store { Lowe's Grocery McAuley's Book Store .... | McGall's Cigar Store, Cor. Prin. & Kin McLeod's Grocéry ..51 Union Bt . Medley's Drug Store, 150 University Paul's Cigar £iore . Paul's Cigar Store . Prouse's Drug Store Vallegu's Grocery sale, AOUW, Methodist rummage Saturday, 175 Welling-, King St. Princess Princess i.e. 309 Princess Princess & Alfred Ontario St . Market Bquare Portsmouth MARRIED : KANE-CORBOY:--In 8t. John's Church, Gananoque, on September 2Ind, 1915, by the Rev. Father Kéhoe, as- sisted by Rev. Father O'Farrell, Agnes E, Corboy 10 James F. Kane, Kingston f } DIED, Woe 1 1915, sana, , MURPHY --At tember 3%, Terrance Murphy. T ROBERT J. REID | Phone EE rest. i on Sep- i i {304 i } | _ From | Turk's. i 32s hile they last. at Pure Spices" English Malt Vinegar "Pure Cider Pure Pickling $ Jas. R

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