wi . » " ~ ] i The Daily British Whig [re | KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1918 sams sno SHm---- PAGES 9-12 YEAR 82, NO, 22 HOW JOFFRE ORDERED | "THE GREAT ADVANCE -- -- SECOND SECTION NT -- _-- ZEST ATTACK FOLLOWED : A HEARTY MEAL Ottawa, a sub-com- Trenches Filled With Bodies-- 'Pretty Hot in Front of Us," . Says Wounded Frenchman, Who Took | mittee of the Cabinet, appointéd re- -- cently to deal with the question bf | ocean transport for the Canadian | grain.crop, and to endeavor to secure | lower ocean rates, has cabled rd Glued to Map For Twenty-Four Hours---Vivid Sidelights on Fighting Which is Carrying Allies Forward--- © German Soldiers Driven Mad. through its Secretary, W. Sandford Evans, for the ocean rates on wheat between Great Britain and the other countries competing with Canada in the wheat . exporting trade. The purpose of this is to ascertain whet. her Canada is being discriminated ih $ By C. F. Bertelli. . Paris, Sept. 29.--The past seven days of the war have taken a heav- ier toll of human life than previous toll of human life than any previous period. Careful calculations show that not less than half a million sol- diers have fallen on Europe's 1,500- mile battle lines from _Belgivmr to Switzerland, from Trent to Trieste, along the Danube, on the Gailipoli Peninsula, along the Caucasian Mountains and from Bukowina to the Baltic. So frightful has been the carnage that fifty men have fallen every minute of the past week, at least twenty-five: per cent, never to arise again. Of the. two battles waged in France, that in Champagne was by far (the fiercest and biggest. Gen- eral Joffre himself conducted the ad- vance, not as a picturésque General on a white charged, but sitting at- fentively at a kitchen table in a wine shop behind the lines, while his aides, which telephone receivers at- tached to their ears, shouted the latest developments from the various attacking columns. A staff officer states that he sat impassively with bis eyes glued to a huge map, mak: ing no comments, but giving concise orders in a quiet, unemotional voice. For twenty-four hours General Joffre did not interrupt his close | study of the situation, Bven for aj sandwich, It was enly when he was, satisfied no more could be achieved that he smilingly remarked: "Well that's done. Now for a snack." After a perfunctory meal he slept four hours. ? \ The Advance In the Night Meanwhile & few miles distant a scene worthy of Dante's inferno was being enacted on the battlefield. In| the dead of night scores of thous-| ands of blue-clad French infantry | Nn cts WITH BRITISH 'BEFORE FIGHT } | Enemy igoorant of Nie, Strength And Plas. AWAITED THE ATTACK BLINDLY CONFIDENT OF REPUL- | SING IT EASY, Ne The Savage Onslaught of Men Who Charged With a Valor Which Come pletely Swept Away All Resistance. By Phillip Gibbs : British Headquarters, Sept. 28. --| The attack which began the 'battle along the five-hundred-mile ' front | started, as far as the British lines were concerned, before dawn Hroke Saturday. For several days previous the usual artillery bombardment had increased in intensity on both sides. Here in Flanders the enemy, as though suspecting movements of; troops behind our lines, expended a great quantity of shells, especially opposite the Ypres saliént, so that! the destroyed city had its ruins | churned up again by high explosives. | Then on Friday there was a lull be- fore the storm which was about to break with greater violence. It seem- ed as though these millions of men on both sides of the line were wait ing in tense expectation of fate. Un-| doulitedly, as I know now from Ger- man prisoners, the enemy awaited the attack, but they were ignorant | of our strength and plans and bling- ly confident of their own security. It is betraying no secret now to say that our own and men were tuned up to the highest pitch of anticipation because, without defi- nite orders, except to those in high command, they knew by various! signs and porteats that operations of somre importance were at hand. Friday afternoon a light rain fell,' making the roads sticky an® spread- ing a grayish haze over the country-| side. At night the wing blew soft- | ly from the west. Away over fhe! Mines there was ve quiet) until late in the night. , Then sud-| Y denly the bombardment began, AN the batteries from the Yser to the Somme seemed to fire together, as thought at some wignal from the heavens, in one great sa and air shook with it trembling which never ceased for single minute during many hours. vast tumult of exp! ed through the night with sledge- hammer strokes, thundering through verbation. : At 3.30 asm. what seemed the im- possible happened. The din of bom-! bardment became doubly intense, so that all Flanders shook to it. Again at four o'clock, still before dawn, the | Consul-General Skinner, at London. Ivo. Earth! in a great Al sa losive force pound. | derson, the deeper monotone of continual re<! yout _of the trench at the word o*| command and dashed across the ground, upturned like a plowed field by shells. - { What the German saw 'from his shell-battered trench when rockets and star-lights illuminated the grim spectacle was the gleaming point of a fixed bayonet, handled by an in-| furiated soldier wearing a mask | which gave him the appearance of a | howling demon. "From a distanc) the battlefield formed a phantasms- gorie spectacle. Lit by greenish lights, the rays of which piers] dense clouds of smoke and polsen gases. the troops were seen swaying in a titanic struggle wherein no quarter was given or asked. All round the flames leaped from con- vealed batteries, belching high ex- plosives and shrapnel. The victory which produced tnc greatest number of prisoners the Al- lies have yet gained at a single blow was won in true Hindepburg man- ner. - The attacking forces were af-| vided into three columns. While the right and lift wings swept for- ward the central body remained quiescent till the advance on the flanks began to converge and act as| powerful pincers. Then the e¢entre { i netting regiment after regiment. Gunners Driven Mad. One of the most torrible features t of the baitie was the number of Ger- man artillerymen driven mad by the terrific cannonade. French wounded brought to Paris say that during the advance they came upon groups hud-| dled around guns which they made no cffort to serve. Some were dumb, the teeth of others chuttered, while others screamed wildly. "These. poor wretches," said one soldier, "wege quite harmless. They had gone stark mad." Am -- } home who had been toiling through | the months at furnace and forge. | They sent us guns, and there seemed | to be shells enough to blast the en-| emy out of his trenches. Our chance | had come for a real attack. i It began east of Mermefles, south | of La Bassee Canal and on the plain | of Lens. Our men were out of their | trenches before daylight and at dead- | ly grips with the enemy. They were | advancing steadily over ground which was no longer barred to them | impregnably by the enemy's trench. es, upon which they had peered a-| round sandbags and through loop-| holes for many long months. Those trenches had been " smashed and crumpled by our artillery fire, and | only in dug-outs were there men still living, dazed by the intensity of the bombardment and stupified into inevitable surrender. It 1s too soon yet to give any de- tails of this heroic advance, to the! outskirts of Hulluch and thfough the | village of Loos -to the neighboring | mine fields and slopes of Hill 70. No| man saw the attack unless he took part in it, and then only his own im | mediate environment. The battalions | disappeared into the fog of smoke from shells and bombs of every kind. { They fought behind «a veil from | which came only the noise of battle, { and later. the first stream of wound- ed. Of incidents, of casualties, of her- oism which 'ignored the risk of! death, nothing can yet be said for the fighting is still in progress. Only in a few words one may say the és- sence of truth. The divisions en- gaged in the struggle yesterday! fought with the spirit of men who! knew the Empire's life depended up- on them, and gave their own lives with noble generosity. Among them were battalions of the new army -- | Kitchener's men--- who charged with | | | i a valor beyond words of praise and with a passionate courage which, swept away all resistance terribly, until the object had been obtained | and the sacrifice consummated. r | BRISTOL CHANNEL CLOSED | Government Fears Presence Of Ger- | J man Submarines Theve. | Washington, Sept. 30.--Naviga- tion in Bristol Channel, the entrance | to the Welsh coal port of diff and | the Port of Bristol, has been prohibi- | ted by the British Government untif further notice owing to the probable | presence in the vicinity of German submarines. This information was contained in a despatch received to-| day at the State Department from | -------- SARNIA DOCTOR'S POST. 3 -- Dr. W. A. Henderson Physician in- | Chief of a Hospital Ship." | rafa, Sept. 30.--Dr. W. A. Hen-| a prominent Sarnia physi- | an Fhe 'has a Sminission wi 3 the 0 odical 3 land, as Boon gs i | Tn-ahi | | six physicians, | forty-eight orderlies. i ries 540 beds, fury of it was intensified, so that our souls quaked at its" awful signifi-| cance: Neyer before in this war have our guns spoken in sudh a loud clamor. : Result Of Tollers' Work. This was the work of all those thousands of men in the factories at ~But it was a good augury. i { | MARCONI, LIFE-SAVER, IN UNI Without doubt, the wireless, which was world by Signor Marconi, h usad in 1899 ¢ his business is still the saving of life, apparatus for Allied ships. would die in disgrace. nent families. His wife is a WON HIS PROMOMIOR GARNETT HUGHES YOUNGEST BRIGADIER-GEN. IN EMPIRE. A Leader at College--Highly Praised By British Officer For Conduct at Festuber't. Ottawa, Sept. 29,-- Canada has the distinction of hiWing the roungest brigadier-general"in the British Em- pire," and possibly in the world, in the person of Brigadier-General Gar- net Hughes, only son of the Minister of Militia. He is thirty-three years old, and is a graduate of the Reyal Military College, Kingston. Military College he took first place. He held the lead while he was there, and on leaving the college he secured ' | the gold medal and sword of honor, and ,won his D. S. M. Before enter- ing the Royal Military College he had taken| his first and second-class mili- tary certificate at the London Mili- tary School. When he volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war his father™Pefused to accept him because he had a wife and child, but the persuasions of both the son and { his wife gained Sir Sam Hughes' con- sent. | adian Highland Brigade he won his| As brigade major of the Can D. 8. O. at St. Julien and distin- guished himself by his coglness and daring under the most trying cireum- stances. A hitherto unpublished story tells of how, aided by Private Thomp- son, Hughes carried Captain Macdon- ald, of Winnipeg, staff officer of Major- General Turner, out of a housé that was being persistently shelled by the Germans and thereby saved his life. Hughes won fur- In the! entrance examinations to the Royal! FORM. OF ITALIAN LIEUTENANT. adapted and produced for he as saved thousands of lives since it was first o flash a m-ssage acruss the English Channel. came onl and delivered the last blow, the talented imventor has join the colors Although in his native country, he says and he is perfectifg new wircloss In an interview rec-ntly he said that if his imvention was responsible for the taking of lives as Zeppelin's was, he daughter of one of Ergland's promi- A i ther distinction at the Battle of Fes wut, 'where he was complimented by a distinguished British general on the manner in which he directed the advance of the Canadians. A Gibe At Ford, New York Herald Engineeting societies will greet the discovery by Mr. Henry Ford of a gasoline motor which will operate under water as the most wonderful invention of the age--if it works. Heretofore the operations of a gaso- lene engine or a heavy oil engine has depended for its success upon the use of air to furnish the oxygen neces sary fon combustion. Any layman who has'seen a nn ator oper ate is aware that 3 1 re- quires for the explosion a volume of air hundreds of times greater than the volume of the liquid gasolene consumed in the-cylinder. To assume that a submarine could carry a sufficient quantity of air to operate a gasolene motor for more than a few minutes is too farcical to deserve even a moment's considera- tion, and if we assume the gasolene motor to run in a vacuum it would be difficult to persuade the submar. ine crew to do the same. There is the story of a Ford car having run for several miles with- | out gasolene, travelling that distance | merely on its reputation, and from | an engineering point of view there is [little hope for any other solutfon in { the projected runabout submarine. / Circus People Fined Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., Sept. 30--Fines amounting to $250 were imposed upon H. T. Pierson, cir- cus proprietor, and his concession aires, who werd found guilty of keep- ing. a common géming house. --- Stand By Your Town v If you think vour town's t Tell em so; If you'd have her lead the 'rest, Help her grow, ~ J Ite' best, When there's anything. to do - Let the fellows eount on you, Xou'll feel bully when it's through, Don't you know. If you want to make a hit, . Get a If the other Who's 'name; fellow's it to blame © Spend your money in your town, Thusly keep the prices down; . Give the mail concerns a frown-- That's the game, It you're used to giving knocks, Throw Bouqu Change your style; ets instead of rocks, _. For awhile; Let the dther. fellow roasty Shun him as you would a ghost, 'Meet his hammer with a hoast And a smile. 'When a stranger from afar - : > - Comes along; 5 Tell him who and what we are-- ° Needn't fla Tell the truth for Join the boosters--they re Make it strong. tter, never bluff, that's enough; the stuff-- against or not in the respective rates charged. Only in connection with! such a contingency, it is said, does the committee consider that it can have any regulating function. It is stated that the rates from Austra-| lia and the United States are practi-| cally the same relatively as from Ca- jyhada, that the rate from India is slightly lower on account of the re-| I latively smaller demand for trans- | ports at the present time,.but that | the rate from Argentina is consider-| ably higher that from Canada. * | that unless the rates are discrimina- tory against Canada it is very diffi- cult to say whether the increased] rates are borne by the producer of the wheat in Canada or by the con-! sumer in England. { WOMEN OUTOISTS AND WAR | Doing Effective Work Behind Firing | Line. - Paris, Sept.' 30.--Forty women of | social .distinotion, who have been | driving ambulances, have been doing their most effective work in recent] days. They receive their orders from | the military authorities each even-| ing and are out at 6 o'clock every! morning. © They constitute "The Women's Automobile Club for "the | Transport of Wounded." This is the only organization of the kind composed. of women enrol led in the sanitary service of the ar my. The president of the club is Mme. J. Pallier, who is also an avia- tor. The vicepresident is Mme. | Ferdinand Perier, of the family of] the former French president, Jean! Casimir-Perier. Among the members | are Countess de Merschoff and other | well-known women of Paris. All fur- | nish their own automobiles. They | wear uniforms of dark: blue, having | a military cut. They are under mi-| litary regulations, and give the sal- | ute. The women are not sent to the fir- ing line, but use their automobiles to transfer soldiers from depots in the rear, and, in quiet times, to take them from hospitals to convalescent | honfes. | WHY CONSIDER? | The Question a Clergyman Asks ot} Government. (Special td the Whig.) *Toronto, - Sept. 30.--* the Government of Ontario know . that there is a war on?" was the yer! pointed question asked by Rev, J.| W. Aikens, pastor of the Metropoli-| tan Methodist Church, apre, in the | course of .an address ofl the war. What Mr. Aikens objected to was the failure of the Ontario Govera-| ment to take. any thorough-going' 8 against the Nquor traffic in the ce at the present time. "Consideration?" asked Mr. Aik-| ens. "Is this any time for consid-| eration? Im such a crisis must | there be consideration? Does the time for action never come?" i Mr. Aikens contrasted the scene of activity and efficiency at the Niagara | Camp and the scene he witnessed in| a Toronto barroom, longer, he said, | than the Metropolitan church itself | and lihed three deep with men, a! breeding ground of inactivity and in-| efficiency. : i LARGE WAR ORDERS Coming To Canadian Mills From The | Allies, | pt. 30.--Inquiries are being made the different nations | of the Allies, ut the possibility of | getting clothing, blankets and oth- [er Such equipment manufactured im Canada. The Canadian mils are anxious to serve the Canadian Gov-| ernment first and are at present busy | with the home Government's rs. | They will be busy until 1} on this. Then, however, they wil | be able to make stuff for other coun- tries. Through the Textile Associa | tion an order for 100,000 bla i worth probably $300,000, has been! plated with Canadian mills for the! British Government. It is understood that the Russian Government has ordered several mil- lion dollars' worth of blankets. This | 4 ccoptance of the Toronto, who have had militia trai who have handed in their mn ) ! w t The commitiee holds the opinion | * Part in Charge. Paris, Sept. 29. -- "Infantry at- tacks began at noon Saturday," said | a soldier wounded in the Champagne fighting in describing the operations, | which resulted in an important gain for the French. "My regiment Was acling as a support. For three days our artillery had been making an appaling din by day and night. Big guns hurled shells without res- ite. "Our infantry men, waiting for the end of it, began to get impatient. Saturday "we ate heartily at 11 o'clock, then looked over our arms. | Finally at noon our chiefs shouted | 'forward.' We began to yell like men possessed. With a single bound We were out of the trenches. It was | | pretty hot in front of us. "The boys who had gone ahead were going good work and were al- ready beyond the German trenches. The trenches were filled up to the brim with German bodies. Further on we saw enormous craters, in which many Germans had been bur- fed by falling earth. Here and thered a boot protruded and we tugged at them to see if any were living, but A ti * THE SPORT REVIEW | Dundas will again be represented | in football this fall, and they may cast in their lot with the interprovin- cial Union in the intermediate series. News has been received in Mont- real of the death in action in France of Walter Brown, of Blue Bonnets, and athlete and sportsman who was, a big figure in athletics in the Lach-| ine district. At the time of his en- listment, Mr. Brown was active as/| the vice-president of the Blue Bon- | nets Football Club. He went over- seas with the Second Contingent. Bab Mac, 2.13%, the pacer that set up a new record for Maritime bred horses at Halifax, was bought | in Prince Edward Island three years | oe for a driving horse by Peter Mc- ell of New Aberdeen, N.S. When the gelding showed exceptional last year he was sold for al good price to his present owner, Ed Bay Campbell of Littis Bras d'Or, N. Montreal Mail: There is just a possibility of Frank Shaughnessy coming to Montreal for the football Season, and helping out "Pep" Pais-| ley in handling the M.A.A.A. team. It seems that "Shag" cannot make | arrangements with Ottawa and he! has intimated that he would like to stay here for the football season. Ar-| rargements may be made whereby! Shaughnessy would look after what- | ever there may be of the McGill feam |! and help Paisley with Montreal Should he not make arrangements to | Stay here, it is likely that he will go to Boston and help to look after the Harvard squad. The Hamilton Rowing Club mana- | gement are fully safisfied with the! Present back division, and are out! to strengthen up the line. They are more than enthusiastic about the | halves, who include Clary of St. Mi-| ¢thael's College, Hal Newton of Dun- | das; Robertson, an old Alert player; | Finlayson, last year's speed wonder, and McNeilly. McLeod, Stowe and Webster, who have all displayed their | worth on the gridiron. "Red" Hayler is back at quarter, and is fast round- | ing into form. In addition, Garsén, the brainy little intermediate rt ter, is showing up fine. t Sweater coal, a pair of heavy Khaki trousers, and canvas shoes, "Bill' O'-1 Hara will tell visitors at the Curtiss! hangar at the Island all aboht the! Joys of aviation. For Bill, once the! #dol of Toronto baseball fans, is now a fill fledged aviator. He has been | fiying around in a hydro-aeroplane | like a regular fellow, and talks i Strangely of "courses," "pockets" "elevating planes," and lots of things | nr % \ i {Hamilton 1 {irol, and range themselves on Side of the principle upon whith Mr. R there were not. but pushed on. "To our right we saw a strong contingent sheltered in a pit with machine guns. They didn't last long for we fell on them with the bayonet. It was a pretty stiff bit of fencing. Seeing themse.ves done for, the sur- viors held up their hands. Some, however, although prisoners, still fired at us. My left hand was pier- ced by a revolver bullet fired point blank at an artillery man. My cap- tain knocked him down and sat on his chest." : All of the wounded who have are rived here were covered from head to foot with chalky mud. Most of them were wearing the new light steel helmets, which they declared had saved thousands of lives. One who had no helmet and whose head was cut by a glancing machine gun bullet, said "In the thickest of the infantry at- tack I arrived with my company at the German artil'ery positions. Gun- ners, mixed up with infantrymen. huddled around the pieces. All of them surrendered. Our artillery had completely stupefied them." A AA AA ct ti ng It takes 200 minutes to turn out a full fledged aviator, and Bill has had thirty or forty minutes in the air. If he keeps up his present clip, he will be witndssing the World's Series from oné of the aircraft. We didn't stop long, Stratford, has been pretty well de- pleted of known material, the only senior player left being "Punch" Perner, the fast rover. An effort will be made to get Ramsay Rankin out and to draft several of last year's O.H.A. intermediates into senior Only two of last season's O. H.A. juniors are available, but there are many promising youngsters in the city league. The Winnipeg Hockey team has decided not to play senior hockey this year, but will have junior and intermediate teams in the Mapgitaba Hockey Association. The executive of the "Pegs'. feels that hockey should be continued among the younger ele- | ment. They will go rs, and endeavor to educate and develop them so that they will be able, in the course of time, to fill the vacancies caused by the war. _ The Ontario Baseball Commission are sending invitations to thé repré- sentatives of organizéd leagues throughout the Province to attend a conference to be held on Saturday. Berlin, Owen Sound, Arthur, Hamil ton, Lindsay, Niagara, Loadon, and other centres have been invited. The idea is to talk over the organization of an Ontario Baseball Association, patterned in some respects after the style of the successful Ohfario Hoe- key Association. ; i J. Franklin Baker, former home- Tun king of the Athletics, and for the past season third baseman of + leads the Delaware County League in batting, The final "offi- | cial average show that the former big leaguerer hit the ball hard, and often for a mark of .377. Baker was passed fifteen times during the season. This shows that the pitchers had respect for his bat Baker al 80 made nine home-suns; therefore, earning the title of "homerun king { of the Delaware County League. Montreal Gazette. : It woul not Appear strange to the old-timers to see Intercollegiate teams as members of the Ontario. RUELY Undon. Years ago the Toronto University, Queen's and Osgoode Hall, of Toronto, were all members of the O.R.F.U., and for yeags the championship was 'well dis- tributed among these clubs. Osgoode Hall while members of the O.R.F.U. were the first to break away from the old close style of Rugby when they won the championship in 1882. Following the breaking up of the Os- goode Hall team "Varsity were most successful, while later on Queen's held the O.R.F.U. championship for a number of years under the guilding hand of Guy Curtis. The Intercolleg- iate Union was not formed until the season of 1898. © > Hotel Keeper's Notion. enald : For the first time in history Ham. | 1iton liquor-sellers have taken their {stand in favor of prohibition as against mere moderation. In 're- fusing to serve soldiers in uniform with Huor, they virtually admit that prohibition is more dependable than moral suasion and personal Seif-cos - a I's banish-the-bar It's a queer sit is policy