. PACES 9 YEAR 82,NO. 248 MILITIA DEPARTMENT | CALLED IMBECILE By a Conservative Paper of Winnipeg, Which Declares That General Sir Sam Hughés is "Stark, Raving Mad." The Winnigeg Our whole trouble Post. Con ative here has been that no one, from the highgst to the | lowest in the land, has had any real experience in a great war We re- gard it as an interesting and even ex- citing diversion. We do not regard it as a sudden facing of the great question: "Is Canada to continue to «exist as a {ree nation, or is she to be crushed into a slave of a foreign des- pot?" The people are not serious. That department of our Government which has ¢ontrol of military affairs is seri- ous enough--but it is imbecile. Gen- eral Sir Sam Hughes is fully convine- od that this war was got up solely with. the idea of giving him a chance to pose The man is stark, raving mad figure of speech, but a plain state- ment of Tact He struts and shouts and rants and imitates all those leg- endary mannerisms of famous mili- tary characters--and he thinks that | is war! What difference does it make<-how many men we send--or rather, how many we don't send---so long as General Sir Sam can create discussion? It is just as important to him---it is, just as pleasing--to have himself denounced for not send- | ing enough men as it is to be de- nounced for sending toe many. In either case, he is talked about-- and that adds to his importance insane tricks and twists and turns keep people guessing --and that gives him an air of mystery, which he re- gards as an essential attribute of a great man! In the meantime, Canada is being made ridiculous. We are not rais- ing one quarter enough men. that, we are raising. We are keep- ing men training here eight and nine | + months, and we are sending others to the front two or three weeks after they are recruited We are not pro- ducing one quarter as many shells as we might produce. We are not pro- ducing enough military equipment of | any kind. g "times as much as we have done and serious business, hand the whole thing over to competent military men to run, and forget theatricalism, for- | get polities, forget pull--chiefly fam- ily; social and sycophantic pull, rath- er than political pull--forget every- thing, in faet, but turning this whole | nation into one efficient war machine, such as England is trying to become, and such as England, in spite of her | will become. | muddling, eventually T doubt very much if this revolu- tion in Canadian affairs can be brought about except by the immedi- ate summoning of Parliament. Itis time for the Canadian people to have a showdown. We want facts. want to know where we are. We want to know why we are not send- ing more men. We want to know why we are not calling more men. We want to know why, when the British War Office is calling for thirty-five thousand new recruits each week, General Hughes states that we in Canada are getting two mén for ev- ery one we need---in spite of our rot- ten showing. We want to know why our output of shells is not in- creasing. We want to know why certain factories, are complaining that they cannot get orders for war supplies at a time when there is still an obvious shortage----when recruits must parade without uniforms and when battalions must leave for the front without a hew issue of equip- ment. We want to' know, in short, what in thunder is the matter--and only through the Government in- forming the representatives of the people in Parliament concerning these questions can we properly ob- tain that information. Sir Robert Borden might as well understand sooner as later that the THEO. CANFIELD LEFT $100,000. Estate of Man Goes © Nephews and Nieces. Watertown, N.Y. Oct. 26.--The petition of the will of the late Theo- dore Canfield of Sacket Harbor, one of the wealthiest residents of that village, who died this week leaving a large fortune, was filed for probate to-day. The statement is made that the estate exceeds in value the sum of $15.000. There are no chari- table bequests. The will was made in 1908, and was witnessed by H. L. Hooker and George H. Hooker. It was drawn by Gorge S. Hooker, who and this is not an exaggerated | His | We | are not adequately equipping those | +at-home to do their soldiering' In short, we can do five { top "fled cannof ever learn bat- { talion drill. is-war as a | company drill We | -12 Canadian people sre becoming thor- oughly dissatisfied with the Depart- ment of Militia. They are aiso be- coming uneasy over hisfown silence on matters of vital interest. No one is disposed to criticise the Govern- ment unduly. It deserves great credit for what it has done. It has handled the greatest problems that have ever faced a Canadian adminis- tration. The fact is, however, that it has not done enough. Possibly it believes that it has done all that the , people will authorize. If that is its belief, it is in error. Let it take the people into,its confidence. Let it Wo explain why it is proceeding so cau- tiously and =o slowly If there are sound reasons, the people will under- stand and appreciate them. The mystery surrounding our p put in- | adequate efforts, however, is intoler- able, is destructive to national enthu- | siasm, and is highly disadvantageous to the best interests of the Govern- | ment itself. i Sir Robert Borden is in sad need of a candid friend who will tell him | these blunt truths bluntly This is i no time for flattering, no time for po- litical sycophauncy This is a time | when unprecedented facts must be dealt with frankly and fearlessly. The Minister of Militia's insane scheme--which he describes as "the | greatest idea vet" --that is to say, the scheme to let small towns which re- cruit a minimum of twenty-five men, billet those men in their home town | | all winter, is the crookedest piece of | tampering with this war for money- making purposes that has yet come to public attention. Towns are to be bribed to recruit twenty-five men The bribe consists of paying those men a dollar and ten cents a day, each, with an allow- | { #hce of seventy-five cents a day for | their board--all of which will be spent in the miserable little town that induces a féw of its young men to call themselves soldiers and to stay What military training can twenty- five 'men get. during the coming win- They cannot even learn They cannot even} { learn platoon drill. In fact, all they | can learn is squad drill, which a man of the least intelligence can learn to perfection within a week. And this system of bribery is 'the greatest scheme yet'! It certainly is It is the most impudent scheme yet. It is the most shameful scheme yet. It is the rottenest confession that has yet been made that the war is to be regarded as a money-making scheme and not as a great patriotic fight for liberty. It is a scheme that, if put into operation, will disgrace | for all time the present administra- {tion of the militia. What Canada ought to be doing is | | raising and training soldiers--not | bribing dirg little communities that | { have their nds out for public mo- | | ney. If the young men of these! | bribe-seeking towns have any real | | patriotism in them, eave any desire | { to become real soldiers, they 'will an- | swer the call for men, they will join their battalions wherever they are | sent, wherever they are needed. They | will not have to be paid to stay at home all winter, when there is noth- | ing else to do, and then start in to { learn to be real soldiers in the spring, | when the weather is fine and camp- {ing is a pleasure! The Militia De- | partment's latest device for raising the nién that General Hughes says {are not wanted is simply to take an option on the services of a lot of | young fellows who may be wanted | next May. Isn't it a proud thing? | Isn't it a great patriotic idea? Isn't { it honorablé? It is such a thing, in | fact, as canont be adequately describ- { ed in printable language? It surely | is the last word In the insane activi- {ties of a stark and Minister of Mili- 'tia! is one of the executors. Mr. Can- field was worth about $100,000, the money being invested in railroad bonds. The spacious house and lot 'injthe village of Sacket Harbor is given to a nephew, Theodore C. Hudson, nam- ed after "the testator. One-eighth of his estate is put jn trust for Jane M. Wood and one-eighth for Fannie C. Harlow, the same to go to th children on their respective deaths. All of the rest of the estate is to be divided among five nephews and nieces, Edward Sacket, Theodore C. Hudson, Sanford H. Hudson, Fran- joes Hudson and Sarah Cc, Hudson. . 8S. PRESIDENT'S NEW Picture shows main staircase of Shadow Lasn, Long Branch, New Jersey estate, to be United States President's summer home. The estate smprises thirty acres of beautiful lawns and terraced gardens and a lake, with tennis and golf grounds, rt eee een (City Council Votes Down Propasal By 11 to 1. BOARD MEMBERS FAIL {TO GIVE SATISFACTORY SONS FOR WISHING REA- 6 MVE THe Prinecr Replaced --- Ald. Gardiner Objected To Ald. Graham Telling Him To Weigh His Conscience. By a vote of Council last commendation to 7, the City rejgcted the re- the Board of 11 night of ; Works that the City Engineer be not re-engaged after the first of March next. A long and protracted debate had been expected on the question, bu. half au hour 'wound up thé whole matter. The Board of Works mem- bers, when urged to tell Council why the Engineer should be dismissed, wuld not show their hand. In effect they asked Council to take for grants ed that the Board knew the condi- tions best and that the Engineer should be replaced. Ald. Graham's only explanation of the Board's de- sir@ to get a new Engineer was that the present official was not big en- ough for the job Ald. Couper alone of the Board went into to any detailpd statement; while Ald, Peters a Board member, opposed any ae- tion being taken against Mr. McQClel- land. : When the Board of 'Works recom- mendation was read, 'Ald. Hughes asked why the report was brought n. 3 Ald: Gardiner followed up by ask- ing if 'the Council of 1915 had the right to legislate for next year. ° The Mayor replied that the re- port: was really out of order. All the present Council could do would be to make a recommendaion to next year's body. However, he would fiot rule the report out because. he ought there should be a discussion in justice to the City Engineer. Ald. Kent remarked that he would like to hear what the Engineer had been doing wrong this year. The Chairman's Statement. - . Ald. Graham said he did net in- tend to get up and discuss the City Enginber. "There's not "a man around this Board, if he votes con- scientiously; will not vote for this . he declared. Ald. Wormwith--" "No". Ald. Graham-----"Let other chair men of this Board give their opinion ery.one knows the conditions that wie existed." - That was: all. Ald. Graham would Ald. Fair held that Ald. Graham was 'not fair in laying the burden upon ex-Chairmen. He was one of them, but he had madle his criticisms in writing several years ago. He thought the chairman of the Board should substantiate the recommenda- tion of his committee. Ald. Fair de- clared that the same rouble would encour- ence. 8 Kingston had to-day is a lack leadership in the City Engineer's of: fice," declared Ald. Fair. - Ald. Grabam--"1 will just say Wwe have not been able to do the of the city, and the trouble is at the head of the depart Daily British KINGSTON, ONTARIO. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, At. cat a at BOARD Of WORKS FAILS T0 OUST CITY ENGINEER "him 1 my a ---- | Hughes, Keat, Litton, Newman, Peters, Wormwith. | Nays--Alds. Couper, Fair, Gra ham, Nickle, O'Connor, Richardsen, | White. McCann, On Eastern Front--Invasion of Rus- sia "Fails, London, Oct. 26:~The Petrograd | correspondent of the London Tele graph says: ; It is no longer possible to resist the rapidly accumulating evidence that the Austro-German invasion of Russia has been brought to a final | standstill; that it has reached the . high-water mark, beyond which it will never advance. It is now even doubtful whether the enemy has any i sarious hopes of crossing the Dvins, {and whether his attack in the direc- tion of Riga is not intended merely to mask a transition to the defen- sive plans rendered necessary. by "Wis repeated checks and the collapse of his striking force. The great Austro-German aggres- sive on this side was rendered pos- sible only by the superabundance of ammunition on the side of the en- emy and the almost complete ab- cence of it in Ruscia. Now the ta- bles are being turned, While Russia does not yet comi- mand. all the arms and ammunition for which she has men, the improve- ment in supplies has been prodigious, and 'still continues constantly, with accelerating spoed. The work of equipping and munitioning the armies is being done thoroughly and with foresight. Not only has the | production been enormously extend- ed and vast external resources been *! organized, but the whole business of { supply has been simplified, speeded - ------------ 'up and cleansed of corruption. SUMMER HOME . Toler } ~ 1,700 PUT IN POSITIONS, | Canadian Mechanics, Taken To Bri. t tain, Almost Placed. Ottawa, Oct. 26.--Word has been received here that all but a few of the seventeen hundred Canadian me- chanics who went to England to work in munition plants lave been placed in positions. These men went over as a result of the special mission to 'Canada of representatives of the B#itish Board of Trade. Those who have not been given employment are ! men for whom, for various reasons, suitable work was not available, and the Board of Trade is paying for CA A gn of Works last year, stated that his committee had done probably more | the Feturn of these men to Canada. work than any other. e Engi-| A special allowance is being made neer had made some mistakes, but! for the dependents of those who who was there who had. not? The! have been given employment in the engineer worked fully fourteen munition factories. The understand: hours a day, and worked well: AH|ing was that they would receive the engineers make mistakes and seri- { standard wage prevailing in the Unit ous mistakes. As an instance there | ed Kingdom, with war bonus, ete, was Clarence street, between King! But it was found that even with this and Ontario streets where the crown | provision they would be at a disad- was. all. on the 'side of the road in- vantage as compared with the Brit- stead of in_ the centre. A former | ish workmen. owing to the higher engineer wal . Ald. Lit-{ cost of living in ton said that the Board of Works of Trade has therefore agreed to last year got along well with City | make an allowance up fo 17s 6d a Engineer McClelland. He was sur- | week to the dependents in Canada of prised to see Ald. Couper opposing | workmen taken over to the British the Engineer. The speaker said he | munition plants, the to be could not support the present recom- | paid direct to the dependents in Can- mendation. He thought the Chair- | ada. There is no provision for de- man of the Board of Works or any ! pendents outside of the Dominion. one else who had charges to make! -. + against the. engineer should come! EXPECT ENOUGH RBORUITS. forward and make them. In Mr. S-- McClelland the city bad a very eap-| To Join the British Army Ia Five able official, who was only getting! Week: . the salary of a first-class clerk. "The London, Oct. 26. --Horatlo W. board made a mistake in taking poyiomley, Liberal member of Par away the engineer's assistant, = Mr. yon oo speaking at Hackney Satur- Dick. If that had not been done. | gov night, said that he had discuss- AN. Litton thought there would |." 0 50 0 recruiting scheme with have been no trouble this year. The! fue Earl of Derby, who told him speaker found fauit with the Board | 300 his experience already had con- of Works for not giving credit to | he Mr. McClelland for any goud work | Jinced him chat. fhe Yelumialy aps. he had dope. | Derby added that this. was - some- Ald. Graham asked Ald. Litton | ing to be proud of, and that he how many reports of the Board of | nfidently anticipated that by the Works last year had gone through end of November he would have suf. Counpeil without being amended. Ald. Litton replied that the reason | ficient recruits to meet all requisi- for his reports not going through was! that an effort 'was made to block | (the: chairman). It was not] the City Engineur"s fault. ons. It is unofficially stated that Satur- day's recruiting was three hundred per cent, better than that ou any | previous Saturday since thé war be- gan. Following an ext inarily | successful week it appears that after AM. Couper's Criticism. all, there may be a chancé of avoid: Ald. Couper said he had fought on various occasions for the City Engi- | ing conscription. neer to be given a show when others | OVER 1,000 KILLED. were against him. He asked Ald. Litton how many times he had come By the Allies Bombardment Of De to him and said it was so hard to] deagatch. 2 get the City Engineer to move. This | year it had been impossible to get! expert advice from the City Engineer. | If the Board of Works hadn't a head | to advise and direct it, what could! it do? The time had come when the Board had to make the recom- mendation it was presénting to Coun- | eil. Conferences had been held! WAS, with the Engineer to try and help him out, but the Board's suggestion | i0% to an Admiralty statement London, Oct. 26.--The bombard- ment of Dedeagatch caused the death of ten civilians and over & the d soldiers, and thege also wefe & number of soldiers wounded, says a despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Athens. _ Sa The attack on Dedeagateh, as well as that on Porto Lagos, Socare. had been turned down by him. The Yesterday, taken in by Bodrd's reports had been turned |3nd French warshipg and down in Couneil becanse gertain | San cruiser Askold. things bad not been done hy the, TRE Engineer. Authority was given for PRESS DEMANDS ACTION. the ordering of materials, and the _ : a --_-- Engineer failed. to get the materials See Balkan Campaign Tending To- Ald. Couper said he had 'beet a wardyAlbania. friend of the Engineer for years, Rome, Ot. 26. Slight signs show- but he could no lenger support him | kan war tends to in his preseat position. i Ald. Nickle wanted to know if the ' Serbia gives Italy a more direct in- Board's recommendation was in or-| the der. If it was not, he did pot pro- press is 1 y Bov- pose to discuss something that. would | ernment inl to do and urging it be of no effect even if it did pass. | not to lose precious time in diseus- AM. Litton moved, seconded by sion. Ald. Peters, that the clause in the The papers frankly acknowledge Board of Works report regarding | that the first phase of Sie, Seriinn the Cily Engineer be struck out. | war is lost to the Allies, but r Just before the vote was taken, if the latter, with Italy, move gitick- Ald. Graham Toused the dander of ly, they may make good this loss. Ald. Gardiner remarking: "1, -- hope every man around this board! Another Revolution Brewing. will weigh his consciefice before he = Manila, Oct. 26.--The Chinese votes." : 'provinces of Kwan-Ti, Kwang-Si AM. Gardiner jumped to his feet und Hunan are on the verge of a re- and exclaimed: "I doen't think Ald. | yolution prepared by those whe are Graham bas any. right to talk as he! opposed to the establishment of a has done. What does he know shout | monarchy, according to information conscience or about 'the con-| received from a private source which science of other aldsrmen present? is believed it's all rot to talk like that." The votejon the amendment of Alds. Litton and Yeas--Mayor - Whig | | 12 PACES CANA Frederick W. Shibley, of 49 Wall street, New York, formerly of Kings- ton and Sharbot Lake, has issued this circular to the members of the Cana- dian Society of New York: To the Members of the Canadian So- ciety of New York: The subscription to the War Relief Fund inaugurated by the members of this society in September, 1914, while generous and substantial, represents only a minority of our membership and but a small fraction of the Ca- nadians resident in New York city. You have been informed of the ex- cellent use the committee in charge of the distribution of this fund is making of the money at its dispo- sal, but more money is needed, and there is need not only for more money but for more enthusiasm and more trie Canadian sentiment. I have visited witha the year prac tically every section of Canada, with the exception of the Maritime Pro- vinces, and having related my experi- ences to my fellow members of the committee, they have requested me to tell you how the Canadians at home are acting in these days of - great deeds and great sacrifices. A few days ago 1 was in Kingston, Ontario. There were about four thousand volunteer soldiers stationed in that city, training for duty over- Seas. In the early morning, about five o'clock, I was awakened by the tramp, tramp, tramp of many feet passing the hotel. I arose quickly and looked into the street. A bat- talion was passing on its morning "hike," 'which is a part of the harden- ing process of training. It was cold and raw. Only a glimmer of the sunrise appeared in the eastern sky. 1 looked down on these boys march- ing along with bare hands clasped to their sides and heads well up and my heart filled with pulsing pride that I was of their blood, that I too had been a Canadian farmer boy as raw and as eager as they, and that perhaps hud the call come 4 my day a soldier. Why were these boys marching so earnestly before breakfast? Martin Ryan, Sharbot Lake. Martin Ryan told me. Until a few weeks ago Martin was baggage man at the railroad station of a little village on a lake in the wilderness north of Kingston, where I have been fishing this summer. He was also pitcher of the local base- ball team. Martin has a mother, a little old Irish lady of whom he is the chief support. One dayl heard that Martin Ryan had volunteered for a soldier, and the next time I saw him I asked him about it. "Sure," he told me, "I am leaving to-morrow." "But. your. Mother?" 1 asked "What will yeu-do with her?" "She's going to the City with me," he replied. "I'll be six months in training and when I go she will have all I get." ' I looked Martin over thoughtfully. Like his mother he is small but rug- ged and as 11 ed into his blue eyes, the boy grew as if touched by a magic wand, and I felt small in his pre<ence. "What induced you to volunteer?" I asked weakly: . "Well, you see," he replied, "the boys are going through here, a car- + niin, SECOND SECTION ABROAD HEAR CANADA'S CALL Frederick Shibley Issues a Circular to the Ca: nadian Society of New York And Asks For Subscriptions To the Patrio- tic Fund. load or so every day, going down to the war, and at night I couldn't sleep for thinking of them and a voice kept saying to me, \'Martin Ryan you ought to go, Martin Ryan you ought to go,' till I couldn't stand it any longer." "A voice! Whose voice!" ls asked. "It was Canada's I guess," Martin replied slowly and he looked dream- ily out over the lake. That is the answer I knew that Martin Ryan with the keen vision and hearing of his race had seen and heard aright. Canada had called him and it was Canada who had calléd all those farmer boys and clerks with blue clenched hands who were tramping through the Kingston street that morning Canada! Beautiful, spiritual, im- pelling, this boy volunteer concep- tion of her. In Victeria, British Columbia, in July this sumer. I stood bare head- ed in the street at eleven o'clock at night and watched a battalion take the steamer for Vancouver to go di- rect to France. The Highland band marching in the van played the boys to the ship. The home guard of sub- stantial citizens was their escort of honor Then the soldier boys came in broken: ranks, many of them arm in arm with the heroic sailors of the Bajtleship Kent lying in the harbor, more of them with arms around their Father's and Mother's necks, many of them clasped to wives and sweet- hearts as they walked and every man and woman of us standing aleng the way with tears running dewn our cheeks. . 1 'would have marched, training to be The Call Heard Everywhere. Canada had called 'them from their charming Island home and they were going six thousand miles and more to fight so that liberty, which is the soul of Canada, and the soul of the British Empire, should continue to live in this world. ; Fr ent "ow 2 Canadian Pacific. I saw soldiors In uniform at every little station with- out exception and I saw them com- ing in from the brauch lines to' join the main stream of travel eastward, over the seas to England, to France, to the Dardanelles, to do their bit for Canada I have talked with all kinds and conditions of men and women in Canada about this war and there is only one opinion. It is a righteous war and there must be mo cessation of effort until the menace of a world dominating power has been effective- ly destroyed. Men of age, too old to fight, will give thelr wealth toward that end. Women will work tease- lessly and tirelessly toward that end and the young men will go eastward as fast a= the call comes to them, five hundred thousand of them if neces sary and [ believe more even than that number. There is no bitterness in against the Germans. You hear no abuse of the enemy. The Canadian people believe that the Germans are obsessed with an insane ambition, that they must be heid and bound and cured of their obsession. They want no German land or German wealth. They want only to be let alone to live in close and loving com- radship with the Mother country and (Continued on Page 10.) Canada -- -------- -- and the Worst is Yet to Come.