| PAGES 8-12 | The Baily British Whig i 12 PAGES YEAR 82, NO, 250 GERMANS ALARMED AT- SLAV ADVANGE Russians Try to Pierce Enemy's Lines Direction of Sventsiany---if They Suc- ceed Dvinsk Operations Will Be Completely Frustrated. Petrograd, Oct, 28 The. tension of the fighting on.the Dvinsk-Riga front is increasing rapidly This particularly noticeable on the road to Riga, where, owing to local condi- tions, the Germans hope it will easier to cross the Dvina than Dvinsk The successful advance sians, debouching the from. the region of the lake open country in the direction of Sventsiany, has greatly alarmed the Germans, as this spot is the junction of von Buelow's and Fichorn's armies Should be at of the Rus westward into the to von the Russians succeed in breaking through there the Dvinsk operations threatened by the Ger mans would be completely frustrat ed The Germans have, therefore, sent special reinforcements with the object of covering their right flank to the rear of von Buelow"s army, thus linking it up with von Eich- horu's. Russia Has Advantage. Near the left bank of the Dvina twelve miles south of Riga. and just opposite the river inlet of Dalen, are two villages which at the present mo- ment are*of primary importance in thes truggle for Riga One, Repe two and a half miles south of Dalen, is in German hands while the other, Klange, just on the bank of the river, is held by the Russians The Germans here are trying to force a way on to the inlet or Dalen so as to command the railway leading to Riga The Russians at Klange are resisting this firmly on the left bank and maintaining a fierce fire against the German impetus In case of their atempt' failing here the Germans are ready to take advantage of any chance opportunity that may offer at Olai further west. Again, m order to secure their fignks, they are keeping up a pretty steady lon the -- artilléry "Hee near Shlok But the main struggle is around Dalen and left bank of the river at Ux- kul, which lies 18 miles south-east of Riga On the Dvina six sepa- | rate attacks of the Germans were | beaten off by Russian infantry and | artillery. "=i It not worth while discussing | the theory whether the Riga opera- | tion is a demonstration intended to | divert attention from Dvinsk The | Germans want Riga very badly, and | are trying their hardest to get it, | and if in the meantime the opera J tions serve the purpose of a diversion that would be all to the advantage ' of their strategy is Winter Setting In Early. But the Rusgians, while firmly re sisting at Riga, show no signs-of al lowing themselves be diverted from Dvinsk. where the Germans have again brought up reinforce ments and ammunition and resumed their attacks They have succeed ed in establishing themselves in the blackened ruins of IHoukst They will probably try to force the Dvina here, but conditions are not wholly in their favor The Russians have the advantage of ample cover in the shape of a forest exiending between [lloukst and Dvinsk and on the edge of this forest they have already checked the German advance If the Germans should come to the riv- er they would be exposed to a ter- rible Russian fire The Russians are, moreover, stea- dily maintaining a counter manoeu- vre to 'the south of Dvinsk. Here the capture of each obscure village may be unimportant in itself, but in their sum these captures denote the insistent approach of the Russians to the railway on which the whole Ger- man operation against the Dvina is now intelligible The snow is fall- ing and winter is setting in early. to "Donnybrooks" - For British Toronto, Oct. 38. Rev. A. Logan Geggie has received a letter from a nephew &t the front in which he de- serioes a new trench and close-quar- ters weapon supplied to the British forces. He says: "For our very latest weapon we have gone right back to the days when Cain had a little difference with Abel--to-day it is clubs, or, ac cording to the military vocabulary, of stories, "knockkerrvies, mark 1," a wooden arrangement similar to a policeman's truncheon, weighted with lead, and liberally studded with boot tackets. The very weapon it is for hot hand-to-hand affairs in a nar- row trench. "About 2 o'clock this morning a A AA PANN and is willing to put up why~--<keep right on! coffee and use 9 is wholly free from health®building goc MADE IN CANADA a . . a. dare-devil corporal of ours with four companions crept over to the Ger- man listening post armed with these very modern weapons, In this case the Germans (Bavarian landwehr), weren't listening good enough. Our chaps just reached over the parapet and clumped them on the 'nut', and three very .astonished Fritzes re turned to consciousness in our No. 42 trench." "Some weapon is tha} club." WENZEL GETS $2,700 POSITION. Become Deputy Chief of the State Automobile Bureau. Albany, N. Y,, Oct, 28. Secretary of State Francis M. Hugo announced the appointment of Frank Wenzel of Watertown as deputy chief of the state automobile bureau at a salary of $2,700 a year Mr. Wenzel will assume the duties of the position Nov. 1, and he will make his head- Quarters in Albany. He stood fourth on the list of those who passed a civil service examination held a short _ But, if one valués health and real comfort. enjoy a delicious, wholesome bevera; Made of wheat with a bit.of whol th iz goodness of the grain. Ten davs trial--a little thing te do--is convineing. time ago Don't Forget ! Tea and coffee contain the drug, caffeine-- from 1 1-2 to 3 grains to the average cup. Some people use tea or coffee for vears and either forget or don't know that caffeine is a eumu-. lative poison, working away in the system, insidi- ously undermining and destroving health. Some of the signs are headache, heart flutter, sleeplessness, biliousness, and kidney and liver troubles. arious stomach, Of course, if one prefers his tea and coffee. with these "comforters." .- "There's a Reason" for POSTUM 2 simply melted away EN. t, and at the same time would ge, the thing to do is to quit both tea and POSTUM : esome molasses, this delightful beverage raffeine or any othér harmful substance, but rich in the Good for old and young. ! 0 w oN ah Canadian Postum Cereal Co. Ltd., Windsor, Ont. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1915 EE ---------- ---- HELMETED FRENCH SOLDIERS AWAITING FINAL ATTACK AT SOUC French soldiers on the Souchez front: awaiting for the order to deliver the final attack. GERMAN 5PIES ROU NDED vp One Said To Have Carried American Passport. Forged London, Oct Announcement was made officially the arrest of two persons designated as "Q ant "L", who are suspo of German agents *Q" is described as a German an is said to have had a forged can passport He was tried by court-martial on September 29th Senténce has been passed and will be carried out shortly "L" is a person of Turkish extrac tion with a German name, He will be brought before a court-martial In both instances the charge is of having attempted to "cpllect and communicate to the.enemy informa- tion regarding His Majesty's naval' and military forces, with the inten- tion of assisting the enemy." following official announce 28 of ted Ameri The ment of a military execution was is sued to-day: "A prisoner who was tried on the serious charge of espionage was found guilty and sentenced to death by being shot. The prisoner ap- vealed and the Court of Criminal Ap- peals on October 18th dismissed the appeal. ; "The sentence was carried out by the military authorities." Bavaricn Army Corps Wiped Out By French Guns Paris Oct. 28.--The 1st Bavarian Army Corps which has been attack- ing east of Souchez, has been practi- cally wiped out In five days it made @ight assaults, each time being repulsed with sanguinary losses In the last two attacks it was re inforced by Prussian Guards, whose dead bodies mingle with those of the Bavarians. It is significant that not one single attack was able to with- Stand the French fire. The Germans mm - > - ~--the pure food-drink being | 00 Local Option A the Jam eat A a 41 PLACES. WILL VOTE A FIERCE ONSLAUGHT LAUNCHED IN ONTARIO BY TEM- PERANCE FORCES. Seven Cities in PFight--Ten Towns and Ten Villages Also Figure in Drive To Make Province "Dry." Toronto, Oct. 28. --Mere than one fifth of all municipalities in Ontario that remain under license are being attacked by the Suiperine forces. Voting will take place at the next municipal "elections. The present situation in the Province is that of the 747 municipalities 554 are al- ready dry. Of the 193 remaining under license 41 vote upon local op- tion by-laws in January next. In- volved in this campaign, and in the license-reduction - campaign in Ot- tawa city, are more than one-sixth of all the licenses of the Province. Already the Dominiom Alliance office, which is directing the big campaign, is a scene of great acti- vity, and those in charge are confi- dently looking forward to a sweep Ing victory at the polls when voting Gay comes, During the past five years 150 municipalities have gone dry and for the same five years only one municipality has gone back to Ii- cense. » The General Secretary likens the campaign im Ontario to that in France and Flanders. "We make a drive and dig in," said he, "and we always hold the ground we gain. To-day we are in a better position than ever for the coming fight, and unless all signs fail, will win another big victory." The places voting include cities, ten towns, ten vilidges fourteen rural municipalities. The following is a complete list of municipalities, with the number of licenses involved: Oitjes Belleville. 18; Fost' Wil- lian, 16; Niagara Falls, 18; Port Ar- thur, 17; Sarnia, 12; Stratford, "12; Woodstock, 8. Towns-- Aurora, 3; Carleton Place , 2; Niagara, 6; North Bay, 4; Parkhill, 3; Wallaceburg, 6; Whithy, seven and 3; Sound, 3: Villages--Bath, 1; Erin, coe, Lucan, 2. Oil Springs,. 2; Watford, port, 5: fon Perry, 3. Townships -- Amherst Island, 1; Barrie, 1;*Biddulph, 1: Chapleau, 2: Chapman, 1; Escott Front, 1; Fitz- roy, 2; Gloucester, 4; London, 6; Louth, 1; McMurrich, 1; 1; Moateagle and H., 1 Sombra, 5. Glen- Merrickville, 2: 33 "3 One Was Under Sentence of Death de Spe | Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 23.--Eigh- teen negro sixteen ted for misdemeanors, escaped m Knox county jail by sawing r way into the second floor corridor, punching a hole in the wall, and let- ting themselves down to liberty by rope. : gederick Se guines, under sentence death for the murder of Chief of Police Camp- bell, of Johmsen City. Two have been recaptured: In-Searching for escapes Sheriff Blankenship « com- manded a negro suspect to halt. In- stead he ran, and in shooting at him {the sheriff is said to have killed Lee . A reformer is all right until he as- sumes 10 be a persecutor, Parry |. 3; West-} Marlboro, . Note the new type of helmet supplied to the French troops. FASHIONABLIDOUBLEWEDDING Davidson-Bertrim and Bertrim-- Grant Were Parties. On October 20th the home of Dr T. 8S. Genge, Verona, was the scene of a pretty and interesting wedding, when James E. Davidson, B.A, principal of Parham public school, was united to Edna Mae Ber- trim, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bertrim and Erle D. Ber- trim of T. N. O. audit staff, North Bay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bertrim, Parham, was married to Evelyn Ka- thieen Grant, Fort' William, young- est daughter of Mrs. Jennie Grant, Verona. Rev. W. G. Lansberry, M.A., rector of St. James' church, Parham, officiated, Promptly at nine o'clock the brides attired in silk Bengolen suites with picture hats and carrying shower bouquets of bridal roses tied with knots of white ribbon, entered the drawing room which was profuse ly decorated with ferns, palms, roses and carnations, to the strains of the Wedding March played by Mrs. Gen- ge, sistér, to one bride and one bridegroom. After -the knot was tied and congratulations received, the happy couples, with the'r friends, repaired to the dining room, beauti- ful with white ribbon, caught in the center of the chandelier over the brides' tables, with spray of lily-of-the-valley. A buffet luncheon was served, toasts hon- ofed and a very enjoyable even- ing spent in music, etc. The grooms' gifts to the brides were rings, set with sardonyx and pearls the brides to the grooms gave tie pins, platenum set with pearls. Sev; eral substantial cheques were receiv- ed and gifts including cut glass and silver showing the high esteem in which the couples are held. The par- ty motored to Kingston in S. Assel- stine's car leaving the city for New York. The guests included: . Mrs. Jennie Grant, Verona: mother of bride; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wemp, Bath, Ont.; Mr. and Mrs. Grant, Bell- rock; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilkins, and Miss Pearl Wilkins, Verona; Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bertrim, Rev. W. G. Lansberry, M.A, and Mrs. Lams: berry, Parham; Mrs. JW. Bradshaw and the Misses Jean and Violet Brad- shaw, Miss Helen Lyons, E. Shannon Kingston. Apniversary services will be obser- ved in the Carleton Place, Methodist church next Sunday, with thé an- nual tea the following evening. Sir Sam Hughes is.to be present. » HEZ doubvie | - and the Worst is Yet to Come. - ir Em : SECOND SECTION "| SOME OTTAWA GLIMPSES . Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. | = Ottawa, Oct. 28.--From the snug | covert of a seven thousand dollar a i year job on the International Com- | mission on Boundary Waters, a job landed him by the Borden Govern- ment, C. A. Magrath reproaches his old friends with not having econ structive ideas. Politicians at the capital are in doubt which to admire most-- the accuracy of Mr. Mag- rath's statement or his boldness in criticising his benefactors. The gen- eral opinion is that things must be preity bad when one is obliged to bite the hand that feeds one that way. * To show that constructive ideas are not scarce Mr. Magrath spreads a few in a pamphlet which tells what Canada ought _to do after the war in country. These ideas are neither startling nor highly original because they have been entertained by think- ing people for lo, these many years The chief idea is that the Govern- ment shall develop an fmmigration policy which will really put people on the land, instead of letting them deain off into the big Capadian cities to which they are ticketed by the steamship and railway companies, In other words, settlers must be settled. Not only must the right kind of settlers he brought to Can- ada, but they must be personally conducted, so to speak, to their loca tions and helped, if necessal'y, with seed, machinery and money loans This is the only way Canada will ever be able to meet the tremendous obligations she has incurred. Also it is the only way to prevemt the city from stealing what was intended for the country. For example, last year fifty-six thousand supposedly agricultural immigrants reached Saskatchewan from England, but only sixteen thou- Dr. Roche could never explain where he lost the other forty thousand, but lief during the winter, him a thing or two. reason to believe ioulturdl laborers never "saw a plow in their lives and never expect- ed to see one was a land of "milk and 'oney." "What, were you in London?" asked the mayor, "I was a lamplighter, sir," "And what work did you, as a ada? We just push a button." as he was tural laborer, job as gardiner with a friend of his where he sighalized his knowledge ing them away as weds. Mr. Magrath's constructive idea is are not lamplighters. With idea goes a lot of advice about ma- king country life attractive for the man and convenient for the house- wife--radials, good roads, social electric power, the eliminatio, drudgery, cheaper transportition, phetter distribution, cg-operative marketing, higher prices for farm Constructive Ideas Unwelcome order to pay debts dnd build up the | sands of them took up homesteads. | the cities of the west, which know | what it is to spend hundreds of thou- sands of dollars for charitable re-| could tell | There is also | that many who! came out to Canada as farmeps or | Such an one was the out-o'ywork | who told a western mayor that he had come to Canada because the ap- | ples and wheat sheaves in the Do-| minion Government's window on the | Strand had convinced him that this | lamplighter, expect to find in Can- | We don't light lamps here-- | This was | a puzzler to the poor Cockney, but | fied as an agricul- | r. Mayor got him a of out door conditions by digging up | all the hardy perepnials and throw: | that the proper men to till the fields | this | centres, rural telephones, rural mail, ! of, products--all the counsels of perfec- | tion, in fact, with which we are more | om. | from the British aid Austtalian na | the constructive or less familiar, Another part of the idea is that one hundred and sixty acre farms are as a rule too big for the class of settlers we must aim to get, and that much better re- sults will be obtained from forty acre homesteads intensively culti vated---a policy which not only util- izes every acre for all it is worth but leaves more land free for other set- tiers. This is not a new idea of Com- missioner Magrath's Many people have-thought of it before but it gains a new instancy because the end of the war will let loose many millions of men who willenot be satisfied to drop back into their old ruts They will seek new countries where life and property arg safer, taxes more reasonable, living conditions better, where a man's a man for a' that, and doesn't have to take his hat off to a spiffy squire who racks his rent and phys fourteen shillings a week for ten hours a day toil. Canada ans- wers to this description and is bound to get a big share of the land-look- ers if the Govermment only goes af- ter them in the right way. It seems to be Mr. Magrath's opinion that the Government is not going after them and what he wants, though he doesfi"t say it"in fo many words, is for the Government to stop thimble rigging and get busy at onge at some real work for Canada Constructive ideas invariably visit Conservative Governments about twenty minutes late They don't 'appear te hear of them until every- body else has talked them over and come to a conclusion For example, there is the Resources of Canada Commission, appointed only the other day to discuss most of the mat ters suspected in Mr. Magrath's pamphlet six months ago. The commission looks all right on the surface but it would be a mistake to rely on it to bring down she cost of living to any considerable extent | because the Government has placed at the very heart and centre of it a large pork packing luminary around whom the other commissioners will naturally revolve, A fat chance da has with a commission hog- that way! We mention no aames but we look straight at him. I "Then theres the H Com~ { mission whose duty is to look after the returned soldier, shelter his con valescence, provide for his family, get him a job, put him on his feet again. This commission which should have started work when the war began, got down to brass tacks about a month ago. By that time the war had beat them to it and the sad procession of maimed, half and blind, was already straggling back to { our shores with nobody ready to shake hands pass them a kind word, or help them on their way. It's a little better now but the Hospitals Commission is still a long way be- hind the timetable. It is the experience of people with | constructive ideas, that Ottawa waves them back. "Go away!" says Ottawa, "Don't you see we're busy with-the war? We can't talk about anything else." Busy with the war! What departments has the war made busier --except Fi- nance, which seized the occasion to boost the tariff by seven and a half per cont.; and Militia, which has been asleep at the ewiteh so long that a little extra work was good for it? . And yes, the Marine, it iz true that the Marine Department had washed its hands of.the Laurier navy and had got rid of a certain amount of work that way, but when the war broke out it bad to borrow vies to convoy Canadila soldiers across the ocean and defend our shores and police the North Atlantic and to do saveral other things which the Laurier Navy might have done if it had been allowed 40 remain in the | swim Il of which kept the Marine | Dppartihent middling busy And | when Sir Richard McBride stuck Canada for $1,150,000 for two sub- marines previously quoted at $750. | 000, two submarines that swam like - a stone and dived like a feather-- | when Sir. Richard did that, we repeat, it certainly must. have meant wore work for the Marine Department Constructive idems still visit the Department of Public Works where | Bob Rogers, the first year he took | hold sent construction up from $11. | 000,000 to $14,000,000 and similar- {| ly by leaps and bounds for two years following but L understand that con struction begins to lag now because . . the money is runwing short. still ideas are there, | waiting to spring as it were, and when the money ie" to go on with we ghall have ny unheces- sary post offices armouries, and har- bor works as ever.--H.F.G., Russia Plans Banks In America. Petrograd, Oct 28.---The minis try of finance is developing a plan to establish a number of Russian sav- ings banks in the United States to re- 1 ceive deposits from Russian nation als there. The first bank: to be opened will be in New York and Chi- cago. TS