PAGES 1-8 1 The Dai tish Whig x EAR 82 --- NO 272 KiNGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, = NOVEMBER 23. 1915 x | 12 PAGES ¥ LA ST ED ITION NG MAN, LET YOUR NEXT SUIT BE GREECE HAS LIKELY THE KING IN YIELDED TO ALLIES Rumored Premier Skouloudis Has Resigned-- More Hopeful Feeling in the Capitals of the Allies With Regard to the Balkans. {Special to the Whig) London, Nov. 23.--Greece lieved to-day to have yielded suffic- iently to the Allies' demands to have _ obviated the necessity for forcible measures of coercion The conclusion is based on an of-! ficial Foreign Office denial that Greek's ships are being seized or de- tained by the British or that a block- ade of her ports has been established If the Athens Government had not at least promised to refrain/from in- terference with the Allies' Balkan campaign, it assumed both steps would have been taken It is rumored that Premier Skou- loudis has resigned the same position both the Eptente Allies and the Cen- tral Powers bringing pressure to bear upon her. The Germans, it is said, are asking Roumania to give- assurances of her continued neutral- ity and also are offering her con-ces- sions if she intervenes in the war on the side of the Teutonic Allies. With a big Russian army in Bessarabia, however, it believed in military circles here hardly likely that Rou- mania will accept thre second alterna tive On the whole, it is expected here that the firm attitude of the En- tente Powers toward Greece will clear the Balkan situation before very long. as Greece, with is be Ir Capture More Serbs, (Special to the Whig.) Berlin, via wireless, Nov. 23 The capture by the Austro-Germans and Bulgars of 9,500 more Serbs was announced by the War Office to- day, as also was the 50 cannon and 2¢ machine guns Bulgaria's Dream. Berlin, Nov. (via Loundon).-- M. Toncheff, the Bulgarian finance minister, who has been in Berlin seeking a loan, said yesterday that the portions of Serbia which would be kept permanently by Bulgaria in- clude Nish and Monastir. The minister added that the ef- fort of the Entente Powers to inter! rupt the communications of the Cen- tral Powers with Constantinople was | foredoomed to failure. Greece, he! said, would persist in her policy of! neutrality, as also would Roumania. . More Hopeful Feeling. London, Nuy. -- With the news that the Serbians have won a victory over Mie Bulgarians northeast of Pristina, that the Bulgarians have delayed their march on Monastir and that the Austro-Germans are labor- ing gnder difficeities as a result of the wintry weather, has created a more hopeful feeling in the capitals of the Entente Allies The British and French forces daily are being strengthéned by men and guns landed at Saloniki, and part of the reinforcements are being sent to Monastir, where the Serbians also are reported to be concentrating and threatening the Bulgarians at Prilep. 3 4 23 Pressure On Roumania. Roumania finds herself in British Hold Ground Taken Near Bagdad much PITH OF NEWS. - Se Despatches From Near And Distant | : Places. The Albany Club, Toronto, has de- cided to close its bar at 8 p.m. Thirty-five hundred Welsh miners declared they would go on strike. A commission may be appointed to : 3 deal with the Sturgeon Falls school London, Nov. 23.--The British cage. War Office has denied the story from! Toronto may invest $1,000,000 of Berlin that the Turks have repulsed! its ginking funds in the Canadian a force of 170,000 British, including' joan. Canadians and Australians, who had Lord Alverstone, former Lord reached within ten miles of Bagdad| Chief Justice of England, is serious- and were driven back thirty miles.! jy jp. The War Office says no such force! Great Britain denied that any of) was ever near Bagdad and what| per jospital ships were being used as ground has been taken in that neigh-| transports. i borhood is securely held by the Brit- Anti-treating legislation may be ap- ish It is not believed that Can-| plied for in Ontario owing to its sue- adians are with this force, except| cess in London, Eng possibly a field hospital. Woodstock and Brantford City = Councils decided to submit local op- tion by-laws in January. Three hundred liquor licenses pro-| +! bably.will be wiped out by the On- ®| fario License Board after the mew o Year CYCLONES IN SICILY. (Special to the Whig.) Rome, Nov. 23.--Cyclones David Draun, of Braun, Midland, and widespread floods are re- #| was probably fatally injured when he ported to-day from Sicily. Many # was mangled by a freight car ia To- persons have perished. Loss of ronto. ? life has been especially heavy #| The new Canadian war loan was | at Licata. Railroads are inter- #| onthusiastically received, being, it is! rupted, wires are down and de- #! yelieved, over-subscribed the first tails are meagre. + day. The Commercial Club, Hamilton, will close its sale of liquors at eight o'clock each evening during the dur- ation of the war. €. W. Barron, president of the Wounded, Bombardi®r Benjamin Wall Street Journal, told the Can- Lawrence, England. adian Club that the war would pro.| Fifth Field Company, Divisional bably end during the winter of 1916- Engineers-- Wounded, Sapper Har- 17, and that the principal beneficiar- oid J. Vellam, England. ies would be Canada and Russia. Turi Sa ot 33. Omario Gives Spur to Germany has completed a new con centration of troops estimated at London, ~ Nov. 23.--The Times 680,000 It is Believed they will be 8201 to the western front. newspaper, which has been active for over a year in obtaining money for the Red Cross, launched last week a | S440 5040040 . Canadian Casualties, Royal Canadism Horde Artillery Henry Lejeune, Winnipeg, died on] Monday at the age of seventy.oue af- ter an illness lasting about mine] weeks, Lejeune was associate judge with Justice Richardson at the trial of Louis Riel Ex-Premier Venizelos of Gress is sure the Teutons are beaten. ---- $00,000 pounds by January, making THE WHIG'S CONTENTS. a total of 2.500.000 pounds. The has, however, raised 'the target to for Allies: 2,750,000 pounds, (13,750,000). fe. Fell Dead at" Work: ans Big Night. . Ilo uncil - Meeting: News -Kditorial: Sleepyiime Talea: Menus: Walt Mason's Rhymes i---MMitary News Eastern, Ontario News mi ents; Announce ments: The People's Forum. Se-Starved for Years: Theatri- eal Notes. "or Recraith Phe Matters: Monastir Neter- Napanee Sport 1" an for Poor; Drop Rel. erendum. 2 TiedCeuntryside News. (on on ign to raise an additional | receipt of Ontario's million dollars | i Photo taken October France, shows His Majesty care of France has his back the extreme USE THE PEOPLE'S SAVINGS Government Contemplating Bonds Payable om Bemand, London, Nov. 23.--Every of the English people upon to pay the expenses of the war Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, informed the House of Commons that the Government i considering a scheme to issue Ronds in multiples of one pound carrying five per cent. for which cash may be received on demand The Chancellor also stated that a Government - Committee was being formed to consider a scheme where by the nation may have the advan tage of the people's savings "Economy of expenditure ly necessary," he added resource will be drawn Under Surgeon' s Knife, Ottawa, Nov, 23 Andrew Brok- er, the well. known member of the Commons for Dundas county is sers, fously 1It 18 the Royal Victoria Hos pital, Montreal. He was operated turday and reports are that his recovery is almost assured. Saw Husband Slain; Kept Silent By Fear Batavia, Nov. 23. --On of May 9th, 1914, Mrs. Maria Mat- roni, now of Syracuse, sat in the kitchen of her home on the Stalker farm, near this village. while her | husband, Luigi, was being murdered outside the door. Wit her 15-year-old son Charles ishe lighted the way into the cellar, where the murderer dug a grave for her husband. She watched the in- termant--while still there was spwe doubt that life was extinct--and stocd by in terror while the assasin | departed. Bver since that night ana until this afiernoon, when the body was exhumed. she kept the secret locked | in her breast. She did all this be- cause of the revenge threatened by the murderer if she ever spoke Jf the death of her husband----a similar fate for her and her son. Led by Antonio Boliva, an inmate of the Monroe County Penitentiary, Distriet Attorney William H. Coon, of Genesee county, and other officials of the county went-to the Stalker farm. yesterday afternoon, and in the filled-in cellar of the farm-house the ¥ was found. Mrs: Matroni identi it by the .clothes and a | number at trinkets. District Attorney Cook said that Boliva had gonfessed to the murder, and that he will be arraigned on a charge of murder in the first gree. the night REVOLT IN PERSI A. Of the Gendarmerie Aguninst Shah's Government. (Special to the Whig) London, Nov, 23.--Persian Gen-| darmeries in revolt against the! | Shah's Government, have made .pris.| { oners of the British consul at Shir-| | Imperial Rank of Persia, Secretary Sir Edward Grey announ {ced in House of Commons to-day. -- two Englishmen's imprison. i ment has been reported before, but! {the gendarmeries revoit was tresh! information. The gendarmerie is of- { is vital | | tained | sax 14,0000000 acres at 1.75 bushels | probab.y 25th, during thelvisit of the shaking the hand of Gener to the camera and M. left is the Prince of Wales. A A 'EXPORTABLE WHEAT - 228,132,000 BUSHELS * This is Nearly Sixty-Eight Per Cent. of Total Crop of 1915. Nov. 23 il estimate in Canada Ottawa an offic yield According of the wheat this year, out of of 258.000 bushels be an exportable surplus 8,132,000 bushels. The average loss in cleaning and allowance of 140 per cent, fo in not of merchant- able quality is estimated at 32,625,- 000 bushels The total amount re- for, seeding next year's crop, to a aay 336 per acre, bushels. food, is placed at 24.500,000 The amount requirey for averaging 6.25 oth. J , is Pumatel ati hor 00.0000 The quan eat flour estimated as available | for export is 85,658,000 bushels in excess of the previous high record of 1913-1914, and represents nearly &8 per cent. of 1915 PEPER r PPP ERP R RE PPPRI EPP PLANT BLOWN UP, (Special to the Whig.) Parry Sound, Nov. 23.--The # ® plant of the Canadian Explos- % | % ives, Limited, was blown up, % by alien enemies. $ + Troops are now in charge. No- + *+ body was hurt so far as known. $+ PEPPER PPPV PES DIED SUDDENLY AT IROQUOIS. Rev. A. H, Visser Expired In House Monday Evening. (Special to the Whig.) Iroquois, Nov. 23.---Rev. A: H. Visser, Methodist minister here, died very suddenly last evening. He had just returned home and 'entered the house when he 'was stricken with heart failure and died almost mediately. He is survived by his wife and two sons. Mr. Visser was an able preacher and an efficient pas. tor, and was highly esteemed by the! His = + people of Iroquois. Allies Captured Tibati. Paris, Nov. 23. --Official announce- ment is made of the capture by French and British forces of the © Ry of Tibati, in the German colony Kamerun, Western Africa, as the > sult of a surprise attack. ------ de- the, i i i | ficered by foreigners, including many, | Germans. Sir Edward Grey emphas- ized the fact that violemce to the two y Englishmen was without the Persian Government's cognizance, .,- Lone Britisher Interned. Budapest, Hungary, Nov. | The only" British civilian interned in ithe whole length and breadth of; | Hongary is a negro by the name of ! Sam Thomson, who would have es-| Lcaped thie distinction it he had not (run out of money and the Shancs ut s j mes i iH HN i | 23 of PROANNA HOWARD Saw, Presideat of . the National Americdh + Woman-& AsBucintive for-elaven years, will not be 3 candidyte to sue- ceed herself at the coming snpoal convention to a: Reld in Washington iin December. Montreal has taken $20, he vow Canadian loa. Rd M iller \ of the total production' im-| i i ] 000,000 of ia st wight Kating hate Satsets| kn Ps soldiers and FRANCE JUST BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT. King to the British armies in il Joffre. President Poin- and is shown saluting. In Seven' Airships of the Germans Brought Down {Special t Paris, Nov 3 Aviators done most of the fighting Franco-German front in the past few hours, according to to-day's official communique Five aerial combats occurred in the Champagne and Argonne regions alone. Three of the encounters ended in the disabling of German aeroplanes, forcing their descent. A fourth fell and a fifth was set on fire and disappeared enveloped in flames. In Belgium and in Rheims French aviators ascended and gave battle to German airmen. Two German ma-, Whig have on the taal | chines Were shot down in such duels. in Belgium. In 'the Rheitas dis} trict two German aeroplanes: were forced to flee. Hig "At the fromt," { said the commun-| ique, * the situation is unchanged." MUNITION SUPPLIES Are Going Through Bulgaria For the Turkish Army, (Special to the Whig.) Bucharest, Nov. 23.--Huge gquan- tities of military supplies from Ger- many are now pouring through Bul- garia for the Turks. Thus far, ac- cording to advices to-day from the Bulgarian town of Rustichuk, 1,400] carloads of munitions, artillery and hospital necessaries have been land- ed at Bulgarian Danube ports for transshipment by rail to Constauti- nople Included in one shipment were two 42-centimetre guns for th Ottoman defence of the Gallipo} peninsula. TO CONVINCE KING That He Cannot Resist the Allies' Demands, (Special to the Whig.) Athens, Nov. 23.--Another confer- ence has been arranged between King Constantine and Denys Cochin, spe- cial French emissary in Greece, it was announced to-day. ) 2 Cochin is armed with frésh argu- ments why it will be hopeless for { Constantine to attempt to resist the Allies' demands. Hho calls upon State authorities to ; quency 'be suppressed through the co-opera- KHAKI! MONASTIR IS SAFE ~ IN BRITISH HANDS Bulgarian Attack Repulse, Bulgars oie 10,000 Men--Prilep is Burning---Balkan Sky Clears---British Fleet Guns Command Greek Coast Cities. (Spe Whig ) Loudon, Noy d Ten thousand Bulgars have been killed and wound- ed in the fighting for Monastir. The Bulgar forc attacked the town on Saturday, Salonika advices say It was learned here to-day for the first time that the assault was repulsed Repeated earlier reports were to the effect that the town had fallen day British troops are pouring in from Salonika to help the Serbs; big guns are being mounted and the town's defenses are being strength- ened heavily A fresh Bulgar at- tempt at an advance is looked for hourly. The Buigarians have been reinforced from the north but Mon astir defenders are now in a strong position A big battle is expected Another Bulg repulse, and six hundred captured, is reported at Vé- of Vranya All Prilep Is Burning. 2 just north indicated that (Specia Whig.) Geneva, Nov Prilep is burn- ing, despatches from the Balkans re port to-day. The town is an ern Serb Bulgars doco, previous advices have no large Serd body remained in that district The French have been op erating in its direction, but to have reached it they must either have taken Veles, which has not been claimed, or passed by detour to the east a important South n centre captured by the last week on their march to Monastir It is supposed the Bul gars set it on fire in reprisal for some act by the Serbs Command Coast Cities, (Special Whig.) London, Nov. 2 The guns the British fleets now command the Greek coast cities, and it is believed King Constantine will give in Balkan Sky Clearing. (Sy Paris, here pecia he Nov is that the Balkan sky clearing in favor of the Allies. Ww hig.) believed is now of War Tidings. I understood at Washington that Greece will enter the war with the Allies if French and British put half a miilion troops in the ans and arrange with Russia to march through Roumania French artillery was veryactive on the western front Monday, and an- other big advance may be attempt- ed, is More British Reach Monastir. the Whig.) Another large sh have reached the Bulgar defeat is (Special to Athens, Nov.' contingent of Briu Monastir and confirmed Can Hold Monastis. i Special te we Whig) London, Nov That Monastir can now hold out is believed here to- In a hot attack the Australians and the New Zealanders advanced and uecupied Targe territory in the Galli- poli 23. "tion of State officers and labor lead- ers with the Federal authorities. Hun Violence In the U.S. To Be Stopped Washington, Nov The whole machinery of the United States Gov- ernment will be employed to run down and punish those responsible for, factory explosions, intimidation of labor and other acts of violence against American industries, This is made clear in an announce- ment by Attorney-General Gregory, / {Tone ssssscse + THE STORY (Special to the Whig.) London, Nov. 23.--That any Greek ships are being seized or held at British ports or that any blockade of the Greek coast has been established was offi- cially denied by the Foreign Of- fice to-day. DENIED. a9 + * * + + + + * * + a | DAILY MEMORANDUM d Grant Gra S$ pm Hall, 8.13 use equal vigor in dealing with law- lessness béyond the reach of Federal statutes. _ ; The Attorney-General was led to act, he says, as a result of the fre with which acts of violence have occurred in the recent past, adding that the situation demands vigorous. action on the part of the States and Federal Governments. Attention is called by Mr. Gregory to the difficulty of prosecution of crimes of violence, such as arson, ma- licious destruction of property, ete, under the Federal criminal statutes. He says the lawless acts can only 3, right hand corner, Bazaar to-night tmas sale « Yember 24th THE DAILY | BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Buc kpel's Xe ws A Dept a and tea L285 King st 33 Princess 183 Princess 20% Princess Princegs & Alfred : Si sUniat ho Kt arke P So Il 83 Princess 'rin. & King ery, C Hotel "igar Store POLICE AND SOLDIERS CLASH IN LONDON, ONT. i London Ont, Ne¥. 23. --London| | has had several street riots as a re- | sult of clashes between soldiers and | the city po.ice, but those that went : before were pink teas compared with {the fight last night. There is no unan. k as to how the trouble started a small riot Saturday night, when.several soldiers were put un- der arrest, and for which they were fined in the ?Police Court yesterday, 3 supnused to have led to it. In the mix-up at the corner of Dun. das and Richmond streets a police constablé was struck with a brick. He, with fellow.members of the city | forve, gave chase and captured the | man who it is alleged threw the missle, and then it was a battle to get the offender to tie police station, 'a few blocks away. The streets were! i jamed with people. and maay eivil. {ians narrowly escaped injury. One {#irl was struck on the head with a ! stone which was hurled at a Greek restaurant window, but which glane- (ed back. i Most of the police were roughly haadied, four receiving more or less = Jere wounds. i { i Neo Fatalitios Expected {Special te the Whig.» London. Ogt., Nov.23.--Those hurt polick ste along | rting Union St. W ® University .76 Princess 312 Princess 308 Montreal ol §° Lirucer ore Prouse's Store Valleau's Grocery | memes DIED, Saddeni ird, 1915 2 Janes ater Montreal Rleda M, Ferguson, CASSIDY Nov Tassidy Fuaneral-notiee FERGUSON 18th, 1816 of A J Kingston ROBERT J. REID Tas Leading U Undertaker. Phone 577. 230 Princess Street. RE 254 and 234 PRINCESS STREET. Phone 147 for Ambulance. IN MISSION OAK Large Buffet Massive Table, rush-bottom Chairs: cook over in Kingston, on William Henry Breet on Nov beloved wife formerly of in nicely to-day, and no fatalities are' anticipated. The police are asking militia headquarters that all men in uniform be kept out of hotels The men of the 33rd Battalion are very sore at being kept here in train- ing ten mouths, and also at the in- sinuations being made in connection with the graft probe. They are making all sorts of wild threats, ands particularly against the police, and; fearing bloodshed, the authorities are taking strong measures to pre- vent further outbreaks to-night. The soldiers claim the police are unfair. Full investigations are hoing made, both military and civil \ eight ioe for $85. Turk's. phone NEW GOODS Should Purge eg (Special to the Whig Ottawa, Nov. 23 Sommenting upon the disturbance between sol- diers and police at London, Ont. last | night, and on the recent develop ments in connection with the pur- chase of supplies for the 3rd Regi 'ment in that city, Sir Sam Hughes, Minister' of Militia, this merning said: "It is up to the men tp trim the officers who have disgraced the regi- ment, and self-respecting officers to purge themselves of those who have proven dishonest." Sir Sam also intimated that there was likely to be a big shape-up the officers of the 33rd Regiment.