0] HE 4 AL O | 1-8 Poe Be ee © The Jaily British Whi AE. ---------- ) PAGES ms] tides tees onde YEAR 82 KiNGSTON, ONTARIO, WE DNESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1915 VIENNA EXPECTS BIG DEFEAT BY ITALY IS DEFEATING THE AUSTRIAN ARMY In Fiercest Battle of Whole War King Victer's Troops Triumph---Vienna Believed To Be Preparing Public For News of Reverse. De greater Sp London, the arr vester n ti now iras n fro JANA fighting © the most battle of the the Italians \ustrian positions een bridge ind Dober Austrian Defeat Forseen I atta after had been and rt that have while ti most o been repulsed hers preg are considered worded as to are LIEUT.-COL. W. T. HOME 'FROM Lieut -Col. W sor of pathology and Queen's University, supervising the medical Queen's Stationary Ho ro, Egypt, arrived n Wednesday morning his duties at the Connell left C and had a pleasant At Shorncliffe he Kingstonians, "Rex Calvin, son, brother who Canadian Capt. Stanley profes bacteriology at who has heen work f pita over Col airo ON tri England SH W number of including Capt. Har of Dr. A. R Hiam Medical Officer of the Reserve and Waldron In speaking of 1 Queen's Hospital Connell that its capacity 500 hed not meet the requiremént expected that an additional would be added shortly ing of the number that there ing the establishment al had all of the lishment on duty were on sick leave son, 17th Battalion the said could work at of and 100 In nurses talk of I'he its ne beds speak he said increas hospit estab who of was some nurses on except two anadians being Dysentry that are no C the hospital is decreasing in the troops arriving from Gallipoli I'he supplies from Kingston had not commenced to arrive up to the time Col. Connell left owing to their being held up th England, but they are arriving reguarly now When asked if Lord Kitchener had visited the hospital on his trip to the east Col. Connell said that be did not think so, according information. There was a Hospital was I'here treated at are 18 recen to his story recently that Queen's ordered to Pr Ar a A i Wage Earners Advised To Save Money Whig) "Britain's shoul- to bear its the utnrost needed.' urged econ ir --- Sp 1 ' he London, Dee ders ure broad enough tremendous burden, but thrift is imperatively Premier Asquith thus THE WHIG'S CONTENTS, 'ne f--iDete aud ¥ J Hng Austria Teas and Germany Told Editorial; Sleepytime Tales: nus: Walt Mason's Rhymes tHtary News: Hockey Meet - Regulations In Twilight omen £'ovuntryside Tidings ireece Relented. Market ports i Mt e------------ Rea Re- Queen from Pembroke are not taken | the Dominion police An nu 1for employed ements Serbians Save Guns Adr nan pape 'rench loubtless going down Russian the mer CONNELL CAIRO, EGYPT r. CONNELL, order had Australian ship that sunk by if there about nega in his from C but bien changed and corps sent instead carried the Australians a submarine When asked was any truth in thevstory Col. Connell gave a tive answer I'he Colonel has definite le and will take up work at Queen's until the spring move airo the an I'he was ave Upion leaders theCabinet to that wage earn than before the for the faet that had increased per cent n omy upon the Trade n consultation with day. He declared ers were better off war, even allowing food and clothing from- thirty to forty price Chancellor of na pointed out that had taken fifty per creased profits from urged wage earners per cent. of their excess earnings fer the war loan, which would be floated by the Government Exchequer McKen the Government cent. of the in the rich He to give up fifty DO NOT TAKE SERIOUSLY | The German Espionage Stories Com- ing From Pembroke. (Special tn the Whig) Ottawa, Dec --Stories of Ger man espionage movement eminating very seriously by the authorities in Otia wa It is stated from the office of that tha facts are far from being as stated, and that conditions as they have existed in the district for the past year are the best assurance that there is no trouble feared Statements made lin connection with the allaged exist- ence of a spy system are sald to be largely based cn jmagination. shortly | A NOVE \n which London teroplane BAN LIQUOR ON TRAINS License Board Will Deal With Question loronto. D I Ontario Shortly ating Ontario w 1 ata bar or at ann either It t License Board yon! strart) Vv deat n formal manner ith the q At the present tir I nd Rt members of matter considerabl soon the board onto likely the found and machin prevent the holic refreshment gers, At the Ontar It was slate understood the boa as It Ig railway sent tario company either at Chairman J cense hoard, w railways are breakin prosecuted Urges Debates In Reichstag on Peace Terms 8 in the Whig) Copen mn, Ded I Frest mands that the Reichstag be permitted to disc are contained in copies of lin Vorwartz received here The paper, Germany cialist organ, maintains this way can be kept informed the Government tions are begun Government's non-interference of debate. 1 LW mea D de memb 18 peace term the Ber day leading that the mly ir public S50 to support when the pegot It argues that i good calls for the freedom as own with Sea Freedom Is Violated By Germany Whig Declaring (Special to London, bec, 1 German warships" are searching all Swedish ships on their way from the Baltic, the Foreign Office charg ed the Berlin Goverpment to-day with "violation of the freedom of the seas with which the Kaiser loud- ly accused England.' The searches, it was stated, made at entrance to the which lefds from the Baltic ('attegat. the Skager Rak North Sea the that are Sound to the and the Swedish Steamer Torpedoed. {Special to the Whig.) Copenhagen, Dec 1. --=The Swedish 'steamer Sabrine was torpedoed by a submarine, den. ONLY 33.000 BRITISH . And Canadians Avé Prisoners of War In Germany. London, Dee. 1.--It officlails announced to-day that the pumber of British prisoners in Germany, in cluding Canadians, ' thousand officers and men. The crew landed at FEm- is is thirty-three; IN PROCESSION, this year's Lord Mavor's show in nn A NIGH MILLION SLAUGHTERED Armenians El Tut By Turkish Hordes. TERRIBLE TALE 70LD : BY MEN WHO WERE SCENE. Prelate UPON THE An Armenian Reveals the Vwhul Crime--Wiping Out of Un- People Still 1 "We solemnly the million or more the provinces of Tre Sivas; Van, Bitlis hardly 50 fortunate { Rome Heve inhat bizond Diarbekr a Proceeds, Dee he wrzerum Kharput 1 ped words reveai a parallel in the war They the fragmentary reports reached the outer world Armen massacres gave glimpse of the actual situa It an Armenian prelate made this statement to your to-day He has a knowledge ditions in has received official re the fate suffered by Armenians Commander Agestino Gorrini, who was Italian consul-general at Tregi zond for six years, gave to the world first authentic of condi- in Armenia, and it was through him that your correspondent was en- abled to get the interview with the Armenian prelate While Commander Gorrini had par tially lifted the veil behind which is being enacted the Armenian horrors, 000 have we few tragedy that have ian i fea wis whic cor nt personal Armenia ports the respon de of and telling of helpless the news tions '4 remained for this prelate to reveal the fact that 950,000 Armenians are believed to have been massacred af ter suffering terrible tortdres or been driven into the desert to die of hun- ger and thirst It was in the Armenian college at Rome, alse the residence of the gen eral procurator of Armenian patri- chiate of Constantinople, that the prelate received the correspondent. He said "We have only been able to collect facts of the massacres in five pro- vinces of the Ottoman Empire, name- lv, Trebizond. Sinas, Van, Bitlis and Erzerum These facts have been, revealed to by the few. of our people who, havihg been warned in time, had been able (0 escape to Rus- sian Armenia. But the facts are hard to collect, even for people like us, A thorough investigation, either hy a neutral country's accred- ited representative or by those of the ns clergy who for ofle reasen or anoth-- er are still alive, 38 out of the gues- tion for the pr It will be a vear or two be Fe ve shall be able to reconstruét in full the greatest! of the massacres which Constanti nople has orderdgd against our peo: ple. An Awful Massacre. "Yes. the greatest, that of 1894- 97. orderad by Abdul Hamid. when 39.000 Armenign men, women and children wer shughtered the streets of the capital and in tho prin- cipal cities, is nothing compared with the magnitude of the present] one, carried on' under the auspices \stantinople thishops s refugees only the Young Turks committee of union deem it superfluous 1908 massacre ordered (by the Young Turks soon after having over thrown the Hamilian despotic re gime and securing a constitution; in that 'massacre only 30,000 were slain jut with a rather their Progress I speak the of or and to of are confronted well-organized wipe off Armenian employed different primitive the " refined days we nly and that succeeded mob was Be and and there our to-day we determined, better-executed attempt the f of the earth the race Even the methods to accomplish this end are Abdul Hamid poor savage compared Young Turks knew the massac a few hours or a those who in avoiding would to ace WAS a with In those would last « few days had somehow fury of the the trumpet MASBACTE was quicker man was slain then and to count the when sounded the this method less painful A his torture ended Also we were able dead lMo-d different be safe to stop sides radically flow- Eu cities of the method is Blood ds no longer ing under the of the shocked ropean in the streets of the the victims car' pike Kurd ornamenting the and the f the houses shops I'he Furks that this offends of and humanity in the present deavored hide he planned ay eve the the heads of are the the en and urkey no longer ed on of brutal gates trances o nor of mosques victims Young the even know ense justice allies, and he of his has en crime massacre to the appalling has Lust for Blood Kurds and the blood could not he Here and there the interior blood Hamidian days Armenian the altar of twenty Bu the Otto fanatics' | wholly n the flowed Angora slain before churches nian man ust. for restrained has At were cities of as in the ten priests tnelr Arme Angora-Coun were found thelr heads and seven emplovees the Railway tracks w f of along - the th severed The Province Bishop of Mardin, in the of Diardekr Monsignor Mahejan, was beheaded on the thres- hold of the convent where he was endeavoring to prevent the mob from breaking in 'At Cesarea, the Armenian bishop Monsignor Anthony Bahaban, and the bishop of the Schismatis church were. both murdered while defend- ing their flocks > "At Diarbekhr, three Armenian "wee BuFed 11 the pudTic square hefore the eyes of the assem- bled Armenian population en the point of being interned im the desert But these are only a few in stances hardly worth mentioning in the great catastrophe which has be- fallen our race From the reports already received, we know as a posi tive fact that out of sixty or seventy thousand Armenians inhabiting the Province of Vean, only ten thousand succeeded In crossing the border and finding a place of refuge in Russian Armenia "Of the sixty or more thousand Armenian inhabitants of the Bitlis Province--of the well-to-do, thrifty, frugal population prospering in the plains between Bitlis and Musch we have been able to account for only 1.000 - "Out of fourteen thousand Arme- nians residing within the city of Tre bizond only about a hundred are left, ™»ut we don't know anything of the forty thousand Armenians resid ing in the Province of Trebizond, nor do we know about the hundred thou sand. Armenians of the province of Sivas We know that Sivas been burned to the ground and that the same fate has befallen Tokat, Amassia, Gurin and Mersifum. From a priest of Amassia, we know that the Catholic convents of Tokat and Amassia were destroyed and the most shameful of all fates befell the harmless, defenceless inmates whose only crime was that of assisting the destitute Mohammedan women and girls Truth Slowly Coming Out. "Of the Province of Kharput, Di- arbekr, of .the Armenians residing at Smyrna and Beirut, of the small commiumities of the interior, we know nothing yet. and will probably know little for a long, long time. The facts are slow in coming out, above all it is difficult to collect them and avpid exaggerations, but we are working hard. "One of our trusted men has al- ready left for Egypt, where a few days ago a French steamer landed some five thousand Armenians, mi- raculously escaped from Asia Minor These Armenians had sought refuge on a rocky hill below Smyrna, and .the Turks had left them unmolested, knowing that their death hy starva tion and thirst was only a question of days. The Armenians signalled a French steamer, however, and were saved. Out of these 5.000 200 were young men, the rest are women and children and a few old men." Two Ministers Ot Austria Have Resigned {Special PRINLL. sg Dec. iE Emper- or of Austria to-day accepted the re- signation of his Minister of Finance and also of the Minister of the Inte- rior and Commerce, according to Vi- Joana advices. It is understood that these Minis ters were leading a peace party pro- paganda, which was offensive Kaiser Wilhelm. has | to, LAST EDITION ITALY AUSTRIA LOGKING 10 ITALY Many Indications That PEACE To FOR Vienna is Aaxious Come To Terms---Helpless in Hands of Germanic Ally. De 1 I'he Pa Ma Emperor W th reports to London Gazette, associating liam's visit Yienna Ww that Germany is willing upon peace negotiations the opinion that ady ed, the Emperor's trip fresh attempt to sion Austria features of to enter as alre suggest may present a bring about cone of a separate peace elLweer and Italy It [taly"s attitude encouragemer: to such an e I'he government at S0ns never from de has shown SAVS Some may tena nterpr Rome, for losed laring wai no particular co-operate with the Allies in restor the situation in Balkan If t S Italy beral disc eagernes ing the believed can definitely surrender of ter vim na tor onal may be emp about n she cl great pressure Vienna to hn fice and thus other l ywyed such a Austrian tr ng sacr berate for regions Another View The London I'ribune cables The Roms tively that by Austria which she war that verge of the fall of quent discontent believed to have increased sition toward peace While report is generally credited here, if for no other reason thn the completeness of Germany control over Austria, some color lent-t@=it bywthe vemi-offleial nouncement of the Wolff News eau of Berlin that several have resigned It recalled that ter the Russian sweep Cia, the Austrian Monarchy wearied war and was anxious for peace \ change in the ministry was brought about by Berlin, and the discouraged govern ment was stiffened ermau troop and counsel Discontent and distress growing throughout archy which was in no way like Germany to, sustain corresponden Iribuna a rs have sserts posi put out ms on fron i feele been th he t LO ascertain Ler could withdraw has brought her 10 the ruin I'he imminence of Gorizia, with the It wil asion the dispo conse oct the dis Bur members Is before thrqugh of the Dual once al Ga ha of the by G have bee dual mon prepared the war the Asks Red Cross To Release Men Fit For Service : Der de London, Dec 1. The Earl of by, Director of Recruiting, has cided upon a further measure to sup plement the steps already taken to augment the British army without resorting to compulsion In a letter to the chairman of the British Red Cross Society he urged the necessity of releasing young and active men of military age for enlist- ment, replacing them by men unfit for militar service on account of age or physical disability "One cannot shut his fact that many persons are doing work for the Red Cross whose pro- per place is the fighting ranks," the Earl said eves to the LHR b edb bbb bd bd olde be GERMAN .'LOT SURE. (Special to the Whig.) Wilmington, Del De 1 Thirty persons were killed in the explosion at the Dupont Powder Works A German plot is suspected dpAd gn +* * * + + + + + + Taase PHEIIIIE 4 * bbb bitty SAVE THE ARMENIANS Popo Takes Up Quéstivn V.ith Cardi- nal Hartmann. Rome, Dec 1.--Cardinal Ven Hartmann's visit to Rome wax stated here to-day, has to do in large measure with the efforts of the Vati can to save the lives of the Armen faus who have not already been kill ed or driven into the deserts to per ish. The Turkish Government has ap parently failed to keep the promises made to Mcnsignor Dolei, the apos- tolic delegate and Pope Benedict XV. is said to have appealed directly to the Kaiser 1a use his influence a Constantinople Last Serbian Town Taken. (Special to the Whig) London, Dec. 1. --Prisrend the last Serbian town of importance. has béen captured by the Bulgarians The occupation of Monastir is nls matter of hours Canada's war loan was subscribed twice over, ventures is ani the Allies' demand is @ A onditions there has bes matter \us the food boon more desperate, but growing realization thal what the of the ria was bound to lose economic union forced she would 1 v as be Not only have na no war With upagn as outcome her b helples the Entent Gerniany be before her a fore Powers With regard to posal, there vival of Austrian notable ghout 1 the pre has been a peace talk thro he last few weeks War spat ire driv Fidings nes Say rsiau Russia and ng un Persia an A rbia many plans establish 1bsorbing Se Lroops making an attempt Were off and speech to the troops, warned them that the vmpaign would be ve mated Stn n british act Home Commons the Harms would Secre as int Fuesday afternoon that Ver editors be newspaper brought before the courts inded Ontario arrived at Que m Tuesday and will proceed few days tion by Lhe Ba'kans is hat the mans t be allowed the Berlin-Constantinople en ind by ments Greece's 'wo bundred wot and Que hee Cj bec soldiers nome n a Vig Entente belidved to Austro-Ger to keep route op develop Tous a in t 3 nmioant will no powers he is ated latest alleged acquiescience in can be sgt isfactory only so long as the tempta- tion to break our. engagement does not become more powerful than the leterrents. That #8 the practical les son taught by experience At the coming Reichstag the radi al wing of the Socialists will insist upon earning the German terms pegs The Of French detisive effort next spring A New York despatch Berlin Government before the war began States laws NN War f 0 Minister the Allies says the will he xin the long Unit SAVH negotiated to break ed ra Phd bbe bbe re P it bb bbb » > * WILL NOT MATCH + WITH THE KHAKI. * k Khaki is the suits every colour that complexion then. the and the wearing it ate of medi pocket lately re only ma 8 yellow match for not % 18 to have a certific "cal unfitness in your + said Capt. Buchanan 4% turned from the front * CHL PPLPI EPI E PEPE PLES e eee a MINING ACTIVEX Is Chief Feature of The Dardanelles Fighting. 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