Daily British Whig (1850), 2 Dec 1915, p. 1

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PAGES -8 The 1 aily British Whig NO KING TON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915 LAST EDITION ROUMANIA INTENDS TO DEFY THE AUSTRI ROUMANIAN TROOPS ON AUSTRIAN BORDER Roumania About Ready 10 Deliver Ultimatum to Austria~--italy t 0 Help Serbia---Rus- sian Concentration of Troops Along Danube Increases. Sg s-- (Cpe London del ver the trate 500.000 reported replied marked paredness for troops alor There in ing ten and according h ha by a centration of trian frontier n the Bulgaria on relations Roumania along the Danube, and the same despatches actually been magia on the river Russia's the 0 ures LV mea against Rou bank taken Bulgarian of the concentration of Danube continues crease The Russian army manded by General Cerbolkoff not by General Kuropatkin, it Russia also displaying along the Dniester, and has invaded Bukowina and occupied the f Sadogora and Maisala troop along to in § con and is sald activ is towns Italy To assist Serbia Rome, Dec. 2 Foreign Minister ol. Fuvsevdlt Sure to Be oe the Candidate Among | Soldiers Whig) [ 2 "Theodore Roosevelt will Republican candi date for President next year The voung bucks of the party everywhere are for him," declared Speaker Champ Clark to-day He said he had been feeling the political pulse in many States I purposely about Roosevelt sald Clark, "and cheers when that of his party would that result to the Dec (Bpeciai Washington, he the my name other statemen put in speeches brought members accomplish his of not HUNGARIAN GIRL JUMPS From Third Storey Window--Melan- choly Over the War. to the Whig Dec } Despondent over a melancholy letter from her mother and in Koshia, Hun rary, Helen Rothman jumped from a third storey window in a boarding house to-day, fracturing her skull He lapives in her native country are in! desperate distress because of the war Canadian Boats Not Commandeeréd, Otawa, Dec. 2 Sir George Foster yesterday denied a Montreal rumor to the effect that the Government had | commandeered the freighters of the Canada Steamship Company for the carriage of the commandeered grain The Minister of Trade and Commerce stated that the lake freighting would be done along the usual! lines, and that the British © Government was handling the ocean part of it | New York sister Several Judgoships Vacant. Ottawa, Dec. 2 Judge Doyle, sen- for judge of the County of Huron, has tendered his resignation to the | Minister of Justice, He has reached | the age limit. There are also va-| cancles in the county judgeships of | Renfrew, Prescott and Russell, Kent, Haldimand and Victoria and Hali- burton. Many Killed by London Trafic. New York, Dee. 2--"More people arerkilled in traffic accidents in Lon don every week than in all the Zep pelin 'raids put together Thirty people killed in a night, because of the black, unlighted streets, is not uncommon," said' VY, T. Caine, son of Hall Caine, who is here. The German authorities barred a Salvdtion Army official. from Kium NANA AA Ar A i nk ee THE WHIG'S CONTENTS. Page 1-To "Daly sels Svnk Sent Hyldw ay Anitial Press Fditorial: Sleapytime Tales; fons: Walt Mason's Rhymes Military News. Social Events §--Kaciern Ontario News, --~4Amusements; Announce- ments: The Paople"s Forum ~Military, Nels: Initial Visit -Roosevelt's Scorn. Calling Northcliffe 1 Two for British Germans. Vigil to the Fleet ~The Wolt Is a Coward Austria; Two Ves- entral! Cannot Run Visit, Echoes of the to One for 11 12 | from | Regulation Applies to All Cases Bel- | irtiamen signed the ith, pro a peace and to Serbi announced in P Ita had Sonnino that of terday y epar tan vill be sent tnnouncement Were reeted mendous cheer Featons Warn Greece Whig.e Representatiy Germany have n formed Greek Government, ac cording to the Neon Asty, that if the demands of the Quadruple Entents granted the Central Empires wil to Mace Athens De f Austria and the are donia sider Greek territory cease 1s friendly Montenegrins StL Worry Austria, via De } Montenegrin have thrown back of Priboj toward their frontier official patch from Vie Prikoj is about side $0 that It lave not vet the western their enemies Ford Now Talks of Starting Strike 1 rede derlin Ww been southwest said an des afternoon on the Ser Montenegrin fron Austrians weceeded in clearing border of old Serbia of nna this 10 miles nan of the tier \ppears the London, Dec, 2 A cable quot- ing Henry Ford as saying that it was his intention to start a strike of sol- dierg in receiving more attention here than his peace ship activities While thege is no danger of Mr. Ford reaching the trenches, it may become protect the American from himself, the soldiers being in no mood to listen to peace talk necessary to "A Strutting Clown." New York, Dec Judge Alton B Parker, former Democratic presiden- tial candidate, to-day issued a state- ment" ridiculing the peace voyage, and describing Ford as "a strutting clown." The Government, Judge Parker said, should revoke the pass- ports of the Ford party Several poving picture men photographers will be taken on the Oscar II. at Ford's expensc, it was announced to-day Only a few days ago, Ford, according to Detroit de spatches, refused an offer of $50,000 movie concern that wanted rights for pictures of the and a exclusive trip 100 Acceptances. (Special to the Whig.) New York, Dec. 2 Ford head- quarters this morning gave out a list of one hundred acceptances, includ- ing twenty college students, nineteen newspapermen, and one representa- tive of a movie concern CANNOT LEAVE BRITAIN of Travel Abroad. London, Dec. 2.--~It is offic ially an- neunced that an order-in-council is- yesterday requires that in all ordinary cases of persons going abroad British or alien passports will be required. sued Britain Lost 85 Steamers In November to the Whig.) London, Dec. 2.--Reports receiv- ed by the Board of Trade during | November tell of the sinking of 85 British steamers with a total et tonnage of 65,000, with the loss of 670 lives. Twenty of the steamers were sunk by Gerthan warships and ten by mines, but 496 of the lives | lost were on the steamers sunk by | German warships. - This Lady Is Angry. Ottawa, Dec. 2 Minister of Militia, received a. letter | from a woman, who makes a rather unusual proposition to the Militia | Department. She urges, in 'brief, that her husband and her husband's i lawyer be placed in the front tren- ! ches with the Canadian forces a , if possible. shot. She intimates t | hooting them might be a matter of {some difficulty as they are good { fighters. From the contents of the { letter it avetild appear that the lady lis angered at her husband, (Special t { Cederstrom, director of the --8ir Sam Hughes, SERBIAN ARMY RETREATING TOWARD ALBANIA. In their constant efforts to escape the encircling Teuton and Bulg: the Serbs have retreated until only a bare fraction Photo gives a vivid picture of the enemy. breaking camp to move tom HUDSON BAY FLOTILLA - + Ihe Vessels Will Sail For Archangel At & Once St. John's, Newfoundiand, De I'ne Newfoundland ing steam ers employed for several months past in Hudson Bay freighting mate rials there for the Canadian Govern ment in connection with project of building a railway from Winnipeg to Port Nelson "and utilizing northern waters as an alternative route between Europe and Western Canada, have retarned to this port, having completed their season's op- erations These five ships--Adven ture, Bellaventure, Bonaventure Beothic and Nascopie--are the mod ern steel additions to the Newfound land sealing fleet, are specially con- structed to contend with ice, and have been found the most suitable set in is these of ncrthern waters, the fact that the Russian has just bought the whole for use in connection with They are all making ready from St. John's They are from. 1,500 +, 000 tons, specially strongly constructed and capable of being use as freighters in anv trade during (he whole vear evidenced by Admiralty flotilla the war to sail ships as to HUGE HUN BATTLE PLANES, Germans Manufacturing Very Heavy Air Machines, London, Dec, 2 lane steered from the eamship described \ German battle bridge like & by Baron Awedish tagctory i been is Government Soedertelge, who has aviation centres ter despatch Baron states, aeroplane aeroplane visitin n Germany, a Reu from Copenhagen savs Cederstrom, the that the entire production is complete revolution, the chang ing made from light to heavy chines, the latter capable of carry immense loads, ipcluding guns less apparatus, petrol bombs and sig naling devices Describing such machine which ho made a trip the Baron Says it was a giant battle biplane of improved d2sign and enormous d mensions, nearly three times the size of the ordinary Albatross type with immense lifting power, great stabil ity, a notable speed and carrying.an unprecedented weight of armor, ar tillery, petrol and provisions and a very large crew lespatch German under says one or LIEUT. ANDREW'S ¥ Valued at $6,356--Officer Killed In Kingst On. to the Whig.) Toronto, Dec. ? Walter S. An drews to-day applied to the Surro- gate Court for administration in the estate of his son, Lieut. Gordon Andrews, a former Toronto newspa- per man, who died at Kingston i Nov. 18th, from injuries received when thrown from a horse. Lieut Andrews made a will on a sheet of ledger paper February 17th, 1913. The estate has a total value of $6 358, mostly in stocks. To his aunt, Mrs. Bessie McLean, Detroit, is be- queathed all the stocks with the ex- ception of thirty-five shares of Bra- zilian Traction and the money on de- posit in the bank. The remainder gees to his father, TATE. (Special S MARE WORTH $10 Sold to Government For Modest Sum ¢ of $165. (Special to the Whig ) Brampton, Dec. 2-- HOw a mare whith was once traded when it was fifteen years old for $40 "on time" Was later sold to J. R. Fallis for the Government for $165, was told when | 8ir Charles Davidson resumed the in- Quiry into the purchase of horses in Peel County. The mare had been bred by John Ferguson, being foalgd in 1899. { Fraser Hunter testified 'that ' had paid W. J, Jones { the mare to J. R. | purchasing agent i partner of Jones. . 85 for selling Fallis, Government , and formerly a ships in the world for the navigation! ha LI Lall arniies, fred of after of their country. remains the Serbian army on the march JUST other position. a dees deh pdb bbb hd ler d oe TAKES CENSOR TO COURT BLOODIEST OF Dec the Isonzo Archduke Joseph the Austrian com 'the hell of the bat tlefields n an interview for warded by'a correspondent of The Berliner Tageblatt The battle for the bridgehead, which is still un decided said by the corre sponlient to be the bitterest and most bloody of the campaign Losses are enormous and there tremendous expendi thre of ammunition Airmen are playing an im WAR. Film Company Ban on Philadelphia charge of being "insurably J. Louis Breitinger, head Pennsylvania Board Censors of Moving Pictures, will brought to court and compelled defend him self The plainfiff will be the Franklin Film Company which to-day was refused a bill of health for a realistic film called 'Virtue," with- May Ward as Virtue ltriumphant in the end One of the | five reels was virtually ordered out Some of the scenes in the film are admitted to be shocking, but the pro- ducers insist that they cannot have ' virtue triumph without showing a portant part The Italians are | few obstacles, and they 'are willing employing great battle planes #|to 80 to court on the matter against of a new type When the w!the censor This will not be weather is clear these armored * | Breitinger's first appearance in flying machines, 30 vards long, #| court, as he was called to defend equipped with three motors himself in the case of Geraldine Far- and two or three machine guns rar's "Carmen which was consid can be seen plainly from the ered realistic for Philadelphia Austrian lines Frequently en tire squadrons take part in rial battles Fights Philadelphia "Virtue," Dec 2 - ¥ + The is Amsterdam fighting along described by Ferdinand On the romantic' of the * of he to as mander Gorizia clean eo oe ob ob 1s a BR b dbp dbl dh d dd fbb py ae FASK NOT FINISHED, A ohdedeep dedeog bbb More Fighting in Serbia, man Expert, lerlin, Dec, 2 Major the Faweblatt, points out that head quarters' report speaks only of the operations on a large scale heing fin ished in Serbia Smaller operations are still necessary, and some time will be required to vanquish Ser- bia's southern army and drive the rest of the northern armies bevond the border Although the French and expeditionary corps seem to be retreating on gecount of early win ter, it still uncertain, the writer if this means the entire aban- donment of the Balkan adventure. At any rate, the present group of Central Powers must prepare to fight, at some' future date, about 60. 00 Serbians, 50,000 Italians, more than 100,000 French and English, and not less than 300.000 Russians, who have lately collected to force a way through Roumania Says Ger. seeodededeoleofedeodesdede de fede dbodeofe db ojo sfooo doofe oe hoe Best Teutons Can Hope Is 10 Hold Out For Winter \ w Yo Moraht, in Ne rk, Dee. 2. Lhe elements in the present situation of the great war upon which all instructed opin 10n reposesg may be thus summarizad says Hilliare Bello¢ 1 The Teutons Balkan adventure mainly with the bject dividing the Allies and of producing political effect. They have done so in the hope that this political effect may have strategic results in bringing in certain neutral forces up- on their side. In this hope they have been already gratified in the case of lulgaria 2 They have been compelled to make this diversion because the end their efficient reserves was in sight They had already in Germany warned all men up to fifty-two years; in Austria-Hungary they had taken great groups of men up to fifty-one and had actually put them into the field. They were falling back upon men imperfectly cured and men who had several times been rejected hy the doctors They had of a really efficient reserve nothing but the classes of sixteen and seventeen. 3.---But they estimated their chan-| ces of holdirg out through the win-! ter even -with insufficient recruiting as at least even, because they knew that'on the <astern front nothing vould be attempted on a large scale hy the Russians until their great lack of rifles began to get made and even were the equipment of Russian to be completed before the end of the win- ter, the climate would forbid a real- {ly great Ci offensive to be un- 8 Says have risked the of CHURCHILL UNDER DISCIPLINE. Receives "Call" From Superior When Failings Merit Such. London, De The Daily Ex press quotes an officer in Winston Churchill's regiment writing from the front 3 follows The first night Churchill shiver- ed 'visibly.' It was some time be- fore he warmed up, but he uttered no complaint He is now being subjected to an authoritative damn- ing by his superior officers, which ie good schooling for a former Cabinet | minister." The Express states that Churchill is gaining experience to fit him for a future command. of Missionary to Join Harvard Univer. sity Medical Unit. Calgary, Dec ~Dr Wilfrid Grenfell, the patriot saint of Labra- dor, and one of the outstanding fig- ures in Canada, announced that he ! had cancelled a big lecture totir in or- der to go to the front. After fulfilling twq more lecture {engagements at Calgary and Edmon- ton, he will leave for New York, | where he will join the second univer. sity contingent from Harvard Uni- versity, which leaves almost imme- diately for Boulogne, The noted doctor will be attached as a senior | surgeon. > dertaken, Shop License . Objected to In Gananoque & EMBARGO ON SNOWSHOES. Gananoane Dat aE David {Darling was in Brockville yesterday DXPortation From Germany Has in attendance at the session of the Been Forbidden. {Central Board of License Commis- | iBioners to request that as there are {to be soldiers qhartered here for the winter that no whol license be granted. Mayor Dr. ¥ J. O'Consor, on ac- Berlin, via London, Dec. 2.-- The exportation of snowshoes, | partly or entirely finished, is forbid- esale ship den in a decree issued und the | regulations governing "weapons, | ammunition and powder" The count of iiiness, vould not attend.' same order removes the restrictiofis but sent a strong letter setting forth on the exportation of various arti- {his views on the guestion Rev. cles, including phonographe, glass- {Melvin Taylor, T. I Ellis, Dr. A HH. | ware. vanes, riding whips, watches, i Mabee and John Bradley, Lsradowns. pianos, harmonicas and jattended. frames. Mr. ! either photo ANS TWO BIG VESSELS WERE TORPEDOED The Colenso's Crew Was Landed But the Fate of the Orange Prince Crew is in Doubt --0ne on n The B sl 1 Ded 2 i Orange Colenso sunk S808 Crew was oncerning the f Orange Prince made public mparatively 3.861 of 83 a Wilson line: and the latter a Newcastle its Colenso was in the trade and that naval IL.ondon I and by am Frince Hips have The vd to-day ( heen submar nes Cole those on ¢ vet been Both are Colens Prince was Hul with 14 Seis the ) O Orange former from liner port Sea n sailing Pi home North sunk Ince as I'be presumably war zone was The Casualty List al "to the WW 2 Great Lor don, Det killed, wounded and missing the war began number Premier Asquith informed parliament to-day Of the casualties The Number Of Inspectors dritain's ince J 10, 179.958 of them lo Be Reduced \ complete re work of liquor Toronto, Dec. 2 distribution of the license inspectors throughout On tario including a reduction in their number to about one-half the present number engaged in this work, is ex pected to be undertaken by the On tarfo License Board about the first of the year Provision was made acl that inspectors should whole time to the work, but vision of affairs which this entail was left over unt the had made a complete iA¥pe the Province By the end year the board will have eyery license district in Ontar following their decisions renewal of licenses reorganization will begin There at over hundred tario approximately riding held ments under the old order before the passing of the and the creat' ng of a Central Ljcense Board Many of them small salaries, the ve thelr the re would Boar tion of 1 | sited n B new o! to tt work o a el the hing in On to each appoint of th new are presen omet a inspectors ane These their ngs act receive very having but little employment which good portion of their time tention of the act do away with this, and to provide the payment of sucli salaries as would enable inspectors to devote their whole to the work of the Board occupies a It was the in to for the time For Patriotic Fund. Ottawa, Dec 2 Hon Ww T. White, Hon. Treasurer of the Patri otic Fund, received the following cash remittances: St. John $40,544; Nova Scotia, $34.3 ronto and York County, $16 others No Change On Western Front (Special t the Whig Paris, Dec.2 Artillery duels have occurred in the vicinities of Brettin court, in the Artois region, Friszefay, | in the Somme district and Tahure the Champagne There change in position Germans Wonder That Allies Do Not Quit (Special to the Whig ) Berlin, via wireless, Dec. 2 De- mounstrations in favor of speedy set- tlement of food price and distribu tion problems are admitted to-day to have occurred in crowds which gathered about the Reithstag build- ing at the opening of the session Within a few days, Imperial Chan cellor von Bethmann®Hollweg ex- pects to make an address in the Reichstag in response to questions scheduled from the Socialists con- cerning peace prospects "In Germany," said an statement to-day, "nobody under tands why the Allies, after their military failures and diplomatic de feats in the Balkans, have not yet be gun peace negotiations. "The Chancellor probably will show that the rulers of the countries 2t war with Germany still blindly be- lieve the stories .f Germany's star vation, economic prostration and similar illusions * -- nn mn is inspired The Presbyterian churches of Ot- tawa gave a majority of 1,123 for church anion, work | to do, and in consequence have other | no North Sea. Be 11 nd France and t ear ea 102 figh War Tidings nited coplerred Wed Whitlock States Ambassador to Pre Braud Belgium Wilson regarding the Cavel vith sident important matters German the saul ominent from Libenect; a eturned invaljded sociali trenche to a tarium Berlin Roumanian riots at during port Parliament King 108 1 despite reading ol gpeach Germans mine Canadiar tol but did little damage he Bi h War that the progress French campaign "satisfactory pos NOC Anglo Saltkan thie n Was A Snow Storm ' Rages on Lake; Boats I'ied Up ol raged night and report re naviga SHOW storm Lake Ontario Wednesday Fhursday morning 4 | ceived in the city stated that tion was tied up | The loaded w Kingston, storm was will be the storm Fhe tugs rived port A heavy in Oswego to proceed to but owing to the snow unable to get away, and forced to remain there until is over Cecelia ang steamer Jex is th coal, ready Matilda ar- from Port Ddlhousie where delivered a dredge I'he Key Bell at the Kingston Shipbuilding Company's f dry dock, and ip for the in they steamer is will be laid Season and | Greek Steamship Torpedoed 1 the Whig Ded 2 Fhe Greek irisis has een sunk by a crew landed to-da ' ) for | steamship submarine fat Malta Lon 7k I'he residence of Westmount sacked worth the of completely dotiars d daylight man (Montreal) and sever WHS | thousand of goods removed I'hree sand hundred of thou casua million sever the number the German armies during 1 < oi} luding Nov. Z total ties in the up to and inc war last DAILY MEMORANDUM te 4 N i 1 0 curner ROBERT J. REID The Leading Undostaker. Phone B77. 230 Princess Street. JAMES REID | The Old Firm of Undertaker, |254 and 254 PRINCESS STRHRT. | | Phone 147 for Ambulance. i DONT FORGET THERE ARE ONLY / BEFORE OS

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