12-PACES fr oF NEWS. -- From Near And Distant Places. William Fraser was elected presi- bio of the Caledonian See ety, To- | | ronto. a1 Arth ur Friday London, Jan. 14.--The British trenches have beel overwhelmed with | willions of rats, driven from the | Huns' trenches by some germ chem- ist"s antidate which worked marvels for the enemy. The matter became so urgent that- we capfured a few score new arriv- als, tabulated them, and attached | identification. dises to them; then -- | politely captured a certain section of B.Xmi| German trench in order to release them, 'and find out what drove them back. Post mortem& on the recaptured rodents revealed to careful chemists just what the Germans were using, with the result that we hope soon to eliminate. what might have been an | embarrassment. The ruts have lately given away! séveral listening posts. If struck jon a quiet night with a bayonet, they make more noise 'than the average der of St. Michael and St.' George] Hun, with the result that the enemy's are: | machine guns open fire, A chemi- Murray Maclaren of St. John N.B ,1 cal analysis of recent captures of rats Colonel, -Commanding Officer of has cleared the situation Canadian General Hospital. = Charles Johnstone Armstrong, GUILTY OF FRAUD. temporary Brigadier-General, com- manding ti Canadian Engineers, George Gallie Smith, Lieut-C ol., Canadian Army Medical Corps. Archibald Cameron Macdonnell, D.3.0., Winnipeg, Colonel, command- ing the Strathcona Horse. Charles M, Nelles of Toronto, Lieut.-Col.,, commanding the Aol Canadian Dragoons. George Stewart Coli," commanding Mcose Jaw, Sask. Rev. Frederick George Scott, Hon, Major, of Quebec, Chaplin of a Can- adn division, Edward de B. Panet, R.C s heen awarded the D.S.0 EXPENDITURE OF CANA A RISES. The Canadian n Forces Have Al-| * ready Cost Hundred and Fifty Millions. AVIATORS BOMBARD (Special to the Whigy BULGARIAN RIAN TRENCHES. Ottawa, Jan, 'he Canadian war expenditure is increasing with Advance on Salonika by Enemy the size of the Canadian armies. It has-now reached a total of almost Cannot Be Made Quickly. 130 millions, increasing the national 'debt from 332 to 515 millions. One . expenditure on the war now is at the (Special to thé Whig.) London, Jan, 14. { French™ aviators ,on Tuesday bom- rate of pearly 240 millions annu- ~ ally! Revenues for the first nine months | barded the first line of Bulgarian - of the fiscal yedr show the very sat-j trenches in the Strumnitza- sector, isfactory increase of 23 million dol-| wrecking several trenches. 3 lars over the same period this year. Despatches from Sofia quote the * There has been a retrenc hment | Bulgarian: Finance Minister as say- during the nine months of about 11!ing that a Teuton-Bulgarian advance millions in expenditures on congoli-| On Salonika cannot he made quickly dated fund account. on account of the irimense prepara- | tions Tequired for it. YEAR 83 -- NO. 11 ded to boycott The Walsh block in Port Major-Gen. Ch Van Strauben- | vas "aesiroyea i: ire on The Socialist party in the Reich: stag adopted a resolation reading Dr. Manitoba liquor interests offer to COL. ARTHUR £ ROSS digeontinue the sale of hard liquors JFire Chief William J. Smith an- noanee % his intention of reorganizing MADE CMG. IN RECOGNITION OF y ERVICES, Lieut.-Col. F. W. Macqueen Sh . re-elected president of the United With Canadian Ambulance Corps. -- | 5." Nrig.-Gen_ Van Straubenzee's A child was born in- London, Ont, normal, and otherwise strong and ton, healthy, . A London cable Friday morning. the large capacity, intermediate type, the gallant Kingston officer who went for the Cunard Steamship Company, to the front with the First Canadian ' ent week, according to Liverpool Canadian Field Ambylance, and] newspapers, some time ago was promoted to the o 5 J shipping circles on Thursday report viges of the 1st Brigade, had been! oq the sinking of the Leyland Line: honored by the King by be The admirable service A : . near the Lusitani grave No that Col. Ross performed at the front further news-has been received edly commented upon by all officers t and men who came into contact with | 20500 L. Pease is managing director land chief executive officer and C have been hestowed dpon one more worthy, nounced at the annual meeting of Y the shareholders of the Royal Bank Brig. (gen. 'Straubendes, .B. Straubenzee, of the 'British Royal WHAT DROVE RATS Artillery, has heen made a OC. B. in ---- Gen, Stranbenzee is a son of the late From Hun Trenches Chemi- Col. A. H. Van Straubenzee, Kings- on Beverly street. He is forty- vels For Enemy. eight years of age. Before war manding the 21st Howitzer Battery, R. F. A, at Woolwich, Eng. He lege, Kingston, and was also profes- sor of artillery. there for several Fav to enlist. morning: Loss $100,000, zee Made a C.8. i Karl Liebknecht out of the party. ars if Macdonald Act is defeated the Toronto fire depariment at once. SE Empire Loyilist Association.of' Can- Mother and Sister Rese In King. lacking hands and feet, but otherwise Tenders for eight new steamers of announced that Col. Arthur E. Ross, are to be submitted during the pres- Contingent jn command of the 1st Advices received in New position of director of "medical ser- 4 y ing made | gy, ronia hy a German . submarine aC. MG. during the past year has been repeat- At Montreal, the appointment of him, and the King's honor could. not Neill as general manager .was 'an- Brigadier-General Casimir Van| BRITISH DISCOVER recognition of his services in*¥'rance. cal Antidote Worked Mar- ton, and his mother and sister reside broke out he was Lieut.-Col. com- graduated at the Royal Military Col: years CANADIA HONORED Those Given the de of C', C. London, Jan. fang to receive are: Rt. Hon. temporary mander ! ade. Sir David Watson: of Quebec, tem- | por Brigadier-Gene al, commanding troops from Quebec Province, These made-companions of the Or- Other honor Ns the Canad- of C. B. Sir 1. E, B. Seely, Brigadier- "General, of Canadian M.P., Com. Cavalry PBrig- | al With War Contract. Regina, Jan. 14.--The Supreme Court jury brought in a verdict: of guilty against G. A. Mitchell, whose | arrest followed the exposures in the Davidson war contract inquiry in connection with the sale of fodder to ! the remount department here, Mitchell himself was on the stand | most of the day. The éharges on which he was Sand guilty were a: follows: (1)-- "Forging . an account, alleged ! to have been Jnade by one Sutherland showing cartage made by Sutherland for Mitchel; (2) uttering the same, | knowing it was a forgery; (3) at- tempting by means of railways bills, alleged to be false, to claim money from the Government. bi Sentence was reserved Tuxford, 6th Lieut.- Battdlion, of | Relgian King's Niece Weds, -- n ot MANIA AIDS E NE MY Special to the Whigs)? © Havre, France, Jax: 14. --King Al] bere's niece, Princess Marie, was | Livestock, Wool And Tobacco Is Un. "married to-day to Prince Phillipe de der Way, ; Bourbon of France, i France has taken big measures to restore her merchant marine. Brann oie ao ; 3 ~~ { Jan. 11.~--The newspaper | dance Roumania * reports 'that the Minister of Agriculture ziven permission for the exportation of 9, | 000 head. -of livestock weekly for ! three weeks to Austria-Hungary Wool and tobacco intended for and Germany have reached A ports. The first consign- | ment is already under way. It con- | sists .of 48,000 kilogrammes of wool {and 55,000 kilogrammes of tobacco. | The tobacco is for Dresden Indepen- has T™TME wHiG CONTENTS Page Conscr Kingston Juans Uo 'Hungry ac the Police Court; 1 _To-night France' s Care of pled Boldiers +--Editorial; Poem B~~M{litary venings : Eastern Ontario News. --Amasements; Timely nounpements; The KF um $~<Treason Lavergne; Was Of; . News. Theatrical rSieacy's CleanUp 83 W-Sleépvtime. Fates one: of Living Menus 3 AlCountryside Tidings, 12 Honera Information for Busy tead ription; Men; Hockey Her Crip Press Comments; News: Local Hap- BRITISH EMBASSY ™ ASK Aen Uv. Fil Government's Intended Sin to the Whig ction. in Mexico, Washington, Jan! 14.-- The Brit- {ish Embassy is preparing to request! An- of Jas Turned : M Hitars Cost regarding this Government's oa action in Mexico, owing to the -- J Britian subjects there. intend- it was leapned massacre of} 8 York! | Regina Man Convicted In Connection | ; cates that ~A squadron of' KINGSTON, ONTA RIO, ae maidens of Brittany have de-! bachelors who, was FRIDAY. JANUARY 14. 1010 : ¥ lor habit, but. must select those foods | which are most cheaply obtained. He 'must mot eat red cabbage if rons] cabbage is essentially cheaper. You | aren't. to stiffen yourself with belly | cuts of pork if it is cheaper to eat sour potatoes Butter is scarce and dear, , Cheap lard is also to be had. "Grumbling won't help, One must think things out and make ends meet. You are advised to hold over} water in which -sausages have been! boiled, which is described as an ex- CZAR INSPECTS HIS WOUNDED SOLDIERS Convalescent Muscovites lined up ready for Service again. ina and royal i; amily Have CETTINIE IS CAPTURED Austrians Occupy It---City Is Unharmed. THE POPULACE CALM AN ARMISTIC E REPORTE D TO BE ARRANGED » Between Montene » And Austria For the Purpose of Negotiating a Separate Peace. (Special to Vienna, via wi Jan. 14.--Cettinje, Montenegro, has been occupied by Austrian troops, it was officially an nounced this afterncon: "The Austro-Hungarian | pursuing--the- 'ed Cetteénje, which said the official populace is calm.' 'Whig.) to Berlin, capital of less the troops, is unharmed," statement "The The Vienna official transmitted through Berlin no confirmation of the ment that Austrian and Montene- grin troops have arranged an armis tice, preliminary to Montenegro's surrender, ~ statement carried Peace With Montenegro [pei y the Whig.) kopden, J: wn, 4 A. wireless des pateh from Reéme reiterating the re- port of an armistice between Austria and Montenegro, ates that it was Austria witdo proposed the cessations of hostilities with the purpose of ne gotiating a sepgrate peace. which Montenegro will/ probably to HENRY FORD FOUND . THAT HE WAS FOOLED Over Peace Letters, And So He Forsook His Pil- dfTee It al to Reljable in- indi (8 e The Hague, Jan. 14, formation received here to- day Henyy Ford's leaving his peace party Vv a very exciting ad- venture for ns and his friends. He "had discovered in Norway that Madame Schwimmer's alleged letters of encouragement from the warring nations were worthless, and discour- aged he decided to leave the party His intentions were conveyed to on- ly three others and when he feign- ed sickness and attempted to leave ir an 'auto, some of the - party thought he was being kidnapped and called the poli biit he finally got away and boarded a ship for New York, ca, GERMAN SCOUT PARTIES Were Wiped Out By Rifle Fire of the French, {Rpecial to the Whig) Paris, Jan. 14--Reconnoitering par ties of Germans attempted to survey our tremehes at several points along i Bucharest, Roumdnia, via London, | the front last night, presumably with the objective of leading the way 16 general attacks, but the alertness of our sentries sufficed in each case to divert these intentions, and in som cases the German parties were anni- hilated by the rifie fire of our men The artillery tive the Neighhorhood of Hritish- Belgian front, in e Winter Wheat Threatened Chicago, Jan, 14 --B.. W. Snow said to-day: "The melting snow, rain and sleet that prevaik in the whole winter wheat Pelt, to be followed dt .once by the coldest weather of the seasam~{urnish a situation that threatens "winter, wheat. An ice pack covering the fields is the most dan- | gerous winter condition_. that plant can experience. It was this {of the State Department information | experience that largely wiped out the' soft wheat erop in 1912. 'Fifteen million ° francs havé been subscribed to the French, war loan. ¥yoontor-| Rome -state-| the! MADE PRETENCE OF SEEKING, SHIPS. The German Fleet Left the Kiel Canal, But Did Not Meet' British Boats. 31 to the Whig.) New York, Jan. 14.---An official of the British Admiralty who arrived vesterday with despatches from Lon- don, brought news that tle Germar battleship fleet left its anchorage-in the Keil Canal, where it had been since the beginning of the the war, | and made three sorties on Dee. 15th, 16th, sand 17th but did not come i to contact with the British fleet. an explanation of the German ma- noeuvres, the official said: "The real food riots at Berlin and other German cities in- December and the feeling among the people having grown -so strong over the British blockade the naval vessels "were forced to leave the Kiel Canal and make d pretence of searching for our war ships." ' ASSASSINATE Bi AGIAN SPY (Specs Whe o Exposed Edith Cavell, the Mar tyred British Ne TSPETAT INE 'Wiig London, Jan. 14. ® The Amster dam' correspondent of the Daily Ex- press reported to-day that the Bel- . spy, Cels, who exposed Edith Cavell, the English nurse, and caused her execution by the Germans, was assinated yesterday in a village near Brussells. ~ WARNED TO INVESTIGATE. Commissions In the Can- adian Army. 18noeial to A Whig.) Washingto Jan. 14.---The State Pepartment. , ys it has issued a warn- ing to Americans offered commissions in the Canadian army to investigate Offers Of the men who make offer because of salleged use of. this means for fraund- ulent in the past. purpos TER KERMANSHAH. A Persian City Seventy Miles From Hamadan, V (Special to the Constantinople, Jaa. 14.- troops have entered the important Persian city of M¢rmanshah, seventy miles west of Hamadan, where a Russian force is operating. TURKS E Wh Turkish Tax Legislation. the Whig.) -Bethmann Holl- 'weg announced the new income fax | legislation to meet 'state expenses. ) r means were discussed. for rais- money. The Kaiser was absent because of illness. Germa Special te Berlin, Jan. 1%. New pom La) ~~ i / L NIKSIC ; *TREBINIE. * 1 The Czar and ('zar- talie na great personal inte rest in the soldiers from the front. | Sree Capt. Lawrence V. THE GERMANS G0 HUNGRY Increasing Pinch of British | Blockade. = TOL BY HUN PRESS Ever WHICH DENIES THE CLAIMS OF | AUTHORITIES, Sauscges Ave Boiled, and the Water Is" Used For Soup--Children Pale --Birth Rate Falls, Lend«en, Janu, 14 Despite the as- sertions made in the Reichstag that | ample and starvation in Ger- | food is ¢ many is impossible, the German | press continue to print denials of the! 1 authorities' claims and to give indi- Feations of - the "ever-increasing pinch" caused by the British block- ade. The Berliner Zeitung says: "Ita is difficult imagine. that things could grow worse just now without some crowning dfsaster, The masses of the people are hungry all day ing the ing le to reached a price wholly heyond reach of the families of the work- class, Hunger renders the peo- ple sullen Pe in'vietories, though all the hells are ringing and flags wave, The children are underfed, pale and wan, looking like faded flowers. The ex- tent to which the fall in the birth rate occupies the attention of Government was shown dt thé meet- ing of the People's Welfare Associa- tion at Berlin. representative of the Prussian Minis- try of the Interior stated that Government was fully aware of the importance of the question in its hearing on the future of the German nation, especially in view of the fact - that hundreds of thousands of young mefi are being éut off in the flower of 'their youth. In the meantime we are informed that the military authorities have forbidden meetings convened to discuss the dearness of | living." The Vorwaerts | voices a strong protest against the attitude of offi- cials who continue to exhort the poor to economies, "For the mid-day meal," the Vor- waerts says, "one must not arrange matters according to his wish, taste é <IVANJICA Montenegro, and. the newly Loveen which, overlooks Cattaro, { naval base on the Adriatic. 3 AUSTRIANS CAPTURE MT. LOVCEN. Map shows the position of the Austrian lines around | captured position at Mount | the sfrong Austrian " traordinaty nutritious fluid, long, many articles of food hav- | and deprives them of all | the On that occasion a | the | rich in! plain boiled an entire | fat. This fluid with potatoes is enough for i 'meal. he ) SPELL LEAFIII LEI 040 Tred { ARRANGE A RMISTIC E. : (Special 'to the Whig.) Paris, Jan. '14.--The Mon- tenegrin Government has evacu- ated Cettinje. Austrian troops are within four miles of the city, An armistice has been arranged for lest fate of Ser- via be duplicated, FR Pra bbeetes BRIDEGROOM HANDCUFFED' To Best Man--Both Rode Carriage. London, January, 14.-- The ding celebrated at Folkestone M. Cc | grave, adjutant of the 6th Howitzer | Brigade, and Miss Beatrice Hunter Jones, both of Toronto, was marked unique features, Escorted by the | by ni officers, the bridegroom rode | o church on a gun-carriage, hand | cured to Lieut. Kilgour, his best] man. During the ceremony, the six black horses attached to the gud- | carriage were replaced by greys, and | the couple, after leaving the church | under an arch of swords, drove away | on the gun-carriage. The marriage proposal was made in a letter written froth a dugout at Festubert, and the affirmative answer was received by Capt. Cosgrave in a dugout in "Plug street." General Morrison gave away tlie bride who had just arrfTeed from | Canada. GREAT RAIDS ON LONDON PLANNED. British Flyer Declares That All Previous Attacks Will Be Child's Play. London, Jan, 14.--The Daily Mail | gives prominence to an article signed | by Squadron Commdnder Billing, who says he resigned his commission | | in the naval air service for the pur- | pose of advocating more efficient de- | | fense 'of London against impend! ng | | air raids | The writer asserts that the Ger- | | On Gun wed- | bee | | mans are actively .preparing for a | raid on a most extensive deathdeal- | ing seale, compared with which all | the previous raids Were child's piay. "Contrary to the general belief," he says, "it is not- Zeppelinis aloo» that this country will have to meef. Germany is completing large num- | bers of bomb-dropping aeroplanes, capable of carrying big lodds of mfs- siles, enormous distances... These ob-! viously are. intended. to be used | against England and probably against London." The writer asks: { "Has the Government taken steps to meet this peril?' and answers his quesfion by saying: "The aerial defense of London has been neglected from the outset." , INVADED. (Special to the. Whig.) Petrograd, Jan. ~--A mons ster invasion of.THrkey by the along an The by TURKEY * Russians is under wa eight hundred-mile front. troops are commanded Grand Duke Nicholas. + -» + * * * +> * Be ddd h ba 2 HE | 1 3 : ANOTHEI R EMPIRE LATE R. Sir Rdward Carson Predicts New | Things After War. | London, Jan. 14.--Speaking at the | Institute of Industry lunch yestér- day Sir Edward Larson said that af ter the war Britons woild have to be | considered as a whole. They did | not desire to force any of their ideals | on their kinsmen beyond the seas, who must forward their own propos- | als, which must be incorporated in our Imperial Council, while the com- mercial policy must be run for mu- tual benefit, { NO TROOPS TO CROSS. iT'nited States Not to Invade Mexican | Territory, (Special to the Wh Washington, Jan. yup, armed; | United States troops will be sent' {across the Mexican border at this | time, it was plai indicated to-day, | following an half-hour conference | between President Wilson and Sena-| 'tor Stone, chairman of the Senate! Foreign, Relations Committee. i STEAMER HIT MINE. And Sank in the North Sea--Captain' Drowned (Special to the Whig.) Rotterdam, Jan. 14, The Dutch | steamer Maashaven, 2,000 tons, from | {the resolution, _reeently WILL RESIST CONSCRIPTION National Railwaymen's Union Asserts self THREATENS A STRIKE IF ATTEMPT MADE TO ENFORCE COMPULSION, Government Must Be Prepared To Confiscate Wealth Of Privileged Classes If Labor Power Is Taken From Others. (Special to) Pe Whig.) London, Jan. The National Railwaymen's ion of strongest labor organizations in Great Britain, to-dap~defied the Government to em- act the conseription bill. In the most drastic resolution vet adopted by any lahor body, the exe- cutive committee of 'gailway men de- clared their organiza Hn will resist | conscription to the uttermost, They hinted at andmmediate strike of all railway workers of Great Britain if the bill pasess Parliament. 2 "Unless the Government is prepar- ed to confiscate the wealth of the privileged classes 'for the more sue- cessful prosecution of the war," read "the railroad work- ers "will resist to the uttermost the confiscation of men whose only weallds- is their labor power." The executive committee declared the railread workers were over- whelmingly opposed to any form eof conscription. They have not reced- ed one inch, they said, from the po- sition they took several months ago, when they warned the Government that an attempt to enforce conscrip- tion would be followed by a general strike. ~ LIFE TERM or A DYNAMITER - Mathew Schmidt Granted a Week's Stay of Execution. Lvs Angeles, Cal, 14---Mathew A. Schmidt, convicted of murder two weeks ago in connection with the dynamiting of the Times' building | five years ago, was sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentine Peni- tentiary, A stay of execution was granted Schmidt until January _ 24th, to give his attorneys time to perfect an anpeal. Ten Whales Killed. Norfolk, Vg., Jan. 145<Ten whal- es, weighing from 1,000 to 3,000 Ibs. each, were washed ashore at Cape Hatteras Monday night. Marine men | believe that the whale Were a part of aeschool, and that they either were struck by ships and killed or were washed ashore by the northeast gale that swept the Atlantic coast Now Chief Smith, Toronto, Jan. 14.--Tha.City Coun cil, appointed Acting Chief - W, J | Smith, at a salary of $4,000 a year, | as head of the fire department Josephus Reesor, last member of a pioneer family of Markham, died at the home of Menno S. Reesor, Scar- boro, aged ninety-six years. : Tenders for eight new steamers | are to be submitted thig week by the { C unard Line. DAILY MEMORANDUM See top of page 3, right hana corner, for probabilities. _'Band at Palace Saturday night Hockey Match, Cc II, vs. 33rd Batte ~~ Nem, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Rink to-night, also rered Rink, Queen's vr, to-night, 5.15 a Clarke, J. College Book Ere Coulter's Grocéry Cullen's Grocery, Cor, ! Bucknei's Jews D Depot +348 8 King 8t rincess 0 209 Prin Princess & Alfred { Frontenac Hotel" . Ontario Su Gibson's Drug Store .Market Square C.V.F. Southeot t's Grogery, Portsmouth. MoAnicys Book, Store ....98 Ppl {| McGail's C igar Stowe, Cor. Maal Cigar Sto Prouse's rug Store | Valleau's Grocery .... MARBIED. fRONDEN WORMWITH~In Holy Trin- y Chutch, Cochrane, Oni. by Ihe Rev. J. R. Bytbell, on Aug. 26th 1915, Mildred Alice, younger daug ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Worm- with, to 'Michael James Rodden. son of Mr. and Mrs, B. E. Rodden, Halleybury, Ont a DIED. 5 GRANGER--On Jan. 13th, 1816, Tho. mas Granger, aged 68. Funeral private. HODGSON--1n Kingston, on Jan 14th, 1916, Ellenor Logan, 'relitt of the late Thomas Hodgson, contractor. Funieral from her late residence, 219 Stuart street, Monday, at 2 pm. "to Cataraqui cemetery. ROBERT Ore, Siam Phone BF "E20 Princes Best 'this port, was sunk by a mine in the i North . The crew was saved | with the exception of Captain De- Boer, whose bod¥ was recovered. rer peta tobe = London Jon. al to ni i eral David made a C. been knighted