YEAR 83 N ONTARIO, TUESDAY, . JAN NUARY 18, 1916 A PAGES1-8 LAST EDITION NOT T0 FORCE ENLISTMENTS Leaders in Parliament Praise the Country's Spirit. UNITED IN GREAT TASK DEBATE IN HOUSE ON SPEECH FROM THE THRONE, . Sip Robert Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier Make No Allusion to Ex- tension. of Life of Parliament -- What Dr. Clark Desired to Know. Ottawa, Jan. 17, Parliament It was a serious but confident .and at times enthusiastic House which to-day heard the two leaders voice Canada's determination to assume greater responsibilities and to make even greatér sacrifices and efforts for ,the prosecution of struggle to a victorious peace. Both Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Robert Borden opened by deglaring that the shadows of the war' seemed even darker and more sombre than when Parliament had/last met. Yet they concluded with/a firm note of united endeavor to see the task through, cost what it might. There was a compelling intdRsity in Sir Wilfrid's earnest and eloquent appeal for a united Canada, deter mined upon every sacrifice necessary to make victory complete and lasting Where Reretofore he has alluded to the insular prejudices of the Bouras sa-Lavergne element in his-qwn pro vince with rilicule or belittlement, this afternoon he alluded to them with stinging scorn. Theirs, he ex- claimed, was "the aridity of empty hearts." In every province of Can- ada, he maintained, the primary issue that "we must be free or lose our freedpm"™ must be "the dominant, the only consideration." Sir Wilfrid went even farther There was not a civilized nation in the world that had not an interest in the outcome of the war. Germany's plans of domination were not confin- ed to the Old World. "Should she triumph," declared, the ex-Premier significantly, 'there will not be a na- tion but will'rae the day of its indif- ference and supineness.' Whur has sobered No. Allusion to Extension. "With wat dK the first consideration, Sir Wilfrid did not even allude to the legislative item which the - Govern- ment has placed first in ° its pro- gramme, the bill to extend the life of Parliament. , - The discussion of that domestic issue can come after the war necessities have been met In this respect Sir Robert Borden followed the lead of the Qpposition chief, as he did also in promptly ac- cepting Sir Wilfrid's suggestion that he sé¥ at rest the feeling of uneasl ness in many parts of thé country that the voluntary system of enlist- ment, which has worked so well in Canada, would be abandoned for con- scription. Sir Robert gave the pledge that there was no thought of conscription, The Premiér devoted most of his speech to a review of what had been done since Pafliament last met. not ing the new call for the 'half million men, and the ready response from all parts of the Dominion, "irrespective of party, race or creed." He noted that during the present moath the amount paid ouf™n Canada for war munitions for Great Britaip would be $35,000,000, and of this amount Can- ada was financing bh He intimat- ed that Canada might assume an even larger share of the war-financing bur- den of the Motherland. Count Mind Correctly Read. The only reference to 'the Govern- ment's proposal to extend the life of Parliament was made by Dr. Michae Clark, of Red Deer, who followed the Premier, and wound up the debate for the day. Dr. Clark declared that in stating that it was desirable to avoid the turmoil and strife of an . electoral campaign in Canada at this time the Government had "at last correctly interpreted the mind of the country." - He humorously referred to the fact that in the middle of last session Hon. "Bob" Rogérs had discovered that "the electors were frothing at the /mouth to tear the Senate to pieces." Since then he was glad to learn that the Minister of Public Works had learned that it had-been something 'else other than the Senate that the electors were so eager to "tear to pieces, so far as the Minister's own province: was concerned, Mr. Rog- . ors had evidently been convinced that ""the ferocious Tangs of the electors yof Mawitoba at least had been whet- ting themselves for different prey." The turmoil of a general election at the present time, Dr. Clark main- tained, would be a public calamity. The people of Canada | were to-day AANA NS rn - THE WHIG CONTENTS Conscription; Blockade: Re- . Waggons; Anni- Blockade Random Reels; thvmes Writes ews From News Timely | The Form Reil Cross; Theatric at Re ruiler; Allies Rev Lecture: TAmuseme neu An- to News: Best Join Mr. Me- Sleepy - vw Manufactar- 'Munitions of Overseas News, ther ! united as never before on the. greal sacrifices and re sponsibilities of war. "All over our Dominion," he said, "the good women Canada are knit- ting their eyes where they not working them out Two Statements Desired. Two specific statements should be | forthcoming from the Government at the earliest possible moment, Dr Clark urged. It had taken eighteen months to place the first 50,000 Ca- nadians in the trenches How long was it going to take to place the.500,- 000 on the effective firing line? He also urged that the Government make a full and detailed statement as to what had been done and what was being done with the public mopey that Parliament had voted forthe cause Dr. Clark stated that he did not bring these matters before the Government to criticise, but to assist in securing enlistment, and public confidence and endorsation in the large expenditures being made. Hon. T. Chase Casgrain, the Post- master-General, moved the adjourn- ment of the debate, following Dr. Clark y Ni ou $30,000,000 DAMAGE. Three Thousand Homeles; Buildings | Were Barned- 1 a ne Whig Bergen. Ni rway, Jan, 18.---A fire that raged in Bergen for several days was practically extinguished to-day after causing a loss now estimated at thirty million dollars. The earlier estimates placed the fire loss at on- ly fifteen: millions. City officials day said that four hundred buildings were destroyed Three thousand 'persons are made homeless ' The scene of the big former home of F. S United Consul, at this port located . at 'Bergen for three years, prior to 'his tramsfer tp Kingston, six years ago. The city is.over eight hundred years old, and his a popu lation of 90,000, Its chief industries, are fisheries ad shipbuilding The buildings are wooden structure. The fire was confined to the business sec- tion and among the poorer class of people, and the 'loss to them will be very heavy. The fire did not reath the residential section of the to-do people. The city eqyipped fire department. fire was the S. Johnson, He was - ULTIMATUM ISSUED , TO GREECE. Special to ; the Whig.) Berlin. « via wireless. Jan. 18. Britain and France have presented a hb. virtual ultimatum to tireece demanding that Greece 'had to the diplo- mats of the Central Em- pires their passports within forty-eight hours. say Sofia despatches. "If the Greek Government does not aceept the Allies will take' the necessary measures. the Sofia mes sage asserted. \. MAKING IT HOT FOR NOISY BODY. The Unionist and Radical Vigi-| lance Committees Are Busy at Work. London, Jan, 18 British pacifists who though a small, somewhat no body, are having an extremely un- comfortable time just now. - Unionist and 'Radical vigilance committees have been formed in the House of Commons and are qlarting campaigns | Greece for aliowing Allied the constituencies of thirty Radi- who are opposing the military service bill in the House Com- mons, with a view to securing their dismissal from parliament son, the labor M. P., who is foremost among the anti-compulsionists, met with great hostility when addressing his constituents in Sheffield last night. After nearly an hour and a balf of futile efforts to.speak, he sat down amid cries of "You are a trait- or," though at a late hour an anti- compulsion resolution was declared carried. in cals of A VILLA BANDIT SHOT. His Corpse Publicly Exhibited Beside | Another Dead Man. (Special to the Whig Paso, Tex.. Jan. 18 ) El Colonel Manuel Bacca Vallas, a Villa 'bandit, at sunrise to-day. The corpse' was publicly exhibited along- side the dead body of Gen. Jose Rod- | riguez, also on view in a plain black | wooden box. Carranza held these two men responsible for the deaths of the sixteen Americans and Britishers last week. | NEW, POSTMASTER-GENERAL. Premier Asquith Made the Announce ment On Tuesday. (Special to the WI Loudon; Jan. 18. Premier quith announced inthe C day that Joseph Albert bf to ghcceed Herbert Samuels who be- came Home. Secretary when Sir John Simon r®signed. The new appgin- tee was the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ip 1910-11 prominent banker As- Commons to- Pease has mgr She Lost Her Life, (Special te the Whig Rome, Jan, 18.--Miss i* Stefanie! nN "ALL THE NICE GIRLS LOVE A KILTIE, n flighlanders on'leave from France showing a dainty little maiden the gouvenirs)® they have brought from France with them. who visited the burned districts to- the | time fuse of a Germ u she Il. NO EFFECT ON POLICIES The Swedish King's | Warning: Ander- --4A firing | than he ever squad at Juarez ended the career of lost little we appointed Postmaster-General| and is a' | Hample, New York, Red Cross nurse, | among those drowned when the | It lian steamer = Brindisi struck a . mine snd sank mn the - Adriatic re- =) | cently. i | Will Not FROM OUTER And Nothing Will St ment From Carmying Out Its Pro- gramme--A Campaign Calling for An' Aethal Wioekade of Coast. (Bpecigl to the London, Jan no effe~t formed circles to-day Neither threats fre protests from the Un other neutrals will ca ment to alter its pres designed to cut Germany tercourse with Any marked time probably popular that be forced out of office the woulc The press is engagec campaign for an actual the whole promptly would German resent make the | less effective ENTER PR( For Allowing Allied Near Jan has 18 Tr Berlin ernment prote te land five miles from 18. veiled warning. of the Swedish in his; address to Riksdag 111 | absolutely' sea policies, it wad sti conce the Gov co pres I'he Not Fizz rs vy (IPON GREAT BRITAIN Lim HAS PLANS TO CUT GERMANY WORLIY, op the Govern- German Whig.) The thinly King | have! and's 11 inv Engl in we upon ated nor and the Govern- | ent progr yu ited use Sweden States Anne, off from in- outsid world sETons this 1 prove ernment i in Fous ide would 'that measures | ocl of and. IVE TEST Troops. (0, Land Athens. German. Gov d vigorously to d troops to Athens Has Massed Salonika, forces now lion men m of Salonika. First Mend In Washington on Monday Aas a Ra§ Adams, clerk of rage Committee, althc 18 qu have a Jan for real Froops, The larter attack TEuloni a mil oftside a Month. 18 Breakfast meal for the 3 suf.' yugh he ate only ate a slice of dry toast and drank a glass of hot milk. He aj ther gingerly becduse it was the first} food he had tasted fo Adams undertook : as a means of curing tion. He declared thre felt before wroached it ra r thirty days a thirtyeday fast chronic indiges he feels better and that he his : ug fast RADOSIAY QFF, a ria. who was nearly! by Bigarian reservists in! | | | | charge. | contémpt | Let 4 ceived On Saturday from the ~| source, 'and later denied, Examining a LET LAVERGNE ALONE: HELL HANG HIMSELF, Treat Him With the Same Con=- tempt He Got in Quebec. Toronto, Jan 1K Prote and let Toronto Armand Laver said Rev. Byron § ing at Bond Stréet Chat utterances of n the 1 wwtant Kee nee, har fler of 2 hims speak the recent National that Province Mr. Stauffer briefly" the policy of Mr and the other French Nati and declared that his recent utteran- ces were on a par with his opposition in 190% to the Canadian navy propos- ed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier and later his opposition to the Borden contri- bution policy. "1 vote to let him go now. I vote to let_him hang himself on his own cord It will save us much rope. | Crown Attorney Corley tells me he cannot be arrested on a treason The British way is to let men they wish and not confine them or there might be an explosion Mr. Lavergne wants to be a mart to undo the work of- Archbishop Bruchesi We must treat Bourassa and Lavergne with the sjlence and that he members of the Quebec Legislature treated him We must drop him like Sam It bec Rev. first utiined » avergne ) talk as vi with a hot potatc Hughes take his will him Sir away silly." rank look e REVIEWED TORONTO TROOPS Weather--Many Bites Received. Whig.) Eleven here In Stormy Frost (Special- to. tl Toronto, Jan. 1X and troops in training seas service, including lery infantry and were reviewed vesterday weather. There were many frost bites, but the men stood if and Hig Roya] Highness compliment ed General Logie warmly on the pearance his men COMPETENT OFFICERS NOW DESIDERATUM. Plenty of New Battalions Of- fered, But Dearth of Effi- cient Heads. or.over cavalry, arti all other brand the Duke in cold and hes by of Con naug stormy cases o weil AD of Ottawa, Jan 18. "While hundreds of offers are ng received {rom ail parts of the Dominion for the ra 7 of regiments, Major-General Hughes states that there dearth pre sent competent 'and effici offi cers to command Such regime an that until such time as such oflicers, can $e properly trained the present constituted battalions will bé permit ted 'to reeruit beyond their normal strength up to a second or even A third battalion. Afterward giments can be properly organized under competent heads trained effi | ciently at the new schools. which are fo be instituted thrdughout the Dom- inion. "We want toknow, who iz who before we' make appoinggadnts, or pergit the raising of new reg ment: | under: new auspices said Gener: | Hughes. Sl GEN. SAM HUGHES DENIES STATEMENT. That Some 302 Casualties Were Recorded at War Office Among Canadians. bel is a at of {hese re- jal to the W Jan. 18 To-day's cabled ! report hy Winderniere,' from Eng- land, to the effect that 302 ties were recorded by the War Office ion the 26th, 10th and 5th Canadian | Battalions, is denied By General Sam | Hughes at the Militia Department i this morning. ! The last report of the kind wis re- same was to the | effect that there had been five hun | dred: casualties in the 31st Calgary! | Regiment and 3rd Mounted Files of Medicine, Hat. i Spe ) Ottawa, casual-, n aluminum ring from" BERL HUNS ROUTED made Surprise Attack By the Rus- 'sians in Snow Storm. ON THE WESTERN FRONT THE ARTILLERY IS AGAIN TIVE--FINE WEATHER. AC- British Aeroplanes Were Shot Down and Three of the Four Occu- pants Were Killed--A Krench Pilot | and Observer Were | ial v hig. y a wir Jan. 18.--Un der prote®ion of darkness and a) heavy snowstorm the Russians made | a surprise attack and routed advance German posts near -Duenssof, south- east of Riga, and south of Widy, the War Officéagdmitted this afternoon. "On the western front the artillery again active owing to the general- clear weather said the official statement 'he Britis she led Le "Two.B down in air Two Ie Be fin. S8, - . h artillery has again sh aeroplanes were shot fights, near Paschendaele Dadigele, and three of the four 1 y ed A French aero- was shot down by Gérmflan air- men near Medevich, and the pilot and observ captured BULGARIAN TROOPS ARE BEING WITHDRAWN. It is Said Bulgaria and Turkey May Seek Peace With the Allies. ' and oceupat plane ed Whig) « Bulgarian vithdrawn - from dissensions am- ierman and the according to wireless from day Advices from: Athens Bulgaria and Turkey are conclude peace with the the Rome message. 1% ro-{ Rome t tha inclingd Allies a state to ded ATP, wv I'S OLD British and French Fore es Have "Now! Landed.q, 4 the Whig.) Berlin, Jan 18.----Grecian de- spatches to-day state that the British- French troops that landed near Ath- ens have been taken aboard ships again and another landing has been made forty-eight miles west of Ath- éns, at Corinth, where the Apostle: Paul-had one of his principal pastor. ales TAND. UPHOLDS PROHIBITION. | Ottiwa Preshyterian Pastor Asks for a Federal Law. @ "Ottawa, Jan. l8.-- Rev. Dr, W. T Herridge, of St. Andrew's urch, ex-moderator of the Presbyterfan As-' sembly, wrote the committee dn the! patriotic appeal for federal prolitbi- tion, approving the movement DoHars, St) Catharines, Ont., Jan. Judge Carman sentenced to vears in the penitentiary a young In. dian named Peter ' Bomborat; whe confessed to setting fire to a Bouse | occupied by an Armenian for $2( given him by another man now serv ing séutence on a charge of theft. > fretamt In. London. Jan -- Irish members| of the House of ah made an; appeal for the inclusion of Ireland in| v Twenty Take sory military service. Four men arraigned, in in New. York, on a charge of conspiring to ship rub! ber to Gerniany pleaded sulity and, were fined. Two diamond smugglers guilty, in' New - York. | Winni vik attacking | prisoners at Mulheify | ment was ! were changed BRIG GEN. | READY FOR DRIVE AGAINST ALLIES. Veterans From Gallipoli Sald To Have Landed At Several Greek. Ports. Are (Spécial to the Whig) London, Jan, ,~--Large bodies of Anglo-French troops are being land- ed all along the Greek cdast to- day to reinforce Gen. Sarrai®nd meet] the Austro-German-Bulgarian drive: which it is believed will not be long delayed. , The reinforcing troops presumably are veterans of Galli- poli Berlin teports of the landing of a Britislr force at, Piraeus, five miles from Athens, and also at Phaleron, has not been confirmed. In diplo- matic circles it was persistently ru- mored to-day that important devel- opments are imminent in the situa- tion in Greece. The meeting of the Greek Parliament next Monday, .it was reported, may bring a reopening of the discussion of "some of the mat- ters in displite between Greece and the Allies, L CHERRIES babe TO DECLARE BLOCKADE, (Special to the Whig.) London, Jan. 18.--Great Britain will immediately declare a full blockade of Germany, and will proceed to enforce it - oo» -* * +P o> fedeeodpdedeoolrdodeodedededededededoded doled dod SAYS CANADIANS LIED A GERMAN NEWSPAPER MAKES STRONG STATEMENT, Emphatic Denial Given To Story Of Man From Dominion Who Told Of Eye Removal Without Anaesthetic Berlin, via London, Jan The Norddeutsche Allgem under 'a headline Outra mation," gives the text of livered to James W, Gerard, the Am erican Ambassador, by tl German rovernment for colin ation the British Government I'he is an answer jo two p ed in the London Daily Mail of tember 7th and 9th, under line "Outrageous De famation™ The first article purported the narrative of a Canadian from the treatment of The Cana- sick in the | De fa- 4 note de eous ani to note ish- art les sSep- the head to be that he was at Mulheim. The eaquiip-| good these, but the treat- | ment was bad Several .of the sick | were obliged to take colds baths out doors in winter weather, Bandages were left on wounds until sirey were #oul Helpless sick were badly handled, and when the ' bandages these 'were rudely jerked from the wounds The German note point "The to this case by administration that there never man from Winnipeg, Canadian whatever hospital treatment The article publi on September 9th narrative by a named H' Lees, who declared that English prisoners in the Paderborn Lazaretio were always opergttd by surgeons without anaesthetics Lees declared that his was Te moved without anaesthesia The Gefman note says: '"This reply also exact investigation, lowing was established Harold Lees, of the Third Battalion Machine-Gune Company, was Ytreated by physicians in the re gerve lazareito_in Paderborn from May 7th to-Jul¥ 2nd, 1915. His right eye was already out, when he was brough, No operation whatever was i fo out on the man in Pader- born After his wound healed, an artificial .eye was put in place, where- upon he was transferred to the Senne C amp as a convalescent "All the medic men engaged in he lazaretto at Paderborn have most De denied that, any opera- tion was performed on prisoners without anaesthetics In %ll the major operations the patients were narcotized; ip the minor operations local anaesthetics were employed al- ways Not thé slightest difference was made in- the treatment of Ger- mans and enemy wounded prison- ers." : dian said Lakaretto ays on this, conducted in the German military resulted in showing n Mulheim a and that ne Was given investigation was ever hed was in the an all Columbian Ma Irit dritisl an eye resulted in an in which the fol- A soldier Infantry \ REID v ihe provisiong of the bill for compul-|, GASSHUR WON STRAL- BENZIE, C. Kingsontian who has been ho wa ot by the King. B | most ! Works for Ontario, - THE STAMPEDE "HAS BEGUN To Get 300 "Recnits For The 146th. - KINGSTON IS EXPECTED TO PRCVIDE THAT NUMBER TWO WEEKS. Every Young Man To Be Approached And Urged to Join Lieut.-Col. C.- A. Low's Battalion. The stampedé is on. The stam pede to get 500 recruits from the city of Kingston for the 146th Over seas Battalion is in full swing. For the next two weeks the stampede will continue, and by that time Lieut Col. C.' A. Low will know whether Kingston and Kingstonians are go ing to uphold the reputation that so far has been made in supplying the Empire's need for men. Every available means is to be used in reaching the desired end Every man by a personal appeal wi'l be made to realize the oft-repeated words: "Your King and Country Need You----NOW." This as far as Kingston concerned can only be answered bringing Kingston's Battalion, the 146th, up to full strength in two weeks In discussing the plan Whig, Col. Low was-asked word campaign He answered mon campaign my officers and man who wears IN is hy with the why the was not being used "This not a com It is stampede, abe myself land every the uniform of the 146th Battalion are going to make it far, far bigger than a campaign It is a stampede." * Every man in the British Empirt has at some time or other thought over the question of enlisting. If e has not, he is no man. The an swers that he has given have been varied, but the answers have now run out There is no excuse. At the rink, in the Opera House, in the movies, everywhere he .goes there are soldiers--the real men of the country He envies those men their nerve in sacrificing comfort able home, positions and friends to go to the front and fight to protect those who cannof go The young man who skates on the rink, attends public gatherings of any Kind in "'civies" to-day does wT oss {to his own self-respect. Though he may never admit it even to his intimate friends; he may not realize the fact, nevertheless he is losing his self-respect, Every time he sees 'a friend joining the ranks of khaki while he stays out, tie instinctively realizes that the time is rapidly coming for him to do the safle Why not now?. That is the question that the recruiting officers will ask vou, if you are a young man, this week, and what will Your am swer be? Are vou man enough. to say, "All.right. -I'H sign up." It is not a case of some day you may de cide to go. Somé day you may not (Continued page 3.) is on \ Gathering In Toronto. (Speeial t he Whig.) Foronte, Jan 18. International and Inter-provincial reciprocity in motor licenses was the chief theme of discussion at a meeting of the On- tario- League to-day at which motor enthusiasts from various parts of On tario and the neighbofing provincess and states were present Hon. Fin lay Mcdiarmid, Minister of Publii and Hon. Franci Secretary of State of New were the principal speakers DAL), Y MEMORANDUM 3 Palace Rink to-night Ban vered Rink to-night Soo. Ea of page 3, right<dand corner, for -Probshilities. THE DAILY "BRITISH WHIG | Is on Saledat the , 8¢ Bucknell's News Clarke, . & Cg. College Book Store Coulter's Grocery Cullen's Grocery, Cor Frontenac Hotel Gibson's Drug Store, C.V.F. Boutheott $e cary Pérismobih Mo Auley"s Book $t« ..33 Princnse McGalil's Cigar Store, Cor Prin. & King McLeod's Grocery .....01 Unlon St Medles's Drug Store 1300 University Paul's Cigar Store . Princess Prouse"s Drug Store... 413 Princess Valleau's Grocery -308 Montreal rn tw sn re M. Hugo, York, d at the Coy ¢ Following City epot ..285 King BL Li. 393° Princess 163 Princess .208 Princers 58 & Alfrod Ontario St "Market Square Prin 7th the 1918, late du Kiugsion, on Jun Eliza Jane, , widow _ of Juhn F. Reid, aged i pears Funeral from the kaidenty of daughter Mrs, Pollitt, 22 Division street, fd Nuduesda) af ternoon, at * wclodk, te Catsradgui cmetery Friends and qa qualniances are fully invited to attend "ROBERT J. REID Pond B77. $10 JAMES The Old Firm of and 2054 PRI "Phone 147 for hive resy FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS OSEN BY FAMOUS MEN D WOMES OF THE DAY. Tis are what they "are: consequences of them 'will be . what ov Bh will be. Why then should we to be 3 the