YEAR 83 NO. 45 BIG. GERMAN OF LAUNCHED AROUND VERDUN 'orl Var Office Clim That French Front Was Penelra- fed to Depth of Two Miles --Enormous Losses 'Were Inflicted Upon the Germans. (Speeial to the Whig.) Paris, Feb. 2: I'he Germans have faniiched a heavy of- fensive around Verdun from the right bank of the Meuse to the Herbe woods, the War Office announced this afternoon. They are alge king with many infantry regiments on a 15-mile front. Entire German battalions have been annihilated in the fierce struggle, according to German prisoners. The French have evacuated Haumont forest, bul have re- vecupied Caures wood, which was evacuated yesterday. Violent fighting has also océurred in Givenchy 'woods, near Souchez. The French have recaptured several of the trenches. occupied by the Germans in their sudden offensive of | Monday night. 'How the Attack Was Made. The violent onslaught of the Crown Prince's army was preceded by a rolling fire of artillery that began Sunday morn- ing and continued throughout Monday and Monday* night. The French replied vigorously to this bombardment, and brought up reserves to meet the expected attacks, Heavy German infantry attacks which were Jnivghod yes- | terday were followed up last night by the inauguration of a general Offensive movement designed to throw back the whole French front around Verdun. The attack was met by a ter- vifie fire from the French guns, inflicting enormous losses on the advancing Germans. The German Official Claim. The Gepman official statement to-day on the operations near Verdun elaims that the Germans penetrated to a depth of | two miles on a six-mile front, and that three thousand Froneh were caplured. Neither London nor Paris official salemoni} admit this, although they say the fighting is terrific in that | | BEFORE THE DIVISIONAL COURT section. A A WHIG'S TOBACCO GIFTS REACHED THE FRONT Packages of tobacco and cigarettes, tes Jooked after "through the Whig's collected, thrdugh the Whig's Tobacco | |Fund, and it is a pleasure to know Pund are. new being acknowledged. | {that the gifts, though delayed, have here hag just been received, in care at last reachéd their destination. of the Bank of Toronto here, a large| Some of the boys at the front have hanfle of rethgned cards, acknow-| written letters of appreciation. Four ledging the receipt of the tobacco and |of these are now in care of the Whig expressing the thanks of the recipi- addressed -as follows: ants, We will publish a list of] W. A. Sills. these to-morrow. | w A. Strachan. The. tobaceo So far acknowledged | "Miss J. Goodearle, has been received almost entirely i Miss B. Fair. Kingston boys in the 21st Battalion. These were among the first to be | calling at this office. wm SENT TO CORFU TO LIEUT. REX CALVIN FIND SUB BASES. | SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. Declared to Abound in Straits His Brother Sees Him in Hos-| Separating island and pital--Parents Going to Albania. England. Rome, Feb. 23.--Italian gendar- mes have been sent to Corfu to dis-| cover the submarine bases declared | to exist in the sheltered strait separ- | ating the island from Albania %nd| to repress the running of contraband and espionage exercised by the Cer- + flotes. The Itallans' work is resented by the localauthorities, who profited'by | the contraband traffic and the espion- | age, which they openly tolerated. ! This explains the outburst on the part of the member for Corfu in the Greek Parliament. He hoped. to frighten Ttalians from the island. Instead I have reason to believe their number has been increased | with the object of garrisoning dhe! whole island. Austro-German sub-| Junarines thus will be deprived of a 'safe base near Avlona, while the Greek Government will be compelled to offer apologies for the unparlia- mentary language of the member for F Corfu. ; Fry Tanker Sunk. (Special to the Whig.) Rotterdam, Feb. 23.---The Dutch tanker fLafratndfe of 2,018 toms, bound for New York, has been sunk by a mine, . Only two survivors have been reported. Others are be- lieved to have been lost. '|STARTLING EVIDENCE - Denial that Henry Ward Beecher AT.OTTAWA INQUIRY. preached the' Flame on Shelf--Two Mem- e "doctrine of incarma- tion" was made at Montclair, N. J, bers Saw Peculiar Look- ing Men. by John R. Howard, a close friend "of the famous preacher and fora (Special to the Whi Ottawa, Feb. 28.--In he Parlia- twenty years his publisher. ment buildings fire investigation this afternoon, W. G. Weichell, M. P. for North Waterloo, testified that on the Tuesday before the fire he, with Col. Lochead, of the 118th Battalion, while standing at a newspaper rack in room 116, smoking cigars and reading Ber- {lin papers, had a flame about the size of two hands in papers on the lower shail, which they extinguished. 'EB. Macdonald, of Pictou had Beard two explosions, and told of peculiar looking man near the Tobby door, who was very restless, and re fEarded the witness intently, ° Word wa® received in the Tuesday evening. that Lieut. Calvin, sen of H. A. Calvin, went overseas with Queen's city who Engi- the shoulder by shrapnel. "Jack" Calvin cabled Neil McCaig, of this city, stating that he had been found that his injury was only slight and his condition good. At the present time, Mrs. Mr. and land: CONQUERED TERRITORY. ¢ : y --- *| '(Special to the Whig.) London, Feb. 23.--The Al- {% lies have conquered 730,000 | % square miles of German ter- # ritory in Africa since the out- #% break of the war, it was an- # nounced in the Commons this % afternoon. * > + * a id i! p i -_-- THE WHIG'S CONTENTS, Rus. the Nickel 2 Straw and Leather Higher dn price: They Got the Socks. Jp © hatwing Comedy; ToM in Twilight. = Editorial; Random Reels; Fire Page I--Gireat German offefisive; Sa Wins; After . Walt Mason's Rhymes. S--Kingston Presbytery; and Light Committee. 8--Bastern Ontario News. c TAmusements: Fone nouncements; The Fy ' S--Military Matters: Theatrical S~Taxes After War; of Wheat, Cheese Trade Vat able Wold Tn Twilight; To Reatm: Wome. : 11-4 BURY valde Niwa: Latest Market Reports, : Swely 4 also seen a pe- culiar looking man,, hough not the sme one by d These letters may be secured on| KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, A little band of British soldiers taking part. in one © Cameroons. : |A PRIEST OF HULL TRIAL AWARDS PREACHES SEDITION. CONFIRMED Tells His People "Their Duty Is te Stay At Home. ee -- Feb 23. --That French- boyeott Ontario business Ottawa, Canadians, houses was | Which } | | way if a new trial were directed, { | | Rex | neers, had been slightly wounded in! Lieut. to see his brother in hospital afd he | { from confidential sources. H. Calvin are in Ottawa. They | mans and Bulgarians occurred at : sail next Monday for England 'where | village between they .expect to visit their three sons | garians occurred at a village when they get leave id go to Eng- | Phillipoplis because a German mis i admit they | SEMI INTIS | would submit 'joyously to a Russian H | Kingston Street Railway Com- | gued to-day that the damages award- | | change for German paper. advocated by Father Guertin, parisl§ priest of Hull, in a sermon therd gn Sunday. He told his congregatiol that it was time they woke up When efforts we re Je ing made in Onfario to "Prussia the French. [Ifcidentally he kn ed recruiting in Québec is doumed. "The sc ichool trouble," said Fa Guertin, "is just starting and no one | can say where it will end. The fight has gpne sp far that the Pope hin { self could not stop it now. The boy- Confirms The . Damages | cott against Ontario goods which has Awarded The Defendants At King-| begun in Montreal should, in my op- inion, extend all over the Province, ston By Justice Lennox. "As far as recruiting in Quebee is (Special to the Whig concerned it is doomed. The Gov Toronto, Feb. ~The Division- | ernment can't ask us to go to tha al Courtehas confirmed -the trial 8 : relief of Belgian against Germany damage awards of Justice Lennox (oh obo Ontario Government is {vy against the Kingston Street Rail-| | ing to Prussianize us. way. > Mrs. Bertha Spooner, wife of Reu- aaa Wale duy 18 to siay hers ben Spoongr, farmer, was given $2,- | blood. The clergy are a Solfroe of 000 for the death of her husband in | great strength Buea and En a level crossing accident at the cor- { only tell our piople to #tay nere and ner of Division and Princess street, fikht their. own battle. The French and her daughter, Miss Georgina, re- covered $1,000. Miss Spooner was |2Te a peace-loving peopl, but once | driving with her father at the time !DeY are aroused, watch out. of the aecident. ar- GERMANY NEARING pany Must Pay. SPOONERS AGAIN WIN AT TORONTO. When the company's counsel ed the widow were too high, Chief Justice Sir William. Meredith re- marked that the K, C. was taking too commercial a view of the family's | loss, There was the loss of society | and comfort to be considered. Any- the jury might bring in a larger verdict J. L. Whiting, K.C .» appeared for the Spooners, {WOULD WELCOME RUSSIAN INVASION. | Bulgarians Are Disgusted With the Way Germany Has Acted. Shortage of Provisions in Ber- lin Indicates Greater Scar- London, Feb, '23.--The Mail's Rotterdam correspondent | quotes German papers to show the] | great shortage of commodities in! the German Empire. In the Tage- | blatt for instance it is = stated, he says, that there were only 274 pigs| for: sale in the Berlin market on! February 19th, as compared to many | thousands in times of peace. Condi- tions are worse elsewhere and cattle] are also decreasing rapidly in num- erous districts. It is supposed that Whig.) many owners are holding them for] (Special to the London, Feb, 23.----8Salonika des- speculative purposes patches to London papers to-day {3PeL Ton ison brought reports of chaotic conditions | _ ial in Eran in Bulgaria, arjsing out of alleged' spondent states, batween Butch po- | ill feeling of the Bdlgarian people to- | ite prporters and German buyers wards the Germans. This informa- {2 a dispute in Prices. The export. | x x "ers are now trying tion, it was stated, was obtained modities to Great Britain. the corre-| A free-for-all fight between Cer |p, a4un the feeding of oats to any | horses not used for military purpos- Offenders are imprisoned. Regidents of Berlin who 'hold| bread cards are allowed to buy al quarter of a pound of butter week- ly the correspondent states, and Bul neat Germans treated a peasant { deaths resulted. Bulgarians girl. Several freely invasion, 'said another Salonika des- =) patch. [Their country has been drained of cattle and giain in ex- People generally are most pessimistic over | the 'outcome of the war. HAS BRITAIN BROKEN FAITH? (Specin to the Whig.) Washington, Feb. 23. --Whether England has broken faith 'with the United Stales in questions affecting the arming ' of merchantmen was a new question raised to-day in the submarine warfare dispute with Germany. An examination of State Department archives dis- closed a British pledge diregtiy, bearing © upon the © Teutonic-American controversy. If the offi- cials believe this pledge has been broken, a protest to England is probable. The British - promise was that England would not permit' merchanimen to take the offen- sive against submarines. Against this, Germany is mailing copies of alleged secrel orders of the Brif- ish Admiralty to English merchant vessels to sink submarines of the Cen- tral Powers whenever pustible. and under any i conditi ons. REMAINS OF B. B. LAW M. P, Found In the Ruins of the Parlia- ment Building, | (APecial to the Whig.) i Ottawa Feb. 23.--All that r>-| mains of Bowman B. Law, late M.P. for Yarmouth after the great fire had passed over him, was discovered | in the ruins of the Parliament build- ings by the workmen this morning. Only a portion of a thigh bone and | a few other smaller bohes were 1¢1: | and even these were badly charred. The remains were found in the | eastern-most corner of the Commons | down. stairs between the @ebate rooms and the Chamber. it is | thought that Mr. Law may have | come out of the telephone booth and | gone to his locker in an endeavor to | get out his coat and hat. Killed In Elevator, Brantford, Ont, Feb, 23. --Over- | come by a fainting spell, Edward | Siedman, Sr., director of Stedman | Brothers Limited; faney goods and | stationery, fell while running al {freight elevator at the = wholesale] bouse on "Tuédday. His head was caught between the elevator and the| floor above and the skull was Tract} ured, death was was instantaneous, Two Gallclans, Gwoom Harmaxy and Yoni Hamannik, were arrested and locked up at Belléville as alien enemies. { disembarked for a eAmpAIEN against the Germ: ans at an outiving 1 Col, STAGE OF FAMINE. | city Elsewhere. k Daily | men face to face. to sell their com- | In' Hamburg the authorities have | '}| zinc mines in' Australia. FEBRUARY 23, 1916 "SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA." of our '"'hittle packets' being settledent in the CURRIE AFTER NICKEL CO. 'Denounces German Control to the Commons. PRAISE FOR LAURIER | FOR HIS HIGH PATRIOTISM DUR- ING THE WAR. Currie Declared That the Cana~ dian Nickel Mines Are Controlled By German Interests. | Ottawa, Feb. 23.--Lieut.-Col. John Currie, M. P. and soldier, received an ovation~.from both sides of the '~ | House on the occasion yesterday af- | ternoon of the delivery of his first | speech in the Commons since the war commenced. He declared that for reasons with which everyone was fa- miliar, he had not been hie soa to inka part in the debate. "He, howev desired to congratulate Pirliament upon the example which it had set to | the whole British Empire, of free- {dom from political control. "'For," | he said, ™if we imagine that the British House has been free from | political controversy since the war | commenced, we need only peruse the | reports of that House, and we will | see that the spirit of politics is as {trong as ever. Here the Opposi- tion has given the Government every | assistance to carry out its proposal, and here," said Colonel Currie, "I desire to congratulate Sir Wilfrid on the high patriotism he has displayed since the war commenced in assist- ing the. Government in its proposals and in seconding its decisions to carry on the war." "The right. honorable gentleman { has made for himself a niche in the | temple of Empire, which will never be forgétten. We must have a cer- tain amount .of political sniping from 'time to time, But any that has been dona here has been done in the broad light of day, and with At the front it is done behind the lines and behind men's backs.": (Applause). Col. Currie declared that Canada had made two great discoveries since | the war broke out. Sh. bad dis- covered that she could provide sol- | diers second to none at present fight- {ing at the front and she had dis- | covered that she could raise money within her own borders. She had | already raised $100,000,000,000 and she could raise $500,000,000 ir it | were needed. Germans Control Nickel? ol. Currie referred to the speech | of Sir George Foster, in which ghe latter had emphasized the need of | at once proceeding to make plans for combatting the trade war which Ger- | many would inaugurate as soon as | the present war , is over. Some- | thing should be done in this respect | at once, It 'was stated that a great | copper company in Western Canada | wag owned by a German syndicate | under German trustees, The Can- |adian nickel mines were also con- | trolled by German interests. "When | it 4s realized," said Col. Currie, "that there is sufficient wealth in the Can- {adian nickel mines to finance the {yar for from five to ten years and still have dividend, the importance | of controlling that industty in. Can- ada and by Canada cannbt be over- estmated. It was the same with the When the | war broke out, they were controlled {by a German syndicate and it was t impossible for the Australian au- | thorities to secure the contracts re- | quired. So the Australian Govern- | ment at once took the bull by the {norng and took possession of "the { mines. They cancelled the owner- | ship and now Great Britain ig in | possession, {I dom't say," said = Col. Cirrig, | "that we should go as far as that, i but it would be very well to consid: po seriously the need of fully investi- gating the affairs of the Internation {a} Nickel Company of New J ersey {and see whether it is actually owned and controlled by Germans." It takes a Jot of moral courage to controvert a popular Yelish o/ {when it is wrong. | 7 ALLIES TO OOOUPY RAILROADS. -| voluntarily | Deal district,. where there had been LAST EDITION RUSSIA WINS IN CAUCASUS ~~ Decision Was Reached At Entente 'Councili In Paris. ; Berlin, Feb, 23.--"Reports from Constantinople state," says thie Over- seas News' Agency, "that according to offalal telegrams from Athens the Ministers of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy announced to Pre- mier Skouloudis that the Entente Council, in Paris, had ordered the military dccupation of all the Greek railroads and telegraphic stations in Thessalonica and Morea by Entente troops. The Ministers let it be known that in case Greece did not submit to the measure, force would be used. "A Greek military council, the de spatch adds, was Immediately con- voked for discussion of the new | situation." 7 IS MUCH ENTHUSIASM IN TIE DUMA OVER THE SPLEN- DID > NEWS. % Morea is the ancient orb a Reconnaissance Many Germans sus, the peninsula which forms the! Were Wiped Out and = Prisoners southern part of the kingdom of Also Taken--Dropping Flaming Greece, separated from the Hellenic | mainland by the Gulfs of Patras, | Rags on a Village, But Without iffect. Corinth and Aegina. Thessalonica | is one of the severil names of Sal- Petropiog io: the HY NE) pounce onica, which has been an Allied base | for many months, and in the region | {ment of fresh successes in the Cauca- of which the Entente powers have|BUs Wh Rl nag opening of the massed strong forces and erected ex- Duma, was followed by an official tensive fortifications. n statement to-day that the Slavs have | wom skirmishes with the Aunstro-Ger- {mans on nearly every sector of the |front from the Baltic to Roumania. "North-west of Lake Sventen, one set Of Allies. iof our regiments made a sw London, Feb. 23.--The AthMus reconnaissance, annihilating the oc- orrespondenit of the Daily Mail in a| |cupants of a German trench, 150 men 'despatch filed Feb. 19th expresses and two officers,' said the report. the opinion that any idea of Teuton-| 'Our forces repulsed a counter-attack ie-Bulgar-Turkish advance in Mace- |DY enemy reserves, and returned to donia may be definitely abandoned. Het own lines, taking many prison- He says: jer "Nothing now remains for them | but to wait as well as they may for the onset of the Allied troops.-There are 120,000 Austro-German 'roops in the Balkans. They. are &iving |g tried to approach our trenches, the Bulgars a free hand, allowing but were repulsed with heavy losses. them to do mich as they please. We took a number of prisoners. "This is most significant, because "Near Buccacza, in Galicia, an en- in any sphere where the Germans in- lemy aeroplane dropped flaming tend to remain they have taken the | {at the village of Khmelieka, without running of the military machine in- | leffect, to their own hands. The Bulgars "We exploded a group of mines are disappointed because of the shor |successfully near Boyana, north-east tage of food, as all of it goes to Ger- |of Czernowitz, destroying the Austri- many, an positions and occupying the mine craters." -- ENEMY ABANDONED IDEA Nothing Remains But But To Await On. | "In the Smergen district we pene- {trated the enemy entanglements, bayoneting some of the trench occu- pants and forcing others to flee. "On the Upper Strypa, the Austri- Seb driedeldriebd de de de doled dodo db - War Tidings. The Parliamentary Secre of | Munitions announced in thé British Cummons on Tuesday that a red > GERMANS DRIVEN OUT. > 5 {Special to the Whig.) + aris, Feb..23.--It. is ap %| 1 in the cost of producing 4 nounced that the Germans have % tion lars week # heen driven from al] but a few # Jui save two million dol . % points of the communicating oll % trenches captured in the drive 3 paign for by. an army of half a million will start early ia % on Glventhy yesterday. Berhin #* admits the loss of Zeppelin * | Maren, Terrific battles are expect- 4 bo from the 3 Monday night, : PEE | An official statement PEALE II RIES Turkish War Office admits the fall NE A a= | of Brzerum, though discounting Rus- BRITISH AVIATORS | sian reports of the capture of eighty FIGHT EACH OTHER, thousand men. total Amazing Statement Made The santributions : of 'the In| province. of Quebec to the British the Commons by Captain | Red Cross fund amounted to $228, Goldney- 499. London, Feb, 23.--An extraordin- ary statement was made by Capt. "paddy Long Legs," Grand, 8.16. Bennett Goldney in the House of ' See Lup of page 3, Fight bend vuraer Commons last night. He had, he for probabilities C a - sald, just come from the Walmer- ville ve. Reka, Suamplossiip, : Belle Red Cross sale, 3 Brock street, another daylight raid, and, "as on| Thursday, by St. Paul's Ladies. previous occasions, the enemy air- |THE DAILY BRITISH WHIQ craft left our shores unscathed." "A month ago," he added, "when| the previous raid took place, no ma-| Is on Sale at the the Following City chines 'were ready and no officers | Stores: were present. What happened Was a|puckneir's News Depot ..206 B battle between one of our aeroplanes Clarke, J. & Co. ....% and one of our geaplanes, both of | Collegs, Book Store . 153 which mistook the 'other for the em-|SOulter's Grocery oo« ei tll, emy, a But evén that was not enough | Frontenac Hotel, Fratna as Dat for, havilg witnessed thé fray, our|Gibson's Drug Store ..Mark anti-aircraft gunners turned their | $:V.F. Southeotts Grocery, TOrLEE uth fire on both and in a*vain attenipt cGall's Cigar Store, Cor. Erin & Ki to bring them down managed. to od's Grocery .....Bbl Jalon St. St damage the tower of Walmer Church | Medley 8 Drug Xte +250 and injure some of the men in the | . barracks there." { Valleau's Grocery .. BORN, | WESTBROOK --At 864 AlbeFt street, on Feb. 22nd, 1916, to Mr. and Mrs Chas. Westbrook, a son (Victor James.) iF * * P» -* * A Budapest despatch says the cam- | { DAILY MEMORANDY'M Band at Palace Rink to- ~uight. ig SL DECORATED WATH C.M.G. Brig.<Gen. E. M. Morris, R. M. CO. | Graduate, Honored. { (Special to. the Whig.) i Toronto, 23.--Grig.-General E. M. Morris, a graduate of the Roy- al Military College, Kingston, and | son of the late Edmund Morris, | Guelph, has been decorated with the | C.-M. 06 He is on Imperial Ser. | vice and commands the King's Own' Royal Lancashire Regiment. - DIED, HAMILTON--In Kingston , on Feb 22nd, 1916, Robert a Hamilton contractor, aged 51 yea Funeral will leave the family V residence 47 Pine street, at % o'clock Thurs. i will be sung for the happy repose i of his soul. | Friends and acquaintances are respects fully invited to attend. SLEETH--On Feb. 33nd. at her home 246 University Ave, Miss Nellis Sleeth. | Puneral from 'Her late residence The Ytalians have taken two %! Thursday morning: at 10 o'clock $d i ate important towns east of , Tri- # | priends and acqua $l ests, :. ae tuly obese 18 at yg * *| + WAR BULLETINS. . ---- The Russians have taken sev- eral more important and his- Sir a toric posts in the PerSian area. : Funeral fr irom AD Friends an and' a Tuldy vied to 3 Er British seamen are spending % their spare time on the war #! ships in making munitions, ¥| * 1 Food riots | and anti-war &| meetings are being held i many German cities. The Germans failed to con- %| solidate their recent gains In %! the Argonne and the French % are counter-attacking with. : success. ST PIII Iti tin atest Tees Trenton, N. J., gave Billy Sunday $32,368 as a "free will" offering at | the close of his evangelistic cam- ||} paige, which has lasted seven weeks. appintad ttorney<General miles, of Al | te ni emhe ) ban even [that he had been .made Attorney-| = ~From the Chinese, General being incorrest. 'LE. XL DHAON.