A sisi mnie. a PAGES 6-12 . m-- YEAR 83 - NO. 60 KINGSTON, - ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 11. 1916 LAST BDITION GOVERN! REFERENDUM UNLIELY - ON PROMIBITION QUESTION The Ontaié Governmeat Expected To Enact Legislation Against the Sale of Liguor And Thus Dispense With a Vote of the People. (Special to the. Whig.) Toronto, March 11.--While the announcements of the details of the Government's intentions respecting prohibitory liquor legislation will not be made until some day next week, the. convietion grows in usually well-informed circles that - there will be no referendum ypon prohibition while war lasts. Within the week now closing, the advisability of a refer- endum at the present time has been so forcibly brought home that the Government has taken cognizance of the fact that a referendum a few months hence will only unnecessarily agi- 1ale the province and please no faction in particulary, The Governmenl, unless all signs fail," will therefore speedily enacl. the legislation promised and dispense with a vole of the people until after peace has been restored. Another : p RANCE HAS HONORED LATE CAPT. RICHARDSON Confers Cross of Legiou of Honor Upon Kingston's Gal: lant Oificer Who Fell in Action on the Ninth of February And Was Buried in France. A Pari$ despatch states that the President of France has conferred upon the late Capt. George T. Richardson, of Kings- ton, the gallant young Canadian officer who fell in action on the 9th of February, the Cross of the Legion of Honor in recog- nition of the greal service he rendered in the Allied cause, for which he gave his life. This is one of the highest honors that France confers. "and Kingston _is proud that one of its sons was found worthy of 'this decoration, though™he lies in a little cemetery in the land of Britain's great ally. . A letter received by John MeKay, furrier, Brock street, from Capt. A. W. Winnett, with the headquarters staff at Folke- stone, England, intimated that Capt, Richardson had been given the British Victoria Cross as well as the Legion of Honor. ANOTHER ATTACK LAUNCHED BY THE GERMANS ON. VAUX {Special to the Whig.) Paris, March 11.--The Germans have launched another violent attack against the village of Vaux and Fort Devaux, the War Officé announced this afternoon. All attacks on the fort have been repulsed, but the Germans have captured a few houses in Vaux village, - i Heavy fighting is also oegurring on the west bank of the Meuse near the eastern border of Corbgaux wood. The French by. a counter attack drove the aermanb out of the eommuni-| ealing trenches they had occupied. After a most violent bombardment the Germans launched | a heavy infantry attack between Troyon and Berry-Au-bac, | said the official statements. The attack was repulsed. In the Woevre distriet the cannonade -is continuing be- tween the railway at Eix and Fort Moulainville. In Lorraine we damaged the Germans works near Embermenil. HEARING AT OSWEGO IN WEBBER CASE. T. J. Rigne ', Kingston, is Re- ¥ presenti: y Charles Fitz- | geral | Godfrey. . frey, Ont., who took the stand yes-| terday afternoon when the hearing! began. William Webber, the boy's father, is here with him and E. W. Carroll, attorney of Watertown, represents | the defendant, who plans to make a a A strong case to prevent extradition. Oswego, N.Y, March 11.--Georgel The proceedings grew out' of the Webber, wanted \t Kingston, Ont. | claim that young Webber went to charged with beit | the cause of cat- | Canada and secured cattle by pre- tle dealers of th section losing | senting worthiess cheques on a Cape about $50,000 wo) } of stock, is | Vincent bank. The details of the | here to tell his 8st Yt to United Sta- | transactions in Canada were related tes Commissioner, plaintiff in the ext THE WHIG Co TENTS, Page 1--Illustrated Section. 2 enes from the War Front Kingston and other Pictures 4--Various War Scenes. 5 kely No Referendum; '0 Trebizorid;: Seymour Bought Out, f--LChurch Services; Local Néws. T4Britain Told vo Watch; Social. Tidings $----Editorial: Random Walt Mason's Rhymes $--Board of Trade Meeting; Lo- cal Happenings 10--Eastern Ontario News, ° M---Amusements; Timely Ap. Mmouncements: The Forum. 12-n Sporting tircle Military i Theatrical 18--iBoard of Trade Review:Com- minity Movement; French Sure of Success Ti---Social News: In the Realm of 'Women; Sleepytime Tales. 16-Plays, layers and. Play- puses. j6--Agricultural Page; Market Reports 17--Board of Trade Review Con. \ tinned: Plot of Liquor Men 18--News From the Countryside; ~ General Reading ' 19-<Financial Matters; Duke's Romance. 20--Military Matters; The World's Sport. On Co. Reels; Latest Iron W. Baker. The {to Commissioner Baker by Mr. Fitz ition proceed- | 8erald. { Two other Canadians are here to --- | testify for the plaintiff, while the | defendant has severa] witnesses who will probably be placed gn the stand to-morrow, Mr. Fitzgerald is rep- | resented by T. J. Rigney, a former! | mayor of Kingston, and the latter is | assisted by District Attorney Frank D. Calkins, +Oommjssioner Baker | | announced _ that the proceedindjs | might last"fwo or three days. | The testimony will be compiled by Commissioner Baker and sent to | Washington, where the case: will be reviewed before a decision is - ren-' dered. In case extradition is allow- ed, it is likely that Webber will face | serious charges in Canada. : Germans Pushed Ahead. (Special to the Whig) | Berlin, March 11.--By an unex- | ected attack against the French lines in the vicinity of Rheims, the' Germans have penetrated the French positions to 3 depth of nearly two: thirds of a mile on a 1,400 yard front, the War Office announced this afternoon. The gain. y south-west of the Villeauk woods. Frederick Davey, ot Parry Sound, and an old Tweed resident, is ill with Nh -------------- typhoid fever. was made, | der, Photo shows French gunners examining wreckage of ued and found the vital spot through their skilled marksmanship. had successfully pur, no BEE PE HILLS OF DEAD LEFT BY HUNS They Are Marking the Site of Vaux Village. CROWN PRINCE'S CLAIM CANNONADING MAKES EARTH TREMBLE FOR MILES French Military Expert Reviewing | Situation Estimates German Loss- es Around Verdun In Neighborhood Of 200,000, Paris, March - 11.--Despite the | German claim that the village of Vaux and Fort Vaux, north-east of Verdun, have been captured, French military 'critics, basing their conten- tion upon official information, insist that both positions are still held by General Joffre's tredps. Reports from both sides, however, make it-plain that some of the blood- iest fighting around Verdun has tak en place in and around Vaux. Enormous losses have been inflict- ed upon the Teuton troops and around the ruins in what was once Vaux, hills of corpses dot the ground: : | The Crown Prince has recently brought up fresh artillery to the front, and the eannonade which rages night and day has set a new mark in the annals of deéstructive warfare. For -mijles, around the earth is trembling from the concus- sion ef heavy artilléry fire with the undulations of an earthquake. One military expert in reviewing | the latest developments of the battle! says: "Information reaches me that the Teuton losses may now bé reck- | oned at 200,000 These include a | considerable number of prisoners, al-| though it is significant to note that the French War Office has made no! claims as to prisoners captured since | the fight began." | VALUABLE AID GIVEN -- tillery. (8pecial to the Whig.) Ottawa, March 11. --The Canadian general representative in France has informed the Militia Department of the valuable aid rendered by the Ca nadian artillery in recent operations. | British corps sincerely thanked the] 'Canadian corps for its co-operation. | "The R. C. H. A. of Kingston "was | prominent in the operations referred | to. i | So many men have enlisted from Northern Ontario it is impossible to &et dabor Government road for work. 2 LEADERS IN U.S.MEXICO FIGHTING. | General Funston, x and the bandit Villa, who Columbus. of made The Americans lost about losses are reported at from 100 to 200, - | | new armor-coated steel helmets, con- | i WRECKED ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN BY FRENCH GUNNERS, A AAA eg A BERESFORD HASTENS TO DEFEND BALFOUR.| Navy's Honor is Safe in Bal-| four's Hands, 'Says "Con- dor Charlie." London, March 11.--A. J. Balfour, | -- BOUGHT SEYMOUR | | Zeppelin L-TT after they! IAI arn, | REBIZOND IS ABOUT T0 FALL first lord of the admiralty, has found | r a a strong supporter in Admiral Lora May Be Surrendered With Lit- Beresford, who, speaking to-day the House of Lords in the air defen! ce debate' said he deprecated state- | ments suggesting naval unprepared- | ness: { "The ravy "has the 1 commander-in-chief and the present board of admiralty. The navy's hon or is safe in Mr. Balfour's hands. I advige the country to trust implicit- | ly in the navy which has never fail-| ed us." { These remarks were made merely | as an addition fo a speech in which | itr} Lord Beresford expressed the opin- |* ion that the appointmentTof an air| minister was not called for. He | thought too much money had been | wasted in buying "useless machines! from other countries. His view was | that the British should attack and | smash the zeppelins in their sheds, | | as he did not sée how they could at-| | tack { England. | them after their arrival over | a AAA + RIOT AT VERDUN LOSSES: | Amsterdam, March 11.---The Telegraaf states that it has re- ceived reports of serious riot- ing in Cologne on Tuesday last, * in consequence of the heavy losses of German troops in the battle of Verdun. The reports arf further to the effect that artillery had to be placed in the street to overawe the crowds 2 Ll doko oddedod bbb + fede forded drofedibededed deb dodo ddr 9 Jerrttoirtrtrtnn NEW TYPE OF HELMET. Massive Steel Construction--Hard to | Distinguish. | Paris, March 1l1.--German look-| outs in advanced posts are Wearing sisting of a headpiece proper weigh-| ing slightly more than two pounds of the headpiece, thus is nearly se-| ven pounds. The helmet 'is entirely without crnament and is of a dull] gray color. Britain Has Increased Tonnage. London, March 11.--The total net British mercantile tonnage on regis-| ter at the end of 1915 was 12,416,-| 408 tons, as compared with 12419,-| 891 at the end of 1913. This state- ment was made in the House of Cow- | mons to-day by Reginald McKénna, chancellor of the exchequer, in an-| ' said Lord nerestore, | MICCIAN VAN t complete faith in its i | close to tife Black Sea shore. | day i hs CON ¢ | = | wi avy detachab steel plat- 'e active on the entire front par- ings "is Charles Fitzgerald, of God-| iid . 3 Cana Ar.| With a heavy detachable steel plat-fmore ac € pa To the British By the Canadian Ar | ing, which is very thick and weighs | | over four pounds. The total weight | tion to "Purkey. 'tle Resistance. WITHIN LESS THAN DAY'S MARCH OF CITY. { Russian Fleet Harassing Retreating | Turks--Loss of Erzerum Removes Last Hope on Part of Turks of At-| tacking Suez. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, March 110 Fhe Turk~ ish port of Trebizond may be surren- dered to the Russians with ifttle or | no resistance, according to Tiflis de-| spatches to-day. Big guns in the| harbor have been dismantled, and | all the city's valuable stores have | been removed. Russian vanguards | are now within less than a day's| march of the city. The Russian! fleet is harassing the retreating | Turks by shelling the roads lying The American consul at Trebizond | has taken over the archives of the German consulate there, the German | consul having left. A despatch from the British press representative with the Mediterra- nean expeditionary foree 'in Egypt says that danger of a Turkish attack upon Egypt is now regarded as very remote, if not entirely removed. The difficulties for the Turks of moving troops increase with the approach of | the warm season, and it is believed in Egypt that the disakter at Erze- rum has removed the last hopes on the part of the Turks of éarrying out their plans against Suez. ! Attacks Repulsed. cial the Whig.) ad, March. 11.---Heavy at- tacks east of Kozlov were repulsed with serious enemy losses, accord- ing to despatches received here to- | The Germans are becoming ticularly areund Riga where several ittacks have been broken up by Rus- | sian artillery War Tidings. Germany assures Turkey she will | not make a peace without compensa- | | Russian military ° critics' predict | that Turkey will coMapse in-the ear-! ly spring. An Athens despatch says street| fights continue before the American | | Embassy in Constantinople between | | the German and American sailors. A French vessel in Du Havre was, sunk with the loss of two lives. I Prb rrr ee ed i was {and a daughter | Co-operation of Portuguese troops| in the campaign in German East Af- rica will be the first result of Portu- gal's entering the war. | An official Vienna statement says! | the Italians are maintaining a heavy bombardment on the Isonzo front, | with the use of gas bombs. TWO NEW ELEVATORS | FOR PORT ARTHUR. One to Have Capacity of 2,- 500,000 Bushels in First Unit: Toronto, March 11.--It is report-| | ed that two new grain elevators will be built during the coming season in | | Port Arthur--one of them, for the! Saskatchewan Co-operative Grain Association, wil} have a of | 12,600,000 bushels in 'the first unit, | {and will be se constructed t oth- {er shits may be added later on. The: : + | working house will have a capacity | > | of 500,000 bushels. nf No announcement has beea made | the American troops along the bor. | as to the identity of the o hip | a raid on the American town of | of the second elevator, but' als | seventeen men and the Mexicin 'of the C.N.R., state that its <on- | struction is assured, : swer to a question on the subject. | t + Mr. De INTERESTS SAW CANADIAN PRISONERS. Surprise Visitor to German Intern. ment Camp Satisfied. London, March 11.--In a report to the Ambassador here of surprise visits paid to the German internment camp hospitals at Aachen, Julich and Cologne, Mr. Jackson, a representa- tive of the United States embassy at Berlin, describes conditions there as generally satisfactory. The build- | ings were, he states, clean and well- | kept, and-the surgical arrangements good. These men expressed them- selves as satisfied with food and | treatment. In one hospital awaiting repatria- tion, Mr. Jackson found Privates W. | Dexter, of the 3rd, and B. Glessor, of the 13th Canadians. he saw Lance-Corpl. 8th Canadian Battalion, and Privates L. Wheatley and H. Sheard, 2nd Bat- talion, and E. Ward, 5th Battalion. In another GERMAN LOSSES, + -- LJ Paris, March 11.--The total + German casualties for Febru- ary were 35,000, making a to. + tal te date of 2,600,000 in ad- + dition to the recent losses # around Verdun, estimated at # 200,000. * + > % FEILER EPIL EPRI DEMANDS ELECTIONS. | Brewster Would Shelve All Conten-| trols what tious Legistation®-Until Then. Victoria, B.C., March 11.---In his | address on the Speech from ..the Throne in tie Legislature, H. = C. Brewster, leader. of the Opposition, demanded that, in view of the results of the bye-elections in Vancouver and Victoria, the Government should this session only proceed with non- contentious legislation, 'and should go back to the people for a mandate before attempting 'to pass the Work- men's Compensation Act, the loan to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, or the subsidy to shipbuilding. H.M. EROCHE, HAPANEE AN AGED LAWYER DIED ON FRI- DAY AFTERNOON. : Served in the Ontario Legislature From 1871 to 1883--One of His Sons Is Connected With the Mili- tig Department. {Special to the Whig.) Napanee, March 11,--The death occurred here yesterday afternoon of Hammel Madden Deroche, aged 76 years. The decedsed had baen ailing for some ten months with hardening of the arteries. Mr. Deroche was born at burgh. on 27th of August, 1840. He a son of Pascal Deroche, a French-Canadian. His mother was of Irish extraction, but was descend- ed from a family of United Empiie Loyalists. He was educated at New- burgh grammar school and at the arts department of the Toronto Uni- versify, where he graduated with first-class honors. He taught in the Newburgh high school for six years, He began the study of law in the office of D. H. Preston, Napa nee, in 1870 and afterwards studied in the office of the late James Be- thune, Q. C., Toronto. He was 'called to the bar in 1874 and then began' to practise law in Napanee. While a student in Toronto he belonged to Queen's Owh Rifles, and took part in a short campaign against the Fenians in 1866 and was present at the battle of Ridgeway on the 2nd of June that year, Mr. Deroche was elected to the Legislature of Ontario as a Liberal in 1871 for the riding of Addington, having defeated 'E. J." Hooper the sitting member by a small majoriiy He was re-elected in 1875 and again in 1879, but was defeated in the general election in 1883. Deceased was a member of the Counci} of Public Institution until that office was abolished; was in spector for the public schools of Napanee from 1870 until 1872; a| member of the county board for the examination of .teadhers from 1871 until some few years ago. His wife, who died some years ago, was Sarah Ann Christian Pile a native of the Island of Barbadoes of Thomas Pile, maty years a planter on that island but Jater collector of customs at the village of Deseronto. che is survived by four children: litia Department; H. M. P. Deroche, | 1a barrister of Merville, Sask.; Miss | Eleanor E. Deroche ,at Rossland, B. C., and Mrs. Costigan, Napanee, W. P. Deroche of Napanee is a brother, and Judge Deroche of Belleville is a cousin, ---------- "NOT. GUILTY" THE VERDICT, "Of Jury In The McCutcheon Case At Toronto, March 11.--Yesterday af- ternoon after. being out twenty- eight hours, the in the MoCut- cheon case brought in a verdict of "not guilty" on twg counts. » MoCutcheon brothers are out on bail til] Tuesday, when they answer five other indictments. Investing Capital In Mines. London, March 11.--A Petrograd despateh to the Th 'that a representative of si ad Cali- fornian syndicates has a the Ural mountains, where he bought at auction 252 deposits of gold and platinum for a sum of $15,000,000. D. T. Griffith, | (Special to the Whig.) +> New- | ol. Deroche of the Mis College SEYMOUR C0. BOUGHT OUT | Ontario Government Makes | i POWER IS PROMISED TO KINGSTON AND , OTHER PLACES IN EASY, } The Purchase Price Is Over Right Millions--All the Seymour Power Interests Have Beem Purchased. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, March 11.--With . one | stroke, coupled with the expenditure of over eight million dollars in bohds the Ontario Government has wiped | Out 'the last power monopoly in the Province and brought within the reach of the people of the whole cen- | tral part of Ontario the benefits of | publis owned power. - | Last night just after the house { rose Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Min- ' | ister of lands, Forests amd Mines, {ennounced that the Government had | signed an agreement with the elec- | tric. power company which oon- are generally known |as Seymour enterprises pu cutright on bebai! of the people all | "he vast interests of that corpora | tion, water powers, development plants, transmission lines, local wa- | te" and light companies and an elec- tric railway. { The purchase is the result of ne- gotiations carried on for some time and the purchase price of $8,350,- | 000, payable in Ontario Government four per cent. bonds, represents the dmount actually invested in the various enterprises as agreed upon after a thorough investigation by | the engineers of the Hydro-Eleotric | Commission. Twenty-two companies have been | taken over, all of them with the ex- | ception of the Nipissing Power Com- rary and its companion enterprise the North Bay Light, Heat and Pow- er Company, being in what is known jas the Trent Valley distréct. By | taking over the Seymour interests the Government through the Hydro Electric Commission will be able to serve municipalities as far east as ingston and the Hydro Commis- sion will make provision at once for carrying the lines to all mrunicipali- | ties that have been clamoring for | Lydre power but hitherto unable to | get it owing to the Seymour control |of a water powers. | The companies taken over are: | Auburn Power Company; Central | Ontario Power Co,; City Gas Co., | Oshawa; Cobourg Utilities Corpora- | tion; Cobourg Electric Co.; Cobourg | Gas, Heat and Water Co.; Eastern | Power Co.; Lindsay Heat and Power | C.; Napanee Gas Co.; Napanee Wa- ter and Electric Co.; Northumber- | land Pulp Co.; Oshawa Electric Light Company; Otonabee Power Co.; Pet- | erboro Light and Poweg Co.; Peter - | boro Radial Ry. Co.; Port Hope Elec- | tric Light and Power Co.; Seymour Power Co.; Sidney Electric Power €o., Trenton Electric Power : Co; Tweed Electric Light and Power Co.; Nipissing Power Co.; North Bay | Light, Heat and Power Co. { the Hogs Soon Become Wild. | Paris, Feb. 26.--Domestic hogs | let loose at Gerbevillers at.-the time | of the German invasion of Lorraine { wandered into the forests, after liv. ing for a time on the refuse found around the soldiers' camps, and they | are now sald to have become entire Iy savage as the result of their con- tact with the wild boars of the re- | gion. The peasants of the neigh- | borhood say they are even more fer- ocious than the wild boars, and hunting parties have been organ. | ized to itd the forests of them. PAILY MEMO! "Joe Quinney," Grand, 8.15. See top page 4, right hand corner, | tor, probabilities. | Special meeting in Calvary Congrega- tional Church, § p.m, subject, "Remov- ng the Barriers." Rev. H. D'Arcy Whitmore. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG |Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: : Coulter's Bucknell's News Depot ..206 § Clarke, J. W. & Co. ....33 Book Store ....183 TOCery ....u...309 = n Groce HH Cor. er. ontenac Ho! . Gibson's Drug Store ..Mar! Square C.V.F. Southcott's Grcery, Portamou! McAuley's Book Store ....93 Wi McGall's Cigar Store, "So Mcleod's Grocery ..... ton St M " Sto! 260 University r re .. 76 Princess ru Store . 3 Prin A Grocery " Mon ROBERT J. | . The . FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS word WIRES on Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to Heaven, x * > «Ambrose, ) a x u