. SURPRISE ENGLAND Attack Lowestoft East Killed---Driven Off By British Ships--- Zeppelin Attack Followed. (Special to the Whig). London, April 25.--A German squadron has appeared off the Eng- off Lowestoft at 4 a.m. to-day, but was driven off, the Admiralty an- nounced this afternoon. This is the first ' time a German squadron has appeared off the Eng-| lsh east coast since the bombard- ment of Bearborough and other Eng- lish east coast towns on December 16th, 1914, Lowestoft lles about one hundred miles north-east of London, in the county of Suffolk. It is a city of ahout 35,000, and ia noted chiefly as a fashionable bathing resort and a fishing town. The older part of the town lies on a ¢liff overlooking the sea, There is a lighthouse on the cliff, and at its base Is another light-| house which occupies a plot of ground at the easternmost coast of England. Lowestoft has shipbuilding facili-| ties, and its fishing smacks operate throughout the North Sea. { Several Killed. Two men, one woman and one child | were killed and several were injured when a shell from German warships dropped in Lowestoft this morning. i U-BOAT NEEDS nN NO PERISCOPE London, April 26.--The Gene- va correspondent of the Daily ixpress quotes German news papers as saying that the latest (German submarines are equipp- ed with an invention enabling them to dispense with perisco- 8. The invention is described as a kind of reflector enabling the boats to fire without coming to the surface, so that henceforth it will be impossible to tell whether a ship has been tor- pedoed or sunk by a mine. PPP PPPPP PEPPER PEP r Se + + > > + > * +> + + + + + + * * + + + TEEPeTT PIPE . r , 4 A GREAT INCREASE IN CANADA'S TRADE. $346,000,000 Over the Total Volume of the Previous Fiscal Year. Ottawa, April 26.--Canada's trade for the fiscal year reached the enor- mous total of $1,424,000,000. This is an increase of $346,000,000 over the record total of the previous year. Heavy increases are shown in near- 1¥ all lines of exports, the total value of exports of domestic products being $741,000,000, compared with $409. 000,000 in the previous year. Imports of dutiable goods amount- od to $289,000,000, and of free goods to $218,000,000, against $279,000, 000, and $175,000,000 in the previ: _ Ous year. Exports of manufactures rose from $86,000,000 to $242,000,000, of ag- enltural products from $134,000,- $00 to $250,000,000, and of animal " ybroducts from $74,000,000 to $102,- & 000. L FO exports were: Fisheries, | $22,000,000 minerals, $66,000,000; and lumber, $61,000,000, ----- BASEBALL ON MONDAY, National puis, 5; Cincinnati, 2. St. League. roit, Ch 0, 2. on, Philad®iphia, 0. Cleveland. 5; St. Louls, 4. Washington, 8; New York, 2. Rr Sr rn Ra 5 THE WHIG CONTENTS, Page . T--derman poling; eret Parliament; Squadron and Zep-. Irish Revolution; See i fire Stops 5 uns, '3-4The Vestry Meetings; Ran- kin's Legislation. 3=Praise Offered by Lord French, : itorial; Random it Mason's Coast-- Several People | The material damage was slight, the | Admiralty said. | The Germans were courageously | attacked by small British torpedo | boats and light cruisers in the vicin- ity at the time, and after twenty min- | utes' spirited fighting, turned about; and swiftly departed in an easterly | direction. Several British ships were hit by German shells, but the damages was slight. | | Zeppeling Off Norfolk. | The German sea raid was followed { in about five hours by the appearance | of Zeppelins off the county of Nor- folk, a few miles north of Lowestoft, and is presumed to have been part of an attempt to terrorize the east coast by simultaneous attacks, The results of the Zeppelin raid has not yet heen announced, though | a number. of incendiary bombs were| dropped, The Damage Done. (8pecial to the Whig) Longon, April 25.--Seventy bombs were dropped in last night's Zeppe- lin raid on the English east counties, and one man was injured, the War Office announced this afternoon. { = > ® 0 m x = = 2 : © Cc Q - w AFTER CLOSE OF WAR. Entente Allies Propose Agree~ ments to Regulate Own Commerce. 25.--The internation- al parliamentary conference of the Entente Allies opening here on Thursday next will discuss the ad- visability of advance agreements among the Allies concerning all legislative measures intended,to reg- ulate eommercial relations between the belligerents. The subjects to be discussed will include the follow- ing: The execution of contracts, the collection of debts, sequestration of 'goods and chattels, the question of patents and kindred subjects; meas- ures of precaution against the in- vasion of the markets of the Allies by German products on the conclu- sion of peace; measures for repairing the damages of war; reduction of postal, telepraphic and telephonic rates and the establishment of a min- imum tariff in favor of the Allies; agreements in regard to the interna- tional transportation of merchandise; the creation of an international pa- tent bureau; commercial affairs of the colonies cf the Allied nations; internationalizatiov of the law gov- erning corpordtions; measures des- tined to reduce metallic circulation; the institution of an international clearing house; uniform principles to be embodied in laws. relative to the false designation of merchandise; laws concerning failures; jegislation relative to the loss or theft of securi- ties payable to bearer. The discussion of these questions will occupy the three days' session. Paris, April Greek Premier's Gift. Athens, April 25.--Premier Skou- loudis, who is a man of wealth, has given $1,000,000 to the State, this being, roughly, the sum due to the families of the mobilized troops and unpaid owing to an empty treasury. "VERDUN MUST END THE WAR," SAYS THE KAISER. CASEMENT CAUGHT BY THE BRITISH Aboard German Auxiliary Trying to Smuggle Arms Into Ireland---Riots in Dublin And Post Office Seized. London, April 25.--Sir Roger | rom a mounted a box and made an anti- Casement has been captured f | English speech. He told the prisoners German ship which attempted to land | that Germany was the devoted friend arms in Ireland and was sunk. This | of Ireland and would never treat Ire official announcement was made to-| land as she had treated Belgium, but night as follows: | would exalt the Irish into a self-gov- between al on ete % ha The Kaiser is credited with this statement made recently to G Photo shows a depot behind the lines where timber and barbe the French in constructing trenches. Railway lines run fre er A AAA Government to Give Them Work--< CURTAIN FIRE IDLE GERMAN PRISONERS. Willing to Serve. London, April 25.--In reply to a question in the House of Lords, Lord | Newton alluded to the ludicrous spec- | tacle of thousands of healthy, able- | bodied prisoners of war doing very bor. | Some months ago he visited a mili-| | tary internment camp, and saw drain-| age work being done by civilians im- oF 3 NS DRIVEN BACK pogted from aswonBiderable distance { whether there were none among them TO THEIR OLD LINES WITH VERY | capable of doing this work, and the HEAVY LOSSES. reply was that there was nothing In Germany prisoners of war were | bardment In The Region Of Avo- | employed in 28 different occupations, | COME. varying from labor in mines to act-| : | little work at ail, while we were im- Who M i Three Attacks on ploring women throughout the coun-! who were being paid at the highest | trade union rates. { they would like better, and would be French Retain. Their. Newly-Gained enchanted to do the work at one pen- on |ing as beaters for shooting parties + (Special to the Whig). y : i Paris, April 25. Using laquid fire, | He was chairman of a committee re- ! | | "During the period the | afternoon of April 20th and the fore- noon of April 21st an attempt to land ! arms and ammunition in Ireland was | made by a vesgel under the guise of a neutral merchant ship, but which In reality was a Genman auxiliary, in Sunjunction with a German submar- ne, | | The House of Commons Secret Session. NO OUTSIDER ALLOWED TO GET ANYWAYS NEAR BUILDING. THE London, tas -javerage in {ber of wet COLONEL: A. D. Land Commissioner of the Canadian Northern Railway, whe died recently. wounded, and is still on try to make up for the scarcity of la- Beadman's Hill. | | He inquired of the prisoners | ny an hour, Positions----Intense Artillery Bom- | the Germans made three most violent | cently appointed to deal with the attacks against the newly-gained French positions on Deadman's Hill | last night. The War Office announced that all three attacks were stopped by a cur- tain fire from the French infantry. | The Germans were driven back to! their old lines, suffering very heavy losses, Intense artillery bombordment o¢- | curred @uring the night in the region | of Avoeourt, northwest of Verdun. | On the east bank of the Meuse the] bombardment was rather violent, Grenade fighting occurred night in the Apremont southeast of Verdun. CHILD'S HAIR BURNED OFF BY LIGHTNING. it Did Her No Other Harm-- Knocked Down Pipe, Burn- ed Soldier. last | woods Meritton, April 25. ---- A strange freak of lightning was performed! here, a chimney on the house of Pre. | H. J. Christie, 176th Overseas Batta-| lion, being struck. The fluid en-| tered an upstairs bedroom, where two children of the soldier lay sleep-| ing, and burned the hair off one lit-; tle girl's head, but caused the child no other harm. A stovepipe was) knocked down, and the. lightning des- | cended to the room below, striking] Pte. Christie, burning his hip, though not seriously. GOES TO HIMSELF. | Wisconsin's Governor Investigates | Conditions In Penitentiary. { Waupun, Wis, April 25.--E. L.| Phillips, millionaire governor of) Wisconsin, has just spent two days in the Wisconsin state prison. f Somebody told the governor that PRISON "| the Wisconsin prison was as bad as; Sing Sing, Hearing this, the chang-| ed wardens, ordered stricter discip-i Jne and then went to. jail himself to] study the conditions there. The im-; pressions that he gained will now be! used in reforming the system, - i Rains Caused By War. i April 25.--Many old] hioned people in' England believe that the war on the continent has confirmed the story that heavy con-| cussions bring down rain. The past '| March has made a record for all his- | tory '#8 a wet spring month. The! rainfall officially recorded in TLon-{ don was 4.67 inches, against an! rel of 1.76. The hum-| \ ys in the month was | twenty-two. It ' rained for 133.6 urs, and there was only fifty-one | hours of sunshine. These figures are for London ie ni | Farther information received at! the Militia Department shows that | Lieut. Victor Gordon Tupper, son of Sir Hibbert Tupper, was only slightly aty, | sible boat loaded with arms and am- | | Currahane Strand. of unidentified nationality was arrested | the! AMMUNITION SEIZED. a munition was seized by the police of | A stranger of Government has exhibited a keen de- | = | i8 obviously much strengthened by | | Much of his official life was spent in matter, and arrangements had been| behind closed doors this afternoon | es around Verdun, occupied three the press and public were exeluded| ies in County Kerry. | «| IS ALEXANDRETTA , in the neighborhood. Cuarraheen, a short distance south- | ther to the westward than in any "The auxiliary sank and a num- { erman troops at Verdun, ber of prisoners were made, amongst d wire is stocked for use by | whom was Sir Roger Casement." | ym this depot to the trenches, sire to get hold of Sir Roger Case-| ment ever since he began his activi- | ties as a friend of Germany in the! present war. | | It has been freely predicted that if | | the impulsive knight ever should fall in the circumstances of his capture in the very act of leading a German fili- | bustering expedition to the coast .of | Ireland. | Sir Roger Casement spent the-lest | Years of his life in the British consu- lar service, It was in recognition of tropical countries, A Force of Guards Insured the Strict. | pia pro est Secrecy--The Press Was Warn. | Mind Affected By Tropics, ed Not to Make Any Mention of the | Many who kSaw him before the . | war believe, with Sir Arthur Conan Proceedings, & Doyle, that the tropics undermined made to employ a number of prison-| to learn the decision of the Cabinet | ers in felling trees in Scotland for|on the issue of general conscription. | badly needed pit-props. Every ef-| The Government was expected to bare | fort would be made to utilize this! the military reasons behind its ac-| particular .form of labor. { tion. | p-- It was the most secret session | more posts qn Monday, taking three | from the lobbies and corridors. hundred prisoners, A force of guards insured British trcops have occupied the |Strictest setrecy. | large town of Kondoa in German| The press was warned that any] East' Africa. | newspaper publishing the slightest | reference to the proceedings or in- London, Apri] 25.--A telegram | from Tralee says collap- | THE RUSSIAN GOAL? Would Q@Give Mediterranean Port and Link With Euro= Traffic It i% not known whence the boat pean 1 taf " came or for whom the cargo was New York, April 26.--A London intended: | cable to the Herald says: west of Tralee. | previous military operations in Ar- | menia. The significance to be at- tached to any occupancy by the Rus- | slans lies in the fact that this.place . . {is on the head waters of the Eu- To Leave BexlineThe Sitnation 18) 0 tes and will serve as a base for rave, Casement Germany's Friend, CLOSED DOOR New York, April 25 | into English hands, he would end his | | days in front of a firing squad inthe | | important work well performed that | he received his knighthood of the (Special to she Whig) y { his health and his mental stability to London, April 25.--Following aan extent that explains his actions : es since the days of Guy Fawkes. Be- | War Tidings. | fore the doors were closed the cellars | | dulging in any speculation, beyond | the gfficial statement, would have its Tralee is on the west coast of Ire:| In anoving out from Brzerum in land én County Kerry. Currahane| he direction of Erzingan, the Rus- | pushing forward, through the Eu- (Special t6 the Whig.) | phrates watershed in the direction! Berlin, April { --The British | IN PARLIAMENT -- -- | Tower of London. That probability | | Onder of St, Michael and St. George, brief open session, parliament met | The French continue their success- | and ventilators were searched, and| Strange Boat Captured by Authorit-| Property confiscated. Strand is apparently the beach of| sians are carrying their advance fur- 25.--United States| of Alepho and the Mediterranean. AMERICANS GET PASSPORTS Ambassador Gerard conferred for a0 | The possession of Alexandretta | hour with the German Chancellor) even by an expeditionary force, | yesterday and left looking very| woiild furnish the Russians with the | grave. He said he couldn't speak for, means, it is declared, of supplying! three or four days. Many Americans | (heir Asia Minor forces with muni-| are Setting passports and leaving | tions of war from the western world. | erin, | i -- i Harden With U. 8. in Crisis, Rotterdam, April 25.--A bomb- | shell has been thrown into the midst (of the German-American crisis = by i t DUNKIRK WAS BOMBED By Five German War Planes--Four People Killed. (Special to the Whig). { Issue of Die Zukunft, entirely devoted warbiaes Fidel the Franch coset Usk CRE ers ni SL a : Lr ere son." en Sows, One wom was killea aud) expresses his own Jiews in the form ree men were . of an imaginary message from Presi- War Office announéed that only|dent Wilson. It begins: "Listen, slight damage was done. | mankind, to the message of a man." | Harden puts the whole case of Amer- \ { lea against his fellow-countrymen, FRPP PRLEP PIR RR PERE PR ENE PE | at mua R ® Germans Doctoring Prince + WAR BULLETINS, #| Geneva, April 25.--It is reported +* -- #' from Vienna that a consultation of # Italians have captured Sen- *! doctors has been held in the case of # tinel puss on the Drave River #| Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who is # from the Austrians. % | now in a sanitarium at the Austrian * . ® | capital. After the conference a + All attempis by the Turks to o! medical Bulletin was issued stating + recapture Trebizond have been | that the Prince was suffering from # severely repulsed. % | pulmonary trouble with a rise in * . 9 temperature, but that he was in no + A second convey ol Russian 3 immediate danger, & troops arrived at Marseilles # aboard transports on Tuesday. +! [All Frerch liners reaching New * ; andy % York are now armed for submbe- SHAPER FR IRR EPEMIPIT ines. A | here, during the first muttering and {| were considered ripe for the persua- was introduced to the camp. under the stress of the excitement of the past two years. But Sir Roger had taken an anti- English stand on the Irish question before the war broke out. Although an Ulster Protestant, he had thrown | uimself into the Nationalist move- | ment at the head of the Irish volun- | teers. In an effort to obtain arms and money for that organization he came to this country in 1914. He was clash of war, and even then express- ed strong pro-German sympathies and an anxiety that England should remain neutral, When England plunged into war his sympathies with her chief enemy found expression in action. Welcomed By Gormany. Germany was looking for Irish sympathizers, It offered a welcome |. to Sir Roger Casement, whose title, official career and presumed influence with his countrymen made him seem a valuable instrument for the execu- tion of German plans. For Berlin, accordingly, Sir Roger steered his course, First, Sir Roger was called upon to do some missionary work with Irish soldiers who had been taken prison- ers by the Germans. First hand nar- rative of one such attempt was after< ward given by 'Private William Dool- ey of the Royal Irish Regiment. He related that Irish prisoners were col- lected together from all over Ger- many until they formed a body of 2,000, These Were treated with plenty of food and soft words until they sions of Sir Roger. Promises To Prisoners. On the appointed day Casement | Maxmilian Harden in the form of an * He Lr -CO%. alan Siete uo 'wey east from Brandon. | % folk and Suffolk counties. erning people who could defy their ancestral tyrants, the English, In conclusion he invited them to enlist in a German-Irish brigade. They were to receive $50 apiece, go to the front and fight against their former comrades of the British army and afterwards take posts of honor in a German invasion of Ireland. That was to be in the event of German success in the war. In the | event of German failure they were to receive free passage to America. According to Private Dooley, the prisoners listened patiently to Sir Roger until he had finished and then broke forth in Irish objurgations overwhelmed him with embarrass« ment, After that the Irish prisoners were given a radical change of treat- ment, seventy of them died and forty others, to obtain better food, joined the German-Irish brigade. Riots In Dublin, (Special to the Whig.) London, April 25.----Grave riots broke out in Ireland yesterday, Au- gustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland announced in the House of Commons thid afternoon, the rio%ers seized the Dublin Post office. Sal- diers arriving from Curragh quelled the rioters after a street battle in which twelve persons.were killed. The situation is how under the control of the authorities, Mr. Bir- rell announced. The outburst of riot- ing it is considered certain was part of a well-organized German attempt to stir up a great revolution in Ire- land. The attempt by Sir Robert (Continued on page 8.) A | | THE ZEPPELIN RAID, (Special to the Whig.) London, April 25.--Four or 4 five Zeppelins participated in % the raid last night, the War Of- #% fice announced, but only two + succeeded in penetrating to Nor- SppeteveTar DAILY MEMORANDUM Council, § pm. Convoeation, City Queen's day. See top page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. Citizens are holding a meeting in co- uperation with the 146th Battalion in City Council Chamber, ednesday morning at 10.30, regarding a monster military celebration on Victoria Day, May 24th. All citizens are invited. ALTON -SNIDER.~--On Friday, Elst, 1916, by the Rev. J. BE stone, at his residence, 373 Alfred street, Kingston, Jennie Ethel Sni- der of Verona, to Lester Alton of the ety of Kingston. SABIN-FRIZAPLL--AtL the Grace Methodist parsonage, Napanee, on Wednesday, April 19th, 1916, by Rev. Charles Uefferson Sabin, York, now of Tamworth, to Annie May Frizzell, Tamworth. A ---- 2.30 Wednes- April Lal MACPHERSON---In Kingston, on April 22nd, 1916, at 30 Sydenham street, Willena Helen Macpherson, young- «st daughter of the late Allan - pherson 3 Funeral (private) 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, to Cataraqul cemetery. PYKIE---At Los Angeles, California, on April 16th, 1916, John A. Pykeaged fifty-one years SNODDEN--In Kingston, on April 24th, 1916, Alexander Snodden, aged sixty-three years. Puneral from his late residence, 393 Johnson street, Wednesday, at 2.30 pm, Friends and acquainthnces respectful. ly invited to attend. = be - ROBERT The