| 20 Paces YEAR 83 -- NO. 101 DRIVE REBELS WITH BOMBS The Dublin Traitors Are Get ting It Good. GUNBOAT FROM RIVER SHELLED AND DESTROYED THEIR HEADQUARTERS. sane Redmond Calls the Revolt In- sane Movement To Make Ireland the Catspaw of Ger= many. Special to the Whig). Londen: An 29.-- Rebels in Dub- lin were driven from most of their defences with bombs, and now oc cupy only a few localities. Two British officers and ten men were killed in the first fights. Official report says the suppression is proceeding satisfactorily, A gun- boat from the river shelled and de- stroyed Liberty Hall, the rebels' headquarters. Leader John Redmond describes the [Irish revolt as an insane move- ment to make Ireland Germany's .catspaw. It will be moved in the Commons that Lord Wimbourne, Lord Lieuten- ant, and Augustine Birrell, Chief See- retary for Ireland, be removed from office Rebels Cornered. (Special to the Whig.) London, April 29.--Rebel force, variously estimated at from 2,000 to 10,000 has been cornered and sur- | rounded in the heart of Dublin by | Britigh troops. | The Government forces have laid | seige to the general post office 'buitd- ing in which the rebels have estab- | Hghed headquarters. Several nearby | buildings have been captured from | Sinn Feiners. | Light artillery have been trained | upon the post office, but the British | commanders 'hope to capture this | rpbel headquarters without doing | further damage to the building it- self 'A press despatoh from near Dub- lin to-day reported that some of the «rebel grtures for surrender. According to the best in- formation obtaingble here to-day, the rebels still held the general post office, a large biscuit factory near Diblin castle, and the four courts, British Press Comment. London, April 29.---Dealing with the Irish situation,the Daily Chronicle urges the Government against the adoption of too harsh measures, add- | ing: Srne immediate military situation ought not to present great difficulties. Indeed, it is not easy to understand how the Sinn Feiners have been able to hold out for days in Dublin. We should have thought that all military arguments would favor crushing the movement in the capital with the ut- most rapidity, for every day .that it is protracted Its theatrical resistance must add to the risk of its finding imitators elsewhere. If reluctance to destroy bricks and mortar has de- layed the bombardment of rebel buildings, it has been a very short- sighted reluctance, But, while strong military action must be the first essential, we hope that trials under martial law and the use of the military for any but strictly military operations will be avoided as far as possible. Commission of Irish Leaders, "We hope, too, there will be a prompt and honest inquiry: into the motives of the rebels and the best means for bringing them back to their senses. A commission com- posed of acknowledged Irish leaders to assist in dealing with the rebels and negotiate their surrender might be of great service. Sir : Edward Carson and John Redmond are ready to co-operate in this way. The ob- ject to be aimed at is the. restoration of order as soon as ble with the least bloodshed. ere is a place for mediation as well as for repres- sion, and leading Irishmen should be invited to undertake it unobtrusive ly and unofficially without delay." Submarine warfare on cominerce was denounced by an array of prom- inent jurists at Washington on Fri- day before the American Society of International Law, ie, THE WHIG CONTENTS. Page ~-IMusdtrated Section. I~Many War Scenes. wl"ages of Local Pictures. 4--Scenes at the War Front. S~~Dublin . Rebels Surrounded: Germans Again Drive on Verdun. §--Ohurch Notices: Local News. T--Told in Twilight: Napanee News, S$ Editorial: Random Reels; Mason's Rhymes. from Corpl. Gtmblett. 10--itastern Ontario News. Heddmusements; Timely Ane "rH ements; e Forum. McOully Killed; Thea- Th 12--Mrrs. trical s Bet oe Jiepares to e; gv ¥ ~~ BuiMer:" Man Com H~~Tald in Twilight; Sleepytime © 'Tales; Menus. '15-The Spring St leas Cooking. 3 ¥ al: Markets, 17- v Comments By 18---RBook views. Financial 19.-Notes uF Science: Germany's urveriea Avtitude; Pulpit a 3 = | puision, THAN THEY ARE SUNK. The Futility of the German ' Submarine War Is Shown. Washington, April 28. -- British figures on the effects of the U-boat campaign, as reported by Consul-Gen- eral Skinner, at London, show only a small deduction from grand totals existing before the war began. The whole loss inflicted on British steam shipping, down to the 23rd of last March, after nineteen months of was less than 4 per cent, of num and a little over 6 per cent. of ton- nage. The losses of steamships among the beglligerents were: Great Britain, 379 vessels and 1,320,171 tons; France, 41 vessels and 139, 8656 tons; Belgium, 10 vessels and 29,861 tons; Russia, 27 vessels and 42,226 tons; Italy, 21 "vessels and 70,231 tons; Japan, three vessels and WITH THE COMMISSION SCHOOLS IN OTTAWA. The Matter Is One of Provin- 19,267 tons, or a total of 481 vessels for all belligerents and 1,621,621 tons. There have been 57 sailing vessels belonging to all belligerents lost, with a tonnage of 48,278. Shipbuilding has been continued during the war, and the losses of ves- sels has been made up. The steam shipping of Great Britain is reported to have increased during the war over the figures of 1914, by 88 vessels and 343,616 toms. France hag sustain- ed a net loss of only nine steamers and 12,5674 tons from the figures of 1914. Russia has three steamers less in the net result, but a gain of 902 in tonnage. In Italy there has been a gain of 18 vessels and of 83,- 166 tons. Neutral countries have lost a total of 1565 vessels and 292.- 721 tons. NO MORE SECRECY IN BRITISH HouSF GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO AT ONCE ADOPT The Lloyd George Plans For Conscription ---- Confident Maxwell Will End Irish Trouble. London, April 29.--Unquestionab- ly the Asquith Ministry is much em- barrassed by Thursday night's cal- lapse in the Commons of their com- promise measure on conscription, but there is no reason yet to anticipate the fall of the Government, The col- Jupse completes the absurdity of the secrot session, whlch certainly will uot be repeated. British P. tary Government always requires fresh air. The collapse also will pro- badly be a prelude to a frank Gov- ernment adoption of Federal com- possibly on the Loyd George plan, which the Carsoudtes will accept, namely immediate leg- isiation (0 conscription of 50,000 unattested married men, not volun- teers by May 27th. The best authorities in London seem confident that Sir John Max- well and martial law will cope with the Irish trouble. The Times 'ug- gests editorially that an Irish secret society in America are reaping a gol- den harvest from German sources. cial Jurisdiction -- Neither Party Seems Anxious to Dis- i cuss Question. Ottawa, April 29.--The Dominion Government has decided to not in-| terfere with or disallow the enact- | ment of the Ontario Legislature last year, creating a commission to oper- | &te the separate .schools in Ottawa | and incidentally validating. the fam- ous Regulation 17. Under the British North America Act the Dominion Government has the right to disallow any act of a! Legislature within one year after the | official copy of it is received at Ot-| awa. { The Bilingual Act was reecived on April 28th of last year, so the time in which the prerogative of disallow- ance could be exercised expired to- day. Thousands of petitions asking that | the Act be vetoed were received, but | the Government declines to intervene | in what is peculiarly a matter of pro- | vineial jurisdiction. i The constitutionality of the law | has so far been upheld in the courts, { but final appeal to the Privy Coun- | cil has been made and will be argued | this summer, | It is probable that the question | will be brought up by some one in Parliament, though neither side in- dicates any extreme enxiety to do so. | GERMAN WAR CRITIC IN AN ANGRY MOOD. | Major Moraht Says Kaiser's | Armies Can Handle "Bray- est of Russians." Berlin, April 29.--Major Moraht, the military critic of the Tageblatt. in his review of the military situa- | tion alludes to the "5,000 Russians™ | landed at Marseilles. His review as Summarized by the Overseas News Agency, is as follows. "The arrival of 5,000 Russians at Marseilles illustrates the resolution of France. The French people, who are easily impressed and deceived, are jubilant over the arrival of | these Russians, whose coming neces- sitated a three months' voyage, but | German troops have learned how to | handle these 'bravest of Russians' in Galicia and Poland. | "As to the Russian offensive which was opened for the relief of the French it may be considered as now | nearly spent, and though the Russian offensive in Armenia is slowly ad-| vancing, and Russian trenches have | been built on the Roumanian fron- tier, there is no possibility that "The Russih invalid' will be able to ob- tain-the decision between Riga and | Czernowitz which has so many times been attempted by the Russians." | CRY FOR YOUNGER GENERALS. Oration By Ex-War Minister Orippled By Wounds. Paris, Avril 29.--The refusal of the Chamber to pass the Government Bill lowering the age limit of general officers between the ranks of colonel and Divisional General means not that Parliament does not favour such | & measure, but that it wants some- thing more thoroughgoing. The project, which was formulated by the late Minister of War, General Gallieni, and defended by his succes- sor, General Roques, proposed to fix the age, limit at 59 for colonels (in- stead of 60), at 60 for Brigadier-Gen- erals (instéad of 62), and at 63 for Divisional Generals (instead of 65), the last named: to be kept on the ac- tive lists, however, in case of brilli- ant services. The opposition con- tained the same curious mixture of advanced and conservative elements which has been sometimes seen of late in the House of Commons, M, Maginot, the first hostile speak- er, is deputy for the Meuse, and was Under Secretary for War in the Dou- merque Cabinet before the war. He went to the front as corporal, was severely wounded, gaining the War Cross and Military Medal, and now appeared at the "tribune", or speak- ing platform, of the Chamber on erut ches, He complained of an insuffi- ciency of bold and vigorous effort, initiative, and "warlike will' in the high command, "Many, good citizens, more than ever ved to pursue the war to the end, nto find that certain conceptions have served their pur- pose and exhausted their value, . . . The present state of affairs does not allow France to draw from her ad- mirable endtucy all the use she should and mikht expect." General Roques did not dispute the need of lowering the age limits. "When we entered the - war there were 47 divisional generals and 67 brigadier generals, who would not have taken active service if this Bill bad been in force. Among these there remain at the front four divisional and 16 brigadier generals." The oldest army corps commander, he added, is now 64 and the young- est 49, . General Pedoya also supported the Bill but it was referred back to the Committee by 254 against 218 votes. t claims that NEW CABINET CRISIS? (Special to the Whig.) London, April 29.-- King #| * George has had a long confer- | * ence with Premier Asquith and | % Lord Kitchener and a new Cab- | # inet crisis is predicted. + * + FEEPPPPPEPL PRR RD RSPR RIF % counsel of the tion, jerdticized hy the | tal i & high French officer, { chology must have notified the imme- | suggestion, | sitive to such influences. | throughout the whole | should not get through. That is what { enabled the infantry to undergo un- | exampled bombardments and then | men, which has amazed their German ! { dun front made a similar observa- COL. J. W. ALLISON AND HIS COUNSEL. Photo shows Col. J. W. Allison , George Henderson, K.C. Shell Inquiry at Ottawa on 5. Mr, Henderson is a native of Kingston, AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Chief Secret for Ireland, who is London press for lax methods that permitted the Sinn Fein- ers to arm and vise against the ernment Gav- WAS SAVED To British Goveramest By F. B. Carvel. SHELL PRICES REDUCED NINE DAYS AFTER KYTE DISCLOSURES MADE. 8hell Commissioners Laughed At Wallace Nesbitt's Asser tion That Spies Were At the Sitting. (Special to the Whig). Ottawa, April 29. ~-- Something WHY THE ENEMY FAILS { TO FORCE THE FRENCH BACK AT VERDUN, Petain's Army Suid To Have Become Self-Hypnotized By Phrase: "They Won't Pass." Paris, April 29.-- "The fundamen- secret of French resistance be- fore Verdun was psychological," said incapacitated from service by wounds, to your cor- respondent, "It was universal auto- suggestion on a vast scale. All were go self-hynotized by the consiant re- petition of the phrase: "They won't pass," that no idea save that of resis- tance to the uttermost could enter their heads." Continuing his novel explanation of the French success, the officer said: "Anyone familiar with crowd psy- liate response of hodies of men to Of all the peoples on earth the French are the most sen- Imagine, then, the result when General Petain transferred doubt and discourage- ment into iron determination when army flashed the Germans his resolution that rush forward with the bayonets as eagerly as fresh troops. That is the explanation of the confidence in vie- tory, seen eyen in captured French- | Substantial in returns to the British | tax-payers has already resulted from | the Parliamentary disclosures con- | cerning the defunct shell commit- | tee's contract-letting operations in | the United States and the establish- jment of the Imperial Munition {boards. Sir William Meredith and | Hon, Justice L. P. Duff, the Royal Commissioners, learned yesterday that the price originally entered into for fuses from the American Ammu- nition Company had already been re- duced for all future deliveries, while Hon, Col. David Carnegie, who told the Commission he was still ord- nance expect to the Munition Board, testified that the reduction of prices in the contract with the Internation- al Arms and Fuse Company was be- ing "'considered." First of July Agreement. The outstanding feature of yester- day's proceedings wae the filing of an agreement of the first of July, 1915, between Messrs, Bertram Cantlee, Watts F. Carnegie, Welland, manufacturers, of the first part, and Major General Hughes, acting for and on behalf of the Ithiperial Secre- tary of State for War, of the second par, under which the Shell Commit- tee contracted to deliver at fixed Jrices enormous quantities of ammu- nition, of a value totalling $148,- 628,110, There is nothing in the contract, as spread upon the records of the Commission, which would Prevent these four gentlemen making and appropriating for themselves any profit derivable from i out of this contract. tn fact, legal- ly it would appear that these four captors, | "In all battles morale is present, | but at Verdun it is literally the de- | cisive factor." gentlemen instead of being a com- mittee of disinterested citizens work- ing for the benefit of their country were contractors, who, had they been | 80 'minded, would have been entitled to all the profits that might have | been made from the manufacture of Attitude Of Determination, The officer's theory is strengthen- | ed by a surgeon who sefent five weeks | in a dressing station close to the! front. | "The most remarkable thing about | the wounded," said he, "was their | general attitude of determination. In | Some cases their faces seemed fixed | in an expression of ferocious resolu-| tion, especially among those suffering | fram shell shook. I treated the | { wounded at Chalons in the Cases ne offensive, but I neyer noticed a si- milar phenomenon there; though the majority of the soldiers were equally confident of victory. But at Verdun it | was more than confidence; they ap-!| peared obsessed by the one dominat- | ing idea to the exclusion of every-! | thing else." An 'American who visited the Ver- tion. He said: "I saw one regiment coming back to rest after six days in the trenches. There was less laught- er and talk than usual, but all seem- ed animated by an intense spirit of determination, When asked their op- inion of the battle, the general reply was just 'The Germans won't pass' *. "---- (right), conferring with his (le ),lter a regent sitting | this vast quantity of ammunition. Spies In Court ? There was a luyid touch to the fin- al moments of the sitting. Hon. Wallace Nesbitt] counsel for the Shell Committee, after sharp ex- changes with Sir William Meredith and F. B. Carvell, M, P., intimated that two German agents wera in the court "'taking careful notes." The -ramatic revelation, however, did not seem to impress the Commission- ers . seriously, Sir Willlam pooh- pooed it while Hon. Mr. Duff laughed heartily. The incident came at the close of a hard-working and at times tedious day. "The Man Behind." Recognition came dramtically to F, B. Carvell, the stalwart New Brunswick parliamentarian, and law- yer. He is the man with whom I. F. Helmuth, K. C., conducting the examination in chief, most frequent- ly confers. He is the man with whom various of the other legalilum- inaries are in almost constant con- sultation. He is the man to whom the laymen appeal for the elucida- tion of the knotty points. He is | the man "behind" and in the inquiry rooin, the man in front of the invest- igation. . Late in the afternoon sitting Mr. Helmuth reached an unusually in- teresting and significant document. It was a contract between C. B, Gor- don, representing the Imperial Muni- tions Board and E. B. Cadwell, Presi- dent of the American Ammunition Company, the organization with which Bassick, Yoakum and the oth- er Americans whose names are so familiar, were identified. It called, on the ostensible ground of failure to meet the delivery schedule, for a material reduction in the balance of the company's fuse contracts. On the 1,016,666 undelivered graze fus- es a reduction in price was conceded from $4 each as originally contract- od for by the Shell Committee, to $2,834 8-10 each. On the 831,334 undelivered time fuses, a price reduc- tion was effected from $4.50 each to $4.30 each. The saving by the first reduction was $1,679,522 and by the second $166,666, a total of $1,846, 188. This reduction was effectéd on April 6th, 19186, or nine days after G. W. Kyte, M.P., had made his dis- closures to Parliament. Credit To Carvell. "It would seem that Mr. Carvell ought to be given credit for saving the British Government nearly a couple of millions of dollars," was the comment of E. F. B. Johnston, K. C., while ¥F. 8. Markey, K. C., lapped the parliamentarian on the shoulder, with the comment: "That's a worth-while sort of patriotism." : ---------- The French have resumed the of- fensive near Verdun, capturing sev- tside the Grand Trunk s eral small outposts on Friday. Which Met on Saturday, a Thing That is Very Unusual. (Special to the Whig. London, April 29 ---The met = unexpectedly this causing the circulation of sational rumors in view of the fact that ministerial meetings are never held on Saturday. The meeting at once connected with King George's conference with Premier Asquith and Lord Kitchener yester- day and reports of a new Cabinet crisis, In ) - Cabinet morning, most sen- Some quarters it was rumored that the special meeting had to do with the Irish crisis and the almost unanimous demand by the newspa- pers that Secretary for Ireland Bir- rell resign. . Another report was that it had to do with the conscription fight in Par- liament, The Crisis Grave, (Special to' the Whig.) London, April 29.--The Daily News declared editorially to-day that the country is face to face with the 'gravest crisis that has arisen since the war began." "The Prime Minister withdrew the new service bill after a discussion which served only to reveal that every man's hands was against it," said the News. "The elaborate compromisé on conscription has broken down at the first trial and the very existence of the Government may conceivably be dmperilled by a controversy which is in itself wholly artificial." THE COMMANDEERED WHEAT STILL HERE ALL OF IT HAS NOT YET LEFT CANADA. There Was No Need of Com= mandeering -- Government Policy Criticised. (Special to the Whig). Ottawa, April 29.--Although the Government commandeered the fif- teen million bushels of. grain in the terminal: elevators last fall because of the "urgency" of the Allies' needs, the last of this wheat will not leave Canada till about the middle of next month. That was the main news item of 4.the long discussion in. Parliament yesterday of the reasons for an against the commandeering. Sir Wilfrid Laurier maintained that the only excuse for such a dras- lic method as commandeering would have been the urgent need for haste. Hon. Frank Oliver, Mr. Turriff and other western Liberals also eriti- cised the commandeering policy. GOVERNOR-GENERAL REFUSES TO SIGN? Latest Story About Orders-in=- Council For Sale of Ammunition. Ottawa, April 29.--These are days when rumors:beat the multiplication table. ' The small-arms ammunition deal is said to be causing more wor- ry than enough. Millions of cart- ridges of the Canadian stock, at the outbreak of the war, were condemn- ed, sold, and resold, it you please, to dear John Buil, after 'being more or less adjusted to his requirements. From the deal, it is said, $45,000 trickled into certain lucky pockets: Men who are not habitually light talkers vow that if justice were done about this busimess, as it would be done in Britain, a sudd funeral or two would have been in order. They add that orders-in- Council were passed for the sale of n larger amount of ammunition than finally got away, and that the Gov- ernor-General exercised a princely discretion about signing them. The atmosphere ig 'becoming' per- fumed hy explosives, Gen. Townsend VERY: VIOLENT ATTACK BY GERMANS ON RIGHT BANK OF MEUSE. Was Repulsed With Heavy Losses -- French Grenade Counter-attack Stopped At- tempt on Verdun. (8pecial to the Whig. Paris, April 29. -- The Prince sewyined the ast night with attacks against the French positions on both banks of the Meuse. The Germans launched an attack at five o'clock last night against Hill 304, the keystone of the Frerich defence nerth-west of Ver- dun, \ The War Office announced to-day that this assault was stopped by a grenade counter-attack. # On the right bank of the Meusé the Germans delivered an even more violent attack east of Thisumont farm, but were driven back, suffer- ing heavy losses. The fighting on the east bank of the Meuse, north and north-east of Verdun, spréad from the river itself to the French positions around Dou- aumont and Vaux village. On this wide sector savage fighting raged throughout yesterday, Following the most violent artil- lery preparation and an intense cur- tain fire, the Germans charged . the French front east of Thiaumont, where they have suffered frequent defeats. Liquid fire was sprayed upon the French advanced trenches as the Teutons advanced, but they were met by steady streams of shrap- nel and thrown back with heavy losses. ---- GERMAN INDUSTRIES IDLE, Dutch Workmen Leaving Westphalia Because Of Spreac ling Depression. The Hague, Netherlands, April 29. ~The exodus from Germany of the avitrsus Duet workmen's families resident there has been in evidence [ for many months past, Gnd thy ; ment is proceeding steadily, of these people Mail from the Ish Westphalian industrial region. They declare unemployment is in- creasing on every hand in various branches of German industry. Mar- garine and oil factories are entirely at a standstill; the weaving factories have not been at work for some time, and now the army gun-totton factor ies, including those at Bocholt, have had to reduce their operations to two days per week, the cause in all cases being lack of raw materials, fe + + + Eee eTYTeTe + EL 23 MILLION DOLLAR {oe MINING MERGER. ¢ (Special to the Whig ) Toronto, April 29.--Twenty- five-miltion-doflar mining 'mer- ger is announced to include the # Hollinger, Acme, Millerton and other properties, Theres bree *e4ee bP 3 * ose Sad bddbdddida DAILY MEMORANDUM Rummage sale, May 3rd and 4th, in - Island Market. See top e 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. " ------- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the 3 on a Following City Bucknell's News Depot .. Ing St. Clarke J. . & Co, LE (Special to the Whig). London, April 29.--Owing to his supplies being all ex" hausted, Gen. Townsend, who has held Kut-el-Amara (fort of El-Amara) for 146 days against Turkish forces, has surrenderdd the place. Floods have prevented the British from relieving that place, although the British forces are not far away. a BASEBALL 'ON FRIDAY, International I Newark, 4; Toronto, 3. Montreal, 7; Baltimore, §. Richmond, 6; Buffalo, 4. -- American League, Cleveland, 2; Chicago, 1 (10 nings). Boston, 3; New York, 2 (11 in- hington, 7; Philadelphia, &, Detroit, 6; St. Louis, 5. ) in- oh eh, Captain Alex.