Daily British Whig (1850), 2 May 1916, p. 9

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Ri a YEAR 83, NO. 10» OF HONTION Ressian Soldiers in the Best NT ADVANCED POSTIONS Con , Hi 5 GALICIA DEFENDED BY AMAZING NETWORK. © Of Trenches and Entanglements-- Strong Turkish Reinforcements Unable to Stop Progress of Czar's Armies, Petrograd, May 1, via London.-- Excepting for a continuous German offensive on the Dvinsk front, which has resolved itself into a sustained assault upon the Ikskull bridgehead, the Easter holidays passed without even minor episodes, to say nothing of the swift changes which have marked almost every month of the warfare on the Russian fronts. IN According to Russian officers re-| turning from various fronts on the battle line, the period of absolute calm enforced by the impassable con- dition of the roads after the spring thaw has been utilized to the best ad- vantage by the Russians, who every- where have greatly strengthened or perfected their defences, until now they are confident that all future Ger- man attempts to advance either on the northern front or in Galicia will be defeated. A correspondent in Galicia, who took an aeroplane flight over a sec- tor of the Russian front in order to examine the condition of the de- fences, says that in the three months since the Russians occupied their present advanced positions every- thing possible has been done by means of an amazing network of trenches and entanglements to ren- der the positions impregnable, °, Although there is no immediate prospect of a Russian offensive, the army is equipped and prepared in ev- ery way to resume the initiative as soon as the condition of the ground and the roads permits. There is an abundance of ammunition on hand and a minimum of {liness among the soldiers, who appear to be in the best of spirits. In Asia Minor the successive arri- vals of Turkish reinforcements from Constantinople, Bagdad and Syria, which are said to have brought up the total of Turkish troops in the neighborhood of. Erzingan to eight : 'to have been le to check the ual west- ward progress of the Russian troops from Erzerum and Trebizond. Each forward move of the Russians, how- ever, Js only achieved now after a desperate struggle, and it is appar- ent as the Russians proceed that they will meet with steadily increasing resistance. siz HE is nothing $70,000 which the Chancellor receiv- ed in 1841 from a person who stated that he had made that much in sev- eral years' smuggling. The Usual Way. ; Lady--1 shall be very lonesome, Peggy, if you leave me. i Peggy--Don't worry, ma'am, I'll not leave you until you have a house full of company. -------------------- Lieut, J. BE. Doheney, of Toronto end Cobourg, died of wounds receiv- ed at the front. A dental artist makes his draw- ings from Ie. (WA. ' by this fish in con- European war was attention of the Act- Minister of Militia by the member being the most import- raised In the House by the floor to Hon. A. E. Kemp copy of The London Star, in which cut depicting Major Hughie in uniform and the fish in a Klass Jar." Major Green is tho officer sent to England by Sir Sam Hughes to superintend the shipment and dis tribution of Canadian fish for con- sumption by the Canadian troops as aw variation in the menu of bully beef. h The cut is from a photograph. It shows Major Green holding up the glass jar and smiling into the eyes of Margaret, who has paused midway in a half gallon or so of liguid believed to be water. She is gazing with un expression of shy interest at Major Green, while the faint suggestion of an answering smile plays about the corners of her mouth, Mr. Devlin described the picture to the House. Maggie, he sald, was a trained fish. He wished to know if Major Green and the fish were in the employ of the Government, and if the publication of the group had been paid for. "1 have no information," said Mr. Kemp, "regarding a fish called 'Mag- gle'." He added that owing to the high price of fish in England it had been thought wise to try whether or not Canadian fish could be supplied in good condition to the Canadian soldiers in England. Major Green, who was an expert in the handling af fish, was employed to make the experiment, which had so far worked out satisfactorily. Mr. Kemp did not think the publication of the picture had been paid for hy the Government. At this stage the picture itself reached the Minister from the cus- tody of Mr. Devlin. It was headed, "The Fishmonger-General," and the letter press read, "Major Hughie Green, who has come over from Can- ada on a special mission to organize the supply of fish to the Canadian troops." The fish was not identified in the picture as Margaret, much less as "Maggie," but the latter name had been written over it in lead pen- cil. Mr. Kemp called attention to this curious circumstance. Mr. Devlin' thereupon admitted that he himself had been r po ible for revealing the identity of the fish. He lad written the name on the pa- per in order to keep it in mind. Whether or not the fish had a sur- name or went among her acquaint- ances by her given name of "Mag- gle" only he did not say. "Does the Minister,"" he asked, "see the vase in the picture? Does he see the fish in the vase? Well, I will tell the Minister the fish's name is 'Maggie'." (Laughter.) The in- cident closed without the House learnitg from the member for Wright under what ¢ircumatances he was enabled to recognize the fish, what her antecedents had been, or what was her social standing in the Rlacaiarial 3 world. It Is believed that New Hditor of Debates. Mr. T. P. Owens--the 'Canadian "Tay-Pay'--for many years one of the best-known newspaper correspon- dents, and latterly Associate Editor of Hansard, will shortly assume his new duties as Parliamentary Editor of the debates, sharing with Mr. Al- bert Horton responsibility for the entire Hansard staff, Mr. Speaker Sevigny submitted to the House of Commons the report of Dr, Thos. B. Flint, Clerk of the House, on the ap- pointment, reinforcing it with his personal recommendation. It Is anti- cipated Mr. Owens will assume his new reaponsililities immediately. The appointment will be viewed with favor in Parliament and out of it. Mr. Owens has a continental re- putation as one of the most efficient shorthand men on this side of the At- lantic. He has served with ability and distinction on many important commissions and investigations, and is highly regarded for his "uniform courtesy, fairness, integrity, and effi- Trying to Save Cemetery. Rollers from Lake Erie are caus- ing erosion along the Canadian ahd to such an extent that part of the b= 4 §5 g Li ciency. . ve KINGSTON » ONTARIO, TUESDAY,IMAY 2, 1916. THAT MUCH DISCUSSED FUSE: THE SMALL SPARK THAT STARTED THE a -- PRESENT BIG ENQUIRY AT OTTAWA. to $6 each. in England. Liondon Chronicle. Prisoners have for some time been regularly employed: upon public works in France. They are, for instance, busy upon the reconstruc- tion of a great stadium at Lyons, and they are also engaged upon the creation of a port capable of dealing with 600,000 tons of coal per annum a few miles beyond Bordeaux. Em- ployment for them has also been found in Morocco. In Germany the prigoners, as in 1870-1, have been thrown largely on to the land, work- ing Mainly, it is suggested, in the cultivation of the beet crop. The great bulk of the British prisoners, it is understood, have refused to work for the Germans in any fashion. The Germans, contrary to the conven- tions, have used Russian prisoners in the making of military works in Belgium, with the result that some have managed to escape. When so employed in preparing trenches, the Russians, on getting close to the British lines, have often made a rush for liberty, sometimes at the cost of their lives. When they have been employed on farm work in Germany Russian prisoners report that they have been kindly treated. In Rus- sia the Government has for months past been subject to severe press criticism, on the ground that the pri- soners have been given "a lovely time," "a time," in fact, which never falls to the lot of the inhabitants themselves, being kept entirely idle despite the need for railways and like works; but latterly some of them have n put to the work of rafl- y construction. , In this country little appears to have been done, be- yond the employment of a section of the civilians in quarrying. In Germany the prisoners receive 74. a day. In France they are paid 2%d. a day, together with certain perquisites. They are given a com- plete holiday on Sundays, and they have recreation in a weekly concert. 'They are under the commands of their own nationality, so that if ill- Jtreatment is their portion it is ill- tment by fellow Germans. The of the prisoners in this country nay be estimated from the fact that where they have been set to work within the camps upon the making of mpilbags they are paid 6d per bag, and where they have been employed in the neighborhood of the camps they have been paid (as the ronven: tions require) the same working pay as "Tommy Atkins;"" the French offi- road » . rss ake {ERBIN1S- RUINS In France, in Germany, in Russia and ------ AND A MONUMENT OF WAR'S HAVOC. City Likened to Tomb by Correspon- dent -- Only Fearful Explosions From Big Guns Break Unbearable Silence and Abandonment, Paris, May 1.--The extent of the havoc wrought in Verdun'during the fighting of the last few weeks is pic- tured by Gaston Deschamps, of the Temps: "As our automobile drew up be- fore the cathedral," he says ,"a ter- ritic' explosion of a mortar shell caused serious damage near by, En- tering the remains of the famous old cathedral one was fairly confounded by the enormous havoc wrought by the bombardment. Even®the huge mosaic paving stones afe wrenched nto masses of debris. Columns and pillars are broken into frag- ments, rich candelabras and lustres reduced to bits and the carved pulpit and sculptured railing around the chancel are lying in shapelesspiles. 'Near the cathedral is the monas- tery, whose sculptured walls were famous as a fifteenth century mas- tergiece. All these have been re- duced to masses of rubbish. Even the cloistered garden disappeared under the avalanche of debris from falling walls." "The Bishop's palace also is in ru- ins. One of its chief beauties con- sisted of the sculptured mural de- corations representing in symbolic manner the River Muse. These de- corations have been literally hashed to pieces by violent shelling as though some burlesque Hercules had used a giant hammer to crush these exquisitely delicate bits of sculpture. "Verdun itself remains completely deserted. From Porte Neuve to Porte St. Victor, in the lower city, and also in the upper eity, in the once busy Rue Mazel and Place d'Armes; there is a condition of ab- solute: abandonment and silence, broken only at intervals by the fear- ful explosions from big guns." THE Rejected men to the number of 776 were given buttons at the re- cruiting Headquarters, Toronto. 'Petrolea goes dry" to-day, four bar ticenses and one shop license being cut off by local option. i? Walkerville in two days raised $52,000 Tor the Patriotic Fund --~----_-- ~~ - - Five thousand dollars a day is being spent in legal and other expenses at the Meredith Duff inquiry into the Kyte charges re fuse contracts at Ottawa, Hughes and Col. Wesley Allison are the central figures. idea what a fuse looks like, but the illustration will help some. the end of shrapnel or high explosive shells and causes them to explode at a certain time after leaving the gun, or on percussion. quarters actual size for 18 pounder shells. time index in place; (¢) spacing for setting time fuse; (d) body of fuse. indicate body of shell to which fuse is attached. They are worth anywhere from $3 Sir Sam Few people have much Fuses are serewed on The illustration shows a fuse about three (a) Nose of fuse; (b) brass ring holding Dotted lines rR | New Fusion of Independent Interests Announced, Tulsa, Okla., May 1.--Harry F. Sinclair, multimillionaire, on his re- turn from New York to-day an- nounced that he has practically suc- ceeded in organizing a company cap- italized at $50,000,000 for the pro- ducing and refining of crude oil. The new concern will be known as the Sinclair Oil & Refining Company and headquarters will be established in this city. High Prices of Steel. New York, May 1.--Equipment makers are becoming alarmed at the high price and scarcity of steel. This has more than doubled prices of cars in most instances in the last year, and price of locomotives has been greatly increased. On this account, railroads are holding off on equip- ment orders, only those in the best financial condition buying. It is safe to say that the equipment busi- ness of the next few months depends largely on whether the steel market continues to soar or not, Goodyear Cuts Melon. Cleveland, Ohio, May 1.--Stock- holders of the Goodyéar Tire & Rub- ber Company, of Akron, will meet May 20th to readjust and increase the capital stock, The present outstanding issue of preferred of $6,200,000 is to be call- ed for redemption at $120 a share as of July 1st, and will be replaced by a new issue of $17,500,000. Present common shareholders will receive a stock dividend of 100 per cent, bringing the outstanding com- mon issue also up to $17,600,000. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio, has sold to a syndicate composed of Kissel, Kinunicutt & Co., Borton & Uorton, of Cleveland, and others, about $10,- 000,000 seven per cent. cumulative preferred stock, Commercial News. Granby consolidated Mining Co. directors authorized installation of an auxiliary plant at Hidden Creek smelter to provide between 7,000 and 8,000 additional horse-power. Tae International Silver Company has announced an advance in prices of about 10 per cent., effective on practically all lines of silverware. An extra dividend on the stock of International Nickel will be declar ed at the board meeting next month, according to Dow, Jones and Co. Earnings are growing largér each month. Gross profits of the Hollinger Gold Mines for the four weeks ending March 24th, totalled $151,307, com- pared with $169,906 for the previ- ous four week period. Shares of the Consoli and Smelt Co. of make a erage | . Each sent $100 share will be divided Jegson, may smoke, Mr. Vachell told me that it is in his plan to work on his manuseript from nine to ene every morning, typing his work direct on the machine, and us- ing very few notes. In the case of his popular play "Searchlights," he typed the play night and day in a brief space of days, making only a single copy of it. And thereby hangs a tale. Mr. Vachell feit that the script was too precious to be entrusted to any other hands but his own, and brought it up to town, hailed a taxi-cab, and left the manuscript behind in it! There being no other copy available, Mr, Vachell found himself confront- ed with the very formidable task of dictating the whole play over again from memory, and when the original script turned up four days later at Scotland Yard, Mr. Vachell was in- terested to find that he had made very few errors in his feat of recapi- tulation from memory. generosity to junior abs, received a letter from three lads in the district, informing him that they had started a football club and had elected him president, concluding with the hope that he would send them a subscription, and signing themselves respectively ag captain, secretary, and treasurer. The M. P,, in accordance with his invariable custom, sent the boys a sovereign, and thought no more about the subject. Imagine his sur- prise, then, on receiving a second let- ter a fortnight or so after the first, worded as follows: "Dear Sir,--We are sorry to tell you we could not keep our c¢lpb go- ing, as we could not get a ground, but we thought you would not want your pound back, so we teok a trip to with itt We went to Belle Vue Gardens and the theatre, and enjoyed ourselves very much, but the expense for the three came to 1s. 6d. over your severeign; so will you please send the eighteen- peice by return post so that our club will not wind up in debt?" Waiting for the Gallows. Prisoners under sentence of death are never left alone for a mement. In England two warders are in attend- clear lowed to the murderer after his sen- tence. Usually be is hanged upon the Tuesday after the third Sunday. Seme visitors are allowed, but not even the most intimate relative may kiss, embrace, or even take the hand | of the prisoner. During the awful | three weeks of waiting, the condemn- ed man may choose any food within and may read what he likes. Just before executibn he may have a drink of brandy. A man about to be hanged is the only person who can hear his own burial service read. S-------- |, Russians Near DiarBekh. London, May 1.--The Russians, in their advance southwards from Bit- lis, after dislodging the Turks from SECOND SECTION LURED HUNS OVER A MIN And Then the Canadians Ex. ploded It ---- : AND, SUFFERED SOME HEAVY 4 LOSSES, The Germans Have Doubled the Shift of Sentries To Watch the Daring Fighters From Canada. London, May 1.---How the Cana- diang have once more done the Huns across the channel is told by officers returning on leave. - The Canadians have long been top-dog in their con- flict with the Germans, and it is said that in the trenches opposite the men from North America there are twice as many sentries as elsewhere along the line, for the Canadians are for- ever thinking of some new thrill for their enemies. Not long ago, so the story goes, the Canadians discovered that the Ger- mans had, in some way wholly unex- plai , tapped a Canadian trench telephone wire. A connection had been made which led to the German trenches. Thus the Germans were able to hear of the ofders on the telephone in that vicinity. There was & good deal of consternation when the testing of the line showed that it had been tapped, and the first impulse was to cut the German wire. A Canadian colonel, however, had a better notion. He took the matter up with headquarters and laid a deep plot to profit by the circumstance. Fake Set of Orders, At a certain point, the Canadians {had finished a mine under the Ger- man trenches. Its explosion was deferred. Then the Canadians ar- ranged a fake set of orders. With the Germang MNstening in orders were issued for an attack. The Germans did not know, of course, that their trick had been discovered. The or- ders were that the attack should be made on the very point under which there was a Canadian mine. The Germans did not know about the mine, either. Profiting by the in- formation obtained over the ' tele- phate wire, the Germans in turn planned a surprise for the aggressors. They literally packed men in the trenches where the supposed attack howhd ) | Were, waiting for the Canadians to come on. When time had heen given for the Germans to make ample preparation for effectual resistance, dians exploded their made a small attack Scores of Germans were killed, and it isn't likely that the Germans will ever again believe anything they hear over a telephone. The Outbreak In Dublin Ottawa Citizen. ently kept close watch on Sir Roger Casement in Germany. There are many coves and deserted . stretches of coast argund Ireland suitable for gun-running, but the British patrol apparently nipped in the bud Case ment's attempt at landing Whatever the Kaiser planned for Ireland, it has taken a long bring about anything like a and with the sinking of the auxiliary and the capture of ment it may be said to have at halfcock. Not unbikely the man government did reckon on a Hl war in Ireland, when ed war and swept into August, 1914, German rifles 'been supplied to the Ulster army der Sir Edward Carson; but ft not take long, when war came, the Ulster men to swing into with the rest of the British The Machiavelian policy of Ger- many in Ireland was apparently to work for civil war through both sides. Deprived of all hope of help from * Ulster, after sending guns and ammunition, the enemy { may have concentrated on Sir Roger . hope. Casement as a forlorn have been rewarded by a riot fn lin; possibly no worse than ' riots reported from time to occurring in German cities, Fire destroyed the mills and vator of the Rice Milling of Canada, at St. Boniface, peg, with 300,000 bushels of grain. ottal loss $300,000; and the sawmill at CoMingwood belonging to the J. T. Chariton estate chinery, a mountain range, have got close to lars, Diarbekh, but they will probably have to fight another engagement with the Turks before they are able to advance south and west upon Nisbin, the present railhead of the Bagad Railway. Allan McLennan, police trate for some years at been judge for the district of Rainy River and local judge for the high court division of the preme Court of Ontario. magie- Tins THE 'STANDARD BANK SOLD! Our A: joint those €8T'D 1873 to Richardson, KINGSTON A 1 : ak provides a suitable and Savings Bank : account recat adam ter

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