YEAR 83 ----NO. 118 THOUSANDS OF GERMANS PUT OUT OF ACTION The Tide Mas Turned Aad the Long Evaded Destiny of the Germans is Closing in Upon Them Kept Forces on the British Front. (Special to the Whig.) London, May 17.--Three hundred thousand German soldiers have been killed or put out of action at Verdun, the Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle reported to-day. The German losses have been so severe, he added, as to preclude any idea of a German offensive against Riga, in which region the German sea and land forces are said lo be concen- traling. "The fide has definitely turned, and from west to east the long-evaded destiny of the Germans is closing in upon them." The despatch said: "At no moment in the battle of Verdun have they dared to bring thither any unit from before the British front. "Since last September at least.twenly-two divisions have been transferred from the east to the west front. "There is thus left in Russia a nmiere curtain of German troops, while Bulgaria and Turkey are being left to shift for themselves." : THE WAR CENTRE MOVES FROM VERDUN TO ASIA New York, May 17.--A Petrograd despateh to the Trib- une, referring to the further advances by the Russians in the direction of Mosul, says: Appearances all point to the conclusion that the prinei- pal war work of the immediate fulure will be on the Asiatie front. Verdun seems to have killed German initiative on the . weslern front, but the ominous progress steadily made by the Russians on the Asiatic front compels Germany to reconsider rr] The her plans. Attention is called to the council of war recently held by Emperor William, at which th with the Asiatic part of Germar ceptlionally largely represented ose higher commands engaged 1y's strategic schemes were ex- "MIKE" JOYCE LOOKS FOR THE WAR TO END ------ Mrs. M. Joyce, 42 Charles street, has received a letter from hed son, Driver M. Joyce, a former employee in the Whig office, who is now in; Belgium. The letter was written on April 28th, and in it he says in part: "l had an exciting time last night. One officer and twenty-eight of us volunteered to take 200 bombs up to the first line trenches. We had to make two trips In and out under a terrible shell fire. It took us five and one half-hours, and belleve me it was thrilling work. Had one bit of sharpnel hit us we would never have been able to tell what happen- ed but we got back safely without a scratch, We were a thankful bunch that arrived at our billets, "Well, here it is, summer again, but the Huns won't hold out until Christmas, They are beaten now, but will put up & stand, until the fall I think, 1 feel that we will not have another winter campaign. (t certain ly doesn't seem possible that I have beén here sixteen months." UTILITIES WANTS FINANCIAL CHANGES. Desires a Separate Office For the Collectors Of its Rates. The Utilities Commission and the Civic Finance Committee had a-con- ference on Monday evening with re-| gard to matters affecting the tw bodies. The Commission is not sat- isfied with the present arrangement of its financial departments in the City Treasury, and is anxious to have a re-arrangement made so that the water, gas and electric collectors can be by themselves. It was decided that Chairman T. J. Rigney should with the chairman of City Property as to what portion of the city build- ing would be suitable for a Utilities financial office, and the matter would be considered. The question of street lighting was also discussed, and it was agreed that a con ce should take place between the Fire and Light Commit- tee and the Utilities Commission as to what should now be charged. Another sudden death occurred at the General Methodist Conference at Saratoga, N.Y ~~ WHIG CONTENTS Page . © I=Germans Out of Action] Asia in View: Plans Originat- ed in Germany. 31 using as A Local appenings. 3-Trtbute to Dead; Told in Twi ight, +--Editorials; Press Opindons. Walt Masons Rhymes; Ran- dom 5--{Heavy Rains; Baseball Fans; 'With British Forces. é--Eastern Ontario News ors, in i Mu Twilight; In MONEY NOT RETURNED TO THE WAR OFFICE. Charge Made By Mir. Carvell Before the Royal Com= mission. Ottawa, May 17.--During the ex- amination of J. W. Flavelle, chair- man of the Munitions Board, before the Royal Commission yesterday af- | ternoon, Mr. Carvell, in examining | witness, made the statement that the War Office did not receive back from the Shell Committee hundreds of thousands of dollars that should have been returned. "All these contracting members of the committee agree that the profit should go back to the War Office. Now, what I want to say is that I do not think that the sum that went back to the War Office was as large as it should have been. Now, I may as well say frankly that this is the position I take. The War Office did not get as much as they should have received by a good many hundreds of thousands of dollars. In fact, I may say it will run into seven fig- ures. That is what I have been working toward, and that is my ob- ject in this investigation." Justice Duff---"It is very frank of you. Now we understand the posi- tion." ' | ALDERSON CONDEMNS THE ROSS RIFLE. |The Bolt Jams Too Easily With Certain Classes of Ammu- nition. { Ottawa, May 17.-- The Ottawa Citi- | zen publishes a communication from | General Alderson to the Militia De- | partment in which the commander- | in-chief of the Canadian forces con- demns the Ross rifle as an active iservice weapon in comparison with ithe Lee-Enfield. While admitting | perhaps the superior qualities of the Ross rifle ag a target rifle, Gen. Al- derson is of the opinion that it is in- ferior when expesed to dust and mud in trench conditions, chiefly due to the fact that the bolt jams too easily with certain classes of ammunition. Et RR ERR * + RUSSIANS CUT OFF * | TURKS FROM BAGDAD. # + ne + [# (Special to the Whig.) * {% Petrograd, Maw, 17.--Rus- {#% sians have cut the Turks off from & |% Bagdad; 140,000 Turkish troops # !% are in great jeopardy. The Rus- # i% slang are now within a few # + miles of Bagdad. 2 'le HAS NOT CONSIDERED | Question of Introducing Daylight. Saving Legislation. i Ottawa, May 17.--8ir Robert Bor- | rete ne | { MacDonald in the House of Com- mons yesterday afternoon, said|that {the Government had given no consid- | eration to the question of introducing daylight saving legislation. { Most of the provinces, he said, have jhe power to pass such legislation if they desire to, and it was doubtful Countryside, Matters; The wah if Dominion cessary or to consider den, replying to a question by E. M.| He, yy -% ily British KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 19I6 SOLDIERS IN ACTION IN DUBLIN RIOTS. This picture, taken during actual fighting in South Dublin during the recent Sinn Fein rebellion, shows soldiers operaling a machine gun trained on the Irish rebels. PITH OF i 5es=aa:oERMANS FAIL THE NEWS T0 ADVANCE Despatches From Near And By a Grenade Assault Near Distant Places. Déadman's Hill. cates, They are working in a mu- nitions factory and wanted to trans- fer to London. dered King Duytan of Annam depos- ed on charge of complicity in riots. Two Canadians in Liverpool, Eng- Prof. ¥. D. Adams, McGill Univer- sity; Frank Darling, Toronto; Very Rev. Dean Harris, Toronto; Prof. John G. Lawson, Missouri; Justice Riddell, Toronto; Benjamin Sulte, Ottawa; Horatio Walker, St. Petron- ille, Que., will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from To- ronto University. jefeodefeefedoeodidded dod dodo dededd dod And Another Squadron 130 Shells At Metz Station, (Special to the Whig.) Paris, May 17.--German attempts to drive forward their lines north- west of Verdun, -néar Dead Man's ™ . |B +* * MINES WASHED UP. + * so + ---------- + Berlin, May 17.--A despatch + QF NT 0 2 ER * from Amsterdam says that dur- + . X RY a t PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST # ing April ninety mines drifted + T™O ATTEMPTS BY THE ENEMY POSSIBLE FORM. # up on the Dutch coast. Fifty + ON TUESDAY. Ig |% were British, three French, thir- #| MR The Whig's' Daily Condensation Of | % teen German, and twenty-four &| One French Air Squadron Dropped The News Of the World From Tele- | + of unestablished nationality. «| Seventy Shells Over German Lines * | | graph Service and Newspaper Ex-|*% changes. | " Portland, Ore., is to have a new shipbuilding plant, Longboat Arrested. . (Special to the Whig.) A $25,000 fire did damage to the| Toronto, May 17.--""Tom"" Long- Chaisas Frontenac at Quebec. wi beat, the-Indian- Marathoner who British troops captured 250 yards | lately enlisted to go overseas, has| Hill b i ' y a grenade assault, failed com- of enemy trenches on the Vimy | be 8 a y yn rend on a serious SHminal pletely, the War Office reported to- Medals have been awarded to Can-! sh day. A similar. attempt by the adians for distinguished service at| Ontario Artillery Losses. | Germans was defeated on the east the front. | Toronto, May 17.--The Ontario| pan ] The British Government will de-| artillery brigade has been in a severe! Ti i of ke Meuse, noriiNest of fray the damages caused by the re-| action in France. Major MacDou-| HEMUMON : cent Dublin uprising. | gall, Toronto, commanding the Ninth, Artillery on both sides was very A Swiss engineer denied the story! Battery, is missing, and there have! active on the right bank of the of coercion to get 'torpedo wit-| been several other casualties. { Meuse last night nesses' in the Sussex case. | i | FR Js Archdeacon Wilberforce, Chaplain | A Vessel Blown Up. During the night two raiding | French air squadrons flew over the ne J armouty, Eng., May 17.-- | German lines. One squadron dropped e utch steamer Batavier V.,| gave ty shells on th bound from London to Rotterdam, | M os Y ti . the shots. at the was blown up on Tuesday with the |" _e slat.on, loss of four lives, | Near Viv Sur Aisne, a French fiyer | brought down a German &ir man. of the House of Commons, died on Saturday, aged seventy-five. Charles D. Sheldon, who once op- erated in Montreal, was convicted in| Baltimore of conspiracy to defraud. The Government ice-breaker J. D.| Hazen, said to be-the second largest | in the world, was launched at Mon-| (Special to the Whig.) SAGA P PREP PRR RPE IES Sh be treal. * %| On the fortieth anniversary of |% KILLED AT FRONT. * THREE AMERICANS their marriage Mr. and Mrs. J, P. | ® -- i ABOARD ERETRIA, Nye saw their four children married | % (Special to the Whig. +> _e at Shenandoah, Pa. : ' 3 a Toronto, May '17. -- Major +| A Canadian Steamer Which David B. Francis, U. 8. Ambassador jeorge Vansittart, a R. M. C. #| to Russia, began his busipess career * graduate, commanding the he 3 Was Torpedoed By the as' a messenger boy on the floor of | % teenth Battery, was killed at the # | Germans. the St. Louis Exchange. + front. His home was in To- #| - The Governor-General at Hanoi, * ronto and he graduated in 1905, | Washington, D.C., May 17.--Three capital of French Indo-China, has or- % / : : . \ Americans were aboard the Canadian land, were refused leaving certifi-: #1 Fd 2ddddod SPER ddd dds dud 3 » | steamer Eretria, which has been tor- I A A A AAA eee | pedoed, according to a cablegram | from the United States Consul at La { Rochelle, France, to-day. { The sinking of the Eretria was first reported in press despatches { from London Saturday night. No } mention was made.of the fate of the crew. The Eretria was a 3,464-ton ves i sel owned at St. John, N.B: i Man Had Seen Service Also In Sout) | -------------- { CAPT. HW, FISHER KILLED, | . Africa, ° Brockville, May 15.--The announce- ment was received here this afternoon that Captain Harry W. Fisher, one of Brockville's South African veterans, had been killed in action recently. His mother received a cable from his wife in England to this effect. Ca tain Fisher first enlisted in Canada with the 24th Battalion, and left last autumn with a draft of the 59th Bat- talion. His wife and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fisher of Brockville, and one brother, B. H., at Quebec, sur- vive. SHORT SEA FIGHT OFF BELGIAN COAST. (Special to the Whig.) London, May 17.----British dex + stroyers and monitors engaged # German destroyers in a. short w4 fight off the Belgian coast yes- # terday, the Admiralty announc- # ed this afternoon. The Ger- 4% mans withdrew. The British # suffered no losses. . Pheer Sob dbtee stare | U. 8. CRUISER RAN AGROUND During a Gale--Eight Men Are Re- i A TT Ar i i 4 THE PLANS ORIGINAY IN GERMAN WAR ig LAST EDITION Maps Found in the Possession of Sir Roger Casement ~ Support the Contention That the Irish Rebellion Was Planned Wy ot of the lea, (Special to the Whig.) Ps London, May 17.--Maps found in the possession of Sir Roger Casement support the contention that the plans for the Irish rebellion originated in the German War Office, Lieut.-Col. Gordon, of the British War Office In- telligence Department, testified to- day at resumed hearing. Casement, more calm than on the preceding days of the trial, listened intently while the British intelli- gence officer testified. Officers tes- tified to the previous good record of Bailey, Casement's confederate, while in an Irish regiment before he was captured. The most interesting testimony of yesterday was the story of the fate of the German ship Aud, which was sent out from Kiel with arms and ammunition to fulfill in part prom- ises of assistance said to have been made by the Germans. The Aud was held up on suspicion off the west coast of Ireland, near Tralee, by the British naval patrol ship Bluebell, and 'was being taken to Queenstown |] when she was sunk by her own crew. A diver, who inspected the wreck of the Aud for the plrpose of con- firming the statement that she had arms and ammunition aboard, it be- ing claimed that she carried 20,000 rifles for the rebels, besides other war material, said that on the bed of the sea he saw a lot of rifies and ammunition. : Committed for Trial. London, May 17.--S8ir Roger Case- ment and Daniel Bailey were formal- ly committed for trial on charges of high treason at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing this afternoon. The trial will take place at a special assizes, with Lord Chief Justice Read ing presiding. 5 The nature of Casement's defence is still a mystery. Counsel for Bai- ley will attempt to show that the for- mer Irish soldier knew nothing of the character of the undertaking upon which he embarked, and that he speedily informed the British au- | thorities of the plans to foment a rebellion when he landed on the Irish coast, ~ THE LARGEST FINE SO FAR IMPOSED. For Buying Liquor For An "In=- dian"--S8haver To Pay $50. Robert Shaver. better known as "Didley," who bought liquor for Na- poleon Newell, a member of the "pro- hibited list,", on Wednesday drew the largest fine ever imposed by Ma- gistrate Farrell in Police Court for this offence. He pleaded "guilty," and was taxed $50 and costs or one month. As "Didley" has sufficient money, he will not go to jail. Shaver was caught right in the act of getting the liquor for the mem- ber of the list. Constables Samuel Arniel and John Naylon arrived. om the scene and took charge of him on Tuesday. It is only "luck" that Shaver was not charged with selling liquor to a soldier, as Newell is enlisted in one of the local units. The police took charge of him before he actually made the sale, and for that reason the second charge could not be laid. BOMBED A TRAIN WITH ITALY'S QUEEN. (Special to the Whig.) Rome. May 17.---Austrian air- +meén dropped bombs on Venice "4 and other Italian cities, and at- # tacked a train on which Queen # Helena was travellifig, but were #* driven off by Halian airmen. Spee Perret rd BASEBALL ON TUESDAY. A nal League. Philadelphia, 4; Cincinnati, 3. St. Louis, 5; Brooklyn, 4. Other games postponed, rain. American League. Washington, 15; Detroit, 3. Other games postponed, rain, International League. Richmond, 5; Buffalo, 2. 5; Other games postponed, rain. LORD CURZON APPOINTED President of Great Britain's New Air Board, London, May 17.--Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India, has been named president of a new air board which will direct Britain's air forces, UnderSecretary-for-War Tennant announced in the Commons this af- ternoon. Lindsay Mourns Dead Officer. (Special to the Whig). Lindsay, May 17.--The lagest fu- neal in the history of this town was that this morning of Captain Edward So Kylie, adjutant of the 147th Battal- ion, and formerly associate professor of history in Toronto University. Full military honors were given, and the town ceased business during the entire morning. Baden-Powell Not In Tower, London, May 17.--Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, wrote yesterday de- nying rumors in circulation in the United States that he was a prisoner in the Tower of London, charged with being a spy. ; Paris, May 17.--Sarah Bernhardt, who, as a result of her marriage with Jacques Damala, a Greek member of] her company, in 1882, became a Greek subject, resumed her French nationality yesterday by special de- cree of President Poincare. Damala RECONSTRUCTING THE PARLIAMENT BUILINGS AT OT- ported Lost. died in 1896. TAWA. Boston." May go men action against the proposal + TE, are Picture shows the main r which was badly wreck- | reported. to have lost . lives hoop Yote in Berlin on Friday on ed. and the scaffolding which s it. The work of|¥hen the United States cruiser San|the question of changing the cit; reconstruction is proving less serious than was at first anhi- on ES has heen y | GRAHAM'S HOT SHOT | FOR RAILWAY DEAL. The Government Bill To Aid Forget's Road Is Carried. Ottawa, May 17.---""The proposi- tion is indefensible from beginning to end. It is unspeakable that the | Government should attempt to, put it | through at this time. To embark on an expenditure which will in the end aggregate about $10,000,000 when the money is so urgently need- ed for other purposes, and when it will have to be taken out of part of the money the country raises from the 'war taxes," is nothing short of monstrous." ; t<~That 'is the way in' George P. Graham chi in the Commons yesterday the Govern- ment's legislation providing for the expenditure of some $5,000,000 in cash in order to recoup the company "for the amount so far expended on the lines," and the assumption of a bonded indebtedness of $2,500,000 involved in the western end of the line, in order to take over Sir Ro- dolphe Forget's uncompleted railway from Quebec to Murray Bay, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence. After discussing the bill all after- noon and part of the evening sitting, it was finally put through its third reading and passed on to the Sen- Ate. DAILY MEMORANDUM 2 Creatore's Band, Kingston Rink, pm, See top page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. AAA AAA A A AA AN BORN GUIREY--In Kingston, on May 16th, 1916, to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Guirey, 117 Patrick street, a son. DIED BUTLER--In Hotel Dieu, May 16. 1016, Walter Butler, aged twenty-six years Funeral takes place from his late resi- dence, Portsmouth, Thursday af- ternoon, at 2.30 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are respect. fully invited to attend. GUESS---At Sydenham, on May 16th, 1916, Secord Barnabas, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W.' Guess, aged three yoars and one month, Funeral Thursday afternoon o'clock. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: : 's cknell"s Ni " Buea Nova oper 8 at 2 ® Bt ncess ncess Princess Alfred Ja ssmauth ROBERT J REID Phone OTT. 250 A thook.