Daily British Whig (1850), 16 Jun 1916, p. 1

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| 12 PAGES ¢ Da ily British LACH T ATTACKS ~ Against Thiamont Sector. BUT THE FRENCH REUSE ALL ATTEMPTS OF THE BY HEAVY FIRE, French Artillery Fire Was so Heavy That Germans Were Killed in Their Trenches Before They Could Flee, (Special to the Whig. Paris, June 16.--After ie) riod of infantry inaction of hours, the Germans launched violent infantry attacks against the Thia- mont Farm, Caillette woods sector on the Verdun front, on the east bank of the Meuse last night. All of the attacks were repulsed . At times the French artillery fire Was 80 beavy that the Germans were killed in their trenches before they were able to flee, "On the west bank of the Meuse," sald the statement, "the Germans launched seven counter-attacks on the slope of Dead Man's Hill. - All of these were repulsed, the French imprisoning 1856 Germans. "On the east bank, toward 6 p.m., the Germans made a powerful offen- sive north of Thiaumont Farm from Hill 321 te 320. All the attacks were checked by the fire of our ma- Chine guns, the German losing heav ily. "Further attacks were launched at * 10 p.m, on the edge of Caillette woods. :. These were checked by French curtain fire, The Germans were unable at some points to jump out of their trenches." In the official statement of last night the French claimed the cap- ture of 130 prisoners when they took a German trench south of Dead Man's Hill, "DEMOCRATIC ENEMY WOODROW WILSON To again contest for the U. 8 dency. Presi- | | * + WAR BULLETINS. *+ * Son % Sir Douglas Haig mentions a + long list of Cangdians for gal- # lant and distinguished conduct # in the field. * -- +> Sir Johan Jellicoe's report on # the loss of the cruiser Hamp- #% shire indicates that Lord Kit- G chener did not leave the boat. Canadian losses were com- paratively small in the recept counter attacks. Gen, Smuts' forces have occu- + pled several more towns along # the coast in the German East + African campaign, #.. Quiet has prevailed on the # Canadian front during the past # twenty-feur hours. Fam-Cailiette Woods: forty-eight | | west-bound engine. + [ WILSON'S CHALLENGE 152,476 PRISONERS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS During Past Twelve Days-- The Great Haul of the Slays. (8pecial to the Whig). Petrograd, June 16.--The War Of- i fice yesterday afternoon issued a sup- BLIND SOLDIERS NEN ATTENTION Eleven Canadians Have Lost Sight on the Battefields of Europ. THE TRAINING 1S SPLENDID ADE. | plementary report giving the exact | number of Austrian prisoners taken | since the Russian offensive began on | June 4th, as one general, three-tom- | manders, 2,467 officers, five doctors, and 150,000 men. "We also have captured 163 can- non, 266 machine guns, 139 bomb throwers, and 32 mine throwers," adds the report. 3 | "The offensive of Gen. Brusiloff did not stop yesterday," continued | the statement. "In various regions jon the front, fresh prisoners were {made and more military booty was itaken. The enemy continues to de- | liver counter attacks at several | points, and elsewhere is busy en- | trenching himself in new positions." {AND THE HEROES ARE QUATELY CARED FOR. The Men Are Able to Take Up Use. ful Work After Leaving Institu- tion for Blind. Ottawa, June 16.--There are 201 British officers and men who have been rendered blind by injuries at the front, Eleven of these are Ca- nadians, four of whom have return- ed to Canada and seven are still in the hospital for blinded soldiers at St. Dunstan, Regent's Park, London. CZEKNOWITZ FALLS. (Special to the Whig. Petrograd, June 16.--The % capture of Czernowlitz by the 4 Russians is confirmed. The # Austrians destroyed all rail- *% roads in the neighborhood. LJ | ® * IK + + ficers and men in this hospital now, including five Australians, two New Zealanders and the Canadians. There are also ten blinded officers, who went there for the special train. ing given. Fifty-one men have passed out of St. Dunstan's, having learned some useful occupation, such as typewrit- ing, boot repairing, basket-making, poultry farming, market gardening, ete. One officer has qualified as a masseur. trees Td | | TWO CHILDREN KILLED AT VILLAGE CROSSING. Waited For Freight To Pass, And Struck By Light Engine. {Special to the Whig) Lansdowne, June 16.--At seven o'clogk last evening a terrible acei- dent occurred at Main street crossing when Hubert McKay, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. McKay, harness maker, aged nine years, and Harold Leggett, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Leggett, hotel keeper, aged eight years, were killed by a light engine. The children were go- ing for milk, and waited for a freight | train to pass, and were struck by a Adequately Cared For. The military hospitals commission here is looking after blinded soldiers who return to Canada, and it an- nounces that the efforts of other agencies to collect money to provide homes and special training for blinded Canadian soldiers are unau- thorized and unnecessary. Nor is it considered necessary to erect a spe cial institution for such cases. Of the four blinded Canadians who have returned home, one was train- ed at St. Dunstan's, and is now earing his living as an insurance agent in his home town, and his typewritten letters are a model. An- other lives on a farm with his friends, who are well-to-do. A third is suffering from shock blind- ness and may regain his sight. He returned from Liverpool on the Hesperian, and when thrown into the water after the ship was tor- Lpedoed he regained his sight tempo- | rarily, but has since had a relapse. He will probably recover, as there is no ascertainable organic trouble. SEER ER PPR R RPE E LEP PPR db DEMOCRATS CHOOSE WILSON AND MARSHALL. CANDIDATES. Special to the Whig. St. Louis, Mo., June 16.-- Woodrow Wilson was unani- mously endorsed by the Demo- cratic convention as presidential candidate. Thomas -- E. Mar shall was chosen as vice-presi- dental candidate, PEIPES POSE Ste PEER r Reese "BUSINESS TAX NOTICES. THOMAS R. MARSHALL "Who will be Wilson's running mate for Vice-President siac-- Are Sent Out By the Dominion Gov. ernment, Ottawa, June 16.---Notices are be- { ing sent out by the Finance Depart: fment to companies and firms in every part of Canada requiring them to 3 TO THE DISLOYAL { make. returns under the provisions of | the business tax adopted at the last Those Who Would Levy Black ...i.on of Parliament. mail Must Be Crushed, B Some 15,000 such notices are be- "| ing issued in all. which means that ap- He Says. | proximately this number compa- Washingt Pe itua nargel] nies and firms will be required to con- ashington, June 16.-- e | tribute a part of their exce fit that foreign born citizens of the Unit- | p e 83 Prof ed States are trying to levy political | made since the war. blackmail and to undermine the in-| fluence of the national government | was made by President Wilson in his] a-- speech at the Flag Day exercises. His|.166 Canadians. Enlist for Duty in assertion sounded the keynote of one/ British Waters. of the foremost issues on which he| . | Ottawa, June 16.--One hundred will go before the country for reo! and six Canadians have now enlisted "There is disloyalty active in the( ff motor boat patrol service in Brit- Uni w e ish waters. Of these 39 are from nited States, and it must be abso-| 29 from Montreal, 10 from a »" . | Toronto, lutely crushed," declared the Presi-| oiiawa and 28 from various other points. dent. "There are those at this mo- ment who Are trying to levy a species] "'myorq 21g 67 sub-lieutenants in the | list, 13 chief motor boatmen and 26 of blackmail, saying," 'Do what we| wish in the interest of foreign senti-| motor boatmen. JOIN PATROL SERVICE. - # The Germans used a million & heavy shells in the bombard- # ment of Vaux. PIPES EIIIEII IR 04, Dr. C. H, Prichard recently land- ed a 14-pound salmon at Charleston! Lake. --"" PEFPFRIL EFS PIE I 2222S FS bret ment or we will wreak our vengeance | at the polls.' That is the sort of | thing against which the American na- | Train Dispatchers to Travel tion will turn with a might and tri-| 'Toronto, Jume 16.--The Train umph of sentiment which will teach | Dispatchers' Association of America these gentlemen once forall that loy-| Is holding its annual convention this alty to this flag is the first test of| Year in Toronto. The meeting opens tolerance in the United "States." | om Tuesday next, and will bring to- -- gether operating men from all parts $ 2 C. P. R. CHANGES. | of the continent. The Mayor of Tor- | SOME ¢ P:'R. ORANG | onto will welcome the delegates and i | important address are to be made it [Made in the Passcager Department! ny U. E. ilies, Geaeqal Supt. oo Sesiial ol od ; | R., Chicago; A. J. Hills, General Special 0 the &). |Supt., C.N.R., Toronto; George Toronto, June 16. -- Several oo cer, Chief Operating Officer, WHIG CONTENTS Page --Jerman Attacks: Aid Blind 1 soldiers: Russian Drive; Ger. mans rehensive. 2--4At Police Court. 3-Country News: Audit Bur- eau of Circulations. » 1s; press Opinions; 's Rhymes: Ran- Menus; n i For. changes in the staff of the passen-| | ger department of the Canadian Pa-| Boatd of Away Commissioners .of {cific Railway at Toronto will be|C® a a; - Collins, Superintendent, made immediately. Timothy Mul-| C-P:R., London; H. T. Malcomson, |lins, who was formerly attached to! Superintendent, T.H. & B. Ry., Ham- {the city passenger department at To-| flton. On June 23rd, the delegates {ronto, and is now the eity passenger | will travel in a special train over the {agent at Ottawa, will return to To-| Grand Trunk lines from Toronto to ronto in his old capacity on Monday | Niagara Falls and return, giving the next, but his successor at Ottawa railwaymen an opportunity of in- {has not yet been named. William | specting the Garden Land of Ontario, { Mcliroy is to be made chief clerk in| with its hundreds of square miles of of ; Toronto passenger department, to rds. ; |Succeed Herbert R. Mathewson, who| fed {is being transferred to 'Montreal. |Lesperance Resigns From Parliament i . - rr | Ottawa, . June 18--On account of t Smith's Falls on 'ednesday | serious illness, 3 | Miss Mary Caroline, daughter of Mr.|M. P. for Mon {and Mrs Roy MeGillis, Shawville,| his and Francis Barnett White, son of William White, alse of BImities Falls, |a Were married, There are 140 non-commissioned of- : KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 16. 1916 WHERE THE CANADIANS "CAME BACK." OS TEENSTRAATE "B® LANGEMARCK The German official stater Ypres recov ered fifteen hundred by the Germans near Sanctuary nent admits that the British at yards of the territory taken wood on June 3rd. "AND HOW IS EX-MAYOR | Returned Ottawa Soldier Tells Story of Conversations in the Trenches. Ottawa, June 16.--Private Gordon | Bowe, who is a resident of Ottawa, | has lately returned from the trenches wounded and relates the following | story:--Last 'Xmas the German and | British trenches being close to each | other conversations were being car-| ried on between the opposing sol-| diers. One of the Germans called out: "Is| there anybody over there from Ot- tawa?" : | "Yes," came from many Canadian | throats. Back came another question, "How is ex-Mayor Morris?" | Thus it would appear that the ex-| Mayor a: whe is now an officer f the h, is already nown in the n trenches, like-| ly by Germans who at one time lived | in or near Ottawa. { meni THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR AGAIN WANTS PEACE. He Addresses the Reichstag And Puts Out Another Feeler. (Special to the Whig) Berlin, June 16.--Chanecellor Von Bethmann Hollwegg addressed the Reichstag unexpectedly during the third reading of the budget-this afternoon. The chancellor said: "Six months ago I first spoke about our readiness for peace on the basie of thé military situation. We are now stronger on all fronts than before. We will neglect nothing which might shorten the terrible suf- ferings of the European nations in the midst of this conflagration." BASEBALL ON THURSDAY. International Toronto, 7; Montreal, 6. Providence, 6; Newark, 0. Richmond at Baltimore; rain. Buffalo at Rochester; rain. National League. New York, 6; St. Louis, Brooklyn, 2; Chicago, 1. Pittsburg, 2; Boston, 1¢ Philadelphia, 2; Cincinnati, 1. le, 0 FA American League, Boston, 2; Chicago, 1. Detroit, 5; Philadelphia, 1. Cleveland, 3; New York, 2. Washington, 1; St. Louis, 0. ON TO STANISLAU To Completely Cut the 'Austrian Line of Communica WITH AL SOUTHERN POINTS | AUSTRIANS TRYING TO STIFFEN THEIR DEFENCE In Order to Prevent Their Complete Rout--Russians Continue To Ad- In Line at Latsk. - (Special to the Whig) London, June 16.--With Czerno- | witz reported captured, the Russians offeasive is now driving westward to- ward Stanislau in an effort to com- rletely cut the Austrian communica- tions between Lemberg and all of the southern points of the line. Reports from 3erlin, Petrograd aid Vienng all make patent the fact J that the Austrians, in an efforc prevent their complete rout, have stiffened their defence. This is most apparent in sectors directly east of Lemberg. The Russians continue to advance steadily in the indenta- tion they have made in the line at Lutsk. to Russians Capture 14,000 More. (Special to the Whig) { Petrograd, June 16.--The Rus- | sians, on the offensive along the Austrian front from the Kovel region to the Pruth, have taken an addi- tional 14,000 prisoners, it is official- { ly announced to-day. This brings tne | total for the offensive to 164,000, | ' TO QUIT THE CHURCH. trate Special to the Whig. Winnipeg, June 16.--"1 % would not stay in the Presby- | # terian Church nor would I let | % any member of my family stay + in it after the way the Assembly | % treated me," Rev. Dr. Grant |% told a friend here to-day. * 5 : | i THE GERMANS APPREHENSIVE OF A BIG ALLIED OFFENSIVE Statement in French Report of Wednesday is Interpreted to Mean That the Big Alicd Drive is Soon to Start---The Enemy Feel That Something Ter- fifi is Coming From the Enteate Side. (Special to the Whig.) London, June 16.--The Germans, apprehensive of a big Allied offensive on the west fr their lines there, despatches ont, are continually reinforcing from Holland agree. From Knocke, in the Belgian territory occupied by the Germans, troop-laden tram cars are goin ending procession. These a g towards the front in a never- re covered with green boughs to prevent the Allied airmen from seeing them readily. On the streets here, in th on the trains, persons discuss e clubs, in the restaurants, and with marked interest the eryp- tic sentence in the French semi-official report of Wednesday which reads: : } *'The Germans in front of Verdun are maintaining an at- titude of expectation in view of the menace of events which they feel are becoming more and more imminent." 'To most it means that the big drive is soon to start, and at the Strategic moment, when the inereasing momentum of fo have -will leave the German commanders with no POF rer beret | | Tidings From All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed Way. Sixty thousand men are to be trained at Camp Borden. Turks claim to have ghined suc- cess against the British in Mesopo- tamia, The trainmen's unions in the Un- ited States will proceed to vote on the question of a strike. Rev. Francis E. Clark, president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, continues very ill. "Many Toronto men fell when the Canadian troops recaptured the Zillebeke position in Flanders. Duncan McLaren, jun., a farmer of Hibert township, was run over and terribly mutilated by trains at Dub- lin station. William J. Bragg, Darlington far- mer and apple exporter, received the unanimous Liberal nomination for West Durham. ; A majority of members. of the To- ronto Council are opposed to the ap- pointment of George H. Kilmer as corporation counsel. The resignation of D. O. Lesper- ance, of Montmagny, owing to ill- health, makes the fourteenth vacancy in the House of Commons, The Canadian Bar Association at its annual meeting discussed the question of making uniform Can- adian laws and legislation . The Ontario Government will es- tablish a hospital at Cobourg for treatment of soldiers suffering from shock and 'mental diseases. On Tuesday evening the death took place at Eganville of John Dowdall, father of Rev. P. 8. Dowdall, rector of the Pembroke cathedral, in his eighty-ninth year. The Presbyterian General Assem- bly appointed a committee to take steps towards consummating organic union with the Methodist and Con- gregational Churches, The United States, Great Britain and France must co-operate to main- tain world peace, in the opinion of Hon. J. M. Beck, of New York, who addressed the Canadian Bar Associa- tion. The British army has started to grow its own potatoes. Instrue- tions have been sent or are being sent from the War Office to every command, indicating the lines which should be followed. A 'pretty wedding was solemnized at Smith's Falls on Tuesday, when Mary Evelyn, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. C. McMillan, became the wife of E. Howard Bennett, manager of the grocery department of the A, B |. vance Steadily in Indentation Made | Scott Co. "A quiet wedding: took place J 12th at Smith's Falls, that of Food B. Couch, Montague, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Couch, Drummond, to Miss Joan Beadie, Perth, formerly of Dundee, Scotland. Rev. D. T. Cum- mings officiated The engagement is announced of Kathrine Mary, second daughter of the late Patrick Faughnan, Smith's Falls, to J. A.LaBarge, Smith's Falls, formerly of Tweed. The marriage will take place the third week in une. KITCHENER NOT SEEN TO ENTER LIFEBOAT. When Last Observed He Was On Quarter Deck With Officers. London, June 16.--Details of some of the incidents on board the British cruiser Hampshire just before she sank off the Orkneys last week caus- ing the death of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, are given in an' official statement issued last night based on statements by the dozen survivors of the cruiser who were washed ashore on a raft. ' "From the report of the twelve sur- vivors of 'the Hampshire," says the statement, 'the following conclusions were reached: '""As the men were going to their stations before abandoning the ship Lord Kitchener, accompanied by a naval officer, appeared. The latter said: 'Make way for Lord Kitchen- er.' Both ascended to the gquarter- deck. Subsequently four military officers were seen there, walking aft on the port side. "The captain called Lord Kitchen- er to the forebridge near where the captain's boat was hoisted. The captain also called Lord Kitchener to enter the boat. It is unknown if Lord Kitchener entered it or what happened to any boat." PRESBYTERIAN PROPERTY Belongs To the Doetrine And Not to the People. (Special to the Whig) Toronto, June 16.--That the pro- perty of the Presbyterian Church be- longs to the doctrine and not to any particular body of people, was the principle laid down by 'the House of Lords in 1904. This decision is the one upon which the anti-unionists in Canada will base their claims to} the funds and properties of the church, according to legal opinion here. All Eyes on Roosevelt. New York, June 16.--Theodore Roosevelt is again in the centre of the stage. His indisposition and the extraordinary interest fit has evoked, as evidenced by telegrams from every part of the country, has again focussed public attention upon the Progressive leader, almost to the exclusion of the two avowed candi- dates for president. Canada in Moving Pictures. Ottiwa, June 16.--The Dominion Government is going into the movi pleture busineds. It is not doing so Thiy-Seven Added Names: Rings The To- ~ nl to 395. NEN OF THE FRST DIVSION SEEM TO HAVE MADE THE BIG COUNTER-ATTACK, Which Resulted in the Recapture of 1,500 Yards of Trenches--The Canadians Still Hold This Ground. (Special to the Whig) Ottawa, June 16.--Canadian offi- cers' casualties now total 395. To- day's list added thirty-seven. To- day's casualties comprise four killed, one wounded, and believed 5 and thirty wounded. The great ma- ority are men of the first division, which, under Major-General Turner, appears to have made the attack on Thursday last, which recaptured the 1,600 yards of trenches and still hold them. The west and Ontario are the chief losers to-day. ie Toronto has ten wounded and On- tario two. The Western Highland- ers have lost three men killed, Capt. C. R. F. Cotton, Lieut. R. T. 8. Sache, and Lieut. H. J. McLaurin. Three Winnipegers, Lieut.-Col. H. H. Mat- thews, Lieut. E. F. Cookes and Lieut. T. G. Rutherford, are wounded. Lieut, Coke is a Jamaican by birth, a graduate of the Guelph Agricultu- ral College, and a former employee of the commercial staff of the Winni- peg Free Press. TO INTERPOLATE French Government on sive Preparations at Vi (Special to the Whig) Paris, June 16.--The French Chamber of Deputies went into secret session this afternoon to interpolate the government on the defensive pre- parations made by France prior to the Attack at Verdun. Offen- > A MORE EQUITABLE + RECRUITING PLAN. + or . Special to the Whig.) es une 16. --Premier 3 : # scheme for a more equitable re- # cruiting plan in response to the ¥ # demand for national registra- # + tion, + * * hhh RR RRR EPO PPP POPP Oanadian Casualties, Killed--E. E. Belch, Belleville. Wounded--Lieut. F. C. Hicking, Lieut. J. C. Allen, Brockville; T. Me- Aran, Cornwall; Hugh Ritchie, Cob- den Seriously ill--G. E. Wood, Brock- ville. = Missing--W. Desilest, Trenton. Refused to Hear It. (Special to the Whig) Winnipeg, June 16.--Justice Hag- gart this morning refused to hear an application of Contractor Kelly, now in jail, for bail. DAILY MEMORANDUM See top page 3, right hand corner, tor probabilities. Baseball Saturday, Queen's Campus, Queen's vs. CL.C. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depot ..295 Kis Clarke, J. W. & CoO. ..u: Soliske Bo k Store wen odl oulter's Grocery ........ Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Privicess & 4 Frontenac Hotel ... +s» JORLAr Gibson's Drug Store .. Miaviers Booy Store, . od all's Cigar Store, Cor. cleod's Grocery ....51 Mediey's Drug Store, 250 Paul's Cigar St sess Prouse's Drug 8 Southcott's Grocery ..... Valleau's Grocery ........ A ------ a ---------------- BORN BYRON--n Hotel Dien, on Monday, June 12th, 1916, to Mr. and Mrs. James. W. Byren, a daughter, Helen Mary. ATKINS--In Kingston, on June 16th, 1916, Mrs. W. H. L. Atkins, in her fifty-eighth year. Funeral (private) from her late resi- idence, 4 Victoria Terrace, Mont- real street, at 4 p.m. Satu y. TO EN n Syracuse, N.Y, 0ichael n. Funeral from J. MdAuley's undertake ing parlors, Saturday morning to St. Mary's Cathedral, where a sol- teow WS wemn requiem mass will for the repose of his soul , Qclock, ROBERT J REID Phone 577, 250 Princess Strest.

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