Daily British Whig (1850), 20 Jun 1916, p. 1

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12 PAGES COMPANY OF 4 i To Be Submitted to Vote of the People| on July 170, KINGSTON WOULD PROFIT GREATLY BY THE SUCCESS OF SUCH A BUSINESS, Concessions Asked By Company Are Small, and In the Event of Failure To Proceed a Guarantee Bond Will Cover the City's Expenditures, On the 17th of July the ratepayers will vote upon a by-law to grant cer- tain concessions to the Canadian Na- tional Features Limited, for the es- tablishment of its moving picture plant at the fair grounds The com- pany, as announced in the Whig of Monday, Is a new concern, with a paid up capital of $250,000, and pro- poses to establish the first moving picture making plant in Canada. The pleture business is one of the most paying, princely fortunes having been made in-the United States and other countries, and the Canadian company, headed by J. Shea, the well-known Toronto theatrical man, and D. W. Brownridge, also of Toronto, who has been In the business for sixteen years, expects to reap a harvest also. Kings- ton is chosen because of its excellent location. The company wants to lo- cate here In preference to starting in other places which have offered it concessions. Ald, Fair, chairman of the com- mittee on industries, who has handled the matter since he knew of its possi- bilities, said his committee was con- vinced that it was dealing with a company composed of men of experi- ence and thoroughly reliable, and that the proposition was one that would prove of great advantage to Kingston. The discussion on the proposed agreement lasted for three hours and a half, and it was 1.40 a.m. before the Council adjourned after deciding to put the by-law to the people, as the concessions, although small, are in the nature of a bonus, and require to be ratified by the ratepayers' vote. Company's Proposals. The company proposes that the city shall rent to it the fair grounds for a period of five years at $100 a year, the corporation reserving cer- tain portions; that the city shall re- pair the palace building and heat it, at an amount not to exceed $2,000; furnish free of charge light and wa- ter and also fire protection; that within two weeks after the palace is repaired the company will produce merchantable moving pictures, em- ploy at least 40 persons, expend. at least $80,000 a year in wages in the city, and expend at least $15,000 in providing plant and equipment; con- tinue the production of moving pic- tures and. operate at least nine months in each year, and deppsit $300 with the City Treasurer to éov- er the cost of the by-law. D. W. Brownridge, vice-president of the company, stated that his con- cern was ready to start business at once, and regretted the delay of three weeks necessary to submit the by- law to the people. Two other towns sought the industry, and were ready to close a deal without consulting their ratepayers. © The picture busi- ness was one of the best paying in the world, There were 1,000 companies in the United States, and not one ye: operating in Canada. The Nationa Features Limited 'was Canada's first company, and Kingston had an op- portunity of securing its manufactur- ing plant. Ald. Wright asked how Kingston was such a desirable location for such a plant, Mr. Brownridge replied that Kings- ton was peculiarly adapted to picture work owing to its excellent surround- ings, its harbor, rivers, institutions, and labor market, Ald, Couper wanted to know about the granting of the grounds to the Kingston Industrial Fair Association for three days néxt September. Would the fair be interfered with by leasing the grounds to the picture company? He objected to aiding in railroading the proposition through before the fair association directors were heard. A Paying Business, 'Ald. Hughes remarked that the picture industry promised to be a big thing for Kingston when it proposed to expend $80,000 a year in wages. Therefore, the council should enter- tain the proposition in a serious way. Ald. Polson told of the great bene- fits of the picture business to Cali- fornia cities, which would do any- thing to get a picture company to lo- cate. Hende gston should con- sider well the advantages that would result to it if this new company was to locate here. . Ald. Nickle raised objection to the A ANNAN NNN at --- _ WHIG'S CONTENTS Page d--Moving Picture Offier; Cana. dians' Brillant Work; Aus- drians Entangled; U. 8 War with Mexico. 2-Corp. K. McKinnon Wedded; Bishop Mills home again 3--News from the Countrys'de 4--~Bditorials: press Opinions; ; Walt Mason's Rhymes. Ran- nce Workers Ga- ther; Born in "Pen" Lodge n Ontario Ni ews. Pome ts; Anouncements; The $M Matters: Theatrical 9---Bar 'War Camp; Couns trysde News. 3 10--City Council meeting; Menus. ¥1--<The {latest Fashions Illus- 'PACES1-8 § KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1016 LAST EDITION apathy with which some aldermen treated the matter by leaving the horseshoe and gossiping in corners. He was trying to help make an agreement so that the city would be fully protected. Ald, Hughes held that Ald. Nickle had no right to call down aldermen for leaving their seats. He claimed a right to leave his if he wished. There was a good deal of tart talk over the concessions proposed, the aldermen, while recognizing the value of the picture business, being keen to protect-the city should the) company, through unforeseen circum- | stances, cease operations. It was fin- | ally decided that the city would offer | the company light and water to the | value of $400 a year for each acting | company it employed; that the com-| pany should indemnify the city to the | extent of $3,000 in the bond of a guarantee insurance company against | loss should operations not be continu- | ed after improvements had been made to the fair grounds, and that the Kingston Industrial Fair Associa- | tion should have the use of the grounds and part of the palace build- ing during the four days of its exhi-| bition in September, KING'S SECOND SON i ENGAGED IN BATTLE. Prince Albert Was on His Ship as Sub-Lieutenant in North | Sea Fight. { "~ London, June 20.--The London | Daily Mail says: "We understand | that Prince Albert, the King's second | son, took part as sub-Lieutenant in | his ship in the recent naval battle | off Jutland. The Prince is twenty years old. He joined the Royal in Buowna by Te Lgning Dive of | with six hundred guns, AUSTRIAN FORCES BADLY ENTANGLED a LAGE PRT OF THE ENE WILL LIKELY BE CUT OFF AND SURROUNDED. More Than Half the Austrian Forces In Czernowitz Region Out of Ace tion--Russian Offensive Only Be. ginning. (Special to the Whig) Petrograd, June 20---Nearly one hundred thousand Austrian troops, retreating from the region of Czernowitz, have been entangled in Bukowina by the lightning drive of the Russian left wing. The Russians are still press. iug the pursuit with the utmost vigs- or A large part of the Austrian forces in all probability will be cut off and surrounded. The othe:s face the alternative of retreating through the Carpathian passes, aban- doning their guns, or crossing into Roumania. Gen. Pflanzer, commanding the Austrians around Czernowitz, is re- treating southward in the direction of the Sereth river with his beaten How many Austrians es-| Navy as midshipman in 1915, and he | forces. striar has proved a keen sailor. In Sep-|C3pcd westward in the direction of tember, 1914, he underwent an oper- | Kuty, planning later to join Both- | ation for appendicitis, and his slow | lleYer's army, is not yet known. | recovery caused him great disap- | re Loses | pointment, for he was most anxious The Austrian 208588, | to resume his naval duties, He re-| The latest reports indicated that] from half to two-thirds of the Austri-| cently rejoined his ship, and on May | J | 16 he was promoted from acting-sub- | ans facing the Russians when the of-| Lieutenant to sub-Lieutenant." | fensive began were killed, wounded, | ------------ {or made prisoners early in the fight- | | ing. The others were so badly dis-| organized that the Russians pushed | | forward with the greatest rapidity. | | The military experts here, though | not attempting to minimize the im-| | portance of the present Russian oper-| |ations, advise the public to restrain | {its enthusiasm for bigger events ex- | pected very soon. Gen. Brusiloff says the Russian of-| fensive is only beginning. Austrian | losses in Galicia are 175,000 and | prisoners total 175,000. VERDUN HAS COST HUNS 415,000 MEN. London, June 19.--German losses in the battle of Verdun were placed to-day at 415,000 by a source that has been in touch with the struggle since it started 119 days ago. The es- timate Is based on statements of prisoners taken, and on captur- ed documents. @EPEIR Eb bg The LRT ER A Sixteen . Miles in Three Days. The armies under General Brusiloff in Volhynia and Galicia are driving toward a common centre, the forces| in Bukowina pressing toward the | north-west, and those in Volhynia| driving toward the south-west. The| Volhynia force has advanced sixteen | miles in the past three days, driving | {the Austro-Hungarians and Germans | before them. { | Gen. Lechnitsky's: army, which] | captured Czernowitz by storm, has] | THE GERMANS RETURN TO ATTACK OF VERDUN. But Their Onslaughts Were Checked By the French Screen Fire. (Special to the Whig) HYPHENATES BEHIND HUGHES: How the New York World views the nomination of Jusk tice Hughes by the Republican Convention. THREATENS GEN. CARRANZA WITH "GRAVEST CONSEQUENCES" RAO | If He Attacks United States Troops in , Mexico Washington: Government Sends Long 1-The : of Sport. Paris, June 20.--The Germans re- turned to the attack at Verdun last night with three attacks against French positions en Hill 321, 'east of the Meuse. The War Office an- nounced to-day that the enemy on- slaughts were checked by screen fire from French machine guns. On the west bank of the Meuse the Germans bombarded French positions around Chattancourt and westward violently. | WAR BULLETINS. Turkish and Rusian warships had a battle in the Black Sea off Roumania. The British had twenty-seven combats Sunday, bringing down six enemy machines and damag- ing two. A British armoured car de- tachment has arrived on tne Russian front. SEPP Err rrr FE Ie +e MAA LET ER EAR LET RY | | WILL COMPEL RETREAT Austrian Centre in Tarnopol Region is Menaced London, June 20.--A Reuter des- patch from Petrograd says: The net strategical result of the fortnight's fighting is that the Rus- sians hold practically a straight line between Lutsk, Buczacz and Czerno- witz. The military critics point out that the capture of Radziviloff, and the driving of the enemy forces to Brody and, in all likelihood, further in the direction of Lemberg, will al- most inevitably compel the with- drawal of the Austrian centre from The Russians advancing across the | Volhynian-Galician frontier are, ac- cording to the latest dispatches, less than sixty miles from Lemberg. The fact that Russian cavalry has been able to occupy Radziviloff shows Aus- trian recognition of the futility of endeavoring seriously to oppose the Russian passage of the frontier. TEUTONS MAY RESUME Their Ruthless Submarine Warfare, "a Berlin Despatch Indicates. London, June 20.--That Germany contemplates a renewal of her ruth- less submarine warfare against mer- chant shipping is indicated by the fol- lowing exchange telegraph despatch from Berlin: "Admiral von Laoester, of the Ger- man navy, in a speech declared that when President Wilson allowed Ger- many"s enemies to be provided with munitions, Germany was entitled to Carry on submarine activities in the vay; however, politjcal and commercial circumstances have forced Germany to abandon reckless submarining for the present." {4% Germans, the Tarnopol region. | driven the Austro-Hungarian 'forees| back five miles in two days. At many places on the Galician] front the Austro-Hungarians have lost their first, sécond and third lines | of defence, and must fa] clean back | to the foothills of the Carpathians, | unles the Russians slacken their own progress on account of the dangerous lengthening of their lines of commu- nication. Hard fighting is in progress be- tween the Russians and the Austro- German army of Gen. Von Linsengen, which is defending the Teutonic base at Kovel, (Special to the Whig) Washington, June 20.--The Am-! erican Government to-day threatened General Carranza with 'the gravest consequences' if he attacks. Ameri can troops now in Mexiéo. This | threat was contained in a long note | replying to his last withdrawal de mand. Full of short-arm diplomatic | jabs, the note positively declines to [ take American forces out of Mexico | It exorcigtes Carranza for his failure y | to co-operate and resents his brus A large War Tidings. Austrians] queness and his intimations of bad Czernowitz army has been isolated by; Bly. the fote told: Carranza thé Russians, and is expected to SUr-| 4hat this Government cannot re Fender. y cede from its settled determination Perudier-Guueral to maintain its national rights," and : 'to prevent further raids across the killed in action. a gr : r the German losses in the. battle ot | boumasy The high lights of th y o 6 © Yerdun are now placed at 415,000 by Resentment of " Carranza's dis Passengers arriving 'at New York, courteous tone and temper in from Paris say that General Gallien, | last note. bandits hav the "saviour of Paris," was murder-| Charges that bandits have ed by a traitor. { unhampered and unpunished in Eighty thousand Austrians are | !acking Americans, cornered by the Russians near Czer-| Recitation of scores of nowitz, and their capture is immi-| Of banditry. nent. Charges .that Carranza's regime has been indifferent to atrocities and even encouraged and aided some of | them, Charges that Carranza failed to as- sist in apprehending Villa and oth ers. | Prepared for Hostilities, + | Upon General Carranza's reception * | of this stern refusal to heed his de- Earl Longford, | missing, was] 18 gone at instances tee GERMANS BAYONET : WOUNDED CANADIANS, Special to the wig. Ottawa, June 20. -- Aifor- + General Sir Sam Hughes has re- 3 Seived a letter saying hat 3 mands for-recall of American troops # office . b ang ane me a +! from Mexico hinges the question of a ers were bayoneted by the #| ypoxican war, in the opinion of Pre- | sident Wilson's close advisers. They | are prepared for the possibility of | open hostilities, after the noge which *2¥e tre te pms BASEBALL MONDAY. Int League. Rochester, 5; Baltimore, 3. 'Richmond, 13; Buffalo, 7. Other games postponed; rain. LARGELY RESPONSIBLE "FOR PRESENT WAR. | Count Von Moltke Swayed the Kaiser to Sign Mobiliza- St. Louis, 3; Cincinnati, 1. { tion Order. Other games postponed; rain. | i { London, June 20. --F. | writing in the Daily Mail, of Count {| Von Moltke, who died Sunday, says: | "I can testify to the literal accu- | racy of a piéce of history not gener- ally known which identifies von Molt- | ke with a clique which compelled the | Kaiser to abandon his remaining, | doubts as to the immediate wisdom | of war. "On the afternoon of . National e. Philadelphia, 3; Brooklyn, 2. WwW. Wile, | American League. New York, 7; Cleveland, 6. Other games postponed; rain. : TRAIN HIT TROLLEY; 2 KILLED, 9 INJURED. (Special to the Whig.) Port Colborne, June 20. Two killed and nine injured when 2 G. T. R. train hit a Nia- gara, St. Catharines and Toron- # to trolley last night. Saturday, lin. She was in a state of irrepres-| sible excitement. : 1 '"*Ach, what a day [I've been) said to my informant.' came home just before] sss tt tes SEP ebe40t And Threatening Note to Mexican President:And Refuses to Remove + HORWOOD HEARD IN HELLY TR Sas Rly Acased fo, G. R. Caw of Dut Cossg in ELLY TO CROSS EXAMINE | | | THE WITNESS AS HE ! LAWYER YET. | He is Not in the Prisoner's Box, But Sits at a Table Near the Array of Crown Lawyers. (Special to thea Whig.) } Winnipeg, June 20.--Victor Hor- | wood went on the stand to-day as the | first witness in the Kelly trial. Form- | er chief architect for the province | told his story clearly, mainly along | lines related before the Mathers com- mission. Kelly has no lawyer yet, and will cross-examine Horwood him- self,' He is not in the prisoner's box, | but sits at a table near the array of crown lawyers, | Horwood first went over the de- tails of the initial stages of plans { and tenders for the parliament build- | | ings. He stated that at one time! Kelly had accueed Hon, G. R, Cald- well, Acting Minister of Public Works, of having '"double-crossed" him. PLANNED TO DESTROY THE GERMAN NAVY. Lincoln, Accused of Treason, Claims He Betrayed Ger- many, Not England. HAS NO | i | | ' { | | | London, June 20 Ignatius Lin- coln, accused of treason at his trial yesterday, addressed the court for two hours Toward the close of his speech he said "I was driven on by ambition, lured by the deceptive prizes of life. Hav- ing lost nearly all my money, 1 did forge those documents." He added that while he was in the employ of the British Government he devised a schéme to destroy the Ger- man navy, but that Great Britain de. clined to adopt his plan because it fwould involve disclosure of - the whereabouts of the British navy. Describing the manner in which, he said, he obtained valuable infor- mation about the German system of espionage, which he placed at the dis- posal of the British Government, Lin- coln sai it was "a devilish lie" to accuse him of treason. On the con- { trary, he had <betrayed Germany. He | concluded his address with an expres- {sion of the hope of mercy. The magistrate remarked that he {had only two legal points to decide, and was against leniency on both of {them, , Accordingly, he committed {him to await the action of the high . Its Forces , From - Mexico. | will be sent forward to-day reached Carranza's hands. | No indication has come that the| 'first--chief's-attitude-of implacable | hostility would: be shaken by the | reiterated declaration of the latest] communication that the United | States has no aggressive or warlike | purposes toward Mexico, but is firm- | ly resolved to protect her borders and | end brigandage in the border states. has | Mexicans Called to Arms, From Juarez to the west coast of | Mexico posters have appeared calling the people to arms and asserting that | the United States is preparing to hurl ils armies into Mexico. Chaotic cons ditions prevail everywhere, it is said. The act of a subordinate commander | {er court at the mext session. |THE WORLD'S NEWS IN BRIEF FORM. Tidings From All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed Way. At Berlin, Ont., Herbert J. Bow- man, for the past twenty years county clerk and treasurer, passed away after a short illness, aged fifty- seven, Frank Hamilton, rancher, was shot Saturday at his ranch near Hew- itt's Ferry, on the North Saskatche- wan River, and Edward Burton, a neighbor, is now charged with murd- er. Lieut.-Col, F. A. Creighton, C.EF, Bucknell"s News D Clarke, & Sollege 30 oulter's Grocery Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prisices Frontenac Hotel ... Gibson's Drug Store McAuley's Book Sto MoGal McLeod's Grocery saned Medley's tore, Paul' Prouse's Sout: Valleal's Grocery ... Armaan | NOFth of Pripet Marshes Were Re- [1 left, almost the first I've seen of | August 1st, 1914, the general's wife + paid a visit to a certain home in Ber- .% anywhere may bring on righting that | has died of wounds received 15a. will result in war. > Hon, stcording to a private message So far as officials here are aware, | to his wife in Winnipeg He waa city General Carranza is taking no strong engineer at Prince Albert, Sask., be- measures to curb his soldiers and | fore the war. people. Upon this fact many of them | founded their belief .that he is de termined to force matters to an issue | Ls ¥ 8 Muni- unless the American troops are with- | Results in German Shortage of drawn | tions and Food. Inereasing uneasiness i (Special tothe Whig) plight of a 5 fifi tions ae Petrograd, June 20 fi seems ians nc v in Moxie va nif yd i that large stores for the Germans as ew Cr ico.xas man ested] well as the Austrians were concen- | trated near Czernowitz, and to-day in official quarters. Approxi- mately 1,200 of that number are in | have fallen into Russian hands, gether with railways controlling lines THE RUSSIAN coup Mexico City. War Department Flunks, . (Special tn the Whig.) Washington, June 20.--Fear that| it would be 'construed as an act of heads. At least one hundred thou- | sand Germans will be short of muni- | tions and food as the result of the] x Russian coup. Russian armies are| war, the War Department has decid- | stil] working around to gather in the | ed to withdraw its request Lo Con-|fleaing Czernowitz garrison of near-| gress for the passage of a resolution | ly eighty thousand Austrians. authorizing the President to use the | ° : National Guard in Mexico, until lat- | er | STRONG RUSSIAN ATTACKS pulsed, Says Berlin. : i (Special to the Whig): him in three days and nights He| Berlin, June 20.--Repulse of threw himself on to a couch, a com- | strong Russian attacks south-east of plete physical wreck, and said he had | Logishin,north of the Pripet marshes, finally accomplished the hardest task | was claimed by the War Office this of his life. He hed helped to induce | afternoon. The Slavs suffered the Kaiser to sign the mobilization | heavy losses. Other Russian attacks order.' " along the River Styr afid near Kolki were unsuccessful. ERPPPPE SEPP PPP Ib SPP IP RR ------------ > No Statement To Make. Special to the Whig) London' June 20.---Premier As- # | quith told the House of Commons to- (Special to the Whig.) #! day that he had no statement to * + WILSON WANTS + DREADNOUGHTS. + SPENCER lof communications to German rail- | F BRILLIANT WORK CAPTAN CHARLES COTTON ALTHOUGH BADLY WOUNDED KEPT SERVING HIS GUN At Point-Blank Range Till Shot Blew It to Pieces--QCapt. Cotton Was Killed--| Formerly Lived in Kings- ton. . London, June- 20.--Though out classed for the time by the sudden ™ concentration by the Huns of heavier guns, the Canadian artillery did her- oic work in the third battle of Ypres. When the first German daylight at- tack was launched, the Canadians liad several eighteen pounders hidden and doing effective work despite the enfiladed position they occupied. It was not long before the stumps were blazing like a fierce forest fire. Nine guns and crews stuck it to the last, firing a short range at the Huns flooding down their gommuuication trenches. Gradually the guns were unmasked under the weight of Ger- man shells, The Germans concantrat- ed on them until not a single gun was left in action. The limbers were burned up and there was no possiole way of dragging the remnants back safely and they were reluctantly abandoned. When the counter- at- tack recovered the ground five days ago the charred wheels and flame battered and shell battered {breeches and muzzles were recovered and will be returned to Canada as souvenirs. Capt. Cotton's Brave Deeds. In the counter attack, Captain Charles Cotton, a son of the late Gen. Cotton, and picked crews of three guns smuggled them out with- in three hundred yards of the en~ emy parapet and blew open a way for the Canadian infantry. Each man knew only a miracle would save him. One by one they dropped away woundéd or killed until Cotton him- self, badly wounded, was the only one left feeding a single gun. Effec- tively he fired shrapnel at close range at the Huns who attempted to stem our attack. Weakening from loss of blood, he happened to see a wireless operator whose aerial been shot away. He showed him how to fix the time fuses and the two of them worked the gun until an un- lucky hit blew it to smithereens, The operator had a marvelous escape, but Cotton was never seen again, though with the dawn, volunteers searched the place for his body. Captain Cotton formerly resided in Kingston when his father was with the R.C.A, DAILY MEMORANDUM See top page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: J. W. Co. Book Store "iar r. Prin. Union St. W. 2350 University 76 Prince: I's Cigar Store, r. Dru Cigar Store rug Store tt's Grocery REBVES-June 19th, to Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Reeves, 83 Lower Alfred St, a son - Kingston General Hos. pital, on June 19th, 1916, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. L. Spencer, a daugh- ter A In DIED AIKBEN---In Kingston on Monday, June TOR, 1978, John "ATKen, the eldest 1 of Patrick Adken. will leave his brother's resi- . Patrick street on Wed- morning at § o'clock for Cathedrdl, where a sol- mass will IN MEMORIAM memory of our dear mo- r. Alice: V. Taylor Edwards, who ssed away Sunday, June 20th, 1816. "How we miss her." -Taylor, Borden and Donakd In loving Samuel Macs of Alice V. Tay- loving memory lor Edwards, who passed away Sunday, 20th, 1815 but not forgotten." Father and Mother, --Brothers and Sisters. June "Gone, Washington, June 20.--Pre- # make relative to the vacancy in the + sident Wilson to-day urged the # | war ministry caused by Lord Kiteh- # members of the Senate naval +|ener's death. % affairs committee to specify at + % least one and if possible two dreadnoughts in the navy bill. 3 Mrs. J. ¥. McGuire leaving Brock- ville for Westport was pr ted by the Barbara Heck Bible Class of Wall Street Methodist Chureh, with a handsome electric reading lamp, and a casserole, Her husband was recently appointed Inspector of Pub- lic Schools for Leeds district, King Victor Emmanuel has signed a decree for the expenditure of an ad- ditidnal 80,000,000 for War purposes, pay of great FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS Keep always with you the com et

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