ma ON RAS Titman PACES{-8 LAST BDITION BA CK S PRESSING ON IN SOMME REGION Capture Six More Villges--Germans Captur: ed Number 12,300--Enemy Munitions. | Reported Scarce--Heavy Fight ing Along Line. (Special to the Whig.) London, July 4.--The Allies con- Six tinue to make more Mins. more villages have been captured, and the prisoners number 12,300 with many guns. The French are only three miles from Peronne. Some reports state that the Germans' wmunitions are scarce: - line. Seven batteries of heavy ar- tillery and many field guns were captured from the Germans. Chapitre Wood and the village of Feullieres were captured by French | last night in a direct assault. The surrender of the remnant of | the German garrison in La Boiss- elle was officially announced yes- terday afternoon. Allies Pushing On. London, July 4.--Under a blazing sun, the Allied armies are ushing on across the rolling farm lands of the Somme region in what is rapid- ly developing into the greatest bat- tle in the history of the world, The fighting not only is growing more intense with the arrival of the German reserves, but threatens to spread along the whole of the 110 mile front from the Somme to British artillery has been pound- ing the German line in Flanders with the most intense fire for three days, says a Rotterdam despatch The sound of ships' guns has been 3 the woast ur British: monitors have joined in the mighty sym- Thony of artillery, whose rumble may even be heard across the chan- nel in London. Germans Disorganized. The official statement indicated that of about 39,000 German troops defending the sector of the front rear Peronne, nearly 31,000, form- ing thirty-one battalions, suffered terrible losses and were badly dis- organized. The French alone have now ad- vanced their positions on a front of ten miles, extending from the out- skirts of Hardecourt, north of the Somme to a point South of Estrees village. French eritics, while entering no bigh hoves of an immediate piercing of the German front, point out that the Allied gains have been made on a much larger front than marked Ther is heavy fighting along the | the beginning of the Crown Prince's attack on Verdun. Particular success has attended the dead-set at the German observa- on balloons, thus depriving the emy of sorie of their eyes at crit- | ical periods. | The open and only slightly undu- | lating country of Picardy, on the [Somme and Ancre rivers, where the | {latest fiercest fighting has been, | {gives a far better field for heavy | ®uns and superior forces than Y. and Loos. | Paris messages say that the Allied | action in the north seals the defeat | | { | pres | | { of the Crown Prince in the east. Progress Must Be Slow, London, July 4.--Public spirit | { here has been transformed to a feel- | ing of genera] relief and satisfaction | that the advidnce has begun. Every | competent critic emphasizes the fact | ! that the public must be prepored for severe fighting and slow progress. The popular idea that we can smash | through the whole German | with a single blow is wrong. { News of the Anglo-French offen- | sive came in slowly yesterday, but f while people were anxious for in- { formation they showed no disap- | pointment at the delay. The au- | thorities and the press gave warn- |ing that patience would be | sary as the advance miust be slow, {owing to the nature of the fortifi- | eations erected by the Germans in | the twenty months they have been lin possession . of the territory at- tacked. Places such as 'Montau- | ban, Fricourt, LaBoiselle, Serre and | Mametsz, which the ~ took, {bristled with machine guns. There {are many other similar poxitions which must be overwhelmed if the French and British Infantrymen are to be continued to push forward. Col. Repington's Comment, Col. Repington, the military erit- {1c of the Times, who is now in Par- is, writes under Yesterday's date. "The British were ready to begin ; long ago. The date selected for the first infantry attack was fixed by General Joffre, who had to take all these circumstances into account. "The co-operation of the British and Ffench was perfect, while the Belgiahs in the north played a use- fui part by taking over more of the ne and hammering the Germans | wth their guns during the prelimin- { ary hombardment." | Col. Repington warns his readers | that manv setbacks may be expected ' before the end is attained. BRITISH IMPROVE. POSITIONS NORTH OF THE SOMME RIVE (Special to the Whig) Paris, July 4.--Neither the French nor the Germans mace any infantry attacks along the Freach front north and south of the Somme last night, "the War Office announced this after- noon. North and south of the Somme the night was calm, it was officially stated. There was no in « fantry attacks. It has been estadlisned that the booty captured by the French in re- cent fighting is of the greatest im- portance, including three new Ger- man batteries. On the Verdun fron: attacks were repulsed. Of the three German batteries cap- tured by the French, two are of heavy calibre. a ' The War Office eommented to-day on of the French ar in the offensive move- six German Page. I--dllies Press on: Tremendous British 'Advance: Russians' Drive; Guards on Border. A Unique Flower Service; ueen's mmer School; neh Canadian Picnic. Allles Smash Foe: Napanee alton 7 1s; Pi Opinion a" orials; Tess 8: Wait Mason's Rhymes; Ran- dom Reels. §--Three Prisoners Escape; e ueen's Men on Staff. tern Ontario News; I. O. F. Gravés Decorated, 7--Amusdments: Announcements The Forum. . $-dldeut. 'W. Nickle Wounded; Ofilitary Matters: Theatrical, War Camp News. a Ad oxane; Raspberry Recipes. 11--Country * News: Financial 0. captive balloon was fired upon and destroyed by flyers last night. tween the Aver and the Aisne French reconnaissances penetrated the first line German trenches and communi- cating trenches, said the official state- ment. Some prisoners were taken. Germans Take Part of La Boiselle. (Special to the Whig.) London, July 4--German troops, strongly reinforced, captured a small portion of the village of La Boiselle, east of Albert, in heavy fighting. This was officially announced to-day. British Improve Positions. (Special tn the Whig.) London, July 4.--Although the Frengh War Office announced to-day that the night passed wrth no impor- tant fighting on the rrench front, de- spatches from British headquarters improve their positions north of the Somme. |WINES NOT BARRED ~ ' BY RUSSIAN BILL. [Those Not Containing More "Than 12 Per Cent. of Alco~ | hol Pérmissible. Petrograd, July 4.--The prohibi- tion bill passed by the Duma, which, | on first analysis, was generally inter-| preted as embracing all kinds of al-! | coholic' drinks, has now been found | {to contain an unpublished clause| {which makes an exception of wines not containing more than 12 per] cent. of alcohol. The hill as origi-| jnally published would have meant | '|| ruin for the immense vineyard inter- } jests of south Russia, the Crimea and! 5. 13--The World of Sport, {the Caucasus. The exgep wine {will be permitted in wine- ucing | districts, except where local option) {declares otherwise, INTENSE BATTLE _ RAGING Be-| reported that the British continued to SCENE OF ALLIED OFFENSIVE. BIRRELL 18 BLAMED FOR IRISH REVOLT. Baron Wimborne, the Constab- ulary and Dublin Police are Exonerated. London, July 4.--The findings of the Royal Commission which investi- | gated the recent rebellion in Ireland, {made public to-day, sharply attacks | previous administrations in Ireland. | The main cause of the Dublin out- | break, the Commission holds, was [the fact that lawlessness was, allow- ed to grow in Ireland without being | checked. | For several years past the admin- | istration authorities in Ireland, the {Commission finds, thought it was a | safer policy to permit violations of the law in order to avoid collision | with any faction. | The Commission «olds Augustine Birrell, former Chief Secretary for | Ireland, who resigned following the outbreaks, to be primarily responsible for the uprisings because of lax en- forcement of the laws. | The Commission says that the re- sponsibility for the outbreak does (not rest with Baron Wimborne, the| Anglo-French losses were "extra- Lord Lieutenant, since resigned, who ordinarily heavy." According to un- | is- declared to have been in no way| official British reports, however, the {answerable for the policy of the Gov-| British casualties were less than had | ernment, been expected. | ------ All reports emphasize the tremend- TROOPS 10 STAY nature of the British offensive. | TH gunners worked so incessantly as On Guard Duty For An Indefinite Length almost to fall asleep at their guns, of Time. T0 PATROL 1 S00MLE LINE le Arras : MANANCOURT, __@ ConBIES Surrenders (Special to the Whig). London, July 1.--No data is yet forthcoming from either side as to the casualties suffered. According to the German communication, the | | | Sl 4 i] IC Ai i 3 o EI > tlt The shaded portion of the map shows the advances made till July 3rd in the big Anglo-French offensive. The Brit- | ish attack opened along a 15-mile front from Commecourt southward and the French on the right attacked on a ten-| mile front, four miles of which was north of the Somme riv- er. RUSS DRVE ces reo: BEFORE THE ALLE (Special te the Whig) | Entire Foret To Be Under Command Copenhagen, July 4. -- of Single Officer--Lighter Task For Berlin despatéhes today] ¥unston and Bell. hinted that the Germans X ashington, July om Wile the og . | diplomatic aspects of the exican pe hi for a further | difficulty showed no change to-day, retirement before tilde he W ; we ures for a : . istribution 0 ord pa- glo-French offensi : but . | trol clearly indicated that months bf clared that no one in Berlin|active servico along the frontier z i % > QF : at x await 65,000 National Guardsmen considers the situation at all| 20m, 10-00 National Guard = desperate. All German COr-| parts of the country.: respondents report that the Only the appointment of a gen- ' : eral officer to supreme command is Allies probably have at|iacking now to complete adequate hieir dis 088 > Pav st | administrative machinery not only t 1 disp wal the . greatest | for border operations, but for a cam- supply of ammunition €Ver|paign of any desired proportions in amassed behind any army, |Mexico should general hostilities . . | come Under the new plan, the 1,800- the thunders of battle, Great importance | the newly invented mortar, which plays havoc in the German trenches, role in the operations. Describing the fluctuations in the battle around La Boiselle and south of Thiepval, the statement declares | that the advantage, on the whole, { remained with the British, | hice Gains by the French, (Special to the Whig) Paris, July 4.--Under, the com- 'mand of General Foch, the French troops which are co-operating with | the British in thé great offensive in | the Somme river region have made | notable gains in the direction of Peronne, one of the most important strategical points along the front. Successively they have captured Herbecourt, Fulleres and Flau- court, and further to the south French infantry stormed and occu- ENEMY EASTWARD Break fhe Austro-Gorman Resistance Be: | tween Dubio And Sokol | MONTHS OF ACTIVE SERVICE FOR U. 8. GUARDSMEN. carrying German trenches as far as the out- skirts of Estres. Then came the capture of Buscourt and Falcourt. Something over three miles was thus gained, which, added to pre- vious gains, gives the French troops a clear advance of about six miles at IN THE REGION OF BARNO- VITCH, RAILROAD CENTRE. Where the Russians Captured 50 Offi cers and 1,400 Men After Attack- ing the Gérman Lines. (Special to the Whig) Petrograd, July 4.--Between Dub- no and Sokal, Gen. Brusiloff's right wing has broken the Austro-German resistance in heavy fighting, driving the enemy westward and capturing Sn 1,000 prisoners and five machine War Tidings. | mile frontier will be divided so that guns, the War Office announced to-| A Canadian flying division has| the Southern and Western military day. | been formed in France, and has been | departments will take care of the An intense battle is raging in the active in recent fighting. eastern and western extremities of region of Barnovitch, where the-Rus-| The Entente Allies have ra the line respectively | sians, after a violent bombardment, | blockade against Greece. , ------ attacked the German lines, captur-| The. Russians have progressed fif- | ing fifty officers and 1,400 men. | teen miles south-westward of Kolo- | The German War Office yesterday | mea, and the Austrians there are afternoon announced meavy Russian | hard pressed to cover their retreat to attacks at Barnovitch, an Important | the Carpathian mountains, | railroad centre, 68 miies north of | GERMANS TO SUBMARINE RYTHING IN SIGHT. EVERYT They Hope to Prevent the Shipment of Munitions to France. (Special to the Whig.) | Copenhagen, July 4.--Germany { is about to embark on a new policy | of indiscriminate submarining, Cap- ised the | Commands Are Divided. relieved from responsibility for the | writes in the Berlin Tageblatt. entire border at his own recommen- | Germany's object, Persius says, j dation, will continue in command | will be to force England to respect Pinsk. The German artillery on this | | of the Southern Department, while {international law. Germany has front is under the command of Prince | PEEERREPP PEED BERR Pb | : ) . Major-General Franklin Bell, com- enough submarines to harm British Leopold of Bavaria, who pushed his | M manding the Western Departmant, | trade considerably and prevent the advance eastward after the capture | * DISTINCTLY. BRITISH. will transfer his headquarters from | shipment of munitions to France, he of Warsaw last summer. It is un- Er. San Francisco to Douglas Ariz., to | declares. derstood that he has a force of about be in direct touch with his share of | 100,000 men strung in a thin line the border work, | along the marshy region. London, July 4.--The drive is distinctly a British undertak- ing, the French operations tak- ™ ing the form of a supporting movement to make secure the British right flank, which any considerable advance would la open to attack. Britain his been preparing for it for nine months Nearly a million and a half men are engaged: in it, and an inconceivable number of ns, large and small, with enor- mous reserves of ammunition of all kinds, have made it pos- sible. 1% [ # 1+ The midsection of the border line, | embracing all territory between El { Paso and a point near Douglas, and | reaching northward to the Colorado | | State line, will be known hereafter ! $88 the Department of New Mexico. | % +| Under its jurisdiction will fall the | + 4 | expedition into' Mexico, based at!# + Columbus, N. M., and Brigadier- | # *| Genera! John J, Pershing, now com- | + manding.the expeditionary force, has | # 4| been offered the post of department | & 4 commander. IK J i | * The late Lieut.-Col. John Doull-|% Doull, Montreal, graduated from the | % Sededddbbbdbbbd Royal Military College in 1894. There are 27,000 men in training Canadian Casualties. Killed in action--W. F. Grosham, at Camp Hughes. Trenton; William Woodrow, Kings- ton; R. A. Cragg, Lindsay; T. L. / | Cuffe, Peterboro; Frederick D. Walk- er, Napanee; Fred. Swardfager, Lind- | BEFORE STARTING THER DRIVE Wounded -- 'Redford Richardson, Belleville; Archie Harrison, Peter- . {boro James E. Wallis, Kingston; augmented by a network of telegraph | A. B. Woodcock, Centreville. wires and stations and fleld hos-| pitals. | Ty Cobb Suspended. Buried ammunition everywhere,| Chicago, July 4 --Tv Cobb, De- together with medicines and food | troit outfielder, was yesterday sus- supplies, so that no matter where the pended for three days and fined $25 troops moved in an emergency they | would have shells and food without can League, for throwing his the trouble and delay of Ordinary into an unoccupied section of modes of transportation. { grand stand when he was called out Concealed from the Germdns the On strikes in a game here Sunday. A AAA A AAA A massing of the allied troops back of FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS the front. WORDS OF WISDOM FROM * +* | * * SOOTTISH REGIMENTS DO WONDERFUL WORK. + Paris, July 4.--A French ob- server says: "Two Scotch regiments in the region north of the Somme went over three lines of Ger- mon trenches without a halt, stopping only inside the village of Montauban, where they put several hundred Germans to the bayonet and took the entire staff of a regiment prisoners, ELIE i reer hh he 0d LAER LEE TET XE RS + * A GERMAN BATTALION YIELDS TO BRITISH. (Special to the Whig.) London, July 4. -- A whole 4 battalion of German infantry, + about 1,000 strong, surrender- #* ed to the British during the + fighting near Fricourt- yester- ay * + + u PEPE L4% 200 PPPS PP eter | | | In Fumin wood the French made | progress during the night, throwing the enemy from a trench. BASEBALL ON MONDAY. National League. Brooklyn, 6; New York, 2. Chicago, 3; Pittsburgh, 2. Boston, ~;Philadelphle, 1. American League. Cleveland, 6; Detroit, 4. Chicago, 3; St. Louis, 2. Boston, 6; Philadelphia, 4. New York, 1; Washington, 9 (11 innings). International Leagu: ester, 1; Toronto, 0. 'more, 5; Newark, say. Died of wounds--E. R. Hutton, Cobourg. Missing--A. Black, Peterboro. | ©. | | Here are some of the things the British and French did as a prelimi- nary to their drive through the Ger--- man front near Somme: Built 3,00 miles of railroads to fa- cilitate moving munitions and troops and handling the wounded. Put a metal surface on all turn- pikes. Rebuilt or strengthened bridge or railroad. Concentrated 1,200,000 fighting men, backed by 500,000 auxiliary workmen, doctors, bridge and rail- road builders, Filled the whole region with hid- den guns, new British guns of the largest calibre, many of them 15-inch mortars, and manned these guns with French artillery experts. Installed all over the region a new 'phone system with concrete poles ] oS Bal (first game). Baltimore, 5; Newark, game). Richmond, 4; Providence, 3. London Papers Reserved. London, July 4.--The London pa- pers in their editorials deal with the situation on the British front in somewhat reserved fashion, some of them pointing out that it fs not yet known whether this Js really the long-awaited "big push" or only an- other feint in greater force than any of the previous movements. 3 4 (second bat every Arranged the big guns in arcs in| such a way as to provide concentric fire from many guns on small areas of the German trenches. In the preliminary five-day bom- bardment the British-French army| fired 1,000,000 shells over a ninety- | mile front and sent out every even-| Each ing raiding parties to demoralize the som. ' enemy and get prisoners. The bill imposing a tax on all ex- traordinary and supplementary pro- fits during the war was passed final- ly by both the' French senate and chamber of deputies, man's life is all men's Pe ~-OWEN MEREDITH. » Rit in 'the firing they slept easily amid | is attached to | Air craft are taking an important | Major-General Frederick Funston, | tain Persius, German naval critic, | by President Johnson, of the Ameri-! the | TREMENDOUS NATURE OF BRITISH DRIVE Newly-Invented Mortar Plays Havoc in Ger- man Trenches---Enemy Battalion, Caught By Devastating Fire, to British. the furthest point to within three miles of Peronne. German Battalion Surrenders, (Special vo the Wiig.) London, July 4--The German bat- talion captured by the British consist ed of 620 men and officers of the 186th Regiment of Prussian infantry. Rushing up to till the gaps the en- -~ | tire battalion was caught by a de- vastating fire upon the shallow trenches, behind which they attempt- ed to fight. They threw up their hands in token of surrender. Panis in Berlin, | New York, July 4--A despatch | from Zurich to a news agency here | says: | Panic has been produced in Ber- {lin by the steady advance of the {allies in France, accord to infor- mation received here ay. The | newspapers are urging the people to | be calm, but at the same time they | print vigorous protests against the | use of asphyxiating gas by the Bri- | tish, which is said to be much more | deadly than that employed by the | Germans. British Guns Outclass German, London, July 4.--The correspond- ent of the Daily Telegraph at Paris says: "I am creditably informed that the British heavy guns now absolutely outclass the German or Austrian famous 42-centimetre guns, which the German command sprand as a surprise at the outbreak of the war. 56 great that Ia the present oifEmmive 80 great in » the question of ecomomy of shells does not enter into FE "The French people have had the pardonable satisfaction of knowing the British asphyxiating gas has proved deadlier than any the Ger. mans have invented." DAILY MEMORANDUM City Council, 8 p.m. Seo top page 3, right hand corner, | for probabilities. | ~ Remember the C.OC.F. moonlight | excursion, per Thousand Islander, July 6th. 155th band will furmish music. Tickets 36c. Church of ] | England Garden Party, |on Rectory Lawn, Wolfe Island, this evening. Speakers: Canon Fitzgerald land others. Ladies band. Wolfe Is- lander leaves § o'clock sharp at foot | of Clarence street. BORN Kingston, July 2nd, 1916 to wr. and Mrs, L. 'W. Mirohy, PY | Sydenham siregt, a son. MABRIED. | . | ALLEN-SHOUL, t Ottawa, on June 28th, est H. Allen, son of the late Rey. H. I. Allen and Mrs, Allen, to Louise Denton Shouldis, | QONYOU-CRAIG--On June 21st, at Napanee, Samuel Wilson Gonyou, son of istopher and Ida Gon- you, Sheffield Township, to Keitha Irene, daughter of John and Clara Craig, Croydon. VELEY -MORGAN--On June 24th, 1916 at Napanee, Aaron Veley, son o George and Anna Veley, Ernest- town. to Daisy May, daughter of George and Annie Morgan, Odessa. FOX-<In Kingston, on July 2nd, Hester Alice Fox, beloved wife of Morris Fox, aged 38 years. Funeral took place from her late resi- dencéy. 2 Lansdowne, at 4 p.m. Tues- day, to Cataraqui cemetery. [GUTHRIE--On Monday, July 3rd, 19186, | at Glen Guthrie, Perth Road, Loughboro, Harriet Bruce, belov- ed wife of William Guthrie, Esq. Funeral service at the Guthrie home- wtead, on Wednesday, July 5th, at one o'clock. Friends will please accept this inti- mation. McCORMICK~---In Sharpton, on Thurs- day, June 29th, 1916, Mrs. Francis McCormick. HASTINGS---iKilled in auto accident on Friday afternoon, June 30th, e Francis Hamilton Hastings, son of P. Hastings, M.D. 'Barton, Vermont, ormerly Kingston. SHANGROWL-Killed in action on April 22 or later, 1915, Pte. John Law- rence Shangrow, third son of Pte. Peter and Mrs. 8hangrow, 22 Elgin street, city. WELLER--At her residence, 249 John. son street, on Sunday, July 2nd 1916, Rebecca, second daughter of the late John Weller, J.P. Funeral took place on Tuesday at 2.30 Pm. to cemetery at Stella. SOHBLL--At Kolona, B.C, on June 23, at the home of her son, W. x Schell, Mrs. Ira H. Schell, formerly of Napanee. MURPHY---In | i