EVACUATION. OF _ BELGIUM WOULD REMOVE THE CHIEF OB- STACLE TO PEACE, Great Anxiety in High German Mili- tary Circles Over Methodical Prog- ress of Allied Offensive on East And West Fronts, (Special to the Whig.) London, July 24.--Reports from Berlin admit that the German popu- lation now realize that a decisive bat- tle is now raging and that everything is in the balance, | Germans To Evacuate Belgium, The Hague, July 24.--One of the objects of the campaign for an ""hon- orable peace," which will be launched simultaneously in fifty Ger- man cities, August 1st, by the Ger- man National Committee, of which Prince Von Wedel is chairman, is to hélp prepare the German mind for| the evacuation of Belgium, accord- ing to a well-authenticated report ra- | ceived here from Germany. With | German troops out of Belgium, it is | believed that one of the chief ob- stacles standing in the way of peace would be removed. The project of withdrawing German troops from Belgium is said to have the active support of the Socialists, Kaiser Holds Conference. Amsterdam, July 24. Reports reaching herg from sources hereto- fore reliable, say that the greatest anxiety continues in high German military circles over the methodical | progress of the Allied offensive on both the east and west fronts. A great military conference, it is sald, has been called by the Kaiser, at which will be present every mem- ber of the German General Staff, as well as a number of generals of high command int fiel a TO OPEN HOSPITAL. London, July 24.--1It is hoped 4 that the Duchess of Devonshire 4 will open the Canadian hospital # at Buxton for Canadians suffer- # ing from rheumatism. It already # contains over a hundred pa- + tients. The hospital is situat- + ed not far from the Devonshire's + most famous seat at Chatsworth, # and is one of the most elaborate # in the country. * : FRENCH AVIATOR DROPS. PROCLAMATION OVER BERLIN (Special to to the W hig.) Paris, July 24.--Sub-Lieut. Marchall, of the aerial ser- vice, was taken prisoner at Chelm, Russian Poland, after an ei ht hundred mile flight from Nancy, France. He drop- ped a proclamation on Berlin stating that he could bomb that city and kill women and chil- dren, bul ehose not to. He had to descend sixty miles from the Russian lines, : A VOTE OF CREDIT OF 450 MILLIONS. The War Has So Far Cost Great Britain $14,160,~ 000,000. (Special 30 the to oe Whig.) London, July 34. Promier As- quith in the Commons to-day moved for a vote of credit of four hundred and fifty snillion pounds, the largest sum which the Government has asked for in a single bill since the begin- ning of the war. The measure will bring the total since the beginning of the war to about fofirtéen billion one hundred and sixty million dol- lars. $73213044948 99 -> - e 3 mn WHIG CONTENTS 1-H Setman Ships; British Get Germans Rea. Hze Defeat: 'Britain To Get Territory. : $=4The pnifs © of the Grip; The Empire © g of Citiwens. Federation; War ar Random Reels. Dorcy. God; Prefers tardy News, nouncements; Amusements Mayers: Theatrical. War 'Camp; Mutt 10-{Con fod of Roxane; 0 BATTERED WAY THROUGH GERMAN LINES Qen. Kuropatkin Has Been Able to Pierce the Army of Von Hindenburg Aran Duke Nicholas Able To Do Some Splendid Work. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, July 24.--The Russian armies have blasted and battered their way through the German line below Riga, and have shattered tempo rarily the Austrian resistance to further Russian advance toward north- eastern Galicia and Hungary. Violent German counter-attacks north- east of Kovel have been repulsed. progress between the forces of Generals Kuropatkin and Von Hindenburg. | That the Czar's troops have been able successfully to pierce Von Hin- denberg's lines is hailed as one of the striking achievements of the war, The Russian troops now dominate both banks of the Lipa and the Styr to near Mirkow, and in some parts of the line have thrust forward eight or ten miles beyond the river. Brody is menaced with an enveloping move ment. Southward the Russian forces control Jablonitz Pass, and have forced the retirement of the of the hills beyond. To emphasize the Russian successes, came a full report to-day of more advances of the Grand Duke Nicholas' army in the Caucasus. The Turks are in full retreat along the full line toward Erzinganp. DECLARATION OF WAR MINISTER (Special to the Whig.) London, July 24.--'The prospects of battle are good. The generals are more than satisfied; they are confident that victory is assur- ed," declared Minister of War Lloyd George in the House of Commons this evening. rm BRITISH PATROL SQUADRON CHASED GERMAN RADERS The Enemy Fled Before the British Cruisers Could Damage of a Really Disastrous Character- (Special to the Whig.) London, July 24.--The British sea patrol squadron drove off a Ger- man raiding destroyer fleet Saturday night, according to an Admiralty gltatement to-day. The British patrol vessels characterized as "Tight forces' enemy destroyers Saturday at midnight near the north hinder The squadron retired before the British cruisers were able to inflict damage on them. «tSubsequently, six. enemy destroyers approached, the British sea forces in a running fight off Shouwen Bank man ships were repeatedly hit, but succeeded in reaching coast. 'One of our vessels was hit once,' the to Austrians to crests many of approaches British AA A vice and were The the Ger i ' the statement concluded, "and two DN FOE SURRENDER | IN WHOLE UNITS. The Russians ns Crossed the | Rivers and Gaptured Fine Austrian Positions. (Special to the Whig | Petrograd, July 24. or Brussi-| toff's Russian troops on Saturday pro- ceeded methodically on their way to | the northern Galician border south-| ward from Luzk. The Russian forces | accomplished the feat of crossing the! swollen rivers Lipa and Styr in_the| face of the enemy's fire and of wrest- | ing the Austrian positions on the far- | ther bank from the enemy. Aus- | trians are surrendering in whole] units. INTRODUCES BILL FOR INVESTIGATION Of the Mesopotamian and the| Dardanelles Campaigns by | the British. \ (Special to the Whig). London, July 24.---Premier As- quith to-day introduced in the Com- mons a bill for an investigation of the Mesopotamian and Dardanelles campaigns, It was in pgnsWer to nu- merous criticisms which have been evoked since the abandonment of the Gallipoli offensive and the lack of support tendered to the British at! Kut-el-Amara, NOTABLE SPEAKERS / AT MEET. Thirty-Third Session, Anglers' Asso- ciation of St. Lawrence, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., July 24.-- The 33rd annual meeting of the Ang- lers' Association of the St. Lawrénce River will be held at the parlors of the Thousand Island House, Wednes- day, August 2nd. Election of officers will be held at twelve o'clock and a banquet at three p.m. The international law re- garding the fishing on the river will be discussed, . Among the speakers expected are: Hon, G. D, Pratt, of the conservation commission, Albany; Hon. E. R. Brown and Hon, G. H. Cobb, Water- town; Hon. George Taylor and Charles Britton, Gananoque; Hon. A. E. Donovan, M, BP, of Brockville; Hon. J. R. Dareavel, of Elgin, Ont.; Premier Hurst, of "Toronto; Sir Thomas White, Canadian Minister, of Finance, Toronto, and Hon, Find- | CANADIAN WOMEN AS ley MacDormaid, Minister of Public 1 Hh Faghion, Pugs, uetrated. et Works, of Toronto, | To-day a violent artillery duel was in] "sighted three | lightship. | any | | engaged by! + i | | Belgian | » jeca of our men were slightly wounded." I - Women munition workers photogre factory boring and dolug handwor on time fuses, AMD. A BLAST OF ARTILLERY o British - Forces si" Made Advances Still Further at Pozieres. THE FIGHTING CONG. ON '"PHE ENEMY HAS BEEN PUTTING UP STUBBORN DEFENCE. A Large Portion of "the Village of Po- zeres is Now in the Hands of the British--There Has Been Heavy | Casualties Among tha Enemy, (Special to the Londen, July 24. artillery fire hurled from big guns,!| the British have till further in their thrust Gen ported to-day tinuing with the advantage British Gains made are high road of Pozieres, We secur®d important advan- tages in spite of the enemy' s stub- born defense," he stated 'A large | portion of the viNHage is now ours we two guns and sixty pri Amid a blast of | forces advanced | around | Pozieres, Sir Douglas Hale ie re ighti vith ee] near the Look oners." General Haig sa German counter terday between Hig lemont had been with that the British artillery chine guns had inflictec alties * Last night comparative calm." id tl attacl made zh Wood and Guil- wat and heavy casu-| was one of | | CARDINAL GIBBONS ated his eighty nd birth- ungay. In spite of his age the dinal keeps in exce ns health. MUNITION MAKERS. togrephed in a Canadian taken. Whig) |£ | | | | { more repeated | yes- | t success and | | williams, Dean ma- | Journalism +in-India-at-Koweit MUCH AERIAL ACTIVITY ALONG THE BATTLE FRONT The French and German Forces Are Busy With Bombs, Drop- ping Them on Towns on Both Sides of the Front. (Special to the Whig.) . Paris, July 24.---Extraordinary aerial activity on both sides of the « French-German battle line was réported in the Official Communique to-day. | A French aerial on Sun- | Luneville was the object of a German air raid. day dropped eight bombs on Conflaus station and a number of other buildings at Dieuze and Vigneulles. Aviator Chaput brought down on sunday his eighth German aeroplane in a combat near Fresnes. One other German machine was destroyed near Vaux on the same day. On the right bank of the Meuse French forces captured thirty pris- | During the last ten days in this section 800 prisoners have been North of the Aisne a trench was cleared of the enemy. In the Somme region bad weather is interfering with operations. uners. Em BRITAIN LIKELY TO EXTEND ITS NEAR EAST EMPIRE Will Round Out Her Possession of Egypt--Across Mouth of Shat-el-Arab to the North End of Sinai Peninsula, and Would Also Secure Domination in the East. York, July 24.- namely, that he is not an indepen- of the dent sovereign ruling the holy places, . is and he has not the prophet's relies. at Columbia, who | But a large number of doctors of | born in Turkey and who is in close | Arab law have asserted that the pro- touch with affairs in the Orental | phet's relics are forgeries, and au- countries, 'has given out a summary | thentic records of the prophet would | of the Moslem situation as.it affects | probably be found at Mecca if they and is affected by the European war, | were necessary to complete the title, "If the Allies win the final victory | "Nothing could be more useful to in the great war," said Dr. Williams, | English policy in the East than an "it is an open secret that Great Brit-| j orthodox Caliph ruling independent- ain will expect to round out her pos-{1y at Mecca, or Arab birth and line- session of Egypt, her foothdld at Ad- | age, restoring the old headship of the en, the recent annexation of Oman, | Arabian peninsula, at a point he and her control of the Persian Gulf | could not be reached by European in- asserted in 1911, by acquiring Ar-|trigue, his one port of Jiddah (Yed- abia and stretching her dominion |da) under English control. across from the north of the Shat-el- "Such a Caliph would be a centre Arab to the northern end of the 8i | for the seething distontent of the naian Peninsula. Arab Moslems over the entire "This would secure British domin- {86th of the Taurus Mountains, A 'ation in the East, give her complete | would calm the Indian Moslems am« control of the Red Sea and the Per-' bitions, and he would even be useful sian Gulf and of the railroad outlet | to the United States, whose Sulu Mo- on the. Persian | hammedan subjects are pilgrims to Gulf, as well as of the Suez Canal. | the great shrine at Mecca, Maps already outlined in conferences | eee of representatives of the Allied pow- | ers look to this redistribution of ter-| ritory. "For security in this plan it is es-| sential that any Ottoman territory in | Arabia should be under Arab rule |It has taken them nearly a month to and that claims of the House of Otto- | defeat the small Turkish garrison man, in the person of the Sultan of [in Meccd, whose cantonment is com- Turkey, to the Caliphate should be manded from all directions. But met by an orthodox Caliph ét Mecca, [arms furnished them through Yedda "The Caliphate of the Sultan of | will give the Arabs ample force to Turkey is denied by the Moslems of | meet any advance of Turks from the Persia, and the Moslems of Morocco | north, since the railroad has been de- look upon their Sultan as the rep- | stroyed. No march will be possible resentative of Mohammed on earth, |along this route south until next fall, but the great mass of Moslems in In-|and by that time the British forces dia and throughout the world would | ought to have made such an advance New Dr. Talcott School of | was £0 Arabs Helpless Alone, "Alone and unaided, the Arab pop- ulation of Mecca 'and Medina could not possibly resist the Turkish troops, 1through his daughter, '|credit for the series of heavy blows accept the Caliphate of the Turkish Sultan, | No Hereditary Office. "Fhe Caliphate is not a hereditary office. According to Moslem law the Caliph is selected by the great body | of believers and must possess these | requisites: To be a descendant of | Mohammed in the female line! Fatima; to rule the sacred places at Mecca and | Medina; to possess the relicts of the | prophet, which are at Constanti-| nople; and to be recognized by the; great schools of the law, among | which the Azhar at Cairo is first, | "The Shereef of Mecca possesses | all these qualifications except two, perilous by an attack in flank from Egypt. "Like so much else, the r'sing at Mecca depends wholly on the issue of ithe great war. If the Allies win, the orthodox Moslem world will find itself with a new Caliph exercising | his spiritual powers at Mecca for the first time since the first of the Om- miadas Moawiyah left Mecca, 1,251 years ago to reign at Damascus at Cdliph. "If the Teutonic league wins, or Is able to prevent the division of the Ottoman Empire, the Caliphate will remain on the Bosphorus. Until a final decision is reached in the great conflict the rising at Mecca is to be regarded simply as an episode." THE GERMANS ARE THEIR LAST DESPERATE EFFORT General Russki Says Allies Must Keep Up Sure But Siow and Steady Pregress--The Enemy Has No Longer Any Advantages. Petrograd, July 24. -- General Russki, who retired from the Russian northern command through serious ill-health, has just passed through Petrograd on his way to spend the rest of the summer in Finland. In the course of a conversation, the fa- mous soldier, to whom belongs the dealt at the Austrians in the first months of the war, spoke of the pres- ent state of affairs with the greatest satisfaction. "Continued pressure is necessary now," he sald, "pressure at a num- ber of points, so that the enemy's forces may be divided. If this is kept up steadily, and if all the Allied airmies avoid the mistake of pushing on more quickly than is prudent, then the end may some in sight a good deal sooner than seemed likely a few months ago. their Sera, 5 re making last effort. "They have been forced MAKING AE WIS ONTO The British Made Some sone Goud ves 0 e sa WEDGE ACROSS HIGHWAY BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF POZ- IERES AND BAPUME, Attacked on a Front of Eight Miles ~The Austro-German Forces Re- treating in Great Disorder--An Entire Regiment Has Surrendered To the Russians. (Special to the Whig.) London, July 24.--The British, attacking on a front of eight miles, carried the German outer works for five miles, penetrated into Pozieres, and drove a wedge across the Ba- paume highway between Pogzieres and Bapaume, capturing a number of prisoners. The Retreat is Disorderly. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, July 24.--The Austro- | German forces are retreating in great | disorder along the Lipa and Styr rive | ers. All counter-attacks failed to arrest the advance of the Russian troops. The 13th Landwehr Regi- ment surrendered in its entirety. a -.y HAS STEPPED ASIDE. $ -- + (Special to the Whig. * Petrograd, July 24. --M. » |* Sazoneff, Russian Minister of & + Foreign Affairs, resigns .on % # account of ill-health, Premier # + Sturmer takes over office, but # pi retains premiership. Herre Shddutddaad sees TURKISH TROOPS ATTACKING SUEZ. Their Air Craft. | Made An At= "tack on + [4 = i pe: to Lonlies, July Gait a ofticlally announced that Turkish troops have advanced to within about thirty miles of the Suex Canal, where the British cavalry have got in touch with the Turks. The British commander tak- ing measures to meet the movement, Enemy aircraft made an attack on Suez, Saturday, causing a few casual- ties. News from Cairo, Egypt, says seri- ous engagements have taken place near Medina, Arabid, between Arabs and Turks, the Arabs losing 500 men and the Turks 2,600. The Febols are now bombarding the barracks at Taif. Dr. Hugh McKay, who has been the doctor at the Ontario Reforma- tory, Guelph, for some time has been transferred to the staff of the Con- valescent Hospital for returned sol- diers at Cobourg. At Winnipeg Great North-Western Telegraph operators are on strike for a fifteen per cent. advance Strike breakers have been brought in, ! Japan will build an Imperial Pal- ace in Seoul. DAILY MEMORANDUM f Sage 3, right hand corner Remember th arden Belgiang at Y. WEA noon and evening, Tue Battalion Band, --- See top of for-probabilli party in aid of rounds, after- y next, 156th BMEWHISTLE-On July, 24th, nidats to Mr. and Mrs. Denis Binpwh istle, 14 James stret, a daughte Canada, second Wm. Easson, 395 Kingston, and late Perthshire, Scotland, aged twenty years. On far off desolated fislds, 3 who sleep? We khow not, but through summers We ow ibe rigid hands that hold, will keep The flag of Britain clean. COWARD--Suddenty. a mon uly 918 berta, on J any William sixty-one years. He was born in Kingston and lived in ithe city until seven years ago. N----In Portsmo aongay. July 24th, Thos. Tobin aged ry Years. to change their plans and no longer possess the initiative. iverywhere they are on the defensive. Their strength in munitions is still very great, and the task before the Allies is not an easy one anywhere, but with unflinching determination and readiness to make sacrifies if victory can be won. "The Allies' superiority in num-| bers has now deprived the enemy of the advantage of operating upon in- terior lines. He is no longer able to transfer troops at will from one point to another, and this increases the possibility of piercing his front at many points and of breaking up his forces into separate groups. When this has been dome he can be dealt with more satisfactorily. "Even now Germany will make a d effort. to snatch victory by old ta and the employment of her resources, but let the long] Sind fem and success cannot be 1% One thorn of experience te lke & a