Daily British Whig (1850), 24 Aug 1916, p. 1

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SRS NOT LOOKED ON . A AS A SECOND KITCHENER BY THE BRITISH PEOPLE He Is Honored Because Me Repre- sents Canada--The Canadian Sol. Heavy on Both Sides--Ger- man Prisoners Taken. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, Aug. 24.--Two German at- tacks near Soyecourt, south of the Somme, preceded by Intouge artillery fire, were completely repulsed by the \ French in last night's fighting, it| diers Have it in For Sam. was officially announced to-day. The Toronto, Aug, 24.--"Fighting first attack by German grenade par- Joe Martin, M.P. for St. Pancras, ties was repulsed by machine gun London, and formerly of British Co- and infantry fire. The Germans re-|lumbia, arrived at the King Edward {tired while their artillery prepared yesterday, and left for Ottawa last | the way for a second attempt south- | night to see Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and {east of Soyecourt. French gunners will later proceed to British Colum- {laid a steady barrage fire across the bia. {intervening ground and prevented! .Will Mr. Martin return to Domin- {the Germans: from leaving their ion politics? He has not decided, trenches. 3 { presumably, but has the nomination | In the Champagne region "the for a federal British Columbia 'seat. French repulsed several surprise at-| Mr. Martin has not lost sight of | tacke. On the right bank of the Canadian politics; he has followed | Meuse, northeast of Verdun, the Ger- even provincial matters. For ex- {mans bombarded positions recently ample, he remarked that H. H. De- captured by the French on the wart's victory in Southwest Toronto ty Mowed Down In Sickening Heaps. came legging it at top speed back toward the British first line trenches. What about the Germans who had fled back towards the German sup- port trench? A light 'machine gun. the British had put up rattled into their backs. Ahead of them was the British curtain of fire, now lifted in- to the German support trench. They seamed to disappear into the earth, "oy shot down, some wound- ed, others seeking security in shell craters. Few will survive. One | figure alone holds the stage for a hammering it | traction of a minute there in that with gunfire. The GeFmans seem 10/ lifeless space around him. Tall and set the same store by it as they 41d | bold, a German officer stands up on by the heights of Ginchy and Guille-| tne edge of a German communication Mont 3 Shar other Sank. conguer { trench and looks around. He goes + | down abruptly as if he had been hit od yeatbrday the Britian Infantry had | 4 hard blow back of the Kaeee © By Frdderick Palmer. _With the British AFmy in France, Aug. 23. The artillery commander his patent curtain of fire, and ~bever in all the seven Weeks of the Bomme battle has the correspon. - dent witnessed anything equal to the "show," as the officers call every action, in the taking of one of the spurs of Thiepval ridge yesterday af- ternoon. Ever since July 1, when the Brit- Ish failed in their efforts to storm it, Thiepval ridge has glared at the | British, who had kep! Rr Te » The elaborate office buildi ng is erected on the site of Canada's two million dollar been decimated by machine-gun fire] And Another Charge. scrap heap at Ottawa. The ¢ ontractor for the Parliament benefit of it while the work is on but will collect eight pe i Fleury-Thiaumont front. The French took five officers and 250 men pris- oners on this sector. Buildings will not only get the cent. profit from the country. had followed Mr. Hay's success in North Perth. "I saw nothing in the London Times of the win in Perth," on July 1. { The trenches were just as strong Now British helmets rise from the . Just to sults of two years' building. erman first line and start on an- "as then, with deep dugouts, the re- 'oners taken early in the offensive Other charge to the German support : | trench. They will clean up any Ger- aig aay Tiritish never sould obtais a | mans lying in shell craters on the French aviators brought four German planes during the Upper Picture gives a skyline the right of the clump of tree 'had to be levelled by dynamite. The barbed wire fence pr At a recent meeting of the Parliamentary Committee the Conservative members the architects for the destruction of the two million dollars worth of walls. down said Mr. Martin. "As a matter of day. | fact, anything reflecting on the Can- adian Government appears to be sup- STRONG ALLIED FORTS | pressed. Regarding Sir Sam' Hughes, | I saw no comment on the Allison in- / PROTECTING WINGS | vestigation, merely that the commis- | { ---- - |sion would bring in a report, and (If Allies Break Through Bul- later that their report had been de- garian Army Will Be Split | livered. in Two. "Not a Little God." -- Mr. Martin does not admit that Petrograd, Aug. 24.--The official the British people look upom Sir organ of the Russian General Staff! Sam Hughes as a "Canadian Kit- describes the movement of the! Bul-| chener." "He represents Canada," garians against the allies' flanks as & sald Mr. Martin, "and the British. repetition in miniature of the great | people are entirely satisfied with the Austro-German assault on the Rus- Canadian soldiers, but it is not true {cian front last year, and adds that the British public is making a | "At the same time the allies have! little god of Sir Sam. The soldiers assumed the aggressive against the of Canada do not idolize Sir Sam. I -------------------- WAS MERELY A MESSENGER THIS SEEMS TO BE PURPOSE OF THE ENEMY RAIDERS. The New Sky Dreadnoughts Said to be Ready to Move Against London And Paris While the Weather is Favorable--Fiye Raids on Eng- . { land During September Last Year, (Special to the Whig.) SE eos "There is no foundation for the HE MADE A RASH BET | Berlin report that Norman Angei;, ! _- {the British pacifist, has been sentenc- | German Crown Prince Sends Cham-|ed to prison for refusal do perform Lond 34. : i} pagne to Defender of Vaux. | military service. Mr. Angell is be- [ed the ete. 1 Teppeiins TAi0-| London, Aug. 24. The Berala cor-| aon Be ago Hm of liability for | night, last night the War ore ih _ {respondent of the Daily News de- | such service. nounced to-day. No da 6 was | scribes the meeting between the Ger-| The prices of flour, all grades, { : mage was | yn Prince and Major Ray- have jumped 30 cents a hundred. done and there were no casualties, {Man Crown Prince and Major Raj j av | Last night's Zeppelin visi os. nal the heroic defender of Vaux, | weight and all feeds one dollar a ton | ers of the 'past Bp ist, and oth- [after the fall of the fort. | in Toronto. , lieved to have been ror | "My congratulations," began the| Cheese sales- Dapphalifond, 535 ights 0 88 OF tests {Crown Prince, but seeing that his at 19 1-16¢; Stirling, at -16¢ [ighis for he burbute ol testing out | prisoner lacked a sword, he took one id 19 1-8e; St. Paschal, Que, 572 at | pars y a) " |from one of the German aides and 19 1-16c. | Patation doy 4 Zroal aerial attack, ei Sige it to the Major, continued: | Ten thousand New York barbers | been SRE fon Cat word Bas | "Your resistance was splendid, but (and hairdressers are on strike. rermany ia . : : case a | construction of huge Zeppelins, cap- jTov Sannot RR Bet Youd case {able of carrying several tons of ex-{O) ¢ h Pp ae t July." ! | plosives. ~The German correspon- tor She a) ace bas seat ihe | dents hinted that these new sky case of champagne to Majoh Raynal. | dreadnoughts would move against | "°° 2 { London and Paris during pe co | way. They grow dim with distance, | blamed ald Tae mio had besn at Verdun | in}: They stow dim with He tl cere oO Ree ve TS sa ey suffe nothing there a | there. They have the support trench | Shelved temporarily, but as a pre-, ed upon the important question of all equivalent to the deluge of Brit-| ir signals say. And that hunch of | cautionary measure the House of admitting women to suffrage by : Ish shells and that it was dmposalble le aT. prisoners coming | LOrds inserted in the bill extending | means of a general election. for Human beings to endure such tor- | toward the British rear as fast as|the life of Parliament an amendment i oes, } 3 proving that any new arliament | it hpantnd, Tord, puns bu Uh, can J enseoped in some hl] roving that any "vow. Fariament | the first German Hne and the sup- is now being laid on the old first|should endure only for two years, [And the Fine and Conviction Were | port trench was taken. One pair of| line British trench area, which ex-( TMS Is an emergency which is un. | Set Aside. { Byes sould nat see more. detail than) plains why all the prisoners taken|!lkely to arise, however, as a large | (Special to the Whig.) the correspondent did yesterday. The! do not reach the collection stations] majority of the couptry is oppoged to Toronto, Aug. 24.-- Justice Masten British and Germans engaged were alive." Those seen fairly out of range] Bolding elections "during the war. | to-day quashed the conviction of sell- re outlined as clearly as a plan around 2 shell 'fire were smiling and seem-| It Seems almost certain that the next ing liquor without a license and a . ; the second base could be seen from Sl mueh relieved Parliament will be elected on a basis | fine of $300 against David J. Bow- There Were No Casualties And Very Little a grand Sands It was the very | "They will ave a good "square of adult suffrage with women voting, | man on the ground, as in a former Damage Done. =. wT fy eri of a bright af-| meal over in the camp by that clump altboush ere OuEht to pe canlons |case, that the defendant was merely ---- Teutonic centre. In the event of a have met a great many .of the boys ternoon sun over his shoulder, one|Of trees to-night," said the general, 2 messensor break through by the allies the Bul-! ana if ee a election '1o- looked across the tiny valley toward( and they have Deen under fire for - jgarian army would be split in two, | morrow, four out of every five of a slope. There the bare ground was he) nt me in hig was. w . {aud at the same time forced back a the Canadian' troops would vote cut with the clash of a new British | ta king wit em were the \ {great distance, while the Bulgarian | against Sir Sam and his ghvernment. trench, and beyond that, across an| British wounded, also smiling. IS or e ion. attack on the allies' flank may be! '"The war misarrangement has area of dead grass and wavy maze, | Bit by bit Eaing af¢ ade between fe an itself to pieces on niade a profound impression. Sir was the old first line German tranch. | Pig attacks. Fg Mo The friends of the 146th Battalion are rallying well to the sup- the strongly-prepared fortifications {Sam insisted on' & big review at A Niagara rush of . whistling | Within one thousand yards of Thiep- : and the allied heavy artillery at the | Bramshott, and many of the boys sereams from' capsules of concentrat-| ¥al, maintaining their positions. in port of the unit, and the colors will be another of their contributions | Salonika positions. The Bulgarians | lost their leave, and do not forget ed hell tore through the air and be.| Guillemont, and are within 300 yards for the pleasure of the men. The Whig is constantly being thanked {can no longer hope' to help the Ger | » { Ginchy and of Martinpuch. > & pe-tg ep Lb gan bursting over it. Their flashes| © for taking up the matter. and pushing it to a happy conclusion, We | maf or Turkish troops hugged it in an infernal ectasy, did it because we felt that the battalion was entitléd to the recogni- - ayoeplng It with yrds of bullets tion bestowed on all other Kingston units raised here, and specially "tongues of death into its burrows. because so many Kingstoniang and sons of Frontenac and Lennox || Poin, To show a head and escape being | » were in the ranks. The fund will soon close, and we again urge all || hit and hit more than once was as| who are interested and desire to help will make their donations at hopeless as to stand up in a thigh! Son fthont being hit an | y Jafistorn "ithan Gort aun who had| R These .subscriptiohs have been receiv trusted in flight rather than sticking] pa to dugout, when the first gas of | projectiles came, were seen running fa: toward the open away from this, THE Eyes of the is Are on the Near LONDON VERY CONFIDENT rooms, the steel helmets the British soldiers wear, then their heads an ulders and full forms as the Sho 'Went over the parapet. Every! REGARDING THE OUTCOME OF OPERATIONS THERE swath of destruction. | Then Infantry Charged. { Now, out of the British trench ap-| | len East Residents, ps Mrs. Norman peared a row of khaki-tinted mush-| Came per Blakley . . , ¢ Kinnear & d'Esterre Macnee & Minnes Newlands, William & Son College Book Store Bell, Dr. George W. H. W. Newman Electric Co. J. H. Sutherland & Bro. . Samuel G. Sutherland, St. Louis, Mo... .. Pappas Bros . a -_-- A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE RUSSIANS -- | (Special to the Whig. | Petrograd, Aug. 24--- {| Russian"troops have de- feated four Turkish di- visions (80,000 men) in a great battle near the Village of Rachta, near Mosul, capturing two en- tire Turkish regiments, it * was officially announced w-day. Mych cannon and sther booty was taken. Toronto, 8; Providence, 5. Ae cetera fiestas Baltimore, 5; Buf'. 0, 1 DAILY MEMORANDUM 3 Rochester, 6; Richmond, 6 (10 in-| See t f page 3, right hand corner | tion all along the' front. | tor Orohal is Pe % 1 A new decree issued by the Ger- nhngs, darkness). { Timestone Lodge, Na. 81, AO0.UW, i y | man was in full equipment, with alll its details visible, every figure uni- form with all others to the last item, ! a8 they moved across the field of dead grass briskly and steadily. No| ominous, wicked staccato of German ? ' " mhachine guns coming into action was| Whole War. heard; no machine gunner could live| ' London, Aug. 24. Both Houses of at his post in that trench. | Parliament adjourned 'yesterday un- The British line opened to gO | til October 10th, after adopting a bill around shell eraters. or other ob-| extending the life of the present Par- stacles and then closed up. Occas-| lament another seven months. fonally a figure dropped and was lost ot since the outbreak of the war fn the grass. Right into the face of has Parliament adjourned upon a that curtain of death from shells go-| situation such as the present, and ing only a few feet over their heads, which was described by David Lloyd they were moving. Then, suddenly, George, Minister of War, and other ag it was laid, the curtain of shell] Ministers in debate during the last fire lifted. Not a single shell out few days as giving so little cause for of the thousands had burst short. | anxiety or so hopeful an outlook for Now the British were going over|the future. The debates, which cov- the German parapet, their bayonets ered all aspects of the war, reflected glistening in the sun. As they de-/a feeling of confidence, although ex- James Swift & Co. pressing the realization that heavy A. Kinch Sa, seemed to have swallowed them up. tasks are still ahead, and that there 2 : : Little clouds of smoke from bursting prospect for hostilities coming : : bombs rose from the trench. There| to a speedy end. 5 1 _-- Was "hot work proceeding out of It is the general belief that before oe . : sight in the burrows. ' | Parliament resembles a further im- DEUTSCHLAND ARRIVED; AND BREMEN SAILED /Pulearian offensive has been brought | College Boo : : {to a standstill. The Bulgarian Souter G {portant stage of the Entente allied "ian aes 4 7 offensive will have been developed in : o ( ~ : : > Em---- % | 2 McCammon, William (Market Clerk) ' | {drive south d rat Seres ; or, as though they| the Near East, and which thay have t | lGresasouthward = arainst Seres, aiFrontenae were ng ---- tue top of stairs, | the weightiest influence on the whole Simmons, A. Alfred ... er. _ || Capt. Koenig is Being Lionized [Grecian city of 35,000 innabitants, Gibson's . heads and shoulders appeared out of | field of operations. Mrs. A. von Straubenzee .' » y | - at Bremen as a National [has created a new and move critica Hero! En German had his | {Situation at Athens. If Seres falls a {jhe trench, J nen 9 file the prison-| {the Bulgars will have practically cut Medley'y ors past a Briton standing on| There was considerable discussion i (Speciai to the Whig) ofr all the Greek troops operating Pr the parapet. These Germans, Who | in recent dayg concerning the ques- y as Sr vrrrssaunnass «]| The Hague, Aug. 24. The sub- [In Eastern Macedonia. ha walted to. be bombed out of | tion of food SWpplies here, although > : "|imarine Deutschland was slightly PEPE a their ts, but had surrendered, (high prices are due to scarcity of 'damaged on ler return trip from the| Basil Hallam, formerly well known Am supplies, the costliness of freightage United States, according to- Bremen 20/the English vaudeville stage. hast - and, as Capt. B, G, Pretyman, Parlia- |} dospatches to-day. She took the| been "killed at the fromt in France! "CONTENTS | mentary § to the Board of {same route on the return trip as on| J3!lam commanded the kite section Tage inde | Trade, explained in the House of [the voyage to Baltimore, members of | °f the British flying corps. "Ade: Solatora Akins Borde, || Commons, to the abnormal consump- ses : {tLe crew stated. 1 Stecmt-- Perns Ral ition of food by the untold millions ? s va 'oan 'H d England; British The Bremen despatches also ecar-| sea adjourned, a {24 Jen Jo. the Sie Cant. Pretyman {ried the statement that the submar-|g A the Speeders: |isa © estimated that the men in the 1i 3 hi We Or Cralg Second in, Com-) | field eat half as much again ns thes |e uramen, one i a . 3 BELLS FEALED FORTH De- jd m Filan life. While the ques- SEvisrsanenes [tew days ago. She was held in port|s 'CHENER, ONT. {Son of oh upplies Is hressing Ea tase . {uptil the Deutschiand's owners re-| Kitchener, Ont., Aug.' 24.-- i the Government thus far Raps lon, [ceived positive information that the! 4 The result of Monday's election {reason to take any new or rete Cian as i Deutschland had eluded the British|# in Toronto hastened the action | steps in the direction of Administra- » (pete aL ig is bok Monized # of the Government in changing tion control of either the : : tras |, Captain Koenig ng lion # the game of Berlin, Ont. When consumption of food. price or {by the Bremen crowds as a mational|¢ word was received here yester- _ In the debate the Cabinet Miss. of Rene. Peutachinad # day afternoon that Berlin would ters also expressed the greatest { § Deutschland - brought three|+ become Kitchener on September Prin In .the constantly-growies {bags of mail from Ambassador Bern-|# 1, the whistles on the many | economic pressure which s bein vy storff and a cargo of rubber and i€8 were blown, and the ¢ | ereteed at he hy 1s id = {nickel valued at a million dollars. fire Was rung i faultatiog: 3 ; y FE in ° Creda -en Bd ES ------------ The chimes of St. Peter's Luth- lll - L Woman Suffrage Next : : ia J . There is an increase in the number stan. Church merrily played + MANY THINKERS The difficult questions of suffrage : f infantile paralysis cases in New otic airs. # It is in my each day ' registration reform have been ork this week. Forty-two deaths : g 'hour; to add to the d's joy or ae Gecurred on Wednesday. Fa +e0000e goed pain, a > : ris Ag * - : XE i § wii i BASEBALL ON SATURDAY. National League. Chicago, 7; Brooklyn, 6. - | Pittsburgh, 2; Philadelphia, 1 (16 innings). ' | {and October when the weather condi- | tions are apt to be favorable. Dur- | ing September of last year five raids | were made on England. | When Parliament Meets Again the Near East Operations May Show the -Weightiest Influence . on the War Tidings. - The ; Russians have occupied and | mounted long range guns on two '4 | parts\of Koverla Mountains, over- R. Uglow \ | looking Hungary. | J. P. Hanley . "s £ { The British and Allies have re- Mrs. (ldemt.) N. W. W. Bromwich, Garden | sumed the offensive in strong force Island . °. . | in the Balkans, Berlin reports, , { The Germans exhausted fhem- R. J. Bushel sxsvemey {selves on Wednesday in fruitless Goorge Mills & Co. { counter-attacks at the Somme river, | D. Couper . .. 41 The Allies. Artillery is now in ac- E. P. Jenking | | | American League, | Boston, 7; Cleveland, 3. | New York, 5; Chicago, 4. | Detroit, 10; Philadelphia, 3. St. Louis, 5-2; Washington, 4-4.* International League, | Montreal, 7; Newark, 3. yo Tn -- Vy Eada 0 5 [man Qoyernment mi Cn Gernacy | BULGARIAN OFFENSIVE. meets tonight, § o'clo pe rere {THE DAILY B WHIG Has Been Brought te Standstill at] RITISH All Fronts. | to one-half pound per week. |Is on Sale at the Following City s on a Special to the Whig.) | Stores: The Allied armies continue to ad- vance in the Balkans. ¢ mL Athens, Aug. 24.--On practically! |every sector of the Balkan front the, Oueanel Soldiers Hard to Feed. Grocery " GrOCOrY +... rr 808 IFP---On August 8th, by train se. cldent near tkinson, Chatles, son of Patrick Tif, erprise. PY F. J. Hoag avaane: . Ww. 4° Funeral August 10th. To tig Sa ELD a a p . r TEER be e0e @ The Old Firm of 254 and 256 FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS Tabernacle, 8; Randon Reels. In Court; Frost ¢ Fire; ge by : German Prisoners Bs- From Fort. s Ontario News. noEments Amusements, a. Flying Cosps As 33 Mtary Matters; The- 1d War Camp News; eNews, eo © 8 of Roxane; nus, from the Countryside. (Em Sosmreresn Gi 'Days for West; ming the +. + * > * * *

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