12 PAGES on .. X re YEAR 83 -NO. 214 he KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 19I6 PAGES 18 LAST EDITION THE SERBANS MAKE ADVANCES Cary Blgaran Treckes Mod fit Loss on the Enemy. THE TELTONS PLAN A BIG BALKAN OFFENSIVE TO | STOP THE ALLIES. Bulgaria Insists That Germany Send | 200,000 Men and Austria 100,000 to Help Stem the Allied Advance. | T e Whig) | Pariss Sept 14 -- Continuing their | advance west of Vardar, the Serbi- ans carried Bulgarian trenches ' be- vesn Kovil and Vetrenik, making ogress also 'in | Kaitmatchalon, it was officially an- | friendly relations the direction of | THE WORLD'S NEWS | . IN BRIEF FORM. Tidings From All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed Way. Thomas Nelson Page, U.S.A, am- bassador, is visiting the Italian front. Italy has sent an expeditionary force to aid in the reconquest of Ser- | bia. Fourteen hupdred strike-breakers are to man the New York surface Cars. | Stratford Y.M.C.A. offers a month's membership free to every local re-| {turned soldier. Serbia "is sending an envoy to the United States, having established | * Count Robert de Lesseps, son of| the late Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, | has been killed at the front. ek Minnesota will \ receive approxi- mately $1,250,000 ax an inheritance tax from the estate of James J. Hill. Gen. Korniloff, a Russian. who was' captured in April, 1915, has reached Kieff after escaping from Austria. Sir Sigmund Neumann, the famous FRESH ADVANCE BY FRE NCH NORTH OF SOMME. "GINCHY GuiLLEMonT @ {Germans Fight Desperately fo Stem "the WHY -RENFREW TURNED DOWN HYDRO ELECTRIC Probable Mr. O'Brien's Gener- ous Offer Will Be Ac- - cepted Very Soon. RING OF FIRE AROUND PERONNE | | Renfrew, Sept. 14.--The council and citizens generally interpret the nrajority vote of 14 against the pro- posed agreement with Hydro-Electrie Commission of Ontario, not so much as a dislike to the proposal for the development of the First Chute, but rather as an answer to a leaflet cir- culated on the voting morning set- ting forth thirty well thought-out out reasons "why Renfrew does! not want ,Hyro power on the Bonne- chere," the last question of which | reads: '30 and lastly, are we going} ; to ture down the man who has stood | Fresh German Division Brought!hy Renfrew for years and who large-| From Verdun--All Roads From [ly helped to make it the splendid | Peronne Are Within Range of the (town it is?" | . 4 Mr. O'Brien has on more than one! French Guns. : Waigy + occasion expressed doubts regarding! Paris Sesial 1 Trench artillery | the quantity éf water obtainable from | to-day Is drawing the ring of fire|the Bonnechere, and has further | tighter around Peronne, which is al pointed out that the Hydro Commis- | most entirely cut off from communi- gon mader Ro move to' accommodate] cation with the rest of 'the German rew until he had purchased the | Tide Bat Efforts Vain. THE GREAT EASTWARD PUSH OF GEN. FOCH'S FRENCH ARMY CONTINUES UNCHECKED: : Who in Hard Battles At he GREAT GLORY FOR CANADIANS Somme More Than Their Own. / MEN. FROM THE DOMINION HURL THE FOE FROM FIRST AND SECOND TRENCHES e------ Two Veteran Divisions Are Taking Part In the Great Battle--Have Done Even More Than the Aus tralians, = Lond6n, Sept. 14.--The Canadians are putting up the hardest fight they ever have done in Writing new Rist. ory "Somewhere on the Somme." The name "Somme"" will always be an historic one in Canada. . The Canad- Caldwell power at Calabogie. All| things considered, there is reason to believe that the offer of Mr. O'Brien | | | th 2 - nounced to. South African finapcier and horse p atches from the Somme y. | ma ied | front. Despatches from the Northwest lof Ostrovo Lake, the| po. ied Tuesday at Bournemouth, | d th t t d push ians are now doing things in attack to-day said the great eastwar which they hitherto have done in de- SN 3 L SH FLAucouRy Catan fense. - Serbians after violent fighting, an advamce | guard reaching Solkes Malkanidy. | The Bulgariang suffered heavily. | On the Allies' right wing, from | Vardar to Strama, intermittent can-| nonading continued yesterday, but there were no infantry actions ex- a patrol engagements. Teutons Plan Offensive. (Special To The Whig) { Rome, Sept. 14.--A great Balkan) offensive by the Teutonic powers -is heing planned at the conference now. 'going on at the Kaiser's: headquar- ters. The Bulgarians insisted on this, it is sald. The tentative plans call for Germany sending 200,000] and Austria\l00,000 men to the Bal | kans. > | CEPEEP PEPE L EDEL ILE PE Eb ors STOPPED ADVANCE (Special w the Whig.) London, Sept. 14.-- The dead- lock on the Russian front and in southern Rumania continues. The Russian War Office an- nounced the repulse of German- Bulgar attacks east of the Ru- manian fortress of Silistra. »! *| P4244 ete | | RAUL LAMARCHE RESIGNS (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, Sept, 14. Paul, Lamarche, Conservative Nationalist M.P. for Nicolet, has announced he will te. | sign his seat on September 21st, on| conscientious reasons, stating that as| his electors returned him in 1911 for a five-year term, he cannot remain in office without a fresh election; notwithstanding the extension of the Parliament Act, which he voted against. . 2 ---------------- Amputates Finger To Escape Service, London, Sept. 14.--- Sentence of twelve months' imprisonment, re- duced by the confirming authority to nine months, has been passed on Ber- nard Stockdale, a blacksmith of Cuckney, near Mansfield,. who was tried by court martial at Derby for chopping off .his trigger finger to evade military service, J Canadian Casualties. Died of Wounds--Major A. .E. Mc Laughlin, Bowmanville. ' Wounded F. C. Grant, Cornwall. - nn i mpg PA AG ba NANA. r RE EE - WHIG CONTENTS | : ~The Serbians Advance: The World's News; Ring of Fire Around - Perrone; Glory for Canadians. $--Storrington Fair; The Bffett of the War 3--Family With Record; Great Bottied-Up FI . {torial Notes; Random lS, Sowa: Hospital Loaned; R. s C. Recruits. s of Eastern Ontario. T--Amusements; Announcements The Forum 8 as in Fort Before: Military ters: Theatrical #--Barriefield War Camp News; Mutt and Jef 1 oxane's Confassionsk Menus. Dominion War Loan) Finan- \ tters. 12---The World of Sport. carried - important heights 5 +! pany's plant. # | scribed $500,000 to the war |The Standard Life Insurance Co. has + taken $500,000, and the Ogilvie Mills & are down for $250,000. +|and the New York Railways com- # | panies "rejected the T-ublic 4 Commission's recommendation for a #| strike settlement. Col. \Milligan, 18th. Battalion 4 o Victoria Hospital, As tho. N M.P. For Nicolet, lowing an operation, 3 e ationalist -{. Speaking honor of the Premier of Newfound- land, Bonar Law, the Co Sec | retary, said: ZOleual | not within sight, erffment to make rovisions a Rumanian > feaingt ter the declaration of war, lon Col Sam) camp opened this morning. A grbip of enemy seaplanes at-| tacked Venice Tuesday, dropping a| number of incendiary and explosive! bombs. The Dutch Standard oil steamer Antwerpen, oil laden, eleven thousand | tons, was sunk on her way to Lon- don fr¥m Boston. { The French Government through | Sir Max Aitken, has invited a party | of Canadian journalists from London | to visit the French lines next week. | The Provincial Anglican Synod of} Ontario endotsed the revised Book of | Common Prayer, except the form of recitation of the Athapasian Creed. | Another victim has been added | to the list of killed in the Quebec ridge tragedy on Monday, bringing | the list of dead up to thirteen. At Port Colborne contracts have been let to the Foundation Company, | Limited, of New York and Montreal, for the International Nickel Com- J. Q. L. Ross, Montreal, has sub- 15 loan. The Interborough Rapid Transit i Service Mys. H: L. Milligan, wife of Lieut.- in eommani' of the at the front, died at| London, Ont., fol-| at a London luncheon in "The end fis perhaps but it ig coming." There is intense indignation in Hungary over the failure of the Gov- C. advance immediately af. Time and time again, at Combles Wednesday, the Bavarian prince hurled his infantry legions against the French tide, only to be swept @ Ck by the soldiers under General Fayolle, native of the, Picardy, who rushes. forward with the bitter ten- ¥y of men fighting f, Melty of mn g g for their hearth St St VOTING AT CAMP RORDEN On The British Columbia Elections And Referendums. : (Special To The Wiig) Camp Borden, Sept. 14.--Voting in British Columbia provineial elec- tion and on questions of woman suf- frage and prohibition for British bia residents serving with + +» * * + + * * Capt. Lou E. Marsh, 180th Battalion, | ¢ was _D.R.O. _At-least-fifty were-here $ eligible but till noon the voting had been exceedingly light only nine votes having been cast. : General feeling among the men seemed to be strongly against the Bowser government, but little was heard concerning the prohibition and woman suffrage questions, although few were inclined against prohibi- tion. In Minor ( ' (Special To The Whi London, Sept. 14.--The British army in Mesopotamia, which has been inactive for several months on account of the intense heat, has en- gaged in a few minor operations re- cently, which resulted successful for the British. Th b= two miles along a four mile front. they have crossed well beyond the Bapaume- determined to ejec: | Called to the Bar--He Passed With N Fo : High Honors. Edgar Lafayette Barriefield camp, from Ontario, Law School with hon-! ors, silver medal and the Christopher |bull, a prize winner at the Sherbrooke Robinson scholarship, . was cig) other young barristers. cock was warmly, congratulated by Dr. John Hoskin, treasurer Law Society, on his exceptional re- cord. The Prices at Which the Various - Features Go. 2 Atchison |. Reading . . Union Pacific #vasonda Comper I~ 8 Cement . . ...i.... 63 | Canada 39 B Canadian Gen. Elec..118% ngs) U J ASSEVILLERS § § A SEVALLEF S; RR J SELLOVI o ---- The French have made a great advance to a depth of By taking Bouchavesnes line from Peronne and They are now five miles from Peronne, and are the enemy by a flanking movement. PRIZE BULL GO ; MASTER! TO DEATH Sherbrooke Fair is Upset . Said Accident on the Pub- lic Hinhway. SERGT. BABCOCK OF 136TH (Special to the Whig) Toronto, Sept. 14.--Sergt. Charles Babcock, of the 6th Battalion, Brockville, now at' who «graduated | Sherbrooke, Sept. 14.--A furious to] fair, suddenly attacked its master ree | and gored him to death on the pub- e Bar to-day with | twenty-t Sergt. Bab-| lic highway, L. M. Parker, a resident of North Hatley, and one of the large exhibitors of cattle at the eastern township fairs was the vietim. Mr. Parker, owing to the short distance between Sherbrooke and his stock farm, had adopted the habit of trans- porting his exhibits the King's highway. He as. raing home | with his cattle when.one of the bulls | suddenly ran amuck' and attacked its | attendant, Mr. Parker was killed while trying to succor his employee. 177% | 37% . 105 5 | rR 110 | Times' Expert of the NEW YORK STOCKS. cial To The (Specia Whig) - New York, Sept. 16 : Close. P. R. "RUMANIA'S DANGER" Discusses Hinden- 112% burg's Probable Strategy. 142% | London, Sept. 14.--The Times' 90 - military correspondent discusses the 106% | 64 [von Hindenburg, the new German 36% | chief of staff, under the Caption "Ru- mania's Danger." The water expres- ges the belief that the German leader ill adopt a defensive policy in the west and gather an important Army in an effort to repeat Germany's per- p | formance against Serbia. + | "We Allies," says the cofrespond- # ent, "must in this case come to the 4 | aid of Rumania with all our might. #| This does not mean we should allow * our strategy to be deflected, but that | rather that the settled plan of the * [Allies should be pursued with in- # | creasing energy and determination. #| To fly about the world to any point #| where Von Hindenburg is beyond us 4 in an act of folly. The best means + of helping 'Rumania is by 'continuing + on all fronts our general attack with # | increasing means and: increasing ob- | stinacy. Our.main efforts must be jon the principal fronts where our { main armies are." National League. jo War asia Boston, 7-11; Chicago, 3-6. a Pittsburgh, 6; Brooklyn, 3, | A Berlin desbatch says a Rfssian | destroyer was sunk by Berlin naval New York, 3; Cincinnati, 0. - St. Louis, 7-4; Philadelphia, 4-5. |2eroplanes in a raid on Riga Bay - ~ Tuesday night. 1 { Bulgarians have - occupied the vam Jaague. tGreek city of Kavala, taking the hi i | Greek garrison prisoners. Chicago, 8; St. Louis, 8 (ten inn-| Reports from the British and | French fronts state Germans in coun- | ter-attacks Wednesday failed to re- cover the Allied gains. {| Russians captured 900 Teutons | Wednesday on the Galician front, {where further progress-was made to- ye Lemberg. : ' Steel eel of Canada eamships . id Bid Car ot A NEW RECORD '(Special to the Whig.) New York, Sept. 14--Records were smashed again today in a wave of public buying 'on the New Yark Stock Exchange. U.S. Steel, common, swung into the market leadership , again and shortly before noon established another new high record price at 106%. The previous high was 105%. ' BASEBALL ON WEDNESDAY. . ? - Cleveland, 8; Philadelphia, 4. International League. Bu lo, trea), 5-12. chmond, 10; Newark, 1. "Rochester, 8-4; Toronto, 7-3. probable strategy of Field Marshal of Gen. Foch's men in the last forty- eight hours has placed all roads 'from Peronne within range of the French - guns. Supplies can be brought into the ,city only under cover of night-dlong the roads enter- ing from the egst. The Germans counter-attacked de- sperately yesterday afternoon in vain attempts to throw back -the French from the new positions north-west of Peronne. At no one single point in the present fighting have the German losses been so severe as in yester- days' counter-attacks south-east of Bouchavesnes. The Germans have shifted more troops from Verdun to the Somme front in an effort to check Gen. Foch's forces closing in upon Per- onne. The War Office announced to-day that yesterday's ineffective counter- attack against the'southern extremity of Hill 76, north-west. of Peronne, was led by a fresh German division hastily transferred from Verdun. The Germans made several more attacks at the same point last night, but were completely repulsed, West of Chaulnes one German company was caught under French fire and practically annihilated. On the north-eastern front of Verdun, the French easily repulsed several at- tacks against the new French posi- tions on Vaux<Chapitre frout. Progress by British, . ° Special to the Whig) London! Sept. 1 The British last night made further progress 'north of Ginchy, thus co-operating with the French in the movement to encircle Combles, the principal point of support of the German line be- tween Peronne and Bapaume. Gene- ral Haig 'this afternoon announced this new gain,"and also a successful raid near Souchez, where the British took somé prisoners. | | Pept tbe b eb eb ee DOING FINE WORK. (Special te the Whig.) Paris, Sept. 14.--The French troops have carried the Ger- mans' third line of trenches be- tween Combles and Peronne, which aré both now encircled by Allied troops. Twenty-three hundred German pri3oners were f¢ken in the last two days," also ten guns" and several machine guns. rhb Erbe beta tet i | | ~ A VERY CLOSE CALL Kaiser's Sefond Son Missed Death by : Feet. Paris, Sept. 14.--Prince Eitel Fritz, the Kaiser's second son, came within a few feet of death in the Som- me battle, according to Le Journal. was quartered in the chateau in the village of Temple la Fosse, 12 miles from the French lines, trained a 16- inch naval gun upon the chateau and blew it to pieces with 65 shells. Pri- soners taken yesterday stated that the first shell struck the side wing of the chateau a few feet from the map- room, where the Kaiser's son was working with his staff. \ x London, Sept. 14.--Lieut. Polner, a young Danish military aviator, ac- cording to a Copenhagen despatch, is planning to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane of 350 horse-power. Lieut. Polmer expects the duration of the flight from Farce Island to Newfoundland to be thirty hours, and the whole trip to New York forty-eight hours. 1 A May Send Prisoners to Switzerland. The French upon learning that he Two veteran divisions of Can- | adians have more than upheld their | feputation. They have "made good" along with the cream of Britain's fighting - regiments, somewhere in A this fighting Zone. The losses have Soldiers Put Blenheim Officer | not bean NEL, ageording. En that reaches me, but in that friendly Under Pump and Give Him | rivalry of fighting for the empire we a Ducking. - have dene all that Australia did, per- haps more. . Until messages fram will be accepted. TAKE REVENGE ON .- CHIEF OF- POLICE Blenheim, Sept. 14.--A large num- the froat ber of soldiers from here who were home for the five days' leave took revenge on Chief of Police Fagan at! an early hour yesterday morning. Canada some idea of what our men They have been complaining that| have been doing, the policeman wrote to the officers | = in charge of the battalion while so Firing Is Heavy. . many. were home on harvest fpr! ,4 of the first divisional engin- lough, and stated that a large per- | eers from Manitoba, writing from the centage of them were not farming, ....0'sront a few days ago, said: but loafing in town. The boys re- "We are in it, and I guess you sented this interference, and poune- | . ed on the chief shortly after mid. know where I have been, in the first # line trenches, we took night, and, placing a sack ov is | and second | s : head and shoulders so that he could from the Germans. and in a great { crater we blew up. It was very in- not see who they were, they carried | : $e: him to the Sheldon House pump and | teresting but very horrible. I am a took turns at pumping the cold water | bit stiff from lying on wet ground. over him, pumping | The weather hag been fierce. 'We He was then left to wriggle out 6 have been always soaked to the skin, the sack as best he could The sol-|but I am O.K, so far, being just diers-left on the return journey to stiffened up a bit. 1 : camp. | "You women in England and Can- SL ------ | ada must be doing great work at BIG PULP MILLS | home night and day. . -"Always, shells are ng over our FOR THE WEST |, 21" » fying Re 'F. Whalen, heads, and have never Jom or Hansa ted @ anything like it though I have been of Vancouver, Will Open im. cannot say more, but the following from one of my friehds will give more than a year in the sal- ient. You can't sleep for the row. {1 am most deaf from the horrible | nos. ding a few shells Vancouver, t. 14. --George F.| The Huns are sending a few she Whahsouver. Sem capitalist, ge is| over our bivouacs, but have not got head of big pulp concerns in Ontario | any of us yet. I stood on a ridge and and British Columbia, has completed | watched a scrap the other night. It financial arrangements with Eastern! is wonderful how one forgets Jal Canadian associates for the opening about the shells dropping around. of great pulp . limits at Quataine| -------------- Sound and Swanson Bay, in addi- tion to the present works of his com- pany at Howe Sould: b , A new plant will e opened at " Swanson Bay, with a capacity of thir- Farmer's Barns, ty tons of fibre daily. At Quataine! Chatham, Ont., Sept. 14.--Fred. Sound, production of 120 tons daily Tousignant, Tilbury, arrested for set- will be handled by the Colonial Pulp ting fire to buildings on the farm of and Paper Mill, a two and a qalt W. 8. Marlett, entailing a loss of million dollar corporation. In the $2,600, will be tried on Friday. The new works upwards. of one thousand Prisoner is charged with firing Mar- men will be employed. : lett's property out of revenge against . ------ -- "w+ 4he farmer who set os dogs on > 3 ENSURED. Tousignant when the ry man PACE 15 ENSURED insisted on' courting Martlett's Unity daughter Tousignant, who Sacaped % to Detroit, was inveigled by a r a. | written by the daughter to return Paris, Sept. 14--A lasting and '0 Tilbury, when he was arrested, durable peace, imposed by #n Allied According to the police. : victory, has been ensured by thé es- he tablishmient of complete unity among! . .. ect MGS the Allies, which has put the Teu- aa Sd nastics Thebes: tonic powers entirely on the defen- ment that the Japanese Fo Min. sive," Premier Briand declared to- ister had informed' him ign was day before the Chamber of Deputies. . : nothing in Japan's apon The intervention of Rumania and China in connection with the C g- Italy's declaration of war against Chiatun incident that infringed ¢ Germany have complefed- the: sohdar- | ove refenity v1 CHINE oF impaired the ity of action of the Allies," said thé Root-Takahira agreement, * Prime Minister. : in "The Allies have intervened x : Greece for the double purpose of pro- DAILY MEMORANDUM tecting their expeditionary corps and] ge, top of page 3, right hand corner conserving Greece's own interests." | for probabilities. : mm Billy Matheson Tnesting. Queen st SANITARIUM ACQUIRED. 0, § p.m. All wi 8B. 8. Ha ---- | Methodist Provision for Tuberculous Soldiers LURED BACK BY LETTER. Vengeful Swain Charged With Firing By the Establisliment of Remember . Brock $t church annual tea on Oetober Sth, West of Great Lakes. { 14.--The Rocky DIED, south of the a a et Septamber. 13th, " Sylvbster Perry & * ck. been acquired at a nominal rental Funeral at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, from the Franco-Canadian Collieries Friundy and soquaintaness are invited Company by the Military Hospitals ' | . Commission. as a sanitarium' for the OOKLEY-dn Kingston, at 103 Clergy : i street, W.'on Sept. 14th, 1916, Mary treatment of tuberculous soldierg De- | Elizabeth, wife of Thomas G. Ock- longing to the Prairie Provinces, The hr sanitarium® ns sixty rooms and Funeral (private) has a magnificent situation. In con- nection with sanitaria rae k : duired at Minette, Man and ot Trane. BOBERT J. REID Phone 577. 280 Princess Street Ottawa, Sept. tain quilla, eight miles west of y the new sanitarium will 3 a the feturned Aoldiers erin rom tuberculosis whose homes are west of the Great Lakes. wh me JAMES R) 1 y -- 254 res J hay 147 for Ambulance. Wednesday,