1 TN J clash. Ne __ YEAR 84: NO. 100 THE BRITISH TUR THE "WOTAN nts (Special to the By William Philip Simms. - # With the British Armies have turned the German Oppy. believed to be the northe fence front, was captured to- \rieux, a tele further to the British assault. > Information from other sed tng the spot from whieh this de mg on a tremendous scale of ine nsity. rressing alter The armies on both sides swayed back and forth in the Yeux it was still prog struggle. rne lalesigreport to-day sh sion of hall of Oppy and : ir ol Arleux, and beating back desper- ate German couner-attacks. Steady Stream of Around Gavrelle, Haig's off steady stream of prisoners from this bloods" angle we er being shifted back of the To the south, lines, as part of were thrown toward Greenland Hill. ab massed German forces, an trench running south of the Searpe. hte tremendous blows launched by the Germans. literal melting away of the German attackers in the face of a murderous machine gun fire and the steel curtain of British ar- tillery stopped the desperate en «man losses are staggering in these attacks. At the prese nt moment the most bitter was apparently in progress in the woods to the west of Roeux There the front was literally Just above the Searpe. mowed down by KotH lors fire rivule ts of blood, in bitter confliet" tack again. forward. Meanwhile the Br \tield. Wotan hne. srnmost town of this German de- north. his g the German madly attacked. then thrown baek Whig.) ZN, British troops! Hall of the villige of April day in desperately hot fighting. also tell to the tremendous tions of the British front reach- spatceh is written, detailed fight- Around Oppy and Ar- a night of never-ceasing owed the British still in posses- German Prisoners. ensive is still gaining ground. antic push, Haig's troops They struck hard and fast d swarmed over ito a German There they stuck fast des- Not even the emy connter-thrusts. The Ger- fighting, however, being and the moss stained red with were locked only to reform and at- ilish inched further and further A PROPOSAL TO CUT COST OF OF PARLIAMENT me: Northrup WA Will Ask for Committee to Devise Ways of Reduction. Ottata, April 28.--W. B. North- rup of East Hastings, has given no- tice of a resolution asking for a special committee of the Commons, "consisting of nine members, five to be named by the leader of the Gov- ernment and four by the leader of the Opposition, to consider ways and means of reducing the cost of Par- liamert. Mr "Northrup believes that if the two parties can come together and cut out a lot of the political sniping, sessions of Parliament can be materially shortened and the cost of legislation considerably reduced THE STOCK MARKETS, The Prices Quoted on the New York Exchange. New York Stocks. Open 10335 6% 161 Close. 103% 761% 160 Atchison B&O C.P.R Erie 2T% Erie pid vin 411% Penna 51 Reading . ° 06% St. Paul R15 vr 37% Marine Marine pfd Beth. Steel, U. 8S. Steel Inter Nickel . Anaconda Semds Bread to Soldiers, Berne, Switzerland, April 28. Since the beginning of the war Italy has sent 16,399,325 peunds of bread through Switzerland to Italian pris- oners of war in Austria. Isaac Pitblado, barrister, of Win: ,nipeg, will be the chairman of the University board of governors of the Legislature -------------- a i a ~~ WHIG CONTENTS. Funeral of Duchess Views Captains of the Shell Indus. ey pening of Tataraqu way and Bridge Maple Sugar Time in Canad Bish Torn "Woian Ed tors, Talk Peace: weraoy Urittelzed -4 hure 'h Services: So T=" Happen'ngs: Eh is Were F $--Editorial Notes: Reels $~Sacred Mus'cade Given: ter [Ii Liewt. Lanos, 18--Kastern Ontari¢ News lI Amusements Announcements; 12-MEMary Matters; Theat: cal Then - 13--Books and Their ay on. Wak oh H--Loosl 'Happenings: Confession; Activities Women. Ho hig Serial Dog Star' 18--fn The Automolile Werk. 17--ing Edward Hit Kaiser; New © : 18--iAgriouttural Page. Latest Markets. Pagdad « ti) Lav! Aai- ® al News Two Random Let Autlrors: Roxame's of - Story "The | MORE PAY. RECOMMENDED. For All Vesselmen, Except Captains, | on Great Lakes, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28.--An ex- | tensive increase in wages for all ves- | selmen, except captains, on the Great | Lakes, is recommended in a report of a sub-cofimittee of the executive committee of the Lake Carriers' As- sociation, appointed at a meeting of the executive committee about two weeks ago to work out recommenda- " LINE Capture Half of Vilage of Oppy---Arleux Also Falls to British---The Fighting is cn a Tremendous Scale. tions for a wage scale for the season for all the men employed on the boats, excepting the captains li The sub-committee recommends a | general advance in wages all along ' the line, from chief engineers to coal passers and ordinary seamen. The wages of the masters will be fix- ed by the different fleets, The gen- eral increase in wages shows an | average of about 20 per cent. while in some instances they run as high | | as forty per cent. The wages of en- gineers and mates were advanced | from $20 to $25 per month; firemen, | ) Water tenders, and able seamen, $12 per month, and ordinary seamen, $10 ' per month. - ------ INQUIRING INTO MARRIAGE White Girl Under Fourteen Wedded To Negre Now in Jail, y London, Ont, April 28. --Inspector Joseph Sanders of the ~ Children's | Aid Society is seeking Information | from Toronto as to the circumstances surrounding the marriage of Mar- garet Robinson and James Lawson, the girl being a white girl less than fourteen years of age, and the man a negro, who is now serving a term in jail for having a quantity of lig- | wor in his possession. The case came to light when the License Inspector "and the police searched Lawson's house at 68 Maitland street. | "As We Forgive--" | London, April 28 --A dozen chil- dren; lean from came out of the cellar schogl near battle rubbish mock the si of thousands of homes and, going to the shell-smashed crucifix at the cross- roads knelt to say their prayers. A Belgian officer without any insignia of rank stood near, absorbed in iden- tifying the defonation of the distant German gums: The children said their prayers as far as "forgive us our frepasses as * * *." Then there "was silence, for they could say no more. The Belgian officer concluded the petition, "forgive us our. trepass- es as we forgive them that trepass against us." The Belgian officer was Albert, the King. Want r Bread "Rations, Copenhagen, April 28.--At Mal mo, Sweden, 30,000 people took part in a demonstration before the Town Hall, at Which demands were made for a commercial agreement with England, larger bread rations and a discontignance of food exports. The institution of an eight-hour day also Sis0 as demanded. All tramways ceased running during the afternoon while the demonstration was in pro- gress. Similar demonstrations on a smaller seale occurred at Gothen- burg and Hernosand. semi-starvation, ting News. Fooal. 19-Sdience Notes: 8 20-Dust Produce Leslie Jewell has bought the resi- KINGSTON, ONT INTARIO, DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA DRC -- ---- ---- 'Lack of efficient means of the food shortage in many parts SAT URDAY, APRIL 28, 1917 i. | PR le Sr GN PAGES 5-12 rind ne | The Daily British Whig ery {HOPES U. S. ARMY WILL SOON BE READY "Gustave Merve Expects 'Record- i | | | IY { | indeed, | | { ing, { organizing and equipping | that breaking Feat; in Sending Force to Front. Paris, April 28 -- "America's rep- utation for beating records inspires many writers here with confidencé she will startle the world by { the form and rapidity of her inter- | vention in the war' The ever- sanguine Gustave Hervé in La Vie- torie, referring to the report that America will send a million men in a year's time, exclaims: "We hope, that in a year Germany will be on her knees. If our American friends desire to spare an outpouring of French blood it is not in a year's | time they will hurry to our aid, but at the end of this summer. We can never believe a nation so sport-lov- so rapid, would be incapable of an army of thousand in thre> well for old three hundred months. It is all very France, fettered down by bureau- cracy, to spend two or three years training her young men in barracks. But young America, if she takes | more than three months to organize among other reasons. has been largely responsible for transport, Int mgmy places the rdilways have only a single line and of Russia. are besides needed by the military authorities for the transport of troops and supplies for the army and can do little work for the ci ern Russia, and Austrian prisoners of war are helping to distribute the much needed food to the women and children. THE FRENCH CAPTURE 26,780 | PRISONERS. Since April 16th -- Germans | Try to Relieve Pressure on St. Quentin. (fpecial to the Whig) Paris April 28 Since April 16th, Gen. Nivelle"s advancing French | troops have taken 26,780 prisoners | and 175 guns--including many of the heaviest calibres--412 machine | guns and 119 trench mortars, today's official statement declared. Of today's fighting the War Office | reported French raids in several sec- | tions and numerous German counter- | attacks all along the fighting front. "We raided German trenches in the region of Hill 304", the state-| ment said. "West of the Meuse during Right we brought back prisoners. erman troops attacked east of! Auberive, but were repulsed, | "Artillery was very active between | the St. Quentin and the Oise and. in the |established without involving any ad- | Champagne." Today was the second day ef the] German effort to relieve the pressure by the French troops encircling St. Quentin by tremendous artillery fire vain. attacks. BLAMES HER ENEMIES Germany Will Try Hard Factories Going. {Special to the Whig) The Hague, April 28.--Ge rmany vlames her enemies for much of the industrial discontent now apparent. "Because of this suspicion, it was | hinted that the Government was tak-| ing drastic measures to prevent any stoppage of work in munitions fae- tories, Apparently May Day is nev- ertheless awaited with considerable apprehension Unrest due te the curtailment of food, to war weariness and the desire for franchise reform ' is aiding in the plan w To Keep Favor a Strike. (Special to the Whig.) Amste rdam April 28 Directly contrary to the government's appeals, the Socialist minorities in the Reich- stag and the Prussian Landtag have | adopted resolutions favoring a gen- eral strike on May Day according to| Berlin dispatches today. For St. Mary's Dogs. St. Mary's April 28 --At the last meeting of the St. Mary's Town Council a by-law was passed requir- ing that all dogs must have a collar giving the owner's name, and a li- cense tag. All dogs within the mun. / icipality without these Fequirements will be shot after May 15th next. To Visit Ottawa. ) Ottawa, April 28._The Anglo- French mission to the States will visit Canada towards the end of May. { Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, F. Mar-| shall Joffre and Vice-Premier Vivi- ani, will be the guests of the Duke of Devonshire here. { | of London, | tion must be the basis of our future | AGAINST ENCROACHMENTS ON | conference must be incorporated in- | tural | Illnois has given 800 Canada | winning wheat | contingent, } men, district in | night, have served six months . Used For | iamentary Committee on care of re- ysaid it was being used to assist re-/ * nihilated. ! south of Montezuma, vilian population. The scene of the above picture is a town in South- ~ . olde. CERMAN EDITORS ~ TALKING PEACE Germany is Ready Qui Without Asking Any Russian Teritoy. T0 ASK FOR GUARANTEES om LLOYD GEORGE'S VIEW. Dominions Have Established Claims to Real Partnership. London, April 28.--Speaking i {the Commons receiving the freedom Premier Lloyd George, {dealing with the question of the id: | ture government of the Empire, said: "When the reconstruction time | comes I hope and pray that we will not dive into dusty pigeonholes in| searching: for precedents for our, programmes "There is a great need for refision | | of our ideas and our attitude toward that great commonwealth of nations called the British Empire. The yt minions have established claims to real partnership. Effective pio co-operation. HER OWN TERRITORY "Our experiment of an - Imperial | sap As Necessary to Any Peace Agree- ment--A Number of Berlin Ngws- papers Express Similar Sentiments. ASpecial to the Whig.) Copenhagen, April 28--QGermany's conservative newspapers are now dition to the cost of our food." | talking guarantees against encroach- { ments on Germany's territory as ne- 800 CHICAGO STUDENTS | cessary to any peace agreement. To- Are Coming To , Canada To Work On| day the Vossische Zeitung (Berlin) carried a long editorial discussing Farms, Chicago, April 28._The Agricul-| the semi-official Vienna declaration that Austrfa was will ng to forego College of the University of | all annexation plans in the event of to the fabric of the Empire. It will] | mean fuller development of the vast | worid-wide resources uhder the Brit- | ish flag. { "The system of preference can be 1 students to to bel harvest the '"'war-} » erop."" The first | peace. composed of neatly 500 "It is quite different in Germany, left Chicago for the Saskatoon the newsnape- asserted. 'Our armies Western Canada last invaded Russia. Nevertheless Ger- many is ready 'or peace without tak- ing Russian territory. But she must have territorial guarantees." A 'number of other Berlin news- papers expressed similar sentinients. The Canadian Government guar- antees the boys a minimum wage of $50 a month and board, it pays two- thirds on their railroad fare in Can- ada, and promises each of them a homestead of 160 acres after they harvesting APPEAL TO RUSSIAN JEWS Jews im U.S. Ask Them (0 Oppose Separate Peace. Washington, April 28 American Jews, headed by Logis Marshall and including Henry Morgenthau, Jacob Schiff, Oscar Straus, Julins Rosen- wald, as representatives of the Amer- ican Jewish committee has joined n sending to Foreign Minister Milu- koff at Petrograd, a cable imploring Russian Jews fo oppose any step which might lead to a separate peace between Russia, and the Central Powers, Such a step, . the appeal says, would lead to restoration of an autocratic government and degrada- tion of the Jews in Russia, below even their former condition. i the 1917 crop. GIFT OF $100.000, Soldiers--Present James Carruthers, Ottawa, April 28 --Before the Par- From i turned soldiers reference was made to a gift of $100,000 given to the | Hospitals Commission by James Car- ruthers, of Montreal. Mr. Scammell turned soldiers. Vv illa Traps Murgia. } El Paso, Tex., April 28. --Villa, with a force of §,000 men is report- ed to have captured Gen. Murgia, with 3,500 men, who are being an- Bridges were burned and railroad tracks destroyed north and 3 ONLY 2314 INCHES TALL Smallest Woman on Stage Dies in . New York. New York, April 28 --Sylvia Wil- les, better knowa as "Princess Vie- { toria," and the "Midget Melba" who died here yesterday was said to be the smallest woman on the stage. She weighed 19% pounds and was 5% inches tall. She was bora in | Melbourne, Australia, nineteen years | AO. Miss Willes was noted in » vaude- Broken Off Relations. rSpecial to the Whie) Washington, April 28.--Guate- mala has broken relations with Ge many and handed the German min-! ister his passports it was officially announfed by the State Department! today. ! ville circled for her ability as a sing- ler and performer on a number of | musical instruments. It is said that lat one time she earned as much as {$15,000 a week. WILL BOOST COAL PRICES | mie Increase in Pay to Anthracite Miners in US. New York, April 28. Coal men | estimate that the wage increase | granted to 175,000 miners in the an- ! thracite fields will raise the retail | price of hard. coal an average of § minty cents a ton. {- The agreement signed by repre- | sentatives of the Jpjfatons apd the | Sntsed Mine Wor America ds approximately $30,000,000 a { year to the miners' wageg and 1% the | largest increase awarded in the his- | tory 'of the anthracite. industtry. Still 'Sinking Neutral Ships. The Hague, April 28.-- There is MAP SHOWING HINDENBURG'S FINAL RETREAT. Showing that Hindenburg is going back and making an endeavor to keep his battlefront at right angles . which is highly desirable and must be done to prevent disaster. The route | week. taken by the Germans during their victorious adyance is the route they must now take on their return. The big activity by German to the main lines of communication' and Danish ships Were sunk this 'Chinese restaurants have the arrows show the direction of the fur- right to "gmploy white girls the On- | prevent the Germans having a - The British Strike | her divisions of infantry her reputa- | tion | year, in one months in Europe is lost. Not but in three or four French, British and American air- craft should be so abundant as to ngle s aeroplane aloft. ANOTHER LITTLE CRAWL. | New German Terms More "Definite and Moderate." Amsterdam, April 28 --Tyd pub- lishes the following statement from its correspondent in Germany, who usually is reliable: "If I am not misinformed, German peace terms will be set forth more definitely ih a speech which the chan- cellor will deliver in the Reichstag during the coming month. These terms, it appears, will be moderate and acceptable." A kind of circular letter has been sent by the Kaiser's chancellor. to various' state governments in Ger- many, 'pointing out that strikes have taken place in certain works which are of great importance for carrying on the war. '"The operations of the governmental authorities," -says Bethmann Hollweg, "must take ac- tion against such criminal disorders. All who are so disloyal and have so lost a sense of honor as to take part in such movements must be punished as severely as possible." ITALIANS' GREAT FEAT. Transported Serblan Army Through Infested Waters. " Rome, April "28. --Official figures now available show thatthe trans- portation of the Serbian army to safety was a great task and that it was accomplished almost entirely by Italian warships and merchant sels. These conveyed and ill through fested Adriatic, 11,6514 wounded the submarine-in- besides 130,841 sol- diers taken to Corfu -and 4100 to Biserta. To do this, 303 trips were made, while seventeen trips were re- quired to transport cavalry and fif- teen to take prisoners and food sup- plies. - Nineteen times the convoys were attacked, but each time the enemy Was frustrated through the alertness of the Italian destroyers SECRECY IS ENJOINED Warning to Canadian Officers and Men in England. London, April 28. --The Canadian Associated. Press understands a strict warning has been issued to Canadian officers and men in England against divudging informatjon regarding the size and the date of departure of drafts to France. It is true, the Canadian Press also learns, that women cooks and wait- resses are to be supplied by the Vomen's Legion fer duty in the Can- adian military hospitals and nursing homes. Wines Still High, - Paris, April 28.--Great Britain's latest extension of the list of prohib- ited importations will affect French foreign trade to the amount of 700,- 000.000 trincs a year, it is estimated. The City of Lyons will alone lose trade in silks to the amount of 126;- 000,000 francs a year. Bordeaux is also very hard hit by the limitation of importations of claret info the United Kingdom to one-fourth of the average quantity. This provision, however, has not yet reduced the prices of wine in Europe. _-- Tremendous Blow Special to the Whig. ves- |. LAST EDITION THE ADMIRALTY 13 CRITICIZED Charged With Failore to Cope With Energy With Submarine Menace THE BRITISH PUBLIC FAILS TO TAKE TO 'THE VOLUNTEER RATIONING PLAN. Complete Information of Submarine Losses Is Necessary to Force Recs ognition 6f Need for Economy in Food. London, April Not of Winston Churchill's occu- pancy of the post of first lord of the admiralty the British naval ad- ministration been under such fire as that turned loose by all the British press today The newspapers were unanimous in the belief that the admiralty was not meeting the submarine war with sufficient energy Also there was widespread discontent over the with- holding from the people of informa- tion as to losses through the un- dersea boats, the general opinion being that the average Briton was being lulled into false security and not being impelled to necessary sac- rifices through such a course 28.~ since the days nas nearly Rationing Plan Not Popular. In the face of big losses to mer chantmen shown in the recent in complete weekly statement, and ap- proach of summer @yith better sea conditions for submarine warfare, the British public nave failed so far to take to, the volunteer rationing plan. _ Statistics announced by the food ministry show a per capita con- sumption of bread of six pounds weekly instead of the four urged as the limit The same lack of proper conservation of food supplies has been shown in other staples. Newspaper comment was for the most part directed at the fallacy of the government policy which would withhpld information on losses by German submarines, when complete information of this kind [ss vitally necessary to force public recognition of the need for economy in food. The admiralty was bitterly assailed for failure to make a greater shewing against the menhce. War Tidings. German losses on River, not including Arras, ured at 235,000 Lloyd George tells the British to stick to their rations and build lots 'of ships Several more German. fliers have been brought down in air battles French troops are making further gains near St. Quentin Important posts have been taken the Aisne are fg- The Germans Losing Heart. Copenhagen, April 28. --German troops on the western front are los- ing heart Many have been shot for desertion. The rations are very scant. V. McKian associate editor of the Insurance Post, Chicago, and fornferly of Perth, has been appoint- ed secretary of the fire insurance branch of the Chicago clean-up cam- paign, which commenced. April 23rd James Gibson, who recently re- tired from the office of Sheriff for Prince Edward County on account of ill health, is now cgnfined to his bed Pp. 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