BR Sr A A Hae 12 PAGES YEAR 84: NO. 114 TURKEY OFFERS | RUSSIA TERMS { DECLARED TO BE DISPOSED { | TO GIVE FRIENDLY CONSIDER-{ ATION TO ARMENIANS. | The Pope Is Informed by the Apos-| 3 session of the council of ministers. | tolic | Delegate at Constantinople That the Turks May Raze The| Holy City. . Rome, May 15.--The Idea Nazion-: ale, the organ of the Nationalist | party, prints a report from diploma-| tic quarters that Turkey has made! overtures to Russia through a neu- tral source for a separate peace on the basis of the complete opening of dhe straits to Russian navigation, both for war and merchant vessels. According to this report Turkey also declares herself disposed to give friendly consideration to the Armen- lan question and" suitable recogni- tion to the principle of nationalities. - Turks May Raze Holy City. 1 Rome, May 15.--The Apostolic} Delegate at Constantinople has in-f formed the Pope that the Turks have! gained the consent of Germany to raze the city of Jerusalem in case there is any danger of the British oc- cupying tiie Holy City. The Pope enquired in Berlin and Vienna, and was informed that mili- tary reasons might justify the de- struction of the Holy City. The Teu- tonic excuse for such an act would be that "the' allies have announced the purpose to dismember Turkey." | Then the Pope contemplated ap-! pealing to'the allies to stop their ad- vance toward Jerusalem. "It is fear- od is the utmost danger that the last vestige of the Holy City will be lost, or the Turks have long awaited a pretext to wipe it out, TENMS OF SETTLEMENT OF IRISH QUESTION Are to be Transmitted on Wed- nesday to the Irish Leaders. ) ' (Special to the Whi PETAIN TO COMMAND ALL FRENCH FORCES he Buily KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, AY | HAZARDOUS WORK OF CANADIAN Ais eins ---- ----r-- Foch Becomes Chief of Staff] --Nivelle. to Command Certain Army Groups. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, May 15.--QCen. Petain was French armies with supreme com- | mand ef the forces in-the field. Gen. Foch, one of the heroes of the Marne, | | | who commanded the French centre! at that memorable battle, was nam- ed to succeed Gen. Petain as chief of staff. Gen. Nivelle, who has been in command of the French field forces, | will have command of the certain army groups. The sweeping changes | in the commands of the French fighting forces were decided upon at | JOSEPH H. CHOATE DEAD Away Suddenly. ® LATE JOSEPH H. CHOATE New. York, May 15.--Joseph H. Choate, former United States ambas- sador to Great Britain, died last night. Mp: Choate had been ill only sincé morning. He had taken a very active part in the entertainment in this city of the British and French war missions, and attended services at the Cathedral of St. John the Di- vine with Foreign Minister Balfour on Sunday. BATTLEPLANE SENDS ZEPPELIN INTO SEA L-22 Attacked While Ap- proaching British Coast, Destroyed With Orew. London, May 15. --@ritieh naval opces destroyed Zeppelin 1-22 in 2.) olor J London, May 15,--Premier Lloyd the North Sea yesterday morning, George will transmit the terms of a settlement of the Irish question de-; vised by the Government to the Irish | leaders to-morrow, Chancellor of | of the Exchequer Bonar Law an- nouticed in the House of Commons | according to an official issued by the Admiralty. A despatch to the Star from the east coast says news was received early ths morning that the L-22 was approaching the coast. A squad- statement today. What the Government's pro- fron of naval aircraft went in pursuit. posals for settlement are were no: disclosed by Bonar Law. Those in touch with the situation today said it was by no means certain these Proposals would be accepted by the \rish Nationalists, but may lead to further concessions on both sides. when the Government's plans have | been made public, | | | A TORPEDO MISSED BY ONLY TWO FEET. (Special to the Whig.) New York, May 15.--A tor # pedo fired by a German sub- * marine at the White Star liner + Baltic on April sets re % feet, according to information + obtained to-day from travellers # in New York. This was the se- + cond attack on the Baltic in + two days. * HPP Me ! PIP 9049% 000% + | Sir Lyman Melvin Jones, Toronto, died leaving an estate of $1,143,004 to his widow and h's daughter, Mrs. Crawford Brown. The Zeppelin was attacked by a battieplane, which overhauled it, and it was seen to burst into flames. Two members of the airship's crew jumped into the sea, and the others disappeared with the burning Zeppelin. NINETY LIVES LOST When British Liner Abosso , Was Torpedged, April Seth. (Special to the Whig) + 'New York, May 15.--Ninety Ives were lost on April 24th in the tor- pedoing of the T,782-ton British liner Abosso, off Fastnet, according to stories of passengers here to-day from Europe. She was armed, but the submarine was never even sight- (ed. The ship was torpedoed with- out warning. Forty-six were lost and 44 of the crew. The Abosso was unable to stop her en- gines after the German torpedo Struck, and she smashed into three 1ifeboats, crushing those aboard or drown'ng them. She was bound from Nigeria to Liverpool. "Brant farmers have formed a co- operative society, with two hundred members, = | .. FRCL WAR STATEMENTS. | italian. Rome, May 14.--"On the Trentino front yesterday there were artillery duels on the Aslago plateau," says to-day's War Office report, "Enemy aeroplanes my vepeated attempts to reconnoitre in the Sugana Valley in the San Pel Valley. 'On the Julian front the artillery Tu . eR Attac han ry A 3 thpeal to Russians Ye Violated; Big Reels Reels; Hii ; Civie eat a Deck o- Haters Da REA 0 News, ts Announcements; tes Last: MiM- was increasingly active. Our ark tillery heavily engaged the batteries and trenches and important centres in the enemy lines. Fires were re- posted in the rear of the positions. = South-east of Gor'zia pat- rol raids resulted in the eapture thirty prisoners, two Jat and «a quantity The leading man is slicking his head abo Whig 15, 1917. ve cover {o use binoculars. The second man is using a periscope, a third is using a telephone, andthe fourth is probably attending to GERMANS ATTACK On Both British And French Fronts Bat Efforts Fail FIGHTING 15 VERY. HEAWY ATTACKING WAVES FOLLOW GREAT BOMBARDMENT, British Advanced Posts Forced Back a Short Distance--Looks Like an Enemy Concerted Counter-attack. (Special to the Whig.) London, ay 15.--Germany launched a concerted counter-attack on both the French and British fronts to-day of such force as to suggest almost a general counter-offensive movement. The attacks were repell- ed for the most part, but both the British and ¥reéibch forces were com- pelled to relinguish insignificant bits of ground. : - Field Marshal Halig's report detail- saingd en the Hindenburg lune and by stthckiig Waves. There Was| heavy fighting. In the northern part In-chiet frankly stated that British advancéd posts Nad been forced back a short distance" At Ypres British raids took prisoners. x Joy - Attack Against French. (Special to-the Whig) Paris, May 15.--The German for- ces launched an attack against the h dines on a wide front near Bouvelle, following a violent artil- lery bombardment, the War Office announced to-day. Heavy fighting at various other sections of the front was reported. In the Bouvelle attack, the Germans were checked by heavy machine gun fire and failed to reach the French' lines, except at one small advance trench. Other German attack€" were launched southeast of Filan, north of Craonne, east of Hill 108, and northeast of Auberive, all of which the War Office 'said failed, French defenders imprisoning many Ger- mans. In the Woevre and the Lorraine, French raiding parties successfully cleaned up enemy trenches taking many prisoners. f British Repulse Attacks. 1 to the Whig.) London. May 18.5 Violent German Attacks against those portions of the Hindénburg line held by British forces. around Bullecourt were re- wight. Field Marshal to-day. "Barly this morning the enemy hea: bombarded our positions at Datiecours ard : Susuistatiachs on the Hindenburg failed completely. Those at Bullecourt 3 portion of the were forced back a short dis- VERY HEAWLY, ed a tremendous German bombard-{ ment of the positions his troops have}. Se-- a . | the wire connections for the telephone. Noted American Ambassador Passes | | | PEEP P PPP 44050090 particularly at Bullecourt, followed | ports of the village the British commander-| ancial $Y ¥ * LE, - + THE ENORMOUS + OF THE GERMANS. + -- + With the French Armies in + the Field, May 15.--Germany # lost 200,000 men Ju killed, ¢ wounded and captured in the ¢ period from April 16th to May ¢ 1st on the French front alone. + In the two weeks since May 1st, ¢ it was estimated to-day, her ad- + ditional losses have been pre- + portionally greater even than this staggering mortality. The ¢ figures on which these estimates are based are those of head- quarters. They are conserva- tive. more, + * * The totals may be much : * > HOLLAND CAN FO IMPORTS FOR A YEAR Seizure of Crops Urged To Prevent Any Internal The Hague, May 1§--A weekly paper, The Haagisché.-Post, dealing with Holland's food that, so far as strictly] is" 'concerned, the co than if one-third. of 'the a of the Netherlands were to be fed at the expense of the State Tor a whole year. Beans, oats and might be utilized for fodder, While ter use May, pulp and der should be" stored the farmers during the summer, Foe's Food Lord to Resign. Amsterdam, May 15.--Adolph von Batocki, President of the Food Reg- ulation Board in Germany, has ask- ed permission to resign, according to a Berlin telegram, owing fo severe criticism by means of the Reichstag of his. administration of the food supply. ~ While permission to retire has been temporarily withheld, the mes- Sage adds, it is expected his resig- nation will be shortly announced, constituting a severe setback for the Conservative party leaders. A SLACKER CONGRESS. 3: (Special to the Whig.) 3 New York, May 15.--Under + * > + * a * PH09202%0043000000% 4 'smelled powder . [to withdraw his remarks Their job is as near the foe: as they can get to | watch the effect of their own batteries shells and report back. THIS COLONEL IS VERY SORE WILL MOVE TO *EXPUNGE THE REMARKS OF MR. THOMP- SON FROM HANSARD. Bill Introduced to Give G. T. R. Fur ther Powers to Build. Branch Lines in the West--A C.AR. Fin- ancial Bill. Ottawa, May 15.--In the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Col. Taylor, of New Westminster, rose to a question of privilege. He referred to certain statements made relative to "political colonels," by Mr. Thompson of Qu "Appéelié on May Ist. Mr. Thompson had said that these men had swaggered around in uniform, had secured a free-trip to England; .but that as soon as they they had skipped home, leaving their men behind. These remarks, Col. Taylor said, ; jot order as they violated rule 191 and also that rule which forbade re- flection of dishémor on officers of the military forcés. When the mem- ber for Qu'Appelle was present, he proposed moving that he be ordered r h and they be expunged from Hansard. Col. Taylor declared that he had raised a battalioh and had taken it to England. . The battalion there had been broken up ou account of the military exigencies and removed from him to the charge of a Bri- gadier. He, with all, had received a speci- fic invitation from the Government here to réturn and resume their public duties. Building Ships. Hon. Dr. Pugsley "yreferred to a statement of Sir George Foster to the effect that all companies show a bona fide desire - to build wooden ships would receive encouragement and a reasonablé profit on their en- terprise. What details, Dr. Pugsley asked, were available? LS Foster said that all in- formation could be secured from the Imperial Munitions Board. A bill giving the G.T.P. further powers to build branch lines in the west was introduced by Col. Currie, of Simcoe. Sir Wilfrid Laurier ask- ed Col. Currie if hé had considered. the fact that the Government had now d traffic east and west by granting free wheat. 3 William German, of further | having ranch lies on a road which might taken over by the Government. Hon. Frank Cochrane said that the and | tail the ruin of Russia. x A Financial Bill ir Thoma: White, Minister of Fin. | Meeting a bill to facilitate | ton United measure, sald ce unis 10 enable the C 0 ry * . ASK HINDENBURG ping Reform Wave--Peace Speech Deferred. The Hague, May 15 Under the headline "Kaiser, Listen to your People," Germany's Junkers and Monarehists have issued a strong ap- peal to Emperor William to stop listening to Chancellor von Beth- mann-Hollweg and give his own old Court friends and his backers throughout the country some show. In the mext sentence they tell the Emperor that if the Chancellor's agents have him so tied up that he cannot or dare not see any junker re- presentatives, he has on to ask Field Marshal von Hindenburg, and the latter will speedily clear a way for them. This is apparently a di- rect appeal to Hindenburg to stop the democratic wave of reform by some military coup d'etat. Simultaneously with this hostile move of the reactionaries, the Chan- cellor is being told by his supporters that he has got to clear the reaction- aries out of his Ministry. His prin- cipal organ, the powerful Frankfur- ter Zeitung, publishes a list of Prus- sian Ministers and permanent offic- ials whom it says Bethmann must throw overboard if he does not want to be thrown overboard himself. In the meantime the Socialists are beginning to threaten that unless Bethmann makes up his mind to meet their demands they may refuse to vote for the new war Twedit, which comes before the Reichstag this month. MUST FIX FAULT FOR THE WORLD WAR French Socialists Will Only Share in Conference on That Basis. Rl ------------ . Paris, May 15.--L'Humanite says the National Council of the French Socialist party, to be held May 27th will be called upon to vote on a res- olution demanding the trial of Ger- man and Austrian Socialists who made themselves accomplices of the Governments of the Central Powers, which are held responsible for sua- denly precipitati the- war in spite of proposals to mit the ques- tions at issue to arbitration before the Hague . The resolution adds that only on condition that convocations to the In- ternational -Cotnivention of Socialists be regularly issued and that the pro- graffime include the fixing of the re- > sibilities of governmemt's and of The resolution also says the inter- nationals must declare for the es- tablishment of universal suffrage and Parliamentary demoncracies, and make the German resolution an ob- ligatioh upon all German socialists who pretend to remain faithful to the principles of socialist action. The faet that this resolution 1s published in L'Humanite indicates that it is the programme of the ma- jority socialist party in France. Agitation for a Premature Peace. : London, May 15.--The Times' Odessa correspondent, 'felégraphing under date of May 9th, says a great FOR BIG VICTORY |Junkers' Only' Hope of Stop- impression has been created by a re- t speech of General Alexis Bruss- iloff, commander-in-chief of the Rus- sian 'armies on the south-western front, complaining of the serious shortcomings of the army and de- ploring the agitation, for a prema- ture peace, the relaxation in diseip- line, the number of desertions from the army, and the tendency of the |g, Russian soldiers to fraternize with | the enemy. General Brussiloff, says the cor- respondent, declared that the epemy had tempted the Russian soldiers by offering: them vodka and bad tried to deceive them with proclamations. 'He added that the desertions were & baneful influence in the armies, rear, along the railroads and in villages and that if the lack of ine was continued it must en- SABBATH CALM DISTURBED ' ii, Jofire's Montreal Visit. Was an "Ig- Canada about woek, visiting Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal, prem wt re Bucknell's Nows Sark, IW. & Coulter' uit nts age Cor. ase PAGES 138 _-- LAST EDITION STRONG APPEAL T0 RUSSIANS Pointed Out That Seeks the Des- To 1 CAL FOR A REVOLUTION OF WORKMEN AND PEASANTS IN TEUTON EMPIRES. Issued By Workmen's and Soldiers' Council at Petrograd--aAn Irre. parable Catastrophe For the Working Classes of the Entire World. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, May 15.--A powerful appeal to Russia's soldiefs not to be blind to the fact' that Germany is seeking the destruction of free Rus- sia; also calling for a revolution of workmen and peasants in Germany and Austria-Hungary, but again voic- ing a demand for renunciation by the Allies of any policy of conquest, was issued by the Workmen's and Sel- diers' Council to-day. . "Do not forget that the Kaiser's regiments are destroying revolu- tionary Russia, says the proclama- tion. It would be an irreparable catastrophe not only for us, but for the working classes of the entire world." War Tidings. The British "Admiralty officially denies the German report that the British cruiser Cordelia was mined between Ireland and Scotland, Bonar Law said in the British House that it depends upon circum- stances whether the Entente would make peace with any eof Central powers, as 'no blow -would be so fatal to Germany as to lose one of her Allies." Russian reverses on both Caucas- fan and Mesopotamian fronts were reported Monday. The Russian situation causes much anxiety. A strong man is need- ed to save the country from break- ing up. Two large British ships were sunk by submarines with heayy cargoes. British have now Tipled all of Roeux village; fighting is still in- tense, It is stated in Rome that Turkey is trying for separate peace. ave peor tiger marines have 325 GERMAN SUBMARINES Are in Operation Accotding to an Amsterdam Report. (Special to the Whig) London, May 15.--An Amsterdam despatch says the Germans have al- ready 325 submarines in operation, find 39 of the newest type carry crews pf 56 men each. ® According to the Amsterdam Telegraaf from eigh- ty to one hundred submarines have n lost through British nets alone, ch submarine gets wireless in- structions every morning from Hell oland, the story says, 10,000 Milkmaids Wanted, London, May 15.--The British Government is campaigning to ob- tain 10,000 milkmaids. The girls will be givdn free training and be maintained during instruction and terms of unemployment, and will be paid $4.50 a week, or the district wage whore it is higher, Hon. A. J. Balfour will come to the middle of next DAILY MEMORANDUM « top of page 3, right hand corner, Se tr probabilities. ' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG I Sale at the Clty s on Following ? aaa Montreal ar. 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