Che 1 PAGES 138 2 | YEAR » 84: 117 CERMANS OUT NO. OF BULLECOURT 1 ss Tos oes Capture of the Vilage. NEW RETRENET AT AND DESPERATE COUNTER-ATTACKS PRELUDE FURTHER RETREAT. ' Enormous Casualties Have Been | Suffered by the Enemy in As-' saults Against the French Lines. London, May 18.--After days of most Intensive fighting, in which the position several times changed hands and men fell in hundreds in attacks and counter-attacks, the! British forces have at last driven the) Germans out of the village of Bulle- court and once more are threaten- ing the southern end of the Dro- court-Queant line, which Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg constructed to fend Cambrai from the eastward ad- vance of Field Marshal Haig's army. Thousands of fresh German troops recently have been thrown into the fray around Bullecourt, but their ef-, forts have gone for naught in en- ; deavoring to drive out the British | from the entire village. Although several times the line has been bent by the preponderance of weight of! the German formations, at no time have the British been forced to evacuate, holding here and there fringes of the outskirts and keeping back the Teutoms until their ele- ments were reformed with sufficient strength to drive in effective coun- ter-attacks and regain their lost ter- ritory. Likewise to the east of Arras, asound the village of Arras, around 'the village of Roeux, the battle has been waged with a viclousness scarcely ever before seen, and here also the' British have been success- ful against the Germans. Although the forces of the Ger- man Crown. Prince have renewed with extreme violence their attacks against the French north-east of Solesons in the sectors of the Moul- in-dg Laffaux and Braye-eun-Laon- nols--three of them against each position-<they were again repu ulsed by the French artillery and infantry, suffering SRO MOUSLcagualties. Rampers: ¢ Operations (Special to the Whig.) bendon, May 18..-The weather has been rainy; hampering big oper- ations daring the last two days, ac- cording to British front despatches today. Field Marshal Haig's official report today bore out this Indication | of inactivity. He said: "North east of 'Armentieres two hostile raiding parties were beaten off early in the night," No mention was made of further 'fighting at Bullecourt or else- where on the Hindenburg line, * Berlin Admits Loss, Berlin, via London, May 18.--- "The ruins of the former village of Bulleconrt were g¥acuated according to command and without disturbance from the enemy, who established himselt there twenty-four hours later," explained today's oficial statement. 'The War Office. reported the repulse, in hand-to-hand fighting, of a British attack on. the Gavrelle. Fresnes Road, made after midnight. French Repulse Ger German Attacks. ' (Rpecial to the Whig.) Paris, May 18---Persistent man attacks on the Ger- northeastern slope of Craonne were repulsed by French grenade fire, today's official statement reported. In Champagne | the War Office said there was con- siderable artillery activity. In Lor- raine, FrencH reconnaissances pen- etrated German lines. | GIVE YACHTS ACHTS FOR THE MOSQUITO FLEET | Thousand island O Owners Ship- | ping Pleasure Craft to New York For Service. | Watertown, N.Y., May 18. --Seve- ral Thousand Island yachts and fast jm boats are being shipped to New York, where they will be put ipto the mosquito fleet service as submarine chasers. Commodore Greene, owner of a | summer home at, Watch Island, has offered two boats to the Government and the offer has been accepted. One lof the boats, a small speed motor boat, the Highball, has already been shipped to New York. The other /'s {a pleisure yacht, the Verdi, which is | now being prepared for transporta- tion. The boat will make the trip under [its own power up the St. Lawrence { River to Oswego and through the Oswego and Ernie canals to the Hudson and down the Hudson to New York. It will be in charge of Capt. Aldridge Kendall. A number of other summer visit- ors at the Islands have offered their boats to the Government, and are preparing them for transportation to New York or Boston as des red. THREE VESSELS SUNK ' + During the Week Which Ended on | May 13th. (Special to the Wile. Paris, May § --Oniy three French ion were sunk by submarines in the week ended May 13th, according to an official an- nouncement to-day. During that period 952 vessels entered . French ports and 991 departed. War Tidings. Italian troops have captured the town of Duino. A number of Japanese gunboats have arrived at Marseilles to aid in the war on German suubmarines and convoy French merchantmen. If the exper ment has satisfactory re sults it will be extended. While German soldiers are en- deavoring to Traternize with Russian revolutionaries all along the fron- tier, German aeroplanes have 'been engaged in killing Russian. workmen and otfiers at Killa, at the mouth of thé Danube. The British are once more are « threatening the southern end of the : Drocourt-Queant line, which Field | Marshal von Hindenburg constructed to defend Cambrai from the eastward { advance of Field Marshal Haig's army, { RUMORS OF A TRUCE | Being Arranged Between Russia and he CH Contral Powers. oo the Whig) London! PRY 18.--According to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Amsterdam it is rumored at The Hague that a truce is about to be arranged between Russia and the Central Powets as a_result of, He. politighl changes at Petrograd. rumor is characterized as of FL origin . A Petrograd despatch says it is announced officially that the ministerial crisis has not yet been solved, Discredited in London. London, May 18.--- Today's story of a truce between Russia and Ger- many is dipredited here: The first "500. 000 men under the new selective service bill will not be called under about September 1st. AA A AA AAA trait z=tL. So; French. Paris, May 17.~"The Germans re- in the region 4 Laffaux, > here {ie KINGSTON, try. deep interest in Canadians. THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY GIVEN Despatches That Come From Near And Distant Places. * - TONGS FOR OUR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST The Whig's Dally Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Ex- , change. . The Canadian casualties April 1st total 19,454. The Ulster Unionists will net ac- opt Lloyd George's scheme for a convention of Irishmen. The Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Chap les Brooke, died to-day at Cirences- ter, He wis 88 years old. Registration day for service under the US. war army bill will be made nm for patriotic demonstra- tions all over the country. since outlining work te be done after the war, hazards the guess that peace will be declared in July, August or of next year. At Dillds, 'Tex, Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman of Jamaica, N.Y., was on Thursday afternoon elected moder- ator of the Presbyterian General Assembly in the United States of Ameri It wil require between thirty and sixty days after President Wilson signs the army bill to bring the Na- tional Guard into the federal army under the drafi provisions of the na- tional defense act. The House of Representatives on Thursday increased by 25 per eent. Jl surtaxes on incomes between $80,- 100 and '$1,000,000, and put a 45 Jer cent, tax on the amount by which All incomes exceeding $1,000,000. ACCHDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF, Lieut. Hal. Brown Dies in Montreal-- Twice Wounded. . Montreal, May 18.--Lieut. Harold front and lately appointed to the Pen- sions Board in Montreal, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen in his foom at 245 Bishop street, and died in the General Hospital. Lieut. Brown was formerly a news- man and it' was typical of his ning that he remarked to his brother her just before he died: 1 "This is not murder and it's not suicide, it's just pure accident---the ayer caught and my revolver went RESIGNED le Canada has added another page to the glori§ Canadians in the fighting at Vimy Ridge is not The men seen here are hard at work on p brawn and brain as the men who won at Vi imy. The Office of Works, London, in x (Hal) Brown, twice wounded at the » ONTARIO, FRIDAX, MAY 18, 1917. 8 pds of the war. "to be fo drill --the ¥ Duke of Connaught told them of his THE DUKE INSPECTS CANADIANS. 3 hein. | The part played by en by the Mother Coun- men of the same y are WILL NOT PRO FARMER! To be Delayed Owing to © Money Toronto, May 18.3 Lucas, -Attorney-Gefl yesterday that the MW the Act passed at of the Provincial Leg izing the granting . ploans to farmers up of permanent impro delayed indefinitely condition - of the which has developed i of the. United States § The efforts of the Unifi ernment to prov de wmounts for the Allies ally closed the American ket to outside borro the opinion of the A that farmers cah borrg money market under ditions. "This is not likely to b tion, by the Govers large emongh toe mands for finane ers may secure" jcans the sole 'purchase fected by'the /a as adequate p! province. ti b uished sembled at St. At the personal charge George, the British' the special representative private cing Minister Morgan und Mayes Mitchel) STE ia declared: ation of si. session author- ment Security made with the Bankers' "Association to facilitate the {issuance of loans 'through {focal branch. banks direct to farmers Ahoughout, 'the such i% MOURNED B BY THOUSANDS New York, May 18.--A host of dis- tive of men, representa th public and private life of this country, and of the entente allies, as- Bartholomew's Church to hopor the late Joseph H. Choate. of King , Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, was Present as of the Crown, and Foreign Minister I tour was represented by. me + Hovelacque of War Juserand France as an HAD TO GIVE BAIL. Charge 1s Plotirg Aguinnt Bris in i & lnow total 4,021. NAVY SILENTLY DOING ITS WORK TSF Elva Cason Maas en of Show Comage Ao Boke. |THE SUBMARINE xs un EDWARD DECLARES, tn, Adee i te ie Political Ast instalment of thy 'whieh the American navy to give the allies in the formidable task which iles before them. "This evidence of absolute har- mony and co-opération between the British and American navies will never be broken uutil the ememy is crushed," Sir Edward continued. "It will not be broken then, be- cause it will be cemented by many events which will have led to the liberation of humanity. Whatever the distance between the old and the new world, we have always cherished one great ideal---love of liberty and progress and determination to beat back the aggressor, whoever he may be, who dares'to lay hands on the fabric of clvilization which we to- gether have built ap." Sir Edward took advantage of the occasion to strike back hard at some of the recent criticisms of the Ad- miralty. "While English political Tumblers imagine the fleet and the Admiralty | g4 do not know their business, the navy is silently and courageously Santying on its work with unsurpassed hero- ism and patriotism. It would be foolish to underestimate the terrible menace of the U-boats. It must be solved, but it is not to be solved by abuse. "The navy is going to win, and we are going to stick it out. Neither the navy nor myself have swelled heads nor cold feet." War Tidings. day évening in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. Extensive gains made by the Brit- ish on the front are held firmly in face of counter-attacks. Jap gunboats have arrived ABUSE WiLL MT SE wll | France to help fight the German sub- 'marines. 3: FOR A BiG BLOW if United States D Delivers It It| Will Help to End the War. LORD DERBY CALLS | | cial-to. the Whig by Lowell MaNgtt ' London, May 18.--*"This war will ! not be over until the full weight of the United States has been thrown into the scales; not until 'America begins making war as though she alone faced Germany 'will there be a possibility of. . Predicting when the end will come." So spoke-Lord Derby, England's Secretary-ol-State-For-War, Kit- chener's successor, today, and then he added emphatically: "The bigger the blow the United States is able to deliver, the soonér she delivers it-- the quicker will the war end and the new order of things be assured. "Germany has reached--if not passed--the crest of her military strength. She knows every day she is weaker by so many men. "She is ready to quit--on her own terms. She is ready to fight a long, long time yet before accepting the terms that the world's democracy demands to safeguard the future. "It has been and still will be a ter- rible fight. Lord Kitchener, sitting in this very chair, said it would be a long war, and he was right. " FRENCH CO-OPERATING With the British in the Advance on Jerusalem London, May 18.-- French troops are co-operat ng with the British for advance on Jerusalem, which is be resumed presently. Reports from Constantinople say that the Grand Vizier is on the way to. Berlin, where he will seek \the aid of Germany, Austria and Bulgaria in Sn dine the sacred places in . It is pot known whether OF hot his mission wl be.successful. i continue 'to come from teliing of the Turkish per- of the Jews. Hundreds of Jews have been driven from ¢ and scattered over a wide ry, with the deliberate inten- i of forcing them to starve or suc- sickness. 'most reliable information a 'not hesitate to picture the mis- ery of these en, via London, May 18. --Bul, Socialists who passed through - hagen on their way to the Stockholm conference describ ed the demand for peace in Bulgaria as virtually universal. The people, they said, were weary of the almost continuous war since 1912 and an- xious for a return to peaceful pur- suits. They hailed joyfully every sign of a weakening in the war fever. Dr. Sakaroff, spokesman for the dele- gation, ssid a majority of the Bul- garians went willingly<into the first war agaimst Turkey in 1912, into ponly fifty-six and a GREATEST ARMY It Mas Ever Used m0 Westem Front - Against Allis. BGATVAOIR _ DMSIONS EMPLOYED IN EFFORT TO STOP ALLIED ADVANCE. This is Double the Number Used at Verdun--At Least 1,960,000 Men Used By With the Frengh in the Field, May 18.--The greatest force of men Germany has ever called into. action have been massed on the west front in Hindenburg's effort to stop the Franco-British drive. Between April 9th and May 11th there were at least 1,260,000 men en- gaged op the German sides. Headquartér's estimates to-day, based on careful calculations and evidence obtained from prisoners and scouting raids, showed in the period mentioned that the German com- mander-in-chief utilized 84 German divisions. Seven of these were en- gaged twice in the fighting in this month's period. The greatest previous massing of German forces was around Verdun, The fighting there is probably the nearest comparable to the flerceness of the struggle now progressing in the allied drive. But in the entire year, from February, 1918, to Feb- ruary, 1917, the Germans engaged halt divisions-- about 847,500 men--using fourteen ot these twice and six divisions three times. . Ina Nitle over a month, thabature: n struggling t the neo British drive, G ny has called in- to action a force Almost dauble double the number of fighters she threw into one year's campaign against pe rdun. And Verdun was one objective for which she langhtored men Sithine. iy in an effort to gain prestigs for the Crown Prince. : bd f. Halleybury and been created into and Gos Judge. DAILY MEMORANDUM Avaya] meeting, YW.LCA, § pm, top of page 3, right hand corner, tor | Probabilities. ™E DAILY BRITISH WHIGQ 1s on Sale at the Following Olt; Stores. y horn, hy Th vaes 308 tore .. Clarke, J. ae we Co. College Book Store .. .. Coulter's Grocery .. .. ;« 8 Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prinosss Frontenac Hotel "ae "ibson's Drug Store . cAuley's B ook Store cGall's Cigar Store, Cor. 's Gr rovers ..ee BL Drug Store the second war in 1913 against Ser- bia and Greece unwillingly, and were fairly 4 into the present world-war. Bulgaria's debt, he add- ed, had in threefold. Dr. f was unwilling te give figures comcerning the casunal- ties in the war, but said Bulgaria's losses had been frightful. rrintiana, Muay 18.--Ships' crews hich have arrived at Norwegian ports the last few days state that now fre- of disguising loy's ae Paul's Cigar Store .._ .. Prouse's Drug Store ... Southoott's Grocery HOBN street, MeALLISTER--In Kingston, on May 17th, 1917, to Mr. and Mrs. W. P. 439 Burrie McAllister, street, a daughter. MARRIED RINCH. ALIEN aL Lahwdosne, May by Rev. ke Deshaedt, ng TAifen, pHing f Mr. and Mirs, Evans Steacy, to Alfred Klueh, of ¢his city. DIED. FLYNN---iIn Kia gd wi 1917, Katherine Fan, aged 14 montis, doa of Wil. diam Flyn Funeral ran her te Famidence, 106 York street, IMPSON---In _ on May 17th, 1917, Joseph Ripon. Funeral from hi residence, 142 Bay street bo Mmay y Aoring at 19 clock, to Catarag Semetery. Friends and Sedu intances respectfully invited to attend. Toronto papers please dopy. ROBBS In Kingston, on May 1817, James 7 17th, years. , Con After, acquaintances respectfully and 4 invited to And, SMYTH in Slenhurn rg i May 17th, iy ot Gar: ogy 1917, June har, Joseph G, Sm