HE A A AAA oH 12 PAGES rE ------------ A Ato YEAR SUGGESTS THAT BORDEN RESICN And That An Independent Like Lord Shaughnessy Become Premier. THE PREMIER MAY RESION RATHER THAN DROP HIS SELEC- TIVE DRAFT MEASURE. 84: NO. 130 Minister of Justice C. J. Doherty May Retire and Be Succeeded by Hon. Thomas W. McGarry, Whig The is edited fhe 5 Special t S Ottawa, June Herald, which Géorge P. Graham, frid's chief lieutenant, makes new suggestion editorially to-day the effect that Sir Robert step out tae Premier's the cide Montreal Hon Wil by who is Sir a new to Borden, for the of office present, Sir with and take at at Wilfrid. at Lord Shaughnessy, instance, or some one com- manding ability, outside party polities, as Premier for the period of national government There is talk here to-day of Sir Robert resigning rather than with- draw his selective draft measure, to which he feels he committed by the Imperial conference In case of the continuance of the Conservative Government, Sir George Foster, Sir Thomas White and Hon. Arthur Meighen are mentioned as possible SUCCessors. It is said Hon. C. J. a sf of Council table, for else of of to be likely, too, that Joherty, Minister of Justice, will r™®ign shortly, his place to be filled by the appointment of Hon. T. W. McGarry, now Provincial Secretary of Ontario CHINA TENDS TOWARDS A MONARCHY AGAIN Old Chang Dynasty May Be Enthroned, According to Tokio Reports. { Special to the Whig.) Tokio, June 5.---The Chinese volutionary movement to-day tending toward the testorntidfiraf a monarchy and' the enthronafient tte old Chang dynasty. ! d Latest reports received here from Peking deny that President LiYun Hung. hag resigned upder pressure of the militarists, who have estab- lished 'a provisional 'Government at | Tient Tsin. Hsu Shi Chang, head of | the revolutionists' provis onal Gov- ernment, is known to have mon- narchistic leanings. WAR VETERANS DEMANDS Sympathetic Hearing the Government. (Special to the Whig.) Ottuwa, June 5.--A delegation of twelve members of the Great War Veterans' Association received a sympathetic hearing d were pro- mised full cohs deration of their re- quests for 4mprovements in provi- sions for returned soldiers, pre- sented to the Government today. Doubling of total disability pen- sions, inereases for children of de- ceased men, grants of fand and ®n- forcement of conscription were de- manded among other things. re 18 Received of Hundreds of school children of Folkestone, Hythe, and . Sandgate will assemble on June 15th at the Military Burial Ground at Shorn- cliffe Canmyp, and will place flowers on the graves of about one hundred | Which the Canadian soldiers, British Flotilla Sinks Destroyer: Damages Another. (Special to the Whig.) London, June 5.--A British light eruiser and destroyer flotilla sank one German destroyer, the SS 20, and damaged an- other in an engagement with six enemy destroyers at Tong range. the Admir- ally reported to-day. Ostend was bombarded with "good results." the Admiralty declared, shore batteries returned the Bri- tish fire but there were no casualties on the British ships and no damage done to the attacking vessels. The engagement took place early this morning. 'Vice-Admiral Dover re- ports that the enemy na- val base and workshops at Ostend were heavily bom- barded early in the morn- ing," the Admiralty state- ment said. The German destifoyer USS-207 0 was built cin 1912 and was of 820 tons displacement. She was "capable of 32.5 knots speed. carried 73 'men and was classified as a splen- did example of the latest Iype in such eraft. Commodore Tyrwhitt, mentioned command- ing the British flotilla which was victorious in the brush, has already had a distinguished career in the navy. He is command- der of the destroyer of the fMotilla of the first fleet. He participated in the Heligoland engagement of August 27th, 1914. and in the North Sea fight of Jan. 31st, 1915, when the German cruiser Bleucher as was sunk. re ------ IN TRENCHES Germans Took Them on Monday. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, June 5.--What tha official FRENCH RE From 0. | statement described as "a lively at- | tack' carried the French forces last | night over- inte trenches | had lost to the Germans on Monday which they farm. The counter-at- north-west of Froidmont gains were held despite tacks. North of Bray En Laonnais the re- port said a violent bombardment was in Progress. In the Champagne, there was in- termittent artillery fire most active around the Casque and Montcornil- let. Between Tahure and Auberive an enemy raid failed, ONLY TEN FRENCH SHIPS Sunk by German Submarines Dur- ing Month of May. (Special to the Whig.) "aris, June 5.---Only ten French ships were sunk by German submar- ines during May, the Government announced to-day. Twenty-eight French vessels were attacked by the U-boats and eighteen escaped. Patrol vessels fought~twelve en- gagoments with enemy submersibles and fourteen hydroplanes. -- OFFICIAL WAR STATEMENTS | French. Paris, June 4.--.The official com- munication, issued by the War Office to-night, reads: "Very spirited artillery fighting was maintained in the entire regior west of Braye-en-Laonnois. Further to the east, in the sector of Craonne Chevreux, there was an intermittent bombardment of our first line. Nc infantry action occurred." The afternoon report read: "The artillery fighting became vio lent late yesterday on the from! north-west of Froidmont farm. An attack at about 10 p.m. against the salient in our line enabled the ene- my to gain a footing in advanced positions. On the front of the Vau- cleric and Californie plateaux th: Germans did not renew their attacks after their sanguinary repulse yes. WHIG CONTENTS. -U'. 8 Registration: Suggests Borden Resign: Premier Fghis Cabal: Canadians Forced Back. 2A Thousand &t Races; In- Cidewrts of the day. ~Rescue the Pervishing: Civil War in Church, Editorial: Random Reeis: Ripplax Rhymes. Bre] y of Boy Found: A Quie; King's Birthday. §-- Eastern Ontario News: T--Amusements:Announcements: §--To Orgamze World Unjom; MiMtary Matters: Theatrical $--Musle fn the Home. 19--Roxane's Confessdon: Menus. 11--From the Countryside 12-~1In the World of Sport: Bring. ~ ing Up Father, terday, confining their efforts rather heavy bombardment, "In the Champagne we made a surprise attack on the German trenches east of the Teton, taking prisoners and capturing three ma- chine guns. ' "On June 2nd and 3rd our pilots brought down six German aeroplanes and one captive balloon. Our anti- aircraft guns brought 'down three machines, whose gccupants, of whom three were officers, were made pris- oner. Enemy machines dropped bombs in the region of Nancy and on Dunkirk. If is reported there were several victims among the civil- ian population of Dunkirk." Ralian. 'Rome, June 4.--The official report Says: "East of Gorizia the enemy artil- lery action previously 'reported be- fame more intense yesterday, and was extended from Vertolhizza to the coast, being particularly violent against our positions on San Marco, on the Dagso Faiti lines, and east of Flondar. = Our batteries replied effectively, stopping attempted ene- ymy attacks, "On the western slopes of San rco the enemy, after having com- pletely destroyed the defences of our new line with his artillery, attacked in force, and succeeded ip pemetrat- ing the advanced line at Some points. With the prompt assistance of rein- forcemeints the enemy was driven back to his own positions with severe loss. REighty-two prisoners, includ- ing three officers: were left in our bands. to [ y Shes near Gorizia with several hun- terms, will probably be accorded in post near Cheirisy, captured by the Germans KINGSTON, "FALLING BACK ON A PREPARED POSITION." ARE REGSTERNG Expeted Tat Tea Millon Americans Be.» tween 21 And 30 Wil Register 625,000 10 BE CHOSEN scriptio Re nio DURING THE SUMMER CALLED TO-COLORS, THE WORLD'S NEWS IN BRIEF FORM idings From All Over Feld ir a Pithy and Pointed Way. "John Canada at Trades and a resolution referendum before S inlend: rly date Laboi de- con Carson 11 an ea passed a to the Canadians the last five months sent at the rate of 10,001 rcements in France have been monthly. Resolutions. endorsing conscrip tion were unanimously adopted by the Montreal and Alberta Methodist Conference." _y -- Rev. J. W. ~MitéheH, D.D., of Many States Held Holiday in Honor | Stratford; celebrated the fiftieth an STSArY. " of the Registrution--First Experi- Dp a ministry In. ti ence With a Compulsory Draft. St. Catharine Board of Trad: en- dorsed a resolution petitioning the Dominion Government to stop race meets during the war. At Washington, Sécretary Daniel: democracy, | announcéd the safe arrival at ~egisteri Sav} t« to] Russian port of the commission tc fou} Laas Ix mp Reports tof py sia headed by Eithu Root. d Press early to-day show-| pyring May 100 young men en »d registration day fair throughout] listed from St. Catharines and dis- wactically all the nation. The youth | trict for overseas service, making of the country was pledging itself total ol 2,019 since July, 1915. : right and early, heavy listing be German ships seized by the Brazil ¥, heavy listing being | jan Government have now been tak- 'eported everywhere. By night the en over without trouble at the var- Provost Marshal-General expécts| ious ports. Brazilian crews have that more than ten million America gone aboard, "Yetween 21 and 30 will have enlisted A letter, has been received from hemselves in the potential army of | Pte. Frmest Cutridge of Rys'lone he draft. Ont., who has since been killed in Some time between now and early! action, being the last of five brothers all 625.000 of this men million will| to die on the battlefield. he chosen by lot called formally to| Stratford Patriotic Fund/Com- he colors and started in the govern-| mittee has decided to issue drafts ment soldier-producing factory. | for amounts still unpaid on monthly To-day was the Americans' first ex- | contributions subscribed a year ago, erience with a compulsory draft|several thousand dollars beng in rom which there could be no evas-| arrears. ion by purchase ,of substitutes. It The war has proved fatal to the was the nation's first compulsory de-| economic situation of the German nand on her youth since the days| newspapers generally. One thou- "61. Many states made holiday of | sond five hundred newspapers and the event. periodicals have already ceased pub- Lecation. More than $1,000,000 were added {to the annual pay roll of the C.P.R. when it was decided over the week end to grant, an increase of six cents an hour to all shopmen on the system | east of Fort William. Over 10,000 employes share in the increase. Miss Mildred Clift Lyman, Syra- use, N.Y., is the beneficiary of a $100,000 trust fund created in the wil of Edward H. Clift, New York, a wealthy commission merchant, who was her godfather and an inti- mate friend of her father, Justice H. Lyman. She is assured of an income of from $5,000 to $6,009 a year. for AND N {Special to the Whig) Washington, June 5.--Young America was at the polls to-day, cast-| ing its" vote for world to MUST RECOVER PROVINCES This is the Determination Upon France. (Special to the Whig. )/ Paris, June 5--Radicals and Rad- icals Socialists who together {consti- tute a majority in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies formally met and resolved today that it was "nee- essary that France recover Alsace] and Lorraine." A formal vote of confidence in the Government, which will make this! basic principal of France in the peace Pressed the Chamber within the next day or $0. War Tidings. The British regained an advance which was re- Sunday | night. i German papers are suspicious of the Stockholm Socialist conference. ! Two strong Socialist papers in Ger- | many have been suppressed. ! There was heavy artillery fight- | ing on all parts of the western front | Monday. French and Britsh in-| fantry raids brought in many prison- i ers. . i Since April 1st the number of, prisoners taken by the French and! British exceeds 52,000. There were also taken 446 heavy and field guns; and 1,000 machine guns. | Russian troops occupied three heights in the region of Sakiz on the Caucasian front. Kurdish troops' were repulsed with heavy losses. ---- (Special to the Whig.) London, June 5.--The Austrian War Office statement today admits! General the loss of Kuk mountain and the | 7, Poe town of Jamaing to the Italians, but eh Joined po o a ad claims the recapture of several treny Eo Ban ee Lr and he KUL the highest French and Belgian tions. ! i LISUT. FANNING Comt 'de Jongh represented 'Army at the memorial ser. at Kensington Tishman dred prisoners and machine guns, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JUNE ! , 1917. PREMIER BOR FIGHTS CABAL { Among His Tory Followers With Regard to Conscription. STIL COMIION HOPE NO COALITION THEN ELEC-| TION MUST COME. IF Montreal Gazette Still Thinks That the Leaders Will Get Together--) Generous Consideration to Laure ier and Gouin. Montreal, June 5.<-Sir Robert! Borden has had to fight a cabal | among his followers, says the Ga-{ zette, Conservative, yesterday, in its| Ottawa despatch concerning conscrip-| tion. The same despatch has a lot of advice to hand out to Sir Wil-| frid Laurier. It reads in part as! follows: "To Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir| Lomer Gouin, there must be accord-| 3d generous consideration. They | realize the dangerous crisis in our| ational affairs and also the ever-in-| 'reasing burden being placed upon | Che Daily British Whig A Prison Afire; Militiamen Kill 25 Prisoners (Special to the Whig.) Joilet, 11: June Three companies of Hlin- ois militia and the eom- bined fire and police de- partments of the city of Joilet are engaged in a desperate fight with six hundred conviets in the Joilet stale penitentiary. Five buildings in the in- terior of the prison are in flames, having been ignit- ed by the infuriated in- mates. At noon the fight- ing appeared to be in- creased in fury and the flames were not in con- trol. Twenty-five conviels were killed or wounded by bullets. A disturbance at the break fast lables this morning soon reached such proportions that the prison authorities could not cope with it. It ap- peared to be a general agreement among the convicts to attempt = to make a drive for freedom. h. this realization is backed by coura- geous and bold determination, then oalition is accomplished. | "There are in beth parties, men| whose personal ambition appears tol have blinded them to.every other 'onsideration. ertain class of men in Canadian] yublic life has heen demonstrated as| ever before. Sir Wilfrid is haras-| sed, embarrassed and hampered in| vis desire to play a patriot's part.| And so is Sir Lomer Gouin, who is| inxious to assist his chief in such a work. . 'And Sir. Robert Borden. will be confronted with the same factious pposition. Already an attempt has heen made #0 cabal against Sir Rob- art's patriotic proposal, but it came 'o naught. He, also, must, if coal ion is consummated, relieve at least half his Cabinet Ministers of their posts. the Imperial forces in the war. ul { TITLES ARE TO COME FOR WOMEN OF CANADA London, June 5.--In connec- tion with the - distribution of King's birthday honors, it is stated that the women's turn will come shortly, when special lists will be published of wo- men's honors in the new Brit- ish Empire Order as Dames and Companions. Some most interesting Canadian women war honors are expected. LEX EE RRR REET RR Pp Pee Pere ped PETITION AGAINST COMPULSION Hull Citizens Urged to Sign "With Both Hands". Ottawa, June 5.--The next move in the anti conscription' campaign which has been started in the city across the river, will take the form of a monster petition which will be signed by the citizens of Hull and presented to the premier. All day Sunday a number of young men with copies of the petition, which declares that the signatories are opposed to the conscription measure without a referendum, were busy travelling from door to door all over the city obtaining signa- tures. At high mass in Notre Dame church, Rev. Father Desjardins, re-| ferred to the petition which he said] he hoped everyone, men, women and the young people would sign. "Don't wait to be coaxed," said Father Desjardins, "let your re- spouse be instantaneous. Sign it with both hands." WILL DEVELOP WEST. Three Companies Amalgamate Into Canada Land Corporation, London, June 5.--A pew era] should open for an important section in the West by the amalgamation of arrangements just completed, provid- ing for irrigation and other develop-! ment purposes between the South! Alberta Land Company, the Canadian Wheat Lands and the Alberta Land Company, three properties originally] floated under Grenfell auspices, com-!| prising 580,000 acres, and passed in| 1914 into the hands of Sir William | Plender, receiver for debenture hold-| ers. | To Withdraw War Prisoners. London, June 5.--Arrangements | have been completed with the Ger- man Government for the withdrawal | of all British war prisoners from | the firing Ine, according to an offi- | cial announcement. The prisoners | will be kept a minimum distance of | 18% miles from the actual front, both in the eastern and western ' zones. An attack on the Conservative Government and a sneering criticism of the Blondin-Lessard recruiting campaign are the features of Henri Bourassa"s seventh editorial on con- scription, published in Monday's Le Devoir. At Oakville Edward Creeley was sentemiced to three years in peni- tentiary for taking letters omit of for Lieut. |the rural free delivery boxes in the vicinity. British seamen refuse io sail on ships with Socialist agitators aboard J \ A REVOLT IN CHINA; SITUATION SERIOUS - The selfishness of a| Eleven Provinces Refuse to! Recognize President Li Yuan Hung. Peking, June 5.-- Eleven provinces of China, including the province Chi- Ii, in which Peking is situated, no longer recognize the authority of the Peking Government. The provinces of Kwang-tung, Kwang-si and Yun-nan are support- ing President Li Yuan Hung. The provisional assembly of Kwang-tung; in assuring its loyal support to the president and Parliament, demands that the military governors be dis { missed arf punished. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former premier Tang Shae-Yi and othar revolution- ary leaders are procepding hurriedly | to Canton. It seems probable that should the military governors persist in their revolutionary cause that the three loyal South China provinces named, Kwang-tung, Kwang-si and Yun-nan, will rise in support of the President, At the present the situa tion is serious and the President vir- tually powerless. 40534 CANADIANS ENLIST During Last Two Weeks of May--A Big Increase.. (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 5.--The effect of Sir Robert Borden's conscription an- nouncement is strikingly illustrated in the recruiting figures of the last two weeks of May. against 2,466 for the preceding fif- teen days. Three Ontario military divisions topped the list as follows: Toronto 818; London 659; Kingston 540. Montreal was next with 520 and Quebec last of all with 19 Total enlisted to date 416,215. Australia Swept By Hughes, Melbourne, June 5.--The revised final count of the deration election gives the following Tesults: House of Representatives: Nationalists (being coalitionists under Premier Hughes), | 53; Laborites, 22. Senate: National- ists, 24; Laborites, 12. Canadians Again Caplure Lens (Special to the Whig.) London, June 5.--The ruins of the famous elec- tric station of Lens is again within the Canadian lines. according to Stew- art Lyon's cable from the Canadian front this after-. noon. Mr. Lyon says ap- parently the Germans found if untenable after recapturing it Sunday, "and apparently found it necessary lo evacuate. On Monday afternoon German guns were turned on these ruins. bul this morning the Canadians appear lo have advanced to east of the place, thus placing it within the Can- -1 | 4 During that per-| fod a total of 4054 men enrolled, as | J riLLAR At ------------------------------ PAGES 18 LAST EDITI HE CANADIANS FORCED BACK After Gaining the Ruins of the Electrical Works at Lens. HELD ON EIGHTEEN HOURS | AGAINST THE CONCENTRATED GERMAN ARTILLERY FIRE. ON The Enemy Attacked Them in Over- whelming Force--The Canadians Brought Back 122 Prisoners, On the British Front ix France, {June 5.--The fighting which raged {Sunday about the electric power sta- j tion of Lens was an in- {tense as any since the beginning of {the battle of Arras, considering the {number of troops involved. | Canadian troops were in the thick [of it, first and last. | They gained the ruins of the elec- | trical works shortly before two to'clock Sunday morning after a | splendid dash in the moonlight and it not until 8 o'clock Sunday | night that they were finally driven back to their original positions under the pressure of German counter-at- tacks in which an overpowering weight of men was employed. The {works were held eighteen hours against the concentrated German ar- tillery fire One difficulty with which the Can- adians were confronted was the fact that in preparing the attack on the works their artillery had reduced the buildings effectively and had so | obliterated the trenches dug about them that practically all shelters | were eliminated. | While the objectives eventually | were lost, the enterprise, was not | without compensations, for 22 | prisoners were taken and valuable identifications were obtained. The prisoners represented at least three | different German gégiments which {engaged in the first fighting and | the counter-attacks. | | i southwest Was 80 Keeping up Increased Raids, | (Specitl to the Whig.) | London, June 5. Field Marsha} | Haig kept up his incessant raid-fig t- ing (policy on the western front last | night, he reported today. 'At night | east and south of Ypres we made suc cessful raids," he said. 'South-east |of Lens and south of Armentieres | hostile raiders were driven off", | 7 DAILY MEMORANDUM Wednesday, 9 to 1 { } { | | See top of page for probabilities | 'The sun ris land sets at 7 City Counail, 8 p.m General Hospital Governors, 4 pm Wednesday Papers will be col lected for Y.W.C.A, 30 3, right hand corner, Wednesday at 418 am, IS pm This day history | entered Pretoria, 19500 A a a Lord Roberts BORN DIER and Mrs In Westport on May 28th, to Mr, George Dier, a daughter { { MARRIED BURNS-HAWLEY On Momday June ith, by the Rev. Dr». M. MacGill | vray, Dorothy Henrietta Hawley to | Staart Livingston Burns, RB Se | RUTTAN-O'KILL--Ifi Kingston, | 2nd, 1917 by Rev G » Gi. O'K#ll, formerly England, to Donald ) on | i { DIED. | GALLIVAN--dp Utica, N.Y, on Sunday, June 3rd, 1917, Denis, son of Mrs | Katherine GaMivan, Raglan Ros Funeral will } Jun Dr in Kingston har- April 5th, 1817, Arthur Hamp ton dsovick, aged 16 years, | week, | only of Rosina 8. and the !ate Andrew J. Lovick Funeral took place this afternoon (pri vately) to Catarammil cemeter: MADRANID---In Kingston, at the Diets hospital, on Jumwe 5th, Octave Madrand | Funeral (private) from the family | residence to St. Mary's Cathedral, where a solemn requiem mass will be sung at § o'clock on Thursday | norming | Friends and acquaintances kindly in. | vited to atténd the Mass "in Rochester, N.Y. on Suns June 3rd, 1917, Margaret, dear« beloved wife of James Moywe, | and daughter of "Mrs. Winnifred + Kelliher, of this chy | Funeral (private) "froen her mother's residence, 150 1. Bagot street, on Wednesday morning to Bt. Mary's cathedral. where a solemn requieny mass will be sung at 9 o'clock for the happy repose of her soul ends and acquaintances are kindly nvited to attend the mass Linevln, Nebraska, on { June 4th, 1915, George, second sou { of the Mite Willlam Pilar of this ! Cily, aged 64 years | Interment at Ligecoln, Nebraska WATSON In Alma, Michigan, urda June Ind, 1917, Bixon Watson, eldest son of the late George (. and Mrs. Watson, Kingston, aged fifty years and two mont hx Pm A A IN MEMORIAM, memory of Private John who died for his king and June fth, 1918 when the war will be over | son Hotel 1917, | Si day MO on Bat. George ioving Fits, County y { For oh In adian lines. J. i. crt. tt] and wel took for our dead; go whem the bee's on the clover i the plume of the poppy is red; We'll go when the year's at its gayest, | When meadows are mughing with flow. | We'H ge We' ors, And Shere where the crosses are grays est We'll seek for the wross that is ours, Mother and Family. A A A AA, i