12 PAGES YEAR 84: NO. 135 BIG LIBERAL RALLY FOR CONSCRIPTION In Toronto Saturday Night---Dr. Michael Clark And N. W. Rowell Speakers:- Cons Were the Leading ript Men And Wealth. Toronto, June 11 Conscription without qualification and in its full the resolve in est measure was plainly of the meeting held Hall were fully round after round of speakers urged spoke better than any formal resoiu tion of Ontario's determination. It noticeable that, though con with but twenty-four hours' notice by Toronto Liberals, there were many old-faghioned Tories in the audience, and at least one Tory member of the Ontario Legislature. While the meeting was not called hy the Ontario Liberal Executive, it was thoroughly representative of the party in the provinee, as a large number of the committee members were on the platform or elsewhere in the hall. Seven of the nine city. members of the Executive, and more than half of the members of the committee from the Province were in attendance. Massey There The vast Saturday evening 3,600 people present applause on ever Was vened Dr. Clark's Great Speech, Michael Clark, M.P., of Red made one of the most popular It breathed Dr. Deer, speeches in his career. the spirit of "indomitable will neve F to submit or yield,' and "Red Michael" rose to a grand height of scorn when he asked If history was to write that "Canada was the first of the allies to quit' in this great| war for human 'right. Time after time the audience rocked in appro-| bation, "The conscription I believe in is the organization and the mobilization | of everything--(cheers)--of man] power, of material pawer and of mor- al powcr---that there is in the Do- minion of Canada for the winning of | the war, which is the greatest of all| history, beeause it is for the greatest | cause of all ment of freedom and democracy the world. (Loud applause.) "The whole world is at proceeded Dr. Clark, "and in war, walking up and down the streets shouting we want elections. (Loud applause). If we don't want to hand down to our children and grand- children a heritage that will involve] fighting this war over again we must finish the job now, we must push| the hattle to the enemy's gate and) 'see that the haughty autocrats of | Central Eurepe are destroved and driven from power." (Loud plaunse), "I don't beMeve organized labor is | ronseription, hecause best organized labor opposed to some of the that ever planted its foot in Canada | is in Belgium and France at the pre- | sent time. (Applause.) They may want conscription interpreted, but I question if you would find a labor] Jeader in Canada who would stand | on this platform and take the oppo- site side of this question after a definition of the measure of serfipt on proposed had been given. (Applause.) And you cannot logic- ally take the poor men to fight and lose their Hves--that is all they have---and leave the wealthy men at honte ta pile up millions. (Loud cheering. If we are going tn con- geript the man power of the country we should have wise and proper conscription, so that men' needed at home more than they were needed at the front would be kept at home." Pledge to Men at Front. N. W. Rowell was as frank. "Ever since I came back from the front," he said, with tense seriousness, "I have tried to carry out my pledge. He was not there to announce any new policy, but simply stood as he had stood for two years and a half --{or doing all that was needful to when- | conscription | history----the Natablishs |, "would not tolerate just now that's a| vlisease that's not curable by people | ap-| COR og win the war under the changing conditions. Mr. Rowell then told of how the Canadians had been under strength all last summer; battalions which had only 600 or 800 men had to do the work of a thousand in that hell- ish fight on the Somme, and the message the boys at the front had given him to bring back was: 'Send | us more men." "I am here to say | that, God being my helper, to the | full measure of my ability: and my strength I stand to fulfill that pledge to the men who have gone overseas." (Loud applause.) res Conscript Wealth, Too. Clark has referred to the men enrolling in the Can- In the official returns sixty-five per gent. of them are given as manual laborers (Applause. ) The woringmen of Canada have in- vested their all, for the whole of a wcerking man is his capacity to work, his ability to dare and do--for the | def fence of Canada and for the pre- | servaticm of our libert es." { "I want to reiterate that while we | want the man power of Camada or- ! ganized, we cannot permit the I wealth in Canada to fail to take ite just share of the burden of this war. | Then we must face the whole prob- {lem of agricultural production, and so -far-as it is possible. by Govern. | ment prevent waste by the appoint- {| ment of a Food Controller. (Ap- | plause.) How could, Canada expect to do its duty in ways which other | countries in the war had found to * inefficient?" Father Minehan ¥of Conscription. Rev, Father Minehan said that | Canada's sons should welcome con- | scription, and he believed that the vast bulk of Canadians would - re- | spond to a conscription measure. If not, he would - say to them, 'Come forward and give us a policy { that will meet the circumstances of | the case.' The one thing they was *Dr working adian army sidestepping. (Loud, applause.) Father Minehan said he had advo- | cated the cause of Liberalism in To- | ronto when Liberalism was not very | popular. He had no hesitation, how- [ ever, he said, in coming forward that night and on a Liberal platform ad- vocating the cause of conscription. | (Applause) CHEE PIPPI LEIS SEI PIENY + + * HEAVY CROPS ASSURED IN CANADIAN WEST. (Special to the Whig.) Winnipeg, June 1. crops are now assured in all + parts of the Canadian west. % To-day heavy soaking rains are reported from various repre- + | + sentative points in Manitoba, + | + Saskatchewan and Alberta, and + | # there is great rejoicing "every- % 4 where. [ * * Ie * Big + + FPP PPP EPP R PPR R PRR P PRIN Northcliffe's Missfon Business One, (Special to. he Whig) London, Jun 11.--Lord North- cliffe"s mission to Anyerica is purely | a business one and in no sense diplo- matie, Chancellor of Exchequer Bonar Law explaindd to the House of Commons to-day. His statement was made in reply to sevenal inter- pellations seeking light on the ex- act duties of England's famous pub- lisher and editor, Expends. $37, 277,500 a Day. (Special to the Whig London, -June 11. Britain is spending 7,750,000 pounds a day ($37,277,500) in her warring, Chan" cellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law told the House of Commons to-day. OFFICIAL WAR STATEMENTS A Italian, Rome, Jufie 10--""0Over the whole front yesterday the activity on both sidés was confined to the artillery," ---- * WHIG CONTENTS. 1--Bg Libefal Tally: Will Fix Prices: Borden's Search; Brit. ish Beyond Messines. 2---May' Trafn Instructors; dents of the Day 3dicorge Timms "in Action; Conscription and Open Vote. {----Editorial; Random Reeis; Ripping Rhymes, b--Fate of Warring Nations; Heavy Rain on Sunday. , §--Kastarm Ontario News; Te<Amusemeénts:Annooncements' SMilitary Matters: Theatrical S--Gadshy" Letter; German Papers Sneer 10--Roxane's Confession; Menus; Country News. ng Cos- 11-<Fashiohs im Bath = A2==ln World of Sport: Mutt and | Jom, 2 Inci- tumes, THustrated. !says Sunday's offical statement. "Our artillery fire was directed ef- fectively against enemy convoys in the Adige and Terragnola valleys and on the San ILacia<Chiapovane Road. Italian reconnoitring patrols | ow the Carso took ten prisoners." inti, Austrian. "HMallan TaantreOn the Isonzo (there were. no special events. On the S'ebengmeinden Plateau the ar- tilley firing continues with varying strength. In the Monte Zebio dis- tolet (Trentino) a crater caused by an enemy explosion was held by our troops in hand grenade fight- ing against Italian + ""South-eastern Theatre -- The Situation is unchanged. "Eastern Theatre---In the wood- od Carpathiens and in East Galicha there were livelier skirmishes at some points. On the reat of the front there was artillery firing." {The married men will then be start- Che Daily British big [- FPA a pg PAGES 1-8 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, JUNE When the vessel was torpedoed all the boats andgraft A number of the crew jumped into the sea and here tunately the weather was calm, and the work of rescue pr WILL FIX PRICES + ON GRAIN 0UT PUT Canadian Commission Appointed to Con- trol Stipments | From Elevators. | canapians MAKE RECORD TRENCH RAID Wreck German Trenches For Two Miles Near the Souchez t River. Canadian Army Headquarters, [June 11.--A trench raid upon a scale much latger than any hitherto undertaken by Canadian corps was most successfully carried out during Friday night in the neighborhood of the Souchez River. After occupying GRANTED LARGE POWERS: the enemy's first line and support trenches for two hours, in which | time they were systematically wreck- ed, our men returned before dawn this morning to their former posi- AUTHORIZED TO TAKE tions. OF PURCH!/ OFFERS To Co-operate With the U.S. --Far- "mer's Price for Product Not to be Regulated by Body. Ottawa, June 11.--The sion to control the grain production of Canada will be composed of Dr. | Officers who returned from Magill, chairman; H, W. Woed, Al- raid state that the enemy's trenches berta; S. K. Rothwell, Moose Jaw: | were 80 badly smashed that it is T. A. Crerar, J. C. Gage, W. A. Bawlf, | doubtful bl he i be able to re- * i : occupy them. ese officers con- W. A. Matheson and C. A. Stewart, of! firm J the report of the heavy Ger Winnipeg; William A. Best, of Ot-; y man losses, tawa; Controller Ainey, of Morireal, | and L. H. Clarke, of Toronto. Little action ds 'possible on 'tite part] of the commission until such time as 1 similar body is appointed by the United States with similar powers to 0-operate with the Canadian com- mission, Peading the appointment of such an American commission 'he Canadian commission will seek to keep prices on a parity with those n the United States. | man general single-handed in a re- The commission has been granted cent advance. treat power and will have authority | The British hold all the new "0 fix grain prices on shipment from [ground in Belgium; 5,000 more pris- o storage elevators, but not the price |oners are now on hand. »aid the farmer. They have power | '0 take offers of purchase from the! 'British and allied Governments and| 2 Sdtermive what quantity to soll ENEMY SENT WIRELESS ind the price required. They can! . take grain from elevators without the SUGGESTING A PEACE onsent of the owners and fix the orice to him and to the purchaser. They can invéstigate the storage and iw¢cumulation of grain and remedy ny unfair restraint of marketing. On their demand the Railway Commission can orders cars to any Joint and in any number, nottwith- standing anything in the Grain Act to the contrary. No grain price can e finally fixed without the approval »f the chairman of the commission, Dr. Magill. occupied, except some elements of trenches between the Bois de Riu- mont and the Souchez River attack- commis-| ed early in the evehing. The desir- | stiff fight. War Tidings. General Sir Julian Byng is leav- | ing the command of the Canadian | forces. ~~. Ramsay Macdonald and Frederick | Jowitt, Lond Heged © pacificist laborites, ar on their way to the Petrograd comfercnce. The British losses at Messines to- talled 10,000; mostly slightly wounded. A British soldier \eaptured a Ger- tempt of German Com=- mande r. Petrograd, June 11,--The Council of Soldiers' and Workmen's Dele- gates has made public the fact that the German Commander-in-Chief on the" eastern front sent a wireless message inviting the Russian armies to a separate armistice and propos- > ing that they enter into secret pour- Recommended Prohibition Bill, ;Parlers with the German leaders. (Special to the Whig.) The council denounces the proposals. Washingten, June 11.--A big In the telegram, the council's an- step toward national prohibition was | nouncement states, the German com- taken to-day when the Senate judi- | mander proposed to show the armies ciary committee reported the Shep-|a way towards an honorable peace pard Prohibition Bill with the re- [and a means of ceasing to wage war commendation that it be passed by | without a rupture with the Entente the Senate. Allies, - CANADX'S CONSCRIPTION BILL © INTRODUCED IN COMMONS Single Men to be Called in Three Classes Between 20 and 31 --AIl Men Married Since May 18th Are to be Dealt With as Single. (Special to the Whig.) ** | another feature In determining ex- | Toronto, June 11.--The United | ®Mption. Press correspondent at Ottawa says to-day: "This afternoon Sir Robert Bor- den will introduce his Conseription Bill for its Mrst reading. Accord- fag to its provisions, all men be- tween 20 and 45 are declared to be soldiers. They are to be called up in about tem classes--20 to 23, then 23 to 27, and 27 to 31 single. Liberal Ranks Close Up. (Spectal to the Whig.) Ottawa, June 11.-- Pending presentation this afternoon of Sr Robert Borden's jon Bill, there is a tendemey 'in the ranks of the Liberals today to gether" despite ominous demonstra- tions and speeches at the Liberal conscription' meeting on urday night, which portal. definite break in the party on this t- ous q morn'ng there appeared to be a noticeable closing up of the" Liberal rasiky 2 and sub- ordination or differemces of opinion at least until details of the bill may be discussed. It is still felt in most circles that ed with, and if the necessity arises will go up to the Hmit." All those who have been mar- ried since May 18th when the bill was first announced, will be classed as single. Exemption boards will be created in each county to consider applica- tions for exemption. The elements in the exemptions will be civil occu- pations, in industries considered té be vital to.the state, such as agri- culture, munition work and other fines of activity. The-number of dependents will be The plan of the operations exclud- | | ed the holding cf any of the ground | | ed ground here was obtained after a | the | Russian Council Reveals At- "hang to- row 11, 1917. PICKING UP SURVIVORS FROM TORPEDOED SHIP. - 8 s were succeSsfully lowered. 1ey are seen being picked up. For- esented no great difficulty. 1ARD TO GET FRENCH MINISTER Appointing a Si Senator. SEVIGNY MUST CET OUT HE OPERATED ON TOO SMALL A SCALE In Helping Himself to Mere Victrol- as and Paintings--A Good Thing For Canada When He is Gone, Ottawa, June 11.--An interesting feature of the re-making of Sir | Robert Borden's Cabinet is that he will find the utmost difficulty in getting new TFrénch ministers who will have any chance of re-election {if they go back to their constituen- | cies, as members must on taking Cabinet office. The solution to this problem, and one which will appeal | to Sir Robert's well-known dislike (of a "row" will be to choose one or | two French Senators, who can sit [in the inet as Senators and do mot hav be elected. It is gonceded that Hon. Albert Sevigny 'must go. Instead of getting himself incorporated as a railway and thus receiving large sums from: the Government, he has had the bad judgment to help himself to more victrolas and paintings and that sort of thing. He has operated on altogether too small and petty a scale to "get away with it." Be- | sides, he declared that he meant to | return them after the Liberals had put a question on the order papers (about thelr disappearance. So he has got himself sneered at, and he must go. It will be a good thing for Canada when he is gone. Both May Enter Cabinet. | Two men are mentioned to suc- | ceed him. One is Hon. S. P .Beau- | bien, a Montreal Senator, whose father at one time wa¥ Speaker of the Quebec Legislature. He is a wealthy lawyer interested in many companies, one of which bears his name. The other, and said to be the more capable, is Thomas Chapals, soon likely to be made Senator from Quebec, where there is now a va- cancy. He is a, lawyer-journalist who is a member of Quebec's Legis- lative Council and who has held various Government positions, in- cluding that of Minister of Mines and Colonization in the Flynn ad- ministration. ! It is quite possible that both these men may enter the Borden Govern- ment, Beaubien replacing Paten- aude while Chapais takes the port- folio now held by Sevigny. | RUSH FOR PERM!'TS | ------ | Five Thousand Alien Enemies in New York Get Busy Last Day New York, June 11.--With the threat of arrest and internmon! for the period of the war staring them in the face after midnight Salurday i night the last 5,000 of the 20,000 | Germans and other entry aliens 'iv- ing within. the prescribed "barred zones" of New York mala a mad {last-minute rush for rederal per | mits today. All immunities and special consid- | erations granted subjects of the Teu- | tonie Empires thus far will be va- | cated to-night, and eve enemy {alien without full credentials will be interned. Sixteen thousand Home Defence Leaguers wili go on duty as aids to the police and secret ser- vice men in guarding anproaches to all Government buildings to-mer- | § All docks and New York's entire waterfront will forbidden the Germans without permits Want Allround Conscription. Montreal, June 11.--The Assem- bly carried with much enthusiasm this morning a resolution calling for Ottawa, and seconded or Dr. Bruce Taylor, Montreal. Referred to Govomm. Saskatoon, June 11---The Method- Premicr Borden May Have fo Resort to) TO FIGHT SAME AS MEN {Female Regiment Being Raise and Wants to Start to Front at Once. | RUSSIAN WOMEN ASK Petrograd, via London, June 11 Petrograd Technical Institute have entered their names on the rools of a fomale regiment which is | raised by Ens'gn Butchkareff | aim Yi junnsqiNtely to start to | front nd to fight in all respects under the same conditions as men. | Scores of girls and women, an-| xious to fight, appeared to-day at| the offices of the League on Equal | Rights for Women, which has ex pressed its approval of Butchkareff's plan. (Last night the held their first were addressed by of the Twelfth Army, The women meeting. Colonel They Popoff {ers, and to admit to their hearts { only suitors who have actively help- {ed to defend the fatherland VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES CAUSE PEOPLE TO FLEE City of Terni, Forty-nine Miles North of Rome, is Visited. | (Special to the Whig) Rome, June 11.--Four earthquakes early to-day panic at Terni. Despatches received here assert that age was done violent All the inhabitants and are now camping out there fearing earth tremors. Terni is a city of about population, located in the province of Perugia, 49 miles north-east of Rome. A big Government arsenal is there. The town is famed for its Roman ruins and a cathedral. REHEARSED DRIVE. ! Model as Big as Four Tennis Courts Used. London, June 11. respondent at 'British in France says: "The situation has changed little during the day, there being only in- fantry fighting on a small scale and some artillery activity, mostly: on the British side. The British are busy securing their gains. '""As the oapture of Vimy Ridge was planned and studied out on a small scale model so the Messines attack was rehearsed on an open air model covering a0 fares equal about four tennis. courts "Thé ride was reproduced in miniature to the smallest detail and -Reuter's cor- headquarters engaged in it practised the parti realistic conditions." 100 US. AIRMEN Arrive in France--May Help to Hunt Submarines, Washington, June 11.--One hun- dred ' American aviators from the navy flying corps have arrived sale- ly in Framee for any duty that may present itself, according to a state- ment issued by Secretary ing forces to reach France The statement adds that Lieut Kenneth Whiting commands the corps, which was sent for duty in anti-submarine operations or any other active duty that may be given them in France. DEMAND CZAR'S TRANSFER Crews of Battleships Urge His Com- mitment to Fortress. Petrograd, June 11.---A telegram | from Helsingfors, Finland, today! says the crews of two battleships and a cruiser there have passed. a tion demanding the immediate trans- fer of former Emperor Nicholas to] Kronstadt, to be placed under guard of "true revolutionary troops," until final judgment had been passed on him. The resolution concludes: "This is our third and tion." DEMAND THAT EX-CZAR , Be Sent To K They Will Fight. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, June 'the eruiser Diana adopted formal] resolutions to-day demanding that| the ex-Czar and family be confined in the fortress of Kronstadt. made," the sailors declared. fight to achieve it." PATENAUDE STEPS OUT. Issue. Special to the Wale oHave June 11.--Hon teneude, Secretary of State or act- | ing postmaster-General has resigned from the Cabinet on the conscription issue. Dined With King. (Special to the London, June 11 RN rrGenoral Pershing conferred with a number | of members.of the British War Staff today. hed being | Lieutenant | warriors | who appealed { to the women to shame male strik- | caused' a | considerable dam- | of the town fled to the open fields | 31,000 | to | for weeks before the battle the units | cular role assigned them under most | Daniels. | They are first of the American fight- resolu-| last resolu-| ors Say | 11.--8allors on| "Three times this demand has been | "If the| 'Government does not comply we will] He Has Bemgned un the Conscription LAST '] EDITION TE SWARM " BEYOND ) MESSINES Two hundred girl students of the | Gen. Haig's Wtoions Tommics Make Further Gains on Monday. (CONTINUE T0 0 STRIKE BLOWS | TOWARDS CLEARING THE GER- MANS FROM LENS REGION The Enemy Has Had To Weaken That Front Owing to British Ad- vances at Messines, (Special to the Whig) London, June 11.---Field Marshal | Haig's victorious Tommies swarmed beyond Messines ridge for further gains to-day. "South of Messines we slightly ad- | vanced our line," was the Field Mar- | shal's formal report of the night fighting. "East of Epehy there was consid- erable mutual artillerying at night. Hostile bodies of troops assembling were dispersed by fire. "Southwest of Labassee a success- ful raid last night did much damage to enemy trenches and mine galler ies. We togk eighteen prisoners." "East an® south of Vermilles our raids inflicted a number of casual- ties. 'South of Ypres there was mutual artillery fire at night." Already the Arras battle, of which the Souchez River developments is a continuation, has made serious in roads on the major defences of the Lille region. ~The fall of Lens, the great coal | city just before the British lines at this point, has long heen conceded to be only a matter of time. The movement (apparently means that this is near at hand and that another great blow is about ready to be struck towards | clearing the Germans from their {long-held and much-prized French | possessions in this area' | The success of the British in the | Lens operations may well have heen | due in part to the necessity the Ger- | mans had been under of making | heavy concentrations against the = | British on the Belgian front. | during the progress of a desperate German counteréattack on the | ground won by the British forces in the Wytschaete-Messines sector that | Gen. Haig made his attacks In the | more southerly area. the | } The French Report. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, June 11 .---Artillery and | patrol activity, but no general fAght- | ing actions, was reported in today's official statement. North of the | Somme, particularly in the region of Cerny, the gun fire was lively. © | East of Chemin Des Dames, the statement, said, an enemy raid failed | around Hill 304. In the .Woevre, patrols were active, DAILY MEMORANDUM (vunty Court, 2 p.m. Tuesday See top of page 3, right hand corner, | for probabilities. the sun rises Tuesday and sets at 7.45 p.m A Al PAA AI A SA BORN dn Kingston, at the Hotel Hospital, on June 7th, 1917, and Mrs. Pierre Lawless, a at 416 am LAWLESS | Dieu | to Mr son me i DIED | ENG axon In Kingston on June 10th 217, Thamas England, aged 64 3 Funeral dence day afternoc on, Luke's church, cemetery FAHEY In Kingstoi, on June 9th, 1917, Mary Frances, eldest daugh- ter of the late 'Michael Fahey (mer- cham) | Funera] took place from her kite ros device, 50 IP'rincess street, Monday morning at 9 o'clock, to St. Mary's | cathedral, where a solemn requiem | mass wag sung for the repose of her soul. jreovigeer On June Sth, at Winnipeg, Han. Lap Cornelius Knight, aged from his late resi 160 Nelson street, on Tues at 2 o'clock, to Bt thence to Cataragut (private) { Buried a "Brookside cemetery, Winni- Peg LACKIE--AU Pittsburgh, on June 1st, 1917, Matidia Morrison, wife of the late George Lackle, aged J years { MOOR B-1y Kingston, on June 11th, 1917, Margaret Dorothy Maynard-, wife of William John Moore, 333 Ear) street, aged Afty-nine years Funeral from her late residence to Cataraquj comete ry on Wednesday at 2.30 pm Please omit flowers, | SUTHERLAND---In Kingston. on June 16th, 1917, Mary Margaret, infant 1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John N. i Southerland, aged eign months | Funeral took place Munday afternoon a 4 o'clock, to Cataraqul ceme- | wry. | Zorants papers please copy E. Pa-| } The | Phone 577. This afternoon he In at! Buckingham Palace with George and Queen Mary and nigiit he was to be American Am- bassador Page's guest at dinner. American Ship Torpedoed. {punini to the Whig) June 11.--An American | » Magnus Manson, has béen | bombs and gun fire from a submarine, it was formally vessel, sunk reported today. The crew is safe. King | to-! { : Sustained and soothed [By an untaltcring trust, spprosch thy grave, Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him. and lies down to pleas. ant dreams, reported Saturday" It was rani id Ado isk lpg Ho