| oi] The Daily British Whig [~ YEAR 84: NO. 146 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JUN 23, 1917. 1 rd bl PAGES 5-12 LAST EDITION _ A DIVISION ON CONSCRIPTIO Is Scheduled For Some oe Ti During NV ine vver 130 bande, Coming We Week. WILL GIVE VOLUNTEERING : IEFORE EN- BILL. jor ANC THER CHANG B FORCING THE The Exten sion Resolution Will Come Up As Soon As Conscription Is Out of the Way. - ) 9 The conscription bill Ottawa, June parliamen- tary division on the is scheduled for some time next week There is uncertainty as to what day it will come but it will week anyway ! Perhaps the uppermost theme of! discussion yesterday was the speech of Thursday night by Mr. Gauthier of Hyaeinthe, intimating forcible re by Quebec The English Liberals do not take very kindly to such propaganda, holding that it but adds to their troubles. At] the same time those who are familiar | with the situation in Quebec say that | Gauthier only gives voice to a popu- lar feeling and that if there is en- forced conscription without the man date of a referendum or an election | there will be resistance. IKverything now indicates that the| bil} will pass. The Barette proposal of a six-months' "hoist" will com-| mand very few votes. A dozen or! more Liberals will oppose a referen-! dum. More of them will support the| principle of the bill on the second | reading Afterwards it will pass | Then the question will be as to its] enforcement. Some of the Li berals | supporting the bill are suggesting de-| lay in its application. Mr. Pardee] would give volunteering a last| chance Mr. MceCraney, who argues against the impracticability of a re-| ferendum, favors a general election. | It is very possible that before the ect is applied volunteering will get aj final trial. The extension resolution will come | up as soon as conseription is out of | the way Whether it will pass or| be St sistance to compulsion not depends upon how the great body | of Liberals, view it. Considering, however, the responsibilities and dif-| ficulties which attach to conscription and Its! carrying 'out, the one hest bet is that there will ie an election, not | immedjately, but in the fall, lar adaasissasasss us ansd TRIAL TO GO ON, : (Special to the Whig.) Winnipeg, June 23.-1It is announced that the trial of Sir Rodmond Roblin, former pre- mier, Hon, George Coldwell and Hon. James Howden, for- mer ministers, will go on 'Mon- + day, despite rumors to the con- trary. + CPP PEPPe eT 40 + PEPE P04 4000 3000400000 ARMED RESISTANCE IF NEED BE i "Knights of Death" is Name of Anti- Conscription League. Montreal, June 23--The "Knights of Death" is the name of a new anti-conscription league organized in this city, Its object is {0 resist conscription, first by legal \means, and if these fail, by any other means, including armed resi\tance It is sald some of the men whe have been holding anti-conscription meet- ings in Montreal recently are at the head of this organisation. -- Red Cross Dividends. | New York, June 23. Following | the lead of the United States Steel Corporation, sixteen. Companies of record declared a dividends to be donated to the Red Cross, wih other companies to he heard from during the current week. Major W. J. Morrison, a | has been made superint £8. the Toronto Munieipal Ellis, of Florence OL ore man of the same institution. have seen service in the present Both Five hundred thousand doMars of | Ford ambulances will be donated to | the Red Cross. wWHiIG CNRS. 1--<Scame 'Fine Onta Views: War Scenes: Canadian and U. 8 Scenes, Kingston Soldiers: Harbor Decorated; at St. Thomas Island British King on U Big Offensive by Boemy: vision on Opnseription: fers With Leader; German Nervous ~Clrroh - Rervices, of the Day Tol in Twilight; Was Bur- ied Four 8. Editorial: Random Rippling Rhymes, The County Tax Rate; truction of Insects. -basterg Ontario News. ~Amusement glAnnouncements; Capt. Williwms Home: Mili- tary Matters: Theatrical Gadshy's Letter; The Man on Watch ene § A nfessioms of Roxane; Activities ot. Women 15-Wh's's Serial Story "Gold" 16--In the World of Easy Travel 17--In the Automobile World, Agricultural Page: Late Market Reports 18 Incidents of War Told in Ple- ares. 20-¥n World of Sport; Bringing Up Father, Reels; Des Con Menu; eccm-- 'a within the; r | four | tims were | of Brasher | open, i } Incidents | i Elgin; J. A. Hardy, Cavan; G. White i head, Port Hope; J. H. Orser, Glen- | SECTION OF LANARK SWEPT BY FLAMES Cotton Mill and 'and Many Hom Were Destroyed--A Very Heavy Loss. Cald- em totally by one ~The W at Lanark, were ' pert h, June woollen mill destroyed on W ednesday eve fire section ten ground nm ich almost wiped out of the village, some e ght | houses being burned to the | The outbreak was at about 5.30 o'clock when the mill hands were ahout to finish for the night, | and the limited fire apparatus of Lage ark village was worked to capacity without being able tp muke po headway Perth brigade came to the assistance of the village The mili was practically the whole support of the village and had been in operation ror many years. It was operated by W. C. Caldwell, former M.P., for North Lanark in the On- tario Legislature, No estimate of the property could be secured though it will be wbout $150,000, but the total will very high and over a hundred le are thrown out of work and vy rendered homedess through the wh loss FARM HAND KILLS FOUR PEOPLE IN HOUSE Shot Them With Rifle When Doctor Called to Attend Him. N.Y., .une a farm hand, aged 25, night k.lled with a rifle persons at the Dr. Buck farm in the town of Stockholm. The vie Henry Ladue, 45; James a sister, Mrs. Josephine and Dr. Theron Jenkins, Falls, who was called to the house (0 administer to Driggs, professionally Driggs then gagge« Harriet Ladue, a niece of the Ladue brothers, aged 18, placed her in the bottom of a waggon and drive to Potsdam, tén miles distant, where he surrendered Driggs has been subject to fits of melancholia PACIFISTS 'BEGINNING TO CAUSE TROUBLE Watertown, Frank Driggs, {| Thursday 99 Ladue, Rogers, 48; 10; | Two Organizations Have Or- gan ized a Huge Campaign In United States. (Spe otal | to the Whig.) Washington, June 23 Two paci- ficists organizations lave launched a huge campaign that if carried out would, officials said to-day, greatly undermine the selective draft law, The organizations, it was stated, are attempting to open up a channel for escape from military service. More {than ten thousand have enrolled in the propaganda. Agents of the De- partment of Justice are to-day find- ing their action upon the activities of representatives of the organiza- | tions. A WOMAN ARRESTED Charged With Bigamy--Married Sol- dier at Gananoque. Gananoque, June 23 On Thurs- day evening Pearl Cartwright was ar- rested on a charge of bigamy. It is alleged that as Pearl Griffin she had been married at Mallorytown last year by Rev. Mr. Bradford to a man named Cartwright. Several months ago she was again married to a sol- !dier named Ernest Mowbray, now at Kingstom, by Rev. Mr. Kidd. Prior to going to Mr. Kidd she is stated to have called upon Rev. Mr. Cox, who, knowing of her prior marriage, de- clined, of course, to marry her. This party has previously served a term of two years in the Mercer | Reformatory. COAIATION TALK IS REVIVED. Baron Shaughnessy Confers With Laurier and Pardee. Ottawa, June 23---Baron Shiugh- nessy was in» Ottawa yesterday, and {it Is undegstood that he has been in consuMation with Sir Wilfrid Laur- fer and F. F. Pardee. This, taken in conjunction with Hon. Arthur Meighen's announce- ment yesterday that the Govern- ment's eoalition propesition is still is taken to mean that a last | effort is being made 'to bring about some kind of unio® between the two parties. INVENTS AEROPLANE MOTOR. {Sand to be Most Poy Powerful Combus- tion Engine Ever Built. Detroit, June 23.--A super-aero- plane motor has been perfected by a pruminent Detroit engineer, and is niready being constructed secretly |in ome of the city's plants, The new midtor is sa"d to be the {most powerful combustion engine ever invented, and it is necessary for {men operating it to wear ear-pads to protect their ear-drums. Canadian Casual Casualties. Killed in sction--A. R. Gardiner, vade; V. Arbie, Crysler, Died of wounds--E. Patterson, | Pembroke. i iCan. Lece . .JCons. Smelters y MW. R. Owens, A new town to be formed by the union and incorporation of the vi'- lages.of St. Mary's and Gibson, near Fredericton, N.B., wil be called {Devon in honor of Canada's gover- = JStest of Canada . A FRENCH VILLAGE WRECKED BY THE GERMANS reigning in those villages which have been in German hands and are ne Battered oy shell fire from the big guns, perous and flourishing vil! The picture shows an explosion caused village of Vraignes which was undamaged by Allied shell fire. BIG OFFENSIE BY THE ENEMY Around Vaux Haillon And Other Points Has Proven Fruitiess. HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED UPON THE GERMANS, FRENCH OFFICIAL SAYS, The Enemy Has For a Week Been Preparing For This Powerful Drive To Relieve Pressure on Laon. EMBARGO HELPS OUT ONTARIO APPLE CROP Director of Fruit Branch on the Prospects for This Year. Toronto, June 23. apple crop will be smaller normal years, according to Hodgetts, director of the branch of the Department of culture, but owing to the emba placed on apples by Great Britain there w ll be more for domestic use than would otherwise be the case The erop is not seriously affected in the Lake Ontario counties, where the largest commercial orchards are located, reports showing that the blossom ranged from 30 to 60 per cent. of normal, with good prospects in the Bowmanville distriet. In the Lake Erie counties bloom percent- age was much lower than normal, ranging from ten to twenty-five per cent., and In other sect'ons, includ- ing Lake Huron and Georgian Bay districts the percentage was 5 to 25. The crop of winter varieties of apples will be very light, but sum- mer and fall varieties are expected to be fairly plentiful and of better quality. Prospects for said to be good, Niagara district. Ontario's than in P. 'W fruit Agri- THE (Special tn tha Whig) Paris, June 23.--Violent night bombardments were followed by a series of enemy attacks in the region where there has been much fighting recently, near Vaux Haillon and south and southeast of Filan. The statement said: '"'All were fruitless, and we inflicted heavy lisses on they enemy. For nearly a week now the Gér- BUILDING AIRSHIPS mans have apparently been preparing TO CROSS THE OCEAN| for a powerful drive in the region | Wnees the French forces in their |Scheme to Put 10( 100,000 United reat offensive encroached close to| States Aeroplanes Into War Laon. The fighting has been extend- Being Developed. ing over nearly eighteen miles of this | Bl i Washington, June 23.--A billion front. Three days ago the Germans began making powerful drives at var-| dollars probably will be required to ious points where the French com-|put 400,000 American aeroplanes manded the higher ground. To-day|amnd 10,000 to 20,000 aviators into apparently, these scattered attacks|the war, Allan 'R. Hawley, presi- have been consolidated into a co-or-| dent of the Aero Club of "America, dinate drive. {told a sub-committee of the House Military Affairs Committee. He de- clared 25,000 aviators could deo more toward ending the war than 1,- 000,000 additional soldiers. "He en- dorsed the bill to establish a separ- ate department of aeromauties . What might remain of the 100,- 000 aeroplanes when peace is restor- ed could be utilized for commercial purposés, he said. A French Gov- ernment -commiss'on now is making plans for such use. Mr. Hawley predicted that the day of .trans-Atlantic. air lines was at hand. "We are now manufacturing air cruisers *eapable of crossing the At- lantic, and have both the pilots and the instruments needed for piloting them," he said. tender fruits especially in are the Attacks Fruitless. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, June 23.--Germany"s as- sault against the French lines reach- ed the stage of a general counter-of- fensive movement to-day with violent fighting around Vaux Haillon, Filain Royier, Froidmont, Chevigny, Chev- reaux and other points. The French official statement to-day declared the attack was everywhere fruitless. STOCK MARKETS. Quotations Furnished by Bongard, Ryerson & Co., 44 Clarence St., Howard 8. Folger, Manager. New York Stocks. Atchison 101 Baldwin 66 7 Erie Marine .. .. Marit, bd. N.Y. C Reading ie 4 Southern Pac. .. Union Pacific Alcohol .. Am. Loco Anaconda .. "a Beth. Steel "b" . Crucible .. .. .... Inter. Nickel Keunicott Mexican Pet Rep. Steel 1. 8. Steel .. Utah .. Midvale -- A WOMAN PROPOSED For the Legislature--Not to Go Be- fore Convention. . (Special to the Whig) Toronto, June 23.--A weman has been p ed as candidate of the Legislature in Ontario, Mrs. Walter Scott, Mossley (East Middlesex). has' the distinction of being this woman --the first one whose name has been | submitted to a convention. Although Mrs. Seott declined the honor the Liberals offered her, and although 'ag a matter of fact, as the law stands to-day a wonian eould not sit as member in the Legislature, this in- b | cident is likely to he , for it is most surely a forerunner of fut- 'ure changes. When the women of the | were given the vote at this ses- 40 gion of the Legislature, Mr. Rowell 63 [introduced a bill to give them the 44% | right also to sit as members. The proposal was rejected by the Gov- 2% ernment, Mr. Rowell showed, how- 62% ever, that in the western provinces 106 {of Canada and in the states of the 100 |unjon and im Australia, where wo- 59% | men had the vote they also had the | right to sit in the Legislature. They | did not necessarily have to exercise Hanna in Washington. | that r! nor did the people neces- "Washington, Jaa June 23.--W. J. Han- | sacily to vote for women can- na, Canadian Food Controller, is in | didates If they did run, bet it was | Washington conferring with Herbert | only common justice that no dis- ,C. Hoover upon for a joint | crimination in law should He made Amerion adminis- « h FREE © Woo Esto ~3 300 00 2 OG w rovinee Brazilian Can. Cement .. Can. Steamship Dom. Steel Maple Leaf .. . Nova Scotia Steel. 99 3 58% War Loan, 1937 3% plans food between men and women ndw that Jura they equally bad a vote. Recent despatches from the Western front have deseribed the utter desolation which hds been w being :ecaptured by the Allies. wrecked by mines and frequently set on fire by the retreat ing enemy, there is often nothing more than heaps of blackened ruins left to mark the site of a once pros- by German shells in the ruined . -~ GRAHAM DIFFERS WITH LEADER But Avers Thal wi iS Desirous to See Struggle Through. DEFECTS IN RECRUITING WHICH BORDEN MENT IS TO BLAME. FOR The Right Kind of Recruiting Officer Were Not Sent Out--=General Les. sard Should Have Been Sent to Quebec. Ottawa, June 23. --Hon. George P. Graham was the first speaker on the Conscription bill {in the Commons vesterday afternoon. He said that as the greater part of his life had been spent in defending the minority, and as he was now himself in a minority HON. GEORGE P. GRAHAM among his own friends, he asked their | considemation. steady, aye steady," geste the present crisis. gained by recrimination. might be difference on details, Nothing could be! There | but | every member believed that Canada's destiny is bound up in that of the Anything done to! British Empire. disturb harmony would be playing hand. within Canada into the enemy's Not a Severance. "1 differ with my revered leader] to-day," have his absolute permission to take | whatever stand we desire. In doing! 80 we are not switching away from | our party nor yet severing our con- nections with our grand .old leader." He added that freedom of thought was one of the principles of Liberal-| ism. "The great Liberal Chieftain," said Mr. Graham, "stands to-day where he has always stood as an advocate of that which is best for Canada and the Empire. He is as anxious about winning the great 'struggle as 1 am. He sees difficulties in my view-point, though he recognizes my right to hold that view-point. I don't see these difficulties. But he and I are toge- ther in a desire to carry the struggle to a successful coneluston. "It is only on the details we differ. I may be wrong, he may be right, Government to Blame. Passing on to a review of volun- GOVERN- | he sug- 4s 4 motto for the House in| he said, "but I and all other members on this side of the House Pool tary recruiting, Mr. Graham declared that in Ontario there had been no adequate Government organization Enlistments would have been 25 per cent greater 1 there had been. But citizens had spent large sums out of their own pockets, and to them is due the credit for such results ag were ob- tained. A great many of the recruit- {ing officers had been sent out who { were not the right sort to get recruits, | They began abusing the men and call- ing them slackers. They actually | hindered the offorts of civilians. "I have been on platforms where} I had to apologize for them, said { Mr, Graham. The first direct blow to recruiting {in Ontario had been the declaration {of the then Minister of Militia that ! more men were coming forward than {could be equipped. Then there bad been the revelations in certain inves- tigations. Also Sir Sam Hughes had | charged that Sir Robert Borden was lat one time putting the brakes on recruiting. Premier Again Denies. At this point Sir Robert rose with | a denial of Sir Sam's statement. "On no occasion did I ask that | recruiting be slackened," he declared, "or that it be interfered with." { "It is not my statement," said Mr. | Graham. "It is that of the ex-Min- | ister of Militia, and I will have to Fleave the Prime Minister with the ex- Minister." "It has beén said that I encouraged the slacking of recruiting," said Sir Robert again, '1 desire to deny that absolutely." "Again my reply must be the same," said Mr. Graham. "Sir Sam Hughes made certain statements and the point is the people believed him and recruiting was hindered. The greatest hindrance, however, was the utter lack of Government organiza- tion." Mr. Graham then farcical attempt at recruiting made in Quebec, where a Methodist min- | ister had been made not only a re- eruiting officer, but chief recruiter. "Gen Lessard," continued Mr. Graham, "should have been sent to Quebec at the very start and given charge of recruiting there." BRITISH AIR ROUTE ROUND THE WORLD Striking Proposals in a Lecture by Lord Montagu in London. passed on the London, June 23 l.ord Montagu | of Beaulieu, in a lecture, made strik- ing proposals for the regulation of the great air traffic which he is con- fident will come about sooy after the war. 'The regulations would have to be strictly enforced by interna- tional agreements. Under his scheme certain air levels would be limited to certain classes of traffic; the first 2.- 1600 feet should be prohibited to all trafic except to the owner of the | coil and for purposes of landing, while the lower altitudes should be used only by machines with silenced engines; the lowest-flying level would be reserved for commercial planes, on the ground that they want to operate as cheaply as possible. Above | this would be the level for general {air traffic, also silenced, while from 16,000 feet to 10,000 feet would be | the stratum for official planes of each nation. These would be used by na- ! val, military and civil forces, and by | the necessary air policemen. Above 110,000 feet Lord Montagu proposes | the levels should be internationalized | and free to all, provided pilots com- | ply with the rules for meeting and | overtaking, etc., and that their craft | be passed upon as airworthy. An | aircraft desiring to leave its own | levels would use its wireless to ask permission from the national or in- | ternational flying authorities. The | British Empire, he remarked, was in {a peculiarly favorable position, for fits widely-separated possessions en- {able British airmen to proceed | around the world over land and sea ! without asking concessions from any | nation. i War Tidings. | The Italians are making wonder- i ful progress in the Alps. | Venizelos has arrived at Athens to head the Greek Government. The Crown Prince's armies made {an effort at Soissons but were re- puised. The Russians are becoming more active on the eastern front; heavy | firing in Gabicia. The Austrian official of Friday re- ports that' Russian heavy guns have again become generally active. Major-Generals Turner and Cur- rie, of the Canadian forces, have been promoted to Lieut-Generals. A large American war vessel suc- cessfully passed through mine fields | and reached her English base, pre- | ceded by mine sweepers. The captain of a steamer arriving at an American port says his steamer | rammed and sank a German submar- ine when two days out from Liver- Semi-official estimates at Rome | declare that ten thousand Auetrians | were killed, wounded or imprisoned {in the recent offensive by the Ital fans in Treatine. | Sounds Like a Boast Berlin, via London, June 23. Ninety-one per cent. of German sol- diers in battle are cured of their burts and are again ready "for service, an official report from the field NERVOUS FEARS OVER NEXT DRIVE German Tharies as fo the British Attacks FT ™ IN DOUBT WHAT T0 EXPECT ENEMY THOUGHT THE ALLIED DRIVE WAS ENDED. According to the Stories of Prison. ers--The German Artillery Fire is Inaccurate--Weapons and Am. munition Defective, British Headquarters in France, June 23.---Because of the ecompara- tive quiet which reigus along the western front, German prisoners tak- en in nightly raids say they are being told anew that the allied offensive is definitely ended. However, they are told this so often now that they no longer believe what their officers say. From what officer pfisoners say, there is palpable nervousness all along the German line as to where the British will strike next. These officers frank- ly say that they, as well as the high- er command, thought the British, having chosen the Arras battlefield for the beginning of their offensive, would have to continue the fight there, and that preparations neces- sary to a modern offensive made it virtually impassible to shift the front of attack, onee it had been selected. There followed the attack on the Messines Ridge to upset this theory, however, sp that now the Germans do not know just what to expect. Prisoners from the ranks say they have been told that the British at- tacks on the Messines Ridge were wholly repulsed, but that the truth is beginning to filter into the German army organization and to be appre- ciated at home, despite the efforts of the German press to conceal the faet and the significance of the British victory. Try to Conceal Positions. The Germans are still resorting to the use of dummy guns and dummny gun flashes, both in an attempt to conceal their real gun positions and to deceive the amount of the from the Somme, and now more are being discovered in the Messines- Whyschaete area. All the prisoners continue to dwell upon the feeling which pxists between the German gunners and infantr) men. The gunners say the only ex- cuse they can offer for lack of artil- lery support for the infantrymen is that they are not given a sufficient quantity of ammunition, Their shooting, however, is inaccurate, due to badly-worn or otherwise defective weapons. They say that minor re- pairs to the guns are quickly made, but that more important work, such as the re-lining of barrels or the fix- ing of badly damaged guns, has be- come a matter of months. Spurred on apparently by the ne- ceseity of competing with the British airmen, so as to impress the German troops, a little more favorably, sever- al German airplanes flew quité low over the British lines east of Messines two days ago and opened fire With machine guns. The experiment was hardly a success, however, three of the machines were shot down. Sir Thomas White, finance mini- ster, forecasts more war taxation, "DAILY MEMORANDUM i The wun io Sunday at 4.19 am. end : ) sels al See tgp ot page 3, rian band eoraet McLaren's, for probabil Don't forget Lawn Social, Wolfe Island, Monday ev'g, June BORN BURKE--In Kingston, at 151 is ham street, on June Nd Mc, and Mrs. Phil H. Burk , & on. FRAZER--In Kingston, June 13. 1917, to Mr. and Mrs. CE. Fr 56 Umon St. W., a son, Her rt Alexander. LIDDLE--~At Deseronto, to Mr. and Mrs. A. daughter. ROBBS---In hospital, and Mrs, Ephraim cess street, a son. MARRIED, DETLOR. PREBLEY-On June # Napawes, William V. Detlor orth redericksburg, to Presley, Deseronto. ednesday, June dew oo a, 4 on June IMA, B. Ladle, = Kingston, at Hatel u June 208h, 1917, rasm Hobbs, $46 Prin. st Teds "MAXWELL - Rev Robert Spencer, youngest day, ter iate Robt. and Mamwell ™ Harry E Sutton, 1 and Mrs. Alfred Sutton, ton DIED. GUESS At the K on General H pital on June 23rd. 1917, Wiimot T. Guess, of Harrowsmith, aged §7 Yeasr Funeral from his late residence In Harrowsmith and burial at Syden- ham HENDERSON --~At Richmond, on June 15th, Hugh Henderson, aged 68 years, JOYUCE--At Nonth Fredericksburg, on June 16th, John Joyee, ey 72 Years, STRATTON At Napanee a, June 1148, Hester A. Wife of Dr. C. M. Strat ton, aged 45 years, JAMES The Old Firm of 254 and 356 Phone 147 for Ambulance, ROBERT J. REID An