W J hina 4 12 PAGES | drs e-------- 160 YEAR 84: NO. GOVERNMENT TO PUNISH GULTY Those Responsible For the Falare of the First Mesapalamian Expedition. T0 APPEAR BEFORE COURT ANOTHER BIG CAPTURE BY THE RUSSIANS | The Taking of of Halicz Officially | Announced by Russian War Office. al to the Whig) July 11.-- The War | statement, confirming the | key to the Galician | lared that Gen were advancing | he left bank of the Lomnica river. On the Bogorodo- ham-Zoletistin front, the statement declares, another advance had been | achieved, with the capture of two thousand prisoners and thirty guns. | "In three days' battle ground Do-| lina we captured more than 150 offi- cers and 10,000 men with wien guns and a quantity of other ma- terial," the War Office announced | | (Spec Petrograd, Office taking of Hal cz, metropolis, de Kerniloff's forces westward from t WHICH WILL HEAR CHARGES * INVOLVED IN SCANDAL, Those Involved Have Ceased Their Government Functions Pending a iteport From the New Enquiry. (Special to the Whig.) oo london, July 11 The British | Governmen: took active steps to-day | to punish those of its officials respon | Toronto, July 11 - In 1916 the lie| sible for the failure of the first Meso jiusurance Sisyibutions Ju the Lap $758,500,000, as compared by the] Insurance Press. The payments for | death claims, matured endowments| and other benefits amounted to} $476,900,000, For premium sav- ings ( dividends paid to policy-hold- | ers), for the cash values of policies) surrendered, for annuities, and to] BIG LIFE INSU RANC E YEAR American and ( sanadian « 'ompanies | Distributed $7358,500,000. | potamian expedition In the House of Commons, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law announced the institution of a new court of inquiry, composed of judges and military officials, all charges against those involved in the - candal, including members of the EBritish Cabinet at that time. AlN officials concerned have ceased their governmental! functions, pend- ing a report from the new inquiry. Among the officials me rationed by name in the report as responsible for the scandal, were Gen. Sir John Ec- cles Nixon, former commander of the British forces in Mesopotamia, Baron Hardinge, former viceroy of india; Gen. Sir Beauchamp buf, former crymmander in India; Major- Gen Sir Edmund Barrow, former military secretary to the India office; }, J. Austin Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, and the War Com mittee of tae Cabinet. STOCK MARKETS. to wear foreign countries ,the regular com- panies in the United States and Can- ada paid amounts, estimated in part, that aggregated $281,600,000. The largest payment on a sin life in 1916 was in the case Thomas L. Shevlin of Minneapolis; amount $1.525,000. A life insurance statistician is au-| thority for the statement that 87 per cent of all estates left in the | United States consist solely of life insurance oO CAME TO THEIR NS INSES Shrapnel Made Mutineers Lay Down Their Arms. Odessa, July 11.--Enthusiasm pre-| vails over the success of the offen-| sive, though here in Odessa there is] no demonstration. The troops, it fs | eaid, advanced to the attack bearing | red banners with the motto: "Long| Live Free Russia and Kerensky, The Land and Our Will' According to a telegram from Kieff, ten thousand men refused to take part in the advance, but the| number was eventually reduced to | four thousand. obstinate, the cavalry corps of Prince | Tumanoff received orders to sur- round the mutineers, who had en- treached themselves on the outskirts of a forest. The artillery was brought up and fired shrapnel over their heads. Nobody was killed, but the mutineers immediately came to their senses and laid down their arms, ! Quotations Furnished by Bongard, Ryerson & Co., 44 Clarence St, Howard 8. Folger, Manager. New York Stocks. Atchison B. &0O C.P.R Erie .. Marine . Marine pfd. NYC Reading .. ,. Southern Pace. Union Pacifie Alcohol Am. Loco. Anaconda Beth. Steel Crucible .. . Inter. Nickel Kennicott Mexican Pet .. Rep. Steel 1". 8S. Steel Utah Midvale Atlantic PNP ---D FERRE FFE 0 7 5 2 2 8 8 96 135 157% 70% 80 132% 85% 40 44 981 921 127 108% 61% 105 "pt GERMANS REPORT CAPTURE Of 1,250 British Prisoners Between Coast and Lombartzyde. (Special to the Whig) Berlin, via London, July 11.--Cap- ture of 1,250 British prisoners in the taking of an enemy defensive estab- | lishment between the coast and Lon- | bartzyde, was claimed by the War | Office to-day. City Canadian Stocks. Brazilian .. 40 Can. Cement .. 6k Can. Steamship 3% Can. Loco .. Cons. Smelters Dom, Steel Nova Scotia Steel . Steel of Canada War Loan, 1937 This is in connection with the tem- | porary reverse admitted in Belgium in to-day's British statement, which | adds that the positions were regained | by the British. CUED. - CHINO N@W =D . FEFEFEFEF -- BASEBALL RECORD. Knocked Down By Shock. Int 4 11 - Port Hope, July 11--H. R. Walker| providence .. .. 5 Baltimore .. .. a Welcome former, and his wife and Rochester . .. 2 Montreal soi, Horace, had a marrow escape' ---- from instant death when his barn | was struck by lighting on Saturday | j Chicago . afternoon. Mr. Walker and his wife | Cincinnati and son were knocked down by the| New York .. shock and rendered unconscious, and | --e the team of horses he was driving at | American League. the time the lighting struck were, Philadelphia . . 7 Chicago .. ..... also knocked down. The lighting Detroit 5 Washington . . . tore away almost completely the -- gable end and west side of the barn.| W. H. Andrews, who for years Ra | lived at Drag Lake, Haliburton, * P.R. earnings for the week end- | came to Lindsay Thursday, secured od July 7th total $3,101,000. For |a room at the Simpson House, and the same week of last year earnings Monday night was found dead in were $2,616,000, bed as a result of a hemorrhage. -------- at tS ------ OFFICIAL WAR - STATEMENTS quite marked along the front this morning. In the afternoon very lively action occurred from Nieu- port as far as south of Dxmude. It was less intense near Steenstraete and Hetsas. Yesterday the German artillery shelled various localities behind our front, and found some Sictine among the civilian popula- 2." National 1 oague. . 1-1Brooklyn .. 10 Boston .. 78t. Louis a7 in) 5 . 0-4 J{ lution he had Paris, July 10.The Belgian War Office report said: "In the night the enemy at- teinpted to approach our advanced post south of St. Georges. but was repulsed. The artillery activity was cm -- WHIG CONTENTS. 1--{Public Needn't Worry; «To Pan'sh Guilty; Toronto With. out Street Cars; Thinks Ger. many Can Win; Wer't Exe empt Farmers ~Races on Thursday: Sir Sam TT Abowed It; Incidents of the News: War Recalls ; Darlingside Do- ings. --Eatorial, Random Reels: Rippling Rhymes, Re King of Roads; ters ta the Editor. §--Fasterm Ontario News: TesAmusements: Announcements' | 3 Miitary Matters; Theatrical S--Fashions Tllustrated 10---Social News; Roxane's Con. Market Re- Italian. Rome, July 10--"After an " in tense bombardment last night the | enemy, taking advantage of a v.o- | lent thunderstorm, attacked our | pesitions on the Vodice," says Tues- jours official report. : "His assaulting parties were de- | stroyed by our fire, which prevented it the supporting forces from making jan advance. In the same manner we frustrated other small attacks against our positions in the upper Cordevole and on Piccolo Lagazuci. { "The artillery was more active ; than usual yesterday on the Tren- {tino and Carnia fronts and normal {on the Julian fromt. The activity of . reconnoitring parties on both sides "led to encounters. An enemy | party which approached our lines on | the Vodice was repulsed promptly." ¥. F--Roctal Orusa: Let- beneficiaries under policies issued in| a " PUBLICINEEDNT THINKS GERMANY NOT LIKELY 10 v KINGSTON, "ON T ARIO, w EDN WEDNESDAY, JU L Y PAGES 18 11, 1917. DISORDER AT END AS RUSSIAN PEOPLE INDORSE NEW COVERNMENT « Disorder is at an end in R tussia, apparently, and her sons now in accord are again fighting on the side of the Allies. The accompanying picture shows a great meeting held in Petrograd in support of the government. No separate peace was the Hegin of the speakers and the large gath- ering indorsed those sentiments. CET WORRIED Minister 1 White Says. | WILL NOT BE UNFAIRLY DEALT WITH] HE SAYS, Statement Made in the Commons--Big Incomes May Suf-| fer, But the Smaller Ones will | Not. Ottawa, July 11.--At the opening As these remained | Of the House yesterday afternoon Sir|many. Thomas White made tae following statement on the subject of "Con-| seription 'of wealth." "It has been officially drawn to, the attention of the Government that ! the use of the expression, 'conscrip-, tion of wealth' in the debates in Par-! liament, and by the public and other bodies outside of Parliament, and by the press in its news reports has] caused -a certain uneasiness among | those whose savings constitute a vital | | tac tor in the business and industrial life of the Dominion, and are so essential to the credit and pro#perity upon which our efforts in the con-| tinued prosecution of the war must; largely depend. No One Need Worry. " | I desire to say on behalf of the Government that there need exist nal apprehension on the part of the pub-' lice that any action of a detrimental character will at any time be taken) with respect to the savings of thel Canadian public. On the contrary, it will be the policy of the Government ; in the future, as in the past, to en- courage in every way possibie the resulting in" national savings 'which have enabled Canada to maintain her | credit hind improve her economic | position during the war. "Any taxation to which it may be| necessary for the Government to re- sort from time to time will be in accordance with legitimate and es- tablished forms of taxation sanction- ed bv the tradition and experience of British self-governing communities, Big Incomes May Suffer. "Tais statement, thérefore, must not be understood as precluding leg- islation providing for income taxa- tion upon those whose incomes are such as to make it just and equit- able. that they should contribute a share of the war expenditure of the Dominion." : Hon. George Graham immediately rose to comment that while the reso- introduced provided that accumulated wealth should con- tribute a share, there was nothing meant by it that did not fully agree with the remarks made by the Fi- nance Minister. Mean Thief For Portsmouth. Toromto, July 11.--Found guilty of stealing from Richard Williams, Mike Whiteman was sent to Ports. mouth penitentiary for three years by Judge Morson to-day. It was al- leged that he induced Williams to play poker and then snatched his yay away. Lots of Coal For Canada. Ottawa, July 11.--"We¢ are go- ing to get all the coal we need this winter", said Hon. T. W. Crothers, when asked if he had anything to say the control and licens- ing order placed by the United States on the export of coal to all countries, even to the countries of the Allies, including Great Britain and her colonies and protectora'es. At Peterboro Harold Peace was bitten on one ear by a dog belong- ing to Mrs. Lilly. The dog has been ordered locked to deterniae its con- dition. " CAN WIN QUT EXEMPT FARMERS Peace Without An Annexations. GERMAN TELLS THE THE CHANCELLOR REICHSTAG House of | He Considers It As His Duty to Re- main Chancellor for the Protection Fatherland. July 11.--Peace of the Berne, out. The Chancellor, von Bethmann- | Hollweg; eo declared in -a-speech be-! of the fore the main committee Reichstag, according to quotations vesterday in the Berlin Lokal Anzei- ger. "I consider it"my duty to remain as Chancellor for the protection of the Fatherland," the Chancellor solemnly declared. "Peace without annexations is not an acceptable peace to Germany. | cannot declare our terms. can win if she holds out," The Chancellor's appearance be- fore tae main committee was called {forth the German Government stood nexation and no indemnities." The Lokal Anzeiger did not specify | how the Imperial Chancellor's speech was received, Prussian Ministers Ban. (Special to the Whig Zurich, July 11.--The Ling {to-day has been postponed count of party differences,' "in. Imperial Chancellor had resigned their posts, War Tidings, It is announced by Lord North- cliffe that Britain maintains million two hundred thousand men in France alone. Heavy Austrian "attacks have been stopped by the Russians. The Crown Prince's army again smushed in the attempt on Verdun. FIRMNESS NREUESSARY London Newspaper Fears the Com- sequence of Clevage in Canada. London, Eng., July 11.--Saturday Review editorially .sgys it is no use | shutting our eyes to the fact that | there is a rift within Dominion life | were which unless firmness is shown by the Lloyd George and Borden Gov- easily widen into isastrously war. "Catholic Quebec will not agree ernments may something d to conscription," eays the Review, "pecause it will not admit they have a part or lot in this war, Halicz Captured. (Special to Se swe Petrograd, 11-- The War Tp statement to-day said Haliez had been captured after a bit- ter contest, the Russians taking a number of oners and more than t guns. "Pursuit of the -- continues," the statement =» Ca ( | without, | annexations is not acceptable to Ger- Germany can win if she holds | Germany | by demands of the Clericals that he outline in more detail exactly { how on the Socialists' platform of mo an- "un meet- of the Reichstag scheduled for "on ac- accord- exercise of the thrift and economy | ing to word received here from Ber- von Beth- mann-Hollweg was reported confer- | ring with the leaders of all factions. One despatch carried the report JSthat all the Prussian state ministers two (Over the Conscription pln of Wed, Fac fo Bethmann-Hollweg --_ Nat eset Proposal of ---- Would, it is Claimed, Rob Bill of Frincpt. SAVINGS OF THE PEOPLE CANNOT DECLARE TERMS INSULT T0 THE FARMERS OFFER TO EXEMPT THEM FROM SERVICE. TO This is Sir Sam Hughes' Interpreta- tion of the View Which Agricul- turists Would Take of Such an Exemption. Ottawa, July 11.--The House yes- terday afternoon again went into | committee on the conscription bill'; Edmond Proulx, of Prescott, sug- gested that exemption of 'men en- gaged in agricultural pursuits should he made specific in the bill. The ne>d of production was as great as 'he need of fighting men, he believed that this exemption should be made plain. Hon. Arthur Meighen stated that while farmers would undoubtedly onstitute the greatest proportion of exemptions, it would rob the bill of any principle whatever to specify definitely any class which woulkl be wholly exempt without regard to accompanving conditions or circum- stances. He instanced the case of a man with a hundred-acre farm who had two sons who had gone to the front and left him to handle the farm alone, while another farmer with a fifty-acre farm and two sons, sent none. Conditions must be tak- en into account by the tribunals. As a matter of fact because a man was employed in an industry might not always argue against his being tak- en. His place might be capable of being filled by some one else or by a woman. These things the tribunal must take into account. Joseph Rainville, deputy Speaker, presented an amendment designed to interpret the bill as exempting men engaged in agriculture or other essential industries providing these were their customary and habitual forms of occupation. Gerard of Chi- coutini, and Boulay, of Rimouski, from the Government side both backed the amendment. Opposes Exemption Mr. Bradbury of Selkirk, opposed it. The farmers, he said, had already done well and were willing still to do their share in the trenches. Many had gone voluntarily. It was unfair that those who had not gone should be specifically exempted under com- pulsion. "As a matter of fact," remarked | General Hughes, "the farmers would be insulted if such an exemption made." "1 believe so," said Mr. Bradbury. J. G. Turiff, Assiniboia, thought the bill was all right as it stood. He did not believe that these tribunals could fail tw realize that a man rdising foodstuffs would be of more value in the present circumstances doing so than he would be in the trenches. ff raised another nr. Mr. Turi He declared that there were men going about the country holding up 'the farmers for $5 a day to work for ithem. This was a sum which a farmer could not afford. Had the Government any intention of con- seri, such men and forcing them, it could not go to the front, to help raise foodstuffs at $2.50 a day. He-thought this shouldgbe done. ¢ Montreal to Have Enquiry. 11.--The City of $18,000 to cover an expert inquiry ty the Bureau of Municipal Re- search of New York, into the Segani zation, methods and workings of the civic departments and ings ot wi) of H The Daily British Whig = BIG GERMAN ATTACK AROUND NIEUPORT Penetrated the British Tren- ches, But the Enemy Was Driven Back. (Special to the Whig.) London, July 11.--A strong Ger- man attack around Nieuport (Bel- gium) succeeded in penetrating Bri- tish positions on a front of 1,400 yards, Field Marshal Haig reported to-day. "Arouad Nieuport the enemy at- tacked determinedly", the British commander<in-chief reported. "Our dunes defences were levelled and he succeeded in penetrating our posi- tions on a front of 1,400 yards reach- ing the right of the Yzer near the sea." Gen. Haig said that the bridge across the Yzer and other water-ways had beén destroyed, isolating the dunes sector near the coast and op- posite Lombartzyde. "The enemy gained these positions temporarily," he added... 'Counter attacks drove him back." » The Germans Thrown Back. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, July 11.--The repulse of German raids around Sapigneul, in the Champagne, was reported in tg day's' official statement. A PE of prisoffers were taken, On the left bank of the Meuse artillery fighting was active. In the Woevre, north of Fliry the Germans were thrown back in sharp fighting. TACTFUL ZIMMERMANN Vented His Rage on Greek Charge d'Affaires. Athens, July 11.-- When the Greek Charge d'Affaires at Berlin went to the Wilhelmstrasse to ask for his passport, Herr Zimmermann, the Foreign Secretary, lost his temper and said to the Greek diplomatist: "This doesn't matter to Germany, but it will matter much to Greece Your Venizelos will smart for this." The pan-Germans were furious at the mews of Venizelos' triumph. Some of their leaders said that if Greece mobilized against Germany, the German Government should in- stitute mobilization throughout Bel- gium, Serbia and the conquered por- tions of Rumania and Russia. They declare in justification that Greece was a country conquered by the Al- lies, and its inhabitants have been mobilized by the Allies' agents, | GERMAN SUB. FLOATING; THE CREW ALL DEAD. Galveston, Texas, July 11.-- A German submarine of the most modern type floating a short distance off the Irish ¢ coast, every member of the #+ crew having been suffocated, # was recently picked up by a % British patrol boat and towed to port, according to the cap- ¢ tain of a British steamer which # arrived at a gulf port yester- & day. + According to the captain's # statement, the crew is sup- * posed to have been killed by # the sudden formation of a dead- ly gas while the U-boat was submerged. The hatches were ¢ down when the party from the % patrol boat boarded the under- sea craft. 434944440444 04005084 444% +P i i Sera CONFIDENCE IN HOLLWEG Kaiser Closes His Eyes to Gathering Storm. Copenhagen, July 11.--A sharply censored Berlin special despatch says that the Emperor at Sunday's audi- ence expressed confidence in the Im- perial Chancellor and approved Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's course in opposing the Reichstag demand to commit Germany to peace without annexations or indemnities, The Berlin Tageblatt says that the all-day conferences of the Reichstag Middle parties and Moderate Social- ists brought the parties near to an agreement regarding the ¢ouestions of peace terms and internal reforms. Freach Airmen Supreme. With the French Armies in the Field, July 11.--To date in the Aisne battle French aviators have fought 1,098 combats over German lines and only 312 over the Frenc? lines, according to headquarters re- ports to-day. The figures show eloquently how few German machines get over the French positions, and how the French carry the fighting over the enemy's lines. y BRITISH AIRMEN ATTACK THE TURKISH FLEET (Special to the Whig.) Londen, July 11.--Direct hits on the Turkish-German cruiser Goeben were made in an aerial attack against the Turco- German fleet in the Golden Horn, according to an Admiral- ty announcement to-day. The attacking squadron planes suffered no losses. Direct hits were observed aginst other ships and big ex- plosions resulted, the Admiralty continued. "The enemy was completely surprised," the statement said. "Our attack was from a height of eight hundred feet." Several explosions were ob- served aboard battleship Goeben after surprise attack in the harbor of Constantinople. The Turkish War Office and other Governmént works in the Turkish capital were also ef- fectually bombed. * * sesssssttanes P0400 0900000044 eee the corparation of Montreal. L AST EDITION TORONT I WITHOUT STREET CARS 'The Big Railway Strike Weal into Effet sr EMPLOYEES VOTE AT 4 AM. AND DECIDED BY 1.334 TO 78 TO CALL A STRIKE. Industries Partly Paralyzed--The Cars Will Not Run As the Com- pany Cannot Secure Men. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, July 11.--Many indus- tries are partially paralyzed this morning as the result of the strike of the Toronto street Railway employes. The deciSion by the men to strike and tie up the service was made at 4 am, after a mass meeting since midnigut. Balotting showed a vote of 1,554 for a strike and 73 against. The company offered to submit the matter to arbitration. This was re- fused by the men at the midnight meeting The company has announced to-day that it will not attempt to run cars, as there is no labor available to do it All kinds of autos and other vehi- cles were pressed into service to-day, and many leading concerns had made sufficient preparations for the strike that they were able to pick up their employees and carry on business as usual. D. M. Mcintyre, K.C., chairman of the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board, yesterday afternoon forward- ed to Mayor Church a reply to the letter of the Mayor appealing to the board to exervise the powers given it under the Railway Act to protect the public against the consequences of a strike on the Toronto Street Railway. Chairman Mcintyre in his reply assured the Mayor that he need not be under any misapprehension that the board will not at the pro- per time exercise its duty under the powers given by the Act. Will Take Over Line. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, July 11.--The Outarto Railway Board has served notice on the Toronto Railway Company that unless the street cars are operated here by three o'clock the board will take over thie line aud operate it in the public interest. Iw the a ti representatives of the company and men are conferring with the Ontario Government. GEN. MACDONELL GIVEN COMMAND Succeeds General Currie In Charge of First Army Corps Ottawa, July 10.---Brigadier-Gen- eral Archibald Cameéron' Macdonnedl has, it is understood here, been ap- pointed to succeed Major-Gen. Sir. Arthur Curry in command of the first division of the Canadian corps in France. General Macdonnel] is a na- tive of Ontario, and has been con- nected with the Canadian vegular forces for many years. He is a grad- uate of the Royal Military College, and was with the 2nd Canadien Mounted Rifles during the South Af- rican campaigns from 1899 to 1902, being awarded the DS.0. and the Queen's Medal with four clasps. Canadian Casualties. Wounded--iD. H. Miller, Pem- broke; H. Joly, Hawkesbury; H. ¥ Saypders, Carleton Place; H. Limlick, Brockville; W. nn, Kingston; A. Tripp, Prescott. DAILY MEMORANDUM Cheese Board, 1.30 Thursday. Orange parade and sports Thursday afternoon See top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities. The sun rises Thursday at 4.30 am, and sets at 7.41 pm. --------------------------------------NN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following Olty Stores, Ahern, Joseph, Jr. .... 308 Montreal St. . vision College, Book Store . oulter's Grocery .. Cullen's Crocery, Cor. i 4 Frontenac Hotel Gibson's Drug Store McAuley's Book Store .... 88 McGall's Clgar Store, Cor. Prin. & McLeod's Grocery . 51 Union St Medley's Drug tore .. sos Paul's hh r Store .. ... Prouse Store .... 312 Princess Southoott's Grocery ,+ Portsmouth DIED, BARSFIELD. dn Kingstoh. on July $17. Iza Jane Kilpatrick, oi oi the Mate Geo. Sarshl Service at 2.30 o'clock and ona at 3 Thursday afternoon from her late residence, § Main street, to Catar- aqui cemetery. JAMES The Old Firm of 254 and 256 STRENT Phone 147 for Ambulance. ROBERT J, REID Poon rnin UE: ptrost Familiar Quotations 1 He hath a tear for pity, and a hand pen as day jor mebiing Sharit}. -