NO. 195 YEAR 84: KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917. be Daily British LAST EDITION THE BRITISH RESUME ~ THER BiG DRIVE Beyond Langemarck And Freyenburg---The Canadians Repulse Bavarians and Prussians Around Lens--Fighting is Bitter. (Special to the Whig.) With the British Armies in the Field, Aug. 22 lish troops ai 4:45 o'clock this morning resumed hetween Langemarck and Freyenburg. in progress, At the time of eabling no details yet have been received at headquarters. Canadians Hold Positions Around Lens. (By United Press.) With the British Army in Flanders, Aug. 22.--Around Lens he Bavarians and Prussians fought the Canadians desperately all night and were still violently at it today. held tenaciously to the edge of the anthracite metropolis be- tween this city and Theodore. lacks were flung against the Maple Leafers in rapid succession. They were repulsed. Then the fighting swung backward again and the Canadians succeeded well ahead. At one time during the night of fighting the Maple Leal men were fighting in the city of Lens proper. They pene- There a big detachment of Ger- mans suddenly poured dp from a concrete cellar transformed into a bomb proof. Mare came "shafts, scurrying efactly like those insects do when their ant trated to a lonesome house. hills are shaken. In one dugout nearby the Canadians found one German of- ficer and one private soldier who had been held prisoners there for several days." Neither men had been able to leave through the toiado barrage-like fire which the British guns poured round about. Canadians Fought Against Odds. At times during the fighting the Germans had portions of six different divisions fighting the Canadian advance simultane- ously. Such a concentration of troops shows clearly the im- portance which the German high command attaches to Lens. After one counter-attack southwest of the city, a hundred German corpses were counted on one tiny patch of ground. The enemy's casualties have been very heavy, French Advance Near Verdun. uo * (Spelial to the Whig} ¥ --The war office statement says: French troops gained a fooling on the south-eastern portion of Avo- ood, on the east bank of the Meuse near Verdun, Berlin, Aug. 22 court official Feport asserted. tor, they Around Samogneux, in the same sec- orc¢ed themselves into the southern part of the city. Violent Attacks by ~--The Bri- their drive Violent fighting is still The Canadians There two violent counter: at- in establishing advanced posts up like ants from near by mine today's A TERRIBLE TOLL, Austria's Casualties Now Run up to 35,000. (Special to the Whig.) With the Itallan Army in the Field, Avg. 22.--Austria's terribld toll of casualties inthe continuing Italian advance to-day reached 35, 000 in dead and wounded, according to headquarters' estimates, -- Swept Enemy Away. (Special to the Whig.) 'Rome, Aug. - 22. Italian troops have swept the enemy from the vill- ages of Bescla, Britof, Ganale, Bom- rez and Rogau. All were' found smoking heaps of ruins, burned by the Austrians and shattered by ar- tillery fire. y - Last night the Austrians desper- ately, but vainly, counter-attacked. The barrage fire on both sides light- 6d the night to day time brilliance, aid threw shadows over the rocky nes. ~ 2 -- EAE ~~ AEROPLANE RAID, Dropping Bombs Over Dover and Margate, England. - (Special to the Whig.) London, Aug. 22.--Ten enemy aeroplanes raided England to-day, dropping bombs over Dover and Margate. Lord French, commander- in-chief of home defence fore n- nounced that two of there Tipe ers had been brought down, The raid occurred at 10.15 o'clock this morning. * Margate and Dover are in Kent near the mouth of the Thames. Poss- ibly the German raiders were bent ah following the Thames up to Lon- on. The opinion prevails that Hon. Robert Rogers will be a candidate in one of the Winnipeg ridings. Capt W. A. Bishop, V.C., the fam- ous Canadian airman, is in Bokiand | on leave. : WL Wh SOT _ CATILE SUPPLY DWINDLING Should Be: Government Control of Ritled 'Europe threaten to be wiped of this country's meat exports. a and offered this as an added reason. { § mrt Amn mei Ri Alo tad aria 4 1} made his now famous advance. man position. ~ WORLD FACES NEAT FAM 0S. Food Admins Gives a Warn 9 10 Pepe A AND STILY, HIGHER PRICES ARE BOUND TO COME. Meat Exports--Live Stock Breed- ers Should Lay Plans to Increase Herds and Flocks. Washington, 'Aug. 22.--Herbert Hoover warns Ameriea that the world faces.a meat famine. And a high range of. prices for meat and animal products for many years to come, confronts this country, he said. He added . figures that . cattle, sheep and hogs are dwindling rapid- ander the demands of war and in out entirely. Fabulously high prices in Europe and America will extent to lard. butter, cheese, leather, fats, olig and wools. g 'advocated Government sential e called upon America's live stock breeders to at once lay plans for enormously increased herds and flocks. He: pleaded that all rich, well-to-do, . middle class and other classes of manual laborers in the Jounary, greatly reduce their menus and lgpre. more for the fighting men : and female war workers of Allied lands. He elutioned the Allies that large neutrals are being 'diverted to' Ger- 1 for regulation of American exports, As a meat conservation measure for America, Sila stisis sug. that our comparatively little utilized: fish supply be thoroughly tr tri. _ DO NOT FAVOR BECK As Reader of National Cabinet. at] "Of 'meats Tron northern | The gunners handling these A AAAI THE BEST EQUIPPED ARMY IN EUROPE Col. Winston Churchill Tells * of Work Done for British Troops. London, Aug. 22.--Col. Winston Churchill, Minister of Munitions, has begun the reorganization of the British Munitions Department. In a statement he says the department is now employing 2,000,000 persons, and tbe headquarters' staff 13,500, and that it is controlling an expendi- ture of between £600,000,000 and £700,000,000 a year. Col. Churchill says the work; the department has [done has made the British armies "the best equipped and miést formid- ably armed in Europe." "But," the minister adds, "after these great efforts, and in the fourth year of the war, we no longer are tapping *stored-up resources of the national energy or mobilizing. We are applying them for the first time to. the war. The magnitude of tha effort and achievement approxi- mates continually the limits of possibility. - Already im many diree- tions {he frontiers are in sight, andl it 18 necessary therefore not simply to expand, but to go back over the ground already covered -and by thrifty and harmonious methods glean a further reinforcement of war power." he For this purpose Col. Churehill says it'has been decided to form thy 50 departments of the niinistry in.o 10 groups, each.to be presided over by an' experienced officer of the ministry, who will constitute a couneil, the functions of which will be similar to those of the Army Opunpil: : p-- WEDS IN ADIRONDACKS Morrisburg, Ont., Lady Marries New York Mam. ' : New York, Aug. 22-~Mrs. Ed- ward Ault, Morrisburg, Ont. announc- es the marriage of her - daughter, Miss Ella Margaretta Beatrice the Adirandacks, on last Saturday afternoon. The father 6f the bridge- groom, the Rev. Robert Bruce Clark, Ault, to Morgan Bruce Clark, of New York, at Camp Sans Souci, Sevénth Lake,|® ADVANCING A BRITISH HOWITZER INTO POSITION The picture shows a company of *Tommies" placing a howitzer in position which later took part in the bombardment against the Germans on the Belgian coast, after which General Haig monstrous engines of destruction are marksmen of singular ability, and to their accuracy is due tha fearful havoe wrought on the Ger ALLIES CONTROL FLANDERS PLAIN The Prussian Lines in Belgiom Broken Through, COUNTRY 15 ALKOST FUT Can De A GOOD ATHLETE COULD JUMP ACROSS STREAMS Progress Becomes Easier--A Drive of Ten Miles Would Bring Disaster to the Kaiser's . London, Aug. 22.--With the battle of Langemarck contnol of the plains of Flanders definitely passed into the hiands of the Allies. From the flooded area between Dixmude and Mencken to the River Lys all the positions gained have been consolidated and artillery is being rapidly moved up to harass the Prussians, From Wytschaete Ridge, 260 feet high, and Westhoek Ridge, 200 feet, one can 100k over the lesser heights of Zonnebeke and Becelaere toward the green flat plain of Roulers, still uncut by trenches, while the darker tint of Houthulst Forest stands out sharply against the landscape north- east of Langemarck. The gain on this front of about nine miles in the first half of August has 'been about two EE TT rrr four miles on a six mile front. * | Dominion sonable." : | oli hierarchy in Quebec. the humanitarian principles of the high command, but" does not take into consideration the depth of the barbarity to which the modern Huns have receded. They are likely to burn the cities} anyway, after having stolen every- thing of value, | TREAT ALLL NEUTRAL - London, Aug, 22.--In prin- ciple the British Government is of the opinion, Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, told the House of Commons, that neutral shipping which has been persistently and continuously assisting 'Great. Britain's en- emies should be treated after the war on the same footing as enemy shipping. Vessels that lie in port in con- sequence of the German Govern- * ment's threats, the Minister + added, would certainly be con- + sidered as assisting the belliger- # + * ent objects of the enemy, Fehr Pb Sh PPR bbe ZEPPELINS IN RAID ' OFF YORKSHIRE COAST Little Damage Was Done -- Craft Made Off Towards Sea. Phebe reba i + (Special to the Whig) London, Aug. 22.--For the first time in months Germany used Zep- pelins in. an attempted air raid last night off the Yorkshire coast of Eng- land. A statement to-day, issued by Lord French, commander of the homie defence forces, said the diri- gibles had been sighted off the York- shire coast and one had attacked points around the mouth of the River Humber, dropping bombs, then mak- ing off toward the sea. "The damage slone was slight," the statement said. "One man was injured." Late this afternoon Lord French summarizes the casuhlties from the aeroplane raid as follows: {Margate--None killed or injured. Dover--11 killed, 13 injured. Ramsgate--None killed or injur-, ody the hospital and a number of houses damaged. Possibly the attackers were not ins. They were most likely observation dirigibles like the Brit- ish "Climps", Germany has not attempted a Zep- pelin mid over England for months] owing to the disastrous failure of her last efforts with these aerial mon- sters in surviving the British aero- plane patrol. She used great fleets ar oplamies n her most damaging The Humber river is at least 165 miles north of the Thames. Hull, one of the great shipbuilding cen- tres in Bngland, is located a short distance up the Humber. War Dr. Alexander Wekerle has been appointed Premier of Hungary in Succession to Count Moritz Ester- The Canadians are still in a ter- rifie for possession of Lens. The British Naval Forces 'destroy- ed a German Zeppelin off Jutland on Tuesday. The Italian advance continues. Strong German defences near Cortie Cadorna's troops, Forty large guns and many machine guns were cap- tured from the Austrians. : The Canadians have reached the heart of Lens town, and the Ger- mans are still retiring. , fighting at Verdun, have now pierced. the German lnes for UNREASONABLE TALK Montreal, Aug. 22.--In an inter- 'view Archbishop Bruchesi styled the talk in La Croix about weparation of Quebec from the remainder & as "thoughtless and unrea- His Grace says La Croix does not represent the Roman Cath- | In Ottawa it is believed a Union Government. is now in sight. "the bitter 'enemy resisi- an po ER oe vance north of sustained the voting in the 2 Attacks of Much Violence Have Failed (Special to the Whig.) London, Aug. 22--Viel- ent' German attacks failed to dent the new advance - of the British lines around SHIPS AS FOES. ¢! By a vote of 48 to 42 the Gov-|. KILLING OF BOY WAS ACCIDENTAL Inquest on Case of "Freddy" S02 8 un DRIVER RUNNING - SLOWL WHEN THE UNFORTUNATE AC. CIDENT OCCURRED. : Coroner Mundell Scored the Reck- léss Auto Drivers and Gave Warn- ing as to What Would Happen Them. : "We find that Frederick Douglas Belwa came to his death by being struck by an automobile on Mont- real street on August 21st, 1917, and that the death was accidental." The above was the verdict ren- dered by a jury sitting under Coron- er Dr. D. E. Mundell at the police station on Monday night in the case of the three-year-old son of Freder- ick Belwa, Montreal street, who died from injuries received about noon on Monday, when he was hit by an automobile driven by James Sum- merville, of Morton, Ont. James R. Henderson was foreman of the Jury, A half dozen witnesses were called, and the evidence established the fact that Summerville was travelling at the rate of about eight or ten miles an hour, and that there had been no reckless driving on his part. Summerville was called as a wit- ness, and told the story of the acci- dent in a straightforward manner, and his evidence and that of other witnesses showed that he had been taking all the necessary precautions to avold an accident. Police Con- stable John Naylor summoned the members of the Jury and witnesses. The remains of the little boy, who met such an untimely death, were conveyed to the police station and viewol by the members of the Jury In « little white casket, and there AS & most sympathetic touch to the proceedings. The medieal evidence showed that deceased came to his death as a result of a fracture at the base of the skull. : A feature of the inquest was the pointed remarke-of Co ~My dell "regardin . of 'Hutos in . in this particular case clearly shown that it was accidental, but pointed out that there was a great deal of careless driving, and that aceidents were bound to follow if care was not taken by the driv- ers. At the same time, he made a strong appeal for parents to keep their children off the streels. He £aid that it was only through pro- per care on the part of both drivers and parents that serious accidents could be avoided. # Care Must be Taken. "You can expect more suto accl- dents," remarked the corymer, "for (Continued on Page 6.) Information from - Washington states that Madison Barracks, Sac- ket Harbor, N.Y., used for the offi- cerw' reserve camp will Be utilized this winter as a post for & regiment of regular army troops, Néxt sam- mer a base hospital will be establish- ed there. DAILY MEMORANDUM Cheese Boa: 1.30 Thursday. See top of Ee 3 line hand evraor, for probabilities, The Niuraly at 5.12 am. at it hal been A sun rises and sets at '6.51 p. Y '. HANSON-CARRUTH 22nd at M x MucGiilivre 1 oth second dmughter of ang ey. 3 J. B. Carruthers, gran 5" ter of jhe Inte n Carrol Bsq.. an e Hon. u PC. St J 3 NC to Major, Charles 8. gh. A, second som of Mr. and Mrs. Bdwin 'Hanson, Montreal, BELWA-Jintered into rest in King Sick But Ba nt dons . and Mrs. Fred Bel aged from jet 1.30 ook 10 im IS, PER , 27 Col afternoon, Lens, last night, nor did maintained," Haig declar- ed. "Northwest and north ' A commonplace life, we say and we Tut why should we All ' why id hgudie 4