12Pages Pat a Ah YEAR 85: NO. 5/ KINGSTON, dy 1918. Pages ]-8 -- 'LAST EDITION GREAT BRITAINS WAR AIMS GIVE And Premier Lloyd-George is Said to Have Won Universal Approval By His Presen- tation of Them---How Received Elsewhere. . THE NEW ORDER "Government by consent of governed must be the basis of territorial settlements after the war, replacing the ald method of settlement by bargainingcaround a council table by a few negotiators scheming to serve the interests of-one or other dynasty or race of people." --Lloyd George. J) (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Jan, 7.---1If the eountry's-opinion, as is prébable in the present ease, can he judged by the expressions in the Lon- don press it may be said thal never before has Premier Lloyd . George won such universal approval as is given to his statement of Saturday concerning treat Britain's war aims. It is recog- nized that there .will be a divergence of opinion on details, like the economical terms of settlement and disposition of Gep- many's African colonies, but in all the essentials the statement is hailed as eminently satisfactory and the premier is declared to have performed a most important service to the country. All interest now is focused on the question as to how the statement will be received in Germany, Austria-Hungary and, not least, in Russia, but as yet there is nothing to settle the curiosity. With the exception only of the belicose Morning Post, whieh is, however, not opposed to the premier's thesis, the morning papers join in chorus of approval. The Times. de- lares it is the most important stale document since the declar- alion of war. If-commends, the moderation of the statement whieh, however, it thinks may disconcert-some tried friends and allies and even lend itself to enemy misrepresentation. + German Comment on Lioyd George's Speech. 3 (Canadian Press Despatch.) Amsterdam, Jan. 7.---German newspapers containing com- ment on Premier Lloyd George's-war aims speech of Saturday reached Amsterdam to-day. The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says: "This first langible British peace offer is a fresh indica- tion of our strength and proof of England's weakness. Peace conditions al the expense of our allies are inaceeptable to us." The Lokal Anzeiger says: "Under a flow of phrase is ap- parent the old desire to smash Germany's power forever and safeguard England's power forever. The answer to this will bé spoken by our armies in the west and by our U-boals." JUDGE LAVELL'S DECISIONS! WITH REGARD TO APPEALS FOR EXEMPTION, Four Bank Clerks Allowed, But One is Disallowed--More Farmers Se. cure Exemption From'Service, Judge Lavell gave the following exemption decisions over the week- end: Walter A. Henrich, Royal Bank, to continue in a bank. Charles F. Lemmon, Northern Crown Bank, to continue in a bank. ° R. E. Sutton, Royal Bank, toson: tinue in a bank. 7 Roy P. Gowett, Standard Bank, to continvwe in a bank, Ed .d V. Mullin, 276 Johnson streat, disalloweds T. A. Downing, Bank of merce, disallowed. 5 X Patrick J, O'Neil, Kingston, R.R. No. 1, farmer, disallowed. -Barl Babooeck, Echo Lake, farm- wor, disallowed. ey Arthur Dimmond, a Newfound- land student at Queen's, disallowed by default. Albert C, Revington, 138 Ord- nance, until class 2 is called. Archibald Scott, Arden, farmer, ta dontinue as a farmer. farmer, disallowed. John L. Baker, farmer, disallowed su amination, . ; . John G. Sheehy, Wolfe Island, farmer, until March 1st, 1918, and & re-examination. David Durrant, Wolfe Island, farmer, to continue as a farmer. Vincent J. Ryan, Wolfe Island, farmer, to continue as a farmer. TURNING OVER THE RESPONSIBILITY The Central Powers Say They Are No Longer Bound to Terms. (Canadian Press Desvatch ) Amsterdam, Jan. 7.---The Entente Wolfe Island, bject 'to ex- 2 fom- lage of the period of ten days' grace 4 (have, by thelr silence, rejected the programme of peace without an- nexations and = indemnities, the Fremdenblatt of Vienna declares. The Central Powers no longer are bound to the principles they sei up for a general peace. The Entente Powers alone, it says, now must bear the responsibility for the con- tinuance of the war. o A George W.. Ruttan, Verona, farm- er, category BE. : Chauncey Eves,' Westbrook, farm- er, disallowed. George Green, Buck Lake, farmer, disallowed. ; 8. M. Eves, Simcoe Island, farmer, to continue as a farmer. : Clarence J. Kenney, Wolfe Island sailor, disallowed. z ~ James D. Brown, Wolfe Island, farmer, to continue as a farmer. Robert A. Watkins, Ardoch;, farm- er, to continue as a farmer. a h C. Young, Leland, farmer, ; 'William. Fitsgerald, farmer. disall farmer, to continue as a farnjer. . | KCarmon Garrison, Ha ¢ farmer, until class 2 is called. ~--rankk Guinn, 416° Montreal, builder, disallowed. = ~~ Daniel Hickey, Bob's Lake, farm- er, eategory B. 5 ; ; Gordon oy, Mduntain Grove, | 1=Great Britain's War Alma; Hun } Nerve will Break; teviki ust Fight; Massing Troops on | West. s =e rie Killed: Incidents A S~Richard Cla of tire Day. + A-=The Wonld's Tidings. Irish of Today. 3 vei of Pra Rosle. Good Be 9d J Tas God Mme. oo Eastern Ovitario News ° ed. ¢ ; anjuven, Hartington, | {Nations 31 Ams] > BRITISH D DEFENCES OF HA (Canadian Press Despatch.) 4 London, Jan. 7.--An official report reelved to-day . from # | ad on the enemy. » - - --; 'Gifts and Some Ottawa, Jan, To--A chiefs of ch. P tion of General, on Satu in keeping with tra: newed the covenant in council, and They objected to conscription and quested that it be not against the Indians. They : Six Nations confederacy | of Indians waited upon the Governor-| onal custom re-| 'The C= : An ltalian during the recent action there. NAA, ip fl THE BOLSHEVIA MUST FIGHT If it Has Any Purpose of Rescung the German People. ARE HELD TIGHT BEHIND KAI SER'S WALL OF MILITARISM Russia's Peace Talk is Poisoning the Enemy --- Trotsky and Lenine are . Working in Line with America in Helping the German people to Get Rid of Autocratic Masters. By Wililamy G. Shepherd, : Asheville, N.C., Jan. 7.--The labor- ing man's government of sia has out-manoeuvred the autofratic gov- ernment of Germany in the Brest- Litovsk peace parleys. It has put the Kaiser in a posi- tion of trying to carry water on both shoulders, Unwittingly or not, Trotsky and Lenine fare just at this time work- ing exactly in line with America in President Wilsop# plans to encour- age the German people to throw off the yoke of their autocratic masters. Russia's peace talk is poisoning Germany. It is a poisoning gas that the Germans first used after the Russian revolution that is now be- ing blof¥n back on them. The Rus- sians nfe showing to the. German democ that German autocracy is decaivip® it. They have shown that the Kaiser is not on the square. . Trotsky and Lenine had the am- bitious idea--going beyond President Wilson's idea of the plain people working out their own salvation--of having these same plain people of all nations get together and demand an end of the war. The German armis- tice was part-of this plan.: The Rus- sian Council of Workmen' and Sol- diers, representing as fai as it was possible, thé plain people of Ryssia, thrust out its hands toward the de- maocracy of Germany. 3 They saw a hand extended from Germany in the vague mists of Ger- man diplomacy. It was net a cléarly defined hand, but the Russians grasped it in the hope that it might be that 'of their demoératic brothers it Germany. : 5 Only a few days of negotiation showed that instead of having grasp- ed the horny hand of democracy, they had shaken a hand bearing the gauntlet of militarism. The hand clasp is broken today. The Russian dregm of reaching through and be- yond militaMsm and Kaiserism to the common people has been oeracy, such as the Russians hoped to encounter, it lies behind the stone wall of the Kaiser's militarism. Proof It Ss in the fact that the ling from smallpox. sttered. If there is a German dem- Prod e Mrs. Edwin Giro "officer distributing 'cigarettes W captured Austrian officers near th e Fave front A em A A Ne ate tt et AA PN ANAS NN NNN SMALLPOX EXEMPTS THE TWO COUNTIES md Also a Young Man, Origina! * Applicant to St. John, N.B. > Tribunal. St. John N:B,, Jan. 7.---As a result of appealing to Justice Chandler from the decision of the local exem- ption tribunal, a young man, a resi- dent of Northumberland County, not only had his exemption granted, but has been the' means of 'exempting two counties, Northumberland and Kent, from the provisions of the Military Service Act for an indefinite period. Examination disclosed the faet that the young man was suffer- Immediately the court was notified at Chatham, and all who were present at the hearing were obliged to undergo vaccination. Among the number were a barrister and other court officials. The court- room was also disinfected thoroughly. On hearing of the prevalence of this contagious diseasé in the counties re- ferred to sbove, the military authori- ties decided that interest of the public no more men should be called from those cousties 'of the province until matters had been investigated. This means that the counties of Nor- thumberland and Kent will not be obliged to send mem to the St. John depot for an indefinite period. TO DEBATE OVER IT. May Find Quebec Seat for Mackenzie 2 King. . HON. MacKENZIE KING. Ottawa, Jan. 1.-- Securing a Que- bec seat for Hon. Mackenzie: King will, it is understood, be one of the questions which Sir Wilfrid Laurier wiH take up on his visit to Montreal this week. > % : rtm foi, LATE C. A. GRAHAM, NAPA A Passed Away Friday Night After a Week's Hliness. (From Our Own Cor t. - . 8.~+The death oc- curred on Friday , Jan. 4th, of Charles A. Graham, John stredt, one of Napgnee's most respected ree Bletiend aa been: ili but B= a Sadly Of sight 08, 3 t w = {and the Bolsheviki. ol OF THE HUN NERVE WILL BREAK This is Britain's Plan in Regard to the Air War. OPERATIONS IN THE AR ARE TO BE ON IMMENSELY EN- LARGED SBCATR As Boon As The Spring Campaign Be- 4ins -- Shatter German Nerve Sys- tems: and Victory Will Come -- Huns to Assail Belfast and Glas- gow? 3 London, Jan. 7.--~A shopt time ago a New York despatch to a Londen paper stated that American opinion was that Britain ranked last among the leading members of the Grand Al- liance in air power. This statement was not controverted because discus sions affectimg national susceptibili- ties at a time like the present are inopportune. Among experts here o- i -| there. exists a confidént belief that British efforts in the provision of aerial flying craft and the training of men will prove equal to the necessi- ties of the great aerial campaign ex- pected in the spring: And that the balance in favor of the entente will be tipped decisively by America's con- tribution is expected. y In a statement prepared for "aer- ial warfare" a well known authority of the subject says: : "The Germans are now working 4with all their energy to carry the air war to every part of Britain within range. It will be ruthless and ter: rible war unless we are well prepar- ed. . Big bombing machines with their 900 milé ramge of action can men- ace Glasgow and Belfast as well as London ard the Midlands. £0 "Air operations will be on an im- imensely enlarged scale, Hence, when 'the Allies carry out their air war on Germany, the Huns in their very first experience of such raids will be treat- ed, to something far more terrible than 'the worst assault on London. Bearing in mind the underlying hys- teria which exists in Germany, it will be understood that there is excellent opportunity for breaking the nerve of . the war-makers. : { "With thousands of airplanes ¢ir- cling' in and out of Germany night after night and day after day, with remote German towns made the cen- tres of aerial battles, with main rail- iway lines battered at many places, "troop trains wrecked amd the vital bridges like those of the Rhine de- 'molished, we shall assuredly shatter the two nerve systems which have 'enabled Germany to defy the world 80 long. . We "These two nerve systems are, first the nerve of will of the governing classes to carry onthe war, and sec- ond, the CO War Tings. It is said that Kaledine has offered i armistice between bis Cossacks - Spirited gun duels occurred on var- tr | fous parts of the Italian line. British OL Lstrongly to the new 1 airmen were active. The enemy held The American torpedoed and run on Surugs gos coust of 'Italy. yen The Vorwaserts, Germany's Soclal- ist organ, is firmly supporting tke * The Public Health Commission of tchewan has announced that Russian peace demands of withdraw-| y al of German armies from all sections Russia which they now hold. | HUNS BOMBARD CITIES DEFYING THE POPE Latter's Protest Fails to Infli- ence Teutonic Barbarians-- Hun Pledges Worthless. Rome, Jan. 7.--In the face of the note of protest from the Vatican, Teuton aviators again on Friday bombarded inhabited parts of the cities of Treviso and Padua, a War Office statement announced. Austria-Hungary, greatest of all 'Catholic nations, stands accused by the Catholi¢ churches to-day, charg- ed with breach of faith. It was un- derstood to-day that these éxact words of accusation were made in Pope Benedict's recent note of pro- test to Emperor Karl against the Teutonic air raid over Padua, which resulted in grave damage to some of Italy's choicest church buildings and in the killing of innocent women and non-combatants, The Pope's note of protest was addressed both to the Austro-Hun- helm. Firm reminder was expressed of the promises of both these mon- archs-at the time of the start of the Italian invasion that Teutonie troops would abstain from attacks on de- fenceless cities, 5 'The exact text of the Pope's note will be withheld until receipt of a reply from the two monarchs SAYS THE JAPANESE ARE MONEY MAD Ozaki, 'Liberal Leader, Thinks Japan Not Doing Enough in War. Tokio, Jan. 7.--A stirring appeal to Japanese patriotism and bitter reproof that the Japanese people are money mad, was volced by former Minister of Justice Ozaki, one the nation's foremost Liberal .lead- ers, in a statement to-day. "Notwithstanding the world is changing with aldrming rapidity, the Japanese are indifferent at the eri- tical moment they now face," he said. "I deplore the fact that the peo- ple now gnly think of war-time pro- sperity. "I wish German airships would raid Japan from Vladivostok and awaken the- people. : "The Japanese nation "should ex- ert its utmost co-operation with the Allies and annihilate the German militarism." THE FUEL CONTROLLER SENDS GOOD NEWS Mr. Magrath Has Secured the Promise of Early Ship= ments to Canada. Ottawa, Ont. Jan. 6.--C. &. Ma- grath, Fuel Controller, who is now in Washington, hes telegraphed to Ot- tawa that he has .visited the coal operators and received promise of early shipments to Canada. as coal shipments arrive at the Can- adian gateways they will have prece- dence over everything else, special ar- rangements having been made with the railways to make this imperative. To conserve coal, it is suggested that some of the day schools may have to close temporarily, and a num- ber of churches hold union services. In Government offices the customary grate fires went unlit yesterday. The central heating system alone was 'used : ? RICE THROWING ABANDONED War-time Economy Forbids This Old Ww Custom. New York, Jan. 7.--There is to be mo more rice throwing at wed- dings, owing to the conservation of food products. v The first formal notification of the abandonment of this old custom was made known at the-Hotel Majestic, where notices have been put in the room where marriages take place, readifig: "Don't throw rice--save food and help win the war." . This notice was posted after six marriages in five consecutive days at [the hotel, in, which large quantities of rice were thrown at the newly weds. " John D. Frozen Out. A ew York, Jan. 7.--John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., has been obliged to close his New York home and move into his father's home at Tarrytown, N.Y., because the Standard Oil Company was unable to provide him with ofl stove heaters. any left to give him. Mr. Rockefel- ler's home and those of several other wealthy New Yorkers adjoining have a common central heating plant, but lack' of coal forced it to close wi. Voices Loyalty London, Jan. 7.--Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous Jesuit, and bro- _ "Why do I'xome in biretts and cas- sock to speak to you? To show you t, althongh a priest, I am an Eng- lishman, still, and woe to any man who between me ard my king, ng his recent on pf the espionage of | It is announced here that as soon|: They did not have| was sentenced tol Federal peniten.| hb, Kansas, in dis - MASSING TROOPS ON WEST FRONT The Last Mighty Pusch of the War Is Now | Expected. ON THE WESTERN FRONT THAN ? EVER BEFORE The Waning Courage of the Foe Has Been "Bucked Up" by Recent Bucs cesses. With the British Armies in France, Jan." 7.--Like heavyweights in the final rounds of a finish fight, the British and German armies during the first few days of this New Year's have returned mutual sparring, wars ring for a lead. Counting "time" monthly the giant scrappers today are on their forty. {#econd "round."- Both are elinched. | They are easing up after the terrific blows. in recent onslaukhts. The war zone is still snowbound, The trenches are blocked in ice, the gullles are hard as granite. Frag- ments of frozen earth sprayed bv ex- ploding shells are just as deadly as slivers of the bursting shells -them- selves. vt The German airmen are attempt- 'ing a ceaseless watch aver § sky the color of an iceberg. - The atrol means the Prussian high commé&nd is straining every facility to get posted as to British movements. Meantime the British know surely that the fresh divisions continue to arrive daily on the west front to aid the enemy. They come principally from Russia. There are more enemy troops on this front now than at any time since the war began---and the German ranks are steadily increas. ing. : : » Foe Has Bucked Up. There is reason to believe these German troops are in better spirit than at any time since the Marne. The collapse of Russia and the Teu- ton advance in Italy has visibly buck~ ed up the waning courage of the en- emy. Stories that Germany is trim- peting for a great blow on the west front continue to filter behind the British lines through the decla 8 of German prisovers. . They all speak of the drive as a certainty. Mean- time hostile airmen are tilly leaflets over the British lines dn- nouncing the coming of German *'su- parently that they cén dcaré the Tom- mies. But the Tommies merely smile derisively., | They have gained the personal im- pression that something is off color inside of Kaiserdom making peace in any way by any fashion during 1918 imperative for the militarists. The Last Punch. Se , If the present peace plot falls the British fighters expect Germany to turn loose her last mighty punch at her earliest convenience on the west front---at a time before America's fighting forces can ¢ount as a factor in the battle. : This js probably thé stem-winder, with all' of Germafys hopes of the present and future pinned on it. 5 Forewarned and forearmed, Tom- mies wear an air of grim certitude these days -- perfectly confident of their ability to block anything Hine denburg- can put across, regardless of the my it 2,000 KILLED IN EXPLOSION Large Loss of Life in Russian Muni = tion Plant Wreck. Stockholm, Jan. 7.---A Haparanda despatch fo the Tideingen says. that the munitions depot on the Russian south-western front was brown up recently and that all buildings with in a radius of two kilometres wers destroyed. Two trains loaded with Cossacles on the way to the Don dise- trict were wrecked, causing the death of 2,000 men. . El LONDON PRESS DENIAL win Recognize Bolshevikl. London, Jan. 7.---In reference fo the report that the allies are shortly to recognize the Bolsheviki Govern ment asd that Great Britain will ace cept the. tment by the Bolshe- viki of Ma ] change has occurred of .the British Govirnment. "More over, the-Government lias received no intimation of M. Litvinoll's appoint oX % © PNEUMONIA IX €HINA aa Ny Te Porcigir Tienstin, China, Jan. 7. -- adi-ana per-soldiers" in the naive belief ap- t dropping ¢ / in the attitude: