[=] Th 2 e Dail v ) British Whig ~ Pages 1-8 nia YEAR 85: NO. 33 VIENNA CABINET HAS. RESIGNED The Resignation Was Teadcred the Aus- trian Emperor by the Premier. DUE T0 THE OPPOSITION OF POLISH DEPUTIES AGAINST THE PROVISIONAL BUDGET, Necessary To Temporarily Postpone the Sittings--The House Opposi- tion Made Majority For Budget Doubtful. {Canadian Press Despatch) Amsterdam, Feb. 8.--Dr. von Seidler, the Austrian Premier, has tendered the resignation of his en- tire Cabinet to Emperor Charles, ae- cording to a despatch from Vienna. The resignation of the cabinet, it is understood in parliamentary eir- cles in Vienna is due to opposition of Polish deputies agalnst the special debates and provisional budget. The! opposition of the deputies makes al . majority for the budget doubtful, President Gross = of the Lower Houge, announcing the resignation, sald that according to the consti- tution it was necessary fo postpone ' temporarily the sittings of the House. +. The Cabinet of Dr. von Seidler, which was formed last June, was also reported to have resigned during the recent labor erisis in Austria-Hun- gary, TWO YEARS OF CRIME. Pesertion, Jail-Breaking, Horse Theft and Burglary Record. Bimeoe, Feb. 8.--James Cooper was sentenced to three years in penitentiary as the culmination of a two years' record of crime, desertion from two battalions, escaping from custody after being arrested, twice breaking*® jail, horsestealing and breaking into a country 'store--and various lighter sentences from time to time failed to apply the brakes to his career. Cooper protests that he is willing to go overseas. His younger brother, George, and ohne Basil Brackenbury got-one year each at the Central. They were charged, the one with violation of the Ontario temperance act, the other with forg- ery, and both were with James Coop- er in his last Jatl-breaking and the burglary. dhe a » Arkaen MISSIONS * / DRIVEN OUT. #4 idk (Canadian Press Despatch.) * Washington, DIC.,, Feb. 8.-- # An unconfirmed report that all + Alliel missions at Petrograd # had been driven out by the Bol- # shev Government and are on their way to the Swedish bord- 4 er, wa§ received to-day at the # State partment through Am- # erican Minister Morris at # Stockholm. " 4 BPE PS PRPS T ONIN $ 1 Boost Price of Beer. Montreal, Feb. 8.--z.o0cal brewers 'have decided to'increase the price of beer one dollar a barrel beginning yesterday. The beer that has been selling at $7 a barrel will be $8 after this and. the finer grade will be $8.60 a barrel, The increase is due to the anticipated' prohibitory legis- lation. at Quebec, : French. : The official r¢port from the French War Officé last night on the opera- tions in Macedonia reads: "In the environs of Sokol the Serbian in- fantry repulsed enemy reconnoiter- ing party. Artillery was active north of Monastir. Allied aviatprs have bombarded with success the enemy encam it in the Valley of Var- dar. Two eémemy airp nes were brought down." 4 "There Is nething to report, with the exception of a successful raid by the E a esa oO All barber shops will be open Sat- urday, but must elose Monday. Y # | tions to two ounces to each diner in 'Board has | ITALIANS CAPTURE HEIGHTS, ROUT FOE, GET #RISONERS | ' KINGSTON, ONTARIO; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1018. Sy, | g ¢ or ZMTBERTOGA Aang ay gonco NS usiana_: we Aa ¥ » 1785 00. EW TERARRIT a 153i 5 0) ' SCALE In MILES > FE -------- It has been announced by the lta niso uve been captured. been bombarding Italians ® The Italfan fire has been the enemy lines. two of prisoners have been taken by the Italinns in their successful attacks upon the Austrian lines on the Asiago plateau Col del Rosso was taken and the Italian success was extended by the capture of Monte di Val Bella with extreme violence the positions captured by the Extremely heavy losses were suffered by the Austrians, wir divisions almost being completely annihilated. Hap War Office that more thin 2.000 | Six gups and 100 machine guns The Austrians have powerfully centred on points behind * » DRUG STORES OPEN. # (Canadian Press Despatch.) + Ottawa, Feb. 8.--To clear up + misunderstanding about 'heat- # less days, the Fuel Controller 4 has issued a ruling that drug #% stores may open for the dis- # peansing of drugs, but must not + sell tobacco, cigars, confections, + etc, ete. + + Sad RERE RE SARE Me testbents be NEWS BRIEF FORM Tidings From All Over Told in a Pithy and Pointed Way. Myer Douglas, Toronto, seventeen years of age, was sentenced to serve three years in penitentiary for as- sault and robbery, A United States food administra- tion order limits rolls and bread por- THE WORLD'S IN hotels and restaurants. The Dominion Government, it is said, proposes to hand over to the prairie provinces the ownership and control of their natural resources, An express parcel in the office of the mericen Express ompany, Montréal, exploded, killing Theo- phile Laberge, and injuring George Gardner. - Arrangements have been made by which the United States War Trade apportioned sufficient corn to Canada to meet monthly re- quirements, The Children's Memorial Hospital Montreal, receives $10,000 from the estate of the widow of Major Henry Hogan, proprietor of St. Lawrence Hall Hotel. Alberta's fur output is estimated to probably exceed $10,000,000 in value this year, a large increase -in exports and value of coyote and rat pelts being reported. A MIGHTY BATTLE Has Been Fought and Won Against (Canadian Press ate Stockholm, Feb. 8. oneal Man- nerheim, eommander of the forces which are supporting the Finnish Provisional Government, has defeat- ed the revolutionary Red Guard, a Helsingfors despatch reports. The od Gusxds are said to have suffer- ed the loss of 3,000 killed. The battle occurred at Korkeahosi. * TROOPS ANNTHILATED. r-- The Arabs Fell Upon the Turks in t upon Turkish Torce and virtually annihilated a large column of troops, taking many prisoners. 3 : increasing its advance northward. REACHED CANADA SAFELY. General Allenby's British force is | JEW POPULATION 40 PER CENT. LESS War tas Taken Heavy Toll in the City of Jerusa- lem. New York, Feb. 6 --Disease, star- vation and expulsions have reduced the Jewish population to 33,000, or about forty per cent., in the three and one-half years since the war be- gan, according to cable advices re- ceived by the Palestine Restoration Fund Commission here. With the advance of the British into Palestine, the Turks made wholesale deportations of Jews from the segport 'towns. From Jaffa, some 10,000 Jews fled the Turkish power or were driven out, it is re- ported, | Me British. authorities in Pales:! tine have cabled that there is ur- gent need for the hospital unit which Had-assah, the women Zion-: ist organization, is planning to send' from the United States. The Brit- ish are arranging transportation fac- ilities for the unit. URGES A BRIDGE OF SHIPS TO FRANCE This Is the Message Gen. Per- shing Sends to America By Frederick Palmer. 'Washington, Feb. 8.--""Make a bridge of ships' to France was the message from General Pershing and every man of his command, deliver- ed to the American people by Major | Frederick Palmer, chief censor on hGeneral Pershing's staff, in an ad- dress at the National Press Club. "Build ships and let every woman and child in the land think ships" said he. "We ought to be wearing little metal ships in our button : holes. Children ought to play with toy ships. The woman who turns from knitting to encouraging a ship's riveter to do more rivets a, day is serving her countpy. wer ihe our shipyards for the i power they mean during and after the wi the German genera] staff strains its vision. Build, build and continue to build ships. Make a bridge of ships to Pershing." JUST A SLANDER. Ottawa Office Girls Exonerated From ' Attack on Morals, Ottawa, . Feb. 8 Investigation made by the Dominion Police, and also by a special commissioner, into charges of immorality in connec- tion with one of the branches of the Militia Department, where hundreds of girls are employed has disclosed mongers. The department, the heads i , nd the staff are all exonerated completely, that there is absolutely no founda- {i tion whatever for the reports. The | whole story is attributed to scandal-' possible danger was an order for all TUSCAN HT WHLE SHER It Was Warmed of the as Rt Dt, Com SUBMARINE WAS DESTROYED TUSCANIA WAS ONE OF A LARGE "CONVOY. '1 All the Other. Ships Got Through-- ~The. Soldiers Lost Are Covered By Insurance--Only 101 Drowned. London, Feb. 8.--The loss of life .lon the Tuscania is now estimated at only 101. This total is given in a despatch from a corraspondent to the Associated Press in Ireland, and subsequently wds confirmed by the American Embassy. : "Survivors report that two torpe- does were fired. The first passed just astern of the vessel. {The second struck in the vicinity of No. 1 boiler. The behavior of the greater part of the soldiers and members of the crew was splendid. A few of them be- came excited, hindering the lower- ing of the boats. In some cases the entire crews were thrown out while the boats were being lowered. Other boats were let down hurriedly on men who were swimming around the liner. Many casualties were occas- foned in this way. -------- Caught in Swerving. . The Tuscania, warned by another vessel that had spotted the torpedo, was ia the act of turning when the missile struck, an eye-witness de- clared, The eye-witness, 4 passenger on one of the vessels néar the transport declared the captain of his ship saw the wake of the torpedo gnd diverted the course of his own steamer suc- cessfully. The Tuscania was signal- led: "Torpedo coming; dodge." The Tuscania started to turn, but was caught broadside, not having had time to swerve into the clear. The Tuséania was hit a little astern of amidships, - MoS? of the passengers on board the other vessel were not aware of what 'had happened. They spent a merry evening and continued their customary entertainments. The Submarine Destroyed. Londonderry, Feb, 7.---~The sub marine which torpedoed the Tus- cania was attacked. by a destroyer. An American officer gave an intim- ation that the submarine was de stroyed, This officer was one of the last to leave the Tuscania. He gave the As- sociated Press s vivid account of the disaster, ' The second torpedo fired by the submarine missed its mark, he said. Thereupon a destroyer which was | near the sinking liner dashed off to- ward the submarine, using a bomb- dropping device. The claim is made that the submarine was "done in" by the bombs thus exploded. The American officer sald: "Everythigg went well with us dur- ing the voyage. Many of our men had never been to sea before, and I must say they stood it like soldiers. "We were one of a powerful con- voy. 1 must not tell you are posi- tion in the convoy or how the var- ious ships were formed, but you may take it that all the other boats have got through as far as I know. As for ourselves, well, Huns succeeded in getting only a n of our fine fellows in addition to our boat; but if they have, they have put the iron into our souls and we will be ready to repay them when the chance of- fers, "Monday was -a wild night. Had the disaster occurred during a gale | don't like to think of what would have happened. But Tuesday even- was galm, "erpe. first intimation we had of men n to go on deck with lifebelts. 2 about 4.30 o'clock. At the|" REWARDED FOR VALOR BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT companies of the Engineer Regiment, a forest regiment, were aboard. s e---- / Begin the Hangings. (Canadian Press Des patch) New York, Feb. 8h Herald says: 'The first thought in the minds of all Americans when the news of the tragedy came was who advised the Germans of the depar- ture of the Tuscania. The way to put the fear of God into the German agents is to begin the hangings. iWhen are the hangings to begin.'" War Tidings. Anarchy continues throughout Russia. There are serious Socialist condi~ tions in Germany. THE TEUTONS ARE NEARING A BREACH Austria Has No Sympathy With the Ambitions of Germany. » London, Feb. 9.---Twgo aspects of explain' the marked pacific tons of Count Czernin's recent speech; the difficulties of the Austrian army [n- volved in a winter campaign jn the Alps, and the hopeless owloak the Dual Monarchy in the matty . of food. Np is When the Austrians began 'their sudden offensive last fall they were relying on German aid, The Ger man strategists persuaded them that under' Gérman leadership, With a stiffening of German storm troops, it would be easy to break through the Italian lines. For a time the plan succeeded, but the splendid ral- ly of the Italians and the prompt Anglo-French ajd held up fie in: vaders, and the Austrians find thelr badly-clothed and badiy-fed troops committed to a mountain campaign in the winter, while their ally is dreaming of new worlds to conquer. Information reaching here {s that this has led to sonie coolness een the Tutonic allies. 2: The extent of the food shortage in Austria is shown by the necessity of reducing the Vread ration by half. This step, taken within five months of the end of the harvest, implies the bitterest suffering, St ------------ WORK FOR BEAVERBROOK Feb. 8=-The Times states that Baron Beaverbrook, imho has been'engaged in publicity 'work for the Canadian Government, is being offered more general powers In organizing foreign propaganda. Mexico Has a False . New York, Web. 8.---A an newspaper, El Democrata, a copy of which was received here to-day, publishes. a despatch gravely 'in- Ssrming its Mera that the U.S. vernment is planning an armed invasion of Mexico, with Canada and Cuba operating jointly with the U.S. There is no danger of another su- gar famine in the United States, if le conservation is practised. I en toni the situation In Austria go las. Yo! aj, LAST EDITION CONFDENCE IN MLITARY HEADS Campagna! Haig od Roberton Mt CS PONE) CRITICISM 1S FRIVOLOUS WITH REGARD TO THEIR STRA. TEGY AND TACTICS, - Germans By Reason of Their Central Position Can Make Their Strong. est Point at Any Place Where They Are Threatened, London, Feb. 8.--Britain's con- fidence in its military leaders has Eth tad GERMAN PRISONERS REACH PETROGRAD Mock Former Russian Officers Whom They Saw Cleaning the Streets. Petrograd, Feb. 8.--Thousands of German prisoners, bearing papers showing permits to leave the dis- tricts where they were formerly guarded, are passing through Petro« grad. The city, which -all winter was becoming steadily like a huge village, is losing the last vestige of the old imperial air, and now has an international aspect, which fits its fts mood. The German prisoners everywhere are well received with a remarkable lack of enmity, accordigg to the Rus- sian desire for world fraternity, Ger- man soldiers, as well as dfficers, go through the streets either ignoring their surroundings or regarding them with disdain. They are still Germans, and it can be easily seen that they have not caught the inter- natio spirit, but Tepard Russia as sintegrated, not realizing that Rus- sian military disintegration is -disin- tegrating Germany. On the Nevsky Prospekt 1 saw se- veral former Russian officers clean- ing the streets in gangs of workmen. Germans passing recognized the uni- form, though the officers were strip- ped of their insignia and mocked the Russians, who bent their backs sil- ently to their picks. Passing crowds of Russian civilians were unaffected by the scene. The concentration of German prisoners here is worrying the German peace mission, who fear discords with the population, though they are no signs 'of trouble, te ny COMB STILL WORKING | AMONG CANADIANS Hundreds Are Being Returned Who Cannot be Used in England. London, Feb, 8.-~The comb con- tinues working among the Canadians in England. Three hundred men last month were sent to reserve ' units. Some of these had, been casualties in France, but had become again fit; 129 men were raised from category B to A, nearly two thousand A men had completed training and were raised to catagory Al. Equally im- portant towards geneml efficiency ih that unfit men who cannot 'usefully employed In England shall return to Canada. Two thousand were sent back last month and eleven hundred more were returned for further medi- cal treatment in Canada. Over tliree thoysand former casualties were made available for reserve units, hospitals here, Two thousand more were placed in lower categories than A. Many of these had been made available for further service through 4 system of curative physical train- ing mow so largely adopted by the Canadian Medical Service. Over thirteen thousand Canadians in Eng- land were examined again by the Medical Board last month, FOR. TITLE ABOLITION Capt. Burnham's Resolution Will Be J Supported. Ottawa, Feb.'S.--Judging by the comment of new western members who have recently visited the ecapi- tal, Capt. J. H. Burnham, member 5 fo West Peterboro, will receive con- support for-his bill to tbol- {ish titles when it is introduced in : 8 : The Ottawa Journal Press in an these including men discharged from | not been disturbed appreciably by ithe recent criticism of the strategy 'and tactics of Gen. Heig;and Gen. Robertson in 1917. Indeed, it seems as if this criticism is genefally re- garded as frivolous, For one thing, critics of the high- > | i A French corpotal, a Scotch captain and an English major in tie de- |°F ¢Ommand, while reprobating what vastated land of Flanders wearing Legion of Honor medals bestowed upon them by the French government for distinguished service. ' was done, refer only In the vaguest terms to what ought to have been done. One avoids with difficulty the impression they think it possible, in some mysterious way, to conquer the Germans without beating them. | Apparently they object to attack- ing the enemy at his "strongest point," seemingly overlooking the fact that the Germans, by reason of {their central position and splendid |communications, can make their strougest point at any place where {the Allies threaten them. Every experienced commander in view of the extreme shortage of ships {must transmit its power against the enemy along the shortest possible 'fines of communication. This prin- {ciple precluded, of course, s great British offensive in Italy ro the East, There was simply not sufficient ton- nage for distant offensives even if they hud promised larger military jrosults than did attacks in France and Flanders. Such results they did not promise. © What they did promise was such a weakening of the west. ern line as to expose Paris and the Channel ports quite possibly to a triumphant German attack. Stig pps OOURT OF COMMERCE NEXT? To Deal With Trade Quéstivhs and Prevent Overlapping. Ottawa, Fob. 8.---The Creation of a Canadian Court of Commerce, vest- ed with functions similar to those of the Interstate Commerce Commiss- fon of the United . States, is mooted at Ottawa, apart from the suggested constitution of a war néeds board. At the present time there is more or less conflict between Government departments of office. The Cost of Living Commissioner has run foul of the Food Controller, and there has also been some disagreement with the Fuel Controller. Some other de- partments overlap in their activities, while there is an absence of any court dealing specially with the iade problem like the-Railway Com- mission dedls with transportation questions. A Court of Commerce, as suggested, is likely to overcome many of the present difticulties, OPEN OFFICERS' PARCELS Germans Then Dole Ont Contents in London, Feb. §.--The Canadian Red Cross state that privatés who are prisoners in Germany are recelving parcels with satisfactory regularity, but officers' parcels lately have been held back and rigorously searched, the contents being later doled out in small lots at a time. It is thought this measure is only temporary, ----tdieninrn------ Public Should Cooperate. Winnipeg, Feb. 8.--If you know a man whom you think has evaded the responsibilities under the Mil- itary Service Act, it is your d 10 notify the registrar for the pro This is Military Director Chapman's . view, and it is shared by of other citizens, judging from the deluge of letters of this character which have already reached the headquarters, |