» A -- - Daily British Whig prea ees 12 Pages Pages 13 Che KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918. LAST EDITION INDIAN RESERVES 5 irs concerned, RITI | AWAIT GERMAN STROKE Which is Expected Between Arras Quentin--The Canadians Form Part of the Line Where the Attack is Awaited. ~ * (Canadian Press Despatch.) British Army Headquarters, Feb. 19. great German offensive may be ded British front the blow is expec St. Quentin. From prisoners mans expeel fo use giant tanks and new ga and will send their infantry forward in greal The best generals come all obstacles. The Long-expected gin anytime now. and on the to come between Arras and recently captured it is known that the Ger- | ses in this assault masses lo overs and troops from the ehstern front are now on the western front to make this move on which the Kaiser and German militarism have staked their all. fierce losses which await them. The entire Allied forces, on the other hand, await Ger] many's terrible blow with confidence in their pésition and re- | sources. The morale of the Allied forces is at the highest piteh | and the Allies have superiority of men and guns. will attack. A AA ANN it German officers are confident of success bul many of the | troops, while they will fight well, are not enthusiastic over the| eo a ---------- ------------------------ The Cana- A A AA mm And St. FRENCH ALPINE CHASSEURS RETURNING FROM THE TRENCHES vice on the Alsatian front. i dians form part of the line which it is expected the Germans | CIVIL SERVICE MAOR WLEAN OF 21ST)™= Wor" \'erier Form HAS ARRIVED AT HIS HOME IN OTTAWA. Does Not Think the War Will Last Longer Than Next Summer--He is Full of Optimism. Ottawa, Feb. 19.---Major Donald Hector McLean, one of Ottawa's best known citizens, after nearly two years' service at the front, has ar- rived at his home in the "lona Man- sions," Somerset stiget. Major McLean, who was promin- ently [identified with the 21st Bat- talion, which unit covered itself with undying glory, in many battles, comes back to his native city full of optimism for the early and victorious termination of this war; eulogy for the Canadian and American troops and a strong belier that despite Ger- many's desperate effort on both land and sea, she will. sooner or later have to surrender herself to inevit- able defeat. He holds to the belief that whether the war ends soon or not, there is bound to be a revolution in Germany, which may probably spread from Russia or result from the extra pressure brought to bear wpon the mercantile and industrial classes. - He bases this belief upon information gleaned from state- ments dropped from many German prisoners, whom he had control of for a time. It was a pleasure to 'hear him speak of the splendid work of the Canadian troops in France. Ottawa people will be glad to know that the old 21st Battalion, composed origin- ally of men from Ottawa and Kast- ern Ontario, is still pushing forward and doing its bit, where Major Me- Lean expresses the opinion the 'Thin Red Line" will never he hroken by Germany's mightiest effort. "I do not think the war will fast longer than next summer," he said, "but the end will not eome until Germany makes ap her mind to re- turn Alsace-Lorraine to France, as the Allies, and especially the United States, will insist upon that. '""Ag far as the army in France is it does not want an early, inconclusive peace. The men would feel that their efforts were wasted, as they have proved to their own satisfaction the German people have been shaken of any possible itching 'of going to war again. | mae) Bri ndn---- tish. There were no casualties or dam- age in last night's air raid over Lon- don, says an official announcement. The attempted raid was a total fail- ure, : rn . J Violent artillery actions occurred during the night in the region south of the Forest of St. Gobain, in the sector of Chavignon and northwest of Bezonvaux. There is nothing to report from the remainder of the front, says thé French statement. ee same ------ WHIG con 3 Await _G surikof Fo Re 3 Form ivi Ser e; Altes Must Achinove Victory: Danger to Germriny, : 3.Police Made Sefzure; Incidents of the Day ; 3-ity Counell; A Young 'Wife Murdersd. f-<Baitorinl; Ripplin mes. F---Gambling ey Bc a Ald. t's Ohn Henge ews. . Forum: An- ¥ oaneementy. §-~lhe Curling Results; Military; Than oe pt Day in Bur Pass: England Speaks for Her: {0 The Woman Whe Changed; On- ftarto's Coal ne, . 1--News thi Country; Will 13--1n the World uf Sport; Bringing Up Father. % ¥ | Tidings From All Over Told in a Pithy and Pointed Way. Canada's trade for ten { sanding June 31 totalled $2 275 ra 1275 ! months 229,693,- | Five thousand tons of Cardiff coal | was brought to Boston Monday by {a British steamer. | Cadet Frank N. Moore killed "in | fall from height of 2,000 feet north | of Leaside Camp. | Dancing academies and other | places were raided at Toronto on the | lookout' for defaulters. | The Bostan Evening Record was purchased by a syndicate of which the-head is L. C. Phge. According to a - report current in Russia, Gen. Kaledines, helman of the Don Cossacks, has committed suicide. Bernier's ship, the Percesian, has torpedo; the captain and crew have safely reached Liverpool. Col. Hon. P, E. Biondin, who lat- terly has been on the British staff at Rouen, has been sent to the Italian front on a special mission. Ottawa Syrians have given the Do- mimion Government a fine painting of the Holy (City to express their joy at the deliverance of Jerusalem. The €anadian Railway War move by the shortest routes, indirect rounding be done aw where it still has existed. Chatham Collegiate Institute and the theatres and movies in that city have been closed as a precaution against the spread of smallpox, one case having been discovered. The Nieuwe Rutterdamsche Cour- ant of Amsterdam reports from the frontier that 30,000 Turks and Bul- gariang are understood to have ar- rived at Verviers, Belgium, foarieen miles east of Liege. The Government has appointed a court under Lieut.4Col. Hulme to in- vestigate eomplaints of soldiers as to ill-treatment on board ship re- turning to Canada, and has reor- and ay with ganized the methods of handling the men. OCCUPIED TOWNS WITHOUT FIGHTING The Russians Were Unsuc- cessful In Attempt to Blow Up a Bridge. (Canadian Press Despatch) Vienna, Feb, 19.--~The German army group under the command of General Alexander Von Lingensen, according to an official statement is- sued by the Austrian War Office, has occupied the Russian towns of Dvin- fighting. The Russians unsuccessful- ly attempted to blow up the bridge across the Dvina river. Building Destroyers Rapidly. {Canadian Press Despatch) Washington, Feb. 19. The speed with which shipyards 'have bien turning out destroyers has been so great that the Government has been able to place an order for a large number of additional vessels. Hun- dreds have already been placed in commission. Lashes Imposed. Peterboro, Feb. 19.--In police court Ernest McNaughton was found guilty of assaulting a fpurieen-year- old girl. He was sentenced to re- ceive fifteen lashes and to serve three months in jail. The prisoner, who is thirty years of age, cried when he heard the sentence. 88,000 Ask For Divorces. : Petrograd, Feb, 19.---According to the newspapers, the Bolsheviki Gov- ernment's action in simplifying di- vorce procedings has resulted in 38.- 000 applications being made vorge in the capital alone. been sunk, but not, it is said, by a | Board has ordered that freight shall | sk and Lutsk in Volhynia without | for di- i { { { | | Attorney-General Lucas Introduces. Bill in! | Legislature to Make Changes. | GOODBYE T0 PATRONAGE {ALL DEPARTMENTS ARE TO BE | LOOKED AFTER The Government Is Adopting a Quali- | fying Service -- A Commission To | Classify the Service. Toronto, Feb. 19.--An Act provid-} | Ing for a reform of the civil service | of thé Province was introduced into | | the Legislature yesterday afternoon | by Hom: I. B. Lucas, Attorney-Gen- eral, ': He said that the bill 2 ed for the appointment of a civil sets | | | | | oa 3 ' v | vice commission for the province, The commission was not to be a commis- {sion to inquire and the position was to be a permanent one. { The commissioner would make a| continuous survey of the various] Government departments and would report any suggested improvements | to the House. Mr. Lucas said that it] | would be the duty of the commis-| sioner to classify the civil service of the province. | No More Patronage. i | "Will it do away with patronage?" asked Mr. Proudfoot. 'It will provide that no person shall be appointed to | any office until a certificate has been | given by the commissioner that the | {applicant is quite qualified for the] office; that the position. is necessa | {and the salary suitable," said Mr.| Lucas: { The same provision would be] made in respect to the employes of {the outside service making a larger salary than $1,000 a year. Mr. Lucas 'said that there would be special pro- visions whereby registrars and county {officials would not 'be appointed un- til a recommendation that they were | fit for the apopintment had been: made by the civil service commis-| | sioner. No provision would be made | {for civil' service examinations until the commissioner had classified the service, "We do not adopt the competitive system, but rather a qualifying one," said Mr. Lucas, in reply to Mr. Proudfoot, who asked if the ap- pointees to the civil service would have to have the recommendation of the party in power. SEAL MEAT REPLACES BEEF. Food Controller's Department Talk it Over With Dr. Greifell. Ottawa, Feb. 19.---Seal meat is the latest table delicacy being seri- ously considered by the Food Con- troller as a substitute for the ordin- jary bovine species. | Officers of the Food Board inter- viewed Dr. Grenfell, of the Labrador mission, with regard * to this pro- posal. 'Dr. Grenfell reported that it would be quite easy to secure twenty million pounds of seal meat, after skinning the animals and extracting the surplus fat. It would be frozen 'and stored at St. John's, Nfid., and . Halifax. The meat is said to be ! palatable. and to possess high nutri- tive walue. PHONE GIRLS FOR FRANCE. ' Four Bilingual Operators in Mont- real Engaged by U.S. Government. Montreal, Feb. 19.---Four Mont ireal telephone operators have been 'engaged by the United States Gov- ernment to go to to run the military exchanges. The girls were selected because they are bilingnal. {Their names are Jean Cunningham, Winifred Leblanc, Alice Ward and Marie Hardy. ' Armand munitions for the Finns were scined by the Swedish agthor-|. ities, ® SAID THE BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT HAS ' BEEN OVERTHROWN This French otticiay picture shows the French Alpine chasseurs returning from a long siege of active ser AAPA A AAA AAA NANA NENEN DANGER AHEAD FOR GERMANY This Is a Story That ||f She Persists in Attacking the Defence- Comes From the Dis- tressed Land--Len- ine and Trotsky Have Fled. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Feb. Rumors in Vaca are that the government in Petro- grad has been over- thrown by the Social Revolutionists,.« under the leadership of M. Tchernoff. Nikolai Lenine and Leon Trot- sky are said to have escaped to Riga. ANOTHER RAID CARRIED OUT BUT FAILED (Canadiay Press. Despatch) London, Jeb. 19. ~--Another air raid took place last night with less than one hundred cas- ualties. The fiyers took ad- vantage of another clear moon- light, Monday, to attempt to drop bombs on London. Their attack was a failure as far as the metropolis was concerned. The fire of the barrage guns on the outskirts" of London heavy for two hours, German was BROUGHT DOWN PLANES, the British airmen on Sunday. Bolsheviki. miah Phelan, s venty-three, one of vigiting several manufacturers after work of breaking up the | of AR ce formed across the river dur- ing the winter above Oap Rouge. The Archbishop of York, after American centres, will spend a good portion of April in Canada. SPER EPG E TEEPE PEIT ARE R FEIN | * FIGHTING RESUMED (Canadian Press Despatch.) Berklin, Feb. 19.--The Ger- mans hive crossed the Dvin- sk river and are pursuing on towards Petrograd. Fight- ing has been resumed at all points. Still Under Arms, Petrograd, Feb, 19 Five million Russians are still un- der arms and will resist the Germans. Austria to Aid. Amsterdam, Feb. 15 --An Austro-German , agreement has been reached, whereby "if action is necessary" against Russia, Germany's operations will be limited to the Russian frontiers, while the Austrians will operate in Jkraine, to de 'spatches from Vienna, - SEP EEE Ebbets tr PELE Sob be léss Russian People. GERMANY 1S FLOUNDERING IN A SITUATION SHE CREATED BY DOMINEERING A Wedge May Be Driven Between the Austrian People and the Ger- wan Junkers -- Kaiser Delivering a Dangerous Blow at Himself. Washington, Feb. 19.--If Germany again strikes at Russia--mnow that the armistice between the two. coun- tries has ended---the Kalger will de- liver a dangerous blow at himself, of- fictals and diplomats here helieve to- day. A resumption of the attacks on the demoralized and defenceless Rus- sian people, they say, would meet with strong opposition . from the Teuton people, and drive harder at the wedge between the Austrian people and the German junkers. The Teuton military leaders may justify any military acts by the claim that they are necessary for protec- tion of the Ukraine, against which the Bolsheviki are now acting..But, whatever the excuse, the position of the Austrians against striking Rus- gia, and the growing feeling of the German people against it, is destined to make trouble for Germany. Germany's political position 1s d®emed "more unstable now than at any time since the war started. The Russian situation, started as a great German manoeuvre, has proved the biggest boomerang Germany could experience. Russian chaos and President Wil- son's "daylight. diplomacy" have thrown the battling nations of the Central P fs and the Republics of old issia into confusion and dis- Any. History fails to record a parallel to the situation existing today if the old world. Ukrainia at peace' with the Central Powers is at war with the Petrograd Bolsheviki. Germany, floundering in a situa- tion she created by trying to effect a dominering peace over Russia, finds herself at war with the Bolsheviki-- and afraid to shoot. Austria, disagreeing with the Ger. man annefationist plans toward Rus- sia, refuses to align her soldiers. in any military determination against the Bolsheviki. x A York Loan Balance. Toronto, Feb. 19.----Approximately $33,000 of unclaimed dividends of jihe old York County Loan and Sav- ings Company, which failed in 1905, is still held by the National Trust Company, assignees of the defunet bank, waiting to be claimed by the shareholders who cannot be found. When the last dividend of 5% cents. on the dollar was paid tn 1914 dividend cheques amgunting to $60,- 000 were returned undelivered. | Since then some $27,000 has been claimed by shareholders who eventu- ally turned up. \ Under the provisions of the Bank Act, all unclaimed bank balances, after three years, revert to the Do- minion Government through the de- partment of the Receiver<General. "Bogus" Policemen Arvest Deserters. Montreal, Feb. 19.----Inspector Be- langer of the Dominion Police, who is in charge of the men operating the drag-net for the deserters under the Military Service Act in this His- trict, has issued a warning that ev- ery officer who makes an agrest alleged desertion should he je aly show his badge, as ui ave taken pas. persons of the present situation pretended arrests | and bribes for liberating their victims. 'affair, resulting in heavy casualties ALES MUST ACHEVE VICTOR "There s No Hall Way House," Declares Rudyard Kipling. WORD MUST BE SWED POL~ WILL BE UTILIZED Plan to Increase Grain and Live Stock Production in West- ern Canada. Ottawa, Feb. 19.--Announcement is made by Hon. Arthur Meighen, Minister of the Interior, of a com- prehensive plan to increase grain and live stock production in West- ern Canada by the utilization of the | large productive areas within the Indian reserves and the laber of In- dians themselves W. M. Graham, inspector of In- dian agencies, South Saskatchewan, inspectorate, has been appointed a commissioner for the Department of Indian Affairs in Manitoba, Sas- katchewan and Alberta He will have charge of the working out of the details of the plan In connection with the new scheme to' increase production it is pointed out that owing to the in- structions which the Indian tribes have received along agricultural lines, a considerable degree of suc- cess 'has already attended their farming efforts and rations are no longer issued to able-bodied gIn- dians. Last season the Indians on the various reserves harvested 654,- 644 bushels of grain, while their live stock amounted to 22,362 head. Only a small portion of the land on Indian reserves is under cultivation In view of the circumstances . that these reserves are for the most part situated in the productive area of the three Prairie Provinces and are finely adapted for agriculture and stockraising, it is regarded by the Government as particularly desir- able that the idle land should be cultivated and thé man-power of the Indians efficiently mobilized in sup- port of the campaign for greater pro- duction of food. 2,500,000 GERMANS HAVE BEEN KILLED The Kaiser Has 4,805,000 Men Still Available For Slaughter. FROM THE UNSPEAKABLE 1CIES OF THE HUNS. - No Suffering Too Much--The Great- est of Agencies Now But a Feath- erweight, Compared With Teuton Domination, - London, Feb. 18.--Rudyard Kip- ling, speaking at Folkestone on the war aims that confront the world and the true meaning of German militarism, said: : "At the present time all the pow- ers in the world that have not been bribed or bullied to keep out of it have been forced to join in one inter- national department to make an end of German international thuggery, for the reason that if 'it is not ended life on this planet will become in- supportable for human beings. "Nine-tenths of the atrocities that Germany has committed have not been made public. Until this veil is lifted after the war we shall have no conception of the range and system of those atrocities. "So long as the Germans are left with any excuse for thinking such things pay, can any peace be made with them? None; .for our hearts, our reason, our instinct in us that has lifted us above the mere brute, shows us that the war must go on. Otherwise the earth would become a 'hell without hope. ! "The representatives of the Allies meet together from time to time and lay down what the war aims of the Allies are. From time to-time our statesmen repeat that they all agree, We are fighting for freedom and lib- erty, for the right of small states to exist, and for the nations to decide for themselves how they are to be governed. All this we understand and perfectly believe. "That is the large view of the sit- uation. What is the personal aspect of the case for you and for me? We are fighting for, our lives, the lives of avery man, woman and child here and everywhere else; we are fighting that we may npt be herded into act- ual slavery, sych as the Germans have establish¢d by forces of arms in large parts of \Europe; we are fight ing against eighteen hours a day of forced labor under the lash or at the point fo a bayonet, with a dog's death and a dog's burial at the end of it; we are fighting that men, wo- men and children may not be tortur- ed, burned, and mutilated in public, as has happened in this town (refer: ring to the air raid murders) and hundreds of others, and we will go on fighting till the race which has done these things is in no position to continue or to repeat its offense, Paris, Feb. 19.---The Echo de Paris after a careful and minute ex- amination of allled and enemy docu- ments which it has in its possession publishes what the newspaper reckons to be Germany's losses in the war and the number of troops which she has available Phe losses through the war, it de- clares, are 4,225,000 men, of whom 2,500,000 are dead. Since 1914 Germany has been able to mobilize 14,000,000, from which 500,000 must. be deducted, having remained in, Entente or neutral countries. The first figure does not include the 1920 class, whith would" increase the forces by 450,000 men. Following medical eqxaminations at the beginning of the war, 2,250, 000 men were rejected as unfit. This left a total of 11,250,000, from which losses must he deducted At present Germany has in hospitals or waiting to be examined 950,- 000 men, while 70,000 men are em- ployed in depots or the interior of the country. 3 Then the number of men Ger- many has lost as prisoners is given, taken from official lists published by the German Government and re- produced by Swiss, Swedish and German papers. There are: Pris- oners in France, 250,000; in Rus- sia, 200,000; in England, 126,000, making a total of 570,000, which is considered below the actual figures. This would apparently leave Ger- No Half Way House. "If for any reason whatever we fall short of victory--and there is no half-way house between victory and defeat-----what happens to us is this: "Every relation, every understand- ing, every decency upon which civil- {zation has been so anxiously built, will go, will be washed out because it will have been proven unable to endure, The whole idea of demo- cracy (which at bottom is what the Hun fights against) will be dismissed from men's minds because it will have been shown incapable itself, to- gether with every belief and prast- ice that is based upon it The Hun ideal, the Hun's notions of life, will take their place throughout the world, "Under that dispensation man will become once more that natural prey, body and soul, of his better-armed neighbor. Women will be mere in- struments for continuing the breed, the vassal of man's lust and man's cruelty, and labor will become a thing to be knocked on the head if it dares give trouble, and worked to death if it does not. And from this order of life there will be no appeal, no possibility of any escape. "This is what thd Hun means when he says that he intends to im- pose German kulture, which is the German religion, upon the world. "This is precisely 'what the world has banded itself together to resist. It will take every ounce in us;it will try us to the naked soul. Our trial will not be made less by earnest ad- vice and suggestions that we should, attempt some sort of compromise which menns defeat, put forward by Hun agents and. confederates among us. They are busy in that direction already, but be sure of this: Nothing we may have to endure now, nothing will weigh one featherweight, com- pared with what we shall most cer- tainly have to suffer if, for any cause, we fall of victory." MURDER FOR SPORT IS RIFE IN FINLAND Red Guard Massacre and Rob The Middle-Class Citizens. Stockholm, Feb. 19--Grim stories of atrocities committed by the Red Guard in Southern Finland were told yesterday by the 640 refugees who reached Stockholm with the second relief expedition sent from 'here. Eleven men were taken from a large estate near Bjornesborg, stripped and compelled to run around a walled garden while the Red Guard used them as targets until all were killed. This is but one of a score of simi- lar stories related by the eye-wit- nesses. The Red Guard makes a specialty of mutilating victims' faces, so that relatives cannot identity the bodies.' Six wounded members of the Gov- ernment force were killed with knives when the Red Guard captured Kotka. Murders are of daily occur- rence in Helsingfors. Two hundred and forty tons of sugar sent to the Swedish consul at Heisingfors were stolen by the Red Guard at Manty- luoto. The stocks of the food com- missioner were also plundered. AN EXTENSIVE RAID WITH FINE RESULTS There Were Many Casualties Among the Foe And Pris- oners Were Taken. * The Government has discovered that German sgents in the United States have sent military informa- tion to Berlin by means of codes de- rived from arrangements of postage stamps. (Canadian Press Despaich) / on, . 19.--An extensive raid was carried out by the British troops last it oh the nders front in the southern secon of Houtsolst Wood. Two other sue- cessful raids. one in the region south of Lens, were carried out by the Canadian troops and another on the old Arras front in the neighpo hood of Epsy. Prisoners were taken in all these raids. The Flanders raid was particularly an important el RUSSIA FORCED TO SIGN PEACE ee. a (C#mudian Press Despatch) London, Feb. 19.~Russia is now forced to sign a peace up on conditions proposed by Gere Gapt. Herbert' Geiaine, Disivictyl "7. 58s an offieial Russian to the Germans. Died This Aflernoon. 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