a BGA Che 0 | Pages 1-8 NO. 53 -- ET KINGSTON YEAR 85: LAST EDITION inst Teutons ¥en wanes RENIER REFUSES {Canadian Press Despatch) ------ London, March 4. --Supplementary | treaties between the Central Powers and the Bolsheviki Government were | signed at Brest-Litvosk in addition | to_the main peace treaty, according! to a telegram from Brest-Litvosk by | way of Vienna and Amsterdam,which gives no details of the treaties. , i Formal official announcement Russia May Dec RUSSIANS MAY TEAR UP ~~ TEUTON PEACE TREATY Regard It As A Scrap of Paper -- A Movement Afoot To Reunite All Democratic Parties For Purpose of Resisting Invaders. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Toronto. Mareh 4.---The Star to-day has a cable from Pet- rograd stating the Russians may tear up the trealy signed at Brest-Litovsk yesterday and declare a Holy War against the invading Teutons. The treaty says the despatch is regarded] in Russia as only "a serap of paper." : { The highest enthusiasm for fighting is prevalent in Petro- | grad and a movement to reunite all democratic parties for the | purpose of lighting defensively to the last is growing. | The Petrograd pan-executive council has called an extra- i= ordinary session of soldiers, peasants and Cossacks for Mos~| "waso cow on Mareh 12th to decide whether to accept or reject peace.| I» lare Holy War Ag HOKE RUE CORRONSENOY MARCHING ope | INTO SIBERIA LATEST FROM DUBLIN. A Japanese Army is on the Way to 3 Battieground. CNA SENDING TROOPS But the End is Not Yet, as Belfast May Not Adhere to Westminster INTO MANCHURIA UNDER GEN TUAN OHI JUL TREATIES HAVE BEEN SIGNED | LATER | |Operations | Have Been Called Off -- Fighting Elsewhere. Rule. Dublin, March .4--The Irish 'con- | vention, which wise people inform- | 8d us would not survive the first meeting after the récent negotiations | with the Prime (Minister, is certainly going on. Its entrance upon a further series of sittings i$ good evidence of a desire to secure a settlement. There is talk here of the poksibility of compromises on the Home Rule | question. Like all compromises, it would fully satisfy mobody, but it | would have the advantage of start- | { | ing almost immediately the working | Booing Uproar Ensued When Hearst Hand- od Labor Delegates Frozen Mitt. the signing has not yet been receiv-| ed from the Russian side, but a later | *| raidiogram from Petrograd said the TO ANY CHANGE IN THE PRES- treaty would be signed on Sunday. ENT TEMPERANCE ACT. {| As the German official statement | -- Speculation In London As to Aims of | of Sunday night mentions only the The Premier Says His Government cessation of operations in Great Rus- . i ol y 4 Smee M5 s y : : : | 5 t ake ote on the Allies--Manchuria Is To Be| ja. it is inferred in some quarters Is Committed to Take a V Japanese, . here that the German advance in, the Temperance Question, London, March, 4.--Japan and | Ukmaine and Finland will continue, Toronto, March 4.--"I am not ' : : | China are dispatching troops inte | while the Germans reserve for them- answering you off-hand. I must tell -GENERAL { of an Trish Parliament, giving | Asiatic Russia, the former into Sib-| Jelves generally a free Sand outside you candidly that I do not now see teneral o t-| Fri i ¥ | ' 8 ssia, : "General of ld: repiace| Tish control of their own adminis. | ory ang the latter into Manchuria,| > sf Great R | my way clear to promise you any Ruttan as eo | tration and relieving Great Britain | pen mip, newspapers have announ- +o4+2bde change in the measure now on the \ Bn Se nevy ain | pap SREP PEEPLES g Of a task which she is now quite witl- iced, according to a despatch to the statute book.' | Ig to have devolve upon those to Evening News, received today. The!|*¥ This was Premier Hearst's reply | Whom it ought to belong. | dispatch added that Gen. Tuan Chi to the crowd of about 4,000 work- + men, who crowded in™front of the {Jui probably would Governmént having suggested + main entrancé of the Parliament For All Ireland. | The first and greatest claim is | Opreme semmander, i a . { A diplomatic correspondent, sonservation of cloth, Mayor #! Buildings in Queen's Park Saturday MacDonald, of Bradley Beach, # that the compromise world remove | pre- # N.J., evidenced hi patriotism | afternoon, to ask that beer contain Nad, nce 8 a 8 ol i i I i of | JOHN HUGHES tie ff Russians Destroy Bridges In Siberia. - ' (Canadian Press Despatch.) Washington, March 4.-- The Russians have begun destroy- ing bridges on the trans-Siberian railroad between Lake Jaikel| and the Chinese frontier. John FP. Stevens, chairman of the gq American railway commission, reported this to day to thes state department. While without details, officials here believe! kd : ! a the Russians are destroying the bridges to prevent an expected | advance of Japanese troops. 3 WOMEN TO CENSOR + THEIR OWN ATTIRE % & VAR BULLETINS. ---- : ' - New York, March be the Chinese 3 ~ } * i : 4.--The The enemy is using gas against the Canadians, - the Ulster "non possumus" and |Sumably Japanese, discussing in the make the Irish Parliament one for | Chronicle, the objects Japan would # Saturday by decreeing that wo- #| ing 2% per cent. alcohol be legalized. alt Ireland. To secure this result, | have in taking action fn Siberia, says| + men bathers this summer may + The reply of the Premier, which the Nationalists will go far in mak- that Manchuria would be the base of | % censor their own attire, | came at the end of a ten-minute ing concessions. The concessions | 3 ODES 'ladivos-| % Bradley Beach, famous for + 4 4 C suggested are that the Irish Parlia. | the Japanese operations. Vladivos- its eaost line, is expected to de- speech of eulogy for labor in its part ment should have no control of edu- | tok, he points out, is regarded as| 4 velop something new in the 4 In the war, and in reply to some of cation in Ulster, should not pass any | sufficiently protected by the Japan-!¢ way of lines. # | the arguments advanced by the work- { labor legislation applicable to Ulster, | ese fleet. * & | ers' spokesmen, was met with a cry | and not have, at least for a term of German airman bombed Pet- rograd Three persons were killed and five wounded, A Copenhagen despatch says that peace negotiations at Bucharest failed. King Ferdi- nand refused the Teuton condi- tions. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Washington, March 4.-- Germany's occupation of the Al- and Islands 1s only a preliminary to the total occupation of Fin- land. Germany has ann her intention to occupy oecupy Finland to restore orde had no intention to take permanent possession of territory. A ---------------------- csr re ---------- THE GEOLOGICAL REASONS CEN By Prof. M. B. Baker For Germany's Vie- lation of Belgium. STRATEGY OF THE ENEMY OUTLINED BEFORE QUEEN'S ALMA MATER SOCIETY, Aes. The Easy Route Was Chosen--A Dis- cussion On Rushes to Take Place at Next Meeting, (No clearer statement of the general reasons for the strategy displayed by the Germans in their onward march to Paris in the early days of the war which was brought to a termination through the genius of "Papa" Joffre has been presented in Kingston than that of Prof. M. B. Baker in his {l- lustrated lecture on the geological reasons for the vioiation of Belgium before the Alma Mater Society 'of Queen's University at Convocation Hall on Saturday evening. After explaining a few of the ele- wuneed to the Stoekholn Foreign Office hrm and Germany advised Sweden/that it was necessar Sweden has protested. y to temporarily r, but gave assurances that she AA i sgt gates of Paris his manoeuvre chang- ed and Instead of entering the city he turned his flank more southerly with the intention of enveloping the arm- ies of the struggling allies, - General Joffre, however, had not been reckoned with, and just as Von Kluek thought that everything was satisfactory a huge French army, held beyond the gates of Paris, was rushed in every available automobile in the city to attack the German army in the rear. This army forced the Germans from the very gates of the city step by step to the Aisne River, where a definite stand was taken. Prof. Baker outlined the move- ments in other sections of the front and especially the operations around Verdun which is one of the places to be taken by the Germans if they force the play on the second route. Pass- | ing to the expected drive of this spring he expressed the opinion that the northern section would again be the scene of activity and that the cockpit of Europe would again be the battle ground of a titanie strug- le. 5 At the regular business meeting of the A.M.S. the report of the dra- matic committee was brought in and showed the most substantial balance in years, despite the fact that the contributions to patriotic work had been augmented some fifty per. cent. Dramatic "Q pins, granted for faithful work in the club, were pre- sented to Miss May Gemmell, Miss Vincent Moffat, A. L. Blacklock and J. C. Elliott. mentary conceptions of geology in which he drew the distinetion tween igneous and sedimentary rocks Prof. Baker, with the aid of some ex- ceptionally fine lantern slides and a topographical map, was able to ex- plain why /thé Germans chese the most northerly route through Bel-| gium for their attack on France. There are three paths from Ger: many into France, through the mountainous tremely precarious region south in Alsace. The second, witl starting point at sfetz, in somewha more easy, but a serious of "steps" or cliffs of igneous rock offer many obstacles to an invading army, It was, therefore, the third route through Belgium, a low, flat coun- try, that the Germans chose their basis of attack. 'Several years before war," de- clared Prof. (Baker, "the Germans had built six double track Hnes of rail- road leading to the border, of Belgium and it remains a mystery why the military authorities did not recognize the manace of the violation of Bel- gium by the German hordes.' . Prof. Baker then drew a picture of the invasion of Belgium which up to the last moment the allied soldiers believed incredible. He showed on a map the advance of the German " right flank towards Paris, every step of the way belng céntested fiercely by and ex- n the French poilus and the "contemp- | tible little army." Just as General Von Kluck had reached the northern WHIG CONTENTS, 1--Russians May Tear Up Treaty; Qe i 1 Reasons Glen: Re uses ronger er; aroh! Into Stberhe ng 2--The HoMness Convention; Inol- dents of the Day. 3 Aan we Bours Militar ain, 3: ny mes, 5--~The Civic Estimates, a §--Eastern Onta SWS, 7--The Forum; ata nouncements, 3 S--MiMtary: Theatrical : Yn rer Win Win, Wood's k Ie ay el, 10-+The Woman Who Changed: Sen- tence Sefmons. : 11--Scenes on Western Front 12-10 'Worl, : tt and Ton orld of Sport; Mutt an An- be-, the first being | to the The discusssion on rushes will take place at the mext meeting of the society and a strenuous evening is expected. MACDONALD GETS AN APPOINTMENT wil Serve As Inspector Of | Taxation For the Dominion Government. |G. A. | George A. Macdonald, Alfred | street, for many years engaged in J. L. Whiting's law office, has been ap- pointed as an inspector of taxation, by the Dominion Government, to serve under the new Income Tax act, and has taken up his duties. His headquarters will be in Kingston, and his district will comprise the fol- lowing counties: Frontenac, Leeds, Lennox and Ad- dington, Hastings, Prince Edward, Northumberland and Durham. Mr. Macdonald will open up his office here just as soon as quarters can be secured for his staff. He is being warmly congratulated by his wide circle of friends on his new ap- pointment, : ---- ------------------------. (Fm, OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS. i British. - "A number of successful 'raids were carried out by us last night on dif- ferent parts of the front," says to- day's British War Office report. "Australian troops entered the Ger- man trenches near Warneton, and, alter killing at least fifty of the en- emy and destroying several dugouts, brought back eleven Jprisoners." French. | Two German raids made last night {On the French lines north of Chemin des Damies and near Malincourt | Wood, were checked by fire of the tr oistta-- F TOUCH troops. PELE Lr BEE 'huckey .cincles, is coach of the Port Seep pbb ert Red Allied air attacks on Ger- many are causing constern- ation.. The material damage is increasing. th eee ee ae a dl | KITCHENER VS. PORT ARTHUR. Game For Allan Cup in Toronto on Wednesday. (Canadian Press Despatch) _ Toronto, March 4.-----It is expected here that. the hockey fans of To- ronto and Ontario generally will loyally support Kitchener in their battle for Allan cup honors. Cor- beay, once famous in professional Arthur team, champions of Thunder Bay district, who will play Kitchener here Wednesday in the Allan cup series. Corbeau says Port Arthur are the coming world's champions. PPP Oldbod bdo dodge dodde dd MAKING ADVANCES, (Canadian Presg Despatch) London, March 4.--The Brit- ish troops operating north of Jerusalem in Palestine have made an advance along a front of twelve miles to a maximum depth of 23,000 yards astride and west of the Jerusalem-Na- bulus road. Phd bb bb bb bbb a Sheol dodo ddd +* G.T.R. Wage Increase. (Canadian Press Despatch) £ Montreal, March 4.--A wage in- crease "averaging $300-a year each with a general nine-hour day for practically every man in the Grand Trunk shops in Ontario, are now in force, having commenced on Friday last, Died While At Prayer. (Canadian Press Despatch) Sherbrooke, Que., March 4.--S8. Hackett, deputy prothonotary of the Superior Court, died yesterday morn- ing while in the act of prayer in St. Patrick's church. He was well known in the legal profession. Canadian Casualties. Killed in action--G. E. Campbeliford. Wounded---J. H. Fanning, Carle- ton Place; G. 8. Guy, Carp; J. J. Shanpe, Barriefield; M. A. Brabant, Cornwall. 1il--F. Denique, Burnstown. 'Gassed--R. J. Gimblett, Kingston. Manly, Unless their demands are com- plied with, 60,000 United States ma- rine engineers will EO on strike on March 9th. Mining interests are asking Gov- ernment aid for a graded road from Elk Lake to Gowganda, { fe, British Overmatched Teutons' Bombing. Press Despatch.) : 5 4.---<in (Canadian i 2B 3 § | | Years, control over the Irish poljee. | The first of these ;although ap- | parently the most controversial, | would not in practice make any dif- | ference, though religion is a source | of division. Ulster is insistently sus- picious of the (Pope. , The general basis of education all éver Ireland is pure denominationalism, more or less disguised, but perfectly effective for giving each denomination econ- trol oyer its own schools. The Cath- olics 'do not want influence in the Protestant schools, and, on the other hand, that day has Jong since passed when it was hoped to wean the ma- Jority of the people from their faith. ee The Police 'Control. As to labor legislation, it is hard to say why the big business men of Belfast should prefer legislation from the Westminster ParMament 'which: promises 'in the future to be largely influenced by the British labor vote, to the labor legislation likely to be passed by the Irish Par- lament. Still, it is believed that they do prefer it, and would regard the suggestion as a.valuable conces- sion. Withholding from the Irish Par- limment control of the police is a serious reduction of any power of self-government, but it is pointed out that the resolution was contain- ed in former Home Rule. bills, and that the present condition of Ireland in resistance to law as shown by raids for arms amd cattle driving makes necessary such reassurance. There is no doubt but that serious consideration is being given to all these compromise suggestions. Whether the various sections 'having regard to the opinions of their fol- lowers could afford to agree upon them is a debated question. In politics 'as in trade a man is often willing to accept less than his de- mand while refusing in the negotia- tion to lower his demand lest a breakdown in the bargain should prejudice him for the future. There is a growing feeling that if the operation of this jprinciple ds likely tg prevent an agreement by consent the Goyernment might take the mat- ter into its own hands, 'having mow heard what everybody thas t say, and impose a compromise ent on its own responsibility, On a New Road. There is no reason to insist on ithe finality of such a settlement. If it were practical and . workable and contained the germs of its own ex- pansion, however easy it might be logically to criticize its details, it might prove to be of great service. nationalist case always has been that the existing system means the government of Ireland by English- men for the minority in Ireland. The adoption of the plan suggested would at least mean the discomtinu- ance of that system and the starting of Ireland on a new road with all its possibilities of future developmen 'Minister of Marine, pilotage condition in Michael Hansman's Death, Port Hope, March, 2.---Had Mich- ael Hansman, who has just : away here, lived until next June, he i 2 J and his wife, who survives him, would have celebrated the sixty- | front are note A compact force, this writer con-| siders, would probanly be dispatched | to control the trans-Siberian raliroad. A point at least as far in the interior | as Irkutsk, he says, would be the objective, it may be assumed, as lo-| cal action in in Russian Manchuria is | deemed inadequate. : % The Bolsheviki has seized a pier | at Vladivostok containing munitions | and other goods valued at one hun-| dred million roubles, according to ad- vices received here to-day. The same dispatch declared the Bolsheviki threatened to requisition a foreign merchant ship for their use and that allied warships in the harbor were prepared to land marines, { Confidence in Japan, The commentators generally con- tinue to acquit Japan of any idea of | self aggrandizement and insist that| any action she may eventually take] Will certainly be in the interest of all | the allies and of Russia, The Times, for instance, says it cannot doubt that the Japanese Policy will be conceived in the same spirit of good faith and loyalty 'with which she always has interpreted her obligations as an ally. She has won the confidence or ner associates by her long and spotless record of hon- orable conduct, the Times points gut, and considers it would be unjust and ungenerous to impute selfish, disloyal ambitions to her without the least evidence to support the suspicion, War Tidings, Four tons of bombs were dropped on German airdromes Thursday night at various places on the Western front. All British machines refirned safely, A Madrid despatch says Spanish vessels were sunk by sub, ines in the last five weeks, A Spanish ship chartered by Switz- stiand with a cargo of three thou- sand bush wheat was sunk by a RE asmetref / . ? The Balloon Corps is the first Am- erican air service to get into action 48 a complete unit in the American sector. It has beaten out the §via- tors in the rival branch of the air service by leading American-built sausage balloons in France. The German commander on the eastern front has given the Russians three days in which to sign the peace treaty demanded by the Teutons, five | THE MOMENTUM OF BATTLE Is Increasing All Along the Western Front, (Canadian Press Despatch.) Washington, March 4.--Continued Preparatory movements on the part of the Germans along the western d to-day by the War Department in its review of the miM- tary situation for the week ending March 2nd. The momentum of bat. tle is increasing, the statement de- clares, citing the attempts by the | énemy to reach the lines held by the American troops as examples of what is taking place on a larger scale along the entire western front, + where the text of the ment will be immedi - Ratification of the 'has been ¥ ty fixed 'of Thursday seventh anmiversary of their marri- age. Mr. Hansman was in his eighty- ninth year. SEP ECP EPSP be eee mar- h mines off Viieland island and were : fast in the W + of his father's . death during the PPP PEPE LER ALE Ss aa CREDIT FOR CANADA | ABOUT ARRANGED FOR $300,000,000 Will Be Ad-| vanced to Britain For U.S. Obligations. New York, March 4.-- Local bank- | ers believe that the visit of the Can- | ington for the purpose of obtaining | a credit im this country will bear | fruit. It is probable that tie loan will amount to between $300,000,000 | and $400,000,000, and will take the | form of wn advance to Great Britain, | As a special fund on which she may | draw in meeting her obligations in | Canada and paying for the materials | Imirorted across the bordar from this crumiry, which enter into the manu. facture of munitions of war. As it is also likely that the Wheat Export Cerporation will advance $25.000,- | 000 in anticipation of the delivery | of Canadian wheat when navigation | Is resumed on the lakes in the spring, | it would appear as though the pro- blem connected with prevailing rate" for New York funds in Canadian | centres was on a fair way of béing | solved. | serait MINES DAMAGE HUN SHIPS. Run Into Danger Zone and One Boat | \ Capsized. 0 The Hague, March 4. Several | small German naval vessels ram into | mines to-day six miles off the Island of Vieland, in North Holland. In the course of attempts of Germans to save the crews one boat got into the surf and capsized. Five: men | rong this boat were landed on the is land. According to 'the Handeleblad, eavy gun fire was heard in this lo- cality last night. An Amsterdam despatch to the London Daily Mail says that at one o'clock on Friday morning a German torpedo boat and two German minesweepers ran into | i i i blown up. A German vessel, which was in the vicinity, lowered a boat | to save the crews, buf the high seas | made it impossible 'to reach the | crews of the wrecked vessels, and | the boat drifted to the island. NORWAY SUFFERS HEAVILY. From Submarine Operations During | the Past Month. | (Canadian Press Despatch) { Washington, March 4 ~--Norway continues to suffer heavily from Ger- man submarine operations and other war losses. Twelve vessels aggre- | gating 16,238 gross tons, and valued | at about three million dollars, were | sunk during February, and nineteen seamen lost their lives, while twenty 'men are missing, a eablegram to the Norwegian Ijegation to-day an- nounced. A HARD BLOW. Father of Captain of Dental Hockey Team Dies Suddenly. Kitchener, March 4.--- While Lieut: J. Mac Sheldon, captain of the Dental Hockey Club, was sitting at break- alker House, Saturday, he was handed a wire potifying him night at Chatham. He had been 1 for some time, though his death was unexpected. gn Death Sentence' Upheld, San Francisco, Cal, March 4. -- The next move in the Thomas Moon- ey case will come from the defence and from Governor . This was made clear Saturday following the decision of the Supreme Court upholding Mooney's eonvnetion for -- 1 i arines; | sey-Cooke, Peterboro. | B.C., wher of boohs, The committee of the Ontario leg- islative of the Trades and Labor Con- gress of Canada"Consisted of Messrs. Robert Potts, Windsor; J. Dean, Lone don; H. J. Halford, and H. G. Foster, Hamilton; Frank Greenlaw, St. Cath- George Slincombe, Brant- W. J. Driscoll, Kingston; C. Ottawa; J. Sutherland, T. ford; Lewis, {adlan Government officials to Wash- | Stephenson, and J. Dogett, Toronto. Demanded Light Beer, W. J. Driscoll, Kingston, claimed that the legislation which was pass~ ed prevented the workers from obs taining the stimulant to whieh they were accustomed. He sald that by bowing 'to the widhes of propagan- dists," the Government had deprived the workers of beneficial beers. In England, he said, the reduction of beer had not proved satisfactory, as it was found that the munition work- ers required the stimulants, He add- ed that the workers were ready and willing to sacrifice the heavy beers to which they were accustomed, but demanded light beer, Premier Hearst repudiated the statement of drink among Canadians overseas made at the temperance con- | vention even more strongly than the labor men in the House, "It is the announced |policy of my Government to take a vote on the temperance question. It was point- ed out that this was unfair, and ft was postponed until the men came back from overseas." "I can judge public opinion. behind the Temperance Act, dreds of thousands of men changed their minds. led to your views, but the other peo- ple are entitled to theirs." "You know, in British Columbia a few days ago the labor men decided against what is being adgked to-day. When it was decided that any bever- age over 2% per cent, should be re- garded as alcoholic. "After April 1 not one intoxicating liquor can be imported, and the standard is 2% per cent. proof spirits." It is Hun- have You are entit- ---------- i Canadian Casualties, 2 Wounded--S8. Woodstock, Wash- burn, Gassed--D, P, McLean, Smith's Falls. Prisoner-of-war--Lieut. W. E. Mas- Hl--Capt. J. A. Blezard, Wark- worth, Late Premier's Calgary, the late Pre: Columbia, Body To B.C. March 4.--The body of mier Brewster, of British is being taken to Victoria, © arrangements will be for interment, i ---------------- Taken Aland Islands, {Canadian Pp De h Christiana, March 4. Aland Is- lands were occupied at noon, Satur- day, by the Germans, according to a telegram recs ived here. pe Germans Repulsed ! On 10-Mile Front (Canadian Press Despatch.) French Army : ters, Marcn 4.--The Qer- fam went over the top at ve completed the preparedness parade dyuamit- ing .