PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH 85TH YEAR, Published Daily and Semi-Weekl Z HE HERINSH: W WHIG PUBLIS Sean MITED, -------------------------------------- A Eliott + ses ss President a A. Guild ...... . Editor and Managing-Director. Business 243 Battorial 22 Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dadly Edition) Ome year, der Ineiy ......« §6. 2% One Year, if paid in advance ... year by mail to ruraj offices 3.80 Ome year, to United States 2. (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash One year, if not paid in advance $1. 3H One year, to Uirited States x and three months pro rata, MONTREAL BE RE ve B. Bruce Ow 3 St. Peter St. WHIG) well for us *{ reasonably 21in France," he confesses; TORONTO. REPRESENTATIVE PC 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. | INTE STATES REPRESENTATIVE: | F.R. Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave, New York | F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters ve the Editor are published only ve 'the actual name of the Attached Is one of the Dest "job printing offices In Canada ---------- tte mts The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations Says the Chicago Tribune: "Re- member the wheatless day and keep it wholly!" The boy with the hoe is going to be an important factor in Canada this year. The British may be retreating France, but they are advancing Palestine. crossed the It is the is egging them The Germans have Somme and taken Ham. Crown Prince who on. Holy week is ushered in with the greatest battle of all time. What will Easter bring? Tet us trust, a message of hope and gladness. The German 'word *"strafe" has been included--or interned--in vol. ix. of the Oxford Dictionary. It is classified as a "slang" expression Another excuse for a Hun hymn of hate. President Wilson says the United States is mot at war with Bulgaria Yet (Bulgarian forces are opposing the Allies (including the Americans) on the western front. This discri- mination in foes is difficult to un- derstand. In Eagland the tax on an income of $1,000 is 4% per cent.; on $1, 500, 6% [per cent. and on $2,000, 7% pér cent., increasing still more rapidly as the income grows. Com- pared with these figures, cur income tax is very light. A Windsor man tells the authori- ties that he requires a gallon of whiskey a week to keep him in con- dition. Must be a "pickled" condi- tion he refers to. Think of the sup ly this chap will have to secure lo ® him over the dry speil! If, as estimated by British offi- cials, Germany is sustaining a loss of about 100,000 men a day in killed, wounded and prisoners, she is pay- ing a fearful price for the useless ground she is conquering. The of- fensive will soon wear itself out at this rate of loss. "The Canadian divisions are not on the front where the Germans are at- : *empting to break through. They are back on their old fighting ground farther north, snd just in front 'of Lens and the great 'mining districts of northern France. "The eables may '#000 be carrying news of increased . aguvity on their part. - Sir Sam. Hughes asks the Govern. ment to explain 'why the Allied forces, "splendidly armed and equip- ped, and in chosen positions of their Se, recently gave way before an emy mot their equal in manhood nor superior in armament Is he inferring that they lack miary genfuses- like himseM2 Britain maintained the struggle against Napoleon, often fighting on alone or almost: alone, for twelve years. - Though she then experienced darker days than the present, she never thought of giving up. Her splendid leaders and the unconquer- to remember these things cal period. 'The record of the British Empire at this of the tory does' not lend much encouragement ; to German hopes A DISQU IE TING REVELATION. A despatch from Washington, pub- lished in Whig yesterday, cop- very disappointing informa- tion. Despite the fact that the Un- ited States has been engaged in the great war for nearly a year, she has fallen far short of what she might have been expected to accomplish "A wasted year," Senator Lodge terms It. The revela- tion is disquieting and disappoint- ing. 1 Senator Lodge is not a man to in- dulge in hysterics. He is an Am- erican statesman -and author of eminence, well versed in history and in politics. His opinion carries weight. Reliance can be placed up- on. 'his utterances. Therefore, when he states that the conditions con- fronting the United States to-day are terrible, we must take him at his word. "We have no fighting planes "we have no gins in France except a few old coast guns, and only two Ameritan ships have ben launched to date." Something must be seriously and éMectively holding up the Govern- ment's programme. The nation will demand an explanation, and we may safely trust the President and his ad- visers to lose no time in speeding up the war machine. The sendlior's re- | velation, however, is very disap- pointing, coming as it does when the Allies were looking to the United States for effective reinforcéments the veyed NO CAUSE FOR PESSIMISM. Not yet can one gather from the despatches from the battlefront suf- ficient information upon which to base an accurate conclusion as to the results of the titanic struggle now in progress. The correspondents send back to the anxious people at home thrilling descriptions of heroic deeds performed by British, Scotch and Irish troops, but these are iso- lated instances, and afford little or no clue to the situation in general They prove, however, that the cour- age and the stamina that have made Britain great are still forces to be reckoned with, The splendid stand of the Seaforth Highlanders, as re- counted in these despatches, will live in history alongside of the gallant charge of the Light Brigade. It would seem, however, that the Germans are being held before the British third line of defence. Mili- tary leaders in all the Allied nations have expressed their conviction that the Hun could go_ this far, but no farther. Since trench warfare was established, every offensive, whether British, French or German, has had to halt through loss of momentum. The fiirst or front lines of defence must necessarily give way before the deluge of metal poured upon them. To conserve his man-power) Sir Douglas Haig has wisely retired to his third line of defense, a battle line prepared months ago. There he has chosen his battleground ' and it is there he is ready to fight it out with the enemy. The situation to-day may be gerious, but there is no cause for alarm until the Germans have broken through the third line. The terrain over which the Ger- mans are now fighting is familiar ground to them, and this may account in part for some of their initial suec- cess, It is ground they were forced to yield to the British during the first battle of the Somme. The Bri- tisi line north of St. Quentin offered the best ¢hance of success to the en- emy, as it traversed a-level, open country, affording no natural protec- tion dor troops. Into this area Ger- many flung her full weight in a des- peraite endeavor to. overcome the British and decide £the war: Our forces holding this line were outnum- bered three to one and in some sectors four to one, has been a diminishing one is proven by the fact that on the first day they captured 16,000 men, the second day 9,000 and the third day 5,000. At Vimy and Arras last April the British captuged 9,000 Germans the first day of the offensive, , 11,000 the second day and 14,000 the third day. So far, as can be seen, the Germans have not achieved any great vietory. The legend of Prussian invinei- bility has already been shattered. At the Marne, for the first time since the 'days of the great Napoleon. a Prussian army was turned and driven back. In three successive wars--against the Danes, the Aus- trians and the French--they had lived always in the warm sunshine of success. But at the Mdrne came the first chill of disaster. Though, backed by elaborate and methodical preparation, their attacks inspire no fear in the hearts of their enemies. The British have met them and thrashed them more than once in this war, and the Empire has no doubt that they can do it again. Citizen soldiery, free men traied in proven themselves equal, if not su- perfor, in military efficiency to those who have passed through the sa discipline which is the heritage of the methods that first made Prus- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY MARCH 27, 1918. | not the Allies perceive that Japanese | intervention now would insure that { sooner or later German and Japanese 1 interests would coincide in direct op position to the interests of the I | les?" | PUBLIC OPMION That Deferred List. It i n red Mst of Cana- THE HUNS VIOLATE dian Bono: 8 cont than RED CR CROSS RULES 350 names We the Crown isn't m {Long Range @uns Search Out Hospitals--Canadian Clear= ing St Stations Bombed. Ottawa, March 27. | yesterday afternoon, Premier Borden : i read the following graphic despatch If priv ate ownersh iip is a success, | received by Sir Edward Ke mp from how does it happen that four private | Roland Hill, and forwarded by Sir monopolies follow upon the heels of | paward to the Canadian Government, one another in asking relief from the yt i3 gated from War Correspondents' taxpayers and consumers of London, Headquarters in France, March 21st} while public service monopolies un-iang says deliberate violation of Red der public control continue on their | ¢ ross rules marked the opening of way, giving service and even in war-|the Huns much advertised great west- time reducing co to the consumer, {ern offensive. Long range guns of | the Germans have searched out hos- ' | pitdls (which have been established over two years. Two Canadian cas- Mere anger at Germany was but ajyalty clearing stations which have first stir. We have passed to the|y,rked unceasingly through battle, stage of rejecting and uprooting with! {storm and lull of more peaceful times, loathing every German thing in this|{ were among the sufferers, The Yrail- country. In this we react naturally | way siding on which they were sftu- to the indignation that has slowly {ated was considered out of the zone and steadily mounted during several | of ordinary shell fire. It was known years of outgages and trickery. Of to the Hung as a hospital centre, for, late the idea has gained hold that [in one of le rion: he men- Germanism in this country has be sen | tioned the fact that he had bombard- used in its whole gamut as a Circe|ed it "as roa for alleged drop- spell, much to the national detri-| ping of bombs on one of his hospitals, ment, People have grown sick of | eh ------------------------ propagandizing professors, Kaiser FOURTEEN YEARS FOR SLAYING HIS SON serving steamship and wireless com- panies, youth-warping language teach Iron Cross-deserving Sena- Wm. M'Brady of. Port Arthur Shot Lieut. Robert in a demoecrs wake up a4 pl find himself a sirr ah the feathers at eventic ACY In the House ow hy Is This? Press) Sick of Germanism. (New York Sun) tors, German-thinking citizens, and the like, SAYS INTERVENTION WOULD SUIT ENEMY Trotsky Believes Germany Only Would Benefit by Japanese in Siberia. Fort Willlam, March 27 McBrady, for many years a well-| known lawyer of Port Arthur, was} placed oa trial charged with the mur- der of his son, Lieut Robert Me~ Brady, on October 3rd last. After evidence had been introduced to the Moscow, March 27.--1 saw Trot-| effect that he had gone home in a sky, the People's Commissary of War; highly nervous condition © due to in his room in a small hotel near the | #lcholism, and quarreling ' with his Kremlin, cables Arthur Ransome, |%0n after the latter had remonstrated and asked his opinion of Balfour"s| With him for making a noise, shot speech, which 18 only now printed | Mim, the counsel for the prisoner of- fully in the Russian newspapers. fered to enter a plea of guilty of Trotsky said: manslaughter. This was accepted "The main point of the and Justice Lennox sentenced him to that Japanese intervention is fourteen years in the penitentiary at ed to help the Russlans Stoney Mountain. tion is, what Russ MecBrady is fifty-four years of age. is not intended to { He has a wife and one son and one power, but rather | de wughter, classes, Now the intere bourgeois classes compel them to friendship with Germany. They must see in Germany the only hope of sup- port against the weakened fires of social revolution, which, even if mo- mentarily suppressed, would merely --Wm speech is intend The ques- ans? Certainly it help the iet | the 'bourgeois s of the Sov Inhabitants Not Being Moved. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, March 27.--Reports current here that the inhabitants Compeigne, between Paris and are of the | battle front, is} Headquarters (------ FOR BOYS THE OXFORD Pinch Back Styles, Sizes 28 to 33. $8.50. 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Prompt delivery from stock. prices as any catalogue house. away. Same No need to send your money Sold only at That the Huns' success" liberal and humane methods, have]. g courage of the race brought vie- & a okt of seeming defeat. It i sia great at the expense of her neigh- European Russia and would 'insure its final collapse and the @stablish- ment instead 'of German-controlled bourgeoisie in Eastern Russia." I said: "But if the Japanese with- drew their troops?" He replied: "Does it not occur to all that it is the Germans themselves who would be the first to invite the apanese to remain, since the depar- ure of the Japanese might mean the rebirth of the Soviet power, which by its very existence, however remote, would be a danger to Germany? Do ,To Transfer Ex-Emperor. (Canaan Press Deanatch) London, March 27.--The Bolshe- viki Government has -decided to transfer Nicholas Romanoff, former emperor, and his family from To- dolsk to the Ural region, according to an announcement, in the Petro- grakl newspapers. : 'When a girl begins to boss a young man he might just as well begin to save to buy furniture. BUNT?'S Phone 338 Hardware Kingston As Age Advances the Liver Requires , occasional slight stimulation. CARTER"S LITTLE LIVER PILLS correct CONSTIPATION. Color'zss or Pale Faces signature usually indicate the stocacs ol ron in tho blood. Carier's Iron Pills Rippling Rhymes CONSERVING HENS They've handed down a stern decree, the conser- vation boosters; that hens immune from death must be, though we may shoot the roosters. Says Hoover and his merry men, whose ukase must be heeded, "It is a sin to kill a hen, when eggs are badly needed. Fresh eggs are good beneath one's belt, the textbooks all determine, and when they're stale they'll do to pelt the peace fan and pro-Gérman. We'll put the Teutons in a box and buy our men more bullets, if we kill off the crowing cocks, and spare the cackling pullets." And now, in every butcher's store, from Waterloo to Wooster, the helpful hen is seen no more, but there's a stack of rooster. Oh, lead the roosters to the block, for rooster meat is corking, the Leghorn and the Ply- mouth Rock, the Brahma and the Dorking! Oh, give the roosters chloroform--too ancient for beheading; and eat them cold and eat them warm, their feathers use for bedding.' I bake, upon the kitchen fire, a fowl of, proper gender; I also cook a rubber tire, which is a bit more tender. 1 chew the rubber tire a while, and then I clew the rooster, and say, "I've Hoover skinned a mile, as conservation booster!" . --WALT THINGS THAT NEVER | 5 Ho RST 00 As 'MO TEL JO «STAY 'AS . 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