v 1 Pages ------------ a ily Britis ~ Pages 18 ny se YEAR 85: NO. 77 THE CONDITIONS ARE UNCHANGED British Storm German Positions in Wood Nong HEMYY FIRING TO. NORTH HUT GERMANS WILL HARDLY OPEN ATTACK THERE, As It Is Apparent They Are Commit- ted too Heavily to the Present Battlefront, (Canadian Press Despatch) New York, April 2.--To-day's offi- cial reports on the situation along thé great battlefront revealed condi- tions virtually unchanged. Yester- day's despatches in which it was no- ted that both sides were digging in between 'Montdidier and Noyon, made it seem continue In this sector at léast, and apparently these ig little more activ-| ity on the line north.from Montdidier 'and plong thé British front. Con- siderable increase in the violence of artillery fire at some points is Hn- nounced which. was to have bebn ex- pected as the Ohposing armies were increasingly able to get their larger guns into pasjtion. Paris has been subjected, not only to another ing range bombardment, but to an airfald. The big gun bom- bardment, the eighth upon the re- glon of Paris started shortly after ten o clock this forenoon, British Take Wood. (Canadian Press Despatch.) British Army Headquarters in France, April 2---*The British storg- ed a strongly-held German positions in the wood along the Luce river yes- terday, When the enemy withdrew after sharp fighting he left the ground strewn with his dead. The Germans shelled the wood heavily af ter it .was occupied by the British and' organized two counter-attacks for the purpose of retaking it. Both were caught in British artillery bar- rage and broken, Heavy ¥iring In North. London, April 2.-- There has been considerable Increase in artillery fire against 'British positions at Passchens daele and on the Goeberg ridge, Bel- glum, gortheast of Ypres. 'The cor- respondent gays, however, that the Germans are committed so heavily to the present battléfront that it Is not easy to believe they will try an of- fensive elsewhere. . : A Call For All To Help Produce. Senator Richardson told the Whig to-day that Monday's rain was worth millions to the country, "The weathér is just the kind we need and I am Hoping for good crops this sea- son," he remarked. "And we will need all we can produce for the Allies. 1 do not really know what will be the outcome for the world. The only thing I can see ahead is the most: urgent demand for altpeople to. save, save, save, both in money for financing our own indus. 'tries to work in munitions, etc., and money to keep the world alive. Then we must produce, Every footfof land should' be dllede The demand is' enorme ous and if we want to live and lot starve, then the utmost thrift and economy is incum- ont," - ---- OFFICIAL WAR The night was relatively calm on the frant between the Oise and the Somme. The artillery fighting be-| came rather heavy along some parts of the battlefield. Franco-British troops made some progress during the Mgnt Pot Weun Somme aad. De. Cmuin, din region o e Col- onne trench and sBandesapt the * French. made two successful raids and took prisoners, At Chambrettes ! : French probable that a lull would! | to-date. A or em------at os J] murder of his half: fiunier Mpiis 1 "brother, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY. ABRIL 2, 1918. : LAST EDITION AUDITOR MUR Wit Regard to the Workings of the Uy ities Commission. - { BE ADVISES. POSTION 'GIVING THE BORROWINC COMMISSION POWERS. 10 | Funds Should. Be Properly Provided by Council Before-the Utilities Commission Starts Any Work On Capital Account, City Auditor Muir presented, to the City Council on Monday evening the annual financial statements of the Publie Utilities. He stated that on account of 'the conditions existing in the office of the Utilities Commis- sion there had been considerable de- s7'ting out the report this The statements showing re- | venue and ac- {curate in either the electric, water departments. There was delay in handing in the statements' show- {ing arrears and judging from the past vears.- the amounts as jlay in year, expenditure are not gas or | lists of given for 1917 are not large enough. | The lists could not be checked with- out spending considerable time on i the work, which meant that the re- | port could not be presented for some | months. In order to get the report | in now Mr. Muir said he had {the figures * as supplied by th { countant. Continuing the 'auditor says: = -- p------ - Card System Not Best. "The card system 'which is used to keep the record of the consumers of electricity and ga, is not the best as it can be easily tampered with, It would be better for evemyhody if 'this system was changed. The wa- | ter register has not been propérly kept up either. These should be all gone over carefully and brought up- In 1916 the water revenue {was $56,228.04, while in 1917 it is ;only $54,862.65, which is $1,365.39 ;less. The 1917 revenue should have {beén at least equal to that of 1916: 11t is impossible for me to cheek every | detail of the consumers records un- less | had a staff of assistants. This f should be unnecessary, The con- ditions governing the accounting de- partment of the Commission shoul be entirely changed, and until this is done there will not be efficiency in the office, ) | "In the electric department there jis a loss on the year's operations of $6,792.85, If jthe $6,809.47 had not been written off the surplus would have beén $16.62. In the gas department the loss shown is $11,- | 686.77, which, less the loss on the (sale of bonds of $4,635.34, leaves the inet loss on operation as $7,051.43. The water department shows a sur- plus of $10,440.15, In addition to the operation end of the ~ utilities there has been spent on capital ac- (count the following amounts * for 'which funds have not been provided, and, of course, should be charged against revenue. T "Electric department, $16,499.31; gas dppartment, $22.771.94; water department, $10,705.52; total ex- penditure in excess of revenue for 1917, $49,976.77. + "If the revenue is sufficient the commission could use small amounts for capital.expenditure, but you will note from the above that they are not in"a position now to use any revenue for capital expenditure, hav- ing gone too far in the past. T ' Quiposes Borrowing Powers, "On acount of their present fin= {ancial . condition the commission should have funds properly provided before starting any work on capital account. At the present time. the electric and gas departments a bonded for $497,701.94, whichis only $162,877.50 less than the value of the plants as shown on the books.-At the end of the year the bank over- draft was $73,905.47. You have been called upon from time to time to provide funds for capital Sxvendituge, bubvin future before granting any quest the matter should be carefully considered. "The Public Utilities Commission of this city is endeavoring through the Hydro-electric Power Commission of Ontario to get legislation to give them power to borrow er guarantee oneiy This move should be strong- ly oppased by council. The property ,of the taxpayers of this city is pledg- ,ed for the payment of the bends, If the legislation which the local ecom- mission is after is obtained "then there will be two bodies placing a debt on the property of the city» and on the second debt the people or their representatives will have no say whatever," . .. There are at present something like forty divisions in the battle 1 north of the Somme, and about thir- ty-seven engaged in the struggle farther south. Ten of these have been used against the British, rge Duncan Brantford, Police Court : tia | Steel and Coal Company has been javerted, a mb SR WHERE TERRIFIC BATTLES WERE FOUGHT, AND THE : CHANGES THEY MADE ON THE FIGHTING FRONT MADE STATEMENT: ¥¢ | owing to the overcrowding bn the TI, % 7 Rg IR hme = AAR] 4 MONTDIDIER CAP- TURED BY GERMANS ' SCALE OF MILES io w = i T NEES PRESENT BATTLE LINE pe 2 rl SEEENE BATTLE LINE WHEN DRIVE 5 ARTEDY] A ENEMY STAKING ANOTHER GAMBLE Gn the Mere Weight of Numbers: His | Power Becomes Weakened. - o 20 SHOT DOWN IN NEW YORK. Gambler Harry Cohen Meets Same 4 Fate As Rosenthal. New York, April 2---At 6.30 o'clock yesterday morning, seven hours before the District Attorney's office was to have béen informed by Harry Cohen, alse known as "Harry the Yott," of the name of the "man higher up' in the prosecyto.'s anti- gambling crusade, Cohen 'was shot and killed in West Ninety-second | street. District' Attorney Swann im- | mediately ordered the apprehension ih | of Sam Schépps, who 'was one of the ENEMY ROADS QUA | prosecution's star witnesses against Charles Becker, the police lieuten- ant who was executed Jor the mur- der of Herman Rosenthal, gambler, in 1912. RAINFALL DELAYS BRINGING UP OF HEAVY ARTILLERY. Field Guns Used So Far--Destruction DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF, of Bridges by the British Also Aid- ed Greatly, London, April 2.--After a week of uninterrupted battle, on Friday night the weather broke, and it rained con- tinuously Saturday. The enemy's roads must be rutted and transform- ed into quagmires. The Germans are now bringing up heavy artillery which has not yet participated, and] the breaking weather must neces- sarily delay its appearance on the battlefield. The extraordinary fea- ture of the battle is that so far it has been fought on the German side almost entirely by infantry, a J So far the Germans have only been eblé to use field guns apd light field howitzers, and they have not kept the heavies inactiverom choice, but 'because the retreating British me- thodieally Blew up the roads and bridges. For the past féw days the enemy used Mght mortars but little, due probably to the inability of the munition convoys to keep pace with the demand made by the gunners Douglas 8. Robertson in a special cable to the Toronto Telegram says: "Among the many Canadians dis- tinguishing themselves im air work in Prince is Lieut. Douglas Nickle, son of W, F. Nickle, M.P., Kingston." Fuel for Next Winter. Brantford, April 2.-"Mayor Me- Bride is persisting in his effort to secure a coal reserve in Brantford. Most of the civic bulldings have now received as much as they will need for next winter, and he intends, if i¥ is at all possiblée---and he bolieves it is==to place a supply away to deal out in small quantities next winter The advance has slackenet in he! to those who cannot afford to lay in [last few days, and thie gains were|a supply now. = ° e only made on narrow fronts. In the a meantime the air and artillery. rein- bans forcements are arriving. The opinion roads, ' Hitherto the enemy quick ad- vance has been due to his employ- ment of masses of infantry, bit the costliness of thus fighting without bringing up the artillery proved far too great for him to do so long. '| objectives, ~ --_ 57 5 B 27 PN . , 2 Wl he, c lo Latelet "Pro URT . chiaigh, 7, CERMANS MASS ABOUT ALBERT Aras Being Heavy Steld---Fightog" To- warts Vries And Bronte, HNDENBORG STIL TRES 5 DRIVE - WEDGE BETWEEN BRITISH AND FRENCH TO uin--Allies Have Stopped the En- emy- Attack at This Point, (Canadian Press Despatch) London, April 2.--Great masses of troops continue to concemtrate in the | region of Albert, Fighting is in pro- { Bress toward Villeriés and Breton- | neux. Arras is being heavily shelled, The recapture of Moreuil and De- muin by the German Monday after- noon; shows a continuation of von Hindenburg's effort to drive a wedge between 'the British ~ and French forces, which conyvérge in thi viein- ity. This is one of the enemy's major It also brings the Ger- mans nearer Amiens and to the jm- portant Calais-Paris railway, south of Amiens. Hangard, one mi'~ west of Demiun, which the Germans had passed In their westward thrust, thas been pe- taken by the French, aceording to the Paris*War Office. This would in- dicate that the Allfes have stopped the enemy's attack at this point and are pushing him back upon Demuin again, Fail Completely At Arras. London, April 2.--The German at- tack against Arras and Vimy Ridge, Which was a total failure, 18: known 10 have cost the enemy heavily, The First Guards reserve regiment lost in officérs alone, the tolonel and nine rs Ey is growing that Ludendorff's plan of a swift and bloody 'passage through the junction of the French will de- Renerate into a long battle on the whole front. The enemy hopes that! advancing further wiil lepend upon the impression tha be made upon the resistance of the allies north and, South. With each successive blow, |} the enemy's power beconids weakened | out of al proportion to the capacity of | the continued resistance, bus perhaps it is chiefly on the mere weight of numbers that the enemy a one desperate gamble, British « 'Bost er, Alfred THe threatened strike of * 5 and steel workers of the 2 Juhets 3 = \ ron, Mass, April The sink- ing of the British steamer Carlisle marine, while on ae Hr country for a foreign 3 tor a port, was re- ; 1 circles here to (OVER THERE" AND "IER [3 In Quebec City. f + j g fig : | T fis: i it § Ek i [ : pe ; i i ile it siepizd § " 2 REFS #1 f ! il; : 58 i -| planes were brought down In. the Vicinity of Moreunil and Dem- |. {announcement that the ores killed and 21 wounded. Several British batteries fired for lone periods over open sights, the | shells cutting long 'lanes fn the Ger- Machine guns were cut | simultaneously {One gun mowed down 45 Germans The bodies were counted afterward | The targets were so perfect that of- | ficers sniped at them with rifles. | Others killed Germans with révolv- ers, {. The battle was never in doubt, the {British singing ..as they fought, though one division had been in the lire fifty-two days. | man ranks. { loose at full speed ~ WERE KILLED in Quebee City. "Think in the Offensive." London, April 2.--The newspapers are occupied with the ' new man- power proposals and America's ex- pected participation in the fighting. The Standard advises the 'Generals to "think in the offensive." It siys théir forces are ample to regain the initiative after the present German effort is frustrated by calling up all men of military age and raising the age limit. England can have an ad- |. ditional million men by autums, it says, and adds: £ "With the gathering forces of the United States there should not be less than 2,000,000 new troops avall- able for warfare in the autumn." MOB SECURED ARMS FROM A HARDWARE STORE. La Patrie Blames the Government For Allowing Certain ' Quebec Newspapers To Inflame Public Opinion Against Conscription. > (Canadian Press Despatch) oH -Quebec, April 2---Rioting began at 8.30 o'clock last night and con- tinued until miduight. Four eivil- ians were killed and many soldiers and civillans were injured. The mob broke into ¥ grocery and secured liquor and also broje into a hardware store and secured grms and ammani- tion.: The mob stoned an ambulance while enroute to a hospital with an injured soldier, Fighting between the rioting ele- ment and the military forces here continued into the night, After mid- night the firing died down to a very | great extent, but men on houses snip- ed at soldiers for hours. It was hoped by the 'military authorities that now that it has been demonstra- 'N Fai o spilt 3 A {ted that no more breaches of the Niagara Falls, nt., April 2.--/ a a 2 wa h it deposit of coal has been frumd by law will be" tolerated, disorderly fac the engineers: of the Hydro con- | tions will remain quiet, structing the Chippewa-Queenston | Hydro Power Canal. Excavations of 170 feet are necessary to construct (Canadian Press Despatch) the cangl, and the coal deposit was | Quebec, April. 2.---The . military, struck at a depth of about 150 feet, | authorities had sixty-two men under near the Whirlpool. The coal is of arrest this morning in connection rough variety, being what is known | with last night's clash between the as rock coal, but it is burnable, and | rioters and the soldiers. They have if there are ony quantities of it there been arrested on a charge of fre- this may prove a nich find 'for the | quenting an illegal assembly. This Hydro and the province generally. | morning, General Lessard consulted ee with the civil authorities as to their dpdebddob dodo db bbb db db ddbb ddd | prosecution, : . + The official casualty lst of last URG YET 55 + | night's battle handed out by the MILES FROM PARIS. # | military authorities this morning, % | shows that the civilian dead are Ar- * | thur Laperriere, George Hamel and % |B. Demelle. The number of wound- War Tidings, On the Euphrates the British pur- suing troops 'advanced seventy-three miles beyond Anah, captured a few Germans and two 10.5 centimeter guns. i A cable from General Pershing, dated March 31st, reports the situa- tion'in Northern France as improved. One thousand and fifty-nine -air- on all fronts in March. COAL NEAR WHIRLPOOL. | Hydro Engineers Come Upon De- posit of Rock Coal. Sixty-Two Men Arrested; *, + HINDEN + : --- 3 London, April '2.--Gen. Von 4 Hindenburg is just fifty-five % miles from his luncheon, _ +* He assured German newspa- # per correspondents two months % ago that he would have lunch- + 4 eon In Paris April 1st, To-day # % his nearest approach to the + i ¢ - 3 RyenSk capil Is fitty-five miles ¥ in Quebec has been caused by cutside «+ organizers. It js an elaborate organ- * ! i FERRER SR RRR RR {zation, not the result of local ocehir- eS sphahidon rences, SUCCESSFUL WORK Who 1s behind the thin | E g is not yet WAS DONE BY BRITISH | i.in but there are hints of the I. re WW. roi They Captured Prisoners And ® "7d of German money care. fully camouflaged. Machine Guns and Caused ' The military authorities under the Enemy. Losses. ary au 6. uni op command of General Lessard, Inspec . (Canadian Press Despatch) tor General of Canada, acting with London, April 2.--In the sector |the Quebec City Police, took over between Avre and Luce rivers yes- | terday the British took fifty prison-| °° administration of the city of ers, the War Office announces, Thir-| Quebec yesterday and drew up plans teen machine guns were - captured. |!'¢ checkmate 'the rioting element Near Hebuterne the British also here and also to round up the ring- made a successful tei, capturing feadors who have 'been fomenting guns 2a oiwoners The German |. ple during the past three days. The statement follows: In -the| All public gatherings' where the course,of the fighting yesterday in disturbances could be discussed are thie area between She Avre and Juce forbidden by the military authorities, rivers we capture. ty prisone and thirteen Fp uns. A large This order . cancelled a meeting which was to have been held in Jac- ques Cartier Market Place by Ar- aumber of German dead were found on the ground in this locality by us. » r= mand Lavergne, Nationalist politic fan, last night. ians four." . : ters Responsible. Quebec, April-3.--It is + +* now define Counter-attacks_attempted by the enemy later in thé day were broken up with heavy losses by our artil- lery. A German battery in action in this area was silenced Rhy our ma- cliine guns. A wuccessful local efi- terprise carried out by wus in the neighborhood of Hebuterne resulted in the capture of seventy-three pris- oners and three machine guns, Many Germans were killed in the opers- tion; also a hostile counter-attack during the afternoon wgs completely 'repulsed. On the remainder of the front successful raids, in which we secured several prisoners and' killed a number of the enemy, were carried out in the neighborhood of Asheville and Hollebek.. : ' Montreal, April 2.---La Patrie, dis- cussing the Quebec riots; says: "We refuse to believe 2 inl re- grettable disturbance had it gin- ing and end in Quebec; or that it has the approval of the mass of inhabi- tants of the ancient capital, The outbreak in our opinjon,. origihated . among -a certain group, obedient to pernicious counsels, RE. "On the other hand the events which have taken place reflect a pop- ular sentiment in our Province which 4 is hostile to compulsory service. And if the people have taken this attitude the Government is ina la ure responsible {tself because it tolerated the active cammalgn car- ried on by certain newsps ers to in- flame opinion against the conserip- tion law. The Federal authorities should realize. that the Military Ser- ice law would prove of btful value to the cause of the allfes if ap- blied Ky force." If #t is to be of real value it is essential hat its put. ting into force should pot umchain civil war in this country," {Continued On Page ".) wim tios The United States Government. may operate the great packing plants FRENCH AND BRITISH ---- Make an Advance--The Front a: Generally Calm. (Canadian Press Despateh : Paris, April 2.--French and Brit- ish troops advanced last night be- tween the Somme and Demuin, it is announced officially. Over most of the front, betwean the Somme and: the Oise, the night was relatively calm. Heavy artillery fighting oc- curred. at sonie points, Western Divine Dead. Edmonton, Alt, April 2.--Rev. W. K. Conly, pastor of Nimayo church, one of the best, known Me- thodist divines in the west, died at a local hospital Friday, following an' operation for appendicitis. He was fifty-six years old. He came to Al- bLerta from Montreal Conference fif- teen years ago, and Bad worked inle many districts in northern Alberta Gas Field Eximusted. Brisifard. April 2.~The 'ing of the Ono south of Brant Was blem, ie i ge deplot- gas field to the is shown by he Standard Gas Company, which had a charter i | ! 24 ae £ for operating in this field, will ap- Ply ou April 16th to have iis charter cancelled. The playing out of this field cut off the supply of pure gas to this reir ] v + | ed soldiers' remains at five and elvil- FOUR CIVILIANS And Many Civilans And Solirs ed La Patrie' Blames Government. =~ |1tely established that all the trouble -. » of the country to solve the meat pro, or NOTING MONDAY NIGHT