PREVENT ENEMY ATTACK Smash Up German Trenches, Communications and Assembly Areas -- It Is Felt That the +. Germans Cannot Succeed in Any * Future Offensive. By W, iA Willison, Correspondent of the Canadian' Press oe Canadiah Army Headquarters in the Field, via London, April 3.--Again this morning our guns, heavy and light, have smashed up enemy trenches, communications and assembly areas, our artillery co-operating with the infantry in fifteen minutes of barrage fire while our machine guns swept No Man's Land and oppusing trenches. : Our stoker and trench mortars added the weight of their fire to a programme, which gave the enemy further grim notice of our readiness to meet his offen- sive operations. "All night long. too, our guns maintained a slow fire on enemy areas, punctuated with harrassing fire pro- grammes at intervals. ; : While the enemy's artillery and infantry concentrations point to another atlempl against Arras and Vimy Ridge, nothing more than patrol activity has characterized our front line save for one raid north of Acheville against an enemy post. . In visits to batteries, battalions, brigades and divisions, I have found high spirits everywhere. 1t is felt that Germany has lost the first play in her desperate gamble for ietory, and while further bitter fighting is anticipated, there is no conviction any- where thal the enemy can succeed in the future where he has failed in the past : | THE WORLD'S NEWS | IN BRIEF FORM : : ngs From All Over Told in | a Pithy and Pointed } i Way. 5 ! The State of Indiana went, "bone i . {dry" at midnight, : | The Germans again began to bom- Four Germans South of Hebutern Which | vara Paris at 9.50 o'clock 'Wednes- Positions [ aay morning. . : . The Daylight Saving Bill was pass- ------ |ed in committee in the House of Com; o mons 'and stands for third reading. ] James and Stanley Wood, aged {eleven and tem, were drowned while | fishing in the Thames River near { Chatham. 4 ud ! Massachusetts is now supporting BY . THE BRITISH A VERY IM- (he Federal prohibition movement. PORTANT VICTORY. The State Senate has ratified the a-- a prohibitory amendment. . The British Are Awaiting the En- Robert Heyworth, fourteen Judrs ' ; 'Ge: of age, was shot and instantly killed emy's Next Mov rmans = Not in Owen Sound by Jack Tizzard, . Quite Ready to Begin Struggle who was firing at a bird. Anew in North, The Reld Wrecking Co., with dry- (Canadian Press Despatch) dock and shipbuliding 'plant at Port With the British Army In France,' Huron, will merge with the Founda- April 3.--The British last night tion Company of New York. orm Cable advices announce the death a ed and captured a strong in England of Charley Mitchell, for- German point south of Hebutern, merly champion pugilist, who fought Whicly ménaced defending positions.' John L. Sullivan to a draw during The recapture of Ayette, soiith of the eightiest for the world's cham- . plonship. Arras by the British is the most im- The Germans are again disputing portant news from the northern bat-| tie mastery of the air, according .to tle front reported thus far to-day. | despatches fronr the French . front. The Ayette sector Tiah been one of the, Their greatest atlabor, Richthaten, Jhas reappeared, and is command- most fiercely 'contested zones. The ing a powerful squadron of airplanes. Germans have sacrificed great num-| - "a resolution proposing a declara- bers of troops in an effort to secure a, tion of a state of war between the hold here, x United States and Turkey and Bul- : : garia was introduced in the Senate Tuesday by Senator King, of Utah, Awatting Next Move.' and referred to the Foreign Relations The British. armies were waiting | committee without debate. : to-day for the next move along the The Government has decided to extended battles front. Possibly the' leyy a ten per cent. tax on certain enemy also war. walting for the! goods manufactured in Canada to British to show their hand, but the make up for loss of revenue on ac- probabilities are that the Germans count of the proposed prohibiting of were not quite ready to begin the the import of the same goods into struggle anew in the north. Canada, In any event the infantry on both, sides were resting on their arms, in . most places. up to noon of Tuesday. | THE TEUTONS READY Even below the Somme, where TO TALK PEACE AGAIN there had been Such Dist fighting. | -- : there 'was a lull, although from the . French sector._to the south come re- But They Will Find the Frozen ports that the enemy was continuing Mitt In the United to pound the allied lines with all the "States strength that could be mustered, . (Canadian Press Despatch) Washington, April 3.~-- Count Nothwithstanding the inactivity along the British line, no one doubted that the storm would bpeak anew with great violence, and jurther ac- tivity is expected at any hour. Czernin's statement that the Fremch had suggested peace by discussions with Austria-Hungary was character- ized by officials here to-day as the beginning of a new German peace offensive with the Austro-Hungarian 'Foreign Minister acting at Ger- S------------------------ Canadian Casualties, Wounded -- R. J. Brockhurst, ville: ®. H._ Baton VII, vy. many's behest. The peace move Saucier, Martintown: W. N. Lowie. they said would be timed to follow i. MeCr the breakdown of the Teutonic mili- Sotours; H, B eady, Belle, offensive. Any Tehtoni¢ sug- . | swstions that the time for peace dis- ir . " i¥ near at hand will find at . nothing but a negative response in America. ; bh ses in - BREAD WASTERS IN JAIL: Seamen in London Must Serve Six 'Months For Offence. London, April 3.--Wasting bread .I8 a serious offensive in England thespy days. 4 3 Recently to members of the crew of a Brazlian ship were sentenced to six months in prison for this crime. Another, who was found guiliy of having causeli the waste, was fined $1,000, with the option of three months In jail. A fourth member of the crew was fined $250, with the #lternative of three months. 5 . so m------------ Austrian He i EE fH an Austrian, who is also an prisoner from penitentiary, rested in New Liskeard on a night. The Chief of Police ider the man by tattoo mark on his right hand he pHs i was Judged i a temporary n the firehall and two ------ Er ---------- E ---- The scenes shown herewith are in the town of Albert, now for WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, KINGSTON, ONTA RIO, 1918. "WHEN THE STATUE FALLS THE WAR WILL END" famous Albert Cathedral is pictured. Early in the war that structure was badly damaged by Germa of the Virgin and' Child on top of its steeple being hit and falling to tirPosition it now occupies. fighting which bas centred for several years around this famous old town, and notwithst bardments to which the cathedral has been subjected, the lief among the French people in the district that when the figure falls the war will come WILL NOT WATT FOR LEGISLATION But Put Amendment. to Military Service| figure has remained in this position. NIA i i AA SAVED FROM DEATH GRIPPING NAG'S TAIL A Brakeman Had An- Unusual Deliverance From Wreck Near Chapleau. 'Chapleau, April 3.---At the cor-| oner's inquest held here by Cordner ! 'Depew, of White River, into {cause of Thursday night's collision | Whio the first time in the hands of the Huns. "The , n shells, a statue Throughout the anding the many bom- It is common be. to an end. RIOTING CEASE 3 IN QUEBEC ci the [It IS Thought the Military Have the Sitas- | proper regard for the people, he said, Kscaped in. New Liskeard, April L Auli, vem, : Act Into Effect AL Once. ANVONE RESISTING LAW IS To BF PUT INTO A MILITARY DRAFT. The Unionist Party Will Solidly Back Up the Government in the Strict Enforcement of the Act. (Canadian Press Despatch) Ottawa, April 3.--It is understood that the Government has decided not Service Act which was announced in the Commons hy Sir Robert Borden yesterday. A special meeting of the Cabinet. Council was held late last night when the situation was discus- sed. The Government is anxious to put this amendment which will make any man who resists the law subject to immediate draft into the force without delay in order to assist in meeting the situation which arisen" in Quebec, Legislation even without any obstruction would take two weeks .at least before it could pass the Lommons and the Senate have this. amendment passed by or- lation if necessary, night a nutoker of amendments to the Act which have been suggested by the Military Service Council. The amendments are desighed to 'simplify the machinery of the Act and to speed up its operation. The amend- ments were submitted to the Govern- ment caucas this morning and were discussed at length. There was considerable satisfac- tion expressed at the position taken by the Government on the Quebec situation as outlined by Sir Robert Borden and the Government was as- sured of the solid backing of the Un- lonist party in the strict and impar- tial enforcement of the Act. There were considerable criticism along various Hnes and a lengthy 'discus- sion of the proposed amendments, MOROCCO UNWAVERING, © » Has Utmost Confidence in Result of =~ Western Battle. Tangier, April 3 The great Ger- man offensive and magnificent stand of the British and French troops are followed hare with per- fect confidence in victory for the Allies. There lately has been in- creased activity in German propa- ganda, all in the Spanish zone, but account. The natives share the ealm lof British and French residents. Morocco has borne her burden in the Her troops are at the front and vast | of her and supply ce. in : Her population in support of the EY During guards} to wait for legislation to put into ef-| fect the amendment to the Military, has | and secure the signature of the Gov- | der-in-Council under the War Meas- | ures Act, to be ratified later by legis- | The Cabjhet also considered last | jones more its effect has been of little hear Grassett Station between two {freight trains, in which Lorne f Berry, a young farmer, en route | from Merrickville to Eston, Sask., {wis killdd and Engineer Connaugh- jton injured, a story was told of a from instant | miraculous escape »f death of 'Brakesman " RETSION, of i Chaplean, who was riding on! the en- |&lne of the stock train. Just as he saw the collision between the two trains impending he jumped to the ditch on the north side of the track. Before he could recover himself {from his jump the impaét occurred, "and as the side door of the stock car was open at the time, the force of the collision .shot = one of the horses, out through the- door with such terrific force that the animal landed on its knees in the ditch be- side Ralston. The freight car was just toppling over into the ditch on top of man and horse when the frightened animal took one leap to i get out of the way. With quick presence of mind, Ral- ston, who had no time to run or jump, grabhed the horse's tail and was jerked out of the ditch just as seven or ekght wrecked cars piled up their weight and debris on the spot where but for the unusual deliver- ance Ralston would have been in- | stantly killed BRILLIANT DASH OF CANADIAN CAVALRY i They Swept Through the For- est Like a Winter Snow- storm. British Headquarters in Francey | April 3.---The outstanding feature of i the conflict on the northern end of {the front is that the British again | §ave killed a great number of thé { enemy---which, despite its harsh | sound, will end the war. | Saturday the British decided to {attempt to restore the lines, and Ca- i | nadian cavalry. was sent out for the purpose of clearing the wood and re- establishing' the positions 'north of Moreuil. There was not a hitch in the programme, The cavalry swept through the forest like. a winter snowstorm; and forced the efiemy to fall back, not only here, but farther to the north. ' North of the Luce the enemy at- tacked in force along the British line between Warfusee and Marcel- cave. This pssault was preceded by a vigorows artillery bombardment. The 'cavalry again came into play, and by ten o'clock the Germans were compelled to admit defeat and to re- tire with large casualties, tion Under- Control. | sms, THOSE ENGAGING IN RIOTS ARE TO BE ARRESTED AND POT "IN UNIFORM. No Matter What Class They Are In s==Sir Wilfrid Laurier Suggested That. the Act May Not Be Judi- ciously Enforced. (Canadian Press Despatch) Quebec, April 3.--The city was quiet last night. There was no riot- ing and it is believed the military have the sitgation under control. The dead now number five civilians. { Ii an interview with Rev, Canon | 12 Lindsay, private secretafy of his Eminence Cardinal Regin of the city of Quebec, this high dignarity of the Roman Catholic Church said: { "Cardinal Regin deeply feels the { seriousness of the sithation created by last night's disturbances. Such , wanton acts the cardinal condemns | absolutely----his letter read in all the] churches in the city did not have the| effect anticipated, and the onl§ con- clusion drawn is that outside fnflu- ences must be at work as his Emin- ence is confident that any proclama- tion coming from his authority would be vespecied; in fact, had always been respected." Not Agreed On Retails. (Canadian Press Despatch) Quebec, April 3.---The sixty-two prisoners arrested in connection with the rioting Monday night are still in custody of the military, and the mili- Ty and civil authorities had not agreed as to the details of the prose- tion when these cases were called for preliminary hearing by Judge Langelier. The military are not will- ing at present to grant the prisoners their liberty on bail. ~ The city remaitied quiet to-day, with the soldiers in full control of the situation: 3 Judge Langelier adjotirned the cases till this afternoon and intimat- ed that he would communicate with the Department of Justice at Ottawa for instructions. 'Lawyers present asserted that if the prisoners were not Ifberated on bail his afernoon, they would apply for writs of corpus, i apieas General Lessard announced this afternoon that the men under arrest would be examingf to see if they come under the itary Service Act. and if théy do theywill be dealt with accordingly by the military and noc turned over to the civil authorities, Premier Borden's Statement. "Ottawa, April 3.--S8ir Robert Bor- den andounced in the Commons yes. terday afternoom that important 'amendments would shortly be made the Military Service Act . / ire' ho engage in riots TI ON LE A A DAR WOT Ss - ed," said Premier Borden, "Law is law, afd must be respect- ed," commented Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who, however, suggested that pro- vocation 'to disobey the law should be avoided. He , observed that it was possible that the law might bo enforced in such a way as to provoke public sentiment. - If enforced with there would be no serious trouble in connection with its enforcement. BRITISH RECAPTURE THE TOWN OF AYETTE And Repulse a Determined German Attack in the Vic- 'inity of Fampoux. {Canadian Press Despatch.) London, April 3.---British {Fo0ps' after sharp fighting last night, repuls- ed a 'determined attack by the Ger- mans in the neighborhood of Fam- poux, the War Office announced to- day. The town of Ayette, about eight miles south-west of Arras, is again in British possession, the statement announces. The text of the state- ment reads : "At dawn yesterday a determined attack made by a strong party of the enemy against our positions in the neighborhood of Fampoux was repulsed after sharp fighting.-A num- ber of German dead and a few pris- oners were left in our hands. A suc- cessful local operation was under- taken by us last night in the neigh- borhood of Ayette, which is now in our possession. Over 100 pniseners | and three. machine guns were cap- , | tured by us. We secured a few prisoners yesterday, through an en- terprise in' the neighborhood of Serre, already reported. There is nothing further to report from the battle front. Lincolnshire troops raided the ememy's trenches north- ear. of Loos yesterday morning and captured thirty-one prisoners and a! machine Eun. Another successful raid, in which we captured a few men, was parried out by us last night north-east of Poeicappelle. French Repulse Attack. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, April 3.--A German attack south of Moreuil last .night was re- pulsed by the French fire, and the enemy was unable to gain a footing in. any part of the French positions, the War Office announces. JAPAN IS URGED TO ENTER SIBERIA Weekly Dispatch of London Says It Would Give Hinden- * burg Surprise. BONO; TADHE- TEL Pe Weakly Dispatch, a" Northcliffe newspaper, prints an editorial entitled, "Bring in Japan--How to Give Hindenburg an Unpleasant Surprise." The editorial says: "At the pres- ent moment we have an unrivalled opportunity of giving Hindenburg a surprise. It is to bring in Japan with her splendid army of two mil- lion. Imagine the effect on the German population, who have been promised an early peace as a result of the western offensive, of the an- nouncement that the first of sixty Japanese divisions is* astride the railway at Lake Baikal. Japan has a great chance to serve the cause of humanity. We have refused to en- tertain unworthy suspicions of dur eastern Ally, which to some extent have derived color from the indis- creet utterances of a few German educated Jingoes in Tokio who carry no weight. The effective- ness of Japanese intervention will be graduated by its swiftness. Ten Japanese divisions moving along the Trans-Siberian Railway "now are more valuable to the Allied cause than twenty divisions twa months later. That the arrangements to furnish steel for ships have just been concluded between America and Japan may perhaps be taken as a happy augury of the change of atti- tude on the part of America towards the entry of Japan into Siberia. Much hinges on the breadth of vision of Japanes diplomacy." RUSSIA IS WATCHING THE WEST ANXIOUSLY Battle of Empire's Future Fought at Peronne--Re- morse For Desertion. Petrograd, April 3.--News of the great attacks by German troops on, the English front in France, long f) expected as an outcome of the Rus- sian defection, isfoowed here with intense interest, for the fate of Rus- sla herself now she is a helpless 'Spectator is more than ever depen- dent on the result. All intelligent, educated Russians, not associated with the schemes of the Bolshéviki communism, are full of remorse for the desertion which undoubtedly brought this intensification the German offensive in the west. Many of them openly acknowledge the fact with deep disgust. The Russian, press, Dielo, INaroda, says: "The, destiny of Russia, as well as the fate of England and France, is being de- cided in the great battles at Per- onne. (There is being settled the guestion whether or not Russia is to. be potitically free and an economic- ally independent state. Lenine's re- spite is an Hlusion. The Germans have just reminded us of this with cruél, unceremonivusness. They de- mand the fulfilment of the condi tions of peace and are not dis to let us take a rest." --- Montresl, April 3. --Medriec Martin re-elected mayor . of Montreal tors day, by a majority of 7,270, A eS Ger A Pages 1-8 4 LAST EDITION NEXT OFFENSIVE WIL END WAR If the Allis Arc Able to Repulse it Like Proseat One. BLOODY CHECK TO HONS THE [ENEMY MUST CONTINUE TOR THROW UP SPONGE. The Under Secretary of War in Francd Summarizes Situation-- Ground Covered With Dead. Paris, {April - 3. Discussing the possibilitzes of the German offen- sive last night with a representa- tive of Premier Clemenceau's Homme Libre, IM. |Abrami, Under Secretary of War, said: 2 "It is expected that they will again attack with violence They are caught, as it were, in a glove finger and are forced to go on. They will go on; on their side it is black with troops. (Without doit all these battalions are preparing for a new and desperate effort. It | will be made to-morroy, perhaps." Although in other newspapers the words "A bloody defeat" are begin- ning to be applied jfto the German effort, those best informed do not consider the battle won yet. HA | bloody check," says the official com- munique, and that sums up'tha situ- ation. The enemy is checked, but not yet defeated. The Journal says: "The game is not yet play~sd 'put that is certain; but at this moment the enemy cag- not advance. Let us expect anoth heavy effort, the really dangerous point being the centre. When that effort is repulsed, we may begin to think the game is won." As M. (Abrami and The Journal writer indicate, the position of the Germans is tactically so unfavorable especially on the left flank, that de- spite losses which have eo rvat- ively been estimated at two-thirds of the enemy's whole strategic re- serve, though, of course; a large part of the divisions technically us- ed up whi be able fo return to me- | Lion. biasors Jong, theyll. ep heir lh ae attempt at breaking through. This opens the way to the possibility that if the "Allies can resist them at the present comparative scale of' losses, the time may come when a Tupture of equilibrium will be produced suf- ficient for Foch actually to win a decisive victory. [This factor 'may upset predictions of a. continued hammer-and-tongs struggle for months, with victory going to the side whose reserves last longer. One fhing is certain, the Germans at present are losing far more than their adversaries, especially the French, Mr. Arrami says. "I thave just talked with generals back from the front 'who have tak- en part in the war from Verdun to the Somme. They have never seen 80 many German dead as now. Ov- er two kilometres in the district of Saturday's 'fighting, there were lit- erally heaps of corpses.' The Under Secretary concluded with_the statement that French re- serves, artillery and munitiogs con- tinued to arrive In 'profusion, the French transport service working admirably. * The German transport service on the tontrary, siready suf- fering from lack of grease for trains and lorries and of rubber for tires, has been thrown into furtner confusion by the fire of French long range artillery now in position, and by the superiority of the Allied air- planes. Both airplanes and artillery are shelling every depot econtinual- ly and dreaking up troop ©oncerta- tions wherever signalled. Imminent danger of an attack hy the Austrians in gre force upon the Hallan lines is emphasized. ? ibs i I ir | 5d oh if ¥ ; j |