FIT a 16 PAGES . YEAR 85: NO. ~ DISCOVERED IN TIME ib, Leaders of Sinn Feiners Arrested--Signs Pointed to Another Armed Outbreak And Possible Attempt of Ger- man Landing in Ireland. (Canadian Press Despatch.) : London, May 18.--A German plot has been discovered in Ireland, an evidence that the Sinn Feiners are in direct com- munication with the German Government. General French is- sued a proclamation al daybreak to-day ealling on the people to stamp out the conspiracy. ; A considerable number of arrests have been made in Dublin and throughout Ireland, according to a despalch to the Times, Prof. Edward De Valera, president of the Sinn Feiners, Arthur Griffith, the fofinder, Countess Markieviez, Dr. Dillon and William Cosgrave, Sinn Fein M.P. for Kilkenny, Dr. Ed- ward Hayes and Darrell Figgis, have been arrested. Acted Not a Moment Too Soon. (Canadian Preas Despatch.) Dublin, May 18. The Irish Times to-day savs the Govern- ment has not acted a moment loo soon, as all signs pointed to another outbrenk of armed violence. possibly in connection with the landing of German troops on Irish shores. Created a Sensation in London. (Canadian Press Despatch.) 'London, May 48. Although there have been many rimors concerning events in Ireland recently, the news received from Dublin early. this morning of the arrests made and of Lord French's proclamation tha! certain of lhe King's subjects have entered ikto treasonable communication with the German en- emy, ereiafed a sensation. Sore days ago Sir Edward Carson, "Irish Unionist leader, said in a letter to the Government thal he knew that certain persons in Ireland had been in communica- tion with the enemy, but it was generally taken to mean some unimportant individuals conpeeted with the man who was eap- tured after landing recently on the Irish coast in a collapsible boat. The nature of the arrests. taken in connection with the posting of Lord French's proclamation, however, indicates that the persons referred fo are the heads of the Sinn Fein move- ment and that the Government pusseses evidence aginst them. lists. The Proclamation of Lord French. _ be = Canadian Press Despatch.) Tp SORRELL! an pate . ub 1 May 18 The proclamation issued says thal a Ger- man plot in Ireland has been discovered. In the proclamation the Vieeroy, Lord French, dlls upon all loyal Irishmen to defeat the conspiracy. The proclamation, signed by 'Edward Shortt, Chief Secretary for Ireland, asserts that eertain persons in Ireland have been in communication with Germany, reflecting on Ireland's fair name. The proclamation culls upon all loyal subjepts to assist in defeating the manoeuvres. It urges volun- tary réwrniting so that compulsion may be Javeided. "Conscription is to be launched in Ireland unfler cover connected with an alleged German plot. That appears to be the mean- ing of this rather strange proclama- tion, which is Chief Secretary Shortt's first word to Irish pro- phets. Of course, it is not impossible that a few foolish then in Ireland may have been interested in a con- in Full, 'of the Lord Proclamation The proclamation Lieutenant says: "Whereas it has come to our knowledge that certain subjects of His Majesty the King domiciled in Ireland have conspired to enter and have entered Inte treasonable com- mumication with the German eon- KINGSTON, r ro STALE Or NO KEY mm OLD LINE " mus PRESENT LINE emp BOUNDARIES V emy, and whereas such treachery is & Menace Jo 'the fair hatte of Ire- ind and its glorious military re cord, a record Which is a source of intense pride to the country, and whose sons v distinguished themselves and fought with such her- ole valor in the past. in the same way as thousands of them are now fight- ing in this war, and whereas drastic measures must he taken to put down the German plot, which means will be solely directed against that t; now, therefore, we the Lord tenant of Ireland and Governor- General of Ireland have thought fit ta issue this proclamation, declaring as follows: RE : -- i : hs duty of all oral o jesty to assist in every way His Majesty's Government dn Ireland to suppress this treason- Y and to defeat the empt of Germany to defame Honor of Irishmen for their nd so far as in them lies to securing an effective pro- war and the welfare i the Empire. " means to this end. 'we Stine Stilt further steps to he bo 5 enlistment ua Jllesuruge Sor of fety i as *s forces in the hope that resort ends. That we hereby call | 4 all loyal subjects of His Ma- : = Ireland 4p crush such con- spiracy to invoke German aid, but the Irish people have never been pro- German, and notwithstanding ~ all provocation received from the Eng- Hsh Government they are mot pro- German to-day." Came as a hs (Canadian Press Despatch; Dublin, May 18.--The arrest of the Sinn [Fein leaders and the issu- ance of Lord French's proclamation came as a complete surprise here. In Dublin the arrests were made by detectives acting in co-operation with the mdlitary, while in the pro- wvinces they were carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary. So far as has been ascertained. no formal charge has been preferred against the prisoners. They were taken into custody on warrants issued under the Defence of the Realm Act. Belfast. {Canadjan ast, arrested here Joseph McGuin- ness, Sinn Fein member of Parla- ment for the sofithern division of County Longford; J. MoGrath, Walt- er Scoles, John M. Centee, ast Sinn Fe , who was sentenced to Fdeath in connection with events at Dundalk during the rebellion of 1916, and Demes McCullough, an- other Sinn Feiner. tee it WILL COOPERATE | re a vet. byes Threatening nce 1s (Canadian Press De: teh) Paris, May 18. Japan and China have been informed by the Allied Governments that they have Ar- ranged for an Entente military co- operation to meet the Quarrel Among! | Dsspatogy i 13 Among Lttiose ONTARIO, SATURDAY. M = = = HUNS GAIN NEAR YPRES, BUT REPULSED ELSEWHERE 0 5 a0 "MILES CALAIS FT SP \ AY 18, 1918. ALL ALONG LINE OSTEND, £ Langemdrck Pass ah ESA 3 SLaCh Hoge 21 A Deis ebeke le) Ei | TOURCOIVGIRS no Pee "of the rallwar line ran THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY GIVEN Despatches That Come From Near An Distant Places. TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFESY POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily. Condensation of the News of the Warld From Tele« grap Bervice and Newspaper Ex- changes, The Civil Service Act passed third reading on Friday afternoon. The Government has pflecided to continue the Busindss Profits Tax for this year at least. its of revelations [Martial law has been proclaimed at Odessa by the Austr Sommand. ant at the request of the Germans. At Kiev Austrian patrols are in the streets day and night, and thou- sands of persons are fleecing from the city. Berlin expects to receive 150.000 sheep and 50,000 pigs shortly from Rumania, and 100,000 tons of cer- eals in July or August. Taylor and Thompson, the Toronto telegraphers accused in connection with the transmission of messages re betting on races, were acquitted, It the French ambassador to Russia, "Joseph Noulens, is compell- od jgcdewe the coumtry, the other re; entatives of the Allies may follow him. At Newmarket, Lieut.-Col. J. A. W. Allan, late of the 20th Battalion, was #ned $30 and costs for asshnlt- ing Town Clerk Peter J. Anderson, last Saturday night, and also of as- saulting Constable Fragk Duncan, Monday, when the constable served the colonel with the summons to ap- pear ont the first charge. v » GERMAN AIRPLANES FAILED IN Press Despatch) Ae 18. rman air. BE were dropped on the outlying suburbs. There were violent Mens at jrarious Everswhore else ithe. night wag} What possibly may prove to be the prelude to the long expected resumption on the western front is being played. Southeast of Y yres, from the region of Voormezeele to La Clytte, the Germans have launched an attack against the British and French troops holding t over the tive mile battle front they have met with some success by penetrating front line trenches. however, over the greater part of the field of combat they met with repulse. to be the pushing torward of bis line in this segion to outflank ¥ nine » that town and "Yores TOOK DECORATION BACK WITH HIM \ The Kaiser Had Brought It Along to Present to Victor Of Ypres. British Headquarters in France, May 18.---A German nof-commis- {sioned officer captured lately throws light on the disappointment the Ger- mans sustained in their unsuccessful attack on the Belgian front on April 17th. He says the operation was designed to develop into a great Mank-turndng movement. So certain was the high command of success that that Kaiser came to the Yger to withess the battle, having In his poe ket the "Eicheulaus," the next high- est German decoration to the Ordre Pour Merite, which he designed to Lbestow upon the general directing the attack. But when the Kaiser left the Yser the Eicheulaus still tinkled in his pocket. ME. NICKLE'S QUERY, Regarding the Payments to Chief Justice Mitapatrick. Ottawa, May 18.--W. F. Nickle (Kingston) gave notice that it is his intention to ask if it 1s the intention of the Government, in the event of voluntary redpayment not being made by Sir Ohanles F'tzpatrick of the five thousand dollars paid him to cover expenses in connection with the judicial committee of the Privy Council, and mot incurred or disbursed, to take steps to recover the amount, * Mr. Nickle will also ask if pay- ments such as these are made with- out ithe concurrence or comsent of the Auditor-General, and if the ex- planation made by Bir Charles and read fin the (House by the Prime Minister expresses the practice. and policy of the Government, LOSES FOUR OF HIS SONS. Quebec Farmer Has Two Sets of Twins in Draft. Ottawa, Oat, May 18.---Herni Besant, a Quebec farmer has the dis tinction of hav four sons who will be affected by the Government's or- der cancelling exemptions to men be- tween the ages of 20 and 22. Mr. Besant is the father of two sets of twins, all boys, the first: | 22 years old and the second 20. He 'was present with the deputation that waited on Premier Borden on Tues: day, and while his personal interest in outcome was greater than that of any other farmer in Canada, he ac- cepted the result' 'philosophically, consoling himself in the fact that he | has nine other children left at home, A TRIBUNAL SUGGESTED -------- To Solve the Irish Question, Dublin 3 Sy (Canadian Press Despatch) on, M Sig natiy are vited in Ireland to the pro- "that the Irish question be sub- id for adjudication to a eom- tion. The sink 8 piterranea of hostilities' by the Germans he tine, and at certain points Apparently, The objective of the enemy seers pres on the southwest and press on toward ' ot WORRYING OVER ALLIES SUCCESS U-Boat Commanders Are Reported as Act mle Desh CONVOYS MRE. ESCORTED BES BY DIRIGIBLES AS WELL AS CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS The Ship Output In Britain and Am- erica Next Month Will Exceed the Estimated Loss in Tonnage. New York, May 18.--The New York Times publishes, on high naval authority, the following: The commanders of the U-boats are worrying now over the Allies' suc- cess at sea and are acting on the de- fensive. Several cases of mutiny amopg- tile crews and the wreck- ing of submarines along . desolate coasts have been reported in England during the last eight weeks. . The convoys are escorted by ¢ruls- ery, destroyers, patrol heats, and dirigibles, called "blimps," which are better than the sedplanes as they can swoop down over the water and hover in one spot for any length of time without any difficulty. Battleships 4s well as battle-cruisers and destroy- ers, are used to escort the big convoys across the North Sea to Norway and Denmark. There are from fifty to seventy-five steamships in each con- voy, and they all manage to get across safely. The U-boats try very hard to get the vessels in the Dutch convoys as they can se them from Zeebrugge; and are directed by scouf airplanes. If the submarine cannot get there in time the airplanes try to drop bombs on the steamships, even when Whey have reached ' neptral waters along the coast of Holland. So far they have only succeeded in sinking one small Dutch vessel. s S-- Jellicoe Opposed 17? Admiral Jellicoe was against send- ing the battleships to sea for the pur- pose of protecting convoys, as he thought the risk of their being tor- | pedoed was too great. He wa# over- ruled at the Admiralty after the cap- ture of a convoy in the North Sea by the Germans, and that, it is under- : , was the cause of his resigna- king of n 18 still cohsid his » gpl aid with the palm The Baily British Whig | ------ hood | Officers For the Year. | Pages 1 LAST EDITION ARE 200 TENTS AT BARRIEFIELD And There Will be Soon 2,000 Men on the Tented Field. { War Tidings. Official despatches from Zurich says that if the Austrian Govern- ment attempts to establish German districts In 'Bohemia a bloody re- volution will take place. Twenty-five German planes were | wrecked and twelve others were { shot down out of icontrol on Thurs- day. At one o'clock on Friday morn- {ing and at three o'clock there was concentration gun fire on a. small sector of the British front in the La- basseeMervilie sector, WOMAN'S AUXILIARY Y.M.C.A. This Aggressive Organization Elects The Women's Auxillary of the Y. M.C.A. met Friday afternoon, the oc- casion being the annual meeting of this aggressive organization, which has done so much to help the direc- tors by supplying social functions, donating furnishings, and in many ways assisting in making the young men and boys of _the city enjoy com~ fortable quarters} The different com- mitteess all brought in bright réports, and the reports of the secretary and treasurer showed a growth in the auxiliary numerically and financially. In spite of the many expenditures al- ready made from thre year's finances, there was a small balance on hand, and the ladies on learning that the goneral secretary's office needed a new typewriter, decided to phace at the disposal of the directors a sum for the purchase of a suitable nia- chine, The slate «of officers for thé next Xear as presented by the nominating committee was adopted, and is as fol- lows: President, Mrs. John Wright: vice-president, Mrs. F. R. Anglinand Mrs. R. Meek; secretary, Mrs. R. M. Douglas; treasurer, Mrs, E. P, Jen kins; convenors of committees: social, Mrs. © R. M. Douglas; memborship, Mrs. O. Chown; rooms, Mrs. T. Don- nelly; finance, Mrs. J. Wright; devo- tional, Mrs. William Jackson. In ad- dition to these officers, a strong "ad- visory board" has been elected, and officors feel that backed up by this board of twenty ladies representing the various churches of the city the coming year will be most successful, and that they will be enabled to ar- range for many necessary repairs, The other committee members elected at the meeting are as follows: Membership, Mrs. ¥. Reid, Mrs. James Leslie, Mrs. R. Rodger, Mrs. J. Gow; Social, Mids L. Mayell, Mrs, I. J. Wil- son, Mrs. 'A. Vanluvon, Mrs. J. 8. Mc- Bride, Mrs. Willlam Jackson, Mrs. ures Assuring Slow But Sure Death. ed, according to the Jewish Corres- pondence Burcau at the Hague, Of, Pasha, formerly Turkish commander in that district and now Minister of cording to the Beureau. i ; a Since the beginning of April he AGAINST EPIDEMICS {the village, and the remainder of the Every Minute of the Day--The Boys in Khaki Are of Splendid There are 200 tents now standing pro- viding accommodation for 1,200 men. then have returned. All of those called of the ages twenty, twenty-one been given farm leave. The total number received is in the heighbor- ber, A parf of the camp has been made Is self-contained with respect to do- mestic arrangements. This is a pre- demics. All'new arrivals are kept in this part of the camp for the period they are transferred to the training company. : Major Newman, second in com mand at the eamp, explained the He Worlts Department. 'Phree yoars experience at the front has domon- blankets and bedding used by the men. Drying racks will be provided bathihg for instance, their clothing can be treated and ready for use NEW TURKISH PLAN TO WIPE OUT JEWS Amsterddam, May 18.--The per- secution of Jews in Turkish-occupied four thousand Jews in the city of] Safed, near the sea of Gallilee, three ---- War at Constantinople, devised Bow) IR i plans to bring the still remaining has ordered all Jews to evacuate . set---- colonies: and towns near the front..The Use For the New Drying Shed i population was allowed to stay. {Kefr-Saba five or six persons die Type. Barriefield Camp has grown cou- At the end of the month there will be over 2,000 men in camp as all and twenty-two have reported at the Depot Battalion. Many of them vol- of 2,100. The 2nd Depot, which is stationed at Ottawa, will into an enclosure,and sub-divided in- to four acres for segregation. ' Each caution which has been taken after experience has shown that eare of fourteen days and then passed in- to "A" Company, which is the recelv- The quarantine was removed fr the vl collegiate building to-day %nd the men will be under canvas to- of the new drying shed which is bein erected by George Payne under &, started the great 'value of the facili- ties provided by such a shed for the capable of being heated to a very high temperature, destroying all vermin again immediately. This building Will be under the supervision of a Minister of War Orders Meas- terr'tory in Palestine is not yet end- thousand are without bread. Djemal Jews to a slow but sure death, ac ris 1S NECESSARY TO GUARD Not a single Jew has been left in| Explained--The Men Are Busy {daily from hunger and typhus. siderably' during the past week. those granted leave as farmers will unteered. Ahout ninety per cent. have probably have about the same num- division accommodates 1560 men and should be taken to guard against epl- ing company. From "A" company night. contract awarded to him by the Pub, purpose of disenfecting all clothing, and bacteria, When the men are sanitary officer. Ing three companies were engaged, one at physical training, ohe at drill and the third at rifle shooting. The men are busy every minute the day. At nine o'clock this morn- Brooks; rooms, Mrs. George Little, Mrs. J. E. Redd, Mrs. W. H. Godwin, Mrs. C. C. Nash. COL. A. E. ROSS WRITES With Regard to Capt. D. L. Kennedy, of Portsmouth. Michael Kennedy, Portsmouth. has received an answer from Col. A. F. Ross to a cable sent some days ago regarding his son Capt. D. L. Ken- nedy, who was missing. Dr. Ross stated that particulars could not be sent owing to military regulations, but that Capt, Kennedy had been gpised and was suffering a little from | brotichitis and laryngitis. He said in part: "You should be propd of him, ! as hie bas stuck to it like a brick and has done good work." Col. Ryss also mentioned that Lieut, Courses In bombing, bayonet fighting and rifle practice are down on the syllabus, A Sotipany marched out to the ranges this morning under command of a young Heutenant who has returned from the front, and a finer body of young men it would be difficult to find. Major. Newman expressed his great satisfaction at having young men of such a splen- tid type, "The time and money spent In making them ifto soldiers is well expended upon such material as this." | Col. Smart, 0.C., was taking his rounds but was seen lator at his of- fice, which 4s located in the Head- quarters building. He sald: "We have taken a great many on our strength during the past week, but every man who was a : and de- sired to avail himself of the pass for seeding, was allowed to go to his Douglas/Nickle had been sent to base hospital but that his injuries received when his aeroplane took fire were | not serious. 5 Chemist Missing. W. RK. Leadbeater. chemist at the home." The colonel expressed his great pleasure at the manner in which the men 0 which requires obse of the most minute detalls. The whole Wayagamack Pulp and = Paper Co, Three Rivers, Que., disappeared from his boarding hovise on Sunday evening and has not been heard of since. lt} is feared that Mr. Leadbeater has' been drowned in the Si. Maurice! river. Mr. Leadbeater is a son-in-law of Rew. W. G. Jordan, Barrie street, and Mrs, Leadbeater is here. Dr. Jordan and Mr. Leadbeater, Ellisville, are at Three Rivers, Que, investigating the. disappearance. In a letter written to a biother Mr. Leadbeater complaiv- ed of a severe pain in his head, Suffered Gas Attack. W. McCallum. employed hy Bell Telephone Company. was Workman who suffered an attack of wi 4 ray and | cess streets on Friday ternoon. He was attended by Dr. LW bell, and removed to the Geteral Hospital, but after staying (an hour or so was. able to proceed to ni fireman rendered first tor. eset the | the: o : near the corner of | SPR P RIEL IRLS appearance of the and rounds hare out his stat ent and be is to congratulated upon having effi clent assistants, \ 'Sentenced to be Hanged. Fernie, B.C., May 18.---Admitting of Wm. + that he had caused the Hall, at Peterson's camp, thirty miles = from Bulle River, Jams ¥. Walsh, bape on fants ity of of murder and ser to July 29, at Nelson, B.C. Cairo, May 18.---The swing bridge over the Suez Canal at Kantars has heen completed, ing direct il way communication Cairo Fess ttttvate