GOBBI et SRA '14 PAGES NO. KINGSTON, © ONTARIO, SATURDAY, . YEAR 85: UNE 1, 1918. LAST EDITION ar r Situation is Regarded as Very Grave wo Germans Able to Advance ance Only Few Miles in Three Days North of Amiens--Franco- British Line Stands Firm in East. (Canadian Frese Despatch.) New York, June 1.-~The Associated Press war summary says to-day: "Hurling the weight of great numbers against the stubbornly resisting French defence north and south of Soissons, the German crown prince has been unable to make progress on this vital sector of battle line from Noyon In the centre German detachments have reached the Marne be- to Rheims, fle on the east the Franco-British tween Chateau Thierry and Dormans, wh line stands firm. The Allied forces have held the enemy for small gains for three days. North of Amiend the enemy has advanced only a few miles since Sunday. The line eastward through Champagne to Verdun is not yet affected by the battle on the Alane front, Enemy Artillery More Active. (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, June 1.--The German artillery was considerably more active this morning in the sectors of Villers-Bretonneux, east of A miens, and Hebu- terne, north of Albert, it is announced officially, Situation Very Grave, (Canadian Press Despatch.) Londons June 1.-<The gravity of the news from the westérn front is : emphasized in this morning's newspapers which comment anxiously on the situation, although they express hopefulness as to the final outcome, The Daily News says the statement given last night by the military authority to the Associated Press, in. which the situation was depicted as a very anxious one, is disquieting, since it must be accepted as reliable. This newspaper; however, encourages the view that the situation is in nowise past retrieving. The Daily Telegraph sees great possibilities in the stratgic sitpation Asserting that the anxiety and stress of the last few days are not diminish. Ing, it adds: "It would appear that a second battle of Marne, of far greater intensity and weight than in 1914 is opening, but in totalling different eir- cumstances, The difference, however, is as much to the advantage of the KING GEORGE NOT ONLY A KING: ¢ KING GEORGE AT A GLA S$ A PRINCE KAISER SAW. BATTLE FROM SAFE POSITION ? Had a Splendid View of Fight at Chemin Des Dames. Amsterdam, June 1.---Telegraph- {img May 27th, Cart Rosner of the | Lokal Anzeiger describes the Kais- jer 's arrival on the Aisne battle- i fleld. He says: "The Kaiser, who hs been present dn the midst of Lis | troops at the great introduclory {battles in the struggle om the west {at the Somme and in Flanders, to- | day, again, 'when the new | were proceeding, appeared the troops contending (for ar jpeace. In whe forenoon, { | | i | | a victory | the struggle for Chemin des Dames He will be fifty-three years old June 3, 1018. He has § of them boys. He is one of the best wing shots in the navigator, an authority on men-o™-war and dotoestic in his 'children, five id, an expert ites. He hates Allies as the enemy." The Dally Express says: "Never since the outbreak of the war ha: the aithution hoen more menacing or have the possibilities been gra i i nerical Sibors:' The Datly Mi | help is shown in ie enumerates the strong po its fneluding "the rapid arrival of American troops, which will speedily vostore {he Allies' prepondarance in numbers." The Times also looks to the day when the arrival of Antericans will more than reverse the present propor- toons, Drove Back Masses. 'Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, June 1.---~The German at: tack continued during tive night with redoubled violence on the western side of the mew salient, between Solssons and Chateau Thierry. The French made counter-attacks and drove back the masses of German troops in the region of Soissons and on the line of Chat-dun-Veerzy, COMPARATIVE QUIET FOR CANADIAN TROOPS Splendid Work Was Dorie By . a Corporal a estern Ontario Battalion. Ww. A. Willison, Correspondent of By Canad res) nadian Press, sioy - Headquarters, June 1 While the Allies are fight ing gallantly between {ie Aisne and against a second powerful German offénsive gomiparative quiet continues tor the Canadian troops. Our men have secured repeated suc- cesses of a minor nature against the enemy. In reid and patrol opera- tions they have repulsed one Ger man attack in strength with heavy fosses to the enemy, but outside of such infantry there is so far only a marked ducrease in the enemy's bombing and shelling of our rear areas to indicate any increased hos- tile activity. Outstanding amongst recent In- al actions is that of a corporal of a Western Ontario battalion who through 'the wire to an en- amy sap, under he protection of our 'riflemen, and ritle grenadiers and aroutsd the hostile post was in the nelghbaood of a Ppill-box. -gituation Is undhanged gaining ground everywhere and tak- ing several hundred prisoners, the War Office announces. Along the northern bank of the Marne the Ger- mans pushed forward advance part- des from the north and east borders of Chateau Thierry as far as Ver- neuil. On the French right there was sharp fighting on the road be- tween .Dormans and Rheims, The north-west and morth of Rheims. --. THE WORLD'S NEWS IN BRIEF FORM Tidings From n-All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed Way. A dozen throughbreds are in the day. The winner nets $13,000. Cudget is the favorite, 'with Roucher a close second. Four railways in New Brunswick pass to Government ownership on the 1st of June, and another on 1st July, while negotiations are on foot for two others. The American steamer Amack- assin, a vessel of 266 tons gross, was sunk by a German submarine in the early part of April, with a possible loss of all but one of her orew of twenty, while on a voyage from Gibraltar to Geneva. A building nine storeys high and to cost §2,000,000 will be erected in Ottawa dy the Domindon ment to relieve the scareity of office accommodation for its pu A. M. O'Mara, mayor of Limerick, has been ordered by the Court of King's Bendh to take the oath of allegiance before exercising his svagistrial functions. The mayor fhaid refused to take the oath. The sum of $10,000 has been don- ated by Mrs. Hector MacKenzie, Montreal, for the establishment of a Kentucky handicap at Louisville to-| Govern=| '? ot the present operation? WB OT OF "HUN ATTACK OBSCURE Third Act Very Irrelevant and Improvised By Hopeless Mind. IS AS COSTLY AS EVER ~~ WE GERMANS MIGHTY REACH VITAL POSITIONS, From the Aisne Assaults in a Year or So---~The Enemy No Nearer a Vie- tory Than Before, London, June 1.--G, H writes from the French front: The third act of what in one way or another must be the enemy's deci- sive operation of the war, in spite of the remarkable mechanical skill that has been enlisted for its conduet, looks still more irrelevant, more like an improvited expedient of a tired and hopeless, though still powerful, mind. No connection between it and the Somme and Flanders offensives can be discerned, except that of draw- the Allied reserves to the south. But as German reserves in much greater numbers are consumed in the process, of what advantage is this? Something like forty divisions, most of them the best troops avail- able, have now been thrown across the Aisne, 400,000 men who might possibly have reached some vital part of our defences in the north. The Perris 'von Hutier method is a prodigious invention, but it is as costly in blood dit is impressive for force and speed. In the last week of March it was in a purely military sense prop- in {erly employed, even though it fail- ed, because the objective could be {said to be of vital or decisive charac- ter. What vital objective is the iat 66 the Sern Hine has been classien! music and likes sprightly melodies. Fe has the He makes the collection i le of the bumbier sectigns Ral The central it collection of that it goes much further and reach-| 's the Marne valley, or, even still} further, the Montmirait valley, Two! useful high roads with some country | towns would be logt to us in these! aliogether unlikely contingencies, but | nothing vital would . be lost. The! German army would be no nearer winning the war. posed that the great general staff has sdme lateral development of cam- paign in mind If so, in which direc- tion? Beyond Rheims, to the south- east, Hes Chalons, always a great] military centre, Germans might conceivably capture Chalons, them the deeision they need. Paris, then, if that be the objective, why was it not pursued at the end of March by the néarest route? Afsne valley route was blocked, still more hope ed and le#sly 15 Tt now block- SUFFERED FROM A STROKE. A Clergyman Back After Twenty | Years' Absence. {From Our Own Correspondent) Napanee, June 1.---Mrs. Charles! O. Bruton suffered a stroke of | paralysis on Tuesday last and is in a very serious condition at present with but slight hopes of recovery. Mr. and Mrs. [Haiold Benson, Brandon, are the gnests of his moth- | Mrs. (Dr.) Benson. James Gor- expects. to start next week on er, don his trip through the country, (Bogart | Wilson left this week to resume his duties as fire ranger in New On- tagio. Rev. George 8. Paul, Vancouver, BIC. 48 renewing aequaintances af- ter an absence of Twenty F years, PAN 1c AT » ANN HEM. Eighteen Women and Children Trampled to Death, > Geneva, June 1---Eighteen wo- men and children were trampled to "death and a number of persons were injured in a panic which followed an aerial raid alarm, sounded at mid- day in Mannheim yesterday, accord- ing to a despatch received here. The streets were crowdd when the alarm was given and a wild jessmiie for for shelter ensued. It developed later thai *he warning signals were caused by the sighting of a squadron of Ger- man Nr to thelr base 8 Or is it to be sup-| In a year or so the | but that would not give| The! {and the Alswe ground was stil in | full progress, the motor car of the {| Kaiser, fluttering a standard, sud- battles | among | when | A CANADIAN HOSPITAL IS BOMBED IN DAYLIGHT Many Doctors, Nursing Sisters and Patients Are Killed--Hurled Into Burning Debris-- Heroic Men Risked Their Lives to Reach Those Entombed. (Canadian Press Despatch.) With the Dritish Army in France, June 1.--Early on Thursday morn- Ing, German alrmien bombed another hospital--this time a Canadian insti- tution--and exacted a considerable toll of casualties, including nursing sis- ters and patients. Among those killed by explosion or flames was an Ameri- | denly emerged between the advanc- ing columms, masses of troops and | backward«lowing prisoners [transporty. It made a way for fit-| can medical officer who was administering an anesthetic to a British officer and | in the operating room when that part of the hospital was demolished, The raid occurred at 10.50 o'clock in the morning. The hospital attacked {self to near the issuing positions, | was a large one. It had been in existence since the early days of war and } wierefrom, only a few (hours before | {our storm Thad descended. The | | Kaiser ascended afoot. the height {situated a few fhundred metres | | north of Winterberg, which affords | la wiew «f the greater part of the | { fighting country, in order to cb- | { serve whe advance in the vietorious | | struggle, The tremendous pano- | {rama of the Aisne battlefield Jay | clear dn the atmosphere, outspread | with admirable distingtness before | | this point of observation, giving ai | view of the depths through the! { Aisne ground and allowing an ad- | | mirable observation Wf Whe tnces- {sant forward pressure of our] { troops of attack. On his way to this {height the Kaiser had already been | joyfully greeted everywhere. { "There's the Kaiser; it's started | again now,' was repeatedly spoken. {| He called individual men and gave | them a share of his knowledge of] | the tremendous tide of our victory. | He there followed until a late hour | in the afterfioon the ground won by {our troops. The evening wes fall- { ing when he met von Boehm, the {commander of the army fighting | here, and entered von Ludendorff's | headquarters, Me three leading | men remained until past eleven {o'clock at night in earncsst work lover maps. As they parted, thanks [to the aitiirably bold and rapid at- taimment of to-day, coulidence in tive destinies of forthcoming days and the new Strasse could be seen fim al heir faces. ~~~ | CONQUERED LANDS. TO RECRUIT ARMY | Germany Calls On Men Of 'Bal- tic Provinces To Join Ranks. {© Paris, June 1 --Germany das be- gan her campaign to utilize the vast [resources of human material in the | Baltie provinces to augment deci- | mated ranks in jthe army, according | to a despatch from Switzerland, whieh declares that "the Derpater Zeitung, the German propaganda or- | gan for thie Baltic, publishes an ap- peal 10 young men in Courland and inviting them to join, un- {der the German fag. "Germany," | says the appeal, "has now more than ever the need of soldiers; it is { natural that the children of the | provinces delivered from Maximalist rites should give themselves up to enable Germany to intensify Tier { effectives and perform thelr duty like all children of the Empire." WANTS "A KNOOK-OUT." | Must Not Win War on Points, De- clares Roosevelt. | Detroit, June 1.--*"America does i not want to win this war on points; {we want a knock-out." { In these words, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, making a Memorial Day | address in behalf of the navy, sun | marized his conception of this coun- try's war aims. "If we don't carry #t through now," he declared, 'we will be fore- ed to fight it out here later, and { without Allies." i He urged the establ by i the Government of night for {all adult Immigrants in which tey should be taught the English lan- guage. If at the end of five years they had not learned the language, Col. Roosevelt said, they should be sent back. BIG TRANSPORT SUNK. Ome Vessel Was Torpedoed And An- other Fired At. 0. Washington, June 1.---Admiral Sims reports the sinking of the 15,- 000 ton transport President Lincoln The vessel was on the return journey from Europe. The vessel was form- os a Hamburg-American liner, Spanish steamer Marta Pia sheiloa by a submarine. eap- tain and several filed. | Livonia, ent was marked by huge Red Cross signs. On the storey above the main floor were the olfice and patients' room, and above them were members of the | hospital personnel Part of the wing was demolished by the terrific explosion and many un- fortunate people were killed and wounded when the building collapsed and' buried them. Strange to say, those who were on the top floor had better luck than those below them, and several escaped because they fell on top of the debris. Surgeons were just about te operate when they were hurled into the burning debris. Nothing more awful has oceurred in the annals of hos- pital service since the war began. A roaring furnace represented what was left of the big wing. Scoves of people worked frenziedly at the flaming | mass of twisted timbers in their attempts to reach those entombed, and many unconscious forms were carried out by heroic men who Hed their lives to reach them. V.C. COLONEL FOUND DRIVING DELIVERY RIG. Winnipeg, June 1.~The + Great War Veterans' Associa- + tion will investigate the case of 4 Lieut.4Col. 'William [D: Wallace, # returned officer and Victoria 4 Cross hero, who has been dis- % covered in Brandon driving a 3 delivery vig as a means of live- + lhood. And Have Begun 3 Violent Offensive on the West Wing. v vivir SEPP eb re0ste * PEERS IEEE SER ERLE A COUNTER BLOW Shageete IN THE-AUTUMN Gen. Foch Not Likely to Make His Master Stroke Until October. Paris, June 1.---The allied coun- ter-blow will come in October, ae- cording to Marcel Hutin, military cri- tic of Eeho de Paris, and one of the few French writers who foretold the possibility of the Aisne attack which he Is now witnessing. "Next October," writes M. Hutin, who cautions patience, "the Ameri- * ALLIED LEADERS CONFIDENT THAT BATTLE WILL SOON TURN IN THEIR FAVOR. Allies Fall Back Before Enormous German Numbers----Enemy Paying Heavy Penalty In Vain Efforts To Retake Cantigny, (Canadian Press Despatoh) London, June 1.---The enemy has reached the Marne ou a ten-mile front, The Germans claim to have 80 far taken forty-five thousand pris. oners and four hundred guns. cans will have 1,600,000 men on the west 'front, Between now and then as Premier Clemenceau so frankly | explained, we and our allies must' meet all German attacks. We must / econoniize in our reserves and hold the enemy in check even at the cost of a few miles of ground. Already the Americans have shown their met- tie and captured the vilage of Canti- kny, which was stubbornly and reso- lutely defended by the enemy. In the battle now raging no important line of communication is threatened by the Crown Prince's advancing army." TRIED TO CHOKE LAWYER. Woman Convieted of Murdering Wronged Wife. Waukesha, nVis., June 1.-lrace Lusk was found guilty of second degree murder by the jury which tried her for killing Mrs. Mary New- man Roberts, When the verdiet was delivered, Miss Lusk made an attempt to choke Special Prosecutor Tular, but was overpowered by court attendants and led screaming from the courtroom. The verdict caries with it a sentence of from 14 to 26 years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Roberts was killed by Miss Lusk in the latter's home on June 21st, 1917, after Dr. Roberts had told is wife of his relftions with the defendant, who at t time was a teacher in the Waukesha normal sdivopl. Following the shooting, Miss Lusk fired two bullets into her own body, but failed in her attempt- ed suicide, and after £ seve ral months in the hospital was con- fined in the county jail. (Canadian Press paspaten) Rome, June 1 Austians have PEER PERI P IR RR ETE Large masses of enemy resérves still remain in the north. The Germans have begun a violent offensive on the west wing and have advanced five miles, _ Headquarters is confident that the Battle will soon turns in favor of the Allies, The fan-like formation of the enemy movement was pushed out on the sides and in the centre, covering more territory. The Allies are fall. ing back slowly before enormous Ger- man numbers, Aviators report great activity on the roads all along the rear of the German advanced forces, as fresh enemy divisions are hurried forward to take the place of exhausted units, The allied airmen are doing splendid work, harrassing the German rein- forcements and supply columns by making attacks from low altitudes with machine guns. The German aviators are very numerous in this "Feurring constantly." June 1. heavy penalty .in Theis fru tempts to retake Ca Air observers report that erlcan artillery is infhisting terrible ly one of six counter-at have the 'Boches been able to ihe meric n lines, their HP ; melt; ore our coun On the one occasion her did rah the line the few Germans who : trated the trenched were captured, or i PELEPEIPRG PERRIER OLS 3 region, and aerial combats are oc-