i 16 PAGES BES PAGES 18 YEAR 85: NO, 1: PURPOSE OF GERMAN U-BOAT 10 FRIGHTEN AMERICANS » | British First Sea Lord Does Not Believe That the Germans Will Attempt a Blockade of Cana- dian and United States Shores -- Thinks Only One Submarine Is Operating. : (Canadian Press Despatch.) : London, June 15. The German submarine activily off the Atlantic coast of the United States seriously as the Germans probably will not attempt a blockade of aGnadian and United States shores," : : This is the opinion of Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. The admiral believes that there is only one submarine operating off the American coast and that the purpose of its trip across the Atlantic was to The Ger ) First Sea Lord declared, must be met by centralized warfare in the North Sea and Mediferranean. ¥ frighten Americans. his coat and waistcoat off when alell Press and was working in his short sleeves, : : Admiral Wempss paid tributue to the co-operation of the American naval forces in European waters. He said American ships not only were stationed in the north, butu were also oper- ating in the Mediterranean and off Gibraltar. : The appearance of German submarines off the American development from | view it is studied, and the opportunity was given this week to Archibalt S. Hurd, British naval writer, to obtain from the Bri- coast is an interestin tish First Sea Lord his opinion part of the Germans and its effect upon the naval situation gen- erally. Secrecy is an essential element of success in all warfare and particularly in naval warfare, but there are times when the chief of staff ean speak with necessary reserve, information to the enemy. In « the fighting forees must canry public opinion with them. That has been the policy adopted in increasing measure by the ent Board of Admiralty. CONSPIRACY CHARGE AGAINST OFFICIAL Of the British Ministry of Mu- nitions--8heffield Ex Mayor Also Involved. . (Canadian Press Despatch) London, June 15.--Charies Al fred Vernon, who lis said to have been employed in an important ca- pacity In the Ministry of Munitions, was charged in Bow Street Police Court to-day with iconspiring with 8ir Joseph Jonas, former lord mayor ot Sueifleid. whe yn recently ar- 'on the charge of having com- nicated informa mun tion useful to tha enemy. The case was til Wednesday next; when Prisoners will be arraigned together, he offence is said to have heen be- fore the war. PARIS IS PREPARING. Plan For Evacuation Are Consider ed Paris, June 15.--The deputies of the departments of the Seine, the e Oise, and the Seine and Marne, which comprises Paris and the con- tiguous departments, continued yes- terday their examination "into the measures of defence of the entrench- od camp of Paris, its provisioning and the security of its population. The Minister of the Interior, Juins Pames, and Albert Claville, Minister of Public Works, were heard parti- cularly with regard to the evacua- tion of the population, if it became nocessa ry. Deputy Louls Jean Puech's re- ~ port dealing with partial evacuation of the population was discussed, and Minister Clavellle furnished infor- + mation as to the means of transport at his disposal which could insure the exodus of the population should the oocasion arise. The Minister of Education described measures al- ready taken to safeguard artistic treasures. MES. W. E. SANFORD CHOSEN As President of the National Council of Women, (Canadia ens ateh Brantford, June To TS. Ww. i. Sanford, of Hamilton, was last night announced as the mew 'president of the National Council of Women of I in succession to. iMrs. F. IT fington of Toronto, who retired years of service in that of- he Council asked thé Govern- to give recognition to V.A.D, in the form of an appropriate Warships: | | sible adjourned un- "the two] E> ain, and over 20,000 had joined the should not be taken very man ruthlessness at sea, the The British First Lord had he was interview by the Associ- whatever point of upon this new departure on the without giving lemocratic countries, leaders of pres- SOME TRISH COUNTIES UNDER SPECIAL LAW et A Conflict at Batlygar County Galway----Bayonet Charge Ordered. (Canadian Press Despatch) Dublin, June 15.--The Dublin of- ficial Gazette proclaims the counties of Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Lim- erick, Longford, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone and West meath and King's county and Queen's county under special law providing | for change of venue and trial by spe- cial jury. All gounties named, except Tyrone, are in the western and cen- tral parts o provinces o County Tyrone is in the province of Ulster. | Conflict In County Galway. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, June 15.--The arrest of two men at Batlygar, county Galwdy, Ireland, on Friday, led to a prolonged conflict between a crowd of sympa- thizers and police. The police used their clubs and sympathizers any missile that came to hand: A bayonet charge was ordered and after several persons in the crowd had been injur- ed the sympathizers dispersed. APPLY CONSCRIPTION NOW Say Irish Orangemen--Oppose Es- tablishment of Irish Parliament. Belfast, June 15.--At the = half- yearly meeting of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, witly Sir James Stronge, Bart, Grand' Master, pre- siding, the following resolution was passed: t 4 "That Orangemen stand by legis- lative union between Great Britain and Ireland, and believing that the establishment of an irish Parliament' would confer the power to injure Great Britain and support the King's | enemies, they 'will, as loyal men, re- } sist it by any means suitable to pre- sent circumstances." The Grand Lodge also again ex- pressed the opinion that conserip- tion should be applied to Ireland, so as to bring the Empire's fighting | forces up to proper strength. = Suen measure to be equitably enforced throughout the whole country. The Grand (Lodge further protest ed against the unconstitutional con- tinuance of a temporary embassay at the Vatican, and the action of the Government in sending the Prince of 'Wales on a wisit to the Pope, thereby raising expectations o! tem- poral power. i IRELAND'S WAR SERVICE. 50,000 Recruits an Equitable Cone tribution, London, June 15.~Arthur Sam- uels, solicitor-general for Ireland, re- d that since October, 1816, about 40.000 men had left Tre- land for muntion work in Great Brit- rees. ; Allowing for the increased num- ber of men required for in Ireland, the 50,000 for in Viscount French's proclama- plying to a question in the House of | & i aL KINGSTQN, ONTARIO, SATURDAY. JUNE 15, 1918. ~ BATTLE POWER IS LIMITED IN DEPTH TO TWO.THIRDS OF BASE f 4 Loy orRovi SCALE OF MILES MAY CONTINUE Toc Enemy Offensive May Possibly Last a While. Longer. Ee wee HALTED TR Ti PRESENT BUT HINDENBURG HAS LEAST 300,000 RESERVES. AT There Were No Infantry Actions on Montdidier-Ojse Front or South of Aisne land West of Rheims Friday Night. Washington, June 15. Hinden- burg has at least twenty-six divisions (300,000 men) in reserve. At his 'present rate of expenditure he should be jable to maintain his of- fensive strength for at least two months. i Reflecting on the battle situation in France, (General (Bridges, chief of the British military mission. here, expressed belief that the offensive ot Germany probably would not ex- haust itself before early in August: Including iprisoners icaptured by the Germans, Bridges estimated the total Allied losses would be nearly as large as the German--but the latter would be largely killed and wounded. i! sefoy - No ¥ Actions. . (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, June 15 Artillery on both sides was active last night on the front betwéen * Montdidier and the River Oise, the War Office announc- ed to-day. 'The gunfire was also rather marked in the region south of Aisne and west of Rheims, in the IChaemplat-Blighey sector. No in- fantry actions occurred. i Preds Despateh) nadian Tess S| n, June 'Io Successtul local attacks were carried out "last night by British and Scottish bat- talions north of Bethune on the Flanders front, and over sixty pri- soners were taken, according to a statement issued by War Office to- day. 'The text of the statement says: "A successful local operation was carried oup last night by the British and Scottish battalions north of than sixty prisoners few prisoners'. and guns 'were caplured Bethune. 'More were taken. 2 tion, he declared, would represent Geneva, June 15. duster oificials are finding i § to obtain hangmen to epuitable contribution, from Ireland. |Pu! 3 CL ------------he. 3 FOR: TWO MONTES three machine f by us during the night ax the result| agriculture | of successt recruits asked | i «AST EDITION WAR FILLS GRAVES, AND EMPTIES CRADLES Seven Thousand Potential Lives Lost Daily by Rea- son of War. London, June 15.--Under ihe heading "Race suicide through. the war; daily loss seven thousand o tential lives," The Times SAYS: a Bernard Millett, Registrar<General, in the course of a lecture, dealing with the decline of the birth rate due to the war, said that in England ams MARLY sr "RX \ ES - Buperimpose tie three salients of the Lys, the Somme and the Alsne and it will Le sess a remarkable similarity. Edch one roughly outlines an frregiiar triangle. from a harrow .top.- Each one comes to a peak 'and then stops» The attackers to press their drive further, is not a law of the limit of battle power which governs all such military movements forees of men and munitions, given time, bo drive would be checked. But where these clenients of success are strictiy-flmited-- and they are g such efforts all follow exactly the same course, and this leads to the conclusion that there cause for such wonderful similarity in effects. On the western frout. however, time Is fighting for the Aliigs, and the outpouring of America's manhood will soon settle the question of superiority of numbers . but the similarity of the areas covered THE CHANNEL TUNNEL IS A CERTAINTY its Constructi Will be the Earliest of AH Works of Peace. London, June 15---8ir Arthur Fell, chairman of the House of Commons Channel Tunnell Committee, said yes- terday that the future of London and of the whole country' depended upon the construction" between England A \ halt, natarally, is due tv the tunability of the leads to the question whether there All would atta their nithnnte objectives. rowing more so on each side fo this war -- and Wales the birth registered in 1913 number 881,890. In 1915 they fell to 814,614. In 1916 there was a further fall to 780,620, the &light- ness of the, fall from the previous year being due to the boom in marriages in 1916, when the number reached the record figure of 360.- 885. In 1917 the births registered fell to 668,346, a decline from the 1913 figure of 24 per cent. Up till now we had lost in England and Waleg in potential lives on the standard of 1913, 660,000, apd he thought it would be long befole the birthrate reached the figure obtain- ed before the war. Serious as this loss is to the ecom- ing generations in our country, he continued, there is reason to believe that we have suffered less, than the other belligerent nations in terms of percentages of loss on a prewar population. We may assume that Germany has lost, in potential lives, the equivalent of four to five per cent. of its total pre-war popula- tion, Austria 5 per cent ; Hungary, 7 per cent. > I think I may safely hazard the statement that the present war, bly the fall in births it has occasioned, has cost the belligerent countries of Europe not less than 123% million potential lives, while the war has filled graves it has emptied cradles, and every day the war continues means a loss of 7,000 potential lives in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the Central Empires. Race silicide among the European peoples on a most colossal scale has been the outstanding result of German militarism. INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH FACULTIES WANTED The Universities to be Asked Also to Establish Exchange Scholarships. KEY TO MAPS YPRES LINE. meant LINE SHOWING GERMAN DRIVE AY PARS AIG, ~~ noticed that they all pos- Bach one bulges out at the bottom Or course, with witibited must be some general BRITISH MAY GET THE NEXT BLOW Germans, Balked, May Strike Near Amiens Or in Flanders: Sector. - . Montreal, June 15. --Recomnien- dations will be made by' the Can- adian Industrial Reconstruction As- sociation to the varions Canadian Universities to establish faculties for industrial and scientific re- search. The executive committee of the association suggested this move ata meeting of the pareat body here and "of aah) way. He was confident that its construc- tion would be the earliest and great- est of all works of peace, which would be begun immediately the war was over; as the first monument to the enduring friendship with the im- mortal nation which for four years has been fighting by our side for the liberty' of the wenld. London had not yet appreciated what the tunnel would mean for it, nor how much its future as the greatest city of the old world would depend upon the completion of the work. If England's isolation continued after ths war some other capital would have to be found for the new era to which we looked forward. It might be" Paris, Vienna, or even Berlin or Brussels, but it must be the railway centre, to and from which would run the great world expresses to reach such railway centre. Passengers from the United States, Brazil, Argentina and other wealthy South American states would go direet to Cherbourg, Rotter- dam or Hamburg. London, without a tunnel, would thus be side track- ed because of its insular isolation. TRIBUTE FROM ENEMY Allusions To Rhondda's ments Forbidden. London, June 15.--London papers, referring, to the completion of the first year of Lord Rhondda's adminis- tration of the office of Food Control- ler, says: "The best tribute to the work is supplied by enemy sources. in order to continue the delusion of the people, who fondly imagine we are undergoing a process of starva- tion, has forbidden any allusion to the British Food Controller's notable &chievements. Prices have been es- tablished on a firm basis, and there no longer exists queues of people waiting in line for supplies. Ratiop- ing is working smoothly. If the popu- lations of the Central Powers were Achieve e executive commitiee also decided that a system of ex- change scholarships between the English universities outside of Que- bec and the universities in Quebec should be established. The desirability of getting into touch with western natural re- sources of their districts, with a view to the establishment of indus- ia) plants there, was also Approv- © FOE IS_ EVERYWHERE HELD 3: LATEST DRIVE WAS STOPPED IN FIVE DAYS, The Next Blow Is Expected to Fall On the British, Either in Front of Amiens Or In the Flanders Sec. tor, New York, June 5.--The. Associ- ated Press issues the following: German attacks on each side of the French salient between Montdidier and Soissons seem to have been de- finitely checked. Halted in their rush toward Complegne, and unable to outflank the French by their on- slaught southwest of Solssons, the enemy has apparently ceased his tactics which began last Sunday and for a time threatened the vital French pesitions, The latest German attempt to break through the French lines last- ed but five days before it reached thé phase of equilibrium which has marked the end of the critical per- fods in the Picardy, Flanders and Alsne drives, The Germans have been held north of the Aronde and Matz Rivers, to the west of the Oise. They have failed to make serious attacks against the new French positions east of that river. Southwest of Solssons they advanced approximately a mile) over a four-mile front, but their pro- gress was so slow that after the in- ception of the fighting little anxiety wag felt concerning future events in that region. The sectors farther south have been heavily bombarded by the enemy, but no further infantry attacks have been launched, Plans of Senator Nichols in re- gard to the development of export markets were endorsed. AMERICANS CAUGHT , BANKER OF BERLIN Germans Attempt to Retake Bouresches and Attack- ers Are Wiped Out. With the American Army on the Marne, June 15.--The Germans launched an attack against the Am. ericang in an attempt to retake the town of Bouresches. The attack followed a heavy artillery bombard- ment of our positions. But when the Americans found Germans in their town they poured from their shelters, and every, boche entering the town was either killed or cap- tured. Retaliating, the Americans took possession of the slope of the hil north of the town held by he Ger- mans and brought in forty-one pris oners, including one German eap- tain, who was formerly a Berlin hanker." This captain, with eight- een men, advanced toward the Am- ericans under a flag of truce and surrendered. One German explained the had tried twice before to surren- the Americans he was always shot at. : ------ -------- WHY POPE WAS EXCLUDED -- In Same Position As the Sovereign of Neutral State. London, June 15.--Lord Stan- ' { more, replying to a question in the 'House of Lords, said that there was evidently some idea that the Govern- ment had been wanting in respect 1and courtesy in the mafter of the Pope's note on peace. Nothing ald it was der, but when he advanced towards WOULD SCATTER Foc I ---- This is Objet of Lndeadorf! But fas Not Bech Success FOCH'S TASK MUCH EASIER SINCE LUDENDORFF HAS EX. POSED MANY OF HIS CARDS The German Commander Borrows Men From North -- At Least 800, 000. Already Identified at Noyon Front. London, June 15-Lieut.-Col. Rep-, ington writes: It certainly has been and is Ludendorfl's object to engage General Foch's reserves and cause them to become scattered. The on- emy boasts his success in this aim, but the same commander knows how to withdraw troops from less danger ous sectors to replace those which he may have expended in meeting at- | tacks, and it is early to boast that our generalissimo has nothing under his hand. The more that the enemy exposes his hand and the more troops, he shows the easier it becomes for the defender to take his precautions, and as Ludendorff has now exposed many of his cards and shown many of his troops, our generalissinio's task is easier than it was when all was in doubt. Whether, when all is ready again, the enemy will attack the 'British front or the French, or both at once, is an open question. He might elect to act defensively against one and of- fensively against the other, throwing his strength, naturally against this other. But what is apparently cer- tain is that he has still the four strong armies of vom Marwits, Otto von Buelow, von Quast and von Ar- nim in position between the sea and the Somme, and that they have had a long rest and must be ready to be- gin again. Enemy Calculations, The enemy calculates perhaps that jour reserves on the Amiens-A front have been weakened to m his attacks elsewhere, and it is not by any means proved that the Crown Prince will march off to the south- west before the northern German ar- mies have either attached or neu- tralized the British and their allies north of the Somme. There are, it is true, different ways of effecting this purpose, but certain- ly the scheme of March 21st may be resumed at any moment, and we will have to be prepared for it. The enemy does not keep four great armies north of the Somme for the purpose of remaining in- active when the hour for a great de- cision arrives. The same thing may be true of the German barnacled young fleet which has spent the best part of four years in evading a bat- tle which it could have had any day that it chope to seek it. Regard Future With Steady Eye. There are hard days in store for . the allies, as we all know, but the splendid example of Clemencests, the valor, of the French and Belgian troops, the calm confidence of ours, the assistance of our Italian and Portuguese allies and the fast grow- ing strength and proved prowess of our American comrades-in-arms are all assets which should make ua re- gard the future with steady eyes. The bed rock principle on which the allied campaign of 1918 {s based is endurance, until the American and British reserves of strength entér the field! and restore to us our lost in- itiative. We are not out to break onr armies for the sake of sport. If no politics intervene and we are not compelled to adopt strategy antago- nistic to 'the fundamental principles on which we are, or should be, act ing, then the ultimate success of our arms is assured. But ¥ will never forgive us if, at this eritical hour, we deviate from the principle and Lreak our armies or divide them by sacrificing essentials to scces- sories.