YEAR 85: NO. 171 -------- OF NATIONS Switzerland Feels 1t Its Duty to Advocate : Peace Plan. SAD PRESOENT ALNDR IN AN ADDRESS AT OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. -- Prof. Max Huber Has Been Asked to Prepare a Plan Which Will Then ' Gio To a Committee of Experts, Berne, Switzerland, July 24.--- Switzerland comsiders that its his- tory and its democratic character make is obligatory upon the little re- public to take up the problem of a soclety of nations, according 'to President Callonder, In an address to parliament at its opening the Presidest told the law- 'makers that the federal council has asked Prof. Max Huber to prepare a plan for a society of nations which will then be submitted to a com- mittee of experts, exmined by them and finally presented to the couneil and to parliament for action. 4 The federal council, the President added, will do 'what ig possible to- ward arbitration during the present conflict, but only in case both groups of belligerents are in accord with such a step. Such condition, the Swiss executive admits, is not easy of. realization, each belligerent party estimating in turn that this or that moment is right one, Neverthe less, the federal,couneil considers it its duty to neglect no step which may bring about international peace and concord, COL MASTERS RE. HOT THEY ENDORSED EVERY WORD OF DEALERS' COMPLAINTS, J. 8. McQueen, of the Steamer of Dresden, Was Forced Out of Turn Twice, Master's of coal vessels in Kingston harbor whea interviewed by the Whig on Wednesday morning, were just as waanimous fu their denuncia- tion of the alleged favoritism being shown in doling out coal at Oswego, N.Y., as they were in commendation of the attitude of the Whig in bring- ing the matter before the notice of the public. Ome and all they were red hot at the discrimination which they claim has been shdwn, and as there were a number of boats arrived on Wednesday morning the Whig had no difficulty In learnitgg'the opinions of the masters, 'Capt. J. 8. McQueen, of the steam- er City of en, which arrived from Oswego during the morning with a cargo of hard coal for KR. Crawford, endorsed every word in the article on day and told how he had been treated. He stated that he arrived with his boat in Oswego on Friday afternoon. 1--boats which were theré shead of him, in- cluding the Abbie L, Andrews from Kingston and some from other places were loaded in turn. But as soon as the Isabella H. arrived, he was forced d had to wait loaded. When apt. McQueen took up to the trestle ed, On Tues- to be de- lla Reid, Steamship itely loaded, Dresden had ke up her Lines, which was although. the City | only a few mare tons burden, She was 3d to wait while the Isabella 'R was loaded to receive the remainder of her CATED. | ; When Capt. M. Shaw, one of the best known mariners of Kingston and : master of the steamer Jex, was in- d of the treatment that had accorded to Capt. MeQueen, he stated that he thought the bad been lucky. He said been forced to wait ur or five days in Oswe- he bad always been giv- iwise from Toronto. St. Catherines | SCENE OF SOME HNCIROLED BY HUNS. * KINGSTON, ONTARI OF THE HEAVI 0, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1918. EST FIGHTING AGAINST THE GERMANS Small French Party Perishéd in Vil-| e. | . With the French Armies in the] Field, July 24.--The first day of the] German offensive, Commandant Georges Melletal, holding Baslieux (two miles north-west of Chatillon) wilh two companies, was encircled by the Germans. During the after-] noon he sent.a message back by ear- rier pigeon, telling of his plight, and giving the artillery valuable informa- tion, 'The little body of Frenchmen held off the Germans for seven hours. Then, knowing he was lost, Melleral sent a final message, asking that the French artillery be turned on the vil- lage, which the Germans were enter- ing: "Les Boches sont snr nous. Nous sommes perdus, mais nous avons fait de belle besogne. Fait feur sur la ville!" ("The Boches are upon us. 'We are lost, but we have done good 'work. Fire upon the village!") : @NEVILLY WILL NOT SELL OUT. Company to Run Line For Another Year. . Ottawa, July 24. --According to ad- vices which have been recived here, the negotiations between representa- tives of the , Government and the Grand Trunk directorate in London, 'have not been fruitful of any agree- ment looking to the purchase of the road on the state ownership principle, but an arrangement Is understood to have been reached whereby the com- pany will carry on for another year. SCALE Om MrrL ES AMERICANS AND GERMANS |) INBATTLE ON TWELVE (} MILE FRONT of a FEST VILLE EN TARDENOIS Ll CERNAN THRUSY TOWARD EPERNAY re 2 CHATILLON @ i) NTE! A he, PELE ve von Rr) STIGNY ETRE courTmELYillines ely LA CHAPELLE CROUND REGAINED OY AMERICANS AND SREANCH EE 4 FIsmes RRs Ne i > a ®BOUILL MARFAUX MOUNTAIN OF ™y RHEIMS >it ok Biber MAEM AN EPERNAY) 7 tw) AEF ' The directors of the Canadian Northern have not been appointed, pending negotiations with the Grand Trunk for buying out that line, but aspirants for the position are about as numerous as for senatorships, The appointments will probably go to those who are not particularly seek- ing them. The alove wag plcta back. with severe losses, NET TOTAL OF 4,771, Men Added to Army From July 1st to 1 Ottawd, July 24.--A net total of 4,771 men was added to the strength of the Canadian forces by the opera- tion of the Military Service Act or otherwise, in the period between the 1st and 15th of July, The enlistment aggregated 6,845, while the wastage in the same period was 2,074, leav- ing the net figures as stated, In the previous two weeks the recruits num- bered 7,608, and the wastage was 3,924, or a gain of 3,584. For the fortnight mentioned, the divisional enlistments were as fol- lows: London, 356; Toronto, 612; Kingston-Ottawa, 743. wa of Cages, MAY LOWER DRAFT Details Are Not Discosed--rPl Larger Mobilization Made After Legislators Convene. Washingtam, "July 24---Se Baker afnouiiced that on the WILL DISCUSS GRIEVANCES It the Striking Postmen Will Re- turn to Work. Toronto, July 24, --"*Phis will set- tle the strike," sald Mayor Church, as he showed a telegram just receiv- ed from Deputy. Postmaster-General R. 'M. Coulter, stating that a sub- committee of Council would be ap- pointed to discuss the grievances of the striking postmen immediately, providing the men return to work. Postmen Out at Many Places: (Canadian Press Despatch) Toronto, July 24.--There is 'so far no change reported in the post- men's strike from last night when men were out at Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Moose Jaw, Van- couver, Fort William, Port Arthur, Saskatoon and Peterboro. Brant- ford carriers decided. to strike at' noon to-day unless instructed other- tions plans for modifications draft ages and a "somewhat military mobilization." The plan concerns No annguncement was mad whether the draft ages are lowered or raisud, but it is that the prevailing judgment secretary's advisers is to lowe THE WORLD'S NEWS carriers walked out at 12.30 o'clock to-day. Way. Confedence This Afternoon. 'Ottawa, July 24.--The conference of the Government with the dele- gates of the Toronto letter carriers and others, which was to have tak- en place this morning, was postpon- ed till this afternoon on account of the absence of several parties owing to a misunderstanding as to the time of meeting. the Canadian Verdun, editors cease making candy forthwith has accepted a call to the mede Presbyterian church. No Porterhouse For Poodles. eer, claiming to be a son of Evanston, Ill, July 24.---Evanston went the Food Administration one better at the council meeting last night, by declaring that pet dogs may have no steaks at all for the duration of the war. Butchers are ordered mot to sell steaks to women who in- tend ty feed the meat to their pets. Every day is to be steakless day for Evanston's vanine population, whe- ther the dog be of aristocratic and blue ribbon-winniing lineage, or just plain "dog." Navy Passed Million Mark. . Washington, July 24.--The enlist- ed personnel of the navy has passed the half-million mark, the Secretary of the Navy, Mn. Daniels, announced to-day, The total strength of the navy's armed forces is 503,792. The national naval volunteers, comprising nearly fifteen thousand men, have been combined with the naval reserve Brockville, Senator J. S. McLennan, Syd rived at Halifax on Tuesday, ing from. overseas. Predident Wilson has, by Buzzard's Bay, Mass. The list of cases is very and morning. about thirty-seven leaders in the disorders of tion day In Beauce and Mon counties. » Major J, C. Weir, an old man and Fenian Rald vete w Secretary Baker Frames 2 Programme For FAVOR YOUNGER MEN FOR AC- TIVE MILITARY WORK. veuning of Congress he would present with his request for new appropria- the mobiliz- ation of a Huge American army, prob- ably upward ot 5,000,000 men. IN 'BRIEF FORM Tidings From All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed A despatch from Paris states that are visiting The Canada Food Board ordered the Union Confectionery, Calgary, to Rev. D. 1. Ellison, of Fort William, Mt. El- lison is a graduate of Knox College, Charles Cetewago, a mining engin- mous Zulu King, died in hospital at Hon. A. B. Calder and party and Re, ar- turn- mation, assumed control of the Cape Cod Canal connecting Cape Cod and A serious outbreak of typhoid has occurred in Berlin, caused, it is lieved, by poisoned or unclean nfilk. Snow fell in Calgary Tuesday af- ternoon following rain in 'the night At "Edmonton Dominion Police have rounded up of the alleged registra- saagny twenty-one years Secretary-Treasurer| - tes the IN A A iD PAN ASK_ FOR ARNY OF e500 00 NE AGE an For Public cretary t Tr a econ a of the larger e as to to be known of the r them. t battlefield of the started thelr present drive that the Americans took the initiative, and, assisted by the French, drove the enemy nounced in a public President Wilson bably before the end of the. week. be themselves and the which will be sent part of the programme of economic hi preseut moment. It was uot' long after the Germans Peace Proposals - Made To Spain (Canadian Press Despatoh.) Amsterdam, July 24.-- Germany has made sug- estions for a peace con=- erence to the Spanish government, says the so- Clalit Vorwaerts of Ber- n. : ARIPO aa MOTIVE UNSELFISH IN INTERVENTION President to Announce Expedi- tion Is to Ald Russian ' Democracy. Washington, July 24.--Plans of he United States for participation Ii, the 'expedition "to" give military id to Russia are expected to be an- statement by very. soon, pro- The statement, it is understood, will be very explicit, making clear the na ed, Staiés~has, only unselfish motives, and intends to stand firmly beside the Rmussian people in their fight for a democracy. re of the aid to be extend- d declares that the United The sending of conomic- aid also will be announc- ed in the statement, but the person: nel of the will not be. commission probably Plans for the military expedition, which 1s [to be conducted jointly by the United States and Japan, Great Britain and France, it is under- tood, do not at this time contem- plate the reconstruction of the east- ern front as a battle line to draw German troops from the west. Mhe objects of the expedition will to protect American interests, he interests of the Russian people vast supplies to Russia as - ald. Runny- I the fa- procla- the ring- militia- prevalence of "Spanish grippe" municipality has forbidden, penalty of 5,000 fréancs or months' ances im theatres, picture houses, music halls, concerts or meetings of any kind, including religious cere- monies, FORBID CATHERINGS. cy bs ---- wrne Takes Radical Steps to Stamp Out sh Grippe. J 24 --Owing' tt, the the ander three perform- Berne, July . imprisonment,' until further orders. FORM OF DEATH. Emperor Dead Also. Despatch) y 24.-- Alexis ANOTHER Amste) : Romanoff, the former heir appar- ent to the Russian from exposure a few days after his father, the former em executed, says a despatch from Mos- cow to the Berlin Lokal Anseiger. throne, - died was . STIFF FIGHTS OVER M.S. ACT Military Police Have Had Lively Resistance 10 Their Work. HELD UP BY ARMED NEN THEIR AUTOMOBILES - HAVE BEEN BADLY DAMAGED Personally Attacked in Many Instan- ces--Draftee Drowned in Endeav- oring to Escape. 3 -Qttawa, July 24.--Oficers of. the military sérvice police; who = have béen searching the woods in the Gati- neau district for draftees are being subjected to a reign of terror. They have been held up by armed men and their automobiles have been dam- aged. In some cases they have met with pérsonal violence, and one draf- tee, in endeavoring to effect his es- cape at Thirty-One-Mile-Lake, was drowned on Thursday last, when a ¢anoe in which®e had embarked eap- sized. This is the story brought to Ot- tawa by a party of the military po- lice officers whe have just returned with some prisoners, and serves to illustrate the opposition with which they are meeting in their attempts to rounds up the draft evaders, who were hiding in the woods. On Saturday night, a party of Sour officers in an auto were searching a pool room at Gracefifeld for two men who were believed to be draft-evad- ers. When they had completed their investigation and got back in the ¢ar, they found it had been tampered with. Some one in their absencé had cut all the wire circuits and théy had] to start the journey at a slow speed. They had not gone before the car came to a stop and they found that their gasoline tank had been emptied, The drowning occurred at Thirty- One Mile Lake on Thursday after- noon, when the party was chasing a tuun named Honore Chatigny. They had captured his brother thé day previous, hiding near Point Comfort and came upon him near the lake. He took to the bush, the officers af- ter him, and got out on the lake in a canoe, Either he lost his balance or else struck an obstruction in the water as the canoe capsized and he was not seen again. That he was drowned is verified by a hotel 'pro- prietor near the lake. 3 CP.R's, Best Price of Year. an Pacific sold at a new "high price for the year of 150 3-4 at New York of dema {GERMANS PLANNED TO INVADE CANADA | executed In a most skilful manner. Crtien Prines's Temerves Apparent "ipletion. She was returning to Am- Teuton Plotters in U. 8 Had Big Scheme to Cripple Des~ patch of Troops. New York, July 24.--That Teuton conspirators planned, even after this country's entrance into the war, to use German reservists to invade Canada and Mexico, is indicatéd in the seized correspondence of Dr. Frederick August Richard yon Strehsch, officials of the Depart- ment of Justice declared Von Strensch when arrested recently, was described by the officials as a former protege of Bismarck. To-day he was described as a relitive of the German Emperor. The objeets of the proposed in- vasions, according to the authori- ties, were to hamper the despatch of Canadian troops abroad and to join armed Mexicans for the pur- pose of making an attack upon the United States. Federal officials believe that Al- exandra Varda, better known as the Countess von Sscheele, was the author of letters signed "L" which were found in the belongings of von Strensch. The woman was arrested shortly after von Strench"s appre- hension last week, In there letiers were sentences indicating That bE- tween November, 1915, and April 20th, 1917, plots were in existence for 25,000 German reservists te cross from Buffalo, N.Y., to Bridge- burg, Ont., and for 100,000 Germans to enter Mexico at unnamed peints along the Rio Grande. BRITISH IN LINES THEY HELD IN MAY Willie's Call For Help Was An- swered--Picked British Troops Received Shock Paris, July 24.--When the Ba- varian' Crown Prince answered the German Crown Prinve's appeal for help and sent some of his divisions from the Picardy front to aid the Germans in the Marne salient an equal mumber of British divisions was detached from the - northern front and moved to the battle see- tor south-west of Rheims. The British divisions are composed of picked troops. It is interesting to note that- the British divisions on the front south~ west®of Rheims have again taken the Same place in the battle order 'which the British occupied when driven back in the May offensive. Their transport from the British front to the Champagne front was GERMANS LEFT 45 GUNS. Princes Nuserves Apparont: London, July un: dow, Germans left firty<five guns on the south bank of the Marne. " Fifty-four enemy divisions have been positively identified on this battlefront, whereof twenty-one were between the Aisme and the Marne and thirty-three on the other sections of the front. It is believ- ed more are behind, bringing the total to sixty-five or seventy. It is thought, therefore, the Crown Prince's reserves must be running low, STEFANSSON'S PLAN. Explorer Expects 40 Lecture in' Ald of TOSS. July = 24.---Vilj- Red C Nome, Alaska, halmar Stefansson, Canadian Arc- tic explorer, now at Fort Yukon, is planning to go on a lectire tour this fall for the benefit of the Red Cross, aceprding to. a telegram re- ceived here. Stefansson is in a Fort Yukon hospital recovering from -iilness contracted at Herschel Island early this year. He hopes to come to IND CODNTER-ATTACKING THE VESLE RIVER. French Captured Three Villages In the Somme Region Along With 1,500 Prisoners And Much War Material---Airmen Were Very Ac- tive, Longman Phe iho cons tinued yesterday to "tighten their vise-like grip on the German salient around the curving line from Sofi- sons to Rheims. The enemy's resis- tance is increasing as he gets his ar- Hillery into position. The Germans are constantly counter-attacking on teau Thierry salient and on the Marne and fighting with desperation. The Germans are gradually re- tiring from the Solssons-Chatesn Thierry-Rheims salient to the Vesie niver, but are fighting desperately. The French took three villages yesterday in the Somme région to- gether with fifteen hundred prison- ers and war material French and British airmen brought down thirty-seven airplanes and four captive balloons yesterday and drop-~ ped a number of bombs with good effect, : How Germans Tell It, Amsterdam, July 24.--The Gér- man public is being told by all German military experts that Allies' ambitious attempt to break through which, in Baron von Arden ne's words, "'might have caused a decisive change in the: military situa. tion on the west front," has failed because of the famous German sys- tem of an elastic defence, 4 It is explained that the enemy oaly ohtained initial successes, dune to the fact that General von Boehm' right flank of twenty-five miles was not strongly held and. that r strength lay on the easte |Ardenne's ady onierfy and 8 esos cornerstones of the German ance hand that the former has been Yost to the foe, "who was atded by ) considerable Ameriean forces." : The Wolff Bureau's correspondsnt at the front does not fail to dwell on the "excessively severe lossses fered by the Americans. Those loseses, he says, were due to the Am. ericans being mixed for the first time with "savages and niggers," instesd of with white French troops as here- tofore. He says: a "At many points mountains of Am- erican dead lie in front of our posi- tions." : he SBA ------ Stopped 3 Paris, JUly 24 The Gormans last night delivered a counter-attack u the Allied lines in the wiéinity of Vri- gny, five miles southwest of Rheims. The War ' Office ananouaded to-day that the attack had been: There was activity by the Nome in August on his way out. RAIDS CARRIED OUT, And the British Were Able to Take! : Priso = x ners. Canadian Press Despatch) on, July 24.---Raids 'were carried it by British troops lasi night in "the region south of Buc- quoy and north-wést of Albert, says to-day's War Office reports. A few prisoners were taken. A German raid on the British lines north-east of Bethune on the Flanders fromt was repulsed. * OUNARDER TORPEDOED. There Was-No Loss of Life--Used Z Ay (Canadian An Dei teh) Irish Port, July 24 ---The any loss of life. She was built for a Dutch Mne, but was taken over by the British Government before com- erica f , artillery during 'the night along the front be- tween the Aisne and the Marne and northeast toward Rheims, -- ' War Tidings, ~ A Belgian relief steamer Raised an Atlantic port in tow of tug eastward with smoke stack missing on Tuesday. She is though io have had an encounter with a sul e. War Office reports fans are continuing their advance in Albania. They have captured 1 $00. The Fre troops are a pushing forward. 3 German raider is reported cruising off the Mexiean coast, The Italians are still pushing ahead in Albania on Tuesday. Six hundred prisoners were taken, . . a ARMY FOR UKRAINE. 1500 -- 3 to a Kiev despatch received the first step has been taken In the Tn esent 8, ; Ee 18 and 28 will FETs tess rerteie a ARE GRADUALLY RETIRING TO the west side of the Solssons-Cha- the the says the Ital A ; ha coming . m, y # : ; here, service three. The levy will oceur | July 51. ad