12 PAGES BE Pr a ro § YEAR 85: NO: 178 THE ALLIES COMMAND "WHOLE AREA NORTH Latest Advances in Marne Salient Turning Point of the Whole War--Germans Will Have to Retreat Beyond Vesle--- Ville-en-Tardenois Encircled. (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Aug. 2.--The ad western side of 'the centre of vance by the Allies along the the salient is described as ex- tremely important. possibly the most important thing the Allies have accomplished since the G The importance of the victory, and ren the whole area to the north- that the Allied positions ward and take in the flan whieh the Germans have been German reserves and field artillery. ermans retired from the Marne. it is explained, lies in the fact and rear entire western gate through This area is a nest of retiring. ] Goussancourt itself has been taken by the French, advices add. The capture of important g side of the line also means that retire in an ordinarily, leisurely y have to go beyond the river Vesle in their retreat. tion is considered extraordinar round on heights to the westerly the Germans will not be able to way and that they probably will The situa- ily good, being described in ad- vices as the turning point of the summer campaign and possibly _of the whole war. Allies Enclircle Ville-en-Tardenols. (Canadian Press Despatch.) 9 i Paris, Aug. 2.--On the .b French troops continued to pre ward Vesle, says to-day"s War . The important town of Vill side of the Marne salient, has forces. iii > attlefield north of the Marne ss back the Germans farther to- Office statement. e-en-Tardenois, on the easterly been encircled by the Allied Capture the Entire Ridge. (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Aug. 2.--Yesterda westerly side of the Marne sali and penetrated to a maximum to news received to-day. It re tire ridge, which forms the wa the Aisne, the advices indicate. entire Neijmiere wood on the li at about the centre of the salie A, ry i me prisoners were' 'by British patrols yes- terday in the neighborhood of Festu- bert. During. the night, English t thongs of Albert, capturing eighteen prisoners and a machine gun. Hos- , tile artillery has shown somewhat in- creased activity south of the Somme an south and has been ac tive also north of Bethune and on our front east of Hazebrouck. | ------ / French Continue ny Advance, h on 'he French: Pron ged J The French are continuing to advance ax deve tk Saaiona] corns ind wi 5 at va parts o e fron 'between Solssons and Rheims, The putty is resisting desperately, and Xe as Precarious, 3 Canadian ess Despatch) R Londen: Al P ~The position of the Germans the Alsne-Marne pocket is daily becoming more pre- carious. Last night's communication shows that the Allled grip on the neck of the salient is tightening. A Reuter despatch from French Head- quarters says General Mangin com- manded the Allied attack north of the Oureq. Its results were very In- teresting because it gives us views on the enemy's rear as far as Fismes and puts the Germans in the Har- tennes-Crofsy salient in a most awk- 'ward position, : Canadign Pr Ei _l a with the Wibrican Army, Rosy 2. a a hicks Hue; moved Y, witlle 6 armies a mit at 41 om Solssous fo along ® fan rom Soisso J pated. har salient. Their made almost without a withd 'during 'that Whey the A carried out a successful raid] y's Franco-British attack on the ent was on a front of five miles depth of three miles, according sulted in the-eapture of the en- tershed between the Oureq and The French also captured the ne to the north of Goussanecourt nt. mans with the greatest zeal and success. The towf of Hartennes< otTadx was occupled by the Allies, who also seized the wood lying to the south of this most important place. 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Op'n High: Low Aug. ... 166% 167% 156 Sept ... 167% 158% 157% Oct, .., 156% 168% 156 - Open High LL 69% 69% voi 68% 68% LL... 68% 6% "apn Low 69 68% 685 (Revolt In Turkestan. ---- | The Daily Be wo ae KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918. ------ re -- VOLUNTARY SYSTEM OF RATIONS Suggestions Made by Provinces to Be Prom: Ottawa, Aug. 2.--A system of vol- unteer rationing, suggested by the different provinces, will be promul- gated shortly by the Canada Food Board, it was stated here to-day. Some months ago the board asked the to make suggestions for such a sys- tem of rationing as they considered suitable In view of provincial condi- tions. Most of them replied and made recommendations which have been gone over by the board and with certain suggestions have been return- ed for fingd approval. When they come back they will be adopted Vy the board and promul- gated. The system proposed will have no element of compulsion about it, but will be wholly on the volun- tary basis, The New York Evening Post has been sold to Thomas W, Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Co., by Oswald Garri- son Villard and his fellow-stockhold- ers, ONLY FIGHTIN ON SMALL SCALE Mistake to Suppose That It Is a Tremes- dous Effort. THE FLAMBOYANT STORIES OF FIGHTING ON U, 8. FRONT ARE MISLEADING, hr-- And Give Rise To Misconception And Disappointment Because of the Little Headway Made--Attacks Are Small But Valuable. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 2.--Reuter's corres- pondent on the American front, tele- graphing on Thursday night says: "There may be some danger of misconception or disappointment arising from certain rather flamboy- ant accounts of the fighting on the Amerjcan front, since these give the impression of a tremendous effort with little headway, and the conclus- fon may be drawn that the director of Allled advance is finding a sue- cessful accomplishment beyond his means. Although no praise is too high for the way the Americans are fighting, that fighting is on a com- paratively small scale as things are measured on this front and does not suggest any hurry on the part of the Allied command to reach a particular destination. It the commander's purpose required speed, more guns would be needed, for by comparison with past fighting the present opera- tions might be almost called gunless 80 large has the role of infantry been. It' has been as bitter as possible, and the Americans have won imperish. able laurels in ft, but the scale of fighting would not entitle one to ex- bect greater progress from it or, in- deed, more than a mere folding up of ground. It would be a mistake to suppose that the tremendous struggle is' producing inadequate results, authorities of the various provinces | Who recently retingd from the Cane adian Car and Sundey Board as 8 protest aghinet the Hicks ertiat and Colonial Press photo. MAY MEAN RENEWAL OF PEACE OFFENSIVE | Kuehimann and Bethmann Hollweg are Reported to be in Holland. 2.---The German London, Aug Foreign Minister, von Kuehlmann, | pected and the former Chancellor, von Beth- mann-Hollweg, are rumored to have appeared in Holland, the Mail an- novnces, } | FOCK'S SHASH WAS WELL TIMED Leading German Correspondent Discusses Ganses of Crown Prince's Reverse. THE PREPARATION HIODEN FROM THE MOST CAREFUL AER- IAL OBSERVATION. Moment of Attack at Dawn Was Psy- chologically a Good Cholce--Un- easy Feeling In German Army, Amsterdam, Aug. 2.-.Dr. George Wegener of the Cologne Gazette, one of the best German war correspond- ents, has much that is Interesting to say in one of the longest and most complete messages, which has yet appeared in the German press from the front. He begins by admitting that, as the factor of surprise was lacking In the German offensive, the attack did not progress as was ex- He says: "When the German Command saw that, it immediately stopped the ad- vance, so as to avold sacrifices which The newspaper points out that this | Would not have been consistent with may possibly mean a renewal of the German peace offensive, in connec- tion with the new: open leiter of Lord Lansdowne. The morning papers are umnani- mougly unsympathetic with Lans- downe's attitude. The Northcliffe press severely denounces the letter. DELIVERED NEW STROKE. i | i | | his offensive at another point. what might have been achieved. At this vital moment the enemy began On that day I was on the east front of the wedge when the first news of the enemy's offensive. came. "Unquestionably, the first and not very definite news created a very un- easy feeling, as the attack was to The Allies Made a Decidedly Good [some extent in the rear of our posi- Move. {Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 2.----The Aulies de- livered a new stroke over a len, mile front between Buzancy an Seringes, four miles south of Solssons and horth of Fere en Tardenols, making considerable ad- vance and wiping out the elbow in| the line at Oulchy le Chateau. In the advance the French captur- ed six hundred prisoners. Allied observers report large bodies of Germans fleeing northward along the road leading from Lainoy, midway between Soissons-amwd Fere en Tardenois. Fighting continnes ont the western side of the Soissons- Rheims salient. Gen, Manguin, with French and British troops, is fighting a severe battle north of Oureq river dnd is making considerable progress. New Army Thrown In. London, Ang. 2.--A new German army; under General von: Eben, has been thrown into the Solssons- Rheims pocket. For the first ti this year the Allies' fresh reservés aré now strong- er numerically than those of the Ger- mans, although the German armies as a whole are still stronger in num- ers, : Cannot Stop The Revolt. London, Aug. 2.--Ukrainian peas- ants blew up a bridge south of Kiev, Austrian troops are unable to prevent the growing revolt, ---------- The Germans are using a new gas ------ having a white flame and smoke. Four long, weary, terrible years of war gre commemorated on August 4th, 1918. A traveller lately return- ed to Canada from England was ask- ed how England seemed. "He an- swered, "War has become a normal condition and England takes if as a matter of course." War a normal condition! Four years ago what should we have thought of that say- ing? 'War, we then believed, was al- ready outgrown by our gentler civil- ization, War was cruel and we had come to dread and abhor the sight of War was, too, the enemy of sound business, and for that, if for no other reason, would not do in our of vast commerce. War stirred deep and abiding hates and we talk- ed much of leagues to ensure peace unity of the nations. In ever part of the world Christian mission and a family unity for all But now we faced 'war, 'ove ~c vr 3 wn THE FOURTH OF AUGUST, 1918. | are to blame fot having been so ig- norant, so carele§s. For a generation German leaders kad been saying that the British Empire lay across Ger- many's path and must be destroyed. We thought these the words of dreamers and. discussed them light- ly. The German people, we said air- ily, were all right and would hold in check the plans of a few wild sol- diers. Now we Enow that the whole German people have been led astray by the foul teaching that it is the right of the strong to erush and rule the weak, that Germans are the only_ strong 'and that their strength gives them the sole right to rule. The German people are not all right, but all wrong. Only the bitterness of defeat will convince ¥| them that they have still to learn ements of the free culture of the world. At the end of the fourth year of the war we may well be humbled } tions. The wooded country on their front of attack gave our enmies the best opportunities to assemble mass- es of artillery and other necessaries of attack, together with their storm troops and to keep them concealed. "These preparations were hidden even from the most careful aerial ob- servation. The enemy has brought the art of camouflage to the very highest development, In that he was materially helped by the fact that he possessed greater supplies of nec- essary materials and of labor. In this respect, as in 30 many .others, mat- ters are much more difficult, "The moment of attack at dawn on July 18th was psychologically a good choice. It is only human that, with the coming of daylight, the tension which darkness produces should have ben relaxed, a feeling of greater se- curity should have taken its place, and the strained attention demanded during the night should have been involuntarily", decreased. Fatigue comes over the watching troops." War Tidings. At Havana, both houses passed a bill to send troops to France. On July 31st we brought down twenty-six airplanes; four of our ma- chines failed to retyrn, says a British report. The booty captured by the French in following up the German reat from the Marne included a large amount §f bridging materfals which the Germans had collected just to the north of the Marne, The Russian agreed that Livonia apd Bsthonia shall be separated from Russia. THE GERMANS PROVED THEMSELVES WRONG In Their Attempt to Justify Their Attacks on Canadian Hospital. London, Aug. 2.--In answer to a question in the House of Commons, James Ian MacPherson, Parliament- ary Secretary to the War Office, said he was aware thit the German Gov- ernment was attempting to stify the bombing of the hospital Eta- ples, France, on the night of May 19th, by alleging that the Red Cross was not displayed at the hospital Mr. MacPherson had seen in Ger- man newspapers photographs which were published with the intention of proving that the Red Cross sign at the hospital was not shown on May 21st, but existed in large numbers of May 27th, : "German photographs of this na ture are never conclusive," he said. 'kn any case, the hospital was again bombed on the night of May 31st in spite of the Red Cross signs which German evidence shows to have been in existence on May 27th." 5 X -- Government has} the prospects © supply of milk and meat are better EX-CZAR COLLAPSED | BEFORE RIFLE sQuap, He Had to be Propped Against Post, Says rman Newspaper. Amsterdam, Aug. 2.---Given two| hours in which, to prepare for the end, Nicholas Romanoff, former Rus- sian Emperor, was taken out by his executioners in a state of such eol- lapsé that it was necessary to prop: him against a post, says the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, which claims to have received from a high Russian personage an account of the ex-Czar's last hours, | Nicholas was awakened at five o'- cloek on the morning of the day of his execution by a patrol of a non- commissioned officer and six men. He was told to dress and was then taken to a room where the decision of the Soviet Council! was communicated to him. He was Informed the execu- tion would be carried out in two hours. The former Emperor, it is added, received the announcement of the sentence of death with great calm- ness. He returned to his bedroom and collapsed in a chair. After a few minutes he asked for a priest, with whom he was allowed to remain unattended. Subsequently he wrote several letters, * When the escort arrived to take him. to the place of execution, Nicho- las attemtped to rise from his chair but was not able. The priest and a soldier were obliged to help him get to his feet, The condemned man de- scended the stairs with difficulty and once he fell down. As he was unable to stand with- out support when the place of exe- cution was reached, he was propped against a post. He raised his hands and seemed to be trying to speak, but the rifles spoke and he fell dead. NO "JEREMIAHS" AROUND COBOURG Despite Labor Scarcity Crop Was Got In--Looks Like Bumper Harvest. ! Cobourg, Aug. 2.--There are no "Jeremiahs" at present among the farmers of this locality. Early in the spring there was considerable lamentation as to how the crop was to be got in, but most of the farmers managed it, notwithstand- ing the scarcity of labor, and it now looks as if they will be rewarded by a bumper harvest, the very best that there has been in years. Spring] sown grains, wheat, barley and oats are in head, and in some places partly ripened. The heads appear to be well filled out. Oats are the best ¢rop known In years, and field peas are splendid. It was comsider- ed that corn was only about half a crop, but it has improved very much the past two weeks. Pota- toes and field roots are 'looking well The haying is about over, and frain cutting will be under way next week, ~~ RUMANIA TOO EXCITED TO SPARE HUN TROOPS Enemy Needed There, Though Also Wanted on the West- ern Front. Paris, Aug. 2.--In well informed Rumanian circles in Paris it is said the German High Command has ask- ed the Commander of the German troops stationed in Rumania and in the Russian districts how many divis- fons can be released to be sent to the Western front, Field Marshal von Mackensen, the German Commander in Rumania, ac cording to a despatch to the Havas Agency from Berne, replied that it would be unsafe to remove any troops owing to the excited condition of the Rumanian peoplé, The despatch adds that von Mackensen has directed the Rumanian Goveriment, owing to up- rigings, to proclaim a state of siege throughout the country. THE KAISER'S BOAST But It Is Very Wide of the Mark of Truth, (Canadian Press Déspatch) Washington, Aug. 2.--U, 8. Navy Secretary Daniels sald that the Ger- man emperor's boast that the sub- marines were tenaciously attacking transports was untrue. (Not a trans port has been injured in crossing the Atlantic, Over. Amsterdam, Aug. 2.--The food erislg in Austria is almost over- come and presumably will never re- cur, says Food Minister Paul, ac- cording to the Neue Freie Presse of, Vienna, He says that harvest pro- spects are promising, and that the Siiuation, especially as to fodder, is that the of an autumn the previous year.|h 'Cattle have sufficlemy fodder so LAST EDITION LESS GRAIN OTE COL a : Montreal in July NOT HALF OF THE 4 AMOUNT CARRIED IN JULY LAST YEAR WAS RECORDED. » A-- There Was 58,781 Tons of Hard Coal Brought Down--Produce Showed ixcess Over 1917, Montreal, Aug. 2.---In the month of July cargo carried on the Lachine Canal showed a marked decrease on the whole as compared with the cors responding month in 1917. Less than half the amount of grain was carried, although, with the exception of eggs, more produce of other kinds was brought down. Coal also showed an increase, 9,620 more tons being brought down. In July, 1917, 2,998,061 bushels of grain were brought down by the lake vessels into Montreal. Last month, however, only 1,130,832 bus hels were brought, a decrease of 1, 657,119 bushels. Last year during the month of July 1,600,618 bushels of wheat came through to the city, but this year only 461,000 bushels arrived. Only 662,656 bushels of oats came down last month, as com- pared with 1,309,728 bushels during the corresponding period of last year. Barley showed an increase, 207,177 - bushels being carried last month, while 177,796 bushels were brought down in 1917. No flaxseed or buck- wheat came down the canal last month, During the months of May, June and July 4,817,767 less bushels of grain were brought down the Lachine Canal than during the same period last year. For the three months in 1917, 8,659,351 bushels were car- ried, while only 3,741,504 were car- ried this year. The coal carried down the Lachine Canal last month totalled 344,569 tons as against 335,089 tons during July, 1917. . Of this amount, 68,731 tons consisted of hard coal. DR. BRUCE TAYLOR . .. soe gf The Method of Voting at the Present Convention of the - G.W.V.A. Toronto, Aug. 2.--Indications point to a widening of the breach caused by the withdrawal of the Win- nipeg and Ottawa delegates from the G.W.V.A. convention, delegates are still in town, and fn fn- terviews backed up the official state- ment explaining their attitude in seceding because of the refusal of the convention to adopt their views on the voting principle involved. Some Westerners yesterday even 80 far as to say that the | might mean the formation of a new organization, and "we are content to stand alone if need be," added an- other delegate, ' Entire blame for the withdrawal of the Winnipeg and Ottawa dele- gates from the convention fis laid at the doer of Colonel D, F, Pidgeon by one of the members of the Do minion Executive of the Association. "I think that it would be unfair to change the method of voting at this convention," stated Dr. Bruée Taylor, president University, Kingston, proposed y might be all right for another year, but I think that it should be referred to the Constitutional Committee. The trouble is that every question that tomes up may be construed as a question of principle, and If we are dissatistied with the vote we wi be always leaving the convention." FLIES FROM FRANCE TO SIT IN PARLIAMENT Major-Gen, Davidson Made Use of Short Le London, Aug, 2.---Aecording Morning Post, Major-General son, who has been elected for Fareham Division in place of Lee, left General Headquarters France yesterday morning, cams England by airplane, motored is landing place to Westmd; y ¢ took the oath and sat in the House of Comuong a while, an ho bad six Then he went, back come, ; on d while