12 PAGES The Daily Briti AA PAGES 18 LAST EDITION KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 238, 1918. YEAR 85: NO. 196 : tack against German positions in the Vosges. 3 Austrian losses on the British front in Italy between June 15th and August 15th were 20,000. British casualties in the same period total- led 2,600. The Allied armies have taken more than 100,000 prisoners since July 18th, says Marcel Hutin in the Echo |Disaster Threatens | ~~ 4 CENTURY. OF WHALES STRANDED BY. STORM BING. FORCES SOMERS TAKEN AT ALBERT (Canadian Press Despatch) New York, Aug. 22.--The Associated Press this after- naon issued the following: BOOT GERMANS The British Wrest Important Terrain From the Kaiser's Army. GEN. FOCH DOES NOT WAT FOR THE EVACUATION OF THE SOMME BATTLEFIELD, But Goes Right at the Huns--77,000 of the Enemy Forces Were Ene gaged in the Defeat. + On the British Front, Aug. 23.-- Along the front in northern Picardy the battle, which seems lo be one of the great- est of the war, has developed. Disaster is reported to be thgeatening the whole German army on this front and the Germans are throwing great masses of men into the strug- tide of battle which dispatches from British headquarters say is settling against them. Victorious British. (Canadian Press Despatch) Wilh British in France, Aug. gle in the hope of ¢hecking the| There are stretched on the beac near River John, Pictou county,» one de Paris, In the past forty-eight hours the French have taken more than 15,000 prisoners and a vast quantity of ma- terial, including thousands of ma- Ghine guns and hundreds of cannon. The Norwegian steamer San Jose, bound for New York, and another bound for Norway loaded with food, have been sunk by submarines in the Atlantic. The Russian Bolsheviki having declared a state of war to exist be- tween the United States and Rus- sla, VicedConsul Imbrie at Petro- grad lowered the .American flag on the consulate and turned the arch- ives over to the Norwegian repre- sentative. Whea the British Captured That Important Tom. 0 Ths, THEENEMY 1S RETREATING BETWEEN ALBERT AND BRAY. : SUR-SOMME. The Fritish Hammering Them Hard Five Thousand Prisoners Taken by the British in 'wo Days. (Canadian Press Despateh) With the British Army in France, Aug. 23.--~In capturing Albert yea terday the British took fourteen huus dred prisoners and a few guns. The British have taken five thousand pri- The WILL BE HEAVY CROPS IN NEW ONTARIO The Government Farm at Kap- black fish, which have been stranded there. The largest weigh from half a ton to a 0 from ten to thirty-five feet. They reached River John a week ago Saturday i the north, and got into shallow water, where the receding tide left them stranded whales were found at Restigouche, some miles further north than River lobe > For the second time in less than a fortnight, the British have wrested a large piece of vitally important tor- ritory from the enemy and have giv- 23.--The British victorious advance continued this after- noon with the capture of the towns of Ciegnolles, Merle- coming from agd dry oa tos Seach Four - ~ en him a gevere beating. Two weeks ago it was General Rawlinson's Fourth Army which achieved one of the notahle successes of the war. Yesterday it was Sir Julian Byng's Third. Army which attacked with marked success. All of the first objectives have been taken and the British are well beyond some of these points. Ap- proximately five and one-half Boche divisions (about 77,000 men; are involved in thig defeat. There has not been the slightest doubt that the enemy's recent. eva- cuation of a considerable portion of the Somme battlefield territory, be- {wean Albert and Arras, had behind t intention of evidently giving up 'most of this devastated area to the British during the winter. Marshal Foch waited for no such git and the Third Army has show- ed the enemy he could be booted out at heavy cost to himself, Ejectment a Surprise, The ejectment was a taotical sur- prise above all else. Certain it is that the Germans expected no such holocaust of shell-fire and no such infantry atacks as those which swept suddenly and relentlessly across their trenches in this area this morn- fing in the big thrust toward Ba- paume. The enemy quickly lost one of his key ppsitions in the town of Buequoy. i There was no such hilarity among the prisoners to-day as among those takencio the.victory of two weeks ago. The men captured now seemed & strangely assorted lot. Many were lads under 19 and well set up. This indicated that Ludendorff is poss- ibly throwing in units of the 1920 class, ag captured German docu- ments and statements of prisoners recently told he would do in August. With the boys were burly, sour-vis- aged Prussians and Bavarians of ripe years, some with ironsgray hair. : The "Leaning Virgin." The capture of Albert is particul- arly gratifying news. It is situated on the Ancre River, and is a railroad centre: Before the war / it" hag a population of more than seven thou- sahd. It was at Albert that for more than three years the famous "Leaning Virgin" hung from the top of the cathedral. The base of lhe statue of the Virgin, which was surmounted by the spire, was hit by a German shell while the town was under a heavy bombardment in August, 1914, and the image toppl over. It did not fall from its pedestal how- ever, but hung in & horizontal \posi- tion until April of the present year, 'when a German shell again. struck the statue and seat it crashing to the round. There has been a legend in France that when the statue fell the war would end. A Belgian woman who was recent- ly attended by a German doctor at the birth of a child, expressed the hope 'of repaying him some day. The doctor, according to the story, re- plied that he had repaid himself by blinding the child tor life. Military establishments at Frank- fort and Cologne, as well as other important German towns, were bomb- ed and severely damaged with heavy ties in recent raiding by the Employees of the Sarnia Straat way are demanding gh fixe cout 1 RBG our over the presen rate of thirty cents. CL ae ---------- » | ville, Gommeecourt (which is the key to German positions), and other points with more than a thousand prisoners and many guns. Happy Valley to the north of Bray, was taken by Field Marshal Haig's troops after hard fighting, =~ Three German battalion headquar- ters have been taken in the lo- cality of Happy Valley. A num- of new fresh divisions have been identified. They were rushed up in the hope of saving something from the disaster which threatens the whole German army on this front. SIR ROBERT BORDEN HAS ARRIVED BACK He Praises the Good Work 'Done by Canadian and American Troops. (Canadian Press Despatch) An Atlantic Port, Aug, 23.---Sir Robert L. Borden, Premier of Can- ada, arrived (to-day after being ten weeks abroad, during which he at- tended the Imperial war conference and visited the battlefront. He was in excellent health and enjoyed an uneventful voyage. Incluaea in tne party were Hon. C.:S8. Megburn, 'Minister of Militia, and Hon. €. C. Ballantyne, Minister of Naval Ser- vice. ; ™ The Premier, in a statement, said that since May 24th of this year over one milHon American troops had safely crossed to France. He was en- thusiastic in praising the physique and magnificent fighting qualities displayed by these Americans. The Canadians, he said, had done magni- ficently in the recent battle, taking ten thousand prisoners and 150 guns in their forward drive. Sir Robert dwelt on the united ac- tion of the United States and - the other Allies in fighting till the spell with which German militarists have bound the German people is broken. The victories of the past four weeks would not have been possible except for American divisions which have taken their place in the battle line, said the Premier. TWO GANANOQUE MEN KILLED IN ACTION Pte. James PiYon and Donald E. Turner Fall in the Big Offensive. (Special to the Whig.) Gananoque, Aug! 23.--Ganano- que's casualty list has grown consid- erably during the past few ' days, John B. Turner received notification from Ottawa yesterday morning that his 'youngest som, Pte. Donald Erie Turner, had been killed in action. Thomas Flynn has also received word that his son, Pte. James Flynn has beep killed in action. Among those wounded and admitted to hospital e Ptes. Alfred G. Pullaw, Cecil wiley, J. A, Pelow and J. Good: friend, the latter a resident of Howe Island. Mr. Woodcock has also been notified that his brother, Pte, Wood- cock, Is missing, / A BRITISH AIRPLANE CARRIES PASSENGERS Made the Journey From Inter lor of France to Interior of Eng -- (Canadian Pras Despaich) London, Aug. 23.---A big British airplane, carrying its crew and nine passengers, has made the trip from *| France to England, it is announced , ete, Only twelve # missing or prison- 3 here... The whole journey from an airdrome in the interior of France to one in the interior of England ocen- pled but a little over half an hour. The test'was made under routine con- ditions with an ordinary service air- plane of the largest type. The pas- sengers carried a normal amount of 3 | baggage, as they would it they bad rT Taken: Adlies travelled by train and boat. « ALLIED POWER 1S INCREASING As That -of the Foc Decreases on the Westen Front. WOE RETREAT FORECAST FIRST STE" IN RETROGRADE MOVEMENT IN PROGRESS. It is Not Likely That There Will be Any Let-up by Foch in Operations During the Winter, By Gen. J. M. G, Malleterre, > Paris, Aug. 23.=-<Pressure con- tinues to be exercised on the whole front of the attack between Albert and Rheims. Nevertheless we notice that the German high command, for the time being, remains on the de. fensive only and reacts merely by local counter attacks. It seems logical to conclude tha' the enemy is preparing a new posi- Adon north-of the Somme and the Aisne, and at present is simply try- ing to delay the advance of the Allied troous so as to evacuate ' territory slowly enough to save war material and supplies. The formation of General von Boehm's army in the Oise region be- tween the army groups of the two crown princes seems symptomatic. Von Boehm will bear the brunt of the fighting until Ludendorff shall have regrouped his dislocated and decimated divisions and shall have drawn up new plans. It is reported that the crown prince of Bavarid is at Munich, resting. As for the Ger- man crown prince the people in Ber- lin content themselves with cartoon- ing him. Allies Master Situation. The reoccupation of "Little Swit- zerland," between <Compiegne and Noyon, is a gign that the Allied high command is still master of its move- ment. The lull on the banks of the Vesle is perhaps but temporary, No- where are we losing contact with the German troops. They cannot retreat or escape without being immediate- ly hindered. That situation is what must be hampering Ludendorff"s plans. It he has intentions to start a new of- fensive before autumn either on ae- count of a halt by the Allies or for the moral comfort of the German people, he must first retire as did Hindenburg in March. All his old projocts are jeopardized. Marshal Foch is maintained and there is every promise of its continu- ance, for the Allied strength will probably be increased monthly by the arrival of 300,000 Americans and an engrmous quantity of waf material. No Let-up During Winter. It may also be supposed that this wear there will be ng let up in opera- tions for the winter. ILadendortf should not count upon winter quart- ers tg rest and reform his effectives. Marshal Foch and his great lieuten- ants, Petain, Haig and Pershing, will not let him escape. It would take very unfavorably atmospheric condi- tiong to hold them back. [Besides the Alled soldiers are buoyant with a desire to finish the job quickly, with the certainty of vietory. We can therefore, reckon that fi an energetic rear guard battle, Hindenburg will oblige Ladendorf to withdraw to a new Hindenburg line. Perhaps this re- tirement will go as far as the old line; perhaps it may be carried fur- The ascendancy of his adversary, | CANADIANS PUT OVER BIG SURPRISE PACKET Keep Up Their Practice of Taking All Objectives on Time. With the Canadian Army in the Field, via London, Aug. 23.--Speak= ing on Wednesday's victory, Sir Ar- {thur Currie, commander of the Can- adian forces, said to the Canadian Press: "The Canadians have kept up to- day our old practice of taking all our objectives, and taking them on time. When the full reports for the day come in, we expect to have pene- trated the Boohe defences 14,000 yards, We attacked on just-as wide a front as at Vimy Ridge, and we have come three times as far with the whole division as any single division was able to penetrate, whilé we have taken more guns and more prisoners than at Vimy. Our whole attack came as a surprise for the Boche," Sir Arthur Currie continued. "Altogether, it was 'the biggest surprise packet the Canadian forces ever put over. Many of the Bochos threw up their hands as soon ws they realized they were up against the Ca- nadians. - As our men J .aped down into their trenches, they carried with them ¢ slogan, ' 'Remember the Llande* ry Castle,' and with that on their Lips chey were not to be denied. The Boche dead were never so thick on any of our battlefields €§ thers, but our own casualties were very Hght. All the Boche guns captured were turned round and promptly manned by our gunners, and now are shooting at the enemy, Everybody is very happy. The force has never been in such good shape for.a fight. It is well trained, wel organized, and, thanks to the measures taken by the Ottawa Government, is up to strength, with sufficient reinforce- ments on the ground to replace all casualties, Tell the Canadian people We got the Boche to-diy where we want him, and intend keeping ° him there." : + 2 PLANNING BIG RETREAT. # '(Canadian Press Despatch.) P London, Aug. 23.--There is # no definite information, but it % Is believed in London among ex- % perts that the Germans are pre- + paring for a withdrawal on a + huge scale. v SEPP PEP PEPE E ET EP Eh Db pp dbd Will Return War Profits, Detroit," Aug. 23.--Henry Ford, through his 'private secretary, an- nounced to-day that he would return to the United States Government all the profits he personally makes on war contract work. He added that he expected a number of other stock- holders of the Ford Motor Company would follow his example, SEE IIe bebe ba ALLIES DAMAGE SIX HUN ARMES And the British Arc Now Chewing Up the Seventh. FOC VARES THE DANES IS CAUSING THE ENEMY IRREPLAOCABLE LOSSES. AND Forcing the German High Command to Expend His Effectives Out of All Proportion to His Resources. Paris, Aug. 28.--The Allies have damaged six German armies since July 15th, and 'the British dre now eating 'into the seventh, with the spread of the battle north-ward, and over a front of seventy miles. Whe- ther the enemy Js prepared or un- prepared Allied 'éfforts have had the same Tesults and the Germans have been outgenermplled and outfought. The armies attacked and damaged » RAT eu a rt a A TR X in the past six weeks have heen those of Generals Von Elnem, Von Mudra, Von Bethm; Von Eben, Von Hutier and Von Der Marwitz. | The full designs of Marshal Foch are known only to himself and pes- haps ome or two others, but it is be- lieved 'generally that his aim is not, as the Germans claim, to plerce their Hine, hut to strike a succession, of blows top cause the enemy irreplac- able losses in men and material and to force him to make more or less disastrous retreats. If that be the marshal's plan, he 18 pursuing it witi skill and unvarying success. General Ludendorf! is being forced to expend his effectives out of all proportion to his resources ona given sector of the front, after which another blow is struck home on another sector. At no place have the Germans appar- ently been strong enough to check the attack entirely, i Sm -- ~~ War Ss. French troops have crossed Ailette between Guny and Champs, north of"Coucy-Le-Chateau, and have reached the Oise Canal, between Vernnes and Norlincourt. A sudden attack of the P®nch caused a panic among the German reserves. A regiment of United States regu- lars have arrived at Vladivostok from Manila. General Mangin's men are proaching Coucy forest and nearly on the line held in April. Czecho-Slovak troops in France have participated in a successful at- the ap- are = ¢ (Canadian Press Despaten) New York, Aug. 20.--The Asso- | clated Press to-day issues the fol- lowing: 'The British and Gers armies are locked in a mighty front from Lihong, six miles south LOCKED IN MIGHTY BATTLE, BRITISH ARE AGGRES: The Combat Between British and German Armies Into One of Greatest of Allied Offensives : In Picardy. A tle to-day over a twenty-five . mile |St Marq - Has Spread southern banks of the Oise and the Allette between Se guy, south of Noyon, tocthe railroad bridge west of. Courcy-fie<Chateau. South of Courcy-Le-Chateau they have reach- ed the outskirts of Guay and Pont- X . This progress brings thew still farther toward the rear of the an forees holding the hills north of Soissons and within three miles of the German positions north of Chemin Des Dames, as they stcod Feither party in t uskasing Yielding 44 Bushels to the Acre. b: Toronto, Aug. 23.--Returned sol- diers who have located in Northern Ontarie under the soldiers' settle- ment scheme of the Ontario Govern- ment are seeing wonderful sights, now that the crops of that part of the country are being harvested - Record crops are being gathered frei the Dominion ";overnment Exper mental Farm at Kapuskasing, which just je across a river from their own farms. {a Col. Innes, who 4g in charge of}p the settlement work, .has returned t from the north, and he states that on! the Government {arm there is feur- foot wheat, which is yielding forty- four bushels to the acre. This is in marked contrast to the average yield of about twenty bushels to the |g acre in the older part of the pro-|n vince, There is rye over six feet high, | i and the average is over five feet. Hay | a is yielding two and a half to three tons to the acre, which is consider ably better than the hay crop in this|e part of Ontario, Department of Agri- culture officials say. a This fall Col. Innes hopes to have lo 500 acres of land on the solders'|n farms plowed. This will be the ten |m acres of cleared land on fifty farms. |P It is also the intention to plow one hundred acres on the community farm at Kapuskasing. This year ony thirty-five acres were under crop. DR. BELAND REFUSES "+ "70 ENTER POLITICS Will Give Government Full Support on All War Measures. e 0 e h Ottawa, Aug. 23. --intimate friends here of Hon. Dr.- Beland state that the ex-Postmaster-General has for ths present at least no intention of g actively entering political life either] as a member of the Government or.as |g an Opposition member behind Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Dr. Beland, it is un- derstood, was sought by 'the Rrime Minister as a Cabinet colleague to give the French-speaking population]s. of Canada representation in the Ca- binet ranks in the Commons. Sim- flarly his prestige. and popularity throughout Canada were sought to be secured for the Opposition following in Parliament. It is now stated, however, that Dr. Beland is averse to aligning himself actively with Commons or to as-1 T sume the respoMuibilities of political leadership. The effects of his long imprisonment in Germany under pe- culiarly distressing conditions incline him towards some months of restful recuperation before resuming any of- n a a soners in the past two days. Germans are retreating between Al- soners taken. which is unprecedented od their lines during the night Guny and Pont St. Ma of the Ailette river. ert and Bray-SurSomme, and the British are hammering them hard. The British have made a gain of two miles on a six-mile front.» The battle morth of the Anere rive r raged furiously throughout yes terday, and the British troops, after vercoming the most desperate en- my resistance, are holding virtually Il the Arras-Albert railroad ew- ankment on the northern half of he battlefront, and even have es- tablished posts well to the east. Most Desperate Fighting. There has been the same sort of esperate fighting in front of Mirau~ ont, where the Germans for a time 1anaged to withstand assault after ssault, but here also they have guf- fered great losses. Beauregard and Dovecote appar- ntly are mow held by the British. South of here the British also held section of the rallway. Every inch f the railway embankment in the orth has been fought for, the Ger- 1ans regarding this as the most im« ortant position of the battlefront. The Germans seem to be rushing troops into action In the Bapaume region. road north from @Peronne was filled with transports, while the road be- tween Bapaume and Bihucourt was congested with troops parts travelling morth-west. ' mms---- Entente airmen said ' the and trans. German Ranks The German ranks are so deplet- d that in many instances the Allles ave met German companies contain- } ing less than seventy men. Referring to the advance which the Allies have made'during the past month east of 'Amiens, it Is stated in London that this ground has been ained at a smaller cost tham any ictory in the whole history of the ighting on 'the western front. The umber of Allied casualties is actu- lly less than the numbers of pri- This is a situation in a large cale battle, ol ' Further French (Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, Aug, 23.---Between the Olse nd the Aisne, French troops advance to rd, just south They hold the ight banks of the Olse and the All- ette from Sempigny to the railroad west of Coucy-Le-Chateau. British Still Advancing. (Canadian I'ress Despaichy London, Aug. 23.--The battle is line between ficial public work of special respon- sibility or worry. take his place in Parliameft behind Sir Wilfrid Laurier and with his old friends of the pre-war days, giving the Government full sup He will probably OUT LICENSE AUTHORITY. sxportation Must be Covered by In- dividual License. Washington Aug. 23.---With-~ drawal of authority heretofore ex- tended to collectors of customs to license the exportation to Canada of small quantities of sugar, wheat and wheat products involved in retail border traffic, has been announced by the War Trade Board. Exporta- tions to Canada in the future rust be covered by an individual export license issned by the War Trade Board. a Congratulations From Afr. Grimsby, Aug. 23.----While Mr. and Mrs. (W. J. Drope, Grimsby, were celebrating their silver wedding, his written congratulations from the sky, the loving missing falling close to his mother's chair. He had flown from Leaside with the object of | dropping in on the family. ; ---------------- Ask Tramways' Surrender, Mexico City, A --~Represen- ven OF the Aor Ca! n interests, Driver Kitled in o, truck after robbing John boy helper, of $2. The boy ran Bound Brook and -ga I The truck, 'with its load of slik in tact, was found Cranford. PELE et Itt att tant being fought on a Lihons, south of'the Somme, to Co- jeul river, south-west of Arras, a front of more than twenty-five miles. The British troops are making pro- gress at a number of poits, the statement says, and adds that two enemy attacks east of Beaucourt were repulsed during the night. On the Lys front, the British line was slight ly advanced east of Letouret, north- west of Neuf Berqyin and east of Out ersteen, wd SHOT BY BANDITS. Refusing to Give Up $50,000 Worth of Silk. Bound Brook, N.J. Aug. 23.--- Charles Hilbert, of Allentown, Pa.. was shot and killed near here terday when he mand of three highwaymen to yes: oat : truck loaded with $50,000 silk, which he was d from Rath to Allentows, oft : ® highwaymen drove in the Meyer, ve the abandoned = near tig the coms