- 12 PAGES aily British Whig PAGES 1-8 YEAR 85: NO. 199 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1918. | THE HINDENBURG: LINE NOW PENETRATED British Break Into It West of Hinenel---Cana- dians Capture Ridge on Left of Battle- front And Establish Themselves East of Guemappe. (Canadian Press Despateh.) London, Aug. 27.--Advices from the front to-day indicate that the Hindenburg line has been penetrat- ed by the British just west of Hine- nel. North of the Scarpe river Scottish troops renewed the attack againat the Germans last night and have ad- vanced toward Plouvain, the state- men' says. Severe fighting took place on the field of the old Somme battle be- tween Maricourt and Bapaume, and also north of the latter town yester- day afternoon and évening. The enemy counter-atfacked wvrepeatedly in strength, incurring great losses from the fire of our troops, but be- ing unable to arrest our progress. English and Welsh troops pushed through Montauban and. advanced along the rest of the ridge, captur- ing High wood and reaching Lon- gueval. In the latter vilage we were heavily counter-attacked and forced back toward Bazentin-Le Grand and Highwood. On this line we broke the enemy's attack, and again advancing established our- selves well to the east of Highwood. Early in the night the second en- emy 'counter-attack was driven off by rifle fire before the Germans seached our position. North of Highwood the enemy twice counter- attacked fin the neighborhood of Ligny and Thilloy, pressing back our advanced troops some 40 or 500 PAN INP ta. At" i i A gt INDIAN TRAVELS OVER 8,000 MILES TO ENLIST John Campbell Comes From Fort Yukon by Trail, Canoe, and Steamer. Dawson, ¥Y7T., Aug, 27,--John (Campbell, a full-blooded MacKenzie Indian; has arrived here from Fort Yukon, traveling 3,000 mies by trail, canoe, and river steamer to Vancouver to enlist in the Canadian army. He started from the Arctie coast near (Herschel Island, and walked across Portage to the head of the (Porcupine (River, thenca to Fort Yukon, where he worked seve- Tal months to get miohdy to buy transportation to Vancouver. ASKING A NEW TRIAL For the 100 Leaders of the L.W.W. at 0, (Canadjan Press Despatch) Chicago, Aug. 27. Federal Judge Lands to-day heard argument of counsel on 4 motion for a new trial and the arrest of judgment in the case of 100 leaders of the LW.W. recently found guilty of conspiracy in violating the espionage law. The prisoners, who have been in jail for a week, were brought into the court room handcuffed in pairs under a heavy armed guard. Attorney Geo. F. Vanderveer, chief counsel for the defendants, iu presenting the argu- ments on the motions, attacked the constitutionality of the indictment. $20,000,000 Paper Mill. Quebec, Aug. 27.--The Brown Cor- poration, the large pulp and pape manufacturers, who have a number of mills throughout Canada and the United States, are about to start work on a twenty-million dollar paper mill at La Tuque, where they already have a large pulp mill Americans Raid Pola. 'Rome, Aug. 27.--American airmen raided the great Austrian naval base of Pola, on the Adriatic, Saturday. During the fighting one airplane fell into the sea. Other airmen dived and rescued the pilot, then destroyed the damaged ine, I Vi png aaian, Prose I Ane 2. In AT Austrian troops have red Berat and the town of earl near ihe hotth of the Se- . SAYS 0 al statement. The Italians fost heavily in men and ce another fifty st " ne ' Penetrated; ings: Rushing) Retreat; Must Trial Incl. i yards. There his infantry was stop- ped and driven back. On the left of the battlefront the Canadians yesterday captured a ridge to the east of Wancourt and established themselves to the east of Guemappe. Was a Canadian Capture. War Correspondents', 'Headquart- ers, Aug. 27.--Fine and steady Tas the advance along the whole line x | the two armies has been, all other news was thrown into the back- ground for the day by the report | that the Canadians and some other | very fine British troops had captur- | ed Monchy-le-Preux, five miles west and a little south of Arras, upon the Cambral road, a position famous in! the earlier years of the war. Stand- Ing as it does right across the top of thé old Hindenburg line, and marking our extreme advance in that direction, its importance as commanding not only the valley of the Secarpe, but the Cojeul and the Sensee can hardly be overstated. Its capture will bring fresh honor to the specially fine troops engaged. Advance Slow at Places. (Canadian Press Despatch) With the British Army in France, Aug. 27.-- The British advance gives evidence of {emporarily slowing up at various places along the front, but intervals of comparative slow movements must be expected dur- ing the course of a battle such as this, far the British have been en- gaged in hard and gontinuous open fighting without rest for a week. Many more prisoners and guns and another German battalion com- mander have been taken. rn. PATROL BOAT SUNK THROUGH A MISTAKE A Merchant Steamer Took U.S. Vessel For a German Sub- marine. (Canadian Press Despatch) New York, Aug. 27.--Mistaken for a submarine, a United States patrol boat was fired upon and sunk by a merchant steamer, fifteen miles off Fire Island, at 2 a.m, to-day. Eigh- teen of the crew are still missing. Eight were brought here suffering from injuries. The patrol boat was 'a 'vonverted yacht of small tonnage. The injured survivors, picked up by the steamer which fired upon them, were transferred upon arrival here to an hospital ship. 5 » \BMBARGO ON U.S. PAPERS, To Guard Against Falling Into Un- friendly Hands. Toronto, Aug. 27.--X limited em- bargo has been placed upon United States newspapers. The request of the chief military censor at Washington to newspaper proprietors explains the situation, It was explained that testimony before the sub-committee on aircraft of tha senate committee on military affairs was for the Congress and the people of the United States. To reduce the danger of any of the evidence reaefi- ing enemy countries, newspaper pro- prietors were asked. to assist the cen- sor, and special editions were pub- lished for circulation in Canada and abroad, AUSTRIA'S SUFFERINGS 163,001 C nm Under Ten Have Di in Bosnia. London, 8. 27.--The Daily Express Geneva correspondent re- ports that the terrible character of the economic situation' in Austria- Hungary may be gathered from the following official statements: The Journal Slovene declares that since the outbreak of the war-165,- 001 children under ten years have died in Bosina. The Journal Obzor States that 22,842 persons at present are suffering from hunger and dis- ease, and that. eight per cent. have succumbed. . milsgh FALLON COMING. Has Completed His Visit to R.C.Chap- lains in France. London,Ont., Aug. 27.--Bishop Fal lon is on his way home, and is ex- pected to arrive in Canada at an early date, it is announced from the cathe dral clergy. His visit to the Roman Catholic chaplains with the forces in France is completed. 4 me n------ Arrest Ex-G.W.V.A. Official. | Ottawa, Aug. 27.--J. Zivian, for- 'merly secretary, who was recently 'expelied from the G.W.V.A., has| wen Diaceq under arrest at Ganan- oq e requ of the local pol-. ice officers .and will 1 THE LATEST PORTRAIT : OF GENERAL FOCH --- - ESE AR a I Mo HE LATEST NEWS Despatches That BRIE Sethe Dist POSSIBLE FORM, The Whig's Daily Condensation 1Y GIVEN Come From Near An ant Places. : TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST/ of the News of the Warld From Tele graph Service and Newspaper Ex- changes. The attendance for the opening day the Toronto Exhibition was 33,400, John Arthur, recently from Hali- fax, was drowned while bathing Collingwood, \ at The municipal council of Paris has agreed to present a Sword of Honor to Marshal Foch. : Seven fishing boats have just been of Holland. 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Open. 2.30 p.m. oo STY% o6 waar ae OEY vies es 4 . avi 91 88% 4% 127% 27% 102 159 % 44 71% 94% 673% 84% 29% 52% 82% ce we 114% von 100 Stocks, « 40% 64% 2% 641% 25 64% 119% 68 73% ore ee ee arise was 67% 87 56% 169% 4% 90% 88% 24 128 1% 27% 102% 159% 67 heavy. A FRENCH CORPORAL CAPTURED 700 HUNS He Stood Guard at Mouth of Cave as Surrefidering Ger~ mans Filed Out. (Canadian Press Despatch) With French Army in France, Aug. 27.,~The capture of 700 Germans is an exploit attributed to PlerreCellier, aged twenty-three, a corporal in a French tank corps. Among the pris- oners were a colonel and - fourteen other officers, Two field pieces also were taken, Cellier has been award- ed the Cross of the Legion of Honor, a reward rarely given to anyone but a commissioned officér. Cellier was in command of a tank manned by fifteen Americans in re- cent fighting in the Marne salient, A shell struck the tank and rendered it useless. The men then advanced on foot. Cellier discovered the Ger- mans ambushed in a cave. He kept guard at the entrance for an hour when a German appeared with a white flag. Behind the first one came the rest of the 700, one by one, The Germans threw down their arms be- fore Cellier and marched to the rear -at his direction, WIN FAR MORE GROUND - AT A SMALLER COST British Take 118 Square Miles of Territory in Four Days. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, - Aug. 27.-- Interesting comparisons between the results achieved on the British and French fronts in the Somme area with those of the first battle of the Somme are made by a military expert here. He points out that in four months from July 1st to Oct, 31st, 19186, British won forty-four square miles of land. In the four days between Aug. 21st and Aug. 26th, 1918, the British won 116 square miles, with casualties amounting to only 23,000. In other words, he says, {fat between two and three times as much ground has been taken at an infinitely smaller cost. In the four days under discussion the British won more territory than both the British and French armies recov- ered in the whole first battle of the Somme, 558 More Canadian Casualties, (Canadian Press Despatch) Ottawa, Ayg. 27.--Lists of casual- ties There are 558 names on the list published this afternoon, inelud- ing 30 killed in action, 27 died of wounds, 447 wounded, other gassed, ete, Mrs. George Terry died of a frac- tured skull, the result of falling down the cellar stairs at her home in Chat; am, 2 in Canadian forces continuel RUSHING TROOPS T0° AD RETREAT fs' Extaordinay Tactics Constitute Paradox Unknown in his War. VON HINDENBURG'S PLIGHT A MAJOR (OATASTROPLE HANGS OVER THE ENEMY. If Queant Salient Falls to Byng, a Retreat Towards the Belgian Border (Will Increase Menace for Kaiser's Ammnies. By J. Wi T. Mason. . 2 { New York, |Aug. 27.--Von Hin- denburg is mow engaged in the ox- { traordinary. tactics of rushing re- | Inforcements' to the Picardy front for the purpose of assisting his own retreat. This paradoxical manoeuvre has not oceurred previously during tne war and is conclusive evidence of the performance of the German re- tirement in the west. It has been forced on Von Hindenburg by the fact that Marshal Foch continues to hold 'the initiative, and is ready to spring through any breach in the | German {line and inflict @ major catastrophe wpon the Kaiser's re- treating armies. I-- Von Hindenburg's Plight. Von Hindenburg, therefore, can- not conduct his retirement from the Picardy front with any rapidity, nor can he make it conform to a sched- ule prepared in advance. [He must seize 'whatever occasions offer for a jump backward by jone unit at a time. 'While the retirement dis oc- curring in any sector the rest of the iine must be strongly held tospre- vent a break through. For this rea- son Von Hindenburg has been com- pelled to mse his reserves to facili tate his own retreat. The German west front is now too unwieldy for Von Hindenburg to retain the mastery of its entire length during an extensive retro- grade movement. Marshal Foch has seen to that by belaboring blows on the Germans the instant they turn their backs and start shuffling homeward. ! Byng's Hammer Busy. General Byng's hammering in the general direction of Cambrai is now the most serious. obstacle 'interfer- ing 'with Von (Hindenburg's plans for an orderly retreat. German re- serves have had to be thrown into the sector which Byng is attacking to Iprevent the reatreat from be- coming a rout. Byng's immediate objective, following upon the fall of Bapaume, 'will 'become Queant, which marks the juncture of the two sections of the Hindenburg line--the (Wotan line, running di- rectly north, and the Siegfried tine, running south-eastward. The Hin- rdenburg line has its minimum strength at Queant, for dt there forms a slight pocket. I the Queant salient falls to Byng, the whole Hindenburg line will be seri- ously weakened. 'Thereafter a re- treat toward the Belgian border will become increasingly menacing for the Kaiser's arniles. ou War Tidings. Violent counter-attacks" were launched by the Germans on 'Monday between the River Ailette, at Mont St. Marl and Juvigny, north of Sois- sons, They were completely smash- ed by the French. Suzanne and Cappy, towns north and south of the Somme, were cap- tured Monday by Field Marshal Halg's forces; also the town of St. Leger. Russian Red Guards ofter the capture of Simbrisk, on the Volga, publicly hanged fin the market place three hundred Czecho-Slovak pri- soners. A big British airplane carrying its crew and nine passengers has made the trip from France to England. WHAT GERMANS ARE TOLD JTheir Press Says 14 American Trans- ports Torpedoed in June. Washington, Aug. 27.--As an ex- ample of the desperate situation in which German leaders find them- selves in trying to keep up the mor- ale of their people, Secretary of State Lansing to-day cited a report in the Berlin Zeitung of August 20, which sald: : "According to American papers, fourteen American transports which left the United States in June we: torpedoed and sunk. Seven hun- dred and twenty-two men lost their lives." 7 The secretary said he believed this C. W. CROSS IS OUT OF ALBERTA CABINET J. R. Boyle Becomes Attorney- General--A. G. MacKay to Go Into Cabinet. Calgary, Alta, Aug. 27.--On Sat- urday the Lieutenant-Governor-in- Council rescinded the order in Coun- cil appointing C. W. Cross Attorney- General of the Province, and appoint- ed John R. Boyle, for several years Minister of Education, to that posi- tion. On Tuesday A. G. Mackay, at one time menrber of the Ontario Cabi- net, and later leader in the Opposi- tion in the Ontario' Legistature, il be sworn in to the Government as Minjster of Municipalities. With this change, Premier Stewart has met his first big difficulty in this province, and his action has cleared the atmosphere, and doubtless estab- lished peace in the Liberal party Last week when the rumor was cir- culated that the change was to be made, the one newspaper which sup- ported the late Attorney-General cir- culated a report that it was a plot by Premier Stewart to dispose of the five members of the Government who opposéd Union Government in the last election. It is said that Mr. Cross at the same time sent out a summons to the unfriendly to Union Government t6 ment on emergent business in Edmon- ton but did not state the reason for the meeting. Six members, it is said, responded to the invitation last Wed- nesday, but were loyal enough to the Premier to insist upon meeting him before taking action. The Premier was very emphatic that Federal politics had not entered into his decision, and that he al- ways had kept and always would con- tinue to keep, Federal politics out of Provincial matters," With this assun- ance the members were satisfied, and they did not wait upon Mr. Cross. The latter, it is reported, declined to resign, or even to respond to the Premier's request for his resigna- tion, and the Premier thereupon in- terviewed the Lieutenant-Governor, and the Cross appointment to the po- sition of forney-General was re- scinded: TWENTY YEARS OLD Some of Them Parked Beside 1918 Specimen in British Trophy Exhibit. With the Canadian Forces, Aug. 27.~The most impressive sight to be seen now in the vicinity of the bat- tlefleld to the east of Amiens is the park of artillery captured by the Fourth Army, with- which the Cana- adians aye incorporated. When seen the total number of guns of all sorts and sizes, from the German field gun up, numbered two hundred and nineteen. These figures by no means include the entire number of guns captured, as there are others not yet brought in. Perhaps the most interesting pieces of the Canadian trophies are the high velocity 5.9 inch guns. These are naval guns of about 45 calibre, with a range of twenty miles, and have been employed in shelling our back area; luding pot shots at Amiens Cathedral. Taken all in all, the guns are a very mixed lot, showing the enemy has -been forced through recent heavy losses to impress into service weapons twenty years old alongside guns of 1918 pattern. It has been impossible to keep a record of the machine guns captured, which are passed through to the base ordnance to De overhauled, but they run into thousands. As for rifles, they come in the wagon load. Except half a dozen pieces, all, the artillery captur- ed by the Canadian forces are ser- viceable, and many of them fired back his own ammunition at the Boche before being parked. There is a vast store of enemy ammunition of all kinds, sufficient for thousands of rounds pdr gun. nearly every captured gun carries a chalk legend, of which the following on a naval gun is typical: *"Applica- tion for the award of this article as a trophy is being submitted by the---- Battalion." HOW CZAR'S SON WAS CRUELLY MURDERED The Boy Shot Dead by the Ruyf- flaris Who Killed His Father. London, Aug. 27.--The Daily 'Mail prints the following: A Rus- sian prince' who recently arrived in England states that shortly after the Czar was killed by the Bolshe- viks they assassinated his son, who 'would have been fourteen years old this month. * Vague reports of the boy's death have .been telegraphed from Russia, but the prince gives the first trustworthy details. He says the murderers of the Czar went to his heir and said, "We killed your father, a dog's death for a dog." The [Czarevitch burst into tears, whereupon ona of the band shot the boy dead with his revolver, that the anti-Bolshevik n at Omsk and i a STeramen accord, which official members of the Legislature) LAST EDITION MUST ABANDON NORE TERRITORY In Order to Prevent An Weparable Dias- ter on Prescat Batiegromnd. ~~ THE ARCLOFRERCH PCRS GRIP THE BOCHE FROM NOYON : [TO BAPAUME. { North Jaw of Pincers is Now the More Active, But the French Will Probably Renew Pressure in South. I igi London, Aug. 27.--While jon- tinuing a necessary attitude of ;e- serve regarding ultimate possibili- ties of the Allies maintaining thelr present rate of progress, military writers anticipate that the Germans Pefry soon will abandon the whole territory east of their line as now constituted, as far as the line of Soissons, LaFere, St. Quentin aad Cambrai, in order to prevent an hr- repairable disaster on the present battleground. : The Anglo-French pincers ara now gripping the Boche from slight- ly south of Noyon to just north of Bapaume, 'while the Allies' artillery is effectively dominating the Boche road and rail communications. The north jaw of the pincérs just now is the more mctive, but the French probably will soon renew their crushing pressure to the south. Taken 21,000 Prisoners. (Canadian Press Despatch) : London, Aug. 27.--British forces in the great battle in Northern Pi- cardy are making progress towards the village of Beugnatre, two and a half miles north-east of Bapaume. There is hard fighting around Croisil- les, further north, Since last Wed- gesday the British have taken 21,000 prisoners, the statement says, The British have 'pushed through the town of Montauban, three miles north of the Somme, and, capturing the wood near that place, have reach- ed Longueval, The Australian forces have made 'substantial progress {(o- ward Dompierre, south of the Somme and east of Suzanna, north of the riv- er, the stafement says. French Troops Advance, (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Aug. be French troops advanced this morning in the region of St. Mard, south-west of Roye, after having repulsed a number of enemy counter-attacks in that sec- tof. They have captured eleven hun dred prisoners, including two battal- ion commanders, the statement says. East of Bagneux, norgh of Aisne, the French have advanced their line about three-quarters of a mile. Ger- man counter-attacks - were repulsed in this region. J The text of the statement reads: South of the Avre the French troops accentuated their progress this morn- ing in the region of St. Mard, after having taken more than 1,100 pris- oners during these combats, Of these thirty-siv are officers, two of whom are battalion commanders. Between the Oise and the Aisne the German counter-attacks west of Chavigny broke down last evening. Thirty prisoners remained in our hands. In the region east of Bagneux we have advanced our line about 1,200 me- tres. During the night there were lively artillery duels between the Ailette and the Alsne. What Berlin (Canadian Press Despatch Berlin, Aug, 27.---~A supplementary official statement from the German general headquarters reads: = The British attacks have extended to the north of Scarpe. On both Ages of Bapaume and north of the Somme there have been vigorous ments. The enemy attacks in the main, however, failed. At some places counter-attacks still are in progress. Liongueval and Mont Auban, tempor- arily lost, have been recaptured. See ssn Have Captured 2,000 50 (Canadian Press Dispate Paris, Aug, 27.---In their 2 in the region of Monchy Monday the British-Can. captured more than wo. prisoners, \ iT ed thousand are satisfied that er, who drowned her- town, Ont., shot her ile he glept. She was porarily insane. - Mrs, John M likely te Pest etstiattite etree;