Daily British Whig (1850), 2 Nov 1918, p. 1

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Canada last His splendid TO ATTACK THE FOE | | Putting the Terms | Into Fin Final Shape | er and a speaker Hall on the oe- abilities should fi Il the City Eation visit. Vv Loan rally, with appro- pictures and music, in the hall of the First Baptist rch, corner of Johnson Sydenham streets, on Sunday at 8.30 o'clock. The public cordially, favited to attend 2 Ee THN ds DYNASTY ENDED mers 5 i ~Lend. Buy Victory Bonds-- The Date of the German Emperor's Abdi: cation is 18 Uncertain. 10 LIKELY REQUIRE HUNS imo LAY DOWN THE THEIR ARMS TO THE FRENCH: 5 GERMAN ARMY ~ S00N 10 YIELD" --Lend. Buy Victory Bonds-- This Opinion is Held Owing to Hopeless | Position it It Occapics. HAS NO FRESH RESERVES WITH WHICH TO MEET ITS VERY HEAVY LOSSES. of Victory priate. moving will be held his NEARING MILLION FOR THE LOAN Buy Victory Bonds-- (Canadian Press Press Despat ch) Warships Believed Now 2.--~The Ex- ioe a, Way Through the Dardanelles. i Washington, Nov 4 --Announce- | jment from London that armistice {with Turkey which permits pa: ge of Allied warships through (he Dar |danelles already is in operation. Jed naval officers here to believe that an | i Allied fleet, if it has not already start- | ed, soon will pass through to the | Black Sea to attack the' German na- i forces there. Rese forces include ships of the] | Runs Black Sea fleet taken over | by the Teutons after the collapse of the provisional government in Rus- [sta Official British reports reveal-| {ed by Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of | Te Parley . With the Turks Lasted The Enemy Is Cleverly Retreating-- | the British Admiralty, during his re- Two .Weeks--The 'Parks Showed No Collapse Yet, But There Are | cent visit here, shows that the Ger- Their Distrust of tho Germans Hopes Of It. mans obtained one super-dread . + Paris, Nov, ~IMembers of the 8G y ' { nought, several battleships (of the f Lamia, Hors a2 -With Turkey de- pre-dreadnought type, and a Sore of | the Inter- Allfed Diplomatic Council nrely out o ine wa oHow " : i Ek f Ho es the Fast Rustrove 5 pr believe 'the Hapsburg. dynasty is sapture o > remnant © o Tig y rma attle cruise she cap of Lie Temnul «he Tigrls| ~The German battle cruiser Goeben |o, o4 and that an Austrian republic army, and Austria suing for peace|also is in the Black Sea This ves- Hkely to be $ od in the field in order to save her army | Se1 Was in" the Mediterranean when [(§ 5ely to-Ge-formed. the war begah, "and escaped to the The Kaiser's abdication also I! Bosphorus ,where it was reported to considered to be inevitable, the date what| hav een *'s " Turke | : 4 e 2 hat) ave been 'sold' to Turkey before |, being uncertain. will Germany do? Opinions here still| that country entered the war The : : . i a > Confidential advices to the <cou- vary greatly, but the idea that the CTUiser wis badly damaged. several times, "but recent reports said it has | ference suggest that the German in German army will definitely Capitu-| pe sen repaired again, taken over by |ternal situation is momentarily like late gains ground owing to the hope-| the Germans and withdrawn to the ly t » force his ahdication, position these developments| Black Sea Action equivalent to the surren- cause. A part of the German press! f the German and Austrian high still shows fight, but authentic infor-| | THE BRITISH TROO TROOPS Ty commander ) it Is believed ARE HAILED AT OMSK! tain will be fucluded in the ar- y mistice terms. '| Siberian London, 'Nov press claims to be able to state' | Lend. conference, where quite agreed may have had of discord among armis- dissi- i the Allies tice will pated.' Official circles night that the conference regarding an iN THE be completely 1 AS TO THE AUSTRIAN believed last . The Imperial Government is Power. | less to Meet the ' Crisis--Austria | : is Splitting Up Into States. | would issue a statement in a (Canadian Press Despatch) day or two. It is known that New York, Nov. 2.--The Associ- t he conference has put the ated Press this morning issued the tgfms for Germany into some- following: Events are moving with thing like final shape. They dramatic swiftness in the battle} include stern' naval guarantees. zones of France and Italy. In the| It ig also definitely known that former, French, Americans and Br!-| 'Gen. Diaz received from Ver- tish struck the enemy on 'three sec-| sailles the conditions.to be im- tors of the long front yesterday. In| posed upon Austria. Italy, Italian, French, British and | American forces pressed on in pur-| suit of the Austrians retreating over the plains of Venetia or plunged through the mountain barrier so long maintained by. the enemy the mountain front. General Diaz has submitted terms of an armistice to the Austrian high command. There are rumors that it has been signed, but these have not been confirmed. ? Advices as to conditions in Aus- tria are confusing. It seems, how-, ever, that the imperial government is powerless in the erisis whieh has come at Vienna. Some reports say that Ensperor Charles is a fagitive from his capital, but other advices say that he and Empress Zita are still in Vienna. Austria seems to be splitting up into-a number of independent states. There seemg fo be no. doubt that the Austrian fleet at Pola has been surrendered to the Crotian national committee. The (Crodtians have de- clared their wpion with Italy. Ger- hds recognized 'the new ChE emer: at Pra- gue and med d ip omatie In- was were from destruction, more general and thisquestion grows Applicatéons persistent: . 128 59 | City "County | wr Totals 287 $91,050 | "1° The following shows the amouit] raised in the county by townships: Applications. Amount! 12 $8,950 28 1.950 2 900 | 5 750 800 5,400 A VERDICT OF MURDER | we | Was Found Against Miss Selina Be dard, Napanee. An inquest on the body of the in-| Portsmouth fant child found in the Napanee river | King on Thursday morning was held Fri- | Bedfc day evening at Napanee, The jury] Hinchinbrook returned a verdict that the child [Banks came to its death by drowning in the! Napanee river, and that it was| wotals ... 0. 5 thrown into the river by its mother,| ue race between Portland Miss Selina Bedard. A number of| portsmouth continues keen. --- witnesses were examined. | energetic canvasser for Portsmout! Mrs. Arthur Houle, Deseronto, a|Mr. Scally, says that if there were sister of the chold's mother, was the three more 'days in this week he chief witness, She stated that she |'would capture the Governor-Gene had been caring for the child since its| ral's flag. The Mowat Hospital } birth, and brought it to Napanee on|a honor roll containing the names of the evening of Oct, 4th. She handed |60 'buyers of Victory Bonds, and it over to the mother at the Paisley | every effort is being made to obtain house on that date, and it was never (one of the honor emblems, which again seen alive, In her evidence it|will show ninety-five per cent. . of came out that the mother had threat-|the employees and inmates of "the ened to drown the child. A letter to] institution have bought bonds. These that effect, written by Mrs, Houle to | honor emblems will soon be in evi- Miss Bedard was produced at the in-| dence in many of the stores and fae- | quest. The child was identified by | tories, and will certainly bring great | Mrs. Houle, who identified it by the Seedy lo the organizations that se- on the cure them. xi rtities 51 EE orn Hingaon, The executive committee want the ----. less |as ortland ston township rd mation here shows the German army| itself is in a very serious plight. not a single fresh division only seven which had a fort-| night's rest, and only fifty noprinally | in reserve at all. The last 1 heard] mokio, Nov. 2 the German army had eighty fresh| munication says: . divisions. The average interval be-| "General Knox, chief of the Brit- |ihat the a rdigired tween rearrangements of divisions |ish military mivsion in Siberia, > f .. nd: y [rived at Omsk last Saturday. He was | the Italians, and the Germans to the has fallen to nine days recovery after an' action, therefore,| of officials @f the Siberian Govern- { is impossible, Many > them re-| ment and guards of honor. The com-| turning to the line are' mere frag- | mander- in-chief of the Russian ments, with less than one thousand | trodps held a review at noon, which rifie strength instead of nearly seven | was participated in by all the Omsk thousand. One such a division mus- garrison, who cheered General Knox. tered 783 rifles, or about the strength "British troops arrived in Omsk of one battakon, The estimated! Sunday. General Vologvosky, com- actual rifle strength is said to be| mander of the Russian troops, re- about half a million short of nor-j ceived them, A triumphal arch mal strength. Their casualties. this| whith had been built at the entramce year are two and one-half millions, {te the railroad station. decorated of which thereof one million fs a per-| with the Union Jack. A Russian manent loss, The reserve forces inj trobps and the populace generally, on The surrender of Tug roy te he Newspapers Praise Briggs idicates that the Allles will Britain's Chivalry as Res- force the enemy literally cuer of Russia. ALLIES TERMS that there is most complete Sip---- ~ | ialits } 7 I vening | the re very + { a) Conditions. of Avmistice SIDES 10] ieccaice are quite wevecs we | NBGSION AO Frontenac WH End First 'chie vail Enemy High Command by Gen Diaz | to how Germany and Austria | aro to be treated. No | BODY OF THEJR SON i ---- ADVICES IRE * CONFUSING developed, the newspaper 'says, RAISED $12. 300 FRIDAY when They Went to Napanee and whatever hopes Germany | Station to Meet Grand- ITY AND $18,750 IN THE | (From Ofir Own Correspondent.) CAPITAY. COUNTY. Napanee, Now -On Tuesday Victory Loan Sunday in the ( hurclin O01 y son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Joy, [ es--IThe Mowat Hospital H | Napanee. Deceased was thirty- four em w pita a8 alyears of age. He was ill only a few High. : {and he succumbed on Tuesday even- The amount raised in the city and [108 He is survived by his wife and | | three small children; his father and | Victory Loan $950,950 Phe | Joy, of Napanee. The funeral took Iresuits "on Friday bétter than. |place on Thursday afternoon to | for Thursday | Riverside cemetery. | sorely bereaved 'Wednesday. They | went to the station to meet the re- {mains of their little grand child, plaee of one coffin the remains of their son, Arnold Woodcock, as well those of their little granddaugh- | ter {the eldest son of Mr, and Mrs. Silas Woodcock, and had been living in yr, Ont., for the past five or baby, both off "whom were ill of influenza | unity and cordiality at the Ver- | sailles Week Wel Over Over That Amount. wero MET differ- | ences on points of principle have child's Remains. CONDITIONS IN THE | death claimed William Garratt Joy, Fine Record--Portsmouth Stands | days when pneumonia developed, [ county up to Friday might for tre | mother d one sister, Miss Rose Mr. and Mrs. Silas Woodcock were died at Massey, Ont., and in were taken off. Deceased was He leaves a wife and SUGGESTED ARMISTICE small has uk reserve, {to wave the white flag in Frande and | Italy, Turkey having surrendered to the | British, it is regarded as probable TERMS. re -A War Office com- Paris Newspaper Gives Eleven Con- ditions for Peace. Paris, Nov. 2 In an editorial discussing armistice terms, L"Infor- mation suggests the following con- ditions: "Internationalization of porus and the Dardanelles. "The occupation of enemy on the Adriatic: "The surrender of Austrian ships. "The right to use AustrorHun- garian railway lines. "The evacuation of "Alsace-Lor- raine .and tarritories wrongly ocen- pied in thé east and west: "The surrender of arms, tons and submarines. and their | warmly welcomed by a large number { French. Parley iLasted Two Weeks. London, Nov. 2.--British nego tiations with 'Turkey regarding peace terms had heen going on for two weeks 'before they were cone cluded Thursday. The Turks in- sisted that ithe parieys be surround- od. with absolute sécrocy until all the arrangements had been made, thereby a fan the same. Sia the BtRare. The ac Russian Black Sen legt, the Bos- ports war- muni- figures to be well over thé million lined the tercourse with it. & r---------- made a post-mortem examination of the body 4nd found that death was mark to-night. Scores of citizens go ! "The occupation of fortresses and bridges along the Rhine and of sight in Germany, including most of | including school children, hands of the Germans, was formally the 1920 class, are less than 350,000.! { streats and gave the Britishers an Faken, eaused by drowning, and that the|te market Square every evening: to Luxembourg and (Essen, One-third of its total artillery, or|ovation. Great Britdin was hailed | investigated, and the British sip a * ters, "to east of Aisne in 'Was renewed oh Satur- "1,400 prisoners taken. Fighting south of Valenciennes was continued until this morning. Canadian corps, under General Cur- rie, after hard fighting, have pressed through that town, wholly in our pos- session. Germans fought tanaeiously to retain the town, but the Canadians and British overpowered the snemy resistance, Destruction of Austrian super -Veribus--Unitis by Hol ians 1s announced. Emperor William is persigiing in bis refusal to abdicate. He has taken refuge at German grand headquar- Bulgarian King. Has Abdicated (Canadian Press Despatch.) Copenhagen, Nov. 2.---King Boris of Bulgaria, who ascend- ed the throne on 'Oct. 3rd, has . abdicated. A peasant govern- ment has been established at Tirnova under the leadership of M. Stambuliwsky, who is re- ported to be in command of the republican army of forty thousand men. Claims Imperial Throne. {Canadian Press Despatch) London, Nov. 2.-- The Ravar- dan Premier has notified Berlin . that the Bavarian royal! family claims the imperial throne in the event of Emperor Wil- liam's abdication. . DNA BRYAN AS PHACE ENVOY. a, He May. be One of United States 2.~<The name of it is being. mentioned as one of the com- missioners. iy the United States to frame the final peace terms. p--rpn rent forces in their at- in Flanders reached the of Ghent. y tack Friday Scheldt river as far miles south-west Mark; Austria ao oa: Think Tasty | Services: Incidents of era: Telegraphic Tid N Regutations: Punieh. Ontario News. | Monte Lisser. child was alive when it 'was put into the water. Evidence was given by Mrs, James McVicar and Miss Pearl Sedoregs bo the presence of the child at ¢he Pais- ley house on the njght of Oct. 4th. There were other witnesses who gave evidence of a minor nature. The mother, Miss Selina Bedard, will now be tried on a charge of mur: der, and will probably appear next week, She is at present in custody in the Napanee town jail. PEER RRR ERM + SCHOOLS ARE NOT. &* TO RE-OPEN MONDAY, # : > The secretary of the Board + of Education has inserted a notice in the Whig that the public schools. and Collegiate Institute will not re-open on Monday. The Board of Edu- cation does not-want -to take any chance; even though the Board of Health's ban be Jift- ed, and has decided to keep the schools closed for some days yet. Due notice of the re- opening is to be given. Pr a Cet tts tds san : i Hi ik | ALREADY SECURING SPACE. "Bob" Bushell Has Already {Received Applications. Merchants who-want to get space for the Kingston Fair of 1919 had better step lively, for those who know a good thing when they see it are already grabbing for it. Manager 'Bob' Bushell, who is {now hard at. work for next year's fair told the Whig that he already had applications tor space from sev- eral outside people. The fair is certainly going strong, and with almost a year to keep boost- ing, it should reach the very top opening. ALLIES CUT OFF Headlong Flight o of the Enemy -Forces Continues on the Venetian Plain. (Canadian Press Despatch.) italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, Nov. 2. Allied troops have. reached Grigno, five miles north of shen tino, except over mule paths in. the mountains. the Austrians continues on netian plain. The Austrians are fleeing Udine, about fifty miles east of the "They have abandoned a great headquarters betore the 1817 retreat. notch when the tinie arrives for the | AUSTRIAN RETREAT The headlong Sight of the Ve- : from Piave. according to reports received | here. quantity of war material in the re- of Udine, which was Italian] see how the Kaiser is being over- taken and express disappeintment. For their: information it might be stated "that larger figures can only be shown by buying bonds, and their contribution is required. To-morrow is Victory Loan Sun- day in all 'the churches of the city, and it has been arranged that at least one service shall be devoted to patriotism and the necessity of buy- ing Victory Bonds. The following telegram was eeived last' night by the organizer, Mr. Warburton: "Toronto, Nov. 1st, 1918 "Welland has twelve plants over their objective, West . York has seven, St. Catharines has four. How many have you? "Ontario Employees Committee." i Victory Loan Meetings. Now that all danger from the in- fluenza is past, public meetings to help the Victory Loan will start to- morrow. A 'monster meeting will be held in the City Hall on Tuesday evening next, at eight o'clock. The principal speaker will be Lieut.-Col. Arthur Kirkpatrick, who 'was second in command of the original 3rd To- ronto Battalion. He was captured at St. Julien on April 24th, 1915, in the second battle of Ypres. Foi twenty months he was a prisoner in Germany, after which he was re- patriated to Switzerland. He was thé&re for a year, and returned to re- They have cut off | | the retreat of the Austrians in Tren- "The occupation of Kiel and Ham-. burg. "The removal of fies" from terri- torial waters. "The delivery, as a preliminary compensation for damages, of part ofl the enemy merchant marine. "The cessation of manufacturing for war purposes." KEITH LEAVES FIVE THEATRES TO ALBEE New England Houses Willed to Executive Official of Firm. Boston, Nov. 2.--Theatres at Lew- iston and Bangor, Me., Manchester, N.H., Montreal, Quebec and St. John, N.B., controlled hy A. Paul Keith, are bequeathed to Edward F. Albee, New York, in Mr. Keith's will filed for pro-} bate here. Mr. Keith died in New York on Wednesday. nersons amounting to more $260,0000and a gift of $25,000 to the fund of the ¢lass of 1901 Harvard to be paid on the twenty-fifth anniver- Ary. The residue of the estate is left to Cardinal O'Connel of the Roman table purposes and to Harvard Col- lege ,in equal shares. ast. on the west, front without artillery, trench mortars or machine guns. Still is it admitted the enemy is fighting well on some parts of the| front, conducting a clever retreat and not giving evidence of any gen-| eral demoralization, although his morale is greatly affected in spots. | The Allies" advance may bring a col-| lapse, but that is uncertain. -- The simple fact is it has not collapsed | vet. Rumania Claims Transylvania. Washington, Nov. 1.---Capt. Basil] Stoica, president of the Rumanian | National Council of America and an | officer in the Ramanian. Legion now red Secretary Lansing a memorandum setting forth the claims of Rumania | The will contains bequests to other and her aims and ambitions in the | than | war. He declared that Rumania"s claim to Transylvania is based on his- torical and ethnological grounds. The Rumanians make no claim to territorial boundaries, being content to leave that to the peace conference | pe IF AUSTRIA MAKES 4 SEPARATE PEACE settlement. What they now need Catholic Church to be used for chari- most, Captain Stoica says, is a word | of encouragement from the "United States, ~---- 18,000 guns, as lost since July 18th| as the saviour of Russia. The divisions recently withdrawn | cations welcoming the visitors, ~while from Russia were thrown into battle] the fighting in France, yesterday present- | 1kmown_as the W lation that definite knowledge of the strength of the German garri- sons manning the big guns Sart ing the Dardanelles should be tained was complied with. A ya Tangs. Pola, the. ) The ustrian fleet at e LIQUOR HIDDEN IN BREAD. neval base of tie AdRiatic, has sur- { Hollowed Bread Loaves Filled With | [Sadar to the southern Slay coun- l Bottles, | Toronto, Nov. 2.---A new device, Representatives of the Allied na- to smuggle Mquor into Toronto failed | tions began their deliberations at the at the Unjon Supreme War Council at Versailles shortly after noon Friday. Views expressed at the Geérman War Cabindt substantially strength- ened the decision to meet President Wilson's demand regarding the mon- archial autooracy. The number of prisoners taken by the Allies in their drive against Aus- tro-Hungary is steadily dncreasing. More than 700 guns have been taken {and an immense amount of booty. General Perching's forces attack- ed the Germans ona wide front Fri- day and took 3,000 prisoners, An official statement says the French and Serblans are now at the outskirts of Belgrade, capital of Ser- bia. English and Canadian 'roops forced the passage of Rhonelle, They made ah advance of five miles and took between {wo and three thousand | prisoners. The rout of the Austrian armies on the Italian front continues. The number of prisoners taken is increas ing rapidly. A large fleet of British ine sweepers is clearing the Dardanelles, which is ned for over fifty miles. A British Foreign Office statement says the surrender of Turkey was unconditional and the immgdiate de- mobilization of the Turkish frmy will take place. The Si- | 'berfan Government distributed publi- newspapers enthusiastically praised Bgitish chivalry in'rescuing Russia." | at the police barrier Station. Wasyl Saparas, a foreign-| jer, leit the Montreal train carrying {two grips and an air of confidence. | The grips were tightly packed with | bread loaves, which had been care- fully hollowed out and the vacuum filled with bottles of alcohol. A fine |of $200 and costs or three months | followed 'in te Police C ope INTERESTED IN CANADA. Jap Prince Impressed by Shown in Dominion. London, Nov. 2.---Prince Yorihito, | special envoy from Japan, has been received in London with much cere- mony. The report of his journey | shows he was greatly interested and {impressed in crossing Canada. He bad opportunities of seeing some- thing of the potentialities of the Dominion, and says he as much| | struck by the enterprise and energy {of the people, as also by what is be- | ing dome in Canada for the war. | Energy DIED WITH CANADIANS, la Paroled Convict Was Killed in Ace tion in France. Boston, Mass, Nov. 2.--Willlam J. Manogue, alias William J: Clay. ton, a former bandit who made dar- ing railroad raids on railroad ticket offices in many cities in 1915 and was paroled from the Massachusetts state prison so be could go to war, Ment in Germany. was killed in action in France, Oect.| Negotiations between the Italian 13th. . Officials at the prison received! and Austro-Hungarian military com- wrod from Ottawa that Magogue! Manders for an armistice are pro- fell while fighting with a Canadian | ceeding. unit, The Italians have completely se- vered communications between the Austrian armies in the Piave and Trentino regions. jauian Soress + fave avacuated | tawa Appointment, Udine, abandoning vast quantities of Ottawa, Nov 2 --Hon, Arthur War materidls and supplies in: their Meighem has 'recognized woman's! Shanty Right, o fefpatcl io the Italian mew place in the sun by dppointing bass one of them as notary frublie in nig] The Germany will be allowed no oi ge Tee Harber, tir pag fall, euch dead is . y 4 of Ottawa, the woman, She hast Oran the Inst, un Lud dorfl's prophecy of -- be, ful- filled, g ---- been in the department for some years and Js regarded as a very | : > BETWEEN 75 AND 100 * KILLED competent official. Charter er To Toronto Man. IN BROOKLYN. Despten: be joining the revolutjonary move- WOMAN NOTARY PUBLIC. Miss Beatrice Barber Receives Ot-| Windsor, Nov. 2.-<A Dominion nd ha been granted 40 Charles Miller, of Toronto. ~The new company will be # indsor erry Com- 4 pany. 3 will. us the GTR. {Canadian Press om | New York, Now, 3 Batu Pp seventy-five an 4 people were FATiod aa a 4 injared in a rn on the Rapid' fates Brooklyn encourage local Is . 150 SIPS - SEE bi i i. Whole regiments gre-reported to i

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