AREY D [os | The 1 aily 7 WIL NEVER FLY GERMAN ENSIGN The Surrendered German Warships Are Not To Be Returned. SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE ALIAES FOR LOSS. ES THEY. SUSTAINED In Maintaining Command of Sea-- Essen Newspaper Bays ft is lm- possible to Tell What is True Hegarding German Staff, (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Dec. 10.--Archibald Hurd, maval writer in the Daliy Telegraph, 'to-day says with refer- nece to the idea said to be held by some Germans that the surrendered German warships would be retura- ed to Germany after peace was sign- _ ed, that it points, of course, to com- plete misapprehension of the inten- tions of the Allies, 'for it iis cer- tain that jthese ships will never again fly the German ensign." After discussing various pro- posals for the disposal of the Ger- man 'war ships, Mr. Hurd says that the only course to adopt is to dis- tribute them among the Allies ia accordance 'with the losses which each has suffered maintaining command of the sea. German sub- marines on the other band should cease to exist. Mr. Hurd suggests they Be broken up and the pirts used for other purposes: | in " Ampossible to Tell, (Cpnadian Press Despatch.) Amsterflam,; (Dee. 10.--The inter view given by (Frederick Hohenzol- leg, Former German crown prince to the Associated Press recently, 'was widbly reprinted in the German press: Referring to the former crown prince's statements that Germany's position was 'hopeless after the Marne and that the gene- ral staff lost fits merve, an 'Essen newspaper remarks that it is #m- possible to tell what is true und what is false' FRIDAYS 'RIOTING A Dramatic § turbances PICKING UP PRINCES FOR uel to the Dis- ently in Berlin, -------- {Canadian Press Despatch dos Berlin, Dee. 10.--<A dramatic se- quel to Friday's attempted arrest of the executive committee of Soldiers' and Workmen's Couneil occurred on Monday when the Hotel Bristol, one of the more fashionable places on the Unter Den Linden, was raided hy order of the Ebert*Haase cabinet. All the exits of the hotel were guarded by troops, 'and the premises were searched on the strength of rumors that plotters were concealed there In one of the large apartments the raiders found twenty-two men sus- pected with complicity in Friday's raid. Among them were Baron Rheinbaben, former Prussian minfs- ter of finance, and the younger Prince Hohenzohe. A number of 'students were found in one room. The en- tire party is under detention. Three hundred rifles, which were found in an adjoining chamber, were seized. Count Matuschka, ome of those al- leged to have héen involved in Fri day's disorders, has not yet b¥en ar- rested. POOR OLD BILL. He Is So Mentally Affected He Tried to 5 (Canadian Press Desphich.) London, Dec. 10--Willtam ~Ho~ henzollern, former German emperor, has attempted to commit suicide fol. lowing mental d , according to the Leipzic jeblatt, as quoted in a Copénhagen despateh. A mem- her of the former emperor's retinue who prevented Herr Hohenzollern from earrying out his intention re- it 1s sald. i «Hog Prices Reduced, ian Press Despatch) hp average prices on Hogs at various lve stock centres have han undertaken 'by the Unit- 8 nrices are Bronght Hifteen cents per hun- { Nov ' | WONDERFUL ESCAPES OF DRIVER W. J. BURNS, Writes That r He Finished Up With the Canadians at Mons. { . Burns, 304 University received a let hae] Driver W. Mrs. W., avenue, hag just from. her youngest son, Burns Canadian Field Artillery, ve: 14th, nd written at Mons. [It] wae a hastily written letter to let his| relatives know that he had come] through safely Driver Burns has been at the front for twenty-eight months. He enlisted in the 33rd Bat- tery at Barriefield camp. Since going to the front he has had many wonder- ful escapes, 'He has had two teams of horses killed, and one horse blown to pieces under him, and coe reins cut out of his hands by flying shrap- rel, In 8pite of these close calls, he has never had a scratch, although he was covered with flying mud and buried by stones, He has a brother also at the front, who thas been there for two and a half years. SHAMMING AT HOSPITAL TAKEN BY THE POLICE John Zelinsky Was Looking For Free Board and Care. John Zelinsky, of 252 Osler ave- nue, Toronto, complained that he wag sick, and was taken in as a pa- tient at the Genera! Hospital two | weeks ago However, it was found that he was not ill at all, but merely shamming, and was asked to leave the institution. He refused to leave, and the Polic e were notified Police Constable James Downey went to the hospital on Monday afternoon and took Zelinsky in charge, and he is being held at the police station until his case investigated He said he was a Galician. . In Police Court, Tuesday, was given a month in jail is Zelinsky SHOULD BE PUNISHED. Enemy's Whining Should No¢ Be Lis tened To, Says Principal Taylor, Preaching at the American Presby- terian Church, Montreal, on Sunday, Princizal Dr. Bruce Taylor declared that the foe must be punished, that the enemy's whining should not be listened to, that playing for safely in peace days gave way to a spirit of sacrifice in war time Principal Taylor among other things said: "This is no ordinary beaten but one which, had it not been smit- ten dpwn to the ground, would have made the earth impossible for free men When a whele people shows that. its obligations have no value whatever, when they sink a hospital FOE foe, ed in mid-Atlantic, there is no kind of terms to 'be made with themi, and 4s to their whining, who will listen to them? We dre victors to punish them in the name of God. The blood of Abel crieth from the ground not in yengeance, but in defence of the world that is to be." CROWDING INTO PARIS, fhe Peace Offic tals are Moving In In Numbegs. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, Dec. 10.--Every train arriv- ing at Parig these days brings in large numbers of officials attached to the various delegations to the peace conference. All the larger Allled nations are continuously sending parts of their working personnel, and by the time the delegates gather the number of officials of all the nation- alities will number between three and five thousand. Each one will have some special work to do. Many them are already busy. . WHE LOWER HARBOR. We have many things in this good Old city to be proud of, but the condition of the lower harbor is not to be classed in this cale- gory. Mt belongs in the list of the things we ought to be ashamed of I'he new La Salle Causeway and bridge have been completed for over a year, marking a distinct im- provement in the connection' 7 be- tweén the city and the Barriefield shore. 'But nothing has been dore to remedy the disgraceful state of the harbor below the causeway. The temporary wooden bridge itself mot a thing of beauty by any means--still stands as 4 monument to eivic inactivity. , The old piles the dereliois and other rabbisn constitute « marine graveyard at once both repugnant to the aes- thetic taste of the peopie and dan- gerous to navigation and to those who seek pleasure on the water, Ii may be urged that the war inter. ferfy witd the, cleaning jup of ths harbor, but surely this is at best a lame. excise. The sunken barges and pleasure steamers and the long line of unused piles are danger spots to motor boat owners and canoelsls. Hven in war time they id not he tolerated. : t government. has voted ihe this city a or beauti- ful harbor, but 'we have sadly mis- { President ship with doctors, nurses and wound-J. 18 Albig Pe -- WILSON WONT VISIT GERMANY United Sats Declines to Con- sider Any Suggestion from Belin. GERMANS MAY BE GIVEN UNTIL FEBRUARY 1ST TO SUR- RENDER LOCOMOTIVES, British Troops in Cologne Decline to Make Use of Public Buildings and Have Grepieq Private Quarters. (Canadian Press De spatech) Paris, Dee. 10.--According to a wireless despatch from the U.S.3.} George 'Washington, {Marcei | Hutin in [Bcho de Paris, President | Wilson has been informed that Pre-| mier "Ebert of the Berlin Govern-| ment, was about to imake an effo | to get him to Germany. e| | replied: "Only by long | éan says visit Germary | sin years atone cerity. think forced obligations cline in advance suggestion of of repentence for her crimes and show {No true American -coull of vigiting Germany unless to do so by strictly official That is say, Jd de- to ionsider any kind" Given Until Feb. 1st? { (Canadian Press Despatch) Amsterdam, Dee. {10.--The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says it learns from competent sources that Mar- shal Foch has agreed to postpone the date for the surrender of. all German locomotives until February 1 7 0 Lhe British Refuse Public Buildings, (Canadian Press Despatch) Amsterdam, Dec. 10.---British troops, according fo a telegram from Cologne, have declined to make use of the publio- buildings there placed at their disposal. They have. occupied private quarters. WHIG HAS RECORD FOR FINDING LOST ARTICLES Large Grist, of Valuable Things Have Been Recovered For Owners, To beat a... advertisement, * as the small you have to boy would say. Everybody knows that #t pays to advertise, amd there are a humber of citizens who are of - fering thanks for the Whig's liners these days. Last week an advertisement was inserted about a watch being "lost and the timepiece was recovered a few minutes after a copy of the Whig arrived at a certain home, Monday night, the Whig an advertisement about a raccoon coat being lost. The coat was re- covered early Tuesday morning, and the liner in the paper turned the trick. A military cheque was reported lost in Monday night's issue. The same old story again. The chdgue turned up early Tuesday morning, "Noticed the add in the Whig,' said the finder, .who handed over the cheque for the owner. : A gold wrist watch was lost on Monday. Tuesday the owner got it back as a result of adventising. And many other stories of a sim- flar nature could be tbid but space would pot permit, suffice to say that it pays to advertise, and to adver- tise in the Whig. If you lose any- thing, let the paper that goes into the homes find it for you. carried LADIES HAV] E {COMMENCED Their Preparations for the Victory Christmas Tree. A meeting of the warious chapt- ers of aughters of the Empire was held Tuesday to discuss the plans for the Victory Christmas tree for which the [Whig is raising money. {At this meeting the Daughters lof the [Empire under- took to /handle the event. Mrs JT. B. Carruthers, regent of the order will supervise, and will be assisted by able committees of ladies, and will have the co-operation of the Great 'War Veterans' Association. \ Brig.<Gen. Hemming 'has very erously granted the use of the Armouries for 'the event, which will take place during Christmas week. All the funds raised will 'be handed over to the treasurer appointed by the Daughters of the Empire [Be- sides the (Christmas tree, refresh- ments will be served, and there will be & musical programme, If is ex- pected hat the band of the Great War Veterans' Avsvatatiog will take part. cf. y @ The 'county equrt opened Tuos- 3 LCase ~~ in HUNS GETTING TASTE OF THEIR | MEDICINE They Must nearer. and Leave Sidewalks When Belgian Officers Approach. Aix la Chapelle. Dee, 10. --This large German city ig not enthusiastic over the prop¢ on of occupation by the Aliies. The yoke of martial law seemily has galled the people. and there have heen many sighs of fretfulness. ' The populace was shocked beyond measure when the Belgians first en tered the city and promulgated the ironclad rales that givilians should leave sylewalks and nneover when Belgian) officers #pproached, and that hostages shou be given. up Their dignity was #0 hort dhat they protested to the internatiepal ar- mistice commission." Learning from the commission thai the tiles were exactly the same as 'those of 'the Germans at the {ime 'of the opcupa- tion of Brussels, (he people received an additional shock. They consoled themselves, however, With the argi- ment that 'the Belgians had brought the rules down upon themselves by firing upon 'the German troops, while. Aix la Chapelle never injured the Belgians. AS -HONORABIL Y WOUNDED, Outrage Frenne h aad Belgian Girls Should be Respected. Chicago; Dec. 10. ---A sdemand that officials of the- eentral powers responsible for the mistreatment of French and Belgian women and girls during the war be puniBhed and that the peace conference at Paris recognize * these victims as honorably wounded in behalf of their country instead of social out- casts, and that action be taken which will render such outrages impossible in the future was formulated by the executive committee of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union which closed its session to-day it is planned to have € 000,000 Am- erican women sign a petition to this effect for presentation to the peace conference through President Wil- son. 'A committee was appointed to take the petition to President Wil: son at Paris. = Most Enemy Aairplanes Delivered. Patis. Dec. 10.-~Gérmany's ac- tivity in airplane construction' gon- @nued to the last moment, despite her great lack of material, as is shown hy the surrender of German aircraft in accordance with the terms of the armistice. The greater part of the airplanes that Germany was to deliver are in the hands of the Allies now. Germany fs beginning to surren- der her loot, having already handed over to the allies for safe keeping £200,000,000 ($1,500,000,000) gold exacted from Russia, ~ The smile on the face of Admiral Tyrwitt i altogether displeased over receiving the surrender. Fat Harwich, Nov. 20, on his flagship, the Curacao, o>" in shows that he was not The picture was taken A GLAD BRITISH HAVE ARRIVED The Germans Fear Bolshevism And There fore Welcome the Allies. LESSER OF TWO EVILS "GOTT EFBRAFE ENGLAND" IS NO LONGER HEARD. The German Children Are Friendly ~Everyone Doffs Hat When a British Officer Passes. London, Dec. 10.--~--From Cologne, Germany, Philip Gibbg writes: Everywhere | found" the villagers bad received the, British boys in a friendly way, and the yellow-haired German children stood in groups round them as they picketed their horses and unloaded their trans- ports. : War is war, but Children are chil- dren, and it is difficult to nourish hatred in one's heart when small boys and girls come to shake one's hands or kiss it, and when little ing maid wishes one a good appetite before one eats, and stands with anx- ious eyes to observe the effect of the food' she has cooked. Every man of high or low estate doffs his hat when a British officer passes, and if one stops to make an inquiry the German civilians, many ef whom were Ger- 3 Pro | constant fear maids with pig tails courtesy as one | passes, and in a wayside inn a 86rv- women at the rate of 300 weekly, | These special man officers until a few wees 4 ago, answer with the utmost politeness, Defeat and revolution, with which they are threatemed, and .fear of worse things that may h#ippen, have made the German people painfully anxious to abide by the rules of our occupation and get on the right side of those who now have the powers of life and death over them. = This fear and the tremendous relief that the bloodshed has been finished, and perhaps also the hope of a new era of liberjy banished from Prussian mili- tarism, has changed amazingly the attitude of the people of the Rbine- land towards the English. There is no more "Gott strafe England." Again, and again during the past few days I heard Germans say, "Thank God, the English have come," and 1 believe they say that with sin- cerity. The German middle classes are more afraid, it seems, of Bolshe- vism than of British soldiers, and during a time of political crisis and social revolution, people with pro- perty and those who desire law and order rather than the anarchy of a mob, are anxlous for our presence as being the lesser of two evils NO HORN-BLOWING OVER BRITISH WORK Caimly They Have Begun Settle Constantinople Affairs. London, Dec. 10.--The matter-of- fact way in which the British are 'taking up their work of settling af- Ifairs in Constantinople is declared by the correspondent of 'the Times Dardanelles. "At the present - moment," he says, "one is suffering here from a feeling of anti-climax. The British in: their calm, unromantic and me- thodical way have entered the grea! historical city which has suffered in its time so many romantic and bloody sieges and captures, and they have settled down to their business with an almost complele lack of frumpet-blowing or military show of any kind. For people who live in of something unpleas- ant 'happening--say a massacie-----it is difficult to iamgine that 'a con- quering military force can arrive and instal itself with a complete ab- JSence of excess, either homicidal-or spectacular, TROOPS OVE RSE AS MARRYING of Three Hundred a Week. v London, Dec, --/The Canadian Press learns from a reliable esti- mate that fifty thousand women and children dependents of Canadian sol- diers are in England. Roughly At the Rate Jepeaking they can be transported at the rate of five hundred each sail- ing. How many sailings will be available in the near future it is im- possible to say, but, in any case, it is lobvious the whole number cannot possibly reach Canada before @%- mobilization of the army. Striking scenes are witnessed daily nowadays at British Coldmbia House, where Canadian military authorities have opened a special bureau for women and children to secure passages. The crush is so grea! whenever sailings are lmmin- ent that many are eompelied to wait hours in queues. The Minnedosa took yesterday 500. Most of these will travel with their soldier hus- bands. Many of these wives will see Canada for the first time, for during recent months Canadian sol- diers have been marrying English sailings for women and children will te suspended di- rectly demobilization begins, The British eléction campaign has entered its last week. There are many three-coranered fights. Liloyd- | George seems sure of victory. | "REMEMBER THE KIDDIES." The Whig's Victory Christmas Tree Fund For Soldiers' Kiddies. years, ing subscriptions have already beem W. F. Nickle . .. James A. Richardson .. ... .. British Whig Publishing Co, . Dr, J. J. Hacty . Mayor Hughes . J. B. Carrutiers . Jean Richardson . Waldron's . .. W. B. Dalton & Sou, . Col. and Mrs, Perrean . dM Farrell ......c. Major E. H. Lancaster Princess Street Meat Market. . CR Aria se Seam a Re wd See a Ta Don't let the kiddies ery this Christmas because Santa Claus forgot them while daddy was overseas. Let them know tho joy of Christmas as your own children know #t, and as you used to know it in your ehildhood The Whik's Fund aims at raising $1,000 to provide every ome or these kiddies with something by which to remember the generosity of Kingstonians this Christmas, Pill every little heart with joy, and the kiddies will thank you; aud their fathers, who are serving overseas, will understand and appreciate. Send in your subscription mow, The follow received: . $30.09 50.00 25.00 25.00 '10.00 10.00 10.00 10,00, 10.00 5.00 Fr aes whe awe wa "awl, 4 ene ae SR iC yy wea Sarre srl d 'x eA a Tweet ay WE ee gh Sire donee aah with the British naval forces in the | SHED SR FROM BREAKERS Thrilling Rescue of William Smith, of Kingston, off Gharlotte, N.Y. TAKEN OFF LAURA GRACE HALI-NAKED \ AND FROZEN CONDITION. IN HAL Smith Fainted as the Rescuers Ar. rived--The Stgry of the Wreck of Kingston Tug. Rochester, N.Y., Dec. 9---After facing death for four hours clinging to the pilot-honse of the Laura Grace, a tug from Kingston, Ont.. which foundered at: 8.30 Friday morning in Lake Ontario about five miles West of the Genesee river, William Smith, of Kingston, was rescued by Captain William iF, Forbes, of the United States Coast Guard Sta- tion at Summerville, Captain (Forbes twenty-six<foot sunt crew of five men. later be arrived off Grand View Beach, mear Long Pond, where he found the [Laura [Grace aground be- tween the first and second row of breakers. 'With breakers rolling an as fhigh us a two-storey house,' the life savers mandeuvred around the stranded tug for halt an-hour until in a favorable moment they rap up under ther: lee and threw a line to Smith, who was stib.on board. He was so completely Pyeredme by the cold that he could hot even make it fast. Captain Forbes called to him to hang on to the rope and throw himself aboard the lifeboat. He did so and fell fainting info the strong arms of the vrew Clothes Freeze to Bodies. When the live-saving crew reach- ed 'Rochester harbor the men's clothing iwas frozen to their bodies so that it was necessary to cut it off with kniv Captain Forbes had films of ice over his eyes which made them look Iike glass eyes, The ropes were ag stiff as wire cables. (Ice had formed in the scup- pers of the lifedboat so that it was no longer self-balling, but. held Jive fiches lof fwator ins the cockpit. Leather mittens were frozen as hard as iron. When Smith had fully recovered consciousness, = he Was served 'with hot coffee and food at the Jlifessavihg. station, and, be- ing supplied with a new "outfit of clothes, wag able to leave Jin the afternoon. The Laura Grace eft Kingston on Thursday night ai eight o'clock bound up the lake "for .Port Dal- housie. (At about four o'clock next morning, when ithe storm signals for a hurricane were out on the up- per lakes, a blizzard set in from the "north-east which proved to be more than the tug could stand, She shipped water so THdES 4 threa- tened to put out thé and sink the boat so that Captain William Mu y ordered the grew to bail out the 'engine-roois Hs and steered a wconrse the south shore to avoid sinking 1 in the middle of the lake. They lost 'their posi- tion in 'the blizzard and 'were un: able to pick up the Genesee river until it was too late. Piled Into Lifeboat. : When the tug grounded about 600 feet from the shore, one of the crew, Laurence Marsh, cut the life- boat from its davits with an axe, and all of the crew, including a 'woman, |Mrs, Margaret Switzer, pil- ed in, except Captain Murphy and Willlam Smith. Four leaped into the icy water and crawied into the yaw! from thd surf. Captain Mur- phy resigned his place In the over- crowded (boat to the rest of the crew and was towed through the: breakers one hand on the gunwile and one hand on the mate. Smith, however, had held thre painter of the yawl from the tug until it was too late for him to bé rescued. The eréw last might spoke highly ia praise of this heroism. Henry Hoffman, caretaker of A. H.MoGreal's hotel at Grand View Beach, came to the rescue of the nine men and jone Woman on the frozen beach, and Helped through , the snow to his hotel. None of them wak th a serious condition ex- cept Captain Murphy, who wis delirous for several Hours after- ward, [He is now out of danger, Members of the crow, almost all of 'whom gave theip bomes as Kings- ton, Ont. are as follbws: Caplain William Murphy, William Weeks, Max [Servis, Gordon Stokes, Joserh Denis, Laurence Marsh, 'Williaa Davis, {Michasl Helllg, Peter. Sand jand William Smith. Twe of these tare soldiers recently returned from the front. pnisie Raise Hats to British, Amsterdam, Dee. 10 --The Bri- tigh suthorities fi caprge of the oe- cupation- in the Put out in a boat with a About an hour ig At Cologne other places the Geparting ed paces the : : have been tremendous fareweit recep at a rocalied 'and half-naked and haif-frozen