Daily British Whig (1850), 5 Oct 1916, p. 1

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ara arsed ---- PAGES 138 ---- YEAR 83--NO, '239 ONTA RIO, KINGSTON, x HU RSDAY, oC rOBER 5. 1916 LAST EDITION CERMAN COLONEL REBUKES TROOPS For tog bed wo Wasting Ammuni- fion on the Som Somme Front. TELLS THE HUN SOLDIERS THEY DAMAGE THEMSELVES EYES OF ENEMY. Frightened When the British Start Grenades--The | Throwing a Few Bavarians Lose Their Nerve. London, Oct, 6.--A despatch the Dally Mail from the Somme front says:' "The following order, signed by a German coloned has been found: " "The demand for our artillery barrage fire and the nervous firing of our rifies, because an unseen homber throws a few hand grenades, reveals a state of great excitement. We waste an enormous quantity of | ammunition, and when we want it, it is gone. Secondly, we damage ourselves in the eyes of the enemy. { have the impression that a few Englishmen throwing grenades from their trenches can thoroughly fright- en a crowd of Bavarians. This is why we always silently acknowledge the superiority of the enemy with- | out reason. This fright on the Somme front must be dispelled and aim must take its place." Enemy Resistance Erratic. Philip Gibbs, in a despatch to the | Chronicle says: "It is not easy to i find any definite plan in the enemy' 8 * establish a line upon | give battle.| + mind or to which he is ready to "| mepuce AMPUTATIONS IN! | ever, to | Here and there, north of Courcelette, | our men push forward patrols that|$ find only a thin wall of men, which crumbles before them. At other places not far away, as at the Ger- man trenches as far as Eaucourt L'Abbaye, the ground ig strongly held, as though the Germans were determined fo defend this line at al costs. It is possible that a gradual withdrawal is being masked by sharp | counter-blows to check the quick- ness of the British advance." STOCK EXCHANGE. The Prices Paid For the Good Stuff These Daya, New York Stocks. Open, 108% 90% Close. 108% 90% 40% 98 113% joren 113% 161% 1% 83 981% 81% 118 Atchison .. . Baltimore & Ohio ara PR. esd Erie "x a .e Ohio & 8t. 'Paul a New York Central Northern Pacific . Reading. Union Pacific Car Foundry .. Am. Loco. .. Anaconda Rep. Steel .. UU. 8. Steel .. Canadian dian Stocks. Steel Corp. .. .. 6% General Electric Steel of Canada .. Steamships. Cement .. .. + +a Cotton December, $117. 08; $17.17; May, $17.48. Chicago Prices. Wheat Der $1603; May, ~$1.59%. Corn--Deckinber, 78c. Toronto Live Stock. Hecelpts fair; trade slow. Choice heavy steers; $7.75 to $8; good heif- ers, $7.26 to $7.60; cholce butcher cows, $6.2 $6.50; others un- changed. 66 '130 . 66 34% 66% 66 January, { HEV, J. D. MCRAE "ORDAINED win Supply at Petrolia for Capt. J. M. McGillivray. Petrolia, Oct. 6.-~--~The Presbytery of Sarnia met here and ordained Rev. J. D. McCrae to the work of the ministry. He is a recent graduate of Queen's University, and will act as supply for the Petrolia congre- gation during the absence of Captain J. M. McGillivray, who is in service as Chaplain of the 149th Battalion. Are on Remand, (Special to the Whig.) Montreal, Oct. 5.--Four students arrested in yesterday's riot were ar- raigned jn the Recorder's Court on charges of damaging property, dis- turbing the peace, and insulting the police. pleaded not guilty, and were remanded to Oct: 12th The Canadian Patriotic Fund nceds $13,500,000. AAAI MINA NANI PN Cr -- TN WHIG CONTENTS 1--Tanks Manned 'German Co < Canadians; Re or Rebukes ush Teu- ; Britain Needs Men, Car Stolen; Called to St. Andrew's Church: Teach- Convention. sAnpounceme nt 8; Drawing Spar. ant: the Pe aneld 1 Menus. Countrygid of Sport. AND FATAL WOUNDS Speed Up Ambulance Service Q From French Battlefields Ul to the Hospitals. w Paris, Oct. 5.--Dr. Alexis Carrel yesterday announced an impending {reform in the methods of surgery | throughout France which is likely to result in a vast diminution of ampu- tations and fatal wounds. He said: "Grafting of the tissue of the bone and flesh hitherto has been next to impossible, owing to the difficulty of | transferring the wounded from the field to the hospital before gangrene or infection have set in. "Phe American ambulance, how- has demonstrated the possi- with an efficient transport de- of getting the wounded the battlefield to the | hospital within ten hours. Hereto- fore the average time has been twenty-four hours, which entailed much loss of life and many otherwise needless amputations. "The French Army Medical Ser- vice frankly recognizes the splendid methods of the American hospital, and has decided to speed up its tran- sport everywhere and generalize the use of the Daken solution for the washing of suppurating wounds, thus | rendering possible a vast campaign of grafting which will result in en- ormous progress in that branch of surgery." | bility, partment, soldier from | 1 if] * rst tat et iat * +e * % GREAT TRIUMPH OF + BRITISH 2 AIR SERVICE, : Lotidon, Oct In his'gum- mary of the Somme operations, Gen. Haig reports: -- "Our aircraft have shown In the highest degree the spirit of the offensive. They have pa- trolled regularly far behind the + enemy's linés, and have fought many battles in the air with hostile machines, and many with enemy troops on the ground. For every enemy ma- chine that succeeds in crossing our front, it is safe to say two hundred British machines cross the enemy's front." B.-- + + * + + » ill RUSSIANS ADVANCING ON A WIDE FRONT A Turkish Fortified Position In Region of Karaburnum Taken. (Special "To "The Wh Petrograd, Oet. 5. * BriSanly re- suming the offensive in the Caucasus in co-operation with the Black Sea fleet, the Russians are advancing on a wide front, the War Office an- nounced to-day. A Turkish fortified position in the region of Karaburnum has been captired. On the Austro- German front stubborn fighting con- tinues from the region east of Viadi- mir-Volynska as far south as the Dueister. In Dobrudja the Russo- Rumanian offensive continues. Rus- sion troops have captured six cannon and the Rumanians seven. FIGHTING ON THE SOMME. A Successful Raid by British Infan- try Near vimy. (Special To The g) London, Oct. om British artillery played upon the moving German in- fantry columns north of Sechwaben re- doubt last night, inflicting many casualties, but aside from intermit- tent shelling there was no activity north of the Somme, General Haig reported this after- noon a successful raid by British in- fantry near Vimy. A German attack near St, Eloi was unsuccessful, Berlin Admits British Gains, (Special To The Whig) Berlin, Oct. 5.---British gains north Jf the Somme were admitted by the War Office this afternoon, but it was announced that the British were defeated with severe losses at one point. The French gained some German trenches between Rfegicourt and Rancourt. In Macedonia the Allies have cap- tured Nidze Planina, and Bulgarian troops have against lost Jeniko]. CALLED FOR INSTRUCTION France To Enroll Young Men Of 'Nineteen-Eighteen Class. Paris, Oct. 5.--A memorandum at- tached to a bill introduced in the chamber of deputies by the minister of war, Gen. Roques, authorizing the enrollment of the young men of the class of 1918 preparatory to their be- ing called to the colors, explains that the military instruction of the class of 1917 is about completed. The youths of the class of 1917 were en- rolled upon their reaching the age of 18. When the members of the class of 1918 are enrolled they will be six' months older than the pre- ceding class and will not 'be actually incorporated into the army antil later, when parliament = passes special law. | \_. Bad re REE R hia pushed toward Mon- INTERNATIONAL POLICE AT SALONIKA. "TANKS" MANNED : BY CANADIANS: Major Edwar" and, of Montreal, is in vommand of Some. MAJOR KNIGHT, OF DURHAM, WAS KILLED WHILE DIRECTING "TANK" OPERATIONS. Both These Officers of the Daring Sort--Canadians Evidently Play- ing Prominent Part in' "Tank" Varia. pecial to Jhe 2) Montrons Oct. 5 That many of the great "tanks" now playing such a prominent part in the British ad- vance on the Somme river are of- ficered and manned by Canadians is indicated by letters arriving here, stating that Major "Eddie" Holland, who gained his Victoria Cross in South Africa, was in command of one or more of these 'tanks' in the recent operations. Major Holland left here in command of the Borden Motor Machine Gun Battery. It is also noted here that Major E. L, Knight, of Durham, Ont., who went from Canada in com nd of the Eaton. Auto Machine Gu tery, has been killed in_action, sumably while directing of the some of the British cars. . Both these officers are well known throughout Canada as particularly daring men, just the kind who would be sent in charge of such operations as "tanks" cal] for. In their respective batteries when they, left Canada were offigers, non- commissioned officers and men of the same type, chosen from all provinces Whig "tank" bility for this class of work. 5 a eee ssyns " * : , BRITISH VICTORY, * apodial to the-Wiig.) " Salonica, Oct. 5.--The battle around the village of Jenikoj on the Struma front, resulted in a complete British victory, it was officially an- nounced to-day. The whole vil- lage is now in the hands of the British, who are now consolid- ating their positions. The Bul- #/ gars suffered heavily in the re- & cent fighting. TEPPPEIEEN NP i: SUBMARINE MENACE QUICKLY DI DEALT WITH, British Navy "Attended to Ger-| man Undersea Boats Sent to English Channel. (Special to the Whig New York, Oct. 5.--The New York World's London correspondent cables from Lond not generally known in England, not having been mentioned by any of the newspapers, the Germans last week sent all available submarines to the Channel. The object was, of Bat- | pre-| operatious | of Canada for their particular suitl-| Although the fact is| Leeds. Including Englis Eagiah French, | Russians, Serbians and Italians. WILL NOT DESERT. (Special to the Whig +» New York, Oct. 5.--Mailed # advices from pro-German sources in Helland to-day intimate that in August Kaiser Wilhelm and Von Hindenburg met repre- sentatives of Czar Nicholas at Kovno with offers of important concessions of large territory to Russia for separate peace. The entrance of Rumania into the war put a stop to the negotia- tions, say these despatches, which add there is no prospect that Russia willk desert the Allies under any possible condi- tions. srsrereseIastIes SEF P rere eI rbd 4; + NEW "ZEPP CHASER" USED BY BRITISH Machine 80 Effective German Raiders Will Have No Chance of Safety. London, Oct. 5.--A new Zeppelin chaser" areoplane employed by the British Home Defence is one of the | most formidable r-fighting ma- chines yet-imven The"seeret. re- garding many details of it construe- tion is closely kept, and only the main features are now allowed by the British and French censorships to be mentioned in the press, A French aviator expert, Jacques Marsillac; has examined this air. ma- chine, and his published account of it, after the censors in two countries had made their eliminations, is as follows an "The machine is a trac top biplane of powerful construction, / with a high-powered fixed motor. Its sta- bility is remarkable to a point of be ing practically automatic. Landings can be made by this machine at rel- ativery low speed. " As for the form and volume of armament, it is de- | cided that they are not to be made | known until peace has been signed. I shall only add in this connection that if the Prussians continue to send Zeppelins ower London it is ten to one that the way will come when { their home sheds will see them no | more." | It was with one of these machines | that Lieut. William Leefe Robinson destroyed the Zeppelin on September 2nd, for which feat King George con- ferred on him the Victoria Cross. feeder yp o UNFAVORABLE MEASURE Luxembourg Cabinet About To Re- sign; Fourth Since War. a Berlin, Oct. 5.--The Luxembourg | cabinet is reported about to resign | as a result of an unfavorable mea- | sure passed by the legislature. |sonal disputes between {Chief Welter and Deputy Leval are | also said to me responsible, | The present Luxembourg Govern: | ment is headed by M. Thorn, a Lib- | eral "councillor of state. It is the fourth cabinet formed since the out- | break of the war. -- 4 | Duke Was Surprised at Appointment. i London, Oct. 5.--"1 was never so surprised in my life as when the sug- | gestion was made that I. should be- | come Governor-General of Canada," declared the Duke of Devonshire at | "I had always hoped 1 might | do useful work at home, but i§ had never occurred to me that had qualifications for so great and im- portant a position." 'READY TO CRUSH : TEUTON FORCES Per- | Cabinet | NA A A tr Everything Ready Wi General Sarai to Mace Bulgars Between Millstones. BOLD MOVE OF RUMANIA BY CROSSING DANUBE AND IN- VADING BULGARIA. | This Is the First of the Big Develop- ments in the Balkans--Others Are to Follow Quickly. London, Oect, 5. --The surrise sprung upon Bulgaria and her Teu- tonic allies by the Rumanian cross- ing of the Danube between Rustchuk and Turtukai is hailed here as a stroke of such daring character that it would not have been attempted except in strong force. It is re- garded as a distinet threat to Mac- kemsen's communications through the difficult Dobrudja swamps, where there are no railroads and few roads, and if, as is believed here, the Ru- manian invasion of Bulgaria is in strength, and if it is pushed success- fully, the famous German '"'thruster" will be forced to make an extremely difficult retirement or sacrifice the bulk of his army. Mackensen"s advance In Dobrudja, which the Kaiser hailed as a decisive triumph, is already * described by some experts here as a pyrrhic tri- umph. He failed to gain the rail- vay bridge that spans the Danube at Cernavoda -before the relatively slow concentration of the Russian forces for the assistance of the Ru- manians in this district. was com- pleted, and when it was completed Mackensen was driven ten miles] south. { No doubt is expressed preparations have been going on for| an offensive move against Mackensen by the Russian and Rumanian forces which have held the Danube bridge- head during the recent period of ap- parent stagnation. It takes time to assenible an army which depegids for its transportation on a bridge carry- ing a single line of railroad. Equal- ly, no doubt is entertained that the Rumanian crossing of the Danube between' Rustchuk . and Turtakal was timed to coincide with an of- fensive movement 'by the Russians lon the Dobrudja front. Sandwich. Bulgars. Marcel Hutin says the operations which Gen. Basile Zetton, the new chief of the Rumanian gefheral headquarters staff, has now begun, has been collaborated in perfect agreement with the headquarters staff of the Allies. Athens reports suggest that once ithe danger of a stab in the back is | removed Gen. Sarrail will be free to move. The so-called mystery of Sar- i rail's long inactivity has been a pro- lific source of rumors, which have {found some space in the American papers. Sarrail's position is lucidly 'explained in a Salonika despatch to | the Manchester Guardian. The - army under his supreme command is in composition the most extraordinary army ever united un- i Laer a a single general. { been here that{N The only pre- international - expedi- under command of | Field Marshal Von Waldersee, but ithe differencé between that force {and the one under Sarrail is that | the former had absolutely no homo- | geneity. Every section regarded | the others with distruct to such an | extent that the Field Marshal never | gave an order without first assuring | himself. privately thy it, met with | the approval of the ommanders of | the various units, whereas, the army | of the east has blind confidence in pits commander and obeys his slight- | est order with prompt enthusiasm. 4 In the complicated problem that {faced Sarrail the first of the difficul- rtées he had to confront wah the in- ternational character of his force, which consists of British, French, | Italians, Russians, Serbians, and Al- | banians. Such a forcé must be dis- tributed in sections, each holding a , certain. part -of the. Jine. They can- not be mixed without reviving Babel, | and the confusion of tongues. The disembarking of an army of hun- dreds of thousands of men, hundreds of miles from their base, was a long and difficult matter. It meant an ac- cumulation of hundreds of thous- ands of tons of food, munitions and | war stores of every kind. No ad- | vance was possible until the base had been prepared for all emerg- encies. The fighting line had to be arranged with the arrival of each contingent, so that the latter would be placed with its proper unit. cedent is the { tion: to China Is Ready to Move. Sarrail was also confrodted with problems of a political character. He 'was justified in regarding the Greek army with the gravest dis- trust. The military operations had to be subordinated to the political situation, and await its settlement. Meanwhile hundreds of miles of new roads have been built in Mace- donia, a country almost without roads, where it would have been im- possible to manoeuvre an immense army and keep it supplied with food and munitions with the prev- fously existing means of communi- cation. All the country between Sa- lonika and the fighting line is dotted with camps and supply depots of every kind. Light railways have constructed and everything done to assure--smooth working of the immense machine. When Sar- rail gives the word it will move for- ward with § di force. RUSSO-RUMANIAN DRIVE To be in Command of Grand Duke Nicholas. GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS. (Special to the Whig) London, Oct. 5.--The Grand Duke Nicholas, * "former commander-in- chief of the Russian armies, has been recalled from the scenerof his tri- umphs in the Caucasus to command the Russo-Rumanian drive against Bulgaria, said a Stockholm despatch received here to-day. The Grand Duke will be given su- preme command of all tlie Russian and Rumanian forces operating in the Dodrudja and on the Danube. He may act as an adviser of the Ru- manian commanders in Transylvania. o BOSTON RED SOX ARE THE FAVORITES, New York, Oct. 5.--Betting in New York favors the Red Sox to win the world's cham- pionship from the Brooklyn Dodgers, the odds on 'wagers so far. recorded being 7 to 5. The odds on the opening game were 10 to 9 that Boston will win, and there was some betting at 1 to" 10 that Boston would take four straight. SEPP P Petree etre PREP REPPIN i Rev. Father Schuetz, chancellor of the Peoria Catholic diocese, was kill- ed, and Bishop Duenne, of the Peoria diocese, and Father Shannon, vicar- general, were seriously injured in an course, to close the Channel for once, in accordance with boasts. Bit the British navy was quick to 'deal with this new menace, . The Bremen is not the only sub- marine whose whereabouts is caus- ing anxiety in Berlin. (Special to destroyed fifteen or ph Bui ar lice to-day. Caught the Romanians During a Hasty Retreat Sofia. Oct. 5.--Bulgarian troops have enveloped and. 15,000 men) which crossed the Danube and ia near Riahovo, said an. official statement from jas were srs back by. an encircling move- the Whig.) Rumanian battalions (about invaded" k across the river without monitors had auto h 'up at Peoria, IN., on Wed- nesday. over which their backs agin PRobertson, vr 7 Ar BRITAIN NEEDS STILL MORE: MEN Sei of ry Bin ote lized ' To the Fullst Extent INPOSSIBLE TO ESTIMATE DURATION OF THE WAR, SAYS SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON. Essential That Many Skilled Work ers Be Released for Munition Plants--Britain Must Be Prepar- ed to Continue the War In- definitely. London, Oct. 6.--Great Britain is in urgent need of men for her armies, and also for her munitions factories, A statement to this ef- fect was given out yesterday by the Man' Power Distribution Board, re- cently appointed to comb out men eligible for military service in the United Kingdom who have not yet been enrolléd in the army. mined officials of the Admiralty, War Office, Ministry of Munitions, other departments, and that there was urgent need -for fresh supplies of men for the armies and munition factories, in order '"'to maintain our forces in the field at the numbers al- ready fixed for them, and at the same time maintain the supply of fhun- itions essential for their equipment and proper utilization." ust Release Many Men. he board, Ameretore, directed that no exemption be granted certain classes heretofore exempt, and that there be a more general dilution of skilled labor in munition factories with women and other workers here- tofore untrained. It suggested con- ferences of employers and employees with a view to freeing skilled labor now engaged in private work for efh- ployment in munitions plants. "It is essential," the board said, "that a large part of the iabor now sugaged in private work shall be diverted to Government ordéts or rel d for the army." The board also passed under con- sideration the extended use of wo- men and men over the military age and also the release of men of mili tary age now employed in Govern- ment offices. This is the only means, the board says, whereby extension of the age for compulsory service can be avoided. No official figures have as yet been announced as to the men serving with the British army on May 26th. ing George, in signing the Military Service bill, placed the number rais- ed up to that time at 5,041,000. In July, August and September the British casualties were 307,169. Cannot Estimate Wer Duration. London, Oct. §.-Gen. Bir William chief of.thé ¢ Imperial staff at army headquarters, sald 1h a speech yesterday at Dalderby, Lincolnshire, that while the Allies were winning the war slowly but surely, he wished to impress upon his hearers the necessity of procur- ing more men 'for the army and munitions factories. In this con- nection, he sald, he had a serious word of warning to give. not Justified in expecting to win the war," he sald, "unless the service of every man and woman in the country be utilized to the fullest extent. "We must be under no delusion," he continued, "as to the end or pro- bable duration of this great strug- gle. We must 'be prepared to con- tinue for a time which cannot at present be estimated. "In fact, we must prepare for the worst, while we hope for the best. We have adopted in theory the prin- ciple of national service. Me must see that we put it into practice be- cause we want more men, and we want them now, and eventually wo shall want all who can be spared." DAILY MEMORANDUM Tag day, Saturday, Oct. 7th, of Sendra) Hospital p of Rage 3, righi hand corner - in aid See t tor probabl Anning sale, 76 Brock street, urday morning, 9 o'clock, Bat- ROY-RYD! October Eh at St. Paul's church h Rev. Canan W. F. late Mr. and (RC. H.A) to Lieut. Arthur V. E. E. F., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Roy, of /Ottawa, Ottawa papers please copy. ADSIT-In Kingston, Oct. 4th, 1916, Dorothy Winnifred, aged 3 months, . daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Stanby "Hall, Adsit. Funeral 'was held Thu 9 o'clock, from 4 St. Mary's etary VEL~In Kingston, at $7 Clerg 5 th, 1916, Wit aged 85 years. Funeral notice later. 4th, 1916, months, & i facta hn Wallace ye son. of. Andrew Puno CR at 9 ah from 47 to ®t. Mary Elm street, 's ceme- tery. Friends and acq ull morning at pe street, to, hainer. Unton ° rset. o£ "oft 1ernoo nm, at; 2.30 BE Erte 2 y. Plone wie Soy 4 . 3 inegrine fiiness, John Melntyre, \ October 3rd, 1916, after The board reported It had exams ° % EE sa

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