Daily British Whig (1850), 18 Oct 1916, p. 1

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YEAR 83-NO. 242 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916 LAUNCH ATTACK ON WHOLE FRONT But Bucharest Reports the Teuton Effort So RUMANINS HAVE DRIVEN ' THE ENEMY, BACK UPON THE TRANSYLVANIAN SLOPE. . Stubborn Fighting Is Progressing-- Writish Made Progress Along Al- bert-Bapaume Road Despite a Heavy Downpour of Rain. (Special To The Whig) Bucharest, Oet. 18.---Austro-Ger- man troops have launched an attack on the whole Carpathian front, it was offieially announced to-day. Thus far attacks have been unsuc- cessful, and all news from the front is report reassuring. In the region of the rredeal Hass, south of Kronstadt, the Rumgnians resumed the offensive, and drove the enemy back upon the Transylvanian slope, where stubborn "nghting is progressing. British Still Advance. eclal To The Whig) London. Oct. 18. Notwithstand- ing a heavy downpour of rain, the British made progress at some points last night along the Albert-Bapaume road and Les Boeufs, Gen. Haig re- ported to-day. Some prisoners were taken. Battle in Héavy Snows, (Special to the ig.) Petrograd, Oct. 18.--Russian and Austro-German troops are now t- tling in heavy snows in the Carpath- fans and southward near the Ru- manian frontier, where the Teutons attempted to divide the. Russjan and Rumanian armies. The War~Office today announced the repulse of all Teutonic attacks south of Kersh- meze, and also near Porna Vatra. North of Kormotnitza, in flerce and obstinate fighting, all enemy coun- ter-attacks were repulsed. Near Bolshoyce the Teutons also counter- attacked savagely, but were halted by Russian fire, * Aides. go Ottawa, O¢t. 18.-~In a conference of news publishers and news print paper manufacturers held here yesterday the manufacturers ad- -hered to the price of three cents a pound that was quoted as a mini- mum in the conference last week before the Minister of Finance. The conference yesterday was presided over by R. W. Breader, of the De- partment of Finance. As the 'publishers and the paper manufacturers were unable to reach an agreement, the request of the an inquiry will be made by the De- paftment of Justice. HAS NOT BEEN AcckerED/ " For Settle published - dum had been sceapted, and would be used us a basis for final settlement. THE KING OF SPAIN. Spanish Ambassadors Meet at San Sebastian. Special T) on, has & € The Whig) Paris, 18 The Cane 'Machine Tel nia e ephone burned, causing plant at yey rieal; Private ge Dead. Camp. of Roxane; | .| heavy bombardment. Kk | Germany's closely guarded trade see- DOMINION ELECTION With Race, Religion and En- listment as the Chief Issues. (Special To the Whig) Ottawa, Oct. 18.--In political eir- cles it is stated that one of the first things the new governor-general may | have brought before him by the Gov- | emment will be a request that he dissolve Parliament for general elec- tion. Both parties are speeding up operations to some extent. Candidates | are being nominated in various pants {of the country. Organizations are | being tuned up here and there, the | Frengh ministers are holding meet- | ings, and talking straight politics in { Quebec. It is claimed by many | 'that the government will apply to the opposition for another extension of the term of Parliament with the con- fidgnt expectation that the Liberals will decline. Then an election will be brought on with race, religion, enlist- ment and othef big questions as the chief issues. i OBJECTS TO GERARD - ENTERING CAMPAIGN Secretary Lansing Opposed to Injecting Foreign Affairs in- to Domestic Politics. Washington, Oct. 18.---Secretary of State Lansing this afternoon open- ly rebelled against the entrance of Amba@sador Gerard into the national campaign in support of President Wilson. He issued a veiled rebuke of the administration's campaign managers for injecting America's foreign af- fairs into domestic politics, "l am making no campaign," Secretary Lansing announced. "I am quite opposed to bringing our foreign | affairs into domestic politics." | Concerning the announcement that Ambassador Gerard would speak: in the West in support of President Wilson, Secretary Lansing said: "I will not comment upon Mr. Ger- ard's 'decision, Mr. Gerard is large- ly his own master. You know my views." GERMANS IN VAIN ATTACK THE FRENCH South of the Somme--All Their Attempts Repuised . With Heavy Losses. Paris, Oct. 18.--Gé&rman troops launched. a violent attack against French positions south of the Somme at five o'clock this morning after a A few German d~tachments reached the Freneh first line trenches, but were all either kill ed or captured, the War Office an- rounced. Another German attack was checked by screen fire. The German assaults, south of the Somme, followed three heavy unsues cugsful attacks north of the river late last night. The Germans attempted to oust the French from those parts of Sailly-Saillisel captured in this week's fighting, but were repulsed with heavy losses. The French maintain their positions. South of the Avre and south-east of Rheims, French detachments cleaned up en- emy trenches. TOBACCO HELD UP. Consignments From U.S. to Neutral Ports Detained at London. London, Oct. 18.--Large States ian ports are being held here on the claim of the government that they fail to Samply with the cecent ar- rangement er which cargoes paid for before August 4th and shipped prior to August 30th might proceed 10. neutral destinations. DN» +a SHORTLY EXPECTED . | explains that the "KEEP SMILING" IS THE MOTTO OF OUR SOMME "PUSHERS." BACK AFTER "TANKING" THE HUN. ES the recent fighting. ATHENS JERS ALLES LEADER French Marines. FRENCH SAILORS DRIVEN BACK BY THE MOB. The Crowds Parade the Streets, Singing the National Anthem and Demanding Protection of Ameri. can Minister. London, Oct. 18.--A despatch to Reuter's Telegram Company from Athens says: _ : "Fhe situation dppears to be dan- gerous. There have been Royalist demonstrations in the streets. "Admiral Du Fournet, command- er of the Entente Allied fleet in the Mediterranean, was hissed, and a de- tachment of French sailors was driven back by a hostile crowd. "A procession of some 4,000 mal- contents, headed by the Greek and American flags, stopped outside the American legation, protested against the landing of foreign marines, afd demdnded the protection of the Amer minister, who was absent. "The demonstrators then-paraded the streets, singing the Greek na- tional anthem." A despatch Monday says from Athens dated "The British legation landing of marines at Athens and Piraeus was merely intended to reinforce the police. It is generally thought, however, that this action was taken to prevent demonstrations like those of this morning (Monday)." Cheer for Constantine. 'Athens, Oct. 17 (via London, Oct. 18.)~Marines from 'the, ships of the Entent Secrets R 'Washington, Oct. 18.--Some of of about a thousand have been land- ed at Piraeus and have occupied the railway station at Piraeus and sev- efal buildings in Athens. of Athens swirmed with Greeks frantically The Greeks in Turmoil Over: Landing of GREECE'S FUTURE AT STAKE Powers to the number ately this became known the streets The British have laughing officers who lead their men, whereas the Huns are driver by men who despise them. Photo shows Corp. Wightman, with his arm blown off in the Somme advance, telling his brother Herbert, who is just about to go to the front, all about ADE EFFORT BY 'ALLIES EXPECTED ¥ Tien { Americans Warned to Prepare for Gigantic British and French' Campaign: York, Oct. 18.--American| must expect the keenest competition with 'European nations, especially Great Britain, in the | Latin-American trade after the war, | according to a statement issued yes-| terday by John Barrett, director-| general of the Pan-American Union, | TR | | New ! business !who returned yesterday from Bor- jdeaux on the French line steamer La- | fayette after a trip to England and | France. Mr. Barrett went abroad, to ascertain the British' and French | upon 'the commercial and economic development of the American repub- cs. "I return convinced," said Mr. Bar- rett, "that the commercial, manufac- turing, banking and general financial interests of the United States will make a great mistake if they count upon any general 'let up in British and French. . the war; of their trade and financial interests in Latin-America. Although ' the belligerent nations will be heav- ily bandicapped by the ' cost of the war, they are leaving no efforts ne- glected at the present time to pre- Pare to regain any commerce they may have lost." The commercial and government leaders of France and England de- sired co-operation 'instead of *'ruin- ious competition," said Mr, Barrett, in the belief that there is abundant room for the best efforts of all coun- tries concerned. WINDSOR WOMEN TO RESPOND To Call To Take Positions In Fac- tories and Offices. Windsor, Oct. 18.--That many Windsor' women will respond to the call of the Women's Emergency -Com- (mittee to fill positions in factories (and offices sft vacant by men enlist- 'ing in the army is shown by the num- ber who have already signified their intention of registering at the City Rev. Arthur Carlisle, rector of All Saints' Ahglican Shuren; Rev. W_E Pescott, of Cen Methodist Ch: 3 Dr. J. A. Smith, Collector of Customs, and Dr. G: R, Cruickshanks, city med- ical health officer, hae been chosen ' by the organizers of the movement to {make preliminary arrangements for registration. Two sisters living near Maidstone have applied to the Government for permission to drive a mail wagon, so two brothers may be released for army service. . 3 First Tank Was Destroyed. New York, Oct. 18.--The British Tank that appeared first cording to Lieut. Sthephane Lausan- i ne, former editor of the Paris Matin, who arrived on the French liner La- fayette yesterday. The tank wis de- i M. Lausanne said, to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Germans. oa viewpoint of the effect of the wari" jcompressed between powerful roll- IN LONDON WAR EXGENCES MAE BRIAN Astonishing Resources is Shown By the British Manufacturers. MANY NEEDS ARE SUPPLIED OWING TO THE NEW CONDITIONS : THAT EXIST. Artificial ' Leather, Artificial Silk, Fuel Oils, Wood Pulp for Cotton Uses Are All Products of Factories and Laboratories Since War Be- gan. Washington, D. C., Oct. 18.--That Germany. is not the oply. belligerent country that has devised flew means of meeting the exigincies of war is shown in a report from Consul Clair- borne, of Brandford, England, who) says that British manufacturers have found many ways of providing arti- cles made extremely scarce because of war demands. Artificial leather, a good substitute for leather; artificial silk, various fuel oils, wood pulp for many uses to which cotton was form- erly supposed to be alone suited, and new means of recovering rubber from waste rubber goods, are some of-the extensively developed materi- als and processes. British Inventors Busy. _§#Scientific research and invention have been most active in Great Brit- ain since the war began, the Consul says, and many substitutes have been found for articles hitherto regarded as practically indispensable. Many of the imported analine dyes have been supplanted by home-made dyes that were formerly entirely. neglect- ed. The production of alcohol from woog pulp has started up, and wood pulp is being employed in silk weav- ing where before cotton was used. The British are beginning to make kerosene engines to take the place of gasoline engines, and there is a con- siderable use of benzol in lieu of gasoline. 1 Artificial Leather, One of the interesting substitutes is artificial leather. Linen duck is coated with varnish to which is add- ed a small quantity of siccative and Venetian red. Several layers of the dried linen are then joined together in sheets of various thickness. The adhesive mixture used for this pur- pose consists of four parts of heated wood tar pitch with the addition dur- ing constant stirring of two parts of India rubber dissolved in benzol, four parts of Venetian 'red mixed to a thick consistency with French tur- pentine oil and two parts of cork powder. Sheets thus prepared are ers. The product, it is claimed, serves as an 'substitute for leather, for the sales of footwear. It ly be sewn and pegged, and can replace lesther in many of its uses. War Tidings. Lotd Charles Berestord and others | LIKE A WILDERNESS in the-House of Lords made direct charges on Tuesday that United States destroyers violated neutrality when they stood by and watched German submarines sink British freighters. The German War Office on Tues cay admitted that the Rumanians are making stubborn resistance at mountain passes, "he Germans have made no pro- gress in their new offensive, said the Russian War Office, and have lost many thousand men. 2 The British and French gained more ground in 'infantry attacks Tuesday afternoon. p- A violent artillery duel is in p gress on the west front. The Rumanians have checked the | German invasion at all points. { { | ALONG THE SOMME The Trenches Are Entirely | "Slotted Out--Dead Heaped | in Dugouts. London, Oct. 18.--Writing four days ago from the front, a Canadian artillery officer says: "The severity of the fighting round here which con- tinues day by day is almost past all imagination. Every new stretch of ground over which we advance is a wilderness. There is not an inch of ground not torn up; not a brick left on another in any villag& whatever. Trenches the Huns might have occu- pied have entirely disappeared in the general scheme of destruction. "When the infantry advance they improvise cover ' for themselves by joinirg up shell holes, which are as numerous as holes in a wire netting. | Bodies of dead soldiers, Germans and | British, lie on the surface, if it can be called a surface. We come across old German gun positions at various| points here. We have ample traces! of the deadly work of our artilipry. Min the parcases of horses, wreckage | of guns, and quantities of unusued German shells ; "We sometimes find deep dug-ouis which in some miraculous fashion have escaped the deluge of shells. If} one takes a journey down one of] these it is to find our infantry bomb-| ers have succeeded. It is no uncom- mon thing to find dozens of Ger- Tigns bombed to death before they kad time to emerge to mwe2: 'he on- coming infantry. Thes2 dug-ous,| bowever, are becoming fewer and| fewer the mo.e we advance, for the Flung have no time or no heart to bumld them before they ar» compelled to retreat again." GERMANY'S MAIN EFFORT Would Sacrifice All For Eastern Do- mindon. Oct. 18.~--Du..B,.J. Dillon, ina teh from to the Daily Te ph says: "It is come clear to the dullest apprehen- sion that, for the time being at any rate, the principal war theatre has' shifted to the near east, where the Allies are confronted not merely with Bulgars and Turks, but with the troops of the Central Empires com- manded by their four best generals-- Falkenhayn, Hindenburg, Mackensen add von Artz. "So important for Germany is the maintenance of communications be- tween Berlin and the near east that she is ready, as I know, to make peace to-day on the basis of the evacuation of France and Belgium, but on con- dition that she and her confederates be permitted to deal with Russia and the Balkan States. For if the upshot of the war left her the makings of an Oriental empire #eaching from Ham- burg to the Persian Gulf she would consider this result worth the sacri- fices made." HAROLD JARVIS RE-WEDS Twenty-Seven-Year-Old Pupil Be- comes Toronto Singer's Bride. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 18.---8tory book romance had its counterpart in real life when Miss Marie Adelaide Judson was married to Harold Jarvis, the well-known tenor soloist, it be- came known yesterday. The old, but ever delightful plot of a pupil being wooed and won by her teacher saw its last chapter when the Rev. Jos- eph A. Vance, pastor of the Wood- ward Avenue Presbyterian Church, performed 'the wedding service at the home of the bride's parents. Ten years ago Miss Judson, then seventeen years old, became a pupil of Mr. Jarvis. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bruce Judson, 133 Hazelwood avenue, and is a mem- ber of the church where Mr. Jarvis is soloist. Mr. Jarvis has been a widower a number of years. His only son died had gone to study. BREAD PRICE INCREASES, Ay Another Boost If Wheat and Flour Regina, 8ask., Oct. 18.--Bread in Regina jumped to ten cents a loaf about a month ago, and has remained "tr eit as "c 's straight six years ago in Dresden, where he |G PAGES 18 ATHENS DER MARTIAL LAW JR ROTALISTS HAVE ATTACKED ALLIED MARINES LANDED TO GUARD PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Dénied That King Constantine Has Fled--Greek Officials Say He Re- turned to His Tatol Palace. Special to the Whig) Athens, Oct. 18.--Athens is to- day virtually under martial law. All" sorts of alarming rumors are in cir- culation, but cool heads are attempt- ing to prevent a clash between French sailors and the civilian dem- onstrators that would develop inte street fighting with most serious consequences, Reports that King Constantine has fled are denied by Greek officials. They declare the King returned to the Tatoi Palace Mondidy night. The situation is as cri- tical, as Royalists have attacked Al- lied' marines landed to guard the public buildings. & Why Not a Republic? London, Oct, 18.--""What stands in" the way of creating a Greek repub- lic?" asks the Daily Mail in an edi- torial, declaring that a Greek repub- lic was favored by General Sarrail, the commander-in-chief of the Allied operations in the Balkans, as well as by ex-Premier Venizelos and other Greek leaders, The Mail continues; "Ramor says that the obstacle to a republic is not in Greece, but in the courtly minds of statesmen elsewhere, for example, Viscount Grey. But it seams incred- ible that the theory of divine right should have any considerable sup-- porters in England. If the Greeks want a republic, we see no reason why they should not have it." TO VISIT THE FRONT. Number of Higher Officers on Home Service Will Go, Bh Ottawa, Oet. 1 ) are being made by 8 whereby a number of military I be group will include, it is such men as General real, and General Logie, of Toronto. The p visit si officers an insight into conditions in Ejngland and on the firing line which will be of great use to in con nection with the organisation work in Canada. \ PROBE RISE IN Chatham to Ask Attorney-General's Department for an Inquiry. action follows a report that underi hand methods are' used force some bakers to a prices. The colors which were presented. to the 77th Ottawa Battalion by Gen. Sir Sam Hiaghes, on June 17, at Par- liament Hill, were in West- Tinie Abbey on 23rd. ~ DAILY MEMORANDUM Queen's Convocation, § pin. Cheese Board, 1.80; Thursday.

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