12 PAGES - YEAR 88-NO. 248 A WELCOME ANTIDOTE 10 TEUTON SUCCESS Against the Rumanians---French Victory At Verdun is An Omen of Renewed Allied Pressure Against Kaiser's Lines : in West. (SPecial to the Whig.) Paris, Ocf. 25. The French victory of yesterday won on terrain that has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, and won despite the maze of fortifications that covers: the Verdun front, is a welcome antidote to the Teuton victories against the Bumanians.. It. is evidence that Mackensen and Falkenhayn can nol draw troops from other fronts to battle for Bucharest. It is an omen of renewed AHied pressure against the kaiser's lines in the west. » : With daybreak the French guns began to bathe the German trenches with shell. Recent visitors to French head- quarters have reported that the French artillery on this front was firing fifty shots to one for the Germans. = The execution the bombardment did in the enemy's line tends to prove that statement. Shortly hefore noon the poilus sprang to the attack. Then began a series of assaults that swept through the first German line and beyond into the Fort of Douaumont and into the vil- lage. - Meanwhile the right wing was moving toward Vaux, a position as much disputed as Douaumont. Here they reach- ed the outskirts of the village. On the left wing, nearer fhe river, the rush was irresistiple. It swept through Thiaumont work and farm, lying in low land dominated by ridges to the north, into and beyond the Haudremont quarries, which hiive been converted into a veri- table fortress, and astride the road from Douaumont to Bras. "The Resistahce Was Weak. Thus in a few hours the French have regained positions that it took the Germans months to wrest from them. The re- sistance they met was comparatively weak. This may have been due to the iet that the Kaiser's Eenerals have withdrawn troops to the Seqmme front, or it may have been due to the effic { he, a¥fiflory preparation. At any rate, the last 8 Grown Prince's dream has been crumbled. of the Verdun offensive serves as two-fpld\ pressure on the German forces and so makes ay ultimately Metz, x onts easier. Another end it m the way for a new drive for out a French push eastward is almost impossi- fg through the German line north or Verdun | flank the enemy's position at St. Mihiel and' evacuation. What the Effect Will Be. Bul the jmmediate effect of the attack on the Meuse will be on the 8S } tions. With the Balkan movement in full swing it seems h t likely that the Kaiser's generals can muster enough men to withstand two great offensives on the western front. © When the thrusts Tor eronne and Bapaume are resumed this pressure will be at a maximum. resumption of the Somme offensive cannot long be delayed, it is believed here. To offset this the Germans are shellin 's lines steadily between the Ancre and the able counter-offensive us Planned, mili: here assert, but the new Verdun attack may sly with this plan. "the Somme cannot continue, observers say. against the Teuton at all Possible points can ition be relieved. The Verdun offensive is ) --i . ' (Special to the Whig.) : Ottawa, Oct. 25.--Word was received from Winhipeg by the Minister of Labor at noon to-day that, as the result of an ference between C. P. R. representatives and all dangor of a strike had been averted, and that an | between the two parties to the dispute will be ew hours. : ping the C. P. R. announced it would accept t. at. Winnipeg, which indicated that the @ was vanishing. . Official Announced. ASpecial to the Whig.) ! Oct. 25.--It was officially announced by the 2.80 o'clock that the strike has-been settled, the . nearly all their demands. is means an in- ¥ oo oof two. cents per men per hour over the| ge, e 7,500 conduetors and switchmen in-| bt is merely the skirmish of a great contest A ear for a fifteen per horizon for next employees of the p is in this sector, it must remembered, | ant, with its tip at SE Until this] « 8% ' \ KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1916 MANY REJECTIONS ARE UNJUSTIFIED Si 8am Hughes Objects to Turning Down of Canadi- ans in France. (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, Oct. 25.--Gen. Sir Sam Hughes declares that many rejections from Canadian ranks which has been made after troops reach France are) unjus.ified and based on trivial grounds. He declares that men who have passed the Canadian medical ex- amination and triple examination in England have frequently been reject- ed by Canadian doctors in France for flat feet, varicose veins and other minor defects which have never in- terfered with their locomotive pow- er. "The ridicdffous part of the "sys- tem," he remarked, "is the fact that men. have Been rejected for flat feet who have walked miles from away up in the Peace River to enlist." He instanced a case where a Can- adian of British birth had been re- jected twice in Canada for short- sight, had crossed to England to take a position on a railway, had there been conscripted, and"was now fight- ing with a Yorkshire regiment in France, FRENCH VETERANS Serta ia-- Chief Made Inspector. Trenton, Oct. 25.--The Town Council passed a by-law appointing Chief; Morden as inspector under the Ontario Temperance Act; also anoth- er authorizing the Mayor and Clerk to execute a lease of some eight-acres of land to the Canadian Natio Features, A RETIRE NORTH BEFORE ENEMY Russo-Rumanians Have Abandoned Gorne- voda Before Mackeasen's Attacks. in financial circles as an indication that arrangements have been com- ' pleted 4 secured loan. Henry P, Davidson, who went abroad some time ago to negotiate the loan transaction, is on 'his way to this country, having sail- ed Saturday. While the details of the loan have not been given out, it is un that the terms will be similiar to those of the $250,000, 000 floated here last August. The amount, it'is said, may be | something more, and to be five, i for that reason it is the of bankers that the rate will in all probability be a shade higher than the last loan. This in- crease in the rate from 5 per cent may take the form of a lower issuing price rather than a higher rate bn the face of the bonds. At present there is a great demand for short term securities, and the demand for longer maturities is not so large, consequently it is felt that bonds of longer maturities should pay a high- er rate. Moreover, the British Gov- ernment would, in any event arrange its financing in the United States so that the second secured loan should not mature at about the same time as the first. The collaterial behi: the new loan will alsa consist &f securities of neutral countries and of American railroad and industrial stocks and bonds that have been miobilized by the British Treasury. GIRLS TO WORK ON FARMS Ontario Will Permit Them to Get Academic 5 Toronto; Oct. 25.--Girls can work as farmers next year, as boys did this year, and still get their acade- mic standing, according to regulat- ions issued by the Department of Ed- ucation. These regulations'make it clear this year that this work must be dome on Ontario farms. During 1916 some boys wade the mistake of going to harvest on the plains, The department has for the school year 1916-17 made some amend- ment to the regulations of January and March, 1916, which provided for the enlistment of young men who were attending the high and contin- uation schools and the collegiate in- stitutes in preparation for the exam- ing by the following June for-ad- mission to the normal schools and the faculities of education, and who desired to enlist for overseas service in the present war. . One important factor is the defin- an examination Stirring France's glo! London, from the station. -~ --, LARGER LOAN FOR BRITAIN IN STATES Arrangements Believed Com- pleted and Amount Will _ Exceed Quarter-Billion New York, Oe¢t.25.--The return from abroad of Arthur M. Anderson, head of the bond department of J. P. Morgan & Company, was regarded SERIOUS LOSS TO THE RUSSO-RUMANIANS. Mackensen Is Attacking on the Whole IS A __(Bpeeia) to the Whig. Petrograd, Oct. ao fasso-Ru- manian forces havé abandoned their position at Cernavoda, the eastern ond the t railway bridge lead- into old Rumania, urder Mac- kensen's attacks, it was officially ad- mitted to-day. The Tasavia Lake pgeitions have also been surrendered to Yhe enemy, whose heavy attacks continue on the whole Dobrudja front. he Russo- Rumanians, resisting ackensen's prgssure, are retiring northward. / navoda is the eastern terminus of the great fourteen mile railway bridge crossing the Danube river from Bulgaria into Rumania. Its capture is a very serious loss to ths RusSo- Rumanian army operating in Do- brudja. Derlin despatches also claim that the Aust undér Von Falk- etthahn have taken the famous Vul- can pass with many prisoners, In Precarious Position, The Russo-Rumanian armies Uriv- ea northward from the railway, are in a precarious position, the Russian official statement indicates. - There are no other bridges across the Dan- ube north of Cernavoda, snd it ap- pears probable that unless a large part of the Russc-Rumanian force es- raped across the bridge before Cer- navoda was evacuated they will be Amped east of the Danube. e Bulgars have éaptured fifty officers, 3,200 man, thirty mac..ine guns and 200 ra'iway wagons. German Counter-attacks Fail, (Special to the Whig.) Paris, . 35.--German counter- attacks in the region of Makurkovo in Macedonia failed, the War Office announced to-day. Elsewhere there Was no infantry fighting on the Macedonian front. PEN ' (Special to the Whig. London, Oot. 15.--The Allies are every scenes were witnessed as the representatives of rious army marched, cheered our gallant Allies all the Picture shows them en Mansion House for dinner with the Lord Mayor. for a new British Government | maturity, | °l tion for a great cou '| ral Haig reported heavy rains ritigh' AT MANSION HOUSE. i and tremendous crowds way to the Mansion House, tering $60,000 TAXES WOULD BE L0ST (To Municipalities If the Ontario Government Docs Net Pay. 4 FOR THE HIORG ELECTR NOW THAT SEYMOUR SYSTEM IS TAKEN OVER. Napance Alone Would Lose Over 15,000 by the Change in Owner. ~ship=Tive~~Municipalities® "Case Toronto, Oct. 25.--In connection with the visit of the deputation which called on Premier Hearst and the Cabinet yesterday at-the Parliament buildings to discuss what could be done with regard to the loss of taxes by the taking over of the Seymour Power Company by the Government, Mayor = Mulholland, of Port Hope, introducing the deputation, welcom- ed the Hydro to the various parts of the province, and stated that the amount of taxes lost to the munici- palities would be $45,000. He asked the Government to pay the taxes to the various municipalities for the part of 1916, and that for. 1917 and the succeeding years compensation should be arranged to make good the loss to the municipalities. Mr. Stinson, K.C., Lindsay, secre- tary of the Midland Municipal Asso- ciation, of which this delegation is part, sald that nine counties have been affected through the taking over of the Seymour Fbwer Com- pany, He argued that the general law of taxation should keep pace with public ownership. The Govern- ment should pay taxes for their pro- perty the same as every other con- cern. "It means that at present the sixty municipalities affected will lose $60,000 a year, and in many cases it will mean double taxation through the Government coming to the district." In the town of Nipiss- ing the new method will mean that half the payment of their taxes has been wiped out, and that is the same in many of the municipalities. ' Figures of loss of taxation, as giv- en by the speakers, are as follows: North Bay Napanee. . .' .1...... Deseronto'. . ... Cobourg . . . Hungerford . . GERMANS HEAVILY SHELL The British Front North-east of om A ,,.,.., 25. elled the Pion front north-east Courcelette and also along the violence last might, as If In Prepare: H this afternoon thatthe PAGES 18 LASY EDITION BIG FRENCH VICTORY ON VERDUN FRONT French Capture Douaumont Village And Fort 'And Other Places, Together With 3,500 Prisoners--German Reinforce- ments Came Too Late. (Special to the Whig.) London, Oct. 25.--The French have won a great victory on the Verdun front. They advanced an a front of four miles for-a depth of from one to two miles, capturing Douaumont village and fort, Thiaumont farm, Haudremont quarries and other points; with 3,500 prisoners and many machine guns of the: Grown Prince's army. German Reinforcements Too Late. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, Oct. 25.--German reinforcements are being rushed up to the Verdun front to meet the new French offensive, ac- cording to advices from ¢he front to-day. In response to the Crown Prince's' appeal for help, the Teutons are shifting regiments back from the Somme to the Verdun front. German units from the Somme battle field arrived before Verdun yesterday while the French were smashing their way northward, but too late to take part in the day's action. German Oounter-Attacks Fail. (Special to the Whig.) Paris, Oct. 25.--Two violent German counter-attacks were delivered last night and this morning against the posi- tions on the Haudromont-Damloup line northeast of Verdun, won by the French in yesterday's great assault, Both attacks failed, the French maintaining all their pesitions, it was of- ficially announced to-day. The French spent the night cleaning up Fort Douaumont, captured from the Germans yesterday. Among the 3.500 prisoners is the German commander of Fort Douaumont. A A A A A A AAA immed ONE OF LAST LETTERS CARRIED OFF AS HOSTAGES, FROM MAJOR MOWAT Rumanians Removed Citizens of Cap- tured Towns, Says Berlin. " oa So aS miele Berlin via Sayville, wireless, Oct.. 25.~--At the command of the Ruma- German Stores. nian Government, Rumanian milis "Brockville; Ont., Oct. 25.--One of tary foroks carried off from Com and Tuzle the last letters written by Major J. stanza, Medjidia prominent citizens, iseinding a viee- Mowat, who was killed: BL © semi-offi ! France while leading his men in a counter-attack, came to Hon. G. P. Graham of this town, Among other matters the gallamt officer wrote that he was major in command 'of a company and bad been in the severest of fighting. At that time (Sept. 24), he was back of the lines resting. Hjs description of fighting was very realistic and written in terse style. He described the German trenches out of which they had driven the enemy, and said they found in them a sufficient quantity of stores to establish sev- eral wholesale business houses. He spoke of the wonderful fighting of the Canadians and judging from the tone of the letter appeared to be in fine spirits himself. » a LB on . DAILY MEMORAN Se f pase ight hand for proba 5 g _--_ St. Luke's Ch and Con- ot Jie, Shriatite Site The King's Dal r# Rummage Sale, Friday, Oct. in the Island Market, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Cin on a Foljpwing Bucknell' .- BE ra Coulter's GroosryR..« « se "n Cardi Gibson's oF Tle s ew a Kisg MoA peta MADE 225 SUBMARINES Germany Pays More Attention to Them Than Warships, Geneva, Oct. 25.--Prince von Bue- low, former German Imperial Chan- cellor, recently informed a neutral news that since the begin- ning of the war Germany had con- structed 225 submarines, says a des- patch from Constance. The German naval authorities, the Prince is re- ported to have added, are paying more attention to submarines "than to battleships, and Austria-Hungary is doing likewise. . KAISER EATS "WAR BREAD." And as a Result tho Chief Hun is Getting Thin, - Amsterdam, Oct. 25.-- The Kaiser! is becoming thin from the rigorous diet imposed by the war. A despatch received here to-day sald that when the Emperor reviewed the German troops at Verdun this week it was no- ticeable that 'he bore less flesh than when he was last seen there. The Kaiser goes without meat four days a week, and eats black "war bread." A GERMAN 8 Berlin Russians Have Lost 1, O22 Since June 1st. (Special to the Berlin, Oct. 25.--The Russians have lost 1,797,622 men in killed, wounded and captured since th i cian offensive began June lst, the -semi-official News Agency declared The greatest number of casualties and YNE-HOGAN: y morn- ing, Oot. 18th, » 5.30 o'clock, a chure the Fleming, Austin Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Payne, to Nora Gertrude of daugh Mi Jin an ry both of fe A oth, A016, ag 18) 30 Rev. E. R. Mae Soar a ge ughter Scott, Barrio BE George Otway Seale, Mrs. Shirles Seale,