-- YEAR 83-NO. 249 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1916 PAGES 18 | LAST EDITION . BIG FIRE AT AYLMER; LOSS IS $50,000 a. TT ee TE IVADERS °C Si DRIVEN BACK "55 Ths oe oe Valuable Aid. s . (Special tg the. Whig.) : The Ruminians Now Dominate All the Car- pathian Passes, London, Ont., Oct. 26.--Fanned by a forty-mile gale, a fire which broke out early to-day, swept away $50,000 TEUTON-BULGAR INVASION ON. LY IN THE SOUTH. worth of buildings on Talbot street west, in the heart of the business district at Aylmer, The blaze start- ed In Howse's big implement ware- house, and spread both ways. Help was asked from St. Phomas and the motor apparatus rushed over fifteen miles and did great work. ~ Incendiarism is suspected as there have been four serious fires lately, y and including one once before in The Northern Invaders Driven Back Howse's shop. A full investigation Into Transylvania--Enemy Which | will pe made. The loss is partially Penetrated Southward Thrusts at | covered by insurance, Bucharest, 4 | ~ (Special to the Whig.) 5TH Y mn London, Oct. 20. Fhrough Brantford, Oct, 26.--A mysterious lolyges, Bieaz, Gyimes and | fire_broke out in the Alice block at Oituz passes the invaders of Waterford at 3.30 o'clock this morn- Rumania have been driven ing, practically wiping out the Boek back into Transylvania. Buch- | before it burned itself out, and doing x . 60,000 damage to the block and con- arest officially announces that |? 2 te block, n 1 : tents of stores therein, very little the whole frontier of Moldavia, being saved. Little insurance was the provinee of Rumania which | carried. Two men were seen hang- projects northwards, has been | ing around the palling at midnight, X a 5 en and investigatibn showed that some cleared of the enemy. of the stores were robbed. It is This means that practically thought that robbers had accidentally ail the Carpathian passes are or otherwise started the fire. domrimiled by Rumanian gy troops, the enemy invasion be- | VIOLATED NEUTRALITY ing now confined lo troops! OF UNITED STATES which penetrated southwards] nen from Transylvania through the Interned Steamer Willehad passes of the Transylvanian Was Used as Telegraph Alps and are thrusting towards - Station for Subs. Bucharest via Kimpolung and Predeal and at Buzeu and the| London, Oct. 26.--The following the | two letters, intercepted on thejr way to Germany, were made public here "Gzernowilz railway, via : | yesterday. The first one, from Max Bodza pass. ------,461 East 8th Street, South Bos- The Enemy\lIs Checked. ton, addressed to his brother, said: (Special to the Whig.) 3 tL "Dear Gustav: The Willehad sail- London, Oct. /26.--The vic- | ed to-day. I am to stay heretnl the torious sweep of Mackensen «| end vi the var The NN ilenad li Thal 3 act wi n the merican iree-mile armies into Bobradia has beeh BI a EE aD ram checked, al least t8mporarily, | pgrines. She has.four months' pro- official despatches from Ber- | visions aboard." lin, Sofia, Petrograd and; The second Jeter was Jrom the 4 af ii Ta 3 . | captain o the Willehad, name: Bucharest indiéated this after Sw re Hany Damed noon. : e | don, to his sister in Germany, say- The Rumanians have blown ing: up the fourteen-mile Danube| "I rejoice I am now here as cap- bridge at ernavoda, thus blocking an immediate invas- Big Fire at Waterfront, (Special to the Whig.) tain of the Willehad. The Koln still lies at Boston, I am here with the Willehad on a special mission. i have done 80 that I still have more to do." ) claimed further pr s in Dobrudja 0 tions, but men: tioned no fresh captures. It apparently 'eorroborated the Petrograd statement that Mac- kensen's offensive is slacken- ing. 2 Se ------ Allies to Relieve Rumania. In the House of Commons this afternoon Premier As- guith gave further assurance that the Allies were directing their_anxious attention to the Rumanian situation. He said | **49934030444080000000000¢ that concerted action is being Ee arranged and that France, SERBIANS AND FRENCH Russia and Italy, as well as - SCORE VICTORIES 'England are taking every pos- | i iat" - ghting Near Monastir-- sible step to relieve the Ru No CoumteroAts manians. The last tweny-four hours tacks at Verdun. 3 (Special to sie Whig.) ct. of fighting on the Somme and Verdun fronts have left the Paris, S -Seraian. apd YWerdun situation viriuaiiy uh French troops scored several Vitor. changed. In Macedonia, the les in the fighting near Monastir. French and Serbian troops The Serbs captured 4 height along . h d i f h vi the Cerna river and French cavalry drove northward in a fresh vic- | ,coupieq the bridges at Zworesda and tory on Tuesday, capturing ene villages of Goldborda and Lafs- two villages and other Ger- |ica, southwest of Lake Presba. man- Bulgarian positions. No German Cownter-Atiacks. | ; RELATIONS CRITICAL (Special to the Whig.) London, Oct. 26.--Repeatéd torpedoings of Norwegian ships while the submarine crisis be- tween "Norway and Germany is in a serious stage, led British papers to declare to-day that re- lations between these two coun- tries are becoming very critical. CEE PPP Pere be + + Ld + * + + 2 + + + * WN Swptsanges a" Q a ut a HMontfapcon IT ----8 op " , \ ey < THE RESULT OF A SINGLE FRENCH SMASH AGAINST VERDUN LINES Sergmre LN Bde 'y SA Zorges ont 3% Zz. of hi eau, t | od p onsenvoye N Te x bante Azannes & I a | amogneu. aucourt Y= ol ges > lie Malsncou Bde Masdenco he ---- GI ey? _Avocourt ones i ' A Marto 1 ; Fe ness? iJ Yainwill Reremente, Be "EX BATTLE LINE Feb. 20 cence 9 28. mmc ° ' Verdun offensive. man, TEUTON ALLES WORK RAPIDLY Fron Three Points in Attempt to Encom- ass Rumania. EEA DRNEN NORTHWARD AND RUMANIANS ADVANCE UZUL AND OITUZ, IN Rumanian Authorities Take Storical Military Attitude That Capture of Contanza-Tchernavoda Line Is Ut- most Success Central Powers Can London, Oct. 26.--From three points the Teutonic allies are work- ing with feverish haste in an attempt to encompass Rumania--from the northeastprn and eastern borders of Transylvania and through Dobrudja. "Inthe Etter region and ON tHE east Transylvania front further progress in their inroads foto King Ferdin- and's territory has been made. On the northeast Transylvania front, however, in engagements with the Russians they have been driven from the heights south of Dorna Watra. Keeping up his drive in Dobrudja, Field Marshal Von Mackensen has brought his line well above the Con- tanza-Tchernavoda railway line, the right wing resting approximately on Tachaul, near the Black Sea, 12 miles north of Constanza, and the left north of Tchernavoda, whence runs the only bridge across the nube in this region. Whether the umanians in their evacuation of chernavoda left intact the 14-mile bridge, which would be of immense strategic value to the Teutonic al- lies in a diversion toward Bucharest, has not been made known, but, fol- lowing military precedent, despite the quickness of Von Mackensen's forward push, it probably was blown up or otherwise badly damaged. -------- What Faces Mackensen. Von Mackensen's capture of Tch- ernavoda is only valuable to him if he has seized the Danube bridges and viaducts, consisting of the Carol | Bridge, 100 feet high and 2,200 feet long, one of the viaducts 2,900 feet long, , second viaduct 2,000 feet long d the Borcea Bridge 2,000 - Oo Chpttangourt > \ he ' Morro ~Ch oC eo : BOY sore seem __twouny VERD Fromereville, Ans MILES. Shaded area includes the whole gain made by the Germans since the beginning of their The darker shaded area.indicates the area regained by the French in one smashing blow delivered recently. after the first eight days of their offensive, it is evident the French gained back on the east of the Meuse practically the whole garded as astonishing confidence in later developments of the campaign. They take the slorical military atti- tude that stanza-Tchernavoda most success the Central Powers can effect against Rumania in this thea- tre of operations, FAIR JOY RIDERS' Visitor Was Kind to Them and alias Wait, alias Mrs, were arrested J on a charge of ktealing a Ford road- ster in Toronto on Sunday morning, were brought back by Detective Mont- gomeryr ant, he arrived in Toronto the night be- fore and stowed his car for the night at 162 Jarvis street. The next morn- ing while eranking the car up in front of the garage, the two women came out of the adjoining house, told him they were rooming there and asked him to give them a town. allowed Mrs, Jackson to drive the car part of the way. At the City Haid sho grish- ed to deliver a message to a friend in| dow! Parkdale and Asked to be allowed tof" oW®- run the car out. the two women drove away while he répaired tg a restaurant. neither car nor women put in an ap- pearance, Walker and notified the detective depart- ment. The. police were able to trace the fair motorists along the Kings- ton road through Whitby, Oshawa, Lindsay, to Cobourg. The Toronto police had notified the authorities at all the places along the route, but the wo- men evaded capture by a few min- utes in each case. They appeared to make no effort-to avoid #etection; French Minister and King Constan- French minister conversed for half an hour yesterday. An official state- ment says the situation has been im- |proved considerably on account of the .loyal declarations of the King regarding his sentiments toward the Entente, and also on account of the French minister's assurances respect- ing the intentions of the Entente ward Greece, view to re-establishing relations of confidence with the Hellenic Govern: ment on the basis of maintenance of benevolent neutrality in conformity : 7 Vaux Bnvaux 7 <7 s lsiyenin ry ' < Ad 4 - s 3 Seed §C TROOE TERT at oon? |, i " 4 of ens o£ ' r= ed TST Sh 4 "4 Fac Tavenne § TO pr Eixy A A tay ° \ ZZ o Ne > X 7 Z NE * Betrupt A 7 § AZZ # A >» 'ima & apr 3 racase ,* Thierville / < 0s B. - praia" wares Le 4 7 : \ Moulainville < 7 X At the dot-and-dash line shows the German front ~~ HOSPITAL BURNS AT FARNEAN, QUE five of the Inmates Are Dead And. Fifteen Are Missing. STARTUNG _ REVELATIONS ARE PROMISED WHEN INVESTI. GATION IS HELD. ground. they lost after those first eight days. capture of the Con- line is the ut- the TRIP INTERRUPTED They Got Away With His Car. Toronto, Oct. 26.--Nancy Wilson, Nancy McArthur and Alice A, Jackson, who Cobourg yesterday ~~ Fire Escapes. Were Defective in Emergencies--Scores of Children Jumped From Third Storey Wine dows, According to the complain- earce Walker, of Collingwood, (Special to the Whig.) Farnham, Que., Oct. 26.--Five persons are known to be dead and fifteen others are missing as the re- sult of a-fire which destroyed" St. Elizabeth hospital and laundry here during the night. Scores of childr: were injuréd by jumping from win- Three hundred and fifty in- mates were asleep in the building when the fire broke out, and many of these are unaccounted for. The fire is believed to have started from a defective chimney. It spread 80 swiftly that the 350 inmates were unable to reach safety before many of them were marooned by the flames, Patients and employees fought jn wild attempts to gain ex- its from thé building. . Startling revelations are promised when an investigation is begun, for the fire escapes are said to have al- ways proved defective in emerg- ences. : The twenty-five or more children who were injured flung themselves from the third storey windows to the pavement below. Nearly all the in- mates of the buildi were asleep on the third floor. The rm Reports. (Special to the Whig.) Farnham, Que., Oct. 26 Eleven persons, including five childrén, are now believed to have lost their lives in the fire, The ruins were still blaz- ing this morning, and search for the missing is practically impossible Two buildings were destroyed, one the hospital and the other the child- Ten's school. he hespital was un- der the management of the Grey Nuns, and about 300 persons were in the buildings-at the time of the fire. "Hit" down- Walker complied and also Walker agreed and When yeral hours passed and became anxious Campbellford, Port Hope GREEK SITUATION CLEARS" tine Have a Conference. Athens, Oct. 26.--The King and the to- \ Thes assurances were given with a |THE ja.further extension of the life of Par OTTAWA JOURNAL DEPRECATES ELECTION Understands Government Will Ask for Extension--Puts © it Up to Liberals. Ottawa Oct. 26 --In view 'of .the rumors which have been rife at Ot- tawa regarding the possibility of an election before a session; an editorial appearing in The Ottawa Journal, which has been particularly close to the Government of late, is of special interest. The editorial in part is as follows: , 'Confronted with vast, solemn is- sues of war, gnd ever-lengthening casualty lists with their message of sorrow and death, it is hard to cop- ceive the few party-mad politicians reported to be planning a general election. We have reached the most solemn hour of the war; the coming year will be fraught with conde- quences that will probably change the whole course of human history. It should hardly be necessary to say that such a crisis is not the time to weaken the national effort by divid- ing against ourselves and by dis- tracting the attention of our people from the one supreme issue that con- fronts them." , The Journal declares it under stands that at the next session of Par- liament the Government will ask for MINISTER SUES "FOR DIVORCE Rev. 1. Tit Charges is Wie WIR Cina Wie. OPPOSITE GANANOQUE, WHERE THE COUPLE SUMMERED., New York End of the Case--A Con- spiracy Action as a Side-Issne-- The Clergyman's Charges Against His Wife. New York, Oct. 26. --Rev. John Edmund Triplett, a Presbyterian clergyman, has brought an action for divorce against his wife, and charges her with intimacy with three men. The divorce is the aftermath of a conspiracy case heard at New Haven, Conn., last June, in which Grenville Hampden Triplett, an attorney of New York, fo serve between four pend whether the country is plunged and ten, years in the state prison, int an election 6r not. convicted of an assault on Mrs. owever, groups of Conservative| Dorothy A. Triplett, wife of his bro- Jenbers 5s Pariament continue to|ther, the clergyman. The 'evidence come and go at the Capital. They - come in talkative mood and go in showed that the lawyer had ArPang: mysterious silence. ed the enactment of the assault in order to obtain divorce evidence for his brother. J. Wilson Shaw, Frank Campbell and Thomas J. Donahue were charged with being co-conspira- tors. The trial was sensational, and dur- ing its course Donahue and Camp- bell, witnesses for the accused, were arrvsted for perjury, and Shaw was also arrested and held, pending ac- tion on serious charges in connection with the case, Induced to Go to New York. Mrs. Triplett, - according to the evidence brought out at the trial; had been induced to go to New Haven on May 16th, 1915, to meet a New York real estate dealer for the purpose of discussing the sale of some property belonging to her mother, Mrs. Dora M. Nelson, of New York. This man met Mrs. Triplett at the Garde Hotel and induced her to go to a room where they might talk without being disturbed. It is alleged that he there attacked her, and as he did so Gren- ville H, Triplett, Donahue and Shaw forced the door of the room. ¢ After the cons case Mrs. Triplett brought, in New York courts, an action for separation, ac- cusing her husband of eruel and in- human treatment, Wife's Motor Trip. The trial, which is taking place at Camden, N.J., and opened on Wed- nesday, featured a motor trip aleg- ed to have beén taken by the mini- ster's wife, The minister has per- (Continued on page 5.) llament. It then concludes:dy stat- ing that upon the Opposition will de- | | THREE SISTERS ARE VISITED BY STORK. Pittsburg, Oct. 26.--Mrs, Tillie Berkowitz's supply of grandchildren rose from thirty to thirty-three yesterday. Each of her three daughters, Mrs, Dora Berger, Mrs. Ray Bruff and Mrs. Elizabeth Abrams, re- ceived a visit from the stork be- tween 7 o'clock in the morning and noon, They're all boys. dbo deb dedobde BRITAIN WOULD HAVE TO PROTECT NORWAY In Case of War With Germany and Qive the Norwegians Munitions. PEPE rrr bg rr A EE LT) (Special To The Whi London, Oct. 76 Referring to war prospects between Germany and Norway, the Daily Chronicle says to-day: "Risk of war does exist, and if it broke out it would be Great Britain and not any other of the major Allies on who the opartenity and responsi- bility would fall. Norway 'is per- haps the most pro-British country on the continent, and we are bound to her by many ties of sentiment, com- merce and common interest. "We ought to assure her, in the event of war, of prompt and effective protec- tion, She would need it in naval matters, and would probably also re- quire some supplies for her artillery and air services, '"These succors ought to be forth- coming without any delay if the case arose, and the British navy, which could then make very effective use of Norwegia ports and territorial waters, would have to throw an ef- fective mantle over the Norweigian coast and shipping.' Capt. Henderson, R. A. M. C,, just back from France, died suddenly at Sarnia. Large quantities of wreckage from a German warship were washed up at Copenhagen. . DAILY MEMORANDUM Zion Bazaar and dinper, November 23rd. f page 8, right hand corner for Drobasiiuies Jy rr Kin ughters' rommage sale, - . day, Toland Market. | #1, AOU.W, . y meets ' WORK OF NAVAL DEFENCE an pagcels ------ on. - Reported Upon by Canadian Depart- ment of Naval Service. (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, Oct. 26.--The report of the Canadian Department of Naval Service just issued gives some ac- count of the work of naval defence being carried on under the Naval Ser- Te~ rummage sale in the Jia Co Hen A tional Hall, Johnson stree &fvernoon Fv evening, Oct, 27th. THE DAILY BRITISH WHICG The origin is unknown. Montreal, Oct. 26.--One report from Farnham at 1.30 says it is now believed that twenty-seven persons lost their lives in the St. Elizabeth's fire. Sisters, citizens and firemen did -heroie work in saving survivors. The damage is a quarter of a million ~--insurance, $35,000, MACKENSEN'S ATTACKS vice Act. H.M.C8. Niobe has been dismant- led and is now being utilized as a depot ship alongside the Halifax naval dockyard. The Rainbow, two submarines and the Brit gunboat Shearwater have been employed on work at the Pacific coast. A large number of other vessels, both gov- ernment and private, have been util- ized in examination service, mine sweeping and. patrol. . 'The report states that ths naval dockyards have worked to full ca- pacity on repairs. Thirty graduates of the Halifax Naval College are now BECOMING WEAKER with the fleet in the North Sea and two with British submarines, No | iene Russo-Rumanians ng Great less than 400 Canadia, val volun- Big Bridge an v ! Pp. express what in some quarters is re- A FR " ~-- AAA ,|teers have been emp on the i " ensen's| Rainbow and other ships. For the a I. Tk) ol h Ty adh B8| Royal Naval Air Service 250 Can- attacks y against nst the Ru i in Dobrudja have grown someéwhat|adian volunteers had been accepted by the end of last year. feet long. The destruction of these magnificent works will leave Von Mackensen confronted by an im- mense forest, bordered on the left by a vast region of lakes and ma ly Further ground on the eastern Transylvania front on the Rumanian side of, the Vulcan and Predeal passes has been given up to the Aus- Sro-Germans by the Rumanians, but, according to Bucharest the Teutons east of the River Aluta, in Tran- sylvanja, have been driven north- ward, while in the Uzul and Oituz valleys the Rumanians have made advances. . ? £ The Rumanian authorities here with the previous agreements. pn Cay RUSSIA ISSUES DENIAL Never Dreamed of 'Expatriating Poles to America. Petrograd, Oct. 26--The Petro- grad semi-official news agency issues a brief statement denying the report published in America, alleging the intention of the Russian Government to colonize one million Russian Poles in Sexth America. ' "This report," . says the news agency, "is 'a pure invention, the Russian Government never ERMAN SHELL RITISH (Special to the Whig.) - " 8 - Paris, 26.--Artillery bom- | orth of Sa itish Made Su sful Raids. i . Whig.) de pn A heav- British trenches ¢ last night be- : baye and Les in the neighborhood bardment continued throughout last night on the Vaux sector, northeast of Verdun, but the Germans made no new counter-attacks. More Serbian Successes. (Special to the Whig.) London, Oct. 26.--The Serbian sn redoubts, ube and Drina divisions.on Tues- Blesn redoubis. aay captured several heights on the fully [left tank of the River Cerna, taking | and machine guns. TRAINMEN OF BUK. + THIRTY HUSKY CANADIANS ) * i Gort New: TANROURCements: Club; Church Verdun . i Menus,