PAGES 14 - LAST EDITION CLDREN'S AD SOGETY TROUBLE The Ex-Boand of Officers Explain Matters 0 the Public. WIL CVE EVERY SUPPORT TO THE NEW BOARD OF LEAD- 'ING CITIZENS, Their Letter Deals With Inspector Wyllie, the Maintenance of Wards and the Need of a Shelter, Kingston, Nov. 15--(To the Edi- KINGSTON, ONTARIO, YEAR 83-NO. 267 HURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1916 TI ERALS a CERMANY HAS St ee GENEL BERET, fu ve fensive by the Allies on all fronts is understood. ' | Italian airmen successfully bomb-| ed piers at Trieste. NOW WITHIN FOUR 2000000 MY Fisch cl LE] | OE en - ba , it] i | Franco-Serbian Forces Are Pushing Back the Bulgars and Germans. Q ie Paris, Now! ToT RIE) olan troops have hurled back the German defenders and are now a bare four Now That Country is Abic to Conserve Her Strength. | {miles south of Monastir. This and THE ALES MIST STRAIN the fact that throughout the Mace- fol iia TE a : #3 i i ay ; 8 3% donian theatre of war the Germans EVERY NERVE TO OVERMATCH s have been steadily forced backward, GERMANY NEXT YEAR. was announced in 'to-day's official | communique. { Admits Retirement. The statement reads: '"'Along the Salonika front, despite snow and rain, the Allies Upvance is progressing tor): At a conference of the mem- victoriously, espite most violent ' . counter-attacks. Along the bend of bers of Jast Fears sxeculive Of the the Cerna river, Franco-Serbian|Children's Aid Society of Kingston forces are progressing toward Taras-|and Frontenac the conclusioh was jor. . West of the Cerna 16 Shemy reached that a public statement con- Jas heen compelled to abandon dur-|eerning matters in' which there seen; ing the night positions they had to ie Tilers fn Wie Shery Sues fortified for months. "North of Kenall, Franco-Russian| made. We accordingly ask for space forces, pursuing the enemy, attained |in your paper for this purpose. the Vira river, four miles south of} It is needless for us to say that we { Monastir, occupying the villages of | rejoice in the willingness of so many Zapjani, Parodin and Velusina." | leading business men to serve on this _-- year's council of the sogiety. In the Admits Retreat. [Jest one of our greatest difficulties _ (Special to the Whig.) {has been to get business men suffi Berlin, Nov. 16.--The Bulgarian|ciently interested to help in the so- official statement from Sofia to-day |c.eiy"s work in a y way. We were admits a retreat northwards toward | (herefore olin glad last yea: Monastir in the face of violent at-{when Ald. O'Connor, Warden, Hulli- tacks from the Franco-Serbian troops {day and Dr. McCallum consented to "Throughout the day our Monastir | serve on the' council, and to attend its plain positions were fircely bombard- {monthly meetings. We look forward fed," the statement declared. "The|,o a new era of prosperity and ser {enemy's violent attacks failed around vice as a result of the new altitude the bend of the Cerna river. We re- of our business men towards it, We tired northward towards Tepawiza|assure the mewbers of the new coun- and Cigol." |cil of our willingness to give them | eR eet ase {any assistance in our power, and we MONTREAL PRESBY TERY | will bespeak for them the hearty and CALLS FOR CONSORIPTION, ! {From Ten Counties of Eastern (Special to the Whig.) -- two days' discussion of itical ques- MOST ASTONISHING ADVANCE 1 @ | and he called it to order. The gath~ . S---- - ! P-- = | LIBERALS GATHERING 8 AT THE CAPITAL | Ontario to Discuss Politi= | cal Questions. Ottawa, Nov. 16.--Three hundred of the indomitable Franco-Serbian Forces and fifty Liberal delegates from ten 4 counties around the city of Ottawa of (en. Samal. assembled this afternoon and began a tions. The meeting assembled at the call of O, B. Rochester, president, of the Ottawa Reform Association, ering consisted chiefly of members of rg y x { . -ar| the Federal Parliament, Ontario G o i A } CAT » YET RECORDED IN THE JOREA | Legislature and of candidates for one | EUROPEAN WAR. | or the other of these houses. The -- | counties of Leeds, Grenville, Stor: Allies Had to Battle Against Snow) mont, Glengarry, Carleton, Lanark, and Rain and Over Great Moantain | Renfrew, Dundas, Russell and Pres- | Fortresses But Have Reached | sou Ners Joprepemad. Shere hind : officers o Jberal associations o e Ran ur Plain of Monastir. ridings and other representative | London, Nov. 16.--The military (Special to the Whig.) | | correspondent of the Times writes as London, Nov. 16.--Monastir is al- | P8Tty men. { : Ine AI of It was announced that there had follows on the question of the man most within reach of Gen. Serrail 5! been no programme prepared, but! power of the Allies and the Central indomitable Franco-Serbian forces] that the discussion would be general. Powers: "Germany's wise economy after one of the most astonishing ad-| To-night there will be a banquet at| . ont ; vances recorded in the great Euro-| the Chateau Laurier with Sir Wilfrid | ©f her young contingents and her perp Wak ; Laurier, Hon. G. P, Graham and Hon. Constant re-examination of the med- Ny 4 _ Gharles Murphy the principal ically unfit, and the refusal to con- a ing agains over great natural mountain rain { sneakers. | sider the claims of the 'conscientious : for- ME Sa A -- objectors' and also of the civil ser- the Allied forces have reached the plain of Monastir, . now| VICTORY COMPLETE vice, her success in restoring ta the to-day's official communique and | AND LEAST COSTLY colors a high proportion of the Ger- Parls, partially confirmed in the Ber-| That Gen. Haig Has Yet Won from | man wounded, the use of prisoners in factories and 8 red lin statement, fmdicates the sweeping at Somme--King Con- Band on f97Me; the tried back of the Bulgarian-Teutonic line b gratolates. Quite Able to Do This--Great Britain Is in Better Position Than Ger. many to Maintain the War, as snow and tresses, labor of the population of the oceu- to a point within four miles of the pied territories and finally the trap CHE Sf Mouagtis g elt. . orto] pi er rote) she has baited to catch the Poles, all a RIMION 2s 4 brie) London, Nov. 16.---King George enable her to maintain in the field tions" in the Cerna sector were oc-| has telegraphed Gen. Haig congratu-| Units of Tull strength much longer capied. { lating him on the great success the |than any one would have thought The new positions achieved by the | British troops have achieved during possible. Franco-S8erbian troops are the result| the past three days at Ancre. His of two separate successive flanking| Majesty concludes with the declara-| movements. The first involved a| tion that "this further capture of the well-nigh impossible passage, under | enemy's first line trenches redounds! "These successes are due to na- fire, of the mountains which guard |to the credit of all ranks." | tional discipline and complete subor- the bend of the Cerna river, To his sovereign's congratulations, | dination of the interests of the in- The Serbian official statement gave | the British commander-in-chief re- dividual to those of the state. The further corroboration to the:French|plied with thanks expressed with | militarization of the entire nation news of the advance around Monastir. | Spartan-like brevity [represents a remarkable achieve- It stated that after violent fighting ment. By a well organized system of the Allies had captured all the enemy substitution Germany is already able positions southwards of Tepavei, in- (Special to. the Whig.) | to take for her armies two batches cluding the village itself and Gules. London, Nov. 16th--Latest ac<| of half a million men each and is in counts of British successes on a wire the course of taking a third from the from specidl correspondents, agree it| munition works, mines, railways and was the mot complete and least costly | Other essential national industries. victory General Sir Douglas Haig's| 'She has been able to build up 200 troops have won since the beginning | field divisions and cannot now safely of the Battle of the Somme. be credited with less than 4,500,000 ---- Ee ------------r-- | men in her field arthies. On lines of GO NT'S FOOD communication, guards and reserves VERNME F | generally, Qwing to the measures Ger- DICTATORSHIP PLAN many is. taking, she cannot even now mm------ | be reckoned to have less than It Is Said England Is a Unit} 000,000 men. in Support of the Schemes. National Discipline, Famous French general with the Rumanian forces. Much of the credit for ejection of Austrians from Dobrudja is due wes ms TERE IND STE USED BY ENEMY GANANOQUE SOLDIER GETS ROYAL MEDAL I Desperate Mtompts to Force Through the French-British Lines. THE MIGTEST ~ THRUST hames--Lost Leg in"Battle. YET MADE BY THE GERMANS BUT NOT EFFECTIVE. lling support of all citizens. The ork requires"the interest and sym- pathy of all, and we trust that the vr Strongly Urges Government |." ji ncil will receive it in abund- |ant measure. to Make a Proper En- The work that has been done by listment. | Mr, Wyllie during the past two years {has been of inestimable value to both [city and county. ~The need of such work seems continually to increase. It requires the whole time of an agent For Savin ing in Complete and Least Costly, Russian Advance in Transylvania. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, Nov, 16. -- Russian .. forces advanced in Transylvania, cap- turing fortified heights southeast- ward of Toldvesp, according to of- ficial statement to-day. The forward | movement came after the failure of | the enemy offénsive Violently mani- | fested in rifle and machine gun fire, and was the result of a stubborn bat- tle, The Russians captured 180 prisoners and three machine guns. In Dobrudja the Russian advance continues (to progress southwards, the enemy retreating and setting fire to the villages. PREMIER GOES SOUTH. Montreal, Nov. 16.--The Montreal Presbytery went on record for con- scription in the following resolution, Nhich Presbyptod ananimously: | 1,o is thoroughly interested in it urge our Government to make a pro- | {OF its own sake, and who Touiizes per enlistment of all the men of mili- |!t8 far-reaching tonsequences in i e tary age. in Canada, and if the requi- | Fearing of good citizens, and who site number required to make up the | Will devote himself to it without re- 500,000 promised be not forthcoming Serve. We siucerely nope that ia within a reasonable time, it enforce a (the search for a successor to Mr. form of conscription, especially of un-| Wyllie ome with these qualifications married men of military age, and that | may be found. i Matters jf Dis, the Government use all diligence io Coming now t6 tie matters in dis- see that immature boys under the age 'of eighteen, as far as possible, be kept from going to the trenches (pute: First, we learn fiom remarks in France." {made at the annual meeting, and {overheard in the corridots, that there {has been considerable ffiction be- FER R rib bb dd bbb bib a " |tween our agent and th y officials. WILL PAY HIGH PRICES: *|We are at a loss to #n nd why >t [the matter was not brought to our at- Borecial to the Wile.) and 4 tention some time durlug the past 4 shoes will retail at $20 to $30 a # [two years. Assuredly the.soclety has # pair in the near future, accord- + no desire to run counter to the city # ing to the prediction of leading #|authorities, Our agent was nominat- # leather and shoe manufacturers # ed for our work by the provincial de- mightiest thrust the Germans have|# and retailers of Greater Boston. partment, and appointed by us on the * strength of that nomination. If he + yet made in counter-attack was cen-|® : . treing 'upon that 'portion of the line joe gt do Bs woth a etorlly ir where the Briti d Frei the city author Hore Mo B sh and French forces| BRITAIN DEFENDS BLACKLIST |. 50% MOS us, who might by : , expostulation or ressoni have To the north the British were still brought about an improvement, or if smashing forward, consolidating necessary dismissed him: or why was their gains and improving their posi- not a report of the circumstances tions under desperate onslaughts made to the Provindlal Department? ug from the enemy. Surely that would commend itself to Southward the French lines were reasonable men as the straightfor- forced slightly to give way from tre- ward course to follow. mendous concerted pressure at the nce of Wards very base of the angle which the re- Maintenance of W (Special to the Whig.) Gananoque, Nov. 16.--Mr." and Mrs. James Kirke, Pine street; are in receipt of a lettér from their son, Pte. Robert Kirke, who will bé re- membered as losit a Teg at the front and heroically pl ing into the river Thames at Lond Eng., to save a young woman who has fallen into the water. In his letter he states that he has been awarded the Royal Hu- mane Society's medal for the act, and has hopes also of receiving the Car- negie Medal, his friends making strong pleas in his behalf. Allies Must Work Hard. 'The situation broadly is that thel | Allies are faced with the necessity of | straining every nerve to place in the : field next year every man, gun and Unit to-day in support of the Gov-|ghell that all the countries can pro- ernment's food directorship plan. | duce Not a newspaper nor an individual] "We Allies are quite able to make apparently in the whole United this effort, and to overmatch Ger- Kingdom has voiced a criticism of many. We in these islands have | {the plans announced in Parliament |still between three and four million yesterday by Walter Runciman con-| men of military age in civil life, not templating a conservation of Eng-| counting. men over forty-one. We land's food supply. The only criti-| are in far better position than Ger- cisms heard were that the governmen-, many to maintain the war. Our gal- tal control had been overlong delay-| lant dominions have still large re- ed. Lord Milner is talked of as the serves of man power. Russia has "food dictator.' | still ample reserves and will produce | larger armies each year the war lasts. | Italy increases and improves the WEALTHY WOMEN ARRESTED | quantity and quality of her armies pts | monthly and France has been most Sensational Raid in Back Bay Section | successful in drawing more men from Boston~--Wild Scenes. | civil employments. . She now excels Boston, Nov. 16.--In a sensational !B the art of accomplishing great 4 it lat raid on several houses in the tashion- | Aiitike 18 the field with relatively fable Back Bay section, early yester-) ¥, the police took into custody 23 women, all declared to be residents DEATH-BED REPENTANCE of that colony. It is alleged that | SAYS F.F. PARDEE, M.P. the women were obtaining narcotic + -- drugs. Dr. Ellott D. Robbins, dean | Time to Dismiss Sir 8am Was h f A | of the Beston School o natomy | When He Stuck to J. the Whig.) (Special to London, Nov. 16.--England is a Attack Was Made Where French and British Joined Hands--The French Bore the Brunt of the Day's Fight. ing--Are Within Striking Distance of Chaulnes, ° = (Special to the Whig.) London, Nov. 16.--An unceasing series of attacks and counter-attacks swept a wave of fire and steel across six miles of the France-British front to-day. There it appearéd the | | VILLAINOUS. CONDUCT. (Special to the Whig.) Bucharest, Nov. 16.--German aviators have been descending near to earth and shooting civil- ians in towns and in the country of Rumania. A royal palace has been bombed. He Will First Address Lawyers' Club of New York. (Special to the Wihig.) Ottawa, Nov, 16.--Sir Robert Bor- den left for the south this afternoon, via New York, where he will address the Lawyers' club of that city. It is understood the Premier will spend ten days or so in southern states, tak- ing rest. No appointment to the Minister of Militia vacancy will be made till he returns. In the mean- time the administration will be in the hands of F. B, McCurdy, under- secretary for the department. Sir Sam called on Mr. McCurdy this morning and wished him good luck. + + + + Pred r rrr ee Sherer red y Lord Milner for ¥ood Dictator, (Special to the Whig.) London, Nov. 16,--The British press and public will welcome a food dictator. Lord Milner is said to be slated for this position. As a Means to Shorten the European War. Washington, Nov. 16--The British reply to the latest American note pro- testing against the trade blacklist denies that rights of neutral trades under international law have been ruthlessly canceled, defines the black- list measure as a municipal regula- tion, plainly éoncerning only the Bri- WILSON ASSAILS The Men Responsible for Inflation of Food Prices, Washington, Nov. 16.--President Wilson, while proclaiming a new agriculture for America in a speech before the National Grange, assailed the men responsible for the inflation of food prices. He said: 'We ought to raise such big crops that circumstances like the present can never recur, when men can make as if the supply was so short that the middleman can charge for it what he pleases. It will not do to be nig- gardly with the world in respect of its food supply." BERLIN'S OBVIOUS ATTEMPT Explain Away an Outrageous and Inhuman Act. . ecial ta the Whig.) London Nov. 16,--A formal Ad- miralty statement to-day" called at- tention to the Berlin official an- nouncement regarding the sinking in the Mediterranean on the 6th "of a hostile transport of 1,200 tons" as indicating beyond a doubt the mail ship Arabia sunk with warning. The Admiralty atadiered the Berlin statement "as an obvious at- tempt to explain away an outrageous 'inhuman act, The description, it was - said, could only refer to the Arabia. rr" . WHIG CONTENTS 1--Germany Conserves Strength: tir Within Reach; Use Fire and Steel; Children's Ald Soelety. Two Per Gent. = AL not Work or F Lt. 3-jisttle of the Somme; In Halls Queen's, do] _ Notes; Random Can- au 8 G--Hastern Tam of Recruiting: May Wharf, » Ontario News ts Announcements; and Embalming, was arrested on a| charge of dispensing drugs illegally. | The names of the women held were] not divulged. | followed when the police broke into]fam Hughes as a death-bed repent- the houses. and some of them through the streets, Hamilton Fair Sex Prepared to Per-|be shirking their duty if they allowed complaints of the Hamilton Women's |torate. Recruiting League, that manufactur- ] ers were not engaging female labor was his reference throughout Canada, although such a step was necessary 'to successfully conduct the war, the announcement was made yesterday that Sergt. Jas. Lindsay, on behalf of those interest- ed, has the names of four hundred Hamilton ladies willing to don over- alls and enter factories, many of these have husbands at the front, while others are members of the league who wish to set the ex- ample. has been supplanting male labor with female for some time now. Wesley Allison. Dutton, Ont., Nov. 16,--Character- Scenes of the wildest confusion|izing the dismissal of General Sir Many women fainted |2nce on the part of Sir Robert Bor- tried to flee den, F. F. Pardee, M.P, vigorously attacked the Administration yester- | day in a speech before the West El- { gin Liberal Convention at Dutton. He 400 WOMEN READY TO WORK. | expressed his personal opinion that | the Liberals in the Commons would form National , | the Government a longer lease of Hamilton, Nov. 16.--Following the | power, unless sanctioned by the elec- A feature of Mr. Pardee's speech to the Borden- Hughes episode, when he pointed ont that the time for Sir Robert to have dismissed the minister was the ocea- sion when Sir had admitted his friendship for Allison. Mr, Pardee commended Sir Wilfrid Laurier for refusing to act on the Na-| tional Service Commission, where the intention of the Government was to saddle'him with their sins. Mr. Par- dee exposed the hollowness of the Tory race cry in a denunciation of the Bourassa-Borden alliance. A good The Bertram Co. of Dundas at Frankfort. at two million |b report. ccat British and French gains have thrust into the German lines. The German gains were insignificant. It was Gen. Foch's French troops that bore the brunt of the day's fighting. Within striking distance of Chaulnes, an important centre, these troops have been threatening an enveloping movement here for several days. After a violent battle, the French forces have dislodged the German forces which yesterday succeeded partly in occupying the village of Pressoire, according to to-day's offi- cial statement. tish Goveriment and British citizens, and contends that it is designed to shorten the war, The note fails to meet the Ameri- can demand that the names of Am- erican firms be stricken from the blacklist, but attempts to convince the State Department that the British position is just and founded on law. It leaves open the door for further negotiations, which is expected to follow, The note was subscribed by Vis- count Grey, the Bri Foreign Min- ister, and was ressed to and | transdlitted by Walter Hines Page, © | the American ambassador at London. -- rite, aug to Repot, BAN ON WHITE FLOUR., London, Now 16.--Gen. Sir Doug- * las Haig reported to-day considerable : shelling by the enemy northwards Less i, and southwards of Ancre during the "(Special to the Whig.) night Otherwise he had nothing to; London, Nov. 16.--As expected, r the Commons yesterday afternoon banned white flour, including import- ed white flour. The luxurious use of sugar by the British people must also be stopped. German Claim. { fal t> the Whig. , Nov. 16 (via and occupied the eastern portion of the village of Saillisel, it from the French, according to a War Of- b Li has been appoint- ed to the command of the Chinese labor corps. This is the first an- nouncement of the tion of such a corps in the British army. aad & 2000000 : SPLENDID HEROISM. : Special to the Whig.) + hed Nov. 16.--A . om have consolidated Britien ba of the Ancre. A ohai B15 875 isomers were 3 Lieut-Col. B, C. Fairfax, of the ' regiment, $0200 40080000 00 Second, in regard to the charge Tor maintenance of wards made against the city, The Children's Protection Act demands that when a child i made a ward of the society, two dol- lars a week is to be paid by the muni- cipality to the society for the main. tenance of the child, and an order upon the municipality to pay the amoupnt is made out by the judee on committing the child to the society. (Continued on Page 9.) DAILY MEMORANDUM See top of page 4, right hand sorner o babilities. 3 for pro! Princess St. Chureh, tea and sale Friday, Nov. 17, from 2 to 6. S BORN BOLTON---<At Pitteferry, 1916, to Mr. and a daughter, ma an Oet, 1Mh W. J. Bolton WARD---In Cataraqul, on November 15th, 1916, John F. Ward, In his ear. 9th . : Funeral from hi residencd, Catar- a [oh ns at 3 pm, service at 2.30 and scqnaiitapces are respect. fully invited to attend.