ery rrrreres ca BAR 88-NO. 272 ig Fw] 18 LAST EDITION EE -- IN BRIEF FORM. CRAIOVA FALLS "am T0 THE TEUTONS| od Col of Ramana Now Sc ously Menace. MOVEMENTS OF MACKENSEN IN DOBRUDJA APPEARS TO BE| 08 VERY MYSTERIOUS. eT COralova Is on the Main Line of Rail- | road Between Orsova and Bucha- rest--Thought That Russian Rein- forcements Might Avert the Big. London, Nov: 22.-- The occupation of the Rumanian town of Craiova, reported by German official ? quarters last night, has not yet been confirmed from the Entente side, but the fact that no Rumanian official re- port has been issued since Sunday leaves little reason to doubt its cor- rectness. The official reports from both Ger- man and Russian 'Headquarters the last two days had prepared the pub- lie for this news of the success of the Central Powers' thrust at Rumania, but it had been hoped that Russia which was known to be sending re- inforcements into Rumania as fast as possible might be in time to avert the blow. Cralova is an important town in the centre of a great grain district on the edge of the Wallachian Plains and is an important railway junction. Its possession hy the Central Powers cuts the railway communications of the Rumanian armjes holding the Orsova region to the west. As the lines from Turgu-Jiu, south of Vul- can Pass, and from the Danube fron- tier opposite Viden, pass through Craiova, the position of the Ra- manian forces in va is now extremely critical and they may be compelled to evacuate the Orsova re- gion, the holding of which has up to the present barred the Teutonic al- lies from the use of the Danube. Craiova lies on the main line be- tween Orova and Bucharest, about 120 miles west of the capital. Craiova before the war had a pop- ulation of nearly 50,000, and was an active centre of Rumanian trade. Some anxiety is felt that nothing has been heard of the n Field Marshal Von Mackensen's operations in Dobrudja for some time, and it is suggested that his recent retreat may, have been a. deliberate move to con- ceal the assemblage of big forces for a possible crossing of the Danube op- posite to Viden, when Gen. Von Fal- kenhayn is fighting, in which case he might be expected to be heard of at Nikopoli, or farther west, at Rahova. ROBERT MEEK 18 VICE-PRESIDENT Of the Associated Boards of Trade for the Province of Ontario. (Special to the Whig.) Hamilton, Nov. 22.--At the As- sociated Board of Trade meeting H. T. Frost was elected president and R. Meek, Kingston, vice-president. John Elliott, Belleville, and G. F. McKin- non, Smith's Falls, are members of the executive committees, The guns of the board were turned on recruiting to-day, and a resolution in favor of general registration of Canada's manhood was passed. Day- light saving was a bone of contention for some minutes, the convention going on record as favoring this only when made Dominion-wide, That three battalions of men were engaged at the Welland Canal who should be overseas, was the ciaim of G. D, Duff. The meeting went on re- cord as being opposed to further work on the canal until the conclus- ion of the war, A resolution brand- ing the Ontario Bread Law as un- just was also endorsed. In the opin- fon of the meeting bakers should be allowed to make bread of twelve ounces, twenty-four ounces and four- ty-eight ounces and any other weight 50 long &s consumer was protected by an official stamp on each loal. Canadian Casualties. Killed in action---Joseph Tobin, Peterboro; Dawson, Water- town, N.Y. E. F. Cokill, Napanee. M. Caldwell, Pres- ell, Lancaster; W. boro; Major Austin i Charles Grant, i -------------- Government has decided ize the newly created nd. " -~ WHIG CONTENTS ils: n 1--Cralova Fal dave Raiding. mperor tn Mall ot © Queen's: Me: sth vents; Rheims Cath. Notes: Random at St. Andrew's: ct No. 3 Quota. 0 News. hy iAnnouncements; Matters: Theatrical, TH ed to Doem; head- | Tidings From All Over Told In| a Pithy and Pointed Way. The British Board of Trade will | take an inventory of potato stocks. Brant County Council decided to make a registration of men through- out the country. St. Thomas District Methodists de- clared in favor of conscription under are safeguards. Simcoe Ministerial Association de- | termined on an organization to cover | Norfolk county to assist in recruit- Belleville Y.M.C.A. campaign to | raise $15,000 attained its aim ex- | cept about $300, which the directors have guaranteed. John Lodge, a thresher, of Dutton, was fatally injured when his coat caught in a cog wheel of the engine and his body was drawn through a set of gears, : Seven young West Zorra farmers were fined in all $51 and costs for tarring a neighbor in the presence of his bride, whom they also tied to a post in the barn. At Kansas City, Mo., Judge Wal- lace C. Hook held that the famous Adamson eight-hour law is uneonsti- tutional and invalid. Attorneys for the Government will appeal. + Whether or not the Hydro Com- mission should be allowed now or in future to expropriate power plants is a matter which will require legis- lation, says Attorney-General Lucas. A resolution calling for an em-| bargo on foodstuffs as soon as Con- gress convenes will be made by Rep. Fitzgerald, of New York. This would affect exportations to Canada Riso. Sir Robert Borden returned to Ot- tawa from the United States to-day. The Premier made some personal in- quiries into the nicke} situation. The appointment of a new minister of militia will be taken up at an early date. Gottlieb Von Gagow, the German minister of foreign affairs, has re- signed. The condition of his health fs given as the cause of his resigna- tion. Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, under secretary of foreign affairs, will prob- ably succeed Herr Von Jagow. A central market, so situated that steamships could unload directly un- der its roof and with connecting spurs for railroads, is advocaled by John J. Dillon, commissioner of the State Department of¥oods and Mar- kets, as. the most practicable means of combating the high cost of living in New York city. TWO QUEEN'S STUDENTS MEET DEATH AT FRONT E. T. Corkill and P. C. Caver- hill, of 46th Battery, Re- ported Killed in Action. Another Queen's man has paid the supreme sacrifice. Tuesday night word was received in the city of the death at the front of E. T. CorkiH, who was a second year student in theology at the university. Deceased was a very popular young man with ail the students and a very wide circle of friends, and the news of his death was received with sincere regret. Deceased was a son of Mr. Corkill, principal of the Collegiate Innstitute at Napanee. He went to the front with the 46th Battery under Major L. W. Gill y P. C. Caverhill Also Killed. Percy C. Caverhill, Trenton, Ont. a member of the 46th Battery of Queen's, is also reported killed in action. He, too, was assecond-year student in theology, and was a grad- nate in Arts of Queen's. Gunners Caverhill and Corkill were in the early twenties, and were young men of promise. They at- tended Cooke's church while students at Queen's . They, with five other members of the theological class, went overseas last spring with the battery. THE STOCK EXCHANGE. The Dealing in the Various Kinds To-day. New York Stocks. Open. 1 p.m. 105 86% » 371% 107% Atchison .. .. Baltimore & Ohio rw CPR... i Erie .. Fd New York Central wy Northern Pacific. | Pennsylvania . . .e ReRGING «oii ss 4s:¢ Union Pacific .. .. .. Car Foundry . Amer. Loco. yee Amer, Smelters " Anaconda .. .. .. Republic Steel is U. 8. Steel ¢ Canadian Steel of Canada , . Steel Corp. .. Steamers. .. .e Cement «vu +s ++ +. General Eleetric ,. .. 108% 148% 5% 102% turned out 'to the shipbuilding yards some weeks 'interned German Vaterland in 122% | HOSPITAL HP WAS TORPEDOED The Disaster Occurred Recently in the Aegean Sca--Many Lives Lost. SOME 1,100 WERE SAVED THE BRITANNIC WAS THE BIG- GEST BRITISH SHIP AFLOAT. The Latest Announcement Says Ffty Were Drowned and Twenty-Eight Injured--The Great Craft Was Built as a White Star Liner. (8pectal To The Whig) London, Nov. 22.---The forty- eight thousand-ton Bgitish hospital ship Britannic has been sunk in the Aegean Sea by a submarine or mine. Eleven hundred were saved. The Britannic had accommodation for six thousand patients, besides crew, but it is unknown at present how many were aboard when the ship was at- tacked. A later announcement by the Ad- miralty said that fifty were lost in the sinking of the Britannic, twenty- | eight were injured and eleven hun- dred saved. The Britannic was.built as a White Star liner. She was taken over by the British Government as soon as of the shipyards. The White Star offices in New York say the Britannic was expected to go in- turned The British to the ton- mage. Capt. C. D. Bartlett was com- mander. ago to be overhauled and back to the White Star Line. 'Britannic was the biggest ship afloat, and second only THE DEUTSCHLAND LEAVES Started From New London, Conn., on Tuesday Afternoon. Watch Hill, R. I, Nov. 22.--The German trading submarine Deutsch- land, which started again ffom New London, Conn., for Bremen yesterday afternoon, passed here last night, moving eastward through Block Is- land Sound. She was without con- voy, ten miles off shore. Although wireless operators and incoming steamship captains a week ago -veported British vessels off shore, no reports of their presence have been received since the Deutsch- land made her false start from New London last Friday morning. Livestock Breeders. Trenton, Nov. 22.--The newly- elected officers of the Prince Edward Livestock. Breeders' Association for the ensuing year are: Hon President, A. D. Foster; president, W. L. Ge- row; vice-president, Morden Gilbert; secretary-treasurer, A: P. MacVan- nel; directors, Durham Koster, How- ard Leavens, Carman Metcalfe, C. B. Purtelle, W. H. Gough; D. Burling- ham, Arthur Wright, Archie Kerr, Clarence Mallory, Grant Thompson, Amos T. Hodgin. Presbyterians Lead Recruits. Cobourg, Nov. 22.---A religious census of the recruits who have sign- ed up here since Jan. 1st 1916, with the Cobourg Heavy Battery has been taken and works out in this way: Presbyterion, 49; Anglicans, 47; Me- thodist, 47; Roman Catholic. 26; Congregationalist 5; Baptist, 5 He- brew, 1. Science Teacher Enlists. Stirling, Nov. 22.--T, Hume Bis- sonnette, science teacher in the col- legiate institute at Regina Sask., has accepted a lieutenant's commission in the newly authorized Queen's High- land Battalion, the 253rd, which has its headquarters at Kingston. This is the third son of Dr. Bissonnette to join t the colors. The Stratford Court of Revision lopped $27,150 off the assessments of nine hotels. | to abandon her last hope that she might still possess a rank among the | civilized nations of the world. Sin a {the beginning of the war she Las HON. COL. JAMES L. HUGHES AND HIS BROTHER, BRIG.- GEN. WILLIAM ST. PIERRE HUGHES. Leaving the Locre, Belgium, where the ve-yard of the Roman Catholic church in where Yihe son of Col. J. L. Hughes is buried. SOME PAID RANSOM. Deported Boigu hin Allowed to Ret ome. Amsterdam, post 92 According | to the frontier correspondent of The Telegraaf, a number of Belgians who | had been deported to Germany, have returned to Belgium, having paid a ransom to the Germans. sIt appears, declared the correspon- | dent, that the Germans first offered | a ransom for 1,000 marks, and none | offering to pay this amount, reduced | it to 500 marks, 'which also many re-| fused to pay. p- A GREAT MAJORITY Was Piled Up Against a Policy of | Conscription (Special 'to the Wi Melbourne, Australia, tion in Australia was beaten at the; polls by sixty-one thousand of a ma-| jority. i , CANADIANS OUTNUMBER OTHER NATIONALITIES The figures of recruiting bas- ed ,on nationalities show that Canada- is now supplying the bulk of the recruits to the colors. The nationalities of the 407 recruits enlisted in the last two weeks in this military dis- trict are: Canadians .. English. . Sgotch Irish .. Russian... Various .. dhe brd irre 5 PHP PPRP PEEP Orr Peed Bigamist Sent to Penitentiary. Toronto, Nov. 22.--Garfield Chap- pell pleaded guilty in the Police Court to charges of bigamy and non- support of his family, and was sen- tenced to two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Chappell deserted his wife and child in 1914, and went through a form of marriage in Oril- lia with Cora Sears, who is now a mother. Enemy is Busy. (Special to the Whig.) London, Nov. 22. ---Active ar- tillery firing from the enemy was reported by General Sir Douglas Haig from Ancre front to-day. He said the activity was centred on the Bri- tish right front, south of Ancre. To the north the British forces drove off hostile patrol. Foun the Foe. to the Whig.) Salonika, Nov, 22.--The German- |@ulgarian army in Macedonia was re- sisting energetically on a line from Snegovo, about three miles north of Monastir, to Hill 1050, south-west of Makovo. The Adlied forces took 500 "Nov. 22.-- | The final figures show that conscrip- SLAVE RAIDING - IN FULL SWING eat ls 0 Gd ri by the Germans REFUSED T0 FURNISH LISTS ALDERMEN RELEASED AFTER | HUNS HAD PURLOINED THEM. There Is no Discrimination--The Belgians Are Transported Irre- spective of Their Condition in Life. | London, Nov. 21.--A"déspateh to | the Daily News from Rotterdam says: "The entire Brussels City Council, with the aldermen, were arrested on the 17th for refusing to surrender lists of the city's unemployed, They were released after 24 hours, when it was found that the lists had been taken by the Germans. "As far as is known at Rotterdam, no deportations. from Brussels had occurred as late as Saturday." Kidnapped Right and Left, Emile Cammaerts, the Belgian writer, writes as follows in the Ob- server: "As I write these lines the slave raids are going on. The tramp of soldiers is heard through Belgian towns and villages and women, chil- dren and men are kidnapped right and left. It is terrible! "Trains roll through Germany packed with human cattle, "These things have been going on since Oct. 15. Ten days ago 15,000 had been taken in Flanders 'alone. How many are there now? Between 20,000 and 30,000. If things are allowed to go on at this rate, we shall witness the wholesale depor- tation of an entire people reduced to slavery. Worse Than Invasion. "This, indeed, 1s a disaster worse than invasion, worse than the retreat from Antwerp, worse than the whole- sale massacres of Louvain, Tamines, Andenne, Dinant--worse even than the ceaseless persecutions of the last two years. What is Belgium's an- swer to this new crime? "To-day her soul is THtricken. Every one of these captives has to choose between death and dishonor. Their spirit is broken by the slow, gnawing torture endured: in complete isolation. "In order to inflict new torture upon her victams, Germany 'has had | piled up such a heap of horrors that {the wildest imagination might well { shrink from it. But these slave raids | will be considered in the future the keystone of the ghastly monument. It is mot only without justification, { but without the slightest shadow of | extenuating circumstances. Germany's Explanations. "When she sent her ultimatum to Belgium, Germany pleaded military necessity, When she butchered 5,- 000 disarmed civillans and sacked four or five towns she invented the legend of franc-tireurs, which was at least believed by a certain number of soldiers who had = been (falsely persuaded that Belgium had pro- mised to give free passage to her army. When she requisitioned the Belgian crops and raw stuffs, she argued that she needed them sorely and that if she allowed the popula- tion to be fed by the United States and Great Britain she might as well benefit. When she murdered Nurse Cavell and| Captain Fryatt she could say that they were enemies who had i succeeded in doing her some harm. "The submarine campaign and the Zeppelin raids were an outcome of the new German principle of waging war not only upon the army and navy, but upon the civil population. All this made anarchy, a wild bru- tality and systematic violation of the laws of humanity. We can under- stand how the dreadful nation can be led to commit such crimes. *But what can be said about the recent slave raids?" War Tidings. Craiova was occupied by German troops in Rumania on Tuesday. In the British Commons on Tues- day, Lord Cecil said Britain would RANL JOST MADE EXIT To Ad Ati Emp Hos Fly Succumbed to Death. HOW WILL: EMPEROR CARL FRANZ JOSEF HANDLE AFFAIRS He Is Aged 29 and Has No Experi. ence as a Diplomat or Statesman --He Is a Good Soldier--The Dead | Emperor Will Not Be Buried for a Week. (Special to the Whig.) London, Nov. 22.--The eyes of Europe were turngd to-day on the Archduke Carl Francis Josef, now to' be Emperor of Austria-Hungary, fol- lowing aged Emperor Franz Josef, whose de is confirmed in special despatchéf from various sources to- day. The new ruler of the nation, whose demands on Serbia precipitate ed the great war, is twenty-nine years of age, and is now supposed to be in command of the Austrian troops op- erating in the Carpathians against the Rumanians. Undoubtedly he has already been summoned to Vienna. He is regarded as a good soldier, but has absolutely no experience as a diplomat or statesman. respond to every call for help from the Belgian Government. It is officially announced that 341 persons were killed and 667 injured land. HUN AIRMEN DROP POISONED ARTICLES Bucharest Children Eat Pois- 'onous Candy and Die Hor- rible Death. London, Nov. 22.--Miss Helen Monfries, a Scotch nurse, who has come from Rumania, said in an in- terview published in the Observer: "At Bucharest poisoned sweets and toys were dropped by German aero- planes. One of the bombs contained microbes of every - kind of virulent disease--cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid. "M. Jonescu was present at the an- alysis of the contents of some of the lime. died. '""One morning, after an air rai! glittering pencil cases lay strew. about the streets. up one and was metal when it exploded. his fingers were blown off." unscrewing the Three of Ji See PHRIP ded FEARS EXPRESSED. (Special to the Whig.) London, Nov. 22.--Grave # fears are expressed hefe for the + safety of Bucharest. The Teu- + tons occupy impontant cities and # towns on the main railway line + to the Rumanian capital. » 1 : i i) "WE'LL GET BAPAUME," SAYS A CANADIAN The Canadian an Artillery Did Splendid Work at Grand- court Last Saturday. London, Nov. 22--S8everal divisions of Canadian artillery which every- one supposed, were in another place the Grandcourt enflanking on last Saturday. The particular trenches which en- filaded were some they lost in Sep- tember. It was a neat revenue, which did not escape Canadian gun- ners, and they worked overtime to make it complete. In addition to all those guns which helped to crumple up the resistance there were several Canadians serving on batteries mounted on trucks with howitzers, who entered into the great event. To use the words of an artillery officer who returned to England last night, "We put it over them properly and Watson's division have again the thanks of the corps com- tie table which even the Huns can- not stop. We will get Bapaume yet and I know perfectly well we will get it in the Imperial staff's good time." Lieut.- W. H. Whitehead," Winni- a? at i Bh missing Ww machine was brought down in Ger- man lines on October 1, and believed to have been killed, is un- and a prisoner at Osna- fempire eof Austria-Hungary in the explosion at Bakaritza in Po-| sweets, which looked dike satin pral- | van satin. ines. They were made of chloride of | raya) black velvet, and placed finally Many children ate them and|in a large metallic sarcophagus altogether had an important pant in| Clark: Emperor Carl assumes the throne |at a time when the strongest of men { would have a task in maintaining the intact and strong. Hungary, under strong leaders, is growing restive under the Hapsburg yoke. The immediate re- sult of the removal of the strong figure of the aged emperor will, it is beliew here, mean an increase in Prussian domination of the Central Empires. Germany will probably find Carl pliant in acceding to Prus- @an wishes. Despatches to-day de- clared that the aged emperor's death was peaceful. Vienna had been prepared for the news, but nevertheless the removal of the ruler who had wielded power for sixty-eight years, caused a pro- found impression. According to cus- tom the work of embalming the dead emperor's body was begun to-day. His heart will be removed and placed in a separate receptacle, although this will later be laterred with his body. According to the dead emi- peror"s own wish, his ¢offin will be a plain wooden one, of oak, lined with It will be covered with in | the imperial crypt. If custom is fol- lowed, Franz Josef will not be buried for at least a week, but the body will A soldier picked| lay in state in the meantime. It is expected that in addition to 'the Kaiser, the Czar of Bulgaria and the Crown Prince of Turkey will at- tend the funeral, no complete plans for which have yet been made public, Count Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, left for Vienna immediately on hear ing of Franz Josef's death. It is learned that Premier Briand of France, in a telegram to the Greek king, suggested that in order to emerge from his present difficulties he seek a reconciliation with former Premier Venizelos and declare war on Bulgaria. DAILY MEMORANDUM See t SfBase 3, right hand corner tor orobabl Tea and Shyreh: on Th gale in Sydenham street 4 y. Nov. 23rd, at 3 o'c Zion, church _bazgadr and dipner, Thursday, Nov. 23rd, afternoon and ev. ening. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Medley's Dru ore, Paul's Se "es Prouse's Southcott's Grocery .......Portsmoutd ANGLIN -- On Nov. 2ist, 1918, wife of Capt. Douglas G. 50th Battery, Queen's, Camp, Surrey, Eng. of a daughter. ROBSE in agate. on Nov. 22nd 9186, and Mrs. Ephraim Tots, Yeo Raglan Road, a the mander. We have established a new | LA'