s Eh cit ti tga "20 PAGES | Con YEAR 83-NO. CRAHAM CABLES 10 LLOYD CEOR That Canadian Liberalism Lines Up Behind Him As Promicrr PROSECUTION OF THE WAR 2 87 SUCCESSFUL ISSUE CONSIDERATION. TO. "Canada Is With You to the Finish," Says Hom. G. P. Graham, Who Cabled for Sir Wilfrid Laurier. (Specizl to the Whig Toronto, Dec. 9.--On beha Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who is conduct- ing a recruiting campaign in Quebec, ' has sent the following cable to the Right Hon. David Lloyd George. "As Britaln's first minister, Cana- dian Liberalism lines up behind you. The prosection of the war to a suc- cessful seompletion is the first con- sideration of every true Britisher. May victory be as swift as your re-| sponsibilities are great. Canada is /with you to the finish." To be Sweeping Reforms, London, Dee. 9.--The premier is expected to submit his full list to the King some time to-day. Details have leaked out about the conference be- tween the new prime minister and thé labor leaders. a Lloyd George, it is said, laid be- fore his visitors a progranuue of re- forin so sweeping that some .timid | voices were raised. expressing fore- hodings of opposition to measures that might be too radical, These were the principal steps | foreshadowed by the new: premier: The fullest possible mobilization of the nation's industrial and econ- omic resources, Establishment of a ministry of | labor, to be such not only in name, | but in authority and deeds, i Nationalization of all mines and | shipping and possibly of all rail- | roads, | Representation . of labor at the! peace conference following the end | of the war. 25 | Industrial mobilization did not ap- | peal to all those , Some sug- | gestéd that' 'mean indus- 1 conscript] CROs ey tt | ai aSas thes And hate Laaxd George and made it clear that selfish jections on the ground of "individual liberty" would not stop him in his path of reform. Diplomatic as his reply was, its substance was little short of "supposing it did mean that; it must be done." VU. S. MILITARY SYSTEM SAID TO BE F Chief of Staff Comes Out Filat- ly for Universal Military Training. : ~~A pote to Washington, Dec. Germany protesting against the de- portation of Belgians for forced la- hor as contragy to all precedents and humane principles of international practice was made public last night by the State Department. x3 The note was cabled to Charge Grew at Berlin on Nov. 29th, the day Ambassador Gerard discussed the subject with President Wilson, with instructions that he read it to the German chancellor personally. In making it public the State De- partment announced that the inter- view had taken place, but said noth- ing about results. Jurists of Belgium Appeal. Havre, Dée. 9.--Five hundred judges and members of the Belgian bar, notablé among whom are the Judges of the Court of Cassation of Brussels, the Court of Appeals and the Courts of Commerce, have sign- ed a protest to Gen. Von Bissiug, the military governor of Belgium, against of Belgians as in y natural rights, of the and of the law of pa- A tornado which swept over At- lanta ially demolished the busi- ness on, causing a loss of about $40,000. ay FIRST | ) If of the | Liberal party of Canada, Hon. George | P. Graham, M. P., in the absence of | bu | bargo | | Many families, | asserted in Belgium, to German re- ~~ a", ritish Whig CORE Fy FTE Ihe Daily . Ee ---- |THE U. 8. PROTEST ! OVER SLAVE RAIDS By' Germany in Belgium-- | Priests of Belgium Ap- peal to Kaiser. { | Washington, Dec. 9,--In sharp con- {trast to the report of War Secretary Baker, Major-General Hugh L. Scott, in his annual report as chief of staff, issued yesterday, pronounces the mili- tia system a failure and declares flat- ly for universal military training. His report is deelared to have the ap- proval of the whole and to represent the views of 90 per cent. 'of the offi- cers of the army. General Scott not only states his be- lief that in no other way than by uni- versal training can adequate defence be secured, but he condemns the pay militia system as unduly expensive without producing results. The report reviews the military his- tory of the United States, and draws the conclusion that as a result of the present military system and the pa- eifistic propaganda, the spirit of pa- triotism is declining. The fact that recruiting for the national guard dropped to nothing at the height of {the recent emergency is cited in sup- | port of this view, STRAFFING THE BRITISH. GERMANY JUSTIFIES The Selzare of Belgians as a Necks. sity. Berlin, Dee. 9.--The German Gov- ernment issued a statement to-day | | in explanation and justification of The All-Highest--' 'Vy don't you use rubbers?" German Officer--'*Ve haf none," The All-Highest--' Cott strafe der British 1" KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1918 German Officer~**Der men haf no boots, your Majesty.** {'theé transfer of Belgian laborers to | Germany. It says the measure is by no means a hardship for the laborers t Is a social necessity. | Owing chiefly to the British em-| against Belgium's overseas | trade, which befdre the war support- ed a large part of the industrial population, large numbers of Belgian workers are idle, the statement says, and conditions are growing worse. after spending all their savings, have hecome objects of public charity. This state of things is not due, as rr ---- "This is Net Canada's War," You Say, "It Is England's." If a bandit shoots your brother one dark night: if some brute beats your sis- ter to insensibility; some outlaw assaults your mo- ther, do you stand aside and say, "This is not my 'quarrel, it is no affair of mine? Not for a minule. are. a man and prove yourself one. - Then why shirk your responsibilities as a Brit- ish subectj? -. If it is lack of courage we, imething more to 3 have eondemn- "ei vommsell to the con- tempt ofall 'men. Butiif it is simply self- fishness, let this "appeal . awaken you to a sénse of duly. : Every 'able-hodied man is needed to win this war. If you are fit and can go, enlist to-day. CERMANY MUST SECURE PEACE PACE 1 TALKING. LOWER AND MORE PASSIONATELY THE FATHERLAND, quisitions of raw material, it is ex- lained, for these requisitions oe- curred as a rule only where factories were unable to continue operation. WEARING AWAY OF : THE HORESHOE FALLS Subject Will Likely Come Into Consideration of Interna- ~ tional Commission. Ottawa, Dec, 9.--Inquiry concern- Ing the 'statement or "Secretary or] War Bgk a affect that ugless the pr of. ] oe Falls ig prevented the Ame; | falls at Niagara will run dry elicited the information here that no representa- tions have been made wtih regard to the subject to the International Joint Commission, or, at least, the Cana- dian branch of it. Chairman Magrath stated this morning that investigation of the situation had been ordered trom Washington, and that he ex- pected to réceive a memo from the You would IN Socialist Paper Vorwaerts Says That the Foreign Governments Lack the Courage to Make Peace. Berlin, Dec. .-- (Via London, Dee. 9) ~The, Socialist newspaper.¥o! WHerLs, in an editorial on the capture, of Bucharest, expresses the view that the chief significance of the victory Hes in the disproof it furnishes of the Entente assertions that Chancellor Von Bethman-Hollweg's expressed willingness to make peace is dictated by Germany's weakness, The newspaper argues that the present moment is especially suited to further efforts for peace, as the United States engineers within a few days. The demand of the Hydro-Electric for moré power from the Canadian Niagara Company is believed here to be the reason for bringing the ques- tion up. i -------- TO PUNISH DEALERS Who Squeéze the People Over Food- : stuffs. Washington, Dee. 9.-- Officials con- ducting the government's inquiry in- to the high cost of living virtually completed list night a plan to place to-morrow before President Wilson and Attornéy-Generdl Gregory provid- ing for simmiltaneous grand jury in- vestigations throughout the country. | It was said that doubt no longer ex-* Teutonie conquests in Rumania make further Entente talk about Germany's wedkness ridiculous, It asks who can, after Bucharest dare interpret German peace speechs as "signs of weakness." The articles concludes: "Never has peace been talked loud- er or more passinately in Germany than during the past few weeks, yet precisely, thesé weeks have matured what bly is them ost wonderful success Germany has achieved during this war. Foreign governments lack the courage to make peace. The Ger- man Government can and must have ¢ it. It must manifest that courage un- jl the peoples on the other side Sweep away the governments which or neither win victories nor con- clude peace. . . , , The attempt must | isted whether there had been eom- be made, and If it fails throngh ib. bipations to boost ¢oal prices, and obvious fault of others, then we can' that effective means to punish those'go on with a good conscience until who have violated the law were being the next time, and our soldiers will studied. resume their march." President Wilson and the Cabinet M---- discussed the situdtion at yésterday's Desire Peace. meeting, and it is understood decid- London, Dec. 9.--An Amsterdam ed to await further disclosures before "10 Reuter's quotes the Ber- reaching a conclusion as to recom- Tr as saying in reference' the salutes and bell ringings in mendations to be made by the Pre-' sident to Congress. celebration of thie fall of Bucharest: "Let us hope that all German newspaper writers will mot themselves ag Shar guns or bells. eee J EXPRESS CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT There Will Be an Overwhelm- ing Vote in ltaly's Par- liament. (Special to the Whig. Rome, Pec: 9.--The age of a vote of confidence in Italy's present government and conduct of the war under that regime was practically cer- tain by an overwhelming vote in par- liament to-day. - The only faction which it was believed might oppose such an endorsement was a small group of Socialists. Possibly a few members of the party adherents of Former Premier Giolitti may oppose a complete endorsement of the present ministry. Reached England Safely. AS al to the Whig. Ottawa, Dec. 8. 1t is offial ly an- nounced that the 163rd Battalion from Bermuda and the Fifth Pioneers, Mon . artillery draft and details, have réached England 'safely. SHIPPING WARNED. To Beware of Strange Vessel in At- lantic. i$ (Special to the Whig) Halifax, Dec. 3--aNied: & Dp News: is; Announcements; ters: Theatrical, d Their Authors: Letter; Man on ; Rexane's Con- \ { Markets: es; With Players a. the Countryside. Planned; A Serial "The Dog of Sport: Bringing FRANCE 1S STUNG 10 THE (UX Ne Ef | 1S HELD UP TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE. Writers Call on Country for Leaders, Few But Efficient, Who Will Cone quer or Die, > Paris, Dec. 9. --If Ger has been a sufMciently @ to the Allies to make them amenable|* to peace overtures, a perusal of ; French newspapers will show: her that she is grievously mistaken. While there is no attempt to belittle the importance of Germany's success, the immediate effect on public opinion has been that of a stinging blow, which electrifies every energy and stiffens every muscle for counter. This and the "flourish of hired as- sassins' daggers at Athens," has stung France to the quick. She is setting her teeth in grimmer earnest than ever. "Let 'us look the situation in the face," says Alfred Capus in Figaro. "Why should Germany turn toward us? Because with her usual lack of penetration, she believes that afies two years of war there may occlr a moment of weariness in France fav- orable to the advocates of a separate peace. She compares the peace terms she would like to offer. now with what she intended imposing off us in 1914, and she finds them acceptable without realizing that, if she dares offer them there would not be a sin- gle Frenchman : who wi not im- miliation. . A fight to a never appeared more inevi than bin the present circumstances. The French Government and Parliament will in their turn fling at Germany the implacable resolution of our country," To Conquer or Die. Henry Berenger, in the Paris Midi, sounds the same note. ."We must look the war in the face With the spirit of war, resolved to the enemy from our terri antee our frontiers. choose few lead | ce during the last 48 hours. mediately feel their shame and hu-|! | PAGES 12 LAST EPITION BRITAIN T0 HAVE | | pattern. We 'Allies have not got! | them yet. We have not got them, | | but we intend to have them. We are! waiting for them, leaders, leaders, | "But to conquer we need an organ- Let leaders." { "Not to conquer with the means| we possess would be a crime," writes] Jean Herbette in the Echo de Paris: | ] Next Year it Wl have the Best Organized in Eorope. ization and a will. have them." Gustave Tery publishes an open letter to Mr. Asquith, congratulating | him for his patriotic action in retir-| ing from power to make room for a| triumvirate to conduct the war. HALIFAX AS PORT FOR SHIPS WITH BIG GUNS Policy of Arming British Mer- chantships Likely to Divert Shipping From New York. New York, Dec. 9.--The New York Tribune publishes the following from Arthur Draper, its London corres- pondent: In the effort to suppress the submarine menace, I hear many Bri- fish merchant ships are being armed with guns of high calibre, so that the! odds against them shall be lessened. In this connection it is recalled that the agitation for sterner war mea- sures that led to the downfall of the Asquith ministry called for adequate measures to curb the U-boats. If the American Government holds that the f#ncreased armament puts merchant ships in the class of war vessels Halifax will become the chief American port for trans-Atlantic shipping during the war. Britain is able to use her fleet to keep this port|to know the experience of some of clear. Such a change is bound to|OUr own manufacturers who thought have a big effect on the port of New | they would have reached a maximum York. in months when it really took . The arming of merchant ships is a|tWenty-four. It takes a year to difficul problem, since the mounting Make the big guns. France was of big guns means alterations in|%aved at the Marne by the seventy- #tructure. Figures show that only| fives, but the seventy-five is now a one out of five victims of submarines| defensive weapon only. For offence is an armed ship. | the larger guns ate essential, but the The Liverpool Express reports that|&eneral result of the controversy the Government may assume control| Which has been raging for some time of all shipping concerns. It is said | Over the general merits of very large that Liloyd-George in his conference|And medium-size guns has seemed to with the Labor leaders to-day promis- Se couclustait dist Suns of med- | a er for most pur- ed such governmental control, | poses and thet the great -- pur valuable only in exceptional circum- stances, ' . ------r ITS SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS RB NEXT SPRING. . Frederick R. Coudert Spike 6f Cana- dian Gallantry--A = Consolation That North America Produces a Fine Race of Men. New York, Dec. 9.--Frederick R. Coudert told the members of the Nationa} Security League at their meeting at the Hotel Astor yesterday - that by next spring the British mun- itions factories would be producing {four times as much ag at present. This was one of the things be had learned during a visit tb the Brit'sh and French fronts in September'and October, "You do not realize what time it takes to produce munitions in ade- quate quantity," he said. "I happen HAMILTON HAS NOW Sebel WOMEN MAIL CARRIERS. Greatest in Europe. "After the year England will have probably the most numerous best- organized and best-equipped army in Europe. Its late development re- moves it from the burden. of old models of equipment and gives it an opportunity to begin with the new- est models of aeroplanes and artil- ie Sand hed to rd 0. Ro matter how good, ; bunds " aig told me that he had young men, who have held back, #/7H¥ CN 000 me 5 +000, 'men under his command ib be awakened to a sense of 8 401 thers Tut oo 3,000,000 or 4,- 000,000 at home. "The organization of the armies behind the line is amassing, I saw thousands of women, under the di- rection of ¢ Parisian painter, paint. ing ploughed fields green so that they would look like wheat, for the confusion of aeroplane observers. Back from the firing line, out of danger the great m of roads for the enormous tral required by the supplies of the army is kept up by the work of prisoners, who, after a few days, become hi and cheer- ful, with such a d ne that they are kept under an nominal surveillance, and work well under the direction of their own non-com- mishioned officiers." ention of the gallantry of French and Canadian troops was heartily cheered, particularly that of the Can- adians, of whom Mr, Coudert said: "I felt that after all it was a con: solation to know that North America produces a fine race of men." It is stated that Sir Robert Finlay, former 'Attorney-General and mem- ber of Parliament for Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities, will be Lord High Chancellor in the new British Cabinet, Sir G. E. Perley is to retire as High Commissioner at London on Monday. Sir George Foster is to succeed. DAILY MEMORAVDUM Utilities Commitesion, ¢ p.m Mond: LO; Assault at Arms, City Hall, » + Hamilton, Dec. 9---Twenty-five 4 women have been sworn in here # as mail carriers. One of the ob- + jects of employing women on + such work is to present eligible 4 men with an object-lesson of # their duty. It is thought that # when women start in to do such ur TP EY of 4 Pesta stans POI Nh +/oaded. snowfall has cut-communications be- tween Italy, Switzerland and France by way of the Simp! Tunnel. Thursday night the Milah-Paris ex- Press was snowbound. Telegraph and telephone wires are down on sides of the tunnel, t Brigue and Domossola the pth of the snow is about four feet, ile on Simplon Pass it is nearly . Many avalanches are re: ported, Forty Swiss soldiers have been imprisoned in the Simplon Hos- So ;Iaf no loss of life is reported, but ! international communication has been suspended. J ------ War Russians on the offensive in all parts of the Carpathians. Two préom- inent heights have been tdken. The British Admiralty annouhces that a disguised German raider is in/ the Atlantic. Russia promises that Mackensen's stay in Bucharest will be short. AGAINST ALIEN LABOR. f page 3, right band corper idles. BORN Genera n Ki n Dee, oth 1 4, Mr ana 916, to C. McGowan, 470 Albert p.m, See top o for probabi $ital, o re. G. w son. a|SMITH--AL § on Ave, Toronto, on Dee. Sth, 1918, to Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Smith (nes Clara M. Sar- gent) a son, CCALLUM-DUFFY<4At the ho t the bride's parents Cushendall, by 0