LAST EDITION KINGSTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1916 { YEAR 83-NO. 290 WH UNTIL HE SEES HOW THE WIND a IS BLOWING. THE BATTLE LINE THROUGH ALBANIA, SOUTHERN SER-| RUSSIA IS UNITED BIA AND NORTHERN GREE AND ALSO AGAINST THE TEUTON the Slav Empire. Empire of a resolution emphasizing 0 Russia Than Other Allies. tary questions marks the turning- posed of half of the retired Ministers FAX 10 BERMUDA bers elected by the Conservative cor- plied every Government in power Scarcity Has Reached a Crisis-- was passed coincided in substance ONTARIO, THE BATTLE LINE IN RUMANIA. | -- : : Council of Empire Emphasizes Essential Unanimity of FOR THE (ZAR London, Dec. 18.--The Chrduicle h_YA has the following from Petrograd: The passage by the Council of the Germany's Peace Terms More Unfavorable the essential unanimity of the na-|- tion on the main political and mili- ---- point in the history of representative institutions in Russia. Hitherto the Council of the Empire, a body com- and other functionaries nominated by the Crown, and half of the mem- porations, has been the stronghold of bureaucracy, has consistently sup-| A Berlin Paper Says That the Food and thwarted the reforming efforts 's Another for the luti sit of the Duma. The resolution as Wanting Reason with that passed by the Duma three days before. GERMANY'S TERMS. PEPPP300 5900440 4% 30 Washington, Dec, 13.--News that Germany and her allies were about to enter on peace negotiations was Seber bb etre Hy thousand Christmas stockings #| for the President, Secretary Tumulty were received from Montreal. % gaid he was deeply interested, - but Extra parcels for prisoners in | could make no comment, at least un- Germany containing plum pud- | ti] jt was learned what reception the ding, muscatels, fruit cake and +| proposal received from the Entente chocolate were despatched in #| Alles, November to insure delivery by | Christmas. Returned prisoners testify that the parcels reach the men in good condition. Premier May Also Be Minister of Foreign Affairs. Paris, Dec. 13.--The new French Cabinet, according to an unofficial list available yesterday is comprised as follows: Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aristide Briand, Minister of Finance, Alexander Ri- t Toronto, and Wireless Operator Clement, of Hamilton. -- stubbornly resisting. "South of Trotiesh," the state- ment said," we gained a line of en- emy trenches along the heights south of Agusulia. Enemy counter- attacks made to regain this position were repulsed with great losses and a number of prisoners were taken." * German Note to Pope, Berlin, via London, Dec. 13.--Ger- { many"s note to Pope Benedict de- LOST IN STORM 4 ing I COUNTED Ul ON Telegraph Company says that peace proposals were likely to be "The war has gone on too long for | ROUTE FROM HALI-| possible in view of the military situa-| THIS IS THE IDEA AT THE GER- Ran Into Bad Weather and Started ' strongly for peace as anybody can be, if Only a Conference Can Be Ar- « Ottawa, Dec. 13.--The Canadian|let our American friends and any (Special to the Whig.) .* I wil \ :! . One man and three women were Si ; W. Wingate, has been lost off Cape |P'ICiPIes of arbitration, and 1 will 3 >. AS 1. Return of all occupied ter us would be a step toward having clared at the German Embassy to- Enemy attacks in Rumania in the|g Lon aon ingdoms of Poland by Peter Rouss, of New York. She From Bucharest to Salonika is 300 miles. The develop- miral Du Fournet, commander of (gq "3 '0omoe trl Bh RICE. TEUTONIC ATTACKS to get, not what she expects to get," The Grilse carried a crew of four maintains a considerable force. -t # These terms are much more { German officials said to-day. Any she wirelessed that owing to bad London, Dec. 13.--Twenty uli minutes later "now sinking." No was announced to-day, he Jick Wong he i u Christmas gifts. Eighteen seht to President Wilson. Speaking 2 eo enz er andits aAl- Grilse Included Sub-Lieut. Fry, of an Th ve tna fighting continues, the enemy from Jassy, the new: capital of Ru-| in | Belgiom And France. -- "Phe Germans have levied a heavy Mean Fighting it All that the & : The Canadian Naval Steamer Grilse is Re-| speech on Monday night of Arthur 10 Play An Important Part in Influencing 1t is, tion that we may become war-weary. | MAN EMBASSY. Back--On Tuesday Night She Sent, peace must place us without ranged Between the Nations In- Naval Service Department has an-|other neutrals do what they can to Washington, Dec. 13--The Centra go with them, but not now. trals of the world to play an import- killed and thirty-seven injured injg 000" oilacing conditions be Race with all hands. She was a 30- to fight the whole thing over again."| gay. Whatever peace terms are sng- Buzeu Valley were unsuccessful,|y ang Lithuania. was purchased by J. R. L.. Ross, Ca- ments in the various of the Balkans : parts are all intimately | the Allied fleet in Greek waters; has | 4 vastated portions of Belgium it was said. The actual peace terms officers and forty men, many of them s Nixa + unfavorable to Russia than to Trenches. terms which may be suggested now | ig ng weather she was returning to Shel- Special he Whi | wan emphases: king ome AN EDICT PROMULGATED HL (Special to the Whig.) : | Petrograd, Dec. 13.--Repulse terms, officials pointed out, could on- ¥ thousand letter cases are going word has since come. Several ves- Eastward of Chibena, a strong en- ready Begun the Plundering of the mania, under date of Dec, 9, The | war tax on Bucharest. An edict has been issued forbidding the. circulation ' Sm TT : : - ~ | WARNING OF DANGER OF PREMATURE PEACE Over Again. London, Dee .13.--The Exchange Henderson, member of the War Coun- | ported $8 Lost. cil, was made with full knowledge Powers. brought forward, Mr. Henderson in his address said 10 TALK ON PEACE TERMS . in part: | some people in this country. I' want to warn everyone of the dang-; er of premature peace. I am as The Terms Are a Secondafy Matter Out the 8.0.8. Wirless Call. doubt beyond the recurrence of the Special to the Whig) present catastrophe. By all means volved on Both Sides of This Ter- rific Struggle. nounced that it is feared that H. M.|form a league of nations which would . din Canadian torpedo boat Griise, Lieut, | Pind themselves together to lay down' powers are counting upon the neu- ine. . : oi 2 November "To talk peace with all the most ant part in influencing the Entente the last Zeppelin raid, 1? # fore the war, with exception of knot oil-burning vessel and formerly | unscrupulous military forces against! Allies to talk peace terms, it was de: 27th, it was officially announced. + the establishment of the inde- the palatial yacht Winchester, owned says Petrograd. #+ 2. Balkan bound gested now might perhaps be inter: It is officially announced that Ad-| a joe' 40 rg Ph nl ' nadian millionaire, and presented to | RUSSIANS REPULSE preted as "what Germany would like the Government in May, 1915. y foiated to one anethes. Athens is shown on the map, and also | been replaced by Admiral Caucher. | 4'4ng France in return for Ger- In the Wooded Carpathians!?2re less important now than the 4 miles from Salonika, where King Constantine ma asa, | ® many"s captured colonies. Chadians. | She left Halifax Monday | and Gain Line of Enemy | Gera Y Of setting a conference, the afternoon for Bermuda. Tuesday 4 S #+ the other Allies, v GIFTS FOR CANADIAN s * burne, N.. 8. Tuesday night at 7.28 | o'clock she called "8.0.5." and a few i with great enemy losses, of Teutonic [lV be evolved after a long discussion LEVY_ TAX OF MILLIONS ON to the Canadian 'wounded attacks in the wooded Carpathians, |Detween the parties interested. " RUMANIAN CITIES. through the Red Cross as sels are now out searching. Ontario officers and men on the emy attack was repulsed and south- "in ward and southwestward of Valepu- -- Cities of Rumania. i London, De 13. "Telezraphing | (3ll§ Upon Neutrals to nd Hellish Scourge Times correspondent says: of paper money unless it is marked as German, (61 CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT OF OVERSEAS DRAFTS (Special to the Whig.) ' Ottawa, Dec. 3.--The militia authorities state that the num- ber of overseas troops to be kept IIIT Minister of War, General Hubert which 30 per cent, of A | the world the question of whether in Canada this winter will not exceed fifty thousand men. It is expected that there will be a practically continuous = move- ment of drafts overseas throughout the winter months, recruiting, it is believed, will steadily improve. S229 0500 0040 409 + * > -* + + > + + * + + + + + | GREECE HAS PEACE GERM. J. S---- King Expresses Willingness to Intern Whole Army. Rome, Dec, 13.--King Constantine of Greece is using avery endeavor to convince the Entente powers of Greece's pacific disposition, according to wireless despatches from Athens received yesterday. He has offered to intern the entire Greek army in Peloponnesus. i ---- Death of an Editor. (Special to the Whig.) Orillia, Dee, 13. George Hughes Hale, aged seveuty, publisher of the Orillia Packet for many years, died this morning. During 1915 one divorce was granted to every eight marriage licenses issued in Chicago. A total of 31,609 licenses were issued and in this same period 4,116 divorces were granted. --~------ ! BALFOUR IS WELL POSTED. Should Be Able to Deal Promptly With Teuton Offer. 13. -- Germany's peace offer finds the Foreign Office upset in the midst of a change of ad- ministration, but as the new Foreign Secretary, A. J. Balfour, has kept in touch with foreign affairs while serving in a different department in the late Government, it .is not expected that it will take long for him to be as well prepared as Viscount Grey, the retiring For- to take charge of Great Britain's end of any regotia- tions which might follow Germany's offer. Although it is still a matter of mere speculation, modus operandi precedent which ended the Spanish-American War, Spanish offer through Jules Cambon, the French Ambassador at Washing- ton. most closely eign Secretary, course, without full consultation with Great Britain's allies. mills are manu- facturing print paper at about $4.50 a ton less than American mills. Mayor Kemp will not be a candi- date for re-election. Ald. Paul and West will be in the ring. Canadian paper L British. Ww London, Wednesday, v1 n the sectors of Biaches and La e British official communication | Maisonnette." issued shortly before midnight, says: "Last night (Monday) we carried out successful mining operations south of Ypres, in the vicinity of the uff. Hostile epemy . shelling points in odr rear, we bom uppart line and the his front. "Yesterday three enemy aero- planes accounted for, One fell fide Sur ie" One of our ma- chines is missing." ---- tenced. 3 Sult: Told in the Random FECAL WAR STATEMENTS. front, except south of the Somme, e the two artilleries were active The afternoon report said: "In the region to the north of Lassigny (south of the Somme sec- after a spirited bombardment, at- tacked our trenches at the eastern boundary of Des Loges Wood. Our curtaing of fire checked the attack, however, and certain detachments of the enemy who had secured a foot- fog in our advanced positions were driven out. After fighting in which hand grenades were used our line was completely re-established. "There wis the customary can- nonading last night along the rest of the front." produce merchants were conviced of having sold cold storage eggs as tor) yesterday evening -the Germans, pe. oo announced that 200 other cases are pending, and it is the intention to prosecute the offenders vigorously. William Gray, makes the eighteenth vacancy in the House. Twelve of the seats were| 'held by Conservatives. is {ll with pleurisy, Lyautey. Minister of Marine, Rear Admiral Lacase, Minister of Fabrication Nationale, including munitions and transporta- tion, Albert Thomas. In Minister of Public Instruction, Paul Painleve. The six foregoing Cabinet mem- form a Council of National Detence, Besides the Ministers named, the Cabinet; according to the unofficial list, will include Louis J. Malvy, Min- ister of the Interior; Etienne Clem- entel, Minister of Commerce and the value of the notes is demanded. A similar contribution of 15 per cent., [amounting to £2,000,000 sterling, has been exacted from Craiova. "Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern, rother of King Ferdinand, who is with the Germany army, in a mani- festo declares that he has come not to punish th 3 who have broken their solemn pledg- es, thereby severing their family ties. In the manifesto he allows four days to any of the people of Craiova who wish to leave, but says that those re- maining in town or occupied territory JRumanians, but those Agriculture; M. Herriot, Minister of | longer than this period must obey all National Subsistence and Labor; |0 Gaston Doumergue, Minister of Col- onles; Rene Viviani, Minister of Jus- tice and Public Works. * GERMAN CASUALTIES + 166,176 IN NOVEMBER. + -- " (Special to the Whig.) +> London, Dec. 13.--Germany's 4 # November casualties; exclusive # % of naval and colonial, were 166,- 4 176, making a total since the ¢ # war began of nearly four mil- # lion killed, wounded and miss- + + ing. \ ' * La & SA LLOYD GEORGE PREPARING To Answer the German Proposals for Peace. (Special to the Whig.) London, Dec. 13.--Premier Lloyd George is preparing to. answer the peace proposals made by Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg when he ad- dresses the House of Commons next | Tuesday in connection with his gen- eral statement on the Governmgnt's policy. 4 Produce Merchants Fined. New York, Dec. 13.--Thirty-seven Individual fines ranged from The Health Department Eighteen Vacancies in House. Ottawa, Dec, 13.--The death of M.P. for London, Rumor has it that Lloyd George PFE PIED PEP SPST + 20 rders."" ITALY FREPARE . FOR BIG BLOWS, Rome, Dec. 13 --Italy, no 1tss than her allies, is preparing to make 1917 a year of its most vigorous prosecution of the war. An indication of the naw determination of the nation was the calling to the colors of the class of 1918 one year In ad- vance of the time at which men that age ordinarily would be called upon for military ser- vjce. in. eR 2 BY THE HUNS ARE RESENTED BY THE DUTCH Who Are Convinced That the Ameri can People Will Not Disappoint Their Expectations of Action. London, Dec. 13.--The Associated Press has received from Amst an "gppeal to the American people" by the Holland section of the League of Neutral States. - The appeal is signed by President Nieméyer and Secretaries Delafaille and Walch. The appeal in part says: "Your President has said that Sooner or later a moment would come when the war would make the position of neutral nations unbear- able. For us Hollanders that mo- ment has arrived; not through our own sufferings, but because we can- not longer passively contemplate the ghastly suffering ' inflicted by Ger- many upon Belgium, our' neighbor. "To us the cruelty inflicted on the Belgians by Germany is more vivid every day. Every day numbers of fugitives, in spite of the deadly elec- tric wire which the Germans have erected along .the frontier, succeed In escaping to The Netherlands. From them we learn the painful de- tails of the unutterable despair of the women and children who are left be- hind and of the agonizing scenes which take place when husbands, brothers and sons, dragged from their homes and womenfolk, are packed into cattle and freight cars and thus transported slaves to an unknown destination and to.an un- known fate. "A Hellish Scourge." "To put an end to this---to arrest this hellish scourge, which at. this moment lacerates the whole of North- ern France and Western Russia-- there is but one way open, and that is collective action on the part of the neutral nations. ) "And for you, citizens of the mightiest of the neutral states; it is, in our opinion, the right and duty "ern Europe the most primitive laws of humanity, observed even by un- civilized races, are trampled under- foot. © "We appeal to you to urge your Government to energetic and decisive action and to call upon nations to rally LIBERALS TO VALIDATE B. C. LEGISLATION Will Ask Imperial Government to Pass Bill Authorizing Extension. Vancouver, Dec. 137=For the pur- pose of validating certain legislation passed by the Provincial Government subsequent to March 4th, 1916 (the date when the Liberals claimed the Legislature became defunct) the new Attorney-General is now preparing a bill granting a blanket validation, ernment to pass . It is not thd in- eriment to put a new loan on the market at present. WHAT MUST BE DONE If the Entente Allies are to Consider Peace. (Special To The Whig) London, Dec. 13.--The London evening papers of Tuesday say un- less the Central Powers are ready to surrender Constantinople and she Straits to Russia, restore Alsace and Lorraine to France, evacuate occu- pied territories and make due re- paration, their proposals are mot Hkely to materially affect the war. ----------p------ Will Winter on the Upper Lakes. Ottawa, Dec. 13.--Some of the lighthouse keepers on Lake Superior and Lake Huron will stay in their light-houses until spring. The seca- son is officially closed, but it is found impracticable to take them off at the present time. They have been well furnished with supplies of all kinds and will receive extra pay for their lonely winter. They number about a dozen. Can Offer No Terms, fal to the Whig.) Washington, Dec. 13 Official opinions have it that Germany can offer no peace terms that the Allies will accept at present, The United States Senate has voted to exclude all Asiatics, (Special to the Whig). London, Dec. 13--Brit- ain is looking forward to next Tuesday, when Pre- mier Lloyd George will address the House of Commons for Britain's answer to Germany's ce proposals. -Until that time British men and women considering but one Whing--to con- tine thevwar until a de- cisive viclory is establish- If the comment of the London newspapers "ie, any erilerion, gland does not propose lo re- the German peace os which he will ask the Imperial Gov-| tention of the British Columbia Gov-| --™ [it is possible to find a basis of under- | standing. Germany's Food Crisis. | De¢. 13. -- The Dally | Chronicle prints a despatch from | Amsterdam, which says that the Ber. {lin Tagliche Rundschau prints an | artiole on the food-supply, saying: "The food gearcity has reached a crisis, as for weeks past in one part of the city or another the supply of bread has been falling constantly. Fish now becomes one of the most important foods, but no fresh fish Is {available and the price of smoked fish is now six times the normal. {| "The more the announcement of {the arrangement with neutrals for | | London, | food supplies and the more numesous become official regulations, so the number of shops closing also becomes { larger than ever. | "Only apples are obtainable in reasonable quantities.' Britain "Will Not Accept Terms. cela the Whig.) | Londen' Dec" 15,--The British | people have already answered Ger. many's offer of peace--"No, not o such a basis as proposed." That answer was perfectly appar- ent to-day. it was reflected not only in the newspaper comment, but in expressions from the people on the streets. The nation looks to Lioyd { George, next Tuesday, to frame this answer. Philip Snowden, leading British pacifist, is the only prominent man dissenting. He considers that the Al- Hes will incur an awful responsibility if they decline. There was consider- able opinion that the note was mere- ly a "clever Teutonic trick" for the purpose of starting a discussion among the Allies, and possibly thus to create dissention. The known dead in the Peterboro' fire now number six, and the missing ine, . A large number of Canadians have been just given military medals. DAILY MEMORANDUM f corner tof GEER § Hits anad corue BORN WILSON=4At 332 Barl St.. Kingston, on Doc. 13th, 1916, to Sergt. and Mrs. E. F. Wilson, a daughter. YOUNG--At ndon, Ont, on Decem- ber 13th: To. the wife 'of Capt. Ee- mest H. Young, C.AMC, on ser- vice overseas, & son. . YORE-IAt Glenmore, Pittsburg, on Moore '13th, di George Richard Moore, age rs. Funeral from his late residence Fri day at 10 o'clock to Cataraqul cem- etery. Friends and acquaintances respectfaily invited to attend. Please omit ey, a | and in any other ; fight han "sniner Ger