pene | 2 PAGES | Fret rrr tert ----t Che hig | PAGES 5-12 YEAR 83--NO. 209 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY DECEMBER LAST EDITION ARE CHEERFUL AND OPTIMISTIC Canadians Hope to be Home War For Next Christmas. THE WEATHER NOT GOOD BUT THE SOLDIERS REFUSE T( BE UNHAPPY. They Are Inundated With and Letters From Spend Christmas Watching Fritzie, iSpeeial to the Whig London, Dec. 23. Christmas and Canadians in rae cheerful and more mistic "Tin for many months The weather France Home--T¢ Britishers here opti both here and in is decidedly with climate, hat ( when compared bright Canadian dians absolutely refuse to be happy despite the rain and Their general spirit is, "Let the best of it this have to be here next Christmas Canada and the 'anadians are and mud to watch Fritzie, we'll be hoth simply letters here inundated from home FREED, G PRISON POST. "Lifer" Who Was Ps Penitentiary Physician. Ont., Dec Dr. Robert MacGregor, who came back to his home here a month ago when Gov- ernor ierris of Michigan granted andon, fom the," 1 Parcels | finds | and | un-Christmassy, the eri p | ana- | un-| make Christmas wel but} home in war will all be over." and in with med Becomes | 17 Sparling family at Ubly, trial, | THE WORLD'S NEWS . IN BRIEF FORM. Tidings From All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed / | | -------- | Predfiér Lloyd George con! i improve in health Kitchener, Ont, Nn been disinfranchi | From the New Year, i only draw advances of pay allow- | anceg for the current month Hons. Ralph Smith and M. A. Mc Donald, ministers in the British Co- | lumbia cabinet, have been re-elected at Vancouver | The war has led the overseas journalists to form an Empire Jour | nalists' Circle for mutual helpful- Ness Three German army officers, a yj captain and two lieutbnants, who j escaped from. a Siberian prison camp, | have been killed in Mongolia by | Russian soldiers i James B. Duke, facturer, New York, | families of 120 Methodist preachers | North Carolina Flight Commander Grahamme- White was the Registry Office, Londo Levey, the actress ( Grahamme-White's first wife was | Miss Dorothy Taylor, of New York nues to 246 Germans sed pfficers can tobacco manu- sent $10,000 wo superannuated throughout Claude | married at] , to Ethel mmanaer | FREE MOUNTED POLICE FOR SERVICE IN WAR Saskatchewan Is Organizing Provincial Police to Take Their Place. won, Sask., Dep 23 The | towards organizing the | Provincial Police Department for the | purpose of iaking the place of the, Royal Northwest Mounted Police who will be relieved of their present | duties so that they may engage ir war work, has been taken by th Saskatciewan Government in send- | {ing to Saskatoon Constable C. M. | | Smith of Rosetown to recruit for the | new branch of service Though no plans have been an- nounced officially, it is understood fit! is the intention of the department to police the Province with a force of about fifty plainclothesmen Saskat step the | boy | shame | retary | ly believe my eves HYPOCRISY AND INCOMPETENCE :< In the Attitude of President Wilson Ard) Searetary Li Lansing. A REPUBLIGAN DECLARES THAT WILSON'S NOTE PUTS NA- TION TO SHAME. Gedrge W. Perkins Says it Is Simply an Insult to the Allies--United States Cup of Humiliation Is Full} to Overflowing. { New York, Dec. 23 George W.| Perkins, prominent Republican poli-| Whitman's} statement in} Wilson's and Mr. | incom- | tician and backer of Gov campaign, has issued a which he declared President note breathed hypocrisy, Lansing's statement breathed petency The "Why ask gmance [ the tatement follow me what I think of the| and | last | school-| + intelli with | President hi retary of State during the forty-eight hours, when any nough blush In the first citer was offered a| Allies when | he said, make the rights and pri weak people and small HF ns secure.' 'The lett every indiea- fon of hav written for the sole purpose of "butting into' the sit No wonder London prevent » publication of the on its receipt | ought to have « gence and patriotism to at their actions? place, the Presic weak and poir 3, ane gratuitous 1 1 1 desires to note Incompetency. I read the statement Sec- Lansing issued I could scarce- It bears all ear- a man who is rattled and incompetent. Within six or eight| , hours he practically took back his| first statement by issuing a second | Points to "When | | | | marks of mm mm "MERRY a countries will formal reply is take place made HAS WILSON Pt Al Pi. PAN EAN AMEN A iM Nl Soi iia tn CONVINCED GERMANY CANNOT AID GREECE Joffre, who signalled him out JEALOUS OF BRITA|N"S RULE OF THE SEAS Foe's Most Important Peace! Term Is That This Shall Cease. ls London, Déc. 23 patch to the Times says: "Germany demands that Great Britain shall abdicate the position of mistress of the seas. This, the most | important of the Berlin peace terms, constitutes the kernel of two long articles in the Frankfurter Zeitung, | which, there is r to believe, {| were inspired at the Chancellery. "In the first article a statement of the impossibility of Germany abandoning her present military sys- | tem precedes the demand that the freedom of the seas shall be estab- | lished, with England's ceasing to { claim the right to police them alone. ! While England's sea power is not un- i conditional, Germany recognizes its existence and admits she has not sue- | ceeded in breaking it. Therefore, it is held, this problem of naval power, | which is asserted to have really ori- | ginated the Anglo-German war, must be settled by agreement if Europe is to have peace." --A special des- from Amsterdam FRENCH ARMY COMMANDS | Gem, Nivele's Chief of Staff Also an Artillery Officer, Paris, Dec. 23.--The official letter {summoning General Nivelle to the command of the armieg of the north and northeast, was signed by General Joffre as commander-in-chief of all the French armies, General Castel nau, General Joffre's chief of staff having reached the age limit, has been retained on the active list by a special decree signed by President Poincare, which is preliminary to his appointment to the command of army group. Brigadier General Ferdinand Au- guste Pont, whom General Nivelle has chosen as his chief of staff, has beer promoted to general of division for the duration of the war. Gen- eral Pont, like his chief, is an artil- lery officer, and was a junior lieuten- an 3 | ant-colonel on the staff of one of the armies at the beginning of the war. His brilliant military talents soon brought him to the notice of General for rapid promotion BRITAIN'S POWER DAILY INCREASES Apparent Quietness on West Front Does Ye Sat NO REST FOR THE ENEMY BRITISH POLICY TO WEAR DOWN GERMANS NERVE, Raiding Parties Are Ever Busy-- Britain's Punching Powers in France Is Daily Becoming Might- ier. With the British armies in the field, Dee. 21 (deélayed).=--While the' Frénch are rolling back the German Crown Prince's army before Verdun the British army is not idle Through the swirling snow and driving rain, with a cold tang in the air reminiscent of Christmas, the | British plunging away in perfect the doughty historic citadel from this isn't very Allied one need of action from the salt water to the Swiss mountains After the latest victory at Verdun, the British army straightened for a | moment to applaud its brothers in arms--and then bent its back to its task army is accord with heroes defending of Verdun... If the the line at sensational, it is plans decree it so No doubt that absolute unity exists along this front, the news and of present because the No Rest for Enemy. That the British do pot intend that ° the enemy shall have any more rest until the end of the war is appar- ent Visits to back lines give this impression as distinctly as those to the front lines. There is a vast war plant there buzzing like a great busy mill. In the trenches powerful motars are slamming away continually, me- thodically lobbing over sinster bombs from the size and shape of a wine Constantine Realizes, Despite' Military Gains, Germany Having Internal Troubles Rome, Doe. 23. According to con-. dential information available to the hates Foreign Office from Athens, | ere the Italian minister conducted | - negotiations hetween Greece and | the AN we, which were successfully | ne by the acceptance by Greece , he ultimatum of the Allies, King Constantine is convinced that despite the military successes 8f the bottle to those of a football--almost keg --size Snipers crack away at every head that shows itself for a second. Planted further back, field guns add to the havoc wrought by high explosives in the opposing trenches. Now and then mines placed by sap- ping under enemy positions, explode like the disintegration of the world, Apparently it is the British policy to keep the enemy everlastingly on needles and pins--wearing down his nerve day and night. War Tidings. Prominent United States Republi- cans assert that the peace move of Wilson and Lansing showed hypoc- risy and incompetency. French views regarding Wilson {are similar to Britain's. There is a feeling, however, that he may have a German back-down in his pocket. The Norwegian steamers Avona and Mureta were both sunk on their way from the United States to Nor- way. One nun was burned to death in the destruction of the cathedral, > - bishop's house and convent at Bri Raiding Parties Be. 1 Clarkesville, Que. + British raiding parties suddenly The British are very active in the | 3PPear before German trenches, ed ar yl scattering death among its occupants | ¥pres-Messines section, t with grendase and taking prisoners. The Russians continue on the ol- Rapid body to body struggles in fensive. The Bulgars are being driv- which the British excel and: which en back all along the line. the Germans dislike, are often a fea- " ure of these raids. Dugouts are fre- anetly raided where the Teutonic lefenders, sleeping the sleep of ex- haustion, have been awakened from the arms of Morpheus to find them- selves in the arms of British Tom- mies. All this contributes to the highly nervous state almost daily manifest- 3 ed along the lines. While these things repeat them- 41 selves until they become routine along the front lines, in the back the organization and preparation goes on. Britain's punching power in France is daily becoming mightier. DAILY MEMUOKA YIN = The Whig will not be Issued "hAristmas See top of page 3, right hand corner for probabilities 'Band st the Covered Rink Christmas Afternoon, Admission 20 cents. Band at Palace Rink Christmas af- ternoon and evenifig. Admission 20c irth of a Nation," Grand, 2.30 and £15 p.m, Monday, also 2.30 Tuesday A -------------------- A a BORN Will Be | Be Diplomats Con- London . p IS LINER SUNK? s + -- * (Special to the Whig.) +4 MORE BOMBAST BY KAISER. New York, Dec. 23.--It is : Crown Prince Rupprecht + Won Somme Fight. + Berlin, via London, Dec. 23.--Em- peror Willlam has conferred the Oak Leaves of the Order Pour Le Merite upon Crown Prince Rupprecht of Ba- varia, commander of the German forces on the Somme front. With the decoration the Emperor sent an autograph letter, in which he said: "Under the splendid leadership of Your Royal Highness' the Franco- British attacks have been arrested and the battle on the Somme won for us. Only this made our destruc- tive blows in Rumania possible," rumored here that the eleven thousand-ton liner Voltarie, with 140 men, has been sunk by a submarine in the Atlantic. % Claims * PT rrr YY i be | PLENTIFUL sible secret \STE MATERIAL | Baron Killed Serving | London, Dec. 23 ;| Julius De_Reuter, killed in action on | Nov. 13th while serving as a private in Rank, | --Baron' Hubert | Lack of Rags, Etc., Not Resp for High Price. New York, Dec, 23.--The present high price of paper is not due to a Answering of Nate. London, Dec. 223 In official and diplomatic eircles in London it was v |geuerally predicted that President) in the Black Watch, was the only scarcity of rags and old paper stock, Wilson's note to the belligerents| Son of the late Baron Herbert De : son physician at that institution. Mich., five years ago. He protested He applied for the job of prison tend to intimate that our Govern-| NEAR AUSTRIAN FAMINE That Were Made by Women |!ire civilized world that he did not Around te the Comer ? {out to him by others. riots at Dresden this week. in which | breathe incompetency. about the scarcity of food in Austria- 7 befare the world at 'this great hour | COME TO WASHINGTON GOVERN- were reported in Rotterdam des- "his news greatly concerns the Note Company. The women stoned the | Answered--There cally impossible. Miternal conditions in Austria are! Whig hE} proposal is an admission of the weak a-------- threatened and the anti-war agita- | New Chief at Guelph Comes From | Sruring p 8 Bars Shut Up. figuring out why against the Allies. This fact explains ---- The first out-, directing head. Dr. John T. | horses, now that several hotels have] mand that the Greek army be trans-| the American President has "'some- er and has been in charge of the stabling is required, of hotels and the fact that s p's sit " the closing rote. « € "just around the corner' might have tantine"s deposition will now be Provincial. parole system. Farm In| sponsible for this condition of affairs on mT ---------------------- | street, has permitted a goedly num- CURED OF ANTHRAX { | to go elsewhére if proper accommo- ' | -- here, him 2 pardon fgom a life term at Jackson prison, was notified yester MacGregor was convicted of com- plicity In causing the deaths of mem- his onnocence and new matter, brought to light after his UP | FV physic fun, which ways ocently vacat-| FORCE WAS USED { ment was considering any change in| ed, and was notified that it is his TO QUELL ATTACKS | its policy of neutrality. Imagine our| realize the meaning of the words he! Alarming News of Scarcity or Food During Food, Riots in {had used to an important pronunc ia~ Is Reported. Dresden. New York, Dec, 23.--The Sun this (Special to the Whig.) { "Mr. Wilson's note breathes 'hy- AS SECRET INFORMATION morning publishes the following: -- Mr. Lansing's Statemenis| Imagine the| police and military forces were used | United States of Hungary, practically amounting to a|by the German authorities to quell famine, has reached the Vatican of peril and crisis represented by two MENT FROM GERMANY? Central Powers thoi int such men. @urely our cup of humil-| ntra owers their internal situa- ) tion is so serious that further resist- Pope, who fears the reign of the new will H sror C I nder such innfav- | shops and marched st th lace . : Emperor Charles und C ie, Bren et pas e palac | FARMERS ARE CALLING sultations Among the The King of the Hellenes, "whose { : { FOR ACCOMMODATION sympathies are still for Germany, has =aid to be very serious. Antagonism . . Sh NG | (Specia between Hungary and Austria is DR. GHLMOUR RESIGNS |For Their 'Horses -- Hotel| London, Dec. --The tack to-day in |©ned resistance of the Central Pow- Soe + h * tion is now widespread and cannot Burwash Farm, 1 do, \ | sent his peace note the immediate and sonditi 1 - be repressed by the authorities. tv . 1 { ' immediate and unconditional ac Pp ¥ Toronto, Dec. 23.--The Provineial| Farmers are complaining about| burst of indignation having died [ceptance of the uwltimatum of the | | lack editorials to-day Hautiiyue ar Nutiun of Lhe Oaks their doors since the new | ferred to the Mor ga, thus rendering | w { Temperance Act went into force. In " ; impossible any atempt on the part of | weather good | thing up his sleeve." All the news- | Guelph Reformatory since its incep-| and just at] papers expressed the hope that the attack General Sarrail's army in the| tion hag been transferred 'to take the military authorities have rented! : > postponed until after the war. . His suc-|, pumber of hotel stables. The,been based on information W! cessor is C. F. Neelands, | head of the Burwash Prison one of the!ghould devise ways and means at] ablest of the younger men in the|gnce of meeting their needs. Ald. | { ber of farmers to use his yard, but i "oe N. rers he National in winter proper stabling is needed. |" ori) met by an idenfical reply] Reuter, head of Reuter's News Agen-| wconfing 10 Silene oF ae Deal- | from the Entente Powers, This me-| cy. He was thirty-eight years a Toronto, bee. 23. on C. K.|dation is not provided. Napanee has fer from the reply to be made by the | - " a i . | provided ample accommodation, and! . : ¢ a td : The phenomenally high pr ces Clarke, superintendent of the Gener- | P V | Entente nations to fhe German peace | Germany Gets Note, ' | paid for old rags and old paper," day that he has been appointed pri bers of the caused the governor to pardon him. |one in which he said he did net in- th mn Secretary of State saying to the vor | WHER He Hints That Peace May Be Just { mento till the meaning was rl t \ 3 London, Dec. 23.--Serious food !'pocrisy. "Rome, Dec, 23,--Alarming news America standing | the attack of hundreds of women, from diplomatic sources. ems---- " xe | i is f o overflowing." | pric patches to the Exchange Telegraph |iation is full' to ove g How the American ance beyond next :p1ing seems practi- orable auspices will end disastrously. of the Entente Allies. 3 been informed at Germany's peace acute, Political complications are So | press took a new ! p Stables Closed When the | press : . ers, who are powerless to aid Greece! President Wilson ) tory p ' ] 2 Reformatory at Guelph has a new of accommodation for their|down somewhat, Allies and compliance with their de-| Yil- | began speculating on the belief that! Whitney Government came into pow- | this cold and stormy [Greece to join the Central Powers and | present it cannot be got because of | prociqent's hint that peace may rear. It is possible that King Con- charge of a ned department of the| formerly | farmers think that those directly re-| from Germany. Northern Ontario, and Provincial service, | Couper, whose grocery is on Princess] Effected in Toronto by Use of a New | number of farmers say they have i : . of ere, who are in quarterly session thod of answering the néte will dif-, age VESSEL IS OVERDUE, But it is Not Feared She Has Been | 41 Hospital has announced that note in which it is understood | Amsterdam, via London, Dee. 23, Torpedoed. (Special to the Whig) ew York, Dee. 23.- storms of recent days have caused ap prehension'as to the fate of the liner Voltaire, but the 'officials denied re- ports that the company feared the vessel had succumbed to a submarine The Voltaire is two weeks' attack, overdue from Liverpool. NNSA ALN NMI NNN . ~ WHIG CONTENTS 1 Wilh Canadians on Front, Illustrated, 2dPictyres from War Zones 3-Queén's Hosplial at Le Tre- ; port, IHlesirated: Kingston Soldiers, a Activities of Allied Na- tone, Sy pocrisy of Lansin; 8: Are Western Wilson and Cheerful and Optimistic; What Has Wil- son Up Sleeve; Britain's Power Increases $==The Church Services; Happen ngs T= Splenda production: 0 the Twiilght S--4Editorial Notes: Reels. 3% ine Entertginment House; are Civic Matters: 19-<Maatern Ontario News H---Amuasements; Announcements: e Forum. 12-Milttary. Matters: Local 13%=The Coming of Santa Claus. T4-<Dwilight' Tidings: Roxane's Confession; Menus, Activities of Wamen. 15-«Man on WW atch: Plays Payers. ' 16--Books and Their 1T--Wihig's Story, Ty mas Local Told Nandom 'at Opera and Authors. "The Dog Star" Articles! _Finan- 19-hristmas Greetings of Business Houses 20--In Werld of Sport; Up Father News Bringing ~The terrific Jiinter, Nickel . . a i case of anthrax had been effectively | treated at that institution. The] patient, an out-of-town hide and | leather dealer, departed for home! completely cured after treatment with a new serum. Anthrax, which | is usually fatal to human beings, is | supposed to be carried in imported hides, in which the germs linger for | a long time, TO REINFORCE UNITS. From Their Own Provinces--What | New Order Means, ! London, Dec, 23. --Although bat- talions are compelled to be broken up on arrival here from Canada, it is notified that reinforcements will only be drafted overseas to units from the same Canadian province as the reinforcements belong to. . ! The above means, for instance, that Quebec battalions will not be kept up tp strength by drafts from Ontario units, as has been complain- ed of. NEW YORK STOCKS. The Prices Paid on the Stock Bx. (Special to the Whigs . Open. "Alrbrake .. J 146 Atchison .. 104% Baltimore & Ohio 83% . L185 34 co 49% . .104 Union Pacific . . 'Rep. Steel A . 8. Steel . naconda . a | Kingston should follow suit. | stake; that' {HUBBY HAS DESERTED; WIFE WANTS HIM SHOT | Woman Wants Military Au= nan thorities to Trace Man Who Deserted Year Ago. "lI want to have him shot at the|" s what I want.' The speaker was a woman, and! she was complaining Saturday morn- ing to one of the officers at the arm- ouries about her husband, who has been a deserter from the Sth C.M.R.| since Sept., 1916, and whose where- | abouts are unknown. i The woman made her way to the! armouries for the purpose of hav ing her husbgnd traced, and she told | her story to one of the captains she | happened to meet. He passed her on | to another officer and a search war-| rant will be taken out for the miss- | ing soldier and erring Buby. cmp Northumberland , Camptfliford, = Dees 'Council met and took into consider- | ation the offer made for the bonds issued for the loan to the Northum-, berland Paper and Electric Co. The! $30,000 bonds were sold for $30,030, ! a trible above par interest 5% per cent. Charles Kesson, Buffalo, met with | a serious accident in the Camden' East paper mills, when he had his jeft hand badly smashed, having two of his fingers and part of his hand amputated. Harvey Keech, an old and respect. | ed resident of Gretna, is: dead, at; the ripe old age of ninety-one years. | A while agreeing to the principles, each | { member of the Entente will be free] | to express any individual views which | they may {reply to President Wilson's note, as lit is expected full consultations be- tween that] For the likely foregoing reason it | there will be an early) gram. em diplomatists of the Entente rogued on Friday. N --President Wilson's note to the bel-| 8 ligerents was handed to the German | Foreign Office last evening by the! feel desirable to utter. | Charge d'Affaires of the American | goods. is| Embassy, according to a Berlin tele- The Quebec Legislature was pro-| not in the market. said an officer of the association, "encouraged early in the year the bringing out of vast stores of these We dispose of these mater- fals to the paper manufacturers, but in recent months the latter have as- | sured us repeatedly that they were The fact of the | matter is that the paper mills are | getting ull of the waste material EE ---- THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL Judge HUGHES 'defeated as presi- Senta] candidate in the United tates. Premier! & conscription legislation defeated in Australia. Sir Sam HUGHES, Minister of Mil- itia, fired by the Premise of Can al ' . - Ald. HUGHES, Mayoralty Candi- i they need." | FARMERS WOULD LOSE Plan Proposed to "to Cease Reimb ment for Cattle, Albany, N.Y., Dec, 23.--Farmers | and dairymen of the state would lose | approximately $150,000 a year, if a | suggestion discussed at an informal | conference of agriculturists is adop- {ed by the legislature. The proposal, which was made by | representatives of the State College | of Agriculture of Cornell university, | was that the state cease reimbursing | owners for tuberculous cattle de- | stroyed by direction of state authorl- | tiles and use the money to provide for a general and thorough inspec- tion of all cattle and stables and the rigid enforcement of sanitary regu- {ath PATRIOTIC GRANTS. Hamilton Township Gives $1,000 to : Red Cross. 'Cobourg, Dee. 23.--Hamilton | Township Council at its last meeting passed a resolution authorizing the reve and treasurer to pay $1,000 as | 2 contribution to the British Red Cross, agd $2.250 to the county Pat- riotie Association for the Canadian Patriotic Fund. i : 1916 256 12th, HURLEY In Belleville, Dec Hurley, to Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Coleman St, a son DIED. POWER-In Kingston, at Hotel Dieu Monastry, Reverend Mother Sua- perior (nee Margaret Power) Funeral from Hotel Dieu Chapel, day morning at 7.3 Friends and acquaintances are kindly invited to attend the mass. VAN ORDER---At his brother's dence Mwy pe"! Ferty 0 toad, 22nd 1916, Thomas Van Order, aged 61 years, 5 Funeral Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, Please omit flowers, IN MEMORIAM. in memory of a belofed mother, Mar- tha Avkroyd, who died Christmas Eve, 1915. JAMES REID The Old Firm of Undertakers W4 and 28 ThiNCESS ROBERT J. REID Tues- Ns