FAR AAR A BAAR 12 PAGES A (da ---- YEAR 84-NO. 1 The } ALA FECTED IN WEST SINOE The Government Majority Was Reduced on Monday by 631. MANLY STAND OF SCOTT WHO PREFERS DEFEAT TO VIC. TORY BY TORY MEANS, Campaign of Abuse and Slander Re- turns Mr. Allan, But Liberals Are in Fine Fettle for a Contest at Next Election. Collingwood, Jan. 16.-- Conservative, but by a greatly reduced majority. The full returns give W. T. Allan, Conserva- tive, a majority of 631, as compared with 1,085 of the late Hon. J. S. Duff in 1914. Ip every municipality in his constituency, and in nearly every poll the Liberals made sub- ~-West Sim- coe stays stantial inroads on the old majority | Congervatives. gain was 92, Creemore 17, Essa township Nottawaspga township 24, Stayner 20 and Tossorontio township 46. Throughout the day the Liberal workers were intense. They knew they were against great odds. Every force and effort of the Conservatives . was brought to bear on. the electors. of In Colling- Alliston, 89, 266; the wood the Officials and Officer Active, Industrial leaders, the army of Government officials and the officers of the militia are credited with hav- ing varticipated In the campaign and used] their utmost endeavors to corral the votes for the Government candi- ulate, Capt. J. L. Hartt, M.P.P. for Kast Simcoe, in uniform, paymaster of the 177th Battalion, a company of which is stationed in Collingwceod, | 'was prominent in town during the | afternoon, and to Liberal workers 1s said to have proved himself most of- rensively partisan at one or more of the polling booths in town, Nothing was left undone to insure a victory | Tor Mr. Allan, In Collingwood 214 votes more were polled than in 1914, gne-half of which was probably a salfer vote, and the remainder practically a new vote. - a-- Liberals Not Disheartened. The Liberals received their re- turns if their committee rooms, and, while the desired victory was not at- tained, the fact is that the results are far from disheartening, and "there is not the slightest evidence of Weing downhearted. The condemnation of the cam- paign of abuse, slander and libel in- duiged in had a telling effect, while the general condemnation of the Government's policy was most pro- nounced. Right in Collingwood, the supposed centre of Toryism, the vote shows marked disapproval, which it is sald would have been more in evi- dence had not the powers-that-be brought their weight of future pat- ronage prominently before the elect- ors, and also forced before the more timid the - pena'ties of a contrary yote, Mr. Scott's Manly Position. Just after the last returns had heen received Mr. Scott came into town by the evening train and went 1 ALLIES' FORCES IN . to the iressed his satisfaction at the cam- paign put up by his spporters. In his manly, clear-cut way he said: "1 would rather have lost a thons- times than have engaged in | ana 1 Liberal rooms, where he el such a campaign as our opponenis and won . | WATCHING THAW VERY CLOSELY Every Door and Window Is| Guarded--Will Take No Chances. | (Special ta the Whig.) A i Philadelphia, Jan, 16.--The de- tective force detailed to wateh Hany K. Thaw while he convalescences in St. Mary's Hospital from self-infliet- | ed razor hes was increased by two members 3 {© A detective is now stationed at every door "and window in Thaw's apartment, one at Gis bedside and one at each of the corridors leading to the would-be suicide's rooms. "We will take no chances,"' was the mly comwent from Captain of Detectives Tate. Visitors are stil barred from Thaw' room. There will likely be a protracted legal fight against his extradiction to New York, § | MONEY GERMANY WILL NEVER RECEIVE Paris, Jan. 16--Discussion of the proposition for the integral reparation of all war damages in France has developed that fact that some French cities and villages have mot yet finished paying obligations incurred in order to satisfy requisitions by the German armies in 1870, Two villages of the old de- partment of the Haute Marne, four villages of the Aisne,' ome of the Haute Saone, two of the Somme and eight in Meurthe and Moselle still owe a portion of the money borrowed to pay the contributions levied upon them, while the city of Amiens, fined a million francs during the short occupation of 1914, has not vet finished paying the five milliops the Germans leyied Fon the town in 1870. She still owes three millions. | SPIT WIPPEE SPI EPLTLPIIIDID PRAT SLT PP TERRI RR erate SPeatb en Ses VERY MUCH MARRIED MAN. Soldier Arrested at Pembroke Said | to Haye Two Wives. | Ottawa, Jan, 16.--Sergeant Al} bert Edward Ryan, of the 240th Bat- | talion, wae arrested at Pembroke by | Detective Inspector Thomas Mec- | Laughlin and will come up in the | Police Court on a charge of bigamy. The police claim that Sergt. Ryan is a very much married man, and that he has at least four wives to his { eredit, two of whom live in the city, | and two at Montreal, where he is al- So wanted for bigamy, When arrested Ryan was living with his third wife, whom he is said to have married here in Ottawa last December, and she accompanied him | to Ottawa with Inspector McLaugh- lin. Ryan is 'said to have married the other women Trier the aliases of MéMann and Mann, and the Montreal police are being communicated with 80 that Ryan can be confronted with the rest of his wives. Canadian Casualties. Not missing as reported--A. Mar- tin, Camphbellford. Wounded--M. J. Guerin, Peter boro; J. F. Stevenson, Peterboro; W. L. Dillabough, Frankville; H. Hamp- i ton, Lakefield. SALONIKA TO COT OFF A RALWA New York. Jan. ika region will be ting the Berlin, carried in London despatch It is based on despate rail's forces, This es | awriter dese for men, munitions and foods, al . # * ong all lines, o the news agency here to-day. hes of a correspondent with Gen. Sar- ribes Turkey as a huge granary which Germany is developing oo British, Londen Fan, 15.<The British offi- ters in this ¥ Pee in Drags Smuggied In, nels Big Four: Teo een Articles In Objects: Air Fighters: Mateh; City Council Notes; Random Jes Commission Meet 1 Report Sought. Ontario News. taiAnnouncements? Recruits; Military Theatrical Bouts, ve, Mil- ns Plight. onfession; Menus, hy Countryside; Council from headquar-}' 48 nade public here « "During the night a party of out] hei, se Abin Ses tl i lls hd COUNT YON BERNSTORFF { 16.---That the Allies' armies in the Salon- | heavily reinforced and given the task of ent- | Constantinople and Bagdad Railway is a story referred to was Secretary ALD. H. N. NEWMAN, THO SENSATIONS In Regard tothe Leak in President Wil son's Note. DECLARED TO HAVE MADE OVER $2,000,000, "The Woman in the Case" Could Not - Located-----J. PP. Morgan jo Be Sdbpoenaed. (Special to the Whig.) Washington, Jan. 16--Thomas W. Lawson resumed the stand at the House leak probe committee hearing this morning. Ahough subpoenae servers hunted all night for Mrs. Ruth Thomson Viscounti, "the wo- man in the case," they said they had been unable to locate her to sum- mon her as a witness. Two otlier sensations came when Mr. Lawson declared Rep. HeNry told him "Count Von Bernstorfl was 80 mixed up in the leak situation that he made over $2,000,000," and when Rep. Harrison asked that J, P. Morgan he subpoenaed. This was carried. Lawson's Semsations. | At yesterday's session Mr. Lawson calmly declared that the mysterious Congressman who told him a Cabinet officer, a Senator, a foreign am bassador and a banker were engaged in a stock pambling pool was none other than -Representative Henry chairman of the committee. Then, beforé his hearers had time to recover from the shock, Lawson Sprung one sensation after the other by declaring that the Cabinet officer McAdoo, that the banker was H. Pliny Fiske of New York, and that ew the Senator only by the iaitial "0." To complete the ¢ went on to charge that i a SNA a oe ALD W..1 B WHITE BACK FROM SERVICE - AND BADLY INJURED An 'Old-time Heavyweight Champion Cannot Use His > Right Arm. J ---- (Special to the Whig.) ' Toronto, Jan. 16.--Among fifty- seven invalided and dischargeabie soldiers returning home here to-day was Pte. "Jack" Munroe, one time heavyweight champion, mayor of Elk Lake, Ont., gnd later a member of the Princess Pats. He is unable to use his right arm as a result of wounds. ' . Eighteen of those arriving to-day are "amputation" cases. One of them, Lance-Corp. J. ¢. Maddell, Preston, Ont., lost both legs at the thigh, and another, Pte. H. Johnson, Toronto, is minus his left leg and left arm. 8 Did Not (Special 0 the Whig) Bertin, Jan. AG. Russian forces undertook a violent attaek in Ru- mania yesterday on both sides of Fundati to-day's War Office report says, but were again absolutely with- out success. ; J ta -------- The large hotel Des Marchands, a modern and well equipped : at La Tuque, Que., was burned to the ALD. N. BE. O'CONNOR EXPECT COLLAPSE IN THE SPRING [Or the German Machine, But Excessive - Otimism is Dangerous. IF FOF PASSES THE CRISS THEN THE WAR WILL BE PRO- LONGED INTO 1918, Feeling in Britain--T. P, O'Connor Thinks Conditions in Worse Than Thought; There May Be Revolt, London, Jan. 16.--Three personal views appear in the papers which may be<taken as roughly representa- tive of the main currents of British opinion on the developments of the last week: X In the Observer, J. L. Garvin strikes a note that excessive optim. ism is dangerous. He remarks, "It is no paradox, but plain cer- tainty to say that we shall insure the speediest as well as the biggest success by deliberately reckoning with the possibility of prolonged op- | erations, If Germany gets over the economic pinch between spring and summer, the final phase may well be i nged six Thinks eral opinion here, There is no belief 5 2 il BE i i i '| their worst abyss to which these forces prepare for a supreme effort of arms." : Tord Sydenham's View. Lord Sydenham, writing in the : Sunday Times, does not believe that | Germany will take a position bring- { Ing peace any nearer, { "The Prussian dynasty and mili- tary caste which it created," he com- ments, "will not accept the Allied terms unless reduced to extremities. The German people, who would lose nothing except the ambitions artfully instilled into them, cannot accept, so long as Prussian: supremacy per- sists, but they will be able to com- pare the rapidly growing prosperity of their country before the war with the disaster which they owe 'to the ruling caste." In the course of his article Lord Sydenham says: "While President Wilson has throughout - conscient- iously endeavored to maintain rigid impartiality in his utterances, it cannot be said that American neu- trality has been as rigidly observed. Two embassies at Washington have been permitted to become bases of operations against the Allies, and the fact that they have been usedialso to Organize outrages threatening the lives and property of American citi- zens, cannot be regarded as balane- ing the account. Two wrongs do not make a right, and, remembering the costly expiation entailed by the de: lay of the British Government to pre- vent the galling of the Alabama from the Mersey, we may regret that measures were not taken to limit the activities of enemy agents occupying privileged positiens in the United States." - T. PP, O'Connor's Article, T. P, O'Connor, who has an article in Lloyd's Weekly appears to believe that internal conditions in Germany and Austria-Hungary will force the hand of the militarist governments. "I have mo doubt," he writes, "that the condition of things there is getting worse and worse every day. If one could hear the confes- sion of any sane and decent man of business in Germany, I am 'sure they would, almost to a man, outside of the munition profiteers, join in de- nuniciation of the Kaiser, the Crown Prince, and the insane and brutal soldiers who have brought all this destruction on trade and wealth of Germany. Those four millions of ais who voted against the K are not slow to realize that antieipations of the were driving. Germany have been realized | | far beyond: thelr blackest prophecies. "Ihave no doubt that the working people, underpaid, bullied underfed, i) restive undér it all, and I have, Germany, from the Kaiser down- ward, realizes that the longer the War goes on the worse it is for Ger- many both in the present and in the future." "4 In the course of his article Mr. O'Connor, referring to the Amesican reception of the Allied note, says: "Never, since the war began, have Wwe had a better press in America." War Tidings. Bulgarian artillery fs shelling Gal- atz in Rumania; Canadians in France are active, but the casualties are light. The Rritish in Tigris are making progress against the Turks. It is rumored that King Constan- tine of Greece will be dethroned. Foreign Minister Zimmerman says Germany will make no more peace moves at present. / Neutral despatches say revolt is growing in Germany. Money cannot buy food in several parts. The American steamer Zagrob was sunk without warning in the ,Adria- tic by a submarine with a loss of twenty-six lives, Cerigo on Wednesday, Cerigo is the southernmost of the principal of the Ionian Islands, belonging to Greece. The Berlin' Vossische Zeitung says that in order to safeguard the food supply the Prussian Ministry has créated a war economy board in each province, ; ---------- TO SHOW UP GOVERNMENT. Will North-West Toronto Hear Ferg. uson and Lucas? ( 1 to the Whig) Toronto, Jan. 16. -- Whatever doubts there may have been as to contesting the North-West Toronto t were y removed by the unworthy, mischievous and unpatrio- tic campaign conducted by the Con- servative leaders in West Simcoe. This, it may be said, reflects gen. | Such gf A ili The allies occupied the island of 0 New Yok Ste Oils Bele Thy he fot on Tra. AS THE SOURCE OF UNCLE SAM'S DRUG SUPPLY. New York Magistrate Says That City Is Face to Face With a Most * Ghastly Problem. New York, Jan. 16.--Is Canada re- sponsible for the shipment of habit- forming drugs to the United States? (That is the question that is puzzl- ing the New York State officials and Legislature, who have began an ex- haustive investigation of the source of supply by which those who are dealing. in morphine, cocaine, heroin and opium gre enabled to reap their huge profits 'from the pitiful victims of the "habit." In an interview fo-day, Chief City Magistrate William McAdoo declared that the greater pércentage of the criminals who are brought into the police courts of Greater New York are addicts f the d habit. He further stated that the probe which is now going on has revealed the fact that the greathr part of the drugs which are illegally sold in this state are smuggled across the border, either through Detroit or Buffalo, many of the smugglers using the re- serve tires on automobiles in which to conceal their deadly stock in trade, and further, said that the federal authorities had been called upon to end the trafiie, He declared that both New York State and New York City was Mand- ing face to face with one of the most ghastly problems that society has ever been called upon to face--that of the spread of the drug habit--de- spite all the efforts of the law, both national and state, to stamp out the use of morphine and cocaine. He said that the time has nearly arrived when all young men who wish to marry will be forced to ap- ply to a police magistrate for per- mission 3a wed, this situation being largely due to the Ng 3 roa on the public health | Throats | the use of arugy and liguor. J CPE 94940 000 RU NS B SINK TWO VESSELS. (Special to the Whig.) Peto, » Jan. 16.---~The + sinking of two enemy ships near 4 the Bosphorus by a Russian 4 submarine was announced In to- + day's official statement. Buy Canadian Wheat Land. London, Jan. 16.---The Co-opera- tive Wholesale Societies of Manches- ter (England), and Scotland, have bought two thousand acres of wheat land in Canada. Land has also been bought by the same body in India and Ceylon, -------------- Brampton High School Burned. Special Whig. Brampton. Jan, 18--Ths thirty- year-old high sch building was completely des by fire at an early hour this morning. The loss is 350.000 and insurance'about $12,- , A DAILY MEMORA VDUM Band at the Palace Rink tonight. Band at the coveradl rink tonight. See top of page 3, right hand corner for probabilities. i. BORN. BLANCHARD-At Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, on Jen. "15th, 1918, to Mr. and A, Blanchard, « daughter, MAITLAND At the Alecia Hospital Moose Jaw, Sth, se Ww Lon Jan. 1917, to Major and Mrs. Oliver M. Maitland, a daughter. DIED. BUARSLEE--An on Jan. Sen 191%, Ellaa T, wile of Albert Makita, axed 87 years. Fuheral from late residence, Jan. 17th, at 2 pm. n Rochester, on Jan. fisth, 1817, ne 3 Funeral (private) her sister's res idence, Mrs. ¥. 8 Rides. 3 s in Injtaton. . William Henry ¢ rh of Amherst Is- Funeral from St. 1 church, Wed- nesday, Janud at 2 pam,