a | The Daily British Whig [= YEAR 84 -NO. 10 \ PAGES 18 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUA RY 19, 1817 ise LAST EDITION BORDEN 70 ASK FOR EXTENSION Of the Term of Patan fo Avoid An' Election. THE LIBERALS POSITION ON THIS QUESTION IS NOT YET ANNOUNCED, FOUR MORE BRITISH SHIPS TORPEDOED Crews of Three Vessels on English Port on Thursday. London, Jan. 19.--It is announced that the Garfield, a British steamer SE i ly tons, had been sent to the » ior has arrived in port with eight-four members of the crews of the Auchencrag, Omsk and Kinpur- ney. The steamer was forced to fol- low the German submarine from Jan- uary 13th to January 16th, when the vessel was ordered to discharge her cargo. With the exception of four members of the crew of the Auchen- crag the crews of the vessels sunk | were saved. A Section of the Party Demands a | Fight In the Aorm of a General Election Immediately. : (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, Jan. 19.--The ceremonial and official opening of the seventh session of the twelfth Parliament of Canada, which took place at three o'clock this afternoon, excited the usual interest of the Capital this afternoon, despite the fact that some of the usual features were lacking. It was the first formal opening since Parliament took hip its new quarters in the museum building, aqd the limited space and lack of galleries in the improvised . Senate chamber deprived the event of is chief social features. There was the usual bril- liant group to the right of His Ex- cellency in duty, 8ir Robert Borden in his Windsor uniform and officers of the headquarters and naval staffs. The Duchess of Devonshire sat to the left of His Excellency. No mili- tary escort was provided for the vice- regal party, but the customary guard of honor awaited their arrival at the Parliament Buildings. The usual salute was fired from Nepean Point. Seeks Extension of Term. The announcement that Sir Robert Borden's Government will] ask for an extemsion of the term of Parliament, thus avoiding an elec- tion, and also of the intention of the| Government td have an appropriate | celebration of the fiftieth annivers- ary of Canada's history as a Domin-| ion, were the chief points emphasized | in the Speech from the Throne, de- livered at the opening of the Com-| mons by the Duke of Devonshire, | The denfind for an extension will be the contentious point-ef the session, it is expected. While the Liberyl opposition, under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, has not definitely announced its posi- - tion on this matter, there is an ele- ment of the party which demands a fight in the form of a general elec- tion immediately. The speech con- cluded as follows: "In common with the rest of the Empire, the people of this Dominion are firmly resolved that this war, which has ehtalled sec much sacrifices for the highest ideals of humanity and civilization, shall be continued until the Allies' efforts are crowned wtih an abidiag peace," Prince Vaclaw von Niemoyovseki has been appointed Viceroy of Po- land by the German Emperor, fr ------------------ BRIDGES SWEPT FROW_DANUBE (Special to the Whig.) London, Jan. }9--"Dis- aster has overtaken the enemy," said a wireless press despatch from Pe- rograd via Rome to-day. "The bridges qver the Danube have been swept away bk the current,and the usso - Rumanian armies are acqvageing on a wide front." -_ THE POOR CROPS HINT FROM GOD, SAYS GERMAN London, Jan. 19.--Dr. Roesicke, president of the German Farmers' Union, is quoted in an Amster, dam despatch to Reuter"s as saying in an address to the Schleswig - Holstein Union: "(iod has given us a hint. He has caused the harvests of the world to be so bad that Great Britain finds it difficult to feed herself. Therefore, if we do not prevent the wheat- laden ships from Australia and India reaching Brit- ain, it is doubtful whether God will again give us such an opportunity be- cause He demands that the hand shall be seized which he stretches out to us. [Ne miims-- TWO PROGRESSIVES GIVEN "SICK LEAVE" | Were Russian Fri Friends of Al- lies--Their Services Evi- dently Dispensed With. (Special to the Whig.) London, Jan. 19.----Advices from Petrograd indicate that two progress- ive Russian Ministers and friends of the "Allies, Pokrofsky and Shakov- sKoy, have been given "sick leave," which probably means that their ser- vices are dispensed with. The date for convening the Duma has been postponed to Feb. 27th. SUES COLLINGWOOD PAPER. Charles M. Bowman Objects to Being Called a "Grafter." (Special to the Whig. Toronto, Jan. 19.--A Ar to the recent Legislature bye-election cam-, paign in West Simcoe was the issu- ance this morning of a writ on be- half of Charles M, Bowman, M.P.P., against the Collingwood Entenprise for publication of a statement that Bowman wag a "grafter," under the Rose administration, Nine Americans Involved. ecial to the Whig.) Washin on, Jan. 19.--Nine Am- ericans were involved in the German ralder's activities in the South Atlan- tic, according to a State Department despatch from Consul Stewart at Pernanbuco. Canadian Casualties, Died--R. G. Patterson, Oso. Seriously i11--C. F. Abbott, Smith's Falls. Wounded--V: L. McDiarmid, Car- leton Place. Eugene Ysaye, the world-famed violinist, hag arrived in the United States from Europe. He has come for a concert tour, Ie | -OFFCAL WAR STATEMENTS London, Jaen. 13.--The report from British headquarters in France, issued to-night reads: Further pro- gress was made during the night north of Beaucourt-sur-Ancre as a result of the successful local opera- ng reported yesterday. In connect tion with the raid northesat of Cite the artillery activity on both "was normal. lin si tion issued by the War Office Calonne, we sprang a fine with good | of effect. The enemy's defences east of Bois Grenler and east of Ploegsseert were bombarded during the_day. The enemy's artillery was active south of Sailly-Saillisel and east of Bethune. On other portions of our -~ tension; Britieh EE in Oo SF Shetalintion: Week in rst Steamboat; Ger- 3 © mans acked. A--Bditorial es; Random Was Notes; ise Care: A Horse French. ¢ Paris, Jan. 18.--The communica-| to-night f. reads: Artillery duels of rather se-| THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY GIVEN Dos Th = ie Hon Near And at Paces. TIDINGS i OUR READERS PRESENTED IN IN THE BRIEFEST : POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Ex. change. Harry Lauder has subscribed fifty thousand pounds to thegwar loan. Lieut. Horatio C. Crowell, formerly of the Halifax Chronicle, has left for the front with a draft for the Princess Patricias. { George H. Ham, of the Canadian | Pacific iT. is sojourning in | | Texas, where he has gone to escape | | the rigors of the Canadian winter, | Col. J. Stewart, M.P.P., Lethbridge, | Man., commanding an artillery bri- gade at the front, has received the distinguished service order. John Stanfield.has resigned his position as chief Conservative, whip. | He will be succeeded by W. 8, Middlebro, member for North Grey. After being reported sunk by a mine or submarine, the Norwegian | steamship Avona has reached Balti- more, Mid., from Huelva, Spain. Rev. Herbert G. Miller, Vancau-| ver, formerly principal of Huron | Divinity College, London, Ont., and | afterwards rector of St. Thomas' | church, Hamilton, died on Wednes- day. Gen. M. A. Beliaelf has been ap- pointed Minister of War in the place of Gen. Chouvaleff, who has been made a member of the Council of the pire. McLaren Brown, Ei opsan man- ager of the Canadian Pacific and Col. ' Pelletier, agent-general of Quebec, | have returned to London after a visit to Canada. Voluntary enlistment of women is foreshadowed for service on the farms, The British Government is expeoted to recruit, train and place them on farms. The New York Supreme Court re- fused to reduce the bail fixed re- cently at $15,000 of Oliver Brower, indicted with Harry K. Thaw on the charge of conspiracy to kidnap Fred- erick Gump, jr., of Kansas City, At the close of 1916 there were 13, 128 names on the Cambridge Univer- sity war list, of these 1,405 have been killed, 1,945 wounded, 212 missing and prisoners, 916 were mentioned in despatches, five received the V.C., 113 D.8.0., 412 Military Cross and 600 other distinctions. NEW YORK STOCKS. [The Prices That Are Quoted on Ex- h change. New York Stocks. Open 2.30 p.m. Airbrake .. .. .. ...149 150 Atchison .. . ... 106% Baltimore & Ohio cos 82% 83% C. P. R. AR L163% 163% Ne. ¥. 0. .. Lo 102% 102 Brie... ........ 33% 33 Erie ptd. .. rs 48 Northern Pacific vs +109 Pennsylvania .. 565 Reading .. . ..103% Southern Pacific . 98% St.Paul .. .. ..... 9% Union Pacific .. .. ..145 Bethlehem Steel .. ..430 Rep. Steel .. .. 79% U. 8. Steel .. 114% Anaconda .. .. .. 843% Inter. Nickel .. .. 42% Canadian Stocks. Steamers .. .. Qanada Car .. General Electric . N.8.'B Can. 1000. .. .. .: Market dead. Attache Suffers Colapse, Berlin, Jan, 19.--Lieut, Angell, American naval attache to the em- bassy here, has suffered a 'complete breakdown and to-day was transfer- red to a sanitarium to recuperate. He is the third American oficial to be affected since the out- break of the war. & 56% 103% 98 90% 144 $037 80 114% 837% 42 MISS LLOYD GEORGE "DECORA TING" AN OFFICER. hter of the British Premjer has become I classes in Great Britain. The picture The charming daug a great favorite with shows her pinning a flag on a so in old London. Idier during a recent "tag day" BEST IN-YEARS ON GREAT LAKES Seventy-Three Lives And Fourteen Vessels | t Were Lost in Storms. 1916 RANKED UP WELL TREMENDOUS BUSINESS PONE | BY TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES Grain Trade Alone Reached Total of 363,999,156 Bushels For Year-- The Greatest Buying Lampaign in Lake History. Detroit, Mich., Jah. 19.--Seventy- three_Jives and fourteen vessels were lost on the great lakes" during fhe season of 1916, according to the an- nual report of the Lake Carriers As- sociation, made public at the annual convention of the organization. This heavy casualty record is the most serious since 1913, when a fearful November storm claimed the greatest toll of fives and of ships in the his- | tory of inland navigation. =~ Wrecks last year caused the death of sixty-seven seamen. The first seri- ous casualty took place on May 8th, when the steamer S. R. Kirby went down in a gale on Lake Superior, off Eagle Harbor. Only two members of her crew of twenty-twp were saved. The other two boats sank in Lake Erie on October 20th. Twenty-four men went down with the whaleback, James B. Colegate, and the steamer Merida was I with her entire crew of twenty-three persons. The gross tonnage of the fourteen | ill-fated vessels was 16,817. The re-| mainder of the boats recorded in the casualty list follows: Steamers--City of Midland, Panth- | er, Topeka, Saranjc, St. Ignace, Rob- erval and Marshall F. Butters. 'Barges--Rob Roy, D. L. Filer and antes H. Hill, us business handled | steamers were turned out, 19,500 ton boat and one of 7,000 tons | Battalion in Winnipeg in 1914. - was 4% cents, compared with 2% cents the previous year. The record breaking Fo Tor ocean anfl coastwise vessels was res- ponsible for the greatest buying cam- paign in lake history. Seventy-one vessels, with a total tonnage of 683,- 770 gross were disposed of and the list included twelve ore carriers of the 10,000 ton class. Most of the vessels built last year were big freighters. Six 12,000 ton while one were built, Fifty-nine vessels are un- der sonsruct on at great lakes ports for 1917 delivery. FEAR AN INVASION. German Troops Are Massed on the Frontier. (Special to the Whig.) London, Jan. 19.--The Swiss gene- ral staff is convinced that the inva- sion of Switzerland by the Germauys is contemplated. It is reported that masses of German troops are concen- trating near Basle. His Stature' Reduced. Nuarlttelowa, PEL, . Jan, 18 Sergt. W. (i. Bruce, who arrived here yesterday and was tendered a recep- tion, was 'wounded three times at Ypres, Both legs and both hands were broken. He was twenty months in hospitals. Surgeons shortened his height by cutting off two and a half inches of bone from | each leg. , He enlisted in the 13th Begin N. Y, Sunday Temple. New York, Jan. 19.--Ground for the tabernacle that will house Billy Sunday's New York audi wis broken yesterday and it Is expected thet the structure will be completed by'the last week in March ready fpr Billy to begin his New York revival April 1st, The ultimatum handed to Greece by {the Entente Allies hinted that more i troops might be landed at Itea. "| were advancing INFECTED SHAVING BRUSH CAUSES DEATH Col. McLeod Died in England From Anthrax Following a Slight Cut. London, Jan. 19.--The sudden death a week ago of Col. McLeod, head of the medical unit of St. Fran- cis Xavier's College, Antigonish, was due to anthrax, which developed from contamination through shaving with an infected brush, one of\ the New- castle consignment from Austria. This has been confirmed by one of Col. McLeod's personal friends. A /colonel, who was in charge of the Medical Services at Bramshott, having lost his shaving brush, sent out and purchased one, which was found afterwards to 'be one of those recently condemned. Facial disease developed and after- wards cancer of the stomach. Thé doctor himself declared that it was not an ordinary disease, and fellow- officers were themselves puzzled. A close inspection of all the shops in the distriet brought to light four other brushes, each of which, germ- laden, would have been fatal had the user cut himself ever so slightly, as Col. McLeod did. War Tidings India is to issue a war loan of un limited amount to Britain. The British have further extended | the gains made on Wednesday near Beaucourt. One hundred and sixty Venizelist prisoners have been freed by the Athens government, The Teuton advances in Rumania is now at a complete standstill. The invaders were_stopped at the Sereth line. The British Admiralty, has neither denied nor admitted 'the report that the German raider has already heen sunk. One thousand Tripolitan rebels were killed by Italian troops. They 5,000 strong to at- tack Zoara. There was heavy artillery along the western front Thursday, possibly a preliminary to another advance by the British, 428,770 GERMANS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS During the Past Year--Gen. Brusiloff's Offensive Was Largely Responsible. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, Jan, 19, --~Four Min- dred and a Sweny thousand German +soldiers-and-- 8,770 German were captured by Russian troops dur-| ing the year 1916, according to fig ures published by the Service Journal to-day, in reviewing Russia's war ac- chievepments for, the twelve months past. "In addition to these captures of men, Russian forces also took 525 cannon, 1,661 machine gung and 421 trenth mortars and mine throwers. Of 'the booty--both in men and guns --it - is estimated that eighty per cent, came from Gen. Brusiloff's three months' operations on a 300+ mile front, / CANADIAN FUNDS. A Big Campaign to be Waged in To- ronto. (Special to the Whig.) ' Toronto, Jan. 19,--On Tuesday morning, at one minute past 'mid- night, will be started here the most spectacular campaign in the history of this city to obtain in four days two and a half millions for the Patriotic and Red Cross Funds. An organiza- tion, headed by 260 of Toronto's most influential business and professional men, and consisting of at least twenty thousand people, has been per- fected, and the aim will be to bring very human being in Toronto within the scope of this great money-collect- ing machine. REDUCE SHOE OOST, Rubler and Fibre Soles and Paper Composition Suggested, New York, Jan, 19.--To cut the high cost of shoes, the use of proved | u substitutes for leather is recommen- ded in a report adopted by the Na~ tional Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' jation, now in i here. Rubber and fibre soles and a new paper, composition for uppers are among the substitutes said to be at- tracting A0st-astention from manu- facturers, Efforts also are being made "to popularize .eolored cloth tops which likewise will effect a saving of leather. APPOINTED RHODES SCHOLAR. Capt. Hurd Was Born in Brockville ~=Now at Front, to, tha Wh 1 ike ARMADA OF BRITISH 1S TOLD To Be In Service Very Soon After the War Comes To An End. BRITISH MERCHANT MARINE WILL BE RESTORED IS PREDIC. TION OF NAVAL AUTHORITY. All Competition From Enemy Sources Pales Before Greatly Auge mented Shipbuilding Facilities in Yards in Great Britain. ' London, Jan. 19.--The creation of a mighty armada of British mercan- tile shipping within six months after end of the war, was prophesied by a high naval authority in a statement yesterday. Facilities for shipbuild- '| Buckfiell's gz ing in Great Britain, it is asserted, {have been so greatly augmeneced | during the war that British 'yards |can easily outdistance all German competition. | "Once our effort is concentrated on | merchant shipping," this official said, "it will be possible to build vessels in less than ninely days, and perhaps faster, if they are standardized ships. Even with so much labor diverted:to war purposes, we have been able to construct 9,000-ton liners in three months' time, Efficiency Unprecedented. "The stimulus to ehipbuilders working under war pressure and on war vessels will con\inue when it comes to building merchantmen, for the men will accept the challenge of the Germans. Never in her history has Britain had at her disposal such a highly efficient and large body of shipbuilders as she will have when the war closes. We can view the fu- ture with equanimity, regardless of German predictions." MOEWE THE RAIDER IN SOUTH ATLANTIC And It May Possibly Enjoy a Long Immunity From Capture. London, Jan. 18.--1t is generally in raider the South Atlantic, which is thought to be the Moewe, may possibly enjoy a long immunity, and it is recognized that it is easier to find a needle in a haystack than a ship bent on elud- ing capture in the Atlantic. Anxiety is expressed over the fate of cargoes of grain and meat from Argentine and steel from the United States. It is admitted that the loss of such cargoes may be severely felt coming on top of vthe depredations of the submarines. A number of steamers distinct from the victims of the raiders are posted at Lloyd's as missing. The raider is assumed to be identical with the vessel reported: on Decem- ber 4th, but there is nothing to in- dicate whether it dodged the British cordon in the North Sea or started its career from some neutral port. rn DAILY MEMORANDUM Band at Palace Rink tonight. Queen's vs, Fronfenacs, at oovered rink t nig, See top of page 3, right hand corner for Srobabiii es. Red Cross Tea and sale of home made food at Board of Education rooms, Sat urday afternoon. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following Oity Stores. Ahern, Joseph, Jr. News Clarke, J. W. & Co. .. . College Book nore ev vv 188 Pr Coulter's Groce 209 Princess Cullen's arosery. Yor. Prin & Alfred Frontenac Hotel . rio Bt. Gibson's Drug Store . Market Square Meauley! s ear store, Ci ve prin Fi Plinosss all's Cigar Store, Cor. McLeod's Grocer, 51 Union 8t. W Far Te Cigar u oF e Drug Store Soutnoott's Grocery 308 Montreal St. oe 5 King St « 352 . Portsmouth ATKINS-JACKSON--dn Toronto, Jan, 9th, William Atkins, Welllhgton, to Mrs. Jackson, Atel I PLATT. WA RREN--AL Nh an, 1th, Donald Ross att, Welling ol to Miss Vera Warren, Palmer- ston, Ont. Ki Janual INALDSON In ngston, on January ao #0th, 1517, Lian Donaldson, aged fwenly two. years. Funeral vate) from Her grand. mother's resid 9 Pembroke St. Monday morning st 10 o'clock. BLIN--In Picton, on Jan. 13th, Ann Eitsa Vanbléricom, wife of John W, Roblin. . REM Athol. J Jan. 16th, John Reid, "| ROWLAND df Pleton, Jan. 16th, Tho. mas Rowiand, $6 years. aged 3 mE § Nan i i §