+ { 12 PAGES b 00 itn The Baily British Whig | « k PAGES 9-12 3 . YEAR 84, NO. 43 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUES DAY FEBRUARY 1917 - 20, { | Some Ottawa Glimpses | Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. r ER, | The Rosi Riffe in Parliament. SECOND SECTION J " - Ottawa, Feb. 20.--So many of our | Governmént was "bound" only so far brave soldiers have died because of | ag it wanted to be bound the defects in the Ross rifle that it was appropriate that the dying hours | recent session of hould be taken up with a debate on of the this important subject, The facts about the Ross rifle are in need of careful treatment, so that the public mind will harbor no con- fusion in regard to sych a vital mat- The fundamental fact to bear! "bound." Why? k Well, presumably because Sir Sam ier in mind is that the Ress rifle with whieh our soldiers were provided in this war, ig the Borden It is of Three, Government's ow their authorization and is built cording to plans submitted by their expertsisince they came into office in The Ross rifle of the Liberal was known to have sturdier and more serviceable 1911. regime and is said pon than its succ given a longer barrel and finer sights in order to swell Sir Sam's pride as a It was a very but too delicate for active service where | headed the shooting is necessarily rough and | wrong. ready and lack, so to speak, the Bis- | the mor¢ pigheaded he becomes, This | explains why, in face of facts, such Bisley prize snatch fine target rifle ley elaboration With this fact in wiew-the attempt | the Borden Government of responsibility for Mark Three to the Laurier Govern-| would be laughable if it were It is almost as pitiful | as the Hon. Mr. Meighen's attempt ment not dastardly. to pass the buck to Mr. Meighen's theory is that the Bor- | den Government was bound "in per- petubty" by a contract by the Laur- The words "in perpetuity" are of course fallac-| can be "in per-| But outside of that this ler Government in, fous. No contract peétuity." Mar n child af as Mark been wea essor which wa er, none better- to the Ross Rifle Sir Charles Ross 1902. "perpetuity" in regard to Ross rifles was harply defined, minated by giving It could be ter- a year's notice. ,That Is to say, it could have been ter- minated year, two years befc ed---or again within the last two As "a matter of fact, in 1912 or in 1913--one pre the war start- in 1914 or any time years and a half. there hasn't been a miwuate since the war began that the contract, couldn't manufacture of Ross rifle Three and had a better Borden Government, act- ing strictly within the terms of the! have stopped the Mark one made. Moreover the contract on which Mr. Meighen rests his honor and that of the Borden Government's so strongly | was a contract drawn up in times of peace, and Hable to war emergencies, 1 ernment grows arbi consent of the people i to itself, as the * traordinary powers Borden Government War Measuress Act. the Borden Governn to deal everything that neec sharply and directly be swept aside In n War every gov- trary. With the it takes ex- did under the Under that Act rent was likensed with led such, dealing. Nice customs, says Shakespeare, 'bow to great kings. to the with the War -Measu of course that the Borden Govern- | retained in a post in which he had ment wanted them so to bow. Which | proved himself a public benefactor. it didn't, So far this article has proceeded | first fall out of the Ross rifle and its on the assumption And similarly bow Borden Government armed res Act, provided that Sir Charles Ross might have been unwilling to surrender his contract and that the Government might him drastically. Charles Ross comes have to handle But when Sir forward, as he has done several times ine the public press, and tells us that there hasn't been a day since August, 1914, when he hasn't been will ing to turn his factory over, as rapidly as possible, to the manufacture: of Lee-Enfilelds or any other equally --~when Sir Charles serviceable rifle! Ross comes for- ward and tells us that we begin to see how silly Mr. Meighen's talk is | about being "bound." The Borden Government considered the lives of Pdrliament | Two, a much shift ent of all parties concerned he parties"--there's the rub "A | Ross, was no Shylock, | his pound of flesh. part, the wasn't, It Borden preferred Governmen to remal Hughes was Minister of Militia, an he stood or fell by! | the Government just about the tim itely discarded as the weapon of th Canadian soldiers in the field. It ha been said that Sam's vice | - | friendship---whether for men o 8 | rifles--he sticks by them afte everybody else has decided that the are no good, Allison and the Ros rifle Mark Three are two example: in point. Sir when wrong he feel particularly The more as the gun-jamming at St, Julien anc Festubert and our®boys throwing i away and grabbing rifle. One of the excuses put for- ward was bad ammunition--not Can- adian ammunition or British am- munition, but stuff made in | the United States. When | the Rogs rifle did the same thing with good loyal ammunition]' that the chamber was "tempered," with the result that they were made as brittle as glass, and other tinkering was done. Any- thing rather than do what common sense dictated--abandon the rifle and start making one that stood the active service test, The manner in which Sir John French's adverse report on the Ross rifle, dating June, 1915, was pigeon- holed, also General Anderson's let- ter on the same subject, is an old story now but a bad one. The Bor- | den Government seems to have treat- |ed these reports as if they didm't {exist, They were like the farmer who saw a giraffe for the first time. "There ain't no such darned thing," he muttered under hi8™ breath. Somehow or ofher the comments of { the British authorities on the Ross {rifle found the light in the "Ottawa Citizen," whereupon there was a | great clatter among the cabinet min- | Isters and General Gwatkin, an offi- | cer who had the good of the Canad- | ian soldiers at heart, ' was much blamed for being over-zealous and was in grave danger of losing his job in the Militia Department. However, | milder counsels and powerful friends prevailed and General Gwatkin was Thus. did General Gwatkin take the great protagonist eral §ir Sam Hughes, It was as far back as the spring of 1915 that the Canadian soldiers be- gan to throw away their Ross rifles. In spite of this summary proceeding which must have reached the ears of the Borden Government, the See- ond, Third and Fourth divisions Lieutenant-Gen- p armed with the Ross rifle, wh they carried with them to France. It was not yntil after Sir Douglas Haig's report/in June, 1916, that the use of the Ross rifle was dis- continued at the front. . All of which goes to show how much the Borden I* ¢ould slip its bonds any day with the con- The | party of the first part, Sir Charles standing on He was willing enough, but the party of the second the Rosg rifle Just here it is worth remarking that he did stand and fall by it--he left | the Ross rifle Mark. Three was defin- Bir Sam, so_to speak, pig- he is Lee-Enfields wherever they could find them, Sir Sam continued to dote on the Ross made in England, it was said then a shade too small and some of the rifles were: rebored. Subsequently the bolts were t, n d é e 8 s r r y 8 8 s 1 t Mr nt year after it had been proved defec- | tive, { But this is not the limit, The] Ross Rifle Mark Three is no longer | Sir Charles, Ross disclaims any wish | to hold the Borden Government to our soldiers when they kept loading | them up with the Ross rifle a full | TY THE NEW COAT OF ARMS FOR THE NEW BRUNS WICK TORY PARTY. Andon nn Letters to the Editor | in use as an active service-weapon.| Farmer's Wife on' Hotel Accommo- dation, Inverary, Feb. 17.--(To the Edj- tor): While looking over the col- umng of your paper I noticed a couple of articles written by two any contract to manufacture Ross rifles, when he can manufacture Lee Enfields just as well. And yet the Government professes to consider it- a ------------ friends, who unfortunately happened to drop In. There were three of us. We paid fifty cents a piece and then asked if we might have the use of Some parts of their hotel. They skmply told us the doors were locked. This is the treatment that is ac- corded to us not only myself but numerous others, both men and wo- men whom I have heard talking. Sanyjeu blame us for turning down the hotels and going to the Chinese leading hotel-keepers of Kingston. Both of these articles appear to be | directed against rmer's wives more particularly. I as a farmer's wife, who has been visiting Kingston on behalf of the large majority of | women in the-country, | Mr. Cousineau complained £0 much about women buying ten cents | worth. of buns and eating them in | his parlor. We are not going to | dispute his word but we venture to | assert that it seldom occurred. Any | woman, who would do that must be a great stranger in the city as for ! 15 cents she cbuld get a cup of hot | tea or coffee, slice of ham and all the bread and buns she wanted in a res- | taurant and she would be welcome. Because perhaps one or two women, did this, why condemn all the women at large, We 'might just as well say because | one hotel-keeper would do a mean self "bound" until February, 1918. being turned out at the rate of a thousand a day! --H. F. GADSBY. KAISER QUITE ANGRY OVER BREAK WITH U. 8. Wilhelm Lets His Wrath Be Felt by the Ejected Envoy. ' | Paris Feb. 20.--I hear from a very good source that the news of the diplomatic rupture with the United States arrived like 'a bombshell in the Imperial circles at Potsdam. New tension with Washington af- ter the submarine note was expected, but nothing as drastic as rupture. On the same' morning (February 3th) a cablegram from Count von| trick, all hotel-keepers were mean Bernstorff announced that a new men, i note from President Wilson might The last time I visited Kingston I be expected, but nothing else, drove my horse info one of the lead- The Emperor received news of ing hotel yards, asked the hostler to | the rupture Bs he was sitting down to the table and flew into a violent | rage, so those who were in touch | with Potsdam circles affirm, (Remarks made by the Empress to her intimates gave the latter to un- erstand that the Imperial wrath as directed principally against von Bernstorff. The Empress complain- put him in and feed him hay and oats. I went into the house and found no fire in' the sitting room. The lady of the house came in and looked at me as if I were an intrud- er, went out with my wraps on. At dinner time, I went into an+. other hotel, thinking perhapss 1 would be used better. Every place their supply of feed fronvthe various ' mills throughout the country, who {obtain outside markets for all | produce. more | twenty-five years ago when he to stand on that market and coax | the city people to buy butter at twen- ty cents a pound, eggs at ten' cents | a dozen, potatoes at fifty cents a bag and meat at thres 'or four cents a \pouhids 'own rights, "or other restaurants? There person is treated the same, My husband, who for thirty years frequented the Windsor hotel always had his dinner and paid his way un- til it closed its doors, drove into another hotel yard, was met by the hostler and asked if he was a cus- tomer. On being told .he was not as yet he was ordered to get but of the yard, which he did, but not before he told him that he had a team of horses that could "take him home. This is the treatment that is ac- corded to farmers and fariners' wives and we cannot understand wh. No doubt this 1s the experience of hun- dreds of others, We as farmers purchase our fur- niture directly from the factories, our dry goods from Toronto; get our grocerie's from the country stores, and the farmers are obtaining every bring it .in by carjoads. We can our #|| have declared an additional dividend | | Frederic Nicholls, SIfenry M | \ FINANCIAL MATTERS | The 1918 Steel Orders are Announc- | ed in New York. New York, Feb. 19. --Great activi ty is evident in all branches of the | stee] indystry, but many of the plants are still embarra d by the [deranged | transportation system. Domestic manufacturers of cars and locomo- | tives have closed additional con- tracts for approximately 100,000 tons | of rolled, forged and cast steel, and | a greater tonnage is under negotia- bridge Shrink fo Shadows. | tion, The significant fact is that or-| | ders are being placed as far ahead | | as the first quarter of 1918. | Aid Granted Railway. EDUCATION IS CHANGED BY WAR | Ottawa, Feb. 19..--The statement |, ; . ih : | of financial aid granted and paid to| 23.000 WRLC SCHOOL IN. | the Grand Trunk Railway Co. and! STRUCTORS GO T¢ THE FRONT. branch lines, owned, controlled, and | operated by the Grand Trunk as a More Women | part of its system, by the Dominion | Government, Provincial Governments! and municipalities since the organi- zation of the Grand Trunk up till June 30ta, 1915, totals nearly $11,-| heavy hand on education in Euro: 000,000, according to figures pub- | and its effects are felt here n lished by the Department of Ralways| and Canals, = Teachers--Changes in of Countries at War Greatly Stimulated. London, Feb, 19 Studics--Geography War has laid a ot only in the complete derangement of the | present educational system, b Steel Foundry Dividend. Toronto, Feb, 5 The directors the Dominion Steel Foundries {the prospect' of far-reaching cha after the war. The basis of fo prospective changes is the jing of education, making it nic of 5 per cent. on the common stock, || bringing the total for the year to} Practical for coping with ey || date to 25 per cent. Last year the | business affairs of lite" Ti {| directors paid 40 per cent, on the turn, has precipitated a heated ch {| common stock, | troversy over whether the English | Commercial Notes | School system is to be "Germanized i] A. F. Mackintosh, of J. C. Mackin-| Premier Lloyd George's recent « {| tosh & Co. Halifax, was elected a | Of Prof. Fisher, head of Sheffietd-{ || member of the Montreal Stock Ex-| versity, ds minister of educati was | change : ' | one of the steps to get a tical AS as been electe | John A. Spoor has been elected to educator in charge of affa succeed Governor Frank O: Lowden, were working out tl resigned as a director of the Pullman | the changes | | Company, | The present effect of the w ! The United Cigar Stores for the | education Is shogn in the re year ending Dec. 31st, shows earn ©f the great universities 81 ings of 5.32 per cent, against 6.20) and Cambridge to mere sha per cent. in 1918, after the preferr- | their former eXtént, Instead of h ed dividend. \ ing about 7,000 to 10,000 gtude Sir William Mackenzie, the Hon, | they are now reduced to the dims & Pel- | 1ons of small schools, with ahgu att C.v.0., E. R. Wood, all of Toron-| each. There is the same reducti t¥, Sir Rodolphe Forget and George | © mere shadows in the exte H. Smithers, Montreal, and F. Ww. | universities and technical Ross, Quebec are the directors of the! throughout the country, at Fe Toronto Street Railway Co. Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester a American steel mills are being all the great cities. All the abl overwhelmed by a flood of foreign| 0Cl€C Students have gone to tha war, and even those not able-bodied inquiries for rolled steel products. { or CC od Since the first of February inquiries] Bl rage: for 750,000 tons have been added to Wirclean 1 the tonnage pending one week ago. | . The sum of $10,000,000 is to be invested in motor car plants in Great | Britain by the Ford Motor Company, according to Plans that have been under way for some time. ! In 1916 the Mutual Life Assurance! In research work, in aeronautics, avia ' telegraphy and map-mak for the Government. The public schools have been simi larly - affected, particy teaching staffs, about 25.000 hool teachers having been taken fre te the regular establishments to join arly th ; ] army The scholars in the Tea Fy Company of New York paid policy-| schools have also suffered 'marked holders a total of $68,654,843.80 | losses, as the top<fourth hovs have a sum exceeding the amount received | fallen within. the military age. Even Th Great Unters of Onion. and Ca- directly from policyholders through premiums by $6,748,758 97. CONDEMNED BY . BUDAPEST PAPERS One Organ Demands That Count Von Reventiow Be Placed Under Restraint. Berne, Feb. 20.--T Budapest newspapers condemn submarine war fare. The Pesti-Naplo attacks Count Von Reventlow as the principal ex- ponent of submarine warfare and de- | The Socialist organ, Nepsvava at. .mands a cessation of what it calls "murder at sea." The Pesti-Hirlap publishes expres- | sions from: three members of the! Chamber of Deputies who are op-| posed to submarine warfare. One of them is quoted as saying: "We made the whole world turn against us," and another, "All American countries are "joining our enemies... This is sheer madness." Count Karolyn, leader of the Hungarian Independent 4 The farmer of today is somewhat independent than he was used Weare able to assert our ed that the Emperor's representa- tives at 'Washington invariably cre- \S -in these days of thigh cost of living King of Breakfast Foods "There's a Reason" wonderful nourishing value A flavor ~ sweet and ntut-like, that appeals to A ated misunderstafings and had al- wiys been handling "the hyprocriti- cal English pastor at=Washington," meaning President Wilson, Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl- weg finally managed to appease the Kaiser, taking up von Bernstorfl's defence, The Emperor ordered the Chan- cellor to do all that was possible to avoid making matters worse, This would explain the memorandum, transmitted by the Swiss Minister, as being prompted by von Bern- storff, following a message from the ncellor. CALLS IT A BLUNDER. Refusal to. Admit Overseas Pressmen to Parliament, London, Feb. 20.---The refusal to] admit press correspondents to the Press gallery at the opening of Par- liament, which evoked protests from the London representatives in letters to the Morning Post, is the subject of an edjtorial in the Fost. Under the caption, "Who is to Blame?" the Post, which is essentially a Conserva- tive organ, speaks. of the matter as a serious and quite avoidable blunder, adding that inadvertence canndt be pleaded in the face of the represen- tations made by the Canadian High Commissioner, The Post believes that the slight was deliberate and against the service of the Empire, Mrs. (Rev.) Rattray, Tweed, is re- covering nicely frem her recent op- Re 4 eration at the hospital, Toronto. was locked except the.dining-room. The meat was tainted I never _but tasted the- butter. It was left on the plate. I could eat neither meat nor butter, I do not for one minute think that this kind of grub was served 'to their boarders. If it wae they would not have them long. This was reserved for their country Paps Peps are the new treatment for :oughs, Sols snd If you want us in your hotels, and at your hotel tables treat us with courtesy, give us a-good square meal; - and the majority of us as farmers' wives are both able and willing to pay our way, | --FARMER"S WIFE, NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH, Of William Moss While Extinguish-' > ing Fire in His House. Maberly, Feh, 19.--William Moss, matism and is practically a from the disease. On Friday his house caught fire and Mr. Moss crawled to the roof and was success- ful in extinguishing the flames, He came down safely, but in a short time fire broke out again, and for a second time he had to go up on'the house, but his time he became so chilled he lost the use of his hands and fell to the ground, breaking his collar 'bone and receiving severe in- Juries about the ribs. Dr. Barker, of Sharbot Lake, is in attendance. Mr. Moss is seventy years old. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Matks held an enjoyable "At Home" on Friday even- ing. Rev. Mr. Coles has come to visit his brother at the rectory. Miss Myrtle Kirkham and Lloyd Sergea spent Sunday at Brooke. Mr. an Mrs. Leslie Buchanan leave for their home in" Earltof this week. Dr. Hanna was in the village on Tues- day. ; Arthur Murphy has sold his farm, lot 18 in 1st concession of Sheffield. years. Deceased had been Anvalided a farmer residing about four miles for a I time. from Maberly, had a very narrow Mrs, odfellow, wife oh Robert escape from death on Friday. Mr. Goodfellow, Tyendinaga, Ueparted Moss has been a sufferer from rheu- | this life on Feb. 12th, cripple | ninth year; sister of Sandy had been ailing years. party, the newspaper adds, said: "I regret deeply the phase of the war into which we entered with the declaration of submarine warfare." Brazil Warns Germany. Parig, Feb. 20.--A wireless des- patch received here from Berne, Switzerland, says the Brazilian Min- ister at Berlin, by order of his Gov- ernment, has warned Germany that Brazil will hold her responsible for the fate of three Brazilian vessels ap- proaching the war zone, These vessels left Brazil for En- tente countries since the declaration by Germany of her submarine block- ade, ' At his late home in Hungerford, two miles east of 'Thomasburg, Ed- ward Wilson departed this life on Thursday last at the age n favatided in her sixty- was an only rant, M. P. P., and LC the past two HEAD €8T'D 18732 KINGSTO mands that he be placed in restraint. ! tacks Admiral Von Tirpitz and de-| | operations ! been known BE STANDARD BANK OF CANADA ..est at current rate. the elementary schools have felt the ir share of the effects, in the loss of teachers, the military occupation of over 1,000 schools as hospitals, bar racks, ete, the displacement of 110 - 000 fupils by this. military occupa | tion of schools, the taking in ¢ i 000 refugee Belgian children, and | the substitution of women for men | as teachers. One school has a | man teacher for the first time In | sixty vears Another large hiool { has fifty-seven woman teachers | ( My ------------ i Change in Studies. | Even the courses of study are ma terially changed to a war basis-~ In onelocality there are courses on th western front, the eastern front, the Balkans, the war inthe atr-ant ravot In another locality loans, war taxes and similar su ¢ are discussed. Letters from relatives At the front are regularly read b fore. the classes, as 95 per cent. of th pupils' Dave relations at the front. Much 6f the composition is on war subjects, Geography of the countries at war has been greatly stimulates: also the history of the Ball other countries of which litt At one school the have constructed a sand map 29 by 13 feet of landers, the Dardanelles and the Trentino front in Italy It is at the great universities. how ever, that the greatest change has o« curred, At Oxford, which is : versity grouping of 22 schools, 1 liol has furnished 690 soldier and has had 87 killed; Oriel fugnished 540, Billed 97; Magdalene fy ed 725, killed 106; Trinity furnished 630, killed 86; Christ Chureh. furn ished 1.075 killed 113: St Joh furnished 485, killed 59: Univer 3 Queen' furnished 554, killed 58; furnished 403, killed 42; €« rpus Christi furnished 240; killed 44 Cambridge shows the same large representation at the front, and heavy death lists. Up to the begin ning of this year Cambridge had fur nished 12,158 men at the frond, of . which 1,403 had been killed, 1,945 wounded, 213 missing or prisoners Victoria Crosseses had gone to five Cambridge men and eight Oxford men, while many other crosses, hon- ors and foreign decorations have gone to the men of both institutions As a result of the depletion of the universifies, foreign students are about all that remain. At yy THE = OFFICE - TORONTO } ( Your surplus earnings in our Savings Department earn inter- 236 H, BRANC Ke Man. ON THE ARMY El 1 4 li i atau a dei ai