> | | | 12 PAGES 00 ent 0-0 ~. | | "YEAR 84: } KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, APRIL. 24, 1917. ) LAST EDITION Ni QUENTIN ( IN AL REACHED TO ATTEND THE WAR or en | ens Is EURNING; i ANY'S WANT | Canadians Occupy Ground! BY HAIG'S BRITISH FORCES 2 is ll | oS OMS ALLY a : 3 x Cinidian 1 Headq : And: Captured S8ome More Vill ages--The French Are Hold- , e PE. ae e | April 25. The burs % of X ¥ ing All the Ground They Gained Last Week, : ! . shim : Ba. . ine SESE Ap THASE Pasi ' Henger, Co-Opatng W With External Ene- Despite the Germ an Counter-attacks. ! ud Einaing iu the southern end mics, 10 Bring About Terms. i 5 | [EE IE ---- TY French Hold Ground Guined, Haig gai I mory g nd in sumed British offen e to-day. . $ "We made further progress to the 'aris, A 1.2 ieneral 'N * , : ¥ }$ : d H » appliance he e t of Monchy le Preux and Roeux," tr at the positions they 8 ¢ p 3 2 g : MH) PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL URG- : rested from the enemy in last - : / here he has heen driver ED TO DISPLACE BUREAUCRATS t ; £ t offensive movement, de - 1 prune ambral r we gain ter } rer 1 1 1 { : . 10 A i al lerman counter-attacks ; ya | parties to [If "the German People Know of the al statement ft ; N d nia p of + 0 d pl : \ y ho of th ! e Ger / 3 ' p ' re ) on pant British and French Victories They eighborhood Man assaults designed to shake "| AE Soy ed A tr he Souchez valley t« Will See Hopelessness of Further ) 3 . grip on their lines, . ; es 5% 5 ra : | rough th ning region fur Resistance. 1ptured the h were repulsed A number it the enemy London, April 24 Hunger, want for the purpose of {and discontent within the German Plouich at actions are reported ed Quentin to t 'Oise 2 S : or are it : Q i #RESIULAL WuIsOW WILSON A & BALFOUR where in the valley are ruin end |CTPire are powerfully co-operating 10 the wher th ey are ruin g with cternal foes to bring the auto- and north of Gav was very ) said A A A AAA AA Aa ~ - olation, some of it caused bv our : « 'racy to terms. Demonstrations by enemy constantly repeated 1 , Ins before the taking of 'the ¥imnv | © [the people or by strikers in the City ceessful counter-attacks, « ret the forces reaching our 1e ri but much o t » enemy : Berl Tern | ; nedly and regardless of 10 're patrols imprisoned several his hurrie f X y lef : ad erin, almost unknown in times ier here ! inba I de 5 thers | © Peace, and until within a few davs 2 3 I whos lies % yj Uuite unknown during war, are Positions we. gained vesterday 1astily inte un t he Hurtebise and Craonne 1 malutained Particularly vio glons there were artillery strug NO LONGER POSSESS FORMER bee 4 b ht to view by Ger. | Mistakable evidence of bad condi courier attacks at Vauvrells were g various actibns in which the DESTRUCTIVE EFFECT man Is tions Fhe reports that the first successfully beaten off It made pr - ' The r ? y 'weer ir- fdemonstrations had been brought to « weeoded Near Ith tw rman attack , Many Do Not Explode--Many Inci- ette | : 1 idee is a : IL. not by troops, but by con- | nel house « ot 1 jeessions to the workers, sre not con wluding 26 oMicers : ; Lie J Sampagne -------- dents of Canadian Gallantry in rn ! eing taken to-day o 0 : Nt ing ung ) I Recent Actions Coming to Light. h fi 2 I 4 oe ani Bae 4% oi bre | tradics gC Thi Lotblegh 's spread Fis secwide Bains which te Hep] pats 3 1 ie cnenn | Despatches That Come From Near Ad 0,77 ens in aner. I0 Fierce Gounter-Attacks Which the Freach or 01: valley and added [sands of men pon whom Germany Distant Places. , April 24 PAs 1S again period of Are Inviting. horror | rol . k now depends to supply her great ar _ _ 3 wreck wns Mowed Down. o preparation with u Tens of thousy Nowhere is the utter made jmies in the field thryst against the Cambrai-St Ye Y } | . A to the Whig ------ {ands of me e building roads ane | by the long continued bor rdment Strikes Haig's report curtly April. 24 T s the f HOavy Lufa ao ! ohdon, pI ne auling wnitipns stores to th Ol heavy guns so appare it] iE. G1 in Co en shh A P| TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS »ey, vt" "2 1 a: HITS BACK es E107 Et he horas 3 \ i aol ' 1 var € Po t Mises ¢ | [many German cities nd he s y « al i y ' . all » able to hold out no long fk x int saps Vf unrecogni ng and they in Quentin canal in neighbor 8h y enemy continues to shell a > ihe a ; i ie men working in shops supply " » diary of a Ge an office bish notice hoar lac loud of Vendhuile lers Plouich mu oy of the area occupied by us as ? ' Diaee Cling t army with munitions, even has been so ciggely invested by Bri oo unount ro¢ h troops for four or #AVe davs that The rmans are t 1a fighting captured ) rday in ® , > | Yo Hh & , r 18 d . PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST he can reach, but with a régmarkable WITH FRENZIED DISREGARD OF | Souch » S . great Krupp works. There is ment said "7 he sont terday's prisoners tish plish ac d to-day wa or demonstrations very POSSIBLE FORM. AJack of results. Experts in big-gun HIS LOSSES. | _ _ rouble abuot the scarcity of food in eat numbers of them ammunition say vat his larger shells Leipsic and Hamburg have Ss capture was certain Jeancamp js | IN! > ¥ rats ot otra . : > I A 1 . : vn by B v The Whig"s Daily Condensation 'of have greatly deteriorated of late, and me | GERMAN REICHSTAG {h vd demonstrations. It js impossible i "ldo British artillery adjacent Trescault, Beauc: : SE ow . % te ai 2 2 17 4 J Ll 8 camp fo oihey a ince towards the British the News of the World From Tele. that his ho ibs and gre nades, while| In a Yan Dffor to jt all ( Is REASSEMEBLING ' st the conclusion that condi ilhiers Plouich lie about a mite nes i less counter-attacks graph Service and Newspaper Ex- still capable of making much noise French Threat Along the Whole | tions in Berlin are now much worse a straight line seven and a the destructive ef Line'-- The Allied Strategy | 1 ey have ever been be chan 5 ' Ar h cl . an tt a ever been before half miles southwest of Cambrai How Berd n Describes Defeat. BRE na 24 an earlier period in Paris, April 24 Repeated Jes. | The Chancelior Is Expected to! I ¢ from all the battle ~ y he Whig) Bread is up to 10 cents for the 24- This d he lue of | i hid waite | | i i i & \ : Trescault was occupied by the Brit in, via 4.ondon, April 24 ounce 1 af ho Sault Ste ° Mari : ped In the value of {orate and vain counter-Attacks by | Outline Some Constitutional if the German people are al- in, o 4 2 nee I : » Marie , 1! \ : 7 ' oe " * > : high explosives of the enemy 1 "roy pri ar i o « lowed < i TR ish yesterday gland's might has suffered a The new Russian Minister of Jus: to th confidence of aur infantry. | '¢ Cown FPrince 'are yielding to Reforms. ow io Be ar any news from the While Haig was achieving his vic 10 sanguinary defeat through the tice stated that the nation was united | S5..0° © 1 « . 1 b ) : 3 3 d en. Nivelle a second crop of valu ---- front, is not of a nature to put heart torious thrust at the Cambraizif.. foresight of German headquarters | eon victory When they see the many unexp Or jable results, of equal importance to SEART tr tre Wika 1 courage into a suffering and Quentin line, there was no dimuni- and the tenacious desire of our brave AH the 'Ministers of Premier Fos- | t0e¢my st lls and scarcely .one Bri | the first fruits of his advance, which | y , To-day arving populace If the Germans tion in the power of the smashing troops for victory," declare t0- | ter's Cabinet in New Brunswick were tiSh on the ground --whereon our | consisted in the storming of the| the set fi i@ reassembling of [know half the truth about the ad- away at the Germans to the east of day's official statement. "The army returned unopposed shells, Ly the wndred thousand , German strotv olds afong the Soi A +e ag after its ad- {vance of the British and the French Monchy le Preux Roeux, capfured | will face new battles with complete TheTerauchi Ministry has heen re. | Were recently poured,, the soldiers | co :-Champagne fron | rn: f aster ess, and |in * west, of the recapture of much i } i " ' or : oo ray hei v ! . d hes from Ber dicate he | to-day, is on a line with Gavrelle, | confience turned to power as the result of the [4T€ GUick to draw their own con-; ginee it is an axiom that the Al-|desp tigi lenin indi ated the territory, of a large number of towns, nterest in the forthe jof hundreds ,of guns and of thous- general elections held throughout | Clusions. . ie ' task is not to drive back the 7 mmit ¢ * Many dtories of gallantly in the) Garmans but to de stroy the enemy € committee of twenty- lands of prisoners, they cannot fail to 1 session [reee---- RATTLE IN THE CARSO last week ; nt, . ; i . RE eight, appoinie yzes ne | Is eS VIOLENT Reuter is informed that the Im-| recent actions are being still told. 4rnies. the importance of Hinden- a ot 3 Dp i! fied ro, Suge st 2 'C- | see that all the official prating about Th M . ar + nog )f it nal fo 1 » 2. rOtr BRITISH OCCUPY perial War Conference is expected tof The latest congerns two Ontario ar-{phurs's maddened efforts to to retake franchise : a" gna B fa 1 JO la victorious retreat was an attempt uch Was expected 10 |g disguise serious disaste rs. SAMARRA STATION; . conclude its labors during the cur-| tillery officers and two corposals. | lost positions can be gauged AR + preliminary report ven BIG CAPTURES | The Fire by the italian Artil=| rent week. ) | who, while laytag-out wire for-an ob- By swiftly hurling forward waves 4 By Imperial Chap nl on The Austrian dominions, too, are | lery Is Reported As LA new fice bridge has formed at [servaticn post in a tunnel which the of troops and imbedding them, under| gethmann Hollweg may also outline 1" 3 state of serious unrest, am- (Special to the Whig.) i Terrific. Niagara Falls, owing to the great Germans were believed to have evac-| cover of the throats of an enormous itutional reforms. There was a {ounting almost to revolution } Buda- iy Gl oot . a-- quantities of ice coming down from yated. came upon a considerable 'nes of artillery, in the key posi- perceptible tighten'ng -of the Ger-| Pest and twenty-five other cities in London, April 24. Ue i (Special +) the Whig) the lakes. {company of the enemy, who -had|tjohs along the Germans' front. Gen. | man censorship to-day on news | Hungary are in a state of siege, and cupation of Samarra Sta- Rome, April 24.-- The battle in the J. Hamilton Burgar, twenty-three | with them a machine gun. In the Nivelle has compelled the German |the strike or Socialist activities the Reichsrath has beer summoned pect session to consider im- tion and a vasi haul of || Carso is becoming increasingly vio-|vears town treasurer of Welland and narrow confines of the dimly lighted] high 'command to attempt desperate supplies from the defeal- lent. Despatches from the front to-| fourteen years a magistrate, died of | funni] the wire layers, armed only| méasures to regain their former van ARGENTINA TO SEND mediate peace. Starvation condi- { [tions are said to prevail in many mn [day indicated a terrific fire from the | pneumonia. with revolvers, tackled the enemy,| tnee rs. is therwise the French e urks was announced + ) hen . l ¥.| tage points, as otherwise | b dl > : [talian artillery and enlarged on the The Germans on the northern part and after disposing of a number, possession of them means a c8nstant WHEAT TO BRITAIN, ,.: 5 of the dual monarchy | On the heels of all this news there | { An Agreement Has Just Been | comes from authoritative sources the { cn ateme to- : . ST ' ve or ein : ! ¢ in an oflicial statement sple ii morale of the Italian troops. !of front have been fir- |) nv hack with them twelve pris: | menace to their whole fortified line a Gan i0agnsaa was ioied 3s express Ba Irom thelr TH toners {and it is in the counter-attacks that We occupied Samarra | ing the imost onfitene There the ns wal Yas offered tol Late on Friday last fires were ob-|the full and romplete bloody toll is Made Between the Two "account of demands by the. leaders » heen seversg 8 Ss rece } i ) Se } a rec . 1 at ; nds Station early yesterday. Hay Ww bout to start ¢ great,the United States G svernment the | Served within the enemy lines. Theltaken of the enemy formations uUntiios i the Berlin strike, demands of . ¢ 3 é aly as ¥ start.a great, in ~tates G Pp 2 e | ite: ig ry - Sl VO for 2 YP . . the statement said. Our HN omgensive in the Carso services of the Bethlehem plant in |¢OTPs or artillery continues its work The losses sustained in counter Co . \ : voluti nary character that re ; -- ing | of king the villages ter ? 8 cking are far g: er 3 SM wit hthem w 108 capliités include 16 loco any way during the war of making the villages un aable and atta king are far greater than tho © «Speci the Whig) of the militar oa Meal motives, 224 railway wag- Have Reached the United States. May 15th has been set as the date [rendering the task of the infantry suffered in ordinary attack, or under Buenos A April 24 An anh- . E a regime in dh | . a pecial to the Whig) of the conference of Socialists from | €asy. { the bombardment preliminary to an cable adjustment of the diplomatic rman mpi » RUILS SN Tv Dpges con { Washington, April i. he [ail belligerent countries on peace, to | | enemy. as for the counter-thrusts| quarrel between Argentine and Bri TT bana ME) MORANDUM taining munitions: he French commission, coming here for | take place at Stockholm | a % | the troops must be formed from afn- | tain over Argent ne"s wheat -1 f . enemy casualties were conference with the .American and More than a hundred Swedish | Plow 3,000,000 ong men already nerve-shattered by [bargo was announced to-day The Se . oll a 3, right hana corner, vi : English Government cfficials, has {citizens called on American M nister london, pril 24 The Board of| the tremendous artille heavy | ry pounding. | two nations ive reached : 7 arrived safely. The place of arrival , Morris at Stockholm offering to rriculture a s decided that 3,000 us reoTE: ~d an Samarra station is sixty Arrived sae place « Ho al Gan nie | Agricult ' ' [ who must be reorganized and ' | is withheld serve. against Germany. in the Am- {00 acres of pasture land in Englandf{ed under a pitiless enemy gunfire Acres, ! group- | ment where Argentine agrees | Fn send to Britain and the Allies 1 DIED miles noi thwext of Bug- -- erfean Army Rd . [and Wales must be plowed for wheat ang then driven forward in attempts | 9nce 180,000 tous of wheat and i dad, and is an important Toronto Bread Nine Cents. Sir Thomas White stated in the | ;rowin in the coming autumn. The to debouch under a criss-cross ma-| "09 tons of flour. In (Special i the Wile Y 1 House that he had offered to assist order embraces land in the pasture| hinegun fire and the harrying of | 148 contracted to forwa Toronto, April 2 The Canada Sri York 9 aces I ine-g and « « 1 the Imperial Government to the ex land already plowed {the machine guns of the low flying 3 Tigris r . tine at a later date 200,000 tc fgris river. - Bread Company, the biggest bread{ tent of ten million dollars in financ-| plan wheat from Canada, Australia al lanes Is . eisewiiere \% ------ J makers here, have announced a raise|in. (he construction of wooden ves- ! : Plain twenty=four : --_-- _ in the prices sels "anads sels in Canada. P SH0.000 Acfes Added. War Tiding< » loaves, which were eight cents, 2 : ' Noreogiis Steamers Sunk. ounce . Service notes and marching orders . ; bt ¢v be y s strai : . yndor 2 The Times says Monday night reports indicate __(Soecial to the Whig.) . will now be nine cents straight. and other papers found on prisoners London, April 21.--The Times u Mas Brit "i and --_ h continge Christiania, April 24 The Nor- { ] +o | Place beyond doubt the fact thatthe! that as a result of the Govern t An re Briti 8 ' Fren ing an steamers Peive and Skjold In the past twelve months 1,852 German high -command selected for! appea! to farmers to plow grass la fresh advances, retaking much lard ave been torpedoed and sunk, ac- | miles of new railway lines were attack the very front on which the )0,000 acres have been added to the]and prisoners. The British attacked I g ¢ received here 3 h 1 ar a r \ il 3 ' Vout cord ng to word received here to- | hrought into operation, making the French took tie offensive on Monday, | Erain-gre ving centre, located on the area in 1 nd| the famous Wetan line ' IN CONNECTION WITH THE FREE | day. Their crews were saved ¢ {total in Canada 37,434 April, 16th Wales I acreage 'in 1 i J Sweden is badly in need of food WHEAT ORDER. a OLE 'hE hae aced by the! been increased by 50,000 and in | and there are ominous signs of re An order had bee placed by the! volt against royalty For Four Days Government Forgot | land hy 500,000 : Ninian . one puousand United States mer-| py Notify the U. 8. Authorities--| { | | | | oy T Imperial Government through the [mperial Mun tion Board for steel | ships to be constructed in Canada, | chant ships are be armed at once. | . jand a further order for eight more IN BRITISH WAR MISSION Captain rior Kahn "well known | Grain Men Angry. is under consideration | citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa. was ar-| Ottawa April 24 Four days af e8sn | A feeling of "pessimism is general rested as a result of recent explos. | tof "publishing the 'announ ement that * at" \ throughout Germany and reports of ions in munition plants | free wheat" had been {100 30varses Bre Sprepding in ae of ; Rioting among foreign miners had | €d. the Canadian Government T f 8 to preve ologne pro- ) Ale . R or neglected t r the Russian. | posts he had occupied, and re-estab- | mises of peace within a few months lo be quelled iy 1rcops'at Richwiond | States" al to Botity the United | 1 ishe i have »n made reve listurb- RF i i ro fh : Xo . Wish Pe ond Feria do. have been made to prevent disturb ; ? Les Darcy, famous Australian jon Monday afternoon, April 16th. On| n Versia, l'ersid | : 3 fighter, condemned as a slacker, has | Tuésday morning Canadian Austom | > 1 -------------- molished telégraphs and telephones { ; joined the United States flying corps | POTts were thrown open to United] ! 3 | Ww Petrograd, Apri 23 The War Office reports--- 'Western front There have been rifle firing and re : - 3 stile a 8 KM: iTS. 3 3 3 . aterd the rear of our troops. Hostile LIVE STOCK MARKET ™ . at Memphis, Tenn. oe States wheat, but until Friday., April ease connoitering operat.ons. In the re- | in 3 , } « co gion of the River Aa the Germans i activity towards our military on the Stam---- ; bod } ---- | 20th, when telegraphic protests be eg RG lass bullets. In the Carpath- | Part of the Kurds has increased ih [The Prices Paid at the Various Ex- 5 5 a " . Co re on are blizzards i Persia. On April 15th, at Cheraban, changes. y : | 2,000 MORE GERMANS Ean 10 ron h Orava Jom He yu ' IN ME FMORIAM "Rumanian frcnt: Rifle firing | 25 versts south-west of Kizilrabat, tui a TAKEN BY BRITISH ee 36 Jian aud awe hi i Wad seouling opefutions are reported {Awa tell hen mili ge Toronto Sparks, 1.30 p.m 3 sight, Canadian wheat eo So raring the las Ww 'S izz ing an English military agent. he J <i JH, 3 ane be WL wp Tages . ; pu oe evalled : - _-- an | squadron forced a passage to Baku-| Mackay .. ... . 84% 34% i Who Advance Toward Douai-- |; the United States was held up at while heavy rains are falling in the | ba. On_the remainder of the front |Smelters .. ... 28% 285% 4 Canadians Had Stirring "fj the bawder, and shippers and grain n dated fu fr fied vio sleep? valleys . The rivers have risen con- | there have been rifle firing and Maple Leal xe va 109 a Vn 3 | Fight in 4 in Avion. growers were fori ed to pay demur- | Ee hnow Et through summers siderably and overflowed their banks | scouting with aerial activity, Dray an tiny Bd 3 ; | rage. The statement made by thej A dir vigid hasds Ths By successful counter-attacks we |- "In the region of Lake Miadzol Bea RR London! Aen" '1 ; i Buited Ras Lumum efjcgle. was drove the enemy out of the advanced | Our artilery brought down a Gututan War Loan. 1935.. 97 took hae td reone. =" that no notification of the acceptance -------------------------------- | aeroplane. Enemy aeroplanes t > ey Yaad aid ousand prisoners as well {of the reciprocal proposal had yet | bombs on the hamlet of Turetz." War Loan, 1931.. | 8 as a battery of machine guns yester- been received at Washington. from - -~ - . Gen. Blec. .. .... day, and are still advancing towards the Canadian government - WHIG CONTRNTS, | italian. Can. Loco, bid ... Dogal. Canadiais. had. =. stifling Finally. when protests started to Sue Od Firm of U Rome, April 23.--"Lively artillery New York Stocks : er ---------- fight with the Germans in 'Aviona, | POW In azain, the Western news-i pn 34 FRING STREET 7 . 4 papers queried their Ottawa of the Phone 147 for Ambulance. 1-3 Reaches St. Quenttn |. ions occtirred on the Trentino - CAPTAIN SPENDENR suburb of Lens. The Cermans leave STN ning an € arias s : 0 i Ton Derma Bead, ive | tront yesterday," says today's official | A1ChioR .- .. tk e Cy ruin in their retreat. pondents, for Dvisnations of the ROBERT J anys Wen ' statement. B&O, ....... 160% Captain H. H. Spender Clay Is So the Prussians wouldn't know |Stoppage of shipments of Canadian REID fers. Me Recetvng: an MH Our batteries set fire to enemy !C.P.R. .. ... . . 160% one, of the members of the British | what was happening yesterday, the | wheat at the border; the Government The Leading Undertaker. Back Rl he Voraana: | stores at Torbolé, in the Sarca valley {N. Y. C. .. . .. . 93% party ou its way to, America to dis- | British artillery and machine gun | was aroused to its oversight, and | Phone 577, 230 Princess Street ~Bditorial; Random Reejs: and damaged the railway station at Bie... ...-.. 31% cuss the conduct of the war. He is | fire was loosed along practically the | with haste the official communication ti a SAAN AA entire fifty miles ot front for a brief | was dispatched to Washington. ling Rhymes X | Marter, in the Sugana valley. At the I Die RUT or Saris. Erie, pid. .. ... . 0% oat MEtILEE. of TIME, | poried. Not knowing Where 1he to; INIanwen ae Gere Mington. | Familiar Quotations ¢-ao ow RRR R a LR > can Alive. {head of the Reinza an enemy de- Rar News. [tachment after violent artillery Ne SEA lak a h wealthy his Sy, Hight, fantry was to strike, the Germans |prevent, if possible, news of the inex. 3 'Anrusementa;Announcements: fighting on Saturday night succeedad Reading .. .. >. "941g ving hep 8 large fortune |rrantically signalled all along the plicable oversight being made public. Livast , Cavell, MH in entering an advanced position [gt Pau] from his father, J. Spender Clay, | line. These, however, were unsuccessful, Life is a leaf of hi one of the principal stockholders of NY 'and all Ottawa, as well as many parts Wher pad re - -- write the Bass Brewing Company. 'He is Airship-Battle in North Sea. of the West, is having a laugh at] pgs word or two, and ay rie . - News. north of the Cime. We counter-|y p {Special 3 Whig.) 3--diads y's Leiter] Darlingside attacked at dawn and drove out the! Marine - ' 19--Roxane's Confes=fon; Menus: enemy, inflicting severe losses and | Marine, prd. . . a son-in-law of William Waldorf. | "London, Aprit 24.--A larze Bri. | the expense of a lackadiaseal Admin. night; { Qardentng ose jtaking 30 prisoners, including an Rey, Steel... . Astor, created the first Baron Astor | tish a'rship was suk by German | istration. ? Though thou have time News from the Countryside. officer. S. Sel by King George of Bugiang in 1916. | aeroplanes in the North Sea and all \ pe -- But for a line, be that sublime Soy-Nwp + phands were lost. Several German Prince Eitel Frederick, son of the Not Tallure, but low 'aim, is pi Sy alr machines were sunk. { Kaiser, is reported dead of typhus. J --LOW 7 - 3 al ad wd 10 WD hem w RE EE EEF ~The Wana of Sport, "'On the remainder of the /front Fh . J there was normal artillery fighting." Inter. Nickel «3 '