The Daily British Whig SHIPS LOCKED IN SEA" FIGHT in English Clare Two British Defeat Six German Destroyers. A HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE WAS FOUGHT ON THE ONE VESSEL. DECKS OF ~ The Rritish Broke and Graphic Swift and Return to Port--An Excit- Tale Told. 2 British in the Destroyers ing Is 1 Londor Two April wers on patrol duty Eng I off Dov came Channe er on the night I April 20th upon a flotilla of German destroy®f and then en I an encounter which will live long in the history of naval engage ment German destroyers were tor and the he pedoed rammed; aboard rombatant #weeping the decks and tearing gaps in of the opposing craft was the locking together of a ind German destroyer, and fhe 1 fought furiously in a hand to-hand battle rman every wa gun working the sides There British rammed de aboard of the and a midshipman with an automatic e killed or driven British jackies tdshipman's aid lestroyers were the Broke, and, although ceived many wounds they of the the ac camen of a r climbed one boats, them back | n the to port The complied from of officers and men, has been public in the form of an official It is an exciting and graphic | of a hoarding encounter with and bavonets, refalling the | wooden warships came to- the men fought on the | story ement tory cutlasses when and day gether decks Capt. Evan ommander Broke, is a explorer, and was en South iver AE tie ee Softw they parted Pole LATEST "CHEER UP STORY" Based German Professor's Cal- culations, Hague, April 26 Vossiche Yeitung's latest "cheer up story," is based on statements by Professor | Wygedzinski, of Bonn #piversity, who points .out that Amerioa's har- | vest will be the ®orkxt in three years, and when the English papers declare that the prospects for the rye harvest | are good, this little comfort to Americs America, gqnlike Ger many, « pe nds on wheat bread. That Argentine's bad harvest has ot bliged | her to forbid the export of wheat, and that America's bad harvest will diminish her military works for the Allies rr The Vossische quotes a letter from a woman in New York, who says she is unable to buy meat on an income of six thousand dollars, and that' evervtiing except street cars is fifty | per cent dearer ° The AS WILL NOT PROCEED With Trial of Roblin and Ex-Mani-| toba Mihisters, (Special to thé Whig) Winnipeg, April 26. -- Owing to the heavy expense of a trial and the im probability of conviction, tye Mani- toba Government has decided not to proceed with the trial of Sir Rod- mond Roblin and his ex-ministers The province will receive back about three-quarters of a million, over pay ments ond Government buildings, from the firm of Thomas Kelly, now ving a term in the penitentiary \ Paris court-martial has con- dened to death as a spy Emilienne Ducimitiére, a nineteen-vear- x She was convicted of gath- = military information at Geneva, Lyons and Paris on bebalf of a Ge: man, by whom she had been employ od as a servant. W. I. Clarke, fifty years of age, car er, formerly a prominen 'etrolean, was killed in the C.P.k yards at Windsor by being jolted of a car i AA AA AAA A AA A \ cheek 1,300 CAPTURED | one { fallen | escaped |German regiment to take the place of A Propaganda 'Started by Com- | Berlin Morgan Post, Si a2 KINGSTON, ( WHERE NEW DRI INT ARIO, THURSD AY, VE MAY BE MADE. T.QuEl IN ONE SWOOP Great Feat Pefoned B By the French At Ville Aux Bois. WHOLE BAVARIAN REGIMENT EXCEPT ITS COLONEL WAS TAK- EN PRISONER. The Entire Captures in the Fighting Around Ville aux Bois Were Elev- en Cannons and 3,200 ifuns, (Special to the Whig.) April 26 Thirteen hun- dred German prisoners and 180 ma- guns swoop of French forces around Ville lin gests where and indicates a region where t known tg be very violent. prisoners, coo ENEMY VAINLY TE MAKES ATTACKS This. envelopment occurred April 17ta, but until the censor withheld details 4 The "Frénch swept suddenly round the' Ville aux Bois positions that the Germans imprisoned within were taken entirely unawares. Just solitary German evaded capture, ind he bravely stuck behind until he could drag away his machine gun If it had not been for the fact that the colonel of the Bavarian régiment, rnclosed by the Frenca, wag back to the rear of the German lines in his headquarters he, too, would have prisoner Not another officer Paris, hine. were captured in one aux Bois all Ville the was in aux Bois 3,200 'he total of captures fighting around eleven cannon and to-day sO InAn Effort to Loosen French Crip on New | Pusitions. GERMANS SUFFER HEAVILY WHEN FOU R TREMENDOUS AT- TACKS WERE REPULSED. Two Attcks Made West of Cerny-- Bitter Fighting Is Reported From Half a Dozen Different Points, ) (Special to the Whig) Paris, April 26.--Two tremendous German attacks, made on a front of more than a mile and a half west of Cerny, unavailingly against the French lines and repulsed amid heavy losses to the enemy, day's official statement declared. Powerful German at two other places on the French front were likewise repelled. The War Office statement indicated that all along tire French front the Germans were making violent at- tempts to loose the grip of French troops on their new positions. Some bitter fighting was reported from half a dozen different points. The Germans hurriedly rushed a and they did wood, but the captured Bavarians, their best to retake the without success. ATTEMPT TO MAKE GERMANY A REPUBLIC were smashed mittee of Germans in to Switzerland. (Special to the whe.) Washington, April 26 What may prove to be a formidable attempt to sweep aside Hohenzollernism and re- place it with a German republic was reported officially to the State De- partment to-day from several sources An open movement is being start- ed. in Switzerland by a committee ot counter-attacks The Berlin Statement. Despatehes state that the . weakest is between Graonne and Rheims. a new drive against part of the German The big arrow sug- Hindenburg may be made, French bombar#ment is he AGREEMENT REACHED Sir Wilfrid Questions Government About Newsprint Paper Ottawa, April 26.--Sir Wilfrid Laurier asked yesterday afternoon for the order-in-council and docu- ments connected with the fixing of prices on newsprint paper. He de- clared that as it affected the tariff it was important that Parliament shrould be conversant with all the correspondence. Sir Thomas White explained that an order-in-Council had been) passed empowering 'the Minister of (Qustoms to fix the price of mewsprint. This order, however, had never been ga- zetted because an agreement had been reached with the paper men for a mill price to Canada's newspapers f $2.50 per hundred pounds. Subset quently another order than been passed empowering the Minister. of Customs to prohibit export of news- print excepting under license. This was done to meet the situation which had developed. Sir Thomas said that there was no correspondence on the matter. ! The special committee of the House appointed at the request of Fred. Pardee, to consider the matter of the treatment of returned soldiers, will make its recommendations to Parliament in a fortnight, There are eleven Vacancies in the Upper House. Probably they will filled immediately after the Premier returns. VERY ANGRY AT KAISER Dying Denunciation by His Nephew, Frederick Charles. Paris, April 26.--The Excelsior publishes an account of the last mo- Germans to spread the propaganda of republicanism and democracy. Dr. Meyer, former editor of the leads the Swit- zerland propagandists ,who already have established a paper, the Frie Zeitung,-to further their attempts. Fiom other sources the Govern (Special to the Whig) ' Berlin, April 26--Terrific fighting, in which British attacks were re- pulsed and by which German trqops | won their way to the eastern Boun-| dary of Gavrelle, was detailed in to- day's official report. At Gavrelle British troops are now ment learns that the German people are increasingly anxious for peace. : Situated on the eastern boundary, id Berlin. Such a message was taken by a traveller arriving in a neutral coun- On the French front, min des Dames ridge, try from Germany to a State Depart- : ment official in the unnamed neutra) | 52id the German position was im- nation. This Government's officials | Proved and 163 prisoners were taken, there telegraphs the State De-|and an enemy attack along a front of partment to-day two miles was sanguinarily repulsed. It was stated that "the strike of | 50,000 laborers in Berlin shows the rowth of the desire for peace." Ger- many has again materially reduced ts bread rations. around Che- the statement | | | 80 No Signs of Abating. London, April 26.--The fierce struggle on the Arras front, with the terrible toll of lives on both cording to the reports from British correspondents at the front, de- spatched on Wednesday night. The Germans evidently have not abandoned hope of retaking the lost ground, and, to that end, are bring- ing up fresh battalions to throw into the battle. Some of the best troops | from other parts of the Garman lines in the west are being"unloaded from crowded troop trains in the area be- hind Doual and Cambrai. - Among these are the Wuerttemburgers and the' fourth division of the Prussian Guards. The enemy, say the correspondents, show a determination to keep the British back from a nearer approach to the Hindenburg line, whatever the cost, and the accumulation of. new troops indicates the growth of the battle to even greater dimensions. GERMANY NOT LIKELY To Attempt Offensives on Russian or Italian Fronts. (Special to the Whig) London, April 26. Germany is not likely to attempt any big offen- sive on the Russian or Italian fronts as long as she is_kept busy on the western front, is the epinion of Gene- ral F. R. Maurice, director of opera- tions. The present Allied attacks, he said, differ from the battling on the Som me by reason of the continuous flow of guns and ammunition in the pre- sent case, and the restoration of the Allied air supremacy. A civil court case will probably re. sult from an attack on an officer by one of the prisoners at Fort Henry. Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, ineteenth Earl of Suffolk and Berk- hire, has been k lled in action |POSTPONES STATEMENT | ON IRISH HOME RULE, |. OFFAL Wh Hopes Aroused of a Complete, Settlement of the Ques- | tion. (Special to the Whig ! London, April 26. --Ahnounce- | STATEMENTS... Russian. Petrograd, April = 25.--To- day's War Office statement is as follows: "Western and Ruinanian fronts-- De rc AN, Ea <8 WHIG CONTENTS, Vainly Attacks; Ships Liockesl in Sea Fight. 100 Teapped, "Wiped Out; The Word's Thdi Queen's Ti ees AMeel: Boy Burglars Caught, In the Reels; bdFpemy 2 On Everyone's Garden; Trenches Editorial: Random Rippling Rhymes Queen's (Convocation; ening Task "Eastern Ontario News TAnrusements Announcements; SHospitRl to Open Soon; Mili tty News: Theatrical $A Strange Tale: Huld Rypsi- tions Ta Death 10---dRoxaiie's Confessto Menus, tryside ; Bring Gard- 11 News from the 12-1In the World of Sjw ing Up Father. eee! ment to-day that Premier Lloyd, George had postponed for a few days| his statement on Irish Home Rule, | promised this week, aroused hopes of a complete settlement of the! question. The London public was much impressed to-day by a great; display in the Northcliffe newspapers h resentin WV remainder of the front there have ey resent] . Tis Amara reno] been rifle firing and scouting. '| dent, and including quotations from "Black Sea--One of our cruisers Roosevelt, Taft and pr: ominent Am- bas destroyed the harbor works at ericans, favoring Home Rule. i Kerasum (75 miles west of Tre- : There have been scouting 'Caucasus front Northwest of Kasr-I-Shirin (110 miles northeast of Bagdad on the Persian frontier) near Seiger, during Saturday night, Kurds attacked a squadron of Cos- sacks. They were repelled. On the rifle firing and | bizond an)d st the same time one i of our torpedo boats destroyed three In the Commons on Wednesday night R. B. Bennett; charged that Hon. George P. Grahdm in 1911 haa agreed to hand over the Intercolonia; to the CN.R.. Mr. Graham was out of the House when the charge was made. A Turkish schooners. In the region of the Bosphorus one of our sub- marines sank two schooners." Soldier Left Confession. Halifax, April 26.--Sergt. Leitch, R.C.R., killed his wife by a blow on the head, and afterwards cut his throat yesterday at Pavilion Bar- racks. Leitch left a confession stat- ing "he proposed to kill his wife and commit suicide, young man named Woodeoek, accident. He was riding on a bicycle when he was struck by a wagon, one of the wheels passing over his right shoulder, fracturing it, | once recognized, his sides, shows no signs of abating, ac- - Belleville, was the victim of a serious birth, ments of Prince Frederick Charles, the Kaiser's nephew, obtained from an officer now in Paris, who. saw {the Prince shortly before he died. The nurse who attended the royal patient told the officer the prince, knowing he was unlikely to survive, requested his wife to be allowed to visit him. The French and British auth@rities at once acquiesced and a request was forwarded to Germany by way of Spain. A few days later a letter came back with the words. '""Abgelehnt (refused. Wilhelm IR," scrawled across it. The prince at royal uncle's handwriting, flew into a passion, and exclaimed: "I know why Wilhelm won't allbw my wife to visit me. He knows her and knows- she would speak out the truth about the famine threatening at home, even in the highest circles, and that discontent among the people is growing every day. She also would have told of the dismay spreading in the imperial court which feels the colossus Ger- mania is beginning to totter." REQUISITIONING SOCKS War Office to Take All Suitable For Army. Washington, April 26.--A gram from Consul-General Skinner at London to Secretary Lansing states that the British War Office has given notice of the intention to take vossession by the end of April of all stocks of socks suitable for military requirements. No person is permitted.to sell, remove, secrete or deal with such stocks hereafter, except under license from the direc- tor of army contracts. cable- ENLISTED AND HARP Prof. F. V. Riethdorf, German allege = Wood- has enlisted as a priv. * Cumege "toc CAME, ate break advocate APRIL ce the ont. 1917. TRAPPED AND WIPED OUT Gorman Force Canght Between Two Lines ~ of British GENERAL MELEE FOLLOWED GROUND_ IS COVERED WITH DEAD. 26, AND THE The Fighting Was Too Furious for Surrenders--A Hurricane of Fire Met German Counter-attacks at Gavrelle. British Front in France, April 26. (From a staff correspondent of the Associated Press.)--The town of Monchy-le-Preux, which about five miles east of Arras, will stand out in history as one of the bloodiest spots of the world 'war. The fighting northeast and south of this little Ar- tois village, perched upon a high knoll, has exceeded in intensity any of the individual struggles of the Somme. Efforts of the Germans to retake the village apparently have subsided on account of the sheer ex- haustion of their. available forces, and the British advance eastward of Monchy continues slowly but surely. The ground around Monchy, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with dead, the Germans at times .having employed their old tactics of attack- ing in mass formation. Letters taken in the last two days from German prisoners, written in front of Monchy, say they regard the situation as worse than it was on the Somme, while the casualties are mounting up as at Verdun. In one of the letters the opinion is expressed that what has made the fighting difficult has been the fact that the opposing forces have not occupied fixed lines, but are seattered in half-built trenches on this part of the front. lies 700 Germans Wiped Out. During one yerman' counter-at- tack on Monday a force of 700 Ger- mans took ont bit of trench from a British outpost. The Germans con- tinued to press forward, not noticing that they were passing an isolated trenci: section on their right. When they were well beyond it several hundred British soldiers poured out of this trench section, and the Ger- mans, trapped between two khaki lines, were absolutely wiped out in the fighting which followed. It was a 'general melee, in which "the cries of the men engaged had to hand could be heard plainly. The number of prisoners taken during the various operations this week amounts tp more than 3,000, There is absolutely no index of the casualties inflicted on the enemy. The fighting is teo thick for the most part to permit of individual sur- Tenders. Finding Monchy too difficult, the Germans 'late Tuesday directed a counter-attack on Gavrelle, where the last defensive line before tlie Drocourt switch position, had been pierced. Four thousand men were seen forming for attack at a distance of 4,000 yards. British field guns, massed in great numbers, were trained on the Germans, but their fire was held untit the advancing enemy was about 2,000 yards away. Then a perfect hurricane of fire was opened and shrapnel shells play- ed about the advancing column like fireflies in a summer thicket. The oncoming waves trembled for a time and then broke, completely routed. Their path was strewn with the dead and wounded. War ' Tidings. Lord Devonport, British food con troller, intimates. there may be Bri- tish compulsory food rationing. The captain of the American steamship 'Mongolio reports being at- tacked by a submarine and says the submarine was sunk by the Mongo- lio's gun fire. . Austrians in a heavy attack Tues- day night recaptured a position fak- en by the Italians the previous day on the Carso. The British continue victorious in Flanders, Asja Minor and the Bal- kans. The deadly combat is still*on for the German "Wotan" line. The loss of life is very heavy on boti) sides. of Sweden. The Reichstag adjourned in dis- order after Socialist speeches on Wednesday. Dunkirk was bombarded by Ger- man destroyers and one rFench de- stroyer sunk. COMPLETELY REPULSED. The Germans Could Not Reach New British Positions. "(Special to thd Whig.) Landes! April 26. ~ The complete repulse of a viplent massed counter- attack by German forces against the new British #positions around Gav- relle was announced in Field Marshal Haig's official statement to-day. "Early at night the enemy again en- deavored to attack our aew positions at Gavrelle," he said. "His troops were caught in our artillery barrage and completely repulsed." - Cities in War Zone, Paris, April 26.--Lille is the lar- gest city in France lying in the path of ithe British advance. Before the war its population was 217,000. St. Quentin had' a popualtion of 55,571; Cambrai, 27,832: Douai, 36,314; Valenciennes, 34,766: Lens, 31,812; and Roubaix, 122,723. Food riots are serious in all parts GERMANY'S FAILURE TO ANNOUNCE AIMS | Is a Source of Dissatisfaction | in the Newspapers at Present. (Special to the Whig.) The Hague, April 26 Dissatisfap tion over Germany's failure frankly to'announce her war aims .s openly éxpressed in German ne wspaper edi torials reaching "here to-day deplorable," the Tageblatt decla 'that all the declarations of the ( man Government regarding war a are unintelligible, artificial, indis- tinct and of many meanings, We hdve remarked" th s nearly every time the chancellor has spoken on this subject. In all these cases we have protested that such language was more harmful than beneficial to the cause of the German people." U. 8S. SHIP SINKS A GERMAN SUBMARINE >> - Its Gunners Hit the U-Boat at Distance of 1,000 ~__ Yards. or April 26.--Captain Rice, of the American steamship Mongolia, which has arrived at a British port, tald the Associated Press. yesterday that the 'Mongolia had fired the first gun of the war for the United States and sunk a German submarine. The submarine, Captain Rice said, was about to attack the liner, in Bri- tish waters on April 49th. He de clared there. was absolutely no doubt that the U-boat was hit, and that there was every reason to believe it was destroyed. The naval gunners.on board made a clean hit at 1,000 yards. The peri- scope was seen (0 appear battered. MANUFACTURERS SCORED For Npt Going After Canadian Trade : More Energetically. London, April 26 --Addressing the Aldwych Club, chiefly representing advertising inter s, Bruce Walker, Canadian commi ner for immigra- tion, scored British manufacturers for allowing Americans tq get the Canadian trade. If Canada had done business with Britain, it was not for lack of appreciation of the ""Home- land," he said, but because-the latter had been too busy or negligent to seek the business, He especially rat- ed England for allowing American magazines and journals to get into the exclusion of English periodicals, asserting that Canadians are com- pelled tg read the former because the | latter are not pushed sufficiently He further emphasized the neces- sity for British manufacturers .ad- vertising in Canadian Newspapers which he found being done but very little, is GREECE TO COME IN? | Paper Says Nation About | to Join Allies. New York, April 26 A gram crediting an Athens newspa- per with the statement that Greec> is on the point of entering the war as an ally of the Entente Powers received today by the Atlantic, Greek daily newspaper here. "The Greek daily newspaper Em- bros, Athens, in an inspired leading article, states that Greece is about to] enter the war on the side of the Al lies," the cablegram reads "The, new Prime Minister will be Alexan der Zimie, who has made proposals to the Entente Powers, which have been accepted." The Embros is said to be one of the leading newspapers in Gyeece and to have preserved a neutral attitude between the Venizilists and King Constantine's par Athens cable- was | a OCTOGENARIAN JOURN ALIST »y John Merry Le Sage at Desk on 80th Birthday. "i London, April 28.--John Merry Le! Sage celebrated his eightieth birth- day yesterday by turning up bright and early at his desk in the Daily Telegraph offigff where he has been managing or for nearly half a century. [fhe dean of English work- ists has 'always been a er in anonymous journ- the general public Le tically unknown name, has shone and is still alism, and t Sage is a pr In Fleet stret his light strong for years, undimmed. 1 TWENTY STEAMERS ARRIVE Successfully Escaped From the Ger- man Submarine Zone, (Special to the Whig.) Washington, April 26.--_Twenty steamships arrived at U. 8S. ports yes- terday having successfully run the German blockade. Anfong them were the 32,000-ton passenger steam Statendam, which the Germans ported as being torpedoed, be S40eseteasretete +e GIRL IN MALE GARB TRIES TO JOIN ARMY. Ottawa, April 26. --Deter- mined to avenge the killing of her two cousins and her wound- ed brother, ah eighteen-year-old Ottawa girl donned male attire and applied at the base recruit- ing office yesterday afternoon to be enrolled gs a stretcher-bear- er in the Ammunition Column." erade was discovered, being compelled to admit her sex, she explained that she had tried to go overseas as a nurse, but could not take the neces- sary three years' course, and be- lieved she would be accepted as a stretcher-bearer. ------ -- TTI IT aeons 'ev 4 LAST E DITION ESI qi LY GIVEN Despatches That Come From Near And Distant Places. TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE FORM. THE LA The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Ex- change. Mr. Veniot, the new Minister Public Works in New Brunswick, a printer, It is denied that France intends to cede the Islands of St. Pierre and Mi- guelon to Newfoundland Elihu Root will head the Amer can commission to Russia if he will consent to undertake the duty g Seven members of the staff of Le Devoir, Montreal, have enlisted in various branches of the n¥litary ser vice Beginning May Sth legal to take an order, lv or indirectly, for liquor in toba. The Presbyterian of it will be il either direct Mani Synod at Edmon- ton has chosen Rev. Dilliam Shearer, Calgary, as its nominee for moder- ator of the Gene eral Assembly. It is underftdba that a measure extending the franchise to women througaout the Dominion will be in- troduge d at Ottaga during the pres net ion German war correspondents on the western front are again excusing a bombardment Rheims ®athedral on the ground that the venerable structure is being used for military purposes by the French The proceedings of War Cabinet and Con which are shrouded in greatest secrecy are being hurried in.order tq permit Borden and other ministers to.re- turn to Canada Sentence of five years in mout penitentiary was imposed at Turonto upon Clarence Ludgate, an ex-cashier of the C.N.R., and Henry Richmond, who a week ago were found guilty entering Queen's Court apartments and robbing Mrs Catherine 8kinner of four rings which they tore from her fing ers, and also treated her in a brutal ri@nner. SOURS Of the Lmperial ference Ports of = Was Kaiser's Chum, New York, April 26 Capt. Franz von _Rintelen, captured in England 'following 'American indictments charging neutrality violations arriv- ed here primarly to testify in the trial of former Representative Frank Buchanan and others alleged to have attempted to. cause strikes in muni- tions plants. Buchanan's trial starts Friday. Last week's sink ng of British ships was the largest yet, Forty of over sixteen hundred tons were sunk, and fifteen under sixteen hundred tons DAILY MEMORANDUM See top of page 3, right hand corner. for pre obabilities. 'THE DAILY BRITISH "WHIG Is on Sale at Lhe Fe Following City - . 308 Montreal Rt. Best Drug St . Princess & Division Bue knell's Ne oe Depot .. 295 King St larke, J. W. & Co. . 3563 Princess College Book Store .. 163 Pringess Coulter's Grocery . 209 Princess Cullen's Grocery, Cor Princess & Alfred Frontenac Hotel .. .. .. Ontarin St. Gibson's Drug Store Market Square \McAuley's Book Store .... 88 Princess McGal Cigar Store, Cor. Prin. & Kin McLeod's Grocery __.. 81 Unlon 8t ' Medley's Drug Store . University Paul's Cigar Store . . 78 Princess 1 Frouse's Drug Store 312 Princess Southoott's Grocery Portsmouth BORN. Kingston (ie 26th, vo Mr , & son _ MARRIED RAS ER At ) Ahern Joseph, ig Ho M al an SPROULE---At ST fred Brown in d, daughts w of Mr Mrs Mack Fraser of Odesse, te RH. PParrott B.Sc ns ruction Parrott DIED dn Sunbury on o'clock, John April 26h Canrpbel SAMTHELL, at edght aged 7 Friends and acgusintances respectfully invited to attend ~ JAMES REID | Hemven is' no greached by a single bound, { But we bitild the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. We rise by the things that are un- der our feet-- By what we have mastered of good or By the deposed and the passion . And the Suayuishied lis that hourly DR. 7, 1. G. HOLLAND, we