--~ -- "which - HOUSE BEGINS WAR SESSION Canadian Parliament Meets in Circumstances That Will be Historic Ottawa, Aug. 18.--What will be recalled as the "War Parliament" 'was opened this afternoon by his Royal Highness the Duke of "Con- naught, The opening ceremony was diveetad of all the social functions which have characterized past occa sions, and in their stead was the silent evidence of a deep apprecia- tion of the grave issues with which the Pariannat of Canada has been called upon to deal. The arrival of the Duke of Con- naught on Parliament Hill was wit- nessed by thousands of Ottawa peo- ple, who were not deterred by threatening skies what will go down as a_ historic scene in the annals of the Canadian Parliament. His Royal Highness was accompanied by the usual es- cort of dragoons and received by the customary guard of honor. from t Governor - General's Foot Guards. Speceh From Throne. ---- Gentlemen of the Sen- Gentlemen of the. House of ees 'Very grave events vitally affect- ing the interests of all his Majesty's dominions have transpired since prorogation. . The unfortunate out- break of war made it immediately imperative for my Ministers to take extraordinary measures for the de- fence of the honor and integrity of our Empire. "With respect to such of these measures as may require the sanc- tion and approval of Parliament, the necessary | will be submitted | for your 'consider- ation. Other bills authorizing ad- ditional measures which are essen- tial for the public safety will also be presented to you without delay. "Gentlemen of the House of Com- mons,--Estimates will be laid be- fore you to provide for expenditure which has been, of may be, caus by the outbreak of hostilities. "Hon. Gentlemen of the Senate, Gentlemen of the House of Com- mons,--The critical period into we have just entered has arcused jo tbe_full the patriotism and loyalty which have'alyays actu- ated the Canadian people. ° response to the call: of duty. been all that could be desired. The spirit' which thus animates Canada inspires also his Majesty's domin- ions throughout the world; and we may be assured that united action to repe] the common danger will not fail to strengthen the ties that bind together those vast dominions in the possession and enjoyment of the blessings of British liberty. 'As representatives of his Majes- ty the King, I must add my expres- sion of thanks and admiration for the splendid spirit of patriotism and generosity that have been dis- played throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion.' Notices of Motion. Two notices of motion have been given as the basis of Government legislation. The first, in the name of the Prime Minister, provides "that it is expedient to provide that a sum not exceeding $50,000, - G00 be granted to his Majesty to- wards <iefraying-any expenses that may be incurred by or under the authority of the Governor-in-Coun- cil during the year ending March 31, 1915, for the defence and secur- ity of Canada, the conduct of naval or military operations in or beyond Canada, promoting the continuance of trade industry and business communications whether by means ° Insurance and indemnity against war risk'or otherwise, and the carrying out of any measure deemed necessary or advisable by the Governor-in-Council in conse- quence of the existence of a state | of war. ? | "It is further resolved that the] Governor-in-Council be empowered | to raise by way of loan, temporary or otherwise, such sums of money as are required-for the purpose of making 7. payment authorized by any Act founded on these resolu- tions."' The second resolution, which ap- pears in the name of the Minister of Finance, is to empower the Gov- to make advances to to authorize the banks to make piyments in notes, and to js- | Rhine left in our | tunate for us. sue excess circulation, to authorize the suspension Of the redemption of Dominion notes and gold and give the Governor-in-Council authority to establish a moratorium. Excise Taxes Increased. The following special war tax on coffee, sugar, liquors and tobacco, etc., was announced by Hon. W. T. Ww hite, Minister of Finance, in Commens : Lime and Fruit Juices. Lime and fruit juices having not more than 25 per cent. of proof spi- rits are placed under a auty, of 75e instead of 60c per gallon If the proof spirit is-more than 5 per cent. the specific duty is raised from $2.40 to $3.00 per gal- lon, the ad valorem duty remaining unchanged at 30 per cent. ime juice .and fruit juice, n.o0.p:, are increased from 22 to 224% per cent. under the general tariff and-from 15 to 17% per cent. under the British preference._ -- increased from $2.40 to $3.00 per gallon. On alcoholic perfumes in small bottles the duty is raised from 50 to 60 per cent.; in larger bottles the specific dyty is raised from $2.40 to $3.00. Thé@ ad valorem duty. to remain unchanged. : On spirits of nitre the duty is also raised from $2.40 to $3.00 per gal- on. On medicated wine the increase is from 50 to 60 per cent. io malt flour a special war tax of 3c per pound is imposed in addition to the existing ad valorem duty of 35 per cent. Chemical preparations, including patent medicines, when dry, remain unchanged ; but on all: .others the]; duty is raised from 50 to 60 per cent. If they contain more than 40 per cent. of proof spirits the speci- fic duty is increased from $2.40 to $3.00 per gallon. Paints and colors, ground in spi- rits, are increased from $1.00 to $1.25 per gallon. The Excise Increases. The following are the increases in the excise duties pits from 81. 90 ao $2.40 ad Maiti Tawor from 10 to 15¢ per gallo Malt from 14c to 3c per pound; erushed malt feu 2%e to 5e. Manufactured tobacco from 5c to 10c per pound; 'cut tobacco and twist from 5c to 10¢ per pound. Snuff and snuff flour from 5c to 10c per pound. Cigars from $2.00 to $3.00 per thousand ; if in small packages $3.00 to $4.00 per thousand. Cigarettes, weighing not more than three pgunds per thousand, from $2.40 to 83.00 per thousand ; weighing more than three pounds per thousand from $7.00 to $8.00 per thousand. n order to meet the action of distillers and brewers who have ex-warehoused their goods with a view to avolding expected war pre- senting his- budget to the House of worst. and is considered to be Bee a 'Most An invention for the --. murder of men--humanity at its This "iron-clad" on wheels is attached to the Italian army, de. perfect war machine ma oe} A despatch from New vere Every ship that: sails out ij ad York for English ports sails light. , The Kroonland ae other day with. 4,500: tons of fs stuffs and room for "8;000 Others of the 13 ships of the ; national Mercantile Marine 'ant. ly departed for England haye rid- den high in the water because of their light cargo. Other, lines 'tell the same story. Paradoxically, warehouses around New. York®are choked with the supplies for which England 'is offering fancy a reason why none of is going to England, it is oa: s because American shippers Have no assurances that their drafts will be honored in England promptly, and are unwilling to send their pro- 3 ducts abroad with nothing more'sa WAREHOUSES AREGROANING Americans Irritated prone -of Lack of Ships to Get Food: to Britain :]than the hope that they will receive prompy payment for -- goods., Although in need foodstuffs generally, for, the sosteee England is supplied with grain, over- -|supplied, according to estimates made by officials of the Internation- =} al Mercantile Marine. This, they say, is due.to the diversion to Bri- tish ports of large cargoes in bot- toms bound for Continental ports at the outbreak of the war. Sugar is the one article which Great Britain needs more than any other. For the first time in years English merchants are importing direct from New York. The bulk of English sugar came, before the READ THE LABEL OR TH Foesumen MAG -- PHATE OF ALUM SULP. MISLE E Se REEL OF THE CON- INGR INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. mate BAKING FOWOER ONT ALUM {S&S somerines REFERRED TO AS SUL- ATE. ose pusLic- SHOULD NOT BE Y THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. HAS ALL THE AINS NO ALU OR SODIC ALUMINicC WINNIPEG £. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL A despatch from London says: The Kaiser's forces are in occupa- tion of Brussels, the capital of Bel- gium, and a city already rich inthe history of warfare and im art and culture. Once strongly fortified-- the headquarters of the Duke of Wellington before Waterloo--Brus- sels for years has been without armament with which to resist at- tack, and the Belgians preferred to save the city from destruction by abandoning it rather than to at- tempt a formidable defence, espe- cially as the position is not sup- posed to be regarded by the allies as of strategic importance. The fighting at Tirlemont and Louvain is described by the Ostend correspondent of the Express, who says that he witnessed it from a war, from Germany and Centralchurch tower at Tirlemont first. and Europe. Nearly 1,500 tons were on the Celtic, and 1,350 tons aboard the Kroonland, both just sailed. : taxes all the excise duties are made retroactive to August 7th, and the same date applies to the import duties on liquors. af «-Aviator Returns s and T structive Work Done. A despatch from London says: Adolphe Pegoud, the noted French aviator, has returned from the war zone to Paris to get a new aero- plane. According to a Paris des- patch to the Exchange Telegraph, the wings of Pegoud's old machine shells when he made a flight with a military observer of 300 kilometres (186 miles) into German -territory. Pegoud could not say im where he had been except that he récrogsed the Rhine and blew up by means of bombs two German convoys. Cap- tain Finck, a military aviator, Pe- goud said, had destroyed a hangar near Metz and wrecked a Zeppelin and also destroyed three tube aero- planes which were'in the hangar. TOOK TOWN WITH BAYONETS French Forces Are Once lore in Control in Muel- hausen A despatch from Paris says: "Our troops have met witlmbrilliant successes in Alsace, especially be- Muelhausen and Altkirch. retreating the hands many pri- soners and 24 guns, six of which were captured after a sharp strug- infantry. The main tween The Germans on gle by our quarters of Muelhausen were re- taken. "In Lorraine the day was less for- Our advanced troops found themselves faced by excep- tionally strong positions. They were forced by a counter-attack to fall back in a bedy, «which is solidly established on the Seille and along the canal from the Marne to the Rhine.' 'At Stalenponen, 11 kilometres west of Eyditkuhnen, the first Ger- ------e man infantry division retreated af- ter suffering great losses, @aving cight cannon and two mitrailleuses in the hands of the Russians. With- in a radius of 100 kilometres around Warsaw there is no German cavalry | ieft. 'Between Kielce and Dubno, on the Galician frontier, several Aus- trian cavalry raids were repulsed. Railroad communication between Kielce and Warsaw has been res- tor . "An Austrian cavalry division was repulsed after a hard fight at Frodelia. The Russians have taken the offensive all along the line. "M. Denys Cochin presented 280 Greeks to the Minister of War for service in the Foreign Legion. They are all Balkan veterans... There have been many Italian applicants for the legion. _AEROPLANES WORK HARC. were riddled by 97 bullets and two) FORCE ALMOST DECIMATED. Had Already Distinguished Them- selves in Liege Forts. A soepetct a London says: ednesday's fighting intended to renew Flying low, the Ger- vious evening, the attack. afterwards the German infantry, supported by machine guns and artillery, opened a fierce attack. The Belgians were outnumbered, but put up a desperate resistance. The troops on both sides fought like demons. veritable regiments, butchery. Two eee which had already tinguished themselves in the Rees of Liege, held the invaders in check for two hours. Both sides were losing heavily when the re- treat was sounded. Major Gilson, ullet, took charge of the Belgian rear guard, which fought so stub- bornly that only seven out of his force of 288 men returned. When Gilson reached Ghent a friend sug- gested telegraphing to his father. At first he refused, remarking that his father would learn about his wound rom. the newspapers. Finally he consented, saying: am at Ghent. No need to worry. Will quickly rejoin my regiment."' ------_ F_..___. whose nose had been: broken by a b HYDRO-AEROPLANE FLIGHTS, Will Be Given at Canadian Nation- al Exhibition this Year. Visitors to the Canadian Nation- | al Exhibition at Toronto this year will have the opportunity of wit- nessing hydro-aeroplane _ flights. | sien te have been made, whereby . A. Dean will fly his' machine gait starting from the lake and circling over the Exhibi-| tion Greunds. given at various intervals during! the afterncon, but one will be held at the fixed hour of six o'clock every day. <A sufficient height will be maintained over the grounds that in case of accident there will be time and room to glide out the water before descending. 6 erd Toe ot The Spreaaialy ae Te 7th French Artistry OF te the Front. were | 58ys sit touthe Fakes | with their puffs" who had Ween repulsed 'on the pre. smoke, | The battle soon became a uy over! ! systematically later proceeded He to Louvain. 'Tirlemont was quiet and nor- mal. Suddenly there came the sound of the first German gun. The artillery had opened fire rom the church tower it was possible to see distinctly the posi tion of the German guns and the bursting of their shells. The Bel- gians replied from their position east of Pearain. It was a striking accompaniment of 'the | man ceaseless thud of bursting - shells of cotton-like up hi 'Gradually working nearer, the shells began to strike the houses in Tirlemont. This was a signal for the populace, which heretofore had been confident that the Belgians would protect them, to fly blindly FLED BEFORE THE GERMANS People of Louvain Thrown Into Wild Panic When Enemy Approached and unreasoningly. All they knew was that the Germans were coming. From the tower the scene was like the rushing of rats from a disturbed nest. The people fled in every di- rection except one. Louvain in Panic. "IT. moved down to Louvain, where everything seemed quiet and peaceful. The people sat in the cafes drinking their evening beer and smoking. Meanwhile the Bel- gian troops were retiring in good order towards Louvain. "By midnight the town was in the throes of a panic. Long before midnight throng' of refugees had begun to arrive followed later by soldiers. By eleven o'clock the Belgian rear guard was engaging the enemy at the railroad bridge at the entrance to the town. "The firing was heavy. wounded began to come in. Rider- ess horses came along, both Ger- man and Belgian. Those were caught and mounted by civilians, glad to have so rapid a mode of escape. . "T remember watching a black- clad Belgian woman running straight down the middle of a road- way from the Germans. Behind her came the retiring Belgian troops, disheartened but yaliant. This wo- clad in mpUTRINE, was the_ sembol of the Be! populace. -- t some of the barricades along the gry the refugees and sol- diers arrived simultaneously, mak- ing the defence difficult. All about Tirlemont and Louvain the refugees continually interfered with the work of the troops. The road to Brussels always was crowded oe with refugees."' ONTARIO WILL DO ITS DUTY. Government Will Help In an Effec- tive Manner, Sir James Whitney gave out the following statement on Thursday : "The present is a supreme testing time for the people of the Province ; and calmness, courage and forti- tude ---- bs displayed by Gov- and indivi- duala. The "Ontario Government as been carefully studying the situation since the outbreak of war with a view to rendering aid in the most effective manner possible at the time when such aid shall be of the greatest benefit to the Mother- land. With this object in view, the Government is in . communication with the Dominion Government at Ottawa so as to ascertain the views of the Imperial Gofernment, and when the proper time comes the ptople of Ontario can rely on the ; Government of the Province doing its full duty and aiding the Empire jin the most effective manner pos- | sible. Whether that aid should be | given now or later, and whether ' directly or in co-operation with the | Dominion Government, be determined.' A' despatch from Toronto says: BAYONET WITH TEETH ON IT. Tears Flesh to Pieces in Process 'of Withdrawal. A despatch from London says: The Daily Mail's Brussels corres- pondent says that the Germans are using a bayonet with teeth on it, which slips in easily, but tears the 'flesh to pieces in the withdrawal}, the Prussian bullet, by its extreme pointedness, the Red Cross much work. is saying: Extrac- tions have been reduced 25 per cent... the bullet passing 'clean through more often than not.- SF ee CANADIANS ABROAD, $200,000 Apportionca by the Goy- ernment for Their Relict. A despatch from Ottawa says: La the House of Commons on Thurs- day Hon. George P. Graham' en- quired as to the safety of Canadians abroad and was informed by Sir Rioobert Borden that- the Govern- ment had placed this pings in the | aes of Sir Joseph Pope, Secretary of State for External Af a , and in those of Hon. George H. erley. remains to} The sum of $200,000 had bese ap- portioned for this relief "work, These flights will be! Shooting Belgian Wounded A despatch from Paris says: The French Government calls the atten- tion af the powers signatories of jauthorities which constitute a vio- lation of the conventions signed on } Oct. 19, 1907, by the German Im- | perial Government. | By the commander-in-chief of the jarmy of the east: German troops | finished off an important number of wounded by shots fired point blank in the face, as was evident by the dimensions of the wounds. Other wounded were intentionally tram- pled on and kicked with heels of German soldiers. "The Tenth Bavarian Infantry burned villages which they traversed 4m the region ' | the Hague Conventions to the fol- F lowing acts of the German military | | gion th i of Barras, Harbone, Mentrigny, Monraux and Parax, while during he actions In question no artillery fire from either side could have sroduced fires. In the -same_ re- 1e Germans foreed the inhabi- tants to march in front of their ad vance guard, German trogps also foreed. women and children to go before them to empty villages, Upon the battlefields they massa- cred, burned and finished = off wothded. They killed prisoners at Bailty on the 10th as reported to the Government on the ith. "The Government of the Repub- lic in the presence of such metheds, which are of universal consequence, reproves and leaves to the civilized powers a full appreciation of these criminal facts which dishonor for . ever the guilty belligerent."'