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-- rman YEAR 81 NO. 299 PRECAUTIONS TAKEN 10 PREVENT AR ATTACKS Some The Fog is Great id to Hos- tle Aviators. IS DANGER T0 PLACES LONDON WAS IN BLACKER DARK- NESS FRIDAY NIGHT. Acroplane Patrols Will Be Maintain. ed Along the Const to Guapd Against Approach of Hostile Avia. tors -- The Only Way the Raids Can Be Resisted, London, Dee, 26.-- Every pc precaution is being taken in London, to-day, to prevent a anccessful aero- plane attack upoh the cit; Daring ralds over Dover ond ithend, dur ing which German aviators succeed ed In eireling about the cities and then making their pps con- vinced the war office (Hat by Jog, hostile aviators mivht ensily reach London and drop hon: Although all electric sis were taken down soon after the outbreak of war and other Jights dimmed. Lon- don spent last night in even blacker darkness. Orders wére issued that every light not absolutely needed should be turned off. Constant ae- roplane patrol will te maintaifted along 'the coast to guard against the approach of hostile aviators London, In the raid upon Dover, as well as that over Southend; yesterday, the German aviators too% advantage of the fog in which they reached the coast unobserved. Guns at Sheer- ness and other points were unable to get the range. It is now evident that only. by «counter aeroplane attacks can such raids be resisted. GERMANS CANNOT WIN ONLY CHANCN WAS TO CONQUER FRANCE BEFORE ATTACK. ING CZARS. hus nided Confession of Defeat -- Kaiser's Ob- ject to Extort Better Terms by De. livering Crushing Blow in Eastern Theatre 0f War, Petrografl, Dec. 26 The signifi- cance of the grand duke's strategie moves to hold the faner lines against the combined Austro-German attacks hecomes plain careful examina- tion of the map. The Germanic ex- tensive line attack runs roughly north and south, along the meridian of Cracow, south of which it turns eastward along the Carpathighs for a total length of something over three hundred miles. It is popularly believed, though I have no data in confirmation, that the Germanic forces now opposed to Russia amount to something like four million men. The Austro-Germanes are seeking along old, familiar lines that victory over Russia which they have twice failed to obtain.' The Germans have behind them one hundred miles of country which they ravaged and de- vastated during the first advance in- to Poland, and particularly during their retreat. Although the greater part of * the alien population eof I'oland, consist. ing of Germain owning that spec- fous double nationality which has proved such a splendid asset inthis] war, have proved themselves parti- sans of the invaders, there still remain about their ruined homes "enough Poles to make the western half of Poland a prospect less prom- ising on this second invasion than during the first, If considered from (he rect standpoint, that of the whole war on all fronts, the Germauic prospect is infinitely blacker than over beforc. = This war ~annct pos- sibly be won, and vonld never, un- der the ideal condition: mistakenly pestulated by Germany vv hen she began the war; have been w.n any- where else than in France. Rus might conceivably, as Germon w ers used to lo%e to explain, have been driven beyond the Uras, bat even that would not give Germany & victory. Her one :nd only chance was tp conquer France be- fore attacking Russia. . Circom- stances "have compelled a reversal of the only possible plain of success, and the foet that Germany is now devoting her main strength to the Russian front is a confession of de- feat. . The stonewall tactics in the west theatre of war make it plain that the war might last three or four recognizing , is making effort to obtain terms or an asrehelming blow was a Russia that TS knew well, and 2 Russia now obsolete, these would be perfectly 'and « truthful. Bu! times and Germany's iu- Russia © being of 'by her paid spies and double-na- _Araitors in Russia," is as most of the she' founded 1 this war. nly cor- LIRI™P. -.C'0O1, OF Ottaw France to thre upon | himsel a holds that the crush the enemy' seems a truism, hut cept Russia practice. It means gowns, object of w fighting forees. li no other state ex- this truism into certainly cannot, frontiers, territory, everything that normal days of any value ve the needs of the wed: "in crushing the en- ean put Germ that people, a state m ceases to have cept to subse armies eng emy's fore ny mates 3 iin x | That is Russia's conception of war, and tion. ealm trials, show a iL "noe ed by the whole na- lt # fine thing to show under the severest holds its finer to g 1ront. may be exterior bu Russia ed in the last four months t reciness of her idea of war, a about to prove it onee more. Ebb bbb bg tht ob 4 * HOPING FOR PEACE. - New York, Dee. 26--Andrew Carnegie cabled Christmas mes. sages to Earl Grey, chairman of the British Centenary com- mittee, and King Albert; of Bel. ginm, expressing the hope that the warring nations may soon reach by arbitratior through Hague Tribunal, and suggesting a union of the English-speaking peoples for the preservation of wmiversal and. permanent peace, In his message to E AIM TO DRIVE GERMANS BACK TO FRONTIER Big News and Good News is Soon Expected to Come From the Front. London, Dec. 28---A British officer returning from the front, thus : med ip the position: "I cannot! give details, but e say is, we are on the eve of driving t ermans out of Northern France Belgium Qur positions never hive heed better since the beginning cf the Great news and expected soon." This confirmed of information front. Many the G conn rng fresh men ready to des wounded. not so EEE hhh FHEALABLIE LILI TD rd good new is every from' item coming indicat are prep possibiy sign rman Ar ove, wt kowevef NE a stroag the Alsace they are pouring in making the hospitals il with large numbers of on think the war will be 3 a Britiah chaplain from A German eity, 'who recently return- ed alter twenty threé years there. "Your German is ready for any an wount 'of blister when he is winning | but at heart he isa coward and when he Inds things are so'ng against aim will beg for mercy. "Prussia is almost as much hated as we are by the~ other German Flites When it becomes known that Prussisn militarism has failed there will be a great re-action" British Cruiser Is Now Engaging | German Cruiset Valparaiso, Dee. ~A wireless wessage from the A iia torpedo gu boat 'Tome 'veports the British eroisers Neweastle Caanonading Af teen miles from Valparaiso. It is sup- poted that she has eugaged the Ger- man cruiser Dresden and the convert- ed cruirer Prine Rite' Freidrich, A British squadron and Japanese war- ships are Known to Ye erasing not Ta: from this _Epot. moment. $ thoir howling filled ihe night arid to | whatever ex- | She has prov. | cor- | aa f, that ! ¥ KINGSTON ONTARIO, SATURDA ¥, -------- Russian Officer Has Terrible With the Dezd, j Petrograd, Dec. 26---The presence of the wolf as a new terror on the! byttlefields of East Prussia and Vo-| lapd, is deseribed in a letter sont by 4 -Russian-offiver toa Riga newspa- Night' per. Wounded in an engagement whic h had driven the Germans from the iry trenches, he found himself later iy be the only living sou! Jeft on thel field 'of dead. Pulling himself to-! gether, and leaning on his sword, he walked as best he could toward the! supposed shelter of his comrades in the woods. dust ar 1 reached the edge of the wood." he say #tapped in terro From the distance ther cifie the! howling of a wolf. It sounded un- | utterably melancholy and dre adful | in the still autumn night. Another wolf answered, the same Jong drawn, dismal te, The howling | drew nearer, Presently I heard it all around without pause grow-| ing louder and more oxultant every | "1 am no cowa man and have killed many wolves | but what I heard that night | can | never forget. The chaotic bowling | whieh enclosed me like u chiin kent coming closer and closer, dr. the centre of the cirele wher standing. "I saw clearly there wa of saving myself when 1 closed fiually upon { ning how 1 know toward sc dred yards away. and dropped to resolved to fight a had my loaded sword. I'am a crores. wing ho ¢h the Tun do net un the ground, I wa long as I could, | 1 \ revolver, and 1 came nearer, and Now they wore at the border of the wood Ia the darkne I¢ shadows ving sioy (trees As (REY from difi together jand stood The ttm the came wood, direc drew one great dark pack ren iio thu another foi wolf Minato: howled, from Somewhere out con the battietield; rand all at once the pack began to move. Without haste, in a little deliberate trot, they went past me | past the very clump.of bushes where was sitting with. drawn revolver. | {Not one turned : toward me. Ii watched each oneeas hie went by, ex-| pe that me. iI do } but at there were, iy, all trot- 0 the licld where the not Kn there were very ni. ting 20 quietly dead were lying. "I* was mer€ifully allowed to saps eitte conse fousne #8 soon after. At sunrise 1 we ked up, still un- { conscious, by a © 'k patrol.' 18 pie i MUCH-ABUSED PERSON. Fitzsimmons Divorce Various episodes in which she fig- person, were to day Mrs. Julia Fitzsim- of Robert Fitzsimmons, world's « 'hampion heavyweight in testifying, in' her suit for Wie of ™ st For Dee martial life, an Chien their ured lated mons, former pugilist, divoree. "He uséd" to go away," said Mrs. Fitzsimmons, "'and® would be brought baek intoxicated by some of his beau tiful friends." The day before their final separation July, 1910, the wife said her hus Vvand Kicked her. "We had a quarrel | earlier," she added, ""about his drink- go, of abused by as re wile | in ing and | had not been speaking to him becawse he refused to quit, when I passed by the door he kicked { me." | Threats her related ba the witness, who said that at vari- i ms times her husband piilled 1 her hair | r sO to shoot were or grabbed her throat and sometimes { threw bottles at "I don't wan told ihe court "We he 1 alimony,": she "1 sways worked be- were married and I have had asked permission maiden name of Julia becoming Mrs. Fitz she a profession. | Fitzaimmons ume her Before 1903 10 res tifiord, Ss mmons in was al singe '0 defence was entered was. offered and a de | the! INCIDENTS OF THE DAY Newsy Paragraphs Picked Up By Our Busy Reporters | White Rose flour for all purposes. The automobile has it on the horse in one respect. It doesn't shed its in the spring. Hf & woman' hair continually accuses her lomshand of being bad the chances are that be will make geod During Christmas Ive some per-| con gained an entrance to the canteen of the 14th regiment, and made off! with a quantity of cigarettes valued | at $50. A report has also heen mide about! Fruitland street, and S0ine person entering the store, on upper Princoas making off vith chosolates fo the va- Ine of $20. : John Cooper, up for drunkenn and without a home, asked the ms irate to be given a couple of months in jail. He was accommnodated with one month. Michael McNally was ai- up for being drunk. was fined $5! J costs or one monik. be quality of White Rose flour never Special Christmas services were | held in the Anglican churches on Friday. At St. James the rector! Rev. T. W. Savory preached Canon | Fiizgerald spoke upon the "Christ-| mas Festival" its moaning and mes-| sage. The Dean of Ontario took the George's on Friday ich was weil attended. ctor William McCam- showed the Whig u turkey's! ir} had been given to him by! the bird on the "lerthes, wore a included Asks | ently ! boat, of any 8 varies, { Daily markek, Fae liver is In a it by| (1<IF coming retreat Yroni Flanders of it ang ppl will be. desperte and DECEMBER 26, 1914 AMERICAN REObes soc group shows young Thi af Cape, J, The . Due Americans Fighting Was Kept Up on, Christmas Day. THE VIENNA REPORTS STATE THAT THE RUSSIANS WERE GENERALLY REPULSED | Banks of Rivers Are. Lined With Slain Bodies of Enemy Says Pe. trograd Advices --The Germans Have Only Made One Advance of Any Importance. Vienna, via Berlin and London, Dec, 26.--Extremely heavy attacks by the Russians throughout Christ- mas eve and during yesterday are re- JLARS AID BELGIANS. at Oxford who have heen at- ey in Rotterdam to assist in Belgian ALL CARISTIAS DAY FIGHTING PROCEEDED On Part of the Western Front-- fog Hindered Operations in- Belgium. Parts, De 26. Violet tacks or istmas eve, German at- which were resumed ara re © mmunigue office to-day. wks, delivered at and. in the repulsed but the ment, indicates there litte ation in the fighting yes- terday except in Belgium, where oper ations were hindered by porte a from the { hgse Chiavy, north oof or wion of state was fog. Christmas At Orphans' Home, The children at the Orphans' Home had a most enjoyable time Christmas Day. The ladies of home provided a fine dinner, turkey, goose and pudtling. The children, numbering eighty-five, masched, anto the dining= room after everything had beg ved. Dr. Chown, W. Minnes and the ladivs also helped. Afterwards the i children returned thanks for the fine I and gave three cheers for the and gentlemen who had looked their welfare, Great Host Of Prisoners London, De¢,. 26---According to a Petrograd despateh to Reuters s Tele- &ram company the number of Germa prisoners registered is 1,140 officers and 151,700 men; th» number of Austrians registered is 3 1668 officers and 3 which ave on the T gO loronto, Hall Justice settlement of Dec. 26.--At Middleton ratified an action between CPL and Mrs, Barah Ann Myrtle The jit gment awards Ball and her children $1.500 for death of Richard Ball in the Have- lock yards last February. he man was painting and an engine ran over him, inflicting fatal injury the the Ball, Mrs the Many Aeroplanes Are Visiting English Towns : | Shearness, Eng. z Dor. 26.--A Ge nian] sighted offi Southend to | aeroplane was la ; mither Hying was at misty and the a great ul rounds wer alt guns, appar- without hitting the German but val aeroplanes disappeared; ny pla flocked 'to the the affair, It is reported at Dover man aeroplane flying height, pussed over the and Jlerne Bay to-day, and seaplanes were | duty for many hours Three. British acroplanes tried ol j oniflank a German machine seen here but the latter was fiving too fast and disappeared the eastward. The weather was misty at sea but cam- tively clea® on land. Nothing | has\ been heard ii the dropping bombs | speed irom ev fired anti-aire ROOnN | thousandg of pe i sen front to witness | } that a Ger-| at n grent | Modway river | Aeroplanes | out on stonting 1 to THE DEFENCE OF ANTWERP TOBE VERY DESPERATE York, Dec. 26.---A London Express despatch from -Am- sterdan 40 (the New York Herald says: ily correspondent in Bel- 'glum states, om the authority of first Mand information, = that the Germans have now their plans for New | Mr { man, on | the | {church parlors and a presentation of plum li j-heen a. mask, Joyal ser- 3 | le a | % centres and the battalion, divid. SELIBIFLEI PLES IS SHI SIE height § Ww SE------ GIFTS FOR THE CHILDREN I a Gift Choir The Christmas tree of the First Congregational Church was held in the church hall on Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The hall filled with the children and friend i the Sunday school. the superintendent of the sided." A very. pretty play- uted hy the scholars of under the divection of Miss And Also For Member, a Faithfal entertainment. and wi seh let the Bess . pre pre hool, » Rodgérs, aking * part were Nellie Macdonald, Gordon Key, Gilbert McKelvey, G. John * Routley, Jessie *K, Queenie Cattermole, Miss Fearne and Miss Myrtle King. Homer Rout- ley took the part of the sand man and Jack McKelvey played the dream while Kenneth Blake acted as 1s and distributed © gifts close of the entertainment the choir of the church met in. the nent glass bow! was made to Miss Lily Scott, who has for many years choir." Miss Scott expects fo ving the eity in a short time. be 3 + TERE) THIRD CONTINGENT TO BE RECRUITED On Saturday morning the long expected orders cane to head- arters to commence recruit. ing for the third contingent. % This will be done in various * ed into companies, at Brockville, bore, centres, will mobilize Helleville, Peter. Smith's Fail and other The 14th regiment tha Line along the ported in the official statement is sued here. The Austrian frent is Heclaved to be unchanged in Galicia, however, and repeated attacks in Po- land were repulsed. The statement asserts : "Fighting = continued - yes- terday along the greater part of our front. Our forces bead back the at ticks of the enemy, near Magyag, in the Latourcza region, with heavy loss. The enemy wag driven back towards Lisce. Between Wislok and Jiala the enemy attacked throughout the whole of .Chrisimas eve and yes- terday, with great intensity. On the Donajec our front is unchanged." A Russian Petrograd, Dec. 26.--Resisting -con- stant day and night attacks - along the seventysfive mile front, from the Vistula river southward to Opoczno, the Russian lines before Warsaw con- tinued to hold. The banks of, Bzura and Rawka rivers, which the Germans have vainly endeavored to cross, are lined with the slain bodies of the enemy. Massed attacks upon Russian strong positions have = been repeatedly repulsed but the efiorts of Germans continue and a strong coun- ter attack is being directed against their lines along the Pilica river. While the Germans are directing their main assaults between Sochac- zew and Skierniewice the nT Itiae are endeavoring to pierce the enemy's: Pilioa::. wat one point along the Bzura river have the {Germans been able to make a cross- ing, it ia declared here, and with re- inforcements which have been hurled to that region the enemy is expected to be hurled back. Statement. Salvation Army. The Salvation Army gave their Sunday school children their Christ- mas tree, on Friday night in the eci- tadel. "There was a splendid pro- grame to hear which a large crowd attended. Songs an' recitations were given by the children and were enjoyed. After the programe. Santa Claus appeared on the platform and greeted the children, and distribut- * had received orders to recrait oversea volunteers for the third contingent and these men will probably be sent to either Liroc Kville or Belleville, for training. The name of the O. C, of the new battalion is not yet available for publication. The O. C. of the division has submitted a name wid this one * will very likely be chosen. J24940s4ssssnsnserseesss THE FRONTENACS DEFEATED Lively Game at Cleveland on Christmas Night. * Frontenac hockey aggregation ivelled to Cleveland to test! mettle with thé Yankee team | vers disappointed by neing defeated. ' The score resulted 5 to 2 in favor of Cleveland The first half scoring stood 1 to 0. The management of the Frontenac team siated -to0 the! I hig on 'Saturday morning, that af ter the journey they were pretty well f Dur ng the last ten minutes Che veli: d scored four io Fi mtenacs : ed Roails Defeated Benvers. } \i Victoria rink, on Christmas wining, the Victorias defeated the forismonth Beavera by a score of 6 to fore the game 8S. Hall was ARsoivted captain of the Vietorias. "0D Wa ¥ Kelly, defence; o . torjas-- and Reid, Hall, centre; Timms, niervitle, right wing. Deavers-- Goal, Macdonald: defen- Forsyihe and Scanion; rover, Wil SOL centre, Dennison; left wing, Smith; right wing, Huiphine, a goal; Braden Stinson, rpver; left wing; Sum- order that they may be wiiiigy to make a firm stand there when the alfies [url them back. TA Gor: wan Heutenant in Antwesp said: ed over 140 presents. The children {enjoyed themselves and went home well pleased. Chasing A Weasel. lixcitement was caused on Prin- cets street, on Christmas night, when a weasel ran along the sidewalk, Citizens joined in the chase but the animal was too fast and disagpeared in a cellar. AN ATTACK ON METZ IS NOW P ROCEED French Guns Are Now Being Trained on the Outer Defences of Fortress. Dec. 26---Th: outer defen- of the fortress of Metz are re- ported to-day, to be under fire from 'rench artillery. An offensive move- rent started early in December igainst Metz is declared to have re-4 sulted in advance of French lines be- yond village of Arnaville and through the forest of Leprietre. Only by extremely bitter fighting have Frenc tw been advanced and Germans un ed from heights within range of outer forts but French guns are now declared to have been Lrought up for hombardment. Between the sea and there was only feeble cannonading be- cause of the fog, the statement says, but between the Lys and the Oise, the German attacks were di- rected against several points and Paris, ses, ithe most desperate fighting result. French ed. At Libons the troops {capivred a German treneh but were driven out; the Germans re- furned to the attack add retook the position. German aitacks were repulsed at Noulettes, Bois- sellé, east of Albarta. and Libons. #urther | 0g fis reported in Upper Alsace. % i Italy Occupies Albanian Port To Sav "I we are répulsed in Flanders we |ey shall retreat at once on Antwerp, not even attemuting to Gheat but our defence of to. drive us out es have five TO SUCCEED GENERA Lieut.-Col. Willlam A. Hamilton, who has Been command the sccond. mile of Ontario, th headquarises at Robert Mitchell, C.E., with the second contin A Que- j their aunt, Mrs, H. sen bec and Richard Mitchell. A | college student with 'the Sth "Army Service. corps, Toronte, ay 'visiting F. Mooers, Bar- rie street, for a few days. They ai sons of Mr. and Mrs, W. H. iene Calgary and grandsons of Mr. And- rew Maclean, King stieet. . Another son, Allan, is with the forces at: ir gary. All are strapping in size and weight. "They fo dived here. merly Good news was "received. "i Christmas box by ® D. Nicholson: of Portsmouth on when he was notified that been appointed carpenter. at Rockwood hospital. x DAILY Saudeville, Grand yee vic Re a 10- 1 am.; In THE DAILY BR Is on Sale at the Following City : Stores: a * +" Bucknell's News Depot ..205 Kin ol 'larke, J. W. & Co. reroll 'ollegé Book Store ,.. A Joulter"s Grocery ..i.asie 0. lullen's Grocery, Cor. Pritifons Jarnoveky, T. R. .. ae. 'rontenac ¥otel ..... woe . #ibson's Drug Store , Market: -- McAuley's Book Store. ive 98 Princess McGall's Cigar Store, Cory Prin, & King dcLeod's Grocery ....B1 Union: Bt. W. fedley's Drug Store 260 Hutvae 'aul's Cigar Store sive 76 Tubes Drug Stor Tallea ery. . owe' . A irocors PETERS--LYONS-<At the Sedenhamh, by the Rev I on: dell, on Dec. $3edl, ns Sidney Peters, Ringston, to doy davghier of W. J. Tronm arrow- 13th De- Ste; smith, the cember, 1914, at Bt. church, South engi don, England, by 8 Watkin, William « of Rhodes Universi! hamstown, Bou Maunsell, pla Mrs, W. he of this colt DIFD BIRCH--&uddenly at a Kine day morning, I uel: Bireh, aged Tey Tuneral from fami) Bagot street, at afternoon, Dee, 28 GLOVER--At the Kingston, on: nes Glover, er, Camden SMAI L--GORDON--<OR a a ature. 7 -- 138 a'cloc! he ny 914, Robert photographer, eral from ing Sot 19 o'vlock. TER Friends and scquaints are respeit- folly invited to attenn. x . ROBERT