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19 PACES PAGES1-8 Sn YEAR 83 --- NO. 172 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 18]6 LAST BDITION SNATCH, VICTORY "IN FEW MONTES The British Arc Going fo Win, Says Lioyd George. BD OF WAR IN SGHT DECLARES WAR MINISTER TO BRITISH COMMONS! Never Has British Infantry Been Greater Than To-day -- Have Simply to Press on And Victory Will Come, London, July 206.--"British re- sourcefulness and British intelli- gence are going to snatch victory in a few months," was the statement made in the House of Commons yes- terday afternoon by David Lloyd George, the successor of Fleld Mar- shal Earl Kitchener, at the head of the War Office, "The prospects are good," the war secretary said. "Our generals are more than satisfied and proud of the valor ©f the men they are leading. Great as the British infantry was in Wellington and Napoleon's day, they never have been greater than now. 'One thrills with pridée when one thinks one belongs to the same race. They are pressing back the formid- able foe who devoted his best brains to the study of war for generations, I feel confident victory is assured to us. * Continuing Mr, Lloyd George said: United Kingdom. PRINCESS PRESENTS COLORS TO CANADIANS. Atl Kensington Gardens on July 5th the Princess Louise presented a silk banner and a silver shield to the Canadian troops, this being a gift from the women and children of the Major-Gen. Canadians, 1s seen accepting the flag. Steele, Commander of the "Numbers and all other resources are on our side. There was only one fear--that years of training and thought on the part of the great mili- tary power might Le something that might be insuperable. "Our men have demonstrated that it is not so and that their resource- fulness and intelligence are, as in fields of commerce in the past, when they have been able to snatch a vic tory out of what appeared to be com plete commercial disaster, going to snatch victory again in a few months | whom what appeared at one moment | to be something that was invincible. | "There is no doubt all that the les- | son of this battle is that we have ( simply to press ons with all our re | London, sources and with the material at our | og pia to-day by command and victory will be ours." Liovd PPE EEEIPIEEES SEPIbtd Bibs George offered to resign in view of # | the failure of the Oubinet to acqui BRITISH THRILLED, * esce in his proposals to the Irish Na- ------ tionalists, and Premier Asquith was London, July 25.---A great * |ynderstood to be ready also to step # confidence has been brought to * | jown if Lloyd-George retired. 4 London by the War Minister's | A threat to submit the quéstion to # prediction of "victory in a few # | 4 yore of the pecple in a general 4 months," and the official an- %* ejection was freely made during the # nouncements of continued suc- | Commons debate The only faint # cesses by the British arms. * | hope of averting such a break lay to #+ A surge of relief, a feeling that # day in the nee that the Irish Na # the end of all the war horrors *[fionalists would consent to further # really is drawing near, is felt in * | negotiations # the metropolis. 3 Some London newspapers, taking 3 a gloomy view of the crisis, however, + PPR bPbdddbdbd dedddddd $EEF | pelicve that if the break came and a ---------- general election were called it woyld FURTHER ADVANCES Whig.) The coalition endangered David pecial to the July was {the Irish a -- | question. * * * * result in the support of the Cabinet's | course, the Natjonalists having lost MADE BY RUSSIANS. |, confidence of many Irishinen { through their willingness to treat in IS$| a compromise plan. Evidencing the crucial nature of | the situation, Premier Asquith to | day conferred with A. J. Balfour, | First Lord of the Admiralty; Con | servative Leader Bonar Law, Minis | ter of War Lloyd- George, and Austen Russian| chamberlain, Secretary of State for The The Grand Duke Nicholas : Within Ten Miles of Erzingan. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, July 25.--Further ad vance of Gen. Sakharoff's forces wag announced to-day. Russian commander troops had penetrated the enemy en tanglements on the River Slonevke. From the Caucasus theatre of war the Grand Duke Nicholas reported | that his advancing Russians had reached a point about ten miles from Erzingan, the Turks retreating in dis-| order, ITALIANS CAPTURE ENEMY ENTRENCHMENT. | London, July 25 Emperor Wil { liam, during his recent trip toa point Also Cross Three Lines of En=| somewhere in the rear of Peronne, on the Somme front, says a despatch tanglements Below Mount | to the wireless press from Berne, Chiess. made a speech to the German wound ed soldiers which is attracting great | attention in Germany The German Emperor is quoted as KAISER SORRY HE (Special to the Whig.) Rome, July 25.---Italian troops stormed and captured another long saying: "It is the most poignant grief Austrian entrenchment near Casera-! of my life that I am unable to take zebio, according to the War Office] a more active part in this war. It statement to-day. Between the is my earnest desire to take my place peaks of Mount Chiess aud Campigo-| in the trenches and to deal such letto the Italian forces crossed three! blows at our enemies as my age and lines of Austrian wire entanglements! strength would permit. BRITISH CABINET IN DANGER THROUGH THE IRISH QUESTION | David Lloyd George Offers To Resign In View of Failure of Cabinet To Acquiesce In His Proposals To the Irish Nationalists. Indig, and later had an audience with (the King. * Not to Introduce Bill. Confirming the suspicion that the Cabinet had been unable to reach a decision in regard to the Home Rule Amending Bill, Premier Asquith in [the House of Commons announced that the Government would not in- troduce any bill on which there was no substantial agreement among all parties This was taken in the Parliament to mean that Home Rule had been dropped for the moment and that David Lloyd-George's ne gotlations had come {op naught The stumbling block appears to have been the retemtion in the Im- perial Parliament of Nationalist representation in undiminished num bers. John tiomatists, lobbies of Redmond, leader of the Na- moved to adjourn the House Commons in order to call attention to the rapidly growing feeling of unrest in Ireland and the deplorable effect on the Irish situa tion, which, said, must result from the Government not proposing to carryout in entirety the terms of fered by its for settlement of the Irish difficulty accepted by the Irish parties. 1 of he as TEPOTLRd MS] mmm AA A A A A A A AAA A A AAA AA AAA AA AAA GANT FIGHT AT THE FRONT WITH GERMANS youngest of you and I promise that T would leave my mark on the en emy But the inscrutable Almighty has willed otherwise Into my care | has been committed by divine destiny the leadership of our country, its ar mies and its forces on land and sea. "The burden of thinking, deciding and leading has been hard upon me, and realizing this I know that my life must not risked in .the foremost line of battle where my feelings, if unrestrained, would carry me swiftly. "My life must be conserved care- fully for the welfare of Germany in order to carry out the duties assign- 'ed to me by divine appointment." 7 A -------- A -------------- FRENCH OVE NTO BLOCKHOUSE They Carried the Strongly Fortified Places, | Also Nearby Trenches. : CONTERATIACK REPULSED ALL ALONG THE LINE THE GER- MANS WERE HELD. The Latest News to Hand From the | French War Office--There Has | Been Checking at Many Points-- | The French Air Bquadron Has Been Busy Raiding Points, | (Special to the Whig) | Paris, July 25.--Another advance | of French troops was reported in to-| cay's official statement. They car-| ried "strongly fortified blockhouses" | south of Estrees, and ejected the Germans from trenches they ocoeupied nearby. Counter-attacks elsewhere along the French front by the Ger-| mans were repulsed. | North of Vermandovillers the Ger-| mans were thrown out of some] 1 4 : trenches they had occupied. { Professor Elie Metchnikoff, On the left bank of the Meuse aj who is dead arter long sufferin German grenade attack against Hill| widelv known as a leading scie 304 was checked by machine gun : 4s h fire. | international figure when he In Alsace the Germans made an un-| - study of longevity, and gave to successful attack following extensive | be prolonged to over double t | ELIE METCHNIKOFF, N artillery preparations north of Alt-| kirch. { The communique also revealed] French air squadron raids on Pierre-| pont and Longuyon railroad station] and Mangiesse bivouac. | 5 NOW REPORTED DEAD 10 SEE THE U-TRADER 1S TO WAI AMAN'KILLED HISEOWN MEN Went Mad Aad Shouted Wid ai Imagh- | PRODUCED A TRAGEDY AMONG THE TEUTONS. Demolished a Redoubt--Concentrats ed Fire Brought Awful Death To a German Garrison on the Somme. Paris, July 25.--The destruction of a German fortified work on the Somme front was marked by a tragie episode, says La Liberte. The order | was given to destroy the fort at what- | ever cost. In less than six hours | more than 2,500 great shells were | fired at it, and the defences gave way | one by one in a cloud of dust and | smoke. The infantry then went | forward and the German positions | were conquered. | French artillery officers, examining | the ruins, discovered amid a mass | of debris a Bavarian officer with his | chest crushed and at the point of | death. At sight of the French ofi- C Knrone he heerame nn | Cers the Bavarian seemed to collect ntist of Europe, he bec ame an | himself, then began to speak softly, announced the result of his | the Frenchmen kneeling about him. the world hope that life might| The story told by the Bavarian, he present span. |and later recounted by an artillery sngll, ~~ LL officer, was to the effect that 32 men had occupied the work. After the | bombardment had continued for a time half of the men were victims of {an awful death. Two were decapi- | tated, and, of three others, near whom a shell exploded, not a vestige | remained The survivors crouched ITS MATE, BREMEN ic. OTED SCIENTIST, DEAD. the famous baeleriologist, g with heart disease. Though NO TRACE OF PTE. JOHN EA SON | OF KINGSTON, | He Has Been Missing Since April 24th, 1915--His Mother Received Letter From -Pepirtment of Militia and Defence. | Pte. John Easson, son of Mrs.| William Easson, 3495 Division street, | who has been missing since April | 24th, 1915, is now believed to be| dead. His mother has received a| letter from the Department of| Militia and Defence at Ottawa to] this effect. The only official report which has been received concerning the Kingstonian is that he has been missing since the date mentioned. Owing, however, to the length of time that has elapsed since he was| reported missing, and to the fact that his name has not appeared on any| official list of prisoners of war, nor that after full enquiry made, has any information been received which would indicate that he is alive, the] only conclusion which can be arriv-{ ed at is that he is dead. For official purposes his death has been presumed to have occurred on or since April 24th, 1915. Pte, Easson enlisted with the 41st Battalion at Brockville, and went to| Valcartier. He was a Scotch hov, | and was transferred to the Fifth) Canadian Highlanders Before go ing overseas he was employed at the locomotive works. Mrs, Easson received a letter from Clarence J. MeCuaig, stock broker, of Montreal, in which he stated that Pte. Easson must have been in his] oldest son's company, as he was in command of "A" sompans( The| writer stated that he would com municate with Lieut. Greenshields,| who is in France, and Capt. Walker, | who is in England. These two sur-| vived the big fight the men were en-| gaged in. He would also have let-| ters sent to Lieut. Pitblado, who is a prisoner in Germany, and to his son who is also a prisoner, to see if they knew anything about Pte. Easson. In the retreat "the men lost track] of each other, and Capt. Whitehead, | f No. 1 company, was killed and| Major MeCuaig and Capt. Pithlado| were shot down and Captain Walker | was the only officer who came out| alive on the day of the fight. An Agreement Reached. Lucerene, via Paris, July 25.--The Lucerene newspapers say that Ger-| many and Switzerland have reached | an agreement regarding the indem-{ nities to be paid the families of Swiss | victims of sinking of the Sussex. | Each Government has appointed an expert, who will consider the cases separately and fix the amount, to be paid. | Several trades unionists declared a sympathetic strike on school build-! shelters and awaited their fate. Preto Danger--$4,000,000 In Gold Placed Aboard. millions," | Baltimore, Md., July 25 All the treasure of the Kronpringsen Cecilie | is tuckéd away aboard the little green undersea packet, the Deutschland, as ! i of They brought it down from Boston, [that differs [ from this tale | where the Cecilie is interned, one day | of nipts to secure | last week--the day they pulled the]insurance, | screen of old freight barges around It is. said Capt. Koenig is| the German submarine, and tock waiting to se Bremen. The Bre- other precautions. men is expected to-morrow. For that In small bags, by rail, the money! matter; it was expected yesterday, came--4,000,000 in. gold, and it was | which means that it is expected any trundled abroad the Deutschland and day. | stored in secret comiparements. This If the Bremen fails to arrive; if | is on thé authority-of a man who troved at sea, it is| knows. Nameless he must be in the Koenig will intern the story---but 'he knows once rather than run | "They clgimed it was boat and men | were putting on the submarine, minimize the didn't they?' says the man "Well, |danger awaiting the dash of the un it was good old gold. And the reason | de boat ey know all about | they are not hurrying the Deutsch- | the Allies doing land back to Germany with that gold and they | is because they haven't yet given up to be no easy hope of getting insurance. elude "Il guess that wouldn't for those war boats that are around outside the. capes, queried "They've got rubber some nickel on that diver all right, on its ret just like they say, but the richestiuneasitess part of the cargo is the gold, and it's| Baltimo over the all there---every penny the four!the subn ine Bremeén WAR WILL NOT BE A DRAW, SAYS. VENZELOS TO GREEK KING story--or calléd a theory | the De 1 another be sutschland, | the cont the she is taken ie said that Deutschland at the risk « ing hi The G nickel they 3 do not sea war entry duty know that it task fou be a grab them hanging A eh?" Bhe!French and | pearance ships tie off capes, and to British and awaiting the ap rman submarine | There great at | irance of | arge cordon vessels ar trip is German circles NO-appe Seen 25 Premier by Statesman, German the re Ru wn army and on of Kitchener's | England is raised to| litary power, | imagine can be| a bastard peace in which| victor nor van-| "Who is now o blindfolded prejudice," ask the tt he Athens, July Former Venizelos openly Constantine's Germany cannot be defeated, in which appears in to-day" Venizelos quotes an the King to an As representative the Monarch would challenge King still believes Who zation of t in after expressed belief that! { he victor day, an grgan the Army the till ended by will be articles orgfianizat Herald view given by ciated Pres January, in whieh clared that the war a draw. A AA AAA Ait TRAPPED IN TUNNEL 120 FEET UNDERGROUND. Will Not Be Known If They Are Living Till Rescuers Reach Them. (Special to the Whig.) Cleveland, July At least twenty-three men are trapped in the Cleveland water works tunnel, inter by w ch 0 rank of a great lasy, that he war de there ther quished?" result in ne WOULD QUIT BELGIUM, But Germans Want An Indemnity of | 10,000,000,000 Marks, Amst London, July 25 Posters been pasted on the in Ghent, stating rdam, v Ve walls of barracks that gotiations have been opened between the United States and Ger-| many for the evacuation of Belgium, | according to Bcho Belge. Ac-| cording to the posters, Germany is | ia the | da ; SHERWOOD---~In Kingston Officer Went Mad. Another terrific explosion occur- { | If Bremen Is Caught Deutschland May Intern--Realize Great | red, the men being thrown together in a confused heap. Almost imme- diately flames shot up from the un- derground cavern. There was a mo- ment of indescribable terror, for now fire was ravaging the work. The lieutenant in comamnd went mad and shouted wildly at imaginary enemies. Then, in a sinister glare of the flames, the officer set furiously upon his men, killing one. after another, and was himself burned to death. The Bavarian determined not to dis by the. hand ot his chief and scal- ed the ruins, clinging to a slope of - 'the work, only to be buried under a block of stone. He died soon after the French officers found him in the hospital, to which they carried him. BACK TO ANGLICAN CHURCH, Twice a Oatholic; Anglican. New York, July 25.--For the third time Rev. Edmund Middleton, Of Yonkers, has become a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. On both of the occasions on which Mr. Middleton retired from the Epis- copal ministry he became a Catholic layman He graduated from Har- vard in 1886 and was ordained in the Episcopal ministry in 1890, but resigned a year later to become & Catholic. In 1894 he left the Catho- lic Church, and eleven years later was restored to the Episcopal mins- try. Then in 1912 he again left the church, but next year applied for restoration Was Thrice An Shhh bbb RRR REE Ae 4 ® SIX MONTHS AT IT. * London, July 26.--The great battle of Verdun entered upon & its sixth month on Sunday, the % present operations being marked principally by strong artillery # duels on the greater part of the # fortress front * LJ hb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bd DAILY MEMORANDUM Oddfellows Relief Annual, Wednes- PEFR P REP +0 See top of page 3, right hand corner for probabilities DIED on July 24th, 1916, Angeline Mcliroy, belov~ ed wife of Sherman Sherwood, aged 48 yours. Funeral from her late residence, 7 St. Catherine siret, Wednesday after- noon, at 4 o'clock, to Cataraqui cemetery Priends and acquaintances are kindly requested to attend. TOBIN--On July 24th, at Hotel Dieu, ? Thomas Parick, dearly beloved son of Mrs. Catherine and succeeded in establishing their "I could take my place with the William Mariner, Salford, Eng, " an adroit burgler on ticket-of-leave lines just below the crest of these heights. when the war began. He gained a POZIERES IS NEARLY AL Victoria Cross and was killed recent- | IN HANDS OF THE BRITISH s : . 'ly. The police never betrayed him. | Noisy shows were absent on Sun-! (Special to the Whig.) day at Atlantic City, N.J., by police! orders, i London, July 25.--"The greater part of Pozieres is now ours," report- ed General Haig in an official statement to-day. The British commander- in-chief declared that nowhere had the Teutons reached British trenches. German counter-aitacks at several points north of Pozieres were all frus- trated. The British gained some additional ground and captured twp | machine guns and more prisoners | --- WHIG CONTENTS 1--Victory in Few Months; Bri- tish Hold Pozieres; French Move OniU. Water Waiting, Germans Killed Own. 2--Ouases In Police Count; Only Depot Batteries; Returning To India, 3 3--iDecigive Batile Raging. Wolfe Island Big Crop. 4---Editorfais; Random Reels. b--4Utilitles' Meeting; Old Boys Reunion Suggested. ¢---Eastern Ontario News. | T--Announcements; Amusements } a Another Propares to Sail. Berlin, July 25.--Another German merchant submarine will sail for the Left Estate of $8,500, Watertown, N. Y., July 25.--The new ings at Hamilton. ' 1120 feet below the surface of lake | Erie, at a point five miles off shore, SS Phd d bid SPE dbbddb bbb | to-day, following a burst of gas in the - & tube. Whether any sre alive will WAR BULLETINS. & not be known until tha rescuers are q able to drag them from the ten-foot A Budapest despatch says + |concrete cylinder. the Cossacks made a raid into * Twenty-three lives were snuffed Hungary, causing a panic & out it was estimated at 1 p. m. to- throughout the frontier towns. day. The gas ignited by electrical | --- + | machinery exploded with terrific | The French captured a Ger- + | force | man battery on the Somme front. The British continue to make steady gains, capturing the most of Pozieres on the way to to Bapaume. + 3 SUBS MUST STAY OUT i ---- tor Swedish Waters or Suffer Being be Attacked. +*| Sweden, Stockholm, July 25.- Russians swept the foe back twelve miles on the Riga front and also continue successes in the south. + # forbidding foreign belligerent sub- *# marines to pass through or to remain #|in Swedish territorial waters on pain! Consequent upon the Royal decree] ' prepared to withdraw from Belgium | Portsmouth on the payment of an indemnity of | puneral 2.90 Wedn al 0 10,000,000,000 marks. | the church, of the Sood Thief, ™ bud Vea o nie. RS | where a era w sun The Echo Belge comments sareas-| g 1.0" Lolilem mass will be ce tically on this proposal, terming the| ed on Thursday morning proposed indemnity "a mere flea! o'clock. bite." a egttegistegicetyctutihtind ROBERT J. REID The Leading Undertaker : 1 BASEBALL ON MONDAY. | Phone 577. 280 Princess Street National league. Pittsburg, 9; Philadelphia, 1. JAMES REID ! The Old Firm of Undertakers es | 254 'and 256 PRINCESS STREET American League. | Phone 14'® for Ambulance. Chicago, 3; Detroit, 2 (twelve in-| | M. P. KEYES nings). Phone No. 1539 Undertaker and Funeral Director. 136 OCK STREET, First-class Ambulance. International League, Richmond, 3; Newark; 1. Toronto, 1; Montreal, 0. Baltimore, 9; Providence, 0. i Sm. Sir Edward Grey has accepted the} estate of Mrs. Marietta J. Brenon, who was murdered at Cape Vincent a few weeks ago, totals about $8.5G0, i according to the will which was ad- | mitted to probate at the office of the | surrogate to-day. The will provides that allresl and personal property shall be divided equally among four children, e Forum. §--Britain's Gold Supply; Mil- gary Matters; Theatrical ¥-Basriefied War Camp Tid- ngs. 10--~Confessions of Roxane; onus. 114 rtance of Western Fruit Industry. 13~The World of Sport. ee United States in a few days. Sir Wilfrid and Lady Laurier have 'arrived at Murray Bay as the guests lof the Hon. Adelard and Madame Turgeon. Mrs. L. A. Cannon is giv- {ing a reception in their honor on { Thursday, i #% of being attacked without warning a! title of Viscount instead of Earl "for| * | general order has been issued 'to the! personal and family reasons." He % Swedish naval and military forces.!did not want to be confused with | # [It directs that foreign submarines in| Earl Grey. The week-end list of casual- ties in British regiments totals 606 officers, of whom 156 are i dead, and 5,588 men, of whom % Swedish territorial waters, unless re-| Col. Noel Marshall returned to To- | 1,406 are dead, 3 shi "ar as neutrals or as merchant ronte from the front convinced that SPRL PPPPPPPP EPP LRP I PP ered | 4 ships are to be immediately attack-|there is still much Red Cross work to PEEP PPPIFIRIIPOMII ITIP Jel, i be done, FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS WORDS OF WISDOM FROM MANY THINKERS Look one step onward, and secure Sat step ~BROWNING, | -t