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YEAR 84: WILL BE MUCH \ More Definite Proposals. WITH REGARD TO FOR THE SOLDIERS. Sir Wilfrid is to Confer With | Friends in Montreal and Also in| London, Ont. | Ottawa, Oct 20.--One of the chief points. of difference between | the Unionists and Opposition mani- | festos will be that portion of platform whi will deal with carrying on of the war. Moreover, where the Government manifesto is general in character the Opposition | manifesto will be more specific. An | Opposition can always afford to be more specific in its promises than a| Government. For instance. wherein the Government platform reductions in the tariff may be forecasted that plank whidp refers to incre agricultural production, Sir 'W will likely lay down definite posals along the lines tariff resolutions previously moved in the House, Where the Govern-| ment promises in general terms con sideration of the needs of the re.| turned soldiers the Opposition will | make specific promises in the way | of pensions, etc. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will go to | Montreal on Monday night and will | communicate to his friends there the views expressed at yesterday's Liberal conference. The drafting of | the war plank of his manifesto will depend upon the combined result of the conferences. A further confer ence of 'Western Ontario Liberals is to be held at London probably on Wednesday of next week at which | Sir Wilfrid Laurier will be present. | Whether F. F. Pardee, Liberal west- | ern leader, will be preXent or not is | not known here. From Western On. | tarlo reports are filtering through to the effect that 'Mr. Pardee may be aUnionist candidate and that Han. | F. B. Carvell, Minister of 'ublie Works, will be present at his nomin- ation at Sarnia, which was to have taken place on the 17th. the | the | | in ed frid | pro of Liberal | | | PEACE VULTURE WEARY. Allied Statesmen Have Discouraged Central Powers. Amsterdam, Oct. 20.--Several Vi- enna papers express the opinion that | the recent statements of Lloyd | George, Asquith and Ribot will cause | a cessation of any peace action on the part of the Central Powers The | papers declare that by refusing the | peace proposals of the Central Pow- | ers, those circumstances have arisen | which Count Czernin, the Austro-| Hungarian Foreign Minister, has men- tioned as justifying a revision of the | Central Powers' war aims. i -- -- { 8,400,000 PAIRS OF BOOTS. Encrmous Orders Have Been Placed » for Footwear. Washington, Oct. 20.--Contracts were awarded here for a million and | a half pairs of boots for the Russian | army, at a total cost of $7,500,000. The | awards were made by members of the Russian purchasing commission, ad- vised by the committee on supplies of the Council of National Defence These contracts, with those placed by the War Department for the Am- erican armies; make the enormous to- tal of 8400000 pairs of footgear which have been ordered within the past week, PRICES FOR POTATOES. Toronto's Quotation for a 90-pound Bag is $1.60. -- Ottawa, Oct. 20--The food control- ler reports the following prices paid for potatoes, quotations heing on the basis of a 90-1b. bag itv each case: To- ronto. $1.60; Montreal, $1.97 to $2.25; Quebec, $202 to $225; St. John, $1.62 to $1.75 for Prince Edward Is- land stock, and $1.75 to $187 for New Brunswick white stock. Che Que- bec market is sgported unsteady with potatoes scarce. Off tg the Front. (Canadian Press Despatch) Petrograd, Oct, 20 --Premier Ker ensky, it is announced officially, has left Petrograd for the fighting front. > WHIG CONTENTS, 1--ilife in France and OT tS. ¥ «Worldwide Events in Striking Photos, J--iDifferent Phases of War, Illus. trated =A Kew Striking War Scenes. 5~The Laurier Manifesto: Italy Neekis Coal; Campaign to Lower Cost, §--The Church Services: Incidents of y. T--8oclety Theatrical Nites $---Editorials: Rippling Rhymes; 9-Vessels Leaving; A Golden Wed- dipg 10--Deénth of Prof. valescents Coming: 1l=--Amusements; 12--MiTary ' News, 13--Books and Authors; the Watch. man's Thoughts. 14--Society: , Activities of Women: Roxane's Confession. I hirs Serial Story, "Gold." 16--ln t Automobile World, 17-<The Motor Car of the Future, S----Agricultural Page; te kets; Financial 18--News From the Countryside. 20-~In World of Sport: Bringing up Father. on Trans= Events; Codd: Con- Local News, Announcements; Matters; Theatrical MORE SPECIFIC Tc Lar Manfesth Wil Lzy Down PROMISES WIL BE Wie PENSIONS | KINGSTON » ONTARIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917. U-BOATS ROB FOODSHIPS 27 KILLED AND 53 INJURED IN AIR RAID OVER LONDON A Number of Zeppelins Made An Attack on Friday Night-- There Was Some Material Damage to Houses and Business Premises. (Canadian Press Despatch.) -- Twenty-seven persons were three injured in last night's Zeppelin raid. There damage to houses and business premises. London, Oct. 20 killed and Seven or more Zeppelins crossed the east coast at about eight o'clock last night, four going in one direction and . three in another. At 11.30 o'clock one Zeppelin passed out on the homeward journey. This airship dropped six bombs at eleven o'clock and three at 11.15. The noise ot its engines was heard for twenty minutes, Go | me-- French Bring Down Three Zeppelins., (Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, German Zeppelin was brought down in flames late last nigint Rambervillers, near the Alsatian border, and others were forced to land. They belonged to a squadron composed of a large mumber of Zeppelins whith flew over Vosges, Oct, 20 at AAA A A AAA AAA AA AAA AAA AAA tae THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET COULD NOT MEET GERMANS WITHOUT ABANDONING GULF OF FINLAND (Canadian Press Despatch.) 20. The Russian Baltic fleet in its entirety could not face the Germans in the Gulf of Riga without abandoning respon- sibility for the defence of the Gulf of Finland, according to Count Kap- nist, of the Russian Admiralty. The Germans, he said, effected landing operations on Oesel Island with twelve transports escorted by twelve battlesiaips of all types, five «-uisers and an enormous number of auxiliaries and thirty destroyers. It vas impossible for our entire Baltic fleet to meet the enemy without abandoning responsibility for the protection of the Gulf of Finland. Tie Count cited the Jutland battle as a precedent for the impossibil ity of using submarine to advantage. He added that the Germans are using the same troops that took Oesel island to attack Dago island, thus Petrograd Oct, fifty- was some material two showing that tue Germans were ca minimum force, ' STOCK MARKETS. Quotations Furnished by Nongard, Ryerson & Co., 44 Clarence $t,, | Howard 8. Folger, Mavag. . New York Stocks, Open--+Close 88% 991% 5774" 1505 Am. Smelters Atchison B. & O C. P. R, Erie Marine Marine pfd. N.Y. C .. 87 94% 58 1560 % 1914, 267% 89% Reading .. ... Southern Pac Union Pacific Alcohol _.. Am. Loco Anaconda. eu Beth. Steel Crucible oy Inter. Nickel Kennicott Mexican Pet Hep. Steel Ur-8. Steel Utah Midvale <3 Aflantic Gulf Am. Sugar 10614 8014 46% 101% 106 3% Canadian Stocks, Brazilian Can. Cement .. Can. Steamship Cin. Loeo. , .... Cons, Smelters . Dom. Steel . Nova Scotia Steel. | Steel of Canada War Loan, 1937 senntsistuatlin siamese THE AIM OF FRANCE Is to Secure the Restitution of Al- sace-Lorraine, (Canadian Press Despatch.) | Paris, Oct. 20.--In the discussion preceding the pasding of a vote of confidence -in the government by a great majority in the Chamber of Deputies several members criticized the policy of the ministry as being incoherent and lacking energy. "I have already said, when ex- pounding our war aims," Premier; Painleve replied, "that it is the res-' titution of Alsace-Lorraine that we are determined upon. There must be, restitution whatever may 'be the fate of battles. For this we should push the war to the bitter end." WORK OF ENEMY 'RAIDERS 2 - - 1 Two British Torpedo Destroyers Sunk in North Sea. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Oct. 20.--Two German raiders attacked - a convoy in the North Sea on Wednesday, and sark! twp of the British escorting destroy-| ets, it was officially anhounced to-day by the British War Office. The Bri- tish torpedo destroyers sunk were the Mary Rose and the Strongbow. Three merchant vi escaped but five Norwegian, one Danish and three Swedish vessels were sunk without" warning. At the bacon probe Flavele, dent of the William Davies Company, and Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board, was, calied to the witness box by his own counsel. Sir Joseph stated that since the war began he had taken a grad- ually declining interest in the affairs of the compaLy. The enemy artillery showed grea: activity on Friday eve north of; Lens and between To Hamlets and the Ypres- railway. There was also considerable recipro¥ eal artillery during night northeast of Ypres. At the Ottawa meeting .re tatives of Eastern Ontario Li pledged support: "to every neaded to sustain Canada' rt in the prosecution of the war to a suc- cessful conclusion." - Presing a revolver against the head of K. Lynn Arthur, aceoun'an of the A Seeding ine €Co., Springfield, Ohio, a robber 'se- cured the payroll, amounting to $10,- 582, and escaped. esen- lism effort Sir Joseph r¥ying out their operations with a a VIOLENT ARTILLERY ACTIONS On the Aisne Front--The Suffered Losses. Enemy (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Oct. 2-- The official state- ment says: On the Aisne front there were violent artillery a tions espec- fally in the sector of Mennejean farm. Strong enemy patrols which attempted to approach our lines in this region were repulsed. The en- emy left prisoners in our hands and suffered appreciable losses. On the right bank of the Meuse, Verdun front, artillery fighting was spirited north of Beézonvaux and Caurieres Wood. There is nothing to report from the remainder of the front. ------ DESJARDINE FACES CHARGE Of UConspiring With Othérs to Com- mit Murder. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Montreal, Oct. 20.--Charles Despar- dime, who was employed by the Fed- eral authorities to obtain evidence on the dynamiting of the country home of Lord Atholsten, was placed under arrest yesterday at Three Rivers and brought to Montreal this morning. He will face a charge of conspiring with others to commit murder. The complainant in the case is Paul Emil Lemarche, K. C. Evidence submitted at the preliminary trail of the eight men arrested for the dynamiting purported to show that Despardine, who consorted with them gave one man a useless pistol and money and promised rifles. GERMANS DISHEARTENED. yee of the Threatened Air Re- prisals. Zurich, Oct. 20.--That Great Brit ain's decision to bomb German cities and towns in reprisal for air raids on London and other English cities and towns is having a disheartening efféet in southern Germany is indi- cated by the Muencher Post, which I'says that air attacks on open towns have proved, quite apart from moral estimates; that this mode of warfare will be the means of stiffening, rather thai breaking, the determination of the people. The newspaper says this applies to all the belligerents. and that it would be a matter for rejoic- ing if all of them would agree astrophe still more horrible through the slaughter of defenceless persons." ---- m woul "nole ine. longer to make this Harful world cat-l g diprs MALY IN NEED OF COAL SUPPLY Sie is Facing a Serious Situation Because of Shortage. WAR WORK IS HINBERED THE TEUTON POWERS ARE GREATLY ALARMED. At the Drive of Gen. Cadorna and Have Sent Forty Divisions From the Eastern Front Against the Italians, ' Washington, Oct. 20.--Further de- tails of Italy's serious economic sit- uation, while her soldiers are press- ing the Austrians at the front, has reached here. . Producing no coal within her own territory, Italy depends for many of this and other supplies upgn the out- side world, which now virtually means the United States. Great Bri- tain requires all her shipping for her | own purposes. The situation is now | 80 grave that there is almost no coal for private consumption and few furnaces will be lighted this winter in either Italian hotels or private Even the military opera- tions are hindered. houses, Italy Has already accomplished a great deal by limiting consumption of [all Kinds of supplies, reorganizing im- {ports and foodstuff distribution, fix- | ing maximum sales prices, and intro- ducing a system of rationing for the population in many cities, Teuton Powers Anxious. Washington, Oct. 20.-- Acording to {a semi-official dispatch reaching | Washington from Rome, the situ- ation along the Italo-Austrian front has forced the Austrian and German Government to withdraw Yorty divisi- lons from the eastern front for use in reipforcing the Austrian forces now operating against Italy. This may have been done in re- sponse to a second appeal from Aus- tria, go far as the German transfer of men is concerned, as it was learn- ed several weeks ago. that the Vienna Government, despite e fact that a considerable number of German, Bul. garian, and Turkish units had been sent to the Italian front, had called on Germany additional reinforce- ments, Evidently Berlin, as well as Vien na, has come to a full realization. of the importance of the Italian drive wirich General Cadorna has so suc- cessfully conducted, and has recog- nized the importance of trying to pre- vent the Italian army from gaining vantage points of great strategic value from which.a drive might be lzunched against Vienna next spring. Red Cross Shipment Lost. (Canadian Presg Despatch.) New York, Oct. ~Two and a half million pieces of surgical dress- ings, hospital linen, clothing, ete., consigned to the Red Cross in France, went down with the British steamer Wentworth, submarined by a U.boat. The shipment was valued at $200,000. Convention Postponed. (Canadian Press Despatch) Hamilton, Oct. 20--The conven- tion of Liberal conscriptionists of Ontario arranged for Thursday of next week has been postponed till November 2nd, = - U.S. TRANSPORT SUNK. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Washington, Oct. 20.--The # United States transport Antilles '4 was sunk by a German submar- Seventy sailors and sol- were lost, * > > * + * * - + + +l + 4 * + AND THEN SINK VICTIMS Newer Pirate Undersea Boats Big Enough to Stow Away . Large Portion of Captured Cargo--Why U.S. is / Loath to Ship Cargoes to Neutral Ports. . Washington, Oct. 20.--Germany's giant pirate U-Boats are now robbing food ships of their cargoes, stowing these within the sub- marine hold and then sinking the unfortunate victims--spurlos ver- senkt. That is the newest development of ruthless undersea warfare, ac- cording to confidential embassy reports to-day. Using new 1,500- ton vessels, In pairs, the Germans are operating off the beaten track, apparently several hundred miles outside the danger line zone around Great Britain and France. The newer U-boats are sufficiently large to permit stowage of a large portion of a captured cargo. Bécause of this capacity the war trade board has been particularly loath to ship out cargoes for Euro- pean neutral ports. This also explaing why merchant ships now require convoys for protection, These convoys are causing much of the apparent difficulty Ger- many and Austria are baving with their submarine fleets. The two mutinies reporred yesterday indicate Teuton seamen. despite iron dis- cipline are unaerved by the anti-submarine werk of the allies and Am- erica. A GERMANY CANNOT SPARE A SINGLE MAN FROM ANY ONE OF ITS BATTLEFRONTS FOR THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST PERSIA. London, Oct. 20 All Petrograd dispatches received here have emphasized that the German fleet has codnvoyed but very few troops, if Presumably, the invading forge on Oesel, Dago and Moon Islands was of sailors. Germany cannot now spare a single man from any battlefront for the Russian campaign, and this was a factor which en- s here to optimism. indicated the German naval fleet was composed three times as great a force as the any. couraged observ Latest dispatches of approximately sixty vessels-- Russian defending squadron. Russians Evacuate Reval. Petrograd, Oct. 20 base of Reval was begun Tuesday, Evacuation by the Russians of the naval the Novoya Vrema says. The withdrawal of Russian forces from the naval depot has been made necessary by operations of Germany's great fleet now operating off th® Gulf of Riga and threatening a further naval campaign against the Gulf of Finland. A A A bded dedodobdodododdodddoddoddddddd KILLED BY BRIGANDS. + - » (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Oct. 20 A des- patch to the Times from Odessa says one hundred passengers + were killed or wounded on a + train held up by two hundred + armed 'brigands near Viadikav- # kaz in the Caucasus, + + BPP d ddd ddd bbb Pdbdbbdddibe Sh l rrr Per eed THE WORLD'S NEWS, - A A A AA oa! + * mm me ALLIES ARE SURE TO WIN President of Portugal Discusses the | Situation. | London, Oct, 2°. l'with Reuter's correspondent, President of Portugal said: | "This terrible conflict has already | made the two oldest of the Allles closer than ever. My country has always been certain as to what will | be the end, and through good or | evil Portugal will continue with the Allies. What I saw on my recent visit, to the battlefield, and what Field Marshal H&Ig"y splendid troops In an interview the IN BRIEF FORM are doing, makes me more certain Tidings From All Over Told in a Pithy and Pointed Way. The evacuation of the fortified port of Reval, on the Baltic, at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, has begun. The Baldwin Locomotive have received orders for 300 large freight locomotives for the United States Government to cast approxi- mately $13,000,000. The greatest order ever placed for United States army shoes has been given by the War Department through contracts just completed, calling for 7,000,000 pairs at an ag- gregate cost of $32,550,000. Bethlehem Steel Corporation has received orders from the government for over 150 torpedo boats to cost around $1,500,000 each. This would make total value of the order ap- proximately $225,000,000. Despite the fact that it is an of fence punishable with five years im- prisonment, the fathers of some Hamilton boys, who come under the draft, have tried to influence doctors Works at the armories to reject their off-; spring. A warning has been issued and prosecution will follow any fur- ther effort in this direction Will of Isaac Newton Seligman, head of J. & W. Seligman & Co., New York, who died Sept. 30th leaves about $100,000 to thirty-eight relig-: fous and charitable orgsnizations, and balance of his estate of between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 to his family. A STREET SCENE DURING THE RECENT RUSSIAN REVOLUTION ° '@ In the'accompan Petrogra fb highest pitch of excitement. d, Russia. AnyIng Mu of Russian be street of ps an ever of our sure victory." The President expressed much gratification with the cordiality {shown by Their Majesties and Field | Marshal Haig. | QUEBEC RIVALS ONTARIO. Hardly Any of its Eligibles Want to | Go to War. { Quebec, Oct. 20.--A. 8. Gobeli, registrar for the application of the | military service law in the district of Quebec gives out the following figures: On Monday one man was reported for duty and 24 asked for exemp. tion. Tuesday, four reported for duty and 119 asked for the exemption. (Wednesday, eight reported for duty and 161 asked for the exemp- tion. Wednesday, eight reported for duty and 161 demand the exemption. Thursday, no one reported for duty and 197 asked to be exempted. GIRL PASSED AS BOY Accidental Death at Cantp Revealed Secret, Newport News, Wa., Oct, 20. -- Florence Kelly, twenty-year-old girl, | of Greenville, Tenn., who has been working at Camp Stuart here | for three weeks as a waterboy, was kill- | ed here to-day by a motor truck dur- 1ing a Liberty Loan parade. She was riding on the truck and fell beneath its wheels, The young woman had been doing le boy's work and lving in quarters {at the camp with the workmen with- out arousing suspicion as to her sex. Conspiracy on Milk Prices, Chicago, Oct. 20.--Charles H. Pot- ter, of Elgin, Il., chairman of the Milk Producers' Assbeiation, and four other officials were indigted yester- | day on charges of conspiracy to fix i the price of milk, Bonds were fixed | $5,000 each. The Milk Produ- the recent Russia, evolution at seen a scene \ revolutionists are waving flags and banners. and sve iz , cers' Association supplies Chicago , and vicinity. Secured Ten Thousandth Recruit. New York, Oet. 20.--The' ten thousandth recruit for the British and Canadian armies was enrolled by the British and Cancdian recruit- ing mission yesterday. The mission announced that recruiting iz im- | proving steadily throughout the | country, | New York Election Bets. ) New York, Oct. 20--A bet of ; $62,000 to $65,000 was made in Wall street to-day that Johm Fylan, the my candidate, will defeat Mayor aR in the approaching civil clec- tion. Betting in the street generally favors Hyland 2 to 1. Steamer Burned at Cornwall. (Canadian Press Despatch) I, Oct. 20.--The 0 St. Laurent, owned by the Montreal and Cornwall Nevigation Company was burned to the waters edge in the Cornwall canal last night. The floss is estimated at $15,000, -- ¢ LAST EDITION FOOD CAMPAIGN LOWER COST Unwananted Prices Ae Being Chaged | Mimest Every Sesion of County. THE PROFITS. ARE. BIGGER THE FROFTS A | THAN THE CONDITIONS © WAR. RANT, DECLARES HOOVER. The U.S. Food Administration May | Go to Congress to Secure Drastic Legislation to Deal With These Food Barons, Washington, Oct, 20.--The United | States: Food Administration to-day | began a determined fight to obtain {lower prices for foodstuffs to the con- | sumer, Herbert C. Hoover stated that while the intermediate branches of trade in food staples, which would be placed under license on November 1st had co-operated practically, produc- ers and consumers, in the large ma- jority of cases, had failed to respond. Unwarranted prices, he said, were now being charged in practically every section of the country by re- tailers in flour and sugar, although the retailers were obtaining these commodities at prices lower than in effect a month ago. Beef, he said, was being sold at the packers' door at 14% cents a pound as compared with 16¢ in July. The average retail price for round steak in 796 cities, he announced, however, had jumped from 27¢ to 3lc a pound. Flour in these cities was retailing at an average of $13.- 77 a barrel or from $1.50 to $2 more than was -warranted by the prices charged under existing regulations by the millers, he added. Producers, who are not within the reach of the Food Administration ui der the Food Control Law, Mr. Hoov- # er said, were holding back" the huge bean crop hoping to get from 13%¢c to 15c a pound, although the average price, with a crop smaller by 7,000,- 000 bushels, was but eight cents last year. Potatoes, he declared, also were being hoarded by producers a some districts, pra : ------ May Go To Congress. The time has come, Mr, Hoover as- serted, for a break in the inflated prices charged by many dealers. The situation will be watched carefully and it is entirely probable that Con- gress will be asked for further dras- tic legislation for the control of prices charged by the retailer, and possibly the producer unless there is a decided change in the present situ- ation. The attitude of the Food Administration, in this connection, it was intimated to-day, would be very largely dependent upon what the retailers do in the meantime, At present it is within the power of the Fcrd Administration to place under the control only the retailers doing a gross business of $100,000 or more annually in the twenty food staples named by President Wilson. There are about 1,200 of these con- cerns in the country, and in all there are more than 350,000 retailers. Mr. Hoover hopes that the regulation of great retall stores In the larger cities which come within the provisions of the case will have a decided effect upon prices charged by other smal- ler dealers in these centres, In an effort to control prices charged by these small retailers, the Food Administration proposes to give thy widest publicity to all of its investigations. It will from week to week make public comprehensive statements, giving prices at which wholesaléfs sell to the retailers in the trade centres, and the smmatyot i vestigations in more than 700 es and towns concerning the prices which retailers sell these same pro- ducts to thg consuming public, By this Wethod it is hoped to aec- quaint the consumer with the fullest particulars about trade conditions and the profits which the retailer is making. State food administrators 'will also be called upon to hold meet- 'Ings to discuss the situation and spread broadcast facts and figures supplied by the Food Administration. These features of the campaign for dower prices to the consumer will be 'started about November 1st. ---------- Hon. T. W. Crothers says there is no intention of his quitting the La. bor Department. LPP PEE PPP PPPIV005000000 + | * WAR BULLETINS. » -- # German afr, raids were re. 4 {# kumed on England on Friday 4 # night. The east counties and & # part of London was visited by 4 + German Zeppelins and aero. 4 4 planes. > -- 4 Seventeen German air craft 4 were brought down along the 4 British front. Several tons of % bombs were exploded over 4 German works. . x + 4 Inereased activity on % British front. The 4 guns prepare the way for an- & 4 other new smash, : Turkey is on thé point of + collapse, + 8 Es teseeatae S40 0 *