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Zhe Daily Sn Whig YEAR 85: NO. 14. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, Pages 18 x. patra THURSDAY, a ANU ARY 17, | 918. . U.S. Industries = Suspend i in Orderto Save Coal -- LAST EDITION. ad Ai Indies Wil Cost Down For fie Dap. NEW YORK 1S STAR FOR IT MEANS VERY MUCH TO INDUSTRIES THERE. . 3 % p---- t There JAR . All Sorts of 'plex Details, ebb HH INDUSTRIES TO C1 5 « FOR FIVE DAYS. mia Press Despatch.) * Washington, Jan. JT ily Nearly all United States indus-'+ tries east of . the Mississippi & must clege for five days, be- & ginning Friday, 40 save coal. + "All publ] heat will ¢l68e on Mondays for ten weeks. 3 +* . * wr PRIVY PPO PPP PREC eben New York Affected. (Canadien Press Despatch.) New York, Jan. 17.--Surprise, and | in many instances frank adverse cri-| ticism, that greeted the first news in New York of tue. drastic measures promulgated by the national fuel fnistration for the conservation ot coal, to-day found officials, em- ployers and employees studying the provisions of order and thgir pos- sible effects on industries, The fuel adminmsiracors frankly hdmitted that'they were not prepared Ror such a startling pannouncement from+* Washington and" that it would be some time before they could familfagize themselves with the com- lex detalls of the plan. The opin- ion among business men and officials us to whether the results would be beneficial or otherwise was widely divergent. Ii opinion of Industria? Stutistichns, rokimately three million wage earners in New York State alone wil be affected by the temporary shut down of industry. he wage loss for fifteen. days, ac-| cording to. conservative, unofficial es-| timates, wil be one hundred 'Hon dollars. tadrastssyiing Goverment Plans, (Caviadian Pres Despatch.) . Washington, Jan, 17.--It develop | ofl today that dnder the fue admin- istration's plan the Government will buy all coal cofisighed to suspended industries. These transactions will be Sonducigd 3 through the treasury department "& it is estimated will A Opinions Over the Matter--The Wage Loss Will be Very High--All Concern-| among submarine ed Are 'Busy _ Studying | 'the Com. | buildings using + | mil-| { ONLY BIGHT BRITISH {Canadian Press Despatch. ) London, Jan. 17.--Only large and two small British vessels were sunk by German subtharines last week : All but four British ships damaged by submarines in the pakt year have.been repaired. A SUBMARINE CREW i VESSELS SUNK IN WEEK. + | *| six + "LE BAS DE LAINE FRANCAIS" THE LATEST FRENCH LOAN POSTER | } MUTINIES AT ey Reported Killed in the Conflict. Press Des 17 crews (Car London, adian Jan, patch) "A mutiny at the Kiel, on January in an Exchange from Geneva are said to man naval base of 7th, is reported | Telogtaph despatch | Thirty-eight officers rave been killed There has been various reports in the-last few months of mutinous (outbreaks in the German navy and +#also in° the Austrian navy. Confir- mation was given by the German gov- ernment of reports of a mutiny among warship crews at Kidl in Sep- tember. A number of officers were killed. do duty on submarines was given as one of the reasons for the outbreak, A mutiny sailors who refused to go.on board a submarine was reported in Octo- SMALL LIST, QUITE A Of French Vessels Torpedoed During | Week. {Canadian Press Despateh.) Paris, Jan. 17.--Five French mer- chantmen of more than 1,600 tons | and one under that tonnage were 13th. during the | the week ending Jan. entering French week numbered while those | clearing were 751. Two vessels were attacked but escaped. ports 793 Procecding to Port, (Canadban Press Despatch.) An "Atlantic Port, Jan. 17.--Re- ports. seceived here to-day. from. the steamer Texan, damaged in a collis- fon with anotaer vessel Monday, said she was proceeding to port under her own steam. i cost the avast about $25,000,-1 -900. State idl Administrators will redistribute the coal to food plants and other industries run. Dally newspafers may fuel as excepting on Monday's from Jan. 2ist to March 26th, inclusive. On such days they may burn fuel to such an extent as is necessary to is | (Sue such editions as they customarily fesue on impanant holidays. Stocks Drop | But Rally. (Canadian Press Despatch.) New York, Jan. 17.--8tocks drop- | ped from fractions to over three | points at the opening of the stock | exchange to-dayg reflecting the atti- | tude of Wall street towards the drastic fuel regulations. Sharp rall* - in stocks were made later in the ay. ISH. toss Despatoh.) ~'"We carried ont night north of | Office reports. | a successipl St. Quentin," The enemy" he fe tive in|" "The enemy's lery was ae ve in: seotor."" " ! the. Tres te Pais Te a at-Beiug b 'icoator: Foe LEE, national legal | permitted to] burn |' i | J. M., FARREL ho Who is slated for Chalirmansliip of | | of Education. Report at Petrograd. {(Cenadian Press Despatch.) J | * London, - Jan. 17,--Nicholas' Ro- manoff, the former Bmperor, and his | family, have escaped from their pris- loin near Tobolsk, it is reported in Petragrad. | tirmation. | Increases Hydrophobia. | Paris Jan. 17.--A large increase in t hydrophobia fa. shown in the latest! | vital statistics, and the Pasteur Insti | tute says it is due to the high price! tot foodstufls, lan active part. in suppressing the | threatened epidemic. { (Canadian Press Despatch) Berlin, Jan. 17.--An of issued at Ostend among German | 'sunk by submarines or mines during Ship The report lacks con- The police are taking | And Thirty-eight Officers Are Ger- | Unwillingness of the men to i THING GARFIELD IS INA PANIC (Unit States I Draste Order of Fuel Controller SENATE. MAY. SUSPEND. IT FOR SOME DAYS IF WILSON DOES PRESIDENT NOT. t | The Canadian Government May Help to Conserve the Fuel Supply by Acting Similar to the United Sta- tes, (Canadiisn Pres: Despatch.) New York, Jan. 17. --United States newspapers are practically a| unit in declaring against Fuel Con troller. Garfield's drastic order tie- ing up the industries of the eastern and the middle Statbs; - Many of them refer to it as a na- tional disaster. The Evening World} says the. President should immedi- ately rescind the order and rpmove the man who made if, The Boston Globe describes the {order as a surrender to the Hups, The New York Tribune says the | fuel controller is in a panic amd acts Lin a headlong manner, | © 'Washington despatéhes say that | Senator Hitchcock, 'Democrat has in- {troduced a resolution in 'the Senate | to suspend the fuel order for five days, It is stated this resolution has a good chance of carry unless Presi- dent Wilson acts in the meantime. i Summongd by the Senate, {Cana mn Press Despatch.) Washington, D.C., Jan. 17 ---Fuel | Administrator Garfield was asked to- | day. by the Senate coal investigating {committee to appear at 2.30 o'clock itor an examination regarding his or- der. | Wihaet Will. Canada Do? {Canadian Press Despatch) Ottawa, Jan. 17.--Announcement | that Fyel Administrator Garfield of | the United States has decided to close factories east of Mississippi for a five day period comes as a complete surprise te the Dominion Govern ment. No official mdication as to whether or not "Canada will follow the example set by the United States is In forthcoming. C. A McGrath, 'Dominion Fuel Conirolier, and and C. W. Peterson, the bros t definite action without the Tadian steel manufacturers. Assistant 'Controller, are in Toronto, he Government is not likely toif * The French government has honored Mr. Ridgway Knight, Awerican artist, by reproducing tis lumous painting "Le Bas de Laine Francais" for the latest French Liberty Loan poster. -ubotiously Higuriag @% how Wass figuring out how many Liberty bonds they cas buy with their hoardings of a lifetline. rm ree pension Pheglenited in States, ofc activities . Declined to Talk, (« antdia Press De spaitch.) Toronto, Jan. "Fuel - Con- troller Magrath interviewed here this afternoon declines te discuss the | ac tion of the United States fuel con- troller or what Twould make to the Dominion Gov- ernment in regard to amy action in' Canada along similar lines. STEEL PRODUCTION WILL BE BE INCREASED Twenty Per 'Cont. More to be! Made in Canada This Year Than Last. Ottawa, Jan. 17.--An-inerease of | twenty per cent. in the steel produe- | tion of Canada over that.of last year ! is promised as the result of confer- ences held between the war mittee of the cahinet and the The nouncement is one which will, ii is thought, be welcome alike to the munitions board and the Canadian ey Can- { railways. FPPEIIL PEPE PILI L 4D REFUSED EXEMPTION > * TO ONLY FOUR MEN. A "Montreal, November 26th 14th, Tribunal No, at 480 Rachel St refused exemption to only four applicants. In that time it gave exemption to severat hun- ol: This record is second to that of Soulange, 'where every man asking for exemption was freed; § Rachel street id in the French-Canadian part of Mout- real Jan, 17 to nag Sa --~From January , meeting eet east, has oo» Sivertssrtsiensises { i i BL Onions Seized in Vancouver. Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 17.--Three hundred tons of onions, shipped to Vancouver recently by growers ti the Kelowna district and held in storage here, were seized today on .behalf of Food Controller Hanna. The seiz- ure was made by R. Robertson, the British Cglumbia representative of the Fopd Controller in the matter of fruit and vegetables, on telegrapher instructions from Mr. Hanna. It is said thal fully 25 per cent. of the on- fons had commenced to rot, and that seizure was made that they might be preserved for food purposes. The onions wil be sent to an. evaporating plant soon. . All state railway fate laws and regulations will remain in full effect untler government operation. . Senator King, Utah, has introdue- od & bill fo wipe out of existence the German-Ameriean alliance. ---- do 7 the British forces, oth here an [tant positions. It is said that recommendation he | HE PLANNED THE ARREST ---- i com- | an- 3 3 Pp * teeessoe BYNG WANTS CANADIAN OFFICERS ON IMPERIAL ST. AFF ; London, dan. 17 Canadians are to be found all through number of Canadiums on the stall of his army. 8 Canadian officers who have made excellent récontls fn the trenches and domonstrated their ability for executive posts are constantly coming to England to take stall courses. Those wil r : $50,000%00 IN FIRE LOSS. DUE TO BNEMY ALIENS # New York, Jan. the nine months the * United States hag been at war Aweri- can industries contributing to war needs--including grain.el- evators, munition plant yards, marine properti have suffered losses totalling more than $50,000,000 from fires of known incendiary 'or suspicious origin 17.--~ Dartap + +E Evia T arity Hi i {HUN PLOTTERS USE AMERICAN GUNBOAT i | San Francisco Trial Discloses | | the Unneutral Use of Ameri= can Wireless. { San Francisco, Jan, 17.--Letters | taken from the private corresepond jeuce of J. Clyde Hyzar, tending { show that the wireless of 'the { States gunboat Yarktown wa { to transmit messages between { Spirators in an alleged plot | throw British rule in India, were in- | troduced yesterday at the trial of | Franz Bopp, former German consul- | general here, and thirty other alleg «+8d Soscenspirators, | Nothing was introduced to show | that the commander of the Yroktown {02 any member of the crew had [me witage of aiding in the piot. According to evidence, the wireless was used by W. H. Page, of the } 5ohooner [Annie Tarsen, to obtain further charter money for that ves- sel. while both ships were in the | Mexisan harbor of Acapulco. I Phe prosecution contenda { Larsen was charfered in San Diego { Cal, to take a shipment of arms and | ammunition to the Island of Scorro, | off the coast of Mexico, where the | shipment would be taken aboard by the steamer Maverick bound for In- dia. to United 5 used con- to over- The old French peasants, are | | { \ that CAILLAUX AIMED 10 BE DICTATOR Opening of the Efe French Premiers Strong Box in aly Rew Reveals Plot. | APPALLED AT ILLNESS PREVAILING AMONG MEN, a Montreal Physician Attribu= tes the Trouble Chiefly to Cigarettes. Jan, 17 Giving evi- dence befope Justice Coderre in one | of the appeal tribunals, Dr. J. E. Dube stated that he was appailed at the amount of illness and disease prevailing among men of military age. © He attributed the trouble] | { | | ow GOVERNMENT HEADS AND A PEACE REFERENDUM. ---- Sarrail Was to Be Made Com=| chiefly to cigarettes. mander-in-Chicf of the ¥rench| Dr. Dube expressed the opinion Armies--Documents Sent to Paris. { that if the hnent of & ador in ning Purie, Jun. 17.--A wireless mes| 18 cptablishment of 4 Federal Med: sage received here from Rome de-|nity to do the ( an Tape a great clares documents found in the strong | deal of good. | box of former Premier Calllaux plan- | ned to assume dictitorial powers ir| {he were made Premier of France, and | & | Planned the arrest of President Poin-| care, Premeir. Briand and other statesmen, Caillaux 'also planned the dist. | tion of the Chamber of Deputies, t | was charged. Gen. Sarrail was { commander-in-chief armies; mecording to the plans found | in Rome. Two regiments to be re-| {cruited in Corsica Were to be brought | to Pits under the command of two! generals, both friends of Caillaux,! i Then, after a last military effort, | Caillaux 'planned to submit the ques | Gen, | i «| to he appointed the French | of tion of peace to a popular referen-| { dum. \ Cafllaux's plans included the Te- | formation of the French Govanment | | with a restrained parliament amd the | placing of absolute power mn the hands of a council of state, Part of the documents revealing Caillaux's plans have been sent to) : $ saris. ; i ' PRINCIPAL TAYLOR 450 | Who addressed the Canadian Club on | Wednesday evening, {5 A ---- 3 'BETROIT NEST OF SPIES, and Men Fit For Fighting | Will Assist, | Some Supplies Held Held Up Two Months! Toronto. Jan. 17.--Ontarle will] 3 by Germans' Work, . need 7,500 farm hands during the Detroit, Jan, 17.-~Detroit is a nest! coming. season in addition to the | of German spies who are succ essfully | army of heir vacations on the farm, the uni-|a large number of munition manufac versity girls and, other young Women | turers - who appeared before the! who will help with general farming common council commities t§day to] this year. | protest against the passage of a law St cn rl bn | Heensing private detectives. Five thousand Jewish emigrants, | If was stated that thousands of the chiefly women and children, on their | Kaiser's best soldiers are here in De- way from Russia to America, are troit fighting more vellantly than stranded between Harbin, Manéhuria. | are the men who face the shell-gre/| and Yokohama, Japan, and &rn n|on the baitle line. an appalling condition a -- Every big Detroit factory has { ness and want. © |German fighters. They fight by keep-| {ing back 'the production of ammuni-| !fion and thus far they have been | highly suceessiul. r ONTARIO NEEDS 7.500. Girls ° 3 ie form Butchered mn Turks. Brantford, Jan. 17% Mrs. Johann, | Bagdasarian, a BY Armenian res- Jatter horrible experiences {hands of the Turks. { hand she left here in 1914, before {the war proke out. They = were! at the d at thé various fronts, in impor: General Byng interds to have a -} opened. and though Johann turned) {pyver all his money--bank drafts] Sess itatesss city men. who will spend | holding up war supplies, according. to] 0 ident of this city, bas returned here With her bus-| leaught by the Turks after the war FOE DESERTS. T0 TALIANS stn Sods Cant Eure he Wi ter i he Mountains. ALLIED GUNS EFFECTIVE BRITISH GAS SHELLS « iE - EMY MUCH TROUBLE. EN. | The Austrian Censorship is Loose Letters Taken Krom © Prisoners Complain of Lack of Food, Italian Headquarters, Jan. 17.-- During the lull of bitter winter op- portunities have heen more frequent than usual for deserters to reach the Italian linés, Men out on night pa- tres siip, away in the darkness or manage to creep unobserved over the parapet on the front-line trenches. The sufferings of these Austrinu soldiers are terrible, and the cold in the mountains 6,000 feet high is severe. They had no opportunity to build huts or dugouts owing to snow and frost, which caught them shelter- less and unprepared. Some of the men are Austrians lately captured, and had been sleeping with no protec- | tion but their great coats at nights when the thermometer had gone be- low zero, X Austrian Censorship Loose, A noticeable fact is that the cen- | sorship system of Austria is_evident- ly either greatly relaxed or disor ganized, for prisomers are found carrying letters from their families which certainly would not have been sllow by the censor. In these let. ters there are bitter complaints of the i utter lack of food and stories of riots | and disorders, 'of which no indica- | tionappears in the Austrian eae f pers, " * Another fact Tearned trom exam- | ination of a large number of prison- ers and deserters is the completeness | with which the Austrian army has been reorganized; so split up that the training depots of the Gorman- speaking regiments have been moved t¢ Hungary, while the Hungarian [regiments have gone to recruiting | stations in parts of Austria. These | steps are imposed by the possibilities jof getive disaffection in the Austrian i army, for it the od system of reglon- ! al regiments had been maintained by | which officers and men were mainly of the same nationality it certainly | would have been impossible for the | Austrian Generals to count upon i more than a small part of their arm- jes, : Allied Guns Effective. Thé enemy continues to attempt to | enter our posts and trenches at var- | ious points, but the measure of his success is surprisingly small, On the |'ohhar hand, these enterprises are | costing him a considerable aggre- | gate of casualties. Prisoners taken ~% i i 3 +in one of the maids complain' that | the infantry kad ooly received thelr | instruction a few hours before the as- A sault, and are bitter over the fact that Piao officers' accompanied them. They say the flammenwerfers employed in _ { these enterprises are of the light {type, and are carried and worked by | Prussian pioneers-who are not keen | over the job, seeing what easy marks {they present to bur sn t A document recently discov ered ia {a captured position comtains grafify- | Ing testimony to the effectiveness and destructive battery work carried on by our artillery, It is stated . ] | that out of a brigade of twenty-four | field howitzers only six were left {in action after one of our counter- shoots. The document complains {that the British gas shells cause in- | terference with gettingeup ammuni- {tioh, and likewise prevents the re- moval of batteries at the right time, it is so often impossible to rescue i the guns. i 4 i e -the next offensive os finish of the war for of two Americans who have just reached France i | secured here---on promise of his life, | ihe was butchergd before his wife' 8 'eyes. She was driven into the moun-| | tains but escaped via Russias and Nor- {wuy, and 'has mow returndd to her {former home here, penniless. It is |i tnouent that the banks here will re- fund the money, as the drafts wi not be paid to the Turks, " finished the recently vompleted course at a well-known place Jf " lpstruction fn this country were surprised to hear that they were not to he sent back tothe Canadian army corps at all.' The War Office proposes to appoint' them to steff posiiions amoug the brigade and divisional headquarters of the various i Bltish armies 1s Franke and Ttaty. ¥