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/ » £ PAB BB 12 Pages ress ssers Whig YEAR 85: NO, 47 BOWS. ITS NECK 0 THE GERMANS THE SWEEPING DEMANDS OF THE HUNS ARE GIVEN IN A : DESPATCH, Russia To Surrender 160,000 Square Miles of Territory And Pay an In- demnity of Three Billion Roubles. London, Feb. 25.--Germany's peace turms have been accepted by Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik prem- fer, and Leon Trotzky, foreign minis- ter, acting for the central executive of the Soviets, This announcement is made in a Russian official statement received by It adds that Russia will immediately te wireless, send a delegation Brest-Litovsk. A Petrograd despatch says: The peace terms submitted at the Brest- Litovsk conference by the central powers were as follows: Russia should sarrender 160,000 square miles of territory, having a population of 18,093,000, and pay an indemnity subsequently modified to thre billion roubles. The ventral Powers were prepared to return to Russia 7,000 square miles in the Grodno Government, Province of Lithuania, «Russia should agree not to spread revolutionary progaganda in the cen- tral empires. Mhe commercial treaty which was abrograted at the beginning of the war should be reconstituted and ex- tended thirty years. Reports reaching Petrograd are to the effect that the newest German de- mands include the policing pf all the prineipal cities of Russia. Governor of Riga Provinces. {Canadian Press Despatch) London, Feb, 25---The Morning Post, remarking on the appointment of the Grand Duke of Hesse as Ger- man commandant in Riga provinces, points out that the former Czarina of Russia is his sister 'and hints that she may be igiade rerent of Russia by Germany as guardian of her son, the former Czarevitch. Russia's sdrtender to Germany means that nearly four hundred thousand square miles of territory with fifty million population and all the Baltic pass over to German dom- ination. Orders. Russians to Fight, (Canadian Press Despateh) London, Feb: 3b6.----Gen, Brujevitch has been appointed dictator and suc- cesror to fl mander-in-chief of the armies, ac- cording to a Berlin despatch, and has . ordered the Russian troops to fight to the last. More Russian Towns Occupied. Cana r Despatch) Bertin Feb ee London )-- German troops have occupied Per- nau, a Russian seaport in Livonia, ninéty-nine miles north-east of Riga, and Dorpat, 1567 miles northeast of Riga, the German War Office an- nounced today. HERTLING TO SPEAK BEFORE REICHSTAG And Many State Germany's) Case And Also Speak About | Russia. A---------- : tan Despatch Now YOR, i 20 Cou Von Heftling, Imperial German Chan- .cellor, will - address the German Refchstag Sosduy on orelgn sflaite, probably with most attention to the 'Russian & @n and . the peace terms now offered by Germany. The Chancellor has #ot yet roplied to the recent war 8° statements of Pre- sident Wilson d Premier Lioyd- George, antl if speaks he may take this vy to state Ger- Ensign -Krylenko as. com-] Hl ish Columbia, where Col. Peck, angth, # lencies. the Opposition majorities have ernment column. {continental 194. Total 3,520. | i BY DRASTIC LAWS A Determined Effort to Stamp 'Out Venereal Disease in This Province. Toronto, Feb. 25.--Ontario's de- termination to wipe out the social disease problem is fast taking form, and the evidence which Justice Hodgins secured acting-as a commis- 'sloner to investigate conditions is now ia the hands of the Government, $+ is understood. : As a result of this evidence and the report which the commissioner will submit within a few days, dras- tie legislation will be introduced in the legislature during the present session which, it is thought, will have far-reaching effects in dealing with the situation. Details of the evidence handed in have not been made public, but it is understood a recommendation will be made to the effect that every medical health officer, if he has in- formation or reason to believe that any person is suffering from vener- eal disease and has infection or is Hable to infect another will be given power to require that person to go to a physician for examination. If it is shown that the person is infected the medical health #6fficer would be in a position to compel him or her to submit to medical treat- ment and obey certain restrictions and regulations as may be-establish- ed regarding his or her conduct. COLLINGWOOD STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK Some Points of Difference To be Settled by Board of Conciliation. « (Canadian Press Despatoh) Ottawa, Feb. 25.--Employees of the Collipgwood Shipyard Company, who have been out on strike for the past few days, returned to work this morning, Fair Wages Officer E. N. Compton of the Department of Labor here, who assistéd in adjusting. the ldigpute, returned 'to the-.capital to- day. There are still some points of difference between the company and the men and these will be dealt with by a Board of Conciliation, which will be appointed by the Minister of Labor. About 600 employees are in- volved. GOVERNMENT MAJORITY 60 THE SOLDIERS' AND THE NA- VAL VOTES ADDED. There Are Several Turnovers--Mili- tary Vote in Utited Kingdom Has Yet to be Counted. Ottawa, Feb, 25---~The official sol- diers' and naval vote taken in France, in Canada and in the United States, announced to-day by W. F. O'Con- tor, 'General Returning Officer, has increased the majority of the Union Government in Parliament to 60. It was 45 when the civilian home vote was counted, The soldiers' vote taken in. Great Britain has all been allo- jcated to the various constituencies, and a staff of sixty officers commenc- ed to count it yesterday. Mr. O'Con- nor expects it will all be in by Wed- nesday, when the Government's ma- jority may be further increased. The standing of the Government and Op- position at present by provinces is as allows : Govt. Opp. Prince Edward Island 4 Nova Scotia .......... New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba . .. Saskatchewan Alberta . British Columbia Yukon Total... i........... 147 Government majority--60, There is one deferred election--Nel- son, Man, : Where Results are Reversed. The seats which have changed from the Opposition to the Govern- ment column are Cape Breton South and Richmond, where Kyte and Car- roll © were defeated; Cumberland, where ex-Speaker Rhodes is elected over Hance Logan; Hants, where Martell's majority has been wiped out, and Pictou, where McGregor has defeated MacKay, all in Nova Scotia; South Essex, Ontario, where Brien, Government, has defeated Atkin, Lib. eral; West Edmonton, wi Colonel Griesbach has a jarge m; over Hon, Frank Oliver, and 'Skeena, Brit- Wh NI. 87 r soldier candidate, has been elec bver Stork, Liberal, p In several other Ontario. donstitu- been materially reduced. = These in- clude Nipissing, South Perth and South Renirew, and the vote in Eng- land may put these seats in the Gove "Kingston and Frontenac. " Kinggton--Nickle (Government) -- Civilian, 4451; North American, 473; continental, 734. Total an, 57; . Total, 1.772. Na ¢ Frontenac--Edwards (Government) -- Civilian, 3.202; North Ametican, 74; Halliday (Opposition)--Civilian, 1,- 3 ; North Ametican, 6: continental, Total, 1656. No change. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY. FEBRUARY Pages 18 Pied | ax 25, 1918. BLIND WARRIOR, EN ROUTE TO "BLIGHTY," PLAYING "HOME, SWEET HOME" THE JAPS TQ HIT FRESH BLOW AT HUNS Changed Situation in East Likely to Result in New Operations. London, Feb. 25.--A correspond- ent of The Daily Chronicle writes: "Our Far Eastern ally cannot view with indifference the successful com- pletion of the German plan for the domination of Russia. It gives Special significance to the presence oy Inet battleships at Viadivos- ok. "Japan's attitude is best defined by the recent declaration of the Premier that his country is watching events and would take appropriate action. -This, of course, is not to be interpreted in terms of armaments and preparations 'for an offensive, but it is an indication that Japan is alive to the possible danger. REast- ern Siberia is at her doors, and there Is glways a chance that Germany will | try to embroil her with China or the | United States. "Obviously, the situation has changed since Japan took part in the Paris Conference. Her assistance, { limited hitherto to naval and finan- cial action, may take another form. If her hands have been tied in the i | optimism, A RED CROSS LINER WRECKED Twenty-Six Rescued And Twenty More Arc Reported on Ship. THE FLORIEL THE WIT IT BAILED FROM NEW ¥FOUND- LAND FOR HALIFAX. With Seventy-seven Passengers And Bistywine of a" Crew--A Steamer Stood By to Help While Florizel Pounded fo Pieces. TOenadian Press Despatch) St. John's, Nfld.,, Feb, 25.--Twen- ty-six mifrvivors of the Red Cross liner Florigel, wrecked at Broadcove near Cape Race yesterday, were resuced at daylight to-day. A mess- age from the coastal steamer Pros- pero, which stood by all night while the Florfzel was being pounded on thé rocks, reported that twenty oth- ers were alive in the ship. The first batch of survivors was taken off in turee life-boats and four dories, but the sea was so rough that they were unable to approach the shore near which Florizel struck early. Sunday morning, while on voy- age from this port to Halifax and New York. All had suffered terribly from cold and exposure. Steamers met the boats and took the rescued aboard. A wirelesSumessage from the Pros- pero to John Crosbie; Minister of Shipping; early to-day was the first word of hope that any of the seventy- seven passengers and crew of sixty- nine had been saved. The Prospero reporter that every effort was being made to transfer them from the bat- tered hulk. PRIVILEGES ARE GIVEN CANADIAN FISHERMEN (Canadian Press Despatch) Washington, Feb. 25.--With * ihe approval of President Wil- + don, Secretary of Commerce # Redfield has issued orders to # customs. collectors to allow Can- Shh bbb rs bbde ports and fishing banks. Reei- & procal privileges have been- # 'asked of Canada for American + fishing . vessels. Blinded by the Huns and for a long while Inmate of a German pfison hospital, this Tommy lost none of his | He is here shown en route to "Blighty," playing "Home, Sweet Home." . | AA ------------------ "SE eo TSH ARNE | BLIND HON GINS Yet Unseat Member From the Yukon. And. Aid Very Materally in Wiping Out © Russias Defection. | vote, But this majority is reduced by 30. Of course, the overseas vote may still further reduce his majority y and may even defeat him. REDUCE ENEMY S CHANCE The case of the Yukon is especially interesting. The enlistment of sol- diers from the Yukon was about 100, yet no fewer than 504 home soldiers placed their votes there. By the rul- ing of W. ¥. O'Connor; the returning officer, howevér, all of them were thrown out except 48, Ottawa, Feb. 25--F. T. Gongdos.| the Laurier candidate in the Yukon! who was elected by a civilian major- ity of 112, still holds his seat as a re- sult of the eounting of the soldier OF MAKING A SURPRISE OFFEN- SIVE IN PRANCE. When the Germans Get a Good Lick- RASA TAT ANC Collapse Will Be Sudden. 14} NEE 1 ANCRY > London, Feb, 25.--The most hear- Complains That Orangemen Desire tening néws from the front is the Ao Wipe Out Freach-Canadians | rapid development in battle éfficiency Montreal, Feb. 25.---'"The Ontario | of the British air service, which is so Orangemen are singing victory," | largely manned by Canadians, Thus, says La Presse. It continues: "Their| i : chief organ claims that bilingual|!2st Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- German planes schools will be abolished in Sask-|day, seventy-eight atchewan. [It asserts with delight | were brought down by the British, that the grain growers, and practic-| making with the French a total of ally all the English population of} 104 that province, desire that end. The * Orange organ further says: 'If Great| Our losses were twelve only. Britain had treated the French in| It Is realized that, by this bilnd- Sauady as the Saverament of Hoi ling the enemy's artillefy and infan- Unite ates treate: © {French o . Louisiana, the race would have dis-; TV: Sh Dausius Halg Huy wipe aut appeared by absorption and we greatly reduces. Ges would not have had a racial problem | Superiority on our hands.' Here is a lamént; MARY'S chances of a surprise offen- i tel _ sive which alone could bring her sue- Thien throws BOWS oaL on Te or | cess, while our chances of surprise | Against her Embassy and | her merchants ang students in Rus the Freneh language in order to kill the race which secures its survival. The French-Canadians have, how- ever, still got a strong desire to live and, warned, as they have been, they) lattacks on the enemy are enormously { increased. ; Air supremacy may indeed hasten ithe only possible conclusion of the war, which a traveler just arrived in tr : wm. | Amsterdam from Berlin defines thus: will kuow how to safeguard them- | "If the Germans get a good licking, » {the collapse will come very quickly, and will be terrific, for the German - | people, including their officers, are : {heartily sick of fightfng. Soldiers That Nationalization of Railways is and officers will do anything to get Decided Upon, excused from serving at the front." Ottawa, Feb. 25. Few XTthur ; Meignen, who was one of the sub- | committee of the Cabinet which has| The Turkish forces dislodged by been dealing with the railway ques-| the British at the capture of Jericho tion, issued on Saturday a denial of | in Palestine, have retired to the north a statement made in an Ottawa news-| 20d east, the War Office aunpunces. paper that the recommedation had| IU the new invasion of Russian been made that all raflways except lerritory the German forces reached the C, P. R. be nationalized and op-| Walk, in Livonia, ninety-eight miles erated by the government. The dif-|NOrtheast of Riga, the German Gen- ticulty apparently is that the ol T staff announces, DENIES THE STATEMENT. ---- War Tidings. ; : There are numerous indications. of ot the Sand ii i poise hog a a new general strike in Germany, an priated, and therefore any arrange- ment must be based upon agreement between the stockholders and the government, Ee - wouLb acd JONFERENCE. With German Socialists Regarding Abandoning of Militarisnt, Arthur Henderson, of the British war | Arpsterdam despatch says. OFFERING OF $6,900,000 {Of City of Montreal Five. : year Issue at , Montreal, Feb. 25.--The Bank of Montreal, local agent of the City of Montreal, is authorized to offer for sale $6,900,000 five-year § per cen! Totunding gold bonds of the Sit ontreal, dated December lst, 191" due December 1st, 1922, The is made to refund a like am : Montreal three-year notes, 6 ginal issue having been for piiblic works, In anticipation of 'a perman-| ent loan. The offering will al immediate attention in 4 bond circles, Bs it is the fac) ii matter. 1 past by fears of reprisals by Trotzky Consuls, sla, she feels to-day greater concern for their safety, In common with her allies, she has now to substitute the Austro-Germans for the Bolshev- | iki "If, in the larger view, one may surmise that the Teutonic activity in Russia is designed as a set-off to defeat @lsewhere, it has introduced new factors of a military and diplo- matic order which cannot be neg- lected." Measures Taken For Mobiliza« tion of Entire Population For Defence Work. London, Feb. 25---The inhabitants of Petrograd await coming events with an outward calm, according to the latest despatches received here, and continue to pursue their ordin- ary .business life seemingly uncon- cerned over the great interests at stake. . The Daily Mail's Petrograd cor- respondent, in a despatch sent last Thursday, repeats a statement that the majority would welcome the arrival of the Germans, fearing an outbreak of uncontrolled anarchism ing, a Traveller Says, the HWW tot Gnd murder. THe bulk of the population, the correspondent says, Is tired of revolution, tired of hunger and disorder, and tired of the uncertainty perpetually over- hanging them, declaring that they are experiencing all of the disad- vantages of the Czar's regime with- out any of its advantages. Measures, it is officially declared, have been taken for the registration and distribution of foodstuffs and the mobilization of the entire popu- lation for defence work. The special general staff will appropriate all property required for defehsive pur: poses. ' THE BRITISH ARMY IS STILL GROWING Proof of This Found in Exten- sion of Its Front in France. War Correspondents' Headguart- ers, Feb. 25,--It was revealed a few wéeks ago that the British troops had taken over from the French a 'part of the line round about St. Quentin, in order to liberate some of the troops of the (French Allies for operations elsewhere. Since then the British have been gradually extending the length of their front on the right. This will render considerable service to the French by economizing their man- power at a critical time. It is a remarkable evidence of the British strength that after the tre- mendous fighting of last year and the departure of some. divisions to italy they should be able to lengthen their lines to this extent. "THE PARASITE" BANNED NOW. Another of Arthur Mee's Books Falls Under Canadian Prohibition. Ottawa, Feb. 25--"The Parasite," by Arthur Mee, published by Morgan Scott, Limited, London, England, has been declared by the Secretary of State to contain objectionable n imposes lability to a fine not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than five years. Going Fifth Time. Montreal, Feb. 85. --JLdeut. J. R.. Weaver, whose home is in Denver, Colo., and who, with = the Canadian soldiers in several important en- gagements against the Huns, was in- valided four tinies from wounds, in- fends to go back to the front again, this time with the American army. He eniisted as a private in this eity oh early in the war. s New York, Feb. 25.--The state are leaving this country on every available ship by the hundred to be- come members of the new army. -- in inst. LAST EDITION GERMANS READY 10 FALL BACK From SL. Mii Sallea to th Great For- tes of Metz. THE WHOLE WOEVRE PLAN MAY POSSIBLY BE ABANDONED BY ENEMY. The New Hindenburg Tine--Twenty Five Mile Retreat Forecasted By Activity Behind The Trenches. London, Feb, 256. --Petain's eleven mile attack Wednesday near the Seille River, in Lorraine, has added interest from the mews that the Ger- mans on that part of the front have prepared a new Hindenburg line far in the rear and apparently are ready to fall back upon the fortress of Metz from the St. Mihiel salient this spring as they did from the Noyon salient further west a year ago. The part of the line they would give up if this manoeuvre is tarried out in- cludes the Xivray and Seicheprey held by American troops. The ex- treme depth of the retreat on the centre of the line involved would be twenty-five miles, : New German Line, The new line selected runs from Etain due east of Verdun to near the Rhine-Marne Canal, where American troops first went into action, and would be about sixty miles long, re- placing a tortuous front about twen- ty miles longer. The new line makes the great fortress of Metz the pivot and gives up all the plain of the Woevre, A correspondent in the field for Le Temps of Paris has just visited this ction of the front. From Verdun 0 Parroy the French hold all the high ground and look across the plain to the east. The German lines are in places on the slopes of the hills and in others In the valleys at the foot of steep declivities. The correspondent was able from the high ground to see what he describes as a new Hindenburg line as else- where along the front. From the heights of the Meuse to the Moselle our muddy trenches gre 'exposed to their trenches equally muddy; but behind their trenches they have bullt their new Hindenburg line, which cuts off entirely the St. Mihie salient. The entrenched camp o Metx is the pivot of the new . line. South of that point it passes through the fortified heights of Delme and joins the present lines south of Chat- eau Salins. Concentrating Men, "Behind the new line the Germans are concentrating large bodies of troops between Metz and while there are still other tions along the Rhine, centrations are not negl le, for the enemy seems to have abandoned de- finitely the practice of concentration on the spot for an offensive, pre~ ferring to keep his masses further in the rear where they can be rushed from one point to another. In the present case the German concentra tions form a menace for either Ver- dun or Lorraine. They ¢an better be sent behind Metz by Thionville to at- tack Verdun or they can be used di- rectly against our. Lorraine front over their many lines of strategic railways.) concentra- These con- DRIVE AGAINST Swiss TO GET ELECTRIC POWER Germans May Thus Seek To Supply One of Their Great Needs. New York, Feb. 26.--A German drive through Switzerland .to obtain the electric power of "that country, much needed by the Germans, ia pre- dicted as a possibiltiy by Will Irwin, author and war eorr it, who has just returned from the Western front, x "There is an attractive series of Sosibilitien. hotors von Hindenburg." declared Irwin, "My opinion is that he. will strike to put France out of the war, although he may strike to obtain possession of the French ports. The drive may be made through Switzerland. The Germans need Switzerland's electric power as much as they needed Belgium's re- Sources at the beginning of the war, nd Switzerland will be unable to cut up any such &pl d tight did Belgium," a Pneumonic Plague in China. Boston, Feb. 25.---The pneumonie plague has broken out in Shanst Pro- vince, (China, and has assumed such proportions that all | FERRERS ets 0s 0000 Sarreburg,