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__PAGE EIGHT ine (NN 6 RR TL Li 4nd Semi-Weekly by Fina" 2y BLISHING x President ." Editor and Managing- Director. Telephones: ce SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dafly Edition) year, delivered in ety ......+ if paid in advance ekly "ition x and three months pro rain, MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owe 3 St. Peter St. : (TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE F.C. 5 Traders Bank Bldg UNTIED, STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R. Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters to the Editor are published only Sver the actual name of the Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices In Canada The efrculation' of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations *"'Chinese troops are robbing Rus- slans," says a newspaper 'headline There's one thing certain: They can't roh the Russians of their stability The United States is just now try- ing to determine whether Japan is a menace or a comrade. Great Britain, by a treaty of alliance, solved the problem some years ago. "We are at the decisive moment of the jvar," announces the Kaiser, in discussing the present great offen- sive. That's about the only thing he ever said that we could agree with. Since her arrival in town on Thursday, Miss Spring has conduct od herself like a 'perfect lady. She still, however, possesses the feminine attribute of doing the unexpected thing any moment. A "well-known politician' is duot- ed in the Toronto News as saying: "To hell with Union Government. There is nothing in it for us." No better endorsement of Union Govy ernment could be made. A German peace would not be a lasting peace. The tiger would re- tire to his jungle only to recuperate for a fresh spring. The time to put an end to him is now. Peace talk is foolish until the Allies can dictate a peace on their owh terms. Mayor Lavigueur, of Quebec, one of the new members of the House of Commons, spoke in the House on Thursday. ' Inasmuch as he is the father of twenty-one children, he probably doesn't get many chances to tatk at home and so can be pai- doned if he overdoes it a little at Ot- tawa. - The Hun has mo <ompunction about sinking Dutch ships with all on board, but he gets wrathy when ( the lAlljes seize Dutch ships with the promise to return them after thd war or pay for .them if they are lost. This they term "an unprecedented act of violence against a neutral na- tion." What hyprocrisy! roe " The Great War Veterans are to be commended upon their anwounced plan of aiding returned soldiers. They will canvass all employers of fabor in the city with the object of finding suitable employment for these men. The Whig is confident that Kingston employers will gladly co-operate in the movement. --- = > a 'Hon Charles iMurphy applied the whip of honest criticism Jo the back of the Union Government," is the way the London Advertiser refers to his inpassioned and unfair attack {ipon the press and Hon. N. W. Row- ell, during the latter's absence from 'the House. 'Honest criticlsm." for sooth! Tt was the veriest balder- » Fa------ Sir Gitbert Parker's estimate of : Premier Lioyd-George will meet witit approval everywhere' except. possibly Jn Germany. He says that "his vast 'gifts tremendously outweigh This faults, and give the impression. not unduly of unfaibly that he is a man "of decision, of ¥igor, of driving force and of power." Those are qualities in a leader that the Allied nations stand greatly in seed of 10-day. THE BRITISH WHIG/ 2 PUNISHMENT TOO MERCIFUL. The doors of Portsmouth peniten- will shortly swing open to ad- Bryant, of Toronto, who sntenced to serve two tion. The punishment 1ate, and not at all dastardly crime this designing villain. r-old girl, innocent and whose mother is dead and whose father is serving in France, was seduced by Bryant un- der promise of marriage, which was to be performed in a Toronto church next day. The bride-to-be, the clergyman, attendants' and friends assembled at the appointed hour, but the expected bridegroom came not! An investigation revealed the fact that the man, who had gained the girl's love and confidence and who had represented himself as a single man, was married and the father of two children. The lawyer for the tiary mit Harry was this week years f« edu iis entirely inadeq in keeping with the perpetrated by A sixteen-yee unsoph ist | complainant was unscathing in his denunciation 'of the perpetrator of such a erimég, and asked that severe punishment be meted out Magistrate Dennison sentenced the man to two years in the penitentiary! There are men in: Portsmouth penitentiary to-day serving terms of five years or so {oy {trivial article. They would pro- bably be ashamed to be associated with the betrayer of this young and confiding girl, and well they might. Men have been sent to prison longer terms for stealing a loaf of bread to feed their hungry families. They are princes compared with Bry- ant. Times are- when justice should be tempered with mercy, but certain- ly this is not one of the occasions. for NEW ERA IN SHIPBUILDING. As noted in these columns some days ago, 'there was launched last week at Redwood, Cali- fornia, the largest concrete ship ever built. The launching was such a success that the work of installing the engines, etc, wae at once begun. Not only have ship- ping men kept in touch with this great undertaking, but for months consular and diplomatic agents 'of nearly all the Allied nations have been at Redwood anxiously watching the work which has upset tradition and which now marks an epoc in the history of shipbuilding. This vessel is 336 feet long, with 45 ft. beam. Its sides are 4 in. thick. It weighs over 3,600 tons and has a cargo capacity of 5,500 tons. It has two decks, and will be propelled by en- gines of 1,750 hp. The estimated cost of this big vessel is $750,000, a large part of this sum being due to the fact that it was the first at- tempt. The history off the use of concrete in building ships is interesting. In 1887 concrete boats were built in Holland, and so' successful were these vessels of eleven tons capacity that a number of barges, 64 ft. long and 14 ft. beam, of 55 tonis capacity, were built. German. shipbuilders constructed in 1909 a concrete ship freighter of 220 tons. In 1914 the Sydney Harbor Trust built a con- crete pontoon 119 ft. long. A con- crete barge built for use on the Man- chester Ship Canal has been found extremely economical. That con- crete bridges can successfully with- stand rough usage has been proved by a barge In use on the Welland Canal. Such barges were also built in 1911 and wsed on the Panama Canal. The Chicago Naval Reserve are using concrete motor boats which are rendering good service. The success of the launching of the new ocean-going "yessel on ths Pacific coast will lead to the con- struction of hundreds more of the same style. A mew era in shipbuild- ing has been' inaugurated, and the vessel tonnage at the disposal ofthe Allies will now be greatly augment- ed. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE. 18 the long-heralded German offens sive now on? The attack agénst the British forces in France along a fifty mile front, as announced in yester- day's despatches, would indicate that the threatened big drive by the Huns has at last commenced in real earn- est. The coming of spring, earlier in Europe than in Canada, has made it possible to launch an offensive on a large scale. The ground is now in a fit condifion for heavy fighting. The opposing forces have been hard at work preparing for the coming strug- gle for supremacy. camps behind the lines divisions have undergone a period of intensive train- ing in attack and fence. All the newest devices of war have been brought into use. Both sides have burried on these preparations. Of the steps taken by the Allies we may say very little, but we may be sure they were adequate to meet any emer- gency. While the troops in resesye were training for the fray, the men up in the fighting line were busily engaged ------ stealing some | In the trafningt ® plans and dispositigns, So these raids have been a nightly feature of the work all along the line. But they were only preliminary to the larger! operation now under way. The Ger-| man attacks uear Ypres and on the American sector of the line, repulsed with heavy losses, foreshad- owed the present offensive. The opposing more evenly matched than at any previous time, Divisions transferred | from 'Russia have ough armies are to-day raised the strength of the German army to an equality, | if not a superiority, with that of! the Allies. In gun power and in the, air the Allies stil predominate. The superiority in aireraft is a vital fac- tor, both in attack and defence, The aeroplanes are the eyes of a modern| army, and s6 long as the British, | French and American aviators can| hold the supremacy of the air, sur-| prise is most improbable. The mar-| gin. which the Allies have in gun-! power, while not so great as it was a' year o, is still sufficient to put into the hearts of the who depend upon them for| support, The German at-| tack, however successful it may will be made only in the face of jiremendous losses Another morale of been cesses confidence infantry present be, | the point to the greatly in Italy during of 1917, and by Russia the war remember: German troops has improved by the suc- the latter part the elimination of from active participation in| They now hope to inflict! a crushing defeat upon the Western Allies war. They have been thoroughly drilled in of- fensive tactic The Hun has now copied the British,tanks, and yester- day's reports noted their presence in the 'battle lines, With eighteen months' experience of tank warfare, the men of the British tank corps have, probably, a few tricks in hand to show the Germans, What eoncerns the public eral most of of the the and thus end the in gen- all is the possible result offensive. The were well warned that it ing. , They must its results Portions of new people was com- also be prepared for There will be ground will given up before the onslaught. The casualties will be heavy, and some thousands of men will be taken pris- oner.* These result of any reverses, have to be things are the natural well-prepared and de- termined attack on either side, and the Allies will have to face that. The Allies will hold fast, and with an elastic line, such as exists in France, they will he able to hold the German in check until the American forces are strong enough to co-operate in a great counter-offensive. Thus, while this is a time of trial and of} doubt, it is only temporary, and the enemy will find that all his hopes | will be crushed against the impene- | trablé barrier on the western front. | In this his last great offensive, he will bring about his own defeat and | the result will be a triumph for the! forces of democracy, and th&® final! downfall of Prussian autocracy. The death took place Wednesday at Pertly of a former well-known resj- dent of Brockville, in Mrs. Sanah Foster. i | | PUG OPON | wants to go to Toronto any sooner { thoughtful consideration of all young | men, Britain is Not Starving. (Westminister Gazette.) We are bound to talk about food in these days, but let no sider imagine we are starving, OF that on the present showing, and with anything like good management, we are likely to. " No Hull Across The Water! (Ottawa Citizen.) HM you buy a railroad ticker from Ottawa to Toronto now, instead of waiting till next month, you will save $1.15. But who the dickens our out- than he's forced to? & No Half Way House. (London Times.) There is, in fact, no half-way house between viciory and. defeat. To try to find it is to try to jump half way down Niagara. Pefore vic- tory, negotiations of any kind with armed and unrepentant * 'militarism" lead straight to 'the lamentable and ignominious goal to which the Bol- sheviks have drifted. igen Enough of Them at Home, ( Brantford Courier.) The excuse of one draftee in Mon- treal as to why he should not be sent to the front was that he POsess- ed "unusual oratorical ability." That's the kind who generally talk people to death, so that in reality he {3° should be very valuable in a front line position, within speaking dis- tance of the foe, PROVINCIAL AID Given by the Government for Greater Production. The Dominion Government taken the lead in an effort to pro- mote greater production by appro- priating $250,000 and placing it at the disposal of the various prov- inces. This will enable the provin- cial government to take effective direction of food production and utilize farm Jabor and land with as- surance of successful results. The ability of many farmers to respond to the national need is lim- ited by their domestic and financial obligations and in other cases by the want of help. The Provincial De- partment of Agriculture is now in a position to assist by providing trac- tors and should direct their opera- tion, the farmer paying the expense. This he will gladly do. A schedule of operations in every county should be prepared and car- ried out under the supervision of an engineer in order that the work might be accomplished in the short- est possible time, the local agricul- ture representatives co-operating by facilitating the distribution of seed. Lack of organization and efficient! direction would result in loss-of val-} uable time and money and defeat the purpose in view. The stimulous thus given 'to agri- cylture should awaken in the farmer anew vision, and attract many back} to the soil. Never before has much depended upon the farm and never was farm produce in such de- mand. The demand will be as great for many years and the profit to be obtained thereby should receive the has or Canada can he made a veritable garden. Never in her his- tory has opportunity so smiled upon our people. Here, secure from the devastation of war, orchards clad in the lining of Eden fill the breeze with sweet odours; green pastures stretch to the setting sun, and the golden harvests, awaiting but the hand of man, call forth hosannas unto nature's God! Rippling Rhymes "You gasoline, as o'er sour, when I've miles an hour. 4 h valleys sweet and cool, and run down a nile. from my immortal lyre. Don't dodge pursue the rocks; he is not wi in raids, the purpose of which was to) secure information. 'These raids, in- stituted first of all by the Canadians, sides. Their main object is to | information. A prisoner under kind treatment (in British, not German agg, thus a certain amount of i6age In gained of tho opposing are now a feature of the work of both} hands). often discloses valuable facts, THE HELPFUL AUTO ught to cut out riding round in your up- holstered boat; for thus you're wasting many a pound and many a bone and groat. man submarine, or spike a German gun." bors sometimes hand to me such lectures, stern and - keep in proper form, to keep his strongbox warm, bond, or help a Red Cross fund, nor have it said that he has pawned his Sunday cummerbund. would be at his best, and make each motion pay, hé has to have his hours or rest, his little slice of play. When I grow tired of labor's pangs, I take my four wheeled car, and scoot some nineteen parasangs, out where the hayseed are; I rush along, and never stop, And when my little spin is done, I homeward jog along, and 1 feel fikto-write a ton of redhot, deathless song. And when I've put the car away, and changed the busted tire, I then proceed to knock the whey "who tries to be a brother to the ox. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN The coin you blow for thet roads you run, might sink a Ger- My neigh- been scorching o'er the lea, at forty But nowadays the loyal lad should to earn the shining silver scad, 80 he can always buy a And if he sometimes maim a rustic cop, again all kinds of play and glee while you sie. - 80 | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1918. sss Bilbbys Young Men's Suits TIAA Recent Arrivals of Suits and Overcoats Illustrate the Latest Styles and Patterns that are W onderfully Attractive. THE ROW SUIT $30.00 THE BROKER SUIT $22.50 THE BUDD $25.00 THE DOVER SUIT $25.00 THE DERBY SUIT $20.00 THE BANKER SUIT $27.50 THE POOLE SUIT $27.50 THE WILTON SUI $20.00 THE KENORA $18 ~- Overcoats THE CHESTER $16.50 THE CHAMBER- LAIN, $20.00 Bibbys T / 50 THE BARON Style Headquarters FOR GREATER PRODUCTION USE BUCKEYE Incubators 65 and 120-egg machines. away. Prompt delivery from stéck. prices as any catalogue house. Sold only at Same No need to send your money BUNT?'S Phone 338 Hardware Kingston OVERCOATS Large Stock to Choose From. $15 to $28 JOHN TWEDDELL Civil & Military Tailor, 131 Princess St, One Door Below R RRR RTT TTY Stafford's Annihilator For Removing Ink From paper, 25¢ Box. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess St. Aad A A a ad aa ahhh eddie wood, white or colored materials. Phone 348 LA had PC STD OW Shh hh he Terr (F. W, Cooke, Local Agent) 5 1 Tent, Awning, Flag and Waterproof Goods turers, YOU'LL MAKE NO MISTAKE - By placing your order early for store or house awnings and curtains. Supplies and hejp are scarce and. prices will be higher, . J. J. Turner & Sons, Limited. Manufae ONTARIO, Anything You Bake can be no bettdr than the flour you use. Why take chances? The coun- try-wide popularity of our unexcelled flour, and the unrivaled esteem in which it is held everywhere, by housewives who know these facts should be sufficient to convince you, ; that its use is indispensable in get ting best baking results. pt W. F. McBroom} CANNED VEGETABLES Tomatoes, per tin ... Corn, per tin _ Standard Pens, per tin ... . " Barly June Peas, mil tim .. Asparagus, per tia Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990. TTT TTY YY WE HAVE LIMITED SUPPLY OF WOOD! NY Coc mk A