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14 PAGES I a---- aeasraesa " LAST EDITION YHAR 85: NO. 85 MESSINES RIDGE IS HELD BY THE BRITISH FORCES The Germans Take Half of Ploegsteert Village And Wood North of Armentieres -- The British Counter-Attacks Drive Them From Several Positions. (Canadian Press Despatch.) : With the British Army in Belgium, April 11.--The Ger- mans this morning were in possession of about half of Ploeg- steert village and wood on the Flanders battlefront, just to the north of Arméntieres. Fighting was continuing this moen- ing north of Armentieres with the British still holding Messines ridge and Wytschaete which yesterday changed hands several times. During the day enemy sueceeded in enté®ing not only 'these positions, but Lacfeche, Nieppe and Hollebeke. Vigorous counter-attacks forced the enemy from all these places. | Desperate Fighting Continues. (Canadian Press Despatch.) | x i New York, April 11.-- This afternoon's Associated Press| war summary says: "Armentieres has been evacuated by the British, while the] + t : | This Is how the American troops in France escorth Germans, driving in from the southwest of the town, are strug- | g " gl tected by an armed escort of Uncle Sam's soldiers, con¥ey gling to push forward in the area southwest of Messines ridge, | the key point of the British line in Flanders. Messines ridge it- | self has been the objective of desperate frontal attacks and the] Germans are reported to have pushed on to the ridge several times during fierce hand-to-hand fighting. Each time however, the British eame back at them with effective counter-atiacks and to-day were still holding the ridge. West of Armentieres the ene my, struggling in his deep sal- ient, has pushed the fighting to the limit and at «ne time suc- ceeded in drivin® three miles beyond the river Lys to Lacreche, In this situation the British likewise reacted strongly, and by. vigorous counter-attacks ousted the Germans from Lacreche and other neighboring terrain, mans were retaken in counter-attacks. Other places taken by the Ger- s The evacuation of Armentieres had been forecasted and discounted; as the place is without strategic value. no let-up in the engagement to-day, the battle continuing on. There was the entire twenty-five mile front from Labassee north to the Ypres-Comines canal just below Ypres. German Attack Was Broken Up. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, April 11.----A German attack in Champagne last night was broken up by the French fire. front there was heavy artillery and Noyon. OPINION IN BRITAIN 18 NOW STIFFENING | No Reason Why Young and Fit Irishmen Should Not Do Their Bit. Lopdon, April 11.--Overwhélming determination to avert a Prussian Yifiory on land this year stiffens the public opinion of Great Britain be- yond anything heretofore seen dur- ing the war. This outstanding fact was reflected with grave intensity in both Houses of "Parliament. Ireland presents a difficulty that no British public man or private citizen would choose to see definite- ly challenged, but. the feeling is widespread in England, Scotland and Wales that neither justice .nor policy permits any other course. The English, Scotch and Welsh nationalities declare that while they are sending their boys of eighteen and their men of fifty into the army to fight for the security of the Brit- ish Isles, young and fit Irislimen, who it by this security as much ag anyone, should not be exempted. It is strongly held now that'an un- precedented emergency, affecting all: alike, calls fmperatively for the total fighting strength-of the United Kingdom. * With the Prussian hordes fn mo- tion and thousands of gums thun- dering against the front of freedom in the west, relatively petty domes- tic problems, however stubborn and embittered, seem likely to find a summary solution. SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN. 4A Big British Steamer Was Torpedo. od in February Spedial to the Whig. ork, April 11.--The big steamer Minnetonka, 13,528 gross register, and formerly in New York-London passenger "the Atlantic Transport Line #ank by a German sub- jo the Mediterranean during d Marine Register re- . ports to-)day. The Minnetonka was one of a line of ; 3E four ships aggregating been New British tons the ns, ail of which have three ire Min! is; sunk 8: Minnehaba, sunk ae Minnewaska, "{in cash, sunk since the war began. The On the principal battle _ fighting between Montdidier / FHbdb bbb be bbl bbb bbb $ + BEEN +» ACE TERMS. + (Canadian Press Despatch.) + London, April 11.--Negotia- % tions regarding the possibility % of peace between the United % States and Austria<Hungary 4% have been carried on between 4 Prof. Anderson, of Washington, % and Count Stephen Tisza and # Count Julius Andrassy, former % Hungarian premiers, accord- # ing to a Vienna despatch to the 4+ Berlin Tageblatt. - PLP e rere bebe | TRYING TO DESTROY By Holding the French and Continuing Smashing Against Haig's Forces. London, April 11.--Philip Gibbs writes that it is made certain by this new thrust that the German High Command has decided to throw the full weight of their armies against us in northern France instead of divid- ing their, efforts by striking also at the Franch. as much as possible from the French armies, holding them in check by defensive fighting and counter-at- tacks, in order to concentrate their masses of men and guns oppositd the series of blows now on our right and now on our left, folowing each suc- cess as far as its possibilities admit. nation and the allies. THREE ARE AR in Brockville-----$800 Re- covered From Them.' (Canadian Press Despatch.) Montreal, April 11.--Three per- sons have been detained by the pol- 'robbery of Cote des Neiges branch of the Royal Bank of Canada last Friday.- Early this morning brought to Montreal. arrested persons are bert Larue and a | Want Farmers' Sons @xempt. Ottawa, April 11.--R the market " jearry on the work, ly meat tion, THE BRITISH ARMIES He believes their plan isto edge off British lines and hurl them in a It is a menace which calls for the supreme effort of the armies of the RESTED FOR BANK ROBBERY Two Men and Woman Caught fea in connection with the daring two men and a woman were taken into charge at Brockville, Ont, and later About $800 supposed" to have formed part of the stolen $5,000, was re- covered when the capture was made. The Joseph Al woman whose 21 I name is not revealed. : CHARGES A RING 5. WORKING HERE Or. Edwards Pays His Compliments to - Military District No. 3 Officers. MONEY JS UNNECESSARY USED iN PAYING SALARIES TO OFFIUBRS IN CANADA. "You Boost Me and I Will Boost You" Ring is Operated According to Frontenac's Member in Kingston ~The Work Done by. Veterinary Colonel (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, April 11.--During the course of the discussion last night on the bill to organize the department * | of soldiers' civil re-establishment, Dr, J. W. Bdwards, member for Fron- tenac, claimed there were still too many officers drawing pay in Can- ada. Tens of thousands of dollars, he asserted, had been unnecessarily paid out since the war started. "In Military District No. 3," he declared, "I believe there is a little ring work- ing among themselves who say 'you boost me and I will boost you.' He was told in Military District No. 3 there were two veterinary! col- eir supplies to the plenty of supplies pn GERMANY INTENDS TO KEEP ANTWERP Will Not Be R estored to Bel- gium Under Any Con- sideration. London, April 11.--The Cologne Gazette in an inpired sketch of the ecomomic conditions which Germany would' be disposed to dictate to ent of the nominal t country, deals with Antwerp. "It may be geration," 8 ® In the west and ; If we lost the if we were ham- pered in using it} this would mean the renunciation pf all the advan tages which AntWerp possesses for t gimany as compared ("trade ports. Ger § t0 maintain her omic position only possess in the imity to England, er foreign trade future world eco if she continues | west in close pre and sea traffic? iz "Consequently, in addition to the certain treatments, with which we cannot entirely' dispense, real econ- omic guarantees must be created up- on the basis of closer community of | trade interests." BISHOP HENDERSON URGES METHODISTS BUY BONDS With 200,000"Boys of Faith in Arms, Church Must See It Through, He Says. Philadelphia, April 11.--'Metho- onels drawing pay last winter. They treated but one sick horse and the year before but three. ! » an inquiry into the charges which the member for Frontenac made in the House in regard to district No. 3 be- ing overmanhed with officers. "Let me tell'the House," said Dr. Edwards "that in Military District No. 3 there are to-day two men acting as veterin- ary officers. One has been overseas [ believe, but the other was never out- side of Military District No. 3. Yet hoth men are drawing colonels' pay. What, in the name of heaven, the offi- cer who was never out of the district did to entitle him to be promoted to the rank of colonel, T do not know; it certainly was not the blood that he spilt overseas. 1 have it on pretty good 'authority that there was only one sick horse to attend to last win- ter. out of all the horses that came under the charge of these officers in Kingston, and a year ago last winter there were only three. Yet, for such slight services we have two men drawing colonels' pay." GERMAN-CANADIANS Country Around -Pem= broke--Hoist Red Flag - N, ; (Canadian Press Despatch) Ottawa, April = 11.---Reports from Pembroke front this morning where war on the military police has been declared by young men, mostly of German extraction, indicates that there are quite a number of gings| encamped in the wildest portion of the. surrounding country free from molestation until the weather clears up sufficiently to enable the police to 80 in after . They have hoisted a red f and defied the police to come and get them. It is understood that there will be | DEFYING THE POLICE} .| Ministers of the Crown. dists must see it through," is the text of an appeal issued in the in- terest of the third liberty loan, by Bishop Theodore S. Henderson, ex- ecutive officer of the newly created National War Council of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, "Two 'hundred thousand Metho~ dist boys under arms," says the ap- peal, "are an. ever present reminder of the great duty which has fallen on our shoulders, the duty of sup- porting these men and their fellows that the hideous struggle now going on in Europe may be brought to a successful and speedy close." Twenty, thousand pastors have been circulated Yn the cause of patriotism through the national war council of the church, MINISTERS ASSESSED, By City of Ottawa For War Tax and Patriotic Grants, Ottawa, April 11.-----~General Mew- burn, Minister of Militia, and Hon. F. B. Carvell, Minister of Public Works, have éntered appeals against being assessed by the city for war tax and patriotic grants on their in- comes. For the war tax a special assess: ment has been made on civil ser- vice incomes, they being exempted 'by agreement from the ordinary civ- ic taxes. Included in the list are the WANTS Demands for Heads of Mayor Police Chief. Quebec, April 11.-<In a letter to Fthe Quebee Chronicle, EB. Tremblay, 82 King street, a. member of the Que- bec Clearing Depot, urges the people to unite and force Mayor Laviguneur to resign, in view of is lack of energy and initiative in handling the recent riots. He also advocates the immediate replacement of Captain Trudel as chief of police. - ; rt dss ets TWO_ RESIGNATIONS and | THE CANADIANS READY FOR THE TEUTONS Violent Artillery Duels--Dare the Huns to Make Frontal Attack. (Special cn aheée Whig.) { Canadian Army Headquarters, | April 11.--Foiled in their attempt | to outflank Vimy Ridge in the south, | the Germany are now attempting the | same manoeuvre from thé north byl Bethune. The anniversary of the TT - date that saw (Canada victorious in| winning back #¢ much of the «=i | ABOR IS IN lands of France finds these lands! menaced again. Canada, with its! - hard-won Vimy 'Ridge behind it,| waits for Germany to dare a frontal | IRISH NATIONALISTS WILL OP. attack. | POSE CONSCRIPTION BITTERLY. All yesterday afternoon, evening | NATION BEHIND LLOYD GEORGE AN Classes Realy to Make Any Safes {0 Save Eon. and this morning our guns have an- swered to those of the enemy. Throughout - the area from the Scanpe to SquenexJittle villages have known aga tle. Wotnen and children' are evacuat- ing loved homes. Death has visited many. War broods over the ridge. From Lens to Armas ruin Is being added to ruin. Smoky by day, rim- grounds are alive to battle again Constant crumping of shells in Ar- front. The huge motor trucks, pro for the boys in the trenches. DRIVE GERMAN FROM MESSINES The British Arc Holding the Line of Wyts- chaete-Messimes: Ridge. {FIERGE FIGHT IN GIVENCHY BRITISH WIELDED BAYO- NETS, CLUBS AND FISTS. THE Fought in Black Darkness Until the German Stormers Retired Beaten-- Enemy Attacks in Dense Masses. (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, April 11---Gen. Halg re- ports that the German attack north of Armentieres forced the British to the line of the Wytschaete-Mes- sines ridge and Ploegaterert. = The Germans "secured "POSITION TON the north bank of the Lys river, but were driven out of Messines village. The Germans claim 6,000 prisoners and 100 guns. t of Fierce British Resistance. With the British Armies in France, April 11.--Ten fresh divisions (120,000 men) of the best Bavarian troops were hurled repeatedly against the British. on the high ground around Givenchy Tuesday night. Twice they captured the fown, and twice the British flung them back in the pitch black darkness--wielding bayonets, clubs and fists--until the remnants of the German stormers re- tired, beaten. At the bridgehead { ras, Lievin, Acquercivers and other {big and little centres is answered | by the roar of our guns, sweeping | the enemy front, assembly and rear { areas. | Our men wait in trenches without | fear for the future. Everywhere there | is confidence and sure foreknowledge | that if 'the enemy attacks our heights | his price for that attack will be ter-| | rible, . The temper of our forces is mag- nificent. It found repeated expres- ston on Tuedday. At one point twe | Canadian parties raided enemy lines | PERSIANS STARVING | : ---------- | 4,000 Families in Teheran Are Being { Fed. Teheran, Persia, April 11 It is announced here that there are 5,000 | families in Teheran which are in i need of figancial assistance and that 4,000 of em are being furnished with food daily. In the cities of Hamaden and Kermanshah, as well i as outlying districts, there is wide- ' spread destitution. Dr. 8. M. Gordon, of the Presby- terian Mission here, estimates that $175,000 is needed for immediate relief work. i LJ : + FEW VESSELS SUNK . + % BY U-BOATS LAST WEEK. + _ m---- . it * "We Catiiion. Press wes + London, April 11.--Submar- # ine sinkings last week were four # 4 vessels over and two under six- + + teen hundred tons, the smallelst + + weekly record since November % 4 11th, + L PPP R PPh bob be bbb bbb bbb -------------------- an FARMING OUTLOOK IN ONTARIO ACUTE Faces Decreased Production If Labor Required is Not Furnished. Ottawa, April 1 -- A deputation representing the citizens of Ottawa and comprising Messrs. John Reid, L. N. Newman, ex-Controller J. W. of the Lys near Bac St. Maur, which | the Germans held, there was similar fighting. At sundown, pressed us back to La Croix du Back| (one mile north of the river), but the! British counter-attacked heavily and drove them 'back. . The enemy brought into action.a tremendous concentration of artil- ery and is throwing in his infantry in dense masses. The Germans plainly are making another effort to break through the British positions. British Evacuate Armentieves. (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, April 11.--The British have withdrawn from Armentieres on the northern battle front. Violent fighting cont?hues all along the front from Labasse Canalto the. Ypres- Comines Canal. The statement foHows: "The bat- tle is continuing on the whole front from Labassee Canal to the Ypres- Cominés Canal. Severe fighting has taken place in the néighborhood of Lawe and Lys canals from abdut Les- trem to Armentieres. Our troops have been withdrawn from Armen- tieres; which is full'of gas. North of Armentieres there is little change in the situation. Heavy fight- ing was continuing "at a late hour last night in the neighborhood of Ploegsteert, Messines, and h- aete. On the remainder of the Bri- tish front there is nothing to report." TO SAVE LOBSTER INDUSTRY Naval 'Department To Start Edus] cational Campaign, thawa, April 11---Hon. CC. ©. Ballantyne, Minister of the ' Naval ice, announces that he has de- cided to close the fourteen hatcheries' scattered about the coasis' of the Maritime Provinces permanently. pr The Naval Department is ; rrapg- - eam- Nelson, R. B, Faith, Lieut. F. J. P. Green and members of the Board of the headquarters of the Organiza- tion of Resources Committee. It is planned to take over the organization of the thriteen eastern counties with Ottawa as a centre, and secnre necessary labor for increased farm production. If the men are not furnished, Eastern Ontario faces a decreased production instead of an increased one. Prescott, Glengarry, Stormont, Dundas, Carleton, Leeds, Russell, Lanark, Frqntenac, Hast- ings, "Renfrew, Lennox and Adding- ton and Grenville are the counties the Ottawa committee are anxious to see organized. Four or five men will be needed as organizers for 'a period of two or three months, so that labor will be secured and dis- tributed. The Ontario Government through the Resources Committee will be asked to defray the expenses of the plan. HELD AS WHITE SLAVE Five Indictments Result of Girl's Testimony. . East St. Louis, I1;, April 11.-- recent Congressional inquiry into the East St. Louis race riots have been returned by the federal grand jury at Cairo, 111, it was learned yestei- day. The indictments are based on otel here. Likelihood of Merger iw Remote, Montreal, April 11. "The general impression seems to be that at th¥ present time there is not much chance of a merger." This official announce- ment was made to-day after the meets ing of representatives of the Board of Directors of the Dominion Steel and Nova Scotia Steel in regard to an amalgamation of the two companies. The meetings of the directors have been suspended for the time being. Saskatoon Bank Robbed. Saskatoon, April 11.--An unmask- here aud got away with between three and four thousand dollars Ip cur- The bandit was a young man med in fire by night, our old battle-| Five indictments resulting from the, the testimony of Myrtle Gardner, who! said she had been held as a white! lave at a ik | Probably Before tlie Week Is Out, | Britons Up to Fifty Will Be Called {+ © Upon to Serve Their Country. the blood price of bat~ London, April 11.--Lloyd George's | new proposal to augment the. man- | power must be followed by a reor- ganization of the entire commerical | and industrial life of England. Most | of the nation's affairs are being car- | ried on by men between forty and { fifty, and the conséription of this group, by raising the age limit, will . be bound to affect the whole activity of the nation, { The whole British nation is solidly | behind the Government, and all classes are prepared to make any sac- | rifices to save Europe from Huh do- mination. The attitude of the work- | ers is especially gratifying at this try- | ing hour. : | President Wilson's "force to the utmost" represents Great Britain's | attitude on the reassembling of Par- | lament for a session which is certain- ito bring forth legislation of a most | drastic nature. | Possibly" before the week is out | Britons, up-to fifty years of age, will | be called upon the serve their country as soldiers, Criticism of the Govern- ment's measure will come from some | quarters, but there is not the slight- | est doubt every patriotic section of the country is ready for this and any {other sacrifice the Government may | consider necessary, . { Arthur Henderson, Leader of the { Labor party, declared he supported j every word of President Wilson's speech. | | Must Destroy Autoeracy, The latest act of military aggres- 3 thie part of the German Gove. ment, he said, places under tem- | porary suspension the moral, political {and diplomatic effort of the working" | class 'movement. The offensive on | the Western front, following the | shameful treatment of Russia, makes { settlement by conciliation very diffi- |cult, for it clearly proves Prussian | militarism, which is organized bru- | tality, coupled with arrogant auto- | eracy, is asserting itself and seeking | to gratify its lust for world-dominion, This spirit must be destroyed, | Mr. Henderson endorsed the Pres- |ident's statement, in whieh le said: | "We should be ashamed, in the pres- | ence of events so grave, so fraught | with + the déstinies of mankind, to | speak with truculence, to use the | weak language or hatred or vindic- | tive purpose." | *Now, as to the attitude of British { Labor toward the new man-power | measure, it will give it fall support, the enemy; Trade, will interview the officials at|but It reserves the right to question {the Government closely. Anything | approximating industrial conscription {| will not be so welcome. | The Irish Nationalists will oppose { conscription in Ireland just as bit- {terly as the Sinn Feiners. GEN FOUH'S MAXIMS | Ap-- In Regard To The Art Of War Are | Interesting. | Paris, April 11. Gen. Foch, apart from his military genius, has written books and articles on military strategy and tactics, The French re- | view, La- France Militaire, recalls | certain passages in the General's articles. Three passages read as i follows: | For chiefs: (The 38th article of | war does not exist in pouncing on the i enemy Ike a wild bear. There must | be harmony of all wills, submission | of the subordinate higher command. | The War Department a moral | force. A battle is a st le of two | wills. A victory is a moral superior- lity in the victor; moral depression in ' the vanquished, : y A battle is lost morally, but it is also morilly that it is won. 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