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12 PAGES PAGES 18 big CANADA TURNS ouT MUCH NEW TONNAGE i Total Output t Outside of Small Craft Will Be 450,000 Tons. aily British KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, =| The 1 190 TEAR 88: NO. BRITISH REACH GAIN ADVANTAGES ri ORTH WESTERN, FRONT CIV OF BAKU OF Posmions RE 2 {bg mr Troops Ai In Possession of Par of ™ Defences. | 1918. LAST EDITION CANADIANS HOLD ESE NTO PARMILER | than ne thousand ton at pr sent Dutiding, such - raviees ok They Capt from the Germars ina Smart Operation. m------ small schooners, etc, the total output | of new tonnage in Canada for this| {year is estimated at approximately 1450000 tons. This includes 50 steel vessels, with a total tonnage of 290.- +000 tons, and 53 wooden vessels of 1 160,000 tons. Atlantic coast ports are | BEEN COMPLYTERY MAULED (BY THE CANADIANS. | The Germans Used Four Divisions to Hold the Canadian Front, ut Had to Give Ground. inow building 17 steel vessels and 14 i wooden vessels Great Lakes ship- HAVE (Canadian Press Despatch) With Canadian Forces, Aug. 16. yards are building 27 steel vessels] land 4 wooden vessels, Pacific coast ! yards have on the ways 15 steel ves- sels and 35 wooden vessels, with an- The (Canadians captured the village of Parvillers in a smart operation which enabled them to straighten out their line in that sector of the THE WAR ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT | Ottawa, Aug. 16--Exclusive Ina--" ty British Forward Movements Along the | Somme For This This Purpose. ~ MARCHED RON BAC ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE A DISTANCE OF ABOUT SEV - FROM ONE END OF THE FRONT HUNDRED MILES. | TO THE OTHER. The Russian General, Commands the Allied Force--The | Marks Are Advancing From Ba-| toum. | London, y Aug.' 16.--The most] spectacular item of news to-day that a British contingent has reach- ed Baku, the Russian oil city on the Dokuchaleff, | Situation North of Ancre Not Yet Clarified--The Intentions of the Enemy Seem to be Obscure Yet. (Canadian Press Despatch) With the British Army in France. Aug. 16.--The enemy artillery was | active last night from one end of | | the British front to the other. The | {other order for 32 wooden vessels of | 3400 tons each, recently placed. The Government's shipbuilding pro- | gramme, which contemplates a total expenditure of some sixty million dol- | lars up to the end of the fiscal year, {is making good headway. Twenty . steel ships of a gross tonnage of 55.- 000 are now contracted for, seven of iz Caspian Sea, about the possession of | which Germany and Turkey are now | squabling. These troops marched | from Bagdad, a distance of about 700 miles. - The British advance] through Persia from Bagdad was | accomplished under the greatest | diftieuities. In the mountainous | sections they were resisted by a few groups of tribesmen, but they quief- ly overcame this opposition. The 'British force crossed the Persian frontier and reached Enzelli, the port of Respt, on the Caspian Sea, by the way of Hamadan, At any rate, it ia now certain that British, Russjan and Armenian troops are now in Baku and "that the British are In possession of part of the de- fences. The Turks are advancing from Batoum. The Russian General Doku-! chaleff commands the Allied force, | which will endeavor to hold the city. In any event its oil resources | can be made unavailable to the en- emy. Persia at present is political« ly friendly to the Allies. Whether the Allies will be. able to hold Baku permanently, in view of | the difficulties of transporting sup- | plies, Is too early to 'predict. How- | ever, it the British can hold their position a short time longer, which now seems likely, they probably will be able to cut off the enemy from an outlet to the sea, thus protecting the important oil fields of the Baku dis- triet. J/The meagre imformation at hand in. London that 'the British detach- ment voyaged by steamer from En: welll, Persia, to Baku, demonstrates that the Allied hold on the Caspian Sea already ig fairly established. l---- THE WORLD'S NEWS ~~ IN BRIEF FORM Tidings From All All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed Way, Major Ivan N. Ralston, D.S.0., of Amherst, N.S., was killed in France while leading a company of his bat- talion into action, Three hundred homes built in Watertown, N.Y. families of men 'working local munition plants. United States and Great Britain have joined in protest to the Mexican Government against the confiscation gf oil lands by Mexico. Rev. Dr. Andrew Robertson, To- ronto, has accepted a call to the-pas- torate of Broadway Presbyterian church, Nashville, Tenn, According to 'a statement by Deputy Maurice Damour, appearing in the Paris Journal, President Wil- aod will make a visit Jo Europe and will be to house in the : The opinion is aibressod by 'the Minister of Public Works that coolle labor must be employed under pro- per safeguards to increase the pro- duction of coal, Twenty-nine members of the crew of the steamer Pentistone, sunk by a submarine last Sunday, landed on the Massachusetts coast Thursday, al-| most exhansted. One boat load is still missing. Severty-two disorderly Montreal houses have been closed down and / thelr inmates, to the number of 297 women and 220 men, arrested, while it:is claimed that gambling is now at 'a complete standstill in that city. i Greater Hun Losses. Long Aug. 16. ~The propor- tion of the German losses to those of the fed since August Sth is great- er than at any other period of the war, it was announced last night. It on ald thal he Sota) Allied asad not be as large as the Sumber. of Germans taken pri- To ¢ the Veteran. 'Vancouver, Aug. 16 h , president of the G. 2 ish Columbia, has offered the editorship « The Veteran, a returned soldiers' publi- cation, with headquarters at Ottawa. | have abandoned several of his small F dod: J. Howe, Haliburton; J. E, Car-| o 11ey, Brockyille; W. C. Mills, Snow 5 Baitaings 'would be ready Yor oceu- . [pation by the 1920 session. { activity was especially marked along { the new Somme battle front in Ess- arts sector and in the region of La | Bassee on the northern front, whera | there was a heavy gas bombard- ment. There wa¥ no development of | activity by the enemy infantry any- where, however. All along the Somme front the British are continuing various slight forward movements to gain advant- ages cf position. It was in move- ments of this kind that Damery and Parvillers came yesterday into Bri- tish hands. The situation north of the Ancre has not yet been clarified, the en- emy's intentions 'being obscyre. There are no further reports of widespread withdrawals in this re- glon, although the enemy seems to forward positions. On the "pther hand British patrols that crossed the Ancre last night were fired up- on and foreed to return. CARRIED AWAY GATES OF WELLAND CANAL Lock Tender Drowned--Navi- gation Will be Delayed For Over a Day. (Canadian Press Despatch) Port Colborne, Aug. 16.--The Welland canal lock master was drowned about ten "o'clock this morning, when the head gates at lock 12, and some of the foot gates, were carried away by the upbound steamer Pawnee, of the Montreal Transportation Company. The lock tender was lowering the valves at the time. Navigation will be delay- ed from twenty-four to forty hours hoth up and down the canal. The man drowned was Richard Carroll, reeve of Merritton, and lockmaster for many years. The engineer of the steamer Pawnee de- clares his engines refused to re verse. eerie } Dismissed From Force. London, Aug. 16.-~Major R. N. MacKay, who was court-martialled on twenty-five charges, including that of detailing soldiers from their duties to act as gardeners and chauf- feurs for his driends, including Emily Grigsby of New York, has been dismissed from the service. It was brought out that Major. Mac- Kay, who was assisting the provost marshal of the western command, was responsible for much -laxity of discipline owing to his good nature in obliging friends 'who applied to him for the services of men who in his. opinion could be spared tempor- arily. Food Prices Are Soaring. Washington, Aug. 16.--Food price figures made publie to-day by the Bureau of Lahor Statisties show further increases in June, the great- est advance being 33 per cent. for potatoes. \ i An average increase of 7 per cent. in food prices is shown for the year ended June 15, the greatest among twenty-eight articles listed being 35 per cent. for round steak. Although the price of flour declined 17 per cent. during the year, bread increas- ed 2 per cent. During the five-year period end- ed June 1 last, food prices showed an average increase of 60 per cent, rs From Lake Steamer, Disappea Watertown N.Y., Aug. 16.--George | E. Coulter, who disappeared fromthe steamer Tashmoo, of the White Star Line, plying the Great Lakes, on Aug. 11th, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Coulter, Stone street. Offi- cers of the boat have informed the parents that the young man evidently ended his life. Coulter is a foster son of Mr. and Mrs. Coulter, He was born in Rochester, N.Y., and adopted | When a baby. Casualties. Died--W. C. Gardner, Cornwall. Wounded---Lieut, J. R. McDonald, Alexandr! ; Capt, BE; A, Adams, Pic- ton; G. Sedore, Flintan; Lieut. K. B. Ferguson, Wellington; F. Pero, Ash- an e caamber of the new Parlament ae Dutch ships, * * American troops, headed by a British band, march past a British general on a road in France. --British Official Photo, Copyright. CANADA'S DEATH TOLL 50,000 The Wastage in the C.EF. in Four tars} is 100,000. MSA. PRODUCES 58.713 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEN- SIONS 1S 30,000. And the Annual Payment is $4,000,- 000--The Voluntary Enlistments Since Last November 'Add 19,477 to Canadian Army. Ottawa, Aug. 16.--iCanada's death toll from four years of war is Mow approximately 50,000. The wasl~ age of men in. the Canadian Expedi- tionary Force during the four years, including also those incapacitated by wounds, illness or by other caus- es, is estimated to be a little over 100,000, or at the rate of about 25,- 000 per year. The operation of the Military Ser- vice Aot, which has so far directly produced 58,713 men, not including 23,523 men who reported for duiy under the act, and have been either discharged for medical unfitness or other reasons, or who have been granted leave of absence for neces- sary agricultural or other work, has thus produced a reinforcement .re- serve that should gecure under aver- age conditions of wastage the main- | tenance at full strength of the divi- sions at the front for a considerable period to come. It may be noted also that in addi- tion to the 58,713 draftees actually put into training, voluntary enlist- ments since November last has add- ed 19,477 men to the Canadian army. Figures of Wastage. The figures of wastage up to the recent Picardy offensive in which the Canadians were heavily involved, and from which the. total of casual- ties is not vet available for publica- n include im round numbers 27.- 00 killed, 9,350 died of wounds, 2,300 died of disease, 4,35 ed dead, and 400 missing. makes a total of 43,200, to which may be added 2,774 prisoners of war and the fallen in the battles of last month, bringing (he approxi- mate absolute wastage for these categories up to about 50,000. In addition to these approximately 50, 000 men have been returned to Can- ada as being unfit 'for further through wounds or other causes. 'The total number of pensions al- ready granted to returned soldiers {8 now approximately: 30,000, in- volving an annual payment of over $4,000,000. Escaping From Germany. 'Washington, Aug. 16.--A great number of Russian prisoners, ac~ cording to an official despatch from Copenhagen to-day, are escaping from Germany into Denmark. despatch says that nearly every day fugitives arrive at Ribe, where they are well treated by the Danes. A | {camp has been established for them | mear Ribe. ; - ns THE "CASTALTY LISTS, (Canadian Press Despatch. Se Aug. 1 16. i the. -» -* 5 ee { macy, The | THE BOLSHEVIK) YIELDED IRMANY UNDER POLAND TO GERM A SECR F TREATY. RE] Was Signed January oy of This Year-- Gérmany Was Have Free Hand to Seize Poland and Direct Policies Without Any Protest from Russia. Berne, Aug. 16&~The Bolsheviki, those great exponents of open diplo- had no soamer declared their "open air" policy than they proceeded) to make a secret treaty with Germany, agreeing to the complete surrender without conditions of all Polish lands to the Germans The treaty is dated January 16th, 1918, and signetl on the Russian side by Krylenko, Volodarski, Zajkind, Urtiski, Rasknolnikoff, Teurabend Antonof, Dzierzinski and Skryplin, while for the Gergsns it is signed by von Taubner, Erich von:Schunemann and Rausch. The Bolshevik duplicity was expos ed by the Polish Central Committee of - Lauzanne, and the treaty ' was published in the Gazette de Lauzanne and the Tribune de Lauzanne, while the Glos Narodu of €racow, published it about the same time Moreover, the Dolsheviki, who started out to Jat nize the world, began BY agreeing in their se- cret treaty to stop the sending of agitators into Germany and Austria Hungary. CONSORIPTING RUSSIANS. S-------- Forced to Fight Far Germany or be Shot. London, Aug. 16.---A despatch to the Dally Mail from Vladivostok, dated Sunday, says the Germans al- ready are conscripting Russians on a small scale, "According to!stories of prisoners taken by the Czecho-Slovaks," says the despateh, "German flying <col- wmns gre impressing males from 18 to 45 years of age, and are bringing those who disobey the mobilization order before Germanized revolution- ary tribunals, which condemn them to death. "These conscripted units have German company and platoon com- manderg and are stiffened by twenty Germans or Magyarg to every sixty Russians." 1s PERMAN ENT MINISTER To Represent Eac h Dominion on Im- perial War Cabinet. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 16.--In erder 4g pro- vide for the continuity of delibera- tions between the representatives of Great Britain, the Imperial War Ca- binet, says the Times, has decided that each Dominion shall be repre- sented by a Minister stationed per- manently in London, The Imperial War Cabinet will meet from time to time with these ministers as mem- bers. ADVANCE OF 100 MILES Made by Allied Troops South of Arche " ol : (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 16.---Allied troops landed at Archangel have reached a point 6ne hundred miles -south of there on the raialroad toward Volog- da. Bolshevik forces are retiring and havg committed all manger of atro- ci | ted the village ENEMY CONTINUES The French Made An Important Advance West of Rye. BEFORE THE PRESSURE OF THE BRITISH ARMIES. Retire Between One and Two Miles on a Front of Nine Miles in the Lys Salient. vg (Canadian Press Despatch Paris, Aug. 16.--The French troops have made an important ad- vance on a front of two and one-half miles west of Roye. French pro Les-Roye, about two and . one-half miles west of Royo, Sl. Ausin-and Armancourt. The statement reads: "On the Avre front French troops have made progress in the region of Villers<Les-Roye and St. Aurin. East of Armancourt our troops have occu- pied the old first lines. . In Chaw- pagne we took prisoners in the sec- tor of 'Perthes-Les<Hurulus and re- pulsed an enemy raid east .of Maie- ons<Champagne, Eisewhere on the front there was no activity. ------ British Advances. Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 16.--Further slight enemy withdrawals from the. Lys salient were announced in London yesterday. The enemy has evacual- of Vieux Berquin, south of Merris, and hag retired be- «f nine miles. South of Albert the British have advanced their line sligaily in the region north-east of Morlancourt. The text of the statement says: "During the night we advanced A hostile attack upon one his vicinity was re- lancourt. of our posts in pulsed after sharp fighting. fighting took" place in the norih- eastern outskirts of Thiepval wood. where our patrols havé ercssed to! the left bank of the -Ancre. Fur- ther north our patrols progressed hetween Beaucourt-Sur-Aners and Puisieux-Au-Mont. The hostile ar- tillery has shown increased activity south of the Somme and Ddétwecn 'Labassee Canal and Ypres" SIX MILIAON CASUALTIES Since the War Began Is the German man Loss, (Canadian Press Despateh) Paris, Aug, 16.--The total ot Ger- man losses from the beginning of the war to the end of July, 1918, are un- derstood to be six million, according to morning newspapers. The figures include 1,400,000 killed up to the be- ginning of the German offensive ast March. From March 27th to June! 17th the Germans are said to have lost 120,000 in killed alone. "(Canadian Pr Amsterdam, oy Dey Don Cossacks have elered the left bank of the Don of their Bolshevik {opponents and are marching victori- ously on Zaragin, from which they are only one day's march distant. | Several bombs were dropped In the Paris region late Thursday night HS RETREAT GERMANS._ALS0 RETIRE gress was in 'the region of Villers- | tween one and two miles on a front | our line slightly north-east of Mor- | Leacal | sib German al anes, There were " 4sssersassensant {the ships to be delivered this year, {and the remainder the following year. Before the year closes contracts for a dozen more or so ships will be __|placed by the Department of Marine, as berths now used for the construc- tion of vessels on order of the Impe- jl Munitions Board become vacant. In addition to this important con- ttibitien by Canada to the new ton- ge available by the Allies, it is to be Rs that the Dominion produced or is producing a surprisedly large the British, Italian and French Gov- ernments. The Vickers plant at Montreal has delivered a cqnsiderable number of submarines to Great Brit- ain and Italy, about 550 motor subma- rine chasers have been built for the Imperial Government ,and 36 for the French Government. GERMANS LEFT TONS Which the Canadians Captured and Which Their Railway Corps Is Using. London, Aug. 16-The Canadian | j Press is authoritatively informed that i the Germans, in their flight, left tons! (of valuable railway material, and | made no serious attempt to déstroy their abandoned lines of rolling stock. i The Canadian railway troops are now linking our own system with these! {deserted enemy lines. Scores of am- munition cars have already gone for- ward, and hundreds of wounded are | being brought back in comfort by the {same means, It is a railway area | that the Canadians know well, for they built the system after the first Somme battle, destroying a large part | in the March retirement. mans then mended it and now we haye it again Here is a striking in- i stance of how rapidly within the last few hours these rails have been made workable other night travelled over fifteen | kilo- metres of track, which fort ours previously were in the boheme ( The previous day he spent five hours | struggling through congested traffic Lon the roads to arrive at the same place. : The Canadiart tunnelers are to take the giant caterpillars, which draw big howitzers, and are also per- forming first aid work for the mired in the first onslanght LONDON MAN WINS POSTER CONTEST {Frank Nicolet's V Victory Loan Design Takes $1,000 Bond. ' Ottawa, Aug, 16--The award of the judges' in respect of the poster compe- | tition instituted by the Dominion Publicity Committee of the Victory Loan Organization is announced: First prize ($1,000 Victory bond) Frank Nicolet, London, Ont. Second prize ($500 Victory bond). Lorne K. Smith, Toronto. Third prize ($250 Victory bond) Christopher Fulleylove, Ottawa. This competition was arranged to secure designs for posters which will | form a part of the intensive adver- tising campaign in respect of the forthcoming Victory Loan, ------------------ May Raise $250,000 Vessel. Quebec, Aug. 16. Divers for the | past two weekf have been hard at | 'work trying to salvage the C. G. S., | Montmagny, which lies in the St. | Lawrence several miles down stream, tand- from reports received by their principals, the Dussault Salvage Com- pany, it is said the indications are that the $250.000 steamer will again be brought to the surface. Tt ap- pears that she is not badly damaged. ---------------------------------- : Ontario Man Gets Fortune. Windsor, Ont, Aug. 16.---~Leo Me- Closkey, who conducts. a granary at Maijdstoné, was made rich by the stroke of a pen yesterday, when the purchased the rights in a tractor in- vented by the Maidstone man. McCloskey i is in Detroit settling de- ils of the deal in which is involved in the transfer of the trac- Whaling Concerns Amalgamated. Victoria, B.C. Aug Consol dation of the principal wha! ests on the Pacific Soatt has resulted in the incornoration of the Consoli- dated Whaling Komuany Limited, number of auxiliary naval vessels for! OF RAILWAY STUFF The Ger- | on Our "correspondent = the. also! busy making the road strong enough | tanks | Royal Motors Corporation. of Detroit ! inter- | front. A number of mackine guns and prisoners were taken. The lat- est report was that our troops wers holding the village, and reinforce- ments have gone in support against a strong post the enemy has in the vicinity. \ | Many artillery activity indicates a stiffening of resistance. Hostile aircraft have been considerably strengthened on the whole of this Amiens'Montdidier front. Some thirty-four . enemy divisions have been engaged, including eleven fresh divisions and two tired divisions from his reserves. The enen'y has used up every battalion of two o' four divisions holding his line in front of the Canadians, thejs being {the T¥th and the 118th. War Tidings. American troops began disembark. ing at Vladivostok on Thursday. They will join the international force and aid the Cxecho-Slovak army if the Si- berian campaign, Albert is still held strongly by toe { Germans. 'British patrols, on enter- ing the town, were fired upon from he Albert Cathedral. Russian peasants are reported to be flocking to the standard of the Czecho-Slovaks operating in force about 500 miles east of The Germans have one to two miles on a nine-mile front at the western edge of the Flanders salient. Vieux Berquin, three miles north of Merville, was jevacuated dutigg the withdrawal, S------ ~ AVAL PRIZE MONRY, $45,000,000 Is Awaiting Division in London, Aug. 16.+-On June 30th the total amount of naval prize mon- | ey awaiting division was more than £9,000,000 ($46,000,000), to which ust be added moneys in. the hands it the overseas prize courts. This announcement was made recently In the House of Commons by T. J. Me- Namara, Parliamentary Under Secre- tary of the Admiralty, Distribution of the money will be | based on the relative responsibility {of all concerned. The commander- in-chief will get 2,000 shares and an able seaman five shares, GERMAN RETREAT SPROIALIST t withdraws {Is Conducting the ment at Paris, Aug. 16.-Gen. Hans n Boehn, the German "retreat yon Ho " has been appointed to the supreme German command ,on the Somme front. The newspapers believe that this change in the Ger- man command is highly significant. i The German withdrawal north of | Albert is looked upon as the first {application of his. tactics. tnt me-------------- WOMAN WILL PILOT MAIL, Between London and Paris--First French Woman in Service, Paris, Aug. 16,--A woman has i been appointed pilot of the air mail service between Paris an ndon. She is Mme. Decorne, noted in peace times as a member of the French Women's Seagull Club. While France boasts many womep fliers, Mme. De- | corne will be the first tn enter the fly- ing service of her country since the beginning of the war. A Fine Month Paris, Aug. 16. Monts Work, 10,~ 000 Germans taken by General Hum- bert in the operations which are sifll developing, prisoners captured om the western dront July 15th total 73,000, and 1,700 suns have been setzed hy the Allies, the Boho de Paris estimates. I A ---------- -------------- Bombed Baden Satin. {Canadian Press London, Aug. 16.8 Sirmen made direct hits on the railway sta- tion at Offenberg, Baden. Two hos tile machines were destroyed and three of ours failed to return. iom-------- -- The United States Jranstry, nounced that is hab fixed the Enemy Retire an- ounce. um price of silver at $1.01% por fine :