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< ' « "Tue of defence has béén broken. If haw in. the rear. | The British. ad- N of the city; » PAGES 13 + ESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1918. ST.QUE LAST EDITION | PUSH ENEMY OUT ~~ OF ST. QUENTIN { THE NORTH-EAST AND SOUTH-EAST. TO French Hold Line Along St. Quentin' ~--lafere Road to River Oise-St. Thierry Massif Now: in French Hands. wy : (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, O¢. 2 Reuters corres. pondent telegraphs: ' p "French troops entered St. Quen- tin yesterday afternoon. The Bri- tish' on the north and the French on -the south have drawn an arc round St. Quentin well to the rear The reports of huge explosions in the town were begun to be heard early this morning. "Between Urvillers and Cérizy the French are meeting with much stronger resistance by machine-gun nests, but everywhere have advanec- ed in this region south of St. Quen tin." W@ French troops have now passed beyond St. Quentin, north-east, east and south-edst of the town. They hold a- line running along the Somme from Tronduey to Rouvroy, and then along the St. Quentin-La- fere road to the river Oise. West and north of Rheims the French have made further import- ant gains. The entifé massif of St Thierry is now in French hands. Enemy Defence Line Broken. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Oet. 2.--Beiween Cam- brei and St. Quentin the . Geriaa is uncertain what }ines the enemy vance thréatgns the German line of retreat in the Olse yalley, and also from the massif .of St Geb' Haig's fortes to-day captured _Rolleghemecapelle and advanced for a distance of 300 yards south-east of Roulers. Sr . Enemy Backs Up Near Rheims. (Special 3 the Wiig.) = Paris, Oet. ~Frénch armies east: and 'west 6f 'Rheims continue to advance to-day; and the Germans are falling - back more hurriedly than at any time since Sept. 26th. The French hive captured five of six villages and their advance has] reached a depth of from five to six kilometres. et ' 'The Americans are again hotly engaged. The Germans are mov- ing their arfillery away. from the Belgian coast in fromi of the- ad- vance of the Belgians and British. War Tidi According to reliable news. re- ceived in Londen, Bulgaria, during the armistice discussions, thdicated that she was not averse from at- | * French Entered That Great Geman Base | double concerted HAVE. ADVANCED BEYOND | accomplished and the defence appedr-, Columbia battalion had its commander and one other, jority of the casualties are more ori solution in could not dislodge us from the rail-| not far short of six thousand, A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM According to a German Report taking 'Turkey. Bulgaria, anent this, however, explained that she could only act militarily. In co- operation with the Allies. During September the British cap- tured 66,000 prisoners and 700 guns on the western front, : All German secretaries of state have resigned and Prussian 'ministers intend to resign, is the report from Berlin, ' London expért opinion is that Tur- key will ask for peace within a very short time, - : north of fty children, returning to lim from the country, are among thé : . 'Alex. D. Fraser, head of the well vader DJ ber, head of the wel ah IWR Lrm of r, Viger and] Company, Lid. axl Canadian Fe- Crosse and ok-§ well, died at hls residente, 45 Park. Tuesda, avenue, Montrea Me 1, appeared -before the Bulgarian Par- liament on Monday and speech. from the throne which was postponed at the first sitting last Fri- day, according to advices from Sofia by the way of Basel according to German that the Bulgarian King and Gov- ernment intended only to fulfill their DAMASCUS ENTERED Ye tican g @ tidontial Taforuieiin: Troy * terng | Tuesday morning. ng Ferdinand of Bulgaria of his sou. | ; probably means the end of all Turk- Jen ) By rk- {Turkish base in' thi THE CANADIANS LOSE HEAVILY IN ATTACKS Towards Ouvillers and Ros milles Through Vigorous Enemy Machine Gun Fire. (Canadian Press Despatch) i 'With the Canadian Forces, Sept. | 30 (delayed) --Thizs morning ele=| ments of our third and fourth. divi-| sions advanced from the line they! held on the Douai-Cambrai road in a movement along | twin spurs toward Ouvillers and | Ramilles, the immediate objective be- | ing to take and consolidate the line| . of railway. This was successfully ing weak the' movement was pushed | in some thousand yards east, the ob-| ject this time being to exploit to the utmost any disposition the enemy.| might have of falling back in this sec- | tor. 'In these' operations, the enemy | were served by a greater' number of machine guns than have yet concen-| trated on the Canadian front. ! Our losses were correspondingly | heavy, and particularly regrettable | were the casualties among tried regi-| mental officers. An Eastern Britigh | colonel | wounded and its two majors and ad- | jutant killed, A Central' Ontario] battalion lost all its officers, but the The ma- machine | less light wounds from guns, The enemy showed the nwtmost re- counter-attacks, but way on our left, The first division remained quiet during the day, They yesterday advanced up-to the railway station at the intense machine gun fire from the | heights on ®ither flank, fell back to | their original line. seven Prussian and one Saxon, are! opposed to the Canadian corps, { though some of them are unduubted- | ly weak it makes a very tough pro-| position, especially when the enemy | relies mainly for defence on a dense | screen of machine { Which can-only be overcome by in-| tense artillery preparation. 1 such a defence is resolute, the infan- | try advances ean only be made at a | héavy cost. Friday have been very heavy, but in| part they are offset by tite prisoners, through the Burgundian Gate betwe | and then through the Hessian Gate, ran: approxima the a * ~ & a a be. Vosges History my repeat itself once Abancourt, but owing to Eight divisions, | and gun positions, | Where! Our casualties since last | FOR GERMANY Is Under Consideration For wari CREAT STRUGOLE Both the Imperial and the |, (Canadian Press Despatch) Amsterdam, Oct. 2.--Plans are un+| der consideration.for.4he reorganiza-| tion of both the iMiperial German and | the Prussian ministeries on the lines] of parliamentary system, acoording! 'to the Berlin Tageblatt, chancellor, the newspaper says, re-| ceived the leaders of all parties yes-| terday and' discussed the plated parliamentarizatioh which the | , vice-chancellor declared would ex-! Mh ed tend to the Prussian as well as to the, imperial ministry, He also said mac BRITISH PUSH FURTHER the abrogation of portions of the| constitution must be taken in hand : - . "as soon-as possible. tives of the right, of the independent socialists and of 'the poles ,the Tage- blatt states, ate in the government. The vice-| coniem- | The representa- ave refused to co-oper- mation of a coalition AN HONORABLE PEACE | jyouiers, 1S BULGARIA'S AIM of Statement by Premier ; Malin . : (Canadian Press Despatuh) . Paris, Oct. 2.+--Premier Malinoff' ly read the M. Malinoft, |W papers, said duty toward the Fatherland in mak- ing an honorable peace that was wor~ thy 'of the sacrifices which had been made. The reason for 'this step, M. uation which confronted the coun- ty. / ; BY BRITISH FORCES It Is the Mogt impo re lsh Base in Syria and apital of Syria, 'was occupied by General Allenby's British forees on 'Damascus is the Turkish base in Syria 'and Palestine, and its fall east. Aleppo is t vas {tig the ju Iroads from Palestine mia. © ' the upper Rhi map shows how this The Canadians Aric Fighting Nearly One INTO THE GERMAN POSITIONS The Enemy's JI around Cambrai has reached a stage The Ca German divisions yesterday. Near- riacing dhe Canadians. ! into German positions on the fron: between St. Quentin and La Cate- let. Australians have finished the defenses Gouy and have freed Joncourt, just to the south of enemy troops. German line between St. and Le Catelet by Field - Marshal Malinoff stated, was tife general sit- Halgle oroes eo Brian ing of the German line on the Fon- sommes{Beaurevoir front. voir Is two and a half miles east of Lé Catelet and Fonsommes ° is nearly five miles north-east of St. Quentin. half miles south-east of Bellicourt, has been captured, also the hamlet of Preselles, just to the north. including --ratiders; have occupied . as, | 2B umilly. © The text of the state- mi THE HIGHWAY INTO GERMANY . P Though what is known " the "Burgundia Gat - ne (in the direction shown by a: marched to the conquest of Germany since the days of Julius Caesar. This great highway leads into the hea i forces now hold AROUND CARA Hundred Thousand Germans. AROUND LE ICATELET. Broken at Seve- ral Points--French and Belgians Make Fresh - Progress Around "1 (Canadian Press Despatch) = London, ™ Oct. 2.--The struggle dians were. fighting eight 4 hundred thousand Germans are The 'British are pushing further ork of clearing out the German south of Le Catelet and 'Wide. gaps have been torn in the Quentin com- to-day the. break- Beaure- four and a Sequehart, South of Cambrai, British troops, Scottish and New Zeal- .Crevecoeur reads: the New Scottish troops from Grevecoeur and Rumilly established - themselves .on the high ground east and north of those vil- Several "hundred prisoners were taken by us in these tions. French and Bel nrogress in tion of Hooglede and Roulers, and have seized Ledeghem, cA statement tween the British 3 on the Roulers-Menin railway. detachment, gays, has crossed the Eys bel Mdrvicq and Commines. British Bulgarians a down the valley of trow), armies have rt of an the Vosges and the between the Taunus and the Odenwald. the en lin ough [any machinery by Which an nase Zealanders \ Germany, first Schwarzwald, { tack at dusk, as the result of 'which and Anglo- drové the enemy. | and gian troops" have the dirée- the ADVISES STERN HAND WITH BULGARIAN KING A Well-known Publicist Says That Ferdinand Must Abdicate Throne. London, Oct. 2.=Sir Valentine Chi- rol, former editor of Times, and a well-known publicist, in an article in the Times, warns the Al lies of the necessity of dealing stern- ly with King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. "So long as we remember that our first duty-is to our allies in the Bal- kan peninsula," says Sir "we can treat the Bulgarian people feniently, But in the interests of the themselves deal too sternly with 'the ruler whose -sinister influence and example have blighted the fair promises Bulgaria held forth during the early years of her emanciatidn. from the - Turkish the we " "If ever there has been a ruler per- sonally and directly 'responsible for having plunged his country into. dis- aster it is Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and if it is one of the chief war aims of the Allies to make the against militarism and autocracy, Fer- dinand, who is the living embodiment in the Balkan peninsula of all that is worst in them, cannot be retain his throne." | Regis, - + poration----of Kingston; opera- London Valentine, cannot worid safe allowed to. ARGUMENT ENDS osm | Me. Thy Calls Foot Note in tition' Minute Book a Fake. "THAT THE ARCHBISHOP DIS. i PLAYED NO ANIMOSITY. [ER | And That He Remained a Disinter- | "ested Panty--Mr. Tilly Held That Judgment in the Main Was Right. : { ~ Moronto, Oct. 2.--W. N. Tilley, [ K.C., 'counsel for Sister Mary Hasil, "+ | continued his arguments yesterday jin support of the award of $24,000 | against - Archbishop Spratt, M ther the Roman Catholic Cor: Phelan, { i 'As to-Dr. Phelan, 'Mr. Tiley said { the. jury found that he was liable | ag dn 'accomplice for having given {a certificate and arranging for the { Temoval of the sister froni the or- | phanage. i "Phelan denies that he [gave a certificate, that Sister Basil was in- sane," said Mr. Tilley. '"The certi- | fieate 'was not produced; it had been destroyed." L ~ A Fake, Says Mr. Tilley. Justice Hodgins--"It is stated anywhere that. a certificate of in- | sanity was given?" "It is denied." Mr. Tilley told ef a minute, dated Nov. 11th, 1895, in which it was said that Sister Basil refused wpourishment, apd 1t was agreed to hold a consultation. "Now," said Mr. Tilley, "there's a foot-note, saying that Dr. Fenwick says she may become insane ulti- mately. TI say that this foot-notc is a fake." 5 Chief Justice Meredith--"Is there person can be certified We lum an 'another province?" . *f thixk not." \ 'AdcordingSto Mr. Tilley, Mother Regig wrote to Father Mea that he had Jeertificates from two doctors Sister-Basil was insane. Just Casual Call by Doctor. "The whole thing is confusing," sajd 'Mr. Tilley. "The certificate was not produced. The jury beliav- ed that Phelan was not telling the truth, and that the Mother Su- perior (Mother Regis) was not tell- ing -the truth. When Sister Basil was being taken away, it-was said that she was insane. Sister Basil said: "1 have pot seen a doctor in twenty years. Then ode of tue three women who entered her room exclaimed: 'You ile, woman, - you saw a doctor this morning.' " "What doctor?" queried Mr. Jus- tice Magee. ' Mr. Tilley-- 'Phelan says he out to see-Father Mea, and rapped on the door of the father's roo. Sister Basil was tidying up Father Mea's room, and Phelan thrust kis head in and said: 'It's you, Sister Basil; how are you? "I am, very well; thank you,' Sister Basil an- swered, and Phelan wernt away. It's rather significant that two or three times it 'was said to her: 'You saw a doctor." " = : Justice Hodgins--"This leads up to your contention that the jury did not .believe Phelan?" "Yes." «As to a wertificate, Mother Regis said it lay ow her desk for weeks, and then she destroyed it. Mr. Tilley, in conclusion, held that the judgment was right, ox- cept--that costs should have gone against Dr. Phelan. "I agree with Sislcr Gabriel that Phelan -was no better than « hang- man," declared Mr. Tilley. "ile was an alienist, yet did not {ssue a warning although he knew of the intended removal. At the trial he could not remember, or he wasn't sure. Even my learned friend had to crowd him to make him talk. Sine Mr. MoC: s Reply. In. replying to Mr. ley, Mr. MdCarthy, Tor the defendants, ssid that Father (Mea believed in tional obedience, and found a ready r Mea's influence. running smoothly. the | IN BASIL CASE CLAN OF WR. WORTHY and Dr. ¢ weny ra tool in Sister Basil. .-She gave im- plicit obedience until she came ne r the Archbishop had kept ber { who, in reminding counsel that the | Archbishop thought Sister Basil had i written .the anonymous letters and | had said that probably she would be lit Wetter to be turned out than {o go {out of her own accord _ when she {| would not get a dispensifion, but to make things so difficult that she would be turned out with remunera- tion; possibly sumMicient to make things right for the rest of her life?" No Animosity. Replying to Chief Justice Meredith, a subject for a lunatic asylum, asked "How did' he get rid of that idea?" council referred to two subsequent interviews and: 7said they parted good friends. "Even after that," said Mr. Me¢Carthy, "nor that they were animosity displayed on the part of -the Archbishop, and why, simply be- cawse of the writing of this letter and because of the fact that he knew what the Mother Superior was doing, | he could be charged with any ani-| mosity, I am at & loss to know, be-| couse I think his acts are consistent | with espousing her interests or re- maining a disinterested party, 'allow- ing the Mother to"ake entire charge of her own subjects." The Subsequent Act, { Chief Justice Meredith-- "May not the subsequent act of the Archbishop throw. light on it?" { "The first subsequent act was that | he went down to see Naylon." l Counsel submitted in reference to] the Archbishop charging Father Mea | with interfering with his administra- | tion, that the Archbishop was the | man who should have been called | up and stepped in. "Father Mea | called up the house from the orphan- | age on the lake, and finding that the | Archbishop. haa gone to bed, did not! bother any more about it: He sent | no message to him, but simply ra off and then assumed to act himself. The Archbishop only had ohe version } of the story . He went down there with the version given him by Mothér Regis." & ; . "We don't admit she was being sent to a lunatic asylum,' continued | Mr. McCarthy, "nor that they were sending her away as an insane per- son, I-. think. -the letters of the Mother Regis to the sisters in Mont- "| military organ {improvement since the amalgamation | Two forces M real and the sister's reply indicate very clearly thie nature of the treat- ment they wished to adopt in' this case." . Replying to Justice Ferguson, Mr. McCarthy denied that the Archbishép knew the day before that the sister |. was going to be taken away . 'He knew a resolution had been passed," safd counsel. ; Justice Maclaren----"And what did he do in consequence?" Mr. McCarthy--"He did nothing. He advised it." : Be Justice Maclaren---"'A man who ad-- vises in the case of a conspiracy is guilty." ! The Chief Justice: There is no suggestion that Father Mea was guil- ty of malice. He st~od as the pro- tector of this woman, Mr. McCarthy fook acception to the "grossly excessive" amount of the damages, and was proceeding 'to protest against the faairness of the trial in the City Hall at Kingston, | which was frequently interrupted by applause, when he. was cut short by the Court,which determined he ought to have mentioned such a matter in hig opening. Counsel raised objec- tion to a headline in a Kingston pa- per published during the trial which read: "No Chance for the Defence." Justice Hodgins: What can we do with that? : Counsel: The judge should have struck out the jury and tried the case himself. » 'The Chief Justice: In these days the people pay little attention to 'these things. The hearing of argument lasted four full days. Justice McLaren ex- pressed his opinion that two days should have sufficed-and: the hearing might have gone into a fifth day had hot the Court refused Mr. McCarthy permission to enter into arguments on mailers he should have brought out in his opening address in order to give counsel for Sistef Basil a fair opportunity to make Feply. In the result the Court reserved judgment. CANADIANS OPPOSE R.C.N.A.8. FORM ATION These Overseas Do Not Want Two Branches of Air Sere vice Separated. London, Oct. 2--Those interested in the development of the Canadian Air Forces are alarmed at the propo- sal to create a separate Canadian na- val. and military air services. The British first Hlopied this plan, but practice showed that rivalries and mis- understanding followed, which did not make for efhciency. There is now but one British aerial service, and the has been most marked produce friction, dtd do not make for united effort in the productidn of new air en, ines, as the Sheiee at one force is seldom the choice of the other. Prominent Canadians welcbmied the announgement a14 Canadian 3 i Jorse, but regret its division into navil a dians will have served in the air force. Canadians are the premier airmep in Canada. 4 GERMAN GOVERNMENT 18 VIGOROUSLY "ASSAILED THE For Keeping the People Ignorant of the Sitnation--Frankfort Zeitung Begs That Peace Be Made. Amsterdam, Oct. 2.--The German press to-day is hysterically emphasiz- ing that the need for cool heads név- er was greater than now. The pos- sibility, never before entertained or visualized, is beginning to dawn on the people thai Germany may. lose the war, and the suddenness of this realization has had a bewildering ef- fect on them. The Zeitung Am Mit- tag entirely approves, as wholly ap- propriate to the occasion, the sensa- tional editorial printed in Vorwaerts last week, dealing with what would happen showld an enemy succeed in invading the Fatherland. It makes an assertion remarkable for this news- paper, saying: Jur government _ "Our throughout this terrible war has | sedulousiy avoided hinting at this, and the other possibility, namely, that the war may be lost 'if: every body and everything are not united in the utmost effort. "The Government has thus itself contributed to veiling the real grav- ity of o@r position during these four years of war," the newspaper con- tinues: "It. has preferred to lead the nation in blinkers past the abyss of danger to our national life." The Rhenish Westphalian Gazette shudderingly contemplates the Bul- garian. situation; "the last and high est wave,' and suspects that the Bul- garians, after having got 'the Do- brudja region of Faas Pe. no further use for Germany. 3 The Frankfort Zeitung expresses regret that the gove pt failed to impress on friend foe with "truth" that Germany did not go in- to the war out of lust for power. This newspaper freely admits that the Bulgarians are justified in feel- ing war tired and thinks the Bul- garian people will stand by Premier Malinoff, ApreTomiigl 7 Finally the Exankfbrt Zeitung begs the government 26° make for peace, "anequivogdily and sincerely." : "The -: Dusseldorf. Nachrichten be- = wails the fact that troops will have to be sent to Macedonia from the west front, "where they are so bit- terly needed." Its sister publica- tion, the Essen Allgemeine Zeitung, speaks of "bad" mews coming thick and fast," and repeats {8 previous as- sertion that the Germans: must bo strong. Later on its editorial the issen Journal falls into bitter abuse of "blaspheming Wilson and his mob of Iynchers." TO EAT LESS BUTTER. Canadians Put.on Allowance of Two Pounds a Month. Ottawa, Oct. 2~All creamery but- ter made in the provinces of Alberta, Saskai-hewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec between the 30th day of September and the 9th day of Novem- ber, 1918, both days inclusive, will be commandeered under the authority of an order-in-council. The reason for this action is that Great Britain and her allies need Ca- nadian creamery butter, The Brit- ish. Ministry of "Food urgently asks Canada to mcrease her shipments of creamery butter, PR One-half pound' of butter .or oleo- margarine per month per person is the allowance in Great Britain to- The order-in-council puts Ca- nadian consumers on a creamery but- ter allowance of two pounds but- ter per person per month, as com- - pared with the half-pound allowanee ' in Great Britain. Capt. Gilmour's Escape. Brockville, Oct. 2. W. Nor- min Gilmour, * M: Army Medical Corps, son of W, A. Gilmour, was a pussenger ni route to it og rica on the. troo - y A which was or ooRship al oss of life A abiceran re red from day. clothi and was at the time ing in London realy to ol hoat for ae Ruan was loss. rof life, he wrote, the faulty 'launching exposure. : sts Gilmour escaped only sail