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A NOTABLE BAR SESSIO
OW
Canadian parliament Meets in Circumstances That
Will be l istoric,
Ottawa; Aug. 1$. --What will be ` wards defraying any expenees that
may b'e incurred by or under the
authority of the Governor -in -Coun-
cil during the yeas, ending March
3i, 1915, for" 1hae.defence and secur-
ity of Canada; the conduct of naval
or military operations in or beyond
Canada, promoting the continuance
of trade, iardusetry and ,business
communications whether by means
of insurance: and indeneeity
against war risk or otherwise, and
the carrying out of any measure
deemed necessary or .advisable by
the Governor -in -Council in • ocnss-
quence of the existenew of a state
of war.
"It is further resolved that the
Governor -in -Council bs empowered
to raise by way of loam, teinporary
or 'otherwise, such sums of money
as are required for the purpose of
making any payment +utho:rized by
any Act founded on these resolu-
tions."
The second resolution, which ap-
pears in the name of the Minister
of Finance, is to empower the Gov-
ernment to make. • advances to
banks, to authorize the banks to
make 'payments in notes, and to is-
sue excess circuulaition, to authorize
the suspension of the redemption of
prorogation. The unfortunate out Dominion notes and gold and give
break of war made it 'immediately the Governor -in -Council authority
to estalish a mortaetori
bum...
recalled as the ""War Parliament"
was opened this afternoon by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Con-
naught. The opening ceremony was
divested of all : the social functions
which have characterized past oece-
sions, and in 'their stead was the
silent evidence of a deep apprecia-
tion of the grave issue's with which
the P•arlientenrt,of Canada has been
called upon to deal.
The arrival of the Duke of. Con-
naught on Parliament Bill was wit-
nessed by thousands of Ottawa peo-
ple, who were not , deterred by
threatening = skies from viewing
what will go down as a. historic
scene in, the annals of the Canadian
'Parliament His Royal Highness
was accompanied by the usuales-
cort of dragoons and received by
the customary guard of honor from
the Governor - General's Foot
Guards. • '
Speech I'rom Throne.
"Honorable .Gentlemen.'of the 'Sen-
ate, Gentlemen of the House of
Corneae ns ::
"Very 'grave even'te vitally:affeot-
ing the interests of all his Majesty's
dominions have transpired since
imperative for my Ministers to take
extraordinary measures for the de-
fence of the honor ,and integrity of
tap F Hire:
"V,Si-E-respect . to such of these
measu> e:s as may require the 'sanc-
tion and approval of Pearliaanent,
the necessary lee slartive proposals
will. be submirbtetl for your consider-
ation Other bills authorizing ad-
ditionaleeltlesures which are eesen-
tieal for 'e safety will also
be presente,• you without delay.
"Gentlemen of rbhe; House of Com-
mons, ---Estimates will be laid be-
fore you to provida.for expenditure
which has been, or may be, caused
by':bho outbreak of hostilities.
"Hon. Gentlemen of the Senate,
Gentlemen el : the House of Com-
mons --The critical period into
Excise Taxes Inereaded.
The following special War tax on
coffee, .sugar, liquors and etobaaoco,
etc., was ,annoanced by Hon. W. T.
White, Minister of Finance, in pre-
senting his budget to the House +if
Gbmm,ans :
Lime and Fruit Juices.
Lime and fruit jukes having not
more than 25 per cent. of proof spi-
rits are placed under a duty of 75c
instead of 60c per gallon.
If the proof spirit is more than
25 ':per .oent. the specific duty is
raised from $2.40 to $3.00 per gal-
lon, the ad valorem duty remaining
unchanged at 30 per cent.
Lime, juice and fruit juice,
which we have just entered has n,o,p , are mcreaased from. 22 to
aroused to the frill the patriotism
and loyalty which have always actu-
i aced the Canadian people.
"From every province, and, -in-
deed, from every community, the
response to. -bhe call of duty haps
' been all that ooulel be desired. The
�t spirit which thus- animates Canada
inspires also his Majesty's ' domin-
ions throughout the world; .and we
Reay be assured that united action
�. bo repel the common danger will not
Eail to strengthen the ties that
bind together those -vast dominions
in the possession and enjoyment of
the` ble.saings of British liberty.
"As representatives of his Majes-
ty the Bing, I must add my expres-
sion of thanks and admiration for
the splendid spirit of patriotism
and generosity that have been dis-
played throughout the length and
breadth -of the Dominion."
Notices or Notion.
Two notices of motion have been
given as the basis of Government
legislation. The first, in the -name
of the Prime Minister, provides
"that it is expedient to provide
that ,a sum not exceeding $50,000,-
000 be granted to hips Majesty to -
Nate f l . 1 r'
Sazonotf,
Itussian,, Minister of Poreigo
Affairs.
22% per cent. under the general
tariff and from 15 to 17% per cent.
under the British preference..
Alcohol ia, :inoreased- from $2.40
to $3.00 per gallon.
On alcoholic perfumes in small
bottles the duty is raised from 50
to 60 per cent. ; in larger bottl•es.
the specific duty is raised from $2.40
to $3.00. The ad valorem duty to
remain unchanged.
On spirits of nitre the duty is also
raised from $2.40 to $3.00 per gal-
lon.
On medicated wine the increase is
from 50 to 60 per cent. -
On malt flour a special war tax of
3c per pound is imposedin addition
to. the existing ad valorem duty of.
35 per cent.
Chemical preparations, including
patent medicines, when :dry, remain
unchanged ; but on all others the
duty is raised from 'S0 be 60 per
cent. If they contain more than 40
per cent. of proof spirits the speci-
fic duty is increased from $2.40 to:
$3.00 per genet:.
Paints and colors; ground in spi-
rits, are increased from $1.00 to
$1.25 per gallon.
GERMAN SOLDIERS ARRESTED
IEiglrty-three Pile onOrs Charged
with Mobbing the Dead •
-
A despatch been Paris says::
Eighty-three Geruiaxi prieeseene, ac
cased of robbing the dead on elle
field of battle, arrived at. Clermont
Ferrand, 'caprital of the Department
of .Puy -de -Dunne, where ,the police
bad great difficulty' in restraining
the population from attacking
them, ,, When arrested in the vicin-
ity of Muelhatrlsen, meaty jewels, a
number of wreddin, r rings.'and large
sums of .ziieney *ere found on, theGermans. Tt:is alleged that these
valuables were stolen froze 'the
bodies of efttee.rs and soldiers.
The German prisoners ,.will ap-
pear before a court-martial to be
held by the Thirteenth Army Corps.
They were transported' to. Cler-
mont Ferrand, •handouffed an fours,.
on isevenael trucks bearing the Im-
perial eagle. it is eehraarged +beat
they wore 'Red Orross insignia to
facilitate the robberies on the bat-
tlefield,
IlEYDRD-AEROPLA:1N1+, FLIGHTS.
Will Be Given at Canadian. Nation-
al Exhibition this Year.
Visitors to the Canadian Nation-
al Exhibition oat Toronto this year
will have the opportunity of wit-
nessing hydro -aeroplane flights.
Arrangements have been made
whereby W. A. ` Dean will ` fly his
machine daily; starting from the
lake and circling over the ,Exhibi-
tion Grounds. These flights will be.
given at various intervals during
the afternoon, butone will be held
at the fixed hour of six o'clock
every :day. A sufficient height will
be maintained over the grounds.
that in case of accident there will be
time and room to glide out over
the water before descending.
CELTIC SAILSWITII POOD.
Carried Two Hundred Passengers
and 15,000 Tons to Britain.
A despatch to New York says:
,The White Star liner Celtic, sailing
at noon for Qbeenstown and Liver-
pool,: was the only trans-Atlantic
vessel to leave this port on Thurs-
day. She carried 115 cabin:;passen-
, gers and approximately 100 in the
steerage, Fifteen thousand tons of ;a.
foodstuffs of every desoription—all
the insurance hinder"writers` 'would
allow—were peeked' ii her hold.
The Excise Increases.
The following are the increases in
the excise duties
Spirits from $1.90 ,ao $2.40 per
galloon.
Malt liquors from 10 to 15e per
gallon.
Malt from, 13/sc to 3e per pound; 1
crushed malt from 21Ao to 5e:
Manufactured tobacco from Se to
10c per pound, cut tobacco and;
twist from to to 10c per pound.
Snuff and sniff flour from 5o to
100 per pound.
Cigars' from $2.00 to $3.00 per
theu.s.and; if in small packages$3.00
to $4.00 per .thousand.
Cigarettes, weighing not more
than three pounds per thousand,
From $2.40 to $3.00 per thousand;
weighing more than three pounds
per thousand from $7.00 to $s.00
per tlious.nnd.
PRINCE WAS FILLED.
Third List of German Casualties
Published in Berlin.
A despatch from London says
Telegraphing from Copenhagen the
correspondent of the Daily Mail
says that the 'thirad list of Gennep
abo t u1,000
.
Casualties, aggregating
men killed or wounded, maanly in-
fantry, has been published in Ber-
lin. The correspondent adds that
the report that . Prince ,Frederick
William of Lippe was killed before
Liege is confirmed.
_.•i,,
In border to meet the action of
distillers and brewers who have
ex -warehoused their goods with a'
view to avoide4ng expected '. war
taxes all the excise duties are made
retroactive to August 7th, and the
same date applies to the import
duties on liquors.
GREATEST BATTLE OF WA
;$erv1ans to the Number of 150,000 Defeat r, o,000
Austrians,- L•,osse.s % oth Sides Enormous
A des:jlattcli from Rom
news ri ,ens Witt the following elea-
p'
,p p
patrois, dated Nish, ' SCrvia, Aug.
r'The Cour-drays' battle near T-Aosaitza..
Atustr. taxes to the nuni.beer of 100, 000
g
fou ht an equal number of Serbs.
The leases on both .slides were enor-
mous. The victors •c,apitired great
booty end'several thousand prison-
. u y vietery of the Serbs in a eros."
"The general staff t nnounoes the
GENERAL HOETZENDORF,
the drier of staff of the Austrian
A squad
German tart€)ery in the Field During Manoeuvres.
of German artillerymen aiding in moving agun carriage into position.
• 1
RUSSIA WIGS BIG VICTORY
k: •a Queen Wilhelmina,.
Who so far has refrained from tale=
ing any steps against Germany, but
who may be compelled by anti -Ger-
man feeling in Holland to send an
iri
Kaiser u tt
n
ultimatum to the q g
what' are his intention. s.
WILL PUBLISH LLMES.
Of Wives es Who Refused Permission Bombardment of Kaiser's Possession
to Husbands.
A despatch from. Ottawa says :
Six Days Desperate' Fighting Followed by
Rout of Germans
A deespatch. from London says:
A despatch to the Daily Mail from
St. Petersburg says that the first
great battle in ,the East Prussi,a.n
theatre of war operations has been
fought and won by the Russians,
who gained a complete victory after
six •days of desperate fighting.
The battle front extended nearlfy
Chir tet miles On both 'seder of elle
main railway line running _ from
Eydatkuhnfen, a town on the Rus-
eian border westward. The fighting
began when the Russians arttackeed
the .German First Division,' which.
had delivered several unsuccessful
assaults on Eadtbletelmen. The forces
an )both sides were gradually in-
creased, the Germans• finely having
three :annxy, corps engaged. One
army corps had -been hurriedly call-
ed from Lyek.
Fierce fighting took 'place Gum-
binnen, wizen the Gernians •attempt-'
ed to turn ;the Russian right flank.
Though the attack here was con-
ducted With the •utnnost vigor, the
attempt was frustrated by the
bravery and stubbornness of ,the
Russian troops• on this wing. The
Riussiaast took the opportunity
offered. by the ooacenbration of .the
Germans to the northward to direct
whereby :they captured many guns.
The Russian left wing pressed on-
ward, sand toward, evening drove
the enemy out .of their positions.i
The Germans thein asked for An
armistice that, they might carryl
away their dead and wounded. This
was refused.
Battle Is Derided.
The Germane hastily retfeated,
pursued 'by the Russ.iaus. The
enemy's losses <werevery heavy,'
The Russians captured Aires and
Galdap. Reports that rite Russians'
gave occupierd Iimsterburg -seems to
be official. This Means that Tilsit,t
a town on the, left bank of the Nie-
man, sixty miles norbh of Konigs-
berg, . baa been eut off from o•o -
munication • with. other parts of
P.ruesia.
In the fighting eight Gemmel regi-
ments of the field army and six
Landwehr regiments, totalling
about 70,000 men, with 200 guns,.
took part, and the number was re -1
inforced toe 100,000 men. The Ger-
1
man forces. available in East Porus-
sia, besides. the independent caval-1ry division, are five •army corps of
the field •siiYYy, totaleing 210,000
men, with 540 field guns ,eand 180
howitzers,, besides a considearable`
a vigororis assault on their centre, number of siege guns.
JAPA IS NSW AT VAR
The •extent to which Canadian mil-
itia office'rs have been held back
from +serving their country by the
action of their wives will be dis-
closed in a return to be moved for
in :;the House, The return, if.
brought down, will oontaain the
names in all cases, and will oon•-
satitute a public record of the one
unlovely feature of the war pre-
parations in Canada.
LIEGE FORTS IIOLD OUT.
Will BeBloaln Up Rather' Than be
Surrendered.
A despatch from Brussels says:
A report of the capitulation of the
principal forts 'at. Liege was official-
ly denied ,at, 8 o'clock Thursday
night. The oorrespondent of the
Figaro telegraphs •that Gen, Le-
man, the commander at Liege, has
moan bo blow up the forts rather
than,surrender them to the Ger-
army, who -is said to be lecttling the mans.
Austrian soldiers in the field.
EATEST BkT?LE Rkill
Allied Forces of France and Britain Hold
Back WIlole Gcrnran Army
A 'despatch from. London ewe:
Offrciali statements regarding 'the
great battle bebween the allied
armi,e;5 andthee Germans in Bel-
gium, aro to the ,effect that the
Frenaeh have assumed the e,ggrese
sive and a tie threatening the Geer
man lines ;of oomrnun,t'isa,tson ha-.
tween Charleroi :and Liege, The
attack of the allies is being pushed
a.gainet tote main German positions
on the. Menet and 'the -adenines antes sof,
the invaders . toward the Preach
fro-ntior, thr.ea.tsn mg Lille, has be,est
c+hecli ccl.
All ref eatatiari points to the be-
lief that the movements of the Ger-
mans ,towarlis Ghent and Ostend
was a feint to screen bhe movement
Far East Now in Progress
A.despatch from Tokio says: ja-
pan began war on Germany with an
order eta the. Japanese army and
navy to capture Klan -Chau; Ger-
many's` Chinese, possession, ianrme-
diattely.
Official news sof the . situation of
the Japanese fleet and transports
was kept eeeret, but became of pre-
parations which have been in pro-
gress since Japan sent her ultimo, -
tam -to the Kaiser's Gov'ernm'ent, et
is believed that everything was
ready foe the at+tack on Kiau-Chau
when the: time limit of the ultima-
tum expired.
It is reporrte•d that. Count Okuuna
will make public the -correspondence
which . passed between Japan and
so•tt;tliwdr•d, bbs +objective of which
ie, ;believed to be the French free. -
tier between Mons and Lille. Ap-
parently file GermaneGermaneileav extends
ftozn a paint aougill of Ghent to
Idol, aoubli earl of Ciu eeteroi, and,
tlu, nsantlrward oto Walsourti,
A Rotterdam deep.ateh quote's
Kobeutdaal eleepatcihes as saying
tlaab soon ,after leaving Bre esels and
ma.king a feint toward Ghent the.
Germans suddenly turned ,bo,wv.aaeal
the .south, -w aaab against Lille. • A:c-
oording to, the :caarerpendrttitut, :the
Herman strategists regard this
more, together. w.it1r ,bhe mar.oh ,on
Valex cienne;s>::as a surprise' for 'the
aitllir
.es and believe that ib will oblige
them to olieang+e their front.
in,
Great Britain regarding Japan's
position in the European war, +and
that this will show that Great
Britain asked- Japan's aid in- the
Ear Ea,tab .and ,approved her action'
against Germany.
many.
The Japanese . expeditionary
forces sant to Kiau-Chau .are funder
the command of Vice -Admiral
Kamimur•a.
The Japanese, rescrip•t issueaci
says:
"We 'command our army and
navy to carry on hostilities with all.
their strength, and we command
our cam potent authorities to put
fsr.th every effort in pursuance .of
their duties to obtain the national
aims within the limits of •the law of
nations."
GerliaTIS Continue to Scatter Mi
A despatch from London eaevs
The'official British news bureau is-
sued the following abatement:
'1.''lie Admiralty wishes• to draw ;at-
-bent -ion to the previous warnings to
neutrals of the dangers to naviga-
tion.
The Germane are •continuing their
practice of ;wagering mines Indic-
criminetely upon the ordinary trade
rotates, These mines do not •con -
the Hague contentions. They do.
not heroine'haraniese atter a certain
number of hours, and they are not ,
aid in . connection with any definite
military echerne, such as the :closing
of a military port or as a distinct
operation against an invading fleet,
but aree'scatber•ed on the chanceof
touching individual British war-
ships or merchant vessels,
In eonsect ea:ce, neutral ,ships, n•o
matter what their destination, aro
form to the ooniditi,onaa laid down by exposed to the greatest danger.
lasses of Belgiaus. Were lleavy
A d.e:spatch from London says
The Daily Mali's correspondent ab
Alost; Reit;iuum,, 15 miles north-
west of. Bru:seels eve
"The 1eelg+iains evaetuated'Louvain
after a bloody battles which they
adMit :heir losses were enormous.
They fought against fearful odds,
and were driven back."
'4 d
The Daily „Mail' Antweup •c ,ares-
po.mient,, Cctl. Faeirb,olm,e, military
attaohe to the llritish: 1 s ation,
says the sittoattion +of the allies is
entirely favorkabl:r, Beoeel Axes
r Germans have hest:, ton days
thzi,ttleG 3.
on their psograneine, while thealliet
'have tattled out: theirr>oet terve to
p
without the slightesb delay.