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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-02-03, Page 7• 4 7. 0 --`-77111P: "r7 ERuALN D sPeYece aTilaur,accillort:g. to the agree -flE Et. tbilte tho ustrIrd ittitleTI to eXter enondent, created tremendone feelieg CRECI(ILD IY LEs ,iit„z,,%ititiiieblt„,,mullz,i1:vim were 10 have been devoted to it vivre • Mostly blank,. Owing to the aetleitY of the censer. Even CoUnt Tieeft, the Premier,. Ban the correspondent, "watt etirred by the fatte prodacea by the %D(aner, Ana K0111113ei& to levestitette them nemedietein," NOT IN OA -NADA. Enemy, llo veva, Made Some ImPo Gains on the 'Western Front1 tant Possession of Hill 140 Will • Aid The Greatly In Holding Lens. Parte, Jan. :15. ---The German often- meaeure against a poestible Ottensive a, by the Allies itt thie• sector le tee rive (411 t1te ‘veterti tr"t' c°1116(1e-sepring. With the heigitte named in the with the Kaisere birtialety, welch be- poeeession of the Germans the tasa ot glut with the attaelt on the tatted po- the allied forces attemptingthe cale t-ition Nieuport and continued with lure of Leila would be greatly the an attaek in the region of Neuville„, creased,. attaeka a turee pante la Artois, the also hold a greater part oi the quer- LRUttH PUttiti tET IEPPEUK Never Rase Oonseription, Says lIon. Dr. Roche. Chicago, Jan. 30.--Cauatla governe itecit, and ie not tarlueneed by Great Britain in anY waYi CelleurlDtleh never will be adopted in the Domins ion, and there ere no War taxee on Cenadian land, and never wiLl Le. These were Flom ot the ussertioes here Saturday by Hon. D. William 3. Roehe, Minister of the Interior or calop, and flea. T. Crawfora Nara, Premier of eitteitoba, at a meeting of Canadian immigration agents erom the -Untied Stat. The meeting te e "- signed to outline methods ot ineorea- ing American people who planned ta tale up homessteada in Canada ot the swami conditions in then Dominion, The Vimy ridge bus hew been eta et. Vaunt, attained seecess Fridey in wilily, ocewpiea by tu"ermaus, wao first land tee to the norehwest of the Ni -j" -''lea; neeeewest Hulueh fare, nertheaet of Neuville-St. Yeast; . two railway elegies at La Baesee '0 seediezie:;:ar St, Laurent, in, the Canal. Ronghly, the line is a sector, . rra$ seetor, and the third let the which at the beginning or tee German eeetor of Friee, eouth Of tho Somme, int tie 11 kilometres west or Permute. The offensive was the most Power - e fel drive which bas been made by tee tlermane in thie sector witlian a year, . Its most important accomplishmente • - - were, aceordiug to the (lemma ottle- lal report, tultieg of 1,85e feet of trenaltee al the Napoli farm sector, the tatting a a group ot houses in au ueseult on the an. Laurent district, awl, most important of all, the cap- ture of the village ot Vrise, with 4,000 yards of French trencaes to the depth a 1,000 yards to the south, ' life' prisoners made comprisee 1,287 ' efficere and men at the Napoli tam. several prieoners were added to the e e.• list by a ;second detachment welch - penetrated the second line a Preach .,, trenches south of Mons, and which '• thou returned- to the German lines. • Mimes the prisoners are eame Brit- - isle ..:-. Tuo saute Cerman statement an- ' ' - • nottuees the bringing down. a au al- - . lied aeroplene south et A.premont. - ' • All the attaelts were preceded by a , heavy bombardment of the French poeitions, but these preparations were lees exteneive than those of preceding attacks, and resulted in the demolition •enly of more advanced positions. Field - gun and machine gun tire front the eeeond line or trenches, uninterrupted, IL._ etopped the German rush. . German • prisoners taken by the French: said the attack -was intended to prevent an unexpected offensive by the French, ' .•,,. lANY TRENCHES .RETAKEN, .,.. Tee Frencle on. Saturday lauached a , counter -offensive, and continued en Sunday to reoccupy successively the - ---'' ' trenches captured on Friday, la the •-.. • course or these actione on Saturday 11\) -'', . the French released about fifty French ' ..,; eoldiers who had been made prisoners `. „,... by the fiernlans, On Saturday night - • . the Germans delivered an attaek upon -. - • postte ,eouipierre: The enemy's in- . -,... ."e,enne4ie)ositioDs. smith of Somme,' op- • fantry was twice repulsed and 'thrown. back into their trenches by the French •. . rifle fire and cnrtain fire. Detailed aceounts have reached Paris or Friday's• figh•ting north of .. Arras, which is deecribed as the . fiercest yet seen on the western front, In the previous battle the French .. . had thrust the Bavarians, who held this sector under Crown Prince Rup- Precht, back -to the edge of the crest, borgering tbe plate that stretches right to the. Belgiau front, 'rhe Gers mans know that the next French drive wIll be irresistible, unless their ., hold eu the hill range is strengthened, - Renee the fury or their attack. Tile principal effort was directed againet the French lines, dug in front or the old German. .trenehes of Val- kyrie. Odin and Nietsche, between the blood-etainecl Cabaret Rouge and the road from NeuvRle-St. Yeast to Givenchy, which rounds the western slope of Hill 140. Here seven mines were exploded along a front of-: less than two kilo - Meters (a mile and a quarter.) They were not under lerencla trenches, since microphones would leave given want. ermitted counter -mining be- .ne.were far enough, ards:, in front. Charged, and poimds and more of sive, the mine.s as they formed craters 80 feet wide e feet deep. The disturbance et I wrecked the French trenchee, sont* eases literally elosed ro up, with the men buried' inside. CHARGED WEARING MASKS. Before the smeke war, eleared .away the Gerinalls Charged, Ng earing masks to protect themeelyee against the gas fumes. They occupied the craters and flowed over the rims upon the trench- es beyond. A Frencle counter-atteck eepelseti them., except at a few pointa where the trenches were practiraily destroyed. • Then came 0 terrible battle in the (lettere. elen reeled as they gropplecl :down the steep sides ond fought, :fininping on the heaps of dead and Aying. -One Breton sergeant killed three Ilavarlaus will'. a beak -shaped broken piek. He WEIS then stabbed through Ow throat by a yonng German, 'Who in turn was killed by a grenade. Teti artillerymen -•were unable te use their quitkefire gene lest they shoot ele own Mete etteli eisle alternately gained the restery and tried to surmount the edges of. the craters, they were beaten back by the terrific cannonade. letnel- ly the streptgle ceage.d from. Mutual ex- itattetioe. Ewen where the -Germans (-lung ,desperately to the Italie of the Vrenth treneltes, honors. were even. :that of tite cra,tere -were divided by a . 'harrier of eandbags, across , which cattle an occosional grenade. item eitiev, loetnheavily before the ,/erimin Offeusive- WaS. checked, - Other ottemitts of thq Germans to gain ground Met' Nvitli still less site- uo.o. The French attilIery beat barn the astAilante almost ae soon aa they left their ireuelteel, wit.yr Tille ENEMY GAINED. Toe uow ormisive gives the Ger-. leans. att perhaps the Mogritinioetant rckeilt 'Ai far, posseseion ot Hill 140, 1.f.tweeti Ateteltez anti., V.iMy,,, find,,,,H,111, In, routheaet of X.00s: -"elieke bills vere won by the Allies in the Sete Ienther ofteneive,. the Tint by Me Vertalt, the tacond les the Brinell. To - teem'? with the Vinty heighte they stetihttota the Arrae-Lenz road, mut ere 11. mon itenortant ntetor in the teteeeeein ti .... „ . - The prestint a.t. 1,,,elt by tio. !leptons on these 11'3Si- llerriVriiiiinv, • 1•4 - . vied tie att antieleraory esite the otiti r Ivo Airmen Made Desperate At- tempts to Destroy the Satur. day Night Raider, See to Hullach, Hill 140, Thelus, Roeh- Eo Piru been bent D'aelt until it crosses the offensive ran. south from La Bassee Canal lust west or Bas - 1 1111COUrt and St, Lanrent, AIRS nOW caual uear G11111014', end Pasges 'W- ill& and Loos, leaving Hill '70 to the Germans and streightening Meg be- tween Souebez anti Arras until that 1 --- salient extending into the German Raid at Busarli hills Plany aud ' bjeet of the Germans in valises Panic Among Troop8. lines has been practically eliminated a ------- Turkish Ariny fox. Salonild Num- bers 150,000. :MOTIONS. dian Officers Who Ilave Won Their Step Up. Lewin, Jan. 30;•-Proutotione in the verseas contingents include the WI- lewing Canadians: Pro.gootta, ',dents, LI, V. Bertram. and G. L. Hull; 'ad elcunted iU1W 14eat, Balfettr, to contain a Artillery; to lientertants, W. S. Tuelt, A, ed. Turateln, Ereenue eene; to lieutenants, G, 13, Field, II. 1. Vie, C. 1 1), Boss, G. E, T. siwue, C. Young, M. white, Priucese leads eittet Seeond 14out J,S, Alien, to. , lieutenant, 2na Battelion; 'Llent. W. G. White, to payOutster, 7t1), leattalion; Capt. eleueble, to temporary Malan 8t1, Battalion; lieuteuants to captaine, le Fe Wain, 11,, Paget, 1.9tht, Lion Kienter, to capteia, 24tet Bettalion; E. M, Arunitlett, to lieutenant, Mit Battalion;i.,G, et, Fleming, to lieu -- tenant, A. S, O. Copt, la Opiate, to major, A. Iti. de Meteor McCrea to temporary iteutenant-eolonel; dapt, Wainwrigat, Canadian Arttliery, to paymeeter. Tho followiag correctiou made in the list ot Distioguished Service Order awards lesuect on Jan. 14: leer Mot. lealware John Ashton, read Millar Eds ware Seines Ashton, leth Cenaelan Batteliou, now attachea to eth Re- eerves, A F1UN FAII;UREI The Attempt On Sunday Night WaS Unavailing -Reprisals Are Demanded. Paris, jan. 31.-leive Freneit aerce • plates engaged the Zeppelin whica on nett:allay eaglet dropped, benthe itt Paris, 'killing and wounding over two score of persons:, according to aa an- thoritative statement isettea to -day. ninlis Tho 3110.111 the 'fighting in the Neuville-St, Yeast sector the past few days has been for the poesession of the angle formed by the Neuville-Bailleul and the Neu- ville-La. Folie farm roads. The contest for this road election continues con- stantly, the Germans moving down from the slopes of Hill 140. The French guile have battered to pieces the buildings on the farm of La 'Folie, but the position remains of great 10.1- Portance, BRITISH REPORT, Londoe, San. 30. -The official state - meet on the campaign in the western theatre, issued Saturday night, reads: "Yesterday evening after a heavy bombardment the enemy entered some of our saps near Carney. Counter -at. tacks early this morning drove them out. The enemy left some dead and wounded behind. Hostile shelling In this area continued to•day- "Hostte bombing attacks about the X1111 and near Givencity were re- , The first te netatt. t • he German. raider WaS Machine piloted. by a Bergeant, 110Si 'TWN TO B ITISII LI Wao was occupted. patretiling the ewer air, lie pursued with, Wane energy, the statenteot says, .but Woe et- haueted all hie etoek of eartridgee, and WAS -obligee. to ethaineou the per - suit, Oue of the two 1310.013.10.05 which were armee with cannon hed, how- ever, by this time manage:1 to* climb up nigh ertough, eed opened an thin- tease fire on e Zeplealia, which pro- bably was nit, 'but not badly dean - aged. The Zeppelie was next picked up by sub-lieuteneen as it flew over the suburbs westward. He weat up to within 50 to 100 yards of the eirseip, and stack to las auarry with grim de- termination, sometinms flying above, sometimes below, and sometimee en a level, in order to escape the fire front the Zeppelins machine guns. For 53 minutes the cease continded, the ma- chine guns being freely used on both slides, until fieally the aevopiene'e ezt- gtne. broke down, and the sub-lieu- tenent was obliged to deettend. Several bombs were dropped by the ZePpelin evnich flew over the out- skirts of Paris last night, but they Preauced such deadly effect as o011the occasion a the raid of SaturdaY nigia. The official bureau gave out the following statement this morning: "A. German dirigible set out in the direction of Paris, where it arrived soon after 10 p. no It -was bombard- ed by our special batteries and at- tacked by our aeroplanes. Before re- turning northward it dropped a mute- ber of bombs, which, according to the news received so tar, did no damage." Representatives of the Mato, who visited the scene of the raid, say that no datna,ge was done by the bombs. Three of them fell on a piece of waste ground and three others In a field. A police inspector saw the three. which fell in the field. They did not sink deep en. the soil. They .were covered with a cotton -like suestance, which burst into flames. Tbe inspector clearacterized them as incendiarY bombs. Little was seen of the Zeppelin on account of the weather conditions. The Matin says,that it haft received information from. tbe postmaster of on.e of the places over -which the Zep• pellet passed, to the effeet that a number of bombs were dropped toge- ther. The inference is drawn that the Germans, seeing thentselVes threaten. ed by French aeroplanes, decided to loose all their bombs at once. The censors perrnitted foreign cor- respondents to telegraph whatever de- tails they could obtain, but the Paris. morning_ papers have many blank rresident Iiirilson May be Over to Proposal, Wtoseington, Jen, 20. --That Pres ent Wiloon is likely to lm won0. over Proposal to piece 0. tea On Anna- • doge ot war ail part Of the Gen- eral Revenue Bill to be framed aS Meatieo rataing mOney for 'national defence 14 the baled of pronlinent leaden ot the MOM. A. poll a the .IIottee Denmerats, Net eelupleted, Venni to itulleate that 0. Menttiorte tea Is fettered, It was pointed oat yesterday by the Howe leaders that Ma term "MUIR- Rene" in breed and Ineletinites One titat 100Sel7 cOnstrued t tnigat be matte to cover a lerge verietY ot Monte- feeteres that ere novv eXportea in considereble quantItten. In ale ael- e.ress to Congrese on Dee. 7 the Prost. delta among other things, Zeta Oita taxes ehould be levted on fabricated irOU and eteel product's, pig trete autoraobiles, iaternel coMbeetion en- gines and gasonee, 1Ie elso suegeetce thet the tux rate a the income tex law be rased, and that the exeMptions of that stetute for retorted and sIngle Men might be lowered, Their Operations in the Caucasus Intended to orro. 0t,i011, in Mesopotamia. London, Jan, 30. -An Athens de- spatch says: "Allied aNiators flew 0V1' t1$ caters) of the German and Bulgarian troope at Bazarli, northwest of Lake Doiran, dropping bombs and doing con msider- able daage, according to reports re- ceived here. Manx eoldiere were ltIU- The enemy troops were' tato a panic. The eviators returned safely to their base." The ,French official report says: "On January 28 a flotilla ot 14 French aeroplaaes dropped projectiles on the enemy encampments at Baz- orth of Lake Donau, -IE." to uie "The seelling about Loos leen been ' Athens ccinfirms the occupation 1.)) Pulsed last night and this morning. aril, very heavY, but now has diminished marines from French, British. and a little. Our artillery replied vigo. Italian warships of the Greek fort rously to the enemy's fire, It has, in of Karaber, whicie guards the en - addition, carried out bombardments at trance to Saloniei harbor, The °c- onies points of the line, doing coosid- cupation took elace early yesterdaY erable damage to hostile trenchee." morniez. It marks, the first appear - The Sunday statement said: ane of Italian and, Russian forces on "Last night there was considerable Greek eon and the first land opera - artillery 'activity about Vaux. Three times" in which troops of all four ot of Our patrols successfully bombed the allied nations have participated. German trenches near Serre, aud a The lan.ding was effeeted over tee hostile patrol which was encountered protest ot the Greek commanderleo- was driven off. , . •• cording to the Athens despatches, the "To -day has been generally-. foggy. alliea warships appeared in the gulf There was some artillery work about of Salonikt off the peninsula at day- Fricourt, but otherwise there is no- break. Boats were quickly sent thing to report," ashore with 2,000 •marines, the Greek ' FRENCH REPORT. senger et their intention. He with - commander being notified by mes- ticial conanumleation was issued by drew hie troops at once, after pro - Paris, ean. 30, -The following of - the War Office -Saturday night: testing. A. •number of Greek officials who , "In Artois, to the west of Hill 140,, are reported to have joixted the cote- ly sections ot trenches .captured yes- mender et the fort in their protests against the action, have declared that we contented to reoccapy successive- terclay by the enemy. In the course it was carried out by the forces of all of these actions we released about four nations with the purpose of 50 French soldiers who had been made timidating Greece by a, show of the prisoner by the Germans. power of the Onadruple Entente.. "To the south or the road from R te 's correspoodent at Petro - cover two craters reconquered by us, e 'r erne the f011eWing: 'Pr;Th6e N:voe Vremya says that from La Pelle the enemy attempted to re-. "Between the Somme and the Oise hut this attack. was repulsed, what it has learned through a good there has been great activity of the diplomatic source.there is reason to two artilleries. In the region of Ar- believe that the Tttritish army which maneourt, south of LaSsigny, We dis- joined the Billgarians' in Thrace age persed a revictetalling convoy and de- gregates, together with the Bulgariaes, stroyed an enemy observatory. To 150,000 men." the north or the Aisne our artillery The vielt of Premier Belated, of demolished observatories at Hill 108, Fraoce, to Rome, has been postponed south of 13erry-au-Bae, and disorgate until early in February. This is said ized the enemy positions on the pia,- eo be, in spite of the reports to -the tette of 'Vauclerc. contrary, because the situation le "In Lorraine our artillery carried Albania is much improved., the Aus- out an effective fire on the opposing trian advance southward being held works beteyeen. Noineny and Eply. ite abeyance by the flooded country, It The Sunday afternooa statement is explained ia official quarters that said: because of these condition's Darazzo "Yesterday 'evening the Germans do- is not at present threatened, end no livered an attack upon ottr positions attack on Aviona is imminent. south of the Somme, opposite Dont- ----.............--. pierre. The enemy's infantry was ANOTIMR RtVOLT, , twice repulsed and thrown back into their trenches by our rifle firing and tIOUND ERZERIJ Oity 'Being Reuunedin-Zr Percy Lake Joins Aylmer at Wadi, Loudon, Jan. 31,-A„ Petrograd clasp:Rea says: "T110Russian. ,Calleass TOSEItEM Those Affected by the Pelagic Treaty Get $603633. Their Claims Out Down V Total of $0,200,000. rem tan operetton ist Widening, t the westward, soutlivvestward end soathWard, with the poesibility, ae- cording to semnottietal opinion, at a, itinctere being tormea with tee Brit- ish Mesopotamia expedition. "The Russian. adVance is pushing west a Melazghert, evbesee the imPert- nt town, of lellYnYseltala, fitty miles south ot Erzerum, has been captured. At the nem time progress is reporta in the direction of Yen, and 'nowise towara Urtmaiala where it is officiallY anummeed that the Turks have peen. • repnised with heavy losses. Farther Soutimaest, in the region. ot lean - Ottawa, Jan. 30.-Totel ompensa- tion of $60,633 has been awarded to those affected by the Pelagic SeEtling Treaty or 1911, iri judgnient issued bY Assistant Judge L. A. Audette, of the Exchequer Cora •THE Bitlit1P 11111f11 Judge Audette was in. 1913 appoint- ed commissioner to award damages seetained by British Columbia sealing vessel owners as a. consequence of the prohibition of pelagic or open sea sealing ter titteen years by a 'treaty signed by Great Britain, the Hutted States, Russia and Japan, in 1e11, Claims for compensation have been filed by owners, mestere and mates and by crews of sealing vessels, ae well as in some cases by the owaere of Ships which had previously been etuployed in sealime, but had been laid up, end by eealere who plied their trade in the Pacitic. In all 1,605 claims Were Subolitted to Commissioner Autlette, who held hearings at Victoria, Halifax, Ottawa and Sydney, the total amount claimed being some $9,200,000. As compared .with this the award is very small, $60,633. The tonimissioner finds that tee only persons entitled to compensation Etre those who were engaged in seal- ing up to the time of the treaty of 1911, and the -owners of the vesenes, and in a few cases a few sealers who owing to illness or other causes were unable to engage in their calling in 1911. Owners at vessels reeeive the value of their yeesels and retain them. Masters and hunters receive the a.Mount of the previous year% earn- ings. Seamen receive 70 per cent. of the previous year's earnings and In- dian hunters 50 per cent. The reason the Indians receive a smaller com- pensation than the seamen is that the treaty provides that they may still carry on sealing in mimes. The cooks on pelagic vessels are not com- pensated because it was found that their calling was not interfered with by the stopping of open-nea dalanelti Wee, southea,st of Hama - dare another Russian 'Oaten' ist re- ported. Although a broken , mountainous country intervertes, tee latter post - times are not far rerao-ved from the b.ead of the Britisb. column in the vi- cinity ot Inateel-Areare. It is pointed out that the Turks evidently fear a junetiou, this being indicated by the retreal towards Mush of a large part ot tbeir army that was recently re- ported to have routed, the evident purpose of the more being to cover 13itlis and Diarbeltar. The Russians are surrounding Ern. - rum, front which city the Tule-deli authorities have tled, according So re- ports reaching Athens, A strong Rus- sian column is advancing to the Tigris valley, the adviees add. General Sir Percy Lake, who recent- ly took aver the supreme command of the British forces io. Mesopotamia, succeeding General Sir John. Eccles Nixon, has, according to an official announcement, 10ined the relief expe- dition under General Aylmer at "Wadi. Ile reports that the weather continnes bad, and the wbole country is deep in mud, making the 'movement of troops very difficult. RUSSIAN REPORT. ome Daring Work 'Undertaken b • Oanadisns. Particulars of the t xplosion at the Domb Scb.00l, Building Was Wrecked, and One Man. May Die. OUR, GUNS- anatlians Still Demonstrate Su. periority Over the Enemy Ou Their r rent, • Ottawa, Jan, 20.-Maler-Gen, Sir Sam Hughes haa received the follow- ing communique from the Canadiaa general representative in France; "Canadian General Headquarters in Frettee, via, London, Jan. 30.-Dering the week, 3411.19-26, the general alt. ,nation on the Canadian front ias un- dergone ne materiel change. The weather bun been mild ana Meet, 310.51 11310, "The superiority 0 has. been well Mal direct late have been 0 tile machiae gun eMPla More than one, 'enemy'a trench ortar has been silenced lay our fire "On Jan; 19 our tirst field. a tillery brigade combined -with our hoWetzere in shelling a hsrase used by the enenlY as an observation poet. One end, et the building was CoMpletely 40Molitehed. Quantities et Sandbags and intaber were observed among the tuine. The en.emees retaliation has riot been Very effective, On one occasion shralinel hit kis own parapets and ale larger shells base repeatedly failea teciex- plode. • Halifax, Jan, 30. --Three soldiere end one ofticer were eeriously Mjuree wed five others raore or leee ent, bruised aud burned when. an explosion occur- red- yeeterday morning in a roora at the old Cunerd building on Water street, where inetruction in the manufacture ot bombs was being W- en to non-commissioned ottieere of the 64th Battalion by Captain Burd, bombing inseructor of the sixth mine spaces, The press is unanimous in demand- ing reprisals for the two Zeppelin raids on Paris, and Met) cans for greater efficiency in the aerial de- fences of the city. . LeeST NIGHT'S RAID, Paris, Jan. 31. --It was 9.45 last night that au alarm was given of the approach of • a• Zopolin ite the direc- tion of Paris. in a, few minute,s the city was plunged en darkuese. Being Sunday night, the boulevards were thronged with promenaders, and the theatres, moving-pieture houses and 'cafes were orowded. The toll a death front the raid of the night before had made uo itnpression of the . cool Pavisians, who displayed the insatia- ble curiosity for winch they are re- puted, and flocked Jute the streete and gazed skyward In the hope of gettln.g a glimpse of -the invader, numoved by the poteible proapeet of the horrible death missiles which might fail from 'the gloomy shy. Nothing, however, eaz seen, and at 11.15 pen. the fire- reen's bugles announced that all &In-, ger Vle,s peat, and a number of lights, suffietent to etable persons homeward bound to find their way, were tuned on. The failure of the Zeppelin to carry out last night what is belbevea to have been its purpoee, a raid on Paris, was due, the anthoritieS say, both to the weather conditions and the, danger true the Paris aircraft defence. The weather, although misty, Was dearer than on Saterday night, tont the air tieetroyer flotilla, having a briretter sky, swarema rapidly over the me - ten of the city toward whielt it WaS sported the Zeppelin was approaele- • The bodies of six more victints or the Zeppelin .taid ot Satirday night --two men, two womett, a girl aged fete years, and a baby of riven -tenths --v;hich bad been dtg; out of the debris by the salvage corPs, have Leen token to the morge.e. Two or theta had been beriea le the mine of a house Where tvso unexploded bembe, Weigiting 150 pounds -each, wore found, The search of the wrealtage eontintesta Mier the supetvision of the prefeet of. police. The total dead 11,015 at the neorgee tutueber twenty-three. -EACH WANTS A RAttALWI. our curtain of fire. Ohinese krovinee of Eweichow The Sandal, eight eeport read: joins Yuannan Rebels. "Nothing important has oceurred on the remainder of ibe front." "In Artois, to tbe south of the road Peking, jan, 8L -'rhe' Province of tram Neuville to Lafolie, we exploded leweichow is in tail rebellion. The a mine Which filtattered the enemY Governor was forced to flee on Jan. galleries. 16th, and countrunicatiens have beeet "Our artillery has oarried out a de- intercepted. It le teported thee etructlye fire on the reViettlaling -Centre Lueb.ow and Tzelietsing hose been of Sollattmlnes, southetest of Lens and teetered by the revolutionists. on the German barks atut BivOlilieb . The American gunboat MonOcacy is north of Vilely, at Caungaing, on the Yangtse Kiang, "Between, the Somme and, the Oise about ninety miles to the northeast of our batteries took under their fire lettell"*. The commander has nod - troops in transit in the re,gion. ot fied ler. Paul Samuel Pteinsela the Beuvraignes and an enemy infantry American Minister to China, that all column on the road between Laucourt is quiet in that eteighborhood, and. and Roye. . that a zone has been oetlined wittle -To the north of the Alone, in front whieh the MOTIOCSey 'will nrotect lot - a Settler, we destroyed by our fire eigners who are threatened, a German work, the garrison of which Twelve thousand soldiers from the twee annihilated. , Province of Htveichow are repotted to ""To the east or Rheims our trench be marching, in leoniraiiy witlrYtiri- gun% effectively shelled the orteOsing natese revolutionists, epee. 'Chung organizetions a (lernay. Ming,- where fighting is eapecteet tO "In Aimee Wo bombarded the enemy take place within a few weeks. • positione at Aspach, to the north of .----ena.........--- Altkivelt." Mit Or AUSTRIA, high Cost of rood Causes Row in tary ' Tim seriously injured ate: Corporal Isnor, Of. Halifax, 6411 Bottalloal bomber, severely cut about the bedY1 Corporal McPhee, or Halifax, 64-th Battalian, bomber, severely cut about the head, arms and shoulders; Cor- poral Stoup, New Brunstvica, 64th Battalion, bomber, cut about the bad)", Captain Hurd, Halifax, bombing in- structor, cut about the face. An investigation will be held by the military authoritiee. Whet/ the explosion occurred 11050 were about as soldiers in the build- ing, and that more were not serioesly injured is considered marvelous. So great was the explosion that taro of the members of the. bombing class were thrown. clear through the win- dows at the back ot the building. The interior of the room was torn to pieces, plaster from the ceiling, lit- tering the floor, while a wall was blown -down. The work of the class for the morn- ing consisted et making time fuses for bombs. A fire has just been lit in the rooms. It was planned to place small amount of pewtler la a number of Wanly bombs, and then go outside and throw these bombs a specified distance for timing purposee. There was it quantity of poteder in the room for placing in. the duereaY bombs. The powder was in a tio box, encased in wood, and in some wae was ignited, as there was no other explosive in the room. One theory is that ie some way some of the powder reached the fire, the flame from thie reached the box a powder. "Don't mlnd me; look otter the men," 'Were the words with eyhicle Capt. Hurd, who was badly hurt end %binned, greeted the first ones whc came to help him to the regiment& Schaeffer, one of the Injured men, hospital. was sweet champion of Canada at one time. . At the military hospital where the injured were taken. it was stated the condition of Corp. Tenor evae critical Corp, 'McPhee, it was said, would lose the sight of both. eyes. TO Aivreitm. Petrograd, ;an. 30. -The following official coxnmunication from general headquarters was isseed Saturday: "On the western (Russian) front there is nothing to report except en- counters on tne Middle Stipa be- tweeo the troop. of General Ivantat and the enemy, who attempted to counter-attack our trenches, but were everywhere repulsee by our fire. "Caucasus front: la the district of Lake Tortum our troops are malting Progress, North of Durant Dagh, a chain ot mountains iu, the region ot Erzerum, we dislodged the Turks front EL number of points. An attempt by the Turks to advance towards the upper Passine valley, east of Erzerum, wae stopped by the fire of our artil- lery from a concealed position. Ili all these engagements we captured de- tachments at Turkish regulars. We are continuing the pursuit of the Turkish troops who were in occupation of the region of Khnyskaly. In places our troops aro a(1Vancing over SAM i4 feet deep." The Saterday repent read: "From the Gult of Riga to the Pripet River calm prevails, except south of Lake Babit, in the Riga re- gion, -where a considerably largo Ger- man detaceanent attacked onr trenches, but wag driven away by our fire. "Southwest of Kolki VolbYttia) our scouts captured an. eneney post, and reinforcements sent Ity the Aus- trians were dispersed by our 1150. "On the front of the middle Stripa, we bomberded two enemy batteries. Observations Made by two balloous sheered the success of the bombard- reent on. the guns, and calssons. hit the sante regime our scouts cut the wire entanglements, over a great ex- tent of the enemy's noes and un- earthed 25 mines. "In the region northwest ot Czer- nowitz (lukowina) we exploded a small mine, which darnagea enemy sapping works, "Ie. the Caucasus in the battle aorth. of Erzerum our troops, advatte- ing, took as priscieers a partY of Askaris and captered their Machine "In Persia, South of Lake Hrtuniali, guns. during the persult of the ettenlY, we took prisoners gene and ammunition. West of Hatraa'dart, in the region of Iettnga„ver, eepuised an enemy of- fensive. "When neeupying Sultanalead our troops were tolettnly met on the out - skirt% ot the town by the inhabitents end the provincial authorities," *StLr-DBPENDZNT. British 1Vietor Transport Depart. • . Needs No home Aid. 1111[11 HUN. t_IUS „ • ••• ZEPPELIN 0.4.1SED CAN AREA. - "No combats betw en, aeroplanes have been recorded er Ger lines. Several times 40stile ma -tines, eneing in conjunct= with t e tory, bone been beaten bac anti:aircraft and machine gu the afternoon at Jan. 24 a Ze crossed the Canadtan area. "Rifle and 'machine gun tire b_een liallstlAnY brisk on both sides, Enemy Millers have been active, but snipers have eauSed latiMeroile men - eines among the meaty. On jail, 24 Lance-Oorp, Mintie, ot the 27th City of 'Winnipeg battalione by ae- Orate shooting accounted for two Germans out of a. party or five. The en.emy working parties have 'frequent- ly been detected by our observers and dispersed. by the five or our sniper° and machine gunners. "The enemy has displayed little en- terpriee in patrolling. The few Ger- man patrols encountered have in ev- ery case retired to their trenches on the approach of our patrols. Our recon- noitering parties and scouts leave on various occa,sions cut the G'errnan wire and bombee the enemy working par - nen The German bombs have twice been brought back to our lines by our patrols, 'WORK OF PATROL. "On the night ot ,fan. 23-24 Scouteare Bole, Gunn, and 'Malkin, ot. our 8thee Winnipeg Battalion, wane near 016 enemy wire, obeerved two parties eft Germans raoving in the opPOette diree- tion. Crawling forward ours outs opened fire with revolvers on the enemy party of flee, wounding On German and forcing the hostile patrol to retire. Shortly afterwards the euemy reappeared, Our scouts fired, Xining one German. After returning to our lines for more aninninition. the scout e again went out and observetl stretcher-bearerS carrying away dead and womeded. • 540n the night of Jaz, 24-25 a petrol ' of. our letle Weittvirteteeiefetalenttale lea, under Lieutenants, 'Hooper Burnham, cut a path thretigh the Ger. man wire up to the enemy pEtrapet., The location of the enmity 'working Party was ascertained. Afterathe re- turn at our patrol our machine gens were turned on the evorkieg Party. On the following night this eiatrol, pass- ing througb it go cut in the wire, entered the Germao trench and creep- ing up to the German -reentry emeleave teed to capture, ann. A scittne eosued which aroused the enemy in nearbe dugouts. Our petrol withdrew without a. casualty. COURAGEOUS ACTS. "The Distlitguished Con(1uct: Medal has receatly been awarded to Private Harris, of the 2We City of Vancoever Battalion, for an exceptionally were ageous Private Havis WO' attend- ing the Gretatie &lune in December end while throWing. El, bo ped and fell, The boml) fo od trench in 'which ft number of Ot were standieg, ot those ono was able te galn covet, flee , vvito saw that this maa Was tine1316 move, flung himself withoat iteeita- tion On top of the bomb in an ettort to save his comrade. Ainloet name. diately the bomb exploded. Harris was very Seriously injured and the ahor Mante leg broken. Both Men ere reported to be doing well. - "Anothet• deed of eaceptiottale rale teary has tecently been repotted. een eateutecy 11 a large Mertar Wal throWn into a tteneh of oar elst Alberte Battalion et a° point where Private A. jaketeeet tend party Of Men Were at work. Tito angle aro dangerous ad destructive. atealleing there was little thence. fOr arty of the party, Private Jeciteda threw Wiesen be the boMb Ana at tive risk a Win blown. to pieces, seized the• bernin base rnse and wrenched it out." man artil- by out,. s, On elite But Toll of Lives Would be Too Great to Pay. More Viet Needed, Says Major Lancaster. St. Catharinee, San. -30.-"We can break the German line to-merrow, but the price et lives would be too groat to pay," said 'Major le. IL Lan- caster, of the 10th Battery, 3rd Teri- go.de, which arrived home from leamee to -day, and addressed it large re- cruiting meeting in the Grand Opera' Reuse to -night, "We have now two LIS)3034 MOTS. Portuguese Capital. her Treatment of mingation 1,isbot, Jan. 30,•via Paris, 0.14....,6 Troops 00.1,1$0 Reflentlileilt. . .,• last nightlrna demonetration by large ,fau. 31.•--Ilioting 'occurred in Lisbon • • On/ Times Special Cable.) crowds -against the increased cost or London, Jan. 31.---A despatch to the liviug. Attaelte were made on many 'Morning Post remit Budapest quote% bakeries and provieiou ehops Itt (Be- long ex:trade frone it speech, in the fereht parts of the eity. Bombe were Hungarian Parliament Jan, 20 by Herr thrown at treope, who were elated 'out Vrmanezy, leader Or the Indepertdence to disperse the rioters. Malty ehots perty, en the.sublect of the ill-treat- were fired Ity the troops eta several ment cf -the Hungarians. be the Alas- riotere we're wounded. Among the triang The speaker p;ave eit..tails of a. numerous arrests made were several dozen lo„stancea.-in....illustruting - his *ivoirten. 'TIM privorters were collVeY- charge that•„.. Hungarian soldiers are ed to it Warship, lying in the river bring pereeretted, Underfed, Molted thie Morning. To-dtty the eity lute ana beaten by their Austrian ()Moors, been orderly: . tart regimente Were now officered by avvtDisH Prtmot uNotR KNivt. .,..,_...............,... . War -vs..... Ile 'said that virtually all the Hunger-, Austria:tie, and that their Hungarian Malmo, Swoitert, vie, London, hit. ofifteire had been transterrett to other 81. --Prince Willialn, teeettit len of urtit3, ,., o resperident tptotes King Gustave, Welt oPerated on for closing bie specc appendicitis Sunday, Ills condition is "It scermr to me satiefettory. guns and two -shells to the etteMY'S one. Ile cannot break our line end be knows it. When, we get enough men for all the fronts then not only the line Will break, but •,hte finielt will tome. It As up to you. men to saY how soon that time will emote" Speaking ot April last, at in, ;Julien, when because of great odds tee infantry *were driven back and left his battery, the 10011 in an txDuaed position and almost sea - rounded, lue sold; "If yen only ItneW 110W our men felt when they saw those reinforcements Wining 111050 Is nothing on earth that -would ewe you from rushing to the recruiting office at. Mee," Major Lancaster paid A great ttibute to the men of the 10th Battery. "I have seen blee tisinch eeplosive -shell burst a 61101't dirltartee troln One of our gime and before. the striae WOnid clear away the gen would birrk bault."' was- hard to leave such Mete Mater King told there before he lett that they won the I). S. 0. Medal Or hint. They helped. him to Wirt It, but he justlY earned it int:1001f. The Meetime wee presided over by Waver Thirgovtiese AntOng *titer epectiters Were Major Bogy, 810, Battalion, rate nergtenlator Eccles. seenesee-44----se Will She Gllarraltee Germany's at. 'Catharines, aeitt, 20.-4.. deputation of tho County -Council \vatted upon -Gen- eral T..ogie at Toronto with the rertuest that tile Wth and 1.76311 Lincoln and 'Wel- *laud Overseas Battalions be separated. 0.tri that MIA be ((maturated. "Weliond" and the other "tencein" hattatioes. Gen. toglo /dated the tuotter of the decision in the hands Of Ideut,-Col. Bose of the ORtit -winch eorps Is now nearly coat- tilett ti. .„........-.....4.4.............. .-...-- "PORWAVOn MAY PUBleISH. Word re Sub. Warfare'? London, Jan. 31.-Tne elamchester Gaardian, in an editorial comment on.' negotiatiOn between the United State% and Germany regardieg sub• marioe warfare, says: "What Germany will do will depend entirely on what she thinks. America'e next step will be if she reuses. As for the. Allies, it will be obeervedthat they are asked to make concessions and to sena their Merchantmen to eee, without guns, and relying on German promises to obeerve certain rules. Gen- erally speaking, theett rale% are in, themselVes not ttnreasonable, OnlY there is some gtia.rahtee timt they will be kept, Will America simply that guarantee? If she we have no dottbt what the eesever of the Allies Will be." TITTAD SUICIDZ. Gittsgow, Ittn. ele-The Betialiet or - gen Vorwaru, Whinit WOO $113011Oderl by the authotatiee„ several 'weeks ago, LJ. ellowed to eeettente trualiett- t 1105 tion on. undertaking not to 31D111t ter preludieird to the military Wet'. esti or ,the etAM7 of the country. " liOlOitt O MiAR SIVIASH, incenvnie, n. iiii.-George Wavevielt, art automobile dealer, otttl Otitis. Otani:, o:' the firm t^rf Abbott, -Grant and 00333'fittrrY. it)th narrowly estearasi beteg Rolea Nvben tsto twto 111 '351113313'351113313they- NVOVP r,iiing tainted turtle on the front tonal west a liorv, The nutehine skidded In turning nut to pass At ottor volttele, Etrie ).31l11( 1113.41 tile ditelt, turned completely over. i ;int Was thrown dear and sup. w •9t1' womtds. hile ills London, d'art. 31,-Despateltes from the )3ritish front in Franee emphaelze the rernarkeble progress that is being beetle by the arirty transport depart. rant, which It year ago began estab. lishing huge rooter workehopg, WhicI1 are ug large and ae well equipped as meet automobile factories. Sinee last lvtay it has not been nec- essary to ask for a, single motor trunk to be replaced from kingland. Many of the vehicles at the front have been virtually rebuilt. Incidentally, valuable after -war work is being done in train- ing thouscmds of nun., who are learn- ing new trades alongside the regular Intel's, turners, blacksmiths, wite.ei- wrights and electrieirette. At haute the trades uniona would render ettelt a thing hemetesible, but military discipline is more practical, Ituti when. th0 war is over there will be on immense body of trained workers ready to Ulm their place in tho %dna- rial ranks, There aro now tl50 type - P4) Pin 1110 r motor veltirlett in the Dquerry to Xing. George Alleged to have hanged himself. Leedom ;tan. 31,-Brigatlier-Geteral Sir Rollo Estoateville Grimstobe temerry tO the leing, was found dead. 111 LotedOn Set-0day, hanging tO it braSS rail, with it handkerchiet twisted e.roued his 'neck, according to 1410Vra 'Weekly News, Ile had been sUffering With neurasthenia recently. Sir Rene won ittspeetor Of tne Itapeeiel Serelee, troops le India. Sir Ittello instotteville terimston was born it 1861, awl entered tie earmy Viten twenty /eters Ind. He eervea 01 military secretary to King George slur - tits elatesty's toor Jodie. tompeatian was pinned beneath t tabled , t hail to he pried 3131 t4 501e1313e tit is injtulos are Internal land may rititat service in Prance. tel. .................***....-.......... tAx THIAIRE tiox.rre. Loudon. Ian. al, -Tito Daily Mall soya: "Iteginald MeE.-ennit.Chancellor of the locchequer, fer several weeks has n Nbeen ongtwed ianning nwhora esces of tag - Minn to be announced in the Mareli budget. lie luta iloOltied. in tyrincrole, 'upon a tax on theatres. tratile.balls and oilottertainments: The 'method of taxa. Mon has rot yet been settled. It innY he o. tax on tieltots, AA 111 VralleP, or a rittluttion of ri. part of the gross recelt.is. A tat en railway tteltettt also is nailer favorable consideration. Even opticians end tientiete elonet -sea always give Aft eye for an eyo and a tooth for a tOoth. RIETSiii Dff Islow Vern, efiett. esie-A.atetv letpatch from Christiaula-t ' VIAttraordinary naval activity ofr 'Cho Vast, lute betett days, according to the respondent ot tho ish warships and been seen off tits jug north of nut the lowee Meet Man trabnittr Rk