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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-11-23, Page 7se' a An er-1., BRITISH AND CANADIANS I. SHARE NEW BIG ADVANCE Smash forward in Great Snowstorm on Both Sides of the Ancre „ Success Gives Allies Command of Many Strong German Positions. THE, HUNS' FEAR, German Western Headquarters, NO', 19.—The Gonemeeotirt ;Indica in the "farthest west" of the entire German front in France. Clouds of gas were launched against tine inconienient ealient, anti a heavy artillery bombard- ment was directed tatainst it, but it did not come to an actual infantry seetault. ViOlent bombardmeta from guns of the heaviest calibre against the German front at lerelingliein, a few Wee nortbevest ot Lille. made it ap- pear as though something important was in preparation in that sector. London, Nov, Ie.—Following violent artillery preparations, the British troops smashed forward- north and south of the Acre Saturday. Cana dian units participated in the attack. Ott, a front of seven ranee advances varybag %Vora half a mile To a mile were made, and the outskirts of Grandcourt, on the south bank of the Ancre, reached. The total prisoners tenen were 772. The British also gained advantages oe the north of the etrearn, where tee enemy lines were bent back northeast of 13eaumont4iamel and north of tic aucourn The fighting took place in a snow- storm, the first downfall of the season in tbat. region. The gains were all consolidated, but further progress on Sunday was prevented by the heavy snowfall, which extended all along the 1115 British battle -front. Saturday's, successes, obtained under the handicap of stormy weather condi- tions, have wheeled the British linea north and south of the Ancre into elignment. Thus, with a front 'run- s ning almost straight from the region south of Sarre to the sector east of St, Pierre Divion, south at the river, the ferttish are in position to strike with great power against terandcourt and radraumont. FRENCH REPULSE ENEMY: On their part of the Somme front the French repulsed two German at- tacks, one on each side of the river. Tho Germans got close enough to the French positions both times to be 'viand range of hand -grenades. The French broke up both attacks partly by the use of these miesiles. The first German attack was made during the night by a strong force of German troops near Biaches, just across the river from Peronne. In the aafternoon the Germans south of the Somme attacked French trenches in esr Trent of Berny,• but again the hand - grenades stopped them. THE GERMAN ADMISSIONS. - The Berlin official as usual, charac- terizee the British• thrust aa another general attempt to smash through the German, lines. It admits that the Brit - Joh gained a few places te the south- west of Serre, in Grandeourt and to the south of the latter town. This ie the way the German. report reads "Western war theatre: Army group of Crown Prince Rupprecht—Artillerye tire directed for some clays againet our pusitions on both sides of the River Ancre made a continuation of the English attack probable. OavalrY ()a- erating yesterday behind the nostile front and the enormous increase of fire beginning early in the morning, announced a new greet attempt tp break through our linen The attempt ended in a sanguinary- English reverse aud gave them at only a few places an insignificant gain of ground. Troops fighting under the command of Gen- eral Fuchs aid • Baron Marschall in tenacioutt resistance oppesed the Eng- lish thrust. "Southwest of Serre, in Grandceurt, and at some place e south of the vil- lage, we were pushed back and stand in prepared solid positions on • the south bank of the Amara. "All the other positione in the re- peatedly -attacked largo front of 12 kilometres (71/2 miles) were main- tained by our brave troops, or were recaptured in ae counter-attack." FOUGHT IN SNOWSTORM. With the British Armies in Prange, Nov. 18.—The British, including Caaa- dian, troops, -won a battle in a snow- storm this morning. Advancing on .both side's of the riven in easterly and nertherly directione, they took about 500 prieonere, and cetablisfied a new line en both sides, and at the edge ot the village of Grandeourt, for the Pcseession- of which severe fighting continued throughout the day. The attack e from the south 'were Made berore daybreak while a stiff wind sent flurries of now into the races of the British eoldiens as they pushed down the slope towards the marshee along the AlmaIt was the first snow of the season, followlog two days and nights of intense dry cold, which hardened the swamp of No Man's Land after nearly three menthe est Constant rainfall, thus giving the attaeknag infantrn a firm foothold on the frozen ground. They advanced nearly a quarter of a mile on a three,' mile front to the Gernae.n position :teeth of the 'villages of Grandcourt, Petit Mirauniont and tene, and occu- pied the trench Without great reSiate Once exeept Mali of Grandcourt, where the batteries and machine guns holding the atunIten. Preform read checked the Brinell. lateewhere the German treneh ware virtually destroy- ed by • the preparatory bombardment, the teurviving Germans, ineluding P;tixons. formally surrendering through their officers, who met the British as they came over the ruined parapet. Pardee of tritleit bombers advent - ad to the next German Tine, which the kat on the touth side of the Ancre, raided the position and re- turned, which by now had been con- selIdated. infantry detachments work- ing up the river hank from the went - en% erne of Grandcourt got a footing In the mine and traters and took the lower end Of the main street parallel - Inn the Allele, of Willett the Geteriatis bold the remainder. EXTENT OnsTifl GAIN. On the north side of the Mere the -avarice was made from the eastern ends of Beaueottrt. Capturing Holland Wood, the patrols Dwelled forward to tho Pusioux tretein a part of the original German second line and the end of which at the river bank the Brielsh now hold. To -day's euecesees give the British command of ruined villages, fortified farms and other strong German points In the Ancre Valley. In the opinion of a staff officer German positions south of the Ancre are virtually un- tenable, as they are unable to bring up supplies and reinforeemente, while the only imitable road is wader the bombardment. A captured German order announc- Ing to the Garrison in the Armin trenches the impossibility of deliver- ing the mails, adds: "Owing to the Brinell fire we can- not even bring up the 'barest neces• eines," The Germans are working hard in improving the original second line in front of Pusieux and 1V1Iraumont, ap- parently anticipatiag rurther British attacks, which, owing to their loss ot Beaumont -Hamel, may force a sudden abandonment of the other portions of the first line. The perfunctory •character of the German couriter-bombardments and infantry resistance along the River Ancre give the impression that the Germans have little intention or offer- ing serious opposition. TEUTONS NOW ENTER PLANS OF RUMANIA Claim, If True, Threatens Serious Trouble for Entente There, MO FLANK ALLY, Pessixhism in London—An- other Big ,Enemy Drive Anticipated. London, Nov. 20:—The military ex- perts in the morning newspapers to- day call attention to Um seriousness of the situation in Roumania, where the Germans and Austrians report they have reached the railway which rims hem the Danube to Craiova. at a point which threatens to flank the Rouman- ian army south of Vulvan Pass. The Daily Mail says: "The enemy claims to have attained his first objective, namely. an advance to the Roumanian plain. 1118 new poi - tion endangers the Roumanian flank, and May cause a rapid retirement. This news is grave, as the presence of the enemy on the railway would cons- lielethe -retreat of a large part of the Roinnanian line." The. Daily Chronicle says: "The Germans' success, if true, Is very seri- ous, It means that the German attempt to cut off the southwest projection of Roumania has gone far toward accom- plishment. The position of the Rou- manian army at Orsova is precarious, and it will be lucky if it extrlcates Itself without a catastrophe. The new advance does not directly threaten Bucharest, but gives tile Germans an excellent base from winch to do so." HAVE REACHED RAILWAY, The following communication was iseued by the Austrian War Office taday: "Archduke Charles' forces In recent days have met witir full suecess. Gen. von Falkenhayn's army In a battle near Targujui forMed an outlet from the mountains, and with a column ad - venting in the 'Matruh valley ieadied the railway running frem Verciatova to Craiova. (Vercienova is on the earn bank of the Danube opposite ()nova.) The fiercest Roumanian resistance, which found expression, in embittered counter-attacks east and southeast of Targujui, was in vain. The Austro Hungarian and German forces ad- vancing on both sides of the Alt in continual fierce battles reached the foot of the mountains yeeterda,y and armed the line of Caliman-Suici. Here, as to the north of Campulhng; Roumanian attacks failed." ROUMANIANS WIN HEIGHTS, Roumanian forces in the region of Dragaslavele, on the Transylvanian front, yesterday, made, further pro- gress; taking 84 prisoners and eaptur- ing two cannon, two machine guns and five munition wagons, says the official statement given out at the Routnanian War Department to -tiny. The text reads: "Northern and northwestern fronts: There is nothing fresh to report. On the western Moldavian frentler and the norther% frontier of Ltuntintelu to the valley of Prelim we repulsed an enemy itttaek. "In the region of Dragoslavele we total/me to advattee, capturing four officers and 80 eoldies, two intiehine guns, two cannon and five Munition Wagohs. "In the Valley Of the Alt fighting teatimes in the region West of Stifel- Braze!. "In the 'valleys Of aiul and Goren there were violent eteinbats. "In the direttion of Genus there was no action. "Southeett treat: On the Danube and in Dobrudja the artillery and In- fantry fire slackened," 10,000 PRISONER:3, German and Austro-littngarieri troops yesterday, despite a tenacious Roumanian reelstenee, forced their way through the narrow mountain passes on the Traneylvanian front, in- to the Wallachiart plain, aceording to. the Official statement honied by the German headquarters 'Met to -day. Teuton troops- pushing behind the itouintinittne in tiontleWeiderri Ronnie - alga have reached the OratienteOrajova railroad, Sillee November 1 the Austrie ans and Germans on this front, it le stated, have taken prisoner more than 19,000 Rounieniane, aud have gap - tared 20 cannon, BIGGER DRIVE AHEAD. London, Nov, 19,—Tbe .Military ex. pert of the Times has written an artiele on the present Saltation of the great Gannets, drive agninet RelineAni4 The expert eaye: "When von Hindenburg's appolute went es OW of the German tieneral Staff WAS announced, it seemed prob- able that an attack upon Roumania would be launched, and the writer estimated that thirty Austro-Gernaul divisious might be collected in Trail- eYlvanie for the male operation, "The barrier for the Carpathians and the interiority of the aircraft of our ally prevent our knowing precise - how many divisions von Falkenhayn has collected for his assault upon the central passes, the mountain eorridore whicla lead to the Roumanian plain, but ,thee are signs wittich lead us to believe that already twenty -lour divi- elons of that thirty may have been as- sembled before the advance became general. "The oncoming of winter in the mountains and the mountainous dis- tricts whicia intervene between the passes and the plain is of good value to the Roumanian and Russian troope elefending the frentiers with a tenacity honorable to them, Ail the same, the eneritY's progress at most points on the northern frontier between the Vulcan and the Buzeu Mums shows that he is obviously endeavoring to deploy upon a broad trent south of the mountains before he debouehes pfrioamins• the lower foothills into the QUESTIONS OF COUNTER -STROKE. "No general attack has yet been de- livered frontally by the Roumanian reserves. So long as the enemy's col- umns keep pace with one another and continue to press the Roumanians in every valley of the central front they have all to be opposed in strength, and few reserves remain dor an effective counter -stroke. "Von Falkenhayn is surely encoun- tering many difficulties. We cannot estimate the importance without knowing the character of the demoli- tions carried out by the Roumanians during their retreat. If the detrain- ing stations organized by the Aus- trians on their side of the frontier in Transylvania were properly broken by the Roumanians as they crossed back after their invasion, the concen- trating of troops and amassing of heavy guns, ammunition and supplies must present real difficulties. "It is probably due to these causes as well as to the Roumanian resis- tance that the enemy is so long in traversing the mountain chain, but he is making progress. Already he has brought heavy guns over theo moun- tains. "'The seasous are against hint, and may delay him, but when the snow freezes there is no certainty that oper- ations will be impracticable-, though certainly they Will be arduous. We must not count upon winter to arrest the advance, for experiences at the etazurian marshes and at Erzerurn show that worse weather than any encountered in Roumania did uot stop either the enemy or Lite erne% COMPARISON OF STRENGTH. "In the ordinary course we shall hear one day that von lealkenhayn's columns have begun a general ad- vance. The only thing likely to turn them front their purpose is a success- ful counter-strolte. The Russians are in the field in some strength at last, and such Roumanian troops as are re- lieved and available from duties else- where my be used. There is nothing about the relative numbers, so fan as. known, to cause disquiet, but the quality of the respective troops and the heavy artillery may turn the scale, "Meanwhile in the Dobriulja Von Msckensen hoped after capturing the Constanza-Czernavoda line to come to the aid of Von Falkenhayn. by threat- ening the Danube front, and by cross- ing the river and invading Rournania proper when Von Falkeylueyn was ready to advance. The arrival et Gen. Sakintroff on the Dobrudja front, ane not empty handed, disappointed him. , "From the respect with which Von Mackensen is treating the new forces of She allies on the right -.sank of the Danube, We judge that those forces are important, and will occupy Von Mackensen's sole atteation. There are few Turkish troops on whom he can call, though he may try to impound some divisions from the southern Bul- garian armies facing Gen. Serrate, The recent defeat of these troops and the approach of the allies to Mona - stir may make the 13algarians unwill- i»g to oblige. "If the Russians are in great force in the Dobrudja many things are pos- sible. tf not the fighting in the Do- brudja and on the Macedonian front becomes of importauce secondary to the issues which rest npon the shock cif the main armies on the Carpathian front.• • . ON OTHER FRONTS. "On the western front, do what he may, the enerny has not ono chance in five of carrying out a Successful attack oil a grand scale, while on the Russian front, despite the German railway facilities, our northern ally is so strong, and soon to be stronger, that she would welceme rather than ead an attack. On the Carso things go ill for the Austrians and promise worse, The Roumanian front remains the theatre where the enemy ean best promise himself something important. "If trench warfare results from his Roumanian plane, Von Hindenburg be doubly at a disadvantage, fbr he will disappoint the rising hopes of Germany and find himself tied to a new front and burdened with a greater extensioa of his already extrava- gattly long line. The last hope of Germany of gaining further etrategle odvantages will have vanished. "The shiftend expedients of tho German strategists are varinee bet they mast be limited by the forces of human nature. Von laihdenburg will reply that the stake le great and that he believes with Von Ludendorff that Mrong v111 creates its own destiny. War weary though the troops may be, the iron discipline of Prussia still holds firm. "If the relative etrongth of the at- tack and defence doenot change on the Transylvanian front, Von Felker', !evil ought not to get threngh. Ile must realtee that the relative strength Is changiag every day, and therefore the Romanian battle grown' remains of profound interest aitoeether out of preportion to the numberepgaged. -Wo are deeply toncerried as to the outcome StintRAL INOORPORAllONs, Ottawa, Nov. 17. ----New eompanies Federally ineeeporated this Week in- clude the followittg; Toronto Hockey Amusetneet Company, capital etock $60,000; musieal instruiriente, Limit- ed of Toroeto, and the Perth Shoe Conipany 'Limited, of Perth, e Ont, capital etock $200,000, . ITALIANS MADE SOME ADVANCE Austrians Wiped thit in Fight On Chapot SuMmit. Repulsed in Stiff Fights Along Front, Rome, Nov, 10.--Itallan troops have made advanGes at some points In Carso and east of Verbeibizza, Austrian at - Melts were driven back, says the statement from the War Office to -clay, A heavy snewfall and cold weather are liamperiug the oPeeetions in the peouu- thin districts This did not prevent the Austrians launching several determin- ed onslaughts, however. An ettempt to recapture the village of Saito In the Adige was easily beaten off. In the UP. per But au effort wan inade against the Italian positions on the Chapot sununit, tied it was only after stubborn hand-toehand fighting that the Aus- trians were repulsed. Small aetach- meats of the enemy whieh succeeded in breaking into the Italian trenches were wined out. Saturday's War Office report said: "On the Carso the artillery was ac- tive, and our line was advanced at soine points, in the region east of Vertaibizza yesterday the enemy at- tacked our pesitions southeast of Salt 'Pietro and Gorizia in force, but was drive's back in disorder under the man from our artillery and machine guns, leaving Many .dead... Some prisoners fell into our hands. "On the remainder of the front op- erations were hindered by heavy snow- falls, Some of the highest points in the mountains report temperature of 20 degrees below zero, centigrade." Sunday' statement said: "In the Adige Valley during the night of November 17-18 the enemy bombarded our position on the slopes of Mount Giovo, south, of tb,e Cameras Valley, and then attacked the village of Sano, which we had occupied Oct. 26. • Counter-attacks, however, dro've him off. "In the Upper But the evening of November 17, after intense artillery preparation, enemy forces attacked the sector between Val Piccolo and Val Qra,nde. Their main efforts were directed against our position on the Chapot summit, north of Val Pit - colo. After stubborn hand-to-hand fighting the enemy was decisively re - Pulsed along the whole front. Small detachments which bad succeeded in breaking into our trenches on the Chapot summit were wiped out. We made prisoners and captured arms and ammunition abandoned by the enemy." 4 4 PROHIBITION i4 AtI CANADA lemperance Workers Open a Dominion Campaign. All Provinces Represented at Toronto. Toronto, Nov, 20.—All the Canadian Provinces were represented at a mass meeting to favor Dominion -wide prohi- Union held yesterdaly afternoon at the Massey Hall, Toronto. Almost unani- mously the speakere pointed out now the more thoughtful pprioa in Canada ahich had been brought in by the stress of war had been a time of abolition oe the evil of drink until now in every province but Quebec there was a measure operative, or • pending, for the removal of old-time conditions, and the Quebec represen- tative prophesied that within three years Quebec. including Montreal, would be "dry." Mr. la. S. Spence, Honorary Presi- dent of the Dominion Alliance, pre- sidee. Principal W. In. Vance, Van- couver, and formerly of Toronto, said tbat so rapid had been the advance of the prohibitory movement in British Columbia that while six years ago the bars were , really even twenty-four hours a day, the temperance advocates Iad aucceeded in .getting prohibition lad September. "And it was the men ewho did it. We played the safety game by giving the wonien lite vote, but the men themselves Old it." He em- peesized-the need of some social sub- ditute for the bar; that would be, he • tlicught, the great e problem, of the future for the Donnulon Allianee,' Rev. Chas, Morris, Tryon, P. E. 1., iho first province to get probibition, said the people of the island were satisfied with their law and would not return to another. They had, how- ever, been Striving for a perfect pro- lilbitory law, but had to figla ;against "the world, the fleell and • the Govern- ment." (Laughter.) Rev, A, E. Smith, Menden, men- tioning women's suffrage, hoped the day was not far distant when women would ,take up legislative work and help in making &Mk laws impossible. Prohibition in Manttoba had been reseed sixteen years ago, hut the Imo - la had been cheated out of by "rot- ten politics." He thought the nextgreat step should be to establish a cora- l -Mimi guest-house as the clean and proper substitute for the bar, Which. to so many men in the past had been a club, Hon. Grant Aq. Hudson, who cariae an a delegation frottl the State of alichigan, touched on the Capital record to the credit Of Ontario, and gave an outline ot the political fight whieli in his State had led up to the trobibition victory. "LIMY SuledaY" had helped not a littb3 in this. Their only regret was that they had to wait eighteen months for the law to be- eeme effective. Throughout the 1!nited States tiler temperance forces had succeened in clesing 9,000 bars and 114 breweries. Eighty per coat. of the Anterican area and eisay-thres per tent, of the population were under temperance atts. He hoped to see nationavide erohibition, and as the Canadian Motto was "On to Ottawa," se theirs was "On to Washington." Col, George H. Williams, Ontario, end Rev. Hamilton Willie, Hellfax. NI. S., also spoke, urging further *work. Rev. W. D. Wilson, Ieredcritton, secretary. of the NOW Brunswick • branch of the Dominien .Alliance, Said that they, too, had been 'robbed of temperance' for years by "rotten poll. eke," But when they had -secured it they went further than other pro: VIttd bY Arranging that the referen- dum should not be taken until the • temperanee act liad been well tried. • TEUTONS MOVE ON CAMPULUNG Repulsed by Roumanians Three Wfiles From City. Russians Capture Heights Qn Bulcowina Border. rr;...r.r.rtr•Irr.r. London Cable. ----In Western Wal- lachia the advance ot the Austro-Hun- geriane continieee steadily, and Cela- n:Ailing, 80 miles northwest of Buchar- est, the Roumanian capital, is ahnost Within the grasp of the invaders, Bat- tles are taking place within a few nines of Campulung, 'which is at the head of a railway and *long a river hich penetrates the plains west of Bucharest, and Petrograd says the forces of Gen. von, Falkenhayn have taken Liresht, about five miles north- west of Campulung. An attack against the Roumanian positions at Albrech- ti, Jetta than three miles northwest of Campulung, was repulsed, More than 2,100 prisonerwere tak- en by the Austro -Hungarians in tne late.e.t operations in Wallachia, 1,500 alone being captured in engagements south of the Rothenthurm pass and toward Rinenik. West of Precleal, the invaders, Berlin says, broke the Rou- manian positions. Rungul mountain, In Moldavia, east of Kedaivasarhely, has been carried by Bavarian, troops. The atuesiens have captured several netetts near Jacobeiti, west of Cem- pulung, Bultowina, In Dobrudja ap- parently there has been little change. Berlin states that the Roumanian ar- tillery fire in the region of Silletria, on the Danube below Tchernavoda, has increased. • "The Roumanian retirement some kilometres south of Tirgujiulij," says a Reuter despatch from Bucharest, "Is due to the continual reinforcement of the enemy, aad, above all, to the superiority of the enemy artillern. On the left bank of the Alt the enemy tried by crossing a mountain range to join hands with the forces operat- ing on the Campulung side, where the German attacks were bloodily repuls- ed." "Danube front: The situation Is unchanged." SHORT ITEMS OF OE NEWS OF THE DAY Settlers of Fire -Swept Nor- thern Ontario May Kill Deer, TWO ASK DiVORCE Boy Near .Chatham Nails Brother's Hand to Wood in Play. Mrs, MoCall, wife of Pbstmastor Geo. D. alcC,all, of Vittoria, is dead. • P. Austin. of Ranfurly, was elected the third director of the Alberta Farm- ers' Co-operative Elevator Company. Ferges subscriptions for the British Red Cross total $3,600. The popula- tion Is 1,774. which makes au average of over $2 per capita. Le:yenta. Carruthers, wife of Rev. John Hart. died at it. Mary's, aged 65 years. Rev. Mr. Hart is a superannu- ated Methodist minister, Mrs. Gertrude Ellen Beal, wife of William A. Beal. a Toronto manufao- turer, is applying for divorce on the esual grounds. She alleges in addi- tiou misconduct and eruelty. David A. Jardine. a well-known Galt young business man. has received his commission as flight lieutenant, arid will leave for England to join the Royal Flying Corps, ht a spirit of ply, a Belgian lad, living on concessioa three. Dover township, drove a nen through the hand °Penis younger brother, and with another Mow of a hammer sunk it Into a block of wood. A Moving picture theatre and vaude- ville house will be erected for Mr. Geo. Reinhart, proprietor of the Com- mercial Hotel, Guelph, on the site of the hotel stables on Macdonnel street. Word was received in Kingstpn Of the eudden death at Aliandale, Ont., of Mrs. Ross. wife of Col, Arthur E. Ross. M. P. P. for Kingston, who is in France as A. D. M. S. of the Second Canadian Division. As the result of a fall on tho sitle- nalk, due to its slippery condition, having been used by eirildren for slid- ing, Intirdock Fraser, aged 70. a well- ktown eitizeti of Galt, sustained con- cussion,of the brain and died. Mr. James Raymond, a former G. T, R. engineer at Palmerston, is dead at Regina, where he was chief engineer of Division 828 of the C. P. It. He was aleo cheirrnan of tete local Brotherhood or Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. The steatnehip Mania, the first Ocean liner built and cleared from Chicago in years, left for New York by wey of the Welland Canal. The boat, con. structed for. the Clyde line, will be orerated between New York and tho West Indiee. Major Andrew Hamilton Gault, Whe failed last session ia his application for a divorce frem nis wife, Marguerite Claire Stephens'is renewing Ms appli• eation on the Same ground as alleged previously. An application by Mrs. think was announced Some Wide ago, For the forty-eIxth time former judge Ben and Treaeurer Fleming hold their joint birthday party. Neither at the gentletnen glees his age, but ;fudge Bell has passed the 75 -year mark, tuul Mr. Fleming is but little his lunfor. The event was 'held this year at the 13e11 home et Chathera. In order to give the riettlera of thn fire -swept areas of Northern Ontario tt chance to Secure a supply of moat fa tido there over the winter, the One terio Government has 'decided to ex- tend the shooting seaeon itt Timisloini- lug end the pert of Algoma lying north ..ef the Canadian Northern Railway, The extenelon Is for one menth, from Nov. 80, but only bona fide residente of the distriets referred to aro per - mated to thoot deer ittla lalthailS In that period, ALLX140 TO Amnon. Flan Swift -Reply to zation of Civilians. enble.--The German rnobiligas tion of the civil population IS likely to bring it mitt reply from the allies, Front Information obtained by hien offlelal tar- eles it can be affirmed that the allies' council now assembled here are discus- sing trenteures to be adoptee itt a'couater- stroke to the eienuan effort. These will be two -2o14; firstly, military; secondly, economic. Premier Asquith is confer- ring with Premier Briand on the diplo- matic, lineation, and Lloyd, George and Albert tehomae are eineuseing the muni- tion. question. The ehlefe of tho aUiesi armies are daily debating the military at- witter,. et Is understood that the BOO. mimic measures have already been out. iined, and probably an identical pr0. gramme will be adopted by each allied Government. The Allied Council probab- ly will continue the conferences for ign•- ei•al days. 4-0 EN MACEDONIA •••1•41. Serbs Capture Crest North of Iven After Struggle. French Cavalry Take Vil- lage Beyond Kermit •••••••••••• .1...,!•111/1/1.0 London, Nov. 17,—The Entente ar- mies operating in Macedonia have made adaditional progress, After severel abortive attempts, the British forced a passage of the Stru- ma and nave now occupied a mine- ber of towns, pushing eastward about four miles beyond the river at some points. The Franco -Serbian offeneive also continues witit full success. The ex- tent of the, progress made is told in. the French official statement of Fri. day nlglit, which reads: "On the rigla bank of the Cerna River the Serbians nave made con- sicierable progress ia the direction of Grunishtet 'while in the Cerna bend one of the divisions. in the course of a stubborn fight, carried a crest to the north of teen. In this sector the enemy's counter-attecks were re- pulsed, "Farther west the Franco -Serbian forces made headway in the direction of Yarashok and attacked the monas- tery hill, which they occupied atter fighting that cost the enemy heavy losses. "In the region north-east of Kenali our cavalry captured Negotarin (Ne- gochani?). "In the course of various fights on the 15th we made on this front 400 prisoners and captured three mitrail- leuses and a howitzer of 150 milli- metres," The Provisional Government, says a Reuter despatch from Salonika has lodged a protest with the Entente Dowers against the alleged violation by the Athens Government of its promise to the Entente. The protest alleges, the despatch adds, that the Royalist troops, far from evacuating Thessaly, continue to advance in Southern. Macedonia, spreading ter- ror everywhere and menacing the lives of the adherents et the move- ment headed by former Premier Ven- izelos. The Serbian official communication issued to -day, says:— "Yesterday there was violent fight- ing, which was favorable to us despite the fog and a snowstorm. All enemy attempts to recapture lost positions by counter-attacks failed completely. The Bulgarians retired on the River Bistritza and. Hill 1373. We leave taken 300 additional prisoners. "011- our left, Franco-Russian troops advancing on Monastir have occupied the villages of VeLushina. Porodin and Jabyani. The prisoners the Serb- lan.s alone have captured since Nov. 10 aggregate 3,900, including 1,000 Germans, During tlie same period the Serbians captured eiglit heavy and sixteen field guns. We have captured since Sept. 14 a total of 71 guns." FOOD CONTROL FOR BRITAIN Problem is • Equalizing Be- tween Rich and Poor. Whole Nation Supports Government Action. , London, Nov. 19.—No other Government action in Great Britain miring the war has commanded such immediate and al- most unanimous support as has tho de- cision to control foott supplies and pricils. Virtually the entire press -welcome the scheme, Almost the only criticism ex- pressed is that the authorities should have taken charge of the nation's food supply long ago. The difficulties of handling such a vast and com.plieated problem In a coun- try unused to paternalistic methods are not underestimated, The rationing of the population on the German system ap- pears as yet improbable. Arrangements already are being mado between the Board of Trade and the Board et Agriculture for controlling the prices of stocks. The aistribution of the. most important commodities, eon, meat and potatoes, is already partially regulated as is also that of sugar. One of the troublesome features of the situation is how to equalize matters be- tween the rich and the poor. On the theory of "equality of sacrifice for all," which Is a popular war watehword, tho newspapers are malting a sensation et luxurious menus in fashionable restau•-• ants awl homes. To the casual observer' there are no signs of food shortage, The variety and quality of eatables in the shops and res- amirants appear - undiminished, but the big markets tell a different story. The Government has to deal on die one hand with increased consumption de to tho demand of the army and the better settle of living practiced hy a large section of the twine getting un- usual wages from wat• work, and on the other hand with decreased imports' end decreased home produetion. Tim latter is due largely to the Withdrawal cf men front farming and other ordinary Vrt11.8111th for the army, in the meantime "the workman's beer" remains almost .saered, Lnla—Poor Jack Broker Is always worrying about the money market. Lorralna--And Mr& Seek Is always werrying about the market inoney,--- Judge, Caller—Ie it true, my dear, that your husband Is very absent-mitnied? 'Mrs. Newly—Yee. We've been mar- ried ata months, and many an even- ing at eleven he gets up, take a mo by the hamlet, tette me what a delightfal time he has had, and would leave if I didn't remind himeeellecton • Trans- eript. MONASTIR AGAIN SERBIAN; GERMARIRGARS IN FLIGHT Enemy, in Dallier of Being Cut -Off, Abanq dolled Great Stores As Well Bulgar King Losing Prize He Fought For, Expected to Desert Huns, SERBS ARE "HOME," Salcniki, Nov, 19.—The .teraporary capital of Serbia will be immediatelY establiened at Monastir. Xing Peter announces hie intention of proceeding to seat of Government at the earl- tioeewn,toppOrtunity, Although Monastir conelderable forges of Serbians 'with the allied troops who occupied the was taken by the French, there are London, Nov.-19.—Monaseir has fallen. The Franco -Serbian troops en- tered the important Serbian town at 8 o'cleck to -day, the date of the anni- versary of the taking of the•town by the Serbians from, the .Turks in 1912. The evacuation of the town is admit- ted in the German official communi- cation, When the Serbians after a brilliant assault on Friday captured Hill 1,212, northeast of Cegel, putting the Bulgar-German fortes to flight in dieorcler, the fate of Monastir was sealed. On the following day the Brit- ish and' French aviation corps bom- bardedthe enemy camps in the neighborhoed of Sere,s, Novak and Mon - astir. To -day, the defenders having fled to the north, the allies entered into occupation. Thus the prize for Which the Bulgarian king entered the war, Serbian Macedonia, with Mon- aetir as its centre, has piesed beyond his reach. An Offer from the "Fox of the Balkans" to desert his ally is ex- pected to be the next move. News of the occupation by French troops of the Serbian town of Mon - astir was received as one of the most important ot the late developments in the war. The stuccoes is not only of IMMEMSe moral value, but the strat- egic importance of the position Is such that its occupation is likely to have a great influence on subsequent developments in the Balkan cam- paign, as the plaee commands all the Practical routes between the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea, The fall of Monaetir involves the early fall of Ochricia, 25 miles northwest of the loiceldupied town, and the region of the lag in Albania. loniki and the Italian troops operat- ing lakes, and assures an ef- fective junction of the army at Sa- . the railway line from the Entente al- ibtlai sent: t rseoaciecauipkait.iloan noafsvalobiluisrtair. tente hands. To the east and southeast of Mon- aetir the Preach and Serbian troops continue to make gains in the Cerna River region against the Teutonic al - Refs, having captured several other towns in this region. TAKEN FOR SECOND TIME. The etnextreads: s: the French official sta "Army of the East:- Ca Nov. 18 there was great activity of the artil- lery on both sides ot Lake Doiran to the Vardar River. "East of the Cerna River Serbian troops, continuing their progress to - Ward Grunislate, encircled the place. "In the Cerna bend the Serbians repulsed a new Bulgarian counter-at- tack on Hill 1,212. The enemy is fall- ing back 1E1 disorder toward the north, pursued by our allies, who have reached the top of Hill, 1,378. "In the region south of Monastir the French' and Russian troops made new progrese in the direction of Hon even, "The English aviation corps bom- barded the enemy camps in the neigh- borhood of Scree, while our aere- planes dropped bombs on the camps and bivouacs at Novak and Manes - the • "Nov. 19: Troops of the Army of the East entered Monastir at 8 ociock this morning, the date of the anniver- sary of the taking of the town by tho Serbians in 1912." SET BUILDINGS ON FIRE. A Reuter's deepatch from Saioniki says that on Saturday the Serbian troops gained fresh victories in the Cerna reeion, the Germano.Buigar forces main; a disorderly retreat in the direction of PrIlep, north of Mon - astir. "The Serbians," the despatch adds, "took a great number of prison - ors and trophies and captured the vil- lages of Grunishte, 1.3rnik, Yamaha and Hill 1378. The pursuit continues, Great fires are visible in Monastir, where violent explosions were heard. The allied treops to -day (Sunday) en- tered Monastir," VICTORY A DECISIVE ONE. A. Reuter despatch. from French headquarters, Macedonia, under date of Nove 17, describes the fighting tn the direction of Monastir as proceed- ing in bitter cold, rain, sleet, mud and slush. Nevertheless the allied attack Was kept up continuously and success- fully, eepecially on the right, The Serbians supported by French guns arid a contingent of French he fantry, for ten days Maintained' an enceasine ofieneige, says the de - *etch, and though the enemy forces Were continually reinforced, they Were driven from. position after posi- tion. By thus keeping their oppo- aents on the move, the Serbs extract- ed the maximum advantage from their victory, "The Serbo-Frencit 8uCcOSS on the :eft bank of the Cerna Itiver," con - Wines the despateh, "gate the Allies such an advantagerms position that the enamy was obliged to abandon the' Kermit line, although it proved almost invulnerable to frontal attack. "The 13ulgar-Cierman trenches were deep and narrow, arid were provided with shelters nearly 30 feet under- ground, affordine vornplete secttrity from shell burste, Only very urgent reasohe eould have ertused their titan - eminent, and theme were supplied by the threat of their line of retreat." BERLIN ADMITS WITHDRAWAL. Motmetir ha's hem abandoned by the German and Bulgarian forces, ee,ys 1110 official statement isetted at the Gomm army headquartere to- day. The Tetttona and Bulger% it is announced, took pesitione to the north of the southern Serbian town after the forces of the MAW° Allies stormed Height, 1212, to the northeast gatiCtie:gel. The text of the statement "Macedonian front: After the One - My had succeeded in making progreee on Height 1212, northeast of Costal, the Gamma and Bulgarian trowel took up a position north or Monasdr. Monastir thus was abandoned." FLED IN DISORDER. The Serbian official story of the capture of 11111 1212 reade; "At 2 o'clock Friday afternoon our valiant troops carried Hill 1212, after a brilliant assault. The eneneY was defeated completely, and fled northward in disorder, leaving behind all Ids equipment, a large number of machine gins and rlf1,18, an enormous quantity of ammunition and other war material, At one place we cap- tured 50 casee of hand grenades." BERLIN EXPLAINS. Berlin, Nov. 19.—The Macedonian town of Monastir was evacuated dur- ing the night by the German and Bul- garian troops, Who retired to prepared positions further iaortla. They thus withdrew from highly unfavorable po- sitions in the plains, where they were exposed to artillery fire trona the heights to the south and southeast of the town. Monastir is located at the bottom of a bowl, surrounded on all sides by dominating heights. It was therefore tactically,_extremely unfavorable as soon as the enemy forces gained a footing on a rim of the bowl, as al-. ready had been done to the south, less than five miles from the town, and only a slightly greater distance to the southevest. Since the opening of the campaign in the Roumanian theatre, which, as was cabled recently, is regarded here at present as the decisive theatre of the whole war front, east and west, it was considered a correct decision strategically and tactically, not to call upon the defenders for heavy sacrifices and efforts to hold the town iteelf. Politically, various considerations " urged that efforts be made to retain Monastir, not only because its posses- sion by the Entente Allies would give the Serbian Government a local habi- tation in Serbian territory, and en- courage General Sarrall, commander of the allied operations in the Balkans, to press the campaign, but also for its political effect in general. The evacuation of Monastir will in a way shift the operative diffieillties from the Bulgar-German army to Gen, Sarrall's shoulders. Up to the present his forces have had the dis- tinct advantage of operating at the end of the Monastir-Saioniki railway, and with a fairly good network of roads in the rear which Gen. Barran has devoted the past months to im- proving, The retirement of the Germans and Magus would have the effect of bring- ing the attacking forces away from their line of communication. and Into the almost roadless region of South- western Macedonia, and the defending forces correspondingly nearer their base of communications. As the pres- ent withdrawal has occurred in the extreme southwestern sector of the front, farthest removed from the Trans -Serbian railroad a.nd from the centre of operations, and as the re- mainder of the Macedonian front is not affected, members of the general staff familiar with Macedonian condi- tions insist that the loss of Monastir can be regarded as only of local im- portance and wit.hto,u4t. effect on the‘ general strategical situation. HEAVY GALES VISIT BRITAIN Many Vessels Foundered in Disastrous Storm. Great Tidal Wave On Medi- terranean Coast. London, Nov. 19.—A renewal of heave gales which have visited the British coast recently caused a heavy loss to shipping Saturday and Sunday. Four largo out- ward bound steamers were compelled to return to Queenstown, including the Gista which lost her propeller and was Itibor- ing in tremendous seas and only with the greatest difficulty was able to make port The other steamers were badly battered, have lost boats and being other- wise damaged. Sunday morning A large number of steamers and sailing vessels were drivea ashore at different points. The British schooner Kenneth C., is ashore at Cleg- erhead, County Louth, Ireland, a total wreck. Her crew was saved, The British steamer Muriston was driven ashore and broken In two, south of Myth. It is believed that the seventeen meinbers of her crew perished.. A Nor- wegian steamer Is ashore in Biyth Bar. The crew was saVed. TIDAL VIYAVD IN GULF. Paris, Nov. 19.—nxtraorclinary weather conditions prevailing- in Pratme in the last 48 hours culminated yesterday in a tidal wave in the Gulf of Marseilles, oft the Mediterranean coast, in which many veal - sets foandered, and disastrous sales on the south-west of the Atlantic ocean. At Marseilles at the cabins on Catalan years on the Medlterrapeatt coast. waves inundated Coritiche itoad, stopping Beach werecarried awey and 11.1e high the street ears. The storm beat all recorde for twenty "Parlez-volts Angle's, nifsellet" "Ott, 211701011, tin peu—kees inc <meek—do you lore me ---"old Ine tight--clatar— London Opirilon. A firm in Newmarket, Aucklatd, has started a piano factory. This may result in a demand for Atrieriein piano parts and knockdown piano cases. A aenitem of fire hydrante is to bo installed in the tuy of laarbalioYee Ecuador. At present the eity's tiro fighting apparatus Is Vey 'Ulnae. MIA%