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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-03-15, Page 7CITY OF IDE CALIPHS IS IN HANDS OF THE BRITISH Turks Attempted to Fight On the Diala River, But Were Outflanked. Eastern End of Kaiser's Dream of Empire Entered Sunday Morning. Louden, 'Morels 12. -The Times, edef today discussing the capture of Bags I A dad, pays a handsome tribute to the riN INVIIATION Indian trope. It Kee: "We aro too apt to speak as though the troops of General ititteden command were ex elusively British, It must alwaye be remembered that a very late proper= alert of the form he guide(' te victore are Indian regimente and cavalry, which hung on the flaulta or the de- moralized Turkish, army and chased it to the confines of Bagdad. It must have .been almost exclusively lndian cattairy and infantry which bore many meetbe of privations and included In - Man units which had already Weight heroically in France, on Gallipoli, and in Egypt, 'London. llama 11. -General Freder- ick Stanley Maude, in command of the BritisVforces in Mesopeetuniet, tele- graphed to -day the welcome neve for tee British ot the oceupatton early this morning of the city of Bagdad, the chief Turkieli CitY in Meeopotams la, and formerly the capital tit the em-, •pire of the Caliphs. No details of the capture have yet been received, General Mande's etory of the operations carrying events only .up to Saturday morning, when the .,British, alter effecting a surprise crossing cf the Detre and bridging the igris, had driven the Turk e back to within thre miles of Bagdad. It is evi- dente however, that the Turks have been unable to offer ane serious re- eistance knee the 'fall of Kutsel. Amara. They were sate to be hastily eummoning reinforcements from other theatres of the war 'where Turks were enga.ged, but the distances to be cov- ered were so great that additional forces were unable to arrive in time no save the ancient city, which, after Mecca, occupies first place in the Me- beiumedan imagination. The fall of Bagdad; beeides ending German hopes cf Near Eastern do- minion, based on a Berlin-I3agdad rail- way, will reverberate throughout the Mohammedan empires. and it is be- lieved will more than rehabilitate Britie,h prestige in the Far East, dam- aged by the earlier loss of Kut-el- Aniareet Farther news meet be a.waIted be- fore it is known whether Geueral Maude made impertant captures of Turkish troops or guns, either before .or aeBagilad. Apparently the occupation was er- feeted without resistance and with anly .slight losseS. Even if the Turks nueteeded in extricating all their ferceenthe loss et Bagdad is a grave blow to then. Dagclad has been the 'twee- -for all Turkish operations in Pereia. Up to within a few days•the Turks occupied about 30,000 square miles at Persianterritory, but wieh the Russians pressing them closets' from Kinuansbah, as well as front the. direction of Erzerum, indicatioga point to a speedy junction of the Brit- ish and Russian forces, which would event,eompel the Turkish exacuation of Perslaa territory. During the day the following °tn. Mal report was received concerning the operations against Bagdad, carry- ing them up to Saturday morning, WIteti the Turks had been forced ba.eh to within three miles west and south- west of the city: "Our forces engaged with the Turks on the Diala line the night of the 8th suctoeded, 'despite. the bright mak- light,' In effecting a surprise crossing of the Diala-and establishing a strong pest on the right bank thereof. Metal - whine, on the morning of the 8th, the 'flails !having bon bridged at some diatentees downstream, a British de- taehtneht marched up the right bank and found the enemy holding a posi- tied about: six miles southweet of Davie, ales. nightfall the enemy was driven from thisposition to another position tweemilee in the rear. During the -eight ref the Oth a passage of the Diale Was forced, aml our troops advanced some four miles toward Bag- dals "During the Oth our forces On the Hiatt bank' (Tigris) drove, the nem), front his teeond position, bivolmeing on the groutid gained. This advan- tage, despite a blinding dust -storm and a violent gale, was prewied on the ;Planting of ethe lOtle the Turks being .forced back to within three miles west acme iseethwest of Bagdad." , An earlier War Office statement told of the fighting which preceded the occupation of Bagdad. It read: "General Maude telegraphed that en the evenitig of March 7 our gun bot and eavalry had discovered the etteray holding the line of the Biala Byer. On the 8th our troops were en- gaged with 'the enemy, tvlio hold the .abeep Tine in some 'strength, - "The position evacueted without re- sisteetee by the enemy at Ctesiehon on tare eth had been meet carefully pre- pared, and it is clear that he Intended to heal it: Its evectiation was Drab - rage due te the rapidity of our at1. artnee tram Azizie." RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN PERSIA. Pettograd, March 11. - Russian treops have excepted the town 4:tf Sabine in Northwestern Persia, and ere pursuing the retreeting Turks in the direetion of Melton, fifty Miles oath of Hamadan, atording to an Official state:emit lotted to -day by the Bereisien War Deparatent In Asia Antler the Turks took the Offetteive along the Sivas road, butwere re- pulsee by the Russians. • av,04a,000 amooe oozNao. New York, Iteport.-The NeW Yeris tromecting railway and «a 1/e1l Gate bridge. built at a eost of Sif7,000,000, to coluteet the lines of the Pennsylvania and New York, New tiaven and ltart. Lord Railroads, nere dedicated tO•dity. 'The purpos..5 of the now line is to make peseible threw:It ,sorvien front all points Now nnaland -and the astern nrov- ineett of Commie to tile south tied Vcrest. 'rho first tram operated over ttte new lino ,teit teestay from the Pettusylwenta teatime The formal teMperature of herSel, Men and tigerle tabott the itaMe, That of ehiekene Is 111 tiegreee Fab. retthelt, and that of aldeneadr111$ ealY 74, TO SICKNESS Impure Blood Means a Breakdown in Your Health. • Impure blood is an invitation to sicaness. The blood ie at work day and night to maintain the health, and any lack of strength or purity in 1 the bleed is a weakness in -the de- fense against disease. Anaernie. is. • the (lectern name for lace of blood. I There may be an actual loss in the Iquantity of the blood, or ow or more of its constituents may be lack - Ins. Its surest symptom, is pallor, i Anaemia is particularly common in 1 young girlie It is not, however, eon- ) fined to them alone, for it es this same lack of blood that prevents full recovery after la grippe, fevers, ma- laria and operations. It is also pre- sent in old age and in persons who have .been under unusual mental or physteel strain. if "on aro suffer- ing from this trouble take Dr. Wit. Hams' Pink Piths for Pale People. They make pure, new blood with every dose and title, new blood means health and strength. 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You can yet these pills from any dealer in ro.edicine or by mail at 50 welts a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. • SHORT ITEMS OF THE NEWS OF THE DAY ••••••••••.,*=•••••••• Seventeen Dead, Over 100 Injured, in Tornado at Newcastle, Ind. GERARD AT HAVANA Denis Murphy, ex-M.P.P. and ex -T. & N. 0. Com- missioner Dead. A second Joan of Arc is now living in the French capital. Mr. Henry McMinn, ex -Mayor of Belleville, died in bia 77th year. The publishers of the City Directory give the population of Toronto as 627,666. Potatoes sufficient to feed all Breen ford are said to be stored in efouut Pleasant village. -Judge Gerard, former United States Ambassador to Berlin, arrived at Havana front Spain. Mrs. Edith Marchmont, of Toronto, was arreated after she had left her babe on the stops of a church, • Elijah B. Moore, caw of the oldest residents of St. Thomas, is dead. Mr. Moore was born In St. Themes 78 year s+ ago. Kitchener City Council has fixed the tax rate for 1917 at n6 mills on the dollar by adopting stringent policy df retrenchment. Dr. Charles N. Anderson, of Leant- ington, has been appointed sheriff of Essex counts', sueceeding the late John E. d'Avignon, Ilrantfofd and Brant County British Sailor& Relief Fund has been clOsed, $10,000 being raised, the last $200 by ten little ghee. Denis Murphy, ex -M. P. P., and former member of the T. & N. 0, Rail- way Commission, died at Ottawri, in his 75th year. D. S. Itowlby, of le:nehmen has been appointed couaty Crown, lttorneY Of Waterloo, succeeding his Ito Uncle, Ward n. tiowlby. .1. L. Whiting, I. C., bee been offered the positiott ot eity solicitor of King- ston, and has agreed to accept, The Council has fixed his Salary at $1,500 a, year. Lightning etre& the barn of Rebt. aibson, of the Cherry Greve settion of W0at NieSottri during the recent storm, killing tem' cow e end two yearlings, Ezekiel H.FirmanIinjured in the (1. T. It. wreck twee ttterson an Fri- day afternoon, died at the Royal Vic- toria Hospital, Barrie, Brantford Women's Petrletie League have plans under Way for the raining of funds to provide a Oath rotate for returned tioldiere. Tittheatre end rnagnifieellt Mang Casino of the 1errie/11 at SO le Bela glum htios hem destreyee Ise fire. The buildirtga latee been WINO knee the war as a noupital for tiermatt Officers. Wieldsor Beard Treat), nee re- eeived infOrmation that owing to pour drainage threUgheet Beau county, scores of farinere are dispesIna of then' land tual renew/trig from the County because of crop failures of the past two seasons, William Parker was kiiica on the ttpper bridge at the Fall% Ho Was driving acmes the upper bridge With Ws horse and cutter when struck by a Street ear muting in the opposite direction and was killed instantly, The Methodist Church at Highgate Was destroyed by fire on Saturday, gas etoves In °penalise to heat the claurch, It is believed, were the cause of fire, The edifice was one of red pressed brick arid cost 115,000 to $20,000, and wan insured for over $7,000, The body of Joseph E. Gent, a fore- man employed by the Standard Wool- len Mills, Teronto, was found Saturday afternoon iu the bottom of one of the big dye tanks in kite company's plant, The body is belittled to have been there since San. 25. Seventeen are known to be dead, and more than a eundred I:tiered in a tornado which struck Newcastle, Ind., doing damage estimated at clove es a minim dollars, The storm swept a path through the city about two blocks wide. About 100 houses wore levelled and more than 300 damaged. TWO ELEVATORS BURN TO GROUND One at Winnipeg Means Loss of $150,000, That at Detroit Will Cost $1,000,000, Winnipeg, March 9. -The terminal elevator et the Northern Elevator 'Company, situated on the Canadian Pacific tracks at the corner of Salter street artal'autherland avenue, is burn- ing to the ground, Flames have en- tirely enveloped the structure, and the cupola has fallen in. The capacity is about 40,000 buehels, and is eald to be pretty well filled. The estimated lose is about $150,000, including build- ing, contents and machinery. DETROIT ELEVATOR BURNED. Detroit, Month 9.-F1re destroyed the pillion bustle' grain elevator of the Detroit Railroad Elevator Company, at the foot of Haetings street. this atter noon, entailing a loss of about $1,000,- 000. The building was 50 years old. There was 600,000 bushels of corn, wheat, oats and srye stored in the building and all this was destroyed. At 3 9,ni. the entire structure col- lapsed. Most of the grain was intended for eidlanept to the Atlantic coast and from there it was expected a large part of it wouldebe sent to England and France. Officials of the Swift Company, nom- inal consignees, whicia owned much of the grain, scouted the idea that the fire was incendiary, but authorities say there are krona hires that it did not start by aocident. The elevator was turned into a great torn within a few minutes afterthe diecovery of the fire. From bottom to top the building was a mass of fire, and the names shot one hundred feet into the air, As sealer's ot the struc- ture fell in, flames burst out in all di- rections. Firemen worked under the greet - est difficulty because at the intense heat, which could be felt several blocks away. Glas.s in the windows several hundred feet distant was cracked. Hurley's coal dock close by caught fire several times, until filially the fire tug James Elliott tied up there and poured water on the great wooden structure. Freight tars in the Grand Trunk yards took fire and -were saved only with difficulty The elevatoe was 150 feet in length and 100 feet high, and was of frame and galvanized- iron, con- struction. FIRE ON U-BOATS WHEN SIGHTED That is the Rule for Armed American Vessels. Sanctioned by Washington -No Warning Given, Washington, March. 11, -President Wilson's purpose in arming Anterlean merchantmen for protection against subniarine attack on the high seas is to be carried out Witleout compromise. It was made clear at the State De - Pertinent to -day that the deeision of the United States trovernment was not made merely with the hope that Ger- many would take warning thereby and permit American vessels to pass throegh the zone unmolested, The Masters of the ships sill be informed that they have the right as a defensive mertaure to fire illson a submaritio On sight. In effect, the action of theaLatited States will be a direct challenge to the German Government of its right to mark off an area of the high seas and deelare its purpose to sink any ship that comes within it. The respon- sibility for any coneequenees that Might foliate" will rest upon the Ger- nian Government, In diplomatic gee:Hers the Presi- dent's decision hall Made a Profound impressible , ALBAN:U.11S DECLINE, Isendon Cable fie:yet-Official all- hountement was made here t -day that Austria-Hungary has Melted a preelattatioh to the Albanittes Mat. Ing that it has granted autonetnet to Albania 'under its proteetorate. Itt- ftuentlai Albanians have published front Salonika the statement save a . pretest easing the Aestrittu race:MN is useless, beettene it is directed -to- ward a teetitre which, already ludo. pendent, has declared war an the ertentiee ne the Entente. The purpoen or the Vienne Ooveratient in inning thie preclarnation, the statement add, ebvieualy 113 to Stirdify the levy Of Men for Its armies. 47. THIRD CANADA WAR LOAN 18 NOW LAUNCHED Issue of $150,000,000, 20. Year Bonds, 5 Per cent. at 90 Figure, WILL DO BETTER Cash Value Later Will Make Returns More Than Now, „1.laien, lOttawa, Mare 1loan. tl ird Cana.. Allan (lowest!ewar le launched by the Minits or nvitt ad- vertisements in all the Canadian pap- ers, and a confident appeal from the (3overnment bOta to the thrift and to the patriotism of the Cenadian yea. pie. The 'Salle is $15e,000,000 Of fite per cent., twenty-year bonds, placed on the market at 96. The interest re- turn is a shade better titan was rota lized for the last tom of $104,000,000, whieh was placed on the market at 971/2, As Sir Thomas White says in announcing the loan, "from the pure. ly inyeetnient standpoint no more at- tractive issue has evereseen placed be. Lore. tho Canadian public." The interest yield to • the, investor will work out to about 5.4 per cent., but as the loan is a long-term one arid the securities are to be listed on the market, it is predicted by the Finance Minister that when interest rates become normal again after the termination of the war the cash value of tee bonds will go very consider- ably above 96, making the actual re- turn .on the investment probably more than 6 per cent., and possibly even as high as 8 per cent. The bank returns show that there are ample funds for investment in the country to take up the whole of the loan during the next eleven days. Applications will be received through the chartered banks and through ell reputable brokerage and financial hoUses, in multiples of one hundred dollars, up to March. 23. When the time then expires for the receiving of applications it is fully expected that the whole amount of the loan will bave been taken up by Ute Individual -small investors, by the banks, and by other corporate institutiOns. TERMS OF THE ISSUE. ainrae itshseu essa, e anstelfeosrt t geo gyeac be e - In the main the terms of the loan will half -yearly, the first instaltilent being payable September 1st next, Ten per Cont. of the amount subscribed is pay- able on application, 30 per cent. by A;pril 16th, 30 per cent. by May lOth, and the balance by June 15th next. The bonds will be exempt from all Federal taxation. The commission allowed to the chartered banks and te all recognized bond and stock brok- . ers in Canada is three-eighths of one per cent. on their allotments, an ins crease of one-eighth of one per cent. over the ConlmiSsion allowed on the last loan. In a foreword to the Canadian peo- ple, Sir Thomas White says in part: "Financial institutions and skilled investors require no special advice, but it is particularly to besdesired that citizens of moderate meatus should not mis.s the opportunity of participating in this notably advan- tageoue offering. As the Issue is to be listed, reany facilities will be avail- able to those desirous at any time of cofiverting their holdings into cash. Aside from these practical consider- ationti, it is to be expected. that Can- ada will, at this crucial time, demon- strate to the world, even more signal- ly than in the past, the financial strength, unity of purpose, and in- flexible determination of her people. , "There were 35,000 subscribers to the last war loan. Let tie make it dou- ble that number Una time, The securi- ties are being issued in denominations to suit the purses of all investors. Subscriptions, largo or smell, are wel- come. The Government confidently appeals to the patriotism of the Can- adian. people to make this issue anf overwhelming success. Every • Man and woman can aid in winning the war by becoming a sabeeriber to the third and greatest Canadian war loan," The Minister of Finance -requests that subscribers to the war loan, who ' may be wiIlinn to do em should noti- fy the press locally .of their sub. scriptione. A considerable time elapses before applications received by the banks throughout Canada reach the Finance Department, and consequent. ly atmouncemeut cannot well be made from Ottawa. FIORE RUN PLOTS. Philadelphia., Navy Yard the Objective NOW. ..**1011••••10.1 Philadelphia, March 12.-Governe tnent agents to -day continued their in- vestigation into' the activities of per sons Wider arrest charged with smug. Mina ships' cbronometera front the German auxiliary crewel's interned at the Philadelphia navy yard, and of persods saapected of having had a hand In the alleged violence of the customs laWa. There are reports that the authori- ties have discovered a plot with litany ramifications to dammr,e property at the eavy yard in the event there is wee between the /lulled -States and Ger- many. Government officials, however, are maintaining silence, neither eon - tinning or &meting published reports that explosives have beett emeggled nn board tbe Kroll Prinz Wilbelm and the Print Eitel Friedrich, tied up at the navy yard. Adelbert K, Fischer. his wife Hein, au. Henry Rohner, head of a wheat - sale grocery Concern here, are out on bail, charged with sniuggling the ehrtilterneters from the two German ships. Other arrests may be Made. almtv papers mei dente -mita taken from the Placher home 121 the euburbe are bentg examined by the Federal , authoritiee, AVIlether they teveelelni any widespread tlot involving a ViOla. tion of the tientrality laws, govern - lent agents anent not say. It was elm that tee rineuev-. ov+ elisfanfly ft+. MAUI to the Hohenzollern flintily, of Which the Ismberor ef Gerrettrin is file head. !Sine Viteher IS oleo Paid to be related'te Keerling, the General iron - Master. What part ehe took in the tin IOW 811114Mb/1g bed hot been revealed, YARKINDALE SEAMEN TALK Safe in Zurich, Tell of Out- rages by Runs, And of the Raider Which Took Them. Zurich, Switzerland, Muth 11, via Paris, March 12. -The Am.erican safl- oxs froM the Yarrewriele, who Were relerteed from a German prison carat) last Tbureday, arrived in Zurich tto- day. There were fittysnine tu the Party, They had arrived et the Gers man frontier at landau yesterday, af- ter a continuous trip of 52 hours from the prison Camp at nrandenburg. The sailors, although emaciated from their imprisonment and serious lack of food since their arrival in gerleanY on Dec, 31, are in fair condition, and confident that with a normal amount of food they will soon be themselves again, 'rho party was met here by un- ited States Consul -General leeene and clistribute.d among several hotels until instructions shall have arrived front Washiegton. Their personal effects were lost when their ship wits sunk, and their wardrobes have been only partially replaced by makeshift's which render there for the presen t eecidedly motley crew. The sailors said that they were eon. vineed that the raider which sank their yeesel was the "Ritz, of 13re- men," They describe her as a brand new vessel of about 3,000 tons, capable of 18 knots, equipped with one funnel, two masts, one false funnel, four tor- pedo tubes, seven ranid-fire guns, and a wheelhouse which was hidden by the sides of the ship. The funnels had a device by which the stripes could be changed at will, and the ship's doors were so constructed as to cut off all light ellen they were open. Tite ahip's sides were also constructed that por- tions of them could be automatically dropped and raised.. Tee impression that the boat was tiew and built for raiding purposes was heightened by the fact that she was equipped with steel cells below, and, although look- ing like an old tram.p, was really an armored cruiser. The sailors said that the Yarrow dale, although ordinarily capable of only tea knots, had to make fourteen ett times to escape Capture. She was carefully mined, so that she could be destroyed at a moment's notice. The Yarrowdale men told of the se- vere treatment to which they bed boa subjected to the German prison canipe at Neustrelitz, Dulmen and Branden- burg, where they had been successive- ly interned after having been brottght int° Swinenntende on the Yarrowdale, and where they, as Americana thee said, were apparently eingled out from all others. During their stay in Ger- many, theyreported, they had sub. slated on one allowance of soup daily, and had made their long journey to the border on one such "meal." There was bardly one of them who at one time or another, they declared, had not felt the fist of a Germau camp guard, and the squad of five soldiers which brought then to the border had exer- cised the privilege of abusing them and curbing' them up to the last passe ble moment The melt tell of the terrible suffer- ings they underwent during a ported of severe' cold -weather in Germany, .due partly to lack of fuel, but more to the absence et shoes and clothing, which they had lost. Since their en- trance into Switzerland, at Rersehacb, they say, they have been , royally treat+ ed by the Swiss. The party includes all the Americans detained, except one seaman named Bulleat, of a French,Canadian family, claiminn to have been born in Massa- chusetie, who, at the last moment, was held In Brandenburg. They were ac- companied by one Brazilian and ono Spaniard. "40 4 er, U-BOAT LOSSES ARE ADMITTED But Germany Claims Many More Being Built Than Entente Forces Sub- ceed in Destroying. , March 11 -Discussing the subnlarine eituation the Overeeae Nene Agency ((ho German official news bureau) quote; the German pries, with reference to "the reporte spread by tho Entente about the heavy Imes of submarinee," as say - Ing: "Even if the loesee of German sub - marinas •beetate greater than they really are, even then the inereiwe the ninnlyor o enlemarines, which is ecutinueue and uninterrupted., would still be several Umed greater. thee ouch leases." The German newepapers point out that leeees ere uuavoidable on ac - Mint of the particularly delleate character of eutmarinee, the realeunt- eel bravery of the erewti and the vast defensive aystcm set In motion by the Eutente. but that rtevertheleen German submarine losses •have beett held withiu very moderate 'hula+, and are infititely entailer than the re -tenet reported -or hinted at by the hostile And come oeutral reports. THE STORSTAD. Belgian Relief Ship Crew Accounted For. (By Times Special Cablen tendon, Mara 12. -The sitting of the Nerwegialt uteanwhip Storstad, In the service of the Atherietut Commis- 1 sten for Relief in Belgium, oceurred I in lat. 51.20, lima. Mae (in the Atlan- tic off the southern end of Ireland.) The submarine fired aboat fifteen s.hoff4 at a rattee of three to fur miles,. The Storstad stopped and hoisted the Belgian Belief signal. Tbe submariee sannterged, but half an hour later the Storked, whieh had not resumed her veyage, Was tornetleed without Warn- ing rex elle lay stationery in the Teeter. 1 with all the erew on board. She sank • at 12.10 p. M. The Oraw, including erte lannerleart, bee 1 een fieeounted •fer itt ita ehtirety, but the fourth engineer died Of MOO. sure before the men were rescued. U.BOAT VIOTIMS Big List of Claims by the Oerman Admiralty. .1•••••••01,1**01.11/....* Bernie March 11. -The following account of submarine operation/3 was given Out yesteallay by the Adreire altyi "In the Mediterranean there have been, aunk nine steareshipe and three eallIng vessels, evitie an aggregate ton. nog° or ;$2,a00, "Among the ships sunit Were: Mon Mee armed Iteltan eteamer, 4,169 togs, Men, with ,cotton, Sunk On Feb. 14. "Rosalie, Italian transport etearner, 4,237 tons, with aeunenition. and oats from New York to amain, sunit on leele 14. "Wathfield, armed British steamer, 3,012 tons, with 4,500 tons of magness lain for England, sunk on Feb. 21. -"French steamer ot about 1,000 torts, sunk of Feb. 22. "Trojan Prince, armed British steamer, 3,139 tons, with it =go Of .feed, sunk on Feb, 23. "Burnby, armed British. steamer, 3,- 665 tons, with 5,200 tons of coal ?rein Cardiff, for Algiers, sunk on Feb, 26. "Armed hostile teausport steamer of (theist 5,000 tons, with a cargo of coal, sunk on Feb. 26. - "Victoria, Greek steamship, 1,28e tons, sunk on Feb. 26. " Craigen d °ran, armed. British 'Steamer, 2,785 tone, sunk on March 3. "Aceording to reports from two Italian soldiers rescued from tire Ital- ian troop transport Minas, sunk on Feb. 16 to the Mediterranean by a German submarine, the vessel had on board one General, three Colonels, two Majors and 1,000 Italian soldiers belonging to three regiments. On ac- count of the rough sea, these men perished." HUN BUTCHERS' HAD NO EXCUSE For the Sinking of Belgian Relief Ship Storstad. Only 13 Survivors -Were Shelled for Fun. • London, March 11. -Only 13 men of the crew of the Noiweglan steamer Stcrstad, which was eubmarined en Saturday, have been landed, eaye a Cork despatch to Lloydie Weekly News. They were the -occupants of the only boat to reach shore, which they elid after fighting stormy seas for 36 hours. John Roy Christian, the American member et the crew, was among those who reaehed ehore safe- ly. 'The fourth engineer died of ex- posuro, and two tones, eonteining more than 80, men, are miming. Chriatieu, the despatch add e ,said: "We were showing two Belgian re- lief bans on each mast and Lad the Belgian relief ensign painted on four parts of tlx ship, ln addition, we had the Norwegian flag hoieted, and it was also Tainted on the sides of the vessel," Christian, the despatch -continues. gave the following account of his ex- perience: "The 'submarine on eighting ue be- gan to fire shells, I went to my life- -boat but returned for more clothing se the weather was cold. When I got beck my lifeboat had -taken to the water: We called out that .we were a Belgian relief ehip, but when we thought than elledanger had peened the asubmarine fired a. torpedo. We, took to the boats and caueat up to the other boate which had gone on before.- ..e. 'The' Germans begat firing sheik; all around, and some fell near the boats though we were it good distance from the •Storstad. They appeared to be firing for fun. I do not know any other reason. "Wo were in the boats for eG houre with a heavy ties, running and a 13trorig wind against us. We were bal- ing eonetantly, and everybody became exhausted. Tho fourne engineer be- came very _ill and (nett in the boat. The submarine refused to tow us when we asked for such aid." The London office of the commis- sion states that the Storstad carried 10.000 tons of maize, which was need- ed Wire in Belgium, where the (Mort- awg,reela: it result of the detention Of grain cargoos will soon lie felt se - The Storstad was brdered to leave Las Palmas on Feb. 26. She tools on coal at Gibraltar and her maker was instructed to proeeed to Rotterdam by the northerly' route. The Starke(' wee the wilier which milk the C.P.R. liner Empreee of Ire land off 'tether Point in the St. Law. reties May 31, 1914, With a loss of 1,060 letvee. The Ste/lend was at the thee under ellarter to the Dominion Coal' Co., and made regular trips be- tween Sydney and Montreal. A MYSTERY. Toronto Citizen, Driven Home, Found Dead. Toronto, kareb 11.-Velnient Deuglare of 44 etotealfo St., was found item' in the front vestibule of Ids home on Sat- urday evening hy hi o wlfo. Ttr Ryan, of ZS Carltone‘trcet, was called, and he said that Mr. nottgida Was a vietial of a sudden solzure and had succumbed up- on entcring the house. Subsequently Dr. Mune, of 226 Carleton Street, was catied and examined the tainetes, new doctors, how9ver, could not deeide upon the cause of death and Chief Coroner Johnson Nyas notified and appointed Cor- onet, (leo. W. Grahant to conduct an in- rta t ion. A Mitch of mystety was added to the -rase when Coroner Graham 'heard a very eireurnstantial story of a neighbor who witnessed the last hontc-conting of Mr. 'Douglas. According to the story the neighbor :iaw a large limousine drive up to the Douglas home and the chauffeur atkod the neighbor to 'help him asaird ANOTHER BIG BRITISH GAIN ALONG THE ANCRE FRONT Bitter German Defence Fails -to Hold trles Three -Mile Front Criven Oa. May Be Break i Dapaume Lines.. -French Also Mae Good Gains. London, March 11.-11 is reporte that the new Minister of War in Bev. aria hat .declared in a speeclt that the most extreme meaner.% will be 001. ployed soon to suppress dieconeent in the army. eatcy to mutiny, or to surrender ou the affeeting the morale of the German arTmlitco:erman military authoritice tegot provOCation. Tiiiii Is profoundlY are understood to be confrontea van' wideepread eullenness, even a tend. Lvoedon, Mare -t ...11-EBri elt troora hao remeledsuddenly thelr advance so; the Ancre and have eon .a bril- liant euccese over the Germans. At - Woking on a threennne front, the Bertietniselet3. ihaee stormed the large vil- lage of Wee and ell the neigliboring d Thie new fighting on the Allem wee forced by Sir Douglas 'Haig. It wae no tart of tae German retire- ment to give up Irice at tine time, The best evidence that the Germans wanted to hold the village end want- ed to hold it badly le the fact that fla teen reacbirto guns and four trench mortars fell into Britian hands and many prisoners were taken. In fact it is hoped here that the taking of Rene may mean the first creek in the new German line pro- tectiog Bapaume. Irlee is very oleo to the otrong Loupart wood pceition, regarded by some as the key to Ba- Paume from the west. . The troops that stormed the town rldge that runs nearly to Achietele. holes° alma/it on the edge of that stream. its last on the brow of a panetdmits. adjacent fertificatione in n retirement stopped the 13ritish losses were slight. When the Ger ma - were on the southern outsltirts Of fries, the Germane still holding the town, tries straggles up the north- ern bank of the upper Ancre, its first fOggy weather had an uphill task, yet the Wer Office announces that tb.eir BRIVSII OVERCOME OBSTACLES. As the I3r111eb. advaimed they found themeelves opaceed by German ctrong Pointe to the eta in it ruined nail, to the west in trench labyrinths along the embenkinent of the ruined Albert - tetras railroad. Irlee iteelf wee ettch a machine gun nest as the Germans build on the Somme-Ancre front,' strengthened by trenches and en- tanglements of the old Germau fourth linoandnortheasternby acofornrteirned cemetery at ifs Ali these obstacles were oveecome, however, in fierce fighting in which the Germans were steadily forced back, and tonight the British are only a mile west of L,oupart wood and the same distance south .of Achietsle- Pettt. It is less than two miles to the Achiet-le-Grand railroad Junction from hies.' Champagne, on the French front, was the scene of fighting just as des- perate though less decisive. After a night and a day. full of clashes on a front of several- miles, German head- quarters reports that new engage- ments broke out to -night, but 'gives no particulars. The French report to- night mentions heavy artillery fire. All the way from Butte du Memel to Maisons de Champagne farm, the front ot the recent successful French counter-attack; the Germans strove to get (main the trenches the Crown Prince took on Feb. 15, artd lost two days ago. Near the butte the French not only repulsed the Germans but actually made progress. Near the farm and the important Hall 15 the Gentian efforts were itt vain. HARD FIGHTING AT VERDUN. At Verdun, too, there was some hard fighting in isolated actions. In Caurieres wood French and Gernatus struggled for trenches on its-nortitern edge, with the final result that me initial German success was wiped out by a French canuter-attack, though the Germans claim 200 prisoners and say that some French troops took to their heels, a remarkable- thing for French troops at Verduu. Elsewhere on the front there was enough entail fighting to make the day one of the hardest fighting day on the western front reported in some titue, 'The Russian troops anti the Frenth army carried out ae latexes parent:1y they did all that was in- tiesenidbesd. eFrench officers, in which ap- roaSdaltirday night's Ilritieh report "Tonlay we attacked and captured the village of Iries and its neighbor- ithogexaetence. erTiato fraolivtauncte overr..cis111.1 de tel miles. We have taken a consii:crable nunlber of prisoners, of,. whom more than 100 already have ranched the tcaorialeeatinndg isittatetioonne.lnaIceohui nee trgatiltIctsh 11%1.1eorre captured. Oar casualties erre slight. "Yesterday an aerial patrol of our machinea was engaged heavily be a strong Interne formatiom Pour Of oor aeroplanes failed to return; one of the enemy machines is known to have been brought down." Sunday's report teed me:he total prieoners taken In yee, terday's etteceseful operations ageinst Tries numbered three Officers nue fJ "During the night a 'hostile attack was observed preparing in the nemy's trenchee west and northwest f Lena It Was slushed by our or - filmy betere It meld develop. "There was considerable 'artillerY etivity on both sides during the tight nd nd the Anere, eolith of Arran and in treday in the arta the Somme Ito neighborhood of Armentieres and irtOps lart night ds nestenv end Vainly -sera% •+.1 etel he German trenehee in the eeeene os tont. eneceeeful oulTriee al ienne en !Ant if; -,11 1 0 ortia of Jury wow!, in tee 1Ve wre lot, ye the official statente na afternoon Its the Wor Bei a1e- 'Army Headquarters Staff, German rearguard detacamente, "in acordauee with orders of their commanders." re- tired to the Teeters main positions. French attacks laundsed Yesterday between the Rivera Avre and Oise were without success. Renewed attacke against the German positions on lila 185 and on both knee of Champagne Farm, it is added, were sanguinarily repulsed, n.otwithetanding the use be th.e French of strong torces andlarge suPplpiezesoprt fainimeualytionnESISTED. . From a Staff Correspondent .of. the Aecociated Press, British Headqu.ars tore in France, March 11.-Ia the capture of the village of Tries yester- day morning, the Brinell completely upset the German retiretnent Plane 011 that section of the lines. Duringlhe forward movement ot the past fort- night Irles was one village where the Germans made desperate resistanee. The steadily increasiug artillery fire of the British had atoned a pres- eure which could no longer be with- stood, and the German commandere issued a retirement order. Two hours before thie manoeuvre was to be at- tempted tbe British fell upon the Get- man position and, in addition to the flicting heavy casualties, bagged near- ly three hundred pro,soners and booty, which included sixteen machine guns and four trench mortars. The attack was ono of the most carefully planned and skilfully executed of the reewst phases of warfare on tbis front. The artillery preparation was ter- rine and the German garrison was so dentoralizerl at it and the sudden - 'Iwo of the Infantry aesattIt that they surrendered wholesale. The prisons em are among the -beat taken on the from. -.Captured German ofificen; Beernea particularly *chagrined that their pirn to retire without 'suffering great casualties had been thwarted. All along the Ancre and Somme sectors tire British guns were boom - lug tostlay, it was a eteady roar. FRENCle REPORT. Paris, March 11 -Phe com- munication issued tonight by the tvar Department reads: "In the region of Nouvron, . north ot tee Aisne the two artilleries die - Played great activity. An attempted e =Wiese attack on a salient in our then northwest of Rheims was stop'epneldy shorty our fire and cost the en - 'On the right bank of the Meuse another enemy attempt in the region of Bezonvaux completely failed. On the left bank we carried our succesa- na fires on the German organiza- tions in the sectors of Forges. A men - Alone depot exploded. "Tam was intermittent cannonad- ing on tho rest of the front, more epirited in the sectors of Maisons de Champagne and Navarin. 0 0 Mr. Douglas to the house.The latter t, Old so, and betwoe een ttwO Mr. nrug. las AVng supported in a vory nom:mod Condition to the door Both men loft a to the, front vestibule, and the chauffeur then speedou AWAY. a NURSING SISTERS MAY SaIL Ottawa Report-Iut order in permit nursing sisters v he are eternise% of the Canadian Expeditionary Force pt. pr.:: ed overseas teen" er ate elle+ , the mder.in-(,,ott probihitio wo nee y utnd OtindriAt tr0111 1.1.1113tirkilm nht wean VoYage, involving passage through ihe • II enemy war Zone, 1155 been amends, , nr.reafter the me dna cistern ein he exs On:Wo.1 frOti tho oppratialt of a tort1f1. t tato frfn othe Ile:.,artment oft,: 12 tho eftoc.. that they aro ring abroar, en amts.. - A. ease Of love at first sight este the voted to wondering witieb one of A them lies the money. GritelAN AlietTainelete. After infantry feinting S tetanal s itIi British trOopa near Irate, (en the here rtiver front, kiyit the offielal tatement Limed by the ;German Last night a German aeroplane dropped nontbe on "telltale; there were neither caeualtiee nor damage." "We succeeded in several surprise attacks on the German trendies In regions of leteeigny and Canny -sur - Metz, and In Woevre region north of the Jura wood. In the course of these operations we captured about 15 'Al- moners and one machine gun. The activity of the artillery of both sides was rather spirited in the sector of Maisone-de Champagne, "In Alsace an. enemy surptfee at-. tack againet our small outposts itt. the region of Largitzen failed under Our fire. The night was calm on the other parts of the front." Saturday's report told of numerous reale at various points on the line and of violent fighting in Champagne, where after alternate advancesand retreate the French finally drove the enemy from certain trench elements he had euceeeded in penetrating. An enemy munition plant was moploded aouth of the Avre, and a German aeroplane brought down by special gum; in the St. Mihiel realms. ' BRITISH BARRED From the Throne of Saxe Coburg Gotha. Ametcreare, March 12.--nhe Berlin Lokal -Anzeiger says that a Goveeh- wont bill was adopted at a. joint meet- ing. of the Diets N the Duchies of Co- burg and Gotha, xeluding front the euccesslon to the ducal throne Mem- bers' of foreign princely houses wbo now or in the future war against Ger- many. The bill Is understood to be aimed at the English relatievs of the present duke. The present ruler of SaX6 Coburg and Gotha, Prime Leo - veld, is a grandsoh of Queen Victoria cf Great Britain, and has the British title of Duke of Albany, He is the fa- ther of four small children, two of whom are boys, so that the direct lilts to the throne is not at present in (plea - STAND BY SUBS. Germany Will Use Them to End, Despite U. S. London Cable. ---On beina asked by a representative of a Budapest tiewapaper whetber wee between the Felted ntate,s and C,ermatiy was Ma pected, the rierman Foreign Secretare, ler. Alfred Yammermeu, as eueted tn. an Exellartge Telegraph despateli frola Copenhaget. replied: "I do not keels'. It deeetide en Pre/talent Since the eeverahee of diplainatie relations We have been ulthotn official informatioft trete eveerice, bei 1 eels ray this: We ellen prcseeete tee reibleerine tvar witb till re Ant at our dinsesal." '41inalcrinall Said he believed - there wenal be no ebaege te. Get". menen reialloesi with the neutral natiens t,f rune e airtime the -ear. A smell bell ted tet the neek of a hottle holding poisett teural +tenger Menai elan hen-1;1eg nettlet in the dark.