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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-06-14, Page 7HUNS• WREAK THEIR HATRED ON THEIR BRITISH CAPTIVES Terrible Brutalities in Pr. 4t* - soli Oamps—Death and erRMANs NEW Disease Rife Among 1.41• - Them, New York Report -A special eable frOin Parte to the Herald SaYe; A message to the Matin front the British fronts says German hatred against the British grows daily, and reealls the recent speect of the Kai- ser •darIng his visit to Douai and Cern- brat, when he said: "You must be pitiless to the odius nation that is responsible for all our evils. Never again shall we have re-,. Malone with such a people." -The jaUers observe to the letter the teachings of tbet Imperial bandit. British prisoleers are forced to work under the fire of our guns, and for the -slightest peccadillo are bound to a stake and deprived of food for whole days. A repatriated French ambulance worker says he buried with Ms own hands at Mecktenburg Camp thirty. two British, who died of ill-treatment and hunger, five succumbing at the stake. Such victims often are left without sePulehre. He also eites a case where a surgeon excused a Britisk prisoner from work, but the Feldwebel, not- withstanding, ordered him to the work. The prisoner, on refusing, was tied to a, stake nude, and died during the night. Disease is rampant among the Brit- ish prleonerS, and the Germanis do not try to alleviate the misery. 4 BETTER ROADS FOR ONTARIO Province Awakening to Its Great Need. Officials Conclude After Their Tour: Toronto Report. -"This is the be- ginning of a re -awakening for good roads in Ontario," said Hon. Finlay Me.cdiarmid, Minister of Public Works, as he concluded on Wednes- day night the tour of central Ontario, which had been begun on Tuesday morning by Mr. W. A. McLean, Depu- ty Minister a Highways, and a party of representatives of the daily awl agricultural press. It was quite evident, from official comment during the tour that the Province ts on the eve of somewhat extensive development of its good roads system. Several causes have led up to this, but a principal one is the relation of the automobile to country roads. Up,to the end a May the Province had issued 65,000 motor licenses, bringing a revenue of $700,- 000, figures in each case which cor- respond to the totals for the whole of 1916, A large part of the increase is from the country, and the Government evidently has decided to return the taxation in part 'whence it came. Twenty-five of the thirty-seven counties in Ontario have adopted a county road. system, varying in mile- age as well as in perfection. Some of these were Inspected during the tour, and the meetings with the County Councillors at different points 'were emphatic endorsations of the good roads prineiple. Present war conditions are abnor- mal so far as good roads are concern- ed, for they have made labor distress- ingly scarce and expensive. Roads that were once almost as smooth and even as a floor are now marked by ruts and holes that make driving as - rough as sailing in a choppy sea. This has led to .plans for the patrol system, which is sure to come on main roads, as the only preventive of expensive conetruction being turned into waste in a few years. • Already the little piles of stone, gra- TO WEST FRONT/ UTTERLY DAZED •••••••...•••••••••••. Fury of British Shell -Fire Appalled the Foe, as Did Mines, FLIERS' GREAT WORK Kept Foe Aviators Down and Blinded the Enemy Batteries, (From a Staff Corerspondent of the Associated Press) With the British Armies in France, vta London Cable, -The smoke of the giant mines estModed along the battle- front by -the British rase in great, curling plumes toward the sky, and was punctuated by red signals for help from the stricken Germans in the front and support lines. Neverwas the air filled with more frantic notices of danger, The entire horizon glowed with red balls of fire 'sent up by the nervous Germans. More and more British airplanes be- gan to make their appearance, One flew low over the lines, the flashes of dier, when the righting is done, is in- clined almost too strongly to treat the German prisoners as pals. Some of the prisoners taken had only gone into the German lines the night before, and had made their way forward un- der a galling fire, and had lost heav- ily. 13ft the troops already in the tine were calling for relief in such a man- ner that their appeals could not be de- nied. In view •of the tact that the at- tack had been expected, the German commanders were endeavoring to -get their best units .actually into the fight- ing ,front, but had uadersestimated when the British. would strike. The troops, in it strange line, were utterly bewildered when the attack begat, and fell easy prey to the advancing British. BRITISH KNEW THEIR WORK, The New Zealanders Irish and Aus- tralians, who had been rehearsed in every -detail of "the show," knew just what to do from the moment the word to advance was given, The battle was far more visible during the first un.- certain moments than later, when the sun gradually burned its way through the eastern bank of clouds. By that time the smoke of exploding Shells and vapors from the blinding barrage, which had beea part of the artillery duty, obseared the more distant land- seape to such an extent that the roar- ing guns could not be seen at all, though the firing .was almost at one's feet. The brilliantly leaping shrapnel shells, breaking far above ground, ea - peered through a thick mist only as brief and brilliant etectric sparks. AIRMEN'S GREAT WORK. With the coming day, bowever, the air began to fill with British fighting the guns being reflected brilliantly on its highly -glazed wings. Under this appalling fire trudged forward on the teiamile front General Plumer's army. At Many places the men found German troops utterly daz- ed by the mine explosion, and the or- deal of the artillery fire. Many of these troops had but recently come from Russia, where they had spent eighteen months, and knew nothing of what ac- tual warfare was like on the western front. They had fled at the first mine explosion, and had only been gathered together in groups by their non-com. misseo-ned officers when the British appeared 'out of the smoke and shells and made them prisoner. Their sur- prise at what a modern battle is 'Ike was no greater, some of the prisoners. said to the correspondent, than. tbe fact, that they were not immediately killed by their captors. They said theytheyvel and sand are seen at the side of some toads, and here the traffic is had been given to understand by their I ofticers that the British always killed sure of continuous smooth, hard sure their prisoners. It was really pitiful, face, while the builders of the road know that, as in Europe and in some of the States of the Republic, the highway will last indefinitely, and. al- ways be in good condition. As far as Possible, theretore, the patrol system will be encouraged and aided in the forward movement in which the Gov - eminent announces that at least 6,000 men will be employed on road im- provement in Ontario after the war. Patrol of good road will come all the more quickly with the enlarged interest of the Province in individual highways. The Provincial road from the Detroit River to tee Ottawa will be a great eentral artery. Its location itt Western Ontario is still a matter of doubt, with rival claimants pushing their case With the ardor ole. booster. Kitchener people pressed their views on Mr. Macdiartnitl, and after- wards the party passed over part of this ratite from Kitehener to Shake- speare, not far front Stratford. Later they travelled over part of the South- ern route, between Woodstock and Hamilton, and later to Toroeto. The east -and -west highway will probably be but the forerunner of a system of Provincial roads, which, wilt be built and maintained by the PrOl/inee, and ultimately to extend "like a spider's web," as Mr. Mc- Lean expressed it. In the almost int* mediate future the Government will take over what will be called Pro- vIttdlal roads, which will be eeleeted from the more heavily travelled highway% and ot these will pay 60 per sleet of the cost of cone struction and a similar proportion of the Mainteltante. AS the maintenance Will be kept at a bigh state of et- tielettcY, probably by patrol, these roads will be an egatriple and inspir- ation to other parte of the Province. HUNS DEPORTING BELGIANS, In sortie Instances, to see the manner in which theae prisoners cringed to their captors. As a matter of- faet, the British sol- Planea, which had 'already done so much preparatory work toward. the success of this newest assault upod the time -worn German positions, For a month past, but especialiy since lune I, the aeroplanes on this army front have been tridefatigably at work during every possible flyiug hour. They had brought down nearly fitty machines in six days as a means of blinding the enemy. Lately the Germans have endeavor-, ed valiantly to obtain aeroplane ob- servations for the artillery. but their observing machines had seldom been able to direct more than one or two shots before the British fighting scouts had pounced upon. them and either sent there crashilig to earth or had driven theni to cover at break- neck speed. The British planes MAO far and low over the enemy's retreat- ing linen and were only challenged by some very bad shooting anti-aireraft batteries. These batteries appeared so harass- ed by the British shells, which must have been falling about them that their efforts at the flying planes were almost ludicrous. at times. What they lacked in accuracy, however, they made up hi quantity, tend by the titne the sun shone forth in smatter splent dor, the sky was completely dotted 'with black shrapnel auffs. All through the day the British planes ruled the air. They co-operated with the British artillery and itfattry In maintaining the suecess of thiS W brilliant episode in niodern arfare. BIllaGARS WANT MORt, Premier in :Berlin Seeking Itovre, tsranee, Caters - r Duing the first. inacial fortnight In May It Is reported that Re ttopentiagee. (table. via London-Pro:a- young Belgians wore deported -from Mt- lei Itadosiavott of Bulgaria, arrived last terbeck for ea unrevealed destination. ight in Berlin accornpanied b uy Direr- nmerous other Belgians, chiey o flf t farmer clasp), were collected front the ueighborimod of Arlon and Mons by the OermanS, and deported' to Northern Vranee to work on the railroads. "rine opening night we had," said the manager of the new theatre. "How did you like the Interior deeorations?" "To tell the truth, I only netted that the hse ouWail pretty well papered," re - piled the Imager, thinking of his royal - 'Hee, FEEDING BEEF CATTLE GRAIN ON PASTURE Before Grain Oan be Profitably Fed, to Cattle On Pasture This Summer They Would Have to Sell for $15 to $20 per Cwt. -6 to 8 labs. of Grain is Required to Produce 1 lb, of Fattening Increase. Up until the last year or two prices have been distinetly discouraging to producers of beef cattle, with the re- sult that large uumbere of theta. WS gene out of the business. Since the wars however, prices for meet, as well as for all kinds of food products, hsh ave ot upwards, °with the result that the average price for cattle on the Toronto Market during the last wititer are higher than ever theY'Ve been before, Cattle prices have been rising steadily since the year 1913. 111 1913, during the week corresponding to May 6-12, the top price for choice steers, on tbe Toronto market was $7.15, in 1914 $8.45, in 1915 $8,60, in 1916 $9.40, and at the present tine choice heavy steers are selliug for about $12.64, Receipts of cattle due- ing 1916 were particularly heavy, due chiefly to the high price of feed, In 1916 and daring the Met four months of the present year, receipts of youug calves have exceeded those for the year 1915 as well as for tile year 1914, so that everything points to a scar. city of cattle and correspondingly high prices for at least several years to come„ it takes three years to produce a prime steer, whereas a 'crop ef wheat can be produced in six months. Those farmers who have been wise enough to "hung on" to their young stock are reaping, and will reap in the future in even greater degree .the reward of their wisdom, in cold head cash. The old system of Produeing beef was to carry the animals along tint') they weighed 2,000 pounds or More at four or five years old, This was all right when cattle had to be walked otten several days' Journey to mare ket, but under modern market condi- tions the sooner animals, generally speaking, are marketed, the better. When we say this, of course, we do not mean to market young stock be- fore they are properly finished, but we mean that it is more profitable under average Ontario conditions to market an animal at 15 months old, havinz it, weigh 1,000 pounds, than to market the same weight, but as a tvai. year-old. Whether it will pay better to buy and feed stockers or raise and finish the animals oneself will depend chief. ly on one's skill in buying and sell- ing. For the average man who only feeds a tew animals each year, it it is 'more profitable as a rule to raise and finish the animals, To make money buying and feeding cattle requires considerable skill and judgment. In the first place a good eye for cattle is required. One must be able to distinguish betvveen the thin animate of strong constitution that will make use of all the feed that is given it from the animal that is thin beeause it is a "bad doer." Many experienced cattle feeders claim that it there is a difference of 1% to 2 cents between the buying price and the selling price they can make money. One experienced feeder that we are acquainted with reckons that on the average each animallcoste $25 to house and feed during the winter and early spring, He figures on making a profit of from $25 to $30 per steer. The great advantage of finishing the animals quiekly is that less food is required to produce a given amount of meat, and profits are correspond- ingly greater. Whether an animal .4s at hard Work or is simply kept quiet- ly in. the stable at rest, a certain amount of food is required to keep up the vital functions of the body. The mere act of breathing uses up energy and this energy Conies from the food. Only when more than enough food is tor Etujaneff, oir the eommission publie debt. The presenee of M. Stojanoff 18 Interpreted es meaning that the Bulgar- ian nremletsa nulsIOn, n addition, to discussion of peace terms with chancel- lor Naltt Iletlititann-71cIlweg and Count Cserin, the Auetriart foreign minister, has to Ala with the (4erman subsidy to Clc tinny liaa teen advancing her Routh - ern nhly 4.1,000,880 marks a month. This b. tilteved to be inadequate to meet the increasing War coet -with Bulgaria, like the other beIngerente, Is etriegering der, supplied to furnisit the energy ne- cessary to carry on the vital bodily functions can an %Mutat increase tit weight To keep a 1,000 pound steer at rest without losing weight, 20 Pounds Of hay is required per day. The longer an animal Is kept the more food is Wasted la supplying this food required for maintenance, It an animal is kept a year longer than is necessary to get it into market 4011- ditieil, It means that the food requIr" ed to maintain that alliMal during ethe Year (20 poundsof hay Per day In tile ease of a 1,000 pound steer), is wasted. The Modern tetdency is therefore to market beef animals as soon as is consistent Wall thaw.. The heavy steer still eommands a good prtce provided he is of good beer nen- formation and well fattened, but fin. ish Is what Is looked for on the mar- ket, and an animal that is properly finished when 11 18 1,100 poufte will. command a higher price per hundred weight than an older animal weigh- ing 1,500 pounds. At the Central Ex- perimental Farm, • Ottawa, it was found that three -year-olds made a daily gain of 1.65 pounds at a cost of $6.52 per cwt.; two -year-olds, 2.16 pounds per day at a cost of $5.99 per cwt.; and yearlings, 2 pounds per day at a cost of 4.30 per cwt. The young- er the animal is whet finished the less outlay there is per pound of aain for food consumed' The production of baby beef, althougt profitable 11 one can keep the animal from going off its feed while it is being heavily fed for rapid gains, requires .skilful feed- ing, and probably the safest plan for the average man is to aim to have tbe cattle finished weighing from. 1200 to 1,400 pounds at from 20 to 24 months old. The cheapest gains are made, of course, when the animels are on pas- ture. If atimals are to be sold less thah two months after they are, turned out to pasture, it is better to keep on feeding them in the stable until they are sold. The reason for this is that no matter how carefully the change from winter to summer feeding may be made, it is practically impossible to prevent the animal los- ing weight for the time being. Two weeks 'after animals are turned to pasture it is not unusual for them to weigh 120 pounds or more less than when they were turned out. The gains made on pasture will, of course, depend on the quality of the pasture, Animals should gain from 1% to 2 pounds per day. When pas- tures dry up and afford but little sus- tenance, then supplementary feeding should be resorted to. With - the shortage of labor this year this will be expensive, quite apart from the cost of the feed. A good plan, there- fore, is to seed down a certain acre- age with the annual pasture mixture that has given such good results at the Ontario Agrieulturta College. The mixture consists of oue bushel each of wheat, oats and barley, and from 5 to 7 pounds of red clover seed per acre, About one month atter sowing the mixture, tvlien 6 or 7 inches of growth has taken place, 'the icattle may be turned into it, This pasture will carry about one steer per acre. Last year, which was exceptionally hot and dry, 77 head of cattle were Pastured on 34 acres of this annual pasture and 36 tares of permanent pasture from the last of May to Aug- ust 2.th, without feeding one pound of 'silage or other coarse feed, and growth of beef cattle and young stock were kept at normal during the entire period. On August 25t1u onedtalf the cattle were removed to other pasture, but the annual and ,permanent pas- ture was trafficient for the remaining cattle durIng the balance at tile sea' sou, Whether it pays to feed grain to cattle ou pasture is an oft debated question at farmers' Meetings. Cattle given gralu or meal certainly nave more finish, but It is doubtful wheth- er the klightly extra priceobtained for tire extra finish more then pays for the cost of the gralu, Foods are valued chiefly for the protein and starch or its equivalent they contain. The protein forms flesh or muscle and the starch forins fat and gives the animal energy to do work, A good pasture usually pro- vides enough protein, so that When supplementary feeds are given fatten- ing foods (that Is, Melds that are rieh In starch or its equivalent) should be given rather than foods that are very rich in protein, Protein -rich foods may be given as proteht coat also be converted into fat as Well as into flesh, but as a rule Mods that are ricue la protein are more expensive than those that are rich in sterol:, that is, protein normally Is dearer than starch. At present prices, how - 1 ever, as will be seen from our mark- et pages, feeds sach as cotton seed Meal and oil cake that are very rich In protein are °beeper reckoned both as a source of protein and of starch equivalent than corn and other foods that are rich rich in starch or car- bohydrates, As has been said, starch or its equivalent ie the chief food ,constitu- ent that nuts fat on the animal body, so that a fair way to compare foods Lor fattening purposes is on the basis of the amount of starch or its equiv- alentalent they contain. When ani- mals are fed a eeoperly balanced re - time, it has been found that theft pounds of stanch or its equivalent add. ed to a maintenance ration will pro- duce one pound of fattening increase. Expressing this in terms of corn we find that 3.6 pounds of corn if added to a maintenance ration would pro -- duce one pound of fattening increase. From this we might expect 3.6 pounds of cora when fed to cattle on pasture to produce one pound of grain, but practieal experience has shown that in some cases it will take from 6 to 8 pounds of corn or more to produce one pound of fattening increase under these circumstances, What is . the reason for this apparent discrepancy? The reason, no doubt, is that a steer fed a. grain -ration on vesture will not graze so closely and will not make such good use of the pasture, If no grain is fed the steer will fill himself up with grass and eat more than enough for maintenance, but when fed grain he eats less grass and some of the grain has to furnish the tor maintenance. Under average conditions we may reckon on from 6 to 8 'pounds of grain producing 1 pound of increase when fed on pas- ture. W Migrant selling for 2 1-3 cents per pound, this means that it will take from 15 to 20 tents worth of grain to produce 1 pound of gain. This meant that cattle must be Sell: Ing at $15 to $20 per hundredweight to return a profit on the grain fed. Prices for cattle are usually highest In the month of July, but even though they are at the present time about $3 per hundredweight more than last year, we do not expect choice steers to be selling for as high as $20 this coming July. Grain feeding may be profitable in some cases where price for feeding stuffs are not exorbitant, but withpresent prices grain can- not be profitably fed to steers on. pas- ture. -The Canadian Countryman. BRITISH OFFENSIVE ALONG VALLEY OF THE LYS RIVER That Is Where Gen. Haig Will Likely Con - We His Present Drive. All German Counter -Attacks Have Been So Far Heavily Repulsed: London, June 10.-Cottaterattta0ks of the Germans against the British army whieh captured Messines Ridge have on the whole been futile. The strongest one, reported by General Haig, broke down before midnight. it developed on a front of six mites south of Ypres, from St, Yves to the Comines Canal, just above St. Elol. It is expected that the Prussians will attempt to make a stand on this part f the canal three miles away. Cole fleeted with the Yser Canal above Ypre.s, it forms a waterway Meer across Belgium, crossing the frontier at Comines, half of which town is in Belgium and the other -halt in French territory. The section of the tenet north of the border still in Prussian hands is about six Miles long. The best military authorities here agree that the offensive will be push- ed further In Belgium along the valley of the Lys River, which- forms the boundary as far as Menden. to. ward Courtrai. Tide thrust would out - Clank the Prussian lines as fax as St. Quentin on the S011th, relieving Lille, Reubalx, Dottai and Gambrel Of course the Malt ObJect of the allies is and always has been not gain in territory; but the destracticrn of the Prussian army. As the right of this army rests on the North Sea and its left on the Swiss frontier, it cannot be surround- ed and captured in Its entirety as was the army of Napoleon flL at .Sedan, nor eat: it be antilhilated by a frontal attack. The only Way to do it is piecemeal -au advance lterta followed by an attack there, gradual. lY pushing back the .enemy at the greatest postible toot to him with the lettet expenditure of life on the part of the allies. This- involves- gain In territory. In Many eases, however, ground gained Is tot important secondary :Meet. The eapture of main reedit, railway beds, %nines, canals anti riv- ers are, all useful as facilitating one's own communications or depriving the enemy of them, Thus in the Lens coal distriet there are thirty produc- tive pits, of 'Which the allies have regained thirteen. Five of the latter are again in working order and deal Is being taken from- them . To gala more of this ground would certainly be advantageous. No doubt this was .one reason for the renewed 'attack south and north of Lens last night, which is reported In the British en, cial statement to -day, 13RITISH REPORTS. London, June 10, -The official re- port from British headquarters in France Sunday night read: "The enemy made no further counter-attacks south of Ypres, but his artillery continued active in this region. We carried out successful raids to -day south ot the Souchez River, The hostile artillery has been active in the neighborhood of Pon- taine-les-Groisillee. ."Six German aeroplanes were brought down yesterday In air fight - Ing; three othera were driven down out of eoutrol. Three of our aeroplanes are missing," The Sunday afternoon report said: "We gained further ground during the night at a uumber of points en out battletront 'south of Ypres, Sties cessful raids were carried out bY us last night southeast of Voehy, math of Armentieres- and northeast of Ypree. We captured 17 prisoners, . "Hostile raiding Parties ware re -- Pulsed east of Le Verguier and Muth. west of La 13assee." Saturday night's report reade: "Fixcept for artillery activity oti both sides the day passed quietly on the battlefront south of Votes, We have gained ground slightly on the right flank of our new positions. "The total umber of pristiaere tak- en by no Anon Thureday morning now exceeds 7,000. A great number of guns, Meet:tile gUns and trench mortars are still buried under the debris. "On the Searpe battlefronts we have improved our positions during the day in the neighborhood of Greenland Hill. "In the course of bombing raids carried out by oursaeroplenes against the enemy's railway stations Thurs- day night, a large accumulation of rolling stock containing ammunition was detonated by a big shell. Fires and explosions continued until dawn. "Yesterday three German aero- planes were brought down In the air fighting, and Sour others were driven down out of control. Six of our aero- phttles are missing, Two of those were lost as the result of a colli- sion during a fight with a, number of hostile machines over the enemy's lines." At 7 p.m, 'Friday evening, after liea,vy artillery preparation, the eueney launched a powerful counter- attack against nearly the whole of out front south a Ypres, from St. Yves to the north of the Ypres' Comins Canal, a distance of about six miles . The attack was delivered with large forces, compesed of fresh 'diva slots brought up from the enemy's reserves and was pressed with great determimation, Under the destruetive tire of our artillery and =Mine guns It was completely repulsed at all points. "The fighting was particularly fierce east of itlessines and also irt the n,eighborhoOd of Klein Zillebeke, north of the canal. By midnight the aneney's attacks had broken down with great lose all along the line. Our troops retained possession of the whole grotInd captured by no Since the commencement of the battle." TRENCH 11E130/yrs. Paris, June 10. -The official state- ment front the War Office Sunday night reads: "A spirited action by our artillery carried out in the sector of Nieuport- Baits, in. Belgium, caused heavy damage to the German trenches. "On the Chemin-des-Dames enemy detachments who had. gained a foot - lug in the morning by a surprise at- tack In a email salient of our line west of Cerny were immediately driven bolt. Pifteett prisoners, one of them an oftieer, remained in our hands. "in the period June 1-7 our avia- tors fought numerous rombate and brought down 21. enenty aeroplanes, the WI of which Was established, and two captive balloons which fell in times." Saturday afternoon's report said; "Violent artillery attiotte occurred last night at variolla POinta on tho! froat, eueectally in the vicinity of Craonite and Chevreux. German re- connoitring parties attempted to epproach oer lines :tear the Mee - Mae ntonatnent, northeast of Prunay nod on both banks of the. Meese, at Dead Man Mil and in (attrleres CENTRAL POWERS CLAIM TO HOLD NEARLY 3,000,000 WAR PRISONERS Wood. These efforts were wititOnt re - suit. "We carried on a surprise attack on the left bank of the Moselle, in the region of the Tbiaacourt railroad. Our detachments peaetrated a Ger- man trench at several points and in- flicted serious losses on. the enemY. They defamed Melton and, brought back a score of prisoners." Saturday niglit's report said: 'There was artillery fighting, o,t times quite spirited, southeast of St. Quentin and northwest of Braye- ensIetounale, waere all enemy surprIse attack Was eaelly repulsed, "Along the Chemin. des Dames, the Germans renewed their -efforts at my- eral points from our positions south of Main as far as the region east of Cerny While the artillery fight- ing was being continued with vio- lence in this whole sector, four sac- cessive attacks were made on a trench northeast of Cerny. The at- tacking troope were dispersed by our fire. Two surprlse attacks north of Froitimont Farm also -were repulsed, The ftemy sustained appreciable loss- es witliout obtaining the least re- mits," a- RUSS REJECTED HUN PEACE PLAN Offered by German Com- mander On Eastern Front. Soldiers' and Workers' Council Appeals to Army. Petrograd, June 10. -The Council of* Soldiers' and Workmen announces that the German commander-in-chief on the eastern front sent a wireless message inviting the Russian armies to a separate armistice and proposing that they enter into secret pourparl- ers with the German leaders. The council denounces the proposals. In the telegram, the council's an - Soldiers' delegates has in this con - wander proposed to show the arznies a way toward an honorable peace and a means 'of ceasing to wage war without a break with the Entente The Council of Workmen's and Sildiers' delegates has in this con- nection addreesed to the Russian army the following appeal: "The commander-in-chief of the German armies on the eastern front has sent to our troops a wieeless message proposing to indicate tb them a -way towards an honorable peace and a means for ceasing to wage war without a rupture with the sllies, The German general talks this Way because he knows that the Rus- sian revolutionary troops would re- ject with indignation any overt pro- posal for a separate peace. "That is why the enemy com- mander-in-chief invites our armies to a separate armistice, and proposes that we should enter into secret pourparlera with the German mili- tary Madera on the eastern front. In his wireless telegram the German general declares that a separate armistize does not offer Germany any advantage. But this is untrue, for in speaking of the inactivity of the German army on the Russian front, the German general forgets what Russia cannot forget, notably the Russian defeat on the Stokhod. The German general has forgotten that the Russian troops know whither the divisions and heavy batteries are being taken from our front. The German general has forgotten that we in Russia hear the sound of the bloody battles that are being fought on the Franco -British front. He has forgotten that Russia knows that the overthrow r) f her allies would mean the overthrow of Russia, and the end of her political liberty." Fruit Jars and other Glassware can easily be kept immac- ulate with Old Mutteh And remember, this cleanser never harms your hands Of These 45,241 Are British, 368,607 French, 2,0800699 Russian, Amsterdamn Cable.— Correspond - Mee of the Associated Pies)---AThe Central Powers now neld nearly 3,000,- 000 prisoners of war, according to of- ficial figures published In German neswpapers. Germany has 1,690,731 prisoners, in- cluding 17,474 officers; Atestria-Hun- garY, 1,092.055; BIligariee 67,682, and Turkey, 23,903, a total of 2,874,271 prisoners, of whom 27,620 aro officers. This total is made up or the following nationalities: Total In number. Gernattny. I:Waste:1 .. .,2,080,699 1,212,007 . • French ., • • • • 268,007 367,124 154,630 25,879 Italian .. - 98,017 none. Roumanian ,.. • 79,033 10,157 British .... ,... 45,241 33,129 Belgian " 42,437 42,436 Montenegrin , . , 6,607 none. The British prisoners of wet* not in Germany are divided between Bulgaria and Turkey. DR.XA.K. WITH HAITI. Demand On Hun Meets With a Dismissal. Amsterdam, Cable. vim London, Cable $.-The Haltien charge d'uffaIrs at 13er* lin has been handed his passports, ac* cording to a despatch from the (lemma capital. The Heiden diplomat had previously handed to roreign Secretary Zlmmermann a note proteating asainot. unrestricted submeirine warfare, and. de- manding compensation for losses caused to Haltten commerce and Mc. The note also asked for guarantees for the future. statement Witted by the Berlin Iroteign Office in regard to the inci- dent says: "As the demands were couched in an unusual form, and demanded fulfill:neat within n. 'period which would not allow even time for examination, the Imperial Government deemed it proper to hand At once the Charge d'Affaires this pass- ports." BRITISH RAID WAS HARD HIT ••••••••••.••••••.••• Canadian and Home Troops Inflicted Heavy Losses. New Record Made as to Pri- soners Taken. (By Stewart Lyon, Canadian Pree.s Correspondent With the Canadian Forces.) Canadian Army Headquarters, June 10.-A trench raid upon a scale much larger than ,any hitherto un- tertaken by Canadian corps wao moat euccassfully carried out during Friday night in the neighborhood of the Souchez river. Mter occupying the enenaytt first line and support trenches for two hours, in which time they were syes tematically wrecked, our met re. turned before dawn this morning to their former position. The plan of operations excluded the holding of any of tee ground oc- cupied, except some elements ot. trenchee between the Bole de Riau- mont and the Sanchez river at- tacked early in the evening, The deeired ground here wee obtained after a stiff fight. At this point the Souchez River had been damned oy the enemy with the objeet of pro, viding a strong defensive flank. The Canadiane, attacking from the soutb of the river. after hand-to-hand en- countere took the German treadles immediately to the north. The troops to the north had a very stile fight be, fore they reached their objective, the enemy Making full use of well- placed machine gun poeitions in the ruins of the houGee and rit heads Meng the line ot the advance, The ;1001 determination of our men brought them victory, and by ten o'clock the enemy trenches Were firmly held. The raid took place an hour and a half later on a front extending for more than two miles south et the Sonchez River. The artillery pre- paration was of a most thorough Gort. The bombardment had lasted several daye, and must, in conjunc- tion with the barrage applied before Lite assault, have Caueed the Germans meet .serlous lessee. When our met, following the barrage as it lifted, en- tered the German trenches they found many dead in them. Survivors were too panic-stricken to fight, and sur- rendered readily, but the machine gunners stuck to their poste, as they u lot alwaye do, and fought to the death, PUSHED ALMOST IN AVION, Desaite the resletabee organized around the German machine gun nest% eur men pushed on thrinigh La Goulette, and almost into the streets of Avian, a suburb of Lens. With the Canadian infantry Into the Germat line went men" carrying high explosives for use In the de- structionof dugouts and trenches, The Work of devastation went on simultaneously with the colleting of prisoliere and oft men WM:ruled,. At the appetinted thne our Met re- turned to their trenches bringing with their: several machine guns and Drieeners. The prieonem 'counted thie morning numbered 145. The raid, it le now knawn, resulted in the inflietiort of far more eerious losses co the enemy than at finet es. Waged, while our 0AM:titles Were relatively light, considering the nein- her of men engaged And the depth to whteh the enemy% positiou wan penetrated. In one section of the front, it le dated in the officita re- port, thirty dead were eounted and twelve peeonetu were taken by oft men, wham loasee Were only two killed and five wounded. If the witty Icett alorig the entire front waiti la the eame proportioti to oaf on thls small portion the raid Met have cost the Germans more easualties than thy affair on title part of the lite since the battle of Vimy Ridge, A new method of warfare,teed by the Canadiaes for the firat time, was the projection, before the Mean% 61 two hutidred drum: 'Of burnittg all Into part tif the enemy front. 110 not pennywise; tines lave wIttge and sometimes they fly away Of them. selves, sometimes they must be set flYitig to bring in More.-Ilikeon, CRISIS FACES TEUTON EMPIRE Ministerial Situation in Aus- tria is Hopeless. •••••••••••••••••••••••••.V Turkey 14 Looking to the Pope for Peace. Rome, June 9. - Reports are con- tinually arriving regarding the Inter- nal situation In Austria-Hunt:0', and the climax is expected to eozne In the next fortnight. There is slight helm of a Satisfactory settlement 01 the Ministerial situation, which, it UndulY Prolonged, will force the reaignation of the present members with the ad- iOnrmeent or the Reid:Brat. The Papal Nuncio at Vienna, de. clues that an improvement in the situation Is doubtful, and unforeseen developments are feared. The food shortage coatinues to aggravate the situation, Papal reports declare further that Turkey is looking toward the Pope for aid In an eventual Separate petite. The relations between the Holy See and Turkey have improved to such an extent that the Apostolic Delegate a,t Coustantinople has practteally as- sumed protection over the Allied prisoners held in Turkey. While re. quests from the Allied Governments to es nd food and elothing to the prisoners have been refused, when the same reituest was made by the Pope It was immediately gestated. The importance of the proclamation of the independence of Albania under Italy's protectorate cannot be over- estimated, despite the fact that only the southern section of Albania, ise under Italian occupation. It is evi- dent that the Allies already have de- cided to apply the prInciple of guar- anteeing the independence of small nations as a step toward a final solu- tion Of the vexed Balkan situation. ITALIAN FORCE SEIZES JANINA And Greek Cabinet Makes Formal Protest. ••••••••1111•1111•1••••••••••• More Activity Along Mace- donian Front, London, June 10. -The occupation by Italian troops of the city of Jan- ina, in northwestern Greece, is re- ported in a Reuter despatch from Athens. On receipt of this informa- tion at Athens the cabinet assembled to formulate a protest. Janina is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants, thirty miles east of the Albanian border and more than 100 miles belaw the battlefront in Mace- donia. In the last few weeks the Italians have been extending opera- tions from tneir base at the Albanian port of Avlona, taking over various southern Albanian and Greek towns. Last March Greece presented a note to Italy, insisting upon the withdraw - el of Italian troops from Epirus. Referring to the operations in the eastern theatre the French War Of- fice says:. Quite serious artIllery ac- tions occurred on Saturday, espeets ally on the right bank of the Vardar and on the Serbian front. Aviators wer active on both sides, there be- ing several aerial engagetnents on the Italian front. British aviators bom- barded Sevjar northwest of Seres, A Bulgarian ofacial report from the Macedonian front, issued on Sun- day, says: "The enemy's artillery was active near the Gerna bend and on the Dobropolje. There was aerial activ- ity along the whole front "Several ships conducted a bom- bardment of an hour of the town and surroundings of Kavala (in north- eastern Greece on the Aegean Sea) and the coast near Sarichaban (011 the Mesta River east 'of Kavala.)" eater VICTORIA CROSS TO 5 CANADIANS Heroes Granted Highest Military Decoration For Deeds of Valor On the Battlefield. Lnndon, June 6. -Five Cattadians are included in the list of thirty soldiers awarded the Victoria Cross, Captain Tbait W ,Maedowell, a B. A. of Vic - torte, College, enlisted at Ottawa in 1916. With the astistance Of two oth- ers he captured two machine gun, be- sides two °Mere and 76 men, end con- tinued to hold the position for five days, although wet:laded. Sergt, Ellis W. Siam, seal Of an Elgin farmer. near Walia,cetown, charged a. Machine-gun and single- handed kited all the 4reut. Ile then held oft an enemy party advancing down it treneh until British troops ganied the position, In carrying out this gallaat act he was killed after having saVe&rnanY lives by his con- spicuous valor. Lieut. 9', M. Harvey, of Medicine Hat, attached, to the Stratheond Horse, ran ahead of his Men, jemped into an elienly tretch, shot down ma- chine 1p:inters and eaptured gut:. 'Ito, Wm. Johnston Milne (42706), of Moose Jaw, killed creW of machine gun with bombs aud eaPtured the gun in first German, line: on line retort:l- ing he again Iftated raeOther Machine gun and stalking the ftecend gun as be had done the first, be sr:Needed in putting wend erew Out of actIon and eaptering the gun, Re wart kill. ed Shortly after capturing the seton4 gun. ."alajer rrederiek Lumsden, Marin* Artillery, brought into the linos under heavy fire, sbc enemy field guns. 'Aron bachelors don't know what you miss." said the married Men. "Weil, We have the Satisfitetlet: of knowing that 'whet We Miss lep't lifted from our pocket while Vat ere asleep," ertorte4 the bachelor,