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RUSSIANS SWEEP ONWARD
THROUGH EASTERN GALICIA
c' Heavy Captures of Positions, Guns and Men
From the Austrians.
Three Great Results Follow Gen. Koroiloff's
Big Offensiye,
Petrograd, July 15.—Attac1s yes-
terday by the Ruseian troops in the
Lodziany region southwest of Ka-
lusz, in Eastern Galicia, reelateaIn
the Anstriens losing their positions,
1,000 men in prisoners, and a number
of guns,. the War Office announced to -
lay. kisewnere the Russians held
their ground against attacks, and
took more than 600 additional prisons
ers,
THE °prim:AL REPORT.
The Petrograd War Office state-
ment follows:
"Western front: On the lower
Loeunica artillery fire has taken
-
place,
"-Southwest of Kalusz the eneneY
several times attacked our troops,
whim were occupying the volsrovctiany-
Novice front, All* the attacks were
repulsed. As a result of the battles
in this region we captured sixteen
officers and more than 600 of the rank
and file.
"In the region of Lodziany (18
miles southwest of Kalusz), as the
final result of a series of stubborn
attacks, our troops have driven the
Austrians from their positioas and
have taken more than 1,000 prisoners
and a number of guns.
"At the crossing of the River
Lomnica, near Perehinsko the enemy
ie conducting an offensivewith the
object of throwing our detachments
back to the right bank of the Loin -
nice.
"Our offensive on the Slivkiirisen
front is meeting with -stubborn resist -
ince from the enemy.
"In consequence of heavy mins, the
Rivers Lomnica and Dniester are
_rapidly rising, and the small streams
which ruin into them will soon turn
into rivers and cause the roads in their
neighbathood to be inundated.
"Ou the remainder of this front
there is nothing to report.
"Roumanian front: The situation
unchauged,
"Caucasus front: In the direction of
Van our scouts have driven back the
enemy's advance guards on the left
bank of the river Arish-Darasi, ten
versts west of Vastan. Our advance
detachments dislodged the Turks from
the region north of Serdesh and
from the heights 20 versts southwest
or Van.
"On the Black Sea one of our sub -
'marines sank two laden schooners in
the Bosphorus region."
A NOTABLE DRIVE.
Gen. Kornileff's magnificent drive
through:Galicia is arousing the won-
der and admiration of all military
observers here. In less thau a week
lie has made a westward advance of
forty miles south ot the Dniester,
while north of that river•he has held
all of last week's gains and is rapidly
pushing on toward Lemberg by four
routes . Every railroad in ehe south-
eastern quarter of a circle about the
Galician 'capital is in hie hands.
Three results have been obtained be
the Russian' armies in this region.
First, a wedge has been driven be-
tween the Preesians, under General
von Bothmen and the Austrian forces
:under Gen. von Kilted:I., Their only
communication is now by a circuitoue
routo through Kleine and then to
the, uortheast of the Galician capital.
Of course the Prussians can pour
reinforcements into Lemberg directly
from Germany, but. the trench front is
broken for more than seventy mile
and Russian cavalry is pouring
through this wide gap, closely follows
Ing the rapidly retreating Austrians.
The second result gained by Gen.
Korniloff is the separation of the Anti-
trian forces north of the Dniester from
those south of it by the speedy ad-
vance of Russian troops along bola
banks of the river. At the same time
the Ruesians are moving on Lemberg
in the direction of Floczow on north,
from Brzezany on the centre, from
Halicz toward Rohatyn and Chodoroff
on the southeast and from Stanislau
south of the Dniester along the Dolina-
Stryj Railroad. In this latter direction,
it is{ annoenced, they bave ceossed the
Sista River, captured Krechovice and
are marine T)olina, where the railroad
tarns north to Stryi.
Y 1) GE (IRO WS 3P.143E011,
Premier leloyd George expressed re-
gret (a the resignation of J. Ansteie
eillatuberlaiu, Seeretary for ludia. He
was surprised at to action or tho
Secretary, but it was part of the sene
Sate° honor that anintated all Mr,
Chamberlain's InetlYes.
The Prentice added that every at
-
tenable remedy had been applied to
Meet the deficienciea in the system
which called forth the Mesopotamia
report. As affectiug individuals, the
point wise whether they Made the best
of the system with which they had to
work. If they were guilty, pttnislament
ought to follow, but before being pun-
• ished they were entitled to a fair and
impartial judicial review of the
fads.
The soldiers concerned' were legal-
ly entitled to a full investigation and
nobody could doubt that civilians
were entitled to the same protection
as soldiers. Mr. TelOyd. George tiaought
that the enquiry suggested by the
Government was the best method, but
if the House of lOotnmons desired a
statutory enquiry the ,(lovernment
would acquiesce.
The Government did not desire to
shield anyone responsible for the ter-
rible catastrophe in Mesopotamia,
the Premier declared, but he Was
bound. to point out that for the bet-
ter part of three or four days, the
Army Council, chiefs of the army
and the War •Cabinet, and both
Houses of Parliament, had been ex,
gaged in discussing, methods which
had eothing to do with the practical
prosecution of the war, and. all this
time events upon which the whole
future of civilizatioa depended were
happening. In conclusion, Mr. Lloyd -
George begged the House to realize
its responsibilities and to urge and
help the Government to get on with
the war.
CALUMNY, DECLARiES ASQUITH.
Former Premier Asquith, who pre-
ceded Mr. Lloyd George in the de-
bate, branded as vile calumny the
suggestions that the military situation
had been subordtnated to politicel as-
pirations when the advance upon Bag-
dad was decided upon, Mr. Leiquith
asserted he could remember no case
in which there was .such complete
agreement on strategic and military
Policy. Had the Government over-
ruled Gen. Nixon and vetoed the plans
for the advance, they would have been
accused of being aimed to take the
risks or Assume the initiative.
Art,fter reading the Mesopotamia re-
peMr. Asquith concluded there had
been no doubt that there had been
mismanagement and that the guilty
should be punished, but first they
were entitled to a fair, judicial trial.
Then -Premier Lloyd George spoke,
after which the subject was dropped
and the House arose without making
any decision.
STATUTORY TRIBUNAL.
Although the House of 'Commons
adjourned to -day without making a
decision. 'it is virtually certain that
the Government will introduce into
Parliament a bill to set up a statutory
tribunal to investigate the elesopo-
tamian charges.
At the resumption of the debate
to -day, Andrew Boner Law, •Chancel -
tor of the Exchequer and Government
leader of the House, explained that
the Government assumed that the
sense of the House favored this
course, and unless the opinion was
altered by the course of the debate
to -day, the Gotiernment • would Move
to adopt the proposed statutory tri-
bunal.
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from Bultowina lest autumn, the
elussians having been obliged to Bend
seinforeemente to Stiffen the ltoue
maniau lines and prevent the eutire
absorption of that country by the
reutons and Mapes. Nov it has
been resumed, and the eutiro region
aetween the Bystritza and the Lom-
nice is held by the Russians, who
threaten to sweep over the whole ol
halicia as they did before.
'The Bystritza was crossed on Sun-
day, and before nightfall both
Jezupol and Clezov, ten miles fur-
ther to the southwest, were occupied
and the Reagan cavalry had. reached
the Lukva„ half way between the By-
stritza and the Lomnica. From the
front they advanced the next • day
along the railway 'Which rum from
Haliez to Lemberg, by Way of Stryj,
and which ercsses the Dneleter 40
mile; further up the stream. Then
Halicz fell; but not before there had
been severe fighting in the villages of
Payelohe and Pacykov, in which the
Russian lessee. were considerable.
The capture of 'Kalusz, lately the
Austrian army headquartere, fol-
lowed.
Those who would contrast the ra-
pidity of the Russian movements
With the leisurely progress on the
western front ehould remember that
in the east the teenehes are neither
,n) deep nor so strongly corastructedi
and there are no underground for-
tresses, gun emplacements and dug-
out e for reserves Gael' as are very
frequent in France and Belgium,
The fighting is and always has been
nitwit more open and the use of cav-
alry less impeded.
FOE IN .CRITICAL POSITION.
Owing to' the rapidity of General
Kornioff's advance tbe Austrian erm-
ine both north a,nd eouth of the
Dnieoter, are in a critical poeitioia.
From the Tarnopol -Lemberg rail-
way they are being driven southward,
and from the Stanislau-Stryj rallwaY
northward into gradually narrowing
space centering at Lemberg Reath
Should either the northern or the
southern armies reach Lemberg be-
fore the Austrians, the latter would
be forced to surrender as the only
alternative to annihilation.
Such a disaster would portend tbe
complete collapee of Austria as a
fighting force, and the power that be-
gan the world war. first prompted by
Prussian intrigue, and then falling
completely under the domination of
Prussia, would be obliged to beg for
peace on any terms.
RUSSIANS WELL ARMED.
'Copenhagen, July .15. — While the
Austrian and German semi-official
diecuersions continue to treat the Rus-
sian successee south• of the Dneleter
River a of an unimportant and local
nature and caually call towns like
Halicz hamieto, the Tageblatt's cor-
respondent at Austrian headquarters
says it is idle to deny that the offen-
sive has passed the stage of initial
successes and that the front north of
the Dneieter is affected by the "deci-
sive changee south of the river."
Neither Lemberg nor Kovel is yet
threatened, says the correspondent,
but the.Reeelan advance is moving in
the direction of the important petro
loam field at Drohobycz, southwest
of Lemberg. He adds it is now clear
that the revolution has affected the
offensive power of the Russian army
less than had been believed and that
the army is better equipped with
heavy artillery than ever before.
PEACE HOPE SHATTERED.
Third and even more important is
the moral advantage gained. It has
chattered tbe Prussian hope of a
eeparate peace, and in turn is shaking
the political constitution of the
Kaiser's autecratic Government, while
at tho same time it is encouraging
the allies, who look upon the Russian
offensives as another assurance of
final victory. •
Ort the south the activity extend(
almost to the Carpathians, fifty mulee
southwest of Halicz, Capture of the
latter town marked a distinct phase
Of the operations againet the Galician,
capital unite) as threatening as the
attack from Brzezany and along the
Tarnopol-Zioczow line farther north.
Ever since last September the Rue
elate have been looking &Mu On
Haliez front the site of its capturei
forte on the hilis on the north bank
of the Dniester. The Austrians held
the south bank, the town and a
bridgehead, which gave them coin-
munication with the station on the
railway to Lemberg. Tile Russian
treat crossed the Dniester eight miles
further down •the river, itear the eon -
fluence of the. Ilystritza, on which
Stanislau is situated.
General Korniloff, instead of at-
tacking front the north of the river.
pushed on from the vicinity of
Mariampol, capturing lezupel, en tit'
Ltikert River, twelve miles. helot
Hance:, and then by a rapid tumble
inevement to the north attaeked the
town in the rear. uber 11 WitS itIOSt
exposed. Tho Ansi rians e el Ile
evacuated 11. and ref red tell weete tied
toward the, tonniea Myer, an eseape
to the Mini haying been Mitered
impossible by the Itussiati
alone the whole line' lastween the
Inn tee ter 0 ft 11 t110
THREATEN TO SWEEP GALICIA
It wail the TiOmeitiminn eampaign
ilnit held nit U. roetiteen
anvo
MESOPOTAMIA
• REPORT WAS
UNDER FIRE
Asquith Denies Military Sit-
uation Subordinated
to Political.
TO INVESTIGATE
Statutory Tribunal to
Set Up to Probe
Charges.
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TREAT WOMEN
WORSE THAN MEN
Belgian Lady Tells of Fier
Country's Woes.
Over 20,000 Imprisoned in
Past Year.
London Cable—When the debate
on the Mesopotamia report. was re-
sumed in the House of Commons to-
day Sir Archibald Williamson, a mem-
ber of the commission that investigat-
ed the Mesopotamian campaign, de-
fended its findings. Full justice could
not be done to the report, he said,
Without considering the -evidence upon
which the commission acted and the
details when published would deepen:
the sad impression created by the re-
port.
It was unfortunate, Sir /Archbald
declared that the conimissiou should
be held up to obloquy as if it had
gene out of its way to do inittstice to
the Men ealled beton it. He defied
any man to derive the same result
from the Mesopotitinict report as con-
tained in the nesespaper version of it.
The COMMiShiOn had been unable to
bring in a white-Washieg report such
as was expected by certain sectiOne
of the press.
lOol. Aubrey Herbert, who had been
inMesopotamia where he arranged
the exchange of prisoners after the
capture by the Turke of Gen, ToWn-
shenens troops at Kut, said, in speak-
ing on the debate, that all recriminti-
Hoe was a waste of time, and time
was vital in ever. Ile thought that the
optintiMit of General Sir John Nixon,
forniew mainlander of the British for.
ces itt Mesopotamia, was JUstified,
and that the trial by the newspapers
or the military leaders Was an ignoble
epeotaele, as they were being judged
by iitibeegiletit events, after having
lone their beet for the Einpire.
(Through iteuter's Ottawa Agency.)
"London Cable—In an Interview
given to a representative of Reuter's,
a Belgian lady, who .-stieceeded in es-
caping, through the electric frontier
wire into Holland, ehVes a vivid plc-
ture of the terrible fate ot Belgian
women in the oectipied territory. S'he
asserts that the treatment of the wo-
men ds worse than that of the men.
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HOW A SUCCESSFUL DAIRY FARMER MAKES MONEY
Mr, D. C. Flatt Breeds Rolsteins Second to None Re Grows Cheap Roughage and
Buys Concentrates When They Are cheapest—Produces Pure
Milk With Milking Machine.
A (meeker at the Itlatitern Dairy -
Convention, held at Napalm
laBt January, Bale that the trouble
with ton many live stock mea was
that, although they were good cattle
breeeers, they were poor farmers.
This ineY be true of sOnne breeders,
but it ig certainly not true of there
all, Rarely has the writer seen so
fele a collection of Holstein cattle in
one herd, and Verys seldom has he
seen mere striking evidences of good
farming (all all that goes with it)
than on Mr, D, 0, Flatt's farm ia Mill
-
grove, six miles out of Hamilton.
Mr, Platt is it feeder as well as 4
breeder. He has two large silos, and
the day we were there (June 13) we
found the cattle knee deep in clever
pasture. Tho farm cousists or 223
acres and a throe year rotation of
clover, corn and oats is followed, Mr,
Platt is a strong believer in clover,
and sows it wherever possible, "I
(From the Canadian Countryman.)
Feed Bill," in wbieli we Stated that
at present Delete; for feeding stuffs
silage was worth about $4 per ton for
the food nutrientg it coatained, but
that when dts palatability and maces
lency were taken into consideration,
that it was worth about $5.60 per ton
when milk sold for $2 per hundred.
"I read the article on corn that you
had in The Countryman this spring,"
said Mr, FIRM "and seeing that Eur-
eka corn yielded better than any oth-
er variety, I bought 15 bushels of
seed and planted 22 eeres of it this
spring. The first plauting was done
on May 17, and it has already re-
ceived its first cultivation, So far I
am more than pleased with it." The
day we were at the farm (June 13) it
was up about .five inches and gave
every promise of yielding a bumper
crop,
The varieties of corn that I had
been in the habit of growing," •contin-
Rarely have we seen a herd of such uniformly high quality as that of Mr,
Flatt. Not only are they extraordinary heavy milk producers, but they
would hold their own anywhere as show cows.
seed down every !crop I can with red
clover," said Mr. Platt, "and at the
present time 125 acres of the 223
acres of tho farm is seeded down
with clover, ' Clover does two things,
It enriches the soil with ntrogen, and
thus pute it into better condition to
grow other crops, and it furnishes a
first-class feed for the cattle. The
cattle are up to their knees now in
clover pasture, and feeding them this
way pays. I am not feeding any grain
at present to even the heaviest milk-
ing caws—not even to cows which
give as much as 90 pounds of milk per
day."
Most feeders give at least some
grain to the heaviest milking cows
even when they are on the best of
pasture, but as • clover is richer in
flesh forming constittfents (protein)
and energy -giving nutrients (starch
or its equivalent) than. the ordinary
pasture grasses, Mr. Flatt's practice
Is based on sound saientific principles
"There are about two months of
every year that the cattle do not get
grain," continued ear, Platt, "but
when the pastures begin to dry up I
feed not only grain but silage as Neel',
We never let the cows go down in
their milk flow through lack of feed.
We sow a mixture of peas and oats
to be used during the hot months of
'July and August as green feed, and
also uee corn for the same purpose."
Asked if he had had any trouble
with clover sickness, Mr. Flatt • re-
plied: "No, we follow a definite ro-
tation of crops and up till the present
Lime have had no difficulty in getting
a good catch of clover each time. We
do not grow altalla, as our soil is too
During the pas:t year 20,000 women,
she declares, have been thrown into
prison on flimsy pretexts. Sometimes
they are released after weeks and
months of inipreseame.nt without any
explanation. Scarcely a fortnight
elapaes without some woman being
shot. The Germans will not tolerate
any eammunication with Belgian sol-
diers, whether censored or not, and
only in ase 01 death do the old peo-
ple hear of their son's fate, for the
'Belgian casualty lists are regarded as
good German propaganda.
It is still not generally known that
the slave raids include young Belgian
girls. Nearly one hundred 13elgian
women and children were interned at
Holzminden, where they 'were tom'
pelted to live in huts evith Russtan
and Polish prostitutes. Illegitimate
births -are frequent. A prostRute has
been appointed superineendent of the
Camp, At Oberbrook several hundred
Belgian women refused to ‘vork
Zeppelin covers, 'nut after being
starved for a few days they had no
alternative but ea resuree worrc.
Tan lady 'concluded by 'describing e
Scene which occurred at the gate of
Hasselt Prison last month. A young
peasant woman, the usether (if five
• children, asked the authorities to be
allowed -to see her husband. She was
politely told she •cOuld not 'nee hifii
that day, but if she eame back the
next •clity site 'would be allowed to see
hint. The woman with high hopes
• that her husband was going to be re-
leased, arriVed at the gate neia day.
She was limeediately admitted, and
without further explanation the mead
gave iter a belittle of clothes, Her
inshand had 'been shot the previous
night.
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BELGIANS MURDERED.
London, July l5.—The Echo de
Beige is, quoted in a Central News
despatch from Amsterdam to the. °f-
• loot that fifty-ciAlit persons wart con-
: delnlied to death at Antwerp, and fif-
teen sli_ot011 July It
Ainotig them, the ilea:manor :ewe,
Were three nistere. alio wore itemised
of smuggling lettere.
A disli rinser, hi the torn of ft
broad spray attached to the liet water
faucet, instantly and thoroughly
• rinnes a large pan of 4i1tes.. The
:pray b civet:ear in (twee, owl ifs
eetife,r I:; irt f.1111•Pf.
light for it, although on heavier types
of soils I have no doubt of an excel-
lent. crop. We have not tried Sweet
clover, though we hear good reports
of it, In my opinion sweet clover will
never replace alfalfa. So far as I
have obeerved-, sweet clover's strong
point is that it provides pasture ear-
lier than alfalfa, and it Is as a pasture
crop that sweet clover excels. If it
is used for hay it must be cut early
as it rapidly ' becomes coarse and
woody, and if allowed to reach this
condition makes but inferior hay."
, Although Mr. Platt has been pas-
turing his cattle for years on clover,
he never has any trouble with bloat.
When he first turns the cattle out in
the „spring he takes care that the
clover is not wet with rain or dew,
and he only leaves them in the pas-
ture for a short time.
This year only about four acres
are itt roots. Mr. Platt likes roots for
cows tint are on test, but says that
he is going out of roots as he finds
thet ho can get more feed per rare by
growing corn and at considerably less
cost. He is a corn enthusiast, and
thinks there is nothing like it for pro-
ducing milk at a low cost. Ile feeds
cm the average about 40 pounds per
head per day, but a cow on test- gets
about the same quantity of roots as
wet,
our issue of April 28 we had an
article on growing corn for silage,
entitled, "Grow Corn and Reduce the
ued Mr. Platt, "were Wisconsin No.
7 and Learning, From the table you
gave in the Paper the Eureka variety
does not mature quite as early as
some of the other varieties, but gives
Lar and away the greatest, yield of
green corn. My idea in feeding silage
is to give succulence to the ration,
and if I can get the yield I do not
mind even if the corn is not quite as
rich in 'food nutrients as the earlier
maturing but poorer yielding varieties
If I want caneentrates I buy them,
and do not expect silage to take tieeir
place,"
Mr. Flatt buys n large quantity of
feeding stuffs. Seine of the feeds he
buys are oil cake, cotton eeed meal,
bran and dried brewers' grains. We
heartily recommend his system of
buying to our readers. In fact, it is
the only way to buy to advantage.
Feeding stuffs are cheapest during
the mouths of Juno and July, and
these are the months when Mr. Platt
buys his winter feed. He is not in
the dairying business—to use it slang
expression—for the sake of his health
and so he buys when he can buy the
cheapest
"Last sunnier," said Mr. Platt, "I
bought my winter's supply of bran in
July for $18.19 a ton. During the win-
ter bran was selling for as high as
$43 per ton, so you can see what a
RAN AMORE,
Big Norse Steamer a Wreck
at Cape Race,
being 0001011 immediately it is drawl)
from the eow and kept at a low term
perature until it is delivered to the
consenter. The intik is tested by the
Hamilton Health authorities, and the
stables end milk utensils are regular-
ly inspected. Last time they were
inspeetecl they scored 99 per cent.
The herd is entirely free from tuber -
cultists, for width they are tested. at
frequent Intervale. The cowlil are
milked by machine.
"Many people claim that you can-
not get pure milk when the milking
is done with a maceine," said Mr
Matt, "but this has not been my ex-
perience. The proof of the pudding la
in the eating of it, and the fact that
wo scU ail our milk as "Baby Spe-
cial" at 18 ceats a quart should con-
vince even the most • Skeptical: that
pure milk eaa be preduced when a
milking machine is used." We may
say in passing that Mr. Flatt's °vi-
de -lite on the matter is in agreement
with experiments carried on •at the
Ontario Agricultural College. Here,
without adopting any unusual pre -
'cautions, they were able to produce
milk, when the milking was done by
machine, with a bacterial count of
8,000 to 10,000 per cubic centimetre.
When we state that Milk has as
many bacteria as from 250,000 to
500,000 per eubic centimetre is recog-
nized by the Toronto Health Authori-
ties as fit for human consumption, it
is evident that pure milk can be pro;
aimed pracicelly as easily when the
milking is done by machine as when
it is done by hand,
"The great thing in.using a milking
machine," continued Mr. Platt, "is to
keep it and all the parts scrupulously
clean. The trouble with many people
is that they do not give the machine
proper attention, After milking is
dein the metal parts of the machiue
are thoroughly washed and. scalded,
and tho rubber tubes and teat 'cups
after washing are immersed in a dis-
infectant solution 'specially kept for
the purpose, After using a milking
machine for a number of years,. I am
convinced that if the machine is a
good one to start with and docis not
give satisfaction, the trouble is not
with the machine, but with the man
who runs it. Our machine hasthree
units, which milks the 28 cows that
we are milking at the present time in
about an hour and a quarter, One
man runs the . machine, while the
other strips the cows."
Mr, Platt has about 100 head of
cattle and both from the point of view
of usefulness and of beauty they
would hold their own in any kind of
competition. Jenny Bonerges Ormsby
is a cow of great size and capacity.
She is ten years old but looks like a
three-year-old. She is giving at the
present time under ordinary condi-
tions 93 pounds cf milk per day. She
is the only cow that has given over
thirty pounds of butter a week for
five years in succession. She has had
nine celves and is milking better than
ever,
Daisy Mottle Beauty, weighing, we
would estimate, about 1700' pounds, is
a typical dairy cow, She had a bull
'calf by a son of Lulu Keyes who gave
122.8 pounds of milk per day and over
316 pounds of butter fat in a week.
This cow as a four-year-old gave 31
pounds of butter fat averaging about
10.0 pounds of milk per clay. The dam
Anotber of Mr. Flatt's beauties. Observe the straight top line and the V-
shaped body of the typical dairy cow. Utility and quality are combined in
this cow to an extraordinary degree.
saving I effected. I bought some oil
Cake at tht same time for $32.50 per
ton. and since then it has 'been sell-
ing at from $50 to $55 per ion, This
year 1 ba,ve already bought some
dried brewers' grains for $31 per ton.
Some farmers do not buy feed during
the summer, as they are afraid it will
not keep, My experience has been
that bran, and the other feeding stuffS
will keep indefinitely it :stored in bags.
Bran and other foods do not keep
well, however, if stored loose, as they
tend to become mouldy,"
All the milk on the farm is all
shipped to Hamilton and sold as
"Baby Special" milk, This milk is
produced in a strictly sanitary way,
1GRIM BATTLE
I TO THE DEATH
St, John's Nfld., July I5.—'Tho Nor.
eying 1,200 passengers, went ashore to-
wegian steamship Kiletitintifjord, cur -
day near Cape Itace, the eouthernmosi
point Of Newfoundland. All passengers
were landed safely at Portugal (love,
and will be brought to this city by
train, Several steamers left here tide
afternoon to aid the ihrietiaitinfjord,
a vessel or more Omit 10.000 tons. No
rurther details of the mishap hare
bearinge during
berernhereicieelevred.
iest her
the night in a heavy rainstorm, which
was accompanied by fog.
As there is no accommodation at the
landing place for any large fawner of
nersons, prompt measures were taken
o haste the rescued passengers brought
rasin
Sfrom this Pert and
tt etellvices 1411 eety baiyin iterG v
eminent steamer
Stanley, which was reached by wire-
iese at sea, have been despatched to
the assistance of the stranded liner,
Wireless despetchos from the Kris-
tianiafjora indicated that She Was
badly damaged.
.••
of Daisy Mottle Beauty gave 20,800
pounds of milk in a year's test and
was milked only twice daily.
Royalton Canary Echo, a daughter
of P. Deirol Violet, has given 17,000
pounds of milk in one year. She is a
cow of outstanding quality and has
exceptionally well developed milk
veins. She has a bull calf whose
sire's dam was the famous Lulu
Keyes,
Ardellia DeKol Tensen as it junior
twoyear-old made a world's record by
giving 19 pounds of butter fat in one
week 19 months after freshening, She
and her four sisters are without doubt
'tiees eliven eetepeuaeottoo si eeirenb su
the finest group of Holsteins, so far
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HUNS DESTROY
BIG LENS MINE
'Feared Canadians Would
Capture It, If They Delayed.
Our Artillery's Skill in
• Counter -Work ShoWn,
(I3y Stewart Lyon, Canadian War Cor-
eeeliondeet With the Canadian
Forces.)
Cauadian Ilenchintarters in France,
July 15.—Ear1y 011 Sciterday morning
seven load eeplosimis Were heard in
Lens. and 'Winn day broke a great
cloud of smOke still hung above the
city. The n1)101011:4 were not :caused
by nee artillery, and meet. hese here
the work of the enemy. Some, it not
all of them, stare dtte toethe blowing
1111 a iiiieoverbead machinery of Mille
No 13 hitherto one •of the most eon -
stilettoes featitree of the landscape in
the met end Of Lens. The enemy has
been unable to raise coal frem hib
nine bemuse of t1te. t�Xistti1it atioll 1ire
to whielnit lion been enbieeted lately.
Peering, 4110t he might have to eviteu-
etc iu tt Ione: 11,".•
thoroughly destroyed the mine while
Utero was yet time to do so. The
mine machinery now lies in a tangled
fantastic ruin, where It Was thrown by
the explosions.
Our attack upon Lens has resolved
itself into a fierce and long -continued
artillery duei. The enemy has add-
ed greatly to the number of his ac-
tive battalions. Our gunners have no
sinecure In outfacing this great con-
centration and preventing the enemy
from "shooting up" our infantry po-
sitions, which are now scattered about
in various mining villages forining
the suburbs of Lens, instead of out
on the open plain, as during the
period of ottr advance toward the city,
The Cena,ditin artillery has become
thoroughly profieleut by mech prae-
tice in counter -battery work. The re-
sift of 24 hours' operations was thus
efficiently described in yesterday's re-
port:
"Out of mciny shoots with aeroplane
observotioa, 16 have been StleeeSsful.
Three of the enemy s positions were
ilo Inueli damaged that the individual
gun pits are no longer illetinguishable.
Nino other pits were bit :red three
were tleet mired. exploelons
wore eauevd, mei env fire, whet).
17 ' item"
That la the teree official report of
one day% diork among teeny. The
experienees of the German gunners,
1 ' et. et! md to new) their
elms in action enthl a rain vf fiery
!toroth failthe intend 11)1 11, meet he
Midreirable.
CONNAUGHT AT VIMY.
Duke Visits the Canadians
On Battle Ground.
FRENCH MADE
HEAVY GAINS
IN CHAMPAGNE
And Germans Lost Mayfly
Later in Futile Counter -
Attacks.
BRIIISH AIR RAIDS
Much Damage Done Enemy
Posts—Runs Lost
Air Battle.
illy 'Stewart Lyon, Canadian Press
Correspondent With the (lama -
(Ilan Forces.)
Canadian Headquarters in France,
,Inly 15.-1'lis Royal Highness, the
Duke of Connaught, has been paying
a net to the Canadian Corps. Dar-
ien his shy he climbed Vimy Ridge
and lookett over the lean of Douai
toward Lena The ex -Governor-
General of Canada also iiispected
mine of the Dominion's troops, in.
chiding a detachment of the Princeee
teatricia's regitnent, which earrtsd
the colors; the Princess herself em-
broidered and presentee to the unit
before it left ''.3ttaw0 late in le14, It
:
sestat:itclloiitb. at the alitriciaes tbo
only regiment carriee its teller:,
ilit,n
Before le:seise; Ilk Royal
w the itteeeed peel halide et feel
corpa on parade and heard the pipers
play the "Retrait." whiell is sonne
Wile tee eneive will never lieer. •
She -1 lineen't a thine to wear, Ito
--Quiche leonine - emelt for 0, fathion
plete% awl rpm P•rt ule.' • made!
oN THE eu E
British Regiment's Reroic
Stand On the Sands
of Belgium.
WERE WIPED OUf
German Attack Was a Little
Messines, With Plans
Reversed.
London, July 15,—The French and
the Germans along the Chemin-des-
endues and in Champagne have conic
i.ogether iu mighty struggles, in which
the advantage rested mainly with the
forces of Gen, Petain.
In Champagne to the north of Mont
Haut and, northeast of the Teton tht
French in a violent attack captured
powerfully organized German trench
elements on a front of more than 800
yards and to a depth of more than 300
yards, and held and consolidated the
positions despite isna,yy counter-at-
tacks, itt which the Germans sattered
neavy casualties and lost in addition
J60 men made prisoner.
Along- the Chemin-des-Dames the
Germans west of Corny Saturday
night, after heavy artillery prepara-
tion, threw heavy forces against : the
French line. The battle waged back
and forth throughout the night, but,
although the Germans broke tbrougu
tbe French line at several points, day-
light saw them completely evicted ex-
cept frene front -lino trenches about
50u yaeds in length. The Berlin War
Office claims the capture of 350 pri-
soners in the fighting.
FRENCH REPORTS,
Paris, July 15.—The official state-
ment issued by the 'War Office to-
night reads:
'With the assietance of artillery
fire or several hours' duration, the
Germans"last night delivered a pow-
erful attaelt titan the salient of Our
hue west of _Cerny. Very violent
fighting continued all night, with al-
ternate advances and requirements. In
epite of the, large enemy effectiees
and of the intensive use of liquid
fire, the assailants were finally eject-
ed from the support trench wbieb
they had penetrated, and wereable
to retain only elements of the first
illtieteres.upon e)
a front of about ell
u
"The artillery activity was like-
wise lively in the sector or Craonne.
"In the Champagne, after important
artillery preparations, our troops
at 7.25 p. m., attacked the German
positions at two points of the front.
Conducted with exceptional_ vigor,
the attacks were successful in at-
taining all the objectives. North of
the Mont Haut and on the slopes
northeast of the Teton, our soldiers
gave proof of their spirit by captur-
ing to a width of 800 metres and to
a depth of 300 metres; the network
of powerfally organized enemy
trenches. The Germans reacted viol-
ently,their counter-attacks follow-
ing each other the remainder of the
night. All failed andel, our fire
with heavy losses, or after hatal-to-
band fighting. The positions captur-
ed Were completely maintained. The
prisoners number e60; including nine
officers. Gatherings of enemy troops
for relief wege taken under fire by
our artillery and strongly harrnssed.
"On the left bank of the Meuse
(Verdun sector) the night was
marked by very heavy artillery ac-
tions in the region of Hifi 304 and
Dead Man's 'TIM. West of Dead
Mat's Hill we :repulsed . an enemy
attack. In the AVoeOUrt Wood there
was great patrol activity. We made
prisoners, On the right bank, en-
emy reconnaissance parties attempt-
ed to reach our linas at the extrem-
ity of the Cattrieres Wood. They
were dispersed by our fire'
"tn Champagne our troops Inge or-
ganized the positions which they cap-
tured in the night north of Mont Haut
and the Teton. The enemy- reaete,4
eely with his trtillery.
"West of the Butte du Mesnil and
in the Argonne near Detente. we sue-
eessfully carried out raids on the en-
emy trenchee and brought back pri-
eonere."
BP IT Mil IMPORT.
London, Jule The °mew cone
Munication hewed to -night flays.:
"Our own and the enmity's artillery
was active to -day in the neighborlrosd
of Armentieres, Wytechaete and Nieto
porte.
'ilrida v night our aeroplanes bomie
ed four important railwn.y stations be-
hind the eeemy s Ithes and a large
curnviii reel. faun, Yeetercine, fle-
epite helve ihinderetorme tbreeine.
'it 1 11)1% day. hone,: %sere dropped ee
1. -, ,th% event:11'mile.: end au enemy eel-
treedviinnief,0e.(1,;(0-11)..eszlitlirt1;issuhretleit:,
roe Merv.
&i 'r rel -tee three chereate era
(13y Be T. Small, Staff Correspondent
of the Associated Vreeej
British ileadquerters in lexance
Cable --The Ucrrnaxi attack 'along
the sand dunes of tho Belglitu e011131
On Tuesday evening was in nearly ail
respects it miniature of the Britieli
attack on. the Meesines Ridge on June
7, It seemed as if the Germans had
studied tbe battle in detail and
planned their thrust wholly upon the
lessons learnee. There was a vast dit-
ference in the size of the two opera.
tions, however, for, while the German
attack of Tuesday was limited to
1,400 yards, the British charge at Nes.
sines was along a ten -mile front.
The depth of the two attacks was
also ia the ration of ten to one, the
Germans having advanced only about
600 yards, or to the British support
line, where they are now endeavoring
to entrench themeelyee, while the
British have fallen back to tne west
bank or the Yser.
This little battle on the sands of
Flanders will live largely through the
valorous defence of the English troops,
who met the shock of the German
massed formation after having their
protecting defences blown to pieces
about them by the greatest concentra-
tion of artillery fire seen on this front
la more than a year, The trenched
dug among the blowing and shifting
sand dunes were speedily alliterated
by the storm of high explosive Aliens
the Germans were able to pour upon
them.
Most of the shells were the famous
5.9 -centimetre projectiles and upward,
new field guns having come into play.
During the terrific bombardment.
which lasted all through Tuesday, the
fortifications recently taken over by
the British could fairlY be seen to
dissolve.
The German lines to the Yser River
and to the sea formed a triangle, the
base of which was the coastline. 111
this angle, the sands of which are,
now dyed red with English blood,
were Northampton troops and King's
Royal Rifles. The garrison fought to
the death and the German report of
1,250 prisoners taken peanut be cow
rect.
The temporary bridges across the
Yeer had been blown to bits during
the barrage fire and the British troops
which eventually escaped across the
• river had to swim the stream.
• There were some who cauld not
swim, and for them ropes were
etretched across the stream.
The systematic artillery preparation
—the shifting of the fire curtain from
one line to another and then back
again—the co-operation of aeroplanes
and the steady advance or the German
attacking waves, all occurred in a way
which suggested a British attack
turned the wrong way about.
One of the insist bitter incidents of
the attack occurred in a tunnel where
the English had taken refuge from
the heavy artillery fire. The Germain
attacked with bombs and poured liquid
Eire into it. The place was not stur.
rendered, however, until the last of
the garrison had been wiped out.
One wounded sergeant, who swam
the Ye@.r, reported that when be left
his battalion headquarters the officers
there were surrounded by Germans
but were fighting to the death With
revolvers and a small store of bombs.
STORY OF THE ATTACK.
London Cable says—Reuter's corre-
spondent at headquarters telegrapii.
a graphic story of the German,' at-
tack on our new front in Belgiuni on
the 10th of July, to which, he inei,
dentally remarks, the home military
orities nianifestly attachea exagger-
ated importance. He says:
"The scene of the fighting is a tura-
Died-looking stretcli or sana, sparsely
covered with brownish grass. In some
places the sand rises in little bluffs
from the ribbed foresbore. In others
it shelves gently toward the surf. The
greatest height or land the enemy
oecupied wad 60 not above tbe ben
Ie % el. Numerous boles and gullies
afforded good hidieg, but indifferent,
shelter from gunfire owing to the
loose character of the land. The pose
Lion was impossible of .conversion into
Otto of stroug detence, although the
French, during their long tenure of
the sector, brnd made the best of it.
The enemy artillery swelled into an
enormous uproar early on the 10th et
July, directed against 600 yards of
front line trenches running parallel to
the east bank of the Yser. After an
hour of this the guns were directed
against tho support trenches, an hour
later crumbling them on the west of
the river; then, shortening to the first
range and repealed this methodical
bombardment, largely assisted by great
aerial activity. Our guns were mean-
while thundering, in reply."
ITALIAN FRONT.
Enemy Raiders Repulsed at
Several Points.
Rene, July following offi-
cial communication was issued to-
day:
"eietweeu talie, Garda and Mint
Illtinerotts enemy patroie were repuls-
ed liy our gun fire.
"least of Gorizia enemy partieg
which were attempting to approach
our positions on Hill 126 were driven
ba,eic by mains of hand grenades. The
artillery aceivity, which wee generally
moderate along tee whole of the front.
became very inteeee for short intire
vote between Doeni Valli end
f a mini -twee ,
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eetisitv itt cisme, awl on the Bret nee
of the .InVen fveile An sweetly ma -
relive was deaneet in en nerial
2011 itt fieni 09 test of Cantu-
n'tVir.e."
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