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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-10-11, Page 7GREATEST VICTORY SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE MARKE British Smash On B -Mile Front Wins Strategic Positions Conmantiing Flanders Plain. Over 3,000 Prisoners Already—Every Ob- jective Won and Retained. Headquartetss„ Franee, Cable --There was au entieuel feature in the battle near Zonnebeke. Three German divisions had been ordered to retake the lino the British captured here last week. Rho attack was eat for six o'clock, The Germans were • caught in the British barrage as they were preparing to push forward, and lost grievously. Once before, in Aug. wt, around Lens, the British and Gees Mans planned an attack at the seine hour, and Canadian troops going ( ver the top and advancing quickly, came upon masses of Germans moving to- ward them in the thick haze, and a few minutes later the Germans were making their last stand on the parapet of their trenches. London, Oct. 4. - The anticipated renewal of Field Marshal. Haig's big offensive in Flanders has begun, and all the objectives of the first day have been wo1 and held. Like the proud- ing attacks, the latest one was printed to the minute. The British foreee at the given signal at daylight swarmed from their trenchee over ground that had been harrowed by myriads of shells from the great array of artil- lery, and all along the front of more than eight miles, from south of Tower H.amiets to the north of Langemarck, they made notable new gains of ter- rain, inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, while themselves suffering slight loses, and took many prisoners, large numbers of whom gladly surren- dered. The Reuter correspondent at British headquarters in Prance says: "To -day is one of the great days in arms' annals. The victory is being proclaimed as one of the greatest since. the Marne." The attack was delivered with all the -wonted dash of previous offeueivis and swiftly the Britishers took posi- tions that had been marked out for them, acme of them to a depte tf more than a mile. The main nage of the heights running north and south to the .east of Ypres, which affords a dominating point for the launching of future attacks, is nearly MI in their hands. More than ;3,000 German prisoners had been passed behind the lines when the latest official communication eon- cerning the day's fighting was sent, and large numbers of others were be- ing gathered in. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. The text of the report from British hadquarters in France to -night reads: "Our attack thie morning was launched .o na front or over eight nine.; from south of Tower Hamlets tb the YpreseStaden railway, north of Langemnrck, and lute been cm- . pletely successful. All our objective• s have been gained; poeitions of great importance have been won and ovef B4O00 German prisoneza have already reaehed the collecting etations. "We are now in persession of the mein ridge up to a point 1,000 yarde north of 13roodeeinde." OPENING OP THE BATTLE. (By R. T. Smale Staff Correspondent of the Aesociated Press,) British Front in France and Bel- gium Cable -The trial of atrength among the strongholds comprising the German crucially important aye - tem of defences along the Pasechen- daelaGheluvelt ridge was renewed at dawn to -day, when the British again surged forward over a wide front to the eaet, and northeast of Ypres. Withinn-a few hours great &recess had already been recorded throughout the zone involved. At some places the Brit:sh had penetrated to a depth of a mile and had overrun the crest of the ridge, t'vhich the Germans had held Go long. Hundreda of Gerznans were surren- dering at an early beer. On the northern wing the onrrsla Ing troops are battling forward with- in, a short distance of Poeicapelle; they have get a. footing on the fam- ous Gravenstafel ridge, which juts out from Passchendaele ridge to the wait, and they have crashed their way through the blood -drenched Zonne- beke-Broodseinde ridge, which forms an integral part of the PasschendaeIe- Gheluvelt chain. Between the village of leroodeeinde ou the north and Noordenhoek, a mile to the south. at an early hour they sere holding to the crest of the ridge Itself in the face of heavy counter- attacks from the desperate enemy. Some had penetrated well beyond tee hamlet of Broodseinde, in which 110 the cross-roads formed by the hign- waye between Zonnebeke and Moor - Cede and Pasechendaele and Bees. laere, where so Many Germane have recently given their lives to swell the toll Claimed by the 13riti.sh artillery. Further eolith. Cameron Covert. which bee been the scene of so flatten bard fighting, had been left well in the rear. DID SPLENDIDLY EVERYWHERE. Everywhere the Britieb ants ha.vit • dOlie epleedidly in the opening hours oe the offensive, which 113 one of the West pretentioue attempted along • this front. The attack was launched at sdx o'clock, under heavy clouds and mist, There had been a alight • drizzle during the night, 2610 eatieed some anxiety to the Britten • obeervera But the threatened hem ler rale held off • and the prospects were little damaged. A treffiendotes barrage preceded the infantry into the enemy toUtitry, leaving a trail of death and deviasta- rem behind it. As this terrifying de. lege brolta over the Germett line& batches of the enemy melted for Ward in many places and relied their hand in token of aurrender, 1Prle- °nem were coiritng in much Mpri rapidly and in greater nowhere than • In the laat push, Theflrltlah castialtiea were report- ed as exceedingly light, but the battle is still meek farioesly and mutli • eanguinery fighting aetnia eertain be its close. The Germans un• datubtedly will nee every tauten In their power to retake flife inattluaide territeroa and deform !tied eeenteratta teelte are eareeted, HAS BEEN A VITAL balriON'061, Tho PasselieridaeloGheluvelt Which makes' its einuotia way in a northeasterly direction from the old ).'"Pres salient, has been a vital defence rat the (omens in this section of the wester e front. It has boeu a, barrier between the Britieh and occupied Belgituu. Beyond it can he seen the cultivated fields of King Albert'e prisoner subjects. For nearly three years -up to the beginning of the battle of Flanders, JUL 31 -the enemy has sat in hie strongholds along the crest of thie elevation and c'efied the Britizm armies to dielodge him. It has been 'a tremendously strong position, but the past weeks of bitter fighting have shown that it is not invulnerable. Bit by Int the dogged British wrested the ,ower reaches or the ridge from the invaders. Each thrust brought them nearer to the complete oceupation of this gateway to the rolling plains of Flanders. Tower Hamlets, Inverness Copse, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood and numerous other positions Which formed part- of the 'Passchendaele- Gheluvelt chain on its southern end. have been torn from the bitterlY- eesisting enemy, and have been held 'n the face of deterniined counter. ettacics. To -day the British were egain reaching out for still more of these crucial pointe. The Passehendaele-Glieluvent eleva- tion would not be characterized as a fidge in America. At its highest -mint it is not more than 200 feet ebove sea level, and the approachee 'o the crest are gradual undulations 'n most places. As a matter of fact, •t is really composed of a series of *edges and hills. There is a Passchen 'tattle ridge proper, upon which Mends the town of the same name Below this is Broodseinde ridge, and Intl lower down Gheluvelt. DRIVE TO LOWER SLOPES. From the village of Passchendaely -t stretenes in a southwesterly direo• ;ion towards the old salient in long zuriee like the letter S. At Inverness JOrSe it readies its nearest approach .o the stiicken city of Ypres, which .les about four miles to the west of it. In their successive thrusts recent!, the British have either taken over portions of the ridge or pushed their way forward to the lower slopes as ear north as Zonnebeke, which lies just under the crest. Above Zonne- beke the ridge takes a turn to the long arm known AS Gravenstafel ridge, between Zonnebeke and Passchen- daele thrusts out towards the west a dong arm known as Gravenstafel ridge, within which lies a hill called Abra- ham heights and the village of Graven. stafel. All this area has been strongly held by the Germans. In the days before the War the Pasenhendaele-Gheluvelt ridge was covered with prosperous farms and dotted hero and there with picturesque bits of forest. Now it lies bare and desolate, Its earth churned up by tens of thousands of great aliens which the British artillery has been hurling upon lt for weeks. DESOLATION EVERYWHERE. The correspondent lia,s been close to tbe German front in this zone. Everywhere it is the same.. Hardly a yard of ground remains that is not pitted with huge craters And sur- rounded by piles of earth. Little forests have been wiped out and only pitifully shattered tree trunks mark their site. Here and there a few bricks rear themselves bravely to show where a farmhouse or hamlet stood. Zonnebeke, where a few daye past could be heard the steady purr of British and German machine gune. ties iike a smudge on the landscape, There are no large places along this ridge. Pasechendaele, which now ie a mass of ruins, wan merely a hamlet. South of it were little commitnitles. such as Nieuwemolen, Broodseintle and Molenaarelsthoelc. They have all disappeared in the deluge of breaking steel. An infantry advance over territory of this description would be difficult. even if there was no enemy °epos - :rig. Shell holes, many of which are filled with water, form a serious ob- stacle to a rapid advance, and any one of these excavation may be a nest - for German reenhine guns. Thb top of the whole tone had been prepared with such defences and the shattered forests were choked with rapid -firers. Conerete •pill -boxes and redoubts also had been scattered in profusion throughout the title, and all these divers defences were reinforced with barbed Wire. VERITABLE MORASSES. Mud is one of the greatest enemies with which the Britieh have to con- tend. In auuch of this area, streates like the Iteutelbeek and the Polygonbeek have been bordered with veritable trioraazes in which the troops liaere floundered desperately knee-deep. Even a few . hours et rain turns large sectiOns into fields of llouldmud and stools which may con- ceal shell holes of great depth. The British artillery preparation for this offensive had been among the greatest, if not the very greatest, seen along the western front. Since Ind -week's drive tremendous girl, thiels,.hayebeen proceeding Coverlet; tho 'battle zonewith donde of smoke by day ane turtling the fighting lines into vivid streaks of voletinic fire be eight. The Germans have been giving much of their attention to Tower Hamlets and the seetiOn horthward astride the Ypres-Menin road, and the British, In turn, have been Doer- ing a terrific streant of steel into the German poeitioru; °Melte. it Is in • this- section that the Gertnans hone been Making sigh heavy meter -at- • tacks since the recent British atm- sesees, apparefitly fearing to lose Gheluvelt ridge, whith they value highly as nn ObSerVatiOn point. That the Germans suffered seVerft- • ly treiti the Ilritieh bombardment le borne nut by Mermen who Stated that the gtourid between their front :ha) and the forentost ot their bettory pOsItione watt badly torn up. Itt last week); battle more Germane were killed in proportion to the iletal- Imre ctuployed then over before. In one small area alone a thousand boa - tea were counted end they represented only a fraction of the total. All this has added to tne deteriora- tion noted in the morale of the Ger - mail troops. Receutly the Gemara) have been forced tu chenge many of their divisions aloag tide front, since the last ttack, mainly, according to the report, because they could not trust them. It ie also known that at least two divisions of troops have ap- peared from the Ruegian front. The Britielt troop euterell to -day's conflict in the higneet poeeible spirits end with the fullest coufidenco in the outcome. PRINCE STIES KAISER, Prussian Royalty Protests Against Restraint. •••••• London, Oct, 3. -The action brought, by Prince leriedricb. Leopold of Prussia against Emperor Williarn and Count von Eulenburg, Prussian Minister of the Houtiehold, as e protest against the restraint placed upon the prince, came before a gecret court at Potsdam yesterday, accorditsg te an Amsterdam despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. All efforts made to force the prince to renounce the action proved abortive. The decision of the eourt will not be published. According to an announcement made In the Official Gazette at Berlin, on August l'Oth; Prince Friedrich Leo-, Pold of Prussia, who Is twenty-two years old, was charged by Count von Eulenburg with extravagance and was placed under the guardianship of Cap- tain von Holten, the,prince's military escort. ROAR OF GUNS NEVER LETS HP Huns Use Long -Range Ones More Now. Prisoners Tell of War Ma- terial Famine. (By •Stewart Lyon, Canadian Press Correepondent With the Canadian • Forces.) Canadian Headquarters in France, Cable. -The enemy, early thee (Tues- day) morning, attempted to raid our lInee in the Avion sector, but was discovered 'before he got to close quarters and driven off, after sus- taining a number af casualties. The infantry activity 10 generally less than normal, but the sound of guns never ceases. The Germane are attempting more by way of destructive shots on our battery poeitione than they did earlier in the season, nut even in We reaped they are still far behind the British and Canadian gunners on We part of the front, especially in effec- tiveness. There has been a marked increaee in the tese of long-range, high -velocity guns by the Germans, and this is still proceeding,. Tile results, as seen here, assuredly do not justify the free use of these guns. The enemy also in- creases the proportion of gas shells to the total number eent over, and he sends us many varieties of gain This May possibly indicate that the chemi- cals from which the poison gas 14 made are available in greater quan tities than theese required for high explosi yes, All the prisoners of good educa- tion now speak of the growing scar- city or war material,' particularly of such articles such as rubber, cotton and cower. which can neither be pro- duced at home nor secured from Gennany'a Eunepean neighbors. RAINING BOMBS ON FOE TOWNS Britain Raid s Their Bases in • Belgium Again. Italy Bombs Pola, Russia Also is Busy. London Cable -While Brit'eh and French airmen ocntinue their bombing operations against Germany's submer- ine base at Zeeorugge and points of miiltary importance behind the lines, the French aviators aro keeping up their attacks on German =owns and cities, in reprise" for shelling by Gar- tman aircraft 'of the open town ot Bar- le-Duc. More than 16,000 pounds of explosives are reported to balm been dropped on numerous German settle- ments, among them the ferreous town of Baden, famed as a health resort. Likeseise the Italians are giving the Austrians little respite from aerial incursions, again having dropped four tons of projectiles oxi military objec- tives at Pole, the great Austrian naval base on the Adriatic. and bombed other pOints of Military aelea,ntagre ' A 13eitish Adtniralty statement Kays: "On Monday night naval aireraft dropped many bombs on the lock gatee at Zeebrugge. Oa Tuesday a quan- tity of explosives were derpped on sheds and Machines at the St. Denis- Westrem aerodrome. During the usu., al patrols, two enemy aircraft were shot down, out of tontrol, flbf our machines returned safely, On the Iluesian front the•Petrograd War Office reporte: "On the Battle Sea, Monday nightthe .enetilY Under- teolt oseveral aft rattle On Oesel, drop- ping -a to* bombs which set fire to one of bur magazines, ga‘plosiont follow- ed. Several officers and sailort who were extinguishing the fire perished. A.a reprisals our airmen dropped bombs •Ot eamps oti the Courland coast. "At nook on Monday enemy trawl - ere appeared Ott the Trbe Channel. They were repuleed by our coast bat- teries. Finetny hydreellenee again at- tempted tb approach Oesel, but our *Amen foreed them to turn back and drop their bombe in the sett. "On the sMithWetitern front Mir giant atlroplanett dropped bombs on the village of Korosekov." Nire. Mugginea4 edit litir a very 'taunted Welriatt, Mre,13tiggiets-Non- tense! She deean't know half the gos- sip Of the neighhafiumtl. .a,t• • . U,BOAT TOLL STILL LOWER FOR THE WEEK Eleven Over 1,600 Tons, and Two Under That Figure, the Total. CONVOY PLAN BEST *•••••••••*. Washington Believes It to Have Been Proved by Results. 1.1.,•,•••••••••• London, Cable - Eleven British insecnantmen ot znore than 1,600 tone each and two vessels under 1,600 tone were sunk by mines or submarinee lent week, according to the British eedreiralty statement made public nib; evening. The shipping summary follows: Arriyals, 2,660; sallings, 2,742. British merehant yessels sunk by mine or ,submarine over 1,000 tons, including two previouely, eleven; under 1,600 tons, two. . Fishing vessels sunk, none. British merchant yeasels unsuccess- fully attacked, including seven pre. yiously, sixteen. The above statement of the British Admiralty agaln lowers the aggregate of British merchantmen sunk by mines or submarines during any week since Germany began her intensified submarine campaign, As against fif- teen vessels sunk the previous week, which was the low record since Web. ruary, only thirteen merchantmen ars shown to have been sent to the bottom last week. The total of all losses to world's shipping since Germany's ruthless U-boat was went into effect aggregate about two-thirds of those claimed by the C.ermans in a statement issued Sept. 1. At that time the Germans alleged that an average of 900,000 tone had been sunk monthly for seven mont The actual totals oftonnage sunk compiled here show that not oven during the most successful morlth for :he U-boata-April-have the figures reached any such proportion, while the August losses dropped to almost half the April figure. CONVOY POLICY SUCCEEDS, Washtngton Report -Navy officiale doprecateu to -day puelication of reports that go too far in either direc- tion as to the progress of the cam- paign against German submarines. There is no reasonable ground, they ease for feeling- that the submarines have been definitely beaten because the announced losses have ecreased recently, while, on the other hand, 'there is nothing in the present sham - Lion that warrants serious apprehen- sion on the part of the allies. The drain on allied shipping resourcee still is heavy, but with steadily in- creasing numbers of fighting craft going into the conflict against the U-boats, and with the accelerated merchant craft building programmes of Great Britain end the United States showing results, American officials have complete confidence in .ultimate victory over the undersea craft. The policy of convoyine merchant craft now has been adopted by all powers. Originally naval opinion was against this practice. Its effect, it was be - 'loved, would be merely to increase the size of the targets, and under that theory merchant craft were sent zig- zagging separately over • unusual courses, scattering them as much as possible, with the U-boats given the task or finding them. Under the convoy plan the U-boat commander is certain of a fight if he comes to the surface, and so dares not pursue a convoyed flotilla except when submerged. Then his speed is too low to allow him to conduct a successiul pursuit. • - HUN RULERS FIRM. Block Project for Reichstag Reforms. Copenhagen, Oct. 1.--eGrman newspaper report that the prOject for granting ad- ditional representation to overgrown Reichstag districts, and for introducing the principle of proportional represen. tallen in the large cities, is on th,". rocks, The Government, while flatly re,lecting all other proposals of the Reichstag main committee for the refjorm of the Imperial Constitution, nad prnised to introduce a hill embodying this tninor reform, but soveral Federal states now object so vigorously to tho bill, which should have been Introduced at this session of the )lc-ichstag, that its fate is doubtful. WHY BRITONS ARE FOR FINISH FIGHT Hun Scientists' War Em- • bitters Them. Chance Shell Slays Far Back of Lines. (Correspondence.) Maneheeter, England Cable --- .'"I'here le ne romance left in war; it I s a dirty business. and every ono oi us Who is in it is •determined thai when we flnieh title war, it shall be so thoroughly finisned that nobody will ever start another." Thee writs a British treneport cap - min in a letter to OM local newspaper, etscribing how he hod just lost twen- ty of his men, although they' were vearly a dozen miles behind the. front, through * shell from a German long- range naval gun fifteen tnilea away, rhe shell wan it Chalice shot. Here is the eaptain'a story: "W. have aeecended on a.war of stink-pote, of spectatled chemist& leer - Jag horribly la bhseure laboritories *bile they coneoCt the tortures ef the, (Waned, of medieval polsone, of 'fly- ing death from the Clouds, .1t Is less like war than ,sue elemental devil - tallness withal man is tte peaverless to ttontrol as be Will the volettnoes WhIeb overwhellabtsl•• Polbotif or St. 'Pierre It is not Mona ift the fotefrofit of the battle %Vlore men stand face t4 fa.;a in mita elves far beak, where death flinge hhine1 W3th outreatu violence awl auddeness. The dead men have never seen their foe; there has been no (mama, no combat, 'I witnessei an incident to -any t1/4 like of which I have seen before, toe waieh is happening °MY' day along these hundreds of miles of battle line. It is as well you should hear of it wile have a quiet roof over your head% who welt placidly undo your umbrellas at the street corner for your tram car. " I was at a Gross roads, and a vast amount of trarfie was moving by it. guns and wagons and panting motor lorries and officers en horseback and ambulances. Far in front bung me- tionleea in the air the long row of balloens that marked the circle of tlie front. "It endured perhaps but two seconds before it prosipitated that frightnel tragedy towarde whin it was moving. Dut every wend, was an age, Every man who heard it held his breath "Now the whistle chatiged to a sudden plunging roar. A quarter ot a ton was falling headlong, through space and yet ,invisible. A rockinn crash. and up from the road leaped a volcano of black earth and smoke and. stones, Tho whole air filled itself witn shriek- ing bits of metal, whirling swatches of dust and choking fumes. Horses were plunging, men. cursing. Above all rang the screams of mortal agony, • "I gazed with horror towards the spot and saw a wagon lying with its wheels up In tho ditch, its horses ly- ing motionless bearby. lis the grass by the roadside lay some inert figures of men whose absolute motionless- ness told its own tale. "Ono thouglet of the homes sudden- ly emptied far away, of mothers and wives and children that would wait In vain. And it has all been done by the unseen hazel that had just pulled a string fifteen miles away." AIR MINISTRY FOR BRITAIII TO BE FORMED Public Opinion Has at Last Forced Plans for Re- prisals On Huns. WHAT RAIDS DO Hundreds of Guns, Thou- sands of Skilled Gun- ners, Held Home. London Cable -The Daily Chron- tele Gays that the War Cabinet has prantically decided in favor of creat- ing an Air Ministry with a separate war service. London, Oct, 3. - The possibilities and importance of air warfare bave been brought home to the British military and civiliene by the cam- paign of the past ten days, as only experience could bring them home, The result is that virtually the whole Press and public opinion are now de- manding that the policy of passive defence for England and the watch- word "Composure," which the Gov- ernment heretofore has urged upon the people be dropped and that a strong air offensive against Germany •be waged. immediately. Even papers like the Manchester Guardian, which have taken the line that air rattle accomplished little be- cause they succeeded In killing or maiming only an infinite amall num- ber of people compared with casual. ties on the battlefront, have changed their policy. What the German air raids and the threats of attacke on England have accompliahed in a purely military way is known to the whole world, and to none better than the Germans. By tbe employment of eome fifty ma- chines and at the moist two hundred men, including aviators and mecha- nics, the enemy has forced England to detach several hundred valuable gime and geveral thofteand men. in- cluding skilled gunners, for horn° de- fence, and also a large number of machinists, searchlights with operat- lug staffs and 'other experts. The men and material devoted to this of- feneive is small compared with the men and material these attacks coul- ee' England to maintain for the de- fensive. The direct resulta of thio campaign, apart from these military factors, have been the killing or wounding of civilians and the damaging of proper- ty to a much smaller degree than the German people fondly believe. But it is ale° the tact, which the London papers describe vividly and minutely, tnat the norinal life of the largeet capital in the world and of hnportant coast cities has been dis- turbed for ten daya on end, and that the industries and working capacity of the people of London have been seriously handicapped. For an aver- age of more than two hours on eix ,nighte the great majority of London ers have been forced to give up their ordinary punsults and take shelter in their basements and in Publie build- ing& and underground railway% while the guns were roaring in battle all around them and shrapnel was fallieg in the etreets. Local and suburban travel has been largela at a, standstill during these oeriode. and all classes of night work have been interfered with, while the day work hart been curtailed and elerks and workmen Might get to their homes front offices, factories and shore before the expected raide hegan. Ten thousand tereone whO ere not tompelled to remain in Lon- don have moved to country resorts at large aggregate expenditure, and the late afteraoan trains have been Peeked with the nightly oxodua. Melly poor families have camped in the euberban parks end commons. What' the poaple of London -are enticing 18 why they elieuld andergo fheite attacks without the Germane havingto anffer nAIL EMBARGO ON GRAIN. Winnipeg Report -- The Canadian Pacific'11nray has annotineed an einbargo-egainst acceptence of all grain shipments to Port William and Port Arthur, The Catutdiett Nerthern Railway his also placed a similar embargo, which came into forte at 6 p.m. yes- terday. These embargoes are the di - red reetilt of the etrilte, tia tialeaaing Is eoMpletely tied up. This mew., that antoinatleally Praetiellly all buying will cease in the country. • GERMAN TRICKERY ONCE MORE 20,000UIPLANES TURNS OUT TO BE BCOMERANLU ARE BEING BUILT Intrigue to Embroil Japan With U. S. Will End, Hun Menace in East. Leaden Cable -The addreee made in New York teat week by Viaeount .shil, head of the Japanese misaion to the United Statce, the Times, In a leading editorial on "America sad JaPaa," says, le a result, "as unfore- eeen by Germany as it io unwelcome, or years of intrigue on both sides of the Pacific, whieh she has 6pent in a vain effort to arouse enraity between the United, Statest and Japan." The Theme adda that a cloie uniou between the two great Pacific pow - to which the reception of the Ishii znission givee new strength and now significance, will both lideten the deliverance elf the world irons thr German menace, aud prepare for fu tura peace in the far east. "Per both reasons," it nye, "it le weMome to the Allies and doubly weiceme to England, whose interest la the tranquility ancl welfare of those regions lo so profound." 011111•1,101.41.•0,101.11M1,1101M,••01... IDIOTIC PEACE TALK IMPERILS TROOPS AT FRONT, SAYS WAVIC Washington Confident Lib- erty Loan Will Re a Huge Success. Chicago Report- Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo to -day went to Madison, Wis., to continue his campaign in behalf of the Liberty Loan. In an address before a large audience here last night, he urged the purchase of the Liberty bonds, because they are the safest investment in the world: Mr. McAdoo digressed briefly from Itis talk on the Liberty Loan to speak of peace propagandists. "There is not a soldier in Prance," he said, whose life is not more un - penned than ever by this idiotic peace talk. Let us not give aid and com- fort to the enemy by letting him think we don't mean to fight. We do mean to fight, and the quicker they realizs it the better. There is not a man in khaki who is not willing to face Ger- man bullets, and is it not cowardly to ••••••••••=1.I04••••••••“0/••••.•. • 11••••••••1•••••• attempt to stab him In tho back with peace talk by traitors?" Among the subscriptions to the Lib- erty Loan yesterday was one of $50,- 000 by Grace Episcopal Church. This BUM represented the building fund which had been reised to rebuild the church, burned two years ago. It was decided to defer construction until the end of the war and to inveet the fund in Liberty Bonds, SURE OF LOAN'S SUCCESS. Warthington Repert, The big drive for the three billion dollar seconel Lib- erty Loan is in its third day, with re- ports continuing to reach the Treasury Department in large volume, tteling of the public's enthusiastic response to the national appeal for subscriptions. Although no figures were at hand to -day, Treasury officials predicted the success of the new bond issue. They based their prediction on the over -subscription of $400,000,000 issue of Federal certificates of indebtedness. This is the biggest issue of short time certificates of indibtedness ever put out by the Government, TIMIII.N..11.••••••• .1.1rmill.1.111.••••=1•••••••10MIMMIMNENIIIMINft CANADIANS AT FRONT APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FOR RFD CROSS Stewart Lyon Tells of the Great Work It Has Been Doing in France. (By Stuart Lyon, Correspondent of the Canadian Press.) Canadian Headquarters in France London :Special Cable- The comind national .t.eu uroos suoscripuon cam- paign In Canada has aroused great ini.erest here, where toe henet.ts 01 tue Red ezoss work can be *seen at close range during every spell of active fignung, ana all the time in the cas- ualty clearing stations and hospitals. Red Greets supplies are riot intended to take the place of arnay medical issues, but te supplement them in such a way as to give the surgeons the best possible facilities for their work. and the wounded a better chance of re- covery. The problem of light in the ad.. vanced chewing stations, for exam- ple, was a serious one. Most of those dressing stations are underground, or in locationa where at night candles or lamps give poor Illumination for the performing of operations on wheal hang the Issue of life or death. The Red Cross is installing in all the Cana- dian advanced dressing stations port. able electric plants, with a capacity of fifty thirty -candle power lights. Hand lames will be available. and bv their Use wounds can be explored ane treated much more quiekly than here- tofore. Another excellent bet of work re- tcently done by. the Canadian Red Cross ,Society heel been in connection with poison gee treatment. It wat discovered that a certain treatmeet. linvolving the use of a special kind of bath and clothing, was the beet re- medy. Within four hours after it had ,been decided by the medical officials •of the Canadian corps to apply tide, a large number of baths and an am- ple supply of necessary chemicals and clothing were en route from the Red Cross base to the advanced dressing stations. ; Still another thoughtful bit of Red Croce work is the provision of extras for the battalion medical officers dur Ing their period in the front line. ;With every surgeon a package goes in, containing drugs to leseen the pain when the men are hard hit; tablets from which coffee or cocoa can be made quickly, and for the wounded. ineect powder. and many other essen- tials for trench efficiency. These com- fort packages have saved many live and much suffering-, The Catiadaan ‘Red Cross not only ministers to the need of the men at epecial. attentioa to the rest camps, and provides comforts there that make the lot of the men easier, and hastens the time of their recovery, French wounded are oleo cared fax by the Canadian Red Croes. The Canadian people cannot fend a better outlet for their eynepathy and their voluntary contributione than to aid the Red Cross work under the fine of the allied nations. -- T STOP EXPORT TO MANY still is the chance that some goods wili reacb them from South Aenerica, deepite the Britieh blockade. To meet • this situation, the United States and Great Britain are prepared to era - barge coal shipments to South Amer - Ica if neceseary and are ready to re- fuse bunker coal to European neutral veasela thet may attempt to engage •in this trade. More D'etails of Allies' New, Stiff Embargo. No Coal to S. America Un- less Obedient. — Washington Report -Great 13rit- ain's embargo on the export of all supplies to the northern European neutral countries, just announced, wag declared after every Melee of its possible effect was gone over in con- ferenees between American and el - lied meetaritceasnomeni Aficiais, It was learned to -day, initiated the diecuesiona, and ineisted that the British etee be taken to make were that there be no nullification of the purposes tile United States Government had in view in putting into operation its own embargo. The etep ledicated that the allies have united in a decision that the neutrals muet Cut, off the ohipment of all suppliee to Germany. Ameri- can officials and eome of the allies here have hesitated as to juet bow far to go in demanding cessation of trade between the neutrals and Ger: many. At one time it appeared they would Trek no more than that neither allied goods nor materiala supplanted hy allied commodities be sold in Ger- m apni lye buyowthepoilticoutrcaalf:; be accomplish- ed through rigid embargoes applied bY all the allies. Tile neutrals can- not exist Without British and Ameri- can supplies, and within the next two or three menthe all of them are ex- Peeted to declare flat embargoes 00 the export of their commodities to all countrite. Title will bit England, es well fts Germany, but the British, . who an draw on the 'United States, are in a position to do without neuteel gooda, while Germane', Cut off from ctletaerest of the werld, tannot exist, offitiale here say, if neutral shipment; se. To those familiar with the military and ecoftomie situation in Gerinany, the new policy indicates that the Governmenta have tome to the tonelveion that, by Making everV imo Of mandate weapeine, the war Will be ended much more quiekly than by Militery sopreniftev alone. While the Amerieart and British embargoea eat off virtnallY nil tup- pliee to the Puropeart neotrals, there TURK DRIVE ON • BAGDAD, EGYPT Falkenhayn is at Aleppo Getting Ready. Ottomans Are Hungry, Down On Germans. • London Cable - The Times eays: "We have received a conneunication on the poeition of Turkey by a gen- tleman who left Jerusalem in May and travelled e3 days to Constantinople, where he spent six weelts. "The railway from Jerusalem to Aleppo is finiened, also the tunnels through the Tames Mountains. En - ver Pasha was at Aleppo on June establishing headquarters for Vallten- bayn, who is in full command of the Turkish troops. He is certainly pre- paring an offensive -against 13agclad or Egypt. 'Turkey ha e only 60 per cent. or the average acreage oE wheat under cul- tivation en aecomit of the scarcity of men. Fruits and figs are available, but they* need brad and onions. The potPC are hungry and ex ham; ted. Constant-ha:pie fish is cannett by the Commis fm' their use alone. At the lunch testi is unobtainable. The Tur- kish sold:ere often have no bread. There is syinieethy between the german and Turkish °need's aud s11 - C8 the Turkel see feet the tier - Wens are better provisioned then themselves, Mittel' asked for better treatment for his troops. "Ono hundred Turkish piastre% paper, are now only worth thirty," SERUM ERADICATES TYPHOID. Paris, Cable. -Prof. Cheties Melee of the 'Wrench Academy. Nobel nose winner for medleine In 1813, deelare,1 fore the nrademy to -day that tVP11q1.1 fever, which ellinled nutty yietims !It thr bettinning of the wttr, had now Iteen virtually era-lleated front the army through vaceinatien with the seielea Ole- ievei-eO ley Dr. It A. Vineent, of the N'al de Grace Military Ifospital. No Time Was Lost in Start- ing the Construction. Byes of Army Ready When Troops Are. Waahington, 'Oct. 4. -Twenty thou- eand aeroplanes for Amerioa's fight - lug forces io France, authorized in the $640,000,000 aviation bill paseed by Congress laet July, actually are under construction. The neceseary motone also are be- ing manufactured, Secretary of War Baker announced to -day, and the sholo aircraft prograntrae has been ice co-ordinated that when planee and motors are completed, trained aviator, as well aa machine guns and all other equipment, will be waiting ior them. "When this nation's army moves up to participate in the fight- ing," the $ecretary said, "the eyes of her army will be ready," The types of planee cover the en- tire range of training machines, light, nigh -speed fighting machines, power - ail battle and borneing planes of the neaviest design, and embrace as well giant battle craft capable of the werk of the Italian Capron', the British Handley -Page and similar types. "Within a reasonable time, consid- ering the period for preparation," den Baker's statement said, "this country will send its fir,st aeroplane to Europe. Thie aeroplane, from the tip of its propeller to the engine, machine gun and eamera, will have been made in the United States. "There has been a remarkably gratifying response to the call for aviators. This country has an unlim- ited sapply of young men possessing courage, self-reliance, good judgment and decision -the things; required iu the air service. This service to -day is fitting thoticand,t it Americans; for flying." Twenty-four flying schools bave been authorized, the statement re, reale, and besides the thousands( training here, etudents from the United States are training In all of the illied countriee, while many of them ere undergoing intensive schooling behind several of the battlefronts. Pile men now in Europe will be turn- ed over as finished aviators to ths American troops in France. "There le practically= no limit to the aumbee of aerial fighters which the United States can and will furnish in the war for democracy," continued .he Secretary. "No time has been lost in experiments. The machines which already have proved successful will be reproduced in large numbers in this country." ee American machines; are being built abroad, and Mr. Baker said that ap- proximately one-fourth of the num- ber soon to be needed will be made In allied countries._ iETALIATION FOR AIR RAMS Britain Waited Till She Was Fully Prepared. Wonder Planes Promised to Do the Work. London Cablel- England's impend- ing retaliation for the German air raids is the main feature of the Lon- don' papers, made conspicuous with big headlines. There is no opposition ex- pressed, even in quarters where the reprisals have been deprecated in the past, while elsewhere the decision is welcomed with enthusiasm, It is asserted that the Government's decision does not indicate any sudden change in policy, the matter having long been • under consideration, and that acquieseense to the popular de- mand is in no wise implied. The ap- parent delay in adapting the policy of retaliation was due, it is said, to con- siderations of construction and the necessity of keeping the requirements of the army on the western front sup- plied. War planes of every type can now be produced by the Allies in far great- er numbers than by the enemy, and it is asserted that the Allies are fully equipped to carry on aggressive air warfare on a great scale. At a meeting here to -night, which received messages from various organ- izations and mayors througbout the country, a resolution was carried de- manding one responsible head of the air -service. adequate defence against raids and sufficient machines both at the front and for a great air offen- sive, Joynson Hicks prophesied ma- chines with a speed of 250 instead of as at present 350 miles, an hour, would be able to ascend higher than twenty- two thousand feet, the present breath- ing limit, and out of range of the guns, using 0 special breathing appar- atus, and also able to carry a consid- erable weight of bombs. He asked the following question, the accuracy of which cannot at the moment be con- firmed: "Last week the Lonclein of- ficial casualties were 52 killed and 267 injured. Do you know that the total easualties of the civilian population of Britain from air itivasion to date are greater than the whole caeuelties of the civilian population of Belgiuni dur- ing the invasion?" Fernie Report -- At 4 o'clock the; , FERNIE DYNAMII E OUTRAGE. miming a terrific dyearnite explosion totally wrecked the Ferry Creek water main, the mein water eupply lino of this city, and alma five min- utes later a tire aler Wt18 turned in from the Vernie annex. Itpon invest!. gallon of the cause of the wreckage of the Ferry Crelic water main it was round thlt nilennt, had crawled tri- ter a small culvert thr nigh which the waterntein awl had blown lip the whale structure by means of dyn• eittile. A latere f •ree men is now working envifity 11 r wrir the 11 -etre ani restere the wing supply, bet it will take a considaralae time Were teeter tem be turned on. SALMON PRICES SOAR. Vancouver, P. C., Report - All re- cords for priecs paid to fishermen for afilmen in British Coltuabia were broken to -clay. At Steveeton dog Win - on were bringing 46 cents apteee and hump bloke ag cents. Cohoes ad steetheatia were fetching 10 rents a peima, Red Swings niae vents awl White Springs 5 8-4 emits. The prices of halibut and cod art also soaring.