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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-11-29, Page 74 4C614A-4... VIOLENT DEMAGO:1,,iti SPEErli OilSi r:• 'II _A Bolsheviki Leader Deals Out Lies to Mil Ignorant Fol- lowing. -•-- A, Louden eable: The Daily Mall, in its issao tine morning, printed a, deepetch from lee:vitriol, a Medi re- ports the salieint features of a "vti- lent demagogical speech." by Leou Trotzky, tIte Bolshevilti Coriaget Min- ister, to the Wori‘men's eouvol. The• speech, eay s the correepondeut. MadeponjhIt only be the. level oefl telligemee of Foretell Miniater's audi- ence. Trotzky gave indications of how the Allies and the etiendee bad re- ecited the peace preposal nine. Ile dealt blows all round, his only bright hope being Italy, whom tie coesidered eat of action awing to her tom of ar- tillery. England, w ho waa the ringleeder of the whole movenicaL, merely ventilated the war for what she could get, ac- cording to the speaker. France's re - Ply was in the term of Clemenceau's middle-class, imperialletic Cabinet, but the French people were looking for tinily a reasonable excuee to emerge igom the war with some claims ot vic- tory In order to ittetlfy their entbanee into the war, The United States' had entered the sear because she was foreed, into it by her capitallets, Trotzley (teetered, valet as she did not desire territory, she .Probably would regard with favor a Russian Government composed of. weirltmen and soldiers, SECRET DOC2UMENT3 REVEALED, A Petrograd cable wen The text of certain confidential communi- cations between the Russian Foreign °Mee and the foreign Covernmente were publisbed to -day by Bolahevild and Socialist revolutiouist papeis at the inetigation of Lean Troteky, the Dolsbeelki Foreign Minister. • German and Austrian politidans, Tratzky declares, may try to make capital out of these documents, but he warns them that when the German nroletariat by means of a revolution secures access to their Chancelloriee, tbey will find there documents which vU shoW up 1i no better light than those now published. MUIR FIGHT 'FOR BOURN LASTED L But Dogged British Grit Drove Out the Desner- ate Germans. ' GREAT AIR WORK niers Did Amazing Deeds to Make the Advance Possible. .66 ,•444.64-mokiam......666,64. (Special Cable by the Associated Press.) British Army Headquarters in France, Sunday, Nov. 25. -This morn- ing found the line of battle of the ,weary but determined British troops 6:INISTER counteleattache hurled agaiaet the lino,. The fighting -over the Weeded:dopes et this elevationluui ben among the I meet apectacular of the war. for the ocetipatien of the toned was due ttire1y to the work of taulta and air- men who paved the way for the on- ( rut:thing infautry. A numeer of iron moultore led the advance to Bourlou witoa larblay, with thitish pieties cir- cling O'er the enemy at a height of from thirty to titty feet, in cerryitig on a vigorous wailer° with their Ma - cativo guee and bombs. tame wae continued euecegefully until gliting. but the ad. It ma9 hard fi the northeast oorner of the wood was. reaehed ,where the teens were beta up hY a strong force of the tummy. Britt- le)" airmen, who nad been fighting close to the ground, deliberately charg- ed acme. on the enemy infantry, with menthe gull% pimping a steadY stream of bullets into the German ranks, The 'battle was short and ac - delve. The airplanes wheeled anti re- elreeied over the heeds of the Gor• mans, and maiutained such an Ilan - elect* fire that the •defenders were fore - ea to retire from the poeition after suffering considerable losses. • The tauks then petaled on, the tonquest of the Nom' being completed, anct ae ere tering wedge liaising been driven leto the tillage. Almost inunediately the Germans delivered a heavy counter-attack on the troops who had penetrated .0m hamlet, and after a stiff engagement forced them ta withdraw again to the eago of the wood. Saturday morn- ing •the British remeatea the attack, on the village. It was a battle in whteh the British troops glorified, for it took them back to the days of other wars, when men strug6led out in the open. The try, ing period of tighting behind sand bag parapets was temporarily past, and they were . at close gripe with the enemy, where they could employ the bayonet which they knew so well how to use. The Germans had rush- ed up reinforcements, which they had obtainea by raking every available point from the line. During the morning the enemy ad- vanced in. drength from the north and threw themselves against the Dritish line at the edge of the wood. A sanguinary struggle followed, and the British. unable to withstand the fnry of the German attack without too great a loss of life, withdrew slightly, and the Germane gained a footing in the nertherri edge of the forest. But the British were not to let the matter rest and they surged forward again. This tetra they dismounted cavalry advanced . with the infantry, and between them they drove the enemy back and re-established them- aelves on the old line. Little by little the -Germans were forced to give ground at the north- west edge of the wood. about 'Bourion village, until the British infantry reached tho bloodstained streets of the hamlet oiace more. Dusk settled dowi abut the contending forces, but they still continued to sheet and thrust at one another in the gathering darkness. No more grim tragedy has been, en- acted since the war began than was staged among the ruins of Bourlon village last night. Its finish saW the shattered German forces outside the village boundary, but still full of de. termination. Several time through the night they vs -formed • and swept forward against the village, but each time were hurled back with heavy losses. 1 ea village of Fontaine Notre Dame between Murton. Wood and Cambrai was 'ail' in German hands to -day. Thie chattered hamlet, 'however, was giving the 'British no cause for worry aud at the lateet reports they were ignoring it and continuing to push ahead on the northwest side. AIRelaN'S GREAT WORK. The work of British airplana4 dur- ing the present :offensive Lanus a gra- paie chapter in Ascii:. Deapite the vil weatner. whiea compelled them o operate within a few feet of the round, they kept steadily at their task and rendered invaluable assis- tance both in reconnaissance and or- teneree operations. There haVe been almost continual battlebetween German infantry and British airmen flying as low as thirty teet above the ground. Never beton) tme, this kind of svarfare been carried eut en nee a large scale. Pilots. have ettecked infantry and gun crews in- discriminately, wherever they omen. tered them, and inflicted heavy casu- alties on the enemy with bombs and machine me. Inc nature of the fighting can be nen from the experience of a British pilot, whose machine vas literally uhot to pieces by rifle and machine gun Me and who finally crashed dam' behind his own lines with ten bullet mace through his clothing, elthou:gb he himself was unhurt. Another youug airman yesterday presented enneelf 01. headquartera after having .been ehot down for tho third time within two days. He Was delighted over kis experience, and immediately applied, for another machine, so that no might go out again. One aviator attacked a eolumn of direman infantry marching in doe formation and hurled two high power bontes directly among them. The troops natterad, end as the airman ahiried away he saw two heaps of dead about huge craters which the bombs had torn in the road. Thole were innumerable cesee of airmen succesefulty bembitte airdromes, troop transports and gen eraWs. A large numbev ,of .artillery crews have been wiped out either I•y Machine gen fire At dose range or by bombe. Naturally many of the airmen had miner:one eseapes train death, and genie, of cause, have paid the full Price, and have gone to Swell the toll or brave. Men ethe have giVen their Us for their Kiag and eountry. AM - fine: tha hair -breadth escapes reported 1,6 that of an aviater whose mae,hitte wee torn to Wane while he was fight- ing, Cerniette infantry with hie maehille gem. Ile, nes taught in the .thell fire, ani the wings ot Ms machine werO ,thot awaY. Fortunately he wes flying only twenty int thirty feet above the ground aed dote to his own lines. Ile eraoh- ea 10 No 'armee Lend end found him - ;net uahurt. lie Immediately Caine Un- stretehed in a saint -circle about Delw- in village, which nestles at the northwestern edge of the forest. It was a line weica had been establish- ed in the face of dogged resistance on the part of the Germane, who had fallen back step by step, fighting with the fury of despair. All day yesterday the opposing forces struggled bitterly at close quar- ters for the possession of the little village, from which the 13ritish were forced Friday afternoon, gaining a footing ha the rush that took them through Bourlon wood. Nightfall still found waves of infantry surging back and forth through the streets of the hamlet and aniong the houses, their crimson bayonets telling the story of the terrible conflict being waged. Gradually the Germans fell back, the Britith pressing forward with grim persistence which the ene- my could not withstand, and the hamlet was filially cleared of the ma- jor portion ot the German troops. To -day some few of the enemy still remained in 13ourlon, to be mopped up, but all the main streets of the place had been cleared, and it was surrounded by a -strong, force of Brit. ish soldiers. A little to the southweet of here an- other intense struggle was being staged in the village of Mouevres, la - to which the British had battled their way with rifle and bayonet and push- ed the Germans out ot the eouthern half, Elsewhere along the Cambral front there was no infantry action et importance. Prisoners continue to arrive at the • British cages from toe front, Nearly ten thoesand captives thus far have been countel, including 200 officers. AN IMPORTANT WIN. In the capture of Bourlon wood and village the British have acquired pos- session of one of the Most important peints they have enured since the great drive began labt Tuesday. This high ground eontrols a wiae sweep of territory, and its oceupation holds out the possibility that tlie Germans dem- „Wally will be forced to withdraw their 'Mee to the northwest. The Bourien redden aiso overlooks -Cambral, but this city might be a hard nut to creek, leteause the ecu• tral part la 'walled, and many tadmebe radiate 'from it, forming naturol bar- riosagainst an advance trove the west. It seems possible that tambrai might ultiMately become a lend of No Man's Lana, domineted by the Ltg gune en both sideie and that this and. ent town. with it fino old ea-dm:tail and ideturesque a ails, would go tile way oe en many ether etatee uliteh tome under artillery fire. A Wise ailment at tiattle ie 11e lest few days hal 1.701.111 er rale end Maehine nun fire' but he Cerebral toward tiletsidaatt.:e.tiediosee: _awed ri Cernien rifle with some arn. eating the Mitabehilitie theneeeeto te71%-• tud engaged the onmyty 11.01. ' 'Mans haVo .eveguatail the l'ietesieleetegetlea AS he fl;f1114 he worked hie Viatica and eye prng ceatifiteteeletn. • "eite Wiese aggerwasegiestiehee one of We SliOULD GOVER NEN' GUARANTEE, If RICE CF HOG With Shorts Selling at $45 per on the Price of Hogs Should be $16.13 -Why ram,. ers Should 'Raise More Ilogs-By Daniel IvIoRlee, On. account or grave. rood there, ago In laUrelie the goverument is malt. Mg an appeal to all ,Canadian farmers to breed as many sows as they eall this fall, so as to increase the oupPlY of hogs next epriug. The Food Con- troller, the Hon. W. 3. Untie,in open- ing the campaign for greater hog pro - auction at a meeting at tarmerS and district representatives held in, Parlia- Meat Buildings, Terento, on Nevember 6, said that nem Was there a gloater need for increase(' production than at the present time, and that if farmers did not make every effort to increarte the supply of food our Aliles in France would be reducea to some- thing approaching starvation, There was a shortage ef 32,425,Q00 nags iu Europe, and he appealed to •Cana- dian farmers to urake good this short- age by raising more hogs. Mr. Hanna's remarks coneeriling the profits to be made in raising hogs would have carried a good deal more weight with the audienoe if he had declarca that tile government wonld guarantee a minimum price tor hogs and safeguard tanners against loos. He saia that if the Canadian Govern- ment guaranteed the price of hogs, it weuld be the equivalent of a forced loan to the Allied Powers, and the canadlan government require a all the money it bad for other purposes. It prices for hogs are going to be high, as the speaker declared they would , be, the government would not lose a • cent by, guaranteeing a minimum P1100 for hog% To tell farmers that IOg raising is going to be profitable, and then refuse to guarantee a miui- mum price, is inconsistent. The law of supply and demand makes prices lower wan dee market is glutted with a serplus of hogs, just as it makes prices high when there is a shortage, Unless the government is prepared to guarantee the price of hogs, it should not advance increased profits as an argument for raising hogs, but base its appeal solely on humanitarian considerations and the grave -very grave -need of more foodstufts. For the campaign to succeed the government must get the eonfidence ot the farmers. It will get the confi- dence of the farmers if the gravity of ' eel's pa'rele. .0 4 Zeit the+ POKED rm./ AT ttt .i.great intnertalico 1 o 1Vet/11 :-/111 • 'The/Y.1p net rnub hunior itt ighte the ¶111ad wail ihilineld 'ha illaia Ing of nig native, but One inettleet etreeuette reiletanea, end the Mani •;0 eeeunectli which is malting the whole ,e 0137II:11=6552t161=11019:1=33211=Zieo, the situation is pitted" before them and it asks time to prodline solely for patriotic reason% But to latroauce protits iuto the appeal, when the price of loge is not guaranteed, amine dis. trust at once. The profit argunieut Should he left geverely alone. There is ne reason ot (mum why the governmeut ehouhl gearantce pricea, outside ef the fact that when munitions were required the manufac- turers were guaranteed a fair profit, and as one termer remarked, "Wliat's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." When a general asks his troops to charge the enemy lie does not guar- antee that they will riot get killed or Wounded. It is said. that Hector Mac- donald, betore the battle of Paarde- burg in the South African weir, told the Highlanders that they would. leave to wade through blood up to their knees, The soldier gives his all, and the Meet that those who remain at bome can do is to make certain, as far as lies in their power, that the cause for which the soldiers are giv- ing their lives or sufeering torture, both physical 'and mental, day after day, without a grumble, shoula sue- ceed. Mr. Hanna and those closely in touch with the food situation in France and blagland say it is vitelly necessary that eve have more hogs, and whon the farmers of Canada real- ize the seriousness of the situation they will produce as many hogs as they can, even if they have to sell them at cost or oven at a loss, Unless tie definite ratio is fixed i'se- tween the price of hogs and the price of feed, no one can telt whether hogs will be produced at a profit. or a loss during the next few years. The United States government has appointed a commission to determine a fair ratio between the price of corn and the price of hogs, irliere is room for a. good deal of difference of opinion as to what tho best grain would be to compare the price of hogs with bore in Canada, 'Although corn is used in certain sec- tions of this> country quite extensively as hog feed, these sections are limited, Oats is the most widely grown grain 'crop in °Atari°, there being almost three times as many acres sown to sliWZI=11=922322.27141Cril oats th:s year SS there were sown to ran wheat, which is the aext moet widely grown wain crop. Althomeh oats itLi exeellent feed for Lenses and cattle, it is not imitable for feeding to Pigs except in mixtures,and then it shoula only constitute a Mali part af the ratiou, as It contiOns to much smile Mee. Shorts or miatiliage eau - vett be beaten for pig% ana we are tairly safe in assuming that etiorts or mithilinge is the most widens u.sel meel in Ontario, The average top price for hogs on the off car bask at the 17nitat Stock. 'reroute, for the last ten years was e9,2e. The average price for shorts ovei' a similar perloa of Years was $25.84 ptcr ton, or $1..e9 per hun- dredweight. This means that the price. .or 7,17 imaciredsveighte ef sh 'lite was heeeesary to induce farmers to stay in bog raising basinese. When liege were nelaing for more than tae elan of 7.17 liundredweiglits of shirts hog 'raising was coinderatIvely profitable. 'but ween hogs were Edina,' for lesa than the priee of 7,17 'lunette:la-eights of shorts hog reising was oempara- 'tively unprofitable. Althoul.;11 we say that durinz certain years hog raising was relatively un- profitable, we do not mean that a man wan neceseerily adually bosng mottey during these year% We simply mean that during these years hog raising 'was not as profitable as It was ea the average. What the future holds for the hog eoducer so far as profits are "con, cerued, 11. Is extremely difficult to say witlu any degree of accuracy unless a 'dertnite ratio Is fixed betLreen the price of feed and the prime of hogs. It is certain, however, that the bust- anpeele ot the situation will heve little weight in deciding Canadian farmers whether they will raise mare bogs. When men enlist to go to the 'front, they do not consider the busi- ness advantages of shooting and be- ing shot at, for there are none. They hold the front line trenehee because 'they' fed it their duty to do eo. It has been said farmers never start a, war but always finish it, and they can help to finish this one by -pro- ducing more hogs. -The Canadian Countryman. MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS SAVING IN MILK DISTRIBUTION Food Controller Makes Public Report. of Spe. cii Comnuttee, Ottawa, Nov. 24. -An • annual sa ing of more than $74,000 in the cost of milk dietribution in Hamilton and an aggregate annual saving of more than -$1,500,00 in seventeen of the principal cities throughout Canada is contemplated under a 'plan recom- mendod. by the Milk Committee ap- pointed lig the Food Controller. The report whin was made public to -day contains a recomendation that the maximum "spread' or difference, between the price paid to the pro-• ducer and the price charged to the consumer, should not be allowed after December 1 to exceed 5 cents per quart in the Maritime Provinces, On- tario and. Quebec, and 5 1-4 cents per quart in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, .0.1- berta and British Colombia. These maximum "spreads", or distributors' margins, represent the present charge for distribution under averagli condi- tions and are intended to allow time for tne aeliustment of the milladistre tinting business. The Committee nlikes it plain that its recommendations do- not involve sanction of an increase in the distrib- utors' "spread" in any municipality where it is lower at present tha.0 the proposed maximum "spread". In the case of Ottawa the Committee recom- mends that the preeent "spread'of 3 1-4 ceuts per. quart should not bee creased. A plan is outlined for the subsequent reduction of such maxi- mum spreads wherever it inay be foliar' elm investigation that a saving could be affected by a reorganization of delivery and elimination of the heavy waste resulting from unneces- sary duplication of services. T 1,e Com- mittee estimatethat, under present conditions, there is an average loss of 1 1-2 cents per quart which could be prevented tinder a single or Meal zone delivery system. .Iii making public the report, Hon. W. .L Hanna etated that reorganize: tion of milk distribution,. as recom- mended by the Committee, would re- quire action by the Provincial Govern- ments if it were to be put on a per- manent basis. He explained that cu. tain powers were 'Vested in the rood Controller tinder the War Meesures Act, and that when that Act was re- pealed there would be no machinery for the permanent reorganization of milk distribution which the Commit- tee outlined, untese it be provided by Provincial authority. The Provint cial Governments, he said,if they should deem it desirable to do so, might pass legislation to bring about 'sun veorgeelleation and to .allow con- trol of local milk distribution to be exercised by municipalities or pre vete companies,meet' the plan pro - Pissed by the committee, The report states that the price paid for milk to the producers is net exceseive, in view et present condi- tions. An average increase in the price of milk has been less.. than 30 per cent., while the average cost of cows, feed and labor has advanced 50 per cent., 75 per Cont. and 75 Per en . respectively. It leipe nted out that, in order to secure en ample sup- ply ot milk, a reasonable protit must always be allowed to the farmer. Any pries which did not allow a reasonable profit Would result in decreased pro- ductionY suppty 01 milk would be endangered. Taking an average for representa- tive cities of Canada, the farmers are receiving from 6 to 8 Cents per quart while the consumers are paying from 10 -to le cents per quart. The increase in price added by the distributor rang- es from 2 3-4 to 6a; cents per quart and varies in about the same ratio as the number of distributors operating in the different cities. The -Committee reports that this spread' is excessive and that the chief cause la an exces- sive number of distributors. Provlsion is made in the report for the appointment of. Provincial Com- mittees to Investigate the cost of dis- tributing milk in any city and to re- commend any adinstment of the dis- tributors' spread which may be found advisable. Where it. is decided that economic waste could be reduced by reorganization of distribution a local commission is recommended to deal with suck reorganization. The results expected under the committee's plan are: (1)-A reduction in the price of milk to the consnmers or an increase M the price paid to the producers, or an apportionment or the saving be- tween the two :nesse% (2) The release of a considerable number of melt for military service or other important war work. (3) Economies to both producers and distribetors by the co-operative Purchasing of supplies and. by stand- ardizing of equipment. (4) A better quality of milk would be assured to the consumers in many cities, with a consequent reduction in mortality and saving in expenditures to prevent the spread of tuberculosis and other diseases. The report is signed by Mr, P. B. Tustin Chief of the Toed and Dairy Division, 'Winnipeg (Chairman); Mr. W. A. Wilson, Dairy Commissioner, Regina; Mr. R. W. Wigmore, Commis' sioner, St. Sohn; Dr. N. E. MacKay, Chairman, Board of Health, Halifax; Mr. 3. Bingham, Manager of the Ot- tawa Dairy, Ottawa; Dr. T. Boucher, Medical Health Officer, lioetreal; Mr. W. R. Hamilton, Vancouver, B.C.; Mr. Id. H. Stonehouae, President Ontario Milk Producers' Aszociation. HOW CrIIES WOULD BENEFIT The following table shows how saving in the cost ot distributing milk would work out under the reorganization plan recommended by tire Milk Committee, The figures are based conservatively on an esti- mated daily consumption of ee plat of milk per capita and an estimated saving of 1 cent per quart, whereas the committee believes the saving would be slightly more than 1 cent per quart. In cemputIng the daily consumption in the cities enumerated the latest avall'able Federal cen- sus figures for population are used, City. Daily, Con- sumption Saving; in Quarts Yearly at lc estimating Consumption por at .14 plat in Quarts Quart per Capita, Quebec ... .. . . . Montreal . St. John... ... •L Halifax ... .. Toronto Hamilton . ..... t.. , . . ... London .A. 114. 666 •og 1129 Ottawa ill. •14 ••• .••• ••• vl HUM 4go ••• •••• •••• o•-• ....... Regina .6• .0.64 ..... 6 • • 6 4611 ••• Saskatoon albosejaw•.. loo, • 61,11 4.4.1 Calgary , f t( (•4 /•• •••• 7. tfiniOniOn ••• ovt 4 Vanemrier .146411 • ..... .6(11(• at Vittbria • • • 6 6 • • • • • • • • • • . • • • V Totals 6,0 •••• •Ig •,•• 19,677.5 7,188,283 $ 71,822.88 117,629,0 42,031,300 429,213.00 10,627.75 3,879,129 38,791.29 11,654.75 4,253,984 42,539.84 94,134.5 34,359,093 343,590.98 20,492.25 7,479,071 74,796.71 11,576.0 4,224,876 42,248.75 21,703.5 7,044,408 79,444.08 4,556,5 1,662,758 16,527,53 40,750.0 14,873,750 148,737,50 6,581.75 2.884,089 23,840.89 5.262.0 1.920,630 19,206.30 4,233,5 1,546,223 15,452.28 14,128.6 5,156,9e3 51,569,03 13,461.5 4,913,448 49,134,48 25,100.25 9,161,501. 910615.91 7,910.0 2,283,975 28,889.75 •••••••••••••••••.•6 429,485,25 156,762,122 1,567,621.20 mommoomemummA. .6,11 .166666.1. .6 .6 4*6 466466* 446... of the youngest British airmen waa British air snake laugh to -day. On e B,,,11,1s11 vlEvi flying at a low altittule When four it enemy machine guns opened on hint. lio swooped down and shot three of his opponents as lit swept by. The fourth machine gun kept firing and the !Meter in a spirit of boyish tufa- chief leaned over the side of the car and Wriggled hia fingers in a:Vette de. lesion at the German. j'aett as he Wag In the midst of title interesting per- formance his opponent put 5 bullet squarely through the palm of the air- man'a 'open hand, The Aviator prenentcd himself at a dreesing station and When queried ad- mitted the truth with crestfallen ram llid consolation for his wound was reare cf laughter and advice, to be mere petite to a toeche in the fitter°, ...at .41. Our pefzition is sitnigy tithe That Ito matt is n good husbalid Who den- ts% riotlee when he -cornea home that the sitting-rOont ourtaint have been Moved to tilt, dining -roam -Dallas Nowa, tional tomb of Samuel on Neby Samwil (the prophet Samuel), located on the 'height mcot conspicuous of all in the neighbOehood of derusalem, immeda, HOL yy to the Crusaders as "Montjiyo.," as the ately above the town of Gilmon, known teeee spot from whence they first saw the city of PariS, New Crusaders Are Nearing Their Objective. Landon, Mareh 25. --Tile British • troops -Learningintents the mountain% ct %Iced togarde iTernsalerd on Sattir. day gallica theist' lint *view of the holy city '<thee they tdoritted and captIr.i•d alwa:111-, ti ab, the city of alenjamia, Whin In the eariY neriodo Of the bletery of Israel was the great vanctetary of jehavain the tipecial cort Of the peteale in time of difficulty anal sOlorin deciaratiot, The 'twat from .0en, Allenby states that the Turks boinharded the tradr. Refugees reaching Alocandria from Peleatine report that the Turks, in co.. operation with the Germane, are cam - mining the most 'fearful atrocities mum theJOwli4h colontes itt Palestine. Menth all the leading meut of the ' Jewieli. 'colony at Jaffa wore accuPed of espionagy and false, evidence Or 011 crafestans extorted by totture, were tainvittea by a -German court-martial and bent4e,1, with Many mobilo% of their .familion, reflig63 declare, 1111 ortinr to evtert cenferlors, it is added, raenv mon and weincii, leraucling•setne Aincrlinn citizens, hare 'hem stripped ant bett'en in imlire, eolete e0 1.10VerelY Sti to came death. Thon,lost ail PM:Vita for thine OWI), •1eatii.,,2448., mounts, gilE Of ITALIAN CACUNTAIN ONE OF UNEXArtii LEO VIOLENCL ..„ WHORL ETC . . IAAKS • Several Hundred 'Mule Pos. gale the Great .A•dvance, Stoimed Tol.xins and Fought Ireavy Guns. +Peaks Lost Regained by Ita- lians in Bloody Hand -to - Rand Fighting. British Army IleadqUartera in Fiance, cable says that the casualties among the erewe of the tanks' was very light on the openiug day whiee it; the only one for which repotts have thus far Leen reeeirea. It 13 1111 posrable to state low many Millie were in actiou but there were se.ei& hunarea, and oet oE ell tee men wile went iorward in them it appeare.that less than 20 were kiliea, and less than 100 wounded, Many of these casual- tieS were due to the fad that men lett the tanks to perferm some work in the open, where tney ceine untler iee tire of. snipers. The performance ot the teaks was the mom- remarkable because there ties oure a short time ie peeeare for their use. Some of the tanks -i,eterans, but many had never been iftu an engagement before ant tile (gees lacked actual fighting experience, Moreover, it was neceseazy to t•ein the infantry to co-operate with them. All this was accomplisime 111 a eery few .weelts. 111 uulditlin, agreat amount of work wile done to get tee tanks into position end bring foriti,3 Ilia fuel, Many hundred tons of vetrol were brought up seeretly and stored pending the attack. It was deem so Quietly Cult few soldiers in ;he terri- tory involved knew weat wee pl ceeding. The advance of the tanks, with their general leading Lite wait in the monitor flying Ins flag,- was the moat impressive sight imaginaele. Fcr miles they were lined ap along the British front, and whel they star 1.,:•4] forward it was like a, great cumuli.- ial paeacle. Back- of them came tin picture ratuirtr.Y' giving tha touca to tbe Tne tanks have been engaged in some bitter figbling 1111105 /1111V PnterOd enemy territory. They- crusecd their way through barbed wire easily, tear- ing great gaps for the infantry, ;old it was not until they had made a con- siderable advance that strong resist- ance was eneOnntertni. 7:110 fighting was at Lateau Wood, te ute of Masnieres. There the tanks engagni a nninber of German: field and heavy guns and won the day against them, One taint deliberately -charged- a-5 e dame gun and cleaned out ire crew with its 11.0 chine guns. Canting fell before .me attic whicta bad never seen lectern utile; thet 'erne, It charged into tho tiIlnie r easing it untenable by tam vigereae action 1 its guns. Twelve tanks lad 1.113 way into Maecoleg. Their crews previously had etudied maps and been issiwaed poets, end the tank'swent about tee huelbess methodically, each one teem; up the position. designated. These twelve movable faith tompletely organized the plate. At leibecourt the tanks arrivee just as the Germans were sitting do sii to breakfast. The crews of the teen ks got their morning meal from the nice prepared for the enemy. These are not the only places whin the Walks assisted in taking. rhey have •legn &warming over the whole greatterri- tory annexed by the Britesle CMiirTBI tin -74zullosKi Infernal Machine, Found in Milwaukee Church. Ex.plodod On Examination in Police Station. 0.6.6.46.ft 0,66 ...V.:4464••••••• .afilwaultee, Wis. , Nov. 25. - Ten persons were killed and several In- jured last right when a bomb, de- signed to destroy the Italian Evangel- ical church, in the heart of the Third team. an -Italian settlement, exploded in the Central police station, where it bail been tarried tor examination, Avon detectives, two policemen and one woman were killed. The bomb, with a time fuse attached, was found in the basement of the church. When a searching party equipped with fire departuint lights entered the squed room the scene was hock- ing to even thestern-Visaged police- men and firemen, who are used to tragic emergencies. The body of Detective Dave O'Brien My in the centre of the room. Ho Was lying face downward, partially cov- ered with debris, Detective Stecker's body was found near tho entrance to the squad room. Ile appeared to have rectelved the full force of the charge. His body was mangled. Inside of his elothing was found a piece of steel alout two inehes tentage whieh had passed through his body e His face, however. Was not even !marred. Every member of tile Central sta- tion detail except ne Was hi the squad room to inspect the helllh/ Do- toctivo Berns, after inspecting the in- fernal-machince left the room to sug- gest to Lieut. Flood that it be placed in a pail of water, He Was malting hie receasmendation in Flood's office when the exploden occurred, killing those who remained in the room. It is the belief of tho police that the bomb was placed lit the r,vangel. Mal ehurch by anarthists friendly tO the Italians recently arrested for breaking up a patriotio meeting being held by a missionary from the church, -A meeting was to have beeu held in the ehurch towilieht, mil the bomb WP..1 so tImcd that it would lucre Ot• plotted during the meeting, "The falling leaves fill me With Mel» aneholy thonghta," said the poetic person, "They used to have that of - fact on Ins," said the practieal person. "What chanted you?" "r moved litto sit apartiftent and dide't have to rake them. ehy Inore."-eleirbtinghaen :Age - Herald, roole••••, TEUTON' ACAIN 'FAILS Til Gil ACROSS PIAVI A Rome cable sayet "The reorganise ,tiorz of the .entire Italian army Is pro eeNling, apaco," said. Senator Willtar. idareeni, ilagentor of tile wireleas,li uu laterview to -day with the AS40e111/ ed Free% "It Maims 119c081151332t that f.he onward march a the enemy wit, Ito doilaitely staoped," "I wee told the enemy has -suffer°. very severe lone* near Ainago, au% also la the mountains, between th, .4-nita and flare qtivers. The gen eral opinion in high quarters- la :tha. li the Italians can hold their line foi iour er eive days longer the intim ;:anger wilt be over." Headquarters in Northeri ays; The battle of the intetateliie ,• raging with unexample• Vielenee. .iie Italians again not( 'dome: t and Monte Porde thn. h they lost last night the leeeie IL teL been very great, hie he eneiiie s ter exceed those ot the 114011n4112the •. of the emantair eattle dept., result of . the ene giro greatect e et to break througl. the Italian be i; • the Venetian plain The recaptui.*: • Italian positions abily which dyed the si.)ws rel and iert tin grown( piled, with enemy dead, Montt Pertica was lest and won four times the enemy finally ty4ing thrown back tho 10118i1S have been terri hie, those of the 61 '.y are by fa: the greater, Owing t the contliticm oi the fighting noid and the desperatt heroism at tho Italian troops. Tbe enemye greatest blow was aim. ed at the strategic key of Monte Tom ba and Monte alonfenera, Here the full Vine of -two dtvisions, one Cer- man, the other Austrian, was Dented In a furious attack on the Italian right wing in an effort to turn the wing and reit off the army from its line of com- munication along the Piave. Even tht enemy'yields tribute to Italian valor for prlsonera say their forces are sur prised at the realstance met and (Us concerted by the inapetuons bravery of the Italian troops. A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE, Hallett Headquarters in NoRhern Italy, cable says that a 11110e2S.Sies.. of attacks and counterattacks follow- ed rapidly throughout, yesterday an the hills between the Piave and Bren- ta, valleys, *here the Italians and Austro -Germans are engaged in furi- ous combat. Brigades and regiments, their numbers diminished in the struggle, were re-tortned and returned to the fight. In one section where there were thirty officers twenty-sev- en were killed or wounded, but the remaining three fought the battle of of thirty. The final charge of the day came al 2 o'clock. The enemy had struck his greatest blow earlier in the day, and the fierce attack lasted three-quartera of an hour. The whole field was swept by artillery fire and the ground was strewn with dead. It was amid this welter of bodfes and debris the Italian lines were reformed, and from it they ;moved forward, steadily and issresistibly, until the disputed ground was taken, except at one point, where the struggle still goes on. • The first army also is sustaining a heavy fight west.. ot Brenta River, where the .enemy rush has . been re- pulsed by the splendid resistance of the Rattails. A corporal of the Florence Lancere was ordered to explore a zone near Cividale. Going forward he saw a large party of Italians, held prisoner by the enemy. He returned and gathered aforce of cavalry, which re- leased the --imprisoned party and brought them back. In another case Piedmontere cavalry, after being see r . brought back the enemy t the colonel commanding l ionuens failed to estop°. He was the only Man left inside the enemy circle, and he was soon to take his stand' against. 0. wall, probably preferring death to being made a prisoner. A battalion is 1,000 men, itt four eompanies. A regiment is 3,000 Men. or three battalions. A brigade M 6,- 000 men ot two regiments. A divis. ion is two or three brigades. army corps .in two or three .111'1'181011S. It is OM regiraental formation ef 3,000 it en which Makes it appalling fighting when only -300 ocr7 400 remain SEC zEAS, AVE GOT HU Lloyd George Sums Up the War Situation, •*•••*•6 Must Turn Out Vessels to the Limit. aia London, Nov, 25,-Aadressing acle• putation of employers mid workmen engaged in shipbuilding who called upon him yesterday with nggestions for the best means of securing, the greatest poesible output of now ships, Premier Lloyd George urged bettor oc.operation. "INie are fighting for our lives," said the Premier. "We have terrible struggles On hand before no. but if we ilre enured on. the sea% well, to use the phrase, we have got them; they cannot escape us. "We got them hi a deadly grip. and, knowing the character of the people of this country as 1 do, they do not let go, once they Iteve etartol. That Is their histerie character, and the G.ernian Iniewe it, Ito is aware _thee. Our grip lo a deadly ono nee We begin, and he is trying to unloosen it. He is attempting to get us at what he considers is our Most vureereble point, newly, our tommunicatiOns on the SOS, He will net succeed. But It depends very largely on yott, and you can only get the bent results by 500d -v:21 and enororation and by throwing the whole of your enorgY and streng,11 into the task." Mrs.aioesin--I Understand your latest mistress was queer and talked a lot to herself when uiotue, Is that true? Applicant -4-1 dolq kitatv, Muni, I was, notr 4rovhtin, silo 'Ina, tualic-suage. Ltalian GUM Wiped Out, Boats and Men Making Attempt. UNE FUMY haii 111 Enemy Attacks Repuls- ed -Let-up in Battle at Present. Italian Headquarters. in Nortnern taly, Nay, 25, -Strong enemy attacks vial, artillery preparation continued aroughout -Saturday along the witole 4x.tont of front between the Prenta tna Wiave Rivers, but tee enemy -owls no ground, and all ais attacks failed. The fighting , while severe, wile not af that whirlwind eneracter of the ,ast days, and both sides are engaged reorganizing their positions On the wetting front and taking a mometie ary respite from the tremendous train of the last few days, Another enemy attempt to cross the Piave River on pontons reeulted In the wiping out of the pontoons and men. Further details of the fierceness of the recent fighting In the north were given to the correspondent by an eye- gitnee returning from the battle - them who also. told of many instances or daring by regiments, betteries aud individuals, The Italian artillery has esneeiallY dtstinguithed itself. In the fighting round elelette d'AVentt a mountain battery was obliged to fall back with the infantry. Every officer of tbe bat- tery had been killed except the cap- tain. who was badly wounded. While bleeding on the groued he called two gunners, ordered them to set up the ereck of the remaining gun and dt. rected them to fire from this point. The last seen of hint was on the ground behind this piece. Two other batteries were brought into action yesterday morning. The enemy fire was so fierce that a whole battery was nearly swept away. As the captain was killed his place was taken by a lieutenant. When the last 'un was destroyed in a storm et ebelIs the few gunners about him seized the bayonets and poined the ,nfantry as they swept forward in a charge, -and were among aliose who drove back the enemy in one of the fiercest attacks. DUG OUT BURIED BATTERY, In another case an explosion al- most buried one ot the mountain bat- eries in debris and killed the cap- tain. The Austrians tried to occuPY the position over this buried battery. But the battery men first drove the enemy back, then dug out their guns and twenty men and carried them sboarcvli.ceto-sothat the. guns again are in At another point all the .artillerY horses were killed, and it was impos- sible to move two batteries to a new position until the gunners had. un- limbered the piecee under fire and aad carried the wheels and trunnions on their shoulders to new positions. Many young Venetians are display- conspinous valor, as they feel their city is endangered, One of these Venetian -corporals expressed their general sentiments in these words: "We saw the plight of the refugees don't intend to have our mothers and :lirkiev etnh aftr."om the Friuli region, and we sisters go through another experience WEAR ITALIAN UNIFORMS. There have been many instances cf Austrians gaining advanced positions ..earing the Italian uniforms. When AI:W1.rle-11 prisoners are captur- ed wearing the Italian uniform sum. Leary action at once is taken without .he formalities ot trial. An Austrian officer was caught• eesterday in the UtilforIn of an Ital- am lieutenant -colonel. Speaking good Italian, ho was mingling among the soldiers and gathering informa- tion. Another suspect was seen here m various uniforms, those of an Italian captain, a 3,nd a chap - win. Ile escaped lam night but was iariturca to -day in the uniform of a naplain. The text of to -day's official state- ment reads: "011 the Asiago Plateau, heroic parties of our First Army, who, for ten days, Uninterruptedly and with- out yielding a gard ef ground, have been fighting for -the defence of the .nrong point of Meletta, Yesterday again repnised several farina enemy attacks and count. -attacked with euccess. Two sections of Machine guns 'were captured. "On. the rest . of the front there wore only artillery actions. "Near Monte Grappa two enemy aeroplanes were brought down - by olle of Mir airmen." The Prussian Guard Regiment is among those continents having the aeaviest lasses. Three battalions of the Guard were thrown against the charge which carried the Italian back nto one of their strategic high posi- tions., The Guards \vete swept aside in an impetuous wave of entheslasm, and only a battalion ot them was able to reform itt small groups. Reports show that Italian aviator% 'lave brought cloWn 51 minty ma- chines during the fighting 01 the last 10 days -or nearly tWo machines daily. :TALY DOES NOT -KED AID YET wennetteat-h Rome, Nov. 25. -It Is announced on the best authority that the reaaell why the French and British trope sent to Italy have not joined the Italians so far on the fighting front Is because their help has not been necessary. They were sent to aa- sist the Italians when the Wherever they were needed, but the Italian army hos made such a wonderful re- covery in spirit and organization that net only have they checkea the en. elnY, but retently gained some tut - vantages, It Is iMpOSsibIO to pre- dict whee the deeidete battle will be. din, or whether the present lines will be held for the groat Oat, but tho retieb. and, Britialt I14 11.xfttelvato wh64over 11. touth: