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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-11-26, Page 7PRUSSIAN G1JARD DELUDED The Enemy's Six.Pooters Moved Cheering Into Path Of flachin.e Guns London, Nov. 1s. --A oorrespon dent in Noa thein France sends the following details of the defeat of the.. Prussian Guard, as ieferred to in ofiioial British reports "It was only when the wattxded prisoners of the Prussian Guards arrived at that the British soldiers realized the kind of men they load been fighting for the last few days. Huge fellows they were, al•1 oyer six feet in height, and one of ahem nearly seven. "When one realizes that this mag- nificent ag-nific ent regiment has, now been se- verely handled by the British troops for the third time, and that its men are looked upon as the flower of the • German army, then one also realizes just what a ,fight the Bri- tish put. up, "After submitting for over eight hours to a terrible. shell fire of both lyddite and shrapnel, the British • troops were getting very tired, and it was neiet.. to impossible to send •reliefto the .advancedtrenches un- til after dark. The Germans, anti- cipating this condition oft things. and realizing that ib was now or never, massed, in fares their Preis - slam Guard and some other forces and drove the British 'back through sheer weight of numbers. . Back they went, contesting each trench stubbornly as they evacuated it. 'When within about; sixty yards of where the artillery was hidden, RUSSIAN FLEET ROUTED GOEBEN Turks' Pet Battle Croiger Fled on Fire After au Explosion 00 Board. the troops, acting under orders, suddenly split their line and dis- persed on either side, leaving a. 'huge gap—thebreak in the British line, which the enemy had been try- ing rying to make forweeks, Into thio break eamae the Prussian Girard. wildly ,shouting and (sheering. They had advanced within 'fifty yards. of the muzzles of the field guns when these, ;belched forth at point-blank range, while the maxims fired into them from either side. "Not even the Prussian Guard could stand this. They broke. wavered and fled. Their flight was aided by a savage charge made by the Black Watch, whi©h regiment.` in company with others, was up and at them the moment the signs of wavering were seen.. "The whole thing wa.s beautifully timed and the infantry and artil- lery. Not only were the Germans driven backover the trenches. which but a sho?rb time ago they had taken from the British, but they were pursued by the Highlanders for over a anile beyond. "The net result was that the Ger- mans lost over a thousand men killed and some . three thousand wounded, as well as ,their own ad- ,vanoed trenches, from which the final attack had originated, and the British artillery is now sendinrr shells a mile further into thee' ranks.'' PRZEMYS L OFFERED 10 YIELD 0141.4.4.44444,4444 Russians Have Refused Terms, as They Expect to Immediately Take FortressY A despatch from Rorie' says: Prxemyel, the Galician fortress which has been under siege by' the Russians forsame weeks, has offer- ed to eapitulaite on. -condition than the garrison 'be• peivnitted to march out with its earns and baggage. The Russians refused to grant :these terms, knowing that the fortress is ujna:ble to resist a longer. Its capitu- latbion 'is imminent. The: Giornale D'Itali,afe correspondent at Bucha- rest seaays,that the Austrian garrison aut`'Przemaystl mmade'a' Sortie and was repulsed "with enormous :basses, in- cluding many ,prisoners.. The •oor respondent Mattes that the garrison is shiort of aaumunition• and that a, general'assault is expected at once. The Russians are anxious to take the town before December 6. ARE BATTLING AT LONG RANGE — Artillery. Duels Have' Taken the Place of Attacks by • Infiehtry. A deispiatckt from Paris says: The artillery ,attack by the Germans is centred on Ypres in the north and an the allied line near Soissons, where the west flank 'hinged on, to the centre. These long range at- tacks are the only incidents of the fighting thought worthy of report by_�the Foeneh Governmeni•t, Alt Ypres., the key of the 'allied:' whole position Om Belgium, and the town Which the Kaiser .himself told his troop's must be taken sit a,ny'cost, the Germans destroyed historical 'monuments,'beautiful in archibes lure and rich in tradition.. The Ho- tel de Ville and the Hailes, -ancient- ly the great market place, lately a inuseauan,, crumbled under German ishells. Edtifioeis that ieurviyed six hundred years colleapsed in ea few minutes. Elsewhere in the town there has been little fighting. Tremendous lessee suffered by both asides, the exhaustion prodtte,ed by weeks of tight and day fighting and sapping, the suffering 'caused,by floods and frost have brought about, for the time at least, a srbuaatiioen which the CCClaGovernmentreferee: to, laconically as f' alm.." The soldiers on both sides have kept to the trenches, having neither lame nor energy for other labor than to make life barely, en- durable. Me resumption • of the ,artillery attack near Soissontee and Vaildy' is nab surprising, since the >Germane have never abandoned their effort to ' break through .ab this part of the lime, wJii'h is aboult` ,:70 miles only from Paris. ,:Every. effort to smash tlhrough with ' 'infantry has beeen fruitleisisa, and thousands of soldiers were thrown away in these aatteraplts. For several . weeks the Germans have oontented themselves with hammering the allied line with bag guns. • � a•T'S uSONS DERV E: DEB SURR N A despatch frown, London Bays: A great battle was fought in the Black Sea between Sebastopol and Odessa by IS- Russian fleet of two, battle: ships and five'cs uiser:s and a Turk- ish squadron composed of the Earn- ouss German battle cruiser Goebert and the light cruiser Breslieu. The Russian Government supplies de- tails of the fight, and asserts that the Goebert was badly damaged by broadsides frown. the Russian flag- ee! 2-inh gns, a,ird escaped only because ofcheirugroat spceed: The Turkish Government • • gives out that, the Russian fleet was de- feated, that, a Russian battleship was seriously damaged, And that the Russian ships, pox -sued by the Turkish ships, fled to, .• Sebastopol h arbor. The statement issued by, the'Itus- sian Ministry of Marine gives the following account of .the engage- ment : ngage-menta "On November 18, a division of the Black Sea flees- retu:ming from its eruiee to. Sebastopol, near bhp, coast of Anatolia, sighted 25 mile= from the .Bhersones Light aa. Turk- ish detaehnn'ent, consisting of the Goeben and. the Breslau. The Rus- sian fleet immediately drew .up' in battle order, bringing • the enemy to starboard, and opened fire at a'dis- tance of 40 cable lengths (about five miles). The first .salvo, of 12 -inch guns from the flagship Admiral Evstafry struck the . Goebert and caused an explosion amidships, set- ting heron fire. Following the Ev- stafry, the other Russian ships opened, fire, the Russian guns giv- ing an excellent account of them- selves. "A series of explosions were seen in the hull of the Goeben, which opened fire slowly. The enemy seem- ed notto have expected to meet us; The Germans fired salvos of their heavy guns, directing them exclu- sively at the flagship, The encotun- ter continued for 14 minutes, after which the'Goeben withdrew and dis- appeared in the fog, taking advan- tage of her: speed. 'The Breslau took ,no part, in the fight, holding herself on the hori- zon. The Evstafry suffered only in- significant damage: "The Russian losses were a lieu- tenant, three ensigns and 29 sailors killed, alieutenant and 19 sailors seriously wounded and five sailors slightly wounded." - In :putting the Gehbeen to flight the Evstafry defeated awarship enormously , her ,superior; in• every- re-speet. The battle cruiser Goeben is a vessel -of 22,400 tons, and 28% knots speed, while :the pre -Dread nought battleship Evstafry .is ..of only .12,300 tons .> and 174 knots speed. The Goeben's main arma- ment.'consists of ten 11 -inch and •twelve 6 -inch. guns, w. the Ev- sbafry carries only fourhile12-inch, four 8 -inch and twelve 6 -inch. TRat.IN BLSE WRECKED. Information Which, Led to Bom- bardment of ` Belgian Coast. •A despatch from London says. A Rotterdam, despa beh to The Daily Mail say's : "The British fleet re- ceived information on Monday which led -them to carry out: a vig- orous boanb.ardment at Knocke and Zeebrugge,; on the Belgian. coast. The Solvay Oempany's works on the. Bruges ship oa.nal, which are being used as : a. base for German military trains,. was wrecked. A train ;of five ears, filled with soldiers, : was struck by a shell, took fire and was: destroyed. Much damage was done to the German stores ` and 'sup- plies., BIG CLOTHING ORDERS. Hosiery Company to Furnish Socks, Underwear and Sweaters. South African Insurgent Leader. Put to flight with Small Remnant. A despatch from London says: Renter's Cape Town correspondent says that two sons of General Chris- tian DeWet, the rebel; leader, have surrendeered to.: a magisetraate in Cape 'flown. Seven+ail' of General DeWet's .chief officers, ' together with rruo'•stt of his ,supporters to the west of the railway line, nurrene dered Bathe lams gime:. A despatch to Reiube.r'es from Pre- toria. says: "It is officially, announc- ed that General De Wet's rapidly dwindling rebel comana.ndo #becanne surrounded by loyal forces in the vicinity of Boshof, on the Vaal Ri- ver. General DeWet succeeded in escaping with only 25 men.. The remainder of his force surrender- ed." New Military Tent. A despatch from London .says The wet weather .prevailing at Sal- isbury Plain lately has made a suit- able occasion for demonstration in the Canadian camp of a special military Ment invented by F. P. Ayl- win, of Ottawa, formerly of • the Royal Net -ft -West line: Mounted Po The "Continever tent," as it is styled, is really a hut with vertical sides and slightly sloping . , roof, made of wood covered with. rein- forced canvas. The chief superior- ity of the tent, beyond its comfort, lies in the fact that ill is so con- structed that it can be put together or taken down in a few minutes. The War Office has given ,a eontradb for 10,000 of these tents,' and it is hoped by Mr. Aylwin that his de- monetriatiou before Canadian offi tiers will result in further orders. Sample tents erected in Green Park, Piccadilly, and used by the Territorials, showed that both hien and horses . were better protected than under canvas;,. CeverRuse •of a French enc Airman 11 despatch from Paris says : M. his Taube aeroplane and flew away; leneeneeau's L'Iiornme Enchain. Garros found the. Tatibe easy*. to .: yes an account; cif the experiences handle, but he was received with a>I• Belated Garros, the French -amine- terrific fire from his own country - r' who was forced to land in the men when he Landed behind the 'e account of mo- prone lines, He landed inhurt u�eany s country on , ,, eastonished� rerich • e n ...t� r troublss, (haxroes woos greeted amq g with a hail of bullets. 1 -le feigned troops. A German aeroplane'des- fall.` by the trick dives and tweets, cended near Rheims. The two Ger- bad used . •; fre ueufil exhib nan off: cers aboard boa rd had d lost thei r ns, and pretended to be deat, direction. With revolvers in hand cocaon a Germanman avr�toland-they wels asking a pe a t �n net route when T'reneh soldiers arrived closeb and,approached him. to , y tiaseein shot the German andftoolt and captured them. K A'CEMETERY WALL AS. A NATU RAL French squad :under a lieutenant doing .advance Miring near righted). SOW LANDII• S`. PROTECTION. Erne court. (Photo by L© Mart , copy - A despatch from Kingston says Orders have been received from the British and French- Govern- ments by the Kingston Hosiery Company for the manufacture of .55,000 dozen half -hose, 3,000 suits of underwear and. 1,500 dozen sweaters. . The company's employ- ees are working night and day, as part of the order has to be ,ready by .December 15. PLAINS 741OlI EW DBY DOCK. It will .11e 1,150 Feet Long, ailed will Cost About :$3,000,000. A despatch from Ottawa says. 'Draughtsmen ,of the Department of Public Works are nth work on ppleas of the new dry dock at Halifax, The plains, whiesh will be completed next' month, provide for a dock 1,150 feet long, and 180 feet' wide. I± w>il be, .specially adapted for re- pair workon ships of the Royal Navy, and' is estimated to cast $3,- 000,000, Presents Enter Free of Duty. ,. A despatch frgnt Ottawa i3 : Now that Christmas is on lets way, a' tlespat sill i eceivetd h om the Skate. t;ary of State for. "the Colonies is of .a. distinctly seasonable charac- ter. It states that presents to in- •elxvxdua s eilltrers of tca bodies . ies of 1 men belonging to the Canadian ex- peditie nary force will be ache it bed free of duty. IN OSTEND DUNES Enemy Said to• Be Preparing a "Surprise"' for the Allies in Belgium. A despatch from the Hague says: The Germans are raining 'the dunes near Ostend and northward .:to the Dutch frontier. A Dutch military expert says: "Military men have been sur- prised that hitherto we have beard so little or German; land miners,: Perhaps ' it is because::' the allies have not yet penetrated to German soil. Although after the battle of the Marne they reached 'a, position_ that lead been ' occupied by the. enemy, it must be assumed that the Germans had not time to 'nine the ground. Now in the north-west of Belgium it looks as if the Ger- nnans were preparing a mine sur- prise. The whole dune region_ which is about fifteen . miles wide, has been declared forbidden :ground not only to civilians, but to the soldiers and officers of the German land forces, who are allowed there only, on special permits from .the, marine brigade, under whose juris- dietion that territory bas been placed.` "Front a fugitive who has 'arrived in Hollrind, we learn that active digging is proceeding in the dis- trict. "Isolated German band mine°• consist of cylinders filled with shells or bombs and strong explo- sives. The cy'l'inders are fastened to chains about ten feet long which are firmly anchored in'the ground. "Through electric connections the ^ mines can be exploded at a, great distance. Gunpowder placed near 'the mines is fired by the elec- tric current, and the resulting ex- plosion muses the cylinders . to leave the ground to a height of five or six feet. Then •the shock caused by tile resistance of ` the anchor causes the dynamite in the cylin- ders to explode and the charge spreads in alldirections• horizon- tally.' ; KILL ED IN ITOI.7 SES. Germans Found- Warships Were Sparing Streets on Sea Front. A des•p - atch from Louden says: "A week ago," says the Daily Mails Dunkirk correspondent, "the Germans .noticed that the fire from the English warships spared the houses . on thinsea. front at Mtddrl kerke, whereupon they took up. quarters in them. This fact be- same known to the :British, who suddenly bombarded the houses from five ships at once. The Ger- man casualties were enormous, the dead alone being estimated at 1,700." The correspondent of the Times in. West Flanders relates fur- ther indications of an impending German retreat from the line they are new holding. Their transport, he says, has been moved back sev- eral miles at different points and the -mining of roads 'has ,been car- ried out extensively in the past few days. According to the correspon- dent, the arrival.°of heavy Biibish guns of. late has done much towards detnoralizing the Germans, whose guns are becoming touch the worse for wear from reckless use, I1111. SUCCESSION HETI ES. THE NET HAS TIfjITENE1: The Immigration and Customs , Reg,ulations Are Now Very Stringent A despatch from Ottawa a says:: Precautions which have been: taken as . a result of the war,` have result- ed in a most stringent :tightening of the immigration and customs regu- lations of the Dominion. Addition- al restrictions :have : been added from time to tithe, •until the authori- ties now consider that everything has been done to prevent the en- trance into the country of. either German spies ori German goods. Tod the ordinary .queries with which a traveller .crossing: the Canadian border is confronted have been add- ed a long list of other questions calculated to bring out in .minutest detail partsclulars as 'to identity,. citizenship and the like. . These en elude particulars as to parentage, Receipts This Year ,Nearly Double the ' le.'ttimate.• A despatch from 'Coiunla says Sacoeeelen ditties paid to the Pro- vincial Treasurer tor the fimealyear just closed anannntcid "tn $1.287,6330 a compared .140.144 frac the fiscal year of 1912,101:3, an increase of over $1�11.00r1, The estimate `t given by Hen. Mj laucas on hie. Budget last ue4ei ies in <i '• r t cession duties at Wf0(l,Utfl lrtal a the time admitted that . these fig- ures Wert only nominal, in nationality, age, movementsduring the previous decade, pitrpo•se in en- tering Canada and length of visit;' and the like. All suspicious persons are being detained" for investiga- tion. -- . . Similar care is being observed in the case of the customs regulations, and baggage for which the inspec toils would formerly on oerasion take the owner's word, is now close- ly searched. As regards merchan- dise and other goods imported, no chances are being taken, aid they are being closely'; examined to as- certain whether -.they are of Ger- man, Austrian or Turkish rnanufac ture. Turkish rugs are now on the list ref contraband, aaxd it is under- stood that such shipments are fre- quently being rejected, GEN. BUYERS 'FLEES. Runs So rasa That the Pursuers' Horses rase- Winded. Cape Town, Nov. 18.—Gen. Bey ers' and 1,500 rebels ;are in full. flight before the loyalists of Cape Colony. Reports' were received here on Wednesday of a running fight west of Belfontein, in which four rebels were killed twenty wounded and one hundred: cap- tured, The loyalists pursued the rebels until their .horses gave out and they were forced to abandon the chase. GERMAN S11E1i;TS BARRED. :!. Criniival Offence to Hare Them Posaeasion. A despatch from Ottawa says The St.aats-Zeitung, :the Vital Issue, the Truth About Germany and the Vaterland, 'four Gernia,n• publica- tions., have been prohibited from the Canadian mails under 'the, War Measures Act. It, is made .a• ,crimi- nal offence to eireuliite these pa- pers or to have thein en possess'i:on. They have been particularly offen- sive again -et Great Britain and the 1'he Pause. "What was this cause of, your .sep- aration, old ,man'?" "Incompatibility. She believed in getting into debt and I didn't." WE ATRER HILTS THE INFANTRY Neither .Side ° Can .Do More Than Hammer the Other with Big Guns. A despateli:.from:,Paris says : The fall of winter has numbed the ener- gy of allies' and—Germans in Bel-: glum and Northern Prance: Snow is falling. Galees.from the sea have driven tide- wat:er:fa•rinland, widen- ing the inundated district. Infan- try operations- are well nigh impos- sible. The official reports issued by the French Government show that the elements have bested for the time being ° bolbh the men in grey and the; menin khaki. Neither side can do more than hammer the other with big guns. The Germans did not press their artillery attack as strongly` es on the previous day. It is officially announeed that tit.e Germans were forced, to abandon heavy guns because of the epre.ad- ing. waters. Near Rantscapelle the allies. •salva,ged two large mortars • which the Germans had been uniable, tato remove. The reports of corres-. ponclence say that bode sides have, last-caannon and automobiles since the flood changed the character of operations. 'There is no doubt that bad weather has increased the ex- haustion of the troops. ARRAS STELLED TSD PIECL-S A , Clergyman From There ''ells of Devastation Caused By the :Germans • A despatch from. Boulogne says : A clergyman, who rsmained zn, Are as.through every' bombardment,. has given this description of the town as; it exists to -day: - "I have stayed and I ;ani goiaig. to eontinue to stay at my post .m this ruined town, - Yesterday the. place had 'another bombardment, the fourth. Arras ins' now o grave. The churches and the cathedral -are a•l.l. gone. Pour hundred houses have been burned. The toads ate disappeti� ing and leaving ,enm orous cavities:- Yesterday the civil and, military hospital at St., ;Teen was shelled for the• tenth time. The. wounded and sick were placed :in the cellars. One of them was the Chief Magistrate, who was badly wounded . by aa shell. The Hospice is also. a•' victim of the explosion i',f 30 people being kallea .ancl 17 injured. The dead and wounded aro all huddled together iii cellars: The only peon ole still seen lYi the streets are, priests and soldiers; . For aver to month the have he,ard a constant cannonade, and the enemy have, beenwithin two miles cif our town for nearly four .weeks." � T res �r.oi�eii di Tres I�roe�. �rilis � .1 da._p,it<li from London says: The ()Mehl] : "e : Prose : R•areat:u : has is sued for follow ing report front the , • force General , 'e•„ra��nt,t�,tl rtst he k . oerttlia n lbr h1 at el Arab River and in the Persian Unite , "On 1*to- ventbrr i” ourtroops drove out of f. 5 0. an entrenched position al„ .1 tt 00 of the capturing turing tiv+,. guns - 1, l and many pri uners, oanrp equip- ment and am:munit.iorr. Our casual. - ties were theta— offieers killed and 15wounded, t ded :and hi the milk and file tis mein killed and .about. 304 wounded.s,