HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-12-3, Page 7TBE KING IS A BUSY MAN
Great Mastery of Detail " Shown in Activities ,of
British Empire!. Head
A despatch £ramLondon says:.
'The part which King peorge is play
in in the war its pictured in The
Daily Express as follows a-
"A oontiinwous round sof increas-
•ing activity, and a mastery of de-
tails such acs might ' alarm a great
'hammier, comprise. the present
'daily routine of his Majesty the
King. Often soon atter six in the
morning the King is busy in his
•stwiy, and by the time This advisers
.and helpers appear he has scanned
the despatches and documents of
the early delivery, mastered' their
.00ntents; and perhaps have numer-
ous marginal notes in readiness for
the forthcoming conference.
"The very sight of the contents
-of the numerousdespatch boxes
would intimidate. most men., Ad-
miralty, Home Office, India Offices,
Arrny Headquarters, all contribute
their daily eorrespandenee, while
from all parte of the Empire e nine
a great mass of hatter which Gan-
net be settled without the 1'.ing's
sanction, but happily controversial.
rnatters have sunk into -oblivion,
and there tare no difficulties of this
sort to contend with.' .
"'Tie problems .anent the war are
many and great, but nothing is too
intricate for the King, who insists
on seeing that the needs of the
country are grappled with.
"His Majesty is also extremely
solicitous as to the' comforts, Of his
fighting force's, and making con'tin-
ual inquiries' as to the supply sof
food, •olo,thes and ',the little extras
that go to the maintenance 0f their
health and spirits. • The wsligiites't
hint to any special article. oaf an-
p ar el is ,accepted, and his Majesty's
invariable reply, when anything
outside the scope of the Admiralty
or War Office is named, is : `'"f will
tell the Qu.een.''
ARMORED TRAIN
SAVED THE DAT
Allies Had Failed to ('heck the
Enemy Throwing a Bridge
Across the 'user.
A despatch. from London says :To
the south of Dixmud•e; where the
Germans still. concentrate- large
bodies of infantry .and cavalry, the
enemy made an attempt to throw a
pontoon bridge across the Yser.
Nearly 200 .men were engaged.
They were covered by a powerful
German battery. So well was the
German -plan ' arranged that the
French and. Belgian 'forces could
not possibly have prevented tihe
construction of the bridge' withotit
losing a great many men,
The Germans had oomplebed
three parts of the task, with noth-
ing more..than.a desultory pepper-
ing from the French rifles, when up
an unconsidered little railway
. track came a British armored train
Roaring and spitting death it raced
into sight quite .suddenly, not .more
than a 'thousand metres distant
from the near ly-•completed bridge,
and the two hundred German bap-
pers, taken completely by surprise,
dropped their tools and bolted.
Many did not get, far, for four of
the train's guns and hall a dozen
mitrailleuses hurled a perfect tor-
nado of shot and shell a;t.them. In
aqua._ less than five minutes nearly a. hun-
dred of the engineers had been kill-
ed and about fifty wounded, and
their hard work had been blown to
splinters.
The enemy's . guns managed to
knock a stores truck at the end, of
the train off the rails, and one of
the guns was 'also temporarily put
out of action.
DEATHS IN CANADIAN FORCE.
Gunner Burdock, Driver Laroe and
Pte. Ash Succumb.
A despatch: ,from Ottawa says:
Thr following additional oa:stualltieis
in 'the Canadian expeditionary force
appear in militia orders: Gunner
Walter Burdock, Royal Cam,adian
Horse A.rtil.l•ery, died 12th, Novem-
ber ; Driver 'Jahn Joseph Laroe,
Canadian Divisional Ammunition
Park, 19th November; Pte. War-
ren Addison Ash, 7th Battalion,
21st November,
CHOLERA AT ANTWERP.
Medical Stair is Trying to Limit the
0 iitbreak.
Rotterdam, Nov. 25. -Disquieting
news comes from Antwerp. The
Nieuew Rotterdainsohe Courant
learns that several cases of cholera
have occurred there and the medical
staff is making strenuous endeavors
to limit the outbreak:. To prevent
the spread of or help to conceal the
news of troop movements German
guards have out the telegraph wires
close to the Dutch frontier.
HOLD .GERMANS
IT A TRIANGLE
Russians are Besieging 1t Great
Part of Invatdi.ng Force
in. Poland.
A despatch from. London says:
The.:Russian Embassy at Rome an-
nounces that the' battle .at Lodz has
been renewed with fresh forces,
Several German divisions (a divi-
sion consists' of 14,000 men) were
annihilated and many German gene
erals were killed. The German
front has been broken in a number
of places: and a decision is immi-
n ent.
The Petrograd correspondent of
the Iorning Post sa,3,s that when
the full details of the Russian vic-
tory in Poland ' are available they
will furnish .a stows twat will at;ton-
ish the world^a story telling of a
blow to Germany's finest troops
such ,as has not been known since
the days of Napoleon.' ` .
The Daily. Mail's Petrograd cor-
respondent, who, in eommeen with
other Petrograd correspondents,
hints that there is to come still
bigger news which they are unable
at this time to traiamit, says the
possibility which !seemed to exist
that the German forces which es-
caped the enveloping movement
east.'of Lodz would succeed • in
breakingthrough near Strykow and
joining the rest of . the German
forces now appears hopeless.
This German force, adds the cor-
respondent, is fighting its way back
in the direction of the Vistula under
a terrible 'artillery fire, zwhich is
causing an ,appalling loss of life.
The Germans are reported to be
short both of food and of shells, as
a result of being cut off from their
base.
TROUBLE OVER IN FREE STATE
The De Wet Uprising Has Spent
Its Force.
A despatch from Capetown says :
There is little doubt that the crisis
in the Free State is over. Small
scattered bodies df rebels are still
intihe field, but they will gradually
surrender. At one tithe the posi-
tion looked serious. De Wet was
inducing many to join him, in the
belief th.at'there would be no fight-
ing, it being represented that the
whole Free State was rising, and
the Government could' do notching.
Mese illusions were shattered by
the fight in the Mushroom Valley
on November 12, The rebel losses
on that rt 000asio•n were mu.oh
heavier than is generally known.
De Wet was caught napping; in
fact, he was actually in bed when
General Botha opened a. fierce at-
tack. The rebels, .completely dumb-
founded, are now like sheep with-
out a eh•epherd, and will not face
the music again.
Life is a -grind, but it •always has
its .turning point.
•
GFRMANY'S IIIFFICULT TAS
Buelow .Fears It Won't Be So Easy for Germany
to Win the War
A despatch from Berlin • says :
The' Berliner Tageblabt, prints a
letter from Prince von Buelow, the
ex -Chancellor, in which he ex-
presses the fear that the war will
eve a very difficult task for
Germany."' Of course, the Prince
winds up by affirming Yiisbelief in
the ultini;ate triumph of Ithe German
ar;tn,s, but .several times he repeats
that victory will be won only with
great difficulty.
There is also an eulogyof the,
British troo s written by high
German officer at the front, He
handsomely admits :that the British
infantry have done wohdors, espe-
dally around Ypres.• Their regu-
lars are among the finest troops in
the world, he writes, and "there
must be something, after all, to
say for the Englishman's love of
sport,for northing but well: -trained
and particularly ±ib young fellows
could ,shape as well as the new
troops the English keep bringing
up, They are Bali first-class fight-
ers, The British have quite out -
pointed our men in shooting, patrol
work, marching and scouting; They
are saunply''intervelous."
The writer oonclndee'tlhat the Bri-
tish may be nlereeo a.ries, but they
are well worth the money they
draw.
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.Prince Ilene nder of 'Ted at the Front. •
Prince Alexander is a brother of"Queen Mary of England and de.ig-
nat•ed. Governor-General of Canada. The photo chows him: leaving`Furness for an inspect on trip along the firing line.
PRICES OF FARM P 0�ALIIE
ALLIES PPEPA E
TOT
STRIKE HARD
nrromrs rims Tem LEADEN CI
`rIt. DZ CENTnLEa or AASEB.IC.d.
B reads to ffs,
Toronto, Dec. 1.-Plour-Manitoba first Fre.;ll Troops _ta'e Being Assembled
patents, quoted at 56.60, in jute bags; Sec-
ond patents, 56.10; strong bakers', $5,90;
Ontario wheat flour, 90 per cent patents,
Quoted at $4.50 to 54.60, seaboard.
Wheat -Manitoba No. '1 Northern, new,
quoted at $1.24 12; No. 2 at $1.21 1-2, On-
tartb wheat, No. 2, quoted at 51.13 to 51.15.
at outside points.
Cate -Ontario quoted at 49 to 50c, out-
side, and at 52 to 53c on track, Toronto.
Western Canada, No. 2, quoted at 60o. and
No. 3 at 57c. '
Barley -66 to 68e. outside.
Rye -96 to 98c, outside, for No. 2.
Peas -No. 2 quoted at 51.70 to $1.75, out-
side.
Oorn-No. 3 new . American quoted at
69 1.2c, Bay ports,
Buckwheat -No. 2 quoted at 77 to. 78c,
outside.
Bran andshorts-Bran is quoted at 524
to 525 a ton, and shorts at 526 to $27.
Rolled oats -Car lots, per bag of 90 De,
$3 to $3.15.
Country Produce.
Butter -Choice dairy, 23 to 25c: inferior,
20 to 21e; creamery prints. 28 1-2' to 29o;
do,. solids, 27 to 271-2c..
Eggs -New -laid, selects, dozen, 35 to
380; storage, 28 to 30o.
Honey -Market is firm at 12 to 121-2c
per Ib.. for strained. No. 1 honeycomb,
52.75 per dozen; No. 2, 52 to $2.25.
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 13 to 14c;.
ducks, dressed 1b., 12 to 14c; fowl, 10 to
12c• turkeys, dressed, 17 to 20c.
Cheese -New, large, 16 to 16 i:4c; twine,
16 1-2c.
Beans -Prime. bushel,. 52.75 to '52.80;
hand-picked 52.90. v .
Potatoes-Ontarios, 650 -per bag. out of
store, 55e in car lots. New Brunswicke,
ear lots 65c per bag.
Provisions.
Bacon -Long, clear, 141.2 to 16c per lb.
in case lots. Kama -Medium, 17 1.2 to 18c;
do., heavy, 16 1.2 . to 16 1-2o; rolls, 14 1-2 to
15c; breakfaet bacon. 1812 to 190; backs,
211-2 to 220; boneless ba,cke, 24e.
Lard -Market is steady at 12 1-2 to 130
for tierces. .Compound, 9 3-4 to 10c.
Baled Hay,and Straw.
Dealers are paying as follows for oar
lot deliveries on track here: -
Straw is quoted at $7.50 to $8 a ton, in
ear lots,. on track here.
Hay -No. 1 new hay is quoted at 516 to
$16,50 on track here, No; 2 at 514 to - 514.50,
and No. 3 at 511 to 512. -
Winnipeg Crain.
Winnipeg, Dec. 1. -Cash -Wheat -No. 1
Northern, $1.18 5-8; No. 2 Northern,
$1.15 7-8; No. 3 Northern, 51.11; No. • 4,
51.06 3-4; No. 5, 51.02; No. 6, 97c; feed, 94o.
Oats and barley unquoted. Flax, No. 1
N.W.G., $1,26.
United States Markets.
•
Minneapolis, Dec. 1. -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
$1.19 3-8; No. 1 Northern, 51.15 7-8 to
$1.18 3-6; No. 2 Northern, 51.12 3.8 t
$1.16 3-8; 'December, 51.137-8. Corn -No. 3
ye46
to 1.2c. O te56 to 58l o. 3 white,46o
24. o3 white, -2c.
Pleur and bran unchanged.
Duluth, Deo. 1. -Wheat -No, 1 hard.
$1.18 3-8; No. 1 Northern, 51.17 3.8; No. 2
Northern, 51.14 3.8; December, $1.15 3-8.
Linseed, $1.49 1-4; December, 51.46 1-8.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Dec. (-Oen tinned. good demand
for cai-ners and cutter's. Pair demand for
heavy short -keen feeders. Light eastern
stockers easy Milch cows in good de-
mand. Calves --Good veal, steady to firm.
Lambs strong, and further advanced to
$8.50 and 58,75 for choice light lambs,
around 85 to 90 lbs. Hogs steady, at 57.50
fed and watered and 57.75 off care,
Montreal, Dec, 1. -There was no really
prtrno beeves on the market, medium ani-
mals selling at from 5o to 6 3-4o; common,
3 3-4 to 4.3.4c;" and lean canners, 30 to
3 3-4c. Co -we, 540 to 580 each; calves, 4 1.2
to 8 1-2c; sleep, 4 1.2 to 5 1.4c; iambs, 7 1-4
to 7 3.40. Bufere • were offering from 7 1-2
to 7 3-4c for good lots of bogs, but drovers
held for 8 to 8 1.40. ^
It isn't always the pretty girl who
makes .good in a photograph.
to Drive the Invaders
front France.
A. despatch from London says:
Developments of the last few days
appear to indicate that the allies
intend to start a winter •campaign
in'F ranee and Belgium, and push on
towards Germany, instead of re-
maining oomparatively idle and
holding :their present positions dur-
ing the cold " weather. British
troops are now being rushed- into
France and edneurrently news
comes across the Channel 'that
equipment for half a million addi-
tional men is now on hand and
ready for use by the French army.
This number of men, in addition to
those already fully, equipped, will
be ready to join the new British
army in a.short time. They are
second -line troops who have hereto-
fore been kept from General Jof-
fre's ,army 'because of the lack of
gins, clothing and hill war equip-
m�e-rite.
'Thmeo•vement of the ..second Bri-
tish .army toward the French coast
began almost immediately after
Lord Kit•chener's speech at the Lord
Mayor's dinner in the Guildhall,
when he deetered that he had
1,250,000 men ready to land in
France. The troops are now being
Landed. ,at. Havre •as fast as the
transports which took them across
the Channel can find berths. It is
said that las Many as 200 transports
have been eou.nteci outside • the
French harb•er at one time. These
troops are escorted across the
Channel by a continuous line of
.British warships.
The new troops tha-t are being
landed- in France are for the most
part territorials, which form Great
Britain's se•oond line, The terri-
torial force calve into existence un-
der the provisions of a law passed
in 1908, when the units of the volun-
teer force and the Imperial Yeo-
manry were transferred to the new
organization. The organization of
this territorial force was placed in
tolls!): ands of 24 county organize -
Under the territorial force plan
each county :association has the
duty of carrying out the plan of the
Army Go -uracil for t;he organization
Of ,this force within the county. The
force is organized in divisions,
mounted brigade's and arim•5 troops.
Each division of the territorial force
is under a general officer of the
regular army. The men must drill
evenings aid holidays during the
training ee.aMon. At the beginning
of the present year there were 315,-
438 :men (inel,uding the staff) in the
territorial forge.
Twinkle, twinkle, .little., star -we
know exactly what you are, In old-
en times your rhyme might do, but
since we've learned a ithing'or two.
CAN ADIA
TROO!S ARE H
Early Departure of Contingent for Front Expected
i"
.. a :caerbaro Officer is New Cam Commandantl�
A despatch from Salisbury Plain
says : "The Canadian soldiers. are
now sufficiently well 'trained to take
their place in the firing line." This
significant statement was made by
a high military authority here after
witnessing divisional Manoeuvres.
Rumor says that the Canadian eon
tingent inay go to the front -sooner
than has been expected. The first
divisional Manoeuvres were Carried
through at Salisbury Plain under
General Alderson, with General
Pitcllirn Campbell and his staff pre-
sent, All the men and details took
part, and marched to Enford
Downs, several miles distant, being
out from 0 a,in, to 4 p.m., ,and car-
rying rations and all equipment,
The weather was.favorable and the
operations successful. All leave to
the members of the contingent will
be stopped after l)eesmber 1.
BRITISH NAVY LOSS
Officers and !len Perished and .interned Sincmi'
Beginning of Warr
A despatch front Landon says
Thus far during the war the Royal
Navy has lost 4,327 officers and ilei,
killed unci 47$ wounded, while 068
men are missing and 1,575 are cap-
tivrs or have been interned..
These figures are oontained in'a
sf;a'tcnient issued' on Wedane•sday
night by the Admiralty, and in -
envie, in addition to the naval arien,
themarines of the Royal Navy divi-
sion. 'The •casualties and the num-
ber of men captured or interned is
given is follows a Officers• -Killed,
220; wound'e'd, 37; prisoners; 5; in-
terned, 46.. Men -Killed, 4,107;
wounded, 4:36; missing, 968; in-
terned, 1,525,
NEYER
A great majority of those report- ; '
ed killed were drowned, 1,718 los-
ing their lives in this manner whex►
the crullers Pathfinder, Aboukir,
Cressy tend Hous were sent to the
bottom by German submarines,
while the foundering ,of the Mon-
mouth and Good Iiope off the eoast
of Chile ii as respeineible for the
loss of 1,654,otIic.•ers'and nten be-
n e h
e-ne,ath. the wave's.
The operations of the Royal Ns-
vai divisien at Antwerp are ac-
countable for nearly all of those re-
ported interned or rnissing. Most
of the missing are said by the Ad-
miralty statement, to . be ,l i'isoners
of war in Germany
OREARDUQU
hi Ail ltstory There is No Instance of Their Havilig
Answered so flagnificently
A despatch from London says: In
leis review of the defence of the Bri-
tie+h+biset 3 rat Ypres General. French
writes: "That success has been 'at-
tained and that all the enemy's ate
tempts to break through our line
havebeen frustrated is due to the
marvellous fightin,g power and in-
domitable courage and tenacity of
the officers and Men.. .No mors ar-
duous task has ewer .been assigned
to British soldNers, and in ,all their
spleadid.lustory there ls.no insban• e
of their 'having answered :ro. anagni
ficemtly-to the desper.:a:tecalls of nee
ccs -tee made upon them."
BRITAIN'S NAVY
HAS HEAVY [OS
A Y OS
Only 14 Survive .Explosion that
Destroyed Battleship with
Over 700 Olen.
A despatch from London says:
The British navy :has. suffered the
loss of a battleship and at leant 736
'officers and men. The pre -Dread-
nought Bulwark, of 15,000 tons, and
built at a cost of $5,000,000, blew up
at her moorings off sheerness, in
the estuary of the Thanes, and
barely 35 miles frons London. A
tremendous explosion oeeurred
while officers and crew were about
their ordinary duties, and in three
minutes the shattered hulk of the
great ship had di= -appeared beneath
the surface. -
Of a ship's company of 750, all
except 14 were killed by the explo-
sion or drowned after a few min-
utes' struggle in the water.. The
estimate of the loss was furnished
to the Hones of Commons by Wins-
ton Churchill, First Lord of the
Admiralty, who merely offered the
opinion that the destruction of the
Bulwark is not a serious loss to
England's naval power.
GRAND DUKE'S GENEROSITY.
Give's a Million Pairs of Shoes to
the French Army.
A despatch from Paris nays:
Grand Duke Michael of Russia has
presented to the French. Army one
million pairs of .shoes which had
been ordered from Webster, Mass.,
factories at an average prioe of $3
per pair. •Some enormous orders
for shoes for the Russian army also
have been placed in America.
"Bantams" .Recruit 1,400 ,Men.
A despatch from London says :
Manchester men wishing to enlist
in the "Bantams Regiment" are
murmuring because the sain•e chest
measurement is 'required as for
taller men. Notwithstanding this,
1,400 men with chest -measurements
of 34% or better, but under 5 feet
3 inches in height, have been se-
lected. The Lord Mayor of Man-
chester, addressing the men at their
swearing in, suggested that if they
objected to the 'appellation of
"Bantams," they might call them-
selves the "Fighting Cocks'Battal-
ion."
Nelson
Patriotic
..�14
has raised $2,000 for the
Fund.
POLISH PLAINS
A GEBIYIA1 SEDAN
The Russian Vietory at Lodz is
Called the 'Greatest of
Modern Tinges.
A despatch from Petrograd says
Germany has found her Sedan on
the plains of Poiand. The Russians
have won the greatest victory of
modern times ; between the Warthe
and the Vistula, and about 60
miles west of Warsaw.
Grand Duke Nichol:elan. armies
have utterly crushed General von
Hindenburg's divided army, have
captured or destroyed 100,000 men,
and have; cut off the retreat` of the •
surviving 'corps. The ' German
cotinter-offensiveunder Lieut. -Gen. -
Makkenson, was halted 25 Miles
east- .of Czernstochowa,- and driven
back.. Von `Makkensen • was forced
to abandon .von Hindenburg's
troops to their fate. Meanwhile,
the Russian advance in East Prus-
sia was never delayed an hour,
The Cossacks are driving Aus-
trian rearguards into Cracow, .and -
Russian guns are shelling the city
from th•e north-eaat and. the south-
east. •
PRUSSIANS FIGHT BAVARIANS
Come to Blows Over the Queen of
the .Belgians.
A despatch from Paris says : The
Bavarians and Prussians have un-
doubtedly:acme to blows regarding
the Queen of the Belgians. It is
also reported that serious disagree-
ment has arisen between the Im-
perial Chancellor and the Prime
Minister of Bavaria.
It is undeniable that Bavarian
troops take every possible oppor-
tunity to surrender. From the
front at Quemoy a letter says that
when the Germans saw that the
Fr•en•ch Reci Cross men oared for
German wounded as well as their
own, over 200 de.ser•ted during the
night. They want to . the French
and told them that if only all Ba-
varians could be sure they would
be hamanelt treated three-fourths
of them would surrender outright.
German Squadron Enters .`stlautic.
A despatch from. Montevideo,
Uruguay, ea.ys : • It i5 repel teenthat
the German Pacific aqu,adeon has
been eighte•dT600 miles.: north of
Punta.
Pilar, Brazil, directing its
course north-east in the Atlantic. •
CL-IthIAI\
S•FGAR INVAS1O:
Make Extensive Preparations hi Schleswig-alolst:ein
and Along Kiel Canal
A despatch from London says : An
invasion by the Allies is feared .by
Germany, ,aeeording to Tthc Copen-
hagen Evening News, which reports
that extensive preparations are be•
ing made to guard against such an
eventuality.
The News • says it has ' learned
from eye -witnesses. that the Ger-
mans are strengthening old fort-
resses in the former Danish terri-
tory. of Schleswig-Holstein, aa well
as a line of entrenchments called
the Dannewerk along the northern
side of the Kiel Canal, It is thus
Hoped to protect the °an.al against
attacks from the north, for it is on
the shores of Schleseing, according
to the reports, that an invasion is
feared. Alt the German islands in
the North Sea, it is said, are now
closely guarded, and strongly- forti-
fied positions are being erected on
the chores of Holstein and along
the western side of the River Elbe,
A Central News despatch from
Glasgow stela that the etructurel
engineers and bridge btiilders
throughout the country are being
requested to stand ready to rush
repair work in Belginln and Franca
From this it is .assumed as undoubt-
ed evidence that conditions are
favorable to the allied troops,