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The Exeter Advocate, 1915-10-14, Page 6RUSSIANS HAVE UPPER LAND Markets Of The World - ALL ALONG FRONT OF RATTLE and in the Nolhynia Region A despatch from Petrograd says: The only parts of the Russian front that display any great activity now are the Dvinsk sector and the sector on the middle Styr in Volhynia, At Dvinsk, despite unceasing ef- forts, the Germans are still held at gunshot distance, and whenever they make a vigorous attack they suffer repulse, with heavy losses from the Russian artillery fire. Yet Gen. von Buelow is taking Dvinsk very, seri- ously. Along the Vilkomir road the field railway runs for over 20 miles, and heavy guns and ammunition are being brought up continually to the front, The German force immediate- ly opposite Dvinsk is being strength- ened, but the flanks are wavering. North of Dvinsk the Russians are harrassing the Germans and driving them out of village after village. South of Dvinsk the enemy's front is being steadily r pushed back towards; Sven: iany, and almost daily the Rus- sians recapture a village or two and lead oil' German prisoners. The action of Daniusuavo, on the Viliya, is typical of this kind of fight - Inge The battle lasted several days.. The Germans were driven from the trenches, but repeatedly eounter- attacked, only to be flung back every- : where by the Russian fire. • They brought up reserves and succeeded in advancing to within 200 yards of the Russian lines. Then two Russian I companies caught the advancing Ger mans on the flank and held them while the artillery dealt with the enemy's supports. The result was that the isolated advancing group was annihilated by the Russian bayo- nets. • From the Viliya to the Pripet there is effective skirmishing all along the i line. South of the Pripet the sting has been taken out of General Pu -f halio's temporary success on the mid- I die Styr, and his army, for all that it was reinforced from the neighboring armies of Generals Lisingen and Mac- kensen, is being propelled back into the swamps. WEAKEN GERMAN RUSSIAN SHIPS SECOND DEFENCE RODRD YARN Breadstuffs.. Toronto, Oct, 12. --Manitoba wheat,,on track lake ports.American corn -No. 2 yell 70% DvinskTeutons Suffering Setbacks in Fighting, Both at new 4crop-No. 1 Northern, $1.07%; No, do., $1.06, on track lake poi tin track shipment. uu track lake ports, Canadian corn -No. 2.yellow, ,70c,. on track Toronto. Ontario oats, new crop -No. 2 white, 37 to 38c; No., 3 do. • 35 to 37c No. 1 commercial oats, 31tto 34e, ac- , cording to freights outside. Ontario 2pcar lot, 9 ; ghly tough, 80 to 87e; sprouted or smutty, 65 to 80c, faccording to sample. Peas ---No. 2 nominal, per car lots, $1.25 to $1.40, according to freights outside. Barley -_Good malting barley, 52 to 54c; feed barley, 40 to 45; according, to freights outside. Buekwwheat_-Car lots, nominal, ac- cording to freigbta outside. Rye -No, 2, nominal, 87c; tough rye, 60 to 75c, according to sample. Manitoba flour -First patents, in. jute bags, $5.75; second patents,in jute bags, $5.25; strong bakers', in. jute bags, $5.05, Toronto. Ontario flour -New Winter, 90 per cent, patents, $3.80, seaboard, or To- ronto freight, in bags, prompt ship - me 1llillfeed, car lots, delivered Mont- meet lea freights -Bran, per ton, $22;; shorts, per ton, $24; middlings, per ton, $25; good feed flour, per bag, $1.50. Country Produce, utter --.Fresh dairy, 26 to 28e; inferior, 22 to 23c' creamery prints, 31 to 32c; do., solids, 29 to 30c. Eggs --No, 1, 27 to 28c per dozen, Another Important Gain Has Been Cruisers Are Pouring Shells Into the f in case lots; extra at 30 to 31c. Made By the French in Champagne. A despatch from Paris says Fu they important gains by the Frene troops in Champagne are announce by the War Office. The village o f The Bulgarians are said to be fe- n verishly fortifying the port of Dedea- n ghatch. All buildings on the h d f Tehure, less than two miles south o the railway serving the Gerota trenches along the district betwee Rheims and the Argonne, has bee taken by assault, and the victorio French infantry pushed forward an xtaehed the heights north of the vii Mee. These heights form part of th Genian s e and line, '1s in the ease of the previous Brea C , % to 1.,c,• do., pails mei.: oa. the German trenches, French to wonets completing the task. More than 1,000 prisoners were taken by the French in these opera- tions, which included progress in the environs of the Navarin farm. A Rotterdam despatch says: "Al- though the majority of the German papers shriek loudly about the allies' offensive being smashed, Major Mor- eht, quite the coolest of the German military critics, sounds a strong warning in the Berliner Tageblatt, clearly suggesting that Germany has as yet experienced only the beginning of things, and much more serious at.: tacks may be expected on a much more extended scale. He says: 'What has been the result of the Franco - British offensive which has been ing on eleven days ? Our higher com- mand remarks that the offensive is a! failure. This judgment will satisfy wide circles in Germany who have not ; concealed from themselves the seri- I ousness of the western situation We Bulgarian Port and Causing Much Damage: A despatch from.London says: Cologne Gazette reports two Rus cruisers actively bombarding the B garian port of Varna. Honey No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 to 111.Ee; do., retail, 12% • to 15c. Combs (wholesale), per- dozen, No. 1, MAO; No. 2, $1.50 to $2. Poultry -Chickens, 17 to 18e; The , fowls, 14 to 15c; ducklings,, i5 to 18c; Sian turkeys, 22 to 24c. ul-1 Cheese -Large, 14% to 15c; twins, 15 to 151/4e. • fi Potatoes --The market is firm, with car lots quoted at 95c to $1 per bag, on track. coast �n have been evacuated and long-range us guns are being placed in the forte, Provisions. d while the port is being heavily mined. i' Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 1414c ' This would indicate that the Bulger-, per lb.o in case lots. eavyaims�yMeedl ci 18e tans ranticipate what is considered 'roll t15 to 151,c; breakfast to likely here, a naval bombardment of : 20 e erg atch by French and British ;boneless acks, 5 to 25%c. ° c,, fleets and a possible attempt t4 lentil Lard -Tubs 11 � D d h to 23e; backs, plain, sueeess in this part of 'the front vi, . an expeditionary force. 112 to 12?>ic; compound, tubs, 9'1 to Quebec at MANY TYPES OF BOMBS. Th $7 2u to $7 ?5 8shee and S A despatch from Nish, Serbia, says: Salonica with the per cwt p, $4.50 to $5 50 • to P Calves Handl'of "C Seven aeroplanes flew over Kr1 tut ry followed an incessant bombard 23 t 24 BULGARIA, WARRING ON ALLIES,- GERMAN EFFORTS' MAY FACE RUSSIAN INVASION COME TO NOUGIT; O CRACOW o EMDERG PRZEMYSL Budapest- AUSTRIA - HUNGARY RUSSIA QII,%S. AKERYIAti • BELGRADE. R U R. ER1151;/;‘) tsli� R MO Nee- B 1 B U -L G A �� RV 1EIiA SQrI ciAmilm\r--.-.-7-.------, '-=---- -- -' '----- ."7 ---- TUR .__- ba y. CQ ~�� oioitiili G The map shows how Bulgaria wee be menaced by Russia on the Mace: Sea, in ease she throws hi her interests with the Central rowers. ITALIANS NEARING R OVERETO WHICH. IS RE PORTED EVACUATED Imp Many Small Engagements Around Gorizia, in Which Austrians Lost Numerous Prisoners " A despatch from London says: The Italians record another advance to- ward Rovereto, which has so many times been reported as evacuated by the Austrians. On the plateau of Folgaria several villages have been occupied by the invaders, who drove the enemy from the neighboring township of Prazza and forced his re- treat toward Potlatch.1 On the Sealass crest and on the e northern slopes of Carso and Gorizia. a number of Small engagements bevel ' taken place, the Austrians being everywhere repulsed, leaving a num- Try With All Their Might and Main to Regain the Ground They, Lost. A despatch from Paris says: The Germans are continuing to try with all their might and means to regain the ground they lost to the French iii. the recent allied offensive. So far their efforts have been entirely un- successful, the French War Office asserts in an official' communique, adding that the Teutons suffered heavy losses in the failure of their counter attacks, Four successive counter-attacks: near Souchez were completely repuls- ed, the War Office declares, while in the Champagne, too, "stubborn coun- ter-attacks" against the positions lost by the Germans recently failed, Equally as futile was an attempt on the Lorraine front, where the French allowed the Germans to advance to their wire entanglements and then showered a rain of shells upon them. The communique tells of the destruc- tion of a German captive balloon by shrapnel fire from a mitrailleuse in a French aeroplane, The Germans admit that the French have made slight progress, but on the whole, claim to have repulsed the al- lied general offensive, The towns mentioned in the two of- ficial communications show that the French have approached very close to the Challerange-Bazancourt railway,. which is their objective. St, Marie, to which time Germans say the 'French penetrated, but were driven out by immediate counter-attacks, is on that railway. The capture of the hamlet of Ta - lure and the hill immediately north called Butte of Tahure is a consider- able mark of reseumptian of the French offensive in Champagne, and has, besides; great significance with regard to the position in the West. The capture of Tahure, the farthest orthtward thrust of the French in Champagne, threatens the Germans on both sides. er of prisailers in the hands of the e' Italians. SERBIANS BRING DOWN GERMAN AEROPLANE The Anglo-French troops, which @ 10c; do., pails, 111>bc, were landed at S B cit consent of the Greek Government, Business in Montreal. are being hurried northward to assie+ Montreal, 0 ni 1Oct.a O 12. -Corn, Cor , n ' Serbia,' " I American and, if possible, keep the Bul-, ex can P Na. 2 yellow, 75c.y Oats -No. 2 local garians from capturing the Salonica- l white, 441A c to 45c; No. 3 local white, • Nish railway, the only source, by? 43' to 44c; No. 4 local white, 42%, which the Serbians can be fed with to 43e. Flour, Man. Spring wheat pat- ; munitions of war. I eats, firsts, $5.85; seconds; $5.35;. Public opinion in Bulgaria is not E strocutsng choice 40,1straght rollers entirely unanimous in support of I $4.70 to $4.80; straight rollers, bags, King Ferdinand, and reports indicate $2.20 to $2.30. Rolled oats, barrels, that the Bulgarian mobilization is not 1 $4.85 to $4.95; bags, 90 lbs., $2.25 to being carried out without difficulty. i $2.30. Bran, $23. Shorts, $25. Mid- ; The King and Premier Radoslavoff,dlings,' $30 to $31. Mouiilie $30 to however, have finally thrown in their 1333' 'Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, lot with Austria, Germany and Tar- I $17 to $18. Cheese, finest westerns, key. 143 to 14%c; finest easterns, 141/8 i Invasion of Serbia. to 141/4c. Butter,. choicest creamery, G 132i/4 to 321 c• seconds 311/ to 313/ must, however, add to this declaration that the great struggle in the west has not yet found its conclusion. It is a question of several armies on the French side, and even if one of them can be booked as lost already,! France will not leave the others in -1 active behind the front. Enormous . supplies of ammunition, supplemented by what still comes from neutral America, and the massing of heavy artillery will, without doubt, lead the French to new action, for which she has made enormous preparations.' " 1 � ALL BRASS UTENSILS IN •VIENNA TAKEN UP A despatch from Rome says: The citizens of Vienna have received warning that all brass domestic uten- a sils will be sequestered on November 30,when houses se swill be searched ed with , - the object of ascertaining whether the present requisitions for such utensils are being evaded. erman and Austrian armies of Eggs, fresh, 33e; selected, 32c; No., reportedly great strength have cross- i 1 stock, 28c; No. 2 stock, 25c. Pota- 1 ed into Serbia at three widely diver- ; toes, per bag, car lots, 75c. Dressed ' gent points, and have firmly estab- i hogs, abattoir killed, $14- to $14.25.' i lished themselves. This news is con- Pork, heavy Canada short mess, bbls., tamed in an official statement from35 to 45 pieces, $28 to $28:50; Canada I stock,8 r from $3 to $13 each, as to • S1Z ed. lots, $9.90 to $10Qper wit., weigh- ed off ears, and the rough heavy lots from that down to $8,75. 4• AWNED TROOPS LAND IN GREECE They Proceed to Frontier With Regard to the Cabinet Crisis. A despatch from London sa Greece is to have a coalition Gove ment. .Atter virtually dismissing foremost !Greek statesman, Sleuth es ' Venizelos, from the Premiersh and asserted personal control of th Government, King Constantine , b Cher -in-law of the German Emperor, sent for a former Premier, M. Zaimis, who has consented to form a coalition Government. M. Venizelos will not be included as a member. - • • The possibility that Greece may try : to remain neutral, fearing to stake the nation's fate upon the sue ess of either party to the great war, recognized in. England, although it considered small. The hopes of he Entente powers are that popular entiment is with them, and that the ing may find it best to bow before e will of the people, as he has done efore. Landing Proceeds. , The- landing of French troops at alonica and their prompt despatch rthward across Greek territory to. t e Serbian •frontier ..will proceed without regard to the Cabinet crisis at Athens: The downfall of the Venizelos Cabinet is - considered . here as relating to formalities, rather than to deter - out ys: thto insure that it falls to the ground e nose downward. Both these bombs er- explode on impact, and it is'inadvis- iet able to knock them against anything -say the back of the trench .-when roe- throwing them. awing ricket Ball " Explosive Requires Cool Head. The various hinds of bombs now being used in France and Flanders are described by an English officer in a latter from the front. There are, he says, four main types --the "hair- brush," the "cricket ball," the "police- man's club" and the "jam -tin." Bomb throwers are alluded to in trench slang as "anarchists." "The hairbrush," explains the wri- ter, "is very like the ordinary hair- brush, except that the bristles are re- placed by a solid block of high explo- sive. The policeman's truncheon has gay streamers of tape tied to its t '1 vatz recently and dropped 30 bombs. Sharp -shooters of the Prince Regent's Guard hit :one of the aircraft, which fell directly in front of the palace, As it fell the fuel tank exploded and the machine and both of its occupants, who were German officers, were burn- ed, Kraguyevatz is some 50 miles south-east of Belgrade. It is a town of 15,000 inhabitants and has ar arsenal, a powder mill and factories for the making of arms and ammuni- tion. • The Inventor of Shrapnel. It is interesting to recall just now ai (says The Westminster Gazette) that the inventor of shrapnel--Lieutenant- General Henry Shrapnel -- gained much , of his military experience in Flanders. He served with the Duke of York's army there , and shortly af- ter the siege of Dunkirk invented the case shot, "a destructive engine of n war used by the Royal Artillery, and bknown by the name of Shrapnel the German War Office, which sayI $275 t tot $27.50. Lard, co55 mpound,' "'German and Austro-Hungarian! tierces, 375 lbs., 10e; wood pails , 20 troops crossed the Drina, the Save lbs. net, 101/ac; pure, tierces, 375 lbs., and the Danube at many places, and ! 111/z to 12c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. obtained. firm footing on the eastern net, 121/z to 13c. hank of the Drina and the southern • banks of the Save and the Danube." United States Markets. News from various sources place Minneapolis, Oct. 12. -Wheat, No. the strength of the Teutonic armies 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 Northern, c invading Serbia at 400,000 men. The $1.051/s to $1.091/ ; No. 2 Northern, is troops which Bulgaria is= able to ' $ % to $1.061/ ; December, I is throw against the southern borders of $1.03%; May, $1.07. Corn --No. 3 t Serbia are supposedyellow, 62 to 63c. Oats -No. 3 white, to be of of about ' 33% to 341/4c. Flour advanced; fancy -e- qual enumber. While there is no I patents, $6.20; first clears, $4.85; th rtes have moved that to cross Bulgarian the fron- second hcie Oct. •$3. 12.Bran-$19. No. 1 Duluth b tier, it is generally supposed here I hard, $1.07; No. 1 Northern, , $1.06; that the , invasion has begun on the i No. 2 Northrern, $1.06; Montana No. southern side of Serbia as well as on 12 hard, $1:061/ ; December, $1.02%; S he north, and that in all probabilityMay, $1.05%. Linseed, cash, $1.87; no hese forces a December , $1.791/x; May, 1.83_ n fo t meq; LUXEMBURG PROTESTS BECAUSE OF AIR RAID A despatch from London says:The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, accord- ing to Amsterdam advices, has pro- tested to the Entente powers against • air raids over that' country aimed at the German headquarters. _ I are supposed by some New York, Oct. 6. -Flour unsettled h 50 000 T k 5.40 ° choice $ hoice to fancy, $5.45 to $5.60. ur s, who are not required t the Dardanelles. �►fACHINE GUN CORPS IN THE BRITISH ARMY A despatch from London says British military authorities have re- cognized the importance of machine guns, which have been, such a strik- ing feature of . German warfare, by the formation of a special machine gun corps with the - King's sanction Announcement of the step is made in the Official Gazette. Canada already has •organized a machine gun battalion -,the 86th of Hamilton. TURKS STEADII.V DRIVEN BACKWARD Average Gain of 300 Yards Recorded as :sue R t of Bomb Attacks . by ' British at Sulva A cde.patch from London says: During the. past month of fighting. in the Dardanelles the British have gain- ed on an average something, more than 300 yards all along the centre of the four -mile Silvia front, accord- ing to an official statement embodied in a report from Gen. - ' tx ix. Sir Ian Hamil- ton, as follows: "During the past month the fight. ing at Suvla Bay has not been on a scale calling for special reports. Every night there have been patrol actions and bomb attacks, and we f gained an average of a little over 800 yards along the whole centre of the f four -mile Silvia front" • , e, ,, 5 to $6.75;. do., good,. $5.25 to $6; do., medium, $5 to $5.75; do., common, $4.50_to $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7; stock- ers, 700 to 900'` lbs., $6.25; to $6.75 rye flour firm; fair to good, $5.25 t' Hay, steady. Hops easy, Pacific coast, 1915, 13 to 15c. Hides steady. Leather firm. Live Stock' Markets. mined opposition to "the landing of French troops.. Torokito, Oct. 12. -The', quotations Statements evidently based on offi were: Best heavy steers$7.75 •to tial information relate . that King $8; butchers' cattle, choice,"$7.60 to Constantine -received the French Min $7.75; do., good, $7.10 to $7.50; do., inter at Athens after the landing"of $5 to' $5 40;5 butchers' 'bulls,ochoice," Freiichltroops had begun,> and ma $6.25, -to $7; do., $ no mention of the incident or 'sage good bulls, 5.75 to $6 do, rough bulls, $4.75 - to $5.25; gestion of a protest. It is therefore., butchers cows chole �6 4 canners and cutters, $3 to $4.50; milkers, choice, each, $65 to $100; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $50;' Springers, $50 to $95; light ewes, $5.25 to $6,,25; : sheep, heavy, $4.25 to $4.75; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50;y earling lambs, $7 to $7.50; Spring lambs,. cwt.; $8,25 to ;,$8.60; calves, medium. to choice, $7.30 to $11; hogs, off Cars, $10.40 to $10.50; do., fed and watered,' $10.15; do., f.o.b., $9. RO. - - Montreal, Oct. 12, ---There continues to be a scarcity of good to choice steers, but the offerings of fairly good stock were fair, whichmet with a good demand and sales were made at- $6.50 to $6.75, while' fair 'sold at o $6.25 and the. lower grades at from $4.50 to -$5.50 per cwt. There as an active demand from packers or canning stock, with 'sales of bulls' at $3.75 to $4 and cows ' at "$,3 to 3.50 per cwt. Lambs -Ontario said here that the King has not taken a stand against the landing, but merely differs with M. Venizelos in regard to, the fixed : policy of Greece in supporting the'Quadruple Entente. THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man, -Rousseau,;,. •Hold faithfulness and sincerityeas first principles. Sincerity is: the way of Heaven. -Confucius. The surest way to be imposed upon, is to think bneself cleverer than other people. -La Rochefoucauld. Nothing brings people together more closely than a common grief; it is the ` great bond of ' sympathy. - Globe. The yoke of care'is worse.than the: yoke of men; yet he who bath,' hakete off the' one bears the oilier. patiently.'. Petrarch. "The cricket ball works by a time fuse. The retnoval of a certain pi releases a spring which lights an i ternal fuse"timed to explode the bom in five seconds. You take th_ in your right hand, remove the pin, and cast the thing madly from you. The jam -tin variety appeals more par- ticularly to the sportsman, as the ele- ment of chance enters largely into its successful use. It is timed to explode about 10 seconds after the lighting of the fuse. It is, therefore, unwise to throw it too soon, as there would be ample time for your opponent to pick it up and throw it back. On the other hand, it is unwise to hold on too long, as the fuse is uncertain in -its action, and Is given to short cuts." 'The authors of a nation are like an advance guard, pioneers of friendship and intimacy, who accustom other lands to ideas and peoples otherwise remote. -Mr. Arthur L. Salmon. Shell" So runs the inscription on a large slab at the floor of the chancel in Bradford-on-Avon Church, Wilt- shire, where the General was buried. The inventor's reward was a pension of £1200 per annum. The Shrapnels were for three generations cloth weavers at Bradford-on-Avon. Less Than 240 Warless Years. From the Christian era till the pre- sent time, as statists and historians tell us, there have been fewer than 240 warless years.. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century it was rough- ly computed that nearly 7,000,000,000 men had died in •battle since -the be- ginning of recorded history, a num- ber equal to almbst five times the pre- sent population of the globe. TRENCHES TO ENCIRCLE ALL OF POLAND Germans Will Force Every Plale Inhabitant to Combat Russian Attack er A despatch from London says:` In a" despatch from m Petro rad g Reuter's s correspondent` says: "Polish' refugees arriving here say that German offi- cials declare that Poland will be sur- rounded by a triple -line of trenches and -barbed wire entanglements and that 'the Russians will be quite un- able -to dislodge them,, for if there is a shortage of men they will arm, .the entire masculine population of Po• land and force them to fight the Rus- sians." TURKS. RUSHED TOB4 , ULGARIA TO. DEFEND THE PORT OF VARNA Believed That Russia Contemplates the Landing of Large Forces ccs at Once A despatch from- London says •: ws a .g e nc -:despatch . y from" Athens says that Turkish. forces' have started for Bulgaria, -and; are moving toward Varna, z on the Black Sea, to assist in, preventing a landing • of Russians at thatports The despatch; 'acids ' that • BulgaliaAias asked Turkey for more r