The Exeter Advocate, 1915-11-4, Page 7200.000 CANADIAN SOLDIERS
NOW AT FRONT OR IN TRAINING
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Nearly Twmty New Battalions Have Been Added
Co the Expeditionary Force in the Last flonth.
re now 200,000 Collodion sea -
A despatch. from Ottawa says:
There a
diers under arms, either at the front,'
in England, or Canada. To the 10,-1
000 which it was announced had en-
listed up to the end of September!
nearly twenty new battalions hava!
been added during the past month,
while the foundations of others are
being laid to raise and train men in
the smaller local centres.
The new units recently recruited
are as followsi-Two pioneer regi.!
merits, one in Western Canada and i
one, in Eastern Canada. One regi -
tient of mounted rifles from Niagara
district; one battalion from Toronto;
one from Grey County; two from
Simcoe County; one from •Ontario
County; one or possibly two from El-
gin and Kent Counties; one from Es-
sex County; one from the Rainy River
and Fort William districts; two new
battalions from Manitoba; two. from.
Saskatchewan; one from Alberta; one
from New 13runswielt, and one at Vic-
toria, with another to be raised on the
British Columbia mainland,
BLOWING PATH
TOWARD LILLE
French Troops Destroy the German
Entrenchments in the Arras
District.
A despatch from Paris says: The
French have made a valuable gain
south-east of Neuville-St. West, on
the road between Arras and Lille.
The attack was preceded by the ex-
plosion a heavily -charged mines,
which tore up the enemy trenches at
this point and destroyed their barbed
wire entanglements. The instant af-
ter the mines were detonated the
French troops rushed forward and
occupied the craters made by the ex-
plosions, strengthening the new posi-
tions. The German guns to the rear
at once began a heavy bombardment,
under cover of which. the Germans re-
organized and made repeated counter-
attacIss in an effort to regain the posi-
tions, but the French held the advan-
tage.
The Germans made another gas at-
tach east of Rheims. The French
troops, protecting themselves against
the gaseclouds, poured in a heavy in-
fantry fire, which was supported by
a curtain of fire from the French
artillery, and. the German attempt
wrie eat :hod.
..e'en earlier German attack he the
Champagne made at night at La
Courtine was stopped by the French
rifle and machine gun fire.
An official communication from
Field Marshal Sir John French, the
British. Commander - in - Chief in
France, says:
"Since my last communication, the
situation on our front has remained
unchanged. There have been mining
activities on both sides, but without
important results.
'Tho enemy's artillery has been ac-
tive east of Ypres and south of the
La Bassee Canal. Our reply to this
shelling has been very effecttve.
"Our airmen brought down two
German aeroplanes yesterday, one
falling inside our own lines, and the
other close behind the enemy's front
trenches."
HELPS TO AVENGE
THE CAVELL MURDER
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
New York man in a letter to Sir Sam
Hughes declares that the Cavell mur-
der shonld be avenged by every Bri-
ton in the world. The writer states
that though he cannot go to the front,
he is willing to pay for a substitute,
and offers to place $100 per month in
the Minister's hands for this purpose
so long as the war continues, He
asks that the Minister make use of
the money "in a way that will dam-
age the Huns."
FOUR GERMAN YACHTS
CONDEMNED AS PRIZES
A despatch from London says: The
racing yacht Germania, which on two
occasions won Emperor William's Cup
at Cowes, was condemned in the Prize
Court as a prize of war. The Ger-
mania, which was captured at Cowes
at the outbreak of the war, was the
property of Lieut. Dr. Gustav von
Bohlen und Halbach, head of the
Krupp works. The other German
yachts captured at Cowes -The Lasca
II., Stella Maris, and Paula III. -also
were condemned.
Number 1 figures large in the cal-
evelations of most people.
GERMAN MASSES
ARE HELD BACK
Made Five Distinct Onslaughts On
the French Positions hTahure
Seeker,
A despatch from Paris says: A
German assault on the Tahure sector,
begun with violence Saturday, contin-
ued with five more distinct attacks on
the French positions, preceded by ex-
tremely heavy artillery fire and the
use of gee shells. In the first of
these five attempts the Germans sue-
eeeded in reaching the summit of the
Butte de Tahure, At other points and
in the remaining four attacks they
were repuleed, with heavy losses, and
everywhere were forced to return to
the trenches they had occupied before
their attaek.
The assault which won the Butte de
Talaire covered altogether a front of
five niiles, running from the woods at
the side of Hill 195, past the Butte
de Taliure, and the village of labure,
to and including the earthworks
known as La Courtine. After a bom-
bardment of extreme violence the
German infantry, made up largely of
units recently sent from the Russian
front, attacked all along the line, The
French fire cut through their ranks
and threw them back, except at the
one point named. Before the village
of Tahure the Germans suffered espe-
cially heavy losses, leaving a large
number of dead before their treadles.
The German artillery opened again
on the same series of positions, using
large -calibre shells filled with suffo-
eating gases. Beginning witla an at-
,
tack on the eastern section of La
Courtine, the enemy followed up the
offensive at intervals with assaults on
tho village of Tahure, the region to
the south of the village and the crests
to the north-east. The French artil-
lery and rifle fire beat them back to
their trendies in each case.
PRICES 010 RAW FURS.
That Paid the Trapper Will Be High-
er Than Last Year.
A despatch from Toronto says: The
cutlook for raw furs during the com-
ing season is exceedingly good eon-
sidering all conditions, and the indica-
tions are that the prices paid the
trapper will in practically all cases be
higher than last year.
The results of the October Lampson
London sales as cabled are as follows:
The following furs sold at the per-
centages indicated higher than last
March: -Raccoon, 73 per cent.; musk-
rat, 40 per cent.; skunk, 60 per cent.;
mink, 20 par cent.; marten, 10 per
cent.; silver fox, 15 per cent.; red fox,
40 per cent.; cross fox, 50 per cent.;
beaver, 27% per cent.; otter, 10 per
cent.; lynx, 30 per cent.; wolf, 50 per
cent.; while bear and white weasel
brought the same price as last March.
Not only has a very satisfactory
business been done by the retailers in
the sale of fur sets and fur garments
during the past few weeks, but the
use of furs of all kinds for trimming
of ladies' garments has used up a
large number of odds and ends of
skins, all of which combines to make
the outlook for a very prosperous
season, which is exceedingly satisfac-
tory to all interested in the fur trade.
Leap before you look and you will
look foolish.
Nearly a third of the whole length
of a whale is taken up. by its head.
German Atrocities
wenn Petrograd
A despatch from Reuter's Telegram
Company from Petrograd says: "The
German atrocities museum •has been
opened here. It contains a large mini-
ber of photographsof mutilated sol-
diers whose wounds are alleged to
have been caused by explosive bullets,
and also tables of etatistics of five
thousand cases of atrocities investi-
gated by the special commission of
inquiry into German atrocities, by
which the museum was established."
Four 'lore German S tamers Sunk in Baltic
A. despatch from London says: Bri-
tish submarines have sunk four more
German steamers in the Baltic it is
announced in an official statement
received from Petrograd. The Nor-
wegian steamer Selma, 987 tons, has
been stink, presumably by a German
submarine. Only two of the crew of
21 have been picked up. The tank
steamer H. C- Henreraof British regie-
try, but owned in Seattle,'Wash., has
been sunk in the Mediterranean. No
lives' were lost.
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The Week's Developmenta in the War.
The major interest in the war during the last week has been in the developments in the Balkans. The
Austro-Gerrnan troops have made some progress in their invasion, although the Serhians have offered a herdic
resistance, and the enemy's advance has been hampered by the nature of the country. On the northern part
of their front the Bulgarian army has met with some success, and has joined hands with the Austro -German
forces. Further south, however, the French and British troops landed at Salontisi, have joined the Serbians
and have driven the Bulgarians to their own frontier at the same time, with the result that Strumnitza is
being menaced by the forces of the Entente,
British and French war -ships have bombarded the Bulgarian coast from the Aegean Sea, and Turkish
troops are reported to have been rushed to reinforce the Bulgarians on the coast, in anticipation of an at-
tempt to land by the Allies.
Russia is negotiating with Rumania for permission to send troops through that country against Bulgaria,
while Russian war -ships have bombarded, Varna, one of the two principal Bulgarian ports on the Black Sea.
On the Western front, there has been comparatively little chauge, both sides claiming some local successes.
The Russians are now on the offensive en most of the great Eastern battle -front, but conditions there show
little change.
With the obvious aim of relieving the pressure on Serbia, the Italian troops have taken the offensive on
their front, and despite the difficulties of the country, have won important positions.
Other developments are indicated on the chart -
iYiarkets Of The World TWO DOZEN CAPTURED CANNON
Breadstuff's.
Toronto, Nov. 2. -Manitoba wheat,
new erop-No. 1 Northern, $1.00%t
No. 2 Northern, $1.06%, on track
lake ports, immediate shipment.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., toogh,
45e, on track lake ports.
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 71c,
on track lake ports.
Canadian eorri-No. 2 yellow, 73c,
on track Toronto.
Ontario oats, new crop -No. 3
white, 37 to 39c; commercial oats, 35
to 37c, according to freights outside.
•ntario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per
ear lot, 94 to 96c; sprouted and tou b
80 to 92e, according to sample;
sprouted, smutty and tough, accord -
Ing to sample, 75 to 85c.
Peas, according to sample, per car
lots, $1,50 to $1.90.
Barley -Good malting barley, 54 to
58e; feed barley, 45 to 50; according
to freights outside.
Buclewheat-Norninal, car lots, 78c,
according to freights outside.
Rye -No. 1 commercial, 82 to 84c;
tough, 70 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, $3.60
to $4, according to sample, seaboard,
or Toronto freights in bags, prompt
shipment.
Millfeed, car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights -Bran, per ton, $21;
shorts, per ton, $23; middlings, per
ton, $25; good feed flour, per bag,
$1.50.
Country Produce.
Butter -The market continues firm,
with the demand good. Offerings
moderate. Fresh dairy, 27 to 28c;
inferior, 22 to 23e; creamery prints,
32 to 33c; do., solids, 30 to 313c.
Eggs -Prices are firm; storage, 30
to 31c per*dozen; selects, 32 to 38c;
newlaid, 34. to 37c, case lots.
Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 10
to 1.11,fic; do., retail, 12% to 15c;
combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. 1,
$2.40; No. 2, $1.50 to $2.
Poultry -Chickens, 14 to 16c; fowls,
12 to 13c; ducklings, 15 to 16c; geese,
16 to 18e; turkeys, 20 to 22e.
Cheese -The, market is firm; large,
16%c; twins, 16%c.
Potatoes -The market is firm, with
car lots of Ontarios quoted at $1.10,
and New Brunswicks at $1.15 to
$1.20 per bag, on track.
Baled Hay and Straw.
Hay -No. 1, ton, $16 to $17.50;
No. 2, ton, $13 to $14; baled straw,
ton, 56.50.
Busiuess in Montreal.
Montreal, 'Nov. 2. -Corn -Ameri-
can No. 2 5i:ellow, 77c. Oats -No. 2
local white,"46½c; No. 3 do., 4514c;
No. .4 do., W/ec. Barley -Malting,
66% to 67c. Flour --Man. Spring
wheat patents, firsts, $5.85; seconds,
$5.35; strong bakers',$5.15; Winter
patents, choice, $5.6; straight roll-
ers, $4.90 to $5; do., bags, $2.30 to
$2.40. Rolled oats, barrels, $5.15 to
55.20; do., bogs, 90 lbs., $2.45 to
$2.50. Bran, $21 to $22. Shorts,
$23 to $24. Middlings, 527. to $30.
ton, car lots,. $17 to $15. Cheese, fin-
est westerns16% . to 1G1/2; finest
easterne, L5% to 16c. Butter -
Choicest creamery, 32% to 33c; sec-
onds, 31% to 32c. Eggs -Fresh, 40c;
selected, 32c; No. 1 stock, 28c; No. 2
stock, 25c. Potatoes, per bag, car
lots', 96e to $1.10. Dressed hogs,
DISPLAYED AT HORSE GUARDS
FOR FIRST TIME
IS FAVORABLE
alkali Situation Is Ropeful Pron.
the Allies' Point of
View,
A despatch from London sayst
From the allies' point of view, the
Balkan situation looks more favorable
than at any time since the invasion
of Serbia began, or, as oue military
observer said frankly;
"It looks for the first time favor-
able." The cause of this is a sudden
'marked change in Roumania's atti-
tude in favor of the allies, a change
which has occasioned Berlin practi-
cally to despair of the hope that this
Balkan State would maintain its neu-
trality.
I Bucharest despatches make DO se-
cret of the fact that Rournanie 19
lending a willing ear to the Entente
offer to grant all her dams, includ-
ing Bessarabia.
A despatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Bucharest says that at an au-
dience granted Minister of the Inter-
ior Jonescu and M. Filipeeco, leader
of the Conservative party, King Fer-
dinand declared that be was not op-
posed to the realization of the aspire -
tions of the Roumanian people, and
that in this matter he placed himself
in the hands of Parliament and the
Government.
A half million well-equipped Rus-
sian soldiers are reported to be in
readiness, waiting for Roumania to
say the word, then to march through
that country to relieve the Serbians,
Roumania herself, by accepting the
allies' offer, is expected, by the terrn$
of the pact, to send her own array
over the frontier, falling in the rear
of the Teuton and Bulgarian forces
advancing toward the heart of Serbia
from the bend of the Danube.
Already the German general staff
is nisi to be fie -urine; with this dan-
ger. The news is confirmed that part
of the army of Gen. von Lisingen•
fighting in South-western Russia, has
been sent to the Roumanian border
line.
HALF A BILLION
IN WAR ORDERS
Munitions Agents Announce Mo
Guns Which Germans Used in Defence of Loos Business for Canadian
Viewed by Thousands of London Citizens Plants.
A despatch from London says; in the Battle of Loos September 25
With their silent muzzles pointing to last. The mud and stain of the battle -
wards St. James' Park, the first tro-
phies of the great offensive in France
have been ranged on the Horse
Guards parade. Twenty-one Germazi
field guns and three trench mortars
formed a war exhibit of the highest
interest to Londoners. Not since Cri- which captured it and where it was
mea and the' Indian Mutiny have guns captured. Four armed sentries guard -
captured from an enemy crunched the ed the trophies and a sentry box was
placed at each of the four corners of
the wired enclosures. The presence
of these captured guns from Loos
made an appeal to the imagination of
field is upon them.
The trophies were hauled into posi-
tion by the gunners of the Royal
Horse Artillery, and beneath the muz-
zle of each gun was driven a little
notice board informing the public of
the name of the regiment or division
gravel of the Horse Guards parade
and publicly ranged as labelled exhi-
bits.
With the exception of thr4e pieces
captured at Le Cateau, August 26, thousands of people who swarmed
1914, the whole of the guns took part around the enclosure,
abattoir killed, $13.50 to $13.75. Pork $8.25, and Quebec at $7.50 to $7.75;
-Heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 35 sheep, $4.25 to $5.25 per cwt., as to
to 45 pieces, $28 to $28.50; short cut quality. Calves, milkfed stock, sold
back, bbls. 45 to 55 pieces,$27 to at 7 to 8c and grass-fed at 3 to 6c
$27.50. Lard-Compoundtieces, per pound weight. Hogs -Select -
375 lbs., 101e; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, ed lots, $9.25 to $9.50 per cwt.
10%c; pure, tierces, 375 lbs., 12 to weighed off cars.
12%c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net,
13 to 131/2e.
In one year a horse or a cow will
eat nine times its own weight.
Ethel -"No, George, I can never be
ember, 95e; May, 99%c. Cash -No. your wife," George (in despair) -
1 hard, $1; No. 1 Northern, 97 to 99c; "And am I never to be known as the
No. 2 Northern, 93 to 96c. Corn -No. husband of the lovely Miss Jones?"
yellow, 68 to 69c. Oats -No. 3 white, He got her.
33% to 34%c. Flour and bran un-
changed.
Duluth, Nov. 2. -Wheat -No. 1
hard, 981/ec; No. 1 Northern, 97%c;
No. 2 Northern, 9314c; Montana, No.
2, 97 4, ;December,951/ ; May,
99'/c. Linseed cash, $1.85%; De-
cember, 51.83%; May, $1.87%.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Nov. 2. -Wheat -De -
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Nov. 2. -Best heavy steers,
$8.25 to $8.50; good heavy steers, $8
to $8.16; butchers' cattle, choice,
$7.60 to 57.75; do., good, $7.10 to
$7.60; do., medium, $6.50 to $7; do.,
common, $5 to $5.40; butchers' bulls,
choice, $6.25 to $6.75; do., good bulls,
$5.75 to $6; do., rough bulls, $4.75 to
$5.25; butchers' cows, choice, $6.45
to $6.75; do., good, $6 to $6.75; do,
medium, $5 to $5.50 do., common,
$4.25 to $4.75; feeders, good, $6.50
to $6.75; stockers, 700 to 900 lbs.,
56.25 to $ . , canners and cutters,
$34to $4.50; milkers, choice, each, $65
to $110; do., ccAmon and medium,
each, $25 to $50; springers, $50 to
$100; light ewes, $5.50 to $6.75;
sheep, heavy, $4.25 to $4.75; do.,
bucks, $3.50 to 54.50; yearling lambs,
$7 to $7.50; Spring lambs, cwt., $8.80
to $9.10; calves, medium to choice,
$7.25 to $10.75; hogs, off cars, $9.40
to $9.75; do., fed and watered, $9.25;
do., f.cab, $9.
Montreal, Nov. 2.-A few small lots
id choice steers sold at $7.25 to $7.50;
good at $6.75 to $7, but the bulk of
; the trade was done in cattle ranging
I from $5.25 to $6.50; while butchers'
I cows brought from $4.50 to 56.50,
I and the bulls from $4.50 to $6.25
per cwt.Cows sold at $3 to $3.50, and
bulls at $0.75 to $4,25 per cwt.
Lambs -Ontario stock, sold at $8 to
e
A despatch from Ottawa says: Bri..
tish orders aggregating five hundred
millions of dollars have come or are
corning to Canada, according, to a
statement made by Mr. D. A. Thomas,
representative of the British Minister
of Munitions.
Mr. Thomas has left for New York
on his way back to England, having
accomplished his mission. to the
United States and Canada. Ile ex-
pects to return before Christmas.
His work in ,Canada is now in the
hands of Mr. Lionel Hichens, who
arrived recently to represent Mr.
Lloyd -George, and who will have
charge of the reconstitution of the
Shell Conimittee, or, as Mr. Thomas
describes it, the Canadian Munitions
Committee. The main feature of the
reorganization of the committee will
be the retirement of those members
who are interested in the manufacture
of munitions.
Mr. Thomas issued a lengthy state-
ment in which he reviewed the work
of the Shell Committee and himself,
touching upon most of the questions
with which rumor has been busy for
the past two or three months. Gen.
Bertram, chairman of the Shell Com-
mittee, had no comment to make on
the statement issued by Mr. Thomas.
"Everything," he said, "is in the
statement."
To make leather boots waterproof,
saturate them with castor-oil.
MUCH HAVOC ON BULGAR PORTS
FROM GUNS OF ALLIED FLEETS
Sofia Now Admits That One-quarter of De.deag-
hatch Was Razed by the Shells
A despatch from Soffit says: Al-
though the bombardment of Varna by
the Russian fleet lasted only ten min- '
utes, the bodies of 22 civilians already!
have been found, while over a hundred!
persons were injured, many of them
severely, according to reports received
h re
The Russian fleet was sighted at
eight o'clock in the morning rapidly
approaching the city, and opened fire
while etill at agreat distanee. It ap-
proached to within a little over three
miles, but withdrew before the Bul-
garian batteries could make their fire
According to. officials here, the Rua.
; siana never searched out the Bulgar-
ian batteries, but merely shelled the
city, espeeially the harbor sections,
where Greeks form the majority of,
the population. The people are great-
ly excited over the bombardments of
Bulgarian cities on the Aegean and
Black Seas.
The damage done by the bombard-
ment of Aegean Sea towns ancl vil-
lages by the allied fleet recently was
greater than at first reported.. One-
fourth of the entire city of Dedeag-
hatch was razed by the shells of the
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A despatch from Turin says: Sig- only gneinincired yac.Isaway 'fram an
nor Barzilai, the Irredentist Minister, t obsta.vatory where. he was watching
who Just returned from the war zone, I the' "battle on. the Isonzo in the corn -
states that Austrian shr ,pnel hurst pari y of ICing, Victor.
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