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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-2-3, Page 3BRITISH SUCCESS IN EGYPT OVER THE.SEUSSI TRIBESMEN 4,500 Arabs Were Engaged and They Were Driven BAc1C Three Miles-inemy Losses Nearly 700 A despatch from London says: Reu, ter's correspondent at Cairo, in a de- spatch dealing with Gen. Wallace'a� victory over the Senussi tribesmen in Western Egypt last Sunday, says: "Four thousand five hundred west- ern Arabs were engaged and driven, back three miles. The British casual- ties were 26 men killed .and 74 wound- ed. The enemy has about 150 men killed and 500 wounded. "The Britishers marched out of Ma- truh Saturday to engage the enemy, who had been located by aviators. The weather wile most unfavorable, the storms .rendering the ground very difficult to traverse, The Britishers bivouacked Saturday night at Brishola and mantled out the following morn- ing. The two columns encountered the enemy, who then extended his right and left wings, endeavoring to envelop the British column, The Bri- tish drove .of the attack after two hours, forcing the enemy back three miles from his camp at ilazalin, which the British occupied at noon, tbe enerey then retiring rapidly westward. The British bivouacked three miles west of Brisholee after burning the camp and stores." 20,60 TROOPS WILL LEAVE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS Accommodation Has Been Provided in England for Twenty Battalions From Canada A sleennteh from Ottawa says: Major -Gen.: it Sam Hughes announc- ed an Sunday night that twenty thous- and more troops from Canada have been asked for by the War Office and. will be de patched from the Dominion within the next two or three months. An offer of more troops was trade some time ago, following the rapid progress made in the training centres of the Dominion, and the War Office has accepted the offer up to a total of twenty battalions, for which accost- , madation is being provided in Eng- land. The battalions will be selected in the order of merit, those that have shown the most efficiency being. the likely ones for first choice. They will be sent over as soon as the necessary's transports have been provided. FLOODS WASH AWAY GERAN TRENCHES Thaw in Oginski Canal Plays Havoc': With the Fortifica- tions. A despatch to the London Daily Telegraph an Friday from Petrograd says: "A thaw in the Oginski Canal dis- trict has caused the Rivers Share and Jsscolda to flood the country, sweep- ing away trenches and fortifications which the Germans built when tbe ground was frozen hard; according to a telegram received here from Minsk.. "All the railways and roads have; been turned into swamps, and the German temporary field railways have been washed away. The Germans are working waist -deep in the water try. l;rg to extricate their guns, keeping up a heavy and protective rifle fire meanwhile.. "It is said that the washing away of a bridge at Lida, government of Vilna, caused the wreck of a troop train, in which 100 persons were killed or injured. "There are many eases of scurvy among the prisoners taken on this •front." A pessimist likes a thing he can't enjoy, and an optimist enjoys a thing he can't like. ' T A WAR OF KINGS, ' BUT ONE OF NATIONS l.deut.-Genual Sir .Prey I'tenry Noel Lake Lieutenant -General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, who has jut succeeded General. Sir John Nixon as commander of the British forces at Mesopo- tamia, had a brilliant career in India and Egypt. He received a medal in the Afghan war of 1878-79, and also in the Wolseley Nile Expedition of 1885. Later he came to this country to reorganize the Canadian militia. He left Canada in 1911 to assume command of a division in India, but since 1912 he has been Chief of the General Stats in India. The Leading Markets Prussian Tyrants Must he Brought to " Breadstuffs. • Their Knees, Says Bosehery. A despatch from London says: Lord Rosebery, speaking at Edinburgh on Saturday at a meeting of volunteers said: "This is not a war of kings, Ministers or generals, but a war of nations, and you embody the nation's resolution that so long as there is an enemy in the field not a man or wo- man will spare any exertion to secure a triumphant victory, My only fear is that when success begins weak mind may cry far premature peace, -width would mean a short peace and a worse war to follow. We must bring the Prussian bloodthirsty tyrants to their knees." FIVE HUNDRED RUSSIANS PUT TO TORTURE Manner in Which Austrians Treat Prisoners --Russian Statement A despatch from Petrograd says: Tho Russian army headquarters has issued a long official statement con- cerning the attitude of the Austrians toward Russian prisoners. The state- ment tells the experience of six sol - Biers who escaped from captivity in Austria. It declares that they and five hundred of their comrades refused to dig trenches and hence were tortured, four of then: number being shot on. Jan, 14 at the village of Hossenzass, near Innsbruck, The executioners, the statement says, were cadets who vol- a unteered for their task. PROOF. OF GREEK KING'S DECEIT IN POSSESSION OF THE ALLIES A Rome Despatch fints.That Greek King May be Arrested and Conveyed to France A elespatch from Rome says: The allies, who are practically preventing navigation of Greek shipping, and thus hove stopped Austro -German zubmarine warfare in the Mediter- ranean, have secured convincing evi- dence to the effect that the Greek ;King ' has favored in every possible way the operation of Austrian and German submarines, which were based at Corfu prior to the French occupa-+ tion, and still are based at other Greek islands. ' :. • Submarines are also said to be based on. the seaside of Constantine's . villa in Athens, where gasoline is segues- tered. All 'of this is part of the evi- dence in the allies' hands, showing the Hellenic ruler's ' complicity with the central powers. Undoubtedly this evi- deiice will be sensationally divulged at the opportune moment, and it is bound ta have the climax in the Greek situation looked for in :the immediate future. The neutral diplomat who on Fri- day foreshadowed an involuntary trip by 'ming Constantine to France added that he had reason to believe that the exile of the Montenegrin ' King and his family was not self -chosen, but lied been decided upon by the allies be - caw of Austrian threats to have King Nicholas executed, ONLY ONE KIND OF VICTORY SMASHING N UY D P PULVERIZING Wearing Down by Attrition Too Long and Pressure is Being Applied, Declares Lloyd George A'despatch from London says: In the course of an interview on Frtda � �k y • Lloyd George, when asked if he thought the war would .end in a dead- lock, said that' such a thing must not be thought of for a moment. "It may take a long time," hesaid, Y s , "but we must crack the nut before we get at the kernel. Wearing down the outside by attrition is too long, and would not be a smashing, pulverizing. victory. Pressure on the. enemy 'is-15e- coming s'1 e -coming greater. They .are spreading their frontiers temporarily, but are becoming weaker in a military 'sense, and the process of strangulation will. squeeze them more and more." Toronto, Feb. 1.--Mauitaba wheat -New crap, No. 1 Northern, $1.29%; No. 2 Northern, $7..27; No. 3 Northern, $1.25, in store Fort Wile li FQQD SHORTAGE IN LILLE EXTENDS TO GERMAN ARMY ,Soldiers Not in Firing Line Have Meat Rations Only Once .a Week, it is Reported $. despatch from Paris says; A French business woman, who was caught in Lille at the beginning of the Soar and who has just been repatriated among the refugees from there, on Thursday told how she found condi- tions. 1 The reason, she explained, why the Germans 'nave not only been willing, but anxious, to send so many Freneb people back from Lille Is because the civilian population is little better than starving and would be actually starv- ing if it were not for the American aid they have received, 'the civilians, she continued, receive absolutely nothing from the army for the very good reason that tbe German soldiers themselves in Lille are almost without food.. According to her, six 1 °lavers quartered in a ,houee iia Lille toil her that the Germane would be unable to hold Lille and that sector of the front two months longer, as they could not feed the men. She says the German soldiers' uniforms are in rags and their shoes are dropping from. their feet. They have a meat ration only once a week, while the horses have no hay or grain at all. Instead they are fed on chopped straw mixed with sugar, and the men, wbenever they can, steal. the sugar from the horses. EGULFEU IN PISK MARSHES GERMAN DETACHMENTS PERISH Fipod of y's Walde; Midden Waters Wrecked Enelrl and Cut Off the Soldiers A Reuter despatch from Petrograd to London says that prisoners taken • during the last few days by the Rus- sians confirm reports of the terrible • condition of the German troops in the Pinsk marshes where a rapid thaw re- leased such vast quantities of subter- ranean water that all the enemy worn have been 'wrecked as complete- if omple to -if they had been bombarded by heavy batteries. Not only have thousands of caiesons,. quantities of munitions, and nunie ous guns been engalfed, the despatch says,. but various entrenched detachments of troops, and often large ones, have been cut off, and, baying been unable to e:tricate themselves from the mar- by lairyrinth, they perished miser - ab]}. Winnipeg Grain, �. __... Winnipeg, Feb. 1. --Cash quotations The road to sueeess is a hard one, T�S OF BOMBS 'Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.2ane; just because it is the road to success. . 2 Northern, $1.20% ; No. 3 :worth - $1.24%; No. 4, $1.20%; No. 5, GERMANY WANTS NO k DROP ON PARIS $1.13 ;n; No. 0, $1.07%; • feed,i EN(/'tllilES MAD W, $1.01}�,s. Oats ---No. 2 G.W., •1i'"sol No. 8 C,i ' 44tac• extra No 1. feed ha. 11..10.10410 44=sic; No.�i feed,;43sc; No. ?feed;, ° rc is top of Cologne to Oppose In. -4 killed, 27Injured'n T 42inc. c. Barlel:---No, 3, 09 ,ec; No. d,. 21 ll d, a a Zeppelin �a . ;s vcstigatias of Atrocities, Manitoba oats --No. 2 C.W„ 48c; 05c; feed 55e. Flax -No. 1 N.W.('., , A despatch from Rome says: Car -p Raid on the French No. 3 C.W., 46c; e•atra No. 7. feed, $2.14,x,, tiTO. 2 C.\ ,x$2.11 . dinar :Mercier, Primate of Belgium,: Metropolis. 400; No. 1 feed, 45c, in store Fort continues to receive unusual attentions; William, United States Markets. during hie visit in Rome. He cele-; A despatch from Paris says: A 2ep. American corn -No, 3 yellow, Minneapolis, Feb. 1. --May, $1.24%; brated mass on Wednesday at the'pelin dirigible passed swiftly over a 82%m, track, Toronto. July, $1,82%; ; No. 1 hard, $1.41%; tomb of St. Paul. the Apostle. It is section of Paris on Saturday night, TeCana tan corn -Feed, 76e, track : No. Northern, $1.86% , t s•.1.49 -81Y0 Xi reported in Rome that Cardinal von,' dropping about a dozen great bombs, Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 44 to 3 yellow, 77�, to 78e, Oats --No. 8+ Nartmann, Archbishop of Calogrte, Evh.clr killed 24 persons and injured 45e- commercial oats, 13 to 11., ac- white, 491fs to 500, Flour Taney will sods come to Rome with the ob- i 27. The raid lasted ribout one minute cording to freights outside. patents, $7.25; idiot clears, $5.50;! 7ect of opposing the suggestion that a j and a half. The fog seriously inter- ' Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per second clears, $3..10. Bran --$20.50. , eominissian be appointed by the Popo fered with the work of the Paris aerial car lot, $1.13 to $1.15; wheat, slight- Duluth, Feb. 1. -Wheats --No. 1 to enquire into charges of atrocities ly sprouted and tough, $1.09 to hard, $1.36; No. 1 Northern, $1.35; in Belgium, ,$1.13, according to sample; wheat, No. 2 do., $1.32; Montana, No. 2 eprouted, smutty and tough, $1.01 to hard $1.32x(; May, $1-35;; July, PRESIDENT WILSON GIVES GERMANY ANOTHER CHANCE guard. The fact that only one German ma- chine appeared leads to the belief that $1.06, according to sample; feed $1.38 4. the Zeppelin was making a recons wheat, 90 to 95e. noftring trip, and the suposition is that the Germans have in view a simi- Peas-No. 2, nominal, per car lots, Live Stock Markets. x1.80; peas, according to sample, Toronto, Feb. 1 -Handy claoieo lar operations on a lege scale, ,1.25 to $1,75. steers, $7.49 to $7.85; butchers', Fifty -'two persons were killed or Barley Malting barley, 63 to 65e; goad, $6,85 to $7.40; da., medium, i h 11 g p wounded in the raid, according to feed barley, 57 to 60c, according to .$0.40 to '$6.85;; do., common, $5.75 ti h` g ' the more complete reports available freights outside. Nine women were killed and fourteen Buckwheat -Car lots, 78 to 79e, ac- $7 50; do , gooel, $G GO to $7; d ,many until Fob 5 to state frankly to wounded; 14 men were killed and 15 cording to freights outside. medium, $5 75 to $6.60; butchers' Rye -No. 1 commercial, 92 to 93c; wounded. Included among the killed rye, rejected, 80 to 82; accordingto 5 G0 disavow the attack upon the Lusitania was a baby of 18 months. Two e were sample, $ , da„ btologiia, $4 to 475 feed- sloth th lt' 115 dren were injured. Ten houses were Manitoba flour -First patents, in ers, 900 to 1,100 lbs., $6 to $6.75; do., can lives. damaged by the raiders. Three 'houses jute bags, $7.20; second patents, in: bulls, $5 to $5,25; stockers, choice, "It is impossible to state what the were the scenes of eight killed an in- aute bags, $6.70; strong bakers', in 750 to 900 pounds, $6 to $6.50; do., President will do if the Kaiser fails to jured each. In another house seven jute bags, $6.50, Toronto. medium, 650 to 760 lbs., $5.50 to $6; meet the demands within the pre- persons were killed or injured. Ontario flour -Winter, $4.90 to do., light, $4.75 to $5.50; cutters, scribed time. The World has been ad- One of the houses in which the most $5.10, according to sample, seaboard $4 to $4.75; cannersor , $3 to 83.75; vised that he has decided upon a serious damage was done was a home shipment. freights in bags, prompt milkers, choice, each, $80 to $100; do., course that will be final, but it is ` in which the family had met. to cele - p medium, $55 to $80; Springers, $60 to Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- $100; calves, veal, good, $9 to $10:75; unknown to any except himself and brate the return of a son, a Zouave, on real freights -f -Bran per ton Tho New York World, under an eight -column head on Friday morning prints the following despatch from as in ton: - to $6.40; heifers, choice, $7.10 to "President Wilson has given Ger- o cows choice, to this Government whether it intends to , $6 $6.66; da,, good, 5.G0••xo $6• do. medium,$5.10 to wi a t he resulting loss of. mers- shorts, per ton, $25; middlings, per $5.50 to $6; do., grass, $4.50 to $5.50; disclose the next move." Mound the table were the grand- ton, $26; good feed flour, per bag, Spring lambs, cwt., $10.50 to $12; father, 66 years old; his daughter, the $1.75. $24; do., medium, $6 to 59; do,, common Secretary Lansing, and neither will Leave of • absence from the front Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, 28 to alc; in- ferior, 24 to 25c; creamery prints, 33 to 36e; solids, 33 to 35c. Eggs -Storage, 29 to 30c per doz.; selects, 32 to 33c; new -laid, 40c, case lots. Honey -Prices, in 10 to 60-1b. tins, 12 to 121/ac; combs, No. 1, $3; No. 2, 32.40. Poultry -Spring chickens, 17 to 18c;. fowls, 13 to 14c; ducks, 17 to 18c; geese, 15 to 19c; turkeys, 23 to 26c. - Cheese -Large, 19c; twins, 19%c.. Potatoes -Car lots of Ontarios quoted at $1,70 to $1.75, and New Brunswicks at 31.90 to $1.95 per bag, on track. Provisions. Bacon, long clear, 16% to 161/z c per lb. in case lots. Hams -Medium, 173 to 18%c; do., heavy, 14' . to 15c; rolls, 16 to 161/sc; breakfast ba- con, 21 to 23c; backs, plain, 24 to 25c; boneless backs, 27e. Lard -The market . is : unchanged; pure lard, 14 to 14%c; compound, 12 to 124c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Feb:; 1. -Corn -American. No. 2 yellow, 85 to 86c. Oats -Can- adian Western, No. 2, 56c;.No. 3, 55c; No. 2 local white, 51%c; No. 3 local white, 50%c; No. 4 local white, 49%ce Barley -Manitoba feed, 62 to 63c; malting, 70 to 72c. Buclwheat, toFlour-Manitoba . •82c. Flour -Ma i �foba No. 2, Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.30; seconds, $6.80; strong bakers', $6.60; Winter patents, choice, $6.50; straight rollers, $5.80 to $5.90; do.; bags, $2.75 to 32.85. Rolled oats- Bbls., $5.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.50. Bran, $24. Shorts, $26. Middlings, $28 to $30. Mouillie $31 to $33. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20 to 326.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 18% to 18%c; finest easterns, 18 to 1814c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 34 to 35c; seconds, 321 to 33c. Eggs.- Fresh, 40c; selected, 33c; No. 1 stock, k, 30e; No. 2 stock,28c. Potatoes ---Per bag, car lots, 8185 to $1.90-ne cull lambs, $8 to 38.50; yearling cheep, $8.50 to 39.50;. sheep, ewes, light, $7 to $8.25; do., heavy and bucks, $6 to 37; do., culls, 33 to $4.50; hogs, fed and watered, $9.75 Extraordinary British and German to $9.80; do., light and heavy, 39.25 naval activi has been . in evidence to 39.35; do., f.o.b., country points �' 39.40 to 39.45; sows, fed and water' along the Norwegian coast during the BRITAIN CALLS SINGLE MEN ed $7.25 to 39.30. past few days, accordng to the Sta- . UNDER THE DERBY SCHEME Montreal, Feb. 1. -Cattle were half ranger correspondent of the Morgen a cent higher per 100 pounds, at from bladet, who adds that a clash is pos- A despatch from London says: Sin - $5.50 to $7,50, Hogs were quoted at sibie at any time. A number of British ' gle men of the ages from 27 to 30 CLASH IS POSSIBLE latter's husband, an aunt, two sons AT ANY MOMENT and a girl of 15 years. Seven mutilat- ed corpses were found in the wreck - A despatch from Christiania says: age of the house. 310.35, sheep at 5 to 7c. a Mound, and calves, minded, at 8 to' 9c and grass- fed at 4% to 53ac. "THESE HANDS CLEAN," ASSERTS THE KAISER The Kaiser Sends Characteristic Mes- sage to Bavarian King. A despatch from Berlin says: Re- plying to a message of birthday con- gratulations from King Ludwig of Bavaria, Emperor William sent the following telegram: "Receive my heartiest thanks for your friendly congratulations on my birthday. Trusting in God, in the willtory, and the spirit of self-sacrifice of A despatch from Berlin says: The of our heroic troops to win the vic- two German air squadrons which shelled Nancy on Monday, as reported by the German headquarters staff, says the Overseas News Agency, dropped over 150 bombs on the town to pieces upon the power of a clean and the fortress. The news , agency conscience, with which .Germany to- adds gether with her faithful 'allies,; is wag, ' ing war for the existence o'honor,, and liberty."1' PRINGE•GEORGE PERFbRRMS. ' FIRST PUBLIC CEREMONY A .despatch from London says: Prince George, the -.King's fourth son, A despatch from Paris says: "Wo- fourteen years old, performed his first inen must replace auxiliary soldiers public ceremony at ,Buckingham Pal- in, the army clothing stores, uniform ace on Wednesday when he 'pre'sented repair shops, hospitals and, so far as to the Belgian :field hospital a Red possible, in the shell -making fad - Cross motor ambulance as the gift of tones," says Gen.'Gallieni in a state - the school children''of Britaik' and the inept made , public Thursday evening; colonies. Rigid instructions to this effect have warships and German submarines have been observed just outside terri- torial waters. years, enrolled under Lord Derby's enlistment scheme, will be called out February 2. GERMANS ADIET THF LOSS OF THEIR GREATEST AVIATOR Was Killed inecent R Expedition, in -Which the Town of Nlancy Was Bombed the entire German people, we can look forward with confidence to a victori- ous end of the bloodiest struggle of all times. • All hostile assaults .will break "The German aviation corps laments in this connection the loss . of .Lieut.' Boehnre, who was several times cited in the headquarters report. Lieut.' Boehme fell to the :ground at Ensis helm, in Alsace.' The aviator was an: - gently in -scantly,. killed." Q E ...::RAFT FRENCH CH O. ��N FOR REAL 1 ARMY WORK been sent to • the military authorities throughout France. "An initial ex eriment in tentative - p . ly replacing mon with .women," Gen. Gailieni says, "has proved completely successful, 'especially in + ffice: work in the Ministries. The time has come to draft the women for real army wort.'."