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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-4-13, Page 3ANTER BRITISH VICTORY I . THE TIGRIS CAMPAIGN ,Arne Division Operates on Each Bank of River, and During Day Five Lines of 'Trenches Were Taken. A despatch from London. says: The following official statement was issued on Thursday: --- "General Lake reports that the 'Ti- gris corps under the command of Lieut. -General Sir George F. Gor- ringe, who succeeded General. Aylmer, attacked the enemy's entrenched posi- tion at Umm-el-Team on Wednesday. Our trenches had been pushed forward by wane of saps to within 100 yards of the enemy's position, and the lead- ing battalions of the 13th Division then rushee'[ the enemy's first and second lines in quick succession. "Tice third line was capeured by 6 o'clock in the morning under the support of artillery and machine gun fire. The 13th Division continued -their victorious advance, and by '1 REV a.m. had striven the enemy out of his fourth and fifth lines. "Aeroplane reconnaissances then re- ported that the enemy was strongly reinforcing his entrenchments at Fe- lahie and Sannayyat, positions 6,000 and 12,000 yards, respectively, from the front trenches at Umm-el-Henna: As those positions could only be ap- proached over very open ground, Gen- eral Gorringe ordered a further at- tack deferred until evening. "In the meantime, on the right bank, the ard Division, under General Keary, captured the enemy's trenches opposite the Felahie position. Dure Ing the afternoon the enemy on this bank made a strong eounter-attack with infantry and cavalry, supportedd, by guns. This counter-attack was successfully repulsed, and the position won was consolidated." INCREASE GAVE UP SALIENT FORTY MILLIONS OF BETIIINCOURT Total for the Fiscal Year March 31st Was $171,218,668. Ending French, by Evacuating the Position, IhstabI sh Continuous. Line, A despatch from Ottawa says; An Increase in revenue of $39,5550,000 for the fiscal year ending glutei: 81st la shown by the financial statement for; the month of March and the twelve months ending then, which has just been published. The total revenue Was $171,248,668; expenditures show - ea a decrease, those on consolidated fund account being $9,500,000 less and capital expenditures about $3,500,000 less. The year's revenue was nut only nearly forty million; more than the previous twelve months, but it was over a million dollars more than the estimate of tho Finance Miniseer in hie budget s ereh over a month ago., The increase in revenue v;as contri- buted to by $22,480,000 of an advance in Customs receipts; $1,000,000 in excise revenue, and 55,570,000 in post - office receipts. Fur March the Cus- toms revenue totalled 59,978,138, or over two millions more than the same month last year, when it was $7,-- 006,479. War expeudituree are, of courso, increasing, and totalled $24,032,296 last month and $134,050,000 for the fiscal year as far as has been estim aced. During the year there has been an increase of about $147,000,000 in the net debt. NOT THE DANGEROUS ALIENS. Only Destitute Ones May Work on Farms; to be Reasonably Paid. A despatch°from Ottawa says: The suggestion that interned alien enemies should be released to help in Canadian farming operations does not propose to include those interned for offensive reasons, but only those taken in charge because of destitution, Farm- ers would have to pay them reason- ably for their work. Some such have already been released for service. '.PURI;` MINISTERS SEEKING PEACE? A despatch from Milan says: News is received from Berne that the Turk- ish Under-Secretary for Foreign Af- airs and Reshand Pasha have wired for Osman Effendi, former Turkish Debats. Marconi has at the same s Minister of Posts, to join them imme- diately. They are said to have already had conversations with unofficial dele- gates regarding proposals for a sepa- rate peace. A despatch from Paris says: The village of 13ethineourt forming the apex of the salient on the western bank of the Dieu: e, against which tho Germans have been pounding for days with heavy artillery and with fre- quent infantry attacks, was evacuat- ed by the French on Saturday night, and Sunday the new line withstood the most furious assaults which have been made by the Crown Prince's army in many days. As now established, the French line in this sector runs from the Avoeour't redoubts along the wood- ed slopes to the west of Hill 304, fol- 1owe the Forges creek, to the north- east of Iiaucourt, and joins the post- tions ositions already held to the south of the cro sing of the Bethineourt-Ernes and. Beth incourt-Chat tancourt roads, CHILDREN' BURNED TO DEATH. Were Taking Part in an Amateur „ Performance in England. A despatch from London says: Five ehiLl performers were burned to death on the stage of the Garrick Theatre, at Hereford, Friday night. It was a children's entertainment to provide comforts for the soldiers. The cur- tain fell on the final scene and the audience was departing, when the cry of "Fire!" was raised. A panic en- sued. Many in the audience were crushed, but none seriously injured. The fire was confined to the stage, where the performers were wearing dresses covered with cotton wool for a snow scene, The flames spread fu- riously and the children ran frantical- ly about, the stage with their gar- ments on fire. MARCONI INVENTION FOR USE OF ALLIES, Wizard of Wireless. Has Perfected Improvements. A despatch from Paris says: Guglie elmo Marconi has invented a special apparatus based on a new principle which is destined to make a sensation- al change in the operation of aero- 9 planes and dirigibles. This announce- 8 ment has just been made, according to s a Rome despatch to the Journal des NORTH .IEA AIR awe Etiotanof , Sots 0R9Ei:ta , PARIS, 4reir," 0 UM-ELeHENNA EL THE WEEK'S DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WAR. The Germans still eontinae to hammier away at the defences of Verdun, but their progress is slow. Indeed it would seem from the tactics adopted by General Jof}'re that some of the so-called successes obtained by the Ger'mens are prepared for them by the French in order to lead them in well -set traps. On Fria night r p Friday n t,ht of last week the Germans began a violent attack et: the village of S'aux. There was a severe fight In which the enemy Lost heavily, and when the Trench gave up the positron there was only a ruined village, On Monday the Frenchopened an attack on Vaux and recaptured it and on Tuesday the Germans started a heavy artillery bombardment of the position.. This was kept up for several hours, after which the German infantry came up to the assault. The French had their machine guns in position and their infantry well en- trenched and kept up a constant fire on the advancing Germans, With great persistence these stuck to their task and were mowed down by the heavy fire. Finally they withdrew from the attack. But it would seem that the Germans prefer now to make separate attacks on certain positions at one time in place of a general .attack on .all the defences of the city. At the time they were being driven hack from their second advance against Vaux on the east side of the Meuse they made an attack on the French position at Haueourt between Malanccurt and Bethineourt, In this they were repulsed. :luny other small attacks have been earried en through the week. General Sir Percy Labesent an important despatch to London on Wednesday stating thee early that morn- ing be had attacked and eaptured a strongly fortified position of the Turks at Unun-el-ilenna below Kut -el - Amara. This news gives hope that the forces of General Townshend which have been shut up in Kut -el -Amara since Iast December will soon be relieved, as the captured position is the lee: really strong ane between Sir Percy Lake's farces and the beleaguered troops. The Germans again made several air -raids over the British Isles during the week -end, and some consider- able damage was done to hearse life, but no military damage was obtained. One of the Zeppelins was brought down in the Thames and her erew captured. Holland's action in rapidly mobilizing her army at the time she was having a dispute with Germany has caused the Kaiser to withdraw some of his troops from other fields and station them along the Dutch border. The frontier of Holland and Belgium also is being made ready for any attack on that part. Ib would seem that the Germans are learning a lesson from their heavy losses around Verdun, for they have somewhat changed their style of infantry attack. In the fighting on Tuesday last they advanced against the French, not in serried ranks, bub in extended formation, making short bounds forward in comparatively small bodies as occasion offered, The French, however, have of .late been attaining a superiority of fire, and the Germans got to a position in the attack an Chanffour Wood near Douamont, within fifty yards of the French. An assault was out of the question. Retirement was equally out of the qucetion, and the advanced Lines of Germans had to lie on the surface of the ground, or in whatever trenches they ,could dig while lying, but all the time under an effective fire of musketry andshrapnel. TheLeading ° 1 ? t to 18e; breakfast bacon, 21 to - weighed off cars, $11.40 to $11.50; do Lea�I��i � et ; 24e; backs, plain, 25 to 26c; boneless, f.o.b,, $10,65. _ backs, 28 to 29c. ' Montreal, April 11: Butcher steeds Breadstug•s. Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 1511 to, -Best, $8 to $8.25; good, $7.60 to $8; 61 153ae, and palls, 15% to 16e; come fair, $7.25 to $7.50; medium, $7 to Toronto, Northern, Manitoba Wheat;pound, 13% to 14?�,e. -No. 1 Northern, $1.16%; No. 2, do,, $7.40; rough, $6,76 to $7.25. Butcher $1.14%; No. 3, do„ $1.113, in stores ;bulls, best, $6.70 to 57.20; medium, Fort William. Montreal Markets. $6.10 to 56.00; common, $5.60; can- 1 nets, $4 to $5. Hogs -Selects, Manitoba oats -No. 2 C W • No. 3, do., 41c.; extra No. 1 feed, 41e.; No. 1 feed, 40c, in store, Fort' t'Villiam. American corn -No. 8 yellow, 83lec, track, Toronto. Canadian corn -Feed, 68 to 70e. on track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 44 to $11,20 to $11,75; roughs and mixed can No. 2 yellow, 85 to 86e, Oats-,' Canadian Western, No. 2, 52l, to lots, 510.50 to $11; common, $10.25; 58e; No. 3, 50% to 51c; extra No. 1 ,o1vc, $7,85 to $8.10, Sheep -6c, to feed', 501/ to 51c.; No. 2 local white,; 8c ; lambs, $9 to $12, Calves -Milk 50c;No. 3 local white, 49e; No. 4 • fed, $7 to $9, local white, 48e. Barley -Manitoba i' feed, 68 to 71c; malting, 75 to 77e,I 45c; commercial, 43 to 44e, according Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat- GOVERNMENT STARTS to freights outside ents firsts $6 60 d 1 F Ontario wheat -No. 2 winter, per strong bakers', $5.90; Winter patents,' THRIFT CAMPAIGN car lot, $1.02 to $1.04; No. 1 cont- choice, $6.00; straight rollers, $5.30 to. A despatch from Ottawa says: Th mercial, 99c. to $1.01; No. 2, do., 97 to $55.40; do., bags, $2.45 to 52.50. Roll- Government's thrift and reductio 9e; No. 3,. do., 94 to 95c; feed wheat, ed oats-Bbls, $5.00 to $5.10; do, bags produetio to 88c, according to freights out- 90 lbs, $2.35 to $2.40. Bran, $24.. campaign has been inaugurated in ide. Shorts, $26. Middlings, 528. to $80. notice issued on Friday night urging Peas -No. 2, $1.50; according to Mouillie, $30 to $35. Hay-No.:i, per increased production in all lines. Th ample, $1 to $1.80, according to ton, car lots, $20,00 to $20.50. Cheesy prediction is made that there will b freights outside. Finest westerns, 183 to 18c; fin- no absolute and enduring congestion Barley `'Malting, 62 to 63c; feed, est easterns, 18 to 181hc. Butter-' and that after the war there will b 59 to 62c, according to freights out- Choicest creamery, 33 to 34c; seconds, demands not for grain only, but for al side. 30 to alai c. Eggs -Fresh, 26 to 27c. other products. Ample ocean ,onnag Buckwheat -69 to 70c, according to Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.75 to will be available, and European conn freights outside. $1.80. tries will look to Canada first. Rye -No. 1 commercial, 88 to 89e; - rejected, according to sample, 84 to , United States Markets. 86e, according to freights outside. 1 Minneapolis, April 11. -Wheat - Manitoba flour -First patents, in May, $1.1936 to $1.19�'a; July, $1.02%; jute bags,. $6.50; second patents, in No. 1 hard, $1.24%; No. 1 Northern, jute bags, $6; strong bakers' in jute $1.20',% to $1.23?; No. 2 Northern, bags, $5.80, Toronto. 151.16% to $1.20%. Corn -No. 3 yel Ontario flour -Winter, according to low, 75 to 76c. Oats -No. 3 white, 42 sample, $4.15 to $4.25, track, Toronto; to 421%. Flour unchanged. Bran-. Germans Are Making Ex $4.25 to $4.35, bulk seaboard, prompt $18.25 to 819.00. shipment. ( Duluth, April 11. -Wheat -No. 1 nn i g h ty Struggle Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- hard, $1.22%; No. 1 Northern, $1.19x% real freights -Bran, per ton, $25; to 1.201/s ; No. 2 Northern, $1.15% to shorts, per ton, $26; middlings, per $1.18' . Linseed -Cash, 52.13 to A despatch from London says: The $2.1314 ; May, $2.13; July, $2.14. Daily Mail Rotterdam correspondent states that a big battle on the Yser e n a time carried on important wireless telegraphy researches with great suc- cess. His inventions will be imme- diately employed by the Italian army, after which they will be placed at the disposition of Italy's allies. GERMAN FORCE SURROUNDED AND OBLIGED TO SURRENDER Gerneal Smuts Wins An Important Success for the British in East Africa. A despatch from London'says:. An- other success for the British in East Africa is reported by Lieut. -General Jan C. Smuts, commander of the Brit- ish expedition operating against the .• Germans in the following despatch: "As the result of a movement on the afternoon of Monday, mounted troops, under Gen. Vanderventer, successfully surprised a German force with ma- chine guns stationed in .a mountain stronghold in the Arusha region. This force was surrounded during the course of Tuesday and surrendered Thursday morning. BLOCKADE RUNNER CAUGHT WITH CARGO OF RAW RUBBER Ship From Brazil, With 1t20 Tons on Board, Seized Off the Orkney Isi'ands. - A despatch from London says: The Brazillian steamer Saldanha de Gama, which sailed from Para, Brazil,'Feb. 6, `for New York with 'a'cargo of 120 tons of raw rubber, has been seized off the ' Orkney IMande by a British patrol boat. The 'ship and her cargo have e been placed in the prize court. eeen_ nee This .is believed to be a deliberate. case of attempted blockade running, the officials here contending that a. steamer fromk Para for New ' Yor could never have .gotten' so -far of her course. This is the'ffirst seizure 6 ERB NEAR .SAS A.TQON Farin Animals Also. Shot • Dawn and' ;Buildings Set on Fire - A despatch from Saskatoon, Sask.,. says: A whole family .of six was wip- ed out in the Wakaw district on Wed- nesday night, when Prokop Manchure, his wifel, a brother-in-law and three children were murdered, the house burned over their dying bodies, and their animals shot down and left bo. perish in the burning buildings; The erime was discovered when a neighbor walking out of his house on Thursday 4. morning, saw the still -smoking ruins of the Manchure homestead. The crime was evidently committed by a madman, in whose hands the rifle found in the ruins had evidently been used with terrible effect. No trace of the murderer has been discovered. "GERMAN HUMANITY LEAGUE" AROUSED Strenr .Manifesto Denounciug the "Brutal Militarism of Prussia.' A despat,;h from Rotterdam says: In a counterblast to the German Chan.. cellar's Reichstag speech, the eo-call• ed "German Humanity League" . on Friday issued n manife:.to urging all Germans In neutral. States to strive to the uttermost to deliver Germany from the "savage and brutal militar- ism of Prussia." The manifesto charges that the German Government has broken "every rule of civilized communities, diplomatic honesty and international obligations," and is re, sponsible "for the colossal carnage of domestic grief, financial ruin and eeo- nornie misery which, like a nightmare from hell, distracts the German peo- ple." ,r LOSSES 200,000 BEFORE VERDUN Germans Have Sacrificed Greatest Force in Whole Range of Warfare. A despatch from Paris says: The German losses before Verdun up to the present time have reached the huge total of 200,000 men, one of the greatest battle losses in the whole 'range of warfare, according to estie mates made public here to -day from a semi-official source -"the result of careful enquiry made in the highest quarters, in which the figures have been rigorously checked and verified.' ENEMY HURLS THOUSANDS OF SHELLS INTO RHEIMS, A despatch from Paris says: The systematic bombardment of the city of Rheims was resumed three weeks ago and continues with increasing in. tensity. A thousand shells fell in the town on Friday. The Prefect hag sent away all the inmates of homes for the aged, and taken other meas- ures to avoid further loss of life. TEUTON U-BOAT RAMMED BY RUSSIAN Destroyed at Scene of the Sinking of e the Portugal. o A despatch from Petrograd says; ,- The torpedo-boat destroyer Strogi e has rammed an enemy submarine near 1 the spot where the hospital ship Port- e ugal was sunk (in the Black Sea), ac- - cording to the official announcement on Sunday. BIG BATTLE ON . THE YSER FROM YPRES TO THE COAST tensive Preparations for a at an Early Date. ton, $27; : good feed flour, per bag, $1.60 to $1.70. Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 29 to Live Stock Markets. front may be expected shortly. He Toronto, April 11. -Choice heavy states that he has reliable information 32c inferior,25' to 26c; creamery steers, $8.35 to $8.75; butchers' cat- that the Germans are making eaten- t tle, choice, 58.00 to ;58,25; do., good,' sive preparations for a severe. stru g - pmts, 35 to 37c; solids, 33 to ` 4c. $7.75 to $7.85; do., medium, $7.25 to le between Ypres and the coast cartons; 24' o 25e. 23 to 24c; -do:, in $7,60; do., common, $6.60 to $6.75; The entire coast area has been strong - ace, butchers'bulls, choice, $7,25 to $7,50; Honey Prices in 10 to 60-1.b. tins, do., :good bulls, $6.85 to $7.00; do.,+ - "-` `" 13 to 14c. Combs -No. 1, $2.75 to $3; rough bulls; $4.65 to $5.15; butchers', No. 2, $2.25to $2.40. cows; choice,- $6.75 to $7.25; do., good,? TOOBACKBUT ONE ly reinforced. In towns behind the lines, such as Bruges, Ghent, and 6 Deynze, new German troops include ing the latest levies, have been sta- t tinned. Hospital accommodations have been trebled. While the eyes and ears of the world are turned toward Verdun, Germany is contemplating a mighty I effort either by or against the British. Beans -$4 to,$4.40, the latter for • $6,2$ to $6.50; do.,'medium,'$5.85' to hand-picked. $6.10; do., common, $5.25 to $5.75; Poultry- Chickens, 21 to 22c; fowls, , Stockers, 700 to„850 lbs., 56.60. to 18 eto 19c;e ducks, 20 to 22c; geese, 18 ' to "20c,; turkeys, 25c. , $7.25• Choice feeders,deborned,950 .to ,,Cheese -Large, 19c;twins, 19114c. 11,000 lbs., $7.:15 to $7.50; Canners and' g , (cutters, $3.75' to $4.50; milkers, choice,British Hold Ol i Neatly f."�y All t I Ground Gained From Maple syrup -$1.10 per 8% -gallon each, $75.00 to $100.00; do., corn. and the °erniat s on March 27. tin. ( med., each, $40.00 to $60.00; springers, Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario, $1.80 , $50.00 to $100,00; light ewes; $8,50 to CRATER IN. FURIOUS ST. ELOI ATTACK to to madt.,by the Admiral .:-of a c'm lete cargo of rubber•. lb s $1.85, and New Brunswicks a $1.90 A despatch from London sz The , 1.95per ba $9.50; sheep, heavy, $6.00 . to . $7.50; P e $. ; g, ontrack. yearlings, $10.50 to 12.00; bucks and three-day assault by the Germans • culls, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs choice 'against the positions captured from: Provisions. Bacon, Fong cl" ax ' 161' to0 r m - g c �z 17c per to 10.00, calves, good to choice, $9,00 not profit cue.n,,r�rnucky. `Sir Doug- . •in lease, lots '. Hams -Medium o o , ams Mcdrum, .1 to $10:00; do. medrum, $7.25 to $8,50; las Haig'reports under ciavf. of Sam - to see•; •. do., heavy„ 17 to 20e; roils, `hogs,`: fed acrd watered, 510.95; do., day: "At St. Elea our troops hold.. a $11,00 to $18.00; • spring. lambs, $7.00 them by the British on March 27 ,did considerable portion or ; the -ground gained March 27, including three out of four of the main line craters," The. British communique a:leo re,� rt.i the capture of a p hostile, Fokker monoplane. '1 he pilot, ivho- was wounded, was made prisoner.