The Exeter Advocate, 1916-6-15, Page 2ras
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KITCHENER LEFT IIAMPSI IRE GERMANS ' CARRY
BUT THE LIFEBOAT UPSET BIG WAR VOTE
Survivors Too Exhausted To Tell Anything Concerning the
Disaster.
A despatch from London says:
Various short reports regarding the
loss of Lord Kitchener and bis staff
on the cruiser Hampshire continue to
emanate from northern port's. One
state: that Lord Kitchener and his
staff embarked in a small boat and
cleared the ship, but that the boat
was swamped in the heavy seas. The
disaster has now been located at two
miles from shore, between Marwick
Head and the Brough of Birsay, on
the nerth-west coast of the Island of
Pomona, the largest a the Orkney
group. The disaster occurred only
an hour after Earl Kitchener and
members of his staff had embarked on
the cruiser. A patrol ship in the
neighborhood aerographed that it had
ighted the warship afire, and then
that it seemed to blow up. but the gale
pr veuteal hearing the sound of the
explo'ion. Other ships insantlt went
•
in search, but found no trace of the
Hampshire. nor for some time any
bodies. The captain's gig 'was dash-
ed ashore on the Orkneys empty.
The twelve survivors were flung
ashore clinging to a small inflated
raft, battered and exhausted. Two or
three told those who helped them that
' Lord Kitchener was aboard, then drop-
lred asleep. Between e0 and 80 bodies
some of them still warm, were found,
Several had dost newly all their en -
ger nails and toe nails trying to clam-
ber up the cliffs. It is reported that
some reached shore alive, but died of
exhaustion.
A lig lifebo;tt has been washed on
the reeks near Thurso, on the main,
land. Seven feet of the stern of the
craft was torn away, and no name
showed, but apparently the boat had
been one of those belonging to the
I?amp.ehire.
' N S ADMIT IT ENEMY LOSSES 6,800
MORE SEA LOSS IN TIDE NAVAL FIGHT
Rattle (`ruiner Lutzow and the t Total Number of German Sailor
Rostock Destroyed -New Killed is 800.
Reports onFight.
A les, asci, from London say '
Theer. was r" .:, It sanisfaetien express -
e . e: the A irnir.ilty en Thur: day over
puell atitn of the admission by
the fiertnen Naval Pepartmea:t of the
else of the battle cruiser Luzzow of
:Kew t. 3;s and the armored cruiser '
I'eet see of 4,0e0 tor... Bre:ash reports
of the naval battle off Seagerrack
1a:3 s <wttaated for these German ships
ammo others, which the Berlin state-
nzcn to had steadfastly omitted. The
offe ial admission that the loss of
these vessels ,vas withheld "for mili-
tary reasons" impugns the veracity
of the German claim as to the results
of the battle generally, in the opinion
of attaches of the Admiralty. Fur-
ther admissions confirming the Brit-
ish reports are looked for,
COCKSURE OF V ERDUN.
Germany Claims She Will Occupy
Town on Date Arranged.
A despatch from Berlin says; The
German General Staff figured that
Verdun would fall in five months.
German military experts now ex-
press the view that all expectations
will be even surpassed. In quarters,
where facts, not feelings, acts, not
assertions, count, it is confidently pre
dieted that Verdun will be in the
hands of the Germans in the first
week of July.
h
A despat •o
London c from on n .ati4
The copenhagen correspondent t of The
Daily Mail learns from Kiel that the
first unofficial estimate of German
losses in the North Sea gives the
number of killed at 800, of wounded
at 1,400 and of missing at 4,600. A
Central News despatch from Cop-
enhagen says that the Swedish stealn-
er Vanda passed the wreck of a gigan-
tic warship on Saturday, the nation-
ality of which it was unable to ascer-
tain. Hundreds of bodies were float-
ing around the wreck and for three
hours the Venda steamed among dead
sailors. Near the spot where the
derelict was encountered the wreck of
a big sailing vessel, apparently an in-
n,ocent victim of the Jutland battle
was sighted.
NEWFOUNDLAND TO REPLACE
MEN LOST IN NORTH SEA..
A despatch from St. Johns, Nfld.,
says: To help make up for the losses
suffered by the I3ritish naval forces
in the recent North Sea battle, New-
foundland authorities began making
plans on Friday for a special recruit-
ing campaign, An effort will be made
to send forward one thousand men as
the colony's share.
Tramp (entering taxidermist's)
"Do you stuff all kinds of things
here?" Taxidermist -"Why, yes."
Tramp -"Well, I wish you'd stuff me
with a good dinner."
VICTORY BY RUSSIANS
Two Socialists Oppose New
Credit of $3,000,000,000
A despatch from Berlin says ;-
The Budget was passed by the 'Reich-
stag onWednesday, the only oppose-
tion being the Socialist votes. There
was almost complete unanimity in
providing the new Near credit of 83,-
000,000,000, only two Socialists cast-
ing their ballots against it. Dr. Heli-
ferich, Minister of Finance, told the
Reichstag that the war expenditures
from January to May, 1916, were .ap-
proximately 8500,000,000 a month..
This, he declared, was extraordinarly
small in view of the enormous quan-
tity of munitions that has been pro-
vided to carry out the Verdun offen-
sive,
The opposition of the Socialists
when the vote was taken on the Bud-
get hart no bearing upon the war. The
Socialists have been agitatintg' for
years for a new system of taxation,
to relieve the workingman. They
have, without eveeption, voted against
the Budget on these grounds.
The new war credit will not bo
drawn upon, it is estimated, until Sep-
tember. Ample funds to carry an the
operations until then are on hand from
the last loan in February, when more
than $2,50%000,000 was obtained.
BRITISH TRADE GROWS,
Imports and Exports Show Eginil1
Increase in May.
A despatch from London says :-
The Board of Trade returns for May
shows that zm
artsincreased £1
2,
-
213,000. The increase was zepresent-
ed principally by food produets, grain
flour and chemicals). Imports of
r
cotton, however, decreased x2,750,000.
Exeorts increased 33,405,000,the in-
crease being chiefly in iron, steel, cot-
ton and wool manufactured products.
FRENCH AIR SQUADRON
BOMBARDS HOBOKEN.
A despatch from London says: An.
allied air squadron has successfully
bombarded the wharves at Hoboken,
near Antwerp, according to a despatch
to the Exchange Telegraph Company
from Maestricht, The Germans are
said to have been building destroyers
at Hoboken. The squadron was fired
on by German batteries, but returned
to its base safely.
MUNITIONS OF WAR ACT
APPLIED TO LIVERPOOL.
A despatch from Liverl»ol says:
An official announcement given out
here on Thursday says the Govern-
ment has decided to apply to the
Liverpool docks that section of the
Munitions of war act which provides
that no employer may declare a lock-
out and that no employee may go on
strike.
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FRANCE HAS ADVANCED
CLOCKS ONE HOUR.
A despatch from Paris says: Fol-
lowing the example of Germany, Eng-
land, Italy and the Scandinavian coon.
tries, the Senate on Thursday adopted
the daylight saving bill, advancing le -
WITHOUT A PARALLEL gal time by one hour.
Matters Begin to Look Serious for the Whole Enemy Line
in Russia.
A despatch from London says: "The
victory: won by the Russians is with-
out a parallel in military history,"
says a Petrograd despatch to Reu-
ter's Telegram Company. "The Rus-
sians now occupy the whole triangu-
lar fortified positions of Kolki, Lutsk
and Olyka.
"Military writers dwell on the
great strategic importance of bhis tri-
angle, which includes some of the
best Austrian communication lines,
and connects the centre between
Poliessie, Volhynia and Poland and
the roads to Galicia and Bukowina.
"The Russians fought their way to
Lutsk, a distance of twenty-five miles,.
In three days, through forests and
marsh lands and over battered de-
fences, the invincibility of which the
Austro -Germans had been -boasting
throughout the winter and spring.
There is still no response to the Rus-
sian thrust, and military writers de -
2
clare that matters begin to look seri-
ous for the whole enemy line in Rus-
': sia.
"Col. Shuinsky, the military critic of
I The Bourse Gazette, declares the jutic-
tion between the Austrians and Ger-
; mans has been cut clean through, thus
exposing the right flank of the Ger-
e mans and the left flank of the Aus-
trians and leaking them almost de-
fenceless to further Russian attacks."
Another despatch from Petrograd
says:
The Lubsk victory changes the
jwhole position on the Russian . south -
!western front. Hardly less important
is the Russian success in Galicia,
where the Austrian positons between
1Trybuchovice and Jaslovitz, south of
Buczacz, have been forced and the
!Austrians driven beyond the. Strypa.
!In Bukowina again t'he Austrians were
driven back south of Okna, and the
!head of the railway leading to Czerno-
vitt is in Russian hands.
iRES SALIENT MUST BE IIELO.
DESPITE LOSSES INVOLVED
Canadian
Authorities Communicated With the British General
Staff Concerning Its Abandonment.
A despatch from Ottawa says: In
view •-of the heavy 'lasses sustained
during the past two weeks by the Can-
adian forces in defending the position
known as the Ypres salient enquiry
has been made' by the Canadian au-
thorities of the British general staff.
The information obtained inreply is'
that the position is an important one,
and that notwithstanding the serious
loss incurred; it is thought necessary,
to defend it. •
rr n .l ss s `in thevarious
TThe G,,ena l o e
attacks, according to the information
communicated; have been greater than
those of the Canadians, and at other.
points on the Britishline where the
Germans have attacked the losses on
both sides have been no less. serious.
Noadditional details of the fight-
ing have been received by -the Militia
Department, but an eye -witness ac-
`count is expected bo reach ' Ottawa
from Sir Max` Aitken in a few days.
The losses, according to the latest of-
ficial statement have been over 6,00.0
of all ranks.
There's a lot of fun in not having
and plan what you would do if you
had plenty of it.
se_.__ - - 11111feed-Car lots, delivered Montreal
freightsBran, per ton, $23; shorts, per
ton, $25; middlings, per ton, $26 to 526;
good feed flour, per bag $1,70 to $1.75,
money. You can always sit down
4.
The Late Lord Kitchener
entering St. Paul's Cathedral at the
recent celebration of "Anzac" Day, in
honor of the Australian an Conan
i
a
I
troops,
PARCELS FOR CANADIANS
IN THE BRITISH SERVICE.
A despatch frozn Ottawa says The
Postoffiee Department has received
information that gifts sent from Can-
ada to soldiers from. Canada serving
in British regiments stationed in
Great Britain, and to naval reservists
and others from Canada serving in
the navy, are exempt from customs
duty, provided they are addressed in
care of the Canadian War Contingent
Association, Army Postoffiee, London
England. Arrangements have been
made for this association to act as a
central authority for the distribution
of such parcels from Canada, and free
customs entry is restricted to such
parcels as are sent through the asso-
ciation.
'GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY
RESTRICTS LIQUOR TRAFFIC
A despatch from Christiania says;
--On account of the . general strike,
the Government has passed a law pro-
hibiting the sale or importation of
strong liquors, wines and beer and the
shipment of liquors throughout the
country. The police also have been
ordered to prevent • the serving of
wine and beer in restaurants.
RUSS SINK THIRTEEN
BIG TURIN SHIPS,
A despatch from Odessa says: Rus -
Sian torpedo-boat destroyers have
sunk thirteen large Turkish ships
laden with merchandise, off the Ana-
tolian coast.
,RUSSIANS ROW. O BRI;ACI ' n
.THE -AUSTRIAN FRONT
All Five of the Teuton Armieson the Eve of a General Retreat,
It is Reported.
A despatch from London says:
Special despatches from Petrograd
express the belief that the Russian
sszccesses against the Austrians are
far more important than appears from'
the official announcements. -1
The Daily Telegraph's corr•espan
dent ventures the assertion on the au-
thority of a prominent Russian expert
that "all five Austrian armies are on i
the eve of a general retreat, and that ;
Lemberg is in great strategic danger."
On the same authority it is asserted.
that "a strategic breach 190 miles
wide has been blown in the Austrian i
front, involving the armies of General'
Count von Bothmer and General von
Boehm-Ermolli, and part of that of
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand.
According to other despatches, the I
Russian success is largely due to the
unprecedented use of .artillery, sure.
passing in' intensity any previous ef-
forts on either side on the east front,
The retreat of many Austrian trench
detachments Was completely cut off
by a curtain of shrapnel through
which it was impossible for any lie -i
ung thing to pass, and the Austrians
were thus compelled to surrender en
masse.
The Times estimates the Austrian
losses at 200,000,
The Volhynian fortress of Lutsk,
30 miles from the Galician frontier,
fell inta Russian rands last Tuesday,
aY
,
the first important capture by the.
Czar's forces since the great Spring
drive on the 2110 -mile front from the
Pripet to the Roumanian bonier be-
gan.
The fall of T.utsk was announced by
the Russian War Office on Thursday
night.
New Invasion From North.
The eapture of Lutsk threatens the
Austrians with a new invasion of Gee
]icia from the north, Vienna de-
spatches express the fear that the
abandonment of Dubno, the apex of
the Volhynian fortress triangle, will
become automatically necessary, and
the fall of that stronghold would com-
pel the Austroeleungarians to retire
within the Galician border.
The Russians, according to Petro-
grad, scored another notable success
in the last 24 hours. Pushing forward
in massed formation, with an unpre•
cedented outpour of artillery, they
pressed the Austro-Hungarian troops
defending the "doors of the Buko-
wins" to the River Strypa, taking
strong positions on the Tribuchowice-
Jaslowice front Roth places lie a few
miles from one another west of the
Stripa and smith of the important
city of .nuezaz.. This success, if fol-
lowed
ollowed up by further progress, men-
aces the Bukowina crown land with
invasion and the whole Austro-Hun-
garian army defending it -estimated
at from 250,000 to 300,000. --with be-
ing cut off.
The Russian official report asserts
that the total number of prisoners
taken in the new offensive has been
brought up to 54,000,
A despatch front London says: The
Russian invasion of Austria grows
apace, Town after town has fallen,
according to the Petrograd official re-
ports, and the advantage of the Czar's
troops has developed into a continue
ous pursuit of those of Francis
Joseph,
The Volhynia fortress of Dubno has
been captured by the Russians, and
the Governor of the great fort'iess of
Lemberg has been ordered by the
Austro-Hungarian authorities to pre-
pare to leave the city,
The Austrians, on Vienna's admis-
sion,driven been have .dr1 en across the
h
Strypa; the Russians have crossed
the Styr above Lutek, and in a strong
development along the Dneister have
taken Buezaez and another army o>`
prisoners has been captured. Buezaez
is n most important railway town on
the lower Strypa, and is regarded as
the strategical gateway to Bukowina.
In an effort to dam the Russian
flood, 455,000 Austrians have been
withdrawnfrom the Italian front.
It is said that the evacuation of CzQr,-
nowitz has been ordered, and that
there is a panicky feeling in Vienna,
which is crowded with fleeing Gall -
dans.
The capture of Dubno means the
repassing into Russian hands of the
famous Volhynian triangle of forts.
Lutsk fell on Thursday, and Roveno
never really passed into Russian
hands,
Markets of the World
Tires t5tuffa,
Toronto, June 18. -2 -Manitoba. wheat --
No. 1 Northern 1.1.68; No, 2 do., $1.15$;
No. 3, do., 51.118; on track, Bay ports.
3Xanitoba oats ---No. 2 CS., 53e; No. 8,
518c; extra No, 1 feed 6115; No, 1
feed, 508c. on track, Bav ports,
American corn-;vo. $ yelow, "c5c, on
track, Bay ports• 780. track, Toronto.
Ontario oats --No, 3 white, 47 to 49e,
outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 commerelal, $1
to 51.01; No. 2, do., 98 to 99c; No. 3, do.,
94 to 95c; feed wheat, 88 to 90e, nom -
Ina, according to ftcights1 outside.
Peas --No. 2,$1.70; according to sam-
ple, $1.25 to 5,5Q, recording to freights
outside.
Barley -Malting, 6 to 66c; feed 62 to
c, according
to .1c, according to
freights outside.
Rye -No. 1 commercial, nominal, 94
to Manitoba flour tFi stgpatents, outside.
bags, $6.70; second patents. in jute bags,
56.20; strong bakers', In jute bags, $0,
Toronto
sample, 54.2ario flour-Winter,
to 54 35ttn bulk seaboard
prompt shipment
63 ing to fie,hts outside.
ON CRUISER. INDEFATIGABLE
=acli,s
,The ictnre is n,, eel. view oP: LFih<;F3ritiSlz ca�iu. er. nclofati e,. which
was sunk, The German Ac7miralLy rei)oaits,tliat tXlc.ne Nvere`Unly .s.a
survivors, :Ina.' thee thee wei'.o_ rescued hy_.Colh niiri.kliills.
Country Produce.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 24 to 27c;
'inferior, 23 to 24e; creamery prints, 29 to
31c; inferior -2S to 290,
Eggs -New -laid, 25 to 26c; do., hi oar -
tons, 26 to 27e.
Beans -$4 to 54.50, the latter or
handpicked.
Cheese -New, large, 1Sc; twins, 188c.
Maple syrup-Prioes are steady at
51.40 to 51.50 per Imperial gallon.
Honey -Combs -No. 1, $2;75 to 53; No.
2, $2 to 52,40.
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 26 to 27o;.
fowl, 22 to 24e.
Potatoes-Ontarios quoted at 51.85'
and New Brunswlcks at $2.10 per bag.
Provisions.
Bacon, long clear, 188c per lb. Hams
-Medium, 238 to 248e; •do„ heavy 20$
to 218e; rolls, 19 to 198c; breakfast
bacon, 248 to 268c; backs, plain, 261 .to
278c; boneless backs, 298 to 3080.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 17c. and
pails, 178o: compound, 14 to 148c.
Montreal Markets,
Montreal, June 13. -Corn -American
No: 2 yellow, 79 to 81o. 'Oats -Canadian
Western, No.2,'54e; do. No. 3, 628e; ex-
tra No. 1 feed, 5280; N'o. 2• local white,
52c; No. 3 do., 51c; iso. 4, do., 500. Bar-
ley -Manitoba. feed, 68 to 700; malting,•
75 to 76c. Flour- Manitoba Spring wheat
Patents, firsts, 56.30; do.. seconds, $6.30;
strong.bakers', $6.10;Winter patents,
choice,$6 to $6.25;:7 -straight rollers,
56.10 to $560; do,, -in bags,' 52.40 to
$2.65 Rolled oats-Parrels 26.05 to
$'6,55 bag IA 90 lb's.,52:0 to $2.66. Mili-
feed ,,l3ran, 523 to $24; shorts, 526;
nil.ddlings,'528 to $30; mouillie, $30 to
$35. Hay -No. 2 ,per ton. car. lots,
520.50 to 521.50.<Cheese.-Finest west-
erns, 178c; do., easterhs, 108c. 'Butter
-Choicest' creamery, 30 to 313c; sec-
onds, 29 to 298c 76ggs-Fresh,' 26 to
26c; selected, 29 to sec;' No, 1 stock, 26
to 27e; No. 2, do:, 24c. ;, Potatoes -Pet,
bag, car lots, $1.96.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, June 13. -Cash quotations:.
-Wheat-No. 1 Northern, 51.108; No. 2,
Northern, 51.098; No. 8 Northern, $1.0 0;
No. 4, 51.008; No, 6, 941o; No. 6. 89 c;
feed,
468 ; extr oNoC'1 fee7,c468o;.
No. 1 Peed; 445e oN.o 2 feed, 43 o. Bar-
ley -No. 3, 66c No: •4, 610; rejected 58c;
feed, 56c. Flax' -N3. 1. N.W.C. 51.6911;
No, 2 OW., 51.561.
United 'States Markets.'
Minneapolis,' Juno 13.--Wheat-July
$1:108; SepteYnber, $1.100; No. 1 hard
$1.173; No. 1, Northern, 51.10. to 51.138;
No. 2 do.. 53.073"to 51.111., Cera --No, 3•
yellow, 72 to 73e. Oats -No. 3 white
38 to 888c. Flour unchanged; shipments,
29.4lLbbls•:•• Bran, 518.00 to 519.00,
Duluth, June 18. -Wheat --No, 1 hard,
61.13; No. 1' Northern, $1.12; No. 2 Nor-
thern, 51.068 to 51.098. 1.,inseed, $1.8211
July, $1.33t aslccci; September, 51.593
asked.
rive Stook Markets.
Toronto. June 13. --Choice heavy steers
$9.-50 to $9.90; butchers' cattle. choiee,
49.15 to 59,35; do„ •good, $8.85 to 59.00;
0., medium, 96.40 to 58.60; do., cowman,
67,75 to $&Q0; butehers' bulls, eh lee.
58,00 to $5,50; do„ good bulls. S7„0' to
$7,75; do., rough bulls, $1.75 to 86.26;
butchers' cows, chaff a 58,00
d0,, good 57.60 to 57,75; do., cotnmon,
86.75 to g$7 75; cholcerfeede s °cleho,'ued.
950 to 1,000 lbs, 50.25 to 8.85; eanners
and clutters, $4.00 to 55.00; milkers.
choiee, each, $75.00 to $100.00• do., edm,
and med., each. $40,00 to $60,00; spring.
tos'$1 .00;� sheep. heavy. $6.0000; light wto 53.000;
lambs, per Ib.. 150. to 1780; Spring ]amts
$6,00 to 510.30; calvesgoal to choice
$9.50 to $12:50; do.. medium $7.^5 to 8,50;
hogs, fed and watered. $10,60; do., weigh•
ed off ears $10.85 to 510.90; do., f.o.b.,
$1''Montrea , d0.1une 13. -Butchers' steers,
choice, $9 to 59.10: medium, $3.30 to
58.50; common. 57.30 to 57.90• bulls,
choice, 57 to 5S.i0: fair to good, 56.65 to
$7; medium, $5.65 to 56.40: cows, choice.
canerso sand'cutters $3.76 ' t50.65 .76. sheen.
light, $7 to .$S: spring lambs. $5 to $8
each. Calves, choice, $9 to $10;'medium,
37 to 5S. Hogs. selects 511.25 to 51.1.50;
heavy and sows, $9.25 to $9.50.
ENEMY LOSSES EQUAL.
Canadian Batteries Stood to Continu-
ously for Two Days. •
A despatch from London says: A
former Canadian Pacific employe at
Toronto now with the artillery, who
has just arrived in London on leave,
told a correspondent of the strenuous
experiences of the last week -end, when
his battery stood to, continuously, for
two days. "Although the Canadians
suffered severely," he asserted, "the
enemy suffered at least equal losses
owing to the combined efforts of our
artillery and our infantry. As usual,
it was with lachrymose gas shells that
the Germans fought), but our heavy
artillery, including a certain brigade
of which one battery is made up of
Montrealers, did most effective work
in backing up the bombing attacks of
our .infantry. The ammunition col- •
umns kept up a. good supply. The
German artillery aim is fairly accur-
ate, but we.have several battery com-
manders who excel in : keeping the
enemy ignorant of their location."
CHAS. E. HUGHES CHOtiEN.
The Justice Accepts Uiianimmes Nom-
ination of Republicans.
Chicago, ` June 11. -Charles E,
.Hughes has the unanimous nomination
of the Republicans, has resigned, from
the Supreme Court and entered the
campaign wiiih a bang, and Theodore
Roosevelt has declined, for the present
at least, the whirlwind ncinination
tendered by the Progressives "at vir-
tually the same -instant Hughes was
named at the Coliseum Charles W.
Fairbanks, Vice -President from 1904
to 1908, was norninu ec1 for. the Vice- w:
Presidency again. These extzaordin-'
ary • developments came rapidly on
Saturday, and seem to solve the cam-
paign difficulties of the Peuu,r
cad
host.