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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-7-13, Page 7RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST GEN., HINDENBURG In the Region of Dvinsk Fart of the German First Line Trenches • Were Captured. A. despatch from London says :-- were taken by the attacking forces. Surpasing, even in importance the ale Furious fighting is continuing along lies' great effort on the western front, this whole line. The Germans, speed- the news from the eastern battlefield ily rallying from the first ?ussiau 031 - shows that the Russians have extend- slaughts, are Iaunehing :counter -at - ed their offensive on an extensive tacks in rapid succession in ,an at- scale. On the whole front from Riga tempt to win back the lost positions. to Baranovichi, a distance of about Unless the Russians can be checked. 300 miles, the Russians are being immediately at the vital points where Marled against the German linm their first thrusts have succeeded, it Further to the south General Kale- is believed that their whole lines in dines is driving steadily forward to- the northern sector will be greatly en- ward Hovel and bas captured two vii- dangered. 'ages and a railroad station on the Russians Strike Two Blows. Sarny-Kovel road. Military eritics of the allies assert that unless the, Eozadon, July 9. -Two heavy blows Germans can halt the Russian ad - battlefront delivered against the Teutonic vanee in the immediate future they battlefront in the east yesterday by will have to withdraw their lines along the Russians. the entire eastern front and .probably' The ilrst was the capture of two abandon Lemberg. important) •villiages in. the drive on In the tremendous offensive against y Kovel. The secorel was the capture of Field Marshal von .Hindenburg's `I)elatyn, an important railway junc- forces General Evert is leading the ;time through which the Austrians had Czar's troopa in furious attacks ex- supplied their armies at Stanislav and tendir:r along a hundred -mile front Tarnopol, protecting Lemberg. Bev-, from the Vilna line in the north to eradays ago Russiant mope cut the Baranovichi in the south. (De atyn Railway, west of Koloinea, Preceding their infantry assaults by; but not until yesterday did they oc- a bombardment of such intensity dux- cupy the junctioncity. ing its 24 hours' duration, that the Heavy fighting continues between Germans were blinded and stunned in- the Stokhod and the Styr Rivers to helplessness, the Russians hurled :. Petrograd officially announces to -day themselves at the enemy's lines in such ; that the Teutons are retiring in great overpowering numbers that the first- ' disorder on the Lower Stoned, where line trenches held by the Germans, the Czar's troops took 12,000 un were penetrated with astonishing ease, !wounded prisoners, ineluitTing 300 of The few German soldiers who recover- fivers, between July 5 and 7. Foray- ed from the shock of the assault five guns of heavy and small calibre quickly enough to offer a half-hearted ; and forty -five machine guns also were resistance, were swept aside fit the captured, point of the bayonet as the Russian By the capture of the villages of weve surged through the shattered Goalevitchi and Kaeheva the Rue - lines. slaps have further imperilled the So overwhelming was the Russian Germans' hold on Kovel. In the attack in the region south-west of event Kovel falls, military experts dee Lake Narocz, where Petrograd claims dare, the Germans will be forced to the greatest successes in the new . retire on the •entire front northeast to'. drive, than an enormous number of Baranovichi in order to straighten' prisoners and a vast amount of booty i out their lines. 000 000 PLANT SUBMARINE CROSSES OCEAN. WILL BE ERECTED United States Steel Corpora- tions' Plans for Works at, Objiway. A despatch from Ottawa says ;--- That erection would start immediate- ly of the big steel plant which the United States Steel Corporation plans to erect at Ojibway, near Windsor, Ont., was the statement made by Mr. Wallace Nesbitt, K.C., on Friday. Mr. Nesbitt was in the city arranging cer- tain departmental hatters in connec- tion with the going ahead of the work. e The company over two years ago secured a large tract of land at Ojib- way, but little has been done up to the present. It is understood the plant to be erected will cost about $25,000,000. RISING AGAINST THE AUSTRIANS A despatch from London says :- The London Times understands that a rising against the Austrians has brok- en out in Montenegro. Its leaders is a former War Minister, upon whose head the Austrians set a high price. The Montenegrins who have risen have taken to the woodefd parts of the country. The rising is prompted by the destitution in which the inhabit- ants havebeen left by Austria. Germans Sed the First Across the Atlantic. A despatch from Baltimore says :- The world's first submarine merebant. man, the German unlierwater liner Deutschland, anchored below Balti- more. on Sunday night after voyaging safely across the Atlantic, passing and eluding enemy cruisers watching for her off the American coast. She carries mail and a cargo of 750 tans of costly chemicals and dyestuffs, and .a message from Emperor William to President Wilson, and is to carry back home a cargo of nickel and crude rub- ber, sorely needed by the German army. The Deutschland carries, mounte3• in her conning tower, two small guns of about three-inch calibre. No torpedo tubes are visible. She is capable of submerging in less than two minutes. On. the sksrface of the water the submarine has a speed of from two to three knots an hour more than the average merchant steamer, Fifbeen days out from Bremerhaven to Baltimore, the sub- marine reached safetly between the Virginia Capes at 1.45 o'clock on Sun, day morning.. TO CONFER PEERAGE UPON SIR EDWARD GREY A despatch from London says : The King has decided to confer a peerage upon Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, according to the Daily Chronicle. TEUTONS LOSE 500,000 MEN IN THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN German and Austrian Soldiers Captured, 230,000 -Officers, 4,500 -Wounded 200,000 to 220,000. A. despatch from Petrograd says: - Nearly half a million Austrians and Germans have been put out of com- mission since General. Brusiloff began his great ar•vanee a monthago. The grand total of prisoners to dabs is In round numbers 235,000, of which 4,500 are officers. The War Office announced the fur- ther capture of more than 10,000 Teu- ton; of whom 5,000 were taken on the. Dniester, front. Withoub the actual figures re- • garding the dead and wounded, care- ful estimates by military experts, bas- ed on the best information, place the latter at 200,000 bo 220,000. The Aus- trians predominate overwhelmingly among the prisoners, but among the dead and wounded it is said that a fairly large percentage are Germans. The losses in stopping the Russian ad- vance on Kovel and in counter-attacks max3b in solid ranks were enormous. The booty captured reaches incal- culable figures. It is judged that 250. guns of various sizes and upwards of 700 machine guns would be a con- servative estimate. In addition, large quantities of munitions, supplies and telephones have fallen into the hands of the Russians. LLOYD GEORGE, EARL OF DERBY NEW BRITISH WAR SECRETARIES vanarommosaleatt. Oaf Directors of Munitions and Recruiting Respectively • to Conduct the Campaign. A: despatch frotn'London sayse-,• The Earl of Derby, director of re - David lelo`,=d George has been appoint- cruiting, has been appointed Under ed Secretary for War. Secretary for War. PRESIQENT QF FRANCE REVIEWS THE RUSSIANS. One of the outstanding figures In the present great war, is President 1.'oincare of France. Cahn, dignified -the elected head or a great republic, grimily bled in the great strife, M. Poineare presents a picture for admiration„ Thar Russian Ambassador to Prance, and a French general are with Fein- pare in the picture, -(London Daily Mirror photo.) ptr to 53.00 each: cadres, choice 87.00 to x S $10 t34i; c"m:nan, 551!'i2 oto SO,too: hogs. 4 # e tf ` Qr taeieets. $31.75 to $1..«6; r...ag 8 arad nnixed. 510.00 to $11.00; sawA. $9.60 tto uREAaaTtx1?rs, No. onto, July 11,---;,t'anitoba wheat Northern, $1.191; No. 2 do.. $1.194;. o• 3 3 Muljdtooa81Oa44. -oNn ot.rck(.ii11ay p5o1Cs.N o.0.1,V„ 6u}c; extra No 1 reed. este; No,1 teed, 500; Nc. 2 feed, 49c, on track llayi rtPe oris. p r4can corn --'Na. ;) yellow, 33e. an track Bay ports:1487c. on track To?onte. Qntarlo °L4341-re ata No. $ white, 47 to 48e. accard1ZI to tre�glU outside. Ontario heat ---No. 1 commercial, 97 to 880; wNo 8 do., Q3 to 95c; No. 3 40.. 87 to 89c; teed. 33 to $5c, nominal, accord - Ing to :freights outside, Peas --No. 2. nominal, $1.70 to $1.80: according to sample, $1 25 to $1.50, ac., t ording to freights outside. Barley--.l,Maltleg barley. nominal. 65 to 66e: teed barley. nominal. 60 to 62e, according to freights outslda. Buckwheat -Nominal. 70 to 71; ac- cording to freights outside, Rye ---No, 1 commercial, 04 to 95; ac- Cording.'to freights outside. Me.ntoba flour• -First patents. in Jett $6.tt0 r • , strong bakers, in jute hags, $6.80, haFs, 16.50; second patents. in Jute bags, canto. Ontario flour• --Anter, according' to sample, $4.v55 to $4.15, in bags. track Toronto. prompt shipment: $4.00 to $4.1.0. bulk seaboard. prompt shipment. Mu:ceed. car lots, delivered Montreal freights. bags included. -Bran. per ton, $19 to $20; shorts. per ton. $23 to $24: middlings, per ton, 24 to 125• Food feed flour, per bag. 51.55 to $1.60. CO434TI PEOD7rC11 Butter --Fresh dairy, choice. 25 to 27c; inferior. 23 to 24o; creamery, prints 29 to 31c: Interior, 28 to 20c. Eggs--Navy-laid, 2S to 29e; do., In ear Btans $4 5 o tog 56.00. the latter for hand-ptaked. Maple s5 r p-1 40 e'to 014 50 p©r1I n- Aerial gallon. Dressed poultryy--Chichl:ens, 25 to 27e• fowl, 23 to 26c' Potatoes -Firm; Ontarlos in car Iota at $1.86, and New 13runswicks at 12.15 per bag; 'lvestern, $1.95. BAUED tux snare STRAW Baled hay -Best grade. per ton, $10.00 to $17.00; do., low grade,. per ton, 313.00 to $15.00. Straw -Per ton, $6.00 to $7,00. Vnov ;SxoNB. Hairs- AMedium,c2e31 tv 242c.;l do per lb. y, 203 to 21c: rods, 19 to 194c breakfast bacon, 242 to ..G,c; backs, plain, 264 to 272c; boneless backs, 2931 to 303; Lard -Vero lard, tierces, i7 to 113; and pails, 173 to 171c; compound, 14 to WINNIPEG 134714Ax13. Winnipeg, July 11. -Cash quotations: -Wheat-No. 1 Northern, $1 123; No. 2 Northern. $1.101; No. 3 Northern, 921I No. 4, 1$No. 5, feed,873c Oats -No. .W 441e; No. 3 C.W., 438c: extra No. 1 feed,. 43i; No. 1 feed, 43Ic: No. 2 feed 418c. Barley -No. 3, 72c; No. 4, 68c; rejected, 63c; feed, 63c. Plax-No, 1 N.W.C., 31.592; No. 2 C.W., $1.503. r3ONTREAT. isTARICETS. • Montreal, July 11. -Corn --American No 2 yellow, 82 to 83o. Oats -Canadian Western No. 2, 543c; No. 8, 53c; No, 1 feed, 53e• No, 2 local White, 52e;No. 3, local white, Slo• No. 4 local white, 50c. Barley -Malting, 75 to 76c. FIour- Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts, 36.60; seconds, $6.10; stung bakers', $5.90; Pinter patents, choice, 36.00 to 36.25; straight rollers, $5.40 to 35.60; do., bags, $2.40 to $2 65. Rolled oats- Bbls, $5.05 to $5.45; do.,bags, 90 lbs., S2 40 to $2.60. Bran, $0.00 to $21.00. horts, $23.00 to 24,00. Middlings. $26,00 to $27.00 Mouillie, 327.00 to $32.00. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $18.50 to $20.00. Cheese -Finest west- erns, 162 to 170; finest easterns, 152 to 1G3c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 30 to 303c; seconds. 283 to 2890. eggs-- Fresh, 36c; selected, 32c; No. 1 stook, 28c; No. 2 stock, 27c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 31.80. 'UNITED STATES 3SAISI{ETS Minneapolis, July 11. -wheat --July, 41 071; September, 31,081 to 31.081; No. 1 hard, $1.139; No. 1 Northern, $1,07$ to $1.091; No. 2 Northern, $1.048 to $1.079. Corn -No, 3 yellow, 773 to 7830. Oats -No. 3 white, 363 to 37c. Flour -Fancy patents, 100 higher, quot- ed at $6,10; first clears, '20'c higher, quoted at $4.90. Bran, $17.00 to $18.00 Duluth, July 11. -Wheat ---On traok, No. 3. hard, $1.12; No. 1 Northern, $1,11; No. 2 Northern. $1.07 to 21.08; No. 1 Northern to arrive $1.103; No. 3 North- ern, on track, $1.02 to $1.06 Linseed - On track, $1.823; to arrive, 31.82; July, $1.82 asked; September, $1.833 asked; October, $1.529 asked; November, $1.822. xxvr sTOCIC 115AEICETB. Toronto, July 11. -Choice heavy steers, 310.00 to $10.25; good heavy steers; $9.25 to $9.50•' butchers' cattle. choice,$9.25 to 39.50; do , good, 39.00 to 39.16; do., medium, 38.85 to 39.00; do„ common $8.00 to $8.25; butchers' bulls, Choice, S$ 00 to $8.25; do„ good bulls,' 17.45 to 57.65; do., rough :bulls, $4,76 to 5.25; butchers' . cows, choice, $8 00 to 8.25; tlo., good $7.35 to $7.50 do med- um, $6,26 to $0.76; Stockers, 700 to 850 lbs„ $6.75 to $7.76; choice feeders, de - horned; 950 to. 1,000 lbs:,' $7.25 to $8,85; canners and cutters, $3,75 to 35.00; milk - ere, chdice, each, 375.00 o395.00• do coin. and med. each $40.60 to $00.00; springers $50.60 to 3100.00; light ewes, l60 to $10.50; sheep., heavy, .:$5 25, to. 7,50; spring lambs,tier.' m,, 14 to 15e;' elves, good to choice, 39.50 to 312,00; do.,medium, ,$7.25 -tot 38 60;,•.hogs fed and watered, $$11.440 to"$1150, do, weigh Id 0,00. cars, 11.65 to 311 75; do„ 4.0:11,, Montreal, Jul • 11.-Butebers' steers,. good, $9:50 to $10.00;.:nxediutn .5.7,75 to 8 7; common, $7.25 to $8.25;" fair to good,36.50 to ,$$7.00; cows, good, $6t0 to 37.5;fair, $5,75 to 36.60; common, $4.50 to 35.60; bulls, good $7,00 to 38.50 bulls, good to common, ,5.00 to $5.50; sheep, 57.00 to 37,50; slr'ing lambs, $5.05 T PRODUCTS GERMANY IS SERRING. ritish Money Used in Holland and Sweden to Buy Foodstuffs. A despatch from London says ; Neutral diplomats express the belief that the existing orders -in -council will be superseded by the declaration of an actual blockade, in pursuance of Great Britain's avowed intention o£ strengthening her legal position. No evidence of an actual ehange in the administration of the blockade has been procurable since the announce- ment of the ahondonment of the De- claration of Lendon. However, the mason was crushed by. the British fire, and primers O vaslatus re,. -d TBE BRITISH STORM AND CAPTURE VILLAGES Advancing Over daze of German. Trenches Gain Nearly Oae- Third of a Mile. A despatch from London says :- Until the British were able to force The second phase of the Batt'.e of the '. their front forward the Frencli could Somme has opened. Where the great , not resume the attack without danger guns of"the allies again have pounde<t cf a flanking movement. Foeles. a path the infantry is sweeping for.: troops had penetrated so much Furth ward. ser than Hang's their deft flank "ISre resumed a rigorous ofrensive'r�as threatened that additional thrusts ab dawn," General Haig reported ear mere attempte i, ly Friday morning. And in the hours: xlliedd Toils Ruth Somme. that followed, the British armies';' sprang once. more to the attack, de- London. July 9. -French troops spite a heavy rain that made the! south of the Somme, by a sudden ground sodden and flooded the thrust this morning on a front of two trenche . Inert night fell the Brit -and s. half miles, drove forward into ish had aitvaneed all along the line the German lines between the river and inflicted terrific losses on the Ger-and Belloy-en-Santerre for a gain, at mans. its greatest point, of a mile and a In a rush that moved onv:•ard as re- quarter. To -night their most ad- lentlesely as the ehard of the first vaned front juts out within two ?ilea day of the great ofi'ensive, '`Kiteben- of Peronr.e, the great Ger:aan base er s men won imiaortaniD successes en and forst objective oi° the Frisco-Bri a front of almost five miles,. from tish Picardy atifi'ensive. Thiepval to Contelmaison, and laroke0 Sweeping across a rain -swept and through three lines of trenches. trcaeheroue terrain, the French troopa South of Tlliepvnl the Lei :sic re- carried their, front forward in the en - doubt was stormed -.the Britt. h offi- tire sector of atteelt tar an average of eial statement calls this "un immense- more than three-quarters of a mile. ly strong worlc," which the Germane They chumpled up the trench lines of have been fortifying for the last 20 the Germans iuterspereed between the months. Into this redoubt, situated hroken econ,i line of defence and the in a s alient in the German line, the strongly-orgarixed river positions i' •' Britishuhero the h 1 s troops :' make charged, and succeeded 11i ha e will wresting a part of it from the ei'temy, their last stand before Perpnne. The admit1 e of 0 _.. G€rlrltllis tl a capture 7 _ Prussian Guards Captured. P 4 G d C 'it ed, lardeeourt by the French on Saturday British Also Advanee. Britiah troops north of the river are battling in a sea of laud against great The .British have capture.l German trenches on a front of nearly 3,000 yards to a depth of 500 yards. In the direction of Qrvillers the British have forced their way into the village after mimes of Gentians and the front capturing 500 y area of the eau" , trent. North of Fricourt die British eholrs ria eehange of any extent, drove the enemy from two .weeds and General Ifa,g to -night reports# some captured three lines of trencliee. fernier progrees toward Ovillers, for vadat the radial have 1ieen fghting a'or three days, and announces the re- pul��i of lrowerfal ea�snrter-attaeke. QO f• The I3orli:l report reaching here to - An ntternpt by the Prussian Guards to stem the advance east of eet:tl- inereased economic pressure on Ger- many which recently has become ap- parent is due, according to the best informed neutral diplomats, to the British campalail. in Holland and Sweden, resulting in the purchase of products which otherwise probably would have found their way to Ger- many. STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION. People Are Fleeing to Relief Ships for Refuge. A despatch from Rome says : The eruption of Stromboli bas become serious. The flow of lava is spreading to the sparse coast settlement, burn- ing and destroying houses, and the population is fleeing to the sea and taking refuge on relief ships sent from Messina. Telephonic communication with Messina has been interrupted. There are many signs of seism's dis- turbances throughout Italy. The heat has been intense for the past two days. Earth shocks occurred Wednesday morning at Ancona, Rimini, Belvedere, Marettimo and other Adriatic dis- tricts, but no loss of life has been re- ported. INDUSTRIAL GERMANY ANXIOUS FOR PEACE A despatch from Berlin says :- Numerous scientists, industrialists and representatives of commerce anis agri- culture, have formed a German Na- tional Committee under the chiarman- ship of Prince von Wedel, says the Koeinische Zeitung, with the aim of "awakening a. uniform understanding of the German people for an honorable conclusion of peace which shall guar- antee a secured future empire." In doing this, says the Koelnische Zei tung, "all one-sidedness is to be avoid- ed," m RT: HON. D. LL,;QYD GEORGE, who has been appointed Minister of War; 'succeeding the .late •. Earl Kitch- ener. Fortunate is the.man who has no. ;time to take advise because he is too busy selling it. girnents were taken. Contaaimaisen was stormed, but was retalten by the Germans in a strong counter-attack. North of Friecu;•t the Kaiser's troops were driven from two wood an)1 three lines of trenches. These victories have eliminated a dangerous wedge which the Germans held in the British line. Extremely ' well fortified ---for the Germans have assumed all along that the mightiest stroke in the allied offensive on the west would come from the Brinell - 13ay hri:age tlw Mattie only to last mi a is ht. F urinus French and Britih at - J t ,cis during the late afterneon and !evening of yestei'ilny had met with sanguinary losses, nccoraiing to this statement, The British are said to have suffered especially large losses before Ovillers and nt the Troness Woods. 5,000 i'ruseian Guards Killed., Five thousand of the Kaiser's fan - one Prussian Guards have been killed in the ilghtieg around Contelntaison, it was a stumbling -block to further eant of Albert, according to special advances. despatches from Paris on Saturday. FOE'S FOOD PROBLEM BIG, SAYS NEUTRAL DIPLOMATIST The German People Are Showing Unmistakable Evidence of Underfeeding. A despatch from London says : A neutral diplomatist stationed in Ger- many, who recently visited London, informed his colleagues here that it was impossible to give an exaggerated description of the depth and breadth of the German public's desire for peace, The food scarcity was becoming serious, he said, and the population generally was unmistakably showing evidence of underfeeding. In one of 9 the greatest Germain eitiec-not Ber- 1 lin-at a hotel whose name is familiar I to thousands of Amerieans, a neutral was unable to arrange for a dinner which he wished to ;give for a few friends, though his requirements were most modest. A Copenhagen despatch says: The newspaper Ileindal of Schleswig states German bread is not eatable, as ' it contains putrified potatoes. Offal in the soap being used is causing many diseases, particularly among children. BRITISH TRADE FIGURES. Exports Higher in June Than in Any Month Since January, 1914, A despatch from London says :-- The Board of Trade figures for June show • bhat imports increased 211,027,- 000 11,027;000 and that exports increased £14,- 041,000. ' Exports were higher than in any month since January of 1914, and £7,000,000 in excess of July of 1914, the last month before the beginning of the war. The principal increase in imports were: Food, 25,000,000; wood oils, fats and chemicals, 26,000,- 000. 6,000;000. The increase in exports was principally in manufactured goods, of which £3,500,000 was cotton textiles, £1,250,000 woollens, and . £2,000,000 iron and ,steel. TEUTONS' LOSSES IN MONTH 500,000 A despatch from, Paris says : Ger- man and Austro-Hungarion losses of the past month total half a million men, according to figures presented on Wednesday by the Matin.• It states that the Russians have taken 232,300 unwounded . prisoners, the Italians 4,700, and the Anglo-French, forces 14,200. Multiplying the total of, pri- soners by two, to estimate the number of killed and wounded, it .gets :an ag- gregate of slightly more than 500,000, or more than twelve ,army corps. MUNITION WORKERS POSTPONE HOLIDAY • A despatch from New York says - According to a news agency despatch from London on Thursday the Scot- tish miners have agreed, to postpone all. their July: holidays at the request of Minister of Munitions Lloyd George FISH REALLY CLIMBS TREES. Has An Extra Breathing Organ for Using Dry Air. A fish out of water nsually is re- garded as the most helpless thing in the world. And it is not generally known that there are fishes that de- liberately make excursions on shore. One of the most famous cases of a fish out of water is the climbing perch, found in estuaries 'and fresh waters of India, Ceylon, Burmah and the Malayan region, which can spend many hours on Iand, sometimes among thick vegetation, and has, like some other fishes of similar habit, an extra breathing organ suited for using dry air. It seems to push itself along in a wriggling fashion with the help of strong spines on its gill cover and its central fin. . One of the early observers of the climbing perch said that he saw it five feet up a palm tree, and a good deal of discredit has been thrown on the story. But it seems to be possible that the early observer was quite ac- curate. In recent years it has been recorded that in heavy downpours of rain the climbing perch sometimes ascends the dripping stems of palmyra trees grow- itf; beside the pools.., In all likelihood the climbing of trees by the fist is. very rare and half accidental, the in- stinct of the perch being to go against currents. This tendency • to go againstthe stream is very strongly marked in a small catfish, palled _ argon, which forces its way up the torrential streams of the A.ndes, gripping, with its mouth and usit ;- a toothed ventral plate as. a lever. It call climb up many feet of smooth, water -worn rock,