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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-8-10, Page 3FRESI-I DIVISIONS 'LEAVE TRAINS • • ONLY Ef IBE OED »OW German Losses in -Men and Guns in Desperate. Fighting on Rus- sian Front Are Colossal, A despatch from Russian Arany Headquarters on the Stokhod says: Fighting of the most desperate char- acter is in prcegress on all positions of our front. 7tehe Germans, driven to desperation i>y their losses in guns and men, have been launching counter- attacks almost without cessation. Monday and Tuesday they were pouring in fresh divisions which pro- eeedecl from the trains to the battle- fields, where they were mowed down by the Russian fire. With huge losses in all attacks which so far have been deliverer'., they have been beat- en back. Cannonading continues night and day, at times reaching such violence that it is impossible to des- ting:ish individual events. It is sim- ply a contin'ious roar like thunder. At night the whole sky b illumin- ated by bursting shells, searchlights and star bombs, The towns are 1111 - ed with German and Austrian wound- ed.' The Stokhod position is extreme. ly strong, Allied victories both in the east and west have not sufficiently reduced the morale of the Germans to give ground for supposition -of a sudden collapse of their military strength. The bit- terness here is extremely great on account of the persistence with which enemy flyers are bombing hospitals and dressing stations, which occurs on an average of twice daily. All of the German and Austrian armies on the eastern front have been placed under the supreme command of Field Marshal von tIindenburg, ae- cording to a despatch quoting a Ber- lin official announcement, This de- cision was reached during the Ent- peror's recent visit to the eastern #rout, A similar announcement, the despatch says, etas been made in Vienna. CROP PROSPECT FOR DOMINION Ofiieial Review Issued at Ottawa of End of July Conditions. A despatch from Ottawa says: A special press bulletin issued by the Census and Statistics Office reports firers and leen. This sum, William, an the condition of field craps in Can- Hayes Fieher, Parliamentary Seem- an at the end of July in part as fol- . tary to the Local Government Board, lows: explained In the House of Commons Ontn rio--In the peninsula (Essex on Thursday, is estimated on a nume county). alarge crop of hay ilas, been ber of deaths not exceeding 220,000, harvested in ephndid shape. Wheat but if this number is exceeded, the and barky are h;irvested, but are not amount would be increased propor- quite a steiiebard yet, tants will be tionately. An additional grant would below aveaage. Corn and hoed crops be made for officers and Wien whose are fair, though later than usual. In general circumstances warranted' as. eastern Ontario crops are suffering + slstance, from lack of moisture. Wheat is '-et-et little green, its condition is fair and SOLDIERS' PENSIONS CALL FOR BIG VOTE. British Parliament to be Asked to Provide 030,000,000, A despatch from. London says; Parliament will be asked to vote 46,, 000,000, including 11,000,000 already voted, to provide the full estimated cost of supplementary pensions of widows and dependents of non-com- missioned officers and men, of par- tially disabled non-commissioned of FORCED TO REMOVE it is beginning to ripen. Barley is BUST OF EMPEROR. poor, rather lata and very uneven. - Oats, the most imputtent crop of the A despatch from London says; The district, :-bows some great divergence, German administration of Belgium some crape being far advanced, oth- has imposed lines amounting to 10,000 ers only a few inches high. About marlcs on the Belgian committee in three-quarter:: of the hay is helrvested charge of the recent municipal art and the crop is a vel /. good one. Corn exhibition, according to a Rotterdam is poor; potatoes are healthy. despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Northwest Provinces -The weather Company. At the request of the Ger- conditions of July have been general- , man administration, says the de- Iy favorable, although local hail , speech, the bust of the Emperor was storms have done some damage. I exhibited among other sculptures. It Grain crops continue to show fine ' caused such a hostile demonstration promise, especially on bearing and !on the part of the visitors to the ex - summer fallow. Grain on the stub-' hibition that it bad to be removed. hle is not :so good, In southern Alberta crops are all good, and harvesting will . GOVERNMENT TO AID commence sooner than was expected FIRE SUFFERERS. a month ago. Wheat cutting is ex- pected to begin about August 20; hay, A despatch from Ottawa says: The roots and potatoes are good. Dominion Government will contribute Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and some' substantial form of assistance fowiie 2s Ito 25cry-Chtekens, 26 to 27c ; Prince Edward Island report all crops to the sufferers from the Northern On- $2 Pot tong ;NewNVeBertin wlcl s quoted at pe85. as making good growth. In Quebec tarso bush fires of last week. In con - the hay crop is abundant, but grains nection with the exact form of that as- Provisions. have suffered from drought. British sistance, however, the Government is Bacon. long clear, 18 Co 1830 per ib. Columbia reports cereal crops grow- still awaitin a re ort from Hon, G. Hams -Medium, 24 to 25c ; do., heavy, g P 203c to 21c ; rolls, 19 to 133e ; breakfast ing well. H. Ferguson, Minister of Lands, For- bacon, 25 to • 27c ; backs, plain, 26 to 27e; ests and Mines in the Ontario Gov- boneless backs, 29 to sec, Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 163 to 17o, ernment, who has gone up to the and pails, 17} to 173c ; compdund, 14 to north country to investigate the situ- 1'4c• ation and ascertain its needs. A Photo Which Shows the Odds Our Alen Are Surmounting. German gun crew operating machine gun from bomb -proof shelter of earth, grass, and timber, The gun tires 600 bullets a minute, and la rak- ing the enemy's rifle pits, two hundred metres away. The gun is mounted on an elevation made et planks and filled with earth, and is covered with a. bomb -proof shelter. Markets of the World Breadatufta, Toronto, .Aug, 8, ---Manitoba Wheat - No. 1 Northern, $1,41,3: ho. 2 Northern, $1.393: No, 3 Northern, $1.35. ott track, I3ay ports, Manitoba oats --No, 2 6 ,W,, 53e ;51114 No. 3 C.W., 5230 ' extra No, 1 feed, 511c ; No, 1 teed. vie ; No. 2 feed, Sle. Bay p arts. American corn -No, 3 yellow. 931c, on- A des track. Toronto. despatch from Paris says: A cure Ontario wheat -No. 1 commerclaa,' for eruptive typhus, the disease which $1.06 to $1.07 ; No. 2, 31:02 to $1,O ; made such terrible leo. 8. 96 to 98c ; feed wheat, 91 to 9-, ravages in Serbia, according to trelghte outside. has been discovered by Doctors Nicolle Ontario oats --Ivo. 3 white, 48 to 45e, outafde. and Blaisot. The physicians describ- Peas-No. 2 nominal, $1.75 to $1.85; ed their discovery to the Academy of according to sample, 31.26 to $1.50, ac- cording to freights outside Medicine. It is a serum which they' 68I3arliey Malting barley nominal GG to found after exhaustive experiments. • best, $6.35 to $7.50: good, 36 to 36.50; fair, $5,50 to 36 ; canners. $4.60 to 35.25.; sheep, 6c to 73c ; 1ainbs, 103o to 12e; calves, milk fed, 8c to 10c ; grass fed, 5c to 6e • hogs. select, 312.60 ; rough and mixed lots, $11 to $11.75: sows, $10 to 310.50 ; all weighed oft care. CURE DISCOVERED FOR ERUPTIVE TYPHUS, c' ac• So far thirty-eight serious cases have cording to fres hts+putsVe. Buckwheat-, 70 to 71c, ac- been treated by injections, which were cording to freights outside. followed by rapid recovery in a num- Rye-No, l commercial, 96 to 97c, ac- cording to freights outside. her of patients. In addition, the in - Ianitoba 11otir --First patents, in luta bags, $6,90 ; second patents in iota jections of the serum prevented com- bags, $6,40 ; strong bakers', in jute bags, plications so frequent in this disease SG 20 T ©ntario oront11aue• r -Now Winter, according and reduced the death rate from to sample, $4,50 to 34.G0, in bags, track twenty-five to three per cent. Toronto, prompt shipment ; 34.60 to 34.70. bulk seaboard, prompt shipment. u►---- Millfeed-Car lots, delivered, Montreal freights, bags included --Bran, per ton, SECOND MILITARY CROSS s22 ; shorts, per tor,$24 to $25 • mid - Sour, per bag, $1.76. A despatch from Vancouver says: To the second member of the Bell - Irving family has come the honor of being decorated with the Military Cross, according to private advices re- ceived in Vancouver. This time it is Roderick Bell -Irving, acting Major in the 16th Canadian Scottish, and is in recognition of his gallantry in leading his company to the attack and the eventual capture of an entrenchment which had been taken from the Brit- ish by the Germans. NEW ZEALAND DECIDES FOR COMPULSORY SERVICE. A despatch from London says: New Zealand has decided in favor of the compulsory military service bill, which is applicable "to men of any age not less than twenty and more than forty- six." The only important amend- ment to the measure by the Legisla- tive Council was the stringent reli- gious objectors exemption clause. The Governor has given assent to the bill. THE SERBS PREPARE FOR A BIG DRIVE. A despatch from Saloniki says: Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia, accompanied by the Minister of War, had a long conversation this morning with the French Commander -iii -chief, Gen. Sarrail. They discussed the mili- tary situation and operations. In the evening he talked with Admiral Sir Berkeley. Milne, Commander-in-chief of the British fleet in eastern waters. c lin gs, per ton, $2 5 to 326 , good feed WON IN ONE FAMILY. Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 26 to 27c; inferior, 24 to 250; creamery prints, 81 to 320: solids, 30 to 31e. Eggs -New -laid, 29 to 30c ; do., in carton, 33 to 35e. Beans -$4.50 to 35, the later for hand- picked, Cheese -New, large, 173e ; twins, 173e ; triplets, 1Sc. Maple syrup -$1.50 per Imperial gal - CANADIAN SOLDIERS TO SLEEP 'NEATH MAPLES. A despatch from Ottawa says: Canadian maples are to be planted around the graves of Canadian sol- diers in France. Seed of the red and LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR OF MANITOBA APPOINTED. Sir James Aikins Succeeds Sir Doug- las Cameron Montreal Markets Montreal, Aug. 8. -Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 923 to 943c. Oats -Cana- dian western, No. 2, 5430 ; do., No. 3, 64c ; extra No. 1 feed, 533e. Flour - Man. spring wheat patents. firsts, $7,20 ; seconds, $6.70 ; strong bakers', 36.60 ; Winter patents, choice, $6.25 • straight silver maple, ripened • at Ottawa, has rollers, $5,70 to $5.75 ; do., bags, $2.60 to $. 60. Roiled oats, barrels, $5.05 to been sent to London by Dominion A despatch from Ottawa says: Sir $5.45 ; do., 90 lbs„ $2.40 to $2.60. Bran, Horticulturist W. T. Macoun and James Ail ins ex-M.P. of Winnipeg, $22. Shorts, $24. Middlings, $2G. P tai $30 ko $32 Iiay Na 2 er planted in Kew Gardens. After the has been appointed Lieutenant -Gov- ton, car lots, $17.50 to $19, cheese, finest war the little trees from these seeds are to be transplanted in France. Seeds of the larb -lcaved maple of British Columbia. are to he sent to London for the same purpose as soon as ripe. The prize list for the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition amounts this year to approximately $63,000. • It practically all goes to the agricultural classes. cruor of the Province of Manitoba, externs. 151 to to 173c ; do., easterns, 163 to late. Butter, choicest creamery, succeeding Sir Douglas Cameron, 313 to 32o ; seconds, 306 to 303c. Eggs -Fresh, 35c ; selected, 33e ; No. 1 stock, 30c ; No. 2 stock, 26 to 27c. whose term of office expired last week. If one man in ten thousand pays any attention to what you say you are in luck. Railway men give the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition credit for being the Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Aug. S. -Cash quotations- Wheat-Ny. 1 Northern, 31.333 ; No. 2 Northern, 31.813 No. 3 Northern, 31.263 ; No. 4, 31.233 ; No. 5, $1.1.73 ; No. 6, $1.103 ; feed, 31.04. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 45c ; No. 3 C.W., 441c ; extra No. 1 feed, 44c ; No. 1 feed, 44c ; No. 2 feed, 433c. Ii'arley-No. 3, 733c ; .To. greatest creator of traffic on the 4. 69c ; rejected, 62c ; feed, 62c. Flax, North American Continent. No. 1 N.W.C., $1.903 ; ,No. 2 OW., 31.863. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Aug. 8. -Wheat -Septem- ber, $1.843 ; December, 31.343 ; No. 1 hard, 31.393 ; No. 1 Northern, 31.343to $1.363,, No. 2, do., 31.313 to $1.243. orn -No. 3 yellow, 813 to 823c. Oats -No. 3 white 393 to 40c. Flour -Fancy pa- tents, 37 ; first clears, 35.70 ; second clears, 33.20. Bran -$19.50. Duluth, Aug; 8. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, No 82, No. $1.31 to 37 38$ 36 September, $1.35 deiced ; December, $1.343 asked. Linseed -On track; $2.16 to 32.183 ; to arrive, $2.16 ; 'September, $2.15 asked WORLD'S BIGGEST -if1 T 'LE NAKES BRIT IN GREATER The British Race Is the Greatest in Numbers, Duration and Sacrifice. -Historical Facts. A despatch f. o y..#;! p r m the front 84376: ay A month has passed since the begin- ning of the great battle in the Picardy, says Philip. Gibbs. We who have been out here and saw the beginning, and }ay by day followed the progress of the British day t fighting -men; knowing ;heir difficulties and dangers from r ou to hour, take tenth now wfora tooment and look back upon its life- ne counting its gains and losses, with any glory it may have and any tragedy, in;il It has been a .stupendous month, Delitille Wood, as I have described: several times, has been taken and: re- taken after some of the fiercest fight n g this battle, and is now firmly., in .British hands.: The 'British hold part of High Wood, and on the left • they captured Pozieres and the high ground about it. So in :a month, by the greatest battle of history, the British race is the greatest in num- bersy duration and sacrifice. They. have taken eleven hostile strongholds. They have won back for France a patch of soil ;eight miles wide by three miles deep. They have brought back about 13,000 German prisoners. They have killed or wounded an im- mense number of Germany's finest. troops, at least 100,000 surely. Those are the plain,, historical facts of one month's fighting in the first part of the battle in the Picardy, which has not yet ended. Beyond and above these plain facts are others not so easy to, tell. They are impossible October, 32.16 ; November, 32.15 ; Dec- ember, 32.18 bid, Live Stock Markets." Toronto; Aug. 8. --Choice heavy steers, 38.16 to 38,43.; Good heavy steers, $7.75 to •$8.00 ; Butchers' .cattle, good, 37.90 to 38.15 ; do., medium, 37.35 to 37.60 do., common $6,40 to $6.75 ; Butchers' bulls, choice,: 37.25 to $76;0„ do.,: good bulls, 56.66 to 36.75 do., rough bulls, 34.50 to $5.00 ; Butchers' cows, choice, 37.10 to 57,40 ; do., good, $6.76 to 37.00 ; do., medium 36.00 to 36,25 ; Stockers, 700 to 800 lbs., 36.25 to $6,76 ; . choice 'feed- ers, iehorned, 36.40 to $7.26 ; Canners and cutters, 33.50 to 34.50 ; Milkers, choice, each, 370.00 to 380500,; do., corn. and med., :each, $40.00 to, 360.00 ; Springers, $50.00 to 390.00 ; Light Ewes, $7.66 to $8.6$ ; Sheep, heavy, 34.50 to $5:36 ; Spring lambs, per lb. 1.13c, to 12o ; Calves, good to . choice;. $10.60 to 311.75 ; - do., medium, 39.00 to $10.00 ; Hags, fed and watered, . $12.25 ; do, weighed off cars, 312.50 ; do., f.o.b., $11.60 to 311,75, Montreal, Aug, 8. Butchers' steers, choice, 38,26 to 58.50 ; good.' 37,74, to 38; air, $7;26 to 37,60 ; medium,,'36.75 to 37 ; `eomon, $6..to 36.60 utcher 'cows common, to $.to 035,26 �Tl $butcher 35.75 1 s, 2,000 ACRES LEVELED SOUTH OF SASKATOON'. A despatch from Saskatoon says: A hailstorm of unusual severity struck the country eight miles south of this city at 1 o'ciock Wednesday morning. Two thousand acres of crop in the vicinity of Victor schoolhouse were wiped out completely. One farm- er reports a loss of $2,500, and many other farmers suffered heavy loss. The storm appears to have been pure- ly local. ' Bersaglieri Speediest Soldiers. "Prometheus," Vienna military pub- lication, presents some interesting fig- ures about the marching of the var- ious armies now at war, According to thesestatistics, the Italian Bersag- lieri are by far the speediest soldiers in the world, the Russians the slowest. The former take 140 strides to the minute, the latter 112. No horse is allowed in the judging J g g ring at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion until it has been examined and pronounced,sound' `by the Association's veterinary surgeons. YERDUN; 4F1� ...VILLAGE OF FI,EUItY General Nivelle's Troops Remove All Danger of the Enemy Get- ting the Fortress. A despatch from; London says: The French counter -offensive north-east of Verdun on Thursday reached its cli- max in a powerful blow which has re- suited in the complete recapture of Fleury and the whole system of ;high-- ly-organized defences from south- east of Thiaumont to the Froid Terre ridge. After a series of almost uninter- rupted attacks during the night and in the forenoon on the four -,Wile front from the Meuse to the woods west of Daniloup, the French concentrated all their power in a tremendous thrust on the one -mile Thieennont-Fleury line. They smashed forward on this point for a distance of about a quar- ter uay ter of a mile through the most power- ful field works on the western front. Thursday night they had counted more than 650 prisoners, fensive. In other words, they "beat them to the hunch." The French have regained footing " on two of .the most Important heights which look down on Verdun -Pepper Hill and the Froid Terre. The crest of,. the former is a No Man's Land, con-' stantly swept by shellfire. But from {the latter the Germans held artillery control of the heart of Verdun. They' made much of the capture of Froid Terre, deelaring it the most important position on the north-eastern front. Now the French are working their way up to the crest again. The coon-, reuuique from the War Office at Faris reports that French troops are fight -ing at the edge of HW. No. 820, one of the heights of the Froid Terre ridge, Fighting on the Somme. The village of Fleury was attacked, from two sides, the north-west and south-east. In previous attacks the French had advanced as far as the ruined railway station against furi- ous resistance. Then after the big guns had been given time to clear a path the infantry again went forward, this time to complete vietory. .Ail the gains made by the Germans In their attacks of Tuesday have been swept away. In an attack simultane- ous with that on Fleury the French in the Chenois sector drove the Teutons from the trenches they had seized in this wooded region, capturing more prisoners, Berlin previously had ad- mitted the loss of ground recently taken in Laufee forest, Captured 1,750 .Prisoners. In the last three days the French have captured more than 1,750 un- wounded prisoners. They have also taken a large quantity of military sup- plies, but from all indications they have done far more than that, With the descent of the lull on the Somme the Gerinans seriously resumed their operations against Verdun, They had large forces at their disposal and all of their powerful artillery. But before they could get well under way the French launched their counter -of - Stubborn fighting on many parts of the eighteen mile front both north: and south of the Somme is reported in the official communications, The British have made further gains across the plateau north of Bazentin Ie Petit, but the greater part of their energy was directed towards consolidating the ground already won. During the night the Germans sent four strong detachments toward DeI- ville wood. These were allowed to approach to close range before fire iwas opened. AU were repulsed with heavy losses, and at one place WY Germans were caught in massed fore • nation by the British, machine gun fire and annihilated. A German strong point between. Pozieres and Thiepval was bombarded by heavy artillery and the garrison, fleeing across the.open, came under the field gun fire of the British guns. Through nut the day the German artillery maintained a barrage west and south- west of Longueval and biametz and Calupillar wood intermittently. There was some activity elsewhere along the line, Germans shelled vil- lages near Arras and. Armentieres and , dropped bombs on the outskirts of some of the villages without doing any damage. In the Loos salient there was trench mortar activity on both sides. INVASION OF BELGIUI4I. RETREAT ONLY Proof That It Was Planned Many Years Ago. Some of the German press com- ment on the death of General Von Moltke is of considerable interest, The Berlin Lokalanzeiger has entirely for- gotten the elaborate German fictions about the sudden and imperative need for the invasion of Belgium and about the supposed intentions of France and calmly writes: "In the splendid successes of the first part of the campaign in Bel- gium and France we can recognize gratefully fruits which were probably in no small measure due to the joint labors of Schlieffen and Moltke-the tremendous march of victory into the heart of France, and the equally tremendous war of resistance against superior enemy force in the enemy's country and not on the Rhine. The roots of the great scheme which- because of the French girdle of fort- resses which has still not been over- come -saw salvation in carrying for- ward our own offensive in the west, may be sought in the mind of the old. Moltke; but Schlieffen and the nephew of the strategic genius ripen- ed the seed in wonderful fashion. Bel- gium alone -the same Belgium which long before the war had concluded an agreement with those who attacked us -supplied the base for this offen- sive to cover our country in the west." The casual reference to Belgium's supposed agreement with France and England is quite irrelevant, seeing that, to say nothing of the schemes of the elder Moltke, Schlieffen left of- fice 10 years ago, and not even the German Foreign Office will venture to say that Belgium -so aptly describ- ed by the Berlin Lokalanzeiger as "the only base" for the German plan -was then in league with. her pre- sent allies. ALLIES USE MANY GUNS. Seven Forms of Artillery Are Em- • ployed in War. No fewer than seven different kinds of artillery are taken into the field by a modern army -mountain, horse and field guns, light and heavy howitzers, position guns and siege ar- tillery, says The 'Glasgow Herald. The most famous' of the European field guns ie the French "75:" Its special. excellence consists in its recoil, buffer. Most modern guns are placed on car- riages designed to absorb the shock of recoil without allowing the ,carriage to move. In this way great rapidity of fire is attained, as the gunners have not to lay it after each shot, The French gun is held in position by a spade at the end of the trail, and the wheels are strongly braked. The gun when it recoils slides along a cradle and is stopped by the ingenious pneu- matic buffer, which operates ' with marvelous smoothness. The gunner keeps the sights,which do not move with the °gun, on the target all the time, WAY OF ESCAPE Russian Nut -Cracker Is Slowly: but Irresistibly, Closing In. A despatch from Petrograd says; The ultimate Russian occupation of Kovel and Lemberg and the retire- ment of the Austro -German line of defence beyond the Bug River are now regarded here as a foregone con- clusion. The armies of Generals von Boehm-Ermolli and von Linsingen,. which have been badly crippled in their efforts to hold back the advanc- ing right wing of General Brussiloff's forces, have been forced to retreat to a point which leaves open the ap- proaches to these two important cen- tres, and the Russians in both regions have begun an encircling movement, which is slowly, but apparently irre- sistibly closing in upon the two cities, The German loss of the Stokhod crossings and the recently -announced Russian crossing of the river leaves no important line of defence -before Kovel except a natural barrier .ion- sisting of a wide swamp, which un- doubtedly will retard the Russian progress. But this movement from the west along the route midway be- tween the Sarny-Kovel and Rovno- Kovei railways, in conjunction with the Russian pressure brought from the south in the region of Vladimir- Volynski, both of which are success- fully developing, despite all German counter-attacks, is considered as making the outcome assured. The operations against the Ger- mans are also having an important effect in facilitating the advance against the Austrians defending Lem- berg, since they enable the Russians to exert pressure against the Austrian left flank and increase that brought up on Lemberg from Brody and from the south, where Gen. Letchitzsky's troops are successfully traversing the flooded Dneister region and are threatening the Galician capital along the route leading through Stanislau and Hauch. It is unofficially reported that the Germans have already begun their re-, tirement from Kovel and are prepar- ing to fall baclo on Brest -Litovsk, Chohn, and the general line of, de- fence following the Bug River, GERMANS BOMBARD RUSSIAN HOSPITAL., A despatch from Petrograd says: The Russian officialstatement is as follows: "An enemy aeroplane born- bard a transport containing wound.:.;' ed near Dusitchi, on the Vladimir Volynski-Lutsk;route; killing one and injuring twenty already wounded men. The same aeroplane also bombarded the divisional hospital in Dusitchi, killingone and injuring eight j g ehospital g p1tal orderlies. , Caucasian front: Our ads' vanes continues."