The Exeter Advocate, 1916-9-14, Page 3r
IF BALKANS : FALL TO ALLIES Markets of he Word IR(1SSIANS WIN
GERMANY CANNOT SURVIVE
Hindenburg to Make Desperate Effort to Shatter the Russian.
and Roumanian Forces.
A despatch from Acqui, Italy, says; allies and for a Russian invasion of
Field Marshal von Hindenburg's ass- the Hungarian plain. They make it
pointment as chief of the German clear that the fullest apprehension
general staff suggests a desperate en- prevails and that all hope has vanish-
deavor to shatter the Russian and ed,
Roumanian forces, The Hungarian journal Vilag says:
The Hungarian Government re- "Germany can face an economic
girds these organizations with fear war only so long as she possesses the
Berlin -Bagdad railway. If Transyl
vanta is lost, and if the Balkans fall
and trembling. The Hungarian, press
considers the coming struggle in
that quarter decisive for the isolation into the hands of her enemies, Ger-
of the Germans from their- Eastren many cannot survive the loss."
OF WHOLE GERMAN SECOND LINE
BRITISH � .. ,.5 ARE IN POSSESSION
Their Position Enormously Superior to That of the Enemy on
Other Side of Watershed.
A despatch from London says::. fight to seize the high ridge at Po
Phillip Gibb, the war ase espeedent, zieres and to the eastwards. It was
commenting in the Dail Tele ra h i. difficult to take and difficult to hold,
Daily g p and the cost was not light.
on the reeent British advance, says, , "They have now gained the erest of
It is not sufficiently realized that the ridge, and even if the offensive is
this is a very important gain. The brought to a dead halt, which it won't
capture of Guillemont and the ground be, tl,e position for the Winter is en -
beyond has given the British the { ormously superior to that of the Ger-
whole of the German second line. I mans on the other side of the water-
"The British troops had an uphill 'shed,
BRITAIN TO PRESENT
MG BILL TO MEXICO
Claims Will be Made ler Lives
and Destruction
of Property.
A despatch from London says: -
That Great Britain's bill against
Mexico for the murder of her n;ition-
als and the destruction of; property
and trade will be a formidable one, is
certain, and is also the fact that ib will
be presented for payment through
the United States. All big Mexican
interests here show a significant hesi-
tation iii di •cussing the matter, hold-
ing that the negotiations are at pre-
sent at a critical stage. For instance,
a representative of a great Anglo -
Mexican concern, S. Pearson and
Sons, said the time was not oppor-
tune to resuscitate the matter.
"Whatever claims we have," said this
span, "will not be presented by us
personally to the Mexican authorities,
but by the British Government, and
probably by the latter through the
Government of the United States. At
the present stage we can say no
more." Enquiries at the Foreign Of-
fice led to the reply that nothing de-
finite could be stated about the sub-
ject at this time.
sas-
BRITISH TRADE GROWS.
Exports Increased in August by
About $75,000,000.
A despatch from London says:
Figures given out on Thursday by the
British Board of Trade for the month
of August show that imports during
the month were increased by 16,716,-
000,
6,716;000, while the exports were increased
by £15,281,000. ° The principal in-
creases in imports were: Cotton, 23,-
000,000;
3;000,000; and oils, seeds and fats, 42,-
250,000. The export increases were
made up principally of manufactured
articles. Of these cotton textiles in-
creased £3,000,000, iron and steel, £2,-
500,000, and coal, £1,500,000.
GET CLAIMS READY
AGAINST TEUTONS
A despatch from London says :-
King George on Friday signed a
proclamation requiring British sub-
jects to make returns in regard to
property owned by them in countries
afr war with Great Britain and also of
claims made by them against sub-
jects or governments of hostile coun-
tries.
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BRANTFORD DRUGGISTS
WILL NOT SELL LIQUOR
•
A despatch from Brantford says :-
Local druggists have decided to serve
all connections with the liquor trade
once prohibition goes into effect. The
Druggists' Association after meeting,
unanimously decided not to sell Liquor
even for prescription purposes.
Breadstus,
Toronto, Sept. 12. -Manitoba
No. 1 Northern, $173; leo. 2 do $1.71;
No.3, do., $1.66, on,track Bay ports,
Manitoba oats -•--No. 2 C W.,, 5Sc; No.
3 C,W., 57c.; extra, No. 1 feed, 57c; No,
1 feed, 568c. on track Bay ports.
A.mertean corn -No, a yellow, 981°. 0n
track Toronto,
Ontario oats --New, No, 2 white, 52'to
54e; No. 3 do., 51 to 530, according to
freights outside.
Ontario wheat ---No, 1 commercial,
$1.22 to $1,24; No, a d a,. 31,1a to 31.20;
No. 3 do., 31.14 to $L16, aecording to
freights outside; new crop. No, 2. $1.28
to $1.3I.
Peas -No, 2. 32.00 to 32.10, nomial, ae-
1 cording to freights outside.
[ EarleyeeMalting barley, 85 to 90e, no.
minas' feed barley, 80 to Sae, nominal,
according to freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal, according to
freights outside.
Rye^ -No. 2, new, 51.15 to 31,X7; No, 1
eommereial, nominal, according to
freights outside,
Manitoba flour -First patents, in Jute
bags, 38.40; second patents. in Jute bags,.
37.90; strong bakers', In Jute bags, 37.70,
Toronto.
Ontario flour --New, Winter accord-
ing to sample. 35.60 to 35.70, nominal, in
bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment;
new, 35.50 to 35.60, nominal. bulk. sea-
board. prompt shipment.
Millfoed-Cal^ lots, delivered Montreal
froit;hts, bags lneluded�I:ran. per ton,
325; shorts, per ton, 520; middlings. per
ton. $30; good feed four. per bag. $2,25,
Hay --New, No. 1, per ton. 310 to 5.12:
No. 2, $9 to $9.50, on track Toronto.
Straw -..Car lots, per ton, 36 to 37. on
track Toronto.
whet .EM ERG GATE
Country Produce -Wholesale..
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice. 30to 310
inferior, 24 to 25c ; creamery prints. 35
to 37e ; solids. 34 to 35e.
Ua s-Newaa14, 31 to :32e ; d0„ in
cartons, 35 to 38e,
13cans, $4,50 to $5, the latter for hand-
picked.
Cheese --New, large,. 10I to 20c ; tn'ina
199 to 20;e : trlpints, 20 to 203e.
Dressed poultry---Miekens, 25 to 27c ;,
fowl. 18 to 200.
Live poultry---Chiciiens, 18 to 20e ;
fowl, i4 to 16e.
Potatoes -•-Jerseys, per bag, $2.50;
Oumbia Rntartos. ose, 52,35per toba;52.4032 ; I3rltish (ol'.
• New Brun--
wtek, cobblers. per bag. $2.
Iioney-.•l.;xtra tine cfualttY, 10-1b. tisk,
Per lb., 1170 ; 60-1b. tins, Per lb., 10Ae.
Provisions -Wholesale.
Bacon -Long clear, 1$ to 188e per lb.
Hams -Medium. 24 to 26c ; do„ heavy.
GOOD AERAGF C 22'
7 to 23e roll:; 19 to 200 • breakfast
b w.l bacon. 52 to 27c ; backs, plain, 26 to
27o ; boneless flacks, 23 to 29c. Cooke
ham, 3"a to 37c.
Lard ---Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 1710 ;
tubs. 174 to 1 .e ; pais, 178 to 172e,
t.`ompoun0, 14 to 148e.
iN CANADIAN WEST
Sl
Superintendent of Immigration
Says Conditions Are
Not Bad.
A de„patch from Otta na says: W.
D. Scott, Superintendent of Immigra-
tion, who has returned from his an-
nual visit to the Western Provinces,
thinks that the crop will average well,
although conditions vary not only as
between provinces, but in each pro-
vince. "Conditions," said Mr. Scott,
"are not at all bad, though in some
parts the yield is light, especially in
Southern Manitoba and parts of Sas-
katchewan. It depends upon cultiva-
tion and early seeding. Prices are
' good. I was told in the West that
there would be 16 5,000,000 bushels of
wheat. There is plenty of labor for
the harvest, the farmers having ask-
ed for 40,000 men and having secured
37,000 in the first response." Speak-
ing of immigration, Mr. Scott said
that Americans of a good class were
taking up land in the West.
SIXTY STEAMERS FREED.
Allied Vessels Out of Baltic After
Jutland Battle.
A despatch from Galveston, 'Texas,
says: The British stearner Veraston,
which arrived on Friday after being
interned in Petrograd for two years,
reported that she and fifty-nine other
steamers of allied nations were able
to escape from the Gulfs of Finland
and Bothnia, through the Baltic, Cat-
tegat and Skaggerack, immediately
following the naval battle off Jutland.
The Veraston's captain said the battle
was a great British victory, and that
in addition to the three -score ships
coming out with him many others fol-
lowed.
IMPERIAL EFFORT
TO AID RESTORATION
A despatch from Loudon says: -Dr.
J. W. Robertson, of Ottawa, has
crossed to France as Canadian dele-
gate to the Agriinitural Relief of the
Allies Fund. He will visit the ravag-
ed areas The Duke of Portland has
a scheme for the whole Empire mak-
ing a joint effort to lend assistance
for the rehabilitation of these lands
in Belgium, France and Serbia at the
conclusion of hostilities, by the pro-
vision of seed, implements and money.
LOSSES OF BRITISH
FOR HALF OF AUGUST.
A despatch from London says:
Casualty lists for the first two weeks
of August show that the British• army
lost 600 officers killed, 1,702 wounded,
and 204 missing, a total of 2,506. This
brings up the losses since the begin-
ning of the war to 38,922 officers, of
whom 1,442 have been killed oe died
of wounds, 24,680 wounded and 2,800
are missing. In the fortnight six
lieutenant -colonels were killed.
FRENCH . SUCCESS AT VERDUN
GAINS A MILE OF TRENCHES
Nearly 300 Germans, Including Six Officers, Were Made Prisoners
By Gen. Joffre's Troops.
A despatch from Paris says: Gen. Chapitre to Chenois. It was in this
Joffre's troops struck a powerful sector that the Germans came nearest
blow on Thursday on the Verdun to effecting ,a salons breach in the
front. Here` German trenches on a Verdun defences. The French captur
mile front were captured in a storm- ed 280 prisoners, including six of-
ing ` action delivered from Vaux- ficers.
Austrian Garrison Abandons
kIalicz Under
Fire.
London, Sept. 10, -The Austro-
German forces, defending Haliez, the
fortified city 6 miles south of Lem-
berg, have blown up the remaining
fortifications of the town, and some
of them have been oeeupied by the
Russians, according to a Reuter de-
spatch from Petrograd late to -night.
The fall of Haliez is a matter of
hours.
The despatch adds that the great
bridge across the Dniester has been
blown up and that the Russians hold
the left bank of the river, heavily
shelling the retreating Teutons. Two
troop trains we're wrecked by the
Russian fire.
To -night's official Austro-Hungar-
ian war statement admits that the
Russians in the Carpathians east of
the Cibo valley "succeeded in taking
isolated portions of our front.
The Turkish army which was re-
cently reported to have gone to Ga-
licia to aid the hard-pressed Austro-
Hungarians, assisted in the defence of
Hal ice.
The official bulletins from both Pe-
trograd and Berlin to -day indicate
that the struggle around there has
been a desperate one.
An unofficial despatch from Petro-
grad likewise enlarges on the fierce-
ness of the fighting around Halicz
and along a twenty-five mile front
northward from that point.
:-
ICE CREAM PARLOR ,
�1 LOR
.'
'I'..HE C.P.R.
BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE
CINCH' IN NEW THRUST.
Combies. Under Fire From Three Sides -Its Fall Believed a
Matter of a Few Days..
London, Sept, 10, --The village - of 30 prisoners, andearlier
. , P e l r in the day
Ginehy, the last remaining fortified took a small wood east of this village,.
place separating the British from the and made further .progress east of
important German railway centre of Deniecourt,. Includ tg to -day's cap-
Combles, to -day fell to the troops of !tures, the French have taken n1ore
Sir Douglas Haig. ^than k8,000 prisoners since last Suzy-
Gambles is now under fire from' day.
Sun -
three sides, by the British from the At every vital point of the Somme
north-west and west, and, by the ,' battle line the Germans too day
French from the south-west. Its fall ; launched counter-attacks of frantic
is now believed to be a matter of a bitterness. Everywhere their at-
few days. tempts to regain the ground lost since
Winding up a week .of incessant i the resumption of the allies' big push
' hammering of the German lines in ; a week ago:to-day broke down with
the initial phases of which, last Sun- : severe losses, according to the French
day, part of Ginehy and the whole of and British official reports, They.
Guillemont were taken lied,. storm, the' were unable to wrest from the En-
! British Saturday attaeked on 'a front: tente troops an inch of the lost ter-
, of 6,000 yards, between High Wood rain.
and Leuze Wood. As a result, they! Only at one point between Belloy-
completed the capture of Ginehy and en-Santerre and Barleux, did the Ger-
took all of the ground between the mans make as much as a temporary
village and Leuze Wood. Further- gain. They were immediately driven
more, they pushed their lines forward out of the trench in which they had
300 yards on a front of 500 yards x won a foothold, by a vigorous French
east of High Wood. " counter-attack. The short-lived sue -
Simultaneously, successfully crush- { cess was scored, .according to the
ing in the northern tip of the salient French afternoon communique, with
fanned by the Somme drive, the Brit- the aid of jets of liquid fire.
ish. gained an additional 600 yards to :, The British have taken 350 pris-
the north-east of Pozieres. The head- . oners during the last 21 hours. They
quarters statement issued to -night repulsed a violent counter-attack
tells of heavy casualties suffered by ! north-east of Pozieres and another
the Germans, particularly while mass. north of Ginehy. In reviewing the
•, ing for a taunter-attaek during the' week's advanee, the afternoon state
-
I British action near Pozieres, the Teu ; merit issued at headquarters says the
I tans being caught by the British ar- British since last Sunday have pushed
ON'tillery fire. their front forward 6,000 yards to a
_._ The French forces on the Somme depth varying between 300 and 3,000
contented themselves with minor ac- `yards. The important points netted by
d The Ice Cream Parlor plays such: tions to -day. They captured some Ger- :the seven days' advance are the Fal-
Montreal Markets.
Montreal. Sept. 1.2.---Qats-4`anadian
Western, No. 2, 600 ; do.. No, 3. 598e ;
extra No. 1 feed. 598e : No, 3 local white
54e Flour. Manitoba Spring wheat
Patents, firsts. 32.5e ; seconds. 36.00 ;
strong bakers' 5..80 ; 'Winter patents,
choice. $7.50 ; straight rollers, v,90 to
37.20 ; straight rollers. bags, $3.25 to
33.40. Bolted oats. barrels. 35.05 , bags,
:1liddliu
so Ila:., 32.40. Bran, 325. Shorts. 3'37,
gs 529. Mouil:e. Sal to 334.
Hay, 9o. 2, per ton, ear lots. 311 to 313.
Cheese, finest westerns, 193e to 20e
finest castc•rns, 198 to 192e. Butter,
choicest creamery, 341 to 35e ; seconds,
333 to 34e. 16gga, fresh. 370 ; selected.
:�o. 1 stock, 30c No. ", stock, 27c.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Sept. 12.• --Cash nuotntions
Wheat -No. 1 northern. $1.642 ; No. 2
northern, $1,622_;, No. 3 northern, 31.571;
Na 4.51,433 , o. 5, 51.422., O.ats-No,
2 CAW., 518 ; No. 3 C.W., 502 ; extra No,
1 Teed, 502 ; 1v*o 1, 504 No. 2, 403,
Barley --•No. 3, S6 No. 4 83 ; re• eeted,
768 feed, 768. Flax ---No. 1 N. �V. G„
31.34 No. 2. 0, W.. 31.81.
Baited States Mark -eta
Minneepolls,. Sept. 12. -Wheat' -8e_p-
tenrber.hard,n31,073 Npo,
1 Northern, 31,613 ; No. 2 Nar.hern,
21.571 to 31.623. Corn -No, 3 yellow,
843 to 853c. Oats -No, 3 white• 464 to
453e, Ilaur unchanged. 1;ran-$21 to
522,
IiuIuth. Sept. 12. -Wheat -No. 1 hard.
51.63 : No. 1 Northern. 51 .66 to 51.67 ;
No. 2 Northern, 51.62 to 31.63. Linseed,
on track and to arrive, $2,028; Septem-
ber, 12 612 nominal ; October, 32,021
asked ; November. 12.031 asked ; 'Noc-
e , 12.021 norninui,
Live Stook Markets,
Toronto, Sept, 12. --Choles heavy
steers, 58,25 to 38.85 gooki heavy
steers, 8.00 to 51.10 ; Butchers' cattle,
good, '57.50 to 37.90 ; do., medium, $7.00
to $7.15 • do., common, ;'674.22
6.00 to
butchers'' bulls, choice, 57 26 to 7.50
do.. good bulls, 36.40 to 36.60 ; do., r•ougir
Igo
34,50 to 35,00 ; hutchers' cows,
choice, $6.50 to $6.75 ; do.. gooa, 36.00 to
35.25 ; do,. medium, $5.50 to $5.56
stockers, 700 to 850 lbs., $6.00 to 36.50
choice feeders, dehorned, $6.30 to 57.00
canners and cutters, 33.50 to 34.25
milkers, choice, each, $70,00 to 590.00
rpriemu.
gers� 5550 med.,
0 teach,
$90.0 ; Olight eves
57.65 to 33.35 ; sheep, heavy, $4,50 to
35,35 ; spring lambs, per ib„ 9 to 10lc
calves, good to choice. 310.50 to 312.00 •
do., medium, 59.00 to 310.00 ; Hogs, fed
an.; watered, 511.75 to 311.85 ; do„
weighed off cars, 512.00 to 312.10 ; do.,
f.o.b.. 511.15.
Montreal, Sept. 12. -Butchers' steers,
good, $7.10 to 37.60 ; fair, 57 ; medium,
55.50 to $6 per cwt. Butchers, cows,
good, 56 to $6.50 ; fair, $5.50 to $5.75 ;
common, 54 to 55 ; canners, 53.50 to
53.75 ; cutters, 53.75 to 54.60. Butchers'
bulls, best. 56 to 56.50 ; good $5.50 to
$5.
to 108c c 6 to 7c per pound ; lambs,
per pound. Calves, milk -fed,
8 to 9c per 1b ; grass-fed, 5c per ib.
Hogs, selects, 51.75 to $12 ; roughs and
mixed lots. 310 to $11.25 ; cows, 59.75
to $10.00, all weighed off cars..
BULGAR REGIMENT MUTINIES;
ITS LEADERS .ARE SHOT.
an important part in the life of peo-; man trenches east of Belloy-en-Sans- femont farm, Leuze Wood and the
ple that Dr. W. A. Cooper, of the $ terve, south-west of Barleux, taking villages of Guillemont and Glnchy.
Canadian Pacific Dining Car Service,
has decided to incorporate it into rail-
way travel and has initiated what 850,000 PER MONTH
'� ENSURE
lyse F+?Ylf:�fi
may be called the Ice Cream Parlor FROM AMUSEMENT TAX.
Car on the chief trains between Mont-
the.
and Ottawa, that is to say on A despatch from. Toronto says:
Ac -
Unlit
MENENLISTING
the trains which carry a Buffet- cording to the Hon. T. W, McGarry, ' OF
Library -Observation -Parlor -Car. It Provincial Treasurer, the amusement
is now possible an such cars to ob- war tax has been bringing in leo far 7
thin soft drinks, ice -creams and sun- an average of $50,000 a month. This . Age Limit to be Enforced and
dies, and though the service has been; is well up to expectations, and some
in existence only a few days, its pop ' are confident that in the winter
Unfit Applicants
ularity bus been so pronounced that months the Treasury will benefit to Rejected.
it wall no doubt be extended to other' an even greater extent, The Treas-
services in the near future. urer's estimate at the time the grad- a says.
ed tax was initiated was that the an- a New regulations are being provided
nual revenue from this source would' for ensuring the fitness of men ac -
be $600,000.
A despatch from Ottaw
RIGID RESTRICTION
OF ENTRY OF ALIENS
cepted for service in the expedition-
s ary force. Recruiting enters are to
A despatchfrom London says :- ROOM AVIA HAS SEIZED be required to make certain that men
The Official Gazette on Friday prints
an amendment to the order -in -Council
MANY TEUTON FACTORIES entering the force are within the age
limits, and medical officers will also
governing the restrictions impored A despatch from Vienna to the Ex be called upon to exercise great care
upon aliens, by which, after October
1, the written sanction and approval
8f the Board of Trade,mus8 be obtain-
ed for the admission to the United
Kingdom of any alien who works in
any other capacity than munitions
work. A rigid application of this
order, some officials says, apparently
would exclude from the United King-
dom foreign actors, singers, music-
ians, and all others who do rot come
to work in munitions factories.
HURLED HAND GRENADE
INTO GLASGOW CROWD.
A despatch from Glasgow says:.
James O'Hara, a wounded and dis-
charged soldier, learned the art of
bomb throwing at the front and grew
callous in regard to the results. Early
on Saturday a crowd of men and wo-
men in the rear of his tenement be-
came noisy. O'Hara. asked for quiet,
and when he received a derisive reply,
hurled a hand grenade into the crowd.
One man and a girl of nine years
were were killed and a dozen other
persons were wounded. When O'Hara
was arrested it was discovered that
he had in his possesson a quantity of
$6 ; fair, $5 to $5,25 ; canners, $4.50 to ammunition.
DUTCH BRING DOWN
GERMAN MONOPLANE
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
According to the Maestricht Les Nou-
velles, a German monoplane after be-
ing hit in the wings and petrol tank
by bullets of Dutch soldiers, while fly-
ing over Dutch territory landed in the'
Dutch village of Roosterin. The
aviator, who was uninjured, and his
machine were interned. The news-
paper says the aviator probably lost
his way while on a reconnaissance.
A despatch from Rome says: An
Athens despatch to The Tribune
states that the Fifty-second Bulger
Jan Regiment mutinied and was re-
moved from the front and the lead-
ers were shot. The Twelfth and
Thirtieth Regiments, it is added, were
overwhelmed by the 'Serbians near
Ostrove. '
GERMAN SOCIALISTS
FIGHTING THE WAR
Circulate Leaflet Urging the Masses
to Refuse to Support Struggle.
A despatch from London says:
German Socialists are circulating an
anti -war leaflet :asserting that the
Germans' are slowly starving, blam-
ing the Government for starting the
war, accusing speculators of corner-
ing food and urging the masses to re -
fuse to support the war.
U-BOAT WARFA.
A despatch from London says:
is asserted in naval circles her t
German submarine activity in
English Channel and in the Medit
ianeau indicates that Germany: w
shortly resume her submarine w
fare.
CONVERTED PRISONERS
INTO STRETCHER-BEARERS.
London, Sept. 10. -Philip Gibbs,
telegraphing to the London Daily
Telegraph, states that of the Ger-
man garrison of 2,000 at Guillemont
hardly one escaped. All were dead,
wounded or prispners. Two battalions
were wiped out. One British sergeant,
hit in the hip by a shell, • captured
four without help, and ordered them
to carry him: on a stretcher to the
dressing station. He arrived smok-
ing a cigarette, with his prisoners as
stf'etcher-bearers.
elian e Tele • li Com an Loud
g g p P e, on, against the admission of unfit men.
says the Roumanian Government has ` A recruit will be examined first by
seized the Austrian and German fat- • the local medical officer at the place
tories in. Roumania, as well as indus- of enlistment and on roaching the
trial and financial establishments of mobilization centre he will be re -ex -
the Central Powers and four large amined by a medical board, after he
petrol companies. The Roumaen- is finally attached for overseas ser-
ische Kreditbank and the Banque Gen- vice. If there is any doubt as to his
erale Roumaine have been taken over condition, he may be re-examined on
by the Bucharest Government, request by the medical officer. Steps
;--- are being taken also to keep some
PARENTS' SAD AFFLICTION. sort of record of men rejected for un-
fitness, probably by obtaining from
Lost Three Children Within a Couple such men signed cards, certifying to
of Days. their rejection. This is for the pur-
A despatch from Vancouver says: pose of preventing men once rejected
Mr. and Mrs. W. P Bosunworth of from applying at other places, a corn -
North Vancouver, buried their infant mon practice,
daughter Tuesday, and on Wednesday
saw the lifeless bodies of their other
two children, six and eight years, tak- It iesurprising how much work a
en from the bathing beach at English man can find to do that he does not
Bay. want to do.
RECAPTURE OF DOUAUMONT
AIM OF GEN. W ELLEES ARMY
The Whole System of Trenches in Front of the Fort Taken in an
Attack on Saturday.
Paris, Sept. 10. -The French in a
violent attack Saturday wrested from
the Crown Prince a whole system' of
trenches east of the village of
Fleury, north-west of Verdun, on the
right bank of the Meuse. The night
communique representing this suc-
cess, says the trenches won are "in
front of Douaumont" This indicates
that Gen. Nivelle is preparing for a
determined effort to regain that fort,
which was the first to fall into Ger-
man hands in the initial phase of the
Verdun drive last February. The
French captured two officers and 300
men.
The Germans tried again vainly to
reconquer the positions lost three
days ago in the Vaux-Chapitre wood.
All attacks broke down under the
French curtain of fire. Violent artil-
lery duels rage on the whole front
west of the Meuse.
The German statement admits the
French penetrated German; positions
south of Thiaumont field work and
east of Fleury, but asserts they were
driven out by a counter-attack.
TRENCHES TENANTED BY DEAD
KILLED BY TIIE FUMES OF GAS
Frightful Effects of the New Russian Gas Shell Is Shown in the
Recent Fighting,
A despatch from Petrograd says:
GERMANS TO RESUME
The recent attack at Svinjuchi, 20
RE. ENEMY SHIPS SEIZED miles south-east of Vladimir Volynski,
WORTH $5,000,000. was heralded by a dramatic incident.
It During the artillery preparation in
this part the Teutons were treated
liberally to the new Russian gas 'Shell.
The Austrian fire was suddenly
silenced. The Russians, pushing for-
ward, found the trenches tenanted
only by dead, grimly grotesque fig
hat Odessa, Russia; Sept. 10. -The
the value of enemy ships seized in Greek
er-: ports is ten million roubles.
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ores lying or leaning, evidently killed
instantly, by the fumes of the gas.
The number of Austrians who thus
perished is several hundred.
Thursday morning there wa; a live -
hour artillery preparation, By two
o'clock in the afternoon three lines of
Teuton trenches had been captured..,
along a front of 20 miles. Three
thousand prisoner., runny of thorn
Germans, have arrived at Lutzk.
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