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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-9-21, Page 7THIRD GERMAN LINE IS SMASHED BY ME ' MESH Baig's Troops Pierce, Shatter and Occupy the Enormous. Thiep- val-Combles Barrier. London, Sept. 15. -The British tore wide open the enormous Thiepval- l Combles. salient. In a twelve-hour battle on the eight -mile front from 5 Thiepval to Ginchy, in the face of twelve hundred of the Kaiser's most powerful guns -150 to a mile --they j stormed, pierced, shattered and then ! .occupied that stretch of the German; front north of the Somme which; hitherto had acted as a block to their; advance on Gambles and Bapaume.' The barrier broken down, Sir Douglas ! Haig's troops pushed considerably he -I gond it to the north-east, carrying the ; menace of the Somme drive almost as ominously close to Bapaume as it is to t Combles and Peronne. The end of the fighting saw the! British in possession of practically all the high ground between Combles and the Albert-Pozieres-Bapaume highway, Three villages-Flers, Mar- tinpuich and Coureellette-and High Wood, were completely captured, as was the greater part of Bouleaux Wood. The powerful German redoubt called "Wunderwerk" (Wonder work),1 because of its supposed impregnabil-s ity, was taken by storm in the turning , of the salient's tip near Thiepval, More than 2,300 prisoners were take en, including 65 officers. The day was the most successful for the British since the initial phase of the Somme battle. For three days 'their infantry had enjoyed compare tive rest, while the artillery paved the way for the new crush. French Co-operated. closer, The French War Office an- nounces that General Foch's troops took a system of German trenches 00 metres deep north of Le frieze farm, which, fell into their hands yes-' terday. The British took by storm a group of German trenches south of Rancourt, two miles from Peronne. South of the Somme they captured three Teuton trenehes near the vil- lage of Berny-on-Santerre, taking 200 prisoners. Apart from the results scored, the resumption of the British part in the Somme drive was remarkable for two features. Never before has an attack been marked by such close and successful co-operation by the "eyes of the army," the aviators. The clash of the infantry' legions on the blood- soaked ground was accompanied by a battle royal in the air. The British fliers were met by a cordon of Teuton aviators, and two air fleets vieing with one another in daring, tenacity and skill. The British, according to the night report .from headquarters, proved their superiority. Thirteen German machines were destroyed; nine others were brought down in a. damaged condition. The British lost four. Cheered as They Charged. The second spectacular feature of the battle was the introduction by the British for the first time of a new type of armored motor car, whose powerful traction enables it to cross trenches and shell craters as if going d. A number. of The French, though not launching an attack on a large front, worked band -in -hand with the British in drawing the ring around Gambles still; over smooth group the• -e new "wonder machines" whir- red into the battle with the infantry and in the midst of the hail of shell the men cheered as they charged. TAKE POINCARE'S THANKS TA3f;E N0 PRISONERS TO BRITISH KING. ORDER TO GERMA Markets OfThe World Toronto, Sept. 19, -Manitoba wheat No. 1 Northern, $1.6511 ; No. 2 Northern. $1.631 ; No. 3 Northern. $1.601 ; No, 4 wheat, $1.551. track Bay �(ports. Manitoba oats -No. 2 O.YY., 56hc : NQ. 3 C.W , 5513 ; extra No. 1 feed, 5514 : No. 1 feed, 550, track Bay ports. American corn ---No. 3 yellow, 9210. track Toronto. Ontario oats -New, No, 2 white. 51 to 53c ; No. 8 white. 50 to 520. according to freights outside, Ont "HELL" MACHINE. OF TRE BRITISH Latest Device in Warfare is Winner Offensively and Defensively. aria wheat--•Iwew ere 1`l0 2 L d n Se e yell 121 No. e i $.i 21 t Standard gives the following details the new armored cars used by the a r png 51.33 to 51.35 No 1 ommrrcial $1.2r, Q. 2 eornunez•cia , $1. 4 • No. 3 commercial. $1.17 to $1.20. of •h according to freights outside. British in the west: Fe.4 -No. 2, $2.00 to $2.10; according fr glztsR utide. i 1 °`Britain' feed, 80 to sec nomtnul according to" nothing more nor less than a huge f tnBarley-Malting,80 to S7c nominal •s latest weapon of war i5 reiz;hts outside. i land shipfully armored b le u y and capable freights outside, t f travelling at fair speed over the 1tyi:--No. 2, new. $1.13 to $i.ls , No. shell -battered and cratered terrain of 1 commercial, nominal, according xo a Picardy. Designed, as they are, to rel rhes outside. Manitoba flour -First patents. In jute, traverse the most difficult country $8.10 ; str'ongcpbakers', in jute basis, j and to sweep away all obstacles in 37.90, Toronto. e their path, they naturally are of fair, Ontario flour ---New winter. according; lylarge .size, with caterpillar wheels to sample. $41.'25, in bags, track; Toronto. prompt a' npment ; new, according to constructed to cover the widest trench Buckwheat -:nominal, according to of sample. 16.2,, boric seaboard. prompt or shell hole and to enable the vehicle shipment iai infect} -Car lots, de1ivered ISIontreal to taekle almost any depot of mire, f eights. buss included - I;ran. per tan. Their ere�vs ars prof@;ted lay varying $-a • shorts, per ton, $29 . mudd}znKs, numbers of armored 1 ve•• ton. $30 ; good feed flour. per bag.' pates,, any one $-. q Which LS impervious to machine 4 9 „ f 1 h p. achy ay vrw, Per tun. $10 0' . 1 , o, per ton. $9 to $9.50. track Toronto. gun or rifle fire as well as shrapnel Straw -Car lots. per ton, el' to $s, bullets, and it is asserted that only a truck Toronto. I direct hit from a of lar e calibre gun g country proctnce--wi5o1e5leae, could put one of these monsters out Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 30 to 32c ' of commission. 1 inferior, 24 irk 2we : rreamery prints. 35 "V bile from a defensive point of tQ 3741: sollcls. 3•i tQ 3541. ,. view they are almost erfeet their WITHDRAWAL TO IN NER LINE OF DODAI, CAERAI AND LAM German "Straightening of the Front" in Western Theatre Ex- pected to be Forced at Once. A despatch from Paris says: By its victories last week the French of- fensive has achieved what the Ger- mans asserted was impossible. It has driven a wedge right through the ore; iginal German front, has definitely "broken the line" of boasted impreg-' nable fortifications stretching across France from beyond the north-west- ern frontier to the limits of Switzer- land. The village of Bauchavesnes and i'Abbe Wood farm beyond it were clearly behind the rows of trenches which aerial observation showed to be; barring the French advance when the Somme offensive began. That under the menace of the onrushing French tide the Germans have hastily eon- strueted other lines still further in the , rear of the lost positions does not dee tract from the moral value of the achievement that filled the battle - weary troops with enthusiasm. Tremendous as is the moral value of the latest success, its strategic, E,,gv--TNc•w laid, 84 to 30e do.. o3 iI p , touts, 3S to 405.. I otfui.r e� qualities are even superior, - .••^•---^,..^• Ieressrd poultry --Chickens, 25 to 27e ; fowl, 18 to 2041 ; ducks, iS to 20r. I �- a cleared a re c effects are even more important still. Highroad No. 37 of the great arteries feeding the German front has been cut between Bapaume and Peronne, and by their advance beyond Hill 10 the French now menace directly and already sweep with their artillery the main road from Paris to Lille via Cambrai, the loss of which is expected to force the German high command to consider seriously the necessity of a withdrawal to the inner line, Douai, Gambrel, Leon, that famous "short- ening of the front" that is expected here to mark the beginning of the end. Of more immediate value is that Peronne is now under French fire from the north, west, and south, which cuts it from all communica- tions except along communication trenches or by dangerous night trans- port. rans ort p Now instead of being "before Per- onne," the French are at its very gates. and when they have trench h POSITIONS l.15e poultry• --Chickens. 17 to 180 , of the enemy or have forced the sur- All � y ft TAKEN fowl 14 to 165 • ducks, 13 to 15r twins, 211 to 211e : triplets, 211 to 22c• alit.', these land ships..'tanks,' as the BY RO I� �Ay `' T1 �" Aae31i�A Cheese-New.-lazge. 211 ise, 22e ; ` vivors into the shelter of their dug- Holley-Tbctra tine rivality. 21 -Ib. tine Tommin5 r n ' 1°� Y 13 tib 1' t 125 10 lb prefer to tall them -have $� � �t o e ; 5- . flus, o ,c ; .; tins. 112 to 12e ; Go -ib., 11 to 111e. another little surprise in -dare for the Comb licrney, select, $2.40 to 33.75 ; No. i beaten enemy, about which perhaps 2, $2 t $2 25 C`Qlrululbi:i hose ,� r b.l $2 ' Nr*tl• Bruns.' "M g , mare. nick, c•0biers, Tarr babe' S2.3:,, • a3t of the teat enineering Mentis--'Build-pir>ked, $5.10: prir3les,; works in llritain can claim a share in ' 415• !the production of these armored ears. , They are built in parts at different Smoked meats -Hams. mec}iunt. 2i tQ factorio' in order to preserve the 26c • do.. o heavy, eavy 20 to 23e • rousted o,, Sot"Int of their ran�trlletlatl ave they 0 Potatoes'- tintrrioe, $" "5: British' it were wise not to sa: Provisions -wholesale. 1 35' to 27e t real:Iast bacon,' ''2S to 27r : , backs. plain, 20 to 27c ; boneless, 2s to are then a€semlllecl at a central fu- mes. tory under the supervision of experts nettled or dried cured meat,. 1 cent' of the armored car division." less than cured Smoker} meats -Long cle.zr bca.•on. 18' Bali Caine, in a special article, says to 181e per lb. ' he has bee: told that if the allies had Lard -Pure Lard, tierces. 17 to 171e : tubs, 17$ to 171e ; pails. 17O to 1,,1... ` ",OW aatnnkra" the war would be over Compound. 13.1 to 133e. ; in a month. # Other writers say that the "tanks„ NS p smash trees and other like obstacles Montreal Sept. 19.--•Oats-(Janadian Soldiers Instructed to Despatch Them With Bayonet. A despatch to New York says; Frain official British sources The New York Times received on Tuesday the translation of a letter found on a German prisoner captured in the bat- tle of the Somme. The prisoner, writing to his family in Stuttgart, said that the Germans had received or- ders "to take no prisoners, but to despatch them with the bayonet." With the translation came a photo- graph of the original letter, which was addressed to "Karl Koch and family, Kaltenal, near Stuttgart." A part of the letter, as officially translated, follows: "And now we had three clays' rest, and I could get nothing at all to drink except costly wine. It is very dis- agreeable to us that we are obliged to go through it once again; you can- not conceive it. So many of our com- rades are missing, who have fallen or were wounded during the week, and now we are obliged to go through it once more. Oh dear! Here we have proper Englishmen against us, and have orders to take no prisoners, but to despatch them all with the bayon- et, which I would not be sorry -to do. But they are always getting more prisoners from us, and what do they do with them?" SIX MONTHS GIVEN TO U. S. DISTURBER. A despatch from Montreal says: For interfering with recruiting on Craig Street, Arthur Holland, of Os- wego, . N.Y., was sentenced by Judge Lanctot on Wednesday to six months in jail or a fine of $50, this being the first case here under the new Order - in -Council. MINNESOTA GETS $1,250,000 FROM J. J. HILL ESTATE. A despatch from St. Paul, Minn., says: Minnesota will receive approxi- mately $1,250,000 as an inheritance. tax from the estate of James J. Hill. It will be the largest in the history. of the State. Probate Court officials of Ramsey county so declared on Tues- day. A despatch from London says: President Foincare telegraphed King western l0 2 601c • d+, No 3 Goo • to their progress, including wire en- s'1'oatreal M arketa George in reference to his award of extra No. 1 teed Gua No "3 loc11'whitr ' tanglements, with the greatest ease. 5415. Flout feed. the Military Cross to the town of idore Than Nine Hundred Prisoners and, Much War Matwridi Captured in Transylvania. London, Sept. 17. -The capture of five Austrian positions by the Rou- manians operating in the Transylvan- Ian Alps was announced by the Bu- charest War Office to -night. Ten of- ficers and 900 men were taken prison- ers. The statement says; "On the north-western front we oc- cupied Sentered, Alinas, Cohalm and Faagarae. We took 910 prisoners, in - eluding ten officers, and captured some war material. In the Strecu valley. Bran Hill was captured by us. 'i'4 a took Til prisoners. Our bat- teries sank two munitions barges near the mouth of Lora '.River. "In the Dobrudja there were en- gagements with advanced detach- ments of the enemy." Spring wheat patents, firsts $8.70: lo:. seconds, $N.20; Tll,y carry both large and small guns, 1 Verdun: ! strong bakers'. $8 ; Winter potents, weigh over 400 ton: , and have a speed ` 5 of five miles an hour. with pride this high testimony of o1'er,-RurrelK S 4 bu to $5 5 "bzR of Rolled - "The French army has received choice se 76 sirateht rollers. $..10 to i 34 d ., i h $3 4V to S3 t1 Roll �d , esteem given by the august sovereign , lbs., 32.8g0 to 82.90.. Mtllfced-risco. $26 : of a great friendly allied country." ss to'34QS13as ti�d'ain2 pei"oil car tots The King in reply, said: 1 $13 to $14, Cheese -Finest westerns 21 a . , . "It was a real pleasure for me . to to 2Ilo., do., east.,rns. 20;1" to ^ole. a1iut- ter-t.holeest creamers•, 3Ge serondq, award the Military Cross to the 3' Eggs -Fresh, 45 t co 2 1 t d ntatoes-per bag', car lots. $1.60 to u0. Q c : ec r , heroic town of Verdun, whose name No. 1 stark, 3441: 10 L. 30r ever shall evoke ineffaceable recollec- tions of victory in her glorious re- ! sistance against the stubborn and re- iterated attacks of the common en- emy." CANADIAN CHAPLAINS WERE BADLY WOUNDED. A despatch from London says: In- formation received by the Canadian _ Red Cross show the injuries received t Mi ne no s Npt.1 }10.d heat, e Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg. Sept. 19. ---Cash :'rices • Wheat, - No. 1 Northern, 31.581 ; No. 2 Northern, 31.66 ; No. 3 Northern, $11531 ; Cleaned LT .. No 4 $1474 • No 5 $1 38} • No 6, p MDUET FARM Danube Trench in Old German First Line Near Thiepval $1.161x': feed $1.031. flats. No. 3 C.W. 50e No. 3 C �v.. 49c ; extra No. i With the British Army in France, teed 49c • No 1 481e • No 2 484c Sept 1.7, via London, Monday, Sept. 13 1 h 3 8Ge No 4 8341 jot d ur ey. 'o re e e 1S -The British to-d<'ly took Mouciuet $1,85 ; No. 2 C. W., $1.sr,. 76c : feed, 76e. Flax, No. 1 N. W. C., 'United States .. arkets. , em er, , o. lar , . , Q. ish battle line, where a garrison of on the battlefield by Father O Gor- > Northern,- $1.13@ to $l.G6i! ;. No. 2, Germans and their machine guns man, of Ottawa, to b@ serious. His Northern, $1.591 to $1.643. Corn. No, 3 farm. On two former occasions they had been on the premises, but were unable to remain there. It was a strong point on the right cf the Brise • tiellow, R2 to 8341. Oats, No. 3 white, seemed proof against shellfire, says injuries consist of a fractured femur 423 to 48c. Flour unchanged, Bran, Frederick Palliser. and wounds in his left arm and hip. $20. Duluth, $S pt. 19, -Wheat. No. 1 hard, They had the usual deep cellars and The chaplain is in the hospital at Ca- $1.605 ; No, 1 Northern, 31.645 to 31,655;runways under ground and driven pliers. Col. Steacy has no information No. 2 Northern, $1.eie to $1,02l ; Sep- from one exit by shellfire they would tember, r lye bid. hinseeci on track as to how the chaplain received his and to arrive, $2.06: September, $2.00 emerge from another. The British got wounds. Major G. W. Wood, the asked ; October, 32.052 bid ; November, entirely- around their burrows and other Canadian chaplain who was $2.063- asked. ; December, 3.051: May, called down the celIar stairs for them to surrender. The Germans thought that a counter-attack would come to their assistance as before. The Brit- 8 ritt 8.35 to $9.10 ; good heavy steers, $8. D0 ish however assured them that none 2.09 asked. wounded last week, is an inmate of the hospital at Boulogne with a gun- Live Stock Markets. shot wound in the leg. NO RICE FOR KAISER FROM SWITZERLAND. A despatch from Paris says: The Swiss export commission has refused a personal request of the Kaiser to furnish his table with rice. Baron and med.,' each, $40.00 to $60.00 von Romberg, the German Minister at springers, $50.00 to $90.00 ; light ewes, $7 60 to $S.00 ; sheep, heavy, $4.60 to Berne, asked the Swiss Government $5.35 ; spring lamb. choice, $10.60 to to authorize the' shipment of 200 $1o.s6 ; calves, good to choice, $io.5o to pounds of rice for the consumption of hogs, ted and wa teed. 2 25 to $12.35 the Emperor and his family, but the a ., f eil�gh $a i 4o cars. 312.50 to $12.60 Toronto, Sept. 19 -Choice heavy steers. to 8$2.10 ; butchers' cattle, good, $7.60 would come, as they had the trench! to $S.OD ; do., medium, $7.10 to $7:36: all th 'a round the farm to !r VIEWS CALLED WONDERS New Type of Armored Car in Use on the Somme Front. • A despatch from Loudon says : Tho reference in the official statement issued by the War Office on Friday to a new type of armored car, is the first official mention of a development which has been. much whispered about recently in army circles. Those who have seen the new vehicles refer to them as "tanks," while the soldiers who have been handling them have given them the nick -name of "Willies." The object which the designers sought to obtain was to render a heavily armored motor car capable of being operated in the shell -torn and roadless wilderness of trenches, where It is evi- dent a vehicle mounted on ordinary wheels could not be used. Although no details of the car's construction have been published, the Times says : "Our inventors have not hesitated boldly to tread unbeaten paths. We may imagine the feelings of German infantry in shell battered trenches when in the uncertain light of dawn they saw advancing upon them an are ray of unearthly monsters ee ed in steel, spitting fire and erawling laber- ionsly. but ceaselessly over trcnehos. barbed wire and ellen craters. -1' KING'S SECOND SON INVALIDED HOME.. London, Sept. 17.----O iiicial announce. ment was made to -day that Prince Al. best, second sten of King George, has been invalided home because of severe abdominal trouble. The Prince is doing well at Winde er C'astle, but it will be same time before he will be able to return to duty. Prince Albert is a midshipman, in the navy. He has suffered front gastric disorders for some time. Last April he had tel un- dergo a. course of treatment. in Aug• ust, 1914, he was operated on for ep- i pendicitis. T._. -..,-- KING CONGRATULATES HAIG ON SUCCESS. Louden. Sept. 17,• ---King Gecrge sent !the -following message to General Sir Douglas Haig. the British commander in France : "I congratulate you and my brave troops on the brilliant suc- cess ue cess just achieved. I have never doubted that complete victory will ul timately crown our efforts, and the splendid results of the fighting yew,ter clay confirmed this view. prevent; do., common, $6.00 to $6.25 ; butchers' e y 1 p , bulls, choice, $7.25 to $7.60 ; do., good their exit or aid from coming to them. RSS } GEi iia RAL SCAPES bulls 56.40 to $6.50 do rough bulls Stdli the Germans refused to yield and d" • $4.50' to $5.00 ; butchers , cows, choice, the final result of this grim colloquy $6.50 to $6.85 ; do., good, 36.00 to 36.25 ; do medium $5.50 to $5.85 • stockers was that the British blew in all the 700 to 350 lbs., $6.00 to $6.6U ; choice 0ellar doors. But such persistent dig - feeders, dehorned, $6.30 to $7.00 ; can- ners and cutters, $3.50 to $4.50 ; Milkers, choice, each, $70.00 to 390.00 ; do., com. are not certain but they had Some un- derground a derground passage for escape. The British also cleaned up the Dan- ube trench in the old German first line near Thiepval, which is the hinge of ' the Somme battle line. As happened before and after the fierce general at- tack along the whole front, the suc- ceeding uc ceeding days were spent in rectifying export commission, being tied by an agreement with the allies was unable to comply with the request. DICKENS' GRANDSON IS KILLED IN ACTION. • A despatch from London says: Major Cedric Charles Dickene, grand- son of Charles Dickens, was killed in action 1n France, Monday. Painless dentistry is the art of drawing it mild. GIANT RUSSIAN AEROPLANES DESTROY 8 GERMAN MACHINES A An Enemy Seaplane Station Was Successfully Bombed on Lake Angern, in the Gulf of Riga. A Reuter despatch from Petrograd to London says that four giant Rus- elan, aeroplanes of the Mueometz type bombarded a German seaplane. station on Lake Angern, in the, Gulf of Riga, where seventeen Seaplanes of various sizes" and models were dis- cerned. The' Russians dropped. 78 bombs, with.resultant fire and smoke, which soon concealed the seaplane sheds. German machines attacked the Ruse' slan machines, but were soon put to flight with machine guns. During the bombing and air fight not less than eight German machines were destroy- ed: or put out of action. The Rus- sian aeroplanes returned safely not- withstanding they were shelled by anti-aircraft guns. On a previous occasion, the corre- spondent says, one Murometz ma- s 'have been mentioned recently in of - chine, with -a crew of five, routed sev- on. Thursday beat the world's height ficial despatches, has been killed in. en German seaplanes which attacked record, rising 6,300 metres (morel action, according to the"Vossische it. than 20,000 feet). „ f Zeitung. O., .O. . Montreal, Sept. 19. -Choice steers, 37.75 to 38 ; fair at $6.75 to $7.60 and common at 35.75 to $6.25 while choice the line and cleaning up any strong butchers' cows brought $6.50 to 36.75, points that stili held out. good, from 35.25 to 37 per$ cwt,$cannaing Talking with officers Of corps en - bulls cattle, 34.50 to 34.90, and cows at $3.75 gagtd in the fighting of the last three to 34.25. Ontario lambs at $10.50 to 311, days, they estimate the losses from two and Quebec stock at $9.75 to $lo, while to one to five to one for tqie Germans' sheep brought from $6.75 to $7.50 per cwt. Choice calves, 9 to 10o., and the as against those of the British. In ane lower grades at from 4 to Sc per ib., sector the ratio was estimated at as live weight. Selected hogs, $12.25 to high as eight to one. The superior 312.40 and the lower grades at 310.25 to g p 312 per cwt., weighed off cars. voluine of the British shell fire, now that the Germans are forced into the FROMAUSTRIAN PRISON CAMP Great Rejoicing Throughout Czar's Kingdom Over Return of One of Bravest Officers in Army. • TWO BRITISH GENERALS KILLED AT THE FRONT. A despatch from London says: Two brigadier -generals' have been killed in action, according to the latest casae alty lists printed here -Henry Fred- erick Hugh Clifford and Louis Mur- ray Phillpotts. ALL BELGIAN MALES TO GO TO GERMANY. A despatch. from Havre says: Gen- eral von Bissing, Military Governor of Belgium, is sending to Germany all Belgian males between the ages of 18 and 35. Recently 1,200 were taken from Liege. WORLD'S HEIGHT RECORD IS AGAIN, EXCEEDED. A despatch from Turin, Italy, says: Aviator .Repmi, withtwo passenger open, bas a telling effect. ROUMANIAN GENERAL DROWNED IN DANUBE. Military Police Start Drive as Horses Go to the Post. A despatch from Berlin says: Ac- cording to reports from Sofia, says an Overseas News Agency announce- ment on Wednesday, General Bessara- besku, commander of the recently; captured Roumanian fortress of Ter tukai, attempted to escape in a boat after the fall of the last fortification. The boat carrying him was sunk by Bulgarian artillery, the advices state, and the General was drowned in the Danube. ,tl BEST GERMAN AIRMAN KILLED IN ACTION.; A despatch from Amsterdam says: The German. lieutenant, Fahlbusch, whose successful exploitsin the air A despatch from Petrograd says: Gen. Korniloff, who was captured at Dukla Pass in April, 1915, has reach- ed Kieff after escaping from an Aus- trian prison camp at Essek. Gen. Korniloff was kept prisoner for 17 months. He finally managed to procure a private's uniform, and in these clothes, with the aid of a Czech soldier, contrived to be sent out with, a working party. Taking advantage of the momentary inatten- tion 'of the guard they slipped away, boarded a train and travelled uxihin- dered to Karashevish, Here they obtained civilian clothing and contin- ued their journey afoot, helped by a perfect knowledge of German. The General's flight was soon dis- covered, and a large reward was of- fered for his recapture. It was too dangerous to travel except by night. In the day time they hid in the woods ;and suffered extreme hunger for days together, subsisting on berries. One day the soldier ventured into a village lin quest of food. He was surrounded by gendarmes and shot in attempting `to escape. Korniloff, who was rapidly ap- proaching complete exhaustion, con- tinued his journey alone. On the 26th day after his escape he met a party of Roumanian shepherds, who guided him across the Russian frontier. There is great rejoicing throughout Russia over Korniloff's return. His reputation for bravery is unexcelled by that of any other officer in the Russian army. FOOD . RIOTS IN HAMBURG, ANGRY WOMEN RAID SHOPS "Down With the Junkers 1" "Down With People's Torturers !" Cried the Mob. An Amsterdam: despatch to the Ex- change Telegraph Company, London, says: - "Serious food riots occurred at Hamburg ;Saturday evening. Accord- ing to Berlin reports, a mob of angry women raided shops which had been closed owing to a shortage of meat and vegetables, while another crowd demonstrated before the Town Hall shouting: `Down with the junkers!' 'Down with the people's torturers!' "Thirty-seven women were arrest- ed, Two policemen: were badly in- jured by stones thrown from win- dows."