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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-10-12, Page 3r RECRUITS IN SEPTEMBER 'GERMANS MADE I Markets Of, The World LESS THAN THE WASTAGE ; UEACE OFFER' $readstuffs, Toronto, Oct, 10: Manitoba wheat ---- :New, No. 1.Northern, $1.781/4; No, 2 Withdrawal From Belgium and . Northern, $1.75% • N'o, 8 Northern, Eight Thousand Canadian Soldiers Have Returned From. the /2, Front and.Have Been Discharged. Payment of Indemnity A despatch from Ottawa says: The falling off in recruiting during the past two or three months, and the imperative need of systematic method of adjusting the supply of mien to meet the calla both of war and of industry, call for prompt action by Sir Thomas Tait and his fellow -direc- tors. Sir Thomas, in co-operation with the officials of the Militia De- partment and of other departments of State, is now preparing detailed re- commendations for the consideration of the board. It may be noted that the recruiting total of 6,351 for last month fell very considerably short of wastage at the front during September. Consider- ing the number of casualties, and the comparatively large number of mere who are now being weeded out of the battalions proceeding overseas through the final medical inspection prior to leaving Canada, it is safe to say that there are fewer men actually in the expeditionary ranks now than there were at the beginning of Au- gust. Montreal enlistments for the fort- night ending September 30 are given as 856, nearly double the enlist - ment of any other district; British. Columbia is second with 434, and To- ronto third with 367. Other districts show: London, 1S7; Kingston -Ottawa, 849; Quebec, 96; Maritime Provinces, 228; Manitoba -Saskatchewan, 235;. Alberta, 391. The aggregate enlistment to the end of the month was 365,867, to which Toronto district has contributed 82,880; Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 73,895; Kingston -Ottawa, 38,535; British Columbia, 35,871; Alberta,. 33,147; Maritime Provinces,. 333,074; London, 30,500, and Quebec, 7,206. About eight thousand soldiers have so far returned to Canada from the front and have been dis- charged as unfit for further active service. Most of these have been in- capacitated by wounds, and will re- ceive pensions for the rest of their lives. In England there are several thousand more members. of the Cana- dian force in hospitals who will prob- ably never be able to go back to the front, and who will be sent to Canada for discharge as soon as they are suf- ficiently convalescent, By the end of the present year Canada's pension roll will probably be well over the ten thousand mark. FOE GARRISONS SUFFER TERRIBLY Activity of British Planes is Terrorizing the German Soldiers. A despatch from London says: The Germans garrisoning Baucourt 1'Ab- baye and Le Sars suffered terribly from the British shelling of those villages in the past few days.eAccord- ing to some prisoners, the Germans lost three-fourths of their men, A correspondent at the British front telegraphs: "Prisoners declare that the ever-in- creasing activity of the British aero- planes in attacking German infantry columns inspires terror behind the German lines. There was a wild scene at the railroad station at Cerebral, an important junction far behind the German trenches, when British aero- planes attacked. "The hard-pressed German infantry in the trenches had been shouting for help, and troop trains, ammunition trains and transports of all. sorts fill- ed the yards at Cambral. They pre- sented a fair target for the British aeroplanes that suddenly appeared out of a clear sky. One heavy bomb blew up an ammunition train with a ter- rific explosion, the second hit the en- gine and the third struck a troop train. A fourth landed in the centre of a group of detraining troops. "Then the aeroplane dropped with- in machine gun range and peppered a transport train alongside the rail- way and the groups of panicstricken soldiers. Great damage was done and the enemy lines of communication were disorganized." AUSTRIA'S EMPEROR CONFINED TO HIS BED. A despatch from London says: A report reaching Vienna from Geneva, as forwarded to London by the Ex- change Telegraph Company, says that Emperor. Francis Joseph is, confined to his bed with bronchitis and that his condition is causing anxiety. IMO BRITISH REGAIN ALL EAUCOURT French Carry a Powerful Line of Field Fortifi- cations. A despatch from London says: With the French and British before the German fourth line after more than two months of almost continu- ous fighting, the Autumn storms, far •whieh Picardy is famous, have brought a temporary lull in the oper- ations on the Somme. Rain fell for the greater part of Wednesday, and it was only between showers that the allied artillery could carry on its "softening" process against the new Line of defences which the infantry now face. There were scattered engagements of a violent, but local'character. During the night the British regained complete posses- sion of Eaucourt L'Abbaye, while the French carried a powerful Iine of field fortifications extending from a point near Morval to St. Pierre -St. Vaast Wood. During the day the French advanced still farthed east of Morval. The Germans garrisoning Eaucourt L'Abbaye and Le Sars suffered ter- ribly from the British shelling of those villages in the past few days. According to some prisoners the Ger- mans lost three-fourths of their men. 30,000 TONS OF SUGAR SOLD TO GREAT BRITAIN. A despatch from New York says: Negotiations for what is said to be a record-breaking single transaction in refined sugar with any one nation were completed on Wednesday by the Federal Sugar Refining Company, which announced the sale of 30,000 tons to a foreign Government, prob- ably Great Britain. The purchase in- volves about $3,500,000 and shipments are to be made in January, February and March. Immediate shipments of 18,500 tons to the British commission, Greece and France, were also an- nounced by the Federal Company. BRITISH HAVE TAKEN 26,735 AND SMASHED 29 DIVISIONS The Fruits of Somme Advance" Set Forth Officially—Enemy's Reserves are Used Up. A • despatch from London says: An official statement issued gives details of the' fighting on the Somme front after the advance of Sept. 15, describ- ing the capture of villages, including Jombles, Gueudecourt and Thiepval, and proceeds:. "These victories brought our front line at more than one point within a mile of ,the German fourth position West of the Bapaume-Transloy-road." The statement continues: "The en- emy has fought stubbornly to ,check our- adv�,ance, and•since. Sept.. 15 seven new divisions have been brought against us and five •against.. the French. The. . severe and prolonged struggle demanded on the part of our 1fr*oops very great determination and dourage. "At the end of September the sit - station may be summarized as fol- lows: Since the opening of the battle en July 1 we have taken 26,736 pris- oners; and engaged 38 German divi- slons, of which .29 (about 350,000 men)' have been' withdrawn exhausted' or broken. We hold the half moon upland south of the Ancre, occupy every height of importance, and so have direct observation ground to the east and north-east. The enemy has fallen back upon a fourth line behind a low ridge just west of the Bapaume- Transloy road. "The importance of the three months' offensive is not to be judged by the distance advanced or the num- ber of enemy trench lines taken. It must be looked for in the effect upon the enemy's strength:in numbers, ma- terial and morale. ,The enemy has used up his reserves in repeated, cost- ly and unsuccessful counter-attacks without causing our allies or ourselves to relax our steady, methodical pres- sure. "In this action troops .from every part of, the British Empire and Brit- ish Islands have been' engaged. All behaved with' discipline and resolu- tion of'veterans. Our aircraft have shown in the highest degree the' spirit of the offensive. They' have, patrolled , regularly far behind the enemy's lines and have fought many battles in the air with hostile machines and many with enemy troops on the ground. For every enemy machine that succeeds •s in crossing our front, it isafe to say two hundred British machines cross"' the enemy's front." Part of Offer.. The London correspondent of the New York Tribune cables as. follows: German agents, acting through King Albert of the Belgians, suggested re- cently definite terms to the allies re- garding Belgium, Serbia and Lor- raine. This I learn from excellent au- thority; The proposal included the NQTABLE DECLINE IN ACCURACY OF GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORTS $1.70x No. 4 weat, $1.62%, track Reasonably Correct Formerly, They Are Now Notoriously False. Bay ports. Old crop trading 2e above new crap. in What They Relate. Manitoba oats—No, 2 C.W., 60%.e; No. 3 C.W., 60c; extra No. 1 feed, 60c; No. 1 feed, Eco track Bay ports. A despatch from London says;' "One of the most striking features American corn 'No, 8 yellow, 98e, p of the present phase of the war is track Toronto. London will continue to be visited by Ontario oats—No. 2 white, 54 to Zeppelins despite the recent losses i the notable decline in the accuracy of 56c• No. 3 white, 53 to 55c, according the official German reports, which to freights outside. and the great improvement in the Ontario wheat—New,, over a considerable period, I am in - No. 2 Winter, capital air defences. This opinion r dined to believe, were reasonably ac- withdrawal of the Gerrnans from Bel- per car lot, $1.50 bo $1.52, according to was expressed to the Associated i curate, Now they are evidently writ- freights outside. Old Drop—No, 1 press on Wednesday by the Earl of i ten for home and neutral consump- gium, the payment of an indemnity commercial, $1,44 to $1,47' No. 2 Derby, who said: a tion•, they are notoriously false in for destruction due to military occu- commercial, $1,89 to $1,42; No. 3 come potion, the retirement of the Kaiser's rnerical, $1.31 to $1.34, according to "Raids will continue for the offset i what they relate and strikingly stent - forces from Serbia 'without an in- freights outside, an the German people, who have been! ficant in what they minimize or con- demnity, and the return of Lorraine Peas—No, 2, $2.15 to $2,26, accord- taught that Zeppelins, like Wexner -seal. The best example of this is ing to freights outside. Ines, could bringEngto her v to France. Barley. Malting, 90 to 92c• feede85 g their delay in admitting the fall of Although the offer can hardly be to 87c, according to freights outsid. knees.Hence the ridiculous com- i Thiepval and Combles. --85e, nominal, according muniques and newspaper articles in "The Germans absolutely believed considered a formal one, it is of an Buckwheat- Germany representing that England Thiepval to be impregnable and never was terrorized and London in flames. made the slightest arrangements for I will not say that London is the best withdrawal, and when the British times by German agents, Last spring Manitoba flour :First patents, in defended of the allied capitals, but I made their final assault a regiment jute bags, $9.30; second patents, in can assert that there has been a vast.: which had asked the privilege of hold - the most ambitious of these efforts jute bags, $8,80; strong bakers', in improvement, whieh means that other' in the lace withot relief, fought were made, but the Belgian King jute bags, $8,60, Toronto. I g P , g spurned these offers repeatedly, de -I Ontario flour--Newr,Winter, accord- spite the fact that considerable pres- ing to sample, $7.25, in bags, track sure was brought to bear by the Ger.' Toronto, prompt shipment mans on various parts of his country, r Tillfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont - It is likely that nothing will come real frieghts, bags included—Bran, 1 western campaign, which, he declared, l Under-Secretary of War, said it was of this latest offer, But it is inter- middling'14,72,t37,' 29;shots liar gond feed substantialnseed good wether to showy impossible to make any prediction !a flour, per p ogress, and added: 1 with erten because it shows that the Ger-respect to that, Ger- mans are modifying their views about! Hay—New, per tan, $10 to $12; No. the advantages they hold in the mili- "2, Per ton, $9 to $9.50, track Toronto, calves. good to choice, $10.50 to $11.75; ' p tary occupation of neighboring .coun- S tries. official character and is more definite to freights outside. than previous overtures. King Al- Rye --No. 2, new, 31.18 to 31.20, ac- bert has been approached several cording to freights outside. Zeppelins will. be brought down when;; to a finish.,, they came again." i Asked about the possibility of the Lord Derby expressed keenest satis ; end of trench warfare, the Earl of satisfaction with the progress of the' Derby, who now holds the post. of BRITISH SPOILS track obs, per ton, $7 to $8, spring lambs, Choice, $10.10 to $10.40; � � M i IN UL k Toronto. _ * do„ medium, 39.40 to $9,60; hogs, fed u d Countr • Produce -Wholesale. and watered, 311.40, 311.65 to 311.76 da,OVER $200' 000 �0 1 weighed off cars, to 311,75, do, Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 34 to toile 310.90, 35c; inferior, 29 to 30c; creamery Montreal, Oct, 10, ---Choice steers," .,--,.- prints, 38 to 40c; solids, 37 to 88c.37.25 to 37.75; good, 36,50 to 37; meds `Show in is Satisfactory Beyond, Rom SOMME Eggs No. 1 storage, 3o to 36e, tum, $5.50 to 30 60, choice cows, 39 @ g fE� storage, selects, 87 to 38e; new -laid, ; to $6.50; good, 35,50 to 30; butehax ; t]le Highest lir?:peC- in cartoons, 43 to 45c; out of cartons,' bulls $5.50 to $7 • canner bulls 34.60 " --40 to 42e. Ito $5 Sheep, 6cito 6%,e lambs, Sark tations,. Twenty-nine Heavy Guns and _Dressed poultry—Chickens, 24 to to 10c. Calves milk fed, 6%c to 9c; o ac; fowl, 18 to 20e; ducks, 18 to 20e; grass fed, Se to 6,c.. Bogs, selects,. A despatch from Ottawa says: A Howitzers, Ninety-two squabs, per dozen, 34.00 to $4.50; tur- t lie to 113,ec; heavies and lights, 9e. i rovenue of well over 3200,000,000 is in keys, 30 to 35e; geese, Spring, 17 to . c prospectr Field Guns, 190. for the present fiscal year, Live poultry -Chickens, 17 to 18c; THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER. according to an estimate made public A despatch from London says: The fowl, 14 to 16c; ducks, 13 to 15c; tur- ; by Sir Thomas White. This will en- Gerai'naes on Friday delivered .numer- keys, 25 to 26e; geese, Spring, 15 to l Fights and Dies With a Fatalistic a able the Government to apply 350, - Cheese New, large, 22 to 22%c• 350, - Resignation. + 000,000 or more against the principal a groat part of the front north of the .twins, 22'.•cs to 23c; triplets, 23 to English observers who have been outlay on war account. The official Somme. Their artillery fire also is ° 2$ ,4q. campaigning with the Russian army returns for the first half of the fiscal becomingheavier,new supplies of am-Honey—Extrai _year, that is to say,u p to September PP � find quality, 2,� lb, say that the Russian soldier gets the , P P munition, having been brought up. De- tins, 18e; 6-1b. tins, 12%c; 10-1b„ 1136 slightest material and other returns ' 30, aro ne r r :•ailable and make, In spite their strenuous efforts, however, to 12c; 60 -ib., 11% to 12c. Comb for his services. He is a kindly, dumb, the opinio ea the Minister of Fin - the British and French lines are un-thoney, select, 32.50 to 32.75; No. 2, patient man, ready for anything, for anCe, a showing satisfactory beyond changed, except for some local ad- " 32.25 to 32.40. his religion, the Czar and native land. Oh anceso highest expectations of the bud. swim made by the French in the, Potatoes—Ontario, 31.75; British Re is not naturally a fighting man, get. The revenue of the Dominion Morval sector. Here Foch's troops ` Columbia Rose, per bag, $1.70 to g from all sources has reached a total havepressed further to the eastward, $1.75; British Columbia whites, per knows none of the glamor of glory, of 103 0 , bag, 31.75; New Brunswick Delawares, or of self-sacrifice, but fights and dies $ , 00,000, or 330,000,000 in ex - in the region of the Peronne-Bapaume'per bag, 31.70 to $1.80, with a ""fatalistic resignation. The cess of that for the first half of last highroad.1 Cabbages British Columbia, per highest reward that he can hope for . year. The total expenditure, which in - The report from General Haig's ton, 340. is an iron cross for bravery on the eludes an increase of interest of 34; headquarters contains an interestingi Beans—MarroKfat, 35.50 to $6; field. .• For rations he gets a quarter 500,000 upon war borrowings, is about handpicked, $5.50; primes, $5., pounds of he same as last g statement of the nuc r of artillery of a pound of tea five t year the hi her in - pieces and machine guns captured; sugar and a half -pound of soap a tereat charges being offset by reduc- sale. from the' Germans during the pro- ed meats—Hams, medium, month. Besides these he has two and tions - effected in public works and gress of the Franco -British offensive. `Smoked meatvy,H2mo, 3; ood,4 a half pounds of black bread and railways and canals expenditure. It to 26c; do., heavy, 22 to 23c; cooked, It says: "Between July 1st and Sept. ° 35 to 87c; rolls, 20 to 21c; breakfast three-quarters of a pound of meat a now seems certain that the total re - 3rd, besides large quantities of other , bacon, 25 to 27c; backs, plain, 26 to day. For smokes he is allowed two venue for the year will amount to at war material, we captured or recov- 27c; boneless, 28 to 29c. pounds a month of "Machorka," the least $210,000,000 or possibly $220; Dred from the Somme battlefield 29 Pickled ox dry cured meats, 1 cent chopped up roots of tobacco. 000, 000, heavy guns and heavy howitzers, 92 essed meats—Long clear bacon, 18 th;lan cured. field.guns and field howitzers,103 Cur trench artillery , to 18%c per lb; clear bellies, 18 to pieces and 397 ma-•18see• chine guns." I Lard—Pure lard, tierces, 17 to The allies.' position is everywhere' 17%c; tubs, 17V4 to 17%c; pails, 17% excellent, the line having been � to 17%c. Compound, 14 to 14%c. straightened out after the capture oft ous counter-attacks in strength along; Le. Combles and Thiepval, and, contrary Montreal Markets. to German reports, has been extended, Montreal, Oct. 10,—Corn—American. shortened. No. 2 yellow, 97 to 98c. Oats—Can- notadian Western, No. 2,. 62%c; do., No. 3, 61%c; extra No. 1 feed, 61%c; No. BRO 3 local white, 55e. Barley 1a Spring, way. feed, 89%c. Flour—Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 39.40; do.,sec-1 BULGAR LINES onds, $8.90- strong bakers',$8..70; HALF A ILL ON PRISONERS Winter patonts choice 39; trah rollers, 38 to $530; io„ in bags, 33.80 to 33.95. Rolled oats—Barrels, $6.45 Serbians Reach Position Within ! to 36.55; do., bag of 90 lbs. $3.10 to $3.20. Millfeed—Bran, $27; shorts, Six Miles of 1329; middlings, $31; mouillie, 334 to 1336. Hay—No. 2, per ton, car lots, $13. Cheese—Finest westerns, 21$1a%c; do., easterns, 21%e. Butter A despatch . from London says: —Choicest creamery, 38 to 881/2c; sec - Fighting on its home soil after , onds, 37 to 37efic, Eggs—Fresh, months of expatriation, the • reconsti- 1 45c; selected, 38c; No. 1 stock, 34c; tilted Serbian army is making steady ° car loo. ts, $1.25cto $1.40.toes—Per bag, Winnipeg Grain, Winnipeg, Oct. 10.—No. 1 northern, broken the Bulgarian first-line de -1.6977/3; No. 2 do., $1.66%; No, 3 do., fences on Kaloni, and are only six $1.61%; No. 4, $1.51%; No. 5, $1.47%; miles from the chief city of Southern No. 6, $1.32%; feed, $1.09%. Oats—. Serbia. Officially they are reported as No. 2 C.W., 54%c; No, 3 C.W., 53%c; crossing the Cerna River, near Do- extra No. 1 feed, 53c; No. 1 feed, broveni and Brod, and to have occu- 58%c; No. 2 feed, 52%c. Barley— pied the towns of Buf and Popli. • A Real. Recruit. , "I thought you told me you were on your way to enlist?" "I am," replied GERMAN eitOWN JEWELS FOR WAR PURPOSES. Plodding Pete. "I'm bryin" to enlist A despatch from Paris says: Em- peror William of Germany has turn - sympathy ler me large an' unsatisfied ed over all the royal appetite." Y gold plate and part of the crown jewels to the Im- ��— perial treasury to be converted into You may have a way of your own, funds to aid in the prosecution of the but you will not always have your own war, according to information reach - ling here. Monastir. progress towards Monastir. An Ex- change Telegraph despatch from Sa- lonica reports that the Serbians have ZEPPELIN WRECKED OFF DANISH COAST, No. 8, 93c; No. 4, 87%c; rejected, 78%c; feed, 78%c. Flax—No. 1 N. W.C., $2.24; No. 2 C. W., $2.21. United States Markets, TAKEN BY ALLIES IN 10 WEEKS Those Captured by the Roumanian and Salonica Armies Are Not Included. A despatch from Paris says: The from July • 1 to Sept. 18. The cap- Paris'Journal publishes a table of the tures of the Roumanian army and the prisoners and booty captured by the Salonica army are not included. The allies on the four principal fronts figures are: Guns. Guns. Prisoners. French . 145 - 729 33,699 British . 109 223 21,450 Russian . 841 1,580 402,471 Italian . 36 92 33,048 Total ... , ... .... 1,131 2,624 490,668 These figures were obtained from 432,564 and the Italians to 34,248, giv- the official communiques. ling a grand total of 534,727 prisoners From Sept. 18 to Oct. 4, according I taken on the western, eastern, and w—r Minneapolis, Oct 10.—Wheat—Day, to the communique, the French in-' southern fronts from July,when the A despatch:, from Esbjerg, Den- ember, $1.69% 'to $1,69'7/x; May, creased their total prisoners to 40,313, Somme offensive began, to the present mark, says: Fishermen who arrived $1.66i/�.. Cash—No. 1 hard, $1.763x; here on Friday report that at noon on No. 1 Northern $1.72%; No. 2 do,, the British ,,o 27,602, the Russians to i time. $1.67% to $1,72%, Corn—No. 3 , yet- ^^� Monday' they sighted a partly sub- low, 85 to 86c. Oats -No. 3 white,' -teas .� _ 7 merged Zeppelin ` thirty-five miles 44'4 to 45c, Flour—Unchanged Iai`• s north-west of the Island of Sylt, in Bran—$23 to $28.50. 1 ,e.''. a 4f t4, GAINS RUSSIANS the North Sea, off the coast of Duluth, "'Oct. 10.—Wheat--No. 1 Schleswig. Several German destroy. hard, $1.79;, No. ers and two large vessels were aux- $1.78; No,'2, do., $1.70 to $1.72; Dec - rounding ,1 Northern, $1.77 to the;Zeppelin,, the fishermen ember, $1.70. Linseed $2,.47 October, $2.45 asked; November, $2.4.4 6 said, in an attempt to keep her afloat. asked; December, .$2.44; May, $2.49 bid. WORLD'S RECORD FOR WHEAT. Live Stock Markets. 1000 -acre Field Gives Yield of 52 Toronto, Oct. 10. --Good heavy Bushels to Acre,, Threshed. , steers, $8.10 to $8.50; butchers' cattle, good, $7.60 to $7,85; do., medium, A despatch from London says: The ,spatches from correspondents at the A despatch from Edmonton, Al- $6.85 to $7.10; do., common, $5.50 to Russians scored successes at numer- front. The Austro -German resistance berta, says: C. S. Noble, 03 Nobleford, $6.25; butchers' bulla, choice, $7.10 to ous points along a line extending .apparently is stiffer than duringthe $7,50; do., good bulls, $ a40 to $6.50; Alta., has a . housand-acre field,. the from the district west'of Lutsk in early stages of the. drive, however, es:' crop o which, threshed, do,, rough bulls, $4.60 to $5.00; hutch- wh p , e , gave err' cows choice, 6.25 to .$6,75' do. Volhynia to the Dniester in Galicia. the defence of i,emberg, and:along''the a yield of 52 bushels to the acre theThe Russian offensive, which halted Volh nia lines beiir especially eciall , gd, $5,75 to $6,00, do,, medium, $5,50 3' g P y de highest ever known in any, part of the to" $5,60; stockers, $5,25 to $6.00;' temporar ly,while fresh' supplies were termined. world, according' to " estimates made choice feeders,' $6.25 to 37.00; canners being brought up to the front, is. It is officially announced that Ern. on Wednesday. Thee world's record and cutters, $3.50 to $4,50; milkers, again in. full swing ori the entire peror William has left for the eastern for wheat was formerly held b Whit- choice, each, $70.00 to $90,00; do„ com, southern portion of the front, Tre-''front to visit the troops of Gen, von y aid meed., ea,, $40:00 to $60.00- spi•iug Man County, Wash., with 81 bushels, err, $,60,00 to $100.00; light ewes, $7.00 mendous efforts are being made by Linsingen, against whom the princip- to: $000; sheep, heavy, $450 to `$6.50; the Czar's forces, according to de- al'Russian attack is beingdi directed. IN VOLIIVNIA ANDGALI�ICI A The German Emperor Has Left for the Scene of the Principal Muscovite Attacks.