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The Exeter Advocate, 1916-10-19, Page 6AVIATION SCHOOL AND PLANT TO BE ESTABLISHED IN CANADA The Factory Will Turn Out Co uplete Aeroplanes and Will Get Imperial Orders. A despatch from Ottawa says: Caetala is to go in for the manufac- ture of aeroplanes. The Government has for some time had under consider tion the establishment in Canada of an aviation school with a view to the development of what has become so important a branch of warfare on both land and sea. The matter has been further considered during the past week, and a decision has been reached to establish a school and also to have built and equipped in Canada a factory which will turn out com- plete aeroplanes, that is to say, com- plete with the motors, which hereto- fore have not been built in this coun- try. The aviation school will be under the direction of the Imperial authori- ties, who have agreed to provide a staff of experts for the purpose. The factory will be established under the direction of the Imperial Munitions Board, the Imperial Government hay - Mg assured orders which will take care of the output of the factory while the war lasts. No information is available at present as to the probable location of either the school or the factory.. BRITISH GAIN MORE GROUND New Drive For Possession of Bapaulne-Peronne Road. A despatch from London says ;- The British forces have launched a new drive for the possession of the low heights which intervene between General liaig's front and the Bapa- ume-Peronne road. The British have already secured successes and cap- tured a number of prisoners during the course of the fighting., which still continues, That the British have gained some additional ground north of Thiepval, south of the Anere River, in France,. and on the Sars-Gueudeeourt line is indicated in the Berlin official eom- munieation.. which says British at- ' 'Ice i ere failed "for the most part" before the German curtain of fire. West of Scilly-Saillisel the French have made a further advance. South of the Somme violent artil- lery duels are in progress, especially between Genermont and Chaulnes, In the town of Ablaincourt the Germans and French are engaged in hand-to- hand fighting. The French artillery bombarded an asphyxiating gas factory near Muei- hausen, causing a great fire. The object, of the British advance in Fiance*e were outlined on Thursday by Major-General F. B. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the War Office. The general emphasiz- ed as ane of the principal purposes, already gained, that "the British push into the German Binds has extended the fighting front by a Iength of 20,- 000 yards, so thab if stationary trench fighting were resumed the Germans would have that much increased front- age to defend," "As we get on ot+.r difficulties get less and less," he remarked, pointing out that the country thus far gained' was hilly and strongly defended and that the British had now reached the lower roi'ing lands. ITALIAN GAINS NEW SUCCESS FOR THE ALLIES f The Worg,RIBSIANS CAPTURE TRENCHES IN BATTLE ON TUE STOKHOD #area la Lillis. Toronto O. 17 -- Mani tuba wheat - New No. 1 Northern, $1.Z4 • No, 21,(10.. 31.71 , No. 3 do.. $1,66 No: 4 wheat. $1.561. tract, "Bay ports. Old crop traa- Fach's Troops Capture the Ger- in ic. above new crop, Manitoba oats -No, 2 CAST.. 61e ; No. man Line on One -Mile 3. do.. 60c extra No. 1 teed, hoc ; No, 1 feed, 6.930 track Bay ports, Anzeriean corn -No. 3 yellow. 930. Front, J &rook, Toronto.. Ontario. oats --ho: 2 white, 65 to 67c ; London, Oct. 15. -The French won (1;1,„slae o, 54 to SSSe. aecording to freixhts fresh successes south of the Somme 1 Ontario wheat -New No. 2, Winter, ton er Saturday. East of Belloy-en-San'ttr hts louts de- old crop a�.NN'o. Iia m Foch's . troops captured a first rnercial. $1,47 to $1.50; No, 2, do., $1.su , German line on a front of more than'tolge s- No 0?,332 15 to 2.20,$ac ordinx a mile. To the south-west of this re- to treitihts outside, gion they swept forward from Bovent 1 Barley --Malting; 94 to 95c, nominal ; feed, 37 to 9Oe, nominal, for nearly a mile and seized the ham_ 1 Buckwheat -S5 to 87e. nominal, Bye -No, 2, netr, 31,13 to 31,20, ac- let of Genermont, while they also ex -1 to freilxhts outside. tended their lines near Albaincoihrb ! Manitpba flour -First patents, in jute ' baks, 39.30; ` second patents, In jute winning a strongly -defended sugar re -.bags. $6.20 ; strong bakers , in iota finery. Over 1,100 Germans were. bags, 38.60. Toronto. n, acdg made prisoner in these operations. to sample. $7.60, in bags, Ontario flour -New Witraterck Tcar in oronto, German troops last night launched prompt shipment Millfeed---Car lots, delivered Montreal several counter-attacks against the ti eights, bags included --Bran, per ton, positions which the French had occu • C'.sa shorts per ton $32 middlings ger ton, 333 good feed fio'ur. per bag, pied during the day south of the 32,50. River Somme, says the statement ise, lea? Per N ew , No. 1. per :50track.$o $12 sued by the French War Department i to. on - All the German attacks were repulsed :rStraw-Car t ra x010 , lots, per ton. 37 to 88, by the French infantry, the statements t Y. NO adds, and all the gains were main- tained. Country Produce -Wholesale. j i3utter-Fresh dairy, choice, 35 to 36c: inferjor, 30 to .310 ; creamery prints, 39 British Also Advance. ! to 410 ; solids, 39 to 40c. Strong Austrian Positions Cap- tured in the Pasubio Region. A despatch from London says: The Italian success on the Carso continues to grow. Slowly but without pause General Cadorna's troops are pushing toward their goal, Trieste. The Anse trfans are offering the sternest kind of resistance, but their efforts have not succeeded in checking the offen- sive. The capture of Nova Vas by the Italians is admitted in the Vienna official report, which also admits that the first-line Austrian trenches to the south were lost, The occupation of the first line on the Carso plateau has now been com- pleted, and the Italians have surged beyond it toward the second line, which now is being subjected to heavy attack. The toll of prisoners taken by the invader has reached a total of 8,000, while the Austrians have cap- tured 2,700. Losses on both sides are extremely heavy, for the Italians are attacking in mass formation and the Austrians j are counter -attacking repeatedly. It is estimated that the Teuton losses now amount to 24,000. The Austrians are making terrific efforts to avert the '. disaster which threatens them. They are training every available gun on the ground over which the enemy is advancing, while the infantry moving 1 forward in waves has counter-attack- ! ed for the last 24 hours without inter- mission. ;PRICES OF IMPORTS INCREASE IN ITALY. 1 A despatch from Rome says: The resumption of Austro -German sub- marine attacks is causing grave con- cern in Italy, where the prices of coal, wheat, lumber, scrap iron and other imports have trebled within a year, owing to the prohibitive freight rates. Coal now costs $50 a ton. The railroads have a stock of 200,000 tons, however, and are notlikely to. be interrupted during the Winter. CANADIAN LOSSES TILL OCTOBER 11. A despatch from Ottawa says: Up till October 11 the total number of casualties among officers and men of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces was 52,026, according to figures com- piled by the Casualty Record Office. The number is made up as follows: Killed in action 8,134 Died of wounds 3,120 Died of sickness 452 Presumed dead 1,009 Missing 1,372 Wounded .. 37,939 INDIAN IS RECOMMENDED FOR THE VICTORIA CROSS. A despatch from Brantford says: A recommendation for the Victoria Cross has gone in for Capt. Frank Montour, a member of the Six Na- tions Indians, and a veteran of the early fights of the 4th Battalion, who is now with the 114th Haldimands. He enlisted as a private, and won pro- motion on the field. $6.150 PAID FOR COW, DEAREST IN WORLD. A despatch from North Easton, Mass., says: The "cow that jumped over the moon" did not achieve the heights of fame among dairy farmers gained on Wednesday by Langwater Dairymaid, a Guernsey of purest blood. She is the highest priced Guernsey cow in the world, having sold at auction under the bidding of gentlemen farmers from all parts of the country, for $6,150. Charles L. A. Whitney, of Albany, was the buy- er. F. Lothrop Ames, of this town, was the former owner. DUTCH GOVERNMENT WANTS SATISFACTION. A despatch from The Hague says: The Dutch Government, it is learned, on the basis of facts already ascer- tained, will immediately ask Ger- many to explain the .sinking of . the Dutch steamer Bloomersdijk in the Atlantic, off the New England coast, last Sunday. INTERVENTION AT PRESENT WOULD -MEAN BRITISH DISASTER Lloyd George Repeats That Great Britain Will Tolerate No Out- side Interference. .A. despatch from London says: In the House of Commons on Wednesday night Lloyd George, Minister of War, replied to criticisms of utterances to the effect that the European war was to be a fight to a finish, and that treat Britainwould tolerate no out - aide interference in the direction of peace. Charles P. Trevelyan complained that the Government had ignored the important speech by President Wilson on international -mediation, Mr. Lloyd George, replying, declar- ed that the answer to all this was a 2nilitary, rather than a diplomatic, affair. As a matter of fact, Viscount Grey bad anticipated President Wil- son's statement. There was a great difference between intert::ention to se- cure an international commission af- ter the war to enforce world peace and intervention at a moment like the present. Intervention now would be a military triumph for Germany and military disaster for Great Britain, and he claimed the right as Secretary for War to express his 'opinion on such a matter. It was not merely the expression of his own opinion, he de - dared, but the expression of the opin- ion of the Cabinet, of the war com- mittee and of the .military advisers of every any. Enterprises undertaken yesterday1 r g%t -lltt 1 storaae. 36 to 360 ; star - age. selects, 37 to 330 • new-latd. in by British troops in the neighborhood carton, 43 to 45e ; out of cartons. 40 to of the Stuff and Schwaben redoubts, in' tressed poultry -Chickens, 23 to 210 ; the River Somme region, were highly tows, 18 peto 20 e;z, ducks, 18 sto 200 i successful, says the official statement iters, i0 to 34 ; geese, tspring, 17 to issued to -day by the British War Of-' 190. Li poultry --Chickens, 17 to 18e ; fico, More than 300 Germans were fowl, 14 to Loc ; ducks, 18 to 15e : tur- taken prisoner'. North of Stull? re -j Jas, 25 to 26e; geese, spring, 14 to doubt two lines of enemy eonmuniea , Cltoeso---New, large, 22 to 22330 ; tion trenches were cleared fora dis-1 t" s,y 32 to 3 flee quiillt` :32 tib tjna, twice of nearly 200 yards. One officer i 13c : 0-tb. tins, 121 to 184: 10 -Ib., rill and 100 men of other ranks were tak- en to tip 'iiz60-114., ie atidl ieato 12o, 2 , Cit,1zzpor prisoners in the course of this opal -i Co '$2 g loot, $2.50 to $2.70: No, 342°15t A despatch from London says :--( Germans swung forward under cover ation, which was carried out by a Potatoes-- Ontario, $1,60 ; r4r.tttsh The thinning out of the Russians; of darkness After heavy artillery ilre- siingle company, At the Schwaben i Colurzlbia nose, pear bag, $1,60 to $1.70 , t oration, and Lakin the Russiraym by redoubt the British gain was greater: British Columbia Whites, per bag, $1,60 forces in Galicia and Volhynia to bul-1 p g to 31.65 ; New Brunswick Delawares, i surprise wrested a trench line along and the line was advanced well to the ; per bag, 81.60 to 31.55 ; Prince 1 dwere wark the Roumanian lines in TransYl- d a considerable front from them. The Island \Whites, per bag. 31,00, track, ' 'u• north and west of the redoubt, Heavy ionto, vania and the allied lines in Mace -I Czar's troops' rallied quickly, and ina losses were inflicted on the enemy. Cabbages -Manitoba, per ton. 340, donia does not appear to have crippled R counter -assault of great power swept Despite the cloudy weather and ac-hand`"picked, x35,30 ; prat, imes. 355. o ss `�o : the Czar's armies. At every point on, the enemy back to his original posi- tive barrage fire ata range of from the front where operations are being; tions, inflicting severe losses on hila, 200 to 800 metres, the allied aviators Prceasiona-Wholesale. conducted the Russians are showing? In the region south of Eubnov Rus - co -operated in most effective fashion 26` madtaed hmeats-Hams. 3o ; nom, 24sty the same stubborn resistance under ' sian patrols succeeded in clearing an in the fighting yesterday south of the to 37c ; rolls, 20 to 210 ; breakfast hostile attack and the samep bacon, ower' enemy trench and holding it against c 25 Somme. They surpassed all that was 27 : bonelessto 2s toback29cs. Plain, 26 to in their awn drives, ? counter-attacks. On the Naray wka, expeeted of them. One machine that pickled or d270:ry cured meats. 1 cent The Germans opened up an attack; south-east of Lemberg, all attempts returned had been struck by two hun- le Cui a nines sa' Long clear bacon, 1s to of great strength on Friday night of the Germans and Austrians to dred bullets. North of the Somme 183c per 1134' clear beuios, 18 to '1$ic, against a part of the front rarely the! thrust back Russian advance guards twopilots, flying used their Lard--Pue lard, tierces, -17 to 114c ; very low, tube, 17t to girt' palls, 173 tp 1120, scene of activities on a large scale.' were repelled, A virtual deadlock machine guns at short range against Compound. 14 to 141e. North of the Pinsk marshes the Rus -1 exists along the great arc that hedges the enemy in his trenches. Montreal. Markets. sian trenches lie along the western tin Lemberg, and it is probable that bank of the River Share, and are I no great attempt will be made by eith- ebrongly fortified. In this region, r er side to break it under the present near the village of Goldovitehi, the, conditions. Fighting in the Volhynia Assumes the Ferocity That Character- ized the Days of Early Sunnier. London, Oct. 15. -.-The battle on the i guns ceased for the first time in Stokhod River, in Volhynia, has broke hours, and masses of Muscovites leap - en out anew, The Russians leaped ; ed over the parapet and poured for - from the trenches to the attack yes- ward into the German trenches. The terday morning, and before darkness ; rest of the story is told in the laconic came the fighting had assumed the ` statements of the War Office, Several ferocity that characterized the days 1 lines of Teuton trenches were carried, of early Summer, a prisoners and guns were seized, and Brussiloff had prepared for his the despairing efforts of the enemy to movement in his usual methodical wrest back their temporary hones manner. For nearly 48 hours pre- . failed. ceding the infantry charge the heavi- On other parts of the far-flung lines est guns that could be mustered pour in Volhynia and Galicia the Russian ed a deluge of shot and shell into the' guns are battering at the enemy's enemy's entrenchments, Along the ( trenches with the same ferocity, pre - five -mile front from Korytniza north : paring for similar charges by the in4 along the winding marsh -flanked fantry. Neither in Galicia nor to the Stokhod, hardly a foot of the German north have the Russian commanders and Austrian trench lines .escapei1 ini- ` despaired of smashing through the mersion in the flood of metal hurled opposing lines to victory, That is from the Russian artillery. i what is read in the renewal of the At dawn the thunder of the Russian i battle on the Stokhod, ATTACKS REPULSED BY RUSSIANS IN TUE LEMBERG REGION Thinning Out of Forces to Bulwark Roumanian Eines Has Not Crippled Czar's Armies. - A German Gain. Montreal, Oct, 17, -Corn -American No, 3 yellow 31.02, Oats ---Canadian. In Ablaincourt, at the tip of the western. No, 2, 63xc ; do„ No, 3, 622e ; salient held by Foch's troops north of extra No. 1 feed, 623e t No, 2 local white, 608c ; No. 3, do„ hoc. 13ar1ey-- Chaulnes, a furious assault on Friday Ilan. Peed, Hie. Flour --Man. Spring enabled the Germans to seize several wheat patents, firsts, 09.40: seconds, $8.90 ; strong bakers', 38.70 winter positions and some trenches to the atents, choice, $9,00 ' straight rollers, north-east of the village. These they Roll d oat , barreels, $6 45 to' 36.65 $4 do did not hold for long. Showing a ba s •, 90 Its., $3.10 to $3.20. Bran- surpprising ability to rally quickly 'h:C e,S Shorts -130. to $537 Middlings_ -No. 2, per from the effects of the enemy's charge, ton, car lots, $13. Cheese -Finest west - the French wave recoiled and swept erns, 213 to 22o ; do„ eastorns 213c, Butter -Choicest creamery, 39 'to 8930 the Germans completely out of the seconds, 38 to 383c. Eggs -Fresh, Cm , selected, 3Sc ; No. 1 stock, 34e ; No. 2 stock, 31e. Potatoes, per bag, car tots, 51.25 to $1.45. positions they had gained a foothold in, The French again attempted to swing their lines through Sailley-Sail- Winnipeg Grata. �Zinnpeg, Oct. 17. -Wheat closed 230 lisel and into the sector south of lower for October, 23c down Por lvov- Transloy, but in hand-to-hand fight- em`ber�o1. c iowei' for were ser and 13c ing of the most desperate character October and December and ro for May. they were driven back to their start, Barhighler,ey was le lower, Flax 3 to 3c ing points. By their furious resis- tance in this region the Germans have 1 'Suited States Markets. given notice that they intend to de beTxit�$170lis, ay 1731662neato $1663. fend the Bethune road to the limit of Cash, No. l hard,' $1.783 ; No: 1 Northern their resources. 31.768 to 31.778 ; No. 2 Northern, 31.681 to $1.738. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 893 to Berlin admits that the British north 9030. Oats -No. 3 white, 451c. Flour of Thiepval gained a firm hold on the unchanged, 13ran, $22,50 to $23.60, Duluth, Oct, 17� Linseed, $2.433 German trenches, and that the French October, 32.453, nominal ; November, /111. • December, $2.433 asked ' May, south of the Somme have won afoot- $ Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.7s3 ; No, ing in the sugar refinery at Gener- Northern. 31.751 to 31.778 ' No. 2 mon:. Northern. $1.673 to $1.728 ; December, 31.703 asked ; May, 31.66 bid, ITALIAN TROOPS MAKE PROGRESS Seize More of Mountain Ridge South-east of Gorizia. Rome, Oct. 15. -Italian troops in the Trentino yesterday 'made further progress in their advance towards Mount Roite according to the Italian official statement issued to -day. In --.:.-- the region of Cosmagnan an entire NO CONVICTED MURDERER Austro-Hungarian battery, composed ' • AT PRESENT IN CANADA. of four guns, and a large number of , _ ammunition wagons was • captured. Regarded as Another Evidence of Ef- The Italians also captured still more feet of Closing the Bars. of the Sobre ridge of mountains south-tast of Gorizia. Other positions A despatch from Ottawa says: At already taken were consolidated and the present time there is not a single preparation for new attacks made. convicted murderer in Canada. For The War Office announcement says: the first time in years the Minister "The Austrians have lost 28,000 men of Justice has no .capital case before in the last two days of fighting on the him waiting his recommendation and Carso plateau. The battle continues with undiminished violence." TRADED WITH ENEMY: Live Stock 'Markets, Toronto. Oat. 17. -Good heavy steers, butchers' bulls. choice. $7,10 to 57. 8,00 to $8.30 ; butchers' cattle. good, 7,50 to $7.75 ; do, medium, $6.60 to 6.86; do, common. $5.26 to 35.85 ; 40 ; do., good bulls, $6.40 to $6.50 do., rough bulls, $4.50 to $5.00 ; butchers• cows, choice. $6.25 to $7.0.0 ; do. good, 35.75 to 36.00 ; do, medium, $6.50 to $5.60 ; stockers, $5.25 to 36.00 ; choice feeders, $6.25 to $7.00 ; canners anu cutters, 33.50 to 34.50 ; Milkers, "choice, each $70.00 to $90.00 ; do, com. and mea. each, $40.00 to $60.00 ; springers, 3b0 to $100.00 ; light ewes, $7,00 to 38.00 ; sheep, heavy, $4.50 to $5.50 ; calves good to choice, $10.50 to $11.76 • spring lambs, choice, 9 40 tol$9.60 t• o hogs, fed and watered, $10.90 to 511.00 ; do., weighed off cars, 511.16 to 311.25 ; do.. f.o.b., $10.40, New York Man Sentenced by a Paris Court. Paris, Oct. 15. --William Chester Silbermann of New York has been sentenced by the Correctional Court to five years in prison and 500 francs fine on a charge of trading with the enemy. Silbermann, according to the prosecution, came to Paris armed with papers describing 'him as the r, epre- sentative of the Knight Rubber Com- pany, On the strength of these pa- pers he obtained several important orders. He was finally' denounced by a Serbian who had known him in the final arbitrament of the Cabinet Council as to whether the death sen- tence should be carried out or not. The dearth of murder cases during the past few months may very pro- perly be regarded as another evidence of .the effect of closed bars in dimin- ishing crime. GERMANY' MAY CALL OI.D MEN TO COLORS. • A despatch ;from London says:` Renter's Amsterdam correspondent quotes the Tageblatt:of Berlins to the effect that examination of the 'mili-> Lary ,classes' of 1;870 to '1875 .(men "be- tween the 'ages of 53 'and 63) will take place this month in the province of Brandenburg, i,n which . Berlin is New York and wh'o'said fie was acting situated. The despatch says the or- for Gottwik, Scheffer & Company, 309 .der refers to all those who previously Broadway, New York, a firm with have been declared unfit for military' "'_;:man affiliations. ... service. U. S. WILL STOP FOE SUB RAIDS Recommendation of Neutrality Board to the Government at Washington. .A. despatch from Washington says : -The joint State and Navy Neutral- ity Board has submitted to the State Department its report and reeom- mendabions concerning submarine warfare off the American coast. It is understood that the findings of the board are unfavorable to a continuance by Germany of activities similar to those off Nantucket lightship Sunday when the U-53 sank five merchant vessels. It was said on Wednesday that the Neutrality Board declared such operations in close proximity to American shores constituted a nuis- ance which should be abated, and that in that view the United States should refuse hospitality to all belligerent war vessels. The board found, it was stated, that belligerent operations close to American shores were obnoi;- ASQUITH SCORNS PATCHED PEACE Allies Demand Adequate Re- paration, eparation, Adequate Security. A despatch from London says: "This is no time for faltering coun- sel or wavering purposes," said Pre- mier Asquith in addressing the House of Commons on Wednesday. "This ' war cannot be allowed to end in some patched -up, precarious and dishonor- ing compromise masquerading under the name of peace. "No one desires to prolong for. a single moment longer than is neces- sary the. tragic spectacle of blood- shed and destruction, but we owe it to those who have given their lives that their supreme sacrifices shall not have been unavailing. "The ends of the allies are well known. They have been frequently stated. They are not selfish, they are not vindictive, but they required 1 ade- quate reparation for the past and ade- quate and that the United States had quote security for the future." the right to consider them as a nuis- • The House .cheered the Premier ance. loudly as he made these remarks in concluding his address, after moving a vote of credit for £300,000,000.• This brings up the total for the cur- rent financial year to £1,850,000,000. The House agreed to vote the credit asked for by Premier Asquith, virtu- ally no criticism being offered to the Premier's statement. THREE BRITISH PLANES WINGED OVER OBERNDORF. London, Oct. 15. -The Admiralty last night issued the following an- nouncement: "A sccuessful raid was carried out on Oberndorf the after- noon of the twelfth by a large number of British and French naval aero- planes. Three British planes failed to return. Many Like Him. Hewitt -He's a pessimist, all right. Jewett -I should say so; he could see the dark side to a blonde,! GERMANY TO SEIZE ALL TOBACCO STOCKS: A despatch from London says: The German Diet has decided to seize the stocks of tobacco throughout the em- pire, says : an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Copenhagen. It is' ex- pected that the issuance of tobacco tickets will follow the seizure. ITALIANS RESUME DRIVE CAPTURING 8,000 PRISONERS Several Lines of Austrian Trenches Occupied on the Road to Trieste -Successes on Two Other Fronts. A despatch,froni Rome says: Ital- ian troops fighting in the Carso re- gion south-east of Gorizia have re- sumed their march towards Trieste, capturing several lines of Austrian trenches and more than 5,000 prison- ers, says the official statement issued by the War Office. In addition they have occupied strongly defended heights between the Tippaco River and ,Rill 208, taking quantities of arms and munitions. Through successes, on two other fronts the Italians captured 1,400 ad- ditional prisoners. The advances were made in the Cosmagnon sector on ,Pasubio, in the Trentino, and on the front of the Julian Alps between Tobar and. Vertoiba, south of Gorizia.. The. Austrian line on the Julian front was broken the statement adds. On the Pasubio front 530 prisoners were taken and: 860 on the e Julian front. In addition 164 officers were taken in the Cease advance,