The Exeter Advocate, 1917-7-26, Page 3It
GERMAN PICKED TROOPS MOWN
DOWN IN ASSAULTS ON FRENCH
In Northern Belgium the British Engage in Artillery Duels
With Enemy,
A despatch from London says: Ap-
parently the Germans are intent on
breaking the French line between
Soissons and Rheims, having delivered
another tremendous assault from
north-east of Gramme to east of Hur-
tebise. Into the fray were thrown.
picked troops, who were mown down
everywhere, and the attack, like
others that had preceded it, failed.
Near- St. Quentin, where for some
the situation has been calm, the Ger-
mans also delivered attacks on a front
of about a half -mile, Here they suc-
ceeded in penetrating French firet-line
positions, only to be expelled from
them in a counter-attack.
There has been no diminution in the
artillery duels between the British
and Germans in Northern Belgium, nor
in the ceaseless small attacks the
British have been making against
German trenches for many days.
Around Monchy-le-Prefix these infant-
ry attacks have resulted in the Brit-
ish regaining all the ground they lost
to the Germans east of Arras July 11.
.IC DEVELOPMENT
IN JUNE TRADE
Returns For Month Show In-
crease in Exports and
Imports.
A despatch from Ottawa, says: -
The figures for June continue to show
a remarkable development in both exa,
',ports and imports. For June "sthe
total trade amounted to •$213,800.,908,
compared with $162,035,400in June,
1916. Exports for the past month
totalled $116,285,841, and imports -.$97,-
815,067. During June there Wks ex-
portedforeign merchandise to the ealue
of $3,725,324, as compared with $54,-
347,307 in the corresponding month
last year, < The total trade for the
first- three months of the fiscal year
was $622,407,781, and for the same
period last year. $431,626,215,
DRIED FRUIT SUPPLIED
TO TEUTONS. BY SWEDEN
A despatch. from London says: -In
the Prize Court the Attorney -General
asked for -the condemnation of some
1,800 tone of dried fruits from New
York and San Francisco, seized ' on
the steamers San Francisco and
Pacific, 'consigned : to., the Swedish
Victualling Commission, a Govern-
ment department, but alleged to ' be
intended, for export to Germany.
Before the war, said the Attorney -
General, the annual requirements of,
t5weden in these commodities was.
6,500 tons, but in 1915 the imports had
totaled 11,556 tons, while for the firsts
half of 1916, 6,500 tons,' had been im-
parted. Besides this, he added, Swe-
den had on hand before the war '11,-
0 i ,tons of these fruits, y„et "in the
tl ime':. fruitsre-
mained
of 1916 no dried
mained in Sweden. -"The inference
•
was that guarantee not to re-export
fruits had been systematically broken.
VON TIRPITZ RALLYING
OPPONENTS OF PEACE.
'!Y A des atch`d:rom Copenhagen says:
P
Admiral von Tirpitz has telegraphed
an appeal. to Ernst Bassermann, the
national Liberal leader, who is: now an
invalid, to leave the sanitarium where
he is under treatment and assist in
the fight against the bloc resolution
in the Reichstag, which will come
up Friday, The von Tirpitz message
"No passing food difficulties or
war weariness must be allowed to
soften the German
people's le's determ
i
n-
Fatlon and render possible a peace
which
would threaten the future of
Germany and its working claeses. The 1
bnik.'of the °national Liberals will b
probably vote against the non -an-
nexationist resolution." t
BRITISH BLOCKADE "
TROUBLES HOLLAND t
A despatch from The Hague says;-.
The question of the new British den's-
ger
ap
ger zone has assumed a seriousaspect
so far as, Dutch shipping is cncelrn-
ed . It is now ` obvious that unless
the German Government is willing to
change the so-called°safety; channel
farther west, that is nearer the Ger-
man coast, Dutch overseas shipping
will be at a complete standstill, as is
the case at "present. The Dutch Gov-
ernment has approached Germany on
this question, and'. is'expecting an
answer shortly.
ti;
GERMAN LOSSES
TOTAL 4,500,000
Figures -::Represent ' Casualties
Announced in Official
Lists of Berlin.
London, July 18. -The German
casualties for Jure, says the Times,
were. 166,547; killed, °20,000; missing,
37,000; severely wounded, 21,000. The
total casualties are now four and a
half millions. The` killed lee over a,
million; prisoners, 316,000; missing,
275,000; severely wounded, 591,000.
These figures represent the.casualties
announced in the Lerman official lists.
QUEBEC BRIDGE SPAN
READY IN SEPTEMBER
A despatch from Montreal says:-
The
ays:-
The; anniversary of the disastrous at-
tempt of last year, September 11, may
be the time chosen for try*rg^anew to
hoist into position ;the huge central
span of the big Quebec bridge.
The new span is well under way at
Sillery, being now aboat one-third
completed -and it is expected that it
will be finished in September.
No change has been made in the
method of putting it in place. Every
care' is- being taken : to assure that'
there be no defect in the material
which could cause another disaster.
Government engineers visit the scene
of the work every week to supervise
the construction of the span.
DECLARES THAT LENINE
IS GERMAN AGENT.
A'
despatch„from' Petro •ads s; A
g'i Ay
letter from: Gen. Brussiloff's chief of
staff states - that Nikolai .Lenine, the
Radical Socialist leader, is: an agent of
the German general staff. The evi-
dence was traced through the confes-
sion of Lieut. Ermolenko that he was
sent to the front of the sixth Russian
army to. make 'a propaganda in favor
of an' early peace with Germany.` Le -
nine's task was to 'compromise :the
Provisional Government in the eyes of
the people by every. possible ,means.
Funds were sent;through the,inter-
mediary of an'employee of the Ger-
man legation at Stockholm. The al-
leged chief German agent in Russia
is Maxsta Koslevsky, to whose ac-
count, it is stated, 2,000,000 roubles
are now standing.
AUTONOMY BILL PASSED
BY DIET
OFI'I
FINLAND
A despatch from Fin -
and,
p Helsmgfors, Pin
and, says :-The Finnish Diet having
y a vote of 165 to 27; votes declared
the necessity of immediately votingon
he autonomy bill, adopted it forthwith
n full by, a vote of 136 to 55.
The Diet rejected by a vote of 104
o 86 an amendment by Deputy
Cuallas proposing that the bill should
be submitted for the approbation of
the Russian Provisional Government.
Successes in East Africa.
A despatch from London says; -
Describing operations from July 11 to
15, an official "statement from 'head-
quarters in East Africa reports the
continued success of the ,encircling
movement of columns working south-
ward of Kilwa against enemy forces
established on the line, of Itshikale-
Utigeri.
Markets of 'lire World i 'ROI SUNSET COAST
Breaastuffs
o'oronto, July 24---31auitoba wheat-
No, 1 Northern, $2,634, 04o, 2 Northern,
$LM'anitobaleats-No, 2 C,Way ,, 82:00e, trach
l3ay)' ports.
American coral-N,p,•- 3 yellow, 82,08,
nominal, track Toronto,
Ontario oats -No official quotations.
Ontario wheat -No, 2 Winter, per eat'
lot 82,48 to 82.60; No. 3, 62.43 to $2.48,
according, to freights outside•
Peas -No, 2, nominal, according to,
freights outside.
i3ar1ey-2talting, nominal, according
to freights outside,
Rye -No. 2, nominal, according to
freights outside.
Manitoba flour -,First patentH, in Jute
bags, $12.90; second patents, toute
bags, $12.40; strong bakers', In Jute
bas, $12:00
Ontario flour --Winter, according ttp
satt ,ple, $10,56 to 510,65, in bags,:traacic,
Toronto, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots delivered Montreal
freights, bags included-Bran,per ton,
$36; shorts, nor ton, $40 to 4'1; mld-
dlings, per ton, $44 to 545; good feed
flour, per bag, $3.25.
Hay -Extra No. 2, per ton $12.00' to
$12.50' mixed, per ton, 89 to 811, track
Toronto.
Straw -Car:' lots, per ton, $8.50 to $0,
track Toronto,
Country Produce -Wholesale
Butter -Creamery solids, per ib„ 34
to 3440; prints, per ib., 344 to 35c; dairy,
per lb., 28 to 29e,
Eggs -Pet doz„ 32 to 33c.
Cheese --New, large, 224 to 23c; twine,
223 to 2340 triplets, 23 to 224c; old,
large, 30o; twins, 304e; triplets, 304c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 30c;
fowl, 20 to 22e; squabs, per doz,, $4.00
to $4.60; turkeys, 25' to 30c; ducks,
Spring, 23c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb.,
22c; hens, 16 to 18c; ducks, Spring, 13c.
oney-Comb-Extra• fine and, heavy
weight, per. doz., $2.75; select, $2.60. to
$2.76; No. 2, $2 to $2.25.:
Beans -Imported, hand-picked, $9.00
to "$9.60 per bush; Limas, per lb., 18 to
190,
Potatoes -Red Star, new, bbl. '67.50 to
to $8,08.00; 0 osecon Carolinas,
36.50 'to $16.757 50
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 30 to
810; do., heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to
42o; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon,
33 to 38o; .:backs, plain, .36`to 37c; bone-
less, 83 to 40c. •
Ctu'ed meats -Long clear bacon, 26 to
264c per lb; clear bellies, 25 to 26c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 269: to 27e;
tubs, 27 to 274c; pails, 274 to 2740;
compound, tierces, 210; tubs, 214c;
pails, 214c.
Montreal Markets w
Montreal, July 24 -Oats -Canadian
western, No. 2, 823c; do:,: No. 3, 819e;
extra No. 1 feed, 819c. Barley -Man.
feed, 11.25. Flour -Man. Spring'. -wheat
patents, firsts, $13; seconds, -$12.50;
strong bakers', $12.30; Winter patents,
choice, $13.26; straight rollers, $12.50
to 312.80; do.; bags, $6.00 to $6.15.
Rolled oats -Barrels; 39,00 to $9.35;' do,,
bags, 90 lbs., $4.40 to $4.50. Bran -$35
to $36. Shorts -$40 to 341. Middlings -
$40 to $42. Mouillie, $44 to $49. Hay-
No. 2, per ton, car lots, $11 to $11.50.
Cheese -Finest westerns,' 219c; do
easterns, 213c. Butter --Choice cream-
ery, 36c; seconds, 355c. Eggs -Fresh,
42c; selected, 39c; No. 1 stock, 36 to'
36c; . No. 2 stock, 30 to 32c. Potatoes -
per bag, car lots, $2 to $6,
Winnipeg .Grain
Winnipeg, July 24 -Cash prices :
Wheat -No: 1 Northern, $2.42; No, 2,
do., $2.39; No. 3, do., $2.36: No. 4,
2,24; No. 5, 32,014; No. 6, $1.62; feed,
1.46. Basis contract, July, 32.42;
August, 62.37. Oats -No. 2 C.'W., 754c:
No. 3...„0.W., 738c; extra No. lfeed, 743c;
No, 1 feed, 709c;.: No. 2 feed, 683c. Bar-
ley -No. 3, $1.26t1 No. 4, $1.22; rejected,
7,11; feed, 31.11. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C.,
2.92; No. 2 C. W., 52.88; No. 3 C.W.,
8:73.
UnitedCStates Markets
Minneapolis, July 24 -Wheat -July,
$2.57; September, $2.07; No. 1 hard,
$2.76; No, 1 Northern, 52.60 to $2.70;
No. 2, do„ 32.50 to $2.60. Corn -No, 3
yellow. $1.94 to 51.95. Oats -No. 3
white, 753 to 764c. Flour unchanged.
Bran -$81,00 to $32.00.'
Duluth, . July 24 -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
$2.59; No. 1 Northern, 52.58; No. 2, do.,
$2.53. Linseed -$3.07; July, $3.07;
September, 33.014; October, 33.064.
Live Stook. Markets
Toronto, July 24 -Extra choice steers,
$11.25 to 312;• choice heavy steers, $10.60
to $11.10; butchers' cattle. choice, $10,60
to $11; do., good, 310.25 to 510.40; do„
medium, $9 to 39.50, do., common, $8
to $8,50; butchers' bulls, choice, 88.70 to
$9.25; do., good bulls, $8 to 58.25; do.,
medium bulls, $7.25 to $7.70; do., rough,
bulls, $5 to -$6; butchers'- cows. choice,
58.50 to $9; do„ good, $7.60 to $8; do.,
medium, $7 to $7.50; stockers, $6.35 to
68; feeders. $8 to $9.10; canners and
cutters, $6:milkers good to
choice,
to 36;
choice, $80 to $100; do., corn. and med.,
$40 to $50; springers, $80 to 3110; light
ewes, 38.35 to $9.65; sheep, :heavy,'$6 to
$7.50; yearlings, $10 to 511; -calves,
good to choice, $14 to $15;: spring lambs,
$15.75 to 516.60; lambs, yearlings, 39 to
$10,50:, hogs, fed and watered, $15.75 to
$16; do.,weighed off cars, $16 to 316.25;
do., f. o.b., 515 to ` 315.26.
Montreal: July 24 -Spring lambs, $13;
sheep, $7.60 to 58; milk -fed calves, 313;
grass-fed, 57; good quality milk -fed
calves, $11;,: choice select hogs, $15.60
to„,516 for long run, and $15.25 to $15.50.
for short run; sows, 613.25 to- $14;
stags, $12 to $12.25.
WHAT THE. WESTERN 'EOPLB
ARE DOING.
Progress of the. Great West 'ro1d
in a Few Pointed
Paragraphs.
Midnight sun excursions are now be-
ing planned to rho Yukon from British
olumbia ports,
Th'e Fraser River is now gradually
dropping and apparently all danger
from high water is past.
At Victoria, Mayor Todd -has intro-
duced a motion to stop meat trading on
Saturday afternoons,
At Victoria, it has been decided by
the executive council to remove the
Government buildings from Hazelton
to Smithers.
Hon. William Sloan has invited the
coal operators to attend a conference
at Victoria to discuss the coal situa-
tion in the province.
Government tug Point Hope crashed
into the Esqulmalt and Nanaimo
bridge, partly destroying the bridge
and its own smokestack.
A motor boat has been presented to
Sergt. Robert Quin, Harrop, a return-
ed soldier, to assist him in the work of
tending lights on Kootenay Lake.
Thomas D. Patterson, of Vancouver,
has been appointed fishery overseer
for duty on the Fraser River, and Dr.
Harry. W. Weith, of Enderby, coroner.
An assertion that they are ready to
meet all demands of the home mar-
ket, is made by representatives of the
Vancouver Island coal producing con-
cerns.
British Columbia salmon canners
will again urge .their request that the.
Government prohibit the export of
Fraser River salmon for canning "on
Puget Sound.
P. F. R. Mandel., a former resident
of Clayburn, senior stretcher-bearer
for his battalion, a Western unit, has
had 'conferred upon him the military
medal for conspicuous bravery on the
battlefield,'
At the meeting of the B. C. Manu-
facturers' Association it was decided
to ask the Provincial Government to
appropriate a sum of money to place
three representatives of British 'Col-
umbia in Ottawa to look after the
securing of munitions and shipbuilding
contracts.
When the main dyke on Nicomen
Island gave way for a quarter of a
mile of its length and flooded 250
acres, the only thing that saved the
whole island from being submerged
was the old Gourley dyke. -
HELLO, ROVER!
Novel and Effective Manner of Using
the Telephone.
An English. dog fancieznand breeder,.
says Answers, uses the telephone in
connection with his kennels in a novel.
and very effective manner. Close to
thekennels is the kennel man's house,
and a telephone arrangement has been
set "up in every kennel. In case the
dogs are noisy at night, the kennel
man speaks to the dogs by means of
these instruments, and very soon the
din subsides and the dogs go to sleep.
They hear the voice of authority and
obey. Sometimes a dog cries for lone-,
liness, and the same means bring him
'comfort.
BERLIN HOTEL GUESTS
RISK LOSS OF SHOES.
A despatch from Berlin says: The
time-honored custom among hotel
guests of depositing one's footwear in
the corridor, outside the door to have
Nit; polished, is likely to come into" dis-
use'for the time being. The growing
demand for shoes, even castoffs, has
encouraged thefts of footwear in
hotels.
That is not the only case in which an
owner has used the telephone for com-
municating with hie dog. Many of
our readers probably know of in-
stances
to
the following:
win.g':
A lady who went to see a friend
that lived a mile from her home took
with her a little brown cocker spaniel,
P ,
The dog was relegated to the kitchens
while shestayed, and when she left
she forgot him. As soon as her
friend found out what had happened
she tried to persuade the dog to go
home;, but: with no success. He evi-
dently thought his mistress was hiding
somewhere, for he went whimpering
about the place and refused to go.
After a while the lady telephoned to
the dog's mistress to let her know his
whereabouts.
"Bring him' to the telephone," was
the reply. One of the boys held him
while another put the receiver to his
ear.
Then his rnistres whistled, and said,
"Come home at once, Rover!" Immedi_
ately tile dog wriggledout of the boy's
arms and, the moment' he was free,
made a bee line for home!
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NEW GE6MAN cHANCEI.LOR SAYS
'BAR WAS FURCED UPON THEM
Dr. Michaelis in ]Elis Inaugural Address to the Reichstag Declared
That Submarine Campaign. is' a Lawful Measure.
A despatch from Copenhagen says;
Dr. Michaelis, the new Imperial ia 1 G®r-
mane Chancellor, in his address to the
Reichstag Thursday afternoon, de-
clared his adhesion to Germany's sub-
marine campaign, asserting it to be
a lawful measure, justifiably adopted
foiv`shortening the war,
Dr. Michaelis opened his Reichstag
speech with a hearty tribute to Dr,
von 13ethmann-Hollweg, the retiring
imperial Chancellor, whose work, he
said, history would appreciate,
The Chancellor declared that the
war was forced upon unwilling Ger-
many by the Russian mobilization,.
and that the submarine war was
also forced upon Germany by Great
Britain's illegal blockade -starvation
war.
The faint hope that America, at the
head of the neutrals, would check
Great Britain's illegality was vain,
Germany's final attempt to avoid the
extremity by a peace offer failed, and
the submarine campaign was adopted,
Bald the Chancellor.
The submarines, the speaker con-
tinued, had done all and more than
had been 'expected, and the false pro-
phets who had predicted the end of
the war at a definite time had done a
disservice to the Fatherland.
From The Middle West
BETWEEN ONTARIO, AND BRI-
TISH COLUMBIA.
Items 'Front Provinces Where Many
Ontario Boys and Girls Are,
Living.
Calgary coal mines are now runnin
full blast.
R. R. Scott is the new chairman of
the Municipal Hospital Commission in
Winnipeg.
"°-*Miss Katharine Stinson, an Ameri
can aviatrix, has been flying at the ex
hibition in Calgary.
June building permits in Calgary
amounted to $101,300,
Wheat in the district northwest >o
Moose Jaw is 27 inches high,
The Home Economics Society hel
a convention recently at Boissevain
BASH H ADVANCE
IN
1YESOPOTAMIA
Inflicted Loss on Turks and
Travelled 12 Miles Up Euph-
rates
p
rates in 10 Days.
A despatch from London says: -An
g official report relating to the Mes-
opotamian campaign shows a consid-
erable British advance. The report
reads: -
"On July 11 one of our columns en-
gaged a Turkish force in the direc-
tion of Remedies, on the Euphrates.
After a short action, in which con-
siderable loss: was inflicted on the
Turks, a further advance was broken
f off by us owing to the extreme heat.
As a result 'of these operations we
d have been able to advance about 12
miles up the Euphrates in the last ten
days."
man.
Edmonton made $810 in license fees
out of recent circus and side-shows in
l the city.
The number of people attending the.
annual exhibition at Calgary was 110,
028, which is the largest in its history
Hundreds of panes of glass were
broken and mucl-i garden stuff cut to
pieces by a cloudburst at Grenfell
Sask.
About 1,000 local troops from the
various barracks belonging to the
Winnipeg garrison are under canvas
at St. Charles.
Next month a new Government
creamery is to open at Henriburg
Sask., where farmers are very, much
alive to the'advantages o dairying.
Mrs. P. Harradence e o`Prince Al-
bert Sask., who, with six other nursing
sisters, sailed to England recently
writes that her ship was torpedoed,
but all were saved.
Wesley College, Winnipeg, is now
without a faculty, all the professors
having resigned in accordance with the
requests made by thegov-
ernors.
of ov
ernors. Reconstruction of the -facul-
ty will take place upon the arrival of
IDr. Riddell, new president of the col-
a, from m Edmonton.
INVERTED RAIN.
How a Shower of Machine Gun Bullets
Looked to an Aviator.
• It will be ,,easily understood, writes
Mr. C. G. Grey in Tales of the Flying
Services, that before a bullet that has
= been 'shot straight upward begins to
fall there must be a point where it
stands dead still, and that for the last
part of its upward path it travels very
slowly. One officer of my acquain-
tance told me, after some months of
war, that his most curious experience
= was when once, and once only, he dis=
covered the exact extreme range; point.
He was flying along quite peacefully
on a bright, sunny morning at an alti-
tude of a little over eight thousand
7 feet, without worrying about anything,.
when. suddenly he saw something'
bright dart past the side of the ma-
chine. He began tlook about him
and saw, a shade below him and a
trifle to one side, a whole stream of
little bright things glittering in the
sun.
Then he realized he had just struck
a level that happened to be the ex-
treme vertical range of a machine gun
that was making <uncommonly good
shooting. Other bullets ' from rifles
and other machine guns also flashed
into view as he flew along, and when
his eyes caught the right focus .; he
could follow the slow, topmost part of
their movement for a considerable dis-
tance.
77"just
"It looked,"
e hesaid,u
st as. if
, J
it were raining upward," and the
phenomenon was so novel that he quite
forgot for a time. that the "raindrops"
indicated that he was unpopular with
some one below.
PRINCESS MARY'S ACTIVITIES.
Divides Time Between Vegetable Gar-
den and Visiting Munition Plants.
Princess Mary, only , daughter of
the King, is dividing her time between
her garden vegetable r e
g n at Windsor
Castle and visiting munition plants,
where she usually presides over the
canteens. The Princess likes to reach
a munitions centre unannounced and.
to minister to the factory girls by
serving and passing out to them their
hot midday meal.
When 'the munition workers at a
certain factory hurried into their
canteen for their dinner the other day
they were surprised to find the Prin-
cess standing beside a great urn, clad
in large blue overalls, ready to hand
out food to them. Every girl was
eager to purchase at her hands, and
many returned to the counter for a•
superfluous pocket of chocolate"? a
bun just for the sake of another smile
from the Princess.
Before going into an enterprise take.
heed to consider where you are coming
out. Exits ace quite as important as
entrances.
HOLD SECRET SESSION
TO DISCUSS OFFENSIVE
A despatch from Paris says: -The
Senate on Thursday convened in secret
,session to hear interpellations by
various Senators concerning the
French offensive in the Aisne and.. in
Champagne, begun April 16 last, and
regarding the medical service during
the battles.
If you can not get new rubber rings
for the fruit -jars, dip the old ones in.
melted paraffine, or a mixture of
paraffine and sealing wax, and when
cool they will do duty as well as new
ones:'':
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