HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-8-23, Page 7CANADIAN TROOPS HAVE ENTERED
LENS AFTER CAPTURING HILL 70
Pushed Into Western Part of Coal City :Total Prisoners Cap-
tured Almost 900. Ten Counter -Attacks Repulsed.
A despatch from the British Front
in France and Belgiumsays: After a
brilliant advance in which the Cana-
dians captured Hill 70 and then
swept on north-west of Lens, the at-
tackers are in close grips with the
Germans in the western' part of Lens.
A despatch from Canadian Head-
quarters in France says: The taking
of 'Hill 70 stirred the German higher
command as nothing else has done on
this front this year. Prince Rupprecht
has made frantic efforts to recapture
the lost positions and a grim battle
was waged throughout the day, par-
ticularly on and around Hill 70.
Ten times the enemy came on, but
they seldom got close , enough for
fighting with• the bayonet or bomb.
Hour after hour these attacking
troops—including the Fourth Prussian
Guards, one of the elite divisions of
the German army—were subjected to
a fightful concentrated fire from
our artillery and machine guns. Their
losses were frightful.
A despatch from London says: The
British made further progress east of
Loos, in the Lens area Friday morn-
ing', Sir Douglas I=laig• announces in
his official report, 'and the total of
prisoners captured there has now
reached 896.
TO LOOK AFTER
CANADA'S INTERESTS
Inauguration of Association in
London to Promote This
Country's Welfare.
A despatch.froni London says: Ar-
rangements have been almost com-
pleted 'for the ` inauguration of the
Canadian Association here. The ex-
ecutive of the new organization will
be composed of the High Commission-
er, Sir George Perle.', the Agents -
General of the /several provinces, and
bankers, with 'a few : other, Dominion
leaders. The main object of ,the new
association will be to watch and pro-
mote Canadian commercial and finan-
cial legislation and the social interests
which have the welfare of the Em-
pire at heart.
A careful lookout will also be kept
for. whoever may at any time seek to
exploit Canada at the expense of the
good reputation of the Dominion.
Apart,from war organizations, the
only body which in any way approxi- The Premier added that there had taski.ne, Falkirk, is among those men -
mates to the new one is the Canada been an increase in the sugar reserve. tioned in Sir Douglas Haig's recent
Club which formerly 'met for social "The Government has come to the despatch,
BRITISH FOOD,
STOCKS 0� S GREATEN
No Fear That England Will Be
Starved Out by U -Boat
Campaign.
A despatch from London says:
Premier Lloyd George, speaking in
the House of Commons said that this
time last year the wheat in this coun-
try amounted to 6,480,000 quarters.
andthat now it is 8,500,000 quarters.
The stock of oats and barley, he 'de-
dared, also was higher.
There had been a considerable sav-
ing in bread consumption, the Premier
said, and owing to the closer milling
and food economy there had been an
addition to the wheat stock of 70,000
quarters per week. (A quarter is
Photograpl
THE PIRATES WORK ON NEUTRAL SHIPS.
shows a vessel which has been torpedoed. by German submarine, being towed into port,
FROMSCOTLAND
OLD SC®� RUSSIANS RETIRE
TO A NEW LINE
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER
BANKS ANI) BRAES.
What is Going On in the Highlands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
Corporal Tom Goring, of Smeaton,
has been awarded the French Croix do
Guerre.
The; sum of 2158 was realized at
a garden -fete given at Springfield in
aid of Edenileld Red Cross Hospital,
A "Rose Day" held at Cougar re-
cent' li d 1 £100 f• t1
n y 1 ze near y or le
benefit of limbless sailors and 'sol-
diers:
Mr. Menzies, sclsoolnkaster at I3an-
chory, has taken over the command of
the local company of Volunteers.
Lady Charlotte Lucy Douglas Home,
of Bonkyl Lodge, Duns, has; left an un-
ettled`
estate
s state valued at £ 25 569
'The late John A. Harvey Brown, a
Rumanians Forced to Withdraw
Also in Face of Superior
Numbers.
A despatch from London says: The
Russian War Office announces a stra-
tegic withdrawal by the Rumanians to
the Soveia-Monastirik Voloshkani Inci;
Russian forces' on the Rumanian
front withdrew: under pressure to
Muncheliu and Monaso, and Ruman-
ians to Movilitza, in the Fokshani
area.
WIN -• IN FLANDERS
Lartgerarck Captured and More
'Than 1,800 Prisohers—The
French Gain Bridgehead.
A despatch from London says:
Again the great Anglo-French war
machine has struck the Germans in
Flanders, and again: it has been suc-
cessful. The village of Langemarck
and other important positions were
captured.
Russian and Rumanian forces which More than 1 800 prisoners includ-
has held the western. bank of the ing 38 ;ousters, already have been
River Sereth on the Rumanian front,! counted by the Anglo-French forces.
were driven across the river by troops Some German guns also were taken.
of Field Marshal von Mackensen, ac- [ , The latest blow in the Ypres area
cording to the' statement on Thursday ; was on a front. of. nine Milos, and only
of the German general staff, More' 'on the 'extreme right were the allied
than 3;500 prisoners were taken and • forces unable to make progress. The
1C guns captured: Germans resisted stubbornly, suffer-
ing heavy losses, but on the greater
well-known, naturalist, of Stirling, has DISTILLING IN
tai.
Dr. George Gardner,for twelve
gSTOPSON SEPT.a
years a practising physician in Fal -
equivalent to 480 pounds.), kirk, has died at a nursing home in
Mr. Lloyd George said the acreage Glasgow. -
under cultivation showed an increase Private H. Norman McKenzie, Sea -
of one million acres. If the harvest forth Highlanders, a native of Peebles,
weather was good the condition of has been awarded the Military Medal.
food supplies was: very satisfactory. Miss'. Helen Wilson, of South Bau-
purposes, but whose gatherings have conclusion," Premier Lloyd George e
g Major Lord Douglas Graham, who
been suspended during the continua- said, "that with reasonable economy has been awarded the. D.S.O., is the
tion of the war. there is no chance of starving Eng- second son of the fifth Duk of -Mont -
land out. , a rose, K- T.
FARMERS PROSPEROUS "The Admiralty- plans for dealing Sergeant William Flowers, one of
IN THE NORTH COUNTRY with submarines have been increasing- the official guides at, Stirling Castle,
whb• diets recently, was buried with
military honors.
"A. despatch from Cobalt says : The
buds fires which for the past number
of years have been more or less of a
menace to the development of the
North country lave 'been. conspicuous
by 'their • absence 'during -'the present
Summer. Up to the present time not
ly successful."
GERMAN CASUALTIES
WERE 39,863 FOR JULY.
TRADE IN JU1�
A despatch from London says: Ger-
man casualties reported during July
in the German official lists, but not
one fire of any importance has been necessarily occitring in July, aggro-
reported, due no doubt to the large gated 89,863, as follows:
amount of, lain, which. has kept the Killed or died of wounds or Almost One Hundred. Million
bush green and the underbrush more sickness . ............. , . 21,389
abundant than is usual. In practical- .Prisoners or missing ......... 141620
SHO S 1NCREM
ly every instance where farmers 'were Severely wounded .13, 896
Dollars Greater Than
Last Year.
burned out last Sunnier in the big Wounded and slightly wounded 39,958 A despatch from. 'Ottawa: -says:
fire, rebuildinghas taken place and total German casualties of all
The
their crops are better than ever. In a classes since the beginning of the war
good many cases the clearing of the exceeds 4,500,000.
land was made easy by the fire, with r
the result that .a large acreage is un- AUSTRIANS RAID
der crop than would otherwise have
been the case.
CHINA IS SEIZING
ALL GERMAN ASSETS
A -despatch from London says: The
Chinese Government, a Reuter des-
patch from - Pekin says, is, arranging
for the prompt liquidation of the Ger-
man Asiatic bank, Five officials of
the Foreign Office have been appoint-
ed to take over the accounts and cash
here and in- the Shanghai, : Canton,
Tien Tsin and Hankow branches.
Chinese troops have seized Austrian
concessions in Tienn Tsin; according.
to an Exchange Telegraph: despatch,
and German and'Austrian shipping is
being seized at Canton, Amoy, Swa-
tow, Shanghai and Nanking, , The ves-
se1s, include several small warship's.'
WOMEN HARVESTERS
FLOCKING TO THE WEST
A despatch from Winnipeg says.:
For the first time, in- Canada women
are,, coming west „for the harvest in
sufficiently large numbers •tb warrant
special train accommodation -for them.
Special cars on all harvesters' trains
will be set aliart for women., who'will
work in the fields if necessary. One
train carrying women harvesters, left
Quebec on Thursday,
1
Food Controller Makes: 'Impor-
tant Announcement.
part of the front they were forced to
leave valuable positions in the posses-
sion of the allies.
Before the fighting,. between Lens
and Loos had died out the French and
British moved forward north. of the
Ypres-Menin road. Throughout Thurs-
day bitter fighting continued. On the
left the French occupied the: ground
A despatch from Washington says: between the Yser canal and Martje
The Toed Administration made the vaart and then drove the Germans.
important ruling on Thursday that all from the important bridgehead of.
processes in the production of distil- Dreigrachten.
led' spirits for beverage purposes must' Langemarck. is a village: in the fain -
stop at 11 o'clock on the night of Sat-' ons Ypi,es salient, both on a high -
Markets of the World
Broadstu47s
Toronto Aug, 21 ---Manitoba wheat—
No,
c heat--
l*to, 1 Northern, $2,40; No, 2 Northern.
52.40; No 3 '.Northern, $2,38; 240, 4
white, -;t2:32, nominal, store Fort Wil -
Manitoba oats—Nos 2 C. 'W, ?6c, track
Olay lions,
i1merican corn ---No. 3 yollo'w, nominal,
trade Toronto,
Ontario 'oafs --No official quotations..
Ontario wheat ---No. `2 Winter, per carr
lot, $2,63 to $2.50; No. 3, $2,53 10 0L 53,
accordinl, to freights outside; new crop,
NO 2, ,$2.30, nominal., -
]2eas--No, 2 nominal, according to
freights outside.
Barley—Malting, nominal, according
to freights outside.
] ye—No, 2 nominal, accotding to
freights outside,
Manitoba flour—Fl:r;t patents, iu jute
hags, 512:95; second patents, in Jute
bags, 0 $12,40; strong baker's', in j1110
bags, $12.00,
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, $11.25, in bags, track Toronto,
prompt s tup inert,
Millfeed—oar lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included ---*Fran, ver ton,.
$36; shorts, per ton, 545; niiddling's,
per tong $47 to 545; good teed flour, per
bag $3.16,
2.e,y mixed, lj Per ton,er $9ttoA$10, 0
tack
$12,,00;
Toronto.
k
Straw—Car lots, per ton, $7 to 57,50,
track Toronto. "
Cpnntry Piot-Moe—Wholesale
Butter—Creatner•y, solids .per Ib„ 37
to 373c; prints, ..per, ib„ ^.373 to 36c;
dairy, per lb., 30 to Ole,
Eggs—Per doz., 38 10 39c..
Wholesalers are selling to . th.e retail
trade at the following prices
Cheese—New, large, 229 to 23c; twins,
222 to 230,e; triplets, 23 to 2330• old,
large, 30c; twins, 3030; triplets 30ic,:
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 36 to 070;
creamery prints, 40 'to 41c; solids, .350
to 39o -
Es s----New-laid, in cartons, 49 to 50c:
t it c
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 25
to 30e; fowl. 5c; squabs, per doz., $4.00
to 5.4-50: turkeys, 25 to 300; duolcs,
Spring, 20c.
Live 'poultry—Spring chicken's, ib., 20
to 22e; hens, 16 to 1St; ducks, Spring,
17c,
Honey—Comb--Extra fine and' heavy
weight; per doz.52.75; select, $2,50 to
52.76;`, No. 2:52 to 52,;26::
Beans --Prime white, 58.50 per bush.;
imported, hand-picked. 59.25 per bush.;
45
Limas, per'ib., 16 to 17c.
Potatoes, on ..track. ----Bed Star, bbl..
$5.50; North;; Carolinas, bbl„ 55.50;
seconds, bbl., $3.50 to 53.75; Ontario,'
bag, 52.50 to 52.05.
Provisions—Wholesale
Smoked meats—Hams, medium, 30 to
310; do., heavy: 26 to 270; cooked, "41 to
t 42e; :rolls, 27 . to 28c; breakfast bacon,
33 to 36c; backs, plain, 36 to 37e;'bone-
ess 35 to 400:
Cured meats—Long clear bacon. 26 to
•d ti �5 to 6e
63c ocr Ib; clear 'bellies; 25 to 25c.
Laid—Pule° lai erces. .,-z 26c•
tubs, 252 to 2630; pails, 26 to 263c; com-
pound, tierces, 203c; tubs, 202e; pails,
21e.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Aug. 21—Oats—Canadian
e Western, No. 2, 80e, do., 'No., 3, 7Sc;
urda ;'September 8. Any effort to. road and_. railway from - Ypres to extra No. 1 feed. 78c. barley—Manitoba
y,feed, 45,'1.26. Flour—Manitoba Spring'
construe the law to permit the use of Thourout. It was a peaceful village; wheat pa tents, firsts. $13; ac:, seconds,
wheat, corn, rye, and other materials situated hi the dull, monotonous plains 1 $12.50; strong bakers', 512;30; Sinter
which had been hoarded, after tli'at of • Flanders, and the `horrors of war patents choice, $13; straight rollers,
$12:40' to $12:65; i-, in bags. 56,00 to
time, it was made lain would be met first broke over it in the fall of 1914 $5.16. rolled oats—Barrels. $9 to $9.25;
tt , plain,
with firm action'
during the first battle of Ypres, Oil, bag f$3O its '$37 40 to $4.50.
0• $40 lto s,
that fateful April evening oed—
f two 'middlings •$4s to $60: mouillie, $60 to
ev o niid Eas, •$4o. 2. poreton; car lots; 0 50
ST. QUENTIN; CATHEDRAL years ago Langemarcl: was directly to $10. Cheese- Finest westernshoiaest
SET ON FIRE BY ENEMY. east of the left wing of the Canadian do eastern., 16c. Butter—C
— line, andbulked b t• •• 41 to lac, seconds 4U to
ci camel•
A despatch from Paris says-: The , talions in reserve. 1 No- l stock, .43e; No. 2 do:; 38 to 40c.
in it were
several
a 4UAc. Eggs -Flesh, 50e; selected, 47c:
•. have .set fire to St. uentm; amazed Canadians. in .this Dressed hogs Abattoir l.illed. $34 $o t
Germans Q + To the ama a $24:'So. Pork—xTea� �. Canada s
Cathedral, which is likely to be to- :little v'11age, late in the evvening of mess,. barrels, 35 to 45 metes, $51` to
April 22, 1915, came probably the first p265 pecs, short
0 .Lard—Com-
Canada. The cathedral • of Church of S1-. t t• tion of the enemy use of gas in povird, wood pails, 20 ]hs..net, 210 to
tally destroyed.
,-, «2 c: d., slur., wood:'pails; 20 lbs.. net,
Quentin, reported burning by the Gel 1 warfare. The tidings were borne to 24k. t., do.,
mans, is one of the finest Gothic, them by fleeing Turcos, paniestricken •
buildings in that part of France, and . by a fear not human, their faces con -1 Winnipeg Grain
was erected between the twelfth and orted by the effects of the as i S�'innipeg. Aug. 21 -Cash quotations—
double
ions—
' Wheat --No. 1 Northern.
$2.40 No, 2
fifteenth centuries. The building has scarcely able to gasp out the tale of Northern $2.38:
Northern , No. 3 Northern,
double transepts and the nave is 370; this new murder b the Hun: The ?,'o• 4 $2.32; '..o• 5, 52:x4 No•,6' $1.89:
y h' 4 s iecia1 $9 3: No 5
Canada's trade, exclusive of `imports feed, $1.r o.
and exports of coin and bullion and
of feet. long and 130 feet high. It is very whole world knows how the Canadians s pedal, $2.14; No. 6 special: 1.5'5. Oats ..
i n merchandise shipped through 'finely decorated and contains some I met the new device and the fatal —No. 2 C -Il'., 67c, No. 3 C.\V„ 66c; ex -
fore g PP , tra No. 1: feed. 66c; No. 1, 64c; No. 2,
Canada increased,according to a handsome bas-reliefs. In the crypt of breach in the line to the left of them, 62c; track, 65Ic.
d Quentin and le Bariev—No. 3 C.S4x., $1.24: No. 4.
statement by Hon. J. D. Reid, Minister the church are burse St. Q en n and of the valiant, dogged struggle
.thatsaved$120• 'refected, $113;: feed,,51,13,
they waged p � • Fla>ti—No: 1 , .. •�� ::
VENICE HOSPITAL of Customs, by almost one hundred
`� , million dollars in July last, as con-
A despatch from tome. says: Four pared with July, 1916, and 'by nearly.
persons were killed and 27' wounded $290,000,000 in' the four months ended
when Austrian aeroplanes raided July 31st, in comparison with the like
Venice Tuesday. A hospital was period last year. The value of mer-
uck by bombs from one machine d, for cortisumption in
sir chandise entero
and two of the patients killed and 21 July, 1917,' was $90,181,595, and in
injured. July, 1916, was' $63,622,687. Goods
Several of.the raiding- planes are entered for consumption in the four
reported to; have been brought down. months of the present;fiscal year
Italian aeroplanes and .destroyers amounted to $382,100,850 as against
$249,867,867 in the like period .of 1916.
*Exports of domestic goods reached'
$177,366,148 in July last and $507,
fought off the raiders:
SECRET WIRELESS
ON ARGENTINE COAST- 854,674 in the" four months' period.
They were $104,964,270 in July, 1916,.
A despatch from Buenos Ayres and $350,345,305 in the first four
says: A secret wireless station has months of the last fiscal year.
been discovered on the coast of the '.Exports of foreign merchandise
territory of Chubut by the Argentine have shown ,a decided falling off.
Navy , Department. The authorities They were in July only $2,850,372 and
believe the station was' to be used in in the four months $11,604,620 while
in the same periods . of 1916, they
reached $55,637,340 and $122,627,072
respectively.°
communicating with suspicious ves-
sels in the South Atlantic.
DEUTSCHLAND TURNED
INTO WAR SUBMARINE,•
A despatch from Copenhagen says:
The German ;commercial submarine
Deutschland, which visited the United
States before that country entered
the war, has been converted into a
wart submarine, according to German
fleet gossip.
British Discover Dyes,
Another step in the way of -British
independence from German dyes has
been effected by the discovery of an
acid dyestuff of exceptional quality,
producing a variety of bright shades
of blue. Other British dyes produc-
ed since the outbreak of the war are
showing a• -big sale,
r.,�.`..
his fellow martyrs, St. Victorious and d Y res C11ais �r R C $3.284 No.2
St. Gentianus. and the seas for Britain. , C W., `53.22; No.'3 C.\\'., 53,12: track,
Now Langemarck has been retaken. $3'26 '
_ _ _ . _ . I T -� N S BOARD Then flesh and blood fought nsachin- Unitefl states Markets'
BARS EL IGIBLES cry; to -day Britain, in equipment, out- Minneal;olis, Aug, ?l—[heat—self-
distances the German Between the tember, 52.94; No. 1 .Northern, $2.60 .to
A despatch from Ottawa says: The.
Imperial Munitions Board on Thurs-
day notified its male employees that
none of those eligible for military ser-
vice would be retained on the staff
after conscription has been put into
effect. It also gave notice that those
enlisting prior to ,the operation of the
obligatory service measure would re-
ceive half of one month's salary as a
bonus. The announcement, which
was not unexpcted, affects a large
number, fo<while, the number of
eligibles now in the employ of tate
board is small, as ,compared with a
year ago, the lengthy payroll still in-
cludes the names of many who will
come under the scope of the compul-
sory service bill.
EX -CZAR TO I3E SENT
T0, FRIGID SIBERIA.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
The semi-official Russian news agency
announces to -night that former Em-
peror Nicholas and his family were
removed from the palace at Tsaicskoe
Selo and that it was reported they
were being transported to Toboisk,
Siberia.
I .
losing and the taking of it represents 1*0 3 yelto,v, al•74 to Oats -No.
'the patient determined preparation of .3 }white, 58 to 59c. Flour unchanged,
aa
Ian Empire to beatFr
to its knees a na- ,Dulnuutnhch, Aug. 21—Wheat—No. 1 North -
'tion that, knows no law of man or of ern," 52.30, nominal No. 2 do,, 52.75,
God. It must afford peculiar satisfae- nominal.
i tion to the stalwart men who
Tenon- Live Stock Markets
ber that three days two years ago, 1 Toronto, Aug. 21—Extra choice heavy
jwhet they went into the Valley of the steers; $12 'to $12,65; choice heavy
England's
, steers, ;511)2.5100
10.50 to $11; butchers cattle.
Shadow of Death for Englands sake, choice; $10 t0 $10.40; do., good, $9.c0 to
' hearthat 1great tide f the$9 75' do medium $5 50
common $s.60 to $7.65, bu
f
lam.
to t a -t ie t e -0 toners' .bulls
'g eagain to recede choice, 58.60 to .so do.• butchelis, 57,60
blight e ed signally nevertheir , cho ce• $
has avenged signally comrades to $S do,, medinnY' bulls, $7 to $7.25;
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•
do., rough bulls, '55 to 56; butchers'
COWS choice 55.25 to 58.65; do., good,
57.60 to '5 7.90; do., medium, 56.66 to
56.86; stockers, 56.40 to 58.26; feeders,
$7,75' to 55; ,canners and cutters, 56.26 to
56.25; milkers, good 5
to choice, 80 to
GERMANS MUST PAY' 5100; do... corn. and med., 540 to 550;
springers, '' wo, .
IN GOLD FOR FOOD to 59,75; $S0sheteo p, 51h20;eavy,light $6etos$7.$52550':
Yearling's, 510 to $11,50; calves, good to
A despatch from London says: Ac -
choice; $13.60 to .
Montreal, Aug, 21—lambs, Ohtarto,
cording to Dutch newspapers, several 511 10 514.50; Oueboc, 912.50%°
513,501
heen• SS to $9; , milk -fed calves, choice,
million eggs destined for Germany u0l $13 to $14; good$10 to $12; grass-fed;
have ibeen held ` up by theD t l $6 to 50' hogs, $17,50, $17,75 and $18:
authorities. on the -German frontier,
says a despatch .from Amsterdam to
the Exchange Telegraph Co. The
Germans promised to pay for the eggs
in gold, but at the last moment they
otfetted paper money, which the Dutch
refused to accept.
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