HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-4-18, Page 2BRITISH CDNTRDL SITUATION Iii
' DERsaENEMY GAIN ARREN DNR
Fightin, Continues on Large Scale -German Success Was Short -
Lived -Relatively Quiet on French Front.
A, despatch from the British Army
in lance says; The Messinee Ridge
and the Ploegsteert Wood, which last.
Fane were cleared of Germans by a
speetaeular coup, again were filled
With swirling Biasses of fiercely -bat-
tling troops as. the result of a new
drive launched by the enemy between.
Armentieres and Messinos,
The Germans are partiulearly de-
sirous of capturing Messiiies Ridge
and Wytsehaete, and pressed their at-
tacks bard there throughout the.
day. Much sanguinary hand-to-
hand fighting occurred at the places,
the tide of battle surging back and
forth for many hours before the
'en
-
en� filially abandoned temporarily
his attempts here.
Coincident with the attack north
of Armentieres the enemy continued
to push northwestward from Croix
du Bac below Armentieres in order
to complete the pocketing of the lat-
ter city. French ` carried out a small infantry
A later despatch says: "The situa- attack got Grivesnes Chateau, locally
tion in Flanders is regarded an Thurs- improving their position in the park.
day .as fairly well in hand, but the The guns are active on both sides
fighting continues on a heavy scale along the whole front. The Germans
and is likely to continue. What sue- have done little trench digging. .The
cess the Germans achieved developed enemy airmen are more active, but
out of an advance in the centre of the are showing little inclination to take
original front of attack, helped out by the offensive.
the Musty weather, The territory
which the enemy overran was sparse-
ly popalaed by civilians, and as re-
gards the character of the country, it
is a barren gain Moreover; the en-
emy communications are lengthened
across long tracts of clay.
`;The weather has improved and
on Thursday morning the allies were
efkeetively co-operating in large num
:hers.
"At 10 o'clock Thursday morning
the enemy made a fer°inidable attack
againstHoliebeke, and fighting of
great intensity followed.. Masses of
the enemy advanced in waves over
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A despatch from French Head-
quarters says: Relative quiet pre- FOOD BOARD
veils from Hangard to Noyon. The
Markets
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Breadstnits
Toronto, April 16 -Manitoba wheat --
No. 1 Northern, $2.233; No. 2. do., $.2.204;
No, 3, do.. 22.174; No. 4 wheat, $2.104;
in store Fort William; including 29c tax.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 969e; No.
3
C.W. 9211c• extra No. 1 feed. 91ic;
No. 1 reed, 89;c, in store Fort 'William.
American corn -The War Board in the
United States prohibit importations,
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 93 to 94e;
No. 3 white,. 92 to 93c, according to
freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car
lot, 52.22: basis in store Montreal.
Peas -No, :2, 23,60 to $3.70. 'according
to freights outside.
Barley -Malting, 91.98 to $1.70, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat -$1.83 to 91.85, according
to freights outside.
Rye -No. 2, 92.60, according to
freights outside.
Manitoba flour -War quality, 211.10,
'new bags, Toronto.
Ontario hour -War quality. 910.70,
new bags. Toronto and Montreal freights
prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots -Delivered {Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran, per
ton. $35.40; shorts, per ton, 940.40.
Ray -No. 1. per ton, 2'17 to 919;
mixed, 914 to 216, track Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 98.50 to 39,
track Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale
Butter -Creamery, solids, per Ib., 47
to 4Se; prints, per 1b., 48 to 49c; dairy,
per lb., 39 to 40c.
Eggs -New laid, 35 to 26e.
Poultry --Dressed, chickens, 26 to 280;
fowl, 27 to 30o; ducks, 25 to 30c; geese,
21 to 22c; turkeys, 30 to 36c.
Wholesalers are .selling to the retail
trade at the following prices: -
Cheese -New, large, 23 to 239c: twins,
284 to 234c; early cheese, 253. to 26c;
large twin. 26 to 264e.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 41 to 42c;
creamery prints, 50 to 52c; solids, 49 to
500.
Margarine -32 to -23c Ib.
Eggs -New laid. 42 to 43c; new laid,
in cartons, 46 to 47c.
Dressed poultry -Milk -fed chickens,
35 to $8c; fowl, 30 to 33c; turkeys, 40
to 45e.
Live poultry-Turkevs, 900; chickens,
lb., 26 to 28c; hens, 3b to 33e.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bush.,
8.50; Imp. hand-picked, Burma or
ndian, 26.50 to 27; Japan, 98 to $8.25;
Limas, 19 to 20c.
Maple syrup -Imperial gallon, 22.25;
wine gallon, 21.76.
Provisions -wholesale
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 36 to
38e; do., heavy, 80 to 32c; cooked, 46; to
48e; roils, 8.1 to 32c; breakfast bacon,
41 to 440; backs, plain, 43 to: 44c; bone-
less, 47 to 48c.
Cured meats -Long clear- bacon, 29 to
30e; clear bellies, 29 to 30c.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 314 to 02c; tubs,
all to 321-0; pails, 32 to 32.9c; prints,
33 to 831c. -Compound tierces, 26 to
269c; tubs,2 26 c pails, 6 to a is 264to
27c; prints, 273 to 28c.9 p
Montreal Markets
Montreal, .April 16 -Oats -Canadian
Western, No. 3, 51.07; extra No. 1 feed,
91.07; No. 2 local white,, 31.054; No. 8,
do., 91.034. Flour -New standard Spring
wheat grade, 211.10 to 511.20. Rolled
oats -Bag of 90 lbs.. $6.60. Millfeed
Bran, 525.40; shorts. 940.40: middlings,
548.50; mouiliie, 260 to 362. Bay -No.
2, per ton, car lots, 317.
Winnipeg train
Winnipeg, April 16 -Cash prices:-
Oats o. 2 C.W,, 964c; Ne, a C.W.,
929e; extra No. 1 feed, 9190; No. 1 feed,
8940; No. 2 feed, 86c. Barley -No, 3,
1.66; No. 4, 91.61. Flax -No. 1 N,W.C.,
3.89; No, 2 C.W.. 93.794; No, 2 0 W
3,60.
United Statex Markets
Minneapolis, April 16--Corn---No, 3
$y allow, 51.60 to 21,70, Oats -No, 8
white, 90i to 914c. Flour unchanged.
Bran -$32,14,
Duluth, 'Minn„ April 16 -Linseed -
34.084 to $4.16; arrive, $4.054; May,
34.104 bid; July, 94.064 bilge October,
33,61 bid.
Live Stock markets.
Toronto. April 16 -Heavy steers,
choice, 212,25 to 318; do., good, 911.50 to
9$12; butchers' steers and heifers, choice,
911.50 to 912; do., good, 311.25 to 911.75;
do:, medium, $10 to 910,25;. do., com-
mon, 98.50 to 99.25; butchers' cows,
choice, $9.75 to $1'0.50; do., good, 99 to
comm xodo., 36.50 to '997.75
25 ; do,, ca nn canners',
96 to 96.25; butchers' bulls, -choice,
910.25 to $11; do„ good, 99,25 t6 39.76;
do., medium, 38.25 to 99; do., common;
97.60 to $S;; feeders, best; 99.50 to
310.50; stockers, best,. $9,60 to $9.751
grass cows, 37 to 37.75; minters and•.
springers, choice, 8100 to 9135; do., com,
to axed., $65 to 990; calves, choice, 316.50
to $17;. do„ medium, 914 to 914.75; do.,
common, $8 to 910; heavy fat, $10 to
312; lambs, ' choice, $19.50 to $20.75;
sheep, choice handy, 913 .to 914.50; do.,
heavy and fat bucks, $11 to $12.25; hogs,
fed and watered, $20.25 to $20.50; do.,
off cars, 920.50 to $20.75; do., f.o.b.,
319.25 to 919.50.
Montreal, April -16 -Choice steers, 912
'to 313; good steers, 910,50 to '$11}75
choice butcher cows, 39 to 910.50; good
cows, 97 to 59; butcher bulls, $8 to
310.50; canners' cattle, e5 to 96; calves,
milk -fed. 37 to 914; some veru choice at
apiece;schoice lselect hogs, toff cars, 521
to $22; sows, 319 to $20.
UKRAINIAN GRAIN
ALREADY EN ROUTE.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
A despatch received here from Kiev,
Russia, says that an agreement was.
signed Tuesday afternoon by the
Ukrainian and German and Austro-
Hungarian delegates; for the supply to
the Central Powers o'some 60,000,000
poods (a pood is a li le more than
one-third of a pound) of bread, fod-
der, grain, peas, beans and seeds. Of
these 9,000,000 poods are to be deliver-
ed in April, 15,000,000 in May, 20,-
000,000 in June, and 19,000,000 in
July. The despatch adds that the de-
liveries of the grain already have be-
gun.
TWO NEW DREADNOUGHTS
ADDED TO KAISER'S NAYY.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
-Two new dreadnoughts have been
added to the German fleet during the
war, according to the Vossische Zeit-
ung,
in the
and haveparticipated
bombardment of the fortifications on
the Islands of Oesel and Dago. Theses
vessels are the . Baden and Bayern,
which -were launched in 1915, at Kiel
and Danzig. They Etre 38 -centimetre
shells.
29 MEN OF CANADA
STOPS HOARDING
Dealers Notified They Will Be
Prosecuted if Stocks Al-
lowed to Spoil.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Canada Food Board states that the
new anti -waste and anti -hoarding or-
ders made by the board have been
responsible, in, part at least, for a
large reduction in the surplus of
apples and potatoes in Canada. The
quantity of apples in the. Annapolis
Valley and in leading marketing cen-
tres was reduced during the month of
March by nearly 100,000 barrels.
The smallest reduction has taken
place at Winnipeg, where 13,000 bar-
rels of apples were in store on March
30, as compared with 15;400' barrels
on March 1. The Canada Food Board
has telegraphed the chief food in-
spector at Winnipeg enquiring whe-
ther these holdings are liable to be
marketed without loss. If the stocks
there cannot be taken care of without
waste, the Food Board is prepared to
require dealers to dispose of their
holdings without delay. Very con-
siderable supplies of onions are re-
ported to be held in British Columbia.
Dealers' -are warned that they are
liable to prosecution if any part of
these stocks be allowed to spoil.
France is Converted to Jain.
SPLENDID PART
PLAYED BY CANADA
War Has Cost 'to Date 835
Millions and 100,000
Casualties.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
tale of Canada's outpouring of treas-
ure for the attainment of the objects
involved in the present conflict of na-
tions is.told` in the great mass of fig-
ures with which Sir Robert Borden
introduced the discussion of the Do-
minion's fifth war appropriation bill
in Committee of the Whole in the
Commons. The recital of statistics
brings few thrills to the listener, but
a study of the Prime, Minister's state-
ment is rewarded by a new and clear-
er appreciation of 'the magnitude " of
Canada's share of the financial bur-
dens of the struggle. To the end of
the fiscal year 1917-18 Canada's war
expenditure at home and abroad so
far as it has to date been reported
amounted. to $835,950,019. To that!
will be added if the disbursements for
the present year are as estimated,
$516,277,804, making a total since the
outbreak of war of $1,352,227,823. As
the Prime Minister pointed out, how -
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ever, that sun; does not represent all
the expenditures of the period inas-
much as certain large amounts laid
out in Great Britain have not yet been
reported and included in the amounts.
as a refuge during air raids. It
FROM OLD SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER
BANKS AND BRAES.
What is Going On in the Highlands
and. Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
The Military Medal has been award-
ed to Private P. Sturrock, Royal Field
Artillery, Alyth.
Provost Mungall has been appointed
one of the governors of Morrison's
Academy, -'Crieff.
A "Bring and Buy" sale held at
l Athelstaneford in aid of the Red Cross
Work Party, realized £28.
Capt. John Crockart, British Mer-
cantile. Marine, a native of Arbroath,
has ,been awarded the D.S.C.
The Military Cross has been award-
ed to Lieut. A. R. Stuart, R.F.A., son
of Robert Stuart, inspector of poor,
Arbroath.
Capt. J. Ogilvie I€emp, Royal Scots,
and a well-known Edinburgh advocate,
has died from illness contracted on ac-
tive service.
The death took place recently at
Falkirk, of John M. Dow, a well-
known nurseryman and seedsman of
that place.
Lord Kinnaird has received word of
the death . in actionof his second son,
Lieut. the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird,
Royal Scots.
No foreign vessels, or British ves-
sels from foreign ports, have entered
Arbroath harbor during the past year.
John M. Raining, solicitor, Dum-
fries, has been eledted burgh prosecu-
tor in succession to James Kissock.
The Military Medal has been award: -
ed to Private L. J. Hope, K.O.S.B., St.
Boswells, for bravery on the field. •
The Military Medal has been award-
ed to Corporal. William Purves, son of
William Purves, Walkerburn,
Private Andrew Currie, Canadians,
killed in action, was a son of George
Currie, Greenbraehead, Hawick.
'Hawks have greatly increased in
Baddingtonshire, owing to the absence
of gamekeepers on 'military service.
Alex Symon, architect, Brothock
Bridge, has been appointed to a posi-
tion in H.M. Office of. Works, White-
hall,. London.
Lieut. Marcus Strachan, M.C., Can-
adians, son of William Strachan, Lin-
lithgowshire, has been awarded the
Victoria Cross.
At a recital given in ' Cupar by
Matheson Lang and Miss. Hutin Brit-
ton, £30 was - realized
for the Red.
Cross Society.
Gibson, W. W
Captain i
p bson, Stirling, has
been promoted a Deputy Assistant Di-
rector of Roads in France, with the
rank of major.
Lance -Corporal D. M. Telfer, who
has been awarded the Military Medal,
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Telfer, Hope
House, Kinross.
Poor Overworked Words. -
It is declared by a philologist that
nine words do one-fourth of our verb-
al work, and forty-three words one-
half. The nine most useful words are:
And, be, have, it, of, the, to, will; you.
Among the thirty-four are: About, all,
as, at, but, can, come, day, dear, for,
get, go.
The French poilu may pray for
peace, but in many ways he isn't sorry
the war came. For instance, if it had
not been for his alliance with the Brit-
ish Tonimy on the battlefield he would
never have acquired the taste for the
delectable English jams and marma-
lades with which the English soldier
fortifies himself.
Intimacy with the eating habits sof
the British troops gave the poilu' a
liking for the jam that he carried
home with him. French hospitals de-
mand much of . the sweet from Eng
land andthe soldiers who go out dis-
charged call for it in the tiny delica-
tessen shops of the cities.
Rivaling the poilu in this taste is
the African colonial soldier, who
comes up from Algeria and . beyond
to fight for the tricolor. His fondness;
for the new delicacy is tremendous.
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Mustache an Army Badge.
It is against the British army regu-
lations for an officer to shave his up-
per lip, and from time to time the
British War Office has issued general
orders expressing its disapproval of
the growing disregard of this regula-
tion.
The mustache long has been regard-
ed as a military badge. Only one
regiment in the Austro=Hungarian
cavalry may go smooth faced, and this
is because during the Seven Years
War recruits were 90 scarce thatthis
regiment once had to go into battle
when there were nothing but beard-
less boys in its ranks. It behaved
with such gallantry, however, that
its members remain beardless to the
present day.
WON VICTORIA CROSS
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return tabled in Parliament on Thurs'
day at the request of. Mr. W. S. Mid r
dlebro, Chief Government Whip,: shows �a•
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The names and particulars of the in Bill.dividual acts of heroism included in Diagram shows the effect of setting the clock on one hour.
the return are the same as already that it gives us an extra hour of play -time without cutting down our hours
published in cable despatches. of work or sleep.
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SUNDAY MORNING
Daylight Saving Goes Into Et.
£ect Two Hours After Mid.
night Saturday,
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
daylight saving bill, which was put
:through the committee stage and
'given third reading in the Senate .on
Thursday, will in all probability come
into effect at two o'clock pn Sunday
morning, April '14th. A semi-official
intimation to this effect was given,
by Senator Robertson, Minister with-
out portfolio, when the bill was being
considered. Senator Robertson' gave
as the reason for the bill becoming ef-
fective on Sunday morning instead
of on Sunday at midnight, the circum-
stance that fewer trains ran on Sun-
daY s. He said that less l}i conveni-
epees would be caused by advancing
the clocks sixty minutes at that hour
in the morning 'because late trains
would have arrived at their destine,..•,,
tions and' morning trains would be '"
made up:at a later hour,
MUST RAISE FaOD
OR .JOIN TEE ARMY
Only Farmers Who Show Ade.
(nate Results. Will Be
Exempted.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
attention of farmers receiving condi-
tional exemption from military ser-
vice until a fixed date is directed to
certain principles which have been
laid down by the central: appeal judge.
at Ottawa which apply to all exempt-
ed men in this class. -
The need for troops cannot be exag-
gerated. On the other hand, the ne-
cessity for maintaining, food produc-
tion is likewise pressing. The ex-
emption
x-emption-granted farmers is granted
solely because of the conviction that
they are, or may be, more useful in
food production than as troops at the
front. •
4,000,000 MORE ACRES
UNDER CROP THIS YEAR.
A despatch from Victoria says!,
Prof. W. J. Black, commissioner 'ad-
ministering the Agricultural Instruc-
tion Act, estimates there will be an
addition of 4,000,000 acres under crop
in Canadathis year as compared with
1917. Half will be in the provinces,
east of the Great Lakes, probably
nearly a' million acres in Ontario,
600,000 in Quebec, where many of the
grass lands are being broken, up, and
400,000 in the Maritime Provinces. Of
the 2,000,000 acres in the Western.
provinces, about half will be in'Sas-
katchewan.
BRITISH CAPTURE
PALESTINE TOWNS
A despatch from London says: -
British troops on April 9 advanced
their line north of. Jerusalem, in
Palestine, to a depth of oeie and a
half miles along a front of five miles,
the British War Office announced
on Thursday: Notwithstanding the
stubborn resistance of the Turks, the
British captured the villages of. Rafat
and El Kefr.
NO ONE -CENT PAPERS
IN BRITISH. ISLES
A despatch from London says: -
The
a s: -The lastne-cent in the
o ne •wspapel
British Isles, the Daily ,Express, has"
now gone up to two cents. London
now has one 6 -cent morning paper,
two at 4 cents and the remainder at 2
cents each. The afternoon papers
are all two cents, except one, which
sells at four cents.
German Long -,Range Gun Joials
Enemy Airmen in Killing Babies
A despatch from Paris says: -The
bombardment of Paris by the Ger-
man long-range gun was resumed
Thursday afternoon.
One shell struck a foundling
asylum.The total 'victims of the
bombardment were four killed wadi
21 wounded.
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