HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-6-13, Page 3GERMAN ATTACKS
BETWEEN OISE
AND AISNE MET WITH FAILURE
Grilling Gun Fire Forced Assaulting °Troops to Fall Back Al-
though Hospice Was Taken by Foe.
A. despatch from the French Army! The Hospice was gainer after hard
in France says: -Continued attempts fighting, but when the assaulting
by the Germans to extend their lines troops tried to advance further they
on the Oise on Wednesday met with'
dir>'a'atrous failure. They tried to get came up against such a grilling ma-
around Pont L'Eveque by crossing the I Chine -gun fire and artillery fire that
Oise in the neighborhood of the north- they were forced to abandon the at -
ern -most point of Garlepont Wood, tempt and fall back to the Hospice,
where the small hill, Montalagache, whhi!). at the latest reports, they were
stands out like a bastion, but the still holding. This bit of ground,
French drove them back immediately with the buildings, has changed hands
they left the protection of -their lines. innumerable times within the past few
The .sector between the Oise and the weeks. Locre and the Ho -spice lie
Aisne also found the allies very ac well up on a slope which culminates
tive. They are determined to hold in the important elevation known as
this and are displaying the greatest Mont Rouge, to the 'west,
energy in improving their positions, Numerous raids are beingattempt-
at
the same time capturing small ed by the Germans along the British
batches of prisoners, most of whom front with the,purpose of taking pri-
show signs of terrible fatigue and soners from whom the enemy, per
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privation. rivation. haps, hopes to learn whether the bat
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A despatch from .the British Army tle of the Aisne has brought about,'
in France, says: -An enemy attack any change in the disposition of the
against the French in the neighbor- 'allied troops.
hood of Locre on Wednesday night Several raids were started last
met with a repulse, although the Ger- night. They proved costly failures.
znans•apparently,succeeded in captur-
ing . Locre "Hospice, which lies .just
south-east of the village.
The operation was a local one, with
Lorre as its objective.
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AMERICAN MARINES ATTACK SUCCESS-
FULLY IN CHATEAU 'MERRY SECTOR
Hold All Important High
Ground
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dCaptured Large Number
of
A despatch from the American been pressing the Germans so hard
Army in Picardy says: Americaniia-
that the enemy has been forced to
nines attacked the Germans at dawn
three new divisions of his best'
3%troops in the line during the last
on Thursday morning and gained 3
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kilos over a four -kilometre front, and Soon after
er the attack of Thursdaycapturing 100 prisoners in
the Cha- morning the Americans carried Hill
142 (about two-thirds of a mile south
of Torcy), the highest point in this
vicinity and swept on and stopped at
the foot of a wheat field on the other
side, from where they raked the Ger-
mans with machine guns. One en-
tire enemy machine gun company was
almost annihilated. The Germans
had donned French uniforms, but the
Americans, forewarned, poured oured ro l-
leys of fire into them. One German
soldier had 32 ivounds, Among those
captured in Flanders.by 7.45 o'clock. The Americana have captured were two officers.
choice, $12,00 to $7;$.00•.. do., good; �� � - SHIP � �-��
$11.00 to $11.50; do., medium $10.26` ®��SCOTLAND
�° ��� � t � "0,, _DELEGATES'SHIT'
to $10.50; stockers, $9.50 to $11.25;
feeders, $11,25 to $12.00; canners and
Brcadstuffs cutters, $6.00 to $7.25; milkers, goon NOTES OF INTERESTFROM HER
STRUCK
Toronto June 11. -Manitoba wheat to choice, $90.00 to •1:40,00• do corn.'
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At 1 o'clock Thursday morning the 2No, 1 Northern $2.23x/; No. 2 do. and med., $6'5:00 to $80.00; `springers,' r HANKS AND BRAES. - -
grey coats essayed a raiding thrust $2.20,-; No. x3 cio., *2.171/x; No. 4 $90.00 to $140.00; light ewes, $17.50
near Morlancourt. They found the li eat, $2..10 / hi in store Fort Wil- to $19.50; lambs, $20.00 to $21.00;.' . Were En Route to Angle -oxer-
am, including /c tax. calves .�
Anglo -Ger -
British ready. The Germans were re- good to choice, $14.00 to e man War Prisoners'
pulsed with considerable losses. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 83c; $16.50; hogs, fed and watered, $18.50; What is Going On in the Highlands
No, 3 C. W, 80c; extra h o. 1 feed, do., weighed ori cars, $18.75; do.,' d Lowlands P Auld
Conference.
80c• N 1 f , , 'n store fort f,o,b, $17,50.
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A Western Canadian trooper escorting a party of German prisoners
teau Thierry sector. The French, at-
tacking at the same time on the left,
took 160 prisoners.
The Americans now hold all the im-
portant high ground north-west of
Chateau Thierry.
The marines again attacked at 5
o'clock on Thursday afternoon and the
battle is still raging.
The fight started at 8.64 o'clock on
Thursday morning, and the Ameri-
cans had attained all their objectives
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� CITIES �v Rilharxi I, Mon'tical, June 11: -Steers;; $15,00;; 6cotia- A despatch from The Hague says:
l� American corn -Na: 3 yellow, kiln choice cows $11,60 to $10.00; choice ;• The hospital ship Koningin Regontes,
dried, nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln bulls, $12.00. Calves, $12.00 to $15,00' Major 4. A. Longden, R.G.A., for- having on board the British delegates
dried, nominal, • t
AGAIN BOMBED per 100 pounds • Sheep, ,$14, 00 per merly of the Aberdeen Art Gallery; to the Anglo -German war prisoners'
Ontario oats --No, 2 white, 79 to 100 pounds; spring lambs from $19.00 has been awarded the D.S.O. conference at The Hague, struck a
80c; No, 3 whiter 78 to 79c, according to $21,00. Choice select hogs off cars,' Robert W 1 mine off the English `coast. Four
to freights outside, $20.00 to $20.60 per 100 pounds. agency of the Union Bank at Banff,
firemen perished, but all others were
Peas -Nominal.
British Airmen, Caused Enor- Barley -Malting, $1.35 to $1.37, ac- after nearly fifty years of service. saved by the hospital ship'Sindoro.
mous Destruction in Enemy cording to freights outside: PREPARING EARLY Brigadier -General George. Ronald The delegates aboard the ship were
Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Buckwheat -$1. 80, according to FOR NEXT VICTORY LOAN. Hamilton, M.C., Dragoon ' Guards, the Home Secretary, Sir George Cave;
Territory. freights outside. Fife, has been awarded the D.S.O. Baron Newton, Under-Secretary of
A despatch from London says: The
Supreme in the Comma -
the 2 $2.00, according to A despatch from Ottawa says; The, Ten copper coins of the time of the Foreign Office, who attended the
ria! World• freights outside.
British official comrhunication dealing .Manitoba flour -War qualijty, Minister of Finance is giving early' George III. have been found at Dorris previous conference; Lieutenant-Gen-
rvith aviation issued on Thursday •
$10.96 new baattention to the details connected with in a good state of preservation. " eras Sir Herbert Belfield, Director of
An order' has been issued prohibit- , gal Toronto. Prisoners -of -War since 1914 and Mrs.
says:mg alt aliens from addressing or talc- quality, Victory Loan, The Order of Leopold IL has been
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night`vednesday night our long-distance ing $10.65, new bags,t Toronto and Mont thoughttwillbe issued about October awarded Darla Livingstone,
. part in meetings, real freights, ti dad to Sergeant Alexander Shep •y gs ne, the wife of an
bombing machines again attacked the Th.e widows.and orphans of life- g , prompt shipment. % or November next: It is his inten- herd, son of Mrs. Shepherd, Forrest English colonel. Mrs. Livingstone,
Metz-Sablons' station triangle and also - Car lots -Delivered tion this year to have,if possible, the Stretcher-bearer who is an American, boatmen killed on duty will be paid Montxeala freights, bags, included: S c er bearer John F. Skea, r can, is secretary of
the railway sidings at Thionville, pensions• instead of lum sums. Bran; per `ton, $35.00 abortsper ton bonds engraved and ready for deliv- Black Watch, son of John Skea, gin- the Government committee on prison -
dropping five tons of bombs with good P Thelandin England and Wales un- $40.00. ' ' ery at the time of the flotation, so ross, has been awarded the Military ars-of-war. She attended the previous
results, although the visibility was in- der wheat is near double what it Hay -No. 1, ' per ton, $15.50 to that subscribers upon paying in full Medal, conference, and was active_ in recover -
different. 'Thursday morning the rail- was on the same date lastyear. •$16.50; mixed, $18.00 to $14.00, track at any time may receive their securi-Inspector Buchan, of the Aberdeen ing English vwomen and children from
way station at Soblenz was heavily at- Toronto ties. This will do away with an im palace force, has resigned after thirty- Belgium in the early days of the war,
tanked by us: Good bursts were ob-. An association has been formed in Straw -Car lots, per ton, $8.00 to mense amount of work connected with three years' service on account of ill t~
served on the railway line. All the England to collect the combin s ,of $8:60, track Toronto. the issue and surrender of interim health. PARIS AGAIN RAIDED
machines emerged safely. M long-haired. .&nn Surrey,a native of Country Produce=Wholesale certificates, and will also greatly econ- John Scrimgeour and Samuel S. BY GERMAN AIRMEN
"The .fine weather of Wednesday Ilford, died recently at tlio advanced . ,:Eggs,: new laid,'40c;selected,'new omize the clerical labor, which in Goudie have been appointed honorary
enabled our airmen to carry out much laid, 43 to 44e; carton44 to 4c the last issue was very great. The sheriff 'substitutes for the county of A depsatch from Paris says:- Ger.
age of 101 years:
photographic, reconnaissance. and; ar- Lord Clinton has been appointed
Butter -Creamery, solids, 44 to 45c; Victory loan of last fail had.' `to be Dundee: man aiilhanes raided the' Paris districg
Twenty do.,prints, organizedvery quicklyin order to Cor, oral Peter Craft Scots Thursday night through a heavy de.
tillerywork. tons of bombs Keeper of the Privy Seal by the
46 to choice dairy ninth 41 ode, 'P Royal.Pensive barna
were dropped on different targets, in- Prince of Wales. ;r ' ??T prints, to set the unexpected demand for Bo Hess, has been awarded the" Mili- ge• Some bombs were
eluding dumps and railway billets,prints, ., c; large British credits for the purchase tar Medal for allant service in dropped. One person Is reported
c, ordinary dairy 88 to 40
gdead and several wound
the Armentieres and Roye stationThe Overseas Club has received bakers', 36 to 38c. 0leomargarme of munitions and foodstuffs in Can Palestine. g wounded. Material
from a member in Brazil 1,001 sacks (best grade),32 to 34c. damage was done..The "all clear"
and the Zeebrugge seaplane base. Cheese-Nw, large 231 to 24c Ada. Thisyear the problem is known Mrs. Leslie, of Balbeggie, has re- gtear was
"In ' ' �weIl in advance, and preparations for ceived word that the ounded at 12.20 a.m. Friday.
of coffee for the British Red Cross.
addition, our long-distance day- A memorial is being erected to the twins, 23'a, to ; spring made,D.S.O.O. has been
bombing machines heavily 'attacked men of the village of Great Easton, large, 25% to 26c; twins, 26 to 26%c, the issue are already under way., awarded to her son, Lieut. Norman
Beans -Canadian, prune, bushel, Leslie, R.N.R. ' .
HALIFAX PREPAR
the railway station and barracks at $7.50 to $8.00. Foreign, hand-pick- Anew industry has been started in FOR POSSIBLE RAIDS.
Treves' and the MetztiSablons railway near Dunmow, who have fallen in the ed, bushel $6.75 to $7;00. pSTEFANSSON TO REACH. Perth,
station, and the raiiwa�s at'I{arihaixs, war. making paper from the reedy
Lieut. John Francis Harlow, on of ,` Comb Honey -Choice, 16 oz., . $3.50 ' VICTORIA THIS MONTH. rasa whichgrows in r A despatch from Halifax, N.S.,
returning without loss. J. S. Harlow; of the Daily Mail staff, Pei dozen; 12 oz., $8.00 per dozen; sec g profusion on the
"Seven hostile machines and three has been awarded a bar to hisMill-
Maple
and dark comb, $2.50 to $2.75: banks of the Tay.; says: A number of well-known citi-
German abseivation balloons wereMaple Syrup -Imperial gallons, A despatch from Ottawa says: A Carnegie Trust Fellowship' has zens, including D. MacGillivray, presi-
tar Cross. been received bythe Navaldent of the Board of Trade, have re-
shot down during the day by our air- Two members of the Overseas Club ;$2'26; 5 -gallon. tins, $2,10• per,'gallon,' Word has been awarded to Miss Isabella Leitch,
men, and three hostile airplanes were Maple sugar, per pound, 24 to'25c. I Department from VilhJalmar Stefans M.A., daughter of Mr. Leitch, post- sponged to an appeal by the Mayor
have sent cheques for the purchase of son the Arctic explorer, to the effectP for 200 citizens to enroll as constables
driven down out of control. Four of aeroplanes for the Overseas Imperial r P master, Peterhead:
our machines are missing. Provisions -Wholesale that he expects,to reach Victoria ear- Captain. Herbert Anderson, New for special duty in Halifax. in the
Flotilla: Barrelled Meats -Pickled pork ly this month. Stefansson reported event of a hostile raid by air or sea,
"Wednesday night 13 tons of bombs In future the pay will not be stop- mess pork, 47. P. , $49;P g Zealand Forces, son of Mrs.Ander-
were dropped by us on the 'St, Yuen- ped of officers In service whose in from Fort Yukon,where he had one son, Duff •avenue, Elgin, has been
tin, Poesingd Cambrai and Armen-jursGreen ]Meats -Out of pickle, le less from Herschel Island, on recovering' awarded the Military Cross. Poilus'Pay.
are attributable to than smoked, from an attack of typhoid. -He and Lieut. John T. Shaw,R.F.C. Dun -Until. recently the French soldier's
Beres stations. All ' our machines �
returned," the1ewai� sickness Smoked ,Meats -Rolls, 82 to 33e; his party were ordered to return to dee, has been killed in Englandg' • pay- was almost a negligible quantity.
The Food Committee of Islington hams, medium, 37 to 38e; heavy, 30 to civilization with their scientific collet- as theNominal! he was supposed to re-
lea refused to let a woman accumulate 31c; cooked hams, 49 to 60c; backs, result of a frying accident: y, PP
- coo ons enough to buybacon for plain, 43 to 44c; backs, boneless, 46 to tions, and'detailed -reports of'new There was an unusual scene at the Nominally,
one cent a day, but he really
BURDEN OF WAR WILL48c. Breakfast baeon, 40:to 44c. Cot-- discoveries made during their foto Dufftown golf links when forty-four 'got only seven cents in cash every ten
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OUTLAST GENERATIONS. wedding. tae rolls '35 to 86c. years in the Arctic. Stefansson in- teams were employed -in breaking it days, 3 cents being deducted or. each
• Ben Tillett stated in an address Dry Sated Meats ;Long clears, in timates that he will probably give a up for cropping ur ores. pay day on account of his tobacco ra-
that a country which' can produce wo- tons,30c• in cases,304e'. clear ,bellies, short lecture tour on his return. a P p
A despatch from London says:- o Captain Stanley .j Norrie -Miller, tion:
Right Hon. Sonar Law, in the course men like the British need' have no 28 to 28i,2c; fat backs, 26c.
of hiscfear for its destinies. Lard -Pure, tierces, 31 to 32c; turfs,
tax, s on' -the double in- 311/, to 32i/� c; 31 i FOCH WISELY BIDING HIS TIME
come said' that the war was go- Only nine persons could be classi- pails, % to 32 c;
fres as homeless when the London 1-1b., prints, 33 to 381, e. Shortening, BEFORE USING ALL HIS FORCE
ing to leave a financial burden which tierces, 20 to 26%c; tubs, 261/4 to
would outlast many generations, County Council took a midnight ren- 26%c; pails, 263t to 27e; 1-1b., prints, A despatch from Pails sas: The
sus recently. 27* to 28c. Y
What would to e considered was A wedding was the result of an German losses grow more serious
how each part of the Empire should S egg daily, but they' are still numerically
sender's name and address Montreal Markets
bear its own burden,:. and, having re- .with the { superior; on the whole front, and may
gird for the immense natural re- on it being received by a soldier in an . Montreal, June 1i. -Oats -Cana- 'be able to
ftources of the dominions, he thought English hospital dian Western, No. 2, 93 to 931/ec; ex- embark upon a new offen-
e would A fifteen months old bull belonging tra No. 1 feed, 90 to 90 e. Flour- sive in. some other sector, perhaps
they v be better able to bear their how 'Government standard. 5 ran Montdidier-Noyon. The French corn -
'glare than the Mother. Country , to Dr. Harley, Betcheley, Bucking- g
o ntry would hamshire, was sold at-' the Birmin wheat grade( $10.95 to *11.05. Rolled mand le therefore wisely biding its
be able to bear hers. h h�9g oats -Bags', 90 lbs., $4.85 to . $5.00. time before putting' forth all its ef-
t axe show for .,.x,100. Bran, $36.00. Shorts, $40.00. Mouil- forts.
Wimbledon Common will be used lie, -$72.00. Hay --No. 2, per ton, -
457,000 TONS BACON AND HAM; to pasture one hundred head- of cat- car lots, 15.60.
REACH BRITAIN PROM AMERICA tle and five hundred sheep to augment $ ' SUBMARINE USED TORPEDO
the local meat supply. Live Stock Markets IN SINKING THIS VESSEL.
A despatch from London says:- A special memorial service was ' Toronto, June 11. -Extra choice
,Thein R. Clyne's, Parliamentary Secre- held at Chiseoldon for the officers andheavy steers $15.00 to $16:00,' choice A despatch from Washington says:
Gary of the Ministry of Food, told the plea of the London Rifles who have heavy steers, $14.00 to $14.25; but- The sinking of . the British freighter
House of Commons on Thursday that fallen in the war. chess' cattle choice. $14.00 to $14.25; Harpathian, of 2,800 tons, 100 miles off
do;, good, $13.25 to 18.60; do. mad- the Virginia Capes, at o'clock on
o efforts of the German submarines, Lieutenant the Hon. W. II. Cubitt;
owever severe,coolrunt, $12.00 to $12.50; do., common, Wednesday d menace the civil- second' son of Lord' Ashcombe, has day, was announced on Thurs
$11.,,00 to $11,:25; butchers Bulls,
pian population of Great Britain died of wounds received day night. Zha entire He e ved in action, c'ho'ice; $12.00 to $18.00;' do., good crew was res
aid that '457 000 tons of 'bacon and Nearly one thousand women are bulls, $11.00 to $11..76; do., medium cued by the steamer Palmer. The
am recently had been i • -'r 2 to$ submarine used•
Y imported from now woxl�mg, on the land in Notting.- bulls, $10.6 ,.,1.0:50, do., rough a torpedo. One mem:
tnei•ica. ham and more are wanted. bulls, $7.50 to $8,50; butchers' cows, ber of the British crew was injured
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NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE
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Blade Watch, Cleve, Perth, was pre- Some little' while back, however,
sented with the Military Cross ` at his rate of pay was increased to 5
Buckingham Palace by the King. cents a day, so that he now draws 50
Jack Grant, son of Dr. Grant, Gran- cents for ten days' soldiering.
town -on -Spey, has been appointed as- A pitifully small sum it seems to
sistant resident engineer of the Blue us. Nevertheless, the average Poilu
Nile Irrigation Works, Egypt. is a rare money -spender, the a -
The small village of Whins-on--Mil tion being, that not one in s. hundred,
ton, near Stirling, has sent seventy probably, is dependant entirely upon
men to the front, three of whom have his' pay.
been awarded the Military Medal. Every French lad knows that he
For saving life in the North Sea will be called. upon to serve in the
Frank Nicoll, R.N., has been awarded ; army in his turn in due course, and
the D.S.M., the Royal Albert Medal he starts saving in view of anis
and the French Croix de Guerre. eventuality from a very early age.
The late Miss Jane Smith Kintore The accumulated money, often sup -
has left 42,000 to be equally divided ; plemented by the savings of his par-
betwe'en the Morningfield Hospital ents, is sent to him in instalments
and. the Aberdeen Hospital for 'Chil-1 fromhis home at regular brief inter-
dren. veld; and,he. spends it right royally,
Lieut. J. G. W. S.
Hone R.F.A. son ` from his point of view, in wine, cib-
of the Rev. C. S. Hendrie, Dalmel-that
; ars, extra food, and any amusements
Croix delington, iGueiras el awarded the Belgian theatrical oray concert parties.
in the of
The order of the British Empire ' "----a-4-- • "' --
has been awarded to Miss Currie, ( To aid in feeding to scldiers oven
daughter of Rev. D. Y. Currie, West • seas eat mora cereals, firlt, `potatoes
Mai se, Peebles. and vegeta'ules, It's patriotic.
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