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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-7-4, Page 3ITALIANS TURN OFFENSIVE AGAINST ENEMY IN MOUNTAIN REGION Sweep. Entire Western flank of the Piave Clear of Foe - Numerous Prisoners and War Material Captured. A despatch from London says: Holding the upper hand along the borders of the Venetian plain, the Italians have turned on the offensive against the enemy in the mountain region and are attacking on various sectors. Notable gains of ground ''have been made and hi addition to heavy casualties inflicted on the en- emy, 'a large number of Austrians have been made prisoner, and 16 ma- chine guns have, been captured. The Italians at last have cleared the remaining Austrian rear guards from the west bank of the Piave river and now are in possession of the en- tire riyer front, from the Montello plateau to the sea. At last accounts their river forces which crossed the stream in pursuit of the retreating Austrians were still harassing them. Renter's correspondent at Italian headquarters telegraphs that it is estimated that the Italians have tak- en 20,000 Austrians prisoner since the commencement of the. offensive. Tho Italian War Office statement. has not as yet announced the total number of prisoners, The figures of 40,009 published were merely esti- mates given out by Italian officials. A later despatch from Rome says: All the positions held by the Austrians on the lower Piave, constituting the Cepo. Sile bridgehead, have now been taken by the Italians, and the entire Western bank of the Piave is clear of the enemy. Nearly 400 prisoners were taken in the enterprise. Aside from this fighting there has been little activity in the southern sec- tion of the Italian theatre. Seemingly the chase of the enemy on the eastern bank of the Piave is ended, at least for the time being. In the mountains heavy bombardments are in progress in various sectors, and intensive aerial operations :are going on along the en- tire front: The Rome War Office're- asserts that all the artillery lost by the Italians to the Austrians in the initial stage of the fighting has been recaptured. • Markets of the World Breadstuffs Toronto, July 2. -Manitoba. wheat --- No. 1 Northern, $2.23%; No. 2 do., $2.20x.; No. 3 do., $2.171/z; No. 4 wheat, $2.10%; in store Fort Wil- liam, including 21/zc tax.. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 85%c; No. 3 C.T., 8214c; extra No. 1 feed, 821/1c; No. 1 feed, 79%c, in store Fort William. American corn -No. 3 yellow, kiln dried, 'nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln. dried, nominal. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 79 to 80c; No. 3 white, 78 to 79e. according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.22; basis in store Montreal. Peas -Nominal. Barley -Malting, $1.24 to $1.26, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -$1.80, according to freights outside. . Rye -No. 2, $1.80, according to freights outside. Manitoba ` flour --War quality, . $10.95; new bags, Toronto and Mont- real freights, prompt shipment. Ontario flour War quality, fered, $13:60 to $15.00; poorer quaffs, fns fired into - the hangars. our $10.65, ' in bags, Toronto an • Mont- 11.00.. Choice butchers' cows, $7.00 pl real; `prompt shipment.. to $10.50; canners, .$55.00 tons planes were n fire b twice lowtflying machines, ]1lillfeed-Car lots -Delivered Mon- butchers' bulls, $8.00 to $11.00; milk- chi gun Y fed calves, $15.50; poorer quality, $10.00. Sheep were $11.00 to $13.00; Spring , lambs, $12.00 to $14.00. Choice select hogs $19.00 to $19.25. CAPRONI TO BUILD AIR- PLANES TO CROSS ATLANTIC. Western, No. 2, 96c; extra No. 1 feed, 93c Flour -New standard grade, $10.95 to $11.05. Rolled' oats -Bags, 90 lbs, -$5.10 to $5.15. Bran, $35.00. Shorts, $40.00. Mouillie, $67.00. Hay --No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50 to $15.00. Live Stock Markets Toronto,July 2. Extra choice heavy steers,$15.50 to $16.00; choice heavy steers, $14.50 to $14.75; but- chers' cattle ,choice, $14.50 to $15.00; do., good, $13.75 to $14.00; do., medium, $12.00 to $12.50; do, com- mon, $11.00 to $11.25; butchers'. bulls, choice, $11.50 to $12.00; do, good bulls, $11.00 to $11.50; do., medium bulls, $10.25 to $10.50; do., rough bulls, $7.50 to $8.50; butchers' cows, choice, $12.00 to $12.50; do., good, $11.50 to $11.75; do., medium, $9.75 to $10.25; stockers, $8.00 to $11.00; feeders, $11.00 to $11.50; canners and cutters, $5.50 to $6.,50; milkers, good to choice $90.00 to $140..00; do., and 90.00$6to $140 00 S lights airdrome at Belcham. Observation springers, $ $ be- lieved' .ewes, $16.25 to $17.00; yearlings, $15.50 to $17.00; spring lambs, 20 to 21%c.; "calves,' $13.00 to $17.00. Montreal, July 2. -Choice steers of MANY U-UOATs SUNK DURING MAY British Navy Reaped Best. Har- vest Yet Recorded.. A despatch from London says: "The month of May was really the most favorable we have yet had." 'This is the comment of Archibald S. Hurd, the naval writer, in the Daily Telegraph, He adds: "It is common knowledge that ow- ing to the large number of submar- ines destroyed the enemy paid a higher price for every ton of shipping sunk than :in any corresponding period since piracy was inaugurated." ed to the three following natives o "The offensive by sea was still be Banffshire: Skipper Watt, Private in ' maintained by the- Germans Mackintosh, Gordons, and Corporal durg utmost l Barron, Canadians. buts in sp to May wofththee unprecede t d ( St. Andrew's University, Fife, holds number of submarines sent to sea t National War Bonds and other War only 224,000 tons of fish tonnage poen stock to the value of over £203,000. - About one thousand patriotic wo t f ° t that losses men are asked to volunteer for. the harvesting of the flax crop in Fife. from marine risks were , `unduly Lance -Corporal Meldrum, Gordon heavy,' it can now be said definitely I Highlanders, who has been awarded that ea ynemy's eff sive sio ultane us I the D.C.M. is a son of .Mr. and Mrs. by sea by ail offensive simultaneous Meldrum, Gordondale, Alford. to attacks on the western front has The rector of. Ardrossan Academy failed definitely. has given up part of the Academy "Although exact figures are want-; park for allotment purposes. ins of the sinkings of submarines, it i For gaor alltry.in the Palestine oper- is known they reached a higher i ations Captain Ronald Brown, A, and figure last month than,in any period . S H. Blinkbonnie, has been awarded since the submarine. campaign began. the Military Cross. E TS The Military Cross has been :award KERENSg E EFF C . Blackwood, of to Lieutenant G.' G ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA. th he Seafoxths, son' of Mrs. Blacktivood, A despatch from London says: I Southwood, Peebles. t d The latest photo of King George and Queen Mary. Princess Mary is in the background: FURTHER RAIDS ON GERMAN TOWNS Karlsruhe, Metz and Belchan Bombed -Powder Works and • Airdrome Attacked. A despatch frons London' says: The Air Ministry issued the following re- port on Wednesday night on aerial operations: "On Tuesday night successful at - to tacks were made by us' on the enemy's corn. was difficult; but much° damage is to have been done, a fire was started. The-- bombs were released from a low altitude, and machine FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM LiER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the Highlands, and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Thirlestane Castle is ,now bein; used as a convalescent home for ofii cers. The Duke of Roxburgh has put un - d r cultivation a portion of his poli- cies and golf course at Floors Castle. The Victoria Cross has been award - was lost, as compared with 374,000 in May of last year. "In . spite ofthe ae 20 500 000 RUo OF M. Kerensky, former Premier of Rus- , 9 spa, who made a dramatic appearance WHEAT I before the Labor Council on Wednes- N CANADA day, expects to go to Paris, perhaps before the end of the week, and a few days later to sail for America. He left Russia less than three weeks ago by way of Mourmansk. The time be- tween the day of his disappearance areal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $35.00; shorts, per ton, $40.00. Hay -No. 1, per; ton, '$13.00 to $14.00; mixed, $12.00 to $13.00, track Toronto. - Straw -Car lots, per ton, $8.00 to $8.50, track Toronto. Country Produce -Wholesale Butter ----Creamery, solids, per lb.,. 42% to 43c; prints, per lb., 43 to 43%c; dairy, per lb., 35 to 36c. Eggs -Naw laid, 37 to 38e. Poultry -Roosters, 23 to 25c; fowl, 23 to 30c; ducks, 25 to 30c; turkeys, 27 to 30c. Wholesalers are `selling to the re- tail trade at the following prices: - Cheese -New, large, 231/2 to 24c; twins, 23% to 2414c; old, large, 251/' to 26c; twins, 26 to 26%c. Butter -Fresh, dairy, choice, 40 to 42c; creamery prints, fresh made, 45 to 47c; solids, 44 to 45c..; Margarine -28 to 33c, lb. Eggs ---New laid, 44 to 45c;'' new laid, in cartons, 46 to 47c. Dressed poultry --Spring chickens, 65c; roosters, 28c; fowl, 38 to 40c• tur- keys 40 to 45c. Live poultry -Spring chickens, 55c; roosters, 25c; turkeys, 30c; hens, 23 to 34c. Beans - Canadian, hand-picked, bushel, $8.00; _imp., hand-picked, Burma' or Indian, $6.75; Japan, $3.50 to $8.75; Limas, 18 to 19c. Maple Syrup -8%43 tins, 10 to a case, $14.50 i imperial gallon tins, per. ting $2.25; imperial five -gallon cans, . per can, $10.50; 15 -gallon kegs, per gal., $2.00; maple sugar, 1 --lb. box, pure, per lb . , 24 to 25c., A despatch from New York says: Signor Caproni, the Italian airplane inventor, already has a machine cap- able of flying across the Atlantic, and is ready:to send it to -this country, ox to built one here, according to his plans, the executive of.the Aero Club of America are advised by Lieut. Belloni, of the Royal Italian Flying Corps 'one of which was brought to a stand- still. "A large number of bombs were also dropped on railway sidings at Metz-Sablons. "On Wednesday a railway establish- ment and a powder works at Karls- ruhe were attacked with. good results. The powder works, main station and other buildings were hit. Our forma- tions were heavily attacked by hostile airplanes, and three of our machines have not returned." Grain Supervisors Estimate This Amount on Hand May 31. A. brass tablet has been. exec a ?n Gairlochead Parish Church to ,the memory of . the late Lance -Corporal Arch. Douglas McCall. The roil of honor of the Kelvinside Academy contains the names of 494. old boys who enlisted in the army and navy. The Croix de Guerra has been. A despatch from Ottawa says:: from public affairs and his departure awarded to Bombardier Ptei ha harp, There were 20,500,000 bushels of from Russia,he spent in Novogorod, R.G 4. , son of Alexanderp, wheat in Canada on May 31 last,'a i Petrograd' and Moscow. His wife re- Renton. sward L. Gray; R.A.F., Ed - census made by the Board of Gram mains in Russia, in hiding. Lieut. Lc Supervisors has shown. `There were, Although :Kerensky's evasion of rington Castle, Berwick, was home p moreover, products equivalent to an the police agents of his own country dentally killed while flying at a additional 14,150,000 bushels of wheat.. was facilitated by a moustache and station. Bowers of Glasgow j ui- There were in the farmers hands in a long beard, which he grew in his Professor , bushels; in West- months of 'hiding, he did not versity, has been elected a member the West 5,000,000,b g' ern elevators and flour mills, about think his sufficient. to disguise him- of` the celebrated Scientific 'Academy 6,750,000 'bushels; in Eastern elevat- self- and added,the.dress of a sol- of Turin: pounced • 635885 bushels, and in transit. Bier servant. A friend procured for The death in action is an vs, 6, , 2 000000 bushels. It is estimat him the pass and other papers of an of Major John Skinner, K.O.S.B., one about , , that there are ground 6,750;000 orderly, and finally he began to move of the Glasgow winners of the Vic - ed t Y, bushels in Eastern Canada, and 7,- more -publicly about the streets of rtoria Cross. saving effort 400,000 in Western. Adding these Moscow. Finally he risked passage Musselburgh's war s O reof the I aims at providing a squadron of aero - products to' the actual wheat in store, . on the_xailway and got out f theie were the equivalent of 34,650, country. (planes. in. the. country on May --et---. The total amount collected in Edin, 000 bushels ymonth of April the British BRITAIN'S NEWAERIAL CIRCUS. burgh on flag days amounted to over 31. In the p BRIT Wheat Export Company exported 11- :622,985. le a •, Team of- Pilots. Midlothian, has offered Pinkie House, oldiers' Rations Musselburgh, for: Red Cross purposes. Loose knobs on, doors: or cupboards are; easily tightened with alum: Warm a little powdered alum in an iron n, and apply ' it to the hole in Lieut. which the handle fits. When the alum machines could besbuilt in American has hardened the knob will be quite large numbers ! Belloni pointed out that the .poo airplane factories in ars . firm. Alum is similarly a' good cern- and as there were plenty ofe aironly ent for broken ch;ina. available for. the service, there onlylent remained organization, faith and skill to make trans-Atlantic flights suc- cessful. - PRINCESS MARY TRAIN Provisions -Wholesale ,Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 86 to 38c; do., heavy, 30 to 32c; cooked, 50 t 51c; rolls, 32 to' 33c; breakfast bacon, 42 to 44c; backs, plain, 44 to 45c' boneless, 48.10 49c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 30 to 310; clear bellies, 29 to 30c. Lard -Pure, tierces, 30s/a. to 31'4,c; tubs, 31 to 31%c; pails, 311A. to 31si'4c; prints, 32% to 33%c. Compound tierces, 26 to 26%c; tubs, 26% to 26%e; pails, 263,c; pails, 26% to 27c; 'prints, 28 to 28%c., Montreal Markets Montreal, July 2. -Oats ---Canadian ING AS A NURSE. A despatch from London, says Princess Ma;y, daughter of King George, will this week begin a course of regular training as a nurse at the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street. She will work in the Alexan- dra ward. The princess will' attend the hospital two days each week, and will undertake the usual work of a probationer --in order to make herself efficient in the care of children. • Bavarian Crops 'Unusually Poor. A despatch from Copenhagen says: The harvest prospects are extremely bad, and the Bavarian Agricultural Council is preparing the population according for further suffering, Munich despatch to the Berlin Tage- blatt. Frosts have affected the crops in the kingdom, and they have also suffered from drought. Rye is in particularly bad state, the advices add, while the potato yield is expect- ed to be very small, and there is virtually no fruit. ei ea xpor - 000,000 bushels. Major Bishop,VC, to Lead Picked 1 Colonel Sir John A. Hope, 141.P. for Austrian S Bread Made of Wood and Hay. A despatch from Italian Headquar- ters says: An official chemical exam- ination of the black bred eaten by the, Austrian soldiers ho were in this campaign, showed 32 per cent. of, oat flour, the remainder being ground up wood fibre, straw, hay and other unidentified ingredients. Cut the flower' stalks off rhubarb plants. It weakens the plants to al- low them to go to seed. ..AICD:, R GIMbl47 . E.Tc:-...-.... Serve&withtwriourcadalseAi:4Winrtr ar., ` iciantteaj dsa&argid ou The Certificate of Honor for every discharged soldier by the King toci. off.. see I DON'T' KNOW IT WAS SO LATe. HOPE 514E13 Asa-aEP I'LL Just' TURN 'THIS cLocK - BACK A LITTLC- IN NE WAKESOP A recent special cable from London d control committee of the states that Major W A. BTht foo Bishop, V.C., Vale of d control asked that Loch D.:S.O., M.C., Royal Flying Corps, who Lomond be netted for all kinds of won the flying" honors of the world in fish. a single flying season and whose book The Peebles Fund for the Royal "Winged Warfare" has just been pub' Scots' prisoners of war has now reach fished by George H. Doran Company, ed over £900: "is shortly to emerge anto the lime- Lieut. -Col.' W. C. Charteris, a chap- lightwith.a picked team of pilots, in -lain to the forces, and former minister eluding two Canadians, some British- to the Baptist congregation, Ayr,,has ers, two New Zealanders, and two been awarded the Military Cross: Africans." This is the first tinge, so :Lieut. the Rev. D. W. Bruce, G.oi•- far as seems to he known, that ad"c- don Highlanders, who has been either squadron has been forme by ;wounded a second time, is minister of the British or the French. It Cadzow Parish Church, Hamilton. is reported from sources close - to Ma- The home of the Countess of Euston 301 Bishop that he is elated at the at Ardwell, Stranraer, is the head - prospect before him, and that all the quarters of the county branch of the Red Cross Society. General Walter Maxwell -Scott, great-gandson of Sir Walter Scott, has been married to Miss Mairi Mc- Dougali, of Lunge, Adgyllshire. Pte. ".Archibald Haddow, R.A.M.C., Parkhead, was presented with £200 in recognition of his having been awarded the Military Medal. Major A. C. McIntyre,<M.C., Sea- forths, reported killed in action, in civil lifewas clerk and treasurer to the Ardchattan Schoal Board. pilots of the new squadron are "Aces" and have already made names for themselves. CANADIAN TROOPS REACH ENGLAND. A despatch from Ottawa says: It is officially announced through the Chief Press Censor's Office that the following troops have - arrived in England: First Tank Battalion, Ottawa, in- fantry drafts from Toronto; cavalry' draft, Royal North-west Mounted Po- lice; artillery draft from Woodstock, N.B.; nursing sisters; details; a total of 8,492. "Are Our Guns Still Firing?" Asked Dying Artilleryman. A despatch from Italian Headquar- ters says: An artilleryman, who was cut down by, an Austrian shell, when dying was visited by the battery com- mander. When asked how he felt, roved the artilleryman neglected to reply to app the question, but demanded instead:' "Are our grins still firing?" •WHERe five .0.5-u BEEN G IT ISN'T VERN/ LAYS Lool< AT 'THE cLocf< THAT CLOCK AASEN'i BEEN GOING FOR 1-wo DANdS Major Snaith, M.C., R.E., who has also received the Belgian Croix de Guerre, is a son of E. J. Snaith, form- er mathematical master of the Royal High School. The Military Cross has been award- ed to Lieut. Hugh P. E. McIntosh, only son of the Rev. Hugh McIntosh, Bal green road, Edinburgh. Thomas McKenzie of the United States Forest Service has been en- deavoring to arrange with the British Columbia authorities for summer pas- ture in the Pacific Coast Province for 1,000,000 American sheep. T Pas te a aim BIN .1111111 rhir ' . .50 '4/4