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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1915-9-16, Page 2THE 0 k. DANELLES 0 PERAT1ON ON EYE 0 F A GREAT SUCCESS Within Little Distance of a Triumph That Wil Affect All World, Says Lord Robert Cecil. A despatch from Landoll says: It Will be recalled that Winston Church- % formerly First Lord ter the Adrair- alte, rtow Chancellor of the Duchy of .fearteaster, said shortly before the • Cabinet changes that the allies were within a few miles of final victory at the Dardanelles. . Although these few miles have not yet been covered, the belief evidently Still grips the British Ministers. Sir • Robert Cecil in a speech at Croydon declared that the Anglo-French forces are within little distance of a great suecess in the Dardanelles which would have an enormous effect on all parts of the world. According to information received lin Bulgaria from reliable sources, the , allies are now concentrating large Iforces, including heavy landing artil- i lery for a new general attack on the Dardanelles. The presence of mine - 1 1 sweepers at Seddel-Bahr, near the entrance to the Straits, is regarded as foreshadowing increased activity, including a vigorous bombardment of the outer Dardanelles forts. Ac- cording to a despatch to the Temps from. Dedeaghatch, the Bulgarians are actively fortifying that port and its environs. Heavy guns are being placed at all stragetic points. REFUSES TO PAY that it is impossible for the German and American Governments to reaeh 1 a harmonious opinion on this point, FOR LIVES 1AT:the German Government would be • prepared to submit the difference of t opinion, as being a question of iter- ; 1 t TI H Trib I Germany, in Note to U. S., Sees No Obligation in Arabic Case. A despatch from Berlin says: Ger- many's note to the "United States bear- ing on the sinking of the White Star Line Steamer Arabic, which was coxxx- municated to the American Ambassa- dor, James W. Gerard, for transmis- aion to Washington, is in the form of a memorandum under date of Sept. 7, the text of which follows: "On Aug. 19 a German submarine stoped the English steamer Dunsley about 16 nautical miles south of Kinsale, and was on the point of sink- ing the prize by gun fire after the crew had left the vessel. At this moment the commander saw a large steamer making directly towards hire. This steamer, as developed later, was the Arabic. She was recognized as an enemy, as she did not fly any flag and bore no neutral markings. "When she approached she altered her original course, but then again pointed directly towards the subma- rine. From this the commander be- came convinced that the steamer had the intention of attacking and ram- ming him. In order to anticipate this attack he gave orders for the subma- rine to dive, and fired •a torpedo at the steamer. After firing he con- vinced himself that the people on board were being rescued in fifteen boats. "According to his instructions the commander was not allowed to attack the Arabic without warning and with- out saving the lives unless the ship attempted to escape or offered resist- ance. He was forced, however, to con- clude from the attendant circum- stances that the Arabic planned a vio- lent attack on the submarine. "This conclusion is all the more ob- vious as he had been fired upon at a great distance in the Irish Sea on Aug. 14 -that is, a few days before -by a large pasenger steamer, apparently beyonging to the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which he had neither attacked nor stopped. "The German Government most deeply regrets that lives were lost through the action of the commander. It particularly expresses this regret te, the Government of the United States on account of the death of its citizens. "The German Government is un- able, however, to acknowledge any obligation to grant indemnity in the matter, even if the commander should have been mistaken as to the aggres- sive intentions of the Arabic. "If it should prove to be the case nationalaw, o ie ague for arbitration, pursuant to article 1 38 of The Hague Convention for the ipacific settlement of iternational dis- putes. i "In so doing, it assumes that, as a matter of course, the arbitral decl- sion shall not be admitted to have the importance of a general decision on the permissibility or the converse i under international law of German submarine warfare." AUSTRIA MUST RECALL ENVOY Answer of the U. S. Government to Dr. Dumba's Explan- ations. A despatch from Washington says: The United States has informed Ans- tria.-Hungary that Dr. Constantin Theodore Dumba the Austro-Hungar- ian Ambassador to this country, is no longer acceptable as that country's envoy at this capital. The demand for the Ambassador's recall is based upon his admission that he atempted to disrupt industries in the United States. The action taken in Dr. Dum- ba's case amounts to a notice to Ger- many, as well as to Austria-Hungary, I that this Government will no longer tolerate activities by aliens calculated to embarrass the United States in its relations with the belligerent powers of Europe. It was the answer of the American Government to Dr. Dumba's explanation of his intercepted letter to Vienna outlining plans for handi- capping plants in this country making 1 war supplies for the allies. It is understood that Ambassador Dumba will not be handed his pass- ports, but will be permitted to fol- low his own course and await word from Vienna. If he should desire to return home it would be necessary for the American Government to se- cure a safe conduct for him from the allies. "NON STOP, BERLIN," SIGN ON LONDON BUS A despatch from London says: A curious sight near the Strand was a London motor 'bus returned from the front marked, "Non stop, Berlin." It was on one of these that the Can- adians rode into Ypres. 'er 98 a Free Tre zzt.4 3-"; Pied t f ry FE 0 ICE Brack's Bird Seed and a Cake of Brock Bird Trees Give Dick this special treat. The attached coupon mailed to us will bring a geeerous sample -a week's supply -of Brock's Bird Seed and a cake of Brook's famous Bird Treat -FREE Btock's contains nothing but clean, fully ripened seeds and grain, rightly proportioned. Also every package contains a cake of Brock's Bird Treat -a splendid tonic and a dainty dessert for your pet. • If you prize your bird, and want its plumage to be , bright -its song clear and sweet -ask for Brock's Bird Seed. Send for this free ifarriple and Dick will sing his thanks. ee, eeS, Nicholsolt & Erode, ID Pre:nets Sg.. Taranto., Ont. 404 • Pleafort)nred free paciiiittrofflr(reles Dirt! Sea, with erske • of Prock's Bird Treary,_ Nam* * • • eiriddroprs • : BULGARIAN GUNNERS WHO AWAIT THE CALL 1111161111:258ISMILERREIREATA '•'. ' • .: %. • • eke • .., • . • , • , 'es ise .V.Z4V0%,,,AMIntantaMinOriligranagniatTAVNESIE4 The picture shows a group of Bulgarian gunners who may soon be in action and who are now being held in readiness, pending the outcome of negotiations between their country and the belligerent Power. The Leading Markets AWES NEED NOT BE ANXIOUS OVER NEXT MOVE OF GERMANS Breadstuff s. Toronto, Sept. 14. -Manitoba wheat -new crop -No. 1 Northern, $1.01; No. 2, 99c, on track lake ports for; prompt shipment, Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., nomin- al, on track lake ports. American corn -No. 2 yellow, 83%c! on track lake ports. Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, nom- inal, on track Toronto. Ontario oats -New crop -No. 2 white, 38 to 39c; No. 3 white, 37 to 38e, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -New -No. 2 Win- ter, per car lot, 92 to 95c; old, slight- ly tough, 85 to 90e; sprouted or smut- ty, 70 to 80c, according to samples and to freights outside. Barley -Good malting barley, No. 3 feed and feed barley, all nominal, cording to freights outside. cording to freights outside. • Rye -No. 2 nominal, 75 to 80c, ac-! cording to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bagp, $5.75; second patents, in jute bagel $5.25; strong bakers', in jute bags, $5.05, Toronto. Ontario flour -New -Winter, 90 per cent. patents, $3.80, seaboard, or Toronto freights in bags, prompt ship-, ment. Millfeed-Car lots -Delivered Mont- real freights. Bran, $25 per ton; shorts, $27 per ton; middlings, $28 per ton; good feed flour, $1.80 per bag. Country Produce. 1 Butter -Fresh dairy, 24 to 26c; in- ferior, 21 to 22c; creamery prints, 28% to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 27%c Eggs -No. 1,23 to 24c per dozen, in case lots; extra at 26 to 27c. Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 to 11%c; do., retail, 12% to 15c.! Combs (wholesale), per doz., No. 1, $2.50 to $3; No. 2, $1.50 to $2. 1 Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress- ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 20 to 21c; fowl, 12 to 13c; ducklings, 17 to: 18e; turkeys, 23 to 25c. Cheese -Large, 14 to 14%c; do., twins, 144 to 14%c. Business in Montreal. Montreal, Sept. 14.-Corn-Ameri-, can No. 2 yellow, 89 to 90e. Oats - Canadian Western, No. 3, 57c; No. 2 local white 43c; No. 3 local nihite,1 Situation is Hopeful, No Matter What Campaign Enemy's .Staff Decides Upon, Says Times Expert. A despatch from London says: Col. Repington, the Times' military expert, discussing the question, "What will the Germans do next?" declares that they find themselves in the state of perplexity as Napoleon did after his success at Vitopsk, the outcome of which was Moscow. The tenor of the article is hopeful, if not optimistic. The writer does not attempt to guess Buckwheat -Car lots, nominal, ac - what the Germans will decide, but says: "The situation is clear enough, and no matter what the German decision is, the allies .can regard. it with equa- nimity. We have not been so foolishly generous as our present enemy has been with initiative as a gift, and the question is not only what he proposes to do next, but what the allies pro- pose to do. Time will show." 42c; No. 4' local. white 41c. Flour - $5.85; seconds, $5.35; strong b'alterst; $5.15; Winter patents, choice, $5.50; straight rollers $4.65 to $4,85; do.,A despatch from Washington says: bags, $1.75 to '$1.85. Rolled oats The State Department has made pub- Bbls. $5.45; do., bags, 90 113S, $2.60 lic a report from the American Mini - Manitoba Spring wheat'patents firsts steers, $8 to $8.10; butchers' cattle, choice, $7.60 to $7.85; do., good, $7.20 to $7.45; do., medium, $6.40 to. $7.10; do., common, $5 to $5.50; butchers' bulls, choice, $6.50 to $7.25; do., good bulls, $5.90 to $6.35; do., rough bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers' cows, choice, $6.50 to $7; do., good, $5.215" to $6; do., medium, $5 to $5.'75; do., common, $4.50 to $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7.30; stockers, 700 to 900 lbs., $6.25 to $7.25; canners and cutters, $3.75 to $5; milkers, choice, each, $65 to $110; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $50; Spring- ers, $50 to $95; light ewes, $6 to $7; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $7.75; Spring lambs, cwt., $8 to $8.50; calves, good to choice, $8 to $11; hogs, off cars, $9.40 to $9.65; do., fed and watered, $9.25 to $9.30e do., f.o.b., $8.90. Montreal, Sept. 14. -Butcher steers --Good, $7.25 to $7.50; fair, $6.75 to $7; medium, $6.25 to $6.50; butcher bulls, $4.25 to $6; canning bulls, $3.50 to $4. Butcher cows -Choice, $6 to $G.25; good, $5.50 to $5.75; fair, $5 to $5.25; poor to medium, $4.25 to $4.75; canners and cutters,, $3 to $3.50 per cwt. Sheep, 4% to 51/2c, and lambs 7 to '7efic per pound. Hogs -Selects, $9.50; roughs, $7.50 to $8.50; sows, $7.50, and stags, $5 to $6 per cwt., all weighed off cars. Calves, $3 to $13 each, according to size and quality. 41 NORWEGIAN SHIPS LOST SINCE WAR BEGAN to $2.70. Bran $26. Shorts, $27.1ster at Christiania. Norway, disclos- Middlings, $32 $33. Mouillie, $29 ing that Norway has lost 41 vessels to $33. Hay -No. 2 per ton, car lots, since the war began. Seventy-six $17 to $17.25. Cheese -Finest west- sailors have perished. erns, 13% to 131/se; finest easternst 13% to 13%c. Butter -Choices Of the number of vessels flying the creamery, 28% to 28%e• seconds, Norwegian flag lost 13 were destroyed 27 1/2 to 27%c. Eggs -Fresh, 29 to 30e; se- by mines, 24 by torpedoes, three dis- lected, 28c; No. 1 stock, 23c; No, 2 appeared in the war zone, and one stock, 20c, Dressed hogs -Abattoir was crushed by a German warship. killed, $13.60 to $14.15. Pork - Still another was taken as a priirte Heavy Canada,short mess, bbls., 35 to Hamburg. 45 pieces, $29; Canada short-cut back, The losses have been so heavy to Ms., 45 to 45 pieces, $28.50. Lard-- Norwegian shipping that war risks in - Compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 10c; wood pails, 20 lbs., net, 10%e; pure, tierces, suranee rates have been increased and 375 lbs., 11% to 12c; pure, wood pails, restrictions imposed. Up to date the 20 lbs. net, 12% to 13c. Norwegian War Risk Bureau has in- curred risks aggregating $2,00e,000 aind collected in premiums but $1,- 820,000. 90% to 957,c; No. 2 Northern, 87% toiCIINARD STEAMER SUNK 92%c, September, 88%c; December, 89%e. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 75% to 76c. Oats -No. 3 white, 82 to 321/2c. Flour and bran unchanged. Duluth, Sept. 14. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, 94c; No. 1 Northern, Mc; No. 2 NortMontana, hern, 91c; No. 2 hard, 92c; September, 91c bid; December, 90%e. Linseed cash, $1.6314; Saps tember, $1.03 bid; December, $1.63. Live Stoek I4larkets. Toronto, Sept. 14, --Best heavy United States Markets. Minneapolis, Sept. 14. -Wheat - No. 1 hard, 96%c; No. 1 Northern, NEAR COAST OF SPAIN A despatch from Paris says: The British steamer Alexandra, owned by the Cunard Steamship Company, was torpedoed 70 miles from Cape Palos, near Mtircia, Spain, according to the Madrid eorrespondent of the Havas Agency. Twenty-eight of the crew have been landed aa Mizartene Spain. U. S. RELATIONS GROW STRAINED Two More Austrian Officials Are Likely to Be Sent Back to Vienna. A. despatch from Washington says: President Wilson's request for the re- call of the Austrian Ambassador, Dr. Constantin Theodor Dumba, has broadened into a situation involving Captain Franz von Papen, the mili- tary attache of the German Embassy; Alexander Nuber von Pereked, the Austrian Consul -General in New 'York, and possibly Count von Berns- torff, the German. Ambassador. The official view is that the Ambassador, although technically involved, is not so seriously concerned as the military attache or the Consul -General. It is not unlikely that both of the latter may be recalled or dismissed from the country. Coupled with Germany's disappoint- ing and unsatisfactory explanation of the sinking of the White Star liner Arabic, after Count von Bernstorff 'had given assurances that full satis- faction would be given if it was es- tablished that a German submarine sank the ship, official Washington views the friendly relations with the Germanic powers strained more to- ward the breaking point than ever be- fore. Hopes that the submarine crisis had been safely passed, and thata break between Germany and the United States had been avoided were displaced to -day by misgivings. Talk of the possibility of breaking diplo- matic relations was heard again, al- though this time it involved both the central powers, on the theory that Austria after having her Ambassador practically dismissed from the coun- try might stand with her ally in rela- tions with the United. States. SAYS 14,000 ARMENIANS MASSACRED BY TURKS. ,e despatch from. Rome says: Three Armenian girls have been rescued from Turkish massacre. An American said before his departure that the .Turks practically massacred 14,000 Armenians in Trebizond alone, where they looted and burned the houses. In Leson 100 families were saved. News from the interior of Asiatic Turkey is appalling. The massacres are eteritintaing systematically, since the Moeleme are determined to rid •Turkey of all Chrittiane. RUSSIANS FIGHT FOR INITIATIVE Conflict ou Eastern Front is Resumed With the Greatest Inteesity. • A despatch from London says; Almost simultaneously with the an- nouncement that the Emperor lies pereonally replaced Grand Duke Nicholas 'as commander of the. Rus- sian forces, the •fighting along the easern frontier, despite the beginning of the Autumn rains, has been re- sumed with the intensity which char- acterized it throughout the Summer on both wings in Courland, in the north, and in Volhynia, Podolia and East Galicia. In the south the Rus- sians are making determined efforts to regain the initiative, while in the centre the Austro-Geemans continue to increase their advantage. • Thus Field Marshal von Hinden- burg and his commanders in Courland are still being denied their objective, the Dvina River, while von Mackensen and the Austrian generals at the other end of the line are engaged in oppos- ing the Russian oreensive. In the centre, on the other hand, Lieut. -Gen. von Eichhorn and' Prince Leopold of Bavaria are pushing forward, and, ac- cording to the Berlin official report, have occupied Wolkowysk, an import- ant railway junction immediately east of Bialystock. It is for these railways that the Germans are now fighting, as when the. Autumn rains tun a gteat part of the country into an impassable morass they will need every line of railway to keep their armies supplied with provisions and munitions. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mail remarks that the Czar has pluckily undertaken the responsibility of the chief command at a time when the retirement from Grodno is stjll in progress under difficult conditions. The enemy at the same time is ad- vancing through the marsh region with the object of occupying the rail- way running north and south. He is using a ready-made railway line over the swampy ground, the rails attached to ties put down on narrow roadways which are sufficiently firm to allow a speed of ten miles an hour. DUKE NICHOLAS E SUPPLANTED Famous Leader Relinquishes Com- mand of the,Main Russian Forces: A despatch from London says: Grand Duke Nicholas has relinquished the command of the Russian military forces and has been appointed Viceroy of the Caucasus and Commander -in - Chief of the Russian armies in the southern theatre of war. This an- nouncement from Petrograd follows the action of Emperor Nicholas in "personally taking over the command of his forces.' The text of the order issued by. Grand Duke Nicholas transferring command of the Russian armies to the. Emperor is forwarded by the Petro- grad correspondent of the Havas News Agency as follows: "Valiant army and fleet: To -day, your august supreme chief, his Ma- jesty the Emperor, places himself at your head. I bow before your heroism of more than a year, and express to you my cordial, warm and sincere ap- preciation. I believe steadfastly that because the Emperor himself, to whom you have taken your oath, con- ducts you, you will display achieve- ments hitherto unknown. I believe that God from this day will bring to him final victory. "Gen. Aide -de -Camp Nicholas." The transference was made in con- nection with a general reorganization of such importance that it has stir- red the nation deeply. The Grand Mike replaces the 'fa- mous Viceroy of'the Caucasus, Count von Vorontzoff-Dashkoff. Emperor Nicholas addressed to the Count a communication acknowledging the val- ue of his labors, and stating that he yields to his request to be permitted to devote his energies to work for which, his state of health is more equal. The Emperor, therefore, re- lieves him of the post of Viceroy and attaches him to his perional staff. The decision of Emperor Nicholas to take chief command is regarded in Petrograd as the best possible re- ply to recent talk of peace proprosals, and as showing clearly Russia's de- termination to bring victory to 'her- self and her allies. BRITISH AIR SERVICE UNDER FLAG orFicEtt A despatch from London says: Owingeto the rapid expansion of the RoYal Naval Air Service, both with respect to personnel and material, the Admiralty has decided to piece it un- der the direction of a flag officer, with the title of director of the air servide. Rear -Admiral C. L. Vaughan -Lee has been selected for this appointment. Commodore M. F. Sutter, the present director of the air service, will be in charge of the material side of the naval aeronautical work, with the title of superintendent of aircraft cone structiote • Life has ite upe and downs, and a lot of folks seem to prefer the down. PRIDE OF POORER , FRRICE1 WOMEN, RER TALENT FOR ECONOMIZING • BEING PUT P0 TEST. Is a Wonderful Buyer, and She A14, ways Keeps Family Clothes • Mended. • Since the war_ the world has bear a great deal aboat the Frenchwoman of the people, and memories of her ir, the early days of the struggle will, remain with some of use to the etat and beyond. Her courage, her st cla iness, her quick response to her eme try's call, comanded our admira.tibu and called for our sympathY. But the test of her great qualities has come, with the long-drawn-out sacrifice, an4 in spite a a minority which has falle I from grace, it is just to say that th French woman of the, people have kept up the standard and fine conduct and steady courage which they set up for themselves in, the beginning. The business of being poor is a hard one, and, in spite of all her talent for economy, the Frenchwoman is testing that talent to the uttermost. Most of- them have the State grant or the allowance of the unemployed, but 25 cents does not go very far in these days of dear food, and 50 cents for a child, is not nearly enough to keep hunger away from the house. Consequently, the women must work, and work hard, if they would succeed in making both ends meet. She is so used to 'pulling herself out of her own difficulties that she has learned never to drop the armour of self-defence, and the average Frenchwoman of the people would a thousand times rather economize by her own intelligence than accept charity from those who are above her in the social scale. She has a little yhrase that is rather a symbol of pride than humility; "nous Au- tres" is fhat she calls her class in distinction from those above her, and it is to her credit that she looks up- on her class and her work as some- thing sufficiently dignified to stand alone. She -makes no attempt to ape those who can afford to dress better and live in luxury, but she firmly holds to the traditions of the family to which she belongs. Education is Practical. Her education is useful and prac- tical. She is well grounded in arith- metic, and is sufficiently learned in her own country's history to ap- preciate its victories and lament its deficiencies. She has an inherent dis- like of politics, for she generally suf- fers from the effect they have on her men. She rarely drinks to excets, she is a practical, affectionate mother with ambitions for the success ether children in worldly matters, ancftshe sacrifices almost anything for their material benfit. She can cook, and wash, and sew, and is generally tidy, if not scrupulouely clean. She is a wonderful buyer, and in that is one of her great economies. To watch her doing the daily marketing is in itself an education in economy. In cooking also she knows how to make the best of every bone and every cabbage leaf„ so that here again she saves money. Her rule of keeping things mended is yet another way of saving sous, and anyone who knows France will re- member the wonderful patches to be seen on the blue overalls of the French workmen. Every sou that is saved goes into stocking, or into -the savings bank, and it is a dire need which makes her take it out. Gifts for Men at the Front_ To -day a good many women are experiencing that dire need, although there are still thousands of stockings intact. For one current expense only they will touch the stocking; and that is for the weekly parcel which is sent to the front. Every working woman in France sends a neat calico -covered parcel -of regulation size to her man or her men at the front once a week, and when we see piles of them at the .stations waiting to be sent off, each one clearly addressed to privates and non-commissioned men in Belgium, in Flanders, in Alsace, and in the Ar- gonne, we realize that in each goes a portion of some unselfish woman's economies. They are humorous and pathetic, man yof those parcels'for they tell of such little personal likings and such tender extravagancies. Wine is often put in the parcels, though against the rules. Pate de foie gras is another thing they love to 'send, and all sorts of little expensive dainties such as they only tasted on fete days in time of peace. Nothing makes one lo4e their econ- omies so much as to see 'Seine of their extravagances at the present time, for every folly has its gain of self- sacrifice'and every soil taken from the stoelting will be ivreplaced later on by some act of self-deniale cir some less admirable, but peobinely more effective, business methods of dealing with her employer. It is not reasonable to expect extraordipary thrifty people to have the virtues of the unthrifty, and if the women of France are self-interested it is be- cause they have learned to be self- supporting. Sublime Porte literally means "lofty gate." It is the principal en- tranee to Seraglio at Constantinople, and is the place from which the Iovi perial edicts are issued. 4