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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1920-8-14, Page 6;�SI,NO REFS USES DEAD OF GREAT BRITAIN 'Army Will Not Obey Oder to Hart as They Have Beers Pro - raised Warsaw to Lo of—Pales Fight With 'Backs to the Wall." A despatch from London says:—The Russian Soviet's reply to Great Bri- tain's call for a halt of the Bolshevik advance in Poland is a refusal, ace cording to The London Times, The newspaper says the ground taken is that the armies would not obey an Order to halt, and will only be content when they reach Warsaw, which has been promised to them for loot, A despatch from Paris says;—In- spired by a wave of patriotism in the rear, and encouraged by the arrival of arms and munitions, the Polish army seems to be stiffening its defence against the invasion of the Bolshe- vists, who are virtually at the gates of Warsaw, Poland's Capital. Although but vague and somewhat contradictory reports have reached Paris, it is regarded here that the Poles still have a chance of stopping the Red -drive and limiting the extent of the disaster. They apparently have not altogether abandoned the line of the Bug River. The Brest -Litovsk forts at last accounts were still in the possession of the Poles, and denial is made that the Bolshevists have reach- ed Ostrolenko. The Polish Staff, even, has been able to launch two counter- offensives in the north, in the region of Loniza and in the extreme south in Galicia. Another factor held by military ob- servers to favor the Poles in that in view of the imperfect transport of the Bolshevists their rate of progress necessarily decreases as the length of their line of communication increases. A despatch from Warsaw says:— BRITISH ays: The Bolshevist eerie se against the Poles along the slug River between Brest-Litev sk and the coniluenee of the Nuxzee has been stollpeti, The Polish counter -offensive Borth and south is developing successfully, and the new Polish army eoncentrated be- tween the. N:sarew and Bug Rivers has driven the enemy back to the edge of the province of Grodno, notwithstand- ing the .pressure of the Bolshevik forces which crossed the Narew op- posite Loniza. In Volhynia the Polish positions upon the Upper Styr, on the Stochod and in the Pripet Marshes, are hold- ing well.• Enemy cavalry •continues advancing along the Prussian frontier in the di- rection of the `Danzig-M1awa-Warsaw Railway, but, in viewed the small number of effeetives employed, this movement, aimed at the Thorn region, constitutes for the moment at least only an extensive dein nstration against Polish Pomerania. With the Bolshevists virtually knocking at the gates of Warsaw the populace has been aroused to the high- est pitch of patriotic fervor. The en- tire press declares that Warsaw must not surrender to the invader. Fresh drafts of conscripts and many volunteers are moving toward the front, many of them boys of fourteen and fifteen years of age. The Govern- ment in its extremity has called to the colors the classes of 1890 to 1895 from the district between the Rivers Vistula and San for the defence of this section. BRITISH UNIT ALMOST WIPED OUT Manchester Regiment Meets Disaster in Mesopotarnia. Enormous Demands Being Macle on London for Funds A despatch from Vancouver says:— London is still the world's financial centre and there is every indication A despatch from London says that it will remain so indefinitely. is formation reached. the Daily News on the opinion of Mr. W. G. Murrin, as - Thursday indicating that the disaster sistant general manager of the Bri- to the British force in Mesopotamia, tish Columbia Electric Railway Com - reported Wednesday, is much more serious than the meagre reports sup- plied by the War Office indicated. Three hundred casualties were suffer- ed by a battalion of a .Manchester re- giment, and practically all the 300 were killed. The column was composed of a bat- talion of Manchester's six-gun battery, some sappers and miners. The colonel in command, and practically the whole off three companies were among the { to a point where it is very difficult killed. A few stragglers were all that ' to obtain," Mr. Murrin pointed out. returned,but four guns of the battery I "From all parts of the world these de - were saved. mends are being pressed, but the men pany, who has just returned from a visit of three and a half months to Great Britain, duping which he dis- cussed with some of the leading fin- ancial nien, questions relating to the invetsment of capital in this country and the opportunities existing here for industrial development. "Enormous demands are being made upon. London for funds at present, and in consequence money has tightened A fresh division has been ordered from India to Mesopotamia. Inquiries to the .Ashton -Under -Tyne depot of the Manchesters showed that the second battalion was commanded by Gol. Wright, who went to Mesopo- tamia in March. The Kufab. garrison, on the lower Euphrates, is still holding out. The town has been partly burned up. The Arabs lost 130 dead and many wound- ed in a new attack north-west of Hilia. To Telephone Friends Crossing Atlantic A despatch from London says:—At who have control are very observant upon these things in general and are proceeding cautiously." Speaking of industrial conditions in England, Mr. Murrin said there could be no denying the fact that the people as a whole seemed to be still imbued with the same serious spirit they held during the great war and in conse- quence the heavy burden of debt was being gradually lifted. Song Carries Over 2,673 Miles of Space A despatch from St. John's, Nfld., says:—When Chelmsford, Eng., was FUNERAL OF MAJOR -GENERAL GORGAS IN LONDON Great Britain paid a valuable tribute to the American officer who made the eanstruetien of the Panama Canalp ossible by his medical and sanitary work, The funeral took place at at. Paul's Cathedralannd theguf n. carriage and pallbearers are shown in the pictuue. They are all members ofthe Briti,h Ariny. A crowd iars watched the funeral cortege with bared heads, BRITISH AND FRENCH TO ASSIST POLES Officers, Cavalry and Armored Automobiles to the Rescue. A despatch from Warsaw says:—A. demand made ori the British Govern- ment by its epresentatives here upon learning of the failure of the armis- tice negotiations includes the sending to Poland of two British infantry di- visions, two brigades of cavalry and all the armored automobiles and air- planes possible. They are expecting the arrival soon of three hundred British commission- ed officers to be distributed through- out the Polish - army, whose chief weakness lies in its officering. It is understood the French will con- tribute six hundred officers in all, Britain Looks to Canada to Supply Crop Deficit A despatch from London says:— Unprecedented weather hasp marred the British harvest prospects. "It is to Canada mainly that Britain's 45,- 000,000 nonsumers must look hopefully for imports to supplement Britain's deficiency," says a London grain ex- porter. "It is estimated here that Can- ada's total crop will be 200,000,000 bushels of wheat." the new long-distance wireless tele- giving a wireless telephone demonstra- phone station being built at Devises,1 tion to Denmark at 5 p.m. on Satur- Wiltshire, it is expected the Public day, the experimental station. on can call up friends on Atlantic liners tSi.gna2 Hill here picked up the sounds 1,100 miles at sea. It is hoped the and heard, without •interruption, the Devises 'station w lI keep in touch words uttered by H. J. Rounds, the with ships two-thirds of the way manager at Chelmsford, who was talk- across the ocean, Experiments to fully ing with the operator in Denmark. Tramped 2,000 Miles.; test the practicability of the plan willMr. Rounds was heard to tell Den- Sergeant W. O. Douglas of the Royal bo made shortly. Each call and reply mark that Melchior would sing. Signal. Canadian Mounted Police is here is expected to consume about an hour. Hill kept in touch and heard distinctly shown as the Hero of an exploit un - :a faux songs sung in Danish, as well as equalled in the annals of the cele- the conversation that followed between Royal Jewels Successfully the body of thief -catchers of the Smuggled Into land Denmark and Chelmsford. Cheims£ord Northwest. He left Fullerton, Ont„ on and St. John's are 2,670 miles apart. Deo 19 1919, with a warrant, and af- Irnxnortal Days. Some days imperishably live in aur memories. It is a great good fortune for mankind that }eitterness'and hard- ness die first out of our lives and the sweetness and cheer that have met us along life's way remain, Our minds affectionately linger, on "red.letter days" when with the friends we want- ed we did the things we liked to do. We wish those happy times might re- turn, and we have a mental picture - book whose pages we con repeatedly. Sometimes in a crowded street, . ome- times in the thick of our busiest hours or amid the •huddle and pressure of teeming appointments the vision flashes of those occasions in the past that brought a gladness which is living still and never .es to fail. None can take from us those pre- cious recollections. We may be rob- bed of property and a dear ambition may be thwarted. We may lose wealth, influence or even friends, and still these memories recur of the times when our lives were at their :best and noblest; when they rose to an apex aed stand upon ahill, and it seemed as though the dawn would last all day. The strong man does not sap his strength by churning over . and •over his defeats, leis mortification, his fail- ures. He flings these to the limbo of irrevocable things and fronts the present and hails the future. The by- gones and have-beens that were dis- pleasing have no hold on this next precious hour that he must fill with its own constructive task. He hasno room for what constricts and weakens; he must not allow himself to count for less than'.is full value because his mind is absent from his work in quest of things that deserve to be forgotten. But the blessed memory of the good and great among people, the emotion that inspired and the experience that quickened, the incommunicable thrill, the zest and the rapture of the best that life brings us— these are the real treasures that abide,•the riches that never take wing, the friends that are leal and stanch in the days of A despatch from England says:— Priceless jewels, formerly the property of the Czar and Czarina, of Russia, have been successfully smuggled into England, despite the vigilance of the authorities, according to a warning issued to London diamond merchants. It is said the Soviet emissaries who brought ,in the genes intend selling them to replenish the depleted propa- ganda coffers of the Soviets, Increase in` BritishUnemployment A despatch from London says:— Premier Lloyd George stated in the House of Commons that the Govern- meat were considering measures in expectation of much unemployment during the coining Winter. MORE PEOPLE IN U.S. TOWNS Census Returns Show De- crease of Rural Potion. Thi Plight of Poland. The president, of Poland, Gen. Fil sudslti, naught appropriately eeho the words of Marshal -Ileig at Amiens: "We are fig ;wing with our backs to the A despatch front Washington sane: wall," HIS ambitious oanxpaign to —For the first time in the, Watery of wrest all southeastern Russia from the the United St.ttos, the 1020 census re- Bolshevik' and to extend the influence turns will show that uaorc tiersons livo • if not the actual dominion of Poland in the cit:ca and towns than in the to the Black Sea has 'broken down, rural territory, officials of the Census 13ueeau have estimated, When tho final tabulations ato eoui- pleted, the officials declared, they ex- pect it to be shown that 51 or possibly 52 per cent, of the total population of the continental-Unied States reside in urban districts, Outflanked and overwhelmed, his arm- ies' are book within the narrow bound. Aries of Poland itself and are in self- . confessed peril of ,irremediable defeat. The Poles are meeting the change in their fortunes with the gallantry that mighthave been expected. Old men, boys and even women are enlist - That the urban populatdou would ex- ing for service in the field, The •So- eeecl therural here become increasing- cialists, who opposed the invasion of ly evident as the tabulations of the the 'Ukraine, are up in arms Tor the past several weeks were completed, defence of their own land. It is cer-. census •offleiais stated, With the popu- lain that the Bolshevist ar:aiies wild lotion of about one-third of the cities meat fierce resistance and probable anti towns, iiaeludiiig practically all of that Poland, if its military supplies are the larger cities, and about one-third t not exhausted, will check the enemy of the comities, tabulated and an at the frontier. pounced, the bureau statisticians fool l Gen. Pilsudski seems to.h eve under- certain that the rural population Will taken the Ukrainian campaign with an. he shown to bo less than the urban. impulsiveness that is perhaps char - "There has been a very great ten Cities and•towne, which we cannotactexlstically Polish. It was from the dency toward largo iucreasee in the ifirst impossible for bine to raise and ac" j- equip armies equal in number to those " count for, unless it has come from the • of Russia. IIe hoped to win the vie - Germans Helping Reds in Warsaw Drive A despatch from London says:— While the belief is very general here that the Bolshevists will not stop their offensive until they capture Warsaw or set up a Red Government there, offi- cial information from Koenigsberg, East Prussia, states that German offs-. cera; and 'soldiers volunteering for ser- vice in the Russian army are passing. through the •pity in great numbers. It has been known for some time that thee Pan -Germans have had a special recruiting , agency in Koenigsberg under the direction of German Baltic adventurers, but it has become known only recently that soldiers and officersvolunteering there have been sent' to Soviet Russia. Z; Kin George receives an average of 25,000 letters a year from his . sub- jects. country,". said Samuel L. ltgers, direc- tor of the census, "This tendency to- ward tho cities has been apparent for some time," Military and Naval Men For League Staff tory by dash and superior fighting. But the Russians usually fight well when they are attacked, and the Red army is no longer a restless mob, for it has :been disciplined and instructed. hundreds of German and Russian offi- cers of the old regime have taken service under Trotzky; Gen.'Bruss2 sff is said to be chief military adviser to A despatch from 'San Sebastian, the Moscow government. Those men, Spain, says: A plan proposed by M. like the French soldiers who served Leon Bourgeois, the French spokes-� finder the Revolutionary government, th pian in theLeague of Nations Coun- believe an holding their country and ite til, and the French General Fayolle army together in anticipation of a day for an international general staff as I when both shall have different mas- part of the League of Nations, has ters. They do not mean to let Russia been adopted here. (be destroyed by. Poles or by Iiolshe-. The staff is to be composed of the viki. ablest of military and naval men, who Once in difficulty, Gen. Pilsudski has will act as agents of the League. The no .one on whom he can depend for members will be in conference as often military support. France and England. as need be, and in event of impending difficulties which might mean armed conflict they will draw up plans in ad- vance so ergencies. well supply arias and ammunition and will try to persuade or threaten the m- Soviets into making peace. There is as to be ready for em- ....... --. some talk of supporting the Poles with an army, too, and in case the Bo.ishe- viki seemed likely to overrun and de - It is proposed to establish a white- stroy Poland an army would have to fish canning industry in northern Al- be sent to its defence. But the French Berta. It is said there is no finer fish and British Governments are very reluctant to take that step, partly on theh fresharnorth v thans the whitefishlakes.of account of the expense of another far north rivers and campaign but mainly because the Weekly Market Report Wholesale Grain. Provisions—Wholesale. wheat Smoked meats—Hams, mel,, 47 to Toronto, Aug. 10—Manitoba —No. 1 Northern, 63.16; No. 2 North- :0004; heavy, 40to 42c;cooked,G4toern 3.12• No. 3 Northern, $3.08, in 8c; rolls, 34 to 360; cottage rolls, 39 store$Fortr William. 1e; breakfast bacon, 50 to 55c; Manitoba oats -No, 2 GW, 96�'sc, backs, plain, 52 to 54e;• boneless, 58 in store Fort William. to 64c. Man, barley—No. 2 CW, • $1.37%; Curedmeats=Long clear bacon, 27 No. 4 GW, $1.27%; rejected, $1.02%;to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c. feed, $1.02%• American corn=No. 3 yellow, $1.85; nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship Ontario oats—No.3 white, nominal. Ontario wheat—No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.20 to $2.30, shipping points, according to freights. Peas—No. 2, nominal. Barley—$1.25 to $1.30, according to freights outside. Buckwheat—No. 2, nominal. Rye—No. 3, $1.75, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour—Government stand- ard, $14.85, Toronto, Ontario flour—Government stand- ard, $12.90, nominal. Millfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont - adversity. real freights, bags included: Bran, per None ,is'so poor that he may not ton, $52; shorts, per ton, $61; good have a wealth of happy recollection to feed flour, $3.75 to $4.00. enliven and comfort and fortify him Country. Produce—Wholesale. through the harder times. The pre- cious treasure-trove of sweet and g pleasant recollection is deep -hid, 32% c; old, levee, 3� to 34c; tdo,-twins, where none can break through to lay 33% to 34%c; Stiltons, old, 35 to 36c; violent hand upon it. Days of distinoc- new, 33 to 34c. tion are worth months and years Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to drab, unbeautiful monotonies., They 50c- creamery, prints, 69 to 62e. shire like starry lamps when the night Margarine -35 to 39c. has come, and when "mein•ory brings Eggs—No. '1, 58 to 60c; selects; 62 the light of other day's" we are not to 63c. cast down, but compensated and con- Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 45c; roosters, 30c; fowl, 35c; turkeys, 53 to 60c; ducklings, 38 to 400; squabs, doz., $6,50. Live poultry-aSpring chickens, 38c; roosters, 26c; fowl, 30c; ducklings, 35c. . Beans—Canadian, band -picked, bus., $5.25; primes, $4; Japans, $5; Limas, Madagascar, 12%c; Japan, 10 to 11c. $6.5O; good veal, $14 to $16; hied., $9 artesian well? Because this partici- Maple products --Syrup, per imp. to $13; grass, $7 to $8; ewes, $5 to $8; lar kind of well was first used in Axe gal,, $3.40 to $3.60; per 5 imp. gaffs., lambs, good, $13 to $14; corn., $11 to tots,in the northern part of Franco• $3,25 to $3,40. Maple sugar, 1'b., 27 $13; hogs, off oar weights, r•ciccts, to 30c. $20.50 to $21, sows, $10 50 to $17 From Artois the word "artesian" is _., .._ derived, which we use to designate �.. - any kind of smallbored well, whether it is overflowing or not. The first ar- tesian well is said to have been bored in the` year 1840, but long before this the ancients dug artesian welle in their rude way. Now, however, we see artesian wells all over. the country. ter enduring all kinds of hardships in soled. the Canadian timber -land, 'arrestees Ott-Aug-Wak, an outlaw of. the Padle- mut tribe who half terrified the Baker Blockade of Russia Renewed. Lake region on Feb. 19th. He landed from London says:— his prisoner safely in Fullerton on A despatch 9having travelled 2,000 ' Orders have been issued reimposing May s. IIe 13-1x, v.�ent over trackless wastes •the blockade on Soviet Russia,, Pre - and. •through blinding snow storms I mier Lloyd Georgeinformed M. Kras- gave some of his supplies to Es -sin, the Soviet commercial agent here, and I the Daily Express declares. kimos he founts starving, - "REG'LAR FELLER S"—By Gene Byrnes Lard—Pure tierces, 27 to 28c; tubs, 281,E to 29e; pails, 29 to 29%c; prints,. etretcdx unhindered from the Baltic to 29'i to 30c; Compound tierces, 25 to the Black S p 25%c; tubs, 251,E to 26e; pails, 25% to 261/ is 27 t 271/z Montreal Markets. working population of both countries is not in a mood to consent to a we= against the Soviets. Germany is, of course, no help; the Germans are de- lighted at any misfortune that over- takes Poland, for they believe that Central Europe is not big enough for two great powers, and that if Poia' ,1 grows gr' eat Germany must dwindle, 'The chances are that by the inter- vention of the Allies a peace will be arranged that will restrict Poland to its boundaries as recognized at Paris. The dream of 'a Poland that will Sea is for the resent—and 4c; prints, o c. probably for all time—dissolved. The Montreal, Aug.problem now is to keep the Reds front through to the Baltic and W, 10.—Oats—No. 2 C pushing getting into direct touch with Ger- W, $L20 to $12; No. 3 CW, $1.18 to Man.many—in other words, to keep Trots - getting Figur, Spring wheat pa- ky from doing what he would most like to do. tents, first, new standard grade, $14,85 to $15.05. Rolled oats, 90 -Ib. bag, $5.80 to $5.56. Bran, $54.25. Shorts, $61,25. Cheese, finest easterns, 24%c. Butter, choicest creamery, 68e. Eggs, fresh, 58c. Potatoes, per bag, car lets, $2,00 to $2.50. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 28%s to 29c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Aug. 10.—Choice heavy steers, $14.50 to $15; good heavy steers, $14 to $14.25; butchers' cattle, Less Activity at Some Automobile Plants In some of the larger Canadian automobile plants a falling off in pro- duction is reported, due to the fact that some of the companies are re- ducing their output for the time be - choice, $13.75 to $14; do, good, $13 to ing. The advisability of such a policy $13:50; do, mel., $12 to $12.50; do, Is said to to $12.20; do, good, $10.be due to a slackening oil do, rough, $6 to $8; butcher corn., $7.60 to $9; bulls, choice, $11,15 in the demand for automobiles, more er $11.25; tchers' caws, particularly since the recent tax went choice, $11.50 to,. $12; do, good, $10.75 into effect, to $11; do, eom., $6.50 to $7.50; stock- It is thought that the lessere g of ers, $9 to $11; feeders, $11 to $12.60; activity in some of the automobile canners and cutters, $5 to $6.25; milk- plants will be a good thing for the ers, good to choice, $11 to $165; do., labor sudation generally in other trace corn. and med., $65 to $75, lambs, year- of industry. For soma time past it sings, $10,50 to $12.50; do, spring, $12 has been felt that the automobile to $16• calves, gd, to choice, $16.50 to makers had :been •paying too much for $19; sheep, $6.50 to $9.50; hogs, fed and watered, $20.76; do, weighed off labor and that it made it difficult for cars, $21; do, f.o.b., $19.75; do, do, other lines to get a sufficient number country points, $19.50. of men, Montreal, Aug. 10. --Butcher heifers, coin., $6 to $6.50-; butcher cows, mets., $6 to $9; canners, $3 to $4; cutters, $4 to $5.50; butcher hulls, com., $5.50 to Origin of Artesian Wells. Why da we speak of a well as an "1 �► Hem's c;,F -. " yrS ...SALAD :9 en s .• - A proposed Winnipeg factory will manufacture boxes from a wood fibre,'•. The fibre will be made of pressed waste paper and wood screening, re- Leforced with, tr tvj. From 32 litters of silver black foxes, NXr. George Calheck,' of ,Sumaicrside, one of the leading fox farmers of ?rince Edward Island, secured 156 living pups, The breeding season has been very satisfaietory on the island. tA pulp and paper company will con- .ruct darns and ereet mills at Tobique Niirreete, N.B, �he company has purelxaselc •' A, 0,000— Teres of timber lands from the New Brunswick Itaill. way Co. r --•..