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The Wingham Advance, 1915-08-19, Page 7Mara TURKISH OFFICERS IN MUTINY ON GALLIPOLI MEXICAN PEACE INEvi GENERAL • Pan•Amerioan Appeal Suggests Ten.Day Wait for Replies. ATTAC NOW Wilehington, Aug. 15.— The tet of Ain Di ALn m men leaders to cern Many Ringleaders. of Revolt Against the the Pan-Ameriean aPpeal to the INtexi- Pase their differ - German Officers Are Prisoners. ences end establisa a Government was made public yesterday by Seem- tary Lansing. Capital Is The United States and the six Lat. Bombecl by. Allied Planes..Ad. an-Antericari diplomats who joined in conference witli Secretary Lansing Urge the Mexican leaders to meet in amity at some "neutralized" Piece in Mexico. Taere is no. threat of intervention or other drastic action in the event Mat tilt Mexican leeders fail to re- spond. No hint is even given as to the course which the Government and tae Republics of Argentina,Chile, larazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and. Guate- Male will pursue in that event, but it is known tliat the plan of the con- ferring nations contemplates the sup- port a such factions as agree to lay clown their arms a MI do not yield and enter the conference. The note indicates clearly that the. United States and the Latin-Ameri- can Governments expect that the work of establishing law and order in Mexico will be undertaken without delay. The note says that seven sig- natory powers will await a reasonable time for replies from the Mexican leaders. The note atlas that such a reasonable time would be "ten days after the communication is delivered, subject to.prolongations for cause." vance Is Continued. London, Monday, Aug. 16.—A des, quite incapable of attending to State affairs, and said to be in a serious state of nervous prostration. Audienc- es are denied even to the most prone- inent Germans.,It is learned authori- tatively that the greatest indignation has been aroused in all circles in the capital by the Proposal of Prince Ho- henzoliolangenburg to put the Ger- mans into adininistrative posts in the capital and throughout the country, In spite of Optimistic statements ••••.....• from Constantinople, the Turkish ammunition supplies are nearing ex- haustion as the result of repeated attacks by the allied forces at the Dardanelles. Private advices received at Athens said that the German and Turicish diplomats have renewed their efforts to obtain consent of the Balk- an States for the passage of muni- tions to Turkey. Boatloads of wounded from the latest lighting on Gallipoli Peninsula contiaue to arrive at Constantinople. It Is .estiruated that 120,000 Turkish wounded are now in ,the Constanti- nople hospitals, According to French . official ad- vices the British took 600 prisoners in recent.operations. The battle was con- tinuing when these despatches were filed to the French War Office, with English artillery breaking down the Turktsli trenches on a 200 -yard front. The Turks are making gallant coun- ter-attacks, but have been unable to withstand the English artillery fire and bayonet charges; British rein- forcements have landed successfully at .Suvla Bay, north of Ad Burnu, des- pite the enemy's opposition, and now occupy positions along the cliffs. From this region the British are advancing southward. toward Gabe Tepe. French troops have advanced slightly, their artillery holding back several Turk at- tacks. Mitch to the Daily News from Athens Says: aerench and British aeroplanes have flown ever Constantinople. They threw bombs on Galata, causing heavy ca,sualties." Galata, on the north side of the Gol- den Horn, near Seraglio pOint, is Con- stantinople'e largest suburb. •••• London, Aug. 16, --An Athens des - Patch to the Chronicle eays: "Strain- ed and increasingly bad relations be-, tween the German and Turkish army oincers have led to a serious crisib. 1 have it on quite indisputable' author- ity that a few days Ago a quarrel am- ong staff and other officers at the trent in the Gallipoli Peninsula led' to a Mutiny of formidable dimensions agalllat the Germans. The latter were forced to. take the strongest measures to quell the insurrection and with con- siderable difficulty arrested the ring -- leaders and some other officers in - N olved. These numbered 45. They were sent in chains to Constantinople, where they would be shot, but the German commander heard rumored threats of revolt, and did not feel himself in a strong enough position to do so immediately, The arrests caused a great sensation throughout the ranks of the Army, and tended to increase the very considerable indig- nation aganist the Germans, who now have few real friends even emong the most prominent young Turks. 1 have elzoken to -day with four people who just arrived here from the Turkish capital. All agree in representing the situation there as very perilous. One of them was told by the Sultan's phy- sicians that his majesty is very ill, HIT REFUSAL TO fiCEOE TO mote militarism and retard the move- ment for universal peace. In advancing this • argument, the President clearly was aiming at the embargo movement in this country as much as he was at • the proposals made by Austria and Germany. He had seized the opportunity offered by i i LJ 1 L 11 , . tt hoeevie petl 1113,1 t ittrioinAat vuiosart rgioaafi niti tnnoge ciinliealcialicz: headway loi A ••••11•••••••1• U. S. President's Reply to Last , Note On Munitions Export Settles the Question. NEW GROUNDS Embargo Would , Act as Fatal Check Upon Country in the, , Event of War. Wasbington, Aug. 15. — Austro- Iluneary and Germany now know of- ficially that there is no hope of the 'United States discontinuing or even restricting shipments of war supplies to the allies. Tide the Teutonic Governments have learned from the note which the State Department has sent to Austria and which waa made public here to- day. a his communication in the form of a reply to the Vienna protest egamst tne ousiness being done bY Americans in war munitions sets tomlt the attitude of this Government clearly and Austria is notified flatly tnat this Government will not even consider acceding to her request. bo strong is the steno. taken by tee avasningtou Government that this note not only wili probably end the Miaow -ado exchanges on tne subject, but/will operate as a distinct ceeck upon sentiment developing in. this country in favor of an embargo. While President Wilson in this note, as in all others to turopean Governments on the war issues, takes his stand tirmly upon the principles involved and upon usage of nations, he intro- duces another feature which by many Is regarded as the most striking in the note. The President bases his refusal to consider the Austrian sug- gestion on the practical grounds of its effect upen the ability of the United States to meet a foe in the event of war. The Government tells Austria that It has been the policy of the United. States from the founding of the Re- public not to maintaan in. time of peace a large military establishment or stores of arms and ammunition, that the United Stales has in fact always depended upon the right and power to purehase arms ahd ammunition from neutral nations in case of for- eign attack. In citing the democratic policy agaihst militarisni the American note makes this remarkably frank acknow- ledgment: "In consequence of this standing Maley the United States would in the event of attack by n oreign power be at the outset of the war seriously, at not fatally, ernberrased by the lack of arms and ammunition, and by the 'meting to nroduce theni in sufficient etuantitiea to supply the requirements of =LWOW defenee. CAtTSED A STIR. The stateMent to one Of the large European powers that the ,United States might be "fatally" einlairrassed at the °Meet of a war caused more of a Stir in Washington than any oili- er feature of the note. The President makes It clear to Austria, and throtigh lier to GerMany, that to accept the auggeetion that a neutral Ought to Prohibit the elate of Arnie and alnniunition to belligerents not Only Would be repudiating the policy by ivhich this Government has nlwaYs stood, but NVotild be compel- ling every nation, including the United tate, to have in readiness at all tienee sufficient munitions of war to oenabig them to cope with a more ag- ,greasive, and a better prepared enemy. tIn other Words, the acceptance of the Plentenic proposals wonld be to turn vibe world into an armed nine, pro - war munitions as an act of reprisal against Great Britain. The embargo movement has had the support of some of the peace societies, and the belief here to -night Is that the note to Austria, in meet- ing them on their own ground, has dealt a blow from which it will be difficult for them to recover. At the same time, the Administration, it is contended, has shown cleverness in putting forth an argument which is bound to find favor even in the south. By suggesting the defencelessness Of the United States and her depen- dence UPOn other. nations for an ad- equate supply of arras and ammuni- tion, the State Department has raised a patriotic issue which cannot well be ignored. Some officials in Washington had an idea, too, thee the note was writ- ten with the national defence issue in mind and for the purpose of call- in impressively to the attention of the country the fact that this coun- try is dependent upon other countries for necessary war supplies to meet a crisis. HUN ATTACKS ARE REPULSED Heavy Assaults in Argonne Beaten Back by French. Airmen of Latter Country Con- tinue Their Deadly Raids. Paris, Aug. 15.—After violent hand- to-hand fighting near Puisalenne, in the region between the Oise and Aisne Rivers, French troops succeeded in occupying the excavation caused by the explosion of a mine under a Ger- man trench, according to the state- ment issued by the French War De- partment, Exceptionally violent are aillery duels are reported in the Ar- tois, the Champagne and the Lorraine districts. • A squadron of 39 aeroplanes bom- barded the German parks and depots In the Valley of Spada. The aviators dropped 108 shells on their objective. All the aeroplanes returned without ineldent. • Two energetic German attacks in Argonne, near Marie Therese, Satur- day night, wore completely checked by the French. The first one, delive ered under cover of darkness, was of an extremely violent character. The second one, delivered after daybreak, was much weaker. The German losses were apparently very • heavy. • 41,-*, - FIREBUG A MURDERER. Cleveland, 0., keg. 1.6.—William Sperling, 29 years old, a teamster, is under arrest on a charge of Mir. der, having •confessed that he set fires in two Walnut avenue rotnieing housea yesterday morning, in whiob, one man was fatally burned and to were seriously injured. Sperling de- clared a oraving for excitemeat caus- ed bhp to start the fires. ,Take Shan. ak, a boarder was trapped on the second floor 01 one of the houses, and received 'Mims from which he died a short time later. MAIL CAjukieR KILLED. St. Thome, Aug. 15.—Wm. Berry. a men known fernier living on the outskirts of Port Stanley, was struck and instant- ly killed and his la -year-old daughter was seriously injured byn London and Port Stanley electric. ear Saturday atter- noon about a o'clock. Ale. Berry, Who WAR the rural mail carrier for the dls- Wet. *was driving' with his daughter West from Port Stanley In a covered buggy, cini the fatality ocaurred in a OarlieulAt' ly dangerous erossIne Just north of the village, •where the view is obstrueted by Ituises on both tildes of tar, Tema. The P,14t. whIeli struck the unfortunate man wns 5 LHVIAI, which mine at en unex- peeted time, (tarrying Sir Adam Beek and a. party of guests and offielala. BRITISH SUR 111111E0 TURKS Raid Into Harbor of Constanti- nople Caused a, Panic _ During Which Ottomans Fired On Their Own Ships. `London, Aug. 15.—A vivid account of the raid of a -British submarine, the E-11, on the shipping at Constanti- nople, is translated trom the Stampa of Turin in the Manchester Guardian, Lieutenant -Commander Nesmith, Who was 'in charge of the Hall, received the Victoria Cross for his daring. The account follow: "I was at a window in Pera watch- ing what went on in the harbor just below me and in tho courtyard of Top Hama, occupied by two batteries of old il aismountable Krupp guns. All at -dime a razor blade shot into the har- bor and the people began "to run hither and thither on the quay, mak- ing strange and grotesque gestures. ane razor blade came from, the open sea and coursed across the harbor like a thmg of intelligence, slightly raised above the water, which' it cut through, leaving only two thin streaks of foam to right and left. The soldiers on the Mahmoud and the Bosphorus (two transports began foolishly to dis- charge their rifles into • the water. Then a bunch of humanity dressed in yellow garments jumped iato the sea; another Yellowed; others jumped to the quay, which in a short time was crowded with panic-stricken sol- diers. GALATA BRIDGE SWAYS. "But the live thing in the harbor pursued its course. In a wide sweep It passed behind the Stamboul (an- other transport) whose crew were jumping into the water; and lo! be- hind the defenceless, abandoned vessel there arose a white cone of foam, and a mighty wave ran over the harbor, so that all the boats began to dance at their anchorages like mad things ev- ery one cried out at once, and the Ga: - late, Bridge with all the trams and wagons upon it liega,n to tug at the caissons which support it as a rear- ing horse tugs at its tethers. "But the thing in the harbor paused not a second, and, continuing its furi- ous course, completed the wide eurve and weet up the Besphorus, disap- pearing in a few seconds behind the point of Amutklin. • At Ole moment there was a fresh outcry, and the two batteries of .77 at my feet fired a once; one shell ,struck the Stamboul, which was not Wanting it at all, and another -a steamer of the Chirket Hairie, which was anchored outside Seraglio Point and had wounded on board, -The impression caused by this raid was prodigious. It straightway put a stop to all water dommunications between Constantinople and the Nar- rows, and kept the Turks of the capi- tal at a high rate of excitement for some time. SUPPLY SHORT Germany Restricts Work in Its Textile Factories. Berlin, Aug. 15.—The Federal Conti- cil yesterday decided to restrict the working hours ot all factories wherein cotton, woollen, hemp and flax and similar goods are manufactured. The order also provides that all tex-• tile goods shoted be manufacttiled tor Inc days in a week only, no day to exceed ten hours. 'ibis measure was intended to regu- late the textile trade where the supply or raw material is limited. • Another regulation prohibits the cotton mills from .eXceeding the lim- ited supply of cotton unless for army purposes. The Geneva correspondent of Le IIinnanitee says that eight Socialists have been arrested on a, charg3 of high treason growitig out of attaeks they made on 6'ocia11st leadersof the ' majority party. Included among the offenders are Herr Welcher and herr Stuttgart, editor of a Socialist organ. Kari Liebknecht, Soelalist leader in the Ileiebstag,has announted that at the sessions of August 13 lie will ask 'Categorically whether the German authorities nra prepared, assuming that the other belligerents are willing, to Enter into immediate negotiations for ream on it basis of renouneing all plans for annexing territory Required by conquest. The newspapers designate this as silly interpellation. Command.er-in.Ohief Preparing for a Big Assault On Aus- trian Along the Isonzo.. BRAVE ALPINES IVIOuntain Fighters Again Score Telling Gain Over the Hun Forces, Rome, Aug, 3.5.—Fierce fighting in the region between Cadore and the east= part of Tyrol is report'al in the latest stdtement issued by the War Office, The Austrains were repulsed in an attack delivered with the object of recapturing positions on the slopes of Monte Plano, which they lost 1 soy* eral days ago, Italian infantry, un* der the support of their artillery made their way to the summit of the peak more than 8,000 feet high, in the Sexten Valley, dislodging the Aus- trian troops who occupied the peak, An Udine despatch says: "General Cadorna, the Italian- Commander -in - Chief, has virtually completed pre- parations for a new general attack on the Austrians 'along -the Isonzo River, according to Information received from theefront. These operations are intended to result in tha occupation of the Carso plateau, which, it is expect- ed, would lead to the early fall of Go- rizia, leaving the road open for t. is march to Trieste. The Italian general staff is said to be hopeful that this campaign may be successfully com- pleted early in September." SINKING OF THE U-3. The Austrian submarine 1J-3, which was sunk in the Adriatic on August 12, was sent to the bottom by the accurate fire of the guns' of the French torpedo-boat destroyer BIsson, according to a Havas despatch from Rome which gives the details of the activities of the U-3. The Austrian submersible attacked an Italian auxil- iary cruiser in the lower Adriatic on August 12, but the larger omit, by the clever manoeuvring of her com- mander, escaped the torpedoes aimed at her. She then rammed the sub- marine, but failed to sink it. A squad- ron of destroyerlaimmediately set out to chase the submarine, which evi- dently had been, damaged in the en. counter With the cruiser. The Aus- trian vessel was sighted the following morning by the Bisson and sunk. The sinking of the U-rWas announced by the Italian Ministry. of Marine on Aug- ust 13, but no details of the engage- ment were given except that 12 mem- bers of the crew were saved and made prisoner. A semi-official announcement issued in Rome contradicts several assertions contained in recent Austro-Hungarian affickial communications. The Italian statement denies the Austrian claini that great damage was wrought Aug- ust 11 when two Austrian torpedo boat destroyers bombarded the seacoast towns of Bari, Santa Spirito and Mol - tette, in Southern Italy and on the Adriatic. A report that the Italian submarine Nautilus has been sunk -also is de- nied. The Italian submarine Nereide, it also is asserted, was not destroyed In a combat with Austrian vessels, but went to the bottom as the result of a fault in her machinery. STORM DAMAGE Oshawa and District Hard Hit On Sunday Night. Oshawa, Aug. 15. — While Oshawa Worshipped to -night the town was pluuged into darkness. Congrega- tions going home there discovered the cause. They found the streets im- passable owing to a -torrent of water several feet in depth rushing along The torrent rapidly grew alone, cross- ing the dip in the main street. It flooded out all the houses in its path and the factory of the Oshawa Can- ning Company, Minting the doors and windows in the lower stories and carrying ell the contents on with it. Barrels of canned .prochice, pianos, furniture and articles of every de- scription were caught in the fleet'. ao large became its size and the danger of spectators being drowned that the local. fire and police departments were called upon 'to rope off the dangerous district tuid hold the people in safety. While' the damage done here is great, it is feared that the outlying - districts near Columbus'andBrooklin have suffered far worse. From re - Ports there have arrived It appears that two storms met between these two places, 'which are just about eight miles from here, at about 4 zaelcele, and formed re cloudburst which swept everything before it.' Cattle grazing in the pastures were swept off their feet and some Were carried to destruc- tion. Fields of ' grain find orchards were Nvaslied out, and outbuildings gathered in its fold arid washed miles away from their • original Place Of lodging. Seven new cement bridges, which were befit at it cost of over $20;000, were carried away, and the only cause of the old bridge over Osbawa. Creek, north of the town of Oshawa., standing till now is the feet that the new steel bridge erected by the Toronto Eastern Itail‘vay toniewhat abeve It has shielded it from the full force of the trees and wreckage afloat in the stream. Telephone and telegraph communi- cation is cut off from the central points and the roads aro impassable, heltee, although the fullest partieulars cannot be had, there is no doubt that - the loss will run into thousenas of dollars. BORDEN VISI -aa 'TUPPER. `London, Aug. 15,—Lfter three weeks of strenuous work on a continuous pro- grainme of engagements, Sir Robert Bor- den has left town for it few days' rest. It Is understood he has accepted an in- vitation to visit the country seat et a Lon- don resIdAnt. Before leaving London, tbe Premier mtule another mil at the War Office. On leaving London on Sat- Orday, ha motored down to Bexley Rooth 1•Cent, In visit 141r Charles 'runner, the sale surviving father of the etinmilari Vonfederation. GIRL FIREBUG 10 -Year -01d. Started 14 Fires in Kirkhill Church. O.P.N.N....••••••••• Alexandria, Aug. 15,—Vourteei fire* which took place in the Kirlthill Pres- byterian Church and manse within a period of 48 hours, throwing the whole neighborhood tato a state of feverish auxiety, have been accounted for by the admission of a twelve -year- old girl, who has been living on the church premises during the absence Olt vacation of the pastor, law A. Mtn- risou. Stories of German plots were 8,00- z:toted with the fires and when a vigi- lance committee of 100 or more fail- ed signally to put a stop to the fire outbreaks, Inspector John Miller, of the Provincial Police, Was sent for to get at the bottom et the whole busi- ness. After investigation. by the Provincial Police Inspector susPielen rested upon the girl because it appear- ed from, the • investigation that she was on hand in almost every case and made the discovery of the blaze be- fore it had made lima headwey. In every instance the damage was trif- ling. Her story was amazing to the Mayor end Magistrate of Kirkhill, who were convinced that a plot had been hatched some time before and that the details were wily being worked out when tlae fires occurred. With the outarealts of the firea there have now been associated a ser- ies of depredations upon the church property, and for these, too, the girl in her statement accepts responsibil- ity. AIR HIRES t,AJON BY 5ENCli Several Skirmishes Found Ger- mans Defeated And Forced to Descend to Escape Disaster, Paris, Aug. 15.—French aviators are reported to have distinguishea them selves recently in eaveral aerial com- bats with German machines. A French craft reconnoitring above Colmar Thursday was attacked 'by a German machine, which it forced to 'descend Within the German Rues in Alsace, evidently damaged by shots. The same day two German planes were chased back from above French positions in Artois, while two French patrols attacked and apparently dam- aged another German aeroplane.- An Albatross nfachine ems forced to the ground iti the same way on Wednes- -day. A squadron of ten German aero- planes which attempted a bomb at- tack on Toul and Nancy on Aug. 1 was forced- to retreat by French ma- chines, dropping the projectiles they carried upon open fields.. BIG CONTRACTS War Orders Placed in Canada Total $230,000,000. Ottawa, Aug. 15.—Orders placed in Canada by the British Govern- ment in reference to war supplies and now executed or under execution total the vat sum of $230,000,000, am cordia,eie to an efficial statement issued yesteMy, in whieh details are given et the different article's purchased and their ahiounts. TIM 'Trade and Commerce Department is also •collect- ing information as to orders placed in. the Dominion by the other antes. While it is impossible to obtain statis• tics as to supplies directly purchased, thereis much diffieulty in coming at even approximate values in =nee - tion with the large anumnt of indi- rect buying clone here, but the data e ill be collected, it possible. Orders for munitioas'of war placed in this country by Britain, according lo the statement, total $188,1S:3,180. Order for leather goods, Herber and miseellaneous etoree amount to $6,- 142,205. Some, $10/365,490 of cloth- ing and textilea has been ordored here. As regards food and forage the total is $2.1,a1,7„185, and wegons, etc., to tho athounf of 025,595, have been purchased in the Derninion. A great part of thee orders has already been shipped"and paid for, while a larger part is still undo c contract fer delivery. elk* * JAMAICAN STORM a Fifteen Were Killed, Besides Dam- age to Crops. Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. ton persons were hilted, ninay houses were waribed owner in the northern side of the Kingston harbor, and pram tically the entire banana crop or the Wand destroyed by a hurricane WhICh Swept over the island to -day. It is too 'mom to ascertain the total anal - age, but 1t is known that the gr -at Plantations in the principal fruit - growing parishes wore the principal sufferers financially, while tlie large portion of the north side of the city wus washed away ana the .houses wreeked, hundreds being made home- less. Tho heavy sea farming the hurra, cane inundated tlis railwny tracks nir texemendea the runnitig of the trains. Wharves were deetroyed and telegraph lines put out of •eoninrisslon between Kingston and the northern parishes. 'rhe Governor has gone to the de. vastated places. ••• • SERBS .CHE•al< AUSTRIANS. Paris, Aug, 10,—A Haves despatch dated Sunday says that on August 13 the Serbians, with a few shella, stopped the enemy. from Working on defenses in front of the village of Debra, on the Danube. On the same day Serbian artillery before Vence.' eel% near Belgrade, -engaged in duel with a hostile battery atatiOned at the Village of Starchevo, and at the twelfth shot reduced the enemy's guns, wilich hatt fired sixty aliens, tri silence, 0E1101T URK 11110UNO 1100GE DI THE BUM! Recapture of Lost Trenches liVas Terrific Display of Tonnny'S • Valor in War. •••••••••••,••••••••••••••••••• • DEAI) AS SHIELDS -Germans Piled Their Slaughtered Comrades as Barricades for Defence. London, Aug, 15,—A correspondeut of tbe Morning Post at British head- quarters in a despatch describes the recapture ot the lost British trencheS at Hooge, which appears to have been most capably and creditably accom- plislied. Officers and men, says the correspondent, alike leear enthusiastic testimony` to the accuracy and effi- ciency of the British artillery fire. "Pie Germans undoubtedly were taken by surprise," says the correspondent, "and wele almost all waiting comfort- ably in. their dugouts for the bombe* ment to cease. "The attack was upon them before they realized. that the bombardment was off. In one of the dugouta benevolent -leaking gentleman in gold- rimnied spectacles was tound so ab- sorbed in a work of philosophy that he had apparently forgotten that a battle was going on. • "The German officers barricaded themselves in their dugouts and de- clined to eurrender. Sandbags had to be torn from the roofs of the dugouts and bombs dropped in from above. One by one the dugouts and their occu- pants were blown to pieces, and the fight passed forward out of the re- doubt to the northwest. and along a trench which declined from it over the crest of the hill. "It was not intended to extend our line far along this trench, but it was not possible to restrain the men, The trench was very deep, and so narrow that the bayonet could ndt • be used, and eall the work had be be done by bombing. The enemy who escaped from the redoubt had retired down this trench, offering a desperate re- sistance and contesting every tra- verse. "We had, however, at that moment not only our own bombs but a con- siderable number of the enemy's, and we fought him back foot by foot lit- erally with his own weapons. The slaughter in this trench was very heavy, but the Germans suffered far more than we, and as our men forced them back the bottom of the trench was so filled with dead and dying that the Germans were raised up on the bodilis of their own men, and in consequence had to fight in a stooping ..e position. BARRICADES OF DEAD. "The Germane, to ward off the at- tacks, piled up a barricade of their dead to act'as a traverse. Our men, pushiag forward, got' to a point in the slope where they could eee a crowd of Germans in the hollow below. Unable to reach them by any means them- selves, they communicated the fact to the guns, and a salvo of shrapnel swept them out of existence. "Merrhwhile, on the right of the re- doubt, a erenca had been carried as far as the old crater, apparently wait- ing in reserve. Their position when our men gained the lip of the crater, was hopeless They were most anxious to come out and surrender, clamber- ing up the sides in order to yield themselves. The bulk of the prisoners taken came from this spot. Unfortun- ately, it happened that when marching to the rear one of the enemy's 'shells killed a number of them, as web as some of their escort." * • I SLAYERS FLED Auto Killed Man in Toronto and Raced Away. Toronto, Aug. 16.—Running at great speed, a big, higlapowered automobile plunged into a group of yetmg peopiti on the Kingston road shortly after 9 o'cloek last night ,and as a remit. loseph Vezina, of 14 Sumach street, is lying clead at the morgue and Mar- garet lorizzell, of 34 St. Paul street, is in St. Michael's 1 immital in a. eritieal condition, At an early hour tine morn- ing little Dope was held oat for her recloltvocaery. r that streak them, down never Macleod speed, hurtliug off out df sight in the darkness before the other members OT the party bad time to think of reading its number. 'To- day the pollee, practically without a (quo to guide there, will try to truce the car and its driver. Ail they have to go upon is that the ear was a big one, was coming toward the city, and held three or tote* passengers. .- CARRANZA WILL NOT HINDER. Washington, Aug. Ia.—Assurances that General Carratiza will hot ob- struct delivery of the Pan -.American appeal to Mexico reached the State Department to -day in it message from a member of the Atherleah Embaasy staff in Mexico City, saying General Pablo Gonzales, Carranza's commander there, had "promised safe tondact to the messengers who are to -carry the appeal to General Zapata and others," 4 • ' " EDUCATIONIST TRIES SUIC)DE. Detroit, atithe Aug. 16.—George Andrew Lewis, head of the Lewis School for Stammerers, of this -city, shot himself three times to -day, once in the head and twice in the breast, He was removed to it hoopital, where ths physThians said there was practic- ally no hope for his recovery. Des- pondency over sickness is believed to have been responsible for the shoot- ing. • 1 ITALIANS SHOWED reeLINcl, Boston, Aug, 15.—The gathering to -day of 1,300 Italian reservists wits were t.i sail on the steamer Capople to...night, and tilot frlends, insIzatzdzam. °stog,a): ships Ainerlka and Cincinnati, os a m- oult of which several policemen were severely Wined. Sailors on the (lemma vessels were struck by flying stones and stinks. Revolver shots were mu:hanged between the crowd and the pollee, but It eould not be learned That any took ef- fect. SETTLED_NOW, New York Press Qn IT. Reply to Austria4lwagary. New Yurk, Mtg. 10.—Ocatment1ng editorially on tbe United. Sates' reply to tile Ateitritin prMii.t on exporte Of inunitione, the 1Vorld thii; morning bayS tlie Acts "lvaVOS no spot 011 ehiis el peg tha alightea; .question," and adds; I. Wha t IS demanded is. swimming -which 'a oulti imposa upon every neu- tral nation a duty to sit in judgment on the progress of n, War :tad le re - Strict IN commercial interigmrSe With belligerent whose naval seecesace Ilte enemy. "Ansi 1! Lrad. m ninnitiong, why net also trade In food and clothing? it Is • IL 'povel principle propounded by the punt Mounechy—so novel, indeed, as 10 maks it ridictilonily iraposSible."v The lierald says: 'l'or the immediate -purpose it would have. been sufficient for the United 4tatcs to have merely remind- ed Austria itungary that the sale by Amerietui merchants of mutations and other war supplies does not in- fringe in even the s11i.:10,0A !degree (hie nation's tientralitr—while the contrary (rouse urged by the Vienna Government would—for this is as clearly understood in Vieena, as it is in 'Washington, It is well, however, thar.Peesident kVilson hes nen fit to have set forth in thi3 official note to Aastria.[Iiingary a frank preseenta lien of 011 reasons impelling the United States Government to remain tree to principles for which it has al- alaye stood. _ aThe course the United States is fol lowing is not only strictly neutral end morally right, but is demanded by every consideration of national de fence. PAPAL SYMPATHY With German rfaltio Provinces, in Alleged Statement, Amsterdam, Aug. l6.—What pure ports to be a letter of sympathy sent to the people of'East Ezrussia by Pope Benedict through the Bishop of Frau- enburg, is printed by the Bayerische. Kurier, says a telegram from Munich. The letter, Which was sent through the Papal Nuncio at Munich, is given as fellows: "The Holy Father deplores with sincerest sympathy the sad position of the population of the Baltic Pro- vinces, who, in fact, for their loyal Christian views, deserved a better fate. At the same tinae the Holy Fath- er welcomos most heartily the wonder fui readinese of all Germany to mah Sacrifices in order to assist the strick- en Provinces. As a sign of his fatherly end loving care he sends this gift of ten thousand marks ($2,500) for the relief of sufferers." NOT BUYING Canada's -Takings of U. S. Lumoer Show a Big Drop, New Orleans, Aug. 16.=War's effect in curtailing American exports of for- est product feattires the report of lum- ber exports for the fiscal year ended June 30th, as published in the current issue of the Lumber Trade Journal, el New Orleans. It shows that th-e past year's exports of all items under the head of wool and its manufactures decreased 52 per cent., the value be:ng $49,937,653, compared to $103,179,646 the previous year. The greatest decrease in volume was to Canada, which in 1913-14 was the United States' largest customer in lumber., taking 434,399,000 feet. The past year Canada's takings fell to 182,734,000 feet. OUTLOOK BRIGHT U. S. Mercantile Agencies' Con- vention is Optimistic. Duluth, Minn., Aug. 16.—Good times in the businese world was the topic informally discussed by delegates from all over the United States here to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Mercantile Agencies. Most of them declared the business outlook is brighter than it has been for three years. • William S. Rauch, of the Credit Reporting Co., Newark, N, J., Was one et th‘ enthusiasts. "Makers of steel and iron products of the Vicinity of Newark," he said, "have been running 24 hours a day for -months, but there Is also a noticealne recuperation in other lines." U. S. MARINES DR -OWNED. Washington, Aug. 16.—Two Ameri- can marines were washed overboard from -the battleship New ,Hampahlre and drowned yesterday while the ship was sailing through the Gulf hurri- cane somewhere south of ,the Florida coast, No damage to the New Hamp- shire or Louisiana, Nvhich are pro- ceeding to Southern, waters, was re - 'Ported, 4-* CONF ERENCE ON POLAND. Berlin. Aug. I5—(By Wireless to Sayville)—Baron Stephen 13urian Von laajecz, the Austroaungarian for- eign minister, who arrived itt Berlin. August 13, is conferring with the leading German statesmen with re- gard to the future status of Russian Poland, says the Overseas Ni Agency. LAKE CAPTAtal DEAD. St. Thmuus. Aug. Ia.—Captain Peter ilaggabloom, of Port Burwell. droppei dead last evening while eating supper with his friend, eaptain Henning on board the 'rug Bari. Be was well known In marine circles from Buffalo to Duluth. The deeeased wes born in Sweden, and had sailed the lakes since 1865. Iris wife was dteWned during it storm on Lake Drte several Years age. A growe up lewdly survive him. PORTUGUESE CRUISER LOST', Paris, Aug. 16. ----Hope has been abandoned of salvaging. the Portte guese cruiser Republica which ran aground near Penielte, south of Lisbon, while on her way to Oporto, according to a Lisbon despatch to the Petit Journal. The guns aboard the war - slap have been dismounted and saved but the engines have been abandoned. HUSS PROBE IN NH SUPPLIES Investigation of Shortage Prorn. Les to be Thorough, Ole ,10,1,...1..1-}ffle.1,0 Influential Committee Ntuned to Do the Work. Peiraaraa Cable.--Detalls KLY04 the press (..r a seem.; sessioa 9L tlie DOUllla on. A.ng. 10th shoaeo that au inquiry WA* Mitieted to determine tile respousibility for tee tieticteeci eur ouppties, etu aseion engaged in a diecues.ea et a committee report o11 tanitziry eau ragetins tee wetter ,..i A.A.:rutting Luc Liw wining ,rear, 1.444. Aug WAS LlIsellsSILoS Lae ques41011 0LSu. 4t11l;e v4tItte 14p, 141 1,410 CULLO,4 ..• .1•44.0 uu MIS, a warmer (IL ineweere uauta attelltum to tee allagezu lrregli- Aurtues ln sUpplyArAgt alld in tne ma- itre to supply, aninitame fur um tine/ aim navy. , ane ueznand was matte tor an nu - mediate cessation of irregularities mat 4 correction of tne suorrage. AU spealters ea the suoject emphasized ate nevessity or eailing to amount au persons respousibie, reguraleusise.yof nntozi: alga. the positioes wumn occupy or which tney May nave ecee- Plea. General Polivanoff, the Minister of aeciared that tor me purpose et an Impartial inquiry into au that hau taken place to bring tile army IIILO ILS difficult situation there wouid be ap- laintnraed aincvoeinatiingnistsinionnin n woof nenguese.ry, and Loot, with the assistance of this Om - mission, In its inquiry tne commis - mission would have the aid of both L;he members of the Douala and the 17.11hhips been informed that the Coun- elimounfathaepe.p ImauPdireed the resolution. of Ministers will visit the Grand Duke Nicholas at headquarters and lay before him the results of the Ocnuna's seceret session. Almost exclusive attention of mili- tary observers has recently been di- •rected te the operations at Koine, which is the first strong. Russian fortress attackad by the method em- ployed at Antwerp—a system devised by the Bavarian General Sauer. This consists of a cyclonic attack with heavy artillery on one point without an attempt nteiiiieepetk a atain vpeasrttrinaelpulse nrteof the . Germans in the Baltic region has stopped theoretic discussion a the possibilities of a German offensive against Petrograd, which_ Is generally regarded as premature. Following are the members of the committee appointed to inquire into the causes of insufficient ammunition suffered by the Russian military forces: Chairmen, General Petroff, a mem- ber of the Council or the Empire; M. Naomoff, Vice -President of the Coun- cil of the Empire; Count Bobrinsky, Vice -President of the Douma; Adju- tant -General Panteleiff, Senator Pos- nikoff. WHIATC PRICES British Government Considering a • Fixed Minimum. London Cable.—The Cabinet is considering important recommenda- tions concerning the supply of food, Particularly wheat, made by the com- mission appointed in June by the Earl of Selbourne, President of the Board of Agriculture, with Lord Milner as chairman. The nature of the report is guarded closely, but it is intimated the recommendations include plans to in- crease the home grown supply of wheat by guaranteeing to producers a minimuna price for their product. The Times urges the Government to act promptly, pointing out that far- mers are gathering the present har- vest, and must decide on the uses ot their land in the coming season. It adds: "There is probably ground for con- jectures that the recommendationiu- volve a guarantee to farmers of a min- imum peice for wheat for—a period long enough to justify them in putting a larger acreage under cultivation. Whe- ther this step is worth taking must depend to some extent on the view tak- en by the Government of the probable risk to imported supplies." Owine to to the magnitude of wheat importation from America, the action of the Cabinet on the recom- mendations of the commission pro- bably will have a considerable bear- ing upon the overseas trade. The fact that the Government is considering the wheat question is suggested as a possible reason for the reported can- cellations of orders for wheat from America by the Entente allies. BURGLAR SLAIN :Shot While Trying to Enter Mon- treal Pawn Shop. Montreal Report.—Peter Soblitska an Austrian with a bad record, Was shot and almost instantly killed at 2 o'clock this Morning on the roof of a shed ia the rear of the sedind-hand store of H. Pearson, 55 Craig Street west. The man was deteeted with a companion while trying to effeet an entrance into the store. 'ferry Pear- thO 23 -year-old son or the proprie- tor, shot him. The other intruder fled and escaped. Sobitiski died fifteen minutes after being take nto the getieral hospital. Sobitski was known to his country- men as "King Paler." Ile had serv- ed three terms in jail, for aSSaUlt �n young Woman, burglary and robbery, respectively. •• • Crops in two-thirds of the acreage of Essex eonnty are a total loss as the result of the heavy rains of the last tWo Weeks. This statement was made at Windsor by Oliver J. Wilcox, M. P., for North Essex, who owns a large erop. After delay in shipment which Ma- jor Thomas, who purchased It, had it bard time" 'explainhig to the Davidson Commission tato war contracts a 'month ago, the first Dart of the me- chanical transport for the second con. tingent has arrived itt England WM Canada.