HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-9-12, Page 3RECAPTURE 30 3ES
IN ADVANCE ALONG THE AILETTE RIVER
Germans Give Way on a Large Profit Idapialfy Pursued by Franco -
American Troops ----Allies Advance Toward St. Quentin..
A despatch from Paris says; -
The French troops made important
Advances on Thursday both along the
Canal du Nord and north of,lts Vesta,
According to the War Office announce,
Ment on 'Thursday night. During
the couree of the day thirty villages
were retaken along the Ailette River,
In the latter area the enemy began
a hasty retreat this afternoon, and the
French, pressing forward on a front
of'over twenty -live miles, mad very
rapid progress, ,The French are
now on the edge of part of the St.
Gobain Forest, the chief outer de-
fence of Loan.
A wide turning movement might be
attempted here. South of Fresnes
the French have penetrated the old
Hindenburg line.
In the whole sector of southern
Pictu, and in that between the Vesle
and the Aisne, huge fires are burning
everywhere behind the German lines,
.indicating that the Germans intend to
continue their retreat.
The advance toward the Aisne is
r, ;K 4ieing pressed spiritedly, and Franco.-
American
ranco=American troops have now reached
the heights dominating the river at
points. A turning movement against
the German positions on the Aisne
is under way.
Farther north the French movement
toward St. Quentin is also being
vigorously pushed, and considerable
advances have bean msde.
• A dr'3pateh from the British A.renies
in the kieid.says:--Gen. Humbert's
men crossed the Somme •at 1i panan-
court during Wednesday night, oc-
cupying several points on the east
bank. Farther south the advance
continued this morning with greater •
facility than Wednesday between the
Oise and the Autrecotirt Heights. The
passage of the Somme was etfeeted
after a series of eherp engagements i
in which the German mountain troops
contested vigorously every • foot uf-
ground.
Hidden among the buflrushes and
in the hollows and the dried beds of
branches of the river, the Germans
were able to use their 'quick -firers ef-
fectively, compelling the pursuers
now and again to slow up their pro-
gress in order to turn diffipult posi-
tions. General Humbert's; men built
foot bridges under the enemy's fire.
The first bridges were destroyed, to-
gether with their builders, but other
men gallantly replaced those killed
and, facing a galling fire, continued
until pontoons and foot -bridges were
thrown acrose the stream. -
Pluckily crossing the stream
under fire, the French troops finally
took the positions which were verit-
able nests .of machine guns.
.HUNS 'RETREAT HOW CANADIANS WON V.C.
ACROSS AISNE
American Forces Following the
Enemy Retreat Ar -e Over
North Side of Plateau.
A despatch from the American
forces north of Vesle says: The Am-
erican forces, following up the Ger-
man retreat from the Vesle, moved
steadily over the plateau between
the Vesle and the Aisne on Thursday,
and by noon their advanced elements
had filtered into the slopes on the
northern side of the plateau.
Virtually no opposition was en-
countered. Aerial and other observ-
ers reported that there was every
indication that the main body of Ger-
mans had retired across the Aisne..
ft is • expected that machine-gun
and perhaps artillery resistance will
"be encountered in the lowlands near.,
er the Aisne. Wednesday night and
'Thursday forenoon passed, however,
'with nothing more serious than a
long-range bombardment of the Am-
erican rear lines.
,ter F ' Violent explosions were heard
p
along the line this morning. Ob-
Hervers reported that they believed
the Germans were destroying, their
ammunition dumps. -'-
An aviator reported a- terrific ex-
plosion at 9 o'clock at Villers -en-
• Praueves, on the south bank of the
River Aisne, directly north of
Fismes. Other explosions took place
in the same region during the morn-
ing
•CANADIANS ON THE CANAL
ALONG TIIEIR WHOLE FRONT
A despatch from British Head-
quarters says:. The British advance
Cambrai has lulled into a ser -
the main line ,
'tle ,
Corporal Captured Three Machine
Guns Single-handed.
A Canadian corporal has been re-
commended for the Victoria Cross tor
capturing, single handed, a strong Ger-
man post with three machine gone.
The guns were enfilading his com-
pany and the corporal attacked the
post, killing three men and capturing
.the remainder of the gun crews. Later
the corporal collected three then and
charged a battery of 5,9 howitzers,
capturieg the entire craws.,The guns
fired point blank at the coporal and
his three men, but they were not hit.
A Lientonant of the Twenty-second
Canadian Battalion who was killed in
battle at Courcelette August 9 has
been recommended for the Victoria
Cross "for nnost conspicuous gallantry
and almost superhuman devotion to
duty,"
When the British attack began the
left flank of the Ltentenamt's company
was Field up by 4i\ enemy machine gun.
The officer rustled in, captured the -gun .
and personally killed two of the
enemy's crew. In this action he was
wounded 1n the thigh. Later in the
day his company ;vas held up by a ma- •
chine gun nest to a group of houses,I
Ile organized two platoons which cap -1
tured 150 Germans and 15 machine
guns, The Lieutenant himself killed
five Germans. In this fight he was
wounded in the shoulder.
In the evening the Lieutenant saw a !
field gun firing eights men with open!
sights. He organized a party and j
while rushing toward the -gun was
seriously wounded in the abdomen.
Later he succumbed to his wounds.
HUGE TOLL OF FOE PLANES
A despatch from London says: Four,
hundred and sixty-five enemy ma-'
chines have been destroyed and two
hundred disabled since the commence-
ment of the offensive on August 8,
according to an official statement on
0.erations on Thursday night.;
balloons were des-,
were
---London Bystander.
Markets World car lots, $17.00, Cheese.. -Finest
ensi'erns, 221/2 to 23e. Butter---
Choicest creamery, 13t, to 4891X.
hglo---Selected, 51 to Ode; No„ 1
• stock, 47 to 48c; No, 3 stock, 45 to
a0c.. Polutoes---Per bag, ear lots,
$1..010 to 'x1.00, ;Dceeeed hugs-
, Abattoir killed, $21,00 to $20.00.
Lard --Pure, wood pails, 20• lbs net,
12 t.o 3;3c.
Lire Stock Ilatrkete
Toronto, Sept. 10. ---Extra choice
heavy steers, $15.50 to $16.00; choice
heavy steers, $14.50 to $15.00; but-
chers' cattle, choice, $1.3,25 to $14.00;
do. good, $1.2.00 to $12.50; do. med-
lum, $10.75 to $11.00; do, common,
'$9.00 to $10.00; butchers' bulls,
choice, $11.00 to $11,25; clo, medium
I bulls, $1.0.25 to $Lt).60; do. rough
•"bulls, $7,50 to $8.50; bdtchcrs' cows,
flreadetuifs
Toronto, Sent. 10, ---Manitoba wheat
-No. 1 Northern, $2.241/2; No, 2
1 Northern, $2,211,.; No. ft Northern,
$2.17'1/2 No, 4 wheat, ,$2.11',111, in
store Fort William, not including tax.
Manitoba oats -Ill store Fort Wil-
liam, No, 2 C.W., 8512c; extra No, 1.
".feed, 821.uc; No. 1 feed, 79%c.
Ameriean cord -No, 3 yellow, kiln
dried, nominal; No, 4 yellow, kiln
dried, nominal.
Ontario oats, new crop --No. 1
white, 76 to 78c; o. 13 white, 75 to
77c, according to freights outside.
Onrio wheat -No. 2, Winter, per
car lot, 82.31; No. 8 Winter, $ 27;
No. 2 Spring, $2.22, laws in store
Montreal,
Peas -No. 2 nominal.
Barley -Malting, new crop, $1.0:3
to $1.05.
Buckwheat -Nominal.
Rye -No. 2, nominal
Manitoba flour - War quality,
$10.96, Toronto,
Ontario flourWarquality,
$10.85, in bags, Montreal and Tor-
onto, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran,
$S5 per ton; shorts, $40 pea:, ton,
Hay -No. 1, $18 to $.19 per ton,
track Toronto; mixed, $16 to $17 per
ton, track.
Straw -Car tote, $8 to $.50 per tone
ss Country Produce -Wholesale
Eggs, No,..1 candled, 47 to 4Sc;
selected, new -laid, 50 to •51c; cartons,
62 to 54c.
Butter -Creamery, solids, 40c; iso.
fresh made, 46 to 4^re; choice dairy
prints, 41 to 42r; ordinnry dairy
prints, 88 to 40c; bakers', 85 to 38c.
Oleomargarine (best grade), 32 to
340.
Cheese --New, large, 231/2 to 24c;
twins, 233'2 to 241/2c; spring -made,
large, 26.1/2 to 26c; twins, 26 to 261/2e.
Beans -Canadian prime, bushel,
$6.60 to $7.50. Foreign, hand-pick-'
ed, bushel, $6.76 to $7,00.
Comb Honey -Choice, 16 oz„ $5 to.
$5.50 per dozen; 12 ox., $2.50 to $4'
per dozen; seconds and dark comb,t
$b2.50 to $2.76; Bulk, 25c to 26c per;
Maple Syrup -Imperial gallons,'
$2.25; 5 -gallon tins, $2.10 per gel-,
Ion. Maple sugar, per pound, 24 to;
26c,
choice, $10.20 to $11,00; do, good,
$9.35 to 82.50; do, inad(um, $8.25 to
$8!75; do. common, 57.25 to 88.00;
!stackers, $8.00 to $10.50; feeders,
!stackers,
to $11.00; canners and cutters,
1555.50 to $6,75; _milkers, good to
Choice, $90.00 Lo $185.00; do. com.
land med., 60,00 to $75.00; springers,
$90.00 to $100.Q0; light eaves, $13,00
to $15.00; yearlings, $15.00 to
$16,00; spring lambs, 16 to 171c;
calves, good to choice, 514.00 to
1$18.00; hogs, fed and watered $19.50
to $19.75; do. weighed off cars. $19,75
to 820.00.
Montreal, Sept. 10. ---Choice steers,
;$12.00 to $18.00; good, 811.00 to
1812.00; medium, - $8,50 to $10.50;
choice butcher bulls, $10,00- to
$11.00• good, $9.50; medium, $8.00
! to $9.110; choice butcher cows, $9.50
to $10,50; good cows, $8.50 to $9,00;
medium, $6.00 to $8.00; lambs, $16,00
to $17.50; sheep, $12.00 to $18.00;
calves, milk -fed, $12.00 to $14,00;
grass -fern, $7.00 to $10.001 choice
select hogs, off cars, $19.50 to $20.00;
rough and heavy, as low as $16.50.
Salvage of Waste.
iApplied 6cience is capable of pro-
f ducing the most diverse results. As a
factor in war 1t has devised and de-
veloped all manner of engines of des-
trnctIon to such an extent that war
and applied science now seem almost
synonomous. Coincident with that
phase of its activities, it has led the
way in conserving vast quantities of
products formerly looked upon tie re-
fuse. In all the warring countries,
strong organizations have grown up,
each with a view to saving and utiliz-
ing to the best advantage, practically
everything that formerly found its
way to the incinerator or rubbish heap.
Science and four years of war have
rendered obsolete"tlte advice to "bums!
all refuse." Waste paper, wood waste,
tin cans, kitchen grease of all kinds,-,
meet and fish bones, ashpit refuse, 1
clinkers, etc., are all being used at a
Provisions -Wholesale
Barrelled Meats -Pickled pork, $48;1
mess pork $47.
Green Moats -Out of pickle, le less
than smoked.
Smoked Meats -Rolls, 32 to 33031
hams, medium, 88 to 39c; heavy, 3Qc
1 to 31e;'cooked hams, 68 to 54e; backs, !
plain, 44 to 45c; backs, boneless, 48
to 60c. Breakfast bacon, 42 to 44c.!
Cottage rolls, 35 to 36e.
Dry Salted Meats -Long clears, in
tons, 30e; in ca8e8, 80%o; clear bel-
lies, 28 to 281/2c; fat backs, 25e.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 3011/2c to 31e;
tubs, 803$ to 311/6c; pails, 31 to 313'6c;
prints, 32 to 321/2c. Shortening,
tierces, 26 to 261c; tubs, 261/2 to
26%c• pails, 26 to 27c; 1-1b. prints,
28c,
s
profit over the cost of transmuting
them into useful materials. The re -1
suit has been the conserving of basic
materials as well as marked savings I
stn shipping tonnage. Experience le
constantly perfecting, processes Experience..
the more economical handling of all
such waste materials, so that 1n time';
the incinerator end town dump will be
Viewed as relics of a pre-war prodi-
gality,
ages beds will be
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NEWS FROM ENGLAND
NEWS BY MA(1. ,1130,"i JOHN
13L'I.i, AND 11iS PEOPLh
Occurrences in the Land '1•hnt iteigns
Sooreme in the Commer•
cia' V'o: id.
The North Eastern Railway have
provided 12,000 line -side garden plots
and over 4,000 allotments.
Three thousand of the six thousand
Ford tractors ordered. by the Govern-
ment have arrived in England.
Lieut. E. G, McGillivray•and Lieut.
C. Id Watchorn were killed by their
aeroplane craehing at Thorneycroft.
Nearly two hundred taxi -cabs have
disappeared from the streets of Lon-
don since the price of petrol was in-
creased,
I Over two hundebd thousand Wind-
sor chairs were bought in one year
by his Majesty's office of works for
wareepurposes.
A. common sight on Sussex' roads
is German prisoners riding ,leisurely
in a wagon, while the sunless guards
follow on foot. • ' ✓
The new 00(10s for the Ministry
of Pensins at Chelsea, will cost
£70,000, and will accommodate a
stats' of three thousand,
Horace £,eland, a mechanic of
Leeds, was struck on the head by
the propeller of an aeroplane at Suf-
folk and instantly killed.
A firm of wholesale tailors in
Whitechapel are prepared to train
100 disabled soldiers and give them
permanent employment.
Mr. Macpherson stated in the
House of Commons that ten 'thousand
mels had been released from - the
army 'for shipbuilding purposes,
Lord Durham has been elected
Chancellor of the University of Dur-
ham.
William Sym, 14 Chatham 'sailor,
has christened his infant son, "Zee-
brugge."
Private Sidney"lCing, the Northamp-
tonshire cricketer, is a prisoner of
war in Germany.
Out of the 228,00(1 children attend-
ing the London County Council
sehnols, 89,000 required treatment.
Lord Knutsford delivered an ad-
dress in St. Philip's Church, la/rite-
chapel, on the life of Nurse Cavell.
Captain aleuric"e Desmond Quill,
R.M,A., was fatally injured when
thrown from his at orth,
Thr Meidaille diem In RainePEtsmoulisabeth
;has been conferred on Lady Rossini
for iter rare of Belgian wounded and
refugees,
It: has been suggested that a Chair
of Imperial and Colonial history be
established in every British univer-
sity,
Major the Icon, 0. E. t;oscawen,
D,S.O., reported missing, is the sec-
ond son of Viscount Falmouth,
Mr. Forster states that the ques-
tion of a war bonus to the dependents
of soldiers is now under. consideration.
The death has occurred suddenly
of Dr. Malcolm Mackintosh, ono of
the heat known physicians in South
London,
The military authorities have ac-
quired St. George's Hall. Westmin- i
.ter Bridge, :as a club for Canadian
officers.
The hendqunrters of the V, A. D.
are asking far a limited number of
trained laboratory assistants for ser-
vice in Franco.
Prince Albert, who ie president of
the Icing George's Fund -for Sailors,
presided at the fired annual meeting
held on July 4th.
Under the new Reform Act, women
will he in a majority of three hundred
in Peterborough, for local govern-
ment purposes.
Brigadier -General 0. H. Delano -
Osborne has been gazetted Director
of Movements at the War Office,
suct'beding Sir Samuel Fay.
The death occurred ree.ntiy of
Sir Lumley Smith, formerly judge
at the City of London Court and
the. Central _Criminal Court,
Clic British
BRITISH. CROSS CANAL DU NORD:
SIX _MILES FROM .1Ai B AM
!Germans .Fail to Check Progress of Gen. Haig's Armies in the
Lys and Cambrai ,Areas and Sutler Heavy Losses.
A despatch from London seyeeee
The Canal du Nord and the •Tortilte
River have been crossed on a wide
front north of Mofslains by English
and Welsh troops, according to Field
Marshal Haig's communications.
Molslains lies about three miles north
of revenue, Other English divisions
gained the west bank of the canal
opposite Demicourt and Bouretes.
lifoeuvres, six miles from Gambrel,
has been occupied and the fighting
continues there among the old Hin-
denburg•line defences,
A. later despatch says: -The British
have made further progress along
their front north and south of Per -
eine, according to Field Marshal
Hatg's report on Thusday night,
British patrols have been able to
cross to -the east bank of the Canal clu
Nord south of Marquion. The Cenad-
lane are in the latter section. Up
to Wednesday night the British had
taken in four days over 16,000 pi;s-
oners and more than 100 guns,
During the night and throughout
on Thursday the Germans made a
number of strong attacks in the
Cambrai and the Lys areas, They
were beaten in every case, with heavy
losses, while the British continued to
improve their positions,
The Berlin official reports admit
withdrawels at a number of points,
From Erin's Green Isle ALE 1TA WHEAT
j NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE-
! LAND'S SHORES.
!Happenings in the Emerald Isle of
Interest to Irish-
men.
I4Ia,lor-Genec'al J. B. Furster, has
been appointed colonel of the Royal
Irish Regiment.
! The Dungannon District Council
line decided tot establish a potato flour
snit; in that 4,00011,
, The name of Colonel al. Reynolds
':Mclean is mentioned as the director
of recruiting in Ireland.
The death has taken pia ee at n pri-
vc'te hospital in Dublin of Dr. R. G,
Lcwdell, chief medical officer ,of
4Moon(joy Prison.
Tho New Ross Guardians : '-ve
)n-iuiled a bonus to the workhouse
tnialtol of ten per cent. of ail ,nuns
rece;veci from pay patients.
• At the first wool market cf the sea-
sa,t L•eld at Ballintuber, ,1f RO.ie0n1-
mon wool sold at a fixed pric? of ono
shilling and ninepence per potted.
Whet: repairing an old ditch, et
County Carlow farmer found ---an
enema tepees siciilct Containing
hold coins of the reign of Charles I.
There was a large attendance at
I'Ieter Hall, Belfast, far the e.chibi-
tion of Canadian ofticiel war photo-
graphs.
'the ,text
t'entiy 81
hitxwilitant Square, Dublin of glee-
, lee Thomas Beard, late secretary of
the Dish Land C'onunissi n1,
'1 he death in France from \eremite
received in action is announced of
lion. Philip G. 7. Fit'alnc liuward,
eon of Baron Howard of Glossop.
The honorary 'fellowship of the
Racal College of Surgeons, ir�;au0,
has been conferred on Major Harvey
Cushing, L'.S.A., Medical Service
Seigt. \fatty Kennedy, Ilmislcillimg
1 Fueillers, reported missing, had six
brothers at the front. They are the
MIS' of Mr. Kennedy, ' St. Mary's
place, Athlone.
L,icutt:nrnt-Colonel C. H. Stringer,
I1.:1,M,C., a graduate of the g L1111gs
r..f
Surgeons of Ireland, hoe been
awarded the D,S.O,
Tl -e death is announced at 'ranee -
voila House of Mrs,. Gordon ('ooke•
n noted benefactress, and godmother I
.f the Intr. Lord Kitchener.
The Dundalk Board of Guardians
allowed the highest possible pension
to Dr. R. M. 'Rieke, who has been
Medical Officer nt Ravensdale for
39 years.
Tehe Military Medal has been atr3rd-
td to Lance -Corporal David Towns-'
Belfast, R. pl„ of relfast, for. bravery and
devotion to duty.
tieing unable to find tenants for
the cottages they erected iNder the
Laborers Act, the Athttifie Council!
have rleeided to sell them by auc- I
tion. I
CROP IMPROVED
Government Estimate is Five
Bushels Per Acre.
A despatch from Edmonton says..
Estimates of the Alberta Department
of Agriculture show that there will
be approximately five bushels of
wheat per acre for the area seeded.
The acreage for wheat where there
will be no return is not given, but
the estimate is a' general one, cover-
ing the entire province. This is a
great deal better than was anticipat-
ed, and, further, the wheat that is
being thrashed this year is of spleu-
did quality. A great part will grade
No. 1, and although the thrashing is
only beginning, the indications are
that there will be a greater percent-
age of first quality wheat this year
than hast.
With an estimated acreage in wheat
this year of 3,500,000 acres, and tak-
ing an average of five, bushels per
acre, there will be some 17,500,000
bushels of wheat harvested in the
province'4his year. A great percent-
age of this wilt be goes( acted.
Oats, it is figured, will thrash about
,1,8 to 20 bushels to Cho acre seeded.
• There were about 2,500,000 acres
seeded to oats, making a return of
50,000,000 bushels of oats,
; It is estimated that the barley will
thrash about 10 bushels to the total
area seeded, which was approximate-
ly, 400,000 acres. With the 4,800,000
bushels of barley there will be a
total of over 70,000,000 bushels of
gram harvested in Alberta this year.
A despatch from Regina says: Pro-
.vincial Government crop reports just
issued show that the bulk of wheat
I cutting will be practically aver by
1 the end of this week. The yield will
be considerably bettor than was ex-
pected a couple Of weeks ago in some
!districts, while in others complaints
are made about rain delaying rlpem-
I m g.
Nearly all points reporting com-
plain of shortage of help.
FIGHT)N.G FIRE IN THE AIR.
Experience of a British Flyer Behind
the German Lines.
The Joh was au offensive pcl1r01, says
the author of Cavalry of the ('1011)18.
IVe were to hunt trouble round the
area assigned to us behind the Ger-
man lines. When we were a few miles
southeast of Nnpnunie we sightfd a
group of live (leruien two-seaters
some tittle distance ahead of ns and
not far below, 5(3' pilot pointed OM
machine at theta. The next instant
the fuselage shivered. 1 looked along
the inside of it and Mond that a horn.
Ing shell fragment from an nnt.b1111'-
craft gun on the ground had ledpv,i
on a longeron, halfway between my A
Cockpit and the tall. plane. A i)itle