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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-07-13, Page 20. D. McTAGGA1tT If. D. MeTAGGART McTaggart Bros. --- RANKERS rA GENERAL BANKING BUST NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST - ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES !'UR• !MA SED„ II. T. RANCE es NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- iANCE AGENT: REPRESENT- ING 19 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT EPIC E. CLINTON. W. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITORR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Office- Sloan Block -CLINTON 31. G. CAMERON K.C. 'BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, ETC. Office on Albert Street oocuped by Mr. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thgrsday, and on arty day for which ap- pointments are made. Office hours from 0 a.m. to 6 p.m. A good vault in connection with the office. Office open every • week -day. Mr. Hooper will make any appointments for Mr. Cameron. CHARLES B. HALE, Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenser HURON STREET, - CLINTON DRS. GUNN Az GANDIER Dr. W. Gunn, L.R.C.P., L,R. O.S., Edin. Dr. J. 0. Gaudier, B.A., M.B. Office -Ontario St., Clinton. Night calls at residence, Rattenbury St., or at Hospital. DR. C. !`R, THOMPSON PHSYIOIAN, SURGEON. ETC. Special attention given to dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nos. and Throat. Eyes carefully examined and enit- able glasses. prescribed. Office and residence: 2 doors west of the Commercial Hotel, Huron St, DR. F. A. AXON - DENTIST - Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work. Graduate of ,'C.O.D.S., Chicago, and R.O.D.S., To. ronto. Bayfield on Mondays from May to December, GEORGE ELLIOTT • Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can he made for Sale, Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or . by selling Phone 13 on 157. Charges moderate and satiefactioe guaranteed The PEoK leo. Mutual Fire Il nsurance•ComCompany Y Head office, Seaforth, Ont.. DIRECTORY Officer's; • J. D. Mclmmn. Seatorts, President; .1. cos. golly. Oederioil, Yioe'Presldeot; Thus E. Hays. Sea forth,. Sec.-Treas. Directors. D. F. McGregor, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve. Winthrop; Wm. Bina, yea. forth; John Bennewola, ' Dublin; J. Evans, Dencbwood, A, McEwen, Brucelield; J. B. WeLean Setlorth; J. Connolly,-Goderlch; Robert Ferris, Darlock, MC'gents: Ed. Rinohley, Soaforth; tY, beeney, Egmondvillei J. W. Yea, Holmes• ille; Alex Leitch; Clinton; a. s, Sar, moth, Brodb seen. Any money to be paid In may be paid :o 1(orriah Clothing Ge„ Clinton, or at Coot•,, Greeery, Ooderich. Parties desirous to effect insurance transact tithe', bualneec will be promptip attended to on application to any of the abovetfflcere addressed to their reenact. ive post•offices. !cellos Inspected by the director who .liven neareet the scene. -TIME TABLE._. .1 Trains will arrive at and depart from .Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV. ng East, depart 7.83 am, Ea:t, 8.03 p.m.. 5.15 p.m. hg West, ar. 11.00, dp. 11..07 'a.m, " depart 1.85 pan, " ax 6.92, dp. 6, 95 p.m. " departs 11.18 p.m. DON,- HURON at BRUCE DIV. g South,'ar. 7.33, dp. 8.05 p.m. ,,. departs 4.15 p:Ini: g North, ar. 10.30, dp. 11.00 a.m.. i' departs 6.4$ p.m, DELAWARE, LAGKAWANA AND THE BRITISHTORI. N COAL COMPANY'S A WESTER SCRANTON COAL In all sizes AND CAPTURE. VILLAGES CHESN UT PEA Also STOVE i URNACE Advancing Over Maze of German Trenches Gain Nearly One - SOFT COAL CANNEL COAL SMITHING COKE Third of a Mlle. Standard Weight, Standard Quality Its the good Coal. Do you need hard wood or slabs 7 We have lots on, hand at the right prices. We always keep a good stock of Port- land Cement, and 3, 4, and5•inch Tiles. I1. at a' FORRES Opposite the G. T. R. Station. Phone 52. Fertilizer We carry a Complete Stock of Stone's . Natural Fertilizer;, No better on the market. Hay We pay at'all seasons the highest market prices for Hay for baling. Seeds American Feed Corn, Red Clo- ver, Alieike, Timothy and Alfalfa. FORD & NicLEOD CLINTON. Low is Your Cutlery You know that Jewelry Store Cutlery is out of the com- mon class. At least, OURS is. It carries a distinctiveness - an air of superiority, that comes from being made with the greatest care and ut- most skill from the highest - priced materials. If you can use some of this Cutlery in your home, you will be proud of it every time you see it on the table. Carvers, cased, $3.00 up. Knives, Forks and Spoons, $1,00doz. up. Knives and Forks, steel, white handles, $3.00 doz. up. 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Small advertise• menta not to exceed one inch, such as "Lost," "Strayed,'! or "Stolen," etc., inserted once for 25 cents, and each subsequent in. aertion 10 cents, Communications intended for pub. lication must, as a Aguarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the came of the writer. W. J. MITCHELL, Editor and Proprietor, rie p tor.. A despatch from London says :- The second phase of the Battle of the Somme has opened. Where the great guns of the allies again have pounded a path the infantry is sweeping for- ward. "We resumed a vigorous offensive at dawn," General Haig reported ear- ly Friday morning. And in the hours that followed, the. British armies sprang once more to the attack, de- spite a heavy rain that made the ground sodden and flooded the trenches.' When night fell the Brit- ish had -ti nuanced all along the line and inflicted terrific losses on the Ger- mans. In a rush that moved onward as re- lentlessly as the charge of the first day of the great offensive, "Kitchen- er s Kitchen-er's men" won Important successes on a front of almost five miles, from Thiepval, to Contelmaison, and broke through three lines of trenches., South of Thiepval the Leipsic re- doubt was stormed -the British offi- cial statement calls this "an immense- ly strong work," which the Germans have been fortifying for the last 2( months. Into this redoubt, situated. in a salient in the Gerfian line, the British charged, and succeeded in wresting a part of it from the enemy. 700 Prussian Guards Captured. The British have captured German trenches on a front of nearly 3,000 yards to a depth of 500 yards.. In the direction of Orvil'lers the British have forced their way into the village atter capturing boo yards of the . German front. North of Fricourt the British, drove the enemy from two woods and captured three lines of trenohee. An attempt by the 'prussian Guards, to stem the advance east of Centel - 'liaison was crushed .by the British fire, and 700 prisoners of various re- giments were taken. Contalleaison was stormed, ' lt, was retaken by the Germans in a gong counter. -attack. North • of" t'rrcourt the Kaiser's', trotgs wore driven from two 'woods anpli three lines of trenched. These victories have eliminated a. dangerous wedge which the Germans held in the British line. Extremely well fortifier) -for the Germans have assumed all along that the mightiest stroke in the allied' offensive on the west would come from the British - it was a stumbling -block to, further advances: Until the British were able to force their front forward the French could not resume the attack without danger of a : 'flanking movement. Foch's troops had penetrated so much furth- er than Haig's that their left flank was threatened if additional thrusts were attempteclt FRENiCH CRAFTY ON WAR DEVICES CLEVER WAYS OF OUTGUESSING THE GERMANS Painted Scenery Is One -Hide Their Great Guns With a Shield. A young American named Wm. P: Fay, who went to France to join the American Ambulance Corps, and who for the past eight months has been driving a field ambulance along the French battle front, writes as follows regarding the ingenious devices em- ployed by the French army : Since the beginnirig of the war the French have shown themselves to have many sides to their character that no one had suspected before. One of these newly -apparent traits is their remarkable craftiness in invent- ing military devices of various sorts. For example : On the side of a- cer- tain hill close by. the German trench- es there is a French battery of sev- eral large guns, For many months it has been in the same location, and by frequent bombardments the Ger- You should always keep e bottle of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets on the shelf. The: little folk so often need a mild and oafs cathartic and they do appreciate Chamberlain's instead of nauseous el Is and mixtures. For stomach troubles and constipation, give ono fuatbafore . going to hod. All druggists, Mc, or send to. CHAMBERLAIN MEDICINE CO., TORONTO 10 :z5 There is a Cold Day Coming Whr not prepare for it by ordering your winter supply of Lehigh Valley Coal. None better in the world. House Phone 12. Office I'hone 40. A. J. HOLLOWAY THE CHILDREN OF TO -DAY lust as they ere -in their in. door play, or at their,outdone-- play-theyare constantly ,if- Irring leinipLatwnu fur the KODAK Let it.kere them for you ai leer are now let it keep many other hap. .+ening, that are a source of pleasure to you, BROWNIES, 52 TO $121 KOLA KS, $7 'i0 $25. Also full stock of Finns and Supplies. We do Developing and Prin.tiupl iien,euiber the place: THE Ei EXA , y 8- °ORE mans eventually managed to get an almost perfect range upon it with their long-distance guns. So ewer - ate, in fact, was their firing, that one could sit in comparative safety by the window of a house only o few hun- dred yards away and watch the bom- bardments. It was like having a box at a theatre. One could hear the " depart "-as the French term the initial explosion -of the guns in the distance, then for fifteen seconds the tearing of the shells through the air like the arriving of an express train, and finally the crash as the shells landed. Often the shells would ap- pear to land squarely on the French guns, but invariably the gunners would bravely reply.. Two or three German captive balloons and several aeroplanes flying back of the German lines would observe where the shells fell and direct the firing. In order to baffle the German range -finders the French hit upon a happy scheme. For several hundred yards in front of their guns they built a shield. It was" male_ of ordin- ary burlap stretched upon poles, and was about fifteen feet high. There- after, when the Germans bombarded the battery they were no longer able to see where their shells fell, and were -.consequently unable to direct their fire with any.&tree of accur- acy. Of course, portions of the shield were blown down at times by the ex- ploding shells, but it was the work of only a few minutes to make repairs. Using Painted Scenery Another ingenious • device of the French is the use of painted scenery as a means of misleading the enemy. At a, certain point along the battle front the German trenches run across a railroad line which leads from a French village about a half -mile away. The Germans could, see plainly down the tracks, and wee in.the habit of taking pot shots with their rifles at the French soldiers who crossed the tracks. The French called in a *ell known painter to help them. Upon an en- ormous canvas he painted a landscape representing exactly what the Ger- mans saw when they looked down the tracks. It was a splendid piece of work, in full color and in• perfect perspective. One night the huge "drop " was mounted upon a heavy IROSEOERY NOS' COMING. TO. CANADA SAID TO ADORN EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES. Could have Been Governor-General If Re Were Willing to, Take Post. A cable despatch from. England mentioned Lord Rosebery As a possible successor ,to the 'Duke :of Connaught in the 'Governor -Generalship of Cana- da. Had this been true he would have been the first Governor-General of any of his Majesty's Dom -inions who had previously .held the British Premier._ ship. Reorganization (In some shape or other) of the Empire after the war seems in the air, and one can well be., Neve that the British Government would have wished for the presence in the largest of the selfjgoverning Dominions of the Crown of one so well versed in the problems of Empire at such a time. But one cannot forget that Lord Rosebery is no longer a young man -- he entered his seventieth year on the seventh of /last month. One thing is pretty certain --if he had come to this country, he would have been as amazingly popular as he has been everywhere else all his life long. People have differed a good deal about Lord Rosebery as a poli- tician. But there is only one opinion about him as a man -that " he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny I" His easy and free manner, which yet never degenerates into the Ree -and -easy, his distinguished ap- pearance, his well -graced oratory, his love of sport, his fund of humor and Hood humor, his ready 'wit, his win- ning ways generally -all theseattri- butes have long ago combined and conspired to make him probably a more personally popular man With a larger number of his compatriots than any other figure in the public eye. Maker of Epigrams As an all-round speaker there is Lord *Wherry is honorary colonel of NOY Iifeettidltrcjgimbnts, and is, be- side ; eaptam-general 'of the Royal Dlmniran Archers) wilielf is the I1ling's BeLyguard for 'Scotland. A, man of itumettte Wealth is Lord Rosebery: Hie cam* gotta, of which 1tThe lardans;'' near gremlin is his favorite=three Voir ago he trade a very handsome: gift of lands for a Bark to the people of Engem as a " prod of my deep dud abidingaaf- fectionfor the place and people "- are places of luxury and some of them of thagnifietenee, but they'aro all stamped with that hall-mark'of nu- perlative good aste which is Lord Ttosebery's own It is his distinction to adorn everything he touches. Ile made racing almost romantic. He touched a lofty, if lonesome, note in politics. o Ills' tempi in literature have an incomparable literary style bout them m -they are veritable ges. Lord Itosebery himself is a large landowner, between thirty and forty thousand acres. (mostly in Midlothian) belonging to him, THE LITTLEST LIEUTENANT, I.ussianOfficer, Aged Thirteen, Wears Two Decorations. " I should have put him down as ten, but an officer's Word' Is not to be doubted." So wrote a correspondent of the London Times who recently shared a railway compartment with Llout. Mis- ha Turukhanis, aged thirteen, wound- ed in the shoulder, wearing two de- corations for valor, and on his way to Petrograd to join hie mother -an army nurse -because the orders were that " all women and children serving in the army " were to be mustered out. " No smoking here I" In the crowded station, awaiting the start, the correspondent saw a big Cossack drop his cigarette and come hastily to the salute, " The order, shrill, incisive, seemed to come from somewhere near my el- bow, and, looking down, I saw beside me on the crowded platform a trim little figure in the uniform of a Cos- sack officer. It was not much more than four feet high, and its boots seemed to come nearly up to where, on its breast, two Geonges glimmered in the sun. The station gong struck twice ; the voice shrilled again, ' Come, children P The burly ' Cos- sacks who had been lounging about the platform climbed into third-class carriage, and as the train began to move, the amazing little person swung himself aboard at the tail of the pro- cession and followed his 'children' into their stuffy quarters." He was travelling with his " child- ren," because they liked to have him with them ; but later he visited the first-class carriage in which were the correspondent and some ladies. " For all his dignity he was of quite a friendly disposition, and he was soon free of all the compartments in our carriage. He knew his world, too, and the iron hand of discipline that had been in evidence on the platform of the way station was now appro- priately concealed in the velvet glove. The sweets an admirer gave him he duly handed to 'ladies first.' Only in the dining car he was a little per- plexed by the variety of cutlery. But he would not resort to natural weep - ohs, and when I ventured to come to his rescue on the pretext that his wounded shoulder_ put him at a dis- advantage in the struggle with a stub- born clrumaticic, his ready abandon- ment of the unfamiliar knife to me betrayed no consciousness that any- one might suspect the possibility of another reason. " He has been on service in Poland, and with a child's facility had mas- tered Polish so well that he was able to give lessons in that language to the colonel of his regiment. This at- tainment gave him a decided'advan-- tage over his brother officers with the ladies, chiefly Poles, in our train." From Misha himself and the other officers the story of the two Georges on the boy's breast was elicited. The first George he had won -and with it his promotion -by a singularly dar- ing and clever escape from six uhlans who had taken him prisoner while re- connoitring. He had shot one of them, searched his clotlies, and cap- tured important dispatches, The second medal he obtained when he led a forlorn hope in the taking of a re- doubt, and was wounded in two places. It was a record of which any sola diel' might be proud ; but the ques- tion of discipline still lurked in the correspondent's mind, despite the " no smolcir(ging " episode. He ventured delicately to inquire : Lord Rosebery. nobody in the United Kingdom to' wooden framework and placed upright touch him. Every resoince of the across the tracks between two houses. orator fs at his command, and he'ex- The next mormrie, when the Germans looked up the tracks the view was ap- eels in every style of speech -making, patently just the same as usual, es- whether the speech in question be one cepa fur the curious fact that the in Parliament, 'on the political plat crossing remained deserted from that f° rill, at a recruiting meeting, or af- time on, They never discovered the ;er or dinner. He can be impassioned deception and the French soldiers ironical, dramatic, and jocular, by have been able to pass back and forth turns anti at will. And always he behind the screen in perfect security. carries with him the good -will; of not always the assent, of his audience. Yet Lord"Rosebery does not love makirie a big speech. He is always fearful that his hearers may find 'it boring --a quite ungrounded fear, by the way. Nor does he love listening General Smuts, commander-in-chief to a big speech. That nearly always of Britain's army in German East Al- bores him. When Mr. Gladstone rica, with his staff, recently had the formed his Ministry, a new Lord unique experience of being held up, Chancellor (Lord Herschell) presided not by the Teuton enemy, 'lint by a over the debates of the House of ' combined force of.lions and leopards I Lords. The diet evening lie took his These and other wild animals are seat on the Woolsack, all the big guns nightly prowlers around the camps, among the peers thought fit to ad - and their growlings are the lullaby, chess the House. "There, now you to which the now usgally rain -soaked , have heard the worst of them," said soldiers dose off when they have Lord Rosebery at length, slipping wearied of resisting the mass attacks ' over to hie colleagues to proffer com- abig, hungry, and not -to -be -denied fort. mosquitoes 'and'a varied assortment of But, whatever his opinion of the other insect pests. great speeches lie has made, he is The general and his staff, who were .tnuloubtedly not a little proud of his without an escort, found themselves reputation at a maker of epigrams. at nightfall some miles from cramp, , He was a prime favorite with Queen and trying to plough their way to it Victoria. She summoned him to the in autonocbiles, sunk in mud over the --'I a emiet•ship of her own motion, with - axles. I't was not long before the zoo out asking the advice of Mr. Glad - in the dense surrounding jungle began stege, the retiring Premier, who, as to talcs a solicitous interest its the it happened (as we know from party's predicament. Roar answered Morley':; Life of Glrilstone) meant to roar in every direction. The disting- recommeed Lord Spencer to the uishecl party had to meet the emer- Queen. It was whispered, in lilt genet' by sitting up all night, revolver bachelor ciliys, that .lafg elite lyfajeety in hand, and by endeavoring tq.keop was inclined at one tune to look U a bolt of fire alight around the cars, on }rim as a deeireble husband for Providentially there was a brief let-up her fourth daughter, Princess Louise. in the rain, which enabled them to start the fires, after long and persis- tent efforts, with the aid of gasoline from the motors. I, Better Than Shakespeare. GENERAL HELD UP BY LIONS. Unique Adventure of British Com- mander in East• Africa. "How silly of that Shakespeare" said the girl, "to drown. Ophelia and ki'l'l Manilet. Why they ought t o have married!" "I ain't no high brow critic," the yonng man agreed', "but • that's how I'd a fixed it," Both Sons Soldiers Both Lord Rosebe�ry{ sons -Lord Dalmeny, forgjep1yy M. . :Fgr Eclin- burghnhire, and late of the Grened:ier Guards, and iitr. Neil Peinteose, MP. for the Wisbech diision of Cambridge- shire -are serving with the colors. He himself has taken a great part in recruiting work, and seldom has that voice, whose organ tones have made its owner famous, been raised to 'bet- ter purpose than at Scottish recruit - PURE RICH BLOOD PREVENTS DISEASE Bad blood is responsible for more aiimente than ,anything else, 3b causes catarrh, dyspepsia, rheumil- tism, wear tired, languid feelings and worse troubles Hood's Sarsaparilla has bed • wonderfully suoeeseful in purify lid and enriching the bleed, remov n" aerodUla and other' humors, and up' buil in g the w h ole system, '1'dic$ it- v it to ail the familyso' to g1 eas avoid illness. Chet it today. "Hew do your men like your malt= ing them throw away their cigar- ettes I" "(Neil, you see," answered Mish'�a1I simply, " they couldn't be expected td. mihsl, a little boy like me ii' I Were Nothing elee i but I am an officer," $2520000000 PLANT WILL BE ERECTED United States Steel Corpora- tions' Plans for Works at Objiway. A despatch from Ottawa says :-- That erection would start immediate- ly of the big steel plant which the United States Steel Corporation plans. to erect at Ojibway, near. Windeox,,�. Ont., was the statement made by lilr. Wallace Nesbitt, MC. on Friday.Mr. Nesbitt was in the city arrangig cer- tain departmental matters in connec- tion with the going ahead of the work. The company over two years ago secured a large tract of land at Ojib- way, but little has been done up to the present. It is understood the plant to 'ie erected will cost about $25,000,000. BRITISH TRADE FIGURES. Exports Higher fat June Than in Any Month Since January, 1914. A despatch from Sondon says :- The Board •of Trade figures for June show that imports increased 211,027,- 000 and that exports increased 214,- 041,000. Exports were higher than in any month since January of 1914, and £7,000,000 in excess of July of 1914, the last month before the beginning of the war. The principal increase in imports were: Food, £5,000,000; wood oils, fats and chemicals, £6,000,- 000. The increase in exports was principally in manufactured goodsof which £3,500,000 was cotton textiles, £1,250,000 woollens, and £2,000,000 iron and steel. INDUSTRIAL GERMANY ANXIOUS FOR PEACE A despatch from Berlin says :- Numerous scientists, industrialists and representatives of commerce anti agri- culture, have formed a German Nee tional'Committee under the chiarman- ship of Prince von Wedel, says the Koeinische Zeitung, with the aim of "awakening a uniform understanding of the German people for an honorable conclusion of peace which shall guar- antee a secured future empire." In doing this, says the Koelnische Zei,. tung, "all one-sidedness is to be avoid ed," BAR GERMANS FROM FRANCE. Bill to Exclude Them for Ever is Be- fore French Govertunent, A bill to exclude all Germans from France for ever has been prepared by the French Government. The measure is shortly to be submitted to Parliament, and will without doubt be passed, as, with the exception of one Socialist organ, all the newspapers enthusiastically endorse it. The newspapers point to the Ameri- can law excluding the Chinese from the United States as an analogy. They advocate that all of the allied countries keep the Germans, Aus- trians and Hungarians out of their territories in the future, The Journal thinks that the neutral nations should be asked to close their frontiers not only against German immigration, but' also against Ger- man travellers. Responsibility is always lying about waiting for some wide-awake young chap to come along and take it on hie' shoulders. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST GEN. IKINDENDURG In the Region of Oviask Part of the German First Line Trenches Were Captured. A despatch from London says :- Suapasing even in Importance the al- lies' great effort on the western front, the news from the eastern battlefield shows that the Russians have extend- ed their offensive on an extensive scale. On the whole front from Riga to Baranovichi, a distance of about 800 mites, the Russians are being hurled against the German lines, Further to the south General Kale - dines is' driving steadily forward to- ward Hovel and has captured two vil- lages. and a railroad station on the. iftirnt'-Il0vel road Military critics of the allies assert that sinless the Gerniaiie can halt lie Russian Ild. vnnee m the immediate enture they Will have to withdraw their lines along tlje entire eastern Amt. and probably abandon Lemberg, In the tremendous offensive against Field. Marshal von Hindenburg's forces General Evert is leading the Ocar's troops in furious attacks ex tending along a hundred mile front from the Vilna line hi the north to Baranovichi in the south. Germans were blinded and stunned In- to helplesenees, the Russians hurled themselves at the enemy's lines in such overpowering numbers that the first- line ;trenches held by the Germans were penetrated with astonishing ease, The few German soldiers who recover, ed from the shock of the assault quickly enough to offer a half-hearted resistance, were swept aside at the point ofthe bayonet as the Russian ,7 wave surged through the shattered Bram 15Q pverwhelnling was the Russian attack in i+ilo region south west of >aake "Narocz, where T:Setrogred eleiree the greatest successes in the new drive, than an enormous number of prisoners and a vast amount of jiooty were taken by the attacking forces. Furious fighting is continuing along: this whole line. The Germans, speed- ily rallying from the first Russian on, slaughts, are launching counter -at- tacks in rapid succession in an .at tempt to win back the lost positions, Unless the Russians can be checked immediately at the vital points where their first thrusts have succeeded,' it Preceding their infantry assaults by is believed that their whole lines in a Go•nhardmont of such intensity dm- the northern sector will be greatly en, jug megtinge since the whr uta$,ecl, lug its 24 hours' duration, that the clangered.