HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-07-20, Page 3VICTORY FLOWS IN OUR DIRECTION,"'
SAYS DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
Entente, Allies Take the Initiative, Never to Be Lost to the Foe
Again.
A despatch from London says:
David Lloyd George, British Minister
of War, presiding on Thursday at. an
allied conferenceon equipment, de-
clared that the combined offensive of
the allies had wrenched the initiative
from the Germans, never, he trusted,
to return, ,•
"We have crossed the watershed,"
he said, "and now victory is beginning
to flow in our direction. This change
is duo to the improvement in our
equipment."
The conference was held at the
"War Office and was participated in by
Albert Thomas, French Minister of
Munitions; General Bailieff, Assistant.
Minister of War of. Russia; General
Ada11 Olio, member of the Italian
Ministry of War, and the new British
Minister of Munitions, Edwin E.
Montagu.
Russians Terrify Teutons.
"Since our last munitions confer
ence," said Mr. Lloyd George, "there
has been a considerable change in the
fortunes, of the allies. On that date
the great Champagne offensive in the
west had just failed to attain its oh-
jective, and the French and British
armies had sustained heavy losses
j , without the achievement of any par-
ticular success. In the. east the enemy
had pressed the , gallant armies of
Russia back some hundreds of miles,
• and the Balkans had just been over-
run by the Centrai powers. •
"The overwhelming victories won
by the valiant soldiers of Russia have
struck terror into the hearts of our
foes, and these, coupled with the im-
mortal defence of Verdun by our
indomitable French comrades, and
the brave resistance of the Italians
against overwhelming odds in the
southern Alps, have changed the
whole complexion of the landscape.
"Now the combined offensive in the
east and west has wrenched out of
the hands of the enemy -never, I
trust; to return to his grasp. We have
crossed the watershed, and now vic-
tory is beginning to flow in our direc-
tion.
�.v.
"Why have our prospects improv-
ed? The answer is: the equipment of
our armies has improved enormously'
and is continuing to improve. •
"The British navy until recently,
has absorbed more than half the
metal workers of this country. The
task of building new ships and re-
pairing the old ones for the gigantic
navy,: and fitting and equipping' them,
occupies the energies of a million
men. Most of our new factories are
now complete; most of the machinery
has been set up. Hundreds of thous-
ands of men and women, hitherto tut -
accustomed to metal and chemical
work, have been trained for muni-
tions snaking.
Steadily Increasing Output.
"Every month we are. turning out
hundreds of guns and howitzers, light,
medium and heavy. Our heavy guns
are rolling in at a great rate and we
are turning out nearly twice as much
ammunition iii a single week -and,
what is more, nearly three times as
much heavy shell -as we fired in the
great offensive in : September, al-
though the ammunition we expended
in that battle was the result of many
weary weeks' accumulation. The new
factories and workshops we set up
have not yet attained one-third their
full capacity, but their output is now
increasing with' great rapidity. Our
main difficulties in organization, con-
struction, equipment, labor supply and
readjustment have been solved. If
officials, employers and workmen
keep at it with the same zeal and as-
siduity as they have hitherto em-
ployed, our supplies will soon be over-
whelming.
"I cannot help thinking that the
improvement in the Russian ammuni-
tion has been one of the greatest and
most unpleasant surprises the enemy
has sustained. Still, our task is but
half accomplished. Every great battle
furnishes additional proof that this is
a war of equipment. More ammuni-
tion means more victories and fewer
casualties."
HUNGARY IS BITTER
OVER GREAT LOSSES
Since Beginning of Offensive
Against Italy They
Exceed 600,000.
The London Morning Post has ad-
vices from Budopest which say that
the losses of the Austro-Hungarian
army during the last six weeks were
the subject of discussion in the lobby
of the Hungarian Parliament, The
despatch says:
"Members who returned from the
different fronts where they took part
in the offensive against Italy, also in
the tremendous fighting on the 'Rus-
sian front, all agreed that the losses
must exceed 600,000 since the begin-
ning of the offensive against Italy.
The bitterness against the leaders of
the army is very great, and at the
next sitting of the House the Inde-
pendence party will again demand that
those responsible for the situation
shall be brought to account, these be-
ing the two Archdukes and Gen. Con-
rad von Holtztndorf. It is more than
likely that the House will be dissolv-
ed rather than that these high person-
ages should be made the subjects of
acrimonious criticism."
A despatch from Bucharest to the
Telegraph says: "Public feeling has
been deeply stirred by the general
offensive of the allies.. Owing to an
appreciable lack of meat here the
Government has prohibited eating of
it on three days of the week."
BRITISH HOLDING ON
THE TIGRIS RIVER.
Gen. Lake's Troops Are at Sannayyat,
Fifteen Miles Below Rut.
A despatch from London says: The
British expedition in Mesopotamia is
still at Sannayyat, about fifteen miles
below Kut -el -Amara on the Tigris, ac-
cording to an official statement issued
on Thursday. The statement says
that the British forces have been sub-
jected to an ineffectual artillery at-
tack.
EIGHTEEN BULGAR
REGIMENTS MUTINY.
A despatch from Bucharest says:
Eighteen Bulgarian regiments are re-
ported to have mutinied, killing their
German officers.
Eighty German MerchantSubs?
A' despatch from Copenhagen says:
German newspapers state that eighty
tew submarines of the same type as
he Deutschland will be btiilt at Kiel
band Bremen. Twelve are expected to
e completed by August.
TRAPS FOR ZEPPELINS.
New Device Is in the Hands of the
British Government.
One of these days, perhaps,' news-
paper readers may learn of a Zeppe-
lin caught in an aerial net "some-
where in England." Just as the .sub-
merged links of steel swept the seas
and reduced the terrors of the Ger-
man submarine to commonplace war-
ships, so has a weapon been found to
render impotent the battleship of the
sky. It is a simple device, the inven-
tion of Joseph A. Steinmetz of Phila-
delphia,
hila-
lel phi
t a and it 'is in thehands , ands of the
British Government, says the Phila-
delphia North American.
The idea of netting and destroying
Zeppelins is almost as unique in its
simplicity as was the seining of sub-
marines. It consists of releasing a
great number of hydrogen balloons
tied in pairs or sets by piano wire
several thousand feet long.
A perfect network of wires carried
upward at great speed, will drift a-
gainst the Zeppelin. The balloons are
swept into contact with the airship
or will float about it. Automatic or
earth -controlled triggers then release
the bombs, which are of two varieties,
high explosive or inflammable. At or
about this time things will happen
to the Zeppelin.
In war time things are clone on a
stupendous scale. Not 20 or 50, but
a multitude of balloons carrying al-
most a screen of contact wires will be
sent into the air, and they will cover
such a great area that the airship will
have considerable difficulty getting
away from the net.
" It has been shown," said Mr.
Steinmetz, "that the high -angle artil-
lery fire has failed against the Ger-
man sky cruiser, but, what is worse,
the falling fragments of shells and
unexploded shells have seriously dam-
aged the city of London. The Zeppe-
line, which have raided nearly a dozen
times, had little difficulty in escaping
unscathed, while London really bom-
barded herself."
NO SERVILLE BRITISH.
Bishop of London Says Men Should
Live Men's Lives.
There will be no more suave Bti-
tish butlers and footmen after the.
war if the Bishop of London has his
way.
Does anyone suppose that after the
war linen drapers' assistants will re-
turn tothe shops and be 'content to
hand out laces to ladies again ?" he.
asked, and answered his own ques-
tion : " Of course not."
He continued that he ' hoped the
world had seen the last of Englishmen
in the prune of life acting as footmen
in great houses. Ho hoped, he con-
cluded, that England should see men
who had learned to live men's lives.
in these glorious clays refusing to live
anything but a man's life after the
war.
HEROISM OF NEWFOUNDLANDERS
IN THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
Only Overseas Troops Engaged in Operations Behaved With
Noble Steadiness and Courage.
,r:-'
The London Times correspondent at "The batalion was • pushed upto
,.,
British hettbiiiartai in %ranee sends what may be called the third wave in
the followA 'i the attack on probably, the most for-
,,, enidable section of 'the whole German
The N - ;otmdland were, the
et.
„� . front through an almost overwhelm -
only oversea�,troop$ 01004 in tiers leg artillery fireand acvross
ground
opera lo03c �a irto4 .t�d heroic saeiv by an enfilading machine gun
part' Nnra}$t yep i�d qj ij hill, but fire from hidden positions. The men
d behaved with i $ " l e Gun land 'completely'
lien It s 1 $�noblesteadi-
veryw . i win eW�.
prot}il. .; , , , ness and courage."
.athero, of the World
ee eeeetue s.
Toronto, July 13 Manitoba Wheat -
No. 1 Northern, $1.521 ; No, 2 do., $$1.22;
No. 3 do $1.10, on track Bay ports.
Manitoba Oats- No. s (1.N., 5L3e
No. 3 C.W,,. isle extra No. 1 feed,
501c ; No 1 feed, 502c , No, 2 . feed,
4990, on track, Bay ports,
Aaneicq,q.00rn-No, 3 yellow, 8880, on
track, Toronto.
Ontario oats -No, 2 white, 47 to 480.,
according to freights outside,
Ontario wheat -No. 1- commercial, 97
to 06c ; No, 2 do, 93 to 95e ; No. 3 do.,
87 to 89c ; feed, 86 to 86c., nominal, ac-
cording to freights outside,
Peas -No. 2, nominal, 51,70 to $1.80;
according to. sample, $1.25 to $1,60, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Barley -Malting Lathy, nominal; 85
to. 050 ; feed barley, nominal, 00. to 620,
according to freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal, 70 to 71c., ac-
cording to freights outside,
14•ye-No; 1 commercial, 54 to 956„ ac-
cording to freights outside.
Manitoba flour First patents, in ,Rite
bags, 18.50; second patents,.in jute
bags,;.: '$.0o strong bakers:, in jute'
bags, $5.80, Toronto, '
Ontario hour Winter, according to
sample, $4.05 to 04,10, . in bags, track
Toronto,.prompt shipment ; $4.16, bulk
seaboard, prompt shipment.
Millreed, car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included -Bran, per ton,
$20 to $21 ; shorts, per ton, $24 to $25
millings, per ton, $25 to $26 ; good feet{
flour, per bag, $1,56 to $1.60.
Provisions.
Bacon, long clear, 18 to 181c.per lb.
I--Tams-Medium, 24 to 243c ; o„ heavy,
208 to 21a 1 rolls, 19 to 193o ; breakfast
bacon, 25 to 2701 backs, plain, 268 to
2710; boneless backs, 205 to 3080.
.Gard -Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 171$ ;
and pails, 171 to i7$c ; compound, 14 to
14/c. -
Country Produce.
,Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 26 to 27o'
inferior, 23 to 240 ; creamery, prints, 29
to sle Inferior,,28 to •Loo.
Eggs -New -laid, 29 to 805 ; do,, in
cartons, 81 to. 830,
Beaks -$4.50 to $6:00, the latter for
hand-picked.
Cheese -New, large, isc ; twins, 18101
triplets, 181c.
Maple. Syrup -Prices are steady at
$1.40 to x$1.50 per Imperial gallon.
Dressed poultry -Chickens,_ 25 to 27c
fowl, 23 to 250,
Potatoes -New Brunswicks quoted at
$2.00 per bag ; Western, $1 85.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, July 18. -Corn -American
No. 2 yellow, '91 to 820. Oats -Cana-
dian western, No, 2, 64. to 6430 ; do„ No.
8. 53 to ills; No. 1 teed, 58 to 581c ;
No. 2 local white, 630; No. 8 do.. 62o ;
No. 4 do., 51c. Flour -Man. Spring
wheat patents, firsts $6.130 seconds,
$6.10 • strong bakers', $5.00 ; 'White
patents, choice, $6.00 to $6.25_; straight.
rollers, $5.40 to $6.50 ; do ags, $2,50
to $2.60. Rolled oats, barrels, $6.06 to
$6,46 ; do., bags, 90 lbs, $1,40 to $2.00.
Bran, $20 to $21, Shorts, $23 to $24.
Middlings, $26 to $27. Mouillie, $28 to
$12. Tray -No. 2, per ton, ear lots, $19
to $20. Cheese -Finest western, 16 to
1610 ; do., easterne. 142 to 160. Butter
-Choicest creamery, 298 to 291e;
seconds, 218 to 2819. Eggs -Fresh, 360 ,
selected, -320; No. 1 stock, 290 ; No. 2
stock, 28e.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, July 18. -Cash quotations
-Wheat-No, 1 Northern, $1,163 ; No.
2 Northern, 11.144 • No. 3 Northern,
$1,112 Ivo, 4,01.068 ; No. 6 $1 ; Na.
o 561c • feed, $28c. 'Oats -44. 2 C.W.
46$6:; No 3 CSS , 44$c ; e tra No. 1
feed, i41c No 1 feed, 44$c ; NO, 2
feed, 4390.'Barley-No. 8 7 0 ; No. 4.
71e ; rejected, 6So ; feed, 68c. Flax
No, 1 N. -W. -C., $1.77 ; No.2"C. W., $1.74
'United States Markets:
Minneapolis, July 18. -Wheat, ,TulY
$1.18 ' ' September $1,15$ ; No. 1 hard,
$1,218 No. 1. Northern, $1,168 to 81169;
No. 2 Northern, $1,121 to 1.16$, Corn -
No, 8 yellow, 81 to 82e. Oats -No. 3
white, 39 to 395c. Flotu•-Fenoy. patents
108 higher, at $6.25 ; first clears 100.
higher at $6. ; other r•••ades unchanged.
Bran $17.50 to $18,00.
Duluth, July 18, --Wheat on. track, No,
1 hard, $1,198 ; No, 1 Northern, $1.183 .
No. 2 Northern; $1,133 to 11.168 ; No. 1
1 No. 3 North-
ernrniv .1
a a 73
Northern $
1 02 Linseed,
track, L�- to 8
ontrack, $ 9
{{ 2to arrive,
• 1r 2�0 to 7,3 ;
on t;ao q Q
52.01 ; 'In Y. 2,003$ bid ; September,
$2.013 bid ; October, $2 bid ; November
2 bid, ; December, 11.981 bid.
•
Live Stook Markets.
Toronto, July 18, -Choice heavy steers
$9.25 to $9.50 ;. good heavy steers, $5.00
to $5.10 ; butchers' cattle, choice, $0,1.0
to 19.85 I do, good $8.75 to $8.80: do,•
medium, $8.50 to 18,60 ; do. common,
7.50 to 7.76 ; butchers' bulls, choice,
6.00 to $8.26 ; do. good bulls, $7.41 to 7.05 ; do, rough pulls, $4.75 to $5.26 •
butchers cows, choice, $7.50 to $7.60 ;
do, good $7.25 40 $7.35 ; do, medium,
0.25 to $6.75 ; stockers, 700 to 850 lbs,
6.50 to $7.40 ; choice feeders, dehorned,
7.60 to $5.00 ; canners andcutters,
13.76 to $6.00 ; Milkers, choice, each
76.00 to 95.00 •,do, coin. and med., ea.
40,00 to $60.00 ; epringrs $60.00 to
$100.00 light ewes, $7.75 to $8.60
sheep, heavy $5,00 to '$6 50 ;' spring
lambs, per lb., 140. to 141c ; calves,
mei um '$7.25 to $8.50 ; to
gls, feed and
watered,
cats,, $11,15 to
do, f.o.b.,
$10,66.
Montreal, July 18,-Rutohers' steers,
good, $5 to $0,50 ; medium. $ 7.76 to
18,76; common to fair, $7,25 to $8.26 r
fair to - good, $6.60. to $7 ; media n,$6.26
to'66,25; cows, good, $0 to $7 ; fair,
$5.50 to $6,76 ; common, $5 to $5.25-;
sheep, Sc; lambs, 100 . calves, milk
fedo leo ; grass fed, 6c ; hogs,
, Sc.Sc,
selects, $31..76 to $12.26 ;• roughs and
mixed lots, $10.60 to $11,60 ; sows,
$9.76 to 510,25.
The New Earl Kitchener
Eldest brother of the late Field-
marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
and of Broome, and his successor in
the title, Col. Henry Elliott Chevailier
Kitchener, second Earl Kitchener of
Khartoum. The successor to Field -
Marshal -Earl Kitchener's title is a
well-known and able soldier, and has
been fighting for his country through-
out the war. He is in Bost Africa,
where he'hilds a high pc., t:o.i, Tic is
(1) Bird's Eye View of the Baesano
Dam.
(2) The Dam Under Construction.
((3) The Sluice Gates Open.
;(4) Distributing the Water.
0 UT on the prairies of Western
Canada and among the . moun-
tain valleys of British Colum-
bia, deserts are being turned into
gardens by the application of life-
giving' waters.
Every desert is a potential garden
if this one chief necessity is met,
though it is not fair to use the weed
desert or even an arid region, for Al-
berta is neither arid or desert. But
nature may often be assisted in her
great task of production, and this is
what the irrigation systems of the
Canadian West are doing.
In Alberta the Canadian Pacific;
Railway is developing the largest in-
'dlvidual irrigation project on the Am-
`crican continent, with an area larger
ithan the total irrigated area in either
Colorado or California. Portions of
'a tract of three million acres will
Abe included in this prosperous and
fertile so-called "dry belt" region,
The western section is already colo-
pleted, including sixteen hundred
miles of canals and ditches. The
,eastern section is in process of de-
velopment wh,ere twenty-five hundred
miles of canals and ditches will be
0 the dtred for
t e eerviae
On April 10
.,5 14 thegreati
p tri a-
s
,tion dam at .' Bassano, Alberta, was
opened. Built across the Bow River,
;eighty miles east of Calgary, the huge
structure, 7,000 feet long, will Con-
serve the water of the Bow for the
pagtera section, .Another great engin-
coring work, which will serve the
same tract, is a giant aqteeduct at
Brooks, thirty miles east, two mites
in length, which carries the waters
of a branch canal over a wide valley.
One has only to visit this great
undertaking of the Canadian Pacific
Railway to realize not only ,its mag-
nitude but the results it will, indeed
is, producing. Here Is ode of the
smaller radiating ditches, filled with
rippling water. On either bank na-
ture has responded with a luxuriant
growth, and a garden of productivity
is the result. _The wheat field$ ex-
tend. In another direction, showing a
!Pee head q• grain after imbibing the
thirst-gndnohing waters, for nature
thirsts as do human$. Ali ?,;finds of
growthsroaber-fruits, cereals and
garden truck, while dairying and live
stock gr0wi g flourish wherever there
o
is an irrigation canal. The country Is
filling up with what are called dry
farmers f r.the waters ensure a prac-
tical certainty of crop. A six-year yield
of Marghl$ wheat on irrigated land
ran forty-four bushels to the acre,
compared with only 5$ on non-irriga-
ble
on rriga-ble lands,. Here the CCP Jt. provide,
their Ready -Made Homes, where thei
settler is assisted generously in eel
tablishing a foothold. Y•
r`hrou h southern British • Colunel
bia the pf$ect q irrigation systems is
shown In the flourishing orchards of
the Okanagan, Arrow' and Kootenay
Lakes country, along the liatihoq tees
and in roan another seatfon. flu
this moat ancient
of natural aids as
it is the most modern, dating from the
Garden of Bawl and continuing to the
Alberta irrigatlofi system is one tha
has contributed to the world's produ
tivity and to Canada's wealth,
the eldest brother of the late Earl. He a FRENCH was born in 1546, and will be '70 on BRITISH MAKE A FRENCH WEDGE TN OE LINE
October 5. The second Earl is a HUNS .. 9 Tr
MORE PROGRESS HUNS ADMIT CRISIS AHEAD
widower, with a son in the navy, Com- ..
mender Henry Franklin Chevallior
Kitchener, born in 1878, who is now
the heir to the peerage. , The new `-'-
Earl's wife, who was Miss Eleanor Appreciably Advance Their Line
Fanny Lushin,gton, daughter of the
late Lieut. -Col, F. Lushington, C.B., At Various Points.
died in 1897. The second Earl Kitch- A despatch from London says: The
ener entered the army in 1886, was y
lieutenant -colonel In 1898, and couonel British made a further advance north
in 1899. He has a distinguished mili- of the Somme, according to a report
tary record, and it interesting tore_ received on Thursday from General
call that he went to France with his Haig. With Contalmaison and the en -
brother and fought side by side with tire German first line of defence on
him in the French army in the Fran- that and adjoining sectors firmly in
co -German war of 1870-71. The new Fran -
their hands the British troops are
Earl Kitchener has one daughter; sthi mg to the eastward against
Norah Frances, born in 1882, who was Combles and Bapaume. Longueval, a
married in 1909 to Major Patrick Al- junction point on the high road sys-
bert Forbes. Winslow a Beckett (of tem, and the Heights of Martinpuich,
the a Becketts of "Punch.") two and a half miles northeast of Con-
talmaison, which command the battle-
ground for miles around, are the im-
JAIL FOR REFUSING mediate objects of their campaign.
, TO MAKE MUNITIONS.
War Prisoner Writes of Ottawa Man's. FEW MARRIAGES IN GERMANY.
Plight. --
A despatch from Ottawa says: Taxes to Encourage Matrimony Are
Canadian prisoners in Germany were
sentenced to a year in jail by the Ger- The terrible elimination of the youth
mans for refusing to make war muni- of the nation is causing great uneasi-
$tions, according to a letter received ness in Germany, The Leipzig Neueste
Stere from Corporal Ian A. Simons, publishes an article on the position
formerly a prisoner in Germany, and of Germany's family life as a conse-
now transferred to the internment quence of the war. It says
camp in Switzerland. He writes that " Hundreds of' thousands of healthy
Corporal IIarry Hogarth, of Ottawa, young men have never come back
is one of those who refused to make from the Fatherland's battles. In
munitions, and it is expected...he will 1914 half the marriageable women in
have to serve the year's sentence, -the empire remained single owing to.
which has already been imposed upon the dearth of men. What will happen
him. Steps have been taken to, bring after the war if the state does not in -
it before the authorities, so that it can terfere ? Patriots would like to see
be investigated,, as, according to The taxes imposed with the object of en
Hague tribunal, prisoners of war are couraging marriage and to discredit
not called upon to make munitions. bachelordom."
The Journal suggests that all
families of more than six should be
completely freed from taxation. No
French Likely to Make It Compulsory unmarried officer should ever expect
in Army Surgery. to receive an increase In salary.
Every new born child should mean
The French Academy of medicine is promotion for the father.
considering the advisability of recom- The Government is reminded of the
mending the Government to make the importance of building' worlcmen's
use of chloroform compulsory in the homes and garden cities, which are at
army, not only in serious operations present lacking.
bunt also in all cases where the treat- " Unless all this is done in time," it
ment is painful, says, "a victorious war will be of
At present French soldiers are ob- Tittle use to future generations"
liged to submit to vaccination against
smallpox and typhoid fever, but they
cannot be compelled to accept chloro-
form against their' will.
A committee hasbeen formed to
study the question as well as that of
rendering compulsory the injection of
serums in all cases where the latter
are declared to be necessary by the
doctor.
P
It's the easiest thing in. the world
to be brave when there is no clanger. parents, get hold of them.
Being Urged.
MAY FORCE CHLOROFORM USE.
Even the man who has not had his
appendix removed can find sc: le fun
in telling of his visits to the c:entist.
Most people have their fair :.tare of
curiosity, but the greatest ctlr'o;ity in
the world is the person who hasn't
any
rThere is no harm in the 7-opnger
generation•rceding the books they do,
provided that they do net int their
Soffre's Forces Close to Peronne, and- Germans are Making
Desperate Counter -Attacks.
A special cable to the Chicago Daily
News from Oswald F. Schutte, in Ber-
lin, says: The French have opened the
third week of their offensive by driv-
ing within a mile of Peronne a wedge
into the German lines. The Germans
have been melding desperate counter-
attacks, both north of the Somme and
on the F1+'onch flank at Barleux. The
Germans realize that a crisis is still
ahead.
The third week promises even more
bloodshed than last weelc, for reports.
from the front are far from revealing
all the horror of this fearful slayghter.
The German press are still forced to
rely upon the British eyewitnesses'
reports for real stories of the battle.
German authorities make nothing pub-
lic except dry statements of the gen-
eral staff, and reports of German cor-
respondents at German headquarters
add little. Neither German nor nem
t1•al correspondents are now allowed
anywhere at any of the fronts.
TI E GREAT PUSH
HAS ONLY BEGUN
Britain Asks Munition Workers
to Forego August Holidays.
A despatch from London says: The
allied offensive on the western front
is only in its beginning, declared Pre-
mier Asquith on Thursday in an-
nouncing• in the House of Commons
that the Government had decided to
ask workers to forego their August
holidays because of the demand for
munitions in France. He expressed
conviction that the workmen would
Co-operate in this plan so as to make
it plain to Great Britain's foes that
the offensive, in its present intensity
of bombardment and assault, would,
if necessary, be "continued indefinite-
ly." The Premier also .announced that
by Royal proclamation the August
bank holidays would be postponed, and
he appealed to all classes for the post,
ponement of all holidays until fur-
ther and definite progress of the of-
fensive had been secured.
GERMAN GUNNERS
di1AINED TO GUNS.
A despatch from London snysl
British soldiers on the fighting .lino
and those wended on the So'tetmc say
that they found German lnachiee-
gunners chained to their guns to pre-
vent them from retreating.
People who know the least are apt
to mthe most.
Nothingassue you can say of the dead is
going to help the deakl in the slight-
est; but a single word to the living
may be the difference between success
and failure
FOE SANK 101,000 TONS
OF SHIPPING DURING JUNE,,
A despatch from Berlin says: Au
official statement issued on Wednes7
day night says; "In the month ofy
June alxty-one of the enemy's mere
ehantmen, measuring about 101,000
tons, were sunk by German and Ause
trian submarines or by mines."
460 IRISH REBELS
WILL BE RELEASED`
A despatch from London says: The
advisory committee appointed to con-
sider the cases of men arrested in
Treland during the recent rebellion,
and still under detention, has recom,
mended the release of 460 of them,'
Thisrecommendation will be given ef-
feet immediately, Herbert L. Samuel,
Secretary of State for Home Affairs,
informed the House of Commons on
Wednesday.
SECOND DOMESTIC WAR
LOAN IN SEPTEMBER,)
Terms of War Issue Will Be
Settled a Few Days
Beforehand.
A despatch from Ottawa sfiysI,
Coemla will float a second donicstibi
war, , ;Pae: ,bn .g . tip e y , a.Ceording tij„
fin !Ace*,, hil folie; g e it ;nacie. ill i0
11,
on Tinursca � T "0 t1
ti s t j•
y y Sir h. nd wt �
Minister 4 'ltlallc:9. e ., ar�i9 h$i
terms, and p ricer � it vs ata ed, will be
settled a few days before the issue. i
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