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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-08-16, Page 6BATTLE OF FLANDERS RESUMED 9 HUN COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED British hold AU the Newly Acquired Positions --German Losses Are Severe, British Front in France and Bel- `girim, August 12, The Germans dur- ing Friday night delivered six deter- mined counter-attacks against the lin- portant Westhoek Ridge position, which the 13ritish captured yesterday, but in each case the enemy was hurled back. The last enemy attempt was made at 10 o'clock at night, and having failed in this, the Teutons turned an intense artillery fire against the left part of the sector above Westhoek village. The bombardment continued •steadily throughout the night, This morning found the British , holding all the newly acquired p05i-1 tions strongly. The British occupation' of this high ground in the early morn-, ing yesterday was followed by a heavy bombardment from the German guns which lasted hours, The enemy launched five snecessive lines of in- fantry in quick e000ession against the centre of the sector near West - heel; village and also counter -at- tacked on the left wing above West- hoek, As the assaulting troops swept for- ward toward the dominating position held by the British they were met by a withering machine gun and rifle fire which they found it impossible to face. The German losses undoubtedly were severe, but further attempts to retake the ridge are expected, CANADIANS MAKE LIVELY RAID ON LENS -ONTARIO TROOPS ENGAGED Penetrate Foe's Positions on a Front of Over 2,000 Yards -.Ger- man Dugouts Bombed and Occupants Killed. A despatch from Canadian Army Headquarters says: Under the protec- tion of a heavy barrage shortly after four o'clock Thursday morning raid- ing parties on a front of over two 1 thousand yards penetrated the en- emy's positions in the Cite du Moulin and St. Laurent sectors, returning; with several prisoners. The raiders on a large part of the front attacked passed over the en- emy's first line and support trenches, Some of them said there would have been no difficulty in pushing forward !Into the streets of Lens, The troops engaged were from On - i 'thrice Their casualties were slight, At some points the trenches were found to have been pounded out of all resemblance to defensive positions. Many dugouts were also seen that had been blown in by our heavy guns. One exploring party had land mines exploded in front of them near a crater which was the scene of lively less, 39 to 40c. which were found to be lightly held fighting earlier in the week. Unde- , Cured meats -Long clear bacon. 26 to 610 per 14; cleat Tellies, 20 to 260, Markets f the 'ort NEW ONTARIO IIA` [BRITISH AND FRENCH MARE CROP HEAVY MORE GAINS IN FLANDERS 331 eadetuffe Toronto, Aug 14--Mnaitoba Wheat. - No, 1 Northern 5. 10; N1( d Northern, �.-._ $2.38, Ne. 3 Northern, $2,23; No, 4 white $9,24, notainal, slots roll' W11- Rain is Retarding Ulu'vest \York llm0, Manitoba oats- -No. 2 ('.W., 791e, --Root Crops Thrlvin ..,. track Itay ports,il. �^ Amt Anon eat a - ?4e 3 yellow, nomin01. tt:1ek'1(013lo. Ontario oats -No olYh'lal quotations. Onfal10 wheat --Ne, 2 \\Inlet•. per e:u' lel. 0' 55 11( $3,60; Nu, 3, 42.23 to 22.55, n,,.orahti, lu 1'relg'hle 0011190: new 1'1'1(5, No, 2 52.25. noMinal. foss-- No. 3,Nominal, according to fr'rig'11ts outalc'. Barley _. llalting, nonllnal, aerording to freights outside. Rye- No, 2, nominal, according to frelgltts 01111191' 210njtol' aoUi b'lrst patents, in jute 401,8, $12.an. - stood pnlents, In jute bags, $12,10; stfoltg bakers'. In- jute bas, 0.12,1111, Outer l0 dont'--WInter, according to sample $11.90, ill bags. iruclt 'Toronto, prompt shipment, 211nreed---c'ur lots, delivered Montreal jretghle, hags included-lu'an, pea' inn, tont, 236 to .18 t good feed ilea', per bag, $3 25, Play -Extra No. 2, pmt .ton, $$11,50 to $12.00; mixed, per ton, .0 to 210, track Toronto. Straw -Car lots, per ton, $0.00, track T0re010 Country Produce -Wholesale Butter -Creamery, solids, per lb,, 35 to 355e; prints, par lb., '851 to 360; dairy, Per lb., 20 to 30c, Eggs -Per dos., 37 to 300. Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following ,rices ;-- Cheese-New, large, 221 to 22c; twins, 229 to 232e; trdplets, 23 to 231e; old, large, 30e; twins, 109e; triplets, 301c. nutter-li'resh dairy, choice, 35 to 350; creamery prints, 30 to- 40o; solids, 35 to 3830. Eggs -New laid, in cartans. 45 to 900; out of cartons, 40c. Dressed poultry --Spring chickens, 25 to 100; fowl, 90e; squabs, per doz., $4 to 54,50; turkeys, 25 to 30e; ducks, spring, 20r. Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb., 20 to 22c; hens, 16 to 181; ducks, Spring, lie. Honey -Comb Extra fine and heavy weight, per doz.,$2.75; select, 52.50 to $2.75; No, 2, 52 to 59.25. Beans -Prime white, $9.50 per bush; imported, hand-picked, $10.50 per bush; Limas, per 1b., 18 to 100. Potatoes, en track -Red Star, new, bb]„ 51.25; North Carolinas, new, bbl., 55,25; seconds $4.00; Ontario, bag, 23.00. Provieione-Wholesale Smoked meats -pants, medium, 30 to 31c: do., heavy, 26 to 27G cooped, 41. to 490; rolls, 2a t0 2Se; breakfast bacon, 33 to 360.; baelts, plum, 3U to 370; 4005 - and in bad condition. terred by these explosions, they push - A number of the enemy subter- ed on and encountered an enemy pa- ranean shelters were demolished, but trol of thirteen men, who took shel- nothing is known as to the fate of ter in a dugout. Only two answered their occupants. the call to surrender, and the• re - Our men returned to their own mainder were killed in the destruc- trenches with manifest reluctance. I tion of the dugout. RUSSIANS CHECK ENEMY ADVANCE In Galicia and Bukowina the Austro -German Forces Are Being Held Back. A despatch from London says: Ap- parently the Russians have checked greatly the Anstro-German advance in Galicia and Bukowina, as no notable advances have been made by the Teu- tons since the Russian line stiffened. To the south in Moldavia the Russians and Rumanians are attempting to re- occupy the positions north of Fok- shani, lost to Field Marshal von Mac- kensen's men. They have attacked the Austro -Germans with strong forces, but Berlin says the effort fail- ed. The number of prisoners taken by the Teutons in this region is re- ported to have reached 3,300: RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF WHEAT AND BEEF A despatch from Ottawa says: -De- finite regulations, to come into effect at once, for restricting the use of beef, bacon and white bread in public eating places, and for prohibiting the use of wheat in the distillation or manu- facture of alcohol have been promul- gated by order -in -Council at the in- stance of the Food Controller. The serving of beef and bacon is prohibit- ed on Tuesdays and Fridays, and at more than one meal on any other day. Substitutes, such as corn bread, oat- cake, potatoes, etc., must be provided at every meal at which white bread is served. Under the order the expres- sion "bacon" includes cured (either • pickled or smoke) sides, backs, hams and any portion of what is termed, in the trade, Wiltshire sides. t , EENGLAND EXCLUSIVELY MARK FOR U-BOATS. A despatch from London says: A despatch to Reuter's Limited from Amsterdam says it is reported from a German source that Germany intends .shortly to concentrate her submarine activity exclusively against England, PRISONERS EXPOSED DURING AIR RAID. A despatch from Paris says:-- The French authorities learn that during Ithe nights of July when French aero- planes bombarded Treves and Essen, the Germans forced French and Eng- lish prisoners, both officer's and men, interned at Karlsruhe, to leave their quarters and remain in the open where they most probably would be hit in case Karlsruhe were raided. The men were compelled to remain in these places until all danger had passed, I NEW POISON USED IN GERMAN BOMBS. A despatch from Hazebrouck, France, says: British medical officers are trying to discover the nature of the new poison used, it is believed for the first time, by the Germans on the French town of Armentieres, near the Belgian frontier. The poison bears a certain resemblance to the gas which temporarily blinded a large number of British troops a fortnight ago but its effects are infinitely more serious. SCANDINAVIAN SHIPS LOST DURING BIG WAR A despatch from Copenhagen, says: Nine hundred and thirty-three Scan- dinavian ships have been destroyed by torpedoes or mines since the be- ginning of the war, according to the Aftenbladet. Of this number Nor- way lost 600, Denmark, 187, and Sweden 146. The number of Scan- dinavian seamen lost in these disasters was about 500. FOE DRIVEN BACK BY RUMANIANS 1 A despatch from London says:- Rud'sian and Rumanian troops repuls- ed enemy attacks in the Trotus Val- ley, and then launched vigorous coun- ter-attacks, which gained them pris- oners and captured machine guns, cc - cording to an official statement issued on Friday by the Rumanian War Of- fice, Lard Pur'o lard, tierces, 263 to 90o; tubs, 253 to 263c; pails, 20 to 2510; com- pound, tierces, 203e; tubs, 203c; palls, 1c. Montreal Markets Montreal, Aug, 14 -Oats -Canadian western, No, 2, 83 to 84c' do., No. 3, 82 to 91e; extra No, 1 feed, 31 to 120. 13ar- ley-Malting, 51.26. Flour -Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, 513; seconds, 512.60; strong bakers', $12.30; Winter patents, choice, $13; straight 'rollers, 512.40 to $12.55; do., bags, $6.00 to 26.15. Rolled oats -Barrels, $0.00 to 56.25; do„ bags, 80 lbs., 24.40 to $4.50. Bract, 536. Shorts, $45, Middlings, 54S to $50. Mouillie, $60 to $61, Hay -No, 2, per ten, car lots, 510 to 510.59. Cheesc- FinesT westerns, 213c; do., eastern*, 213e. Butter -Choice creamery, 313 to 40e; seconds, 3S3 to 39e. Eggs -Fresh, 46 to 500; selected, 46e; No. 1 stools. 42c; No, 2 stock, 38 to 400. - Potatoes - Per bag. car lots, $1.00 to 52,00, Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Aug. 14 -Cash prices -No, 1 Northern, 22,40; No, 2, do., $2,381; No. 3, do., $2.34; No. 9, $2.25; No, 5, special,N52.21; $No, 5,feed, 02 03; No, 8 do., $1.77. Oats -No. 2 C.W.. 750; No. 3 C.W., 74c; extra No. 1 feed, 740; No, 1 feed, 70e; No. 2, 6Sc; track, 704c. Bar- ley -Nu, 8 C.W., $1.23; No. 4 C.W., $1.13; rejected and feed, 51.12. flax -No. 1 N.W',C., 53,33; No: 2 C. W., 53.271; No. 3, C.W., 53.163; track, 53.321, United States Markets Minneapolis, Aug. 14-Wheat-Sop- tember, 2.24; cash -No. 1 Northern, 52.55 to 53; No. 2, do., 52,95 to 53. Oats -No. 3 white, 60 to 090. Corn -No. 8 yellow, $2,24 to $2,26. Bran -$85 to 536. Duluth, Aug, 14 -Wheat -No, 1 Northern, 52.00, nominal; No. 2, do., 52.25, nominal. Linseed -$3.45; Sep- tember, October and November, $8.45. :Live Stook Markets Toronto, Aug, 14 -Extra choice heavy steers, 511.50 to $12,35; choice heavy steers, $10.50 to 211; butchers' cattle, choice, $10 to $10.50; do., good, 55.50 to 49.75; do., medium $3.40 to $5.90; do., common, 57.10 to 517,26; butchers' bulla choice, $5,26 to 55; do„ good bulls, $7,50 to 57,75; do., medium bulls, $6.76 to $7; rough bulls, 55 to $6; butchers' cows, chole, $5.205 to $3.76: d0,, g00d, 07.40 to $7.76; do., medium, $0,50 to $6.75; stockers, $0.40 to 39,26; Seeders, $7.76 to $8.75; canners and cutters $6,26 to 55; minters, good to choice, iso to 8Pr2nB•ers, $S0 to 5120;nlidght$esves, $&b0 to $0.76; sheep, scary, $6.00 to 57.15; yearlings, 510 to $11.60; eulves, good to choloe, $13 to $15; spring lambs, $16.75 to $17.25; hogs, fed and watered. 517; do., weighed off cars, $17,25; do„ f,o,b., $15.75 t0 216.00. Montreal, Aug, 14-Cholee steers, 511 to 511.25; good 510.50 to $10,75; lower 1(e $3 25; b 59 ulls, 50.butchers' 5 tto50.75; Ontario ambs, 513.50 to 514; Quebec., 512.50 to $13; sheep, $7.76 to 56.75; selected hogs, $17.25 to 517.62; rough hogs, $16.75- to 517. Among the latest sanitary appli- ances for public eating places is a spoon pressed from paper that can be thrown away after using. DEVASTATED SOIL 0 FRANCE FRENCH TROOPS RECAPTURE GROUND LOST LAST WEEK. Paris, Aug. 12. -French troops last' night resumed their counter-attacks1 against the positions which the Ger-1 mans had captured on the night of Aug. 9-10 north of St. Quentin. The French official statement issued this afternoon said the ground'"previously lost was reconquered in its entirety. "South of Ailles, in the Aisne re- gion, two strong German attacks on the trenches captured earlier by the French were repulsed with heavy Teu- TRANSFORMED BY WORK OF SOLDIERS tions°on the French f oat in Belgi zm°' tireas Evacuated by the Germans Are Being Rapidly Restored- Beginning Made in Re -Building of Towns. A despatch from London says: - Ole Times correspondent at French ,eadquarters toile of the remarkable demption of the soil of France, de - stated and evacuated by the enemy. fe work has been done mainly by the el p of soldiers and is quickly effect- a"remarkable transformation. He ntinues: "The building of towns d villiages will not be such a com- 'atively easy matter as the restore - of the countryside, and for the most part will have to wait till after the war. It will also be necessary to supplement with outside assistance the substantial subsidies which will be provided by the State. In this direction a beginning has already been made. Noyon, for example, has been 'adopted' by the city of Washington, and Detroit wishes to enter the same relationship with the cruelly battered town of Soissons, which continues to suffer at frequent intervals from bombs and shells." CANADIANS USE GAS EFFECTIVELY. Canadian Ileaflquarters in France (via London) Aug, 12 --Gas was again projected successfully early this (Sunday) morning into the en- emy positions in the northern part of St. Laurent, Where many dugouts and occupied' cellars were known to be, A prisoner who was captured on this part of the front says that the recent gas attack resulted in over ninety cas- ualties. Men drilling an artesian well in Ar- gentina found rich deposits of cop- per at a depts of 100 feet. A despetch from New Liskeard says: Considerable Alin• has fallen A despatch from London says: -- e Both the British and French armies Within the past few days end is re tardfng work in the hay {folds, Th hay crop ie perhaps the heltvieet on record for this district, and for tela 00160011 considerable difficulty is being experienced in curing the cut, Farm er's who have not been able to ea their hay, report that already it is beginning to fall and unless dry wee then sets in at once a considerable portion of the crop will rot, The al- most torrential rains of Sunday last knocked downs grain also to some ex- tent and the need of dry weather, is fairly general, In contrast to the hay and grain, tomatoes, cabbages, cu- cumbers and all root crops are thriv- ing as never before in Northern On- tario, Labor on the farms is still very scarce, but relief is anticipated with- , in the next ten days in that by that time cutting and peeling of pulp -wood will to .a large extent be diecontenued, due to the fact that bark on the pulp timber, which up lentil the present time has been comparatively loose, will tighten almost any day now. At some of the small lumber mills throughout the country wages are be- ing increased to a point on a par with the mines. This is without precedent in this country, Infantry Attacks Captured German Positions East and South- Bast of Ypres -French Took Several Farms, facing the Germans in Flanders have again •struck hard blows at their -' antagonists and been rewarded with t further gains in the line of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, -! Driving eastward from the sector of Ypres in the early dawn of Friday Field Marshal Haig's men took fon their own all the Gorman first-line ' positions east of Hooge between Fre- zenbel'g and the Ypres-Menin road, in - eluding the village of Westhoek, and ' held them in their entirety. The official communication issued • CONDITIONS IN PALESTINE ARE WORST POSSIBLE. A despatch from New York says: Conditions in Syria and Palestine are declared to be the "worst possible" by a refugee who fled from there and by circuitous routes has just Peached New York and reported to the Ameri- can Committee of Armenian and Syrian Relief. • The committee's informant, whose name is withheld; said there ware 8,000 cases of typhus in Beirut when he left, owing mainly to a lack of medicine and scarcity of doctors. The poorer classes have been wiped out by starvation, he said. In Lebanon he saw many villages and towns with- out a single inhabitant. ANOTHER SUBMARINE SUNK BY AN UNARMED STEAMER A despatch from London says:- Another ays:Another unarmed merchantman has sunt: a submarine, but, because of the fate of Captain Charles Fryatt of the British steamer Brussels, who was executed in July, 1916, by the Ger-. mans, for attempting to ram a sub- marine, the names of the captain and crew of the steamer and particulars concerning their achievements cannot be published. The captain and Brew of the vessel, however, have been presented with $2.500 by Sir William J, Tatem, chair- man of the Tatem Steam Navigation Co. for their deed. CANADIANS WITH FLYING SERVICES. A despatch from London says: The following figures concelxning Cana- dians in the flying services were sup- plied on Friday authoritatively by officers from the Canadians with the Flying Corps: Two hundred and ninety-nine Canadians granted com- missions. Officers of Canadian birth in the corps, 93; officers in Naval Air Service from Canada, under arrange- ment with Admiral Kingsmill, 346; of- ficers joined the naval service in Can- ada, and since transferred to the Fly- ing Corps, 66; granted commissions from the Canadian forces to Naval Air, 80. 131G MIDWAY FEATURE. Sensation at Panama Pacific Exposi- tion to be Seen at Toronto. The famous World -at -Home -Shows will provide the Midway attractions at the Canadian National Exhibition, and the fund of amusement guaranteed is not only unique, but so arranged that no matter what one wishes to see or how diverse their tastes, they will find something worthy of patronage. "Cre- ation,'the original spectacle exhibited at the Panama Pacific Exposition, is one of the head -liners. From impen- etrable darkness and absolute quiet and solitude, the wonderful tale of the birth of the universe is told and un- folded day by day, each incident, as told in the first book of Genesis, being faithfully and artistically worked out and portrayed in every detail, even to the appearance of Adam and the crea- tion of Eve. Venus, the most perfect woman in the world, is another feature, and there are rides and pony shows, sub- marine girls and a host of living curi- osities. FOOD FOR SOLDIERS IS OFTEN WASTED, A despatch from London says: The War Office drew attention to the wast- age of food from the despatch by rela- tions and friends of parcels containing foodstuffs to troops, more especially distant forces. More than one half of the parcels containing foodstuffs ar- rive quite unfit for,, consumption. Packages often are returned insuffi- ciently addressed or unlcnown, these constantly are foilnd to contain articles such as eggs,'butter, sausages in varying state of putrefaction. on Friday night by British headquar- ters announces that heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy during fierce fighting for possession of ad- vantageous positions. Between 200 and 300 prisoners were taken. To the north near Bixschoote and Langsmprch the French troops have captured several farms held by the Germans, and also have taken a num- bor of machine-guns from them. 4i'hile these gains are ebaracterized as "slight," they nevertheless aro anoth- er step forward eastward toward the Ostend -Lille railroad, toward which the British drive from Hooge also is pointed. FROM SUNSET COAST WHAT THE WESTERN i'E'C1PI.Il ARE DOING. Progress of the Great West Told tm a Fel, Pointed Paragraphs. Whitmore ,& Orr have located a high-grade copper -silver -lead lead on their 162. & K. group at Legate creek, Skeelltt river, Vtineouver shingle manufacturers have decided to oppose the .demands of the shingle weavers for an eight- hour day with ten hour's' pay. Word has been received from Otter Point that the traps are making fall catches of salmon, Most of the fish are sockeyes, but there is a matter - Ing of spring0 and cohoes, Gunner Robert Easton, who left Victoria with a clraft -from the Oth Regiment, C,G,A., some 'mouths ago, - - - was injured during a German air raid over Folkstone on May 25, The value of the British Columbia built auxiliary schooners has been shown by the splendid performance of the Geraldine Wolvhn, which arriv- ed at Sydney recently, 49 days out from Vancouver. With an increase of from practical - 1y nothing to sixteen million dollars In the value of the shipbuilding industry in and around Vancouver within a year, there has been a growth in the population of about 5,000. In addition to forest fires at Trail, Sproule Creek and Demurs, conflagra- tions of a similar nature have broken Out, at Woodbury Creek on Kootenay Lalte, Summit Lake and Arrow Park, The fires at Sproule Creek, Arrow Park and Denial's are under control. The continuance of the marked hot wave over the interior of British Columbia has begun to assume 3m- - portance from the standpoint of the GERMAN AND ENGLISFI CITIES BOMBED BY AIRBMEN Htui Raiders Drop Bombs on South -East Coast of England -Air Battles on French Front. London, Aug, 12. -Twenty-three persons, including nine women and six children, were killed and fifty persons were injured at Southend, in Essex, forty miles east of London, by bombs dropped by German raiders to -day, says an official statement issued to- night. Considerable damage to pro- perty was caused' at Southend by nearly forty bombs, dropped upon the town. Two leen were injured at Rochford, but four bombs dropped on Margate, in Kent, did little damage. Paris, Aug. 12, -Two French avi- ators yesterday dropped bombs on Frankfort -on -the -Main, one of the most important cities of the German Empire, having a population of more than 300,000. A French official state- ment, announcing the raid, says it was in retaliation for the German aerial bombardment of Nancy and the region north of Paris, Both French ma- chines returned undamaged. JEWISH CORPS ENGAGEMENTS ON RAISED IN LONDON RUMANIAN FRONT There Are Now 40,000 Jews in Russians Repulse Strong Teuton the British Army. Attacks and Capture A despatch from London says: Un- 1,200 Germans. der a recent agreement between Rus- sia and Britain a Jewish corps is be- London, Aug, 12. -Desperate en- ing organized here. There are 20,000 gagements are being fought by the Jews of military age in London alone. Russo -Rumanian forces and Aus- There are now 40,000 Jews in the Brit- tro-German armies all along the ish army, 32,000 of whom are English Rumanian front, In the centre of Jews, and 8,000 from the Empire this front, according to to -day's Rus - abroad. The leader of the new corps sian official statement, the Russians was commander of the Zion Corps, and Rumanians yesterday repulsed composed of Russian - Jews recruited strong Touton attacks along the Fok- iin Alexandria, which corps gave a shani-Marasechti railroad, and then fine service at Gallipoli. Eight thou- counter -attacked and captured 1,200 sand Jewish soldiers now in Britain Germans, only to retire later in the will probably form a stiffening corps. evening. In South -Eastern Moldavia the Russians took the offensive, smashed the Teuton lines and cap - YOUNG JUDGES AT "BIG FAIR." tured a number of prisoners and four guns. In Western Moldavia the Canadian National Revives Competi Austro -Germans, after battlesof tion for Farmers and Farmers' Sons. great intensity, forced the Rumanians Among the new departures at the to retire to Pena. Canadian National, Exhibition this yea 1 g g p ons for young farmers and farmers' sons nn- GERMANS DEVASTATED BUILDINGS IN LENS. the Imperial Munitions Board, der 26 years of age. They will be held under the supervision of the On- tario Government, 1119 a very largo Baslv, mayor of Lens, whom the Ger- r are the 'ud 'in tom pe forest fire danger, Already a serious outbreak has been reported from the vicinity of Nelson. Mr. Samuel H. Hopkins, B.S.A., who has been occupying the position of assistant provincial live stock commissioner, has been appointed district supervisor of agricultural in- struction,for Duncan and the dis- tricts of North and South Cowichan. The Victoria Board of Trade, through its council, virtually fell into line with public organizations of the ports of Vancouver, New Westmin- ster and Nanaimo in supporting the proposal to effect an affiliation of the pilotage boards of all four places. Mr, Albert G. Langley, M.E., a native son of Victoria and brother of Major W. H. Langley, now attached to Lieut. -Gen. Sir Arthur Currie's staff in France, has been appointed district engineer of the Eastern Min- eral Survey district, with head- quarters at Revelstoke. At North Vancouver the Lyall Shipbuilding Company, which has lately acquired the Fell fill on the foreshore of D. L. 265, including the Wallace Shipyards, expects to ley the keel immediately for the first of the six wooden ships which this company has contracts to build for entry is expected from among the loans have released from internment, three thousand students now taking says: the Government short courses. "The Germans will not fall'to de - Liberal prizes are offered to win- Clare that the British artillery de- ners in live stock, poultry, grain, stroyed Lens, but I know' that the roots, fruits and vegetables. Some enemy devastated the town, For ex - years ago judging competitions were ample, they blew up the church, the held at Toronto, but the present ones 1 theatre, the Banque de Paris, and the are on a much more pretentious new Hotel de Ville. There is nothing scale and ander Government auspices they did not carry away." should prove a great success. NO MORE MEDICAL MEN AVAILABLE -IN BRITAIN A despatch from London says: - The Earl of Derby, Secretary of State for War, was informed by the Central Medical War Committee that no more medical men are available for army commissions without "seriously en- dangering the supply of doctors for the civil community." The commit- tee's announcement was made after a. thorough canvass conducted by it. Members of the committee express- ed the hope that the solution of the difficulty will be found in a supply of doctors from the United States, say- ing that they beiidvo that thousands of medical men there aro willing to come to Europe. He tells an interesting story of Gen. Klotz, whose army occupied Lens: "Gen. Klotz had a truly Ger- man soul," says the Deputy. "When I objected that certain demands of his were opposed to The Hague Con- vention he replied jeeringly, 'The Hague Convention is for us, not for .you.'" ENEMY RAILROADS BOMBED BY NAVAL AEROPLANES. London, `Aug. 12. -British naval aeroplanes dropped several tons of bombs on the German aerodrome in the Belgian town of Ghistelles, on the Zuidwege railway sidings and on the Thourout railway junction, the British admiralty announced yesterday. On Friday afternoon British airmen drop- ped bombs on the German aerodrome at Sparappelhoek. TILLERY DUEL IN. FLANDERS AGAIN RAGING FIERCELY • Bombardment Calculated to Level German Defences and Prepare For Infantry Advance. A despatch from London says; Tiro artillery duel in Flanders has again increased to the greatest intensity, reports the German general staff. The bombardment has been especially heavy on the Belgian coast and from Bixschoote to Holiobeko. The Anglo-French guns of all cali- bres are evidently engaged in level- ing the German defence positions, preparing the way for another thrust of the infantry, The only infantry engagement has talcen place on the lino between Ypres and, Dixmude, with the French troops the- aggressors i11 both in, stances. North -wort of Bixschoote the French have enlarged further gains made on Wednesday. South- west of Bixschoote, fly the region south of Langemarck, the French have made some progress into the German line, Except for several local raids by the French, there has been no infan- try activity on the long line from St. Quentin to the Swiss border. The French and German guns, however, aro hammering the opposing lines along the Aisne front, in Champagne and on both banks of the Meuse in the Verdun region, • FIGHTING BILLION ENEMIES. Comparison of the Population and War Strength of Belligerents. The Central Powers are fighting more than a' billion enemies. Ger- many has a population of (58,059.000, with 12,287,000 additional German subjects in the colonies that have been snatched from her. Austria-Hungary has a population of 51,505,000, Tur- key 21,274,000 and Bulgaria 4,753,000. The combined populations are 157,- 878,000. Against the Central Powers are ar- rayed Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, .Japan, Belgium, Portugal, Ru- mania, Serbia, Montenegro, the United States, Cuba, Panama, Brazil and Siam, with a combined ,population of 1,009,681,000. In area the Central Powers cover an expanse of 2,223,133 square miles. _ The nations of the Entente -American allies cover an area of 34,502,082 square miles, In territorial size the Allies are seventeen times the size of their op; • ponents. The combined national wealth of Germany and Austria-Itungary is more than $100,000,000,000, The com- bined national wealth of the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy is something like $250,000,- 000,000. The four Central Powers arc loss than one third the -territorial size in square miles of the Dominion of Canada. The normal war strength of the Central Powers, including panne strength and reserves, is more than 10,000,000 men. The total available unorganized normally of these coun- tries is more than 18,000,000 men, a grand total of more than 28,000,001 men. The normal war strength of the Ene tents Allies, peace' strength and rel. serves, excluding the United Status, is about 21,000,000 men, Thd total available unorganized in normal times of these nations is 61,000,000 men, The total is 82,000,000 nien, Combining all the belligerents there normally would be available for fight.; ing something lilce 110,000,000 mere Another million poured into the melte ing pot by the United States, phis 0,4 000,00.0 more available, makes a grand total of 120,000,000 men, "1.