HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-10-18, Page 7The King of Italy, accompanied by the Duke of Connaught, at a decoration
on the Italian front Italian Official Photo,
"ST1. M ROLLER " I ELD
UP BY HEAVY ':.INS
Although Gen. Haig Did" Not Reach All Objectives Planned, the
British Assault Met With Considerable Success
On Wide Front.
A despateh from London says: For
the first time since he started' his
series of attacks against the German
positions in Flanders, Field Marshal
Haig has had to cease an operation
before all the objectives set out for
were attained. It was not the Ger-
man guns, however, that stopped the
British. It was a more than usually
heavy rainfall, which started during
the battle, and turned the already
swampy region over which the men
were supposed to pass into a veritable
gtagmire from which they could not
untrack themselves for a forward
move.
The drive, as has been customary in
E'aig's strategy, was started in the
early hours of Friday morning and
extended from near the Toutholst
Wood to below the Ypres-Menin road,
At several points the British troops
succeeded in gaining -ground' over
fronts ranging up to a thousand
yards, but here the rain intervened
and the fighting ceased for the day.
During the forward movement over
the six -mile front the British eap-
tured'in the aggregate about six hun-
dred prisoners,
The struggle was particularly bitter
to the north of P„oelcapelle and around
Passchendaeie:-••"In the latter region
the Germans apparently have massed
their strongest array of troops,
hopeful of being able to stay a fur-
ther press forward by the British to-
ward the Ostend -Lille railroad.
MAY STOP MAKING
CATEIES AND JAM
Shortage of Sugar is Serious,
Says Food Controller.
A despateh from •Montreal says:
The possibility of the banning of the
manufacture of candies, confectionery
and jam because of the sugar short-
age was hinted by Food Controller
Hanna in the course of his address to
the Housewives' League here on
Thursday.
,Mr. Hanna said that the amount
of raw sugar available for the re -
,finers in Canada and the United
States was so small as to be the sub-
ingthe past ten days a crisis had"de
eet of alarm in both countries. Dors
yeloped, but• drastic measures were
bring taken by the Departments of
food Control at Ottawa and Wash-
ngton to insure a steady supply.
u'ba, since the war began, was the
'orld' main n source of
sugar, and the
g ,
n
Toted States
wa
sin aloe contact
s
with the Island, and Canada was not,
Ir. Hanna said that a member of
bis staff had been in New York try -
Ing to aeeure even a moderate sup-
ply, but had not succeeded, The last
consignment of raw sugar for Can-
,. oda was now on its way here,
'INT R HAS SET IN
r
ON ITALIAN
FRONT
Extensive Operations At Stand-
still Until Spriing.
Udine, Italy,'Oct. 14, -Winter has
prematurely, but definitely, set in
roughout the battle -front, prevent -
operations o1
la ra
d scale.
,
1$
;finow, with high winds, is provail-
ng' along the Trontino, while the
• onzo and Carsq lines are inundated
lu
• a'nfall until h 1
y rainfall* 4 } ti o valleys have
ee,rit
transformed into lapse of mud
c like the Flanders battle -front,
e Puente �? o t s 110}}'0 are so swollen that
T0 often ate impossible of passage.
he Italian troops are enduring
dWade hardships, but are ready to
ace any eventuality.
WILL BE NO REDUCTION
IN PRICE OF WHF•,AT,
despatch. from Ottawa says: Tho
•yield ill official enrolee here is that the
;Etieq fixed for wheat will bo unchang-
ell While no °ATigial gearantee 1s giv.
11 that all wheat offering will be d
agh♦; at the price, it is assent d that y
need odboitoa' r'11e n
t'.4 p. nio the
�f ri I
p 1�}
ad. Ido reds h
r W � r should
g Y c4
�,p
fogy pi' fi rQdttetlgqnhi the i
cal' p high authority informed the r
1i
dean high
Limited, ,
4r � "It is tho o 42 :fixed for the crop,; In
BRITISH ADVANCE
HELD UP BY RAIN
Fields on the Battle -Front Were
Turned Into Morasses.
British Front in France and Bel-
gium, Oct. 14.=British troops south-
west of Passchendaele village during
Friday night pushed forward slight-
ly in advance of the line that they
reached in Friday's offensive; but
over the major portion of the six -mile
battle front there has been little
change in the situation, Morasses
that in places wore impassable, and at
all points almost impossible to push
through, were holding operations in
an iron grip.
Over a large part of the front the
British Saturday morning were hold-
ing a line that represented appreci-
able gains in territory. At a few
points a check at the hands of the
weather had
to be acknowledged, e
d and
the attacking troops fell back to po-
sitions which they had left,
HUN DESERTIONS
INCREASING FAST.
Geneva, Oct. 14. -In shite of the ex-
treme vigilance of the German mili-
tary authorities, desertions of sol-
diers, and even in several cases of of -
nears, across the frontier are increas-
ing.
The Berne Bunde estimates the
number of German deserters who have
,fled to Switzerland since the war be-
gan at 10,000 to 12,000, and demands
that they be forced to work in agri-
culture in order to support themselves,
as the Swiss reserve wheat supplies
will be exhausted next April unless.
America helps.
The present Swiss bread card per-
mits only half 11
a
pound daily for each
person.
COAL DEALERS'
PROFITS LIMITED.
Ottawa,Oct_. 14.-
Regu"1At10ri8 Aro
beingframed O A,a
14I rat i
YMagrath, fuel
Controller, for the fixng of profits on
the sale of coal by jlrokers, whole-
salers and retailers throughout Can-
ada, It is understood that retail pro-
fits will be limited to fifty cents a
ton and wholesale dealers and brok-
ers' profits will bo on a still lower
scale It is also likely that provision
will Ile made tq festrict undue accu-
mulation of coal in the hands of con-
umers.
BRITISH GAIN IN EAST AFRICA
•
London, Oct. ].4 -British East
.African troops 11aVo occupied Rupon-
a, an official statement announced
ceteris
Sr:
The seizure o s zu of the village la
1 a '
1 •tri-
: �'
ol•t n
ant 1 as C1
mu l s tho encniy
ac
.
ntended occupyingtit to protect the 1
atreat a of its main body. Tho 1#ritisl A
caupation will onablo flanking move- 1
ents against this retreat. 1 in
GERMANS SEIZE OESEL ISLAND
IIS TIS GULF OF RIGA
Under Cover of Ninety Warships, Enemy i!nfal3try Effect Land-
ing and Are Master of Finnish Gulf,
on the Gorman occupation of the Rus-
sian Island of Oesel, the Bourso
Gazette to -day says:
"On the whole, we must accept as -a
fact that we have let this whole group
of islands fall into the hands of the
enemy, and that the enemy will be
full master of the Finnish Gulf.
'The Cabinet consulted Premier
re a Kerensky by telephone asking per -
the mission to issue a proclamation calling
d of on the Petrograd citizens to forget
Petrograd, Oct. 14. -Fighting be-
tween the Russians and the German
troop which landed on Oesel Island
on Friday, in the .Gulf of Riga, con-
tinues, according to the Russian of-
ficial ateternont foaled to -day, The
Germans are pressing the Russians to-
wards the southeast. An attempt
made by a Gorman force to captu
pier on Moon Island, between
Island of Oesel and the ma.ir,lan
Ectltonia, was repulsed:'
Petrograd, Oct. 14. -•Commenting
polities and to unite to serve the en-
dangered capital."
Markets of to World
13readetnffs
Toronto, Oct, 16. -Manitoba wheat-,
No, 1 Northern, 32.28; No, 2 do,., $2.20;
No, 3 do $2.17; No. 4 wheat, 32.11, in
store Fort William, including 2e, tax.
Manitoba oats -No, 2 C.\V 06c; No, 3
C,W„ 63c; extra Np, 1 feed; 633c; No, 1
food, 620 in store Fort William.
Oltarlo oete-No 5 yellow,
65 to nominal.
nominal No. 3. do„ 61 to 62o, nominal,
according to freights outside
Ontario wheat -Naw, No. 2 Winter,
$2.22; basis. in store, Montreal.
Peas -Oe 2; nominal
BarleyMalting $1,16 to 31.18. ac-
cording to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute
bags, 311.60; 2nd, do„ 01.17 strong bak-
ers', do. 310,60, Toronto.
less, 43 to 440.
Rye -No. 2, $1.76, according to
freights outside,
Ontario flour --Winter, according to
sample, 39.80, in bags, Montreal; 30,00,
Toronto, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots -Delivered Mont-
real freights, bags Included, bran per
ton, 335; shorts, do„ 342; middlings, do.,
346 to 546; good feed flour, per bag,
$3.25.
Nay --No, 1. new, per ton. 312 to $
mixed, do., -$9 to 311, track Toronto
5traw-Car lots, per ton, $7 to 07,
track Toronto
Country Prodnoe--who3esale
Butter -Creamery, solids, per Ib, 4
to 43c; prints, per lb, .436 to 44c; dal
per lb. 85 to 36a
Eggs -Per dozen, 39o.
Wholesalers are selling to the ret
trade at the following prices: -
Cheese -New, large, 23 to 230c; twi
235 .to 231o; triplets, 286 to 24c; 0
large, 30o; twins, 303o; triplets, 201c.
Butter -Fresh dairy, chcioe, 40 tp 4
creamery prints, 45 to 46c; solids, 44
46c.
17gge-Naw laid, in cartons, 51 to 6
out of cartons. 46c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
to 30o; fowl, 20 to 22e; squabs, per do
$4 to $4.60; turkeys, E3 00 22e; duc
Spring, 22c; geese. 160.
Live poultry-Turiceys, 22c; Sort
cblokens, ib. 20c; hens, 15 to - 20c; due
Spring, 16 geese, 12c.
I•Ioney--CO2ftb-Extra fine, le o
03.26; 12 oz.,32.75; No, 2, $2.40 to 39,5
Strained, tins 23'e and 6's, 18e per lb:
l0's, 17 to 1720; 60's, 163 to 170.
Beans -No Canadian beans on market
until last of October• imported hand-
picked, $7.75 per bush; Limas, per -lb.,
162 to 165c.
Potatoes, on track -Ontario, bag, 31.40
to 31.50.
duck
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FRENCH STOP
ENEMY ATTACKS
German Efforts Repulsed on
Verdun. Front and in
Champagne.
A despatch from Paris says: -The
official communication issued by the
War Office on Thursday says: -
"During the day the two artilleries
were active at various points along the
front, particularly in the region of
L'Epine de Chovrogny, south of the
Butte du Mesnil, where our fire ar-
rested enemy groups who attempted
to reach our small posts, and on the
right bank of the Meuse. There were
no infantry actions.
'In Belgium during the night we
broke up a German attack delivered
' 'east of Draeibank against our posi-
50, tions between Victoire farm and Pa-
tegoet farm.
"0n the Aisne front an enemy pa -
33 trol which . was seeking to approach
ry' our lines in the region of Cerny was
dispersed by our fire.
"0n the right ba"nk of the Meuse
(Verdun front) in the region of Hill
844, the Germans made an attack
which enabled them to gain a footing
momentarily in portions of one of our
advanced trenches, After a spirited
engagement we repulsed the adversary
and remained masters of our posi-
tions."
ail
1s0
lo;
to
30;
26
0.,
cs,
PRICE OF POTATOES
s..
o.
Provisions --wholesale .
31o;Smoked o
do., heavy, 26 to cooked, 30 to
42e; rolls, 27 to 23c; breakfast bacon,
86 to 40c;, backs, plain, 39 to 40o; bone-
less 48 to 44c, Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 273
to 28c Ib; clear bellies, 266 to 27c.
tubs, Lard -Pure 6lard,
tierces,
s' 27630to 0 276u;
compound tierces, 22 to 2250; tubs,
222 to 221c; palls, 226 to 230.
Montreal, Oct.ct166..-O Markets
Western, N0. 2, 766o: No. 3, 75o; eNo. 1 feed, 76e; No 2 local white, 72
No. 3 local white, 71c. Barley -
Manitoba reed, 31.20; malting, 31.50 to
31.31. Flour -Manitoba Spring whea
Patents, firsts 311,60; seoonds, 911.10
strong bakers', 510.90; Winter patents
choice, 311.26; .stralght rollers, $10.7
to $11.00; do.. bags, 35.20 to 85.35
Rolled oats-Bbls, 58.30•' do, bags, 90
lbs, $4.00, Bran, 335,00, Shorts, 340
to $42, Middlings, $48 to 350, Mouillle,
$55 to 560. flay -No. 2 per ton, car
lots, $11,50 to $12.00. Theses -Finest
westerns, 212e; fines ,
t easter3 cue
Rutter -Choicest er-4
t Choices
t m•eamer 46
second*, 46c. Eggs-Frasb, 63 to (Go{
Selected,; N 24 stock, 40 too 41e, stock, 43
Per bag, car lots, 91.70,
NOT TO BE FIXED
A despatch from Ottawa says:-
The
ays:
The Food Controller has decided not to
fix an arbitrary price for potatoes.
This decision has been arrived at as
the result of a meeting hero of repre-
sentatives of the Eastern Provinces,
acting as a Sub -special Committee of
the Fruit and Vegetables' Committee
of the Food Controller's Office. Re-
gistration of wholesale handlers of
potatoes has already beer, ordered,
and it will be unlawful for any per-
son to engage in the wholesale potato
business without a license. A re-
gulation is now under consideration
which will require such dealers to take
n out a license to do business, and to
extr file regular reports of all their trans-
actions, covering the purchase an
t sale of potatoes.
The cub -Committee decided not t
p fix the price at $1.26 per bag to th
consumer, after asserting that the cos
of producing a 90-11). bag in each
the five Eastern Provinces was as fol
lows: Ontario, 31.27; Quebec, $1,50
New Brunswick, t swick 1
.86 to
1.60
$ Nova
$
l
Scotia, $1.05; Prince Edward Island
90 cents, To these costs must be
added a fair profit to the grower,
freight, and tho profits necessary to
the, wholesaler and retailer,
d
0
he
o
Winnipeg brain
Winnipeg, Oat. 16, -Cash Prices: -
Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $2,21; No, 2,
do 32.18; No. 2 do., .33.15• No, 4, .82,00q9;
Oats6'01.941
o O2'C W., 060;1 No, 3, do.,$334;
extra No, 1 feed, sate; 310. -1 feed, U020;
No. • gado„ 615c. Barley -No. 3, 51,20;
No 4, 31.16; rejected and feed, 31.10,
Flax -No. .-W,C., $2,935; No, 2 C.
W., 52,375; 1"I'o, 3, do„ 42.763.
United States Markets
Minneapolis, Oct, 16. -Corn -No. 5
yarrow, 31.51 to 01.8:5 Oats -No. 8
white, 666 to 571. Flour unchanged.
Bran, 330 to 331.
Duluth, Oct. 10 -Linseed, 33.021 to
03.04; arrive 33.020; October, $2,02$;
November, $0,02; December, $2.97 aaic-
ed; A2ay, 33.02 asked,
Live Stock Markets
Toronto
Oot, 10 $12,80; ,, good heavy steers, $11..00 to $13.60; da„ good.
hoary 511.00 to 311.60• butchers' cat-
tle, choice, $1.0.10 to 51.0,60; do. ood
8
$1.50 to 9. G•
$ do.
medium, $IJ,$38 to
5S8.35; c1o, oonunen, 070,4.0 ttq
t utchors iJulll choles 8.3 5ss
crop, goad bulls $7,4d to $7.86i 0,
Medium hulls, $3,86 to $7.101 do., rough
bulls, 35,0 to 46.00; butohers' cow
choice, 30; 6` to $8.75; do., good, 37.
tq $7,75; c o, madlmn, 90.60 to 33.7¢
s ootors, $7.60 teo $8.76; feeders $8,
kR 09.25; canners and outtcrs, $0.00
56. 0; mllhersr„good to oholce, $90,
to 15.0 n
p 3 0 d.., emu, f
F std met
r t, 031,00 to
of
$Rr1.00; Am•.ngcrA, 360,0 t 3136,00i
light ewes. $11.00 se 312,00; heel
t5050)' -5.70 to 97.50; yyear'ingts, 6332,08
q`5 6,085; calves good to a oice $16.00
tq 16.50; .Sppring lambs, 10,00 t
10,78, bogs, Led and watered C
$18,7.,
o„ we18'had oPF Cars, 319.00; do.,. f,o.b.,
$17.75.
Montreal, Oct. ,6, -Bulls, $6.80 to
$6,15' cows $6,26 10 35.50; eteets, $.960
tpp $L0; iota 50.7c to. $0.201 co ninon
58.03 to $8.66;;;; l7 tchers' Comm, $6.50 t5
Ian
111.4 14 7 uu( to $&60; Ontario315,00
amts 3•! 7 007. $1:6,26; Quebec, 318,60
tg $1.1:2,; aneo11, 46.00 t0 39,50; 0110104
inlllc-pr,ed 051005, • 512,50 to $1.4,00• lows
gf';doio'to 7,320:26° $14,50; selected hog
FRANCE PRODUCE
250,000 SHELLS DAILY
A despatch rout New York says: j1
---Franco has or xa year been produc- P
1
250,000 ells � � a
J 0 1 day far• tho
r i
r Jr -
'o t
m ns 6 ,
a 7 guns, as compared with
2400 daily ly 'cvi107} the war began,
isnot) Tardieu, French High Com-
nissionel'. in the United States, said
a statement here on Friday.
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GERIIIAN RAILWAYS
ARE SHORT OF FUEL
A despatch from London saysl-
Thsf German state railways ari faced
with a great shortage of fuel and
drastic limitation of traffic has begun,
according to reports reaching here,
The railroads propose to levy heavy
fares one • •
excess osiers trains so as to
discourage all except unavoidable buss,
nese journeys, Al large number of
fast trains have been eliminated from
the Winter time tables, The Wurt-
temberg railways will charge heavy.
excess'
• fares fo• traffic on Saturday
afternoons 00 hs and Sundays.
GERNIAN SEAMEN ARE SHOT
FOR REFUSAL TO MAN U-BOATS
A despatch from London says 1- Re-
liable reports received here by way of
Holland indicate the growth of
strong disinclination on the part of
German seamen to serve on submar-
ines, This news, the authenticity o€
which is net doubted, is to the effect
that several seamen already have been
shot for. refusing to perform U-boat
dutye Tho shooting are Said to have
occurred prior to the mutiny in Wil-
helmshaven.
SULTANATE OF EGYPT
OFFERED PRINCE FUAD
A despatch from Cairo, Egypt says;
s,--Although the order of 851005ssioil to
the ultagate remains to he settled,
the iri ish Agent has called upon
,
p
ri o rad
e �t brother n e Of the
ne Su
l-
Something,they will never do for the Fatherland. -Vancouver. Province.
AID'S TROOPS GERMANS PLOTTED
IRRESISTIBLE TO DESTROY C.P.R.
"Steam -Roller" Is Right Word,
Major-General Maurice Says.
A despatch from London says:
Major-General Frederick B. Maurice,
Chief Director of Military Operations
at the War Office, in his weekly talk
on Thursday - with the Associated
Press, after an optimistic review of
the past week's work on the British
front in Flanders, said:
"We have every right to be confi-
dent when we see what our men have
done. But the fighting is hard, and
wo do not think that the present se-
ries of battles in Flander's is going to
end the war. There is a great deal
mora hard fighting before us. I
would say that the importance of
getting the American troops here as
quickly as possible and in the great-
est possible - numbers has not been
diminished.
"The word 'steam -roller,' which
was so often used hi the early days
of the war in connection with the
Russian army, is exactly the right
word to characterize the British ad-
vance in Flanders. It is an advance
not rapid, but insistent, irresistible.
It goes up hill very slowly, but now it
is going down hill, and battles are
following each other more and more
rapidly."
BRITS AIRMAN
ATTACKS GUNNER
Further Information Concern-
ing Von 23ernstorff's Plans.
A despatch from Washington says:
-Secretary Lansing drew upon his
collection of secret German diplomatic
correspondence again to '.shed further
light upon what the German Foreign
Office and General Staff were doing in
this country while at peace with the
United States.
He gave to the public, without com-
ment as usual, three brief cablegrams,
disclosing that more than a year be-
fore submarine piracy drove America
to war the Berlin Government was
instructing Ambassador von Bernstortp
to arrange for destruction of Canadian
railroads and to use Irish -Americans
in carrying on sabotage in their own
country. They showed, too, that von
Bei'nstorff on his part was even at
that early date seeking authority to
support a campaign to influence Con-
gress.
$700,000,000 IN SHELLS
SENT FROM CANADA
A despatch from Montreal says: -
Canada has shipped sufficient tonnage
of shells to the Old Country to build
nineteen bridges across the St.
Lawrence, each equal to the Quebec
Bridge, or sufficient to build sixty-six
battleships of 18,000 tons each, so
Brigadier -General Sir Alexander,Ber-
S tram told the Canadian Society of Civil
Y
Descends and Silences Enemy
Machine Gun Fire,
A despatch from London says: An
official statement on British aerial
operations issued on Thursday says:
"On Tuesday and Wednesday naval
I air patrols attacked enemy trenches
by machine gun fire, One pilot, being
heavily shelled by anti-aircraft guns,
descended and dattacked
h n
t u
e
f3
Cl'ew9 sC t
a teling them and silencing
the guns"
`Early on Wednesday naval raids
were made on the Thorout and Lie -
torvelde railway junctions and trains.
Large quantities of explosives were
dropped. All our machines returned.'
NO CANADIAN •
POTATOES FOR BRITAIN.
Ottawa, Oct, 14. -Lord Rhondda,
British Food Controller, has for-
warded to the High Commissioner fo
Canada in London a memorandum re-
garding the importation , of Canadian
potatoes into the United Kingdom. It
the memorandum Lord Rhondda say
that as all available resources will b
h
s
r
r
N
A
r
s
a
required to maintain the supply of
the essential
foodstuffs such as wheat,
bacon and cheese, he is unable to ar-
range facilities for the importation of
Canadian, potatoes, It is estimated
that there will be in the United King-
dom this season a surplus of about a
million tons of potatoes over tho nor-
mal consumption,
•
NO AUTO It1AI2'1G FOR PLEASURE
IN BRITAIN AFTER NOVEMBER 1
London, Monday, Oct, 16, A drastic
new order wi11 go into effect on
November lst, which is adequately
summarized i31 the headline in the
Times, which serif •"No petrol for
pleasure, Drastic new order, Actions
to prevent evesiona" The order in-
cludes all motor spirits, also liquid
substitutes,
FATHER AND BIGHT pQN';S
HAVE JOINED THF7 FORCES
Vancouver Got, .4.-A family at
Olnbtrn RC., wlticli l.as sent Wille of
tem n
e 1t7e1's into the fighting
forces
of
ti -
r
e Em fi•o
is believed
p o
r .t ho] the •
lo-
ord in this Province, t
P ovu ce andr '
n' t�
obabi t
pro 3 I1
Canada. The family is that of Mr,
nd Nii•s. Robert Mothers; the father
lid eight sons have joined the forces,
no boy having been decorated
tan Hues=
iemal t t
ac asst
mro
tie dig-
nity,
.
g
nity.
The right of sjl01010si0n of the heirs
of I� uad will be established by agree a
ment between the Government and the a
new Sultan,
Engineers in an address on Thursda
night. Sir Alexander said the total
value of all the munitions and supplies
sent overseas since Sept., 1914, had
reached000the enormous total of $700,-
,000.
The work was carried on in 400
factories in Canada, three-fifths in the
manufacture of shells and two-fifths
on components, basic supplies and
shipbuilding.
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I
M NIS PER
FORCED
TO RESIGN
G
AS RESULT OF MUTINY IN NAVY.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
Vice -Admiral von Capelle, the German
Minister of Marine, has resigned, ac-
cording to the Frankfurter Zeitung. •
Vice -Admiral von Capelle, who suc-
ceeded von Tirpitz in 1910, announged
in the Reichstag last Wednesday that
a plot had been discovered in the navy
to paralyze the efficiency of the fleet
and force the Government to make
peace, He said that the guilty parties
had received their just deserts, and
attempted to link Socialists with the
plot. The Socialists and their news-
papers have attacked both the Chan,-
cellar
han-cellar and the Vice -Admiral for their
statements,
HEAVY FIGHTIN4 IN RUMANIA
WITH ALLIES THE AGGRESSORS
A despatch from London says. The
plospeats of a return to healyy flgitt-
ing in Rumania with the allies the
aggressors seem good, C.0 the Iju,
mini),
plain a
nd near Braila the
Rue,
shins heivily hombagdgd
Teufallied posi lo1 whine til1e
Germans in reprisal shelled the im,
portant Danubiap town of Galata:
their shells. causing s4.ver;tl fires3 1
, QIl
the northern sector 9f the eastern
front near Rigal the Ge mane, follgows
Ing a heavy bolnpardment, smelief
back the Russians iii the vicinity of
the Pskoff high Toad,
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NICHOLAS ROMANOFF
OBTAINS TRANSFER
A despatch from Petrograd say-..
Istieholas Roni,anofi, the formed girl,
lierar of I3:1 sja, 11•nd his family hayo
seep 3rpnsierrocj #P711TIQ9119 a1+,i PI -
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FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT TUB IVI3STER V PAQPLiij
ARE DOING,
Progress of tiie Great. West Toldt
in a Few Pointed
Poragrapha.
The Norwegian steamer 'Moodie has
arrived at Vancouver on her maiden
trip, bringing a cargo of tea and rub-
ber from Colombo.
Mayor MaaBeath of Vancouver has
granted permission for a tag day for
Jewish war sufferers in Russia, Ru-
mania and Palestine.
The total catch of whelea up to Sept.
8 at the Canadian station on the Pas
mile coast is as follows: Sechart, 90;
Kyugaot, 170; and Rose Harbor, 97;
a total of 857.
Lieut. B. E. Scott, of Victoria, has
been .awarded the Military Cross.
Lieut. M. Scott, a younger brother, ten
months ago, won the Military Medal.
Noel Bursill, an artist, of Vancou-
ver, who has been wounded while over.
seas, has just sent home a water-
color of Sir Herbert Tree, painted
from memory.
In the mining camp of Sandon and
surrounding mining camps, the min-
ers have refused to be docked a day's
pay a month by the companies for the
patriotic fund.
According to information from the
sources of supply there will be no
shortage of tip cans or plate in Brit-
ish
.`
Columbia this year and. there is
small likelihood of a shortage next
year.
Mrs. Eyrie, of Vancouver, whose
husband and four sons were all in.
khaki during the first year of the war,
always has a premonition before ac -
fa
cidmentily,s happen to any member of her
Lieut. C. F. Baldersten is reported
to have died of wounds according to ;
information received in Victoria. He
left shortly following the outbreak of
war with the first draft of the 5th
Regiment,
News has just recently been re-
ceived by friends that Pte. Wensley
Otter Scott, who for three years prior
to enlisting for service overseas made
his home in Victoria, has been killed
in action,
Vancouver, through its city officials,
has handed an ultimatum to coal deal-
ers to cut the price of coal or the city
will step in and sell some on its own
account far below the price general-
ly charged.
Cloholm Lake, which is located back
of Sechelt, seems to be a fisherman's
paradise, judging by the experiences
of a party of New Westminster men
who spent a week there and brought
out over 700 trout.
Strong protest against the 100 per
cent. increase in taxation on farmers
which has been imposed by the Brew-
ster government is voiced in a resolu-
tion passed by the Kootenay River
Farmers' Institute.
The advent of rains in many sec
tions of the Province at the end of last
week has put an end to the forest fire
danger, according to the report issued
by the Forest Branch of the Depart-
ment of Lands,
PLENTY OF FUEL OIL
FOR BRITISH NAVY
A despatch from Washington says;
-An ample supply of fuel oil for the
British navy was assured at a oonfer•
once between n their Government e
nt
rens
reseritattves, Standard 011 officials ani
members of 3110 Shipping Board, Oi
reserves in Great Britain have run s¢
low, the conference disclosed, thea
many British warships have .beeti
forced to remain inactive,
To remedy this situation the Ship..
ping Board will rush oonstrgation o
58 o11 tankers recently eom andeerei
in ship -building yards, and s cons 1.
evl3og building a3 leas3 49 nigra, T
problem, is entirely one g 3epnOget g$
there $ en abundance of oil on hie
side of the ,Atlantic,
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MEN PREF1 4 TO SURRENNDBR
TO HOLDII. SHELL CRATER
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the latest battle of 8fapdee'a, Fins
the epepty ey;itern of geiteielltale
preyed g 14131150e pecolid, Ilia guhst
t ltioit Of prepared 1,3003 of obeli Abater
for battered trend} tinea i6 at so
valueless, beoaluse la4ter a4 hegyy aljol
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tars, Prisoners admit that the hull
co;nrette4 reajiee tiha4 411411�' 13eayy ii
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