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The Herald, 1914-12-04, Page 6NAV 1, I ft i SS and Tien Perished and Interned Sine:: Beginning of War 13„ lik despatch from London says: Nuts far during the war the Royal gave, has lost 4,327 officers and men ailed and 473 wounded, while 908 nen a.re missing and 1,575 are cap - ayes ox have been interned. These figures are contained in a etatemerat • issued on Wednesday eight, by the Admiralty, and in - :lade, in addition to the naval men, he marines of the Royal Navy divi- ion. The casualties and the nurn- mr of men captured or interned is given as follows:• Offigers-Killed, .e0; wounded, 37 prisoners, 5; in- med.; 46. Men -Killed, 4,107; alluded, '436; missing, 968; in- rned 1,525.. A great majority 'of -those report- ed killed were drowned, 1,718 -los- ing. their lives in this -manner when the cruisers. Pathfinder, Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue were sent to the bottom by German s.rabmarine-s, while the foundering of the Mon- raeuth and Gold Hope off the coast of Chile ,was responsible'for the Loss - of 1,654 officers and men be- neath the waves. The operations of the Royal Na- val diviehm •at Antwerp are ac- countable for nearly all of those re- ported interned or missing. Most of the missing are said by the Ad- miralty statement to be prisoners of War in Germany. NEVER ORE A BLS TASK n Ail History There is No instance, of Their Having Answered so Magnificently A despatch from London says : In Lis review of the defence of the Rel- ish troops at Ypres General French vribese "That success has been at- eMed and that all the enemy's &t- empts to break through our line Lave been frustrated is due to the marvellous fighting power and in- 'OLD GERMS IN A TRIANGLE u.ssians are Besieging a Great Part of Invading Force in Poland. A despatch from London says: he Russian Embassy at Rome an- al:m.1m that the battle at Lodz has een renewed with fresh forces. everal German envisions (a clivi - on consists of 14,000 men) were mhilaited and many German gen- 'els were killed. The German ont has been broken in a number places and a decision is immi- t. The. Petrograd correspondent of e Morning Post says that when e full 'details of- the Russian vie - eel in Poland are .available they 1,1 furnish a story that will aston- la the world -a story telling of a low to Germany's finest troops. oh as has not been known since e days of Napoleon. The • Daily Mail's Petrograd cor- spondeat, who, in common with her Petrograd correspondents,' nts that there is to come still' gger news which they are unable this time to transmit, say & the I ssibility which seemed to exist) at the German forces which es - ped the enveloping movement st of Lodz would succeed in I •eaking through near Strykow and .'ning the rest of the German I rees now appears hopeless. This German force, adds the eor-1 spondent, is fighting its way back the direction of the Vistula under 1 terrible artillery fire, which is' using an .appalling loss of life. ! e Germans are reported to be rt both of food and of shells. as asedt .of being cut off from their, e. DUTE OVER IN .FREE STATE - e De %Vet Uprising JLa. Spent its Force. despatch from. Capetown says re is little doubt that the crisis domitabledeourage and tenacity of the officers and men. No more ar- duous task has ever been assigned to British soldiers, and in all their splendid history there is no instance of their having answered so magni- ficently to the desperate tails of ne- ceseity made up -on them." in the Free State is over. Small scattered bodies of rebels are still in the field, but they will gradually surrender. At one time the posi- tion looked serious. De Wet was ioducing, many to join him, in the belief that there would be no fight- ing, it being represented that the whole -Free State was rising, and the Government could do 'lathing. These illusions were Shattered by the fight in the Mushroom Valley on November 12. The rebel losses on that oceation were much heavier than is generally known. De Wet was eaught napping; in fact, he was actually in bed- when General Botha opened a fierce at- tack. The rebels, completely duneb- founded, are now like sheep with- out a shepherd, and will not face the musie again. • APPLES. WALNUTS AND J.t MS. . • - A despatch from Ottawa says: The. Prime Minister has received a communication from the Vegetable Products Committee. in England, an organization under the Presidency of Lord Charles Beresford, callina attention to the work of the .c•om- mittee in supplying fresh or pre- served fruits to the men of the navy. The committee calls attention to the need of further supplies, and asks Canadian co-operation in for- warding gifts of apples, pears, wal- nuts, jams -and preserved fruits. Any contributors in Canada are asked to exercise great care in packing, and to prepay teansporta- fion tharges. Consignments should be sent to Vegetable Products Com- mittee, Salvage Warehouse, Pad- dington Goode Station, London. GRAND DIKES GENEROSITY. Gives a Million Pairs of Shoes to the Freneh Army, A despatch from Paris ea.ys: Grand Duke Michael of Russia has presented to the French Arniy one million: pairs of shoes which had been ordered front Webster, Maas., factories a,t an average price of $3 per pair. Some enormous orders, for shoes for the Russian army also have been placed in America. -MANY'S y • - --+ C LT TASK elow Fears it Won't Be So Easy for Oermany to Win the War eh from Berlin says: . Bea er Tageblatt prints a er froroaPrince von Buelow, the hancellor,in which he ex- :ses the fear that the war will ove a very difficult task for many," Of course, the Prince s up by affirming his belief in ultiniate triumph of the German s, but several, times. ho repeats victory will be won only with t eliffieulty. . • ere is also on eulogy of the .sh 'troops, written by a high ran officer at the front, He sorely admits that the British try have done wonders, espe- cially around Ypres. Their regu- lars are among the fiaeet, troops in the world, he weites, and "there must be sioniebhing, after all, to say for the Englishman's love of sport, for nothing but well-trained and particularly fit young fellowe. could shape as well as the new troop e She English keep briaging. up. They are all Sint -class fight- ers. The British have quite out - pointed .our men in shooting; pabrol work, marching and scouting. They are simply.MO4Velous." The writerconcludes that the Bri- tish may be .mercenaries, but they are well worth the money they draw. Prince Alexander tet Teek at the Front. Prince Alexander is a brother of Queen Mary .ef England and desig- nated Governor-General of Canada. The photo shows him leaving Ferns for an inspection trip along the firing line. POLISH PLAINS A GER 3AN SEDAN The Russian Victory at Lodz is Called the Greatest of Modern Times. A despatch from Petrograd says: Germany has found her Sedan on the plain:el Poland. The Russians have won the greatest victory of modern times between the NVarthe aid the Vistula, and about. 60 miles west of Warsaw. Grand Duke Nicholasarmies have utterly crushed General von Hindenburg's divided army, have ca.ptured or destroyed 100,000 men, and have cut off the retreat of the surviving corps. The German counter -offensive under Lieut. -Gen. Makkenson, was halted 25 milers east of Czenstochowa and driven back. Von Makkensen was forced to abandon von Hiodenburg's troops to their fate. Meanwhile, the Russian advance in East Prus- sia was never delayed an hour. The Comas are driving Aus- trian rearguards into Cracow, and Russian guns are shelling -the city from the north-east and the south- east. PRUSSIANS FIGHT BAVARIANS Come to Blows Over the Queen of the Belgians. A despatch from Paris says : The Bavarians and Prussians have un- doubtedly come to blows regarding the Queen ,of the Belgians. It is also reported that serious disagree- ment has arisen between the Im- perial Chancellor and the Prime Minister of Bavaria. It is undeniable that Bavarian troops take every possible oppor- tunity to surrender. From the front .at Quesnoy a letter says that when the Germans saw that the French Red Cross men cared for German wounded as well as their own, over 200 deserted during She night. They went to the French and told them that if only all Ba- varians could be sure they would be humanely treated three-fourths of them would surrender outright ALIENS MUST WORK. Proposal of Government to Eni ploy Those Interned A despatch from Ottawa says: An early announcement, is expected from the Government as to the pol- icy for the internment of aliens. The Province of Quebec.has agreed to the proposal to set apart Crown lands upon which they may work. A similar reply is expected from the Province of Ontario and in the West aliens would be assigned to similar work in the Dominion park lands. Should the land prove suit- able, and should the aliens develop peaceful intentions, they niny • be allowed to continue living on the land ele.ared. As soon as the de- tails are complete those who are a menace to the community ora pub- lic <large, because out of Work, will he transferral to these centres by the 'GoVernment. So far 25,000 have registered under the Government regulations. l‘winkle., twinkle, little star -eve know exactly what you are. • In old- en times your rhyme Might do, but since we've learned a thing or two, BRITAIN'S NAVY HAS LAITY HO Only 14 Survive Explosion that Destroyed Battleship with Over 700 Men. A despatch from London says: The British navy has suffered the lees of a battleship and at least 736 officers and men. The pre -Dread- nought. Bulwark, of 15,000 tons, and built at a eost of $5,000,000, blew up at her moorings off sheerness, in the estuary of the Thames, and barely 35 miles from London. A .tremendous explosion occurred ALLIES PREPARE TO STRIKE HARD Fresh TroOps. Are Being Assembled to Drive the Invaders from Fratice, A despatch from London says: Developments of the lasrb few days appear to indicate that the allies intend to start, a winter campaign in France and Belgium..and push on towards Germany, instead of re- maining comparatively idle and. holding their present positions dar- ing the cold wetather. British troops are now being rushed into France and .coneurrently news comes across 'the Channel that equipment for half a million addi- tional men is now on hand and ready for use by tihe French army. This number of men, in addition to those •already fully equipped, will be ready to join the new Britieth army in a, 'short, time. They are second -line troops who have hereto- fore been kept from General Sof- fre's army because of the lack of elothing and full war equip- ment.. The movement of the second Bri- tish army toward the French coast began almost; immediately after Lord Kitchener's speech tat, the Lord Mayor's dinner in the when he declared that he had 3,250,000 men ready to land in France. The troops are now being landed at Havre as fast as. the transports which 'book them across the Channel 'can find berths. It is said that teal/nu-1y as 200 transports have been counted outside the French harbor at one time, These troops are escorted .across the Channel by a continuous line of British. warships. The new 'troops that are being landed in France are for the tmost part territorials, which form Great Britain's second line. The terri- torial force -came into existence un- der the provisions of a law passed in 1908, when the units of tihe volun- teer force and ,the Imperial Yeo - mama: were transferred to the new organization. The organization of this territorial force was placed in the hands of 24 county organize - while officers and crew were about tons. their ordinary duties, and in three. Under the territorial force plan minutes the shattered hulk of the each county association has the duty of carrying out the plan of the Army Council for the organization of this fame within the county. The force is organized in divisions, mounted brigades and army troops. Each division of the territorial force is under a general officer of the regular army. The men nmet drill evenings and holidays during the training season. At the beginning - of the present year 'there Were 315,- 438 men (ineluding the staff) in the territorial force. The territorials have been drill- ing and recruiting ever -since the -outbreak of th,e war, and the men who have gone to France are well seasoned Jared ready for active ser- vice. A few territorial regiments have been. at the front for some The men who have just ar- rived at Havre are .said to be in fine tspirita, singing and whistling as they march through the streets. The French spectators greet the British soldiers with hearty cheers', "Bantams" Recruit 1,400 Men. A despatch from London says: Manchester men wishing to enlist in the "Bantams Reg'iment' are murmuring because the same chest m,easurement, is required as for taller men. Notwithstanding this, 1,400 men with chest measaaements of 3414 or better, but under 5 feet 3 inches in height, have been se- lected. The Lord Mayor of Man- chester, addre•ssing the men at their swearing in, suggested that if they objected to the appellation of "Bantams," they might -oall them- selves the "Fighting Cocks Battal- ion." great - great ship had disappeared beneath the surface. Of a ship's company of 750, all except 14 were killed by the explo- sion or drowned after a, few min- utes' struggle in the water. The estimate of the loss was furnished to the House of Commo.ns by Wins- ton Churchill, First Lord of the. Admiralty, who merely offered the opinion that the destruction of the Bulwark is not a serious loss to England's naval power. DEITIES IN CA.;ADIAN FORCE. Gunner Burdock, Driver Laroe and Pte. Ash Succumb. • A despatch from Ottawa says: The following additional •casualties in the Canadian expeditionary force appear in militia. orders: Gunner Walter Bardoole, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, died 13th Novem- ber • Driver John Joseph Laroe, Canadian Divisional Ammunition Park, 19th November ; Pte. War- ren Addison Ash, 7th Battalion, 21st November. CHOLERA. AT ANTWERP. Medical Staff is Tryttig to Limit the Outbreak. Rotterelam, Nov. 25. -Disquieting news miles from Antwerp. The Nieuerw Rotterdamsehe Courant learns that several cases of cholera have occurred there and the medical staff is makieg strenuous endeavors to limit. 0, tiutbreak. To prevent the spread of or help to eon.ceed the news of troop movements German guards have cut the telegraph wires close to the Dutch frontier. Life is a grind, but it always has its tuning point. Nelson' has eaiscd $2,000 for the Patriotic Fund. It isn't always the pretty girl who makes good in a photograph, • CAN 'AN TROOPS E F17 Early. Departure of Contingent for Front Expected -Peterboro Officer is New Camp Commandant A despatch from. Salisbury Plain says: "The Canadian soldiers are now s•ufficiently well trained to take their place in the firing line." This significant statement was made by a high military authority here niter witnessing divisional manoeuvres. Ramer says that the Canadian con- tingent may go to the front sooner than has been expected. The first divisional manoeuvres were carried • through ,at Salisbury Plain under General Alderson, with General Pitcairn Campbell and his staff pre- sent, All the men and details took part, and marched to Enford Dowas, several miles distant, being, out from 9 ,a.m. to 4 p.m., and car- rying rations and all equipment. The weather was favorable and the operations successful. Ali leaveto the members of the contingent will be stopped after December 1, PRICES Of FAN PRODET3 r.trosturs 5rxt.s.raa mom TED Lza1,a2401 cazaraas or .6.24EU710.6. Breadettiffs. Toronto, Doc. 1.-Flour-klanitoba first patents, quoted at 16.60, in jute bags; nee - end patents, $6.101 strong bakers', $5.90; ctuWotedle%ta-tM Ontario wheat flour, 90 per cent Detente. Quoted at $4,50 to $4,60. seaboard. 61.24 1-2; NIsloo.. 21 at o8rithmer1n-2,. new, taatrio0u Ivehideeat;;oNion.tt quoted at t$1...13 to $1.13, Oats -Ontario quoted at 49 to 500, out- N5iode,3 aa:4157ca.t 62 to 53e on track, Toronto. Western Canada, No. 2, quoted at 60e, and Barley -66 to 68o, outside, Rye -96 to 98o, outside, for No, 2. sictPeeas-No. 2 quoted at 61.70 to $1.75, out - Corn -No. 3 new, American quoted at 69 1-2o, Bay ports. ouBtsuicalcol.vbeat-No. 2 quoted at 77 to., 780. Bran and fiborte-Braa Is quoted at $24 to $25 a ton, and shorts 'at $26 ter 887. Rolled oats -Car lots, per bag of 90 lbs., $3 to $3.15. Country Produce. Butter -Choice dairy, 23 to 25o; inferior. 20 to Mel creamery Drints, 28 1-2 to 290; do,. solids, 27 to 27 1-2e. Eggs -New -laid, selects, dozen, 35 to 380; storage, 28 to 300. Honey -Market is firm at 12 to 12 1-2o Per lb. for strained. No. 1 honeycomb, $2.75 per dozen; No. 2, $2 to $2.29. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 13 to 14c; ducks, dressed lb., 12 to 14c; fowl, 10 to 12c; turkeys, dressai, 17 to 20o. Cheese -New, large. 16 to 16 ; twins, 16 1-2e. Beans-Prizne, bushel, $2.75 to $2.80; sand -nicked $2.90. Potatoes-Ontarios, 65e per bag. out of store. 55e in car lots. New Brunswick% ear lots. 65c per bag. Provisions. Bacon -Long. clear, 14 1-2 to 15c. per lb. in ease lots. Hams -Medium, 17 1-2 to 180; do., heavy, 15 1-2 to 15 1-2e; rolls, 14 1-2 to 15e; breakfast bacon. 18 1-2 to 19e; backs. 21 1-2 to 22o; boneless backs, 24e. Lard -Market is steady at 12 1.2 to 13o for tierces. Compound, 9 3-4 to 10o. Baled Hay and Straw. Dealers are paying as follows for car lot deliveries on track here: - Straw is quoted at $7.50 to $13 a ton, ut ear lots, on track here. Hay -No. 1 new hay is quoted at 616 to $16.50 on track here, No, 2 at. $14 to $14.50. and No. 3 at $11 to $12. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Dec. 1.-Cash-ViTheat-No, Northern, $1.18 5-8; No. 2 Northern. $1.15 7-8; No. 3 Northern, $1.11; Na 4. $1.06 3-4; No. 6, $1,02; No. 6, 97e; feed, 94o. Oats and barley unquoted. Flax, No. 1 N.W.0 , $1.26. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Dee. 1. -Oats -Canadian West- ern, No. 3, 59e; clo„ extra No. 1 feed, 68c; db., No. 2 local white, 55o; do, No. 3, 54<;; do., No. 4, 53e, Barley-fanitoba feed. 68e; do., malting, 76 to 78e. Flour -Mani- toba Spring wheat - patents, firsts, $6.70; do., seconds, 66.20; do., strong bakers', $6; do., Winter patents, Oleic°, $6; do., straight rollers, $5.50 to $5.60; do., bags, $2.65 to $2.76. Rolled oats, barrels, $6.55; do., bags, 90 lbs., $3,15. Bran, $25. Shorts. $27. Middlings, 530. Mountie, $32 to $34. Hay -No. 2, per ton ear lot's, $19 to $29. Cheese -Finest westerns, 15 1-2 to 15 5-50; do., easterns, 15 1-4 to 15 3-8c. Butter - Choicest creamery. 27 1-2 to 290; do., see- onds, 26 1-4 to 26 3-4c. Eggs-Presh, 48 to 50c; do., selected, 32eido., No. 1 stock, 28 to 29cc; do., No. 2, 25 to 26e. Potatoes-- Per bag car lots, 70c. • United States Markets. Minneapolis, Deo. 1. -Wheat ---No, 1 bard. $1.19 3-8; No. 1 Northern, $1.15 7-8 to $1.18 3-8; No. 2 Northern, $1.12 3-8 to $1,16 3-8; December, $1.13 7-8. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 56 to 58 1-2e, Oats -No. 3 white, 46 to 46 1-2c. Oats --No. 3 white, 46 to 46 1-2.c. Flour and bran unchanged. Duluth, Dee. 1. -Wheat --No. 1 hard, $1.18 3-8; No. 1 Northern, $1.17 3-8; No. 2 Northern, $1.14 3-8; December. $1.15 3-8. Linseed $1.49 1-4; December, 61.46 1-8. • LivaStook Markets. Toronto, Dcc, 1.-Continuedgood demand for catmers and cutters. Fair demand for heavy short -keep feeders. Light eastern stockers easy Mitch cows in good de- mand. Calves -Good veal, steady to erns Lambs strong, and further advanced to $8.50 and $8.75 for choice light lambs around 85 to 90 lbs. Hogs steady, at $7.50 fed and watered and $7.75 oil cars, Montreal, Dec. 1. -There was no really prime beeves on the market, medium ami - male selling' at from 6e to 6 3-4c; common, 3 3-4 to 4 3.40; and lean canners, 30 to 3 3-4c. Cows, $40 to $80 each; ealves, 4 1-2 to 8 1-2c; sheep, 4 1-2 to 5 1-4e; lambs, 71-4 to 7 3-40. 13torers were offering from 7 1-2 to 7 3-4c for good lots of hogs, but drovers held for 8 to8 1-40, USTRIAPUNISHED. 'Vienna Full of 'Wotinded vaeion of Cholera and Dysentery. Wheii Austria so arrogantly made her demandsalpon Servia, late in July, thew-orld regarded her as a groat Power wrongfully attempting to .coerce a weaker nation. She was confident, of course, of her abilib,y to compel Servia to her way of thinking, irrespective of the rights of the case. She -Witte% shechuld repeat the temp by which she ob- tained possession of Bosnia and Herzegovina a few years before. Now she is stricken -to the point of exhaustion. A .correspondent Ronie sends a graphic description of the disaster that has overtaken her. Vienna is literally a great hos- pital. Barracks, school Louses. theatres, maces, the museum and the rotunda of the famous Prater Park are all in use for thecare of the wounded Cholera and dvse,a- , tery, the former in mild hut the ' latter in fatal Ionia have invaded the city. The public is beginning to understand the failure of the campaign. - There are no evidences of "patriolie pa,seion., sympathy or enthusiasm." The empire- is on the ragged edge of _catastrophe. Its dissolution •would be the natural ,outeorae of its latest and most die- asbeous •military experiment... • • , why is an after-dia- tier speech called a itoast? Paw - Because it is usually so dry, any, son.