Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-02-12, Page 3IIARD FIGHTING IN POLAND 0 mans in Classes Rush to Death in Effort to Break Russian Front A despatch from Petrograd says: ' of the imminence of a general en - generals generals colnananding the regions their short front, followingt of most, yiolent fighting' contai i usual Method of keeping fresh corps news more pleasing to the Russian in reserve and ready to seize the people than has been received since opportunity . for counter-attack.' the Germanic allies threw the Frorm early •morning until late •at weight .of their sl:rength to the hat- night the German divisions threw tie fronts of Eastern Europe. The ,themselves against the Russian Russians have seized both banks of corps, the attacks rolling up and e.Ri River Inster, breaking like waves against a rocky the head waters of the v in.East Prussia, a success which en- ooast, The field of battle between ables them to deliver a flank attack Goumine and Borjitnow was very cin Insterburg from the north, largely fiat .and treeless, marked by while the forces that have passed oecasion d farmhouses. As the Ger- the Angerapp to the south advance mans swept forward whole files straight west; the army which drove were destroyed by Russian machine the Austrians from the Dukla Pass guns and rifle fire. But gaps were in the Carpathians has reached the rapidly closed, and the Germans River Labercza, in Northern Hun -struggled 'onward with bulldog de- gg••ary while the Germans west of termination. Every attack ended Warsaw have been repulsed after 1 the most savage fighting. Tho bulletins traiasmitted by the slaught, the Ruesians relnt lith The Russian armies took the of- fensive directly west of Warsaw, at the junction of the Vistula and. the Bzura, crossing the latter river axed dislodging Germans from a bridge- head at Dakhowa. It seems appar- ent that the Russians have assumed the initiative in this quarter as a direct. result of the severe reverse they inflicted on the Germans in the Bolimow region, when a.three- day b•attle.�reached its climax. Upon a front of seven miles, with Borjimow and Goumine as centres of attack, the Germans eoncentrat- ed seven divisions and hurled more than 105,000 of their finest infantry against the Russian line. They de- livered attack after attack, revert- ing to methods which characterized their earlier operations in Belgium and France, and deploying great masses of men over open ground, careless apparently of the terrible cost in killed and wounded if the way to Warsaw could he opened. A detail which illustrates the violence of the effort is the official statement that some of the German divisions of 15,000 men Charged the Russian. line on, a front only a verst (two- thirds of a mile) wide. In these sec- tions the German infantry advanced in close -pressed masses, attacking at the double-quick • shoulder to ' shoulder. The ittacks`were preceded by ter rific artillery fire, in which the Germans employed 100 batteriesof rnoetars and field guns, probably six hundred cannon in all. There seems to be no doubt that Marshal von Hindenburg lied ordered Gen- eral Mackenzen to hew through the Russian ' line at any cost. Such fighting had never before be -en wit- nessed on the eastern front. Complete preparedness and the steadiness of the Russian infantry balked the German plans. Warned campaign. G the Russian trenches, r, core the F ANGER pp Germans, linable by sheer courage FV'EB �� and determination to break through solid hedges of bayonets, broke and fled back to their lines. The Germans maintained a con- centrated fire from 100 batteries. The shells fell thickly. The earth seemed to tremble. Severe or eight projectiles dropped simultaneously in almost the same spot. The Ger- mans .attempted to turn tilt Russian flank and failed. Borjimow `...� LZ,k y�, < 'R••b .t. M i•`Y �,yy�..', E'�,. *� Y !�. •aC0 Yt:t n ,,,x.�ti,'�+d+..o�, `,a.�0�.�.MR �.<+.t:ZJ-i °`::{•,4 m ikf,S%vwo .,•5419:40.M.,,`iwCr+. k���..�,5..ws�'N ,b,•�•'..Gi .'' ..au :..,.......e.,.. it..�9Rr F So TUr,ros= siy:.Rr:manwcCI=30 '.�T_tiw^y�_...-Xace• --"- mmize ri The', Piiiler'ss Royal in Halifax harbor. This splendid battle cruiser was • one of those which participated in the great naval victory. The photo- • graph was taken et the time of her secret visit to Halifax last November. RUSSIANS CROSS �; 'El � a,��� a �n S faltErorhant German Drferrci in' FASt Prussia Broken Down by invader. A despatch from London says The Russian army invading East Prussia from the west has forced its e s Russians attackedn- furiousey. has driven the Germans from the They carried three lines of trenches. I town of Gross Medunishkere on the The their ns� fell in such numbers; west bank. The annoti.1pcement by that their bodies were piled breast- the general staff of the passage of high. They had fifty machine. guns the Angerapp and the occupation of playing upon the Russian line. Of Gross NTedunisltlten is the moist ire - teen.the Russians captered four- I portant news that has been received seen. The Germans po wous. using from East Prussia since tire. revela- tion that Tilsit was menaced by the When these exploded near the Rus- second army of invasion. sians fumes were thrown off that The Angerapp;vas a strong na- tural the eyes." tural defence of which the Germans When night came on the Germans made effective use in blocking the were broken and exhausted. Some Russian march toward Insterburg•. detachments maintained themselves For many weeks German batteries a short distance east of Borjimow Berjimosv posted on the west bank of the and in the town of Goumine. The river defeated every effort by thea Russians struck immediately, deliv- Russians to force acrossing. Now ering fierce counter-attacks with that it is officially announced that' fresh corpsheld in reserve. Goa- the Germans have been driven from snipe' was wrested from the Ger- the west banl� a rapid • mans. At Wol.aszyd Lowiecka the. Germans fought with the fury of de- spair. Battalions were annihilated, Whole companies were wiped out of existence. ' . The net resultof the three days of battle at Goumine-Borjilnow was the recapture by the -Russians of all positions lost in the past week of renewed German effort. It is esti- mated That the • Germans lost at least 25,000 in killed and wounded. and that the Russian casualties were not couch less. Russian mili- tary observers, with the meagre de- tails before. them, are likening this fight to the Battle ofBorodino, where Napoleon lost his Russian OISTED AFL4 Lusitania Crossed the Irish ,Sia Flying the Stars and. Stripes A despatch from London says .The Cunard liner Lusitania, which sailed from New York, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday morning fly- ing the American flag. On Friday 3.aptain Dow, of the Lusitania, re- (3eiS'ed a. wireless from the Baltic, t the White Star Line, saying that cable that the tor. respondents might tryvo submarines had been sighted desire. He said: 1iy that vessel in the Irish Sea, "England desires neither sup - whereupon the captain of the Lusi- pression nor compromise. The For- tania. hauled down the British flag eign Office is ignorant of the Lusi- and hoisted the Starts and, Stripes. tania incident, but the Merchant The Lusitania stopped off Queens- Shipping Act of 1894 says that if a town and was busy for two hours person uses the British flag and TU KS EFFORT TO CROSS COAL Invaders of Egypt Left Many Dead and About 350 Prisoners After Skirmishes North of Suez A despatch from London says: The Turks made a definite attack on the Suez Canal, but after a. shorp fight they were driven off with heavy losses. After a. fruitless attempt made to bridge the canal near Toussoum, they returned to the attack with a force estimated .at 12,000 strong and six batteries of .artillery ,and essay- ed to get across the waterway on rafts. The British force; however, was waiting and the invaders were forced back, leaving about 300 pri- soners in the hands of the defend- ers. efend ors. A considerable number of the Turks were killed and wounded. The British lost '15 -killed and 58 wounded, - The attack was also renewed by the tusks -at,-1 Kantara, but this met with no' greater success than the other • attempt, the Turkish casualties in killed, wounded and prisoners, numbering upwards of a hundred. Arm All Killed Sons in French �, 'A despatch from. Geneva says ,,'even Sons of an . elderly blind 'Frenchman named Chopard, of the village of Chauffou•t, near the Swiss frontier, were called to the colors last August and marched away ,war. For a, long while the father heard nothing from thelia. Beeom- .ing elan -tied, he applied for assis- Lance to the bureau here for the ex- change of information regarding• . prisoners of was. One by one let tern from the French headquarters arrived in Geneva. The seven sons had been killed, leaving fourteen children and four widows. Germans Enforcing Alsatian Loyalty A despatch from Paris says: Heavy snowfalls are again reported on fibs heights of Hartm.anns-Wsi- jerkopf and Molltenrain, in the Vos- ges. There has been painstaking rench fighting with saps and hand grenades near A.ltkirch. A large farmhouse called the Largll ol, which was only a short die - tame Elton; the Swiss frontier, was advance.by. the Russian forces may be expected mails. They have occupied forty miles d•'' ' The Press Association has issued of the Foreign Office by American newspaper correspondents, Neil Iii -CES -OF FARM PROillICT3 REPORTS FROM THIS [,.j, D NC. TOADS CENTRES OF AMERICA. • Beeadstix#4, Toronto, vele 9._Flour*-Manitoba first patents, $7.80 to $8, in iuta bags; second patents, $7.30 to 87.'50; strong bakers', $7 to $7,20; Ontario wheat dour, 90 per cent patents, $6.65 to $0,65, sea- board. Wheat --Manitoba No. 1. Northern, $1.63; No. 2 at $1.•60, and No. 3 at 91.57; Ontario , wheat, No. 2, 81.55 to 91.60, at outside points,, Oats -Ontario, 62 to 63e, outside, and at 65 to 67c on track, Toronto. 'Western Canada, No. 2, at 743c and No, 8 at 7130,. Barley --Good malting grades. 76 to 800, •outside. Rye -91.17 to 91.20, outside. Peas -No, 2 at $1.85 to $1.90, out- side. Corn -No. 2 American, 853e, all rail, Toronto freight. Buckwheat -No. 2 at 85 to 880, out- side. Bran and shorts -Bran, 926 to $27 a ton, and shorts at 928 to 929, Rolled oats -Car lots, per bag of 90. lbs, 93.45 to $3.60. Country produce. Butter -Choice dairy, 24 to 25c: in- ferior, 20 to 21c: creamery prints . 31. to 32c; do., solids, 29' to 300; farmers' sap arator, 26•to 27e. Eggs -New -laid, in cartons, 34 tc 35e; selects, 28. to 30e; storage. 26 t4 27e. Honey -12 to 13e per ib for strained; No. 1 honeycomb, 92.76 per dozen No.. 2, $2.25 Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 13 to 16cp ducks,cgeese, 14 to415c;1turkeSs, dressed, 0 to 19 to 20c. Cheese -171 to iSr, for large and at 18 to 1S#c. fir twins. 75 to $2.851 Beans -Prime, bushel. 92 • hand-picked, $2.90 to.93. Potatoes-Ontaros, 65 to 750 per bag out of B. runswicks cartlots, 60 to 650 per bag ProViBiOn8. Bacon - Long clear, 123 to .14c per lb.. Primrose, the new Under-Secretary in ease lots. 'Hams -Medium, 16 to 17o; for Foreign Affairs, exemplifying breakfast 'bacoto ; rolls, 1backsz32© the friendliness felt for America, to 21t; boneless backs, 22 to 23e. had previously arranged with the it2cacompoundt92utot10c"i�'tube: ane 10 censor to transmit anything es to 101e in pails, d' 1 assumes the British national char - Baled Ray and Straw. Dealers are paying as follows for ear lot deliveries on track here: - Straw, $8 to 98.50 a ton, in car lots on track here. Hay -No. 1 new hay $17.60 to 918; No. 2 at 915.50 to $16, and No. 8 at 912.50 to 913,50. Winnipeg Grain. sen log wireless messages. �S'innipeg, Feb' 9. -Cash: -Wheat -- Captain Dow's explanation of his actor aboard a ship wholly or part leo. 1 Northern, $'1.503; No. 2 Northern, action in hoisting the American flag ly owned by persons unqualified to No.411 No, 3, N$1rts erNo912 4C.W.:1� $1.59. was that he did so in order to save own a British ship: for the purpose No oats or barley quoted. . his passengers and the mails owing of making the 'ship appear to be ;tg the German threat to sink Bri- British, the ship shall be subject to Montreal Markets. fish ships. The captain declared forfeiture unless the act was done No1.2nteiiow, Feb. 870. oats ca adiar flagforthef aping capture N 3 71 that he had a right to fly the purpose o . ase • Western, No. 2, 730; do., o. , c; ex - of a neutral country for the protec- by an enemy, or by a foreign war- 64c;NNo.13 local white,o.- 2 lNO.l4 local }ion of neutral passengers and ship in the exercise of its belliger- white, 620. Earley, Manitoba feed, 850. ent rights. Therefore, if England Buckwheat, No. 2 8730. Flour=Mani- acknowledged and grants the right seoonds4i$ g wheat patents, firsts, 87.10; 60- do hags.'S3 65 to„. 90,75. tura England holds..tlhat,4;;she is en, ere, s7 ao 'bas 90 g 1 d is 73513 17.25.; g set afire by German shells and burned to the ground. The Ger- mane are said to have ,probi'bited the people in the district under their control from going .outside their towns, Barbed wire fences have been built around the villages, this step being Considered necessary owing to the preua�ience of numerous spilus: East Prussian territory and have conquered the region north-eOf t1ie• Mazurian Lakes. • Simultaneously the Russian ado vane toteard West Prussia has gained momentum, with the capture of Skempe, a town near the border, and about 32 miles south-east of Thorn. The. Russian line runs from the north bank of the Vistula to the. region of Mlawa and is within 20 miles of the Vest Prussian frontier. The main fighting is on -the front of Lipno and Biezun, and the official resistance in this region is rapidly weakening. Another Boer Rebel. Gives Up the Fight A despatch from Pretoria says: The rebel leader Bezuiclenhout and the so -balled "Prophet" Vankens- burg have surrendered to the Bri despatch from Ottawa says : fish forces with Lieut. -Col. Kemp. p The commando which gave up its Sixteen million dollars is the sp- erms also included. 48 officers and Proximate monetary value of the 500 burghers. The rebels capita• present war to the textile and wool- lated at Upington. Vankensburg's ;len industries of Canada so far. influence is credited with being ;mow much more will come in the fu - largely responsible for the rebel- ,tura -is a natter for conjecture, but lion. The announcement states that additional surrenders are ex- pected and that Lieut. -Col. S. G. Maritz and his men probably will give themselves up before the end of the week. the following under a Birmingham "Passengers from the Lusitania who arrived here Sunday state that when off the coast of Ireland the Lusitania received a wireless mes- sage. from the Admiralty that it was to hoist the American flag. It did so, and sailed under that flag to Liverpool." The use of the .American flag was immediately called to the attention of non. -English. 'ships to es -cape cap -Winter patents, choice $8, straight roll. -. Role 'oa' - to• the sane. 'rivilege. 3;60. Bran $26. sorts $28. Mid - titled p lbs., $ "Undoubtedly Captain Dow, as dlings, $31. Mouillie, 934 to $37. Hay. well as other English captain's and No. 2. per, ton, car lots, $18 to $19. Cheese -Freest wester�rs, 162 to 17e - ship owners, is familiar with the finest easterns, 163a. Butter-OJoioesi Act of 1894, which is a perfect an- creamery, 30 to 3030; seconds, 283 tot Q German1 that 2930. gfsigresh30 41 0 420; selected, � t ck, 260. neutral flags. No such orders were sorer• to the charge a 340; No. 1 stock, c o. s o England i5 notifying her ships to use Potatoes, per bag car lots, y523c. United States Markets. ever issued by the British Govern- Minneapolis, Feb. 9. -Wheat -No. 1 menta' hard, $1.53330; No. 1 Northern, 91.483 to 11 .53; No. 2 Northern, $1.46 to fi NNINB AT FULL'CAPACITY Value to Mills of Canada in War Orders Approxi- mate Sixteen Million Dollars Russian Girl Fought in Nineteen Battles A despatch from Moscow, Russia, says : Among the wounded who have. arrived in Moscow fronnt the front is. 'Olga Krasilnikoff, a girl of 19` years. After taking part in 19 bat- tles in Poland she was wounded in the foot. The girl enlisted under a Manse name and this deception has just been discovered. The cross of St. George, fourth degree, has been awarded. to her, Given the Iron Cross For Sinking Steamers it is stated that the Canadian -made articles have generally met with the approval of Canada's customers, and there is every indication of cgntinued orders. From a position approaching idleness Canadian mills have come to be now running at capacity. To date ib is estimated that there have been placed, on account of the British Government alone through its Canadian buying agents, orders for khaki clothing to the extent of $1,250,000, with an- other order in contemplation val- ued at four millions, a million -dol- lar order placed by the War Office direct, and -clothing ordered by the Canadian` Militia Department ap proximating $250,000. These orders for khaki goods alone total $6,500,- 000, War orders for knitted goods to the 'value of about six millions have A despatch from Amsterdam s t,y s : Emperor Willie= arrived at Wil- helmshaven on Thursday. His Ma- jesty' inspected the German sub- marine U-21, going over the vessel; personally. lie hestntved the de-. coration of the Iron Cross upon the members of the submarine's drew. U-21 is undergoing repairs at Wil- helnlshaverl following her recent ex- ploits in the Irish Sea, $1.503; May, 91.50 bid. Corn, No. 3 yel- low, 72 to 7230. Oats -No. 1 white, 659 to 66c. Flour and bran unchanged. Duluth, Feb. 9. -Wheat -No. 1 hard. 91.523 to 91.53. No. 1 Northern. 91.513 to 91.5.2: May, 91.52. Linseed cash„ $1.863 to 91.003; May, 91.893. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Feb. 9. -Good butchers' sold from 97 to 97.40, while mediums sold up to 96.75, with commons between $6 and $6.25. Medium grade milkers sold round 965. The best lambs sold for • 98.50. Sheep were steady. Calves sold from 94.50 to 96, and choice from 910 to $11. Hogs, fed and watered, $S. Montreal, Feb. 9. -Prime beeves 73 kept the mitis busy, while certain e°esccizvdiSn' to to eaccmm�ton, 43 to h; calves. 5 ,to lines, to the value of $1,250,000, sae sheep, -43 to Sic; lambs, 73 to Se; formerly imported from Germany hogs, sic. and Austria, will hereafter be man- ufactured in Canada. $8Nla ALL SHIPS IN CHANNEL. Canadian blanket manufacturers have benefited to the tune of some- 'Germany Announces Reckless WiU' Blinn' like $1,500,000 from the war.' On Passenger and Freight Traffic. Recently an order was offered Can- adian mills for $1,050,000 worth of blankets for the French Govern- ment. 01 that amount they were able to take only . $1,250,000, and the remainder had to be placed in the United States. Twenty-eight mills have been engaged on the big order. Shirt -makers have been busily en- gaged on good-sized contracts for the British and Canadian Govern- ments, while orders for the British service cap to the value of $60,000 have been placed with other firms. Orders for kit -bags, haversacks, tents, etc., have kept other factories busy, while the tremendous export of bread and foodstuffs has created a heavy demand for cotton and jute bags, there being an increased out- put of these ,amounting to 25 per cent. in the past three months. Will BeNo Blockade of Germ A despatch from London . says : Although the Morning Post and other London daily newspapers re- peatedly have urged a blockade of German ports, thus cutting off all foodstuffs, the British Foreign Office repeatedly bas made it clear an Ports that such a step is not contemplat- ed, and .announces that its policy is the same to -day as in the past. It is added that the British Gov ernment has no thought of antago- nizing neutral countries, whose shipping. would be stopped by the closing of the Battle Sea. A despatch from Berlin says: The German Admiralty issued the fal- lowing communication: `;The waters around Great Bri- tain and Ireland, including the whole English Channel, are declar- ed a war zone from and after Feb. 18, 1915. Every enemy merchant ship found in this war zone will be destroyed, even if it is impossible to avert dangers which threaten the crew and: her passengers. "Also, neutral ships in the war zone are in danger, as in conse- quence of the misuse of neutral flags ordered by the British Government on Jan. 31, ,and in view of the haz- ards of naval warfare, it cannot al- ways be avoided that attacks meant. for enemy ships endanger neutral ships, Shipping northward, around the Shetland Islands, in the eastern basin of the North Sea and in a strip of at least 30 nautical miles in breadth along the Dutch coast is endangered in the same way." 1,270' German Jurists Rifled in 'War. A despatch from Berne • says; According to official statements given out in Berlin 1,279. German; Jurists have been killed in the peers sent War. This total is made iap of six professors, 275 judges, 2240 •law- yers, 334 assessors and 424 barrios. tern.