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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-07-16, Page 3SERBIAN ARMY READY FOR AN OFFENSIVE Sanitary Conditions Are Again Normal, and Forces Have Been Supplied With Money and Munitions A despatch from Rome says: -- Large quantities of : war munitions have'reaehed Serbia. T1ie; Serbian Na tional Assembly liar voted a credit of $60,000,000 for the' `continua ion of t Military, operations t he ., Sanitary conditions are ;report d now to be'virtually norinalthe t phus epidenaiic, however '.resulted i many -deaths. Large numbers of recruits, on fur- lough, have been recalled to the col- ors; and it is the intention of the Serb- cans to undertake an offensive move - Ment at an early date along the Dan- ube -Save sector. ' ''Austria and "1Tungary are concern trotting new troops at Sarajevo and Semlin,, ;; The Serbian ' Crown ' Prince has rejoined,. the general staff. The ,Montenegrin army,it Is stated, will march side by side with their allies into Herzegovina. ' ALLIES REPULSE THE TURKISH ATTACKS • Enemy's Batteries Silenced at Tekke Burlin by the Guns of the Fleet. AA despatch' from London says.: Fur- ther Turkish attacks on the extreme right wing- of the allied forces -on the Gallipoli have been repulsed, accord- ing to the Daily Mail's correspondent ,at Athens, with heavy losses to the enemy. The Turks opened a bombardment from the Asiatic coast on the British positions at Tekke Burun and in the neighborhood of Sedd-el-Bahr to pre- vent the allies from landing reinforce. ments. The Turkish batteries were silenced, however,. by the guns of the fleet. FRENCH FORCES HOLD EVERY HILL New Position on Loretta. Heights Do- minate Whole Plain of Flanders. A despatch from Paris says: After battling 120 days for the hill coantry between Bethune and Arras, the French forces are in possession of all the eminences looking out upon the plain of Flanders. Lille, .Douai and Cambrai all are visible from here. Every position along the broad na- tional road betwen Arras and ,Beth- une Beth-une has been won except Souchez, and also another quarter -mile of tren- ches in the Souchez web was torn away. The attack was made under parachute rocket lights, the French burning bluish white and the ,Gen - mans Germans greenish white, covering the scene of the deaperate conflict with a ghastly glow. The most desperate fighting has been along the short ten -mile front from Arras to Aix Nolette, which be- gan March 9th with the taking of " a few hundred yards of trenches on the watershed of Norte Dame de Lortte, where there are the ruins of an old Merovingian military road. Every day since . then some section' of the German trenches has been taken, lost or retaken. Each side hasbeen employing for- midable artillery, both of small and heavy calibre, the French guns some- what the more numerous and served with unlimited quantities of high ex- plosive shells. A correspondent of the Associated Press went through five or six miles of the trenches formerly held by the Germans and reconstructed by he French,who now have abandoned them to move forward. Upwards of 100,000 Germans have fallen or been captured in these trenches, ac- cording to the French official count, since the second week of March. The French losses, the correspondent was confidentially informed, while serious, have been much smaller than those of the Germans. BRITISH IMPORTS GROW. Exports Show a Decrease of Thirty- three Millions. A despatch from London says: The, British Board of Trade figures for the mthith of June show an in- crease in iinports of $89,1$0,000. The principal increases were in food, raw material and cotton. '• The exports showed a decrease gf 33,195,000, chiefly in manufactured articles, of which $7,500,000 was in cotton textiles. SAYVILLE STATION TAKEN OVER BY U.S. Naval Operators Hereafter Will Copy, Berlin's Wireless Yarns. A despatch from Washington says: The U.S. Government has taken over. the Sayville,- LI., - wireless ' station, the only remaining privately operated direct means of communication be- tween the United States and Ger- many. Secretary of the Navy Dan- iels announced that Captain Bullard, in charge of the naval yard, had gone to take over the station, and would continue its operation. with naval forces. - Secretary of Navy Daniels issued this statement: "It is understood that the Sayville radio station has made application to the Secretary, of Commerce, for a license_ The Secre- tary of Commerce declined to grant - a license, and so infprmed the Secre- tary of the Navy, who, after confer- ence, directed Captain Bullard, as the expert of the department, to take over and operate the sta*ion. This action, which was taken ender an Executive order issued..by President Wilson, giving the navy authority to take over "one or more" stations, was deemed necessary be- cause e cause of alleged violations of neutral ity by the company's operators. It has been charged that when the ''navy censors had left the wireless room for a minute or two, unneutral mess- ages had been sent, and that, only by a difficult and trying : `supervision could neutrality be strictly preserved. • ITALIAN CRUISER SUNK. Torpedoed While Reconnoitring in. Upper Adriatic. A despatch from Rome says: The Italian navy has suffered its first serious loss, an Austrian submarine having ' successfully ` torpedoed the cruiser Amalfi in the narrow waters of the Adriatic Sea.., Most of the crewwere saved, This is the second allied warship to fall a victim to an Austrian winder -water craft, the French cruiser Leon Gambetta hav- ing, earlier in the war, been caught in the Ionian Sea. It is realized that the loss of the Italian warship is only one of the incidents which must be expected where fleets keep to the sea, blockading enemy ports or pro- tecting commerce. • As an offset, it is claimed that a French warship ham sunk a German submarine in the Channel. • A babe in arms is worth two armed with toy pistols. SUBMARINE RAN INTO AN ITALIAN TRAP Strategy of Captain Leads to Capture of Undersea Boat' in Novel Way. A despatch from Turin says: The iornale d'Italia 'says: A steamer bee aging to one of the neutral Balkan Mas was caught laden with benzine d naphtha by an Italian warship. captain of the steamer confessed dt he was waiting to deliver the s'il'o to a German submarine. The pVal commander thereupon took os- ession of the vessel, manned it with it orew of his own bluejackets dis- tensed as ordinary seamen and armed the ship with machine guns. Then he set out to keep his appointment. Pre- cisely at the hour and spot arranged the periscope was seen emerging from the surface. Greetings were being ex- changed •when the commander of the steamer stepped forward and cried: "Take your choice --surrender or :be sent to the bottom." Stupefied, the Teutons chosete formai, and with their craft were tow- ed to a well known naval port. KAISER'S PLANS HAVE GONE AWRY CHECK TO AUSTRIAN FORCES IN POLAND BLOCKS GERMAN OFFENSIVE.. A'despatch from London says: The check which the Russians have impos- ed on Archduke Joseph' Ferdinand's army in Southern Poland and the ad=' Officinal strain which this has placed on tho. German .Gen, von Mackenzen's army to the night has postponed, it is believed in military circles here, the threatened German offensive in the west, and there is now a possibility that the .allies will be the first to take the offensive. In support of this it is pointed out that the attacks by the German Crown Prince's array in the Woevre, which' the German press announced was fie commencement . of a general move- ment forward, have ceased, and what fighting is going on along the western front consists of artillery engage- ments and a few isolated attacks and: counter-attacks by infantry which make little or. no difference in the po- sitions of the opposing forces. So far as the Germans are con- cerned, military observers assert that they are bound to carry out their of- fensive against the Russians until there is; ,.some decisive engagement, such as the capture of the Lublin Choler' railway, which, it is asserted,' would have been in their hands before now if tna'Austrians advancing to- ward the former city had not been driveneback. Reports from neutral sources are to the effect thatto make good their efforts against the Russians the Ger- mans are moving troops which were intended for the western front to the. ease.. Tc a certain extent this seems confirmed by the statement in the Russian official report that reinforce- ments have reached Archduke Ferdi- nand and that General von Macken- zen also commenced an offensive which, however, broke down under the Russian fire. A despatch from Vienna indicates the fierceness of . the struggle which is in progress along the. Krasnik line. The Russians have brought forward strong reinforcements, probably from the interior, and are making repeated. heavy attacks. Archduke...; ,Joseph Ferdinand's army has the task- of holding and, if possible; repulsing the Russians. Additional great battles, says the despatch, may confidently be predicted between the ;Vistula, and Bug Rivers. AN :EXPLOSION ON AN OCEAN LINER Mishap ' to Steamer Regarder as • the Work of German Syfnpathizers. A despatch from New York says: An explosion occurred on the Atlan- tic transport steamship Minnehaha on Wednesday, the day 911 which Frank Holt, the assailant of 3. P. Morgan, prophesied a steamer should sink, "God willing." Fire followed the explosion and the Minnehaha, which had on board 15,000 'tons of munitions and food- stuffs for the allies, but no passen- gers, turned back for Halifax, while her crew -endeavored to, keep the fire from reaching the cargo of high ex- plosives. Frank Holt's prophecy in his let- ter to his wife, was written after the attempt to'detroy. the Capitol at 'Washington and before the attack on Mr. Morgan. In it ITolt said: "The steamer .leaving New York for Liver- pool 'on July 3should sink, God will- ing, on the 7th.:``I think it is the Philadelphia or Saxonia, but an not quite sure, as, according to schedule, these left the 3rd." - On the';tnargin was written: "Tear this off till after it happens." The substance of this paragraph was telegraphed at once to New York and wireless warnings were sent broadcast, with especial reference to two vessels'` mentioned by Holt,, The captains of both, replied that their vessels had been 'searched and no bombs found. ` The Minnehaha was scheduled to sail from New York on July 8, the day mentioned by Holt, but because of delay in getting herbig cargo aboard, did not finally get away until Sunday night, July 4, She is said to have passed out of $andy! Hook at 11,80 o'clock that night, 'though no mention of her sailing was made in the usual shipping information, and it was evident that some attempts at secrecy were being nittde. In time of peace, Switzerland is the country best . supplied with hospitals Having nearly eighteen thousand bedS or about sift to every thousand of the population. TERRIFIC FIGHTING AT THE DARDAIELLES Prisoners Tell of Flagging Spirit .of Turkish Troops and Desperate Nature of Pi biting.. Positions termed veritable inferno. A despatch from Mitylene says: The recent flglitiug on the Gallipoli Peninsula has resulted in the capture of a large number of prisoners. Many of them, thoughthey werenot badly clothed and appear : to have been fairly well fed, are all of one. mind • ae 'to their good fortune in be- ing "rescued," as one termed it, from the inferno which the Turkish posi- tions on the peninsula have been for a considerable time. It is always es-- sential to discount to some extent as they generally think it necessary to make declarations by which they hope to .find favor with their captors, but allowing for that there can be no doubt as to the general reliability . of what they say. They all • agree re- garding the flagging spirit of 'the Turkish army. They state that the feeling between the Germans and the Turks is becoming .'increasingly` bad,• and, they tell many tales of Germans being shot in the back in return for the frequentemptying of officers re- volvers into wavering or hesitating the statements of Turkish prisoners, ranks. Robert Lansing, the new American Secretary of State TWO GERMAN MARINERS CONVICTED AS SPIES. A despatch r from Venice says: Capt. Liebsicher and. Engineer Hoppe of the German steamship Lownie, un- der detention by the Italian authori- ties since the outbreak of the war, were condemned to ten years' impris- onment in solitary confinement. They were convicted by a military tribunal on the charge of spying. The other members of the crew were acquitted. It was alleged by the Italian au- thorities that the captain and the engineer of Lownis: had tried to obtain information regarding Italian batteries and submarines, and that they had signalled' to an Austrian squadron when it • attacked the port of Ancona on May 24. BAVARIA TO IMPRISON SPECULATORS IN FOOD. A despatch front Munich. says: The military authorities of Bavaria issued an ordinance providing for a maxi- mum of one year's imprisonment for dealers charging excessive prices for articles of daily consumption, includ- ing food and heating and lighting. substances. ' A similar penalty is to be inflicted on those withholding d g .stocks from sale to produce higher prices, and on retailers refusing to sell to intending customers. • BRITAIN WILL STOP EXPORTS ON METALS. A despatch, from London. says: Steps have been taken by the British authorities to prevent the further ex- portation from Great Britain of lead; spelter, .antimony; nickel or any other metal necessary in the manufacture of munitions of war. ' Announcement to ` this' effect was made by Munitions Minister ' Lloyd George in the House of Commons. THE RAIDER EMDEN WILL BE SALVAGED. As despatch from ,Sydney, N.S.W., The Department of Defence has. awarded a contract for the salving of the German cruiser: Emden, which was sunk off Cocos Island, in. the In- dian cOean by the American cruiser Sydney.. The contractors say the raider can be easily floated. The Em- den will be exhibited. Recruiting in Victoria has been very successful, , and New South Wales is about to begin a campaign for mien. FORCE TEUTONS TO GIVE GROUND Strong Russian Forces Push Back Enemy to South of Lubin. A despatch from London says: Interest in the eastern war theatre centres in Southern Poland, where the. Russians, strongly reinforced with both men and guns, and . with their railways and fortresses of Ivan- gorod and Brest -Litovsk to draw upon, have held up the Austro -Ger- man attempt to outflank Warsaw from the south-west. The Austrians made the admission that before su- perior Russian forces to the south of Lublin they have withdrawn from the hills to the north of Krasnik. Further heavy fighting must occur in this region, but the Russian mili- tary writers express confidence that now any effort of the Germanic allies to deliver a lightning blow has been discounted, and that the Grand Duke's army will be able to hold its position and perhaps drive the invad- ers back. While this is going on, it it believed that there is little prob- ability of the Germans detaching any part of their eastern armies for a re- newed offensive in the west, and that if such a move is made it must be undertaken by fresh troops. Nowhere east of the Vistula do the Austrians claim to be making pro- gress in their official report.. The Vienna communication declares, how- ever, that "numerous severe Russian attacks have been bloodily repulsed.' A retreat is flatly admitted in the Krasnik region, where the Austrian troops, it is announced, were with- drawn from both sides of the road leading to the heights north of the town, as the result of attacks by superior Russian forces brought up for the protection of Lublin. TRANSFER SHIPS TO THE U.S. FLAG INSTRUCT SUBMARINES TO AL- LOW PASSENGER BOATS TO PASS SAFELY. A despatch from Berlin says: Ger- many's offer embodied in the reply to the American note regarding the sink- ing of the Lusitania and submarine warfare, was delivered to James W. Gerard, the American Ambassador, of which the following is a summary: First -Reiterated assurance that Americanships engaged in legitimate trade will not be interfered with, nor the lives of Americans upon neutral ships be endangered. Second -That German submarines will beinstructed to allow American passenger ships to pass freely and safely, Germany entertaining in re- turn the confident hope that the Am- erican Government will see that these ships do not carry contraband. Such ships are to be provided with distin- guishing marks, and their arrival an- nounced a reasonable time in advance. The same privilege isextended to a reasonable number of neutral passen- ger ships under the American flag, and should the number of ships thus available for passenger service prove inadequate Germany is willing to per- mit America to place four hostile pas- senger steamers under the American flag to ply between North America and Europe under the same condi- tions. Belgians Are Loyal Unto Death A despatch' from I3russels says: The Eelgians have suddenly adopted the practice ofwearing sprays of ivy as an expression of loyalty • to Belgium and the allies. Gen. von Bissing, the German military govern- or of Eelgium, a few days ago issued al order prohab"iting the demonstra- tive display of Belgian colors as per- sonal adornment. The Belgians obey- ed the order, but the following day almost every man, woman end child blossomed out with an ivy spray, the significance of which, in the lan- guage of flowers, is "attachment, united unto ;death." The Leading Markets Breadstufs. Toronto July 13 Manitoba' wheat No. 1 I4orthern, x1,36 to .1.37; No. 2 Northern, $1.33% to $1.34x/4 ; No. 3 Northern, $1,30 to $1.61, on tracic lake ports.. IVManito.ba oats ---No, 2 C. W., 63c; No. 3 C. W., nominal; extra No, 1 feed, nominal, on track' lake ports. American corn -No. 2 yellow,' 81c, on track lake ports, Canadian . corn -e -No. 2 yellow, mane inal, on track Toronto. Ontario oats-No.2 white,56 Is 57e; No. 3 white, 55 to 56e, ccording to freight outside. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $1.11 to $1.14, according to freights outside. Peas -No. 2, nominal; per car lots,' nominal, according to freights, out- side. Barley -•.-Good malting barley, '70 to 75c; feed barley, 65e, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots, 74c,' according to freights "outside. Rye -No. 2, nominal, $1.05 to $1.10, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour, -First patents, in jute bags, $7; second patents, in jute bags, $6.50; stroiig bakers; in jute bags, $6.30,, Toronto; in cotton bags, 100 ,more. Ontario flour.-Winter90 per cent. patents, $4.70; seaboard, or Toronto freights in bags. Millfeed.-Car lots, delivered Mon- treal freights. Bran, per ton, $26; shorts, per ton, $28; middlings, per ton, $29; good feed flour,. per bag, $1.85. Country Produce. Butter -Choice- dairy, 21 to 23c; inferior, 18 to 20e; creamery prints, 27 to 29c; do., solids, 26 to' 28e. Eggs The market is steady, straight new -laid being quoted at 21 to 23c per dozen, in case lots, and se- lects 23 to 24c. Beans -The market is quiet at $3.10 to $3.15 for prime, and $3.20 to $3.25 for hand-picked. Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress- ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 24 to 25c; and fowl, 14 to 15e. Cheese -18c for large, and at 181/ c for twins. Old cheese, 22 to.221,�c: • Potatoes -Ontario, 55 to 60c per bag, out of store, and 45 to 50c in car lots. New Brunswicks, car lots, 55 to 60c per bag. Baled Hay and Straw. Dealers are paying as follows for car lot deliveries on track here: - Straw is quoted at $7 a ton, in car lots delivered on track here. Hay -No. 1 hay is quoted at $16,50 to $18.50; No: 2 at $14.50 to $16.50. Business in Montreal. Montreal, July 13. -Corn, American No.. 2 yellow, 801,E to 81%c. Oats, Can- adian Western, No. 3,'',.1.%. to 62c; ex- tra No. 1" feed 61% to 62e; No. 2 local white, 60% to 61c; No. 3 local' white, 59% to 60c • No. 4 local white, 58% to 59c. Barley, Man. feed, 72c. Buckwheat, No. 2, 79 to 80c. Winnipeg Wheat. Winnipeg, July 13. Cash quotations: - Wheat -- No. 1 Northern, $1.30; No. 2. Northern, $1,27%; No. 3 Nor., $1,22. Oats -No. 2 C. W., 59%c; No. 3 C.W., 58%; ex- tra No. 1 feed, 56%c; No. 1 feed 551/%c; No. 2 .feed, 541/ c. Barley - No. 3, 69%c,• No. 4, 65c.; feed, 56c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., $1,55'; No. 2 C. W., $1.52. , Live Stock. Toronto, July,13.-Butchers' cattle, choice, $8.40 t6 $9.00; butchers' good, 8:10 to $8.35; butchers' medium, 7.35 to $7.90; butchers' common, 6.50 to $6.85; butchers' bulls, choice, 7.25 to $7.75; butchers' good bulls,, 6.35 to $7.00; butchers' rough bulls, 6.50 to $6.00 butchers' cows, choice, 7.25 to $7.50; butchers' good, $6.50 to 7.00; butchers' medium, $5.10 to 6.00;.. butchers' common, $4.50 to 4.75; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7.35; tockers, 700 to 1,000 lbs., $6.25 to 7.75; canners and cutters, $4.00 to 5.25; milkers, choice, each, $60.00 to 100.00; milkers, corn. and med., each, 35.00 to $50.00; springers, $50.00 to 85.00 light ewes, $6.00 to $6.50; light heavy, $4.00 to $5.00; fight bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, 6.00 to $7.50; spring lambs,- cwt., 510.50 to $12.50; calves,'$8.50 to 10.50; hogs, fed and watered, $9.35 to $9.40; hogs, off cars, $9.60 to $9.75. Montreal, July 13. -There were no choice steers offered, but the. best tock on the market sold at $8.00 to 8.25, and the lower grades from hat down to $6.00, while butchers co brought from $4.25 to $6.25 and ulls from $4.50 to $6.50 per cwt. The rade in small meats was fairly ac- ive, they being a good demand for 11 lines, and sales of old' sheep were nada at $4.00 to $5.50 per cwt, and la sold at $9.00 to $10.00 each. Calves were plentiful and met with a go sale at prices ranging from $2.00 o $11.00 each. There was to impor- ant change in the market for hogs rices being firm, with a good demand, an sales of selected lots were made $9.75 to $10.00 per cwt. weighed f ears. Ona of the newest types of British orpedo has an effective range of four niies,' and a force sufficient to blow hole as large as a haystock in the nde of a battleship. Motor wagons g used by the Allies the Continent have their hoods" ainted in a gigantic check designof olently contracted colors, thus eking them less easy to "spot" from roplanes, $ s t c b t t a n 1 g t t In a tet 0 t i a s. on pa vi m ae