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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-10-01, Page 7LAT T E 44, P. ILIE Twenty Thousand Gern-ian Prisoners and flatly GUMS are Captured in Two Day's Fighting .311:MeSiniCirAWNSUC.1.112.7.131431E.MOW011.11MACIIMAYX932•11 From the Sea to Verdun British, French and Belgian Forces Assume the Offensive -Gen. French's Army Takes Five Miles of Teuton Positions and Captures 2,600 Men -Gen. Joffre's Array Takes Fifteen Miles of Hun Entrenchments and Captures Over 17,000 Unwounded Troops - On Every Section of Front Eneyny Lines Have Been Deeply Pierced -Crown Prince's Army in Grave Peril -Ferocious Fighting Still Continues, With the Allies Gaining Ground. A despatch from London says: T general offensive movement so lo waited for on the western front w inaugurated by a series of allied vi tories on Saturday morning, the 25 inst., which were maintained and e tended the following day. The n result of the first two clays' operatio was over 20,000 unwounded Germa taken prisoner, of whom the Briti took a,600. French troops penetrated the Ger- znan lines in Champagne along a front of 15 miles and for a depth at some places of 2% miles. North of Arras the town and„ceme- tery of Souchez were taken by storm, and the last trench still held by the Germans to the east of the Labyrinth was cantured. British forces captured German trenches along a front of five miles south of La Bassee Canal and east of Vermelles. In some instances the British troops penetrated the German positions for a distance of 4,000 yards (two and a quarter miles), capturing the quarries north-east of Halluch, the village of Loos and the mining works around it, and Hill No. 70. In Flan- ders the British carried the German trenches over a front of 600 yards near Hooge. The Champagne Battle. Peasygorlifraffs.r...,,,,,..11¢oralroaplagaraflOarlIlaarililiJeLIMMAIN.weargagegoctsfogia•V he ,10.103.......colargftsacmaso.gesralmesso...noveraragan ng as c- th ns ns ns sh The details of the operations can be sketched out briefly by a glance at the statements issued by the War Office. After an artillery preparation, the magnitude of which- has never been equalled, not even in the Austro -Ger- man campaign in Galicia, the German trenches in Champagne from a point north of amaiij as far east as the Argonne forest were reduced to a mass of earth and tangled wire. Huge masses of French troops leaped for- ward to the assault. The German first line trenches had been obliterated, and the advancing Frenchdashed through as far as the third line trenches. Large numbers of the Germans who endeavored to hold their positions were cut off and captured. This ac- counts for the unusually large num- bers of prisoners taken, a number es- timated by the War Office as more than 16,000. The object of the fighting in the Champagne region is the railway hue running from Neufchatel through Gomm° and north of the Argonne district to the town of Varennes. The French are now onry about two miles from this railway, and once it is cap- tured a general retreat in this region will be absolutely necessary. This railway line runs along the rear of the entire German position north of Rheims to the Argonne forest. Its capture would also necessitate a re- treat on the part of the Crown Prince's men in the Argenne. Battle North of the Arras. The fighting north of Arras is a resumption of the French offensive which. took place in that district last spring. Gen. Joffre at that time at- tempted to cut off or capture the im- portant railway junction of Lens, but this result was not attained. The Germans then were driven back over a considerable front, but as now free- ly admitted; the lack of munitions re- sulted in the abandonment of this offensive movement before its conclu- sion. The French were able, however, to capture the strongly fortified posi- tion near Neuville known as the Labyrinth, and the outskirts of the village of Souchez, which, on account of its peculiar position, was extreme- ly important strategically. The British Victories. In conjunction with these successful attacks; the British, under Sir John THE VICTORY IN BRIEF Unwounded Germans ta- ken by British and French, 20,000. Five miles of enemy posi- tions taken by Gen. French, and line penetrated 4,000 yards -nearly two and one- half miles. Fifteen miles of trenches captured by Gen. Joffre, and line penetrated two and one-half miles. British now within twelve miles of Lille. French imperil army, of the German Crown Prince. Belgians made successful attack along the Yser Ca- . nal. French, took the offensive east of Vermelles and Grenay, south of the La Bassee canal, and succeeded in driving back the Germans on a front of more than five miles, penetrating the enemy's flnes at some places a distance of more than two and a quarter miles. The village of Loos was captured, while the British reach- ed the quarries in the western out- skirts of the village of Halluch, which lies a short distance to the north. The latter position changed hands several times, being finally retaken by the British. The German reserves were drawn into the fighting by the fierce- ness of the British attack, thus ma- terially aiding the French in their at- tack farther south in the Arras re- gion, This push gives the British posses- sion of the road from Lens to La Bas - see, which was used by the Germans for moving troops and supplies north and south, and threatens to outflank the German troops, which hold the town of Lens. Hill No. 70, one of the positions taken on the road, is less than a mile directly north of Lens, while Hulluch, which also fell into the hands of the British, is at the end of the road near o La Bassee. It is only twelve miles li frorn Halluch to Lille, the capital of fo Northern France. The Flanders Operations. 1of I th Another and not less important of- I 70 fensive by the British was launched in Flanders. This was a general attack I no on the German positions along the I a Ypres-Menin Road. South of the road th the British carried the German trenches over a front of six hundred yards. North of the road the British GENERAL FRENCH. ties on the western front. The de- spatch says: "War again in all its horror. There is heavy fighting in Flanders. The gunfire is trernendous. Wagons with all kinds of supplies thunder along the roads. "There is a fearful bringing back of wounded. The trams bring them to Roulers in crowds, and automobiles rush them to villages close behind the • lines. Cortemark has all its available buildings filled,and more are con- stantly arriving in wagons, lying on straw, which has been hastily impro- vised into beds. The soldiers speak of the scenes at the front with shud- ders." British Official Reports. An official report by Field Marshal General Sir . John French on the splendid victory of his soldiers over the Germans in Northern France and Belgium, made public Sunday after- noon by the Official Press Bureau, says: "Saturday morning we attacked the enemy south of La Bassee Canal, to the east of Grenay and Vermelles. We captured his trenches on a front f over five miles, penetrating his nes in some places for a distance of ur thousand Ards. "We captured the western outskirts Hulluch, the village of Loos and e mining works around it, and Hill "Other attacks were made to the rth of La Bassee Canal which drew strong reserve of the enemy toward e point of the line, where hard fight - g occurred throughout the day with rying success. At nightfall our oops north of the canal occupied eir positions of the morning. "We made another attack near oge on either side of the Menin ad. `An attack north of the road suc- ded in occupying Bellewaarde farm d ridge,but this subsequently was aken by the' enemy. `In the attacks to the south of the d we gained six hundred yards of enemy's trench and we consoli- ed the ground won. The reports of captures up to the sent include about 1,700 sarisOners eight guns, besides several ma- ne guns, the number of which ie yet known." Drew Enemy's Reserves. va ti captured the Belle Waarde ridge, an important position, but were com- pelled to give it up in the face of an unusually strong counter-attack. So far the British have taken 2,600 pri- soners and nine guns. At the same time British warships and French and Belgian batteries have heavily bombarded the German posi- tions on the coast between Zeebrugge and NieupOrt, The German losses are described as terrible. The roar of cannon can be heard ceaselessly at places well inside the Zeeland frontier, and an endless procession of German :wounded is pouring into towns and villages behind 10,01 the enemy's lines in Belgium. 1 Ho Ro cee an ret roa the dat pre and Great Events Everywhere. The Amsterdam Telegraaf's Roulers correspondent sends to his paper a despatch describing the latest activi- ow the Submarines Get fictims A despatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Copenhagen says the Danish steamer Frode, which was sunk in the North Sea September 5, was sent to the bottom by a German submarine after a German sailor who boarded the steamer at Buenos Ayres by means of alleged false papers of Norvvegian citizenship had been taken Of by the submarine. This testimony, the correspondent says, was adduced by the Danish mar. ine court at an enquiry into the sink- ing of the l'rode. When the steamer Was halted by the stabinarine, accords ing to the testimony, the sailor imine- diately declared himself a German and was transferred to the submarine. Later the Frode was torpedoed and two men were killed by the explosion. "There has been severe fighting to- day," reads the official communica- tion, issued on Sunday evening: "On the ground won by us yesteeday, the enemy making determined counter- attacks east and north-east of Loos. "The result of this fighting is that, except just north of Loos, we held all the ground gained yesterday, includ- ing the whole of Loos itself. "This evening we retook the quer- ride north-west of Hulluch, which we re -won and lost yesterday. We have in this fighting drawn the enemy's reserves, enabling the French on our right to make further progress. ."The number of prisoners collected after yesterday's fighting amounted to 2,600. Nine guns have been taken • GENERAL JOFFRE. RUSSIANS PUS THE ENEMY BACK Important Success Achieved by Ivan - off on. the Border of Galicia. .A despatch from London says: The counter -offensive movement 'annealed by the Russians under General Ivanoff against the Austro-Gernians in Vol- hynia and Galicia has assumed impor- tant proportions. General Ivanoff has been so successful that the Ger- man Field. Marshal, von Mackensen, who is fighting north of the Pripet marshes eastward of Brest -Litovsk, according to the German official re- port, has been compelled to withdraw his line somewhat, as it was in dan- ger of being encircled; while the Aus- trians have been driven back across the Styr, and have been compelled to surrender the fortress of Lutsk, in the Volhynian triangle of fortresses which they captured during the great drive. These successes, which extend to the Roumanian frontier, in the opin- ion of military observers, would serve to ease the situation on the Rouman- ian flank should Roumania join Rus- sia, and in addition might well pre- vent the Austro -Germans from send- ing an army, which it is estimated must consist of at least a half million men to make an attack • • on Serbia. In the centre the Russians are still falling back, while in the north Field ' Marshal von Hindenburg continues to make progress with his offensive i against Dvinsk, although at a much slower rate than formerly, as the Rus- sians are stiffening their resistance. and a considerable number of machine East of Vilna the Germans admit a guns. temporary check, during which they "Our aeroplanes to -day bombed and lost guns to the Russians. derailed a train near Loffres, east of Vilieka, the position seized by von Douai, and another, which was full of Hindenburg in his effort to encircle troops, at Rohult, near Saint Amend. the Russian army retreating from The Valenciennes station was also Vilna, again is in the hands of .the bombarded." Russians, having been recaptured by French Official Stories. ' a bayonet charge. The number of German guns captured, according to The following statement was issued the Russian official report, includes Saturday night by the French War Office: four howitzers as well as nine ammu- nition wagons. The captured guns On the Belgian coast our batteries were manned by the Russians and put have co-operated in the bombard- . to flight a German armored car. ment by the British fleet of the Ger- man positions at Westende and Mid- 4,000 Taken at Lutsk. delkerke. The British troops have attacked with success enemy positions to the west of Loos and Hulluch. Our trlops operating in conjunction with the British army delivered to the north of Astas an energetic attack which permitted them to gain a foot- hold at several points in the enemy's lines. "Between the Somme and the Aisne fighting by means of torpedoes and bombs has been going on in the sec- tor of Canny -sur -Matz. Our artillery exploded a munitions depot in a forti- fied house at Beuvraignes. "In Champagne after a new and very violent bombardment of the trenches, shelters, blockhouses and batteries of the enemy, our troops began an assault of the German lines between the Suippes and the Aisne. The first adverse positions have been occupied on almost the entire front attacked. Our progress continues. Artillery actions have occurred in the Woevre, in Lorraine, and in the Vos- ges in the environs of Chapelotte and of Schratzmannele." aa GERMANS DROP BOMBS ON SWISS TERRITORY A despatch from Paris says: Two waterway formerly belonged to the German aeroplanes flew over Swiss I Danish. sovereigns, who for many "The battle north of Lutsk was great success for the Russians, wh took 4,000 prisoners, and recapture the town of Lutsk," says Reuter' Petrograd correspondent. The correspondent of the Morning Post says in a despatch to his paper: "In quarters that know, and indeed, in rather wider circles, strong opti- nil= during the past couple of days The Leading Mark )3readstuffs. Toronto, Sept, 27. --Manitoba w -New crop, No. 1 Northern, $1 No, 2, $1, track lake ports, immed shipment. American corn -To, 2 yellow, track lake ports. • Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, track Toronto. Ontario oats -New crop, No white, 38 to 39c;' No. 3 white, 36 380, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -New No. 2 Win per car lot, 90 to 92c; wheat slig tough, 80 to 85c; sprouted or sou 70 to 85c, according to sample. Peas -No. 2, per car lot, nom according to freights outside. Barley -Good malting barley, 5 54c; feed barley, 43 to 45c, accord to freights outside. Buckwheat -Car lots, nominal, cording to freights outside. Rye -No. 2, nominal, '75 to 78c, cording to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, jute 'bags, $5.75.1second patents, ‚lute bags, $5,25; strong bakers', jute bags, $5.05, Toronto. Ontario flour -New Winter, 90 cent. patents, $3 .80, seaboard or ronto freights in bags, prompt sh ment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mo real freights --Bran per ton, $ shorts, per ton, $26; middlings, ton, $27; good feed flour, per b Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, 25 to 270; ferior, 22 to 23c; creamery prints, to 30c; do., solids, 27 to 283c. Eggs --No. 1, 25 to 26c per doz in case lots; extra at 26 to 27c. Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), to 11%c; do., retail, 12% to 1 Combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. $2.40; No, 2, $1.50 to $2. Poultry -Spring chickens, 20c; fo 16 to 17c; ducklings, 17 to 18c; t keys, 22 to 24c. Cheese -Large, 15 to 154e; twi 1514 to 15aaseas a • - - Potatoes -The market is quiet, wi car lots quoted at 600 per bag track. Provisions. Bacon, long clear, 14 to 14140 p Ib. in case lots. Hams -Mediu 18% to 19c; do., heavy, 141,f to 15 rolls, 15 to 16c; breakfast bacon, to 23c; backs, plain, 23 to 24c; bon less backs, 25 to 25%c. a Lard -Tubs, 1214 to 12%c; d o pails, 123 to 12%c; compound, tub d 9% to 10c; do., pails, 113ic. s has been spreading rapidly. . The offi cial bulletins of the progress of th war are not sufficient to account fo this feeling. The certain successfu withdrawal from Vilna has straight ened the. Russian front, and in every way strengthened their powers." 0 ENTRANCE TO BALTIC IS MINED BY GERMANS Wholesale Hay Market. Baled hay, new -No. 1, ton, $15 $16.50; No. 2, ton, $13 to $14; bal straw, ton, $6.50. Business in Montreal. - Montreal, Sept. 27. -Corn, America e No. 2 yellow, 87% to 88c. Oats, extr ✓ No. 1 feed, 43%,c; No, 2 local whit 1142%c; No. 3 local white, 41%c. Flou !Man. Spring wheat patents firsts A despatch from Amsterdam says: A Berlin despatch received here says the German Government has announc- ed that a new mine field will be laid south of the outlet to the Sound and that a pilot service will be established to enable neutral shipping to traverse the danger one. The Sound is the channel between the Danish Island of Seeland and Swe- den which connects the Baltic witlithe Cattegat and the North Sea. The territory between Couffenay and For- rentry and dropped a bomb near the Gras Dermont farm, injuring a child, according to newspaper despatches from Berne. labor in prison for terms ranging from fifteen months to ten years, ac- cording to the Echo Beige. years collected tolls from foreign ves- sels using it. In 1857, however, by a treaty with the commercial nations of Europe, the dues were abolished. .14 God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice neither can a kingdom rise without His aid.- 13enjamin Franklin. ITALIANS SETL.E MOUNTAIN Ma HAD ANC RESISTE Removal of Austrian Ciarrison From Monte Officially Admitted by Vienna A despatch from London says: loss of a mountain position on the Italian front is admitted in the offi- °lel statement sent out from Vienna by the Austrian War Office. The gar - en Monte Coston, the communi- cation says, evacuated the position as the•result of an attack by "forces ten tunes their number." The mountain for sorne months had presented an awkward wedge in the Italian front, which now has been straightened. Winter snows are already falling in the Alps, rendering still more perilous the work of the Italian and Austrian troops who are engaged in warfare in the mountainous region near the bor- $5.85; seconds, $5.35; strong bakers' $5.15; Winter patents, choice, $5,50 straight rollers, $4.80 to $5; do., bags $2.25 to $2.35. Rolled oats, barrels $5.25 to $5.85; do., bags, 90 lbs. $2.40 to $2.45. Bran, $25. Shorts, to 141.aac. Butter, choicest creamery, $28.50; Canada. short eat back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $27 to l$b2s7:5100.c; Lard,wuua 3pe r5i pails, s slaa, mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, $28 to 24c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 69c. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $13.75 to $14. Pork, heavy Canada short Eggs, fresh, 38 to 34c; selected, 30c; No. 1 stock, 27 to 280; No. 2 stock, 30 to 3014c; seconds, 28% to 29c. $30 to $34. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, 817 to $18. Cheese, finest west- erns, 15 to 1514c; finest easterns, 14% $27. Middlings, 822 to $33. Mouillie, 2uondl,bst.ieurecte,s,10371u; pure, tierces, to 12c; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 12% to 13c. U. S. Markets. Minneapolis, Sept. 27. -Wheat - No. 1 hard, $1.06%; No. 1 Northern, $1.0036 to $i.0536; No. 2 Northern, 973 to $1.021/a; September, 98%c; December, 93c. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 703 to 71%c. Oats -No. 3 white, 32% to 3814c. Flour and bran an - changed, Duluth, Sept. 27. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1 . 03 % '• No. 1 Northern, $1.02%; No. 2 Northern, $1.00%; Montana No. 2, $1.02%; September, $1,0011; December, 93%c. Linseed - Cash, $1 . 671/2 ; September, $1 . 67% ; December, $1 .6636. Coston Live Stock Markets, Toronto, Sept. 27. -The quotations were: -Best heavy steers, $7.75 to $8; butchers' cattle choice, $7.60 to . $7 .65; do. good, ri. to $7 . 40; clo., , , cle Lausanne describes the recent bat- $5 to $5.25; butchers' bulls, choice, $6.25 to $6.75; do.,good bulls, $6.75 tie for possession of the Austrian to $6; do., rough buls, $4.75 to $5.25; stronghold on top of Frcikofel moun- lcvitchers' cows, choice, 86.45 to $0.50; madeunder most difficult conditions, ,af3. tain 9,000 feet high. The attack was ,tugoa.,71;5.115. tii;,08u0i$ 61. 1,51; . (0,, duo,.t.,.$4n.5e0c17in2nta.0, The Austrians had prepared for an $5; feeders, good s. .2 to $7; ed the Austrians from 'the rear. To common and medium, each, 885 to. reach the summit they were compelled $50; Springers, $50 to $.95; light ewes '3 .$765° 5.to *855: assault from the east. Two battalions stockers, '(00 to 9,00,1b of Italian Alpine troops made their canners and cutter $ way around the mountain and ettack- milkers, choice, each, $65 to $100; do , The I der. A correspondent of the Gazette medium, 0.25 to $6.75; do. common to scale the precipitous side of the mountain, clinging to ropes placed in position by mountaineers. The cor- respondent states that the Italians captured 250 Austrians and a large quantity of munitions. $5 so $6; sheep, heavy, $4.25 to $4.75; do., bucks, $8,50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, cwt., $7.75 to $8.60; calves., medium to choice, $7 to $10.50; hogs, off cars, $9.65 to $10; do,, fed and watered, $9.50 "to $9.60; do., f.o.b., $9,15 to $9.25.