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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-02-04, Page 7E CUED BRITElf SUCCESS ll1 EGYPT OVER THE SINUS% FREEMEN E 4,50.0 Arabs Were Engaged and They Were Driven Back Three Miles ---Enemy Losses Nearly yoo A despatch from London says: Reu- ter's correspondent at Cairo, in a de- spatch dealing with Gen. Wallace's victory over the Senussl tribesmen in Western 'Egypt last Sunday, says: "Four thousand five hundred west- ern Ai'aias were engaged and driven back three miles. The British casual- ties were 26 men killed and 74 wound- ed. The enemy has about 150 men killed and 500 'wounded. "The Britishers marched out of Ma- truh Saturday to engage the enemy, who had been located by aviators. The weather was most unfavorable, the storms rendering the ground very difficult to traverse. The Britishers bivouacked Saturday night at Brishola and marched out the following morn- ing. The two columns encountered the enemy, who then extended his right and left wings, endeavoring to envelop the British column. The Bri- tish drove off the attack after two hours, 'forcing the enemy back three miles from leis camp at I'Iazalin, which the British occupied at noon, the enemy then retiring rapidly westward. The British bivouacked three miles west of Brishola, after burning the camp and stores." 2090E3 TROOPS WILL LEAVE Acco>;_ :..iodation Mas Been Provided in Ei:giand for Twenty Pattal ons From Canada A. despatch from Ottawa says: Major -Gen. Sir Sam Hughes announc- ed on Sunday night Shat twenty thous- and mote t:'oops from Canada have been naked for by the War Office and will be despatched from the Dominion within the next two or three months, An offer of more troops was made some time ngo, following the rapid progress made in the training centres of the Dominion, and the War Office has accepted the offer up to a total of twenty battalions, for which accom- modation is being provided in Eng- land. The battalions will be selected in the order of merit, those that have shown the most efficiency being the likely ones for first choice. They will be sent over as soon acs the. necessary transports have been provided. . SO S ' ASH x trora injuredin . 100 persons were killed � "There are many cases of scurvy Ek±4.L1u1A;SV IREFcHEs em the prisoners taken on this Thaw in (iginski Canal Plays Havoc With the Fortifica- tions. A despatch to the London Daily Telegraph on Friday from Petrograd says: "A thaw in the Oginski Canal dis- trict has caused the Rivers Share and Jascolda to flood the country, sweep- ing away trenches and fortifications which the Germans built when the ground was frozen hard, according to a telegram received here from Minsk, "All the railways and roads have been turned into swamps, and the German temporary field railways have been washed away. The Germans are working waist -deep in the water try- ing to extricate *heir guns, keeping up a heavy and protective rifle fire meanwhile. "It is said that the washing away of a bridge at Lida, government of Vilna, caused the wreck of a troop 44 "THESE HANDS CLEAN," ASSERTS THE KAISER The Kaiser Sends Characteristic Mes- . sage to -Bavarian King. A despatch from Berlin says: Re- plying to a message of birthday con- gratulations from King Ludwig of Bavaria, Emperor William sent the following telegram: "Receive my heartiest thanks for your friendly congratulations on my birthday. Trusting in God, in the will of our heroic troops to win the vic- tory, and the spirit of self-sacrifice of the entire German people, we can look forward with confidence to a victori- ous end of the bloodiest struggle of all times. All hostile assaults will break to pieces upon the power of a clean conscience, with which Germany, to- gether with her faithful allies, is wag- ing war for the existence of honor and liberty." GERMANS ADMI T OF TH a!illl E LOSS GREATEST VIATOR Was Killed in Recent Expedition, in Which Town of Nancy Was Bombed A despatch from Berlin says: The two German air squadrons which shelled Nancy on Monday, as reported by the German headquarters staff, says the Overseas News Agency, dropped over 150 bombs on the town and the fortress, The news agency odds: the "The German aviation corps laments in this connection the loss of Lieut. Boehme, who was several times cited in the headquarters report. Lieut. Boehme fell to the ground at Ensis- heim, in Alsace. The aviator was in- stantly killed." PROOF OF G' EEK KING'S DECEIT IN POSSESSION OF THE AWES A Rome Despatch Hints That Greek King May be Arrested and Conveyed to France A despatch from Rome says: The allies, who are practically preventing navigation of Greek shipping, and thus have stopped Austro -German Submarine warfare in the 1Vlediter- ' ranean, have secured convincing evi- ' dence to the effect that the Greek King has favored in every possible ', way the operation of Austrian and german submarines, which Were based at Corfu prior to the French occupa- E tion, and still are based at other Greek islands. Submarines are also said to be based on the seaside of Constantine's villa in Athens, where gasoline is seques- tared. All of this is part of the evi- dence in the allies' hands, showing the Hellenic ruler's complicity with the central powers. Undoubtedly this evi- dence will be sensationally divulged at the opportune moment, and it is bound to have the climax in the Greek situation looked for in the immediate future. The neutral diplomat who on Fri- day foreshadowed an involuntary trip by King Constantine to France added that he had reason to believe that the exile of the Montenegrin King and his family was not self -chosen, but had been decided upon by the allies be- cause of Austrian threats to have Xing Nicholas executed. Lieut. -General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake Lieutenant -General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, who hes just succeeded General Sir John Nixon as commander of the British forces at Mesopo- tamia, had a brilliant career in India and Egypt. He received a medal in the Afghan war of 1878-79, and also in the Wolseley Nile Expedition of 1885. Later he came to this coianiry'!to reorganize the Canadian militia. He left Canada in 1911 to assume command of a division in India, but since 1912 he has been Chief of the General Staff in India. PRESIDENT WILSON GIVES GERMANY ANOTHER CHANCE The New York World, ander an eight -column head on Friday morning prints the following deepatch from Washington:- "President ashington:"President Wilson has given Ger- many until Feb. 5 to state frankly to this Government whether it intends to disavow the attack upon the Lusitania with the resulting loss of 115 Ameri- can lives. "It is impossible to state what the President will do if the Kaiser fails to meet the demands within , the pre- scribed time. The World has been ad- vised that he has decided upon a course that will be final, but it is unknown to any except himself and Secretary Lansing, and neither will disclose the next move." GERMANY WANTS NO ENQUIRIES MADE Archbishop of Cr'ogne to Oppose In- vestigation of Atrocities. A despatch from Rome says: Car- dinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, continues to receive unusual attentions during his visit in Rome. He cele- brated mass on Wednesday at the tomb of St. Paul the Apostle. It is reported in Rome that Cardinal von Hartmann, Archbishop of Cologne,' will soon conte to Rome with the ob- ject of opposing the suggestion that a commission be appointed by the Pope to enquire into charges of atrocities in Belgium. NOT A WAR OF KINGS, BUT ONE OF NATIONS Prussian Tyrants Must be Brought to Their Knees, Says Rosebery. A despatch from London says: Lord Rosebery, speaking at Edinburgh on Saturday at a meeting of volunteers said: "This is not a war of kings, . Ministers or generals, but a war of nations, and -you embody the nation's resolution that so long as there is an enemy in the field not a. man or wo- man will spare any exertion to secure a triumphant victory. My only fear is that when success begins weak mind may cry for premature peace, whidi would mean a short peace and a worse! war to follow. We must bring the Prussian bloodthirsty tyrants to their knees." FIVE HUNDRED RUSSIANS PUT TO TORTURE Manner in Which Austrians Treat Prisoners -Russian Statement. A despatch from Petrograd says: The Russian army headquarters has, issued a long official statement con. cerning the attitude of the Austrians toward Russian prisoners. The state- ment tells the experience of six Ysol- deers wlto escaped from captivity in Austria. -It declares that they and five hundred of their comrades refused to dig trenches and hence were tortured, four of their number being shot on Jan. 14 at the village of Rossenzass, near Innsbruck, The executioners, the statement says, were cadets who vol- unteered for their task. WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL PASSES IN MANITOBA Tremendous Enthusiasts Marks Its Third Reading in Legislature. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Tremendous enthusiasm signalized the third reading of the woman suffrage bill in the Leg^slature on Thursday. The galleries were filled with women who have been prominent in the move- ment fee the political equality of the sexes, and they sang and cheered as the House unanimously passed the bill. Premier Norris had introduced the bill, but he is. in Chicago. The Third reading was moved by the Hon. T. IT. d'ohrison, Minister of Public. Works, who called attention to the fact that, besides giving the women the vote, the bill recognizes their right to sit in the Legislature. After the bill had been read a third time the women rose in the galleries and sang "0 Canada" with great heartiness. Then they sang "For They Are Jolly Good Fellows," refering to the members of the House. Not to be outdone, the members rose and re- plied in the like manner. ONS OF BOMBS • DR P PAP' 24 Killed, 27 Injured in a Zeppelin Raid on the French Metropolis. A: despatch from Paris says: A Zep- pelin dirigible passed :swiftly over a section of Paris on Saturday night, dropping about a dozen great bombs, which killed 24 persons and injured 27. The raid lasted about one minute and a half. The fog seriously inter- fered with the work of the Paris aerial guard. The fact that only one German ma- chine appeared leads to the belief that the Zeppelin was malting a recon- noitring trip, and the suposition is that the Germans have in view a simi- lar operations on a lege scale. Fifty-two persons were killed or wounded in the raid, according ` to the more complete reports available Nine women were killed and fourteen wounded; 14 men were killed and 15 wounded. Included among the killed was a baby of 18 months. TWo chil- dren were injured. Ten houses were damaged by the raiders. Three housee were the scenes of eight killed and in- jured each. In another house seven persons were killed or injured. One of the houses in which the most serious damage was done was a home in which the family had inet to cele- brate the return of a son, a Zouave, on leave of absence from the front. Around the table were the grand- father, 66 years old; his daughter, the latter's linsband, an aunt, two sons and a girl of 15 years. Seven mutilat- ed corpses were found in the wreck- age of the house. A CLASH IS POSSIBLE AT ANY' MOMENT A despatch from Christiania says: Extraordinary British and German naval activity . has been in evidence along the Norwegian coast during the past few days, according to the Sta- vanger correspondent of the Morgen- bladet, who adds that a clash is pos- sible at any time. A number of British warships and German submarines have been observed just outside terri- torial waters. PREVENTS DESTRUCTION OF .SHIPS FROM MINES New Invention Offered to the British Admiralty. A' despatch from Copenhagen says: An apparatus which, it is claimed, will prevent the destruction of ships by torpedoes or mines has been invented by Frantz Poulsen, engineer. The de- tails are withheld, but the principal feature is said to he a device for di- verting the pressure on ships' sides of the air masses formed by the ex- plosion. The invention has been offered to the British Admiralty, which has promised to test it at the earliest possible time. FOOD SHORTAGE IN ILE EXINDS TO GERRrAN AMY Soldiers Not in Firing !Line Have Meat Ration Only Once a Week, it is Reported A despatch from Paris says: A French business woman who was caught in Lille at the beginning of the war and who has just been repatriated among the refugees from there, on Thursday told how she found condi- tion s. The reason, she explained, why the Germans have not only been willing, but anxious; to send so many French people back from Lille is because the civilian population is little better than starving and would be actually starv- ing if it were not for the American aid they have received. '.I.he civilians, she continued, receive absolutely nothing :from the army for the very good reason that the German soldiers themselves in Lille are almost without food. According to her, six officers quartered in a house in Lille told her that the Germans would be unable to hold Lille and that sector of the front two months longer, as they could not feed the men., She says the German soldiers' uniforms are in rags and their shoes are dropping from their feet. They have a meat ration only once a week, while the horses have no hay or grain at all. Instead they are fed on chopped straw mixed with sugar, And the men, whenever they can, steal the sugar from the horses. IN PINSK MARSHES GER AN MOMENTS ISH Flood of Hidden Waters Wrecked Enemy's Works and Cut Off the Soldiers A Reuter despatch from Petrograd to London says that prisoners taken during the last few days by the Rus- sians confirm reports of the terrible condition of the German troops in the Pinsk marshes where a rapid thaw re- leased such vast quantities of subter- ranean water that all the enemy works 'have been Wrecked .as complete- ly as if they had been bombarded by heavy batteries. Not only have thousands of caissons, !quantities of munitions, and numerous !guns been engulfed, the despatch says, ;but various entrenched detachments of troops, and often large ones, have been cut off, and, having been unable to extricate themselves from the near- , shy labyrinth, they perished miser- ably The Leading Markets 143readstutrs. Toronto, Feb. 1. ---Manitoba wheat -New crop, No. i, Northern, $1.291/e ; No. 2 Northern, $1.27; Ngo. 3 Northern, $1, 25, in store Fort W.1I- liana. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 48c; No. 3 C.W., 46c; ,extra No. 1 feed, 4Will6c; iam, No. 1 feed, 45c, in store Fort American corn -No. 3 yellow, 82%c, track, Toronto. Canadian corn -Feed, 76c, track Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 44 to 45c; commercial oats, 43 to 440, ac- cording to freights outside, Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $1,13 to $1.15; wheat, slight- ly sprouted and tough, $1.09 to $1.13, according to sample; wheat, sprouted, smutty and tough, $1.01 to $1.06, according to sample; feed wheat, 90 to 95c. Peas -No. 2, nominal, per car lots, $1.80; peas, according to sample, $1.25 to $1.75. Barley -Malting barley, 62 to G50; feed barley, 57 to 60c, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Car lots, 78 to 79c, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye -No. 1 commercial; 92 to 93c; rye, rejected, 80 to 82c, according to sample. Manitoba flour -First patents,' en jute bags, $7.20; second patents, in 'jute bags, $6.70; strong bakers', in !jute bags, $6.50, Toronto. Ontario flour -Winter, $4.90 to $5.10, according to sample, seaboard or Toronto freights in bags, prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- ' real freights -Bran, per ton, $24; shorts, per ton, $25; middlings, per ton, $26; good feed flour, per bag, Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, 28 to 31c; in- ferior, 24 to 25c; creamery prints, 33 to 86c; solids, 33 to 35c, Eggs -Storage, 29 to 30c per doz.; selects, 32 to 33c; new -laid, 40e, case lots. Honey Prices, in 10 to 60 -ib. tins, 12 to 12%c; combs, No. 1, $3; No. 2, $2.40. Poultry -Spring chickens, 17 to 18c; fowls, 13 to 14c; ducks, 17 to 18e; geese, 15 to 19c; turkeys, 23 to 26c. Cheese --Large, 19e; twins, 191/c. Potatoes -Car lots of Ontarios quoted at $1.70 to $1.75, and New Brunswicks at $1.90 to $1.95 per bag, on track. Provisions. Bacon, long clear, 161/ to 16%e per, lb. in ease lots. Hams -Medium, 17% to 18%,c; do., heavy, 143 to 15c; rolls, 16 to 16%c; breakfast ba- con, 21 to 23c;.backs, plain, 24 to 250; boneless backs, 27c. Lard -The market is unchanged; pure lard, 14 to 14%c; compound, 12 to 121fec. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Feb. 1. -Corn --American No. 2 yellow, 85 to 86c. Oats -Can- adian Western, No. 2,56c; No. 3, 55c; No. 2 local white, 51%c; No. 3 local white, 50%c; No. 4 Iocal white, 49%c. Barley -Manitoba feed, 62 ' to 63c; malting, 70 to 72c. Buckwheat, No. 2, 80 to 82c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.30; seconds, $6.80; strong bakers', $6.60; Winter patents, choice, $6.50; straight rollers, $5.80 to $5.90; do., bags, $2.75 to $2.85. Rolled oats- Bbls., $5.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.50. Bran, $24. Shorts, $26. Middlings, $28 to $30. Mouillie, $31 to $33. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20 to $20.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 18'4 to 1811zc; finest easterns, 18 to 184e. Butter -Choicest creamery, 34 to 35c; seconds, 32% to 33r. Eggs - Fresh, 40c; selected, 83e; No. 1 stock, 30c; No. 2 stock, 28c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.85 to $1.90. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Feb. 1. -Cash quotations -Wheat---No. 1 Northern, $1.29%; No. 2 Northern, $1.26%; No. 3 North- ern, $1.24%; No. 4, $1.20%; No. 5, $1.13%; No. 6, $1.07%; feed, $1.01%. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 47sc; No. 3 C.W. 44%c; extra No. 1 feed, 44%e; No. 1 feed, 43%e; No. 2 feed, 42%c. Barley -No. 3, 69ac; No, 4, GSc; feed, 55c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., $2.14%; No. 2 C.W., $2.11%. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Feb. 1 -Handy choice steers, $7r .49 to $7.85; butchers', p`ood„ $3.85 to $7.40; do.,. medium, $0.40 to $6.85; do., common, $5.75 to $6.40; heifers, choice, $7.10 to $7.50; do., good, $6.60 to $7; do., medium, $5.75 to $G.60; butchers' cows, choice, $6 to $6.60; do., good, $5.60 to $6; do., medium, $5.10 to $5.60; do., bologna, $4 to $4.75; feed- ers, 900 to 1,100 lbs., $6 to $6.75; do., bulls, $5 to $5.25; stockers, choice, 750 to 900 pounds, $6 to $6.50; do., medium, 650 to 760 lbs., $5.50 to $6; do., light, $4.75 to $5.50; cutters, $4 to $4.75; canners, $3 to $3.75; milkers, choice, each, $80 to $100; do., medium, $55 to $80; Springers, $60 to $100; calves, veal, good, $9 to $10.75; do., medium, $6 to $9; do., coutmon, $5.50 to $6 do,, grass, $4,50 to $5.50; $1 Spring lamas, cwt., 0.50 to $12; cull lambs, $8 to $8.50; yearling sheep, $8.50 to $9.50; sheep, ewes, light, $7 to $8.25; do., heavy and bucks, $6 to $7; do., culls, $3 to $4.50; bogs, fed and watered, $9.75 to $9.80; do., light and heavy, $9.25 to $9.85; do., f.o.b., country points, $9.40 to $9.45; sows, fed and water- ed) $7.25 to $9.30.