HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-04-14, Page 31E1 BRITISH VICTORY
IN TIE°`RS CAMPARi
One Division Operates on Each Bank of River, and
DDuring Day Five Lines of Trenches Were Taken.
A despatel1 from London says: The
folinwiog; official statement was issued
on Thursday: -
"General Lake reports that the Ti -
grin corpri under the command of
Lieut:•General Sir George F. Gor-
riage, whc succeeded General Aylmer,
attacked the enemy's entrenched posis
tion at'11'mm-el-Heiina on. Wednesday.
Our trenches had been pushed forward
by means of saps to within 100 yards
of the enemy's po.:ibion, end the lead-
ing ebatialions of the 13th Division
the n rushed the enemy's first and
some]. lines in quick succession.
"The third line was captured. by 6
o'clock • in: the morning under the
support of artillery and machine gun
f re. The 13th Division continued
their victorious advance, and by 7
Gan. had driven the enemy out of his
fourth and fifth lines.
"Aeroplan.e reconnaissances then re-
ported that the enemy • was strongly
reinforcing hie entrenchments ab Fe-
lahie and Sannayyat, positions 6,000
and 12,000 yards; •respectively, from I
the front trenches at Umm-el-Heun.a.
As those positions could only be ap-
proached over very open ground, Gen-
eral Gorringe ordered a further at-
tack deferred until evening.
"In the meantime, on the right
bank, the 3rd Division, under General
Keary, captured the enemy's trenches
opposite the Felahie position. Dur-
ing the afternoon the enemy on this
bank made a strong counter-attack
with infantry and cavalry, supported
by guns. This counter-attack was
successfully repulsed, and bhe position
won was consolidated."
REVENUE INCREASE GIVE UP SALIENT
FORTY MILLIONS' : OF BETH1NCOURT
Total for She Fiscal Year Ending
kfarch 31st Was
$1.71,248,668:
A despatch from Ottawa says: An
ine•rease in revenue of $39,550,000 for
the fiscal year ending March 31st is
shown by ate financial statement for
the month of March and the twelve
months ending then, which has just
been •publiAed. The total revenue
iiae $171,`L43,668; expenditures show -
eel a decrease, those on consolidated
ftrn:i arcolml. being $9,500,000 less and
cat.it•tl expenditures, about $3,500,000
The year's revenue was not .only
nearly foster millions more than the
l•eviom• twelve months, but it was
over -a million dollars more than the
e. l ligate of the Finance Minister in
his budget speech over a month ago:
The increase in revenue was contri-
buted to by $22,480,000 of an advance
in f nston:s receipts; lletlefii000 in
excise e revenue, and $5,576,000 in pest-
•affice receipts. For March the Cus-
toms revenue totalled $9,978,138, or
ov»r two millions more than the same
month last year, when it was $7;
Wal,479.
War expenditure, are, of course,
increasing, and totalled $24,032,296
last month and $134,650,000 for the
fiscal year es far as has been estim-
ated. During the year there has been
an increase of about $147,000,000 in
the net debt.
ALLIES MASTERS
IN MR FIGHTING
40 German Planes Brought Down
During Month of March.
A despatch from London says :-
French and British aviators brought
down 42' German planes on the west
front during March, it was stated on
Thursday hi reply to the official Ger-
man claim issued Wednesday that only
14 German aeroplanes were lost.
French, by Evacuating the Position,
Establish Continuous
Line.
A despatch from. Paris says: The
village of Bethincoart forming the
apex of the salient on the western
bank of the Meuse, against which the
Germans have been pounding for days
with heavy artillery and with fre-
quent infantry attacks, was evacuat-
ed by the French on Saturday night,
and Sunday the new line withstood the
most furious assaults which have been
made by the Crown Prince's army in
many days. As now established, the
French line in this sector runs from
the A.vocourt redoubt along the wood-
ed slopes to the west of Hill 304, fol-
lows the Forges creek, to the north-
east of Haucourt, and joins the posi-
tions already -held to the south of the
crossing of the Bethincourt-Esnes and
Bethincourt-Chattancourt roads.
MARCONI INVENTION
FOR USE OF ALLIES.
Wizard of Wireless Has Perfected
Improvements.
A despatch from Paris says: Gugli-
eimo Marconi has invented a special
apparatus based on a new principle
which is destined to make a sensation-
al change in the operation of aero-
planes and dirigibles. This announce-
ment has just been made, according to
a Rome despatch to the Journal des
Debats. Marconi has at the same
time carried on important wireless
telegraphy researches with great suc-
cess. His inventions will be imme-
diately employed by the Italian army,
after which they will be placed at the
disposition of Italy's allies.
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GERMANY
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GERMANY TO SEIZE ALL
COCOA, TEA. AND COFFEE.
A despatch from Copenhagen says:
The Cologne Gazette, a copy of which
has been received here, says it ex-
pects the German government to ap-
ply the ticket system and seize all
stocks of cocoa, tea and coffee.
GERM FORCE SURROUNDED
AND OBLIGED TO SURRENDER
erneal Smuts Wins An Important Success for the
British in
East Africa.
A despatch :from London says: An -;afternoon of Monday, mounted troops,
other success for the British in East; under Gen. Vanderventer, successfully
Africa is reported by Lieut. -General
Jan G. Smuts, commander of the Brit -1
ish cv.;u:dition operating against the!
Germans in the following despatch:
I surprised a German force with ma-
chine guns stabioned in a mountain
stronghold in the Arusha region. This
force was surrounded during the
course of Tuesday and surrendered
"As tho result of a movement on the
Thursday morning.
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THE WEEK'S DEVELOPMENTS iN THE WAR.
The- Germans still continue to hammer away at the defences of Verdun, but their progress is slow. Indeed
it would seem from the tactics adopted by General ,,Joffre •that some of the so-called successes obtained by the
Germans are prepared for them by the French in order to lead then in well -set traps. On Friday night of last
week the Germans began a violent attack on the village of Vaux. There was a severe fight in which the enemy
lost heavily, and when the French gave up the position there was only a ruined village.
On Monday the French opened an attack on Vaux and recaptured it and on Tuesday the Germans started a
heavy artillery bombardment of the position. This was kept up for several hours, after which the German
infantry came up to the assault. The French had their machine guns in position and their infantry well en-
trenched and kept up a constant fire on the advancing Germans. With great persistence these stuck to their
task and were mowed down by the heavy fire. Finally they withdrew from the attack.
But it would seem that the Germans prefer now to make separate attacks on certain positions at one time
in place of a general attack on all the defences of the city. At the time they were being driven back from
their second advance against) Vaux on the east side of the Meuse they made an attack on the French position
at Haucourt between Malancourt and Bethincourt. In this they were repulsed. Many other small attacks
have been carried on through the week.
General Si Percy Lake sent an important despatch to London on Wednesday stating than early that morn-
ing he had attacked and captured a strongly fortified position of the Turks at Umm-el-Henna below Kut -el -
Amara. This news gives hope that the forces of General Townshend which have been shut up in Kut -el -Amara
since last December will soon be relieved, as the captured position is the last really strong one between Sir
Percy Lake's forces and the beleaguered troops.
The Germans again Made several .air -raids over the British Isles during the week -end, and some consider-
able damage was done to human life, but no military damage was obtained. One of the Zeppelins was brought
down in the Thames and her crew captured.
Holland's action in rapidly mobilizing her army at the time she was having a dispute with Germany has
caused the Kaiser to withdraw ;some of his troops from other fields and station them along the Dutch border.
The frontier of Holland'and'Belgium also is being made ready for any attack on that part.
Ib would seem that the Germans are learning a lesson from their heavy losses around Verdun, for they
have somewhat changed their 'style of infantry attack. In the fighting on Tuesday last they advanced against
the French, not in serried ranks, bub in extended formation, making short bounds forward in comparatively
small bodies as occasion offered. The French, however, have of late been attaining a superiority of fire, and
the Germans got to a position in the attack on Chauffour Wood near Douamont, within fifty yards of the
French. An assault was out of the question. Retirement was equally out of the question, and the advanced
lines of Germans had to lie on the surface of'the ground, or in whatever trenches they could clig while lying, but
all the time under an effective fire of musketry and shrapnel.
"GERMAN
HUMANITY $10,000,000 THESPATRTOTC FUND.
LEAGUE" AROUSED Sufficient to Last Till After 1916 it is
Estimated.
Strong Manifesto Denouncing the
"Brutal Militarism of
Prussia."
A despatch from Rotterdam says:
In a counterblast to the German Chan-
cellor's Reichstag speech, the so-call-
ed "German Humanity League" on
Friday issued a manifesto urging all
Germans in neutral States to strive to
the uttermost to deliver Germany
from the "savage and brutal militar-
ism of Prussia." The manifesto
charges that the German Government
has broken "every rule of civilized
communities, diplomatic honesty and
international obligations," and is re-
sponsible "for the colossal carnage of
domestic grief, 'financial ruin and eco-
nomic misery which, like a nightmare
from hell, distracts the German peo-
ple."
LOSSES 200,000
Germans Have Sacrificed Greatest
Force in Whole Range of
Warfare.
A despatch from Paris says: The
BLOCKADE
RUNNER CAUGHT German losses before Verdun up to
A despatch from Ottawa says:
More than $10,000,000 has been sub-
scribed by the people of Canada to
the Patriotic Fund. This sum is esti-
mated bo last till the end of the first
few months in 1917. The great num-
ber of enlistments during the past
few months has added a greater bur-
den to the fund and now each month
is being dispensed a sum far in ex-
cess of that anticipated a year ago.
In February, 1916, the total paid to
dependents was in the neighborhood
of $525,000, which is the largest
months disbursement since the war
began. For the first time it exceeded
the half -million mark. The amount
requisitioned for March is $600,000.
GOVERNMENT STARTS
THRIFT CAMPAIGN
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Government's thrift and production
campaign has been inaugurated in a
notice issued on Friday night urging
• increased production in all lines. The
prediction is made that there will be.
no absolute and enduring congestion,
and that after the war there will be
demands not for grain only, but for all
other products. Ample ocean tonnage
will be available, and European come -
tries will loblc to Canada first. of neutrals on the seas.
PEOPLE MURDERED
NEAR SASKATOON
Farm Animals Also Shot Down and
Buildings Set on
The Leading r
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, April 11 Manitoba `Wheat
-No. 1 Northern, $116%; No. 2, do.,
$1.141/2; No. 8, do., $1,11%, in store,
Fort William.,
Manitoba oats -No, 2 C.W., 48c.
No, 3, do., 41e.; extra No. 1 feed, 41e.;
No. 1 feed, 40c, in store; Fort William.
American corn•- No, 3 yellow, 88%c,
track, Toronto.
Canadian corn --Feed, 68 to 700.
on track, Toronto.
Ontario oats -No. 8 white, 44 to
45c; commercial, 43 to 44c, according
to freights outside,
Ontario wheat --No. 2 winter, per
car lot, $1.02 to $1.04; No. 1 coin
mercial, 99e. to $1.01; No. 2, do., 97 to
99e; No. 3, do., 94 to 95c; feed wheat,
86 to 88c, according to freights out-
side.
Peas -No. 2, $1.50; according to
sample, $1 to $1.80, according to
freights outside.
Barley -Malting, 02 to 63c; feed,
59 to 62; according to freights out-
side.
Buckwheat -69 to 70c, according to
freights outside.
Rye -No. 1 commercial, 88 to 89c;
rejected, according to sample, 84 to
86; according to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents, in
jute bags, $6.50; second patents, in
jute bags, $6; strong bakers' in jute
bags, $5.80, Toronto.
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, $4.15 to $4.25, track, Toronto;
$4.25 to $4.35, bulk seaboard, prompt
shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights -Bran, per ton, $25;
shorts, per ton, $26; middlings, per
ton, $27; good feed flour, per bag,
$1.60 to $1.70.
Country Produce.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 29 to
32c; inferior'37c;
25 to 26c; creamery
prints, 35 to 3 7 c; solids, 33 to 34e.
Eggs -New -laid, 23 to 24c; do., in
cartons, 24 to 25c.
Honey -Prices in 10 to 60-1b. tins,
13 to 14c. Combs -No. 1, $2.75 to $3;
No. 2, $2.25 to $2.40.
Beans -$4 to $4.40, the latter for
hand-picked.
Poultry -Chickens, 21 to 22c; fowls,
18 to 19c; ducks, 20 to 22c; geese, 18
to 20c; turkeys, 25c.
Cheese -Large, 19c; twins, 191/ec.
Maple syrup -$1.10 per 81/2 -gallon
tin.
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario, $1.80
to $1.85, and New Brunswicks at: $1.90
to $1.95 per bag, on track.
Provisions.
Bacon, long clear, 1G3 to 17c per
lb., in case lots. Hams -Medium, 21
to 22c; clo., heavy, 17 to 20c; rolls,
173 to 18c; breakfast bacon, 21 to
24c; backs, plain, 25 to 26c; boneless
backs, 28 to 29c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 151/4 to
15%c, and pails, 15% to 1.66c; com-
pound, 13% to 141,ec.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, April 11. -Corn -Ameri-
can No. 2 yellow, 85 to 86c. Oats -
Canadian Western, No. 2, 52?�a to
53c; No. 3, 501,1 to 51c; extra No. 1
feed, 50% to 51c.; No. 2 local white,
50c; No. 3 local white, 49c; No. 4
Fire. local white, 43c. Barley -Manitoba
feed, 68 to 71c; malting, 75 to 77c.
A despatch from Saskatoon, Sask.,
Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat -
says: A whole family of six was sip_ eats, firsts, $6.60; seconds, $6.10;.
ed out in the Wakaw district on Wed -
choice,
bakers', $5.90; Winter patents,
nesday night, when Prokop Manchure, choice, $6.00; straight rollers, $:a90 to
his wife, a brother-in-law and three $5.40; do., bags, $2.45 to $�;yt}.
children were murdered the house ed oats-Bbls, $5.00 to $5,10; .;• . i,.,;s
burned over their dying bodies, and
90 lbs, $2.35 to $2.40. Br : 34.
their animals shot down and left to Shorts, $26. Middlings, $28, t e •!,.50.
perish in the burning buildings. The Mouillie, $30 to $35. Hay -No. '., per
crime was discovered when a neighbor
walking out of his house on Thursday
morning, saw the still -smoking ruins
of the Manchure homestead. The
crime was evidently committed by a
ton, car lots, $20,00 to $20.50. Cheese
-Finest westerns, 181,2 to 18%e; fin-
est easterns, 18 to 181,a,c. Butter-
Choieest creamery, 33 to 84e; seconds,
30 to 311c. Eggs -Fresh, 26 to 27c.
Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.75 to
madman, in whose hands the rifle $1,80,
found in the ruins had evidently been
used with terrible effect. No trace of
the murderer has been discovered,
SPAIN DEMANDS EXPLANATION
FROM GERMANY.
A despatch from Madrid says
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, April 11. -Choice heavy
steers, $8.35 to $8.75; hutehers' cat-
tle, choice, $8.00 to $8.25; clo•, good,
$7.75 to $7.85; do., medium, $7.25 to
$7.60; do., common, $6.60 to $6.75;
butchers' bulls, choice, $7.25 to $7.50;
The Spanish Cabinet has decided to r do., good bulls, $6.85 to $7,00; do.,
instruct the Ambassador at Berlin to ! rough bulls, $4.65 to $5.15; butchers'
request from the German
Government cotivG, choice, $6."r5 to $7.25; do., good,
an explanation of the sinking of the $6.25 to $fi.50; do., medium, $5.85 to
Spanish steamer Vigo and a defireeion
of its policy with regard to the rights stockers, 700 to 850 lbs., $6.60 to
$7.2"a; Choice feeders, dehornec' 950 to,
1,000 lbs., $7.15 to $7.50; Canners and
cutters, $3.751 to $4.50; milkers, choice,
.i each, $75.00 to $100.00; do., con and
med., each, $40,00 to $60.00; springers,'
$6.10; do., common, $5.25 to $5.75;
the present time have readied the ,(B ( TT
v CARGO
w � huge total of 200,000 men,one of the T aJ
�t f1 CR O 'RAW RUBBER greatest battle losses in the whale CRATER
range of warfare, according to esti-
mates made public here bo -day from a
'corn Rf"Iizil, With izn Tons on Board, Seized semi-official source -"the result of
careful enquiry made in the highest
Off the Orkney lsiihcl. quarters, in which the figures have
been rigorously checked and verified."
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MONOPOLY 1N BREAD
IN NEW SOUTH WALES,
despatch' from Sydney, , . N.S, .,
A l y y,
say.,: The Legislature has passed a
bill which established a monopoly in
bread -ma king and the Gelling o1 r"brad
in ev South Wales, ,
A despatch .;rem i,ondan's�tys: The
Tirrtriliiaxt ,f'teaxner Salcianha de Gama,
ivluch trailed =from Para, Brazil, Feb.
+i, for Now,. York with a c'ar•lro of 120
tone of'raw rubber, has been seised
at'f the 'Orkney Islands.. by a linitish
patrol bear,. 'The ship and her cargo
hurl+ leisen .editeed in the prize cour:ti.
This it believed to be a deliberate
case of attempted blockade running,
the oti'iertil& here contending that a
-,steaniel• frcrnk Para for New Yor
could never have gcotten so far off
her course. This is the first seizure
madt by they Admiralty of a complete
cargo of rubber.
IN FURIOUS S° °a JILa1,r ArfACK 5.9,50 slusop0 heuvy,li$600sto8$r.50
yearlings, $10.50 to 12.00; bucks and
culls, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, choice,
British Bold Nearly Ail the Ground' Gained From $11.00 to $13.00; spring lambs, $7.0
the Germans on March 27.to 10.50; calves; good to choice, $9.00
to pun; do,, medium, $7.25 to $8.50;
hogs, fed and watered, :$10.15; do.,
A despatch from London says: The considerable portion of the ground 'weighed off ears, $11..40 to $1'1.50; do,
the Germans rained March 27 includin • three out f.o.b., $`t0.65.
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