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Zurich Herald, 1916-06-16, Page 3RUSSIANS BLOW BRE AcH IN THE AUSTRIAN F39NT All Five of the Teuton Armies on the Eve of a General Retreat, It is Reported.. A despatch from London says: Special despatches from Petrograd express the belief that the Russian successes against the Austrians are far more important than appears from the official announcements. The Daily Telegraph's correspon- dent ventures the assertion on the au- thority of a prominent Russian expert that "all five Austrian armies are on the eve of a general retreat, and that Lemberg is in great strategic danger." On the same authority it is asserted that "a strategic breach 100 miles wide has been blown in the Austrian front, involving the armies of General Count von Bothmer and General von Boehm-Ermolli, and part of that of Archduke Joseph Ferdinand. According to other despatches, the Russian success is largely due to the unprecedented use of artillery, sur- passing in intensity any previous ef- forts on either side on the east front. The retreat of many Austrian trench detachments was completely cut off by a curtain of shrapnel through which it was impossible for any liv t ing thing to pass, and the Austrians• were, thus compelled to surrender en masse. The Times estimates the Austrian losses at 200,000. The Volhynian fortress of Lutsk, 30 miles from the Galician frontier, fell into Russian hands last Tuesday, the' first important, capture by the Czar's forces since the great Spring drive on the 250 -mile front from the Pripet to the Roumanian border -be- gan. The fall of Lutsk was announced by the Russian War Office on Thursday night. 'New Invasion From North. The capture of Lutsk threatens the Austrians with a new invasion of Ga- in massed formation, with an unpre- cedented outpour of artillery, they pressed the A.ustro-Hungarian troops defending the. "doors of the Balm - wine" to the River Strypa, taking strong positions on the Tribuchowice- Jaslowice front. Both places lie a few miles from one another west of the Stripa and south of the important city of auczaz. This success, if fol- lowed up by further progress, men- aces the Bukowina crown land with invasion and the whole Austro-Hun- garian army defending it -estimated at from 250,000 to 300,000 -with be- ing cub off. The Russian official report asserts that the total number of prisoners taken in the new offensive has been brought up to 54,000. A despatch from London says: The Russian invasion of Austria grows apace. Town after town has fallen, according to the Petrograd official re- ports, and the advantage of the Czar's troops has developed into a continu- ous pursuit of those of Francis Joseph. The Volhynia fortress of Dubno has been captured by •the ,Russians, and the Governor of the great fortress of Lemberg has been ordered by the Austro-Hungarian authorities to pre- pare to leave the city. The Austrians, on Vienna's admis- sion, have been driven across the Strypa; the Russians have crossed the Styr above Lutsk, and in a strong development along the Dneister have taken Buczacz and another army of prisoners has been captured. Buczacz is a most important railway town on the lower Strypa, and is regarded as the strategical gateway to Bukowina. In an effort to dam the Russian flood, 45,000 Austrians have been withdrawn from the Italian front. Bela from the north. Vienna de- It is said that the evacuation of Czer- spatches express the fear that the nowitz has been ordered, and that abandonment of Dubno, the apex of there is a panicky feeling in Vienna, the Volhynian fortress triangle, will become automatically necessary, and the fall of that stronghold would com- pel. the Austro -Hungarians to retire within the Galician border, The Russians, according to Petro- Lutsk fell on Thursday, and Roveno grad, scored another notable success never really passed into . Russian in the last 24 hours. Pushing forward hands. which is crowded with fleeing Gadi- cians. The capture of Dubno means the repassing into Russian hands of the famous Volhynian triangle of forts. TEUTONS ADMI of attaches of the Admiralty. Fur- ther admissions confirming the Brit - i RE SEA LOSS ish reports are looked for. :Battle Cruiser •Lutzow and the Rostock Destroyed -New Reports on Fight. A despatch from London says: There was much satisfaction express- ed at the Admiralty on Thursday over the publication of the admission by the German Naval Department of the loss of the battle cruiser Lutzow of 26,000 tons and the armored cruiser Rostock of 4;900 tons. British reports of the naval battle off Skagerrack had accounted for these German ships among ethers, which the'Berlin state- ments had• steadfastly omitted. The official admission that the loss of these vessels was withheld "for mili- tary reasons" impugns the veracity of the German claim as to the results of the battle generally, in the opinion VETO CHAS. E. HUGHES CHOSEN. The Justice Accepts Unanimops Nom- ination of Republicans. Chicago, June 11. -Charles E. Hughes has the unanimous nomination of the Republicans, has resigned from the Supreme Court and entered the campaign with a bang, and Theodore Roosevelt has declined, for the present at least, the whirlwind nomination tendered by the Progressives at vir- tually the same instant Hughes was named at the Coliseum. Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice -President from 1904 to 1908, was nominated for the Vice - Presidency again. These .extraordin- ary developments carne rapidly on Saturday, and seem to solve the cam- paign difficulties of the Republican hosts. Y BY RUSSIANS WET UT A PARALLEL Matters Begin to Look Serious for the Whole Enemy Line in Russia. A despatch from London says: "The -victory 'won by the Russians is with- out a parallel in military history," says a Petrograd despatch to Reu- ter's Telegram Company. "The Rus- sians now occupy the whole triangu- lar fortified positions of Kolki, Lutsk and Olyka. "Military writers dwell on the great strategic ilnportan.ce of this tri- angle, which • includes some of the best Austrian communication lines, and connects the centre between Poliessie, Volhynia and .Poland and the roads to Galicia and Bukowina. "The Russians fought their way to Lulrlc, a distance of twenty-five Miles, in three days, through forests and marsh lands and over battered de- fences, the invincibility of which the Austro -Germans had been boasting throughout the; winter and spring. Thera is still no response to the Rue - Diem 'ihrust, and military writers de- clare that matters begin to look seri- ous for the whole enemy line in Rus- sia. 4t Col, Shumsky, the military critic of The Bourse Gazette, declares the junc- tion between the Austrians and Ger- mans has been cut clean through, thus exposing the right flank of the Ger- mans and the left flank of the Aus- trians and snaking them almost de- fenceless to further Russian attacks." Another despatch from Petrograd says: The Lutsk victory changes the whole position on the Russian south- western front. Hardly less important is. the Russian success in Galicia, where the Austrian positons between Trybuchovce and Jaslovitz, south of Buczacz, have been forced and the Austrians driven beyond the Strypa. In Bukowina again the Austrians were driven back south of Okna, and the head of the railway leading to Czerno- vitz is in Russian hands. The Late Lord Kitchener entering St. Paul's Cathedral at the recent celebration of "Anzac" Day, in honor of the Australian Colonial troops. GERMANS CARRY BIG `, AR VOTE Two Socialists Oppose New Credit of $3,000,000,000 A despatch from Berlin says :- The Budget was passed by the Reich- stag onWednesday, the only opposi- tion being the Socialist votes. There was almost complete unanimity in providing the new war credit of $3,- 000,000,000, only two Socialists cast- ing their ballots against it. Dr. Helf- ferich, Minister of Finance, told the Reichstag that the war expenditures from January to May,'1916, were ap- proximately $500,000,000 a month. This, he- declared, was extraordinarly small in view of the enormous quan- tity of munitions that has been pro- vided to carry out the Verdun offen- sive. The opposition of the Socialists when the vote was taken on the Bud- get had no bearing upon the war. The Socialists have been agitatintg for years for a new system of taxation to relieve the workingman. They have, without exception, voted against the Budget on these grounds. The new war credit will not be drawn upon, it is estimated, until Sep- tember. Ample funds to carry on the operations until then are on hand 'from the last loan in February, when more than $2,500,000,000 was obtained. PARCELS FOR CANADIANS IN THE BRITISH SERVICE. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Postoffice Department has received information that gifts sent from Can- ada to soldiers from Canada serving in British regiments stationed in Great Britain, and to naval reservists and others from Canada serving in the navy, are exempt from customs duty, provided they are addressed in care of the Canadian War Contingent Association, Army Postoffice, London England. Arrangements have been made for this association to act as a central authority for the distribution of such parcels from Canada, and free, customs entry is restricted to such parcels as are sent through the asso- ciation. KITC COCKSURE Oe OF VERDUN. Germany Claims She Will Occupy Town on Date Arranged. A despatch from Berlin says: The German General Staff figured that Verdun would fall in five months. German military experts now ex- press the view that all expectations will be even surpassed. In quarters, where facts, not feelings, acts, not assertions, count, it is confidently pre - dieted that Verdun wilt be in the hands of the Germans in the first week of July. RUSS SINK. THIRTEEN BIG TURK SHIPS. A despatch from Odessa says: Rus- sian torpedo-boat destroyers have sunk thirteen, large Turkish ships laden with merchandi. a, off the. Ana- tolian eoast. ENE. LEFT HA BUT T Survivors To 'ENEMY LOSSES 6,800 'OAT UPSET IN THE NAVAL FIGHT xhanstedl ' '0 711 Anything Concerning the Disaster. A despatch from London ' says: Various short reports regarding the loss of Lord Kitchener and his staff on the cruiser .Hampshire Conti to emanate from. •northern ports. One states that Lord Kitchener and his staff embarked in a small boat and cleared the ship, but that the boat was swamped in the heavy seas. The disaster has now been located ab two miles from shore, between Marwick Head and the Brough of Birsay, on the north-west coast of the Island of Pomona, the largest of the Orkney group. The disaster occurred only an hour after Earl Kitchener and members of his staff had embarked on the cruiser. A patrol ship in the neighborhood aerographed that it had sighted the warship afire, and then that it seemed to blow up, but the gale prevented hearing the sound of the explosion. Other ships instantly went in search, but found no trace of the Hampshire, nor for some time • any bodies. The captain's gig was dash- ed ashore on the Orkneys empty. The twelve survivors were flung ashore clinging to a small inflated raft, battered and exhausted. ' Two or three told those who helped there that Lord Kitchener was aboard, then drop- ped asleep. Between 70 and 80 bodies some of them still warm, were found. Several had lost nearly all their fin- ger nails and toe nails trying to .clam- ber up the cliffs. It is repotted that some reached shore alive, but died of exhaustion. A big lifeboat has been washed on therocks near Thurso, on the main- land. Seven feet of the stern of the craft was torn ' away, and no name showed, but apparently the boat had been one of those belonging to the Hampshire. arkets of the World Breadstnfs. Toronto, June 13.-1Vlanttoba wheat- No. 1 Northern 1.168; No. 2, do., $i.15$; No, 3, do., $1.118; on track. 73ay ports. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 53c; No. 3, do., 518c; extra No. 1 feed, 518e; Not 1 feed, 508c, on track. Bay ports. American. earn -No. 3 yelow, 75c, on tack, liay ports; 78c, track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 3 ;white, 47 to 490, outside. Ontario wheat -No. 1 commercial, $1 to $1.01; No. 2, do., 98 to 99e; No. 3, do., 94 to 95c; feed wheat, 88 to 90c, nom- ina, according to freightsl outside, Peas -No. 2, 31.70; according to sam- ple, $,1.25 to 31.50, according to freights outside. Barley -Malting, 65 to 660; feed 62 to 63c. according to freights outside. Buckwheat -70 to 71c, according to freights outside. Rye -No. 1 commercial, nominal, 94 to 95c, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bags, $6.70; second patents, in jute bags,` $6.20; strong bakers', in jute bags, 36, Toronto Ontario flour= Winter, according to sample. 34,25 to 34.38 in bulk seaboard,. prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal freights-13ran, per ton, $23; short's, per ton, 325; middlings, per ton, $25 to $26; 'good feed dour, per bag, 31.70 to 31.75. • Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 24 to 27e; inferior, 23 to 240; creamery prints, 29 to. 31c; inferior, 28 to 29c. Eggs -New -laid, 25 to 26e; do., in car- tons, 26 to 27c. Beans -$4 to 34.50, the latter for handpicked•,.. • Cheese -.Naw, large, 18'6; twins, 1380. Maple syrup -Prices are steady at 31,40 to $1.50 per Imperial gallon. Honey -Combs -No. 1,'$2.75 to 33; No. 2, 32 to 32.40. Dressed poultry-Chichens, 25 to 27c; fowl, 22 to 240. Potatoes-Ontarios quoted at 31.85' and New Brunswicks at $2.10 per bag. Provisions. Bacon, long clear, 188c per lb. Hams experiences of the last week-end,when lowingthe example of Germany, Eng- -Medium, 238 to 248c; do., heavy, 208 ! e his p to 215c; rolls, 10 to 198c; breakfast; his battrery stood .to, continuously, for land, Italy and the Scandinavian coun- b7con, 248 to 268c; backs, plain, 266 to t d "Although the Canadians tries the Senate on Thursday adopted 2 $1.103; September, $1.109; No.' 1 hard 31.178; No, 1, Northern, 31.100 to 31,133; No. 2 do., 31.018 to $1.11$. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 72 to 73c. Oats -No. 3 white' 38 to 3830. ' Flour unchanged;' shipments, 29,451 bbls, Bran, $18.00 to $19:00. ' Duluth, June IL -Wheat -No. 1 hard, 81.13; No. 1 Northern, 31,12; No. 2 Nor- thern, 51.065 to $1.095. Linseed, $1.825; July, $1.838 asked; September, 31.828 asked. Sdve Stook Markets. Toronto, June 13. -Choice heavy steer's $9.50 to 39.90; butchers' cattle, choice, 39.15 to 39.35; do., good, $8.85 to 39.00; do., medium, 38.40 to 38,60; do., common. $7.75 to $8.00; butchers' bulls, choice, 38.00 to 38.50; do., good bulls, $7.50 to 37.75; do., rough bulls, 34.75 to $5.26; butchers' cows, choice $8.00 to $8.25; do., good 37.50 to $7,75; do., common, $5.25 to $5.76; stockers, 700 to 850 lbs,, $6.75 to 37.75; choice feeders, dehorned, 950 to 1,000 lbs, 38.25 to'8.85; canners and cutters, 34.00 to $5.00; milkers, choice, each 375.00 to'3100.00; do., com, and med., each. $40.00 to $60.00; spring- 1 strong liquors, wines and beer and the, Total Number of German Sailors Killed is 800: A despateh • from London says :-- The copenhagen correspondent of The Daily Mail learns from Kiel that the first unofficial estimate of German losses in the North Sea gives the number of 'killed at 800, of wounded at 1,400 and of missing at 4,600. A Central News despatch from Cop' enhagen says that the Swedish steam- er Vanda .passed the wreck of agigan- tie warship on Saturday, the nation- ality of which it was unable to ascer- tain. Hundreds of bodies were float- ing around the wreck and for three hours the Vanda steamed axnong dead sailors. Near the spot where the -derelict was encountered the wreck ort a big sailing vessel, apparently an ins recent victim of the Jutland battle was sighted. Y4. -rte•.-..-. BRITISH TRADE GROWS. Imports and Exports Show Equal. Increase in May. A despatch from London says :--• The Board of Trade returns for May shows that imports increased £12,- 218,000. The increase was represent- ed principally by food products, grain, flour and chemicals). Imports of cotton, however, decreased £2,750,000. Exports increased £13,405,000, the int - crease being chiefly in iron, steel, cot-'x�"' ton and wool manufactured products. GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY RESTRICTS LIQUOR TRAFFIC A despatch from Christiania says: -On account of the general strike, the Government has passed a law pro- hibiting the sale or importation of era, $50,00 ,to $100.00; light ewes, $8, o shipment of liquors throughout the country. The police also have been ordcired to' prevent the serving of wine and beer in restaurants. to $10,00; sheep, heavy, $6.00 to $8.00; lambs, per lb., 15c. to 178c; spring lambs 36.00 to 310.50; calves, good to chole, 39.50 to 312.50; do., medium, $7.25 to 8.50; hogs, fed and watered, $10.60; do..weigh- ed off cars 310.85 to 310.90; do., f.o.b., 310.00 to 310.10. Montreal, June 13. -Butchers' steers, choice, $9 to $9.10; medium, 38.30 to $8.60; common. 37.30 to 37.90; bulls, choice, $7 to $8.10; fair to good, $6.65 to $7; medium, 35.65 to 36.40: cows, choice, $7 to 37.76; fair to good, $5.65 to 36.40; capers and cutters $3.75 to. 34.75. Sheep, light, $7 . to 38; spring lambs, $5 to 33 each. Calves, choice, $9 to 310; medium, 37 to. $8. Hogs, selects 311.25 to' $11.50; heavy and sows, $9.25 to $9.50. �e. ENEMY LOSSES EQUAL. MUNITIONS OF WAR ACT APPLIED TO LIVERPOO':. A despatch from Liverppol says; An official announcement riven out here on Thursday says the Govern- ment has decided to apply to the Liverpool docks that section of the munitions of war act which provides Canadian Batteries Stood to Conduit- that no employer may declare a lock- ouslyafor Two Days. lout and that no employee may go on strike. A despatch from London says: A al former Canadian Pacific employe at FRANCE HAS ADVANCED Toronto now with the artillery, who has jtist arrived in London on leave, told a correspondent of the strenuous CLOCKS ONE HOUR. A despatch from Paris says: Fol two days. j ' •li avin .bill c; boneless backs, tie ce 308c. ard=lure lard, tierces, 17c. and suffered severely, he asserted, "the i the daylight s g advancing '= pails, 176e: compound, 14 to 148c. enemy suffered at least equal losses ; gal time by one hour. owing to the combined efforts of our artillery and our infantry. As usual, NEWFOUNDLAND TO REPLACE Montreal Markets. 'Montreal, June 13.-Corn-?AmericanMEN LOST IN NORTHSEA. No. 2 yellow, 79 to Sic. Oats -Canadian • it was with lachrymose gas shells that Western, No. 2, 54c do., No. 3, 528.c; ex- tra No. 1 feed, 6280; No, 2 local white, the Gergmans fought, but our heavy A despatch from St. Johns, Nfld., 52e;No. 3, do., 51c; No. 4, do., 50c, Bar- artillery, including a certain_ 'brigade ley -Manitoba feed, 68 to 70c; malting' of which one battery is made up of says: To helpmake upfor the losaes 75 to 76c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat y' patents, nets. 36:80; do., seconds• $6.30; Montrealers, did most effective work suffered by the British naval forces' strong ,bakers', $6.10; Winter patents, i in backing up the bombing attacks of (in the recent North Sea battle, New - Choice, rollers a o R Rolled t Farrel55 05 to p p pp ! plans on Friday fora special recruit - 5, 90 lb $° 40 t $2.65. gill !limns kept u a good su ly. The � t hoice; 36 to $6.20; The ammunition col- m 10 t 5.60• do in bags,$2.40 to our infantry. (foundland authorities began making 65. o e oats -Barrels, - 55; bad of s., ' -' ° -fairly ing campaign. An effort will be made d-73ran, $23 to $24; shorts � +$26: !German artillery assn is aceui•- • m middling, „,330; $28 to miuilli ca$30 30oto a I t e but we have 'several batbery com- $25. •ay -No. per on, $20.50 fo �,"1 60 Cheese -Finest west- i rnanders who excel in keeping the erns, 178c• do. eastcrns, 168c. Butter enemy ignorant of their location." „ FRENCH AIR SQUADRON BOMBARDS HOBOKEN. -Choicest creamery, 30 to 818c, sec- onds, 29 to 2980 Eggs -Fresh, 25 to 2 o°27c leNod'2. do., 84c, NPot toes 1K�Per bag, car lots, 31.95. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, June 13, -Cash quotations: -Wheat-No 1 Northern, $1.105; No. 2, Northern,' 31.098; No. 8 Northern. $1.058; to send forward one thousand men as the colony's share. GERMAN DESTROYER. SUNK BY MINE A despatch from Amsterdam says: A despatch from London says: An 1-Tlhe Telegraaf says that a German allied air squadron has successfully ' destroyer struck a mine anal wend bombarded the wharves at Hoboken, down off Zeebrugge on May 31. 004 1\0 5, 048c� N°. 6, 8900' near Antwerp, according to a despatch ;•-- feed. 833c. Oats -,.N°. 3 C 4V 468c extr. Nr. 1 feed. 468°; to the Exchange Telegraph Company BRITAIN NOW TARES OVER ey-Nfeed,36t c�;°No. 4, Glc rejected B56r- 0: feed, 56c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C. 31.595; No. 2 C,W., $1,565. 'United States Markets. Minnealolis, June 13 -Wheat-July to its base safely. from Maestricht. The Germans are THE WOOL SUPPLY OF 1916. said to have been building destroyers at Hoboken. The squadron was fired A despatch from London says: An on by German batteries, bub returned army order issued on Thursday pro• hibits the purchase or sale of British or Irish wool of the 1916 season. Britain Takes Food Inventory. A despatch from London says; The Government is taking an inventory of all the foodstuffs in the United Kingdom. Farmers are receiving a request from the Department of Agriculture for figures showing their resources. Languages in Belgium. • attacks, aceording to the information French and Flemish are the Ian - communicated, have been greater than guages of Belgium, although German those of the Canadians, and at other is also spoken. The figures, accord - points on the British line where the ing to the 1910 census, are as follows; Germans have attacked the losses on French, 2,833,334; Flemish,. 8,220,662; both sides have been no less serious, No additional details of the fight- ing have been received by the Militia Department, but an eye -witness ac- count is expeeted to reach Ottawa from Sir Max Aitken in a few days. The losses, according to the latest of- ficial statement, have been over 6,000 of all ranks. YPRES SALIENT MUST BE HEED DESPITE LOSSES INVOLVED Canadian Authorities Communicated With the British General Staff Concerning Its Abandonment. A despatch from Ottawa says: In view of the heavy losses sustained during the past two weeks by the Can- adian forces in defending the position known as the Ypres salient enquiry has been made by the Canadian au- thorities of the British general staff, The information obtained in reply is that the position is an important one, and that "notwithstanding theserious loss incurred, it is thought necessary to defend it. The German losses in the various German, 31,415. These are of the per- , sons speaking one language; many persons, of course, use two, Tromp (entering taxidermist's) - "Do you stuff all kinds of things ;. here?" Taxidermist ---"Why, yes.» Tramp --"Well, T wish you'd stuff me 'with a gleed dinner.'