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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-07-07, Page 5TRE BRITISH STOR ANI CAPTURE VILLAGES Advancing Over Maze of German Trenches Gain Nearly One- Third of a Mile. A despatch from London says :--- The second phase of the Battle of the Somme has opened. .Where the great guns of the allies again have pounded a path the infantry is sweeping for- ward. "We resumed a vigorous offensive at dawn," General Haig reported ear- ly Friday morning. And in the hours that followed, the British armies sprang once more to the attack, de- spite a heavy rain that made the ground sodden and flooded the trenches. When night fell the Brit- ish had advanced all along the line and inflicted terrific losses on the Ger Mane. In a rush that moved onward as re- lentlessly as the charge of the first day of the great offensive, "Kitchen- er's men" won important successes'on a front of almost five miles, from Thiepval to Contelmaison, and broke through three lines of trenches. South of Thiepval the Leipsie re- doubt was stormed—the British offi- cial statement calls this "an immense- ly strong work," which the Germans have been fortifying for the last 20 months. Into this redoubt, situated in a s alient in the German line, the British charged, 'and succeeded in wresting a part of it from the enemy. 700 Prussian Guards Captured. The British have captured German trenches on a front of nearly 3,000 yards to a depth of 500 yards. In the direction of Orvillers the British have forced their way into the village after capturing 500 yards of the German front. North. of Fricourt the British drove the enemy from tyro woods and captured three lines of trenches. An attempt by the Prussian Guards to stem the advance east of Contal- maison was crushed by the British fire, and 700 prisoners of various re- giments were taken. Contalmaison was stormed, but was retaken by the Germans in a strong counter-attack. North of Fricourt the Kaiser's troops were driven from two woods anal three lines of trenches, These victories•have eliminated a dangerous wedge which the Germans held in the British line.. Extremely well fortified—for the Germans have assumed all along that the mightiest stroke in the allied offensive on the west would come from the British— it was a stumbling -block to further advances. Until the British were able to force ,their front forward the French could not resume the attack without danger of a flanking movement. Foch's troops had penetrated so much furth- er than Hlaig's that their left flank was threatened if additional thrusts were attempted. Allied Troops Reach Somme. London, July 9.—French troops south of the Somme, by.a sudden thrust this morning on a front of two and a half miles, drove forward into the German lines between the river and Belloy-en-Santerre for a gain, at its greatest point, of a mile and a quarter. To -night their most ad- vanced front juts out within two miles of Peronne, the great German base and first objective of the Franco -Bri- tish Picardy offensive. Sweeping across a rain -swept and treacherous terrain, the French troops carried their front forward in the en- tire sector of attack for an average of more than three-quarters of a mile. They chumpled up the trench lines of the Germans intersperced between the broken second line of defence and the strongly -organized. river positions where the Kaiser's troops will make their last stand before Peronne. The Germans admit the capture of Hardecourt by the French on Saturday British Also Advance. British troops north of the river are battling in a sea of mud against great masses of Germans, and the front shows no change of any extent. General Haig to -night reports some further progress toward Ovillers, for which the British have been fighting for three days, and announces the re- pulse of powerful counter-attacks. The Berlin report reaching here to- day brings,the battle only to last mid- night. Furious French and British at- tacks during the late afternoon and evening of yesterday had met with. sanguinary losses, according to this statement. The British are said to have suffered especially large losses before Ovillers and at the Trones Woods. 5,000 Prussian Guards Killed Five thousand of the Kaiser's fam- ous Prussian Guards have been killed in the fighting around Contalmaison, east of Albert, according to special despatches from Paris on Saturday. SUBMARINE CROSSES OCEAN. Germans Send the First Across the Atlantic. A despatch from Baltimore says :— The world's first submarine merchant- man, the German underwater liner Deutschland, anchored below Balti- more on Sunday night after voyaging safely across the Atlantic, passing and eluding enemy cruisers watching for her off the American coast. She carries mail and a cargo of 760 frons of costly chemicals and dyestuffs, and a message from Emperior William to President Wilson, and is to carry back home a cargo of nickel and crude rub- ber, sorely needed by the German army. The Deutschland carries, mounted. in her conning tower, two small guns of about three-inch calibre. No torpedo tubes are visible. She is capable of submerging in less than two minutes. On the skarface of the water the submarine has a speed of from two to three knots an hour more than the average merchant steamer. Fifteen days out from Bremerhaven to Baltimore, the sub- inaaine reached safetly between the Virginia Capes at 1.45 o'clock on Sun- day morning, BRITISH TRADE FIGURES. Exports Higher iii June Than in Any Month Since January, 1914. A despatch from London says :— The Board of Trade figures for June show that imports increased £11,027,- 000 and that exports increased £14,- 041,000, Exports were higher than in any month since January of 1914, and £7,000,000 in excess of July of 1914, the last month before the beginning of the war. The principal increase in imports were: Food, £5,000,000; wood oils, fats and chemicals, £6,000,- 000. The increase in exports was principally in manufactured goods, of which £3,500,000 was cotton textiles, £1,250,000 woollens, and £2,000,000 iron and steel. MUNITION WORKERS POSTPONE HOLIDAY A despatch from New York says :— According to a news agency despatch from London on Thursday the Scot- tish miners have agreed to postpone all their July holidays at the request of Minister of Munitions Lloyd George TEUTONS LOSE 500,000 MEN IIN THE RUSSIAN CA '' . PAIGN German and Austrian Soldiers Captured, 230,000—Officers, 4,500 —Wounded 200,000 to 220,000. A. despatch from Petrograd says: -- early half a million Austrians and xermans have been put out of com- mission since General Brusiloff began his great arvance a month ago. The rand total of prisoners to date is in round numbers 235,000, of which 4,600 are officers. The War Office announced the fur- ther capture of more than 10,000 Teu- iibn, of whom 5,000 were taken on the Dniester front. Without the actual figures re- arding the dead and wounded, care- ful estimates by military experts, bas- ed on the best information, plaee the latter at 200,000 to 220,000. The Aus- trians predominate overwhelmingly among the prisoners, but among the dead and wounded it is said that a fairly large percentage are Germans. The losses in stopping the Russian ad- vance on Kovel and in counter-attacks made in solid ranks were enormous. The booty captured reaches incal- culable figures. It is judged that 260 guns of various sizes and upwards of 700 machine guns would be a con servative estimate. In addition, large quantities of munitions, supplies and telephones have fallen into the hands of the Russians,. RT. HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE, who has been appointed Minister of War, succeeding the late Earl Kitch- ener. BOUGHT PRODUCTS GERMANY IS SEEKING. British Money Used in Holland and Sweden to Buy Foodstuffs. • A despatch from London says: Neutral diplomats express the belief that the existing orders -in -council will. be superseded by the declaration of an actual blockade, in pursuance of Great Britain's avowed intention of strengthening her legal position. No evidence of an actual change in the administration of the blockade has been procurable since the announce- ment of the abondonment of the De- claration of London. However, the increased economic pressure on Ger- many which recently has become ap- parent is due, according to the best informed neutral diplomats, to the British campaign in Holland and Sweden, resulting in the purchase of products which otherwise probably would have found their way to Ger-' many. STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION. People Are Fleeing to Relief Ships for A despatch from Rome says : The eruption of Stromboli has become serious. The flow of lava is spreading to the sparse coast settlement, burn- ing and destroying houses, and the population is fleeing to the sea and taking refuge on relief ships sent from Messina. Telephonic communication with Messina has been interrupted. There are many signs of seismis dis- turbances throughout Italy. The heat has been intense for the past two days. Earth shocks occurred Wednesday morning at Ancona, Rimini, Belvedere, Marettimo and other Adriatic dis- tricts, but no loss of life has been re- ported. INDUSTRIAL GERMANY ANXIOUS FOR PEACE A despatch from Berlin says :-- Numerous -Numerous scientists, industrialists and representatives of commerce ani agri- culture, have formed a German Na- tional Committee under the chiarman- ship of Prince von Wedel, says the Koeinische Zeitung, with the aim of "awakening a uniform understanding of the German. people for an honorable conclusion of peace which shall guar- antee a secured future empire." In doing this, says the Koelnische Zei- tung, "all one-sidedness is to be avoid- ed." TEUTONS' LOSSES IN MONTH 500,000 A despatch from Paris says : Ger- man and Austro-Hungarion losses of the . past month total half a million men, according to figg.res presented on Wednesday by the Matin. It states that the Russians have taken 282,300 unwounded prisoners, the Italians 4,700, and the Anglo-French forces 14,200. Multiplying the total of pri- soners by two, to estimate the number of killed and wounded, it gets an ag- gregate of slightly more than 500,000, or more than twelve army corps. RISING AGAINST THE AUSTRIANS A despatch from London says :— The ,London Times undersbands that a rising against the Austrians has brok- en out in Montenegro. Its leaders is a former War Minister, upon whose head the Austrians set a high price. The Montenegrins who have risen have taken to the woode^i parts of the rising is country. The llsl g prompted by the destitution in which the inhabit- ants have been left by -Austria, RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST GEN. INDENBURG In the Region of Dvinsk Fart of the German First Line Trenches Were Captured, A. despatch from London ,says :-- Suirpasitig even in importance the al - nes' great effort on the western front, the news from the eastern battlefield shows that the Russians have extend- ed their offensive on an extensive scale. On the whole front from Riga to Baranoviehi, a distance of about 300 miles, the Russians are being hurled against the German lines. Further to the south General Kale - clines is driving steadily forward to- ward Kovel and has captured two vil- lages and a railroad station on the Sarny-Kovel road. Military critics of the allies assert that unless the Germans can halt the Russian ad- vance in the immediate future they will have to withdraw their lines along the entire eastern front and probably abandon Lemberg. In the tremendous offensive against Field Marshal von Hindenburg's forces General . Evert is leading the Czar'stroops in furious attacks ex- tending along a hundred -mile front from the Vilna line in tjie north to Baranovichi in the south. Preceding their infantry assaults by a bombardment of such intensity dur- ing its 24 hours' duration, that the Germans were blinded and stunned in- to helplessness, the Russians hurled themselves at the enemy's lines in such •overpowering numbers that the first- line trenches held by the Germans were penetrated with astonishing ease. The few German soldiers who recover- ed from the shock of the assault quickly enough to offer a half-hearted resistance, were swept aside at the point of the bayonet as the Russian wave surged through the shattered lines. So overwhelming was the Russian attack in the region south-west of Lake Narocz, where Petrograd claims the greatest successes in the new drive, than an enormous number of prisoners and a vast amount of booty were taken by the attacking forces, Furious fighting is continuing along this whole line. The Germans, speed- ily rallying from the first Russian on- slaughts, are launching counter-at- tacks in rapid succession in an at- tempt to win back the loot positions. Unless the Russians can be checked immediately at the vital points where their first thrusts have succeeded, it is believed that their whole lines in the northern sector will be greatly en- dangered. Russians Strike Two Blows. London, July 9.—Two heavy blows were delivered against the Teutonic battlefront in the east yesterday by the Russians. The first was the capture of two important villiages in the drive on Kovel. The second was the capture of Delabyn, an important railway junc- tion through which the Austrians had supplied their armies at Stanislau and Tarnopol, protecting Lemberg. Sev- eral days ago Russiant roops cut the Delatyn Railway, west of Kolomea, but not until yesterday did they oc- cupy the junction city, Heavy fighting continues between the Stolshod and the Styr R vers. Petrograd officially announces to -day that the Teutons are retiring in great disorder on the Lower Stokhod, where the Czar's troops took 12,000 un- wounded prisoners, incheding 300 of- ficers, between July 6 and 7. Forty- five guns of heavy and small calibre and forty-five machine guns also were captured. By the capture of the villages of Golulevitchi and Kacheva the Rus- sians have further imperilled the Germans' hold on Kaye'. In the event Kovel falls, military experts de- clare, the Germans will be forced to retire on the entire front northeast to Baranovichi in order to straighten out their lines. ONE PLATOON LOST 117 MEN IN ATTACK A despatch from London says : A Comedian officer in a London hospital seetee. that eel-e*esehel in there - cent 'attack recent'attack he had one lieutafelit;and 144 men. When he finished, the lieutenant was dead, he himself was badly wounded and he had only 27 men left. He said that he was glad to be wounded in the big flight rather than to be . sniped. TO CONFER PEERAGE UPON SIR EDWARD GREY A despatch from London says : The King has decided to confer a peerage upon Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, according to the Daily Chronicle, 50,000 Germnns Deafened. According to official estimates, more than 50,000 German soldiers have lost their hearing in the battles of this war. To enable these unfortunates to earn their bread after the war a number of schools have been estab- lished with the aid of the Government. $25,000,0 0 P NT WILL BE ERECT Markets of the of d elan. neert1 7019, Toronto,July 11. --Manitoba wheat--^ No, 1 Norhern, 11199; No, 2 do„ 21,1841 1Ya. 8 da, 21,144, on track Bay ports. Manitoba oats --No, 2 O.W. 61o; No. 8 C•W , 06c; extra �To 1 feed, 60io• No, 1 feed, Goo; Ne. 2 feed, 49c, on track Bay, pots. American corn --No. 3 yellow, 83o, on track Bay ports; 87c, on track Toronto. Ontario oats—No, 8 white 47 to 48a, according to freights outside. w Ontar o heat—No. 1 commercial, 97 to 98o; No 2 do., 98 to 96c; No. 3 do., 87 to 89o1 feed, 88 to 80e, nominal, aceortt- ing to frights outside, Peas—No. 3, nominai, 21.70 to $1,801 according' to sample, $1 25 to 21.00. ac- cording to freights outside. Barley—Malting barley, nominal, 65 to 06c• feed barley, nominal, 60 to 02o, aecordin to freights outside. Buckwheat—Nominal, 70 to 71c, ao cording to freights outside, Rye --No, 1 commercial 04 to 95c, ac- cordi�zojd� to freights outside. Malrifitoba flour—First patents, in jute bags, 30.60; second latents, in jute bags, $0.00; strong bakers, in jute bags, $5.80, Toronto. Ontario flour—Winter according to sample, 34.05 to 34.1.5, in bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment; $4.00 to 3410, bulk seaboard, prompt shipment Millfeed, ear lots, delivered Montreal freights bags included—Bra per ton, 210 to $20; shorts, per ton, 223 to $24' middlings, per ton, 324 to $251 good feed flour, per bag, 21.69 to 31.60. COUNTRY PROVECE Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 25 to 27o; inferior, 23 to 24c; creamery, prints 29 to 81c• inferior, 28 to 29c. Eggs—New-laid, 28 to 29c; do., in cartons, 30 to 32o. Beans—$4,50 to 35.00, the latter for hand-picked. Cheese—New, large, 18o; twins, 184o. Maple syrup -1,40 to 21.60 per Im- perial gallon, Dressed poultry—Chichkens, 25 to 270; fowl, 23 to 26o, Potatoes—Firm; Ontarios in car lots at 31.86, and New Brunswtoks at $2,16 per bag; Western, $1,95, BALED 1CAZ AND STEAW Baled hay—Best grade, per ton, 316.00 to $17.00; -do., low grade, per ton, 313.00 to 313.00. Straw—Per ton, $6.00 to 27,00. P3O17XSXONB, Bacon—Long clear, 18 to 10c per ib. Hams—Medium, 233 to 243c; do., heavy, 204 to 21c; rolls, 19 to 196c; breakfast bacon, 244 to 264c; backs, plain, 264 to 274c; boneless .backs, 294 to 801c. Lard—Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 174c and pails, 17$ to 179c; compound, 14 149c. WINNIPEG GEAIN, Winnipeg, July 11.—Cash quot^ions; —Wheat --No. 1 Northern, $1. 14; Ni o. 2 Northern, $1.1011; No. 3 $1,074; No. 4, 31.013• No. 5 9' c; No 6, 929c; feed, 873c. (Sats -1N,. 2 QW., 4430; No, 3 C.W., 439c; ext.- No. 1 feed, 424; No. 1 feed, 43; c No. 2 feed, 412c. Barley—No, 3, . . c; No. 4, 680; rejected, 63c; feed, .c. Flax—No. 1 N.W.C., 31.5966; * C.W., $1.563. Vitt OVEMT., MARSETS. Montre.l, July 11—Corn—American No 2 ;allow, 82 to 880. Oats—Canadian Western, No. 2, 543c1 No. 3, 530; No. 1 fee,' 630; No, 2 1 cal white, 52e;No. 3 la:.i white, 61o; No. 4 local white, 50c. ' riey Malting, 76 to 76c. Flour— 1 ,,lanitoba spring wheat patents, ^ firsts, $6 60, seconds, 36,10; . ntrc;n; bakers', •v0�4'inter patents, Choice, 36.00 to lc . 56A United States Steen C -a>' c^f13 eiV tila's, $ .4 �o w ,.�. u 1 tions' Plans for Works at • Objiway. A despatch from Ottawa says :— That erection would start immediate- ly of the big steel plant which the United States Steel Corporation plans to erect at Ojibway, near Windsor, Ont,, was the statement made by Mr. Wallace Nesbitt, K.C., on Friday. Mr. Nesbitt was'in the city arranging cer- tain departmental matters in connect atbl 8.06 to 5.45 do, age, 9 bs 32.40 i or to s, 3$ 8.00 4Bran,4 00. Middlings, 8$325.00 to $27.00 Marmite, 327.00 to $19.50 to 330.00. o. Cheese }Finest war est - erns, 163 to 170; finest easterns, 159 to 164c. Butter—Choicest creamery, 30 to 304c; seconds, 289 to 289o. Eggs— Fresh. 35c; selected, 32c; No. 1 stock, 28c; No. 2 stock, 27c. Potatoes—Per bag, car lots, 21.80. BETTED STATES MaezesETS Minneapolis, July 11.—Wheat—July, 31 079; September, 31.083 to 31,089; No. 1 hard, 31,139; No. 1 Northern, 31.074 to 31.004; No. 2 Northern, 31.043 to 31,079. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 774 to tion with the going ahead of the wont its—No, 3 t'hlte ht4h to 87c. lour— ancy paten s, C g er, qu0t- The company over two years ago ed at 28.10; first clears, 20c hither, secured a large tract of, land at Ojib- way, but little has been done up to the present.. It is understood the plant to he erected will cost about $25,000,000. Fortunate is the lean who has no time to take advise because he is too busy selling it. FOE'S The FOOD ROLE 4 RIG quoted at $4.90. Bran, $,7.00 to $18,00 Duluth, July 11.—iti heat --On track, No. 1 hard, 31.12; No, 1 Northern, 31.11; No. 2 Northern, 31.07 to 31.08; No. 1 Northern to arrive, 31,104; No. 3 North- ern, on track, 31.03 to 31.06 Linseed— On track. 31.823; to arrive, 31.82; July, O1.82 asked; September, $1.83$ asked; ctober, 21.829 asked; November, $1.829. LIFE STOCDZ MARSETS. Toronto, July 11.—Choice heavy steers, 310.00 to $10.25; good heavy steers, 39.25 to $9.50; butchers' cattle, choiee,$9,26 to 29.60; do, good, 30.00 to $9.15; do., medium, 38.35 to $9.00; do., common, 38.00 to $8.25; butchers' bulls, choice, $8.00 to $8,26; do., good bulls, 27,46 to $7.66; do., rough bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers' cows, choice, $8 00 to 28.5 do good $7.36 to $7.50; do med- A SNEUTRALDIPLOMATIST rum, $6.2b to $6,75; Storkers, 700 to b60 lbs., $0.75 to $7.75; choi0e feeders, de - horned, 950 to 1,000 lbs., 37.25 to 33.85; canners and cutters, $9.76 to $5.00; milk- ers, choice, each, 375.00 to 295.00; da., com. and med. each 340.00 to 360,03; springers, $600 to $100.00; light ewes, 5.50 to 310.60; sheep, heavy, 35.25 to 37.60; spring' lambs, per ib„ 14 to 19o; calves, good to Choice, 89.60 to 312.00; do,. medium, $7,26 to 38 60; hogs, fed and watered, 311.40 to 311,50; do., weigh- ed00cars, 311.66 to 311.76; do., f.o.b., ;10.90. n, Montreal, July 11,—Butchers' steers, good, $9,50 to 310.00; medium, 37,75 to 38 76; common, 37.28 10 35.35; fair to good 6.50 to 7,00; vows, good, 36,50 to $7,50; fair, 35.75 to 36,50; common, $4,50 to 36,50; bulls, good, $7,00 to $5.60; bulls, good to common, 25.00 to $5,50• sheep, $7.00 to $7.50; spring lambs, $5,00 to 38.00 each; calves, choice, $7.00 to 310 00; common, 36.00 to 36.00; hose, selects, 311.76 to 313.26; roughs and mixed, 310,00 to $11.00; sows, 29.50 to 310.00. —.� STRANGE FACTS OF SCIENCE. German People Are Showing Unmistakable Evidence of Underfeeding. A despatch from London says : A neutral diplomatist stationed in Ger- many, who recently visited London, informed his colleagues here that it was impossible to give an exaggerated description of the depth and breadth of the German public's desire for peace. The food scarcity was becoming serious, ho said, and the population generally was unmistakably showing evidence of underfeeding. In one of' the greatest German cities—not Ber- lin --at a hotel whose name is familiar to thousands of Americans, a neutral was unable to arrange for a dinner which he wished to give for a few friends, though his requirements were most modest. A Copenhagen despatch says : The newspaper Heindal of Schleswig states German bread is not eatable, as it contains putrifled potatoes. Offal in the_soap being used is causing many diseases, particularly among children. .ate .�... _._.....�.... LLOYD GEORGE, EARL OF DERIBY NE BRITISH WAR SECRETARIES ARIES Directors of Munitions and Recruiting Respectively to Conduct the Caiinpaign. A despatch from London says:-, The Earl of Derby, director of re - bavid Lloyd George has been appoint- milting, has beenappointedUnder ed Secretary for War. Seeletaiy for War. The world's highest powered motor - ship has been built in Italy for the Brazilian navy, its oil motors develop. ing 6,400 horse power, The Spanish ,government is plan- ping to build an electric railroad from Madrid to the French frontier to con- neet with Freneh lines. To enable migratory fish to rise over waterfalls, dans and other ob- structions in streams, a Canadian fisheries official has invented an auto- matic elevator. Tho coal in one of the largest new mines in China lies so near the sur- face of the ground that it "will be mined with steam shovels after the covering soil is removed, '