HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-09-22, Page 2TrED GERMAN LINE IS
SMASHED BY THE BRITISH
Haig's Troops Pierce, Shatter and Occupy the Enormous Thiep-
val-Combles Barrier.
London, Sept. 15,—The British tore
wide open the enormous Thiepval-
Combles salient. In a twelve-hour
battle on ,the eight -mile front from
Thiepval to Ginchy, in the face o
tee dve hundred of the Kaiser's mos
pos rerful guns -150 to a mile—they
stormed, pierced, shattered and then
occupied that stretch of the German
front north of the Somme which
hitherto had acted as a block to their
advance on Combles and Bapaume.
The barrier broken down, Sir Douglas
Haig's troops pushed considerably be-
yond it to the north-east, carrying the
menace of the Somme drive almost as
ominously close to Bapaume as it is to
Combles and Peronne.
The end of the fighting saw the
British in possession of practically
all the high ground between Combles
and the Albert-Pozieres-Bapaume
highway. Three villages—F1,ers, Mar-
tinpuich and Courcellette—and High
Wood, were completely captured, as
was the greater part of Bouleaux
Wood. The powerful German redoubt
called "Wunderwerk" (Wonder work),
because of its supposed impregnabil-
ity, was taken by storm in the turning
of the salient's tip near Thiepval.
More than 2,300 prisoners were tak-
en, including 65 officers.
The day was the most successful
for the British since the initial phase
of the Somme battle. For three days
their infantry had enjoyed compara-
tive rest, while the artillery paved the t
way for the new crush.
French Co-operated.
The French, tleough not launching
an _attack on a large front; worked
hand-in-hand with the British ' in l
drawing the ring around Combles still
closer. The French War Office an
nounces that General Foch's troop
took a system of German trenche
500 metres deep north of Le Priez
s
s
e
ffarm, which fell into their hands yes
t terday. The British took by storm
a
group of German trenches south o
Rancourt, two miles from Peronne
South of the Somme they captured
three Teuton trenches near the vil-
lage of Berny-on-Santerre, taking 200
prisoners.
Apart from the results scored, the
resumption of the British part in the
Somme drive was remarkable for
two features. Never before has an
attack been marked by such close and
successful co-operation by the "eyes
of the army," the aviators. The clash
of the infantry legions on the blood-
soaked ground was accompanied by a
battle royal in the air. The British
fliers were met by a cordon of Teuton
aviators, and two air fleets vieing
with one another in daring, tenacity
and skill. The British, according to
the night report from headquarters,
proved their superiority. Thirteen
German machines were destroyed;
nine others were brought down in a
damaged condition. The British lost
four.
Cheered as They Charged.
The second spectacular feature of!
i the battle was the introduction by the
British for the first time of a new
type of armored motor car, .whose
powerful traction enables it to cross .
trenches and shell craters as if going
over smooth ground. A number of
these new "wonder machines" whir-
red into the battle with the infantry
and in the midst of the hail of shell
the men cheered as they charged
f
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,BRITISH TAKE
POINCARE'S THANKS
TO BRITISH KING.
MOQEFARM A despatch from London says:
President Poincare telegraphed King
George in reference to his award of
the Military Cross to the town of
Verdun:
"The French army has received
with pride this high testimony of
esteem given by the august sovereign
of a great friendly allied country."
Sept 17, via London, Monday, Sept. The Ring in reply, said:
18.—The British to -day took Mouquet It was a real pleasure for me to
farm. On two former occasions they I award the Military Cross to the
had been on the premises, but were heroic town of,Verdun, whose name
unable to remain there. It was a ever 'shall evokineffaceable recollec-
strcug point on the right of the Brie- tions of victory in her glorious re-
ish battle line, where a garrison o•f sistance against the stubborn and re -
'Germans and their machine guns iterated attacks of the common en -
seemed proof against shell -fire, says emy."
Frederick Palmer.
They had tI1e usual deep cellars and CANADIAN CHAPLAINS•
runways under ground and driven
from one exit by shellfire they would WERE BADLY WOUNDED.
emerge from another. The British got ---
entirely around their burrows and • A despatch from London says: In -
called down the cellar stairs for them formation received by the Canadian
Red Cross show the injuries received
on the battlefield by Father O'Gor-
man, of Ottawa, to be serious. His
injuries consist of a fractured femur
all the way round the farm to prevent and wounds in his left arm and hip.
their exit or aid from coming to them. j The chaplain is in the hospital at Ca -
Still the Germans refused to yield and miers. Col. Steacy has no information
the final result of this grim colloquy as to how the chaplain received his
was that the British blew in all the
cellar doors. But such persistent dig-
gers are the Germans that the British
are not certain but they had some un-
derground passage for escape.
The British also cleaned up the Dan-
ube trench in the old German first line
neer Thiepval, which is the hinge of
the Somme battle line. As happened
before and after the fierce general at-
tack along the whole front, the suc-
ceeding days were spent in rectifying
the line and cleaning up any strong
points that still Held out.
Talking with officers of corps en-
gagtd in the fighting of the last three
days, they estimate the losses from two
iv ,. ee to five to one for the Germans
as against those of the British. In one
sector the ratio was estimated at as
high as eight to one. The superior
volume of the British shell lire, now
that the Germans are forced into the
open, has a telling effect.
Danube Trench in Old German
First Line Near .Thiepval
Cleaned Up.
With the British Army in France
to surrender. The Germans thought
that a counter-attack would come to
their assistance as before. The Brit-
ish, however, assured them that none
would come, as they bad the trench
wounds. Major G. W. Wood, the
other Canadian chaplain, who was
wounded last week, is an inmate of
the hospital at Bouingne with a gun-
shot wound in the leg.
KING'S SECOND SON INVALIDED
HOME.
London Sept. 17.—Official announce-
ment was made to -day that Prince Al-
bert, second son of Ring George, has
been invalided home because of
severe abdominal trouble. The Prince
is doing well at Windsor Castle, but it
will be some time before he will be
able- to return to duty, Prince Albert
is a midshipman in the navy. He has
suffered from gastric disorders for
some time. Last April he had to un-
dergo a course of treatment. In Aug-
ust, 1914, he was operated on for ap-
pendicitis.
GIANT RUSSIAN AEROPLANES
DESTROY 8 GE 11 N MACHINES
An Enemy Seaplane Station Was Successfully Bombed on Lake
Angern, in the Gulf of Riga.
A Reuter despatch from Petrograd
to London says that four giant Rus-
sien aeroplanes of the 1liurometz
type bombarded a German seaplane
station on Lake Angern, in the Gulf
of Riga,' where seventeen seaplanes of
various sizes and models Were dis-
cerned. The Russians dropped 73
bombs, with resultant fire and smoke,
which soon concealed the seaplane
sheds.
German machines attacked the Rus-
sian machines, but were soon put to
I flight with machine guns. During the
bombing and air fight not less than
eight German machines were destroy-
ed or put out of action, The Bus-
sian aeroplanes returned safely, not-
withstanding they were shelled by
tanti-aircraft guns.
On a previous occasion, the cdrre-
spondent says, one Murometz nia-
I chine, with a crew of five, routed sev-
! en German seaplanes which attacked
it.
'HELL" MACHINE
OF THE BRITISH
Latest Device in Warfare is a
Winner Offensively and
Defensively-,
London, Sept. 16,—The evening
Standard gives the following details
of the new armored cars used by the
British in the west:
"Britain's latest weapon of war is
nothing more nor less than a huge
land ship fully armored and capable
of travelling at fair speed over the
shell -battered and cratered terrain of
Picardy. Designed, as they are, to
traverse the most difficult, country
and to sweep away all obstacles in
their path, they naturally are: of fair-
ly large size, with caterpillar wheels
constructed to cover the wkIesik trench
or shell hole and to enable the vehicle
to tackle almost any depth of mire.
Their crews are protected by varying
numbers of armored plates, .any one
of which is impervious to - :machine
gun or rifle fire as well as shrapnel
bullets, and it is asserted that'only a
direct hit from a gun of large calibre
could put one of these monsters out
of commission.
"While from a defensive point of
view they are almost perfect,' their
offensive qualities are even 'superior,
and when they have cleared .se trench
of the enemy or have forced the sur-
vivors into the shelter of their dug-
outs, these land ships—`tanks;' as the
Tomnlies prefer to call them have
another little surprise in store for the
beaten enemy, about which, perhaps
it were wise not to say more.,'
"Most of the great engineering
works in Britain can claim a share in
the production of these armored cars.
They are built in parts at different
factories in order to preserve the
secret of their construction, and they
WITHDRAWAL TO INNER LINE
OF DOUAI, LAMBRAI AND LAON
German "Straightening of the Front" in Western Theatre Ex-
pected to be Forced at Once
Markets Of The Irl
Toronto, Sept. 19,—Manitoba Noth,, 21653 No. Nrtern$1,638 ; No, 3 Northern, $1.603 ; No, i
Wheat, $1.558, track Bay ports.
Manitoba: oats—No. 2 C.W., 503e ; No,
3 C,•W'., 651C; extra No. 1 feed, 053c ;
No. 1 feed, 65c, track Bay .ports,
American corn—No, 3 yellow, 923c,
track Toronto,
630
Ontario Oats—New, itto 52c white,
to
freights outside.
A despatch from Paris says: By effects are even more important still. Ontario wheat : New crop, No, 2
p $1,33 to $1.35 ' No. 1 merciarclal, $1.2[;
its victories last week the French of- Plighroad No. 37 of the great arteries to 21,28 ; No. 2 commercial, 81,21 to
fensive has achieved what the Ger- feeding the German front has been $1. 4 ; No. 3 commercial, $1„17 to $1,20,
mans asserted was impossible. It has cut between Bapaume and Perontte,
according — o. freights 00s tot2210, according
driven a wedge right through the or- and by their advance beyond Hill 76 taBfa ley—Maltii e' so to 87c, nominal ;
iginal German front, has definitely the French now menace directly and feed, sb to 82c, nominal, according to
"broken the line" of boasted impreg- already sweep with their artillery the f313uplcvlteati—dNaminal, according to
nable fortifications stretching across main road from Paris to Lille via freights outside,
France from beyond the north-west= Gambrel, the loss of which is expected 1 lcomxiNioiai, 111 nxninai3 according•
�Tto
ern frontier to the limits of Switzer- to force the German high command freights outside.
land• to consider seriously the necessity of bags, $8 6>0a_ floour.- »l�tents tints, th rule
The village of Bouchavesnes and a withdrawal to the inner line, Douai, $3.10 ; strong bakers', in jute bags,
1'Abbe Wood farm beyond it were Gambrel, Leon, that famous "short- $7.90, Toronto•
clearly behind the rows"of trenches ening of the front" that is expected to
Ontario , $6°.25,iiniag's`,1track, according
which aerial observation showed to be here to mark the beginning of the »ronrnt shipment ; neiv, according to
barring the • French advance when the end. sample, 26.25, bulls seaboard, prompt
Somme offensive began. That under Of more immediate value is that
shipment.
g Mihts, —Car lots, delivered Montreal ton,
the menace of the onrushingFrench Peronne is now under T'r'ench fire freights, bags included—Bran, per ton,
$23 • siert,, per ton, 229 ; middlings,
tide the Germans have hastily con- from the north, west, and south, Pe" ton, $30 ; good°feed flour, per bag,
structed other lines still further in the which cuts it from all communica- $2'25•
Hay—New, per ton, $1:0 to 912 ; No. 2.
rear of the lost positions doess-not de- tions except along communication per ton. $9 to $9,50, 7:lefc Toronto,
tract from the moral value of the trenches byor dangerous night trans- Straw—Car lots, per ton. 27 to '28,
achievement that filled the battle- port. a g track Toronto.
weary troops with enthusiasm. • Now instead of being "before Per -
Tremendous as is the moral value onne," the French are at its very
of the latest success, its strategic gates.
BIG RAID FOR SHIRKERS Vas6 AT CROP
AT FAMOUS RACE -COURSE.
A despatch from London says: ��BUS
Military police carried out an exten- y lPy e
sive raid for shirkers from military
service on Wednesday at the New-
market race course just before the Preliminary Estimate of Yield
race for the classic St, Leger was
started. Racing has been in abeyance
for over a month, and thousands of A despatch from Ottawa says: In
men attended. Everyone apparently a bulletin issued the Census and
of military age including reporters, Statistics Office publishes the first Provisions—Wholesale, •
are then assembled at a central fac- jockeys bookmakers, bettors, race- or preliminary estimate of the yield Smoked meats—rams, medium, 24 to
tory under the supervision of experts course officials and grooms was corn-, of the wheat crop. After a reference 26e d°•, heavy, 22 to 23r ; cooked. 35
n to 7e: 1r'eakrast bacon, 25 to 27r;
of the armored car division." • polled to give an account of himself to the reduced yield in the western' backs, plain, 26 to 27c ; boneless, 28 to
29c.
In Ontario and Quebec grain yields leIick1ed or dried cured meats, 1 cent
of the Wheat Crop.
Country Produce—Wholesaler
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 30 to 32c :
inferior, 24 to• 25c ; creamery prints, 35
to 37c ; solids, 34 to 35c. •
Eggs--Now-laid, 34 to 35c ; do.; car-
tons, 38 to 40e.
Dressed poultry—Chickens, 25 to 27e ;
fowl, 18 to 20c.;' ducks, 18 to 20e.
Live poultry—Chickens, 17 to• 13e ;
fowl, 14 to 16e ; ducks,13 to 15e,
Cheese—New, large, 214 to . 22c ;
twins, 213 to 213e ; triplets, 211 to 220. -
Honey—Extra fine duality, 28-1h tins,
128 to 1.3e • 5-1b, tint, 12 to 123c : 10-1b.
tins, 11.6 'to 12c ; G0 -lb., 11 to 11 i e.
Conib honey, select, $2.40 to $2.75 ; No.
2, 32 to 22.25.
Potatoes—Ontarios, $2.25 , British
Colunil.,ia hose, per bag, $2 ; New Bruns-
wick, coblers, per bag,$2.35.
Deans ---Hand-picked 25.80 ; primes,
35,
•
all Came, in a special article, says as he entered, and the soldier -police -
he has been told that if the allies had man demanded the production cd
3,000 "tanks" the war would be over either an attestation or registration
in a month. card, or, in the absence of this, a birth
Other writers say that the "tanks" or exemption certificate. In the prin-
smash trees and other like obstacles cipal enclosure the first hour's pro -
to their progress, including wire en- ceedings were almost fruitless, pro -
tanglements, with the greatest ease. clueing only two slackers, who both
They carry both large and small guns, declared themselves Irishmen and not
weigh over 400 tons, and have 'tspeed liable to registration.
of five miles an hour. ).
HONORS ARE • AWARDED TO
NAVAL HEROES.'
AKN ISD
•4
, y Reco n%tion of: Spilka–Performed in
ORDER 3 Battle of Jutland.
T� ��.��A��S
A despatch from London says :
Honors awarded as a result of the
Soldiers Instructed to Despatch Jutland battle are enumerated by the this year will be 168,811,000 bushel's tat es—i e t tit€, 34c car lets, $1.503p o
Official Gazette on Friday as follows : from a harvested area of 10,085,300 $1,55,
Them With Bayonet. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe', Order of acres, as compared with 376,303,600
p says:Merit ; Vice -Admiral Sir David Beat- bushels from 12,986,400 acres last
A despatch to New York ty, Knight of the Grand Cross of the
From officjyal British sources The New Bath ; hear Admiral Sir F. C. D. year, and 161,280,000 bushels from
York Times received on Tuesday the Sturdee, Companion of St. Michael and 10,293,900 acres in 1914. The aver-
translaticn of a letter found on a St. George. The boy, John Travers, of age yield per acre is 16% bushels, as
German prisoner captured in the bat- Cornwall, who remained on his ost compared with twenty-nine bushels
tle of the Somme. The prisoner, during the action, although mortally last year, and 15.67 bushels in 1914.
writing to his family in Stuttgart, said woen,ded, was awarded the Victoria •
that the Germans had received or- Cross, Sub -Lieut. Prince Albert, R.N., SIX MONTHS GIVEN
ders "to take no prisoners, but to has been recommended for service. TO U. S. DISTURBER.
despatch them with the bayonet." ALL BELGIAN MALES
With the translation came a photo- A despatch from Montreal says:
graph of the original letter, which
was addressed to "Karl Koch and ane o Os -
family, KaltenaI, near Stuttgart." A despatch from Havre says: Gen- wego, N.Y., was sentenced by Judge
A part of the letter, as officially eral von Bissing, Military Governor Lanctot on Wednesday to six 'months
translated, follows: of Belgium, is sending to Germany all in jail or a fine of $50, this being the
"And now we had three days' rest, Belgian males between the ages of 18 first case here under the new Order -
and I could get nothing at all to drink and 35. Recently 1,200 were taken in -Council,
except costly wine. It is very dis- from Liege.
agreeable to us that we are obliged
to go through it once again. you can- TWO BRITISH GENERALS i HILL ESTATE.
Provinces, the bulletin says^
ss tl an cured,
have been greatly reduced by drought tc5' o p ,n:e to—Long clear bacon, 13
in August; but in the Maritime Pro- z.ard—Pure lard, tierce:. 17 to 17;0 ;
vinces and in British Columbia the tubs, 1.73 to 1^r99e ; psils, 173 to 17,0,
condition of the grain crops has con-
Compound, 131 to 13r.
tinued to be quite favorable.
It is estimated from the reports of Montreal li,arl.etc.
correspondents that, of the areas Montreal. Sept. 19.—Oats—Canadian
1Vestern, No. 2, G03c ; do„ No. 3, 60c ;
sown about 13,7 per cent, of spring extra No. 1. feed, GOc ; No. 3 local white,
wheat, eight per cent. of oats, five 643c. Flour--37anitoba Spring wheat
patents, firsts, 28.70 ; Co,. seconds, $8.20;
per cent. of barley and 1.8 per cent. strong bakers , $s ; hinter patents.
of flax will fail to produce any crop choice, $7.75 ; straight rollers, 87.10 to
of grain. These percentages re re- $7.30 do., in bags, $3.40 to $2,5O, I?olled
g p oats—Barrels, 84.85 to $5.05 ; hag of 90
sent deductions from the areas sown Ibe., 82.s$$o to $2.00. Mil1feed—bran, $2a ;
of 1,432,800 acres of spring wheat, $s32 to'34,ZSIiamiddling- per3ton, oa�n1olt0;
849,000 acres of oats and 69,100 acres $13 to 314. Ch
to westerns, z�1,
Of barley. It is consequently esti- to 211c., do., easterns, 201 to 203e. Taut ?,
ter—Choicest creamery, 36n ; seconds,
mated that the total yield of wheat 35c. 1„gs—Fresh, 45 to 50c ; selected,
vinanipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Sept. 19.—Cash prices
Wheat,' No. 1 Northern, $1.333 ; ,No. 2
Northern, 21,56 ; No. 3 Northern, $'1.533
No, 4, 31.473 ; No. 5, 31.383 ; No. 6,
31.163•
c ;No. 3 ' C 1 W., 49 ; exxtraJ.No�l'1
feed, •49c ; No. 1, 481c ; No. 2 485e.
Barley, No.3, S0c ; No. 4,Sac ; rejected,
76c ; feed, 76e. Flax, No. 1 N. W. C.,
21.88 ; No. 2 C. W., 31.85.
United States ';Carkets.
Minneapolis, Sept. 19—Wheat, Sep -
TO GO TO GERMANY. !For interfering with recruiting• on Sep-
tember, ern, No, 1 hard, 3 ;• ; N 2
1. Northern, 03 to 1. $1.6fi3 ; No. 2
a Norther.�1 $1,506 to $1.643, Corn, No. 3
Craig Street Arthur Holland, f yellow, .s2 to. 83c, Oats, No. 3 white,
429 to 43c. Flour unchanged, Bran,
$20.00 to $21.00.
Duluth, Sept. 19.—Wheat,No. 1 hard,
No. 2 'No No.
Northern, to 21.61.643 23 ; Sep-
tember, $1.649 bid. Linseed on track
and to arrive, $2.06 ; September, 32.08
asked ; October, $2.053 bid ; November.
$2.063 asked ; December, 22,053- ; May,
22,09 asked.
MINNESOTA GETS $1,250,000
not conceive it. So many of our. com- KILLED AT THE FRONT. I FROM J J
rades are missing, who have fallen or . — �' steers
Minn., to • goodheavy steers, 38.00
Minnesota will receive approxi- eo• 28,10 � butetiers' cattle, gooa, $7.60
it'g .3
once more. Oh dear! Here we have tax tl'v $1,2a0est as an inheritances J. do •corrfmon $G 00 to 5 0 b ,. hers'
action, according to the latest casu-from the estate of James J Bill bulls• ch°lee• $7..25 to 9^,50 ; ao good
proper Englishmen against us antiwill largest in the history of i 5o to $ oo b t h
have .orders to take no prisoners, but erick Hugh Clifford and Louis Mur- p b C
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Sept, 19—Choiceheavyt
were wounded during the week, and A despatch from London says: Two says: Paul, r o $s. o , do., mearto 8710 to c 5 •
„ u
alty lists printed here—Henry Fred- It bethebo1}s, $6.40 t•0 $6.50 ; do., rough' bulls
' • 5. ' u c or' co�i�s, choice,
the State. r G,SQ to y4fr.35 ;' tic„ good,.
6 0 ' � -
oe medium, , 5n to $5•SS ; stockers,
+"Ramsey county so declared on Tues: 70o to 850 lbs MOO to 26.5b • choice
to despatch them all with the bayou- y p o ate ,curt offlclals of SS . 0 to $�.er
Y ray Plzill outs. d d
et, which I would not be sorry to do.
But they are always getting more
prisoners from us, and what do they
do with them?"
KING CONGRATULATES HAIG ON
SUCCESS.
London, Sept. 17.—Ring George sent
the following message to General Sir
Douglas Haig, the British conimander
in France : "I congratulate you and
my brave troops on the brilliant suc-
cess just achieved. I have never
doubted that complete vieeory will ul-
timately crown our efforts,'and the
splendid results' of the fighting`yester-
day confirmed this view.
ROUMANIAN GENERAL
DROWNED IN DANUBE.
Military Police Start Drive as Horses
Go to the Post.
A despatch from Berlin says: Ac-
cording to reports from Sofia, says an
Overseas News Ageney announce-
ment on Wednesdays General tessara-
besku, commander of the ;recently
captured Roumanian fortress of Tur-
tukai, attempted to escape in a boat
,after the fall of the last fortification,
The boat carrying hire was stink by
Bulgarian artillery, the advices state,
and the General was drowned in the
Danube.
''day. ' feeders, dehorned, $630 to $7,00 ; can -
DICKENS' GRANDSON IS KILaLED4' ` • ners and cutters, 33.50 to 94.50 ; Milkers,
choice, each, 270,00 to $90,00: do., com.
IN ACTION. WORLD'S HEIGHT RECORD and mod., each, .246.00 to $6:0.00 ;
springers, $50.00 to 390.00 ; light ewes,
IS 'AGAIN EXCEEDED. 37.60 to $1,00: beep, heavy, 34.50 to
5,35 ; spring lamb• choice, $10,50 to
10.89 ; calces, good to choice, 310,50 to
A despritch from Turin, Italy, says: $12.25 ; do„ mediu;n, $0,00 to 810,00 ;
Aviator Itepini, with two passengers hogs, feel and watered, 812,25 to 12.35 ;
g do, weighed off cars, $12,50 tcr1 ih,60
Painless dentistry is the art of
on Thursday beat the world's height do.', f.o.b., 311.4.0.
record, rising 6,300 metres (more Montreal, Sept. 19.—Choice steers,
drawing it mild. than 20,000 feet). , con mon at' 35,75 r tot 36.255 while ,choice
butchers' cows brought 36.50 to ,$6.75,
good, $6 to $6.25, rornman $5 to 35,75 and
bulls from 35.25 to $7 per cwt., canning
p AUSTRIAN OITO N .�A tco 34,25. Onta'24.60 orio4lambs at 31d cows
50 tot $3.75
311,
BY�" 3�il and Quebec stock at g9.75 to $10, while
sheep brought from 26.7.5 to 37.50 per
710 s " ' cwt. Choice calves, 9 to 1Oc., and the
MANI N F3 A S lower grades at from 4 to Sc poi ib.,
�1 3888 ddd'L��� SS5AAABBBEEEtttClAAA��� live weight, S.lected hogs, $12.25 to
$12.40 and the lower grades, at $10,25 to
312 per cwt„ weighed off ears.
A despatch from London says :
Major Cedric Charles Dickens, grand-
son of Charles Dickens, was killed in
action in France, Monday.
More Than Nine Hundred Prisoners and Much War Material
Captured in Transylvania.
London, Sept. 17.—The capture of
five Austrian Rositions by the Rou-
manians operating in the Transylvan-
ian Alps was announced by the Bu-
charest 'STnr Office to -right. Ten of-
ficers amt 900 men were taken prison-
ers, The statement says:
' "On the north-western front we oc-
copied Somerod, Alinas, 'Cohabit and
Iraogaras. We took 910 prisoners, in-
cluding ten • officers, and captured
some war material. In' the Strecu
valley, • Bran Hill was captured by
' us. We took 76 prisoners. Our bat
teries sank two munitions ,barges
near the month of Lom River.
"In the Dobrudja there were en-
gagements with advanced detach-
ments of the enemy."
NO RICE FOR KAISER • '
FROM SWITZERLAND.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Swiss export commission has refused
a personal request of the Kaiser to
furnish his table with rice. Baron
von Romberg, the German • Minister at
Berne, asked the Swiss Government
to authorize the shipment of 200
pounds of rice for the consumption of
the .Emperor and his family, but the
export commission, being tied ley an
agreement with the allies was unable
to comply with the request,