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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-10-06, Page 2GENERAL HAIG DELIVERS ANOTHER POWERFUL STROKE German Trenches Demolished on Front of Nearly Two Miles and One More Village Has Been Captured. ERLIN ADMITS STORMING SCIIWABEN RED UBT RUSSIAN GAINS Ir2,,SCRIBED BY AN EYE, -3I TNESS Two-pronged Advance on Lem. berg is Gathering Full Headway. London, Oct, 1. -The two-pronged London, Oct. L-A powerful new activity along the two-mile line be- advance of the Russians on Lemberg stroke to -day carried Gen. Haig's i tween Flers and Le Sars, The Brit is again gathering full headway, and British troops within two ante half ; ish made progress here, while the tithe Ausbro-German armies of Prince miles of Bapaume, the high road to i French, in small engagements, press- Leopold of Bavaria and Archduke Karl ed forward somewhat north of Ran have been pushed back. Both north which they straddle. They demolish- ed the German trenches on a front of a mile and throe -quarters, stretching from a point east of Eaucourt L'Ab- baye is reported in their hands, ac- cording to news reaching Gen. Haig at headquarters. The new blow was carried out af- trench fighting around the Stuff an ter a tremendous artillery bombard- Schwaben redoubts has been made. meat, the attacking troops being The Germans, apparently in an ef- closely followed by the terrible fort to create a diversion and lighten "tanks," which cleaned out the Ger-1 the pressure on their Somme armies pian trenches by an enfilading fire to -day delivered a series of attacks while the infantry swept forward. against the French front in the Ta - More than 300 prisoners had been hure district. The French fire render - brought in at a late hour to -night, ed the attacks fruitless, making a total of almost 30,000 on Sni Douglas g p the British front alone since the be- ginning of the Som;ne operations. A division of the new 'army took part in the fighting, and showed steadiness and endurance. To -day's stroke court and south-east of Morval and east and south-east of the Galician Clay, where they are striking at Sail- capital the Russians have registered lisel. advances, capturing, according to the Progress in Thiepval Area. official report issued in Petrograd, On the British left in the Thiepval more than 4,000 prisoners. Russian area further progress in desperate gains are admitted by Berlin. The two main actions are- being waged in the region of the .Brody- Krasne railway, about 80 miles north- east of Lemberg, and in the Brzezany sector of the Zlota Lipa River, 0 miles south-east of the city. In the former district the Russians have pressed forward against heavy resistance, taking about 2,000 prix-' oners. A Teuton position on the right followed a night of Haig reports: "Since bank of the Zlota Lipa was carried on Sept. 18 we have taken between the the south-eastern sector of the ad- vance. This new stroke of Gen. Brussiloff is believed to have been made to fore- stall the offensive contemplated by Field Marshal von Hindenburg. It puts the Teutons upon a strict defers- Ancre and the Somme 24 field guns, 3 field howitzers and 3 heavy howitzers. "From July 1 to Sept. 30 in' the same area we made prisoner 588 of- ficers and 26,147 other ranks." ROULMAN ARMY TRAPPED IN PASS The Invaders of Transylvania Meet With a Severe Reverse. London, Oct. 1. -The desperate bat- tle which has been raging for four days in the Hermannstadt sector of Transylvania has resulted in a Ger- man victory. The first Roumanian army was destructively defeated, ac- cording to Berlin, and fled into the mountains south of Hermannstadt. A despatch from Petrograd says: - The German and Austrian troops! According to the statistics for the under General von Falkenhayn had; year 1915, which are now available, seized the Rothenthurm Pass, south 1 the population of Russia increased Vis' on them. The second Roumanian army was then called upon to relieve the first group, but their arrival on have been the first movements of the the battlefield was too tardy to save contemplated advance. the day.• A great deal of significance attaches sive in the eastern theatre, following close upon the heels of tentative at- tacks by them which are believed to to this operation, in the opinion of PUNISHMENT military observers here. It is the first success obtained by von. Falken- hayn since he took command of the Teuton forces in Transylvania, follow- ing his retirement on August 29 as chief of the German general staff in favn of von Hindenburg. RUSSIA'S POPULATION IS NOW 182,182,600 Markets Of The Word rireadstnifs• Toronto, Oct. 3, -Manitoba wheat --- No. 1 Northern $1.723; No, 2 do„ $1.683 No, 3'do„ $1.eEi3 ; S.T,. 4 wheat $1.603, on track Bay ports, Old corn trading Last Defence South of the Ancre Was Strongest German In- 2eMaa itoba, now -ire. 2 C,W„ 603c :, No 3 C.W., O90 ; extra No. 1 reed, 600 ; Nb. 1 feed, 591e, on tracic Bay ports. American corn -No. 3 yellow, 960, on track Toronto, Ontario oats -No, 2 white. 63 to 564 No, 3 do., 62 to 64c, according td freights outside. Ontario wheat -New No. • 2, Winter, per car lot. $1,41 to $i�,42, according to freights outside, Old oron--No, 1 com- too °$i,80 ;$1 No. to do..21.85 3$1.2No.t21.22. $1.29 Peas -No, 2, $2.15 to $2.26, according to freights outside. Barley -Malting, 87 to 900, nominal ; feed, 83 to 850, nominal, accbrding to freights outside. Buckwheat -SO to 82o. nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. - ltys-No. 2, new, 21.18 to $1.20, ae- cording to freights outside, Manitoba flour -First patents, in ute bags, $9.00 ; second patents. in Jute bags, $8.50 ; strong bakers'. in Jute bags, $8.80, Toronto. Ontario flour -New Winter, according to sample, 26.50, in bags, track Toronto, Prompt shipment ; new, 26.35, bulk sea- board, prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal freights,•sorts, perolto , $30 ranmiper ton, ddlings, Per 'ion. $31 ; good feed flour, per bag, FIa.Y--New. No. 1 per ton, $10 to 212 ; No. 2, per ton, $9 to 39.50, on track To- ronto. Straw -Car lots, per ton. 37, on track Toronto. dustry and Ingenuity Could Build. A despatch from the British Armies in the Field in France says: "You have just time to get into a tree top and see us go after the Schwaben re- doubt," said a staff general to the cor- respondent of the Associated Press on Friday. Attacks have been so numerous along the British front in the last few days that even if informed of all be- forehand, the correspondents would have to possess a dual personality to be present at all. The offensive is in one of its bit -by -bit stages, but is be- ing pressed with sustained and tire- less fiery under the auspices of the halcyon Autumn weather, for the past week surpassed any other week since it began. First Attacked on July 1. FOR DESERTERS They May be Sent to Prison for Two Years -Stringent Or- der for Seamen, Too. A despatch from Ottawa says: - Two orders in Council have been pro- mulgated stiffening the law with re- gard to dealing with deserters from the expeditionary forces and kith re - of Hermannstadt, and when an en -rover 53,000,000 or 42 per cent. since' gard to seamen who refuse to obey circling movements from the west 1897. It increased over 3,800,000 or I orders on ships requisitioned for hie forced the Roumanians to retire to- more than 2 per cent, since 1914. The . Majesty's service. in total population is set down as 182,- In the case of soldiers wh ert or are absenteeeithout lea -f0; vided £hat they may be : summarily tried by any Justice of the Peace, Police or Stipendiary Magistrate with- out regard to territorial jurdisdiction, and sentenced on conviction to impri- sonment for a term not exceeding two years. The production of a service roll or attestation paper purporting to be signed 'by the accused, and a written statement from the Officer Commanding the military district showing that the accused was absent from. his corps, shall be deemed a sufficient proof of desertion. In the case of ships of the mer- chant marine requisitioned for war service it is provided that any sea- man who neglects or refuses without reasonable cause to join his ship or proceed to sea, or joins in a state of mass was witnessed by thousands of drunkenness, shall be liable to sum - Londoners, who showed their satisfac- mary conviction to imprisonment up tion by loud cheering. The Zeppelin to five years, began to descend slowly, and then very fast, the blaze from it lighting up the countryside for many miles like day. The military critic of the Frankfur- ter Zeitung says conditions for Zeppe- linh Schwaben redoubt is beyond Thiep- val, which was taken Tuesday. A crucifix once crowned this ridge. Where it stood became thepcentre of the strongest defence German indus- try death laid its gripping, clinging man - was and ingenuity o couldeUlstermen This tee over this trench, whose inmates was the goal g the my 1, wen could survive only by hugging their their heroic chargon *July 1, when dugouts. Every shell seemed to fall they fell face forwardgnunder the between two imaginary lines of tape storm of machine gun fire sent fromhlaid for the guidance of the gunners. peasants site of thei fotheir shrine, which When the rain of steel ceased, the working in lookedufields could British soldiers, timing their arrival seeawhen they ruup from their to its cessation, were over the parapet labors in the surrounding fields and j and at the doors of the dugouts. Then villages.Inaon to the next trench in the same In all' the weeksosince July 1 the fashion the waves of shell fire swept British . Theirh furtherncwatere l i at up the hillside as shields for the tliis hill. trenches were in the ad- vancing waves of khaki. ward that gateway the Bavarians the pass opened up a devastating fire1 182,600. - ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN IN NEW RAID ON ENGLAND Great Crowds Cheer Spectacle of Burning Airship as it Fell in London District on Monday Morning. London, Monday, Oct. 2. -Another Zeppelin was shot down in flames during a raid, which is still in pro- gress, at an early hour this morning. The first report, issued by Field Mar- shal Sir John French, commanding the home forces, says: "A number of hostile airships cross- ed the east coast between 9 o'clock (Sunday) and midnight. A few bombs were dropped near the coast. No damage has yet been reported. The raid is still in progress. Some airships are in the vicinity of London, where some guns have been in action. An airship is just reported brought down in flames north of London." Advices from the suburbs of Lon- don give graphic accounts of the man- ner in which the Zeppelin -the fourth to be brought down on English soil - fell a victim to Great Britain's anti- aircraft defences. Although the Zeppelin crashed to earth almost due north of London the spectacle of the descending blazing "And we hope the Germans will continue to think us stupid," said a British staff officer. Last Commanding High Ground. But beyond Thiepval was that last commanding high' ground south of the Ancre. Bare and brown it looked in the morning, and distinct were the German trenches which were - .going "to get it" at a given moment. Meanwhile all along the line of bat- tle cane just the steady gunfire which has been maintained without intermis- sion of late. This keeps the Germans always under strain, destroying their works as fast as they can dig. They never know when or where such things as happened at Schwaben re- doubt may happen. And suddenly balls of smoke so thick that they soon became a cloud were laid over the German first line on the ridge, and every one bxeaeing from an ugly flash. Hissing, crashing same place as before that day. The "no man's land," or dead space, re- mained where it was when the Ger- mans first formed; their defensive line. But while they were swinging in from the south, where the grand attack on kinds as the guns come playing an in - July 1 had succeeded, they had given' creasingly skilful part. And the Ger- Thiepval and Schwaben redoubt a fair mans came back, their shells scream - daily allowance of shell fire, though ing through the .British shell curtain, making no infantry attack. trying to check the human waves. For nely three months this soft- But unless their curtains were laid in ening process continued. Then when the right place they were waste. A the British had gained the ridges run- line of infantry may be fairly safe Hing at an angle with the old German with a curtain shell fire a hundred Fighting Still in Progress. There are creeping artillery bar- rages and jumping barrages and many • line of Thiepval they began to take fresh interest in. that old first line. Now they did'not have'to attack it in front, but approached 1.1 from the side,. ani .well' as having Win a crushing SUBMARINE BREMEN CAPTURED BY BRITISH vise. One German officer, who was cap- tured, said he did not think the Brit- ish good enough soldiers to attack in this way, which was just the way the British did attack after their lesson of July 1. A despatch from Washington says -Another report of the capture of dattacks on England areyear mut more the German merchant submarine British, than evens, a ha ago.i The Bremen, reached official circles here carryh, theirhe says, have had time to on Sunday from unofficial, but usual - highest pdefencecmeasures to the ly reliable sources. According to highest perfection. this account, which is given credence by some high military officers, the Bremen was seen three weeks ago at the big British naval station at Rosyth, on the east coast of Scotland, having been captured in one of the steel nets recently used with such suc- cess by Great Britain against under- water craft. More than 70 submar- ines are said to have been taken or destroyed by the nets. GAVE LEGION OF HONOR TO VERDUN'S MAYOR. GERMAN SOMME COMMANDER DECLINES TO MAKE PR MANS Does Not Think, However, That a Decision Will be Forced by Allies During This Year. b CANADA ASKED FOR 5,000 RECRUITS FOR THE NAVY A despatch from Berlin says: The attacks, accompanied by an enormous Berliner Tageblatt's special war cor- expenditure of ammunition. But we respondent interviewed Crown Prince , have taken precautiqns. Our artillery Rupprecht of Bavaria, commander of ; have been reinforced, and likewise our the C,clman forces on the Somme, I aeroplane corps and our fliers have . Tut r;ay. The Crown Prince is quot-e had fine successes in the past few ed as having said that since the offers- i days, although they have had hard sive began the Entente allies had ` fighting against increased numbers. gained some ground, but there could' Our artillery derives advantages from be no thought of this decisively 1 the successful work of the aeroplanes, changing the situation. latter having formerly been much ex - "It is impossible to predict how I posed to observation by hostile avia- things will go hereafter," said Prince ; tors. Rupprecht. "T3ut one thing is sex-' Our troops have been striking with tain, namely, that we have everything i the utmost strength, and the enemy so thoroughly prepared that we are 'has found the nut too hard to er ack. able to contemplate the situation with e q uaniitnity, whatever comes. The of- fensive will certainly not reach an early end. "We can reckon upon an offensive of great persistence and with heavy yards on either side. To -morrow those waves may break with sudden inten- sity at some other point along the bat- tle line and another village .or sys- tem of trenches may. be taken. Three quarters of Schwaben re- doubt is in British hands, and five or six hundred prisoners were shelled out 'of their dugouts, while the fight- ing continues at this writing. All along the line the British are gaining ground. Country Produce --Wholesale. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 32 to 83e ; inferior, 26 to 280 •, Creamery prints, 37 to 390 ; solids, 36 to 37c. Eggs -No. 1 storage. 35 to 360 ; stor- age, selects, 37 to 38e ; new -laid, in cartons. 40 to 420. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 24 to 25o; fowl, 18 to 20c ; ducks. 1S to 20c ; squabs, per doz.. $4.50: Live poultry -Chickens, 17 to 18c fowl, 14 to 16e ; ducks, 13 to 15c. Cheese --New. large, 211 to 213c ; twins, 213 to 220: triplets. 22 to 2210. Honey-3Dxtra line Quality, Si -1b. tins, 130 ; 5-1b. tins, 123c ; 10 -ib., 111 to 120 ; 60-1b.. 113 to 12c. Comb honey, select, $2.60 to 32.75 ; No. 2, 32,25 to $2.40. Potatoes -Ontario, $1.85 ; British Columbia Rose, per bag, 31.70 to 81.76 ; British Co lumepWhites, ukr. o 31.35 ;NwnwicDelawares. ner sBan-Hand-packed, $5.26 ; primes. $6,00. A despatch from Ottawa says :- Co-operation between military and naval authorities is being arranged in connection with the enlistment of recruits in Canada for the British navy. Five thousand is the number sought Recruiting offices are being opened at Halifax, St. John, Quebec, uebe Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Van- couver and Victoria, while every mili- tary divisional recruiting depot will also receive applications. Command- er White, an old Royal Navy officer, is in charge of the recruiting organ- ization. Two thousand men by New Year's are expected to be enrolled. It is my distinct opinion that the en- emy is trying to force a decision at this spot and during this year, and he has not yet succeeded. He will have to put up with a Winter campaign and contilnle his fighting next year." A despatch from Paris says: Pros- per Renaud, Mayor of Verdun, has been nominated a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for "notwithstanding his age and ill -health, remaining at his post during the most intense bom- bardment of the town, helping in the evacuation of its citizens and in many other ways, and leaving the town only upon order of the military authorities, BRITISH LOSS ON SOMME 807,000 TO DATE. A despatch from London says: Brit- ish losses in September were at the rate of more than 8,800 a day.. The casualties on all fronts reported in September were: officer,, 5,439; men, 114,110. FINED $450 FOR SALE OF 2 BOTTLES OF WHISKEY TRAIN CRASHED 0 STREET CAR A despatch from London, Ont., says: -That the prohibition act is to be strictly enforced was brought home to John McIntosh of 520 Ontario street very forcibly on Friday when he was fined $450 or three months in jail for selling two bottles of whiskey since September 16. He also paid $300 for a fine under the old license act. Mc- Intosh is an ex -bartender. Provisions -Wholes ale. Toronto wholesale=s las followsuoted by Smoked meats-Hams,oed u 24 to cooked, 22 60 : do., heavy, to 37c ; breakfast bacon, 26 to 270: backs, plain, 26 to 27c ; boneless. 28 to 29c. Pickled or dry cured meats, 1 cent less than cured. Cured mmeats-Long clear bacon, 18 to 153 r Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 173c : Come u7nd,t 1317 to ; 133cll5, 173 to 173e. Montreal Markets. Montreal. Oct. 3, -Corn -American No 2 yellow, 97 to 980. Oats -Canadian Western. No. 2, 6230 ; Canadian West- ern. No. 3, 6130: extra No. 1 feed, 613 ; No. 3 local white, 65c. Barley Mani- toba feed. 8910. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts. 39.10 ; . seconds. 38.60 ; strong bakers' 38,40 Winter patents, choice, $3.25: straight bags, $3.60 to 33.7590 Rolledi rollers, Oats-Bar- rels, 36.25 to $6.40 ; bags, 90 lbs., 33.00 to 38.15. Bran. $27 ; shorts, $29 : middlings, 331 mouillie, 334 to $36. Hay -NO. 2, per ton, car lots, $13.00. Cheese -Finest westerns, 203 to 210 ; finest easterns, 201 to 2010. Butter -- Choicest creamery.hselecteseconds, 360.. Eggs -Fresh, toesoper bag. car loss 3125 toCS'.1,50. t Thirteen Known Dead in Sun- day Tragedy at Detroit. A despatch from Detroit says: Thirteen persons were killed and more than 28 injured, several probably fa- tally, late on Sunday night when a switch engine pushing two freight cars crashed into a crowded street car at Forest Avenue and Dequind'er Streets, on the East side. There were more than 90 persons in the street car, many of them returning from the theatres. The street car was struck almost in the centre, the impact push- ing it from the tracks and sliding it alongside of the freight cars. Panic- stricken passengers began jumping from both the front and rear doors and climbing through windows. Most of the dead were killed by jumping from the car and falling under the wheels of the still -moving freight cars. The railroad tracks at Dequin- der Street are used by the Grand Trunk and Detroit Terminal Railroad Companies. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Oct. S. -Cash quotations Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 31.633 Northern, $1.573. Oats -No. 2 C,W., 533c ; No. 3 C.'V., 623c ; extra No, 1 feed, 526c ; No. 1 feed, 523c ; No. 2 feed, 5230. Barley -No. 3, 920 ; No. 4, 87c ,• rejected, W.Ca 31.993 ; feed, 2 C.W . 31.961. 1 WILSON NOTIFIES PRO CE . 1ANS HE DOES NOT WISH THEIR VOTES President of the United States Would Feel Deeply Mortified if They Marked Their Ballots in His Favor. A despatch from New 'York says: Stung to anger by an avalanche of in- sulting and insistent communications demanding that the Government take certain action favorable to Germany, President Wilson, through the me- dium of a telegram addressed to Jere- miah A. O'Leary, president of the so- called American Truth Society, an or- ganization formed for the purpose of aiding the German 'propaganda, on Friday .served notice on the hyphen - United States Tdarket6: Minneapolis, Oct, 3. -Wheat -Decem- ber, 31.603 to $1.605 ; May, • 1 to 31.59. Cash -No. 1 hard, 21.67 • No. 1 Northern, 31.635 to 51.64 No. 2 Northern, 31.585 to 31.633. Corn --No. 3 Yellow, 83 to 84c. Oats -No. 3 white. 433 to 440. Flour unchanged. Bran - 221.50 to 222.50. Duluth, Oct, 3, -Wheat, No. 1 hard, 31..058 ; No. 1 Northern, 31,661 to 31.673 ; No. 2 Northern, 21.608 to 31.631. December. 31,603 bid. Linseed -$2.183 October, $2.17 asked : November, $2.17 bid December, 32.161 asked, May. $2,203, asked, Live Stook Markets. Toronto Oct. 3. -Good heavy steers, 95.00 to $9.25 ; butohers' cattle. good. 37.50 to 37.75 ; do.; medium, $6.75 to $7.00 ; do., common, 45.60 to 36.26 : butchers' bulls, choice. $$7.10 to $7.36 do., good bulls, 36.40 to $6,60 ' do. rough bulls, 34.50 to 35.00 ; butchers' cows, choice, 36.25 to $6,50 ; do.. good. 35.75 to 36.00 ; do„ medium, 36.60 to 30.60 stockers, 700 to 550 lbs. $6.00 to 36.50 ; choice feeders. 36.25 to $7.00 canners and cutters, $3,60 to 34.50 i milkers, choice. each, $70.00 to $90,00 ; do., com. and med., each, $40 to 360.00 ; springers, 350.00 to $90.00 ; light eweS, 27.00 to 37.50 ; sheep, heavy. $4.50 to 36,50 ; calves, good to choice, $10,60 to 312.00 ; spring lambs, choice, $10,25 to $10.50 ; do„ medium, 39.60 to 29,76 hogs, fed and watered, 311.90 : do., weighed off cars, 312,15 to 12.20 ; do, f.o.b.. 311,40. Montreal, Ont. 3, -•Butchers' steers, good, 37,10 to 28.; fair, 36.25 ; medium, 5 to 35.60 ; cows, good, 35.26 to $6 ; fair, 35.25 to 35.60 • common, $4 to 5 : canners, 33.26 to $3.50 ; cutters, 33.75 to 34,50 ; bull best, 16,75 to 36,25 ; good. $6.25 to 25.75 ; far, 34.75 to 25 ; canners, 54.25 to 34.75 ; shop, 6o to 70; lambs, 90 to 100 ,• calves, milk fed. 8c to 90; grass fed, 50; hogs, selects, 311.25 to $10.75 ; sows, $9 to 39.mixed, lbta, $10 WATERS OF THE NILE HIGHEST IN 22 YEARS ates that he wants no "disloyal" Am- erican to vote for him. The Presie dent's message, which was in reply to a telegram from 'Leary, accusing him of being pro -British, was sent from Long Branch, N.3., and reads; "Your telegram received. 1 would feel deeply mortified to have you or anybody like you vote for me. Since you have access to malty disloyal Am- ericans and I have not, I will ask you. to convey this message to them," A despatch from Cairn says: -The waters of the Nile are at the highest stage reached in 22 years, and the Ministry of Public Works has issued a warning that every precaution should bo taken in view of the danger that the Nile may burst its banks. The flood in the Soudan has fallen, but the surface of the river in lower Egypt is from seven to twenty foot above the level of the surrounding country.