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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-10-20, Page 7AVIATION SCHOOL AND PLANT TO BE ESTABLISHED IN CANADA. 'ITALIAN GAINS The Factory Will Turn Out Complete Aeroplanes and Will Get Imperial Orders. A despatch from Ottawa says: Canada is to go in for the manufac- ture of aeroplanes. The Government has for some time had under consider - tion the establishment in Canada of an aviation school with a view to the development of what has become so important a branch of warfare on both land and sea. The matter has been further considered during the past week, and a decision' has been reached to establish a school and also to have built and equipped in Canada a factory which will turn out com- plete aeroplanes, that is to say, com- plete with the motors, which hereto- fore have not been built in this coun- try. The aviation school will be under the direction of the Imperial authori- ties, who have agreed to provide a staff of experts for the purpose. The factory will be established 'under the direction of the Imperial Munitions Board, the Imperial Government hav- ing assured orders which will take care of the output of the factory while the war lasts. No information is available at present as to the probable location of either the school or the factory. NEW SUCCESS FOR THE ALLIES Foch's Troops Capture the Ger- man Line on One -Mile ,Front. London, Oct, 15. -The French won IN TRENTINO *RUSSIANS CAPTURE TRENCHES IN BATTLE ON THE STOKHOD Strong Austrian , Positions Cap- tured in the Pasubio Region. A despatch from London says: The Italian success on the Carso continues, to grow. Slowly but without pause General Cadorna's troops are pushing toward their goal, Trieste. The Aus- trians are offering the sternest kind of resistance, but their efforts have' not succeeded in checking the offen- sive. The capture of Nova Vas by the Italians is admitted in the Vienna official report, which also admits that the first -lino Austrian trenches to the south were lost. The occupation of the first line on the Carso plateau has now been com- pleted, and the Italians have surged beyond it toward the second line, which now is being subjected to heavy attack. The toll of prisoners taken by the invader has reached a total of 8,000, while the Austrians have cap- tured 2,700. the Germans completely out • of the positions they had gained a foothold in. The French again attempted to swing their lines through Sailley-Sail- lisel and into the sector south of Transloy, but in hand-to-hand fight- ing of the most desperate character they were driven `back to their start- ing points. By their furious resis- tance in this region the Germans have given notice that they intend to de- fend the Bethune road to the limit of fresh successes south of the Somme their resources. on Saturday. East of Belloy-en-San- Berlin admits that the British north terre Foch's troops captured a first of Thiepval gained a firm hold on the German line on. a front of more than German trenches, and that the French a mile. To the south-west of this re- south of the Somme have won a foob- gion they swept forward from Bovent ung in the sugar refinery at Gener- for nearly a mile and seized the ham- mont. let of Genermont, while they also ex- -- •- -- tended their lines near Albaincourb, winning a strongly -defended sugar re- �� finery. Over 1,100 Germans were made prisoner in these operations. German troops last night launched several counter-attacks against the positions which the French had occu- pied during the day south of the River Somme, says the statement is- sued by the French War Department. All the German attacks were repulsed by the French infantry, the statement adds, and all the gains were main- tained. • British Also Advance. Enterprises undertaken yesterday by British troops in the neighborhood of the. Stuff and Schwaben redoubts,, in of four guns, and a large number of the River Somme region, were highly I.amriiunition. wagons was captured. successful, says the official statement j The Italians also captured still more ALIAN TROOPS MAKE PROGRESS Losses on both sides are extremely heavy, for the Italians are attacking. in mass formation and the Austrians are counter -attacking repeatedly.• It is estimated that the Teuton losses now amount to 24,000. The Austrians' are making terrific efforts to avert the disaster which threatens them. They are training every available gun on the ground over which the enemy is advancing, while the infantry moving forward in waves has counterattack- ed for the last 24 hours without inter- mission. Seize More of Mountain Ridge South-east of Gorizia. Rome, Oct. 15. -Italian troops in the Trentino yesterday made further progress in their advance towards Mount Roite according to the Italian official statement issued to -day. In the region of Cosmagnan an entire :Austro-Hungarian 'battery, cotuposed issued to -day by the British War Of- fice. More than 300 Germans were taken prisoner. North of Stuff re- doubt two lines of enemy Communica- tion trenches were cleared for a dis- tance of nearly 200 yards. One officer and 100 men of other ranks were tak- en prisoners in the course of this oper- ation, which was carried out by a single company, At the Schwaben redoubt the British gain was greater and the line was advanced well to the north and west of the redoubts Heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy. Despite the cloudy weather and ac- tive barrage fire at a range of from quotes the Tageblatt of Berlin, to the 200 to 300 metres, the allied aviators qect that examination e the mine co-operated in a most effective fashion ff classes xof ina to 1875 (men be - in the fighting yesterday south of the tarytweenthe ages of 58 and Ism we - Somme. They surpassed all that was take place his month in the province expected of .them. One machine that of Brandenburg, in which Berlin is returned had been struck by t �o hun- situated. The despatch says the or - two pilots, Northvrlow,of the Somme der refers to all those who previously two pilots, flying very used their machine guns at short range against the enemy in his trenches.. of the Sobre ridge of mountains south-tast of Gorizia. Other positions already taken were consolidated and preparation for new attacks made. The War Office announcement says: "The Austrians have lost 28,000 men in the last two days of fighting on the Carso plateau. The battle continues with undiminished violence." GERMANY MAY CALL OLD MEN TO COLORS. A despatch from London says: Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent Fighting in the Volhynia Assumes the Ferocity That Character- ized the Days of Early Summer. London, Oct. 15. -The battle on the ; guns ceased for the first time in Stokhod River, in Volhynia, has brok- ! hours, and masses of Muscovites leap- en out anew. The Russians leaped ed over the parapet and poured for - from the trenches to the attack yes- . ward into the German trenches, The terday morning, and before darkness I rest of the story is told in the laconic came the fighting had assumed the statements of the War Office. Several ferocity that characterized the days !lines of Teuton trenches were carried, of early Summer. I prisoners and guns were seized, and Brussiloff had prepared for his the despairing efforts of the enemy. to ASQUITH SCORNS - PATCHED PEACE Allies Demand Adequate Re- paration, Adequate homes Markets Of The World preatlaturs, Torun to, Ock. 17--•]t'lanitoba wheal .71 No. No. 8 do., $3.06 i 741No• 4+ wheat, 31. track, sy ports, ts, Old croft trad- ing'Manitoba oats -No. 2 C,"W., 61c ; No. 3, do. 600 ; tottra No. 1 feed, 60c , No. 1 feed, 591c, track, Bay worts. lime, corn ---No, 3 yellow, track. Toronto, Ontario oats --.o. 2 white, 50 to 570 ; No. 3, do, 54 to 560, according to freights outside, Ontario wheat -New No, 2,Winter, per car lot. $1.52 to $1:54, according tce freights outside. Old crop --No. 1 com- mercial, 81.47 to $1.50; No. 2, do,, $1.` e to $1.43; No, 3, do., $1,28 to 51.32. Peas -No 2. $3.15 to 22.20, accordant~ to freights outside. DarleY-&lotting, 04 to 96e. nominal feed, 87 to 900, nominal i1uckwheat-86 to 27c. ;nominal. stye -No. 2, new, $1.18 to $1.20, ac- cording to freights outside. Manitoba flour --First patents, in jute movement in his usual methodical i wrest back then temporary nays. $9s;b0 ; second tai sen b In lute manner. For nearly 48 hours pre- failed. bags, $3.s6 'J.nrunt°. ceding the infantry charge the heavi- I On other parts of the far-flung lines I cJntarin iiouxorlie ' winter. according' be mustered our- in o theRussian Ito sample, $7.50, in bags• track Toronto. tarnrnn s T, y, d. Montreal ed a deluge of shot and shell in o .guns •t� (,•eights bane ineiule -- ran' dd13 est guns that could p i • V lhynia and Galicia t hl meet ' t theare battering at the enemy's ITlifeed•--•( �.3 lots ali re per ten enemy's entrenchments. Along the , trenches with the same ferocity, pre- ! $29ao ; 'shorts, per ton, 532 ; ml '4: five -mile front from Korytniza north' paringfor similar charges by the in- pee ton, $33 ; Rond feed hour, per bas: Hay New, No. 1; per ton: 510 to 512 along the -winding marsh -flanked Pantry. Neither in Galicia nor to the ' 53,50. Stokhod, hardly a foot of the German i north have the Russian commanders =1 o. 2, per ton, $9 to 50.00, track, Tnron- and Austrian trench lines escaped im- I despaired of smashing through the ,,traw-Car lots, per ton, Sr to $s. meesien in the flood of metal hurled opposing lines to victory. That is tr•a0k, Toronto. 1 of the fro m the Russian artillery. what is read in At dawn the thunder of the Russian j battle on the Stokhod. FRENCH HURLING I BIG WAR ORDER 100 SHELLS TO 1 SENT TO CANAD Security. A despatch from London says: "This is no time for faltering coun- sel or wavering' purposes," said Pre- mier Asquith in addressing the Housee of Commons on Wednesday. war cannot be allowed to end in some patched -up, precarious and dishonor- ing tinder' V i A German Gain. In Ablaincou.rt, at the tip of the salient held by Foch's troops north of Cliauhies a furious assault on Friday have been declared unfit for military service. Defender of Verdun Says They Will Soon be Doing Better Than That. A Contracts to be Placed f Munitions to Value of $60,000,000. or Country Produce ---Wholesale. Dotter -Fresh dairy, choice, 36 to 36c: inferior, 20 to 31c : creamery prints, 39 to 41c ; solids, 39 to 400. Eggs --No. 1 storage, 35 to 36c : stor- age, selects. 37 to 38e ; new -laid, in carton, 43 to 450: out of cartons; 40 to 42c. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 23 to .240 ; fowl, 18 to 20c ; ducks, 18 to 200 ; squabs. per dozen, 54.00 to 54.60 ; tor- 10c. ur- keys, 30 to 35c ; geese. Spring. 17 10 1J Live poultry -Chickens, 17 to 180 ; fowl, 14 to 16c ; ducks, 18 to 15c ; tur- keys, 25 to 26c : geese, Spring, 14 to 15c. Cheese --New, large, 22 to 2210 ; twins. 224 to 23c ; triplets, 23 to 23 c. Honey -Extra fine quality, 2$ -ib. tins, 1st ; 10 lb., 115 to 1`21c ; 60-1b„ 11 y to 12c, Comb honer A despatch from Paris -says: Gen. Ottawa, Oct. 11. -Munition orders $sem stile to $2.60 to 52.76 lg t, ocr 52.25 Nivelle, Commander of the French placed in Canada since the outbreak to $240, _ forces at Verdun, in talking with Wal- I of the war amount to $550,000,000. CPotatoes-Ontario, o tat a Ro Ont r bag$ .6 • to rlt70h ter Hale, an artist, and H. 0. Beatty, (An order for munitions to the value of Brides Columbia Whites, per bag, 51.60 Director -General of the American Re- $60,0, 0,000 has just been received and per 51.66 ;'1.OU to Brunswick r s sa TrioDelawares, e la a es, I Island Whites, per bag, $1.00, track,'10- ard lief Clearing House of New York, at ! contracts to that amount are to be his headquarters during the shelling , placed. Since the first of the year or-' 1'OCabbages-Manitoba, per ton $40, of German trenches by the French on I dere have been placed amounting in handF3tpicked,r$sa5oat, primes, g $6.to ; Tnesday, remarked that the French value to $185,000,000. were throwing more than one hundred These figures were made public on shells to one thrown by the Germans, Wednesday afternoon by the Imperial Provisicna-TrThoieriale• and that soon they will be doing bet- ( Munitions Board. During the months 26Sm aced hmeats-Sams, ady 22 to s23clediu eel, 36 tar than that. The defender of Ver- ; of July and August the output from bacon '26 to 27c � ba012�a plapre 2s aw dun said that his army had had its ' Canadian industries was interrupted 2 a c . boneless, ° d 'meats. 1. cent 13c ; 5 -lb, tins, 125 to 23 t 290 bitter struggles, but that now of there by reason of the difficulty experienced-rtcl.led or drs cure should be an attack it would be in procuring the 'necessary steel and lessuthan oatsa-Longi clear bacon, 10 to broken by the French. Beatty and forgings. The board is now pleased .lsLard- ur'e and tielr0es,l17tto1171c Hale watched the cannonade for two to state that, due to the efforts put tubs, 171 to 175c ; palls, 176 to 17go: hours at night from the ramparts of forth by manufacturers, the output on Compound, 14 to 14c. most contracts is more satisfactory THREE BRITISH PLANES WINGED OVER OBERNDORF. London, Oct. 15. -The Admiralty enabled the Germans to seize several last night issued the following an - positions and some trenches to the nouncement: "A sccuessful raid was north-east of the village. These they did not hold for long. Showing a surprising ability bo rally quickly from the effects of the enemy's charge, carried out on Oberndorf the after- noon of the twelfth by a large number of British and French naval aero- planes. Three British planes failed to the French wave recoiled and swept return. INTERVENT fN AT PRESENT OUL r MEAN BRITISH DISASTER Lloyd George Repeats That Great Britain Will Tolerate No Out- side Int& rference. A despatch from London says,: In the House of Commons on Wednesday night Lloyd George, Minister of War, $eplied to criticisms of utterances to the effect that the European war was to be a fight to a finish, and that Great Britain would tolerate no out- side interference Ili the direction of peace. Chartes. P. Trevelyan complained that the Government had ignored the important speech by President Wilson en international mediation. Mr. Lloyd George, replying, declar- ed that the answer to all this was a military, rather than a diplomatic, affair. As a matter of fact, Viscount ng compromise masquerading erdun. - they ' a night in the cite- and increasing in volume each week• Montreal Markets. the r a un with General Petain, The quantity of shrapnelshells now1 Montreal. Oct. 'T. -Corn -American "No one desires e prolong for del at Verdun w• , No. 2 yellow, $1'02• Oats -Canadian dingle moment longer than is neces- Command 2 . do Nn 3 6�1c • tragic spectacle of blood- h and extra No 1 feed, s s sore the g P shed and destruction, but we owe it thoseo h have given their lives t`re name of peace.They also spent Commander of the French forces In produced each week, complete western, No. e 2 c No. 2 local the • Soissons -Verdun region, wit cartridge cases, fuses, primersa cite, a0 ; feed, 3, do.. fiat. Barle- 4vhom they also had lunch. General 11 t charge, has reached almost flan feed ss�c Flour -Man. Benoit P t' ' thanked Director Beatty for propellant c ar , wheat patents, flrste, $9,40: seconds. 250,000, and the board has been au- $C 90 ; sarong bakers', $5.70 ; winter th w o e a ift of 50,000 francs by the Am thorized within the past week to place patents, choice, 59.00 , straight ro ers, that their supreme sacrifices shall not the g'• have been unavailing. `futon Relief Clearing House. The continuation orders for this size of 52. ed oats, 6 Karlcis, bags, 58.95 56 .65 ,1 . "The ends of the allies are well General said he intended to use the shell •into 1917. Large orders were bags, 90 ls., 53.10 to $3,20, Bran - placed during last Spring and Suns- $28. Shorts -$30. Middlings -532. Mouillie, $36 t:o $37. }•lay ---No. 2, per mer on the larger sizes of shells, espe- ton, car lass, 513. Cheeeseeas nes viae. erns, 212 to 22c ; cially Nos. 8 and 92. This involved Butter -Choicest creamery, 39 to 3990; complete new installation of machin- seconds, 88 to 385c• Eggs-Fre5l1, 400. selected, 38c : No. 1 stock, 34o ; No. 2 ery and equipment. Deliveries of this I stock, 31c, Potatoes, per bag, car lots, equipment were slow, but many of 51,25 to 51,45, theseplants have now commenced 1 known. They have been frequently stated. They are not selfish, they are not vindictive, but they required ade- quate reparation for the past and ade- quate security for the future." The House cheered the Premier loudly as he made these remarks in concluding his address, after moving a vote of credit for £300,000,000. This brings up the total for the cur- rent financial year to £.1,350,000,000. The House agreed to vote the credit asked for by Premier Asquith, virtu- ally no criticism being offered to the Premier's statement. U. S. WILL STOP FOE SUB RAIDS money in purchasing artificial leg and arms for the mutilated soldiers of his army. The French Commander said he deeply appreciated the open- hearted charity of the American peo- ple. PRICES OF IMPORTS INCREASE IN ITALY. Recommendation of Neutrality Board to the Government at Washington. A despatch from Washington says -The joint State and Navy Neutral- ity Board has submitted to the State Department its report and recom- mendations concerning submarine warfare off the American coast. It is understood that the findings of the board are unfavorable to a continuance by Germany of activities similar to those off Nantucket lightship Sunday when the U-53 sank five merchant vessels. It was said on Wednesday that the Neutrality Board declared such operations in close proximity to American shores constituted a nuis- ance in that view should United States ted, nthatd should refuse hospitality to all belligerent war vessels. The board found, it was stated, that belligerent operations close to American shores were obnox- ious, and that the United States had the right to consider them as a nuis- ance. ..--..-.».....-._-eke....-.--.,-....... DUTCH GOVERNMENT WANTS SATISFACTION. Grey had anticipated President Wil- son's statement. There was as great difference between intervention to se- cure an international commission af- ter the war to enforce world ' peace and intervention at a moment like the present. Intervention now would be a military triumph for Germany and military disaster for Great Britain, and he claimed the right as Secretary for War to express his opinion on such a matter. It was not merely the expression of his own opinion, he de- clared, but the expression of the opin-• ion of the Cabinet, of the war com- mittee and of the military advisers of every ally. 7 Sr A despatch from Rome says: The resumption of Austro -German sub- marine attacks is causing grave con- cern in Italy, where the prices of coal, wheat, lumber, scrap iron and other imports have trebled within a year, owing • to the prohibitive freight t Coal now costs $50 a ton. The pan 'W'innipeg Grain, operating, and the output of larger- winnireg Oct, 17. -Wheat closed 25c sized shells is increasing each week, flower for October, 2le down for NuY- and will continue to increase until i en bn for Dfaov e o is Nee e lbe rand ro about January 1st, when the maxi- October and December and It for May, mum output of these plants should be sec was 8e lower. Flax I to t reached The position in Canada in re - Bard to steel, the basis of all muni- 'iTuited Staten nsarkets, tion work, is now such that no inter- Minneapolis, Oct. 17.--�� heat,o Decem- ruptions in output -will likely take Cash No`02liard i$i.78%1 '�°• 1tNortbe n .668 place, as the immense tonnage re- $1,761 to 5'.•173 ; No• 2 INTorthern, 801 to quired for all classes of shells has to 51.732. Corsi.- o.hite,el451c. Irlour rates. been arranged well ahead. The fuse u T ninth d. Det an, 517.-Linseed,2.23.$2.485 railroads have a stock of 200,000 plant built by the board at Montreal October,2.46; 52.455. nominal ; November, tons, however, and are not likely to has now reached a capacity of 10,000 50.446. December. t i. barasked sFi 7S§ bey. be interrupted during the Winter. per day, and by January lst will reach 1-1.41o. 51.751 50 r.117I ; No• 2 25,000 per day.;Northern, l.671 to 55 66 bid, December, The policy of the board in placing INDIAN IS RECOMMENDED new business will he to keep all plants FOR THE VICTORIA CROSS. now producing munitions fully ern- ployed, and where increased produc- A despatch from Brantford says: A tion is required on any particular class recommendation for the Victoria of wo are already equipped extend operationstnof and Cross has gone in for Capt. Frank plantswhich munitions. Montour, a member of the Six Na- producing tions Indians, and a veteran of the early fights of the 4th Battalion, who is now with the 114th Haldimands. He enlisted as a private, and won pro- motion on the field. A despatch from The Hague says; The hutch Government, it is learned,. on the basis of facts already aster- tamed, will immediately ask Ger- many to explain the sinking of the Dutch steamer filoomersdijk in the Atlantic, off the New England coast, last Sunday. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Oct, 17. -toad heavy steers, $8.041 to $5.30 ; butchers' cattle, good, $7.50 to 57.75 ; do, medium 56.60 to 56.85 ; do, common $5.25 to 55.51 ; butchers' bulls, choice, $7,10 to $7.4cc ; do., good bulls. 56.40 to 56,60 ; do.• rough bulls, 54,50 to 55.0' ; butchers' cows, choice. 56.25 to 87,00 ; do, good, 95,75 to $6,00: do, lnedium, $5.56 to $e 6U . stockers, $6.26 to 50,00 ; choice Many Like Hini. feeders, $6.26 to 57.00 ; canners Gnu Hewitt -He's a pessimist, all right, each 570 006t0o t$90$0000 iso < oiil analliiinu: Jewett -I should say so; he could each, $40.00 to 560.0 to 5100.00 light :5 pin er , $b0 , see the dark side to a blondes sheep,, hears 54.60 to 55.50 ; calves ITALIANS RISE DRIVE CAPTURING 8,000 PRISONERS Several Lines of Austrian Trenches Occupied on the Road to Trieste -Successes on Two Other Fronts. A despatch from Rome says: Ital- ian troops fighting in the Corso re- gion south -cast of Gorizia have re- sumed their march towards Trieste, capturing several lines of Austrian trenches and more than 5,000 prison- ers, says the official statement issued by the War Office. In addition have occupied strongly , defended heights between the Tippaeo River and 15111 208, taking quantities of arms and munitions. Through successes on two other fronts the Italians captured 1,400 ad- ditional prisoners. The advances were made in the Cameo= sector on Pasubio, in the Trentino, and on the front of the Julian Alps between Tobar and Vertoiba, south of Gorizia. ; The Austrian line on the Julian front was broken, the statement adds. On the Pasubio front 530 prisoners were taken and 860 on the Julian front. In addition 1114 officers were taken in the t Carso advance. �. nod to choice. $10.60 to $11.76: spring f b choice,. $10,75 to $11 00 etc„ dill , e 30 C lneiiiuin, $9,40 to $18,60: hogs. fed and watered, 510.90 to $11.04+ ; do., weighed off cats, $11,15 to 511,25 ; do., f.o.b., 510,40. - TR.A1)ED WITH ENEMY. New York Man Sentenced by a Paris Court. Paris, Oct. 16. --William Chester Sllbermann of New York has beefy sentenced by the Correctional Court to five years in prison and 500 francs fine on a charge of trading with the enemy. Silbermann, according to the prosecution, eame to Paris armed with papers describing him as the repre- sentative of the Knight Rubber Com- pany. On the strength of these pa- pers he obtained several important orders. He was finally denounced by a Serbian who had known him in New York and who said Ile was acting for Gottwik, Schaffer & Company, 309 Broadway, • New York, a firm with German affiliations.