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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-03-09, Page 600 AWAITS ANY PASSENGER WHO SIGHTS U-BOAT AT SEA Glasgow Shipbuilder Willing to Pay Out £10,000 to Encourage Watching for Submarines. A despatch from London says: Americans and others crossing the Atlantic can make a hundred dollars by sighting a submarine. Sir A. F. Yarrow, the famous Glasgow ship- builder, writes to the Times that in order to encourage everyone to keep a sharp lookout he has offered a reward of £20 up to an expenditure of 210,000 to anyone on board a commercial ves- sel who first draws the captain's at- tention to an enemy submarine. The t reward will be paid on the certifica e of the captain giving the name of the I person who first draws his attention to the submarine. The statement is to be signed by the captain, saying the !submarine was actually sighted, Ap- plication should be forwarded through the owners to Sir Thomas L. Devitt, ! chairman of Lloyd's Register Ship- ' ping, 71 Fenchurch Street, London, who has consented to make the awards. NEW PENSION PLAN IHAIVIADAN FALLS TO �C' �. FO BRITISH ARMY TO THE RUSSIANS LEADING MARKETS 00.1,0410 Breadstuff's. Toronto, Mar. 6 -Manitoba wheat-NeW No, 1 Northern, 2,00; No. 2, do„ $1.969; No. 8, do., 81.916, track Bay ports; all rail wheat delivered Montreal fre1ghte 4e under above quotations. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 72 to Ido; Ooto 7 c; No 1 feel'69 to 700onomina all rail delivered en route C.P.R, • and C.N.R. points not embargoed. American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.15, subject to embargo. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 63 to fisc, nominal; No. 8 white, 62 to 64e. nominal, according to freights outside, Ontario wheat --No. 2 Winter. per car lot. $1.76 to $1.78; No. 3, do., $1,74 to $1.76, according to freights outside. Peas --No. 2, $2.46, according to freights outside. 1.iarley-Malting, $1.21 to $1.23, accord- ing to freights outside. • 13uelttvtreat--31.28. nominal, according to freights outside. Rye --No. 2 $1.40 to $1.42, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bags, $9.50; second patents, in jute bags, $9.00; strong bakers', in jute bags. $8,60, Toronto, Ontario floor-•-wtnter, according to CANADIAN RECRUITS NEAR 400,000 MARK Fotal Enlistments Since the Out- break of War Reach 399,434, A despatch from Ottawa says: -- Enlistments in the Canadian expedi- tionary force between February 15 and February 28 numbered 3,298 and brought the number of recruits en - NEW U-BOATS 350 FEET LONG Can Carry Twenty Torpedoes and. Crew of Thirty- two -Men. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The Telegraaf publishes an account of an interview with a German so1- dier who has been for some time serv- ing as a clerk at the Vulcan dock - rolled since the beginning of the war yard in Hamburg. To avoid punish- established flowerand feather factory up to 399,434. The enlistment dur- meat for some trivial offence he which, at the outbreak of war, was ing February totalled '7,836 as cram- escaped across the frontier. The man faced with a complete stoppage of pared with 7,705 in January and 26',658 left Hamburg in February'. There trade; the head of the house, a young in February of last year. Military were then in the Vulcan dock-yardthan, was mobilized, and there was no District No. 2, wth headquarteris at eight large submarines on the stocks. one to take his place but hie mother, Toronto, led in the number of recruits These latest submarines are nearly who had retired, But she took up her accepted during the last two weeks 350 feet long, and are armed like a burden again, and has not only kept of February with 1,186. The Mont- small cruiser. They can take 20 tor- the business going, but has recap'tur- FLOWER- AKERS OF FRANC AN INDUSTRY WHICH FRENCH PEOPLE IIAVE REGAINED. Writer in London Times Tells of Re- vival of Artificial Flower - Making in France. At Lyons, France, there is an olds sample, $7.35 to $7.45, in bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment; $7.00, bulk real district was next with 368 men; pedoes and a crew of 32. Gangs of eel most of the trade that Germany seaboard, expon grade added to the overseas forces. The re- 1120 men are at work day and night on heti taken from the house before the Millfeed---C'tr• lots, delivered Itifontreal freights• bags uncoiled ---Bran, per ton, cord of other military districts was: each submarine. The completion of a war. Her tactics were these: she ap- $38: shorts. par ton 342: good feed flour, per bag, '+ x.70 to 32.80. llay 15xtra No. 2. per ton, 312: mixed, :ter ton, 39 to $11. track Toronto. Straw'- •Cur lot,. per ton, 39, track To- : onto. Totally Disabled Men Will Re -'...Car 'c Troops Begin Advance to Aid the British iYl Country Produce-Wholesale. ceive Minimum of 27 Shit -Butter• -•-Fresh dairy, choice, 36 to 38e: 'rings 6 Pence Weekly. Mesopotamia.<Teamery prints. 42 to 45c: solids, 42 to42e. i gir •--Neto-laid. in cartons. 65 to 56c; real district; 7,991 in the Quebec dis- A despatch from London says: An London, March 4.-Contemporane- out tcartons, 62 t��Chicken s. 2s to 6c; trier; 32,490 in London district; 44,676 Order -in -Council establishing anew curly with the advance of the British Fowl. lit to 2?c: ducks, 22 to 25c: squabs. int Kingston district pension plan for the British army was up the Tigris from Kut -el -Amara the per doz., l eese,i zfi to 2 e 50; turkeys. es to _____..e....._. issued on Wednesday. Under it pri- Russian force is Persia, which has re- 1.1% poultry --•L owl. lb.. 18 to 22c, Wa� vates totally disabled will receive a named Stationary awaiting this move- cirit•kr ns ib. is to eon c A l «AFP C}tectn :yew, large, .295 to 26c• twins, minimum of 27 shillings 6 pence week- mein, has started on the marc]. to ,•6 to z5}c.; triply 4, 2t5; to 263e; old, ly. If this sum is insufficient to en- join general Maude', troops at Itr ' i ?7r t t "3c able the soldier to live approximately Bagdad. London 328, Kingston 317, Quebec 82, ! submarine .requires three months. Be - nestled directly to her 7;11giit.h custom - the Maritime Provinces 317, Manitoba; sides the submarines small cruisers err, explained her situation, and ask - 255, No. 11, British Columbia, 1'74; I are now building at the Vulcan dock- ed what they could do. "These gentle - No. 12, Saskatchewan, 202; No. 13, I yard of a new class, so-called the men in England saved me," is what Albert, 69. Since the beginning of the war 88,- 997 recruits have been enlisted in the Toronto district; 35,652 in the Mont - r g•,�. 7 �, ttt ns, ., � t , lr„n •y-- •v. i itr.. t•lover, ..§-th, tins, 14 to. 14?c: 5-th. tins, 13§ to 14c; 10 -lb., 13 to TO JOIN ALLIES up to his before -the -war standard he. Hamadan, an important. Persian tit'e:.r 60-11b., 0 11b., 2k to C�,ntb hn ieyeaest a ---.. will be given an alternative pen: ion city near the Turkl�'h border. has t no anti -heavy w eight. per dos., $2.75; based on his earnings, previous to the been ventured by the Russians, sex S ct "J,•,• . $.2.5v to $,' 7a: l'to. 2, $2 to $2.25. Preliminary Negotiations Now g P `' y' i•a.t�rtues--nil rio, Per big' $3.A0 to war. No single pension, however, Teheran despatch received in Petro- $t.oti; Yt,w 1 tun'st'ick f)e;anares,. per shall be in excess of 75 shillings grad and transmitted 1ty Ruuter's. The bag. $1.7:d 'ile1 ii . In Progress at lletms -Imported, lag. e3red per weekly. message adds that the Russians tire bavh.. 35.25; Canadian, hand-picked, per Pekin. pursuing the Turkish troopsmesh.. shoo; t 1ua,lian prunes, $6.50 to The allowance for children is 5 shit who are !VAAL 1.12n;ts, per lb., 12 to 124x. A despatch form Pekin says:Wed- slightly for the first child and a sum in retreat slightly less for each subsequent child. A soldier not totally disabled will reveire a pension based on the degree to which his disablement affects his earning powers. Widows will receive half the sum to which their husbands were entitled if totally disabled. A disabled soldier requiring the services of an attendant is allowed fees up to £1 a week for such services. Widows will be granted special funds for the expenses of training to enable them to earn their own living. The Actuary's report accompanying the plan estimates the expense for the first year at £25,000,000, which there- after wilt decrease annually. BRMSH IS.I STILL ADVANCE Hundreds of Prisoners Captured in Twenty-four Hours. London, March 4. -The British troops in their forward movement in the Ancre area in France have made further important progress. On Sat- urday against stubborn German re- sistance General Haig's forces ad- vanced their line north of the Ancre en average of a quarter of a mile on a front of nearly five miles. The British advance was made north of Pulsieux- au-Mont and east of Gommecourt. On Sunday their gains were extended east of Gommecourt along a two-mile front to a depth of about two-thirds of a mile, according to the official re- ! on Monday and was completely de- $2.32: bid. port from headquarters to -night. i stroyed, according to reports from Live stock at The capture of Ramadan, which is Provisions-Wholesale.nesday the allied Ministers presented slightly more than 100 miles from the y,_`'' 4n' i meats hairs. medium. 26 ice a memorial to the Chinese Govern- Meeopotarnian border, was officially „ ; ';?,nei t. p..e, e,Ve, 2 ';,;,e eioketdbacoa° ment expressing sympathy with the confirmed by the War Office to-day.,27 t ;'t: back:J. rialh. eo to sic; bone -attitude taken by China in regard to The town was taken from the Turks r .rel iter” j ra uM cta� •'i§ to �. ,-- Germany, and promising favorable on March 2. Russian troops also are on the offensive further north-west { loins, '21`i to 22c•: j,allt, 22"to-23'. ; coin consideration of the questions of sus- utl, 169 to i le. pension during the war of the Boxer t:mad meats- -Long (dear bacon. 13 to • and have captured a village within Isle per ib.; .tear betties, 1s to 188e. indemnity payments and revision of Ger- two miles of: Bijar, 80 miles north- Montreal markets. west of Hamadan and about the same en Montreal titer. 6.-Cern--:lrneiican fectively severing relations with Ger- distance from the border, No. 2 yellow, 31.3a.to 31.32. Oats—Cana-• riia.n western. No. 2. 75 to 760: No. 3, '73 to 74t extra. No. 1 feed. 73 to 74x. $40,000,000 INCREASE, IN harlot' -•-Malting $1.35, Flour -•-Mani the tariff in the event of China's ef- many and Austria. Delay in the ex- pected development in German -Ameri- can relations and the absence hitherto T tnbn t3i,r:ing• wheat patents, firsts, 39.10;' of any collective intimation on the THE CLSTO:rIS REVENUE. seconds, sato, saran;., Miters $5.90: trt of the allies that China would be 'Winter patents, choice,$9.25:. straigh pi. rollers. R$.60 to $8.80t da, ha:,s $4:10, t v'<.elcome among. them have caused the - Rolled ats:,."it' s 't:GO to ;�`. -+ . 2 nal A despatch. from Ottawa says: The Customs revenue of Canada for. the fiscal year which ends on ;Barth 31st, • do. n. o $ ' -tlillnese to hesitate regarding future do., bags, 90 lbs., 33.35 to :345 Flran; . 533.00 Shorts, $40.00. Middlings': 342.00.!' action. The Germans, it is needless will probably exceed that of the last der ton, car lU s to $50.00. h!eese to say,' have been doing thein utmost Fin st tt•esterns, 26 • 6Io:- finest ,among the officers of the army to es- tablish a party opposed to the rup- ture. The timely action of the allied Ministers seems likely to have the de - $11,190,000, or $1,062,000 more than Winnipeg Grain. sired result. those of the corresponding month in it'ionipelr, Mar. 6. -Cash prices- FOE FOOD SHORTAGE P �i heat- -No. 1 Vurtltet r . $1.75}: anis?. 1916. For the eleven months of the Northern. $ini4� leo. 7 Northern, $1.69?; fiscal year which have now passed reed. J3D. Vats- \o. 2 C.�v., 67gc; No. KNOWN TO BRITAIN fiscal year by more than forty million pasterns. 20 to 254a hotter --choicest• dollars. The revenue from customs ereamt Y. 43 to 44c; meconas, 3O to 91c. Eggs. 1'.esh. 50 to fi4c, lantatoes-1'er duties for February the Minister of bee, ear lots, $3,00 to $3.50. Customs announces, amounted to Canada's customs revenue amounted to $130,739,000, as compared with $91,946,000 in the same period of the last fiscal year, or an increase of $38,793,000, 3 C. n'., 578c; extra No. t feed, 51 o; No. 1 reed. Me; No. 2 feed, $67o'. "Barley - No. ;1, 98e; No. 4, 03c; rejected Sic; Other Important Materials Also Lack- fee,i. 810 Flux-No.1 N.W C., $2.533: No. 2 (.W.. $2.503; o. 3 C.W., $2.343. tented States Markets, eemeeepoli.,, Mar. C+.---Wheat--Ala.v ing-Leas Trade With Neutrals. A despatch from London says, :-•• Stadt plass, These are 430 feet long. TURK LOSSES EXCEED 25,04 0 Remnant of Kut Garrison Flee in Disorder Toward Bagdad. A despatch from London says: The remnants of the Turkish force retreat- ing from Kut -el -Amara have been shattered completely, according to in- formation given out in the House of Commons on Thursday. The Turks, it is. said, would reach Bagdad only as a disorderly mob, This information was received from General Maude, com- mander of the British expedition on the Tigris front, and was announced by Henry W. Forster, the Financial Secretary to the War Office. Mr. Forster said that more than 2,500 prisoners had been taken by the British since February 24, and that since the commencement of the offen- sive on December 80, some 5,000 Turkish prisoners had been taken. The total Turkish casualties in killed and wounded was estimated by General Maude at more than 25,000. GERMAN "HO1dE AR1VIY BEING MOBILIZED. A despatch from Copenhagen says: According to the German papers, the compulsory mobilization of Germany's "home army" is imminent. The ap- peal for volunteers, though answered by large numbers, has not produced enough workers to satisfy the actual requirements. Large numbers of men are needed at once to replace those employed behind the front, to work in munition factories which are now being completed and for the a11 - site now says. "They gave me orders which allowed me to carry on for three months and gave me time to re- organize.' She at once set about studying the German -made flowers and the possibilities of making French ones at the same price. "I have smite succeeded in making the flowers, and it is not conceited to say that they surpass the German work, and I have almost succeeded in making theta for the same price." Her difficulties are many: the getting of raw material is one, the scarceness of workpeople is another, and it is her own character more than anything else which hes enabled her to gain a victory. She moves about her workshops, tall, up- right, quiet in manner and speech, and not in the least dictatorial. Her work - women, many of them, have been in the hoose for many years. and the whole business is run on family lines. There is complete confidence between employer and employed; and this unity has been the strength of the enterprise. Feather -Curling. It lakes three years to make a good flower -maker and six years to make a good feather -curler. Both trades de- mand the most delicate handwork, and the work of a girl manipulating thou- sands of rose petals and out of them forming - buds and full-blown flowers in all -shades o rege colors f hive t 1t1i1 stns :` IZ "r.x "i': . e gra teresting to watch `tai dtttl t 1 to 'e opment of a modest violet from the raw material to the moment when it lies in a nice fat bunch set round with a few leaves, amongst hundreds of other bunches of the same flowers, as it is to see ostrich feathers swung round in the drying machine and then curled, or made into neck boas, or mixed with other feathers into a "fan- tasy" of blue or grey or black or white. Workers in this trade make from $25 to $40 a month, and are generally The Government has reason to believe, important faun work. The papers say quite contented, Some have left the $1.s3: slily, $1.77;. Cash -No. I hard, said Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of that. the Government is prepared for trade for munition making, but seine ZEPPELIN EXPLODES; $1.97 to 91.90; No. 1 Northtrn, $1,88 tommonst come back, finding that they cannot ALL OF CREW LOST. (`lis'7 w1 3 el w,t�`e10 to i oltoos$iis 3 annckade, in Thursday,the thatlouse the a ofs ao serious ly1eday=s ofMarchollment in the of all personsear- be- stand tho�straitt, and so prefer to earn --- No. 3 white, 55} t �at'ie. Flour --Fancy shortage of foodstuffs and of certain tween i"r ataad 60, so that the recruits less money and keep their health and Two Belgian Witnesses of Disaster rst clear's a l aicedO10 .lquotedaat $$$s;II5 very important materials in enemy can be put to work from April 1. the chance of not bring out of work Arrested aand Taken to r other grades unchanged. Bran un countries. For some months past I ._.- when the war is over. In this Lyons rlutntie house there are workers who can show Germany. Lnuluth, mar. R: •-«heat -vo. 1 hard no substantial quantities of goods im-'r�1;STIlALI:t PROHIBITS North; N, 1 Northern Si., , 1VI, Aorthern, $1.81$ to $1.so}, beat,- $1.83§, ported overseas into Holland and IDZ employer, and the head maintains that nNinspetl. 1 roster, s'e.see to woe; ea.,Scandinavia had, he believed, gone -- ' London, March 4.-A new Zeppelin, on speed trials at Ghent, caught fire PORT OF U S APPLES a record of 25 years under the same rive, $2.733: Mar. $2,51$ asked, July, d t1 1 d 4 des etch from I ondon says Wil she has never had any trouble with beets no material overseas exports from Germany. Recently, a.e a result through to Germany, an fere na p - I them because she encourages them to I II h th A tt 1' Nearly 200 prisoners were captured 1 Berlin received by the Exchange_ 0'.rr,.,, n. ata,.. 8,-.igertvv steers, $10,50 - of negotiations with the Scandinavian countries and Holland, Lord Robert added, the exports of their produce to itjc tapjsuoa u00(1 aeenj i tretirees) diminished. ALBERTA NO LONGER HAS N.W.M.P. FORCE A despatch from Edmonton says: sheep, light, $6.75 to $10.50; do., heavy I The Royal North-west Mounted Police $7.60 to $Ses; spring lambs, $loN,5 'to i. $14.75: Delves. $5.00 to $14,50; bogs, nod � after a continuous service in this and watered, $15.00 to 916,10; do., :J country for 43 years, ceased on first i Telegraph by way of Copenhagen. The t., $tl ',i; chotee butcher, sic to $10.;0; BETHLEHEM STEEL' CO. ; despatch says that the crew of the '''"• t:tc »1. $a to 50.So: do., tt:edlttll. S3 TO BUILD CIINARDFJ. S. i Zeppelin perished with their airship, ru•i r•u�,' good tortc1i'1, a 39.66 to $9:75: — B 1 !and that two Belgians who witnessed di;'V', et, .to:$ e; tneitcher, 37 tri .A despatch from a.timt,re, Md„'the disaster were arrested and taken $7.50; butcher bulls, choice:. $3.26 to•, says: The Bethlehem Steel Company, ` to Germany. 9.60; do., goats, $7 to $7.25: do.. medium, moo to $0.50; feeders, 9n0 to 1,000 lbs:,. at Sparrows' Point, announced on j $$.50 to $9.00: do., bulls, 38.20 to 86.50; :Wednesday that it had received con-' KEEP GERMAN WOMEN'S stockers, 700 to 300 1bs., 28.50 to 38.75 tracts for two caro ships of 10.000 STYLES FROM CHANGING. do., mod., 650 to XIV: $6.25 to $6.75 g P• do., light, 600 to 650 lbs.. $6.50; canners tons each from the Cunard Company.! -•--- • $5 u0 to $5.25' cutters $5.50 to $5.75 It was announced that these dips are London, March 4, ---The German the first to be built in this country for Imperial Clothing Committee has is - the Cunard Company in fifty years. sued a warning that styles in women's r clothes cannot be allowed to change HOLLAND MATS ES BREAD j every six"months, according to an FROM POTATO FLOUR i Amsterdam despatch to the Exchange I Telegraph Co. The committee says A despatch to the Central News, !women may wear winter dresses London, from Amsterdam, says that as I throughout the coming summer and a caneequence of the sinking of Dutch i winter without disgrace, and that vessel: by German submarines orders , drastic measures will be taken against have been issued that. bread shall be' a change in fashion, and the conse- baked it Holland. from potato flour. i quent waste in materials. 185,000 SLAVES IN GERMAN AFRICA TO BE IGEN FREEDOMBRITAIN Au Appeal 1»' Anti-Sltl•v'ery Society Published Under Sanction of the Colonial Office. A despatch front Lortdott Bays: The ` of 185,000 slaves in the territory Anti -Slavery Allorigines Protection , known recently as the German East Society bait is -sued All appeal to the African Protectorate. The publiea- Secrettary of State for the Colonies to ; tion of the appeal is sanctioned by declare by proclamation the freedom i the Colonial Oiiice. weighed off cars, 515.25; dn,, f.o.b., 3,14.25. Montreal, Mar. G.—Good steers 310.25 to 310.50; do.. fair. $9.25 to 39.75: do., nommen, 31.25 to 59.00; butchers' cows, $7.25 to 38.50; bulls, 81.26 to $9.50 per cwt. A few lambs brought $13,25 to $14.00 ilk fedncalves sop ld tat $11.to 00 to 312.50 while and common stock at 36,00 to 38.00 per ewt. Selected lots of hogs were Bold at $1 .rA0eand£ goodoat 315.25 per ewt., BRITISH CASUALTIES LIGHTER IN FEBRUARY. A despatch from London says: British casualties during February reached a total of 1,243 officers and 17,185 men. The February figures for British casualties show a total but little more than half that for Janu- ary, despite the fact that there has been considerable fighting on the Somme front during the month. The February total of 18,428 compares with a total of 32,354 officers and men for January. Officer casualties for February, however, were consider ably greater than for the month pre- ceding, when they were 960, as CM* pared with the Bast month's 1.,248. of March to do police duty in the Pro- vince of Alberta, and the newly -form- ed provincial police took up the work. Pour divisions of the provincial police have been organized at Edmonton, Red beer, Calgary and Lethbridge, and although not recruited up to full strength, they are, according to Supt. A. E. C. McDonnell, ready for busi- ness. - Barn n• orris ug es, a us •a ran Premier, says Reuter's Melbourne correspondent, intimated to a delega- tion which called on him that the de- portation of American apples would probably be prohibited. The deputa- tion visited the Premier with regard to the restrictions on the export of apples, and the Premier promised to do his utmost to assist crops. QUEBEC VOTES $100,000 TO PATRIOTIC FUND. A despatch from Quebec says: The City Council on Friday night unanim- ously adopted the report of the civic finance committee recommending the voting of 15100,000 as the city's share to the Canadian Patriotic Fund and Red Cross Society. Although the cam- paign has not been officially opened $254,662 unsolicited subscriptions have been received, including the city's grant. . POPULATION OF WALLACMA conic directly to her with their com- plaints. Capturing Trade. A great deal of flower and feather trade is done with England and Can- ada, and with a clearer conception of what. the British Empire means com- mercially French provincial houses would soon realize their opportunities. As it is, many are inclined to stop at the British Isles when they think of future trade, and to place the Domin- ions as hovering vaguely behind the neutral Powers. As solid with Eng- land they certainly do not associate England's Dominions, and when Eng- lish people sjeale of Australia, Can- ada, and. South Africa, they look po- litely interested, but they do not vis- ualize the commertiiel picture any' more than the geographeal. At pre- sent they are flghtng bard for South American trade, and the struggle is keen, for the Germans manage by paying double freights and duties •to get goods through under neutral flags. In the asparagus fern alone, after that plant has undergone t preservative treatment, contracts are made with FORCED TO WORK FOR GERMAN ount to hous ad snwhichueos Aires ns of pounds, and nd tiwas one of Germany's advantages before the war. Much is still to be done, but even during the war the genius of the French people in all delicate, artistic trades has reasserted itself and when the war is over there is every - hope that it will be again pre-eminent. • Enemy Has Requisitioned Ever3.thing, Leaving the Romanians Hardly Enough to Eat. A despatch from Rumanian Head- quarters says: A Rumanian officer left; behind at Wallachia succeeded in 1 passing the German line, and brought interesting information, The whole civil population between tht, ages of 18 and 42, he says, ie compelled to work for the enemy. The Germans have requisitioned everything, leaving the population hardly enotigh to eat. Electric Sprinkling Wagons Tice streets of one English city are watered entirely by electric sprinkling wagons.