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Zurich Herald, 1917-04-20, Page 2MORE OF FRANCE'WRESTED FROM FOE Marketof the S r :l COUNCIL BRITISH INFLICT HEAVY LOSS . SratetUtnre t AT , iNGTO loYunt° .�pFil 1, 11ifat wltestt•- British North of Vitny Ridge Carry Lines Along Both Banks of Souchez River Close To Givenchy ---Canadians Take Mile of German Trenches. No. 1 Northern, $2.271; Ni. do. $2.24; Nn. 8 do.. 72.19; No, .4 wheat,. $2OSh, nominal, track Bay Putty. Manitoba oats --h 2 2 C.W 782c: 3 CM 744x; extra No. 1 'Tech, 'mein •No: 1 feed, 769e, all rail dellvdu'ed , American corn ---No, 3 yellow $1,39. track Toronto subject to embargo, Ontario oats -Nr,,. 2 white, 71 to 73e, nominal; No. 3 white, 70 to 72c, norninal, according to freights outside Ontario wheat -No. 2'Winter, per car • lot, $'9.00 to $9.02; No. 3 do„ $1,95 to 52.00 according to freights outside. Peas --No. 2, nominiti, according to Prisoners, over .. , .... ..... 13,000 A despatch from London says: The Guns , 160 great British offensive north and south Trenchmortars . 84 of Arras gained renewed momentum Machine guns 250 on Friday, and General Haig's fight- cording to freights outside. Many captured guns are being used ers achieved the most solid success , Buckwheat -71-38 to $1.40. according tt> fretght< aatsrde against the enemy. they have won sinee the first elon A despatch from London says: Monday morning -a sucess which will to freights outside. Swift hammer -blows at many points compel German retirement to the Dro- disorganized Gerntau front tl freights oti Lsidt. I! rrlev-1laiting, $1.26 to $1.28, ae- Rye-No. 2 71.ii6 to $1.70, according eManitoba flour. --First patents, in jute bags, $10,70; second patents, to Jute bags, $10.201 strong.bsicers', in jute bags, along the court-Queant line five miles farther $9, n, Taiantn. north and south of Arras last week east. Tearing through the German Ontario hour -Winter, aceorclini " to I sample, $8.35 to $8.46, in ba s. track showed that General Haig's drive is defences' on a twelve -mile front from I Toru tto, prunrpt sttipixiont; 8.10 to far from over,though the resistance the north bank of. the River Scarpe to $S,2cf' bung seaboard, exhort. ~rade, , g the trench systems 115t south of Loos Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal of Hindenburgs troops stiffened per. j 'freights, bat,:q included -'Jinn, per ton, ceptibly. Boring through the shish the British divisions drove ahead anti uiinfatt8 3'to $45tU1 cod deed $iournper underfoot and the falling snow and I captured six villages--Angres, G - bag% $2,70 to 82, 80. sleet, British troops north of the Vimy venchy, Vimy, Petit-Vimy, Willerval, • .tray • Lrxtra N. 2, per ton, 711.50 `tn 12.,0, mixed, per ton, $8,60 to 711, track Ridge carried their lines along both and Bailleul. South of Bailleul the ibrozito. banks of the Souchez River to within line was bulged back clear to the stv(tw--gar hats, peY?•taxi, $7 to 77.50, Scarpe. Two of these town Vimy track y arortta. a few hundred yards northwest of i i Givenchy while the Canadians sweep- and Givenchy, were fortified b, V s,YS- Country Produce--Wholeuaio ing down the southeastern slope of terns which the Germans considered crButt Butter-Fresh p resh dairy, to choice, e, 40 to 441e; i 'd •I f German impregnable. Northeast of the min- ere the ridge, a overran a mile o ` Eggs -New -laid, ili'eartons, 3.,Oc; oat min - trench systems south of the Farbus i ing unci railway centre of Lens the of cantons, 37c. Wood. 1 British have also obtained a footing. South of the Scarpe, too, where the ! Further victories were recorded British are trying to straighten out south of Arras. Straightening out the their front toward Cambrai, a notable German salient which projected into success was won. Driving down from their lines between Monchy and the petty' "1" • se • the banks of Co- Gomel River Haig's men stormed • Live poultry -Fowl; lb., 20 to 25e; chickens, 20 to 25u, ' Dressed poultry --Chickens, 23 to 26c; fowl, 20 to 22c; ducks. 22 to 25e; squabs. per dor.., 74.00 to $4,50; turkeys, 25 to JS Cheese -New, large, 27 to 271c; twins. 271 to 272e; triplets, 273 to 28c; old, large -eht twins, Mc. jetd River, Haig's men stormed and Wancoirt Tower, on a spur eaSt Of fioney-White clover, 24-1b tins, j4 to held Hill 90 and pressed onward to the village of Wancourt, and accord 150, 150; S lb tins, ldlc 10-112, 13 o;'"60 -1U, buckwheat, 00 -lb tins, 10 to 104e. 'tL ancourt and Heninel. Both these ing to Friday night's official news re Cnntb Woney^extra line ted 1 1e Y h theird• defences, port have advanced astride the Hin- Weight, pee dor., $2. c5; select, $2.50 to towns, with a. joining c e cedes,5 weree captured, and the victors de i denhurg line as far as a point sevenz.170;•No, 2, 72 to 72.2. 51Gv 1a plc syrup --Imperial gallon, 71.50 to played across the stream and occu-; miles southeast of. Arras. The cam hetatoes-. On track Ontario, iter bag, pied the heights on the right bank. ' muniques of the British War Office i ,,,Potatoes--- NewBrunswickDelawares, per The fighting inthis segment was an have not hitherto mentiuned the H• in- i bst`; 83.30 to $3.1u; Albertus, Per bag, all -day matter, and the ground was denhurg line. clearly determined to shoulder the ; the southward the British battalions ; smoked meats hams medium,27 to 28e; do. heavy , Germans mit of the entire angle be- i progressed on a front of about nine 1 32e: rolls, 24 to tween 011e ly- e- teat rol- ; - �. 1 ., inc 1 35 to SP'', � sines, anis seem to be doing it. I point to tile north of ±L.rg court, , won foot 12" foot. The British are t But success did not stop here. To # Provisions --wholesale. ]4 to 25e; cooked33 .to 25c; breakfast baeon, 8G r4I 1 1 P and C miles between Metz-en-Coutre and a to 33e; back., plain 32 to 33c; boneless, Larare lard,' tierces, 2-o to 252.c; 'Meanwhile the fighting for the key 1 captured' positions include Sart Farm, ; tubs, 251 to 255e; pails, 253 to 233c; com- positions at Monchy was furious. The ; Gauche Wood, Goueeacourt, stead- • Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 21: to Germans feel the loss of this town and • dling the road to Cambrai, and the i 220 per lb; clear bellies, 20 to 20/c, per day. Part of the emigration may of its bei£hte, v.hich they admit in wood near the village. --- be ascribed to labor demands and high pound, tierces, 194 to 20c. British and .French Commissions to Discuss War Policy With U. S. A despatch from Washington says: Assembly in Washington within a few weeks of a great international war council was foreshadowed by an e.n- neullcement from the State Depart- ment on Wednesday that a British commission, headed by Arthur J. Bal- four, Minister of Foagign Affairs, is expected to arrive within ten days to discuss with the Government here questions connected with the conduct of the war. In addition to the For- eign Minister, the commission will include Admiral DeChair, of the Brit- ish navy; General Bridges, of the army, and the Governor of the Bank of England, attended by a numerous staff. This was as far as the announce- ment made by the State Department goes, but it was learned authoritative- ly that a French commission., compos- ed of officials and officers equally as distinguished as the British represent- atives, also will be in Washington about. the same time. This commission will be headed by M. Vivian, at pre- sent Minister of Justice in the French Cabinet, and formerly Premier. SLACKERS WANT TO RETURN TO CANADA Thousands of Them Rushed to United States -Few Can Get Back. Ottawa, April 15. -The advent of the United Etates into the war, with the possibility of some form of conpeilsory drafting for military service across the line, has resulted in a sudden ces- sation of the recent drift from Canada of a certain class of slackers across the border. For some months past this exodus from Canada has been of large proportions, averaging some weeks fully one thousand Montreal Markets their official statement, and have , Throughout the length of interllnk- , Montreal, 4pril 17. -Oats -Canadian wages in the United States, but there thrown repeated counter-attacks ! ed chain of advances the fighting was western, No. 2,784c; do.. No. 3. 771e: were undoubtedly tens of thousands against the British defenders. Accord- i of the utmost ferocity. Prisoners and =i47...,69 fel cic771e 1B*u rle2-1I . who left Canada, because they feared ing to the accounts of observers, they guns were sent to the rear. According Flour spring wheat patents, they rltight be drafted for military ufiered scene of their heaviest lessee, to the official report Friday night, tlr tis 710.80; scoote s, 12810.30;, oho TX: service. The total exodus during the since the present series of battles there are now more than 13,000 In the 810.00; straight. rollers, ,79,80• to 79.60; etarted, several of the charging' bat- I British cages back of Arras, and the do.re s'$7 46;n aoo 1LVS. eo bed Ma talions 'being practice?i9'` `annihilated'. number of captured guns has reached Bran, 7877 to $33: snake, $40, Mid- dlings, 12id- 1 Ings, $� �h1 oui li e, $45 to : , s. Bay under the rattle of_., British machine 4166. -hyo. 2 per : ton: -w westerns-He; ,car lot 1n$ x ' ry 1Niv 14 ' a�to epet east rsxH; ,° el e2nan,s n"aslerns,93 to 33/c. Tuit. ei_:: 1zisoretSvho.were �trachel res sly ;,aganis 0 Choicest creamery, 430; .seconds; 40 to Germanbatteries complain that so south of the town. of St. Quentin be- lig. Eggs_ :.mesh, 30o; •. .selected. 38e. many German guns were lost because . tween the Somme River and the ' St. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 73.1E to $3.25. of a shortage of artiller3' h res. They 1 Quentin Railway. Friday night's of- Winni7ieg Grain sav that the British were up and over ` ficial report from Paris says that the "Winnipeg, April 17. -Cash -gimes:- their pieces before they could bei battle in front of the positions captor- na tnernN t'.U4N o theta,' $ 08 1 :. G healed back down to safety. On the ed by the French continues. The Ger- $1.s9ii, No. G, $1.3sa; fend, $1.16. N oats mans resisted desperately, but the ---No. 2 C.W ,, 688e• No• 3 cA. 6Gitc; Vimy Ridge alone the storming Can- P y. t eetra No. 1 fed, 6G6a; Na, 1 lead, GSan; a cutis took four 8 -inch howitzers, ' French carried several lines of No. 2 feed„ s38c. Earley -iv o. , 51.12; nine: r)f the famous 5.9 guns,the • trenches between the river and the No. 4. 71.06 feed, 92c'; rejected, 92c, Flai7-No. 1 '� W.C., $2.79; No, 2 C.W., moot mobile and useful piece in the railway. Artillery actions are report- 72.749, German hatter', and 23 other pieees. ed between the Somme and the Oise - Elsewhere the British took a dozen. and in Champagne. United States 'Markets Minneapolln April 17. -Wheat -May, $2.077, to 72.091; Jul,,, 72,00; cash, No. CROPS IN GERMANY 'Before this development the agricul- l hard, $2.1o= to $2,39: No. 9 Norttern, SET BACH BY STORMS. tural papers had complained of the Yo ? 1x2.$- Col nNo. ' i�o�. 3 Northern, 71.201 effects of the severe and protracted to 71.284. Oats ----No. 3 white, 621 to 'e atlter Will Delay Harvest of . Winter. The Winter grain crop was $ 470 5 50 lour unchunwed. luau, $38.00 several weeks behind its normal de- Duluth, April 17.--Wheat--No. 1 hard, All Fooitskuila. says: velopment., although it is declared that N�14•h Noi'ilia not $tier 'i 72.0$33,, 4$2.731, A ctes_rat h from Copenhagen says: the proportion requiring resowing was $2.064; July. 82.00 hid. Linseed, $s.n6g The Easter hulldays in Germany were comparatively small. Farmers were to 73.024; May, $x.064: July. 73.0,4. n,arke,, according to reports in the unable to commence their Spring German re vspaper.s, by a return of planting, and it seems certain that the Toronto, April 17. -Extra choice heats" Winter weather, over a large part of new delay will materially defer the steers, $12.00 to 712.50; choice heavy the empire, an occurrence of consider- Fall harvest of all food crops. sfeei•se; $5()t,$1ti115`; hutc•tgie°s ce. uttisy 011e Imp ..,tante in connection with the , The net result is that there will be ,'hoice, 711.25 to 711,76; do,; good, $10.05 prospect*:for lite nest hart cat. Partic-' to $10.9ui do., Medium. $in.n0 to $10,50• i increasing difficulty in carrying over cio. common, $D.00 to $9.50: butchers' irlall, .- :urp dl'opS in temperature with, until the harvest on the scanty reserve bulls choice, 710.00 to 710.76; do„ goad bulls tea to $9.75, do., medium hulls,. snow, 17'en*.' •e;na�•tcci in the loll orient ; of stock, even if the harvest itself is 5,2a to $x.75; dorough bulls, $6,40 to Severe Live Stock Markets c;ratr,-brawn;;' tcguins of Germany. not affected in quality. 5.9 Y, 711EN BRUTAL TOWARD 7.11E POO. Those Employed by German Red Cross Show Themselves X15 Bar- barous as Arty Huns -Spit in Coffee Handed to British Troops. A depatch from Loudon says: Ap-' palling revelations of the systematic ' brtltalliy of German women of the' Red liar, towards British wounded have bet -r, made to the Berrie corse-! sponclert of The Times by scores of British soldiers of. all ranks released from German prita;l camps. On the long journay cif the British wounded through Germany it. wng the common amusement of thee viomen to tempt ; oor'men, who were le the last alarem- ity of hunger 'and tiltrst, by holding out fooel and thin?: to try ai LI make • them tditttch at it., end then vwithdraw- irtg ]t» 1Itniy of the wounded begging :for mutat nact coffee, water and soup .tentlororl -to thele, and then at the r,<t enereene 1!1tr path. rr,t•Ie tt•:,r,l'i ;Tit it in the dirt- or glees. Frequently :he 'wounded bad to drink the defile :,tut'' while the women looked on and laugh- ed. An equally common entertainment with these women was to offer a wounded man a glass of water and then pour it slowly on the ground. Cases of physical maltreatment .of 6.50: butchers` cows, choice, $10.00 to uiediiuit. d77', 00 to 77.2e , good, 78.76toc to $9.50; 77.30 to 73,35; Feeders, 79.50 to 710.26; canners and cutter's, $5.25 to 30.25; milkers, good to choice, $35.00 to $310,00; do.; coin. and rated. each, 740.00 'to $60.00; springers, $50.00 to $110.00; light ewes, $10.00 to 714.00; sheep, heavy, 38.60 to 78.50 calves, gond to choice, 712.50 to 14.:5 spring lambs, each, 78.00 to $12.00; lambs, choice, 714.25 to 715„50; do., medium. 710.50 to 712.50; Wows, fee. and watered $15.50 to 716,:60: weighed off cats, 716.75; do.. Z.0,b., 716.17. Montreal, April 17. --Good to clinics milk ted calves, 78.00 to $11.00, others 74,00 to 77.00 sheep 78.50 to 710.50; Spring lambs, 712.00 to $15.00 each; selected hogs at 710.70 to 717.00. • BATTLES IN THE AIR CONTINUE NUMEROUS - London, April 15. -Fighting in the air between the German and French and British aviators continues. Dere British 'wounded by Gorman nurses lilt tells of the loss by "the French; were just as common and systematic British and Americans" of 17 acro as the refusal to give them nourish- planes, Sunday four German aero- merit. planes were brought down by British The nurses nit only refused to ate fliers, and 11 others were driven down, tend to British wounded but regular- Ten British machines failed to return ly insulted and spat on them. Ere- to their base. quentty they even struck or kicked a The Paris bandaged limb in order to give pain. Freilell aviator„ lit the last three days past two years has, according to the immigration authorities, been prob- ably over. 200,000. A large -propor- tion were men of alien birth, drifters is perhaps well lost to Canada. Some of these are now- seeking to come back, but are being rejected. at ports of entry ley the immigration officials as undesirables, -� TWO SPITAL SHIPS ARE SUNK One Torpedoed in the Channel-- Fifty-two Persons Drowned. A despatch from London says:-- The British hospital ship Salta was sunk by a mine in the English Chan- nel on April 10, the War Office an- nounces. Fifty-two persons were drow.ted. The British hospital ship Glouces- ter Castle was torpedoed without warning in the English Channel on March 30. All the wounded on the ship were saved. There were no wounded on board the Salta. A German wireless despatch of April 11 says the Gloucester Castle was torpedoed by a German sub- marine. The British steamship Gloucester Castle, 7,999 tons gross, was built in Glasgow in 1911 and owned in Lan- don. The' only Salta listed in maritime reference books is a French merchant- man of 7,284 tons gross, owned in Marseilles, There are no records of her recent movements. "DEFENSIVE SEA AREAS" AROUND U. S. DESIGNATED Regulations Governing The Move- . ments of Vessels in These Waters Issued. A despatch from Washington says: -An Executive order designating "defensive sea areas" on coasts of the United States and its insular posses- sions was made public on Friday. Re- gulations governing the movements of vessels in these waters are appended, and the nyder concludes with this statement: ' "The responsibility of the United States of America for any damage in - LENS RE •ORTED N BRIM HANDS• CE d A S S FFER GREAT LOSSES Last Report Says Troops Operating East of Lievin, Which Was Taken Saturday -Germans Leave 1,500 Dead, 300 Prisoners. London, April 15. -Apparently the city of Lens, the great coal centre of northern France, has fallen before the British drive. The night official report speaks only of progress "east of Lievin, where our troops are ap- proaching the outskirts of Lens." But the correspondents of Lloyd's News with the British army tele- graphs that British patrols entered the city between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning, and other correspondents tell of incidents indicating that the Germans have abandoned the town, and that the British are walking into it. While British guns were plowing a way to turn the northern hinge of the Hindenburg line at Lens, the German Field Marshal let loose against the British wedge threatening the south- ern 'tinge the most powerful blow he has delivered since tho beginning of his wide withdrawal. It failed com- pletely. Along a six -mile front on both sides of the Bapaume-Cambrai high road he concentrated the artillery fire of a great park of field pieces and then launched a succession of heavy y in- fantry attacks. The Germans suc- ceeded in penetrating Legnica-art, The German trench system along which is practically the centre of the the slag heaps in front of the city 'British fighting front. Haig's men has been practically pulverized by the quickly rallied, however, and drove blast -fire from General Horne's bat- the enemy out in disorder, capturing teries. East of the city they have three hundred prisoners at the same another network of trenches in which time, making a total of 700 prisoners it is believed they may make a tem -during the week -end. The British porary stand before retiring to the line to -night stands where it did be - supplementary Hindenburg line be- fore. and 1,500 German dead. have tween Drocourt and Queant. - heen counted in the area just beyond. TURK f° E C � N iso R' BY T H �. INBRITISH WAR ON U-BOATS General Maude Scores Another 376 Are Members of Royal Naval Big Success. Aui iliary Patrol. London, April 15. -The Turk4 have sustained another defeat at the hende of the British in Mesopotamia. The War Office announces that the Turks are in retreat after a battle it which they eufr'ered heavy losses. The Turks were driven from their positions near Ghaliyeh, ten miles northeast of Deltawah. (Deltawah is 35 miles north of Bagdad.) They then withdrew toward Seraijik and thence toward Dely Abbas. The British are pursuing the Turks. On Wednesday the Turks lost 200 killed and 700 wounded: FOOD- CRISIS MAKES ALL FATHERLAND TALK Vorwaerts Warns Government of Con- sequences of Bread Diminution. A despatch from London says: -The food situation is dominat- ing all other considerations in Ger- many, according to The Berlin Vor- waerts as quoted in an Amsterdam despatch to the Central News, Tho Vorwaerts says: "Notwithstanding all the big events, the new food regulations which are to the Crown Prince's right is Crown he introduced on April 15 form the Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, and on exclusive subject of discussion in the his left Grand Duke Albrecht of Wur- ^'A' most considerable circles of the pea- temburg, who previously- commandedpie. A diminution in the bread the German forces in FIanders. It ration forms a serious difficulty for was recent'' reported in the Entente the entire population and causes great press, says the newspaper, that the preoccupation." German Crown Prince had heen sent Some weeks ago the German news- home to Berlin in disgrace. papers announced that the bread ra- tion would be reduced by one-fourth, beginning April 15, owing to the scarcity of wheat. A .iespetch from Ottawa says: --Ill all 376 Canadians are ziOW engaged in combatting the German submarines, as member's of the Royal Naval Auxil- iary Patrol, and, according to reports which have come. to the Naval Service Department here, all have acquitted themselves well and have reflected credit apon the Dominion. Of :the - number 264 are sub -lieutenants or of- ficers of the submarine -chasers and 112 are chief motorboat men, or ntot- orboatmen, the mechanics of the craft, - Of the 112 motorboatmen 43 are from British Color . ia; 3. from On- tario, of whom 11 are from Toronto and six from Ottawa; 21 from the Province of Quebec, of whom 1.6 are ontrealv. eric,i. ,._f rein J th n r fl bol asika`t'd3lewa$ anc�, �Yal� rT CROWN PRINCES LEAD IN WEST. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The Gerzan Crown Prince now com- mands the German centre army groups on the Western front, accord- ing to The Frankfurter Zeitung. On KING GEORGE NOW CHIEF O>: ROYAL FLYING CORPS A despatch frorz London s tti ,:- - King George has become Colonel -in- plaudits of member, and the galleries, Chief of the naval and military wings late last night passed the se •en-bil- of the Royal Flying Corps, "to mark lion -dollar war revenue authorization his admiration of the splendid services messure. One member, Representative both wings have rendered since the London, of New York, the only Soeial- commencement of the war." ist in Congress, voted "present." $7,000,000,000 LOAN PASSEL) IN it. 8. HOU`"E. Democrats and Republicans :'.like oted for the Measure. V ashington, April 15. -Without a: dissenting voice the house, amid the CANADIANS FOUGHT DAYS SUBSISTING ON "IRON For Three. Days They Had Practically No Water to Drink, but, Fought on Until Tisk Was Completed, British Headquarter« in France, i ever, it u'ae necessary to drive the April 15. -It is one of the petty per- Germany back throug t several long versifies of the great world war that Converging tunnels, which were forti- some of the host Homeric fighting on iced in such manner that. they were Vimy Ridge should have been about a! believed to be absolutely impregnable. place rejoicing in the name of "The ! The Germans within those tunnels Pimple." The Associated Press cor- said they felt so safo that they hoped' respondent met some worn and muddy to remain there for the 'rest of the Canadians returning from beyond war. "The Pimple" yesterday afternoon. Sante of the Canadians had sutissist War Office reports that Among them were many Nova ed on "iron rations" for live days, and 'Scotians. They had been fighting I�i•d practically no water for three "'if," says The Times, "the German 1 of theest week accounted for 25 flitted by force of arms with the ob- from Sunday night until Friday eight, (here. But they never thouht of g r Red Cress is merely a branch of Ger'- p Ger- man militarism it has prostituted its earn+d sign, shamed its name and forfeited all right to be regarded as tit; organization of humanity." German aeroplanes and a captive bal- jeet ,of detaining any persons or yes- and declared they had enjoyed every tier'n]ng back for food or drink until loon. Both tate British anti French .Ws proceeding in contravention to re - airmen havecarried out notable bomb- vitiations duly promulgated in accord- ing exploits 00 German positions be- mice with this Executive order shall hind the line. cease from this date (April 5t1,i)," minute of it. then, task was completed, They They were not at "The Pimple" all snarly: along with the. dog-tired; but that time, but Well beyond it, Before s.ttirficd, gait or trioti returned from a "The Pimple" dould be cut out, how- succeeeful day's hunting expedition.,