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Zurich Herald, 1917-06-01, Page 2ITALIAN ARMY VICTOTOUSIN BIG OFFENSIVE TOWARD TR 1 ST "4 About 5,000 More Prisoners Captured and 11 Guns --Carried Heights and Consolidate Lines North of Playa. London, May 27. -The Italian army has been victorious again in its big of- fensive toward Trieste. Unwearied by previous efforts Gen. Cadorna's fantry Friday stormed large sections of the Austrian second line of defence on the rocky hills of the Carso plateau, and to the north held firmly against most violent counter-attacks all the captured ground on the Isonzo, In this day of tremendous fighting the Italians took 3,500 fresh prisoners. Following up their successes Fri- day, the Italians on Saturday smashed through the Austro-Hungarian posi- tions between Jamiano and the Gulf of Trieste, passing the Monfalcone- Duino railway north-east of San Giovanni, and establishing themselves within a few hundred yards of the village of Medeazza. North of Playa the Italians carried the heights at the head of the Palliova valley, thus join- ing their Mont Gucco lines with those on Hill 363. Eleven guns were cap- tured, and more that 1,200 Austro - Hungarians were taken prisoner, The surest testimony to the strength of the Italian offensive is that since the first attack on the Isonzo on May 14 these troops have captured 24,619 Austrians, of whom 487 are officers. This is a total of prisoners equal to that taken by eith- er the British or French in their of- fensives, in a considerable longer space of time. The Austrian general staff, too, bears witness to what a powerful machine the Italian army has now become, and what terrible blows it can deal. "Never in the two years of fighting just completed," says the Austrian official announcement, "has the heroic Isonzo army had to face greater efforts of the enemy." E MN 000 13L714,ASA MONTH Reign of Terror is Intensified- Hu-dreds of People Murdered. Loudon, May 26. -An interview was had to -day by a representative of Reuter with a Belgian gentleman of high social position. who succeeded in escaphig from Belgium, knowing that he •toss about to fall into the h i Tele The German secret police. lie gives 40 Terrible account of the Germ u -called judicial methods, whi; h hnve pro,lueed a renewed verit- able reign of terror. in many respects resembling the procedure of the In- qui:ilinn. "In a vague way," he snicl, "the •world knows something of t lermany'e military actions, but there! nye I,000 citizens condemned every month for patriotic oftenccs. During the three Months preceding January lnr;i fort•y•t.wo (teeth ...essences were inflicted ill one court alone. '•Nubotly' who has not gone through: it a�,i,n rn.etia toe extent of terror prevails owing to the methods employed by the German secret pa - 'Lk , send- for *l%V'.ion&, ,,reFti,ane. .vo lee few people are able to give any pre- cise facts. Only those who, like my-, self, have narrowly escaped the clut<•11es Ci.' the German :pies and ageri> pr 3. Ota errs' have some know - /edge of their rnesl'rds, "A German Se. geant was ordered tc arrest 'Frar,e-T:reurs' in the early day e of the war. but as he was un-' able to find any, and not daring to present himself before his chief empty handed, he simply arrested the first unoffentiing peasants he met on the road. This sort of thing now hap- pens daily in the campaign of perse- cuthrn directed against the patriots. ADVANCE ON ESTERN FRONTS Successful Minor Engagements -New Thrust in Preparation. London, May 27. ---On the two main battle -fronts, Arras and the Aisne, the past 24 hours have seen more fighting than for same time in the same period, for there has been no engagement of magnitude. The series of local attacks, bombardments, trench raids and very considerable air activ- ity seem to have been in preparation,• for heavier fighting. probably on the British front. Though the French carried out an attack in the Champagne that gave them small local advantages, most of the fighting on their front consisted In the repulse of small German conn-, ter -attacks. These counter-attacks' were made mostly on the Chemin-des-, Dames ridge, but without success. Ar- tillery fire also was active on the ridge and in the Champagne. According to the. German official, statement, the attack the Crown Prince delivered Friday night, which Paris announced met with but little success, took 544 prisoners, 15 ma- chine guns and much war material. Berlin claims no great gain in ter- rain, but says a French counter-at- tack was repulsed. THREE TRENCH SHIPS SUNK IN ONE WEEK A despatch from Paris says:. --One' Trench merchantman of more than 1,600 tons and two under that tonnage were 'sunk by mines or submarines during the week ending May 20. Three ships were unsuccessfully :al;taoketl while 991 entered French ports, and j,,016,sailed in the same period, SPANISH SIP SUNK 133 LIVES LOST Forty-eight of the U -Boat Vic - tints Were Passengers. London, May 27. -Forty-eight pas- sengers and 85 members of the crew of the Spanish steamer C de'Eizaglt'ir- re are believed to have perished as a result of the sinking of the steamer. A despatch received by Reuter's Telegram Company, the date of origin of which has not been made public, reports the loss of the C de Eiza- guirre. The despatch says that, ac- cording to the second officer, the steamer sank in five minutes. He was awakened by a great noise, and rushed to the deck and tried to get passengers into his boat, but the boat was swept away, and almost simul- taneously the steamer broke in half. He saw no other boats afloat except that in which he and the other sur- vivors made their escape from the s'ieamer. Those in the boat had a miracufous escape, rowing for many hours in heavy !scan daring foul weQt1r er» The r �1 ,;;i e 4 . t i::. tett�- lessly to bail the boat. Among the 48 passengers missing is the Spanish Consul at Colombo, Ceylon. 'received here on Friday via Berne S P BY FAMINE 100,000 Desertions From the Ottoman Army Already • Reported. A despatch from New York says: -- A news agency despatch from Paris, published here on Friday, says: Turkey is swept with famine and pestilence, her people are panic- stricken and her army's morale is ut- terly gone, according to information One hundred thousand desertions from the army are reported. Realizing the lose of all Turkey's fighting power, 8,000 Austrian troops have recently been sent to Palestine to attempt bolstering up the army in front of the British expeditionary A despatch from Paris says:-- forces. Four thousand German troops North of the Chemin-des-Dames, in are said to be guarding the Govern- the region of Pantheon, the Germans ment buildings, factories and bridges in heavy attacks succeeded in entering in Constantinople, while hundreds in French first-line trenches, according the city are dying each day. to the French official communication Typhus is sweeping over the whole issued Friday evening. Immediate country, the report declares. counter-attacks by the French, how - The deserters from the Turkish ever, drove the forces of the German army, 100,000 strong, are said to have Crown Prince from most of the cap - fled into the Anatolian mountains, tured elements. and to be existing through brigandage. General Petain's forces have oecu- pied most of the Chevreux wood east of Craonne, after inflicting heavy. U. 5. WILL NOT SANCTION losses on the Germans and taking 80 PEACE MOVEMENT prisoners. Two German battalions were almost annihilated by the French [-BOAT MENACS EPOR' ED CURBED Great Britain Already Has •Life of the Campaign Measured. London, May 27, -The Westmin- ster Gazette publishes a message from a correspondent who says • the sub- marine menace is being mastered by a simple method, which he indicates is the invention of an American, "It is giving away no secret," the correspondent writes, "to say that the method, which is reputed to be in- fallible, requires only a little ti;lne to come into full effect and wear the German submarines out. It is a mod- el of simplicity. The press has been liberal in its announcement :of , Mar- coni's device, but, while extending encouragement to Marconi, it must not be overlooked that the genius who perfected one of the most 'menu-, mental advances in maritime navi- gation has devoted his unremitting consideration to the menace, and this resourceful American, too, has work- ed toward the device along •independ- ent lines." den "Only a little time is needed for our pre-eminent inventive brains to out- strip the pirate professors, and by a method which is simplicity itself we already have the life of the U-boat campaign measured." WsO 8,600 PRISONERS TAKEN YFRENC Fruits of Drives Since May ;1 in Champagne and Around`" - St. Quentin: " A despatch from Paris says: "There is nothing to report except ar- tillery fighting, at times violent, in the regions of Moulin de Vauclerc, the Californie plateau and Chevreux," says the official statement issued by the War Office Thursday night. "Wednesday night our bombing air- planes dropped 2,200 kilograms of pro- jectiles on stations in. the. neighbor- hood of Bethel, where fires broke..qut. "Belgian communicatiol%One of our patrols fought an engagement laslt night with an enemy reconnoitering party south of Dixnlucle. Thursd y was marked by the usual artillery c- ..flop,$,.. ,.T..�.-. r,?.rr:ie ,t atrnet' es 1r 1e o 0 the ,S ni'7. Y . irliiiod' of -thee Chateau Gico e ?' "On the Vauclerc plateau " t 8. 0 o'clock Wednesday night .an attack by the Germans, made after a violent bombardment, was checked immediate- ly. The Germans were driven back to the trenches whence they came, af- ter suffering heavy losses. Prisoners taken in this region in the operations of May 22 belong to six regiments from four different divisions. Since May 1, 8,600 unwounded Germans have been captured by our troops be- tween Soissons and Auberive. "In the Champagne thele was rath- er active artillery fighting on the . Moronvilliers Range. On the remain- der of the front patrol encounters and. intermittent artillery fighting oc- curred." HEA I}' +• LOSSES SUFFERED Y FOE Attack French Salient to the North of the Ladies' Walk Denies Passports to Delegates To The Stockholm Conference. A despatch from Washington says: --Emphatic disapproval of the peace propaganda of European Socialists was expressed on Wednesday by the American Goverment, which denied passports to American delegates to the Stockholm conference and issued a warning that any American taking part in the negotiations 'would be legally liable to heavy punishment, No formal announcement of pur- pose was issued, but officials explain- ed that the Government's course would have the two -fold effect of discredit- ing generally any peace moves by unauthorized persons, and of con- demning in .particular the present Socialist agitation, regarded since its inception as inspired by Germany. BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN 413 Lives Were Lost -Torpedoes on May 4. A despatch from London • says: -- The British transport Transylvania ' was torpedoed on May 4, with the loss of 413 persons, The Transylvania was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. The following official statement was 1 given out to -day. "The British transport Transyl- vania, with troops aboard, was tor- pedoed in the Mediterranean :on May 4, resulting in following losses; 29 officers and 379 of other ranks; also the chip's captain, Lieut. S. Brenell, ax.d one officer and nine men of the crew." -rket of the World Bieadstuffs 'Toronto, May 89 --Manitoba wheat- Nn oi7'ic'ia1 cinoted MIN. Manitoba oats -No official quota -flow!. .American corn --No. 3 yellow, 31.72 nominal, subject to embargo, trac Tont0, Ol'oitario oats ---No, 2 white, 76 to 770, nominal, No. 2 white, 74 to 76o, nominal, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat --No, 2 Winter, per car lot, 32.75 to '32.80; No, 3 do., 92.78 to 92 78, according to freights outside. Yeas -No. 2, nominal, according • to rr'eights outside. .Barley -Malting, nominal, according French merely locates the scene in* to freights outside. live -•-No. 2, 32.00 to $2.05, nominal, ac- south-east England, but, according cording to freights outside. to Berlin, the cities attacked were Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bags, 314.50; second patents, in jute Dover and Folkestone. The casualties bags, $14.00; strong bakers', in Jute bags, 313.60, Toronto. were heavy, 76 being killed and near-. Ontario flour --Winter, according to--ly 200 injured. Nearly all of the vic- sample, $12.25 to 312.85, in bags, track tinge were women and children. At Toronto, prompt shipment. Milifeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal : the time of the raid the streets were freights. bags included -Bran, per ton, thronged. The raiders were pursued 940; shorts, per top, 945; middlings, Per ton, t348; good feed flour, per bag, , and three of them were brought down Hay -Extra No. 2, per ten, 912.50 to in the English Channel and off the $13.50; mixed, per ton, 99 to 311.50, ;Belgian coast. Hack Toronto. I If it had not been for hazy weather, Straw -Car lots, per ton, 39, track Toronto. j and cloud -flecked skies, most Britons believe their anti-aircraft defences would have accounted for the air raiders on England and the damage would have been insignificant. As it ; was the bombs were dropped over a limited area, mostly in one toys%&. Not only were the 16 or so raiding 1 aircraft turned back after this, with Royal Flying Corps men in hot pur- suit, but naval planes of the Dun- kirk station were instantly called into service and engaging the enemy on his return, shot down three machines - in broad daylight. At one town where 14 women, 7 children and six men were killed, the casualties were mostly of those who huddled in the streets, gazing aloft and striving to pierce the low -hang- ing clouds through which the deadly explosive bombs were dropped, and locate the aerial assassins above. AIR f r ASM ON ENGLISH COAST 16 German Aeroplanes Drop Bombs -76 Killed, 200 Injured. London, May 27. -Sixteen German aeroplanes raided England on Friday night. The report of Field -Marshal Country Produce -Wholesale Butter ----Fresh dairy, choice, 39 to 400; creamery prints, 42 to 45c; solids, 42 to 430. L+'ggs-New-laid, in cartons, 45 to 460; out o1 cartons, 43c. Dressed poultry Spring chioicens, 60a; fowl, 24 to 25c: ducks, 22 to 25e: squabs, per dos., 94.00 to 34,80; turkeys, 30 to 320. Cheese -New, large, 261 to 27c; twins, 262 to 271; triplets, 27 to 271c; old, large, 29c; twins, 201c. Honey -White clover, 28-1b, tins, 140 to 15e; 5 -Ib. tins, 1480; ' 10?1b., 186c; 60-111, 13c; buckwheat, 60-7L. tins, 10 to 101c. Comb honey -extra fine and heavy weight, per doz., 32.75; select, 32,50 to 32.75; No. 2, 92 to $2.25. Maple syrup -imperial gallon, 31,75. Potatoes -On track Ontario, per bag, 34.25; New Brunswick Delawares. per bag, $4.10; Aibertas, per bag, 34.00; P.E.I. whites, bag, 94.00. Betels -Imported, hand-picked, Man- churian, $8.00 to 38.50 per bush; Limas, per. lb., 19 to 20c. Provisions -Wholes ale Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 30 to 31c; do., heavy, 25 to 26c; cooked, 41 to 42c; rolls, 26 to 27c; breakfast bacon, 33 to 35o; backs, plain, 36c; boneless, 39c. Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 269 to 27c: tubs. 27 to 2780; pails, 279 to 275c; compound, tierces. 21e; tubs, 219c; pails• 2130. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 24 to 250 per lb.; clear bellies, 24 to 250. Montreal Markets ,llontral. May 29 -Oats -Canadian Western, No. 2, 8330; No. 3, 860; extra No. 1. feed, 86c. Barley -Manitoba feed, patents, Flour-Manitoba 914 60 baseconds 314,10; strong bakers', 313.90; Winter patents, choice, 315,75; straight roliers, 315.00 to $15.30; do., bags, $7.25 to $7.40. Rolled oats-.Bbis., $8.75 to 39.00; do., bags, 90 lbs., $4.25 to $4.50. Bran, $40.00. Shorts -$46.00. Middling s-$48.00 to $52.00. Mouillie, $52.00 to 357.00. lay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, 913.00 to $13.50. Cheese -finest westerns, 24 to 245c; finest easterns, 235c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 42c; seconds, 41e. Eggs STATE O iSi.�. S - 8 n® BRAZIL Foreign Minister Says That a Declaration of War is EEY REPULSE ONTHE ISONZO More Important Positions Are Captured and Defences of Trieste Menaced. A despatch from London says: From Playa, on the Isonzo, to the Adriatic Sea, the Italians and Aus trians are fighting bitterly, and the troops of General Cadorna are making steady progress, especially on the southern end of the 21 -mile front. North and south of Jamiano, eight miles south of Gorizia, the Italians have driven the Austrians back and taken additional important positions, The gains here are a direst menace to the defences of Trieste. The fighting is made harder because of the barren, hilly country. Despite the difficulties of terrain and the stubbornness of the enemy resistance, however, Cadorna's men have taken two strongly fortified hills north of Janiiano and reached the outskirts of Versio. The Austrians have attempted to check the Italians' advance on the Southern Carso by making violent counter-attacks south and east of Gorizia and along the Vodice sector. At all points of attack the Austrians were driven back with heavy losses, and east of Hill 652, on the Vodice, the Italians captured the position from which the Austrians emerged to the attack. The number of prisoners taken by General Cadorna's command since Wednesday morning has increas- ed to 10,245, including more than 300 officers. CANNOT LEAVE CANADA WITHOUT PERMIT Government Will Prevent Evasion of Military Duty -Heavy Penalties. A despatch from Ottawa says: - Under an order -in -Council, effective on Friday from coast to coast, it is illegal under heavy penalty for any male per- son within the ages of 18 and 45 years inclusive, ordinarily resident in Can- ada, to leave or attempt to leave the Not Necessary country for any purpose without writ- ten permission of a Canadian immigra- A despatch from Rio Janeiro says: tion inspector or other person auth- Opening of all Brazilian ports to the orized to grant such permission, who warships of the Entente allies was must be fully satisfied by sworn de - advocated in the Chamber of Depu- elevation that the intended departure ties on Wednesday by Niolo Pecanha, is not with the object of avoiding the Foreign Minister, Antonio Bueno liability to be called upon to render de Andrade :and several other mem- conduce or other service "which might e F resh, 44 to. _se; No. 2 stack, `430, Po- hers: Parliament, :during, � �ol?irited conduce. towards the.success o.. his -. j;�a#oes-der ?,tap..; la#' eets...$3.15' to $4,60,,: q w. --- inn . Y'ci osed^'"ti'W6aPf 33ra- Majesty and >his allies in •;li•"q.1 of n 1 offinniiiegJt$raiA Zlliall biiC _ �' ii Winnipeg, May 89, -Cash rices:- p yin to international `situ- paw/ailing tivar." Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $2,67; .7o. 2. do., ation. De Andrade 'declared that such. Violation of the regulation is pull - 33.64; No. 8, do., 33.59; No. 4, 99.47; No. 6 92.20' No, 6, 91.80; feed, 31.25 Oats - No. 2 G.75', 771c: No. 3, do., 749c; extra No, 1 feed, 7400; No. 1 feed, -700; No. 2, do., 68c. Barley -No, 3, 31.32; rejected, $1.05; feed, 31.05. Flax -No. 1 N. -W. c., $3.043; No. 2 C.W., $3.01. United States Markets Minneapolis, May 29. -Wheat -May, ,53.96; July, 92.38; September, 91.85• cash, No. 1 hard, 32.93 to $2.98; -No. 1 Northern, 32.83 to 32.88; No. 2 Northern, 92.73 to 32.83. Corn --No. 3 yellow, 9160 to 1.62, Oats -No. 3 white, 64 to 65c. lour unchanged. Bian, 930 to 331. Duluth, May 29-W'beat-No. 1 hard, 32:97; No. 1 Northern, $2.96; No. 2. Nor- thern, $2.91; May, 32.96; July, $2.41; all nominal. Linseed 33'.37: May. $3.87; July. $3,32; September, $3.21; October, $3.04 Sdve Stook Markets Toronto, May 29. -Choice heavy steers, 311.75 to $12.00; good heavy steers, vase to 311.15; butchers' cattle, choice, $11.35 to 911.75; do., good, 510.55 to 311.25; do., medium, 36.75 to $10.00; do., common, $8.85 to $9.15; butchers' bulls, choice, 310,50 to 911.00; do., good bulls, 39.75 to $10.00; do., medium bulls, $8.50 to 39.00; do., rough bulls, $6.40 to $6:50; butchers' cows, choice, $10.25 to 310,76; do., good, 39.25 to $10.00; do, medium, 38.00 to 38.75; stockers. $7.60 to $9.00 feeders, $9.50 to $10.25; canners and cutters, $5.25 to $6.35; milkers, good to choice, $85.00eto 3110.00; d0. com, and med., each, $40.00 to 960,00; springers, $00;00 ,to 9110.00; light ewes, $12.00 to 13.50; sheep, heavy, $8.60 to 310.00; calves good to choice, 912.00 to $14.00; spring lambs, each, 95.50 to $9; lambs, choice, 314.50 to 916; do., medium, 310,50 to 312.50; hogs, fed and watered, 917.00 to 317.15; do. weighed off cars, 917.25 to $17.40; do. f.o.b.. $10.25 to $16.40. Montreal, May 29 -Calves, 35.50 to 311.00; ld sheen Spring $11.00; to 910.00;. hogs, 317.75 to $18.40, a measure would be in the interest of Brazil, whose existence depended upon freedom of the 'seas. Foreign Minister Nilo Pecanha de- clared in the Council of Ministers, ac- cording to the newspapers, that it was not necessary for Brazil to declare war on Germany because she had been virtually forced into a state of war by circumstances. He said that the tor- pedoing of the Brazilian steamer Ti juca did not essentially modify the situation created by the destruction of the Parana. BRAZIL TO POLICE SOUTH ATLANTIC. A despatch from Rio Janeiro says: According to The Journal do Com- mercio, it was decided at a meeting of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Commissions, called Thursday by the Foreign Minister, to adopt the prin- ciple of revocation of Brazil's neu- trality in the war between the United States and Germany, and to police the South Atlantic with the Brazilian fleet, Ili Petrograd trio e is a elo2k with 95 faces that marks the thne in 30 cities in as many countries, and the movements of the earth, planets and other heavenly bodies. FIRST UM ED STATES F RCE ON FRENCH FIRING LIN F Vanguard of United States Army Now Occupy Position in the .Trenches renches Beside French Army. A despatch from French Headquar- ters says: From the camp where they have been training the first American combatant unit started Thursday for the position which they will occupy at the front. American ambulances are of course to be seen everywhere in France, and American airmen have done splendid work for the cause of the allies, but this fine body of young leen, mainly drawn from the univers- ity corps of Cornell, 'Vale, Harvard, Chicago and other wellknown colleges in the United States is something dif- ferent. Though they actually came to France for ambulance work they are tho fighting vanguard of the army which our new ally will send across the Atlantic. As soon as it was de- cided that their country should enter the war these men, many of whom are engineers by profession, gave up the design of serving on the Red Cross in order to join the fighting units. Be- sides the contingent which went to the front Thursday several others sere now being trained as soldiers in the same district, some according to American and some according to. French methods under French and American instructors. Captain Tink- ham, the officer commanding the de- tachment which started Thursday, has already won the Military Cross while serving with the French at Verdun, ishable by a fine not exceeding $2,500 or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both fine and imprisonment. The order applies to every male person within the ,ages specified, save members of military or naval forces on duty or members of crews of boats, trains, ferries, street cars, etc., plying between points within and without Canada, when actually in the perform- ante of their duties as members of such trews. a_. EASTERN COUNTIES RAIDED BY ZEPPELINS despatch from London says; - Four or five German airships raided the eastern counties of England Wed- nesday night, according to an official statement issued this morning. Tho airships dropped bombs and escaped, althoubh pursued. The official statement reads: "Four or five hostile airships ap- proached Bast Anglia shortly before mid -night last night. The weather was overcast, and a thick bank of rain clouds made observation difficult. "Four airships appeared to have penetrated iniland into the eastern counties. They followed erratic course, 'and dropped a number of bombs in country districts, apparent- ly being tunable to locate their posi- tion. The raiders were pursued by our airplanes, but clouds enabled them to make good their escape. One man was killed in a Norfolk village. The material damage is believed to be negligible." Houle Rule. The pretty girllookedpinched and ill, and the Man -Who -Hoped -That - One -Day was very anxious about herr. "What's the matter with you, little girl?" he said gently. "You look rot- ten." The girl looked up. "Take me to somewhere where they feed you like navvies," she said: "I'm aching for a good, square meal." "What's the matter? Aren't you getting enough to eat at home?" "No. You see, the d etor's put the pater on ,diet, 'and the rest of the family has to starve to keep him out of temptation." }3razil promises to enter the palter industry, A number of its trees httvo been found valuable for the purpose, and in view of the depletion of stoelc in the United States and Canada capi- talists in Brazil are taking steps to mannfaeture paper,