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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-06-15, Page 3BRITISH STRIKE BLOW IN BELGIUM IN BRILLIANT OFFENSIVE British Army Under Gen, Sir Herbert Mutter Captured Hun Posi- tions on Messines Ridge and Take 5,000 Prisoners. A despatch from London says: - In one of the most elaborately plan- ned and daringly executed manoeuvres of the war, Sir Douglas Haig's forces have dealt a mighty blow against the German line in 13eigium, and been re- warded with notable gains in terrain and the capture of more than 5,000 prisoners and numerous guns of various calibre. In addition they in- flicted heavy casualties on the Ger- mans. Over a front of more than nine miles extending from the region of Ypres southward and nearly to Armentieres, the British started their drive in the early hours of Thursday morning and at nightfall had everywhere advanced their line, capturing villages and nu- merous points of vantage, among the latter the Messines-Wytscle.ete ridge, which commands the surrounding plains for miles and which for two and a half years has been a trouble- some salient. The villages of Messines and Wyts- chaete fell into the hands of the Brit- ish during the attack, and the British even pressed on eastward from Wyts- chaete and occupied the village of Oosttaverne and trenches east of the village on a front of more than five miles. Probably never in history was an attack launched with greater pre- paration, For days the Wytschaete salient had been the objective of the British guns, which had hurled tons of steel upon it. When the time for the attack came the British loosed mines containing 600 tons of high ex- plosives in front of the German po- sitions,. the detonations being heard 130 miles away in England. With consternation reigning among the Germans and under a curtain 01 fire, English, Irish, New Zealand and Australian infantrymen, with "tanks" to aid them, started across the open. The Germans offered only slight re- sistance, and everywhere were beaten off, even late in the afternoon, when they had somewhat regained their composure and attempted a counter- attack near the southern end of the line, which was broken up by the Brit- ish artillery fire. CARMAN RAID FRANCE MIJST 4AVE SOUTH OF LENS ALSACE=LORRAINE Our Troops Wild Heavy Losses on the Eneiny Canadian Army Headquarters, June 10.--A trench raid upon a scale much larger than any hitherto undertaken by Canadian corps was most success- fully carried out during Friday night in the neighborhood of the Souchez river. After occupying the enemy's first line and support trenches for two hours, in which time they were sys- tematically wrecked, our men re- turned before dawn this morning to their former positions. The plan of operations excluded the holding of any of the ground oc- cupied, except some elements of trenches between the Bois de Riau- Spnehea erivem „. ate ednaground ere ;algae'. obtained after a stiff fight, At this point the Sanchez River had been dammed by the enemy with the object of pro- viding a strong defensive flank. The Canadians, attacking from the south of the river, after hand-to-hand en- countersn took the German trenches imenediathly to the north. The troops to the north had a very stiff fight be- fore they reached their objective, the enemy making full use of well - Germany Declares That Restora- tion of French Province Will Not be Granted. A, despatch from Berlin says:' Thp French Chamber's decision that the war must continue until Prussian mili- tarism is destroyed and Alsace-Lor- raine regained caused the greatest indignation all over Germany, and not the least among the Socialists. For some tiine one could notice a decided change in the attitude of the large German classes toward France, who even to the beginning of the present year had displayed something akin to compassion. German papers pre- serve rather a forced calmness in dis- cussing the proceedings in the French Chamber, though all of them without anyeeaccention, eiriphasize the stereo- .; . ...; • • ; •: .• , ; German,. is Geintian, arid evill 'remain. German forever, no matter what the Chamber may decide." Vorwaerts feels perhaps the hardest, because it says that even. French Socialists who recently were ready to sit down with German Socialists at Stockholm and discuss with them peace without an- nexation now seem to have identified themselves nigh the war aims of the capitalist elates. Prince Lvoff. A new photo of the Premier of Rus-' sia, who is having troubles all his own trying to hold all elements of the Russians together. LORD NORTHCLFFE HEAD OF iSSWN Succeeds Balfour as Chief of the British Mission to the • United States. A despatch from London says: Lord Northcliffe, at the request of the War Cabinet, has accepted the potion of head of the British war mission in the United States in suc- cession to Arthur J. Balfour, who is to return to his duties at the Foreign Office. Lord Northcliffe's task will be to co-ordinate the various British mis- sions, and act in concert with the mis- sions of the Entente allies and of the American and Canadian Govern- ments. He has made many visits to 2 the United States and Canada. He was born at Chapelizod, county Dub- lin, July 15, 1865. Lord Northcliffe is well known as a writer and newspaper proprietor. He controls, among other journals, The London Times and London Daily Mail. He has a controlling interest in great Newfoundland paper mills and the Imperial- Pape a Mills at Gravesend, near London. He has long taken an active part in British poli- Markets of the World TWO BRITISH SHIPS E TORPEDOED Ereadetuffs NoToortvoineitz, cf'iluonteatila2n-.0.1V1anitoba wheat - Manitoba oats -No official quotatious. no4mTnearli,P4tin,aock"Trio-if‘noto' . 2 761°w' *1.88, Ontario oats -No official quotations. No, 3 White, no official quotations, Ontario. 'what -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, 52.50 to $2.56; No, do„ 52.48 to 52.03, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bags, 512,00; second patents, in jute bags, 512.501 strong bakers', in lute bags, $12.10, Toronto. Ontario flour -Winter, according to riaorrooPniteo,,53,11.10,rn0Opttoah5ipliin.le%tin bags, track frePigeahst-s Nogto.812d,e. nominal, according to to Bfarreliegyhrs Moaulttsiniage,. nominal, according tol;ryeei-gliNtso'0211,ts5i2d,e0.1), nominal, according Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal. freights, bags inoluded-Bran, per On, 535; shorts, per ton, 541; middlings, per loons, 25.4050.; good feed flour, per bad, $330 Xiay-Extra No. 2, per ton, 518.00 to y.04,..ono t; ..mbced, per ton, 59 to 511.50, track ronSttoraw-Car lots, per ton, $9, track To- -, Butter -Creamery, solids, per lb.', 365 to37o; prints, Poe.r lb., 37 to 37110; dairy, per ib., airoausan-graoieseae 3 Eggs-Per dos., 36 to 370. traWdell°1 et s tahl eerefotroew isnegll pn rgi oteos the r e t al 1 Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 38 to 89o; creamery prints, 42 to 440; solids, 41 to 420, outBgoV-caNrteoNvns-1,a4idl, tion4c2aci:tons, 44 to 450; Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 60c; fowl, 24 to 25c; squabs, per dos, , $4.00 to 54.50; turkeys, 25 to 30o. Live poultry -Spring Phickens, lb., 40 to 45c; hens, lb., 22 to 25o. Cheese -,---New, large, 245 to 25c; twins, 12a4re, 2 to 2550; twins,50;tripoe. tt25 to 255c; old, e -Comb--Extra fine and heavy • elect, 52.50 to Submarines Sink Southland and Manchester Without Warning. A despatch from London says: The British steamer Southland, from Liv- erpool, for Philadelphia, in ballast, was torpedoed without warning on June 4. She had six Americans on board, one of whom is missing. The gun crew on the Southland fired ten shots at the submarine after the first torpedo was fired. A second tor- pedo was fired by the submarine, and it caused an explosion in the maga- zine, which killed eight men. Two boats, containing forty men, are still misging. The rest of the crew of 159 has been landed. Two Americans were killed when the British steamer Manchester Miller, loaded with cotton, was torpedoed on June 5. The other members of the crew, including several Atriericans, were landed. The steamer Manchester Miller measured 4,234 tons, and was built at Newcastle in 1903. She was owned in Manchester, and was lost reported as arriving at Philadelphia on March 9 from Manchester. NOISE OF BATTLE iEARD IN ENGLAND TElforci placed machine gain positions in the Dlle1 ruins of the houses and pit heads nuo .1 .R.Ljr41,.,, A along, the line of the advance. The uf " PLAN cool ; determination of our men brought them victory, and by ten o'clock the enemy trenches were firmly held. COUNTERATTACK UNSUCCESSFUL More Than 7,000 Hun Prisoners -British Air and Trench Raids. T.,ordon, June 10. -The Germans de- livered a powerful comxter-attack on Friday night on a front of six miles emath of Ypres. Large forces, com- posed mainly of fresh reserves, were thrown into the battle ,in an attempt to win back the ridge of Messines, The enemy was repulsed at all points, the \\Tor Office announces, although the battle lasted until midnight. The most severe fighting took place east of Messines and in the neighbor- hood of Klein Zillebeke (southeast of Ypres). Here, according to unof- ficial advices from the front, the Ger- mans succeeded in penetrating an ad- vanced British post, bui this was later retaken. • The total number of prisoners tak- en in this region since Thursday exceeds 7,600, while a great number of gems are still buried under the debris. There has been no great bat- tle sine Friday night, but the British have slightly improved their positions at various points. In eh. raids on Thursday night the British blew up a large amount of roll- ing stock containiag aratnuaitien. Fires and explosions followed, eon - timing until dawn. In the curse of an air battle over the German lines two British Machines collided, both aviators losing their lives, These are the times whet. the wise farmers says to himself: "Ill try to Wee on my farm everything that's /needed for home consumption." Council of Soldiers and Workmen Denounces the Proposals. Pertograd, June 10. -The Council of Soldiers' and Workmen announces that the German commander-in-chief on the eastern front sent a wireless message inviting the Russain armies to a separate armistice and proposing that they enter into secret pourparlers with the German leaders. The coun- cil denounces- the proposals. In the telegram, the council's an- nouncement states, the German com- mander proposed to show the armies a way toward an honorable peace and a means of ceasing to wage War with- out a break with the Entente allies, OSTEND HARBOR WRECKED IN RAID A despatch from London says: -A series of photographic plates of the bombardment of Ostend, which have ar- rived in London, afford a remarkable example of the development of photo- graphic observation and record by aeroplanes. They show in undeni- able fashion that the British bombard- ment of Ostend last Tuesday was the most successful thing of its kind yet accomplished,ensuring that Ostend will be crippled as a useful German base for weeks, if not permanently. 6,400 PRISONERS SO FAR COUNTED, --- German Counter-attacks Repulsed - Gahm Are Consolidated A despatch from Loudon says: The forces in Belgium have consolidated their gains of Thursday, and during Friday successfully warded off Ger- man counter-attacks in the region of Oosttaverne and Meseincs, according to the British official communication issued Friday' evening, More than 6,400 Prisoners, among them 1.32 offi- cers, have already been eounted. engaged in vigorous support of re, mier Lloyd George's Home Rule for •Ireland. :• HALF MILLION ARE MAILABLE IN U.S. Canada Can Draw on British Subjects in United States. A despatch from Ottawa says: Ex- tensive arrangements have been com- pleted by which British subjects in the United States may join the Can- adian Expeditionary Force. Various centres of recruiting have been opened in American cities, including New York, Boston, Rochester, Buffalo, De- troit, Chicago, etc. British subjects, of whom a complete list is in the pos- session of the United States Govern- ment since the registration day ,in the States, can proceed to any of these centres, pass a preliminary medical examination, and, if fit, are sent on to the headquarters of the military district in Canada that is nearest to them. NORWAY PARALYZED . BY FOOD STRIKES. Many Important Plants Throughout the Country Are Idle. A despatch from London says: A despatch to the Central News from Christiania says that great demon- strations against the unsatisfactory food situation were held throughout Norway lately. The Government. with a view to preventing rioting, pro- hibited the sale of alcoholic hosier - ages for three days, and as a result of this order the restaurants were closed. Tbe despatch adds that all stores in Christiania shut their doors, that the gas works and electrical plants are idle, and that nearly all workmen are striking. ---:.----- SHIP. OF ARGENTINA IS SUNK 13Y U-BOAT. A despatch from Paris says: The Argentina sailing ship Orion% was. sunk by a submarine in the Mediter- ranean on Wednesday, according to an announcement made by the Ministry of Marine Thursday night, The crew was saved by a French ship. The submarine first shelled the ship and then sent met On board who fixed bombs in her hold and exploded them, :minding the ship to the bottom, yd George Hears Explosion in the British Attack at His Home. despatch from London says: The endow explosions which opened British attack on Wytschaete bend e heard by David Lloyd George, British Premier, who was staying the night at his residence, Walton th. The plans for the attack had long maturing, and when the pre - tions were perfected the Premier acquainted with the exact hour as intended to open it. ceordingly, on retiring last night, Lloyd George gave orders to be ed at 3 a,m. Thursday morning, on chance of being able to hear the losions. The Premier and other nbers of his household clearly rd the tremendous detonations, as did persons at the Premier's of - 1 residence in London, who supe d.they-wereaVa-Walls. 'lle!VY NTneragO.ageeneaangadneaea gegga despatches that they came from explosion of mines. rom London to the region where British mines were exploded along German front the distance ranges m 130 to 140 miles. ex $1 pa eh to n Ib 5 $5 51. 20 0 N 52 N tr N 52 52 ha 52 el 52 no 12 Live Stook markets Toronto, June 12 -Choice heavy steers, $11.75 to 512; good heavy steers, .5.i1.40 to $11.60; butchers' cattlechoice, 511.40 . to $11.60; do., good, 51040 to $11: do., medium, 59,85 to $10; do., common, 59 to, 50.26; butchers bulls, °help, $10,60 to 511; do., good bulls, 59.7e to 510; m do., edium bulls. 55.60 to 59; do., rough 1 bulls, 56.40 to 56.50; butchers' cows, ohoico, 510,36 to 511; do., good, 50.26 to I 510; do., medium, 59 to 58.75; stockere. 57,50 to 59; feeders, 59.50 to 510.25; canners and cutters, 55.50 to 56.60; milk - ors, good to choice, $90 to $125; do., nom. and med. each, 540 to 560; springers, 385 to 5110; light ewea, 512 to 51.3; sheep, heavy, 52 to 59; calves good to choice, $12 to 514; spring lambs, each. 160 to 18c; lambs, choice, $15 to 516; do,, medium, 511 to 512.50; hogs, fed 'wand I watered, 5161 do., eighed off cars, 513.25; do., f.o.b., 515.25, Montreal, June 12-Cholce steers, 511.60 to $12; good, $1.1 to 511,26; lower grades, 58.50 to $10,60; butchers' cows, 25 to 50o, per cwt. lower at 58 to 510.25; butchers' bulls. $9.25 to 511. HUN PRISONERS PREDICT DEFEAT. FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTE ,a OF INTEREST FROM HER ' BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. raised £85 for the limbless soldiers and sailors. The of Kirkeonnel have The D.S.C. has been awarded to Skippertreet,N Dair.avind Wallace of 65 SocietY Street, Over £400 was raised last year by the c Bathgate branch teociebranch of the Royal Rod Gourock has been entirely free from infectious disease since the be- ginning of the year. Harrison J. Gibb has been appoint- ed sole agent o the Union Bank branch at Castle Douglas. The Murchison Award, for geologi- cal research has been received by Dr. Mackie, Elgin, Morayshire. The estate of the late Wm. Proctor, formerly of the Gordon Arms Hotel, Fochaber, is valued at £32,676. The Berwick Magdalene Fields Golf Club has decided to close the golf course for the duration of the vvar. The Military Cross has been award- ed to Lieut. W. P. Lyall, R,N.V.R., a solicitor of Macduff, Banffshire. The Crookston Poorhouse has been taken over for a few weeks for the reception of mentally afflicted soldiers. Miss J. A. Hannah, Newton -Stew- art, has been awarded the Royal Red dCerroesds.medal for valuable services ren - George Murray, Castle road, Cath- cart, has been appointed a member of the Cathcart Parish Council. JANINA SEIZED BY ITALIANS. Cabinet of Athens Send Protest Re- garding its Occupation. London, June 10. -The occupation by Italian troops of the city of Jan- ina, in north-western Greece, is re- ported in a Reuter despatch from Athens. On receipt of this informa- tion at Athens the cabinet assembled to formulate a protest. Janina is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants, thirty miles east of the Albanian border and more than 100 miles below the battlefront in Mace- donia. In the last few weeks the Italians hage been extending opera- tions from their base at the Albanian •port of Avlona, taking over various --the= Albanian and Greek towns. Last x;arclr "neeee Presented a note to Italy, insisting i..tpttL ..... withdrawal of Italian troops from Elm-. 43. LUXEMBURG STRIKES AGAINST THE HUNS , High Cost of Living and Refusal to Increase Wages Are RAIDERS SHOT Responsible. A despatch from Geneva says: The Gazette de Lausanne says it learns that a general strike has begun owing un Air Squadron Attack on the to the high cost of living and the re - by British airmen. Four of these were to a certainty completely destroyed, while two others are believed to have on Essex and Kent were driven down been put totally out of commission. of eighteen German aeroplanes A despatch from London says: Of the eighteen machines that at took part in Tuesday's air raid fused of _proprie_tr_s of factories, mostly Germans, to increase wages as a result of the insecurity of their fac- ightnewspaper, began a strike at Elch, regardless of severe warnings by the torics from attacks by allied air craft. spreadto German commander. The strike cavalry at once occupied five of the principal industrial communities. Five thousand workmen, says the other towns, and German English Coast Was Routed. started in the raid two were brought Germans Much Shaken by British Gun Fire and Half Famished. A despatch from British Headquar- tem in France says: Prisoners have kept coming in on Friday in increas- ing hundreds. Dazed by nearly a week of most terrifying gun fire and half famished as a result of the "star- vation barrage" the British had kept en their lines of corammeication and supply, these men upon reaching the cool, grassy spate within the barbed wire stockades erected for their anti- cipated arrival, stripped themselves to the 'waist, tore off their heavy trench boots tied flung themselves on the ground, where they soon were lost in the heavy sleep of complete ex- ! hanstion. For them the war is over, and their relief at 'being out of it was only too apparent. The men who had seen not of their military service on the Russian front were the most demoralized of all. down near the British coast after have SIFTON WINS IN/ALBERTA. ing dropped their bombs, as reported - i in the official British statement. The Liberal Government Returned by remaining sixteen were engaged by About Sante Majority as at ten naval airmen from Dunkirk, who Last Election. in a great battle over the sea destroy- A despatch from Edmenton, Alta., ed two more of the Germans and says: The Liberal. Government ender drove down apother four, two of the leadership of Hon. A. L. Sifton which, it is reasonable to believe, were has been returned to power in Alberta completelyput out of action. as a result of the voting in Thursday's election. Returns are sioev in coining WHEAT FROM HALIFAX in,but thefigures tabulated up to 0 HAS REACHEDo HOLLAND 'clock indicated that the Liberals would have about the same proportion 8 out of a toted A despatch from London says :- of seats as fornefily--4 Word was received here on Friday in the House of 56. MI the Cabinet that two Belgian Relief Commission Ministers are believed to have been boats have reached Rotterdam from Halifax with 10,000 tons of wheat. eral, Hon. C. W. Cross, is hoviag a These are the first boats to moss the , close run in Edson. Only a few polls Atlantic for some time and their car- have been heard from at Beaver River, goee will be welcomed in Belgium, where Hon. Wilfrid Gariepy is the where there has been a shortage ofcandidate. CROPS IN THE WEST returned, although the Attorney -Gen - cereals. 4, 100 AVIATORS FROM U. S. ' ARRIVE IN FRANCE. A despatch from Washington says: ARE LOOKING FINE A despatch fromnt Calgary The Alberta crop prospects are exeel- One hundred Amerman aviators. from lent, In a few districte there has the Navy Flying Corps have arrived been too much rain, notably about safely in France, according to a state- Crossfield, and in some plaees the went issued on Friday by Secretary of the Nayy Daniels, They are tient of the American fighting forces to reach France. German thoroughness shouldnot overlook the fact that one of the many Seasoes that France is popular is that crops are doing well, The Netather 13 favorable. The acreage will be about ten per cent. under last. year. A Hongkong man has invested 4 system of shorthand applicable to the Chinese language by which a epeed of 140 weeds a minutes has been at - it is esaentially a courteous nation. tamed. 4 A