Zurich Herald, 1917-06-22, Page 3AIR RAIDERS KILL NEARLY 100
IN 15 -MINUTE ATTACK ON LONDON
437 Injured in Most Sevirre Raid Yet Made: Over England by Ger-
man Aircraft -No Damage of Military or Naval Value.
A despatch from London says: A
squadron of German aeroplanes raided
London shortly after eleven oxi.;Wed-
nosday morning and dropped thirteen
bombs. The casualties in the raid, it
is officially announced, numbered 97
killed and 437 wounded,
Killed.
Men . 55
Women . 16
Children . 26
Injured.
Men . 223
Womeei , , ... 122
Children . 94
No damage of a military or naval
nature was done. The raid over the
city lasted 'about fifteen minutes. The
largest number of casualties occurred
in the East End, but the downtown
business section was also visited by
three of the raiders and considerable;
damage was occasioned, One bomb
struck a schoolhouse, killing a large
number of children and wounding
scores of others.
In his statement Chancellor Bonar,
Law said twelve to fifteen aeroplanes
crossed the coast of North Foreland
and proceeded across Essex to Lon-
don. Two bombs were dropped on
North Foreland, and at 11.30 o'clock
the bombs began to drop in the East
End of London. Thirteen bombs fell
in the city.
The Chancellor said ., all the anti-
aircraft guns defending London were
brought into action,, and that a large
number of aeroplanes went up in pur-
suit of the raiders. Several engage-
ments occurred in the air, but the
results at present are uncertain.
CHRISTIANS ARE ROYAL FAMILY
FORCED TO FIGHT LEAVE GREECE
Germans in Full Control of Tur-
key and Everyone is
Being Mobilized.
A. despatch from Amsterdam says:
'--An Armenian who has arrived in
Holland fron Constantinople gives the
Telegraaf particulars of •the condi-
tions in the Turkish Empire. He de-'
picts the administration as wholly
under German control.- While the
Ministers themselves are Ottomans,
the vice -Ministers, who really manage
the Ministries, are Germans. Turkish
inscriptions have been removed from
the offices of the Ministries and re-
placed with notices in German.
The Germans have in short estab-
lished themselves as masters of Tur-
key. An espionage service under
German supervision is at work in Con-
stantinope. Christian families espe-
cially are spied upon. Everyone is
being mobilized -men, children and
even ono -eyed men and men without
fingers. Enver Pasha has summon-
ed te the colors all men under 51, in-
let-
ni - members of the Christian
•41ot:olx was • teleen
le viss of -Prince Waldemar of
Prussia, who in October brought a
marshal's, baton to the Sultan in the
Kaiser's name and pressed on the
Sultan the enactment of this law.
Christians in Turkey were dispensed
rem military service for the whole
period of the war under a law passed
when hostilities began on condition
that they paid £45. A year ago
Christians were made pay an addition-
al £30. Having thus paid £75 exemp-
-_,.tion,'the Christians are now compelled
to serve.
SUCCESS OF U.S.
LIBERTY L��}; ,N
Expected To Go Well Beyond
the $2,000,000,000 Mark
A despatch from Washington says:
-The Liberty Loan campaign entered
the home stretch on Thursday with
every indication that the tremendous
thirtieth day drive throughout the na-
tion would result in getting well be-
youd the $2,000,000,000 goal.
Froin coast to coast the story that
poured in to the treasury all day was
the same, a story of whirlwind finish.
Telegrams told of tolling bells and
shriel€ing whistles across the continent
marking the last day of the campaign;
of redoubled efforts by the many
agencies at work for the loan's suc-
cess, of enthusiasm at its highest
pitch, of long waiting lines of sub-
scribers in thousands of banks in every
state of the Union.
LUSS TO PUNISH
FURTHER DEFECTIONS.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
The Provisional Government has is-
sued a decree declaring all acts of
military disorder to be insubordina-
ttien, including refusal to light, and
ejso incitement to fight against the
Government. Such acts, says the de-
cree, are punishable by long sentences
to servitude in the penitentiary and
the deprivation of rights to property,
end also the right to receive land un-
der the coming land redistribution,
WILL MAKE ATHENS
WHOLLY VEeee IZELIST.
A despatch from Salonica says; It
is aecpetted that the Venizelist Gov-
ernfitient will soon be transferred to
Athens and will convoke the Chamber
of Deputies elected in May, 1p16,
which the followers of former Pre-
mier Venizelos maintained was dis-
rolved illegally by King Constantine.
Pro -German Politicians and Mili-
tary Leaders Also Must Go.
A despatch from London says: -It
has been decided that all the members
of the Hellenic Royal family, except
the new King,. will leave Greece, ac-
companied by the most prominent pro -
German politicians and military lead-
ers who form part of the entourage of
former king Constantine.
No indication has yet reached Lon-
don as to the line of policy Eleutherios
Venizelos intends to adopt regarding
the change in sovereignty in Greece,
but he already has declared that at
the end of the war he intended to
leave to a Greek national convention
a revision of the constitution which
would aid in depriving the sovereign
of the possibility of again interfering
with the wishes of the people as ex-
pressed by their representatives in
Parliament.
Former King Constantine left
Athens 'on Thursday to embark on a
British warship. Constantine was ac-
companied by the former queen and
Markets of the World
NreaQltnifa
Toronto, June 19 ---Manitoba wheat
--
No, 1 Northern $2.73; No. 9 do., 42.75,
nominal, track Northern,
panni
Nlattltoba oats -No official quotaktond,
American corn -No, a yellow, ¢7.83,.
nominal
traok Toronto.
Ontario oats ---N0 official quotations,
Ontario what -No, 2 Winter, per car
lot, 52.69 to $2,66; de., No, 5, 52,68 to
52,83, according to freights outside..
Peas -No, 2, nominal, aocording to
freights outside.
Barley -Malting, nominal, acoordinf$
to freights outside.
Rye -No, 2, 52.00, nominal, according
to freights .outside.
Manitoba flour -i --9t, patents, in int()
bg518.80; strrrt•� patents,
n jute
bags, $1 8 r,
bags, $12,90, Toronto.
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, 511.50 to 511.60, in bags, track
Toronto, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included -Bran, per ton.pp
533;er
$$44; god feed flour, per middlings,
to $2,90, 18,00 to
Hay -Extra No, 2, per ton, 5
513.50; mixed, per ton, $9 to 511.50,
track Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 59, traok
Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale
Butter -Creamery, solids, per ib., 368
to 37c; prints, 'per ib., 37 to 3780; dairy,
per ib., 31 to 82c,
Eggs -Per doz,, 34 to 35c.
Wholesalers are selling to, the retail
trade at the following prices: -
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 88 to 89c;
creamery prints, 40 to 41c; solids, 400.
Eggs -New -laid, in cartons, 42c; out
of cartons, 40e. .
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 60c;
fowl, 24 to 25c; squabs, per doz., 54.00
to $4,69; turkeys, 25 to 300.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, Ib.. 40
to 450; hems, ib., 22 to 250.
Cheese -New large, 24c; twins, 2410;
triplets 248c; old, large, 2930; twins,
800; triplets 8030;
Honey -Comb -Extra fine and heavy
weight, per doz.. $2.75; select, $2.50 to
$2.76; No. 2, 52 to 52.26.
Maple syrup -Imperial gallon, 51.75.
Potatoes -On track Ontario, per bag,
54.25;b Agl b4 to , per bag, 54.00; P.E.I.
r..Cleans-Imported, hand-picked, 59.00 to
59.50 per bush; Limas, per 1b., 19 to 200.
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 30 to
310; do., heavy, 20 to 27c; ,cooked, 41 to
420; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon,
33 to 36c; backs, plain, 36 to 870; bone-
less, 89 to 40c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 2780; tubs,
272e; pails, 280; compound, tierces,
nisi tubs, 218c; palls, 22c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 25 to
259c per ib; clear bellies, 24 to 25c.
Montreal. Markets
Montreal, June 19 -Oats -Canadian
Western, No. 2, 788e; do., No. 3, 770;
extra No, 1 feed, 77c. Barley Man.
feed, 51.20. Flour -Man. Spring wheat
patents, firsts, 513.90; do., seconds,
ppatents, choice, bakers',
513.20;
raight rollers
518 to 513.30; do„ bags, 56.25 to 56.40.
Rolled oats -Barrels, 59.00; bags, 90 lbs.,
lings, 542Bran, $$44 Shorts,
546 to 551.
Hay -No. 2, per ton, ear lots, .518 to
$13.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 2150;
finest eastern, 212c, Butter -Choicest
creamery, 383 to 89c; seconds, .378 to
3Sc. Eggs -Selected 40e: No 1 stook,
crown princK aid ether men'►ber$ txf,<th<e i t' bag & q 2 0 C 9 otr toes-
family. They left the city by motor
car. Prof. Gorgios Streit, former Winnipeg grain
adviser of the Greek Foreign Office, Winnipeg, June 19 -Cash quotations -
t with Constantine as his score Wlxeat-No, 1 Northern, $9,82; No. 2
Weri W1 Northern, $2,69 $
tary. No. 4, 52.43; No. 6. $2.18; No. 6. $1.78;
No. 8 Northern, 2.65;
4, feed, $1.35.. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 693c; No,
ZEPPELIN DROPS
DOWN IN FLA
ES
Two Persons Filled and Sixteen
Injurd in Air Raid on South -
East Coast of England.
London, June 17. -Two persons
were killed and sixteen injured in an
,air raid by two Zeppelins over the
east and south-east coast of England
early Sunday morning. One Zeppelin
was brought down in flames, all of her
crew perishing.
A despatch from an east coast town
says that thousands of persons wit-
nessed the destruction of the Zeppe-
lin. The attack by anti-aircraft guns
on the dirigible lasted fully half an
hour, and people issued from their
houses half-dressed to watch the
event. When the black object drift-
ing across the sky from the south-
east to the north-east was seen to
burst in flames the spectators cheer-
ed tumultuously. Pedestrians and
cyclists dashed off in the direction of
the fallen airship, but owing to the
unexpectedly long distance few suc-
ceeded in locating the Zeppelin, which
fell a few miles from the coast. It
had been first winged by a land gun,
and was then finished by an aeroplane,
which the Zeppelin fought to the last
with her guns.
The dirigible dropped ii1 a field of
corn, far from any habitation, and
was completely destroyed. All of the
crew were killed and their bodies bad -
]y charred. Some of the men appear-
ed to have jumped from the doomed
airship. Doctors hurried to the spot,
but their services were needless.
MR. SANDFOItD EVANS
TO BE FOOD CONTROLLER.
A despatch from Ottawa says: W.
Sandford Evans, chairman of th'e
Georgian Bay Canal Commission, has
been requested to accept the position
of food controller for Canada during
the war. The Order -in -Council de-
fining the duties and powers of con-
troller has boon submitted to Mr.
Evans, who will snake any recommend-
ations he considers necessary to ori-
sure success to this proposal to regu-
late prices and, distribution of food
supplies.
3 C.W., 673c; extra No. 1 feed, 6790• No,
1 Seed, 6530; No. 2 feed, 633c, 11arley-
No. 3,•51.30'No. 4, $1,26; rejected,
51,09; feed, 51.09. Flax -No, 1 N.W.C.,
52.88; No. 2 C.W., $2.833; No. 3 C.W.,
52.69.
4Tnited states markets
Minneapolis, June 19 -Wheat -July,
hard, $ September, t 53.25; 96 No. 1aNorthern,
3.10 to 53.15; No. 2 Northern, 58,00 to
3,10. Corn -No, 3 yellow, 51.663 to
1,683. Oats -No. 3 white, 66 to 68c.
Flour -Fancy patens, 515.50; first clears
$18.50; others unchanged. Bran, 526.011
to $27,00.
Duluth, June 10 -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
$8.01, nominal; No, 1 Northern, $8.00,
nomirnl: No. 2 Northern, 52.35, nominal;
July, 52.63, nominal. linseed -$3.14;
Live Stock Markets ,
October, 52.90.
Toronto, June 10 -Choice heavy steers,
$11,35 to 511.75; good heavy steers. 511
to 511.25; butchers' cattle, choice, $10,90
to $11.25; do., good, $10.65 to 510.85; do.,
medium, 59.50 to 510; do., common, $8.25
to 58,85; butchers' bulls, choice, 510 to
510.50; do.. good bulls, 59.25 to 59,50;
do., medium bulls, 58 to 58.60; do., rough
bulls, $8 to 56.10; butchers' cows, choice,
$10 to 510.25; do„ good, $9 to 59.60; 00.,
medium, 58 to 58.50; stockers, 57.50 to
58.50; feeders, 59,25 to 59.76; canners
and cutters, 55.50 to 56,60; milkers, good
to choice. 580 to 5110; do„ corn. and
med„ each, 540 to $60; springers, 585
to 5110; light ewes, 58.50 to 59,50:
sheep heavy, $7 to 58; yearlings, 511,50
to $12.50; calves, good to choice, $13 to
510; spring lambs, each, 16c to 183c;
lambs, choice, 515 to 516; do„ medium,
weigh1; ed oft oc errs tl 5'15.75 watered, 00.,60 f.o.b.,
514,75.
Montreal, June 19 -Sheep, $8.60 to
510; yearling lambs, 511.50 to $12:
spring lambs. 57 to 510; calves, $7 to
512; select hogs, $15.75 to 516.26.
MME CAPTURE
FORT T AT RED SEA
Turks Driven Back in Advance
From. Gulf of Aden.
A despatch from London says: -
Fort Saliff, on the east shore of the
Red Sea, has been captured by British
warships, it was officially announced
Thursday evening.
Fort Salify is on Kamaran, Bay, in
Yemen province, south-western Ara-
bia, Largo rock salt works are locat-
ed there.
The captured fort lies about 175
miles north of the Gulf of Aden. A
force of Turks to the north of Aden
has been long in the way of the British
in attempts they have made to ad-
vance from that city. The purpose
of the seizure of Fort Saliff may be in
facilitation of a movement to work in
behind this farce and capture or dis-
perse: it.
GERIONS TRAPPED BETWEEN CANAL
AND RIVER ON BELGIAN FRONT
•
.Extern
a. aught in Narrow Triangle Are Retreating With Diffi-
culty Over Area of About Eight Square Miles.
London, .,Tune` 17, --,The British on
the Belgian frontier now have the
Prussians penned in between the
River Lys, which forms the boundary,
and the Ypres -Coniines Canal.. This,
With the British line from IXoliebeke
to the frontier as the hypothenuse,
makes tin 'irregular triangle pointing
east. The two sides, along the Lys
and. the Canal, are each about 5 miles
long, and this portion of the British
line has length of seven miles, con-
stantly narrowing and encircling the
Prussians'
Military men who know how diffi-
cult it to move large bodies of
troops with all their impedimenta
when there is the slightest body of
water to cross will appreciate what an
obstacle the Lys and the canal form
to the retirement of the Prussians or
to their reinforcement by fresh troops
should they try to make a stand, Ap-
parently they have determined to re-
tire at least beyond the canal. Berlin
hints at a partial withdrawal in its of-
ficial despatches and the fact that the
heaviest of the enemy's guns no long-
er drop shells on the British line is
corroborative of this supposition.
British forces east of the Messines
Ridge, according to to -day's reports,
are engaging the Prussians at both
the north and south angles of the tri-
angle they occupy, which has an area
of eight or ten square miles. They
are astride the Ypres-Comines Canal
from Klein Zillebeke to'Iollebeke on
the north and are working east from
Gapaard, on the St. Eloi-Lille road.
Already they have pushed north-east
and are directly north of Warneton,
GREETINGS TO
AMERICAN MISSION
Russian Foreign Minister States
That People, Consider War In-
evitable and Will Continue It.
Petrograd, June 17. -"The Russian
people consider war inevitable and will
continue it. The Russians have no
imperialistic wishes. We know that sown to grain crops this Spring, with
you have none. We shall fight to- a report of their condition on May 81, A despatch from London says: -Ingather to secure liberty, freedom and as compiled from the returns of crop the House of Commons on Friday Mr.
happiness for all the world. I am correspondents. The reports from •the Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exp'
happy to say that I do not see any Prairie Provinces state that the chequer, announced the Government's
moral idea or factor between America Spring there is very backward, .and decision to release Irish political prig -
and Russia divide us. The two seeding is consequently late. At the loners. He said the the Government
peoples -Russia fighting tyranny and • had long and anxiously considered the
America standing as the oldest demo-
cracy -hand in hand will show the
way to happiness to nations great and
small."
These ringing words, expressing the
attitude of the Russian Government
toward America and the American
mission, headed by Elihu Root, were
voiced to -night by Mr. Tereschtenko,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, respond-
ing for. the Council of Ministers to Mr.
Root's ddress of sympathy and good -
4
. ' ,part.of.the Amerigan. Gov-
.
r4
WHEAT ACREAGE
IS SMALLER
Crop Conditions at the End of
May Were Below the
Average
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Census and Statistics Office has issued
a preliminary estimate of the areas.
GERMAN TTU EL
.STRUCK..BY SHELL
French Half -Ton Projectile Hit�i
Marty Zen Miles Distant.
A despatch from London sayst
This story of modern warfare is relati
ed by an official authority who has
been on the front in Champagne:
"On May 20 the French prepared tai
rush the impregnable positions on•
Mount Cornillet and Mount Teton.
Photographs taken by their aviators
showed an immense system of tunnels
which apparently concealed German
reserves. A single entrance was lo-
cated and the operator of a French 15 -
inch gun ten miles away was told to
put a shell in the entrance.
"The gun started firing thousand
pound shells and the infantry was or-
dered to advance .at a certain minute,
Two hours before the time set for the
advance a half ton shell planted itself
squarely in the mouth of the tunnel,
killing half of the men inside, block-
ading the exist and wrecking the
transverse corridors. The French ad'
vaned and took several hundreds of
prisoners without suffering a loss.
"Two months ago a French attack
on Moronvillers failed because thls
impregnable tunnel could not be cape
tured."
IRISH REBELS
A' 'f E SET FREE
Britain Releases All the Prison-
ers Without Reservation
ernmen ,
The American Ambassador, David
R. Francis, presented the Root mis-
sion to the Ministers in the Marinsky
Palace, explaining that. the mission
had come to Russia to discover how
America can best co-operate with its
ally in forwarding the fight against
the common enemy. The presentation
was very informal, only a few Russian
officials and the members of the
American Embassy attending. M.
Kerensky, the youthful Minister of
War, just back from the front, wore
the khaki blouse of a common soldier.
GERMANS STRIP WARSHIPS
AND TAKE GUNS TO THE FRONT.
Paris,; June 17. -Artillerymen taken
prisoners recently say that many long
range guns now being used by the
Germans have been taken from war-
ships. One prisoner said his guns
were taken from the Kaiser Barba-
rossa, while many others were from
the same class of vessels. The feel-
ing between the German infantry and
artillery is becoming more intense,
and there is general complaint of in-
sufficient guns.
120 CHILD VICTIMS
OF GERMAN AIRMEN.
A despatch from London says: Sir
George Cave, Home Secretary, an-
nounced:in the House of Commons
that the latest reports of the casual-
ties In Wednesday's air raid showed
that 104 persons had been killed and
154 seriously and 269 slightly injured.
Altogether, he said, 120 children were
killed or injured,
end of May severe frosts cut down
the growing wheat plant; but rapid
recovery was anticipated. Rain was
needed for the germination of the
later sown crops and of wheat sown
on stubble.
It is estimated from the reports of session of the convention of the Irish -
correspondents that the total area men themselves, when they would
sown to wheat for 1917 is 18,450,250 meet to settle the difficult problem of
acres, as compared with 14,897,000 the future administration of their
acres, the area sown, and with 12,-
900,600 acres, the area harvested in
1916. Thus, the area sown this year,
whilst .noarly 10 per cent. leas than
ttze"area sewn or•1tPY.-v,
per cent. more than the area har-
vested for 1916. In arriving at these
figures revised returns of the census
of 1916 have been included for Mani-
toba; for Saskatchewan and Alberta
similar revisions have not yet been
completed. As compared with the
areas sown for 1916, the returns this
year indicate small increases under
wheat in each of the Atlantic pro-
vinces and in British Columbia and
an increase of 25,000 acres in Quebec;
but for each of the remaining pro-
vinces decreases are reported to the
extent of 154,000 acres in Ontario,
254,000 acres in Manitoba, 927,000
acres in Saskatchewan and 158,000
acres in Alberta.
RUSSIA DECLINES -
SEPARATE PEACE
position of the Irish political prison-
ers, and had arrived at the decision
which it was now his duty to an-
nounce. The Government felt, after
carefully considering the approaching
Council of Workmen's and Soldiers'
Delegates Refuses Austria's Offer.
Petrograd, June 17.-A stirring
proclamation placing the Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates on
record as irrevocably .opposed to a
separate peace was adopted to -day by
the council. The proclamation was
prompted by Austrian efforts to lure
Russia•into a separate peace and ex-
horts Russians to "rally around the
banner of revolution and increase the
energy of the military power for the
defence of freedom,"
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Use radishes once in a while as a
relish, and the family will appreciate
it.
ANOTHER MBRITISH' SUCCESS
I N BOTH EXTREMES OF FONT
Gen. Haig Captures Further Positions on Hindenburg Line
Northwest of Bullecourt-Advances on 7 -Mile Front
South. and East of Messines.
A despatch from London Bays:- earlier on Friday. They gained all
The British forces on Friday delivered i thoir objectives, advancing south and
an attack upon and :captured further oast of Messines and astride the
1 pree-Comines 'Canal,
portions of, the Hindenburg line north- ( Tho British now occupy the former
l
wolf of Bullecourt, despite the resist- ,front trenches of the Germans from
nnce of the Germans, will suffered' the River Lys to the River Warnave,
heavy Iosses, accurdini, to the official I As a result of Thursday nights oper-
coinmunication o11 Prides,. alight. i Wong and the constant pressure ex -
The British struck a:lnther blow: erted, the I3ritish have advanced their.
Thursday night on the frontnear i lines from 500 to 1,000 yards on a
Messines, the War Office announced 'front of seven miles.
country, that this great experiment
would mark a new era in the relations
between Ireland, the United Kingdom
and the Empire.
COST OF LIVING IN MAY
HAD FURTHER INCREASE
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
The Labor Bureau reports a further
increase in the cost of living during
May. Grain and flour showed the
greatest increases, but meats and ma-
terials were higher in many lines. The
usual seasonal decreases in the prices
of dairy products were very slight,
In retail prices of foods the cost of a
weekly family budget rose from $10.77
to $11.82. In May, 1916, the same
budget cost $8.87 and in 1915 $7.84.
In wholesale prices the index figurer'
stood for May at 240, compared withe.
228.7 for April and 183.3 for May,
1916.
PRESENT BREAD RATIONS
UNTIL THE NEW HARVEST
A despatch from London says: -
Berlin despatches say the food depart-
ment has announced that since the
spring sowing had terminated and a
better survery of the old harvest was
possible, and conferences concerning
the import of Rumanian grain had oc-
curred, the possibility was assured
that the .present bread rations would
be continued until the new harvest.
Potatoes, which are scarce, will be
replaced by flour or bread.
IMMEDIATE OFFENSIVE
BY THE RUSSIAN TROOPS.
Petrograd, June 17, -The Duma in
secret session has passed a resolution
for an immediate offensive by the Rus-
-sign troops. The resolution declares
a separate peace with Germany or
prolonged inactivity on the battlefront
to be ignoble treason toward Russia's
allies, for which future generations
never would pardon the Russia of the
present day.
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Dignity of Simplicity.
Worth of Character.
Power of Kindness.
Obligation of Duty,
Wisdom of Economy.
Virtue of Patience.
Improvement of Talent.
Joy of Originating.
The Province of Alberta has 49
towns.