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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-08-17, Page 6BATTLE OF RAIDERS .S RESUM D HUN CUNTER -ATTACKS "`PLED British Hold All the Newly Acquired Positions ---German Losses Are Severe. British Front in. France and Bel- of this high ground in the early morn- gium, August 12. -The Germans dur- ing yesterday was followed by a heavy ing Friday night delivered six deter- bombardment from the GermanIg ns which lasted hours, The rained counter-attacks against the im- launched five successive lines of in - portant Westhoek Ridge position, Pantry in quick succession against which the British captured yesterday, the centre of the sector near West - but in each case the enemy was hurled hoek village and also counter -at - back, tacked on the left wing above West - The last enemy attempt was made hoek. at 10 o'clock at night, and having As the assaulting troops swept for- failed or- t d• this theTeutons turned in d toward the dominating position MarkeS of the Wor ci CANADIANS MAKE.LwI • ON ��; Nail l 0 1:ireadstufxs Toronto, Aug, 14-Miinitoba wheat No. 1 Northern. $'2,40 No. 2 Northern, $2.38; No. 3 Northern,$2.33; No. 4 white, $2.24,. nominal, store Fort. Wil- Penetrate. Foe's Positions on a Front of Over 2,000ards,.--Ger. 1 A Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 79ec, track Bay ports: man Dugouts Bombed and Occupants filled. American corn -No 3 yellow, nominal, X RAID TROOPS ENCAC �D track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No official quotations. Ontario wheat -NC.. 2"'Winter, per car A. despatch from Canadian ArmY 1 lot, $2,5:5 to $2.60; N. 3, $2.53 to $2.58, according to freights outside; new' erog,• Ileailquarters says: Under the protec- I No, 2, $2.35, nominal. Peas --No, 2, nominal, according to tion of a heavy barrage shortly after fr -Barley-Malting, ou nominal, according to four o'clock Thursday morning raid - de. freights outside. freights outside. thousand yards penetrated the en - 1: -Na. 2, nominal, according to ing parties on a front of over two Manitoba Ii t patents, i jute toba flour-- + rs pa en s, n 12 90• second patents, in Jute envy's positions in the Cite du Moulin oag, 5 hags. $12,40; strong bakers', in Jute : and St. Laurent sectors, returning Os. $12.00. Ontario flour -Winter, according to .with several prisoners. sample, $11.20, in bags, track Toronto. The raiders on a large part of the prompt shipment. ba yen, ar lots, delivered Montreal front attacked passed over the en - intense in ls, eu ons eine li=ar Oiia ll fire t the left held b the British they were met freights, bags included -t ran, per ton, cloys first line and support trenches, $4� iddlings per intense arti ery re agains e e e y $36; shorts, per ton, l; m part of the sector above Westhoek by a withering machine gun and rifle ton, $36 to $48; good teed flour, per bag, which were found to be lightly held village. • The bombardment continued fire which they found it impossible to $3 Ia`•-Extra No.2, per ton, $11.50 to and in bad condition. steadily throughout the night. . face. $12,o0; mired, per ton, $9 to$10; track; A number of the enemy subter- This' morning found the British The German losses undoubtedly Tt,3ft v -car lots, per ton, $s.0o, 'trach ranean shelters. were demolished, but holding all the newly acquired posi- were severe, but further attempts to Toronto nothing is known as to the fate of tions strongly, The British occupation retake the ridge are expected. their occupants. Country Produce -Wholesale Butter-Creamery,;.solids, Dar ib., 35 to 'trenches NEW A', SAY RUSSIANS CHECK CROP HEAVY Rain is Retarding;Harvest Work -Root Crops Thriving. .A. despatch from New Liskeard says: Considerable rain has fallen within the past few days and is re- tarding work in the hay fields. The hay crop is perhaps the heaviest. on record for this district, and for that advances have been made by the Teu- reason considerable difficulty is being tons since the Russian line stiffened. experienced in curing the cut. Farm- To the south in Moldavia the Russians ers who have not been able to cut and Rumanians are attempting to re - their hay, report that already it is occupy the positions north of Foie - beginning to fall and unless dry wea- sham, lost to Field Marshal von Mac - tier sets in at once a considerable kensen's men. They have attacked portion of the crop will rot. The al- the Austro -Germans with strong most torrential rains of Sunday last forces, but Berlin says the effort fail - knocked down grain also to some ex -led. The number of prisoners taken tent and the need of dry weather is by the Teutons in this region is t • re - lei mane Our men returned to their own I manifest reluctance.I 351e; prints, per lb., 353 to 360; dairy, Per Ib„ 29 to 30c. Eggs -Per doz., 37 to 38c Some of them said there would have been no difficulty in pushing forward into the streets of Lens. The troops engaged were from On- tario. Their casualties were slight. At some points the trenches were found to have been pounded out of all resemblance to defensive positions. Many dugouts were also seen that had been blown in by -'our heavy guns. One exploring party had land mines exploded in front of them near a crater which was • the scene of lively fighting earlier in the week. Unde- terred by these explosions, they push- ed on and encountered an enemy pa- trol of thirteen men, who took shel- ter in a dugout. Only two enswered the call to surrender, and the re-. mainder were killed in the destruc- tion of the dugout. Wholesalers are selling to the retail CERJAN 7 trade at the following prices ENEMY Cheese -New, large 224 to 23c; twins, v 222 to 28ic; triplets 23 to 233c; old,:,. large, 30c; twins, 203c; triplets, 30io. Mutter -Fresh dairy, choice. 35 to 36c; creamery prints, 39 to 40c; solids, 38• In Galicia and Bukowina the to Hie. Austro -German Forces Are ouDressed cartons, chickens, 25 Being Held Back. to 3 30c; fowl, 20e; squabs, ner doz., $4 Eggs -Nei laid, in cartons; 45 to 460; 4.50; turkeys, 25 to 30c; ducks, A despatch from London says: Ap- SnLhe' poultry -Spring chickens, ib., 20' parently the Russians have checked to 22c; hens, 16 to 1Se; ducks, Spring, greatly the Anstro-German advance in 17o. HoneyComb -Extra fine and heavy Galicia and Bukowina, as no notable weight, per doz„ 32.75; select, 32.50 -to 32.75; No. 2. 32 to 32.25. 13eans-Priine white, $9.50 per . bush; imported, hand-picked, 310.50 per bush; Limas, per 11..., 18 to 19c. Potatoes, on track -Bed Star, new, bbl., 35.25; North Carolinas, new, bbl„ 35.25; seconds $4,00; Ontario, bag, 33:00. Provisiono-Wholesale nsiderable damage to pro anent, announcing the raid, says it was ners in live stock, poultry, grain, fairly general. In contrast to the hay and grain, tomatoes, cabbages, cu- cumbers and all root crops are thriv- ing as never before in, Northern On- tario. Labor on the farms is still very scarce, but relief is anticipated with- in the next ten days in that by that time cutting and peeling of pulp wood will to ;a large extent be discontinued, tba=trk the nip - a ve base; will "tighten almost any day now. At some of the 'small lumber mills throughout the country wages are be- ing increasedto a point on a par with the mines. This is without precedent one of the head -liners. From impen- in this country. etrable darkness and absolute quiet and solitude, the wonderful tale.of the birth of the universe is told and un- folded day by day, each incident, .as told in the first book of Genesis, being A&,� IN L5 nM faithfully and artistically worked out and portrayed in every detail, even to the appearance of Adam and the crea- in tion of Eve. Venus, the most perfect woman in the world, is another feature, and A despatch from London says: Un- there are rides and pony shows, sub - der a recent agreement between Rus- marine girls and a host of living curi- sia and Britain a Jewish corps is be- osities. ing organized here. There are 20,000 Jews of military age in London alone. CANADIANS USE There are now 40,000 Jews ill the Brit- ish army, 32,000 of whom are English Jews, and 8,000 from the Empire abroad, The leader of the new corps ported to have reached 3,300. BIG MIDWAY FEATURE. Sensation at Panama Pacific Exposi- tion to be Seen at Toronto. The famous- World -at -Home -Shows will provide the: Midway attractions at the Gana Taxi t'oal Exhibition„; ct no Matter What one'' wishes to see': or. how diverse their tastes, they will find' something worthy of patronage. "Cre- ation," the original spectacle exhibited at the Panama Pacific Exposition, is JEWISH CORPS 7 l' There Are Now 40,000 Jews the British Army. GAS EFFECTIVELY. Canadian Headquarters in France (via London) Aug. 12. -Gas was ENGLISH CITIES BO i BED BY AMEN Hun Raiders Drop Bombs on South -East Coast of England -Air Battles on French Front. London, Aug. persons, including nine women and six children, were killed and fifty persons were injured at Southend, in Essex, forty ' •s east of London, by bombs dro say 111 12, -Twenty-three Margate, in Kent, did little damage. Paris, Aug. 12. -Two French avi- ators yesterday dropped _. bombs on Frankfort -on -the -Main, one of the most important cities of the German SENATE CARRIES CON C '' W ON Nine Amendments Voted Down; Measure Adopted Without • Division. A despatch from Ottawa says; After nine amendments to the motion for the third reading of the Military Service Bill had .been presented and in turn been declared defeated, that measure was passed by the Senate without a division. Had it not been amended in certain respects in the Up- per Chamber, it would now be ready to receive the Governor -General's as- sent and so become law. As it is, however, the bill must be returned to the Commons, .where the changes made by the Senators will be discuss- ed and concurred in. Only one of these amendments is of importance. It provides that no prosecution for any violation of the Act or the regula- tions shall take place without the consent of the Minister of Justice. This amendment, inserted at the in- stance of the Government itself, is regarded as a providing means for preventing hasty and ill-considered prosecutions. YOUNG JUDGESs• AT "BIG FAIR' Canadian National Revives damped - tion for Farmers and Farmers' Sons. Among the new departures at the Canadian National Exhibition this year are the judging competitions for young farmers and farmers' sons un- der 26 years of age. They will be held under the supervision of the On- tario Government, and a very large. entry is expected from among the three thousand students now taking German raiders to -day, Empire, having a population of more the Government short courses. ial statement issued to- than 300,000, A French official state- Liberal prizes are offered to win - smoked meats-l:Iams, medium, 30 to. . caused at Southend by inretaliation for the German aerial roots, fruits and vegetables. Some 31c: do„ heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to ne .. forty bombs, dropped upon the bombardment of Nancy and the region years ago judging competitions were c; rolls, las "7 to 23e; breakfast bacon, held at Toronto, but the present ones 33 to 36o: backs, plain, 36 to 37c; bone- town. Two men were injured at north of Paris. Both Frenchma- less,,, 39 to 400. Rochford, but four bombs dropped on chines returned undamaged. 26hc per lb; clear bellies, clear 5bto 26c 26 to Lard -Pure lard, tierce.o. 254 to 26c; tubs, 253 to 26 c; pails, 26 to sdic; com- pound, tierces, 20,e; tubs, 203c; palls, 210, CONDITIONS IN PALESTINE ARE WORST POSSIBLE. Montreal Markets A despatch • from New York says: Montreal, Aug. 14 -Oats -Canadian' Conditions in Syria and Palestine are N 83 t 84 do No 3 82+ western, o, 2 -, o e, to 330; extra No. 1 feed, 1 to's2c.� Bar -(,declared to be the. "worst possible" by leY-njalting, $1.26. Flour -Man. Spring .. .. w,efu ee who fled from ther. e and by wheat patents, firsts, $13; seconds • $9.213 er�', $12.3.0:Wi to to itstre- olot !Pr, i :^u • b'a0,.60' 1 ;..,•) .40 to $4.50.: Bran, $3a; Shorts, 340. 'Middlings, $48• to 350,1 Mouillie, $60 to 4$61. Hay --No. 2, per' ton, car lots, 310 to 310.56. Cheese - Finest westerns, 218c; do., easterns, 213c. Butter -Choice creamery,. 893 to' 40c; seconds, 883 to 39c. Eggs -Fresh, 49 to 50c; selected. 46c; No. 1 stock, 0 brtlt10tcPotatoes- Per g, caos, 3.9 o32. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Aug. 14 -Cash prices -No., 1 Northern, 32.4.0; No. 2,do„ $2.3x3; No. 3, do., $2,34; No 4 32.25 No 5, 32.03; No. 6, $1.77; feed, $167; No. 4 , special, $2.25; No, 5 do $2 03; N W POISON USED do„ $1.77, Oats -No, 2 C.W., 75e; 1�*0. 3. p C.W., 740; extra No. 1 feed, 74c; No, 1 feed, 700; No. 2, 68c; track, 703e, i3ar- ley-No. 3 C.W., 31.22• No. 4 C.W„ 31.18; rejected and feed. 31.12. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C. 33.33; No, 2 C. W., 33,273; No. 3, C.W., 33.164; track, $3.32b. rbm U1 ✓' Syrian Relief. The committee's • informant, whose name is withheld, said there were 8,000 cases of typhus in Beirut when he left, owing mainly to a lack of medicine and scarcity of doctors. The poorer classes have been wiped out by"starvation, he said. In Lebanon he saw many villages and towns with- out a single inhabitant. enia United States Markets Minneapolis, Aug. 14- Wheat-Sep-tember, $2.24; cash -No, 1 Northern, 32.05 to 33; No. 2, do., 32.95 to $3. Oats -No. 3 white, 68 to 690, Corn -No. 3 yellow, $2.24 to 32.26. Bran -335 to $36. Duluth, Aug. 14 -Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 32.90, nominal; No, 2, do., 32.85, nominal. Linseed -$3,45; Sep- tember, October and November, 33.45. Live Stook Markets was commander of the . Zion Corps, again projected successfully early Toronto, Aug. 14 -Extra choice heavy composed of Russian Jews recruited this (Sunday) morning into the en- steers, 311.90 to 312.35; choelce heavy in Alexandria,which corpsgave a .positions in the northernpart of steers $10.50 ROM; butchers' cattle, p emy choice, $10 to $?O.SU do., good $9.50 to fine service at Gallipoli. Eight thou- St. Laurent, where many dugouts and 39.75; do., medium, 8.40 to 38 90; do., common, $7.10 V0;37;1205. ; butchers', .bulls, sand Jewish soldiers now in. Britain occupied cellars were known to be. choice, $8.25 to , good buns, $7.56 will probably form a stiffening corps. A prisoner who was captured on this to 37.75; do., medium bulls, 36.75 to 37; •--- - that the recent do., rough bulls, $5 to 36; butchers' part of the front says cows, choice, $8,25 to 38.75: do„ good, FOE DRIVEN BACK BY RUMANIANS A despateh from London says: - Russian and .Rumanian troops repuls- ed enemy attacks in the Trotus Val- ley, and then launched vigorous coun- ter-attacks, which gained them pris- oners and captured machine guns, c c - cording to an official statement issued on Friday by the War Of- fice. gas attack resulted in over ninety cas- ualties. • ENGLAND EXCLUSIVELY $7.10 to $7.75; do., medium, 36.50 to 16.75; stockers, 36.40 to 58.25; feeders, $7.75 to 38.75; canners and cutters, $6.25 to $6; minters, good to choice, $80 to $100; do., tom, and med., $40 to $50' springers, $80 to $120; light ewes, $8,54 MARK FOR U-BOATS. to 35.75; sheep, heavy, 36.00 to 37.25; _ yearlings, 310 to 311.50; calves, good to choice, 313 to $15; spring lambs, 316,75 A despatch from London says: A to $17.25: hogs, fed and watered, $17; despatch to Reuter's Limited from d$o7weigh3e6,0f0f, cars, 317.25; do., f.o.b., Amsterdam says it is reported from a Montreal, Aug. 14 -Choice steers, $11 German source that Germany intends shortly to concentrate her submarine activity exclusively against England. DEVASTATED SOIL 0 F FRANCE TRANSFORMED BY WORK OF SOLDIERS Areas Evacuated by the Germans Are Being Rapidly Restored- Beginning Made in Re -Building of Towns. A despatch from London says:- ers tells of the remarkable The Times correspondent at French 1lieadquart redeixiption of the soil of France, de -1 vastated and evacuated by the enemy. The work has been done mainly by the help of soldiers and is quickly effect- ing a remarkable transformation. He I continiles: "The building of towns villiages will not be such a com- paratively easy matter as the restora- tion of the cou'�ntryside, and for the most part will have to wait till after the war. It will also- be necessary to supplement with outside assistance the substantial subsidies which will be !provprovided by the State. In this `direction a beginning has already been ided Noyon, for example, has been I'adopted' by the city of Washington, and Detroit wishes to enter the same relationship with the cruelly battered town of Soissons, which continues to I suffer at 'frequent intervals from bombs and shells," to 311,25, good, $10.60 to 310.75; lower grades. 39 to $10; butchers' cows, 36.25 to 38.25; bulls, 36.75 to 38.75; Ontario lambs, 313.50 to 314; Quebec, 312.50 to $18; sheep. 37.75 to 38,75; selected hogs, $17.25 to 317.50; rough hogs, 316.75 to $17. RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF WHEAT AND BEEF A despatch from Ottawa says: -De- finite regulations, to come into effect at once, for restricting the use of beef, bacon and white bread in public eating places, and for prohibiting the use of wheat in the distillation or manu- facture of alcohol have been promul- gated by order -in -Council at the in- stance of the Food Controller. The serving of beef and bacon is prohibit- ed on Tuesdays and Fridays, and at more than one meal on any other day. Substitutes, such as corn bread, oat- cake, potatoes, etc,, must be provided at every meal at which white bread is served. Under the order the expres- sion "bacon" includes cured (either pickled' or stroke) sides, backs, hams and any portion of what is termed, in the trade, Wiltshire sides. IN GERMAN BOMBS. A despatch from Hazebrouck, France, says: British medical officers are trying to discover the nature of the new poison used, it is believed for the firstntime, by the Germans on the 'French town of Armentieres, near the Belgian frontier. The poison bears a certain resemblance to the gas which ternjiorarily blinded a large number of British troops a fortnight ago but its effects are infinitely more serious. FOOD FOR SOLDIERS IS OFTEN WASTED. A despatch from London says: The War Office drew attention to the wast- age of food from the despatch by rela- tions and friends of parcels containing foodstuffs to troops, more especially distant forces. More than one half of the parcels containing foodstuffs ar- rive quite unfit for consumption. Packages often are returned insuffi- ciently addressed or unknown, these constantly are found to contain articles such as eggs, butter, sausages hi varying state of putrefaction. ENGAGEMENTS ON UMANIAN FRONT on R >�Is"e Strcaal � +�el,><t >�,LiSSiilanca �' et C' 9 i � fsiJN 1,200 Germans. London Aug. 12. -Desperate en gagements are .being fought by the Russo -Rumanian forces and , Aus- tro -German armies all along the Rumanian front. In the, centre of this front, according to to -day's Rus- sian official statement, the Russians and Rumanians yesterday" repulsed strong Teuton attacks along the Fok- shani-Marasechti railroad, and then counter -attacked and captured 1,200 Germans, only to retire later in the evening. In South -Eastern Moldavia the Russians took the offensive, smashed the Teuton lines and cap- tured a number of prisoners and four guns. In Western Moldavia the Austro -Germans, after battles of great intensity, forced the Rumanians to retire to Ocna. are on a much more pretentious scale and, under Government auspices should prove a great success. ANOTHER SUBMARINE SUNK BY AN•UNARMED STEAMER A despatch from London says'--, Another unarmed. merchantman ha -sunk a subs iia 1 e, brut be r ' , 1P' sfe,j=� executed : in duly, 1.918, by the Ger- mans, for attempting to ram a sub- marine, the names of the eaptain and crew of the steamer and particulars concerning their achievements cannot be published. The captain and crew of the vessel, however, have been presented with $2.500 by Sir William J. Tatemchair- man of the Tatem Steam Navigation Co. for their deed. -, FRENCH TROOPS RECAPTURE GROUND LOST LAST WEEK. Paris, Aug. 12. -French troops last night resumed their counter-attacks against the positions which the Ger- mans had captured on the night of Aug. 9-10 north of St. Quentin. The French official statement issued this afternoon said the ground previously lost was reconquered in its entirety. `South of Allies, in the Aisne re- n, two strong. German attacks on trenches captured earlier by the ench were repulsed with heavy Ten- losses. There were no infantry ac- ns on the French front in Belgium." NADIANS WITH FLYING SERVICES. A despatch from London` says:/The lowing figures concerning Cana - ns in the flying services were •sup - ed on Friday authoritatively by cers 'from the Canadians with the. ying Corps: Two hundred and ety-nine Canadians granted coni- ssions. Officers of Canadian birth the corps, 93; officers in Naval Air. vice. ieom Canada, under arrange- ment with Admiral Kingsmill, 846; of- ficers joined the naval service in Can- ada, and since transferred to the Fly- ing Corps, 66; granted commissions from the Canadian forces to Naval Air, 80. to ARTILLERY UEL IN P b ,:'I'hND RS AGAIN RAGING FIERCELY Bombardhrlent Calculated to Level German Defences and Prepare For Infantry Advance. A despatch from London says: The artillery duel in Flanders has again increased to the greatest intensity, repolats the German general staff. The bombardment has been especially heavy on the Belgian coast and from Bixschoote to Mollebeke, The Anglo-French guns ofall cali- bres are evidently engaged in level- ing the German defence positions, preparing the way for, another thrust of the infantry. The only infantry engagement has taken place on the line between Ypres and Dixmude, with the Frencli troops the aggressors in both in- stances. North-west of Bixschoote the French have enlarged further gains made on Wednesday. South- west of Bixschoote, in the region south of Langemarck, the French have made some progress into the German line, Except for several local raids' by the French, there has been no infan- try activity on the long line from St. Quentin to the Swiss border.. Tho French and German guns, however,, are hammering the opposing lines along the Aisne front, in Champagne and on both banks of the Meuse in the Verdun region, ENEMY RAILROADS BOMBED BY NAVAL AEROPLANES. London, Aug. 12. -British: naval aeroplanes dropped several tons of. bombs on the German aerodrome in the Belgian town of Ghistelles, on the Zuidwege railway sidings and on the Thourout railway junction, the British admiralty announced yesterday. On Friday afternoon British airmen drop, ped bombs on the German aerodrome at Sparappelhoek. • ,Mon drilling an artesian well in Ara gentina found rich deposits of cop- per at a dents of 100 feet. Among the latest sanitary appli- ances for public eating places is a spoon` pressed felon paper that can be thrown away after using.