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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-08-31, Page 6Xk ITALIANS STRIKE TREENDOUS BLOW AT ENEMY ON ISO ZO FR3NT Austrians Lose 100,000 Men -Splendid Aerial and Artillery Work of Italians Demoralizes Foe. Ronne, Aug, 25. -The Italian troops', on the Isonzo front are marching to: complete victory. The battle along the i Isonzo has developed further brilliant successes. General Cadorna's men, who at the beginning of the offensive effected a new crossing of the river' ' north of Gorizia, at a point where the Austrians believed such a feat was im- possible, have won another spectacu-; lar victory by scaling Monte Santo,! 2,245 feet high, and placing their flag there. The official communication on the result of the battle shows that the de- - moralization of the Austrian troops is in part due to the extraordinary aerial I and artillery work of the Italians, which has destroyed not only the linea of communication, but has resulted in the burning of all the main food sup- ply stations of the Austrians, who for the past week have been starving at many points between Tolmino and the sea. Thio also accounts for the un- usual number of prisoners and wound- ed. The total losses of the Austrians from all causes are reckoned at near- ly 1.00,000, the most important of which, in the Carso region, have 'not yet been officially announced. It is said that among the losses of the Aus- trians are many men of the famous Twelfth division, popularly known as the "iron division." GENERAL HAIL'S TROOPS ADVANCE NORTH OE ST. QUENTIN British Storm and Capture Strong German Points to a Depth of Half a Mile Along a Mile Front, Also Advance in Flanders. London, Aug, 26. -British troops to -day made an advance of half a mile along a mile front east of Margieourt (north of St. Quentin), storming and capturing strong points at Cologne and Malakoff farms, according to the official report from British headquar- ters in France to -night. The British last night attacked and drove the Germans out of a portion of the trench northeast of lemon Farm in Flanders, which the enemy had captured in the morning, re-es- tablishing the British former posi- t tions. A. German counter-attack lat- er was repulsed. The statement tells further of a repulse .by Portuguese troops of a German raiding party south-east of Laventie, and of the cap- ture of an enemy trench position west of Lens. NEW SWISS -GERMAN MUST EXERCISE PACT IS ARRANGED ECOhOlitlY IN COAL Teutons Seek Loan From Swiss In Return For Supply of Coal. A despatch from Paris says: A wireless despatch from Zurich says a new economic convention - between Switzerland and Germany was con - eluded and signed on Monday evening at Berne. which Sir George Foster made in the swept; es atehea teem ''Ern opean Commons in reply to a question by tats ificlieitied that a birch in the t Mr. W. E. Knowles of Moose Jaw. This course might be necessary, the Minister of Trade and Commerce said, so as to distinguish between absolute - Sir George Foster Makes State- ment Presenting Fuel Situation. $r, eadetuff s 'Toronto Aug. 2S :Manitoba wheat -- No, heat --No, 1 Northern. $2.40; No. 2 Northern, 32.40; No. 3 Northern, 32.40' N'O. 4 white, 32,36, nominal, in store Port Wil- liam, Manitoba hats -•-No, 2 C,V\T,, 703e, nomi- nal. track, Hay ports, American turn --No, 3 .yellow, . nomi- nal, track Toronto. Ontario oats --No official quotations. Manitoba wheat --No. 1 Northern, $2.4P. Ontario wheat -New crop, No. 2, 32.15 to 32.20, nominal. • Peas ---No. 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Marley -Malting, new crop, $3.20 to $1.23, according to freights outside. Rye --No. 2. nominal, according to heights outside. Manitoba flour --First patents, in jute bags, $12.90; second patents, in lute bags, $12.40; strong bakers', in Jute bags, 332.00. Ontario flour -Winter, according to sample, 310.20, in bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment; new crop, 310,20,. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal freights, bags included -Bran, per ton„ 336; shorts, per ton. $43; middlings, per ton, 345 to $46; good feed flour, per bag, 33.25.a Hy -Extra No. 2, per ton, '311:50. to $12.00; anixed,. perton, 39 to" 310, track Toronto. Straw -Car lots, per tort, $7 to ,$7.50, track Toronto, ' Country Produce-Wholeea10 Butter -Creamery, solids, per 1b,, 39 to 39;e: prints, per lb,, 8015 to 400; dairy, Per lb., 85 to 31e Eggs -Per doz•, 39 to 400. Wholesalers are selling to the.'retail trade at the following prices :. Cheese New, large, 225 to 23c; twins, 229 to 233c; triplets, 23 to 2330 old, large, 30e; twins, 303e; triplets, i0t0. utter -Flesh dairy, choice, 36o 37e; t - creamery prints, 42 to 430: solid: , 41 to 41stli, Eggs -New laid, in cartons, 49 to 500; out of cartons, 44 to 45e. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 25 to 30c; Pawl, 20c; squabs, per doz 34.00 to 34.50; turkeys, 25 to 30c; `ducks; Spring, 22c. Live poulty-Spring chickens, ib., 20 to 22c; hens, 13 to 20c; ducks, Spring,, 17c. Honey -Comb -Extra fine and 'heavy weight, per doz., 32.75; select, $2.50 to 32.75; No, 2, $2 to. 32.25; :tins, 23's' and 6's, 150. per lb. Beans -Prime white, 38,50 per,•, bush; imported hand-picked, 39.25 per bush; Limas, per lb., 16 to 170. Potatoes, on track :Red Star, ' bbl., $5.25; North Carolinas, bbl, 35,23 ' On- tario, bag, 32.40 to $2.50.,. A despatch from Ottawa says: An intimation that both Canada and the United States -might have to be placed on "coal rations" was contained in a statement upon the fuel situation a_ economic relations between Germany. and Switzerland had been straighten- ed out by Switzerland agreeing to ad- vance Germany 40,000,000 francs ; ly necessary services and those not monthly for nine months at the rate so necessary. • Further, he stated a taf 5 p.c. Germany in return was to distinct call -would have to be made aupply Switzerland with 200,000 tons to all interests to save coal just of coal monthly. The financial expert of the Berlin Tageblatt, referring to this financial arrangement, said it was inspired by the fact that Germany's imports from Switzerland were so considerable as to outweigh the value of Germany's food was being saved. GERMAN LOSSES TOUJ LY 26 ADMITTED TO BE 5,346,000. as Christiania, Norway, Aug. 26. -Up to July 26, on which date the forward - coal and iron exports, even at the in- ing of casualty. lists abroad was for - creased prices. The writer said Ger- bidden, there had arrived 8,559 lists, many also had perfected a similar containing 19,803 three -columned arrangement with other neutrals, pages, each column containing 90 notably Holland. names of dead, wounded and missing, a total of 5,346,000. TURNING OUT SHIPS IN AMERICAN YARDS FIVE WEEKS EXTRA SUPPLY Flour -unchanged. Bran -$28.00. FOR WHOLE POPULATION Duluth, Aug, 28 -Linseed --$3.57; - September, $3.57 asked; October, 33.51 A despatch from Washington says: asked.; November, 38.50 asked; Decem- London, Monday, Aug. 27. Finan ber, $3,44 asked. Wheat -No. 1 North- -In addition to the new ships which figures show an increase of 650,00D ern, 0 $no n'inai°urinal; No. 2 Northern, will be built there are nearly two acres of wheat. and potatoes from --- million tons of shipping now building farms over the estimate for 1917 Live Stook Markets A d which has been Toronto, Aug Provisions --Wholesale ale Smoked meats -Hams, median ` ''0 to 31c; do., heavy, 26 to 27c; woke k1- to 42c; rolls, 27 to 280; breakfas 4 con, 85 to 3Se; backs, plain, 37 to 38: .ne- less, 40 to 42c. Cured meats -Long' clear bac. ,6 to 26.c per lb; clear bellies, 25 to 2 Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 258 26c; tubs, 254 to 263c; pails, 26 to 261 oni- pound, tierces. 2030; tubs, 203e ils. 21e, Montreal Markets Montreal, Aug. 23 -Oats- adman. Western, No. 2, 74 to 750; No.43• to 74c; extra No. 1 feed, 73 to 740 ailey - Man. feed, 31.26. Flour -Man •ring wheat patents, firsts, 313.00; otrds, 312.50; strong bakers', 312.30 p'inter patents, choice 313.00; straigh filers, 312.40 to 312:56 de., bags 46.00 ;6 15. Rolled oats -Barrels, $9.01) td4S9 . tka bags, .:90, lbs., 3,4„,40,19_31, 0. to 337 Skiorts=$40 to $ 5 ,; .., -$4S "'o •350. Mouillie-$60 tb'SL - No, 2, per ton, car lots, 39.50 t, =$�1,0.' Cheese -Finest westerns, 21/0 do.. easterns, 219c. Butter -Ci least finest n , creamery, 42 to 423c; do see ids; 41 to 4150. Eggs -Fresh, 50 to 53 se ected, 40c; No. 1'stock, 44e; No. 2 tock, '38' to 4-Oc. Dressed hogs, abattoir,. kills I, 324 to 324.50; pork, heavy Canada, short mess. hbls„ 35 to 45 pieces, $51 t '$52; do„ Canada short cut back, bbls 4,a °to 55 pieces, 346 to 348. Lard, :co peund, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 213 to 223 ; d0„ pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net. 26 253c. Winnipeg Grain 'Winnipeg. Aug. 28. -Cash quo ons: -Wheat-No. 1 Northern; 32.40; 0. 2 Northern, 32.40; No. 3 Norther ,40; No. 4, 32.36; No. 5, 32.1Si No. 6,.93; feed, 31.12, Oats-? D. -2 O.•Rr, i33c; No. 3 C.W., 6130; extra No. 1 feed, fi13c; No. 1 feed, 593e; No. 2 feed, 5330 i. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., 33.34; No, 2 C,w'., •33.29; No. a C.W., 33.19. E v ANS I a N GUNS INN' Canadians "Y HEAVY CENTR LENS Gradually Surrounding the Foe in Coal Capital and Are Inflicting Heavy Louses. A despatch from Canadian Head- j other turn of the screw was made on quarters in France (via London) says: ! t leisday morning on the so The operations about Lens assume I• a short, but intense bombardment, the more and more the characteristics of ; Manitoba troops attacked the Green a siege. The city is not encircled by i Grassier, a huge heap of pit refuse on our troops, but as the result of the the north banks of the Souchez River, ,continuous fighting of the past ten' by which our advance into Lens from days the Germans in the environs ; the south was barred: The Fosse St. have been driven in upon the thickly !pithead 'which consists of a tangle of built central portion of Lens, which i pithead machinery, shot to piecesby now -forms a wedge-shaped intrusion many bombardments, was also attack - in our battlefront, with the point of ed. the wedge almost due west of the On a front of about 700 yards the cathedral. Manitobans went forward from 200 to The enemy is seeking, by the most 400 yards and opened the' .vay towards desperate fighting, to secure more the heart of the city on the south as room in the open to both the north the other advances of the past week and south of the wedge, because had done on the north and west. at the present time thousands of men The possession of Green Grassier who form the garrison of Lens are will also enable our men to sweep forced to remain in cellars, mine gal- with their machine guns a wide tract leries and wrecked houses, where life of country to the south of the Souchez is one long horror. This we know from River, now occupied by the enemy, in - prisoners who have described the con- ditions under which the Germans in Lens are now living, Night and. day they are in imminent peril from huge shells that fall into the city in a never- ending stream. These shells are fre- quently from super -howitzers of twelve and fifteen -inch calibre. The rending power of the high explosive in such shells is terrific, and even the deepest dugouts, reinforced with ferro-concrete, cannot indefinitely re- sist their impact. An officer recently captured states that a single com- pany of a battalion which was sent in to strengthen the garrison lost thirty- five men on their first day in the city through a wall falling in upon them during the bombardment. A despatch from Canadian Army Headquarters in France, says:-An- the ays: An- uth-west front of Lens, At three o'clock, after' 'United States Markets Minneapolis, Aug. 2S -Wheat --Sep- tember, 32.21; cash No. 1 Northern, 32.48 to $2.50; No. 2 Northern, 32,40 to 32.45. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 31.00 to 31.63. Oats -No, 3 white, 5213 to 53c. 28 -Extra choice 1n American yards, compared with 1916, in England and ° ice laetivy commandeered by the Emergency steers, 312 to $12.75; choice 15eavy Wales, This is equivalent to five steers, 310.75 to $11.15; butchers' cattle, Fleet Corporation. A large part of choice, $10 to $10.40; do., good, Mee to the Government fleet and of the com- mandeered fleet will have been com- , pleted by the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1918..Building, com- mandeering and purchase of vessels will total about twobillion dollars. weeks' extra breadstuffs for the whole population. 39.75; do., medium, $8.35 to $S 50 ; do., common, 37.25 to $7.50;• butchers' bulls, choice, $8.50 to $9; do„ g'ood bulls, 37.60 to $3; da, medium bulls, $7 to $7.25, do., That the French language is more rough bulls, 35 to 36; butchers' cows, suitable for telephoning than English, $$choice.:$do 5 medium, d$ .65 good, 8' has been proved since London and stockers, 36.50 to $8,40; feeders, $7,75 to Paris were linked by telephones. 39, canners and cutters, 35.25 to 36.25; milkers, good to choice, 380 to $125;•, do., corn, and med., $40 to .$50; springers, 167,i80 PRISONERS CAP BRED BY AWES IN PAST THREE MONTHS British Have Taken 102,218 Germans Since Beginning of War and Have Lost 43,000 to Germany. A despatch from London says: The British, French, Italians and Russians I have captured 167,780 war prisoners i since April 9, when the 1917 campaign opened, according to a statement is- sued by the British War Department.' The text of the statement follows: "The number of prisoners captured' by the Entente allies since April 9, when the 1917 campaign opened with the battle of Arras, up to Aug. 22 is: German war prisoners cap- tured by British 46,155 German war :prisoners captur- faired by French . , ..... , 48,723 G3Meily Austrian prisoners cap- tured by Italians 40,681 Chiefly Austrians captured by Russians ..... . . . .... 37,221 Total . .::....... .1,1.67,780 "The total number of German war prisoners captured by us since the beginning of the war is 102,218. "The total number of British prison- ers, including Indians, captured by the Germans, is approximately 43,000, but exact information as to small cap - I tures made by the enemy in recent . says: -Harvesting is well tinder way f ghting cannot be given until the ne- in the territory immediately tributary eessary information is received from Germany. "The total number of prisoners cap- tured by us in all the war theatres since the beginning of the war, ex- clusive of African natives, is 131,776. "The total number of prisoners lost by us since the beginning of the war, exclusive of African natives, but in- cluding Indians, is approximately 56,500." $SO to $125; light ewes, $8,75 to 310.00, sheep, heavy, 36 to $7.60; yearlings, $10 to $11; calves, good to choice, $13,50 to 315; spring lambs, $155 to $16.50; hogs. fed and watered.,$16.50; do., weighed off cars, $19.75; do., f.o.b., 318.25. Montreal, Aug. 28 Choice steers, 310.50 to $11; good steers, 810 to 310.25; fair steers, 38.50 to 39.50; common, $7.50 to 35.26; butchers' cows 36.26 to $8.35; bulls, $7 to $9; canning bu11s, 36.40 to 36.50; cows, $5.25 to $6.60; :On- tario lambs, 314.25 to 314.85; Quebec lambs, 312 to 313.50; sheep, 38 to. 39; fed, cho ice a hcalves,$3 50 to $$18.751.ass- WESTERN HARVEST IS WEEK EARLY Prospects of a Uniformly High Quality of Wheat Crop. A despatch from Edmonton, Alta., .10.1111. eluding the mining village of St. Antoine. Canadian Army Headquarters, Aug. 26. -Another carefully planned minor operation by the Alberta Battalion, which holds that part of the line east of St. Theodore, in the region known by our men as the Cricket Pitch, on account of its flatness, gave us posses- sion of 250 yards of German front line with light casualties yesterday. The attack was made at two o'clock this morning and the enemy resistance was weak, compared with former de- fensive efforts in this sector. The trench captured and a communication trench nearby were found to contain a large number of dead -Germans, many of them killed in bomb fighting two days ago, when we failed to drive them out. CRO!N PRINCE APPEALS FOR AID Germans Reeling Under Blows at Lens and Verdun. A despatch from London says: neuter's correspondent at British army headquarters in France tele raphs: "The Germans are assuredly reeling under the smashing blows at Lens and in Flanders, where they have massed troops to the weakening of other parts -of the line. The mag- nificent success of the French at Ver- dun is causing the Germans the gra- vest concern, and there is reason to believe that the Crown Prince is call- ing upon .Prince Rupprecht for cor." The German 7,639, while 24 tured. . suc- prisoners now total guns were also cap- TRIBUTE ap- TRIB TE Te.O CANADIAN TROOPS Paris Newspapers Praise Gen. Currie's Troops. A despatch from Paris says: -The newspapers of the French capital all pay glowing tributes to the splendid work of the Canadian troops. Le Petit Parisien says: "If it were known what human misery, abnegation and self-sacrifice were involved in those 13,000 metres of trenches recently captured by the Canadians in this corner of hell, in which every German soldier fought like a wild beast, the people would be touched and thrilled. An enemy officer remarked of the Canadians, only once have I known a class of soldiers as brave and thoroughly trained, namely, von Kluck's men in 1914." FISH FROM NORTLIE N LAKES People of Ontario to be Supplied Direct From Lake Waters. A despatch from Toronto says: Fish has become so popular an article of diet in. Ontario that it is to receive immediate , Government recognition, and the nationalization of the finny denizens of the inland waters is well under way. Hon. F. G. Macdiarmid, Provincial Minister of Public Works, in co-opera- tion with the Food Controller, has an- nounced the intention of the Ontario Government to develop large areas of the reserved waters of Ontario as a permanent source of fish food supply for the people of the Province. As a beginning of this important national undertaking, lakes like Nipissing and Nepigon will be immediately develop- ed. The resources of these important waters have been ascertained, and while it is not at present possible to state with exactness the quantity of fish obtainable for public use, it is known that the added food supply which will be secured for the people of Ontario will in the aggregate amount annually to several million pounds. The chief fish of these wa- ters are whitefish, trout, pickerel an3l sturgeon, of which whitefish is the most abundant. FIRE IS RAGING •~ IN SALONICA STREETS A despatch from Athens says: -A second fire is burning in Salonica, where great damage was done last week by a conflagration which destroy- ed a considerable part of the city, making 60,000 persons homeless. Thus far a thousand houses have been destroyed. to Edmonton. Operations here are at their height this week, This means that the last district in the West to commence harvesting has already be- gun, and that throughout the three Prairie Provinces the final period of the crop season has been entered fully a week earlier than a year ago Dan- ger from frost is now reduced to a minimum, and. the Western wheat crop this year promises to be uniformly high in quality. TR OPS :DEAL S BLOW IN 'ER AR INC UN SECTOR Strongly Attack Teuton Positions Between Mormont Bois le Chaume and Win All Objectives. Paris, Aug. 26. -Another smashing blow by the French to -day, on the right bank of the Meuse, in the Ver- dun sector, netted a gain of about two-thirds of a mile on a front of two miles and a half, giving the French possession of the Fosses and Beau- mont woods and bringing them to the outskirts of the village of Beaumont, The official report from the War Office, to -night, also records artillery fighting of great violence around Hill 804, on the left bank of the 1Vteuse. The text of the statement reads: "On the right bank of the Meuse. our troops this morning strongly at- tacked between the Mormont farm and the .Bois le Chaume. Oar at- tack was completely successful and Farm and _ ,1 BRITISH MAKE GAS AT YPRES Ypres -Mersin Road the Scene of Strenuous Battles. A .despatch from London says: The British continue their methodical fighting on the Ypres-Menin road, During the past 24 hours they have made gains over their front, varying in depth from a quarter to half a mile, notwithstanding the tenacious resist- ance of the legions of . Crown Prince Rupprecht. Perry 'Robinson, telegraphing to the Times under date of Thursday, re- fers to the scattered fighting on the Flanders front as follows; "The most' valuable advance, though not 500 yards in depth, was made ,in the des- perately -contested region of Glencorse wood and Inverness copse where the strategical value of 'the high ground made the determination of the Germans evident to hold it as long as possible regardless of expenditure of life. These two small woods have seen almost as prolonged severe fight- ing as Delville wood and High woods last year. Neither is yet wholly in our possession." gave us possession of all our objec- tives, despite the stubborn resistance of the Germans. We captured their lines of defenee on a front of four kilometres. All of the Bois des Fosses and the Bois Beaumont, situated fur- ther to the north, is in our hands. Pushing further forward our troops reaehed the southern outskirts of the village of Beaumont. "A violent counter-attack, debouch- ing from the Wavrille wood, was caught under the fire of our artillery and repulsed with heavy losses. We took a number, of prisoners who have not. yet been counted. "On the left bank of the Meuse the artillery fighting was clnaracterized.at HUN AIA t `, N BOB OSPITAL Twenty Nurses Killed in. Pe- liberate Outrage. A despatch from London says :- Under the headline, "Twenty-two Killed by Bombs in French Hospital; Airman's Deliberate Purpose,"the Times prints the following from Gerald Campbell, dated Verdun front, Wednesday evening: "In the bom- bardment by German aeroplanes of the French hospital, news of which has al- ready been telegraphed, 22 people were killed and 60 wounded, Most of the victims were hospital nurses and orderlies, but there were also some wounded soldiers. In one part of the hospital grounds were lodged 180 wounded German prisoner's in care of the very orderlies who were done to death by the German airman. All of them escaped untouched. SALE OF POULTRY FOR THE BELGIANS. A despatch from Toronto says: The Canadian Poultrymen's Belgian Re- lief Association are going to hold a sale of pure bred poultry at the Can- adian National Exhibition, Toronto, on Labor Day, September 3rd, 1917. Any Ontario breeders who have not already donated still have time to help along this good work by sending their donations to Raymond E. Burton, R.R. No, 2, Hamilton, Ont., who will forward shipping instruc- tions and tags. This work is authorized by the Allies' Agricultural Relief Committee, of which Dr. Robertson, of Ottawa, is chairman, and is backed by the Do- minion and allied Governments. All proceeds will go for the relief of wives and families of Belgian poultrymen in the devastated regions, This will also be a chance for breeders to buy stock from some of the best flocks in Ontario and Quebec. CANADIAN TROOPS ARRIVE IN ENGLAND Ottawa, Aug. 26. -It is officially an- nounced through the chief press cen- sor's office, that the following -troops have arrived safely in England: Drafts-A.M.C. from London, Ont,, Camp Borden, Kingston and Winni- peg• Army Service Corps from Winnipeg, Camp Borden, Si.'John and Halifax. Forestry and Railway, Construction drafts from Camp Borden and Ottawa, Railway Construction draft from Regina. No. 1 draft railway troops, London Forestry drafts from Prince Albert,- Regina and Valeartier. University draft for 169th Battalion from Valcartier. Inland water transportation draft, Montreal, Newfoundland troops -details. MILLIONS OF CROSSES GIVEN BY EMPEROR. A despatch from Amsterdam says: Deputy Marquardt, of the German Reichstag, recently proposedthat a more extensiVe distribution of iron crosses be made. Emperor William has caused to be published the fact that 2,250,000 crosses of the second class had been distributed up to June 1. BERLIN PUTS EMBARGO „, ON CASUALTY LISTS A despatch. from Copenhagen' says: times by great violence in the region -_Gorman casualty lists no lohger are north of Hill 804." permitted to leave Germany, •