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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-12-07, Page 6MIME EPULSE ENEMY ATTACKS IN THE CONFLIEU SECTOR Inflict •It„ 1vy Losses Upon Germans-- uec sl'ul Thrust at Passchendaele. British headquarters in France,' Dec. 2. ---Field Marshal Ilaig's troops yesterday we re continuing their'. counter -attach, against the German forces who Friday iday penetrated the British defences in the Gomtelieu sector and also pushed a consider- able salient into the British territory. Desperate fighting was proceeding about Gonnelieu this morning. At an early hour oi' the forenoon the Germane had been pushed baelk over a considerable amount of ground which they overran yesterday. (=ou- zeaucourt, which the enemy held five hours and represented their extreme advance, was cleared a little after three o'clock Yesterday afternoon, and later the British operations resulted in the Germans being pushed back from Quentin Ridge to east• of Gouzeau court and from Gauche Wood, which lies we et of tillers -Guillain. A little. further north in the La Vacquerie sec- tion the Germane also had been forced to fall back. The British a little before two o'clock this morning made a local at- tack in moonlight on the German peel - tions north and north-east of Pass- chendaele, and about the same time a minor t eault against the enemy front north -wet of Goeberg. These attacks appear to have gone well as a whole. The British were held up in the cen- tre along the ridge for a time, but for the most part were reported to have reached their objectives, and to have penetrated from 300 to 400 yards at numerous points. The attack about Goeberg involved. two strong German f ortit'leations. If the gain to the north along the rielge ie confirmed. it will mean that the I3ritish have added roach to the eonipl te•ness of their observation in ithis region. Sir Douglas Haig reports: "A minor operation was undertaken early this ing nieg by the Rifle, North Cor:ntry and glome County Bat - 'talions north-east of Ypres. Some fortified strong points on the main ridge north of Pa. schendaele were captured and a number of prisoners taken." ITALY TREATED FOE ATTEMPTS AS BMCROSSING PIAVE Invaded Territory Suffers :Aro-' I:dine City Fined $2,000,000 By cities at H:an& :;::Astro- German Invaders. Germ act roops. A despatch from Washington says: All the oppressive measures which characterized the German invasion of Belgium and man;- of the acts of bar- barism which revolted the civilized world, semi-official despatches from Rome on Friday say, are now being practised by the Austro -German in- vaders of Italy. Near Zenson, the despatches say, the invaders placed Italian women and children before the troops as they advanced, anti the Italian soldier's were compelled to sacrifice their inno- cent nnercent countrymen. In the Friuli region war taxes, requisitions and conscrip- tion of Iabor is being practised as it was in Belgium and Northern France. Austro -German prisoners tell of Italian non-combatants massacred by the • invading troops, and loot from Italian homes and shops has been found on the bodies of dead troops. Soldiers on the Piave declare they . hear screams of .women and children from the opposite side of the river. The invading armies have taken away cattle and other property, and burn household furniture for their bivouac fires at night. Bosnian troops, the despatches say. have committed unnamable atrocities. BRITISH REPULSE GERMAN ATTACKS Desperate Effort of Foe to Re- gain Positions Defeated With Heavy Loss. A despatch from London says: -- Strong forces of Germans attacked the British ort a wide front in the Cambrai sector Friday morning, but were repulsed after heavy fighting, in which the attackers sustained great losses, according to the official state- ment issued on Friday night, To the southward, in the reeks) of Gonnelieo, the enemy entered British positions at several points and pene- trated their line for some distance, but later were driven -back. Italian Army Headquarters in Northern Italy, Dec. 2, -The 'enemy has again turned his attention to the lower Piave, where large forces of his infantry with machine-guns have attempted to seek a lodgment inside . the inundated triangle between the Piave and old Piave. This inundated region is crossed laterally by several roads which stand just above the water, and, taking advantage of this, the enemy has advanced his forces along these high stretches and given considerable .trouble with sniping from the tpper windows of farm- houses. The Italian batteries west of the triangle and marine batteries at the mouth of the river have heavily I shelled the movements along these roads crossing the inundated sector `until the attempt to approach from that direction has been stopped. German plunder experts are now I busy at the piracy of levying contribu- tions on captured towns, by which they profited so largely in Belgium. 1 Udine has been ordered to pay four hundred thousand pounds. { MAl; EXPORT StTGAIt FOR MILITARY "USES. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Food Controller's office has announced ithat the Commissioner of Customs had issued the following memorandum to collectors of Customs and tethers: "It is now ordered that sugar, re- fined and unrefined, including maple sugar, may be exported by parcel post up to regulation weight when consign- ed and intended for military and naval forces overseas, the limit of weight to the United Kingdom being eleven pounds, and for furtherance to France, seven pounds." GERMAN DESTROYER BITS MINE MANY ON BOARD ARE DROWNED A despatch from London says: A German torpedo-boat destroyer, be- longing to the Zeebrugge flotilla, struck a mine off Westkappelle, Hol- land, and sank, according to an Ex- change Telegraph despatch from Am- sterdam. Only two of her crew were saver]. ITALIANS ANS LAUNCH °REEVE AGAINST TEUTON .MOUNTAIN POSITIONS. On the Lower Piave Enemy Boats Were Destroyed by the Ar- tillery -Situation on Northern Section Unchanged. A despatch from London says: Along the entire Italian front the bat- teries of the contending armies are maintaining a violent bombarthneht, The German War Office reports that Italian attacks against the Austro - German mountain positions on the west bank of the Brenta and on Monte Tomba failed. "Heavy artillery fighting is in pro- gress all along the front, but no fur- ther infantry actions occurred," the Italian report states. "On the lower. Piave River Italian batteries directed a destructive fire at enemy boats." A despatch from Heath -matters of the Italian Army says: Details have been officially received of one of the mast sanguinary fights in the north- ern. Zone, in which two Austro-Hun- garian regiments fought until they almost. exterminated each other. The fight was back of Asiago during one of the main attacks against: the Ital- ians. , The enemy advanced from the two flanks, and toward night a regiment of Hungarian Czechs became 'engaged !with a regiment of Galician Poles, I both wearing a different uniform' and •speaking a different dialect. The rifle fire was followed by a bayonet charge 1 and then hand-to-hand struggle with grenades lasting throughout the night, • until the two regimerit3 were diem- tangled after heavy looses, when it be- came known: that they belonged to the same side, The getneral sit•iation is not mater- ] iaily changed along the northern and Piave fronts, r. Interior of L-49, only Zeppelin captured intact. The two large cylinders are emergency gas tanks. BRITISH SHELLING T OWN OF CAMBRA1 IN NEW OFFENSIVE Infantry Fighting Around Fontaine Has Ceased Temporarily But Intense Artillery Fire Continues. A despatch from London says: The Britishare pounding hard along their front in the Cambrai sector, and the town of Cambrai is now directly under the fire of the British cannon. in these regions. Near Poelcapelle and in the Arras sector the big guns of both groups of belligerents are main- taining a heavy bombardment. Attacks on the Belgian position east of Merckem by Bavarian storm - The battling of the infantry for the ing troops gave the enemy some pris- possession of Fontaine Notre Dameovers and two machine-guns, but an - and between Moeuvres and Bourlon other hostile attack on Belgian troops has ceased temporarily, but at times in • the neighborhood of Aschhoop was the artillery fire is of great intensity beaten off after a, bitter fight. RUSSIA ' ST LL IN T'FIGHT Reassuring News Received By Russian Embassy at London. London, Lice. 2. -Reassuring mess- ages from Russia to the effect that no separate peace will be tolerated, but that the armies under General Dukhonin will fight on, have been re- ceived by the Russian Embassy in London. Dr. J.. 0. Gavronsky, special commissioner of the Russian Provie. sional Government, and N. N. Nord - mann, director of the Department of Economics iii the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who are now in London, de- clared in a statement to the Asso- ciated Press yesterday that it was only a matter of a few weeks, it may be sooner, when the Bolsheviki will be completely repudiated, as the forces in South Russia, which is over- wheimingly opposed to a separate peace, control the supplies, and are working quietly but surely in this right direction. 21 BRITISH SHIPS SUNK BY U-BOATS IN PAST WEEK. A despatch from London says:--- Fourteen ays:--Fourteen British merchantmen of 1,600 tons and over and seven of less than 1,600 tons were sunk by Mines or submarines in week ending Nov; 28, according' to the weekly Adiniralty statement issued this evening. This is an increase of four vessels in the larg- er category over the number reported stink in the previous week's report, HUNFERRE w,t DER IN EAST FR (CA 12 Officers and 3,500 Teutons and Natives Yield to British Troops. A despatch from London says: An official statement on the operations ,in East Africa tells of the unconditional surrender of a German force under Col. Tafel, consisting of 12 German of- ficers, 100 Germans and, 3,400 natives. The force hacl advanced southward from the Mahenge area to Newala, ap- parently in ignorance to the British occupation of Newala, *OMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE. A despatch from London says: ' It was announced officially on Thursday night that the Admiralty approved of tete employment of women at various duties on shore hitherto performed by naval ratings, and have decided to es- tablish a Women's Royal Naval Ser- vice for this purpose. Members of the service will wear distinctive uni- forms, ,and the service will be confin- ed to women employed on definite duties directly connected with the Royal Navy. CAMPAIGN IN EAST .AFRICA TO BE CONCLUDED IN A 14MON'TH. 'A. despatch from London says: The end of the East African campaign be- fore Christmas is predicted by the Reuter correspondent at Ndara. He declares that by that time the German commander-in-chief will either be a prisoner or in exile, News From the Frost, y ar i ets of the World W OF THE ER Breadstnfr's Toronto, Dec,4- 1'litnitoba wiioo1 -•N0. 1 Northern, $2.231; No, 2 ,ao„. $2.203: No. 3 do., $2.174 No. 4 wheat, $2.103. in store Fort William, including 2i,c tax. Manitoba oats -No. 2 c w., 8140; No, 2 c!,l\r, 153c; No. 1 extra fend. Mc; No. 1 feed, 74c, in store Fort William. American corn --No. 3 yellow. nominal. .Ontario oats -No. 2 white. 74 to 15", nominal; No. 3, do., 78 to 74c, nominal, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -New, No. 2 Winter, $2,22; basis, in stgt'e, Montreal. Peas No, 2, $3.70 to $8.80, according to freights outside. Barley ---Malting, $1.22 to $1.23, accord- ing to Freights outside. Bucicwlteat-$1,45 to $L50, according to freights outside. .Rye ---No. 2, $1.7i, according to freight outside, 1ltanitoha flour-Wirst patents. in .Jute bags, $11.50; 2nd do., $11; Strong bait - ore', do., $10.00, Toronto, Ontario hour-»-Wintee. according to simple, $0.00, in bags, Montreal; $9.70, Toronto; $i1,70 bulk, seaboard, prompt sh Ron Frit ..4141 CANT 1, MARINE IMPORTANCE OE SEA -POWER AMPLY I)EMONSTRA:IED. Contributions Are Asked on Behalf of • the Heroic Canadians Who Defend Our Coasts. There is 110 need to refer at length to the work of the Navy and Mercan- tile Marine. But there is pressing need of emphasizing the regrettable lack of recognition which that work is receiving', and of laying stress upon the scanty encouragement Canada, es a whole; is giving to a development of 'Jillfeeh--Cars lots, delivered Montreal ; Our seafaring people. freights. bars included --Bran, per ton. Upon that class we must depend, $37; shorts, do,. $43: middlings, do., $45 to •$40; good feed flour, per bag, to a hardly yet appreciated extent, if $3'25' lfia}•--No, 1. new, Per ton, $1.6 to $17; we are to maintain our place as a do - mixed, do.. $13 to $15. track Toronto. 1minant Empire factor after the war; Straw ---car lots, per ton. $8.50 to Se, not to locution the awful responsibili-::. track. Toronto. ties that rest upon them with the pre - Country Produce -Wholesale I sent Hun menace overshadowing the Butter -Creamery. solids, per lb., 423world, to 43e; prints. per lb, 43 to 4310; dairy', ! r 113to 3SNever in the world's hi tal'y hashaspe.. c. Eggs._ Fresh gathered eggs, 47 to 480. the importance of sea -power been so Potatoes- Wholesalers are paring b demonstrated as during the past three growers and country shippers .$1.85 to 81.95 for first-class stock, fo.b. Toronto. year's. e. Wholesalers are selling to •the retail The Mercantile Marine has success - trade at the Following priees;- Cheese--New, large. 23 to 2310; twins, fullycarried 12,000,000 of men and 28} to 23:10; early cheese, 254 to '26e; large twin, 26 to 26.1c. 15,000,000 tens of war material, 1, - Butter -Fresh dairy. choice, 40 to 41c; 500,000 of sick and wounded, 60,000, - creamery prints 45 to 460; solids, 44 to 45c. 000 gallons of petrol, over 1,250,000 Eggs -New laid. in cart ins. 58 to 600; horses and mules, 120,000,000 cwts, No. 1 storage, 43c: select storage, 47 to 430. of wheat, 7,500,000 tons of iron ore, Dressed poultry --Spring chickens. 25 over 853,000,000 pounds sterling worth toL7c: fowl, 20 to 22c; squabs, per doz., $4 to $4.50; turkeys, 28 to 320 ducks, or goods have been exported. We have Spring, 20 to 234 geese, 15 to 200. lent France 700 ships, and 450 to chickens, lb., c;1 hens, 12 to 26e; Spring uc s 'Italy. The brain reels and imagination Spring, 1S t0 19a; geese, 14 to 1Se' staggers as one tries to visualize the Honey -Comb -Extra titre, 16 oz., $3.50; 12 oz., 33: No. 2, $2.40 to 32.50. infinite variety of the world range of, Strained, tins, `21's and 6's, 19 to 1940 `the scope of the merchantman, per lb; 10's, 18}c to 10c; 60's, 18 to 1'340. Beans -Canadian, nominal; imported I Limasfrom Yokohama and Hong Kong, Limas, $6.60 to $6.75 per bush; Bmnbay, Vancouver, Naples, Port 'L, per lb. 17 to 17�_hc. �o Potatoes. on track -Ontario, bag, $2.16 I Said, and Archangel, these men and to 32.25, their ships are the allied lines of com- P r o vi s i o n s -W h o s e sal e Smoked meats -Clams, medium, 3o to 81c; do., heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to 42c; rolls, 27 to 2Sc; breakfast bacon, 38 to 42c; backs, plain, 40 to 41c; bone- less, 43 to 44c, Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 273 to 28c 1b: clear bellies, 263 to 27c. Lard -Pure lard, tierces, -.28 to 2S4c; tubs, 281. to 283c; pails, 2S5 to 290: compound, tierces, 24 to 24}c; tubs, 241 to 243c; pails, 243 to 244c. Montreal Markets Montreal, Dec. 4 - Oats -Canadian Western, No. 3, 863c; extra No. 1 feed, 863c; No. 2 local white, 843e. Flour - Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $11.60; seconds, $11,10; strong bakers', $10.90; straight rollers, bag's, $5,20 to 36.35. Rolled oats -Bags, 90 lbs., 34,223 to $4.25. Bran, 335.00. Shorts. $40 to $41. Middlings, $48 to $50. aIouillie, $55 to $56. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lets, 313.50. Cheese -Finest 'Westerns, 210c; finest Easterns 211c. Butter - Choicest creamery, 443 to 45e; seconds, 433 to 44.c. Eggs -Fresh, 54 to 56c; selected, 46 to 47c; No. 1 stook, 42 to 430; No. 2 stock, 39 to 40c. Potatoes - Per bag, car lots, $2.20. to $2.25. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Dec, 4 -Cash price's: ---Oats -No. 2 C.W., 813e.: Na 3, do., 783c; extra No. 1 feed, 7840; No, 1 feed, 74c; No. 2, do., 71c. Barley -Not quoted. Flax --No. 1 N,-W.C., 33,04; No. 2 CW., $s.iu. 'United States Markets arinneapolis, Dec. 4 -Corn -No. 3 yel- low, $1.85 to $1.90. Oats -No. 3 white, 709 to 713c. Flour -Unchanged. Bran -335,50 to $36.50. Live Stock Markets Toronto, Dee. 4 -Extra choice heavy steers, 311.50 to $12; do., good heavy, $10.75 to $11.40; butchers' cattle, choice, $10.50 to $10.75; do.,ood, 39.76 to $10; do., medium, $9 to 39.25; do.. common, $ 7.75 to $8.25; butchers' bulls, choice, $10.50 to $10.75; do„ good. bulls, $7.65 do., rough bulls, 35.25 to 36.25; butch- ers' cows, choice, $8.75 to 39.25; do., good, 37.85 to 38,25; do., medium, 36.85 to 37; stockers, $7.25 to $8.50; feeders, 39.25 to $10; canners and cutters, $5.15 to 36.40; mincers, good to choice, 395 to 8145; do., conn. and med., $75 to $90; springers, $90 to 3130; light ewes, $11.76 to $13.75; sheep, heavy, 56 to 37.75; Yearlings, 312.25 to $13,25; lambs, 310 to 316.25; calves, good to choice, 513 to 314; hogs, watered, e$ears, 8, ; , i7. <Sa Te EFEATED IN HOLY LAND Reinforced Armies Unsuccessful in Attacks on British. Positions. London, Dec. 2,,` --The reinforced Turkish armies in Palestine con- tinued to make attacks on the Brit- ish positions north-west of Jerusa- lem, but have been repulsed with heavy losses. The following official report was issued to -day. "At one o'clock yesterday morning the Turks attacked our line in the neighborhood of. Beit-Uret-Tahta and Bir -El -Buri. They gained a footing in our positions, but were ejected at daybreak, leaving 200 prisoners in our hands. The enemy loss has been very heavy during his recent at- tacks. "Bombing raids were successfully carried out at Tulkeram, an import- ant junction on the Turkish line of comi nneiations. About a ton of bombs was dropped on the camp, railway, anti-aircraft batteries and aerodrome." niunication; to destroy thein is to cut the jugular vein of our war. It is a curious thing in our history, recurring through every stage, that this strange breed of high-spirited, hard -handed, far-sighted, cautious, dinning, silent merchant sailors have been a rock on which our enemies have been broken. They smashed the Ar- mada, they foiled the Dutch, they de- feated Napoleon, they defy the Tett- ton to -day. They face more terr,i.blei and hidden foes who strike in the dark without warning; they are just as great in all the essentials of: date:, ing resources and humanity as here their heroic forefathers. Last year some $700,000 was collect- ed and sent overseas for the British Sailors' Relief Fund. This year the Navy League of Canada has been en- trusted with the raising of funds to provide for the dependents of the torpedoed seamen. - Sailors' Day in Canada. December 8th will be Sailors' Day throughout the Dominion, and the Navy League of.Canada asks for a response from the people of the Do- minion that will demonstrate, so far as such a medium can do, our heart- ft4!e'' ppreciation of the heroic Cana- dians who, unsung, and almost unheard Of, brave the perils of mine -sown, sub- marine -infested seas, and with songs on their lips cheerfully give up their lives for the Great Cause. • The 8th of December is a fitting day to .make our offerings. It is the anniversary of the Falkland Islands battle, which freed Canadian com- merce • and water -borne traffic from enemy naval menace.. The Navy League of Canada has been asked to undertake this work at the request of the authorities in the Homeland. Notwithstanding the many calls upon us, let us not forget these men who enable us to sleep sound in our beds at night, Millions have been given to the army by public and nisi - vete subscriptions. Practically noth- ing to the navy and mercantile ma- rine. BRITISH TOOK 11,551 PRISONERS LAST MONTH London, Dec. 2. -An official state- ment issued last night read; 'The number of German prisoners taken in November was 11,551, in- cluding 214 officers, In the same period we have taken 138 glans, includ- ing forty heavy guns, and also 903 machine guns, 64 trench mortars, be- sides great quantities of engineering stores, amntuition of all natures and war material of every kind," -sea. 23,000 TONS OF COAL - I)AILY FROM M1INES Ottawa, Dec. 2. --The collieries in the Crow's Nest Paso district of Brit- ish Columbia, which are neve operated under Government control, are produc- ing 23,000 tons of coal a day, the , greatest output in the history of the province. Word received by the Minis- ter of Labor from the director indi- cates that everything"is running' smoothly at the collieries, ,