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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-03-14, Page 711 k� 44.4, 444404414111010~4,044 4144...4,44.44443444•Witle TRAWLER FOUGHT OFF U-BOAT EH NOTHING BUT A SHOVEL Captain Knocked Off Subis.+ Periscope and Madeis Escape. 444.4.04•4 .4•144.44444.4.4 need= Gable --Ally elailaa-Witele on eeseed le in clanger trent enellie gubwetrineti, anything Wilt do, ae weapon ot defeleee, as ie. shown by tee erery et a ceptain ot'a, British trawler, Who, used a ereti secorel with eooe eithet, againat a German II -beat•, The treWier, accerding tie the Story told Ity oge of the crew. was in .the North. Rea, in a stuff breeze, whim the seippe-li taw a per:Recipe crewl throligh the 'breaking, surface sae the etea about e Lundreet ;Verde off, There was no gun aboard, and the trawler's• hest speed was lege than eight knob:. 4 "it was a altutetion to ;Ramey mo-st men," seed tile sailor. "Or 'skipper riowever, hoe a fighting 'spirit. A tut of the wheel Bout the trawiet"e blunt bows point at the Meet-% 'The Te -boat swung arouted to avoi4 the iMpact. and the sides of the trawler scraped alonti, the sides of the submar- ine, The pmescopa wee still well 0111. Q f the water, but was beginnieg to slio deeu as the submarine (Three. "The shipper bawled for a hammer, a crawban• anything that would here One ot the erew threat a opal shovel into his Dana, anti he scrambled on the bulwark % and 'Knee over, two of the grew hanging onto his Coat sr Mitt he. et-nu:eel fall overboard. Balt watile and ferwa.rds tie ettiang tee hea'a scoop at the fragile periscope, and the thitd elow reduced it to frag- *men tr, "Ti.e subrnar:rie commander, hearing the noise and wondering, What new and heel -11)1e dike the enemy had la- veuted, evept to lea perlecope to have a look, bet all %I. 0.3 WaCk, 3h, WW1 blind, and the trawler got away in eefeie." . e' 'OUST Bl.itHEVilit FROM STEW -- Plans for Popular Govern- ment Are Pornied And Forces Already Moving E ast. Cable. -Plans for the re- storation a popular government in Siberia under Admiral Koteliak, form- er cornmender of the Russina Bleck $ea fleet, through the organization et an army to co-operate with General Semenoft, the leader of the anli-Bol- shevilti movement in Siberia, are now in preparation, it is learned here: Al- ready a newly -formed organization of Ruesians has begun enlisting men for the support of General Semeneff, and yesterday four field guns and fifteen mitchdrie guns were forwarded to him on the Malichurian railway. 4.• 444•44 4444 4. 14.444 4* 4444 4.4 4, • 90 -MILE FIGHT WITH A U-BOAT Hot Battle Put up by Slow Steamer; Whieb• Finally Drove Off the Sub. 4444.444.4444.-• 44 • 1.4,4444 'CLAIM 4,000 MP. TROOPS LAMED AT RAO -NOUN Liverpool, (able.-(Correepentlenee of the Associated Press). -An !driver or a steamer from an American port gives a stirring account of a 90 -mile fight with a U-boat in the Atlantic. Lt lasted from the tiring of e torpedo, which. Net missed, at 11,45 un- til 5.40 p.m, Duting that time, the stokers worked without ceasing to get every ounce of speed out ef the boilers. The eneineers got her up from a normal ten sae...eleven Itnoto to more than thieteen end a half. "The gunners were on duty even, (mend," said the officer. "From the bridge we eould see every shot • them the submarine. We rename a biteblgh target •five hundred feet lopg, and the enemy allowed only a small dome five miles astern. A couple a hours' inef- rective ebelliug made hen a bit ven- turesome, but our gunners epeettile ahowed him that it Wag unhealty to come tco close. "We bad plenty of' ammunition and we used it lavishly. 'With eoustent Practice, too, our gunners began to ..let better. Nevertheless about e clock the German gunners got out some better ehell -and elirapnelsbegan to rain on our deck. Tee man in the wheel house was s.track by a splinter. A shot pierced tete supper over the boatswain's mem, Another shot struck us abaft the engine room oir the port side. 'Tor a while the fight was fierce. Then for half an hour no shots were tired, while the submarine manoeuv- red for position. Our ship was vibrat- ing with the speed. Our captain paced the bridge'keenly observant. When the U-boat finally got the pose tren he wanted and renewed the shell fire, our gun crew decided to let teem have it as hot es our gun would ete,nd. Atter a few infautesewe landed a shell stmarely on the Germans' back, ge apparently disturbed him a good deal, for he stopped flying at once, then slackened speed, altered. course atur submerged." The -new organization is under the leadership of eerince Nicholas Koud- eeheff, :Russian Minister to China; -eery commander at Harbin, an former tary deli -mender at Harbin ,and former chief Of the Ruseian railvvity Adminia- tratieni there; M. Rusanoff, provisional commissioner for the province of Am- ur. and M. Lavoroff, provisional coins miseioner tnr the province of Irkutsk &dmlrailotchalt, who is a veteran of the •Russo-Japanese war, and was the head of the Russian naval corn- mession that visited the United States last year, is now at Shanghai. It is proposed that General Semen - eft neith the support of the forces to be organized to reinforce them,shall advert& from the town of Manchuria, on the Manchuria -Teens -Baikal bord- er, Where he is now fighting, as far east as Irkutsk, some.800 nines distant on the- trans -Siberian 'railroad. There he is to await Japanese support in army and men, which it is declared have. aiready been promised hira. (FromIrkutsk on the 'Ural mountains, 011 the border of European Russia, is elistence of about 1,800 miles.) The letest telegrams front General eatnenoff show that he is fighting along the railway west of the town of elancleuria, All westbound trains, he reperts, are being held at that point, • BLAU SEA FLEET IN ENEMY HANDS ••• • • AIR RAID VICTIMS. Dug Alive From Ruins of London Homes. London Cable - Rescuers gaged toehie in the wreckage at aousee deetroyed the air raid last eigat putted out many living persons. in • bee district two aged women clinging to each other's arms were dug out mire, while at midday art elderly •man was brought out auffering only frein bruises. He had been buried with hi:, wife an daughter, who early had oeen eetricated and who had thought him dead. As he Wro3 placed in an ambulance the, onlookers (theorem Several of the remitted persons 'still °Wag to rescued doga and cats, while' tine women carried a cage in which was a live canary.. The woman had been caught in a beeement when the upper floors of ' the house crashed down. * heavy besun protected her and her :pet. • The hero of one neighborhood la a youth who borrewed a. steel helin' ee to protect him , from shrapnel andres- oiled two aged sisters their maid afeir twelve hours' herd trite en - •ro• - -.4 Petrograd Paper .Alleges GERMAN U-BOATS Three Cruisers .A.cconi. pulled Them, FOR ILS, COAST rQe Believed to Ilan Send- ing Some Big Ones • • But Fear Of Econoinic War Will Curb Them. London, (*be. -It is bellevee here that Germany intenda to Use some of her submarine cruisers off the 'United States cone in the late epring or early summer in an effort to inter - rapt trania-Atlantie eommunications near the source: It is Mit believed, however, that these submaxines Will bombard open towns ,because the coin- mercial elas;s,es of Germany fear Anier- lean opinion woeld be so aroused that It would result in economic reprisal measures after the war. The suggestion in some quarters that German sea -raiders, which in the future might get out, will be equipped with seaplanes as was the raider Wolff, is considered probable. The 'Wolff was the first. raider to be fitted thus.' It would not be surprising if such Seaplanes attempted to drop bombs me towhs for Ito supposed mdral effect upon populations tar removed from tigi actual War eche. Air experts that Germany will try to develop the use of seaplanee in cenjunction with the "raiders. • A PRO -GERMAN. SErIF-GOVER,N1VIHNT. Austrian Premier dives Government's View. Amsterdam, Friday, Cable The lower House of the Reicherath adopt- ed a four months' provincial budget, atter a speech by Dr. von Sydler, the Austrian Premier, ia which he declar- ed that the Governmeat edhered to Me principle of the right of the peo- ples of Austealla to self-government within, their owe, territory, bet not beyond the frontiers of the country, egeording to a Vienen clespatele The Goverament. the Premier ,sairl, else adhered to the right of self -determines, troll 0.3 far as nompatible with the And Germany Planning Move to the East. Saloniki and Greek Situa- tions "Ugly. 4••••1•01•4•••••••44••••• London, Cablee - Although the fate 'of the Russian Illack Sea fleet Is still a mystery. it is believed that at a reettlt ot Germany's phaee With the , literalize it • has practically passed, into Teuton hands, and with it the. complete domination of the Black Seai At least two super -dreadnoughts and . a number of minor craft were corn- prleed In tho Russian mese: It Will not mirprising if thee.: sates eventually jeln the Goeben. • • • The torrespondent is informed that the allied naval ateength in 'the Eastent Mediterranean Ia. sufeleieut meat, the eraergeirey MAY Getman navel diverelon in ettempted from the. Derdarielle.s at a time When land 'ats' tacks are being made egalifet Shionikie Boner Law's statement in the Moe last night that the •situation in Salon - ltd become dengertius, anti I that if the enemy bad poseeeeed Greeee atul used tie eubmitrine base, it might. be imposeiblo to keep communications, indieates the serious attention that Is being given Gila pm - Age. dexelppment. "Mier; le ctilahret,".1(1, eetratile I* that Gernuany is planning to Use con- eitierable of her strengtli in the Near ast. Naval men believe that Ger- nutty le already preparing for the rapid develonment of the Black Si transport sertke to get fcrece into Agit( Miner. 'With Roumania out of the war, large Bulgarereerrnan fortes ORS be used against Salerilki, while the Germett-Tarkleh forteet opetate in Asia Minor. prezervation and development et the entire. state. The GoVernmeet at' the lame time adopted the principle of he rigets of national self-determina- tion, the premier said, attcording th which no nationality must oppteas any. other nationality, and that every en- tiona.lity is entitled to live its own lite within its own territory. The Premier announced that a. bill in this sense would he ilitroduced, eePodally dealing with the sottth felav eueetiou, the settlement of- whieh would correspond With the eoutti Slave dynastic and imperial ieeelty, The Premier furth.er said thee meiti Entree had beee takeente counteract enemy propeganda in Austria. TURK is•• Busy Convicted at Belleville of Seditious Talk. Lorideri, Friday, Cable Details t./t an atiesect timeline of Japanese troops at Viadiveyeetic in. January are given in. the Peteograd newepaper 'IovaaZhiza et Jan. 19, Whioa Wes Jut Dua received here. The paper saya teat the Japaneee cruiser Mikado arrivea on Jan. 13, and was followed by two more crulaere an Jan, 14. Four thousand soldiers were landed and numbers of officers continued to arrive in Viadivoetole dailv, amaze to the newspaper. The Japanese ad- miral assured the local 'Workmen's and Selene:se' Council that the arr:vai of ships and troops should not be con- sidered at 'the beeinning, of military operations, but they were there to protect eapanese subjects. The message ta the Novaia Zhizn says the Viadivoetok publio was ale/enc1 ereatly, and that revolution- ary committees were concentrating Bolsheviki troops. Information concerning the reported entrance ot Brititah and Japanese cruise era into Vladivostok harbor was asked of the British and eapaneee Erabassies In Petrograd on Jan. 20 by the Bon sheviki Gosterurnent. The Japanese Embassy in Petrograd immediately issued an official statement dealing that Japanese forces had been landed at Viadiventok. It was added that the Dresance or a JaPaneee cruiser,at Via- divostolc hall no connection with the eituation in Ruasia. The British Ern• basay said that British warships hail trono to Viallivoathlt to protect allied subjects agahust poreeble (Retarders. Benceille Despatch-Ohes. Hawkes, aged ei years, waose home 1 in Chan- aite township, adjoining Hastings coere ty, was on mai here to -day at tile higle court, presided over by Justice Rose, on A charge of uttering seditious state- ments. The jury after being 'but •two tnottee ree'f'ct1aV �tVatienegietir reponneeedatiore of leniency, tem:tie eras deferred until the close be the criminal casee. Pte. Wm. H. Crosby, a nienaber of the 247th Battalion, laid"-tho hi -feria tion and in his evidenee etaliedetliett on the a7th of February, .1917, he was at Coe Dill, liastings.couneye and was endeavoring to persuade a .yOun.g. man to . During thd geheefiettion Hawkes appeared upon the.isiceue- end ehlred why Crosby was teeing to Ole, the young man, to enlist. Croeby re• Plied that any young man who was physicially fit should go and fight for his county, Viet Germany lie.d•done o� much dirty work that all ehould enlist! and fight against her. Hawkes asked what dirty work Germany •had done. and witness replied that she had cut hands off cliildren and had nailed a Canadian soldierto a barn door. ilawkee said it was a lie and that Greta Britain wag doing more dirty work on that battlefield to -day than Giumeny, but covers it up. Witness aelce.d Hawkes where he got his infor- mation, and Ile said not Um news• papers, but direct frem Gerntany. Hawkes also .eaid it was no harm for Germany to sink the ships of the United States as she tires a neutral ceuntrye and that if the United States went to wee with Germany she would only be a Landful for Germany, the eame as the other allies. The evidenee elven by Crosby was corroborated 1.y ethers who heard the remarks ee Hawkes. 4••••••••"4.4444140404444..4e,-... ... • • IN ARMENIA . ; London, ('abbe. --"Thr is evi- uenee bitted on statements by German e0filSIAS, and therefore haroly likely to be prejudieeti," saye ..Idespatth froth' Iiittpie to, the Deily Mail, "that, aa tbe leirkieh teemed advance to rin eeedrie• Arinellia, they are literati) ex- astentaftingskillegen e'elenelAPK Arrdat- !an population at Sacetur, on the Black Sea. "levery A.rmenian male--enatt. boy ter Stabyease Ile Mit tte the; word, while eimilar atrocities ate being perpe- trated, town by town and, village , by village. The handbag oaer be Rtieehr . trains -Caucasian .distrist will simply mean externibiation, at Ger- Man inetigatiett, or at !mat with 'German nneroval, or five poptilati left beblint.", RIES-HUMANIAN PEACE CONCLUDED • Londcn, Cable,- Conchraion tot . peace between Russia and Retunania IR announced in a Russian ' wireless despatch received Imre to -day. Rou- ,nania, promises to evacuate all of Basearabia, including Benderi, on the Dniester River, forty miles southeaet of Kiahney, within two • monthe. 'You never earl tell. Many 4 ran *I tbitake be nes reaebed the lop when ke is reality lall on lint shelf, s* * V • • Russia -and Roumania have been at ads for several months, and a num,. ber of battles have been .fsiught . by the former allies. Roumanian Armies disarmed Russian forces lett in Rau- manie after the conelusion of peace - 4014:444111444*.44.4 ME TO UST !IUD HOW 441 Section of Unionists Organ- izing for Trouble. .. Object .to Northcliffe and Beaverbrook. 4444444444444446,....."... Wake Another Heligoland of the Aletul itiande. Thie sehstrae is a direet blow &pities Sweden, and, in a, eess degree, againet, Denmark an Norway,, ancl lit iu Tine with the German Emperor'e innest that the Baltic lands bay° been made per- glaneetly German. The Aland Wands, geograpbleallY, are ea much e part, of Sweden as Nor- wundlaua 13 ut Canada. Tbiougliout the war Sweden has been troubled by the reer that Russia, would take them, tlernutuy now occlude:4 the latitude temporarily, but the German flag files over nubile buildings, and no one be- lioves it will ever come down except by, force.' Thie la a bar to American, as well a* to Britiele trade with Rue - That the Scandinavian ecnintrla have been over -friendly to the 1n - tante came here as an amusing charge. Sweden has been generallY , rated the most pro -German of the And -Then the Little Party neutral European uatione, eXcept Dossibly Spain. The Royal family, 1)rive the Foe From : London, Marce 8. -The attack on the Government for the dismissal of Lord Jelicoe Mom the position of aeitet „dee Lord,f,e witheat consulting nen, •Wareaebineti, „endimpliedly•in obedience: to the 'detend of the Dane- Mali - and the' 'Dimes, gas the ap- pearance at being part of a concerted Unionist move to drive Lloyd George out and torm a new coalition Ministry, in whieli the Unioniste would have complete predominance. • The Marmiis Of Salisbury summon- ed 'a. conclave of• discontented Un- nonists three .. iveeks ago Monday, at Hatfield Hoese, his Elizabethan man- sion, in Hertfordshire, at which time It was agreed that steps should be taken to show Lloyd George that the Unionists dise,pprove of the in- clusion of Lard Beaverbrook ,and Lord 'Nertheliffe ig the Government, although ,both of these ( peers are Unionists. Salisbury, the head of the Cecil family, is conspicuously defici- ent in the tfamily ability, but is the fiercest of Tory partisans, and it is well understood 'that he is simply be- ing used for the purpose of this tits- nuptive scheme.. . The second raove was a request sent by 90 Unionist members of both •Houees of Parliament to Premier Lloyd George to meet them to justify the appointment above mentioned. He did ao on Monday privately, and it is significant that after a 45 minuteS' speech, those present at the meeting thanked him for seeing them, but saidenothing, about being satisfied with his explanation. The .next step was the question about Jellicoe's' diernissal in the &louse ofCommons on Wednesday, giving Ca- son an opening for repudi- ating any- responsibility for the dis- raissal, *with the sensational adden- dum with the War Cabinet was never consulted. it is remarkable that Carson suc- ceeded innepreesing his boiling ladle - tuition ever Jellicoe's treatment until he himself had left the Government.' The question is Asked, "If he felt so strong11 about in, why didn't he re- sign -on. that question?" It be sur- mised that Carson thinks he is the man fitting the successor to Lloyd Gedrge, but; it ao; he is almost alone in that belief. •Further dismission of the whole 'with G,ertriany, saying the Russians were plundering Roumanian toWns, tepid Jellicoe and the Premiers al- leged subservience to the Northcliffe press is fixed for Monday, when doubt- less the Hatfield House cabal will show its hand The Whole affair is another evidence of an unhealthy politieal .coridition, and the time must come when the Premier will grow tired of having to rehabilitate himself with the House of Commons every Monday. • EtUAN liFRO " HELD BliahlE AGAINST HUNS •041:0•11*.1.110- With Nine, Men, One Gun; Fought 300 Germans With 12 (lune. 4144441•4 ,SMALL Al, CAME 444444444•444,4.4, the aristocracy, the universities and the army have been outspoleenly pro - German. For a long time it was fear- ed that Sweden. would Join the eters Manic ailiaece. According to one fiewepaper 55 'per cent, of the steel Germany has used for munitions Imo been furnished by Sweden. Denmark has never been consid- ered over friendly to the Entente. but, considering the fact that she is a small nation, living under the muz- zles of the Germans, and the malice fist at her throat, the fact that sh.e is leaning backward in maintaining he eeeutrality towards the Entente coune tries is understood. to have caUsed no The latest' German move appears to be a familiar one. Germany feels that she is now in a position where, she is so strong in the north that elle need no longer cultivate the friend- ship of the Scandinavian countries, and that she may make Whatever dam- aging arrangements she desires and threaten them. It is the same proce- dttre she followed When site begen bombardiug undefended British coast' towns, like Scarborough, explainieg her action on the ground that they were fortified. She not v attacks the Scandinavian countries with the eice me that they are unneutral. OHIO'S TORNADO. • -- Million of Damage and Six or Seven Deatht,.. .Golumbusi .0.hioi March reports continuiug to dribble in show that Saturday's tornado Wrouieht per- haps more than a million dollatte dam- age in Vanwere and Pauldiegepontlea . Oleo, where. it did its greatest destrae- tion, it is believed' to -day ._ tbat , the' number of deaths win not exceed sic or seven. Five are 'icnown dead, and there are several tinjured win) may die The storm's. path, Willa. contains much evidence' thet•-the tvind was a "twister," was asenarrow MY yards in some places, while in other places It spread into a wind storm miles wide, That greater loss'of lifeand a more lineosing loes of property was eot lett in the wake of the wind is duo to the fact that it did not hit"any larger cities. • • . Roumanian troops were sent into Bes- sarabia, a Russian province populated largely by Roumanians, saying they had been asked by the Bessiarabia au- thorities to intervene end restore or- der. ' The Rusaians 'Made a ntitaber of ineffectual attempts tor subdue the Roumanians, aad several weeks ago issued an order for tlie west of Klieg Ferdinand, of Reuniallie. GER/MAIT ENGINEER gosed as Laborer;'"Caltght With 'GOods" pleveland • , , C1evel4ntl, net)ort.-Mm. Werner, -a former aergeant 'in the German 'army, arreeted here a6Vetal weeks ago for Violation of the eerie portant regu- ,ation, to-dity was towelled as lin en- gineer eWaleing rile 10»pOrtunity t4 re - tarn to Gershuny wins. iniportaittelee &relation debotit American airplane e and Pedaled Agent taste to -night re- %unneededhis interiiiiient, eleclaring, hint to be "Ite exceptionally nangerous 4eneiny alletits • When arrested Weimer had 2.7 air - pi enoiele. Dozens tee prinia of aitplenet eigplane parts, infrietely merited, were found in a haute at aliagitrit 'N. le, where he lived, UAW he wile here, actoldbig to the officers. " 'Zince owning to America, six yeare *go, officials say., Werner heti lived in Attltitnere, Philadelphia, Neil, olt inn other large elites. Although 'an ,eepert ettgbieterotte ham paged ai a eon.raoa laborer, and recently, it wall Mated, he took a course tat h 'Clifeltgo aviation. echool. ( moment ot trannees threatened See knot her., 1 Woeteer If' 6 *tit sine forglie Mel Ceettitete- jeven in buying Shoes son havele Ettie 'kaboIy wilt it you do, but Over De well heeled. 4 11 you iloii t. ft 17.1111417%%%41%,‘"..4101): Ka, .1, GERMAN THREATS TO SCANDINAVIA Berlin Press and Publisists 'Unite in Denunciation. ••444.4,4014.44.4 4•44.1.444, 'Warns They Can Expect No - • Conisderation. COSSACiffa JOIN WITH MP In Approaching Campaign to Control Siberia. • New Russ Government in the Far East. Positions Won. • •••••N......••••••,••••••,•••••• , (By R. T4 Small.) British Army Headquarters in Prance, Mardi 10. -Great gallantry and intlivielaal heroism was displayea by the Belgian soldiers in the face °t - gnat odds in the flooded zone mirth - West of Dixmude a day or two aeo. The German attack was futile. Vale pperation has been characterized as a, raid, but, as in the case of the recent Attack on the Portuguese, there is lite tle doubt that the Germans meant to occupy certain posts permanently. They eucceetleel temporarily in one place, but were driven out with heavy •lesees alter spectacular fighting. Albetr-personally eongratu- lated. his troops yesterday on their re- smarkable work. The Germans began their operations at daybreak againat the )3olgian post- tiops at Beverdele and Reigersvliet by puttinedown a tremendous artillery bombardment. For an hour the Ger- 'trams' artillery continued to Pour an avalanche of explosives, among whieh dweetreenamesa,nyangdasthsheuelltso,noawgeadinswtiththeasne infantry attack in force. The Belgian artillery replied with a heavy barrage, ane this, coupled with the fine work of the riflemen and ma- chine gunners proniptly checked the German advance at Beveedyk, and •OVentnally completely repulsed the en- emy. At Reigersyliet. however, the Germans secured a footing at various points, which was due to the fact that the floods had largely subsided and 'the ariny, was able to cross with com- paratively little diftioulte. Harbin, March 8. -After a prelimin- ary clash with Red Guards, resulting in a few casualties on both sides, Gem Somenoff. leader of the Cossacks, has formed a new front along the Siberian Railway, where he is endeavoring to break the Bolshevilti control. The Boisheviki are -using heavy guns, un- der the direction- of a German officer. Petrograd, March 10. -The Pravda. organ -of the Bolsh.evilcie prints, _e. despatch from Irkutsk, which says: 'The ex-peesident of tee' Get -Moil of Ministers Of Revolutionary Ruisian Prince Lvoff, has conetituted in the Par East a new Ruststah, Government which at present has its seet at Pekin. and which Is awaiting the landing of Japanese troops at 'Vladivostok in or- der to enter Siberian territory with them. "Telegraphic communication . be- tween Vladivatok and Irkutsk is in- terrupted.. The Soviet of Vladivostok is mobilizing forces for nesistence, and Is forming a Red army." It is stated in the newspapers tleit the Boleheviki forces' Lave granted . complete freedom to Grand Duke elicit- aCl Alexandrovitch, who has been un- der arrest at •, his home. Emperer Nicholas, On abdicating, .designeted him as regent. ' • A decree signed by Premier Le - nine announces the evacuatiod of the State institutions at Petrograd. The poetis'r comMissioners, are leav- ing to -day for Moscow,- tileeh is tit be the new Russianecapital, at least temporarily. The Connuissieeer of Education tel. Lunocharehy, will re- main in :Petrograd as the rep:Wiens naive of the Government. and Wile be invested with extraordinary pow - ere, London, March 10.-Tbe newerat‘ display of ;Geireen polity has col* in tile terra of a eundea brottdalde of denunciation of the Seandinavian countries by German newspapers and publiciets, like 'Count iteventlow, of the 'Tagee Zeitung. Froth tbe shale larity of the artielea, it is evident that they ate talreeted by ofte mind, width mind apparently is the .11ermitit Gyp-- erninent.. • The- artleless Itemise the ticanotnavittro couhtries substantially a -being de- comptiees at the Entenide aild warn them that, therefore. the 'eau exeeet no consideratiOn from Gerniarty. The resetert for this polley Is plain to diplo- mats Itere. tlermanY's deelings with Finland thue itkie seem to bre dosighed te 'Make Finland a Minor' Geeetiet kiiledcalin With the Efertelior'serien. Prince Omar, rite the thtone, and to every DIS;11, ean't afford. 3TOR GREATER OROPS, Bade for Provincial.Doinin• on Campaign Fixed. Qttwa,elaree 11.-Tite generai besis Let plane for cooperation between the Dominion Department of A.gricuis tin.* and the Vnuada, Food leotard ob the Oran head, and the Departsilents oi Agriculture of Ontario, QUebec, Nee 214 were Dearored. W1113 Sir 131,11211;o:if, Novo. Senate and V H. A-, tont° On.,W00.43411 Front Aion.o ji an extensive campaigu for ori.-4ter ,--4.,,nttgart and VIM= raotcrr production in 19113 were agreed on at the receat coaferenee or provinelat les Are Keinril7 Bombed by eainiettere of Agriculture at Gnome. "k117/1-4611,. Dr. James W. Rebertson wae ap- pointed by the Dominion All Mater o. Agricalture and the GaitaCa rope Board to co-operate on their behau with these proVitteint (loveranients Definite plans Or organization are Poe in process or completion and aoldtoi- tion. Qatari() has set tor itself an oe- eeetive oe 1,000,000 additionei aerea of corms mid other cuitivatea me% ani. also the greaeest poxelble proeuctioe Per acre on ea cultivatea land. Clue lace will do her best to peas lier mote aye et 60,009 additiouat aeree. The three maritime provinces ttee depentt- ed upon for increased crepe to tbe extent of 400,000 Beres, or lin increase et five acres per tatm on the aver- age( One of the Methods of procedure in carrying oat the general plan in e,acia erovince is to torra a greeter prodne- time committee in every township or parish. The members of these cone- mittees will Le eeatling mut influentia, fa.rniers, wlo personaely visit their neighbors; in tee tewnship or parieb to secure their earnest eo-onet., atter, It has imen proposed that in every province the Lieuteaant-Gover- aor issue a proclamation calling for the observauce of a week steiemnie dedicated to preparation for the crape of 1P18. in order to avert dire prive- tion and tbreatening famine. During this week iledieated te preparation tin plans for the season's crops on eael, farm Will be reconsidered with a view to lucreasing tee acreage to tee ut- most, the seed will be made cone pletely ready, and all Waistlines. toole and harness will be put in order, to avoid loss of time when the spring work begins. Dr. Roeertson has now left to ar- range with the Provinces of New Brunswick. Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island for earnest co-opera- tion in carrying out the plans for production to the largest possible number of acres end bushels. se es • roptruldiORATIITS. . A Belgian commancier, at thie June- tere,•wIth only nine men and a ma- &inv, gun, oceupied a bridge -head, wilitete be resieted -three :beindred Ger- ittatieeinct twelve machine guns ter an hour .-befere help arrived in the settee of a patrol headed ' by a lieutenant. With .thie, - reinforcement the 13elgiee eommanclei took the offensive. enehing and!r-ecapturing the niosition. -taken by the Germans in front of a sinall bridgehead. - Several German nrisoners and machine guns were taken in this daring assault. In the meantime. the Chasseurs had >been organized for a, counter-attack, and these troops advanced under ex• -cellent eupport headed by the Belgian batteries..1p. order'for the Chasseurs to reach the Posts 'heldby the Ger- isiane it eva:s eeessare for them to cross the flooded space on e single board Walk, which was dominated by &See- man artillery and machthe gun fire. Dismounted horsemen went forward as though on parade amid the crash- ing of great shells and hurled them- selves fiercely on the invaders. Sanguinary fighting foliovved: and at one o'clock ia the afternoon the Belgians succeeded in retaking the first of the seven posts lying in seral-circle in front of the bridge- head. The savage 'battle • continued until 5.30 in the afternoon. ween the last of the posts were regained. . The German losses were exceed- ingly heavy. Forty bodies were found lying on the berried wire ialone, while many perished under the grilling • fire of the Belgian.s. One German officer was decapiteted Sy a shell as he was running away. .Five officers aud 111 men were cap - tiered, together with twelve machine tuns. The •Germans claim to have cap- tured a considerable number of Belgians, and they undoubtedly car- ried away some prisoners. Although it is impossible to give the exact total of the Belgian, losses, they were light. , . no official Organs of the "eoviit, isvesti artd"Pravda. will appeer 10*, morrow for the last time hi Petrogran}- bootshcoewvi.11 "btf published thereafter at m The Petrograd papers etnifirm the report of Leon TrOtzky's retognetitel as Forelear minliater. duthe now fall Annie his depUte, 'chits tketin. ,„ '31.Tehltelierin, Depety Foftlign ;h1/.11jel.ere., has_ Preeested in behalf of tke ituesian Goveratnent to Gentle* ageinstethellandieg Gertilari treope ou the Aland Islands, ?intend, as ev violationeof A.rtiele.W., Of the RUsesee Gartland Peace Treaty. This provided erionresattitonin. levitation. ai .settlement eeseees,...44,e' • ". „Dm/corr.. or lillatCHeRS London,. Ont., Despatch -The boy, cettecarriedi orr by the Jewielt wasiteti of the city fir the naetaweelt against the Jewish buteltere, who :proposed 'raising Siridese tame to an ettd to-dayt. the billehers agteeing inn; toraise the. priceeof•beef, twal also jyrontleirtg tlitr WOMen tbitt they would tower them as the Inarket mine down. e ,t • A deer tonseienti le a luxury that ALLIES TOOK HEAVY TOOL OF HUN PLANES 'BRITISH REPULSED TWO AT- TACKS. Hard fighting took place Satur- day morning along a front of more than three thousand yards,.. running southeast of - Poeiderhoek astride the Menin Road, Where the Ger- mantle•Fritlay night a,ttacked and succeeded he ocouPying sortie ad- vanced posts. The Germans ad- vanced at six o'clock after a heavy bombardment. The British infantry, assisted by the artillery, °Leered strenuous iseskaance and repelled the enemy everywhere, excepting at some points along a sector of ap- proximately two mile*. , • • 0 • 1 'OP ' 111 The Ilietish eAturday , morning counter -attacked vigorously. The German attack was the second de- livered by him Friday against the British, the other assault being along a 2,000 -yard front south of Houtholet Wood. Here the enemy at- teeked at four o'clock in the morn- ing, and after hard fighting occupied six advance poste. At mid -fore- noon the British counter -assaulted so violently that the Germans fled and were driven three hundred yards be- hind the original enemy poet. All the 'British paella:ins were re-esteblished. The German gesticaties were heavy, muck itt excess of those suffered by the British. • • e ALLIES LOSE A FRIEND. Spanish Premier Alhucemas and Ca,binet Out, 44.4•4444.1444.444444.44 MANY RAIDS ON -WESTERN FE British and Portuguese Harry the Germans. Belgians Regain the. bench- es Lost. London, Mart% 10.-l1!wsu ,aviators sentoeu tae Dee:titer motor Vvories at renegart, teetiay, elm Oficial an- neuueement says that the rain Wee eitteea out in broad daylight. They 444o oteneee the teilway station arta nimitiou faetOries. Toe text of the Statement reaila; "un March 10 Germany was again eonibed oy our planes in. broad days On this occasion ale Daimler " • elotor Work a at Stuttgart were at- 7 .aelted. Over Pet tons of bombs were ironed. Several bursts were obeerved se, the railway station, where a stile .ionaly train was hit and seen to be ea file. "Three bursts were observed or, it unuiltion factory, eoutheast of the awe, ana other bursts on the Daimler .vorks and buildings around. "Hostile machines made a weak ettempt to attemic our formation over en objective, but withdrew on • being attacked. All of our machines returned except one,. which had engine trouble end went down under control jest be- fore recrossing our lines on the home- ward joureeY. "There has beeu considerable aerial Activity and heavy bombing of dumpt. airdromes and railway centres, North- east af St. Quen.fin there was art espe• eially succeeeful attack from it low iltitude against three airdromes. di.' .ece hitbeing oetalned on ea,111 air, drone:, on hangars, and on machines tne open. Returning from this attack the British pilots flew at an everage. beight Of 100 feet, firing at tayorable"targets, causing much con- fusion among the enenly and scatter - mg troops and horses. "in heavy air fighting ten hostile machines were Owned and ten others - disabled, A German obaervation bai loou wee, destroyed. . Two of our machines, are miesing.- "In the air fighting on Friday, 12 hostile machines were destroyed. Ten were driven down out of control, and three ,th.ers were shot down by our anti-alter:eft gunfire, Three et our maciaines are miSsing. At ripen ,to -day eur machines dropped ten tons of eombs and, sidings and factories at Mainz. All our machines returned." During the week 214 enemy aircraft were brought down on the Western front alone. while the allies lost only -38 machines on all fronts during the, same period. The enemy loss on all fronts is placed at 273. NAVAL AIRCRAFT BUSY. British naval aircraft yesterday bombed billete and railways at Se Pierre Capelle, making direct' hits 011 ilieds and starting a fire, says an offi- cial statement. oeday. Soldiers in motors were fired with machine guns. On their return the British machines were attaelted, but one enemy plane was brought doWn in flames, and all the British returned safely. RAID ON PARIS.. Between ten and twelve bomb- ing airplanes participated in a German raid on Paris Friday night, according to official information. The casualties were nine killed and 39 persons wounded. One of the raiding machines was destroyed. An official statement says an airplane iof the Gotha type wag' found in the forest of Compiegne wbere it had fallen while returning none the raid on the capital. The ma- chine had been demolished and its crew of thee burned to death. Some raiders came by way of the valley of the Oise, others followed the route of the Marne, while some others came trot the direction of Greill. HUN COMMANDER, SLAIN. Grand Headquarters of the French Army in France, March 10. --The com- mander or the' German airplanes, which attempted to terrorize Paris, Capt. Fritz Ecketeip, and, three com- panions, one of whom was an officer of the Emperer's White Cuirassiers from Potsdam, were killed when their machine crashed in • the Compigou Forest. It is questionable whether the commander ever reached Paris. It Is believed that most of the bombs the machine tarried were dropped after it was hit euring the course of its trip, but several were' still attached to the airplane when the correspondent .siew It lying half buried in the earth. Two ' of the aviators were underneath the motor and the other. two nearby, be.v- Ing thrown themselves out in an ef- fort to save their lives. The Garman Machine was of the latest model. It Was built at Fried- richshafeh. The wings bad le stretch of 80 feet, ahd it was supplied with the most modern instruments. The canvas wings were painted blacic, vio- let Mid dark blue. Teh or twelve setuidrone participat- ed in the raid, proceeding towares Paris by three different toute,s in sue- eeesive waves. The remarkably effec- tive co-operation of the anti-aireraft guns, the defence escadrilles and the aeareldights prevented much damage and stopped many of the raiders front reaching the eapital. bLOiltd swon .d ‘farch, lee -Saturday' night'. "We raided the enemy's trenches itorth of the Bapaumeeiambral roan. atet night and brougnt back a ma caine gun. Another suceeesful rani eas carried oet this morning in tee neignborhood of OM; several of the ensicenly were killed end a few prisoners ain "The hostile artillery has shown increased activity at a number of points north of La Basso Canal. "Portuguese eroops effected a sac - medal raid near NeUVe Chapelle. TheY Penetrated the enemy's second nine irenches and drove out the garrison with heavy losses. They bombed it number of ocaupied dugouts, and, in addition, several prisoners and two machine guns were brought back. • "Successful raids were carried out ey us •last night northwest of St. Queen.' and southwgst of Cambral. e'everal of the enemy were killed arid a few prisoners were captured by te. "Hostile artillery has been active in the Armentieres sector. east of Wets- chaete and in the neighborhood of the MeLtayln roait'g'ht's reeort read: "Early thie morning. under the cover Of a heavy bombardment, it hos- tile raiding party attacked our posts east of Armentieres. A fetv et Our men are meeeing. "Another attemPteti itnemy raid °est of Passchendeele was repulsed ity machine gun fire. "The hostile artillery has shown a narketi increese in activity on the front and the back areas from LO Bassee Canal to 'Ypres." FRENCH REPORT. Paris, March 10. -Sunday after- noon's War Office report 4s1d: "There has been 23 hours of luter• mittent actinity by the artillery cm the right bank of the Mouse and in Alsace. The day was calm on the rest of the front. A sudden attack by the Germans at Bois de Pretre and the Reillon and Lettieourt sectors failed." electrid, March 10. -King Alfonso yestetday accepted the resignation of the entire Cabinet headed by Marv% Al.hucenate, leder of the Liberal moveraeut, and a stattrieh freinid of the Attlee, 'The Itirtg has eumnioned to the palace the head e of the different political patties, Antonio Maura, the •Coneervative leader:. ex-Preinier Eda- ardo Date, Count Ronianones, the Lib- eral leader; 'Juan do laClervit, the Minister of. War, and the ISUlte or Alba. The eveutuality of a rrtilitary dic- tatorship under 'Meister of War /ton de la Cierva, founded upon an exelus- ivily military Cabinet, eeems to have been abandoned. Dimeretion is flit better pert A valet Half the virtue in the world Is possessed by peOple alb are afraid ib taltesa 41141104, BELGIAN REPORT. Paris, March 10. -Sunday's Belgian commuateation reads: "On Friday we drove the enemy teem the lest elements of Our ad., Vanced trenches in the region of Kippe, where lie ha.d suceeeded itt gaining a tOothold on March 7. The ..,seendancy taken by oar valiant troops over the Clormarts was agatti magnificently confirmed in the course of two raids carried out in the region of Nieuport, Resolutely forcing an entrance into trenehesi of the first ereemy line, one Of our detaehnients attaelted the defenders, of whom a great number were killed, arid brought back prisoners, to our lines. Another reconealesance occupied it Gereatte adp aneed etrong point. "Artillery activity Las eeen reported fer,severat days before out front. Our battsriee dominated those!. of our advk'rsarleit. PREVENT U.S. GOAL HOARDING. Washington, D. C., Despatch - An average reductien of 30 cents a ton In the retail price of all mithraeite coal sold for dontestio use betweeit next April 1. and September 1, was ane noticed ,toesighi by the Federal Fttel Adininistrator, together with vegula- tions governing the retail distriblitiott of ell coed for the year beginniug the firet of 'text month, The ruin aro designed partictilar13,' to prevent hoarding tad Minds the filling of all domestic neens for next evielter during the emitter Monitte. 4•*4.4611.4•414.4, The elcrifiee Of time is 'one meat teeny a all ttacrificees--Antiphop. 40 44 41 BELGIAN VICTORY. Cavalry Routed • German Storm Troops. ' Havre, Thurstley, Cable Belgians crushed two saarp German attacks on the night of Alarch 6. The first was against the Deverdik position, over it front of two kilometres. it was stopped bY artillery fire. The second was south of Stuydekoskerke, directed against pcoltions held by dismounted ea.valry. After a vitneat artillery preparation, men belongtria to three German regiments, all being specially pielted storm troop, elle- coded in gaining it foothold in tho Belgian line. A vigorous cottn,er- attack Made by cavalry drove them back, With severe loefies, from the poet - thine which tney hail been ordered to hold at all eoste. The Belgians took 100 unwounded ie' -toners, The Itueettin time flies over ono Kelt of the earth's land aurfitee. to proteet 114.000009 soele, representing ehttY- roar racial alut tribal divesions an/ Or:eking More than 10/ Iteng41,8.