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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-08-15, Page 7( whOM 200,15i Were Chldren under 0 plague Ot Vienna, CUM LTI DRVIN G AHEAD yearfl of Mee, u anerealcinel Cadets thisi.Otf anntiatty t0ibtln l i)t'reone Of W110111 Oen' 80,000 FRENcH iU tt w o11ting V0op10, IN MAS1 (MidiOn Head sunshine said a1r, but h I'ielana and the larger industrial towns many citildre.t up to 0 years of age possess only a shirt *MI can never 00 Oat in the opera air trout autumn to 'rhe darn bonne. deep dowel 4,000 0 p t i Y e s Now, Over below Che street 1s a living eepulerhre, �✓ ` 9 bays :ter, Gayda: "The workingman • lives from stand to mouth; he wanders from room to room. lie treats his paternal obligations with tae name dis- regard for the future. He mates with a woman who pleases him, Melted up on the street, remains with her so long as .0 a n a d 1 a r s Recapture amore it suits slain, Marriage he does not 100 More Guns Towns From Foe London Cable—French troops attacked at 4 o'clock this morning on the line between Montdidier and the River Oise on a front of approximately 1G miles., and at 111 a.m.. had scored an advance of four miles, according to news received shortly after noon to -day. • The French line at that hour ran through Favcrolles, a iennes, Rallot, Ouvilly, Ressonns-Stir-Matz and Vigne-• rnont. This line puts Montdidier behind the French line. The Picardy battle is spreading to the south of Ar- ras, the Pall Mall Gazette says this afternoon. Heavy • lighting occurred this morning in the battle area, with the Allies making satisfactory progress, and taking large numbers of prisoners. One hundred additional German guns have been taken by the Allies. Canadian eavalry, which is operating close to •Ohauliws, reports that the enemy is fighting strong rear.- guard eal.guard actions, in order to enable the stores of ammuni- tion and guns to be removed from that town. To the north, the important junction the Ghalnes is now quite Untenable for the Germans, as it is well within the fire of the British field guns. • The 100 guns added to tale zee pre- viously captured by the' A:::e3 were taken by the French in this morning's fighting. 11'e opinion in London today was that the enemy could not now possibly hold any sort of a line until he reached tite Somme and the canal from Nesse to Noyon. That would make a maxi. mulls retreat of twenty miles. Roughly speaking, the allied advance 1n two days on a front of twenty miles has been twelve miles. On the British front enlendid pro - grecs is being made, and the ai'erage twPlve.mile progress forward was an infantry alvances- with the e cavalry, tanks and armored ears well ahead of the infantry and pressing the retreat. ing enemy. 24,000 PRISONERS. London cable: The number of prisoners' taken from the Germans in the lighting in Picardy has increased to 24,000, to -day's War Office etatement announces. American troops delivered an attack in the angle between the Somnte and the Avre, and achieved a considerable success. British and American ti=oops captured the town of Morlancourt, be- tween the Somme and the Ancre. Canadian and Australian forces cap- tured Bouehoir, Meharicourt and Lihons, and have entered Ralnecourt and Proyart. The French forces captured Le Tronquoy, Le Fretoy and ' Assainvll- lers, Enemy counter-attacks in the Mor- lancourt sector, which followed the Al- lied success, were beaten off in inten- sive fighting. The text of the War Office state- ment reads: -Yesterday afternoon and evening the advance of the Allied armies con- :trnued on the whole front from south of Montdidier to the Ancre. "French troops, attacking south of Montdidier during the afternoon, cap- tured Le Tronquoy, Le Fretoy and As- sainvillers, threatening Montdidier from the southeast. Over 2,000 pris- oners were captured 1,W our allioh in this sector. "Canadian and Australian diviatone slaw taken Bouchoir, Meharicourt and .ihona, and We entered Rainecourt and Proyert, "in the evening English And A.MOr 10..11 troops attacked, in the angle be- tween the Somme and the Anere, and. inet with immediate success; by nigat- fall all the objectives bad been taken, Including the village of Morlancourt and the high ground southeast of it. Counter-attacks launched by the ene- my in this sector were beaten off after `sharps fighting, "The prisoners captured by the AI - lies since the morning of Aug. 8 ex- ceed 24,000," RETRIBUTION!! Paris cabs' says: The German ere- tirereent is under heavy pressure from the French armies. Behind von Hut - ler is a country that was completely dt)vastated during the German evacua- tion in the spring of 1917, and which was again overrun during the German offensive in March of this year. The territory offers little opportunity for the formation of a defensive line for an army in full retreat. think of, and she never asks it. nen one day tate man disappears; the wo- man takee; up i•;er bag In silence and sete out without affection, without rancor, to seek another partner with whom to share the expenses of her room and bed." There are many children as the re• sult of these illicit unions. If they are not born dead or abandoned at the door of some hospital, the mother supports them as beet she can. There is uo "poor man's court" to compel the father to lighten the burden of the mother. While the mother works the Iittld ones remaine alone, but at 0" years of age the child goes to work. He must earn his bread. Says the writer: "In an inquiry, based on half a million small puptis•of the elementary schools, it was found that 35 per cent. wane engaged in some permanent work outside of school. They work. too. by day and night. In Moravia at 4 years of age they learn to sew, and at 5 years they work regu- larly eight hours per da,' at making buttons. At 20 years they are don;;. The race is being destroyed." An idea of the vast number of illicit unions throughout the empire may be obtained from the calculation of a Viennese newspaper that during the first three months of the war 1.200.000 such irregular relations were brought to light, by the great rush for liee,nsee by war brides, desiring to have the unions legalized by hasty mar- riages. In Vienna atone during the first three months there were 115,000 such weddings: in Prague about 30,000, and in Buda-Pesth 37;000, and so on. In proportion throughout the realm. The brides were already mothers. many of them of several children, who misamon had never before thought of marriage. The Government paid these newly. made wives a small pension, which was subse,quently inereaned to a maxi• mum of $13 per month. where the bridegroom was conscripted into the front ranks for cannon 'fodder.—Thos. B. Blynn, in Philadelphia Record. WHERE THE LINE IS PLACED NSW Frightful Condition of Austrian Low Life That the cornerstone of a nation's prospierity is the home life of its people is an axiom as true as it is old. The proudest boast of Philadelphia is that it is a city of homes, where the Boilers under the protection cf. sanitary laws enjoy a healthy environment, mitt where, under the beneficent guardian- ship of the domestic relations and juvenile• courts family integrity is pre- served and wives and children are pro- tected against . cruelty and neglect. To the people of this city, where the' thousands of aliens enjoy the same protection as that afforded the thou- sands of native citizens, the living• conditions of the proletariat of Aus- tria-Hungary trust come as a revela- tion undreamed of, and a reasonable explanation of the spirit of unrest that is threatening the once great empire with disintegration. The city of Vienna, which le about the size of Philadelphia, is known to must Americans as a city of beautiful parks, handsome buildings and the gay centre where "wine, women and song" add to the attractiveness of the capital of the Hapsburgs. But to the toile's of the a h realm it is the home of 1 ife'e NOT UNDULY HEAVY Are Losses of Canadians in New Offensive. • London cable says: Canadian head- quarters in London had for some days realized that the corps in the field were imminently likely to be - heavily engaged. So far English newspaper correspondents make no special reference to the part of the Canadians, but reliable information - goes to show that the casualties al- ready tabulated are not unduly heavy, : considering the completely effective style in which the forces attained • primary objectives. The manner in which the hitherto - quiescent portion of the line blazed sudden battle was • undoubtedly tl e ! biggest surprise to the Boehe, who - seems to have been largely ignr:.ant of the composition of the fortes be- fore hint, seemingly totally .unaware ! the Canadians were to particpiate in 'this area The engagement, when fuller par- • tieulers come in, is likely to ' be : found totally different in larger de- tails from Vimy Ridge, but the re - AIDED DRIVE REGAINS MANY FR.ENI»L TOWNS While the Germain& Losses Rave Been 'Terrible in Retreat, MACE CHAULNLS Enemy May Have to Quit Entire Montdidier - Salient. 'Paris cable: Field liarsltal Foch, says elarcel iiuttu in the Eelio ue Paris, ie entirely satisfied with the progress mode. 'rne Germans, he adds, have sustained enormous losses, and left thousand of bodies on tete c-e,d of battle. London, Aug. 9.—Over a curving front of more than 20 utiles the Brit- ish and french troops are continuing to sweep back the Germans across the plains cf Picardy from the region north of the Somme, east of Morgan- court, to the eastern bank at the Avre, northwest of Montdidier. As on the first day 'of the offensive, material progress was made Friday over the entire battle front, Many additional villages were captured; the bag of prisoners was Iurgely inerensad; numerous guns and great ugantitie:; heavy of war stores were taken, and to vs casualties were inflicted on the enemy by tanks, armored motor cars, the cavalrymen and the infantry, The losses austalned by the Anglo-French forces are ,declare,. to be relatively small. To the allied foreea there have, fallen 17.000 German prisoners and be- tween 200 and 300 guns, many of theta of heavy calibre, and innumerable ma- , chine guns, trench mortars and kin- dred small weapons. THIRTEEN•MILE ADVANCE, IN TOUCH WITH FRONT. Already having penetrated the Pi- cardy salient to a depth of nearly 13 miles in the centred toward the vicinity of the important railroad junction of Chauines, and at other points along the arc pushed forward between five and seven miles, the northern and southern tlanks of the battle front, where the Germans had been resisting desperately, gave way before, the pres. sure rcapectively of the British and French. On the north the British captured IvIorlancourt'and pressed on eastward, while on the south, northwest of Montdidier, Pierrepout, Contoire and Arvillers were taken by the Freneli, who drove in their wedge to a distance of more than 81,4z miles. Canadian troops have, captured War- villers, about 21,a miles south of Rosieres, while the.French have taken Arvillers, to the southwest et War- villers, and seven miles from Roye. The Germans recaptured 'ltipilly, north of the Somme, by a strong .coun- ter-attack to -day. The tanks, armored cars and cavalry are still working throughout the entire region, while airplanes are soaring far behind the lines, bombing transport and troop movements and also payln particular attention to the bridges over the Semitic by which the enemy is en- deavoring to escape from their advanc- ing foes. All behind the line the, Ger- mane are destroying ammunition de- pots as they quit their positions. With the new turn of events Mont- didier is in an uncomfortable position, nth the allies hammering away cross - tragedy, ady, where disease and poverty and salts are confidently expected ,o be death stalk unimpeded by protective even more valuablefire at the GerMans holding it and , The•secret con- with the only railroad leading into the laws; unobstructed by moral Supervi- c centration of Canadians and alter town also under their guns A forced Borden B+opt Informed of Progress of Battle. London cable The War Cabinet with Premier Borden attending, was sitting yesterday while the battle was to progress. Sir Robert Bordon and colleagues roeeived hourly bulletins of the _primrose of the battle, especially withreference, to the progress Made by the Canadians. Earlier Premier Borden and Gen. \iewburn visited the offices of the depots of the Canadian Rea Cross and afterwards declared that in no bust- nees establishment are administrative details more thoroughly and efficiently worked out. sions; where the wives and children of ' troops on entirely new portions of the evacuation of the town seems not im• the " m obscure' classes have no aegis line is considered here a ast grati- probable. In Pact with further pros such as the "poor man's court" of eying feature. Critics are agreed that ' Philadelphia. if the present push can be sustained sure eastward by the allies between sp- the Somme and the Avre and with the social and racial problems of the Aus- blaties are open, but it is too early yet aoa ibilitYhe of pressu from northwarti nd tro-Hungarian empire, by Virginio to say if such is possible, • g nst Gayda, published by Dodd, Mead & Co,. - !• • running northwestward from Sots. .London cable: - On the front 2s a whole, the line, aceording to latest advices, now runs through Dernan court, on the Ancre, south of Albert. through Tallies wood, two miles cast of 1forlancourt; Chipilly, on the Somme, about 3 1.2 miles southeast of Morlancourt; Proyart, some three mites southeast of Chipilly; Llhons about 2 tniles west of Chaulnes; Me- haricourt, 2 1-2 miles southwest of Lihons; Itouvroy, 2 miles southwest of Meharicourt; Ilottehoir, 2 1-2 miter southwest of Itouvroy, Boussicourt about four miles north of Montdidier, and Gratibus, about 2 1-2 nudes slight- ly to the northwest of Montdidier, on the Avre. Bratibue was still in Ger- man hands at the last advices. EET ESS ?HEI'tE. f90SW N • An aged woman vita lived in the coun- try received a sugar card. A few Base afterward she nRANI to to her dealer and said angrily to him: ' rhvm Fugax cards are no geed. ? had it In my ten for half an hour, and it never ewettened it. though 1 Lite .stirring it all the tine.” In a comprehensive study of the and prolonged very conside„lose pos in 1916, the irigtfphysical and BITISH R. moral condition offthhee common people After referring to the foul barraeles, In some of whiolt over 200 farelliee live, he says: "They live there is hor- rible promiscuous .eonglomeratIon, where seven or eight persons share the 'our Canadians Awarded le revealed in all its loathsonle)tess sons it le not outside the realm of • liosalbility that the entire Montdidier salient will have to be abandoned, !<1 The Lady Chauffeur. "Duke's daughters are making mun- itions, peeresses are fainting air- planes and earls' wives, int :overalls, are cleaning horses and planting tar - nips. It won't be the fault of the wo- men if England loses the war," The speaker was Colonel L. M. House, "I heardin London," he went on, "about a peer who came out of the war office one morning and entered one of the official gray war offtce motors that were drawn up before the building, with their trimly uniformed girl chauffeurs. " `To Dorchester house,' he said. "'Very well,' said the pretty chauf- eu r, "'Humph!' said the peer. Tin ac- customed to being addressed as "My Lord." ' rile girl smiled. "Well, I'm accustomed to being ad- dressed a•- "lay lady," she retorted." —Washington Star BRITISH CONSLiL NEIL BY "REDS" Bolsheviki in Moscow Per- form Hostile Act. French Officials Are Also Arrested. MONTDIDIER HAS FALLEN; FOE'S ARMY IN RETREAT Hun About �Give Up the Entire Salient London cable says: 'Robert 1-1. B. Lockhart, acting Consul -General in Moscow, and six Britishers attached to his staff, and several French dip- lomatic agents, have been arrested in Moscow by the Bolsheviki, says the Daily Mail. The- newspaper attributes to the Foreign Office a statement that there is no reason to believe it is true that the British at Archangel shot re- presentatives of the Soviet, and adds: "There was some shooting before Archangel incidental to the landing operations, but this could only have been in reply to shifts fired at our forces by the Bolsheviki forces, The arrest of Lockhart is, of course, an act of hostility in international law, and will be so regarded by us. It is possibly a reprisal for our landing at Archangel and in the Murmansk • re- gion." London, Aug. 9.—(Delayed).—The Evening News says that J. 0. Ward- rop, the British Consul at Moscow, was arrested along with R. H. B. Lockhart. Messrs. Lockhart and Wardrop remained in Moscow when the diplomatic :staff went to Archan- gel. BRITAIN PROTESTS. London cable says: British Govern- ment advices through Swedish chan- ne:s say that the reason given for the arrest of British consuls at Moscow is that members of the Soviet Govern- ment were said to have been shot at Archangel. has de- manded the release o Government a n The British Gave fR rt H. N. Robert Lockhart, attached to the British Em- bassy in Russia, but no immediate threatening steps will be taken. • London, Aug, 10,—In reprisal for the arrest at Moscow of Robert .H. Lockhart, British Consular agent at Moscow, e,nd other British officials, by the Bolsheviki, M. Litvinoff, the Bolsheviki emissary in London, has been placed under pollee sttllervielon, the Daily Mail states, .� , ON AUSTRIANS An'rN 80WORED: wu air of one room. It is a tragic ennsen- tration of misery.Eight Carried Out On Italian Flying Cross, "In the people's quarters of Vienna, Front. • out of 133,671 dweliin to only 9)295 have a kitchen as well as a bedroom. Among' e the workers of Eastern Galicia and the. Several Hundred prisoners mining district of Ostrau•\Vitkowitz there is even more wretchedness. at is. 'Were Taken. reckoned that 28 per cent of the work- •- N �fflCER IS DISGUSTED Ing porulation .,f Austria live—with London cable: British divisions the whole family—in one room, with. on the Italian front carried out eight out a kitchen, At RieszOw 7 per cent• raids against Austrianositions be - of the population live in cellars, In tween Asiago and Canove on Thurs- Vienna thousands are buried this way, day night, capturing 316 prisoners, ac - tile only :air they get coming from a r1 cording to an official statement on small window in the ceiling. British operations' -in Italy, issued by "In 1910 the census of Vienna showed the War Office to -day, 16,000 who habitually lived six in a Enemy attacks on the• Asiago room, and 170,000 had not a bed nor plateau, directed against the Col del even a hole to call their own. In the Rosso salient, were repulsed by Italian lodging houses sleepers wero'huddled fire, the Rome War Office reported toe together regardless of sax on the bare day, floor." "On the Asiago plateau early yester- Continuing, the writer says :"Some- day enemy detachments twice attacked times the working people join together the Col del Rosso salient," ;the states to sleep in one roost. In these little hent said. "Both attacks were crush- clubs there is usually a man who, with ed under our fire. his family, rents a room and then lets "On various portions of the front we out different parts to it to comrades, inflicted 'heavy losses with .accurate often whole families. Thus in a single fire on enemy concentrations. Artie•• room one sometimes finds three or f)ui lery fire and patrol actions were re- operate households containing a score ported. Of people who unite their rags and "Our airships bombed military es - misery," tablishments. Two hostile machines' There are even poorer wretches whc were downed . in the fighting." 3o not possess a bed. Others who rent The official communication issued part of a bed, Theee Imam. are known by the War Office to -day says: is bettgeher, Tney share the bed with "Yesterday morning enemy detach- strangers, regardless of sex. The belt- meats twice attacked the Col del Ros- eeher can occupy only half of tete bed so salient, but were repulsed. assigned to hint, and the tenant must "We have bombed the military es• aloes his clother tools, ate,, to Lied, a: tablishments at Poll, near Trent, Tete' hostile machines were brought. down. :here is not even floor space for hint - - The e'roitch War 'Office .sport on to utilize, the beds are so close to. operations in the eastern theatre said: ;ether. Sometimes the same bed is let "There was artillery activity on the to two or four work people, men 01' Struma and the Vardar to the region women, who occupy it in rotation, d y of Vetrek and east of the g-erua, In end night. the region of Monastir an enemy de - In Vienna there, are 147,000 bett taclument which attempted to reach ;cher. in Ostrau-Witkowitz 13 Pe* our line was repulsed with lessee. Bent. of the population have no other her In Albania, following their failure home. ►°ilio Austriatls have not renewed their "Open at hazard the volume of an attacks, 'nquiry," says the writer. "in a room "in the Seven Communes the arta- '.sn yards square there live a tailor, hie tory duels has inereased to great ►ubereulosts wife, a baby ;and a strange strength," says the official eoiuntuni- vorktnan. all four sharing ore bed be. Batton issued from Austrian headquar- ' ween thein. Six eitiidren have been - ters to-ilaY. 'tne'n dead." "In Albania the fighting has died In 1907 theta died 620,'121 persons, of down," London Cable.—Awarded guished Flying Crcas: Capt. Arthur Claydon, Winnipeg, formerly of the Artillery. He went to the assistance of another officer attacked by 11 bi- planes and six. scouts. 11e.not only extricated the other pilot, but drone down several of the enemy. Lieut. Barry Fall, Cowichan Bay, B.C., who participated in 60 night raids in seven months. Capt, James Forman, of Kirkfield, who participated in 77 often. sive parties in ten months. Lieut. Lionel Shoebottom, of London, Ont„ who, after being tip four hours, joined a long-distance night raid, thus being in the air ten out of twelve hours. -t- WOMEN BARRED. Cannot Sit in Parliament, . Law Lords Say. London Cable --Women are not en- titled to become candidates for Par- liament, according to a decision reaehed by the law officers of Eng- land, Scotland and Ireland, who were unanimous in their ruling, Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exche- quer, said in the House of Conimons to -day, This settles the controversy which arose out of extending the franchise to women. Some have held that this gave them the right to sit in I'arlia- tnent, and several women have an - flounced their candidacies for office at the next general election. ONLY AN AMATEUR. ' She ---Is it me you want or is it my Money 7 Ile (amateur champion, 100 yards) -- You forget that I am debarred from taking part in nit event for money. "What a cool and indifferent air Cora has. She acts as if she didn't know anybody Wan looking at her." "Yes; she inherits that. Iter father - used to fry griddlecaks in the. window of a restaurant --Boston Tralteeript, As Result of New French Drive in South Diary Tells of Allied Air Superiority - And Poor Quality of German Troops. - London Cable—The important town of Mont- didier, which was approximately at the apex of the Ger- man salient, south of the Somme, has been captured by the Allies. Paris Cable—The (german army of (general von Huffer is retreating from the Montdidier-Noyonn line, The retrograde movement of the Germans is being accelerated by the favorable progress of the new attack ,south of Montdi dier. The German line from Montdidier to Noyoii is be- tween 25-and'30 miles in length, and forms a semi -circle, swinging southeast from Montdidier to the south of Nuyon. A retirement on this line probably means that the German's are going to give up the Montdidier salient, which will be the' first marked consequence of the Franco -British offensive in Picardy. In retreating eating i'ro'n this line the Germans are forced to use roads and railways going'. through Roye, which is C miles southeast of Arvilliers, east of where the French contiliuecl to advance last night. It is not improbable that the French thrust south of • Montdidier in a northeasterly direction compelled the re- treat here. THE FRENCH REPORT. Paris cable: Thebegan a s s French a movement southeast of Montdidier last night and virtuallr have that place surrounded, accordrag to the official statement of the War Office to -day. The towns of .Assanivlllers and Rubescourt were captured, and the French reached Faverol'es, less than two miles east of Montdidier, six miles northeast of Roye, 'and have captured Davenescourt, two miles east of Pierre. pont. The War Office statement reads: "The French troops operating en the right of the British forces continued their success throughout last evening .and last night. Our troops progressed east of Arvilliers and captured Da- venescourt. "They attacked south 'f Montdidier between Ayencourt and Le Fretoy and occupied Rubescourt and Assanlvillerr and reached'Faverollea," THE OUTLOOK. Paris cable: Anglo-French troops continue in the ascendancy, according to the tateet reports from the fighting front in Picardy. The line as warned nut in the offi- cial statements is -that which is held solidly by infantry, 'cavalry skirmishers being well in advance of it and pre- paring the way for further progress. The Germans are relying on machine guns to ete,m the allied tide, not wish- ing, to• risk . their artillery, which is bound to be captured under even the slightest mischance.. The enemy is defending himself with desperate cour- a e wherever the no s. tIot affords meane, and the officers are ebooting any soldier who shows symptoms of quitting. The enemy is fighting against time —time for the German command to try to readjust itself and to limit the eon - With the British Armies in France, cable: Additional evidence of the Allies' superiority in the air over the Germans is forthcoming in a diary captured from a German officer, who pays high tribute to the British air- men. He writes disparagingly of the German air service. One entry reads: "There are 17 enemy machines over- head. Conscious of their might, not a single GerGermanshows up, Near us is an ammunition dump admirably laid out. The British aviators drop about 100 bombs daily. Although the news- papers cannot brag and blaster enough when we publish anythiug about our flying service, our airmen themselves admit they are inferior to the enemy in numbers and equipment, and in any case that they are not as impudent as Tammany. "Day d night he is overhead, dropping bounbs past alt counting, His flights arrive with clock -work regu- larity at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. As a rule our Archies can't touch them, as they fly at a height a shell never reaches./ don't know in what our superiority consists, There have been fine air- men on our side, but in this respect Tenuity is not second to us." The same officer also gives an in- sight into the quality of some German reserves. In another entry he wrote: "Wo have a lot of work training men. They can't shoot and in other ways they lack the most elementary notions of a soldier. Of the then Who came out in the last draft some hnd • hardly any training itt all. These old chaps even have to he instructed in light machine-gun drill." "1 don't owe a thing in the world." exulted the Fortunate+ Man. "You owe me an apology," retorted Debt. OFTHE�Y.. China Declines to Receive Papal Nuncio Because He is Pro -German. H' tt OEFAUL sequences of the blow devised by the genius of Marshal Foch, At this stage of the battle, military observers here say, the problem fac- ing the rival commanders is easily de- fined, Thus, Marshal Foch struck skilfully at the point where the army groups of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and the German Crown Pr:nce join, obliging the enemy to 'hurriedly reorganize the higher corn Mand and to place. the armies of Gen- erals von Der Marwitz and von Hutier 'under one chief. This operation has 'temporarily thrown the Germans off their balance, and it is their object now to regain it. The task of tine Al- l'es is to throw the Germans still fur- ther eff their balance, That there must be a change in the 'German positions generally between the .Somme and the Oise is evident if 'the Lerman second army and part of 'the eighteenth are beaten. A. great 'part of the position of the eighteenth army, which is eommanded by von 'Ruiter, every moment becomes more dangerous. It is deployed frcm Mont- 'c'.idier to the Oise. The country behind It is hilly and wooded, lacing in roads and altogether unfavorable for the withdrawal of men and material. In a retreat von Huiter would be obliged to use three high roads and two railrcads, which converge on Roye like the spokes of a wheel. Be- yond that toe n a retreat would be de- pendent upon two roads toward Ham and the Somme, one direct and the other .by way of Nesse. From these geographical details it will be cern that von Butter, in' a re- treat, would be forces to seneeze hie heavy artillery convo s through Roye. It would be like putting then through a rolling mill, for the French advance troops are now sixmiles n,nrthwest of Roye, while the centre of the German front .is eleven miles to the south of the town, CANADIANS WERE OV!RJIJYED Crown Prinle of Bulgaria to Be Regfint. During King's .4.l sence, • Brantford citizens celebrated the anted victory, Kate Smith, sixteen, was drowned at Harriston, John Macdonald, Toronto, • was drowned near Picton, At CH,ANCE TO AT?A-C-K AGAIN And Showed /t by Their Work in the New Offen- sive. (With the Canadian forces by J. P. B. Livesay, Canadian press corres- pondent in France,)—Althouglt the full fruits of the great victory on the Somme are not yet garnered, enough is known at this time to place it among the imperishable deeds of arms of this war. The Canadian force held an honorable position in the Al-' lied armies which attacked the enemy 'lines on a twenty -mile front. The Canadians went over the top at twenty minutes past four on Aug, 8, and sixteen minutes thereafter the first prisoners began to come tn. By 3 o'clock a large part of the initial objectives had been captured. The victory has been notable in a number of things. For the first time the Canadian cavalry found itself on the same battle line with the infantry. For the first time, too, the Canadian force employed tanks in leading ut- tac1 s, both Of the heavy and "whip- pet" varieties. Also it was the first time that Canadians had fought side by side with their brethren from Australia. The 'victory is notably chiefly, how- ever, for the staff work. There was no artillery preparation in the real sense of the word. Tile men went in immediately behind the barrage, and kept up 'with it. The Roche was taken completely by surprise, and pri- soners were astounded to find they were surrendering to the Canadians, The Canadian soldiers never went into action with more irrepressible eagerness and determination not to be refused than they' did on Thursday, Behind the rampart of valor they hail builded at Vilely and Arras they have lain all this spring and summer, chafe Jag that they were dontied their op- portunity of taking part alongside their cavalry and machine gun bri- gade in stemming the tide of nun in- vasion. On Thursday, thoughtiro from a march that permitted little rest before the battle, they went over the top with the unbeatabei spirit of the Wren who fought and died at Ypres, on the Sont,eie, and its a dozen glorious fields. 1t was a clear, starry night, • The sum of $102,40 was paid fur .one hog at lelillbrook. Charles Marlow, i'arie Hill avenue, Brantford, committed suicide. - Miss Lottie Devine, Woodbridge, was drowned in the lake, her companion being saved. • Archibald Orr, of the firm of Orr Bros., Toronto, was overcome in an automobile and died, Dr. J. Milton Cotton, a well-known Toronto medical practitioner, died at the Wellesley Hospital after a few days' illness. Hon. N. W. Rowell, President of the Privy Council, will address his eon•• stituents on Wednesday and Thursday, when he will deal with aspects of the war. Mrs. Is. Sheehy Skeffington, who was arrested in Dublin on Thursday, was deported from Kingstown, Ireland, on Friday night. She was in charge of two prison wardresises. Another of Montreal's leading busi- ness men was removed by death when Mr. William Starke, president of the Starke -Seybold, Ltd., passed away after an illness of only tan days. Prince Boris, eldeiut son of King Fer- dinand of Bulgaria; Zvill be appointed regent during the period of his father's enforced retirement because of mental strain, it is 'reported from German sources. Amedee Pickard, a defaulter under the Military Service Act., Was shot by the military police at Winslow, Que., on Friday and died on.Saturday morn- ing in Sherbrooke General Hospital, to which lie had been taken after the shooting. A sen§ateonal • find of 50 pounds of dynamite was unearthed by workmen at the Horse Shoe qudrry,•St. Mary's. It is supposed to have, been hidden: by some Austrian workmen about two ye,ars ego, when 300 pounds of dyna- mite was missed. It ie not known what became of: the balance. The Chinese Government has . de- clined to receive Monsignor Petrelli. recently appointed Papal 'Nuncio to China, on the ground that he is a per- sonal friend el Admiral von Hintze, German Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and late Minister to Pekin. Ray- Grant, 12 -year-old son of Mrs. E. Grant, a Chatham widow, was elec- trocuted while about to dive froth a freight car standing on the Keut flour mills dock into the river. His arms came itt contact with the trolley wire of the C. W. $c L. E. Railway. • With the faiiet light Of dawn touching the eastern sky. Of a sudden, with one deafening pulse, the roar of guns broke out. Far to the right was the flicker of the French seventy -fives and of the American field guns and heavies, Immediately on the Canad- ian flank the Australians put up a great show in a sector where they had fought for several days past. Beya-td the Imperial troops were in action. Unfortunately, on the first day's fighting, as the dawn increased, the visibility became poor. A dense fcg swept down into the valleys. While this was protection against machine gunners, it greatly increased the diffi- culty of the troops finding their nay over unknown ground. In the first day's fighting the Canadian losses were not unduly heavy. One unit had heavy casualties in its first attack, but succeeded in taking its objective after the tanks had come to its rein- forcement. einforcement. Owing to the poor visi- bility there was little fighting in the air on Thursday over the Canadian sectors. Good • Ways. Woolen blankets which have shrunk may be used without discomfort if a band of muslin wide enough to go un- der the mattress is stitched to one ettd, Thegrease spot on a ,silk dress or wool dress can often be removed by dipping a small cloth in alcohol and rubbing the part affected. Sprinkle popcorn with warm water just before placing it in the Hopper; the steam will soften the shell of the grain, and all the kernels will slop. One woman has made her table linen give double wear in these days of high prices; when a cloth wears at the table edges, site cuts it down to the size of the table top and reserves it for fancily use. If you have trouble in threading your needle, try holding it over a, black surface when using white thread, and over a white surface when using black thread. WEATHER SIGNS. (\Vztrhtnnton Star) "Do you believe the weather is indi- toted by the tnoon7" "Looks that way eo►nethnes, stranger," replied the man who evidently id not want t+: he bothered. ',AV -wily when you ean't see the luaun it's cloudy, and when you 011 it has ries, Mi nn " OVER- 5A,000 MEN, AQOV 800 GUNS Taken by Allies in the Two Big Drives. Lloyd George Tells of Brit- ish $pirlt. London, Aug. 11, (Reuter Despatch) --Speaking at a luncheon yesterday at Newport, Monmouthshire, Premier Loyd George e'nphasized the intpor' tante of the pushing back of the Geta mans from within gun range of the Amiens railway. "Hundreds of trains used to pass through Amiens daily," the Premier said, "but we were temporarily c%e ' prived of its use until recently, when we were able to employ 20 trains 4' daily. Amiens is now safe through the recent allied triumphs on the Maitne and the Somme, which were due to the unity of the command. s`f'hose two great victories have gt- suited in the. capture of between 5ti,- 000 and 60,000 prisoners and, between 800 and 900 guns." "The victory was due," said the Premier, "to the brilliant quality of our troops, assisted by .the French and, I am now glad to say, also by American troops." The great supply of ammunition had been a factor in dealing with the situation, he said, but one of the greatest was Ole combined command, "But it isn't over 'yet," he eontin- • ued, "The country liaa got to depend on its resolution. What the coon . try wants is tw• good, steady heart, free front excitement, not an inter- mittent or irregular heart, but one of steady blows, and if we keep that, I believe we will win." The Premier, referring to some do- mestic difficulties that had to be met, said that after March 21 all the dif- ficulties of finding men for the army had vanished like mist, "The difficulty now is to stop the nnen from corning forward from the mines and the munition works," he asserted. eOne of the things which contributed to this week's success was the use of tanks, and the Hien same out of the worsts where these are made, and, when asked to produce more, said, 'We are going to fight; it is difficult to beat a country with men Ilke that." WELLAND GATES TORN OPP. St. Cathertnee, Aug. 1. ---As the steam - rt Vanoble up -bound entered lock right, Welland Canal, late Saturday afternoon, rhe ttruelt the two head hates and tart• led them nv:ay. The rush of v:ater forced the steattler Intel( in the lower levet, but fortunately cawing very little damage. The repair gang were +tu,ekly at work, and locking wan teeurnut at Light o'clock Sunday Morning.