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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-10-31, Page 7OVER 9,000 MEN, 150 GUNS, BRITISH WIN IN DAYS Many Additional TGwns Captured in Stern Fighting Abau i .Yalenciennes Foe May Retreat to Meuse—His Ba;.teries Badly Weakened 'With the British Army in France Ind Flanders, Cable,-•-lattrtlter im• itgrtant gaine were made to -day by the 1)ritialt Bret and third armies in their Sicircling drive about Valenciennes. South of the invested city the attack- ing forces pushed ,f#srward more than •two • utiles. capturing Quereuaing and aePmeris, white on tiro north Uuoniez road taken, London, Oct. 25.—Nine.. tlrowsiutd Germans nave been made prisoner and 160 gun„ stave been captured by the British in their attacks against the Llet•mans, according to Field DIaz'shal Itaig's commuutcation,issued to -night, South of Vatennennet3 the attack took the British torward more than twit miles, thereby virtually eliminat'•,asouth could escape, The enemy has ninon, and opened fire on the peeade ground as the train moved out, The German command also is hav- ing troub;e as r'egaras material. 'a tie batteries of heavy guns have been ;e- duced from four to three guns, and to some caseses even to two guns. The British line is now within one mile of Lamdreeies. Desperate right- ing at reporte:l in the Bois 1•!vequc and the neighborhood, where the dominate were killed by the thou- sands. It appeared that the clew had orders,. aI h=id it regard:Me or the cost. The Germans apparently were •clispeeed in great depth and had several hastily constructed lines of defence which they were determin- ed to regain until defeuces further eastward had been prepared, to that pie German armies to the north and ing the sharp salient which bulged into their territory with its point reat- Ing near Vendegles. The assault. watch was pressed vigorously in this seetgr, yesterday, was renewed this morning at 3 o'clock. At the sante time Gert. Horne's army drove for- - ward north of Valenciennes. South of Valenciennes the British been supported by considerable artil- lery all along the front. To the north the' British by hard fighting established pests between the river and the canal, east of Ee• cautpont. North of Fresnes sone progress was made toward Conde against .heavy and vigorous machine operations, Bruill, Le Long, Beehot have reached the entire railway line ,and Buridon were captured after down. + . on the front•'between Le Quemoy and strong opposition had been broken Maing. They captured Les Tuileries, cast of Solesmt+a; early, and after stiff fight- ing, iti which the Germans suffered heavy losses, reached Le Quesnoy. There was very stiff fighting on both sides of Les Tuileries, toward La Coupe gorge, and over the higli ground to the northwest. Mormal Forest in invested with Germans and machine guns, but the British artillery is searching it with • high esplostvee and gas shells. "The enemy continues to fight stub• born'y,against the third and fourth armies, Unit the British drive him front 'his prepared defences, they follow him up so closely he gets little chance to rally. After the Germans had been driven from Ghiesignies, the British gained • London Cable—Russian maidens -.footing on a little ridge north of the • under the jurisdiction of certain pro- tow.n. Some sunken roads near Beau• vinelai Bolshevik soviets become the dignies and Teuesnes gave consider., able trottble, but after the British had "property of the state" when they gained the high ground southwest of _ reach the age of 18 years, and are com- R.uesnes they were able to dominate = pelted to register at a uovernment the roads with their artillery fire. "bureau of free love," according to the The chateau at Hieing preyed a vera- otincaai gazette ot the bladimir table fortress, but the town remains - soviet and workers' and soldiers' depu- in the hinds of the, British despite ties, which recently published that Gentian. eouniter-attacks, As a result soviet's decree on the subject, of these gains the British now are tenter the decree a woman having well established on the Valenciennes registered, "has the right to choose side, of the Scheidt River, from among men between 19 and 50, a in spite of the claims in the German . cohabitant husband," The consent official statement that they have , of the roan chosen is not necessary, the frustrated British -attempts to Pierce decree adds, the man chosen having the Germans south of Valencleunc o no right to make any protest. military observe:•s here point out, th _ A similar privilege of choosing from British on Wednesday and Thursday • among the registered women is given gained a -great victory, the consc- every man between 19 and 50, "with. rfuences of which will be more alp' , out the consent of the women." parent shortly. The British third and 'L his provision IW described as "le fourth armies gained an important ad.. - the interest of the state." Opportuu- vantage in the outfladking of Valon- . eiennes by reaching the outskirts of hies for resentechooshd husbands and wives the Mormal . roredt and smashing is to be presented once each month,rthe through the German defences before decree stated. Children born of Le Quesnoy and I,andrecles. This ad such marriages are to become the vanee was made despite the fact that ° property o� the state." n Stringent rules and penalties are FREE LOVE 0S SO WETS' RULE Women at 18 Compelled to Register. Either Sex May Mate Then. Choose the Germans had thrown in large. forces to meet the attack ai,d throat' it back. ck. TIE OFFICIAL REPORT. Night—"We have continued our ,ie bat.t,etton. south or a,.vanoe on t Lau ,Liver Scheldt. • •• a nave captured Sepmeries and Quetenaung amu reaches the line of ti,o Le Quesnoy-Valenc.ennes railway troin the nortn-west of Le Quesnoy to the cast of Maing. In the atternoon several counter-attacks were repulsed on tots front. "Luring wedneelay and Thursday on tae .Sambre -Scheidt battlefront the lst, and and 4th British armies .cap- tured ii;0d0 prisoners and •150 guns• re s e have clea Valenciennes v North xi rho .enemy rearguards from the lagcs of Bruille and Buridon." TO L1NE OF THE MEW3:E. London Cable.—The Germans, in their withdrawal movement, have not yet reached. the line of Antwerp-i3rus- sels-Namur, but it does not seem prd- habie that they will halt there when the 1ti e is reached,but will continue lineof the nthe h retire term to the Meuse., The Antwerp line presents. few natural features for defence, and the Germans have not constructed eaten - sive defences along it. ' • However, the Germans must ea - tier to a shorter line. Their reserves are exhausted and the hard-pressed armies mast have a breathing. space. )n the last few weeks the German high command has not been able to maintain a -fresh reserve of more than threeor four divisions. 'I'•he internal condition of the Ger- man army also is none too •good.' 'Mutinous conduct on the ' part of drafts has been cf frequest, occur- rence. On one oceasion a draft whose trustworthiness was suspected was sentoff without amni'tnitton. However, they had Concealed` amnio - laid down for the protection of girls less than 18. The decree further sthat ithas been based on the states "excellent'' !example of similar de- crees already •issued at Igga, Kolpin and other places. .A. similar "p:o- ject of provisional rights in ern - neaten with the socialization of women in the City of Khvelinsk a td vicinity," has been ptiblished in ( to gazettb of the workers' and soldi 1 s' deputies of that city. HUN, AMBULANCE HAD I4UMB�NS With the Allied Armies in France and Belgium, Cable. ---•The British army has now obtained absolute proof that the .Germans are violating t 1 ivi z warfare - he rules of c li ed r: fare in res- pect e,theuseof theRed tto p Cross, as had for some time been suspected. in yesterday's operaticno the 5th Army captured a German ambulance; which engaged in carrying ammunition, born the Geneva red cross. This vehicle was found to be loaded with explo- sives, and the capture was considered so important that sentries were im- mcd!ately posted to make Certain that no one touched it until photographs of it could• be taken for future ref- ercnce, "Did you leave the waiter a liberal tip?" "1 surely did," replied =Mr. Grip - nickel, "I left him two potatoes and half a chop, which, according to the bill of fare, ought to be yworth at least a dollar and a quarter. ---Wash-• ing`on Star. A2,000 SCHOOL Bays PLACED ON CANADIAN eAtol WIPING 1918 AGf£AGe' UNDER CUtTIVAr/Gl`✓ 1917 3I.$18,772 ACRES 1,t13 tI?ACTOJ S PURCiAMED Alva SOLO ArCOS r to CANADIAN FARMERS fin'; BELGIUM'S CAPITAL; Tho Palace of Justice of Brussels, with a view of a section of the city in the foreground. The Palace was dedi- cated in 1383 in celehration of the semi centennial of Belgium's independence, DEAT SLEAST IN "RED TLRROR" 'Cruelties of Bolsheviki Baffle. Description• Thousands Slain in Ruthless Vengeance. Amsterdam, - Cable.— From the tame that '.Hoses ariczky, Commission- er for lsiectione to tite Constituent As- sembly of Russia, was assassinated, late in August, up to Oct. 1, 6S hos- tages, including live priests, were shot 'by the 'Bolsheviks, according to Petrograd despatches quoting the newspaper Prevada. • Stockholm Special Cable says— My the Aatoclated Press) ---Executions are tate most ineiciful part- of the Red Terror practised in Moscow and I t- rograd, according to several neutral observers who have just arrived in Sweden. Them men have watched I3ol- shevikk activities in the two great Russian cities for many eveeks. 'they had no personal interests involved, and no personal friends affected by the reign of slaughter and torture, which in probably unparalleled in the world's history. While thousands, perhaps, have been executed, the list of victims ie far less appalling thau the ruthless manner in which political prisoners have been sent to death without a semblance of legal gal tri1y the heartleseness with which they were treated, and the lit- ter indifference of ;,he l',ols'`leviki of- ficials to appeals of heartbroken rela- tives, who have been kept in suspense and not allowed to learn what has be- come of loved ones. Verified stories of scones in Mos- cow and 'Petrograd beggtir description. Women are often more heartless than men and trample under foot all the better instincts, of their sex. In Petro- grad 'Madame Jakovleva. has been placed at the head- of the commission for suppression :of counter-revolution, and it is greatly to her credit that the terror has abated P hatinder her administration .She apparently h si- e tater to shoot and imprison with the same indifference that charaeterized the regimes of ,Moes i'ritzky and Wil- liam Sharif, an American -trained an- archist, who heal the pest for a short time, after Uritzky watt assassinated late in August. NSW DRIVE-UPON ITAWN FRONT General Attack Reported Going Successfully. British, French, Italians, in the Effort. Washington, Report.. ---The Malian 1 I,iitbasey to -night received a cable- gram from Gen, Diaz, the Commander - in -Chief of the Italian army, indicat- ACREAGL iNbeR CULTIVATION. 1918 33453,510: AcREs ►'tOetuza` oN VOLUNTEER AGRICULTURAL. HELP /. ing that a general offensive may have been opened on the Italian front. Suck an offensive has been antici- pated for some time. The Italians have merely been waiting fax the word to be given by Gen. Foch for them to strike bard at the Austro -German forces. The pureeing of the despatch received by the Embassy, coupled with the fact that it came from Den. Diaz himself loads to the belief that the Italian general offensive may already have been begun. Tho despatch fol- lows: "An intense artillery fire broke out this morning at dawn along the Italian line. The fire has been especially vio- lent in the region of Monte Brappa, and is stili continuing, Brisk infant- ry actions occurred early tits morning on the highlands of the Seven Com- munes, the Italian troops obtaining considerable success. • "At the same time French sections attacked the enemy positions at M unt .Sissemel, forcing the defenders to give way and capturing three officers and about•800 mien. ,. y "British troops have attacked the Austrian positions south of Astago and have captured six officers and about 300 Wren. • "Violent actions are being carried on by the Italian troops south of Ass and north of Mount Val Bella. A. con siderable number of enemy troops have been captured during this opera- tion. "Italian bombing squadrons have dropped bombs over the enemy camps in the region of Fanzase and over the large enemy depots in the neighbor- hood of the station of Ladle." .a. • When Sugar Can't be Had There are three alternatives open to perturbed housekeepers Who hive much of their canning still to do and little sugar with which to do it: 1.—Preserve by methods requiring no sugar, 3.—Preserve with a grcatiy reduced amount of sugar. 3,—Preserve by substituting other things for part of the sugar ordinarily used. Itis not the n h sugar thatactually h� preserves the cane product. it is ed d I n sterilization. The object in canning fruits is to destroy the bacteria and this is done by boiling, or steriliza- tion, as it is usually called. So thee when sugar or other preservatives arc not used in canning, long and thorough cooking at a high tempera- ture is necessary, followed by perfeet sealing. Water shonsd ben oured oven' the fruit u t u> place of syrup, and sweet- - ening can be added later in the sea- son when more sugar is available, FRUIT PASTES S4ILL A TH I S To make pastes or leathers cook the fruit until tender and until the pulps are concentrated to the point where they can be spread out thin and dried ) y slow heat, 'lheu the can be roll- ed out and cut in strips. 'These pastes may be used as a confection in place of candy or they may be revived later by soaking them in water. I3OTTLlNG APPLES WITIiOUT SUGAR, Pare the apples and eut out bruised sats. 'Quarter, core and drop into sightly salted water. Apples shrink more than most fruits and, it is a good plan to blanch them one minute in boiling water. Then plunge into cold water and pack in sterilized jars. Fill the crevices. ith hot water, Seal, and process for 26 minutes. APPLE SAUCE, Windfalls and second-best apples may be made into apple sauce by pre- Daring them as for canning. limn Pack hot into clear jars to within one- half hie:: of the tap and process for ten minutes. This nay be used as pie filling during winter and spring. FRUIT .ltt('ES ANT) SYRUPS FOR PltleiWIRVIN:T. heat juices n av bh extra:and from the fruit and lewd instead or water" 1 f tin y are conrcetrated 1 y t:oitiu ; to thin or thick syrup, they may b,' e tnttrd fpr bottled t;r h' lewd in h,'w r" ague, or a•; a sauce for mailings an -I Ile:sirrt,<. Syrup- wade by reducing tee Juice of grapes, itpp:ee er Imre to one- seventh -n2 the orifi;nal Vo:rima can •tteett in preserving, in eannning or on the table as Sugar subeti'utes. Nature f rkrg (are et her owe. There may be a arereity of ,auger, ant the hu ;y Me eft!' c• nttiuuea t t make honey at tine sante old etan(1. '►s-• $ *#4-+4-1-.N►o- 4-o-eo-o- 4-a Nsd4-e-« German Unpreparedness (Rollin Lynde Hartt In. -Chicago Tribune.) -4, ,4 ,-►i In perhaps the jolliest of his amus- ing essays Mr. Bernard 1. Richards declares, "Everything has beet said, but het everything has been (own - dieted," and concerning German. ;,pre- paredness for war so much has been said—and on the whole no i11 said — that contradiction becomes less a task than a frolic. When the mood takes him Mr. Chesterton will have the 'ark of a lifetime poking fun at German preparedness far war so touch has• been said --and on the whole so 111 said --that contradiction becomes loss a task than,a frolic. When the mood takes him .Mr, Chesterton will have the lark of a�lifetime poking fun at German "efficiency," German "thor- oughness," German "preparedness." As usual,a good share of kis cleverness will devote itself to the solemn, truth - conveying business of twitting on facts. For the supremely impressive phenomenon of our duty is not German efficiency, It is not German ther- oughness. It is not German system. It is German superficialty and self- decoption—in a wore, German unpre- paredness for war. All the rtelatively little things --Zip-. elins 42 -centimeter h 42 ntl ter guns,andthe A rest—Germany had :pent forty years in amassing. All the .big things 'she had overlooked. She was prepared to begin the war,- notn - i ; but toend t to g e , win the war by hook or crook, hint i'ot to Iose it; but matters have -so turned out thatthishers war of runs on Ln - definitely and grows less manageable and must eventually be ,, she affair of weeks she imagined it would be. Thanks to overwhelming preponderance at arms only a swift triumph could result. Aber (a Hugo, fateful aber, when you come to thiaic of It), site forgot that the preponderance at arms might shift to the side of her foes. Just this is occurring. The hour has arrived when Ernst Lissauer might sing, "We have one enemy and one al nc T,M A.> Strange emotions must harrow the souls of those who set off so jauntily for Paris in August, 1.914. They began the war in the spirit of "On with the dance!" End ' it they cannot. Perhaps sometimes they recall Hiram's advice to his boy, "Sonny, never raise rho devil till you 'are goldurn sure you can lay him!" Year by year new enemies attic, -.They reckoning. were not :u Italy was.ta have fought for Germany, not against -her, while the`t British Empire was supposed to be reciting "First in war is first inp feces." With trouble brewing in Egypt, -Egypt, Ireland and South Africa. how clear that the 13rit- ish empire would disintegrate! So argued the German imperial govern- ment, basing its legis on reports front spies, Tho joke of the ages, these spies. They knew precisely how much money a Belgian had in the bank and how many bottles of wine he had in fi.is collar, and where he hid the key, bat not that Belgium would fight. They listed French works of art, mapped larench dooryards, and took down the names of village notables to mad as hostages, but tolyl their masters Hie French were "degenerate," So every- where, For blazing stupidity,. waste will you find their inateltr-un1,i$x pee., olbly -hong Gorman diplotnatiet"? alive these latter their tato. ': hef shanghaied Austria. They shant;atmt- led 'turkey. They' seduced Bulgaria. 'they hare drugged Itusata. Yet tle- cpite endless machinations, "Germany stands balked, but not defeated, the onorww of four-fifths of the world," and this resent -Wing sentence oceurred in an address by Anxerica.% president after millions of marks had been . equandered in endeavors to keep Ant -- erica neutral. Nowhere In the whole record of diplomacy wilt Yon mato suck a fizzle. Preparedness! To he prepared for war you annst possess the knack of ending the war before Your implacable enema, time has plotted your and e• Inge To be prepared for watt you Must possess the knack of keeping the war within bounds, At both points. Germany has failed. And at ; third. Por, while she was prepared to win by hook or crook, she was not prepared to lose. Stern realists the Germans call themselves, They are in reality the most enraptured sentimentalists. Viewing the world,(and more particu- larly themselves) through the rose tinted goggies of desire, they set about transforming war, which is at best largely an affair of chance, into an af- fair of downright certainty. No long- er a came, it was to be a kind 'if aeette- sination. They 'would give the ene- my no show, "Thoroughness" would eliminate risks. Whereas, there are more things in heaven and earth than "thoroughness" dreams of in its phil- osophy, and woe betide the man who "knows it all," • What thoroughness, genuine or as- sumed, can pater sucessfully with the unknown and unknowable and pre- dict the results of a wholly novel ex- periment? • Such was Germany's when, resolving to win by hook or by crook, she flung honor to the winds, tore up treaties, reverted to barbar- ism and ran amuck among the na- tions, This by no means repeats his- tory. It bears little resornbinnce to the old-time onslaughts on civiliza- tion, . It is a new thing under the sun, for an enlightened people has done It and done it not in the murk of mediaeval or antique seml.savagery but in the full glare of modernity. No mere doddering spooks and shadows of nations are, the victims, as former- ly, They have youth in them, and passion, and courage indomitable, • Just for the prank of it, imagine a German triumph possible? What would it be worth? How long would it last? Then, for, candor's sake, de- clare a German victory impossible, .fordefeat, how willGer- manyit is, In efe t 5 many fare? What will be the out- come of this unprecedented adven- ture? - Woes unutterable—shame, impover- • lshnent, subjection, ostracism. All these are in stere. Others, maybe, i but those without question. Germany has lest her good name; not for gen- erations to come will she regain it -- if ever. She has lost customers; of what will "Made in Germany" remind :us? Of the ruthless submar'ine, Of liquid fire. Of gas. Of bombs dropped on hospitals, Of treachery in time of peace and barbarism in time of war. :Who will want German goods when lie can obtain others? Whol will tray el in Germany or study there? It is even doubtful if Germany will retain • n t h righttoarm- l but the go Iperhaps, g ed. Anmany a long year it will be before civilization again welcomes German diplomats, We have known them. One and all, they were Spies. • No doubt we shall continue to hear much 01 German preparedness for war—of German. thoroughness, Ger- ,nan system, German efficiency. It is to laude, Fliengende Glatter was never so comical. Think of those German boys dashing through Bel- ;ium in their haste to reach Paris, when in reality they were not going to Paris! Think ot the frightfulness which, instead of frightening, made heroes of even the most timorous! Think of Prince von Buelow wheed- ling the Italians by telling them that was a German: A i Dante I1 n all is the saddest of wars, but likewise wise the funniest. The more you reflect the more you come to feel that it jus- tifies of 'humor•on ifithePreach definition t esb as "the laughter that has fled from the heart to the head." Within limits, thoroughness, method and efficiency were doubtless admir- able. Ono hears of the German who sat down with a pipe, a stein and •a Babylonian half brick. and remained there forty years, after which he could read the inscription on the half• brick. Nevertheless, a good deal de- pends on what tiro inscription said and whether it was true. If not, ah, how funny that Getman! Suppose it said: "The brutes shall inherit the earth;" Suppose the German had be - tfeved it.Supposehe iad behaved ac- cordingly. Then suppose that one clay long, long after, a plowshare should Cannot one foresee how Little Peter- erkin, hearing of Germ'any's world war should inquire what it was all about. Cannot one foresee ho wLittle Peter - kin would titter when told that Ger- many—rich, powerful, prosperous, h whole speak,the v happy, with, to so Y nounr earth rollinS• downhillnxi11 into her mouth—not only courted• ruin by launching forth upon a hideous ad- venture impossible of success, but ;lid so with a conviction that only suc- cess could come out al it! Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, and there is no mad- ness like an overweening confidence in thoroughness, method, prepared- ness and efficiency. No thoroughness Is thorough enough, no method metit- odicat enough, no preparedness pre- pared enough, no efticiency efficient enough. War remains what it always was, a contest not so much of mater- ial forces as of spiritual forces, and these no ratan can measure. Germany discounted or misinterpreted or over- looked them from the first, And the war she made ready to wake. was not a war. • 343 MEET WATERTAAVES WHEN C.P.R. STEAMIER:SINKS Princess Sophia, on Reef in Lynn CanQl, Pacific CoastSias Stranded on Way. Fromaagwayto Juneau —All on .Board. Lost Slcagway, Alaska, Report• --Many wo- men and children were aboard the steamer Princess Sophia when she left acre Wednesday. Among the passen- geas were Mrs. Jlarks and and chil- dren, Capt. James Alexander and w-fe, - and W illixuu A. Meloug and wife, :Mrs. Barks u as the wife of a Fairbanits, Alaska dredge operator, and Capt. Alexander and Mr, Narang were urine operators from Interior .Alaska, 'Victoria, B,C., Report ---Pounded by mountanous waves ..,,u driven before wind of terrible severity, the 0, P. R. steamer Princess Sophia, slid from the •comparative safety of Vanderbilt Reef, in Lynn !Canal, niuway between Skag- way and Juneau, early enemy evening and carried 356 pa�rsons, passengers and crew, men, won'ien and caitdren, to their death in tale raging northern wa- ters. There were no survivors tin the ship, ire Sophia left Skagway Wednesday evening last for Vancouver with a pas- senger list made up largely of Dawson people and Alaskans, from interior points eager to get "outside" for the Winter. Four hours out'she ran into a blinding snowstorm, in which, it is stippesied, she got out of her course and piled up on the reef, where she rested for more than 40 hours in what was thought to be a position of no danger. Lighthouse tenders and gas beats responded to the wireless call for assistance, and the Prince A lice was despatched from Vancouver to take Even the passengers. Ls en though the seas were running too high to per- mit of the transference of the pas- sengers on board on Friday, no alarm was felt. Capt. F. L. Lockem, of Vic- toria, a veteran seaman of the north- ern coast, on the night of the disas- ter had wirelessed his office here that wireless from the Sophia. The So- phia, was sinking. She had been Driven across the reef into deep wa- ,er, in which here shattered bottom offered no support, and she filled quickly and went down. The Cedar rushed to tate vicinity, but could see nothing of the Sophia, When morning broke her foremast was visible above the water. There ' was no sign or life, no wreckage; and -ho bodies had scattered if they had not.gone down with the ship. It was not until. late Sunday after- noon that word of the disaster came cut. Unconfirmed reports carried up end down the coast earlier in the day that the Sophia had gone down, and these were finally confirmed by a wireless message from Puneau. De- tails have come through slowly. SOME BODIES RECOVERED. The body of one woman was pick-. ed up, with four overturned boats, on Lincoln Island Sunday morning. Ite- parts to Cafia,ilan Pacific Railway of- dclals in Victoria to -day announce .he recovery of nine more bodies, eight of them women, and all so far unidentified- Four of the bodies' the ship was hard and fast on the reef with her bottom badly damaged, but cl he aki wateraux t she was not taking pas- sengers were normal. It is .evident that he believed the Sophia was plant- ed so firmly on the reeks as to be were 'Dgwsonites, William O'Brien, member of the Yukon Legislature and of the Dawson City Commit, ac'- eonzpanied by his wife and five' chi's- dren, were on board. William Scone, of Seattle, who Was fest, hoisted the first bucket et fabu:oue- ly rich gold gravel on Eldorado, the most ndted of Yukon creeks, airs. Chance •Vtfquatn, the wife of the assistant .general agent for the 1Vhte Pam and Yukon Company at Dawson. She .was accompanied by her child, John Seacarrelli, John Helwink'e, A. D. Pinska, with his wife, and :giant Henry made up a party of promin- ent Dawson busineee men. SOME DAMSON VICTIMS. Other Dawson vietime included: Walter Byrne*, one of the alebtat 1'ilondylee hydraulic operators and his brother, i•Ailan, of Vancquvt:r; .Edward S. Irmlelde, collector of eue- tonis for Dawson, en rotate for tet- tawa• on official • business, atom- . Periled by his.>nother;- lf, G. 51yete, fornzerly,0. S.'Comznissioner in Eagle City; Murray Fades, iDawson hetet-. man, and his wife; Oscar Tackstrom, a, pioneer Dawson business man, with his family; Harry Bridget; a Dawson resteuranteur, and Wee -Wife; Capt. Augustine Steward, veteran of ,South Afri'tan wars; Jack 0h13- lxoim, a noted Vandyke logging eontiractor, and w,' -and • Dave Williams, a 3)awhisson businessifemea, The passenger list Ancluded a large number of steamship •officials'• who had been operating for the summer on the Yoakon River. Among 'these were: C. J. Bloomquistp - Victoria, 13. C., captain of the steamer Daween; W. W. Schidiingtaw, Victoria, 13. C.; B. Wilkinson Victoria; R. C. Haas, Vancouver, B:O,; P. Vint; Vancouver, B. C.; Captain ,J. F. Douglas, • Naw Westminster, 13, C. Most of the passengers- belonged to Yukon and Alaska apd 'the Pacific coast, and none, have been ideiltific i as yet as belonging to eastern Can- ada. Included' in the crew was C. T. Black, of Campbellford,.• Ont., at- sistant purser: Tho' balance of • the crew were coast men. D. al. ilnblu- son, Vancouver, the evirelese opa'rater, ryas a lad of ,20, and stuck to his post to the last. Formerly he' • was wireless operator on the Empreas of Russia, The Sophia is reported from Lau-= son to have carried a cargo of'; gold worth a ntll]Iondollars or more; :h, bad a score or. tsvo -Of- horses,' bac* otherwise little cargo. - She wee a steel screw steamship of 2,520 tons gross and 1,466 tons' net register, and was built in .Paisley In 1912. The White Pass and Yukon rail- way Company, which operated steam- ship and raid lines in YL~',ion and Alaska, have issued a list of et of their employees lost on the fireh'e. three of them°'aroompanied by' • their wives,Most of them are •Canadians. �y► �" . . HUN ABSWERS U.S. PRES1DENT h storm - cf .test re from the severityo - se u d c Oki •=e of :� to Allies forTerms rrn� which continued to rade, 00 S e GOT WITHIN 400 YARDS. r'�crm'iSt1Ce. Friday morning the United States I Enten � fit` 'Wa r' ounei7 About lighthouse tender Cedar had got with- in 400 yards of the Sophia, but her anchors wouldn't hold on the rocky ,sea bottom, and the seas forced her battle waves were £uch that lifeboats could net have lived. Wlxen night shut down the Sophia was still on the reef. The wind increased and the air was filled with show. At 8 o'ctock the Cedar packed up- ,the last do ale's collapsi- blen One Of the o r rafts. The message add•td that there was no sign of life and no hope of any survivors. Vanderbilt Reef, it is pointed out, is three and one -halt miles from the nearest point where boats would dt ift ashore. and it was impossible that rafts or lifeboats or passengers with li could lifebelts d ha ve survived f b � c 1 Asas ein he hu e distance the b for s a h prevailed Friday night. The search for bodies is being main- rainedwhic: The passenger list was - cabled from Skagway Saturday ,night, and shows that 28'.5 passengers sailed on the ::ophia, of wham 280 were men, te 37 dwoen, and 18 children. `file prow comprised til persons, including.t ono woman, :lips Ii, Brown'n, mof Vancouver, a stewardess.' According to theta figures there were 316 per. ,.ons aboard, 290 men. 38 women and 18 children. • The passenger list gave the names only, and it was impos- sible to identify all of them. I)AW'ISON IIA -iii) IIIT. The city bf Dawaon was hard hit, anct despatches -front that city state almost two-thirds of tete pasaen;ers - 4Ar CANADIAN, WOMEN VE DONE CLARE DOING 7Q WIN Ti-IEWAR: tl { 4 a CANADIAipl WPM"'" tr,r • AP.L;EMrLOYED IN -:' 'WA ,WcPJ< IN:, U,`CNI C1 ltt,.SEu.viCE` q: 11 1,000 , . CANAOIA N WOMEI'4HAVE: ENLISTED FoP,IERVICE 4.ovro.SEAs Al.NUf ES WITH THE It/EARLY 1000 Ca tAoiAN WWMI• N Ai.E L Ml>4oYCD T1 . ROYAL AI . FO'QC iN wAhlit#tan to, Meet. Copenhagen Cable—Germany's an- swer to President Wilson's latest com municatioit says: • • "The' German Government has taken cognizance of. the -aitswet .of the Presi- dent of the:United States. • "The President is atyare .of the far - teaching changes ' ar-teaching-changes' which have Been carried' out,and 'are beingtarriecrout, in the 'German constitutionaltastrue- tut, and that peace -negotiations are beinnh• conducted by a people's Govern- ment iii whose hands rests, both act- ually and -constitutionally, the power to makethe deciding don.clusions. "The military powers are subject to it. • The 'German erm n Gnve gemnow • ow f thlati e ' wproposals'or ani' ' ar c ait5r a which shall be the first step teamed a Just Peace as the President has de- scribed it in his proclamations. "(Signed) "SOLA ." AUSTRIA'S ANSWER EN' ROUTE.' Basel, Switzerland, ' Cable ---Aus- tria's rejoinder •to President Wilson's note is' read, ace(Irding td• Vienna papers. It was submitted to author- ized quarters to -day, and will be sent this evening or to -marrow to Wash- ington. It is- eoucliod lh the most conciliatory terms. ALLIED WAR COUNCIL TO MEET. • • London Cable---lt• Ita understood in authoritative tfunrters-•ihat the Ailled "Governments wilt not reveal their arauistice terms unto Germany has re- plied to President Wilson's 'least note, Premier Lloyd George and Focelgn Secretary Balfour, ' accompanied by naval and military officers, haute gone to France. - .101 R ::AT:sr.:ILJENflN Paris Cable.—Deliberate destt•uc- titan of property and '40Cutnents of -historic nature was caeried•eut by the Germane at St. Quentin, aceordtng •') a repot't made to Premier Clementeau by the munitilpal Authoritie:3 of taat city, who have 'Mettle an inceetkgaiirtt. Ancient city t1 temente,- Which Wei been walled uit• under •cotili'ai of 'Ile (i11"Mln command rata placed inalee seal, were found to have been removed or bunted. Evtdende showed that flee t-eeut'sed alertly atter the inh'abitant's fled frotn :3i, Otteettin in Murch, ' n 4 At the eatla d al an attempt wan nn"'t;+ to mine the great pillars, but t' -e Lapid at1oattce of tete 1'tettch Prevented the iirrtuttn•3 frOln earrying out thiwir design, f r-