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The Wingham Advance, 1917-05-24, Page 7GROW CORN AND REDUCE THE FEED BILL At Present Prices for Feed Oorn Silage is Worth $5,60 Per Ton-lielp to Get a Bumper Crop by Using Tested Seed --Best Varieties to Use in Your Locality. "Can you tell es whether it hi going 10 be a good year?" We have had Several inquiries of this nature come to the office during the wiuter nionthe No one cau tell definitely whether it is going to be a good corn year, as it depends chiefly on getting rain and heat at the proper time. Corn converts are being made all the time. When farmers title what a lot af first-class aucgulent feed corn provides when it is put Into the silo, they cannot help being convinced of its value, Roots have a very import- ant place, and, rightly so, in the stocic MUM, but as silage eon ean be grown SG Much cheaper per ton, it would be well for those who have grown noth- ing but roots to beliottkly consider whether it would not pay them to put In a fetv acres of eorn Vile year. Silage is preeminently a cattle feed but it can be profitably used for sheep and even for horses. With present 'Prices for feed stuffs a ton of good Silage is worth about $4 for the food nutrients it contains. On account of its succulency, however, silage makes the other food better digested. and it has been found that cows wi71 give more milk when fed silage than if they were fed the same amount elf ea by the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege are very instructive. In the table a summary of these experiments is given, Seven terms have been used to describe the condition of the corn as regards its ripeness when harvest- ed, as follows: water, early milk, late milk, milk. dough, firm dough, and ripe. Suppose a Man were growing Wisconsin No, 8 and wanted to get a variety that would yield more heav- 11y, but wonict mature at the Santo time, From the table it is seen that Wisconsin No, 8, -wee In the dough stage when harvested. Salzer's North Dakota was in the sante stage ween harvested, but yielded 18.97 tons per acre against 13.84 by the Wisconsin variety. Salzer's North Deleota could safely be grown instead of Wiscon- ,consin GREAT DIFFERENCE IN STRAINS Not only ie there a great difference in the yield of the different varieties but there is a difference in the yields Of the same variety obtained from various sources. Thus, take for ex- ample, "White Cap Yellow Dent, The strain obtained from one source (H. Beath) took 89 days until it was in Lull tassel, and yielded 16.37 tons of green Weer Per Year. Another strain poor crop will be the result. Corn that is immature can be tole by the Nese with wlech the ear may be twisted in the handle After the West ears have been se- lected, these should be laid tO one side and tested for germination, In making the germination test 6 kern- els should be taken from Wit ear, two twilit the tip, two from the middle and two from the butt, The kernels linty be germinated in earth., sand or sawdust ---any material in fact that can be kept moiet and yet allow of sufficient air getting to the kernels. Make a box about 30 inches sqUnre and four inches deep, Yin it With moist, 1 my soil, sand or sawdust, 10 el off the surface, Take a !aux of cloth and rule it off into, squares like a checker board, making the squares 2 1-2 Metres each way.. Place this .cloth on top of the soil, sand or sawdust or whatever mater- ial has been used. Take six kernels from %Leh 'ear and place each group in one equare. Have a system ot num. bering the ears of -corn and the squares, so that when the test has been made one can tell which ker- nels belonged to which ear of corn. of the aernels and moisten it with CORN GROWN FOR SILAGE Varieties. Kind of Corn. Eureka . . Yellow Dent ... Salzer's North Dakota , • • , White. Flint • • • • • • Reid's Yellow Dent . Yellow Dent ... Mammoth Southern Sweet ... White Dent Geed Nugget .. ... • .. .. • Yellow Flint ... Improved Learning (Vick) .., Yellow Dent . 'White Cap Yellow Dent ... . • .. . . H. Smith ... . Yellow Dent ... Sanford ......... White Flint Canada Yellow . Yeltow Flint .. • Yellow Flint ... Yellow Flint Sweet • • . Colored Flint .. . Yellow Dent ... . Colored Flint .. Compton's Early (Duke) ... Longfellow (Duke) ... Duke's Improved Sweet ... 90eiay Red Flint . ...... Wisconsin No. 8 ... .... Squaw Corn White Cap Yellow Dent . .... (Dawson) Duke's Improved Early ... White Cap • .. e.. ... • • . . White Cap Yellow Dent ... Hammond • • • • • • • • • ..... a I • •• • • • • • • Yellow Dent a Yellow Dent ... . Yellow Dent .• Condition when Harvested. Early Milk ... Dough • • • e• Early Milk Early Milk Firm Dough Wilk . .. . .. Lete M i lk , . . Dough ... , . Firm Dough ... Firm Dough ... . Firm Dough . . ... Milk Firm Dough Dough ... • Ripe .. Late Milk ... r1.7 OUgh • • ! • • • • • Firm Dsiugh Days Until in Full Tassel. 99 89 94 98 84 91 89 84 84 85 81 93 82 84 87 82 81 Yield per acre of Green Fod. der, tons. 20,67 '18.97 17.84 17.82 16.95 16.56 16.37 15.25 15.23 15.10 15.09 15.03 15.02 13.84 13.47 13.44 13.33 12.12 In growing corn for silage it is necessary to select a variety that will yield heavily, but at the same time Will mature early enough to ensure quality. The above table gives the results of five years' experiments car- ried on at the Ontario Agricultural College, and will help our readers to decide which varieties are best Un- der their conditions. ar•••• nutrients in the dry form as hay or dried fodder corn, so that $4 per ton does hot represent the full value of silage. From the average of a large 'lumber of experiments that have been carried on in the 'United States we may. reckon that one ton of silage willaiticrease the milk flow of the cows to which it is fed by at least 80 pounds. Reckoning the value of milk at $2 per hundred, or 2 eents per poue'd we see that we must add. $1.60 to the, $4 to get the true feeding value of one. ton of silage. This gives $5.60. The eost of producing one ton of ellage will vary,of course, with the Cost of labor' and the yield of the crop. When on account of good climatic konclitions the ,corg mai is a good one., the cost of •producing a ton of silage May be as low as $1.25, while another, eyear, when the crop is a poor one, the .cost of production may run as high as $4 per ton. Under average conditions it will cost about $20 to put one acre of corn in the silo. An acre of corn will yield from 10 to 20 tons Ot silage. Taking 15 tons as an average., the cost of one ton would be $1.33 tbis calculation the rent -of the land or the cost at the barnyard manure or artificial fertilizers used has not been Considered. Corn is a heat -loving plant and thrives best in south.ern elimates. Under the most favorable conditions the corn plant pilideces a large leafy stalk and ears with deep kernels. Corn 'of this type yields heavily, but 'would not mature eerly enough to be grown in our northern climate. By careful breed- ing and selection; however, varieties of corn have been produced with a eh.ailower kernel, which although they 'do not yield quite as well, ma- ture sufficiently early to be grown sueeessfully .practically ale over Can- dy.. In the southern part of Ontario the Dent varieties 'of corn are grown largely. These varieties are heavy yieldere but somewhat late in ma- turing. The Fliut varieties of Corn mature earlier, as a rule, than the Dent varieties, so that they' are usu- ally grown in tee more northerly sec- tions. • choosing a variety of corn it is evident that it is necessary to select one that is suited to the locality, but one that at the same time will give a large yield. In this .conneetion the experiments that hare been conduct - obtained from Je Hammond took only 81 days until it was in full tassel, but only yielded 12.12 tons of green fod- der per acre. For best results. there- fore, not only must one • know the variety of the seed, but something about its source, It is useless growing an early ma- turing variety or strain of corn which Will give a light yield of fodder when a later maturing one that will give a heavy yield can'7be grown equal.; well South of the 43rd parallel of lati- tude, which rens almost through Sarnia, London and Welland. practi- cally all the Dent varieties of corn will mature the later types in Essex and Kent the earlier varieties as we approach the northern limit. Between the 43rd and 44th parallels of latitude the darlier types of Det corn are mostly grown. Between the 44t1i and 45th parallels of latitude only the very early varieties of Dent corn are grown, and these are grown, chiefly for silage, In this one such varieties of Flint corn as Longfellow, Salzer's North Dakota and Compton's Early are grown very largely for grain, while the Dents are grown foe fodder. In the zone which lies between the 45111 and 46th parallels of latitude only the very earliest varieties of Flint corn can be relied on to ,pro- duce mature ,corn. For silage, how- ever, the latex maturing, Iteaviee yielding varieties of corn may ze grown. Seed corn should never be bought shelled but on the cob. Only fit this way can one be sure of sowing seed of .strong vitality with -geod ger- minating qualities. The type of ear selected for seed should be true to type. It should be almost 'cylindrical, but slope slightly towards the tile Both tips and butts should be well covered. The kernels should be deep and full. The deeper the kernel the later the eorn is in reaching matur- ity, so that care must be taken if the kernels are especially deep that the corn is of a variety or strain that will mature in the locality where it is .to be grown. This is more important' where it is grown for the -*akin than if the *crop ie to be put into the silo. The kernels should be cliese together' even and in straiget rows. Bewani Of corn that. was harvested when im- matureIt will germinate all right, but the plants will be weak ane a Now place 'a piece or cloth On- top • some water. Place on top of this a cloth that Is considerably larger than the box and fill in on top with. some moist soil, sand or sawdust to a depth of. about two Indies. Now turn She ends of the cloth over the top of the box and put the box away. The tem- perature of the room where the box is kept should be about that, of the liv- ing room. In six or eight days the gra-in should have sprouted. Discard all ears whose. kernels have not ger- minated well, So as to ensnre even planting.. it is good practise to re- move the kernels from the tips and butts from the ears that are to be used for seed, and plant only the kernels from the middle of the ear. There Is little use planting corn until the soil has become thoroughly warmed up, but on the other hand it should not be planted too late. From the middle to the end of May is about the right time to plant it in most sec- tions of Ontario, although sometimes on account of weather conditions it Iva to be planted in rows having the plants eight inches apart in the rows If the field is weedy it is better to plant the .corn in hills, dropping three to five kernels to the hill, When the corn is planted in rows, the rows should be 3 feet 6 inches apart, but if it is planted in hills 3 fe.et apart each -ay is enou-• For planting In rows there are special 'cora planting machines, but the ordinary grain drill may no used by stopping up some of the holes. For planting the corn in hills special machinery may be used, if not it will be necessary to mark off the land into three feet squares. A marker may be constructed to mark lour rows at a time. which is eery planted at the corners where the rows cross. Whenever possible the cern should be planted on clever sod. Thesod shoule elowed up the fall previous. The following :spring the land should be plowed up the fahl .previous. The following spring -the -land shoulil be thoroughly disceeand harrowed and worked- upento a uice, fine, firm geed bed, Corn responds well to barnyard ;Manure and 15 'toes per acre is not too much to aliplY. This should be ap- "plied preferably 111 the fall or winter. After the core has been planted the land should be Foiled and harrowed. A second harrowing may be given be- thee:Otte' pipette come up -The Cana, dian Countryman. NO TRACE YET OF PEERLESS FLYER Mystery. Still Surrounds Capt. Ball's Fate. Had Shot Down Over Fifty . Foe Planes. • ••••••••••,..••• : • '('By Perry Robinson.) British ITeadhuarters In rranee, prec.se number of enemy Machines brought down ,during bis ca- • reer by Captain Albert Ban, of the Royal Plying Corps ,aged 10, who bas been-misaing since :Vey Ith, is not known. There axe records, of 41 cer- tain. nee 10 more morally certain, also a large number of probebilitiee. Be- yond dOubt this was the roOSt wonder- ful series of vietoriee yet nehleved be tr flying man of alrY TIA1307), NO 11PISTS a hini has been received sines Ws Whin) to return front his last medi- tion. So far as known the facts are as follows: . "On the evening of May itth he was ' 'seen. togo out in tiomprow with an - Toner Intigitine flown by a Dila railed • TIiey met tin many machine. ' Which- they -drove down, riddled with bullets:••••Alten * .party .of four or tians..liove in sight, The 'British fli- ire ,proniptly Closed. 'hi" found one eilemy machine in such a favorable po- eition tbat be was tiractlea% at Its Merey, so he put his own maelline into spin and began to go Clown. It must,have been an unpleasant experi- ence. but IV was sucessful in shaking off the enemy, 'A' regained control of his nuichine, climbed again,- re-ene tered the fight, and tackled one of ate Germans. After a long fight he sent It crashing. to the earth. He then turned to engage another machine but one bullet .broke his wrist. and an- other carried away the top of his con - trot lever, • Thus crippled he could fight no more. but though in great pain and unable to control his ma- chine. he managed to go over the lines and land his aeroplane undamaged in env territory and then fainted. "What happened after wag ob- liged to leave the field of battle is a nivetery, Capt. Ball was then .left with three enemy maehines .to 'Snob odds were nothing new in Ball's exnerience, for only two days before he had driven down two enemy ma- ehines. To make sure he had gone elnee to the ground and saw the two wrecks lying 400 yards from eaelt oth- er. One of the two bad put a bullet Iran Ball's engine. As no more ene- Mies were in sight he mine home. Next, day Ball went out again and met a; Party ot four Gertnima. Promptly diving into the centre �f the formation he sent them scattering. lie Welted out one, chaeed it and sent it erashing down. Tie then looked for others. but they nor not fighting that day, and mile for home as fast as they could." - etee,•- - - Shoppere-Do you keep stationery? Ploorwalketle-No, madam; if I did I'd Ice* iny job. -Puck. • First Old Potholer -Ali ehildren an• nos- me. Seeond Old Ilaeheled*-- Thatl; right. They yell when they tire eetting a tooth in, and they yell ulten they ese getting one ont, USS LEADERS WILL NOT QUIT Army Leaden Have With- drawn Resignations. Crisis in the Forces Thus Also Averted. Petrogrid Cable. -:--The Cabinet crisis has been settled. A declaration of the Government's policy has been aecepted by the representatives of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates with Merely slight altera- tient), and was signed by there. As a result .of a meeting. in Petro- grad of the commanders-in-ehief from all the fronts except the Caucasus, Generale Brushoff and (lurk() have Witteiritted ' their •resignatiotts and reports of further resignations are refitted by the definite announcement that ale tile' cotnrnanders have deeided to"remain et their posts. Thus thO erihiS IA the army, which formed an alarmiug accompaniment to Um politi- cal erisis. hoe been averted. Discussing with the temporary (low eminent tlto serious eonditiou of affairs at the froth; the commanders declaredllutt the unfortunate phrase "I.eace without ennexation" had entitle! its way to the artilY, and was thtto translated bite an argument agaltu,t, offensive warfare. Tide and , • . . other harmful doctrines pervading; the army and the lpabtltty of tne officers eatinfactorily to explain them had ruined disdain and destroyed the authority and prestige otthe officers, The discord in Petrograd had naturally found an echo everywhere at ibe front, but the spirit of the soldiers was slowly recovering, and the power of the Russian army Was by no means lost. General Alexieff. commander-in- chief of the Russian armies. nuring the course of an interview, said: "The whole gist of the new Idea reforms cannot be properly under- stood by the army, and this hae brought about dangerous results. We can overcome the consequent toss if authority if irresponsible persons and organizations will cease further to Interfere with our work, . 1 feel assnred that under Um new coalition Government it will o postale to conduct military affairin a more energetic nianner, It is time to weee up and stop shouting 'peace witheut annexations: Let us leave peace negotiations to the Oovernrnent." U. S. UNIT AC'ROSS. Red Cross Body, 300,Strong, in England. London Cable.-Slr Alfred Keough surgeon -general 62 the British army, announced to -day that the first of six fully organized and equipped hospital units which the American Red Cross is sending to France, arrived in Eng- land yesterday, The unit comprised about 300 persons, including twenty army medical officers, sixty nurses, and more than 200 other attaches. This unit will be the first officially sanctioned by the United States Gov- ernment to carry the American flag to the baltiefields of France since the United States entered the war. Atter a brief stay in England the Unit will be sent to the continent, where it will take charge of a base hospital behind the British front. The hospital will have oecommodations for 500 pat-, lents and be fully . equipped by the Britise bospital service. BRITAIN LOOKS TO U.S. FOR FOOD Her Main Dependence,- at Least Until Harvest. London Cable. -"Great Britain iS depending on , tne putted States for food supplies, at least for the 'ride two meths, until the harvest," said Baron Devonport, in a statement toeley. The Food 0V:ro1ler, e%rephasized that Great Britain'sreliance'Uras on her cousins across .4he 9ea, and he pinned the statement down 'with the crisp remark that "Amerita is our sheet -anchor," He said the largest supplies of grain and other foodstutfs were in Austrelia. but- owing to the distance these supplies could not be relied on. A ship could 'make several voyages to America while making one to Australia. Great Britain was Woking to Amera ca. said Baron Devenport expressed hearty concurrence in the plan. of Herbert C. lloover. for establishing control • of supplies in the United States, and fitrnishing foodstuffs to the allies through • controlling bodies in the Entente countries, Great Brit- ain was only awaiting what action had been taken in the United States be- fore instituting measures here to in- sure the success of the plan. The belief was expressed by Baron Devonport that this was the only way to make sure of supplies and ,control prices. • Discussing the much -agitated sub- ject of a continuance of beer brewing, Baron Devonport said the matter was entirely out of hie department. but that he knew the War Cabinet, was seriously cons'idering the problem to determine whether there should be prohibition, te'overnment control or a continuance of ,manufacture as at pre sent. He pointed out that there had been no grain malted since he took control of eereals in February, and said the supply of malt would be ex- hausted in November.' Kennedy Jones, Director of Food Economy, who was ',resent and par- tieipated in the interview, expressed the personal opinion that Great Brit- ain was drifting to Clovernrneet con- trotof brewing. Mr. Jones declared that the country was responding magnificently to the appeal for voluntary rationing, and said that the consumption of bread - stuffs and other vital necessities had been reduced so soon that compulsory rationing proba,bly wobld be avoided. While the interview was in progress an order was iesued by the Food Min- istry reducing the amount of sugar allowed to confectioners to 25 per cent. of the amount used in 1915. The amount previously had been reduced to forty per cent, CZAR, A TRAITOR? Declared to Have Had Se- cret Pact With Kaiser. Paris •Cable. -A long aceount of a pact between the Kaiser and Emperor Nicholas. and aimed against France, Is given In the last ism) of the Mos- cow Russkoye SIovo, to reach Paris. Aeeording to the 'story, the existent() of the treaty was discovered by Count Witte in 1903. While the Peace nego- tiations between Russia and Japan we proceeding, at Portsmouth, Count Witte. furious at the decep- tion of the Czar. informed the Xelser that 'unless the Paet Was cancelled he woeld refuse ,to totnitersign the treaty of Portsmouth. As German bankers were interested in the loan to Ramie. this would bit them hard, the Story goes, and. rather than have complicit - hone in his economie policY. the Kai- ser yielded. Neither Iiimperor, howe- ever. forgave Count Witte. At the beginning bf the War, Count Witte communicated the facts to 7). Minsky, editor of the Massager Hine torione. Ile bound the editor to keep the information secret until he, Count Witte, was deed end eiremnetaneee Warranted the revelation of Nicholas' ittectiolvable levity or treason-whieli. ever you like. "Why did you give that awful -look- ing tramp a dime?" "Olt, merely as a Vliiail eontribution toward city im- provement. Ile wanted it for earfare to the next tOW11."--Boston- Transetipt, • * AWED WARSHIPS DRIVE FOES HOME IN ADRIATIC Lively Battle Nen Austrian Ships Are Caught Sinking Mine Sweepers. Twa Enemy Vessels Badly Damaged, British Torpedoed But Saved. London, May 18. ---The British Ad; 4- miralty announcecj to -day that four- teen drifters had been sunk in a raid by Austrian light cruisers in the Adriatic Sea ,and that the British light- tte searutets.r, Dartmouth was torpedoed In a subsequent engagement with the A trian warships, but reached port. The Admiralty stated that the Brit- ish warships Dartmouth and Bristol pursued the Austrian vessels to a point near Cattaro, when, battleships Coming to their assilitance, the British vessels were compelled to withdraw. The text of the statement reads: "The Admiralty announces that from reports received from the rear - admiral commanding the Adriatic squadron, supplemented by the Italian official communication, it app.ears that early Tuesday morning an Auetrian force, -consisting of light cruisers, sub- sequently reinforced by destroyers, raided the allied drifter line and suc- ceeded In sinking fourteen Britisb drifters. from evbich, according to the Austrian communication, 72 prisonerf were taken. "His Majesty's ship Dartmouth, with the Italian eear-admiral aboard. and 11.0LS. Bristol imraediately ceased the enemy off, assisted Dy Frencli and Italian destroyers. The chase con- tinued with the enemy under heave and continuous fire until near ,Cattaro when, some enemy battleships MM• ing out in support of their cruisers, our vessels drew off. "Italian airmen, after a battle in the air, attacked the Austrian war- ships outside Cater° and confidently either' that one of the enemy's cruis- ers was on fire and being taken, in tow off Cathie.° in a sinking condition. One other of the enemy's cruisers was re- ported by. the Britleh. Admiralty as badly damaged. "During her passage lack the Dart- mouth was struck by a torpedo frorh an enemy submarine, but returned in- to port with three men killed, one of- ficer and four men missing and be- lieved to be deal, and seven woan.ded. There were no other casualties td our A drifter is a eteam fishing vessel, many of which have been used during the war in mine -sweeping. FOUGHT FOR TWO HOURS. The Radian War Offiee Issued the following story of the battle: "An enemy squadron composed of cruisers and destroyers, favored by darkness, attacked, shortly before dawn on the 15111, a small convoy crossing the Adriatic under escort. In the brief, unequal fight one of our es- corting torpedo boats, one steamer and a mOtor fishing boat used as a, patrol were sunk. "Italian and Britieh warehipe and two French torpedo-boat destroyers cruising in the vicinity rushed to the scene of action, whereupon the -enemy fled northward, pursued by the allied Ships, which vigorously shelled them. "Two enemy shire% close preeaed by Italian light cruisers, aucceeded in gaining shelter near Durazzo under the gun e of coast batteries. On the other hand. the British cruiser Dari - mouth, on board of which was the Italian admiral commanding the (Scout division. and followed by another cruiser and destroyer, runniug at high speed, managed to maintain contact with three enemy ehips of the Novara type for more than two hours, firing about GOO shots, until, arriving in the neighborhood of the Cattaro defence, larger shies came out of their support, "Meanwhile our seaplanes, after re- pulsing enemy machines, attacked, his ships, inflicting serious damage with bombs. The pilots of two of our sea- planes were able to obseeve one of the cruisers enveloped in smoke. Its Stern had been demolished, and it waa in a sinking condition When it reached Cat- tar"All of our warehips and seeplaneci returned to their base." THE AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT. . The Austrians are evidently un- aware that the torpedoed British cruiser reached port, as the Vienna official report claims that a British cruiser was sunk during an engage- ment with English. French and Itali- an veesels after an Austrian naval de. tachment had made a successful raid in the .Strait of Otranto. Italian de- stroyers, three merchantmen and 20 armed guard vessels. the etatement adds. "became victims" of the Austri- an raid. A German aubmarine co- operated with the Austrian forces, which are (said to have returned to port with small loss of life and little damage. The statement follows: "On 'Monday night a detachment of our light sea fence undertook a suc- cessful enterprise in the Otranto Roads, in which Italian destroystes, three merchantmen and. 20 armed guard veseele became victims. Seventy-two Frenchmen of the crews of the guard vesselwere captured. "While returning our units had a number of fierce engagements with superior enemy forces in which the enemy, composed of English. French and Italian yeeeels, suffered consider- able damage. On two enemy destroy - ere conflagrations were observed. . "Participation in the fight by ene- my submarines and airmen was un- auteeseful, while on the other itend our seaplanes participated splendidly In the fighting. They each obtained one hit on two enemy cruisers and etfeethely Combatted hoetikt eubinar- Ines. Our units retureed in full nuni- ber with titan human !Wes and da - Maga, "In brilliant co-operation With, our naval forree a German submarine sunk by a torpedo hit an English cruiser witn four funnela." ' LITHUANIAN'S STARVING, Geneva, Cablo. Tho Lithuanian bureau at Lausanne has made public statistics received from the region of Litho 112121 occupied by the ttermans. Prom these It appears that 130,000 elvli- ions are 110111111t.0$ arld starving, living In cellars and dugouts. Four hundred thousand farms in that it eg,lon are re. ported to have been devastated'. The tkatii rate Is said to be growing' alarm- ingly on account of the inventory eondl. tions Under Which the /Weide are . • ralsehood may have Its hour. but it hae4eit the future. -De One GERMANY LOST TWO ZEPPELINS British Naval Fliers De- stroyed One Off Jutland, Lightning Wrecked An- other. Copenhagen Cable, via London - Destruction of the Zeppelin L -n, re- partee without details in an official British announcement on Monday, oc- curred off Esbjerg, within sight of the Danish coast, according to the ac-. counts of eye -witnesses from the vil- lages on the „shore. These accounts indicate that not one, lait two, Zeppe- lins were destroyed on that day, inas- much as the explosion of an airship off Terschelling was reported from Hol- land, at a point too distant to cover the same case. The loss of the sec- ond airship is attributed to lightning. The L-22 was seen off Esbjerg while making one of the customary daily observation touirs up and down the coast of Jutland. It was engaged by a' British .force, which presumably was Looking for German destroyers that ot late have been fishing up British mine fields in this region, The Zeppe- lin was not far front shore, and was plainly visible. its opponents extuld not be seen. but their presence was made known by the booming of guns. Eve -witnesses saw the airship dart upward after the first round of shots. Then they heard a second salvo. The Zeppelin endeavored to manoeuvre it- eelf out of range, but with the third broadside it went down. mortally hit, At first it sank slowly, and then plunged down at great speed into the sea below the horizon.. RUSH AID TO RUSSIA. Seized Liners Will be Muni- tions Transports. New York Repoit.-An associated Press despatch irom Washington this afternoon says: All available American shim the seiz- ed flerznan liners and all the ships Great Bratin can spare from her own needs, probably will soon be carrying war mun- itions and great quantities of railroad supplies to Russia. As part of the united effort to bold fast the Russian Provisional Government against German influence ,and encourage a Russian military offensive, tile allied war committees are making prepara- tion to furrish the necessary transporta- tion for supp11e87 to aptroperly equip and maintain the Russian armies. The first pre) lem will be to transport some 190,000 tons of supplies already piled up In the States, and the second will be to keep a stream of supplies moving. In addition to supplying war muni- tions, the important railway leading Archangel is to be equippedwith Ameri- can locomotives and freight cars to bring it to Its fullest degrees of effic- iency In moving the great quantities of maierial which will pour in during the five months the port is free from ice. rp• • GREAT FIGHT OPENING ON ISONZO FRONT Italians Hold Dominatine Positions, but Stiff Battle Ahead. AROUND GORIZIA Long and Terrible Struggle Faces Ally Forces On That Front. Loudon Cable. -A Times special Fri- daysays mIta:llan headquarters dated Fri - The great battle whose first notable feature was the capture of Monte Kuk continues to develoP in favor of our allies. No big advance was expected yeeterday, as time is required to con. solidate the positions on the crest of leek and bring reserves and munitiOns Up the difficult steeps that drop tO the Isonzo. 'Word went out that the day would probably be quiet, but the prophets had not reckoned dn the enemy, who called for fighting, and got it. The counter-attacks of Wednes- day were repeated in greater force, but all were thrown bacic with heavy loss to the assailants. Italians now hold the domipating positions which had faeed them so long. They had plenty of =whine guns and behind Wein artillery which Is accurate. It has been extraordinarily interesting to watch the work ot the Italian goes, There was no question on the Middle Isonzo of crushing the whole zone by a whirlwind fire except In one instance. The line of the Ans. trian positions on the slopes of Kuk were traced on the wooded hillside in perfeetly distinct pattern with re- lentless accuraey by the steady suc- cession of perfectly -placed In the face of furious efforts Of the Austrians to reeapture the lost posi- tions the work of the guns was no less admirable. The shrapnel fire was beautiful, and the exatt high -explosive barrage which was put over the line at the enemy's approaeh made organ- ization of attacks very difficult. The result Of the enenty'e attempts to regain the summits of ltult may be.. Shilittled up in a few words. ElverY advance was repulsed with seriouti loss, Witty Of these WhO did titteCeed in aPProachlug the Italian lino were vomiter at Leeks. ettrroUnded and Cut off by dashing Nor did the itallatiti ret eontelil with beating the eneaty off. They made subetantial progress southward along the Knit. Vodiee and Monte Santo ridge positions. Monte Sante is a partieularly interesting peaked ridge (Towne(' by Lite ehatteren runs of a convent and shrine, Which in peace- time WWI a famous place of pilgrimap. Santo is now half invested. An Italian coletrin succeeded in climbing to the top and entering the ruins of the convent, but could not hold it against reinforeemente, They retired below the crest and hung on, leaving the artillery to play havoc among the There the position rests at 11161P) in 0;11 171INt a AROUND GORIZIA. The neighborhood of Gorizia has also seen stern fighting. The Italian gains on the east of the town are 'slight, but have been maintained and <4.1strIon counter-attacks throwe back with serious loss. The Austrians are presently firing at extreme ranges, throwing shells into villages unused to the war. Gorizia has been pounded unmercifully for three days by the Austrian artillery. • Tae southern part of the battle -line is undouotedly very strong. Reinforcements are still ar- riving, SOMO 50 batteries have re- cently come from Galicia,. Infantry .as well as guns have arrived from the eastern front There is a long and terrible strug- gle ahead. The condition of the ter- rain is unfavorable to the Italians. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. The text of the oficial statement read: ,edesticafortifying rdaiy our troops were en - the important positions captured east of Gorizia and organizing communication with the en- gaged rear. The enemy attempted, but com- pletely failed, to hinder the work of our Gorizia army. "Last night the enemy e under cover of darkness, attempted surprise at - Welts upon our positions on the bridgehead of Bodrez (on the Isonzo, seven miles southwest of Tolmino) on the Voldice, Hill 592, and at Gra- zigna. This morning the eneme brought strong reinforcements and again renewed his attack, which was particularly violent in the Vodiee reg- ion and south of Grazigna. Shattered by our battery fire, the masses of the enemy were counter -attacked and re- pulsed by infantry, who at several points surrounded their assailants and forced them to surrender. "The number of prisoners thus far taken is known to be 6,432, including 143 officers. It is not yet possible to estimate the quantity of war material "All along the front, from Tolmitto to the sea, the artillery continues very active. Gorizia again has suf- fered very heavy damage. , "During last night one of our air- ships, under cover of the clouds, reached the enemy's rear lines east of Gorizia without being observed and bombed his 'encampments and returned safety." .6. RUSS REFUGEES IN OPPOSITION Turn Down Socialist Peace Conference. Whole Affair is Against the Allies. Stockholm,- via London, Cable, Leading members of the group. of Rus- sian refugees who passed through Stockholm to-dey on their way to Petrograd from Switzerland announce that they intend to use their influence to oppose the peace conference pro- jected here by Dutch and Scandinavian propagandists, The Politiken, organ of the Radical Swedish Socialists, pub- lishes the following statement given out by the Russians, refusing to at- tend a banquet to which they had been invited: "Our attitude toward the war and toward the re -organization of the In- ternationale makes it impossible for us to participate in a banquet, which, through the designation of Branting and Huysmans as chief speakers, acquires the character of a definite political demonstration. The banquet is in t000 gross disagreement with those aims which we intend to pursue on our return to Russia, in agree- ment with the principles which 'were proclaimed at the Zimmerwald con- ference." .,The signers include representatives of the Russian Socialist reVolutionary Party, the Socialist Democratic Labor party, the Jewish Bund and the Polish Socialists, ALL ENEMIES, The conferences of the various. So- cialist delegations will continence OD Monday, each delegation holding a separate meeting. The Bulgarians will meet first, followed by either the Ger- man minority Socialists, who are now stated to have received passports, or the Finns. The Austrians will follow, and the succeeding week the Hunger - lens will meet, PAPERLESS PAPERS. Berlin Sheets 'Complain to Rulers. . Amsterdam, Cable vitt London -e -- The Berlin Vossische Zeitung takes Issue with the Government's state- ment in the Reichstag comMittee 012 Wednesday tliat everything was being done to promote the produetion of paper for newspapers'. It declares that the most important paper mills are still idle on account Of lack of coal, The VoSsische Zeitung has no sup- ply or paper for its evening edition, while the Noreen Post, with, "40,11110 subseribere, is paperless, The Voss - lute Zeitung has sent another urgent demand to the Chancellor and the chief of the war board for prompt ac- tion to remedy the situation. A PREACHER MISSING. Simeoe, Ont„ Iteport.-The authorities havn been requested to locate IteV. W. A. TerrY, Methodist preeteher on the Tytrel, Rockford and Mount Zion eir. cult, who it is alleged, abandoned Ids charge and his wife on An 11 12, rind four days later wrote from 'WWI) Pay. ing that he Was off to the Voittral Stoti-s„ lila wife, an estimable lady. who VaP fotinerly on evangelist, has been asked by the Quarterly Board to fill the Welts of the rime: for the remainder of the Conference year. Several persons in the locality Ore Atilt! to hal notes for MOiley leaned to Terry; One of theso, for $100, was Riven tWo (lova betore this deptue tut*. 4.-••••••••••••••:. HORT ITEMS OF THE NEWS OF THE DAY German Roman Catholic Clergy "Unite to Work for Early Peace. GROW MORE BEANS Belva Lockwood, Pioneer in the Woman Suffrage Movement, Dead, Mr, J. J. Coulter, a Toronto mante facturing jeweller, died, aged 66 years. A branch of the Royal Flying Corp8 is to be establiahed at Montreal. A compromise offer was made by the Toronto cartage companies to env ployees now on strike. Vernon Castle, flying over the Woodbine was a feature of Kingei Plate day at the Toronto race track. Afire, thought to have been caused by lightning, caused $20,000 damage,at 106 Front street east, Toronto. A lynx five and a half feet in length was shot in Breithaupt Park, Kitchen- er, by Aid. S. Gofton. Rt. Hon. A, J. Balfour is expected ot arrive in Ottawa next Saturday and to addreas Parliament, The Government's conscription bill hi expected to be introduced in the Commons towards the end of this week or early next week. A hired man, lately from Toronto, whose name could not be learned at the time of reporting, wasburned to death in a barn that was struck by lightning, near Paris. ' Ice trouble at Sault Ste. Marie was as bad yesterday as any time since navigation opened, and a field extends cevente-five miles out into Lake Su- perior from Parisian Island, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parsons, of OM. Ea, while motoring to Toronto, were instantly killed, their automobile be. ing struck by a Metropolitan trolley car between Sutton and Roach's Point. The Federal Minister of Agriculture, in urging increased production of beans, cautions against use of aeed beans recently imported from Japan or Manchuria as possibly not suitable for Canadian soil and climate. _ ,German agents asked Argentina to keep wheat for them, supposedly to prevent the Allies getting it. ' Niearagua, following the lead of Guatemala and Honduras, haa severed diplomatic relations with Germany. His Honor Benjamin Franklin Jus- tin, Judge of the County Court of Peel county, bas been appointed to be Loreel Master of the Supreme Court for the county of Peel. German newspapers aleounce that Prince Adolph, brother-in-law of the German Emperor, has been seriously eerrunded in the head by a shell plaint- ' The Deetsche Kirchen Zettun,g etatee that the Romau Catholic clergy, of Germany have inaugurated a power- fully organized peace movement. Captain Albert Ball, the famotio British airman, who was reported mis.- sing last week, is a prisoner in Ger- many. Official news to this effect lis been communicated to Capt. Ball's fee ther at Nottingham. Mr. Samuel Hieks, a 'well-kniewn far- mer of the Township. of Usborne,'who resided about a mile and a quarter east of 'Centralia, was struck by light - nine and instantly killed. The manufacturers Of Brantfor: 150 strong, that they wougo out on istlit•oerurikie.ednaooyntifled by the mOulders, about t wMiothndtaeyn-uhlo°trirniPnagy.for a nine - Mr. John Fraser, for many years proprietor of the Fraser House, Lon- don, died at his residence after an ill - less of .some weeks. He was in his 69th year, A regiment of marines, commanded by Col. Chas, A. Doyen, and composed of veterans et active service in Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba, will accom- pany the United States army division to be sent to France under Major -Geri. Pershing. The largest appropriation bill in American history -the war budget measure, carrying $3.342,300,000, in - eluding $750,000,000 for American mer- chant ships -was passed by the Senate byAa dveisvpaatvehocerevceoitve. e d in Copenhagen from Vienna says the Pyrotechnic In7- stitute of Hansel and Tektbaum, at which explosives were manufactured, has been destroyed by an explosion. Nine workmen were killed and a number of other seriously injured. Mrs. Beddome,- wife of A. H. Bed - dome, until a short time ago manager of the Bank of Montreal in London, Ont., was probably fatally injured in an automobile accident at an entrance to Victoria Park, Sergt. Toile Derbyshire'a returned soldier, was probably fatally injured, and Henry Collins sustained a frac- tur'ed shoulder and two broken ribs when an auto, driven by Henry Ber- lett, crashed into a post on Light street, Woodstock. The striee of englneere which has been in progress for some time In various industrial centres in Britain, has been settled, it was announced. The settlemeut was effected following a eonference at which Premier Lloyd George presided. Mrs. Delve A. B. Lockwood, the first wontan admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, a pioneer 'hi the w°. man suffrage movemeet and the only woman who ever was a candidate fot President of the United States, died here Saturday after a long illness, aged 867W.ars, Rev. Norwood, rector of Cree nyn Memorial Church of the Anglican faith, has treated somewhat of e, sensation In London, Ont., religlOus cir- cles by his declaration that he *has a spirit et:invade, and his further asset, - then that London Is in need of 21 spirit .,stipteirdiitutzistitot develop the revival of .ve---e--eteeebe-egsesprar IduitmeleLylotittir,13.1. Berm\ s lard to be poor. Gee! I find it the easiest thing in the -World. Tonitny---Pop, Is it tonsidered lueitY to be born a seventh ton? Tommy's Pop :-Yes. My sett, proVided the bOY doesn't 'have to 'wear the east -off elOthes Of Ille XIX Older brother,