The Wingham Advance, 1917-05-31, Page 7SNORT ITEMS
OF THE NEWS
OF THE DAY
Washington Hears Norway
is Considering Joining
the Entente.
UURIAN TO RESIGN?
Great Strikes and Disorders
Are Prevalent in
Finland.
The United States Railroad Cent -
Mission to Russia, headed by John F.
Stevens, -of New York, arrived in To-
kio on its way to Petrograd.
The Budapest Pester Hirlip an-
nounces that Baron Burian, the Aus-
tro-Hungarian Minister of-Finance,la-
tends to resign,
i\iajor James Hiscott, ex -M. P. P.,
one ot; .the oldest and most esteemed
residents, died suddenly at his home
in Niagara Township Saturday night.
Tho steamer Nipigon, bound up,
carried away the two head gates of
• Lock 1, Welland Canal, Saturday
evening, tiefna up navigation for 24
hours.
Right Hon. A. J. Balfour; British
Foreign Secretary, and the members
of his party were the guests' of Toron-
to at a luncheon at the King Edward
Hotel on Saturday.
A Socialist meeting on the Market
Square at Kitchener was broken up
by a number of returned war veterans,
after a number of speakers had spok-
en.
Malcolm J. Robinson, formerly De=
putt' Minister of Public Works for
Saskatchewan, and chairman of the
• Saekatchawan Highways. Commission,
died suddenly of heart failure in the
Queen's Hotel, Toronto, on Satuday
es-el-ing,
Strikes in all branches of industry
throughout Finland are reported in a
despatch from Helsingfors. In some
districts the strikes have been accone
• )~anted baeacts of violence against
the employetu.
It is said in Washington that tae
Norwegian Government is seriously
considering the advisability of joining
the Entente Arlie„ with whom her na-
tional sympathies as well as interests
lie.
A report states that the 'United
Statce destroyer Nine ran aground on
the rocks at an American port and
was badly damaged. Tugs went to the
vessel's assistance and she was hulled
arf, None aboard was reported in •
jured.
Serious disorders have occurred in
consequence of a strike of workmen
employed. in smelters at Cerro de
Pasco, a city of 15,000 inhabitants, one
.hundred and thirty miles northeast of
Lima, in one of the most important
silver mining districts of Peru. Troops
have been called out to restore. order.
The second serious aviation acct•
Cent at Deceronto since the opening of
Mohawk Camp occurred Sund.ay after-
noon, where Captain McLean, one of
the British instructors sent out to
take charge of the training of cadets,
• lost control of his machine at a height
of three dr four hundred feet and
crashed to the ground. The aviator
was picked up unconaeious, and was
hurtled to Kingston Hospital.
THROWN FRM
A FOE PLANE
Nervous Officer Confused
the Pilot in Control
And Lost His Life as the
Penalty.
Initial). Headquarters in France, May
27. — German aviator jnst shot
down within the British lines told
with amazing nonchalance how he
lost his passenger in mid-air,The pris-
oner is a corporal, and was piloting
a two-seater on reconnaissance work
The passenger was a new lieutenant
whom the Pilot was taking up for the
first time.
The lieutenant wee nervous from
the start and kept giving the pilot
ocntradictory instructions which
• caused him completely to Joe° his
• way. This is how he happened to
get over the British line. Thn pilot
turned his machine eastward as he
thought but believed something must
have gone wrong with the cotupahs
He had not flown a great distance
when he sighted several British fight-
ing scouts. Now the passenger ho•
came fairly frantic and began beating
the pilot on the batik, urging hirn to
ewing around hi the opposite dliree-
tion. This further confused the pilot
and the first thing he knew one of the
British machines had opened fire and
shot him through both leg&.
The pilot took matters in his own
hands then and in order to eseapo
frena the attackers dived almost ver•
tidally with the engine full, nn, Ito
did not flattest out until within toot
hundred feet of the ground. and then,
almost faint from his wounds, he let
the machine slip and landed with a
crash.
A search of the wreekape revealed
no trace of the observer, "I think he
must have been th c t eut."
said
e
,German pilot. j
"He was," said one of the pilot's
capture olio had seen the officer t•ttolt
headlong
to his
death
SIX SWEDIS
HSHIPS
Sunk in Baltic by. Subs. ---
---Faroe Fishers Also.
London May 27. ---Six Swedish stoat^re
have been >xtutk while on voyYat4e4 from
Sweden to Vinland, in the Bartle Seel,
says a' Reuter despatch to Stockholm,
'i hd' steamers are the Koro:,, I'autht,
1' 1eIl,
Therese, Alga and Erik.
rhe Rwedi'•h attamers I.esu1, tlocta
and Marta, the despatch atlas, have be.'n
captured and taken Into' tlwinenutence,
Germany.
A. detq,atch front the Vire() stands Attila
that a tierntatr •submarine has sunk f•,'c
Faroe fiatinli boats on the hanks .south
of the islands. About thirty fi.=hd•rnirtt
are miss}ng.
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BRITISH ANO FRENCH BOTH MAKE
PROGRESS AGAINST THE GERMANS
Hun Guns Busier Against
Haig's Line—French Re-
pulse Two Counter -At-
tacks,
3.ondon Special Cable.—Increas-
ing activity of the German artillery
along the British front between the
Scarp. and Croisellos is reported in
to day's official statement on Lha oper-
ations in northern France, The British
have effected a slight improvement in
their position on the right bank of the
Scarpe. The statement reads:
"Hostile raiding parties were re
Pulsed last night north of Gouzeau•
court and east of Armentieres.
"We unproved our positions slightly
on the right bank of the Scarpe.
"Tho hostile artillery has shown
increased activity on our front he
tween Croisilles and tite Searpe."
FRENCH ALSO GAIN.
Paris, May 20, noon, -•--Further pro-
gress was made by the French on the
Champagne front during the night,
Two Clernlan counter-attacks were re-
pulsed and 120 prisouers taken, accord-
ing to the official statement issued by
the War Office this morning.
The statement follows:
"On the Chemin-des-Dames the
enemy's artillery, vigorously counter•
attacked by ours, showed great activ-
ity from a point north of Jony as far
as the region to the east Of Chevr'eux,
Two German attacks against our
salients east and west of Carney
brought no results. All our positions
were maintained,
"We enlarged appreciably late yes.
terday our positions on both sides of
Mout Carnillet, in the Champagne. In
this attack we took 120 prisoners, of
whom two were officers."
BOER FIGHTS WITH BRITAIN FOR
FREEDOM FORJHE HUMAN RACE
Plain, Striking Speech by
Gen. Smuts On the Cause
and Hope of the Allies.
London 'Cable. ---(via Reuter's Ot-
tawa
ttawa Agency.) --General Smuts, of
South Africa, speaking at an Empire
Day celebration at Stepney, said:
'•1 am a barbarian from the veldt,
a Boer who fought for three years
against you when you were very
wrong indeed. However, we have
helped to convert you and win you
back to the right road of freedom and
liberty, and on that road you are now
making the biggest struggle of your
whole history. I am fighting with
you, and not I alone, but thousands of
my old companions of the Boer war.
Whet.has brought these men into the
struggle? 1 don't think it is love of
the British Empire. It is that they
feel what you all feel—that the great-
est, the most precious and most spirit-
ual forces of the human race are at
-stake,
"Either we are going into the future
under the drill sergeant, on Prussian
lines, or we shall Hove forward as
free men and women. It is not the
battle of the British Islands or the
British Empire. It is the battle of the
world, .And when success . is achieved
I hope we may be all happy to know
that we fought for lasting peace for
mankind, and that for centuries wars
will not be heard of again .on earth."
SHIPS TO BREAK SUB. BLOCKADE
TO BE BUILT OF STEEL NOT WOOD
Latter Impossible, and U. S.
Steel Men Pledge All
Their Resources,
New York Report.—The ships that
the United States Government will
build to defeat the German submarine
campaign and -carry supplies to the
Entente Allies will be constructed of
steel, instead of wood, and the melt
who control the output of iron and
steel in this country have given their
pledge to Major-General George W.
Goethals to furnish the necessary ma-
terials. Informal conferences were ex-
pected to be held here to -day by the
iron and steel manufacturers who at-
tended' the annual convention• of the
which closed last night with the an-
nual dinner.
General Goethals' appeal for the co- •
operation of the iron and steel manu-
facturers found an enthusiastic and
patriotic response at the dinner, after
he hado
t ld teen that the
proposal
to build one thousand 3,000-tonwoden
Alpe in eighteen months "is simply
hopeless."
"Gentlemen,"
said General Goethals,
"when we consider that the birds are
now nesting in the trees that were
to go into these ships, and that these
ships must have a speed of not less
than ten and a half knots if they are
to escape the submarines, the pro-
position was simply hopeless.
"In that contingency I came to New
York and' saw Mr, Farrell (President
of the -United States Steel Corpora-
tion) and was assured by him . that
steel was procurable. I then an•
nouncetl the impossibility of the wood-
en shift programme, and asked for per-
mission to ' change to steel. I fully
succeeded in getting it."
General Goethals emphasized the
fact that no small. task had been un-
dertaken. Hey informed the steel men
with emphasis that the job would re-
quire,. •toe .rapid manufacture of tre-
mendous quantities of structural
forms, as well as the material going
to make .the hulls of -the vessels.
General Goethals said that he want-
ed legislation to prevent the yards
from laying down ships for anyone
else but'the Government.
The resources of the steel and iron
industry will be mobilized to assure
the success
of the steel hi
e s p buitding
plans by a committee headed by Judge
Elbert I1. Gary, and consisting of
Jaynes A. Farrell James Burden, E.
W. S. Clarke, A. C. Dlnkey, Willis L.
KIng, Charles M. Schwab and John A.
Topping.
HINDY'S LINE
SMASHEO BV
ifilled with thick smoke, they went
forward in waves to attack the Ilin-
denburg line to the left of Bulleeourt.
They went very close to our barrage
of fire, which for days had been
winging the German lines with
every size of high -explosive shell and
Ac u N shrapnel, until its broad belt of barb
G7s S ed -wire was torn toe tatters, and of
the Hindenburg trenches there was
Foe's Former Line Battered
to Pieces by British
Artillery,
BATTLE WITH BOMBS
Hot Fight o Small Force
in the Recent Fierce
Struggle,
(By Philip Gibbs,)
War Correspondents' Headquarters,
Cable. --rite- sun ellone again to -day
upon all the landscape of our battle-
fields, and in that part where I walk-
ed for a while just outside Croisilles
to the left of Bulleeourt there were,
strangely enough, long stretches of
green pasture ]and between the Croi-
silles trench, and a long, winding belt
of brown, ulnuttuous earth. The
turmoil of ground, flung up against
the green velvet of grass, was once
a part of the Hindetburg line—that
Part taken a few days ago iii an his-
toric assault northwest of Bullecourt
by English and Scottish troops ---and
now nothing more than an -acre -wide
line of deep shell pits in which Ger-
man bodies lie, routed broken mounds
of concrete emplaaenients. The
enemy was flinging heavy crulrtps into
Croisilles, and front our howitzers,
away along our lines, shells came
whining an
d whistling
overhead be-
fore
e
fore they broke and rinsed pillars of
rosy eteoke in Fontaine, where the
German garrison still lives in ce-
mented shafts and cenArs,
This was the pict1lr'e, bat T road n
htunan drama, which a few clays ago
was ttunttltuous in tate centre of it.
Among some tents were the troops
wile cook this particular part of the
Hindenburg line resting after the
battle. They were English troops of
the west country who had seen most
of the ltardist figlrtipg in this war
before and after ft the battles of the
Somme, and Seottislt lads, who fought
alongside them in the frightful hours
of history, and lost many of their
bravest anti best.
It swag only a few mornings ago,
when in the white Met of tlie date
no sign except by craters, They had;
800 yards to go to the Hiudenburg
front line, and it seemed as a splen-
did young sergeant -major of a l3ritisb
battalion said to me to -day,. ten
times 300 yards, because of the dark-
ness and foulness of the ground, but
these English and Scots kept their
lines wonderfully; Wave after wave
wee closing up a little when their
comrades fell. In what had been the
Higdepburg front line between deep
shell -pits Tay a number of German
dead,end- among the dead stood liv- •
ing men who had crawled up from
tunnels, ashen grey and trembling
and terrorized, They were made pris-
oners and sent back, By this time
officers had fallen and two bodies of
Scots were now commanded by a
young Scottish lieutenant.
This young officer had an anxious
time as the day wore on, In the early.
afternoon the enemy organized an at-
tack on the support line, and for forty
minutes there was a great battle with
bombs, The Scots flung their gren-
ades steadily into the German ranks.
so that at last they fled back, leaving
many dead. Some Germans came out
of a dugout in a communication
trench and checked' our advance, but
again the Scots rallied and drove
them back. Meanwhile parties of Eng-
lislte and Scots attacked the Hinden-
burg sippprt line and did great dam-
age there before falling back, All
through the tray and night, and all
through the next day and night, the
west country men and the Scots held
their ground and Heade strong their
position in the Hindenburg line, and
all thea time stretcher-bearers work•
ed to remove the wour}de4 and signal-
lers laid their lines under heavy fire,
and runners went backwards and for-
wards between Headquarters and the
tornt line until more than half of
them bad dropped. "Alt the men were
splendid," said their colonel to -day,
and he knows because he fought all
through this war as an officer in the
little regular army which is now ,gone
into the great remembrance. His
praise of these Wren who took the
I44indenburg line west of Bullecourt is
` the praise they desire most, because
they would follow hint into worse
Orenof war If if he bade them teats',
knowing his faith and pride in them.
"Here's a heart-rending aeaount of
a cttbrus girl's privation." "Lives in
a hall bedroom, I suppose, and doesn't
get enough to eat?" "Olt, no. It
seems site's the only girl In the 00111-
riany who doesn't own n limousine,"-=-
Dlrntinghanm Age-Wentd,
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HOW TD OBTAIN A BUMPER CRAP OF POTATOES ITALIAN TRW'S DRAWING
EVES NEARER TQ TRIE$TE
Cadorna's Drive On Great Austrian City Goes
Steadily 01 Daspiie Difficulties.
Nearly 5,000 More Priso;lers•••Wirni4s Not
Confined to One Sector.
Potatoes Yield More Actual Food Per Acre Than Any Other Crop --Seed From
Immature Potatoes Gives Best Results ---Plant Early and Control
Insects and Disease by Spraying.
Tho price potatoes are selling for
at the present time is an inducement
for many people who have never
grown potatoes before to grow them
this year, Potatoes on the Toronto
market at the present time are selling
for about the some price Per pound as
wheat, Although prices next fall will
certainly not be as high as they are
now ($4 per bag in Toronto), they will
certainly be high enough to give a
good profit if they have been grown
Properly. Quite apart from the profit,
it is a matter of patriotic duty to
make tlie soil produce as much food
per acre as possible, and in no way
can this be done more effectively
than by growing potatoes.
Ireland, which through misgovern-
ment and the unsupportable burden
of landlordism, has until comparative-
ly recently been a country composed
of poor men and potatoes have al-
ways been the staple crop. The peas-
ants have had to economize, and
found through experience that pota-
toes would produce more actual food
Per acre •than any 'other crop that
could be grown in their country. A
good way to compare foods is by the
amount of starch or its equivalent
they contain. A fairly good crop of
potatoes would be l'50 bushels, and
of wheat 30 bushels per were. 250
bushels of potatoes is equivalent to.
15,000 pounds, which contains 2,850
pounds of starch, 30 bushels of wheat
is equivalent to 1,800 pounds, which
contain 1,283,4 pounds of starch or
its equivalent. Wo thus see that an
acre of potatoes will produce more
than twice as >nuch food as an acre
Of wheat.
In growing potatoes great care
must be taken in selecting the seed.
The best way to do is to select the
seed from the hills as the potatoes
are harvested, chc.osing potatoes from
temperature is low enough. to pre-
vent sprouting, After a few only,; the
potatoes will turn green and the slain
become tougher. The potatoes are
now given a little more heat, but still
kept in a bright place. Front the
seed end will now develop two or
three strong sprouts. The idea of ex -
Posing the potatoes at first is tO
toughen the skin, most of the eyes
will not then develop sprouts, and
practically the whole strength of the
potato is concentrated on the few
sprouts at the end. This is what is
desired, for the fewer the sprouts
there are the larger• the proportion of
marketable potatoes. If the potatoes
are given plenty of light and the
place where they are kept is fairly
cool, the sprouts will become very
strongly attached to the tuber and
will not be broken off unless very
carelessly handled, Tubers will de-
velop more quickly from sprouts made
slowly inabti It cool place than
from sprouts which have grown rapid-
ly 10 a dark place, and the yield will
be heavier, The sprouts should be
about two inches long at time of plant-
ing,
Most crops do best when the seed
bed is firm and compact, but potatoes
grow best when the soil is somewhat
loose, In loose soil the tubers will be
smooth and shapely. On the other
hand, if the soil is firm, potatoes are
nsually misshapen and not so attract-
ive -looking, A. rich, deep, friable,
warm sandy loam soil is therefore to
be preferred but potatoes can be
grown successfully on a variety of .
soils. As a rule the land should be
plowed in the spring rather than the
fah, but if the soil Is fairly heavy fall
plowing may be preferable, because
the frost may help to loosen up the
soil particles. Potatoes should follow
c ever if possible. The manure should
of potatoes. With early potatoes, how,
everchances are taken, and they
are planted several weeks before this.
Early potatoes Should be planted
more shallow than late potatoes, At
the Central Experimental Farm, Ot-
tawa, It was found that planting one
inch deep gave best results, but as
a rule they should be planted four or
five inches deep, The trouble when
they are planted' too shallow is that
they are very liable to be pulled out
when the land is harrowed after the
potatoes are planted, The rows
should be about 2';; feet apart.
After the potatoes are planted the
land should be rolled and then har-
rowed once or twice before the plants
appear above the ground. This will
do away with much weeding and cul-
tivating that would otherwise be re
quired later on.
Level cultivation in some cases will
give better results titan ridging or
billing, In most climates or where
there is not much danger of drought
during the summer months ridging
will give the better results, but if
t o
the soil is loose And there is danger
of its drying out level cultivation
Should be practised.
Potatoes are attacked by several in-
sects and fungus diseases, Fortunate-
ly destructive as these are, the me-
thods for keeping them in control are
comparatively simple, as most of
them can be controlled by the same
means, )insects such as the Colorado
Potato beetle and the Flea Beetle can
be killed .by spraying or dusting the
plants with arsenate of Lead or Paris
Green, Arsenate of lead sticks to
the foliage better than Paris green,
but the latter kills more quickly, A
mixture of 8 ounces of Paris Green
and 1„ pounds of Arsenate of Lead
in 40 gallons of water is better than
either one alone. On account of the
Take no chances with
the time the plants
blight—spray and spray early. Keep the vines covered
are about six Inches high until the crop is harvested.
hills which produce the greatest num-
ber of marketable potatoes. If this
cannot be done the potatoes should
be of a variety that is a high yielder
and from a strain .that is known to
have yielded well in the last few
years. Some good yielding early var-
ieties are Extra Early Eureka, Early
Ohio, Irish Cobbler and Rochester
Rose. Good medium or late varieties
are Davies' Warrior, Empire State,
Rural New Yorker No, 2, Carman No.
1, Gold Coin, Green Mountain and
Wee MacGregor,
CHANGE OF SEED.
The question is .often asked, "Is a
change of seed advisable?" The an-
swer is "No," if the variety is vigor-
ous and yielding well, but it some-
times happens that through disease
and a succession of bad seasons that
the strain becomes weakened in vi-
tality and yield constantly. decreases,
Under these circumstances a change
of seed is advisable.
Potatoes which are immature when
dug will usually give better crops the
following year than potatoes evhtch
have been prematurely ripened by
the dry weather, or even thathare well
ripened normally. It pays, therefore,
to buy seed potatoes from sections
that are cooler and have a shorter
growing season than the district in
which they are to be planted. For this
reason seed potatoes from northern
Ontario should give better results in
the southern part of the province
than those imported from the United
States.
It is, of 4ourse, necessary to use
only clean potatoes, Some varieties
of potatoes are less susceptible to
rot than • others, Varieties that are
comparatively free from rot are Ex7
tra Early .Eureka, Stray Beauty, Irish
Cobbler, Early Ohio, Davies' 'Wartier,
American Wonder and Delaware.
When potatoes are affected with
"Little Potato" disease, or Potato
S,oab, they. should be disinfected be-
fore planting, They should -be soak-
ed for two hours in a solution made
by adding one pound of, formalin to
thirty .gallons of water. Experiments
have showed that whole spotatoes
when used as sets give better results
than cut pieces. but the extrayield
is not sufficient to pay for the extra
expense of the seed, The sets used
should weigh about one ounce, and
have three eyes. When it is desired
to get an extra early crop of potatoes
to latch the early .market,. the pota-
toes are sotnetime's sprouted before
planting. Medium sized potatoes are
selected before they have begun to
sprout and placed in single layers in
shallow boxes or trays with the seed
end up. The boxes are then put in a
bright, airy, tool place, where the
be applied in the fall on the clover
sod. If the manure is well rotted, how-
ever, equally good results will be ob-
tained by applying it in the spring.
Applications of 15 to 20 tons per acre
of manure will be profitable, but tin-
der no circumstances should long,
strawy manure be annlied in the
spring or the soil may become too
loose and dry out too quickly. The
manure should not be applied in the
drills with the sets, as it tends to
develop scab.
FERTILIZER REQUIREMENTS.
When potatoes are grown extens-
ively artifitie.l fertilizers are usually
applied to supplement the barnyard
manure. Potatoes require a potassic
fertilizer like all other starch -making
plants,:but owing to the high price of
potash at the present time it wilt not
Pay to use it and the barnyard man-
ure should be depended on to supply
the potash required, 400 or 500
pounds of acid phosphate per acre
will probably be profitable and if
early potatoes are grown a top dress-
ing of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda
per acre may be given after the plants
are un a few inches. Alkaline fertil-
izers, such as wood ashes, cynamide
and basic slag should be avoided, as
SPRAYING A PAYING PROPOSITION
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184.1
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189.0 .
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Top
195.2
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Top and
Bottom
197.7
The above gives the average of
three years' tests made at the On-
tario Agricultural College in spray-
ing potatoes with Bordeaux mix-
ture. The results show that fre-
quent, thorough, spraying pays.
with Bordeaux
they, like barnyard manure, tend to
induce scab,•
Potatoes should be planted as early
as possible, but they, must, not be t
planted too early, or the young vines !
may be nipped with frost. A safe
rule is to plant a week before tate
last frost is likely to occur•. In most
localities in Ontario May 15 is about
the right time to plant the main -crop
mixture from
high price „P&Ui'bemany will
prefer to usef arsenri6 ate oftt lead alone,
3X pounds of arsenate of lead should
be used to 40 gallons of water.
The Early and Late Blights can be
controlled by spraying with Bordeaux
mixture. It will not kill the .blight
once it has started, but it will prevent
it, so that it is necessary to spray
early. Spraying should be started
when the plants are about six inches
high and the vines should be kept cov-
ered until the. Crop is harvested, Late
blight starts on the
under surface
of
the leaves, so that thorough spray-
ing
praying is essential. The figures given in
the table of the results obtained at
the OnarIo Agricultural College
show
that frequent and thorough spraying
pays. When the potatoes were un-
sprayed the yield was 179.1 bushels
but when they were sprayed five
times the yield was 195.2 bushels.
When the under as well as the upper
surfaces of the leaves were sprayed
three times the yield rose to 197.7
bushels per acre. This shows that if
the potatoes are thoroughly sprayed
less sprayings are necessary.
The Bordeaux mixture is made from
six pounds of copper sulphate, four
pounds of unslaked lime, and forty
gallons Of water. Dissolve the un -
slaked lime in water and snake the
solution up to twenty gallons. Strain
the solution through some coarse
sacking to remove the lumps. Now dis-
solve the copper sulphate in water
and make the solution up to twenty
,;allows. Mix the line solution and
copper solution together, stirring con-
stantly while the mixing is taking
place. Do not mix the lime and cop-
per solutions before diluting, or a
coarse precipitate will be formed,
which is liable to clog the nozzles of
the sprayer. It is necessary to tee'
the mixed solution to be sure the
enough lime has been added to nen
Utilize all the copper as if the copper
has not been neutralized it will burn
the foliage. This can be very easily
done by testing the solution with some
red litmus paper that can be bought
at the druggists for a few cents. If
the solution ttu'ne the litmus paper
blue enough lune has been added if
the lit'•'us paper, however, retltalns
red, itee s limo will have t6 bo added.
As has been stated above, the spray-
ing with the Bordeaux mixture should
be started early in the season and eon -
tinned until the crop Is harvested.
Whenever potato bugs appear the re-
quired amount of Arsenate of Lead or
Paris Green should be added to the
Bordeaux mixture to kill them, Thee
poisons are just as effective When
mixed with Bordeaux nlixttlre tis
when used wpuwater,
--- fhpith C nhredlen CqufltrXman.
ALL HOSPITAL
SNAPSCNK
To �
Huns Notify Allies as to
"Barred Zone" Sailings.
Regarded as War Vessels,
and So Treated,
Loddon. May 27.—The intention Of
the Berman Government to oink all
Entente hoepitai ships in the entire
"barred zone," with the eiteeption of
certain ships from Salonika to Gibral-
tar, is genii -officially a.nnouncd in
Ilerliti, according to a Reuter de#altatcll
from Aneoterdam, The German an-
nouncement tenwas made
in reference e to
aunc
Ilritiubnt clenials of the German allega-
tions that the British mist:sed hospital
she.u - It se e
ral instances
v c
• cited •
t o d the eot'
which, it was a:�serted, i r vs'
reetneds of the German accusation,
Tlle•••aeiui•off;eial announeeneent read
in .fart:',
"The Germalt Government will in •
the future prevent all traffic by hos-
Pital Otte in the entire barred zona •
and in the Mediterranean, including
the road left open for Greece, and
will regard hospital slops appearing
g
therein as war vcceels and attack
them immediately."
Germany, tite announcement addo,
will allow trio transport of the 111 and
wounded from Salonika on Greek rail-
waycs to Kalamata harbor and thence
on hospital •shires to Gibraltar on th
following eonditiono:
rirsaly----•'Throne hospital oltlps on
Use read left open tO Greek t311ipping
must proceed at a rate of speed pre-
viously reported orted to the Herman Gov-
ern Ment.
"Sceondly--That the name of the
h tim of arrival or d
vc gel and t e o e
tarturo comnnitnicated to the Ger-
manhe Government oix weeks' in ad-
vnndr..
"Tl>Irdly--That a representative of
the neutral Government representing
tl,,erntany',t interests in the i>artieular
Country in question taltall certify be:
fore the departure of the hospital chip
that ehe Carrico only the 111, wounded
antl nurses, and no goods other than
materials for treat:ag theme,
Eddie, who had always attencred a
Uaptiet Sunday school, was taken op
a visit to Sunday eohool at a Metho
dist church, afamnia, hew is t1>vis, .
ho taald. "1: thought you said Me was
tt Methodist Sunday echool,"So it
waa, my dear," "Well, but- mamma,
the Ikoon was all about John the Bak
tait,•i-4X'htl Chrtatian Herald.
London, May 27.—The Jtallan army
has been victorious again in its big of-
fensive toward Trieste. Unwearied by
previous efforts Oen. Cadorna's infan-
try Friday stormed large sections of
the Austrian second line of defence of
the rocky hills of the Carso plateau,
and to the north held firmly against
most violent counter-attacks all the
captured ground on the Isonzo.
he this clay of tremendous Lighting
the Italians took 3,500 1''esh prisoners
Following up their successes Friday,
the Italians op Saturday smashed
through the Austro-Hungarian posi-
tions between Jamlano and the Gulf
of Trieste, passing the Monteleone
Duino railway northeast of San
Giovanni, after establishing them-
selves within a few hundred yards of
the village of Medeazza,' North or
Playa the Italians carried the heights
at the .head of the Palliova valley, thus
Joining their Mont Gucco lines with
those on Hill 363. Eleven guns were
captured, and more than 1,200 Austro -
Hungarians were taken prisouers.
The surest testimony to the strength
of the Malian oifensire is that since
the first attack on the Isonzo on May
14 these troops have captured 24.619
Austrians of whom 487 are officers.
This is a total t>f prisoners equal to
that taken by either the British or
French in their of'ensives, in a con-
siderably longer •space of time,
`.Che Austrian general staff, too,
bears witness to what a powerful ma-
chine the Italian army has now be-
come, and what terrific blows it Call
deal. "Never in the two years of
fighting just completed," says the
Austrian official announcement, "has
the heroic Isonzo army had to fano
greater efforts of tho enemy,"
ADVANCE A MILE,
On a six -mile front on the soutb-
ern Carso, from the Gulf of Trieste to
Castagnavizza, the Italian infantry
renewed their attack yesterday after-
noon and pushed lorwara everywlter'e
At some points the advance attained a
depth of a mile, and this on a front
of solid rock, honeycombed with cav-
erns, studded with steel arid concrete
fortresses and bristling with cannon
and machine guns.
1t the southern enol of this front
the Italians swept cls tp the plateau
north of Durno, driving the Austriaus
from all the heights between the vil-
lage of Flongar and Medeazza, which
is straight north of Dsttno. This sin-
gle success would he a splendid day's
work, for the terrain is of tremen-
dous difficulty,
At the serve time storming columns
north and south of the plateau had
also advanced, fighting through the
trench systems at the mouth of the
Timavo River, near Lokovac and San
Giovanni, and also the Brestovea
road, near Komarje.
Still further to the north, on the
main mass of the Carson plateau, Ital-
ian stubborness in attack won a not-
able victory. The Austrian trench
labyrinth east of Bosconralo, or Hudi
Log, as terrible a position to
assault as any German field fortress'
on the western was riddled by theitat=
Ian infantry with their bombe and
bayonets, This enabled a oolumn ad-
vancing from Versie to clamber to the
opmmlt of Hill 220 be aide the Cas-
tagnavizza road and southeast of
l3oscomalo. Trenches near Castag-
navizza also were taken.
AUSTRIAN LINES SMASHED,
In the whole attach the Iteliane
smashed the Austrian defence system
from the 'intavp to Jamlano, to which
they reported yesterday the Auetriane
had fallen back after their brut line
had been broken in the original
Italian attack, Th0re remains new to
the Austrians little of their fit* two
lines here on a front Of four utiles
ancl. rhos'@,
All about the Vodlce ridge the
Italian Second Army was also fighting
fiercely to hold' what it had gained in
the offensive beginning May 14, It
succeeded completely. After; violent
artillery fire elle Austrians again
swarmed to recapture 11111 652, the
apex of the Vodlce. They tried many
timed, and the final result wa sa com-
plete repulse with 300 prisoners taken.
Italian aviatoro bore well their part
in the offensive, They showed them-
selves no legis enterprising triad their
Britieh allies, adopting succesofelly
the same tactics the Britialt originat-
ed, flying far behind the Austrian
linea, swooping down on marching ins
(Sultry and 'prayitig them with
machine-gun bullets, beetles the umeal
rtuaidrnined g eafttltaetia'dv. ]h'eryope et them re -
To -day's Austrian statement, though
It speaks of the Austrian defence. In
tonne of pratese that are reelliniseent
of the grandtosn Gorman official state•
menta on the I3ritish and French of-
fenon;'tsivee, also adopts tite Gamlen view-
point "the enemy' did not `break
through 'and consequently wo have
w
REACHED ENEMY'S GUNS,
Sunday's War Office statement mid:
During the tomtit day of the furious
battle on the Cando the positions occu-
pied on the southern Part of the
plateau were extended by the uitttrigg
efforts of our troops. The poeitions
already captured -la the other actors
were firmly tuaintatned:
"Air artillery optic», all along the
line continued • fiercely frons sunrise
until everting. In the afternoon be•
tween the coast and Jamlano our ins
Pantry by a brilliant assault
suc-
ceeds'd in reaching,a point beyond the
railway from 9ionfali;one to Durno,
northeast of San Giovanni, and car-
tied the etrcogly fortified1 Hill 145,
southwest of Medeazza. They estate
lisped themselves a few ltttndretl yards
from the village, Daring thin aetlon
some of our icefetttry teapltecl the
enemy's guns, capturing a field bat-
tery of .ten guns with ammunition,
and 812 prisoners, Including 34
officers.
"North of Janeiano violent attacks
and counter-attacks followed itt sue-
eession all day supported by pptillpry
fire.
"Castagulavizze aleo was reached
and passed, but the persistent and
eoneontrated shelling by Many bot-
teries eotmpelled us to evaeuate
ground there, We maintained a hold
eft the western boundary.
"In the area east and ltorth of
Goeleli} the artillery, action was ill-
tensecentr, We shelled the basins of Bri•
toy°, In which are the enemy supplies
os,
"In the Plava sector infantry of the
Udine Brigade and the 95th and 96th
Regiments brilliantly carried the
heights at the head of the Polliova
Valley, thus connecting our Mont
Gucco lines with those on Hill 363.
They took 438 prisoners, including 10
gfficers, and one gun, two trench
mortars and seven machine guns,
"Our aircraft continued their suc.
cessful bombing raids on the enemy's
communications. The railway station
at San Lucia of Tolmino was severely
damaged. Our machines all returned
safely, During the air lighting above
Britovo an enemy machine was
brought down. Another fell in flames
near Vertoiba."
FOUGHT HAND-TO-HAND.
Saturday's statement said: "Heavy
righting still continues on the Carso,
where our gallant troops yesterday
carried another strongly -fortified en-
emy position, capturing 3,500 prison-
ers and much war material. After
intense artillery preparation lasting.
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
infantry of the Seventh Army Corps
vigorously attacked and carried the
network of trenches extending from
the mouth of the Timava River to a
point east of Jamlano, and took pos-
session of the heights between Flon-
dar and Medeazza. Further north,
after severe hand-to•hand fighting,
the enemy's defences at the labyrinth
east of Bosconralo were broken, and
Hill 220, southeast of the village, and
trenches around Castagnavizza were
taken,
"The operations on the northern
sector of the Carso wore confined al-
most exclusively to artillery actions.
We extended our positions on Hill
174, north of Tivoli.
"The fighting was very heavy in the
VodIce area, where the enemy made
every effort to dislodge us from the
important point, Hill 652, which, how-
ever, remained firmly in our posses-
sion. After violent artillery prepara-
tion dense masses of the enemy yes-
terday a;ain attempted repeatedly
and stubbornly to attack our lined.
The splendid resistance of our troops
maintained our positions and the en-
ceny was time after time driven back
with heavy loss, leaving more ` than
300 prisoners in our hands. In the
Piave zone we made further progress
on the slopes of Hill 363 in the Rogat
valley,
"Our airmen flew in great numbers
over the enemy's back lines yesterday,
bombed railway works, ammunition
dumps and batteries and attacked
enemy infantry on the march with
machine guns. All the airmen return-
ed safely. One enemy machine was
brought down."
4..
NUNS SUFFER
NERVY LOSSES
TO THE FRENCH
Enter Trenches Near Che -
min -des -Dames, but Are
Soon Driven Out.
LOSE 2., BATTALIONS -
Wiped Out in Attacking
French Positions Near
Chevreux,
purls Cable says—North of the
Chemin-des-Dames, in the region of
Pantheon, the Germane in heavy at-
tacks succeeded in entering French
first-line trenches, according to the
French official communication issued
this evening. Immediate counter-at-
tacks by the French, however, drove
the forces of the German Crown
Prince from most of the captured ele-
ments,
General Petain's forces frave occu-
pied moot of the Chevreux wood eaet
of Crennne, after inflicting heavy
losses on the Germans and taking 30
prisoners, Two German battalions
were almost annihilated by the
French.
Friday night's War Office report
said:
"hollowing a very heavy bombard-
ment of our trenches to the north-
west. of Bray-en-Laonnois the Ger-
mane threw forward three strong
colutnns in an attack against a salient
in our line in the sector of Pantheon
to the north of the Chemin-des-
Ttanice.
"Notwithstanding bloody lasses the
Germans, after several attempts, suc-
ceeded in securing a, foothold in soma
Points of our advanced trenches. Wo
tmtnediately started counter-attacks
vhftlenabledus tores'
ilrt
ur
e moat
of the elements •occupled by the
enemy.
"During tate counter-attacks we Car,•
t andtwo
fiftyprisoners
ttr o 1 0
t e ;shout2
a,
b
machine gime.
"During the attack of the.22nd Inca
on the Vauclerc dplateau our troops
captured three field -Pieces,
"re the region of Chevreux the
enemy hits Contented himself with
shelling the positions we captured yea-
terdaY. According to fresh reports it is
Confirmed that the enemy suffered
during title attack very heavy lessee.
Two Gentian battalions were almost
artiiltiletecl, Our losses Were eotn-
riaratively small. We mado daring the
fighting about 30 erieonere.
"in the Artonne a sudden attack en
the clernean likes in the region of T.a
Ville Morte resulted in our 'taking
Some pr:raotlera. On the remainder of
the front intermittent cannonading ]q
reported."
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