The Exeter Advocate, 1915-8-26, Page 3THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET
SINKS ELEVEN GERMAN SHIPS
A New $12,000,000 Battle Cruiser and Ten Other
Ve?s is Sunk or Badly Damaged ".
A despatch from London says;
Russian naval forces in the Gulf of
Riga have won a decided victory over
the German fleet which penetrated
the Gulf on August 19, according to
official Petrograd despatches. The
great German battle cruiser Moltke,
one of the finest ships of her kind
afloat, was destroyed by the Russian
ships, as well as three German cruis-
ers and seven torpedo boats, all un-
named. .
It would appear from the Petro-
grad despatches that the admiral in
command of the Russian naval forces'.
in the Gulf of Riga permitted the Ger-
man fleet to work its way through the
narrow entrance to the gulf, when at
his leisure he directed the attack that
cost the Germans so dearly. Not only,
according to Petrograd, did the Rus-
sian fleet overwhelm the German'
forces, but having destroyed the bul-
wark of the German battle line, final-
ly drove the invaders to flight from
the gulf and into the comparatively
open waters of the baltic.
,But the Russian victory did not
end with the defeat of the German
naval forces. The invading fleet was
accompanied by four enormous trans-
ports, all estimated with troops. These
troops attempted to make a landing
on the shores of Pernov Bay, on the
north-eastern shoulder of the Gulf of
Riga. Either the accompanying war-
ships were unable to support the land-
ing of the troops or the Russian
strategy in some way overcame the
advantage of German naval guns, for
the troops were permitted to land and
were then attacked and exterminated
by the Russian forces at that point.
The Petrograd despatches say that
the Russian troops at Pernov did not
even have the support of artillery.
Furthermore, they were taken com-
pletely by surprise. Row they accom-
plished the utter defeat of a force
which must have numbered some
8,000 men, aided by the gunfire of
convoying warships, and later cap-
tured the transports as well is not ex-
plained.
This account of Russian successes
in the Gulf of Riga was supplied by
the President of the Duma, M. V. Rode
sianko, at Petrograd.
The Russian fleet, says the Petro-
grad despatches, was greatly aided ip
its attack on the German naval forces
by British submarines and destroyers.
This news has been received with the
greatest enthusiasm by the British
public, who are overjoyed tat British
warships participated in what seems
to be a very important defeat to the
Germans.
The Daily Mail's correspondent at
Petrograd telegraphs that the news-
papers containing the news of the vic-
tory of the Russian fleet are selling
as fast as they can be printed. The
people fill the streets talking in
groups, congratulating each other,
and even crying for joy in some cases.
The German fleet in the Baltic is
still strong,in spite of the whipping it
has had, There are eight battleships
and nine cruisers left, but this defeat,
in which the British destroyers are
said to have played a very useful
part, must at all events delay opera-
tions. It has put a fresh heart into
the Russian fleet and in the nation,
and has come just at the moment
when good news was needed.
The battle which has resulted so
disastrouslyto the Germans had been
in progress for two or three days.
Nothing respecting the operations
in this region has been cabled to -day
from Berlin.
Markets Of The World
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Breadstulis.
Toronto, Aug. 24. -No. 1 Northern,;
$1.37%; ; No. 2 Northern, $1.28%;
No. 8 Northern, $1.26%, on track lake
ports; 2c more for immediate de-
livery.
Manitoba oats ---No. 2 C.W., 61e;
No. 3 C.W., 59c; extra No. 1 feed, 58e,!
on track lake ports.
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 86c,
on track lake ports.
Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, nom-
inal, on 'track Toronto.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 57 to
58c; No, 3 white, 56 to 57c, according
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per
car lot, nominal, $1.15; new, $1.04
to $1.05, according to freights out-
side.
Peas --No. 2, nominal.
Barley -Good malting barley, nom-
inal; feed barley, 60c, according to
freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots.
Rye -No. 2, nominal,
Manitoba flour -First patents, in
jute bags, $7; second patents, in jute
bags, $6.50; strong bakers', in jute
bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cotton bags,
10e more.
Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent..
patents, $4.60; do., new, $4.10; sea-
board, or Toronto freights in bags.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights. Bran, $27, per, ton;
shorts, $29 per ton; middlings, $30
per ton; good feed flour, $1.90 per
bag.
Country Produce.
Butter -Fresh dairy, 25 to 26c; in-
ferior, 20 to 22e; creamery prints,
28 to 29%; do., solids, 26 to 27c.
Eggs -No. 1, 22 to 23c per dos., in
ease lots; extras at 24 to 25c.
Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 10
to 11%c; do., retail, 12% to 15c.
Combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. 1,
$1.50 to $2; No. 2, $1 to $2.
Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress-
ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 20 to
21c; fowl, 14 to 15c; ducklings, 17
to 18c.
Cheese -Large, 15 to 15%c; 151
to 15%c for twins. Old cheese,21i/ze.
Provisions.
Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 14%c
per lb., in case lots. Hams Medium,
18 to 18%c; do., heavy, 14% to 15c;
rolls, 15 to 16c; breakfast bacon, 20
to 23c; backs, plain, 22 to 23c; bone.s.
less backs, 25 to 26c. ' •
• Lard -The . market is quiet; pure
lard, tubs, 11% to 12'h4c; do., pails,
12 to 12%c; compound, tubs, 10 to
10%c; do., pails, 10x/ to 10x/2c..
Baled Hay and Straw.
Baled }gay -New, No. 1, per ton,
$17 to $19; No. 2, ton, $15 to $16.
baled straw, ton, •$7.
Business in Montreal.
Montreal Aug, 24.-Corn-Ameri-
can No. 2 yellow, 00 to 91c. Oats--
Canadian western, No. 3, G1i5, to 62c.
Oats --Extra No. 1 feed, 61% to 62e;.
No. 2, local white, 61c; No. 3 local
white, 60c; No. 4, local white, 69c.
Flour -Man. Spring wheat patents,
firsts, $7.10; seconds, $6.60; strong
bakers', $6.40; Winter patents,
choice, $6.25; straight rollers, $5.60
to $5.80; straight rollers, bags,
$2.65 to $2.75. Rolled oats, barrels,
$5.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.90 to
$3, Bran, $26 to $26.50. Shorts, $28.
Middlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $85
to $40. Hay, No. 2 per ton, car lots,
$16 to $17. Cheese, finest western,
12x/ to 12%e; finest easterns, 11%
to 121ec. Butter, choicest creamery,
27% to 27%c; do., seconds, 26% to
26si.'sc. Eggs, fresh, 2? to 28e; select-
ed, 26c; No. 1 stock, 23c; No. 2 stock,
20e. Dressed hogs abattoir killed,
$13.50 to $14. Pork, heavy Canada
short mess, bbls., 36 to 45 pieces, $29;
Canada short cut back, bbls., 45 to
55 pieces, $28.50. Lard, compound,
tierces, 375 lbs., 10e; wood pails, 20
lbs., net, 10%c; pure, tierces, 375 lbs.,
12; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 13
to 13%c.
Live Stock Market.
Toronto, Aug. 24. -Best heavy
steers, $8,60 to $8.85; butchers' cat-
tle, choice, $8 to $8.35; do., good,
$7.40 to $7.60; do., medium, $6.50
.to $7,20; do., common, $5.25 to $5.80;
butchers' bulls, choice, $6.75 to $7.50;
do., good bulls, $6 to $6.50; do., rough
bulls, $5.25 to .$5.75; butchers' cows,
choice, $6.50 to $7.25; do., good,
$6.35 to $6.50; do., medium, $5.25 to
$6; do., common, $4.50 to $5; feed-
ers, good, :$6.50 to $7.50; stockers,
700 to 900 lbs., $6.25 to $7.'25; can-
ners and cutters, $4 to. $5.25, milk-
ers, choice, each, $65 to $100f do.,
common and medium, , each, $35 to
$50; Springers, $50 to $95;' light
ewes, $6 to $7; do., bucks, $3.50 to
$4.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $8;
Spring lambs, cwt., $9 to $9.40 calves,
$8.50 to $10.70; hogs, off cars, $9.15
to $9.40; do., fed and watered, $9 to
$9.10; do., f.o.b., $8.65 to $8.70.
Montreal, Aug. 24. -The demand
from local buyers for the best steers
.on the market was good and sales of
such were made at $7.75, and the low-
er grades ranged from that down to
$5:50, while butchers' cows brought
from $4.50 to $7, and bulls from $4.50
to $7.50 per cwt. The demand from
packers for canning stock was good
and sales of bulls were made. at $4
to $4.50, and cows. at $3.50 to $4 per
cwt. An active 'trade was done in
lambs at $7.50 to $8.25 per cwt., and
a few round lots of very common
stock were sold as low as $6.65, while
sheep brought from $4 to $5.50. The
demand for calves was good at from
$5 to $20 each as to size and quality.
Hogs, $9.40 to $9.50; rougher lots,
$9 to $9.30 per cwt., weighed off cars.
LONDONERS RUSH T O ENLIST
EOLLO INC ZEPPELIN RAID
500 Join; Colors at One• Point and Similar Reports
Were Received. From Other Parts of City
y
A despatch from London says:
When London knew about the recent
Zeppelin raid, which killed ten per-
sons, thousands walked or rode in
taxis and tramcars to the scene. The
vast throng had every appearance of
a crowd out on a Went holiday. If the
Zeppelins were intended to frighten
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the peee'ace the raid has had a con-
trary effect, and simply stirred up the
public as no other event of the war
has done. Recruiting has taken a
sharp spurt all over London. At the
Horse Guards' parade nearly 500 en-
listed and were despatched to ` the
various depots • before the following
midday. Similar ,reports were re-
ceived from other parts of the city.
GERMANY SECURED THIS BASE
JUST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
2 wenty-five years ago .yesterday Great Britain and Germany concluded
the deal by which Helgoland peened into Tendon hands. IL is now
lcno«u as time cradle of time German navy.
ITALY DECLARES FORTRESS RAZED
WAR ON TURKEY IN TWO WEEKS
Ambassadors Have Been Handed
Their Passports and Have
Departed.
A despatch from Rome says; Italy
declared war on Turkey Saturday.
The Turkish Ambassador to Rome,
Naby Bey, has been handed his pass-
ports, Marchese Garroni, the Italian
Ambassador to Constantinople, has
been instructed to notify the Turkish
Government of Italy's intention and
immediately to demand his right of
safe conduct from the country.
The Italian Government has sent to
all its representatives abroad a circu-
lar setting forth the questions at issue
between Italy and Turkey. The des-
patches closes with these words:
"In view of these obvious infrac-
tions of categorical promises made by
the Ottoman Government and follow-
ing up on our ultimatum of August 3
provoked by evasions of the Ottoman
Government, particularly with regard
to the free departure of Italian sub-
jects from Asia Minor. the Italian
Government has sent instructions to
its Ambassador at Constantinople to
declare war. upon Turkey."
Preparations for an extensive cam-
paign against Turkey are known to
have been completed, The military
authorities, however, are maintaining
the strictest secrecy regarding the
objective of their plans. While the
date on which the operations will be-
gin is as little known as the objective,
it is generally supposed that active
warfare against Turkey will com-
mence as soon as Premier Salandra
returns from the Austrian front,
where he went to consult with King
Victor Emmanuel.
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The Athenian Areopagus, or court
of law, used to sit in darkness.
People with musical tastes general-
ly have large and prominent ears.
In trying to raise one chick an old
hen manes exactly as much friss as
she would inbringing up a dozen.
Russian Stronghold on the Vistula-
Narew Rivers Has Been
Captured.
A despatch from London says: The
garrison of the fortress of Nova
Georgievsk which was left behind by
Grand Duke Nicholas when he com-
menced the evacuation of Poland to
delay the advance of German invad-
ers, after accomplishing its task for
just a fortnight, has succumbed to
the heavy siege artillery of the Ger-
mans, which throughout the war has
made every fort attacked by it un-
tenable,
The official German statement an-
nounces that the complete garrison
cm -misted of 85,000 men and six gen-
erals. "Of these more than 20,000
were captured in the final battle
alone," continues the statement. This
raises the question as to whether the
rest of the garrison succeeded in es-
caping and joining the main Russian
forces, which are believed to be still
intact and retreating in good order.
Over '700 guns were captured.
The spoils have not yet been esti-
mated,but they probably are large, as
it had been hoped by the Russians•
that the earthworks around the forti-
fied camp would enable it to hold out
much longer than it has done. It is
now expected by the military obser-
vers that the other Russian fortresses,
such as Brest -Litovsk, Grodno and
Ossowetz,• either will be captured or
given up.
After the fall of Kovno Field Mar-
shal von Hindenburg's army com-
menced again an offensive along the
whole front from the Gulf of Riga to
Kovno, with the object of taking Riga
and the whole Warsaw -Petrograd
railway front Vilna northward.
South of Kovno as far as Grodno
the Russian armies, after the fall of
Kovno; fell back toward. the Niemen
River.
KITCHENER VISITS THE FRONT
AND INSPECTS THE BATTLE LINE
Particular Attention Was Paid to Conditions in the
Champagne and the Woevre • •
A despatch from Paris -says: A
joint inspection of parts of the west-
ern battle line was made by Lord
Kitchener, Great Britain's Secretary
of War, and Alexander Millerand, the
French War Minister. They were
accompanied part of the'time by Gen.
J'offre and Sir John French, Com-
manders -in -Chief of the French and
British armies. The military leaders
paid particular attention to conditions
in the Champagne and the Weevre.
An official rote, which"gives details
of the trip, says Lord Kitchener and
M. Millerand were greatly impressed'
by the splendid appearance of the
troops and their high morale. Sev-
eral conferences were held, but the•
nature of them is not disclosed.
Speakingat the close of a dinner.
M. Millerand declares he felt highly
honored by Lord . Kitchener's visit to
France, and was glad, to learn from
the British Field Marshal's own lips
of the complete accord uniting the
two nations.: Addressing the British
War Minister directly, he said
"Yours is not the only voice which
praises our soldiers, for the enemy
also gives them their due. After a
year of war the enemy no longer has
illusions of winning. He predicts in-
ternal dissentions among his enemies
which he hopes will occur. Already
he is endeavoring to incite neutrals
and places before belligerents veiled
innuendoes of peace.
"Let me assure you France is
united. People, Parliament and Gov-
ernment never have been more firmly
determined, in close accord with our
heroic and faithful allies, never to.
lay down our arms until the day ar-
rives when we shall have attained our
goal, and if the road to Tipperary is
long, the price is sufficiently high to
justify us paying for all the delays,
difficulties and sadnesses along ,the.
road, because the price is the libera-
tion of the world."
Lord Kitchener, speaking in French,
thanked M. Millerand for his kind-
ness in extending an invitation to
visit the French front, and said that
after seeing the splendid troops of
Gen. Jafhre he could understand the
French' victories. He closed by de-
claring that Great Britain was • re-
solved to make • the greatest possible
effort to aid Fiance and tocarry the
war to a finish.
WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC
SUNK WITHOUT WARNING
Act is Looked Upon M a Deliberate Challenge to
Neutrals -Grave . Near Lusitania
A despatch from London says:, The
White Star liner Arabic, one day out
from Liverpool, was sunk 20 miles off
Queenstown by a German submarine,
the torpedo sending her to the bote
tom within ten minutes after the ex-
plosive missive pierced her side.
Four hundred and twenty-three
souls were on board -180 passengers
and 243' crew.
After floating around in lifeboats
for some hours the victims were pick-
ed up by the steamer Primrose and
taken to Queenstown in the morning.
This first big victim of the German
submarine since the Lusitania was
sent to the bottom had no warning, ,
and the fact that there was not great-
er loss of life is due to the wonderful
training and discipline of the crew j
under Captain Finch. White Star i
officials say there were 26 Americans
aboard, 10 passengers and 16 of the
crew. So far .s can be learned the
Arabic carried no securities,
Two British ships reached Queens-
town with about 375 survivors. Of
these 174 were passengers and 217
crew: The rescued included 140 Bri-
tish, 26 residents of the United i
States, three French, one Belgian, ]
three Russians, one Spaniard and one ;
New Zealander.
Passengers arriving in Queenstown;
were in practically an exhausted con-
dition, clue to fright and exposure.
None were able to save any belong-
ings, being ordered to take to the
boats some time before the torpedo
actually hit the steamer.
The Arabic was struck on the star -4
board side about 100 feet from the
stern, one torpedo being sufficient to
do the, work, ,Fortunately for those
on board,the weather was fair and
the sea alm. But the item. which;,
counted for most in saving so many
of the passengers was the splendid
team work and efficiency of the crew,
who managed to load 16 lifeboats and
lower them safely before the steamer
turned over.
The Arabic's grave is about forty
miles south of the spot where the
Lusitania lies. She went down 65
miles south-east of Fastnet Rock and
55 miles south of Old Head of Kin-
sale, bothon the south coast of Ire-
land, in a region where German sub-
marines have been active since the
opening of the war zone decreed.
Saw Vessel Torpedoed.
Some survivors, according to re-
ports received here, say that they bad
just witnessed the torpedoing of a
British steamer, presumably the Dun
eley, and that this had caused great
alarm on board the .Arabic. In their
fright the passengers bad rushed for
life preservers and had barely adjust-
ed them when the German submarine.
turned its torpedo against the ves-
sel's side.
Ten lifeboats and a number of life
rafts were quickly got over the side
of the steamer, and into these a large
number of passengers and members.
of the crew scrambled. Many of the
passengers, however, fell into the wa-
ter, but they got hold of the rafts
and clung to them and later were
rescued. One woman who fell into the
sea screamed, pitifully for help, The
weather and tidal conditions being
favorable, two sailors swam to her
assistance and succeeded in lifting
her upona raft,
ALLIED ADVANCE 'NEW YORK PRESS
WAS SIX MILES ON THE SITUATION
Landing of Troops at Suvla Bay Was
a Brilliant Coup for the
British.
A despatch from Athens says: De-
tails show that in the latest opera-
tions on the Gallipoli Peninsula the
landing at Suvle. Bay was one of the
most brilliant pieces of work yet car-
ried through during this war. The
battle which followed the successful
disembarkation of troops was one of
the most stubborn and sanguinary
battles yet fought for the possession
of Hellespont and Constantinople.
The chief point about the latest
achievement is that it was a complete
and staggering, surprise. The turps
had anticipated a new attack on the
Asiatic side, and they had been fever-
ishly fortifying the coastline as far
south as Point Baba.
Never before in military operations
has any enemy been so completely
hoodwinked. The utmost secrecy as
to the allies' plan was preserved, the
various units composing the landing
force departing from their several
bases each unknown to the other.
They composed the largest force ever
yet thrown from the sea directly into
a hostile country.
The navy took charge of the land-
ing, and hardly had the anchors found
resting places in the sandy sea bot-
tom than hundreds of small boats,
pinnaces, launches, etc., were making
swiftly and silently for the shore.
Every soldier carried three days' ra-
tions, as well as entrenching tools.
As the men landed they formed and
advanced on -both sides of what the
map gives" as a salt lake, but which,
during the burning days of summer,
is a heat -baked, salt -encrusted, un-
even desert. Daylight came, and still
the work was proceeding. With the
greatest possible speed artillery and
supplies in vast quantities were put
on shore, and still no opposition was
experienced.
Unlike experiences at Seddul Bahr
and Gaba Tepe, the warships were
silent, and for 24 hours the landing
operations was carried out -without a
single- shot from big guns or rifles
being. fired. The northern section of
the great force moved forward in a
north-easterly direction, and - the
southern section advanced in a south-
eastern direction toward the left of
the "Anzac" lines. The only Turks
on the spot,' an observation post of 50
men, surrendered to the first comers,
and no enemy was reported in sight
until almost nightfall, when our ad-
vanced forces were six miles inland.
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SANIf GERMAN CRUISER.
A despatch from London says:
Reuter's correspondent in. Petrograd
sends the following Russian state-
Ment: A British submarine has suc-
cessfully torpedoed''a German cruiser.
in the Baltic.
s`Only One Road Remains Open"
Declares the New York
Tribune.
A Despatch from New York says:
Under the caption "Deliberately Un-
friendly," the New York Tribune
says editorially:
"In every detail the German attack
upon the Arabic fulfills President
Wilson's definition of an act 'deliber•
ately unfriendly' to the United
. States.
"Since this is the case; only one
road remains open to Mr. Wilson;
there is only one course that he can
follow with dignity and with honor.
Without delay, further protest, any
diplomatic exchange whatsoever, the.
German Ambassador in Washington
should receive his passports, the
American Ambassador in Berlin
should be recalled.
"It is time to have done with a na-
tion which has repudiated every scrap
of international law. It is time to
have done with a State which has
adopted a policy which is alike a chal-
lenge to humanity and a negation of
all that civilization means. If the
would-be murderer misses, if his bul-
let goes astray, does society less cer-
tainly incarcerate hint? It is not the
fault of the German commandelbthat
every American on the Arabic was
not- drowned. All that the assassin
could do was done. All that the but-
cher could do to make the massacre
complete was done. If chance spared
Americans, it was chance alone.
"The time has come now to aet.
To talk further is to encourage, not
avoid, murder. It is to compound
with infamy and continue relations
with savagery. It is to write our-
selves down willing victims, as con-
senting to the continued slaughter of
Americans. In the crime of the Ara-
bic the last thin disguise has slipped
from the German beast, and we see
the fact as it is -but we see it un-
afraid." •
The World says editorially: "Is the
destruction of the Axabic Germany's
official reply to the American note ?"
OVER 1,300 CANADIANS'
ARE PRISONERS OF WAR
A despatch from. London says: A
return received here gives the total
number of Canadian prisoners of war
in all parts of Germany up to last
week as 1,305.
Six hundred and thirty-six: of thes6
are at Giessen, 168 at Hanover, 157
at Munster, 53 at Sennelager, 87 at
Meschede, 48 at Paderborn, 46 at
Ohrdruf, and 14 at Oberhausen. The,
remainder are distributed' among Bel-'
glum and North-west Germany.
"What do you think of the two can-
didates?" asked one 'elector o£ an-
other during a recent contest "What
do I think of ahem ?" was the reply.'
"Well, when I look at them i thank
Sunflowers are sometimes used. in Heaven that only one of them can get
the manufacture of cigars. in.
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A despatch
from Rome says: Despatches from Bucharest, assert that
Turkey., is threatening to make a separate, peace with the allies unless• the,
Teutonic powers succeed in supplying her with ammunition.