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The Exeter Advocate, 1916-7-20, Page 3"VICTORY FLOWS IN OUR DIRECTION," SAYS DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Entente Allies Take the Initiative, Never to Be Lost to the Foe .,Again, A despatch from London says; David Lloyd George, British Minister of War, presiding on Thursday at all allied conference on equipment, de- clared that the combined offensive of the allies. had wrenched the initiative from the Germans, never, he trusted, to return. "We have crossed the watershed," he said, "and now victory isbeginning to flow in our direction.This change is due to the improvement in our equipment," The conference was held at the War Office and was participated in by Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions; General Bailieff, Assistant Minister of War of Russia; General Ada11O1io, member e the Italian Ministry of War, and the new British Minister of Munitions, Edwin E. Montagu, " Russians Terrify Teutons, "Since our last munitions confer- ence," said Mr, Lloyd George, "there had been a considerable change in the fortunes of the allies. On that date the great Champagne offensive in the west had just failed to attain its ob- jective, and the French and British armieshad sustained heavy losses without the achievement of any par- ticular success. In the east the enemy bad pressed the gallant armies of ,Russia back some hundreds of miles, and the Balkans had rust been over- run by the Central powers. "The overwhelming victories won by the valiant soldiers of Russia have struck terror into the hearts of our foes, and these, coupled with the im- )nortal defence of Verdun by our Indomitable French comrades, and the brave resistance of the Italians egainst overwhelming odds in the. Southern Alps, have changed the 'hole complexion of the landscape, "Now the combined offensive in the test and west has wrenched out of the hands of the enemy -never, I trust, to return to his grasp, We have crossed the watershed, and now vic- tory is beginning to flow in our direc- tion. "Why`have our prospects improv- ed? The answer is: the equipment of our armies has improved enormously and is continuing to improve, "The British navy until recently, has absorbed more than half the metal workers of this country. The task of building new ships and re- pairing the old ones for the gigantie navy, and fitting and equipping them, occupies the energies of a million men. Most of our new factories are now complete; most of the machinery has been set up. hundreds of thous- ands of men and women, hitherto un- accustomed to metal and chemical work, have been trained for muni- tions making. Steadily Increasing Output. `.`Every month we are turning out hundreds of guns and howitzers, light, medium and heavy, Our heavy guns are rolling in at a great rate and we are turning out nearly twice as much ammunition in a single week -and, what is more, nearly three times as much heavy shell -as we fired in the great offensive in September, al- though the ammunition we expended. in that battle was the result of many weary weeks' accumulation, The new factories and workshops we set up have not yet attained one-third their Lull capacity, but their output is now increasing with great rapidity. Our main difficulties in organization, con- struction, onstruction, equipment, labor supply and readjustment have been solved. If officials, employers and workmen, keep at it with the same zeal and as-; siduity as they have hitherto em- ployed, our supplies will soon be over- whelming, "I cannot help thinking that the improvement in the Russian ammuni- tion has been one of the greatest and most unpleasant surprises the enemy has sustained. Still, our task is but half accomplished. Every great battle furnishes additional proof that this is a war of equipment. More ammuni- tion means more victories and fewer casualties." - BRITISH MAKE - " MORE PROGRESS Appreciably Advance Their Line •At Various Points. A despatch from London says: The British made a further advance north of the Somme, according to a report eceived on Thursday from General. aig. With Contalmaison and the en - ire German first line of defence on. hat and adjoining sectors firmly in their hands the British troops are striking to the eastward against Gambles and Bapaume. Longueval, a junction point on the high road syse tem, and the Heights of Martinpuich, two and a half miles northeast of Con- talmaison, which command the battle- ground for miles around, are the im- mediate objects of their campaign. MAY FORCE CHLOROFORM USE. French Likely to Make It Compulsory in Army Surgery. The French Academy of medicine is considering the advisability of recom- mending the Government to make the use of chloroform compulsory in the army, not only in serioes operations but also in all cases where the treat- ment is painful. At present French soldiers are ob- liged to submit to vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever, but they cannot be compelled to accept chloro- form against their will. A committee has been formed to study the question as well as that of rendering compulsory the injection of, serums in all cases her the latter are declared to be necessary by the doctor. JAIL FOR REFUSING TO MAKE MUNITIONS. War Prisoner Writes of Ottawa Man's Plight. A despatch from Ottawa says: Canadian prisoners in Germany were sentenced to a yearin jail by the Ger- mans for refusing to make war muni- tions, according to a letter received here from Corporal Ian A. Simons, formerly a prisoner in Germany, and now transferred to the internment camp in Switzerland. He writes that Corporal Harry Hogarth, of Ottawa, is one of those who refused to make munitions, and it in expected he will have to serve the year's sentence, which has already been imposed upon him. Steps have been taken to bring it before the authorities, so that it can be investigated, as, according to The Hague tribunal, prisoners of war. are not called upon to make munitions. BRITISH HOLDING NG ON THE TIGRIS RIVER. Gen. Lake's Troops Are at Sannayyat, Fifteen Miles Below Kut. A despatch from London says: The British expedition in Mesopotamia is still at Sannayyat, about fifteen miles below Kut -el -Amara on the Tigris, ac- cording to an official statement issued on Thursday. The statement says that the British forces have been sub- jected to an ineffectual artillery at- tack. Eighty German Merchant Subs? A despatch from Copenhagen says: German newspapers state that eighty new submarines of the.same type as the Deutschland will be built at Kiel and Bremen. Twelve are expected to be completed by August. BRITISH ADVANCE TO A DEPTH OF THREE MILES Take Bazentin and Longueval, Also the Whole of Trones Wood. Germans. Surrendered Freely. A despatch from London says: General Sir Douglas Haig stuck again at. dawn on Friday. The British font has been advanced three melee a the eastward.' It Tests on a lire from Bazentin le- Petit to Longues 1,, Both villagee are in British hands. Beyond th e. latter place , the British 'oops'are fighting forward in the oocied section, in des erate, h 'nd-to- iiand engagements wit op Ge ens. The British advance et its deepest point on Friday eight approximated. three miles. Friday's advance is one of the greatest blows ws yet struck the Ger- mane in the Picardy ofl'exisiv . It brings the British southern f rent on an even line with ' the French. at kardecourt •nnd ; puts the ,British. in . good 'nos: tion to drive a wedge be'' tween Thiaumont and Peronne, the two main German bases on this front. Longueval was the junction point of several important highroads, which had been of much value to the Teu- toine,.while on the north of Friday's front of attack the. British are ap- poaching the Pozieres, another strongly defended village on the road to the commanding heights of Martin - Mich. They are now within two miles of this crest line, the capture of which Would give them„ artillery control "'ea the neighborhood and serve as a serious menace to Bapaume. A despatch from Reuter's corre- spondent 'on the British front says that the German second line was car- ried with small loss, and the Germans surrendered freely. Marketsof the World CANADA'S SAYINGS OW DURING WAR Breadstuirs, !orontb, July 1S -1Vianitobe Wheat-, No. 1 Northern, $1.239 ; No. 2 do., 31.22; No. 3 do., $1.19, on track nay ports. Manitoba Oats- No. 2 C.W:, 518e ; N. 3 C.W„ 503e ; extra .No, 1 feed.. 59 c ; No 1 feed; 508o ; No. R feed, 49 G. on track, Bay ports. American corn --No, 3 yellow, 88Ae, on track, Toronto. Ontario oats --No. 2 white, 47 to 480„ according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 1 commereial, 97 to 98e „_•No, 2 do, 93 to 95c ; No. 3 do., 87 to 89c ; feed, 85 to 86o., nominal, re- cording tofreights outside. Peas -No. 2, nominal, 31.70 to 31.80 ; according to sample, 31.25 to 11.50, ac- cording to •freights outside During Fast Twenty Month Rave Increased Over $100,000,000. A despatch from Ottawa says The consolidated revenue of Canada for the three months of the fiscal year ending June 30 was $5.0,772,903,92, and the expenditure was $31,055,289,. Barley--Maitin barley, nominal, 65 The revenue from all sources amount- ta 660 ; feed bar�3er. nomnal, 60 to 62c, ed to $56,000,000. according to freights outside. , 0,000. Of this expendi- 73uckwheat--Nominal, 70 to 71c., ac- ture only $10,528,045 comes 'under cording to treiohts outlde, Rye s $ , 94 to 95c.. sconsolidated fund account while 26,- ---No, 1 commerciale- cordinc to freights outside, 527,243 is under capital and $22,173,- Manitoba flour --First Patents. to pt: 031 of this is war outlay. In the bags, 36.50 ; second Patents, inu bass, 36.00: strong bakers', in ate month of June last the war expendi- bags, $5.80, Toronto, bore was Ontario flour -Winter, according to $12,439,187.93. During th sample. 34.05 to 34.15, in bags, track three months' period the expenditur Toronto, prompt shipment; $4.12,, bulk on both capital and revenue account seaboard. prompt shipment.Mi freights, bats ilots, ddelivered 1, hpex t ori outside of the capital outlay on w 320 to 332 shorts, per ton. $24 to. $25 , has decreased substantially, due midlings, per ton $25 to 325 ; good feed the policy of rigid economy adhered flour, per bag, $i .55 to $1.60. BRITISH, REACH THIRD UNE: HOLD ALL GROUND GAINED Gen. Rai 's Forcein s Beyonding Foe Back to Third Line Advance Original Teuton Trenches: A despatch from London says: Ex- General Haig's men, in pushing the hausted by the desperate fighting of Germans back to their third line of the days the German and British 4efence, advanced four miles beyond troops on the Somme are restingon the original Gelman lines as they ex - fisted at the beginning of the offensive their arms on Sunday. In the hill on July 1 in the Fricourt-Mametz sec - which has followed what correspond- tor. ents at the front describe as the The force of the renewed British fiercest :fighting of the war,' the Brit- drive is shown not only in the ground ish are consolidating their new poli- gained but in the number of prisoners tions north of the Bazentin-Longue- captured. London reports the taking val line and are bringing up their on Saturday of mare than 2,000 Ger. e heavy artillery preparatory to resum- mans, the total since the start of the s ing the great drive toward Peronne, offensive now being in excess of ar The British offensive was resumed 10,000. to Saturday and the advance of their In the course of the operations, the to thrust reached the third line of the correspondent adds, detachments of German defences north of the Somme. the Dragoon Guards and the Deccan Berlin officially admitted that Gen- Horse (a crack Indian cavalry com- eral Sir Douglas Haig's forces had mend) went into action. They charged gained some ground and that they an enemy position, killing sixteen had occupied Trones Wood, The Ger- and capturing thirty-four. The oper - man resistance has been stubborn, but ation was small, but it was the first the British were able, thus far, to re- time that cavalry was employed as taro the positions won, such since the early stages of the war, by the spending departments of the Provisions, government. The June revenue increased from $11,433,970 to $17,600,149, the in- crease being found in nearly all brandies including $4,000,000 in cue - toms. The buoyancy of the Dominion's fi- nancial situation is shown through - Bacon, long clear, 18 to 183/4e. Per lb. Hams -Medium, 24 to 244c ; 60....heavy. 208 to 21c • rolls, 19 to 198c •. breakfast bacon. 25 to 27c; backs. plain, 268 to 27hc .• boneless backs, 298 to 301e. Lard -Pure lard. tierces, 17 to 171e ; and pails, 178 to 171e ; compound, 14 to Country Produce. 3lutter-fresh dairy, choice. 25 to 27c; oub the statement, The total asset ��T interior, 23 to 24e ; creamery, prints, 29 of the Dominion on June 30 wen 4 NEW GUN REPLACES to 33c ; inferior, 28 to 29e.. 1Oggs--Newaatd, 29 to 30e ; de., in $420,395,783 as against $257,943,948 a cartons, 31 to 330, ago. Beans -$4.50 to $5.00, the latter for The net debt increased hand-picked, from $450,2$7,721 to $593,910,637, Cheese -New, large, 18c ; twins, 1830; but the increase for the month was iplets 188c s e Mapls Sxrup--Prices are steady at 11.40 to 11.50 per Iranerial gallon. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 25 to 270 ; fowl, 23 to 2Gc. Potatoes ---Now Brunswisks quoted at� the British Geverinement now totals 32.00 per bag; Western. $185, $i50,000,000. Munition orders to this Moatryeai Markets!. I amount have been placed in Canada. Na 2 tyell w, 91. to8 920 or oats Cana-' by, the Imperial Government. than western. No. 2, 54 to 5480 ; dc., No. Canadian deposits on savings se - 3. 53 to 538e ; No. 1 feed. 53 to- G33e; . No, 2 local white, 530 ; Na. 8 dc.. 520 ; , count total over $700,000,000, having No. 4 do„ Sic. ]'lour --Man, Spring 1nereased a little over $100,000,'000 wheat patents, firsts $6.60: seconds. $6,10 ; strong bakers", 55.90 ; Winter during the 20 menthe of the war. patents. choice. 36,00 to. $6.25 ; stratRht rollers, 35.40 to 55.50 ; do., bags 32.50 to 52.60. Rolled oats. barrels, 35'.05 to 1 Middlings, 525 bags. o DOlbs, Alouiilie 0528 G o HUNGARY LS BITTER Bran 320 to 521. Shorts 323 to 524 $32. Hay -o. 2, per ton, car Iots, $19 to $20,Cheese-Finest western, 16 te• 161e ; do., easterns, 148 to 15c. Butter © ER � S seconds. -Choicest8 to 2 5o. Eggs# lll'resh,350 ;' selected, 32e ; No. 1 stock, 29e ; No. 2 stock, 28c. $16,013,946,95, or nearly $2,000,000 less than a year ago. The credit Canada has extenled bo Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg. July 18. ---Cash quotations Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.163 ; No. 2 Northern, $L144 • No. 3 Northern, $1.119 ; No, 4, $1.061 ; No. 6, 51. ;• No. 6, 9610 ; feed, 923c, Oats -No. 2 C.W., 451c ; No, 3 C.W., 4410 ; eXtra No. 1 Since Beginning of Offensive Against Italy They Exceed 600,000. The London Morning Post has ad - feed, 44%0; No. 1 feed, 445o ; No, 2 vices from Budapest which say that feed, 432o. Barley -No. 3, 755 ; No. 4. the losses of the Austro-Hungarian 71c ; refected, 68c ; teed, 68c. Max -No, 1 N. `4P -C., 51.77 ; No. 2 C. W., $1.74 army during the last six weeks were the subject of discussion in the lobby 'United Stator Markets. ofdespatch the Hungarian Parliament. The Minnea olis, July 18. -Wheat, July 1.15$ ; September, 51.153 ; No. 1 hard. ,' 51.214: No. 1 Northern, $1.16} to 51.10; Dlennbers whc returned from the No. 2 Northern, 51.123 to 1,16.2. Corn-- different fronts where they took part No.°3 yellow, 81 to 32c. Oats -No. 3 white, 39 to 399e. Stour -Fancy patents in the offensive against Italy, also in the tremendous fighting on the Rus- sian front, all agreed that the losses must exceed 600,000 since the begin- ning of the offensive against Italy. The bitterness against the leaders of the army is very great, and at the next sitting of the House the Inde- pendence party will again demand that those responsible for the situation Zive Stock Markets. shall be brought to account, these be - Toronto, July 13. --Choice heavy steers ing the two Archdukes and Gen. Con - to $9.10 ; bu0 tch good dcattle, steers, 39.00 rad von Holtztndorf. It is more than to $9.35 do, good, 58.75 to 38.80 ; 60. likely that the House will be dissolve medium, $8.50 to 58.60 ; do, common, 3$7.50 to 7.75 ; butchers' bulls, choice, ed rather than that these high person - 8.00 to $8.25: do, good bulls, $7.45 to ages should be made the subjects of but hers' cows gchobi els' 34.75 to 37.60 ; acrimonious criticism." do, good, $7,25 to 57.35 ; do. medium, A despatch from Bucharest to the 36.25 to 56.75 ; stockers, 700 to 850 lbs, 56.50 to $7.40 ; choice feeders, dehorned, Telegraph says: "Public feeling has $7.60 to 38.00 ; canners and cutters, been deeply stirred by the general 32.75 to $5.00 ; Milkers, choice, each offensive of the allies. Owing to an 75,00 to $95.00 ; do, coin. and mod., ea. g 40.00 to 360.00 ; springrs, 350.00 to appreciable lack of meat here the 100.00 ; light ewes, $7,75 to 58.50 ; Government has prohibited eating of sheep, heavy, 55,00 to $6,50 ; spring lambs, per lb., 14e. to. 143e ; calves, it on three days of the week." good to choice, $1.50 to 312.25 ; do, medium, 37.25 to 58.50 ; hogs, feed and Mars, , 5 i 40 tto $11.250 ; dodweighed NEWS OF DEFEATS 510.65. Montreal, July 18-rutobers' steers, KEPT FRO1'if FRANZ JOSEF good, 5'9 to $9.60 medium, $7.75 to 38.75 ; common t' °,'ir. 57,25 to 38.25 ; to $6.25 ; cowsu fair to good, 56 , $7 r medium,$5.25 A despatch from Zurich says :- , t;",il, 36 to $7 ; fair, Members' of the Austrian Imperial 35.50 to 55.75 •, ewornon, 35 to 35.25 ; sheep, 7c ; lambs, 10c ; calves, milk family have been summoned. to Scho- fed, 9c. to roc ; grass fed, 5c ; hogs, enbrunn owingto the illness of the selects, $11.75 to $12.25 ; roughs and Emperor Franz Josef, according to news despatches from .Innsbruck. Several specialists are attending the aged King -Emperor and the news of the war is being withheld from him. GERMAN SUBMARINE RAIDS ENGLISH FISHING FLEET. 100 higher, at 36.25 ; first clears 10c. higher at 35. ; other ""ales unehangod. Bran. 517.50 to 518.00. Duluth, July 18. ---Wheat on track, No. 1 hard. 51.193 ; No, 1 Northern, 51.183 : No. 2 Northern, $1,133, to $1.151 ; No. 1 Northern to arrive, 51.173 ; No, 3 North- ern on track, 31.02 to $1,029. Linseed, on track. 52.01 to 52.013 ; to arrive, 52.01 ;• July, $2.003 bid ; September, 52.013 bid ; October, $2 bid ; November 52 bid: December,$$1.9S8 bid. mixed lots, 310.50 to $11.50 ; sows, 59,75 to 510.25. 460 IRISH REBELS WILL BE RELEASED. A despatch from London says: The advisory committee appointed to con- sider- the cases of men arrested in Ireland during the recent rebellion, and still under detention, has recom- mended the release of 460 of them. '.Chis "recommendation will be given ef- fect immediately, Herbert L. Samuel, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, informed the .House of Commons on Wednesday. 500 GREEK SOLDIERS ATTACK ALLY TRAIN A cable from Paris to a news agency at New York says: -"Des= patches' from Salonica report serious' rioting at Kavala, when 500 Greek steadiers sboamed , a train on which they had been refused transportation. The railroads is controlled by the Anglo-French army. Pickets fired upon the Greek soldiers and drove them off." FOE SANK 101,000 TONS OF SHIPPING DURING JUNE. A' despatch from Berlin says: An official statement issued on Wednes- day night says: "In the month of June sixty-one of the enemy's mer- chantmen, measuring about 101,000 tons, were sunk by German and Aus- trian submarines or by mines." A despatch from London says: Fol- lowing the attack by a German sub- marine on the British port of Seaham Harbor on Tuesday night, a submarine raid on a fishing fleet near the Eng- lish coast was reported by Lloyds on Friday. A German submarine attack.. ed a British fishing fleet off the north- eastern coast and sank the trawlers Florence and Dalhousie and several smaller vessels. EIGHTEEN BULGAR REGIMENTS MUTINY. A despatch from Bucharest says: Eighteen Bulgarian regiments are re- ported to have mutinied, Filing their German officers. • ,t, Airmen Shell. Rhone Town. - A despatch from Paris says: The following official statement was issued on Friday night: "In reprisal for the bombardment by the enemy of . the open town of Luneville on the night of June 24, one of our aviators, fly- ing at an altitude of about 1,500 feet, dropped several shells of large; calibre on the town of Mulheim, on the right bank of the River Rhone." NOTED ROSS RIFLE Canadian Troops at the Front Are Being Re -armed. A despatch froze. Ottawa says: Canadian troops at the front are be- ing re -armed with the new British Enfield rifle,and this rifle, which is now being manufactured both in Great Britain and in the United States by the hundreds of thousands, has been adopted as the uniform service rifle of all the British troops. The Ross rifle, about which there has been so much criticism, will be gradually discarded for all Canadian troops as a service rifle, and the new rifle sub- stituted as it becomes available. The new weapon has a shorter barrel than the Ross rifle, making it more service- able for trench work. It is of smaller bore than either the Ross or the pre- sent Lee -Enfield, but the bore on the new rifle can be easily enlarged to take the present size ammunition un- til new stocks are ready. SECOND DOMESTIC WAR LOAN IN SEPTEMBER. Terms of War Issue Will Be Settled a Few Days Beforehand. A despatch from Ottawa says: Canada will float a second domestic war loan in September, according to an official announcement made here on Thursday by Sir Thomas White, Minister of Finance. The amount, terms, and price, it is stated, will be settled a few days before the issue. GERMAN GUNNERS CHAINED TO GUNS. A despatch from London says: British soldiers on the fighting line and those wounded on the Somme say that they found German machine - gunners lhained to their guns to pre- vent them from retreating. People who know the least are apt bo assume the most. It's the easiest thing in the world to be brave when there is no danger. BRITISH SWEEP SINAI REGION Troops Do Great Work on East- ern Shore of Suez Gulf. A despatch from London says: Two columns of British troops operating on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Suez have raided sixty miles of diffi- cult country held by the Turks, ac- cording to an announcement made on Sunday by the Secretary of the Brit. ish War Office. The statement says; "The Commander -in -Chief of the Mediterranean expeditionary force, telegraphing on Friday, reports that two columns operating from Tor and Abu Seeneima, on the Sinai shore of the Gulf of Suez, have returned to their bases after successful raids of the enemy posts in the peninsula, "Sixty miles of difficult country were traversed, prisoners were taken and live stock secured. Despite opposition and considerable sniping, no casual- ties were sustained by either of the columns." 'BREAD TICKETS TO GET BEER? Good Templars of Germany Oppose Using Barley to Make Beverage. A despatch from Amsterdam says: A protest against the consumption of barley for the making of beer is made in a letter sent to Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg signed by eight thousand members of Good Templar lodges in Germany. The letter points out the "gigantic waste of bread ma- terial" in the use of large quantities of barley for the production of beer. It urges that hereafter beer be only supplied- on breads tickets. Even the man who has not had his appendix removed can find some fun in telling of his visits to the dentist. There is no harm in the younger generation reading the books they do, provided that they do not let their parents get hold of them. A FRENCH WEDGE IN FOE LINE, HUNS ADMIT CRISIS AHEAD Joffre's Forces Close to . Peronne, and Germans are Making Desperate Counter -Attacks. A special cable to the Chicago Daily News from Oswald F. Schutte, in Ber- lin, says: The French have opened the third week of their offensive by driv- ing within a mile of Peronne a wedge into the German lines. The Germans have been making desperate counter- attacks, both north of the Somme and on the French flank at Barleux. The Germans realize that a crisis is still ahead. ' The third week promises even more bloodshed than last week, for reports from the front are far from revealing all the horror of this fearful slaughter. The German press are still forced to rely upon the British eyewitnesses' reports for real stories of the battle. German authorities make nothing pub- lic except dry statements of the gen- eral staff, and reports of German cor- respondents at German headquarters add little. Neither German nor neu- tral correspondents are now allowed anywhere at any of the fronts. . HEROISM OF NEWFOUNDLANDERS IN THE . BATTLE OF THE SOLI s E Only Overseas Troops. Engaged in Operations Behaved With Noble Steadiness and Courage. The London Times correspondent at, British headquarters in France sends the following: "The Newfoundlanders were the only overseas troops engaged in these operations. The story of their heroic partcannot: yet be told in full, but when it is it will make Newfoundland very proud. "The batalion was pushed- up to what may be called the third wave in the attack on probably the most for. midable section of the whole Germain front through an almost overwhelm-, ing artillery fire, and acvross ground: swept by an enfilading machine gun; fire from hidden positions. The men behaved with completely noble steadi- ness and courage,"