The Exeter Advocate, 1918-6-27, Page 7TEUTON FORCES NO LONGER
OUTNUMBER THE FRENCH TROOPS
sltlleiins is Regarded as a Local Offensive and the German Oiijec-
the as ,Sill -Paris and the Channel Ports.
A despatchfrom Paris says: Tile
'heavy dei'eat of the Germans in the
Rheims salient again shows that every
time the French have bad in :front of
them move ' or less equal forces and
have not been overpowered by mum-
-bers the Germans have been made to
feel the superioe fighting quality of
the poilus, : Never, in the opinion of
French military authorities, will .the
Germans break through :these lines"
,At Rheims, as at Noyon, the enemy
/011 'sbort of his elemental surprise.
Everything had been carefully prepar-
ed, French batteries of field and
heavy gun, which liad been placed in
position, quickly answered the Ger-
man bombardment. French air pi-
lots, who had previously reconnoitred
the country, picked out the German
reserves and bombed them, had sig
nalled their presence to the French
guns, whish poured forth a murdering
fire on the enemy's lines and com-
municatione, thereby greatly impeding
the advance of his shock reserve
troops.
Germany's ,impressions of the su-
perior quality ol'. French resistance
are revealed by letters found on
prisoners made in the recent attack.
One of these is typical of the morale
of the German soldier. This letter
says :.Entbusiasm' and ardor' have
disappeared. The German army now
begins to realize that, the time of
easy victories has passed, and that
it will again see its soldiers, piled up
into walls of corpses. The, memory
of Verdun is being refreshed,
,French military circles regard. the
German attack at. Rheims as a local
action: They believe their main ef-
fort will still beeither northward to-
ward' the
o-ward'the channel\ports or southward
toward Paris.
AUSTRIAN ARMY
SHORT OF FOOD
Prisoners Ate on First Day All
Rations Intended to Last Un-
til They Reached Italian
Stores.
A despatch from Italian Army
Headquarters, says: -At the begin -
zing of the offensive the Austrians
Qn bhe front line each received three
rations of meat, one for each clay of
the : attack until they reached the
Italian stores. • They were so hungry,
however, that they ate all of them the
first day.
During a tour of the battlefront the -
correspondent talked with an Austrian
prisoner, a member of - a manufactur-
ing at with offices o aces in all the great
world centres.
"I have been fighting for forty
months;" said the prisoner. `"First,
on the Russian front, where I had an
easy time, and now here, where the
Italians are making things too hot far
Ps. 1s. There is no food for ,the people
of Austria, and next to none 4orr the
army. I' had but a few pieces of
bread and potatoes before the fight
and since the .right began I have had
none.
"The army cannot last more than
a couple of months at the best. There
are no good officers left. ' We have
plenty of ammunition, bat 110 one to
use it properly."
The Italian losses were compara-
tively small, while to. the known .Aus-
trian losses will have to be added the
Many Austrian dead which still en-
cumber the wooded 'mountain sides.
ITALIAN -TRANSPORT TOR-
PEDOED-- 640 PERISHED.
A despatch from Paris says: The
transport. Santa Anna, proceeding
from Bizeria for Malta, was torpedoed,
and sunk, according to the Havas
Agency. There were on board 2,150
soldietrs and native workmen, of
whom 1,512 were saved.
MILITARY SERVICE ACT
HAS SUPPLIED 74,102.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
following statement was issued on
Thursday by the Department of Mil-
itia and Defence:
"In connection with the recent pub-
lished returns, covering the opera-
tions of the Military Service Act, it
is evident from some of the comment
in the press that the form in which
the statement was made out has led
to misunderstanding as to the total
number of men obtained in relation to
the 100,000 reinforcements authoriz-
ed by the statute.
"The total number of men obtain-
ed by the machinery of the Military
Service Act up to June 19 was 57,295,
to which may be added for the pur
`pose of determining the number of
men available, 16,807 ,who have re-
ported voluntarily."
ANOTHER BIG HARVEST
OF TIIE SEA.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
total value in, first hands of sea ;fish.
landed in Canada during the month of
May was $2,238,626, as compared with I
$2,161,571 for the' same month last
.year, according to the monthly state-
ment issued from the Department of
Western Statesman Brands Cattle.
Hon R, 1Vlitchell Provincial. Treasurer of 'Alberta is more than a politician; he is also somewhat a cattle-
man. Herd he is seen aiding in affixing a brand to a calf at Medicine Hat. He is the central figure bending
down. The others are from left to right: James Fleming, President of the Medicine Hat Agricultural Society;
Mr. Conrad, manager of the Assiniboine Hotel (bending over); Walter G. Lynch, manager of the Medicine- Hat
branch of the Bank of Commerce; Lorne M. Laidlow (holding the Rocking Chair brand); Walter Huckvalle, Pre-
sident of, the Western Canada Stock Dealers; J. L. Pearce, owner of the 600 calves branded.
BRITAIN SPENDS
$34,400,000 DAILY"'.
A despatch from London says:
Great Britain's daily average expendi-
ture during the current 'financial guar,=
ter was f6,848,000 (34,400,000), said
Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, in introducing a vote of
credit for £500,000,000 ($2,500,000,-
000) in the House Of -Commons.
Mr. Bonar Law said that the pre-
sent vote, which would bring the to-
tal war - credits to £7,342,000,000,
would cover expenditures until the
end of August.
The debt due Great Britain from
her allies is'6.1,370,000,000, Mr. Boner
Law said, while the dominions owe
£206,000,000.
PARIS AIR DEFENCE
.VASTLY IMPROVED.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Germans have attempted 14 air raids.
upon Paris since Jan. 31, but only
twenty-two of the more than - three
hundred machines which took part
have succeeded in flying over the
city, according, to a record of the en-
emy efforts. Nine of the twenty-two
machines were brought clottni..
the Naval 'Service. _ The statement
says that the fishing was carried - onv
under favorable conditions this year,
but in the more easterly parts of Nova
Scotia ice, which was slow in leaving
the coast, interfered with operations.
•
Teutons Garbed as Italians
Put to Death' When Captured.
A despatch from Ronne says: Ital-
ian military officials learned before
the Austrian offensive began that the
Austrians had dressed` Italian-speak-
ing soldiers in Italian uniforms in or-
der to throw them at a suitable nmo-
ment into the Entente allied lines so
as to provoke panic and disorder. Cap-
tured Austrians so garbed were ..exe-
cuted after a cleumhead.' court-mar-
tial, in accordance with the laws of
war,
AUSTRIAN ALINE DRIVEN IN
BEFORE ITALIAN ONSLAUGHT
Further Gains on Piave River and Towns Recaptured by Allies -
Enemy is Now Twenty Miles Frons Venice.
A despatch from London says: -To - Still farther south, between Fos-
salta and San Dona di Piave, the,
Italians have farther pushed back the
invaders, and unofficial reports assert
that they have recaptured the village
of ° Capo Sile, lying .on the edge of
the marsh region, some twenty miles
east of historic Venice.
It is not outside the range of pos-
sibility that a large number . of the
Austrians are in a fair way to be tak-
en prisoner by the Italians, for a large
number of the pontoon bridges which
they threw across the Piave River
over the 141/4 -mile front between' the
ConegianoRailway •bridge and the
Zenson loop have been carried away on
the bosom of the, swollen stream.' At
any rate the loss of these bridges will
necessarily' seriously impede the rein-
forcement of the Austrians on the A
west bank of the, stream and the re-
plenishment of' their supplies.
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outward appearances the Austrian
offensive in the Italian theatre thus
far has•met with failure all along the
grant from the Venetian Alps to the
-Adriatic Sea. e
In the hill region additional ground
bas been recaptured from the invad'ers,
while along the Piave River, where
iartensive fighting is in progress, at
dome proints with fluctuating results,
the balance toward ultimate victory
peeni.s to sway in favor of the Italian
• arms.
South and east of Asiago the French
:nd Italians, in brilliant counter -of-
fensives, have retaken Pennar, Bertigo
said Costalungs, past .which the Aus-
trians had hoped to push their front
le' ttd gain 'the Astico River Valley',
'Watch lead's to Vicenza on the plains
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FOOD BOARD'S REMINDER OF
STARVATION IN FRANCE.
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
bulletin issued by the Canada Food
Board reads as follows:
The population of France, our
ally in this war, was about 39,000,000
when the war broke out. About 7,-
000,000 able-bodied men were -con-
scripted, 1,000,000 have since been
killed, and over 1,000,000 more were
put out of action. Agricultural pro-
duction has dropped to nearly one-
third. Women, children, old men and
crippled soldiers are struggling to
till the fields of France. horses'were
also conscripted for military service,
and French women hitched themselves
to the plows and harrows in place of
draft animals. Frenchmen are fight-
ing Germans, French women are
fighting starvation. Deaths from
starvation among the allies in Europe
since the, war are estimated at 4,-
790,000.
Keep adding little to little, and soon
there will be quite a heap. -Virgil.
The sun's light in the Tropics is
equal to 5,563 wax candles at a foot
from tthe eye.
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while he's peeling •onions.'
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BRITISH
DAILY DEMOLISH
ZEEBRUGGE REPAIRS.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
The entrance to the harbor at Zee-
brugge is blocked, according to
Lieuts. George Coward and John Read,
of the British Royal Air Force, who
landed in the Province of Zeeland,
Monday, and are to be interned at
The Hague. In an interview publish-
ed in the Telegraaf, they say the Ger-
mans are working day and night to
clear the passage, but each night
British aviators demolish the Ger-
man's progress, The cement ships
sunk in the harbor are still there, and
the Germans are afraid to blow them
up for fear they will also destroy the
sluices. The lieutenants assert that
no submarines can enter or leave Zee-
brugge. The blockade of "Ostend is
not so complete, but the Germans are
having great trouble there.
21 Destroyers, Many U -Boats
Penned Up In Bruges Canal.
A despatch from London says
Twenty-one German destroyers, a
large number of submarines and nu-
merous auxiliary craft are penned up
in the Bruges Canal' docks as the re-
sult of the recent British naval oper-
ations at Zeebrugge, the German sub-
marine base on the Belgian coast.
Thomas J. ,Macnamara, Financial Sec-
retary of -1the Admiralty, made this
announcement in the House of Com-
mons, and said that the operations
were more 'successful than at first
had been supposed. He added that
the German' craft were now the .sub-
ject of eqnstant bombing.
Thereupon the Whole Party
Went Over to the Italian Lines
A despatch with the Italian Armies,
says: -The Italian soldiers tell hum-
orous stories of capleires . eftected by
persuading, the Austrians that they
will be well fed. One Italian officer
who had been wounded and picked up
by a group of Austrians who intended
to make him prisoner explained how
foolish they were. He said: "Come
with me, and you will get meat, wine
and real bread." Thereupon the whole
party went over to the Italian lines.
Garden Dusk.
The cherry branches touch the ground,
The robins come so near
Almost their little feet ,I hear.
The world is round.
And sixteen ounces make a pound.
Drowsed poppies wish that day were
done.
The great bees' curve and pull
The clovers down. How beautiful
The changing sun!
And nine times nine is eighty-one.
The pheasants rise from out the tan-
ned
Tali grass., A bird song beats.
Winds bring their spoils, the gar-
den sweets.
Ten sixty-six was Hastings, and
The Normans conquered Engle -land.
Beneath the sundial to the right,
I hear, beside the row
Of rose trees, where gay branches
throw
Down red and white,
My daughter's lessons every inight.
St9�v�6d
Markets of the World
Breadstuftns
Toronto, Jlino 25-11fanitoba wheat
�a. l Northern, p2,231/2; No. 2 do.,
$2,2052;° No. 3 do., $2.1'11/2; No. 4
wheat, $2.101/2; in store Eort William,
including^2 'itc tax,
Manitoba oate--No. 2 C,.W., 861/2e;
No. 3 C. W , 83„c; extra No, 1 feed,
831/ac; No..1 feed, 80e'ec, in store Fort
William. " ...
;American corn -74o.'3 yellow', kiln
dried iiothinal; No. 4 yellow, kiln
dried, nominal.
Ontario oats -.No, 2 white, '79 to
80e; No. 3 white, '78 to 79c, aeeording
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat --No. 2 Winter, per
car lot, $2.22; basis in store Montreal,
Peas --Nominal.
Barley ---Malting, $1.18 to $1.20, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat -$1,80," according to
freights outside.
Rye --No 22, :1..90, according to"
freights outside.
Manitoba flour. - War quality,
$10.95; new bags, Toronto and Mont-
real freights, prompt shipment.
Ontario flour -War quality, $10.65,
in bags, 'Toronto and Montreal;
prompt shipment.
dill.feed-Car lots -Delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran, per
ton, $35.00; shorts, per ton, $40,00.
Hay -No. 1, per ton, $13,50 to
$14,50; mixed, $12.00 to $13.Q0.
track Toronto. •
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $8.00 to
$8.50, track Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale
Butter -Creamery, solids, per 1b.,
42/ to 43c; prints, per lb., 43 to
431/2c; dairy, per Ib., 35 to 36c.
Eggs -New laid, 36 to 37e.'
Poultry -Roosters, 23 to 25e; fowl,
28 to 30c; ducks, 25 to 30c; turkeys,
27 to ,30c, i
Wholesalers are selling to the retail
trade at the following prices: -
Cheese -New, large, 231 to 24e;
twins, 23,% to 2444.c; old, large, 251/2
to 26c; twin 26 to 2614c.
Butter --Fresh, dairy, choice, 40 to
42c; ereamery prints, fresh made, 45
to 47c; solids, 44 to 45c.
Margarine -28 to 330 lb.
Eggs-Neev laid, 40 to 41c; new laid,
in cartons, 44 to 45c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
65e; roosters, 28c; fowl, 38 to 40c;
turkeys, 40 to 45c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 55c;
roosters, 26c; turkeys, 30c; hens, 33 to
34e,
Beans - Canadian, hand-picked,
bushel, $8.75; imp., hand-picked,
Burma or Indian, $6.75; Japan, $8.50
i o $8.75; .Limas, -8 to 20c.
Maple syrup -31/2 -lb. tins, 10 to a
case, $14.50; imperial gallon •tins, per
tin, $2.25; imperial five -gallon cans,
per can, $10.50; 15 -gallon kegs, per
gal., $2.00; maple sugar 1-1b. box,
pure, per ib", 24 to 25c.
Provisions Wholesale
Smoked, meats -Hams, medium, 3+a
to;38c; do., heavy, 30 to 32c; cooked,
50 to 51e; rolls, 32 to 33c; breakfast
bacon, 41. to 44c ; backs, plain 44 to
45c; boneless 48 to 49c.
Cured meats --Long clear bacon, 30
to 310;clear bellies, 29 to 30c.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 30 � to 811/ c;
tubs, 31, to'3l e c; pails, 3114 to 31%e;
prints, 32%c; to 33%c. Compound.
tierces, 26 to 261st; tubs, 26 / ' to
26%c; pails, 26% to 27c; prints, 2$
to`2814c.
Montreal Markete
Montreal, June 25. -Oats -Cana-
dian Westerl, No. 2, 972c; extra hlo.,
1 feed,' 9414c, Flour -New skindard
grade $10.95 to $11.05. Rolled oats
-Bags, 90 lbs, $5.1.0 to $5,15. Bran,
$35.00. Shorts, $40.00., Mouillie,'
$70:00. Hay --No. 2, per ton, , carr
lots,, $16.50.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, June . 25 -Extra choice
heavy -steers, $15.50 to $16,00; choice
heavy steers, $14.50 to $14.76; but-
chers' cattle, choice, $14.50 to $15.00;
do., good, $13.75 to $14.00; do, med-
ium $12.00 to $12.66; • do, " common,
$11.00 to $11.25; butchers' bulls,
choice, $12.00 to $12.50 do., good
bulls, $11.00 to $11.50; do., rough
bulls, $7.60 to $8.50 • butchers' cows,
choice, $12.00 to $12.50; do. good,
$11fi0 to $11.75; do., medium, $1:0,00
to $10.50• stockers, $9.25 to $11.00;
feeders, $10.00 to $11.50; canners
and 'cutters, $5.50 to $7.50; milkers,
good to choice, $90.00 to $140.00; do.,
coni. and med, $65.00 to $80.00;
springers,' $90.00 to $140.00; light
ewes, $16.25 fo $17.00; yearlings,
$18.50 to $20.00; spring lambs, 23
to 25c; calves, $10.00 to $17.25; hogs,
fed and watered, $18.00; do., weighed
off cars, $18.25; do., f.ob., $17.00.
Montreal, June 25 -Choice steers,
$13.50 to $15.50• good steers, $11.00
to $13.00 • choice butchers' cows $'10.00
to $12.50; poorer quality, 1,7.00 to
$9.50; butchers' bulls, $8.00 to $12.00.
milk -fed calves, $9.60 to $1.6.00; select
hogs $19.00 to $19,50,
Sow beans, peas; ,lettuce, radishes
and carrots for succession,