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Exeter Times, 1915-6-24, Page 3TURKISH RGFU&EES' STORIES There is a Shortage of Food, and Government Re. sources Are at a Low Ebb° A despatch from Borne says: A correspondent of• the Idea Nationale, telegraphing from Dedeagatch, gives a terrible picture of prevailing condi- tions in Turkey, which he evidently obtained from refugees from Constan- tinople arriving on the. Bulgarian frontier. The troops, he declares, are short of both food and ammunition, the army is ravaged with typhus and there is an e'tppalling increase in the number of sick, The shortage of coal, too, is pronounced, and the scarcity of fuel is responsible for the immobilizing of the Turkish fleet, which, no longer able to take the offensive, is now anchored in the Sea of Marmora. Talaant Bey, he continues„produces each day for the edification of the population glowing accounts of via- tories on land and sea obtained over France, England and, Russia, ,but the number of sick and wounded arriving in the capital tells other tales. The houses of Christians, especially Greeks in the Phanar quarter, have been sacked by mobs, oftenwith the con- nivance .of the police. Christians at- tempting to flee bean the capital are set upon, robbed and maltreated by the Turkish officials and soldiers. The authorities wink at these out- rages and encourage their perpetra- tion in order to keep alive the flame of hatred of the Moslems against the Christian allies. NEAR THE HEAD OF LAKE GARDA Italians Occupy Mori on the Western Side of the Trentino. A despatch from Rome' says: Ital- ian troops have occupied Mori on the railroad from Rovereto to Arco and Riva, important towns at the head of Lake Garda. As there is only one railroad in this section the fall of eve, Arco and Riva before the Italians in- vading the Trentino from the west- ern side is believed to be only a question of a few days. Mori is about five miles south of Rovereto, the objective of a strong Italian movement, but the road to that place is fortified to such an extent that it will be a hard task for the Italian's to force the Austrian defences. Fierce fighting in the Monte Nero zone, north of Tolmina, on the Isonzo front, is reported in an official re- port from Gen. Cadorna, the chief of staff, issued by the War Department. The Alpine troops are giving a good account of themselves in this region, using mountain paths unknown to the enemy, and falling unawares on the strongly fortified Austrian trenches. Almost all of this region is now in the hands of the Italians. A daring raid by an Italian airship on a railroad station eight miles into the interior from Trieste Is reported in an official announcement, which says: "An Italian dirigible passing over the enemy's entrenched camps threw high explosive bombs on Di- vazza railway centre. Notwithstand- ing the enemy's intense fire the dirig- ible returned undamaged." Divazza is on the railway from .Laibach, the Austrian headquarters, to Trieste. It is '70 miles from the coast of the Adriatic. A despatch from Verona, the Ital- ian headquarters for the Trentino op- erations, says that among the prison- ers recently taken in the Lago di Misurima district was a Bavarian, which is taken to indicate that Ger- man troops are aiding the Austrian forces. ENQUIRIES ABOUT PENSIONS. Should be Addressed to President of the Board at Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa says: A statement from the Militia Depart- ment is to the effect that enquiries in regard to pensions should be ad- dressed to the president of the Pen- sions Board in Ottawa, as that of- ficer is in a position to give prompt information in regard to such mat- ters. lee l) pU RF3 ICEC Your Duct©r WILL tell you is a very nutritious and highly digestible food -but it must be pure -Ice Cream to be safe must be macre in a perfectly sanitary Dairy. When you eat City Dairy Ice Cream you get the benefit of the inspection of Toronto's Health Department. The more Ice Cream you eat in summer, the better, health you will have, if it is City Dairy Ice Cream, because, "If it's City Dairy It's Pure that's Sure." For Salo by discriminating Ghopkoapers everywhere. Look fo r the Sign. TORONTO. We want an Agent in every town. Roben,Z L g s'ii4 Signed the Second Note to the Kaiser. The new Secretary of State ad in- terim, and who it is expected will eventually receive the permanent ap- pointment by President Wilson. He was Counsellor of the State Depart- ment, prior to being commissioned to succeed Mr. Bryan, and is an expert in international law. d� FRENCH GAINS AT SIX POINTS Army of 200,000 Germans Burled Attacks Against the • Allied Lines. A despatch from Paris says: The heaviest fighting of many weeks is reported by the 'French War Office. In the north, between Souchez and Neuville, the fighting has been furi- ous. On this front the Germans ar- rayed an army of 200,000 men, with heavy reserves in the rear, drove for- ward against the French in a desper FIGHTING STRENGTH OF ENEMY Nearly Four Million German and Austrian Soldiers Permanently Out of the Field. A despatch from London says: Hilaire Bclloc, the military expert, .es-: timates that the Gelman and Austri-' an losses up to the present total nearer four million men than three million men. He bases this calcula- tion on a careful analysis of the fig- ures of the British casualties given by Premier Asquith in the Commons. Those figures, he points out, show one-fifth of a total of 258,000 are dead. The total British casualties, therefore, work out five to one for each life lost. The total enemy losses; he estimates at six to one per man' killed. Basing this multiple of calcu- lation their losses have been greater than those of the allies. Mr. Belloe believes this multiple is low, for the German lists of killed are belated and the Austrians lost enormously more in proportion in prisoners than the British. To the Prussian lists of killed must be added rather less than one-fifth for non -Prussian lists of the German Empire and further 80 per cent. for Austria and Hungary, Multiplying these by six, Mr. Belloe arrives at 3,250,000 enemy casualties before the great 'Galician effort. This, according to hisestimate, cannot count for less than half a million; this makes a grand total of three and three-quarter millions perman- ently out of the field. "The enemy's potential manhood for actual fighting within the first year," Mr. Belloe con - eludes, "has probably been diminish- DARING AN I A 11j1 0 R kid by nearly one-half from all i causes." 8 1 1 11 BRITAIN IS FULLY AROUSED GREAT CHANGE. HAS COMA OVER THE i.VA.TION, The People Think .and Talk at Nothing Else But the War, .A. cable from London to the Neat York Tribune says: No sign is lacking at the present se time to show that the war has gripe ped the very heart of England. Ore dinary persons think and talk now thing else. As compared with June, 1914, Britain is a new country. A year ago the season was at its very height; restaurants, theatre$, and dressmakers were doing an enore mous business, while the prospect* for the Ascot race meeting furnished the chief theme of conversation. Toe day several fashionable hotels are $q empty that they would be better off if able to close down entirely. Smart restaurants have lowered all their prices, and depend mainly Lieut. Warneford, Who Recently De- on the patronage of offieers on leave strayed a Zeppelin, Killed from the front. The leading milli- ners and costumers have discharged in Paris. over 70 per cent. of their employes and are doing practically nothing. A despatch from Paris says: Lieut. Women are paying no attention to Reginald Warneford, the young Cana- the new fashions, and altering gowns dian aviator who recently won the instead of buying new ones, Expert - Victoria Cross and the Legion of sive private automobiles grow fewer Honor for destroying in mid-air a daily. Zeppelin airship, lost control of a Reeruiting Stimulated. new aeroplane he was testing near One sees thousands of khaki fig - Paris and the machine tumbled from ures marching along the public thor- a great height. Lieut. Warneford oughfares. The entire country has was killed instantly. awakened to the gravity of the situs Henry B. Needham, the American tion, a state of mind due largely to writer in Europe to get impressions the Zeppelin raids, and recruiting from the war, was a passenger with proceeds faster than the authorities Warneford. He, too, was refiled. I can find equipment. The number of The exact P a PICS OF FARM PRODUCTS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES Off AMERICA. Breadstuffs. Toronto, June 22. -• Manitoba Minneapolis, June 22. -Wheat -No. wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.25% to 1 hard, $1.23%;No. 1 Northern, $1.26%; No. 2 Northern, $1.23/, to $1.17 k to $1.25%; No. 2 Northern, $1.241,4; No. 3 Northern, $1.20x/$ to $1.14% to $1.23%; July, $1.16%• $1.213 ,, on track, lake ports. t Corn -No. 3 yellow, 711/,1 to 71%e. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 59 to Oats -No. 3 white, 45% to 46c. Flour 60c; No. 3 C.W., 58 to 59c; extra No. and bran unchanged. 1 feed, 58 to 59o, on track, lake ports. i Duluth, June 22. -Wheat -No. 1 American corn -No. 2 yellow, 80 to hard, $1.24• No. 1 Northern, $1.20 801,ye, on track, lake ports. � to 51.28; No. 2 Northern, $1..15 to Canadian . corn= No. 2 yellow, 78c, $1.20; July, $1.18. on track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 55 to Live Stock Market. 56c; No. 3 white, 54 to 55c, according Toronto June 22. -Butchers' .cat - short -cut back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $28.50, Lard -Compound, tierces, 375 lbs. net, 10%c; pure, tierces, 375 lbs., 12e; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs net, 12x%. United States Markets. to freights outside. ' Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per tle, choice, $8.10 to $8.40; do., good, Tl cause of the accident is car lot, $1.15 to $1.17, according to $7.50 to' $7.80; do., medium, 7.15 unknown, and will remain so, as the men under 30 who have not proffer freights outside. ' 1butchers' bcommon, lls o choice, 6$6.75 0 to : aeroplane and its engine are a mass ed their services is almost infinitesi- Peas-No. 2, nominal, per car lots,Ito $7.10; , mal. Many London regiments are $1.50 to $1.60, according to freights to $7.50; do., good bulls, $6.25 to of tangled wreckage. But the cause holding "rertuiting week." This is outside. . $6.50; do., rough bulls, $5.25 to $6; may be found in part, at least, by the aided by bands and recruiting offi- Barley-Good barley,a1ting GSe, according to $7.25; do., go70 butchers' od, $6.25 to $6.75 $6.50; do.,1 before fact hleavingat tthe Hotel Ritz for the cers, but all state that they are get- freightsarneford remarked fr 73c; fee , g medium, $5.25 to $6; do., common, testingground that he felt sick and ting comparatively few young men, Bckouatide. Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots, e. $5 to $5.75; feeders, good, $6.50 to i dizzy, and would not fly, although because practically all able to serve tor 77c, according to freights outside. $7.25; stockers, 700 to 1,000 lbs., he had been asked to experiment with have already enlisted. Present day Rye -No. 2, nominal, $1.05 to $6.25 to $7.75;, canners and cutters, some new machines. +recruits are most of them married $1.10, according to freights outside. $4 t $5.25; milkers choice each between thirty and forty d medium ' By the time he reached the $via TO DEATH 60 to $95• do., common an -men a ween Manitoba flour -First patents,in $ ; $50 to ; tion rounds however, he had disap- ate re- cent. each 35 to $45, springers, The slacker"has almost isap- ate effort to regain the ground lost jute bags, $7.20; second patents, in ' $ e es 6.50 to x7.50; do.,1 covered his usual buoyancy of Health, s .70 • strong bakers in $35, light ewes, $ tipeered. Of apparently eligible young there during the last few days. lute bags, $G k ' heavy, 4 to $5; do.,bucks,and immediately set about to ascend men to whom recruiters appeal no Jute bags, $6.50, Toronto. In cot- y, $ $3.50 to ' Repeated attacks were hurled back , $4.50 • yearling lambs, $6.50 to in one of the aeroplanes to be tested. more than one in twenty is deliber•- ton bags, SOc more. ' by the French forces, which, striking Ontario flour-V4'inter, 90 per $7.50; spring lambs, 10. $1h to He took the machine up alone, put ately refraining from joining. quickly whir cent. patents $5, se 35 d off cars g e the .Germans were in aboard or To- $14; calves, $4.50 to $10.L5, ops, : it through some of the customary' Making Munitions. nfusion ressed forward making i lits in. ba s. fed and watered $9. o., o d 1' hted without' 1 is rharao- co , p ionto fie 8 g 9.65. manoeuvres an a ig a without Thi, recruiting stimu us important gains on three sides of Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- $0'. 60 to $ good Souchez, and advancing in three di- real freights. Bran, per ton, $25; ' Montreal, June 22. -Sales of ; mishaP teristic of the change which has • d at $8 25 to $8.50: Then he got into the second ma- come over the nation. Practically rections from Neuville. The French batteries during a fierce battle of 24 hours fired nearly 300,000 shells, while the Germans used probably no fewer. The death toll in the face of such artillery work has of necessity been very large. The French War Office admits that the French losses have been serious. It asserts, however, that the German casualties have been even greater. In spite of this fact the spirit and morale of the French troops is said to be excellent. More than 1,000 German prisoners have been made during the struggle -500 on the Souchez-Neuville front and 500 in the Vosges. In the Vosges, Altenhof, a suburb of Metzeral on the River Fecht, has been captured. Steinbeck, a little to the north of Metzeral, has fallen into French hands after a furious assault. It would appear that Souchez, north of Arras, and Metzeral, in the Vosges, are doomed to fall into French hands. The new positions won about Souchez will give the French batteries clean sweep toward the German positions in the town, and the same is true respecting Metzeral. BOARDS TO REPORT ON PENSION CLAIMS Medical Men Will Be Appointed In Every Military Division of Canada. A despatch ' from Ottawa says: Boards of medical men are to be ap- pointed in every military division of Canada in connection with the grant- ing of pensions to wounded soldiers or the families of those killed on active service. Already between 300 and 350 pensions have been granted, most of them being for the families of dead soldiers. It is already apparent that the sum of $2,000,000 set aside for pensions this year will be quite in- sufficient for the purpose. If more is needed before another session of Par- liament it may be obtained by Gov- ernor -General's warrant. The establishment of medical boards in the different divisions will materially assist in the work of pay- ing pensions, which is expected to reach large proportions. Reports will be sent from these medical boards to the pensions board in Ottawa, which will then pass on each case. When a man is temporarily inca- pacitated the practice so far has been to pay him his regular active service pay until he recovers. Where it is evident, however, that the injury will outlast the war, the man is put on .the pension list at Once. The problem of caring for conva- lescents is expected to prove one of the heaviest burdens of the war, and action will shortly be taken to deal specially with it. 3. _. The blood of a man weighs about 201b• shorts, per ton, $27 to $28; middlings, steels were ma e , per ton, $28 to $29; good feed flour, fair at $7.75 to 58, and the lower chine, which was of the same type as all the engineering works throughout per bag, $1.80. grades at from $6 to $7.50. Butch -e the first, and taking Needham as a Britain are now devoting themselves ers' cows brought $4 to $6.75, and ; passenger seared into the air. There in one way or another to making Country Produce. ; bulls front $4.75 to $6.75 per cwt. ' were a few spectators on the grounds munitions. Retired engineers and Butter -Choice dairy, 21 to 23c; ' The market for small meats was i and some of the men connected with men with engineering knowledge, inferior, 18 to 20c; creamery prints,steady' with sales of sheep at $5.50 ; many of them amateurs, are giving to 6.50 per cwt.,yearling lambs at the aerial corps. The machine grid- . 28 to 29c• do.,solids, 26 to 28c. $ed from earth, but there was no hint up their whole t'me to working in Eggs -''Phe • market is steady, $7 to $7.50, and Spring Iambs at ✓ and the young straight new -laid being quoted at 21 $5.50 to $6 each. Calves sold readily . of anything wronb, these ,arteries without pay to in- to 22c per dozen,in case lots, and at prices ranging from $1.5 0to $ 10 eutenant and his American passen- crease the output. , each. The market for hos ger had soon become but a speck in' `}-omen Doing Their Share. selects, 23 to 24c. ' weaker, and sales of selected lots the sky. It was a perfect day for Beans -The market is quiet at were made at $9.50 to $9.90, and testing work. The sky was clear and More than 100,0:,0 women have $3.10 to $3.15 for prime, and $3.20 heavy mixed lots at $8.50 to $9 per - there was no wind. There is no tell- registered them -elves at the labor to $3.25 for hand-picked. cwt, weighed off cars. ing the exact height the aeroplane exchanges as willing to engage in Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 16 to20 Schickens, resse , c; piing 's had attained when the mishap, what- war work. Women _are going into 45 to 50c; fowl, 13 to 15c. LIGHT STEEL HELMETS ever it was, occurred. But it was so every branch of life to fill men's Cheese -The market is easier, be -high that nothing out of the orcin -'places. A new station opened by ing quoted at 183 to 19c for large, FOR FRENCH SOLDIERS ary could be detected by the specta- the Underground Electric Railway is and at 19 to 1914e for twins. tors on the ground until the machine' staffed entirely by women who work P, otteof-Onre, and, 55 to G 50c pern A despatch from Parisn says: Frenchbgicame plunging downward. the elevators, and act as ticket dis- bag, out of store, 45 to in ,soldiers ili the field soon are to begin 4 ' tributory and collectors. carp lots. New Brunswicl:s, car lots, wearing light steel helmets, suggest- Many women aro acting as drivers 55 to 60c per bag. ing in their design the antique head- SPECIAL CONSTABLES ' of motor lorries, others drive milk pieces of men-at-arms. In color they AT ROSS RIFLE FACTORY will be the grey blue, harmonizing Business in Montreal. Montreal, June 22. -Corn -Ameri- can, No. 2 yellow, 80% to 81c. Oats -Canadian Western, No. 3, 59x%; factory Have been sworn in as specie extra No. 1 feed, 591/ c• No. 2 local several months past. white 59c• No 3 local white 58e• No The Ministry of War has adopted a constables to guard the buildings. will beemployed in carts, some are doing postmen's work, and several hundred are taking with the service uniforms which A despatch from Quebec says: the places of commissionaires - old French soldiers have been wearing for Twenty employes of the Ross Rifle• soldiers who rejoined the army. In hotels and clubs they have almost en- tirely filled the vacancies caused by 4 local white, 57c. Barley -Mani- design for this helmet, after aero- Several women wi e `' men enlisting. All this goes to show toba feed, 721/ac. Flour -Manitoba longed examination of various differ- secret service work. This is the re- ; that every class of society is now Sprin^ wheat patents, firsts, $7.30; � °•lying itself up to the war and no- secon:.:,, $6.80; strong bakers', en t es submitted The new helmet .suit of the several fires that have ; will afford consider g e yp , able protection to occurred quite mysteriouslyof late. I thin else. the head from fragments of shells and -�-- There is scarcely a family which is rifle bullets travelling with lessened At the beginning of the war Ger- -,..,..„-.-. er- not personally affected by the strug- velocity. The customary cap will be maany possessed between 1,000 and gle, and the country is rapidly retained for service behind the front. 1,500 aeroplanes. reaching the point where every per son, in some fashion,riS will be assist ing in fighting the Germans. RUSSIANS WIN GREAT, I,rcEss 30,000 WAR CONTRACTSL M Purchasing Commission Will Assume Full Charge. A despatch from Ottawa says: Con- siderably over 30,000 different con- tracts have been let sines the begin- ning of the war, Up to the beginning of last session 11,000 had been let by the Militia Department alone, not taking into account those let by a sub -committee of the Privy Council, and the number has been greatly in - enemy was thrown back in disorder. creased since. The War Purchasing Our notable captures on the Dnies- Commission is now working almost ter above Zurawna in the course of • night and day clearing up the rush of the 14th and 15th include 202 officers contracts. It is probable that Gl- and 8,544 men, 6 guns, 21 machine though the commission will continue guns, caissons and other booty. On the 15th the enemy crossed the Dniester above and Below Niziow. The forces which crossed above were destroyed, and those which crossed below were checked. $6.60; Winter patents, choice, $6.80; straight rollers, $6.40 to $6.50; do., bags, $3 . to $3.10. Rolled oats- Bbls., $6.50 to $6.75; do. bags, 90 lbs., $3 to $3.10. Bran, $26. Shorts, $28. Middlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to $40. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $19 to $20.50. Cheese - Finest westerns, 163'4 to 17e; finest easterns, 15%3 to 15%c. Butter - Choicest creamery, 271/$ to 28c• sec- onds, 26% to 261c. Eggs -Fresh, 22 to 23c; selected, 24 to 25c; No. 2 stock, 19 to 20c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 42% to 45c. Dressed hogs - Abattoir killed, $13.50 to $13.75. Pork -Heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, $29; Canada i Buy Safe Securities While the Market is Low. Our Approved 1 PARTIAL PAYMENT ENT PLAN enables you to buy sate dividend - paying issues in any quantities - one, five, ten twelve, sixteen, thirty, by making a small first payment and balance in monthly instalments as you oan afford - $6, $10, $20, $30, $40. You re- ceive all dividends while making payments, and may sell securi- ties at any timo. Many securi• t es aro selling at below their normal level and at present pcoriceme. s yield a most attractive in- COPV Or FR E iBEoQo #LETT MAll.Es0 0 H REQUEST. M it contains valuable information, which will appeal to thrifty peo- ple e vestments desiring nmol$ e i BEYANT, DUNN & CO 84 8t. rraneoie Xairier Street. Montreal.. MI MRRRS CONSOLIDATED STOCK EXCHANGE I!!!!' NOLFIFIRILA o- n - Vital Portion of the Muscovite Line Holds Finn Against Constant Assaults. A despatch from London says:` A notable success was scored by they Russians on the Dniester above Zur-, awna on June 14 and 15, which re -1 suited in the capture of 8,746 men, including 202 officers, 6 guns, 21 ma- chine guns, caissons and other booty, according to an official statement is- sued in Petrograd. Austro -German forces also are reported to have been hurled back on the same front further to the south-east, while another force which crossed the Dniester above Nizniow was destroyed. In the Shavli region and west of the middle Niemen there has been no essential change. The engagements continue. On the Bzura above So- chaczew we repulsed on the 16th attacks by small German forces. On the Dniester front on the night of the 16th in the sector between the Tismenitza and the Stry Rivers the to use the services of officials of the purchasing branch of the Militia De- partment, it will in future institute a new system by which not only the calling and accepting of tenders for war necessariesi but every step lead- ing up to it, will be directed under its jurisdiction and all information avail able on such subjects on fie its its Compulsory own offices. Her Pride Touched. A teachers' meeting was in pro/ gress, and it was decided that the more difficult subjects should come in the morning, and those that required less application later in the day. His - But While This is Discussed, it is Believed Terms of New Issue Will be Clore Popular. A despatch from London says: That the new war loan will be issued early in July is anticipated by the Stock Exchange, and it is believed that it will be more popular in itsterms than was the first one, the expectation tory was last on the list, and Miss being that it will appeal to even the Wheeler, the young teacher, protested, smallest investors. The Manchester Guardian, although opposing obligatory military service, is discussing the practicability of a compulsory levy from all classes to the war loan. "But it certainly is easier than science or mathematics," the principal insisted. ' "As I teach it," replied the young teacher, "no subject could be mere difficult and confusing." •