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Zurich Herald, 1915-05-21, Page 3BRITISH BATTLESII1P SUNK British Submarine EEmq Avenges By Sinking Two Turkish Gunboats A despatch from Loudon says: The British blattlesihip Goliath has been torpedoed in ttheDardanelles. It is feared 500 lives have been lost. Annetneemsemt of the loss of .the Goliath was made in the House of Commons by Winston Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Ad- miralty. Mr. Churchill also announced that the British submarine E-14 had penetrated through the .I)arcla stalks and into tji.e Sea of Mar - more, sinking two.. Turkish gun- boats and a `Turkish transport. Tile Goliath was torpedoed ,and sunk by Turkisth destroyers last night. The Goliath was attacked . and sunk while protecting the flank of the French troops in their land operations. Despatches to the Admiralty from Vice -Admiral. Michael De Ito - beck, coinman1er pf the British fleet in the Dardanelles spaero of operations, ' .said that twenty offer cern and 100 men of the Goliath's crew had been saved, The battle- ship normally carried a complement of 750 hien, The Goliath was a sister slap of the Canopus, Otzeran, Glory,. Albion and Vengeance. She was 'command- ed by: Captiaih Thomas L. Srhelfgrd. The Goliath was one of the older British battleships of the pre dreadnought type. She was . built in 1898. 1ler complement was 750 men. The Goliath was 450 feet Long on the water line and 74 feet' beam. Her displacement was 12,950 toms, She was armed with four 12 -inch and twelve a -inch gune;; twelve 12- pounders, six 3 -pounders and two. machine guns. She had four torpe- do tubes. WILL LOOK RP DALE PRISONERS Those Not of Military Age and Women Are to Be Re- patriated. a A. despatch from London e ys: Premier asquit'h announced in the House .of Comnn.ons that "all male enemies over military age will be repatriated." He ,also said that women and children in suitable cases will be repatriated, though some might remain. The Govern ment proposes to ,segregate all ,adult male enemies for their own safety and for the safety of the country, Premier :Asquith told the House of Commons. In announc- ing the :alien polioy of the Govern- ment the Premier said: "At this moment some 40,000 un - naturalized aliens, of whorl 24,000 are mien, are at large in this coun- try. The Government proposes that all adult males of this class should, four their' own safety and that of the country, be segregated and interned. If over the military age they should- be repatriated. The :Government recognizes there may be cases ealsling for exceptional "Anti -German feeling isrunning tre.atmemt. Women and children in high as the result of the Lusitania suitable oases should be repatriat- ed, but there no doubt will be many cases in which justice and humanity willrequiire that they be allowed to remain. "It would be difficult to fired a parallel for tato feeling of righteous indignation aroused in all classes in this country," the Premier said. "One result of this, unhappily, is that innocent and unoffending per- sons are in .danger of being mmade. to pay the penality for the crimes bis compatriots had been 'spending their time drowning women and chil'dr'en. •He was only saved from a similar fate by the intervention of the police. There were several instaneers .of German butchers trying to escape in their carts.. They went racing 'down the streets at. a mad gallop, but in most ceases they ultimately were run down and their vehicles smashed. A number of Russian Jewesses were flocking this morning to the police stations in the East End and pleading for protection, explaining that they were being mistaken for Germans. Reports are reaching the police that private houses belonging to wealthy Germans • in the fashion- able West End are liable to be burned. • Large placards in the windows of almost all business houses and mar- kets bear 'the words: "No business transacted with Gernnian.s." Anti -German outbreaks of par- ticular severity occurred in the neighborhood of the East India docks. Sixty or eeven,ty German shops were wrecked. Germans in the vicinity are uniting • for ,self- defe;ice and police reinforcements ate being rushed to the scene. Feeling in Johannesburg.' ' of others. Anti -German riots in the East End of London were renewed with even greater violence. Wherever a German showed himself he was at- tacked. The police foroe has been so thinned by drafts sent to the army that it bad difficulty in deed- ing with the angry crowd's. Special constables had to be called out. A number of German establish- ments were raided and sacked and their contents scattered over the streets. The Germans themselves were forced to go into hiding. 'Me police in some oases were defied by the angry crowds, and some officers were injured during their endea- vors t o protect the deutons. The furniture and fittings' of 'German houses and storeys were hurled through windows to the streets. When the proprietors were caught they were severely mauled. In some cases their clothes were torn from their backs. One German was thrown into a horse trough with tate reminder that. tragedy. Extraordinary scenes are being enacted in front of the town hall, where ;orowds of citizens wait patiently for an opportunity to sign petitions to the Mayor re- questing him to call a mass meeting to voice proteets. against Germany's action. "A large German flag is spread on the ground, where the peti- tioners stand while writing their names. Another German flag. was publicly burned in front of the town hall. Placards haveobeen die - played urging a boycott of Ger- mans, and a Stook Exchange com- mittee has adopted a resolution asking members of Teutonic birth to avoid the exchange during the war. "The Mayor has consented to comply with the request that be call a mass meeting." Itept from Calais. A despatch from London says : Donald MacMaster, I.C., informs us that a friend of his who has just returned from Germany says the feeling of ,hatred annorig the Ger- mans is now 'stronger• against the Canadians than the rest of the British forces. They say "If it had not been for the Canadian rats we should have been through to Calais." It takes 2,309 silkworms to pro - dace one pound of silk. TO EARTH CE Z EF F EL.IN R ALLIES FSR Squadron of Allied Airships Engaged Dirigible-- Two of dile Aeroplanes Were Also Destroyed A despatch from London says: The. Daily Mail's ,cor. respond.ent:•at Rotterdam sends an account of an engagement between a Zeppelin. 'incl a squadron of allied aeroplanes in Belgium in 'whish, the Zeppelin and two of thc allied ,aeroplanes were destroyed. -. Two Zeppelins are ,said to have p.. crossed over Brussels travelling westward, One of them returned alone, and' was surrounded and attacked by the aeroplane squad - roil. Many persons counted 27 Machines in the allied fleet, The Zeppelin..neade a spirited fight with its machine guns and tied to es- cape by ssoarinrg, but the aero- planes an,an•oeuvred skilfully and quickly and gave the dirigible no chance to gest away. The Zeppelin was disabled in flees than 15 minutes, and it fell between Brussels and Ghent, Several explosions accona. ponied its fall and all the crew of 00 are 'said to havebeen killred, Two of the aeroplanes were des- brayed es-broyed and their pilots kilned by the Zeppelin's fire. Novel Home of French 'Soldiers Near the Front. These French troops have found comfortable homes in a rabbit hutch near the battlefront. Bach oompartmrent.holds one lean. FIRM STA\ D OF ENITED STATES Wilson Expects Germany to End Submarine War on lVierchanti len A despatch from Washington says : Germany many must abandon her entire submarine programme against merchant vessels if she is fully to satisfy the stand taken by President Wilson in the note sent to Berlin. She must disavow the Lusitania and other outrages upon Aiuesioan life and property of which the United States Complains. She must make reparation "so far as reparation is possible for injur- ies which are without measure,." and she must take "immediate steps" to prevent a recurrence of the attacks on the American flag and on American lives and Ameri- can vessels. No doubt exists here of the diffi culty of the positiou in which this note places Germany. Nothing less than a repudiation of call ,she has 1 GEIBIANS WORSE TRAIT SAAES Crimes of Unparalleled Horror Committed by Kaiser's Armies. A despatch from. London say's When Canadians, secure in their homes thousands of miles away from the devastated' battlefields of France and 13elgiuzn, hear ebonies of crime •and outrage beyond the conception of their wildest imagiria- tione,they may perhaps be excused for being sceptical. But now 'the last vestige of doubt has vanished. The powerful light, of sworn evi- dence taken by .a rspecially picked Imperial Government committee, under the chairmanship of Viscount. Bryce, former British 'Ambassador. at Washington, has been turned on, and Germany, in the eyes of the: civilized world, stands convicted of having deliberately planned and carried out wholesale massacres of crime of unimagined horror. Many months ago Premier As- quith named this committee, whose personnel includes rsuch mien as Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Edward Clarke, Sir Alfred Hopkinson, II. A. L. Fisher (vice-chancellor of the University caf Sheffield), Harold Cox and Kenelm Digby, and in strutted them to earefuliy sift all evidence of "outrages alleged to have been committed by German troops during the present war," This they have clone, and their re- port is a document that will at- tract world-wide attention. The report of this committee has re- peatedly been asked for by indi- viduals and newspapers during the last few months, but the members refused to be hurried, and only published it after they had thor- oughly established the authenticity of every ;statement contained in. it. Couched in simple term's, the re- port lays bare the story of a great German .arm.y ,sweeping across Bel- • giuni literally with fire and sword. 'Organized bodies of troops, direct - done and abandonment of practi- cally all she hopes to do with sub- marines against merchantmen and an admission that she has violated I the laws of nations and humanity will enable Gernnany entirely toI meet the views iso earnestly coma- municated to her by the United States. Stripped of its diplomratic dress, the President's note carries not only the'demands, but a threat 'Stress is laid Upon the expectation of. the United States for prompt action, and as regards the most im- portant demand, that of guaran- tees for the future, "immediate steps" are required. Finally, the plain intimation is conveyed that the note itself is not all Germany must expect if any action is not forthcoming. DROVE GERMANS BACK A MILE British Inflict High Lasses on the Invading Germans North of La Bassee. A despatch from London says The fighting in Flanders and North- ern France, ternporarily ihralted by the rain the end of lest week, was resumed with redoubled fury on Saturday night and Sunday, and resulted in importaaat 'successes for the British and French forces south of Lille, north of Arras,. in Cham- pagne and in Belgium. The Bri- tish army .continues its offensive north of La Baissee, capturing.more then a mile of the enemy's trench- es .at one past, and advancing a mile on a 'half -mile front further south, the German losses in the en- counter, •being leery high. BOTHA. OCCUPIES CAPITAL. Chief City of German South -'West Africa Ras Been Captured. A despatch from London says: An officinal statement made public at Cape Town and received by the Reuter Tlelegram Company says that Windhoek, capittal of 'German South -wast Africa, was captured without resistance by Union of South Africa forces under Gen. Botha: The population of the town consists of 3,000 Europeans anal 12,000 natives. Gen Botha's troops took a considerable quan- tity of railway" rolling stock. Mar- tial law has been proclaimed throughout the conquered terri- tory. Gen. Botha, addressing his vic- torious troops, declared that the eapture of ;the capital of German South-west Africa, was of the "ut- most importance to the Empire and the Union of South Africa, ea it. means practically completeo•sses- rico of German South-west Afri- ca." Continuing, the General dwelt upon the responsibility of the army of occupation to care far German women and children in Windhoek, saying in this connection : "I rely on your !honor to perform this. responsible work well and faithfully." - .z. Many a man is able to lead the simple life because his wife takes in hoarders MARKETS of THE W0310 R'EPORTS FROM THE f.EAOU4C TRADE, CENTRES OF AMERiCA. rsreadstuffs, Toronto, May 18 -Flour-• lilinitotba A,rnI 2wtente quoted at 88.10, in jute (bags; dee. and patents, $7.60; strong bakers', $7:40. 4uterio wheat Sour, 90 per eent. patents, quoted at 86.10 to 86.15, seaboard, and. at 86.1.8 to 86.20, Toronto freight. Wheat -Manitoba No. 1 Northern quot- ed at $1.67; No. 2 at $1.64 1-2, and No. 3 at $1.62 1.2. Ontario wheat is nominal. rut. $1.48 for No, 2 at outside points. Oats -Ontario quoted at 60 to 61o, out- side, and at 63e, Toronto, Western Canada. No. 2 quoted at 67e, and No, 3 nt 68 1-2o, c.11„ Bay ports. Barley --The market is nominal, Good malting grades, 73 to 75e. outside, Rye -'Pico market is dull at $1 to $1,05, outside: Peas -Prices are nominal. Corn -No. 2 new American quoted at Ole, c,i.f., Bay. ports, and No, 3 et 80 1.2e, Bay ports, Buckwheat -No. 2 quoted at 80 to 82c, outside. Bran and shorts -Bran is quoted at $26 a ton, and shone at $28. Rolled oats -Car lots.' per bag of 90 lbs., $3.25, Country Produce. Butter-Oireringe are fairly large. and cricee steady. Choice dairy, 24 to 26c; inferior, 21 to 23c; creamery prints, 32 to 34c; do., selide, 29 to 300. Eggs --The market le steady, with salsa at 220 per dozen, in ease lots. Beane -The market is quiet at $3.10 to $3.15 for prime, and $3.20 to $3.25 for handpicked.' Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 18 to 200; ducks, dressed, 15 to 17e; fowl, 13 to 15e: turkeys, dressed, 20 to 21c.. Cheese -The market is steady, being quoted at 18 3-4e for Targe, and at 19 to 19 l -4c for twine, Potatoes -Ontario, 60 to 65e per 'bag out of store, and 600 d:n ear. lots. New Brune- wiclta, car lots, 60c per bag. ed by officers, systematically mur- dered innocent non-combatants; young girls and women were out- raged, mutilated and murdered; children were the object of the most revolting of crimes. Breaking into shops 'and private houses, German soldiers looted the wine cellars and for days on end debauched them- selves', committing crimes of every description while in e, state of in- toxication. Anxious to be 'scrupu- lously fair, the committee: reports that in some eases German officers themselves were horrified and sick- ened at what was going on, but were forced to continue the slaugh- ter ordered by their superiors. In other cases isolated crimes were committed by individual soldiers. These were very numerous and "more shocking than would be ex- pected in warfare between civilized !powers." 1 . Germany Threatens Reprisals. A despatch from Rotterdam says : 1 The Hamburger Nachriohten, in a 1 telegram from Berlin, :announces i it is •eertain fihat the German Gov - Imminent will immediately make comprehensive reprisals if the mea- sures announced by the British Government for interning all Ger- mans are adopted. SCENE INCRE SBS INTE German Infantry Wretchedly inferior to Artillery and No Attack Has Been Really Pressed Home A despatch from London says "The great battle hangs in sus- pense, or, at any `rate, in equi- poise and the .scene increases in terror. Nothing is left of Ypres, as raging fires of •shells knock to atoms the relic`s of what were once itst walls. Nothing could live in the city and there have been fires at Poperinghe to give the name of only one town near the• fighting. "Every road and cross road has been blown up and shelled into craters. The Germans have, launch- ed a .new fleet of aeroplane's or have stimulated new activity in the old ones. Some flew over Dunkirk re- cently .acid over different spots be- hind Ypres. The clear sky is clouded with the smoke of shrapnel bursting around them.. "Qur lines in front of; Ypres are like e piece of ,Galway bog slides. To such extent have the trenches been kno'c'ked out of shape that .a. great deal of, fighting has been in the open'and under the .cover of half dug shelters or in pits made by the shells, "The 'Precision of the German ertill•ery has ween as notable. a?~ its fury and pace. As 'a i•esultOf color-' Fal comen iratien OE' Calt.n<alx (alai' losses have been heavy, No infan- try attack in the Ypres dist•.riet has really been pressed home. • In the last few days at Ypree advances have been made almost lazily and placidly. The German staff can- not sow the ground they have so thoroughly tilled and they will reap no harvest, though the ploughing is terrible enough in itself. It has seemed to some. on the .ride of the allies that they are engaged in a warfare between human and evil elements, so persistent has been the rain of explosives .and gas-filled bombs from the eneany, and then so euperior is their own power when the human element comes into play. The oce'a•sional losses from the allies' own .artillery incaeas?s this feeling except at Ypres, where the battle ebbs Lor a moment. „Heavy German reinforcements debouched from covet of the French towns occupied by them and hold the ridge Of Antlers. "The French continue their ad- vances. They took Blagny and. a horde of. German prisoners, who surrendered with certain readiness. At no time in •the war have 'our men spoken with more whos;e;sal:e ad- m1ration of•tt1c work, of the French gunner and gusts, -although at that point the battle has not yet reach ed its climax, Provisions. Cured meats are quoted as follows:- Bacon, long clear, 13 3.4 to 14c per lb. in MEM lots. Bame--'VSedium, 17 to 17 1-2u; do., heavy, 14 1-2 to 15c; Tolle, 14 to 14 1-2o; breakfast bacon, 18 to 20e; •backs, 21 to 22o; boneless ,backs, 23e. Lard -Tho market is quiet, with prices steady; pure lard, tube, 113-4 to 120; do.. Pails, 12 to 12 1-2e. Compound, tube, 9 3-4 to i0e; do., 'pails, 10 to 10 1.4e. Bated Hay and Straw. Dealers are paying as follows for car lot deliveries on track here: - Straw is quoted at $7.50 to $8.50 a ton in car lot deliveries on track here. Hay -No. 1 hay is quoted at $17 to $17cut0; No8•o.o $13.at $14.50 to 815.50, and No. 3 Business in Montreal. Montreal, May 18 -Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 82 to 83c. Oats -Canadian West- ern, No. 3, 66 1-20; do., extra No. 1 feed, 661.2c; do., No. 2 local white, 66c; do., No. 3, 65e; do., No. 4, 64c. Barley -Molt- ing, 8ac. Etlour-Man. Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $8.20; do., seconds, $7.70; do. strong bakers', $7.50; do., Winter patents. choice, $7.90; do., straight rollers, $7.49 to $7.50; do„ bags, $3.50 to $3.60. Rolled oats -Barrels $7 to $715; do., bags, 90 lbs., $3.35. Bran, $26, Shorts, $28.. Mid- dlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to $38. Hay -No. 2, per ton, oar lots, $,19 to $20 50. Cheese--Pinest westerns, 18 1-2 to 19c; 40., finest easterne, 18 to 161.4c. Butter - Choicest creamery,' 31 to 31 1-20; do., sec- onds, 30 1-2 to 30 3-4e. Eggs -Fresh, 22 to 23a; do., selected, 24 .to 255c; do., No. 2 stock, 200. Potatoes -Per bag, ocr 1Otwr 42 1.2c. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $13 to $13.50. Pork -Heavy Canada short mess, bble., 35 to 45 pieces, $28; do., Can- ada short cut back, •bbls , 45 to 55 pieces, $27.50. Lard -Compound, tierces, 375 lbs, 9 1-2e; do., wood pails, 20 lbs., 10c; do., pure, tierces. 375 lbs., 111.2c; do., pure, wood pails, 20 lbs., net, 12e. Winnipeg Wheat. Winnipeg, May 18. -Cash quotations- Wheat-No. $1. 8; NNorthern, N ter x,6$1. 401-2; No. 4, $1.50; No. 5, $1.45; No. 6, $1.40. Outs --No. 2 C.W., 63 3-8c; No. 3 C.W., 60 3-4e; extra No. 1 feed, 60 3.4c; No. 1 feed, 59 7-8c: No. 65c; feed, 58 63cc. Plaa.eNo. 1 N.W.C, $1,82; No. 2 C.W., $1.79. United States Markets. Mina eapolis, May 18. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.61. 3-4; No. 1 Northern, $1.55 3.8 to $1.591.4; No. 2 Northern, $1.52 1-4 to $1.58 1-4; July, $1.49 1-8. Corn -No. 3 yel- low, 711-4 to 71 3.4c. Oats No. 3 white. 51 3-4 to 52 1-4c. Flour and bran unchanged. Duluth, Minn., May 18. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.601.4; No. 1 `Northern, $1.59 1-4; No. 2 Northern, 81.521-4 to $1.55 1-4; July, $1,54 5.8, Linseed, $2.011-2; July, $2,04. New York, May 18. --Flour steady. Rye dour steady, Hay barely steady. hops quiet. Lectl er firm. Live Stook Markets. Toronto, May 18.-13nteliere' cattle, choice $8.25 to $8.65; do., good $7.60 to um,$8 da., medium, $7.10 to $7.50; do.. common. $6.50 to $7; butcher'' bulle, choice, $6.75 to $7.50; do., good bulls, $6.25 to $6.60; do., rough bulls, $5,20 to $6; but- chers' cows, choice, $6.75 to $7.50; do., good, $6.25 to $6.60; do., medium, $5,50 to r, 36.25; do., common, $5 to $5.50; feeciiYe, good, $6.50 to $7,25; stockers, 700 to 1,000 lbs., $6 to $7.25; canners and critters, $4 to $5; milkers:, choice, each, $60 to $90; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $45; :springer,;. $50 to $75; light ewes, $7 to $8; do , heavy, $5 to 96.10 do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambe, $6 to $10; spring lambs, $8 to $11; calves, $5 to $9; hogs, fed and a'lter'ed, $9.15 to $9.20; do., off cars, $9.4010 $9.50. Montreal, May 18.- The best steers offer- ed sold at $8, and the lower grader front, that down 10 $6 per cwt., while bntcherte cows brought $- to $7, and bulls from $4.50 to $7 per cwt., as to quality. The trade in cheep and lambs wile quieton account of the contill uecl sm'a'll ofteringe. and sales of both were made at from $4 to $8 c sch, es to size and quality. The tone of the ;nataltot for calves was easier, brit the 'demand titre good at prices rang- ing from 866 to f9 each, as to oize and quality. The market for dressed liege WO. firm, +blit as good demand for all of- ferings. an<1 hales of selected lots, were made at :9.50 to $9.75 per <.nvt„ weighed off car., mad in oneor two instances as high its $10 was paid for a small lot. 44 Why- .Alam and Eve Were happy. The teacher in one of the l.men- i don slum schools was talking about the delights of the Garden of Eden, its fruit trees and bright flowers; and the placid life our first par- ents led in it, She then asked the' question :--"And, children, why was it that Adam and Eve were so happy-, so'perfectly happy tilers 1 ' "Please, madam," answered the Child promptly and eagerly, ,, 'cause they wits' .always : in the cannery.'"