Zurich Herald, 1915-07-16, Page 5FIERCE STRUGGLE IN TRE DARDANELLES
Graphic Account of Allies''Vi.ctory on the Gallipoli
Peninsula.:
A despatch from Alexandria says
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The British and French line on th
Gallipoli Peninsula from the Aegea
to the Dardanelles is confronted b
rising' ground that culminates in th
centre with a flat sunirnit, Achi Baba
800 feet high. On either side th
ground falls away to the sea in res
vines and dry water courses called
Deres, whieh the Turks have had trine
to make : impregnable to any except
those superb troops that : are now
fighting to pass' over them. Theee is
no room upon the Gallipoli Peninsula
to find peak points, and we are now in
the position , of having to • 'storm an
immensely strong fortress, the ad-
vanced works of which by an amaz-
ing feat of arms we already hold and
the glacieof which has to be crossed
before we move forward to the as-
sault upon the bastion of Acid Baba
and beyond. to the final.: assaultupon
the very walls of that fortress. •
June 21 it was determined to
straighten the line: upon the extreme
right and: at 1.80 a.m., the prelimi-
nary bombardment began. All.
through the .morning the cannonade
went on. By noon the second; division
of French had on, the left stormed and
captured-. all. the 'Turkish .benches of
the first two lines. Even the Haricot.
redoubt with its damnable entangle-
ments and maze of communicating;
trenches was in French hands. On.
the right, however; the first division,
after reaching its objective, had been.
counter -attacked so effectively that
they had fallen back. Again they ad-
vanced, again they took the trenches
and again, they were driven out: It
began to look as if ''the vietory upon
the left would be fruitless. That.
position would 'become ' an untenable
salient and the Haricot Haricot redoubt re-
vert to the enemy. At this moment
a' r"itessage was sent to say that'the
trenched must be captured and 'when
recaptured, held.
A Fierce Battles
There were still five Imre of day -`j
light fpr this battle of the longest
day of the year. Britishguns and
howitzers wereasked for andsent at
once, and the- bombardment was re-
sumed .througliout the afternoon. At
5.30; it seemed as if" every gun on
earth were pouring shells on the Tar
kish lines. At 6 o'clock the third
assault 'was delivered. In one trench
there was a temporary shdrtage of
ammunition, but.. the enemy, fought.
even with stones; sticks. and ;fists: A
battalion came hurrying up from the.
Turkish "right to reinforce it, and was
caught on open ground by thedrum
ming 75's• and melted away. Thus
600 yards of Turkish trendies, were
:taken, and still 'the bombardment
cvontinued in order to ward. offthe
counter-attack that was.- anticipated:
In the morning we heard gladly that
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the enemy's' counter-attacks had fail,-
edand° that our allies were indeed
firmly established. The Turkish cas-
ualties were at least 7,000. Oiie
trench 200 yards longand -10 feet
deep was brimming over with dead..
They had been valiant, theee dead
men. French,• officers' who fought. i
the west say that as a, fighting unit '
one Turk is worth two. Germans; in
fact, with his back to the • 'a11;. the
Turk is magnificent..
MASS ATTACKS
END IN FAILURE
Germans Mowed Down by French
Machine Guns on Ablain
Road.
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BY RO=GER N
Would-be Murderer Also Placed
Bomb in Capitol at
Washington...
4 despatch from London says: The A despatch from. New York says:
Germans attacked the French line at Frank Holt, a crack brained teacher
several points, but in each instance of German in Cornell University, ob-
were driven back, The strongest sessed by the idea. that God had a
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Movement was directed against . theo
g pointed. him to step the,shipment of
.road ' from Ablain to Angres, where war supplies to the allies, tried :to
the Germans moved foaward in,their murder J. P, Morgan Saturday morn -
favorite close formation, only to be ing after attempting on Friday night
. more ed down=.by the French. machine to wreck the Capitol at.Washington
gun fire andforcedto retire after with .a dynamite bomb. The New
suffering heavy Iosses. York and Washington police have in -
A German battalion also attempted formation which leads them to believe
to storm the village of Fey, five miles that he plannednext togo to. Cornish,
west of Pont-a-Mousson and the Mo- N.H., and attempt the life of Presi-
selle River, but was forced to retire dent Wilson. '
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after reaching, the French wire en- Holt forced • his way into Mr. Mor-
tanglements. gin's house on East Island, three
In the fighting the French repulsed miles from Glencove, at 9.20: Satur-
two German attacks in the region I day morning, drove- the .butler . before
about Metzeral, in Alsace, and .main-' him by the menace of. a revolver,:
tamed all their positionsin the Ar- searched the house until: he found
gonne, where the fighting was .ex- Mr: andMrs.'Morgan. on the second
ceedingly fierce, the Germans claim- floor, and then, as. Mr. Morgan and
ing to have taken 2,556 prisoners in. ;Mrs; Morgan attempted to disarm
this region. him, fired two shots. One bullet en-
The .alliedentrenchments in Flan- tered the lower right side of. Mr.
ders, especially in the region of Neu- Morgan's abdomen: and lodged ,near;
vine, Ecurie and Roclincourt, were the base of the, •spine. . The other
subjected to a heavy bombardment piercedthe right groin, ranged down
by the German guns: on Saturday ward through the flesh of the thigh.
Berlin announces that German air- and: passed out of the body. '
men attacked Nancy and the railway The financier, who,
as head of the.
station at Dombasle, a place south -: '.banking house which is the purelias-
east of the city, and that this result- ing, agent of :the British: Government
ed in. railway communication with - had become an object for Holt's at;
Fort Remiremont, one of the French .tack, is dangerously. but probably not
Lorraine defence works being sever- fatally wounded. This was the opin-
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ion, at least; of several of his part -
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A. despatch to the Daily Chronicle ners and of. his friends who had, heard
from its correspondent in Northern
the report of the'surgeons; who ex-
amined says; "Details supplied by a
amined his• injuries. and who probed
young wounded French officer give a
successfully for the 'bullet which en-
terednew and thrilling view of the almost the abdomen. .He owes his; life.
incredible heroism by which the Laby-
rinth
aby- very likely to the courage and quick.
,nth was captured "Trench warn ness. of Mrs. Morgan, who, the first
are," he said, "is nothing to what to detect Holt lurking yin the- shadows
we had to go through in those three of the upper hallway, literally flung
Weeks -three weeks; not in: the open,
herself at the man and so
Pdisturbed
of in the trenches, but in the under his aim, that he had, no. opportunity
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round lines of communication, nar- to shoot'. straight
ow galleries: in the earth, with no
light but tiny flickering oil lamps:"
Otherwise: He Goes Without.
"i wonder who. it is that : ute u
The: Royal Irish Rifles have the re' the- price of ,neat?" P p
nutation of being the most athletic. ; "That's easy. Thee man who wants
regiment' in the British Army. to: get it"
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Turkish �k
TransportSunk by Submarine
A despatch from 'London says: A. 42, which was full' of troops, accord-
British, submarine in the Sea of Mar- ing to the:. Athens;
correspondent dent of
. mora stank the Turkish transport No.the Exchange Telegraph Company.
German
Casualties
Than Two Minions
A despatch front London says: The .' conta1hs about. 800 names it May be
Gertnan official . Casualty' list now in.Genially's:
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reckoned; that; German . to
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0N0R, FO -R COMA/LANDER OF
THIRD INFANTRY BRIGADE
BERG; •GEN. M. S. 1 fEI IR.
The announcement of the honor of the Companionship of the Order of
the. Bath to the former.^ commander oi' the Q. O. E. is received with
:great satisfaction in .Toronto, particularly by the members and ex -
members of his old•iment. He joined the Queen's .Own over..a
quarter of a• century .ago as a prl ate•: stn the "University Company
and rose step. ley, step, as has been the timer -honored custom in that
corps, untilhe..succeedea. Sir. Xteort.Peflatt as:,coannitintler,
GENS
FRENCH. FRONT
Attack by 40,000 Germans in Argonne Checked at
Second Line.
A despatch from Paris says: The
French farees,in the Argonne have
survived another great onslaught=
against their lines he the ,region of
Four de Paris, . with the resultthat
the front is firmly .established' about
200 yards in the rear of the former
first line trenches, which were coin
pletely destroyed by German high ex-
plosive shells of large. calibre.
This German attack, which was the
fourth in two days, was delivered by
a 'force estimated by the French War
Office at two divisions; or 40,000. men. were at once repulsed.
The French front trenches had been The Germans are believed to be
previously obliterated by bombard transferring large forces of troops
trent, and: the troops who clung to the from the Russian to the French
ruined position were forced to fall front,:. as the closing of the Belgian -
back by the employment of asphyxi- Dutch border several : days ago now
ating ;gas shells. When. the German has been followed by similar mea -
infantry rushed forward, however, sures on the German -Swiss frontier.
and crossed the ;first .Fieneh line with The Swiss -Baden line: has been closed,
the intention of piercing, the main also the Wurttemburg border.
positions on the second line, they
found themmselves facing an .immova-
ble obstacle. The French second line
nowhere- yielded ground, and counter
attacks were immediately delivered
and the enemy driven:: back to within
a short distance of his original posi-
tions:
On the rest of the western battle
front. the fighting has been confined
to artillery duels, particularly to the
north of .Arras and on the Aisne
front. Two German attacks against
the new French front in the Vosges
VON MACKENZEN.
HASTENS SOUTH
Trying •tor Reach Railway in Poland
While the Good Weather
Holds.
A despatch fro.._.
P omLondon says: The
advance of the Austro -German forces
in Galieia.'and Polencl continuesat a
rapid rate, with the Russians' every-
where falling.back, fighting stiff: rear-
guard actions as 'they go. The Teu-
tonic allies • claim in their official re-
ports, which are largely confirmed in
Pett
o�adis
, communication,
that Gen. :'
C,
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von Linsiitgen lias'gained the crossing
of the. Gnila Lipa River, taking 7,000
prisoners from the .Riissians•in that
quarter, while on the Vistula and the
Bug in Southern. Poland Field Mar-
shal von Mackenzen's army is: said to
be, pushing; back strong :Russian
forces. The cspture of the fortress
of. Zantose is announced; . bringing the
Germans • to within . about 37 miles of
the city of "Lublin.
On: the left bank of the' Vistula sev-
eral successes are claimed by' the
Austro.Gernians, who say they have
occupied• Josefow, a :town on the river.
Frederick Rennet, discussing the situ-
ation in a• despatch from Petrograd
to the Daily News, says:
"Gen Mackenzen's. main army is
•hurrying.as:r:apidly as the light caval-
ry and artillery, picked troops and
motor transports can go across the
gap of broken. countrytowards the
junction of the- railway at Cholm.
The continued ed a
bsenc
e of rains in this
district favor his project; yet the Ger-
Man -General'' has before hint a dan-
gerous passage across the marshy
fens in the region of Koval.:
"Mackenzeii's enormous forces are
trying their utmost to pierce the.Rus-
sian line, but without success."
THRIFT COMMITTEE
NOW ORGANIZED
A despatch from London says: The
Parliamentary campaign for national
war thrift will be carried out under
the auspices of a large committee, of
which the joint presidents are Pre-
mier Asquith, Andrew Bonar Law and
Arthur Henderson. Its members will
include some of. the leading, members,
of. the House: of Lords and the FEouso
of Commons. Public -meetings will be
held; a personal.canvass will be made,
and'•panlplilets:b'earing ore the: subject
will be' distributed:
FRENCH VICTORY
IN DAR aI, A EES
Six Lines of Trenches Won From the
Turks in the fivadrila.
teal.
A despatch from London says: An
official statement given gut by the
British Government announces' the
capture of certain trencher in the
Dardanelles operations whieh com-
plete the capture of that part of the
Turkish line gained by the .French on
June 21.
Sir Ian Hamilton, commanding the
allied land forces, in his second official
despatch of the week, records the re-
pulse of a vicious counter-attack by
the Turks, who were bent on recover-
ing the lost ground south of the forti-
fied hill of Achi Baba and the strong
position at Irithia, which the British
'have for some time been attempting
to envelop.
Despite the hard fighting ever since
the landing on April 26 the Franco -
British expedition only lately has
achieved: anything notable toward
strengthening its hold on the tip- of
the Gallipoli Peninsult, Achi Baba be-
ing a small Gibraltar, bristling with
machine guns, surrounded by barbed
wire and terraced with trenches. This
is the reason why an allied progress
is hailed with great satisfaction in
England.
GERMANS LOST
A BATTLESHIP
Pre -Dreadnought Torpedoed by Sub-
marine off Port of
Danzig.
A despatch from London says: A
German battleship of 13,000 tons
was attacked by a submarine and
blown up atthe entrance to the har-
bor of Danzig, Prussia, a port on the
Baltic Sea. At the same time. a Rus-
sian destroyer rammed and appar-
ently sank a ., German submarine
which came up to attack the Czar's
vessels. This information is con-
tained in a Russian •official statement
issued in Petrograd, which says:
"The Russian cruisers Rurik,
Makaroff, Bayan, Bogatyr and Oleg
encountered the enemy at eight
o'clock in tbe -.morning between the Is-
land of Oeland and the Conrland
coast. • The'enemy consisted of a light
cruiser of the Augsburg class, a
mine laYer and three destroyers.
"The sea was shrouded in a fog, so
dense that the ships frequently were
swallowed up in a darkness, and
therefore the gunfire inaccurate. The
1 Russians, attempting to intercept the
t enemy.'s retreat, were attacked by
.the torpedo boats, but were unharm-
ed."
10,000 WORKERS
ENROLL EACH DAY
A despatch from London says: The
seven days granted the trade union-
ists by the Minister of Munitions,
David Lloyd George, -to make good
their pledge that they would prove
they were able to supply the needed
munitions workers without recourse
to compulsion expired June 30.
With respect to results, W. E. Mor-
gan, who is - Mr. Lloyd George's chief
assistant in thisdepartment of his
work, said:
"Theenrolments are so highly sat
sfactory that I think I can say that
he voluntary system has justified
tself as applied to munitions work-
rs. During the last two days the
nrolinent has averaged. 10,000 a day."
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N GUARDING SER .°R ;� NTIE
Fear- Teutons May Resort to Reprisals and Possibly
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Violation of' Swiss Neutrality.
A despatch•from.Rome, says. Swiss
troopshave been massed on the Aus-
tro -German frontiers owing to the
closing of the. Siviss-German frontier
by, Germany and that country's re-
fueal to explain the: reason.' It is
feared that the German action is a
prelude to a protest against the pro-
posed imposts• through which it is in-
tria and Germany. Germany evident-
ly has decided to resort to reprisals
and possibly to the violation oftSwiss
neutrality, since the Spanish Ambas-
sador at Ronie has been asked to
look after German interests in Italy in
case of a rupture between Germany
and Switzerland. Germany'sinterests
here are now in charge of ,the Swiss
tended to out off supplies from. Aus- Minister.
GERMANY'S TRADE WITH UNITED STATES
A e d
t spatch from Berlin says: Dur-
ing the .first six months of this year
there : was ' exported to the United
States and America possessions from
Hamburg, Lubeck and Kiel goods to
the valae of 1,153,000. Statistics on
this trade for the first •six months of
1014, show the export of goods' valued
at $14,994,000. The decrease ill 1915
thus amounts to about 02.8 per cent.
This information is taken from the
first of the American. Consular re-
ports on trade from Germany to the
United States issued this year. ' It
was prepared by Consul -General
Henry H. Morgan, of Hamburg,
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REPORTS FROM THE LEAl.1al'
TRADE CENTRES OF AMDRIC. `
Breadstuffs,
Toronto, July 6, -No. 1 Northe:
$1.35; No, 2 Northern, $1.32; No I
Northern $1.29, track, lake ports.
Manito'ha oats --No. '2 C., 5f'
No, 3 C.W., 62c extra No, 1 .Wfeed, 6<
track, lake ports.
American corn ---No, 2 yellow, 7i''
track, lake ports.
track,
CanaTorodian oorn-No,.2. yelio-wv, 7f
nto..
Ontario oats -.-N 'o, 2 white, 55
tof
56e; Noreights, 3 whoutsiteide,, 54 to .66c, aecordix
Ontario wheat --Na. 2 Winter, p
car lot, $1.11 to e1.13, according
freights outside.
Peas -No. 2, nominal, per car lot
nominal.
Barley. -Good malting barley,
to 750; feed. barley, 65e; according
freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots, '74
according to freights outside,
Rye -No. 2 .nominal, $.1,05
$1,10,according to freights outsid
Manitoba flour -First patents, •
jute bags; $7; seeond patents, -
jute bags, $6.50; strong bakers',.
jute bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cottc
bags, 10e more. •
Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cen
frepatighentsts i,.:yn.4.7baa0 gs:seaboard, or Torow
Millfeed-Car lots, delivere
Montrealfreights-Bran, per to::
$26; sort& $28; middlings, $29; goc
flour,: per bag, $1.85.
Country Produce.
Butter -Choice dairy, 21 to 23e; i'
ferior, 18 to 20e; creainery prints, 2
to 290; do., solids, 26 to .28e.
Eggs -New -laid; 21 to 23c per dol
en, in case lots,: and selects, 23 to 24.,.
Beans -$3.10 to $3.15 for print
and $3.20 to $3.25 for hand-picked.
Poultry -Chickens, yearlings,.dres::
27c; f
ed, 1.6 towol; 18c;
14to 1Sp5c.ring: chickens, 25 t
Cheese -The market is firmer wit
a
good d
emend; quotations, 4, 17 t
18oefor large, and at 18/c for twin.
Old cheese, 22 to 22%e.
Potatoes -Ontario, 55 to 60e pe
bag, out of store, and. 45 to 50c i
car lots. New Brunswicks, car lot:'.
55 to 60e per bag.
Business in Montreal.
Montreal, July 6. -Corn, America
No. 2 yellow, 80 to 81c. Oats -Cana
dial' western, No. 3, 61*c; do., ex.
tra No. 1 feed, 61%c; do No. 2 loca
white, 61c; do. No. 3 local white, 60c
do. No. 4 local white 59e. Barley
Manitoba feed, 72c. Buckwheat -No
2, 79 to 80c. Flour -Manitoba sprint
wheat patents, firsts, $7.10,; do. sea
ends, $6.60; do. strong bakers', $6.40,
do. winter patents, choice, $6:30;' do
straight rollers, $5.90 to $6. Rolled
oats -Barrels, $6.25; do. bags, 9(
lbs., $2.90" to $3. Bran $26. Shorts
$28. Middlings, $83 to $34. Mouillie
$
5 to $40.Hay, No. 2, per ton, car
$2 to $21.50.
Winnipeg Wheat.
Winnipeg, July 6. -Wheat -No, 1
Northern, $1.28?,•; No. 2 Northern,
$1.245%; No. 3 Northern, $1.21%
No. 4, $1.18. Oats -No. 2 C.W.,
58%c; No. 3 C.W., 55%c; extra No.
1 feed, 55%c. Flax -No. 1
$1.503✓,; No. 2 C.W., $1.47''',4.;
United States Markets.
Minneapolis; July 6. -Wheat -No.
1 hard, $1.381/4; No. 1 Northern,
$1.283( to $1.37%; No. 2 Northern,
$1.25%
to $1.34%; July, $1,254
September $1,03%s. Corn-No.yellow, 723 to 73c. Oats -No. 3
white, 46% to 46c. Flour unchanged;
fancy. patents, $6.70; first clears,
$5.50; second clears•,$4. Bran, $21.50.
Duluth, July 6. -Wheat -No. •
hard, $1.40%; No. 1 Northern
$1;35% to $1.39%; No. 2July, Norther.n,
$1.331 to $1.85? .; $132%;
September, $1.00%. Linseed -Cash,
$1..72%; July, $1.72%; September,
$1.76%.
Live Stock Markets-
Toronto, July 6. -The quotation
were: -Butchers' cattle, choice
$8.40 to $9; do., good, $8.10 to $8.35
o., medium, $7.35 to $7.90; do.
common, $6.50 to $7; butchers' bulls
choice; $7.25 to 47.75;
do., goo lis $6.35 to $7• do., rough
bulls
$5.50 to $6; butchers' cows, choice
$7.25 to $7.50; do., good, $6,50 t
$7; do., medium, $5.10 to $6; do.
common, $4.50 to $4.75' feeders,
good, $6.50 to $7.25; stockers, 700
to 1,000 lbs., $6.25 to $7,75; canners
and cutters, $4 to $5; milkers; choice,
each, $60 to $95; do., common and
medium, each, $85 to .$45; springers,
50 to $85; light ewes, $6.60 to $7;
o., heavy, $4 to $5; do., bucks, $8.50
o $4.50; yearling lambs, $6 to, $7.50;
ring. lambs, cwt,, $l0 to $11•
calves, $8.50 to $10.50; hos fed hogs, d anc�
watered, $9.25; do., off cars, $9.50.
Montreal, July 6. -Choice steers
8.75; good,at $7.50 to $8.50; fair,
6.75 to $7.25, and lower grades, $6
o $6.50. Butchers cows and bulls,
50 to $6.50 per cwt., as to quality.
Id sheep sold. at $5.50 to 36.50 per
cwt., and lambs at $5.50 to $6 each.
he supply of calves was fair, and
les 'were made freely at. prices
aging from $8.50 to $10.25 each, as
size and quality. A weaker feeling
eveloped in hogs, acid sal✓is of see
eted lots were made at $9.25 to
.60
per cwt., weighed off ears.
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