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Zurich Herald, 1916-07-21, Page 2VICTORY .FLOINS I SAYS DAVI )UR IRECTION " I'YD GEORGE Entente Allies Take the Initiative, Never to Be Lost to the Foe Again. A despatch from London says:,"Why have our prospects improv- bavid Lloyd George, British Minister ed? The answer is: the equipment of of War, presiding on Thursday at an our armies has improved enormously allied conference on equipment, de- and is continixlug to improve. flared that the combined offensive of "The British navy until recently, has absorbed more than halt the metal workers of this country. The task of building new ;hips and re- pairing the old ones for the gigantic navy, and fitting and equipping them, occupies the energies of a million tis due to the improvement ia our men. Moat of our new factories are ,. "equipment."now complete; most of the machinery The conference was held at the has been set up. Hundreds of thous - War Office and was participated in by ands of men and women, hitherto un- accustomed to metal and chemical work, have been trained for muni- tions snaking. " 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 aro turning out nearly twice as much the allies had wrenched the initiative from the Germans, never, he trusted, to return, "We have crossed the watershed," he said, "and now victory is beginning to flow in our direction. This change Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions; General Bailieff, Assistant Minister of War of • Russia; General '..dal101io, member of the Italian 1VIinictry 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 ammunition in a single week -and, Chas been a considerable change in the what is more, nearly three times as fortunes of the allies. On that date much heavy shell -as we fired in the '•--ee ca�aseiiiie offensive in the great offensive in September, al - west had just failed to attain it-- ol?. thou • gh the ammunition we expended lective, and the French and British in that battle was the result of many .armies had sustained heavy losses weary weeks' accumulation. The new without the achievement of any par- factories and workshops we set up ocular success. In the east the enemy have not yet attained one-third their 'hal.pressed the gallant armies of full capacity, but their output is now Russia back some hundreds of miles, increasing with great rapidity. Our main difficulties in organization, con- struction, equipment, labor supply and readjustment have been solved, If anct the Balkans had Just been over- run by the Central powers. "The-"o-vcrwhelming victories won by the valiant soldiers of Russia have officials, employers and workmen foes, nd the into the heartsathef our keep at it with the same zeal and as - ;Mortal defence of Verdun by our siduity as they have hitherto em - 'Indomitable French comrades, and ployed, our supplies will soon be over - the brave resistance of the Italians whelming. ''against overwhelming odds in the "I cannot help thinking that the southern Alps, have changed the improvement in the Russian ammuni- tvhole complexion of the landscape. tion has been one of the greatest and `'Now the combined offensive in the most unpleasant surprises the enemy east and west has wrenched nut of ;has sustained. Still, our task is but the hands of the enemy -never, I half accomplished. Every great battle trut. to return to his grasp. We have ; furnishes additional proof that this is crossed the watershed, and now vis- a war of equipment. More ammuni- tort is beginning to flow in our direr- tion means more victories and fewer tion. casualties." - JAIL FOR. REFUSING TO MAKE MUNITIONS. ISH H. MAK `iaPRO,i War Prisoner Writes of Ottawa Man's �:Fi j'a 11�`. a Plight. A despatch from Ottawa says: !Canadian prisoners in Germany were Apr'.:cciably Advance Their Line' sentenced to a year in jail by the Ger- At Various Points. ! mans for refusing to make war muni- ; tions, according to a letter received A despatch from London says: The here from Corporal Ian A. Simons, Br .h made a further advance north I formerly a prisoner in Germany, and of the Somme, according to a report ; now transferred to the internment received on Thursday from General camp in Switzerland. He writes that ! 33aig. With Contalmaison and the en- Corporal Harry Hogarth, of Ottawa, tire German that line of defence on ` is one of those who refused to make that and adjceining sectors firmly in munitions, and it is expected he will their hands the British troops are have to serve the year's sentence, striking to the eastward against which has already been imposed upon ComLles aro! IBapaumo. LoliguevaI, a I him. Steps have been taken to bring junction point en the high road sys- it before, the authorities, so that it can tem, and the Iieighte of Martinpuich, be investigated, as, according to The j two and a half miles northeast of Con- Hague tribunal, prisoners of war are telltai:eon, which command the battle- not called upon to make munitions. groeial for n'ile.s around, are the im- mediate objects of their campaign, NEWS OF DEFEATS KEPT FROM FRANZ JOSEF FOF. SANK 101,000 TONS _._.. OF SHIPPING DURING JUNE. A despatch from Zurich says :- Members of the Austrian Imperial A despatch from Berlin says: An family have been summoned to Scho- official statement i-suecl on Wednes- enbrunn, owing to the illness of the day, night says: "In the month of Emperor Franz Josef, according to ,7unc sixty-one of the enemy's mer- news despatches from Innsbruck. chantmen, measuring about 101,000 Several specialists are attending the tons, were sunk by German and Aus- aged King -Emperor and the news of .irisin submarines or by nines." the war is being withheld from him. BRITISH ADVANC O A .1111 QF THREEiI Anes Take J3azentin and Longueval, Also the Whole of Trones Wood. Germans Surrendered Freely. A. despatch from London says: General Sir Douglas Haig struck again at dawn on Friday. The British liont has been advanced three miles fb the eastward. It rests on a line rom Basentin le Petit to Longuoval. Both villages are in British hands, i'eyond the latter place the British irootei hre fighting forward in the Wooded section in desperate hand-to- hand ongageinents with the Germans. ;The British advance at its deepest joint on Friday night approximated three miles. ( Friday's advance is nm of tire', greatest blows yet struck 'the Ger- -mans ans in the Picardy offensive. It Binge the British southern ,front on' s etcn lino with the French at arclecoart and puts the British in food position to drive a wedge he-; tween Thiaumont and Peronne, the two main German bases on this front. Longueval was the junction point of several important highroads, which had been sof much value to the Teu- tone, while on the north of Friday's front of attack the British are ap- proaching the Pozieres, another strongly defended village on the road to tho commanding heights of Martin- puich. They are now T.vithin two miles of this creat lino, the capture of which would give them artillery control of the neighborhood and servo 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. CA ,4 .}A'S SAVINGS BRITISH GROW DURING WAR During Past Twenty Months Have 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 $50,772,903;92, and the expenditure was $37,055,289. The revenue from all sources amounts ed to $56,000,000. Of this expendi- ture only $10,528,045 comes 'under consolidated fund account while $26,- 527,243 26;527,243 is under capital and $22,1731 031 of this is war outlay. In the month of June last the war expendi- ture was $12,439,187,98. During th three months' period the expenditure on both capital and revenue accounts outside of the capital outlay on war has decreased substantially, due ''to the policy of rigid economy adhered to by the 'spending departments of the government. The June revenue increased from $11,433,970 to $17,600,149, the in- crease being found in nearly all branches inc1u,ding $4,000,000 in sus- toms. The buoyancy of the Dominion's' fi- nancial situation is shown through out the statement. The total assets of the Dominion on June 30 were $420,395,783 as against $257,943,948 a year ago. The net debt increased from $450,287,721 to $593,910,637, but the increase for the month was $16,013,946,95, or nearly $2,000,000 less than a year ago. The credit Canada has extended bo the British Governement now totals $150,000,000. Munition orders to this amount have been placed in Canada by the Imperial Government. Canadian deposits on savings ac- count total over $ 700,000,000, having increased a little over $100,000,000 during the 20 months of the war. HUNGARY IS BITTER OVER GREAT LOSSES Sia:e Beginning of Offensive Against Italy--''ey Exceed 600,000 The London iVIorning Post has ad- vices from Budapest which say that the losses of the Austro-Hungarian army during the last six weeks were the subject of discussion in the lobby of the Hungarian Parliament. The despatch says: "Members who returned from the different fronts where they took part 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 shall be brought to account, these be- ing the two Archdukes and Gen. Con- rad von Holtztndorf. It is more than likely that the House will be dissolv- ed rather than that these high person- ages should be made the subjects of acrimonious criticism." A despatch from Bucharest to the Telegraph says: "Public feeling has been deeply stirred by . the general offensive of the allies. Owing to an appreciable lack of meat here the Government has prohibited eating of it on three days of the week." BRITISH HOLDING 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. 500 GREEK SOLDIERS ATTACK ALLY TRAIN A cable from Paris to a news agency at Now York says: -"Des- patches from Salonica report serious rioting at Kavala, when 500 Greek soldiers stormed a train on wliieh they had been refused 'transportation. The railroads is controlled by the Anglo-French army, Pickets fired upon the Greek soldiers and drove then off." EIGI'ITEEN BULGAR REGIMENTS MUTINY. A despatch from Bucharest says: Eighteen Bulgarian regiments are re- potted to have ni.utialed, killing their German officers.. REACH THIRD LINE: HOLD ALL GROUND GAINED Gen. Haig's Forces in Pushing Foe Back to Third Line Advance Four Miles Beyond Original Teuton Trenches. A despatch from London says: Ex- hausted by the desperate fighting of the days the German and British troops on the Somme are resting on their arms on Sunday. In the hill which has followed what correspond- ents at the front describe as the fiercest fighting of the war, the Brit- ish are consolidating their new posi- tions north of the Bazentin-Longue- val line and are bringing up their heavy artillery preparatory to resum- ing the great drive toward Peronne. The British offensive was resumed Saturday and the advance of their thrust reached the third line of the German.defences north of the Somme. Berlin officially admitted that Gen- eral Sir Douglas Haig's forces had gained some ground and that they had occupied Trones Wood. The Ger- man resistance has been stubborn, but the British were able, thus far, to re- tain the positions won. General Haig's men, in pushing the Germans back to their third line of defence, advanced four miles beyond the original German lines as they ex- isted at the beginning of the offensive on July 1 in the Fricourt-1Vlametz sec- tor. The force of the renewed British drive is shown not only in the ground gained but in the number of prisoners captured. London reports the taking on Saturday of more than 2,000 Ger- mans, the total since the start of the offensive now being in excess of 10,000. • In the course of the operations, the correspondent adds, detachments of the Dragoon Guards and the Deccan Horse (a crack Indian cavalry com- mand) went into action. They charged an enemy position, killing sixteen and capturing thirty-four. The oper- ation was small, but it was the first time that cavalry was employed as such since the early stages of the war. NEWGUN 11 LAC S NOTED ROSS RIFLE Canadian Troops at the Front Are Being Re -armed. A despatch from 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 or?e thaii 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. GERMAN SUBMARINE RAIDS ENGLISH FISHING FLEET. 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. SECOND DOMESTIC WAR LOAN IN SEPTEMBER. Terns 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 bo 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 chained to their guns to pre- vent them from retreating. BRITISH SWE SINAI np 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 malting 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 bread tickets. 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." People who know the least are apt to assume the most. It's the easiest thing in the world to be brave when there is no danger. A FRENCH WEDE IN FOE .SINE Markets of the World Ereaaatafal. Tarr, July 8...11anitokk�l�a Whetzt-�; 0 rt ern, $1.233 1 No..0 do„ 91.22; Nqn s•51.19, oh t •aelt Tia portp. zakeit s, Oat - No. 2 'V., B134 1 N' . 8 qn:''., 60a i extra o. teed.; 60 o 1 No 1 feed, 508e i No: 2 feed; .89 q, 011 traok, 13ay po 'te. American coexl No, 8 yellow, 888e, on traok Torontd. 17n1'ario oats-;~fo. 2 whito, 47 to 480., according to frQQSgh s outside, Ontario Wheat -No. 1 commercial, 97 to 98o ; No. 2 do 93 to 964 .i No. 8 do., 87 0 890 ; food, 136 to 80d„ nominal, ae cording to freights outmlidc. Peas -No, 2, fiomin 1 91,70 to 91.80 t according to sample, 51.25 to 91,50, se- 00;c11nq' to freights outside. 13ar1ey-MaltingQ bart-v nominal, 05 to 604 ; feed barley, nominal, 60 to 02c, according� to freightsoutside. Buckwheat -Nominal, 70 to 710., ac- cording to freights outside. F Ye -No. 1 commercial, 04 to 95c., ao- cording to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bags, $0.901 second patents. in jute bags, 56.00 ; strong' bakers', in jute bags, 55.80, Toronto. Ontario flour -Winter, according to sample, $4,05 to $4.15, in bags track Toronto. prompt shipment ; 94.15, bulk seaboard, prompt shipment. Millfeecl, car lots, delivered Montreal freights, bags included -Bran, per ton, 520 to 921 ; shorts, per ton, $24 to $25 midlings, per ton, 925 to 528 ; good feed flour, per ,bag, 91,55 to $1,60, Provisions, • Bacon, long clear, 18 to 151c. per lb. Hams -Medium, 24 to 243c ; do., heavy, 208 to 21e ; rolls, 19 to 198c ; breakfast bacon, 26 to 27e • backs. plain, 208 t9 Sl c ; boneless backs, 298 to 303c. Lard -Pure lard, tierces. 17 to 178c ; and pails, 178 to 173o ; compound, 14 to 1430. Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 25 to 27e; inferior, 23 to 240 ; creamery, prints. 29 to 310 ; inferior, 28 to 290. Eggs -New -laid, 20 to 30e ; do., in cartons, 31 to 83c, Beans -94.50 to $5.00, the latter for bamzd-picked. Cheese -New, large, iSe ; twins. 101c; triplets, 1980. Maple Syrup -Prices are steady at $1.40 to 91.50 per Imperial gallon. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 26 to 27c ; fowl, 23 to 25c. Potatoes -New Brunswicks quoted at 92,00 per bag ; Western, 51 86. Montreal Markets. Montreal, July 18, -Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 91 to 92e. Oats-Cana- diEtn western, No. 2, 64 to 5480 ; do., No. 8 53 to 589c •, No. 1 feed, 53 to 5380 ; No. 2 local white, 63c ; No. 3 do., f,2c ; No. 4 do., 51o. Flour -Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts 96.60: =tec0nda, $6.10 ' strong bakers', 95.90 ; Winter Patents, choice, G 400 to 56.00 9 50to 56.25 bagstraight 52,50 to 52.60, Rolled oats, barrels, $5.05 to 95.45 ; do., bags, 90 ahs, $2.40 to 52.00. Bran, 920 to 921. Shorts, $23 to 524. Middlings, $25 to 527. Mouillie, 528 to $32. I -lay -No, 2, per ton, car lots, $19 to 920..E Cheese -Finest western, 16 to 1080 ; do., easterns. 148 to 15c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 293 to 202o ; seconds, 288 to 283o. Eggs -Fresh, 350 selected. 320 ; No. 1. stock, 29c ; No. 8 stock, 28c. Wieutpeg eirain. Winnipeg;. July 18. -Cash quotations -Wheat-NO. 1 Northern, 51.163 • No. 2 Northern, 91.140 No. 3 Northern, $1.114 ; No. 4, 91.069 ; No 5, 51 No, 0, 963e ; feed, 9230 Oats iso. 2 C.W,,. 4690 , No. 3 C.« 44c extra No. 1 feed 14 c ; No 1 feed 4440 ; No. 2 feed, 4390 Barley -No. 3, 75c ; No, 4. 73e• rejected, Ole feed, 68e.. No. 1 N. -W. -C., 91.77 ; No, 2 C. W., $1.74 United states Markets, Minneapolis, ,7uly 18• -Wheat, July 91.157 ; September, 91,150 ; No, 1 hard, 91.213 ; No. 1 Northern, 91.163 to $1.187; No, 2 Northern. 51.129 to 1.163, Corn - No. 3 yellow, 81 to 82c. Oats -No, 8 white, 39 to 3980 Flour --Facey patents l0c higher, at 56.26 : first clears 10o. higher at $5. ; other '-rades unchanged. Bran. 917.50 t0 918.00, Duluth. July IL -Wheat nn track, No. 1 hard, 51.108 ; No. 1 Northern, 51.189 ; No. 2 Northern. 91.138 to 51.151 ; No. 1 Northern to arrive, 51.178 ; No. 3 North- ern on track, to 1.023. Linseed, on track, 92.013 $2,01 ; July, 92.003 bid • September, 92.011 bid •, October, $2 bid ; November $2 bid ; December, 51.988 bid, Live Stook Markets. Toronto, July 18. -Choice heavy sleet's 59.25 to 59.50 ; good heavy steers 99.00 to $9.10 , butchers' cattle, choice, 99.10 mediuiin, 58,60 kto d98,60 : t00 8 common, 57.50 to 7.75 : butchers bulls, ch, ice, 98.00 to 98.25 ; do, good bulls, 57.45 t0 97.65 ; do, rough bulls, $4.75 to 86.25 ; butchers' cows, choice, $7.60 to $7.00 ; do, good 57.25 to 57.35 ; do, medium, 96,25 to $6.76 ; stockers. 700 to 850 lbs, 56.50 to 57.40 : choice feeders, dehorned, 7.60 to 98.00 canners and cutters, 53.75 to 95.00 ; Milkers, choice, each $75.00 to 996.00 ; do, com. and need., ea. $40.00 to 960,00 ; springrs, 950.00 to 5100.00 ; light ewes, $7.75 to 98.50 sheep, heavy, 95.00 to $5.50 ; spring lambs, per lb., 14c. to 143c : calves, good to choice, 90.50 to 912.200 ; do, medium, 97,25 to $8.50 ; hogs, feed and w$10.05.atered, 911.18 to 911.25 ; do, weighed off cars, 911.40 to 911..50: do, f.o.b., Montreal, July 18, -Butchers' steers, good, $9 to $9,50 medium. 57,76 to 98,75 ; common to fair, $7.26 to $8.25 fair to good. 90.50 to 57 • medium $6.25 to 56,25 ; cows, good, 56 to $7 , fair, 95,50 to $6.76 ; common, $5 to 55,25 ;„ sheep, 70 ; lambs, 10e ; calves, milk fed, 9c. to 100 ; grass fed, 5o ; hogs, mixed 'icts,76910o 5012to5 '•911r.ou 911.50 g; hs sows, 99.76 to 910,25. «.-X400......-.-..-. 460 IRISH REBELS WILL BE RELEASED. A despatch from London says: The HUNS ADmITR 'S Aiwa AD adviocommittee appointed to con- .- Joi're'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- leg within a Mlle 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. lie 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, the sider cases of 'nen arrested in Ireland during the recent rebellion, and still under detention, has recom- mended the release of 460 of thein. This recommendation will be given ef- fect immediately, Herbert L. Samuel, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, informed the House of Commons. on Wednesday. Eighty German Merchant Subs? A despatch from Copenhagen says: Germans newspapers state that eighty new submarines of the sante type as the Deutschland will be built at Kiel gad Bremen. Twelve are expected to be completed by August. Even the than who has not had his .appendix removed can find some 'tin in telling of his visits to the dentist: 1