Zurich Herald, 1916-09-08, Page 9FRESH FRIGHTFULNESS
EXPECTED FROM BERLIN.
Elevation of Hindenburg Stroke of Kaiser to Revive Spirits of
People, Who Are Becoming Skeptical.
A despatch from London says;
Well-informed opinion here is that the
true measure of the effect which Rou-
mania's entry into the war has had
upon the German higher Councils ' is
given by the removal of Gen. Von
Falkenhayn and the appointment of
von Hindenburg. The supersession
of von Moltke after the battle of the
Marne was purely military in its
bearings, while the appointment of
Hindenburg because of the failure of
German diplomacy to keep Roumania
out of the war is regarded as an "ex-
cited effort to satisfy public opinion"
in Germany. , •
A despatch from The Hague
says the change in the General Staff
has caused a sensation in Germany,
where the censorship so far does not
allow the publication of newspaper
comment. In the same despatch it is
suggested that the plans of 'Hinden-
burg and Falkenhayn clashed because
the latter did not wish to send troops
to the eastern front, holding that the
decision in the war would come only
in the west, and that Roumania's
move caused the Kaiser soddenly to
take Hindenburg's side. The view
here, however, is rather that in plac-
ing Hindenburg the Kaiser plays his
last trump; that the German people
are losing faith in the reports of their
own press and the Kaiser hopes to
revive their spirits by invoking the
magic of Hindenburg's name.
Hindenburg's task in '1916 is com-
pared with that of Napoleon in 1814.
The Westminster Gazette draws at-
tention to the fact that "von Hinden-
burg, von Tirpitz and von Bulow have,
as the readers of the German news-
papers know, become associated in the
public mind with a policy of ruthless
war to the end as against a hankering
for peace, which is 'attributed to
Bethinann-Holweg, Falkenhayn and
the Emperor, himself. The latter has
apparently thought it .necessary to
clear himself by a dramatic stroke
from complicity with the moderates,
and with Hindenburg in supreme con-
trol and all the extremists raging at
Bethmann-Holweg we may look out
for a fresh bout of frightfulness."
RUSSIANS TAKE
SERIFS OF HILLS
Violent Fighting Reported All
Along the Entire
Front.
A despatch from London says :—
The capture during Thursday's battles
alone of 280 officers and 15,501 men
was announced by the Russian War
Office on Friday. Of this total 2,400
were Germans, Six guns, 55 machine
guns and seven bomb -throwers fell in-
to Russian hands. Despite the
violence of the fighting as indicated by
these figures, no substantial progress
is officially claimed by Petrograd, ex-
cept in the Carpathians, where a whole
series of heights were captured by the
Muscovites near Tomnatic mountain,
The official statement reports "fierce"
Teuton attacks in the region of Lako-
tschi, where the Russians "obtained
advantages es
g on a ,narrow front," but
add that "otherwise they were driven
bis also ck conceded tcounter-attacks." west of the
Helota Lige; in the direction of Halicz,
the Teutons "had to give way a little
before the enemy pressure." •
.Field Marshal'von Hindenburg, who
a few days ago was appointed by the
Kaiser chief of the German general
staff, appears to have been succeeded
by Prince Leopold of Bavaria, who
formerly held the extended German
Pinsk front. The name of the Ba-
varian prince appears in the place of
Hindenburg in the official Berlin re-
ports.
FAMINE RAGING
THROUGHOUT S.
IA
More Than 100,000 Have Died
of Hunger or
Typhoid:
A despatch from London says :---
A Syrian refugee, in an interview pub
lished in the Daily News, says that
famine is raging throughout the con
try from Aleppo to Jerusalem. Two
thirds of the inhabitants of the vil
lages in the neighborhood of Jerus
lem have died of hunger or typhoid.
In the Lebanon district the situation
is even worse, he asserts. He adds
that Enver Pasha, in behalf of the
Turkish Government, has prohibited
the importation of wheat and other
grain into the Lebanon as a punish-
ment for pro -French sympathies by
the inhabitants. The total number of
those who .perished as a result of the
famine is given at 100,000,• while thou-
sands succumbed to the plague. ,
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THIRTY TEUTON GENERALS
HOISTED.
A despatch from The Hague says:
Despatches from Berlin received here
on Wednesday state that thirty Ger-
man Generals have been dismissed as
a result of the appointment of Field,
Marshal von Hindenburg as Chief of
the General Staff'. Field Marshal von
Hindenburg' recently removed the
Austrian Major-General PuhaIlo from
command of the army corps defend-
ing the Kovel section of the front in
Some folks will do anything. for Volhynia, and gave the command of
money except go to work it. for the troops there to Gen. Friedrich von
Bernhardi, the famous author.
ULGAA IS DISTRUSTED
BY THE GER RYAN NENEWSPAPERS
Betrays Eagerness to Allow Her No Time to Reflect or Attempt
Secret Negotiations.
A despatch from Milan says: The
latest information from trustworthy
sources leaves little doubt that the
political situation in Bulgaria has
been profoundly affected by Rou-
mania's intervention. Persons in
touch with diplomatic conditions de-
clare that events may be following in
rapid evolution in Sofia.
Icing Ferdinancl's journey to Vienna
to join the High Council of War on
the new and grave situation created
in the Balkans is natural, but his
traveling incognito is mysterious.
Another strange factor is the in-
decent haste of Germany to declare
war on Roumania, as if to create.an-
other situation de facto in the Bal-
kans.
The imperative summons of the
German and Austrian press to Bul-
garia to declare war against Rou-
mania is a further curious symptom
of the general uneasiness. It be-
trays considerable eagerness to leave
Bulgaria no time to reflect or at-
tempt secret negotiations.
33 AEROPLANES B RO UGHT DO N
IN TER RIF1C ASR COMBATS
Germans Lost Twenty-seven Machines, British Five and the
French One.
A. despatch from London says: In
spite of the fog British and French
aviators were particularly active on
Thursday. On the Somme front dur-
ing the forenoon four German ma-
chines, were. brought down by the
French and three others south of
Peronne, while two others were seen
to fall badly damaged. Anti-aircraft
guns brought down two others, and
the occupants were taken prisoner.
In the .afternoon anti-aircraft guns
felled three additional aeroplanes,
The French lost one machine only,
• Gen. Haig reports that 'during
aerial eombats with the enemy five
Gerrttan machines were destroyed and
at least seven others driven down
damaged. Five British aeroplanes
were last. I to $10 , weighed off cars.
Markets of the World SMUTS CAPTURES Til E
CAPITAL
16reaelstuffs,
'l'Qrento, Sept, 5. --Manitoba wheel—
No, 1 Northern, $1,60 ; No, 2, do.,
$1:58 ; No. 3, do., $1,54, tra,ek, .Bay
Ports,
Manitoba oats—No, 2 C,W., 550 ;
No. 3, do., 55�/ae ; extraNo. 1 feed,
55,tc ; No. 1 feed, 543%0, track, I3ay
ports.
American corn—No, 3 yellow, 95o,
track, Toronto,
Ontario oats --No. 3 white, 50 to 510,
nominal, according to freights qut-
side.
Ontario wheat—No. 1 commercial,
$1.15 to $1,17 ; No, 2, do., $1,11 to
$1.13 ; No, 3, do., $1,07 to $1.09, ac-
cording to freights outside. New crop,
No. 2, $1.20 to $1.22.
Peas -No. 2, nominal,
Barley --Malting, nominal feed
nominal,
Buckwheat—Nominal.
Rye—No, 2, new, $i,.)05 to $1.08, ac-
cording to freights outside ;• No, 1
commercial, nominal.
Manitoba flour—First patents, in
jute bags, $8.40 ; second patents, in
jute bags, $7.90 ; strong bakers', in
jute bags, $7.70, Toronto.
Ontario hour—New Winter, accord-
ing to sample, $5,35 to $5.45, nominal,
in bags, track, Toronto, prompt. ship-
ment ; $5.25 to $5.35, nominal, bulk
seaboard, prompt shipment.
Mlllfeed—Car lots, delivered Mon-
treal freights, bags included --Bran,
per ton, $27 ; shorts, per ton, $29 ;
middlings, per ton, $30 ; good feed
flour, per bag, $2.15,
Hay—New, No. 1, per ton, $10 to
$12 ; No. 2, per ton, $9 to $9.50, track,
Toronto.
Straw—Car lots, per ton, $6 to $7,
track, Toronto.
Country Produce—Wholesale..
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 29 to
30e ; inferior, 24 to 25c ; creamery
prints, 34 to 36c ; solids, 33 to 35e.
Eggs—New-laid, 30 to 31e ; do., in
cartons, 84 to 36c,
Beans—$4,50 to $5, the latter for
hand-picked,
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Cheese—New, Iarge, 19% to 20
twins, 193% to 20�/4c ; triplets, 20.
20%ae, '
Dressed poultry—Chickens, 25'.
27c ; fowl, 18 to 20c.
Live poultry—Chickens, 18 to 20
fowl, 15 to 16e.
Potatoes—Jerseys, per bag, $2.50
Ontarios, $2,35 to $2.4'0 ; Briti
Columbia Rose, per bag, $2.
Honey—Five-pound tins, 12%
13c ; do., 10-1b., 12 to 12%c.
c;
to
OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA
Military Headquarters and Provisional Government Retire to
• the Mountains.
A despatch .from London says: Gen,
Smuts, commander-in-chief of. the
British forces in German East Africa,
reports under date of August 30 that
the German forces in that colony are
in full retreat. He announced the
occupation of Mrogoro, t f.
the German Provisional Geovernmentseao, f
and said he believed the German
military headquarters and Provisional fi
Government had retired into the
mountains.
The text of the statement regard -1
ing operations in German Bast
Africa as given out by the British
!Official Press Bureau says:
i "Gen, Smuts reports that on Aug.
130 the enemy forces were in full re-
treat east and west of the Uluguru,
mountains and south of Mrogoro. He
F TROOPS HAVE
A NEW
Prisoners Say They Have Had
Enough of War --Shell
Craters Are Ponds.
A despatch frond, the British Front
in France says: An Army officer and
ninety Germans surrendered in a
body near Guillemont en Wednesday.
They were sent out as usual with or-
ders to stickunder the .British shell
fire and against British infantry at»
tacks to the Iast man. But when the
believed the German military head- i British worked their way up on either
had retired into the mountai
quarters and Provisional Government
"We occupied Mrogoro on the 26th,
This is a most important town, and
was formerly the seat of the Pro-
visional Government "
TAKE 159 15,790 MEN
side of the exposed trench they held
up a white flag without making any
fight for it, They said that they had
suffered enough hardship and had had
enough of war and preferred to be
taken prisoners, The heavy down,
•
pour of rain continued all day, making
ponds of the shell craters and turn-
ing the trenches into mudholes.
While the German press is saying
that Roumania's entry will lengthen
the war, prisoners taken say that it
will shorten it, as is evident now
that Germany cannot win end had
11S at gilts De- struggle.
GERMAN LOSSES
IN PAY'S BATTLES! WERE FNO 0U
Great Victory Won by Russians ` Five Successive f$ - ' better compromise than prolong the
in the Carpathians.
A despatch -from London says: The
capture during Thursday's battles 1
alone of 289 officers and 15,501 men i The despatch
e mans from Thursday London says
night
was announced by the Russian War i launched the most violent counter -of -
Office in its afternoon statement. Of j fensive against the British on the
this total 2,400 were Germans. Si" c^�
livered Against British
on the Somme.
sines the ineeption of the Pi -
guns, fifty-five machine
guns and cardy battle. It was successful only
sian hands. In the Carpathians a the official
seven bomb -throwers fell into Ruse on a very small frontage, according to t
report 02 General Sir Doug -
whole series of heights was captured ; las Haig, though no details are as yeti
by the Muscovites near Tomnatici'given as to the extent of the ground
Mountain. The official Berlin state- the Teutons actually regained,
ment re t "fi „ 1 When the wI
eath ' 1
per s erce attacks in the . e' c eared, after
region of Lakotschi, where the Ruse several days of incessant rains and
sians "obtained advantages on a nar- massed forces against the Brnis, the ritishsrposi
row front," but adds that "otherwise 1 tions on a 3,000 -yard front, in the sec-+ e
they were driven back by German tor of Ginch "ormA
counter-attacks:' It is also c Y and D 1 it
Five
successive "But we are net going to eonsider
any compromise," the British soldiers
tell them.
The British who have received the
surrender of Germans say that with
characteristic organization they now
have what the British call a "surren-
der drill." When they cerne out of
their dugouts to give themselves up,
as in the case of the body on Wed:
nesday, they have all their letterat
papers and valuables in their hands
ready as a peace offering to their'
captors.
to .e v le concededFivess ve assaults were made,
0 ; !I that southwest of the Zlota Lipa, in but not until the fifth was launched
the direction of Halicz, the Teutons 1 did the attackers succeed in carrying
"had to give way a little before the '-g been broken by the tions, the oBritish ecurtain
enemy pressure.'
Provisions—Wholesale
Bacon --Long clear, 18 to 18%c p
ib.
Hams—Medium., 24'to 26c ; do
heavy, 22- to 23c ; rolls, 19 .to 20c
breakfast bacon, 25' to 270 '
plain, 26 to: 27c ; boneless backs, 2
to 29c. Cooked ham, 35 to 37e. "
Lard Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 177%c,
tubs, 17Y% to 171/ c ; pails, 177/a to
17%c. Compound, 14 to 14%c.
n
sh Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who of
to a few days ago was appointed by the
Kaiser as Chief of the German Gen-
eral Staff~, appears to have been suc-
•ceeded by Prince Leopold of Bavaria, I
who formerly held the extended Ger-
man Pinsk front. The name of the 1
Bavarian Prince appears in the place
of Hindenburg's in the official Berlin
r;enort
NEW "NAME PROCLAIMED FROM that the attackers were not only met
CITY HALL STEPS. by a fusillade of British rifle -lire, but
also "came under the 'concentrated
A despatch from Kitchener says :— fire at various places of our trench
The proclamation issued by the Lieute- mortars and massed machine guns,"
nantGovernor-in-Council, changing the while at several points the British ar-
name of the city from Berlin to Kitche- tfilely wrought havoc among the at -
nen was read by Mayor Hett from the tacking ranks,
City Hall steps at noon on Friday.
The members of the City Council and
a large number of citizens were pre-
sent. Cheers Were afterwards given
for the new name and for the allies,
which were followed by the singing of
the. National Anthem,
540,000 GERMANS WERE
DISABLED AT VERDUN.
.A despatch from Paris says: Com -
en authorities
er
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Sept. 5,—Cash quotations:
—WhNo. 2eNorthern,l $ 50 ; No, $
1Norrtth-
North-
ern, $1.46 ; No, 4., $1,397, ; No. 5
$1.34% : No. 6, $1,247/ ; feed, $1,171,
Oats—No. 2 O.W„ 49Y4e No. 8 C.W,,
49e ; extra No, 1 feed, 49c ; No. 1.
feed, 48c ; No. 2 feed, 4794c. Barley
—No. 3, 82c ; No. 4, 79e ; rejected,
78e ; feed, 73c. Flax—No. 1 N,'4V,C,,
21,87 ; No. 2 C.W., $1.84.
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United States Markets,
Minneapolis, Sept. 5.—Wheat---Sep-
ember, $1.49% ; No. 1 hard, $1.56%
. 1 Northern, 21.50% to.$1.53% ;
o, 2 Northern, $1.46% to $1.51%.
orn—No. 3 yellow, 86 to 87e. Oats --
o, 3 white, 43% to 44c. Flour un-
anged. Bran—$21,00 to $22.00.
Duluth, Sept. 5.—Wheat—No. 1 hard,
to
.531% ; No. 2 Northern,} $$1,48 �� to
.507% ; September, $1.404 bid.
nseed—On track and to arrive,
.0Odo-
r, 22.07September,
; to Novernber,7�4 $2 07 bid ;
ember, $2,06.
No
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Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Sept, 5, ---Choice hea
steers, $8,15 to 28.75 ; . good Beau
steers, $7,75 to $8.00 ; butchers' c
tle, good, $7.35 to $7.75 ; do., media
$7.00 to $7.15 ; do., common, $6.00 t
$6,15 ; butchers' bulls, choice, $7,25 t
27.50 ; do„ good bulls, $6.40 to $6.50
do,. rough bulls, $4;50 to $5.00 ; bu
eters cows, choice, $6.50 to 26,75
do„ good, $6,00 to $6,25 ; dc„ meditt
25.50 to 25.85 ; stockers, 700 to 80
bsl .,$6.00 to $6.50 ; choice feeders
deh.orned, $6.80 to $7.00 ; canners and
cutters, $3.50 to $4.50 ; •milkers
choice, each, $70.00 to $90.00 ; do.
cora, and med., each, $40,00 to $G0.00 ;
springers, $50,00 to :$90.00 ; light ewes,
27.65 to 28.50 ; sheep, heavy, $4,50 to
$5.35 ; spring lambs, per Ib„ 100 to
10%c ; calves, good to choice, $10.50
o $12,00 ; do., medium, 29.00 to $10,00;
hogs, fed and watered, $11,85 to
11.75 ; do., weighed off cars, $11,90
o $12.00 ; do., f.o.b., .$11.15.
Montreal, Sept. 5,—Butchers' steers,
good, $7 to $7.50 ; fair, $6.50 to $7 ,•
edium, $5.50 to $6 ; . common, $4 to
5, cwt, ; butchers' cows, good, $6 to
7 fair, $5,50 to $5.75 common, $4
o $5 ; butchers bulls, best, $6.50 • to
7 ; good, $6 to $6.50 ; fair, $5.50 to
6 ; carriers, $4.50 to $5 ; sheep, 7c
et• pound ; lambs, 9r/ e .to 10%e per J
mind ; calves, milk -fed, 8c to 90 per
ound ; grass-fed, $5 per cwt. ; Hogs,
to $12 ; roughs and
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AL ES'RS0URCES
The official British arternoon igen, Money and Szud::liaie S 'S e
statement says the Teutons penetrated
into "an advanced trench at two points Handed Over Freely
on a small front '
The German War Office briefly an -1 sale aa.
no d German troops recap-
tired(*Or
from the British ground lost'
near Longueval and Delville Wood, In
heavy fighting last night,
In
Friday Id
a
night'si
tens report Sir Doglas British
asserts 1
that the attack cost the Teutons "very I
severe casualties." He points out
With the return of more favorable
weather a resumption of the Anglo-
Iench offensive Ola
looked for, the Somme is
On the Franco-German front, in -I
eluding the Verdun area, the Iasc. 24
]lours brought no change of conse-'t
queuce, only minor engagements be -i
ing reported.
A despatch froze London says.
Roumania already is being taken into
4 t
the p
heart of
the ,Q
Entente e
» t alliance and
is beginning to experience the gre'4
benefits of having- an open account
with such powers as. Prance: Great
Britain and Russia. • She is sharia
in the funds and general resources
the allies,
A consign ,est of French 75 -milli
metre guns and munitions for the
Roumanians has been shipped from
Russia into Roumania. Other French
war material, consigned eventually tq
Roumania, has been lying at the port
of Vladivostok, and has now been or-
dered immediately routed to Rou-
mania.
Franco'; chief contribution to Roue
amnia is thus iI} the foamy of war mac
erial. Roumanian artillery is at pre-
ant equipped in great part with,
Krupp guns, many of which were
ceived during the last six months in
art payment for the ('Si cars of
rain and fresh meat sent from Roue
ania to Germany.
Russia's contribution, v, ill be In ON
i
o�
re
ALIEN ENEMY CREWS
petent''estimate that about I NOT TO GAIN ENTRY. ni
500,00Q. Germans have been disabled J
in the Verdun region alone since ; Canadian Regulation to Prevent Hos- , form of troape. Besides undertalc:n
sine F b to guarantee Roumania's security o
the side of the Eastern Carpathians
and apart from the prospective oper-
ations of Russian forces through
IRoumania against Bulgaria, Russia is
to provide 200,000 men to co-operate
with the Roumanians in Transyl-
v ania.
e e 21, the beginning of the I tile Foreigners Landing
great German offensive there. The 1 at Ports,
total number of wounded German
prisoners taken in the Verdun sector 1 A despatch from Ottawa says: In
and in the neighborhood of the o
Somme exceeds 43,000.
NEW PERSIAN CABINET
FRIENDLY WITHALLIES
A- despatch from Petrograd says :—
Aecording to despatches from Teheran
a new Persian Cabinet has been form-
ed under the Premiership of Vos-
sough-ed-Dowleh, who also will take
the post of Foreign Minister. All the
other Ministers in the Cabinet belong
to the Moderate party and are report-
ed to be friendly disposed towardsladran ports for purposes authorized
Russia. and Great Britain, by treaty.
ides to prevent persons of enemy
nationality from banding in Canada,
under the guise of neutrals, a regu-
lation has been adoptedproviding
that no alien master or member of
the crew of a vessel arriving at a
Canadian port, shall be allowed to
land without the production of proof
that he is not an alien enemy. An
alien may, however, land for a tem-
porary purpose, by permission of the
Customs or Immigration officials, and
the regulations do not apply to(
United States fishermen visiting Can-
n
{ NO BOOZE ON TRAINS
AFTER SEPTEMDE—' o 16th
i A despatch from. Toronto rays:—:
The n:ne railway companies operating
/in the Province, in reply to
p 5 a cora.:
munication from the Ontario License
Board, have given the assurance that
when prohibit'on comes into effect
they will discontinua the sale of liquot
on their trains. This decis'on re-
moves any nations that may have been
entertained that the railway com-
panies might take steps to contest the
authority of the act in reference tq
such sales.
7.
FRENCH RECOG NIT1 Old
OF HER NEW ALLIES
A despatch from Pares says:—Fou;
the first time since Italy entered the
war the French Government on Wed-
nesday ordered that Sags be raised oil
EXPECT SPEEDY SH 0 RTENING
OF FOE LINES IN F,AN CE
Hindenburg Not Expected to Wait for the Launching of the
Allies' General Offensive.
A despatch from Paris says: Andre !fore the allies launch their general
Tardieu, a well known member of the offensive.
Preach Army Commission, said on
"But we are only at the beginning
Friday that there are numerous indi- of the end," he declared. "We must
cations to show that Field Marshal stili work feverishbe prdyce morea
t
von Hindenburg:'was appointed chief the death trty blow." to be neatly to deal
of staff to completely remodel the M. Tardieu further said that the
German strategy. He added that in' German losses in the first two months
view of the ! of the Verdun campaign were eight
positive lack of German times hoe
than those of the
reserves the new commander-in-chief French on the Somme in July and Au -
may y ten the fines In France be- gust.
all official buildings in recognition ci'
the declaration of war by Italy against
Germany, and by Roumania against
Austria-Hungary.
ITALY HAS CONFISCATED THE
KRUPP ESTA 3LISHMENT,
A despatch from Milan sage :---Itn.ty
has confiscated the n1etallurgio est.ab-
lishtnentmaintained by the Krnpns,
they great. German gun works, in North-
ern. Italy.