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Zurich Herald, 1916-09-29, Page 2CORPSES PILED IN MOUNDS: TW GIANT ZEPPELIN4eis The World • ROAR SOAKED LO l aDOWN CRAFT ?x M R T NS Foe's Losses in Futile Counter-attacks on Somme Are the Heaviest Since Early Days of Verdun. A despatch from London says: Be -1 north-east corner of the village, only hind the French Army on the Somme: i to be driven out an hour later and he worst sacrifice of life since the , routed further back than they had early days of the Verdun battle mark- i stood before the action. ed the main German counter-attack i The last attack, delivered at dusk, Thursday against the new French ; was terminated by a series of checks. positions north of the Somme. Ac-, costing the Germans three whole regi cording to an artillery officer who : merits. A Bavarian company belong- 1 took part in the battle, corpses are , ing to the llth Regiment lost 160 out piled on each side on the road from ; of 200 men. Two battalions of the Combles to Rancourt in mounds, 1 123rd Prussian Regiment were total - sometimes three feet high, 11y destroyed. Not a regiment escap- The German effort to stem the ' ed a loss of less 'than 60 per cent. of French advance was the strongest its effectives. made since the beginning of the f Somme battle. It Lasted over ten hours Hindenburg Directed Battle. and was made by six divisions, which ; Ninety thousand men directed per - suffered terrific losses under the , sonaily by Field Marshal von Hinder. - French barricade fire, Following the burg took part in attacks on the new heaviest preparation by artillery French positions in the region of known in that sector, from great guns Bouchavesnes, on the Somme, accord- brought from other fronts, 20 German ing to the special correspondent in battalions began the assault with the ' the field of Paris La Liberte. triple objective of freeing CoMbles1 The fighting was extraordinary from the danger of investment, stop- ` fierce in the centre of the region at - ping the French wedge between Pgg,-, ' tacked, around Bouchavesnes and tonne and Combles, and driving the Bois L'Abbe, and at Combles, about allies from the possession of Hill No.: the Prieze farm as well as at Ran - 76, which dominates Mont St. Quen- I court. At Frieze farm two Prussian tin. i battalions were nearly destroyed, adds Two Prussian battalions, who led the correspondent, and a similar fate the attack on the Prieze farm, were •` was suffered at Rancourt by three hardly out of their trenches when German regiments, which, advancing they literally melted away before the' in four waves, made the last desper- terrible fire of the "75's." •Further ate effort of the day. south four successive waves of infan- Malcolm Ross, correspondent with try attacking in close formation were, New Zealand smashed by the French "125'e." The ! R states that the on forces Allies firede $twelve village of Bouchavesnes was the scene ! million shells in a preliminary bom- of the most stubborn combat of the i bardment on that front, "The Ger- day, when by a dreadful sacrifice the i mans," he said, "are hid in a fog Germans succeeded in entering the . caused by the smoke of the shells." RAIDS ON VENICE DEPLORED BY POPE. , A despatch from Venice says; Mon- signor La Fontaine, the Patriarch of I Venice, has published a letter from 55,800 GERMAN PRISONERS Pope Benedict, deploring the at -1 TAKEN IN SOMME OFFENSIVE. tempts against the churches and treasures of Venice and rejoicing that the Church of San Giovanni Paolo es -1 A despatch from Paris says: It caped destructive blows, only sustain- i was officially announced by the War ing damage which fortunately can be . Office that according to new ac -repaired. counts the total number of prisoners `'The Pope calls the explosion before taken by the Franco -British troops St. Mark, rk the destruction of the since .fury 1, when the Somme offen- Church of Santa Marie Formosa, and ; sive began, up to September 18, is the damage to the Church of Scalzi more than 55,800, of whom 34,050 "bitter wounds to my heart," and re-; were taken by the French troops. grets that his efforts to prevent such : This makes an average of nearly misfortunes have failed. He con- 700 prisoners taken daily in 80 days. • cluded his letter by sending words of comfort to the population of Venice, with a wish that peace will soon be restored. CANADIANS •IN BRILLIANT VICTORY TOOK K OVER 1,200III ER Captured Foe's Defensive Position on Wide Front to a Depth of From 1000 to 2000 Yards. A despatch from the Canadia Corps Headquarters in France, says ---Tire Canadian troops have been ac tively participating in the great Ba tle of the Somme. Already, in a Serie of brilliant attacks they have force the Germans back for over a mil beyond their original line. They hay captured lllouquet Farm, having final ly overeome a desperate resistance; they have attacked and carried the sugar refinery and its lines of connect - Ing trenches,and then, following up this success with a boldness of plan and action of execution not excelled In this war, they have on the same day organized and delivered fresh at- tacks which made them masters of the whole village of Courcelette. The Canadians have taken over 1,200 prisoners, including 32 officers, together with tiro guns, a large num-1 her of machine guns and several heavy minenwerfers, or trench mortars, and, In the course of the heavy and sus- tain. d fighting they have inflicted very Berlous losses upon the enemy. I A montreal battalion was the first to enter the battle, coming up through a. hostile barrage to the assistance of hard-pressed troops practically in the middle of an attack, They were closely followed by the Canadian Scot-' fish from Vancouver and by a Tor..! onto battalion. These battalions, al -1 though they delivered no assault, were ; Oven a very difficult and trying task to perform. They were heavily sh,el- Xed in trenches newly dug or recently captured from the enemy, and the ex- Ilct location of which it was almost impossible to determine. Despite Very adverse conditions they tronsolid- ilfed their •trenches and repelied say-. eral hostile bombing attacks. But these activities, important and commendable though they were, were only 'preparatory to the great offen- sive that was to follow, x`he morning of September 15th n ; dawned bright and clear. Shortly : i after six o'clock our battalions began - f their attack. Before them the artil- t-iery barrage advanced stage by stage s i with a remarkable precision and a d; great intensity of fire, In $ucces- e !sive waves our infantry moved for- e e ward, climbing over the shell -torn - i ground, leaping the battered trenches. Among them burst the enemy shells, i The noise was terrific. Machine gun and rifle fire oure:d into them I Steadily they mounted the last ridge, t saw Martinpuich on their right and !Ieoked over to the brick ruins and white chalk mounds of the sugar re- ; finery and the trenches to the right and left which were to be their ob- 17ective. No sooner were the first lines of German trenches secured, than the ass smiting waves pressed onwards. In their midst, moving ponderously, but steadily, came several of the new ar- mored cars. Hit Majesty's landship "Creme de Menthe" led the way and the effect upon our men was electri- cal. In vain the Germans rained a stream of bullets against the invulner- able cars, but they were powerless to stop the advance. Although our infantry were the first to reach the sugar refinery, the cars assisted materially in silencing the German machine guns and in en- filading the enemy trenches, and the deep, strongly protected dugouts of the sugar refinery. Ten Officers, in, eluding a battalion commander, were made prisoners. At the same time the trenches on either flank, known to u5 as the "Candy" trench and the "Su- gar" trench, were stormed and cap.. tined. In this atta,tk men from Toronto, Loudon, Ottawa and Kingston fought slide-byside with men front Winnipeg, Regina and Vancouver, and with mels of the Mounted Rifles from Eastern Canada. Fortified Structure on the Out- skirts of German Base Captured. A despatch from London says: The French troops have reached Combles, One building in the town is in their possession. In what is described the Paris midnight communique asfga by brilliant surprise attack," an .isolated structure at the extreme outskirts of I the important German base on the Somme was captured by the French. The building had been strongly forti- fied as a defence work. Three officers and 97 men were taken ,-risoners. Simultaneously Gen. Foch's troops j pushed forward to the south-east of{ Combles, tightening the ring, around that town. In this section 40 prisoners were made. A'semi-official estimate says the German losses suffered in the vain counter-attack around Bouchavesnes on Wednesday were 30,000. The German commander tried vain- ly to stem the French advance against Combles by a sortie from the trenches south of Rancourt. It was nipped in the bud by the French barrier fire. The British, operating north-west of Combles, with the dual atm of breaking through to Bapaunie a closing in on Combles in cQnjunctio with the French, registered a forth advance on a front of a mile, takin two lines of German trenches. a straightened out their front betwee the villages of Piers .and Martin Twelve Machines Took Part i* Attack on London District Caus- ing 1.30 Casualties. London, Sept, 24.—Of twelve b Zeppelins which invaded the Briti Isles last night to deal death and d struction from the skies two 1 stark and black masses of steel a aluminum in the little village ig hers of the crew of the Zeppelin sh which was forced to land near an Es- 5- sex coast town were arrant Broaaatutes. Toronto Sept, ati—.i\tauitoba wheat-. No, 1 Northern, *1.375; No. 2, do., $1.57, trace, 3, do., 3 'O No. op trap: ing 2c above new crop. Manitoba oats No.. 2 C.W., 38?rc; No. 3, do., 575e ; extra No, 1 feed, 575o ; No. 1 feed, 563c, track, flay ports. Amerman corn --,-No. 3 yellow, 94c, track, Toronto, 54OntrNo, 5, do., 61wo 53c2 white,52 to freights outside, y the Ontario wheat—No. 1 cbtiiineraial, ay village constable as theywere' march- $1'23 to $1.28; No. 2, do„ $1.2i to $1.24; No, 3, do„ $1.17 to $1,20, aceordint; to nd ing along the road in the blackness of freights ol,tsido, 13 New crop. Na. 2, of the night, according to the latest $ 3 to $1.36, Peri- ou 2 $�, to 32.10, according to r freights outside. Barley—Malting, 84 87c, nominal feed, 80 to 82e; nomi21'11, according* to freights Outside, Buckwheat -80 to 82c, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside, Rye—No. 2, new, $1.13 to $1,15, ac- cordingi to freights outside ; No. 1 cam - Manitoba flour—First patents, in jute bags, 38.69 ; second patents, in j"te bags, $8,10: strong bakers', in jute bags, $7,90, Toronto, Ontario flour—New Winter, according to sample, $6.25 in bags, track, Toronto, prompt shipment ; $6.16 built seaboard, prompt shipment, Milli'eed—Car lots, delivered Montreal nearest detention camp, where it was freights, bags included ---.Bran, per ton. Mangold, Essex County. They fell vi tiros of the anti-aircraft defences London and outlying districts. One came down a flaming torch, a did the Zeppelin L-21, destroyed thre weeks ago; while the second, disable by gunfire, effected a landing whi saved,the lives of the crew, who ar now prisoners in England. Th crew of the first raider died in th consuming flames of their own ship but they were not so terribly charred as their predecessors. This latest raider to light her own funeral way on English soil collapsed and was consumed much more quick- ly than the L-21. It is possible, though, that some of the men were still living when the great vessel struck the ground. The captain's body was found some distance from the wreck. Many aeroplanes were aloft and at- nd ! tacked the Zeppelins from all sides. n I The raiders took a heavy toll of er lives before their destruction, 28 per- g sons being killed and 99 wounded in i an ; the metropolitan district of London. n i Two persons were killed, probably c- of eye -witness" account. "I am the commander of a German airship that has just come down, and s these are my crew," said the leader e1 of the men when accosted by the Gon- d stable, Then the officer added: ch . "Please allow me to go to the near - e est post -office so that I may telephone e someone in Loudon who will let my e wife know I am safe." , Special constables came up and the prisoners -were marched to the "uich. On the .northern' stretch of the Anglo -German front below Arras the British carried out a successful raid penetrating German trenches an inflicting ninny casualties. The French earlier in the day checked a violent counter-bloi-- by the four, 'and 17 were wounded in the provinces. The property damage, while widely distributed, is confined for the most part to small suburban d • dwellings and shops, although one: railway station was damaged, some I empty cars being destroyed and part of the tracks torn up. . The commander and. twenty mem- Germans between La Prieze Farm and Rancourt, driving back the Teu- ton storming waves with heavy losses. TEUTONS ARE SHORT OF GUNS AND SHELLS. A despatch fro-. London says: The official report from British Head- quarters in France contains: the\fol- lowing: "A captured document signed t by General von Falkenhayn while 'Chief of_,the German General Sty,• A ig: 24; states: • ' i "'The wastage of guns in the last few months has been considerably in excess of production. The same is true of the ammunition in our re- serves of which there has been a seri- ous diminution. It is the duty of all ranks—not only in the artillery—to endeavor to remedy this serious state of things. All the ranks must make' a most serious endeavor to assist in the preservation of material as indi- cated above, for otherwise making good the losses and placing new for- mations in the field will be rendered impossible. WOULD TURN KRUPPS GREEN WITH ENVY. A despatch from New York says: The British are manufacturing .new war inventions "which would turn the ICrupps green with envy," according to Dr. Benjamin Rand of Harvard University, who returned from a visit to England on the steamship Andania. Accorded privileges of inspection by the British Foreign Office, Dr. Rand sand he visited munition and ord- nance factories and saw "some as- tounding inventions," but that he was pledged not to disclose their nature. He found among every class, he said, an intense determination to clo all pos- sible to win the war. In one factory he saw 7,000 women at work, uni- formed in khaki. New factories were being built, he said, and existing ones constantly extended. GREECE WITH VENIZELOS BARON SCHENK ADMITS. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger announces that Baron von Schenk, former -chief director of German propaganda in Greece, and who was sent out of Greece by the Entente powers, has reached Berlin. In an interview in the Lokal Anzeiger, he is reported as saying: "Greece now is completely under the thumb of Venizelos, although the people are still our friends. When the gendarmes came to expel me, they wept, saying, `Excuse us for what we are compelled to do under the stress of circumstances and of which we are very sorry." KAISER ISSUES APPEAL ' TO GERMANS ABROAD. A despatch 'from Amsterdam says:, s; Emperor William In the German of= ficial Gazette appeals to all Germans' abroad to report to tire Consular of- fices in order to ascertain if they are: available for military service. GENERAL HAIG PRAISES CANADIAN TROOPS. A . despatch from London says: General Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian Minister of Militia, has received a let- ter from Sir Douglas Haig, of which the following is an extract: "I de- sire to express my sincere apprecia- tion of the generous terms in which you refer to the achievements of the army in France. It must ; be a 'source of pride anti gPatific4 i_.tlo you to know that the gallant officers and men who come from Canada to fight for the King and the common cause of our Empire invariably do their duty in a way that reflects the greatest possible credit on themselves and their Dominion." PEACEMAKERS ARE SENT TO THE FRONT. found several of them were wounded, I $2t, shorts, per ton, 320 ; middlings, Aar ton, $30 ; good feed dour, per bag, Allies Also Busy, *9.25. London, Sept. 24.—The past two days has witnessed scores of battles in the air, in which the allies were overwhelmingly successful, and the bombing of numerous enemy aero- dromes and factories. A French aviator flew 100 miles be- yond the German frontier and threw bombs on Ludwigshaven, where Count Zeppelin has his principal base for testing his airships, and on the city of Mannheim. Saturday night seven French aero- planes threw 46 shells of 120 calibre ! _ and four 150 calibre on the blasting ;13e; 5ib.tins,125o;dipIb'115-ltoo 1207: furnaces of Rombach and Thionville. Bo -Ib„ 11 to 11,c. Comb honey, select ; Captain Beauchamp and Lieut. Nie- $Potatoe52,75 2' Ontai. o 52:$Bx•itish Columbia court, piloting two aeroplanes, Sun- III Rose, per bag, $1.76 to ,$1.35; British Co- luntbiatzuiit les, per far. $1,90 to $5: day morning threw 12 bombs on the 1�*ew a3runswiek Cobbl Fray—New No, 1, per ton, $10 to $12 No. 2, per ton, $9 to $9.50, track, Toron- to, Straw—Car lots, per ton, $7 to $8, track, Toronto. Country Produce--wbolesals: Butter--Freslt ilairy, choice, 30 to 32c• inferior, 24 to 262 ; creamery prints, 36 to .3$c ; solids, 34 to 35c. •IJggs--No. 1 storage, 35 to 36c ; star - age, selects, 37 to 38e ; new -laid, in car - Dressed to 420. Dressed poultry ---Chickens, 25 to 27c; fowl, 18 to 20c ; ducks, 18 to 20c ; squabs, ner dor„ 34.50. Live poultry—Chickens, 17 to 1So ; fowl, 14 to 16c ; ducks, 13 to 16a. Cheese—New large, 214 to 22c ; twins 21,5 to 2190 ; triplets, 215 to 22c, blasting furnaces at Essen. The avis_ to $2.10, ars, per bag, 52 tors returned to their base safely af- ter having traveled about 500 mil ! es. RUTHLESS METHODS AGAINST BRITAIN Leader of German National Liberal Party Advocates Frightfulness. A `despatch from Berlin says: Major Ernst Bassermann, leader of the Na- gg tional Liberal party, in a keynote ; ita:sa36.0 3 to $0.25 55`5goIcl2d9o0a lbs, speech delivered before his constitu- ( $2.00 to 53. A illfeed—Bran, $26 ents in the Saarbruecken district, de -II $32rto• ass ' ria `-Nos' 2530 er t nuil� r.. clared that the submarine campaign i lots, 513. Cheese—Finest westerns, had been postponed and not abandon- 205c ; do., easterns, Zoe. Butter— Choicest creamery, 36$0 ; seconds, 353;e. ed. Major Bassermann advocated the Eggs—Fresh. 46c ; selected, 38,. ; No. i Vrovi©ions—wholesale, 26c; dos heavy 22tos230edcooied, 35 to 37e ; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27o ; backs, plain, 28 to 27e ; boneless, 28 to 29c. ' Pickled. or dry cured meats, 1 cent less than cured. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 18 to 185e, per ib. Lard—Pure Lard, tierces, 17 to 175c ; tubs, 175 to 175c ; pails, 175 to 175c. Compound, 134 to 133e, Business in Montreal, Montreal, Sept. 25.—Oats—Canadian 'Western. No, 2, 60c ; do., No. 3, 5950 ; extra No, 1 feed, 593 • No, 3 local white, 535 to 64c. .Barley—Manitoba feed, 875c. Flour—Manitoba Spring wheat patents. firsts, $8.70 ; do., seconds, 58.50 strong bakers' $8 ; • Winter patents, choice, 57.75 ;. straight rollers, 57,20 .to $7 50 • widest possible use of both subina- stock, 340 ; No, 2, do., 30c. potatoes• -- Per bag, cal• lots, $1.30 to $1,55, Dressed nines and Zeppelins and the most hogs—.abattoir-kined. $16,75 to 517. ruthless methods of warfare Pork—Heavy Canada shoe t mess barrsls ib leader assert- short cut back, barrels 946 to 85 piece- rested in Berlin on a charge of sell miral von Tirpitz, Admiral von Hoes ince von Buelow and Count ists have been forcibly impressed in- Zeppelin. He maintained that ''in a to military service, according to a1 struggle wherein the existence of Ger- despatch to the Wireless Press from • many is at stake the most ruthless Zurich. Although above the age limit 1 use of all possible weapons is called and declared to be unfit for military for." This sentiment was heartily ap- service, the Socialists were turned plauded by his audience, Submarines and Zeppelins, continued Major Bass 1 j acTi—No. 3, s6*c ;7311°. 4, sotc ; re- po against our arch enemy Eng - The National I ' 35 to 40 pieces $34 to $36 • Canada A despatch from London says: Ar- ed that his views were shared by Ad tious anti war agitation, 130 Social- tel Pr $32 to $33. Lard—Compound, wood pails, 20 ib, net, 133 to 14c ; do„ pure, - wood pails, 20 lbs net, 10 to 165c. over to the military authorities soon after their arrest. After a few weeks' drilling they were sent to the front, Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Sept. 25—Cash prices :--- Wheat—No. 1. Northern, 51.685 ; No, 2 Northern, $1.555; No. 3 Northern, $L635; No, 4, 31.475 ; No. 5, $1.399 ; No. 6, 51.249 ' feed, 51.055. Oats—No. 2 c:wr, c , No. 3 C.W., 515c ; extra No. 1 feed, 31c ; No. 1 feed, 501e ; No. 2 feed, 50c. serznann, were the most effective wea- ectad, 725c ; feed, 739a. Flax—No. 1 n �, N �1 C.. $1.91 , No. 2 C.w., $1.86. land." GREAT ROUM NIAl `il VICTORY GERMANS AND BULGARS CRUSHED Mackensen's Armies in Full Retreat, Burning Villages to Re- tard Pursuers. A despatch front London says: The six-day battle in the Dobrudja has ended in a Russo -Roumanian victory. Field Marshal von Mackensen's right wing in Roumania, consisting of Germans, Bulgars and Turks, is re- tiring to the south in the direction of the fortress of Dobric. News of the result of the great bat- tle was received in a brief summary of a Roumanian War Office statement which said: "The battle between the German, Bulgarian and Turkish troops under Gen, von Mackensen, in the Dobrudja, which has been in progress since the 15th, ended on Wednesday in a com- plete victory for Roumania. "The enemy is retiring southwards, burning villages." The official communication from Bucharest confirms the Entente re- ports that the great battle in Do- brudja, has ended in the defeat of the Central Powers after six days' fight- ing. The battle began Friday and gradually increased in scope and in- tensity until Tuesday evening, with the result' that on Wednesday the Germans, Balgars, and Turks, crush- ed, were forced to withdraw, burning villages in their line of retreat in an effort to retard their pursuers. The Bucharest War Office announc- ed in an earlier report that the Russo» Roumanians have repulsed the invad- ers "in a sanguinary manner," on the whole front, and launched several counter-attacks. The report reads: "In Dobrudja the struggle continues with obstinacy. Russo -Roumanian troops repulsed in a sanguinary man- ner on the whole front all attacks of the enemy, and made several coun- ter-attacks. Enemy aeroplanes drop- ped bombs on Constanza, where no one was injured, and on Piatra Neamtu, where a child was injured. Sofia officially admits that the Russo -Roumanian troops "maintained themselves in their strongly -fortified positions." Roumanians, Russians and Serbians were pitted against the invaders, strong reinforcements having been hurried to Dobrudja, when the opera- tions under the noted German field marshal threatened to overwhelm a section of Roumania, A strong line to the north was hastily fortified and powerful forces were thrown out to oppose the .onslaughts of the central powers. That the six days' battle has been a sanguinary one is indicated by the various official statements, which Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, Sept. 26.—Flour—Fancy patents, 10c higher, quoted at $8.70. Bran unchanged. 'Wheat—Casli, No. 1 hard, 31.685 ; No. 1 Northern, 31.615 to 31.645 ; No, 2 Northern, $1.665 to 51,615; No. 8 wheat, $1.575 ; December, $1.585. Coin—No. 3 yellow, 81 to 82o. Oats -- No. 3 white, 433 to 44c. rive Stock Markets. Toronto, Sept, 26 --Choice heavy steer& to $8.50 ;5butche s' caheavy std, ; 0 to $8.00 ; do., medium, 37.00 too $7.257 ;6O do., common, 36.00 to $6.26 ; butchers' bulls, choice, $7.26 to $7.60 ; do., good bu11a $6.40 to $6.50 1 do., rough buns, 34.50 to $5.00 butchers' cows, choice $6.60 to $6.86 ; do.. good, 36.00 to 56.26 • do,, medium, 55.50 to $5.75 ; stockers, 700 to 850 lbs„ 36.00 to $6,50 ; choice feeders, 6,25 to 57.00 ; canners and cutters, 3.75 to $4,25 ; milkers, choice, each, 70.00 to $90.00 ; do., coo, and med., each, 340,00 to $60.00 ; springers, $50.00 to $90.00 ; light owes, $7.60 to 58.00 sheep, heavy, $4,50 to .5.86 ; sprin lam s b choice, 11.0 $ oto 1 1.60 ; calve good 'to choice, $10;60 to $12.00' dot. medium, 59.60 to 610.50 ' hogs, fed and watered, $12.65 to $12.1; ; do„ weighed oft ears, $12.85 to $18,00. Montreal, Sept. 25.—Good steers sold at 57.50 to $7.75 ;• fair at 56,60 t0 $7.25`41 common at 15.60 to $6.25, while butoher6 Caws brought from $6 to $6,60, wadbullb 35 to 56.75 per cwt. The trade In can- ning cattle was active at $4.50 to $4.90 for bulls and at $3.75 to 54.26 for 00'44,Ontario stock at 10 to 310,30 and Quebec stock at $9.26 to $9.50 pet cwt; Sheep 16.60 to $7 per cwt. Calves, ohoitf4 stock, 9 to 10o, lower' grades front 4 to 8c per pound live weight, 1-rogs-'-G+ho140 selected lots sold at $12,65 to .2.70 good selects at $12.25 to 112.60, and medium and heavy weights at $.10,50 td $11..50 ner cwt„ weighed off Dara. TURKISH TROOPS ON THE RIGA FRONT., A despatch from London saysg, Turkish troops have appeared on thsi Riga front, says a Reuter despatch from Petrograd. They aro led 'b German and Austrian officers, and their whole equipment is Germat This is the first 'Vine that the pre/0 once of Turkish troops so tar north` told of the intensity of the fighting, has been reported.