Zurich Herald, 1917-03-02, Page 2BRITAIN'SSUPPLY IS G MARKETS THE GREATEST GERMAN
DUE TO BAD HARVEST NOT SUBS
]Farmers Guaranteed Minimum Prices for Six Years on Wheat,
Oats, Potatoes, and Farm Laborer's Wage Raised.
A despatch from London says: toes and fruits will be prohibited.
Premier Lloyd George said in a speech The only exceptions made in the pro-
ne the House of Commons on Friday hibition of fruit iinportations will be
that the ultimate success of the allied in the cases of oranges and bananas,
cause depended on the ability to solve in which the amount brought in will be
the tonnage shortage, which was now restricted 25 per cent. The same re -
affecting the ordinary needs of the striation will apply to nuts. Canned
nation, and military exigencies. The salmon importations will be reduced
fifty per cent. The. importation of
foreign tea, coffee and cocoa is pro -
situation called for the gravest meas»
uses. hibited, and even the amount of India
The Premier said there was no
sure way to victory without hunting tea which may be brought in is re -
the submarine from the deep.. En- duced. The importation of aerated,
ormous sacrifices were necessary mineral and table waters will be pro -
from the British public and the Gov- bibited.
ernment proposed to dispense with all Save 900,000 Tons Shipping.
non-essential importations to save The Premier said it was expected
tonnage, to save 900,000 tons of shipping year -
Can Face the Worst, ly on foodstuffs.
The Premier declared he had not The importation of paper, the
the slightest doubt that if the whole Premier announced, must be curtailed
programme were carried out and if by a further 640,000 tons annually. In
all those -who could help in production announcing the decision to restrict the
did help, "I honestly say we can face importantion of paper, Mr. Lloyd
the worst the enemycan do,and that George said the Government had ar-
il what we ought to be prepared to rived at the conclusion that a very
do „ substantial reduction was necessary,
In dealing with the question of pre- and that the amount would be cut to
duction, the Premier said: j half of what is now allowed. This
"Then there is the question of our I would reduce the allowance to 640,-
"Then
supplies of food. I want the 000 tons.
country to know that at present our Essential Foods on Free List. to 131c; toblb„ 1
food stocks are low. This is not due All essential articles of food, he eon- So -lb. -tins, 9 to 9t. Comb'.
omb ho
ane an,l heavy weight, g
'select, $«.60 to '..o, o. �
I',tatoes—Ontario, per• "'•!1
33readetaiem
Toronto Feb. 27—Manitoba wheatr
Oh. No. 1 Northern. $1,963: No. 2 ., 51,12,49.
No. 3, do., °$1,86; No. 4 wheat. S
track Bay ports, �G
Manitoba oats --No, 2 0•W, /lie to
73 No 3 C W 704 to 72e; extras
feed, 70h to 72c; No. 1 reed, 695 0 Vic,
all rail delivered en route.
American corn ---No. 3 yellow, $1.15,
subjo0t to embargo.
Ontario oats—No..2 white 63 to 66o.
nominal; No. 3 white, 62 to 04 , nomin-
al,
omtn-
al,.according to freights outside
Ontario wheat --No. 2 Winter', tier car
lot, $1.75 to $1.77; No. 3, do„ 11,13 to
$1.75, according to freights tcitt outside. to
Peas --No. 2, $2,46,.
freights outside
Barley-1Vialtint,. $1.20 to $1.22, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat -51,25, nominal. acoordieg
freights outside
Rye—No.,
Under Cover o
VERDUN EFFORTS
RETREAT I TI YEARS SERIOUS REVERSE
"og and Mist Heavy Guns Had ]Keen Withdrawn
To New Defence Line.
British Headquarters in France,l roans have determined to fix their next
Feb. 25, via London, Feb. 20. ---On one !line of resistance.
++ Nevertheless it can be stated that
portion of the British front at least I the British now, or soon, will be in
the war to -day became a war of move -1 a position possibly to force the eve-
ment, Under cover of fog and mist, cuation of Bapaume, which has been
which have been particularly heavy in the key to the German position since
to the past 48 hours, the Germens•car- the beginning of the battle of the
N 2 $1 40 to $1 42 accordtnu to
freights outside. ried out the greatest retirement they � Somme. The points which already
Manitoba flour—First patents, in luta have made on the western front in the have fallen into the British hands have
bags, 39,60; second patents, in litte bags,
59.00; strong bakers', in lute bags, last two years, and the British have, stood out in the history of the fight -
$8,60, 'Toronto,
Ontario dour—Winter. Tinter, a base. track swept into ands Petit Miraumol t, in- stubbornly defended. hadOnly
n yeea weost
ek
sample, $7.26 to $7.35, in bags, t Miraumont 1
Taranto, prompt shipment; $7,00, bulls eluding the famous Butte de Warren- ago, when the British attacked on a 2-
Millfeseaboard, export grade, M court, which has been the scene of mile front east and south of Mirau-
14iiilfec�el—Car holy, delicetrd 1 oritreal
freights, bags included--l3rau pet• ton, some of the fiercest fighting of the most and Pys, the German resistance
$37t shorts, per Don, 642:acd feed g
dour, per Mute. $2,70 to $2.30, ,' • war,and in places is deep with the was bitter and the high ground desired
I-Tay—Extra No. 2, pet 'tnh, $12; was wont only after desperate hand -to -
mixed, per ton, $0 to $11100 Vila To- bones of dead men.
ionto. ;+ The. exact extent of the German re- hand encounters and the taking of
Straw --Car lots, per ton, ea shack To-
runto.
•
Country Produce—'111/1to
Butter ---Fresh dairy, choir
ereantery prints, 43 to 40c;
43c.
Eggs---New-laid, in cart°.
out of cartons 52 to 64c.
Dressed poultry—Chicken;
fowl, 20 to 22e; clucks, 22 to
per doz., 34 to 34.00; turkeys,
geese, 13 to 200.
Lire poultry—Fowl, lb.,
eblokens, ib., 18 to 20c.
l:hseae—New. large. 204
26 to 264c; triplets, 264 -re
large. 27c; twins, 274 to 27
Honey—White clover, 24-1
to 14;c; 5 -lb, tins. 141• to 1401.
•
•
0
to 38o;
560;
di, 26c:
nuabs.
0 33e;
10c;
v t lit, pet
to submarine, but to the bad harvest., tinued, would he on the free list, but $' "- 'v `•e'
twins,
old.
s 14
1b 13
t'wheat,
—extra
32.25".
It is essential to the safety of the certain articles would be reduced car 1 3'50
SNeu• 1-:runswicl; 1)elawitres, >Y'=• . bad. S4
nation that we put forth every ef- i prohibited. The stoppage of im- i to 54,.5; <11t,ertas, per bug, 3450 to bd.7o.
fent to increase production this year.' portation of coffee, tea and cocoa for 1,ttF�li`',n c;..tn} orted. ati'ii: ale eu;a, per
There are still a few weeks to : ore j the time being was due to the fact that b;tsh., $' ,x0; Caziediatt ¶1rnes, $s.a0 to
spring wheat, eats and barley; to i iarge supplies were on hand. The i $6.5{a; Limas, per lb., 11; to 12c,
induce the farmer. to plow np -pasture i Premier said he regretted very much i 1'roviatons—wholesale
land immediately. The Government the cutting off of certain luxuries smoked rrieats—Hams. roediUn', 20 to
•opuses to •guarantee the farmer a ! v,hich czlme from France and Italy, 1->;c,: do. heavy, 23 to 21e; cooked, 37
"e• zic; est td, /1, hitherto conducted it war purchases
tirement is not known to -night, but more than 800 Germans prisoner.
it is est
irnated that it approaches a The British had been waiting for
depth of three miles at some points. a clearing of the foggy
British patrols are out in all direc- fore pressing the advance, but mean -
tions harrasstng the Germans ane time that theGerman
b
Hindenburg Issues Statement
Censuring German Losses
in Memorable Conflict.
Reuter's correspondent at British.;
Headquarters in France says a copy
of an order issued by Field Marshal'
von Hinderherg has come into the pos-
session of the• British forces, In part,
the order says:
"Tho operations at Verdun from
October to December resulted in seri-
ous and regrettable reverses. Incap-
able officers must be ruthlessly remov-
ed. The number of prisoners, which
was unusually large for German
troops, some of whom evidently sur-
rendered without serious resistance, or
without suffering heavy losses, shows
the morale of some of the troops en-
gaged was low."
The order adds, according to the
correspondent, that the reason for this
requires a most careful investigation,
and that steps must be taken to re-
vive the old spirit of the German in-
fantry.
- t m it is apparent a SCANDAL
keeping in touch with their move- high command decided to rattle with••
.ments. Until they report it will not out any further fighting to stronger
bepossible t just where the Ger positions prepared well to the rear. 1p A
posy: e o say j s -
RUSSIA IS OPENING DUMB SUFFERING
OFFICE 'E IN OTTAWA 2ANG BY THE ROAD
Will Purchase Supplies in Can-
ada, Not Through
New York.
A despatch from Ottawa says :—
The Russian Government, which has
Its
minimum price for a definite period, ; These restrictions would be unposed i tc; tuc29ct�lls. 21 t plain, 28 to 3oe; bone- on this continent from New York
while a minimum wage of 25 shillings i immediately, said the Premier. Steps t 1 >1i:tr�_to 3e lard, actress 214 to 211e; headquarters, has, on the suggestion
weekly ill b fixed f the laborer." t 1 1 t t ul Live 3 22 ,;tits, 2:.2 to 23}e; cum- of the Canadian Governtnen':, decided I
• l ntc:attc—. nng r. ca •
r it clear b hies, 18 to -i8isa charge of the purchasing business in
e,:, ,y w ;i txe or to i;robed to taken
•,, proven spec a; ,tui s. 31 to c; 1
The Premier said that before the buying, and if necessary the. food con- , t , sii.i. 6 t to lie.
b i_a1 of the cog _ 1
titrate, and since that time there had , tions had been carefully considered,
been an enormous increase in the de. i and he asked the House to take them.
mend for tonnage. More than 1,000,- i as a whole.
tons of British shipping had been ; To Promote Shipbuilding. !:`n `'iltt3t to ^ r;,r'rF No.
2hV'o� Jltfeedc'78 to Sia is now buying several million dol-
000allocated to France alone, and a very 74c. Flour elan. Snrtng wheat patents Lars' worth of various war supplies
considerable amount had been set j
Premier Lloyd George said it w•as ifirsts, 39.6n; seconds, SO.Io: stroni; in Canada, and it is expected that the
aside for Russia and Italy in addition, 1 necessary to get as much wore: as ; bas ers% $8.00; 'Whiter patents; choice.
• sunk. possiblet f the shipyards not • $9.25; straight rollers, $8,60 to $81.2067' a„del,; will be increased during the
a considerable amount had been .0
te 1 t baron 18 to to open up an offices at Ottawa, to take
ea]
Itrldsh tonnage had been hist ode modity. The restrtc- ; 1�a,r ,e
--- Canada. Col, Kovaleff, of the Rus -
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Fah 27—Corn—American
2 �•rtlaw, $t,30 to $1,32, oats— to take charge of the new office, Rus-
sian army, has arrived at the capital
Ou 0 1 = s1-1ht rollers, bags, $4.111 :t resent ears.
merely for the mercantile marine, but 'lt.niled_ oats --barrels. 56:755 to S 'ts yp4p0p p y
+t (, 7F,c1r.,Q4 ,iri to �F .-�f� R'+Mi 4
Must :Be Drastic Mariotte IiOOID (-• �—
.'.,-�`',� lv ouillie, 146 in $SU, �TaS No. 2, per
•r" 1", . T Sino. west-,
;u t erns.
general heeds of she nation and even p =
ISSUES WARNING.
"' a ai tonnage required for the amount of tl 400 000 tons had been im- ton, car lots $ e—
'? � � 2G to «file, do., finest ensteti,s,
orted he said and if this tonnage' to 2;,C. Butter ---choicest crentarey. 42
light shortage in the tonnage for • was to be saved, this timber problem ; P°e:.f'S6 ioc & o seiechetil 9sc; 9W r
military ,purgOSes, a nation a t0u r � • ,, 1 S3.Oc.1to��$3,n0. •.
realize absolutely what the conditions was beim, matte as to the bet metliods'.
Tei t" 1 ld must be dealt with. Investigationsteels',4'" • Potatoes per baa car hats,
vv
ern, of economizing timber behind the w8i i ea Grain
If ,ve take drastic measures," he lines and in England. Another , evi
oil Peg, 1reb. «7—No, 1 Northern
cont.iiiued, "we can cope with the sub- method was to make the army in '0•7311; No. 2 Northern, $1.706: No. 3
S�lotthern, $7.6,,6, �o. ro. 51.6b8, No, 5,
marine. menace, but if the nation 1s not France self-supporting, 111,3x6; No, ti, $1•1u2; fee,1 96o. Oats—
{11'o, 2 C, 1' 58ic; \o. 3 C. n•., 56$c; ex -
prepared to accept drastic measures Ore Importations, i tra No, feed 504c; No. 1 feed, 56e;
for dealing with .the menace disaster The next heaviest item of import • No. ; ti feed. `y=&c•yzcBarei et d,c 380cSeii;
is before us." is iron ore, which now amounts to 8 -' gitc I•'iax--•�ie. 1 N,��'.G., 62.53*; No. 2
"'The Government Is hopeful of And- 000,000 tons annually. Regarding' b.1,Ve 62.501,
tug means of dealing with the sub- this item the Premier said: "We are' �_
marine bat we should be guiltyof fol-+ milted States asarkota
importing millions of tons, but the ; 1Ih,netti.,uliy, Feb. 27--1i'hea.L, 1tlay,
ly if we rested tranquilly upon tile ex- importation cannot he diminished un- $1.S0; duly, $i.74r, Cash—No. 1 hard,
• pcictation of realization of that hope. less more iron ore is found in our $i.el,t° A.1,-941? \or:tlioNor3l178.to1•61.87
We have to deal ruthlessly and country. There is plenty of low i corn, Nn, 3 yellow, $1.003 to -'21:02. Oats,
promptly' vallis tele tonnage problem by �iad.e ore, however, in this country1 N''). ents h30�455L first 571.6e. arsr$b 28 tithe
measures which impose great semi- and if the supply of labor can bei grades uuehai:ese titan unchanged,
flees upon the semidry. augmented we can increase enormo, . t $ilgtlt$utitir 1,'c,b, Y t•I Nina $1 Rya' 1 Nor 2
would I 1ar a but unfortmate_ `tracer, $:,',813 to $2,82; to arrive, $2•81/:
Three Sets of Measures. ly our output. The saving of ton- I Northiarn, O$1.875to 11.905. iin'seed, on
nage g fmay-, sit asked; us, July, $2 33$ asked.
"There are three sets. of treasures:
First, by the navy. a.± de'tcribed by
Sir Edward t.",tt on il'irit Ford of the
Admiralty); s rood, the building of
merchant ships: third, ciiepensing
with unnecessary re; lure odItlea from
abrczul and production of as much
food as possible at home."
The opinion was e-tp,es;F-d by the
Premier that. food prices were not like-
ly to decrease for a long tirn» of?er the
sear, inasmuch as Germany would then
be a heavier purchaser than ever be-
fore. Therefore it •..sty safe to grant
to the farmers a minimum price over
a definite period of time, 'which was
the only way to bring about Immed-
iate action.
The Premier announced that the
Government would leu lrantet; a price
of 389. t,t1. for Outs this year, $2s. for
the nexi two years, and 24s. for the
three following years. The price of
potatoes would be guaranteed,d, for the
coming sC0',On only, at 526 11 1011.
For wheat the Government will
gn,sranters the farmer the following
n,ioimutt price', per quarter: For the
present y a •
r, ans.; for 1918 and 1919,
55. ; for 1921 , 1921, and 1922, 45e.
To Compel Production.
Tisa Premier said powers would be
given fa the hoard of ,tgiieulture to
compel landowners to cultivate ihelr
ground.
The minimum wage for farm labor
al.:me rued by Mr.
-Lloyd George, 25
shillings a week, represents an ire
crease of 50 to Sft per cant. over the
pre cont prevailing payment. •
Brewing will be rut down to 10,-.
000,0011 barrels annually. A similar
reduction will be made in the output
of spirits, affecting a suv ng of e0;1,-,
0011 tons of ;oodstuffe.
The impol•tatioti of appies, tome -
A despatch from London says: In
!response to reports which filled the
increases in the prices of most com-
modities mentioned in the list of re-
stricted importations, Baron Devon-
port, the food controller, Saturday
night issued the following official
warning:: "Baron Devonport desires to
repeat the warning given by Premier .
Lloyd George in his speech Friday'
that no speculative buying or corner-
ing of food supplies, with a view of
raising the existing level of prices,
will be permitted or tolerated. Should
any such attempts be made, the food
controller will immediately take the
necessary steps to protect the inter-
ests of the consumer. Baron Devon-
port will confer in due course with
-.s a. ce representatives of the various trade
ly it would come late in the year." interests affected.
17,000 KRUPP WORKERS
ARE OUT ON STRIKE
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
-The frontier correspondent of the
Telegraaf says that a strike in the
Krupp works at Essen involving
11,000 workmen, has been in progress
for a fortnight. The men, the cor-
respondent declares, are demanding
higher wages and increaseed food ra-
tions. Many of the strikers he adds,
have been sent to the front.
newspapers on Saturday of impending
Tonnage Urgently Needed
"Farmers can increase even now by
hundreds of thousands of tolls for this
Live Stock &targets
Toronto, Feb, 27—Choice heavy steers,
$10,55 to $11,25; do„ good, $10,35 to
$10,00: butchers' cattle, choice, $10.35 to
$10 9,80 to 110.10; do_,
G5; do., good, 5
medium, 8.7b to •
$
year," said Premier Lloyd George $ 9.00; do., common,
r' ' " 50 t 17,57; butchers' bulls, nhoice.
"the food supplies of the country. If t+,::b to so,75; do„ good bulls, $ 40 oto
all the plans are carried out a very `•s5: do„ medium bulls, $7,15 t 7.00:
p do., rouges ulls, $� to $5.2b; b et' '
considerable quantity of tonnage will cows, choice, $8.90 to $0.25; do,,: :S;
bo saved, but future tonnage is urgent- $8•4it to s2•em do„ medium, $7 to 7.25;
storlcers. 16.26 to $3; choice ars,
ly needed. The French Ambassador 38,26 to $8,75; canners and cunt' s, $o
and the Italian Ambase.aclor has just springers, cS50 to 5110; light ewes, $10
left after making the same request. to $10,60; sheen, heavy, $8,60 to $9,60;
calves, goof to choice, $12.75 to $14,76;
We. need all immediate and sub- Iambs, choice, $14 to $16: do., medium,
.7tantia1 saving• of tonnage, Let us $0.75 to $10.25; hogs, fed and watered,
bus becu here baggin;., fur more ships, V11805..5(01;
105..5(01rankers., tm a.to h g• o' o9,6o
'come down ruthlessly on imports
which are not essential. It is idle
to suggest that we who are comfort -
r" I,; at home should not be prepared
to surrender the things unnecessary."
Eng FORCE
.R SS TIGRIS
Position on Left Bank of River
Was Secured and
Consolidated.
A despatch from London says: A
British official communication dealing
with the fighting along the Tigris
River shows that in addition to having
occupied Turkish trenches over a
front of nearly 2,000 yards iii the
Sannaiyat region, tite British troops
also have been able to cross to the left
bank of the Tigris in the Shumran
bend, west of tut -el -Amara, and to
consolidate: a poslbion there. More
than 500 prisoners were taken.
$1.4.75; do.. weighed off cars. $15; do.,
f.o.b., 314.00.
Montreal, Feb, 27—Choice steers,
$10•25; good, 38 to 310; butchers' cows,
choice, $7 to 38.50; gooci,; 36 to 37;
butchers' bulls, choke, $7 to $8.50; good,
36 to 37; canners' cows, 35; canners
bulls, $5.60 calves, $12 to 314; hay -fed,
36 to 37; sheep, 38 to 39; lambs, 318 to
313.00; hogs, choice selects, off cars,
314.60 to 315; sows, $12.50 to 313.
pep
HUNGER CLOSES WAR PLANTS.
Six Thousand Austrian Munition
Workers Reported Out.
A despatch from London says: Re-
ports from neutral sources tell of in-
creasing suffering in Germany and
Austria as a result of the shortage of
coat and food. Six thousand mufti -
tion workers in Austria have been
forced to quit work because of hunger.
GERMAN MERCHANT RAIDER
BUSY IN INDIAN OCEAN.
A despatch from Tokio says; The
Nicht Nichi announces that an armed
merchantman is raiding comnieree in
-the Indian 002011 and haseeunk two
British steamers southwest of Col-
ombo,
One-third of the Armenian Race
Has Been Massacred.
A despatch from New York says:—
One-third of the Armenian race has
peen massacred or died from starva-
tion and disease since the European
war began, and one-half of those re-
maining are homeless and dying in
exile, according to a cable message
from John Masefield, famous Eng-
lish writer, made public here Wednes-
day night by the American Commit-
tee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
The message said ill part:
"Far away as she is from the main
conflict, Armenia has suffered more
in this war than has any devastated
land in Europe. She is like a vic-
tim met by troops on the march and
beaten and stabbed and left to die
Th nothme in her misery to
Troops at Front Were Delibera-
tely • Left Without
Food,
An Exchange telegram despatch
from Amsterdam says it is reported
from Vienna that Baron Hazat etas
been removed as Hungarian Minister
of National Defence, Major-General
von Szurmay having been appointed in
his place. This change and also the
removal from command of the Austro-
Hungarian army of Field -Marshal
Archduke Frederick, who has been
made second in command It the Em- -
peror, arc reported to have been in.
consegl.ence of t. scandal in the army
management which was revealed re-
cently at headquarters by the fact
that large bodies of troops were with
out food for upwards of a day,
According to this .report, food in-
tended for the troops was misapplied
with full knowledge of the higher coma
mond. The Emperor is said to have
' i decided to pros 1 with many addi-
tional eaatesev ro=e M 0 described efe
ing of a sensationai'nattiro.
maicee 0 neailhlie'Ot a battle cry. It
is just dumb suffering lying by the
road."
CAPTURED AT LOOS,
SENT HOME TO DIE. 1
N FENORDER
A despatch from London says: The'F'1
following brief item in the Tines tells
one of many sad stories: "A verdict 1lalen Released From Internment
of death from tuberculosis, accelerat-
ed by privations and unsuitable food Camps in England Again
while a prisoner -of -war in Germany, in Custody.
wasreturned at the inquest on Joseph
Wright, aged 99, private in a Lincoln
regiment, who died at a military hos-
pital on Tuesday. Wright was form-
erly a butler in Chester. He was
slightly wounded and taken prisoner
at Loos. He was a prisoner -of -war in
Germany nine months before being
sent to Switzerland, where he arrived
• in a terribly emaciated condition."
MEMBERSARREST
PLYMOUTH HARBOR
CLOSER TO NELTTR 1LS
•
A despatch from Dublin says: A
number of Sinn-Feiners, who had re •
-
Gently returned from internment in
England were arrested on Thursday in
Limerick, Galway and Skibbereen, as -
well as in Dublin. The arrests were •
made under the defence of the realm
act. Altogether about fifty members
of the Sinn -Fein and the Gaelic
League had been arrested and arrests
are continuing. Thirty-five men were
taken into custody in Dublin alone. In
1 , Galway on Thursday night a promin-
ent member of the Oughterard 'Dis-
Port is One of Britain's Biggest Naval trict Council and a prominent Athenry -
Bases and Dockyards merchant were arrested. Among
A despatch from London says :-- those arrested in Dublin, the despatch
It is officially announced that the port says, are Councillor S. T. Kelly, J. J.
of Plymouth has been closed until fur- O'Kelly, editor of the Catholic Bul-
ther notice to all ships except those of letin; Darrel Figgis, a well-known
the allies. Other vessels entering writer, and Captain Liam Mellowes.
the harbor are punishable under the
defence of the realm regulations and
liable to detention.
MOST OF THE U-BOATS SINK _
BUT SOME HAVE BEEN CAPTURED
Fully 200 Have Not Returned to Their lase, Declares Alfred
Noyes, the English Poet.
A despatch from New York says: --
England's anti-submarine fleet eon-
sista of 4,000 private yachts, whalers
and fishing vessels, manned by 60,000
men, and this force already has de-
stroyed 200 German submarines,
Alfred Noyes, the English poet, as-
serted in a statement here Wednes-
day night.
"Every boat is armed with guns
throwing 12 or 14 -pound explosive
shells, and has 1,000 yards of steel
netting trailing behind," he declared.
"All the home waters are mapped out
in blocks and each block patrolled. •
"Imagine 60 trawlers stretching a
steel undersea net from the English
to the Irish coast and you get some
idea of the British Admiralty's anti-
submarine campaign, by which the
German submersibles have been driv-
en
riveen from home waters and forced to at-
tack neutral vessels on the high sons."
Mr. Noyes said he had spent many
days with the trawlers, and was in-
formed by their captains that a sub-
marine rarely will attach an armed and 200 Wounded at Bever -
vessel. What becomes of a sub- loo, Belgium.
marine after it strikes a trawler's net, A despatch from London says: --
the poet said, is a naval secret. Thirty-two Bavarian and Prussian
"Some have been captured and tak- soldiers were killed and 200 wounded
en to England, but most of them sink,"
he added. It is impossible to save
the crews. What is done to them
750,000 PRISONERS
A3 FARM LABORERS
A despatch from Amsterdam says;
---Germany is employing 750,000 war
prisoners as farm laborers, according
to a Berlin despatch to the Rheitisthe
Westfaeliseho Zeitung, which quotes
General Groener, head of the Army
Feeding Department.- - General Groe-
net's statement was made before the
Richstag committee which is co-oper-
ating in carrying out the provisions of
the national civil service law. He
stated that additional war prisoners
would be put to work in the agricul-
tural districts and that in occupied
territories the garrisons would do
Spring sowing and harvest work.
Pit•H ssi AN SOLDIERS
FIGHT BAVARIANS
30
Killed
as the result of a quarrel which re
salted in a fight last week, according
to the Maastricht, Holland, neWspaper,
when they hit the net I am forbidden I,es Nouvelles. The trouble took place
to say," at. I3cverloo, 13algium.