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Zurich Herald, 1917-05-18, Page 7' p,�p���,uMM,ui,MaN�,W,Wu,iwwwPMwr!VM?MMN,1iW?NMNM,wun,T .. fI+WIwr,9R�'.,.., ,..,r..r.n++•.+...w^.•.�•+"•'.r.r.r.�r.mr'^^^'.. Markets of the Wog BR ANT OPERATION BY THE, B;ITIS» . TROOPS Attack on Eight;.114ile Front Gained Greater Part of BufecoUrtt and the Western Section of Roeux. London, May 13. --Concentrated on a flout of seven or .eight miles the British troops during Friday night and Saturday morning made a bril- liant attack on the Hindenburg line from Bullecourtnorth across theArras- Catnbrai road to the north of the Scarpe east of Fampoux, The troops established themselves in Bullecourt, where hundreds of prisoners were taken; enc; continuing the offensive on Sunday after desperate fighting pos- sessed themselves of most of the vil- lage. A German position on the Ar- ras-Cambrai road, about two-thirds of a mile wide, as well as a mile and a half of trench system near Roeux have been taken, and the British oceupy the western section of Roeux. It is evident there is not much left of the famous Hindenburg line which Ilreededat,s Toronto, , vray 1,5. -Manitoba 'wheat-. No official quotations, Manitoba date -No official quotations: Arii ei'ican corn -No, 3 Yellow, $1,71, ni'omina anto , l, subjeot to embargo, track To - Ontario oats ---No, 2 white, 76 to 480 nominal; No, 8 white, 75 to,77c, nominal, according to freights autsicte Ontario wheat -No, 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.98 to $5.00; No. 8:,do,• $2.96 to $2.98, according to freights outside. Peas -No. 2, nominal, according 'to 3'reighth Outside, Barley--14alting. $1..40 to. $1.42, nom:"' natr according to freights outside. Rye• -No, 2, 31.93 to $1.95, nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, In jute bags, $15.00• second patents, bags, $7.4.50, strong bakers', In jute bUF`r3, $14,1.0, Toronto. Ontario flour'-' inter, according to sample. 312.50 to 312.60, in bags, trach TOrwtto, 1,rompt shipment• • Millfeed C:ar lots, delivered Montreal freights, bags included -Bran, per ton, $42; shorts, per ton, $46; middlings, per ton, 348; good reed flour, per bag, 38,00 t:•uo 331.0. II•r.nto.1---11xtra N. 2, per ton, $12 to 313; mixed, per ton, $9 to 311.50, track To $#racy -Car lots, per tong 38.50 to 39 track Toronto, was broken at Vimy, Woken at Vend- hulle, on the Cambrai- St. Quentin Canal, broken by the French between La Fere and St. Quentin, and lastly, broken at Bullecourt. What there is left, however, is of wonderfully strong construction and could not be taken at once in a general assault, except at such a terrible cost of lives that vic- tory would be almost as disastrous as. defeat. Hence General Haig's taking it piecemeal, patiently and deliberately, only after every "push" has been pre- ceded by artillery preparation which has flattened out the Prussian de- fences and abolished the communicat- ing trenches so that the men in the forward dugouts have often been with- out food or supplies for two and three days at a time. -------- CROP REPORT OF BLOODY BATTLES THE DOMINION IN MACEDONIA Winter -killed Wheat Area Esti- mates Are Given Ottawa, May 13. -The first crop report of the present season is- sued Saturday by the' Census and Sta- tistic Office relates to the area and condition of the fall wheat crop, the condition of hay and clover meadows HOSPITAL WING 3,000,000 T I`NS CANADIAN GIFT OF SHIPS YEA IS Country Produce -Wholesale 13uiter-Fresh dairy, choice, 89 to 4001. creamery _prints, 43 to 4Sc; solids, 42 to 43e. Eggs -New -laid. In cartons, 44 to 450; out of, cartons, 42c. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 20 to 28c; fowl, 24 to 25c; ducks, 22 to 25c; squalls, Per dozen., 34.00 to $4,50; turkeys, 80 32c Cheese -New, large, 278 to 28c; twine, 273 to 288e; triplets, 284 to 2810; old, large, 29c; twins, 294c. Honey -White clover, 24 -Ib tins, 148 to 15c; 5 -lb tilts, 148c; 10.1b. 184c; 60 -lb, 13e; buckwheat, 60 -ib this, 10 to 108c. Comb honey -extra fine and heaVY French Troops Brilliantly Carry weight, e igc t,Nloez, $2.10$$2 6; select, 32.50 to Position to the South31.75. Maple syrup -Imperial gallon, 31.65 to of Hume.Potatoes-On track, Ontario, per bag, $3.75 to $4.00; New Brunswick '17ela- wares, per bag, 34.25; Albertas, per bag, A despatch from London says: On 4Beans---Imported, hand-pictcec1 pee the lengthy front in Macedonia the bushel, $7.00; Canadian, stand -picked, Entente forces continue their offensive pre bushel, ] gr Uitsitel. At'°. 38.01 : Cenel`li b with success between Dairen and the 13 to 19cr Cerna River. The Britishhavecheck- at the end of the winter and the pTe- ed Bulgarian attacks south-west of gross of spring seeding, as reported Doiran, and hold their recently -gained by correspondents at the end of April. ;positions with a tenacious grip. The area estimated to be sown to West of Doiran and west of the 'Winter wheat last fall is 813,400 acres, V d River French troops have car - ueen Officiates at Opening of Program of British Shipping New Section of Naval Minister to Meet the Sub Institution. Menace. A despatch 'from London says:--- A despatch from London says: -- The inauguration of the new wing of During a discussion of the shipping the HaslerRoyal Naval Hospital at problem in the House of Lords on Portsmouth' on .Wednesday by the Thursday, Earl Curzon said that the Queen was the final achievement of admiralty had the first claim and the movement initiated at the outbreak of first call on the national shipbuilding war by certain Canadian ladies. Miss resources, The result of the British Plummer, secretary of the Field Com- naval program, he stated; would be forts, claims to have made the original that after the war Great Britain's suggestion for the hospital ship, and naval tannage would exceed the naval which found the ready support of Mrs, tonnage of all the other nations of the Goodevham, Mrs, Ellen Bruce and world. PI, ovisiona-Wholes ale Smoked meats -hams, medium, 29 to 80c; Co., heavy, 25 to 26e; cooked, 40 to 41c• rolls, 26 to 27u; breakfast bacon, 30 to �5c; hackv, plain, 34 to 3Gc; boneless, $37OOO,0CiO 36 to 38c ALLIES CAPTURE 50,000 TEUTONS Total of 450 Guns Also Taken in Spring Offensive. A despatch from London says: The recent partial success of the Germans at Fxesnoy, on the Arras front in France, has not upset the British plans of operation nor has it caused surprise, said Major-General Freder- ick B. Maurice, Chief Director of Mili- tary Operations at the War Office, in' his weekly statement on ThursdaY• As a matter of fact, the General add- ed, the British Staff has been surprised. that the Germans have not succeeded before in making gains in view of the tremendous counter-attacks which Lady Drummond, with the result that In making his statement in the they have been hurling against the $250,000 was collected. Of this $100,- House of Lords, Lord Curzon an- British front, The Chief Director con - 000 was handed to the War Office for pounced that the program of the Min- tinued: Military use, Another amount was ister of Shipping provided for the ere- "Bodies of Teutons continually have devoted to the building of a wing to ation each year of mercantile shipping. been sent against the British over the Chatham Naval hospital and the aggregating 3,000,000 tens gross. ((open ground without any apparent balance to Hasler. As the author -1 The Government, said Lord Curzon,iI regard for casualties, hut the British :ties decided against the hospital ship The taking the most drastic steps in have held their line when it might the scheme for provinding a hospital its power to acquire merchant ships by have been expected they would give for naval nurses was accepted. Tms 1 building or purchase, and after the way, and have inflicted tremendous new wing overlooking the 'most fare.- I war, he predicted, the British neer- losses an their opponents. ous naval centre of Britain bears a i csntile fleet would be equal to or bet - suitable inscription on behalf of the ter than. before the war. women of Canada. i Lord Curzon gave figures showing The opening ceremony by her Ma-1tLat before the war the United King- jests was quiet but impressive, and 1 dom had 45.3 per cent. of the mer - Sir George Perley's speech handing it eantile ships under 1,600 tons each, over, emphasized the magnitude of the war work carried out by Canadian women. A considerable number of Cana- dians availed themselves of the in- vitation to travel on the Royal train to Portsmouth, and they were favor- ably impressed with this permanent memorial of the Dominion's interest in the welfare of the navy. DAILY WA COST Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 2G?c to 26$o: ar alar of which 656,500 acres are in On- { ried by storm an important positiontubs,,2Stiesr es 204i'tols. 08c tubs °208a o tz rid, 105,700 acres in Saskatchewan, ;south of Huma on the Sexbo-Greek 20Qc; pails, 203 to 21e, 88,000 acres in Alberta, 8,000 acres in ' Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 24 to • border and withstood violent counter- 25c per lb; clear bellies, 24 to 250, Manitoba and 6,200 acres in British ,attacks by the Bulgarians. Twenty Columbia. In Ontario the proportion; rules to the west, and also near the of the area reported to be winter ,b der, the. Serbians have captured killed is 25 per cent., in Manitoba 14 6 Bulgarian works north of Pojar, Montreal Markets - Montreal, pray 1C,.-Oats-Canaillan' Western, No, 2, 87 to 88c; No. 3. 86 to 87e: per cent., in Alberta 15 per cent., and ;''n' extra No. 1 reed, as to see. lsarley- in British Columbia 8 per cent. No In addition to inflicting heavy losses 1ltra 1' a teed, $1.1.9 to $1.20, Flotu report on the winter -killing of fall ; on the Ger forcesinthe Macedonian d the Bulgarians, Manitoba Spring wheat patents: firsts, $ , ito seconds, wheat strong, bakers', wheat 'is available for Sask lie- I the E $14;40; 4i'ltiter patents, choice, 1 ens', wan,but as the proportions on the ,,theatre on Thursday and Friday cap- straight rollers, $619000 to ats n. two neighboring Provinces of Manito- i tureci 300 prisoners. S ba and Alberta are 14 and 15 per cent. respectively, it is assumed that 'nA croup, VE erpjuv the proportion ref 15 per cent. also ap-' ll WM as plies to. Saskat.11ezvan. The result in• a total estimated de- struction through winter -killing of 187,000 acres of fall -sown wheat, or 23 per cent. This proportion is larger than in any of the two previous years, when, however, the amount of winter- killiug was exceptionally low, being not niore than about six per cent. in each year. AWESHOLD RECENT GAINS Attacking Germans Are Thrown Back at All Points With Heavy Losses. A despatch from London says: - Bitter attacks by the troops of Crown Prince Rupprecht and the German Crown Prince are being made against the positions, vital to the defences of Lens and Leon, held by the British and French. Field Marshal Haig and General Nivelle are holding their re- cent gains and throwing back the at- tacking Germans with heavy losses. South of the Souchcz River, one of the natural barriers to Lens, the Ger- mans have made a third attempt to recapture the positions taken by the British Thursday, and for a third time have been thrown back. A momentary footing was won by Prince Rup- preeht's men, aided by liquid fire, in the new British positions, but a bril- latent counter-attack recovered the lost trenches and left the British line un- increase the capacity and efficiency 1 changed • of the Russian and Siberian railroads. 1 E NEW YORK British Commissioner Was. Im- pressed by Wholehearted Enthusiasm. A despatch from New York says: - Arthur James Balfour, Great Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, united States n2axkets and members of the British commis- Minneapolis. May 15. -Wheat, May, sion accompanying him to this coup- .33.02: July $2.71+1. Cash: No. 1 hard, $5.263 to $3 387 ; No. 1 Northern, $3.018 try, redeived a welcome of amazing to $3.163. Corn, No. „ yellow, $1.5G''a to proportions on their arrival from Flou ,•ra cati:lato its sis' au. first t e1 air. Washington late on Friday. Mr. Bal- $14.00; other grades unchanged. Bran, four was so impressed by what he termed the "whole -hearted exhibition of enthusiasm" everywhere, that later in a speech at the City Hall he assert- ed- if those on the other side of the Atlantic could have had a glimpse of it, there would be renewed determina- tion to carry through the struggle at all sacrifices. U.S. EXPERTS LEAVE FOR RUSS CAPITAL .Average Expenditure of Great Britain for Military Operations. A despatch from London says: -In the House of Commons on Wednesday Right Hon. Bonar Law, Chancellor• of the Exchequer, referring to the west front, said the rapidity of the attack had forestalled the .enemy, who had "During .the month since the o fensive began we have taken twice the number of prisoners, four times the amount of ground, and five times the number of guns taken in the Somme offensive. The British and and 45.2 per cent. in December, 1916, French between them have captured In ships exceeding Kingdom1,600 tons each, some 50,000 prisoners and 450'guns. be ne,1914,the United f grohass ton- in If this is the result 'of defeat, then naaJune, oal 3,900 vessels of gross we are willing to go on being defeat- corresponding efeat- corr a totalling fi1gures in. tons.aThe ed• yy e have kept on going and we he said, were3,500 in March, at11 g are going to keep on going. The Ar - If said, were ships aggregating ras offensive is much bigger than the nearly 16,000,000 tons. Somme, and our next offensive will If the Shipping Minister's program be bigger than Arras. was to be realized, it would be neces- - h sand to provide an additional sary, e , + 100,000 workmen and to double the ' NIj 1 el while, at the t�' Ee weekly supply of steel, same time, allowing the present Ad- miraltyIN MACEDONIA program to proceed. US K REMOVED FROM COMMAND British Attack on Four -Mile Front and Occupy Bulgar Trenches. A despatch from London says:= - Famous Russian General Is With the advent of Spring weather in Superceded on the army have become active, separate !Macedonia contingents of the Salonica Northern Front. Bb 8.50 to $S /5, n. bags, 90 lbs., f} ht . ah -with heavy losses A despatch from Petrograd says: 54.25 to inns, ' Bran. $43. , shares.,.tom g ire e'open' h d t' t •e- General Ruszky has been removed 1 $46. 1V11ad Trigs, $48 to ao. 12oui11e tt because he lead not a fen o px ?52 to $57. Hay -No. .r', per #on, Dar we b army lots $18 to $13,50. Butter -Choicest a o trenches .since Apel 1 had from the chief command of thea 3 227 on the northern front. He remains, creamery, 423c; seconds, 41 to 414o, Eggs -Fresh, 44c; No. 1 stock 42c. Pota- toes -e'er bag, car lots, 33.76 to 51.00. Winnipeg Grain • Winnipeg, May 1L -Caste prices:- Northern. Wheat-No. '1 Northern, $2.04; No. 2 to five miles on a 20 -mile front, where' gates is pp Northern. $2,91; No. 3 Northern. 32.36; No. 4, $2.74; No. 5, 52.49; ' No. 6, eneo; there were twice as many Genme • immediate sunuilon d of`ocates the an all -Rus - feed., $1.45. Oats --110• 2 L'.�v, silo: Na. divisions against us as on the So '! sian congress of soldiers' and work - 3 C.i'., "r $6c extra No. 1 feed 7880. Bar- ley �*o s '�1 °'t• 1�o S $1.24; rejected, and half of them . had to be withdrawn. � � g • mens delegates. p r ms taken `20,000 prisoners, 257 guns, trench mortars. While in the first 24 howevera member of the Council of treys• of the Somme drive we advanced; War. three and one-half miles on a six -mile The Moscow executive committee of front, we had now advanced from two , the Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele- d to the idea of a coali- 33.328 fNo. 2003. No. 1 1W.C•. Our casualties in the present oten-i The Provisional Government will. $3.337; No. 2 c'.�'.., $3.3�); No. 3 r �v ' 'sive were from 50 to 75 per cent. less3 $3.16, than on the Somme. Our success was however, insist on coalition in order largely due to our distinct artillery' to force the Socialists to share in the superiority, in connection wit]: ' which 'responsibility of the government of .the Chancellor paid a warm tribute to , the country. They have repeated the the flying corps. ! appeal recently issued warning the ;� ! people against anarchy and civil war, BRITISH SHELL U-BOAT BASE. i with a possible return to despotism. Every Assistance to Russian Railroads Will Readily be Furnished A despatch from Washington says: -The United States Railroad Com- mission to the Russian Government loft Washington on Wednesday for Petrograd, where it will give as- surances to the Russian national auth- orities that this country stands ready to furnieh all the rolling stock and other material that may be needed to 334.60 to 3,5.00. Duluth, May 1 n Wheut Nn. 1 hard, $3.23; No. 1 Northern, 33.20 to 53.22; No. 2 Northern. 53.15; May 33.30; July. 32,234 asked. Linseed, 33.60; May, 38,50: Jule $3,49; September, 33••11,: Oetaber, , Naval'and Aerial Units Co-operate in' U-BOAT "KILLER" I5 ENDORSED. the Bombardment. Ma; 13 -A naval and Author of Gyroscope Submits flan Action Expected successes having been scored on 'G*tred- nesday by the British, Serbian and Russian forces. Attacking on a front of about four miles in the Lake Doiran region, Brit- ish troops on one wing took Teutonic allied trenches on a front of two miles and on the other flank advanced on a front of about a mile. At the Cerna bend the Russians carried sev- eral trenches by assault, while north of Monastir the Serbians occupied two points of support and took a few prisoners. A Serbian official state- ment, dated May 9, reports violent artillery duels along the whole Ser•• bian front. The Bulgarians bombard, ed Monastir with asphyxiating sheilit the statement add::. A number o'' civilians were killed. STEEL SHIPBUILDING DIRECTOR CHOSEN '4� . I. Gear Appointed by the Imperial Munitions Board -Govt. London, That Amazes Naval Experts. A despatch from Ottawa says:-- aerial bombardment of the German ; Board �n- wive stows Maakets submarine base of Zeebrugge, on the i A despatch from Washington says. The Imperial Munitions Nay 15 i'etI choice steers, t according to re It was learned Wednesday night on flounced on Wednesday night that W. Turoutn, , ay , c _ 12.00 to $12, 6Gw-,•hc>1a e heavy tutees: °Belgian coast, I. Gear of the Robert Reford Com - 11.35 to ; gond hear.• steers. orfs received .here from Rotterdam, uncruestionable authority that the Na- ll a Mof thee, li^ s been appointed 10.60 to$10,75: $17btrtche.g cattle, choice,t.t destructive yet made by vel Consulting Board has submitted to pally, ''i.o • dn.,�nieciutzt 3;i,,r, to 210.00; a0., British warships. Secretary of .. plan to cope to � shiconstruction in common. 5s•`�,3 n • bulls, choice $t0 so t1 iifA tie o•ou medium Tv*S submarine sheds were killed with the German U-boats which has Canada for the British Government. $it 16 ao nod 310.50 t, the most t Daniels iels and his advisers a take charge,under the board, of .,11.00; 1 " 2 59.16: 15 ; butchers' din ere blown definite and completed p steel merchant INFLUENCE UPON OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLU101\ Country for the First Tisne HaF a Labor Party ---Planks in Its Platform. A despatch 'freni Ungeni, Rumania, says: The revolutionary movement in Russia could not remain without in- fluence in this country, where hither - there has existed neither a Social - et `nor Labor party. Friday morning Parliament t as- members rs of lsa 'Welty n 'W Y elnbieci to fornitalate filo basis of a ,abor party, 'which adopted a pro- gramme of which the following are the main points: (1) Distribution of the land among all who work the land; (2) votes for women; (8) rights for Jews who took part, in the campaign of 1918 or the present war. With re- gard to the foreign policy the Labor - 5 for energetic prosecution tion partyasksg rt a i. rnili ar sm of tete• war until German t is crushed, The new party has already. established contact with representa- tives of the Russian Socialists. )fulls.' 33.60 to 39:00; do., rough bulls, up.' Sixty-three persons w Mr. Gear will e• $G...0 t° 35.50:ibutchers' cows. coc,tablish an office at • 10 , 00 to 310. , s ; dol!, gcood, ss .Oo to and upwards of a hundred othere were , proved 1 brains in the service �ehere� tech- Ottawa, and will at once assume the 9.76; do., medium. 37.08 to $7.25, stork- 0.0'0; tork- taken to Hospitals. ens, 47.50 to $O,Qu feeders, $9.50 to _ duties of his position, It is under- tals ._ _�._.-w__�,- -_.-__.._rmr --"-°= 26.25:; canners and coffers, $5.60 to _ - } � stood that Sir Robert Borden on his G.2G; ntilicer•s, good 'tu clroice• $85.00 to "'-"` i�g fia'u` Y3 e�•�a �c � `��J return. to Canada will at once take up 125; dsp cgem $r60. 0 to $11°At):liv,ht ��' a' •�` 4 p5T f n�iS4 " �G �,r,'1 ret question ewes, ; c 1- fir,. sheep heavy,3 � ewes, $12.00 t $ r eI the of further stinnulating rri shipbuilding in Canada, thisbeing one of the ,meet important phases of n o. S t keSa1�'l� 88,50 to $10.00, calves, good to choice1 j nri' 12,00 to $18,00; spring cel $s, each, o pryt �� � 9.00 to 0.. me lambs, 10,60e, $1$.20 to to 1 5:5,25; do., medium, $in 50 to $12+60; Clogs fed and watered. $16.85 to 517.00; do„ weeggbed en vitas. $17.10 to $17.55; London. clo., f.a.b. $15.15 to 10.40, 1tontroal, .7 16. --Choice steers, $12.25 to $12.75; good,$11,75 to 312; Fields. lower grades, 39.76; butchers' cows $9 to 31.1; bulls. 310 to $11.11; calves $hr•Go to $11; sprinfi Iambs, 58 to 512; old. sheep, 510 to $,11.; selected hogs $17.75 to 318. LO .N FOR•BELGIUM FROM UNITED STATES Will Remove Heavy Burden Front Great Britain and France. Canadian co-operation in war work urged by the Imperial authorities in A despatch from Washington says: --The United States has arranged to make a loan of $'75,000,000 to Belgium, which will be exeen ded by the Belgian Relief Commission. The loan will be rlvanced at the rate of 02,500,000 a month, of which $7,000,000 will be available for relief in Belgium and $5,000,000 foryelief in Northern France. By making the loan the United States will take the burden.of the re- lief the �, •` 'from t1n and France) 'a'1 1 a a h..f of Bog shoulders of Great Britain and France and conduct it .fronn this country so far as possible. British Take Another Portion of the German Trenches Defending Lens and its Coal F ie s. • A despatch from London says: The Germans are keeping up with great in- tensity their offensive against the Bri- tish around Fresnoy and to the east of B tllecourt, but are being hard held by Field Marshal Haig's forces. The village of Frosnoy apparently remains.. in the hands of the Germane after its recapture Tuesday, but the Canadians and South Englanders are still holding i vantage points around it, from which the Gormans are vainly endeavoring i to est el them and put an end to their I harassing fire. To the east of Bullecourt, where the British have established themselves a scant two. ttiiles from the outskir to of Qstriving r .tz t9 are g 1 lit the Germans 1 tea , hard to push back the British to pee - vent re vent the capture of the southern end of the Drocourt=Queallt line, which would prove of great menace to the important town of Cambrai, The viciousness of the battle is indicated by the German official communication, which announces that the fight for the village is of a fluctuating nature. The British evidently have pushed a step forward toward the capture of the town of Lens, and the important coal fields in its immediate vicinity. South of the Souchez River during a night attack another portion of the German front and support lines, to- gether with a number of prisoners, was captured. For the most part the line where he (rernians the. French are faring t. is undergoing a period of comparative calm, except for artillery duels and counter-attacks, none 1 Germaneo small of the latter of which met with suc- cess. ft*. ALLIIN) MACHINE IS IRRESISTIBLE A despatch from Rome says:- Rudyard Kipling, who has been at the fl ant in France, and Las been making a short stay in Rome, comperes the British army to a machine working so perfectly that no human power can arrest it. He expresses the g •eatest admiration for the work of the. French and Britieh, which he rays, the Ger- mans are now powefle,es to check. 'rte 1 se ---the heaviest, in history which they have incurred by their efforts to du 60, must end, he says, ie. affecting the morale both of the army and the civil populatiot of Germany. Any radical change in the feeding of live stock should he made gradual- ly. "How slid you get rid of that bore hie • ne 'c )ratter about hl, w his and i Jones 1 baby?" "I introduced hien to Brow; who has a Itew ear."