Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1916, Winnipeg, Manitoba Only morning newspaper in weather forecast mostly fair and temperatures yesterday to 7 Sun Loon july fourteen to villages on Roadt Peronne taken French and greater part of entrees wrested from germans reinforcements rushed to oppose British line prisoners taken by Anglo French forces no relaxation in fight at Verdun germans take theaumont work for fourth time july the French cooperating with the British in the Somme River Havo straightened their line somewhat the capture of Bel Loyen and and Are advancing on a considerably wider front toward at where 500 prisoners were the fighting is still going on on the British end of the line Only slight Progress has been made at some unofficial dispatches say that the entire British front of ninety Miles is bearing its full share of the but it is toward the South that the heaviest fighting is under at Verdun the germans have taken the Thia Mort work for the fourth the two Antish official issued today re Cord change m the situation on the British this show slim the Huvry brought up Strong enforcements from other parts of their and Are stubbornly con Artiee Evi i y Yard of the British and Vance torrential Rains How Ever hampered the offensive opera and the British action was con hied mostly to consolidating the Pound already the Trench have captured two More and Are on Good roads to bit there is yet no de crease in violence of the German attacks in the Verdun despatches from German War Cor respondents indicate the realization that the Central Powers Are losing the which their favourable position on lines enabled them to hold throughout the Long course of the me Minir on the enormous in com i tin1 on to Ile occurred in a profound occur the of the with the opening the attacking i Anir liven to i hit in crowd the of their Hailei 1niue Leopolds a in tinny on f Baitin Wheir us russians have Nan lines at two italians Are main Strong pressure along their in Tiv great squeeze has news Kors consider tint Chise events Prev that the moment of the great Stuetze has at and not since the War so ii nudist every on the Western front warns against reiterate thai the must be slow and method i to the present the Anglo 1 Romeli Eui quires in the Battle of the Sanii More than Pris Ivy and 8 Nell teas thin Booty represents for the nun in the Street a v Nuli or a Lintl the front thai the satisfactory three Days on such an extent find sitting the main currents of the the associated 1rcsb corns in a pregnant what is perhaps one of the most significant when tie notes the amazing change from Trench tied warfare to that of an my in the same strik ing feature conies out in an inter Esting review of the operations which tie associated press has obtained in interview with who predicts an immediate development South of the he the lighting is now in open Field All unofficial dispatches speak confidently of the satisfactory situation the British a notable Inci Dent Beins the surrender of a Corn mete prussian battalion with officers to the British mar Ger Man prisoners Are beginning to arrive in being landed at Southampton in the face of the exciting events the the russian operations to some extent have been list sight but they Are of increase no reports in the austrian official communication of the fight ii Southeast of Tlumach indicate that von bothers forces must have fallen Back from the Tarnopol in an Effort to meet the threat his it is thought thai May be forced to retire to an by land and sea against official statements july British official statement from general tinier reads on the Southern sectors of our front fighting continued throughout the anal at some Points we made slight the remainder of a whole German battalion surrendered in the Vicinity of Fri court at la Boisselle fierce fighting and Hrom big continued and bombing encounters took place during the past 24 our troops Are now in Complete Possession of the the germans made a Strong bombing stat ask this afternoon on that portion of their original front which a now held by us South of this attack was repulsed with loss to the Between thie Val and the acre the heavily shelled our Liati by North of the acre there is no change in the there was considerable artillery activity today about Loos and the Hohenzollern a German raid last night on our trenches South of arme Tieres completely broke Down under our Rifle and machine gun fire and considerable losses were inflicted on the our aeroplanes successfully attacked yesterday the import ant railway centres at cobbles and our Offen Sii working far into the a Nenvis encountered hostile aeroplanes in great numbers and much fighting four German machines were brought Down inside our and at least three wire driven to ground in Ilau aged we suffered no further losses beyond those already capture two july theaumont around which some of the lil Odiest fighting of the War has Takeia has been Cap tured by the germans for Lac fourth according to the official statement issued by the French War office the French have advanced South and East of where they have captured a Wood and the villages of Barteux and Belloy they have also taken the Resiter part of the Village of where 500 prisoners fell into thru the text of the official statement toll cows North of the Somme the Day quietly in the whole Section occupied by the French South of the in spite of which interfered with our we extended our positions in the course of the Day toward the South and we captured Woods in the neighbourhood of ass Villers and the villages of Barteux and Belloy which we hold in ies Trees has also fallen into our with the exception of a Small part where the germans Are still in the Rekiau of entrees alone we look 500 on the left Bank of the Meuse an artillery struggle is proceeding in the Region of Avo court and on the right Bank of the Meuse the of ermans redoubled their efforts in the Region of on which since midday they directed a bombardment of great violence Vith guns of big about 2 after several assaults been a massed attack was launched on the work and Svic needed in capturing it or the fourth our troops maintain their positions in the immediate neighbourhood of the intense artillery fire was directed by the enemy on Dan Loup and no event of importance occurred on the rest of the on the night of july o our airmen bombarded the Railroad station at Long Yon and the Barracks and Savigny and military establishments at organized captured night was quiet s Outh of the with he French organizing captured the official statement issued today the text of the state intent follows North and South of the River Somme the night passed the enemy undertook no offensive action against our which have organized themselves in the positions they Cap ured further information confirms previous reports that the War material captured by us is three new two of them of heavy have been to the batteries already further effects of our destructive fire have been in me shelter 40 bodies of German soldiers were in a Ravine North of and on the Northern slopes t tin Village of the enormous of Frise one of our aviators yesterday set on fire another of Maii captive Between the Rivers avre and French reconnoitre no parties penetrated the first trenches of the enemy As far As the supporting trenches located Northeast of Bou Vraines and capturing British have july germans last night recaptured a Small part of la which was taken by the British in the new offensive North of the farther to the an official announcement the British made Soane capturing a they took prisoners and War the announcement follows the reinforced by Many battalions drawn from other arts of the continues to offer resistance to us it All during the night there was heavy fighting in the Vicinity of la our troops fought with great gallantry against heavy at by the the enemy recaptured a Small portion of the defences South of the situation in this Sec Ion is further South some Progress was made during the we captured a further War material and on the other portions of the front continuous Trench warfare was several raids were carried raids by the Rifle brigade and the Sherwood foresters were especially Success von hindenberg6 in together with a to an uck at Komiec which if Likely to have an influence n the Lutsk where the Ger mans hit Lurtis have been Able to hold lie Canadian losses Only casualty re torts Frum Tiv front Are gradually diminishing the number this week s very considerably below that of previous from the Buttle of Hooge the losses were about which i is a conservative this Oakes the grand total something Jike since the War artillery to pave Way for infantry of gives optimistic statement waited Joffres word expect immediate developments before out manoeuvred important British Success in East Africa july troops fighting in German East Africa have made a further Advance in that according to a British official statement issued the announcement says Vandeventer on june 24 drove the enemy from pursuing him to wards the Central West of Lake Victoria we occupied Bukova and secured the Kara we in the Vicinity of after a heavy an attempted raid by the enemy was repulsed with losses to some unfounded prisoners remaining in our a later bulletin from the War office says heavy thunderstorms and torrential Rains interfered some what with offensive the situation South of the acre is generally operations during the Day consisted chiefly of minor local enterprises with t a View to retaining the ground the total number of prisoners exceeds May have to fall Back on Lemberg july to Spe Cial dispatches from the steady Advance of Brusiloff left despite the desperate resistance of the that in a few Days his front will assume j safely applicable to the russian Iii the form of a regular centred on the semipermanent fortifications i f a and Are repeating what Cost the austrians the loss of Galicia nearly two years is a Correct an was to Brut Swolfs according to the but neither then nor now Are pro conceived text Book rules of the these Des patches have now All been Cap on this front where Thev were planned to hold the in fans while the italian Campaign Kat tons have been constructed behind left that the response which the germans have chosen to make to Brusi Ifft Advance on both flanks is by Kitten wet to break through the rus comments the posts Petrograd the tar for the russians have revived methods of warfare of Remote by unexpectedly introducing cavalry and sending them against the enemy wit a satisfactory the russians Hare found that maddened horses be stopped by while the Cossack riders pre sent no easy Mark when charging in their Peculiar one Brusiloff Mett oods in the present Advance has been to Send cavalry charging upon positions which tra artillery has prepared for an the cavalry charges immediately after the occasionally with out the russian besides ability to fight mounted or on has an advantage Over other owing to the cheapness and inexhaustible Supply of native hones and 4 july German sol Diers in Penfield formations now stand Between the French and to River said major general Maurice referring to the part of the River which flows North Ward to the East of the erector along which the French have made their greatest the Las of the enemy defensive works in that sector have been Cap tured1 by our in giving the associated press a summary of the results attained by the entente Allied offensive on the Western major general Maur who is a director of military operations of the Imperial general continued much undeserved obloquy has been heaped upon the British army by French and american people because we apparently did nothing to assist the French in the desperate fighting at but at this time we were doing the part requested by general according to this we con served our accumulated Sun plies and waited for the word for the grand offensive in which we were to play our part with the russians and As Well As the during these anxious we could give out no exciting because our deliberate preparations were not Good for certain tactical and moral which need Noc be dilated it was necessary that the French should not lose the East Bank of the and Genera informed us that he could hold the positions which command that part of fhe River the end of so we knew we were going to strike at the beginning of pleased with the blow planned by the Allied general staffs included offensives by the russians and italians t do not Nee to Tell already have we Are not disappointed with our own which we expected to be and we Are enormously pleased with the wonderful Progress made by the French with comparatively Light Are sweeping Forward to the it is quite evident that the Ger mans were surprised by the strength of the French they Evi Dently believed our allies would be kept too Busy before Verdun to participate seriously in the Western offensive which they knew was com they made Exten Sive preparations before our piling up reinforcements while comparatively reflecting the Southern sector dominated by the the germans anticipating our brought up great much of which consisted of Independent units called1 Mou Mieton armed Only with Light machine it was these battalions inflicted the heaviest losses on our enemy is Brave and resource and put up a desperate especially in the Region from Gomme court to where he evidently expected our main in this Region the fighting was especially the Chalk formation gave the continued on Page Many westerners in casualty lists two Winnipeg men total of 239 names four july casualty lists were issued by the department of militia containing in All 187 the afternoon which was the smallest of the carried 32 recording one killed in three reported missing and believed ten missing and eight thirty four names comprised the list issued at 9 Oclock yesterday made up As follows one killed in two dead of one dead from four one dangerously and one seriously two previously reported missing now unofficially prisoners of and 22 the Midnight the heaviest of the reported 131 2s of whom were killed ten dead of one dead from sick 38 one dangerously one previously reported wounded and missing now believed one previously reported missing now officially believed one previously reported missing now unofficially prisoner of and 50 another list was issued at this containing 52 up As follows four killed in two dead of three missing and believed two two seriously ill and 39 9 Oclock list sir rider Haggard reaches Canada famous novelist at seek ing to create opportunities for object achieved in British Columbia will also extend july definitely known the fact that there was no desire to encourage migration from the British the wish being rather the other sir rider hag and representative of the Royal colonial told a Large audience at the Canadian club luncheon today of the objects that had led him to undertake a world wide which to ascertain How different parts of the world would receive disbanded sol Diers who wished to travel to other lands but still remain beneath the old coming straight to the main Issue of his sir rider that the Royal colonial Institute sir rider wants and asks is that wherever a servant of the crowning runs May wander within British that h will be greeted As a britishers and Given Welcome to thit Eiven one born within the land the open he then stated that the desired has been Fie doors of Australia Are now wide open that and that every state will Welcome such servants of he some by specific everywhere As one would Welcome a returning1 son of its he snid that the happiest moment of his life was when he was named to Cable to the door is open now throughout Austral new zealand is most Friend la and will Bear her part of the desired end and to every Besten sir rider in Gerard theri detailed Tir first glimpse of the tto Stearl Suhs eminent to is arrival n h form that it absolutely barrel and onh pct of the Crown from the slight est unless British Horn or a of British to Correct the Salt he hns not nipped Ven More Success than he and letter from the Man being and stating that in verment s prepared to a turd to Oil kingdom and similar advantages to we give on own Init Canadian sir Emder will leave Here or Prince Rinert and travel East Over the grand trunk Bonaut Laws son july of the Royal Fly nor eldest son of Andrew Bonar Secretary for the has been seriously wounded in he has been brought to England for on july is Esti mated that the Revenue of the government from the War tax levied on the tickets sold at the races last week would total close to on the entire in addition to the tax of a Day levied by the on Tario the attendance averaged Well Over a for july Sam who is spending a Day or two at his Home in expects to leave for England before the end of the july at 9 Oclock last night list containing 34 names was Ilia killed la 454440 Harry Lang 603045 Peter Mclntyre 138717 Samuel r Wheeler 65075 Bessie no 466705 Xor Man Black 466092 Herbert 426039 John Davis a3478s Robert will oof Frev Feuly reported missing now 17aof facial or prisoner of 73639 Clement Blampied Channel 424399 Ernest heal 81430 Herbert Ingram Cutie Ltd of Page Canadian wounded officers in London july following wounded officers Are in London at end Sleigh Browne and suffering from severe Shell and a wound in the at King Edward vils Hosp Itei severe wound in the right Arm rupture and at Hyde Park shot in the Reserve Case is granted by judge Points for court of Appeal cover every phase of Kelly trial offer new Domestic loan in september july no official announcement has been i it is expected that the next Domestic loan will be placed upon the Market by sir Thomas minister of before the end of the amount has not yet been cited but it Mill in All likelihood be Between fifty and one Hun dred million j when the first Domestic Dominion j his lordships charge loan was floated late last the sum stated As required was fifty Milf but the amount was i i j o l x t twice and fifty millions is made subject of some the government for a of supplies by the British it is anticipated that the new loan chief objections by for defence will be welcomed by the and no difficulty will be experienced in j yesterday As Ralson whatever amount is asked j judge Prendergast seated to the terms of a Reserve Case arising out of the Kelly practically in the form proposed by the defence a Reserve Case is usually allowed by a trial judge Only on Points concerning which he has j doubts about correctness of in the present the judge said one or two such Points j Dominion government reports opened the door for a Reserve and in the unusual circumstances he was disposed to make the opening reasonably the Points to be submitted to the court of Appeal cover every phase of the from the ruling on the motion to quash the indictment to the charge to the it was respect to the charge to jury that the defence made some of its chief Hartley argued that an Essen ingredient of theft is the fact that the Money or property was taken color or other without the consent the owner or master of in this Case crops late but prospects from West speak highly of Early All the officials on the Freedom from Early Russia Alryon hungarian soil news in London wireless dispatches received from Bucharest Heap impression created in Budapest two lines of German defences held by Leopolds army broken through at Bara Novicki nearly three thousand prisoners taken in Rush italians still occupying enemy territory july special press bulletin issued today by the census j and statistics office gives the follow ing report on Che condition Field crops in Canada at the of As summarized from telegrams received from the Dominion expert t was not contended that Kelly had i mental farms and in Accord obtained cheques without the consent j Ance with arrangements made be ind knowledge of the the tween the departments of trad3 and Commerce and the re Deuart also argued that crime of false pretences does not i ports show that the prospects for exist unless the accused deceives the i Grain crops Are excellent throughout from whom he obtained the the but the crops being about funds alleged to be unlawfully Obj ten Days later than last much j will depend upon Freedom from Early questions two questions were submitted on i maritime these Points in Prince Edward Island the the court not have j weather conditions have been most charged the jury that it could not j favourable for All Spring work ind Kelly guilty of theft unless the i was completed fully two weeks ahead i taking was without color of of last year beneficial Rains fell ind should the court not have Exall the Grain crops Are planned that the taking of Money by roots and potatoes came on cheques from the Crown was not in some districts Hay is theft if the Money was knowingly in others heavy it will be an aver and voluntarily parted with by the age officials whose Power it was to Issue Nova has the cheques been Aji exceptionally Fine growing he not have charged following an Ideal month for to constitute the crime of false getting crops All farm crops Are which the the representations on Money was parted with must have been relied on As True by those who parted with and should Fie not also have charged that any representations of the if supported by evidence that he knew it to be did not constitute an offence if the party to whom it was made was not deceived looking better than unsettled Mak ing seeding very a Large percentage of All Grain was sown Early in and has germinated roots and potatoes to be wet for Good j new j thirteen Rainy Days in the pre judge Prendegast admitted that i Itati Amo ulsted to six inches there was weight m he of crops have been july cavalry patrols have crossed the carpathians and entered according to a wireless dispatch received Here from the dispatch says that the patrols advanced from Kim Polung and entered hungarian territory on they Cut the Telegraph wires and blew up buildings in which food and munitions were it is added that the news that inv tiers Are again on hungarian soil caused a deep impression in july Rind italians Are lending All their strength to the combined blow against the Central and Bucharest re ports a significant movement of rus Sian which Are said to have advanced from in Buko and entered hungarian Terri All along the russian front engagements of the severest charac Ter Are in and the driving North from have advanced More than Twenty and Are threatening to outflank von bothers army and the Austro German forces in the Tarnopol re should this russian movement prove von Bothmer May have to fall Back on the russians report the capture of Many guns and More than prisoners on the various sectors of the Eastern though the offi Cial communications with respect to the Battles along the Austro italian front give Only a meagre idea of the situation As a that issued by the italian War office indicates that the artillery and infantry fighting is of a continuous and desperate the austrian War office is silent regarding the operations against the said he had omitted to draw the at Tention of the jury to the fact that i the taking of to constitute a must not be taken under color of it was perhaps hard to say Why he had overlooked this is Sibly he did not touch it through having assumed that the jury would regard the cheques As having been obtained from officials who were de cont aued on Page destructive Blaze in Saskatchewan fire causes loss of at and lumber Yards Are smothering the Root grass and Grain Are generally above the potato acre j and russian official july mid night fire broke out the basement of the Avonlea mercantile which is a part of the Xing the flames soon spread to the hotel and tha guests had barely time to Little or nothing was saved and the entire contents of the Avonlea mercantile company and King George hotel was a total in spite of the heroic efforts of the citizens tse fire spread totally destroying a chinese restauro implement shed belonging to the International Harvester another implement shed and attacking the Congo lumber company consumed that a less than one the cause of the fire is As yet in the loss is estimated at the hotel alone costing about three quarters of the building was consumed by the car ran a special train of water cars from Radville and the water is now being used to confine the fire to one the Loose jaw fire department was asked for help and chief Barnes left at 1 Oclock on the Low pressure motor but owing to the Lack of water he was unable to give much the Supply of chemical was soon weather weather report from the Observatory at Johns collese follows temperature at 7 maximum for the preceding 12 842 South wind at 10 Miles per hour meteorological is 2983 the Canadian weather observations taken at 7 Oclock july Winnipeg time were port Arthur fair Clear Clear 70 Clear Prince fair Swift Clear Medicine hat fair Clear showers have occurred Torday in North Ern Alberta elsewhere in the West the weather Naa been minimum and maximum Dawson st70 4864 Vancouver 4866 4474 52 4856 Prince 5464 5363 5374 re 4073 6684 port 4870 Parry 568o 5083 5582 5872 5370 5662 5464 5460 5661 age is equal to last and the Early planting is a consider Able acreage turnips and Buck wheat has not yet been abundant Rains have favored the growth of prospects Are excellent for a Good Hay Low lying lands have suffered from too much has retarded especially Corn and Hoed crops haying two weeks later Grain crops very Back Ward Corn three weeks later than has the appearance of a bumper crop Corn doing potatoes not very Good other roots looking j i about on third less Grain was i sown than in previous in edition it is and Tacl by affected by a great Deal will j not and will be Cut for Green Corn this year occupies not i More than two thirds of last year s in some parts no crop was in at and the land must be sum Mer the Hay crop is but Fine weather is required Tor Savi ing potatoes Are in bad and roots Are Brandon abundant Rains have fallen during latter part of july an attack on the forces1 of Prince the War office announced today the russians have broken through two lines of German defences in the Region of the Central Teuton they captured 72 11 and a number of machine the statement follows the Styr and flip Stok Hod and South of the St Khod Battles in the Region of the Llapa we Are closely pressing the who is defending himself with great an attempt of the enemy to Cross the in the Region of the Village of was during the night we captured on this front h nearly one thousand and five machine on the right Bank of the Dniester be enemy three attempted an offensive War but was repulsed by our in the Region of Tolomea dislodged the enemy from several and pursuing occupied tha Village of Potoc the Booty to Ken Here was four Cannon and a few Pris we pierced two lines of enemy works South of Northeast of the Battle in continued on vase continued on Page aged senator dead William Nova passes july Macdonald died at Midnight at his residence at Glace near the senators last illness was it was Only on sunday that his condition became he has for some Mouths been owing chiefly to his advanced his wife and Sec children senator who has had a successful Public was a native of Nova being born at River Denys in he was educated at Franci Savler Antigon he has held several important provincial and Federal and As a conserva Tive was first elected to the House of commons in the Cape Breton constituency in he was reelected in and was summoned to the Senate in he was appointed chairman of the committee on immigration and Flag for Canadian associated july presentation by the Duchess of Argyll of a bilk Union with a Silver shield the children of Britain to the offi cers commanding the Canadian takes place inthe Kensington Palace grounds on a guard of Honor and a band of canadians Ocean Steamer arrived at from Rochambeau few Yor Bordeaux the report last of the arrival of the Steamer Zapoli at Kapleau on june 26th was Grain markets review a Wake without whisky is a to nil but not so Dull As the Market Liverpool news appeared to be private cables stronger than the Little Public news came but most of the Advance there is said tube one to the firm freight the big Trade of monday had its reaction yester when extreme narrowness at tire Trade was in tha fluctuations of cent in both july and even the professional Trad ing was of the very lightest the Market saw a Good the demand for certain grades of wheat very the first three grades wanted badly to fill Laka and the premiums on them were from to cent better than Barley on its tha top Grade Selling for 72 wednesday will see american markets in business and there will probably some excitement until prices Are the Good demand in Liverpool is the support ing feature in our markets at pre sent otherwise there is Little to enthuse Over in the perfect weather continues to favor the and with some of the old crop still the new crop in the South comes tinder the present Condi even Liverpool admits that wheat looks Well but they Flo not contract to keep up sufficient demand to keep the american Keta from ;