Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 8, 1916, Winnipeg, Manitoba Only morning newspaper in weather forecast in jetty yesterday to 7 Tom Maxim Mih Sun pan Moon 3kjn 1336 july the British prussian guard division unable Check Advance seven Hundred prisoners taken at costal Here of the fiercest East of la Boisselle Advance made on front of Yards to a depth of 500 King George proud of troops july following message was sent by King George 1o sir Douglas commander of the British troops on the franc British front convey 1o army under your command my sincere congratulations on the result achieved in the recent i in proud of my none could have fought More in said ranks will do their utmost to continue to deserve your majesty Confidence and a will be slogan sir Herbert Ames says this is amount needed for patriotic fund official statements Force Way into Leipsig redoubt South of the Somme july British Hava resumed their sledgehammer blows against the German lines in the Somme and Fier a Day of terrific fighting have carried the Ger Man trenches three Points along the latest reports from Brit ish Headquarters say that fierce fight several important july British in their new have gained several important among which Are the i capture of an immensely Strong known As the Leipsig according to the official statement issued by the London office East of la the British have captured German trenches on a front of nearly Yards to a depth of five Hundred Yards in the direction of the British have forced their was into the after capturing five Hundred Yards of the North of the British drove the enemy from two and captured three lines of an attempt by the prussian guard to Stem the Advance East of Cental Maison was crushed by the British and 700 prisoners of various regiments were Contal Maison was but was taken by the germans in a Strong to text of the statement follows s 44 p stubborn resistance on the part of the Enins our Well assisted by our have pushed their Advance wit the utmost gallantry throughout this morning Aud Iii de several important much work to be done declares that increase of separa Tion allowances cannot be granted ing is the British while not resulting in any substantial by the British War ice Are from South of after a fierce preliminary a further portion of the immensely Strong work known As the Leium redoubt was carried by this redoubt is situated in a of the German and the enemy has exerted All his inn fruity Over its fortifications during the last Twenty flirt her one of our attacking from the View their greatest Success jts inv across 500 yarns of the German front line trenches was East of la where they defences in fierce fighting is now in captured German in extent of Possession of the Village nearly Yards and to a depth of following our successes of last night to the East of la Bois 500 this is in addition Xvi advanced our line Over a Maze of German trenches on a Yards of trenches taken by of nearly cards to a depth of 500 of linking up with the above we drove the enemy from two Woods and three lines of 10 the prussian guards were thrown into the assault thursday the bitterest fighting of the Day occurred on the Centre of the line of attack about the two villages of Johi of con Al in a desperate Effort to Force us ant a Brit the attack was crushed by our the enemy subsequently fell to the leaving 700 prisoners of various regiments in ish brigade forced its Way into Ovil and is engager in a desperate struggle for Possession of the at Contal a division of the i prussian guards was hurled into the fight to Check the British after the Village had been carried by Contal Maison was Recap hut 700 prisoners were left in the hands of the v Kim i did f i i forts in i nil ult he Lynli Lii irs Iii to Kerf Uii inn a fvi1ij 10 1 vivit in canadians British Corre if press British army Knorl the following artful of fridays offensive Tut inc Millred today As soon As and continue Soniot i n oops made a Hill in on rental in of in i out Soo enemy room Ornt Mirril of he thu i prussian Muaril who sick some of those Shii fill into our commented Chr Arci Muy and intensity our a Liery in a attack we obtained 5 nning in Mai pts on tha 1ft of Liik atack our troops made l m w our about noon our infantry carried the Village of Contal mais ii by but were subsequently forced out again by a is Rong the Elmys casualties today must have been very numbers of troops retiring Over the open were caught by and the Village of Vazentin be Petit was heavily shelled at time when it was seen to be full of German a officer prisoner states that his battalion came under a fire from one of our which was flying Over the Battlefield an Altitude of 300 shortly after wards the same battalion was heavily shelled by our Long Range l rain has been falling throughout the and the Sodden ground and flooded state of the trenches added to the difficulties experienced by our he British capture their London Only by the British of a German Trench a front of Yards East of la in the Somme was announced offi Egaily the statement says in certain sectors of the Battlefield East of we resumed a vigorous offensive at Dawn the germans launched Havy attacks on our new trenches near the acre and North of and violent fighting is now in Progress along the whole front Between the acre and several important tactical successes have been gamed by our infantry in the Vicinity of la Boisselle and Contal one million dollars a month will be the slogan of the Canadian Nat ional patriotic fund in its 1917 Campaign for this is one of the statements of sir Herbert of head of the who is in the City on his Way East after having attended the conventions in Regina and de by an interesting set of facts and figures showing the gradual increase in the expenditures of the fund since the beginning of the sir Herbert Points out that during 1917 at a month will be required to fill All the needs of soldiers de Pendents throughout during the first four months of the in the fall of an average of per month was in the first four months of 1915 500 a month was Durier the next four july and August of last year the monthly expenditure reached during the last four months of the year it was during the first four months of this year the fund distributed an average monthly sum of and the expenditure for the month of May was barely Short of according to sir most of the battalions authorized by the government Are now nearly up to the graduating increase will not be As great from now on As it has been up to the what amount at the conference of the National fund and the various provincial funds held recently at Regina and Edmon ton the full significance of the Mil Ion a month slogan was a must Home to the delegates most it was figured that this will mean a per capita contribution of pro shout the it is thou Glit by officials of the fund that ail the provinces can raise this but owing to the wide Between population and wealth of some of them from those of the demands will fall with a aryans weight on different sections of the the National fund act on the principle of the common nurse the expenditures of the fund will be diffused equally in the provinces regardless of the income hat can be had from each re with regard to the Mode by which Money is to be Herbert declared thai the Reat majority of the Dele to the Western conventions were of the opinion Manv persons think a tax should be the contribution system As a source of income is it was their belief that As Long As con i important if line m in mans ii lit Linn Thi in ii Lvi Nurieh Horwood of and to min of nor by and if also Junction Battle was sus the frn Neh Section of Hardy Tnger 10 Hadly Hainford is in a position to con and the Fieth tool to make care our inia in Aimi Bur Northwest of thie Val the enemy succeeded tem to Jarliv in regaining 200 or too Yards of lost last night the enemy heavily bombarded our new positions at Kern Nahavand Jlon Vanban and near la using in some places Lacer amatory eastward of la after severe i which the enemy suffered heavy we Cap tured another Trench on a front of where we Are now of thie Val e determined attack on our new lines were completely enemy artillery was particularly Active in the Loos salient and opposite our artillery shelled the enemy communication trenches and billets at various we successfully sprang two mines opposite Auchy and from French sources not French recover Paris july repeated and violent attacks by the germans he French positions at theaumont enabled them to obtain a in the French advanced but they were driven of the French Willcut inf a according to the official statement issued the British have Tlle War office action is reported from the i on of acrid to hold their hand is a tic Havo not yet rear Napil were driven cat of he the rapidity of their rat on the Antis verse upon Lii re Tinger mans for troops no longer re Avirl supplies in Hins Al Voy and which Avo a fins Honi barred by the latter two in pcs the thurs no r t wich six tlu1 Vittli in Terins heavy 7hc Inosia wis Niitme h3 Ivo Lork on a plight on Pajic ides of the Somme Ance during the Between the Oise and the Aisne a Surprise attack attempted by the enemy during the night at completely Iakon the Bank of the fairly spirited fighting of Dav 7jje germans launched several attacks the Region of which were preceded by a bombardment of our in one of these attacks they succeeded in obtaining a footing in our advanced but our delivered about2 enabled us to reestablish our which reaches to the immediate neighbourhood of the theaumont All other attempts of the enemy to Advance in this sector were repulsed by the fire of our and Cost him serious a very violent artillery bombardment continues in the sector the sir continued on Page Al dead officers wife Cousin of Kaiser july Percy Wilfrid of the Border has been killed in action in his wife is a Cousin of the German being a daughter of the late Prince Victor of men Are prisoners no fatal Winnipeg casualties among 178 reports five Are no win Eggers Ware reported killed on yesterdays casualty and Only five local men appeared amongst tha wounded three men who Are connected with local units and who were previously reported missing were officially re ported prisoners of and one local Man who was previously re ported missing was listed As wound one Westerner was reported killed and one dead from Winnipeg Gebs unofficially prisoner of War James Kin in Phillip Kin in Patrick Kin in previously reported now George Kin at capt John Kin at 204 Colony Albert Delaneyl Kin at Trout with local sapper William taken on at Val Cartier on Kin in Thomas Beth Kii at 443 Newton Mason taken on at of the 93th Kin at second time westerners killed in Alfred Kin at died of Samuel Kin at 419 27th Street previously reported missing now unofficially of Robert in Saskatoon on for Merly of 22nd Kin at Pilot seriously Edward in at with Brandon George Kin at fort Albert Kin at Bosman Walter pm at Kin at John Kin at sapper Kin at commercial Herbert James enlisted in Brandon on Kin Kin at Moose trying problems chief must decide to meet the coordinated strategy of the july head of the German staff must be faced with difficult and perplexing problems at the present must How to meet the coordinated strategy the allies and to utilize Germany available Mui in the history of the War has Germany been called upon to meet a Strong double offensive on both the Western and Eastern Gen Haigs we resumed a vigor Ous offensive at coming on top of the opening of a new offensive against marshal Hindenburg by is a new experience for the 3erman Everts attack is being made on 100mile running South Erly from the Vilna line in the South to Baranovich in the the seriousness of the crisis is reflected in the paucity of information Given the German Public in berlins offi Cial admit the loss of hem and Belloy on the Western until More la known of the Prog Ress of the second phase of the Somme Battle the chief interest still lies with the russian there is no confirmation of the re port from Rome that the whole Ger Man line on the Eastern front is re but russians continue to report Success after the russian statement tonight announces that russian cavalry has captured which is Only some 50 Miles North Northeast of latest official statement issued by Berlin admits a retirement from a in tin car Torrock 9 Oclock list pastor Russell is not allowed to enter Canada turned Back at Gretna by authorities because of ant recruiting speeches was billed to speak in the Walker theatre last night on the world on fire Ottawa july the follow los casualty list was Given out at 9 Oclock tool she wounded a11489 no 38478 432043 Lance Sydney 438827 David 427680 Walter 77759 Frank 100666 David 142016 Seiko Iuler 15442o Pioneer mooted Prev Louly reported Mimini now to tool dec imply prisoner of 109299 Lance John 109394 George 622371 Jannea 460222 Philip 622568 Patrick 109661 106594 Herbert continued on Page Lorimer july of died suddenly at his Home in East bar Naby he passed away peace fully while he was 75 years old and leaves a four sons and one daughter in the Prairies and two daughters Portugal Flag to Fly today being the birthday of Manuel president of who was born july and elected to the chief magistracy of the portuguese Republic on aug ust the Flag of that re consisting of two perpendicular one the other with a Crown and will Fly from the Courtesy Flagstaff of the free pm until inspectors at Emerson and Gretna had been on Lookout for several Days Charles of new known throughout the continent As pastor was yesterday afternoon refused Entrance to Canada by the immigration authorities at this action was taken on account of the pastors anti recruiting speeches at Peterboro and other Ontario which he recently this noted preacher was bound for Winnipeg when he was taken off train by inspector who received instructions during the Day from Bruce Dominion Immi Gration Russell was to have addressed a meeting at the Walker theatre last pastor evening on the world on he was last reported to be in Chicago and the immigration officers at Emerson received instructions to watch for russells entry into Canada and to turn him Back at the was ordered the Soo train from the South into Emerson was closely but the distinguished figure pastor Russell was not the immigration inspector at Gretna was also told to exercise due and he found the noted american on continued on Page two divisions to train in Canada for front july proposal is under consideration by minister of militia to and Tram in can Ada too Cortilet infantry divisions which would be ready to leave for overseas Prtrt Cally in shape to proceed at once to the hitherto the organizing and training As Divi Sions Hasben done in to carry out the scheme six provincial or brigades arc con these would include a Nova Scotia already almost raised As a Highland brigade under Borden a brigade from Brunswick of Ond Prince Edward a brigade from two brigades from and n brigade from the details of the proposal Ore now being worked Canadian Trench during past week positions held by Dominion troops were heavily patrol parties do Good work and capture Large Quantity of Small july sir Sam minister of has received the following communication from the Canadian general representative at the front Canadian army corps head Ruar via july artillery duels were frequent during the past week on the Canadian at times our positions were so heavily bombarded As to suggest that an attack was on these occasions the enemy trencher and Bat teries were subjected to an intense retaliatory fire from our during the course of one night the germans repeatedly shelled i Section of the area recently taken Over by our and subsequently a hostile recon altering pts Rev advanced to approach our it at once detected and driven off by our Rifle and machine gun in Trench mortar our Bat teries maintained the upper returning approximately six shells for every one thrown by the her hurling troops against foe on 300 mile front russians have extended off Ensins against the germans on an enemy forced to Fleetwo villages and a railway station captured after big fight kale dunes is driving steadily Forward toward Ovelon lower strip prisoners taken any places the hostile trenches and entanglements were severely damaged by our mortar with finer vapid Progress was made on the consolidation of our new positions and the construction of other a Large amount of enemy Small arms ammunition was discovered in some old Carman in some cases the bullets Ere found to have been revised o found everywhere on the nth and his busily engaged strengthening wire and Gallant numerous hostile working were located and dispersed 1 by fire a patrol of four men russian Success Trebizond sector several commanding Heights turkish gains were and our rimmed to fire through a covered july in importance the allies efforts on the Western the news from the Eastern Battlefield shows that tha russians have extended their Offen Sive on an unprecedented on the whole from Riga to Barons a distance of about 300 the russians Are being hurled against the German further to Kal dines is driving steadily Forward toward and has captured two villages and a rail Road station on the Sarny Kovel military critics of the allies assert that unless the germans can halt Tho russian Advance in the immediate future they will have to withdraw their lines along the entire Eastern and probably abandon Lem the Oleiman official report of Fri Day admits the abandoning of a salient to but both German and russian official state ments fail to give a Clear idea of the exact situation in the the italians claim continued pro Gress for the offensive in the Tren but there has been no great change in this fled of the july up their Advance the Region of the lower the russians have occupied two villages and a railway Sta Toru the War office announce ment of today says the villages of Komarow and Grady and the rail Way station of Manevitch in russian the official communication says the Battles West of Ower Styre Are continuing with much Suc Cess for in the Volt Retske Region we have Poa Sora of fortified German the enemy took under the of our artillery our Pur charged into them in Region of Volt Retske and captured a Krupp Battery of six which hardly had to fire a few Shota at the end of a violent Battla we continued on Page Srain markets review Petrograd july against the turks in the Region along the Choruk Northwest of turkish As Tolje result of which several commanding Heights were occupied by the Hus Sions Are reported by the War office in today the repulse of turkish attacks in the Region also is the state ment regarding operations in caucasus follows in the Region of Early on the morning of july the supported by attacked sector of our positions and succeeded in forcing our they driven out again by us at the Point of the Bayonet and by bomb throw two fresh turkish attacks us succession were driven most than 300 enemy dead remained la front of our trenches together with a Large Quantity of arms and my Tarj East of the Region of Bayburt 65 Miles Northwest of after having weakened by our fire enemy troops which undertook by fruitless we Are Fol sowing us our Progress at Many Points and have taken Possession of several dominating Heights elaborately fort fled t the during the operations we took prisoner 4 officers and 120 and captured 1 machine gun and a Large Quantity of cartridges and transport mate tacked by hostile Winter gave the signal to raiding party to our weather 30 North wind at 10 per than Canadian meteorological Cloudy Cloudy fair 63 Clear Prince Cloudy 74 Cloudy Medicine fair Cloudy heavy Thunder Storma have occurred to Southern Saskatchewan elsewhere i the West the Orgather has been minimum and maximum temperatures 5270 5674 Cal 5272 medicate 6638 Edmon 5066 Moose 6034 617s port 5674 Parry 6232 5692 6390 6276 6236 6634 6333 5060 Strong yesterday and remained steady All Thero was not an off moment during session yet the Trade was of Small Liverpool Nerre gave a impetus to the prices and Good buying sent our wheat to the High october was firmest of the the Advance might have been greater it reports had not been circulated that the government report would be this had quiet ening effect the ther vast absolutely no speculative in Terest in the Sharp just a swinging of sentiment a continued Good demand front Liverpool which shows no of dropping the government report was mainly inclined to the Bear Trot what effect it trill have on fee Trade it is difficult to the Martlet is in a strange prices hold stubbornly in spite of the Ihn Tecl demand abroad and the Long advised Liberal tie splendid weather is working a great improvement the Gronro tar crop and the Winter wheat to turning out Well but it seems to be dependant a lot on sentiment which swing ing for a Day or the beat opinions buying of Breaks but say it is time the greatest the shipping Branch of the Trada was the cause of a much better de Mand in the Cash yesterday and premiums at the close though form in Oats were also in Good demand and during the Day sold at cent ;