Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A the of Nisan Rusf of . Los tight ii be we his a 8 rile \ a tis a lire five a a Otiva in 1 at Fin too. It dolls its i Rocourt. ii a a nans i tile a Rob la e ii. Ill i i i Quot my 1 or. Quot 01 1 ital tile a a Dur inst tile night a Sarong enemy i Oliuer attack on our new positions North of Arleaux in Goh Elte broken up by our fire. Fighting Ai soveral places North of the River t a statement creates difficult situation cd Tun f a a. A Kir Tost a it posit a and tilt important positions taken. To Don i. Lid Quot a w i i Jemin. A a it \ \ vie new in better i h Ion was Vav a re Iso Ere to. T i tvs troops re in t o advantage took place von a tit t in Dev from the sea Roe Aelo he aches in vim Road. Quot we captured Ariett in go Belle and enemy positions on a front of Over two Miles North Aud South of the Village. Quot our troops also progressed Northeast of Gavrella and the Western slopes of Greenland i Between Gav Reily and Routs. South of tile River we have gained ground North of Money be Prem. A the enemy Agar. Del Veteo Many violent counter attacks with considerable forces and suffered heavily from our artillery and machine gait fire. Ii the neighbourhood of recur and oppy heavy fighting is . Several Hundred prisoners were captured by us during tile Day. A three German air planes were reded yesterday in air fighting and a fourth was shot Down by our antiaircraft guns. One hostile observation Balcon also wits destroyed. Three of cur airships Are no slackening in French offensive Hie Hague. April t 3.�?the German Linnet a facing tile Moat difficult situation of its wartime existence in its Effort to find a Safe Middle ground Between the socialists and the conservative. Both parties Are becoming More and More insistent and vociferous. The socialists demanding democratization of the government and peace without Conquest and indemnity while the conservatives Are demanding with Equa urgency changes in exactly the opposite direction. Or. Died Riv Hail. Leader of toe agrarian Junker party and member of the Reio Stag yesterday delivered a speech in Berlin in whirl he declared that Germany s submarine Success now insured the conditional surrender of the enemies. He attacked the demands of the socialists und censured the government for continuing so Long to maintain diplomatic with the United states. Quot has monarchical Germany failed Quot he asked. A no a he added Quot it stands brilliantly before the world As conqueror. We Are already within sight of peace. We Hope those who govern us will continue to face the enemy As conquerors not As cow Arus. I it us keep to Bismarck s policy. Germany s future is a future of Battle and Conquest. Quot let. Pie Tell you what we rouser a i inc army where Thoro is too much Young and irresponsible blood. A Twenty year old lieutenant should not command a forty year old part Starmer. The government must yeast conferring with the socialists. A the a is Only one Way to Deal w the our Anglo Saxon enemies and that is to be As brutal As they. Look St our government has done in the Case of the United states. Long after we knew on what footing America stood we allowed ambassador Gerard to live with us and mix with american g u at pm Al a Breaks nent gathering or Roar a of eluding the Mem Foery of the British and French comm lbs ions. The president s Cabinet and member of Congress paid homage. M. Vivian minister of Justice and former Premier of France Arthur James Balfour. British foreign min ister and Field marshal Joffre spoke. M. Viviani spoke first Iii French. Few a of his hearers understood fuer Cru Quot but they caught the sup pressed feeling and fire of the orator. Ger. Balfour read the following statement prepared by the British Mission for the Wreath placed on Thea a Tomb Small Republic backs up nations a dedicated by tile British Mission fighting for democracy. J to the immortal memory of George Guatemala. April ?$.�?tile National Assembly today approved the decree issued by president Cabrera severing diplomatic relations Between this country and Germany. Late passports were delivered to German minister Lehmann who was Given eight Days in which to leave the country. Or. Quot Manuel Arroyo the Guatemala minister to Germany has been a called by Cable. Reason for act Washington. D. A. April 2s.�?official advices of the Bleak coming from the America legation in Guatemala City say president Estrada Cabrera assigned As the reason for his act his desire to Staatd with the United states in the fight Quot for democracy and the preservation of International Law. Washington Soldier statesman Patriot who would Haws rejoiced to see the country in which be was by Barth a citizen and the country which Hie Genius called into existence fighting Side by Side to save Mankind from subjection to a military a marshal Joffre simply and earnestly spoke in French two Brief sentences a in the French army All venerate the name and memory of Washington. I respectfully Salute Here the great Soldier and Lay upon his Tomb i Hindenburg the Palm we offer our soldiers who have died for i Weir two French officers came Forward with the Bronze Wreath from the French Mission the humblest and the highest Mark of Honor which the French nation can Accord the dead who penetrated the British barrage from the larger calibre gun were aet by Field tuns ant in earn Down under fire of continuous sprays of Joachine gun bullets. Under this galling fire the attack utterly broke Down. In some places there was ferocious hand of hand fighting. The British got in Well with the Bayonet but there was one bit of fighting in which bayonets were forgotten and the men went at each other s throats and eyes. Many germans went to deaths from blows from Rifle Butts. At times tile fighting was wholly obscured by a eat Clouds of dust r be Muddy battlefields of ten Days ago having entirely disappeared. The dust raised by the barrage five a Sei bled an approaching storm. Shrapnel bullets were pelting the dry Earth like so Many Leaden drop of rain the great mountains of dust seemed to Spring from the Earth everywhere. Progress everywhere the attack began with Tho coining of Dawn. It extended in an Easterly direction from Vimy Ridge and ran South to tile Scarpe. Progress was made every were and the so called Opp Mericourt. Which protects the Bro court switch to the line a pierced again. The canadians who had been More or less resting since they swept the germans if both slopes of Vimy Ridge on faster monday made a Brilliant assault against Arleaux in Genielle and captured that Village and oort Mimmott proposal to arb frat diff mess bejocto4�?the electrical a workers Blay strike est Ilieus denominations fades stats officials. Sod 1 Quot Quot Quot a continued on Psge four abnormal wheat priv Lead to drastic action. N Bat lie a a radians lined ii i in. Til of car at int. To la y Quot a. Or. Be 7 by pcs r f cd a Taal t t. Tis of i s. Rue its. A Etc i e c a Al. 4�er.ah a rim in a Erer k up o cd you a ctr a 1 -tan.c. To _ or. Heavy ill gel i. Toe Iosi Ai in ii in go of Field Mapp it Mil Posi i toe ii. Which to ii m a nos Nill How a up or he of a in Iii Bei a a British has nearly sent to Thein fighting no. J1 t in be blazon a Sou Quot i fun of. A a amp St. Rawest of a Joni cd in. U. A a attack a. Of ii is arc i Quot 8cei.c of. Reports a. Fir. C line be beast. A Champagne i ii Roar of Che i Ami germans. Fan try activity oui although Lim French have. Found n an Ison prison fiery. Iritis ii break up counter attacks Lon Brit is ii ii of of my a Cru in con liter War soil i Hen so of f St. Gue atm fans. April 29.�?��?Talong the said the War office communication tonight a a the German Artiller energetically counter Shell i de by us bombarded our positions at h . Grenade fighting likewise was ii vol v that Region in the first Lues. \ Rich we a it v id in we effectively riled the German organizations. I i the Region o. Courcy last night we look More thai. Roo prisoners. Ca m prevailed. Lie jest o the troll. A belgian communication a there is nothing to report except t in usual artillery a a the text of the statement issued earlier in the Day follows Quot Between the Somme and toe Oise intermittent artilery engagements occurred. German attacks in the Region of la Faux and North of Cerny in Laon Neisse were broken up by our Are. In the sector of Cra Onne patrol encounters and grenade fighting occurred. Captured 150 prisoners. A Northwest of reims operations carried out by us in the Region Norm and South of Courcy enabled us to enlarge cur positions appreciably. We took 130 prisoners in the course of these actions. A there was heavy Artiller it fighting in the Champagne Between Pranav and Auberie. Two Gorman attacks on Small French outpost near Lahure and in the Vicinity of the Navarin Tarm were without result. A in upper Alsace our detachments penetrated at several Points As far As Cie second German line. Spirited grenade encounters terminated to our advantage and Cost the germans losses. We brought Back Paris april 28.�?the official communication issued tonight reads a the artillery action was intermittent Over the greater part of the front with violent outbursts Between Tim in the alone and Champagne regions. A on the Chemin Des Dames we made Progress in the neighbourhood of Ostel and took prisoners. Everywhere else the Day was Calm without infantry actions. A on april 27 two German air planes were brought Down in an Aerial engagement. Six other were compelled to land in a damaged condition it is confirmed that four German Mati Ainoi of tile Winnipeg Gram fax change in appointing a censorship of pit trading on saturday was Ane thai must commend itself to Che world at Large in pm a flu a it. Feat business More Especio tile consuming put or requires courage to take a Siep so drastic and of which it is impossible to be sure of the outcome. The movement May not prove the rented for existing conditions but i is a Brave attempt to grapple with a situation far which there is no parallel in tile entire history of the Grain Trade. To arrive at anything Lik an understanding of the matter it is necessary to state some of the things that have led up to the present excited arid nervous markets with their fluctuations. Tiler Are Man contributory Ramies first and most potent world shortage of wheat supplies from Russia and the Balkan states Are not available the australian crop is practically unavailable owing to Lack of tonnage Argentine has Felt it necessary to place an embargo on Gram shipments. The United states saw at to Issue one of the most bullish reports on the Winter wheat situation that has appeared in years. The International Institute at Rome in its March report again Laid emphasis on world shortage. Lloyd George and lord Stanley have in recent i speeches made much of the sub Marine menace and lord Devonport has further emphasized the shortage by calling special attention to the food supplies of great Britain the need of further elimination of waste and the curtailing of supplies of bread being eaten. Everything a conspired to draw attention to a shortage of wheat. Must go Lack of policy in United kingdom. The United kingdom was slow in establishing any very definite policy in buying wheat indeed so far As Canada was concerned nothing was really done until last october. Slow in systematizing the Baring the authorities were slower still in seeking to control the shipping a it As to be in a position to Supply he re Quammen s great Britain Agata the l ruled kingdom from the outsiders standpoint Ai least seems to have been very slow in providing against the submarine Campaign which threatened so Long. Lack of policy in Canada. To Oacle. Has been worse than great Britain for she has not e Enaa yet Ann definite policy a a or control of prices facilitating railway transportation or tile conservation of wheat products or any other article for that matter. The Canadian government has to its credit Only two attempts to do anything along this line namely the futile commandeering of sixteen million bushels of wheat in 1815 and the equally futile attempt to pure Bane the crop of 1917 at a Price far below its value. In All the period since the War opened the Gram Trade of Canada has never once been consulted by either Ori British governments and in massing it might be remarked that the Grain Exchange on the continent of America that handles the largest amount of Cash wheat is lie Only one that will not be represented at the coming conference in Washington. All t he american Exchange will be represented but Canada will be represented by her minister of Trade and Commerce Only. Who. Whatever his other qualifications May be is pc it reely competent to Deal with the a us Ani outs of the Grain Trade. But that a or Ping would say a a a another local situation. To come nearer Home the establishing last october of an Agency at Vav my Peg to buy for the Allied governments had the effect of restricting Trade to practically one customer and a customer who wanted Only High Grade cheats in fact a customer who for a Long period would not touch Tow Grade what at att. But who continued to buy the May future on which Only no. I 2. And 9 Northern wheat is deliverable. In 191 the Canadian wast unfortunately produced it crop with an abnormal percentage of Low grads wheat for which there has Besa a very limited Market All want of Nev with i Seiling the a it and Kuiv against them in Accord banking policy. Congestion. There has been unusual congestion of transportation with very Little wheat moving by rail during the Winter. And As a further complication navigation is very late in opening and the Trade within a few Days of the opening of the delivery month was faced with the possibility of a shortage of contract wheat to deliver. Since the introduction of free wheat there has been an increased demand for contract wheat on the part of the american Millers. Whatever May be their policy Tater at the moment they have shown a marked preference for contract Over Low Grade cheats. All of these things have contribute so to Maks highly excited and nervous markets indeed the Surprise is that they have not been worse. When markets Are nervous a very Small amount of Ding to sufficient to Send them up or Down without rhyme or reason. Furthermore. _ nervous markets Are great Breeding grounds for stories and the meet absurd stories have been current gossip Aud from tins to time there a been talk of Corners Tara filing undue speculation and the like. Probably the Story that Lias been most often repeated was a that the British govern mint had cornered May wheat a an Absurdity on Tho face of it. However the mounting prices and the increased financing they demanded Lias occasioned very grave anxiety among the larger houses and the Banks have Besa looking somewhat askance at the mounting lines of credit. Future Vav tie ii tailgate mss at has Tbs loan ii of Tbs Grain Exchange have not Boonim. They have been sitting Coati Noons or for they afforded execs sextet possible to Utility Osom nto Macdonald when be Inuss Dent so the Exchange i connection with a bring Ana when. By Tbs West. In Bai that it a too Jam for weeks Tbs Eomme Arloner nor Isa frmiisrs8�s Sissy Hedy aug he., count,.j Piu Chasen by i Tbs Luau it a out inn agent it thai Mals in Lua. Pcs Susunu a rss two a a 9 i Only to find that they were Dolny a _ perfectly legitimate business. They were heavy holders of May futures to be sure but. Only until such time As it lies had Opportunity to turn them Over for the actual wheat. However the Council could not announce that to the Public without permission of the Royal wheat commission. The Only step that remained to be taken was to ascertain the amount of purely speculative trading there might be on the Market and the Only possible Way in which this could be done was. To establish censorship of trading in the pit. The first step in this direction was to obtain permission to announce that the British government or rather their representatives. The Royal what commission were out of the Market for the time being. This permission was received saturday morning and the announcement showed that the commission had been out of tile Market from the time that wheat went up to $2.50 and moreover that they bad enough for present requirement. Between this announcement and the establishing of the censorship about to minutes elapsed. Following the announcement and the censorship May wheat declined 20. July 24 4 and october 19. The censers. What then in the censorship a a simply a method to ascertain the Quality of the orders going Imo the pit or Cether they axe purely Sec a Jat tvs or Are in any Way connected with Cash wheat As was said at the beginning it May not prove a remedy it May indeed prove to be injurious to Winnipeg As a big International Market. But it deserve the consideration due any Brave and honest attempt to meet in difficult situs Ion a sated by circumstances Over which Tbs Council of the grata Exchange had no control. Tbs Trade Gens rally mat Tbs innovation in an eat Ditont spirit and a very Large number in saturday afternoon expressed their approval of what had Bosn Don others who do Agrosk at the same Tho stated that they believed that the Council was acting air Worms to statement my he by. L. Mcbride business agent for the electrical workers Union the 42,000 subscribers to the Manitoba government Telephone system will Hie deprived of their service a a tomorrow when the Telephone operators will go or strive. A or. Mcbride states that the Only thing that will prevent this is the granting by the Telephone commission of the operators demands in Toto. The commission has issued a statement of the situation for the of the Public. This statement shows this to be in Brief the position of the Manitoba telephones in the controversy a i a the system is a Public Utility not operated for profit. "2.-�?the commission has offered to Sulamit the dispute to a two ration but the employees have refused to consent to this. "3.�?the de hands of tile Emp Oyefes aggregate an Cost of 152,-000 per annul. A a �?o4.�?the present revenues Are no More than sufficient to pay in expenditures. The surplus for the first four months of tile present fiscal year was 1.720. Statement by commission. A the present situation with inspect to recent demands made by employees is one a says tile statement. Quot of vital interest to All Telephone subscribers and the Public generally. As Well As employees of the department Quot Oil or about april 2. 1917. We re coiled from tile Busine a agent of tile International brotherhood of electrical workers local la Nion no. 435, printed memorandum of Eula Tiora and schedule of wages to govern employees of the Plant and service departments. Manitoba government telephones effective As at Alay i 1917, a since that Date we Nave held separate conferences with committees representing th6 men of the Plant department also the Telephone operator and on the 24th inst a joint conference was held with a committee representing both operator and men. The suggested changes in the regulations were fully die unwed and disposed or without any particular difference. A the question of increased Nages. However was found on , to be one of a most serious nature involving ast does a proposed increase in expenses to the Telephone department of 9152 Odd. A after an exhaustive investigation relating to the present financial conditions of the Telephone department the resultant effect of increasing our expense in accordance with the demands of the Union were fully discussed with the committee at outlast conference and they were advised that the present revenues of the department would not Prmt of the unusual increases demanded and were asked to modify their demands accordingly. A the reply made woe to the effect that Tbs rata schedule a submitted had. Been Oam Fidy considered by the of Oakalee Beton being presented and were the minimum wages which Woald a accepted. To Bowling our loot conference the quest Ecot increasing our expense was again carefully investigated following which we Beta Lutted a it the a Otamae agent of the Anion revised wage oozed Iris pro Al diag increased for both Winnipeg Aud pro i operator and also agreed to i .wi per annul Ammu u Cvar Washington. Ajini is Fen a Viv Neto Nanc majorities both he is r. And the House passed late Torgl administration Bill to raze a a army by selective drat the final Roll Calls Bro ii or i i i a a behind the Bill Many Senario a a representatives who had fun in it it the Volunteer system until routed a. Decisive defeat of Volunteer Mem ments earlier in the Dai i in. Houses. The Senate. Which had vol Down the Volunteer plan til to i passed the Bill by a vote of 81 of in the House the vote Agama a a a. Volunteer plan was 313 to 109. That by vouch the by Itse w passed was 397 to 24. As passed by the Stoa in in int ure provides for the draft of pc Between the age of 2i and 27 veal while in the House measure tie a Are fixed at 21 and 40. T and lesser discrepancies w til i e threshed out to conference Jeanv tie week so that tile Pill May be in. A hands of president As quickly i possible. The War department a already completed olans lot Cain. It into effect. To increase pay both Senate and House Tuou a amendments just before the final to Calls which would greatly icer Vanrite pay o enlisted men during til War. The House provision would in Apo them pay 30 a month and Ina. A proved by he Senate would fix a it 29 a month. The present Oak or y 15. Iii tile House a toe la Roaer of the apr Quot Quot dilation committee objected Ousby to Tut appropriation of St of too a too Cal red in the Bdl for e Pense of he ass Ann / Ana to use t on finally was eliminated. I. U Gei Ald declared that to a a lace a vast sum n the hand of rile Sec tary of War would make of con Green a. The re a i Caa on Ana a prom a a a that ii tee Section were voted do a the committee would provide fund promptly or a separate speaker Lark democratic Leio and chairman Den Quot of Melita a committee who a a to the Volunteer system All vie othe draft on he Taal i Ltd. Republican Leader Manti a1� a to recorded it the affirmative Jors. Miss Rankin who previously \ with tre Volunteer advocates i repentant amendments v amendment by in. To Harding authorizing to in pc Dent to make regulations leg Ira a Sale of liquor to Che Arm d for., a and prohibiting ire 5a at Arra a and Tram Ca Camps was Adon ten to 33. It a to prohibits Vail to i a in. Leers of tile Awny we. A in a id aka a the place fax Otic pro rib in amen tau of you adopted. An amen Amer o a f. V i of Tho a i a Rural a Mittee. Farmers Fifon draft was Ltd a. I in o. To iou minors must have consent an Amend nent offered to. Ref., Sennati e Vandyke. Minnesota was adoptee. 117 to 107. re a no person under i ear of a Snail be or listed without t a w ten consent o2 bus parents o. Guard senator at Neuar offered a amendment Toroa Dening a Popoe b the of military committee to pro rib the Sale or pose aes Ion of liquors at any military Post o in an enlisted menus or officer . T was adopted. By a vote of to to 43 the adopted an amendment by serial Underwood to make Che prohibit o against possessing quor apply any member of Congress while nah presence of troops. In the House of prep Euil by rep tentative Miller of i Tine sot.#, substitute the Senate a i. Of Frorer 19 to 15 Yzzi v to the 21 Vii a Ami of Louee Gin w it a Sceau arc a fags Itira ;