Sherbrooke daily record, 27 août 1917, lundi 27 août 1917

[" Sherbrooke Daily Record.Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE.MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1917.Twenty-first Year FRENCH SAG 1100 HUNS SUNDAY; STRONG ENEMY ATTACKS ON AISNE AND VERDUN FRONTS REPULSED FINANCIAL ANOTHER TRIAL Zi:\tTHOUSANDS OF VISITORS HAVE ill IN RUSSIA FOR MONARCHY ! BAN DIES FROM IN GREECE BULLET WOUND ARRIVED FOR SHERBROOKE FAIR rrench Fire Broke up Assaults and All Positions Were Maintained.British Make Successful Trench Raid and Secure Few Prisoners.Nothing Special to Report From Other Sections of Front.Vice-Premier Says Steps Must Be Taken to Strengthen Position of Country.(Canadian Pre»« Despatch) PARIS, August 27.\u2014Strong German attacks were made rast night on the Aisne and Verdun fronts.The war office announces that the assaults were broken up by the French fire and that all French positions were maintained.More than 1 1 00 prisoners were taken yesterday.BRITISH MAKE RAID.(Canadian Press Despatch) LONDON, August 27.\u2014A successful trench raid was made by the British east of Oosttaverne which is about a mile north-east, of Wyschaete, early today.The British official statement, issued this morning says: \u201cWe made a successful raid this morning east of Oosttaverne and secured a few pris oners.1 here is nothing of further special interest to report.\u201d ANOTHER BOMBING EXPEDITION OVER BELGIUM (Canadian Press Despatch.) LONDON, August 27.\u2014 Another bombing expedition was made over Belgium on Saturday night by British aviators.\u201ca bombing raid was carried out at midright Saturday by the naval air service at the St.Denis Westren airdrome,1' the official report says.\u201cA large number of bombs were dropped.One of our machines is missing.\u201d BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCE HALF MILE LONDON, Aug.27\u2014British troops yesterday made an advgnce of half a mile along a mile front easi of Margicourt (north of St.Quentin), storming and capturing strong points at Cologne and Malakoff farms, according to the official report from British headquarters in France to night.The British last night attacked, ai>d drove the Germans out of a portion of the trench northeast of Gille-mont Farm, which the enemy captured in the morning, re-establishing the British former positions.Portuguese troops repulsed a German ra ding party southeast of La-ventee.Pheid Marshal Haig's men also have carried out several small trench raidin '- enterprises with success and repulsed German counter-attacks.Office tonight also records artillery fighting of great violence around Hill 304 on the left bank of the Meuse.The French have driven their advanced posts to the outskirts of Bethlncourt and along the banks of the Forges rivulet.(Canadian Press Despatch.) MOSCOW, Aug.27.\u2014 Vice-Premier Nekrasoff told the national conference yesterday how expenses had increased during the war.He said that in 1914 about 219,000,000 rubles of paper currency had been put in circulation ; 22.3,000,000 in 1915 and 290,000,000 in 1916\t; that in the first two months of 1917\tthere had been issued 846,000,000, and from March onward tbe issue averaged 832,000,000 rubles monthly.The budget, said M.Neikrasoff, was in a profoundly abnormal condition, because it had placed on one side the cost of the war and thus, in effect, there were two budgets, one giving a false impression of prosperity and the other concealing the germs of iinaucial catastrophe.The Vice-Premier admitted that the new regime was costing the country much more than the old, and thaï the new administrative bodies were absorbing enormous sums ; the food committee, for instance., He said the financial difficulties were largely due to the extraordinary increase in the pay of workers, and instanced the Putiloff work factory, the workers of which alone had been AUSTRIAN LOSSES ON ITALIAN FRONT NEAR 100,000 An-the tax-other V ice-l ace FRENCH CLOSE IN ON BEAUMONT PARIS, Aug.27 \u2014Another smashing blow by the French yesterday' on the right bank of the Meuse in the Verdun sector netted a vain of atr.but two-thirds of a mile on a front of two miles ami a half, giving the French possession of the Fosses and Beaumont woods and bringing them to the outskirts of the village of Beanmoni.The official report from the War ROME.Aug.27 \u2014Following up the capture on Friday of Monte Santo by the Second Italian army, Gen.Cadorna's tr.xips have made a further advance on the Isonzo front north of Gorizia, closely pursuing the Austrians, the War Office announces.Austrian counter-attacks on the Carso were repulsed.The number of prisoners has been increased to more than 23,OOP, in addition to which a great amount of booty has been captured.Numerous messages from the front, received by Ministers indicate that the Italians are making swift, strides towards victory.When asked today for an expression of his opinion of the results thus far achieved in the battle, Lieut.-General Count Cador-na, comrrmnder-in-chief of the Italij-r forces, smilingly replied : \u201cWe are doing nicely, thank you.\u2019\u2019 AUSTRIAN LOSSES 109,000 The official communication on the result of the battle shaws that the demoralization of the Austrian troops is in part due to the extra-ord nary aerial and artillery work of the Italians, which has destroyed {Cot only the lines of communication but has resulted in the burning of all the main food supply stations of the Austrians, who for the past week, have been starving at many points between Tolmim and the sea.This also accounts for the unusual number of prisonF.rs and wounded.The total losses of the Austrians, from all causes are reckoned at nearly 10.9,000, the most important of which, in tbe Carso region, have not yet been officially announced.It, is said that among the losses of the Austriaos are many men of the famous Twelfth Division, popularly known as the \u201cIron Division.\u201d DEADLY EFFECT L T.MEN OF NEW TYPE OF: CASUALTY LIST GAS Canadian Officer Says it is Projected With Shellfire at Unexpected Times.^Canadian Prens Deupntch.) OTTAWA, Ont., Aug.27.\u2014A vivid description of the now German gas and its deadly effects is given by a Canadian artillery officer in high command at.the front.Writing ta a friend in Ottawa under date of Julyi B1 he says \"Fheryttvng is going on '\"'ll here,] «nd just !>ow well you will kno\\v| better when you receive this letter than I do at the present i ornent,! though we have high holies, jit pres ïnt front\u2019 everybody is going about with his nose in the air, sedulously | miffing for garlic whenever the enemy Is Shelling, which is practically all the time.All night the sentries sniff for garlic.The orderly officer sniffs, i the patrols tn \u201cNo Man\u2019s Land sniff, j In fact, before the war Is over a new genus homo will be produced with a pointed muCT.le and lop ears, due to1 listening and sniffing for garlic.i \u201cYou might think it was a joke, hut It.Is a grim reality.The Boone has produced a new type of hellish cept.as the .official warning at nies (or slight odor like garlic.He prelects It with shellfire nt unexpected j times, and you can sniff you'S'lf u.io; eternity without turning \\ hair.However, if you sniff It In time nnd , get your mask on It is all right, ex -ept that it penetrates through your -lollies nnd mises blisters under your arms or wherever else there happens to lie the slightest, moisture.Hence the Biriffing.I wish we had n lot of those pacifists and Boche lovers out | here I worrld put them up tn rages like canarien ah m g the front, and îct| them do the sniffing /or the whole PTE.M.J.McLEOD, WOUNDED.MILAN, Aug.27.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 Mrs.1.B.McLeod received word from Ottawa stating that her son, Murrio J.McLeod has been wounded on the hand on August ICth.Murdo had just returned to trenches after three months in the hospital suffering from trench fever.He is in a machine gun section.PTE.S.H.McFADDEN, MAGOG,\" WOUNDED.MAGOG, [Aug.27.\u2014 (Special.) \u2014 Mrs.I.W.McFadden received word on Saturday that her eon.748564 Pte.Stanley Howard McFadden, Infantry, had been admitted to 6th casualty clearing station on the 16th ctf August suffering from gas poisoning.Pte.McFadden went overseas with the 117th Battalion.PTE.A.CALLzGAN, RICHMOND.WOUNDED.RrCtfMOND, Aug.27.\u2014(Special.) \u2014Mr.and Mrs.Frank CalPgau le-cnived word from Ottawa, that their son, Pte.Argyll Calligan had been admitted to hospital on August 16 si f ering from contusion on the I ip.Pie.Calligan enlisted in i.V ostein battalion.SERVICES\u2014WOUNDED AND GASSED.1081535 Sapper P.Leshma-n, Sherbrooke, (Joe.INFANTRY WOUNDED.1054579 F.E.Young, Glen Sutton, Que.91450 D.N.McTnvish, Sherbrooke, Que.\t, 48536 .1.Cross, Sherbrooke, Que.68059 S.Patterson, Leeds Village, Que.____________ _______________ paid this vear 90,000 rubles, other source of difficulty was small amount of revenue, from ation, excise charges and sources.Direct taxation, the Premier added, had not kept with the state\u2019s expenses, and indirect taxation was becoming a irecessity.Continuing, M.Nekrasorf enumerated a series of measures which would strengthen the financial position of the country, including various monopolies, especially on sugar, tea and matches.He emphatically denied reports that the Government was contemplating confiscation of\tprivate possessions of landed property.It would not even embark on such an adventure, believing firmly that the citizens of the country .would do their duty.The mayor of Moscow- in a speech said the population of the ancient capital could not support the anarchical minority, which was trying to detract from the importance of the ronferenee.Premier Kerensky thanked the mayor, saying that his speech would instil new strength and confidence in the Government.The conference then was adjourned to Monday.PREMIER.KERKNSKY RURE ARMY WILL DRIY'E FOE BACK.(Canadian Press Despatch.) MOSCOW, Sunday, August 26.\u2014 Premier Kerensky, who came to Moscow yesterday to attend the national conference which is\" now being held for consideration of the military and political problems which \u2018confront the country, reviewed the troops at the Hippodrome to-day, and in addressing them said he was convinced by the valor they were showing that they would he able to drive back the enemy at the front ard crush any attempt at a counter-revolution.General Korniloff, the commander-in-chief, arrived from Petrograd today and was greeted by great crowds.In an address he said it was a source of satisfaction to be able to (ell the army that Moscow was the watchword for the welfare of the country and war to a victorious end.The dav was devoted to conferences of the different group?of delegates.WILL REPORT ON MILITARY SITUATION.(Canadian Press Despatch.) PETROGRAD, August 27.\u2014General Korniloff, commander-in-chief of the Russian Army, informed the press that he intends to make a report on the military situation to the conference at Moscow and hoped that important resolutions would be adopted.PREMIER\u2019S SPEECH UNSATISFACTORY.r (Canadian Press Despatch.) LONDON.Aug.27.\u2014\u201cPremier Kerensky\u2019s speech in opening the national conference did not satisfy a single party or succeed in uniting the different groups in mutual service for the country,\u201d says the Exchange telegraph correspondent at Moscow.\u201cThe Democrats are dissatisfied with the dictatorlike government.The anti-Democrats expected a practical programme for the carrying out of measures to put down anarchy.They also are dissatisfied with the Premier's declaration regarding the impossibility of imagining a country without freedom, saying this is no time to talk of freedom and social reforms.\u201cMonday Is expected to be the day of , atonement.The various groups are expected to speak out freely and voice their aspirations, Much de pends on whose wrords find an echo in M.Kerensky's own aspirations.\u201cPersonally I do not believe the cabinet will undergo changes, as a coalition is the only possible form of government at this juncture.Should the conference fail in a last effort to organize a national government, the responsibility will fall on those elements which put the interests of theSr own classes above those of the country.\u201d Premier Venizelos Declares, However, That it Will Be the Last Experiment.(Canadian Press Despatch.) ATHENS, Aug.27\u2014M.Boussios.j Opposition member, raised a tumult in the Chamber when he declared that! King Constantine never abdicated,! but only had been dismissed by the j Entente Powers, as proved by the fact; that the act of abdication had not been presented to the Chamber.Premier Venizelos and other depu-1 ties left their seats to protect M.Boussios from personal attacks by I members of the majority.Later the possibility and opportuneness of establishing a republic in | Greece was discussed'.M.Venizelos ! declared: \u201cDespite the weakening ofi the royal power through the fallen 1 King\u2019s action, the Government, inter- ' preting the reeling of the Chamber,: thinks another trial should be given to the royal institution in Greece.It; is certainly the last experiment we i are asking.T am certain the Greek j people and majority representatives I will approve sincerely the trial in or-j der to make strong conditions for the! mutual working of the regime of a j crowned republic.\u201d -\u2014V- .\u2014\u2014___ 4* v 4* 4* v 4' 4* 4* 4- 4' 4* 4* 4* 4* 4+ 4* 4* 4* 4* 4- DECORATE YOUR BUILD- 4-4'\tINGS.\t4-, 4* Merchants, tradesmen and citi- 4\" ! 4* zens generally aie asked to dec- 4-4* orate their places of business 4* ! 4\u2019 and residences in a fitting man- 4* 4* ner for Sherbrooke Fair Week.4*; ! *** »?, | ?J* tjt *5*\t«J» »*\u2022\t»*« *£,\t[ C.D.Duford Accidentally Shot by Friend in Woods Near Island Brook.FRANCE Will HELP PEUPLE OF SÂL0N1KI King of Greece Visit to oceme of Devastation Caused by Recent Fire.Saturday, EARLY REPLY BY CENTRAL POWERS TO POPE\u2019S PEACE NOTE corps.Gonscfeptioue objectors would also he very useful for the same pin pose, ami could do great service to the state without haring to do such a vulgar thing as strike a Mow for their country., All they would have to do would be to blow their nosed and keep their sniffer in good ,w ork lag ordwt.\" (Canadian Pre** Dennutcli.) j AMSTERDAM, August 27.\u2014 | According to a despatch to the Wes j er Zeitung of Bremen from Vienna,! the reply of Ihe Central Powers to ! Pope Benedict\u2019s recent peace pro-{ posais can he expected within a few day».(Canadian i .'cspaJeh.V KALONIK1.Cr.' August 25.\u2014King Alexander today visited Saloniki and vewed the devastation caused by the recent fire.The King was received by Greek officials, and also by General Sarrail, the French command -r and Lieutenant-General Milne, the British commander, and the foreign consuls.After inspecting the burned area and the refugee camps King Alexander had an audience of Generals Sarrail and Milne.General Sarrail has informed the mayor of Saloniki that the French Government was sending a contribution of money to aid the people of Salon lid.He also promised that France would furnish tools and materials with which to build temporary dwellings for the populace.The visit of King Alexander made a good impression on the people, who frequently cheered him.OMMXQ LIBERALS OVER Western Members Met at Winnipeg But Gave Out No Statement.(Canadian Press Despatch.) WINNIPEG, Aug.2$i\u2014The conference of Western Liberals, which occupied Friday and Saturday, broke up without any definite announcement, and it was said that any statement to be made will he issued from Ottawa.The departure of Hon.Arthur L.Sifton, Premier of Alberta, for the Rast yesterday at noon, following the return of other Western members of the conference to their homes, was taken to indicate that a favorable decision had been arrived at, and that Sifton was the bearer of a reply to Ottawa.AIRMEN DROP BOMBS ON DUTCH TERRITORY (Canadian Press Despatch.) AMSTERDAM, August 27.\u2014 Bombs were again dropped on Dutch territory Saturday evening by airmen of unknown nationality.The missiles fell just inside the frontier near Cadsand, in Zeeland, but no damage was done f * « f i \\ \\ *