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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1917 8 canadians capture the FORTIFIED VILLAGE OF FRESNOY Infantry Reached Enemy's Dugouts Before he Could Emerge and Hundreds Were Forced to Surrender. Ontario v A despatch from Canadian Army, begin to fight. They speedily discov- j Headquarters says: Shortly before ered that the Canadians, after passing dawn on Thursday morning a Cana- over the wire and trench system, had fcgJJ?;o ,,,„; , , posted men,between the front line , Peas--No. i, no dian column, composed of veteran: h amJ the enemy-s gupPorts, and j fr!^v^fcng troops, carried the fortified village of 1 cut the Germans on the front line off j cording to freights' from all chance to secure help. The c0r«n^toO'freights a thus cut off were from the Rhen- Manitoba flour--F Markets of the World Breadstuff* Toronto. May 8.--Manitoba wheat-I Northern, f 2.94J; No. 2 do., $2 No. 3 do., $8,843; No. 4 wheat, $2 track Bay ports. Manitoba oats--No. 2 C.W., 821c; 3 C.W., Slic; extra No. 1 feed, 81jc; -- " delivered. ______ -No. 3 yellow. ubject to embargo, track "Ontario oats--No. 2 whits, 74 to American No. Fresnoy-en-Artois by storm. s of prisoners and of o mnded as to what occurred in Fres-, ish provim s of Prussia. Practically noy, and the trenches which protected . an entire company of them it, agree that the enemy, who, as at j dered under these circumstances, Arleux, had taken over the defence through officers with them, but while only a few hours before the assault, j the greater part of the prisoners were had largely sought shelter from the j taken in this way, others surrender-fearful shell-fire to which he was sub- j ed only when they could no longer jetted by descending into deep dug- | carry a rifle or operate a machine gun. outs and to the cellars of houses. Our A captured enemy officer said then infantry followed closely behind the bursting shells and reached the enemy's dugouts before he could emerge. For the occupants of the dugout that meant either surrender at once or a horrible death by the bombing of the j before dugout. Some of the Germans holding | only not time to bring the machine guns of his company into action before the men were overwhelmed. The capture of ^resnoy carried the Canadians almost a mile further than the way to Douai, which is than eight miles i the north of Fresnoy 1 due east from the further point of did emerge from their dugouts and i Thursday's advance. Si.:. . delivered Montre FOE'S APRIL LOSS EXCEEDS 100,000 Fighting on the Western Front Disastrous for Huns. A despatch from the French Armies' correspondent, says:--After seeing 3urden borne Without strain British Finance Carries Heavy War Load Without Any Additional Taxes. ^ of estimate.- which broadly ! _ A ^Patch from London says:-agree, I believe that the recently £reat Britain's war budget for the j fiscal year which Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduc- large. 281c; Honey---5 joultry--Chlcker triplets. 271 to 2 twins, 2S3c lite clover, 21-Ib. FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Dr. James R. Riddell has been appointed lecturer in electrical diagnosis and therapeutics at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Great excitement was caused in Falkirk when an explosion in the Carron Iron Works blew the roof off le of the furnace houses. The offer of Sir Hugh and Lady lice Shaw Stewart of a portion of their mansion at Ardgowan as a hospital has been accepted by the Government. Sir Murdoch Macdonald has been appointed Adviser on Public Works in Egypt, retaining the Under Secretaryship in the same department. Perth is at present taking great interest in the approaching marriage of Miss Beatrice Christian Pullan and Major W. A. Gillam, D.S.O., K.S.O.B. Pipe Major Aitken, Argylls, who recently received the D.C.M. for gallant conduct, has been presented with £15 War Loan stock by the Stirling town council. Permission has been given by the Dunfermline Dean of Guild Court for the erection of 1,000 houses al Rosyth by the Scottish National Hous-ing Company. Lieut. J. A. Craig, Invergeldie, was command of a draft from the Cameron Highlanders on board the Ivernia when she was sunk, escaped, but eleven perished. ONE OF RUSSIA'S BIG MEN. New Minister of Foreign Affairs Is An Interesting Personality. Louis S. Friedland, associate editor of the Russian Review of New York, writes as follows of Paul N. Milyukoff, Russia's new Minister of Foreign Af- Prof. Milyukoff is the most interesting--and enigmatic--figure in the Russian Cabinet. Milyukoff is one of the few ademic training who hav isions--Whole* ale published figures of 100,000 for total German losses in April appears very far below the reality. It may be but half of the truth. The G< i April 1 stood the House of Common; nesday contained no surprises and fewer changes from the existing taxa-lows: Total of German divisions, 219; "on than did the previous war budget. - Western front, 143; on other fronts No rf v f,°Jms °f ta*atlon were P™-posed. The only changes were increased excess profits tax, which was raised to 80 per cent, from 60 per cent.; the placing of excess profits on munition works on the same basis, an increase of tobacco duty by Is lOd in the pound, and increased entertainment taxes on the higher-priced tickets. Economy in the employment of ships by Government impressment of all vessels except small coasters at fixed rates of pay also was announced. (Russian. Rumanian and Macedonian), 76. There was on the Western front April 1 a general reserve of forty-four divisions. But the German div are not what they were. The process of attrition brought them down to little, if any, more than half their former strength. We shall be justified in saying that the German general resrves in the West did not exceed a figure between 440,000 and 500,000 men after the great retreat and before the beginning of the allied offensive, but this was virtually the only general reserve. More of Original Hlndenburg Line Penetrated and Rolled Up By British Troops. A despatch from British Headquarters in France says: The battle has flared up again, and the Germans are again getting heavy punishment. We attacked Thursday morning while it was still dark. The fighting raged all etay on a front reaching from the north of Arleux to beyond Bullecourt, a distance of 12 miles. "Almost Summer heat prevailed, with a thick haze, making it impossible to see anything and making the observation of the artillery difficult. It is not possible as yet to Kive a definite account of the gains, but it appears we won important successes and captured the village of Fresnoy. and apparently Bulle-oourt. besides making a considerable advance on the greater part of the line between these places, taking a hundred prisoners, of whom 300 have Montreal Markets A ftcctmA to^rrart-^ienrTlI WW; According to C.P.R. Estimate. A despatch from Calgary says:--A computation of the grain movement of the Province since September 1, 1916, has just teen compiled by the Canadian Pacific Railway General Superintendent's office in this city. It indicates that a total of 54,000,000 bushels of all grain were transported by that company alone within this Province since September 1, 1916, or since the new crop came in. Of the total of 54,000,000 bushels of; $2 all grains, 35,000,000. bushels were j ^ wheat, while the great bulk of the re-i ot maining portion was oats. 'i Taking these figures as a basis, it seems not unreasonable to suppose; that the wheat production for the las'tjs(< season was at least well over the fifty j st< million mark, which would make a *„' close second to the great yield of the j to previous year. i jJu Winnipeg drain Northern. $2,821: No. i7J: No. 3 Northern. $2.72. No. 6, $2.08; No. 6. $1.7i I HEROES OF VIMY RIDGE. n, \ Stirring Tales of Bravery of Our Canadian Troops. c; The pause in the forward move -permitted the completion of the :s | cords of conspicuous bravery in the ,. jcent action, writes our own Canadian ■;' war correspondent on April 26th. ,J J Here are some examples. First o , the story of a corporal in a patrol which had come under the enemy rifle and machine gun fire,, so heavy that to remain where they were meant extermination, while to retire was extremely difficult, because of a lack of cover. This corporal exposed himself to the fire of the enemy, saying as he did so, "When they see me they will all fire on me, and you boys can then make for cover." Of the same sort is an incident in which a surgeon was called up to a battery position to dress a ^serious woiindjiunder heavy fire, and in the »««y "--"baud -it4-impossible to see^ through his gas mask. Well j knowing that he risked his life FIGHT FOR KAISER WITH HEART'S BLOOD President of Reichstag Says United States is a Mighty Enemy. ! A despatch from Amsterdam says: >n of --The German Reichstag resumed its made session on Wednesday. The presid- -------] ent of the Chamber, Dr. Johannes j Kaempf, in his opening address, I speaking of the entry of the United States into the war, said a new and I mighty opponent had joined the ranks of Germany's enemies. President I Wilson, in a message to Congress on j April 2, he declared, said he was wag-I ing war against the Germans in the interests of mankind and on the ground of justice. "Without truest hearts' blood," he said, "we establish the German Kais-erdom and with our truest hearts' blood we shall fight for the Kaiser and the empire. ('Renewed applause.) What our forefathers fought for and longed for, what we have achieved on the battlefield, will not perish, even at President Wilson's word of command. "We decline all interference by a foreign Government in our internal affairs. If all signs are not misleading the decisive point of the world's war is™ approaching. We see our death-defying troops withstanding the enemy's assaults. Our U-boats will show England how Germans <^an avenge her nefarious starvation war." good in practical politics. In this, as other things, he is not unlike President Wilson. academic experiences of the Mi are somewhat similar. Milyukoff was educated in Moscow University and became lecturer in history there. He was not long in earning distinction as a writer of books and articles on Rursian history, and as a popular lecturer. But his liberal views brought him visitations from the police, and he was forced to give up his post. In 1893 he was called by the young Principality of Bulgaria to organize the State College of Sofia along university lines. At Sofia, Milyukoff made a study of the Balkan question, to-day one of the foremost authorities on Balkan affairs. On his Petrograd, Milyukoff led the life of a litterateur, but at the inception of the liberal movement in Russia he threw himself into the work of organization, and soon be came a prominent member of the Liberal League, the leaders of which were the Zemstvo Constitutionalists. An able and resourceful speaker, Light Thrown on German Propaganda Led by Rintelen ! A despatch from New York says:-- j Plans of Capt. Franz Rintelen, of the German navy, to embroil this country in war with Mexico and Japan, and the ineffectual efforts of former Representative Frank Buchanan to enlist the support of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a project to prevent the manufacture and transportation of munitions in this country, were brought out in the conspiracy trial of these two men and six others here on Wednesday. The defendants are charged with fomenting strikes designed to disrupt the Entente allies' munitions trade in this country through the activities of labors National Peace Council, of which Mr. Buchanan was first president. United States Market) One Hnudred German Plungers Destroyed by the Entente Allies A despatch from New York says:-- It is more than likely that Germany has on the ways and approaching completion not fewer than 500 submarines ©f the U-53 class, and that within six months she will have about 700 submarines afloat, and in twelve months 1,200. Evidence at hand indicates the German yards have room to keep work on 530 submarines of the U-53 class eonstantly under way. BRITISH \ I KM IN NOW SI' PK KM F Beat the "Bed Devils" In Spectacular j ineT%achY $ Battle* |iHo;t0aliM A despatch from British Headtjuar-\ Sprtng "lamb, ters in France, says:--The British air- 1;^",',',%, '$',","1,' men, taking full advantage of the long watered t'"■?*. spell of good weather, are continuing Jly26: do;- f their relentless offensive aloft both by | heifer's;1 Tli.75 day and night fighting. Within three *|»-7S••'»;*", days they have accounted for 55 $i'i.oo; sheep, enemy machines, and have carried out ,*,",!J's;„^,4i5,?,, many enterprises behind the German lines. The German soldiers dislike; the continuous presence of the British j "Well, I ne airplanes, for many unposted letters man ruefully captured during the infantry attacks : ed more'n a n ! doing j mask in order that he might minis ! ter to a wounded man. j Of the picturesque side of notabk | bravery, wherein the object was the j destruction of the enemy, perhaps j the most, conspicuous case was that j of a lieutenant of a machine ; company in the attack on La Folie Oash-w\ol'i n'.rd' ' Farm. So impetuous was the young i x.'.itbVii $2..;«j fellow that he reached the objective Mn\v!'$l'.s 1*^51.^3" ' with his men ahead of the infantry !'i i'« ~i' Flour! j whom he was supposed to be .,1"' HiH'n"»i°'--,.?1u ! Porting. With seven of his men and j an unknown sergeant of another command, he proceeded to bomb the enemy dugouts. In the first one he i'^Wioice" utVv- j found over 150 Germans, with seven 65: good heavy ! officers, all of whom promptly sur-!io' Kvr,ri rendered to tl»s little group of nine. 1 .">'■"10 10.15; I Sending his men back with the pris-*%VV- do "good I °ner8' he entered- with the sergeant, ... me'cii'ini" bulls, j another dugout. A German officer 'c t "."'<"')•*"■." u! there threw a bomb as they entered, •j to $':i.7S: "' do! • killing the sergeant and smashing '.'"•"""'ti,,1',;'" .!i the lieutenant's rifle. The lieuten-nni\^,'".,,g<,r.,rT'. ant then, with his revolver, shot and «t. .mi"" ."""!' 1 billed three German officer t ewes, S$i2'ooe,to | dugouts. Later in i S12 00 1" lis'oo- : took out a Lewis gun and disposed of $8.00 to $13.00;'the enemy who were enfilading NO SLACKENING IN WAR ON PART OF RUSSIA. A despatch from Petrograd says: The Russian Provisional Government has sent to the Russian representatives in the Entente allied countries a note assuring the allies that the Government in Russia can-a pretext for any slacken-j ing on the part of Russia in the common struggle of all the Entente allies. history and politics. His study the evolution of nations and Gov ments has not helped to make sanguine in his firith in drastic meas- j ______ ures He is neither a demagogue nor ! BRITISH TRANSPORT a visionary. His imagination does not j ARCADIAN SUNK march in seven-league boots. I But his most characteristic and ad- 279 on Board the Vessel Were mirable quality is a sort of downright j Drowned. A despatch from London says doggedness. In this he resembles! Guchkoff, the new Minister of War. | The BritishTranV^ sunk in the Mediterranean by a April 15. - 1 het HEAR THE ROBINS. firstlings That yesterday s- But that, to-day, s gainsaid-- I hear the robins cling a leafless boughs; snowflakes bri Again a wintry mood And sky and earth in whiteness fade morning he j As would make loth to sing. ■h promis of th« ' 279 men were drowned. I The Arcadian was of 9,000 to; gross, and was owned by the Roy Mail Packet Co. Before being coi j verted she was employed in fiourii i traffic between New York and tl West Indies. MUST BE ONLY USED AS SEED OR HUMAN FOOD er hill and j A despatch from London says:-- such grey , The Food Controller, Lord Devonport, j has ordered that after May 9 maize, songsters 1 barley and oats and their products are ] to be used only for seed or for human j and animal food. Tapioca, sago, and . j Yet hark! These robins have no keen : arrowroot will be restricted to use as A lieutenant,' who was hit early in! dismay; ; human food. an attack so that he could not stand,! Their chirping is like talk that! ' ----*------ followed his men on his hands and) children use i He's Hunting Yet. knees, directing them. j When, at some ghostly make-believ. ' the One of the most picturesque figures '"ho ;'s'5$'i" E lambs. ; was that of a colonel, no longer young, ioss^$ , to $17.50. j wno led his battalion, with the bag-' j pipes going on before, playing "The rer!" exclaimed the fore-1 Cock °' the North." The colonel was "and to think I've hoist- i 30 111 that he had to go to the hospital illion chests o' tea in the' the night after the attack but ' een ye ling n ars with that ' r happened before." \ had K°ne 0 staying with the battalion till they r the idge. in plaj. They feign a terror that they do not feel; Sham secrets whisper, give each Of horrors that they unreal. -William Struthers in Transcript. At a certain public school it was the custom for the teachers to write on the blackboard any instruction they I desired the janitor to receive, j One e-ening, while cleaning a room, j the janitor saw written:- "Fin/I tVio "Find the greatest nj '""Hullo!" he exclai I thing lost again?" lie.;. Tlite Doings of the Duffs.