_ 12PAGES | YEAR 85: NO. 186 BRITISH A RE CLOSE | T0 TOWN OF BRAY The Fighting is Hard Just Now---The Germans Are Massing Artillery--Towns Are Still Held By the Enemy. , (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Ang. 12. The British have captured the western edge of the town of Bray, on the Somme, advices state. Appar- ently the attack on the southern tinued by the French this morning. The main interest centred in the sector around Lassigny. It is diffienlt to say whether the | part of the front was being con- Freneh are on the crest, but they must be close to it. The whole | osition on the southern line depends on the possession of it. | n the region between Roye road and the Somme the position has been stabilized. The Germans have massed heavy arlillery on this front und are heavily counter-attacking. Albert and Chaulnes seemed to-day to be held by the enemy, and Roye has not fallen. Roye May Be Evacuated (Canadian Press Despatch.) F With the British Army in France, Aug. 12.--There is an unconfirmed report this afternoon that the town of Roye, which the Germans have been defending sv desperately, 4 evacuated. British tanks have been seen operating a consider- | able distance east of that town, has been 75,000 Prisoners; 1,000 Guns. (Canadian Pres © ~ London, Aug Despatch.) ' ~----seventy-five thousand prisoners and one thousand guns is the aggregate taken by the Allies in the recent Franco-American and British-Franco offensives. | Pris= oners ar still coming in from the latter. For the Moment ress Despatch.) Allies Pausin (Canadian 'With the British Army in France, Aug. 1 9 As nearly as can be learned the battle line from north to south runs to-day near Mericourt, Proyart, Rainécourt and Lihons, whieh appar- ently is finally secure in British hands after bitter fighting, thence west of Chaulnes, through or near Chilly, which has changed hands twice, then through Fouguescourt, Parvillers, Damery, Andechy Lechelle, Armancoiirt, Dancourt, Popineourt, Roye-sur-Mat, Bareuil, Samson and Anioval, striking the old line near Ribecourl. The battle appears to be approaching the end of the first phase, with the lines steadily hardening on the front, speaking generally, that the Germans had when they retired to the Hin- denburg line. It is true that slight 'advances are being made here and thers along the front, and local battles, brought on by enemy counter-attacks, have heen and are being fought. The . Allied forces, however, having gained a greal success. seem to be pausing at 1east for the moment. IGE CREAM 1S SUSPECTED PRACTICALLY ALL TYPHOID PA- TIENTS HAD EATEN GOODS, The Food Was Probably Taken To- wards End of July--No Signs of Germs Now Show in the Medical Tests. f Very few new cases of typhoid have been reported during the past few days and it is considered that the out- berak has about run its course. The health authorities state that they are satisfied the typhoid was caused by ice cream. Nearly all the cases were between Montreal and Division streets and ail had eaten the suspect- ed ice cream, which was contaminat- ed; perhaps, for only a few days. It is very essential that ice cream freezers be thoroughly cleansed. The tests for bacteria at Queen's University have®been completed and show no signs of contamination at the present time Evidence seems to point, however, to one source of con- tamination in the ice eream at the end of July as practically every one affected with the typhoid fever ate the suspected ice cream It takes about two weeks for the fever to de- velop. = The water supply of the various milk factories was also exanined ana showed no traces of typhoid germs beyond the ordinary slight contamin< ation from surface drainage. rn Se cairn WOMAN WITH FIVE HUSBANDS ---- the penitentiary 1811 she married Charles Osborne, in Chatham, and later ventures were Tigh. of Eamon dite, , of London, 'Ont, ries Gra- ham, of Jaskson, Mich. and one ti Devins, Woodbridge, he lake, her compan- | my A GERMAN SUBMARINE Is Still Very Active Along the At- lantic Coast. (Canadian Press Despatch) «New York, Aug. 12. fo-day's re- ports indicate further activities by German submarines along the At- lantic coast. The British steamer Penistone, 4,000 tons, was sunk off Nantucket, presumably by the same submarine 'which destroyed nine fishing schooners on Saturday. Sur- vivors of the Swedish steamer Lyd- land sunk by a submarine on Satur- day have algo arrived here. There is no news as to the fate of the crew of the Penistone. An Amepfean schooner, reported as the Herman Winter, but whose identity has not been definitely es- tablished, was destroyed by sub- marine gunfire yesterday, 200 miles east of New York. All the members of the crew of the Sydland were re- ported saved, but the navy's des- patches did not clear up the fate of the erews of the other vessels. Were Deserters From R.C.H.A. (Canadian Press Despatch) Montreal, Aug. 12.---Forty al- leged evaders of the Military Service Act are living in a cabin in the woods near Terrebonne, 'Que., the Star announces. ' They have laid In a supply of defensive arms. Four of these when they were ordered to report for duty went to Kingston aud enlisted with the Royal Horse Artillery but deserted. . Hon, N. W. Rowell, president of the Privy Council, will address his constituents on Wednesday and Thursday, when he will deal with as- pects of the war, The sum of $102.40 was paid for one hog at Millbrook. @ The towns of GETTING NEARER 0 ROVE TOWN The French Troops Arc Splendidly Sustain- ing Themselves. ay S-- BRITISH LINES. LINKED UP FRENCH CAPTURED TOWN OF L'POHELLE ST. AURIN. The Way im Which the Line Runs Between the Avre and Oise--The Villages of Armancourt and (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 12.--French troops have advanced nearer to the fmport- ant point of Roye from the south- west by the capture of the villages of Armancourt and Tilloloy. aec- cording to the official statement from Field Marshal Haig to-day. South of the Somme the TrHItIEN X have captured 200 prisoners. British positions east of Mericourt, 'soth of the river, have been linked with the British lines east of Etine- hem, north of the river. The text of the official statement reads: Yesterday evening the enemy again attackel our positions south of Lihons; he was repulsed. As a ried out by us immediately south of rthe Somme, we captured soners and linked up our positions east of Mericourt with the line east of Etinehem, on the north bank of the river. On the right of the fourth British army our ies made progres: yesterday afternoon in the direction of Roye, cap'uring the villages of Armancourt an! Tilloloy On the noisliern portioi. of the Bri- tish front we effected local improve- ments in our lne east of Robecq and between Vieux-Beryuin and Merris The i'réuch are continuing their advancy Letween the Avre and Oise, aecerding fo news received in Lon- don to day, and have captaredl the town of L'Echelle-St. Aurir, three niles directly west of Koye "The line on this front now rans from L'Fchelle St. Aurin south-east through Armancourt and Tilloloy. ihree miles south<west of Roye, and continues iu a south-easteriy diree- tion throug Gury, eleven miles south-east of Montdidier.> It then curves more to the east and passes through tha Montigny gua; v to the Hill north of Antoval, Just north-) west of Rivecourt, on the Oise. There is Little Chahie. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Aug. 12.--There was no marked ¢azage in the fighting situ- ation on the French front during the night, says the official statement from the War Office to-day. Tie statement reads: Between Avra and 'Oise the sitnation is without change. During the. night there was artillery fighting in the region of Marqui- villers and Crivillers. Noiking is Seported from the remainder of the ron. BROUGHT A German DOWN IN FLAMES. ° Feil North of nadian Press: O teh) Ameland, on the northern coast, the Admiralty an- nowhced to-day. The Admiralty an- nounced also that six British motor boats have failed to Jetarn from a expedition carried ugust 11th along the West Mayor Church redding a proclamation to the gny further disturbance the Riot Act would be read Tilloloy Have Fallen to the Allies. | result of successful operations ecar-| | there are gigns in the enemy press, 200 pri=; | London, y aire | | shill was brought down in flames north of Dutch WARNING CANNOT MARRY THE CANADIANS NOW English Lasses Severe Emigr: London, Aug. 12 gulations restrict e8 ada these days. has to give very deed, to convince the British author- ities that she has a #ight to leave the British Isles at presgnt for Canada or and other place. Wf course svery available woman is #equired for mu- nitions and other work. The Canadian eniighation autheri- ties in London havébad a few parti- cularly unfortunate gases. These are cases where Englist women engaged to men in Canada have sought per- mision to emigrate 80 "that they might marry the men who had been gone for years, perhaps, making a home for their prospective brides in the Dominion. In nearly every case the application was refused. One of the women was forty years of age. They will be obliged to wait until af- ter the war. i Canadian mothers, wives of sol- diers, returning to Canada with ba- bies, find it impossible to bring Eng- lish nurses with them unless the nurse is so old agtd be almost use- less, NEW PEACE MOVE BY THE GERMANS Signs Are Already. Apparent in the Berlin Press. ' Aug. 12.-In- responsible France the next which Paris, patriotic circles in (German peace = offensive, of is more feared than the Crown Prince's pocket drive, Filled with legitimate pride at having beaten the foe on the battle- field the French do not intend to al- low the Central Powers, by diplomacy and the Kaiser'e intrigne,to rob them of thé fruits of the Allies' vietory, |Cuperated wounded available. i of Toronto warning them a aid of the military invoked. i FOGH'S POLICY ~ WORKING WELL Encmy Not Given Time in Which to Re- construct His Force. HS LACK OF EFFECTIES IS TELLING DISASTROUSLY UPON HIS TIRED FORCES The Germans Losses Are Very Heavy ~The Class of Nineteen Already Used to Fill the Gaps. With the French Armies, Aug. 12 ~History is again repeating itself. | The Allies have followed the second | victory of the Marne by a combined attack in the region of the Somme. Foch has thus refus@l to. allow the enemy to reconstruct his force of 'manoeuvre, which, was the objeét of 'his recent rectifications of the front "and his principe "prevecupas tion. As Mangin put it, the Kron Prinz had received a severe knock, and Prince Rupprecht was in the posi- tion of a man who, after weakening himself to aid a friend, sees the lat- ter temporarily hors de combat and wonders what on earth is going to happen to him. Now he knows. The important feature of the situ- dtion fs that at present Germany un- questionably is facing a serious crisis of effectives. The class of nineteen has already been used to fill the gaps caused by previous battles and there is little save the gradual fiow of re- It is The new Franco-British offensive is {known that the enemy leaders made the Allies' answer to the German pa- cifists' efforts to offset the disastrous effects of the Crown Prince's great failure. Shot Hun Officer Dead. On the British Front, Aug. 12.---~ One British captain, wounded under the left shoulder, said a - German wearing a Red Cross brassard had shot him as he turned his back and went into a dugout. A British sol- dier nearby, seeing what had happen- ed, shot the German dead. 5 GENERAL SIR "HENRY RAWLINSON WN | an effort to shorten the instruction of the class of twenty, which ordin- arily would not be ready before au- tumn, but their position was not strong, afd it.is stated in Parlia- meant that if the class was taken be- fore time, none could answer for the consequences. In Saxony and Bavaria especially, the project was actually received with threats of re- sistance. Seized German orders evidence a hundredfold more reliable than the statements of prisoners-- throw a lurid light on the losses of anemy in the present battle. War Tidings. British casualties in official lists fast week totalled 8,208, the lowest in months. French troops penélrated deep into the Austrian entrenchments on Monte Sismole Saturday, capturing 260 pris- oners. ; .- Shipping losses as the result of U- boat operations in Mediterranean and Adriatic waters are only a tenth of what they were last year. The significance of the Somme bat- tle in its wider relation to the entire campaign is that it is a successful de- velopment of Marshal Foch's plan to 4 retain the initiative. The eleven German divisions whick the Allies have torn to pieces are al- ready in such condition that they can be of little use to the German com- mand for a long time to come; and probabdiy some of them ¢an never be reformed. ; | | Kronstadt. to ba PAGES 13° LAST EDITION gainst further disorder and informing them that if there was German Crown Prince is the most un- popular leader in the German army. German resistance stiffened at Libons which changed hands twice Saturday night, but mow is in the hands of the British. LENINE AND TROTSKY FLED TO KRONSTADT The Anti-Bolshevik : Move- ment Is Growing Very Rapidly in Russia. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 12.--Premier Lenine and his chief assistant, Leon Trotsky, have fled to Kronstadt, a naval base near Petrograd, according to a de- spatch sent out by a semi-official Wolff Bureau of Berlin. Reports re- ceived in London on Sunday that the Bolsheviki leaders intended to flee to Germany lends color to the German report that they already have gone to Copenhagen despatches, Sunday, said that the anti-Bolsheviki movement in Russia was growing rapidly and that the Bolsheviki Gov- ernment virtually had gone to pieces. These reports were taken from Rus- sian newspapers, Lenine and Trotsky have been in power since the overthrow of * the Kereninky Cabinet last November. They = negotiated the Brest-Litovek 'pads. ALL oA bina wl wan The Petrograd newspaper Isvestia is quoted by the correspondent as stating that at several-points "in that part of Russia not occupied by the enemy." counter revolutionary move- ments have broken out in a number of towns, The Bolsheviki Soviets have been overthrown in these places and re- placed by councils consisting of re- presentatives of the Mansheviki, or Moderates. In the city of Kazan, the newspa- per adds, the widely known Bolshe- viki leader Olschinsky has-been kill- ed while there has been great blood- shed among the Bolsheviki in the Novgorod and Riazan districts, Germans To Quit Moscow. Copenhagen, Aug. 12.- ~The @Ger- man embassy at Moscow will remove immediately to Pskov, qwing to con- ditions in Moscow, according to ad- vices from Berlin to-day. Pskov is 162 miles south-west of Petrograd and approximately 400 miles nearly directly west of Mos- cow Foch Looks Twenty Years Younger. Paris, Aug. 12.--Those who have met Marshal Foch .in the last few days are unanimous in declaring that he is in great good humor, according Liberte, Premier Clemences, who dined with the marshal, sald he found him radiant, and looking twen- ty years younger than when he had last seen him, em -------- Hastings County Appointed. Belleville, Aug. 12.+-John Leigh, Stirling, has been appointed super- intendent of Hastings County House of Refuge, to succeed ¥. EK. Wilson, resigned owing to ill-health. ---------------------- John Toohey, night policeman, Renfrew, against whom certain Chi- namen laid a charge of assault which was dismissed, has handed in bis re- signation, and, it is said, is going west, * ! \* ---- ERNEST ]. HAYWARD ROVE AND NOYON BEING BOMBED AL OK 0 0 EEN DESTROYED BY AVIATORS. HAVE The Germans Ave Attempting to Throw Temporary (Bridges Across the ~Streams--Eleven' Divisions Crushed. t London, {Aug. 12.--The advaned of the Allied armies on the Pleardy battlefront continues, according to the latest despatches reaching Lon- don. Nowhere, it appears, have the Germans yet been able to organize for any severe counter-stroke. The guns captured by the Allies are now mearly 600 in number. No accurate count of prisoners had come In, but the total is probably mountaing rapidly, because of the disorginization of the Germans. The German casualties have been ' tre- mendously heavy, Eleven German divisions were mot only defeated fn the fighting of the first three days, but so utterly crushed that the German higher tommand has been unable to laake any counter-stroke any-whate. Tha German communications have been 80 disorganized that thus far enly two divisions of reserves have been identified, and 'these new {troops have not been able to make any im- pression on the advancing Allies. All bridges across the Somane be- tween Peronne and Ham have been destroyed by Allied aviators. The Germang are attempting to throw temporary bridges across the streams. { There is extreme confusion in the enemy's retreat. Among the prison- ers taken are generals, colonels and officers of all other ranks. Roye and Noyon are being bomb- ed. The enemy cannot hold them much longer. Germans Are Attacking. 3 Press Deénpat London, Ave. 13 The British The attack was repulsed. Extremely bitter resistance ls be-* ing encountered from the Germans along the line of Chaulnes, Roye- Noyon. The enemy i8 bringing up strong reinforcements, while the Al- lies are preparing for a furthér ad- vance, : Nearly 40,000 prisoners and. 700 guns have been taken by the Allies in Picardy, according to reliable in- formation in Paris ALLIES WANT ONLY TO SAVE RUSSIANS Statement Published by Brie tish Government Outlines ms. London, Aug. 12.---British repre- sentatives at Vladivostok, Murmansk and Archangel have published a "de- clarfition of the British Government to the peoples of Russia." The declaration says that the Al- lies are coming as friends to "help you save yourselves from destruc tion at the hands of Germany." It declares that Allied troops are ep- tering Russia to help and that not a foot of territory is d , and states there Is no intention of im posing a political system updn Rus- sla, which must work out its own form of Government. MONEY NOT YET AVAILABLE. No Regulations For Aid in Workmen's Houses Yet Available. Galt, Aug. 12,--A damper was put on Galt's plan for taking advantage of the $2,000,000 Government fund for gncouragement of the building of workingmen's ho when Acting Mayor Charlton a need that a let- ter from F. 8, Scott, M.P., stated on the authority of T. W. McGarry, Pro- vincial Treasurer, that the money was' not yet available, as it would have to be voted by the Legislature, and that no regulations had yet adopted, as the matter was still der consideration, : Von Hutler's Father Was French. Paris, Aug. 12.--The discomfiture of Gen. Von Hutier's army and the probability of it even being surround«. ed arouses a great deal of interest here. There Is g feeling in France that Von Hutier is a res ' Frenchman. His father from Franc to Germany and entered the service of Willlam L, serving in the war against France in 1870, rere emia