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Port Perry Star, 29 May 1919, p. 2

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The Battle of Zillebeke opened on) ~ June 2,°19186, and really continued ufi- on, a front of two miles from Hill 60 to the upper edge of Sanctuary Wood and Hoodge on Menin Road. At the the southeastern portion of the Ypres t. The British were massing for the Somme offensive and the" Ypres salient was practically stripped of tocen. The Canadians vere at a disadvantage; There was no air service, « There was little artillery and only a thin line of in- fantry. There were mo series of sup- porg, and: reserve trenches, owing to the nature of the ground, while the Germahs Had even the advantage of position, being on high ground, while the | ians occupied the low. e Zillebeke sector was defended by #he '8rd Canadian division, under the-pémmand of General Mercer, with sek all Sth Brigades in the line. The front line trenches were occupied by the 2nd 'and 4th' Mounted Rifles at ; thellower end near Hill 60; and Mount ~~ Sofrel, The Princess Patricias, two companies "of which were largely _ made up of University men from To- ~ -ronfd Montrél and the West, ocon-! pi the. upper part ' of Sanctuary. 'Wood. A Hx - aa A Terrific Bombardment. At 6 o'glock on the morning. of the 2hd, General Mercer, accompanied by Brigadier-General Victor Williaris, be- gan inspecting thg trenches occupied by the Mounted Rifles. Unknown to the Ganadfans, the Gernians had. for several days been filling their trench es with tremch mortars as preparation for a surprise attack which' they pur- posed lathehing on. this day. At 8.45 thy sufidenly opened a terrific bom- bafdgtent .of the Canadian trenches, Fon four hours they kept it up. . They destroyed emplacements and devasta- ted' . entrenchments. The Mounted Rifiés were blown out of their trench- es 'and fell back. The right flank of , During Two Weeks of B16, Lustre to Their Immortal Renown. "General Mercer was killed and Gener- | ED 0 cn rat of Torm vacant ; "destroyed the right company of the kthe enemy, confident of an easy YVic- I the 'Patricias was left in the air. al Williams woun later taken pris- exploded ut the "Loop | Patricias, but still Captain Niven's Company on the left hung on. Captain Niven was wounded, and No. 7 Pla. toon, with its commander, Lieut. Ha- garty, was wiped out. : Checked German Advance. To the Germans it appeared that no mortal being could live thidugh the terrific hail'of lead and fron. At'12.45 the bombardment suddenly ceased and tory, came over, but he had not taken into consideration the indomitable Canadian valor, A remnant of the Princess Pats still remained alive, and' these, under the command of Lieut. Molson, subjected the enemy to a bladting enfildde ashe passed on the: right' to" the rear. Attempts were made to reinforce the Canadians. Colonel Buller was killed as he was leading up supports and Major Gault was wounded. The remnant in the | Bont line hung en all BUA thoveh urrodnded. 4 - * on the following mbt at 'day break, a counteggittiels failed. The '15th Highlanders" wore bad! up "and Lieut. Maurice Malone 'was killed" while leading his company... The Pats hung on"ténacidusly until Sunday, the 4th, 'whett 'they were ordered to the rear, having been relieved by the 42nd Highlanders.' It was a pitiful rem- nant. that mustered to roll call Though they had paid a great price they had achieved a momentous vic- tory. It was the dogged heroism. of the Princess Patricias that balked the Germans from a straight walk into Ypres and on to Calais. * The fighting continued on the Zille- beke . sector 'until June 13, when a couhterattack drove the Germans back, except from the edge of Sanc- tuary Woods and Hooge. e Cana- dians suffered 14,000 casualties during the two weeks. ,, Breadstuffs. Toronto, May 27.--Manitoba wheat ~No.« 1 Northern, $2.24%; 0.2 Nopttiern) +§2.213%; No. 8 Northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11%, in store Fort William. Ametings, corn--Nominal. ' Ontario oats--No. 3 white, 75 to 7c, according to freight; outside. Ontasio. wheat---No. 1 winter, per 'car lot, $2.14 to $2.20; No. 2 do, $2.11 to $219; No. 3 do, $2.07 to $2.16 f.o. Dressed poultry--Chickens, 40 to 4bc; spring chickens, 76c to 80c; roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 87 to 38c; turkeys, 40 to 4bc; ducklings, Ib., 26 to 88c; squabs, doz. $7; geese, 28 'fo 30c. Live poultry--Spring chickens, 60 0 65¢c or ronto, car lots, $1.75; on track out- side, $1.60 to $1.65. - Beang--Can. hand-picked, bushel, $4.26 to $4.50; pnimes, $3 to $3.25; Imported hand-picked, Burma or In- dian, $3.26; as, 12c, 4 | Honey--Extracted clover: 5 1b. b., shipping points, "according to freights, Ontario wheat--No, 1 spring, $2.09 to $2.17; No. 2 do, $2.06 to $2.14; No: 8 do, $2.02 to $2.10 f.o.b., ship- pir, points' according to freights. "Peas-<No. 2, $2.10, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Barley--Malting, $1.16 to $1.21, nominal, ; 'Buckwhegf---No. 2, nominal, Rye--Nb.'2, nominal, Manitoba. flour--Government stan- dard, $11, Toronto. Ontario flour--Government stan- dard, $11 in jute bags Toronto and! Montreal, prompt shipment. illfeed---Car lots delivered, Mon- treal freights, bags included. Bran, 42 per ton; shorts, $44 per ton; good feed flohr, $2.70 to $2.75 per b Hay--No. 1, $32 to $356 per ton; mixed $20 to $24 per ton, track To- ronto: Straw--Car lots, $10 to $1 per ton. . Country Produce--Wholesale. Butter--Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 to 40c; prints, 40 to 42c. Creamery, ! Aresh made solids, 52 to 53c; prints, 63 to Bde. Eggs--New laid, 47 to 48c. Dressed "poultry--Chickens, 30 to ducklings, 82c; turkeys, 85 to 40c; squabs, doz., $6. Live poultry--Roosters, 25¢; 28 to 33c; ducklings, 1b., 35c; eys, 30¢; chickens, 27 to 80c. Wholesalers are selling to the re- tail trade at the following prices: -Cheese--New, large, 30 to 80%c; twins, 30% to 8lc; triplets, 81 to 813%c; Stilton, 31 to 81%ec.- 60¢; creamery, solids, 54 prints, bb to 56¢. Margarine--35 to 38c. Eggs--New laid, 51 to 52¢; new Jaid in cartons, 53 to 5dc. dozen, jal gallon, $2.45 to $2.50; per 6 im- perial gallons, $2.85 to $2.40; sugar, 1b., 27ec. . | j to 29c. i to 52 to bbe. ag. tubs, 34% to 8bc; prints, 35% to 36ec. J 27% to 28c; tubs, 28% to 29c: pails, | history in the 28% to 29¢; prints, 29% to 30c. No. 1 feed, 86%ec. wheat new standard grade, $11 to $11.10. $3.90 to $4. Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, $38 to $40. Cheese, finest easterns, 30% to 84c;' roosters, 25¢; fowl, 80 to 83c; 81 ed, b4 to bbe; No. 2 stock, b0e. Po- tatoes, per bag, car lots, $2 to $2.10. fowl! Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $30.50 turk- | to $31, Ibs. net, 34c. steers, $14 to $14.50; choice" butchers' ' Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 48 to| steers, $13.50 to $14; butchers' cattle, to bbe; | choice, $13.26 to $13.75; $12.76 to $13; do, medium, $11.75 to $12.26; do, com., $10 to § choice, $11.75 to $10.50 to $11; do, rough, $8 to $8.50; 40 SEY DRESSED - IM LONG | TO START TAKING SINGING LESSONS AND THE TEACHER ' (WILL BE HERE ANY MOMENT: ] 60 1b, tin, 19 to 20c. Comb: 16 oz. | $4.50 to $6 doz.; 10 oz, Maple products--Syrup, per imper- Namo | Provisions--Wholesale. Lard--Pure, tierces, 34 to 34%e; ails, 34% to 85%; | Montreal Markets. Montreal, May 27.--Oats--Extra Flour~--Spring Rolled oats--Bags, 90 Ibs. | Bran, $42. Shorts, $44. | 1c. Butter, choicest creamery, 5b to ec. Eggs, fresh, 52 to 53c; select- Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 ---- Live Stock Markets. Toronto, May 27.--Good heavy do, good, |lam 10.50; bulls, $12.50; do, med.,| off ARE YOU SORE AT ALL OUR NEIGHBORS? ha LN THROW T (LESSON tions, springers, FLL-LOCK THE PIANO AN Pe SEA BATTLE--JUTLAND, MAY 31, 1916 British Na Deathless Names Are Deeds of Generations of Seagoing ® Names never die in the British Potatoes--Ontario, f.0.b., track To- navy. It is one of the characteristics of | that noble service that its ships wear the same names, Men; after generation. men and ships link the glories of the past to the greatness of the tins, 25 to 26¢ 1b.; 10 1b. tins, 24% to present by an endless chain of com- 26c; 60 1b. tins, 24 to 26c; Buckwheat, 'memorating valiant actions. German ship names emblazon the $3.50 to $4 fame of tinhorn generals or tin- | horn victories, or tinhorn "Kaiser," | 'and "Gneisenau"--or more geograph- ical accidents as "Leipzig" or "Em- den"-- or pet pups, such as "Pom- mern" or "Prinz Eitel Friedrich"-- glo Smoked meats--Hams, med., 89 to OF headache powders, as "Seydlitz." 41c; do, heavy, 33 to 34¢; cooked, 54! r 4 to 56c; rolls, 88 to 84c; breakfast glorious ships and gallant men, the bacon, 44 to 48¢; backs, plain, 47 to sea-godmothers 48c; boneless, 30c; clear bellies, 28 of ships and men destined in their I turn to pass on deathless Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 29 43,04 will inspire other men in other) ! ships to deathless deeds. There is romance, adventure, in- Comp. tierces,' spiration, allegory and centuries of) one fifty names mentioned by Admiral Jellicoe in his account of the Grand Fleet at the world's .greatest fight--the Battle of Jutland, May 31, i 1916. "Indomitable," flexible," they might have been taken from the pages of the Holy War or Pilgrim's] Progress, British navy names commemorate "Invineibl butchers' cows, choice, $12 to $13; do, good, $10.50 to $11.60; do, medium, $9.26 to $10; do, com., $8 to stockers, $8.75 to $12; feeders, to $14; canners and cutters, $4.50 to $6.50; milkers, good to $150; do, com. and med., $65 to $90 to $160; light ewes, $13 to $15; yearlings, $12 to' $14; Shite lambs, $18.50 to $20; spring 8, choice, $14 to $16; ho ered, $22.50 to § off cars, $22.76 to $28.15; $21.50 to $21.85, 12 to $15; KEY AWAY - HELL NOT GIVE HER A FL <Q HELP: and -sea-godfathers "Fearless," 22.85; do, ed HN SHIPS THAT FOUGHT vy Names Commemorate Glorious Ships and Gallant They, Recalling the Deathless institu- "Scharnhorst" hundred and sen' "In- e,"" "Valiant" -- 8.60; 12.50 choice, $90 to $75; calves, good to gs, fed and wat- generation Names of both names | greatest nayal nation the world has WORLD'S GREATEST Britons. / i Names of Glorious Memory. Every name of the hundred and fifty-one names may well be writ- ten in letters of gold in the tablets , of memory by every Briton, fi . the mine-layer "Abdiel," which toiled all night sowing a mine field to cut off the German retreat, to the "War- rior," whose crew 'were saved from destruction by the wild circles bf the helmless "Warspite." "Iron Duke"--she was Jellicoe's flagship; "Lion"--that was Vice-Ad- tiral Beatty's; "Conqueror," "Thun- dered," "Vanguard"--names of cour: age and jer; "Temeraire" and "Bellerophon" -- recalling Nelson's ry and Napoleon's finish--they were all there, at Jutland; and seven score others, big and little, many of them smacking even of the forbidden pages of the dime novel--"Morning Star," "Mindful," "Marksman," "Mis- chief," "Attack." Yes, and little "Mary Rose" was there, later on, going down 'with flag flying, fighting against hopeless odds while she sav- ed her North Sea convoy. ; The genius and destiny of the ever seen ensure that the names of great naval heroes shall reappear from generation to generation in the chroniclés of maritime glory; and a wholesome regard on the part of the Admiralty for the great helpfulness of Tradition makes it certain that the names of equally gallant ships shall never fade from the face of the waters, no matter what the fate of the individual wearer of the name. "Revenge" True to Its Reputation. Thus, Sir Richard = Grenville fought the Spaniards in the "Re- venge," one to fifty-three, off the Azores, three hundred ~ and twenty 'odd years ago. 'A "Revenge" fought .and sailed in Nelson's fleets. And a "Revenge". rammed a 'submarine in the battle of Jutland, and received Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney's flag TOM | the Jutland battle, torpedoed the huge The "Canada" was one of Rodney's ships' in the "Battle of in the West Indies, 1782. Thé%Cind ada" fought the "Ville dé Pdris" two hours, broadside to broadside, in Rod- in the Battle of Jutland--fourth ship in 'the third division of the battle fleet. * | . A "Sir Francis Drake" led the van in the Battle of the Saints for Rod- ney in 1782, even as the original Sir Francis harried the Armada two hundred years before. i The little destroyed "Ardent," in German "Pommern." % "The floftila was again in action a little' later, with some enemy battle- ships," writes 'Admiral Jellicoe, "and the 'Ardent' attacked and fired a torpedo, but the result could not be observed, as a very heavy fire was concentrated on the 'Ardent,' which sank with colors flying after a most gallant night's work. It is sad to record that Lieut.-Commander Mars- den and one man were the only sur- vivors; they were picked up by a des- troyer on June 1st, after having been five hours in the water." = The. original "Ardent" was a cap- tive from the French--one of Rod- ney's' prizes in the Battle of the Saints, and the only one to get home, The others, including the gorgeous 110-gun "Ville.de Paris," were lost in hurricanes on their way to England. Admiral Jellicoe's book thus re- cords the last four minutes of a good 'man and a good ship, both bearing, at Jutland, seagoing names: famous since the" eighteenth century: Captured. from the French, "Rear Admiral Hood (the Hon. Horace L. A; Hood, CB, M.V.O., D. S.0.), who was on the bridge of the "Invincible" with Capt. Cay, hailed Commander Dannreuther, the gun- nery officer in the fore control, at about' 6.30 p.m., saying, 'Your firing is very good. Keep at it as quickly as you can. Every shot is te which had already been hit more than once by heavy shells without appreci- 'able damage, was struck in 'Q' turret. The shell apparently burst inside the turret, as Commander Dannreuther saw the roof blown off. A very 'heavy explosion followed i the Saint i i ney's victory. A "Canada" was also telling' At about 6.84 pm. the 'Invineible,'|. LA despatch to the Times from Allies Who Are Unsatisfied With -Other Arrangements Each to Have Slice. ever doubt existed as to the disposi. tion of the pi tysempire; Tur. key, was dissipated on Wednesday af. rnoon : when sthe congdlusion was finally reached to begin: & dismem. berment process of distributing choice bits among the allies who have been disaffected by 'their treatment on other subjeets. Turkey is to be a sort of universal sop. bh nile Britain's . insistence that Constan. tinople shall remain Islamic is likely to result in her receiving a mandate possibly in. conjunction with nce. and Italy, supervised by a League of Nations commission. Another of the latest suggestions concerning Cone stantinople is that it 'should be cons tituted an independent state with a effect on Mussulman subjects = ifthe Sultan were to be expelled from Eur ope explains the revision of plans te that end. ' tf ------ en DECREASE OF $29,244,400. IN TOTAL APRIL TRADE A despatch from Ottawa says:i-- Trade figures for the first month of the new fiscal year show a decrease of $29,244,408 in' the total ¢I Cana- dian trgde as compared 'with April, 1018. ' The total for last month was $121,527,952, as compared with $150,« 772,856 in. April, 1918. "The decrease was chiefly in the 'total valiie of mer- chandise imported, which declined $24,368,720, 'as' compared with last year's figures for April. The total value of "imports was as follows: -- April, 1019, $54,265,219; April, 1918, ' $78,623,980. A decline of $0,672,403 * in the -total. value of domestic mer- 'chandise "exported is" shown by the figures. In April, 1918, the total CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS , TO EMIGRATE TO'AMERICA A despatch from London evs: gow says that the shipping com Ey "Clyde i with indicating that" 'quiries Hat re" a 'great exodus of emigrants | when he quitted the damaged "Marl- borough." Pa er ly, evidently caused by the yi blow ng up, and the ship broke ately -w 1K Seratay A despatch from Paris says: --Whats - wr ~ residence for the Sultan, who woul = & retain hig' spiritual and Sempetiingy power. British apprehension as tothe = + ¥ § p ' i i value 'of domestic mércharidise e i ported was $101 8% 'while LL. i month it was $84,489,160. ~~ "8 $

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